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-\roVE:NiBER 13, 1855.] it Was more sincere. Fanaticism is the force of revolutions. Marat was the fanatic AeOple : the people were not long in becoming ics of 3larat. His style--uncultured, savage, bloodanding in vulgar images, derived from tears yet softened by passionate and earnest 'lons on social iniquities and on the scantiness was as the sigh of a woman when it the unfortunate, but as the growl of a li on it turned against the happy. He made himself, a representative of public calamities. MANUFACTURES.—AII the invention of our :ers can never produce the exquisite combi of form and colour displayed in the tissues of India. And to do ourselves justice we give credit for what is their own, and do not adopt Ihiserable getting-up-behind system of Austria. 'ate conservatism of British India, like nature in be autiful of the spring -time, continues to reproduce ue autiful structures of thousands of years ago ; for cd and simple reason, that perfection having long ago attained, there is no room for progress : "tempts at improvement must be retrogressive 3 tructive. It is the very poetry of manufacture; is so, because in its prodigious industry it em holiness of antiquity. Taste, with the most Western nations, even with Italy and France, of culture and education ; in India it seems thing which men imbibe with the milk of their mothers. How often does the barrenness of bet with us take refuge in puritanism of pattern, whether in dress, equipages, or house tan ; while in India the most gorgeous hues tly materials are resorted to daringly and un and no error in taste is ever committed. ot t „, \ same praise may be given to the productions c` Egypt, Tunis, and Turkey, which also par '. Ithe Oriental character. In China this conser of taste is seen in its exaggeration, and frozen absurdity.--- Blackwood's 3fagazine. v. CORDELIA.—The evening was so bewitch beautiful, that I sallied forth to enjoy it, some alone, more solito ; and yet not alone, ,my pocket I took a volume of Shakespeare. had I seated myself in the silent grass-grown representing the keep of the castle, before her appearance with the long-desired volume lureate's last—" Maud." When she had left read it—beginning with the respectful and eager in which one or two exquisite performances might well inspire in even the most exacting Odious—right through. . . . . So, with I took out the volume of Shakespeare which I ,ht with me, determined to commence " King Which I had not read for many years. Oh, don't Sat an old contributor has grown young enough 43 m' you at this time of day—at least of the even a critique of that magnificent play, whose and immortal author has the humblest hom y heart and intellect, would they were worthier ;ring it ! In his inspiring presence even little ems to swell into bigger proportions ; but really begin s one shall never end, so be it understood With one line, when I had got down to it, the evening falling deeper and deeper around me, I the volume, and in the recollection of that rich -fely line have revelled ever since. It occurs in 'may. first scene, where, while her two false-hearted flattering their royal old father, who has --. each of the three to tell him which loves him Says Cordelia, aside, the first intimation she has Of her presence—" What shall Cordelia do? be silent !" Oh, Shakespeare ! and so will Jkwood's Magazine. .4STOPHER COLUMBUS.—The time of Columbus ! Picturesque and various are the scenes, how noble' Individual the characters which this name presents Perhaps—it is possible—the national character as little elevated then as now, could we behold it th e same familiar eye. Perhaps the Cid himself garlic and onions, and was not over particular the complexion of his linen; but we cannot speak deg, of them agnificent Spaniard of the elder 8, grand, `Ave painted,ihim, sohlbre, and lofty as tradition and poetry w ftderful n nor ever lose the charm of that out of enterprise, adventure, and con ,khowliwwiuji revealed to the old' universe in its un hero of all, another world. 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Perha ?fr; il th aS little i rif! irkedthe sam o t 44, 514 garlic .;?.. t o „, the co , 'A , quellltAttou SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. continent loomed through the haze of those troublous seas, but to whose surpassing soul this consciousness of something vast and noble to be found was the real inspiration, must ever remain one of the greatest figures in the shifting panorama of history ; at once a seaman:and a paladin, the most pursuivant of great dreamers, a good sailor, and a true knight. The cum brous and antique ship upon those undiscovered waters, the turbulent crew, mutinous, selfish, undevoted ; the tedium of those long strange bright days with nothing but the wide glisteninc , sea and the un'broken curve of the horizon line, to dismay the dull hearts which had no prescience of what awaited them ; and in the midst of all, the one steadfast single man looking out for his grand object, unsupported, unsolaced, undismayed. What a noble picture it is ! not of genius dominant and worshipped, or of a natural ruler of his fellows, leading them where he would, at the coercion of his own superior will. Columbus, hero as he was, was no king. In this rude company on shipboard, the leader is no coercive potentate ; you can fancy him the most humble of all, acknowledging the justice of their com plaints against him, arguing their very cause to him self. How hard it is for them to consent that their lives and fortunes should be put upon the hazard for nothing better than this faith that is in him. And so he stands apart upon his narrow deck, through those last days of hope. If they compel him back, his foot will scarce have touched the shore ere he is busy with plans to set out again ; and all this time his eager eye strains out upon these wide, wide shining, hopeless lines of light, nothing but sky and sea, to answer that faith and prayer, and passionate craving in his heart. Yes, it is something against our modern theories of the highest human excellence, but this wonderful pioneer of all subsequent researches—this first Christian knight-errant into an undiscovered universe—does not seem to have possessed the kingly gift of government. His sailors had no natural instinct of dependence and subordination so far as he was concerned ; and while they were busy with their talk and their plottings, lying in the sun, warming their discontent into rebel lion, pulling at sail and rope with no heart in the hope less work, jeering at his abstracted eye as he gazes afar into the vacant heavens, there is nothing for this man to do but to watch, to stand upon his post night and day, and wait for what God will show him. And it is not to those sullen shipmates (dull souls) that God does show the varying colour of the great sea-margin, the broken boughs afloat upon the wave, the glimmering twilight shadow between the sun and sky. But which heart among us has not leaped, one time or other, in sympathy with that great pang of joy which forestalled the wondering shout of Land !' to Christopher Columbus, when at last his guide and leader slowly revealed to him out of the heavens the grand new hemisphere found, discovered, won for God and for Spain.