13 APRIL 1833, Page 13

We are authorized to state, that the public dinners at

Lambeth Palace will commence on Saturday the 20th day of April instant. The service in the chapel at half-past six precisely.—Morning Herald.

Is the service before or after dinner? If before dinner, is this -a seemly way of spending the evening ushering in the Sabbath? Clergymen, who have a strong sense of the responsibility attached to the Sunday duties, generally spend the Saturday evening in reflection and preparation for them : the practice is, to transpose the phrase, " more honoured in the observance than in the breach."