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THE PHILOSOPHY OF SECIINDITS,

ADRIAN : " What is the world ?"—SEcuNDus : " The
world is a circle without end, a sightly commodity, a form
made of many forms, an eternal course, a revolution with-
out error."

"What is the ocean ?" "The embracer of the world,
the encircling limit, the dwelling-place of the rivers, the
fountain of the showers."
" What is God ?" "An immortal mind, an unimagina-
ble loftiness, a form of many forms, a research that defies
investigation, an eye that sleeps not, all-embracing, light,
good."
" What is the sun ?" " The eye of the heavens, a circle
of heat, light without setting, the ornament of the day,
the distributor of the hours. _ _

" What is the moon ?" The ornament of the heavens,
the rival of the sun, the enemy of evil-doers, the solace of
wayfarers, the guide of mariners, the signal for solemni-
ties, the bestower of dew, the presager of tempests."
" What is the earth ?" The foundation of the heavens,"
the centre of the universe, the guardian and the mother
of fruits, the cover of hell, the mother of those who are
born, the devourer of all, the store-house of life."

" What is man P" " A mind incarnate, an apparition
for a season, a looker-on of life, a slave of death, a traveller
on his road, a guest on the spot, a struggling spirit, an
abode for a short season."

" What is beauty ?" " A fading flower, a carnal felicity,
an object of desire to mankind."
" What is a friend P" " A desirable name, a man sel-
dom seen, a refuge in distress, an endless blessing."
" What are riches ?" " A weight of gold, a servant of
cares, an unpleasing delight, an insatiate envy, an ever,-,
craving desire, an exalted face, a hateful object of desire.
"What is poverty ?" "An odious blessing, the mother
of health, freedom from cares, the refresher of the wise,
business without loss, possession without claim thereon,
happiness without anxiety."
" What is old age." " A wished-for evil, the death of
the still living, a safe weakness, a living death."
" What is sleep ?" " The image of death, a rest from
labour, the wish of the sick, the desire of the wretched."

" What is life?" "The delight of the happy, the sorrow
of the wretched, a waiting for death."
" What is death ?" "An eternal sleep, the fear of the
rich, the desire of the' poor, an inevitable event, the robber
of man, the flight of life, the dissolution of all things."
" What is a word." " The betrayer of the mind."
" What is the body ?" " The resting-place of the spirit."
" What is the beard ?" " A distinction of sex."
" What is the brain ?" " The guardian of the memory."
" What is the forehead ?" " The image of the mind."
" What are the eyes ?" " The guides of the body, the
vessels of light, the discoverers of the mind."
" What is the heart ?" " The receptacle of life."
" What is the liver ?" " The retainer of heat."
" What is the gall ?" " The producer of anger."
" What is the spleen ?" " The storehouse for laughter
and mirth."
" What is the stomach ?" " The cook of the food."
" What are the bones ?" " The strength of the body."
" What are the feet ?" "A moving foundation."
" What is wind ?" " A disturbance of the air, a move-
ment of the waters, a dryness of the earth."
" What are rivers ?" "A never-failing course, the re-
freshers of the sun, the waterers of the earth."
" What is friendship ?" " A wonderful certainty of a
thing unknown."
" What is it that will allow no man, though weary, to
desist ?" " Gain."

In the above extract, we have a curious jumble
of matters of belief, not a few of which are cur-
rently understood to have had an origin by, no
means so ancient as the Emperor Adrian's reign,
and some which modern speculatists believe to
have been propounded, for the first time, long after
the bones of good Roger de Hoveden had been
gathered to their rest.

ECONOMY OP WIvES.—A young married woman who
has not had the opportunity of profiting by the advice and
example of a good mother, will find some difficulty at first
in spending her money to the best advantage ; for there is
really an art in spending money, although it be in getting
rid of it. Some women will keep house respectably and
plentifully on one-third less money than will be required
by others, yet without either meanness or ffliberal deal-
ing. But to do this, judgment, forethought, and expe-
rience are necessary. One woman shall be able to tell
you how much her housekeeping costs to a shilling, while
another cannot guess within ten. The former has me-
thod, rule, regularity, and a certain sum assigned to her ;
with the latter it is all haphazard—it comes and it goes,
and else neither knows how, or cares. And this is almost
sure to be the ease if the money be doled out by her hus-
band, lusteati of being given in one sum to the extent of
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THE LTVERPOOI

VARIETIES

et. CHOICE.—There is only one thing
ing people, and that is

TIIERE is a cedar tree groiing in the mountains of
Calaveras county, California, which, if each zone may be
reckoned as the growth of one year, is about 2,520 years old.
A PRETTY WOMAN, says some poetical individual, is like

a great truth or a great happiness, and has no more right
to bundle herself up under a green veil, or any other
abomination, than the sun has to put on green spectacles:
FOR BRONCHITIS it is said the following is an infallible
remedy:—Take honey in the comb, squeeze it out, and
dilute it with a little water, and wet the lips and mouth
occasionally with it.

