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Vottrp. WHAT 18 LOVE? 'Tis that delightful transport that we feel, Which Painters cannot paint nor words reveal, Nor any art we know of can conceal. ' Canst thou describe the sunbeams to the blind, Or make him feel a shadow with his Mind 7 So neither can we by description shew This first of all felicities below. When happy love pours magic o'er the soul, And all our thoughts in sweet delirium roll ; When contemplation spreads her rainbow wings, And every Sutter some new rapture brings ; How sweetly then our moments glide away, And dreams repeat the transports of the day. We live in ecstacy—to all things kind, FOr love will teach this moral to the mind. Put are there not some other marks that prove What is this wonder of the soul called love 7 Oh I yes, there are that differ in th' extreme, The dreadful horrors of a mental dream ; Some jealous fury throws her poison'd dart. And rends in pieces the distracted heart. When love's a tyrant, and the soul's a slave, No hope remains to thought, but in the giave In that dark den it views an end to grief, And what was once its dread becomes relief. What-are the iron chains that hands have wrought ? The hardest chains to break, are those of thought. Think well of this ye lovers, and be kind, Nor play with torture, or a tortured mind. ":71.1. - R2ETZ:ES. -THE ODD FAMILY.—In the reign of William 111. there lived iu Ipswich, in Suffolk, a family which, from the number of peculiarities belonging to it, was distinguished by the name of the " Odd Farriiiy." Every event, whether good or bad, happened to this family on an odd day of the month, and every one of them had something odd in his or her person, manner, and behaviour; the very letters in their Christian names always happened to be an 'odd number. The husband's name was •Peter, and the wife's Rabah; they had seven children, all boys, viz. Solomon, Roger ; James, Matthew, Jonas, and Ezekiel. — The husband had but one leg, his wife but one arm.—Solornon was born blind of the left eye, and Roger lost his right eye by an accident; James had his left car pulled off by a boy in a quarrel, and Matthew was born with only three lingers on his right hand; Jonas had a stump foot, and David was hump backed ; all these, except David, were remarkably short, white Ezekiel was six feet two inches high at the age of nineteen; the stump-footed Jonas and the hump-backed David got wives of fortune, but no girls would listen to the addresses of the rest. The husband's hair was as black as jet, and the wife's remark. ably white, yet every one of the children's was red. The hus band had the peculiar misfortune of falling into a deep saw-pit, where he was starved to death in the year 1701, and his wife, refusing all kinds of sustenance, died in five days after him. In the year 1703, Ezekiel enlisted as a grenadier, and, although he was afterwards wounded in twenty-three places, he reco vered. Then Roger, James, Matthew, Jonas, and David, died at different places, on the same day, in 1713, and Solomon and Ezekiel were drowned together iu crossing the Thames, in the year 1723. THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN.-011 the 24th of June, the anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn, a band of amateur . musicians, in commemoration of that interesting event, meet, at six o'clock in the morning, in the front of a cottage at Caer ketan Craig, at the foot of one of the Pentland Hills, where lives Gordon, the blind bard, and, with clarionets, and other wind and stringed instruments, commence a concert with the hl4 l merry tune of " Hey, Johnny Cope, are ye waukin' yet ?" froni'..zvhich, if Gordon does not soon come out, they change to " 0 but= m" ye're lang o' comin," which they . give with such a rr, tha'• t die very echoes are roused from their slumbers. At length the •-ottage door opens, and the bard appears, his long hair streaming,' 7 . to the breath of the morning, and with his violin he accompanies • his voice while he sings " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled," a :"ter which a shout of the whole company is raised, that night heard from Raveirig to Castle-Law. 