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BY Jl. BUCHEB S WOOTE.
OLE AHFIELD, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1855:
VOL. 2.-M- 6-TOTAL; M
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STBIVE, WAIT,. AND PRAY.
Striro; yefc I do oat preiuL-e . . ."
ThVpnio you' dreani of to-day,. .
Will not fad a when 7011 thick to. grasp it
Anil inel6in'ytTjr hand away;-
But another and "holier treasure . ' .
You now pcrcLanice disdain, ,
-' . . i ' . - -Will
coma when your toil is over,
. - wWid pay you. for all your pain.
. !! ? , J.!vm. :M . . .
Wait; yet I do not tell you
The hour you loag for now,
'Will not come with its radiance vanished,
And a shadow upon its broW ; '. ' .
Yet far thrfcugh the mity future,- ' . '
. .With a. crown of starry Iiht, ' ' ; ..
.. An Lour of joy you know not .' '.' .
Js.winginj ber tileiit flight, '. . '
.Pray ;; though the gift yo'u ask for ;
- : May never comfort your fears,
JIay never repay your plcajiui;, , ...
Tet pray,' and with hopeful tear, ..
An airswer, not'tha't yon long for. '
5ut diviner will feome1 ono -Any ; '
. Your eyes aro too diwi, to see it,'
-Yet strive, and wait, nd pray. ...
. - ' From lLxon's Life pf Penn.
"THE JdACATJIiAY CHAKGES."
f : ; , f OSCLnl - FBOJf LAST WEEK.. ' '
- III. Towards the close of Jiis reign, ..when
the cbnrchmep :'opei)ly rejwdiatcd their own
doctrine of passive obediente, Jaraea became
nnxious to secure the a lhcsion of liis'dissent
ing;snVjectsf olid amojig other leading men,he
selected Periil's .old opponent, Williani KiHin,
the 'Baptist for'a city. magistracy. ' 15ut two
ot Kitliirs gniavi'jtous liud.Veri taken and exe
cuted !a the'AYestern rebellion, and it was
donLted uhether the old man would comply
with the wishes' of; tlie court. ".'At.', this point
Mr. Macaulay introduces Fenn. "The heart
less and renal sycophants of Whitehall, judg
i"g by lliemselves, thought the old man would
Leoeasily-propitiated by an alderman's sown,
and by some compensAtioa in money, for the
property which hrs grandsons rtad -forfaited.
Fenn was employ d In the work of seduction,
but to no purpose.-" Now, there is not the
slightest foundation in history- for this state
iue!!t Mf. Macaulay here asserts that Fenn
was -empIoyed",' by,the "heartless and renal
y vcophan1','of the courts to seduce KilUn into
an acceptance f the- lderman"s gown, and
that he failed. The passage means this,-or it
means nothing. It will be' allowed that 'on
such a point. KiOm, himself must be the best
authority: in his autobiography, lately publish
ed from from the original manuscript, he says,
'In a little atter' a g;reat temptation attended
me, which. -was a commission from the King,
to be one of the aldermen of tho city ol Lon
don; which as soon as I heard of it; I used all
the diligence J could, to bo excused, both by
some lords near the King, and also. by Sir
Nicholas Butler and Mr. Penn. But it was nil
in vain." This is just the rererse of w hat Mr.
Macaulay states. ..Perm did not go to Kifiin;
Kiiiin went to Penn.- Instead of being employ
ed in 'the work' of seduction, he was'. engaged
in the task 'of 'intercession. -Mr.':Macanl:y
makes KhTm refuse the magistracy :'Kiffin says
ho accept?d it : "The next court-day I came
to the couit, and took upon me the office of
alderman." . '
IV. A. little alteution to dates will soon dis
posa of the fourth charge against Fenn. . Mr.
Macaulay writes "All men were anxious to
know what ho the Prince of Orange thought
of the Declaration of Indulgence. : : : Penn
sunt ' copious disquisitions to tho Hague, and
even went thither in the hope tliat . his elo
quence, of which he had a high opinion, would
prove irresistible." Xow,.renh returned from
Germany in the autumn of 1G86, and the Dec
laration was not issued until April, 1687. Af
ter 1GS6, ho never went to" tho Dutch capital.
