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miliation in a spirit of proper selfmortification. I ardently hope that they feel it to be a day of sackcloth and ashes; and indeed, if angels could be supposed to weep for members of Parliament, they might shed some tears for such misery.

pair that support John BrightI'm his man. "P.S.---Any gentleman taught 'Bernal Osborne' in two lessons. Persons whose education has been neglected made perfect 'Roebucks' in one. A line, addressed Cornelius O'Dowd, to the care of his Publisher, will be immeWhy, in this age of universal diately attended to. None treated literature, has nobody thought of with except principals; the strictest skeleton speeches for sucking poli- secrecy observed." I promise you, ticians? The parsons have got constituencies will benefit by the skeleton sermons, wherein they change. As a respectable tradessupply the "padding" themselves, man, who wants to extend his cusand the blandest disciple of high- tom, I'll not sell them any castand-dryism, or the sternest de- off wares, nor vamp up any stale nouncer of mundane enjoyments, can fit himself in a moment. I am told, too, that since Bishop Colenso's defection, discourses can be had in which Joshua is treated pretty much like the author of Junius,' so that, in reality, no shade or tint of opinion need have to look far for an exponent.

I wish some enterprising publisher would engage me in the task; and I bind myself to supply "the trade" on the most reasonable terms and the shortest notice.

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Mr. Moses fits his clients in Yorkshire or the Land's End by a few general measurements the width of the shoulders, the girth at the waistband, the length from the hips, &c. Now I promise, on equally brief information, to send off by the night-mail a true-blue address, a Whig "apostasy," or a Radical "rouser," done in a true, finished, and workmanlike mannner. I remember a friend of mine, to whom Nature had not been gracious in muscular development, having once to perform a part in a private play where tight-fitting pantaloons were essential. He addressed himself to one of the minor theatres for counsel, and the costumer, to whom his case was referred, immediately called out, "Ah, sir, I see it at once; you want Mr. Matthews's legs. Fetch them down, James."

Joe Millers. Never a word shall
they hear from
me about that
strange beast, the Civis Romanus,
of which the Zoological Garden has
not even a specimen. I'll neither
bully the French, nor flatter them.
I only bargain for one plagiarism.
If it be a Whig oration, I must wind
up with a few words for "the glo-
rious harvest." This, you will ad-
mit, is fair. The Whigs have ripened
the wheat ever since the Reform
Bill, and we ought to be grateful
to them. Newspaper adulation, in a
tone that must be ineffably offen-
sive to the ears it was intended to
charm, has invented the phrase the
"Queen's Weather." Let me sug-
gest the propriety of exchanging the
term "Harvest Moon" for the
"Pam. Quarter;" so that, while we
replenish our granaries, we should
remember the Government.

The Conservatives have many faults they have done much they ought not to have done, and omitted some things they ought to have done; but in nothing have they erred so egregiously as in tolerating within their ranks these men of rotten allegiance. Nor was it mere toleration, but they have actually gone out of the way to conciliate them. This attempt to widen the base of a party by greater liberality, as it is called, is often very fatal. You may beat your guinea too thin. Now, if any country gentleman And who, I ask, were these people wants the Palmerston legs, or, more for whom you made these sacrifices ambitious still, the Gladstone-or-not only of opinion, but of conshould he ambition the sturdier science? Was there one really able

man amongst them? The first Napoleon used to complain of what he called "les frondeurs" in the army of Italy, the fellows who were so beautifully candid that they always thought the enemy did everything better than themselves--not merely fought better, but fed their people better, doctored them better, and rewarded them better.

To do him justice, he made very short work with such folk when he once got hold of them. We, on the contrary, caress and fondle them, we listen to their sentiments, and mould our own to their liking; and even when we see them cross over and join our adversaries, we are so magnificently generous, that we not only forgive the defection but actually exalt the deserters. Would Pitt have suffered this? would the Great Duke have endured it? Are the Whigs of our own day so Christian-like in forgiveness that they would make room on their benches for men who never rise but to vote against them?

