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POETRY.

SONNET.-THE POET.

By George R. Twine, Author of " Ie it Peace ?"

How joys the Poet in the woods to dwell,
Far from the city with its uproar rude !
He loves the charms of solitude right well ;
For, having left the world. by him is view'd
And felt the influence of Nature. Then,
Rapt in his reverie, again he finds
How vain and futile are the ways of men :
The love of earth, to each man vainly binds.
The poet in his golden dreams ,nth see
All things in beauty, while the w rld doth cry,
' Such fancies are not true.' Oh, tell not me
The poet is an idle phantasy !
His world is bright—a type of that calm rest,
Ho y and pure, reserved for all the blest.

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VARIETIES.

CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.—An attorney about
to furnish a bill of cotta was requested by his client, a
baker, "to make it as light as possible." "Ah I " re-
plied the attorney, " that 's what you may say to your
foreman, but it's not the way I make my bread."
A. SUITABLE APPOINTMENT.—O'COnneII is loud in
his denunciation of the government eine 'Von" scheme.
Could not Peel, to propitiate him, establish in one of the
proposed colleges a professorship of Billingsgate, and
confer the appointment—with an adequate salary—on the
learned and vituperative gentleman ?—Punch.
AMERICAN ORIGIN.—The Yankee is a race of emi
grants, an assemblage of the most respectable no less than
of the most disreputable characters, and America an asy-
lum for nearly three centuries of all
" Who left their country for their country's good."
The Puritans of Massachusetts, the Quakers of Pennsyl-
vania, the Baptists of libode Island, and some of the
Virginia Cavaliers, were honest men and true. Some-
what tainted with hypocrisy, somewhat addicted to fana-
ticism, maybe, but still staid, quiet, right honourable
men. But we are not prepared to admit that these or
their descendants constitute the majority of the present
American population. For one political refugee, a score
of fortune-seekers, bankrupts, and even adventurers of

