The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-07 00:00:00

doar and go in eoarseice u•
to go in. Read the Word of God, and tell me further
whether the minister of religion—call him prophet, teacher,
or by any name the most appropriate for him—tell me,
having searched the book, whether there is one province
of a Minister's duty more distinctly, unequivocally, and
emphatically enjoined upon him to discharge than another?
I don't say there is. I say a Minister's duty is whole and
undivided—that he ought to give to each a portion of
wheat in due season. I don't think there is one duty
greater than another—or one attribute of God holier than
another. The opinion that there is, may arise from ig-
norance and prejudice, vanity and pride. I don't hold
that—but if there should be in your estimation, one part
of a Minister's duty more emphatically pointed out than
another, is it not that he should reprove sin where he finds
it, and that he should reprove sin especially where sin has
lodged itself, and where sin thinks it has a strong hold, and
out of which it cannot be driven ? where the devil has be-
gotten himself to the fastnesses of power, there the minister
of religion, like a true soldier of Jesus Christ, is to place.
himself, and with his own arm to tear down the vaunting
flag that floats from the bulwarks of oppression and deceit.
Though he should leave his lifeless body there, be is to lead
on, he is to harken forward the hosts of the Lord, in order
to pull down them that sit aloft, and who from that vantage
ground.mock the suffering and the defenceless people of
God. The weapons of our warfare are not indeed carnal,
but spiritual, mighty.- through God when rightly wielded,
when rightly worked, when persevered in, to the pull-
ing down of strongholds, to the trampling under feet
of sin and Satan, whether in the shape of princi-
palities and powers, or of spiritual wickedness in
high places. I have not time this afternoon to
Particularise. If begun at an, it would lead ,me
to an enumeration of every single precept and every
single passage that I have found recorded in the
word of God, from Genesis to Revelations, where the Al-
inighty has communicated his will and given his messages
to his servants the priests. How often do you read in this
book, of God telling his priests to go to the poor—to the
low—to the vile—to the wretched—to the helpless—to the
defenceless—the filth, the scum, and the off-eeourings of
mankind—to pour out on their heads the phial of God's
indignation say, how often do you find God's message
to his priests to that effect? Not very often. But how
often do you find God bidding his priests go to the
princes and the elders, and to the rulers—how often
do you read of God saying, Go now to this King
and to that Court—go now to this Council, and to
that confederacy—go now to this class, and to that
order—whether of High Priests, or of Rulers, or of the
Elders, or of the Shepherds, or of the 'Priests of the
People—and prophecy against them the Princes of Sodom,
the Rulers of Gommorrah—the Priests profligate in their
abandonment of the word of God, and the Rulers profligate
in the usurpation of the power of God—a corrupt priest-
hood joining hands with a profligate Prince, and thus, hand
in hand, arm in arm, and foot to foot, marching onward, com-
mitting devastation, and makingravages of the chosen heri-
tage of God ? How are those men to be met ? How are these
wicked Rulers to be met ? How are these Priests of the
land and Elders to be met? If they are to be met by force, I
cannot help it. If they are to be met by force, from
whence is that force to come ? If they are to be
met by the sword, who is to wield it ? They are to be met.
--(Several voices " They are.") That is clear, they must
be met—that is certain—or God is to allow oppression, and
deceit, and robbery, and fraud, and rapine, and cruelty, and
murder, and every species of tyranny, to ride and lord it
over his heritage, which would be a libel on religion.—
(Cries of "It would.") It would be blasphemy against the
attributes of God—but he will not, allow it to continue.
