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London, England, 1835-07-27 00:00:00

LITERATVRE

SENTIMENT NOT PRINCIPLE Or, AN OLD
MAN'S LEGACY. In 2 rag.
London: Whittaker and Co. 1835.
Thank Heaven ! a day is approaching when we may
laugh as heartily as we please at the Pope, and alf.
that appertains to animals encumbered with a ten-fold
allowance of apocalyptical antlers. The solemn ana-
thema of an " Old Man's Legacy" has gone forth
against that Seven-headed Power of Darkness ; and
a system which for upwards of fourteen centuries en-
slaved all Europe is about to be annihilated by the
all-devouring zeal of a fifth-rate novellist. Before the
appearance of this treatise on Love, Poor-laws, and
Popery, our theological armoury presented a most de-
plorable spectacle. Our peat guns were spiked ; cur
small arms as lockless as Paddy from Cork's fowling''
piece ; and our sword-blades inseparably united to their
scabbards in the bonds of indissoluble rust. We had
not even a pistol left wherewith to defend our Holy
Church ; and it is fifty to one but that if the Reverend
Seer O'Sullivan had not detected and exposed the
ghost of old Father Dens squatting itself, like Milton's
Satan in Paradise, within earshot of our loving wives and
immaculate daughters, we should ere this have sailed
for Italy on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of
Loretto. Happily delivered from the horrors of cue,
koldom and idolatry, we now assume the offensive ;
write novels for the spiritual edification of the Pope ;
and, in the person of a simpering apostle in petticoats,
lisp a homily for the conversion of the triple diadem into
chains and brooches for the use of the maiden elect of
Exeter Hall. Of course this is all highly praiseworthy,
especially as there is no lack of the fuel of religious
rancour—the wilful and deliberate misrepresentation
of the opinions always held and professed by Roman
Catholics. There is something too, uncommonly cha-
ritable in putting forth those misrepresentations in a
form most attractive to the eye of inexperienced youth,
and thus, in a country where Roman Catholics are
exceedingly numerous, sowing the seeds of prejudices
which may lead to the most deadly animosities in
after life. Hear this meek expounder of Gospel truth,
who aims at being a " Sir Oracle," in the drawing'
room and the nursery :
" I fear, if the truth were fathomed why no attempt is made
to convert the Roman Catholics, it would be found to lie Is
the personal risk attending it. It being safer for the mission-
ary to preach the Gospel among the Hindoos, or in the Ink's'
of savages, than to place himself within the most distant range
of Popish power. But persecution has so paralyzed Protes-
tants, that they dread any collision, and, as if stunned by the
horrors history presents, and even what their own memory re'
cords, as in the rebellion of Ireland, in 1798, they turn awe"'
and fear to encounter their enemy. For surely some mental
torpidity, some extraordinary blindness must possess those wile
would entrust them with the key of power; for what securitf
can be given when a part of their creed is to hold no faith
with heretics—and to exterminate them is one of the maul
roads they have to heaven ?"
On this passage we shall not make one word of
comment beyond that it is a palpable and deliberate
falsehood, and that the author must have known it to
be one. If Popery withstand the following thunder'
bolt hurled at it from a stage-box, it will last to the
" crack of doom :"
" In the evening we went to the fine theatre of Sao
Carlo—by the bye, San is an abbreviation of Santos
or Saint, such a misnomer would be a scandal to.ani
but a Roman Catholic, whose devotion it would ap'
pear by this, is equally shewn in attending a play as $
church. For what can be more genuinely Pagan than
to dedicate such opposite buildings to the same pale
trop."
Of course, the inference to be drawn from this i°
that the Roman Catholic, to be consistent, should de'
dicate the playhouse to the Devil, like old Noll and
his followers. It is impossible for Popery to with'
stand the force of such overwhelming reasoning 09
this. It flashes conviction with all the suddenness
and the appalling terror of lightning. In another
place the author breaks out with the following sublinle
apostrophe :
" What volumes might not be written to prove; 00
the clearest evidence, that the Romish creed is-en;
tirely idolatrous in its principle, with some mixture of
ancient Jewish and Pagan ceremony !"
We are happy to have it in our power to assure the
author that several very ponderous folios have long sine°
appeared on this very subject, and that many years have
elapsed since Bishop Porteus lectured the Pope an
the conclave of Cardinals very gravely on their infl'
delities, although we believe without making a single
convert. However, we question whether the Bishop
was really in earnest respecting the idolatries of Popery'
and we throw out the hint for the information of the
author of this precious " legacy." The fact is tlO
some crabbed divines of the Calvinistic school bale
spread abroad horrible reports to the effect that Eng'
lish Episcopacy is neither more nor less than a mode
fication of Popery ; and this, it is whispered, has
frightened our Ecclesiastics from laying violent hand°
on the many-coloured drapery of Rome.
These volumes contain hundreds of paragraphs 431
the same sort we have above referred to, but the two
we have given will suffice for our purpose. Some of
the author's most laboured arguments are directed
against the old system of poor laws in England, and
although these laws are now repealed, we think then
quite as applicable now as they would have been had
the novel been published three years ago. Of course
this is much in their favour, and we congratulate the
writer upon it. Of the plot and personages we shall
not say one word more than that their business is t°
shew, that the author is a most pious, a most patriotic
a most Popery-hating, a most poor-law detesting, and
most travelled personage. Such a prodigy must have
been dandled on a Bible, and rocked to sleep betwixt
the leaves of Burkitt on the Revelations.

PHILO SOPIIY OF MANUFACTURES:

OR AN EXPOSITION OF THE SCIENTIFIC, MORAL, AND Co,3fll[R

CIAL ECONOMY OF THE
FACTORY SYSTEM OF GREAT BRITAIN:

BY ANDREW ÜBE, M.D., F.R.S.,&c.
London: Charles Knight, Ludgate-street. 1835.

The subject of this work is one of the first impor'
tance to the British people : its author a man of
learning, sagacity, and great comprehensiveness 0f
mind. It is not a cold, dry, abstract treatise, penned
in support of some new system, intended to turn the
whole world topsy-turvy ; neither is it based on infor-
mation obtained at second-hand, through the mediumi
of Parliamentary Reports, pamphlets, and statistical
tables—although such documents are freely used where
ever they are found to corroborate the writer's actual
experience. In stating his own qualifications for the
task which he has so ably performed, and the induce'
ments held out to him to undertake it, Dr. Ure says'
" Having been employed in a public seminary for th
quarter of a century, in expounding to practical mete'
as well as to youth, the applications of mechanical slid
chemical science to the Arts, the author felt it his duty'
on being solicited from time to time by his pupils, 11l
spread over the kingdom as proprietors and managers °
factories, to prepare for publication a systems°
With
account of their principles and processes.
this view he resolved to make afresh such a Or'
vey of the great manufacturing establishments, t°
which he had liberal access, as might qualify him to
discharge the task in a creditable manner. *. 4*- * s
Being advised by his medical friends to try the effeetil
of travelling, with light intellectual exercise, be t
London in the latter end of last summer, and spent
several months in wandering through the factory districts
of Lancashire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, &c., with the We:
piest results to his health ; having everywhere 01/