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QUICKER THAN TIME.—The St. Louis papers are fe- the worst description, flocked to the untenanted lands
licitating themselves upon the prospects that when the of the new hemisphere. Great Britain and Ireland were
magnetic telegraph is completed from Washington to even more fertile in loose characters in the times of the
their city, they will be able to report the speeches in Con- Charle'es and Georges than they are in the present day.
gress a few minutes before they are delivered, in conse- New England and Virginia were the New South Wales
quence of the difference of longitude between the two of the two last centuries. Whet of it? Rome was pro-
places.—American paper. fessedly the asylum of all the robbers and malefactors of
GO-A-HEAD CHARACTER OF THE AMERICANS.—It is Latium. Did not, for all that, the Republic afford the
a fact to be numbered amongst the most immediate effects noblest instances of manly virtues recorded in the annals
of the wale-spreading education, that the Americans are of ancient times ? It is one of the few facts that honour
the most discontented race in existence. " Nowhere," mankind, that a colony of rogues may be converted into
said an intelligent Salem merchant—and he said it of the a people of heroes. The convicts of the Australian set-
wealthiest, quietest, end com pane ively happiest place of tlements will, at no distant period, present equally favour-
its size in the whole American Union—" Nowhere will able results. There are inexhaustible susceptibilities of
you meet so many vinegar faces as you do in our streets." redemption in the heart of man. Let the ocean be a
No American can sit comfortably in his chair. Every Lethean river, washing off the stains of a polluted exist-
man is perpetually striving to better himself. There is a ence, and effacing even the remembrance of it, not only
universal rush from the useful to what are called the libe- from other men's minds, but from that of the unfortuna e
ral professions. With an inward conviction, analogous offender himself.—" There is mercy in heaven," we may
to Sancho Panza's, that " being born a man he is fit to 1 fancy the worthy Puritans of old to have said to the err-
be a president," every citizen in the Union is a martyr j ing brethren, the smuggling vessel, or the convict-ship
to a vague covetousnf ss and ambitio • ; and that plausible landed on their shores. "There is mercy in heaven, and
but unsound system of general education has hitherto I why should there be no forgiveness and forgetfulness on
bad no better effect than to tneng up a restless, anxious earth ? You are now in a new land, where man is almost
generation, maddened by the rare examples of individual, alone with his Maker. We know nothing, we ask nothing
exceptional success; fretting, wrestling, elbowing each about the pest ; we want hands and hearts ; we want bro.
other, with a wrathful emulation, most apt, no doubt, to tilers to fight our battles against the men and elements of
give the social order a rapid onward impulse, but no less i this inhospitable region. Let bygones be bygones. Be
tending to drive all peace of mind from the face of the 1 a new roan in the New World. God has vouchsafed us
earth.—Fraser's Maria:4-- ' peace and plenty, and you are; welcome to your share."
AN FLE SOT:P.—Willi a f ' Froser's Magazine.
excep to distinguished for tF REAL KNOWLEDGF.—We regard all truth as ,
talent irincipally associated a one system ; and if the intellectual is cultivated to the
the a men of the vet y higi neglect of the moral and the religious, the harmony of the
rank and quaff their Faler system v.-ill he destroyed, and tha most disastrous results
in the age of their friend Tyr will be produced. We stand up for principles which God
To be lewhat discomposed ! I as revealed, and which experience has verified, namely,
P., w band, generally kept that man is a fallen and corrupt creature—that you can-
serva Nits from Cennema not make him good or happy until you produce a moral
whoa ; tried her temper change upon his nature—and that no knowledge will do
little ay the Duke of Bee this but ' the good knowledge of the Lord.' We are far
the I% nt D'Orsey, with t from underrating the importance of secular edueation, or
three tklbion-street. " l from wishing it to be restricted in its diffusion. We say
what 'am ?" inquired tin to every man, study if you can the page of history—master
thrui rawine-room she the science of civil polity—investigate the principles of
mina I. "The soup !" trade and commerce—get a knowledge of the laws and
Mrs. ' Yes, ma'am, th processes of nature ; for all are fitted to alleviate the suf-
I sup me. Is it mock t ferings of humanity—to minister to our improvement—or
real t g James for ?" at the very lowest to subserve the innocent gratification of
your can you ask sod the inquiring spirit. But still we say, when all this hes
tion ? ; sour yesterds been done, you have not found that which will meet the
put it " " Was that i whole case of man. You have not supplied that know-
zna'at ?" "You knc ledge which, as an immortal being, and as a sinful being,
child haven't throw man especially needs. You have attempted to provide for
the si lirty water!"— his existence in time; but you have made no provision for
Misc his existence in eternity. You have endeavoured to fur-
Tr' rd is not onl3 nish him for the part he is to act in the life that now is ;
amor ook on him as but you have left him unequipped for the loftier place he
and t ms as if hew is to occupy in the life to come. You have taught him to
genes very part of • till the soil for his food—to work up and combine the raw
ough The sun, materials of nature into articles of dress or luxury. You
stars the moving t have sent him to foreign markets to exchange one corn-
dare the firinamr modity for another. You have unfolded to him the prin.
his I 'hey are all ciples by which society may be held together, and life and
answ vet' things property secured to their rightful owners. But there is a
move 3thful pers depth in his nature which you have not fathomed—there
a continually up are longings in his heart which you have not satisfied—
there are wants in his condition which you have not sup-
plied. • What shall Idoto be saved ?' Ah, there is the
• -- --- —...epereirs of all. on which ve—

AN ANECDOTE AOOUT TURTLE SOUP.—With a few
exceptions, and those chiefly men distinguished for their
talents and savoir faire, Neer principally associated with
the aristocracy; nor did noblemen of the very highest
rank disdain to eat their mutton and quaff their Falernian
in the comparatively humble menage of their friend Tyrone.
To be sure, these visitations somewhat discomposed Mrs.
P., who, in deference to her husband, generally kept Irish
servants,—often raw consignments from Connemara.—
whose ignorance and blundering tried her temper not a
little on these occasions. One day the Duke of Beaufort,
the Marquis of Normarrby, Count D'Orsey, with two or
three other noblemen, dined in Albion-street. " Ptaize,
what shall I do for the soup, ma'am ?" inquired the cook.
thrusting her head into the drawing-room about five
minutes before the guests arrived. "The soup !" echoed
Mrs. Power in astonishment. "Yes, ma'am, the
I suppose you'll be for having some. Is it mock P
raal turtle, ma'am, I'll be sending James for ?"
you must be mad, Norah ! How can you ask such a ques-
tion? You know you made the sour yesterday. You
put it into the white bason, rind—" " Was that the soup,
ma'am, in the (treat white bason ?" "You know it was,
child !" " Bad luck to me, if I haven't thrown it down
the sink, thin ! I thought it was dirty water !"—Bentley's
Miscellany.
Tne SLUGGARD.—"A sluggard is not only infamous
among men, but God and angels look on him as an useless
and unprofitable wretch. lle seems as if he were hetero-
geneous to the whole creation; every part of which, that
ought, is active and in motion. The sun, moon, and
stars, in their rapid course, and all the moving heavens, de-
clare the glory of God, and even the firmament showeth
bis handy work. Peal. six. 1. They are all nseful, and
answer the end of their beings, ever things that are im-
-.hie. But the idle and slothful person doth not
answer the end of his being, but is continually upbraided
by them. And while almost every being is busy and in
action, he alone lies stretched along the ground, and
golden days ; or else tugging under the