The cry of our day is, "There is no party;" but how can there be party, when the men who take no oath of allegiance to a leader are deemed as faithful as the sworn soldier who fights bravely to the death? There is no army if there be no discipline, and this is exactly what we see amongst the Conservatives. The rewards are ne given to the valiant, nor are the renegades handed over to the provostmarshal.

We have not outgrown party in England. To say we are too liberal, or too enlightened, for party, is to talk balderdash; but party has ceased to have its distinctive marks, because certain people have invented a uniform that enables them to fight with either army, and take pay from both! For, these hybrids

I speak of take the bounty from us, and draw their pay from the enemy. What has brought this reproach that we hear every day, of a want of policy on the Conservative benches, but these men who bridge over party, and contrive to make the Opposition benches a sort of outpost of the Treasury? They have got up the cant, Pam is doing our work. Ay, but I answer, and he is taking the wages too. There is no such need as people say to make common cause against the Radicals. John Bright is a clever fellow enough, but neither he nor his following ought to frighten us for the future of the Constitution. Both the monarchy and the coal-fields have a good many years before them, and the Great Tribulation Coming" will not proceed out of Manchester, nor will Richard Cobden be its Prophet.

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I am far more afraid of small defections than of great defeats, and I own I'll never believe in the discipline of party till the day comes that we hang a mutineer!

Once for all, then, I say, no caresses, no flatteries for those men who are not true to you. No blandishments for those delicate followers who require to cross over from time to time to the Government benches for a little warmth and sunshine, as invalids go to Italy for climate. No converse with the political ventriloquists who sit on one side of the House and talk from the other. If these people get acceptance, once that they are unmasked and exposed, polical honesty is but a sorry affair. Party, in its honourable signification, cannot exist where they prosper; and of the constituencies that return them, I say, as Chief Baron O'Grady did of the disreputable counsel of a worse client-"May you never be separated."

INDEX TO VOL. XCVI.

Adelung, Johann Cristoph, 334.
Alembert and the Encyclopædia, 339.
Alfieri, sketch of, 292.
ALPHABETICALS, THE, 325.
Alton Locke, remarks on, 297.
America, recent losses of the Romish
Church in, 73.

Americans on the Continent, character-
istics of, 602.
Anthologies, the early, 330.
Antietam, the battle of, 635.
ARISTOTLE, LEWES'S, 147.

Armitage's Ahab and Jezebel, remarks
on, 85.

Arnold, friendship between, and Whate-
ly, 478.

ART, by W. W. S., 240-state and pros-
pects of, in England, 84-and reli-
gion, the relations between, 573.
ART-SEASON, THE LONDON, 84.
Aryan language and people, the sup-
posed, 402.

AUNT ANN'S GHOST STORY, 742.
Austria, conduct of, toward Denmark,

194.

Aylmer's Field, Tennyson's, 564.
Baillot, Mr., his translation of Victor
Hugo on Shakespeare, 164.
Bakou, sketches at, 44.

Ballooners, O'Dowd on, 389.

Balzac, the novels of, 186.

Bank of England, the, 368.

Biographical dictionaries, on, 343.
Biographie Générale, the, 345.
Biographies, French and German, 342.
Bismarck, policy of, as regards Den-
mark, 195.

Bistritza river, the, 39-the monastery
of 40.

Blainville on Aristotle, 154.
Boxall, W., portrait by, 92.
Branwhite, Mr., painting by, 97.
Brett, Mr., the Bay of Naples by, 99.
Brillat - Savarin, the Physiologie du
Goût by, 613.
Brisson, Barnaby, 334.
Britannia training-ship, course of teach-
ing in it, &c., 24 et seq.
Bucharest, sketches at, 351.
Bullion, imports and exports of, 502.
Burghersh, Lord, as ambassador

at

Florence, 289, 290.
Burton, Mr., painting by, 97. -
Butler, Mr., on the public school system,
222.

