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take place, before the candidate for holy orders declares himself called 

 upon by the Holy Ghost to enter the ministry. 



With regard to the use made of facts on the present occasion, we find 

 it stated as a fact, that there are in England and Wales above 4501 

 livings, under 150 per annum each. If this be fact, the more is the 

 shame for the pluralist, and the greater pity for the poor incumbent. 

 All the other facts go to prove one fact sufficiently obvious, namely, 

 that the affairs of the church are in a most deplorable condition, and that 

 the poverty of the clergy deserves our deep commiseration. The Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury, according to the returns here printed, has only 

 27,000 per year ; the Bishop of Durham only 17,000 ; the Bishop of 

 London only 10,000. 



The whole of the church property only amounts to two millions. 

 But, in turning over to the next page of the magazine, we find an 

 account of the " Savings' Banks," in which it is stated that the deposits 

 of the poor are fourteen millions, demonstrating, by all the powers of 

 arithmetic, that the poor are seven times richer than the clergy that 

 the apostolic age is returned, and that the power of working miracles 

 will again be the glory and exclusive privilege of the church ; a privi- 

 lege, indeed, that will soon be imperatively necessary. 



PLEBEIAN AND PATRICIAN COOKERY. The ingratitude of the poor is 

 a proverb among the rich, and yet in spite of it we find philanthropists 

 as plenty as blackberries. The days of prison discipline and magdalene 

 qualifying are upon the wane ; the Rev. C. C. Smith is like a thing for- 

 gotten, dead, out of mind ; and man seems fast returning to the unso- 

 phisticatedness of his primitive state. His definition, according to one 

 who knew human nature well, the celebrated Dr. Kitchener, is the 

 " cooking or broth-making animal," and we hold the subjoined prescrip- 

 tion as an evidence that our nature is not entirely reprobate, and that 

 the stomach) which has been emphatically termed every man's master, 

 has not completely lost its a balance of power," in this universe of bone, 

 flesh, muscle, tendon, nerve, and ligament. We met with it in a reli- 

 gious print, and recommend it most heartily to the medical board as 

 another cure for the cholera. 



" SOUP FOR THE POOH. Take six quarts of water" (water, says Sheva, is 

 good, the doctors use a great deal of it), " and boil with it two onions, a turnip, 

 and a couple of carrots, till they are reduced to three" (this is a puzzle for a 

 Croker or Ricardo), " mixing with it, by degrees, half-a-pint of grits or oat- 

 meal, keeping it well skimmed" (for fear it should be too rich, of course) ; "then 

 take two ounces of bacon fat, and shred it small into the mixture, with two 

 spoonsful of walnut liquor" (such as gipsies stain their stolen children with), 

 " keep the whole stirring" (to amalgamate and mix its various qualities, for by 

 this process the fibrine is corrugated, the albumen coagulated, the gelatine and 

 ozmazome is liquified) " for half-an-hour, when it will be found, with the addi- 

 tion of pepper and salt, a wholesome and nutritious beverage, and exceedingly 

 cheap. N.B. It should be eaten without bread." 



Certainly ; good wine needs no bush, and we doubt whether the 

 addition of the pepper and salt be not superfluous ; it is apt to destroy, if 

 not used with the most scientific caution, the fine animal aroma of soups 

 in general. But, de gustibus turn est disputandum ; the only objection 

 we have to the dish is, that our population is too numerous already, and 

 we think the revealing of such a secret at the present moment highly 