soup

urfle or
"Why,

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weight cf studyingand contriving how to spend them.
When I see the picture of Aqas, with every muscle ex-
tended, and labouring under the ponderous globe of hea-
ven upon his shoulders, I cannot forbear to think upon
an idle person, whose greatest burden is time, and suc-
ceeding hours, days, and years, are a continuation of his
slavery; or else I represent him to myself as a man en-
compassed with a i-rowd of devils, who make him the sport

ruts of

ur ora-

cle is dumb. You may open to me all the stores of this
world's wisdom—you may school me in all the secrets of
philosophy—year may bind on my brow the wreath of ho-
nour, and pour into my isp the treasures of earth, and en-
circle me with every to m of sensual pleasure ; hut until
you have taught ice the solution of this question, you have
done nothing to allay me fears or mitigate the malady of
my heart.—Hoyg's Weekly Instructor.

SEASONABLE ADVICE.

(From the Chut•chmun'r Monthly Review.)

Every thing in which man is concerned, must proceed
by steps. We cannot speak things into existence, by a
word, or chai.ge the man " breathing out threatenings
and slaughter," into one humbly asking. " Lord, what
wilt thou have me to do?' The Apostles, themselves,
inspired and working miracles, were yet obliged to spend
years in building up a single church. (Acts xviii. 11. xix.
8, 10.) The Christian Union now desired, if atta ned at
all, roust be attained by slow and painful steps. And, in
attaining it, it will be useful to regard carefully the road,
and the milcstent s;—to observe whether we have been

advancing or retrograding of late ; and if the latter,—of
which, unhappily, there can be little doubt,—then to

strive to retrace mile by milt, our lost ground; in order
that, having recovered our former position, we may en-
deavour next, at still further advances. Now many of
these milestones or landmarks may easily he found, by
which we can measure and rightly estimate, the ground
we have lately lost.. Two most remarkable ones occur to
our recollection ; and it will be useful to bring them be-
fore our readers' minds. By such a retrospect we may
come to understand, how much nearer a perfect state of
union we have been, in former times, than at the present
moment. Let this fact be thoroughly understood ; and
then, the next desire will of course be, to recover the lost
ground; to get back to the position occupied, and the
leelings experienced, in 1688, or in 1812, in order that
thereby we may (lel over a large portion of the distance
which now separates us.

The first of these declarations, or public manifestations,
which we shall adduce, is that of Archbishop 6ancrolt,
when addressing his clergy,—or rather, the clergy of the
whole realm, in the year 1688.

Among various other heads of instruction, he gave the
following:—

"That they also walk in wisdom towards those that are not of
our communion ; and if there' be in their parishes any such, that
iilect ❑ot freinently to confer with them in the spirit of
-1 good ways and means to gain and win
ly, that they have a

very tender regard to our brethren the Protestant Dissenters; that
upon occasion offered, they visit them at their houses, and receive
them kindly at their own, and treat them fairly wherever they meet
them, discoursing calmly and civilly with them ; persuading them
(it it may be) to a full compliance with our church, or at least that
' whereto we have already attained, we may all walk by the same
rule. and mind the same thing.' And in order hereto, that they

take all opportunities of assuring and convincing them that the
bishops of this church are reaily and sincerely irrecou, ileable ene-
mies to the errors, superstitious, idolatries, and tyrannies of the
church of Rome; and that the very unkind jeolousies which some
have had 01 us to the contrary, wet e altogether groundless. And, in
the last place, that ;hey warmly and most ~Ilectionately exhort them
to join with us in daily fervent prayer to the God of Peace, for the
universal blessed union of all reformed churches both at home and

