"Si non desipit auditor, a fucato sermone quid sperat aliud quam insidias ? Tribus maxime persuadetur, vitâ dicentis, veritate rei, sobrietate orationis.”—Ibid. ff. p. 62.

"THEY who in former times, like pipes of reeds, have sweetly sounded out the praises of God, but now are cracked with some pardonable error in judgment, or slip in manners, if they be truly bruised with the weight of their sin, and thoroughly contrite, may plead the privilege of the bruised reed in the text, not to be broken by any overhard and severe censure or sentence." FEATLEY, Clavis Mystica. p. 10.

Prospects of Society. EE CLARENDON, vol. 1, part 2, p. 498. Concerning the arts and activity of factious men.

"So most men are deceived in being too reasonable; concluding that reason will prevail upon those men to submit to what is right and just, who have no other consideration of right or justice, but as it advances their interest, or complies with their humour and passion."-Ibid. p. 1043.

ONE who had hurt his foot by paring a nail to the quick, laughed on being told there was danger of a mortification, and replied, "the foot is a long way from the heart." But the mortification found its way there.

BACON observes, "it is not incredible that it should have come into the mind of such an abject fellow (as Lambert Simnell) to enterprize so great a matter, for high conceits do sometimes come streaming into the imaginations of base persons, especially when they are drunk with news and talk of the people."-Henry VII. p. 20.

BACON says that in the Statute of 19 Henry VII. against vagabonds, there may be noted "the dislike the parliament had of gaoling of them, as that which was chargeable, pesterous, and of no open example. And he notices that in all the statutes of this king there are ever coupled the punishment of vagabonds, and the for

bidding of dice and cards, and unlawful games unto servants and mean people, and the putting down and suppressing of alehouses, as strings of one root together, and as if the one were unprofitable without the other."-Ibid. p. 216.

NATIONAL Wealth wholesome only when justly, equitably (not equally) diffused. When the workman as well as the capitalist has his fair proportion of gains and comforts.

"SED jam pudet me ista refellere, cum eos non puduerit ista sentire. Cum verò ausi sint etiam defendere, non jam eorum, sed ipsius generis humani me pudet, cujus aures hæc ferre potuerunt."-ST. Augus

TINE.

THE Overflow of educated persons in both sexes," the condition of the one being accompanied with more unhappiness than would easily be imagined, and that of the other bringing with it more danger than statesmen perhaps have yet taken into the account of the evils that are to come."

"THINGS (in Scripture) manifestly and mercifully undefined."-MILLER'S B. Lectures.

"SIMPLE (The) Cobler of Aggawam in America. Willing to help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered both in the upper-Leather and Sole, with all the honest stitches he can take, 10s. 6d. Lond. 1647."

"THE Othomacas, one of the rudest of the Orinoco tribes, suppose themselves descended from a pile of stones upon the top of a rock called Barraguan, and that they all return to stone as they came from it; so that this mass of rock is composed of their forefathers.

THE system of lying was not practised more impudently by Buonaparte's government, than by the Opposition papers and the Opposition speakers.

JOHNSON once said of Derrick, "he may do very well as long as he can outrun his character, but the moment his character gets up with him, it is all over." Alas! character now goes for nothing with the mob, or even the people in this country.

"LA multitude est plus frappé de ce qu'on lui ordonne que de ce qu'on lui prouve. Les hommes en général, ont besoin d'être fixês: il leur faut des maximes plutôt que des démonstrations."-PORTALIS.

See this paper of Portalis. L. GOLDSMITH, vol. 1, p. 281, &c. concerning a settled mode of belief. It contains much excellent wis

dom excellently expressed.

REFORMATION.

Necessity admitted-the consequence of fraud and falsehood.

Errors-in abolishing the Regulars. Purgatory. Calvinism.

Iconoclasm. The Cross.

Croyland and Ely still worse for the Reformation.

than with the intellect of a Dodo. YOUR great Whig landholder is a Levia

REVOLUTION Would soon produce malaria in England. The condition of the Bedford Level would be more advantageous to coot, teal, widgeon, and wild ducks, than to the goosey goosey ganders of the house of Russell.

BEGGARS' Opera in Heroics. Lord B.

No happiness but in a settled state of things.

"OMNE quod exit in hum."

SLAVERY.

Feudal dependence. Manufactures.

TREASURE SO frequently concealed in India, that whenever the foundation of a house is to be dug, officers of government attend to seize one, if it should be found. (This in Tranquebar.)

EVIL of having introduced our system of laws in India.-MURRAY, Hist. Acc. vol. 2, p. 320.

Justice is defied in consequence, and the country at the mercy of most merciless banditti.

QUESTION of improvement examined. Scene, the ruined village. Small farmers and peasantry, certes worsened. ManuServants an altered

THE old denominations of small coin becoming too small.

MANUFACTURING populace in Flanders. But the higher classes in those days, Comines says, were good people, and sorely disliked the mutinous spirit of the community. Our mischief lies with the half-educated class, the agitators.

CONSEQUENCE of the struggle for Reformation in different countries. The League. Accidental effect of the Inquisition.

No one put to death for heresy while Sir T. More was chancellor.

DESTRUCTION of buildings began with the Reformation, when stronger passions were at work than in the successive war of which Comines speaks.

A GOOD remark of Marlborough's upon Lord Halifax, "if he had no other fault but his unreasonable vanity, that alone would be capable of making him guilty of any fault."

GROWTH of good government through the wreck of its institutions. Difference in Iceland.

one.