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Chit Chat.
mill-owners ; and at the hour when the mill population are beginning to arouse themselves from sleep , he is stealing home to his bed , pale and haggard , to seek a short interval of repose , by closing his curtains upon the bright daylight . There is no factory operative , who , apart from the question of remuneration , measuring only toil for toil , would change places with a London daily editor THE JEWS IN PARLIAMENT . —Immediatelbefore the adjournment
y of Parliament , Colonel Sibthorp inquired of Lord John Russel whether the Jews , if admitted into the House of Commons , could attend in their places on Friday evenings or on Saturdays . Mr . Alderman Salomons answered the question by anticipation a few weeks ago . The worthy alderman , who is a member of the Marylebone vestry , is most punctual in his attendance at tbe Saturday meetings of that body , antl three or four weeks ago he took occasion to state that he felt he was acting in
accordance with the spirit of the Jewish religion in being present at the vestry meetings on Saturday , because he was not there to serve any personal interests of his own , but to promote measures for the public good . — Globe , Jan . 1848 . A Roman Catholic priest in Van Diemen ' s land lately refused to marry a gentleman who obstinately persisted in remaining a Freemason . Bro . EALES WHITE , of Lcidge 327 , Taunton , has been elected a member of the council of the Decorative Art Union . MARRIED , in December , Bro . Pridham , Professor of Music , of Lodge 327 , Taunton , to Miss Coles of Somerton .
Obituary.
Obituary .
A Person of the name of THOMAS THORPE having died , his friends were about to engrave on his tombstone the following inscription" This corpse Is Tommy Thorp ' s ;" but considering this too long on reflection , it was finally reduced thus" Thorp ' s Corpse . "
THE LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY , Feb . 11 . —The late excellent Primate of all England is removed to his reward . He was the son of the Rev . W . Howley , a beneficed clergyman , and was born in Hampshire in 1765 . After a preliminary classical education he was sent to Winchester College , whence , in 1784 , he was removed to New College , Oxford . He took the degree of B . A . in 1787 or 1788 , and soon after succeeded to a fellowship . On the 11 th of July , J 791 , he
became M . A ., and removed to Christ Church College , where he acted as private tutor to the Prince of Orange . He attained the degree of B . D . on the 29 th of January , 1805 , ancl that of D . D . on the 1 st of the following month . In 1809 he succeeded Dr . Hall in the Regius Professorship of Divinity , which he held till 1813 , when , on the death of Dr . Randol ph , he was made Dean of the Chapel Royal , Provincial Dean of Canterbury , and raised to the metropolitan see , from which his trans-
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Chit Chat.
mill-owners ; and at the hour when the mill population are beginning to arouse themselves from sleep , he is stealing home to his bed , pale and haggard , to seek a short interval of repose , by closing his curtains upon the bright daylight . There is no factory operative , who , apart from the question of remuneration , measuring only toil for toil , would change places with a London daily editor THE JEWS IN PARLIAMENT . —Immediatelbefore the adjournment
y of Parliament , Colonel Sibthorp inquired of Lord John Russel whether the Jews , if admitted into the House of Commons , could attend in their places on Friday evenings or on Saturdays . Mr . Alderman Salomons answered the question by anticipation a few weeks ago . The worthy alderman , who is a member of the Marylebone vestry , is most punctual in his attendance at tbe Saturday meetings of that body , antl three or four weeks ago he took occasion to state that he felt he was acting in
accordance with the spirit of the Jewish religion in being present at the vestry meetings on Saturday , because he was not there to serve any personal interests of his own , but to promote measures for the public good . — Globe , Jan . 1848 . A Roman Catholic priest in Van Diemen ' s land lately refused to marry a gentleman who obstinately persisted in remaining a Freemason . Bro . EALES WHITE , of Lcidge 327 , Taunton , has been elected a member of the council of the Decorative Art Union . MARRIED , in December , Bro . Pridham , Professor of Music , of Lodge 327 , Taunton , to Miss Coles of Somerton .
Obituary.
Obituary .
A Person of the name of THOMAS THORPE having died , his friends were about to engrave on his tombstone the following inscription" This corpse Is Tommy Thorp ' s ;" but considering this too long on reflection , it was finally reduced thus" Thorp ' s Corpse . "
THE LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY , Feb . 11 . —The late excellent Primate of all England is removed to his reward . He was the son of the Rev . W . Howley , a beneficed clergyman , and was born in Hampshire in 1765 . After a preliminary classical education he was sent to Winchester College , whence , in 1784 , he was removed to New College , Oxford . He took the degree of B . A . in 1787 or 1788 , and soon after succeeded to a fellowship . On the 11 th of July , J 791 , he
became M . A ., and removed to Christ Church College , where he acted as private tutor to the Prince of Orange . He attained the degree of B . D . on the 29 th of January , 1805 , ancl that of D . D . on the 1 st of the following month . In 1809 he succeeded Dr . Hall in the Regius Professorship of Divinity , which he held till 1813 , when , on the death of Dr . Randol ph , he was made Dean of the Chapel Royal , Provincial Dean of Canterbury , and raised to the metropolitan see , from which his trans-