---Blackwood's Magazine. Do YOUR WILL, OR MAKE YOUR WILL.—It is best, whenever practicable, as in most instances it is, that men should be their own executors—that while the time of their stewardship lasts, they should them selves devote whatever portion of their fortunes they deem proper to pious and charitable purposes. If God have enabled them to found, or endow, or assist in endowing, a hospital—an orphan's home—a widow's asylum —or any other agency of good to the bodies and souls of their fellow-beings, let them do the work themselves ; while, by God's mercy they still have the custody of the means, and are laden with the responsi bility of their use, and may themselves enjoy the luxury of doing good—and show the world the in structive spectacle of Christians employing means in their hands, not about to pass for ever from their hands, in works of piety and charity. What in fluences, e.g., might not be expected to go forth from the spectacle of a Christian engaged in erecting a home for orphans, or a parsonage for his own or some feebler parish, spending his money as freely, and manifesting as lively an interest in the matter as though he were building a home for himself P It would almost seem from the fact that such a course is the rare exception, rather than the general rule, that Christians felt themselves encouraged to the post mortem exercise of charity and benevolence, by the rubric in the order for the visitation of the sick, in the Book of Common Prayer :—" Let him then be admonished to make hi s will ;"---not considering the previous clause, which clearly implies an approbation of men's doing good themselves, while they have op portunity, as the most excellent way, " .A.FD IF HE , 173 HATH NOT BEFORE DISPOSED OF HIS GOODS, let him then be admonished to make his will." According to a late notice in the Banner, of the present l aw o f Pennsylvania, on the subject of bequests to religious uses, then" will, probably, in almost all cases be too late ; for the deed or will must be executed, at tested by two creditable, and, at the same time, dis interested, witnesses, at least one calendar month before the death of the testator or alienor. Let any one who has purposes of piety and charity in his heart, beware lest he defeat their execution for him, by others, after his death, by too long a postponement of making his will. And let every steward of God con sider whether he may not, and should not, even before death " is only a month off," dispose of his goods, to God's glory, and the benefit of the needy and suffer ing. —Banner of the Cross. ,GEORGE lII.—He had many qualities that became a sovereign—temperance, regularity, and industry; decorus manners, and unaffected piety, frugality in his personal expense, so that his pleasures laid no burden on his people ; a moderation which made him averse to wars of conquest ; courage which dared to assume responsibility, and could even contemplate death se renely ; a fortitude that met accumulated dangers without flinching, and rose with adversity. But his mind was bigoted, morbidly impatient of being ruled, and yet himself incapable of reconciling the demands of civilisation with the establishments of the past. He was the great founder and head of the new Tory or Conservative party, which had become dominant through his support. To that cause all his instincts were blindedly true ; ss that throughout his career he was consistent in his zeal for authority, his hatred of reform, and his antipathy to philosophical freedom of inquiry and to popular power, on these points he was inflexibly obstinate and undisguised ; nor could he be justly censured for dissimulation, except for that disin genousness which studies the secret characters of men in order to use them as its instrument. No one could tell whether the king really liked him. He could flatter, cajole, and humour, or frown and threaten; he could conceal the sense of injuries and forget good ser vice ; bribe the corrupt by favours, or terrify desert ers by punishment, In bestowing rewards, it was his rule-as far as possible, to preserve the dependance of his favourites by making none but revocable grants and he required of his friends an implicit obedience. He was willing to govern through parliament, yet did not conceal his residence to stand by his ministers, even though they should find themselves in a minority ; and was sure that one day the government must dis regard majorities. With a strong physical frame, he had also a nervous susceptibility which made him ra pid in his utterance and so impatient of contradiction that he never could bear the presence of a minister who resolutely differed from him, and was easily thrown into a state of high excitement, bordering upon madness. Anger, which Chatham into a seer, pouring floods of light upon his (mind, and quickening his dis cernment, served only to cloud ordisturb the mind of George 111., so that he could not hide his thoughts from those about him, and. if using his pen, could neither spell correctly or write coherently. Hence the proud unbending Grenville was his aversion; and his years with the compliant Lord North, though full of public disasters, were the hapiest of his life. Conscious of his devotion to the cause of legitimate authority, and viewing with complacency his own correctness of morals, he identified himself with the cause which he venerated. His eye did not rest on colonial liberty or a people struggling towards more intelligence and happiness ; the crown was to him the emblem of all rightful power. He had the worst quality of evil, that he, as it were, adored himself; and regarded opposi tion to his designs as an offence against integrity and patriotism.—Baneroft's History of the American Revolution, Vol. 111. VARIETIES. QUACK doctors are considered drivers of the last stage" of disease. HERE are two faces under one hat," as the young lady remarked when her lover was kissing her. IT is remarkable that while in England all fair weather is callad " Queen's weather," yet in France she is called La .Reine ? How TO BEAR MISFORTIINE.—When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped,---Dr. Johnson.