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tively interfere with the procesz of manufacturing in-
dustry. Nothing could be better, too, than the way in
which the recent changes were introduced by the
i Premier ; the broad and emphatic announcement of the
• soundest doctrine as to the national policy of exteroling
commerce and unshackling industry. But the disagree.
able reflection alwa) s recurs, that it is of comparatively
little use to facilitate and cheapen production, while we
persist in obstructing exchange—that there can be no
exports without imports,—and that the desiderated ex-
tension of our manufactures for the foreign market must,
after all, be limited by our power of receiving returns.
Free production of glass and cotton goods requites, as
its counterpart and complement, free purchase of corn
and sugar. And, though we are fully alive to the high
importance, in a national view, of an absolutely unre-
stricted importation of so many as four hundred and
thirty articles of commerce, including such matters as
argal and alganobilla, stavesacre and sangtas draconis,
taraq and diva, divi,--yet, on the whole, the Ministerial
bill of fare is more tantalising than satisfying. We have
the amplest assortment of physics and poisons, but a
dismal lack of food ; teeth and gums in profusion, but
nothing to eat; skins and bones (not to speak of
horns, hoofs, and tails) without flesh, and alum without
bread."
Some of the extracts given from "Freilegrath's
Poems and Politics" will be read with interest. They
display a vigorous spirit, and at the same time a pa-
triotic feeling, for the fatherland of Germany against
Russians as well as French, We have room for only
an extract from " The Two Flags," which shows that
the Deutchers feel little sympathy with the French
subjects on the Rhine :
A Mosel dogger on the Rhine !
'Twas towed up stream ; the horses panted.
And.forward, fluttering in the shine,
The hoisted ensign boldly flaunted ;
Long-streaming landwards over head,
The finest colours, fresh and galliard,—
Blue, as I live ! then white, and red,
In upright stripes, too, down the halyard !
I stopped, with wondering eyes thrown wide ;
While from the craft, in saucy chorus,
The Frenchmen hailing, loudly cried :
" Ay ! look ! the tricolour flies o'er us !"
So ! to myself I growled,—keep still ;
At home it seems you yet speak German ;
Lorrainers, bound from Thionville,
For France need scarcely make much stir, men !
Therewith I let the peeon go ;
And soon the hanging branches hid it.
Here, ou our Rhine, no welcome, though,
As God's my witness now, I bid it !
And meant it aught, upon these banks,
Than peace, as borne on yonder gabbard,
I'd join its foemen in the ranks •
When German steel has left the scabbard !
Let home and country still be first !
But then—no word of blind-eyed rancour !
The flag we prize ; and that it burst
For freedom way in France, may thank her.
Even now 'tis wet with July blood ;
Say where was nobler shed, or bolder ?
So, though we'll watch it close—'tis good
To have a gallant foe to shoulder.

