An Influential Organ to Mr. Punch.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 564, 10 September 1851, Page 4

An Influential Organ to Mr. Punch.

"Sir, — Like yourself, I nra an organ of some importance. I express the feelings and sentiments of some of the gieatest men that ever lived. For instance, lam frequently the exponent of no less a mind than that of the immortal Handel. I expect, therefore, that you will admit my opinion to be of some weight. *' You appear to think it scandalous that the late Secretary to the Ecclesiastical Commission has disappeared with a largo amount of Chuicb property, unpursued by a detective constable, unadvertised in the Hue and Cry. To me it seems a matter of indifference whether the funds should have been appropriated by the Secietary or misapplied, as doubtless they would have been, otherwise, in building Episcopal Alhfimbras. t relates' pnlaces, I take it, have run away with more money than the Secretary has. " It would be another matter if the property had been lively to be devoted to any use. For instance, if the Commissioners had designed to consider me in its distribution. Mind, I am privileged to blow my own trumpet-stop. " The proverb says that one is known by one's associates. Were this true, I should bo sony. What a character I should have, if judged of by the set ofcholibters and singing-men that I am forced to accompany! A class of vocalists, whom no manager would engage as supernumeraries, hired at menial's wages to perform in a church ' " Now, a little more money would create a much belter choir ; and half the sum that has beon swallowed by the Secretary and Bishops' architect would have made me and my cluldien — tne sons of sacred harmony — happy. Come, Sir, and listen. " ' Wheic thiongh the long-rtrawn nislp and fretted vault The pea mg diiWiem swells the notes o( puise,' and say whether tha execution of the said anthem is not, nine time? in ten, a disgrace to the place, the age, the Dean and Chapter, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. I protest ngainst being made, a<* I constantly am, nn accessary to the muider of old Tal!i9, and Nares, Dr. Green, find Dr. Blow. In the name of St Cecilia I invoke the Commissioners to bestow a portion of their ample means in aid of "The Cathediial Qroan."