improper persons" scrambling into Parliament are becoming extreme. Men of neither family nor fortune, having no status nor stake in the country, without the badge of acceptance in any Circle, and shied even at Brookes's; persons who, like ANDREW MARVELL, possess no claim, save educated and enlightened minds, warm and disinterested patriotism, and that manly spirit of independence, which gives the power of defying, and trampling under foot, the petty vanities and paltry distinctions which enchain and overbear inferior natures; and of being able, influential, useful, and honest representatives of the people, though like ANDREW MARVELL, in a small obscure lodging, and with no better dinner than a muttonchop, and a pint of wine; and who, with him, when visited in their garret, can say, and never be ashamed for it, "I live here to serve my constituents; the Ministry may seek men for their purpose, I am not one." If this LIFE have any effect in encouraging the growth of representatives of this character, it were worth its weight in gold, instead of the halfcrown at which it sells. It is a portion of a great work projected by the author, to be entitled the Lancashire Worthies. It can contain none worthier than this first specimen. The LIFE may suggest some queries to be put by electors to candidates, which, under certain circumstances, may be as urgent as those regarding the Ballot, Triennial Parliaments, and the Corn Laws. Pledges and promises are of little avail, unless a candidate can, like the member for Hull, live upon little, and within his means; and believe that a representative may more honourably receive wages from his constituents, than bribes, in whatever shape, of honour or emolument, from the Ministry. Marvell made no speeches in the House, but his attendance was punctual and unfailing; and he conceived it his duty to make notes, keep a journal of the proceedings, and maintain a regular and frequent intercourse with his constituents, whom he apprized of every important discussion. His first duty he thought owing to them; and he assures them, "I shall, to promote it, (the interest of Hull) do the best of my duty; and, in the more general concerns of the nation, shall maintain the incorrupt mind and clear conscience, free from faction, or any self-ends,

The following anecdote is related of Marvell in the Gentleman's Magazine:-" Marvell frequently dined at an Ordinary in the Strand, where, having one day eat heartily on boiled beef with a pint of port, on paying his reckoning, he took a piece out of his pocket, and holding it between his finger and thumb, said, Gentlemen, who would let himself out for hire when he can have such a dinner for half-a-crown.""

which, by the grace of God, I have hitherto preserved." With the Life which, is meagre of incident, Mr. Dove gives extracts from the prose and poetical writings of Marvell. His verse is graceful and pleasing; and he is among the first English writers whose satire unites playful exuberance of fancy with keenness and pungency. Mr. Dove's work is indeed well-timed, and every way acceptable.

WHISTLE-BINKIE.-AN antidote to spleen, and exorciser of the blue devils has arisen in Glasgow, under this curious designation. An amateur WHIS. TLE-BINKIE is described, in the lively Preface to his small pocket namesake, as a joyous, facetious fellow; a diner-out by profession, and a bachelor by destiny; a capital hand at a gleesome story, a joke or pun; but chiefly distinguished by his extraordinary powers of whistling and singing. He is the substitute at a certain kind of dinners and evening parties, for all other means of amusement, a character, consequently, in great request, both east and west; and one on whose joyous countenance Dame Nature has legibly written Dinners, and "Tea and Supper Parties, attended on the shortest notice;" a man once as necessary to the feast as the cook himself. We say once; for, in the march of intellect, it is proposed to supersede the WHISTLEBINKIE by the small machine of wonderful powers, now under notice. It is a bold and ambitious attempt, thus to reduce the live WHISTLE-BINKIE, whether of the bare or hooded variety, to 32mo size, and concentrate his tuneful and facetious qualities within the compass of a Geneva musical snuff-box; thus enabling every party-giving lady to keep a Whistle-binkie of her own, and effecting an immense national saving in tea, punch, cake and ham.