'The following song will stw. erve as a specimen of the lyrical talents of this poet-musician :- - 'reos -- • An, down in a v iatain that looks sae green, jeaaamiii!d pore. de sae bonny 0, Surrounded wi' be 'h, a wee cottage is seen, Behind and before, afr:tutit's mono 0 ; • • Kind nature has stret,d around the door, he. biessin,s 0, And wi' dowrets rare p Inn ! d the air, But the loveliest ilowet.i f e an' h my Jessy 0. " 0, kind is her daddy, to see, When the sun's gane whint•jP7 •t he craigie 0 ; l‘ly bonnet glistens o'er the lea A An' down by the rustic briggtit • , An' blyth is her mammy spreaddn ..",• the b Wi' the supper sae clean an' sae But kinder an' happier, and blytheroAa,erY oard ; Is the smile an' the glance o' my Je3 t 'sie O. " 0 fortune be kind, an' up in the glen,' Wi' the burnie rinnin by the end o't 0, Bestow me a cot, wi' a but an' a hen. And an acre or twa at the end o't 0 ; An' send me an income sufficient to scare Pale want frae the door o' - my housie 0 ; Then farewell the world, its wiles and its caresr:, An' welcome love an' my Jessy 0." ' ' 7. ORIENTAL COMPLIMENTS.—The Begum (Princess) some days subsequent to her quitting the camp at lit_ loumroo, in 1826, wrote to the Commander-in-Chief, that she had 'urtPm rest e, day or night, since she had parted with him. His Excel; no iu reply, said " that on his arrival at Cawnpore, he had‘,Y ene Y , found the boats which had been prepared for him, high and dry,'. l the lowness of the river, but that the tears he had shed--4,} fromt be thought of the period he should be absent from her prese: waen —had been so abundant as to float the vessels, and enable h. '4" to proceed on his voyage !" This was taken as a matter ‘im, c ourse, and not considered otherwise than it should have been. ) 9 l ' —Major Archer's Tour through Upper India. LIE SNUFF-TAKER AND SIR GEORGE ROSE. — Some time It since, during the argument of a heavy cause in the Court of Chancery, a - friend having in vain endeavoured to draw the at tention of the witty Sir George, then Mr. Rose, from his brief, as a last resource presented him with a pinch of snuff. Sir G., however, on declining the offer, observed, with an air of solem nity, " Had the Creator intended my nose for a dust-hole, he would not have turned it upside down." --The Lawyer. " Alderman Wood presents his compliments to the Editor of the Age, and begs to assure him he has a great deal to say on the Timber Duties."—The Editor of the Aye presents his com pliments to Alderman Wood, and with the most profound con sideration begs to assure him he does nut care a tinker's apos trophe what he says. . 'I HE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE INFLUENZA.—Dire and dreadful has been the doings of the demon that has the duty of distributing maladies amongst mankind in this metropolis during the past week. He has evidently made an Easter offer ing to the sons of Esculapius, far exceeding that renowned blue bugbear, the cholera.. We laughed at the cholera ; and for our 4 , scepticism, we have a disorder sent amongst us that is not to be sneezed at with impunity. We have—but hark!—the small still voice of the poet of Cockaigne breaks upon our tickled tympa num, like water trickling from a pump after the last convulsive gush of the gratuitous liquid—'tis Leigho Hunto singeth and asketh— What is it ails the women and the men, Sir, All round about town, country, hill or glen, Sir— Makes Leigho Hunto heavy with his pen,. Sir, i And London's Lions sickly n their den, Sir—. Sets Aldermen all sneezing ('specially Wen, Sir) — Gives weeping eyes, obscuring mortal ken, Sir— Sets noses running at nine knots or ten, Sir— Gives fits of coughing every now and then, Sir— Affects all Clubs, from Crock's to " Cock and Hens," Sir— Nay ? what's it all about—the wherefore, why, and when, Sir ? Good Leigho Hunto, finish thy cadenza— What the deuce is it but—the Influenza The Influenza! oh ! sound abhorred ! " A mcnistrum hor rendum' " roars Raikes. " Infernal, chimes in Monson. "Cui lasnen ademptum," chorus a phalanx of dandies, as blind as pups on the Bth day. " Nigruque siiaillima cygno," adds, sotto voce, what extiflguished man, Bayntun, with a woeful recollec tion of the " Black Swan " at York. It is " melancholy to find that we've got," as Fergus O'Connor ejaculated, on find ing a solitary shilling in his breeches pocket. Call it an ePi demic, or a demi-epic, we have it; but, unlike Fergus with his chilling, would be too happy to get rid of it. In royal closet-=- in the luxurious boudoir or the Peeress—in the proud domicile of Devon's Duke—in the . chateau of the Percy—as well as in the chamber of the humble modiste—the attic of the " Count" -of Ilowel and James " Counter"—the Pentenville . parlour of the Bank Clerk—and the innumerable` wO pair stairs back of all the short-commonry of London—this fee to the creature comforts of our existence, stalks unshackled, laving prostrate Prince, Peer, Aristocrat, and Artisan—high and (ow, great and small—one and all—obfuscated, flambergasted, expitlicated, and floored with the snuffles. THE LIVERPOOL STANDAKO. THE EARL OP " RIBBON."