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and earnest repentance, to a better and healthier state-a newness of mind and newness cf life. Blessed, in its issue, is that bereavement, affliction, or temptation, by which, as the instrument of his power, God quickeneth the soul which cleaveth to the dust! Gracious and blessed the process (grievous in itself, let it be) by which the heavenly husbandman "purgeth" the branch that beareth little fruit, that it may bring forth more abundantly the fruits of the Spirit!"

through the Spirit. In their private prayers,
and their public worship, and all their religious
habits, there is far less of the spirit than of
custom and form. The life of godliness may
even be manifested in them with so little
power as to afford very doubtful evidence to
others, and to give no encouraging conviction
to themselves, that they "are of God." Con-
sequently, they live from day to day-some-
times from year to year-in slothful doubt-
ings and gloomy fears concerning their safety,
which are only better than a carnal confidence
and a false peace. They are unable to "rejoice
in hope of the glory of God;" they know
not that peace in Christ which passeth the
understanding either of a worldly man or of
a slothful Christian. They do not adorn-
they rather, by such unfruitfulness, do dis-
credit to the doctrine of God their Saviour.
It may probably be said with truth that
those children of God, who are in such a state,
are generally conscious of being so. They
are sensible that it is not as it should be with
them that their heart is not wholly right
with God. They are dissatisfied with their
state; but the dissatisfaction they feel is not
like to that of the diligent and healthy Chris- AN
tian who grows more humble and self-abased
as he grows in grace. It is not that dissatis-

faction in self which leads the believer to find
satisfaction in Christ, and which makes him
press forward to things before with the greater
earnestness and love. It is like the uneasy
sense of shame; it disturbs, but does not
quicken, the soul; it is allied with indolence;
it genders a spirit of fear and bondage which
has a tendency to detain them from the
throne of grace where help is to be found
(1 John iii. 21, 22); sometimes also to keep
them back from that holy sacrament ordained
by Christ for "the strengthening and refresh-
ing of their souls"-and they grow accus-
tomed to it.

Now, from that "barren and unfruitful" state, God's children must be aroused and quickened (Ephes. v. 14; Rom. xiii. 11). To this end God often employs painful, but requisite, means. He chastens his children for their profit, that they may be made more fruitful partakers of his holiness. He sends affliction to correct the evils, and to deliver from the snares of misused prosperity. He takes away the possession or the enjoyment which has been the occasion of barrenness, and the hinderance to spiritual growth. By his warning, or his threatening, he alarms the slumberers who have become disregardful of the encouragements of promise, and inattentive to the voice of his love. Sometimes they are permitted to fall, from their unfruitfulness, into actual transgression, that he may restore them by grace, through godly sorrow

Let the writer and the readers of these remarks, and all who are in earnest following Christ, "cease not to pray and to desire,' for themselves and for their brethren, "that they may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that they may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God."

NATIONAL EDUCATION.

BY THE REV. JOHN SINCLAIR, M. A.,
Secretary of the National Society.
APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY

TO THE FRIENDS AND PROMOTERS OF SOUND
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION THROUGHOUT ENGLAN

AND WALES.

[We gladly comply with the request to insert the above

appeal, which merits the serious attention of all who are interration.]

ested in the temporal and spiritual welfare of the rising gene

THE National Society has now for upwards of twenty-seven years carried on unobtrusively, but laboof promoting the education of the poor in the princi

riously, and, it is believed, effectually, the great work

ples of the established church. By its charter of incorporation, the society includes in its committee of management, besides a stated number of temporal peers and privy councillors, the whole of the right

reverend bench, and has thus been enabled to exercise a beneficial influence over every diocese and district in the kingdom. For many years, the resources of the Society arose entirely from the voluntary contributions of individuals, who had at heart the instruction of the young in the principles and practice of genuine Protestant Christianity. The contributions to its funds were by no means in proportion to the magnitude of the object to be effected; but so judiciously were they husbanded and expended, that in the year 1833 nearly half a million of children were receiving education under the superintendence of our Christian and patriotic association. In that year the parochial clergy, in schools connected with this truly Society for the first time received assistance in its benevolent labours from the public treasury. The

sum of 20,000l. was voted by parliament for purposes of education, no part of which was ever appropriated to the National Society itself, though a considerable portion was set apart for schools recommended by he Society to the Lords of the Treasury. The conditions required by their lordships were, that the tenure of

