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to determine lines of bearing or points of position.* 

 ' Nay, even on considerations of expediency, in the 

 lowest sense of the term, I entirely differ from Dr Cand- 

 lish regarding the policy of what he recommends. His 

 proposed means of check and counteraction are ludi- 

 crously inadequate. Great bodies of men can be moved 

 by but the lever of great interests or great principles ; 

 and there is no possibility of awakening a nation to 

 enact a stratagem. " Let the demand," says the Doctor, 

 " for the removal of all existing Establishments, on the 

 ground of those two principles, be as clear and unequivo- 

 cal as the cry for new Popish or miscellaneous endow- 

 ments. Let statesmen of all parties know, that they 

 have to deal with a firm and compact body of men, 

 opposed to all Establishments as now constituted, on 

 religious considerations, and determined, on every oc- 

 casion, when new endowments are talked of, to move the 

 previous question of confiscating of the old for public 

 exigencies of the State." Ingenious, but surely not very 

 wise. The people are to be made earnest and energetic, 

 it would seem, on the strength of splitting hairs and 

 drawing distinctions, and a weak-minded Ministry to be 

 appalled and arrested by the manoeuvre of " moving the 

 previous question." Does Dr Candlish in reality hold, 

 that a country is to be aroused, or a Government over- 

 awed, by the exercise of the same kind of arts through 

 which a Kirk-Session is to be managed, or a Deacons' 

 Court held in check ? 



' Now, here is exactly one of the sort of matters on 



* 'In the entire article in Lowe's Magazine for January, very 

 unworthy of its November precursor, the trumpet gives an uncertain 

 sound. Independently of the fatal advice which it tenders, it is of a 

 character suited to give the Protestant cause no help, and the policy of 

 the most secular-minded Whig that walks the Parliament House, be 

 he who he may, no hindrance.' 



