HOW AN OFFICIAL GOT VERY CIVIL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 14, 2 August 1873, Page 14

HOW AN OFFICIAL GOT VERY CIVIL.

(Dublin Freeman) It v interesting to note the priuiitire simplicity of manner which ttttl exists a. the more remote regions of the States. There is above all what a Physical force admirer would term a frank decision in their mode of .ett ling disputes. It is not so many years siace a caricature in Funoh represented a gentleman at an American table d'hote holding a pistol to the head of his vis-a-vis, and asking him to nasa the mwUrd. Equally peremptory wa. the action of a oiountaiuSer X entered a few days since the tJmon Railway ticket office at DenveV and through mistake, purchased a ticket for New York lina He dM Hot discover the fact until after the ticket had b*en pai,l for, and in asking tho agent to chango it, the latter refined to do so " Tan woat change this ticket, then, won't you?" ."No, «r," repUei tha agent. ; * you have your ticket and I have the money for it, and if Z want a ticket over the other route, you will have to buy it sir " Tot quietly the stranger twisted his ticket into a small roll ; very' serenely he drew from under his right coat tail a six-shooter about the dimen von» of a mountain howitzer ; coolly and deliberately, he stuck tb/> twuted ticket into the muzzle of that six shooter, and sticking the iia*r looking thing through the litrle square window at the ticket office and almost vi tha agent s f«ctf, uud speaking tho tone that left no doubt of his determination, said : " Stranger, th*r's that ticket ; take it thvielf and change it, or I'll blow it clean through you." The ticket™changed immediately. '

Tho pretence of a " valid priesthood" in the Anglican, Cliupfh was only an after-thought, never dreamed of by her founders nerar acted upon by her bishops, till the second half of the seventeenth century. Then, for th* first time, they found it expedient to etnolov agamat the Dissenters, who had become a power ia the land the "arzu ments which they had scorned when urged against theraselVes by tlie Catholics. Then first aro*a in the Established Church the doctrine of the invalidity of Presbyterian ordination. It was only when their own supremacy was menaced by the newer sects, that a few Anriican prelates began to talk of the' Apostolic succession which during several generations, they had all treated as a jj Ba<: 8 a<: and a' fable. It was the Dissent-rs who first .created in the Church of Kngland the doctrine of the Christiaa priesthood. The theory of Laud siud his school, introduced by fraud, and sustained by the crafty suppression of Hooker's seventh book, was tho product of political necessity und sectarian rivalry, rather than of religious conviction It was opposed to the whole practice of thoic Church and cn-i tradicted by every fact in her history.— My Clerical Friends. Lohd UoiiiLLYhas retired from tho Bench with the reward of a good conscience. Few men (writes a correspondent of a Plymouth journal) have mow than ho, carried out the Apostolic precept of nroTiding for ones own house. His lust act bofore leaving the Rolls Court, was to appoint one of his own sons not long called, f believe to a clerkship with a salary of £1,200 a year, passing ovei? J £££&£ named Murray whose c aims were considered by the profession, but not by Lord Boimlly, irresistible. Certainly the Rotnillya have had abundant opportunities of serving their country. Besides the late Master of the Rolls, who had £6,000 a year, and who will now have a good retiring pension, tho following fortunate owners of a luoky name are in the enjoyment of the following posts :— Mr Edward Romffly, at £1200; Coloue F. Romilly, Customs' Commissioner, £1,200: Hon Edward RomiUy, .Secretary to Lord Justice, £50*0; Hon. John Komilly, Clerk of Records, £1,200 ; and Hon. William Romilly, Clerk in enrolment ; Office, £1,200. The last three are sons, the first three brothers, of Lord Romilly. It is tq be hoped that Mr Galton will no* lose sight of this interesting statement when he brings out the next edition of his work on hereditary genins.