your future employer? I will only now I am always to THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN A THE Church of England counts 10,160,000 of population, who conform nominally to its rules and tenets. who refuse to conform. The Church of England claims, notwithstanding, to be the Church of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in which countries all this difference exists against it. In Ireland the great majority are Catholics; yet here, too, the people, in mass, are obliged to submit to "Church of England" taxes. In Scotland the great majority are Scotch Presbyterians, and in that country aristocratic members of the minority Church (" of England") claim to regulate the affairs of the Scotch Church. from necessity.2,000,000 in the We have refuse paid over in a to admit the socistocratica founded on individ the consume the saints an element in go the duties of ce impossibility of excd idlers are t the United States.ty, with inco ences do exist, and to exert we s Southern States, rvative intence allow them a reprodle classes Government. The his master. This "Church" so largely in minority in system Great Britain and Ireland, is barely a ma- stood jority in England proper; eight and a half part millions being the number of Conformists, th and eight (millions) the number of nonConformists, and the difference against t so called "Church of England," and other churches increasing steadily and great rapidity in numbers from The experience of all governme ages, reduced to a science by the wisest minds, has established the great powers in a State are the gerous to its internal peace w unrepresented in its governmen If the Christian Church is a power in the State, as it Scotland, and Ireland, its va must be fully and adequately the government, or it is in conti revolution, through the active churches, like that of Scotland tholic of Ireland, which rem sented. Church, cailed by tolerant Ch ndon Sen tolerance rying the maker meetin pay some in America Methodist or er pretence that the county or vi ent upon the E and earry off all actions! Suppo ly by sanctioned th atom and wo rtion" in behalf the ducking of Baptist, howeve bost himself If a peop people." in A A MENOR ca we bare representation Y essity. ve refused also, t the social or a - on individual diffe ment in gover bility of exciting se nited States. W do exist, and are reg hern States, it is f them a representation ernment. The slave master. The rejection of these hority, the social and a tem of our govern Dod to be a theoreti art of the founders d mey had no choice to do churches, and s people" they have only a plebs, a plebeian | supported by Catholics, Protestant by Protrout, unarmed, ignorant, vicious, and ser- estants. vile, out of which the more intelligent labor with might and main to escape upwards to a clearer and more comfortable social medium. It is evident to common sense, that the unrepresented Church powers, Catholic and Protestant, in Great Britain, must in time demand a representation in the government; or the American plan must be adopted of a "separation of Church and State." That the present aristocratic Constitution of Great Britain could maintain itself without the conservative aid of an Established Church is not generally believed. If the ascertained laws of Revolutionary progress will apply to Great Britain, the Church, so called, "of England" must soon lose its hold upon the government; but whether this movement of Revolution is to be the first in order, or whether an extension of the fran The words " separation of Church and State in Great Britain" have a terrible sig-chise will precede it, is esteemed to be a nificance, and contain nearly all the consequences of a modern Republican Revolution. The first and least important step in such a separation might be the exclusion of the Bishops from the House of Lords. The consequences of this would not be immediately evident. The second might be a reduction of their salaries; and the third a removal of the power of presentation from aristocratical hands; which would destroy the present powerful social connection between the sect so called " of England" and the aristocracy. The aristocracy would naturally give themselves no farther trouble about any particular sect of religion excepting the one to which, from choice or education, they might happen to belong. Each nobleman would pay a chaplain of his own sect, as in the good old times of the Reformation. The powerful interest of the old sects in the conservation of the State being destroyed, it would begin to seek popularity for its own support. Catholic clergymen would be Some point of much uncertainty. The great fact, MR. MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER. PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY ON ITS TRAVELS. Ar a late visitation of "eminent men," legislators and others, to the various public institutions in and about the city of New-York, the Mayor made an English Poet, M. F. Tupper, visible at the Institution of the Blind. The following is from the Tribune: — "Mr. Tupper was introduced to the pupils and the audience by his Honor, the Mayor, as a distinguished English poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy.' Mr. Tupper said he did not expect to be thus called upon, and should not attempt to make a speech. He was not prejudiced against Americans, for he looked upon them as EnglishHe would, instead of making a speech, deliver a few verses written by himself. They were composed some time since in London, and a copy of them was solicited by Mr. Lawrence, our distinguished representative, who lived in a style of prince y magnificence in London, and they were published in this country before his arrival. If he could not remember them all, the audience would forgive him. The poem was entitled The Union, written by a Unit.' He gave the