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son ; and it turns out that some of these have, naturally
enough, denied the Roman faith, they having very little
faith in any other intelligible creed. Instantly we have a

case of Tllartyr

,11 sympathised

milli O'Brien, so do our sympathetic
municipalities sympathise with Cospetto, Maledetto,
Corpo di Cabo Mario, or any other Italian patriot who,
without religion, has an unfortunate predilection for pikes ;
and their grievances and wrongs are entered in the civic
minutes, along with resolutions for the cutting down of a
bell-ringer's salery by ten shillings per annum, or esti-
mates for a fresh furbishing of the antiquated city hal-
berds. We must needs confess that this exuberant over-
flow of sympathy appears to us altogether ridiculous.
Town-councils have nothing to do with politics either at
home or abroad. The commissioners of police, or the
road trustees, are as well entitled as they are to pass reso-
lutions in favour of free trade or matters of imperial
finance ; and it is full time that some steps should be
taken to prevent local and corporate bodies from inter-
fering in matters infinitely beyond the scope of their
general comprehension."

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ragazine. Liverpool : Orr,

There is a freshness and originality about the
contents of this magazine which especially recom-
mend it to public favour; but the attraction would
be greater if there were somewhat fewer of conti-
nuations. The number for

November commences
with an entertaining description of " A Pilgrimage
to Quilca in the year 1852," containing a pleasant

conversational commentary, interspersed with nu-
merous anecdotes of the sayings and doings of
Dean Swift, Sheridan, and other notabilities with
whom the history of that little place is identified.
Then follows Part I. of " A Sketching Tour of Five
Weeks in the Forests of Ceylon," illustrated with
wood engravings ; succeeding chapters of " Clough
Fionn, or the Stone of Destiny ; ' and Part 11. of
" Tyrone Power, a Biography." From the latter
we extract

AN INCORRIGIBLE PARSON

When T. Dibdin was manager of the Surrey Theatre,
he observed one of his performers habitually careless in
his style of delivering his parts. Ho attributed this to
lack of zeal, more than to deficiency of talent, and took
the delinquent to task accordingly. " Mr. T-," said
the manager, " I find great fault with your acting, which
disappoints me, and is far below what I expected when I
gave you such a liberal engagement." " Excuse me, sir,"

replied a
I really consider mine
twenty shillin

e actor,

for dif

g in opinion with you,

)od average acting for five-and-
Make my salary five pounds,

nd you shall see h

1 act for you." This son of
something in the style of the well-

e;pis was a humorist

part of the last century. He chose to omit the Athanasian
Creed when performing the Church service, for which his
diocesan, Archbishop Seeker, desired his chaplain and
secretary to visit him with a remonstrance. " His Grace

wishes to know," inquired the chaplain, " why you omit
the Creed of St. Athanasius ?" " I don't believe it,"
replied Patten." " But his Grace doe,," rejoined the
chaplain. " His Grace," retorted the curate, " believes
at the rate of ten thousand a-year—l at the rate of fifty
pounds." This same Patten, who had been chaplain of a
man-of-war, was an incorrigible joker, given to tipple
withal, and certainly a strange subject for the clerical pro-
fession. His fondness for punch so subdued him, that
whenever his sermons were too long, any one shoNling
him a lemon would bring him readily to a conclusion.
More than once he was nearly unfrocked ; but he did the
work of an unhealthy district on very cheap terms, and
thus many of his eccentricities were looked over. Being
present at a convocation, he ventured to remonstrate with
Dr. Seeker on the smallness of his stipend. " I have re-
ceived," said he, " the paltry sum of thirty pounds per
annum for doing the duty of a living which brings in full
three hundred. I need not remind your Grace that ' the
labourer is worthy of his hire.' " " Don't enlarge, Mr.
Patten," interrupted the archbishop, who wished to cut
short the question. "No ; but I hope your Grace will,"
added the undaunted subordinate.

The third round of " A Flying Shot at the United
States" is by no means complimentary to Brother
Jonathan, though it contains some account of Phila-
delphia, and a humorous description of a modern
prophet, to visit whcm the writer was tempted by
the following