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7.4g.414t,i,011 -44 g g from toe ron's ot
Sin4i, bare, dazic, er.ggy its itseil, sun eundea suaeeley
by a mantle of gloom, end crowned above other hil!s
with a diadem of fire—a tierce wind bloc jog. in rest', as
eddies round it—torrents of rain dPsoendihg through the
darkness—the lightnings of God playing up)ii the sum-
mit—thunders crashing incessantly—the tramp which
shall call the dead to judgment sending forth a pre-
liminary note and causing the mountain to thrill and
tremble—and, heard at intervals above all, the voice of
the Eternal—the millions of Israel standing silent on
the plain, awe and wonder casting a shadow over their
faces—and amid all this one lonely man going up the
hill and quaking as he goes—the utterance of the fiery
law from amid the gloom—the amen of the tribes—the
seclusion of Moses with Jehovah for forty days on the
top of the Mount—the finger of god, the same finger
which dipping itself in glory had touched the firmament
and left as its trace the sun, writing the ten precepts on
the two tablets—the passing of the Lord berme Moses as
ha hasted and threw himself on the ground—the descent
of the favoured man with his face shining out the tidings
where he had been;—all this taken together, while cal-
culated to cast a salutary terror down to remote ages,
and to make the children among the willows of Canaan
to tremble at the name of Sinai, was fitted, too, to
produce a peculiar and terrible poetry."
Take for beauty:—" You are aware, again, in singular
union with this profound unconsciousness and simplicity (in
the Bible) of a knowledge and insight equally profound.
It is as though a child should pause amid her play and tell
you the secrets of your heart and the particulars of your
after history;" or " Galileo and young Milton in the
dungeon (surely a theme for the noblest pencil) the
meeting of Italy's old savant and England's young
scholar—the grey-haired sage, each wrinkle on his fore-
head the furrow of a star ; and the Lady of his Col-
lege' with Comus curling in his fair locks, and the dreom
of Eden sleeping on his smooth brow; while the dim
twilight of the cell, spotted by the fierce eyes of the offi-
cials, seemed the age too late or too early, on which both
had fallen: a meeting like that of Morning with her
one star and coming day, and Midnight with all her
melancholy maturity and hosts of diminished suns ; a
meeting like that of two centuries."
Take for grandeur:—" The poetry of the landoshich is
rarely se sublime as when picturing the character and
achievements of the Desired and Expected One. This
desire—in what singular circumstances was it fulfilled.
The earth was at rest and still. The expectation of
many ages had come to its height. In the hush of that
universal silence we may imagine the hearts of all
nations panting audibly with strong and intolerable
longing ; ' or, "But who dare claim kindred with Eze-
kiel, the severe, the mystic, the unfathomable, the lonely
—whose hot hurried breath we feel approaching us like
the breath of a furnace ? Perhaps the eagle may, for
his eye was as fierce and as keen as hers. Perhaps
the lion may, for his voice too sounded vast and hollow
on the wilderness wind. Perhaps the wild ass may. for
his step was like hers, uncontrollable. Or does he not
turn away proudly from all these, and, looking up, de-
mand as associates the most fervid of the burning ones,
those who of the angelic throng stand the nearest and
yet blench the least betore the throne of God? Does he
not cry as he sees the eeven angels holding the seven
last vials of Divine wrath, and coming forth from the
smoke of the glory of God,' these are my brethren,'
be mine to mingle with these' to be clean as these, and
to bear a like vessel of the Lord with these? Dues he
not wish to stand apart even Isom Isaiah, Daniel, Ha-
bakkuk, and John? The comparison of a comet, often
used and generally wasted, is strikingly applicable to
Ezekiel. Sharp, distinct yet nebulous, swift, sword-
shiaped, blood-red, he bangs in the Old Testament sky
raiher burning as a portent than shining as a prophet."
fairesttt h em anis
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teh he aldu
smaaerskt eodi
forTehscetsreacpta,ssaHgndesn—eiathfeerw otuhte°
olu notionm e .
Sometimes
o f that
s prose-poetrytrange
aasds
theic h
ptheervl°ecsk—thitusabYriglliiave a
vnt
cry of the souls under the altar, sometimes piteous as the
voice—sad up the long years—of Rachel mourning for
her children, sometimes wild as the shadowy chorus—
sorrowlul as bells through rain, and swelled by
many cries out of every century—" Oh Absalom!
my son, my son!" Sweet as the accents of Ruth,
dainty as the step of Esther, plaintive as the prayer
of Hannah, and the wail of the widow of
Nain, it rises through the triumph of Miriam to
reverberations loftier and loftiest till we hear the horns
to which Jericho fell, and even the very echo of the
thunders of the Mount. So far as the poetic quality of
Giltillan'a mind is concerned we feel übuudantly satisfied.
As an indicator of the presence of poetry there can be
no question of his competence; but something more is
necessary to qualify a man to come forward with a book
of such lofty pretensions as that which now lies beside
us. The critic, or expounder, or panegyrist, must not

