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ttemoted to pass curreut, it draws
—" You're qutzzing me

—Sharpe's

reelt as a sere
vant in the tiouse of Mr. Goldsmith, an Israelite mer-
chant, residing in Cheap,ide, London ; and, ai she was
mild, complaisant, and desirous of pleasing, she obtained
the good feeling f all the family. Mr. Goldsmith bad
always forbade his children being harsh to servants.

,evi engaged

" That which we have a right to expect from our ser-
vants," he observed; " is that they fulfil their duties with
regularity. tiumahity then exacts that, far trom 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-

multvect on the houso of lioNsrnith. Two of the children
died; war with France interte►ed with the ct)mmerca of
Fngland, and ruined Mr. Goldsmith, who died of grief,
after a lingering illness, which exhausted his last resourct s.

was maddened by despair, and her health became seriously
affected be continued watchings and grief. One morn-
ing, the affected widow called her servant, and with tears
in her eyes said, " My good Esther, we mast separate.
Your devotion merits a rich reward ; but, alas ! I am ru-
ined. and it is with diffienity I ran nay the waees I owe

you. • Take this money, the last I have left, and accept as
a token of my friendship this ring, 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 1 quit you, when you so much need
my services? Have I asked for my wages? When you
were rich, you tru,ted 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. I am young and
strong, and can strive for us both." For ten years Es-
ther tulfilled her generous terms. Six supported Mrs.
Goldsmith by the work of ber hands, and with so much
cheerfulness, that she.always appeared the obliged party,
and exercised so much delicacy, that no person sm.p-cted
her heroic devotedness. At length, in 1815, peace was
proclaimed between France and England, arid Mrs. Gold-
smith collected some heavy debts due to her late hu,band.

he passed the latter years of her life in calm and easy
circumstances, which she doubly enjoyed in sharing them

with her faithful dourest c. in whose f-avour her will ran
" I give and bequeath all I possess to my well be-
-I..tir. she may here.

lowed dau

after bear the name of Goldsmith, to preserve the re-
membrance of her exalted conduct, in what corcerns a
family who will never cease to nray 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 iess exacting because thus
diffused and diluted. In the slave states, more than three

not as men, but as things; and any atti

pt to enlighten

tbe 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 visted upon the phihinthropist who was even
suspected of being so regardless of republican rights as to
contemplate in thougbt their emancipation. Between
these and the anti slavery states the union must be 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 fel'ow 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 Oragon territory (in mani-
fest contempt of the repeatedly admitted claim of Great
Britain to a portion of that countr%), 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 imicatinz such an utter
disregard of the rights and interests of other states, as no
single despot dare venture upon, without perilling his
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 ali 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 insol'nt pretensions. Only let us suppose Nicholas
claiming the territory from latitude 53 to 49, as President
Polk does from 49 to 53, and we will have a ease 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 right 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 single per-
son, would give an immense 'significancy to his usurpa-
tion, which would enkindle a general indignation; while
'he *- ft" A--

the repu►. can plainness o, ,oe rimerican 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 aggressirn, against
the rights of unoffending nations, should be endured by
any who possess the power and the spirit to re►ist them.
And we al ude to the subject only for the purpose of show-
ing how tie despotism of democracy sometimes exceeds
the despotism of a single ruler : and that what the latter

never contemplate, being restrained, if not by a
'ense of justice or of shame, at least by a precnt 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 reasonirols by which they may be
roost effe,tually disproved.—Dub in University.

THE MANUFACTURE OF SAINTS.—To give the reader
an idea of the signs Lrmetly considered decisive of saint-

t fey; instances frorn. the antiquarians or the three la.t cen-
turies. The learned Ben. dic.ine, Mabi:lion, while en-
gaKed in turning over tie papers in the Da, berini library,

supposed to have been discovered in Spain. Some well-
meaning persons had there mer with an ancient stone,
inscribed with the b-tters " S. VIAII. " and concluded it
to be the epitaph of a Saint Viar. Nothing daunted by
the singularity of ihe name, or the total want of evidence
in suppuit of his sagacity, they boldly established his

conferred the honours of t.aintship, wiis unahl,- to secure
bis immortality; for, in their application to Urbanus for
indulgences, the Roman antiquarians requind 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 PrlefActuS. VIA Rum, or Curator of
the Ways. We are apt to pity the condition of those who
wasted their prayers arid praises on the imaginary Viar,
but in wiiat respect were they worse off than the suppli-
cants at the altar even of St. Peter arid St. Paul. The
romance of the eleven thousand virgins is said to owe its
existence to the inscription,

which was read, " Ur.ula and eleven thousand virgins ;"
instead of " eleven virgin martyrs." '1 he history of St.
Veronica exceeds all other legends of pseudo-saints in
the pertinacity with which i, has been supported by the
Roman Church, in opposition to the learned of their own
communion, and in the entire absence of traditional evi-
dence. Its origin and progress haTe been brought to light
by the res.arches of Romanist antiquarians. About the
(I,akest time of the middle ages arose the custom of paint.
ing the countenance of our Saviour upon pieces of cloth ;

the accuracy of the supposed likeness, or icon as it was
called, was attested by inscribing beneath it the words
Vera icon," gradually corrupted into Veronica. Many
writers mention these veronicte ; as observed by Mabillon,
who has c,ttd passers from Romanus, Pett US Casinensis,
and Augustinus Patricius. Niabillion also Mentions the
petition of a certain (istercion abbess, dated 1249, to Ja-
cobus de Trecis, the Pope's chaplain, that he would send
her a copy of the picture contained in St. Peter's. He
complied with her request, and•br.gged her to receive the
copy as " a holy Veronica, Christ's true image or like-
ness." The next stage in the growth of the legend (for it
does not seem to be of later date) was •ihe discovery that
the original Veronica was an actual. impression of our
Saviours features, miraculously taken at some time or
other, according to Mabillion, during the agony in the
garden ; to Duncange on the way to Calvary ; and by an•
other class of persons. as noticed by Baronrus, supposed
to have been lett upon the head-dress in the se; ulchre.
But the .story wanted something, and Veronica was at
length found to be the name of a holy woman who fol-
lowed our Lord to Calvary; and who, while piou•ly wip-
ing the Redeemer's brow with a cloth, received as a re-
ward the miraculous impression of His countenance.
Of this woman, whom Baronius calls Berenice, there is a
colossal statue in St. Peter's at Rome; and a hat is worse,
her image occupies a prominent place in the hearts of an
ignorant people. The handkerchief of St. Veronica is
publicly worshipped in Romepnstated oecdsions, and

the ceremony id performed with .most spiendour ;
perhaps there is no part of the Runtish ritual more cal-
culated to strike the imagination The prostrate multi-
tude, the dome of St. Peter's dimly lighted by the torches
in tile, nno._ find thp.hadnwv haldacchino, hanging to all

appearance in the air, form a spectacle not easly for-
goften.--Dr. Mai,tarat's Church in the Catacombs.

- A gentleman of PIN mouth lately sent, through. the post,
to a friend in Scotland, a p►esent of strawberrhes, packed
in pill-boxes 1