The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-19 00:00:00

A DREAM.

"Solemn dances were, on great festivals and celebrations, ad-
mitted among the primitive Christians, in which even the
Bishops and dignified Clergy were performers. Scaliger says, that
the first Bishops were called Prwsules (1) for no other reason
than that they led off these dances "—Cyclopzdia, Art. Dance.

I've had such a dream,—a frightful dream,—
Though funny to wags perhaps 'twill seem,
By all who regard the Church like us,
'Twill be thought exceedingly ominous
As reading in bed I lay last night,—
Which (being insured) is my delight,—
I happened to doze off just as I got to
The singular fact which forms my motto.
Only think, thought I, as I dozed away,
Of a party of churchmen dancing the hay I
Clerks, curates, awd rectors, capering all,
With a neat-legg'd Bishop to open the ball
Scarce had my eye-lids time to close,
When the scene I had fancied before me rose,—
An Episcopal Hop, on a scale so grand
As my dazzled eyelids could hardly stand.
For, Britain and Erin clubb'd their Sees
To make it a Dance of Dignities,
And I saw,—oh brightest of Church events I
A quadrille of the two Establishments,
Bishop to Bishop, viz-a-viz,
Footing away prodigiously

There was Bristol capering up to Derry,
And Cork with London making merry,
While huge Llandatf, with a See so so,
Was to dear old Dublin pointing his toe.
There was Chester, hatch'd by woman's smile,
Performing a riiaine des Dames in style;
While he who, whene'er the Lords' House dozes
Can waken them up by citing Moses, (9.)
The portly Tuam was all in a hurry
To set, en event, to Canterbury.

Meantime, while pamphlets stuff'd his pockets,
(All out of date, like spent skyrockets)
Our Exeter stood forth to caper
As high on the floor as he doth on paper,—
Much like a daper Dancing Dervise,
Who pirouettes his whole church-service,—
Performing, 'midst those reverend souls,
Such entrechats, such cabrioles,
Such balonnes (3), such—rigmaroles,
Now high, now low, now this, now that,
That none could guess what the devil he'd be at
Though, watching his various steps, some thought
That a step in the Church was all he sought

But alas, alas 1 while thus so gay,
These reverend dancers frisk'd away,
Nor Paul himself (not the Saint, but he
Of the Opera house) could brisker be,
There gather'd a gloom around their glee,—
A shadow, which came and went so fast,
That ere you could say " 'tis there," 'twas past,
And, 10, when the scene again was clear'd,
Ten of the dancers had disappear'd 1
Ten able-bodied quadrillers swept
From the hallow'd floor where late they stept,
While twelve were all that footed it still,
On the Irish side of that grand Quadrille!
Nor this the worst :—still danced they on,
But the pomp was sadden'd, the smile was gone,
And again, from time to time, the same
111-omened darkness round them came,—
While still, as the light broke out anew,
Their ranks look'd less by a dozen or two ;
Till ah I at last there were only found
Just Bishops enough for a four-hands.round
And when I awoke, impatient getting,
I left the last holy pair poussetting !
Nota bene.—As ladies in years, it seems,
Have the happiest knack at solving dreams,
I shall leave to my ancient feminine friends
Of the Standard to say what this portends.—(Times.)

(l) Literally, First Dancers.
(2) " And what does Moses say ?" One of the ejaculations
with which this eminent prelate enlivened his famous speech on
the Catholic question.
(3) A description of the method of executing this step may be
useful to future performers in the same line:—" Ce pas est com-
pose de deux mouvemens differens, savoir, pike, et sauter sur
ran pied, et se rejetter sur l'autre."—Doetsonnesire de Dense, Art.
Contretemps.
41,11•111.

The KING has granted a pension of 1501.
per annum to Dr. DALTON, of Manchester.

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The building of the Episcopal Church for
the use of the British Embassy and residents in Pdris is
going on, and the church will be ready for divine service
,in the beginning of next December.

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Ann Robinson, No. 2, tiniori.street, Shadwell, about half-
past one o'clock on Thursday night was eoinlrig from the North
Country Eating-house, Ratcliffe Highway, to Bltie.gittedields,
on her way homewards, *hen she say> several policemen starid.:
ing opposite a street called Blue-gate-fields. They were en'.
deavouring to carry a man along who appeared td be in liquor.
She walked onwards, and saw that one policeman had hold of
one arm, another the other arm, and the other had hold of his
legs. They carried him as far as the Bull's Head, where they
laid him down. Witness went on to the night-house (the
public-house which serves all night), the Coach and Horses,
and as she was returning back in a few minutes dfter, she saw
a policeman with a man on his shoulder, and three othere
following. Before she saw the police lay the man down, she
saw one of the police take a coat off, and place it either on the
deceased, or under his shoulder's to rest him. The policeman
carried the apparently drunken man on his shoulders pick-a-
back fashion. The man appeared to be quite lifelest
. .

By Mr. Lee, a Juror—l have been sitting down this moht,
ing at the publichouse opposite, where the police are assembled.
I have been there an hour. I had not been drinking with them.
Mr. Lee would prove that the witness had been that morn-
ing drinking at the public-house cppttslte by the evidence of
the landlord.

Murphy, the landlord of the public-house, stated thdt the
witness had been stopping at his house (where the police were
assembled), in company with another woman, but within the
last hour she have not been drinking in his house. Mr. Lee
pressed Murphy, who said that the witness might have gone up
stairs, and that gin had been sent up, but he could not say that
witness had partaken of it, and he went past the bar.
Mr. Lee—She most certainly has, and could I be sworn
would prove it.