some muddy bank, or even a plunge over a bridge,
horses, coach, and driver and all, would leave some
hope—one half might escape unhurt—the wounded
might crawl to the next stage, and the survivors in a
body might mount a new coach, and send the old
driver to Coventry—but to be led to the Slough of
Despond against their will,and see " monarchy sur-
rounded by democratic institutions," is beyond Tory
or even Conservative endurance. Yet, somehow or
other, they are led on against their will, and are in a
state of such utter bewilderment that even the most
rational, and not the least far-seeing, of their organs
is as much bewildered as the humblest of the lot. It
has no confidence in Peel. He will betray them as
he has already done. He is not necessary to their
existence as a body, yet they are counselled not
to change their leader. He protested against
Catholic Emancipation, and the emancipation of
the Jews and the emancipation of trade proposed
by the Whigs. These and fifty other Whig mea-
sures he protested against, yet hil protestations and
his vows are all forgotten, the Catholics and the Jews
are his great favourites, and Hume and Cobden, and
Warburton and other Destructives, are his Cabinet
Ministers. Yet " Sir Robert Peel has deceived no
one, or, if any, he has deceived the Whigs, for there
is no disputing the fact, that he has managed to cut
the ground from beneath their feet, and to have ren-
dered his Government more acceptable to the free
traders of England and the Roman Catholics of Ire-
land than ever was that of Earl Grey or even of Lord
Melbourne." But he has not only cut the ground
from under the Whigs—he has served the Tories
still worse, and ‘! made Allem cut, 4.,,,ilot.their own
throats, certainly the throats of all their former
opinions. Now this sort of thing cannot last for
ever. Men dragged day by day through the mire
must perceive in the end that they are very dirty;
and as the conviction matures itself they lose both
temper and judgment, and go about declaring that
their leader has betrayed them." Yet Fraser advises
the Conservatives to stick to him. "If Sir Robert
Peel be determined to go forward in the course on
which he seems to have entered, perhaps we could not
give our friends better advice than to go with him."
Yet, almost in the same breath, we have the following
lugubrious strains on the admission of the Israelites
to civic honours—strains which want only the charms
of poetry to equal the lamentations of the Jews when
they sat by Babel's streams and wept :—" The last
hope of protection for the old Constitution is taken
away. It is not an open enemy that has done it this
wrong, but the very champion who fought for it half
a life-time ; and now on whom can it fall back, seeing
that a Conservative Minister has betrayed it ?" Can
we wonder after this that Miles and Bankes and
Tyrrell, and the whole host of agricultural Con-
servatives, are lost in the endless maze, when we hear
such contradictions from one of their chosen teachers?
The article on which these remarks are made is en-
titled " The Treasury. Benches," and it is in true
keeping. Sir Robert Peel occupies them all, and he
is the Alpha and the Omega too of this Number. The
last article is on Peel, and so is the first—" Contem-
porary Orators, No. 1., Sir Robert Peel." His cha-
racter is not drawn with a partial hand, as may be
inferred from the spirit that pervades the preceding
extracts, but it is on the whole just :
" A stranger to the House of Commons, who, having
heard of Sir Robert Peel's influence there, had conceived
some ideal portrait of a great orator, would assuredly be
disappointed. He would observe in his speeches a want
of strong reasoning on fixed principles, a lax, loose,
many-sided mode of viewing the most vital questions,
and a great command of that sort of logic which takes
in common minds by clever fallacies. He would look in
vain for vivid imagination or profound thought. He
would find no outline of a complete scheme of policy, nor
any one ruling idea with which his own views and poli-
tical !sympathies could associate. The style he would
pronounce inartificial ; not that there is no attempt at
construction, but that the speech is so crowded with ex-
traneous matter, and the speaker has so many ends to
gain, that a perfect plan would be impossible. He would
complain of verbosity, of repetition of ideas, nay, whole
arguments, in different words, and then imperfectly ex-
pressed, of a pervading pretension to something very
profound, which constantly falls short of accomplish-
ment. Of the action used by the speaker he would be
tempted to say that it was neither modest as becomes an
unassuming reasoner, nor commanding as ought to be
the action of a great orator. He would see at one time
a pompous solemnity leading to nothing ; at another, the
most trivial postures of every-day after-dinner conversa-
tion ushering in the most important topics. His elbow
resting on the table before him, while his pointed finger
shakes ominously at his opponents, and one leg is crossed
over the other, the posture of a man laying down an
argument to a familiar friend ; or, his thumbs buried in
the pockets of his capacious waistcoat, while his coat is
thrown back ostentatiously, as some foreigners do to
show their fine velvet linings ; or, as is more commonly
the case, his hands bidden under his coat-tails, while he
stands much as he might with his back to a fire,—there
are not exactly the positions or gestures of a great orator.
But, on the other hand, whatever the defects of Sir
Robert Peel, when his speeches or his actions are looked
at critically, you cannot fail to admire his ease and self-
possession, the thorough knowledge he has, even to the
minutest details, of every subject he undertakes, the
adroitness with which he enters into all the different
feelings, prejudices, and interests which surround him,
and the wit he evinces in wielding them so as to produce
all the appearance of enthusiasm, and in moulding them
to his purpose, of subduing their varieties to one harmo-
the
House
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actioneis
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unrivalled."
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8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
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In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Shareholders of
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annum, on the Sum Insured to all Policies of the Participating Class
tom the time they were effected.
The Bonus added to °licks from March, 1834, to December 31,
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ACTVARY.—J. T. Clement, Esq,
At the last quinquennial meeting there was added a bonus to the
Life Policies equal to 25 per cent. on the sums paid, and a bonus of
5 per cent. to the Shares, in addition to the payment of the annual
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the premium may remain on interest at 5 per rent. for five years,
thus enabling a person to insure his life for 1,0001. on the immediate
payment of the premium for 5001. only.
The following are the annual Premiums for the Assurance of 1001.
for the whole Life, one-half of whirls may remain for five years by
merely paying the interest annually at five per cent. ; and should
the Policy become a claim in the interim, the amount due will then
be &ducted.
Age 20, without profits.. £1 13
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any ages or contingencies not usually advertised information may be
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BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
A remarkable change has come over the chief
leader of the Tory party in the north. Passing events,
politics, the outbreaks of D'lsraeli, the absence of
O'Connell from his Parliamentary duties, the pros-
pects of Toryism, and twenty other striking events
are undeserving of notice. flow different North is
now, from what be was when Normanby ruled in Ire-
land, Melbourne deserted his town residence and re-
sided at Windsor and Buckingham Palace, and Peel
and Lyndhurst and the Duke sat almost without hope
