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The Political Life of his Majesty George the Fourth, is preparing for publication, in one Octavo Volume. POLITICAL RETROSPECT. THE Marriage Act-amendment Bill has been carried through both Houses of Parliament by large majorities, and has received the royal assent. Of the principle of the new enactment we have already expressed decided approbation-but serious alarm is entertained in many quarters respecting the difficulty of carrying it into effect. We shall furnish our readers next month with an abstract of the statute. The lateness of the season to which the Session of Parliament has been prolonged, appears at last to have indisposed all parties to a continuance of their sittings. Great exertions have been made to wind up the business, and many Bills have been withdrawn upon an understanding that they will be re. produced next year. Among these we particularly notice the Prisonregulation Bill, the Bill for legalizing the sale of beer in private houses, and Mr. Nolan's measures for the improvement of the Poor Laws. If Mr. Nolan is able to enforce a keeping, and to provide for the rebetter system of parochial book gular publication of the names of all persons receiving parochial relief, he will confer a very considerable benefit upon the country. But we doubt whether his object will be obtained by appointing the magistrates of the district to the office of auditors. A more effectual plan would be to authorise every person who may be assessed at twenty pounds or upwards, in the books of any parish, to demand a written or printed account of the annual receipt and expenditure. This would be an effectual check upon local extravagance, partiality, and peculation. The Beer-Bill was hunted down with great spirit by the brewers and inn keepers. And Mr. Brougham, who has suddenly diverted his attention from public education to public-houses, is now at leisure to contrast this overwhelming opposition to his new scheme, with the temperate resist ance which he formerly experienced from the Universities and principal schools. We congratulate him, however, upon the visible altera tion in his views. He has neglected to redeem his pledge of bringing in an Education Bill, and thereby tacitly admitted the impracticability of his favourite plan, and the absence of that urgent necessity for more schools, in which he had persuaded a large portion of the community to believe. We trust that he will be more firm in his encounter with the Brewers-for the existing laws against drunkenness are avowedly ineffectual,-and it may be worth while to try whether the labouring classes who are now forced to resort to an ale-house for their beer, might not carry it home quietly and drink it with their families, if they were permitted to purchase it at the grocers or the bakers. The Parochial Collection for the Irish has succeeded beyond all former example. In towns the contributions have been most splendidand even in country parishes where the occupiers are themselves distressed, and are burdened with the support of an immense mass of pauperism, something is still found for the suffering Irish. It may reasonably be doubted whether such a call was prudent or proper-but one effect must be produced by the manner in which the call is answer. ed. Ireland cannot but perceive the gross imposition which is prac tised upon her by those who represent the English as her enemies. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. S. N. and Cler. Ebor. shall appear. SERMON ON ENTICEMENT, tongues, in our common intercourse TO SIN. PROVERBS i. 10. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. THE Concentrated lessons of wisdom, virtue, and piety, which are delivered to us in the book of Proverbs, are introduced in the first chapter by some general directions, which facilitate the practice of particular duties. The admirable judgment of king Solomon is manifested by the adoption of this plan. For an unconnected, and uncombined mass of special instructions, however useful to those who are acquainted with the outline of their duty, may produce in the first instance little or no effect, if they are addressed without preface to the clouded understandings, and frail inclinations of men. But Solomon's opening chapters, and more especially his first, contain a valuable summary of all that is to follow: the foundations of duty are laid solidly and deeply, and it is in the power of every one by whom those foundations are not neglected, to erect a corresponding superstructure. All the pithy maxims which we gather from the middle of this good book, all the directions which are to assist us in the regulation of our hearts, in the due employment of our time, in the correction of our tempers, in the government of our REMEMBRANcer, No. 45. with our friends, and our more extensive intercourse with our fellow creatures, all these will be vain if we attempt to obey them one by one without systematic endeavours, or general plans of conduct. But at the same time they will be eminently useful, if we attend to the opening admonitions of the wise man, and by a persevering compliance with his first commands, enter upon the straight road which leadeth to eternal life. After a brief explanation of the nature and advantages of a proverb, the first sentence uttered by king Solomon is this, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. And the second is like unto it in weight and truth; My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother, for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. The fear of the Lord, and obedience to parents are followed in the next verse by the words of my text, My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Here therefore we have the three first, and most general precepts of Solomon; and they prove that we are not left in this book to the guidance of particular lessons, but that solid foundations for universal uprightness and holiness are laid in the very outset of the work. Let modern teachers instruct after the 3 U pattern of the king of Judah, let modern hearers listen obediently to his inspired requisitions, let the fear of the Lord, and obedience to parents, and a constant refusal to follow the sinners that entice us, be duly pressed on the one hand, and duly observed on the other, and the effects will soon be visible in the general improvement of our morals, in the fervour, in the universality, and in the sobriety of our faith. Our particular attention shall be turned for the present to the last of Solomon's three great principles; we will consider the nature of temptation in general; the means of avoiding, or of overcoming it, which are described in the verses that follow my text; and the necessity and certainty of still greater assistance than any that Solomon has pointed out. The passage contained between the 10th and 20th verses of the chapter, describes a temptation or incitement to one particular species of crime, viz. to robbery and mur-. der. They say, come with us, let us lurk privily for the innocent without a cause, let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole as those that go down into the pit. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil. Cast in thy lot among us, let us all have one purse. These words are supposed to be spoken by such as entice you to sin. A particular evil action is selected for an example, and the motives by which men are induced to commit it, are briefly and plainly set forth. In the first place, the action is represented as very easy; no resistance is dreaded from those whom the robbers are about to injure; they pretend that they can swallow the prey alive as the grave; and whole as those that go down into the pit. And this circumstance occurs on most occasions, when we are tempted either by Satan, by our fellow creatures, or by ourselves. The facility with which a wicked act may be com mitted, the ease with which detection may be rendered difficult, if not impossible, suggests itself to all our hearts when we are inclined to sin. But what does that half of the suggestion which is true, (for the latter half, viz. that we shall easily contrive to escape detection, is among the greatest of the impositions which are practised upon us by Satan) what does the true half really teach? Will any wise man venture to affirm, that the facility with which an action may be performed is a guarantee of its honesty or its worth? What valuable thing do we enjoy that can be procured or retained with ease?-The first circumstance therefore which attends a wicked action is one against which the prudent should be ever on their guard. When you feel, in the outset at least of your career, that one course of behaviour is much easier than another, suspect that it will lead you to an unhallowed goal. You are not born to uninterrupted gratification; there is much apparently innocent pleasure from which we must abstain; there are many trying vexations which we must voluntarily undergo; they may be avoided, as the tempter tells us, easily, by sin; our faults may be concealed by deceit and lies, our appetites may be indulged by neglecting the claims of benevolence, or in a more envenomed course of guilt we may lay wait for blood, and destroy those who would lead to our exposure and punishment, as completely and as rapidly as the grave. But there is nought in these enticing words to which if you are prudent, you will consent. It is only the first step in sin which is easy; those that enter far within its courts will find that the road is set with thorns. The next argument by which the tempter assails our innocence and scruples, and it is one which he uses with far greater effect, is the pleasure and enjoyment which sin will procure. We shall find all pre |