first verse, and the remainder appeared to have escaped his memory, but, after a determined effort, they came back and he was enabled to complete the recital." How condescending, and how pleasantly and autobiographically egotistic of Mr. Tupper, “English Poet and Philosopher," to recite his own doggerel; to carry his own dunghill about with him to crow upon. We hope he has "more of the same sort left," for no doubt he will have to "go round," and will be expected to go through the performance before many very select audiences. They must be excessively amusing, and it will have a run from the novelty. Only think, a Proverbial Philosopher amusing! It must have been a treat to see a "philosopher" making a "determined effort" to overtake some fugitive stanzas which "appeared to have escaped." Why they should leave his mind we are at a loss at present to imagine; they must be his, for we do not know any other mind so stupidly unpoetical as to conceive such a piece of sermonized jingle. What a pity the pupils could not see the antics of this "English poet and philosopher." There would be no danger of their ever becoming anti-national. Nothing is so good as the force of example. This, however, does not hold good with Willis and the other smali-talk writers of the press. They are better anti-national as they are; for they have the doubtful honor of being in earnest, while if they espoused the right side they would be hypocrites. They would disgrace a good cause, while as it is their connection only ratifies a bad one. Sympathy is a more dangerous disease than we were aware of. We all know the effect produced (as the story goes) on a sympathetic, sober man, by the presence of a drunkard. We are told that it was too much for poor sympathy, and he consequently became drunk. From our childhood we have read this story constantly in the papers, put there, we suppose, as a warning to youth, "not to look on drunkards" with sympathy; but notwithstanding the credence attached to its constant appearance in the said way, (for, as the song says, It must be true, I read it in the papers,") we always doubted the fact. But Mr. Tupper's late conduct on visiting the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island knocks our doubts of years into a metaphorical "cocked hat," and not only argues but proves the power of sympathy in a remarkably strong and interesting light. Like the effect produced on the sober man by the appearance of the toper, the presence of the lunatics was too much for Mr. Tupper. 66 Why, Martin, law! how changed you are; not the domestic-hearth-loving being you used to behow noisy you are getting! how valiant!" said a particular friend of Mr. Tupper's to him on reading the following in the Morning Herald of the 25th March: "On Mr. Tupper's introduction he said: 'I have not prepared a speech-all that I have to say is that I love you. I have come over the Atlantic ocean to say I love you. You have some faults which I do not mean to flatter; but you deserve to be called Englishmen. (Cheers, mingled with suppressed murmurs.) I find no difference. I have crossed the ditch, and I find you are Englishmen at the other side. (Cheers and hisses.) Yankee Englishmen, I mean. (Cheers and laughter.) I wish to write a book about you. "A Voice-Not in the Dickens style. "Mr. Tupper-I want to tell the truth about you. I WILL PROTECT YOU, though I am aware you do not need protection. I find England as great here as at home. I have come into the land of orators and statesmen. I want to say a few words about this Institution. I have come among you-(Interruptions, with cries of Go on,' amid which Mr. Tupper sat down, while a horn was sounding in vain for silence)." No, 'pon my life; but I've been looking at the lunatics, and Unless Mr. Tupper was overcome by the sight of the madmen, we do not know how to receive his insulting and unbecoming speech. How English a piece of kindness it was to come over the ocean to tell us he loved us! Bulwer says the same thing, while he is immortalizing himself as a pickpocket on a gigantic scale. The mountebank Thompson came with the like intent, and we are pleased to see that his overtures have been met with due appreciation. His telegraphic exodus from Springfield proves that dead cats are often much more formidable than live ones, and that a diseased egg can often "doub'e a man up" better than a "game chicken." We hope Mr. Tupper does not mean to follow in the paths of these gentlemen. If he does, we think he will find that his receptions will prove (he is fond of proverbs) that " practice makes perfect." Has Lord Palmerston, seeing how admirably his protectorate is succeeding in Central America, sent out Mr. Tupper (Heaven save the mark!) to be the lord protector of the United States? “I will protect you," says my Lord Tupper. What a burst! Vanity was at a high pressure when that was let off. It must be a source of solid pleasure to Mr. Tupper, in his private reflections, that he was not permitted to proceed, and we trust he may profit by the fact, and not allow himself to be carried any farther in a course of disreputable notoriety by the recurrence of such scenes. Every foreigner is modestly welcome to our shores; the laws protect strangers: but when they sink the gentleman in the mountebank, then it is our duty to inform them that we do not allow such proceedings to go without a critical reproof, and against every thing absurd, disgusting, or positively injurious in such a public display, we feel bound to enter protest. Mr. Tupper will be made a fool of by the few persons who aspire to a place in the book he is going to write on America. The little reputation he has will be crushed, and any good-nature in the man will be pressed out of him, toadying and being toadied in turn. He will be led to believe he is a poet, which, notwithstanding Mayor Kingsland's