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done in resisting the aggression. They have held a few 
meetings, certainly ; but for the most part have submissively 
allowed the depredator to enter and despoil their property. 
This should not have been so. Englishmen should have 
some feeling of a community of interest in property bequeathed 
to them by their ancestors, and of which they had held 
undisturbed possession from time immemorial: they ought to 
stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of their common right. 
It were a cowardly and contemptible policy to argue—“ This 
is no business of mine; the injury is done to thousands of 
others quite as much as to me; I am but an individual; 
single-handed I am impotent against the overwhelming influ- 
‘ence of wealth.” Such‘were the arguments advanced in 
defence of apathy and indifference. I fear we are a 
degenerating, an ease-loving people. I see Germans, 
Russians, French, Americans, going ahead of us—in arts, 
manufactures, and commerce—all the world over. We want 
self-respect, self-reliance, tenacity and unity of purpose. The 
man who will sit by with folded hands while his wealthier 
neighbour runs a fence across his potato plot, or the common 
where his horse or his cow feeds, is not likely to resist, or 
even to object, when a more powerful] neighbour seeks, in the 
lust of conquest, to annex his country. 
But there is another point for me to notice; and I must 
render honour where honour is due. The Corporation of 
London has too long, perhaps undeservedly, been regarded 
as an organization for eating and drinking, and taxing its 
fellow-citizens. It has now nobly redeemed its character. If 
these charges were ever true, they are true no longer. The 
Corporation now stands forth as the Protector of the People’s 
property, and will be honoured hereafter by all good and 
just men. 
EpwaRD NEWMAN. 
Cynips lignicola on Quercus Phellos.—I1 have frequently 
noticed the Devonshire gall on a willow-leaved oak (Quercus 
Phellos) at Southgate, which, as the tree is rather scarce, may 
not have been remarked elsewhere. It is singular that the 
insect should recognize in this tree, so different in appearance 
from others of the same genus, a fitting place for the growth 
of the future gall.— rede. Walker ; Oakley House, Abingdon. 
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