enjoy a franchise that has been used and will be used to your destruction? Will you, Protestant Gentlemen of Ireland, let Popish priests first rob your clergy and then plunder yourselves? No; but up and be doing. Get together a Protestant tenantry-get them from the North of Ireland, and if there are not enough there, from Germany, Switzerland-from any where; build them stone and slated houses, and make them safe and comfortable. Self-deny yourselves to attain this great object, and even at the expense of half your incomes persevere until it is done. Never again allow a Papist to acquire a lease or franchise on your property. Your estate is not your own while Papists are your only tenants. This very demonstration of yours will frighten them into submission and quietness, and if government remains true to itself and to you, Ireland may yet be preserved to England.

Having said so much, we would conclude by remarking that the grievous malady that has now as it were gone its round of the world from the Ganges to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, has fallen comparatively lightly on Ireland; and though it has baffled all medical skill, and taken off its tens of thousands, yet, when contemplating the poverty, unclean and drunken habits of our people, we can only wonder that Providence has laid on its scourge so lightly. God forbid that we should presume to throw the bolts of his thunder, or label with our direction his arrows as they go abroad; but we still cannot help remarking that many cases have come to our knowledge where the drunkard in the midst of his blasphemous jest—the politician in the midst of his fiery animosities have, from the pot-house and the hustings, been summoned away by the sudden messenger of Heaven. We have also heard that this visitation has been blessed to many, and that families and individuals, under the voice of the rod, have savingly humbled themselves before the infliction, and fled for refuge to the hope set before them, in a pardoning Saviour.

May GOD in mercy render the coming year more comfortable and cheering to his church and people and may the divisions, the animosities and jealousies, that now neutralize the exertions of Protestants be merged in the patriotic and Christian desire to put down anarchy, infidelity and Popery, and promote the cause of religion, loyalty, and lawful authority.*

* While this article was being revised as it came from the compositor, Blackwood's Magazine came to hand, in which we have read with much pleasure an article on Ireland that takes such a similar view of the state of our unhappy country that it might be supposed that ours, as the last published, had copied the opinions of the writer in that very able journal. While offering the CHRISTIAN EXAMINER's full tribute of admiration, we are anxious to express that though agreeing in sentiment, we are not, as indeed could not, be imitators.