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no one in the chamber; but on the couch was laid a / and had only taken a passage on board the ark to be put on delicate white robe, ready for use, with a circlet of this shore, and that he was sorry his apparel had suffered oak leaves twined with acorns for her hair. She so much from his late journey. Clean clothes were immediately put on the robe, and, binding her hair offered, but he would not accept them; and it was with off her forehead with the green chaplet, stood evident reluctance that he performed the lavations before the crystal mirror surveying her figure in usual on such occasions, before he sat down to dinner. her new and delicate costume. The sight charmed

At table, however, his agreeable conversation made her amazingly, and the flush of health and beauty was only as we strolled in the garden that his attire

us all forget his singular appearance; and, indeed, it mantled in her cheek as she exclaimed, “Oh, that struck me as exceedingly remarkable : a long loose coat my father and mother could see me now! how of yellow nankeen, much the worse of the many rubs little Carl would wonder at me, and love me too!” it had got in its time, and stained all over with the She then felt a strong desire to explore the fairy juice of plants, hung loosely about him, like a sack; regions, and to see whether there were other fairer a waistcoat of the same, with enormous pockets, and scenes than that around her. She passed out by a buttoned up to the chin, reached below over a pair of curious archway of stone-work, upon which the tight pantaloons, the lower parts of which were buttoned chisels of the sculptor had been employed so suc- down to the ankle; his beard was as long as I have cessfully, that the most minute flowers, with their known my own to be during some of my peregrinatiny petals and fibred foliage, were executed with a tions, and his lank black hair hung loosely over his degree of nicety almost incredible. Each flower that any tyro in phrenology would instantly have pro

shoulders; his forehead was so broad and prominent, bore its own natural colour, and the beautiful nounced it the residence of a mind of strong powers ; effect was considerably heightened by the judicious bis word impressed an assurance of rigid truth, and, as taste which had grouped them together. There he directed the conversation to the study of the natural were three scrolls over the archway, bearing in an- sciences, I listened to him with as much delight as tique characters the following inscriptions :

Telemachus could have listened to Mentor. He had On the right:

come to visit me, he said, expressly for the purpose of Life is but a trial at most.

seeing my drawings, having been told that my repreOn the left :-

sentations of birds were accompanied with those of

shrubs and plants, and he was desirous of knowing Dappy ther who use it well.

whether I might chance to have in my collection any And in the centre:-

with which he was unacquainted. I observed some fear not, and thou shalt win.

degree of impatience in his request to be allowed to see (To be concluded in our next.)

what I had. We returned to the house, when I opened my portfolios, and laid them before him.

He chanced to turn over the drawing of a plant quite new to him. After inspecting it closely he shook his

head, and told me no such plant existed in nature; for, TIIE ECCENTRIC NATURALIST.1

kind reader, M. de T., although a highly scientific man,

was suspicious to a fault, and believed such plants only “What an odd-looking fellow !” said I to myself, to exist as he had himself seen, or such as, having been as, while walking by the river, I observed a man landing discovered of old, had, according to Father Malefrom a boat, with what I thought a bundle of dried branche's expression, acquired a “ venerable beard." clover on his back. “How the boatmen stare at him! I told my guest that the plant was common in the Sure he must be an original.” He ascended with a

immediate neighbourhood, and that I should show it rapid step, and, approaching me, asked if I could point him on the morrow. “And why to-morrow, Mr. Auduout the house in which Mr. Audubon resided. Why, bon ? let us go now.” We did so; and on reaching the I am the man,” said I, “and will gladly lead you to my bank of the river, I pointed to the plant. M. de T. dwelling."

I thought had gone mad : he plucked the plants one The traveller rubbed his hands together with delight, after another, danced, hugged me in his arms, and and, drawing a letter from his pocket, handed it to me exultingly told me that he had got not merely a new without any remark. I broke the seal, and read as species, but a new genus. When we returned home the follows : “My dear Audubon, I send you an odd fish, naturalist opened the bundle which he had brought on which you may prove to be undescribed, and hope you his back, and took out a journal, rendered waterproof will do so in your next letter. Believe me always your by a leather case, together with a small parcel of linen, friend, B.”

