CLERICAL SCANDALS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 244, 3 February 1875, Page 3

CLERICAL SCANDALS.

There have been two or three spicy scandals this month which have served to vary the tedium of thedull season. The first was quite in the Beecher-Tilt on style : The hero was a Baptist preacher of great renown in London, and this wort by thought fit to take unto him a companion of the opposite sex, who entertertained no ridiculous scruples as to the advisability <j e a marriage ceremony. The fair anonym* our preacher introduced as his wife, and, as the woman was fair to look upon and possessed pleasing manners, she was welcomed in tie fashionably religious circles which her pro ector did most frequent. Whatever good qualities, however, the fair one possessed th y were more than counterbalanced by their habits of extravagance, and when the chi pel accounts were gone into the parson and bis friend were nowhere to be found. Rua our says they have departed for America, and perhaps they may indulge you with a visit, j.s I notice that New Zealand is looked upon with much favour as a retreat for the weak and- erring. Another case is that of a Church of England parson at Liverpool, who, I am e >rry to say, has not only been in the habit or administering correction to his wife with s poker, but has established confidential ri b tions with a young lady in that city of sue h a nature to call for Episcopal interference. I noticed in a former file of Stars rea ived by me that some of your Roman Catholic friends object to my story of a scandal connect! I wit h their church. They will please to remai k that I have now shown their parsons to be u<> worse than those who talk about them. — London Correspondent of Auckland Evening Star.