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London, England, 1865-03-13 00:00:00

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dour approaches nearer to that white and sparkling
lustre which we attribute to the saints than any
other result of the bleaching power of the world's
fuller's earth. When he has to narrate the history
of transactions not altogether clean or edifying:
there is a soft benignity and a stainlessness in his
treatment which affect us like the compassion of
nature burying the foul places of the earth in a spot-
less garment of driven snow. Lord Westbury's ex-
planation in the House of Lords on Tuesday of the
unpleasant transactions in connection with the
Patent-office, of which we gave a brief notice last
week, was full of this tranquillising beauty. rue,
the feathered words, the flakes of compassioT ate
candour, did not fall till a heavy cloud had rested
for a whole. day on the firmament of his own
official purity. But this perhaps. only enhances
the lustre of the the effect. Till Duty's stern voice
was heard the Chancellor listened to the pleadings
of pity. He could not bear to cut off a possible
culprit from the way of repentance and tears. Yet
when the voice of conscience became at lastimpera-
tive, the Aentiment of Wordsworth's great " Ode to
Duty" at once prevailed with that pure and single
mind