the site should be secure; that the edifice should be suitable, as well as substantial; and that reports upon the state of education should, on being called for, be presented to government. Their lordships confined themselves to these equitable and well-advised require ments, because they gave no aid to the maintenance of the school, but only assisted in its first erection; and assisted only at the rate of ten shillings per head for every space of six square feet allotted to each child. Their lordships acted upon the principle, that the managers of the school, by whom four-fifths of the cost of the building were paid, and the entire maintenance of the school was defrayed, were entitled to the privilege of deciding as to the qualifications of the teachers, and the system of instruction to be pursued. Their zeal in the cause of popular education; their rank in society, as belonging to the middle and more educated classes; and, in some instances, their station in the Church, entitled them, it was conceived, to this moderate exercise of confidence on the part of the public. Any inspection of the school, to ascertain how the parochial clergyman was discharging his duty to the younger members of his flock, was left to his ecclesiastical superiors.

The foregoing arrangement for the distribution of the national bounty continued in operation for the space of five years. The amount was not large, or rather, indeed, was trivial, in comparison with the magnitude and importance of the national object to be attained; and, indeed, the method of distribution was not free from serious objections; yet the plan encountered no resistance from the Church, and was acquiesced in by the community at large. A new impulse was given to the progress of education, and an expectation raised, and gradually confirmed, in the minds of its supporters, that the parliamentary bounty would continue to flow-and, perhaps, even more copiously-in its accustomed channel. No suspicion arose, or could in candour be expected to arise, that the ordinary annual gift would be all at once encumbered with new conditions.

The year 1839, however, has brought an unforeseen change. During the last session the sum of 30,0001. has been voted for educational purposes; not, as before, with the full concurrence of both houses of parliament, but by the lower house alone, contrary to the declared wishes and solemn remonstrances of the upper. A central board, cousisting of four privy councillors, all of them laymen, to the marked exclusion of the spiritual members, has been for the first time established, and to their discretion has been committed the distribution of the grant. In exercising this discretionary power, the board thus constituted were unhappily persuaded to betray suspicions as to the zeal and judgment, not only of the originators and promoters of schools throughout the country, but even of the National Church itself. They required the inspection of all schools which should hereafter be aided by public money, and would not be satisfied with an inspection carried on under the authorities of the Church, but insisted upon appointing an inspector of their own, who, without inquiring into what had hitherto been considered the most important point for | examination, namely, religious knowledge, should ascertain merely the state and progress of what is now

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termed secular instruction. In this new condition annexed to public grants for educational purposes, the managers of schools, and especially the clergy, to whom professionally the superintendence of education is confided, could not be expected to concur. inspection by Church authority, so far from resisting, they would have courted; but not only had they reason to apprehend that this interference of a government functionary would lead to further and very perilous encroachments on their pastoral influence, but they considered the measure as in itself objectionable on various grounds; and more especially from its tendency to make religion be regarded as a secondary instead of primary and paramount consideration. The clergy, therefore, were precluded by conscientious scruples from accepting the aid so ungenerously and cruelly restricted.

Meanwhile many friends of practical education, trusting to the wonted assistance of parliament, and to the hitherto unfailing co-operation of the National Society, not only projected plans of new schools, but proceeded to carry them into execution. In several instances the minister of the parish, foremost as became his holy office in the good work, made himself personally responsible for the whole of the deficiencies which the public grant was expected to supply. suddenly this resource fails him, unless, as has been stated, he consents to conditious which he considers dangerous and degrading.

But

To form any adequate conception of the difficulty and embarrassment to which the clergy were reduced by their zeal for popular education, joined with their high-minded resolution, rather to suffer for conscience' sake than do violence to their principles, it would be necessary for the public to read a large proportion of the voluminous correspondence, amounting to above a thousand letters, which, during the last three months, it has been my painful task to peruse. In many instances, the applicant, who had accepted offers from the committee of council, informs me that he has done so with great reluctance, only because "his resources were utterly insufficient for the work;" or because "the parish would otherwise remain in its usual destitution in point of education, and it would be totally out of his power to risk the undertaking upon his own responsibility;" or because "his funds were quite inadequate to pay his contractor;" or because he was "obliged to take the money much against his will, in utter despair of ever obtaining a grant from any other source;" or because, "to his great regret, the managers, from the kindest intentions, would not suffer him to incur the responsibility of raising the requisite funds.”

