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GREAT PROTESTANT LECTURE,
LAST NIGHT,

SO.' THEY SAY THE FI?ENCH ARE COMING! the Right Hon. 'Joseph Napier, LL.D., Q.C., mem-
ber. of parliament for the Dublin University, which
is accompanied by a tinted engraving ; a solid, yet
readable paper, on the Indian Archipelago; a
wreath of ryhmes under the title of " Spring-time
Flowers ;" a continuation of the running novel ;
some remarks on the recent improvements in the
text of Shakspeare ; a tale entitled " Tom Clug-
gins's Two Antipathies ;" and a powerful defence of
Burke's Reflections, from the puny aspersions of
that " sharp and shallow demagogue," Richard

So! they say the French are coming!
If as friends, why let 'em come:—
lf as foes, I think they'd better
Change their minds and stay at home.
Joinville, he who was a Prince once,
Talk'd of coming some fine day,
Just to pour a broadside in ns,
Then to cut and run away
Well, it wasn't over civil,
P'raps he only spoke in fun :
When he'd not a home to go to,
Didn't England find him one?
Don't we welcome big and little,
Ask no questions why they come?—
If their own's too hot to hold 'em,
Don't they find with us a home?
Let 'em then give over crowing,
Barking when they mustn't bite :
Do they think, because we're peaceful,
We've forgotten how to fight ?
Waterloo! a pretty reason
Why the French should go to war!
If they could blot out that story,
Can they wipe out Trafalgar?

If they will fight, why then let 'em,
It's a pity they're such fools :
If they really covet Glory,
Let them learn in English schools
Let 'em use the right of speaking;
Let 'em print their thoughts, and then
They may throw away their rifles,
And be reasonable men ..
lei for Glory,
We
ce don't want to
But we'll up.the good we have
while an Englishman is left us,
England shall not hold a slave.
Let these Frenchmen pause a little—
If their Bony seeks the fray—
Let them ask whose blood must quench it,
Whose the pockets that must pay.
"Jack's alive," and rough and ready—
Friends with all, if friends they'll be—
But if not—the strife of battle
Must be on our home—the Sea!
Nelson's watchword thrills each bosom,—
If they seek the deadly fight,—
"Every man will do his duty "
And may God protect the right.—Clarles Jeffery:.

LITEP A_TURE.

BOOKS FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c
intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red-
lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the Editor
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded
and receive attention.

Digest of the Law of Scotland, with special refe-
rence to the Office and Duties of a Justice of the
Peace. By Hugh Barclay, Sheriff-Substitute of
Perthshire. Vol. 11. Edinburgh : T. and T.
Clark.

The present volume, which completes the above
excellent work, fully sustains the high reputation of
its predecessor. Both volumes extend to nearly a
thousand printed pages ; and coming as they do
from the pen of an author already so favourably
known to the public by his previous publications,
and who has for upwards of a quarter of a century
filled the laborious and important office of local
judge in one of the most populous counties in
Scotland, its value as a practical treatise cannot be
over-estimated.
Not only does the work contain a faithful digest
of all those important matters forming the subject
of recent legislation, such as the Poor Laws, Prison
Discipline, Nuisances, &c., but every doctrine of
any consequence in the law of Scotland, equally as
that appertaining specially to the duties of Justices,
is here clearly explained in language as free as pos-
ible from technical obscurity.
Among a few of the subjects of more general
interest to the public at large, which have been
copiously discussed in the treatise before us, may
be mentioned the Game Laws, Publicans' Licenses,
Criminal Prosecutions, Merchant Seamen, Excise
and Inland Revenue, Factory Acts, Embezzlement
Act, &c. &c. The laws relating to these, and all
other topics of moment in the law of Scotland,
have been ably and accurately digested ; and one
valuable feature characteristic of the present work
is, that in laying down the rules of Scotch law not
only are the parallel rules of English law given, but
English decisions and authorities are extensively
cited throughout the work. The publication is,
therefore, truly an English as well as a Scotch
authority.

