Sept. 11. 1852.] 



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pleads, in bar to the spiritual mandate, Lis igno- 

 rance, and unfitness for the work ; for " I cannot 

 sing," says he, " and never knew one tune from 

 another, having neither voice nor ear;" although 

 he admits some small flirtations in poetry. His 

 excuse was imavailing ; for " these words came 

 into my mind, ' Say not I am a child, for thou 

 shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatso- 

 ever I command thee, that thou shalt speak. Be 

 not afraid of their faces, for I ana with thee, to 

 deliver thee, saith the Lord.' Then the Lord put 

 forth His hand and touched my mouth ; and the Lord 

 said, 'I have put my words in thy mouth, and have 

 chosen the weak things to confound that which is 

 mighty.'" _ _ 



That Divine Providence has used, and will con- 

 tinue to use humble instruments to bring about both 

 religious and civil changes, no one will doubt: but 

 when I see the first of these glorying in his igno- 

 rance of all that does not bear upon his one idea 

 of Election and Reprobation ; and the other seek- 

 ing the assistance of the schoolmaster to correct 

 what he impiously asserts to be a direct Divine 

 communication, one cannot but look upon these 

 individuals, however useful they may have been 

 in their respective spheres, otherwise than as 

 striking examples that " Fools rush in where 

 angels fear to tread." J. O. 



Illustration of a Passage in Shahspeare. — 



'^ " The strawberry grows underneath the nettle ; 

 And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best 

 Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality." 



Kinff Henry V., Act I. Sc. I. 

 Compare : 



" Encores s'il advenoit, comme disent aulcuns jar- 

 dlniers, que les roses et violettes naissent plus odorite- 

 rantes pres des aulx et des oignons, d'autant qu'ils 

 succent et tirent a eulx ce qu'il y a de mauvaise odeur 

 en la terre, aussi que ces depravees natures liumassent 

 tout le venin de mon air et du climat, et m'en ren- 

 dissent d'autant meilleur et plus pur, par leur voisinage, 

 que je ne perdisse pas tout !" — Essais de Montaigne, 

 liv. iii. chap. ix. 



C. Forbes 

 Temple. 



St. Crispin's {or King Crispin's^ Day. — In the 

 town of Hexham, in Northumberland, the following 

 custom, of long usage, is, or was some twenty years 

 since, observed. 



The shoemakers of the town meet and, I believe, 

 dine, by previous arrangement, at some tavern ; 

 a King Crispin, Queen, Prince, and Princess, 

 elected from members of their fraternity of families 

 being present. They afterwards form in grand 

 procession (the ladies and their attendants ex- 

 cepted), and parade the streets with banners. 



music, &c., the royal party and suite gaily dressed 

 in character. In the evening they re-assemble for 

 dancing and other festivities. To His Majesty and 

 consort, and to their Royal Highnesses the Prince 

 and Princess (the lafter usually a pretty girl), due 

 regal homage is paid during that day. 



There is a legend connected with the affair, 

 which I do not sulBciently remember to relate. 



S. T. R. 



St. Paul and A^schines. — Among the authors 

 with whom St. Paul was acquainted may we reckon 

 Machines. The similarity between the two fol- 

 lowing passages is at all events worthy of a note : 



" For if a mm know not how to rule his own house, 

 how shall he take care of the house of God?" — 1st 

 Epistle to Timothy iii. 7. 



" Tbf yhp TT]V ISiav olxiav KaKcios olK'f](Ta.vTa koX to. koivo, 

 rrjS ir6\eQ>s irapairXrialois riyrjffaTo [5 i/ojuo^errjs] SuiBfivai," 

 K.T.A.. — Kara TiiJMpxov. (5. Steph.) 



W. M. N. 



Paley s Lectures on Locke. — Meadley, in his Life 

 of Paley., regretted that the substance of all that 

 eminent man's lectures had not been presented to 

 the world ; and instanced, in particular, the truly 

 valuable lectures on Locke. And the Rev. Ed- 

 mund Paley, iu_the Life_of his distinguished father, 

 says : 



" I am not certain that he lectured upon Locke at 

 all. . . . Of his lectures on Locke I never heard, nor 

 were they left among his papers, with his other 

 lectures." 



Again, the latter biographer, when speaking of 

 the Natural Theology., says: 



" He certainly had nothing like lectures to go upon, 

 though something of that kind has been partially 

 noticed, from a distant resemblance of his concludinsr 

 chapter to Clarke on the Being and Attributes of God." 



It may be interesting to such of your numerous 

 readers as are admirers of Paley to know that 

 manuscript copies of his College Lectures oa 

 LoL'ke, and on Clarke on the Being and Atti-ibutes 

 of God., are in my possession, — the former consist- 

 ing of eighty pages, closely written in quarto, the 

 latter of twenty-two. 



Should any person wish for further information 

 on the subject of these lectures, I shall be happy to 

 give all that is in my power. George Munpord. 



East Winch Vicarage, Lynn Regis. 



Guide-book German. — Your correspondents 

 who have given such amusing instances of fo- 

 reigners' English, may find equal drolleries at 

 home in the English-German of Bradshaivs Con- 

 tinental Railway Guide, 1849. In his descriptions 

 of the various foreign cities, a most extraordinary 

 mass of mistakes and misprints is to be found, and 

 in some sentences there is hardly a foreign name 



