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Members of Parliament, disdain that vulgar

pride which a poet has called

"The monster passion of the times."

As the Goths and Vandals triumphed over proud Rome, so will the day come when pride will have its fall.

The commercial sons of England, however lowly in station, are England's pride, the most homely spot whereon even a labourer sighs, "home" is the palace from whence the wishes and wants of the great are studied. Luxury can do nothing for itself, it can but fret, and wish, and crave the industrious alone can satisfy.

Poverty owes gratitude to wealth, but so also does wealth to industry; and since mutual interest is the governing rule of life, let the interest be properly understood.

At the very hour in which this volume

And

is penned, men are talking of a general election. May each member possess that imperishable quality, Justice,-may every christian feeling of the heart teach him alike his influence and responsibility. may England, freed from all discontent, retain some shadow of that primeval state, ere avarice and ambition arraigned the heart in pride and tyranny. And at the last hour let conscience be like some unrifled tree which has stood the dazzling temptation of the glaring sun, the corrupt chillingness of tempestuous rain, and falls only when the voice of Time proclaims that all below is perishable, and must march onward to decay.

Let the politician remember, with fear and trembling, that souls are committed to his care, and that as our Divine Master hath said that not a swallow falleth to the ground

without His knowledge, so not a villager under his care should fall into error through his culpable neglect. No matter how lowly, each individual created has an immortal soul,

and woe to him who sends that soul to perdition.

CHAPTER VII.

GOOD MONARCHS.

IT has long been a popular error to sum up the glory of a reign according to the amount of battles gained, in fact to forget the necessity, the too sad necessity of war, and look upon it as the greatest achievement of a monarch's life. Alas! here ends the triumph of such records, there is another and a better world, the future inheritance of the prince and the beggar, there the trumpet will not proclaim defeat or victory, nor the defeated shriek forth their dismal cry.

In that sphere, where all is peace and love,

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