discovery and Senator Stanton's "distinguished" patronage, we beg disinterestedly to doubt. Poetry is not proverbs or sermons cut up into set lines and walking on a certain number of feet. Mr. Tupper and the public are equally (to use an intensely British phrase) sold by these paltry publicities. If travelling Englishmen, of some literary reputation, wish to retain it, they should beware of holding it up to contempt: the less often they say, "I have come among you," the better. have come among you," quoth he! Lord, what a simpleton ! "I MISCELLANY. A GREAT NOVELTY; To Wit: CORRUPTION IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE OF NEW-YORK. THE good people of New-York have been laboring for several days under a grand fit of astonishment and horror, at the discovery the most novel and original-a discovery of an attempt at corruption in their Senate! A late representative from the city of New-York, inspired by a pure and patriotic enthusiasm, has with a commendable diligence raked together and published in the Herald some shocking particulars, which we commend to the attention of all State legislators and their constituencies. The mischiefs of corruption in a State Senate are not confined to the State itself. Every body knows that, by the nature of our governments, as the State Governments are, so will the Central Government be. It is the force of example then that we are to fear; lest by any possibility the hitherto unsullied purity of our National (?) Senate and House of Representatives may by sinister example, in some faint, imperceptible shadow of a degree, be contaminated! Frightful possibility! Suppose, for example, the virtue of a national legislator, under strong temptations, were to give way; suppose he were actually to sell a vote or his support of a bill;-should we not immediately hear the crack of doom? Would not the Union incontinently fall to pieces? For is not 'vartue,' glorious 'vartue!' the foundation of Republics; and if the foundation were to crack, would not the nation fall? Money, it is said, was paid to legislators to prevent the passage of a bill against gambling! Dreadful and deplorable novelty! How thankful we ought all to be that virtue and the law have at least one stronghold left, that the Central Power of the Union is sound and pure. Happy people!—glorious in the majesty of a pure, vigorous, and incorruptible Central Legislation! MODERN MODESTY.-We read: "It is said in the Messagiere of Modena, that the naked statues in the churches at Rome are to be covered, from motives of modesty. Canova's Genius of Death in the monument to Pope Clement is to be thus adorned, and the many little cherubs which abound in various churches are no longer to be left in a state of improper exposure. The immodest pictures are also to be improved." What is meant by "improving" immodest pictures, we leave our readers to find out. But surely Catholicity has forgot its soul when it becomes worse than Iconoclastic, merely maudlin sentimental, " covering up little cherubs in a state of improper exposure" Our readers will remember the answer of Napo leon to one of the ladies of his suite, who remarked on the indecency of these very statues, that the "immodest idea was not in the marble, but in the mind of the observer." Nevertheless, we will tell a better story than that. A friend of ours, an artist of some eminence, had once occasion, in his youth, to instruct a young lady in the art of drawing from life; and to begin, he directed her notice to a plaster cast of the nude figure known as Hercules leaning on his club," which had been for years innocently resting on a pedestal in a corner of the parlor of the mansion in which she lived. The first lesson progressed well, nor did the plaster create greater alarm on that occasion than it had done while standing merely ornamental in its corner. On returning, however, to give his second lesson, our friend discovered the young lady modestly sitting at her drawing table with eyes intent on the little statue, about whose white waist there hung suspended in grace ful folds, an impervious and picturesque curtain, being a small red cotton pocket handkerchief, the property of the lady's maid. We recommend the device to Pio Nono, and "the Genius of Death." MULTUM IN PARVO.-If the population of the United States is 25,000,000, including all ages and colors, and the imports of the year 1850 are $150,000,000,-though there is little doubt, by smuggling and “ad valorems,” i. e. false valuations they will come nearer $200,000,000 in worth,— every man, woman, and child in the United States will have paid six dollars to foreign merchants and manufacturers. The payment will be made in money and in provisions, flour, &c., in a proportion not well ascertained. This tax or tribute is paid chiefly on manufactured articles, such as can easily be made in America, and upon products which can easily be grown upon our own soil. The entire expenditure, excepting about $10,000,000, paid for materials which cannot now be grown or made upon American soil, is paid by our people to enable other nations, but chiefly England, to drive us out of all the markets of the world. A part of the profits of this enormous taxation maintains the English steam navy, pays the salaries of the English Freetrade ministers, the cost of armies in India, and the murderous armed police of Ireland. A yearly subscription of not less than Five Dollars a year for every man, woman, and child in America is paid out, directly or indirectly, for the maintenance of the British Empire. Now there are not fewer than two millions of industrious and able artificers in America, living in forced idleness, or digging the earth for a scanty subsistence, to the detriment of the true American farmer, who could produce at least one hundred dollars annually more than they do, in the kinds of |