That the original powers of the Whistle-binkie are not only retained, but improved, under this high pressure, we mean to give proof, by a few random instances; and, first, Mo Laogh Geal; or, White Calf of my heart! and Peter and Mary. -Poor Mary Mucklejohn, to wit, who

Sobbed, "Oh, perjured Peter Black,

The basest man I know;
You're black by name, you're black at heart,
Since you can use me so."

Though Peter is a lover for cake and pudding, this lyric belongs to the age of "violent catastrophes." Mary hangs herself, as a matter of course. The moral is very impressive. We give it for the benefit of all interested.

David Robertson, Glasgow.

"From this let cook-maids learn to shun Men who are long and lean; For, when they talk about their love, 'Tis pudding that they mean!" The Gudeman's Prophecy is very amusing, and so is the humorous conjugal dialogue, the Trades' Bailie in his cups. We like, at least, the hearty tone of Marry for love, and work for siller. It is a spirited defiance of the doctrines of Malthus done into rattling verse. Nor must we forget Kilroony's Visit, the Ladies' Pocket Adonis, the Mother's Advice, and many others. This is the Whistle-binkie of Bachelor's Hall. A more decorous and refined Whistle-binkie sings to the ladies, or teaches them to sing some of the sweetest and tenderest lays of Motherwell. We cannot enumerate more of these than Love's Diet and the Cavalier's song, both of which have a delicious smack of the olden poets; and that sweet song Jeannie Morrison, with which our readers are already acquainted. We have also Whis tle-binkie chirruping over his cups in the Three Stars and The Bumper ; and, as a patriot, chanting with the pith and spirit, which becomes a man of the west, the praises of Liberty, and the triumph of Reform.

LOUDON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. THIS latest work of Mr. Loudon, the ingenious and indefatigable writer on gardening, agriculture, and economical subjects, is in course of publication, in quarterly Parts; there will be a series of ten at 5s. each. It promises to be a highly useful performance, did it possess no other merit than turning attention to the third great want of mankind; that which follows in order, after food and clothing, namely, shelter. Mr. Loudon's professed object is to teach how comfortable habitations for the mass of mankind may take place, of the cave of the savage, and the equally wretched hovels of too many of the labouring classes in civilized society. In his own words, the great object of this work is to show how the dwellings of the whole mass of society "may be equalized in all essential comforts, conveniences, and beauty." An excellent object; but how accomplished? So far as the work has proceeded, well. The writer begins with the cheapest and simplest form of rural dwellings; something less than the butt and ben. This is a room for a man

and wife, (for Mr. Loudon has no bache lor dwellings,) with the adjuncts needed to comfort and cleanliness. He gradually proceeds, in Part I., in a series of fifteen lithographic designs, to dwellings of greater amplitude, and extent of accommodation; but, in the most limited, never *Longman & Co., 8vo.

forgets all the comforts and conveniences, of which human dwellings of this description are susceptible. The fifteen designs of cottages are explained and illustrated by above a hundred wooden cuts, comprehending the ground-plans, sections of the roofs, porches, stairs, chimney-tops, and every thing required to guide the designer or the practical workman; also cow-houses, piggeries, lean-to's of all kinds; ovens, filtering apparatus, improved window-sashes, and door-hinges; and a subject which once engaged the attention of the Lord Chancellor, economizing fuel, and heat, by flues under the floors. There are estimates, and specifications given with each dwelling, in three different styles of building and finishing; none of those, in Part I., though the best are built of stone, slated, and neatly finished, are above L.250, varying from that down to L.60. This may not be a work for learned architects, but country builders, employed in constructing dwel lings for mechanics and small farmers, and all who are about to plunge their hands in the mortar tub on a small scale, would do well to hold a previous consultation with Mr. Loudon. Although they should not adopt him as an exclusive guide, they will find their own ideas expand, and become clearer under his tuition; and they cannot fail to receive many valuable hints. As a professed teacher of the beautiful and ornamental, as well as of the useful, Mr. Loudon, perhaps, carries his taste for vases and parapets further than may be always eligible; but they do not interfere with utility, nor at all appear in the number which we now recommend.

