ATKINS, the Purser of the Weymouth, was led by what he observed in Jamaica to conclude," that although trade be wealth and power to a nation, yet if it cannot be put under restrictions, controlled by a superior and disinterested power, excess and irregularity will be an oppression to many by increasing the difficulties of subsistence, and with it men's disaffection. Here is a distant evil, the cure of which lies in an expence that nobody likes, nor for such dislike will ever blame himself in time of danger."-T. S. vol. 2, p. 227. ·

"THE Lord is a God of judgement: blessed are all they that wait for him."--Isaiah xxx. 18.

"WHEN Englishmen," says M. GALIFFE, (Italy, vol. 1, p. 302), “talk nonsense, they are more intolerable than any nation on earth, because they talk it methodically, and with a provoking air of pedantic assurance."

He speaks of the "silly observation and vexatious ill-nature of English travellers." p. 302.

SPIRIT-SHOPS Corrupting the people of Hindostan, and rendering them more ferocious.-HEBER's Journal, vol. 1, p. 217.

WHOLESOME feeling in the Turks of the instability of earthly blessings, though beginning in servitude perhaps, and carried to superstition.-TURNER'S Levant, vol. 3, p. 374.

"THEN, man, mark by this change what thou hast won,

That leavest a torrid for a frozen zone, And art by Vice-vicissitudes unknown."

LORD BROOKE. Mor. and Rel. p. 24. Applicable to the Romanists who pass into infidelity, and the Calvinists who become Socinians.

PERIODICAL Publications.

"'Tis true these publications belong to different orders, classes, or parties; and that, like the prismatic colours, one is blue, another red, another green, and another yellow, but let it be remembered that the whole put in motion constitute light."— MR. GEORGE PEARSON'S MSS.

To a Roman, Spanish and the other mixed languages would appear as the talkeetalkee does to us.

"No rules of ordinary foresight will now serve the time," says ORMOND, (A.D. 1668) "but those of honesty and loyalty are in all events safe, provided they are assisted by prudence and industry."-CARTE, vol. 2, p.

377.

BRAG is a safer game for a minister than Hazard: and one which will sometimes succeed when weak cards are in an unskilful hand.

Almost I think it may be inferred from Luke xiii. 16, that diseases are the effect of the fall,-part of the penalty, not in the original constitution of our nature, but superinduced by an evil agency.

"YOUR iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you."-Jeremiah v. 25.

He who has a squint in his intellect, never can keep the straight line.

HERE, I think, is the most absurd sentence I ever read-in its kind. It is from HODGSKIN'S Travels, vol. 1, p. 392.

"If men be, as learned doctors say, born to evil,' the ambition of protecting them from it far surpasses in madness the mad ambition of conquerors; and they who undertake it make themselves responsible for all the imbecility, immorality, and misery which are found in the world."

In the same book there is this passage, which contains much more matter for consideration.

"Political economy means with them (the Germans) the knowledge of promoting the prosperity of the people by means of governments. If that general opinion which supposes governments to be beneficial be accurate, it can scarcely be possible that we can have too much of them. The conduct of the Germans is perfectly consistent with this opinion; and those nations only are inconsequent, who acknowledging governments to be beneficial, seek at the same time to limit their power as much as possible."—vol. 1, p. 414.

BUT he proceeds to deliver an opinion that they are a great evil, of which we are to get rid—in the march of intellect.—Ibid. p. 417.

"MAN, instructed well, and kept in awe, If not the inward, yet keeps outward law." LORD BROOKE, p. 61.

YOUNG preachers.'-Absurdity of letting "Youth appear

The reader should not forget that when Sir Roger de Coverley asked his chaplain, who preached to-morrow? the good man answered, "The Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr. South in the afternoon," as it conveys the opinion of ADDISON on this point.—J. W. W.

And teach what wise men think scarce fit to hear."-Ibid.

THE proper object of government is "So from within man to work out the right As his will need not limit or allay The liberties of God's immortal way." Ibid. p. 62.

MEN

"More divided

By laws than they at first by language were."-Ibid. p. 65.

"MEN joy in war for conscience."

Ibid. p. 80.

"WHEN friends or foes draw swords They ever lose that rest or trust in words." Ibid. p. 143..

"I WILL bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts."-Jer. vi. 19.

EVERY one sees how preposterous it would be for his shoes to be made upon another man's last. And how many a one is there who thinks that his last ought to fit everybody's foot!

CERTAIN reputations

"Which glow-worm like, by shining, show

'tis night."-LORD BROOKE, p. 225.

"WE do, though not the best, the best we can."

Spanish Gipsy. MIDDL. and ROWLEY.

PREDISPOSITION to contagion is less in those who are much exposed to impure air, than in those who live in the country.

WHAT We want is a state of feeling and manners equally opposed to the sullen character of Calvinism and the riot and license of Popery-therefore all harmless adjuncts of religion would be helpful. Church festivals, rush-bearing,' catechetical rewards,

1 See Du CANGE in v. Juncus, and Notes to BRAND'S Pop. Antiq. The Rush-bearing Sunday" is still a high day in the north of Eng land. The happy medium is what is wanted in these matters.-J. W. W.

OLD Mr. Honest from the town of Stupidity, Mr. Feeble-mind, Mr. Timorous, and Mr. Pliable-whose opinions are anything which it may please Serjeant Plausible, or Counsellor By-ends to make them.—Mr. Turn-away of the town of Apostacy. Sir John Turntail and Sir Thomas Weathergoose.

"GREAT wealth and great poverty,-if they do not necessarily produce one another, will be generally found co-existent.”—Zillah. H. SMITH.

