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vont toujours plus loin que la reconnoissance et l'amitié, et la calomnie trouve plus aisement croyance dans la public, que les éloges et les louanges."-CHARLEVOIX, N. France, vol. 2, p. 287.

WHAT the church of England holds with regard to the church of Rome. Joseph Mede.

Nichols, Calv. and Arm. p. 496-7.

INTRODUCTION of new articles of belief

by the Romanists. Hammond.—Ibid. p. 560. His offer for a groundwork of unity.

ment with this despising and contemning remark, "Now there's ane end of ane old song."-LOCKHART's Memoirs, vol. 1, p. 223. There may have been more of feeling than of levity in this.

My feelings are in accord with the Emperor Baber, when speaking of a villainous deed he says "Let every man who hears of this action of Khosrou Shah pour out imprecations on him; for he who hears of such a deed, and does not curse him, is himself

worthy to be accursed.-LEYDEN's Mem of Baber, p. 63.

"He that getteth wisdom, loveth his own "THE vail is upon their heart. Neverthe-soul."-Proverbs xix. 8. less when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away."-2 Corinth. iii. 15-16.

"I AM on my Persian steed, sir, and the plains of prolixity are before me.

"ALL observation tends to confirm that "I placed my foot in the stirrup of refemale life, at all ages, is better than male, solution, and my hand on the reins of conand even married better than single."—fidence-in-God.”—BABER'S Memoirs. Minutes of Evidence on Friendly Societies, A. D. 1827, p. 38.

THE increase of population entirely attributable to a diminution in the rate of mortality. Ibid. p. 38.

A VERY small number of first-born children are alive at the expiration of ten years. -Ibid. p. 42.

An important point had been gained in civilization when men began to build with stone.

"BUT let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord, which exercise lovingkindness, judgement, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.—Jeremiah ix. 24.

WHEN the Earl of Seafield signed, as Chancellor of Scotland, the engrossed exemplification of the Act of Union, he returned it to the Clerk, in the face of Parlia

PAPAL Church. "I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive."-John v. 43.

INDIA. Captain William Bruce remarked to me that if our empire in that country were overthrown, the only monuments which would remain of us would be broken bottles and corks.

Along the whole coast, he says, our government is popular, because the people share in the advantages of a flourishing trade. But in the interior we are hated. There it is a grinding system of exaction; we take nine-tenths; and the natives feel the privation of honours and places of authority more than the weight of imposts. One of them compared our system to a screw, slow in its motion, never violent or sudden, but always screwing them down to the very earth.

SWORD and spear have been beaten by the flail.

Ir ye search the Scriptures" ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."-John viii. 32.

"HE that is of God heareth God's words: ve therefore hear them not because ye are not of God."—Ibid. 47.

SATAN has always two strings to his bow. 2 Corinthians iv. 2.-THIS our Reformers did.

"If the root be holy, so are the branches." -Romans xi. 16.

In the Atlas of February 18, 1827, is this passage, forming part of a leading paragraph in the Morning Chronicle.

"Those who use the word liberty, as applied to civilized life, are either very ignorant, or very evil-intentioned. Wherever we turn in civilized life, we are met by restraints on our liberty; and the more civilized the society the more numerous the

IDOLATRY prevailed because it was adapt-restraints. If we use the words good going religion to low and earthly minds. So their saints are like fetishes, whom they treat familiarly, coax, threaten, maltreat and punish.

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ONE of our Martyrs.-2 Maccabees vi.

EFFECT of processions in which children bear a prominent part. The handsomest chosen for angels, and the parents making it a pride to decorate them with all the jewels and finery of the family.

A DISTINCTION between glory and honour. The glory of France is what Buonaparte sought. The honour of England is that for which we contend.

THE Temple at Jerusalem served as a bank for deposit.-Maccabees ii. See the miracle of Heliodorus,- -a use for which in war time the convents also served.1

Ar Strasburg, 1826, forty days' indulgence to all those who, after having fully confessed and communicated, shall visit this cathedral on the anniversary of the birth of the holy father I. Loyola, and shall there pray for the union of Christian princes,― "l'extirpation des hérésies,"—and the exaltation of the holy and true religion.

'So the Oracles of old time. "Thus Delphi," says MITFORD," appears to have become the great bank of Greece, perhaps before Homer, in whose time its riches seem to have been al ready proverbial.”—C. iii. sect. 2. vol. i. p. 213. 8vo.-J. W. W.

vernment, we shall then speak an intelligible language. Now such restraints as are necessary to the well-being of society, that is, to good government, must be submitted to."

"IGNORANTIÆ inimicus alienæ, inimicissimus meæ, et à quocunque corrigi paratus." -DR. O'CONOR, ad lectorem.

"Tu autem.-Memento, genus esse honinum adeò malignum, ut quidquid benè egeris in pessimam semper partem accipiant et aliorum mentes suo metientes ingenio, benefacta quælibet pravo animo interpretentur."―Ibid.

I LAY no siege to impregnable understandings.

