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SELECTIONS.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S INTRODUCTION TO
INDlA.—Marquis Cornwallis to Sir J. Shore.—White-
hall, 10th June, 1796.—Dear Sir, I beg leave to introduce
to you Colonel Wesley, [Wellesley,] who is Lieutenant-
Colonel of my regiment. He is a sensible man, add a
good officer ; and will, I have no doubt, conduct himself
in a manner to merit your approbation.—l am, with great
regard, dear Sir, most faithfully yours.—Life of Lord
Teignmouth.

REWARD OF NOBLE WORK.—The "wages" of every
noble work do yet lie in heaven, or else nowhere. Nay,
at bottom dost thou need any reward ? Was it thy aim
and life-purpose, to be filled with good things for thy he-
roism; to have a life of pomp and ease, and be what men
call " happy" in this world, or in any other world? 1
answer for thee, deliberately, no ? The brave man has to
give nis life away. Give it, I advise thee--thou dost not
expect to sell thy life in an adequate manner? What
price, for example, would content thee? * * * *
Thou wilt never sell thy life, or any part of thy life, in a
satisfactory manner. Give it, like a royal heart—let the
price be nothing; thou hast then, in a certain sense, got
all for it! Well said! we again repeat, 0 Diogenes Teu-
felsdrockh !—Carlyle's Past and Present.
DIGNITY OF LABOUR.—In early life, David kept his
father's sheep ; his was a life of industry ; and though
foolish men think it degrading to perform any useful
labour, yet in the eyes of wise men industry is truly ho-
nourable, and the most useful man is the happiest. A
life of labour is man's natural condition, and most favour.
able to bodily health and mental vigour. Bishop Hall
says, " Sweet is the destiny of all trades, whether of the
brow, or of the mind. God never allowed any man to do
nothing." From the ranks of industry have the world's
greatest men been taken. Rome was more than once
saved by a man who was sent for from the plough. Moses
had been keeping sheep for forty years before he came
forth as the deliverer of Israel. Jesus Christ himself,
during the early part of his life, worked as a carpenter.
His apostles were chosen from amongst the hardy and
laborious fishermen. From whence I infer, that when
God has any great work to perform, he selects as his in-
struments those who their previous occupation had
acquired habits of industry, skill, and perseverance; and
that, in every department of society, they are the most
honourable who earn their own living by their own la-
bour.—What David Did; by the Rev. T. Spencer.

THE REFORM FEVER.—One fact is certain, that for
years and years previous to the grand rush upon the con-
stitution, which resulted in the revolution of 1832, the
cause of parliamentary reform had gone steadily back.
Bards, and had there been no ill-timed and mismanaged
Catholic Relief Bill. nor any three glorious days in Paris,
to turn men's heads, the probability is that parliamentary
reform, except as the watchword of faction, never would
have been heard of more. It is idle, therefore, to compare
the position of the statesmen whom the reform bill drove
into opposition, with that of the battlers for the monarchy
during the reign of our own Charles the First, or of Neckar
in the beginning of the French revolution, or of the mis-
guided imitators of that over-praised financier who suc-
ceeded him. These latter had nothing to fall back upon,
except their own talents of persuasion, and the conscious-
ness that their cause was good. The society with which
they had to deal was rotten at the core. Whereas the
people of England, though carried away in 1831, as they
are not unapt to be by a sudden frenzy, never, amid the
deepest paroxysm of the disease, forgot what their fathers
had done for them.—Fraser's Magazine.
FRANCE IN 1794, FROM THE " STELLO " OF ALFRED
DE VlGNY.—Ninety-four struck by the clock of the 18th
century, 94, of which every minute was blood-stained and
fiery. The year of terror tolled horribly and slowly to
the seeming of earth and heaven, which listened in
silence. One might have thought that some dread power,
untangible as a phantom, passed and repassed among men,
so pallid were their faces, so wild their eyes, their heads
so gathered between their shoulders, knit as if to hide and
defend them. Then men moved aside from one another,
or met abruptly, like combatants. Their salute resembled
an attack, their " good day " an insult, their smile a con-
vulsion, their dress the tatters of a mendicant, their head-
gear a rag soaked in blood, their meetings popular dis-
turbances, their families the dens of ferocious and mis-
trustful animals, their eloquence the clamour of a market,
their love a Bohemian orgie, their public ceremonies ill-
composed Roman tragedies, acted on provincial boards,
their wars migrations of savage and miserable multitudes,
the names of the time Poissarde parodies. But all this
was grand, because, in the republican rout, if every man
played for power, each at least cast his head on the
throw.—Dublin University Magazine.

