30 APRIL 1887, Page 14

[TO TIES EDITOR OF TIM SZECTATOE:9

SIRj-I cannot refrain from sending you the following conclu- sion of an eloquent sermon by an Irish clergyman. Probably I am the only one among your readers who actually heard it

My brethren, let me once more urge upon you not to follow the example of Esau, who sold his birthright for a pot of messages ; no, for a message of pots ; no, for a pottage of messes ; at any rate, he did sell his birthright"—this last sentence was said very savagely—" and now to," am,