208 THE RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS. 



ing, with sentient existences, capable of pleasure, and 

 actually enjoying it to the full, hour by hour and day 

 by day? It is sin alone that is the cause of suffering ; 

 and though as a whole the domain of man partook of 

 the lapse of its federal head and lord, and so " the 

 whole creation groaneth and travaileth together until 

 now," " by reason of him who so subjected it to 

 vanity," yet we may suppose that at least the inverte- 

 brate portions of the animal creation suffer their share 

 of the fall rather coi'porately than individually, rather 

 nominally, in dignity, than consciously, in pain or 

 want. And yet I suppose that at that glorious 

 "manifestation of the sons of God," when creation 

 shall be more than reinstated in primal honour, and 

 shall be permanently established, so as no more to be 

 liable to lapse, in the immutability of the Manhood 

 of the Son of God, who is able to " bear the glory," 

 even these low-born atoms of almost unseen and 

 unsuspected life, shall in some way or other, get an 

 augmentation of happiness, and thus take their humble 

 share in the blessing of the redeemed inheritance. 



THE SESSILE CORYNE. 



The little Coryne that I have mentioned in the 

 preceding enumeration, appears to differ from any of 

 those mentioned by Dr. Johnston. It may possibly 

 be the young of some recognised species, but mean- 

 while I shall describe it provisionally, as Coryne 

 sessilis. (Plate XIV, fig. 3). The polypes, about -^ 

 inch high, stand erect from the creeping stem, without 

 any portion of the tube being free. They are long, 