-A member of Brookes's saying, in the healing of Sam Rogers, that Goderich's was the latest promotion in the Peerage—" Rather the Earl-iest, from his rank, I should say; was the old joker's reply. "He did not get the ' Garter,' though," continued the member of the mena gerie. " No! (said Sam,) he was obliged to put up with the title instead—Earl of ' Ribbon.' " • METAPHORS.—The following novel and interesting intelli gence is contained in the Clonmel Advertiser " Wheat is looking up since our last." A Waterford paper improved upon the . phrase, by announcing to the bacon-merchants— ' Dead pigs are looking up." FORCE OF PREJUDICE.—The Turks call every stranger to this day a Frank, no matter in what part of the world he may have been born. The people of Poland believe all mankind, except the Russians, are Germans; and it is a popular belief with them that Germany extends from Poland westward to the end of the earth.—Here's a discovery ! What will Tom Camp bell say to the enlightened state of the Owskis, Wowskis, and Powskis ?" Their knowledge of geography is paradoxical: it is evklent by the above that it is very limited, yet who at the same time can deny that their ideas extend from "Pole to Pole." They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It de stroys, likewise, magnanimity, and the raising of human nature for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a god, or better nature; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confi dence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon Divine protec tion and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human na ture in itself could not obtain: therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself above human frailty.—Lord Bacon. ANECDOTE OF THE LATE Loan EXMOUTH.—An example of his noble feeling was shewn on the 26th of January, 1796, when, by his great personal exertions, he preserved the crew and passengers of the " Putton" transport, which, crowded with troops and their families, proceeding on the expedition to the West Indies, was driven on the rocks under the citadel at Plymouth. The account of this act of benevolence is given in his own words, when Captain Edward Pellew, in a private letter to a friend :—" Why do you ask me to relate the Wreck of the " Dutton ?" Susan (Lady Exmouth) and I were driving to a dinner party at Plymouth, when we saw crowds running to the Hoe ; and learning it was a wreck, I left the carriage to take her on, and joined the crowd. I saw the loss of the whole five or six hundred was inevitable, without somebody to direct them : for the last officer Was pulled on shore as I reached the surf. 1 urged their return, which was refused; upon which I made the rope fast to myself, and was hauled through the surf on board, established order, and did not leave her until every soul was saved but the boatswain, who would not go before me. I got safe, and so did he, and the ship went to pieces; but I was laid in bed for a week by getting under the main mast (which had fallen towards the shore) ; and my back was cured by Lord Spencer's having conveyed to me by letter His Majesty's intention to dub me a baronet. No more have I to say, except that I felt more pleasure in giving to a mother's arms a dear little infant only three weeks old, than I ever felt in my life ; and both were saved. The struggle she had to entrust me with the bantling was a scene I cannot describe ; nor need you, and consequently you will never let this be visible." It is added by the writer of the memoir, "This injunction has been scrupulously observed, until now that the seal of secrecy is removed by his death."