OF THE FRENCH LADIES it is said that their fondness
for effect runs to such excess' that widows who have lost
their husbands practise attitudes of despair before a look-

DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE SAME THINGS.—" Jim,"
ed that you left

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n itinerant martyr.'
red by the remark

" Why, a police officer told me that you believed every.
thing you saw belonged to you, and as the public didn't,
you left."
FLOWERS

—Happy is the man that loves flowers !
Happy even if it be adulterated with vanity and strife.
For human passions nestle in flowers, too. Some have
their zeal chiefly in horticultural competitions, or in the
ambitions of floral shows ; others love them as curiosities,
and search for novelties, for " sports," and monstrosities.
We have been led through costly collections by men whose
chief pleasure seemed to be in the effect which their
treasures produced on others, not on themselves. But
there is choice in vanities and ostentations. A contest of
roses is better than of horses. We had rather take a
premium for the best tulip, dahlia, or ranunculus than for
the best shot. Of all fools a floral fool deserves the
eminence.—Henry Ward Beecher.

A SINGULAR PACT.---The Emperor Charles V. called
a diet at Spires, in 1529, to request aid from the German
princes against the Turks, and to devise means for allay-
ing the religious disputes which then raged, owing to
Luther's opposition to Popery. Against a decree of this
diet to support the doctrines of the Church of Rome, six
Lutheran princes, with the deputies of 13 imperial towns,
formally and solemnly protested, in the month of April.
They signed a protest against a law that refused tolera-
tion to Protestants. And in the month of April, 1829, a
Protestant Parliament, exactly 300 years after, passed
the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, to qualify Papists to
make laws for a Protestant nation !

DR. BUSBY AND HIS PUPILS.—No school in England
has, on the whole, produced so large a number of inns-
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trious men as Westniinster. At no period of its history
was it so prolific of these as in the clays of Dr. Busby.
Already beginning to feel conscious of his powers, Dryden
was there. For his preceptor he does not seem to have
entertained any great affection, but he respected him till
the day of his death; and when, at the height of his
fame, he had occasion to correspond with his old master,
he writes as if with the fear of the rod before his eyes.
On a lower form sat Robert South, the future divine,
whose moral character bore as striking a resemblance to
that of his schoolmaster as his intellectual did to that of
his illustrious schoolfellow. For, if in boldness and
energy he was the Busby, it is not the less true that, in
power and pungency of sarcasm, as well as in overwhelm-
ing force and vehemence of impassioned declamation, he
was the Dryden of English divinity. Busby and South
were equally loyal, and it would be difficult to say which
of the two was the more daring. While still a child,
South gave a notable example of combined loyalty and
boldness. Being appointed to read the Latin prayers for
the morning, he prayed for the king by name, " but an
hour or two, at most, before his sacred head was struck
off." To the school and its head master, South ever
entertained sentiments of the warmest attachment; and
in after years, when he found his end approaching, he
gave directions that his body should be laid as near as
posssible to the ashes of his old preceptor. On a neigh-
bouring bench sat a boy of an anxious and inquiring look,
who afterwards became, in some respects, the most
remarkable pupil of the school—John Locke, the phi.
losopher. Neither are poets wanting to keep company
with " glorious John." Prior, Edmund Smith, Rowe,
and Elkanah Settle, all claim Westminster for their alma
mater, and Busby for their plagosus Orbilius. The
number of bishops and other high dignitaries of church
and state who enjoyed the privilege of his instructions
and of his rod, is countless. Of these the most dis-
tinguished, perhaps, is Francis Atterbury. To educate
such men as these, and qualify them for the various parts
they had to play in the world's theatre, was the end that
Busby proposed to himself. How far he gained that end
those who run may read. Littera scripta manet. His
name is recorded on the roll-book of fame as that of the
greatest schoolmaster, with the single splendid exception
of Dr. Arnold, that England has yet produced.—Scottish
Educational Journal.

