An amusing trial in the Queen's Bench took place last
week, in which the plaintiff, a Mr. Hoffmaam, asked for and obtained his 'stipulated reward for producing the ghost of. "a portion of a waiter" in the Whitechapel Music Hall. The defendant pleaded that the plaintiff did not fulfil his engagement to produce the ghost, because only a part of the waiter, instead of the whole of that functionary, as agreed upon. To this Mr. Hoffmann replied that he could only produce ghosts by aid of looking-glasses, and only ghosts of waiters by aid of a looking-glass big enough to re- flect the figure of a waiter, and that he produced "as much of him" as the size of the looking-glass furnished him admitted. The jury agreed that the dimensions of the waiter, the looking-glass, and the ghost must necessarily vary together, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff'.
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