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said to constitute Six POINTS OF THE CONSERVATIVE
CHARTER. " Are you, or are you not, a supporter of

ng maintenance of Protestantism in
its integrity, especially as respects the United Church of
England and Ireland, and the education of the people ?
11. Determined resistance to Democratic Aggression ?
111. A just distribution of Taxation, with reference to
its pressure on the agricultural, commercial, and manu-
facturing interests?

I. Uncompromis

Vigilant but friendly foreign policy ?
Impartial and enlightened administration of our
stic and Colonial Affairs ?
Making Old England
se are the Six Poin

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impregnable ?"
—the Conservatism of the 19th

zld be given to him who does not cordially
nswer all, or most of them, in the affirmative; and he
will prove himself thereby, " with pleasure," a supporter,
as Sir James Graham has found himself, " with pain," an
opponent, of Lord Derby's Government. These sup-
porters, we believe, will be in a decisive majority—these
opponents, in a quarrelsome and heterogeneous minority,
in the ensuing Parliament. Now, however, for a while,
and briefly, of these Six Points in their order

o which candidates should ba pinned ; and no

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I. PROTESTANTISM. It is to be upheld vigilantly and
vigorously, in its integrity; and this cannot be, except
'nquiry into the present position

b} an 'wriest, searching

and doings of Popery within these realms—its subtle and
tortuous serpentlike windings among all classes and all
institutions. It has become a sacred duty to suspect the
presence of Popery everywhere, and not to let that suspi-
cion be easily lulled. It is often in greatest force where
least expected—among the young and innocent—among
the learned and mature-aged—and under a hundred harm-

less and even lovely aspects. But what care the dogged
opponents of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill—of any mea-
sure directed against the late Papal Aggression—for such
considerations as this ? What care the Manchester party
—what care those of Peel, the Whig, and Radical parties,
who supported, and support, those opponents it Their
uniform sayings and doings supersede the necessity of
urging this topic further. But we look, on the contrary,
upon Lord Derby's as pre-eminently and avowedly a
Protestant Government, to all intents and purposes. Its
leading members have repeatedly proved themselves as
staunch as the staunchest of U 3 could desire ; and this is
well known to the Roman Catholic party, and will secure
their deadly opposition and hatred. For that very reason,
that Protestant Government is entitled to the warmest
support of every sincere Protestant—whether Episcopa-
lian, Presbyterian, or Dissenter—in the empire ; for who
is to come in their stead, in the event of their being dis-
placed ? The Earl of Derby himself, in his place in the
House of Lords, recently declared that one part of the
issue on which he should go to the country would be--
" Will you support a Government which will uphold the
Protestant institutions of the country—which will give
strength and increased power to religious and moral edu-
cation throughout the land ?"
11. RESISTANCE TO DENI OCRA CY.—The Manchester
and Radical party would at once open upon us the flood-
gates of democracy, and thereby sweep away our existing
institutions, which Lord John Russell himself, as we
have seen, solemnly declared, in his place in the House
of Commons, to be exactly and happily accommodated to
our political exigencies, adapted to reconcile conflicting
interests, and secure a harmonious equipoise between
liberty and authority. He sternly reprobated all attempts
to disturb that harmonious equipoise and adjustment ;
denounced the Manchester and Radical party as engaged
in that enterprise • and he and Sir George Grey declared
them to be virtually Chartists. What would be the effect
of household or universal suffrage? The House of Com-
mons in fatal conflict with both the House of Lords and
the Sovereign ; for as Lord John Russell truly stated on
the occasion already alluded to, such a constituency
afforded no guarantee for intelligence or independence—
that " they would, many of them, be easily affected by
mis-representations and delusions, and had not sufficient
political information to enable them to make a right
choice of members." What wild and visionary demands
would be insisted upon by a House of Commons thus
returned! Where would be the national debt? How
would the taxes be raised ? How could law be steadily
and safely administered ? How could the Queen's
Government be carried on ? What havoc would be made
of our religious, civil, naval, military, economical
arrangements, when subjected to the direct action of
ignorance I Who could acauire. or
';a°property t the greatest fPelliviarencjanpyr "oranilequeath o or
smallest amount ? What would become of the indispen-
sable subordination of rank and station ? Socialism
would suddenly start up in our midst, a very Franken-
stein, before the terrified and abhorent eyes of its perhaps
unsuspecting creator and victim! All this fearful train

