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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 his 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 them cut, if not 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 strair.s 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
1 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 sty!e 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-
is
leisathi ne gs
ominously
the t ahlaet bheifso
opponents,ie-hlm while
andfi oisn e leg pointedis crossedfi-ng e r
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,—the:e
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-
nious course of action. In the art of managing the
House of Commons he is, indeed, unrivalled."
The rest of the Number has greater variety, and
among the amusinif and interesting articles are "The
Wolves of Esthoma," " Foscolo and English Hos-
tality," and "Modern Cookery."

tively interfere with the process of manufacturing in-
dustry. . Nothing could be better, too, than the way in
which the recent changes were introduced by the
Premier ; the broad and emphatic announcement of the
soundest doctrine as to the national policy of extending
commerce and unshackling industry. But the disagree-
able reflection always 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 requires, 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 sangins draconis,
tam: and din', 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
ndthing 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 :
THE TWO FLAGS.
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 I"
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 !
Tkerewith I let the person go ;
And soon the hanging branches hid it.
Here, on 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.

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BLACKWOOteS MAGAZINE.
A remarkable change has come over the chief
politics,
O'Connell t the
uoutbreaks
Parliamentaryof
.uemnsad,odHretadrill isae utteaihe absence of
leader of the Tory [arty in the north. Passing events,
pros-
pects of Toryism, and twenty other striking events
are undeserving of notict. How different Noah is
now, from what he 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 abrtcnoohoggpeuaei
rnrtpaioirngouegis
tsdcwheoo
doctrines
i pre-
sent
which
Christianityrinyrec,
ssu
Blackwood
ompfrsicircumstances,
da of the tate by advocating the eman-
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pride;
freec be
tsyrn, a
never
eru
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b telsilence,efdoo before.
is looked to by his countrymen, and it was shameful
at
to leave them to their own undirected meditations
when events of the first Magnitude come upon them,
one after another, or in c tors, and cast all the doings
of Grey, Melbourne, Stanley, into the shade.
The present session; .has • been fruitful beyond all
others of themes for filseussion, 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- por •
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 insurrection 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 Donation! Pedants have presumed to
question the sincerity of his indignation, and have more
time I''^'-^4 'b."' Is;s I'''r of picturing those enormous
profligacies was inspired by the reieraie s,s ... depraved
imagination. Never was there fa.ser char6._,
and the topics were not for delicate handliif ng,—the f
y were
to be looked at boldly in the face,—and spoken oat
all, at full, and with unmistakeable words.
" There is no gloating in his eyes when fixed in fire
on guilt. Antipathy and abhorrence load
wh witichh mbutore rfore-
volting colours the hideous visage, from ,
that moral purpose, they would recoil. But whatthat it
may be asked, is the worth and use of a
drags out vices from their hiding-holes to flay them in
sunshine? They had no hiding-holes. They affronted
the daylight."
" Bentham's Etruria Celtica" 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 different 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 bath eases. If, for instance,
the nebular hypothesis, to which we have already alluded,
should be received as a scientific account of the pewrox ell
i-
mate origin of our planetary system, this, as Mr. W h
has shown in his ' Bridgewater Treatise, would servo
only to enlighten and elevate our conception of the
power of God. And indeed to a mind accustomed—as
is every educated mind--to regard the operations of
Deity as essentially differing from the limited, sudden,
evanescent impulses of a human agent, 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 speaks of God as launching from
his ample palm the rolling planets
id iutoas space, in
us some
measure offend us? Do we not avo much pos
sible all such similitudes, as being derogatory to the
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
proofs 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,
ir heart is earning atter.
of subtle and high-sounding import, concerning the
purely spiritual nature of the Divine Being, it is, in fact,
a Jupiter Tonans clad in human lineaments, and invested
with human passions,
tha can only be beaten back, aud
Such objectors as these
chained down, by what some one has called the brute
force of public opinion.
" Some little time ago men of this class deemed it ir-
religious to speak of the laws of the human mind ; it
savoured of necessity, of fatalism •; they now applaud a
Dr. Chalmers when he writes his Bridgewater Treatise,
to illustrate the attributes of_ God in the laws of the
mental as well as the physical world."

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TAIT' S MAGAZINE.
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 make 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 Rob
ower
ert
Peel's gives no serious offence to any party or p
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, 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 actually 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
and te
one. The abolition of the cotton import duty
r
glass excise, and the erasure
litindred and thirty minutia that yielded little revenue,
and obstructed much industry and trade, we regard as
most valuable eommereial 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 conteudiug for years,—
the free importation of the raw materials of manufactures,
anti the abolition of tare l that vexatiously and °intro-
._

corn

F ASKR'S MAGAZINE.
B
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
they neither know where they are going, nor where
they are to stop. All blame the coachman, but their
curses, though deep, are not loud—he has got the
whip-hand of them—they, in fact, are at his mercy,
and venture only to mutter broken phrases about the
filth of floundditch and Saffrolast n-hill, ands t. Giles's.
explain ourselves very
"It is not longer than
"that month," ss Fraser,
plainly concerning many of the measures of the Con-
servative Premier, and to afford to him the meed of
we took occasion to
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 Triali
policy is most adroit; and though we cannot
shut our eyes to the truth that the State-carriage is
going there a hill
the of
Toryism as fast as it can, we
levelof a monarchy surrounded
by democratic institutions with whole bones," This
is a desperate look-out for Conservatives. MY hap
would be better tbau this—un overturn, or a fix iu
stillho downpe to reach

