THE ARCHDEACON ANSWERED.

[At the Annual Meeting of the Curates' Augmentation Fund, Archdeacon KAYE, of Lincoln, urged the desirability of imposing some limitation to the number ordained to the Ministry of the Church of England, as three-fifths of the Clergy were in poverty.]

"Oh, sad indeed it is to think,"

Quoth good Archdeacon KAYE,

"That though our Clergy are so 'High,'

So low should be their pay!

"They fly to money-lenders' lures,

To speculative chances;