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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

THE Motes CAREER.—Ah, how they press on ! so
fierce and impatient, that they choke the passage and re-
tard themselves ! See, there is a wretched woman, who
would extricate herself from the press—she bears a child
in her arms ! a drunken smith wields his hammer beside
her, and the heavy head swings close past the forehead of
the infant. Oh! will they not hold down his hands for
the mercy of heaven ! And see! she has seized him by the
waist, and supplicates him, and he cannot wring himself
away, but places his black hand upon her forehead, and
crushes her down into the crowd. Where is'the child!
They are borne on by a rush from behind, and I see them
no more !—Dubtin University Magazine.
AN IMAGINARY PHANTOM.—A young lady, known
to the present writer, was terrified, one night, by seeing at
the foot of her bed a tall shadow making perpetual
obeisances. Though it is quite natural that beauty should
be in the receipt of homage, the damsel, accustomed to
adulation at other times, was alarmed by such intrusion
at " the dead waist and middle of the night." Hiding
her head under the bed-clothes, she summoned her.scat-
tered spirits, took cow sel within herself, and having reco-
vered her presence of mind, looked with a scrutinising eye
at the phantom. There it was, still making salaams ac:-
cording to the Eastern mode of adoration. -' A figure of
the ether world I" thought she. " Dreadful !" How far
she might have blamed her attraction for bringing such
unwelcome visitants, no one can tell ; but her self posses-
sion had acquired strength ; and self-possession is fatal to
ghosts, whether their advent be t) worship or to terrify.
She arose, went to the window, and detected the " cause
of the effect." Her house was on the border of a suburban
by-lane, and a gas-lamp standing there hal projected into
the room a shadow of an intermediate tree, whose branches
swayed in the night-breeze. She took care afterwards to
close the shutters.—Ainszvorth's Magazine.

Louis PHILIPPE'S PREVIOUS VISIT TO ENGLAND.—
Louis Philippe, whilst a royal exile (known then as Duke
of Oilcans) proceeded with his brothers from the United
States to the Harannah where they were well received ;
but the Court of Madrid ordered the Captain-General of
Cuba to send them away. Exasperated at the persecu-
tion of the Court of Spain, they turned their eyes to
England, where they determined to seek 'an asylum.
Proceeding to the Bahamas, they passed over to Halifax,
where the Duke of Kent (the father. of Queen Victoria)
received them in the kindest manner. His Royal High-
ness, however, did not feel authorized to grant the Princes
a free passage in an English vessel of War; and they
proceeded to England by the ordinary conveyance. They
arrived at Falmouth in February, 1800, and having re-
ceived permission from the King, George 111., they pro-
ceeded immediately to London, and took up their resi-
dence at Twickenham. By placing himself in the centre
of a large aristocratical society, the Duke voluntarily ex-
posed his manner of life and his associates to observation,
which removed all suspicion as to his motives and designs,
and his character daily augmented the number of his
friends. Very soon after, a reconciliation took place be.
tween the Orleans Princes and Louis XVIII. They were
now admitted to the British Court, and the three Princes
of Orleans became the lions of the fashionable society of
the metropolis, till the Duke proceeded, with the permis-
tion of our government, to Minorca, with the view of
visiting the Court of Spain ; but such was the jealousy of
the Spanish Government towards his family, that he was
obliged to return to Twickenham, where he lived as a
private gentleman, not in seclusion or even retirement,—
for he mixed in society,—but without any appearance of
the eclat of a public character. His pursuits were of a
literary and scientific kind ; he studied political economy,
and the history, laws, and constitution of England. The
death of his two brothers took place a few years after
their arrival in England, and on the last of the two events
grief drove Louis Philippe abroad for a change of scene.
He proceeded to Sicily, and here he engaged the affec-
tions of the Princess Amelia, the second daughter of the
King, and it would appear that the Queen of Naples
made her consent to the marriage of her daughter to the
Duke conditional upon the latter taking part in 'he wild
expedition which was to make her second son, Leopold,
Regent of Spain. The Duke of Orleans entered upon
this project, and conducted himself in it with as much
prudence and discretion as could be expected in such an
enterprise.
ARCHBISHOP LAUD AND THE JESUITS.—The exist-
ence of a design on the part of Laud and his clergy to re-
establish the Roman Catholic relig on in England, under
the vain pretext of an union with Rome, is a fact unques-
tioned and unquestionable. It was objected against them
by their Puritan opponents ; it was proclaimed with much
triumph by their Papist contemporaries ; it was even
avowed by themselves. Now it has been our purpose in
this somewhat long investigation to show that, from the
commencement of Elizabeth's reign, this very design had
been cherished by the papacy ; and that the agency where-
by Rome hoped to accomplish it, was that of dispensed
and concealed persons belenging to the order of the Je-
suits. It is also perfectly evident that this identity of de-
sign is in itself an amply sufficient ground of inculpation
in the guilt of the very wicked devices which Rome had
framed to compass it; to say the least, it was a charge
from which Laud and his clergy were bound to clear them-
selves. The trial of Laud afforded them amply the means
of exculpation ; means extended, in consideration of his
high office, far beyond those which were usually granted
to accused persons, inasmuch as he was allowed to have
frequent access to his papers before their sequestration.
Notwithstanding this, he failed in rebutting the charge of
having afforded every possible facility to the avowed
agents of the papacy in the prosecution of their designs in
this country, and also in disproving the fact that he had
been on terms of frequent and intimate communication
with the most dangerous of them. The inference is in-
evitable. Laud and his clergy constituted in England,
during the reigns of James and Charles, that secret agency
through the medium of which the Church of Roane de-
signed to reduce this country to her obedience, an agency
which she herself had created in the preceding reign by
the dispensation of the Jesuits ! It would be easy to pro-
ceed with the inquiry through the subsequent periods
of our history, and to show the working of the same
agency in the disastrous reigns of the two sons of the hap-
less monarch whose terrible fate it was to have Laud for
his counsellor. But our purpose having been to illustrate
the designs of existing; parties from the facts of history, it
is already accomplished. Laud, bishop and martyr, is
one of the gods of the-modern tractarians' idolatry. They
are never weary of singing his praises ; they are straining
every nerve to accomplish his vast and ambitious project.
To those who entertain any doubt as to the-tendency of
that project, it may be useful to know that Laud was he
secret agent of Rome, and to learn somewhat of the nature
and character of that agency.—Churchman's Monthly
Review.