ROMAN EMPIRE UNDER JUSTINIAN.—The reign of
Justinian, to a cursory reader, appears to be a revival of
the golden age, when all was contentment, prosperity and
happiness. A closer investigation shows the picture in
another light, and with very opposite features. The
nations under his control were oppressed by incessant
taxes, monopolies, and other grinding expedients of
wasteful or avaricious tyranny. They submitted sullenly
to an iron despotism they were unable to throw off, and
were forced to express public exultation for triumphs from
which they derived no advantage. In every department
of the state there was corruption, dishonesty, peculation,
embezzlement and plunder—the rich trampling on the
poor, the wealth of one accumulated by the ruin of a
thousand. Neither was the wrath of heaven without
palpable demonstration. Famine and pestilence weighed
heavily on the land, decimated the population, and pro-
duced a decrease of the human species, which has never
been replaced, in some of the fairest countries of the
globe. During the late destroying sweep of the Asiatic
cholera, we were struck with terror, when two or three
hundred deaths were recorded daily for two or three weeks,
in some of the most thickly inhabited cities of western
Europe. When the plague burst forth in the fifteenth
year of the reign of Justinian, for three months, five, and
at length ten thousand persons died each day at Con-
stantinople ; while many cities of the East were left at the
mercy of the beasts of prey; and in several of the richest
districts of Italy, the harvest and the vintage withered
on the ground for want of hands to gather them in. And
how were the mass of those occupied who escaped the
deadly visitation, which languished and revived periodically
for more than half a century ? In humility, in prayer, in
penitence ?—in supplication to the offended Deity ?—in
systematic temperance and strenuous efforts to discover a
resisting antidote ? No; they laughed, and revelled, and
drank, and gambled, and intrigued, and blasphemed, as
usual. War succeeded war; sedition followed sedition;
and all the evil passions of man's nature appeared to gain
strength from the surrounding terrors which should have
checked or extinguished them. In those ages there were
neither sanatory restrictions nor quarantine laws, and the
cleanliness of modern habits was unpractised even among
the highest classes. The mortality arising from pestilence,
alone, in the Roman dominions, during a single reign of
thirty-eight years, has been computed vaguely and some
what poetically, by a credible writer, as amounting to
several myriads of myriads—in reasonable interpretation,
one hundred millions.—Dublin University Magazine.
SLAVERY is no doubt the greatest evil that afflicts
human nature, whether we consider the slave torn from
his family in his native country, and thrown into the
hold of a slave-ship, or as making part of a flock of black
men, parked on the soil of the West Indies ; but for
individuals there are degrees of suffering and privation.
How great is the difference in the condition of the slave
who serves in the house of a rich family at the Havannah
or at Kingston, or one who works for himself, giving his
master but a daily retribution, and that of the slave
attached to a sugar estate ! The threats employed to
correct an obstinate negro, mark this scale of human pri-
vations. The coachman is menaced with the coffee plan-
tation ; and the slave working on the latter is menaced
with the sugar house. The negro, who with his wife in-
habits a separate hut, whose heart is warmed by those
feelings of affection which for the most part characterize
the African race, finds that after his labour some care is
taken of him amidst his indigent family, is in a position
not to be compared with that of the insulated slave lost in
the mass. This diversity of condition escapes the notice
of those who have not had the spectacle of the West Indies
before their eyes. Owing to the progressive amelioration
of the state even of the captive caste in the island of Cuba,
the luxury of the masters, and the possibility of gain by
their work, have drawn more than eighty thousand slaves
to the town ; and the manumission of them, favoured by
the wisdom of the laws, is become so active as to have
produced, at the present period, more than 130,000 free
men of colour. By considering the individual position of
each class, by recompensing, by the decreasing scale of
privations, intelligence, love of labour, and the domestic
virtues, the colonial atdministration will find the best
means of improving the condition of the blacks. Philan-
thropy does not consist in giving " a little more salt-fish,
and some fewer lashes :" the real amelioration of the
captive caste ought to extend over the whole moral and
physical position of man. The impulse may be given by
those European governments which have a right compre-
hension of human dignity, and who know that whatever
is unjust bears with it a germ of destruction; but this
impulse, it is melancholy to add, will be powerless, if the
union of the planters, if the colonial assemblies or legisla-
tures, fail to adopt the same views, and to act by a well-
concerted plan, having for its ultimate aim the cessation
of slavery in the West Indies. Till then it will be in vain
to register the strokes of the whip, to diminish the num-
ber that may be given at one time, to require the presence
of witnesses, and to appoint protectors of slaves ; all these
regulations, dictated by the most benevolent intentions,
are easily eluded : the isolated position of the plantations
renders their execution impossible. They pre-suppose a
system of domestic inquisition incompatible with what is
understood in the colonies by the phrase " established
rights."
.The state of slavery cannot be altogether peace-
ably' ameliorated, except by the simultaneous action of the
free men (white men and coloured), residing in the West
Indies ; by colonial assemblies and legislatures ; by the
influence of those who, enjoying great moral consideration
among their countrymen, and acquainted with the locali-
ties, know how to vary the means of improvement con-
formably with the manners, habits, and the position of
every island. In preparing the way for the accomplish-
ment of this task, which ought to embrace a great part of
the archipelago of the West Indies, it may be useful to
cast a retrospective glance on the events by which the
freedom of a considerable part of the human race was
obtained in Europe in the middle ages. In order to
ameliorate without commotion, new institutions must be
made, as it were, to rise out of those which the barbarism
of centuries has consecrated. It will one day seem in-
credible, that until the year 1826, there existed no law in
the Great Antilles to prevent the sale of young infants,
and their separation from their parents, or to prohibit the
degrading custom of marking the negroes with a hot iron,
merely to enable these human cattle to be more easily
recognized. Enact laws to obviate the possibility of a
barbarous outrage; fix, in every sugar estate, the propor-
tion between the least number of negresses and that of
the labouring negroes ; grant liberty to every slave who
has served fifteen years, to every negress who has reared
four or five children ; set them free on the condition of
working a certain number of days for the profit of the
plantation ; give the slaves a part of the net produce, to
mterest them in the increase of agricultural riches ; fix
sum on the budget of the public funds, destined for the
ransom of slaves, and the amelioration of their condition—
such are the most :argent objects for colonial legislation.--
Alaander Von Hron6oldt.

