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    Divine Service , a week or two since , let Hep BiMe ( wbiek haft Mlf * inassive clasps ) fall ill her pew . The noise awaMnjf Ber , the o&ngrega * tioA were considerably surprised by hearing her exclaim lbtidly— " Whit * Jane * you have broken another jug , have yoiil" This exclusive jbkei which everybody but such an old ' Post / recollects to have read in J « e *

    Miller-compilations , of all kinds , during the last twenty years , is laugh * ably illustrative of the stationary position of the Tory understandings and of the veracious nianoeuvres of this blind-tooling organ of its fashionable circle . What a rod of extinninating power the Editor uplifts inythe dark insinuation of " who shall be nameless ! " T 0 &o inaeeA 1 With what chronological acumen he designates the period of occurrence ;— -mm what sincere piety he identifies the Bible and Jug , insinuating with equal reverence , that the snoring dream of this well-known landlady of tne jest-books , had broken the Commandments and the delph , at the same inauspicious moment ! Oh thou inspiring ' Post * thou art "not only witty in thyself" but the cause of equally new wit in every one oi * thy

    unparalleled correspondents . 8 . Mails iK the Snow .- —The Courier recently gave a diagram , together with an explanatory letter , concerning the means of speedily manufacturing a ' Snow Plough / by the precursive aid of which the mails might be able to proceed on their journeys with only a feft hours' delay , however great the fall of snow might have been . Wfe would further suggest that on such occasions the guards should be provided with ' snow shoes , ' so that taking the mail-bags with them *

    they might proceed on foot to the next town without any delay at all thdugh the snow were as deep as the sea . These shoes are made with exceedingly broad and long soles , of a light manufacture , not unlike the palm of a , racket . By means of them Benjamin FrankBn , and two or three companions , contrived to journey on foot from New York all the way to the Columbia river . After sufficient practice he found that he could progress at the rate of upwards of four miles inn

    hour . Surely our guards might lift their feet at the rate of two or three miles an hour , without any great difficulty . It would , at least , be the means of procuring assistance , and often of preserving life . 4 . Locke and Law . —The Standard of Jan . 25 th , contains this fine piece of logic— " As the law of England requires that the £ ** & % of the British Sovereign shall be of the religion of the majority , iusti 6 e to Ireland requires that the King of that country tfe a Koihah Catholic , consequently that he be not tne King of England . * ' John Locke is the authority and class-book of our universities , and Johft

    Lbckfe saith that , " belief does not belong to the will . " * Never m& $ I ' tjuoth the Standard 'we have provided against that objection ; the la # settles all sctuples . Education may teach men to believe atiy given religion , the infant mind being of waxen quality and equally susceptible Of the impressibn of a cross , a cow ' s nead , or St Filers key . But all this trouble fa unnecessary with royalty , tot the taw chalks out the particular angle in which a crowned client ' s thoughts tnttbt Ascend to heaven / But does hot the StafiddrA , by $%$ tifc the idtif 6 t one religion against the king of another tmgfoA , tod then snatching away the first , after the feshion of the Sophists of old ; does it not really eugg ^ t , with Unint 6 nti 6 hal comicality , that the king

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/80/