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the whole affair to be — an awk^vai'd misconception on Lord Plunket's 

 side that the Bishop of Kilmore sold him a pair of unsound horses, or, 

 on the other hand, the bishop's misconception that Lord Plunket, hav- 

 ing got a pair of very good horses, does not choose to perform his share 

 of the bargain. Who shall decide when doctors of this class disagree ? 

 The lawyers have had two trials of their wits already on the subject, 

 and they can make nothing of it. But the public make a great deal of 

 laughing out of it ; and those who think more gravely, are astonished 

 that the charges of the love of purse, or the love of litigation, should 

 be suffered to stain the characters of either judge or bishop. But all 

 those things promote the end. There will be a reform yet: and the 

 sooner it comes the better. 



INIr. George Bankes has been flung out of Canlbridge, he says, 

 " triumphantly" — we wish him many such triumphs. We say, igno- 

 miniously; for he was flung out through a sense of luiserable con- 

 nexion with ministers. But for this he would have been returned. If 

 he had adhered to ministers during the Roman Catholic discussion, he 

 would have been returned ; for Cambridge has never been famous for 

 making a fight against power. If he had resisted ministers, he might 

 have been returned ; for Cambridge, with all its love of the powerful, 

 is Protestant still. But by his nominally resisting, and actually returning ; 

 by his lofty pretensions to ]>atriotism, and his actual contemptible ser- 

 vility Avith power, he awoke Cambridge to the feelings of gentlemen, and 

 they flung him out, in utter defiance of the whole force of Government. 

 Mr. Cavendish is a Whig, as we presume from his connexions ; but 

 whatever may be his politics, he is an English gentleman. His conduct 

 will be fair and open ; he will not be making harangues against the 

 breakers in upon the constitution, in parliament, while he is condescend- 

 ing to secure a snug spot in their employ. So let all the Bankeses, past 

 and future, be rewarded. 



We regret that we are now so restricted in space as to be unable to 

 give a sketch of a very interesting work, by ]\fr. Annichini, entitled, " An 

 Analytical and Historical View of the Catholic Religion, with Reference 

 to Political Institutions." The author, an Italian, having possessed suffi- 

 cient opportunities of inspecting the working of Popery on Govern- 

 ments, declares, unhesitatingly, that it is incompatible with freedom. 

 He routs, horse and foot, poor Wilmot Horton, whom, however, every 

 body routs ; and we think that this intelligent Italian's necessary igno- 

 rance of literary and legislative rank among the English, could alone 

 have induced him to break such a fly upon a wheel. With some of the 

 writer's theology we do not quite agree. The writings of St. John 

 did not revive nor i-e-establisJi tJie Platonic doctrines — these being, in 

 fact, the chief perverters of early Christianity. The book is cleverly 

 •written, and will outlast many of its contemporaries. 



