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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[Juxe 23, 1877.

CANDID.

Tam (very dry, at door of Country Inn, Sunday Morning). " Ayf, Man, ye

MICHT GIE ME a BIT GlLL OOT in a BOTTLE I "

Landlord (from within). " Weel, ye ken, Tammas, i daurna sell ony-

THING THE DAY. AND FORBYE ye GOT a hALF-MUTCHKIN awa' Wl' ye LAST
NlCHT (AFTER HOORS TAE) ; IT canna BE a' dune yet ! "

Tam. " Dune J Losh, Man, d'ye think a' could Sleep an' "Whuskey

i' the hoose ? ! "

OMINOUS OUTRAGE!

The World of Fashion has been, convulsed with a thrill
of horror by an unprecedented outrage on Society, as
represented by the dignified attendance of Aristocracy at
the sports of Ascot. According to a dreadful police
report, on Tuesday last—

"At Hammersmith, Major Erlan applied to Mr. Bridge
for a summons for an assault. He stated that on "Wednesday he
was near Gunnersbury Station, -with his two daughters, looking
at the vehicles returning from Ascot Eaces, when a four-horse
coach, driven by Lord Londesborough, passed, and he was
struck on the breast by a bag of sawdust thrown from it" (!)

True, indeed, is it that—

" Replying to the Magistrate, the Major said he did not know
who threw the bag of sawdust."

And of course he was under a mistaken impression in
the idea that it was thrown by anybody [on Lord
Londesborough's drag. Nobody of Lord Londes-
borough's party could possibly have thrown bags of
sawdust on the return from Ascot at Ladies and Gentle-
men, or, indeed, at anybody, or even have had such a
thing as a bag of sawdust to throw. But the horrid
fact is that a bag of sawdust was thrown by somebody or
other from some passing vehicle on the road. Appalling
event! "What if this be the beginning of the end of the
dignity and glory of Ascot; the first symptom of the
decline of Ascot Races to the level of Epsom and
Hampton ? What next ? Are we doomed hereafter to
witness men and youths returning from the " Cup " with
supplementary noses on, and dolls in their hat-bands't
Will it be our sad fate to hear them blowing trumpets
and tooting horns, and playing the Two Obadiahs, or
the street-tune then popular, whatever it may be, on an
accordion ? Is the gathering on the Heath itself to be
vulgarised by irrepellable Progress, and has its decadence
been initiated by the bag of sawdust thrown at Major
Erlan ?

Of course Mr. Bridge could not grant a summons for
the appearance of a caitiff unknown. Major Erlan
said he would write to Lord Londesborough for that
miscreant's name and address, but of course the noble
Lord knows nothing of so impossible a comp&nion.
Though driving with his back to any cad who might have
intruded, he would have immediately felt the presence of
an offender, whose moral emanations, as sensible as the
effluvia of the dead fiy in the Apothecary's unguent,
would have got him at once detected and expelled.

Too Good News to be True (from a Sandwich
Man).—Charing Cross. Folly. Last Nights.

RITUALISTS IN REBELLION.

The Council of the Church Union, which boasts 'to have enrolled
under its Ritualistic banner 2,586 clergy and 16,496 communicants,
has at last thrown down the gauntlet to the Law. With a cool
petitio principii it declares that the Ridsdale judgment has "ren-
dered penal much of the ceremonial which the Church of England
retained at the Reformation, and reconsidered and resettled in 1662."

Now, the very question for decision in the Ridsdale case was
whether the practices the Reverend defendant had followed at
Folkestone were such as the Church of England; at the Reformation
and Post-revolutionary Resettlement had reconsidered and re-
settled ? The Judges of the Privy Council have decided that they
were not. The Council of the Church Union, flying in the face of

the Judges, call on Convocation to do likewise, and advise the\vaut nen ie Vresbytere," should be the saying — followed up by
clerical members of the L nion to treat the Ridsdale Judgment as
the idle utterance of " a body recently appointed, and having no
real authority."

" Hawks," says the proverb, " will not pike out hawks' een," but
Clerical crows, it would seem, decline to follow their wise example,
and are ready, under various names expressive of peace and concord,
to fight to the death against each other, and one of them against
the Law into the bargain.

Let John Bull look to it. He may not be anxious to see a clean
sweep made of his Church by Law Established ; but when a large
body within his Church by Law Established defies, disowns, and
disobeys the Law, it has already disestablished itself.

There is only one duty for the Clergy who take this'course; to
shake off the yoke under which they refuse to bow their necks, and to
cease to eat the bread of an Establishment whose laws they defy.
"That's so," my Reverend Gents of the Church Union, and no
two ways about it.

' Paris vaat Men une messe," said Henri Quatre. La messe

At the same time that this document is adopted by the Church
Union, the Church Association meets to express its satisfaction with
the Ridsdale Judgment; its determination to do all in its power
to see that the judgment is enforced; and its delight at the blow
dealt thereby to the trade of the Church milliner, and the celebra-
tion of the sacrifice of the Mass by the tClergy of the Church of
England.

So speak two mouths, both purporting to speak for one head, that
of the Church of England.

It would be a very pretty quarrel as it stands, were it not that both
Church Union and Church Association are in the main Clerical
bodies, and their bone of contention nothing less than the founda-
tions of the Established Church, and the claims of her Clergy.

doing—of the Church Union.

You will be easier where your opinions are already—out ot our
pale. A Protestant Establishment will be infinitely more comfort-
able out of yours.____

More Pernicious Literature.

A sacerdota.l manual of auricular confession, privately printed,
and circulating among an association of Anglican Clergymen styling
themselves the "Society of the Holy Cross," which Lord Redesdale
the other evening denounced to the House of Lords, is not so happily
named as perhaps it might be. Such is the character of this work,
that, if sold openly, it would perhaps be subject to seizure under
Lord Campbell's Act. It is entitled The Priest in Absolution. An
obvious analogy to another treatise, at present under prosecution,
suggests as a better title for it—Fruits of Theology,