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red into for the destitute poor, the amount

On Se.

g last,
k;nurch, Kirkdale,' after a sermonmornin
by'the Rev-
D. James, Incumbent, md in obedience to the Queen's
Letter, the sum of £45 15s. was collected 'fir the relief
of the distressud.Scoteh and Irish.'. The rev. gentleman
made another,appeal to his4xingregation in the evening,
in aid of the Liverpool District Provident Society, and of
the perishing poor in -Irelaiid- find''Seotland, conjointly:
soliciting £2O fosihe Pmvident Society, 'and stating that
the amount exceeding that sum wonld be added ;to the
morning colleetisn. appeal produced 4'o 35., mak
ing.a totalfor theday of .V" that is to say—fr
the eliefTaii , J.ZS

for..t4t:: Distri

t Provident

sermon Mr.

lots owu district, and—tieft

tAree weeks.
h food

ice of List
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'en by Ahe

;urging as a rc.a-

occurred in IZicktial
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zer peon

it vast po
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'ought of,

the Co.

What adv

Mitford, H

h. If the former worship t
the saints and martyrs, the

beer, tobaccO, and Bac-

coarse, brutalized, and vii
the face of the globe ;

,o our warlike and

Ith by the sw

lry warfare, that we are little
ed, that the French everywhere
,er liked than the English: And
. .

imate, customs, laws, or religion ?
ntiv the cause of our national

Time, and misery, tog

We do not think sufficiently of

upim our Queen's doininioi

If the shadow of misery, crime, anti

.ts upon our nation like a gloomy dark
barmier dawn amongst the children of

he time will soon come when the dark habi-
Tuelty, ignorance, and superstition shall give

and true Christian charity, when thela-
not only be worthy of his hire, but be liber-
ated in proportion to the costs of the neces-
fm• his labour and industry. We raise costly

11, win

ogle of genius, ta-

who contributed tot

forget that
.e 9.

even then laid

forcibl

3ndonr in war dazzles us • see the blest banners
to yonder officer by a lady. Does she think,
). of blood, of wounds, of agonising cries,
horrid death upon the battle-field?
he music, beholds the gaudy critn-
- he cold emblazoned wavinz

of piercin
Alas! no.

ms, anc

CM/11 04411 V, 411.,
silk flags, and she bids her husband, brother, son, go forthto slaughter ! So also in Romanism, as in war, the organ
peals its solemn symphonies ; the altars blaze with innu-
merable lights ; the robed priest, clad in gold and silver
slowly stalks along the aisle, attended by his
the positions, attitudes, genuflexions, all so
;o impressive. Down, down bows the multi-
shrine! The virgin stoops, and her glossy
are shorn from her head : every gentle
kindred, friends, and the world too, she

officers
studied

fe at the

LIG w A.,..,- -... •
-
might have adorned ; all, all severed by those fatal shear
helpless maiden, to
of Atropos. Go, thy cold, stony,
silent cell: there thy sighs, thy despair, shall be witnessed
only by thy God, and thy imperturbable Father Confessor.
If not the 8 world-forgetting," hapless maiden, soon shalt
thou be "by the world forgot." But my task is to de_
scribe, not to moralize.
---,40---_.

" At twent

LAUNCELOT BLACKBURNE, ARCHBISHOP
OF YORK.

R wished

Among the more remarkable persons introduced to no-
tice, in Walpoles memoirs of a part of the reign of George
11., just publisheg, is Launcelot Blackburn, Archbishop
of York. The origin et this .man, and the early incidents
of his life, have alike excited curiosity, and baffled re-
search. He is generally said, and believed, to have been
a bucanier ; which means, it is presumed, a pirate—one
wbo lives by sea plunder ; and Lord Byrou attempts to

:verge into the mild

ter he had so sharply, ;et, at the same.time, so leniently

in that gilt chamber with the course ribaldry and outrage-
ous
eaietv of Wal

e, whose native coarseness no habits
intercourse F-j with the refined could quench. And Hol-
land House is already assuming her mark of distinction,
that of being the very centre-of all the minor charities of

, all tne great men anu W UIIICII vvula
„med (to use an expression of Horace W alpole's when
peaking of Gray) ' to be in flower,' whilst they paraded
her saloons or lounged in her libraries.
" Too soon for the ambition of Heurya'ox did Holland
House lose her political coteries • long silent were her
turrets, during the minority of the late Lord Holland, un-
til, upon his rise to manhood and pre-eminence, a new
en he observes:—
race of the elite appeared beneath the rich ceilings framed
I
,
by Rich. _

in the mind of the your

teenth year;

gladly would one

,nd fatal entanglement in-play, which

'ox under

having. Lord Carlisle's security for 1;15,000. To crown
the infamy, Lord Carlisle was madly in love with Lady
Sarah Lenox, then Lady Sarah Bunbury. lie made no
secret of his unlawful passion : such things were scarcely
thought_ worth concealing in those days. What are the
,r,

Lady Sarah, IT shall feel it extren

t exchange to be able .to live with her
her more than friendship will allow ! Is

sage with its fact

Lord Carlisle soLerisiii, and became

)ne Apollo deigns to smile

wen, such w

the misery of his career,

fno more ; out rruviu,..w.,
of youth were suffered gradually to
2,r form of errors, thence to expand
For who could resist the snares of that fasci-

'lilting circle ? Even Pitt was nearly drawn into me vor-
tex of play at Goosetree's, and Wilberforce yielded to its
fatal charm. He mice arose the winner of £2OOO ; but
the pain he felt for those who lost, prevented all such fu-

turetriumphs of the infernal regions.
" Another group attends at Holland House, and the
names of Sheridan, Erskine, Burke, and Windham re-
sound in her entrance-hall ; and of these the most ap-
proachable, the most loveable in private society, was the
last. His manners were noble, polished, courteous ; his
spirits so gay that, even in the decline of life, he was the
youngest of the young. Over his whole conversation,'
thus writes a contemporary, was flung a veil of unrent
classical elegance ; through no crevice, had there been
any, would ever an unkind or an unconditioned sentiment
have found entrance.' 'Again a break in the vast current
of mighty intellects, and Mackintosh, tall, cold in aspect,
kindly at heart, referred to as the very pattern-book of all
knowledge, greatly independent, benignantly serene, sits
at the table of the noble host, by-the side of De,Stael.
-Her preoccupatiori with to use a foreign phrase, was
so extreme that some doubted whether the great Scot
liked it, yet he always spoke of her with that calm enthu-
siasm which was peculiarly his own attribute. And here,
smiling, singing, charming all hearts, was the gay bard of