There is no evidence, even, that Penn ' sent
over "copious disquisitions;"; Burnet, Mr. Ma
caulay' authority, says not a word on such a
subject. When Penn was at the Hague, in the
summer of .1080, the subjejet that w as under
discussion related to.the Tests, not the Indul
gence. The .Declaration was unthought of at
that time; Burnet is very clear on this point.
But there is other proof that Mr. Macaulay's
guess-work is . wjohg.,' In. "November, 1085,
fiva months before the Declaration was issued,
Van Cittcrs reported to his correspondent, the
substar.ee. of. thQ conversation between Penn
the Prince, as it was theii known iu court
ciT.lcs in London; and in that report, no men
tion whatever is made of the Declaration.
", Y. I .shall content myself with a special ref
utation of Mr. Macaulay's errors; first quoting
'his material passages, and numbering them for
separate, rem ark . '' l: :Penn was $t Chester, on
a pastoral tour. ;. ITis popularitt and authority
among h'ui brethren had greatly declined, (2.)
since he had become a tool of tliol King and
the Jesuits.? yTPerh?rrrs the College might
stili be terrified, caressed, 6r brib'e'dj into sub
miasioa. The agency of Penn was ere ployed."
l.'The courtly Quaker, therefore, did his best
to" seduce the college from trie path of right.''
Sf'JTp sucil a' decree had hismanners been
corropted Ly evil cpmmanications, and bis un
derstanding obscured by inordiuaie real for a
single 'object, that he did not scrindV td' be
come a broker in simony" of a jeculiarly dis
creditable kindTaiivIio.".sc a bishopric to tempt
aMne to perjury.''-Tfeso '.assertions may
be looked at one by one,' as they'stand here. '
.l, JL1 Pp'an become n 1CS7 the. ate ' of
Mr. Macaulay's authority unpopular .and pow
erless with his brethren ? There is, fortunate
ly, better, evidence than that of an agent of
Louis Quaibrze: the evidence of the "breth
ren" themselves. The Records at Devonshire
House prove that his influence was high as ev
er in the society of Friends; he was elected to
speak their sentiments; he served their most
important offices ; w as .in accord with For,
Crisp, and the other leaders ; and at the very
moment when Mr. Macaulay introduces him
with this disparaging comment, he was on a
religious tour, one of the most popular and
brilliant of his public ministry. ' To this may
be added the testimony of Fenn himself; in
one of his letters he expressly says, that it is
at the joint request of the Society of Friends,
and of persons in anthority, that he is engaged
in the business of the nation. 2. Was ho ver
"'a tool of the King and of the Jesuits?" No
man, I venture , to believe, will entertain, a
doubt on this point, after reading the ninth
chapter of these -memoirs, and the authorities
there cited. Family experiences had given
him an abhorrence of tho persecuting spirit of
the Koman Church. In his youth he had writ
ten against the errors of Popery, and in riper
age had pointed many a sentence with honest
indignation at Jesuit morals.
Xow that the Jesuits had acqnired power at
court, he continually hazarded his influence
by urging the King to banish them from the
royal presence. Citters, Johnstone, and Clar
ednon, all testify clearly to this ef?oeU The
Dutch Diplomatist says, "Penn has had a long
interview with the King, and bas be thinks
shown to the King that Parliament will not
consent to a revocation of the Test and Fenal
Laws and that ho never will get a Parliament
to his mind so long as ho will not adopt mod
erate councils, and drive away. from his. pres
ence the immoderate Jesuits, and other Papists
who surround him daily, and whose ultra coun
cils he now follows." Johnstone says express
ly, that Penn was against the order command
ing the Declaration to be read in the churches.