examined the new plant, and wrote its description. The With all the simplicity of a back-woodsman I asked examination of my drawings then went on. You would the bearer where the odd fish was, when M. de T. (for, be pleased, kind reader, with his criticisms, which were kind reader, the individual in my presence was none of the greatest advantage to me, for, being well acelse than that renowned naturalist) smiled, rubbed his quainted with books, as well as with nature, he was well hands, and, with the greatest good humour, said, “I fitted to give me advice. It was summer, and the heat am that odd fish, I presume, Mr. Audubon.” I felt

was so great that the windows were all open. The light confounded, and blushed, but contrived to stammer out of the candles attracted many insects, among which was an apology.

observed a large species of scarabeus. I caught one, We soon reached the house, when I presented my and, aware of his inclination to believe only what he learned guest to my family, and was ordering a servant should himself see, I showed him the insect, and asto go to the boat for M. de T.'s luggage, when he told sured him it was so strong, that it could crawl on the me he had none but what he brought on his back. He table with the candlestick on its back. “I should like then loosened the pack of weeds which had first drawn

to see the experiment made, Mr. Audubon,” he replied. my attention. The ladies were a little surprised, but it was accordingly made, and the insect moved about, I checked their critical glances; for the moment the dragging its burden, so as to make the candlestick naturalist pulled off his shoes, and while engaged in change its position, as if by magic, until coming upon drawing his stockings, not up, but down, in order to

the edge of the table, it dropped upon the floor, took eover the holes about the heels, told us, in the gayest to wing, and made its escape. mood imaginable, that he had walked a great distance, When it waxed late I showed him to the apartment

intended for him during his stay, and endeavoured to (1) From Audubon's Ornithological Biography.

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in abundance. I was indeed heartily glad to have a He mounts the throne, whilst scornful smiles athwart his feanaturalist under my roof. We had all retired to rest : tures played, every person, I imagined, in deep slumber save myself, "Now will I prove how sickly dreams my doting sire betrayed!” when, of a sudden, I heard a great uproar in the natu- High o'er the loftiest pinnacle that crowns his hall of power, ralist's room.

I got up, reached the place in a few Where wassail, rest, or reverie dispute the passing hour, moments, and opened the door, when, to my astonish. Each time it listeth him to touch the cord that sways beneath.

A bell, a little bell he hangs, its brazen chimes to breathe, ment, I saw my guest running about the room naked, That will he sound, that thro' his realm the news may spread holding the handle of my favourite violin, the body of

abroad which he had battered to pieces again the walls, in How cankering care forsakes his couch, how blissful is its lord. attempting to kill the bats which had entered by the Fondly he deems no day shall pass, but, that that little bell, open window, probably attracted by the insects flying Touched by his willing hand, the tale of cloudless bliss shall tell. around his candle. I stood amazed, but he continued And brightly dawneth day by day, yet ere that day is o'er, jumping, and running round and round, until he was the hopes that morning ushered in, at sunset smile no more : fairly exhausted, when he begged me to procure one of Oft towards the cord the princely youth his eager glance hath the animals for him, as he felt convinced they belonged

flung, to " a new species.” Although I was convinced of the Yet something stirs within his breast--the bell remains uurung. contrary, I took up the bow of my demolished cremona,

Now deems he his a well-proved friend, what gift with that can and administering a smart tap to each of the bats, as

“ Sound forth, thou brazen herald thou, for who so blest as 1?” it came up, soon got specimens enough. The war ended, But an envoy stands before him-tears with his tidings blend -I again bade him good night, but could not help ob- Baser than basest foe is he, whom thou hast called thy friend!” serving the state of the room : it was strewed with Again a fond, fond dream is his ! he deems her heart his own! plants, which it would seem he had arranged into “ Now let my bliss, my matchless bliss, to all the world be groups, but which were now scattered about in confu- known!” sion.“ Never mind, Mr. Audubon,” quoth the eccentric But lo, his minister draws near, with face foreboding wo: naturalist, “never mind, I'll soon arrange them again. “Alas, my liege, and is it thine, nor truth, nor trust to know !" I have the bats; and that's enough !”