The wickedness of the wicked is to brought to an end, and
is to be met and watched, and to be overthrown. I ask
by whom, and in what way ?—.(Two or three voices
" Aye.") The only way that any good man would
wish—
that any good man would choose—that any man would
advise and recommend, so long as there was any
chance, any hope of its being effectual, and that
way is for the priests of the Most High God to come
forward and discharge the duty of their office, and on the
floor of the Senate House—in the camp of the armies—in
the court if Princes—in the midst of the Rulers and the
Elders, to say -unto them " the mouth of the Lord bath
spOken it." Let the handwriting be written on the wall—
let the Daniel conic to judgment, the prophet of the Lord,
and the interpreter of Ins unfolder of his counsel
—the denunciator of his vengeance, the proclaimer of his
Providence and his grace—let the Daniel come forward
and write on the wall—on the wall of the guilty land—on
the wall of our guilty Senators—upon the wall of our
guilty Court—upon the wall of our guilty palaces—of
our mansions, as well as of our cottages, and much
More than our cottages • let the Daniel write "
em_einaen tekel " they are weighed in the
ce, and are found wanting. If ever there was a guilty
hand—if ever there was a sinful nation, it is England, the
People of England as a whole. The description which the
prophet Isaiah gave of his own country it true of another
" The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
From the sole of the foot even unto the bead there is no
so soundness in it'; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying-
, r s." That's true of England ; and if you read that
chapter,.e the Ist of Isaiah, you will find what the pro-
pott, i
his
means by this figurative and pictorial representation
s country. You will find that their hands were full of
blood, just as the hands of our guilty great men are at this
day—(
Hear bear) ust as the hands of those who have
robbed the Poor Lt-j —hOse who have trampled under foot the
antt.l ess, and who have plucked the child from the breast,
who have trodden the widow's house to dust —just as
the d
hands of those who have kept back the wages of their
lorkl,
re ea by fraud—just as the bands of those who have re-
used to give unto their servants that which is just and
Jual—just as their hands are thus defiled with blood, so
andwere the hands of the people of whom the prophet spoke ;
if God is always the same God and unchangeable—if his
works are one—if his ways are one—if his word be one—
il hi
alwill be one—if he inflict a like punishment to a like
Jews
why then, the judgments, which God inflicted on the
uevvs of that period, will most inevitably be inflicted on the
People of England at this period, unless by constitutional
lPentance we proceed to a national regeneration ; and
through national regeneration, God being merciful, obtain
roTiveness and reconciliation. I pray God togrant the latter
"'l_ pray God grant the latter. lam striving what little I
ca lto bring about the latter. God will not have us die.
God wills not that his children should die. " Who am I?
the house of Israel. As .I live, I will not the death of a
!Inner, and if not of a single sinner, not of a nation of sin-
piers, but rather that they all repent and return to Him and
eve But, my brethren, if these evils are to be averted,
'lle Clergy must blow the blast—they must sound it abroad
izthe trumpet must blow from one end to the other of the
" Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make his
Path straight." Every valley shall be exalted, every moun-
tain and hill shall be brought down—the crooked shall be
tu
elade straight, and the rough places be made smooth ; and
• ns the way shall be prepared for the Lord. If the
Whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint—if from the
!tile of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness
,1"le:1" it, but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores"—if
national disease be spread through the national Consti-
utinne then the national healing can only be brought
about by the' application of remedies to the entire poll,
tical body of the country, and every man should do
what he can to bring this to pass—but the clergy
above all others. Go again to the Book of God, and
look thoroughly, and, after you have looked, tell me whe-
ther you bare found a man from the beginning to the end
from Moses, a man after God, who sent him florn the
wilderness of Midian to thee Court of Pharaoh, down
through the lapse of ages to John in the solitude of Patmos
--tell me, if limn Moses to John, not leaving out Ema-
%tie], God, who is the Son of God, man—can you find, one
of these worthies who was not, in the strictest sense of the
Jerr, a political teacher—a teacher of the political rights
®f the' people, and an instructor of political truths—a
denouncer of God's anger on men politically wicked, and
of God's favour in regard to men politically good ? When
To
came from Midian to Egypt, what did he come for ?
