and harmless supporter-in a deprecating tone blames the great leaders of the garrison, from whom in their high places the abomination of Chancery has wrung the repentant admission of the bravo, in a moment of dyspepsia or a fit of the gout. Amongst them we could cite Lord Chancellor Brougham, Lord Chancellor Cottenham, Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and a host of others. We must, however, say that the writer shows a trifle more sense towards the conclusion of his remarks. His concluding advice not to be violent is, nevertheless, of the PUNIC order. It is only by rough usage, that such an extraordinary practical perversion of the human intellect, as the Court of Chancery, can be dealt with and subverted.

PRUSSIA AND THE "TIMES."

THE “ Times” follows up the settlement of the Prussian and Austrian affair in its usual style of ponderous misrepresentation. Every one knows that Prussia has this time been saved by the energetic measures she took to prepare for her own defence. Whatever weakness or moderation her Plenipotentiary may have shown, or whatever vacillation may have been exhibited by her Monarch, still the country and the people were in arms with a force that bade defiance to Europe. The glorious Landwehr was called out. Prussia presented the sublime spectacle of an unanimous people in arms to assert her rights and liberties. What were now her position, but for this? But the ingenious, honourable, disinterested, patriotic, truthful" Times" is ignorant of all this, and deplores the Landwehr, and thinks the Prussian army a failure, a Falstaffian combi

nation of Mouldy, Feeble, Wart, and Bull-calf. The mercy of Russia, and the moderation of Austria, influenced by the councils of the Holy Father, that grand Pacificator of Nations, alone preserved them from themselves. Bless these sensitive Prussians!—Austria meant nothing but to maintain the Federal Constitution of Germany created by treaties. The Austrian Minister, aware of the "immense. advantages in his position," which nothing impeded but the slaughter of half a million of raw levies, has been most temperate and moderate. Prussia was in a most weak state with this armament of hers! Of course she was. With all this balderdash of the disinterested "Times"-mere unpaid drivelling as it is-nothing but unbribed ignorance, we assure you—bonâ fide articles, sir—-even the City men, who think by aid of the "Times," will hardly be persuaded over their meridian chop at 'Joes,' that Prussia, yielding a point from disinclination to war, with five hundred thousand men and bayonets ready and willing, nay, ardent to back her choice, is the same thing as unarmed Prussia meekly abiding the dictates of SCHWARTZENBERG and Co. Baron MANTEUFFEL may be traitor or fool, or neither, for all we know; but the Landwehr was called out and Austria baffled.

SUBJECTS FOR ARTISTS.

THINGS ACCEPTABLE TO THE GENIUS OF THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

1. THE "Times" supporting the Church of England. 2. The Pope receiving the homage of France, his eldest daughter. 3. The commiseration of the mob for the victim of Mrs. SLOANE. 4. Bishop BLOOMFIELD weeping over

his duty in accepting Mr. Bennett's resignation. 5. Mr. Jones painting the Industrial Palace green. 6. A Parish Pauper's death by the "Visitation of God." 7. An Englishman imprisoned fourteen years by mistake of the Court of Chancery. 8. Britannia watching over her maritime glory : -"Scene, a large duck-pond with the yellow hulk of a seventy-four visibly rotting in the centre, before a large bay-window of the Admiralty, where are sitting several land and sea-lords, with their hands in their (qy? the nation's) breeches' pockets. In the back-ground a British tar, who had served with Howe and Nelson, sits dying of inanition against the door-step of a workhouse with a little model of a ship between his knees. Enter five-and-twenty drunken Frenchmen from a cnop-house in Leicester-square,* half ouvriers with blouses and hip-trouser pockets and half national guards. They insult Britannia and push her rudely against the shutter of the Colonial-office. Policeman Snooks, of the (A) division, vainly interposes. Scene closes. 9. The Crystal Arch of Humbug-made on the expansive principle of the centre entrance of the Inferno-under which the celebrated transition step is taken from Puseyism to Papacy. N.B. No visible change in the individual who takes the step. Single men preferred.

* The scene which suggested this was witnessed by a friend of the writer in a street close to Leicester Square the other night. Some twenty-five Frenchmen, amongst whom several were in uniform, were indulging in a little national excitement, and exhibiting much insolence and a disposition to be quarrelsome. They pushed an English female against a shutter with rude violence. But then the French are so polite-in the style which sits upon an unnecessary extra great-coat by the side of a woman drenched with rain on a stage-coach, but bows on parting; or, in the manner which, in travelling, helps itself, viz., the bearded foreign gent., to the breast and wings of a fowl, and then pushes the dish to Madame across the table-d'hôte to help herself!

VOLUNTARY SYSTEM-LORD CARLISLE'S

LECTURES.

IN the establishment of a voluntary system, an emulation in the fervour and charities of religion is doubtless produced, which the pride and luxury of an established religion must destroy. All religions should be equally tolerated, with the exception of the intolerant; but the Government of the laity should look with a most jealous eye upon all undue means of proselytism-such as interfering with parental authority, intimidation, and the licentious practices of the Romish clergy. The Roman Catholic Church must, of necessity, in any healthy country which is not entirely Roman Catholic, be precluded from the exercise of civil rights. Its own insidious daring and violent nature warrants us in this apparent illiberality— the illiberality of protection to others. You cannot tolerate intolerance. The Roman Catholic Church has never been humble or discreet, save in misfortune. Its noxious properties increase in a cube ratio to its power. We have already quoted the opinions of Goethe, Macaulay, Michelet, and Southey let us now add the opinion of a philosophic contemporary of Burke. There are some men who live for their time, and some before it. The former are generally unsound men; because, however brilliant, they do not deal with abstract truths and broad principles. The latter are ever right; because the remedial cycle of events repairs always in the future the errors of the present, although new mistakes and follies arise-so that human nature, never arriving at perfection, is continually correcting itself. Let us now direct the attention of our readers to the opinion of such a man as we have last described. Mathias

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in his "Pursuits of Literature" thus speaks of Roman Catholicism :

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My language and arguments are designed only to show that the spirit of the system of Popery yet remain unaltered in its great and leading principles. If it perish, it will perish altogether. I love toleration in the constitutional sense of the word as much as any designing patriot of the day. I cannot think it a mark of intolerance when I deprecate the revival of the Romish superstition in England. There is an enthusiasm-an ópyarμoç in the professors of it, which, I know, never forsakes them. It is active where its influence can hardly be supposed. I am only speaking of the spirit and tendency of the system itself. I would carry charity with me in my heart and hand; but I know that charity is, and must be, consistent with a love to my country and to her rights, civil and religious. If I am wrong, I fear I must continue so. I have yet seen no argument to shake my conviction."

In a note to this he adds

"From obvious causes, indeed, the cruelty, tyranny, and the impiety of the Church of Rome have almost faded from our memory; but we must bring them back to our recollection, if we would understand the 'judgments of God, which are abroad in the earth.' She is now per

secuted in her turn. As Englishmen, we forget our injuries; as Christians, we pity and give alms to her exiled adherents. But let us only advert to principles, religious and civil, upon which we are separated from that idolatrous and intolerant power."

At the time this was written the author almost stood alone amongst the "lights" of his age. All the statesmen of the day-Pitt, Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Dundas, Windham, and Canning-were of the sentimental cast of opinion which tolerated the, then, chastened Papist. The Peel school subsequently carried out the mistake of toleration, which will again plunge England into the horrors of civil warfare and religious discord. For ourselves, we declare, unhesitatingly, that we were never friends to Catholic Emancipation. Cruelty and vindictiveness we reprobate. But, above all,

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