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Dryden he is an original master. Dryden is, properly
sseaking, without imitators. His manner proceeds from
his own genius, and baffles transcribers. But Pope com-
pleted an art which could be learned, and he left a world
full of copyists.
" A remarkable feature is the early acknowledgment
of Pope by his contemporaries. At sixteen he is a poet
for the world by his Pastorals, and at that tige he has a
literary adviser in Walsh and a literary patron in Trum-
bull. Ile does not seem to court. He is courted. Ile
is the intimate friend, we do not know how soon, of
scholars crel polite writers, of men and women high in
birth, in education, in station. Scarce twenty, by his •
Essay on Criticism' lie assumes a chair in the school of
the Muses. At five-and-twenty, le:. is an acknowledged
dictator of polite letters. So early, rapid, untroubled an
ascension to fame, it would require some research to find
a parallel to. Our literature has it not. And this ac-
knowledgment, gratnlation, triumph, which friends and
circles, and the confined literary world of that day in
this country could furnish, a whole age, and a whole
country, and a whole world, the extended republic of
letters, confirm.
" In the judgment of England, in the eighteenth cen-
tury, the reputation of Pope may be called the most
dazzling in English literature. It was a nearer sun than
Dryden, Milton, Shakspeare ; as for Spenser and Chau-
cer, they were little better than fixed stars."

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THE MAGAZINES.
BLACKWOOD S MAGAZINE.
The histo.y of the eighteenth century is yet to be
written. S-ru e the days of Hume, no English writer has
arisen,that deserves the tit'e of historian. Smollett is a
mere inanimate compilerofevents—a drudge that copied
accounts of battles, and treaties, and rebellions, and
political facts, from annual registers, newspapers, and
dispatches, without • sin into his narration either
arguinent pr- • iftaition,:•or
of that divine spirit which represents the great actors-
on the human stage as living beines, renders
their character familiar to the reader, and points
out, as if by intuition, the mainspring of
their actions and policy. We have scraps of
history and memoirs without number. Walpole,
Fox, Russell, M•lntosh and many others have made
attempts to give historical delineations of the more
remarkable incidents of the period, -out they seemed
overwhelmed with the magnitude of the task, and have
left little or nothing that will descend to posterity. A
writer in the present number of Blackwood has also
tried his hand, and furnished an excellent sketch, at
least for Tory readers, of the main features which
distinguished the British history during the eighteenth
century of the principles of Whigs and Tories, and
their respective capabilities for conducting the affairs
of a great country. To the latter, of course, he gives
the preference, not that they are abler or better men,
not that they are less addicted to corruption and
other great faults inherent in human nature, but be-
cause the basis of their government is property, which
necessarily is vested comparatively in few hands, be-
cause they are opposed and narrowly watched by
numbers, and are thus deterred from doing evil from
the dread of the consequences recoiling on themselves.
The Whigs when out of place are all honourable men
—useful in their calling, excellent watchers, and most
determined enemies of those political vices which in
power they are more guilty of than their opponents,
but they are bad rulers and unlucky statesmen.
This, however, is put forth merely as an opinion
and may be passed over, but there are some maxims
laid down by the writer of a different character,
which sound strangely in the ears of impartial
men. " The Whigs (says the writer) had brought the
country to the brink of ruin, about the year 1760,
but fortunately George 111. and his advisers (meaning
Bute and the Princess), from the first moment of his
accession to the throne, set his face against the party.
This was the turning point of English history; upon
the success of that attempt the future character of the
Government and of the people mainly depended. It
for the first time since the Revolution restored the
Government to its proper position—it rested it en
property, and put numbers in opposition. This is
the only true basis of good government." A tree is
judged by its fruit—so are good governments; and
what fruit was produced between 1763 and
1803 may be learned from the history of the American
war and the mad policy of interfering with the in-
ternal government of France to prop up an imbecile
and falling dynasty. It would be difficult--
nay, impossible, to find in the whole annals
of the country a time so full of disgrace,
so many ignominious disasters, such a loss
of territory, and such a general prostration of British
power, while during all that long and dismal period
the great specific was in operation —the Govern-
ment rested on property, and put numbers in opposi-
tion. Yet this remedy for bad government, which
had been tried for forty years, and was found wanting,
is still maintained to be the real cause of the glori-
ous struggle made against the French Revolution
and the gigantic efforts of Bonaparte. The ul-
timate victory must be attributed to other causes.
The old system was persevered in till actual
destruction threatened the country. The Duke of
York was sent to Holland ; favourites or men who
could command patronage
were
of our armies, and disastwerwpaslactehde innactoumraTarned.
stilt. The French Revolution, not the " proper basis
of good government," roused the country to energy ;
the nobles and the clergy took warning from
the fate of their French brethren, and energy
was infused into our rulers by the fear-
ful destruction of the strongholds of despotism.
There were the true causes of the great change which
took place about the commencement of the present
century, and which carried the country triumphantly
through so fearful a crisis. We have only space to
advert to another Tory doctrine. That party, of
course, hated the revolution of 1688, while they
admit that "we owe to it many of our greatest
blessings." And these blessings are " a national
debt, a standing army, and a stable foreign policy."
‘!Had Charles 1.," says the writer, " possessed five
thousand guards, he would at once have crushed the
Great Rebellion." That is, he would have carried
into effect the dangerous plans of the renegade Straf-
ford, restored Pooery, with the assistance of Laud,
abrogated Parliaments, and established a pure des•
P• otism Such are the aspirations of a genuine old
Tory. Occasionally, however, the Whigs are allowed
some merit. They carried on one great war with
spirit and success, they brought about the revolution,
though they did not carry it out with proper spirit;
and justice is done to a few of their leaders. High
praise is bestowed on Sir James Mackintosh, and
regret expressed that he did not live to complete his
history, which " would, unquestionably, have taken
its place with those of Hume, Robertson, and Gibbon."
The following character, too, of Horace Walpole is
just :

