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"Malvolio's coming down the walk, he has been yonder i'the sun, practising behaviour to his own shadow this half-hour."

"Manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie and swears it."

Here is a sly description of calumny :—

"Praise her but for this, her without-door form,

(which on my faith deserves high speech) and straight,
the shrug, the hum or ha; these petty brands,

That calumny doth use."

Necessary swearing, is prettily pictured, in

“A certain knight, that swore by his honour, they were good pancakes, and swore by his honour, the mustard was naught: now I'll stand to it, the pancakes were naught, and the mustard was good.”

Who has not met the original of this picture,

"I did think thee for two ordinaries to be a pretty wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel: it might pass, yet the scarfs and bannerets about thee, did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden,"-" so my good window of lattice, fare thee well; this casement I need not open, for I look through thee."-" Certain it is, he will steal himself into a man's favour, and for a week, escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him ever afterwards."

Here is another letter of recommendation:

"Should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must blush and weep, and THOU must look pale and wonder."

Here is another :

“He will lie, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.”

And this is no better:

"He hath out-villained villany so far, that the rarity redeems him."

Vanity is not ill-painted, thus, he is the

"Best persuaded of himself, so crammed, he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his ground of faith, that all that look on him, love him."

Fickleness, receives appropriate directions:

"I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere."

Independence looks pretty; especially in the mouth of that fresh piece of excellent witchcraft Perdita, in reference to her scornful intended father-in-law:

"Iwas not much afeared, for once or twice,
I was about to speak; and tell him plainly,
The self-same sun that shines upon his court,
Hides not his visage from our cottage,
But looks on all alike."

Nor is this other (also from a lady) much inferior; she acknowledges no king under the broad heaven;

"The roof of this court, is too high to be yours."

Astonishment, with uplifted brow, is also pictured:

"They seemed almost, with staring on one another, to tear the cases of their eyes; there was speech in their dumbness; language in their very gesture; they looked as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed."

The proximity of joy and sorrow, is exhibited in the same scene:

"There might you have beheld one joy crown another; so, and in such manner, that it seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them; for their joy, waded in tears."

But we must cheer up this doleful strain, with a word for music, of which our poet has many exquisite ones.

"This music crept by me upon the waters:
Allaying both their fury and my passion

With its sweet air."

Such sentiments and pictures bring us into communion, with the first and noblest of our race, "with interchange of gifts, letters, and loving embassies, we may seem to be together though absent; shake hands, as over a vast, and embrace, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds." And one great lesson, we may, at least, learn from this interview; that "heaven doth with us as we with torches, not light thein for themselves, but for their use; spirits are not finely touched but to fine issues.” Faculties are bestowed, not only to be indulged for our own enjoyment, but for the instruction and the lasting welfare of others. And it is only now we can be of advantage to ourselves, and of service to the world: a resolution for usefulness, that " comes too late," is

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PROTESTANTISM AND DESPOTISM ON THE

CONTINENT.

"It appears that Louis Napoleon is disposed to give seats in the Senate to several Archbishops and Bishops, and three Cardinals. All Protestants are to be excluded, all persons professing the Reformed religion being looked upon by Louis Napoleon with horror, simply because they have shown themselves enemies to usurpation. At St. Hippolyte, in the department of the Gard, the Protestants voted unanimously against the re-election of Louis Napoleon. At Paris, on the very day of the Presidential election, the Protestant clergy made indirect but very clear allusions to the subject, and hinted, that the duty of all good Christians was, to vote against the establishment of a tyrrany. The celebrated Protestant clergyman, M. Coquerel, who was one of the Representatives of Paris in the Assembly, was one of those included in the second list of proscription, which, as we have already informed our readers, was suppressed in consequence of the bad impression produced by the first."-Patriot.

The Roman-priestly element in the soldier-like constitution of "Napoleon the little," is sufficiently manifest, in the following Articles :

"SECTION 4.-OF THE Senate.