AND GENERI

A DAMPEI.—A young man, residinb
Bedford, lately volunteered his services to a young lady
home from a party. On his way he cudgelled his brain

within a mile of

for some interesting topic of conversation to amuse her
with ; he could hit upon nothing until they met several
the
_swain added, with much simplicity of

cows, wh,

" Now isn't it strange what a motherly appear-
ance a cow has ?" To which the lady replied, "I do not
think it strange at all, sir, that a cow should have a
motherly appearance to a calf" The beau was silent
the rest of the walk.
ARCADIA.—What a nice, place it must have been to be
' A perpetual picnic, without wasps or thunder-
_ ms, and with nothing to pay. A similar landscape,
gently undulating—no fierce rocks or yawning chasms.
Banks on which wild thyme and violets continually grow.
Eternal summer ! Fruits, flowers, and odoriferous herbs.
Innocent flocks of more innocent sheeplings ; soft, mild.
benignant, undesigning bleaters with dainty coats of
whitest wool, hanging in worsted ringlets, unsmirched by
the red ochre or cinnabar of mercenary grazier. And then
the shepherds with their long hair confined by an azure
ribbon ; their abundance of clean linen, and guilelessness
of braces ; their silken hose and shoon with purple heels ;
their harmless sports consisting In shooting at a stuffed
bird on a highly decorated Maypole with a crossbow
bedecked with ribbons. And the Shepherdesses, with
auburn tresses and wide spreading straw hats, with golden
crooks, and wreaths of flowers, and petticoats of gold and
silk and satin brocade. And the old women—the Dor-
cases and Cicelys—dear old dames with silvery hair, scar-
let cloaks, and ebony crutchsticks ; but who never scolded,
oh no, nor had the rheumatism, nor groaned about their
precious bones and the badness of the times. There were
no Game Laws in Arcadia, no union workhouses, no beer-
shops, no tally-men, no police.—Household Words
A HOUSEKEEPER'S GRIEVANCE.—A " Sufferer,'
ing to The Times, says—How can the lords of the crea-
tion expect their wives to be of a meek and quiet spirit,
when their tempers are continually ruffled by the ineffi-
ciency, carelessness, incivility, and wastefulness of the
generality of servants ? At present a young girl goes from
a slatternly mother to act as helper or nurse in the house
of a small farmer or tradesman, and after a year or two
goes to a tradesman or farmer of higher degree. She then
hires herself a servant to a gentleman's family, in the
capacity she thinks herself most fitted for. Now comes
the tug of war—she has not been brought up as house-
maid, laundress, cook, or anything, but she has a little
smattering of all—always in her work, because she has not
method, wasteful because she has not been early taught
the admirable economy of nature, where not an atom is
lost, disrespectful through ignorance, dishonest in prin-
ciple. This, sir, is the state of our servants in the country.
From the experience I have had of the better class of
English servants, they are far superior, but wasteful to a
frightful degree. Had I the time I could get ten thou-
sand signatures to this. It is a growing evil; and did the
torment affect our husbands it would have been legislated
upon and remedied ere this. Let the workhouse be con-
verted into proper training schools for servants, and let
the expense be liquidated by subscriptions from the ladies
of each county. Thousands of well-educated women will
respond to this appeal and will rejoice if this relief be
afforded to them in their declining years, and for the
knowledge that their daughters will be more fortunate
than themselves.

