rds, to explain that, when the bill was
first printed, the clergy were much alarmed. They saw that it would
interfere with the establishment of parochial burial grounds, and
they objected more particularly to the small amount of compensation
fees which the company intended to pay, viz., 1_s._ 8_d._ for the
open ground, and 2_s._ 6_d._ for the brick graves and vaults."

In the country it is a common thing to see sheep grazing in churchyards,
but in London, by the account of the Bishop, the same pastures afford
food to the shepherds. To the eye of chemists--who are ghost-seers--for
ghost and gas "are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little
variations"--what a picture is presented by a metropolitan incumbent
praying at his reading desk against pestilence with the cause of it
steaming up all around him in the shape of sulphuretted hydrogen, for
the generation of which he is principally responsible! By all means give
the intramural clergy compensation for the loss they may sustain by
extramural cemeteries, though the poor innkeepers did not get any when
their businesses were destroyed by the railroads. Let them be
compensated even at the Bishop's estimate, which he says he "prevailed
upon MR. CORFIELD" to adopt, viz., 2s. 6d. for the open ground and 6s.
6d. for the brick graves. Canterbury Registrars and fat pluralists will
cut up one of these days sufficiently well to supply the needful: in the
mean time let the _convives_ of the earthworm feed without the walls.

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THE BRIDLE ROADS.

We see a book advertised under the title of "The Bridle Roads of Spain."
We know very little about Spain, but can inform our fair readers (we
mean the ladies) that the Great Bridal Roads of England are:--St.
George's, Hanover Square, and Gretna Green.

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[Illustration: _Cobden._ "WHO HAS THE DONKEY'S EARS, NOW?"

[_Mr. Punch answers the question._]]

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OUR TOURIST IN PARIS.--No. 9.

My dear fellow-countrymen who throng the theatres, the _cafes_, and the
promenades of this gay city, may form very different opinions of its
inhabitants and institutions; but on one point, I believe, they are all
agreed; that, in common with the rest of the Continent, it is
over-ridden with bureaus and bureaucracy. Every third man is an
_employe_, a soldier, or a policeman. You cannot have a warm bath,
witho