spectable livelihood."

We are glad to find that the condition of the poor clergy is at length
being looked at in its proper light, and that a good mangle may be
advertised as a "good living" so as to catch at once the eye of the
clerical class to whom the owner of the mangle has evidently addressed
himself. We shall really begin to hope that the wretched condition of
the underpaid clergyman is beginning to "take a turn," if we can find in
Reverend hands a few mangles with "good livings" attached to them.

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LONDON WITHOUT A POLICEMAN.--There is a threat of all the policemen
striking.--We doubt if London will perceive the difference, even
supposing that they do.

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LOVE'S LABOUR LOST AT LIMERICK.

Of what use is it to read a good book and transgress its rules in the
very act?

The _Times_ has a paragraph, stating that two London missionaries, the
REV. MESSRS. DICKINSON and LEWIS, attempted to read and expound the
Scriptures to a crowd in Limerick on Sunday evening; when--

"After a few minutes a mob collected and set upon the Reverend
gentlemen, who were severely maltreated. It is computed that 10,000
of the _canaille_ of Limerick were engaged in hooting, yelling, and
throwing stones, where they could with safety to themselves, at the
obnoxious clergymen."

Oh, MR. DICKINSON! Oh, MR. LEWIS! _Punch_ does not quote anything above
SHAKSPEARE; but how could you--Reverend gentlemen--how could you scatter
sacred words before the Limerick multitude? Have you not sufficiently
studied the volume you were reading from to recollect what it says about
pearls and--Limerick multitudes? Well--you have disobeyed the
precept--and taken the consequences.

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SOMETHING REALLY NEW.

_Q._ What Member of the present House of Commons has really made himself
a new name in the country?

_A._ The Member for South Essex--who spells his name SMIJTH. We have met
with SMITHS in thousands before, and know a few SMITHES, and have been
introduced to SMYTHS and SMYTHES by the hundred; but never, in our whole
existence, do we recollect having ever met with a single SMIJTH! It's
grand! How noble the simple introduction of that _j_ makes it! But we
wonder how the servants pronounce it at an evening party?

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