hating

Mae. ZEBEDEE Smnues PHILOSOPHY.—Dear me ! how
expensive it is to be poor ! Every time Igo out, my best
bib and tucker has to go on. If Zebedee was worth a cool
million, I might wear a coal-hod on my head, if I chose,
with perfect impunity. There was that old nabob's wife
at lecture, the other night, in a dress that might have
been made for Noah's great grandmother. She can afford
it ! Now if it rains knives and forks, I must sport a forty-
shilling chapeau, a ten-pound dress, and a twenty-guinea
shawl. If I go to a concert, I must take the highest-
priced seat, and ride there and back, just to let " Mrs.
Tom, Dick, and Harry" see that I can afford it. Then we
must hire the most expensive pew in the broad-aisle of a
tip-top church, and give orders to the sexton not to admit
any strangers into it who look snobbish. Then my little
children, Napoleon Bonaparte and Donna Maria Smith,
cannot go to a public school, because, you know, we
shouldn't have to pay anything, Then if I go shopping,
to buy a pair of needles, I have to get a little chap to
bring them home, because it wouldn't answer for me to be
seen carrying a parcel through the streets. We have to
keep three servants where one might do ; and Zebedee's
coats have to be sent to the tailor when they need a button
sewed on, for the look of the thing. Then if Igo to the
sea-side, I can't take my comfort, as rich people do, in
gingham dresses, loose shoes, and cambric sun-bonnets.
My senses ! no ! I have to be screwed up by ten o'clock in
a Swiss muslin dress, a French cap, and the contents of
an entire jeweller's shop showered over my person ; and
my Napoleon Bonaparte and Donna Maria can't go off the
promenade, because the big rocks and little pebbles cut
their toes so badly through their patent kid slippers. Then
if Zebedee goes a fishing, he wouldn't dare to put on a
linen coat for the price of his reputation. No, indeed !
Why he never goes to the stable without first drawing on
his white kids. Then he orders the most ruinous wines
at dinner, and fees those white jackets, till his purse is as
empty as an egg shell. I declare it is abominably expen-
sive. I don't believe rich people have the least idea how
much it costs poor people to live !—Fanny Fern.
" DON'T SPEAR TO Han !"—" Don't speak to her !"
There was a bitter sneer upon the little girl's face as she
and her companion turned away from the poorer dressed
school companion. No, little Miss, don't speak to the
poor girl. Your father swindled poor people out of their
hard earnings. He was a low-bred vagabond when a
young man, and universally despised, but is now one of
the " upper ten." At heart he is as base and low as ever
he was. But he deals in stocks, and robs by shaving
bonds and mortgages. He is a monied man. He is rich.
He is your father, Miss, and would not like it were you
to place yourself on a level with honourable poor people.
Don't speak to her! The girl is plainly clad, and has a
humble home and a poor mother: Her father was ruined
by one who rolls in wealth, and died a stricken man.
His fine house—the early home of the poor girl—was sold
at a sacrifice, and purchased by the man who ruined him.
Her mother, the once beautiful and accomplished belle
and noble woman, takes in washing. Don't speak to her !
Her sweet face is pale and sad, and her dress is coarse and
plainly made. Why can't the vulgar thing dress as well
as you do, and why can't her sad-hearted mother have a
fine house and ride to church in a carriage ? What busi-
ness have folks to be poor ? How exceedingly vulgar it is
to work for a living. Don't speak to her! She ain't fit
for your company—she don't dress well enough. No
matter if she does hear the cutting words. Poor children
have no feeling. It's your privilege to say what you like
to say about such kind of folks. There is a tear in her
mild blue eye, and a quick flush on her pale cheek ; and,
as she passes the group with their hoops, she draws her
checkered bonnet tightly around her face and steals away
with many a bitter sob. Her young heart is learning its
first sorrow. Her woman's heart will need all its bravery.
She may triumph in the stern and trying struggle, or she
may give way and go down to worse than a grave.—Fanny
Fern.

