_Alliterative Pasquinade._--The following alliterative pasquinade on
Convocation, which I have cut from one of the newspapers, is, I think,
sufficiently clever to deserve preservation in the pages of "N. & Q.:"
"The Earl of Shaftesbury has given notice that he will call the
attention of the House to the subject of Convocation after the recess.
The exact terms of his lordship's motion have not as yet been
announced; but it is understood that it will be in the form of an
abstract resolution, somewhat to the following effect:--
"'That this House, considering the consanguinity and concordant
consociation of Gog and Magog to be concludent to, and confirmatory of,
a consimilar connatural conjunction and concatenation between
Convocation and Confession with its concomitant contaminations, and
conceiving the congregating, confabulating, and consulting of
Convocation to be conducive to controversy and contention, and
consequent conflicts, confusion and convulsion, concurs in the
conviction that to convene, and to continue Convocation, is a
contumacious contravention of the Constitution, and a contrivance for
constraint of conscience, and that the contemptible conspiracy,
concocted for concerting the constituting and conserving of the
continuous concorporal consession and conciliar conference of
Convocation, is to be contumeliously conculcated by the consentient and
condign condemnation of this House.'"