preach deliverance. Of what kind ? Deliverance to
-theb captive--to the bodily captive and the politically
"d• He came to set a nation free whom Pharaoh held
bondage, and what was that bondage ? Too much work
--at least we are told so. That is the only account we have
of it. The bondage was being ground downand burdened with
too
much work, having task-masters put over them and their
burdens increased while their remuneration was diminished
and their happiness consequently encroached upon, their
rights
infringed upon, their privileges withheld, and their po-
liticalindependence destroyed. God came to set them
free from the bondage of Pharaoh and thbse men who had
Passed a law that every male child should be strangled at
its birth, and another that the mothers should throw their
'OWn children into the streams, and destroy them, to prevent
hem from increasing. That was a practical bondage—that
free
as a practical political bondage that Moses was sent tn
l them from. He had God's staff put into his hand, and
die Commanded with that staff, and when he touched the
,eu,st a the' earth it became lice in men and in beast, and
",flen. he touched the borders of the earth they came forth
abundantly ; and he brought locusts out of the land, and
all the destroying plagues from God's storehouse of ven-
fianee. And Moses again stretched forth his hand, and then
There
the first-born in every house ; and yet God is merciful.
• thlre is a igreat deal of cant and whining sentimentalism
to 'he present day about the evil of something that wicked
men eve beginning to apprehend, and which they feel to be
4PProac,hing. There is a great deal of sickly sentimen-
talism,anul we hear that God willeth not the death deny
er's-but be can and will destroy body and soul in Hell of
s't!se who obst.-uet his will. God would not have Pharaoh
i'Mlen his heel., but Pharaah would not relent, and
'41141 God destroyed him and all his host—his thousands

nd tens of thona,!-1

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of thousands—his whole host in martial pride and gor-
geous array—his whole host were swallowed up in the Red
Sea beeause they followed after the children of lerael, and
refused to let them go. If God destroyed Pharaoh and
his host—if he broke that iron rod, will he, think you,
allow an iron rod to be stretched over you, and in
the year 1839 of Christ's advent into the world ? But
time would fail me to tell you ; run through the Book of
God—from Geneses to Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
Duteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Kings, Samuel, Ezra, Nehe-
miah, Esther, Job, Ruth, Proverbs, Solomon, Isaiah, Eze-
kiel, Jeremiah—run through the whole of the Prophets,
and then take the Books of the New Testament and find
one man—ene prophet, one priest, one messenger, one re-
presentative of heaven who was not in the strictest sense of
the word a political teacher—who told Kings what they
were to do and the people likewise—Nl 'no told senates
and legislatures what kind of laws they were to make at
their peril, and what laws they should not make ; or if
they did make them contrary to the injunction of Heaven, it
should be at their peril. Read the Word of God, and
tell me, if you can, whether there is a single
soldier of God from Moses to John, who did not carry his
life in his hands—who did not say I am willing to lay
down my life for it ? But the word of God, as Paul said,
although I am bound, the word of God cannot be bound
—it cannot be fettered—it cannot be chained—it cannot
be tied—it cannot be concealed from hungry and thirsty
souls. He who rained manna from Heaven will rain his
word into your hearts—speak, Lord, for thy servant s hear.
God speaks in the thunder of his power to his enemies, but
in the whispers of grace to the penitent and believing
heart. Is is a strange thing indeed that of all the duties which
a Christian Minister has to discharge, that duty, which is em-
phatically his duty—which bids him to be a watchman
in the night, to keep ward over the slumbering citizens—
that duty which bids him to be a shepherd, and to walk
around his flock, and to keep from them the thirsting wolves
—that duty which bids him to be a guide and a leader in
the right way—an instructor and a defender—strange that
this one duty of a Christian Minister should in the present
day be blotted out of his instructions—strange that it
should be denounced so that no man should do it—more
strange yet that such a man at once becomes a mark of
public censure and odium—of avowed hostility and secret
malice, in order to prevent the word of God being
fully and fairly unfolded to the people. I think it
is now about three years ago that I said we should
live to see the day, unless this battle were fought
boldly and fearlessly by the children of God, at all risks
and at all hazards, even unto the death—you would soon
live to see an Act of Parliament, called the Word of God
Amendment Bill, brought into the House of Commons—
you will live to see it yet—(Several voices, " Aye, aye")
—unless the battle be fairly fought—unless every man
buckle on his harness—guard on his loins—give himself to
God, and go forward. The time is not far off when
it will be forbidden to read—when it will be forbidden
to have, and above all, when it will be forbidden to
preach the Bible. When, if the Bible will be al=
lowed at all in your house, in your bands, or
in your Chapels, it will be under pans and penalties that
you shall thus read and thus understand—thus preach and
in no way else.—(Sensation.) Let our right hand forget
its cunning—let our rght arm drop powerless at our side
—let our tongue cleave to the roof of our mouth—aye,
let our heart of hearts be plucked from our breasts, rather
than surrender one jot or tittle of this blessed word of God,
in whom is our only hope—our only power of delivery ;
and yet methinks I see not far off a glimmering of light.