Clarendon says in his Diary that Penn "labor
ed to thwart the Jesuitical influence that pre
dominated." On what authorit", then, docs
Mr. Macaulay make his assertion ? Simply on
his own! Was. he a tool of the( King J The idea
is aboard. He ntver-sacvi!iced a point to "the
linmor of James ; but he often crossed that hu
mor, and fcis political action was always agaihst !
the court. Xot to go so far back as the dav9
of Sidney, when, according to Barillon, he di
vided the leadership of the most advanced bo
dy of Reformers with that great Republican,
if his private friendship was given to Sunder
land, Halifax, and Rochester, his political
sympathy war always with the more liberal
men of the opposition. The supporters ol
Monmouth looked to him and half a doz-n oth
ers to bring over the American colonics: to the
cause of liberty and- Prctestautism. Though
he wa3 trusted by: James, ha was always an
object of suspicion to his government. He
plainly. told the King of his errois; he advised
him to expel the Jesuts from Whitehall ; not
to trust to his prerogativc.but to meet his Par- j to remember anything but what especially con
liamcut with wise and just proposals; not to in-j ccrned his own prospects and position, is uu
sist on having the Declaration read by the ' fortunately the only existing authority. Hunt
clerprr ; not to commit the seven Prelates to was not present at this interview, and no ac-
the Tower. And when that impolitic act had j count of it is preserved in the Magdalen Col
been committed, he advised him to take the lege MSS. llolden's MS. letters in the same
gracious opportunity afforded by the birth of a j
Prince of Wales to set them at liberty, and j
still further to signalize the occasion by a gen-
eral amnesty to the exiles in Holland. He
counselled him to submit to the will of the na- I
tion, and to be content with a simple tolera- j
tion of his religion. Can this man be called
the "tool" of the King? Let Mr. Macaulay ! ed," as Mr. Macaulay continues to misrepre
show another man in that age with equal bold- : sent him, to solicit tho Fellows, it appearsthat
ness and integrity. lie braved the royal frowns , the Fellows had. sent a deputation to him, con
again and again in the cause of mercy. Heob- ' sisting of Hough and the principal members
tained a pardon for Locke, another for Trench- j of the college. Their conversation lasted
ard, another for Aaron Smith all of thcm.men 1 three hours : Mr. Macaulay's rersion of it is in-
who had deeply offended James. lie compell- '
cd him to listen to the councils of the leading !
Whigs; and ir. the Oxford affair told him he j
was in the wrong in plainer language than the !
usages of speech would permit to ordinary I
meii;. This man a tool! 3. Was the agency t ccpt the spurions letter, that ho ever used oth
of Penn employed to terrify, caress, or bribe ; er than a gentle tone, ltt "began to hint at a
the collegians into submission? There is not ' compromise:" the words of -Hough. are 'l
even a shadow of authority for this most un- ' thank God he did not so much as offer at any
charitable assertiou. Penu was alarmed at the proposal by way of accommodation." How
quarrel, fearing it might be lead, through the reconcile such statements!. Now let us hear
combined obstinancy of the King and Fellows, what Hough says of the simony! and pcrjnry.
to a loss of the College Charter, and a trans- Penn, who, according to Swift,' "spoke agreo
fer of its immense revenues to the Papists ' ably and with spirit," was always more or less
and he interposed his good offices to heal the facetious in conversation.-- Like his father, be
w ound. Instead of looking on him as a person , was found of a joke, and had that delight in
"employed" to terrify, caress, or bribe them ' drollery which belongs to the highest natures,
into submission, we have the evidence of Dr. j In this very conversation we. see how he made
Bailey, one of .the inculpated Fellows, and his rietoric dance "Christ Church is a noble
fhat of Thomas Creech, a student, that the ; structure,. University is a pleasant place, and
collegians regarded him as a friend and niedi- Magdalen is a comely .building. f. Hough, tho'
ator ''in their behalf." 1. Did he "do his best not tho most quick-witted of men, saw that he
to seduce the college from the paJlTof right?" j "had a mjnd to droll upon us.?? Stolid and
Mr, Macaulay s knowledge of the proceeding heavy, Hough no doubt reported the conversa
appears to be derived from "Wiliuot's Life of I tion honestly, so far as he could remember and
Hough" though ho. does not quote it and ! understand it. To quote his words, ,','Ouce he
froruthe "State Trials." To these sources of said, smiling, If the Bishop of Oxford die, Dr.
