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WILLIS AND THE CouRIER.-It is very amusing


to see Willis and the Courier fighting and squab-
bling about Bishop Onderdonk. 1t puts US in mind
of two sick men endeavoring to punish each other,
or two men with a single leg each endeavoriBg to
run race by the help Of crutches. The subject Of
this funny quarrel is the guilt innocence Of the
Bishop, and yet on this extraordinary subject
neither of the dsputants appears to have any idea
of what he is about. Instead Of looking at the
question from point of common sense, they give
themselves all sorts Of ridiculous airs, making the
subject hook on which to hang their egetisms.


mpertnences, Stiffness, follies, affectation, and so
forth, and SO forth. Willis wanted to defend the
Bishop, but, poor man, he didn't know how to be-
gin. Certainly it was a curious way to defend the
Bishop, by eliminating the female witnesses
against him. The very starting point OF this de-
fence was, to assume the utmos. purity Of charac-
ter and conduct on the part of the female saints
with whom the Bishop associated. Bat in all the
reasoning attributes of man, Willis appears to be
utterly deficient. In poetry, and some departments
of descriptive prose, Willis is very good but the
moment he gets beyond that, into the regions Of
common sense, or pure reasoning, he talks like a
child Witness his boyish egotism in saying that
he could, if he had so decided, have "written down
Ole Bull" when he first made his appearance in
this country. We rather think Mr.. Willis will
find it an easier task to "wrte down" the Mirror.