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No. 165394.

LONDON, MONDAY EvENING SUN, MARCH 3, 1845.

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Question." We looked witjlisome interest to the
subject, in hopes of discsiveYing what the honest Ger-
mans thought of the di-s-ruption, but. were sadly dis-
appointed, for these " Opinions" are all monopolised
by one Deutscher, called Herr Sydow, a chaplain of
his Majesty the King of Prussia. It appears he went
to Edinburgh to study the non-intrusion question,
and came away convinced that the Free Church was
in the right. But " one swallow don't make a sum-
mer." The political article is on the opening of
Parliament, and the state of parties, which concludes
thus:—

"We trust, meanwhile, that the representatives of
Great Britain will not give another weapon to the repeal
armoury, by allowing the session to go much further
without a vigorous parliamentary protest against the
iniquities of the monster trial. The very discreditable
abdication of duty, on the part of the Irish absentee
Members, does not alter the case in the least. The ques-
tion is not Irish, but imperial. It was not Irish, but
British imperial law, that was twisted for Mr. O'Con-
nell's conviction ; and the attempt to make trial by jury
` a mockery, a delusion, and a snare,' and to smuggle
into our jurisprudence the:atrocious doctrines of construc-
tive complicity and inferential conspiracy, was a blow,
aimed not at Irish but at British liberties. In the very
lowest view of the case, there has been an enormous and
disgraceful blunder in the management of the public
business : the Executive has put out the utmost of its
strength and skill, for weeks and months together, in
the conduct of a State prosecution of first-class import-
ance, and has ignominiously broken down at last. If
this is Not a subject for Parliamentary inquiry, what is ?
It will be really shameful, should our supineness or dis-
satisfaction with the proceedings of the persons imme-
diately interested, allow such a complication of injustice
and bungling to pass uncensured. The absence of the
Members for Cork and Limerick has no more to do with
the matter, supposing the Union a reality, than would
the absence of the Members for Caithness and Banff. To
make a Parliamentary discussion of this business contin-
gent on the presence or absence of Irish Members, would
be a virtual adoption of the repeal theory, at the expense,
too, of the common popular franchises of the empire, to
which we should be heartily sorry to see English and
Scottish Liberals commit themselves."

FRASER'S MAGAZINE.

This is the best number that Fraser has published
for many months. The subjects are well selected
and treated with more than usual skill and taste.
The leading articles will suit almost every reader.
We have " Rambling Remarks on Horace, for the
classical scholar ; " The Lives of Rubens and Rem-
brandt" for the painter; " Bunyan and Bunhill-fields,"
for the Quakers and Methodists ; " My Log," for the
sailor; " A Walk from London to Fulham," for the
antiquary ; " The Great Ward Business," for the
Anti-Puseyites ; and " The Policy of Ministers,"
adapted to every class and denomination throughout
the vast empire called the United Kingdom, and its
dependencies. But to begin with the beginning.
Horace, some nineteen hundred years ago, announced,
with more than Roman vanity, that he had erected a
monument more lasting than the royal Pyramids of
Egypt ; that rain, and hail, and tempests would bat-
ter against it in vain; that his songs would be re-
cited on the banks of the Ebro and the Rhone,
and his verses be scanned on the shores
of the Bosphorus, in the wilds of Numidia, and on
the Scythian plains. We are only surprised that he
did not carry his prophetic eye farther, penetrate
into the New World, pa:ya compliment to the repudiat-
ing Pennsylvanians, and the men governed by Lynch
law, on the banks of the Ohio and the Mississippi, for
there his poetry is known, and perhaps more admired,
too, than in the valleys of his native Anio and the
plains of the yellow Tiber. It has reached even the
Ultima Thule ; the Doric Muse of the North has
paraphrased his celebrated Ode to Mount Soracte,
and a Scotch barber has thus turned into verse his
cheering prescription for a cold winter evening :--
" Dissolve frigus, ligna super foco
Large reponens :
" Then fling on coals, and ripe the ribs,
And beck the house baith butt and ben,
That mutchkin-stoup it hauds but dribs,
Then let's get in the tappit hen."
Horace, however, did not build a monument for
himself only, he had inscribed on it among many others
the names of Augustus, and Maecenas and Quinctilius,
on whom he has written an elegy which will last
while justice and honour and truth are revered as
virtues. To him Maecenas in these days owes his
fame, and the splendid character drawn by Morgan
Rattler, Esq., M.A., an apprentice of the law in
the nineteenth century :
" The peculiar privilege of the renown of Mavensta's
gentle name is, that it renews its accumulated honours
in the person of each lofty and generous patron of life•
rature and the learned, which the world, in its successive
centuries produces to do grace to human kind. Tho
great politician and philosopher, the accomplished
scholar, the princely gentleman, the honest prime
minister, who shrunk from ncthing in labour except its
ordinary rewards, who was content,—
' Certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate,
Nocteis atque dies niti prtestante labore,'
and yet who was so great of heart as to disregard the
stomas opes, who would never take anything from the
country and the master he so worthily served—who
despised all conventional rank and title—who was indif-
ferent quite to personal power—might have been for-
gotten; but the benefactor and friend of Horace and
Virgil survives the wreck of the mighty empire
he helped to raise, and can never die in
animis &minion cternitate temporum, fctm6 rerum,
And be it known, moreover, that while this gentleman
lived—the finest gentleman, perhaps, the world has ever
known, for the very jokes of Augustus, who was also a
true gentleman, independent of rank and station, go
only to prove this—while Mmcenas lived, he was equally
dear to the poor and ignorant, as to the lofty and the
learned. Gentleness, courtesy, munificence, boundless
charity, the outward and visible signs of the kingly
blood that ran through his veins, made him beloved by
the multitude, in the same degree with their imperial
benefactor Augustus. Horace, with an overflowing of
delight, alludes, in two places, to the manner in which
his friend was received, when, after a long and dan-
gerous illness, he once more took his place amongst the
knights at the theatre—
Cam populus frequens
L.'etum theatris ter crepuit sonum.'
These "Ramblingßemarks" will be read with pleasure
by the admirer of Horace, not only from their in-
trinsic merit, but for the choice selections from his
works, with the best translations in verse, and the
proofs they furnish of the most remarkable fulfilment
of a prophecy. About forty years 8.C., when the in-
habitants of these isles roamed in their native woods
with painted skins, and were more savage than the
red men of America, he uttered the words—" Visam
Britannos hospitibus feros," and in these latter days
we find his works in the hand of every schoolboy ; and
the first poets of the age, Milton and Ben Jonson, and
Dryden and Pope, vieing with each other in render-
ing his immortal odes into English verse. On re-
ferring to the political, and what may be called the
business dissertations in the Magazine, it is refreshing
to witness the happy change which has taken place
in this clever periodical. For many years it went on
part passu with its brother of the North, reviling
Catholics, defending the status quo of Church and
State, and trade, and declared every man a traitor.--
a "thief and loon," who would not sub-
scribe to the doctrine that the Constitution
was perfect when George 111. was King.
It has suddenly started off at a tangent from old
Blackwood, defends free-trade measures, stands up
for the Catholics, a large increase of the grant to
Maynooth, and even looks forward, if not with com-
placency, at least without concern, to the period when
the Catholic religion shall be the State religion of
Ireland. To save appearance, Fraser admits that the
carriage is running down the pass at a tremendous
rate, but he has full confidence in the coachman. He

