founts of population, and animated by an insatiate appetite for the
gold and silver, purple and fine linen, rich meats and intoxicating
drinks of our effete civilization. And we can no longer oppose them
with those victorious legions which have fought and conquered in all
regions of the world. The men of Waterloo and Inkermann are no more.
We are compelled to recruit our armies from those very tribes before
whose swords we are receding!

'Doubtless the ordinary reader will believe this picture to be
overcharged, drawn with manifest exaggeration, and somewhat
questionable taste. EVERY SINGLE STATEMENT WHICH IT CONTAINS may be
paralleled by the circumstances and events of the decadence of the
Roman Empire. The analogous situation was with the subjects of this
type of all good government, ALWAYS A POSSIBLE, often an actual,
state of things. We think this disposes of the theory of Mr.
Congreve. With it may advantageously be contrasted the opinion of a
man of more statesman-like mind. "The benefits of despotism are
short-lived; it poisons the very springs which it lays open; if it
display a merit, it is an exceptional one; if a virtue, it is created
of circumstances; and when once this better hour has passed away, all
the vices of its nature break forth with redoubled violence, and
weigh down society in every direction." So writes M. Guizot. Is it
the language of prophecy as well as of personal experience?'

Mr. Sheppard should have added, to make the picture complete, that
the Irish have just established popery across St. George's Channel,
by the aid of re-immigrants from America; that Free Kirk and National
Kirk are carrying on a sanguinary civil war in Scotland; that the
Devonshire Wesleyans have just sacked Exeter cathedral, and murdered
the Bishop at the altar, while the Bishop of London, supported by the