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to be declared on or before the 14th of Feb.
Age st lb' Age et lb
Pitsford .
Cloth worker ...
Legerdemain 5 8 OYork.3-ou're-wanted . 4 6 10
Ch anti ey 5 7 11Le Comte 6 6 9
Alaik Tapley ...... .. 4 7 11,Achyranthes ...
Posttempore
Belus
Fleur-de-Seine
Me10dy.....,
Jenny Lind ...... ..... 5 7 1!Old Claret
Mistake (late Anda- !Gimcrack... 4 6 3
lusian)
Whizgig
The Baroness
Little George .. ...... 4 7 01Scar 3 5 5
Idle-bay ... ......... ... 6 6 12 Knook Knoll
Panope 4 6 111Unitv
I-
Lady-I-am-off 6 6 1 liThe Saxon 3 5 2
Reversion ...... ..... 5 6 Io,Heart of Oak 3 5 0
Joe Sutherland
Selina
Slang
If the highest weight accepting be under Bst 71b, it will
be raised to that, and the others in proportion.
ST. ALBAN'S STEEPLE CHASES.
Acceptances for the St. Alban's Handicap.
at lb at lb
Ben Lomond
Mulligan
Trust-me-not ll 0 Rendsburg .. lO 4
St. Leger II 0 The Lustrum lO 3
Subduer
Anglesea
The Hawk
The Selling Race.
at lb at lb
The Baron ... .....
St„ Ruth
Outcast
Rigby (late Pedlar) ... 10 11 Crystal 9 13
G. by Liverpool ..., lO 11 Lammermoor ... ..... ... 9 13
Reindeer
Herts Yeoman
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Her Majesty's stag hds., Tues., at Knaphill, near the
Woking station; Fri., Slough 11.
Brambam Moor hds., Wed., Bishop-woods; Fri., Stutton-
mill ; Sat., Harewood—loi.
Essex Union lids., Wed., Woodham Fan; Sat., Hockley
Bull —10 k.
East Essex hds., Tues., Stormer Lion-10i ; Thurs., Ald-
ham-hall-11 ; Sat., Notley- gate-10k.
Mr. Conyer's lids., Thurs,, Mylem ; Sat., High Roothing-
street-10k .
Sour h Essex hds., Tues., White's-bridge; Sat., Wenning-
ton-10k.
Essex and Suffolk hds., Tues., Stour-wood; Fri., Hintle-
sham Park-gate-10i.
Suffolk hds., Tues., Stowingtoft-hall; 'Thurs., Hareheath-
mill ; Sat., Depden-green-10.
Durham County hds., Wed., Aldin-grange ; Fri., Dalton
—lok.
Stockton and Billingham bars., Thurs., Hartlepool-10k.
Raby hds., Wed., Witton ; Fri., second mile from B. Auck-
land on the Durham-road-11.
Hurworth lids., Tues., Kennels; Sat., Oak Tree Village
—lok.
Mr. Hildyard's hare., Tues., Hemlington Bluebell; Fri.,
Trenholme-bar-10i,
Lord Elcho's hds., Wed., Red Scar-bridge; Fri., Etal Col-
lier-; Sat., North Charlton-10i.
Newcastle and Gateshead hrs., Tues., Heddon-on-the-
Wall ; Fri., Washington-10.
Duke of Rutland's hds., Tues., Lenton-village ; Wed.,
Stoke Rochford ; Fri., Dry Doddington—lok.
Cottesmore hds., ties., Leigh-lodge; Thurs., Holywell;
Saturday, Crown Point-11.
Lord Yarborough's hds., Wed., Cadney-bridge ; Fri., Swin-
hop-house —ll.
Lord Fitzwilliam's hds., Wed., Bythorn Toll-bar; Fri.,
Castor lianglands-10.
Lord Henry Bentinek's hds., Wed., Linwood; Thurs.,
Carlton- le-alorland ; Fri., Blankney.
Mr. Hellier's hds., Tues., Wood Enderby; Thurs., Legsby ;
Sat., Harrington-hall-11.
Mr. M. Ingram's hds., Thurs., Drakelowe; Sat., Black
Slough-10i.
Donnington hds., Tues., Shipley-hall; Sat., Belton-vil-
lage -10 g.
Rufford lids, Wed., Norwood-park; Thurs., Caunton-
village ; Sat., Langwith-lodge-14
Mr. Lumley's lids„ Tues oAierton ; Thurs., Gateford ;
Fri., Gringley-on-the. Hill-10k.
Badsworth hds., Tues., 51arr-village ; Thurs., Rawcliffe-
hall ; Sat. Ackworth-moor-top-10i.
Holderness hds., Tues., Londesborough; Thurs., Low-
thorpe Lodge; Fri., Houghton—lli.
Sir Tattoo Sykes's hds., Wed., Gallow Gap ; Fri., 134.(1-
sail House-10k.
Brighton bars., Wed., Racecourse; Sat., the Dyke-114.
Brookside bars., Thurs., Telscoinbe Tye-10k.
Crawley and Horsham hds., Wed., Ockley-court ; Fri.,
Handcross-tollgate-114.
Southdown hds„ Fri., Laughton-pound.

