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her hearth-stone ? No ; the Protestant church can never flourish till 

 enforced by truly Christian means. Blood and tears are melancholy 

 tributes ; and the established church will, in its present state, gain but 

 little else from its catholic flocks. Whatever blessings we may enjoy 

 in England from the introduction of the reformed religion and they 

 have not been few its reign in Ireland may be written in one 

 word DESOLATION. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHEVALIERS D'!NDTJSTRIE. We are not 

 much in the betting world, and therefore supposed that its affairs 

 exclusively related to horses and dogs ; but, looking over a list of 

 "quotations" from TattersalPs, we find its operations are upon a 

 more extensive scale. We much question whether the soubriquet 

 which characterized us as a " nation of shopkeepers " would be so 

 applicable to the present day as that of a " nation of blacklegs." 



The following is a specimen of the march of that peculiar kind of 

 intellect -which flourishes in the classical region of Hyde Park 

 Corner : 



n TATTERS ALL'S YESTERDAY." 



" Mr. Hume's Motion on the Supplies. 2 to 1 on the Ministers 

 (taken). The Riddlesworth (Monday) 7 to 4 against Mr. Grant's 

 colt. 



This respectable traffic, it appears, is not limited to TattersalPs ; 

 but is in full operation at the Stock Exchange, and all the hells 

 and betting places in the kingdom. Neither is it restricted to 

 professional blackguards ; but extends to amateurs of all ranks,*from 

 the door-keepers of the House of Lords, down to the very dukes. 



We know it to be the nature of fools to sport with subjects which 

 they ought to respect ; and we are quite aware that knavery knows 

 no decency, where a prospect of plunder exists ; but we did not 

 expect that national questions would ever be converted into a capital 

 for blacklegs. Such speculations have hitherto been confined to 

 classes of the " order," very small and select, and we must therefore 

 hail it as a new " sign," to witness questions affecting our very 

 existence as a nation publicly quoted, side by side with dog-fights 

 and horse-races, as matters in common for ruffians to lie and cheat by. 



IMPORTANT DIPLOMATIC MOVEMENT. We cannot be sufficiently 

 grateful to those many elegant repositories of polite knowledge", 

 for the interesting intelligence daily meted out to us, of the move- 

 ments of the hereditary and the distinguished ; without the assist- 

 ance of these skilful explorers, in vain might we seek to know the 

 eccentric courses of these comets of the court illustrious denizens 

 of another sphere. See the following : 



" The duke of Cumberland yesterday visited his Majesty." 



" On Wednesday last, his excellency the Turkish ambassador and suite 



