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is made white and foamy, like curled and white hair, by
the number of bells which ascend trom his path, and
by which, though himself unseen, one might trace his
progress through the deep. Altogether he is unrivalled,
and stands in fear of nothing—the proudest of the proud,
or one so superior in strength and greatness to the proud
ones of the earth that they might well be humbled in the
contemplation of him. There are various conjectures re-
specting leviathan, whether he be whale or crocodile. It

is truly a gorgeous representation that is here given of
him ; nor is the last trait the least impressive, where he is
represented as looking down upon all things, and as king
over all the children of pride.—Dr. Chalmers' Daily
Scripture Readings.
THE WEALTH AND AVARICE OF THE EX-KING OF THE
FRENCH.—Louis-Philip falls, and falls, like all selfish
men, unpitied. Napoleon was pre-eminently selfish, and
yet for a long time h managed to conceal his real base-
ness beneath a blaze of false glory. His selfishness led
him to
-covet th. extension of his territories and the gran-

trary, disclosed the narrowness of his aims, by his intense
desire to enrich himself and his family. The private pro-
perty of the Dukes of Orleans had remained untouched
during the Revolution and the Empire. The Palais
Royal, with its streets of shops, and their enormous ren-
tal, together with other estates of great value, returned to

him, improved rather than injured, at the first restoration.
The death of the last of the Condes brought the princely
domains of Chantilly into the hands of one of his sons ;
whilst other events, down to the r..cent death of his sister,
rolled millions aster millions into the coffers of the rest.
Prince Joinville had acquired a rich dowry from the Bra-
zils with his wife; and, more recently, the Duc de Mont-
pensier had succeeded to the enormous wealth of the In-
fante of Spain. But time after time Louis-Philip had in-
volved himseif in disputes with his own nation, and finally
with England, about flotations for his children, in which
he displayed the absttce of all that was noble, generous,
and lofty. The late affair of the Spanish marriages was
an inglorious intrigue for the purpose of enriching and ag-
grandizing his house. But a tew hours have sufficed to
lay the whole of his costly fabric in ruins ; and such has
been the awful suddenness of the catastrophe, that it has
come upon him like an earthquake, and the child of one
revolution, the hero of a second, and the victim of a third,

stands, like the skeleton of the inhabitant of Pompeii,
suddenly overwhelmed with the fiery torrent, which found
him in the very act of clutching his money-bags.—Record.
INEQUALITIES OF THE INCOME-TAX.-Why should
who subsist by our own industry, and
y our own share of the national ex-

who are ready t

le quota o

lc-Ts-difference- in position beiwcUll 'the—man who dears
£l.lO a-year by his trade, and another whose gross profits
amount to £155, than between the latter and the posses-
sor of a revenue of a 10,0b0 uer annum Aml ‘,.,r +h.

heir incomes,

r, who

S the reuse to moderate his in-
to escape scot-tree ! Another

and upon those whose incomes
fiction is made by the act of 1842,
Irvin realised property, and those

here is a vasi

no landed property,

tion than the di-

the military officer,

That most

ity of laying by some pro-
be one cane already tul-
; and yet no distinction

two. Tile professional man
3 lay aside a large portion of
uring, by insurance or other-
e for his family in the case
of be able to spend one-half

1 yet no deduction is allowed

pay for burdens not his own,

which he was no participator,
.3.. vied from the iund-
tne full knowledge that,
ed with him, whilst that
le and available by inhe-
upon which we decidedly
augmentation of the in-

ch is I.