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a creature should be paraded before the public eye, that the chaste 

 wife, and the delicate mind of youth, should be forced to recollect her 

 story by seeing her figuring before them on the stage, and not merely 

 suffered there, but applauded and panegyrized in every instrument of 

 public opinion, for beauty, talent, and so forth, daring public censure 

 with impunity, and flourishing in fame and fortune ? 



How many must the exhibition disgust ; how many may it lead to 

 think that there is no actual distinction between purity and impurity ; 

 how many of the weak may it tempt, and how many of the wicked must 

 it sanction and encourage ? 



But then we are told we suffer others just as culpable to appear. 

 True, and the public does itself and the stage dishonour by suffering 

 them. But there is still a distinction. Their fall has not been so recently 

 before the public that their name cannot be mentioned without a revival 

 of their story. Their vice has past away sub silentio. We hear and see 

 Mrs. A. B. or C. without thinking any further of them than as good or 

 bad actresses. Our tolerance of them on the stage as actresses no longer 

 implies tolerance of them as profligates, and the evil of their example has 

 been partially worn away. 



But with any profligate who comes before us fresh from guilt, with the 

 notoriety of her vileness forcing itself upon us in every channel of ob- 

 servation, with no broken spirit, but with the dashing effrontery of 

 impudent vice, the public sanction is a public crime, an encouragement 

 to future as well as to present iniquity, and a disgrace at once to the 

 stage and the country. 



They may say what they please of an Irishman's being in two places 

 at once, but commend us to some of the English parsons, for multiplica- 

 tion of person. 



" CAMBRIDGE. Rev. J. Griffith, prebendary of Rochester, to the rec- 

 tory of Llangynhafel, Denbigh. Rev. W. M. Mayers, to a stall in the 

 cathedral of St. Patrick's, with the rectory of Malhelburt (a non cure)." 



Here we have an honest cleric contriving to do his duty at once in 

 Rochester and Denbigh, and no doubt with equal good to mankind, and 

 comfort to himself in both ; as for the second worthy gentleman, his 

 preferment is a non cure, and as he can receive his salary by post, he 

 may take his wings and rove to China, without a crime against the laws 

 of residence. We wish both the gentlemen joy of their pleasant pros- 

 pects; nor shall we hurt their feelings by asking on what labours in 

 their profession fortune has thus smiled ? We are afraid their names do 

 not figure in the list of authors, sacred or classic, that the scriptures 

 have not been deeply indebted to their elucidation, nor the church to 

 their eloquence ! But they can at least write receipts for their salary, 

 and that is the true accomplishment, after all ! 



Old Talleyrand's appointment to the British Embassy is decidedly 

 the most curious among the problems of a problematical time. It is 

 not his first experiment here, however ; he was among us forty years 

 ago, first to get a little money for himself, as a fugitive from that 

 loving and fraternal government which freed so many people by taking 

 off their heads; next to get a little for his French employers; and thirdly, 

 to get a little from the fears or the folly of America. We must not call 

 an ambassador a rogue, but old Talleyrand has been for upwards of seventy 