must our common enemies

r our dear t ord, and du agree iu the truth of his
also meet in his holy communion, and li,e iu per-

act. unity and godly love

Such was the t my Catholic position taken by Arch-
Uishop It may be said, indeed, that this pre-
late was in some degree influenced by the approach of
danger; but vie must ()ear in mind that, so far from be-
log iiabie to sad thee principle to a tetoportuy expediency,
he was the man who first resisted Popery even to impri-
sonment, and then laid down his vlijoicy, rather than
yield up his convkiiuns of legitimate right. We must
nut then, for one moment attribute to toe Archbishop a
concession in which his conscientious conviction did nut
bear a part.

The next declaration we shall cite, is of a later date ;
and it comes from the other side. It Oft rs, on the part
of the Disseottrs, as amicable an intercourse as the Arch-
bishop himself could desire.

At the commencement of 1812, a discussion was carried
on in the Oxford journals, on the expediency of fiund.ng
an Auxiliary Bible Society for that city. One of the con-
troversialists ventured to prognosticate, that if ever
Churchmen were brought cordially to co-operate with
Dissenters, the final result of such union would be, the
destruction of the Ulrich. The struggle, of Laud with
the Puritans were adduced as a pruot of this tendency.
The ltev. James Hinton, the principal Dissenting mi-
nister in Oxford, in a letter addressed by him to the Ox-
ford Journal, thus rept+. d ;

"It were easy to prove, that the Hierarchy of that day possessed
a spirit and a power entirely subvet sive of all the rights of society,
both civil and religious; but it would be illiberal to render the
Church of England accountable for the crimes of its ancestors.
• Our Church' (it would be replied) ' is no longer what it then was.
I he character of the present Archbishop forms a perfect contrast to
that of Archbishop Laud : the present Primate protects the Dissen-
ters, and receives their thanks ; his predecessur persecuted them
with unrelenting cruelty.' Though I could perhaps easily prove,
that many of the members of the Church of England retain perse-
cuting principles, 1 shall not impute their faults to the Church it-
self'. 1 should be prevented from doing this, if from no other cause,
at least by the gratifying sight of a large and dignified society, led
on in its benevolent career by twenty-one Archbishops and Bishops
of the Established Church, by numbers of Peers, and even Princes
of the realm ; and these perfectly uniting with the Protestant Dis-
senters in supporting all the truth that God has revealed, with a
view of promoting all the charity and purity which it enjoins."

To this description of his own feelings, Mr. Hinton
added a declaration of what he considers to be the com-
mon teeing of his Dissenting brethren ; and his words
deserve the more respect, as purporting to contain " the
avowal of a person very long known in the neighbourhood
from which he writes,—of " one who has spent the greater
part of his life in the Ministry among the Dissenters; and
who, for thirty years past, has been well acquainted with
most of the principal Dissenting congregations in the
kingdom, and has been in the habit of hearing, at their
public meetings, the sentiments of the whole body, on the
subjects which have been discussed." The declaration is

s fulows

" While the Church of England enjoys her own pre-eminence, as
she has done since she banished her oppressors from the throne,
and placed her protectors in their room; while she continues to hold
fast her own liberty, and at the same nine terms a barrier for the
protection of her ucif.rhbours, she will be too much esteemed by the
Protestant Dissentels, fee her a^ eiical d,.ctrine. for the sake of
thcir own safety, and for the havpmess of in:ail:ad, to permit
that any wish fur her overthrow should be cherished among them.
This liberality is the sure pledge of our continued esteem. And if
her liberty 'hould ever be assailed, as it has been in times past,

she will find the Protestant Dissenters. as at the memorable era of
the Revolution ready to lend a powerful aid in her support.

