THE FASTING PHENOMENON.

The Tories have engaged Bernard Cavanagh, the Irish fasting phenomenon, to

give lectures on his system of abstinence, which they think might be

beneficially introduced amongst the working-classes of England. This is a

truly Christian principle of government, for while the people _fast_, the

ministers will not fail to _prey_.

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