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done in resisting the aggression. They have held a few 

 meetings, certainly ; but for the most part have submissively 

 allowed the depredator to enter and despoil their property. 

 This should not have been so. Englishmen should have 

 some feeling of a community of interest in property bequeathed 

 to them by their ancestors, and of which they had held 

 undisturbed possession from time immemorial : they ought to 

 stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of their common right. 

 It were a cowardly and contemptible policy to argue — " This 

 is no business of mine; the injury is done to thousands of 

 others quite as much as to me; I am but an individual; 

 single-handed I am impotent against the overwhelming influ- 

 ence of wealth." Such were the arguments advanced in 

 defence of apathy and indifference. I fear we are a 

 degenerating, an ease -loving people. I see Germans, 

 Russians, French, Americans, going ahead of us — in arts, 

 manufactures, and commerce — all the world over. We want 

 self-respect, self-reliance, tenacity and unity of purpose. The 

 man who will sit by with folded hands while his wealthier 

 neighbour runs a fence across his potato plot, or the common 

 where his horse or his cow feeds, is not likely to resist, or 

 even to object, when a more powerful neighbour seeks, in the 

 lust of conquest, to annex his country. 



But there is another point for me to notice; and I must 

 render honour where honour is due. The Corporation of 

 Loudon has too long, perhaps undeservedly, been regarded 

 as an organization for eating and drinking, and taxing its 

 fellow-citizens. It has now nobly redeemed its character. If 

 these charges were ever true, they are true no longer. The 

 Corporation now stands forth as the Protector of the People's 

 property, and will be honoured hereafter by all good and 

 just men. 



Edward Newman. 



Cynips lignicola on Quercus P/iellos. — I have frequently 

 noticed the Devonshire gall on a willow-leaved oak (Quercus 

 Phellos) at Southgate, which, as the tree is rather scarce, may 

 not have been remarked elsewhere. It is singular that the 

 insect should recognize in this tree, so different in appearance 

 from others of the same genus, a fitting place for the growth 

 of the future gall. — Fredc, Walker; Oakley House, Abingdon. 