—United Service Journal. LITERATURE. We subjoin an extract from " The History of Europe during the French Revolution, embracing the period from the assembly of the Notables, in 1789, to the es tablishment of the Directory in 1795. By Archibald Al lison, Esq., F. R. S. E." " If there is any one opinion which, more than another, is impressed on the mind by a minute examination of the changes of the French Revolution, it is the irresitible na ture of the current into which men are drawn who commit themselves to the stream of political innovation; and the utter impossibility of the greatest intellect, and the most resolute determination, in those enaged in the contest, avoiding the commission of many crimes, in the stormy scenes to which it rapidly brings them. The Reign of Terror was a period fraught with greater political instruction than any of equal duratina which has ex isted since the begining of the world. In no former period had the efforts of the people so completely triumphed, or the higher orders been so thoroughly crushed by the lower. The Throne bad been overturned, the altar destroyed : the aristocracy levelled with the dust, the nobles were in exile, the clergy in captivity, the gentry in affliction. A merciless sword had waved over the State, destroying alike the dignity of rank, the splen dour of talent, and the graces of beauty. All that excelled the labouring, classes in situation, fortune, or acquirement, had been removed; they had triumphed over their oppressors, seized their possessions, and risen into their stations. And what was the consequence ? The' establishment of a more cruel and revolting tyranny than any which mankind had yet witnessed; the destruction of all the charities and enjoyments of life ; the dreadful spectacle of streams of blood flowing through every part of France. The earliest friends, the warm est advocates, the firmest supporters of the people, were swept off indiscriminately with their bitterest enemies : in the un equal struggle, virtue and philanthropy sunk under ambition and voilence, and society returned to a state of chaos, when all the element. 4 of private or public happiness were scattered to the winds. Such are the results of unchaining the passions of the multitude; such the peril of suddenly admitting the light upon a benighted people. The extent to which blood was shed in France during this melancholy period, will hardly be credited by future ages. The Republican Proudhomme, whose pre possessions led him to any thing rather than an exaggeration of the horrors of the popular party, has given the following appalling accounts of the victims of the Revolution : Nobles Noble women Wives of labourers and artisans . Religieuses Priests -Lk Common persons, not noble . . t scauillotined by sentence of the e, Revolutionary Tribunal . . . . . 18,603 18,603 's• Women died of premature child-birth . . 3,400 r‘ In child-birth from grief 348 e-Women killed in La Vendee D Children A killed in La Vendee v ie en slain in La Vendee 500 ( Childreritims under Carrier at Nantes .. . . 32,000 I Children ? s h ot 5 1 .) Women gildrowned Women droNV A 26 40 50 i.: 1 Priests shot :".:n e ' ? : -. 5 i Priests drowned I Nobles drowned' 1400 Artisans diowneds it. OOO Victims at Lyons ;), . 31,000 1 - 4 Totary , 1,022,351 In this enumeration are nci: prehended the massacres at Versailles, at the Abbey, the tt,,com 2, the victims of the Glaciere t i.,artues, or other prisons on Sept. f Avignon, those shot at Toulon and Marseilles, or the persons i)? lain in the little town of Bedoin, of which the whole population pen! ner remarkable in this dismal cataished. It is in an especial man of the victims of the Revolution wer6ogue, how large a proportion and lower ranks of life. The priesti ''.° and in drill middling only 2,413 while the persons of plebit' and nobles tined are n origin exceed 13,000 ! The nobles and priests put to' death at t .," while the infants drowned and shot are Nantes were only 2,160, and the artisans 5,300! So rapidly in -?-2", the women 764, sions does the career of cruelty reach tht^ revolutionary convul -,1 wide-spread is the carnage dealt out to lower orders, and so that which they have sought to inflict on t 'them, compared with facility with which a faction, composed oPheir superiors. The audacious and reckless of the nation, triun.l6 a few of the most mense majority of their fellow citizens, and i milled over ttie im victims to the sacrifice, is not the least extram - -ed them forth like able part of that eventful period. The bloody -dinary or memor never exceeded a few hundred men • their talc. faction at Paris means of the highest order, nor their weight pets were by no siderable ; vet they trampled under