. Punch . massacre of the Maronites, apparently, was quite a different thingfrom the massacre of the Innocents. Bishop Sephronius and hismitred colleagues at any rate evidently understand Christian forgive-ness to mean the return of injuries with usurious interest. If all thatwe are told of Sephronius is true, that worthy is simply a does the Pope think of such a Prelate ? That he would make agood Premier, perhaps,—if anything happened to Antonelli. Otherwise, his Holiness might be disposed to think that Sephroniusmight do better than rule the Church of Tyre and Sidon. He m
. Punch . massacre of the Maronites, apparently, was quite a different thingfrom the massacre of the Innocents. Bishop Sephronius and hismitred colleagues at any rate evidently understand Christian forgive-ness to mean the return of injuries with usurious interest. If all thatwe are told of Sephronius is true, that worthy is simply a does the Pope think of such a Prelate ? That he would make agood Premier, perhaps,—if anything happened to Antonelli. Otherwise, his Holiness might be disposed to think that Sephroniusmight do better than rule the Church of Tyre and Sidon. He mightconceive that such an ornament of the Catholic hierarchy might beadvantageously translated. In that case he would perhaps constituteSephronius the Archbishop of Dahomey inpartibus, and his brethrenwho demand the death of four thousand Druses his suffragau King Badahung wanted to fill a blood-pond, he would, nodoubt, find Sephronius and his Clergy only too happy to consecratethe PARLIAMENTARY REHEARSALS. {By our Theatrical Reporter.) The Behearsals for the approaching Parliamentary Performance arenow regularly proceeding, and we are happy to be able to say that theactors are very forward in their parts, indeed almost have been privileged to pay visits to the stage while theseinteresting preparations were going on, but it would be manifestlyunfair to the Theatre to forestall the interest of startling noveltiesby any premature disclosure of the character of the performances. Wewould rather excite than satisfy the curiosity of the public by men-tioning that Mr. Dizzy has a very good part, of an entirely novel kind,in which he has some splendid declamation about the Church of hisFathers, and some fine samples of Bating for his antagonists. is once more fitted with an historical character, with trulyBritish appeals to Magna Charta, and other patriotic sentiments; butwe are almost afraid that the day for this kind of thing has
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