Sorely his soul is chastened, yet hath he not his land, Several days passed, during which we followed our Fairer, I ween, no realm than his e'er pranked beneath the sun,

With many a princely treasure there, and many a gallant band? several occupations : M. de T. searched the woods for For God and man, to do it grace, their goodliest had done. plants, and I for birds. He also followed the margin He hies him to the lattice, and he looked far and wide, of the Ohio, and picked up many shells, which he greatly And his royal eye is flashing, and his bosom swells with pride. extolled. With us, I told him, they were gathered into Now will he joyous to the cord, now will he sound—but lo, heaps, to be converted into lime. “Lime! Mr. Audubon, Within the hall are hurried steps--a messenger louts low: why they are worth a guinea a-piece in any part of “ Sir King, see there, see there, yon flame that riseth high and Europe." M. de T. remained with us for three weeks, clear, and collected multitudes of plants, shells, bats, and Our dwellings burn, our maidens flee, before the foemau's spear!” fishes. We were perfectly reconciled to his oddi- Ah, caitiff slaves !” bursts forth the King, and stead of silken ties; and finding him a most agreeable and intelligent He snatches up his trusty mail, and buckles on his sword.

cord, companion, hoped that his sojourn might be of long duration. But, one evening when tea was prepared, Already care hath thinned his locks and dimmed his eagle eye, and we expected him to join the family, he was nowhere Yet ever silent rests the bell, the little bell on high. to be found. His grasses, and other valuables, were all And should a transient gleam of bliss illume his withered brow, removed from his room. The night was spent in search. He feels his sands are fleeting fast—he lays him down to die;

Scarce thinks he to awake its tones--it sways unnoticed nowing for him in the neighbourhood. No eccentric natu: When from without unceasingly he hears a wailing cry. ralist could be discovered. Whether he had perished “What mean those sounds of sorrow, what means that note of in a swamp, or had been devoured by a bear or a garfish, or had taken to his heels, were matters of conjec- Ah, Sire, our father leaveth us---his children weep below!" ture; nor was it until some weeks after, that a letter " My children, bid them enter !-lov'd they their lord so welli” from him, thanking us for our attention, assured me of “Oh, Sire, could life but ransom life, their ready blood would his safety.

But many a stout and sturdy heart is eager thronging in,
Once more to bless his dying lord, ,--once more to see his King-
“ Ye lov'd me then, my children ?” and thousands faltered

“ Aye!”
Poetry.

The dying monarch caught the word-he raised himself on high,
And seized the cord-to Heaven one prayer his upturned eyes

addressed, (In Original Poetry, the Name, real or assumed, of the Then bade the bell peal loud and long, and, smiling, sunk to

Author, is printed in Small Capitals under the title; in
Selections, it is printed in Italics at the end.)

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THE LITTLE BELL

N.B.--The Second Volume of this Periodical is now ready; Covers for binding, with Table of Contents, may be ordered of any Book seller.

FROM THE GERMAN OF SCIDD.

The King is on his death-bed, he bids them call his son,
He grasps the stripling by the hand, and, pointing to the throne,

My son,” he feebly faltered forth, “yon royal seat is thine,
Yet, ere thou donn’st thy father's crown, think on these words

of mine: Fancy perchance hath pictured fair this vain weak world of ours, Alas for Fancy's dreams! too soon thou'lt find how few its

flowers! In niggard drops it yields its bliss, in swollen streams its woe; But few scant ops 'mid thousand streams have been thy sire's

to know." He said and slept for aye—the youth his words hath heeded

CONTENTS.
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Page A Scottish Scene, (with Il- The true History of the lustration) ..................... 81

Round Table at Winchester.....

90 The Atmosphere ......

82

Reading for the Young :-
A Christmas Party in the Louise, or, the Fairy Well 92

The Eccentric Naturalist.... 95
Country

86

POETRY:-
Popular Year-Book ............ 89 The Little Bell................. 96

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London Magazine:

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FOR GENERAL READING.

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Among the numerous charitable foundations existing | rent of about one hundred and twelve pounds. This throughout this part of the kingdom, those are gene estate was generously devoted by its owner, Thomas rally the most wealthy and flourishing which have some Seckford, Esq., to the support of certain alms-houses connexion with the metropolis. The immense increase built by him in the town of Woodbridge, a few miles in the value of property within the ever-widening bounds from Ipswich, Suffolk, where his own property lay. The of London, causes a bequest of land in that city, (how- original alms-houses comprised seven tenements, with ever small that bequest may have originally been) to land adjoining, for the residence of thirteen poor men ; become a fruitfal source of wealth to the institution with six of the houses being fitted each for the residence of which it is connected. Thus, in 1567, the bequest of a two pensioners, and the seventh for the remaining penfew acres of pasture land, called the Conduit Close, half-sioner, who was to be called the Principal. Each ina-mile from the city of London, and then yielding a mate had a yearly supply of fuel and clothing, and a rent of only ten pounds a year, was the means of raising stipend of five pounds, except the Principal, who had to wealth and importance that well-known establish-six pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence yearly. The ment, Rugby School. This Conduit Close (now Lamb's founder of this charity also gave another tenement, and Conduit-street, and the streets adjoining) yields at the two acres of land for the use of three poor widows, to be present time an income of many thousands per annum

