o the exertions of
the minister that is to preach in it to render it such!

Our clerical correspondent's suggestion is ingenious; it merits
attention: it shall be attended to in good time.

If _Mr. Punch's_ ideas--and circulation--were narrow, he might plead
that the church at Kenilworth is not in his own parish. But that would
be an invalid as well as a sneaking excuse for parsimony. The parish of
_Punch_ is the world.

When all the property appertaining to the Established Church has been so
distributed among the clergy as to maintain every one of them, bishops
and all, in a style of apostolical competence, and when the whole of the
surplus thus created shall have been applied to the endowment of new
churches, then, if any more money is wanted for that purpose, _Mr.
Punch_ will be most happy to contribute as much as ever he is able; and
his munificence shall, in the very first place, effuse itself upon the
new church at Kenilworth.

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STRIKING CIRCUMSTANCES.

Really JOHN BULL may almost be described as a maniac with lucid
intervals. He appears to be always suffering under some form of mania or
other. A few years ago it was the Railway Mania--a very dangerous
phrenzy. Then from time to time occurs a Poultry Mania, or one of the
similar and milder forms of insanity. The mania now prevailing is one
which, if not attended to, may perhaps prove troublesome. This is the
Striking Mania. Everybody is Striking. The other day it was the cabmen;
now it is the Dockyard labourers; the policemen, even, have struck and
thrown down their staves. Our mechanics have so far become machines,
that, like clocks, as clocks ought to be, they are all striking
together.

Should this mania spread, we shall have Striking become what might be
called the order, but that it will be the disorder, of the day. The
professions will strike; you will send for your lawyer to make your
will, and your messenger will return with _non est inventus_--struck; or
should you ask the legal gentleman a six-and-eightpenny question, you
will discover that he has struck for 13_s._ 4_d._ The physicians and
surgeons will strike for two-guinea fees; the apothecaries for
ten-shilling mixtures. The clergy will all strike--as indeed some of
them, the poor curates, might reasonably do--and pluralists will be
demanding forty thousand a year instead of twenty; whilst bishops will
hang up the mitre, stick the crosier over the chim