In other cases the applicant, after accepting the offer of the committee of council, has opened his eyes to the danger lurking under the plausible pretence of unauthoritative government-inspection; has heard of the acknowledgment by the committee of council, that Regulation A is only " for the present year," and will be afterwards succeeded by more stringent measures; has ascertained what is the ultimate object of the philosophical educationists by whom governmentinspection was first proposed, has begun to look upon it as the first step towards transferring the superintendence of education from the Church to the State,

and thereby either introducing into schools a generalised Christianity, or banishing Christianity from them altogether; and has written to me earnestly soliciting assistance from the Society, that he may rid himself of the offensive bond, and return the money.

When the applicant has from the first considered himself precluded from accepting the grant, he has the Christian firmness to decline it, although he is almost driven to accept it "by urgent necessity; or thereby "brings himself into a strait;" or must "make himself responsible for the defficiency;" or "fears he must abandon his present project;" or "from the poverty of his parish, must take upon himself the whole expense;" or "will be involved in great embarrassment:" or "is called upon to pay a large sum which he has only the means of meeting to a limited extent;" or "is subjected to great inconvenience, having, on the faith of the government-grant, made preparations the cost of which he will be obliged to defray;" or "finds himself at a stand-still, with the future all dark, and at a loss what to do."

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claims upon the National Society, from parishes in a state of spiritual destitution, which on some future occasion I may describe, but of which the public has at present no conception-that the Subscription Committee, formed in aid of the National Society, are now endeavouring to call forth the generosity of the English nation. It is at the request of that committee that I have written the above explanatory statements; and I shall only add, that an appeal such as theirs, in behalf of the Church of England, has never yet been made in vain. All parties are agreed that no object whatever is more important than the education of the people; and no party can deny, that religion in a Christian country must form the basis of Christian instruction. Upon this basis the National Society has been formed and incorporated; and it remains with the English public to decide, whether this long-tried and useful edifice shall continue to be the bulwark of sound popular education, or be suffered to crumble into ruin; whether the clergy shall be supported in their legitimate endeavours to preserve inviolate the supervision of their flocks, feeding without restraint the lambs committed to their charge by the great Shepherd of the sheep, or be subjected to invidious interference; whether the great mass of the population of England shall be instructed and catechised in Christian truth, as it was promulgated by its divine founder and his apostles, unmutilated and entire, or shall receive a partial and imperfect instruction, incapable of training them to moral virtue here or to happiness hereafter.

Sometimes my correspondence has afforded me the gratifying intelligence that the applicant will not call for assistance from the National Society, because it is "not to the Society, but to parliament," that he looks for redress of the wrong he has sustained; or because "the promoters of the school, who strongly objected to the proposed inspection, had supplied all his wants;" or because "he was enabled to carry on his buildings through the very great munificence of a neighbouring landowner;" or "because he will endeavour to procure the sum required from other quarters, and trusts that his parishioners will not ultimately suffer from his performance of a duty which he owes no less to them than to himself;" or because "he can afford to complete the schoolbuildings from his own resources, and considers it the duty of every individual to strain every nerve at this Of Baliol College, Oxford, and Minister of Christ crisis to render himself rather a help than a burden to others."

A painful contrast to these gratifying communications is afforded by the many letters I have received from every quarter of the kingdom, in which the parties inform me, that as they cannot, under present circumstances, conscientiously accept public money, and consider the whole cause of sound Christian education in the greatest jeopardy, they have either for the present abandoned their whole design of building schools, or have contracted the dimensions of the buildings, or will be satisfied with one school instead of two, or with Sunday-schools instead of week-day schools, or will not now provide accommodation for the master and mistress. To show how effectually the committee of council have succeeded in discouraging the chief patrons of popular education upon right principles, I shall conclude these quotations with one more remarkable example. "The promoters of the schools here are resolved not to lay one stone of a building which may by any probability, at any future time, be diverted from the object for which it is now to be erected, namely, the education of the poor in sound Church of England principles."

It is to obviate these circumstances of unprecedented and unlooked-for embarrassment; to reanimate the promoters of popular instruction; to meet new

MEDITATIONS FOR LENT.
The Condemnation of Man's Surety.
BY THE REV. J. H. A. WALSH, M.A.,

Church, Warminster.

No. II.

THE TRIAL OF JESUS BEFORE THE JEWISH AUTHO-
RITIES.

THE procession, with Jesus as a prisoner, moved to
the house of Annas, father-in-law to Caiaphas, who
owed to him his present dignity; he is thought to have
been a known and zealous instigator of the measures
now in operation; not improbably he was one of those
subtle characters which are content that another bear
the insignia of office, provided himself possess the in-
fluence to carry at pleasure a favourite scheme.
all events it was not for him to take an open step in
the matter, he therefore passes Jesus on to the tribunal
of his son-in-law.