nurses to such of the poor men as should be sick and a fact that would have appeared utterly incredible to infirm, and to have each a yearly stipend of two pounds the original founder of the charity. Similar instances thirteen shillings and fourpence. are common; among which, we may here particularly In the course of time, the Clerkenwell estate rose notice that of an endowment made in 1587, of a mode. immensely in value, and the governors of the alınsrate estate in Clerkenwell, yielding at that time a yearly houses improved the property in London, by taking

VOL. III.

down many old buildings, and laying out new streets. servedly very great; which remarks, partly for their The charity estate now comprises Seckford-street, Wood- intrinsic interest, and partly on account of the train of bridge-street, Suffolk-street, one side of St. John street, thought which they have suggested to our own minds, Aylesbury-street, St. James's-walk, Prison-walk, and

we venture here to lay before our readers, deeming the Corporation-row, and the whole is said to yield a yearly rental of more than 4,0001. During the progress of all subject sufficiently catholic in its character to involve in these improvements, the funds of the charity were ex

its treatment no violation of our rule of abstinence from pended in obtaining acts of Parliament for the contem-controversial topics. Our remarks will, perhaps, not plated changes, and in paying for their execution, so be very closely connected with the text on which we that in 1830, when the Commissioners of Charities in found them, but sufficiently so, we trust, to excuse us quired into the affairs of this institution, it appeared for placing them together. that no alterations had been made in the allowances to the alms-people, or other payments since 1768, when the

The newspaper we refer to is The Times, which, in a rental of the estate was only 5631. per annum, but that late number, devotes a leading article to some observait was the intention of the governors, as soon as the tions upon a meeting of the Bradford Mechanics' Instibuilding ground was let, to apply for an act of parlia- tute, at which that amiable and accomplished statesman, ment for the future regulation of the charity funds. Lord Morpeth, attended, and delivered a very interestThe yearly sums paid out of the rents at that time, and ing address. We extract the most striking passages in for some years afterwards, were to the principal, 271.; to

the article :each of the twelve almsmen, 201.; to each of the three nurses, 121.; to an extra nurse, 131.; to the minister of “ Without giving our adherence to the creed of those Woodbridgé, 101.; to the church wardens, 101.; to the who believe that Mechanics’ Institutes are to be the receiver of the rents, 121.; to the poor of Woodbridge, in means of redeeming the human race from ignorance and clothes and coals, about 1521. ; to the parishes of Wood- barbarism to knowledge and refinement, we must admit bridge and Clerkenwell, for distribution among the that, under certain conditions and certain management, poor, each 101. ; with about 501. for the repairs of the they may be productive of real good. But they require alms-houses, for medical attendance, &c.

this certain management,they ought to be governed In 1838, the governors of this charity were enabled to by these certain conditions-to prevent them from being enlarge it altogether, by doubling the number of alms- perverted into ridiculous, if not pernicious, exhibitions. men and women, who were to receive its benefits, and by There is, perhaps, no temptation more alluring to the building a new hospital befitting the increased wealth indulgence of froward self-conceit or impertinent gartuof the institution. This handsome edifice is in the Eliza-lity, than that which is presented to a fluent but illbethan style, and comprises two wings, with a chapel in informed speaker by the opportunity of addressing a the centre, and has two entrances, with massive bronze worse-informed and illiterate audience. In such a case, gates, and a porter's lodge. The whole was raised at the vanity fans the flame of presumptuous sciolism, and the cost of fifteen thousand pounds, from a design by J. follies or prejudices of the many are fostered by the Noble, Esq. In this extensive hospital there is ample self-complacency of one. The flippant speaker and the accommodation for the twenty-six alms-men and six heedless audience re-act upon one another to propagate nurses ; each being provided with two rooms and a small and promote erroneous opinions, or inaccurate conjecgarden. The alms men have a yearly stipend of 251., tures, which are more dangerous than utter ignorance. the Principal has 801., and the nurses have each 201. But the case is far different when the teacher is able, All are supplied with coals, clothing, and medical at- erudite, and impartial--the audience docile, confiding, tendance. The Principal has the superintendence of and unprejudiced. And there are few more graceful the other inmates, under the direction of the minister kinds of intellectual condescension, than that which is and churchwardens of Woodbridge. Since the erection manifested by a man of cultivated taste, who courts the of this new building, the old alms-houses have been let opportunity of instructing the uneducated, refining the at very low rents to poor widows.