objects neither to the pace nor the position. "The
, former, though rapid, will carry us the sooner through
our perils ; the latter, though beset with some dangers,
has a considerable touch of security in it too, and we
will tell our readers where to look for it." He then
furnishes very good reasons for liberal measures. But
his remarks in reference to the Irish and their religion
are most novel, and would have done honour to the
Edinburgh thirty years ago :
"So much for deeds actually done. We have, under
a Tory Government, recognised the Church of Rpm. e in
Ireland as a Church. We speak no more of ministers
of the Romish persuasion; but, in issued
from the crown, address ourselves to
irrebv
atheoln-
pow li4
A r,c, bgi sahi
ao p:
wMeu rpraasys,' aaned
A'
eTthoefßirglat' e
Riaemvfea.nißtthishwarohpee.'
piouesreidnditvoideunadloswprboefneesfisicnegs,
andtlheaesßomishure. l
Thus an end is
buildßoman C
' law which denied the existence of
the Church of withinßomo these kingdoms. So far
from prohibiting the Romish clergy to officiate in
pest places to tohfat worship,
et their p
public, we permit them to become bodies corporate; and,
like our own vicars- and rectors, to hold property as
corporations whole, so long as time shall last. More-
ever, if we do not negotiate
aiasnachldi raevelbecesrtrtlygiynymeit'uihetcaehht
ftrrwle:
rejoice
icPche
political
laws
ahh
that it
iourfta
iel Protestantnejde itnos
e eoarcommand,—an
ah ea realm;nidto,
Pta findre
give a sanction to the promulgation of one of his bulls in
ll
etaglietnattsiotne,
tahnedd
at ht
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o f steadytheir d e
cv
aoltriionng o fAtande! r
laat i
tml
ye,
thatand
other symptoms of change may not be wanting, the head
of the party which so long resisted emancipation proposes
a grant of many thousands annually for the better edu-
cation of Roman Catholic priests; and, if not cheered,
is certainly not turned round upon or denounced by the
party for having done so.
" Are we annoyed at all this? Do we blame it ? By
no means. Sir Robert Peel is pursuing. according to
our poor judgment, the only course which holds out a
prospect of peace for Ireland, and, as a necessary con-
sequence, for the United Kingdom. He is acting justly
towards the majority, and with exceeding policy to-
wards the minority, of the population of Ireland. But
we acknowledge, nevertheless, that we are on a rapid
descent on the hill-side, and that our nerves are some.
•

what shaken by it. Who will undeitalietTgiie
pledge, that in ten years, or twenty at the most, the Ro-
man Catholic Church *shall not be established in Ire-
land? Be it so. This is the risk. And, if it do come,

But we ere not at

we must try to make the best of it.
all disposed to say that it must come."
The " Great Ward Business" is very brief
__ and so
good that it ought not to be abridged. We 0,...er5.