information must bo added the MS. letters of: Hough may be made, Bishop.. What, thiukyou
Dr. SrkesandMr. Creech, preserved ki the; of that, gentleman f? Cradock, one of the
Bodleian Librarr at Oxford! and the MS. pa- Fellows present, took up the tone of pleasant-
nrs of Geora-e Hunt.' now in tlie possession of
the President of Masidaleu College. Hunt was
one of tin Fellows', and was present at the.in-,!
terriew' with Perin ; Svkes and ;Mr. Creech
were both' of them well informed as to all the j
incidents which occurred ; yet so far is eitWr I
he, or are they, from saying that he attemted
to ""seduce them from the path of right," that
they agree exactly in the : emphatic and con
clusive statement, that, after hearing their
reasons, he agreed with them that they were
justified in their resistance, lie even went
further, he became their champion. "In their"
presence he wrote a manly English letter to
his sovereign, in which ha ' told him in very
plain terms "that their case was hard ; that
in their circumstances they could not yield
without a breach of their oaths; and that such
mandates were a force on conscience, and. not
agreeable to tho Kings's other gracious indul
gences.". How singularly unforttunte is Mr.
Macaulay in his authorities ! "Fennj" ha says,
"exhorted the Fellows not to rely on the good
ness of their cause, but to submit, or at least
to temporize." I defy Mr. Macaulay to give
any. trustworthy authority for this macchilvel
lian council. He wisely abstains from quoting
lu's author; ; but the curious reader will find it
in the twelfth volume of tho "State Trials,"
iu the shape of an anonymous letter which was
addressed by some unknown person, during the
heatof thodispute,toDr. Bailey, one of the Fel
lows. Bailey, from the charituble puroscs of the
letter thought it might have come from Penn;
and to ascertain the fact,; wrote a reply to
Penn without signing his name, saying, that
if he were his anonymous, correspondent, he
would kuow how to aJdress his answer. . oT
c.'urs no reply; came. No mau conversant
with Fenn"s habit j( writing could for an in
stant mistake it for his; it commences, "Sir,"
aud the second person plural is used through
out. Is or is this all the. evidence agaiust its
being written by Penn. The contemporary
account of these proceedings has written, in
Hunt's baud, o.n the margin of tins letter, the
words "This letter Mr. Penn disowned,"
Yet it is on the assumption that Penn actually
wrote this thrice-proven spurious epistle, that
Mr.' Macaulay has built his most serious accu
sation! Let me say, to the credit of Macin
tosh, that he makes no charge against Penn in
this Oxford business. Here ;Mr. Macaulay is
perfectly original. 5. Did Penn deal "in si
mony of a particularly disreputable kind, and
use a bishopric as a bait to tempt a divine to
pr-rjury ?' Mr. Macaulay continues to repre
sent him as employed by tho court ; and hav
ing, as he says, failed .i ibis attempt to terrify
the collegians iuto obedience, he "then tried
a gentler tone. , He had an interview with
Hough, and. ; with , some of tho Fellows,
and after many professions of sympathy and
friendship, began to hint at a compromise. . .
'How should you like,' said Penn, 'to see Dr.
Hough Bishop of Oxford?'" Hereupon fol
lows the indignation about siniony and perjury.
Now lt- us sec what is really known about
this interview. Dr. Hough, its chief subject,
wrote on tho evening of the day on which it
took place a letter to las cousin,, in which he
recited the principal heads of the. discourse, .
and this account, from one too deeply inter
ested to be impartial, and too much excited
library commence posterior to the afTair of
Penn; and Baron Jenner's MS. account of the
Visitation is not to be found. But let us take
tho authority we have, imperfect though it be,
and see what matter can be drawn from it in
support of the accusation. What says Hough?