LIKE old John Bunyan "I bind these lies and slanders to me as an ornament. It belongs,-let me not say to my Christian profession,-to my vocation, to my principles, to the course which I hold, and in which I will proceed manfully till the end, -to the station which I have won for myself, and will maintain,-it belongs to them to be villified, slandered, reproached, and reviled, and since all this is nothing else, as my God and my conscience do bear me witness, I rejoice in such reproaches.”— Grace Abounding, p. 40.

"THE gratification of an erroneous conscience."-J. BUNYAN.

"THEY are bad times, and bad they will be until men are better; for they are bad men that make bad times; if men therefore would mend, so would the times!"— Life and Death of Badman.

DAVENANT thus speaks of city labourers: "Beasts to the rich, whose strength grows rude with ease,

And would usurp, did not their rulers care With toil and tax their furious strength

appease."-p. 105.

THE doctrine of the Times is that in all matters affecting commerce, the comforts of the consumer ought chiefly to be regarded, "because he constitutes the nation!"—the language is worthy of the philosophy.

To make

"The body weak by softness of the mind." GONDIBERT, p. 139.

POLITICAL violence

"Which in a few, the people madness call; But when by number they grow dignified, What's rage in one, is liberty in all."

Ibid. p. 152.

HEAVEN bless some popular minister with a cold which may take away his voice, and compel him to make him written statements-which may be short and to the mat

ter!

A CURIOUS passage in LORD BROOKE, (Rel. and Mon.) pp. 168-9, showing that the Roman empire bred better men among the emperors than ever democracies brought forth.

But he is plainly wrong in thinking that democracy cannot breed a state.-p. 169.

"FOR though books serve as diet of the mind,

If knowledge early got self-value breeds,

By false digestion it is turned to wind, And what should nourish, on the eater feeds."-GONDIBERT, p. 221.

"POWER should with public burthens walk upright."-Ibid. p. 227.

D'AVENANT very justly notices “the usual negligence of our nation in examining, and their diligence to censure."— Preface, p. 32.

IN mere truth, i. e. vinous verity.

"DIVINES," says D'Avenant, “are made vehement with contemplating the dignity of the offended (which is God), more than the frailty of the offender."-Preface to GONDIBERT, p. 57.

"POWER hath failed in the effects of authority upon the people by a misapplication, for it hath rather endeavoured to prevail upon their bodies than their minds; forgetting that the martial act of constraining is the best, which assaults the weaker part; and the weakest part of the people is their minds, for want of that which is the mind's only strength, education; but their bodies are strong by continual labour, for labour is the education of the body."-Ibid. p.59.

A BOOK is new when, on a second or third perusal, we bring to it a new mind. And who is there who, in the course of even a few years, does not feel himself in this predicament?

FORMALITY in business:

"Never was any curious in his place
To do things justly, but he was an ass:
We cannot find one trusty that is witty,
And therefore bear their disproportion."

CHAPMAN, Bussy D'Ambois, p. 294.

"Ir any worthy opportunity Make but her fore-top subject to my hold." Ibid. Monsieur D'Olive, p. 376.

"THE matter, Sir, Was of an ancient subject, and yet newly Called into question.”—Ibid. p. 377.

""TWILL be expected I shall be of some religion; I must think of some for fashion, or for faction sake."—Ibid. p. 384.

"THE learning of the ignorant is, as it were, printed in stereotype. The last edition of their minds is exactly the same with the foregoing one."-ROLAND'S Estimate, p. 115.

Ir was Mirabeau who said that words are things.

LUTHER said that every man had a pope in his own heart.1

MAKE it as impossible for an open ruffian to exist in the land, as for a wolf or bear.

WHEN the seven deadly sins appear to Faustus in Marlow's tragedy, Envy says, "I cannot read, and therefore wish all books burned."-Old Plays, vol. 1, p. 37.

ROMAN geese saved the capitol; our cacklers will destroy us.

DISSENTING churches. The ministers and the people may be said, in a certain sense, to ride and tie; the latter are priest-ridden, the former congregation ridden.

THE perfection of society would be a state in which there should be no impediment to the full and fair development of his moral and intellectual capabilities in every individual.

WHERE there is "a noonday of innocence in their intentions," men will be careful that no" twilight of suspicion obscure their actions."-Pisgah View, p. 60.

"How smooth and tender are the gums of infant treason; but oh! how sharp are the teeth thereof when once grown to full greatness.”—Ibid. p. 98.

TIME-pieces in France became bad as they became common, -so with certain

branches of literature.-PRUDHOMME.

SCOTICO-jargonicé. I thank thee, Jeremy, for teaching me that word.

"It was an usual speech with Martin Luther, that every man was born with a Pope in his belly; and we know what the Pope hath long challenged and appropriated to himself, Infalli bility and Supremacy, which like two sides of an arch mutually uphold each other."-ANT. FARINDON'S Sermons, vol. 1, p. 158. He often alludes to the saying, e. g. vol. ii. pp. 631,650, &c.-J. W. W.

this with it, that the mercy and grace of God afford a sure preservation; and that these are granted to all who earnestly pray for them.

"YOUR only smooth skin to make vellum is your Puritan's skin; they be the smoothest and sleekest knaves in a country."-BEN JONSON, Eastward Hoe.

THE thistle might be my emblem (though I shall never assume its motto), because asses mumble it with impunity, and to their own great contentment.

I HAVE indeed worn my opinions for daws to peck at: but though many daws peck with impunity, those which I lay hold on, are not likely soon to forget the finger and thumb which have grasped them.

TYTHES, with their old obligations, would be desirable now in new colonies, if only men were now what they were when tythes were instituted.

IMPATIENCE of obligations, as e. g. of rent in Canada.

Feudal settlements have answered in Canada.