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Where, on the other hand, is to be discovered that
wonder of a man, who by indulgence in play has bene-
fitted his estate, increased his means, or added one jot
to his reputation, or to the peace and happiness of those
connected with him ! Echo answers—' Where ?' One
of the most steady, temperate, and prudent speculators
at Crockford's was the late Lord S-- ; but with all
his calm and imperturbable disposition and bold enter-
prise, the game conquered him, and he could no more
controul or defeat the certain pull or per tentage against
him than he could hare accelerated or retarded the
earth's revolutionary motion. He was passionately fond
of French hazard ; but he had the prudence, and with it
the resolution, to confine his risk within legitimate
bounds, and 3et he contributed annually to increase the
mound of Crockford'a profits. The late Marquis of
H--, who 'was deeply and practically skilled in the
speculative science of play, and who bad little love of
any game that affOrded not advantage to those best ac-
quainted with its principles, was once or twice induced to
try his hand at French hazard, but very soon discovered
that the only certainty it embraced was loss to the
player, and profit to the banker. He himself was a 10-ser
on the occasion alluded to, an event so unusual in his
Lordship's practice, that it gave rise to the following
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AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE.
The best paper in the present Number of Ains-
worth is a feeling tribute to the powers and many
estimable qualities of the late Mr. Laman Blanchard;
many extracts from his numerous essays are given,
among them, like a gem in a rich setting, a part of
one of his poems, " The Eloquent Pastor Dead,"
some verses of which, though our readers may re-
member them, they will not object to perusing again;
they are, says the writer of the article, singularly
descriptive of the amiable poet and essayist himself :
" Oh, mourn not ! yet remember what has been—
How buoyantly he trod this troubled scene,
The pathways of his spirit always green!
" He taught the cheerfulness that still is ours,
The sweetmess that still lurks in human powers;—
If heaven be full of stars, the earth has flowers!

" His was the searching thought, the glowing mind ;
The gentle will to others' soon resign'd •
But more than all, the feeling just and kind.
" His pleasures were as melodies from reeis—
Sweet books, deep music, and unselfish deeds,
Finding immortal flowers in human weeds.

Say, hcly prophet, who can hope to win,
Where men like H-- can be taken in ?"
The sketch of "Monmouth," by Miss Costello, is
interesting, full of antiquarian research, and recom-
mended by recent observation. The " Anecdotal
Gatherings," by Mr. Peake, are trivial, and not
worthy of his reputation. The remaining articles
are, " A Memoir of B auwlaski," the Polish dwarf,
who died in 1837, at the extreme age of ninety-eight.
The " Retreat to Corunna," from the " Recollections
of Rifleman Harris;" a chapter from the sad volume
opened by the "Gaol Chaplain," and several minor
pieces in prose and verse, which we need not
particularise.