on the dreary Opposition benches. Then his soul
was filled with just indignation against the wild
schemes of the destructives. They were denounced
as the enemies of the farmers, they were preparing
the way for the downfall of Protestantism by grant-
ing favours to Catholics, nay they were abrogating
the Christianity of the State by advocating the eman-
cipation of the Jews, and ruining men, once their
country's pride, by the new-fangled and dangerous
doctrines of free trade. This silence, under the pre-
sent circumstances, argues a want of moral courage
which Blackwood never showed before. His opinion
is looked to by his countrymen, and it was shameful
to leave them to their own undirected meditations
when events of the first magnitude come upon them,
one after another, or in clusters, and cast all the doings
of Grey, Melbourne, and Stanley, into the shade.
The present session has been fruitful beyond all
others of themes for discussion, yet on these North is
silent as the grave, and longs to amuse his
readers with well-rounded sentences and
learned disquisitions about such old worn-
out characters as Virgil, and Tasso, and Dryden.
In these stirring times, such personages possess little
interest, even with all the skill and classical know-
ledge plentifully displayed in at least forty pages.
Readers, however, must submit to their lot, and if
they can only forget Maynooth, and the tariff, and
the whinings of disappointed underlings, will find not
a little gratification in the comparison drawn by a
learned commentator between Homer and his princi-
pal imitators— for imitators are they all. Too much
praise has been given to Tasso. His epic poem is in
the highest degree correct—it is written according to
the strict rules of art, but it wants the quality which
alone can give a zest to poetry—those simple touches
of nature which at once go the heart, and which nei-
ther time nor change of customs can strip of their
effect. In that respect Tasso is not only at an im-
mensurate distance behind Homer, but he is sur-
passed by Virgil, and even Milton, and his " Jerusa-
lem Delivered," whatever may be its other merits, on
that account is seldom read. It is kept for show
rather than use. The subject, too, is unfortunate.
The wild visions of the leaders are now viewed in
their true light, and the only good they effected—
the accidental introduction into Europe of Asiatic
discoveries and improvements—is, as far as we re-
member, not even alluded to. In his remarks on the
translations of Dryden, North has not confined him-
self by any narrow limits, for he describes not only
the Englishman, but gives the characters of those
poets whose works he has so vigorously translated,
and so beautifully clothed in an English dress. We
select the character of Juvenal as a specimen :
"In Dryden and Juvenal we meet peer and peer. In-
dignant scorn and moral disgust instigated the nervous
hand of 'Juvenal, moulded to wield the scourge of satire.
He is an orator in verse, speaking with power and com-
mand, skilled in the strength of the Roman speech, and
practised in the weapons of rhetoric. But he is never•
theless a poet. Seized with impressions, you see his sail
caught with driving gusts, if his eye be on the card. He
snatches images right and left on his impetuous way, and
flings them forth suddenly and vividly, so that they al-
ways tell. Perhaps he is more apt at binding a weighty
thought in fewer words than his Translator, who felt
himself at this disadvantage when he expressively per •
trayed' the Latin as ' as a severe and compendious lan-
guage. The Roman satirist has more care of himself;
he maintains a prouder step; and the justifying incentive
to this kind of poetry, hate with disdain of the vices and
miseries to be lashed, more possesses his bosom. And
what a wild inzurrection of crimes and vices! What a
challenge to hate and disdain in the minds in which the
tradition of the antique virtues, the old mores, those
edifiers of the sublime Republic, had yet life! Rome
under Nero and Doteitian! Pedants have presumed to
question the sincerity of his indigration, and have more
than hinted that his power of picturing those enormous
profligacies was inspired by the pleasure of a depraved
imagination. Never was there falser charge. The times
and the topics were not for delicate handling,—they were
to be heolted at boldly in the facee—and if spoken of at
all, at full, and with unmistakeable words.
" There is no gloating in his eyes when fixed in fire
on guilt. Antipathy and abhorrence load with more re-
volting colours the hideous visage, from which, but for
that moral purpose, they would recoil. But what, it
may be asked, is the worth and use of a satire that
drags out vices from their hiding-holes to flay them in
sunshine? They had no hiding-holes. They affronted
the daylight."
" Bentham's Etruria Celtics" is an amusing sketch,
and affords a striking illustration of the wild dreams
of etymologists. " Vestiges of the Natural History
of Creation" is of a differcnt character, and merits
careful perusal. It relates to those mute records of
past changes which lie buried in the earth, the struc-
ture and movement of the heavenly bodies, and the
great works around us, which everywhere show ma-
nifestly the hand of their Creator. The following
remarks are very appropriate for such a grand
subject :
" To reduce to a system the acts of creation, or the
development of the several forms of animal life, no more
impeaches the authorship of creation, than to trace the
laws by which the world is upheld and its phenomena
perpetually renewed. The presumption naturally rises
in the mind, that the same Great Being would adopt
the same mode of action in both cases. If, for instance,
the nebular hypothes. see have already alluded,
should be received fie account of the proxi-
mate origin of our pia' -w, this, as Mr. Whewell
has shown in his Br Treatise,' would serve
re the operations of
only to enlighten and elev )..•i" our cencePtion of the
power of God. And indeed mind accustomed—as
is every educated mind—to regard
Deity as essentially differing from the limited, sudden,
evanescent impulses of a human agents it is distressing
to be compelled to picture to itself the power of God
as put forth in any other manner than in those slow,
mysterious, universal laws, which have so plainly an
eternity to work in ; it pains the imagination to be
obliged to assimilate those operations, for a moment, to
the brief energy of a human will, or the manipulations
of a human hand. Does not the language even of a
Christian poet, when he slit aks of God as launching from
his ample palm the rolling planets into space, in some
derog the
measure offend us? Do we not avoid as muchatory asto pos-
sible all suck similitudes, as being
notions of the Supreme?
" There are still, indeed, some men of narrow preju-
dices who look upon every fresh attempt to reduce the
phenomena of nature to general laws, and to limit those
occasions on which it is necessary to conceive of a direct
and separate interposition of Divine power, as a fresh
encroachment on the prerogatives of the Deity, or a con-
cealed attack upon his very existence. And yet these
very same men are daily appealing to such laws of the
creation as have already been established, for their great
pro( fs of the existence and the wisdom of God ! Their
imagination has remained utterly untutored by the little
knowledge which they have rather learned to repeat
than to apprehend. Whatever words they may utter,
of subtle and high-sounding import, concerning the
purely spiritual nature of the Divine Being, it is, in fact,
a Jupiter Toner's clad in human lineaments, and invested
with human passions, that their heart is yearning atter.
they now applaud a
;Bridgewater Treatise,
Such oljectors as these can only be beaten back, and
chained down, by what some one has called the brute
force of public opinion.
in the laws of the
" Some little time ago men of this class teemed it ir-
religious to speak of the laws of the human mind ,• it
pto savouredDr.
chal
illustratemo fe
rnstehcweehs necessity,
ntttyrhi
he writes
t erfsiat fatalism i
histm
God
mental as well as the physical world."