"Art. 20. The Senate is composed 1st, of the Cardinals, Marshals, Admirals; 2nd, of the Citizens whom the President of the Republic deems fit to elevate to the dignity of Senator.

"Art. 21. The Senators are not removable, and are for life.

" Art. 22. The functions of Senator are gratuitous; nevertheless the President of the Republic may accord the Senators, by reason of the services rendered, and of their position as respects fortune, a personal dotation, which shall not exceed 30,000 fr. yearly. "Art. 24. The President of the Republic convokes and prorogues the Senate. He fixes the duration of its session by a decree. The sittings of the Senate are not public. "Art. 25. The Senate is the guardian (!) of the fundamental pact and of the public liberties.(!) No law can be published before being submitted to it.

"Art. 26. The Senate opposes the publication-1st, of laws which may be contrary to or affect the Constitution, religion (!) morals, the liberty of worship, the liberty of persons, equality of the citizens before the laws."

As for the President himself, he is quite secure for the interests of the Papacy, since, as we are told, he refuses to sign any ordinance on Friday; thus he truly fasts from sin on that day, but we suppose he makes up by working overhours on Sunday.

This grand nation, which has helped the Pope to establish a French Republic in Italy, seems to think one good turn deserves another, and, therefore, according to the following paragraph (Patriot, Jan. 19th,) his Holiness is appealed to on behalf of France. "On the morning of the coup d'etat, Monseigneur Sibour, Archbishop of Paris, addressed, as we formerly stated, a letter to M. Dupin, wherein he offered him the Church of Notre Dame for the assembly to meet in. M. Dupin returned no answer whatever; but betrayed the Archbishop to Louis Napoleon, and thus made his peace with the power to which he had during the past year manifested considerable opposition, and secured his maintenance in the post of Procureur-General of the Court of Cassation, which is in the gift of the President. But the story of treachery does not end here. The letter is said to have been sent to Rome, with a request from the French Government to the Pope to appoint a coadjutor to supersede the present Archbishop in the administration of his diocese. This request is motived upon the ground, that Monseigneur Sibour, in writing such a letter to the President of the Assembly, exceeded the functions of his spiritual power, and encroached upon the temporal authority of the State. What may be the answer of his Holiness to this request is not yet known. But it is supported by all the influence of the Jesuits, who heartily detest the Archbishop."

This Patriotic Government, is not less anxious for the welfare of other nations; having secured its own liberty, its aspirations are uttered by the Univers (the organ of Napoleon and Jesuitism) on behalf of foreign policy :

"Look at the Helvetic Republic,-that permanent hotbed of Communist intrigues,that asylum of vanquished revolutionists! The Federal Council has already comprehended that a political change was necessary, and orders for expulsion have been issued.

Let Socialism receive its coup de grace. Let Kossuth not re-appear on the European Continent! Let Switzerland be no longer delivered up to the despotism of a minority, bebased by anarchical inspirations, and there is nothing to excite alarm."

The Priests blessed the trees of liberty in France, planted on the expulsion of the late King, but somehow the trees never looked up, whether the blessing became a curse, through the Romish doctrine of "Intention," or whether the soil is unfavourable, or whether both causes operated, we leave others to judge; it is at least certain, that now under priestly rule, the same trees which they blessed, are being cut down: "already in Paris and the banlieue about 1,200 have been cut down:"-a rare symbol of a Priest's blessing.

Some, indeed, of the Catholic faithful have protested against their spiritual authorities; as we are assured, that the Archbishop of Bordeaux having, in a pastoral letter, "described the acts of Louis Napoleon as marked by the finger of Providence; several sincere Catholics blame with energy this profane adulation." This, however, is a profane use of private judgment, and is an instance of its failure; for no doubt the acts of Napoleon are "marked" by the finger of Providence, in order to receive a measure of retribution. And he may yet have to sing the Bacchanalian Epitaph :"—

At length, my friends, the feast of life is o'er,
We've eat sufficient, and we'll drink no more;
Our night is come, we have spent a jovial day,
"Tis time to part,-but oh! what is to pay?"