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The office of High Priest was, at this time, held by a most unworthy heir to the honours of holy Aaron. St. John does not introduce him afresh to our notice, without referring to one memorable expression of his, with which he closed, rather summarily, an earnest discussion, respecting Jesus. "Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient that one man die for the people, and the whole nation perish not."

What! expedient to put an unoffending man to death? Expedient, in order to escape a barely possible evil, to venture on a known and deliberate crime! dreadful expediency! And yet it was "expedient” in a sense which Caiaphas little suspected. It was most expedient" that "one man" should be found whose death should be the ransom of a ruined race.

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Though sufficiently distant from the design of Caia

phas, this was was God's meaning, and in uttering | these words Caiaphas "spake not of himself, but, being High Priest, he prophesied." The destined man is come. Heroic love has brought him hither to die for the Jewish "nation; and not that nation only"-all the "children of God" shall trace to his meritorious death the blessedness of being united into one happy colony, in the realms of glory.

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and of his mighty works, that made the most hardened shrink from confronting him with unmixed perjury. At all events no sufficient evidence was found. The morning advanced and nothing was done. With apparent indignation, therefore, (as if the joint testimony of so many deponents must have amounted to something) Caiaphas arose from his seat, and asked, " Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witLet us now see to what crimes wordly "expediency" ness against thee?" Throughout his trial Jesus had and worldly passion may urge a man, when substituted observed the rule to be "silent under mere taunts, but for religious principle. Caiaphas, being High-Priest, ready to explain when any one honestly asked an expresides as judge. He has already prejudged that, planation ;" and now still he answered nothing. guilty or not guilty, the prisoner must die! Yet, fill-length the High Priest put him on his oath, "I ading up the scene from the well-known persecutions of jure thee by the living God, whether thou be the Christ Popery, (which, however, formed only too true a coun- the Son of God?" To be silent after this would reterpart) we may almost fancy we hear him opening the semble a recantation, Jesus, therefore, readily witproceedings by the pompous speech that tells his dread nessed the good confession, "I am; hereafter ye shall of heresy, his reluctance to punish, his sense of duty. see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, But leaving fancy for fact, we find that he "asked and coming in the clouds of heaven." Then the High Jesus of his disciples and of his doctrines;" why he Priest rent his clothes, saying, "He has spoken blasgathered disciples, and what he taught them. There phemy." was something most unfair in examining a prisoner before a direct accusation was laid to his charge. Such general questions admitted only of a general defence. "I spake openly to the world, in secret have I said nothing;" nothing contrary to the tenor of my public discourses. "Why askest thou me? ask them that heard me."

Next let us learn what the Redeemer (meant when he said, "if any man smite thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also." Literally we cannot take his words-for from his lips there never dropped an unreasonable sentence; yet his words had a meaning, and his own amiable conduct is a sufficient comment upon them.

A dastardly officer hearing the reply of Jesus, struck the beleaguered prisoner "with the palm of his hand, saying, answerest thou the High Priest so?" The blow was as vexatious as it was painful. A blow similarly inflicted on St. Paul drew from him the momentary expression, "God shall smite thee, thou whited wall" so spake Paul. But not such the reply of Paul's blameless Lord; with astonishing meekness and firmness he rejoined, "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil," depose against me, "but if well, why smitest thou me?"

The Saviour's conduct thus illustrated his words, "Smitten on the one cheek he turned the other also." Here is a difficult lesson to learn, viz., how to bear exasperating treatment; it teaches us that we ought to lean to the extreme of turning the other cheek to the smiter, rather than be vindictive. If my neighbour threatens, reviles, calumniates, and traduces, this does not authorise me to threaten, revile, and calumniate in return; if I requite good with evil, I shall be following Satan's evil example; if I return evil for evil, I shall only act according to the general maxims of a godless world. To copy Jesus I must return nothing but good under the most trying exasperations. Thus only shall I "walk as he walked," fulfil his desire, that his servant "be blameless and harmless, and live like lights in the world."

