rally there, and is therefore piquante and charming. Heart flows out fearlessly, and is therefore ardent.

A nation so prosperous does not need, or condescend to wish for adulation. It is far above flattery-but it demands justice, and in several cases has failed to obtain it from English tourists.

The light pages which follow, design to be just, candid, and kind-not "hinting a fault, and hesitating a dislike," but admiring and blaming with equal simplicity.

Every one admits that the present condition of things on the earth is not what it ought to be, either as it respects nations or individuals. None of my readers would say they are perfect, or that their country is perfect. We are, or ought to be, trying to improve. If I have, in some one or two painful instances, been obliged to allude to that which is evil, and ought to be changed, I say no more than what millions of the citizens of the "freest country in the world" think. If my small meed of approbation were of any value, it would be reduced to worthlessness by the absence of sincerity, in reference to circumstances which I must mourn over or disapprove. Let me be true-or nothing!

The time is on the wing, which will reduce all nations, with all their various governments, into one vast monarchy. Whatever we are under now, whether a despot

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ism, a monarchy, or a republic, then those who have accepted the covenant of peace, will find themselves under the gracious dominion of Him on whose head are many His throne is the holy hill of Zion. Under His government there are neither bond nor free, for all are His willing subjects-freemen whom His truth hath made free. Those who are given to Him out of the world, will all be subjects in the KINGDOM THAT ENDUR

ETH FOREVER.

EDINBURGH, February, 1852.

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THE English traveller who, having crossed the Channel, steps on shore at Calais or Ostend, finds himself much more decidedly from home and removed to a foreign land, than he who, having crossed the ocean, lands at New York. The identity of language, though not the only reason, is the most powerful cause of this. Sensible people, accustomed to explain themselves with perspicuity, find themselves when using a foreign language reduced to an incapacity, childish in appearance, and painful because of its uncertainty.

A humorist, describing his landing in France, said the ducks in the hen-yard were the only things he was sure he understood, for they quacked in good. broad Scotch.

The language, then, is a great point of affinity, and a wonderful convenience. But there are a thousand other points which give a home-feeling to the British visitant of the United States. Some are