There is a class of reformers who scamper, dog-cart fashion,
over the broadest grounds of abuses, picking what they can by the way, and using the leisure denied to graver people in order to make "racy" attacks on the authors of abuses—or on somebody else instead : it is no great matter, so that an abuse be denounced, and somebody be attacked. - In this way, a rapid tour through Ireland, from workhouse to workhouse. and the hastiest gossip with any available pauper, on the amount of montent among the old women, Or the state of the union pump, can be a road to the distinction of a slashing reformer. Thus, " S. G. O.," or the Hon- ourable Sidney Godolphin Osborne, denounces the abuse of appointinga lia.n between eighty.end ninety years old to the living of Rougham in ?"41.01alk ;, and, on preausaptien, he attacksi the Bishop for having inducted that superannuated person, although forewarned of Ins unfltness,—naming, the .Bishop of Norwich•ms the peccant prelate. As to the facts of the Rongham ease we cannot- speak ; but as to one fact we „know that "S. G. O." has fallen-into a culpable inaccuracy, aufficient:to.cast a doubt on all the rest. He ought to have known, for the information layireadystoi l,Landon lii15*.h-811, 41 that R°ughlint. ' . - . '7, -is-not-in-the ,b,i1::).."..liftei.4271:4:11,-iN°144411.1 bus oittutasinWthbax,10°1 .. 4. . , . - , 'r 1 t..,...1.—„1: sii.,Z .insib9w-rfIng bus nob,, I '
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