But the main object of our Lord's enemies was not to insult, but to destroy him. Their point might be carried could they but procure a well substantiated charge, which in the eyes of the populace should give (though it were but transient), a semblance of guilt. Witnesses, therefore, were searched for and summoned. Among other things, his prophecy on destroying the temple and raising it in three days, was brought against him; 66 many false witnesses came, but their witness agreed not together" sufficiently for the purpose. You wonder at this, perhaps, and think it would have been easy to concert a story, to which a succession of instructed witnessess might contribute each his part, and give it the air of truth; but the fact proved otherwise. Perhaps there were recollections of what he had said

"He rent his clothes!" vile hypocrite! to rend the clothes is the rightful token of indignation and of grief. But what grief dost thou feel? thou, that with more than bloodhound's fury, art thirsting for the blood of the innocent, and wilt soon shed it! thou, whom the murder of the absolutely guiltless will soon brand, (more guilty than thy prototype Cain) the most wretched of all the human race; ARCH PERSECUTOR! rend not thy robes, nor bare a breast, where fell malice lurk behind the veil of sanctity! rend not thy robes, or rend them for the people whom thou art leading on to sin and ruin; rend them for shame, that "the light which is in thee is darkness!" rend them for sorrow, that thou art "treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath!" Yes, son of Aaron, rend thy robes! we too will share thy sorrow and thy shame, if haply our guilt too much resembles thine; if really, though more indirectly, our sins have helped to procure the condemnation of thy spotless holy victim!

If I rightly arrange the histories of the four evangelists, St. Luke's account (xxii. 66 & 71) is not another version of the same trial, but anotho examination which, for form's sake, or to satisfy the remaining scruples of some of their body, or to put them in possession of the facts of the case, was held in their council" as soon as it was day." In this, the trial proper, there was little delay. What reason have we to be thankful that, in our favoured land, justice is no such mere mockery, and that we have so many safeguards for the protection of our liberty and lives! The enemies of Jesus knew to what point they must turn in order to elicit an expression which they were pleased to designate blasphemy, and so ended his trial before the Jewish authorities.

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The essence of that assertion, on the ground of which Jesus was condemned, is contained in Luke xxii. 69. There we hear him applying to himself Daniel's title of THE SON OF MAN. There we hear him, with an emphasis at which Felix would have trembled," ," declare "I am the Son of the Blessed, and ye shall see THE SON OF MAN sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." This attestation the Jewish governors called blasphemy (Lev. xxiv.), a capital offence. But we know that it was sober, substantial, truth, a martyr to which Jesus died, and in which we are heard every Sunday professing our belief. What a contrast then does this attested truth set before us? Hitherto Caiaphas has been judge, and Jesus prisoner; but we "shall see" Jesus on the throne which he claims, and Caiaphas at the bar, to answer for his unbelief and guilt; no false witnesses will be sought; no base "expediency" will guide the decisions of that tribunal; there will be no appearance of the hasty, the cruel, the unjust. "In righteousness shall Jesus judge!" How then shall Caiaphas (unless unknown to history he repented) the forewarned, the

murderous, Caiaphas appear? But why dwell on his fate alone? Shall he alone stand before the Son of man, when from the silent patient prisoner Jesus has become the Sovereign Judge? No. All nations, all ranks, all ages, all characters shall stand before himyou, reader-I shall be there, happy only if we have lived with that great day in view.

It is not indeed improbable that, with guilty Caiaphas, all the world shall be brought in guilty before God. Unquestionably we shall own ourselves to be saved, if saved at all, by mercy, and not by merit; we shall all feel ourselves self-ruined. But this will matter little if we are able to plead that our sins are washed away in the blood of Jesus. A martyr cannot wash his robes white in his own blood; the weakest believer's robes shall be "white in the blood of the lamb." If then you can plead that Jesus stood before Caiaphas, and was condemned, and died for you, that by faith, as by a hand, you took hold of the mercy offered you in him; if from your conduct, which shall then be open to universal inspection, it appears that your faith was real, and fruitful because it was real, then it will be well with you. Each sin, each negligence, each infirmity and obstinacy, made no mention of for ever for your Redeemer's sake; every weak effort which you made for his blessed sake, indulgently rewarded, with all a father's tenderness, with all a Saviour's love. Each evil maxim and fashion, which for his dear sake you shunned, each prayer that in his name you offered, each unseen struggle, each good, though perhaps unsuccessful, intention, all, all of these shall be accepted, and for the sake of your surety, rewarded of him who has "seen them in secret." May this be the result of our meeting with "THE SON OF MAN!"

GAMBLING, AND ITS CONCOMITANT VICES.

No. IV.

The Gaming-house continued.

