to tea in the
afternoon."

"_By Special Courier from Vienna._--The representative of the elder
branch of the House of Bourbon has offered a cigar to the representative
of the Orleans family, who has acknowledged the courtesy by presenting
his illustrious relative with a _fusee_ to light his Havannah.

"_Latest from Frohsdorf._--The COUNT DE CHAMBORD and the DUKE DE NEMOURS
are now, at near midnight, drinking grog together. The elder branch
poured in the water; the younger branch has added the spirits; each of
the royal personages acted as spoon, and after a stirring interview of
several seconds, the fusion may be considered to have been complete."

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SHOCKING LOW CHURCH!

It is proposed by certain well-meaning persons, to erect ragged churches
on purpose only for the poor, the wretched, and the ragged. Probably a
church of this sort will be built in the district of ST. GILES; to be
dedicated, however, in honour of ST. JAMES, the patron saint, whatever
his square may think, of ill-dressed church-goers. We are getting on in
matters of this kind. We are making a sort of railway progress. By and
by we shall have churches for different sets of people; first, second,
and third class churches. They will be churches of different orders, not
only architectural but social. Perhaps the third class won't be covered
in, and in that case it might be constructed on the simplest model of a
Greek Temple; the rather, as the whole arrangement would certainly look
somewhat pagan.

Matters being thus in train--rather on the broad gauge line, with an
inferior terminus, some may say--the adoption of steam-organs might be
suggested, together with the substitution of locomotives for clergymen,
as soon as scientific improvement shall enable us to construct such
engines, capable of performing their duties mechanically.

The Ragged Churches, we suppose, will be built of ragstone; the
pulpit-cushion, the altar-cloth, will be all rags. The clergy will
officiate in tatters; so as to preclude the possibility of any surplice
controversy, by rendering it impossible to tell what kind of vestments
they have on. The church will be ragged, the parson ragged, the
congregation ragged--all ragged together. Perhaps, also, the doctrine
ought, in a manner, to be ragged too; for, suppose the Church Triumphant
to correspond to the Church Militant, and it would be requisite to
preach a Ragged Heaven. And though there i