400 Notes of the Month on [OcT. 



Another of the papers correcting the ludicrous blunder of making 

 the man's Christian name " Bishop," gives him a " mission connected 

 with France," and says, " he administers to the spiritual comforts of his 

 church in that kingdom/' 



Neither the Globe, in which the paragraph appeared, nor the Age, 

 which made the comment, can be charged with a propensity of puffing, 

 and yet the paragraph thus imposed on them is a puff direct. The 

 truth of the matter is this. The reverend person is an American, who, 

 liking to make his way in Europe, and thinking that though the gates 

 of preferment were shut upon him in England and Scotland, there was 

 something to be got in France, made a tour, chiefly among the English, 

 and returned to England with the formidable discovery that they were all 

 going the way of ruin, and that the only hope of averting it, was by sub- 

 jecting them all to the rite of confirmation. For this apostolical service 

 the American volunteered hinself. But confirmation is a rite reserved 

 to bishops, and he, therefore, requested the Archbishop of Canterbury to 

 consecrate him forthwith. But the archbishop had no idea of doing any 

 thing of the kind, and the would-be bishop was forced to look to some 

 less refractory quarter. Luckily there remains in Scotland a little con- 

 gregation which calls its pastors bishops, and to them the Doctor applied. 

 They were only too much delighted at the opportunity of sending a bishop 

 of their own making afloat in paries infidelium, and they accordingly con- 

 secrated the Doctor. He then went forth, confirming the sons and daugh- 

 ters of our travellers in his journeys through France, a good deal to the 

 offenceof the French people, who naturally enough asked what empowered 

 a foreigner to go preaching and laying on hands in this bustling style 

 through their country ? However, at last, whether to stop his peregri- 

 nations, which were undoubtedly a source of dissatisfaction to the 

 French government ; or to reward his apostolical zeal, the Doctor got 

 the British chaplaincy in Paris, where he now figures in his lawn 

 sleeves. We see that he " happened" to be at Dieppe, when the suc- 

 cessor to the throne was there for a day or two, and that he now " hap- 

 pens" to be at Brighton, and "happens" to preach before that successor, 

 now that he is king ; and we will undertake to say that the whole three 

 " happened" with just the same degree of accident. We are not yet 

 prepared, however, for seeing him in an English cathedral, nor are we 

 much delighted with even seeing him in an English chaplaincy. The 

 Americans are excellent fellows sometimes, but we think the less they 

 have to do with English affairs on the Continent, the better for the 

 affairs. Let an Englishman be appointed to the chapel of the em- 

 bassy. We wish Bishop Luscombe a safe voyage to New York, and 

 a happy meeting with his friend Bishop Hobart, that impudent and 

 ungrateful coxcomb, who, after receiving our hospitality, had no sooner 

 set his sanctified foot in Yankey-land, than he published a foul and 

 vulgar attack upon the whole Church of England. 



The Times applauds the new French style of abolishing " My Lord," 

 in the address to peers and ministers. 



" It will be perceived that the new government of France have 

 introduced a new mode of address among the peers of France, and 

 even among the great functionaries of state. There are to be no more 

 ' My Lords' among them no longer Monseigneur, but M. le Ministre. 

 Now there is no country in Europe in which the distinction between 



