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he said, " Kind, dutiful, a
and if I am pe

nitted to attain to
am permitted to

y state to which I as'
1, how often shall I be with 3
of February, 1844, he was se

On the
of ing

iza, wl

h on the 10

he 15th he -calmly died, in hi

HOSPITALITY

7th yea:
—The ]

Polynesians carry

heir hospitality to an amazing extent. Let a native Of
the westernmost part of Tahiti, make his a-
arance as a traveller at Partoowye, the most east-
illage of Imeeo, though a perfect stranger, the
tants on all sides accost him at their doorwc
him to enter, and make himself at home
yeller passes on, examining evL
at last, he pauses before one winch sufls

amrar,

y house

then

na maitai" (this one

11 do, I think),

a
1 bread-fruit,

mats, and very proba-bly calling
nice young cocoa-nut, and a piece of toast-
-Heed Curious to

.hin, and done brow

elate, however
Iv I

a stranger carrying it ti
.ed to be without a house

henceforth go a-begging for his lodgings. The " kar-
" or white men, are exceptions to this rule.
t L. precisely as in civilised countries ; where those

f his own, why

iterward
, he may

howrees,

who have touscs and lands are incessantly bored to death
with invitations to come and live in other people's houses,
while many a poor gentleman who inks the seams of his
coat, and to whom the like invitation would be really ac-

ptable, may
ricient Tahit

and sue for it
, it should ht

But to the credi

r hospitality is only of recent Origin

the South Sea:

am in old times

Melville

PORTRAIT OF DR. BLOMFIELD, B
e combined a ereat talent fo

10P OF LONDON

tion with v

.le, gifted
:ed by an

h an indomitable perseverance,:and kimt

ambition that knew no repose, with a capacity for master-
ing details and an inordinate passion for affairs, he could
permit nothing to be done without his interference, and

jell-were either
)se leaders wb

uently was perpetually involved in transactions
ilures or blunders. He was one of
are not guides. Having little real
knowledge. and not endowed with those high qualities of
itellect which permit their possessor to generalise the
led by study and experience, and so deduce
his lordship, when he received those fre-
pence of
lictory,
dark.

ry con

hich were the nec
became obscure, confused, contra
gical. The oracle was alway

Placed in a high post in an age of political analysis, the
bustling intermeddler was unable to supply society with a

Enunciating second-hind, with charac-
some big principle in vogue, as if he
were a discoverer, he invariably shrank from its subse-
quent application the moment that he found it might be
unpopular or inconvenient. All his quandaries terminated
in the same catastrophe—a compromise. Abstract prin-
ciples with him always ended in concrete expediency. The
ces outweighed the isolated cause.
'hich had been advocated with un-
irrogance, gently subsided into some se-

teristic precipitatio

•egate c

The irimordial t

cond-rate measure recommended
impenetrable ambiguity. Beginni.
formation, which was a little rash bt
always ready, had in the
placed himself at the head of every movement in the
church which others had originated, and had as regularly
withdrawn at the right moment, when the heat was over,
or had become, on the contrary, excessive. Furiously
evangelical, soberly high and dry, and fervently Puseyite,
phasis of his faith concludes with what the Spaniards
transaction.' The saints are to have their new
and their
_ , successors to the
are also presented with a church com-
e Puseyites may have candles on their
must not be lighted.—Tanered, a new

with all the artifice of an
g with the second re-
it clashing, the bishop,
.ourse of his episcopal career

canons; the univers:

r rubri

altars, but tl
work by 1-llsraeli
HOW THEYMANAGETHINGS IN TIIEMODEL REPUBLIC
—ln the Senate things still go on in the old-fashioned
way. There, when a member has once caught the

very first-1

his fortune is made for the da3
Accordingly, he tat

ICKS fl
ation of cold
hen be I
o erall%

zowled

spittoon to a
ter to his parc

Ler mat

bred the past,
t a piercing glan,
Fter three, the S,

altogethe

cached lightly upon the
nto the darkness of the

rest, happy in the reflection that he has done his duty by
his country, and will do it again on the morrow. We have
somewhere read of a paradise of fools. Undoubtedly,
. .

!ess is that place. There they enjoy a perfect impu-
and revel in the full gratification of their instincts.
aks of coughing them down, or swamping them
There—

sTo.l:;ody t

Remembering she lierself Was Pertne
And tinsel'd o'er in robes of varying.
With self-applause her wild creation

Sees momentary monsters rise and fall,
And with her own fool's colours gilds them all."
Indeed, all the arrangements of Congress favour the in-
fluence of the sable goddess. In the first place, the mem-
bers are paid by the day—eight dollars each. Permit us
to observe, Jonathan, that you scarcely display yourusual

It would he mu

beitei t