foot all -,..ii society con classes, ruled mighty armies with absolute sway, :`he influential of their fellow-citizens in captivity, and daily led kept` 'MOW hundred persons, of the best blood in France, to e.:tie. - .9v e ral Such is the effect of the unity of action which atrocious wickej" i ness produCes; such the ascendancy which in periods of at archy is acquired by the most savage and lawless of e people." SLAVERY IN INDIA. We beg to call the attention of our readers to the following interesting extract of a letter from a gentleman stationed at "Camp Ellichapoor," (India,) to his uncle in Edinburgh, dated the "'24th October, 1832," and received the 9th April, 1833 : "No people in the world, I imagine, live upon less or lighter food than the inhabitants of this part of the country, but this does not save them from the sharp sufferings of famine_ and a smaller quantity of rain than usually falls during the Monsoon will frequently produce great misery. Along the coast on the south-west of Calcutta, it is said many have died from want of food, and the scarcity is so great all around the country where I am situated, that the commandinc , officer issued an order lately, ` prohibiting people from purchasinge children, however anxious their parents might be to dispose of them as slaves. Slavery . is not unknown in this country. Generally speaking, a slave is a favoured domestic of his master; but they are often bought and kept by bands of dancing girls ; and slaves belong ing to these people are very young females, who are trained and matured in every vicious practice.' " We were surprised by a proclamation about two weeks ago from the Mahratta Rajah of Gwalier, setting free of all slaves, and denouncing slavery " I dare say you have heard of Mr. Wolf, the Jewish Mis sionary, who, after being robbed in Persia, made his appearance in the north-west of India, and issued congratulatory and fare well addresses to us all. He has turned his course towards the mountains of Thibet, but consoled us with the assurance that the Millenium will commence in 1848. "Thus it appears that free servants in India may be beaten at pleasure, and even to the death ; for there is no law to pre vent it or to punish offenders ! Slaves, on the other hand, who are of some value—representing at least the purchase-money that was given for them —are, on this account, as well as from motives of humanity and attachment (to which - the writer of the letter evidently attributes it), likely to be a more favoured class of domestics with their masters. What do our over-sensitive East Indians, connected with the Anti-slavery Society, say to this ? or with what consistency can they reprobate a state of things in the West, which exists also in the East—however ig norant they may be of the fact, or however loth to confess it — and that, too, accompanied with crimes of the deepest die, even murder itself, which no law has been framed to prevent ? Will it be denied that in India multitudes of the natives are con stantly hired and employed on the Lord's ,day, just as they are on other days of the week, to labour at the public works, under the superintendence of British officers? The most intelligent of them have acknowledged it to be a common practice, and, what is more, have attempted to defend it. And on what prin ciple ? Why, that the natives are Heathens—strangers to Christianity and its institutions—that Sunday is no holiday with them—that their own religion prescribes the observance of so many holidays—that if the Christian Sabbath were super added to them, they could not earn a subsistence, and must starve ;—that for these reasons, it would be the height of inhu manity and cruelty to insist on their observance of this divine institution, until they shall have become Christians ! Leaving this argument as we found it, we would simply ask, how would the man be treated by our Anti-slavery demagogues, who should dare to apply any part of it to the 170,000 out of the entire slave population of Jamaica, who are still Heathens, and who, because they are Heathens, choose to work their grounds for the sake of profit on the Lord's day ? But we beg pardon: with certain persons of fastidious tastes, " sauce for the goose is nu longer sauce for the gander." STEAM-BOAT PADDLES.—We have been highly gratified during the week by the inspection of a model of improved steam-boat paddles, invented by Mr. 