fortunate tailor, who ventured to go thither for the purpose of demanding payment of a debt, was set upon by the whole mob of cheats, ruffians, and courtesans. He offered to give a full discharge to his debtor and a treat to the rabble; but in vain. He had violated their franchises; and this crime was not to be pardoned. He was knocked down, stripped, tarred, feathered. A rope was tied round his waist. He was dragged naked up and down the streets, amidst yells of 'A bailiff! a bailiff!' Finally, he was compelled to kneel down and to curse his father and mother. Having performed this ceremony, he was permitted-and the permission was blamed by many of the Savoyards-to limp home without a rag upon him. The Bog of Allen, the passes of the Grampians, were not more unsafe than this small knot of lanes, surrounded by the mansions of the greatest nobles of a flourishing and enlightened kingdom. At length, in 1697, a bill for abolishing the franchises of these places passed both Houses, and received the royal assent. The Alsatians and Savoyards were furious. Anonymous letters, containing menaces of assassination, were received by members of Parliament who had made themselves conspicuous by the zeal with which they had supported the Bill; but such threats only strengthened the general conviction that it was high time to destroy these nests of knaves and ruffians. A fortnight's grace was allowed; and it was made known that, when that time had expired, the vermin who had been the curse of London would be unearthed and hunted without mercy. There was a tumultuous flight to Ireland, to France, to the Colonies, to vaults and garrets in less notorious parts of the capital; and when, on the prescribed day, the sheriff's officers ventured to cross the boundary, they found those streets where, a few weeks before, the cry of 'A writ!' would have drawn together a thousand raging bullies and vixens, as quiet as the cloister of a cathedral."

With two more extracts we must conclude our hasty summary of the rich contents of these pictorial volumes, inviting our readers to the intellectual banquet:

The Death of Mary.-" During two or three days there were many alternations of hope and fear. The physicians contradicted each other and themselves in a way which sufficiently indicates the state of medical science in that age. The disease was measles: it was scarlet fever: it was spotted fever: it was erysipelas. At one moment some symptoms, which in truth showed that the case was almost hopeless, were hailed as indications of returning health. At length all doubt was over. Radcliffe's opinion proved to be right. It was plain that the Queen was sinking under small-pox of the most malignant type. All this time William remained night and day near her bedside. The little couch on which he slept when he was in camp was spread for him in the antechamber; but he scarcely lay down on it. The sight of his misery, the Dutch Envoy wrote, was enough to melt the hardest heart. Nothing seemed to be left of the man whose serene fortitude had been the wonder of old soldiers on the disastrous day of Landen, and of old sailors on that fearful night among the sheets of ice and banks of sand on the coast of Goree. The very domestics saw the tears running unchecked down that face, of which the stern composure had seldom been disturbed by any triumph or by any defeat. Several of the prelates were in attendance. The King drew Burnet aside, and gave way to an agony of grief. There is no hope,' he cried. 'I was the happiest man on earth, and I am the most miserable. She had no fault; none: you knew her well, but you could not know, nobody but myself could

know, her goodness.' Tenison undertook to tell her that she was dying. He was afraid that such a communication, abruptly made, might agitate her violently, and began with much management. But she soon caught his meaning, and, with that gentle, womanly courage which so often puts our bravery to shame, submitted herself to the will of God. She called for a small cabinet in which her most important papers were locked up, gave orders that, as soon as she was no more, it should be delivered to the King, and then dismissed worldly cares from her mind. She received the Eucharist, and repeated her part of the office with unimpaired memory and intelligence, though in a feeble voice. She observed that Tenison had been long standing at her bedside, and, with that sweet courtesy which was habitual to her, faltered out her commands that he would sit down, and repeated them till he obeyed. After she had received the sacrament she sank rapidly, and uttered only a few broken words. Twice she tried to take a last farewell of him whom she had loved so truly and entirely: but she was unable to speak. He had a succession of fits, so alarming, that his Privy Councillors, who were assembled in a neighbouring room, were apprehensive for his reason and his life. The Duke of Leeds, at the request of his colleagues, ventured to assume the friendly guardianship of which minds deranged by sorrow stand in need. A few minutes before the Queen expired, William was removed, almost insensible, from the sick room."