The Dublin University Magazine. Liverpool : Wm.
S. Orr and Co.
This is certainly the most varied monthly of the age,
and in the present number there isa rich fund of learn-
ing as well as fancy—of instruction as well as wit.
The first article, touching the crown matrimonial of
France, reads a painful lesson for that lady who
was not long ago Mademoiselle Montijo. She has,
we fear, placed a circlet on her head with which a
dark shadow seems connected. Of the many fair
brows on which it has rested there are very few it
has left without a blight or a wound. Our good
wishes for the happiness of the Empress Eugenia
are damped by many doubts and fears, when we
glance at the history of French Queens and Ern-
presses. Charlemagne bad four wives—Hermen-
garde was divorced two years after her marriage,
and died, desolate, in obscurity; Hildegarde was
chased by false calumniations into concealment and
poverty, and died at the early age of twenty-six;
Fastrade died very young, hated as much as her pre-
decessor had been lamented ; Lutgarde, after a
miserable union of four years, died young and
childless. : Louis I. married twice—Hermengarde, a
cruel and despotic woman, enjoyed twenty-one
peaceable years of wedded life; Judith, who has
left an odious name in history, survived her hus-
band three years. Charles 1., after the death of his
good Queen Hermentrude, whose life was one of
sorrow, married Richilde, who fomented disorders,
and survived her husband. 'Louis 11. was tenderly
loved by Ansgarde, his first wife, who bore him two
sons, but was obliged to divorce her on account of
her mean birth, and marry Adelaide, daughter of
Count Begon, who led a life of remorse and shame.
Charles 111. married Richarda, a wise and virtuous
Scottish lady, whom he accused of infidelity, and
drove into a convent; the second wife of Charles
IV., after the dethronement of her husband, was for
thirteen years an exile in England, and on her re-
turn to France, at the age of forty-five, married
Herbert, Count of Vermandois, then but twenty
years of age, and son of the nobleman who had be-
trayed the King; Emma, the Queen of Lothaire,
after a scandalous life at court, died a miserable out-
cast and a wanderer; Blanche, the wife of Louis
V., poisoned her husband after a reign of fifteen
months; Adelaide, the Queen of H ugh Capet, enjoyed
her elevation to the throne only two years; Bertha,
the first wife-of Robert the Devout, was, at the in-
stigation of the Pope, forsaken by her people, and
ultimately by her husband, and died in a convent.
Her successor, Constance, closed in obscurity an
odious life, marked by assassination, licentiousness,
and strife. Anne, wife of Henry 1., was excom-
municated by the Church and divorced : she died
in Russia. Philip I. divorced, first, Bertha, and
afterwards her successor, Bertrade ; the latter of
whom closed an evil and troubled life by the severity
of her self-imposed austerities. Louis VII. divorced
his first wife, and the second died after a union of
four years. Philip 11. married Isabel, when both
bride and bridegroom were only twelve years of
age, and at seventeen the queen was exiled from her
husband's court : she was recalled, but died in
childbirth at the age of twenty-one. Isabel's suc-
cessor, Inge: burg, scarcely seventeen when married,
was divorced a fortnight after the ceremony, was
brutally imprisoned, and had to support herself for
a time by needlework. Agnes, another wife of
Philip's, married only to be cut off, died of grief.
Blanche, queen of Louis VIII., died of a broken
heart at the loss of her children. Isabel, the first
wife of Philip 111., was killed when young by a fall
from her horse ; the second wife was murdered by
foul calumnies and prolonged imprisonment. Joan,
queen of Philip IV., died in her thirty-third year.
Margaret, the wife of Louis X., one of the most
depraved of beings, was exposed to every species of
indignity, and at last was strangled by the hands of
an'executioner in;her dungeon by the king's order :
Blanche, her sister, consort of Charles IV., who was
equally depraved, was imprisoned for twelve years
and died a nun. Jane, another profligate, and
queen of Philip V., concluded her wretched career
in Flanders at the age of thirty-seven. Clemena,
the second wife of Louis X., died young, shortly
after the death of her posthumous child. Mary of
Luxemburg, second queen of Charles IV., died in
childbirth, aged only eighteen : Jane d Evreux, his
third consort, lost her husband three years after
their union. Blanche of Navarre, the second wife of
Philip VI., was left a widow and enciezzte ere she
had completed her twentieth year : and so the re-
cord goes on till we come to the names of Marie
Antoniette, Josephine, and Amelie, ex-queen, the
last and still living victim of the crown matrimonial
of France. Out of sixty-seven royal and imperial
consorts, there are but thirteen on whose names
there is no dark stain of sorrow or of sin. Of the
others eleven were divorced ; two died by the
executioner; nine died very young -;
seven were
soon widowed; three were cruelly traduced; three
were exiles; thirteen were bad in different degrees
of evil; the prisoners and the heart-broken made
up the remaining number. This paper on the
French Queens, which will be read at the present
moment with great interest, is followed by a review
of the late Lord Belfast's "Poets and Poetry of the
Nineteenth Century," a book which appears to
contain the germs of what might have proved
future excellence, had the young and amiable author
been longer spared; a couple of sonnets by Fitz-
james O'Brien and Jamea Ethneston ; a
,sketch of

