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figure-head and should vote that my Lord Tom Noddy 

 is, there is not a sane man in the realm who would move 

 a finger for the rightful heir; yet our forefathers thought 

 it a religious duty to plunge their country into civil war 

 to restore the Stuarts, 



" A coward race to honor lost ; 

 Who knew them best despised them most." 



But I suppose they were about a fair average of royal 

 races. " Life can be lived well even in a palace," sings 

 Matthew Arnold, and the more credit to such as do 

 live it well there, like Queen Victoria, but it is difficult 

 work and needs a saint to begin with. It does one good 

 to mark such progress. I will not believe that man goes 

 round in a circle as the earth does ; upon the king ab- 

 surdity he has travelled a straight line. When we made 

 kings by act of Parliament (as the Guelphs were made), 

 another lesson was learned, that Parliament can unmake 

 them too. That is one bloody circle we need never 

 travel again. Not one drop of blood for all the royal 

 families in Christendom. Carried, ncin. con. 



There was a discussion to-day upon the best mode of 

 enjoying life. Sydney Smith's famous secret was men- 

 tioned. When asked why he was always so bright and 

 cheerful, he replied : The secret is " I take short views 

 of things." Somehow this is the Scriptural idea, " Suf- 

 ficient unto the day is the evil thereof." A good story 

 was told of an old man who had endured many of the 



