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disdained to bestow even a tlioaght on his constituents, so long as there 

 was any chance of unkenneUing a fox, with any probability of pursuing 

 him to the death. When the hoary-headed lover of the sports of the 

 field next appears on the hustings of Westminster, we hope the electors 

 will, without ceremony, take care to insure to themselves the sport of 

 hunting him off the hustings, and thus put it into his power, as far as 

 they are concerned, of enjoying the pleasures of the chase till doomsday. 

 But let us do justice to Sir Francis : he deserves credit for his straight- 

 forwardness. There are other representatives who hold their constituents 

 equally cheap, but they either lack the honesty or courage to say so. 

 Sir Francis says that, could the people of Ireland open their eyes, they 

 would say to O'Connell, in reference to the tribute, as the frogs said in the 

 fable — " Though this be sport to you, it is death to us." Does not this 

 look very like certain personages' representative. Might not the foxes, 

 with a still greater — nay, with a literal propriety, address the same lan- 

 guage to Sir Francis himself, when prosecuting the " sports of the field." 



Episcopal Lords. — Whatever it may prove when time shall be no 

 more, it must be a very comfortable thing to be one of the " dignitaries 

 of the church," as they are called, in the present life. It is true, they 

 all promise, on taking holy orders, to renounce the " pomps and vani- 

 ties of this wicked world," but how far they adhere to the solemn en- 

 gagement, we leave to themselves to say. The following short para- 

 graph, which appeared in the daily papers a few days since, speaks 

 volumes on the subject : — "The Archbishop of Canterbury and family 

 have arrived at the Palace, Lambeth, for the season." 



We wonder if the Apostle Paul, or the Apostle Peter, or any other of 

 the twelve, had palaces to reside in ; and if so, whether their transit 

 from one such place of residence to another, was heralded in the same 

 way as that of their successoi's of the present day. When the Apostles 

 arrived at any particular place, during their sojourn on earth, it was for 

 a " season" of a very different kind from that indicated in the above 

 brief paragraph. Their " seasons" were seasons of cold, hunger, thirst, 

 nakedness, reproaches, and persecutions of every kind. They knew 

 nothing of the " seasons" of routs, balls, levees, operas, card-playing, &c 

 Neither did they know what it was, like their self-styled successors of 

 the present day, to roll about in their carriages, preaching, or " charging" 

 their diocese rather, once in three or four years. If we would be uncon- 

 verted until it is done by the dignitaries of the church, we have no san- 

 guine hopes of living to see, even should we reach the age of Methuse- 

 lah, that desirable consummation. How abundant the cause which the 

 church of England has to pray that she may be saved from her friends ! 

 Hume, Gibbon, Paine, and all the Roman Catholics and Dissenters to 

 boot, never inflicted on her half the injury which her own " dignitaries" 

 have done. 



The Siamese Twins. — These interesting personages are now, it appears, 

 in Paris. One of the Journals compliments them on being much attached 

 to each other. So they undoubtedly are ; but like many an attachment 

 beween husband and wife, it is one which they cannot help. Whether, 

 if they had it in their power to part with each other when they pleased, 

 they would betray so much fondness for one another's company, is a 

 question which it is not for us to answer. They act wisely, however, 

 in existing circumstances, to make themselves as agreeable together as 



