1. THE CLERGY AND THE CRISIS.

2. THE WORLD OF POLITICS.

3. EXTRACTS FROM LUTHER'S COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN.-

Luke i. 46-55.

4. THE ROMAUNT OF BOLSOVER CASTLE-HARDWICK AND THE SCOTTISH

COURT IN A.D. 1598.

5. POETRY.

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JANUARY.-1846.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

THE CLERGY AND THE CRISIS.

THAT we are entering upon a crisis, as well in our civil as in our ecclesiastical history, is a fact that few will deny. The Corn Laws are doomed! This is so morally certain, that to imagine their continuance another session would surpass all precedented credulity. Let us consider one moment whether the repeal of these laws has been attributable to the exertions of the League, or the neglect of the Aristocracy. We are not now about to enter into the question of repeal as a prudential measure, for agitation is useless when its object is unattainable; and we have no desire to stir up a useless agitation. The Corn Laws are gone-they never will be re-enacted, let them pass then. And now we will recur to our question-How have they been overthrown? Not, we will venture to say, by the unaided efforts of the League-for had their opponents been as united and as wise as they were powerful, the League would have agitated in vain-but the agriculturists have not been wise, and have not been united. They have had aid offered to them, and they have rejected it; they have had union proposed to them, and they have chosen to continue separate. Every kind of party peculiarity, every sectarian distinction, every personal pique and jealousy was allowed to be an impediment, to union. The League was circulating tracts, establishing newspapers, sending about lecturers by hundreds; while the Protectionists were satisfied with making speeches, and sometimes marvellously stupid ones, to assemblages of farmers. They had wealth-they had influence-they had great names-they have still a majority amongst the English Members of Parliament, but they have entirely and most disgracefully failed; they have betrayed, by their imbecility, a cause which they acknowledged to be most important, and they have not even yet learned the lesson, "fas est ab hoste doceri." Were the Corn Laws, with all their VOL. IV.NO. XXV.

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