Punch (54.1868)

[May 9, 1868.


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PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

“letting the cat out of the bag.”

Mrs. Twistlewarp (from the North, but xolio does not consider herself at all provincial).
“ P’liceman, I wrsH to Drive to Westbourne Terrace. Ah! now which is the Nk ares t'
Way ?—Do I--

Policeman. “Very Sorry, Mum, but I’m a Stranger here in London, Mum—only
just come up from the Country, same as you, Mum ! ! ”

EXCOMMUNICATING AND EXCOMMUNICATED.

The celebrated Bishop of Capetown, Dr. Gray, is reported to have preached a Sermon last
week on Tuesday evening, at Holy Trinity Church, Colchester, when—

“ After remarking on the troubles and trials of the Church in these latter days, and giving a sketch of the
great work that was being carried on in Africa, his Lordship took occasion to allude to Bishop Colenso, and
after recounting the heresies alleged against him, said that Churchmen in Africa had done what they could to
clear themselves of responsibility in the sight of God and man ; they had declared that this false teacher was no
longer in their communion, that they did not recognise him as such. But it yet remained for the Mother Church
to do the same ; for until this had been done they would not be clear in the sight of Christendom.’’

The attention of Bishop Gray is respectfully called to the following extract from an article in

the Osservatore Romano, on “ The Maledic-
tion of Protestant barrenness” :—

“The false Anglican Church, separated from the
true Church of Rome, could not be better described
than the Anglican Lowe did with the above words.
Yet the English Protestants cultivated with great
care, labour, and love the Anglican Church in Ire-
land, so that its sterility is innate in schism and
error, and wilL only cease when heresy itself ceases
bv the return of all Anglicans to the Catholic
Church.”

Dr. Gray may possibly need to be informed
that the Oxservalore Romano is an organ
which expresses the sentiments of one of
the Bishops of that Christendom in whose
sight he wishes the Mother Church of Eng-
land to put herself clear by excommunica-
ting Bishop Colenso. It may further be
necessary to tell Dr. Gray that the Bishop
represented by the Osservatore Romano is
no other than one who claims to be the chief
of Christendom’s Bishops, and is acknow-
ledged as such by the greater part of
Christendom; in short, his Holiness the
Pope. Now let Dr. Gray be pleased to
observe that the Pope’s own paper calls the
Anglican Church a false Church, and its doc-
trine heresy ; consequently Dr. Gray him-
self a heretic and a false Bishop. This being
the opinion respecting the Anglican Church
and all its Bishops, the Bishop of Cape-
town inclusive, in which Christendom for
the most part entirely agrees, it may be a3
well for 1)r. Gray to consider whether, by
affecting to excommunicate Dr. Colenso,
his Mother Church will put herself iu any
light clearer than that in which she stands
at present in the sight of a majority whicli
looks upon her as being herself excommuni-
cated.

CHORUS OF MEMBERS.

We won’t divide till morning,

We won’t divide till morning,

We won’t divide till morning,

Till daylight doth appear,

With a hear hear hear, hooray !
With a hear hear hear, hooray !
Eor he’s a long-winded fellow.

For he’s a long-winded fellow,

Eor he’s a long-winded fellow,
xlnd so say all of us.

“ SCIENCE GOSSIP.”

The proper thing to use with gun-cotton
is shot silk.

The Cuckoo has been heard on Bethnal
Green, and the Nightingale has commenced
singing in Short’s Gardens. The Swallows
have returned to the Mansion House.

A Patent has been taken out for manufac-
turing pens with cocoa-nibs.

Ladies will be pleased to hear that a pro-
cess has been discovered by which they can
electro-plait their hair.

Many persons have burnt, their fingers by
dabbling in Petroleum.

A Scientific Ghost-story will shortly appear
in fortnightly numbers, founded on Spectrum
Analysis. _

Unreasonable Litigation.

It appears that at a recent election, in
Middlesex, many persons voted because they
had a right to graves iu the county, a quali-
fication which, if the freeholders had been
choosing a sexton, would not have been
thought at all remarkable, and, as it is, should
not excite so much opposition, seeing that
the election was of—Coroner.

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