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indulge an unhallowed passion, scruples not to sacrifice the comforts of those allied to him by the nearest ties? I have seldom seen human nature at a lower ebb than when I witnessed the return of a young man, born to a splendid fortune, to take one last look of a beautiful property, previous to its being exposed to sale by the auctioneer's hammer, to defray debts incurred amidst the moral pollutions of a gambling house, situated in one of the most fashionable and recherchè streets of the metropolis. There was a levity and flippancy in the advertisement announcing the sale which quite went to the heart. And yet the young man was amiable, honourable, and well-educated. He was entrapped by a swindler in an evil hour; his mother died of a broken heart; his sisters, reduced to poverty, toiled hard as dress-makers for a subsistence. He was deeply and fondly attached to one, who was compelled to give him up. She acted wisely, though she thought not so at the time; but misery and sin would have been her portion had she not done so. As the wife of a truly pious clergyman, she was enabled in his last dying moments to administer some comfort to the unhappy youth. In connection with this part of the subject, is it not painful to read such a statement as the following extract from a most respectable newspaper?

"The season at Baden-Baden, though drawing to a close, is not yet quite ended. There are still several English fashionables there. It is a thoroughly English place, and in the Grand Salon, or the promenade near it, one might easily fancy oneself in the Regent's Park, or at the Opera crush-room. The Saturday evening balls are diminishing their numbers, but still present considerable assemblages. Saturday is the only soirée de danse. Every other evening in the week, and every morning, the gaming-tables only are to be seen. The main curiosity as regards them is the Elector, or rather ex-Elector, of Hesse. One can seldom enter without beholding him scattering Napoleons, or double Napoleons, as if they were so many pebbles. I have seen him literally painting the roulette table with gold; and at the rouge-et-noir he frequently stakes a whole rouleau of fifty pieces on a single coup. His revenue is very great-somewhere about a million of florins-whereof he is calculated to lose eighty or ninety thousand a-year at the Baden gaming-tables. He is the great support of the bank-first, from the quantity of cash with which he supplies it; secondly, from the influence of his example."

In a former paper the loss of principle and the loss of time were considered in connection with a love of gambling; another loss now presents itself, which is that of property. Is it not notorious that vast estates have passed from their proprietors by addiction to this vice? that thousands of respectable tenants and and labourers have had occasion deeply to bewail the profligacy of the lord of the soil and his inordinate Loss of life is another too frequent result of a love love of play? Many is the splendid mansion now for gambling. Reference need not now be made to mouldering to decay, the ruin of which may be re- the loss of health by the late hours and other mental ferred to a gambling spirit. Many a family, now an excitements kept up at the gaming-table, which must alien from the land of its fathers, plunged in the necessarily have a most pernicious effect on the condeepest destitution, has to look back with deep stitution, undermining its health and strength; and regret that those who ought to have acted a differ- thousands of young men, to speak within ordinary ent part should have entailed poverty and its con- bounds, have been brought to an early grave by the comitant evils on those whom they should have dissipation connected with gambling. The writer sought to benefit. But there seems to be an infatua- well recollects the old guard of a night-coach pointtion in gambling; all the kindlier feelings appear to ing to him several haggard beings walking along be lost; money is wanted, and money must be ob- Piccadilly, on a bright June morning, with this retained to any sacrifice. The rage for play is the pre-mark: "Well, we guards and coachmen have sad dominant passion, and the wretched selfishness of the human heart will not suffer it to consider the claims and requirements of others. Can there be a more despicable being, then, than the man, who, to

The following extract from a late newspaper may tend to prove the frauds constantly practised on the young and inexperienced gambler:-"We have seen the dice and roulette table seized by the police at the gaming-house in the Regent's Quadrant. One case of dice contains eight pair; of which six pair are falsely numbered, and so contrived as to exclude altogether particular chances or results; the remaining two pair, though rightly numbered, are 'loaded.' The roulette-table is also constructed for robbery. These are facts which we feel it our duty to state thus openly to the public, in order that every man entering a gaming-house may be assured that he is not merely indulging in the ruinous excitement of play, but that he is wilfully handing himself over to a gang of professional robbers."

rough nights' work, but it is nothing like them there gents. There goes poor Lord, he wont be long here." And truly he was not, but the rough nights' work of the guard has left him hitherto unscathed. There are two points, however, deserving of especial notice in connection with the subject, duelling and suicide. That duelling, the utter disgrace of a professedly Christian nation, should in any one instance have been the result of attendance at the gamingtable must at once testify to every right-thinking mind the dangers likely to proceed from such attendance; and yet the fact is notorious, that duelling is very frequently the result of gambling. A periodical in which three duels-and two fatal in their conseat the present moment, is on the table of the writer,

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