To this day "the Solid Men of Boston" are decidedly English in their affections and antipathies as appears not only from their leaders always siding with Great Britain against their own country; but from the extreme attention they pay to every Englishman in preference to the natives of any other country, or even their own countrymen. As an exemplification we need only revert to the visits of the late GovernorGeneral of Canada, which were received with almost equal adulation and honors to those which greeted the French emperor on a more recent occasion in Great Britain. We are greatly mistaken, if in the event of a dissolution of the Union being accomplished by their patriotic efforts, they will not give an additional proof of their British sympathies, if not by returning to their early love, at least by seeking her "protection." That a latent plot is at this very moment maturing in the same quarter, is, we think, not the least improbable, not to say highly probable, as the views of the Abolition-Puritan party are unquestionably identical with British policy. Each alike reprobates the Constitution and the Union; each is equally zealous for the abolition of slavery; and nothing is more natural than that both should contemplate a more intimate union for the attainment of their objects. We hope the vigilance of the government will be directed to that quarter, and that it will not forget the famous episode of John Henry, and the Hartford Convention. When large masses of American citizens proclaim to the world, that they consider the Constitution as a violation of the law of God and the rights of nature," and denounce it as "a compact with Hell;" when they meet in conventions represented from all parts of the United States, repeatedly declaring "they will give the Union for the abolition of slavery;" when we see Mr. Charles Sumner, a senator of the United States, and as such, under a solemn oath witnessed by his country and his God, travelling hundreds of miles to attend these meetings, and inculcate sedition and disloyalty to that Constitution he has sworn to support and maintain; when we see all this and much more to the same purport and end, may we not ask ourselves to what extremes these daring fanatics will not resort for the accomplishment of an object, which, if they are sincere, must necessarily absorb all other considerations? Is there any reason to believe that after having exhausted all the means of declamation, sedition, and anarchy, they will not resort to actual treason? It requires but one single step more. There is only a hair's breadth between moral and political treason; and the distinction between

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coöperating with a secret enemy, and "giving aid and comfort" to an open one, is not very perceptible in a moral, however it may be in a legal point of view. We therefore repeat-we hope the government will keep a wary eye on the "Solid Men of Boston," as well as the Fillibusters.

Since commencing this article, it has been officially announced by a letter from the British Colonial Secretary to the Canadian authorities that the government of the mother country is willing to recognize their independence on certain very easy conditions. Should they accept this proposition, Canada will be placed in an entirely new attitude towards the United States, as an independent state. Whether this will tend to accelerate her progress and increase her power, is still to be seen; and it is yet doubtful whether that loyal province will not prefer its present dependent situation. At all events, it is quite certain that by means of connecting railroads, and other facilities for intercourse, the interests of Massachusetts and Canada have become most intimately connected, and a union under certain circumstances appears quite probable, as they are both equally zealous on the score of abolition, which is paramount to all other objects, and both apparently equally loyal. That the emancipation of Canada is a preliminary step towards such a union appears a very natural supposition. If the course lately pursued by the Legislature, and sanctioned apparently by the people of Massachusetts, is persevered in, there can not be the slightest doubt that a separation of the Union is inevitable; and unless the remaining New-England and the adjoining Middle States go with Massachusetts, she will stand alone in her glory." It is well, therefore, to throw an anchor ahead, and a coalition with independent Canada would be a prudent precaution should affairs come to a crisis that now appears almost inevitable. There is already a close affinity between Canada and Massachusetts. The former is extremely loyal, as appears by late demonstrations; and the latter being thoroughly abolitionized, is more than half English. There can be no doubt that a great majority of the people of Massachusetts, if we may trust their own declarations, had rather live under any constitution than that of the United States, which is "a compact with Hell," "a gross violation of the law of God and the rights of nature," or that they will rally under any government that would aid in abolishing slavery in the Southern States. That they should plot treason by becoming the allies, the catspaws, and the tools of any foreign power which like themselves hoists the black flag and sails in the same latitude, is a natural