In the outset, instead of Penn being "employ-
exact in all its essential particulars. "He then
tried a gentler tone." The historian does not
seem to know that two interviews took place,,
one at Oxford, the other at Windsor, with six
weeks of an interval; there is no evinence ex-
ry, and replied, "they should bo heartily lad
of it for it would do very well with the presi
dency." , Does auyne doubt that this was a
mere pleasantry ?. . Observe, J enn naa no com
mission to treat with the Fellows, that he
met them at their own request, to consider how
he could serve their interets. That Cradock
thought it a joke is evident from his retort.
Had the suggestion of the bishopric ben in
earnest, it must have been offered on condition
of Hough giving up the presidency of his col
lege that being the point at issue. In eueh a
case, to talk of the combination of the two of
fices would have been insulting and absurd.
Even Hough himself, the least jocular of men,
understood this remark as a mere pleasantry,
for he instantly adds, "But, I told him; srri
onshj, I had no ambition." And yet this in
nooeit mirth, accepted and understood as
such, by all the parties concerned, after a
lapse of nearly two centuries, is revived and
tort'ired mtjRa ground for one of the foulest
accusations ever brought against an historical
reputation 1 Is this English History? - '
From tho London Christian Times.
Persecution of . Protestants.
The noble army of martyrs is not yet com
plete; they are still passing into the realms of
arlory. There they rest, while candidates for
the same honor are here waiting for deliver
auce. The choir of St. Teter's enchants our
sentimental travellers with its grand antijdic-
nal . .
Tu niartyrum candidatus laudat exercitus:
'le per orbem terrarnm sancta confietur eeclesia.
The. unflinching confession of the persecuted
responds to the anthem of the martyrs wail-
in'gs from the dungeons answer bitterly to the
litanies of the streets. Yet the depths of those
duiigeons none can fathom, norcan any human
eye, search into their horrors. Now and then,
the cry of some desperate victim faintly es
capes, but no sooner strikes the ear than it is
hushed again, or it is drowned by drums of
Toi'het, lest the sympathy of the civilized
world should be awakened if the moans were
heard again. Even so, there is reason to fear,
it will happen to poor Jolyi Evangelist Bor
ziusky, now immured at Prague; and to his
brother L'bajdus, also, incarcerated in Gortz.
To these two names that of an older sufferer'
is added, Joachim Zezule, priest of the Order
of Augustine, adrancing towards threescore
ye n s of age. Borziasky andRezule the for
mer for about two months, and the latter for
twenty years have been shut up. with the
ro xnQ of the Monks of Mercy, whose very
scientific discipline, it seems, ordinarily drives
marked meJi to madness, or condemns them
to languish in the dens of maniacs until them
selves bereft of reason. Zezule, howerer, al
though reputed mad because - he would hare
been, jf a ver' sturdy nature, or special de
fence of Providence, had not resisted the in
fluences of the place actually lives to tell his
own tale, and startle Christendom ,by a dis
closure of barbarities that commonly pass for
fabulous. The Ausirian imprisonments have
the peculiar., character of atrocity that, they
are in direct violation of the law of Austria.
