1829.] JJ'airs in General. 321 



And then their worships looked at each other, and so came back to Dover, 

 each man with a flea in his ear. Never was the corporation of the town 

 and port of Dover so cavalierly treated by any Constable of Dover Castle 

 since the days of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, the ^first Constable, down to 

 Robert Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, the 137th, and last Constable ! 

 And nobody can make out why they were so treated — except that on the 

 14th of Slay, 1827, only twenty-one months ago, they sent up their 

 hearty congratulations to the King for having allowed Mr. Canning to 

 form a cabinet from which the duke was excluded ; and in which hearty 

 congratulations they took occasion to insinuate that the duke had been 

 engaged in an ' attempt to controul the just prerogative of the crown.' " 



Nonsense ! the Dictator forgets the year 1827 as much as if he had 

 never made an harangue against popery in it, nor pledged himself against 

 ever " breaking in upon the constitution." The true secret is, that an 

 order has been issued against the imdue prodigality in cake and wine 

 that was supposed to allure the various addressers of his grace. In 

 future let the corporations indulge their tastes at home. 



The reign of liberalism is prospering. The papists at JNIontreal having 

 built a cathedral, which they, oppressed and impoverished people ! have, 

 however, been able to build twice the size, and at ten times the expense 

 of any British protestant church within the last two centuries; exhibited 

 the pageant which they call High INIass, in honour of its opening. 

 The ceremony is eminently papistical, and has the worship of the wafer, 

 the adoration of images, the prayers to the Virgin and the saints, and 

 all the other performances of popery, displayed in the most distinct and 

 outrageous style. Yet at this ceremony attended Sir James Kempt, 

 a protestant, the officer of a protestant government, and the governor of 

 a colony under protestant laws, and of which two thirds of the popu- 

 lation are protestant ; and with this protestant governor attended the 

 whole crowd of protestant functionaries, &c. ! We should like to know 

 how they managed the mass, with what degree of prostration they 

 honoured the images on the altar, how they knelt to the virgin, and 

 how their foreheads smote the ground and their hands flew to their 

 penitent bosoms, when the wafer, the god of popery ! rose in the hands 

 of the priest, and they v/ere presented with the full glories of idolatry ! 



We take this account from the Montreal papers. We can scarcely 

 believe it to be true. But if it be, it strikes us as one of the most 

 extraordinary experiments that we ever remember. It is, however, not 

 the less an evidence that a new order of things is contemplated. It is a 

 genuine " sign of the times." 



The nonsense talked in the Parisian journals about Prince Polignac 

 is only fit to be laughed at. Those wise men are ready to swear that 

 the Prince has been put into office by the Duke of Wellington. If they 

 knew anything on the subject, they would know that the Duke of Wel- 

 lington never troubled his ducal head about the French ministry, nor 

 any other ministry fifty yards from Downing-street ; that if he could 

 keep matters going on smoothly at Windsor, and could contrive a daily 

 tour round Virginia water, and an hour's gudgeon fishing, to be among 

 the pleasures of those who could extinguish him with a breath; he 

 thinks he has accomplished the first feat of human policy. 



No, if the magnificent Marchesa be kept in smiles, wliat cares he 

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