Several of the bishops, smitten by the heathen darkness of the great majority of the Cabinet—­affected by their utter ignorance of the practical working of Christianity—­burst into tears.  It will not be credited by those disposed to think charitably of their fellow-creatures, that—­we state the melancholy fact upon the golden word of the Bishop of EXETER—­several Cabinet ministers had never heard of the divine sentence which enjoins upon us to do to others as we would they should do unto us.  Sir JAMES GRAHAM, for instance, declared that he had always understood the passage to simply run—­“Do others;” and had, therefore, in very many acts of his political life, squared his doings according to the mutilated sentence.  All the Cabinet had, more or less, some idea of the miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes.  Indeed, many of them confessed that with them, the Loaves and the Fishes had, during their whole political career, contained the essence of Christianity.  Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and GOULBURN declared that for the last ten years they had hungered for nothing else.

We cannot dwell upon every individual case of ignorance displayed in the Cabinet.  We confine ourselves to the glad statement, that every minister from the first lord of the treasury to the grooms in waiting, vivified by the sacred heat of their schoolmaster Bishops, illustrate the great truth of Doctor CHALMERS, that the poor man can only obtain justice “by a universal Christian education.”

The Bench of Bishops do not confine their labours to the instruction of the Cabinet.  By no means.  They have appointed prebends, deans, canons, vicars, &c., to teach the members of both houses of Parliament practical Christianity towards their fellow-men.  Lord LONDONDERRY has sold his fowling-piece for the benefit of the poor—­has given his shooting-jacket to the ragged beggar that sweeps the crossing opposite the Carlton Club—­and resolving to forego the vanities of grouse, is now hard at work on “The Acts of the Apostles.”  Colonel SIBTHORP—­after unceasing labour on the part of Doctor CROLY—­has managed to spell at least six of the hard names in the first chapter of St. Matthew, and can now, with very slight hesitation, declare who was the father of ZEBEDEE’S children!

“An universal Christian education!” Oh, reader! picture to yourself London—­for one day only—­operated upon by the purest Christianity.  Consider the mundane interests of this tremendous metropolis directed by Apostolic principles!  Imagine the hypocrisy of respectability—­the conventional lie—­the allowed ceremonial deceit—­the tricks of trade—­the ten thousand scoundrel subterfuges by which the lowest dealers of this world purchase Bank-stock and rear their own pine-apples—­the common, innocent iniquities (innocent from their very antiquity, having been bequeathed from sire to son) which men perpetrate six working-days in the week, and after, lacker up their faces with a look of sleek humility for the Sunday pew—­consider all this locust swarm of knaveries annihilated by the purifying spirit of Christianity, and then look upon London breathing and living, for one day only, by the sweet, sustaining truth of the Gospel!