THE MILITARY, CIVIL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL DRILL.
HE is a terrible man that Duke of WELLINGTON—not to enemies alone, but to all lazy and slovenly subordinates, civil or military. We remember about the time he accepted the Mastership of the Ordnance, how the penny-a-liners rung the changes day after day upon his portentously early visits to the Tower, and delicate hints to the clerks who had been accustomed under less rigid disciplina- rians to saunter to their desks at a latish hour of the forenoon. The same love of punctuality which transferred the severity of military discipline to the civil service, seems of late to have stimu- lated the illustrious Duke to attempt a reform in this respect in the habits of the clergy. On Monday evening the Globe an- nounced, "to show what early hours the Duke of WELLINGTON still continues to keep," that he attended morning service at the Chapel Royal, St James's, on Sunday ; and that "he was there before the reverend official and his attendants, and waited for nearly a quarter of an hour before he could get access to the chapel," The Times having quoted the intbrmation, "the reverend official" felt it ne- cessary to inform thrworld that the Duke had brought him into better training than to keep him waiting. "That his Grace was kept waiting," writes the Reverend CHARLES WESLEY, "is quite a mistake. To us the early devotional visits of the illustrious Duke (and they are confined neither to summer mornings nor genial weather) are no novelty, so that they are not calculated to take us by surprise ; and the time at which our matins invariably commence is the sounding of the stroke of eight on the Palace clock." The "reverend official" states it as clearly as words can, that the punctual earliness is the cause of their regularity. The Duke has made the clergy, like his soldiers, go like clockwork. He is, in short, a universal drill. He is a terrible man that Duke
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