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BLACKWoODS MAGAZINE, JULY.-Chr'sto-
pher North grows older and wiser every month.
But for his rank Toryism, and violent antipathy |
10 everything American, or rather everything !
not English, he would give to foreigners as well
as his own ccuntrymen the "agrccabest
monthly budget of wit and wisdom, issued from
any of our modern literature factories. 1t is |
however, main article in his creed that there
is but one nation and that is the British. Even
ireland is, in his view, but the tail to the kite
and just as, when the kite is up, its stability de-
ponds upon the integrity of the tail, SO now, if
Ireland breaks away,tte Naton,than which there
is no other, will be sure of disastrous fall
Christopher is therefore no Repeater. To be a
contributor to Blackwood's pages, hatred to Re-
publicansm-" the turbulent spirit of Democra.
cy"-s the condiio sine qua non. We may
suppose that every one admitted 10 that high dis
tncton undergoes a sort of preliminary examl-
nation touching his proficiency in matters lite
rarv, scientific, and political. The anxious can
didate has passed the ordeal in the first two
branches, and acquitted himself satisfactorily
thus far in the third. Sir Robert Peel is To-
ry and Christian, and Lord John Russell is
Wing and - quite the reverse. Chris
topher proceeds in the examination somewhat in
this wise
Christopter-Where is America
CQnlidqte.-lt lies upon the outskirts of New
Brunswick.
Ch-Who are the inhabitants of New Bruns-
wick!
Can.-Bluenoses.
Ch-Whol sir, who!
Can.--Subec,s of Her Majesty.
Ch.--Who first discovered America!
Can.--John Cabot.
Ch-How arc the United States inhabited
Calmly wolves, bears, catamounts, yam
KEGS, locofocos and other wild animals.
Ch.-What is the state of education!
Can.--They are entirely destitute of its rudi
ments. But few can read write or SPELL Ever
their late President, whose name was Hickory
was accustomed to spell all with an and cor
rect with k, as for example, oil correct.
Ch--Who was Benz. franklin
Camille was member of the Royal Socie
ty of Edinburgh.
Ch--IIave they any Church in the Unite
States!
Can--No, sir. And therefore no religion.
Ch--Are these People not to be pitied
Can--They are.
Ch-Who was George Washinton!
Can.--"I He was a traitor" (Blackpood)
Ch.--What was the prominent trait in h
character!
Observation-Disclosures He is said to hay
chopped down his fathers entire peach orchar
as soon as he was large enough to WELD hate
CT, He had, moreover, great effrontry, for
made bold to tell of the act.
CA.-Do you recollec. any other instances
this destructiveness !
Can--No, sir.
Ch--HIave they any Army or Navy!
Can,--No, SIR The former was annihilat
during the late wat at Plattsburgh, the Than
and New Orleans, and the latter consisting
some half dozen " fir built frigates was ca
,urcd and sunk,
Ch.--What is the chief occupation of the pc
pie !
Can--Chewing tobacco.
Ch--You are admitted as a contributor
Blackwood dickens American Notes
TO be reviewed and abused, because he did
more abuse these vile republicans. Will J
undertake it sir!"
The candidate replies in the affirmative q
withdraws. But politics aside Backwood Is
paragon OF Magazines. " Marston or the
Inoirs OF Statesman commenced in the il
- No. and continued in this bids fair to be The
vel OF the season. 1.-The Aristocracy of L
land " is another pleasant and instructive pal
II the author had ever read "Cooper's M
History" he would not have gone out OF
way to sheer at the American Navy. lie SCI
not to know that tie practice which he stg
ties as immoral, was adopted from their ex
pie. The late war seems to have aroused
conscences of the Whole British people and
writer's for Blackwood especially. II an A
rcan seventy-four mounts eighty guns, v
she s liar and her owners are immoral b.