happiness of a man not by Avliat lie has or says, biit by wliat he is ; the 

 exercise of a man's franchise never gave a pleasure equal to that which 

 springs from the doing of a charitable deed from motives of himianity and 

 love. A learned and euphonious professor recently said, — " Beware of 

 Democracy, behold its vices and crimes. Another as learned and more 

 comprehensive replies — " Behold Democracy, let us imitate its sublime 

 virtues. We gather then that no democracy is good for the citizen that fails 

 to teach and practice governmentally the ethics of Christianity. "We 

 believe that the surest way to reform the masses, is for the individual to 

 •reform himself. Physiology teaches that good citizens perpetuate them- 

 selves, so in like manner their vile antipodes. Men whose commercial 

 lives are laden with the odour of Bankruptcy Courts are rarely the 

 begetters of honourable tradesmen. True, vices are not the sole property 

 of a particular class, though all sections of society have their besetting 

 sins, alike the Patrician and Plebian. Primogeniture holds its broad acres 

 in sacred trust for eldest born, whilst near and dear kinsmen are kindly 

 quartered upon the ever increasing perennial flow of tithes and taxes 

 which stream from the nations side ; a system which undoubtedly tends 

 greatly to strengthen an oligarchy. If Ave decend in the social scale we 

 find vast numbers of tradesmen and merchants incurring obligations and 

 embarking in speculations, which they have no right to do, whilst 

 they knoAvingly permit their families to exceed their income. This is a 

 great social crime and calls loudly for reform, the majority of these should 

 forfeit their franchise as they are manifestly unfit if justice were done, to 

 have a voice either in municipal or state elections, they cannot have a true 

 consciousness of fetterless independence ; true economy being as vital a 

 duty of the citizen as of the state, giving stability and rendering justice ; 

 whilst unwarranted expenditure, always an injustice, " makes countless 

 thousands mourn." 



In every provincial town (we need not to seek them in the city) vre 

 find men occupying good social positions, giving themselves out as authori- 

 ties upon many subjects, trusted by society, Avhicli takes them at their 

 own valuation ; even after a full discovery of their miching-malicho ; this 

 ought not to be ; we care not what he may write himself, the possession of 

 much metalic ore, the holder of a doctor's degree, poor-law guardian, or 

 head of an editorial staff, we think that the march of mind should never 

 be allowed to over-ride with impimity the sacred laws which bind society 

 and inspire commerce with confidence ; on such as these the hammer of 