asking them if the referee should require their assistance to
afford it ; but addiur, that it was understood that no one but
Messrs. t and Duvergier, should assist the referee. M.
Vatismenil gave his decision, and the Master reported in
conformity with it. and the objection made to the report
was that the understanding had not been acted upon, as to
no one attending M. Vatismenil, except Messrs. Paillet and
Duvergier.
His Hoxorra, after going at considerable length into
the case, ordered the first and second exceptions to be over-
ruled, and confirming the Master's report as to the other
exceptions, the costs of the exceptions to be the costs in
the case. _ _ _

(Before the Vice-Chancellor Lord CRANwoant.)
His LORDSHIP having disposed of the case of Lafeaux v.
Marsh, which stood on the paper for judgment, proceeded
to hear unopposed petitions and motions, which occupied
the Court the whole morning.

COMMON PLEA S.—(T HIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice TALFOURD and
a Special Jury.)
3PLEAN V. HUDSON, M.P. AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought for breach of contract. It ap-
peared that the defendants, Messrs. Swinborne and Co., a
firm in which Mr. Hudson, M.P., is a chief partner, entered
into an agreement to supply the plaintiff, who is a looking-
glass seller in Fleet-street, with any number of glasses that
he might require in his trade for a certain period at a certain
price; during the first part of the term the orders were few
and of small extent, but a considerable rise suddenly taking
place tin the price of glass, the plaintiff sent in an order to
the amount of 5,0001., which was not completed within the
period prescribed in the contract. The plaintiff brought the
present action to recover damages for the alleged breach of
contract, and for the defence it was pleaded that no breach
had taken place, as the unusually large order sent in by the
plaintiff was much greater than he could possibly require for
the purposes of his trade.
Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Atherton appeared for
the plaintiff,and Mr. Watson and Mr. Sergeant Channel],
appeared for the defence.
After the case had been gone into at some length,
The Learned JUDGE recommended that the parties should
endeavour to come to some arrangement out of court.
A verdict was then taken by consent for the plaintiff—
Damages, 400/.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, before Barons PARKE, ALDERSON, PLAIT.
and MARTIN.)
The business before the Court this morning was entirely
unimportant.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a
Special Jury.)