That law permits an-man to declare himself
a Protestant, and being disposed to make such
a declaration, instructs Lim what . formalities
to employ, and; offer him protection in the cx
ercisejf religious Jiberty,'" But law is not
law in Austria, as any one may see; and who
ever pcuses for an instant to peruse the details
of these persecutions, will be confirmed in a
persuasion that it is not the intention of the
Jesuits dominant cver.Austria.to grant a title
of liberty to those who profess the Evangeli
cal religion. Rather, they resolve to pour
mockery and contempt upon us all until wo
thoroughly deserve it. In Austria, then,
there is no justice for any Protestant who at
tempts to act upon his profession, nor is there
even life for an ecclesiastic perhaps hardly
for a l-.yman of the Roman Church, if he
ventures to assume the name. Not that the
Brethern of Mercy, or any other such brethern,
moan to kill him in open day, for their fash
ion is to catch the deserter, shut him up in a
convent, a mad-house, or a pit, and there
leave him to die of grief, or. to ran mad, al
ways preferring a speedy death, to madness
for their prisoners, as the cheapest punish
ment of the two.. Accordingly, one of the
Prague fraternity didnot blush to say tollbal
dus Borziusky, speaking of his brother John
Evangelist, "We will rather , treat him so that
he must sink under it, than that he shall ever
come out of the walls of the content." . The ad
vocates of the tender charities of St. Vincent
de Paul might.have been seasonably requested
to describe this Austrian treatment: the other
day, when they were recounting their; philan
thropic labors to their English friends inHan:
over-square Rooms. . "A Protestant in Aus
tria," Dr. Wiseman might have,, explained,
"is placed by my bretfcern in these dominions
beyond the verge of law even as I ; place my
self beyond it here. As archbishop of West
minster, T- laugh at law, so do my reverend
brethern in Prague. If a man wishes to turn
schismaticj he may say so, and report himself
accordingly. If a Lutheran priest even in old
Hussite Bohemia can dare to accept this pros
elyte, he inayj but he wil be' sure to smart
for it. Therefore their usual method , is to
slip away'lo Prussia, and there get privately
admitted into tho, Lutheran sect. . Some are
wise enough never to venture back again; but
others, foolishly trusting in the law, do go
back to their country, and. then my brethren,
the worthy inquisitors of heriticle pravity,
catch them as quickly as convenient, and put
them in prison. When the apostates are once
lodged there, it is all over with them. ; . Whips,
kicks, short rations, solitary. confinement,
irons, and all those various contrivences w hich
we know how to employ without incurring ir
regularity by breaking the skin, are brought
to bear upon the culprit. Sooner or later we
break his heart. Hereand there sturdy her-
etie may seem to baLMe us, but no such thing;
we send him to one -of our mad-houses, to
department of an Austrian monastery that is
not often vacant. Ourholy Church, who
adapts her agencies toime and place with
.exquisite precision, commissions Brothers of
Mercy in Prague to turn the brain or breaL
the Ijcart cf heretics. "In England she em
ploys Sisters cf Charity and Brothers of St.
Vincent to melt them down. Please remem
ber the plates."
Nothing that wo know needs prevent the
'Archbishop of AYestminster"from enlighten
ing a West-end auditory, inasmuch as it now
appears to be commonly understood that the
heresy of Cianmerjs to be put down by fair
means or foul. ..Our Queen had a treaty with
Portugal confirming to us right of worship in
that little nook of Europe, aud pi-mising pro
tection in its exercise, but we have seen it
quietly set aside, with scarcely a breath of re
monstrance by the public, aud without a word
of protest from tho Crown. The Pre rich. Em
peror promised our brethern of Montauban fa
vor, and assured the Protectants ol France in
eneral (hat thev need not fear persecution in
his reign; but at this moment, not a few of
their congregations are dispersed, their ch'jscb
es fehut up, and they, pauic-si uek, dare 'lot
complain for themselves, and are trembling
least others utter the least complaint for them.
From Tmkey, where we understood great
tilings had been done for our Protestant breth
ren, converts from the Greek or c Armenian
churches, our correrpondciit writes that, -after
all, "native Protestants iu several parts' of the
eu.pire are deprived of their rights and "mal
treated, even by -the Turkish officials them
selves, notwithstanding the fiiman issued by
the Sultan on thoir .behalf and, when appeals
are made by them to the Torte for redress,
nothing effectual is done." It looks as if
there were an understanding between the
Porte and the Pnschalics that the famous fir
mans given for Protestants, tea years ago.
shall be treated with common contempt now
tluit .Protestantism spreads. Cona.ciitJx,
matters in Turkey are growing, worse .and
worse every day, and there is reason to fear
that the promises of the Sultan .to England
will soon vanish like "the early cluud and the
morning dew." ....
