Member for Lincoln
will be ashamed to march through Coventry, or at least, through thick
and thin of this kind. The COLONEL, who insists on the right of treating
his constituents jovially, would repudiate with scorn the charge of
corruption, brought against him for dancing amongst them around a
Maypole; he would be highly indignant at being suspected of trying to
turn voters round by spinning their daughters in a waltz; of insidious
designs in tripping down the middle and up again, and, in doing hands
across, of an underhand manoeuvre: he would be disgusted to find
himself thought capable of any trick below the double shuffle.

The "new mode of treating" might, indeed, be advantageously "watched by
our Conservative friends"--and imitated. To treat the people, by mixing
with them in courteous intercourse, would be wise of the aristocracy.
But sorrily will the great folks be encouraged to relax their
exclusiveness, either socially, or as proprietors of parks and picture
galleries, by representing them as doing so merely in a spirit of
baseness.

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GREAT CURE AND SMALL PAY.

Did you ever hear of a clerical SERGEANT KITE? Here you have apparently
that non-commissioned officer--no offence to the probably Tractarian
author of the advertisement following, taken from that highly religious
paper, _The Guardian_:--

CURATE WANTED, for a small country village in the diocese of
Lichfield. Incumbent resident; daily prayers; weekly Communion; day,
night, and Sunday schools; plenty of work of all kinds. Salary L90,
with a house and garden. The Curate must be a sound Churchman, with
his heart in his work, and willing to obey orders. He must have good
health, be able to conduct a choral service, and to preach (if
necessary) three or four times a week. Direct P., under cover to MR.
MASTERS, 33, Aldersgate Street, London.

This is a roll on the modern drum ecclesiastic--SERGEANT KITE beating up
for recruits in the noble army of martyrs. For the services above
enumerated, many and arduous as they are, appear to be services of
danger, rather. The heart which the Curate is expected to have in the
work would be soon worn out in it. It is to be feared that the good
health he is required to enjoy would not endure very long. In an
extremely brief space of time he would pray, preach, teach, and chant
himself to death. At least the sound Churchman would speedily get out