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. TAE LONDON DOCK COMPANY.
The Court was again occupied with this cause. The case
for the plaintiff is not yet terminated.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.

GLD COURT.

(Before the RECORDER and Alderman Sir PETER LAURIE
ASSAULT.—A young man named Lynch was indicted for
assaulting another named Roberts, with intent to do him
some grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner and the prosecutor had been drinking toge-
ther at a public-house, where a quarrel arose between the
prisoner and a third party and ultimately the prisoner was
forcibly ejected. When he got outside be was heard to say
that he would have his revenge, and accordingly he loitered
about the spot till the whole of the company retired, when
he threw a brickbat at the man who had offended him, but
the brick missed the person for whom it was intended and
struck the prosecutor, inflicting a serious wound on his head.
Several witnesses were called to prove the case, and in the
course of their examination it transpired that all the parties
were slightly the worse for drink at the time the assault was
committed, while the man whom the prisoner had in his
eye, when he threw the missile, had been guilty of great
provocation.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him
to mercy on account of the provocation he bad received.
The RECORDER sentenced him to three months' imprison-
ment, with hard lab ,ur.

EW COURT.
(Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.)
James Joseph Stanley, clerk, was charged with stealing two
silver spoons, the property of Mr. Davis, an innkeeper. The
prisoner bad pledged the property immediately after the
robbery. Guilty. He was then charged with stealing a
silver spoon, the property of Isabella Eady and another. The
prosecutrix is a pastry-cook, carrying on business in Oxford-
street. One day the prisoner honoured her with his custom.
He ordered some soup, which was served to him in an inner
room, with a silver spoon. Two ladies came in, and while
there the prisoner left the shop rather hastily, giving a shil-
ling in payment. Directly after he had gone the spoon was
missed. The spoon was pawned by the prisoner the same
day in Drury-lane. There were three other charges against
the prisoner, to which he pleaded guilty. He was recom-
mended to mercy on account of his youth and his father's re-
spectability. The father is a 'solicitor, with whom he had
quarrelled, in consequence of which he had left his home and
had since fallen into bad company. He was sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GURNEY.)
Henry Munnery was charged with stealing a box of
knives, the property of the South- Western Railway Company.
The knives had been ordered from a Sheffield house for a
gentleman in the country, and bore his crest. The box was
stolen from a railway truck at the Nine Elms station about
the 2d of February, 1850, whilst on its way to its destination,
Basingstoke. Knives, which were recognized by the crest
as part of this property, had been offered for sale to various
parties by the prisoner, who described them as being part of
a bankrupt stock which he had got cheap. The prisoner had
been in the employ of the railway company, and had been
seen with a cart on the premises about the time of the
robbery.
Mr. Ballantine prosecuted ; Mr. Parry defended.
Guilty of receiving ; twelve months' imprisoment.

