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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 403, 14 November 1868, Page 2

A reporter having dined with some friends, attended a lecture afterwards and favoured the public with the following report • —' The lecture last evening was a brilliant affair. The hall ou"-ht to have been filled, but we are sorry to say that it was not; only forty persons were present. The speaker commenced by saying that he was> by birth an ecclesiastical deduction ; gave a learned description of Satan, and his skill in saving trees. Among other things he stated that the Patriarch Abraham taught Cecrops arithmetic. We trust the eloquent divine may be induced to repeat the lecture at some future day.' What the lecturer said of the reporter : —'Dear Sir, —In a report of my lecture in your beautiful -city, you have made some mistakes, which I wish to correct. You make me speak of myself as by birth ail ecclesiastical deduction.' What I said was, that I was not by birth but only ecclesiastically a Dutchman. Instead of speaking of Satan as sowing trees, I spoke of him as sowing tares. I said nothing of Abraham, but spoke of the Arabians an nomads of patriarchal simplicity. I said that Cecrops was the founder of Athens, and instructed the people in agriculture.' The Rev. Mr Blunt, at a meeting held in London recently, said, ' not long ago, a woman had taken him in with a piteous story that her husband had not had a day's work in six months. It was true, for he w<is a night watchman.'