Canada

its Growth and Prospects. Brockville:
David Wylie.

This is composed of two lectures delivered before
the Mechanics' Institute, Toronto, in the February of
1852, by the Rev. Adam Lillie. It is a subject
so little understood, and so much misunderstood,
that one must welcome with respect,-and treat with
attention, every new contribution to its elucidation.
Mr. Lillie is one cf those men who believe that it
is neither noble, nor generous, nor patriotic to de-
preciate the character, the institutions, and the
progress of one's own country. He thinks, further,
that too much of this spirit has been indulged in
Canada, to the great injury of social peace and
public contentment. And he has been actuated to
publish this fact and figure-studded work, to show
the fallacy of the supposition that Canada is too
far behind the neighbouring States to adopt the
system of public instruction which they enjoy. Mr.
Lillie has done good service to his adopted land
and the progress of education there; and, while
every true Canadian must feel rejoiced at the
results he has incontestibly established, England,
the mother country, cannot fail to be deeply grati-
fied. We trust it may excite in the mind of every
inhabitant of Canada who reads it increased respect
and love for his country, and prompt him to labour
more energetically than ever for its advancement
and prosperity.

Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh : Blackwoods.
The number for March opens with an amusing
article on " Clubs and Clubbists," in which the
former are defended with considerable aeutPncss.
This is followed by the third part of "Lady Lee's
Widowhood," in which the heroine is introduced to
the officers of the dragoons. In " the Vegetable
Kingdom," we have an interesting review of Dr.
Lindley's work under that title, and also of a
German work, by Schleiden, entitled " the Plant ;
a biography," which is highly spoken of. " Rambles
in Southern Sclavonia," is a notice of a German
work, descriptive of a ramble in 1850, over that
scene of civil war. The horrors perpetrated by the
Hungarians, as detailtd by eye-witnesses, would
leave but little sympathy for the impostor Kossuth,
and his pretended patriots. A new story is com-
menced under the title of "John Rintoul; or, the
Fragment of the Wreck ;" the hero of which is
described as a venerable Scottish elder. After an
amusing article on " a trio of French Tourists," we
have two political essays on " Peace and War," and
"the Malt Tax." In the former, the writer exposes
with much force the utter folly and absurdity of
that Peace•movement with which Mr. Cobden and
his associates at Manchester are identified. In the
article on the Malt Tax, the writer defends the pro-
posed reduction, on the ground of the duty being a
heavy burden on the land ; and he argues that its
removal would tend materially to the increase of
consumption. We can agree with him as to the
fact of the duty being totally opposed to any prin-
ciple of Free-trade; but until it can be shown that
an increase of beer-drinking would be a national
benefit, we prefer to have five millions a•year raised
upon malt, than in some other way by which its
imposition would prove far more oppressive. The
argument is good as an abstract theory; but, like
many other theories, is unsuited to practice.

