A BENEFICE IN THE MARKET.
In moving, on Wednesday, the second reading of the Simony Law Amendment Bill—deferred, to the delight no doubt of certain prelates, to that day three months—Viscount Goderich is reported to have asked:—
"What was it which the right of presentation conferred? It was a right to select a man who, as a Minister of the Church of England, was to be intrusted with the spiritual affairs of a certain place."
Yes, indeed, of a certain place—and, one would think, when the right of presentation is simoniacally purchased, of a certain place (not to be mentioned to ears polite) where the cure of souls would be a farce.
Strength Apparently Accounted For.
Notwithstanding the small size of the Aztec children, they are exceedingly strong. An incurable punster says they doubtlessly derived this strength from Gymn-aztecs, from whom it probably descended in a straight line.
HIBERNIAN TACTICS.
The military ability evinced by the Irish Brigade is of a peculiar kind. It is chiefly conspicuous in besieging; for almost the only talent in the whole party has been displayed in taking places.