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ectural ideas the Swedes appear to be entirely utilitarian,
lisdainful of ornament; and if a house of more modern
,nd tasteful build, with windows of a handsome size,

atures, is here and there to be met
with, it i. 3 almost certain to have been erected by Germans
and other foreigners. The royal palace, of which the
first stone was laid in the reign of Charles XII., is a well
conceived and finely executed work, some of thechurches
are also worthy of notice; but most of the public build-
ings derive their chief interest, like the squares and

barons, an

a I the apartment

puncture something is the bit

rasshoppers and

ruing the latter., I and
y are no more trouble-

said by many'to be

reasons, rrametl tne LngliSti Constitution to their ever-
storesassociat:ons connected with them. Few cities offer richer
lasting exclusion, and presented a nation to the world, not
to the lovers of the romance of history than does
the capital of Sweden. One edifice alone, the Ritterhaus
only Christian, but protesting against the grand Anti-
Christian apostacy foretold in the word of God • and in
—literally, the House of Knights or Lords—in which the '
this position we have prospered, under the good provi-
furnish subject-matter for a score of romances. Not a
SwediA nobility were wont to hold their Diets, would
deuce of God, beyond every other nation on the earth.

door nor a window, scarce a stone in the buildini
This pro!est we are now rapidly departing from. As a
;-,1;11;
NATION, we are soon to give no opinion whether Pi otes-
iells of some sanguinary feud, or fierce insurrection of
the' populace, in the troublous days of Sweden. From tantism or Popery is according to God's truth. But not
floor 'o ceiling of the great hall in which the Diet held only so. By the admission of Jews to the framing and
hang the coats of arms of Swedish counts,
administering of our laws, and by placing them in the
- • •
s highest offices of the State, we are NATIONALLY about to

)art from our character, even of a CHRISTIAN people.
•
coverings of the seats and balustrades, tOconveytheidea According to the common law of England, whatever is
that this is no arena for showy shallow orators, hut a place opposed to Christianity is opposed to law : now we are
in which stern truth and naked reality have been wont to making lawgivers and law administrators of a body of
prevail. The chair of Gustavus Vasa, of inlaid ivory,
men whose present distinctive character rests on the as-
and covered with purple velvet, stands in this room.'--
s u med fact, that the basis of the hopes of mankind is a
--
Blackwood. fable and an imposture!—Record.
THE GREYHOUND.—The modern smooth-haired grey- THE PROSPECTS OF THE CHURCH AND HER CLERGY.
hound is a very elegant dog; remarkable for its extreme —No one cm contemplate the prospects of the English
velocity, in which it is, we believe, superior to the rough- Church without a thought of what she has been ! No one
haired dogs of the olden time, though not to some of the can look upon a future, full of strife, without recalling the
modern rough greyhounds, in which a cross of the old Peaceful past : sand though the times demand a sterner spi-
rough breed, or Scotch deer-hound, prevails. No grey- tit for its fierce encounters than the dre.,mings of poetry
hounds used for the hare eoual in snppri find .r.ri....—.„,. e.mn notion. ~or ~,........:,....-1,- ._ lionour the memory of