" Flis thoughts were as a pyramid up-piled,
On whose far top an angel stood and smiled—
Yet, in his heart, was lie a siurple child."
Mr. Ainsworth's " Revelations of London, proceeds—
we wish we could say with increasing effect; but the
introduction of Rosicrucians and the elixir of life,
undying men, and compacts with fiends, into a
framework of the everyday life of London, is not cal-
culated to take a strong hold of the reader. It has
all been done before besides ; for instance, the opening
of the tomb of the Rosicrucian in the old house at
Stepney in this Number, is almost a repetition of the
passage in the " Lay f the Last Minstrel," where
William of Deloraine takes the "Book of Might "
from the tomb of Michael Scott. The article on
Townsend, the officer, by the author of " Mornings
in Bow-street," is amusing. The man was an
original, and a great character in his way ; the paper
makes us at once wish to know more of its hero, and
see something from its author more frequently. The
mingled fun and pathos of those " Mornings in Bow-
street" still dwell in the memories of many.
The " D'Orsay Gallery " is a descriptive
paper, of the productions of the pencil of Count
D'Orsay, who, in the absorbing idleness of high life,
has found time to prove to the world that he has
talents that might have won him a high place in the
list of painters, had fortune compelled him to be a
follower of the arts instead of making him a leader
of fashion. As a specimen of his skill, a portrait of
Mr. Ainsworth' by the Count, is given, and is worth
whole pages of description or eulogy. Many of the
other papers are very readable, and the Number is al-
togother an exceedingly good one.

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NE IV MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

Let the lovers of "mirth and marvels" rejoice—.
Thomas Ingoldsby is again in the field, and opens
the present number of the New Monthly, with " A
Lay of St. Romwold." It is so long since we have
had anything from the pen of Thomas Ingoldsby, that
we were afraid he had retired to some
" Sacellum or cell,
In which chronicles tell,
Saints and anchorites erst were accustomed to dwell,"
as he himself singeth in the " Lay of St. Romwold,"
but we rejoice to say that he has arisen, "like a giant
refreshed," and is as quaint, as mirthful, and as mar-
vellous as ever. The Lay is followed by a continua-
tion of the "Talleyrand Papers," containing the history
of Cerutti, the coadjutor of irabeau and Talleyrand
in starting the first popular journal ever published
in France, the Feuille Tillageoise. Cerutti had been
in early life a Jesuit, having been entrapped into becom-
ing a member of the society by a series of the most un-
principled and heartless intrigues ever recorded. Their
object in inveigling Cerutti was to get possession of
his estates, and in order to secure the possession they
murdered his brother Cesario. After reading the re-
velations of Cerutti we cannot help thinking that
the fears of assas'ination entertained by M. Ville-
main are not altogether so ill-founded as we in Eng-
land have been led to suppose. This is followed by
a continuation of" Lights and Shades in the Life of a
Gentleman on Half-pay," from the pen of the
author of " Stories of Waterloo." "D'Arcey's Visit
to a Circassian Chief," " The excursion up the
Oronooka," and " The Roberts's on Travels"
are continued in the present number. From this
latrer work we extract the following sketch of a
class of English travellers, who are the pest of the
continent. Mrs. Trollope has been often charged
with caricature and exaggeration ; we can, however,
from our personal knowledge, vouch for her strict
accuracy in the present instance, and are rejoiced to
find that she remarks—
" The fast class are, on their native soil, of littte im-
portance to us compared with the injurious effect they
produce on the reputation of their countrymen abroad.
There is not a capital in Europe, to say nothing of spas,
baths, wells, and so forth, where a knot of these frolick-
ing., rollicking Englishmen may not be found, not only
doing pretty nearly every thing that they ought not to
do, but doing it with such audacity of display, as of ne-
cessity brings all eyes upon them ; while by thus thrust-
ing themselves and their noisy impertinence perpetually
on the foreground, they contrive very effectually to keep
the better class of English travellers comparatively out
of sight, leaving their own precious sayings and doings
to be quoted by all the nations of the earth, as the moral
and intellectual type of the British people.
" This is a pity, and cannot fail to be much lamented
by the patriotic English both at home and abroad; for
the class is perfectly well known at home, and the effect
they produce when on their travel is guessed at without
much difficulty. But although the class of men denomi-
nated fast men may be perfectly well known in Eng-
land, and sufficiently studied without leaving it, there is
another class sent forth by our overflowing population,
which can only be seen in perfection abroad, namely,
that awful portion of the travelling tribe, properly deno-
minated fast ladies.' Of this class, the women of Eng-
land who remain at home have, I really hope and be-
lieve, no idea whatever; and were it not that these too,
from the noisy audacity with which they bring them-
selves forward, are frequently pointed oat as specimens
of English women of fashion, it would be desirable to
leave them in the shade in which their insignificance at
home would naturally place them; but as it is, it may
be useful to raise a voice, however feeble, just to tell all
whom it may concern, that the fast young ladies who are
led about by their papas and mammas, from kingdom to
kingdom, and from city to city, flirting and frolicking
in a style peculiarly their own and willssuch freedom
from all ordinary young lady-like restraint, as entitles
them to the said epithet of fast, are not specimens of the
gentlemen's daughters of England."
" We laugh at our French neighbours for the blunders
they make with our titles; but the Sir Bulwer and the
Sir Scott, does greatly less discredit to their quickness
than the judgments which they pass so freely upon the
deficiency of grace in English manners. Not only the
French, however, but all other nations of Europe, be.
fore they cr.n justly appropriate to themselves the merit
of discernment while passing this judgment, must rouse
their acuteness to the task of not mistaking a bad speci-
men for a good one,"
The " Frog and the Pox " is a history of the career
of a parish demagogue, by Peter Frigging, and
" Born under the Dog Star," is a lively sketch of the
career of a thorough mauvais oriel, from the pen of
one of the most rising ('f our young writers, Angus
Reach. The Number concludes with a sketch of
the literary career of poor Laman Blanchard, the most
amusing of authors and the most kind-hearted of men.

