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was wrong to disturb the tranquillity of affairs. To these and the like 

 mystifications have been added the scheme of gradual change working 

 by degrees, as lawyers are said to go to heaven. And, to multiply a thing 

 by disjointing it, then we have the system of false consolations by 

 the holding up the wretchedness of other nations with the less wretch- 

 edness of our own. Thus, the blacks are better off than the Irish not 

 that the Irish are bad off. Then, perhaps, the Spanish Inquisition is 

 brought out, to reconcile us to the English hierarchy; and the manacled 

 serfs of the Russ are dilated on, to make us content with corn-laws and 

 high rents. Of these, and similar tricks, we need not warn the emanci- 

 pated people of England to beware. We have scotched the snake not 

 killed it; but we trust that the days of hereditary logic are passed 

 away. 



THE WAY TO PREFERMENT. The advancement of a certain titled 

 tory, from plebeian to aristocratical rank, is looked upon as somewhat 

 miraculous by the ion : and how a mere scraper of trenchers and picker 

 of bones, without talent or honesty, should get access at courts, and 

 influence at cabinets, is somewhat puzzling to those who are not among 

 the initiated in these matters. The links that constitute court patronage 

 are magical ; and through their means, a whole body is often moved 

 by a slight force, exercised at the minutest and most extreme point, just 

 as we set a skeleton in motion by a shake of the toe. In fact, the smile 

 of a court favourite immediately raises the person who receives it, and 

 gives value to the smile he may bestow. Thus the smile is transferred 

 from one to the other, and the great man is the last to discount it. It is 

 in this manner the parasite gets a lift in the way of preferment. For 

 instance ; a very low fellow has a desire for a place to whom is he to 

 apply? not to the great man for to him he hath no access. He there- 

 fore applies to A., who is the creature of B., who is the tool of C., who 

 is the lick-spittle of D., who is the catamite of E., who is the pro- 

 cureur of F., who is the bully of G., who is the buffoon of H., who is 

 the husband of K., who is the favourite of L., who is the bastard of M. 9 

 who is the instrument of the great man ! 



CHANGE OF MINISTRY. We have often been amused by the adver- 

 tisements in a godly contemporary; and our edification was increased by 

 reading the other day, in its pages, the following advertisement; as it 

 shows how steadily evangelical principles are advancing, and what hold 

 vital Christianity is making in the world. Every thing seems hastening 

 towards a climax ; creature comforts are more and more despised ; 

 worldly advantages are more and more contemned for the sake of 

 heavenly favour. Witness the following : 



" Wanted, by a young man of a decided turn, a place as light porter in a pious 

 family. Salary of no object; the principal desire of the advertiser being to 

 sif under a yospil ministry." 



Here we see the casting of the slough of worldliness, a renunciation 

 of the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked 

 world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh, cut off in one word SALARY 

 for the sake of a gospel ministry. How much ought we to rejoice at 

 this manifestation of the power of godliness. Who can tell but that 

 in these times of divine illumination, our placemen and sinecurists may 

 take a hint from this pious young man, and give up their salary for a 

 gospel instead of a Whig ministry. Upon the bare possibility of such 