SERIALS FOR MARCH.—The Bulwark (Liver-
pool: G. Philip and Son) contains nearly a
score of articles and several illustrative woodcuts.
We are glad to perceive a growing appreciation of
the importance of an extensive circulation of this
periodical. The editor quotes, with satisfaction, in
the present part, a recommendation from the Rev.
W. F. Taylor, of St. John's, in this town, who
thinks the "Bulwark is well adapted to the present
crisis; thoroughly Protestant and evangelical, it
carries the war into the enemy's camp, and throws
the light of truth on the dark deeds of the mystery
of iniquity."—The Protestant Magazine (London :
Wertheim and Macintosh), as an unsparing corn-
ment on the proceedings of Rome throughout the
world, should find a place at every fireside, and in
every reading-room in England. The articles are
always brief, powerful, and conclusive. Declama-
tion does not usurp the place of reasoning, and the
writers combine piety with learning. We perceive
the Rev. Dr. M`Neile's opinion of the Maynooth
College Grant is printed, approvingly, in the
present part—Hogg's Instructor (Hogg : Edin-
burgh) will be bought by many this month, if only f
for the excellent portrait of Sir Bulwer Lytton
with which it is adorned. This engraving is illus-
trated by a lengthy paper, partly biographical and
partly critical, in which the merits of the author of
"My Novel" are very fairly stated. George Gil-
fillan, the smart and peppery United Presbyterian
minister of Dundee, " holds forth," in his customary
irreverent style, on the subject of James Thomson,
the fat and effeminate author of "The Seasons."—
The Christian Family Advocate (Liverpool: G.
Philip and Son) concludes a series of instructive
papers on Spain, from which it appears that the
eyes of many of the poor priests in that Rome-
ridden country are being opened-to a perception of
the truth, and that several have already taken re-
fuge in England to avoid the punishment which
must invariably follow their ecclesiastical declension.
We have some further extracts from the poem of
"Nineveh," with a running commentary by one
who fully appreciates the genius of Atherstone.
" Passages in the Life of an English Clergyman"
give promise of pleasant and profitable reading;
while, in the other parts of the magazine we find
much solid instruction conveyed in an agreeable
and forcible style.—The Scottish Educational and
Literary Journal (Hogg : Edinburgh) is honourable
to the teachers of Scotland. It indicates that they
are abreast of the times they live in; and that, if
energy and intelligence still do it, they are deter-
mined to attain their proper position, and to exert
their legitimate power.—Cocks's Musical Miscellany
for this month contains a very flattering notice of
Mr. Thomas's band, and his exertions to diffuse
music in Liverpool. The literary department of
Messrs. Cocks's monthly is, as usual, original,
varied, and captivating.

BY THE REV. TRESHAM D. GREGG, D.D.