Byzantine art, the early remains of,

580.

Calderon, P. H., painting by, 88.
Cambridge, Kingsley's attack on, 297.
CARLINGFORD, CHRONICLES OF: THE
PERPETUAL CURATE, Part XIII.,
111- Part XIV., 199-Conclusion,
255.

CENSURE, THE VOTE OF, 243.

Banks of London, the, 371 - their ope- Centenaries and commemorations, 394.

rations, 36 et seq.

Bank-brokers of London, the, 372.
BANTING ON CORPULENCE, 607.
Banting, Mr. O'Dowd on, 764.

Bates, Mr., on the languages of the
South American tribes, 405.
Bavaria, consumption of beer in, 522.
Be always ready with the pistol, 190.
Beccani, Mr., portrait by, 92.

Beer-drinking in Germany, 522.

"Challenge,"

the, at Westminster

School, 452.
Chambers, Ephraim, the Encyclopædia
of, 339, 347.

Chambers's Encyclopædia of Useful
Knowledge, 341.

Charterhouse, fagging at the, 464-the
Public Schools Report on it, 467.
Cheap article warranted, &c., the,
286.

Benjamin, Mr., Confederate Secretary of Chevalier, M., his work on Mexico, 77
State, 650.

note, 81.

Child-murder, frequency of, in Germany,

534.

Christ, the early portraits of, 580 et seq.
Christian arts, remarks on, 574.
Christian Year, publication and influ-
ence of the, 302.

CITY OF GOLD, the, 367.

Civil service examination system, O'Dowd
on, 392.

Climbing boys, on, 9.

Cobden, Mr., on the vote of censure,

243.

Coleridge on Othello, 171-on Hamlet,

172.

Colet, John, the founder of St. Paul's,
465.

Collier, Jeremy, the Dictionary of,

347.

Comte, his views of the dawn of science,

159.

CONFEDERATE STATES, A VISIT TO THE
CITIES AND CAMPS OF THE, 1863-64,
Part I., 645.
Confederate cavalry, the, 653.
Conjurors, the old and new, 13.
Constantinople, the Patriarch of, his
revenue from the Dedicated Monas-
teries, 42, 43.

Continent, the, comparative expense of
living on, 601.
Conversationists, Irish, 3.

Cooke, E. W., Ruins of Roman Bridge
by, 95.

Cooper, the animal paintings of, 95.
Co-operation, the system of, 379.
Cope, C. W., Contemplation by, 89.
Copplestone, friendship of Whately
with, 475.

Corbould, Mr., Mort d'Arthur, by, 97.
Cortez, state of Mexico in the time of,

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Crime, comparison between, in England
and Germany, 533.

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Criminals, biographies of, 346
man, class from which taken, 535.

Crowe, E., paintings by, 88.
Cuneiform inscriptions, the, 401.
Curwen, Dean, the sermons of, 394.
Cuvier on Aristotle, 154.

Danish Conference, the, 194.

Ger-

Dedicated monasteries of Moldavia, the,
39, 40 et seq.
Demidoff, Prince, 289.
Demi-monde, the, 287.

Denmark, review of the conduct of Eng-
land to, 246.

Despotism, cheapness of government
under, 391.

Dickens, the tales of, 187.
Dictionaries, remarks on, 330-of Quo-
tations, on, 330.
Dictionary, the first, 326.
Dignified Attitude, the, 760.
Discount-houses of London, the, 373.
D'Israeli, Isaac, his account of the
Trevoux Dictionary, 341.
Divorce, the new law of, in England,—
of, in Moldavia, 52 et seq.
Dolomite Mountains of the Tyrol, the,

721.

Drinking, prevalence of, in Germany,

522.

Duelling, former prevalence of, and its
effects, 190.

