THE GAOL CHAPLAIN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1690, 31 May 1867, Page 5

THE GAOL CHAPLAIN.

(To the lulik.r of th* : <.Jtaoo Dau.v Tnt'i;?.)

Sin—lt is by no mtans in keeping wish the caba, dignified wisdom which wu expect in a f-:enatoi-iaS aKsembly, thnt v.'c sometimes find membf-rs of our Provincial Council giving utterance, in their pipped, to remarks vaj>id and suporfieial ;lh tlio,%u of stump orator;* to mob jiudionc«';j.

Before Mr .Juliu.-j makes a Htuieinent and lays a c'l-ir^o, ho oujjlit certainly to inform himself of what ho is talking abi»ut, even though his charge »honld be directed against those whom, 1 daresay, lie regard;* as only worthy of being sneered at; ;>.nd whom, { daresay, hu further coiichule.-i m;iv l;e sneered at with hmnmitv.

I don't know for both of the gcntlcnion Avhom he descf ibes jis having " nerforiui-d" (that Ib, preached the gospel), " in iluvt Jialland uls«wher<.;,";ind whom he considers *' would have been much better ciM^loyed, if they had occasionally visHed tin; Ciuolund the Lunatic Asylum ;" but I know for certain, that oiu: of those derided performers is u'vtuaHy one of the very a tv,-o ministern wboin \w and former Hjn-jtkor.t liad just been binding us vvoriijy < >u:<:ptions to the rest of the city clergy, l»-i -in;' Vjeen thu only two who, during the inst five month.-;, had visited the Go;\l ; and not the Gaol only, but the Hospi<;il ;tnd the Asylum has that gentleman visited — how often I cannot snv.

Strange, that the act whicJi Mr S:\ vv.vi thus recommends as ko much more- i:-oui-niendiible than " performing in the haU, should have been actually fuHilied V>y this sanio individual. Surely hirj idea of the wortlunetis (»f the sc<»uted jttrforuianee mxist by this discovery be somewhat elevated.—l £>!!>, t v..c, .laMKs Mmca,