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their constitutional power of rejecting or modifying all bills
sent up to them from the commons, and do this invariably with
every bill which has a tendency to increase the already over-
charged democratic parts of the constitution. Let their prin-
ciple be, that not a single conservative vote is either directly or
indirectly to be sacrificed, and not a single addition made to the,
radical ones. Let thera stick to the constitution as it is, with
all its present faults, with scrupulous fidelity.
To obviate the effect of this truly couseryatiye polity the re-
volutionists will take care to send up to them no bills but those
which confer an addition on democratic power; and,..if they
return such bills with the spoliating or revolutionary clauses
expunged, reject them; as they did with thee. Irish church bill,
altogether. In this way they will hope to swell the cry against
the peers as obstinately opposed to all improvement; to which
they mainly look for the means of overthrowing their authority.
To meet this danger let them prepare, and pass through the
upper house, a number of bills having a practically beneficial,
but no democratic tendency--ample field for such improvement,
divested of all revolutionary danger, exists.. In extending the
means of emigration, establishing poor's rates on a rational sys-
tem iu Ireland, simplifying and improving the laws, facilitating
the distribution of land to the industrious poor, and divesting the
dove payments of all their present causes of irritation—a bound-
less field for such asefnl, safe, and beneficent legislation is to be
found. Let them originate, in short, in the upper house the
safe improvements which Sir Robert Peel a-as preparing in the
commons when he was driven from- office, and throw- upon the
lower the odium of rejecting such beneficial measures, because
they have not a revolutionary character. It is by holding out
improvement and revolution as inseparable that all the triumphs
of the democrats have been won; it is by affording a practical
proof of their separation, and a steady resistance to democracy
as the worst enemy of amelioration, that the due ascendancy of
conservative principles is to be restored. Pursuing such a
calm, resolute, and beneficent course, the peers will be sate to
defeat any revolutionary coup d'etat to overturn their authority.
They will do more; they will prevent it.
We take from "Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth
Century" (a review of " The Sacred Classics, or Cabinet
Library. of Divinity") the following address of mercy to
the Deity

" ' Who shall thy temple incense any more,
Or at thy alar crown the sacrifice,
Or strew with idle flowers the hallowed floor? •
Or what should prayer deck with herb's and spice
Her vials, breathing orisons of price? •
If all must pay that which all cannot pay,
0 first bygin with Inc, and Mercy slay,
And thy thrite-honoured Son, that now beneath doth stray.
" But if or He, or I, may live and speak,
And haven can joy to see a sinner weep,
Oh, let not Justice' iron sceptre break •
A heart already broke; that low (loth creep,
Andwith prone humblesse her feet's dust cloth sweep.- '
Must all go by desert ? nothing free?

• • Ahl if but th-ose that only worthy be,
None should thee ever see, 'none should thee ever see.
" What hath man done. that man shall notundu,
Since God te him is grown so near akin?
Did his foe'slay him ? he shall slay his foe • .
Hathlielost all? he all again shall win:
Is sin his master? he shall master sin.

Too hardy soul, with sin the field to try: -
The only way to conquer was to fly;
But thus lung death hath lived, and now death's self shall die.
• " He is a path, if any be misled ;
He is a robe, if any naked be:
If any chance to hunger, he is bread;
•If any be a bondman, he.is free;
If any be but weak, how strong is he!
To dead men life be is, to sick men health;
To blind men sight, and to the needy wealth—
A pleasure without loss, a treasure without stealth.
" Who can forget—never to be forgot—
The time that all the world in slumber lies,
When, like the stars, the singing angels shot
To earth, and heaven awaked all his eyes
To see another skin at midnight rise
On earth? Was never sight of pareil fame;
For God before man like himself did frame,
But God himself now like a mortal man became.
" A child he was, and had not learned to speak
That with his word the world before did make;
His mother's arms him bore, he was so weak,
That with one hand the vaults of heaven could shake.
See how small room my infant Lord doth take,
Whom all the world is not enough to hold!
Who of his years, or of his age, bath told ?
Never such age so young, never a child so old.
" And yet but newly he was infanted,
And yet already he was sought to die;
Yet scarcely born, already banished;
Not able yet to go, and forced to fly :
But scarcely fled away, when, by and by,
The tyrant's sword with blood is all defiled,
And Rachael, for her sons, with fury wild,
Cries, 0 thou cruel kingl and, 0 my sweetest child !
" Egypt his nurse became, where Nilus springs,
Who straight to entertain the rising sun
The hasty harvest in his bosom brings;
But now for drought the fields were all undone,
And now with waters all is overrun :
So fast the Cvnthian mountains ponr'd their snow,
When once they felt the sun so neer them glow,
That Nilus Egypt lost, and to a sea did grow.
" ' The angels carol'd loud their song of peace;
The cursed oracles were stricken dumb;
To see their Shepherd the poor shepherds press;
To see their King the kingly sophies come;
And, them to guide unto his master's home,

A star comes dancing up the orient,
That springs for joy over the starry tent,
'Where gold, to make their prince a crown, they all present.
" Young John, glad child! before he could be born,
Leap'd in the womb, his joy to prophesy;
Old Anna, though with age all-spent and worn,
Proclaims her Saviour to posterity,
And Simeon fast his dying notes Both ply.
Oh, how the blessed souls about htm trace
It is the Sire of heaven thou dost embrace:
Sing, Simeon, sing—sing, Simeon, sing apace!'
" With that the mighty thunder drupt away
From God's unwary arm, now milder grown,
And melted into tears, as if to pray
For pardon, and for pity, it had known,
That should have been for sacred vengeance thrown:
There, too, the armies angelic devow'd
Their former rage, and• all to Mercy bow'd;
Their broken weapons at her feet they gladly strow'd."