though this may or may not be true so far as our money be concerned, yet there is an event which must arrive, and in England this event HAS JUST ARRIVED, when a continuance of such a mode of education must inevitably destroy our church, aristocracy, funds; in short, every thing which a welldisposed mind loves, venerates, and is desirous to uphold. The fearful event to which I allude, is that of THE LOWER CLASSES OF PEOPLE BECOMING EN LIGHTENED. In spite of all that party spirit angrily asserts to the contrary, most firmly do I believe, that there does not exist, in England, any revolutionary spirit worth being afraid of. In a rich commercial country, the idle, the profligate, and the worthless, will always be anxious to level the well-earned honours, as well as plunder the wealth amassed by the brave, intelligent, and industrious; but every respectable member of society, with the coolness of judgment natural to our country, must feel that he possesses a stake, and enjoys advantages which I firmly believe he is highly desirous to maintain; in fact, not only the good feeling, but the good sense of the country, support the fabric of our society, which we all know, like the army, derives its spirit from possessing various honours (never mind whether they be of intrinsic value or not) which we are all more or less desirous to obtain. But if those who wear these honours degrade themselves if our upper classes culpably desert their own standards-if they shall continue to insist on giving to their children an elegant, useless education, while the tradesman is filling his son with steady, useful knowledge—if our aristocracy with the Goule's horrid taste, will obstinately feed itself on dead languages, while the lower classes are healthily digesting fresh, wholesome food-if writing, arith metic, modern geography, arts, sciences, and discoveries of all sorts are to continue, (as they hitherto have been) to be most barbarously disregarded at our public schools and universities, while they are carefully attended to and studied by the poor-the moment must arrive when the dense population of our country will declare that they can no longer afford to be governed by classical statesmen; and, with an equally honest feeling, they will further declare that, they begin to find it difficult to look up to a people who have ceased to be morally their superiors. That the lower orders of people in England are rising, not only in their own estimation, but in the honest opinion of the world, is proved by the singular fact, that the wood-cuts of our Penny Magazine, (so rapidly printed by one of Clowes's great steam-presses,) are sent in stereotype, to Germany, France, and Belgium, where they are pub. lished, as with us, for the instruction of the lower classes. The same magazine is sent to America (page for page) stereotyped. The common people of England are thus proudly disseminating their knowledge over the surface of the globe, while our upper classes, by an infatuation which, without any exception, is the greastest phenomenon in the civilized world, are still sentencing their children to heathen, obscene, and useless instruction; and though it has beneficently been decreed "Let there be light!" our universities seriously maintain that the religious as well as moral welfare of this noble country, depends upon its continuing in intellectual darkness. It is now much too late in the day to argue whether the education of the lower classes be a political advantage or not. One might as well stand on the Manchester Rail-road to stop the train, as to endeavour to prevent that. The people, whether we like it or not, WILL be enlightened; and, therefore, without bewailing the disorder, our simple and only remedy is, by resolutely breaking up the system of our public schools and universities, to show the people that we have nobly determined to become enlightened too. The English gentleman (a, name which, in the army, in the navy, hunting-field, or in any other strife or contention, has always shown itself able to beat men of low-birth,) will then hold his ground in the estimation of his tenants, and continue to inhabit his estate. The English nobleman, and the noble Englishman, will continue to be synonymous—a well-educated clergy will continue to be reveredthe throne, as it hitherto has been, will be legally supported our mercantile honour will be saved THE HOPES OF THE RADICAL WILL BE IRRETRIEV ABLY RUINED—and, when the misty danger at which we now tremble, has brightened into intellectual sunshine, remaining, as we must do, (so long as we continue to be the most industrious) the wealthiest and first commercial nation on the globe, we shall remember, and history will transmit to our children, that old-fashioned prophecy of Faulconbridge, which so truly says, "Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true." 61. Ib. To any serious, reflecting mind, all religions, to a certain point, are worthy of respect. It is true all cannot be right, yet the errors are those which fellow creatures need not dispute among each other: he who has the happiness to go right, has no just cause to be offended with those who unfortunately have mistaken their course; and however men's political opinions may radiate from each other, yet their zeal for religion is at least one tie which ought to connect them together.-Ib. 62. How admirably does the long tin horn of the guard of one of our mail-coaches perform its blunt duty a single blast is sufficient to remove the obstruction of an old gentleman in his gig-two are generally enough for a heavy cart-three for a waggon and half a dozen slowly and sternly applied, are always sufficient to awaken the snoring keeper of a turnpike-gate-in short, to Break his hours of sleep asunder, And rouse him like a rattling peel of thunder. Has raised up his head, has awoked from the dead, The gala turn-out of our mail-coaches on the King's birth-day, I always think must strike foreigners, more than any thing else in our country, with the sterling, solid integrity of the English character. To see so many well bred horses in such magnificent condition-so many well-built carriages-so many excellent drivers, and such a corps of steady, quiet, resolute looking men as guards, each wearing, as well as every coachman, the King's own livery— all this must silently point out, even to our most zealous enemies, not only the wealth of the country, but the firm basis on which it stands; in short, it must prove to them most undeniably, that there is no one thing in England which, throughout the land, is treated with so much universal attention and respect, as the honest, speedy, and safe delivery of the letters and commercial correspondence of the country.-Ib. 63. But old age I find stiffens, first of all, the muscles of the tongue; indeed, as man gradually decays, it seems wisely provided by nature that he should be willing to be dumb, before time obliges him to be deaf; in short, the mind, however voraciously it might once have searched for food, at last instinctively prefers rumination to seeking for more.— Ib. €4. In the history of this little sea (the Mediterranean), in what melancholy succession has nation and empire risen and fallen, flourished and decayed! and if the magnificent architectural ruins of these departed states, mournfully offer to the traveller any political moral at all, is it not that homely one, which the most common tomb-stone of our country churchyard preaches to the peasant who reads it? "As I am now, so will you be, 65. Ib. When men have once made up their minds to stand against adversity, the scene generally brightens; for danger, contrary to the rules of drawing, is less in the foreground than in the perspective -difficulties of all sorts being magnified by the misty space which separates us from them.-16. 66. I must confess, it seems to me that one of the greatest political errors England could commit, would be to declare, or to join in declaring war against Russia; in short, that an appeal to brute force would, at this moment, be at once most unscientifically to stop an immense moral engine, which, |