TAIT'S MAGAZINE.
The article on " The Correspondence of Edmund
Burke" is in every respect excellent. It gives, with-
out pretensions, a graphic description of his active
and varied life, his political connexions, his change of
politics (if his marked detestation of the horrors of
the French Revolution deserve the name), the neglect
with which he was treated by a party that he had
long served faithfully and effectually, the comparative
solitude and gloom in which he was left in the decline
of life, and the melancholy sufferings which closed a
life embittered at last, beyond endurance, by the
death of a brother and a son to whom he was ardently
attached. Impartiality, truth, and kindness are the
principal features in the picture here given of this
beautiful writer and splendid orator. His faults and
frailties are not extenuated, but they are pc urtrayed
as if by the hand of a friend--his great qualities, his
eloquence, varied information, industry, and genius,
though incidentally mentioned, are placed in full
view; and the reflections on his death are expressed
in glowing language, and bear all the marks of sin-
cere conviction. After quoting a letter addressed to
Burke on his death- bed, by the daughter- in-law of
the venerable Quaker at whose school he had received
his early education, the last, or among the last, which
ne received, the writer thus concludes :—" And so
Edmund Burke sank to his long sleep—the innocent
memories of childhood hovering round his pillow, the
blessing of pious friendship resting upon his head.
The overworked heart, whose beatings literally
destroyed it, had ceased to beat at last. The worn-
out body was deposited in that quiet village church)
where the beloved son and brother lay already, knd
where, many years afterwards, the aged wi:',ow was to
lie down beside her own. There, t`'..b, lay buried the
. disappointments and
distrusts and animosities
regrets; there lay
I:".lfied all of sorrow and of suffer-
ing, which, im.partei by birth to the human spirit,
the cold hand of death wipes away. On earth, nought
survived, but the name of the dead, and the works
which have made that name immortal : the name of a
man who sometimes erred in thought, and often
sinned in feeling and in act, but who yet was wise,
and good, and great; works which, in spite of
grievous faults, are among the noblest monuments
ever created in the arts of thinking and of commu-
nication."
The article is long, extending to seventeen pages ;
but, with the judicious remarks of the reviewer and
the extracts from his letters, is full of interest; and
we may, therefore, be excused for giving the follow-
ing additional extract, as it displays at once the in-
dependence and sincerity of his political opinions,
and the deep interest which he took in the sufferings
of his persecuted countrymen :
9 He obeyed the Ministry in nothing: he would not
even agree with them, unless when they chose to obey
with
him. He resisted them stoutly, even . their policy.

