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Show OUK NEW INSl'KCroKAND OR AND IXU"I8ITOR OF CONSULS AND CONSULATE?. ! When a man is out of his regular Hue of employment ho will often turn his hand to anything rather than ruet or starvo. Vide Newman, the divine, w '0 not long sinco was the delight of the delightful congregation of the Metropolitan Me-tropolitan Methodist Episcopal church of Washington. Tho Rev. Newman, for eoine cause not positively known, lot-t ins parsonship, sweet chimes and al1. He could pray at tho chief magistrate magis-trate no more, and the chaplaincy of the mighty senate was insufficient to aolaco him. W hero could he find comfort? com-fort? Our amiable President has found it for him. The Washington Wash-ington correspondents tell us that his ca-par&ODship has been appointed to the exalted offieo of grand inspector and inquisitor of consuls and consulate, to Chiua, Japan and all the Orienta oou'itrief. Of a-verity he was in luck in losing his parsi-nship. Poor pay and plenty of work were his lot in the Methodist temple. Rich rewards and easy times arc before him now. He has nothing to do but travel liko as prince, draw without limit on the treasury and study the heathen Cbi-Dec. Cbi-Dec. Who wouldn't bo parson to his excellency on such terms V When he returns ail he will bo oxpeeted to do will be to imitate bis wonderful predecessors prede-cessors to wit, make a bill for anything under one hundred thousand dollars against the goverumont, write a loog- , winded and uncrammatical report about his "inspections," and look wise forever after. Well, we aro coming to the opinion that the?e consular inspections are about "played out," to use an inelegant inele-gant but forcible expression. If it is worth white to send a high-toned detective de-tective aoroad to look after our consul con-sul and their doings, surely it is worth whi'etosend some ono equal to the luty s-iine one having a knowledge of our eouinierial relations and possessed of broad views and business experience, iooj the divine Newman possess tbn knowledge acd experience ' Wo fear not. In his macteuvrcs about tho lobby bails of coo. toss ho may have picked up some limited notions of "commercial relations," but hardly enough, acd certainly not of the right kind, to fit him f?r bid new field of action. If our aruiabio President had made this iHu-trinuH ex-parson inspector in-spector general of Hell Gate widening it would havo been scarcely more inappropriate. in-appropriate. N. Y. Herald. |