Now, for some years we have walked under a cloud—
it is breaking now, though for some years we have been
unknown. At length we are beginning to be somewhat
known. For some years we have been misunderstood ;
but now now they are beginning to spell us out a little. For
some years we have been misrepresented, wilfully by some—
unwittingly by most ; but now it is beyond the power of any
one much longer any farther to misrepresent our motives
and pervert our evident intentions. And what will result
from this ? They must fairly and fully know and under.
stand that our object here in this house—from this holy
place—that our object has been, •and sell is--only to make
ourselves wiser and our neighbours wiser—only to make
ourselves better and our neighbours better—only to make
ourselves holier and our neighbours holier—only to
make ourselves happier and our neighbours hap-
pier—and the moment this becomes known and under-
stood abroad, thousands and tens of thousands will flock
like doves to the windows, to their own houses of prayer,
to their own temples which they are in the habit of fre-
quenting, hungering and thirsting after knowledge. But
if they find a scorpion instead of a fish, and a stone instead
of bread, then they will leave the hous-r where there is no
pastor, they-will leave the fold where there is no shelter or
security, and sheep-like, look after their shepherd, and
lifting up their hands and hearts, they will say, " Lord
undertake for us," and God will provide for and feed
them. Even as Christ fed thousands in the wilder-
ness; even so God will feel the 50 times 50,000
in your country, and here a little—there a little—line upon
line—precept upon precept—one on the right hand lifting
up—there a great company of preachers, and a gathering
of souls are to God. In this sense of the word, and in this
sense only, I am a politician, and a political teacher.
Beyond this, whatever theories I may have, I have kept to
myself. I have never communicated any- to you, but I
have told you, and I still tell you, that the word of
God is a light to enlighten the Gentiles. Let that
be as a light to your feet, and a lantern to your
paths and steps. Take it, read it, and understand
it. Love it, and let it lead you, and its leading, follow,
and it will cause you to know the Lord more perfectly and
fully. What you have got in yourself not only feed upon,
but give it unto others, until all your friends and neigh-
bours throughout the country possess it. Let no man lead
you from it—let no man take you away from this great
work. First have the Book of God in your hearts—then
in your lives, and then have the word of God in your hands,
and run to and fro that knowledge be increased. If this
will not save you, nothing will save you—if this will not do
you good, nothing will do you good. All flesh is as grass,
and the glory of man is as a flower—it withereth and fadeth
away ; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever—and
this is the Gospel I have preached to you. I shall not keep
you longer this afternoon—l thought it right to say this much,
whether our days together be many or few—whether our
working together in God's work be long or short,- He only
knows. I wish,!on this first Sabbath of the new year, to bring
your mind and my own mind back again to the starting
point, that we might ask one another what we have been
'about—whether we have been right or wrong ?—that we
might see exactly where we are, that we might have the
witness in ourselves that what we do is right. I believe,
my brethren, it is right, and that it is well pleasing in
his sight. For myself, I know it is right. I feel
it to be right, and by God's help and blessing I will go on.
