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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 233, 1 October 1868, Page 2

The Bristol Post reports the following extraordinary scene in a church: — In a pretty little viilage church in Wiltshire, the other Sunday evening, the raiuister announced the closing bymn. The leader of the choir and clerk of the church, an honest kuight of the anvil, to the surprise of the congregation, exclaimed, "Tis the 'underd and thirteenth hymn.' 'No, it is not,' said the clergyman, and again he announced the right number, and requested the clerk to play it. 'I tell'ee 'tis the 'underd and thirteenth,' persisted the village blacksmith. To prevent this unseemly harangue, the clergyman descended from the pulpit, walked to the harmonium, placed the hymn before the clerk (who had been watching his operations with contracted eyebrows), and said, ' Play that, if you please.' The stubborn functionary looked at it, and seeing it was not his "underd and thirteenth,' said, 'This aint the right hymn, I teU'ee.' 'Never mind, you play it.' ' I shant, you play'eu yourself,' said the crusty clerk, and he walked from the place. The congregation was dismissed and the clerk was sent for. 'Do you know you have acted very improperly to night?' said the clergyiaan to him, ' and if you do not make a public apology before the congregation next Sunday, I shall request you to vacite your office.' 'What, zur, make a public 'poligy ! Do you knaw Ibe a morried man? Do you knaw I be a your 'underd poun man!' He refused to apologize, and so he will lose his office. The Duke of Buckingham's second despatch to the Lieutenant Governor of Natal is a complete reversal of the former one, which strictly forbad any Government official to take part iv the consecration of a successor to Bishop Colenso. His Grace sow says that ' he does not think it necessary that ' Her Majesty's Government should interpose any obstacle whatever to the proposed / consecration, or that the Lieutenant -Governor should use any infiu--eaeeto prevent it.' •- ; .