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over, are whitewashed ; pigs and popery are prohibited ; 

 and travellers wayfaring on the seventh day denounced, 

 and, under perilous amercements, enjoined to take 

 their ease in their respective inns. 



While the horses were being brought out, I strolled 

 into the street, and, in a show-room of the Farming 

 Society, discovered a collection of biblicals in full 

 activity. From a short gentleman with soiled linen 

 and an impeded delivery, I learned the gratifying fact 

 that the spread of the Gospel was progressive in Cali- 

 fornia ; and, further, that a second-cousin of the King 

 of Siam had been baptized by a Moravian missionary. 

 This latter annunciation elicited a thunder of applause ; 

 and a young lady with a lisp pinched my elbow play- 

 fully, and requested me to propose that a piece of plate 

 be transmitted to the convertee. Now, pinching one's 

 elbow on a five minutes' acquaintance is alarming ; 

 I accordingly levanted, leaving Lispy to propose the plate 

 in person. I observed, in my retreat, a mob assembled 

 round the chapel, and, pushing through a crowd of 

 ragged urchins, established myself in the doorway. 

 Within there was a meeting of Radical Reformers, and 

 a tall man was pouring forth a philippic from the altar, 

 in which he made an awful example of the king's 

 English, and, in his syllabic arrangements, differed 

 totally from modern orthoepists. The gist of his 

 oration went to prove that Catholic Emancipation was 

 a humbug — concession a farce — and luck or grace would 

 never visit this unhappy island until Mr. Cornelius 

 Cassidy, of Killcooney House, was sent to represent 

 us in the Imperial Parliament. 