Dumas on the Demi-monde, 287.
Dutch, the, in the United States, 655.
Dyce, Mr., the frescoes of, 100.
Early, General, 659.

EASTLAKE, LADY, THE HISTORY OF OUR
LORD, BY, 573.

Eating, excess of, in Germany, 519.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF NAVAL
OFFICERS, THE, 18*.

Elizabeth, Queen, Kingsley's defence of,

293.

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Elmore, Mr., Excelsior by, 89.
Encyclopædia Britannica, the, 340 — the
various editions of it, 317.
Encyclopædias and their compilers, 335.
Encylopædists, the French, 339.
England, light in which regarded on the
Continent, 46-as the representative
of constitutionalism, 73-her conduct
in the intervention in Mexico, 79—
state and prospects of art in, 84-ber
conduct on the Danish question, 181
-her conduct towards Denmark re-
viewed, 246.

ENOCH ARDEN, 555.

Ersch and Gruber, the Lexicon of, 343,

346.

Etymologists, eccentricities of, 330.
Ewell, General, at Gettysburgh, 658.
Excellent training ship, gunnery, in-
struction in the, 25.

Exports, ratio of their increase, 495.
Eyb, Albertus de, the Margarita Poetica
of, 330.

Faed, Thos. and John, the works of,
94, 95.

Danish question, conduct of England on Fagging at Harrow and Rugby, 236

the, 181.

system of, at Westminster, 458

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Herbert, Mr., the water-glass painting
of, 101.

Hessey, Dr., head-master of Merchant
Taylors', 470.

Hill, General A. P., 658.
HISTORY OF OUR LORD, THE, 573.
Home, the spiritualist, O'Dowd on, 14.
Horsley, Mr., the paintings of, 95.
Horsman, Mr., on the vote of censure, 243.
HUGO, VICTOR, ON SHAKESPEARE, 164.
Hunt, C., the Banquet Scene by, 94-
Holman, paintings by, 86.

Hybrid Conservatism, O'Dowd on, 767.
Immortality, Whately on, 476.
Imports, increase of, 1840-1863, 495.
IN THE GARDEN, 447.

Indexes, the early, 326-notices of, 328.
Indifferentism, the prevalent, 1.
Inns of the Tyrol, the, 731.
Insurance offices of London, the, 371.
International Land Credit Company,
the, 376.

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Intoxicating Liquors Bill, the, 17.-
Ireland, abuse of, 188.

Irish viceroyalty, the, 603.

Goethe on Hamlet, 172-sketch of, Italian convention, O'Dowd on the, 590.

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Italy, taxation in, 390.

Jackson, the pugilist, dietary of, 613.
James river, McClellan's movement on,

631.

Jameson, Mrs., the works of, 575 et seq.
Jassy, sketches at, 46 et seq.
Jeffrey and Talleyrand, anecdote of,
280.

Jensen, Mr., portraits by, 92.
JESUS, THE LIFE OF, 417.
Jöcher, the Lexicon of, 343.
Johnson, authority of his Dictionary,
333, 334-his letter to Lord Chester-
field, 335.

Jones, E. B., the paintings of, 98.
Jopling, Mr., Fluffy by, 97.

Juarez, the overthrow of, in Mexico,

79.

Kafirs, curious custom of, as regards
their language, 405.

Kean, Charles, anecdote of, 279.
Keble, influence of, over Newman, 301.
Keepe, the, in Germany, 530.
Kinglake, Mr., his amendment on the
vote of censure, 245, 250.
KINGSLEY, REV. CHARLES, AND DR.
NEWMAN, 292.

Kippis's Biographica Britannica, 343.
Knight, J. P., portrait by, 92.
Kotzebue, General, his opinion of the
Principalities, 353.

Lake scenery of the Tyrol, the, 725.
Landseer, paintings by, in present Ex-
hibition, 95.

LANGUAGE, MULLER'S LECTURES ON THE
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