I WOULD examine this argument farther, as a Spaniard said in the Cortes, " si las bellas razones y exemplos con que se ha sido apoyada, no probaran mas bien su impertinencia que su oportunidad."-Diario de las Cortes, t. 4, p. 182.

Latent hope, which exists in almost all extremities.

SIR F. BURDETT admits that high prices are probably best. I think they are both an effect and a cause of prosperity. I am sure that system must be the best which will make poor lands pay for cultivating.

WHEN We have once gone astray, the best thing we can do is to retrace our steps.

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“STUDIED orations," said James I. “ and much eloquence upon little matters, is fit for the universities, when not the subject that is spoken of, but the trial of his wit that

OUR despondents. - Parliamentary His- speaketh is most commendable; but on the tory, vol. 4, p. 678.

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contrary, in all great councils of parliament, fewest words with most matter do become best; where the dispatch of the great errands on hand, and not the praise of the person, is most to be looked into."—Ibid. p. 1099.

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dependent poor creatures on the face of the Office, the persons who have visited Margate earth. April 12, 1827.

PYм says, "the execution of laws against Papists forces not their conscience, but prevents mischief; and therefore he would have the Papists used like madmen, and have all dangerous weapons taken from them."Parliamentary History, vol. 1, p. 1314.

MR. THOMAS CREWE. "It is a wonder to see the spiritual madness of such as will

by the steam-packets are found to have increased from 41,347 in the twelve months

ending April 1822, to 64,070 in the same space of time ending April 1827.

HALLAM's opinion that England might be made a republic.

Yes; just as Melrose was made a kirk, and Glastonbury a manufactory.

H. WALPOLE'S wish that Whigs and To

fall in love with a Romish harlot, now sheries would call themselves Greens and Blues, is grown so old a hag." A.D. 1621.—Ibid. p. 1321.

"ACCOUNT of the English Government in the Corte del Dios Momo. 55. By Dr. Joseph Michele Marquez." Our liberals know about as much of the Spanish people now as this writer did of the English Go

as at Constantinople.

Parties are thus divided into colours in

the counties.

"BE not persuaded in any treaty to consent to any thing you do not think simply good in itself, upon any imagination that by yielding now to somewhat unreasonable and inconvenient, you may be able hereafter to SOME good remarks upon frugality.-reverse it."-CLARENDON to Lord Hopton. Ibid. pp. 351-9. 1647. Papers, vol. 2, p. 369.

vernment then.

SCOFFERS at religion cannot make good statesmen," for none are such save they who from a principle of a conviction and persuasion (say rather a religious sense of duty) manage public affairs to the advantage of those who employ them. Since they care not for the things themselves, and scorn such as employ them, they must never care for what events attend them." And as an example, SIR G. MACKENZIE says, (p. 439), "Have we not seen some of these great wits prove the worst of all statesmen in our own days, and as far below the meanest in management as they were above the wisest in wit and sharpness ?"

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By the receipt-book at the Margate Pier nable et sans replique, faite à des gens, qui

ont prétexté une fausse raison, pour couvrir leur mauvaise volonté.”—CHARLEVOIX. N. France, vol. 1, p. 290.

66 VERY true it is of all the rest of our passions, if they be not bridled, which one said of love, (as that word hath now stabled itself in that one dirty delight), that they are as good as spectacles, to make every thing which they either run to, or run from, much greater than it is."-AGLIONBY. E. of Cumberland's Voyage.

"HE that opposes his own judgment against the current of the times, ought to be backed with unanswerable truths: and he that has that truth on his side, is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of the currency or multitude of other men's opinions."-DEFoe, vol. 1, p. 153.

"I TELL you," says DEFOE," there's no people in the world so forward to condemn a man upon hearsay as the Dissenters; when they have a mind to slander a man,

REGARD to family estates in the Mosaic they take every thing upon trust; 'tis their law. shortest way."-Ibid. p. 228.

THE mischief which such a minister as

Lord ———— may do himself in the revolution which his whole conduct tends to bring on, is like that of the barber who cut a deep gash in his own thumb through the cheek of his unfortunate patient.

A GOOD Crop of hemp prepares for a good crop of wheat. It destroys the weed.— HENNING. Agricultural Report, p. 43.

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“It would be recollected," said BROUGHAM, "that when a bill was introduced to fix Easter term, Mr. Justice Rook exclaimed, Good God, think of the horror of depriving the whole Christian community of the consolation of knowing that they all kept Easter on the same day?' (hear, and laughter). Now he had no wish, not the least desire, to deprive the Christian community of this consolation, if consolation they found it. They might enjoy it still. But business ought not to be sacrificed to their ideas of comfort and consolation! He should be more glad to see that folly,- for really he could not call it by any other name, that absurd and vexatious mode of regulating Easter by moons, as it was called, done away with. (hear, and laughter.) There was no inconvenience in Easter being moveable, but there was a very great inconvenience in making the returns moveable."—Times, 8th Feb. Friday, 1828.

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