hide-bound suckling may indicate surprising capacities, and reach the ordinary perfection of bodily stature, but his mind will be still in its infancy; the callow forehead over the full-fledged chin, will still betray where the nurse pinched him in his cradle, and marked him for a fool and a Christian for life.

What say nature and humanity, on contemplating such a spectacle as that prodigy of acquired learning, Dr. Parr, under the necessity of being rolled before the kitchen fire, and having bis abdomen rubbed and oiled by his own servants, to relieve him from the distension of excessive gormandizing? Or what of Porson, the facile princeps of Greek literature, rolling in the gutters, in the filthiest horrors of intoxication, and unable to indicate how he came in such plight, or who he was, but by a glass-eyed stare, and slobbering eructation of the word, Greek; nothing but Greek! Greek! Greek! to signify that he was the Greek professor of the University of Cambridge.

His unrivalled shrewdness of criticism on the enodation of the difficulties of the ancient Greek tragedies, induced a request from high authorities, that he would apply his mighty acumen to some critical elucidation of the text of the Greek Testament, to which is answer was as pregnant of signification, as it was coarse in expression: it was dangerous ground. He could use his liberty in commenting on Eschylus or Sophocles, but the less a mari criticised the text of the Evangelists, the greater would be his respect for it. It was for the surpassing genius of Herbert Marsh, to cope with the difficulties of the New Testament, and yet become a bishop.

But the silent sister, Dublin, is not without her crying shame. Her renowned Provost Dr. Barrett-who, like his library, had all the learning in it, but none that ever came out of it, and to the fame of unmatched acquirements united the distinction of being the most sordid, selfish, senseless epicure, that ever made reason blush for degraded humanity. It is a fact, as glaring on the records of human talent, as the day, that among all our senior wranglers, medallists and first honours of Oxford or of Cambridge, the world finds not one in an age, that pays for his training. They shine, but as the sparks on burnt tinder, neither giving warmth nor light, and, God knows, not intended to do so. They glisten and go out, attracting only the gaze of children. "There goes the parson, O illustrious spark!

And there! scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk."

Important discoveries, useful treatises, light thrown on times past, or held out to times to come, any kind of work, by which mankind might be amended, is to be looked for from any quarter rather than an university. Your universities will indeed supply you with Harmonies of the Gospels, Diatesserons, Illustrations of the Acts of the Apostles, Discourses on Prophecy, Explications of

the Apocalypse, and holy rubbish for the destruction of so much paper, or much worse destruction of all there is of mind spent on such garbage: but any thing really clever, serviceable, honourable, and beneficial to mankind, emerges only from the vale of plodding industry; or bursts into fame rather in spite of literary distinctions, than by their aid.

All the fault of this, is not owing solely to the fetters and restraints imposed on the actings of the human mind by the known character and discipline of our seats of learning, their subserviency to the keeping up of a known fraud and imposition on the ignorance and weakness of mankind, and the forcing of the mind into a particular and circumscribed orbit of movement; but much as these things contribute to the mischief, much would still remain, and attach even to an infidel university, that adopted the mischievous principle, that has hitherto characterized all seminaries of public learning, that is, the principle of seeking their own renown from the attainments of their pupils, rather than the pupil's advantage. The vehement incitement to precocious effort in the production of boy scholars, in the attempt to complete an education by the age of twenty; preposterously drives in upon the brain, ere it has acquired its full strength, a quantity of indigestible learning (if I may so speak) that its capacities would but conveniently accomodate, after they had been enlarged and strengthened by twice that number of years. Hence arises the universal complaint of well educated persons, of their having forgotten their education; and the universal fact, that these clever boys never end in clever men. The prematurely incited brain, like the over-tilled ground, losing its fertilizing energies, and settling down into effete and arid barrenness. The one profitless and vainglorious display of pedantry has cracked the strings and dried up all the juices, needed for the sucking and keeping up of the character of a scholar and a ripe and good one.-Your boy that got the medal, is fixed, a boy for ever.

