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qualified evil. Turn over his seventy volumes, and what can
we extract from them that increases our veneration for the
Deity, or our respect for man ?
.His philosophy is a corn-

fabulous exaggerations; and his fables are a string of the
grossest indecencies, seasoned up to congenial palates by
sarcastic wit. His style is the more dangerous and seduc-
tive from being always clear, plausible, and pleasant. He
sneers away a moral system in a few pointed words, and
shakes a religious creed by a sparkling allegory. He
ancts no mysticism, and determines to be understood by
all who read him. He has no depth of learning, but an
infinity of invention, a quick power of applying what he
knows, and an unlimited command of language without
effort or study.

The article contains a smart, but just, though
stringent condemnation of the hollowness of Vol-
taire's literary pretension, of his avarice, and of
his mean and hypocritical flattery of men of rank
and power, and fully dissects the structure of his
morbid philosophy and false ethics. Besides the
subjects named, the magazine contains able papers
on a variety of interesting and popular topics, and
well sustains its claims to be looked on as one of
the leading literary periodicals of the day.

NEW MUSIC

pion of the Seas" Polka. L

.erpool :Wray

_ Mr. Wray's merit, as a composer, is so well
appreciated, that it can hardly be necessary to say
• •

more in praise of this polka—which is named after
the celebrated Black-ball clipper than that it
maintains the well-earned reputation of the author.
,ot so much the effort of educated skill as the
ration of an innate spirit of music, which
,er felt than defined. It can-
eral favourite, and will be in
-cr the approaching festive

It is n

Slumbering Sea

,pton, of whose

had a

The first-named

entitled " The Mermail
al favourite, from its s

's Song," will be

ple, yet pleasing
it and expressive,

hile the latter is T

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lout week.)

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he objected to reply to such a question without notice

to be p:
kind.—

'renCh interests as well as
thought the noble duke of

versation dropped

The Duke of N:
the bill for enablir

a of Militia R

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their free consent;
already many mor

Earl GRAN

CASTLE moved the s
Her Majesty to accept the volut

s to serve

gdom. He

*hat, without

explains
no regiment could be taken, 1

gad volantee.

red than were

the service in which it was proposed to em-
In spite of all exertions yet made, the army

was still much lielow its full establishment, and neither
this measure nor the Foreign Enlistment Bill would
enable it to dispense with the resources it always drew
from the general population of the country.
Lord DERBY, concurring entirely in the general objects
bill, objected to the change it would make in the
of the Militia, which he regarded as essentially
He contended, too, that the bill as framed

me tore(
Id enab]

Majesty to accept the services of her
Militia, not only in Malta or Gibraltar, but in the Crimea
itself, and condemned the project of sending them to those
garrisons, instead of an efficient reserve of regular troops,
which had been the great want of the war. He urged the
unfairness of putting any pressure upon men who had
enlisted for merely home service, and the probable injury
such pressure would do to future recruiting, and particu-
larly insisted on the hardship it imposed on the medical
officers, who were obliged to give up their private

vactice

from the army and the bill immediately before the house;
Lord Derby then animadverted upon the inefficient
blockade which had been kept up on the Russian ports of
the Black and White Seas, from which the Greek mer-
chants reaped all the gain and we all the loss. The
Government had thanked Admiral Dundas for his ex-
ertions, and it was therefore to be presumed that it was

from want of orders that the blockade had not been made
more strict. As to the Militia Bill, though he disapproved
it, and expected no advantage from it, he was not prepared

went upon it,

arl GRAivILLE vindicated the Government from
le in not having sent out a larger force at an earlier
od to the seat of war, and replied to the objections
nst the Militia Bill.

in principle. He hid great doubts as to the necessity of
the force. Prompt steps had not been taken-for the aug-
mentation of the army. After urging several objections
to the bill, he stated that it would not, in his opinion, be
expedient to reject the proposed measure.
After some remarks from Lord DENMAN and the Duke
of ARGYLE in defence of the bill,
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII, though acquiescing in the
second reading, objected to several provisions of the bill,
in which there was nothing practically to prevent the
whole of the Militia being sent abroad to any part. In
committee he should propose amendments.
The bill was read a second time, and it subsequently
passed through committee, all amendments being nega-
tived.—The house adjourned at forty minutes past nine.

FRIDAY, DEC

The MILITIA BILL was real a third time, and passed.
A return was moved for by the Bishop of LONDON of
burial grounds open during the present year, with the

number of interments

EXCHEQUER BILLS.—Lord MoNTuAGLu moved for a
series of returns connected with the deficiency bills and

other arrangements of the public exchequer, and in doing
so took occasion to contradict a statement in a morning
paper that he had asserted that the security of depositors
in the savings banks would be materially affected by the
contemplated measure of the government.
The house adjourned at half-past five.