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THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, and ALL r NEw WORK BY 3fita. Tiloatsort. between the Mayor and the Bishop confirms what
everybody thought before,—that the latter is no
Just ready, in 3 vols. post Svo.,
E. THEATRICAL NOVELTIES, EXITIETTIO`ZS,
L-I4 IZATIONS of ti e WEE See " ATLA K. !," of To-moa.aow. IT R A
Pllte sii.nrence.-4, Southampton-street, Strand. 1 CY; Osyß I H
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match for the former. In his Lordship's letter
I Auttor of "widows and Widowers," " y
THE NEW PLAN of HIBERNO-CANADIAN j Chevalier,"" 8 the awk-
COLONTZATION EXA.MIN'ED. By JAMES WARD, E. r..c. Ragland Castli." "
of the 3d inst. he struggles to explain awa
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ward fact of his having
patronised a charity
reet, Strand.ball in
,
See "ATLAS" if TO-KOZH•W. Price Sixpence.-6, Seuthampton-
-1841. He affects to have been ignorant at th,

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXXII.I
Will be published on WEDNISDAT Nair.

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that a ball was intended to wind up the festivities
which took place in that year in support of the Devon
Hospital. The Bishop, however, lets out that he
sanctioned a dinner on that occasion. Bishop, by
the way, are notorious for their love of dinners, at
which we presume they suppose—(at any rate HARRY
of EXETER does so)—it is quite impossible that any-
thing in the shape of "revelry" should occur. But the
diocesan of pamphleteering celebrity seems positively
to wince under the intimation that he ever
suffered his name to figure among the stewards
of a ball. We do not ourselves appreciate the
niceties of distinction to be inferred from PRILLPOTTSI
writings between dinners and balls. We admit, how-
ever, that he would not look well at the latter.
Nature never cut out the Bishop for a ball, which
should be an enlivening scene, and attended only by
persons of a lively and agreeable cast of countenance,
of the truth of all which we have no doubt the Bishop
must be painfully sensible. There can be no ques-
tion, we should think, that, whether he knew of the
ball in 1841, beforehand or not, the Bishop became
shortly after acquainted with the fact of one having
taken place. Did he then mount the pulpit and ful-
minate against the " miserable frivolity" which con-
cluded that festival ? We take it the Bishop did
nothing of the sort, because he now observes with com-
placent arrogance, " I consider that ball to have been
of a very different character from the one which is
about to take place." The Mayor of Exeter was not
the man to let the Bishop fly off at a tangent. The
following extract from the answer of the former,
dated the sth instant, will best enable the public to
judge how the Bishop, throughout this controversy,
only went farther and fared worse :
‘• I am unable to understand the difference in the
distinction which your Lordship draws between the
proceedings of 1841 and those now in contemplation.
1 cannot connect the ball of the 6th of April with the
day of the fast and humiliation of the 24th of March.
Doubtless all visitations great and solemn lessons
—should have their future and continuous effect
upon the thoughts and conduct of men ; but it is
tier, it cannot be said that all amusements are to cease,
and. if not, and if the amusement of the hour may be legi-
timately coupled with a more abiding purpose of charity,
then the ball of 1847 is as blameless as the festivities of
1841, and is equally entitled to your Lordship's indul-
gence. The one raised funds for the relief of sickness and
distress in our immediate neighbourhood, the other is de-
signed to obviate the miseries of famine at a distance. Call
either of them what you will, they are identical inform and
purpose."
Those who run may read. The mace has shivered
the crosier.

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2. SAINTS• LIVES AND MIRACLES.
3. PRISON
4. ARABIAN PHILOSOPHY.
5. TRH EMIGRANT, 15Y kilIR F. HEAD.
6. THE MARIAN EXILES.
7. PRIMITIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENGLAND.
8. SCHOOLS OF DESIGN.
9. THE RUCK AND THE BILLOW; HISTORICAL FICTIONS,
10. STATUTE LAW REFORM.
11. THE SPANISH MARRIAGES.
12. A PLEA FOR RAGGED SCHOOLS.
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