Certainly, however, we should have heard nothing of this King's College, or orthodox university, if no fears had been entertained of the meditated heterodoxy of the Brougham College. If such a college had been called for, by the real wants of the people; if the evils it is designed to avert, or the benefits it professes to intend, had cried to heaven for such a favour, they might have cried and called, till the welkin rang, ere one shilling would have been subscribed by the philanthropy or good intentions of these college-founders; but it is to their bad intentions, their misanthropy, their dislike and hatred of their fellow-creatures, and their greedy, selfish, wicked carkings, and crooked policy, to keep their own tyrannous ascendancy, and perpetuate the known lie, that perpetuates their influence over insulted and degraded millions. To this, we owe

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this inundation of zeal, to imbue the minds of youth with a knowledge of the doctrines and duties of Christianity, as inculcated by the United Church of England and Ireland.

To this we owe the characteristic fact of the church militant, in its literally militant character, with the greatest captain of the age at its head, assembling to institute a college, whose distinguishing aim shall be " to mix up with the various branches of literature and science, the doctrine and DISCIPLINE of Christianity." The words of the great captain are hailed with indecent cheers, by the holy regiment. The Times, that reports the proceeding of this theologico-military confederacy, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on the 21st ult., invidiously avoids satisfying our anxious curiosity, whether the great slaughterman of Waterloo had his swinging long knife with him on this occasion; the brandishing of which, as he spoke of discipline, would have been calculated to give such impression to his eloquence, as might have made the fasting crows look out for another victory. “ Yet, however convinced I may be," says the man of blood," of the benefits of the system in contemplation, I cannot claim the honour of having been its original inventor. That praise is due solely to the governors and dignitaries of the church." And then, to be sure, the governors and dignitaries of the church give the man of blood another round of applause, for thus virtually acknowledging their supernatural inspiration. "I call upon you," says the man who led so many thousands to destruction, “to make an effort worthy of this great country, to educate the youth of the metropolis, to enable them to PERFORM, in their several stations, the duties which they owe to the sovereign and to the state; and above all, to instruct them in the knowledge of their God." And thereupon, the men in black, that know so much about God, give the man with the knife, who slew so many of God's creatures, another round of APPLAUSE. "And then," said the bloody man again," they will thus become acquainted with the precepts and examples on which all their duties are founded: they will be satisfied and contented with their lots in this life, and will learn to repose hope on the divine mercy hereafter." And then the men of the long robe gave the man with the long knife another round of applause; and all the people were astonished, and began to say one unto another, whence hath this man this wisdom and these words, that such wonderful things do show forth themselves in him? My imagination pictures to itself the military prophet, with all his blushing honours thick upon him, un ting in his own person the accumulated honours of statesman, soldier, and priest; head of the state, head of the army, head of the church, chief politician, chief cut-throat, and chief priest. I hear the whispers of Mokanna's secret sentiment, in the midst of all his triumph; I hear him chuckle forth his soul's united pride and scorn of the vile sycophants that surround him, to the clergy, saying,

"Ye wise, ye learned, who grope your dull way on,
By the dim twinkling gleams of ages gone,

Like superstitious thieves, who think the light,
From dead men's marrow, guides them best at night;
Ye shall have honours-wealth; yes, sages, yes,
I know, grave knaves, your wisdom's nothingness."
To the People:

"Ye too, believers of incredible creeds,

Whose faith enshrines the monsters that it breeds,
Ye shall have mysteries-aye, precious stuff
For knaves to thrive by-mysteries enough,
Dark, tangled doctrines, dark as fraud can weave,
Which simple villains shall on trust receive
While craftier feign belief, till they believe :
A heaven, too, ye must have, ye lords of dust,
And crowns and thrones, infatuate fools! ye must.
LALLA ROOKн.

