The Bank of Faithful Ireland.
Dr. Cullen has issued a letter authorising a collection in aid of the Pope. We wish he may get some money, so that, when his Holiness shall have been dethroned by his subjects, his worshippers may support him by subscription. There can be no objection to voluntary Peter’s Pence; but, from Ireland at least, the successor of St. Peter will be lucky if he gets anything but Peter’s Promissory Notes, or Paul’s Paper.
LE ROI FAINEANT.
Mr. Henry Berkeley, at the last Meeting of the Ballot Society, declared that “Nothing but the Majesty of the People can carry the measure.” His Majesty the People doesn’t appear to be in any particular hurry. His Majesty merely endorses the Bill – as the old French sovereigns used to endorse the projets de loi of their Estates – Le Roi s’avisera.
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