The first public lecture in connexion with the Liverpool
Royal Albert Lodge (No. 10) of Orangemen, was delivered
last night at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, bythat
distinguished Protestant champion and controversialist,
the Rev. Dr. Gregg, of Dublin. Subject :—" The Heroism
of the Sacred Character, es contradistinguished from the
Profane, illustrated by the Life of Jacob."
The Rev. Dr. Gregg was accompanied to the platform,
at half-past seven o'clock, by the following gentlemen :
The Revs. Dr. R. P. Blakeney, of Birkenhead, F. A.
Power, S. Minton, David James, S. B. Sutton, Wode-
house, W. F. Taylor, H. G. Ireland, W. B. S. Mat-
thias, Nadin, J. Blakeney, W. H. Duck, Butler,
Ellison, Clegg ; P. R. Curry, Esq., Mr. Byford, &c.
These gentlemen were loudly cheered on making their
appearance, the reverend lecturer himself being hailed
with long and renewed bursts of Kentish fire. The
audience was large and attentive.
The chair having been taken by Dr. Blakeney, the
Rev. S. MINTON opened the proceedings with an im-
pressive prayer.
The Reverend CHAIRMAN said he had to apologise
for the absence of the Rev. Samuel Fenton, whose
absence was owing to causes over which that gen-
tleman had no control. (Hear). It is with great
pleasure, continued Dr. Blakeney, I preside at a meeting
of the Protestants of Liverpool, and especially one con-
vened to hear a lecture from my revered friend and
brother, Dr. Gregg. I may say that the Protestants of
Liverpool—who may justly boast of a M'Neile—
are not behind those of any other portion of
the 'United Kingdom in their attachment to Pro-
testant principles, and in their zeal for Protestant
truth; and I may add the expressions of my conviction,
that in the United Church of England and Ireland there
is not a more uncompromising—a more faithful—a
more fearless,—or a more able champion of Protest.
ant truth than the Rev. Doctor Gregg. (Loud
cheers.) I have no hesitation in expressing the great
veneration which I have at all times entertained for his
character, from the period when 1 was but a youth, when
I had the pleasure of witnessing the victory which he
achieved over the well-known Father Thomas Maguire.
(Applause.) That Roman Catholic clergyman came for-
ward and challenged the whole hosts of Israel, and then
thorn woo a shaking and a wavering in our camp ; but the
Rev. Dr. Gregg started forward, and met him head to
head, and foot to foot, and hewed him into pieces before the
Lord. (Cheers.) Since my entrance into the ministry, I
have myself enjoyed the privilege of being engaged in eire
rote controversy with Roman Catholic priests, and 1 may
add, have perhaps successfully discussed with them—
(hear, hear) ; but I must avow that it is Dr. Gregg who,
under God, has taught us how to fight with the foe—it is
he who led us "on to victory." (Cheers). It was said
of the great John Knox, whose memory I revere, that
he " never feared the face of clay." I believe this is
strictly true of our reverend brother, Dr. Gregg. lam
persuaded that there is not a more fearless champion of
Protestant truth in the country than he is. (Loud ap.
plause). But I shall not longer stand between you and
the gratification of your wishes. I now call upon that
great and uncompromising champion of Protestantism.
the Rev. Dr. T. D. Gregg, to address you.
The Rev. Dr. GREGG, on stepping forward, was wel-
comed with enthusiastic rounds of Kentish fire. As soon
as the applause had subsided, the lecturer proceeded to
say :—Mr. Chairman, I assure you I very gratefully
acknowledge, and very sincerely feel, the cordiality of your
reception ; and I only trust that I may be greatly upheld
and assisted so to act as to justify in even a small degree
the very large and liberal eulogy bestowed upon me by our
dear friend, the chairman.
At present, the business before us is very definite and
distinct. I have to deliver a lecture upon a fixed subject,
and consequently there is no room for any extempora-
neous introduction.
I should say two or three words, however, as to that
which will be the feature of the lecture, and which is in
one respect different from the one placed in the announce.
ment. The subject there stated is " The Heroism of the
Sacred Character, as contradistinguished from the profane,
illustrated by the life of Jeremiah." Now, I did intend
to illustrate it in the life of Jeremiah. At the same time
I intended to take advantage of the life of Jacob,
which abounded in points very pertinent to my subject. I,
therefore, began to introduce Jacob with my lecture, and
I found that I dwelt so long upon him that I had no
time for Jeremiah. The subject of my lecture, will, con.
sequently, be " illustrated by the life of Jacob." I only
trust that it will not be the less interesting to you, on ac-
count of the slight departure from the original intention.
(Cheers.)
I really do think, for my part, that we exist in a
crisis in the history of our country—a crisis in which to
collect such a body of people as I see before me, for the
mere purpose of an entertaining discussion, would, on the
part of a Christian minister, be quite unjustifiable. And
it is not for the purpose of discussing on mere curious
points of speculation that I am here among you to-night.
My hope is that I shall treat \my subject in such a
way as to point out to you many of our evils. I
believe that we have evils. I believe that we have
great. and abounding, and common dangers. And
I believe, furthermore, that we should be animated
by a desire clearly to discern our dangers. It is with
that practical view I now speak, and I hope that what I
say may tend to show you what we are, what we may ap-
prehend, and how we should meet it, and how we may
overcome that which is to be apprehended. And as I
speak with that object in view, so do I hope that it is with
the same puz porc and c:spc station you have come to hear
me.—(Cheers.)
One of the most remarkable characteristics of the
age in which we live is this, that men suppose themselves
to be almost entirely the authors of their own felicity.
This is not very much to be wondered at, when we consi-
der the great things that have resulted, apparently, from the
mere application of human power. Hence, the steam-
engine, the electric telegraph, the system of illumination
by gas-light ; in short, a whole cycle of marvellous dis-
coveries that have well nigh made the ordinary perform-
ance of miracles a great part of the social economy of life.
All this is apparently the result of human ingenuity.
Yet, who that seriously reflects upon the subject, will
venture to say that it is more than apparently so? It is a
memorable declaration of the Royal Giant-killer, the
manly Psalm-singer of Israel, " Once bath God spoken ;
yea, twice have I heard this, that power belongeth unto
God." (Ps. lxii. 11.) This God hath spoken in His
Word. As, for example, "I am God Almighty—walk
before me, and be thou perfect." (Gen. xvii. 1.) Here
is the express declaration of the truth. But David heard
it sounded forth not merely in the utterances of revela-
tions, but in the voice of all nature. " The heavens de-
clared to him the glory of God." Tt was God who spoke
in the thunder. This voice of nature was the second
utterance of the truth which constituted, primarily, a
dogma of the wise king's bible. Now, what is the
work of experiment which constitutes the great source of
discovery, but hearkening to this second voice of God.
" The works of God are great ; sought out of all them
that have pleasure therein," (Ps. cxi. 2.) that is,
sought out by experiment. Dignified is this work of
reading facts, as of another Bible, feeling, at the same
time, the heart lifted up in praise at every perception of
the wisdom, the beauty, the harmony which they involve,
and rendering to Him the glory of the discoveries which
facts reveal. This is to be the Christian philosopher—
this,