And who, think ye, should be on the committee of this Ecclesiastical cabal, for providing for the morals of the rising generation, and for giving to all future waiters at the Dog and Duck, the advantage of a college education, which he, quondam High Priest of the mysteries of Colytto, when in that capacity, never could have looked for? Who, but he, the Fire Alderman, the City Cicero, who found out the Catilinarian conspiracy to set the Thames on fire, produced the materials of the intended universal conflagration out of the foot of a worsted stocking, and exclaimed in open senate

"O fortunatam, natam me consule Romani."

Thrice happy London, which, if it hadn't been for me, would have been undone !

He that, Wiseacre of Wiseacres, that worsted-stocking Kern, that shew'em up, of the Dog and Duck, that convenience of frail virtue, that wipe-glass of sinners, my immediate Prosecutor and Persecutor, who holds me in prison, that he and such as he may be the exclusive caterers for the morals of the city of London; he, whose malice and ignorance overthrew the single Areopagus that aimed to inculcate virtue on the basis of Reason and Science: to raise forsooth an University on its ruins, to qualify his successors with the morals necessary for waiters at the Dog and Duck, or to train them up in the way, to dance attendance on the votaries of illicit love, or follow in the march of legalized murder. Well! well! I'll say no more on such a wicked subject! I cannot, however, but rejoice in the still hopeful augury, which these indications present. Excessive follies and egregious crimes in general involve in themselves the principle that is one day to bring down correction on the guilty head. Never will mankind owe their emancipation to the wisdom or prudence of their oppressors. The tyrant's hand relaxes not its grasp till death unnerves it. In the scramble for influence, desperation or triumph will drive one or other of the belligerent universities to turn honest. The Infidel

or Latitudinarian faction will be forced to unfurl its true colours; and when they shall but once have tasted the sweets of conscious integrity and manly freedom, they will never return again to the beggarly elements, in which their time-serving, sneaking, quibbling, cowardly-scotch would-be infidel, institution originated. I can keep patience with honest rogues, who tell us what they mean, and let all the world see what, tis they drive at, their Additional Churches Bill, with power to Churchwardens to make Infidels pay for them: and their men of blood, Dukes, Earls and Lords-throwing down their thousands for King's Colleges and King's Bayonets to dragoon the brute people into Christian discipline, and teach them to be content with their lot, to order themselves lowly and reverently to all their betters, and "to repose hope on the divine mercy hereafter." Because this, we understand, this is fair play, this is Aristocracy, as Aristocracy. But roguish-honest men (language wants a word of sufficient indignancy for their despicable character) draw heavily on our patience. To know what we know that they cannot but know: to see enlightened intelligence and consummate abilities holding the candle to the child's game of make-believe, lending aid to the villainy that it hates, and subserving the folly that it despises, or going about to achieve the eventual liberty and emancipation of the mind by tricky stealth and witty cunning, by undeclared and covered attacks. O! tis pitiful, and shows but a pitiful ambition in the knaves that use it.

Your's truly,

ROBERT TAYLOR.

P.S.-My heart is much cheered in having this week to acknowledge the encouraging letter, and the subscription from Edinburgh, announced in your 26 Number. Whoever shall live to see the day-certain it is, that a millionth part of the enemy's means in our hands would overthrow their strongest. One Areopagus established on an independent foundation, but in two or three of our principal cities, and one honest clever man in each of them, so that truth and reason could but get a hearing: and the work is done.

ARCHIEPISCOPAL PALACE,

Oakham, July 5, 1828.

I think I never in my life stumbled on so gross and egregious an instance of argumentative unfairness-as the anonymous attack on my Syntagma, (which I have only time to notice en passant) in your last, p. 17. It's author seems to aim at nothing but showing his powers of quibbling and chicane. To be sure, I have work enough cut out, if I am to be bothered with propositionsthe like of which I never made, or to have such as I have made, carried a thousand miles beyond their scope. Let him refute what I have said-not what he falsely charges me with having said.

R. T.