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n tact, than

pere, ..c nad to propose, actually in
his nervousness and confusion intro'luced the poet as:one
" whose name he was sure mu4t be known to every gentle-
man present 7" There's fame ! There were almost 20
eons. and most of them must have been authors."
-Sketchfs of Life, by the 14e Laman Blanchard.
4, WATERING-PLACE IN NRW ZEALAND.-LOn our way
' Wakarewarewa Hotsprings, by far the finest at
about seven miles from Mr. Chapman's and a-
a from Ohinemutu. llere are to be seen all the
+ies of Ngawha (hot-springs). They are mud caul-

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persons

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drons, black. blue, grey, greet., 7,..---. --- -_ . -Y
emblem of laziness; a faint stream rises frOrn them, and • only knowledge which can make wise unto salvation. It i
ever and anon a solitary huhble of gas disengages itselfi of little consequence that a e provide for the life, it we neg
• sloaly from the surface, which then returns to its usual, lea the life of life. Man was created for higher things that
dulness. Close by the side pi these. and in strong contrast, to be a mere instrument of sordid accumulation. Ant
are the clear pools of boiling water, of great depth, and of never can the minister who limits his activity to the pro.
bright azure, enclosed in precipitous walls of sulphureous viding things needful for bodily necessities, accompliel
formation; from some of these, hot streams flaw down. Ole great end for which a naticn like England has been
which are guided by the natives either into artificial baths raised up, or secure to himself a lasting remembrance by
or into natural hollow. of the rock ; tho supply of hot we- the wise beneficence of his.regulations. It is in this, Sir
ter, being so regulated as to keep the bath at the right. Robert Peel is wanting. He had at his command an in-
temperature. Among these cauldrons and pools, a strong stitute by which he might have effected all that could be
and •rapid stream of cold water rushes down, in some desired ; a church establi hinent, which in its teaching
places not a yard from the spot at which the natives are and offices fully met the requirements of the age; which
sitting up to their breasts in hot water, shelling Tawa ber- only required to be. supported and ',extended, to do all
ries, or peeling potatoes, or failing in these employments, that could be don,.. by human instrumentality, forbithe
enjoying their never-failing resource orsmoking. But by religious well.bei! •: of the people. It is painful to' be
far the most beautiful springs are the boiling jets, which are obliged to add, that the advantages of such an institute
thrown up to the height of many feet from a narrow ors- have been neglected. And in Ireland what has been the
fice in the top of an irregular cone, formed'of the matter 6lcase? Has it not been rudely shaken, and contemptu.
held in solution by the water, which is deposited as it cools, ously set aside, while popery, the nurse 9f darkness and
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 per- doubt, that some temporal end would be answered by
fectly safe to stand upon the tops of these cones, 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 tight 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 be fain would purchase, will become tyrants
force of its projecti n into silvery foam, and accom- whom he cannot control. And the priesthood by whom
pulled by a volume of white steam. The hot water, in its he would hope to rule and to pacify a distracted country,
descent, trickles down the sides of the crater, and falls will belie all calculations which may be made from the
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 substance 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 1 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 '
small native village is here, with the usual appurtenances s own weapons. In the
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 l'anghis, or native swallow the hook which he designs for them. And this
ovens, always in readiness, and boles of boiling water in it is—this fatal blindness or indifference to the value of
which fish and potatoes can be speedily cooked. A native moral and religious 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 power, and will, if persevered in, render his administra-
the ennui of those who resort to the baths.—Bishop Sel- tion as great a curse, as it promised to be a blessing to
WWI 8 Visitation Tour. the British empire.—Dublin University Magazine.