there is no question Episcopal revenue is much nearer to £200,000 than the sum of £167,000, which is here assumed to be the amount. And in addition to their revenues each bishop, save 'He of Manchester,' has a palace in the country, and most of them town houses, at the expense of the church. So much for Episcopal liberality. £3 14s. 5d. per cent. upon vast revenues abstracted from the poor, nine-tenths of whom are adverse to the doctrines dissen inated, and half of the remaining stick to the system from interested motives. It is time the people of England began to awake, and to cease to be so blind as to countenance a system because of its antiquity without reference to its utility. A READER OF THE DAILY NEWS.' REVIEW OF BOOKS. Emerson's Representative Men. London: Henry G. Bohn. 1850. THIS work is the result, the embodiment of Seven Lectures, delivered in Manchester, in 1847; and the author is a man who-however diverse opinion may be still undoubtedly has a merit that all must admire, namely, the honesty and manliness to avow his opinions on all subjects, whether Moral, Political, Social, or Theological. His object in these lectures is to show the use of great men to the world. His illustrative subjects are— Plato, or the philosopher; Swedenborg, or the mystic; Montaigne, or the sceptic; Shakspere, or the poet; Napoleon, or the man of the world; and Goethe, or the writer. There can be no question much instruction is to be derived from the careful study of the men that the world calls great; and— had not the author, both in this and other works, seemed to have the same value for Christianity and Buddhism, for Jesus Christ and Plato, estimating all things and all men merely by the good that is in them—he would no doubt have found more favour with the great of the world, but would have missed the admiration and respect of those who wish but to know truth, and who value a man, not because he conforms or panders either to interest or prejudice, but love him solely in consequence of his pursuing the opposite course. In his reflections on Plato, he enunciates some awkward facts, which, though not unknown to the sceptical world, almost appear new, when delivered in the author's peculiar style. He finds Christianity in Plato's Phoedo; and, as Christianity is posterior to Plato by some three hundred years, it is by no means unnatural to come to the conclusion that Christianity was mainly, if not altogether, founded on the dogmas of Plato, especially as we have historical testimony that Christians of the first ages were denominated Platonists. The next subject, that of Swedenborg, is handled in the same mode, and the same crimes in the eyes of the religious world are enacted. He speaks of Palestine as a place always prated about but never available in rational education. Speaks of a secular providence, and says Swedenborg failed by attaching himself to the Christian symbol instead of to the moral sentiment-which carries innumerable Christianities, humanities, and divinities in its bosom. In fact to speak of Hebrew traditions as the raving of frantic mystics, and to point to divine truths in the oracles of Vishnu and Mahomet, are such crimes that it was kind in Providence not to have produced Mr. Emerson a century or so earlier, or he would have soon experienced the opportunity of realising his anticipations of future bliss. The remaining subjects are handled in the same manner with great originality, with great talent; and the book, in fact, should be purchased by all who can spare the money, and no public library or mechanics' or literary institution should be without it. Wild Flowers for Children. By MR. HONEYSUCKLE. Part I. 'The Flower and the Star: a Child's Story.' London: C. Honeysuckle, Hatton Garden. It has hitherto been considered, if not in theory certainly in practice, that any stupidity would suffice for a child's book. It is highly gratifying to see an attempt made to put something wholesome into the hands of the young. One book contains a series of coloured flowers that gratify and please the eye, accustoming the young child to a correct representation of the particular flowers, instead of the awful productions that usually adorn (disfigure) infant books and has four lines of simple poetry descriptive of each plate The other book contains a tale, and a comprehendible and useful moral is enticingly mixed up with it; at the same time, on nearly every page are very beautiful woodcuts, that fix the matter on the infant mind, and that possess such intrinsic merit that both young and old can look on them with delight. Heartily do we recommend the work to our secular friends, as no opinions are outraged from the beginning to the end of these very nice books. The National Instructor. By FEARGUS O'CONNOR. London: Ryder, Windmill Street. THE National Instructor is a big name, and it may be its extensive pretensions that have to some extent led us to think that its matter does not bear out what we had been led to expect. No. 1 is anything but an instructor. Its staple, which is to be continued in each number, is a Life of the Editor,' by himself-a most difficult task to any one but a man in possession of that modesty for which Mr. F. O'C. is notorious. Its tone is essentially superlative-and on glancing over it the following sentences will convey the tone of the article: My grandfather was the wealthiest man in the