THE CHURCH OF GOD, IN A SERIES OF SERMONS. By the Rev. ROBERT WILSON EVANS.". -These sermons, sixteen in number, form nearly a consecucombine Christain doctrine with practitive system of theology. They judiciously cal religion, and are composed in plain, in an unostentatious style. We give one familiar, and perspicuous language, and short extract-a brick of the temple-regretting we dare venture no farther than The Christian's Profession:

"Our profession, as compared with that of the Patriarch and Jew, will be this: We profess with them to repent, and renounce the world and its lusts; to die to sin, and live again unto righteousness. But we do this with such a death and life

being made especially imperative upon us; being

also actually proposed and represented to us in the

death and resurrection of the Author of our for

giveness. We also profess our entire faith in the truth of his promises. But the greater part of what were promises to them are gifts to us; and such gifts as still remain in expectance, and not in possession, are rendered distinct, appreciable, and certain, from the accomplishment of others;

Smith, Elder & Co. London. 8vo. pp. 389.

they have even been exemplified to us: The life after death in the resurrection of the Lord, the bounteous gifts of his spirit in the graces and powers of his saints from the day of Pentecost till now. Thus our profession is distinctly marked out to us there is no room for doubt, no excuse for vacillation; it is not shadowy so as to elude our graso; it is not indefinite in any point, so as at times to escape from it: it is so substantial, so

comprehensible, that if we hold it not fast, the fault lies with our own weakness and wavering. What had Adam, what had Abraham, what had the Prophets for the ground of their profession compared with this? Verily the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than them all. The most practical part of our profession lies in the

renunciation of the world, whose ways having been far more openly detected and awfully condemned by the Gospel than by any previous dispensation, we are more peculiarly called upon to reprobate and abandon. What fellow-feeling can a child of God in Christ have with it? It is bent on the joys and pleasures of this life; therefore the Cross of Christ, with its crucifying afflictions, is a stumbling block to it. It is wise in its own conceit, and therefore that Cross is foolishness to it; it worships rank and power, and therefore that cross is contemptible to it. It loves its own will and ways, and therefore that Cross is hateful to it."

The peculiar notions of the preacher on points on which Church of England Christians differ, may be gathered from the fact of his wishing the university to proscribe Paley's Moral Philosophy as a book of education.

THE BLUE BAG, OR TORYANA: A POLITICAL JEU D'ESPRIT, IN VERSE.

BY THE SPEAKER! So the title-page bears—blazoned with the Imprimatur of Eldon, Lyndhurst, Tenterden, and Wetherell. It is tolerably amusing; Lord Tenterden's Dream is clever; and there are some fair parodies. There was surely scope enough for parody without infringing the consecrated domains of Dr. Isaac Watts; consecrated by the pure affections of childhood, if by no feeling more sacred.

THE VOICE OF HUMANITY. This is a small Quarterly Periodical, the organ of an Association for Promoting Rational Humanity towards the Animal Creation. This it does by exposing the cruelties practised on animals; and by diffusing knowledge in tracts, and in this work, which may tend to humanize the hearts of both the high and low tyrants, under The whom the brute creation groans.

object of the Association is so purely benevolent and laudable, that we rejoice in the opportunity of commending the Voice of Humanity to our readers. It brings to light, and puts to shame, persons, and scenes of horrible atrocity.

THE LITERARY PANCRATIUM; OR A SERIES OF DISSERTATIONS ON THEOLOGICAL, LITERARY, MORAL AND CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS. By RoBERT AND THOMAS SWINBURN CARR.*

Simpkin and Marshall, royal Svo, pp. 335.

The title-page describes the nature of this work with tolerable fairness. It is not a book of the time, though it partakes of the spirit of the times. Those who would comprehend its scope and objects, must read for themselves; and that great majority who are afraid to venture on philosophic dissertations of any kind, we would encourage by the assurance that the Messieurs CARR, have contrived to mingle their profoundest speculations, with literary extracts and allusions, and apt poetical quotations, in a very agreeable and enlivening manner. With the help of these stepping-stones light readers may get fairly through; and then, perhaps, be tempted, and find courage to wade, and strength to stem the stream, in a second transit.

