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French have a penchant for protecto
in the absurd affair at Tahiti, and subsequently

Sandwich Islands; but this affair of Les Lieux Saintes is

a claim to the exclusive right of the Latin monks to the
custody of the Holy Sepulchre, and other objects of Chris-
tian interest in Palestine, belonging to the Sultan of
Turkey. The term is applied to all the churches built on
the localities whereon the principal events occurred which
are described in the life of our Saviour. The question
may be said to have originated in the treaty between
France and the Ottoman Empire in 1604, by which the
Latin monks in Jerusalem were secured the right of
officiating in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This
was confirmed and extended by Sultan Amurath IV., in
1635, and again by subsequent treaties down to 1740.
During all this time, however, the Greeks were the most
numerous of the Christians, and gained strength, under
the influence of Russia, until 1808, when the church was
accidentally burnt, and the Greeks rebuilt it, and have
ever since retained possession, hut not to the exclusion of
the Franks. The point now insisted upon by the French
ambassador is, the expulsion of the Greeks, a demand to
which the Sultan, guided by Russian counsels, has refused
to accede, giving to all equal privileges ; and without
hazarding an encounter with opponents more powerful
than he would wish to provoke, Louis Napoleon must be
content to eat his leek, and suffer the first blow to his
ambition, before he has acquired his coveted dignity. It
may be asked, for what purpose is this great ado about
rival monks, all of whom are Arabs, and only claim the
names of Greeks and Latins from their adherence to those
particular churches. It is simply a rivalry of their patrons,
the Emperor of Russia and the Pope of Rome ; and Louis
Napoleon is anxious to curry favour with the latter, to
induce him to assist at his coronation, and also to extend
his influence in the east. The French President has con-
stituted himself the especial protector of the Papal power,
as was shown in his readiness to reinstate the Pope by
French bayonets, after he was a fugitive from his capital
and the prasent quarrel is a part of the same game.

It is reported that the ceremony of installing the new
Emperor has been fixed for the 10th of December, but
the scruples of the Pope to come to Paris have not yet
been got over. He does not like a journey in the winter,
and he does not see his way clear. It may produce other
claims which may be awkward to grant and difficult to
refuse.

There is some talk of difficulties

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form in which the Senate will draw up the S

THE DAISY.

BY D. M. MOIR ["DELTA"].

The daisy blossoms on the rocks,
Amid the purple heath;
It blossoms on the river's banks,
That thrids the glens beneath :
The eagle, at his pride of place,
Beholds it by his nest,
And, in the mead, it cushions soft
The ►ark's descending breast.

Before the cuckoo. earliest Spring
Its silver circlet knows.
When greening buds begin to swell

zephyr melts the snows

Along the moor

AnAoolybloo

The daisy

1 is there !

Samaritan of flowers ! to it
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The Dutchman by his dyke;

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This is an excellent number of a most ably-
conducted review. The contents show no lack of
matter, and the articles indicate, as usual, care and
talent. There is something for all tastes, and we
rise from the perusal of the volume refreshed and
instructed. If at times we have not added to our
knowledge, we have at least been pleased with the
manner in which information has been conveyed.
The review opens with a learned article on " The
Gospel History," from which many interesting
facts ma. be gathered connected with the original
text and the credentials of the Sacred Scriptures.
Touching the Gospel of St. Mark, which it is
shewn by internal evidence was written posterior
to, and with full acquaintance with, those of St.
Matthew and St. Luke, we meet with the following
observations :

" Our motive for contending strongly for the later
origin of St. Mark's Gospel is something more than the
fixing a date or determining a place : it is to express the
conviction we entertain that the variations in the several
Gospel narratives are not accidental nor the result of
carelessness—still less of mistake ; but that they are to be
explained by attention to the purposes for which they are
severally composed, and the class of persons for whose
benefit they were originally intended. And we be-
lieve that Mark, the disciple of St. Peter, would have
been contented with the Gospel of St. Matthew,if he had
not become more Catholic by reconciliation with St. Paul, ,
and better informed of the kind of composition the Ro-
mans required by acquaintance with the Gospel of St.
Luke intended for the Greeks. We believe that St. Mark
did not intend to supersede the Gospels of St. Matthew
and St. Luke in borrowing so freely from both; but,
leaving them to be used by those classes for whom they
were originally designed, prepared his Gospel for anoth( r
class—the Gentiles of the Western Empire."

If these interesting remarks set the reader to the
study of the volumes which form the subject of the
article before us, or lead him to a more careful and
critical perusal of that gospel which in its text " is
more minute and specific, as well as cumulative,"
than those of his fellow Apostles, our quotation
will not be in vain.

The general reader will turn to the life of Marie
de Medici, and rise from its perusal the better for
it ; while the classic scholar will seek pleasure and
instruction in " Julius Caesar and Rome in his Era."
The former of these recalls two able articles in
the last number of this review—" Felia Dolorosa,
Duchess d'Angouleme," and " Mary of England,
Queen of France," We like history dealt with in
such a style : it conduces to the mutual interest of
the reader and the author, and tends to elevate the
mind while it.touches the heart with human misery:
it is a healthy sympathy. The Life of Marie de
Medici, by Miss Pardoe, is a feast in store for those
1 her volumes. The pre-
sent
article is but a poor substitute for the original,

who have

albeit it is an able resume of the work