CLERICAL SCANDALS IN ENGLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 3781, 7 April 1875, Page 3

CLERICAL SCANDALS IN ENGLAND.

, , bave bei i. two or three spicy scandals this month (writes th e London correspondent of a contemporary) which have served to vary the tedium of the dull season, the first was quite in the Beecher-Tilton style, I he hero was a Baptist preache, of “ Lond °u, and this wonky thought fit to take unto him a companion of the opposite erx, who entertained no ridiculous scrupie. as to the advisability of a marriage ceremony. The fair anouyma our preachei introduced as his wife, and as tfce woman was fan- to look upon and possessed pleasing manners, she welcomed Tthe fashionable religions circles which her prolector d!d most frequent. Whatever Mid qualities, (however, the fair one ™sbTta’SSt.T by her habits of extravagance, and when the chapel accounts were gone into the parson and his friend were nowhere found. Rumor says they have departed for .menca, and perhaps they may indulge you wrth a visit, as 1 notice that New Zeafand is for k thl Or L Wlk ? mu - ch favor as a retreat T d * £ m ? g - A D °ther case is hat of a Church of England parson at Liverpool, who 1 am sorry to say, ha, Bo t only been u the habit of administering correction

to his wife with a poker, but has established confidential relations with a young lady in that city of such a nature as to call for Episcopal interference. I noticed in a former file of papers received by me that some of your Roman Catholic friends object to my story of a scandal connected with their church. They will please to remark that I have now shown their parsons to be no worse than those who talk about them. ”

IT Josh Bi.lings says, “There is two things in this life for which we are never prepared, and that is twins.” A New York wag bet 500 dol. that he would call a popular preacher “ an old boss” in public, and win applause by it. He attended a meeting held by the missionary, and when they were passing round the plate, he rose, and, stretching out his hand, exclaimed, “ Here is a hundreddollar note for the old boss in the pulpit!” which remark was greeted with applause. He made 400 dol. by the little joke.