of patriotism by encouraging native talent. Conscience and honour, in youth, are the protectors to guide their possessor safely to manhood and it is in youth that bad advice, bad example, and native indolence conspire to seduce the mind from its more exalted channel.

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To travel in other lands for instruction is a laudable amusement; but to travel, not only to drive away ennui, but to court it, under the shape of every degenerate pleasure, this is the pursuit of too many of those whom we now address as "Young England." should not like to see young men tied to one country, though it be their own, but they should travel for higher views than the mere gratification of that all-absorbing hero-Self. That mysterious thing, Intellect, requires a vast field and change of scene to bring it to perfection; and the myrtle garland twines

more surely around the brow whereon distant air has wafted-wafted, but left no weight, no shadow-wafted, only to purify, instruct, and command, to render nearer and dearer to the heart the enjoyment of our own free Island. Young England, glory lies at thy feet! but, to use the words of our popular comedy, ye must "stoop to conquer "

Think not that the young lordlings will be more conducive to England's welfare than the poor, but industrious, youths who rank in the University upon the Nation's list. If ye receive the Nation's bounty in the shape of instruction, ye can return it in the shape of patriotism,—for not to the politician alone belong duty and affection to his country, but to the clergyman, the lawyer, the physician, the tradesman, the author, and soldier.

Take heed, Young England, thy collegiate days, the freshest, the purest in the annals

of thy life, may also be the least useful. The Indian sells his gold for glittering baubles, the Collegian sells his time for fleeting pleasure. The Indian may not repent his bargain, unless education steps in to teach him the value of gold; but the Collegian must repent, for the world will teach him the loss of time, and talents misused. Youth is, indeed, the time when the soul and body are in their primeval stage ; the weight of care has not borne away a single energy, the earth seems a vast stage of delight, ambition in its infancy has virtue for its guide.

Riches are not required as sure helps to the road of fame, its votaries are of a miscellaneous kind; but let them be in any grade, they have all been equal in one thing-they have all been young.

The Rubicon is past when ye have moved

in that vast world towards which your longing eyes are turning; pause, therefore, Young England, pause! and remember that the character formed in youth will be matured, not altered, in manhood.

If ambition be the master charm of man, youth may, at least, pause ere he embarks in such a cause, he can, at least, reflect upon what subject to found his ambition. Is it for self-aggrandisement only? let him turn over the pages of history, and behold the end of that vaulting ambition which seeks worlds for its patrimony and monarchs for its prey.

Does the young politician wish for high eloquence? Alas! his glorious speeches cannot quell a nation's groans, and memory cannot recall one circumstance in which words can possibly triumph over deeds.

Go forth and learn, Young England, ere ye attempt to teach; learn that your name should

not signify a party, but be the distinctive mark between those triflers of time who never think of their country, save as a safe dwellingplace, and those who await for maturer age; await, in study and observance of men and manners, for that period when the welfare of England shall be committed to their care.

Great world, where poverty and sadness are constantly standing in opposition to riches and joy, the time will come when happiness will be recognized in comparative poverty as well as in affluence-but for this, though many may be poor, none should be in want. Let Sorrow die, and Hope unfurl her joyous wings, let Might and Power be the twin genius of Justice and Religion, and let each young man in our British Isle feel himself a patriot.

The wide world of Fame is spread before your anxious gaze, and no matter in what profession ye seek for its attainment, honour