head.

To ask a Cathedral establishment, then, for an extra service, is asking
it for not a little: to perform such a service is to do a munificent
action. Therefore it is highly gratifying to peruse the statement
following:--

"Notwithstanding, however, the difficulties which intervened, we
believe it was the earnest desire of the authorities at the
Cathedral to meet as far as possible the urgency of the case, a
desire which was manifested by the promptitude with which they acted
on the suggestions made by the Lord Lieutenant. An extra service was
fixed, exclusively for the Militia, at half-past eight on Sunday
morning, when the whole body of officers and men assembled within
the sacred building, the choir being densely filled from the organ
screen to the altar rails, and such as could not obtain admission
being within hearing in the side aisles. Prayers were read by the
REVEREND CHANCELLOR HARINGTON, who also preached an impressive and
appropriate sermon."

Besides, it is announced that on Sunday next, and for the two Sundays
following, indeed until the Militia are dismissed, the same service will
be performed at the same hour. It should be added, that the only Canons
in residence were the REV. CHANCELLOR HARINGTON and the VEN. ARCHDEACON
MOORE STEVENS, and that the Chancellor being also Chaplain to the
troops, "had, in addition to his duties at the Cathedral, to provide
extra services for both barracks." The reverend gentleman who has been
performing so many extra services, might almost be supposed to be called
Canon of Exeter by a mistake in pronunciation; his proper title being
Canon of Extra. At all events he ought not to be styled a Canon in
Ordinary, for he is an Extraordinary Canon; and in making this
observation, if anybody thinks that we intend a mere play upon words, he
is mistaken; for what we chiefly wish is to call attention to a fact.
That a prebend should occasionally preach and read prayers of a Sunday a
few more times than he is obliged to do, may hereafter come to be
regarded as not so very extraordinary a sacrifice of that _otium_ which
is enjoyed _cum dignitate_ by the dignified Clergy. The circumstance, at
least, will perhaps not be thought so extraordinary as to constitute a
special case for penny-a-lining.

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NASAL INTELLIGENCE.

One of "our own Correspondents," speaking of the EMPEROR'S late
receptio