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is made white and foamy,like curled and white hair, by
the number of bells which ascend front his path, and
by which, though himself unseen, one might trace his
prog?ess 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 he 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.—Loup-Philip falls, and fails, like all selfish
men, unpitied. Napoleon was pre-e►itinently 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 the extension of his territories and the gran-
deur of his empire. The King of the French, on the con-
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 millions4a ter millions into the coffers of the rest.
Prince Joinville had acquired a rich dowry from the Bra-
zils with his wife; anti, more recently, the Due de Mont-
pensier had succeeded to the enormous wealth of the In-
fante of Spain. But time after time Louis-Philip had in-
volved himself in disputes with his own nation, and finally
with England, about dotations for his children, in which
he displayed the absence 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 few hours have sufficed to
lay the whole of his costly filmic 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

Ty, and

who are ready to pay our own al

of the nariooal ex-

whose incomes CIO not amount to 1;150 ? ,Surely, them is
he difference in position between the man who clears
£l4O a-year by his trade, and another whose gross profits
amount to £155, than between the bitter and the posses-
e i sor of a revenue of £lO,OOO per annum ? • And yet, the
two last. are to be charger fiv

aeir incomes,
whilst the other, who has the sense to moderate his in-
dustry, is to be entitled to escape scot-tree ! Another
monstrous hardship of the income-tax is its pressure
upon professional men, and upon thoe whose incomes
are precarious. No distinction is made by the act of 1842,
between profits accruing trout realised property, and those
•

which are entirely the pr

uet, or individual and personal
• . .• •

The man who

derives an inco

.ntied property,

ion tnati the di-

vine, the 1

e military officer

whose it

pressing duty of life, the neees,ity

syleg by some pro-

vision tor a

Ind yet no d

istinction

wnarever is mane oetween the two. The professional man
is compelled year atter year to lay aside a large portion of
his income, for the sake of securing, by insurance or other-
wise, the means of subsistence for his family in the case
of sudden death. He may not be able to spend one-half
of his apparent income, and yet no deduction is allowed
on this account. He must pay for burdens riot hi own,
and for ministerial folly in which he was no participator,

an amount equal to that which is levied from the iund-
holder or the man of acres, in the full knowledge that,
when he dies, his capital is buried with him, whilst that
of the other class remains tangible and available by inhe-
ritance. This is another ground upon which we decidedly
object to the continuance and augmentation of the in-
come-tax.—Blachwood's Magazine.

NATURAL SCIENCE OF THE BIBLE.—Asa specimen of
God's workmanship in zoology, the unicorn is mentioned
in Job—equally untameable, and beyond the management
of human strength or skill. The qurstions regarding him,
when thus brought forward in detail, serve to impress us

with a sense of our helplessness when we attempt to con-
trol those forces which God bath instituted, and which He

our admiration—not of the strength oniy,bulorthe7;;;;;
which pervades the whole of animated nature. In the
tribute given to the goodliness of the peacock's wings, we
are strongly reminded of our Saviour's testimony to the
flowers in the field, surpassing in glory all the array of
Solomon. And then what a lurther sanction to the na-
tural science, which tells of the specialities in the habit
and condition of animals; and there are none more fitted
to excite our wondtr and interest than those of the os-
trich, no less signalized by speed and strength than she is
by the want of foresight and understanding. There is an
obscurity in the clause of " her labour being in vain with_

out fear." Her labour in producing seems not in keep-
ing with her carelessness and fearlessness as to the pro-
duct—a carelessness due to the want of wisdom, but which
is made up for by Him who ordained and regulates the
processes of Nature, by which the heat of the weather
suffices for the hatching of the young. after the eggs are
deposited in the sand. From the scorn which is telt by
the ostrich for the horse, transition' is made to the horse
itself, in the truly magnificent representation of which we
have one of the sublimest passages in the Bible. In the
clothing of his neck with thunder, the very indefiniteness
of the image adds to the immense power; nor can we figure
a more gorgeous and impressive picture than is given of
this noble creature—it must be left to speak for itself;
and the argument passes on to other exemplifications, as
the hawk, poising herself in the air, and cleaving it with
a power which man is unable to comprehend, and far less
to imitate. The description closes with the eagle, king of
the birds, and with whom there stand associated so many
lofty and commanding images—as the elevated crag in
which it builds its nest, the munition of those rocks where
it dwells and rears up its young, the pride of its supe-
riority over all other tenants of the air, whom it holds in
perpetual subjection and terror, and seizes upon for its
prey. The force of her far-seeing eye, and the ravenous
appetite both of herself and her young ones for blood, are
here powerfully depicted—all serving to enhance our view
of the littleness of man in comparison with the God who
made all and sustains all.—. Dr. Chaltners' Daily Scrip-
ture Readings.