Death of Tillotson." After the King had spoken, the Commons, for some reason which no writer has explained, adjourned for a week. Before they met again an event occurred which caused great sorrow at the palace, and through all the ranks of the Low Church party. Tillotson was taken suddenly ill while attending public worship in the chapel of Whitehall. Prompt remedies might, perhaps, have saved him; but he would not interrupt the prayers; and, before the service was over, his malady was beyond the reach of medicine. He was almost speechless: but his friends long remembered with pleasure a few broken ejaculations, which showed that he enjoyed peace of mind to the last. He was buried in the church of Saint Lawrence Jewry, near Guildhall. It was there that he had won his immense oratorical reputation. He had preached there during the thirty years which preceded his elevation to the throne of Canterbury. His eloquence had attracted to the heart of the City crowds of the learned and polite, from the Inns of Court and from the lordly mansions of Saint James's and Soho. A considerable part of his congregation had generally consisted of young clergymen, who came to learn the art of preaching at the feet of him who was universally considered as the first of preachers. To this church his remains were now carried through a mourning population. The hearse was followed by an endless train of splendid equipages from Lambeth, through Southwark, and over London Bridge. Burnet preached the funeral sermon. His kind and honest heart was overcome by so many tender recollections, that, in the midst of his discourse, he paused, and burst into tears, while a loud moan of sorrow rose from the whole auditory. The Queen could not speak of her favourite instructor without weeping. Even William was visibly moved. 'I have lost,' he said, 'the best friend that I ever had, and the best man that I ever knew.'"

RIDICULE, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.—Lord Kaimes.

The Inquirer.

rope. But these were soon so com- | pervade our language, that it is calcupletely driven to the northern and lated that "out of the 38,000 words western borders of our island that they of which it is composed, 25,000, or have left but very slight and scattered nearly five-eighths, are of Saxon oriremnants of their language. The first gin;" and of the language itself, "as invasion of this Celtic territory was written in the time of Alfred, only onethe landing of the Romans, under the fifth part has become obsolete to us." command of Julius Cæsar, 55 years The Saxons continued almost unmo.. before Christ. They occupied the coun- lested, though at feuds amongst themtry for about 400 years, and must, selves, till the invasion of the Danes, therefore, during that period have had about 867. But during this time, an influence on the Celtic language; there must have been a slight infusion but with it passed away all but a few of the Latin, by the introduction of terms of the Latin of the first period, Christianity by Roman missionaries, which natural objects have rendered who, at least, propagated the services permanent, so that we have yet to of their church in their own language. notice the great event which gave to England its name, and mark the epoch which laid the foundation of its language. The second important migration from the East was that of the Goths, from the more immediate vicinity of the Caucasus and the Black Sea, about 700 years before Christ; but it was not till the fifth century that their descendants first landed upon the shores of Britain. The Roman army has been withdrawn, to preserve its empire from the attacks which threaten it with destruction—the country is in an imbecile condition-when, in common with other tribes from the farther north, the Saxons, from the banks of the Elbe, under the leadership of Hengist and Horsa, plant the standard of the "White Horse" upon the shores of Kent. These were our forefathers, and from them have we not only inherited their massive frames and fair skin-not only their spirit of boldness and intrepidity, industry and independence, but from generation to generation have they taught us, in unmistakable monosyllables, their own noble and pathetic language. That by far the greater part of the English language is derived from the AngloSaxon, is proved by a comparison with other languages of the continent, of the same or different sources, and noticing their difference or similarity. To such an extent does this element

With the invasion of the Danes, there was, of course, a consequent introduction of their language; but the Saxon and Danish were both Gothic dialects, so that the Danish could not have had a very great effect upon the vernacular. The Danes proper were not finally driven back to their own country till the earlier part of the eleventh century. This is called the Danish-Saxon period of the language, extending from 867 to 1066. But up to this latter date, from the first landing of the Saxon tribes, the language may be safely denominated simply as Saxon. Alfred was the great writer of the period. The Danes had not been long expelled, before the sturdy Saxon was again destined to be molested. His country was again invaded; and though he then, as we now, thought it his duty to preserve it from all ma, rauders, he nevertheless became the conquered. His victors were the Normans, a race of Danish origin, who had colonized a province of France, and had acquired the Frank language (the source of the present French); this they introduced as a new element into ours, and especially was this the case with the higher or governing classes.

We are told that, without the castle walls, "sheep" (from the Saxon), were the objects of care of the Saxon serf; but no sooner were these useful ereatures admitted within (for instance, to