CLERICAL COSMETICS.

A Tradesman of Ratcliff Highway, named Daniel Stocker, was brought, on Tuesday last week, before Mr. Yardley, at the Thames Police Court, in consequence of having, the evening before, shouted after the Rev. Bryan King and his lot, on their departure from St. George’s in the East, after the performance of their “Evensong,” “There goes those Puseyites!” In the course of a dialogue with the Magistrate, the defendant said, that he knew that the reverend gent and his associates were Puseyites “by the cut of their clothes.” Whereupon inquired-

“Mr. Yardley. Then thoy become Puseyites by the art of teiloring?

“The Prisoner. Very much like it; I have seen chaps of the same sort, with their pale Jesuitical faces, in Devonshire, where I came from.”

The pallor of the sacerdotal complexion is very peculiar, and may well have attracted the attention of an ordinary observer, such Mr. Stocker may be conceived to be. How do the priests acquire it? By singularity of diet- “making so many fish meals that they fall into a male green-sickness”? Mere fasting will not produce the effect; or paupers would resemble Papist and Puseyite parsons; moreover these white-faced gentry are some of them fat. Do they use any wash in order to blanch their cheeks? We see no cosmetics for such a purpose advertised in the lay papers; but, for ought we know, there may be Ecclesiastical journals with a strictly professional circulation, containing puffs of various preparations of the kind in question; such as Liguori’s Bleaching Balsam, Xavier’s Exsanguinatory, and Loyola’s Anti-Bloom.

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