'l'. Grant, the originator of the application of steam, and of the machinery now in use, in the biscuit-baking . department of the Victualling Establish ment at Weovil. It is well-known to all who have ever given a thought to the subject of steam navigation, that, from the peculiar manner in which the floats enter and emerge from the water, according to the common construction, a very large pro portion of the whole power of the engine is neutralized and consumed in raisin and depressing the vessel, the remainder only being available in impelling the vessel forward. Thus, the float on entering the water, presents a flat surface, its angle varying between that point until it arrives at its deepest im mersion. Now, it must be quite clear that, when the float enters, its whole force is employed in lifting the vessel out of the water, and it only becomes available in gibing the required impulse to the vessel, in exact proportion as the float approaches a vertical position, at which precise point, and then only, does each float in its turn employ its whore force in impelling the vessel. Having passed the point of lowest immersion, the action of the float is the reverse of the foregoing, its available force decreasing in exact proportion as the float approaches a horizontal position, at which point its whole force is employed in depressing the vessel into the water. It is clear, therefore , from the foregoing, that each float, both on entering and emerging from the water, impedes, instead of assisting, the progress of the vessel, and that, while it only exerts its whole force in giving a horizontal impulse to the vessel once in every revolution, its whole force is employed in giving a disadvantage ous impulse to it twice during the same time, and we believe we are keeping within bounds when we estimate the actual amount of force lost in this manner at one-third of the whole power of the engine at least Under these circumstances it is not to be wondered at that the efforts of the mechanic should have been directed particularly to this point, and that various means should have been suggested and tried for the purpose of remedy ing so great a defect. Iu these attempts the inventors have all, more or less, adopted the same general principle as the foundation of their experiments, namely, that of causing the floats to maintain a vertical position during the whole revolu tion. Various contrivances have been resorted to for the accomplishment of this desirable object, some of which we haVe already noticed in the Herald; but the great objection which we have felt to these modifications has been, that the machinery introduced has been in some cases extremely complicated, while in others it has been attended with a vast increase of weight and friction, so that the advantage professed to be gained has been neutralized by a disadvantage, nearly, if not entirely, of equal magnitude. We would particularly have it understood that this is merely our own opinion, and by no means to be taken as law. The invention of Mr. Grant, to which we alluded in the commencement of this article, is so simple in its construction and operation, that a single view, without any explanation, is sufficient to raise a conviction of its efficiency. It consists of two three-throw crank-shafts, project ing horizontally from the side of the vessel, about five feet above the surface of the water, and which are driven by a wheel and pinion, or by a centre and two spur wheels. The paddles or floats are suspended from the foremast crank-shaft, one from each crank, and the floats are kept in a vertical position, during the whole revolution, by being attached to rods which connect them to the other crank-shaft. Independently of the advantage which is thus derived from the uniform position of the float boards, there are other advantages which arise from this con struction, such as the facility of disengaging the paddles when the vessel is making a fair-wind passage, and the non-necessity of the present paddle box, which would enable a vessel of war, thus fitted, to fight her guns at any angle, over all, without interfering at all with the machinery or the paddles. The model which we have seen is made to a scale, and the three floats present a surface of thirty stiperficial feet ou each side of the vessel, and, from the time of their taking the water to the time of their leaving it, they each describe a semicircle of four feet diameter. The velocity proposed to be given to the paddles is from sixty to eighty revolutions per minute, the speed of course to be determined by circumstances. The machinery altogether is as strong, and as simple, less cumbrous, and more compact, than any now in use (which has come under our observation,) and we need hardly add, after what we have already said,lar more effective. We think highly of the inven . tion altogether, and hope sincerely that a trial will shortly be given to it—Portsmouth Herald. DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN RELlC.