Mr. Rochfort Clark, who has been expressing to the Bishop
of St. David's his fear and expectation of the return of idolatry—image worship—to England, will be horrified to learn that an idol of the goddess Ceres, executed in corn,—head of oats, arms of barley, and feet of wheat, with insufficient dress of blue paper, is annually prepared by the young women of the Hughenden harvest home, and was put into Mr. Disraeli's arms on Thursday and affectionately received. He said he felt " a little daunted," which was no doubt exceedingly gratifying to the lasses who got up the doll, but he proceeded to observe that such an image of the goddess Ceres, " dressed in robes of similar magnificence," had been "for cen- turies" presented at their annual harvest homes. "Idolatry at Hughenden !—the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the God- dess Ceres in his arms !" would be a taking subject for the Record.
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