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white ants, but my experience cannot point out a
..gle piece of furniture that they have destroyed. Some-
times ants here will be found equally destructive. There
creatures—fleas. The natives declare that they
as until WE arrived. That I cannot believe, for
extremely numerous in the sands on the sea-
shore, If there were none before we arrived, there are
plenty now, and they will cause the good housewives some
trouble to keep them under. The common black fly is a
great torment—it has such a disposi'ion to get into the
corner of your eye. If you wish to learn a lesson of per-
severance, come to South Australia. 'So soon as you find
a black fly in the corner of your eye, dash him off, and he
will be back again before your hand has gained its original
position.—Rev. R. W. Newland.

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LORD ELDON'S PROPHECY ON POPERY.—(From his
speech in the House of Lords, on the occasion of the
(so-called) Emancipation Bill.—" It is my firm, my
fixed, and unalterable conviction, that if Roman Catho-
lics are once permitted to take their seats in either house
of parliament, or to legislate for the state; or if they are
granted the privilege of po-sessing the great executive
offices of the constitution, from that dap, and that mo-
ment, the sun of Great Britain is set." "Ifit be true.
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ierigions opinions have nothing
to do with politics,' then it is equally true that the King
[now read Queen] has no right, or ever had, to sit upon
the throne of these realms. The fact is, his Majesty sits
upon the throne at this hour, as his predecessors did
before him, by virtue, and in consequence, of peculiar
religious opinions. The present line was called there on
these very grounds. How, then, can religion and politics
be so widely dissevered in this country ? Was not the
descent of the house of Stuart interrured, in order that
no Raman Catholic should be seated on the throne of
these realms? Are not Roman Cathollcs excluded from
the Commons' House of Parliament by the oath of su-
premacy ; and have not persons of that persuasion been
subsequently excluded from seats in the Upper House?
By these acts the constitution was scaled—the union
between church and state was thus preserved—it is, ac-
cording to the present (?) constitution of the country, an
union, intimate and indissoluble as that between man and
wife. IF WE ABANDON THIS PRINCIPLE, WE ABANDON
THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF." !!—" Hath a nation
changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my peo.
ple have changed their glory, for that which cloth not
profit. Be astonished, 0 ye heavens, at this, and be
horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For
!viis ; they have forsaken
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, that can hold no water." (Jer.

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FRENCH WARFARE IN 1510.—1 n our last paper we
gave an account of some horrible atrocities lately perpe-
trated by the French in Algeria. The folowing parallel
case, which occurred in 1510, is taKen from Sismondi's
History of the Italian Republics :—" A party of citizens
and of inhabitants of the neighbouring plains had chosen
another place of refuge. In the mountains, at whose
base Vicenza is situated, is a vast cave, named the Grotto
of Masan°, or Longara. * * * * * *
This cave having a narro
is easy of defence

entrance, is easy of entrance,
nd in the preceding campaign it had
served as a refuge for the neighbouring people. 6000 'un-
fortunate beings had retired there with all their goods;
the women and children were at the back of the grotto,
and the men guarded its entrance. A captain of French
adventurers, named L'HCrisson, discovered this retreat,
and with his troop made vain efforts to penetrate into• it ;
but, foiled by its obscurity and its windings, he resolved
to suffocate all within it. He filled with faggots the part he
bad occupied, and set fire to them. Some nobles of
Vicenza who were among the refugees now intreated the
French to make an exception in their favour, and let them
ransom themselves, their wives, and children, and all of
noble blood. But the peasants, their companions in mis-
fortune, exclaimed that they should all perish or be saved
together. The whole cavern aas now in flames, and its
entrance resembled the mouth of a furnace. The ad-
venturers waited until the fire had finished its terrible
ravages, to enter the cave, and withdraw the booty which
they had pit-chased by such horrible cruelty. All had
perished by suffocation, except one young man 'A ho had
placed himself near a chink through which a little air had
reached him. None of the bodies were disfigured by the
fire; but their attitudes sufficiently indicated the agonies
they had undergone before death. When the adventurers
brought back tiler booty to the camp, and recounted the
mode of their obtaining it, they excited universal indig-
nation; The Chevalier Bayard went himself to the
cavern with the Provost Marshal, and caused him to hang
in his presence, and in the midst of these scene of hor-
ror, two of the wretches who had kindled the fire. But
this punishment was ❑ot sufficient to efface from the
minds of the Italians the memory of so great a barbarity."
Sismondi, Hist.