unpolished, and correcting the prejudices of the halfThe founder of this excellent charity lies interred in learned, amongst his less fortunate neighbours. Nor a private chapel adjoining the north side of the chancel will such an effort, in itself generous and kind, be of the parish church of St. Mary Woodbridge. He was maimed of its strength or deprived of its reward, if he one of the Masters of the Court of Requests, and Sur- who makes it add to the natural gifts of talent and of veyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries in the reign taste the artificial advantages of birth and rank. Those of Elizabeth. His remains were deposited under a large who detest toadying, and despise 'flunkeyism,' will yet altar-tomb in this chapel ; but the brass inscriptions and reserve a proper admiration for him who makes rank ornaments, &c. were stripped from the tomb in 1643, and birth instruments for raising noble aspirations, and by Dowsing, the parliamentary visitor. Seckford is said | encouraging exalted pursuits. And even those who to have been distinguished in the polite accomplish- profess a political detestation of all class distinctions ments of the age in which he lived, as well as learned will become reconciled to them in the person of one who in the law. To his patronage of Christopher Saxton, not only does not disclaim, but proudly avows, his conthe public was indebted for the first set of country maps, nexion with and devotion to the humanities of science, which were engraved at his expense. This benevolent of literature, and of art. individual died without issue in 1588, aged 72, having Associations of this kind have become among the represented Ipswich in three parliaments, and earned facts of the day. They exist, and they will continue to to himself the character of a general benefactor to his exist. The tone which they take, the spirit by which own town of Woodbridge.

they are guided, the maxims which they evolve, pass into other assemblies, and animate other associations. They are only one form of that federal propensity which

is amongst the characteristics of our time. The advanSOME THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT CON.

tage, then-nay, the necessity and the duty-of giving DITION OF SOCIETY.

them certain tendencies, of infusing into them certain It does not usually fall within our province to notice principles, must be too obvious to require any lengthy newspaper articles : politics are not our vocation. But inculcation. When we recollect the facility with which our attention has recently been directed to some re

men are now-a-days leagued together for purposes either

social or political-either of good or evil- it is not unmarks on a matter altogether removed from political important that in the minds of the masses the idea of controversy, in a newspaper whose influence over the combination should be associated with the example of public mind on every subject which it touches is de- at least one society where good order is observed, sound

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knowledge imparted, and party prejudices repudiated., be so. The encountering of a passage like this, amid the As Lord Morpeth said, 'It is most salutary to have stormy columns of a political journal, comes upon us some common neutral ground, where all can equally at with the same feeling of refreshing relief with which we times meet together without any restraint, save that of step aside from a hard dusty road to a grassy path, from mutual self-respect.' If they merely bring together persons of different sta- whose elastic turf our step springs more lightly, over tions and occupations—if they lead the man of rank, whose green bosom the air breathes more freshly, and the student, and the philosopher, into the haunts of busy where every object meets the sense through a subduing industry—they will have done much to consolidate the and softening medium, relieving the glare, and stilling various elements of our system, and to destroy the too the noise, which had oppressed and wearied us. We frequent, but not inevitable, causes of repugnance and wish it were oftener the case, that the conductors of our antagonism. And when once the ice is broken, literature, or science, or music, or amusement, will, at least, more influential journals of all parties, than whom there have the opportunity of proving their legitimate influ can be none better qualified by talent and education, ences. We can easily understand the Eton aspirations and who occupy a position so secure that they incur of Lord Morpeth, when he looks forward to the time little risk in leading, rather than following, the popular that some scholar will introduce to the knowledge of taste, indulged themselves in the relaxation of writings the Bradford mechanics 'the blind old bard of Scio's addressed more to men, in their widest and most enrocky isle. Without, however, anticipating that period during relations, and less to mere political partisans or -perhaps not a distant one—we may profess ourselves content with hearing the bard of all time,' and 'the opponents; that they sought to redeem from the service minstrel of the North' well read and well criticised in of party, and restore to their rightful employment, an assembly of men who live by the labour of their those talents and acquirements which were meant for hands. A multitude which can applaud Shakspeare, mankind; that they threw themselves open to the and appreciate Scott, must cherish feelings of kindliness ambition of being writers, not for a day or for an age, and humanity far higher and stronger than the passions but for all time. There would be nothing in this inconof party, or the jealousies of caste. A peer or a doctor of laws expounding the philosophy of Hamlet and the sistent, so far as we can see, with the most zealous fulfilpathos of Midlothian' to a congregation of mechanics, ment of their duties as exponents and defenders of the would present a study worthy of remark alike to the views of the great parties in the state, as long at least admirers and the assailants of our social system. as those duties continued to be worthy of having the