The rest of the Number has greater variety, and
among the amusing and interesting articles are " The
Wolves of Esthonia," " Foscolo and English llos-
pitality," and "Modern Cookery."

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alarming extent, and that there has been three hundred deaths, most
of these, I suppose, under the care of doctors. My two youngest
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my children, Yours respectfully, T. W_
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P.S. I forgot to state that I aye u few doses to several persons
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The articles in this Number are less interesting
than usual. We have " Letters from Naples," de-
scribing the peculiar habits, the gay and careless
life, and the lovely imagination of the inhabitants
of the most delightful and luxurious climate of Eu-
rope, but there is little new in the details. The de-
scription of the drawings for the lottery, however, is
good, though the writer magnifies the evils which it
causes, and strangely describes the risking of a few
pence, " one of the most virulent diseases that eat
into the very existence of the people of Naples." The
lottery is absolutely nothing compared with other
modes of spending money in that country ; and even
as regards the common people, the games at -which
they constantly play when idle, and that is very often,
cause money to change hands with infinite more ra-
pidity than lottery schemes. The lottery has got a
bad name, and every one, of course, thinks he may
hunt it to death. The " Series of Letters written by
Niebuhr while in Scotland" is continued, and furnish
some interesting details of his travels, and the visits
he made to the men of note in Scotland at the time
of his visit, which is now nearly half a century ago.
The political article this month is the best of the lot.
Tait, like all good political reformers, wants some-
thing more than new tariffs, he wants organic reform
and democratic institutions ; but at the same time,
like a man of sense and sound discretion, is willing to
take an instalment, and thus alludes to some of the
doings of Sir Robert Peel during the present ses-
sion :-
" To call this Budget a Free-trade' measure, or a
' bold' measure—the usual terms of Liberal laudation
of the Peel policy—we hold to be flat nonsense. Free-
trade' means doing away with the great monopolies ;
putting down the interests;' repealing the private
taxes which certain privileged classes levy on the public
under the name of protection. This Budget does not
touch one of the great monopolies, except that of sugar,
which it makes many degrees worse than it was before ;
leaves all the interests whole and intact • keeps on every
one of the private taxes in undiminished exorbitancy ;
and re-imposes a cruel and oppressive public tax to fill
up the hole which the monopolists mak• in the revenue.
* Boldness,' in politics, usually means doing the right
and honest thing in the face of formidable opposition ;
running risks and braving difficulties for the sake of a
just and true principle. This Budget of Sir Robert
Peel's gives no serious offence to any party or power
in the country, capable of endangering his official exis-
tence ; leaves his tenure of office as secure and easy, to
all appearance, as it was before ; has nothing bold about
it, except the audacity that perpetuates a hateful impost,
without even pretending a necessity—declines all attempt
at mitigating an acknowledged injustice, as involving
tedious and unnecessary discussions '—and exults in the
possession of a surplus, however derived.'
" While we regard the praise of boldness,' and ' free-
trade principles,' as ludicrously inapplicable to a measure
which leaves all the great monopoly interests unassailed,
and actaally strengthens one of them, we cheerfully
allow its obvious and substantial merits to approbation
on other grounds. Only lay free-trade out of the
question ; grant the Minister his fundamental postulate,
that the interests ' are a part of the Constitution ; ac-
cept the private taxes as a permanent public burden,
standing in the same category with the interest on the
National Debt,—and the measure is really an admirable
one. The abolition of the cotton import duty and the
glass excise, and the erasure from the tariff of the four
hundred and thirty minutia that yielded little revenue,
and obstructed much industry and trade, we regard as
most valuable commercial reforms. We are delighted
to see the thorough and final establishment, in our fiscal
policy, of two principles of capital importance, for which
our best economists have been contending for years,—
the free importation of the raw materials of manufactures,
and the abolition of taxes that vexatiously and obstruc•