I will this day before you, knowing that I am before God,
give myself once again unto him and to his service,
whether it be personally in a worldly sense for better or
for worse, whether it be for life or for death. For the
present then I shall tontine my ministry among you as
usual. If any persons have come here this afternoon expect-
ing to hear from me anything at all relating to those recent
events in which they may consider me to have been more
particularly interested—l wish to inform those persons that
they will not hear- a word on that subject from me for the
present. I hope I know how to bear and to forbear ; I
hope I rightly understand that there is a time for all things,
and that every thing is beautiful and right only in its own
season. I shall be very happy to meet you here and else-
where, in those places where we have been in the habit
of assembling. together for the purpose of Divine worship ;
-but for the present you will not see me at any of your pub-
lic meetings, or at any of the public meetings in the neigh-
bourhood or elsewhere ; nor will you for the present hear
from me any thing at all relating to those events to which
I have just referred. Let us discharge together our so-
cial, our religious, and our Christian duties in the fear of
God ; and may God Almighty shed his blessing on the
word spoken in his name.
A collection was then made to assist in defraying the ex-
penses of defending Mr. Stephens against the prose-
cution. One of Wesley's hymns was then sung, and
a prayer offered up by the Rev. Gentleman—after which
the congregation separated.

PRESENTA VION OF PLATE TO MR

DASHWOOD.

The Reformers of Shrewsbury have invited this gentleman,
who was a candidate at the last election, to a dinner, with the
intention of presenting him with a magnificent piece of plate, a
beautiful specimen of art, and exquisite as a piece of workman-
ship. It is a fac-simile of " the Warwick Vase," of a nearly
spherical form with a deep reverted rim. Two interlacing
vines, whose stems run into and constitute the handles, wreathe
their tendrils, with fruit and foliage, round the upper part. The
centre i:. composed of antique heads, which stand forward in
grand relief. A pantber's skin, with the thyrsus of Bacchus
(a favourite antique ornament), and other embellishments,
complete the composition. It is of very large size, and is one
of the many proofs which exist in this country of the intimate
union between the manufacturing arts and those who are con-
nected with the highest display of taste. It is mounted on a
square pedestal, on which is the following inscription :--
PRESENTED
TO FRANCIS DASHWOOD, ESQ.
OF HALL PLACE, IN THE COUNTY OF KENT,
BY THE REFORMERS
OF THE BOROUGH OF SHREWSBURY,
AB A TOKEN OF THEIR ESTEEM AND RESPECT
FOR HIS CHARACTER,
AND ADMIRATION OP THE SPIRITED MANNER
IN 'WHICH HE CAME FORWARD
AS A CANDIDATE
FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF THIS-EOROUGH,
IN JULY, 1837.
—.Shrewsbury News.

.% ..L OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Revenue accounts exhibit an increase of 547,331/.
on the quarter ended .sth January, 1839, and of 1,075,203/.
on the year. On the Customs, the increase for the quar-
ter, amounts to no less than 331,110/. On the Excise, the
quarter's increase is 36,326/. The increase or decrease on
the other branches is trifling. The increase for the year on
Customs is 328,445/. ; on the Excise, 69,7761. ; on
Stamps, 180,774/. ; on the Post-office, 7,257/. ; Mis-
cellaneous, 16,0114 One important item swells the in-
crease for the year and the quarter, which did not formerly
figure in the Revenue accounts—the Crown Lands. This
source of income amounts to no less than 170,0001. for
the year, and 40,000/. for the quarter.—Chronicle.
We present to our readers elsewhere the usual tabular
statement for the year and quarter just ended ; and not-
withstanding the late and still existing dullness of the times,
it is a most gratifying statement. We question much, in
fact, whether in any year during the last twenty, consider-
ing the immense reduction of taxes which has taken place, a
more favourable quarter, or a more favourable year, has
been known. The increase of the revenue upon the quar-
ter is no less a sum than 547,331/. ; while that upon the
year exceeds a million sterling. The increase is also the
more gratifying, inasmuch as it proves, on the one hand,
that the external trade of the country is in a prosperous
condition, and on the other that the industrious classes
have not been without their share of enjoyment. In other
words, there is in the Customs the enormous increase of
331,000/., showing that our foreign trade is upon the in-
crease—and, on the other, of 36,000/. in the Excise.
