28 MARCH 1874, Page 3

The friends of Mr. J. Goddard, the parish priest of

Chisle- hurst, are much hurt at our saying that his sermon during the re- cent ceremonial was very bad, and in style of the Chadband kind. We, of course, relied upon the Times' report, which appeared to be verbatim, which gave no hint of a translation, and which is full of the Chadband speciality,—a series of interrogatives answered in the negative, and put only to increase the force of the ultimate statement of the truth. The report, the style, and the name of the preacher being all English, we thought the ser- mon had been English too. It appears, however, that the address was in French, that in the original the priest's friends find it very good, and that, at all events, our comparison with Chadband must fall to the ground.