" Horace Walpole was a man of the world and a
courtier ; he had quick natural parts and much acquired
discernment. He was a good scholar, was fond of anti-
quities, and a passionate admirer of curiosities, which
he collected with indefatigable industry, and no small
success, from every quarter. He had lived too long in
the political and great world not to have learned its sel-
fishness and appreciated its heartlessness; not to have
become acquainted with many political secrets, and seen
enough of political baseness. He had considerable
powers of observation, and occasionally makes a profound
remark, especially on the selfish tendencies aid the se-
cret springs of the human heart. His characters are all
drawn from the life ; and often with great power both of
observation and expression. But ho had not sufficient
steadiness of thought or purpose to achieve anything
considerable, or draw any important conclusions even
from the multifarious information of which he was
master, or the powers of observation which he possessed.
There was nothing grand or generous in his composition.
resolves, are
ted tl
visibleng h t s
in,
hisn no lofty
tiaspations, no patriotic
There is another article, on a somewhat similar
subject, " Lord Malmesbury's Diaries and Corres-
pondence;" but it is occasionally enlivened by remarks
on his unlucky mission to the Court of Brunswick,
and the character of the Prince and Princess of Wales,
in which the former is not spared. The following
sentence closes the animadversions on his barbarous
treatment of his future wife, when first introduced to
her. "An interview of a minute's duration, brandy
and an oath ; rare prospects for the felicity and con-
tinuance of the future Hymen I" North returns to
his "Specimens of the British Critics" with his wonted
length, will appear
sufficientlythose eminent
vigour and display of classical knowledge. Dryden
and Pope form the subjects of the second series,
great
extending
thegreat,
d
noes. We subjoin a sketch of their peculiarities :
" Pope had a gentleness of spirit, which showed itself
in his filial offices to his father and mother—to her the
most, in the prolonged wearing out of a beloved life. It
appears in kindly relations to his friends, in charities, in
the scheme of his life—contentedness in a bounded,
quiet existence, a seclusion among books, and trees, and
flowers. Ilia life flowed on peaceably and gently, like
the noble river upon which his modest dwelling looked.
11l health, as we said, often dedicates ii student. The
constitutional feebleness from which he suffered, might
doubly favour his mind ; as often the more delicate
franie harbours the 4reater spirit ; rind as inaptitude fob
active and rough sports, throws the solitary boy upo
i n
the companionship of books, and upon the energies avo-
cations, and pleasures of his own intelligence and fancy.
The little poem of his boyhood, and the first of his man-
hood, prophesy his tenor of life, and his literary career.
‘! A coramapdihg powers a predominant star in ug-
iah
litereffire:4:yon mightWthatethe ta.st 'Century tie-
onged to him. Dryden reigned over 'his contempo.
raries. Pope, succeeding, took dominion over his own
time and the following. The pupil of Dryden, and
gratefully proud to proclaim the greatness of his master,
and to own all obligations, he moulded himself never-
theless upon 0 type in his QWII ems. 19 the 00901 9f

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feeble measures privately; he denounced them publicly
in the pamphlets which he published after his retirement
from Parliament. Never was Ministry plagued with
such a partisan. Or rather, to express the relation more
correctly, never was party perplexed by such an ally—an
I ally too powerful not to be courted, yet too thoroughly
unmanageable to be efficiently use& Nor was this all.
There was one great question, upon which his head and
heart were alike sound to the very last. To Ireland his
affection was always true. In regard to the treatment of
Ireland, his indignation never waxed cold: —the genuine
remedies for the evils of Ireland were always clearly and
steadily present to his view. It is consol to be able
to close the survey of his agitated
careerator with a notice
of events in which his enlightened patriotism shone out
with steady brightness, and in which an honourable part
was borne by one wh9 was dearer to him than fame or
life."

