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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4359, 20 December 1882, Page 1

It is difficult, says the writer of " Town Talk " in the Argus, to plumb the depths of sycophancy, especially when exhibited by civic dignitaries; but I do think we have now got to the bottom of.it. It is impossible that anyone can go further in that direction, even on his hands and knees, than that the Lord Mayor of London went last week. In proposing the health of the Queen he used the followiug language, for a parallel jtb the sycophancy of which we must go back 200 years :—" We know," he aaid,'" that Her Majesty is guided by a judgment and a discretion, by a wisdom and by virtues which seem almost superhuman, and border on the divine." If all thii arises from the gentleman's having. been made a baronet by Her Majesty,.what language would he have used if she had nude him a peer P The choir of the First Church (Presbyterian) Dunedin, recently- indulged in a dance. A number of the leading lights of the church who look upon this kind of amusement as a grievous sin, and they that indulge in it are preparing themselves to enter Gehenna, on or before October next, have taken the choir members to task. The leader resigned his position and the members were preached, lectured and howled out. j Sydney Smith's son had not his father's wit, but he could "talk horse" and;. nothing else. Seated at dinner with the Archbishop of- York one day, he groped nervously about for a suitable topic for conversation, and finally astonished the dignified primate by asking, " How long do you think it took Nebuchadnezzar to get into .condition after his turn out at grass ?" _