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derived from no known language;—wager
stakes deposited. Daly repaired to the theatre, and des-
patched all the servants and supernumeraries with the
word " Quiz," which they chalked on every door and shop
window in the town. Shops being shut all next day,
everybody going to and coming from their different places

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of worship saw the word, and everybody repeated it ; so
that " Quiz," was heard all through Dublin. The cir-
cumstance of so strange a word being on every door and
window caused much surprise; and ever since, should a
strange story be attempted to pass current, it draws
forth the expression—" You're quizzing me."—Sharpe's

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chant, residing in Cheapside, London; and, a-s she was
mild, complaisant, and desirous of pleasing, she obtained
the good feeling of all the family. Mr. Goldsmith bad
always forbade his children being harsh to servants.
" That which we have a right to expect from our ser-
vants," he observed; " is that they fulfil their duties with
regularity. Humanity then exacts that, far from aggra-
vating their position, we should, by treating them kindly,
lessen their sense of servitude." This principle was
faithfully observed, and, at the end of some years, Esther
was considered as one of the family. Misfortunes accu-
mulated on the house of Goldsmith. Two of the children
died; war with France interfered with the c.mmerce of
England, and ruined Mr. Goldsmith, who died of grief,
after a lingering illttes., which exhausted his last resources.
His poor wife, left without rents, fortunes, or defender,
was maddened by despair, and her health became seriously
affected be continued watchings and grief. One morn-
ing, the afflicted widow called her servant, and with tears
in her eyes said, " My good Esther, we must separate.
Your devotion merits a rich reward ; but, alas! lam ru-
ined, and it is with difficulty I can pay the wages I owe
you. Take this money, the last I have left, and accept as
a token of my friendship this deg, the only one of my
jewels I have not parted with." " What are you pro-
posing to me ?" rejoined Esther, sobbing ; "would you
send me away? Can I quit You, when you so much need
my services? Have I asked for my wages? When you
were rich, you trusted me as your child ; and now you
are aged, poor, and sick, I will regard you as my mother.
You cannot work ; but never mind, 1 am young and
strong, and can strive for us both." For ten years Es-
ther fulfilled her generous terms. She supported Mrs.
Goldsmith by the work of her hands, and with so much
cheerfulness, that she always appeared the obliged party,
and exercised so much delicacy, that no person suspected
her heroic devotedness. At length, in 1815, peace was
proclaimed between France and England, and Mrs. Gold-
smith collected some heavy debts due to her late husband.
She paS,ed the latter years of her life in calm and easy
circumstances, which she doubly enjoyed in sharing them
with her faithful domest;c, in whose favour her will ran
thus :—" I give and bequeath all I possess to my well be-
loved daughter, Esther Levi; 'and I desire she may here-
after bear the name of Goldsmith, to preserve the re-
membrance of her exalted conduct, in what concerns a
family who will never cease to pray to the Eternal that she
be rewarded as she merits."—Tales for the Young of the
Hebrew Faith.

THE DESPOTISM OF DEMOCRACY.—In America (the
United States ?) the people constitute the sovereign, and
the rule to which they are subject is the popular will.
Nor is this tyranny less stern or less exacting because thus
diffused and dilived. In the slave states, more than three
fourths of the population are regarded as chattel property ;
not as men, but as things; and any attempt to enlighten
the minds of the negroes, or to awaken in them any aspi-
rations for advancement in the social scale, would be re-
sented by the slaveholders as an atrocity by which the
rights of property were invaded ; and summary vengeance
would be visited upon the philanthropist who was even
suspected of being so regardless of republican rights as to
contemplate in thought their emancipation. Between
these and the anti slavery states the union must he pre-
carious ; while, in the slave population, they are feeding
in their own bosom a volcano, which, sooner or later,
must burst forth for their destruction. Nor are the rights
of nations held more sacred than the principles which
would guarantee to their fellow man, of whatever colour,
an equality of civil or social advantages. Witness the an-
nexation of Texas, and the cool assumption of an exclu-
sive right to the whole of the Oregon territory (in mani-
fest contempt of the repeatedly admitted claim of great
Britain to a portion of that country), by which they would
seem wantonly to provoke an appeal to the sword. Here
we have the imperious will overruling the suggestions of
reason and prudence, and clearly indicating such an utter
disregard of the rights and interests of other states, as no
single despot dare venture ueon. withuut_uerillina hia_
sceptre in a general war. We venture to say, that if
Russia or Austria dared thus to appropriate any of the
rightful possessions of the British Crown, an instantane-
ous declaration of hostilities would be the consequence on
our part, which would be prosecuted with so much vigour
that the foul wrong and the fouler contumely must be
speedily avenged. But the Autocrat of all the Russias is
a modest and a moderate personage, compared to the Pre-
sident of the model Republic, who overtops him, as the
giant does the dwarf, in the magnitude and extravagance
of his insolent pretensions. Only le us suppose Nicholas
claiming the territory from latitude 53 to 49, as President
Polk does from 49 to 53, and we will have a case in point.
Imagine that by his ambassador he informs Great Britain,
that he asserts his undoubted right to that portion of the
American continent—a r:ght which he will not consent to
submit to any arbitration—and how long should we re-
main at peace with him? Not an hour. His imperial

character, the absolute power centered in his jingle per-
son, would give an immense significancy to his usurpa-

Lion, which would enkindle a general indignation; while
the republican plainness of the American President, and
the delegated nature of the authority which he exercises,
blind the lovers of constitutional liberty to the astounding
audacity of his pretensions. It is, however, quite impos-
sible that this, or any similar acts of aggression, against
the rights of unoffending nations, should be endured by
any who possess the power and the spirit to resist them.
And we al'ude to the subject only for the purpose of show-
ing how the despotism of democracy sometimes exceeds
the despotism of a single ruler : and that what the latter
would never contemplate, being restrained, if not by a
sense of justice or of shame, at least by a prurient regard
for his own interest, the former would rush upon, from a
blind impulse of national vanity or national cupidity,
which will see nothing but confirmations of its claims, in
the very statements and reasonings by which they may be
most effectually disproved.—Dubin University.
THE MANUFACTURE OF SAINTS.—To give the reader
an idea of the signs formerly considered decisive of saint-
ship and of martyrdom, it will be necesary to quote a
few instances from the antiquarians of the three last cen-
turies. The learned Bent dic ins, Niabillion, while en-
gaged in turning over the papers in the Barberini library,
met with sore correspondence relative to a pseudo saint
supposed to have been discovered in Spain. Some well-
meaning persons had there met with an ancient stone,
inscribed with the letters " S. VIAR.," and concluded it
to be the epitaph of a Saint Viar. Nothing daunted by
the singattity of the name, or the total want of evidence
in support of his sagacity, they boldly established his
worship. But the zeal of his admirers, though it had
co,iterred the honours of saintship, was unarm to secure
his immortality ; for, in their application to Urbanus for
indulgences, the Roman antiquarians required some proof
of his existence. The stone was therefore forwarded to
Rome, where it was immediately seen to be the fragment
of an inscription to a PrsefdctuS. VIARum, or Curator of
the Ways. We are apt to pity the condition of those who
wasted their prayers and praises on the imaginary Viar,
but in what respect were they worse off than the suppli-
cants at the altar even of St. Peter and Sr. Paul. The
romance of the eleven thousand virgins is said to owe its
to the inscription,

existence