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pennv weekly, and the Weekly Visitor, price one half-pennv, have also had 

 the doors of the government offices shut against them for the same reason. 

 It is said, that in the true sprit of this rigid economy of the public 

 monev, all the memhers of government, from the highest munstei ot 

 state down to the occupant of the most humble situation, are ^o tin a 

 their own ink, pens, and paper, in all matters pertaining to public busi- 

 ness, and that farthing candles onlv are to be henceforth used in eitiier 

 house of parliament. Great doings in this way are expected to be pro- 

 mised in ilr. Spring Rice's next budget. 



His Majesty's Health and Spirits.— A Sunday Paper, more re- 

 markable for its sycophancy than for its talent, mentions in its last nmn- 

 ber, that the King continues to improve in his health and spirits. We 

 are rejoiced to hearit, as will be, we are sure, every right-mmded man in tne 



country. The only drawback to the fulness of our joy, is. that the same 

 paper has said the same thing almost every Sunday since His Majesty s 

 accession to the throne ; consequently, we have our doubts whether tne 

 fact be really so. However, we may be mistaken : we devoutly hope we 

 are so— in which case, we will have the pleasing task to perform, ot con- 

 gratulating every loyal and properly constituted mind in these realms, on 

 the superabundant health of our most gracious sovereign, ^Vllllam the 

 Fourth. Every one knows— indeed, the very circumstance ot being 

 ignorant of such a fact would argue a most lamentable and criminal 

 deficiency of lovalty-every one knows, that when his Majes v 

 ascended the throne of these realms, he was most liberally blessed with 

 the commodity of heaUh. If, then, he has gone on as the Sunday 

 Journal alluded to has most perseveringly asserted for the last six 

 years he has done— improving in health and spirits, he must not 

 not only be the most salubrious and jolly old monarch that ever sat 

 upon a throne, but the healthiest and jolliest person in the universe. 

 Six years' constant improvement in the health and spirits of one who, 

 at the beginning of that period, possessed more than the average stock 

 of these qualities, cannot fail to render our Most Gracious Sovereign a 

 very prodigy of health and spirits. 



Clerical Zeal for Religion.— A correspondent of the Examiner. 

 of Sunday, the 20th ultimo, mentions, that in one of the parishes m 

 Ireland, 'in which the disputes between the Protestant and Roman 

 Catholic religions run high, a poor man, belonging to the former, 

 having latelv been taken so ill as to be deemed by himself, and all who 

 saw him. nigh unto death.— sent for the Protestant clergyman— a 

 doctor in divinity, it is said— on whose ministrations he was in the 

 habit of attending, earnestly desirous of some conversation respecting 

 his prospects for eternity, before he had received his final summons. 

 The Protestant churchman, in answer to the application, said he could 

 not comply with the supjiosed dying man's wishes, because he lived in 

 a marshy part of the parish, which would prevent either his carriage 

 driving up to the door, or himself entering it. without wetting iis 

 feet. The poor man, in the agony of his mental distress respecting his 

 condition in the sight of Him whom he every moment expected to be 

 his judge— then sent for a Roman Catholic priest. The latter complied 