FBAS KR'S MAGAZINE.
The State-coach, which last month was going
down bill in such fine style, has since taken some
awkward turns, and the jolting and swinging of the
vehicle from side to side, the wild career of the horses,
and the recklessness of the driver, have produced a
most alarming effect upon the nerves of the pas-
sengers. The insides are tolerably easy, but the out-
sides are in a state of the most dreadful alarm for
nor Where
theythey nareeithteerstkenpo.w wllhbe
curses, though deep, are not loud—he h but their
as got the
whip-hand of them—they, in fact, are at his mercy,
A
and venture only to mutter broken phrases about the
lraemtehetyheaeree
coachman,
filth of Houndsditch and Saffron-hill, and St. Giles's.
"It is not longer than last month," says Fraser,
" that we took occasion to explain ourselves very
plainly concerning many of the measures of the Con-
servative Premier, and to afford to him the meed of
praise which they seemed to deserve. We have not
a word of our article for March last to retract. We
think now, as we thought then, that his Irish
policy is most adroit ; and though we cannot
shut our eyes to the truth that the State-carriage is
going down the bill of Toryism as fast as it can, we
still hope to reach the level of a monarchy surrounded
by democratic institutions with whole bones." This
is a desperate look-out for Conservatives. Any hap
would be better than this—an overturn, or a fix in