—Monday, as the workmen were engaged in removing some old buildings in the Mint-yard, York (where it is intended io form the new street from Blake street to Bootham-bar), they came to a flat stone about three feet long and two feet broad, which, on removing, displayed on the under side a Roman inscription, every letter of which was perfect, and surrounded by curious carving in equal preserva tion : DEO SANCTO SERAPI TEMPLVM ASO LO FECIT CL HERONY MIANVS LEG LEG VI VICT. The inscription may be thus trans lated—" This temple, sacred to the God Serapis, was erected (a Solo) from the ground by Claudius Hieronypianus, legate or Lieutenant of the Sixth Conquering Legion." ' This curious piece of ancient sculpture is supposed, from the inscription, to be nearly 1,700 years old. It is at present deposited in one of the rooms at the Guildhall.—York Paper. A MovE AMONG " THE MEMBERS."—It was noticed that when Mr. Romilly brought forward his " Payment of Debts' Bill" on Friday evening* in the House, several members be trayed an instinctive dislike to listen to any act bearing so ominous and disagreeable a title. Amongst those who moved f St. Stephen's on the occasion, the Agitator's " tail" • a body—Fergus O'Connor leading the van, and the -ober for Cork in the rear, evidently desirous to get xay of being obliged to listen to sounds " so faini io unpleasant to his ear. Really, Mr. Romilly should some consideration for the Hon. Gentlemen, and have iota " Parliamentary" name to his measnre.—Auu. THE LONDON ritEss. (FROM THE GUARDIAN.) Mr. Robert Grant introdUced the following to. the House of Commons :—" That it is Or move the civil disabilities at present existing ‘, Majesty's subjects of the Jewish religion , 11 / 1 1 , exceptions as are provided with reference to b.ls_on• subjects professing the Roman Catholic re li g i The precedent which Mr. Grant refers to lowed to be very auspicious. If the same resuY J be expected from the emancipation of the e' followed the emancipation of the Roman C' think that no one would be found insane Cu' commend it. Mr. Grant urged the ordinary topics in beb,l a measure, that the Jews were good subjec t* . ti l , share of the taxes, &c., and that it was tote them out of the benefits of the constitution. little attention to the religious part of «•9 and none whatever to the principles of the Je selves. It is true, indeed, that he cited the to the Sanhedrim assembled by order of Botiorr. ris, but he forgot to state that that body W as servile instrument in the hand of the Ern' trembling rabbis congregated in Paris no sented the Jews, than the crouching senate the people of France. They were called tog , what the Emperor chose, and of course they mandate. Besides, what civil rights had al or Gentile, under the iron tyranny of Nai Grant referred also to the Jews in Prussia , was not more fortunate. If he were acqual state of Prussia, he would have known t the lence of the Jews in that country is consit: of the greatest misfortunes of the kingdom. there not looked upon as Mr. Grant would suade us they are, as belonging to Prussia Germany, but as a distinct nation. But evel cede to Mr. Grant that the examples of im and Prussia are completely in his favour, practice of despotic states, in which the legisA exist, and where everything depends on the monarch, apply to such a constitution as of parte, we are sure, never thought of putting his senates, or advancing one to the m agist we suppose that an instance of the kind eon i in Prussia. In short, there is no analogy cases of such governments and that of Great. Sir Robert Inglis truly observed, that the whether Christianity was or was not to cond. parcel of the law of England, and contended mission of the Jews to legislative power the negative. The very form by which t emancipated is not far from a rejection of In order that they may