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the punishment of the guilty; but teach him also, that even the guilty may often be as deserving of his pity as his censure; tell him that misfortune is the parent of more crimes than is a wicked heart; tell him that even the fallen should retain some claim to a fallen race; and bid him, at least, leave the way to reformation open and drive not the unhappy wretch from evil to worse; and, worst of all, to the fellowship and example of those who are ever ready to seize on fresh pupils, and become tutors in crime.

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DON'T GRUMBLE.-He is a fool that grumbles at every little mischance. the best foot forward is an old and good maxim, don't run about and tell acquaintances that you have been unfortunate. People dont like to have unfortunate men for acquaintances. Add to a vigorous determination a cheerful spirit; if reverses come, bear them like a philosopher, and get rid of them as soon as you can. Poverty is like a panther, look it steadily in the face and it will flee from you.

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MONTHLY NOTICES.

NOVEMBER.

Middle Fen Tax Payable, (see Advertisements in Newspapers.) 20th.-Half yearly Interest on Savings' Bank deposits due, and

Annual Accounts made up.

Bedford Level Corporation Tax must be paid in this month.

17th. County Court, held at the Court House, Soham

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T was a maxim uttered by the great Lord Burleigh that, "England can never be ruined, unless it is by her own. Parliament." Let us hope that the present Parliament will not stamp the Lord High Treasurer's maxim with the character of Prophecy. Certain it is that dangers of the most formidable character surround the Throne, while the great mass of the people are ignorant and unconcerned in the matter. An enemy more powerful, more subtle, and more persevering than England has ever had yet to contend with, is using every effort that the most refined policy could devise for her overthrow. Men of the highest order of intellect, with the most perfect knowledge of the secret springs of human action, and with an almost unbounded supply of pecuniary means, are urging with sleepless energy, and remorseless zeal, every engine which art and hatred can supply, for the extinction of the Protestantism of these Realms.

Alas! that any should be found who are indifferent on so momentous a subject: as if it were a matter of small concern whether the Church of England or the Church of Rome were established in this country. For the supposition that the Government can exist without any alliance with an established form of religion, is as visionary an idea as ever entered into the mind of the weakest enthusiast to conceive. But how far more deplorable is the thought that the descendants of those who shed their heart's blood at the No. 12. Vol. I.

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stake, under the cruel hand of Popery, should now not only not shrink with horror from that frightful power, but should open their bosoms for the reception of its deadly coil. Popery and freedom, are as opposite as darkness and light. Popery and truth, are as widely dissevered as two antagonistical systems can possibly be; and the moment this "Mother of Abominations," attains the ascendency she so ardently seeks, she will set her foot upon the liberties and civilization of the world.

In speaking thus of Popery, we would carefully distinguish between individuals and a system. It is the system of Popery against which we feel so imperatively called to protest; for it is a system which utterly enslaves every member of its own community, and will never rest till it has trampled all the obstacles to its unlimited ambition in the dust. The Church of Rome will never rest, we say, till she attain this object of her supreme desires. And yet, however far she may succeed, as a judgment upon apostate Christendom, the day shall surely come when an insulted Deity shall blast her with the breath of his righteous displeasure, and wo be to all those who have not joined the standard of the cross against her, for they shall be partakers in her fearful plagues.

Before the admission of Papists to seats in Parliament, every member of both Houses, previous to his admission, solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, and in the plain and ordinary sense of the word, without any evasion, or equivocation, or mental reservation whatever, professed, and testified, and declared that Popery was IDOLATRY. And yet, in spite of this solemn declaration, an intimate, and perfect, and national, and legalized ingraftation of idolatry has been effected with the profession of pure and scriptural truth, and the vassals of the Pope, may now legislate for the Queen of England, whose very title to the Crown is derived from the hostility of her ancestors towards them, and from obedience to whom, every one of her subjects is declared, by the decisions of their church, to be virtually absolved.

Protestantism is the polar star of England; and if she should dare to steer her course by any of the false lights of political expediency, she will inevitably be hurled from the proud position she has so long held, among the nations of the earth,—a monument of the just retribution of heaven upon her presumptuous sins.

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