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dwindled down almost into a grammar school. But
judging from the writer's political opinions, seeing
that he is-not—uo4pariog--of his praise of the Young
Englanders, and that he is of opinion that the prero-
gatives of the Crown ought to be increased, we must
think he would not wish to see it lose its character of
a prepar• a-fort' school. The other articles do not
call for any particular remark.

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGA-

ZINE.

Douglas Jerrold still goes on in his course rejoic-
ing. " St. Giles and St. James" increases in interest,
and piquancy, and value, for it is really a most
valuable work. In the present number young St.
Giles, incited by Tom Blast, steals a pony the pro-
perty of young St. James—is tried therefor and
condemned to death. We give the following extract
as a sample of the manner in which Jerrold extracts
a high moral lesson from the most ordinary occur-
rences. Tom Blast, the ballad-singer, has been
roaring through the streets " A most True and Par-
ticular Account of the horrible circumstance of a Bear
that has been fed upon live young Children in a Cellar
in Westminster :"

" Nevertheless, though Torn roared with an energy
that very strongly declared his own faith in the horror
that he sought to vend fur only one halfpenny, still his
auditors lacked credulity or coppers, for the well-worn
enormity. Nobody purchased. Not even a timorous,
sympathizing servant-maid advanced through the crowd
to make the mystery her own. Tom looked about him
with evident disgust at what he had heard called the ad-
vancement of the age ; he had heard of the nuisance
and now he beheld it. His standing in the world as a
tradesman was fast crumbling from neath his feet."
What too, made it most discouraging to Mr. Blast
were the scoffs and loud laughter with which certain
new-comers would listen to the description of the horror
sought to be circulated, and then hurry off. That
cock won't fight now cried one--' A little late in the
day for that. Get something new,' cried anether.
Gammon !' shouted a third.

" Nevertheless, be of good heart, Torn Blast : take
consolation from this. You suffer in great society : you
sink in most worshipful companionship. Very reverend,
grave, authoritative persons—men of the bench, even of
the pulpit—who for centuries sold to their exceeding
profit, Most True and Particular Accounts' of a horrid
bear of some sort—whether of royal or feudal privilege
—of witchcraft—of Popery—of sham rebellion—nay,
fifty bears and bugbears, all of horrid, ghastly nature,—
they, too, in their turns, have outlived the profitable lie.
And even in these latter days, when some Tom Blast in
higher places,—nay, in the highest—sounds his tin horn
of bigotry, and would trade upon some bear apocryphal,
—he is assured in the like sense, although in gentler
phrase, that such cock will by no means fight—that the
day has passed for so foolish, vain a story—that, finally,
his bear is no bear at all, but briefly, yet intensely—
gammon. Has not history her catch-pennies, even as
the archives of Seven Dials ?"

The " History for Young England," is also continued
in the present number, and there is an admirab'e
west country story of a game-preserving parson who
was caught in his own trap, while Juniper Hedge-
hog contributes three admirable letters on the occur-
rences of the day. The paper on the " Birthday of
Shakspeare" should be read by every Englishman
who has his country's honour at heart. The re-
proach cast upon us is most just. We have done
nothing for him who has done so much for us. We
hope that the attention of those in authority will be
drawn to the subject, and that means will be adopted
for preserving religiously every relic of Shakspeare
which is yet left to us. The lovers of Shakspeare
are under great obligation to Douglas Jerrold for
having drawn attention to the subject.

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