We are glad to find that the condition of the poor clergy is at length being looked at in its proper light, and that a good mangle may be advertised as a "good living" so as to catch at once the eye of the clerical class to whom the owner of the mangle has evidently addressed himself. We shall really begin to hope that the wretched condition of the underpaid clergyman is beginning to "take a turn," if we can find in Reverend hands a few mangles with "good livings" attached to them.
LONDON WITHOUT A POLICEMAN.--There is a threat of all the policemen striking.--We doubt if London will perceive the difference, even supposing that they do.
Of what use is it to read a good book and transgress its rules in the very act?
The _Times_ has a paragraph, stating that two London missionaries, the REV. MESSRS. DICKINSON and LEWIS, attempted to read and expound the Scriptures to a crowd in Limerick on Sunday evening; when--
"After a few minutes a mob collected and set upon the Reverend gentlemen, who were severely maltreated. It is computed that 10,000 of the _canaille_ of Limerick were engaged in hooting, yelling, and throwing stones, where they could with safety to themselves, at the obnoxious clergymen."
Oh, MR. DICKINSON! Oh, MR. LEWIS! _Punch_ does not quote anything above SHAKSPEARE; but how could you--Reverend gentlemen--how could you scatter sacred words before the Limerick multitude? Have you not sufficiently studied the volume you were reading from to recollect what it says about pearls and--Limerick multitudes? Well--you have disobeyed the precept--and taken the consequences.
_Q._ What Member of the present House of Commons has really made himself a new name in the country?
_A._ The Member for South Essex--who spells his name SMIJTH. We have met with SMITHS in thousands before, and know a few SMITHES, and have been introduced to SMYTHS and SMYTHES by the hundred; but never, in our whole existence, do we recollect having ever met with a single SMIJTH! It's grand! How noble the simple introduction of that _j_ makes it! But we wonder how the servants pronounce it at an evening party?
"REMEMBER THE STEWARD, SIR, IF YOU PLEASE."]
Recalcitration, WILLIAM, cease, JAMES, we'll return to work in peace. Alas! the struggle to prolong Were useless--would be, therefore, wrong.