med with the chaplain, pleased
with the choir, and generally delighted with every one,--a testimony
more delicately valuable from the fact that she had been but once to the
church during the entire season.

Sir Marcus Cluff, after reading out the letter, took occasion to observe
on the ventilation of the church, which was defective in many respects.
There was a man in King Street--he thought his name was Harmond,
or something like Harmond, but it might be Fox--who had invented a
self-revolving pane for church windows. It was perfectly noiseless, and
the cost a mere trifle, though it required to be adjusted by one of
the patentee's own people; some mistakes having occurred by blundering
adaptation, by which two persons had been asphyxiated at Redhill.

The orator was here interrupted by Mrs. Trumpler, who stoutly affirmed
that she had come there that day at great inconvenience, and was in
no wise prepared to listen to a discourse upon draughts, or the rival
merits of certain plumbers. There were higher considerations than these
that might occupy them, and she wished to know if Mr. L'Estrange was
prepared to maintain the harsh, and she must say the ungenerous and
unscholarlike, view he had taken of the character of Judas. If so, she
withdrew her subscription, but added that she would also in a pamphlet
explain to the world the reasons of her retirement, as well as the other
grounds of complaint she had against the chaplain.

One humble contributor of fifteen francs alleged that, though
nutcrackers were a useful domestic implement, they formed an unpleasant
accompaniment to the hymns, and occasionally startled devotionally
minded persons during the service; and he added his profound regret
at the seeming apathy of the clergyman to the indecent interruption;
indeed, he had seen the parson sitting in the reading-desk, while these
disturbances continued, to all appearance unmoved and indifferent.

A retired victualler, Mr. Mowser, protested that to see the walk of the
clergyman, as he came up the aisle, "was enough for _him_;" and he had
only come to the meeting to declare that he himself had gone over to the
sect of the Nuremberg Christians, who, at least, were humble-minded
and lowly, and who thought their pastor handsomely provided for with a
thousand francs a year, and a suit of black clothes at Christmas.

In a word, there was much discontent abroad, and a very general opinion
seemed to prevail that, what with the in