Upon the year, as we have stated, the increase is upwards
of a million sterling ;- and we-refer those of our readers who
are sceptical upon the. subject to the facts stated in our
Money article, in proof that there is at present no appear-
ance of that increase failiug off in the course of the present
year.—Mornitag Advertiser.
The official abstract of the revenue for the year and
quarter ended on. the sth January shows an increase on
both, periods, the former amounting to 1,075,203/., and the
liter to 547,331/. The principal branches of the revenue
—the customs, excise, and stamps—have contributed most
materially to this increase; that on the customs for the
whole year being 328,4451., excise 69,776/, and stamp du-
ties 180,7741. The last quarter gives the large increase of
331,110/. in the customs, of 36,3261. on the excise, but
shows a deficiency of 23,2774 on the stamps. The as-
sessed taxes present a decrease of 22,9301. on the year, but
have increased 7,661/. on the last quarter. The improve-
ment in the Post-office on the year is trifling, amounting
only to 7,2571. while the decrease for the last quarter ex-
ceeds the whole year more than one-half. The crown
lands, which formed no feature in the revenue of 1838, have
added this year the sum of 170,000/. ; and the miscellaneous
taxes present an increase of 16,011/. on the year, and
6,1661. on the last quarter. The most prominent feature
of increase next to the customs, which it nearly equals, is
that included under the head of " Repayments, &c,"
amounting to 325,870/., for the whole year, and to
160,3451. for the last quarter. The amount of Exchequer
Bills required for the service of the current quarter is esti-
mated at 5,680,6731.—M0rning Herald.
The account of the receipt of revenue for the quarter
was made up to Saturday night last, and the official tables,
presenting a comparative view of the national income for
the 3 ear and quarter ending on the sth instant, appear in
another part of our paper of this day. The statements
would seem to indicate that the revenue is progressively in-
creasing, which is the more gratifying, that an opposite an-
ticipation had become very generally prevalent. We are
not of the number of those who habitually endeavour to ex-
plain away the effect of official statements, on the face of
which an improvement of the revenue is apparent. Nor can
we refuse to acknowledge, that in a series of comparative
statements periodically produced, all that official artifice can
do to brighten the aspect on one occasion must necessarily,
and exactly in the same degree, darken it on another. But
in the present instance there is a peculiarity calculated to
excite suspicion that extraordinary efforts have been em-
ployed, towards the end of the quarter, to swell the
aggregate amount of receipts ; and this peculiarity is
that only a very few weeks ago some at least, if not
all, of the journals supposed to be connected with, or
patronized by, the Administration, expressed their appre-
hensions, and thus prepared the public to expect, that
the statement of the approaching quarter-day would be
of an unfavourable character. We cannot doubt
that our Ministerial contemporaries had access to sources
of correct information two or three weeks ago, when
their language upon the subject of the revenue was
certainly not too cheerful. It follows either that there
has been an extraordinary influx of revenue since that
time, or that our Ministerial contemporaries then made
a show of poverty for the purpose of treating the
public, in due season, to an agreeable surprise. For our-
selves we can very sincerely say that the state of the re-
venue is a surprise, and an agreeable one. Tie aggregate
improvement upon the whole year amounts to 1,075,2031.,
to which every department of the revenue has contributed,
with the exception of the assessed taxes, under which head

there is a diminution in the comparative statement for the
year of 22,930/. Tile increase in the quarter, as compared
with the corresponding quarter of last year, is 547,3311.,
and to this increase every head of taxation has contributed,
excepting the 'stamps and the Post-office, the former of
which exhibits a decrease of 23,277/., and the latter of
11,0001.. in, the .comparative statement of the quarter.—
Morning Post.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-Our sentiments being congenial in general, though
of late not always, on the important. subjects of your excel-
lent Journal, I trust you will forgive the freedom of this