Meanwhile, as the shades of evening fall around, he may sing the following
TE DEUM, (in Notre Dame,)

Being the real Prayer of the President, on his Prie Dieu at the late
Installation.

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* In Ashperton Churchyard, Herefordshire. Dated 1837.

The Supremacy of the Pope. The Monthly United Lecture, delivered in Canaanstreet Chapel, March 10th, 1851. By the Rev. JAMES EDWARDS, Minister of George-street Chapel, Nottingham. London: B. L. Green, Paternoster-row. Nottingham: Dearden. 1851.

MR. EDWARDS has produced a very good lecture, distinguished by clearness, calmness, and intelligence. We are much pleased with the manner in which he closes the following paragraph:

Speaking of the supremacy of the Pope, the author says, "Neither can it be proved by the testimony of Scripture; it has not the slightest support from the oracles of God. It is true, that certain passages of Scripture, referring to the apostle Peter, are sometimes quoted in support of the Pope's claims. The principle text is, Matt. xvi. 19, where Jesus said to Peter: "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." It will not be necessary to enquire into the exact meaning of these highly metaphorical words. This would occupy too much time, and would answer but little purpose in relation to the subject under discussion. Two things are sufficiently plain: first, they do not constitute Peter prince of the apostles, nor invest him with the power to rule the Universal Church. Neither, secondly, do they allude to any successor of Peter, either in the Roman Pontiff, or in any one else. They say nothing on the subject of royal supremacy, or of Pontifical succession. To assert, therefore, that there is any foundation in this passage for the prerogative claimed by the Bishop of Rome, or that, indeed, there is anything in it which applies to that bishop at all, is perfectly gratuitous: there is not the shadow of truth in such an assertion. In the paragraph which immediately follows this passage, the Saviour addressed Peter in a very different strain. He said to him, "Get thee behind me, Satan; thou art an offence unto me; for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." Now this cutting rebuke, whatever it may mean, was addressed by the Saviour to Peter almost simultaneously with the preceding commendation; and there is precisely the same reason for applying the one to the Pope as the other. Taking these passages together, as they are recorded by the Holy Spirit, they offer the same authority for saying, that the Roman Pontiff is the embodiment of Satan, and an offence to Christ, as that he is invested with the keys of Peter. The commendation and the censure proceeded from the same source, and were addressed to the same person: and we have a right to demand of those who appropriate the former to the Pope, the reasons for refusing to apply to him the latter."

There is a quotation in this lecture which shows, with a witness, what a pretty set of infallibles many of these Popes have been, but our space forbids us the pleasure of giving it. We cordially commend this excellent Lecture of Mr. Edwards', as a cheap and instructive two-penny worth.

Lectures delivered at the Monthly United Service of the Nonconformist Churches in Nottingham; with other Discourses preached on Public Occasions. By SAMUEL MCALL, Minister of Castle Gate Meeting-house. London: Jackson and Walford, 18, St. Paul's Churchyard.

We are much mistaken if Mr. McAll's book does not receive a hearty welcome from a considerable number of our best informed young men. Especially as the author has been unusually felicitous, in availing himself of the present advanced state of science, to illustrate and confirm his arguments. In confirmation of our statement, we might refer to the sermon on "Reason and Revelation" among others. We apprehend we can do nothing so likely to extend the circulation of this admirable volume, as to place before our readers a few extracts. The following is from the sermon on "The Regulation of Temper:""As the first and last remedy for the evil on which we have now dwelt, give yourself to prayer. Only the mind that is stayed upon God is proof against the perturbations of of passion. The 'fruit of the Spirit is joy and peace.' Without a miracle your heavenly Father can cause an influence to go forth from you that shall pacify those around. Not more forcibly than truly did Solomon say, 'by long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.'-(Prov. xxv. 15.) 'I will give you,' said the Redeemer, 'a mouth and wisdom,' (not swords and spears,) which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor to resist.' Walking with God, and keeping in view the perfect example of your Saviour, your very tones and looks will tend to assure and tranquillise those with whom you have to do. Your feet shall be 'shod with

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