COLBURIV'S UM TED SERVICE MAGAZINE.
Our friend Major Muffin continues his amusing
conyqrsations irk .the preSe.ut number. " The Re-
Minispences of a French Prison" are also continued.
These reminiscences increase in interest as they proceed.
We are sorry to take leave of the Naval Chaplain,
who concludes his " Note Book" this month, but we
hope soon to meet with him again. The remainder
of the articles are of a strictly professional character.

There is another rather long article giving numerous ex-
tracts from recent novels on the Condition-of-Ireland
question, which are descriptive of the habits of the
people, and the state of the country, and one entitled
" Opinions of the Germans ou the Scottish Church

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DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING
MAGAZINE.
We have two more chapters of the " History of
St. Giles and St. James." Young St. Giles is taken
to the watchhouse and locked up for the night, on the
charge of stealing the hat of young St. James. He is,
however, released the next morning through the inter-
vention of Bright Jem and Capstick, the muffin-man.
The latter is a voter of the borough of Liquorish, the
pocket borough of the Marquis of St. James, and the
muffin-man goes to the Marquis to solicit the release
of young St. Giles :
" Now it cddly enough happened that, at the time
when Capstick sought to approach the Marquis, Parlia-
ment was near its dissolution. The wicked old hag was
all but breathing her last, yet—case-hardened old
sinner !—she expressed no contrition, showed no touch
of conscitnce for her past life of iniquity ; for her wrongs
she had committed upon the weak and poor ; for the
nightly robberies upon them who toiled for the especial
luxury of those who, like the tenants of a cheese, livcd
and crawled upon unearned pensions ; she repented not
of the blood she had shed in the wickedness of war ;
never called about her soft-hearted, tearful, most ortho-
dox bishops, to assuage the agony of her remorse, and
to cause her to make a clean breast of all her hidden
iniquity. No. Parliament was about to expire—about
to follow her sinful predecessors (what horrid epitaphs
1 has History written upon some of them !) and she
heard no voice of conscience ; all she heard was the
chink of gidneas-porsed by-bribery fort her anotmrser."
---- - Under such-circumstances,- a-refusal-was-not to be
expected, and accordingly St. Giles is discharged by
the magistrate for want of a prosecutor. The iniquity
and injustice of the window-tax is the subject of an
admirable paper, entitled " The Luxury of Light."
This article will henceforth become the manual of all
who are engaged in the agitation against this typhus-
producing impost. Patmore's " Recollections of
Hazlitt" are continued ; they relate chiefly to Haz-
litt's connexion with Northcote. Juniper hedgehog,
too, continues his " Correspondence of Sir Jame
Graham,"—" the sealing-wax Jack Sheppard," as
Hedgehog calls him. Master Juniper, we think,
prophecies correctly—" The fun is not over yet,"
sayeth he; " meantime, if you write, don't either use
wax or wafers, it's only wasting property." The re-
maining papers in this number are all good. Douglas
Jerrold this month gives us an excellent shilling's-
worth.

' Cam populusTrequens
latuat thcatris ter crepuit sonum.' "
These "Ramblingßemarks" will be read withpleasure, 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
par; 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. 'Nvas 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
ce.7-riage 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 Rome in
Ireland as a Church. We speak no more of ministers
of the Romish persuasion; but, in commissions issued
from the crown, address ourselves to ' The Most Rev.
Archbishop Murray,' and ' The Right Rev. Bishop.'
. " Again: we pass an Act of Parliament whereby
pious individuals professing the Romish faith are em-
powered to endow benefices, and build Roman Catholic
places of worship, at their pleasure. Thus an end is
put to that fiction in law which denied the existence of
the Church of Rome within these kingdoms. So far
from prohibiting the Romish clergy to officiate in
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.
Adore-
ever, if we do not negotiate directly with the Pope, we
give a sanction to the promulgation of one of his bulls in
this our Protestant realm; and very much rejoice to find
that it enjoins on the Ruttish clergy that, which all our
laws failed to command,—an abstinence from political
agitation, and the steady devotion of their time and
talents to the duties of their calling. And, lastly, that
other symptoms of charge may not be wanting, the bead
of the party which so long resisted emancipation proposes
a grant of many thousands annually for the btkter 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 undertake to give a
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,
we must try to ,wake the best of it. But we are not at
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 there