Show dads mads letter lette from london BY JAMES II 11 WALUS continued from last week his entry int into 0 london occurred on ills his birth birthday dar May oak apple day ahel a gal london arned turned out to greet mm hiza and followed the cavalcade through the decorated streets on ita its to his palace at whitehall the bodyguard accompanying him haven hav been recruited from hia his fatowe followers when abroad the later years of his idi father abife alife life it U was only natural tural that charles 11 II should want to have a email small array army of pt picked men who could always be new near mm him dut but parliament felt fell that il teresa many years of bloodthirsty civil war waa van s 1 0 0 ordered r d e r ed the disbandment carahe of these s e f forces 0 r c e s it started but before it was co completed aplet V d various plo ts 1110 ins t charles 11 II were hatched just as he had hal reared so parliament then agreed that a guard was after all necessary for the protection 0 of f bis III 3 person and three i ew bodies were formed the successors of whom dally daily take part in the ceremony in whitehall tehal we have just seen the ule guards being recruited tron from the cavalera the um hot horse guards from the Bound Mund heads it waa was ria natural tural that amny of the mn m n composing the life we guards should be borne some of the disbanded bodyguard which had accompanied charles II 11 back to effland they consisted entirely ol 01 gentlemen both by birth and education even the troopers being called private gentlemen or gentlemen of the lite life guards ench rach man in days pro pr vided his own arms and his own ow horse i or if the latter was beyond ha his means ho he was able to buy installments for WOO which as stopped out of III his pay at first the troopers trooper were quartered r in taverns cloeo close to WhIte ham but discipline under sih conditions was difficult to keep and brawls and duels duet constant ao so it was not long before some to form of oc barracks was built over years have passed since charles II 11 returned to the dmd land of his fathers fathe rsM yet hew continuous and unchanging is this change of or guard the uniforms and tl ceremony have little altered throughout nearly three centuries of making when so many other othe things have changed or banten ed THE ROYAL COURTS or JUS if you want ant a quaint reminder of bygone times pass from the workaday work a day life of the ithe burgim strand into the busy hive of the royal courts of justice for here you will see judges and lawyers in gown gowns and wigs As strange ia a sight eu on euely ely as can be seen been tn in many a foreign country yet one we which can be witnessed here dally daur in term time A good hour at which to arrive ie is ten for though the judges entrance is in carey street solicitors carrying huge ba bogs and counsel in their wig WIP gowns ami jua I 1 bands are passing quickly continued on page five rive DADS PROM LONDON 4 continued conti cued frorup from page one through the central hall to their various destinations in this huge hall with ita its fine mosaic pavement of wonderful splendor take place twice wee a year in october at the opening of the Micha elnina term the judges after a service in westminster abbey assemble here on the r reopening pening of the law court courts and here too cornea comes the lord mayor on NO ath when the procession halk halts on lie its return journey to the city Anier Amer kar lukris especially are interested in taij hall for in 1619 1919 it was for three weeks used as a dormitory for 25 men of the V U 8 navy the te huge block of which the hall la Is the central portion with ita its 1100 room rooms and 23 courte courts coet cost 5 00 to build the site ite coat coal yet another 7 in these courts case cases included in the three divisors div divi leons sons of king bench I 1 Chaun cery and probate divorce and admiralty am aro tried such work having been removed here from westminster hall but out into the strand once more and notice the great length of the arcade frontage reef feet excluding the screen on the western elde ide e the clock tower and the t public entrance entrances to the courts in the toners flanking the main en ent trane ranc then UD ut up up the spiral tone stone staircase leading lead lne to a perfect maze of corridors push open one of the nearby swing doors on the left and you will find yourself looking down into the well of one of the courts these courts are certainly awe inspiring for each Is solid and heavy with oak panelled panel led alls pacing facing you is the judge and below his be walgn ed cleric clerk with solid 1 tors tom and clients berneen him and the counsel a word bv the way which Is spelled thin thus both in singular and plural the jury if it present Is seated in a I 1 ibe pew at u ne side of the court with the press facing them and in the gallera are other member members ot of the general public who like ou ourselves nelves are res resting their chins on the rails there Is lutle little to the more noted kings counsel or prosecutor from those with lew lens pr r perlener per lenee lence apart from the fact that the former have hae their seats nar n ii ar vr er the judge that they sometimes remain seated when speaking to his lordship and that I 1 Is occasionally heard to crack a joke with them a thing think he would never dream ot of doing with the younger barristers on the back benches we notice the differt difference nce in the wigs worn in court his lordship s except on special occasions Is s a bob with a small hollow in the crown and arid one vertical curl just above the tall of the wig A kings counselor on the other hand Is a tie wig I 1 with a mass of white vertical horsehair horse hair curls curia endi ending 0 jr in to tso funny little tails in human inA interest erest case hold first place 0 o the galleries ealler lea of these courts are a pack cd ed with onlookers whilst dryas dry as dust chancery cases ces rarely attract a crowd at 1 30 we are at the sudden dowing ot of tools een en though a counsel may be in the middle of a sentence and the hurried rush into the corridor corridors tor for the forta tort five minute lilich respite at A four clock a n similar scene take takes place for work york at the law courts fortunes won fortunes lost and homes broken up by law lav la 18 over for the day |