e. , ee impre•ee. _ —je anu scenes that are gone, when men were more re-
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equal them in symmetry; every action is verent of what God ordained, and more confident in each
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easy, and elegant, yet firm and vigorous. The
other than they will ever be again, at least in this dispen-
.,
greyhound is highly sensitive, and very good-tempered ; sation, may be permitted to all who need pause and re-
f
like the Irish wolf-dog, it is peaceable and affectionate.reshment in the struggles of active life. Moreover, with
and fie, ce only in the chase of its quarry, oil when excited all the onward tendencies of the age, the disposition to
to combat. On one occasion only have we ever seen a look back upon the past, is still one of its characteristics:
greyhound fight with another dog; and in that instance under all the circumstances that surround us, it is very
the animal, a rouehish brindled dog, was set upon by a nfeurally called into operation, and its exercise possesses
large dog of a mongrel mastiff breed, and forced to self-
a charm which few can resist. As age creeps upon us.
defence. Short, indeed, was the combat; in a few
with its infirmities, though it has its own blessed hopes
a
seconds the aggressor sunk severely torn, and was taken and wisdom, we often pause in meditation to reflect upon
t
away. Slim as those dogs are, their muscular powers are those scenes of joyous youth which memory tenderly pre-
serves. As the home that we love and all that it contains
very great ; like the race-horse, they are compact of iron
muscle and ivory bone, with no superfluous fat or loose
are left behind us in a departure for other lands, we fin_
cellular tissue, and are consequently deceptive to the ee, ger on each rising height to gaze upon it, till distance hides
which is in genera: accustomed to see strength conjoinyed
it from our view—we treasure in our recollection the last
with massiveness. Yet we have but to consider the chest. form in which it met the eye, ever recalling associations
loins, and limbs of a greyhound, and retard the " tori " of happiness and peace—surely we may properly and na-
of the arms and thighs, to feel assured of the possession turally carry the same disposition into the wider regions
of thought which the past and future history of man de-
of great power. The smooth greyhound, or
of the old writers, follows exclusively by the eye— gaze-hound
whereas,
mends. In the social changes that so rapidly succeed
all the old rough breeds could recover the track of the
each other on every side—amidst the fall of time-honoured
game by the powers of smell ; but in the modern dog institutions—the decay of many a noble thing—the depre-
every quality is sacrificed to fleetness, and certainly for
ciation of all that our fathers fought and bled for that they
sudden and violent burst of exertion the present breed has
might win it—the continual and approved insalt put upon
never been equalled. Many trials for ascertaining the high and chivalrous sentiment by the coarse utilitarianism
speed of the greyhound have been undertaken; and
of modern philosophy—it is most natural that our specu-
Daniel's opinion seems to be on the whole correct, viz.,
lations on the future should be accompanied with the vi-
that on flat ground a first•rate race-hone would be supe-
sions of the past. Many things that present themselves
riot to the greyhound, but that in a hilly country the
therein we may not hope to see again ; but it does us good
greyhound would have the advantage. Much, however, to know that they have been, and there is deep instruction
in the latter case would depend upon the dog being ha.
to he derived from contemplating the manner and pro.
bituated to hilly districts; for a greyhound accustomed gress of their decay. Who can look back upon the past
only on flat plains, though swifter on them than a York-
without thinking upon the place which the Church once
shire greyhound, would yield to the latter in a hilly
occupied in the faith and affections of her children? Who
country. The hare and the greyhound seem to be well can fail to contrast it with the position which she now
matched ; the swiftness of both animals is astonishing, holds almost, it would seem, by sufferance, and so long
and a well-contested run is an animating sight. Daniel only as the popular will shall decide her to be of good
records the circumstance of a brace of greyhounds in , behaviour? Who can think of the pastoral office as Her-
Lincolnshire running a hare from her seat to where she bert sets it forth—as good old Isaak in his life of Hooker
was killed, a distance measuring in a straight line upwards ' describes it, even with all its toil of learned labour and
of four miles, in twelve minutes; but as there were a pains of suffering love—and not see how different a thing
great many turns during the course, the actual distance it was in men's estimation and affection than that which
was considerably more. The hare ran herself to death it is now, or likely to be again? Peace and the quietude
before the greyhounds touched her.—Knight's Weekly of retirement; leisure for study, and yet time for pater-
Volume. nal watchfulness over all—for the reading of God's open
A Deeecatterare LOVE STORY.—Now for a little love
book of nature and the deep things of man's heart to-
story! A young farmer loved, at the same time, two gether—a simple walk of mutual faith and confidence, young women, and, though strange enough, loved both disturbed no otherwise than by the backslidings and wan-
with, as nearly as possible, the same affection, and the derings of erring sheep from the fold : these character-
y
ized the relation of th pastor to his flock ere infidelity,
both of them warmly returned his passion. But one of
missons of rd
them showed for him an almost boundless devotion ; and, sectarianism, and the evil-workin
