reverend, and this most learned bench to vindicate the religion of their God, to support the justice of their country. I call upon the bishops to interpose the unsullied sanctity of their lawn: upon the judges to interpose the purity of their ermine, to save us from this pollution. I call upon the honor of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character, I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his coun try.

UNITY OF THE CHURCH.-Lacordaire.

The true Church, that which from the commence ment of its existence has taken the title of Catholic, which no other during eighteen centuries has even once dared to dispute the true Church, divinely instituted to instruct the human race, has alone established an universal authority, in spite of the enormous difficulty of the thing.

2. The whole Roman empire leagued itself together against this immense authority which sprung up on all sides, and, notwithstanding the persecution with which she was assailed from the earliest times, the Catholic Church passed the bounds of the Roman empire, and penetrated into Persia, Ethiopia, the Indies, and Scythia. After she had subjugated the Roman empire and passed beyond its limits, the barbarians came to annihilate the temporal unity founded by heathen Rome, and, whilst all the nations changed and divided them.

selves, the Catholic Church spread its un ty and uni versality wherever force broke up the ancient commu nities: she also sought the barbarians even in their forests, to lead them to the foot of the same altar and the same episcopal throne. New worlds disclosed themselves; the Church was there as soon as the conquerors. The Indians of the West and of the East knew Jesus Christ, and the sun nevermore set but in the kingdom of truth. Protestantism, in endeavoring to break up Catholic unity and universality, has but produced, by the spectacle of its divisions, new proof of the impossi bility of founding an universal Church by the simple power of man.

FOX ON THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEWS OF THE SURREN

DER OF LORD CORNWALLIS

I HAD expected, and I know it has been expected by many others, to hear on this occasion his majesty declare from the throne, that he had been deceived and imposed upon by misinformation and misrepresentation; that in consequence of his delusion, the parliament had been deluded; but that now the deception was at an end; and requesting of his parliament to devise the most speedy and efficacious means of putting an end to the public calamities; instead of which they had heard a speech breathing little else than vengeance, misery, and blood. Those who were ignorant of the personal character of the Sovereign, and who imagined this speech to originate with him, might be led to suppose that he was an unfeeling despot, rejoicing in the horrid sacrifice of the liberty and lives of his subjects, who, when all hope of victory was vanished, still thirsted for revenge. The

ministers, who advised this speech, are a curse to the country, over the affairs of which they have too long been suffered to preside. From that unrivalled preeminence which we so lately possessed, they have made us the object of ridicule and scorn to the surrounding nations. The noble lord in the blue riband has indeed thought fit to ascribe the American war and all its attendant calamities to the speeches of Opposition. Ob! wretched and incapable ministry, whose measures are framed with so little foresight, and executed with so little firmness, that because a rash and intemperate invective is uttered against them in the House of Commons, they shall instantly crumble in pieces, and bring down ruin upon the country! Miserable statesman! to allow for no contingencies of fortune, no ebullition of passion, no collision of sentiment! Could he expect the concur rence of every individual in that house? and was he so weak or wicked, as to contrive plans of government of such a texture, that the intervention of circumstances, obvious and unavoidable, would occasion their total failure, and hazard the existence of the empire? Ministers must expect to hear of the calamities in which they had involved the empire, again and again-not merely in that house, but at the tribunal of justice; for the time will surely come, when an oppressed and irritated people will firmly call for signal punishment on those whose counsels have brought the nation so near to the brink of destruction. An indignant nation will surely in the end compel them to make some faint atonement for the magnitude of their offences or a public scaffold.

ROLLA'S ADDRESS.

1. My brave associates, partners of my toil, my feel ings, and my fame! Can Rolla's words add vigor to the virtuous energies which inspire your hearts? Noyou have judged as I have, the foulness of the crafty plea by which these bold invaders would delude you. Your generous spirit has compared, as mine has, the motives, which in a war like this, can animate their minds and ours.

2. They, by a strange frenzy driven, fight for power, for plunder, and extended rule-we, for our country, our altars, and our homes. They follow an adventurer whom they fear, and obey a power which they hate-we serve a monarch whom we love-a God whom we adore

3 Whenever they move in anger, desolation tracks their progress! Whenever they pause in amity, affliction mourns their friendship! They boast they come but to improve our state, enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the yoke of error! Yes-they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride.

4. They offer us their protection-Yes, such protection as vultures give to lambs-covering and devouring them! They call on us to barter all of good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate chance of something better, which they promise. Be our plain answer this:

5. The throne we honor, is the people's choice -- the Laws we reverence are our brave fathers' legacy - the faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of charity

with all mankind, and die in hopes of bliss beyond the grave. Tell your invaders this; and tell them too, we seek no change; and least of all, such change as they would bring us.

THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE.-Lacordaire.

It is often said that the past is at war with the fu ture, and this is true. The old world is at war with the new: and what is the new world, if it is not that which has produced the Church? What is the old world, save that which was without a Church? As the Christian is the new man, according to the language of the Holy Scriptures, so the Catholic Church is the new humanity. Whoever attacks it invokes the past; who ever defends it appeals to the future.

2. I know that many wait for a new revelation more perfect than that of Christ, a new Church more perfect than that founded by Christ, a new humanity more perfect than that formed by the Church. But where is the new Christ, where is the new Church, where is the new humanity, and what do we see around us save the old passions, the ancient selfishness, so much the more hideous because it rears its head in the midst of a society which charity has founded?

3. Ah! gentlemen, when the Church appeared upon earth she did not thus announce herself. She edified without ruining anything; you ruin without edifying anything. But I trespass on your time. Be, then, men of hope and desire; and you who are more advanced, who appreciate at their just value the powerless