The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-13 00:00:00

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 law of
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.