RECREATION NECESSARY TO HEALTH.—It is very
generally recognised and admitted that deprivation of air
and exercise is a great evil ; but it is not so well known
that abstinence from occasional recreation or amusement
is also an evil of no slight magnitude. It is, however, a
primary law of the economy that no organ can maintain
its integrity without regular recurrent periods of activity
and rest. In the case of the muscular system, if any
muscle or set of muscles cease to be used, it wastes and
disappears ; but if it be used too much, it becomes
strained, and loses its power. It is the same with the
nervous system : if the brain be never exercised, its
energy is Unpaired ; but, if it be over-exercised, its energy
is exhausted. If, when a person takes a very long walk,
he return home fatigued, and finds that his muscles are
temporarily thrown into a wrong or disordered condition ;
and if he continues this process of fatiguing himself every
day, after a certain time he becomes thoroughly knocked
up, ill, and incapable of 'undergoing even a common
amount of exertion. So it is with the brain. If an in-
dividual keep his attention upon the stretch for an undue
number of hours, he experiences, at the expiration of his
task, brain fatigue, loss of mental power, and a sensible
necessity of rest ; and if this individual persevere, day
after day, month after month, year after year, in subject-
ing his brain, without intermission or repose, to extreme
fatigue, it will set up a peculiar state, which is, unhappily,
excessively common in these times, and is known by the
name of congestion of the brain. The activity of any
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tion of blood to its interior ; and if a person think, the
act of thought causes a flow of blood to the brain ; but if
a person think intently, this flow of blood is often very
perceptible, for the head becomes hot, and a sensation of
throbbing about the temples, or in the head itself, is ex-
perienced. Now, when a man undergoes too much brain
work, a constant and considerable flow of blood to the
head occurs, which may become chronic, or permanent,
and produce that condition which is called determination
of blood to the head—a condition which not unfrequently
ends in apoplexy or paralysis. Congestion of the brain is
one of the most prevailing diseases that torture humanity.
—Journal of Health.
THE Two PEELS IN PARLIAMENT.—As Coleridge said
of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, that each was the half
of a perfect man, so it may be remembered that if the
natures of Robert and Frederick Peel were conjoined, we
should have a perfect statesman. Separated, each is
affiictingly incomplete ; Frederick all reason—some one
asked once if he was the head of the family, and was
answered, " No, he is only the brains,"—and Robert all
passion ; the steam-boiler in one place, and the wheels and
cranks in the other, motionless and resultless for want of
connexion with the steam. Sir Robert is the greater suc-
cess of the two in the house ; he is a " character," and has
a recognised position, succeeding in some degree to the
now silent place of the decaying Sibthorp. He is an
" independent member ;" that is, no one knows how he'll
vote until they see him in the lobby. He occasionally
joins the standard of the Earl of Derby • but he has no
particular rule in polities, beyond that of balancing the
Peel interest, by always plumping against his brother.
He is a Liberal Conservative, and he understands that to
mean voting to-day with the Whigs, and to-morrow with
the Tories, occasionally digressing in favour of Radicalism.
Sir Robert represents the free and easy interests ; that is
the style of thought and talk. He's the free-and-easiest
orator in parliament ; he stands with one hand in his
pocket, and he twirLs a cane in the other—sometimes
varying his gesture by twirling his moustache. Sir
Robert's position has been obtained in this way ; long
resident abroad, he has no party connexions here, and no
party training, and has apparently quarrelled with his
family, and is thus not 'under the necessity of consulting
any one, and accordingly gives full swing to his whims,
and manages always when he gets on his legs and cane, to
blurt out, without the slightest arriere pensee, exactly
what he thinks, which is usually what other people are
thinking at the time, but would not venture to say pub-
licly about prominent public men. When he gets up, it is
known something insolent--something that Sir Robert
dare say—is to be expected ; and his words are hung upon
as if he were a eraek debater and a great man. Then his
name and career have made him talked about ; his private
affairs extensively discussed, and his disposition and ten-
dencies relentlessly criticised; and thus he has the advan-
tage, when he speaks, of speaking to people who know
intimately everywhere about him, and are curious to know
more ; and so all turn their heads towards him and watch
his every syllable, and 'laugh consuxedly. All except Mr.
Frederick, who deepens his demureness, holds his head
down, and ponders on the principle of primogeuiture.—
Weekly paper,