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that there are misanthropes who may and do think 

 differently. Like the ' dog in the manger ' in the old 

 fable, they cannot learn themselves, and selfishly 

 object to the acquirement of knowledge by others. 

 Coupled with the new Franchise Bill, whose teaching 

 is decidedly more political than social or domestic, 

 we have a very perfect system of education for all 

 classes, the benefits of which I venture to think our 

 trainers and jockeys will, with their usual fore- 

 thought and industry, not be slow to embrace, and 

 thus, by the spirit of emulation, raise themselves to 

 still greater eminence in the wise selection of fitting 

 members to represent them and their interest in 

 Parliament — a privilege many of them have never 

 before had the opportunity of enjoying. The 

 manners and customs of each succeeding generation 

 differ so widely from those of its predecessors, that a 

 fair contrast yields scope for argument, interesting 

 and instructive, from which many amusing facts and 

 agreeable morals may be gleaned. All things 

 animate and inanimate are, as we daily observe, in a 

 constant state of mutation. This all-powerful Nature 

 proclaims, to attentive observers, with never-failing 

 certainty. The weather changes from heat to cold, 

 and from wet to dry. The seasons differ : vegetables 

 and flowers grow and luxuriate at one time, at 

 another languish and die, according to the universal 

 law that governs all things. The first record we 

 have of this changeability in monarchs, was in the 