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!Itt!t'l;'

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Elizabeth Flemming, alias Flynn, about 25 years of age,
who had the appearance of being a servant, was brought
before Mr. Hall, charged with leaving her female infant,
aged six months, upon a dung heap in Bear-yard, Lincoln's
Inn-fields, exposed to the cold and rain.
Mr. Bilner, clerk to the board of guardians of the Strand
Union, said he was instructed to prosecute the prisoner
Cooper, the porter to the workhouse in Cleveland-street,
said on Wednesday evening, the sth inst., a man named
Church brought a female child to the house, and said he had
found it lying upon a dung heap in Bear-yard, Lincoln's
Inn-fields, exposed to the weather. It was raini. g very
fast, and it was also very cold. The child was not cry-
ing, in consequence of its mouth being filled with sugar.
He went to Knightsbridge on Saturday last, and
there saw the prisoner. He asked her where her child
was. The prisoner said that she had left it in
the street. She asked hint if he knew where the child was,
and he replied that it was safe in the house. She said she
did not know that she had left it in his parish, she had de-
posited it in the street, but did not know where, and when
she returned twenty minutes afterwards the child was gone.
Witness then took her into custody, and she further said
that she was in great trouble, and could not support her
child, that she had been persuaded to leave her child in that
manner, as others had done before.

only himself be cognisant of the poetry, -but ho must be
so much en rapport with his age as to be able to com-
municate his instinctive knowledge; and when taking up
such a subject as the poetry of the Bible, and speaking
of it to such a strange, anxious, hoping, doubting, fear-
. . . .

ing century as ours, all his highest faculties orinsight
and tradition have work that shall task them to the

uttermost, and reward that shall overpay them though
they break under the strain. Full of his own individua-
lity, he must, nevertheless, be so far a synopsis of his
time that every phase of it may own his i.tEnity. I; is
little that he speak with tongues if he cannot also
interpret. Little to us that his heart is heaving if he

dies and makes no sign. Litt!e that he is full of light

it he cannot shine it into our darkness. Little that he is
bruised unless by his stripes we are healed. His nature
should have a point of contact for every human soul.
Breathing in the vital influence from above, he must im-

part it by imposition of hands. His eyes may be to-
wards heaven, but his feet must be firm upon the earth;
in his highest rapture we must feel that he is of us and

among Cs; if he is transfigured we must " be with him

The prisoner, who cried bitterly during the examination
of the witness, and who appeared to feel acutely the posrition
in which she was placed., implored the magistrate to have
pity upon her. She said it was all true what Cooper had
stated.

Mr. HALL remanded the prisoner until Thursday next, to
give time for the completion of the case.
The prisoner was then removed, and appeared desirous of
seeing her child, who was in the arms of a nurse, but oi'
course she was refused and locked up.

WINDSOR ELECTION.—(THIS DAY.)
The election of a member for the Royal Borougb of W ind-
oor, in the room of Mr. Hatchell, who has accepted the office
of Attorney-General for Ireland, was fixed for this morning.
Mr. J. T. BEDBOROUGH, one of the magistrates of the bo-
rough, proposed their late Member, Mr. Hatchell. (Cheers.)
Mr. HENRY DARVILL, solicitor, seconded the nomination.

in the Mount;" in his hour of divinest triumph he must
bear bleeding witness to his humanity; the hand of the
unbelieving must find the side that was pierced, and his
eyes be satisfied with the very nailprints of crucifixion.
In this quality of spiritual adaptiveness, on a theme
so peculiarly theological, we should not have been sur-

The SMEaIFF, having ascertained that there was no other
person to propose, declared. Mr. Rachel' to be duly ele zted
a Member for Windsor, for the present Parliament.
The proceedings, which were of a most quiet diameter,
shortly afterwards terminated.

SPORTING NOTES.

