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The centenary has just passed of the death of Dr. Samast Part, who contestt with Old Parr (wbose Christian name was Tom and whose foible was living), and George Parr, who succeeded Fuller Pilch as the best bat in England, and Catherine Farr, who just escaped the beadsman by outliving the great self- Widower, the distinction of being the most famous of the English Paers
He was a lesser Sam than Sauel Johnson, whom be venerated in things but his politics. but he was justly celebrated through his long day for bis, Greek and his learning for the pomposity of his written and the robustness of his spoken word. for his fidelity to Whig principles when he had only to recant and he could have had his choice of the inferior bishoprics, for bis superb qualities as a smoker and a devo tion to his pipe wblch another distin guished Harrovian of our own day does his best to emulate, for his flogging]: powers, in which he rivalled Kente, for his ferocious temper and blistering ad Blongkong, 12th July, 1924. §. dress when crossed, and also for his essen tinl goodness of heart
His. wife--and a wife should be no bad judge of aidan's real temper-des- cribed him as having been born in a whirlwind and bred a tyrant." and as she herself never ceased lamenting that she had been brought up by three maiden aunta in un atmosphere of rigidity and frigidity, his connubiallelicity was somewhat chequered. Porson, one of his few superiors in Greek, ased to say, ** Pare would have been a great man but for three things his wife, his trade, and bis politics." His trade," at first, was that of schoolmaster and curate combin- ed, and he is famous in the annals of Harrow as having been robbed of the vacant headmastership, because of his youthful looks' and then for having taken away with him forty-four Harrow boys- who had signed around robin to the Governors praying for his election-when he left and started a rival. but short- lived, establishment at neighbouring.
Stanmore.
As an educationist Parr encouraged his boys in English composition by allowing them to subbstitute English poetry for Latin, but he gave them a sound, flogging if the English verses which they produced were hade There were no "soft options" with Dr. Parr. Cricket he encouraged. and fisticuffs. If his boys lought he mere. ly stipulated that they should fight with- i3ight of his study windows. Head- masters are different now."
But it is not as pedagogue but as con- troversialist that Sam Parr is best re- membered. They called him the British Ajax, and he lived up to the rasme.
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Johnson, after a long postprandial dis- FARGAINS COMS to The course with him, declared emphatically * Parr is
But that night fair man, Parr was meek disciple and doubtless behaved with becoming deference to the Great Cham of Literature. With other controversialists, Parr usually wielded a bludgeon-taken from the Johsonian
REVISED RATES ISSUED:
rack-and it may well be believed that ARMY OFFICERS' PAY IN INDIA. one who could start and finish in a single day his Letter from Irenopolis to the Inhabitants of Eleutheropolis, or A Serious Address to the Dissenters of Birmingham, By a Member of the Estab-A special Army Instruction giving the lished Church. was a formidable anta revised rates of pay for British officers gonist. He did not disain preferment, was issued at Delhi recently, and is on and on the principle of the judicicus lines in general agreement with the fore Eighteenth Century derie who said that casts.
Important, features are marriage allow. no man reached Heaven the sooner by asking for preferment, he too drew nearances, free quarters, and the substitu- at times though with a just and proudtion of the Indian Army allowance, independence, to the seats of the mighty.acers ill place of the present Comniand according to rank, for Indian Army
Indeed, he trad one of the most ingenious mazes of pluralism when he exchanged his pay, and similar allowances. The only perpetual curacy at Hatton for n rectory additional pay and allowances drawable in another county. but still continued to in the future are for the Second in Com- roside where he was-haring made the mand. Adjutant, and Quartermasters and parsonage comfortable to his tastes-as for the Adjutant of a non-Regular unit. deputy curate. Whenever the authentic re passages, doubled mess allowances, curate who was an evangelical-preach and separation allowances are also in- ed his obligatory annual sermon, Parr on eluded
the next Sunday would demolish his arginissioned on or after July 1st and from The new rates apply to officers com: ment with the greatest gusto.
Ufficers alrendly serving on the Indian Establishment on July 1st will, if ad- versely affected by the new rates, con- tinue to drast the old pay and allow- ances until promotion in rank or until accouded, when the new rates will be ap-
automatically. plied
The only officers affected adversely are those of junior rank. Overpayments are non-recoverable. Some indication of the 'scale ein be figures for gathered from the following Regimental officers:-
Those who unt under Dr. Parr did not the date of joining the Indian Establish- inck entertainment, as well as strong exment and also to officers commissioned position, unless they were like a certain before that date, but joining later, Lord Mayor of London, who complained of his Spital Sermon in 1300 that there were four things in it which he disliked viz.. the four quarters struck by the Newgate clock. Parz took a prebend or two, in his stride though 'Lord Thurlow roughly refused him one with an anth and Sir Francis Berdett, the Radical handsomely added an extra living. But what Doctor's heart was really set on: a mitre. and of that landable hope The was cruelly disappointed. He lived
in Tory days: his Whig friends. in but rarely. When For entered upon his brief spell of triumph in 1806 the used to say that if only the Fox Ad ministration had lasted a longer, Dr. Huntingford was to have been translated to Hereford, and should have had Gloucester."
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The good Doctor had actually made all his plans, so certain, was he that the prize was bia. I had determined, hes that no clergyman in my diocese said, who had occasion to call upon me should depart without partaking of my dinner " clear proof that most diocesans were not so hospitable and in the House of Lords I should seldom have opened my unless this he added with great mouth
British Army-Lieutenant Colonel: married Rs. 1,780 monthly unmarried 3,500 captain of ten yeare service: married Rs 895, unmarried 600 major after five years as such married He 1,235, unmarried 1,000.
Indian Army.-Lieutenant Colonel in command married Rs. 1,950, unmar ried (1,500 j major, after five years, az| Buch: married Rs. 1,435, unmarried 1.290; captain of ten years' service : soarried Rs. 925, unmarried 790.
These figures are inclusive of allow ances,
Army officers, says the Delhi corres pondent of The Times, appear to consider that the terms of revision of pay generally meet the just demands of officers atill. serving, and may also be calculated to British recruitment army
in Tadis, although experiones alone can determine the accuracy of that view
to attack the character of my friend Charles Fox, and then I would have knocked him down with the full torrent of Impetuosity." The annals of the
my British Parliament were cheated of a Jeremy Bentham. He smoked in his own stirring scene when "Charley" went out vestry, and he had a pipe with the Rest
Fortnight, too soon. So it was that gent at Carlton House; he wrote an Parr died in his parsonage, and not in almost illegible hand, though a slattern, palace, and his ingrained habit of soar in the morgings, he dressed in full pomp ing in the regions of religious and political at nights; he remembered--perhaps uni Jiberty cost him dear. For as be O que in this being sockled by his mother,, ed he fluttered his great wings and rain and he joyfully boasted that his stomach ed down showers of contumely on all who had-naver complained for seventy-three disputed his view of Church and State. years. The supreme pity is, as has been He was in all ways a strong, and well said, that Parr lacked his Boswell, hearty character." He who would That is a misfortune, unhappily, which dance round the maypole with his time can do nothing to mitigate and parishioners exalted " in talking to posterity little, to repair-The Daily
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