The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-22

ter Coffee House, waiting to be hired. They
were not exaoting, as their designation lun
plies. They were ready to read servlos OF
sermon for twopenoe and a cup of oohse'
These men, too, have long since disappeared.
Their immediate successors were the looping
Parsons" prouder fellows, who Would 90
another mans duty for guinea yeI "no
were not so proud but they would perform IL
for half the money. In the present uay
clerical agencies furnish substitutes az rea'
sonable prices, and some of these gentlemen
are "oripinsls' of the very rarest quallty.
But to return for an instant to the period OF
Bishop Earle Cob. Bishop of Salisbury, l6Oo),
il is to be observed that Pau'5 Walk then was
what the Stock Exchange is now, in one re-
spect. There were invented half the current
Jokes of the day. there were coined aud
stamped half the lies that bewildered simple,
honest souls. Looking at the place in
another of its phases, it was the Finish, at
which rakes, blood5, swash- -bucklers, and all
fast individuals by whatever other name de-
signated, cOnsummated the days lniquity.
After the play, after the tavern, after Issuing
from places Of resort which the Bishop names
without scruple, ''men have still some oaths
left to swear here" At This time, moreover
one circumstance in the fashion of the
place is remarkable. The sisterhOOd was no
more to be seen than the horses and mules.
"The visitanls," says the Bishop, 'are all
men without exception, but the prin-
cipsl Inhabitants and pos5essOrs are stale
knights and captains out Of service; men OF
long rapiers and breeohes, " and so forth. The
very senses are shocked by some of the details
to be read abont st. Paul's and the indecen-
oies openly practi5ed there. 1t was spared no
proclamation, in the worst of acts as well as
the worst of words. Heathen temples had
the homage of a cleaner respect from poor
pagans. A couple of snakes painted cross
wise on the exterior saved each temple from
all ofense; but at st. Paul's there was no
respect for the sacred edifce, outside or
inside.
After fire, neglect, violence, decay, and
other causes had led to a condition which
necessitated the works of reparation
by lingo Jones, in Charles the
First's reign, one of the many means
for providing the sums required to COM
plete the work was the levying of heavy
mulcts for moral delinquencies, and applying
them for the completion OF the Cathedral. The
oftener men offended against morality the bet
ter for the funds of the Cathedral. Such
offenders were fined heavily for their pleasant
est sins, and we are told "the common saying
spread abroad again that in another sense,
St. Paul's was restored out Of the sins of the
people," We may add that lingo JONES' with
all his genius, marred what he was set to
make whole. His work was that of ruthless
restorer. He detaced what was left of the Old
OOLlllC DeduJy1 anu ldCSu LuS WOob lLiauOG
with a Roman portico. 1t was like painting
the portrait of man in mixed costume be-
longing to ages wide apart.
The example, however, served bad purpose
| in the succeeding century. When the boy
Louis the Fifteenth recovered from the attack,
supposed to be smallpox, the people of Metz
manifested their gratitude to God by destroy
ing the picturesque glory of their Cathedral
They added the porticO, which still masks its
keanty. The smallpox itself could not more
efectually distroy the grace of feature and
expression in man.
The details of the great fire, which destroyed
this restored St. Pauls, are taken from Pepys
Evelyn, and Taswell. As whole, the Cathedra
dated from William the Conqueror, but it had
undergone many a change between its ere
alton and its fall. The Westminster Boys
worked like men in doing their utmost tc
check the fire, and the honor is awarded then
OF having been most instrumental in saving
St. Dunstan s-n-the East. Burnet remarks
that he never heard of any person being burn
or trodden to death at the fire..