672 Notes of Ihe Motilh on QDkc. 



" Curates fag for either Rectors or Vicars, and are sometimes the journey- 

 men of other Curates ; but a Priest may be all three at once. He may even 

 be a multiplicity in himself. For instance, he may be Rector of Blackmoor cum 

 Whitemoor, Vicar of Stock, perpetual Curate of St. Jeremy's, officiating Curate 

 of Si?. Howl's, Canon or Prebendary, at the same time, in the cathedral of Swg- 

 away. Chaplain to the Duke of Humbug (at half-a-guinea a week), and head of 

 a college at Oxford or Cambridge, &c." 



If the College do not break up, and the Bishops break down, after this, 

 they must have more than human courage. 



What can be older, what truer, or what more curious, than the saying 

 that one half of the world knows nothing of the other half — that a man 

 may be dragging on his humanity through half a century, without being 

 known beyond the end of his own street, and that the materials of a 

 bustling biography may be found in a lane, a cellar, or a ship-cabin ? We 

 give, for the benefit of illustration, a sketch of a hfe, which, if it fell 

 into the hands of a Fielding, would be a pendant to Tom Jonesj which 

 Sir Walter would have made a second luminary of Alsatia ; and God- 

 win would have metallized and crystallized into a Bethlem Gabor. A 

 week ago, — we give it in the feeling familiarity of his panegyrist. 



" Poor Bill Tucker, as he was styled, breathed his last. He was for many 

 years waiter at the Harp, in Russell-street, Drury-lane, a house long celebrated 

 as the resort of theatrical persons, where Mr. Sims still carries on a theatrical 

 agency. Poor Bill, notwithstanding his cognomen, saved money enough to 

 take the Craven's Head, in Drury-lane, formerly Oxberry's celebrated theatrical 

 chop-house ; previous to which, however, he snatched a moment to marry the 

 sister of the landlord of the Harp, Miss Morgan, by whom he had two 

 children." 



Thus far the brief biography has gone on with the grace of perfect 

 ease. But it now becomes more formal, and in so much loses a portion 

 of its nature. 



" Vv^illiam Tucker was much respected by the members of the theatrical 

 profession ; and many an affluent actor can, without cudgelling his brains, 

 remember the hour when poor Bill welcomed him after a country tour, at the 

 Harp, supplied him with refreshments, and, in a low whisper, respectfully 

 inquired as to the state of his exchequer. Some died in his debt — others paid 

 him handsomely — a few behaved ungratefully ; but Bill used invariably to say, 

 ' I know that in all professions there are difficulties in the outset ; I must say 

 actors are warm-hearted fellows ; and if I meet a bad lot or two amongst them, 

 I must set it against those who have befriended me.' " 



This winding up is in better style ; and we recommend the subject 

 to the investigators in sorrows and sentiments that " lie too deep for 

 tears." 



Last year IMr. Warburton's Bill was, in some way or other, dropped ; 

 and the public feelings on a subject of equal pain, interest, and delicacy 

 were left to be mangled as it may please the surgeons' apprentices. The 

 plundering of the church-yards continues ; and the law idly shrinks from 

 interfering with an outrage against the public, which no individual with 

 a human heart would suffer to be committed, in the instance of any one 

 for whom he ever had a regard. The resurrection-men are at work ; there 

 can be no doubt that their traffic is going on at this moment as thickly 



