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ANATHEMA SIT.

{See the Canones de Ecclesid, published in the Times of
Thursday, February

Air—" A Hunting We will Go."

The new-cast canons of the Church,

To load and fire, be bold;
And prove they '11 shoot as straight and far

As e'er they shot of old.
As we have power to canonise

The Church's Saints on high,
So, Church's sinners we have power
To doom to endless fry !
Then a-cursing we will go, my boys,
A-cursing we will go !

If any man denies the rights

Of Holy Ho man Church,
And holds that stain of any sin
Its head or limbs can smirch;
If any man from any faith

But ours hope Christian seed,
Or Christian fruit, on branch or root—
Let him be double-d'd !

And a-cursing let us go, my boys,
A-cursing let us go !

Whoso maintains that Faith or Works

Salvation can command,
For sinners who beyond the pale

Of Holy Church may stand ;
Whoso contends that Holy Church

Can err in will or deed,
That there are sins Priests cannot purge-
Let him be double-d'd!

Then a-cursing let us go, my boys,
A-cursing let us go !

Whoe'er maintains that Holy Church

Can go astray at all—
Be pervert from its ancient rule,
Or into darkness fall;

ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE. That Pope or Pnest, by evil life

Artist (to Old Fellow-Student). "And what have you been doing all these , May nullify his creed,

years,—what are vott painting ? " and pr0vf} ™ gUldeof blinded flocks—

Swell. "Oh, I gave dp Painting, my Dear Fellow-then I took to AnH curshie etus'eo mv bov<

Teaching ! But you can't find Pupils in Genius, vou know, so now i go a p ir in" let us 4'

in for Art Criticism ! I know I'm Strong in that ! Did you see my s s '

Article in this week's ' Now a Davs ?' " Whoe'er denies that Holy Church

By right divine holds rule.
O'er consciences and coin of men,

Bodies and souls to school;
That Peter is the Church's head,

ROCHEFORT IK HIS PLACE.

M. Rochefort is not the right man in the right place. M. Rochefort is in The Popes his lineal breed,

prison—he ought to be elsewhere. A telegram from Paris, the other day, told us
that :—

" M. Eochefort has written a letter to M. Schneider, proposing that the Ministry
should be impeached for inciting to civil war."

Instead of being immured in a French prison, M. Rochefort ought now to be
figuring in a British theatre. The face of M. Rochefort should be overlaid with
white paint, patched and streaked with scarlet. His eyebrows should be enlarged,
and his head crowned with a coxcomb. His attire should consist of a frock and
knickerbockers of motley, clocked stockings, and red-morocco shoes. Thus
equipped and embellished for the excitement of mirth, M. Rochefort should be
engaged nightly at one of the theatres in affording amusement to the youthful
part of his spectators, in particular making a point, when collared in a street-
row, of upbraiding the police with having created the disturbance.

" I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl,"

—says Shakspeare's Richard III., and so M. Rochefort might say if he were
a person of Richard's dramatic dignity ; but, being what he is, he would act more
in character with himself by playing another character, and in the language of
that character, at one of the stage wings, taunting a guardian of the public peace
with the cry of " Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, naughty Bobby ! " round a corner.

something like conversion.

Talk of Missionary work! Bob Lowe is the man for it. He is going to
convert the New Three per Cents and the Reduced to Consols !

A Military Distinction.—The French Army is injured by the duel system.
The English Army suffers from the dual system.

Viceroys of Heaven to bind and loose-
Let him be double-d'd!

And a-cursing let us go, my boys,
A-cursing let us go !

Whoe'er supports a Public power

On which the Church may frown,
Or sets not, jure ecclesice,

Tiara over Crown;
Who holds that Church's law and State's

To divers ends can lead,
Or that this doth not rest on that—

Let him be double-d'd !

And a-cursing let us go, my boys,
A-cursing let us go !

Whoever dares to feast or fast

Save as Church fasts or feasts ;
Whoever dares to call his soul

His own, and not his Priest's;
Whoever does, or says, or thinks,

Save as Church has decreed,
Per Canones Fcclesim—

Let him be double-d'd!
Then a-cursing let us go, my boys,
A-cursing let us go !

A New Anniversary. (Not a Victory.)—Wednes-
day, February 16th. The Battle of Waterlow 1