aidress from a personal stranger, but by no means sd to
your conspicuous merits in every department as a Liberal
and an independent politician. I now propose to commu-
nicate my ideas on capital punishments, as I can lardly
conceive they ever are productive of any benefit to man-
kind. To those persons who think otherwise, I would pro-
pose some mode of execution less brutalizing, less sangui-
nary, and not so abhorrent to the feelings of humanity as
hanging, beheading, shooting, burning, &c., which have
existed to the eternal disgrace of rational creatures of all
creeds and colours, Christians not excepted, in these days of
our boasted civilization. The horrors of a recent banging scene
in Australia are more than enough to explode this beastly,
cruel practice, even in that country, for ever. In France
the scaffold resembles more a butcher's shambles than a so-
lemn sacrfice of a miserable criminal to the laws of his
country ; but, so far from preventing murders, assassina-
tions, or other atrocious crimes, they appear daily increas-
ing, and the eyes of the people thus become familiar with
bloodshed, and the whole of its appalling consequences ; not
one of the least is often the sang froid with which the male-
factor braves death amidst crowds of demons in the guise
of females, who gloat over those dismal spectacles. The
gladiators at Rome, the ferocious bull fights in Spain. and
the unmanly dog fights, bull baiting, &c., in England, have
done more to convert men into monsters and savages than
even religion ever effected by making them saints, especially
when we recollect the millions of martyrs, in all ages and
countries, who have suffered for conscience sake alone ; to say
nothing of the innumerable slain in battle all over the world,
to gratify the ambition of murderous kingcraft and priest-
craft, always combined. The Grecian mode of taking away life
by poison, so long as this must still be done, is so far worthy
of adoption, under judicious regulations for a certain num-
ber of relatives or other witnesses being admitted to the
awful ceremony, thus far in private. In short any practice,
such as dis iding the spinal marrow, instantaneous strangu-
lation as performed at Madrid, a dose of prussic acid, or
any other device for quick termination of life, would be IA:-
finitely better than the hangman's noose or the headsman's
, chopping knife, until we learn that extinction of existence
by violent means may be safely laid asti a of which I for
one have not the smallest doubt, and I believe you think
as I do on this deploral le theme.
We differ, however, on some other points,viz.,without Uni-
versal Suffrage and the Ballot no nation can be free. I
do not wonder, therefore, at the working masses of the
people claiming their birthright on rational principles, while
I deprecate, of course, every appeal to physical force, now
that the mediocracy have become a species of ten pound
noblesse, and look down on the real democracy as slaves to
the two orders lately raised above them in every thing
sacred to a freeman. Until the House of Commons ad-

rnit real representatives of the people, chosen by the demo-
cracy only, the Lords never will be forced to annul the
Devil's Laws, as you justly call them, by any Aristocra-
tical House of Commons whatever. I conceive you really
are putting the cart before the horse. Get the requisite
Suffrage, and the Corn monopoly must cease. Ido not
alit) my name to appear on the side of Liberty, even in a
British journal, while I am in a land where the thing is
unknown. Believe me, dear Sir, your's sincerely,
Paris, Dec. 24, 1838.

COLBURN's NEw LL
MONTY MAGAZINE FOR
JANUARY.—In this number appear the two latest pub-
lished poems of Miss Landon—her latest, and, with a deep
and reverential grief we write it—her last. One of them
is " Night at Sea," the other " The Polar Star." Her
death so shortly after she wrote them, attaches a most me-
lancholy interest to the latter poem. In it she mourns, in
a strain that seems like the lamentations or an Eolien, her
absence from " those beyond the sea," who were dear to
!r, but whom an " omen in her heart," she tells us,
assures her she shall meet again. Alas! that it should
have been a false omen. Alas! even for us who were only
among the million who loved her for her poetry, but much
more to the sorrow of those who were associates in her
native place, and of her absence from whom this poem is so
beautiful, so tender a lamentationl—Court Journal,