No. IX.
SPORT AT ST. ALBANS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Lincoln opened the game last Thursday, and we :may
now expect a continued string of events—Steeplechaser and
Flat races—sans intermission to the end of the season, sm me-
where about the last week in November or first in December
next; this week a few of the right sort have put forth at
ancient Verulam a moderate bill of fare for decision on W ed-
nesday, comprising a Free Handicap Steeplechase of 10 Sc
each, h ft, with 40 added ; the winner to be sold by auci Lion
for 200 soya. or upwards; and a Selling Sweepstakes cif 3
soya. each, p. p., with 20 added, list 91b each, with allow-
ances, if entered to be sold tinder 100 sovs.Three miles. For the
former, thirteen accTtances have been declared, three-four rths
of whom, at the least, will put in an appears nce
including those well-known animals with the hounds, M.: all-
gan, Trust-me-not, St. Leger, Subduer, The Hawk, Vali ant,
Rendsburgh, Legislator, and The Liistrum. The Multi gan
party are uncommonly confident of winning, and Trust- me-
not is not expected to be fler out ; Valiant, with lOst up, •won
the Chipping Norton Steeple-chase last week, in very cli ever
style, and will run well on this occasion ; and Legislate r, a
very good fencer, is fancied by a great many • but my pH': vate
information dictates the following result
Mr. Elmore's Mulligan, 11,st 41b (Mason,) 1
Mr. Mason's Trust-me-not, 1 1 st ,,,,,,(01iver,)2
Mr. Price's Legislator, 10s! 41b

Mr. Tollit's Valiant, 10st 61b
Mr. Howard's St. Leger, 1 Ist 5
For the Swelling Sweepstakes some eight or ten will rim., in-
eluding St. Ruth, 1 lst 21b. Gelding by Liverpool, 10st 111 b,
and Lammermoor, 9st 131 b, among whom, I anticipate,. the
winner will be found; they may possibly catch the jud, ge's
eye in the following order :
Mr. Webb's br g, by Liverpool
Mr. Gain's Lammermoor
Mr. Austin's St. Ruth 3
I forgot to sate that the distance of the handicap was' -four
miles, over a capital line of country close to the town, which
the Earl of Verulam has allowed to be selected for the pre-
sent occasion. The first race will be run punctually at: two
o'clock, and the second at half-past three; and, as the
scene of action can be easily gained via Hatfield and the
Northern line, a strong muster of the metropolitans may be
I antici; ated. perceive, with a curious eye, tke removal of
Sir R. Pigot's Derby nag, Runnymede, from John DI ty's
stable to Moss's at Newmarket. This looks as if the
heads" had measured his chance and found him want.l ng.
By-the-bye, Grecian is improving wonderfully, he'll k.e a
dangerous customer for the Derby and " the Guineas," Look
all but over; but, notwithstanding, for the former nu 2e I
must still stick to the following order of things:—
THE PRIME MINISTER
NEWMINSTER ... 2
GRECIAN ... 3
LAMARTINE ... 4
Time may
alter my opinion;but at the present writing :it is
fixed firm as the Monument on Fish-street-hill.
My analysis of the Metropolitan Handicap on F.Ki iday
next;

... 1

I am Sir, yours,
Feb. 10, 1851. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

prised to hear George Gilfillan fail, because, notwith-
standing his ( ften-proved literary universality, and the
many-sided charity which has fraternised with every
colour or genius and every intellectual variety, there
were temptations to sectarianism in the character of his
subject which we were not prepared to see overcome by
a clergyman "on Vother side Twced." We give
the gifted author of the " Literary Portraits" the
right hand of congratulation at the widening landscape
of his theology, and the ameliorating atmosphere of his
religious sympathies.

ASHDOWN COURSING MEETING (CONCLUDED:).
Owing to the unfavourable weather on Friday, the Cra yen
Stakes were divided by Mr. Etwall's Egypt and Mr. Jenz er's_
Factotum ; and the Ashdown Stakes between Mr. Mill er's
Manifesto and Mr. Wyndhues Whiff. The Weyland Sta kes

Not only as the heart-warm panegyrist at orce of
Charming and Chalmers, And and Bailey, has he broken
down those polemical landmarks which have too often
straitened the range of Scotch and English exertion. but,
passing beyond the pale of Christianity, by virtue of
thatcountenauce of unrufilod faith with which he puts aside
the assaults of unbelief, and of those teatful eyes of fra-
ternal appreciation which he bends upon the sceptic and
the sinner, he has made himself free of the inner mind
of the empire. Throughout the book, and especially it,that magnificent sketch of " the Paul of the Present"—
a sketch unsurpassed, perhaps• in modern literature for
strength, width, beauty, and insight—there are decla-
rations and admissions which would satisfy the sternest
advocate of ecclesiastical acd religious reform, and find
the heart and meet the experience of the furthest wan-
derer from Christendom.

