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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-10 00:00:00

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POETRY.

WE SHALL BE HAPPY YET,

BY THE LATE MRS. JAMES GRAY

Fear not, beloved, though clouds may lour,
Whilst rainbow visions melt away,
Faith's holy star hath still a power
That may the deepest midnight sway.
Fear not ! I take a prophet's tone,
Our love can neither wane nor set ;
My heart grows strong in trust—Mine Own,
We shall be happy yet !

What though long anxious years have passed
Since this true heart was vowed to thine,
There comes for us a light at last
Whose beam upon our path shall shine.
Ye who have loved 'midst doubts and fears,
Yet neve- with one hour's regret,
There comes a joy to gild our tears—
We shall be happy yet.

Ay, by the wandering b rds, that find
A home beyond the mountain wave,
Though many a wave and storm combined
To how then

summer suns that brightly rise
Though erst in mournful tears they set,
By all Love's hopeful prophecies,

"We shall be happy yet!

—Dublin University Mug

VARIETIES.

What patato is the mcst rotten of all ? D'ye give it up ?
—The Agi-tatur.

It was plea•antly said of a man who was unable to sur-
mount the difficulties of the French grammar, that, like
Napoleon in Russia, he had been stopped by the elements.

NEW ORDER OF ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE.
The spire of Gr,,ce Church is like an alligator's tail strik-
ing up out of a thimble, if there ever was such a thing !

New York-Tribunal.
THE CONSERVATIVES IN OPPOSITION.—WhiIe they
steadily refused to force themselves into office, Sir Robt.
Peel and his party acted as a constant drag upon the
chariot-wheels of the movement. Their motto was,
" Let us have no more changes. You gave us the Re-
form Bill as a final measure, and a final measure we are
determined that it shall be." And no more changes did
they sanction, save only in regard to institutions which
appeared to them to be much less intimately connected
with their own interests as an at istocracy than the present
state of affairs proves them .o h,ve. been. Now let us not
be misunderstood. The insertion of the tenant-at-will
clause into the original act was accomplished with the
entire concurrence of the whole party. It seemed to
afford them some counterpoise against the ten-pounders;
it bid fair to give then. the counties, however weak they
might be in the boroughs. But did any of the followers
of Sir Robert Peel in 1833 and 1834 look the length of
their noses farther? Surely not; otherwise they would
have resisted to the death such a measure as the New
Poor law Bill, which has completely alienated the labour-
ing classes from the classes above them, converting into
bitter enemies the men who used to be the humble but
devoted friends of the aristocracy. Surely not; other-
wise they never would have consented to the suppression
of ten bishopricks in Ireland, thus weakening the influ-
ence of Protestantism in the very portion of the empire
where it stood most in need of support, and encouraging
further attacks upon the church of which they professed
to be the champions. These things, however, they gave
up, because their leader told them that it was wise to do
so. They flung from them the affections of the poor by
invading their vested rights, and alarmed and offended
the clerav by the ind'fference with which they looked on
while O'Connell and his adherents, the popish hierarchy,
achieved so signal a triumph over the It ish branch of the
united church. But no sooner was a proposal made to
extend the franchise, or interfere with the game-laws, or
reverse the financial system of the empire, or promote an
increased freedom of trade, than to a man they denounced
it. Moreover, to do them justice, they were marvellously
tender both of the property and the privileges of the
church in England. They accepted a Tithe Commuta-
tion Bill, it is true ; but they said, and perhaps believed
—some of them—that it would be as advantageous to the
clergy as the country gentlemen. But they would not
hear of Lord Melbourne's plan of national education.
And as to church reform, the term was never used, ex-
cept vaguely by the whigs, and then it was hooted down
as synonymous with confiscation. Thus in every ques-
tion which appeared to threaten their own influence, or
their rentals, or toe arrangements, fiscal or otherwise,
which were connected with their personal influence, the
conservative opposWon winked wonders. Their broad
principle, in which their chief seemed to go, with them

enough to retard the headlong progress of a government
which was without power to stop of its own accord, and,
for obvious reasons, did not desire that its adherents
should
_believe that it contemplated stopping anywhere.—
Fraser

Magazine

THE CONSERVATIVES IN POWER.—In 1835, the play
which had won its new name so pliantly in opposition,

came, as

we a!1 recollec

somewhat prematurely into

rst act of its chief?

mnnife,to

power

against the established constitution of the church, and the
appointment of a commission under the crown to devise
changes in it ! The representatives of the party in both
houses of parliament threw up their caps. it was a bold
measure, but the state of the times rs quired it ; and as
toot a farthing vras taken from the church, however widely
diverted some portions of church property might be from
the uses to which the testators had assigned them, nobody
could deny that it was a s•rictly conservative measure.
Accordingly, the commission sat; extinguished eanonries;
remodelled sees; reduced bishops from the dignity of
landowners to the respectable position of state pensioners;
applied tithes and lands, bequeathed by good men in Dur-
ham for the spiritual benefit of Durhamites, to the relief
of the spiritual necessities of the dwellers in Cornwall
and Sussex ; and boldly transferred a prelate from Bangor
to Ripon, with all his Welch revenues in his band. What
was the aristocracy about then? Did they not see that
their own rights and privileges were weakened by such a
blow struck at the right-3 and privileges of the church?

consenting and approving parties
.onsidered at the time, and still

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