INDUSTRY VERSUS IDLENESS.—WIIO art thou that
complainest of thy life of toil? Complain not. Look up,
my wearied brother ; see thy fellow workmen there, in
God's eternity—surviving there—they alone surviving—
sacred band of the immortals. Even in the weak human
memory they survive so long as saints, as heroes, as gods ;
Llicy ou, ,I.l"6—peopflug, they alone, the immea-
sured solitudes of time! To thee, Heaven, though se-
vere, is not unkind. Heaven is kind, as a noble mother
—as that Spartan mother, saying, as she gave her son his
shield, " with it, my son, or upon it !" And who art
thou that braggest of thy life of idleness ;. complacently
showest thy bright gilt equipages ; sumptuous cushions ;
appliances for the folding of the hands to more sleep?
Looking up, looking down, around, behind, or before,
discernest thou, if it be not in Mayfair alone, any idle
hero, saint, god, or even devil ? Not a vestige of one.
" In the heavens, in the earth, in the water under the
earth, is none like unto thee.' Thou art an original
figure in this creation, a denizen in Mayfair alone. One
monster there is in the world : the idle man. What is
his " religion ?" That nature is a phantasm, where cun-
ning, beggary, or thievery, may sometimes find good vic-
tual.—Carlyle's Past and Present.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND THE FACTORY BILL.—The
withdrawal by Sir James Graham of the educational
clauses from his Factory Regulation Bill, has gone to the
hearts of the whole conservative party. They perceive in
it something like the commencement of that miserable
system of half measures, which, more than even their
gross offences, brought the whigs into contempt. They
can discover no just reason why these clauses should have
been withdrawn. The opposition, got up by a few noisy
demagogues, was, in their estimation, quite illusory. It
deserved very little regard by the Queen's ministers. And
though it be undeniable that in favour of the scheme few,
if any, petitions were presented, the conservatives are pre-
pared to demonstrate that the numbers of those to whom
the proposal was acceptable, surpassed the number of
such as objected to it by three to one, at the least. Why,
indeed, should the minister have taken so much to heart
that of which he now complains as the supineness of
churchmen ? Has he yet to learn that the great body of
the people seldom evince their approval of proposed acts
of legislation otherwise than by a silent acquiescence in
them ? Is he not aware that no peaceable subject ever
dreams that it is necessary for him to throw his hat into
the air and shout Io triumphans, as often as his rulers
shew that they have the permanent interests of the coun-
try at heart ? Nay, more—ls it desirable that a different
practice should be introduced ? Is it a thing to be sought
for, that every scheme proposed in parliament should be
taken up for further discussion in all the towns, and vil-
lages, and hamlets of the empire, and not passed into law
till the government and the legislature are satisfied that a
majority of the lieges approve arid are willing to accept it ?
When it comes to this, the sooner we get rid of the pre-
sent representative system the better. If the weight of
petitions is to decide what is right and what is wrong in
legislation, we see no good reason why the people's char-
ter should not become the law of the land to-morrow.—
Fraser's Magazine.

THE UNDERSELLING MANIA.—A young man opens
a small shop—we will say of linen drapery—in a neigh-
bourhood where an establishment of the kind already
exists. In former times what would have been his Dian ?

He must have commenced in a modest way according to
his means, and, by sound goods, fair prices, and steady
attention, endeavoured to establish a character that should
enlarge his custom, yielding him an increasing profit, and
in the end building up a business. Patience, assiduity
and integrity, he would have regarded as the elements of
his future prosperity; and, whatever his private wishes
may be, he would indignantly disclaim any purpose of
seeking to rise by a neighbour's ruin. Such times are,
unhappily, at an end ; a new system is in operation, and

tne young traaesnaan's nrst care will be to advertize. that
he will undersell all others in the same line. He rests
on the chance of thus drawing away the customers of some
long-established and perhaps fair dealing fellow trades-
man ; he expends a large proportion of his limited capital
in showy embellishments, to make it appear that he can
afford a superfluous outlay, and to entrap such as are
caught by external display. lie procures goods on the
same principle—flimsy, gaudy, and perishable—which he

devise to catch the passenger's eye. He has, of course,
two prices ; but at the commencement he allows everything
to go off below its proper value ; and unless the neigh-
bouring tradesman lowers his terms, at considerable pre-
sent loss and at great hazard as to the future, crushing in
its birth this attempt at competition, it is probable he may
succeed in securing a pretty large custom, and go on for
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a time with every prospect of realizing his expectations.
But bye and bye, a new comer, attracted by his apparent
success, opens a second opposition-shop, promising to
undersell both the former. Then begins the strife, the
grand struggle to keep up appearances, and by a further

young man who has laid out his capital in this way can-
not long contend against present loss, decreasing custom,
feverish anxiety inseparable from so exciting a
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conscience and inclination, to adopt a system now. be"come

redict ; but the ranks of our army, the walls of our Worii:
nnses. and alas ! the hulks of our convict-ships could ex-