The Lesson on a recent Sunday enabled such of the just as were not asleep to peep into the Cabinet Council of Heaven, and to get a glimpse of the dread and mysterious methods by which the "schemes o" mice an' men gung aft agley." "The Lord said who shall entice Ahab that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead." After some promiscuous advice to the Supreme, spirit stood before che Lord and said I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him wherewith? And ho said T will go forth and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets."" This dubious procedure met with entire success; it does not enhance our respect for prophecy as such, but as it relieved humanity of a villain and lessened the Kings of Israel, we are fain to let it pass with the remark that any stick seems good enough with which to beat a bad dog. All this has been borne in on us by the tenor of many of the paragraphs concerning Tientsin in the Southern press; for some time a lying spirit has been abroad and has been getting too much credit from credulous Editors. The last victim of this nuisance is the Loulow and Chinw Express which in its issue of July 21st contains a farrago of nonsense which is only redeemed from contempt by its unwitting comicality. jeremiad on China losing its best servants has nearly as many mistakes as could be contained in so many lines. 'These strictures do not concern the communications of your and your contemporaries' regular correspondents; the accuracy and self-testi int of these gentlemen are admirable, it is the more anonymous and occasional paragraphist: who is at fault. The absolute rubbish about Mr. X's godown and tennis, the ridiculous bunk about Mr. personal movements and awful ma ions, the occult reference to a gentler with a b are just as silly and inept as they' are inaccurate. The witty letter of your correspondent M. Ockery was a just bit of deserved satire. It is strongly suexpected that the information comes from rate Chinese source, and from a notorious fifteenth-rate nondescript who is " chronic candidate for the horse-whip and duck pond.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.