"world and the next, think that they are entitled "to revile us because we sell the labour of “blacks. Such is the force of names and power ❝ of prejudice."

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CHEATING CONSCIENCE.

When Lully, the celebrated composer, was once dangerously ill, his friends sent for a confessor; who, finding his situation critical, and his mind much agitated and alarmed, told him there was only one way by which he could obtain absolution, and that was, by burning all that he had composed of an unpublished opera. Remonstrance was in vain, Lully burnt his music, and the confessor withdrew. On his recovery, a nobleman, who was his patron, calling to see him, was informed of the sacrifice which he had made. "And so," said he, "you have burned your opera; and you are really such a block"head as to believe in the absurdities of a "monk?" "Stop, my friend, stop," said Lully, whispering in his ear, "I knew very well what "I was about " I have another copy.”

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NOWELL.

The celebrated Nowell, one of the fathers of the English reformation, when dean of St. Paul's, offended queen Elizabeth by something which

fell from him while preaching. Her majesty, however, quite confounded the poor dean, by calling aloud to him from her seat, "to retire "from that ungodly digression, and return to "his text."

EPISCOPAL STRICTNESS.

The following story of a bishop's examining a young man for orders was frequently related by the late Rev. Philip Skelton. He happened to come to the bishop's house too late to be examined by the arch-deacon with the other candidates. However, his lordship said to the young man, as I have a regard for you, I will examine "you myself." Accordingly he brought him up to his study, which was lined with books, and made him sit down at a table that was covered with huge folios and quartos. Immediately his lordship set down opposite to him, and thus, as Skelton said, hostilities commenced. His lordship's first question was, "Pray, Sir, how old is "this world we live in?" The young man answered he could not tell. "A very sensible "answer," his lordship gravely replied, "for "the septuagint says one thing, the Hebrew "another, and the Talmud another: 'in "fact no two of them are agreed among them"selves about the age of the world, and there

"fore, your answer is the most sensible imagi"nable." He then asked him again, “how old "is the new world? The young man said, naturally enough, he did not understand the question. "I mean," his lordship said, "how long "is it since America was discovered?" The candidate then answered at a guess, it was so long, but happened to be fifty years either in or over. "Very well, very well," replied his lordship, "you are within fifty years of it, which is "no great distance upon my word: this is "enough." Thus the examination concluded; parturiunt montes. When his lordship came

down to the rest of the candidates, he said to them, "Gentlemen, I had some notion of each of "you writing a little piece of composition, as is "usual on such occasions; but I have thought "better of it now, and in place of it, I will only "ask you to listen to a piece of advice I will "give you after dinner, relating to your behaviour as clergymen, which will be more useful to you, and more pleasing to me, than any nonsense you can write." His lordship, then, after dinner, according to his promise, gave them this advice. "You may think,” he said, "that good preaching will make you agreeable "to your people; but here, I must tell you, "you are quite mistaking; it is not for this they

"will like you; but I will teach you a method "of gaining all their favours. Look out for some "humourous jest book, and pick out all the "droll stories you meet with in it, and get them "by heart. Then, if you be able, make some "new ones of your own with all the circum"stances of time and place, and the like; in"deed, if I had leisure, I could tell you a few of

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my own making, which might serve you on oc"casions. Take care alsoto recollect, if possible, "every witty thing you hear in company, and “fix it in your memory. Thus equipped you "will be well qualified to do the duties of your

parish. For when you go to christenings, "marriages, or wakes, you may easily entertain "every one present, by your witty jokes, and "droll stories, with which, you know your head "will be full; so that your company will be "sought for, over the whole parish. With re"spect to your conduct in church," his lordship continued, "I have a word or two to say to you, "if you happen to make a blunder in reading "prayers or preaching, do not stop to rectify it: "but go boldly on: for 'tis ten to one, if a single

person in the whole church be listening to a "word you say; but if you stop, and go back "on the word, and begin to hum and haw, the "hearers will immediately prick up their ears

"and whisper to one another, ah, the curate's "out, the curate's out, and thus you will be exposed to ridicule."

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It is scarcely necessary to apprise the reader that the heroes of the above tale were Irish.

FIGHTING PRELATE.

Peter de Dreux, cousin german to the king of France, and bishop of Beauvois, being taken in arms by Richard the First of England, was imprisoned and fettered by him for personal injuries during his own captivity. Pope Celestine the third, wrote to the king a gentle remonstrating letter in favour of the prelate, which the king answered by sending the bishop's helmet and armour to Rome, with tliese words from the Holy Bible: "Know now whether it be thy son's coat.

or no." Genesis37, 32. This answer, so just and so appropriate, put a stop to the pope's intercession, and he replied, "that the coat the king "had sent, did not belong to a son of the church “but of the camp; and the prisoner therefore "was at Richard's mercy."

ARCHBISHOP WARHAM,'

This eminent man, who was a native of the same county as William of Wykeham, was educated at the colleges which the latter had founded