ARCHDEACON DENISON AND THE "SATURDAY REVIEW."

Otago Witness, Issue 685, 14 January 1865, Page 7

ARCHDEACON DENISON AND THE "SATURDAY REVIEW."

At the recmt anniversary meeting of the Bath and Wells Diocesan q oci«Jtie», h'sW in the ChapterHouse, Wells, eons'pWable n-nuaement was caused by the .intro<lm:f>ry "fvvtion of Archdeacon l) jn; sH'ssw'li. The v»n. ar-lideacon' p'ais'ii h'chlv the j vi>n,o with wlii-h liU name i< n*s>cu r"i ffc >c (Jt'iii>Yb and >tntn l{»rieio) t mil smartly co ideinuuJ tae Saturday Itevititw, It was known to mo*t of the peisous present that a contributor to the latter paper wn* \n the hall, and the archdeacon's hearty cistisration was on that account rec ived with e-ctratmiinary hilarity: The archdeacvi introduied the by stating that his in ictm^nt against the Committee of Council on Kducatinn ha i bep" rpnnuted from a cer«?n review called the Church and State Review. He the went on to say —There may be some very excellent people here who are unfortunate enough not to see the Church and State Review. If so, I can ouly say 'hat »h£y labrfr under a great misfortune, and I compassionate them —(laughte')— they nave Ax shillings a year, and gain a great loss. (Renewed laughter.) An excellent friend of mine said to me th j other day. " Yours i* a first-rate review, but very Hull (Lauehter) It is not like the Saturday Review —that is what I mean.'* (Continued merrimen' ) f'orae penp'e have great admiration for the Saturday Review—l have never been so iff-cted. (Great laughter.) Count M.ntalpmbert was standing the other day in a room in Lond >n. close to »be doir, when the editor of the Saturday Revieic came up witb hi« little boy- the little boy. twelve yea-s old, had jutut come from •'ton for the holidays The count shook the youth by the hand, and sail to hinaj "^1 suipose you have not much to (to now—pro-b-hly yoSi write a gnod deal in the Saturday 22eviev}"" (Loul laughter.) Ido not think dramdrinking and stirau'ants good for the moral stamina of man. Wiwiminateabuse of anything people* harl fiitherro thought honest, decent, and respectable, is not. I think, good food for the English mind. (Hear, hear ) ]J tfiink I sjull put in thehands of the reporters a quaint rpcipe for making a lively perio'ical upon whi-h I stumbled the other day. It is a very ciuious thing, undoubtedly old, and b*ars some traces of later adaptation. lam inclined to think a dull review i-< the best (Laughter ) ny man not quite an idiot, n^r wholly ignorant can, with the aid of the h"lps mentioned ia the recipe of wbi'-h I have •spoken, write very we'l in the Satwday Review, hut it takes a man of some parts aud iiitbrmation, decent, character, and reputp, to write in a dull review. (Great laughter ) The recipe alluded to by the yen archdeacon in the forpgoiog remqrUs wis banded to the representative of the Rath Chronicle, and we give our readers the *p'>'fit of "'the curious thing" verbatim et literatim: — /TO M*KB A LIVBLIB PERIODICAL. Take 1 of site and venom one pound each. 2 of indiscriminate abuse .four pounds 8. of sneering at all things which have at any time been thought worth •, or respectable, or even decent six pounds 5. of disparagement of old institutions and particuhrlie of the Nation all • hurche three pounds 5. of fr^ehandling of the Scriptures 1 poundß ounce* 6. of measuring all thinas by what thpy will fetch ten pounds. Some a'ld one grain of faith, and an ounce more or less of a definite policie; but^it is livelier without. Mix well together, and cat into lengths. Season and flavour wi fh— 1. compound of 2. drop 3of detraction 3. soirits of slander 4. spice of scepticism. Grarniah v i'h mot of ribaldrie. snirits of sang and bitter herbs. Serve up. —Bath Chronicle*

Artillery Experiments at Shoetburness. — Aftr a holiday of two months, the compe'itive experimpnt- between the Whitworth and Armstrong, and the Lancaster, Scot, and French (runs, recommenced at Sboeburynes*, on the 10th. The g'ms have been carefully examined in the interval ; and »he Whitworth 70 pounder being pTonoun"ed unsafe hy the Ordnance Inspector, the fnture firmer of the W^hitworth and Armstrong 70 -pounder has been ordered t) be carried on under cove-, which must to a grest extent put a stop t"» any further trials of rapid firing. The week has been mainly devoted to firing the 70pounders for range and af curacy, both with solid' •hot and she'l. On the 14'h. whiUt- firing with solid Bh»f at two decrees elevation, the new vent n f the Whitworth beßsme choked at the 34th round an in trvinc to prick it the needle broke off, 'piking the gun. and necessitating the removal of the v«=nt • hich is effected by unscrewing it. This rande of fixing the vent offeis great facility for renewing it when, reqaivfd, as the operation, of re-ventiug seldom occupies more than half an hour. The committee have ascordel to each' c mpetitor permission to fire 2CO rounds according to any programme he may determine On the 12>h Mr Whitworth ex» hinited vertical filing from the 1&pounders at 45 degrees, charge of gunpowder three and half ounces, with shells of five diameters capacity for bursting charge fourteen ounces, The range obtained nas 1200 yards. Some oblique firing through water at an oaken tßrget .six inches thick from, the 12 pounders also took place, and was renewed on Friday, but only in & few instances where the shot struck the target uot more than nine inches btlow the surface of the water was the target pierced Mr Wbitworth concluded his experiments for the week on the 14ch by firing spherical shot planed to hexagonal foirn trim the 12- pounder s, at a iinefVet target at 1000 yards ; ten rounds with one shot, four ronuds with three shots two rounds with six shots, and one round with nine shots— total nnmbr of shots tired, 43 ; of which 26 struck the target. Sir William Armstrong has not yet availed himself of the off-* of the committee to carry out a programme of his own, bnt doubtless will do so before the conclusion of the experiment*,, which, it is expected, wiil take place in November. The Ordnance Select Committee are reported to have completed their experiments with the Lancaster, t-cutt, and French guns, und it is anticipated that the report will show that only a trifling difference exists in the relative range and accuracy of the three guns.