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
The Dublin University Magazine for this month
does not possess its usual average of interesting
matter. The first article is a review of Mr. Petrie's
work on the vexata questio of the Irish Round Towers,
in which the reviewer and the author are of accord,
assigning to them, and we think justly, a Christian
origin 'and an ecclesiastical purpose. Seeing, how-
ever, that many who have investigated the subject
with great care, and amongst others the learned
O'Connor, have given to them a very different object
and a far higher origin, we think the reviewer's opinions
too dogmatically expressed. Of much more conse-
quence than the solution of the Round Tower con-
troversy is the belief to which the investigations into
this subject have led that the Irish were in possession
of a style of architecture prior to the Norman inva-
sion, which, if satisfactorily proved, would establish
the fact of that high civilization which tradition and
the Irish records that remain assert was possessed by
the Irish when England was sunk in profound dark-
ness and heathenism. From the " Poetical Remains
of the late Mrs. James Gray" some portions are
given which indicate a fine moral feeling and a high
religious sentiment, rather than a lofty poetic faculty.
" Walter and Mabel" is a tale, the common stale tale
of love and the broken heart. There is a happy cor-
resoonktre.....hewqver- the triteness of
of life seemed flickering in its socket
like the last fitful rays of an expiring taper."
" Bernardo 'lasso" is the first of a series of articles
on the Italian poets. Such a series, if well executed
might be made highly interesting; but, judging from
the specimen before us, we do not expect the writer
of it will succeed in accomplishing that object. It is
true he says he is writing at a distance from books,
and can do little more at present than communicate
his intention of future papers ; but it would be just
as well if he deferred a beginning till he was really
prepared to begin. The account of Bernardo Tasso
is consequently confined to a few dates, while the
style and character of his poetry are altogether
passed over. his large work, the "Amadigi," con-
sisting of a hundred cantos, is certainly not a great
work, but it is giving a very erroneous i
impression of
it when it is said of it "it indeed exists. It is a mere
translation of the Amadisde Gaul, with some additions
of his own ; but it is classified with the Morgante of
Pulci, and the two Orlandos of Boiardo and Ariosto
(though certainly inferior to them in all respects.),,,
which are called by Crescinibeni," I bents's/nu l'Ontalat.
Some of his sonnets, also, as that on the death of
Charles V., are beautiful; and he composed pastorals
and other poems, which had success. lie would have
had a greater name if a greater Tasso, his son, did not
exist. " The System of Positive Philosophy" is an
attempt to analyse Mr. Compte's "Discourse" upon
the system (of which he is himself the author),
which that learned person delivered, last year, in
Paris. The writer has not succeeded in giving a
lucid exposition of a very abstract subject. " The
Rail versus the Road " details a laughable
adventure on the railroad to Versailles. "The
Land Commission in Ireland " affords the
writer of an article with this heading an oppor-
tunity of crying up the virtues, the patience,
and kind-heartedness of Irish landlords—especially
those of them who have been most active in display-
ing their anti-liberal feelings. The writer thinks
that there ought to be no commission till agrarian
outrages were put an end to—that is, that there
ought to be no attempt at a remedy till the evil was
gone! There is much truth, however, in the remark,
" that the great want of Ireland is the want of
wants." "The Empire and the Consulate" is a
well-tempered article on M. Thiers' work. Like
other critics in this country, the writer finds fault
with M. Thiers' estimate of Pitt and his policy. But
is not M. Thiers right ? We have got 'Waterloo ;
true, nut have we not paid too much for the "famous
victory ?" We have still big budgets, but no Bour-
bons. We would fearlessly put it to any Englishman
—except, perhaps, the Duke of Newcastle—whether
he would purchase again the same results at the same
price ? " The Nevilles of Garrettstown" continues to
increase in interest and effect.

DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE.
The second Number of this Magazine continues to
realise the promise of its first. Some of its articles
are clearly from experienced pens, and its fine Catho-
lic spirit is even better than its literary merit. It,s,
first article this month, " Vices, Sins, and Crimes,"
demonstrates, in clear and almost axiomatic aotifc
ego
phrase-
ology, the absurdity and wicked
with the mainte-
vernmental power interfering
in
religious erroneous
noranceridoiefulothneso.logi,c,aTlheopinions,
a;earertehl aetion
morality ilo
w anddr
to his own conscience : his actions under
faith of every one," says the writer,.ons
su-
perintendence of the State, whose office e it is to pro.,
vide that they shall not be detrimental to the State at
large, nor to any member or members of the commu-
nity." How happy had it been for mankind if states-
men always recognised and acted upon this simple
truth. Deorunt znjuria diis ewe appears blasphemy
only to those who have an interest in religious
ascendancy. God needs neither Pope nor Prelate to
wield his bolts. In " The Tractarian Movement" the
writer discusses the probability of a change in the
religious opinions of the people of England in conse-
quence of the Oxford movement, with great ingenuity
and learning, but we think him too sanguine in his
expectation. It is worth while to hear the opinion of
a learned Rotnon Catholic on a point which stares
every one in the face who at all considers the move-
ment :—" Without intending for a moment to im-
peach the sincerity of its authors, and with the ut-
most respect for their virtues, talents, and learning,
we do not hesitate to affirm, that the system of inter-
pretation adopted of late years fur reconciling the
Thirty-nine Articles with the doctrine of the Council
of Trent, is one so forced, unnatural, false, and absurd,
that if tolerated it would render the intercourse be-
tween men a snare and a cheat, and all language
itself a mockery." One of the advantages which tho
, writer attributes to the Oxford movement is, that it
has imparted a " better theology and a more spiritual