energies of honourable and independent men employed “We will not pass over Lord Morpeth's advice, that upon them; while the good effect resulting from impregthose amongst the busy folks of a busy town who have nating with the loftier elements of thought, a stream the opportunity should study the history and constitu- whose flow is so unintermitting, and which penetrates so tion of their native land. This advice applies to men deeply into every nook and corner of society, would be higher in the social scale than the simple artisan. How beyond our utmost power of estimating it. many men are there, well to do and living at ease, who We are not going to comment upon the article of The know literally nothing of their country's history! It Times which we have quoted, but rather to follow out a was a remark of Coleridge, that the Reform Bill would train of thought of our own which it has suggested. give influence-not individual votes, but the command We therefore do not here enter on the general question of votes-to the most ignorant portion of the commu- of the utility of Mechanics' Institutes and similar nity. Master builders, owners of small houses, public associations further than to express our agreement with house keepers, &c. used generally, a few years ago, to the opinion of The Times, that everything in regard to harangue their operatives and tenants with a violence them depends upon the conditions under which they which could only be exceeded by their ignorance. And subsist, and the management by which they are reguthis mischief passed from words to actions. Perhaps lated. In themselves they are nothing more than a the inhabitants of no other country in the civilized mere guarantee for a certain amount of mental activity, world are so utterly ignorant of their own history and which may be valuable or mischievous according to the institutions as Englishmen. Foreigners generally re- direction which is given to it. To decry them as necesmark this. It applies even to professional men and sarily and incurably mischievous, or to hold them up fellows of colleges, but more particularly to the lower as the grand and unfailing instrument of social renova. part of the trading body. From men of this class cometion, were equally unreasonable and untrue. Abstracted the gross and ridiculous misstatements, the perverse from their conditions and management, they can notions, and the shameless lies, which, in times of poli- scarcely be said to have any moral quality at all; they tical excitement, sway the feelings of our mobs. And have little or no spontancous tendency either to good it is from such men as these-men of uncertain fortunes or to evil ; they are but instruments-most powerful, and unfixed principles—that that very noisy faction, it may be irresistible, instruments, but the effects of the Anti-Anglican party in America, is continually re- which are entirely dependent upon the manner in which cruited. It is by men who hate their country, because they are employed. “But this is not the subject upon they are unworthy of it; who libel its institutions, be which we wish at present to dwell. cause they know nothing of them; and misinterpret its There is no more indispensable qualification for the history, because they never learned it—it is by these man who desires, in whatever sphere, to exercise a moral that England is dishonoured and calumniated to the influence over society-whether as statesman, preacher, world. And so long as our different ranks of society politician, or public writer-than the capacity to disremain apart—so long as there is no common pursuit to cern, and the disposition to recognise and acquiesce in, bring them together; no common study to humanize the inevitable facts of our condition, so that his efforts their sympathies and harmonize their affections--so may be directed where they can be available for good, long will this be so ;—so long must England continue noť wasted upon that which they are altogether powerto be a nation of castes, classes, and factions, instead of less to affect. What Burke says of statesmanship, that an empire bold in the confidence, and strong in the it is the most eminent criterion of a wise government might, of undivided and invincible unity!"

“well to know the best time and manner of yielding

what it is impossible to keep," applies with equal truth “ That strain I heard was of a higher mood,”

to every mode of dealing with men in society. Natural

forces may be directed and regulated-guided into pitched to a higher key than we usually hear from such a

channels in which their operation may be made subquarter, though we know no good reason why it should servient to the designs of the most enlightened philan

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