The case of poor Cecchetti belongs to anoth
er class, indeed. No treaty, that we know of,
can "be pleaded on his behalf, lie must le
left to perifih. He mav starve or lie driven
mad, but tlie.people of England, who were so
earnest about tho Mali.;!,, scarcely give his
case any serious concern.,.. JJe was not known
n Loudon as a courier, norhis wife asa lady's
maid.-. There is, theref-jre, no link strong-
enough to bind poor Cecchetti to th.eheartT.
England! Gomez, too, Ins, not yet been cud
gelled or thrown info a cell at Lisbon, but he
s a prisoner at large, to be pounced upon the
moment that he presumes to deliver a "pre
lection" on Christianity with open doors.. No
matter, our Government has long made up its
mind to leave people to their fate; . and. we
think we hear a Foreign Secretary say, that"if
people hare a calling to be apostles, they must
be content to be made martyrs." . .
Protestants in this country are weary of put
ing their trust in princes' and find that, par
tial and mere defensive measures, however
valuable in the conduct of the campaign, ..w ill
never win a battle, much less make us respec
table in the sight of the enemy. If our brcth-
en could be suffered to die openly, and if the
ashes of martyrdom were again .visibly scat
tered for seed of the church, our contest would
be sublime and holy, but now "it is really igno
minious. Not the mob, nor the stake, nor
even confiscation and banishment by Popish
governors, are now the means employed for
crushing Christianity. The whole mass of
European and, Colonial Protestantism is
weighed down by the apathy of some and bj-
the perfidy of others. We hope for. good faith
from tllies, but outrage awaits .us at Lisbon,
disappointment at Paris, shame at Constanti
nople, and scorn almost everywhere else. ". "We
ask diplomatists for protection; thev are silent:
and we think of Lord Howdenas a model min
ister, rest oring deserted churches in Spain, as
one on whom a Protestant would have to rely
in an emergency. But surely a remedy re
mains, that we may resort to, after prayer.
The Protestants of the world should now make
common cause, and as the Americans have
been forced into one kind of combination to
protect themselves from aliens, the Protes
tants of every land snould now combine to
pursue tho common object by right means', in
defence from all enemies, intrainuros et extra.
The thought is not new. It has long been
slumberfng in many minds: and possibly 'the
Protestant Alliance, 'of all Protestant unions
the most catholic and the mostjeflicient, might
awaken it into action, and organize a calm,"
but honest, firm, and unwavering union' of
Prof estants throughout the world.
,Gettlg Dkspkbate. 'Do you love me,
Simon? 'Do I love you ax tue sun it it
loves the flowers ax a cold kitten if she loves
a warni brick ! Love youshow ine the man
that says I don't and I'll care his head in with
cistern pole!'
A Sad Scene ': . r : j
The following sketch Is taken fromhetor
rcsponiieuce of the Boston Jotirnal.' -'No re
flect ions of ours can add to its beauty and pa
thos, or deepen the force of its simple elo
quence. The writer says: I
As painful a scene met my view in the. cars
from Philadelphia to New York, as 1 had ev
er seen in my journeys. A lady and her hus
band came into the cars at the former place,
and were seated near us very respectable in
appearance, and 'the lady, in paf ticulary un
commonly interesting. , After a little while I
noticed a sfranre; manner- in the gentleman,
which seemed to iudicatc he was vol in favor
of the Maine Liquor Law.- At every place
the cars stopped he evidently replenished the
vacuum in bis throat by a new drink, until ho
could not 6it without help in bis seat. He
then rose hastily and went and opened the car
door, and seated himself in it, with his feet
hanging outside. His wife was miich distres
sed, and tried to prevail upon him to come in,
and he gave her a push which almost seat her
to the Coor. Two gentlemen rose, .and with
tho aid of the conductor, lie 'was helped in
md placed in a reclining position' en on a of
the seats beneath a window. lit soon":appa
reutly fell asleep and it was enough to break
one's heart to see the ; attention that that 'de-
voted wife lavished upon a senseless husband.
