mirth in rich attire, the factories groan under oppression-the hands which made the delicate texture are thin and emaciated.

Ignoble the tongue which boasts of power, -of money-power, above all things.

Blessings, a thousand blessings on politicians, when their power is exerted, and their dauntless voices raised, despising opposition when philanthropy fills the heart.

Lamented Canning! has the day declined when the politician determines on being the people's friend? Has thy soul never been metamorphosed into the soul of others? Has the tomb incarcerated for ever such a spirit?

Go, thoughtless children of wealth! go, where funeral piles mark the resting-place of your ancestry. Go, where sculptured effigies, and lonely mounds, rest side by side. Gopause-reflect. Will ye-dare ye oppress the

poor?

Philanthropy, beautiful, chaste Philanthropy, thy offsprings, Charity, Peace, Concord, will outlive the tomb, and leave their vestiges from generation to generation.

Say not, ye cold sophists, that goodness meets not its reward here below. Ungratefully, it is true, the most meritorious actions may be acknowledged; but he who lies him down in peace to meet the last and awful fiat has met his full reward.

CHAPTER IV.

YOUNG ENGLAND.

So much has been said of Young England, as a party, that the reader will expect to find it treated here in that light. But we would fain look at Young England as the young politicians of our generation, striving to imitate their elders in many points, and to surpass them, if possible, in others.

How easy it is to be a patriot in these modern days! and although we should be heartily sorry to behold the necessity for such sacrifices as were perpetrated centuries ago, yet are we struck with admiration when we

think of the patriotic courage of those ancient Romans for example, Marcus Curtius, who threw himself into a gulf, because it was superstitiously believed it would never close until the most precious thing in the city should be thrown into it. Manlius Torquatus, who put his son to death, as an example to those who should disregard his consular authority. The poor but most virtuous Fabricius; and the noble-minded Regulus. These and many other Roman heroes may serve as types of the difficulty attending patriotism, when the world was so little prepared to acknowledge it in those minor virtues which, in our days, constitute a patriot.

"Pro bono publico" meant not fine-sounding speeches, but fine and dauntless actions.

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame ?"

Milton has written, but the ancient Romans

earned not renown and glory at such a price; peaceable days may understand the line, but magnanimous actions of yore earned death for the sad reward, and the last.

Yet far be it from our ideas to believe that no patriotism can exist unless most Herculean feats be performed. Even in

youth, man may begin his lesson of selfdenial; for a selfish man cannot possibly be a patriot, and no young man need be so tied down by custom, tuition, or the example of others, as to leave into their hands that reigning feeling of the ambition of good, which none but himself can so effectually ripen to maturity.

Young England must begin by considering his country as a vast inheritance in which he will have a portion; and amidst the moderate relaxation which all studious minds require he can, even in his pleasures, begin his lesson