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visions of the Test Act. The Ministry, it will be I
remembered, were defeated by a bare majority of
183 to 182. Lord Middleton, Secretary of State,
took severely to task some dependants of the
Court who had failed to support his Majesty's
Ministers, and turning to Captain Kendal sternly
demanded if he did not command a troop of
horse in his Majesty's service. " Yes, my lord,"
replied the " bold dragoon ;" " but my brother
" died last night and left me 7001. a year." The
hint may be useful to indolent electors, and
equally indolent but more culpable members, at
the present day. _ _

2. The Lecture on Texas is simply a closely-
condensed abridgment of the guide-book, and
contains the pith and essence of the latter. The
following extract furnishes a moral which married
men generally will do well to lay to heart. The
lecturer has just been insisting on the necessity
of providing in the first instance, before every-
thing else, for the comfort of the female portion
of the household, and thus illustrates the ad-
vantages of acting on this excellent advice :

If you do not attend to this advice, you may be placed
in a predicament similar to that of a Scottish friend of
mine who bad settled upon the extreme frontier, and who,
in consequence of his over•anxiety to get in a large crop,
had neglected to furnish his wife with the comforts that he
ought to have provided, and among other things had for-
gotten to drive up a few cows, enough to supply the family
with milk and butter. It chanced that a countryman of
his, while passing through Texas, looking for a suitable
locality t 3 settle in, thought he would pass the evening
with his al Scottish friends. He was most cordially re- ,
ceived by both Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, and the time
passed very agreeably, talking of old scenes and olden
times, until they were all seated round the frugal supper-
table. Now, it had always been the custom of good Mrs.
Thompson, at her old home in Ayrshire, to treat her visitors
to the richest cream, the sweetest of butter, excellently-
prepared broiled chicken, pickles and preserves, served up
in her neatly-furnished room. The absence of all these,
and the mortification of having only corn dodgers, salt fried
bacon, and coffee without milk, together with the sparsely-
furnished apartment, were sources of great annoyance to
Mrs- Thompson ; and when her visitor inquired how she
liked Texas, she, not being in the most amiable humour,
answered, " Lor, man, Texas is an awfu' fine kintra, a brave
and bonnie kintra, nee doot,—a vera fine kintra for men
and hogs ; but for women and oxen it is the vera de'il." It
is, however, but justice to Mrs. Thompson to state that,
before a single year had rolled around, our friend, being on
a visit to the Thompson, jokingly inquired of her if she
had altered her opinion respecting Texas, when she
smilingly replied, "'Deed that ha'e 1: Sandie has made a
thorough•gaun convairt o' me, an' I'm sore I'm mak enthn•
siastic shoot Texas this day than ever he was." On repair-
ing to the neatly-furnished room for the evening meal, the
guest soon found out the cause of this great change in her
opinions. The supper•table now piesented in great abun-
dance the broiled chickens, the rich cream, the fresh
butter, the pickles, the preserves, and the numerous little
etceteras with which the thrifty housewife had been accus-
tomed to grace her table in Anld Scotia. Thus it will be
seen how importai.t it is fur a man to attend to the little
details which contribute so much toward making home
comfortable.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
BOOKS. _ _

The Laird of Notiato. BJ the Author of "Margaret
Maitland."—Hunt and Blacked.
The War Tiger. By William Dalton.—Griffith and

Ferran.
Light for the Youth of Life frogs the Holy Scriptures,
Designed by Simnel Stanesby.—Griftith and Farina.
The Ministry of Life. By Maria Louisa Charlesworth.—

Seelays.
The Two Brides; or, the French Chateau and The English
Horne. By F. Baldwen.—J. Blackwood.
Eric. By Frederic W. Farrar.—Black.
The Ethics of Aristotle. Illustrated with Essays and Notes
by Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., M.A. Three Vols. Vol.
lI.—J. W. Parker and Son.
The Nature and Purpose a/ God as Itereakd in the Apocalypse.

Part 111.
lonica.—Smitb, Elder, and Co.
Poems. By Henry Ceoil.—Smitb, Elder, and Co.
Poems. By Ada Trevanion.—Smitb, Eldei, and Co.
Apostolic Minions; or, the Sacred History. By the Rev,
J. H. Barker, M.A.—Groombridge.

PAMPHLETS.
Scinde Railway.—Allen and Co.
Opinion of the Bishop of St. And►ew's on (he Appeal of the
Rev. P. Cheyne.—Bleckwoode.
Us Mkt sue Uncle as Parkment Anglais.—Jeffe.

PERIODICALS.
The ►.ondon University Magazine.—Hall and Virtue.
The Ladies' Treasury.—Ward and Lock.
The Farm Labourer.—Hall and Virtue.
The Comprehensive History of England.—Parts XIII. and
XlV.—Blackie and Son.

MUSIC.
Trois Maladies pour le Piano. Composees by H. J. Arnold

Hennes.—lkon and Co.
Don Pasquak ; La Serenade. By Arnold Hennen.—Lon
and Co.
One Hundred Voluntaries, Preludes, Interludes, 1-e.—

I)svidson.
Hark, Hark, what News the Angels Bring. —Davidson.
Now Heaven in Fosllest Glory:Davidson.