of evils Lord John Russell clearly saw when he rebuked
Messrs. Cobden and Bright, and triumphantly defeated
the measure they advocated. They, also, must have seen
that same train of consequences, or they are mere blind
leaders of the blind, and should be dealt with summarily
otherwise than by argument. But if they did see these
consequences, and yet urged on the causes of them,
ought not such men to be regarded as the very demons of
democracy ? Why, then, did Lord John 11.ussll, in an
unhappy hour, and under the guidance of his evil genius,
call Messrs. Cobden and Bright to his counsels? Well
might the country take the alarm, and rally round the
Conservative statesman whom, by such aid, he had re-
solved, if possible, immediately to overthrow. And that
Conservative statesman—the Earl of Derby—only three
days afterwards, lost not a moment in assuring the
alarmed country that his Government " would exert itself
to oppose some barrier against the current, continually
encroaching, of democratic influence, which would throw
power nominally into the hands of the masses—practi-
cally, into those of the demagogues who lead them."
After discussing in a like manner the remaining four
points, the writer proceeds to do justice to the existing
Government, and concludes with the following forcible
remarks:—

The country has now plainly before them, as far as we
can briefly put it, the Great Question, whether they will
uphold Protestantism and repel democracy. We await
the issue with unspeakable solicitude. We have no fear,
if the constituencies will do their duty. Let them ask
themselves the plain question, What is to become of us, if
Sir James Graham, and Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and
Hume come into power! Destruction would be upon us!!
We implore therefore every Conservative elector in the
kingdom, every true Protestant, every loyal subject of the
Queen, to regard himself as individually of importance
during the ensuing ever-memorable struggle. Let no
man rely-on his neighbour, or undervalue his own exer-
tions, capabilities, or influence. When too late, hun-
dreds of thousands may lament and curse an infatuated
apathy ; for if ever a downward impulse be given, it ra-
pidly acquires an irresistible force. Before we again ap-
pear, the Great Question will be discussing in every
constituency in the kingdom; and it really resolves itself
into AYE or No—Conservative or destructive? Every-
thing is at stake—our national character, our indepen-
dance, our civil and religious liberty. Let those only
succeed who are likely to make desperate exertions in
order to inaugurate organic changes, and the crown will
quiver on the sacred brow of her that now wears it, and
on the temple of national greatness we may woefully
write—lcx Anon ! The glory is departed.

SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE.—They say when a Chi-
nese lady is blessed with an increase in her family, from
the moment of her accouchement the unhappy husband
is put to bed also, and there detained for 40 days, and
during this delightful penance he is subjected to all the
rigorous treatment of his better half. Should medicine
be administered to her he must partake of it also ; and he
is strictly confined to the same diet that she is obliged to
undergo, which consists on an average, I believe, of about
a thimblefull of cream of rice administered every three
hours, to prevent indigestion.—Neale's Narrative of a
Residence at the Capital of Siam.

LADIES AND THEIR STRATAGEMS.—One of the most
striking chapters in Dr. Mackay's " Memoirs of Extra-
ordinary Delusions," is the history of John Law and his
Mississippi scheme in France. So unbounded was the
confidence of the whole population in Law's bubble, that
for months his house was besieged with applicants of the
highest class in society to have their names inscribed on
his books for shares. His ante-chambers were lined with
dukes, duchesses, and every grade of the nobility • and
these persons, who would have resented as an affront de-
tention in the anti-chamber of the Regent, actually called
day by day, and waited for hours each day to get audience
of the schemer. Some of the attempts to obtain an in-
terview with him are ludicrous. Here is an instance :
" One lady, who had striven in vain during several days,
gave up in despair all attempts to see him at his own
house, but ordered her coachman to keep a strict watch,
whenever she was out in her carriage, and if be saw Mr.
Law coming, to drive against a post and upset her. The
coachman promised obedience, and for three days the lady
was driven incessantly through the town, praying in.
wardly for the opportunity to be overturned. At last she
espied Mr. Law, and pulling the string, called out to the
coachman, ' Upset us now ; for God's sake, upset us
now !' The coachman drove against a post, the lady
screamed, the coach was overturned, and Law, who had
seen the accident, hastened to the spot to render assist-
ance. The cunning dame was led to the Hotel de Sois-
sons, where she soon thought it advisable to recover from
her fright,
and, after apologising to Mr. Law, confessed
her stratagem. Law smiled, and entered the lady in his
books as the purchaser of a quantity of India stock. Ano-
ther story is told of Madame de Boucha, who, knowing
that Mr. Law was at dinner at a certain house, proceeded

.4er carriage, and gave the alarm of fire. The
started from the table, and Law amongst the
, but seeing th 4 haste into the house
-wards him, while
he suspected the trick,
Law himself made milli

thither in I

everybody els(
and ran off

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