THE ENGLISH CLERGY AS BREWERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 920, 13 October 1879, Page 2

THE ENGLISH CLERGY AS BREWERS.

While the Bishop of Melbourne is frittering away his effectiveness as an expositor of advanced thought by wasting time in replying to every quibbler who advertises his vanity, spleen, or ignorance in the daily press, the Clergy of England are praiseworthily refusing to be seduced by any side issues from their main object of doing good to mankind, and thus steadily maintain their leading position in the van of progress. ' As an illustration of this fact we refer to ' the New Brewery Company of Carlisle. » This joint stock enterprise, recently floated, was started to utilise the fine pure water which abounds in the city \ represented by Sir Wilfred Lawson, by transmuting that primitive beverage into sound wholesome ale for English stomachs. Out of 5241 shares taken up, no fewer that 1885 — or more than a \ third— are held by clergymen. Surely , these sagacious and reverend gentlemen have not the fear of Burnett before their eyes. For assuredly, since the introduction of " good " wine at the marriage feast in Cana, no such sinful violation of the gospel adopted and preached by some straight-laced people, has come under the notice of horror-struck humanity.