one thumping. Bishop, who should live between Dublin and Grosvenor square, and men should call him Philpotts.

The Bishop of Exeter vehemently complains, that in the pending Bill it is proposed to make Bishops serve without their consent:

"This was the first instance ever put before "mankind, in which any human power dared to do "what this Bill professed,-viz. to make a man to "be a Bishop by its sole act and deed, whether that "man did or did not accept the charge. Their Lordships had neither the right nor the power "to do what this Bill said should be done-viz. to "force the Bishop of A to be Bishop of B also, "whether he would or not.'

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This is nothing more than impressment, against which practice the Bishops have never, that we remember, raised their meek voices. When a poor fellow in a blue jacket complains of having been knocked down, deprived of his liberty, and thrust on board a King's ship, he is told that the glory of serving his King and country should reconcile him to the little hardships of a forced service. The Bishops, who, to the glory of serving their King and country add the glory of serving God, will surely not grumble at a compulsion so much milder in its mode. They are not to be knocked down; they are not to be made to serve for less pay than they could earn if left free; they are not to be separated from their friends for an

indefinite period; their Sees will not be so stormy and perilous as the sailors' seas. Surely the pious Bishops will do for the love of Heaven what every blue jacket must do for the honour of arms. The impressment of divines has always been a favourite project of ours; and if, after the reduction of Bishoprics to 4000l. a-year, qualified persons cannot, as the Archbishop of Canterbury alleges, be tempted to take holy orders, here is a mode of manning the Church. Press-gangs must be employed at Oxford and Cambridge to knock down able-bodied divines, and force them to serve in pulpits, on pain of death for desertion, or of flogging for neglect of duty. It is hard indeed if we cannot get for Heaven what is got for war.

Our Right Reverend Father of Exeter is mightily anxious for the conversion of the Catholics. Shall we confide to him an infallible recipe? Let the Protestant Church make over its revenues to the Catholic priests, and see how they will extinguish the zeal of the Priesthood, and destroy their efficiency and influence over their flocks. This is the way to turn the shepherd into the wolf.

A FRAGMENT FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF JUDAS.

4. AND in the letter which Judas wrote to Simon Magus it was written :

5. Know ye, that riches are the root of all evil, and that it is easier for the camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of Heaven.

6. Therefore, my brethren, seeing ye be given to the saving of souls, and sparing not yourselves, that others might be saved, take from every man his money according to the dues ye can ask, or according to the dues ye can devise.

7. And ye shall make the rich less rich, and ye shall make the poor more poor, for it is written, Blessed are the poor, and ye shall make the blessed in making the poor.

8. And every shekel of gold, and every shekel of silver that ye take, shall be as the breadth of a span to the gates of Heaven, or as the wasting of the camel which cannot for its greatness pass through the needle's eye to salvation.

9. Riches, my brethren, are as poison to the soul.

10. Having a brother smote with a dart steeped in poison, what would ye do?

11. Would ye see him die of the poison that is in the wound, or would ye put your lips to the wound and suck the poison thereof, so that he live and perish not?

12. He that hath riches in his store hath poison in his soul, which swelleth it up as a camel to the needle's eye of salvation; and he that cometh to heal sucks the riches out of the store, and the poison out of the soul, and it goeth into his own mouth.

13. Verily, I say unto you, all the riches you take to yourselves from the people are as bane taken from them it would destroy.

14. Be not mindful of yourselves where the kingdom of heaven is concerned, for it is yours to put others in the path, as the sign on the road showeth the way but doth not itself travel in it, but standeth as a token to them that may come. Do thy ministering without fear, for it is for others ye must travail.

15. He that sucketh the wound feareth not the poison.

16. It is yours to save souls; heed not the thing that is of danger to your own.

17. It is better that one perish that many may be saved.

18. The soldier fighteth in the battle, that some may sit in the shadow of peace and fear not.

19. The soldier dieth that some may live for whom he goeth out to battle.

20. So be it with you. Be ye as soldiers perishing for the salvation of the people. So sucking the poison of riches, ye shall not fear to be swoln as the camel that passeth not the needle's eye to salvation.

21. It is written, Man cannot serve God and Mammon; take from them therefore their mammon, that they may be saved, and lock up the worship thereof in your own breasts.

22. And be ye signs of the evil of riches, and set forth in your living the abomination thereof, so that men may say, See how these things canker the heart!

23. Be ye covetous and grasping, and full of strife, as the fig is full of seeds.

24. Be ye apt to contention for your share of every man's goods, and have the law of man, and not the law of God, ever in your mouths.

25. Raise the wail and the lamentation where

ye lift the heel, that the word may be fulfilled, that this world is a valley of tears, and sorrow the lot of man that is born of woman.

26. Gripe ye the poor, for their reward is in Heaven; and according to the trouble below is the mercy above, and so ye trouble them exceeding much.

27. Of them that have little take ye that which ye can to make less, and cause a nakedness which

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