"To look through nature up to nature's God,"
and to grow in ripeness for eternity as we augment our
stores of earthly wisdom. But what is he who gropes
among material things, in forgetfulness of their author
and finisher, to "find out many inventions," without a
thought higher than that of a utilitarian, or a view beyond
the things themselves and their results ? What is he better
than the old alchymist, whose existence was worn out in
groping for the philosopher's stone, the finding of
which might render a Providence unnecessary, or an
their nice, that might render God—if for them he had any
existence—powerless.
_ _ _

Yet there is sadly too much of this material philosophy
prevalent amongst us. Man, to the material experimen-
talist, seems to have done so much, that the fond con-
clusion is, he can do all things. He that has attained to
the control of the lightning, that has " annihilated,"
to use a popular figure, "time and space," supposes that
there can be " nothing withheld from him which he ima-
gines to do." Political economy will teach him to secure
his own prosperity. Adequate statistics will reveal to
him the wheels within wheels, in countless series, on
which society revolves, and from which its interests arise.

One system of philosophy will enable him to play upon
the human mind as on a machine, and another to control
the earth and its products. And thus we go upon the
hypothesis that we are lords paramount here below, and
can modify the fate and fortunes of society by our own
wit and wisdom—and the printing of blue books. Well,
our wit and wisdom, and industry, eventuate in famine,
pestilence, and desolation, or in astounding crime and
shameful demoralisation ; in discontent and sedition at

, ..._
home, and the threatenings of foreign foes from abroad.
Yet still the cry is " all's well. We go by blue books,
and are justified by blue books, and are saved the detest-

able annoyance of submitting to one book as paramount
to all, and as all sufficient ; therefore, though shoals are
on the right hand, and sandbanks on the left, and fearful
rocks in advance,—still go ahead ! We have steam
enough, and a strong blast of error in the stern !" Need
I ask the men of Liverpool, whether they can have any
doubt as to the nature of the sequel? (Loud cheers.)
I trust you will not suppose me to make light of science,
its vast discoveries, its stupendous results already realised,
or of the magnificent future that we may still look for
through it ; but in the proper matter of science we go
upon unquestionable grounds. The voice of facts sounded
forth from the material creation is uniform. Fire always
burns, frost always chills, gunpowder always explodes,
(that is when, as it may not be unnecessary in these times
to do, you " keep your powder dry.") But, " Lord !
what is man ?" His heart ! " Who can know it ?" No

one on earth; not one but he who framed it.

" I the

Lord search the heart ; I try the reins."—(Jer. aril. 10.)
In short, theories about human nature are theories about
a terra incognita, Calculations based on its workings
are calculations about the wild waves or the blasts of

heaven. I mean to say, theories on such a subject,
irrespectively of God's 'Word.
Now here, in this very complicated, or rather incom-
prehensible, vague, quicksilver, errant matter—human
nature,—God has given sure and true statements,
of a general kind certainly, but sufficient to guide

us in our conduct. Let go these statements—resolve
to act on theories of your own, and your fruit will be
confusion of face, perhaps incurable disaster. The self-
complacent philanthropist says—Gratify these people in
this way, and you will lay them under a deep sense of
favour conferred, and be rewarded by their affectionate
gratitude. This is natural—this must be so.

-We tell you nay, says the scriptural philosopher. If
you gratify them, you will be visited with their contempt--
you will stimulate their malignity, you will inherit their
hatred, you will quicken in them a desire for vengeance.
Absurdity, bigotry, intolerance ! are specimens of the
rejoinders poured out incessantly, until the land is in-
vaded, the authorities spurned, the law trampled on, the
Church corrupted, the aristocracy seduced, and the
reveille beaten on a thousand drums, to tell the enemy he
will be welcome—the blast sounded on a tilousand tram.