obtain seats in the • necessary to alter the oath now taken by the and what is the alteration ? Nothing more the deliberate omission of the words "on Christian,"—and a legislature calling itself now about solemnly to reject the avowal 0 ' Christ. We have been making rapid prop; years to such a rejection, and the present no' to be the final and formal act of renunciation. The gaudy sophistries of Mr. Macaulay, intelligible expression of contempt for a e . avowal of religion expressed by Mr. Hutne , Mr. Macaulay, in fact, did little more than most totidem verbis, the speech he made th on the same subject; and it does not mend °° tition. None of the supporters of the mot' notice of what the feelings of the conscienti i with respect to it. We can tell them, as Al them some years ago in the Standard, that' merges his own peculiar nationality in that, pie among whom he resides, casts off his fait' clings' to his creed because he daily exr" daily prays for, the coming of the Messiah, to whom alone his allegiance is due : and vent he remains in a state of captivity. If believe that he is in such a state this m orale true Israelite. He gives up the faith that is out adopting any in its stead. That there Jews as well as trading Christians, who care , i the creed which they profess, we are well asc', do not think that they are a class for whosee are called upon to enact favouring laws. 1 4 0 tious Jew will not be " emancipated ;" he No' v , birthright for so poor a mess of pottage as i; 46 him. The very reluctance to admitprose'Y umphantly referred to by Mr. Macaulay last I'd from the desire of keeping the House of r 3 O l with the blood of the Gentile. If Mr. Ala isc d anything of the lore of the peOple whose cal" t ) he was advocating, he would have known 0 1' '1 bis declare " a proselyte to be a scab on Israe.cil because they do not think him worthy of par ts honours of the kingdom to which they look. tie° In a political point of view, the emanciPa -30,000 people, generally of a poor and insieol cannot be attended with any danger; but al t # the senate, and all homage to the religion ° which is at least nominally offered at pre s done away with. Outwardly, the position of the ministry wO IIIA ?I 1 been strengthened. Mr. Ellice has achieve' f i , l of a re-election for Coventry by a majority °Ol hundred over Mr. Thomas, whom he bea t, in Kentucky, "to immortal smash," at tb e ,r.e tion, having at that period a majority of "`Di one. Mr. Stanley has also been replaced o t e North Lancashire.—The latter supplies o,° t , lie feeling as to the Greys, because Mr. sonal merits were backed by immense fa ng "f and he met no opponent in the field. Al .;, a d have been beaten if the day of election Week later. As it is, however, the issue 1 1 of the Ministry, and much good may it d%V has been achieved by a man who refuses t 0 tat, his brother-in-law's Cabinet on the groued i i neral policy of that Cabinet is unworthy e` —But let no admirer of the Whigs delud e the idea that Cabinet difficulties are at a 1 0 1 , 1 Goderich has got the privy seal, the Earl e and is understood to have received a pron lls t i vacant Garter ; pretty tolerable " compen s , competency and a ready turn-out; but °th e w soon be announced. Lord Althorp mus%e as soon as a successor can be found. ground for believing that Lord Broughaind! labour in vain during the recess.—Le e ' ' ter. t!" A notorious offender, named Michael Sl', long, been the terror of the district in Is'lltcoe was, after a series of accusations and est i i, convicted upon the clearest testimony of and robbery of arms, and was accordinVA transportation for life. One of those nle ° from houSetn house at the point of a pil' e ',o° ately got up, and "transmitted to Lord straightway—and as a preliminary gel' , t o down an order commuting his punishlueottaile imprisonment ! Our correspondent has de 0?1 of the circumstances of this extraordine r Y,,' of just and honest indignation at the err ii i- 6 , tised towards those engaged in bringing `• ,1 justice, but in form and language to lc give insertion in our columns.—Dub/in Caw ! '7ll, '~ f lee ~~ot . 1 ;1 , [ l t' l3 l, l oLik '4 l k Ok%' l ,t 1 ! 1° M, to s ss, rinc r r es , °lill()tr i , xpet'dien6 t;.; o. a ir e otir r 1 , u P w ith th2i to big ? t i lt: 11 lig ion. ,ii to ro ust ' i ' t 1 .“: ii I e rest „, , , „ a T „ w s oi . , ‘l.l . 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