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than any peculiar creed it may have been instituted to uphold. The liberal Protestant, who disagrees with, or is indifferent to, the religious tenets of the Benedictines and the Jesuits, is grateful to their memory for their many profound and interesting additions to general knowledge; and the learned Catholic, dismissing or forgetting the idea of any difference of creed existing between himself and the University, may, in like manner, at a future period, be able to say " At all events, that College deserves. the praise of rescuing our old national literature from oblivion or obscurity !" Such pursuits, in their grand and expansive results, when compared with the insignificant and narrow squabbles of partizan theology, are calculated to put one in mind of Alexander the Great's observation, after the battle of Arbela, when, on receiving a dispatch from his viceroy Antipater announcing the defeat and destruction of a few thousand Lacedæmonians in Greece, and on contrasting that petty circumstance with the immense glory and importance of the battle which had just gained him the empire of Asia, he contemptuously exclaimed " I hear there has been a battle of mice in Arcadia !"

With respect to some expressions upon the

Union, speaking of that measure, as if an English or provincializing government might be able to compensate this country for the loss of her legislative independence, the writer may be permitted to state, that those observations were made from a wish to avoid interrupting the chance of any beneficial measure of secondary utility likely to result from the truce on the subject of Repeal, then existing between the Whig administration and the Repealers, but not from the slightest idea, on his part, that Ireland and Irishmen can ever be "as they ought to be," till "Irish laws alone shall Ireland bind"-with the crown existing, as "the only state-bond of each island."

In conclusion, the author ventures to hopehe trusts without much presumption—that, whatever may be the literary merits of this miscellany, it will not be devoid of some interest in a political, and of even of some use in a historical, point of view.

'ERRATA.

In p. 176, text, for "1529" read "1429"-p. 180, note, last line, “ omitted-p. 183, note, first line, after "See" read “in”—p. 197, for "between eight and nine millions," read "sixteen and eighteen lions"-p. 256, note, for "disgustful at hearing," read " disguste p. 336, text, after last line, in some copies, the following line is omitte mistake"The remainder of the 29th, and the following day,"-p.346, for "to the left and right," read "to the right and left "-p. 355, text "above than all" read "more than all"-p. 375, note, for "before, p. 3 read" before, p. 359"-p. 379, note, after "20, Colonel Belcassel's," ply 21, Colonel Cambon's"-p. 415, text, for "had so careful to sa read had been"-p. 438, note, for "grand capacite" read "grande c cite"-p. 440, text, for "it reported" read "it was reported"-p. 450, t for "Irish troops that forced them" read "faced them"-p. 458, text "pleas. to contrast" read "pleasing."-Other little mistakes or oversig such as "recal" for "recall" at p. 29, and the omission of some accents French words, are left to the correction of the reader. Several words h been purposely printed in figures.

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