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But still, 0 our God, unto Thee,
raise the Hosanna

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And " THE

LORD OUR DEFENCE" ever be

bion's banner !

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ae, Ponsonby, &c. &c. &c.

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not, I beseech you, 'tis so meant;
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Lt the moment !

This name may well awaken feelings of pride in the bosom
ery Englishman. It is illustrious equally for the superior gifts
ind: as well as the pre-eminent chivalry of heart, which have
'gnashed all its possessors. To Baron Napier, of Murchistoun
Scotland, ancestor of the present family, is aue to the honour
invention of logarithms. He published, in 1614, the first table
iese numbers, in a small treatise entitled " Mirifici Loga-
orum Canonis Descriptio."
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Hall,
of th(

If Don Pedro'

1 with the gallant sailor, who in 1833, in com-
fleet, achieved by boarding so brilliant a vic-
ver the far more numerous squadron of Don Miguel; and who
w adding fresh laurels to his brow on the coast of Syria?
sinted with England's great military historian, the
or with his two noble brothers.
Lnd Sir George Thomas Napier ?
ieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, and COm-

Generals Sir Chad

Commande

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noble and
the field o

n New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
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ied officer's staff at Barbadoes.

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ainily who have not left some such token on

'his gallant officer fell gloziously leading his men to the charge

e historian. Col. W. F. P
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:aff of Canada,

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tapylton Cotton

;ent Lord Londonderry

Peninsular War
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Author of the Narrative of the

zroy and Robert. The former performed the arduous
and responsible duty of A. D.C. and military secretary to the Duke of
Wellington, throughout the campaigns in Spain, Portugal, France,
and Flanders. His lordship has a " cross and five clasps" for his
distinguished sex:iices. He lost his right arm at Waterloo, and was

(15) Sir Edward. Governor of Chelsea Hospital. Sir Edward lost
his right ann at the action off Oporto ; served in Flanders and Hol-
land in 1794 ; was present in the naval action off Cape St. Vincent,
in '97 ; wounded in Egypt. and performed distinguished service in
the retreat and battle of Corunna.

6) Present Lord

17) Sir Colin, late Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia

18) Sir V

J. Downes, present Commander of the Forces in

Canada,
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the former

Heroes of Navarino and Algiers.
The latter cele2,rated for the defence of Acre, in 1799 ;
Or its redaction, in 184 t).

THE ST. SI

LPICE ORDINANCE

From the London Standard.)

There is a question which we wish to be answered by the
conservative peers who opposed the Bishop of Exeter's mo-

tion upon ti

San Sulnice ordinance

These noble lords

ordinance a bad thing in the abstract,

a rescinding, indeed, of the Reformation, as far as the pro-
vince of Canada is concerned, but they hold that the legisla-
ture is bound to sanction the evil, because Lord Bathurst
supplied what has been tortured into a precedent for it, and,
further, because of the long possession ofthe monks of San
Sulpice, and of intimations dropped by Lords Goderich and
Aberdeen that this possession might, on certain conditions,
(not, however, the conditions reserved in the ordinance) be

permitted to continue.
Now the question arising upon this argument which we
wish to have answered is the following :
Were not the Irish corporations, lately destroyed by the
House of Lords by tie active influence of some of the con-
servative peers, and with the aid of the learned Recorder of
Dublin, entitled to continue their existence, and to preserve
their privileges and property, upon much stronger arguments
(though of the same kind) than those to which the House of
Lords, under conservative guidance, yielded in the case of
San Sulpice? The Irish corpdration had a possession varying
from 050 years to about 250 ; the longest possession that the
monks of San Sulpice could claim did not exceed a century,
and then possession under the English government was no-
thing like so long.. The right of the Irish corporations was
guaranteed by charters of English kings, recognised by so-
lemn acts of the legislature, and protected by the law, which
forbade that the conduct of corporations should be questioned
anywhere but in the supreme court of criminal jurisdiction.
The right of the monks of San Sulpice, such as it is, rests
upon the charter of a French king, extinguished, as all such
'-arters must be, by the conquest of the province, and on
and equivocal intimations of ministers, without
,slative authority, to which we have referred.
We have put our question to the conservative peers. We
shall now put a question to the country : is this equal deal-
ing between Protestants and Romanists? Is it fair that the
solemn engagements to Protestants should be treated
owedly because they are engagements to
men who maintain their character as Protestants; while the
slightest pretext of even an unauthorised promise to Roman-
ists, or of what can by ingenuity be twisted into the form of
a promise, is to be regarded as an obligation of paramount
force Is this—we repeat the interrogatory—equal dealing
Of course we do not apply to
between Protestants and Romanists?
ourselves Whig; or radicals,
or to any others who may wish for the ascendancy of the
Romish church, or at best regard the contest between Pro-
testantism and Popery as an indifferent matter while they
profitably play the game of politics. It is
. natural for such
to persecute impracticable Protestantism in Ireland, and to
promote Popery, the willing handmaid of politicians of all
creeds and orders, in every country where they can hope to
promote it. Our inquiry is addressed to conservative peers,
and to the conservatives of the country ; and we may em-
body both our questions in one—of what have these profess-
ing conservative peers shown themselves conservative in the
matters of the Irish corporations and of the San Sulpice
ordinance? Is it of. the right of property and privilege in
the one case, or of the reformation in the other?

those obscure

as of no force,