kingdom, My father and uncle Arthur were perhaps two of the finest looking men in the kingdom. Ditto most eloquent My father's domain was the most splendid ditto ditto ditto My uncle Arthur passed through such an ordeal that no man in this world has ever experienced. My brother Roderick is the wealthiest man in the colony of South Wales. My brother Francis Burdett O'Connor was prime minister and commander in chief to Bolivar, and now possesses an immense territory. Ditto moting the welfare of the poor. Ditto but beloved by the poor. has spent an immense fortune in pro is like myself, detested by the wealthy My uncle Arthur made the most splendid speech delivered on Catholic Emancipation. My brother Arthur is author of some of the ablest works ever written. I possess letters which some parties would give me many thousands of pounds for, but I would rather crack stones on the road than sell them. I have passed through an ordeal that no other man would survive. The above hardly needs comment; and if it is admired by those to whom the author addresses it, namely, the working classes, all we can say is, we pity their taste. All works for Review, to be left with the publisher. A FEW FIGURES IMPORTANT TO BE REMEMBERED. BEING REASONS WHY THE PEOPLE SHOULD MANAGE THEIR OWN BUSINESS. (Quoted from the National Parliamentary Reform Association Tracts.) FAMILY GOVERNMENT. Lord John Russell.-First Lord of the Treasury, £5,000. A brother, Lord Charles Russell, who is in the army, was, last session, made serjeant-atarms to the House of Commons, £1,500; another brother, aide-de-camp to Lord Elgin, governor-general of Canada; another is in the army; one in the church; and two more in the navy: an uncle, Capt. John Russell, R.N.; a cousin is Viscount Torrington, governor of Ceylon, £7,000. The premier is son-in-law of the lord privy seal, £2,000; brother-in-law of the Hon. J. E. Elliott, M.P., one of the secretaries of the Board of Control, £1,500— . just provided for by the removal of Mr. Wyse, an excellent man in all respects. See Minto. Earl Grey.-Secretary of State, Colonial Department, £5,000. A brother, a colonel and Queen's equerry; another a captain in the navy, in the House of Commons; a third in the army: an uncle, general, colonel, and governor of Jamaica, £6,000; removed from Barbadoes, salary being only £4,000. Lord Grey's brother-in-law is chancellor of the exchequer; his cousin, secretary of the home department; another cousin, Sir Francis Baring, is the newly-appointed first lord of the admiralty; is the notable governor of Ceylon, and ci-devant lord in waiting: but his favourite ward is the Premier's first cousin. Sir George Grey.—Secretary of State, Home Department, £5,000. Cousin of Earl Grey, and connected as above. Son of the late resident commissioner of Portsmouth dockyard, and son-in-law of the Bishop of Litchfield. A barrister. Viscount Palmerston.-Secretary of State, Foreign Department, £5,000. Married late in life, and without near affinities to provide for, the sister of Viscount Melbourne, and widow of the fifth Earl Cowper, an hereditary pensioner on the excise. Lord Cottenham.-Lord Chancellor and Speaker of the House of Lords, £14,000, with immense church and judicial patronage, to which he is fondly attached and far from wise always in the dispensation (in the Principality, for instance), and which has been largely increased by the County Courts and other legal changes. Marquis of Lansdowne.-Lord President of the Council, £2,000. His son, Earl Shelburne, a lord of the treasury, £1,200, and M.P. for the Marquis's borough of Calne. Earl of Minto.-Lord Privy Seal, £2,000, a pension besides. A son in the army, and another in the navy; a third son, who is M.P., and has been in the civil service of the East India Company, is the new secretary to the India Board; three nephews in the army, and two in the navy; a daughter, left a widow, with a large family, has been providently espoused by the Premier. Sir Charles Wood.-Chancellor of the Exchequer, £5,000. Brother-inlaw of the home secretary, who is cousin of the first lord of the admiralty, who is cousin of the colonial secretary, who is uncle, brother-in-law, cousin, nephew, &c., as above. Henry Labouchere.—President of the Board of Trade, £2,000. Connected, by blood and marriage, with the Barings, who are connected with the Greys, who are connected with the Russells-Elliotts. Sir Francis Baring.-First Lord of the Admiralty, £4,500. Married a cousin of Earl Grey, and afterwards a daughter of the first Earl Effingham; has been a lord of the treasury, and was chancellor of the exchequer from 1839 to 1841. Sir John Cam Hobhouse.-President of the Board of Control, £3,500. Son of a late commissioner for the payment of the debts of the Nabob of Arcot, and united by marriage with the Greys and Lord Dalhousie, the governor general of India. Canada WHY ARE THE COLONISTS DISCONTENTED? population 1,200,000, the governor is paid £7000 a-year 2,600,000 State of New York 800 1,000 each. 200 The four colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland pay £2,500 per annum more for the salaries of their four governors, than thirty states of the North American Union do for their governors. Total salaries of 30 governors for 30 North American States, £14,000 a-year. British colonies 72,000 18 being nine times the rate of pay more under British than American government. |