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anybody is to be seen in the streets from morning till night, that is, from 

 three till six. But the true man of success would be Dr. Graham, of 

 famous memory ; the heir of his talents would make a fortune in any 

 season of the year ; and now that St. John Long has vacated the -throne, 

 nothing could be more favourable for his ambition,, than to take advantage 

 of the interregnum, and make himself monarch of charlatanry without 

 loss of time. 



Dr. Philpotts has reached Exeter, been received with triumphal 

 honours by the children of the charity-school, passed through a whole 

 street handsomely lined with the parish paupers, and under an escort of 

 beadles, a detachment of sextons, and the pew-openers of the venerable 

 cathedral, taken his seat in the episcopal chair. This scene of public joy 

 and voluntary respect must be a full answer to all the impudent and in- 

 sulting things that the papers of Exeter, and of every other town in the 

 empire, poured out with such surprising remorselessness on the sup- 

 posed conduct of the Right Reverend Father in God ! 



In the mind of all honest men and good christians, it must be to no 

 purpose that Dr. Philpotts has been called all sorts of foul names. Here 

 is the ample refutation " He was welcomed to his stall by the charity- 

 children of a parish in Exeter." What if irreverent words, which have 

 sunk fifty great men a-year, at the lowest computation, within the last 

 five years, were showered on the doctor here ; he may lay Jhis hand on 

 his heart, and trampling his pamphlet on Canning and the Catholic 

 question, demand whether any man can be base enough to remember a 

 single pledge, or protestation, there ; while he can appeal to the irre- 

 sistible fact of his being cheered into Exeter by the charity- children. 

 For our part, we congratulate the English Church, prosperous and 

 popular as it is at this moment, on its acquisition "of such a pillar of 

 learning, piety, and unshaken political principle ! Other men" of rank in 

 the church may by possibility lay themselves under the charge of time- 

 serving, trickery, Jesuitism, saying one thing and doing another, &c.; 

 but now, who can doubt, that for pure integrity, and the absence of all 

 worldliness, we have in Dr. Philpotts a model of a Christian pastor, an 

 Israelite in whom is no guile ; a bishop worthy of the apostolic age? 

 We leave it to others to enumerate the vigour, usefulness, and variety of 

 his theological works ; the eloquence and sincerity of his sermons, and 

 the distinguished aid which his writings have given to the knowledge of 

 the scriptures. If men will be sceptical, and deny the existence of any 

 thing of the kind from the doctor's labours, we cannot stop to convince 

 them. We stand on the notorious merits of his public consistency, on 

 his public abhorrence of saying one thing and doing another ; and ap- 

 peal in proof to the unrivalled popularity which has exhibited itself on 

 his reception in Exeter. Happy bishop of a happy people ! happy 

 clergy who are to have the benefit of his example ! and happy church 

 which, in this its day of security, is to have the splendid superfluity of 

 virtues so apostoli cal, and so publicly honoured a name ! 



As the world of London delights in foreign intelligence, we give them 

 the following from the land of blue skies and macaroni, where our 

 bankers' Avives carry themselves to get "attendants/* and their daugh- 



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