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sequence to a thousand premonitory symptoms that announce the breaking out of the pestilence. We, therefore, respectfully again recommend the government of the United States to keep a wary eye on the "Solid Men of Boston." Suspicion is a virtue when we have to do with fanatics and hypocrites, since one is little better than a madman, the other a cheat; and the length to which these people have already gone clearly indicates they will stop at nothing. Those who have already sacrificed their patriotism to a dogma, will not hesitate to throw their country into the bargain. If they really believe that slavery is the deadly sin for which there is no atonement but immediate emancipation, amalgamation, and political and social equality; if they sincerely believe that the attainment of these objects is a duty to God and their fellow-men, and that their inevitable evils will be more than counterbalanced by their beneficial results, they can not conscientiously stop short of their object; and if they are only hypocrites, adopting the mask of philanthropy to disguise their real purposes, there is still less to hope. The madman may come to his senses; the fires of fanaticism may burn out, and the enthusiasm of youth be checked by the experience and caution of age; but the disciple of hypocrisy is irreclaimable. The wax is always too cold to receive a new impression, and once a hypocrite, always a hypocrite.

ELISE.

ELISE! Elise! my own Elise!

Between our paths a gulf is flowing;
Not ours to wander where we please,
And pluck the fruits around us growing;
Not ours the dews of love to feel,

On bleak, unyielding bosoms wasted!

And Custom, with his iron heel,

Hath crushed each rising hope we tasted.

Elise Elise! my own Elise!

From thee, even thee, this heart was shrouded,

And bore its secret agonies

With smiling lip and brow unclouded;

But now, O God! the chain is broke;

Thine own, thine only, thine for ever,

I bow my neck to passion's yoke,

And all the ties of earth dissever.

Elise beyond the Atlantic's wave,

Far from the cold world, could we wander,
There gently journey to the grave,

While time but made our bosoms fonder!
O heavenly dream! Say, is't a dream
That ever haunts me, sleeping, waking-

A bubble on my fancy's stream,

Too richly hued, too quickly breaking?

Say, is't a dream? With thee remains
The power to hallow or deface it;
Thou wast not made for the world's chains;

And a new path-'tis thine to trace it.

Elise! Elise! you know me not:

Save thine, on earth my heart is lonely;

And once abroad, the past forgot,

I'd live with thee and for thee only.

LITERARY NOTICES.

The Winkles; or, the Merry Mono-Maniacs. An American Picture, with Portraits of the Natives. By the Author of "Wild Western Scenes," etc. New-York: D. Appleton & Co.

WE Confess that, in its present application, the sub-title of "An American Picture" somewhat alarmed us. We began to fear we were about perusing some terrible tale of a scowling Jesuit, who, after murdering three heretic heroines who refused to conform to his faith, wound up his villainy by suborning the whole army of the United States to arrest the President, and proclaim in his stead Pope Pius the Ninth Supreme Prince and Pontiff of our once free land. But then we remembered what delightful hours we had passed over "Wild Western Scenes," and so we took courage and dipped timorously into chapter one. "Oh! what a change was there, my friends," as either Hamlet or Jeremy Diddler observed. We found the work of suspected theological politics a vast mine of the most riant humor and sarcastic wit. Many a political shaft winged its way through every page and dialogue; but though keen and driven home to the mark, not one was poisoned by party rancor or partisanship. The "portraits of the natives" are veritable photographs; and all who buy the book will recognize many familiar, some lovely, and some dreaded faces therein.

The Life and Institute of St. Ignatius De Loyola. By Father Daniel Bartoli, of the Society of Jesus. Translated by the Author of Life in Mexico. New-York: Ed. Dunigan & Brother.

Ar the present moment, when the acts and principles of the Jesuits give such real or pretended alarm to the ardent youth of Protestant America, it can not but be beneficial to go back to the fountain-head of this theological conspiracy, and consult the life, the declarations, the designs, and the achievements of Loyola, the founder and the builder up of this most powerful organization. Not viewing him as a priest, but as an adventurer, his life would make one of the most romantic novels ever written; and notwithstanding the pious zeal with which Father Bartoli seeks to envelope his every action in some religious motive or miraculous revelation, enough of the proud, ambitious, isolated, disappointed man is left, to make us deeply interested in the struggles and privations, the want and the jealousies through which he fought his way to a position in which his feet were on the necks of Europe's kings, and his hand steadfastly, though in secret, wielded the thunderbolts of the Vatican. His life is, indeed, the strongest illustration of what one reso