She coyared him up with her shawl, to ' keep
the dust from making him uncomfortable;"!'
his hands f'.il iu an unpleasant position,-she
gently rophfeed the'm;:"an$ perhaps bedewed
themwitha tear. "-""' " ": '
Before arriving in New York ine ' seemed
anxious to have him waked, and asked' one' of
the gentlemen to "please wake LinTL'as" it wan
a strange city, an 1 the did not know ,vhat to
do." Two r throe" roused .hima'nitleSind
then she veat to him with a s'wc'ct smile,', and"
said "We have got almost to New' York, and'
I am glad, you are so lirel," and be struck Kc'f
iu the face! She had the Sympathy of all in
the car, I know;. for there was many a moist
eye among the ladies, and many a bitter look'
on manhood's cheek. Arrived in New ' York
he would not leave the cars till he was ordered
oiTby the Conductor, and her attentions, in"
crossing the" ferry were assiduous as ererj and'
met with pushes and "blows from Tier "brutal
husband. The last I saw of her was in the
station house on tlie New York side besrsins
him to go and see.to their baggage, and iie;
answered her, that, he .was a. fool to mind
her own business, c. My travelling compan-',
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ion lcmariied .j.nai is w omanly love, ann
when he speaks kindly to her again, idie .will
forget it all." ,, . .
. Jt.appe.ys from Sir David Brew ster 'a Life of
Sir Isaac Newton, just, published, that the.
great . philosopher, at. the ripe age . of sixty,
rn ide prc pos-ds of marriage to a widow,, The
lady was tlie widowof Sir William 'Norris,
who died in. 1702,., Iie following, is psQwton's
philosophical way cf "popping tlie:que$tion ij
'JiH.tim i our ladyship a grief at tlelos3 of.
Sir William shows that if he bad returue'safi
home, your 1 vlyship would have been gladto
hare lived still with a husband, and therefore
your aversion at present . for marrying again"
can proceed from nothing else than the memo--ry
of him whom you have lost.. fTo be always;
lliiiiking ou the dead is-to- live a meLinoholf
life amonj sepulchres, and bow much grief is,,
an enemy to your, .health . is manifest -by the
sickness it brought w hen you received. the first
news of your widowhood. And can your lady
ship resolve to4sp:nd the rest of .your days in,
grief and sickuess?. Can you.jcsolve to weara
widow's habit perpetually- a habit which, is,
less acceptable to company a habit which, will,
be always, putting you . ia luiud .of .your. Jost.
husband, and thereby promote your grief
indisposition till you leave it off. ..Theproper.
remedy for all these. rniiscbiefs. is a new. hiisbn
and, and whether your ladyship should admit
of a proper, remedy for such maladiesj is' a'
question which I hope' will not : need much,
time to consider of. Whether your ladyship"
should go constantly in the melancholy dress
of the widow, or flourish once more among the
ladies ; whether .you hoald spend he rest of.
your days cheerfully or in sadness, ia health
or sickness, are questions 'which- need-not
muclr consideration to decide them.' Besides
tbat your ladyship will be-better able to Ure
according to your quality by the assistance of
a husband, than upon your own estate alone
and, -therefore, since your ladyship likes thai
person proposed, I doubt not but that in a lit
tie time to have notice of yonr : ladyship's in
clination to marry, at least that yoa will gtre"
him leave to discourse with you about it."o f
atn Madam, your ladyship's most humble nd
most obedient servant."; c': . A i'. -U ' litiw ts
" LiciiiiNa jhe Lamps.ix ITe-vves. I send you,
says a correspondent of the KnlekV, the follow-,
ing little 'incident for your 'T ble.' . It struck,
me as one of the most" uniqet explanations of
electrical phenomiiia i bad ever heard., A lit-,
tie" girl, the idol of a friend of ours, was sitting
by the window one evening during a Tjolent,
thunder-storm," apparently striving to grapple
some" proposition too strong, for her .childish
mind. Presently a smile of triumph lit up her
features as she exclaimed: -Oil. I.knowjshaf
makes the i lightning: "it'itGod' light in'lna
lamps, and throwing tho'riLntchd
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