or not, as soon as the state of Europe
obliges LOUIS NAPOLEON to withdraw the French troops from Rome; and that
will prove the most effectual proceeding for the reduction of his
greatness.

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NEWS FOR THE PEACE CONGRESS.

The Submarine and European Telegraph pulsates with these glad tidings:--

"Six new steam-vessels, after the model of the _Napoleon_, are on
the stocks, and will be launched about the end of 1854."

Our own correspondent informs us that two of these vessels--in gratitude
to the peace-makers--will be called _The Bright_ and _The Cobden_.

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JESUIT'S BARK.--This Bark is a small, black, pirate-looking craft, that
has fastened itself on, by some hook or other, to PETER'S Boat.

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[Illustration: SPURIOUS IMITATION.

Unmitigated Effrontery of MESSRS. BROWN AND SMITH.]

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ASTONISHING AND GENEROUS EXERTION BY CATHEDRAL CLERGYMEN.

The newspapers are continually making remarks of a painful nature on the
conduct of Deans and Chapters. It is pleasing to encounter an
opportunity of commenting in a more affectionate spirit on the behaviour
of one of those reverend fraternities. That pleasure is afforded us by
the _Morning Post_--wherein, under the heading of "Divine Service for
the Militia," we read that

"The necessity of providing some means by which the Militia, in a
body, could attend Divine Service on Sunday, and the difficulty of
this being secured by the ordinary church accommodation available in
Exeter, induced, we understand, the Lord Lieutenant of the county to
make an application last week to the Cathedral authorities,
suggesting that an extra service on Sunday in that spacious building
would meet the wishes of his lordship."

Now, when we consider the average scale on which Deans and Chapters are
remunerated in relation to their average services, and when, our
reflections guided by the Rule of Three, we inquire how much, at that
rate, an extra service of such a description is worth, we find the sum
considerable. A prebend's sermon is perhaps, as to its abstract merit,
inestimable: a pearl beyond any price: but even its actual cost may be
computed at a high figure. Such a discourse, gratuitously addressed to a
regiment of soldiers, may be regarded as a donation to them of something
handsome per