Let us weigh these two declarations, then, and let us
inquire, whether they express the present feelings of
Churchmen towards Dissenters, or of Dissenters towards
Churchmen? No one, we believe, will allege that they
do. But if not, then we must have lost ground :—the
friendliness of Churchmen and Dissenters must have di-
minished of late years. Let this be carefully noted ; and
let our first attempt be, to get back to that better position
from which we have slid away. Let us do this, in the
reasonable assurance, that if we can only get Churchmen
to view Dissenters as Archbishop Sancrofr. viewed them,
—and Dissenters to regard Churchmen as 11Ir. Hinton re-
garded them, we shall have restored a state of things from
which the further advance to a complete re-union will be
at least wi bin the limits of possibility.
But in what respect have we departed from the spirit of
those two declarations ; and to what causes is that de-
parture to be attributed ? Hidden and remote causes are
out of the limits of our inquiry ;—visible and tangible
causes we can easily develope.
The most recent cause of deterioration is found in the
Tractarian heresy. This system has asserted the most
extravagant claims,—alleging that those and those only,
who had received episcopal ordination, could administer
the sacraments, or confer grace, &c. &c ,—and assimi-
lating all Dissenters to Korah, Dathan, and Abiram,
without the least hesitation. _ . . .

Now, certainly, whenever any particle of this spirit is
cherished, there, union is obviously impossible. Indeed,
on one aide at least, it is not desired. The first duty,
then, of Churchmen who desire union, is, to repudiate all
such feelings as distinctly as possible; and as much as in
them lies to adopt Archbishop Saucroft's system :—" fre-
quently conferring with the Dissenters ;"—" vis'ting them
at their houses, and inviting them at their own, and
treating them fairly whenever they meet them ; discours-
ing " calmly and civilly with them." The distance, the
evident alienation which has existed for several years
past, and which has been in some degree participated in
by many of the best men of the church, must be frankly
given up, or the idea of Union may as well be altogether
abandoned. Wh, ther Mr. Jordan acted wisely or un-
wisely in taking the chair, the other day, at a Methodist
Missionary Meeting, we are not now called upon to de-
cide; but sure we are that those clergymen acted a most
injurious and lamentable part, who addressed the Bishop
in approval of his conduct in interfering with Mr. Jor-
dan's undoubted liberty.

We pass on to the other branch of the question. The
most recent offence against Union, as we have said, has
been that promoted by the Tractarians, in denouncing all
Disaent as unquestionable Schism,—all Schism as a
deadly sin ; and all Dissenting ministers as the followers
of Korai), Dathan, and Abiram. But it may be asked,
whether this al:enation of Churchmen is sot partly a re-
action from a previously-manifested hostility of the Dis-
senters? At least we know, that the Tracts for the
Times took their rise in a conference of certain clergymen.
who met to consider the dangers of the Church, in 1833
or 1834,—she being assaulted by Romanists and Dissen-
ters in union, and betrayed, it was thought, by the Whig
administration of that day.
It is quite certain, we apprehend, that Tractarianism
was preceded by a new and vigorous exhibition of hosti-
lity towards the Church, immediately following the passing
of the Reform Bill. Among other great changes which
that measure was expected to bring about, one of the
foremost was, either the reduction, or perhaps even the
utter demolb ion of the Church. The animation and ex-
ultation of the Dissenters, in those days, cannot have
been forgotten. No one can read Mr. Hinton's language
of 1812, without perceiving that the events of the inter-
vening twenty years had utterly changed the tone an•l spi-
rit of the Dissenting body.
Now this lost ground must be retraced.; or else the
Dissenters like the Tractarians, will not be able cordiaLy
to desire an Union.

Nor, if they did, would it be possible. Peace and War
cannot co-rxist. Pacification must precede friendship.
Those who are shouting, on one day, " Down with it !

down with it, even to !lie ground ! " cannot, the next day,
gret their still unsubdued foes with, " Behold, how sweet
and pleasant it is, for brethren to dwell together in
unity,"

Tlia voluntary crusade, then, must be wholly abandoned,
if the desire and endeavour for union be retained. The
Dissenters must learn Mr. Hinton's creed, and repeat it
day by day, until the "Anti-Church-State" fever has
been entirely subdued. So long as they are striving to
destroy the Church. they are fighting with Churchmen.
And peace cannot be made between men with unsheathed
swo►ds.

Nor let the Dissenters imagine that they will ultimately
lose anything by ceasing from this useless wrangling.
The loss arises out of the contention,—out of the division,
—which has so long existed. It was because Evangelical
Churchmen and Evangelical Dissenters are not generally
and thoroughly united, that Sir Robert Peel felt strong
enough to endow Socinianism in 1844 and Romanism io
1845, in spite of their opposition; and if they continue
disunited, they will continue to be disregarded in Pat.-Inl-
and will see wore and larger grants to Romanism,
.r by year.

ment ;