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power to express his g

)is command of lan-
mOst hacknied and corn-
-3C he used without the
,t confusion and havoc

thick and low

nd evolphes
race. That

works of art, and the beauty is a jny for ever,'
an heirloom on the walls r .; a owner." " You substan-
tiate the charge with whiclb I started " exclaimed Sharp-
son, upsetting his glass. " I said you judged of a picture
by the wall on which it hung."—Lamun Blanchard's
Sketches of Life
WHY PROTESTANTS DISTRUST SIR ROUERT PEEL.—
)wn to every gentle- We are not insensible to Sir Robert Peel's great merits

man's mind! One of the
.rsons alive, but one of the
peaking," being obliged to

in fact, that

and conf

memory of Shake.

he had to prnpoie,actually in

)fl introltierd the poet a

ave been authors:"

the I,le Taman Blanchard.
IN Nv.v; ZEALAND.-011 our way
'a Hotsprings, by far the finest at
Iles from Air. chapman's and a-

2. Her

re to be seen all th

him the cordial meeci of our approbation. But no amount
of financial prosperity can compensate for any deteriora-
tion of moral weal; nor does the hectic flush of fever
differ more from the glow of health, than a plethory of
wealth from
ness.' A nit
undonbtedl

of national great
ressed and encumbered

f Ngawt

indicatic

may be ey

Derabun

~..,ogs). They are mud caul- . .
..„, grey, green, yellow, and red, the very of worldly comforts, if they be not accompanied by the
of laziness; a faint stream rises from them, and only knowledge which can make wise unto salvation. It is
aver and anon a solitary bubble of gas disengages itself of little consequence that vi e provide for the life, if we neg.
slowly from the surface, which then returns to its usual lect the life of life. Man was created for higher things than
dulness. CtOse by the sole at these, and in strong contrast, to be a mere instrument of sordid accumulation. And
are the clear pools of boilin4 water, of great depth, and of never can the minister who limits his activity to the pro-
- •--.• Azure, enclosed in precipitous walls of sulphureous viding thiws needful for bodily necessities, accomplish
" sotne of these, hot streams flow down, the great end for which a nation like En ,Aland has been
natives either into artificial baths raised up, or secure to lira- seq a lasting remembrance-by
of the rock ; the supply of hotwa- 'the wise beneficence of his regulations. It is in this, Sir
... ' '

formation; from
which are guided by the

o keep the bath it

t i.ta,bert Peel

his comma

.1- so- regulate. ._ _ - a- ..
- Among these cauldrons and pools, a strong
_stitute by which he mieht have effected all that 'cguld .b
"t cold water rushes down, in some desired ; a church estz.l ihnient, which in its teaching
3m the spot at which the natives are and offices fully met !!..; i ..quirements of the ege ; which
-easts in hat water, shelling Tawa ber- ;Only required to be supported and extended, to do all
nes, or peeling potatoes, or failing'in these employments. 'that could be don ~ !),/ human instrumentality, for the
--- their never:failing resource of smoking. But bri.i
,ileligious well.b ! g of the people. it is painful to be
vutiful springs are the boiling jets, which are obliged to add, ~;,t the advantages of such an institute
' -idit of many feet from a narrow ori- have been negl_eted. And in Ireland what has been the
"tar cone, formed of the matter. case? Has it not been rudely shaken, and contemptu
...c water, which is deposited as it cools, ously set aside, while popery, the nurse of darknel.
and forms a substance of a pinkish white colour, sometimes. error, has been cherished and exalted ; in the hope, no
also tinged with yellow by crystals of sulphur. It iS P 6-1 doubt, that some temporal end would be answered. by
fectly safe to stand upon the tops of these canes, to 'the the depression of a true, and the encouragement of a false
windward of the spout; and from that position it is grand, religion ? We tell the light honourable baronet, that even
first, to hear the roaring and boiling of the cauldron, and in his political calculations he will be disappointed. The
then see the jet spring up into the air, shivered by the allies whom he fain would purchase, will become tyranta
force of its projecti n into silvery foam, and accent- whom be cannot control. And the priesthood by whom
aanied by a volume of white steam. The hot wat, r, in its. fie would hope to rule and to pacify a distracted country,
I.— —...1,.. e--- else

and. rapid stream
nlaces not a yard

sitting up to their br

enjoyin
far the

descent, trickles down the sides of the crater, and rails sill belie all calculations worm may uc rn,,,,. ~,,r. ~..,
into several natural baths of most agreeable. temperature, past, if they be not the agents and the stimulators of an
formed in the Pure and white subst,ince of the cone, and agitation more violent and more turbulent by far, than
lined with the same matter in its half-formed state, still any by which a British minister has as yet been " let and
yielding and elastic. Here the traveller may lie at his ease, hindered." So much for the sacrifices of mcral to poli-
and watch the bursting of the boiling fountain above him; tical considerations. The moral guilt is incurred, and the
but, if the wind should happen to change, he must shift his political object is not attained. It is in vain to contend
position, or his place will soon be too hot for him. A against the devil with the devil's own weapons. In the
mall native village is here, with the usual appurtenances use of these he will be more than a match even for the
of a native steam kitchen at the hot springs, namely, hot adroitness and dexterity of Sir Robert Peel. His new
plates, made of large slabs of stone, laid over boiling water popish friends may nibble off the bait, but they will not
to dry the Tawa berry upon, steam tanghis, or native
ovens, always in readiness, and holes of boiling water in swallow the hook which he designs for them. And this
it is—this fatal blindness or indifference to the value of
which fish and potatoes can be speedily cooked. A native moral and religions principle—which has shaken the con-
swing completes the equipment of this fashionable water- fidence of the country, and sapped the foundations of his
ing-place, which, together with the game of drafts, relieve
the ennui of those who resort to the baths.—Bishop Set,
power, and will, if persevered in, render his administra-
tion as great a curse, as it promised tq be a blessing to
~,,i,l s risitation Tour. the British empire.—Dublin University Magazine.