urates' stipends, in these words:

"VIIth. That much reproach is brought upon the beneficed, and much
oppression upon the unbeneficed, clergy, by curates accepting too
scanty salaries from incumbents."

and which was really the last subject that was ever brought before
Convocation. On Jan. 27, 1742, it was unanimously agreed, that "the motion
made by the Archdeacon of Lincoln concerning ecclesiastical courts and
clandestine marriages, the qualifications of persons to be admitted into
holy orders, and the salaries and titles of curates," should be "reduced
into writing, and the particulars offered to the House at their next
assembly." But in the next session, on March 5, 1742, the Prolocutor, Dr.
Lisle, was afraid to go on with the business before the House, and after
"speaking much of a _praemunire_," and "echoing and reverberating the word
from one side of good King Henry's Chapel to the other," the whole was let
drop; and Convocation was fully consigned to the silence and the slumber of
a century. The whole of these transactions are detailed in a scarce
pamphlet, _A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Lisle, Prolocutor of the Lower House_,
by the Archdeacon of Lincoln (the Venerable G. Reynolds).

W. FRASER.

Tor-Mohun.

* * * * *

PARALLEL PASSAGES.

(Vol. iv., p. 435.; Vol. vi., p. 123.; Vol. vii., p. 151.)

1. "When she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite
music."--Longfellow's _Evangeline_, Part i. I.

"When she comes into the room, it is like a beautiful air of Mozart
breaking upon you."--Thackeray "On a good-looking young Lady." (Quoted
in _Westminster Review_, April 1853.)

2. "Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere."--Whence?

"We are the twin stars, and cannot shine in one sphere. When he rises I
must set."--Congreve, _Love for Love_, Act III. Sc. 4.

3. "Et ce n'est pas toujours par valeur et par chastete que les hommes
sont vaillants et que les femmes sont chastes."--De La Rochefoucauld,
_Max._ I.

"Yes, faith! I believe some women are virtuous, too; but 'tis as I
believe some men are valiant, through fear."--Congreve, _Love for
Love_, Act III. Sc. 14.

4. "Mais si les vaisseaux sillonnent un moment les ondes, la vague
vient effacer aussitot cette legere marque de servitude, et la mer
reparait telle qu'elle fut au premier jour de la Creation."--_Corinne_,
b. I. ch. 4.