, 1861-12-05

eagerly he adopts it nay, unessit is absurd and
idiOtical, such as no man Of common sense would
listen to for moment, he will have nothing to
say to it. He is quite shrewd enough with re.
gard to commercial matters. During the railway
mania, he is supposed to have doubled his capital
Never having had any faith in the stability of the
system, he sold out just at the right moment, al
leging that It was full time to do so, when SiI
Robert Peel introduced bill giving the Govern
ment the right Of purchasing any line when its
dividends amounted to ten per cent. The result
proved that be was correct.
at did, undoubtedly. But surely that is no
evidence Of his extreme tendency to be led astray
by crotchets"
"Quite the reverse; the scheme was not suffi-
ciently absurd for him. Besides, l must tell
you, that in pure commercial matters it would
be very difficult to overreach or deceive my un-
Gle. He has clear eye forpounds, shillings, and
pence-principal and interest-and can look
very well after himself when his purse sdirectly
assaied. His real weakness lies in sentiment"
"Not, I trust, towards the feminine gender
That might be awkward for you in gentleman
Of his years. o.
"Nct precisely-though would not like to
trust him in the hands Of designing female.
His besetting weakness turns on the point Of
the regeneration, Of mankind. Forty or ffy
year5 ago he would have been follower Of Jo-
hanna Southcote. He subscribed literally to
Owens schemes, and was within an ace Of turn
ing out with Thorn of Canterbury. Incredible
as it may appear, he actually was for q time q
regular and accepted Mormonite."
"You don't mean to say soH" .# d.
"Fact, assure you, upon my honor! But
for swindle that Joe Smith tried to perpetrate
about the discounting of bill, Peter Pettigrew
might at this moment have been leading saint
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nroved N vonr s0nrss of s1eech s;nce Won ;oined
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asked MlEnson.
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meany; bnt wny 10 you put mat pom,
surrey Mr. feuigrew naS ~, DOT becomes uisciPie
OF the oatant oAeKsmta
head tnat' ana Juoge ior yourselI, SAD WI
Einson, handing me over q letter.
read as iollows:-
"MY DEAR NEPHEw,-I have your letter ol
the 18th, apprising me Of your wish to obtain
what you term step IN the service. am aware
that am not entitled to blnme you for mis-
guided and lamentably mistaken zeal, which, 10
my shame be it said, was the means of origin.
ally kindling; STILL you must excuse me il, with
the new lights which have been vouchsafed to
me, decline to assist your progress towards
wholesale homicide, or lend any further counte.
nance to profession which is subversive Of that
universal brotherhood and entire fraternity which
oaeht to prevail among the nations. The tact rs
Jack, that, up to the present time, have enter
tained ideas which were totally false regarding
the greatness Of my country. | used to think
that England was quite as glorious from her re-
nown in arms as from her skill in arts--that she
bad reason to plume herself upon her ancient
and modern victories, and that patriotism was
virtue which 1t was incumbent upon ireemen
to view with respect and yeneration. Led astray
DO these wretched prejudices, l gave my con.
sent to your enrolling yourself IN the ranks o.
the British army, little thinking that, by such
step, was doing material injury TO the cause
o. general paciilca'lon; and IN iaet re1ardine
Ihe aavent oil that millennium wh,ch wlii com
mence so soon as the miItary PROGRESSION Is en-
urely suppressed throughout Europe. an
now also paininIy aware that TOWARDS you ,ndl'