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Irish sinecure bishops was met with on the parts of their British 

 brethren, was truly orthodox. This awful explosion of wrath was 

 manifested through the medium of their mouthpiece, the champion of 

 the church. The ingenuity with which he parried the arguments of 

 the Premier, that the number of Irish was inconsistent with and 

 disproportion ed to the number of English bishops, and their conse- 

 quent uselessness, being a reason for their reduction, was facetious 

 but not convincing : " The fact is," said the divine, " that the fault 

 is not in the superabundance of Irish, but in the extreme paucity of 

 the English sees. It was the intention of Archbishop Cranmer to have 

 added sixteen sees to this favoured island. It was not done more is 

 the pity ; but I would recommend the measure, and then the propor- 

 tion will be right to a fraction." Generous Phillpotts ! how ill we 

 requite your generosity. However, we have but little knowledge of 

 clerical arithmetic, and therefore cannot be supposed to understand 

 the full measure of our obligation. But the great phial of wrath was 

 poured out on the unhappy catholic clergy. The man of lawn 

 positively shrieked at the presumption of such an obscure class as- 

 suming the title of archbishop and bishop, and moreover, with a 

 climax of assurance, calling their paltry communion a church ! A 

 church indeed ! what will impudence arrive at ! That they should 

 dare to call that a church which does not possess one of its elements ! 

 Where are its palaces ? where is its wealth where its pride, its vain 

 glory, its covetousness ? It has neither lands nor tenements it has 

 no tithes and more than all, it has no Phillpotts I How then can such 

 pretenders to piety arrogate to themselves the distinction of a church, 

 divested as they are of its commonest attributes ? 



WANDERING JEWS AND TRAVELLED WITS. Legislative gentle- 

 men are not satisfied with sneaking an unobtrusive vote for con- 

 science sake ; but, by placing their opinions upon record in the shape 

 of a speech, they appear to covet the equivocal distinction of a fools- 

 cap and bells, forgetting that such outward and visible sign is no 

 longer sought for by those who pretend to any thing beyond that 

 which such emblem signifies. We should be inclined from pure pity 

 to disabuse the unconscious noodle, did we not see him so vain- 

 glorious from his imagined honours frisking about with the intoxi- 

 cated glee of one who has clutched a mitre anon shaking his deco- 

 rated noddle, and listening to its tinkling appendages with all the 

 inane conceit of a bellwether. 



During the third reading of the Jewish relief bill Sir C. Burrell 

 raised the admiration of the House by the extent of his reading, and 

 the happy conclusions he drew therefrom. That the House was not 

 convinced by his reasoning is a fresh proof of its inability to appre- 

 ciate truth. The Hon. Baronet contended that " Jews had no right, 

 to sit in a Christian legislature, inasmuch as they were always a sepa- 

 rate people, and it was prophesied that they should be scattered over 

 all nations. Moreover, they have been driven to parts of the earth 

 that no Christian had ever reached, namely, to beyond Timbuctoo!" 

 (Roars of laughter.) The Hon. Baronet then read to the house some 

 important passages from " Keith on Prophecy/' which clearly proved 