We have said so much of the writer, that we have
neither time nor space for an analysis of his book. We
regret this the less, because, in a work of this kind, the
merit of the book is involved in the merit cf the author,
and because the avowed nature and pretensions of the
performance before us put it out of the province of any-
thing but the most elaborate criticism.
If a book comes unchristened before the world, the
critic has a fair right to class it by its diagnostics, and
try it by the recognized qualifications of the class under
which its characteristics may reasonably be subsumed
But when a work sets out with an avowal of its objects
and sphere of action, we hold that the duty of the critic
is limited to a comparison of theory with practice, pro-
blem with solution, intention with execution. A chart
that comes to us guiltless of mensuration may honestly
be
map carries a prepared scale cf
may direct, but when the
miles, we cannot under-
.t,
nd graduated
the
critical
as o our
despotismwis do m
which
persists in applying
its own pocket-rule. Mr. Gilfillan relieves us of all un-
certainty as to the intentions with which his book was
written, to which it aspires. He
comes
panegyrist. Ihe preface
o h
" '" mate ambitiou is to be
ti s v
forward
olarunw end
er
m tdd hee declares
literaryloa rweesdl
that avowedly
rank.s a i
a prose poem, or hymn,, IN HONOUR of the poetry and the
poets of the Bible. '
exempt from the conditions of art—is so
The structure of a prose poem—implying,
we sup-
shall not be guilty
of the pococurentism of the critic. Of the essential poetry
of the work, the exuberant life which swells in every
cpoonsefe'spsoedetlyry extra-provincial, that we
line, the tumult of grandeur in which, like a sacred
pageant, it goes by us from the first chapter to the last,
we despair 0•f conveying any adequate notion. The
author has met those grand old bards in their own
mood. He is neither commentator, annotator,
discerner of spirits,"
bneorrtaetovren,
on
in
some senses, expositor; neither dialectsdis-
nor inquisitor of particles ;
neither anatomist of hairs nor disintegrator of
the beautiful, and the true; content to cry Hos:lune
goes through
sCatehthire
ggtrhoestporroopwhedtio,,gaais by association he
before their first and greatest ministers, and to cast the
palm branch of human genius at the feet cf those intel-
lectual giants whose lips repeated the large utterance of
Divinity—whose songs were set to the symphonies of
the thunder, and whose chorus will not cease while
creation is not dumb. Leaving to colder temperaments,
and to minds ineomp, tent to the higher office,
heavier literatures connected with Scripture, he has
given himself up to the one and sufficient task of declar
lug the intuitions of his poetic instinct respecting it.
Availing himself only of so much of his critical nature
as may direct him to the beauties of his subject, retain-
ing only so much of the analyst as may enable him t.
eliminate and exhibit the Divine, he has laid aide the
philosopher for the poet, the polnician for the priest, the
alchemist far the burner of incense, the essayist for the
singer of rce.ip, the censor for the optimist, the botanist
for the flower-gatherer, the sick of chaff upon the
crabbed back of Criticism for the basket of sunner-fruit
in the hand of Faith and Hope ; he has exchanged the•
ileeulative eye of the astronomer for the child's gsza • f
love and wonder up to heaven, and has turned gladly
from his long toil in the mines of human intellect to be
a pearl-diver and a diamond-finder on the high MUUII tUillzi
and in the great deeps of God.

True independence is to be found where a person
contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.— Eliza
Cook's Journal.

The House of Lords was opened to the public, un-
dir the usual regulations, on Saturday, when wore than 2,000
persons availed themselves of the privilege,