perhaps, this might be the cause, that at once, with a
systems had sent their emissaries throughi mode
the length aid
breadth of the land, to insinuate distrust amongst the
more determined sentiment, he turned towards the other,
confiding, and beget division and strife amongst the peace-
but she answered him, " I will not be married amid the
sighs of any unhappy one, and it is now thy daty to wed ful. The shepherd's office is to lead his flock and to fol-
Kirstin. To me thou wilt ever remain dear, but now low them when they wander, and this was fulfilled its the
must we part." What a field would there have been here days that are gone ; but another part of his duty is to
for the French romantic! What agony, ravings, explo -
fight for their safety. and this is to come. The time of
'
siona, and explications without end ! Here had been sacri-
the Church s " green pastures" and " still waters " are
fices and poisonings, and, et last, three corpses. But, how no more; "the valley of the shadow of death" is before
her ; the "lion and the bear." "the thief and the wolf,"
simply did the genius of the Dal people resolve this knotty
point! The young man obeyed the exhortations of the await her; and the shepherd must put on David's
serious damsel,—obeyed that of duty, he married Keratin ; strength that he may smite and slay them—he must con-
andees they were both truly good and excellent people, sent to the fellowship of his Lord's suffering, even to the they %ere happy toge.her. They had lived ha l to-
laying down of his life for the safety of the flock.
ppi
the y
Henceforth, in what was once the quiet village, strife
gather fur four year., and had three children, when
awaits him, and in the crowded city active warfare. The
wife died. But as she lay on her death-bed she said to
gentle, the modest, and the peaceful may shrink, as they
her husband, " I would ask one thing of thee, and that
is, that thou, after my death, wilt marry Anna, who was
will, from the encounter: there is a spirit abroad which
once, and is still, dear to thee, and who, I know, still will force them to the contest, unless they purchase ease
by spiritual dishonour and cowardice. Concession after
loves thee, and that thou m skest no other the mother of my children." The husband mourned sincerely for his concession may be counselled ; reluctant indolence, nay,
wife ; but, when the customary period of mourning had the charity of Christian minds may advise, that even vio-
expired, it was not difficult for him to endeavour to fulfil lessee be done to convictions of what is right, that peace
her last prayer. He went to the still unmarried, the may be maintained ; but sooner or later the limit must be
still beloved Anna. and told her the wish of his late reached, which no man who honours the Lord and be-
wife; and his own. And she answered, " Thou art lieves in his own calling can pass, and the strife, deriving
still as dear to me as formerly, and willingly would 1 elements of strength from every concession made to avert
be thy wife, but I fear for thy children. I fear that I it, must be entered into. Gentle reader, if it seem to
could not be to them such a mother that I could answer you that these are gloomy and groundless forebodings,
it to my conscience and to the dead, and that would make seek the confirmation of them in that which is around you
thee dissatisfied with me." And by that reply Anna and within you! Do you not see how all, however re-
stood fast, spite of all arguments of love and reason that luctant or unwilling, are compelled, by the force of cir-
were employed to move her. Quite distracted came the cumstances, to assume positive positions; Do you know
young man one day to me, and implored my counsel, and any one who is not taking active part, in spirit if not in
begged me totalk with the girl, and to endeavourto persuade fact, in some one of the many questions that are rending
her to become his wife. "To seek to persuade her I can society in pieces? Think of the various names that men
not promise thee," I said, "for in so solemn an affair a put upon each other, indicative of opposing principles,
woman should make a resolve in freedom ; but speak with and see of there be any, whom yon love and honour, who
her I will, end tell her what I think and advise in the hes not one of them written upon his thoughts and ac-
matter." I sent to the young woman, talked with her of lions 1 Think of the separation that exists between
her future duties, and succeeded in pacifying her all too classes and the dissensions of religious communities, and
sensitive conscience. Soon afterwards I had the pleasure tell us what is your no'lrum for their healing and ameli-
of uniting the two lovers. A few years afterwards I came oration, since all others have hitherto failed ! Nay, come
on an official journey into the district where they resided. nearer home, and if you be a pastor of Christ's flock, read
It was a dark autumn evening, and cold and dull without. your own experience—enquire of the depths of your own
But when I entered their room, the fire blazed cheerily, heart—and say, from all you have learned and seen and
and in its light on the floor played four children, full of known, is there prospect of honour for the Church from
pleasure. Husband and wife arose to meet the enterer, the State—of faith in her institutions—of peace for her
ministers ag en for the time to come ? Church qf
but, when they recognised me again, they became deeply
England Quarterly
moved, and began to weep. " Ask her, ask her," said
the husband, and pointed to the wife, " whether she be
not satisfied with me?" But I did not ask her : I saw
warm and happy tears already speaking.—Miss Bremer'e
Dalecarlia.

" Sir" was formerly applied to priests only—" Master"
to laymen. This former title was invariably used with
the priest's Christian name, as though he had been a
knight.