THE REFORMER."-This novel is commenced on one plan, continued on another, and finished on a third. This pre-supposes abundant inconsistency, and incoherence; yet the work is not without merit. Mr. Keith, THE REFORMER, of whom we see little, is an absurd and extravagant visionary; his opinions and conduct a caricature and dull burlesque on a speculative Radical. His daughter Clara, converted from "Liberty and Equality" by the rough discipline of a mob, and a secret unrequited penchant for a Tory nobleman, is as over-strained a personage as her father is an absurd one. There is considerable vigour in the conception of the character of the Radical, Robert Kerr, though he also is a palpable exaggeration.

The converted and

bitterly penitent Clara, is repaid for her secret love, her political repentance, and her exertions in preserving family jewels, and family peace, by the hand of the noble aristocrat, and all ends as happily as if Clara's conversion had staid that mighty tide of opinion, to which this little book is considerably less than Dame Partington's mop, opposed to the waves of the

Atlantic.

A MANCHESTER STRIKE, No. 7. COUSIN MARSHALL;† No. 8. OF ILLUSTRATIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, BY

MISS MARTINEAU.-Two more numbers of this lady's admirable little books have appeared since we had an opportunity of noting her progress. The subjects, from their nature, are much less agreeable than Brooke Farm; for that was a picture of a rural community passing from a bad state to one much happier; but they are as important and pressing. In the Strike, the character of the master the leaders of the manufacturers, and operatives, are sketched with truth and • Effingham Wilson, London, 3 volumes. Fox, London, p. 132, 136.

spirit. The degradation and sufferings of the self-devoted and really excellent persons, who lead two strikes, leave a painful impression on the reader; but Miss Martineau has thought it necessary to execute rigid justice upon them. One becomes a strolling drummer, the other, who is an intelligent, noble-minded, and benevolent man, is doomed to drive a water-cart about the streets of Manchester, a warning against making Strikes. Miss Martineau, in re-capitulating the principles illustrated in this tale, states the following as the circumstances by which "the condition of labourers may be best improved: 1st, By inventions and discoveries, which create capital. 2d, By husbanding, instead of wasting capital: for instance, by making savings instead of strikes. 3d, BY ADJUSTING THE PROPORTION OF POPULATION TO CAPITAL." This question of Population and the Poor Laws forms the subject of Cousin Marshall. The story, from its very nature, cannot, by any process, be made agreeable. Drunken, lying, worthless paupers, breeding, and feeding on the rate, are a disgusting theme; and it required some moral courage in a lady to venture on the discussion of it. Miss Martineau is, from her creed, a determined enemy to Poor Laws; but, even in arguing this difficult and perplexed question, it cannot be necessary to picture the pauper-population of England as so shockingly depraved and degraded. We have also immense doubts of the truth of half those traditionary_stories of beggars making three guineas a-week, feasting "on turkies and pease in the prime of the season, delicate lamb chops, and asparagus." Such scenes are very well for the Beggars' Bush of Beaumont and Fletcher, (our own "Jolly Beggars" had no such nicety of palate,) but are scarcely fair illustrations of the actual condition of any portion of the poor, even the most dissolute this beggar banquet, however, makes a spirited and amusing scene. The summary of principles illustrated in Cousin Marshall are, "that the subsistencefund must be employed productively, and capital and labour be allowed to take their natural course; i. e. the pauper system must, by some means, be extinguished." "The number of consumers must be proportioned to the subsistence-fund. this end, all encouragement to the increase of population should be withdrawn ; and every sanction given to the preventive check; i. e. charity must be directed to the enlightenment of the mind, instead of the relief of bodily wants." What follows is awful. "If not adopted speedily, all measures will be too late to prevent the universal prevalence of poverty

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