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    them—why they began , and for what reason they continue the indulgence . In 3 , few have thought of these points—have cared . to analyze their sensations when under the narcotic influence of tobacco-or , if they have analyzed them would care to tell truly what kind of relief it is which they seek in the use of it . « In habitual smokers , ' says Dr . Pereira , < the practice , when . employed , mpdemtely , Provokes thirst , increases the secretion of saliva , and produces a remarkably soothing and tranquillizing effect on the mind , which has made it so much admired and adopted by all classes of society , and by all nations , civilized and barbarous . .. . With some constitutions it never agrees ; but both our author and Dr . Christison of Edinburgh , agree that / no well-ascertained ill effects have been shown to result from the habitual practice of smoking . '" Every smoker will : read this paper with great interest . Fraser has , various attractions this month , we must pause to quote this : — NEEO . — -A PICTtJEE . " Unnatural light awakes the midnight sky ! The faces of the marble Gods of Rome Mush and turn red around each lofty dome , And Tiber ' s current glimmers hideously ! And now the portals of the night Start asunder with flashes bright ! Frantic figures , to and fro , Rush through the golden hell below ! Flames wrap the city , like a new-born sea , — - The Mistress of the World shrieks in her agony ! What mortal fiend holds orgie at this hour ?—Hark to yon harp , whose chords no cry can drown , Swayed by a naked maniac in a crown , Who sits , midst rolling clouds , upon a tower ! Forward he bends with flying hair , And tiger clasp of limbs all bare ; Splendours , terrors , clamours , screams , Make real bis devouring dreams ; The while , with voice that pierces through the roar , He sings of burning Troy and Death ' s insatiate shore !" Space compels us to postpone till next week Bentley , Tait , Hogg's Instructor , the British Journal , and the serials .

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    BURTON'S SCOTTISH IIISTOltY , 1089—1748 . History of Scotland , from the Revolution to t 7 io Matinotion of the last iTaco ^ H Insurrection , imQ— MB . By John Hill Burton . 2 vols . Longman ami Co . Mit . Burton has produced a solid and lucid work on an important , altUou Kh not strikingly interesting portion of Scottish History ; those sections ot it , such as tho Jacobite insurrections , which have it moro aramatic and universal interGat , being tho portions of Scottish History wjiion , trom memoirs , novels , and disquisitions , have lost much of their iroannoss and charm to tho public . Ho has performed his task , however , wun groatand impartial ability ; research in his handB never degenerates mio peaantio trifling ; history never loses its dignity in pamphleteering ,

    or ad captandum encroachment into the province of the novelist . If not brilliant , he is never dull , always readable , always worth reading . The facts are well massed , the narrative threading through them in an easy unforced manner . An excellent index facilitates reference . In judging of the execution of this work we judge as one of the public ; no means have we of settling its absolute value in point of historical fidelitvi but those better versed than we pretend to be in . Scottish Burton sound it is extensive

    History assure us Mr . 's learning as as as . "What ! Mf . Burton seems to make clear beyond dispute is'the ' national nature of the movement towards the Union of Scotland with England , and the want of evidence for that " corruption" said by Jacobite writers to have been so largely practised , and to have been so preponderating an influence . That there was much money spent , and great exertions made , are undeniable ; but it is not clear that corruption , in any strict sense of . the-term ; was much of a determining influence .

    He also clears away much of what Ilomance has woven mythically around the Jacobites and their cause ; but here , as elsewhere , the reader will be struck with his calm impartiality . To give an idea of his style we select from his account of the famous Cameronians , or Hillmen : — " The ruling principle among these men was the simplest and the broadest ot all human principles—that which has more or less guided mankind in all ages and all conditions of society — in despotisms , oligarchies , and democracies — among Polytheists , Mohammedans , Jews , and Christians . It was the simple doctrine , that I am right and you are wrong , and that whatever opinion different from mine is entertained by you , must be forthwith uprooted . By another way oi describing the relative position of parties , the Cameronians were the select people

    of God and his chosen instruments ; while all who differed with , or opposed them , were the children of perdition . They took their creed from the New Testament , but their associations and religious revellings were all in the Old ; and if the tone of their writings were held as a sufficient indication , it might he said that they coldly adopted the one as a formal test , hut that their souls yearned after the older dispensation , as a practical embodiment of their own proud , fierce , and exclusive tempers . They loved the parallels which it afforded them , in the day of oppression and bondage , followed by that of victory and extermination ; and though their faith bound them to the milder dispensation , their sympathies ever unconsciously fell back on those self-sufficient and tyrannical attributes , which the principles of toleration have counted antagonistic to Christianity instead of fundamental to it .

    " The Hillmen , as they were isolated by the Privy Council and the dragoons from the social intercourse of their kind , isolated themselves by a far stricter spiritual cordon . The more bitterly showered on them the torrent of temporal penalties , the more sternly did they retaliate , by cutting off the wickedrand dooming them , on principles satisfactory to themselves , and with a perfect assurance of their judgment being effective—to perdition . Gradually they drew the circle narrower and narrower . Popery , the original enemy against whom they inherited an old feud from the early Scottish reformers , was , like Buddhism or Mohammedanism , too far off to be deemed practically a hostile power . Prelacy was nearly in the same position in a religious sense , though its close practical position , and the actual bleeding wounds daily received from it , made it beyond a doubt a practical

    grievance . What they were more deeply concerned with , however , was the class of presbyterian clergymen who had lost their own souls , and the souls of their unfortunate followers , by accepting the Indulgence granted in a sort of penitential alarm by the persecuting government , when it found that men could not be sent from one church to another by command , like troops changing quarters . But there was a left-handed defection , which grieved the righteous souls of the Hillmen even more than the acceptance of the Indulgence , because it came closer home to them . This was found among the class who , though they might be earnest , even to stripes , and bondage , and blood , for liberty of conscience to themselves , admitted the soul-destroying principle of toleration , and would give like liberty of conscience to the rest of mankind— yea , cyen to their persecutors—and open a

    door to blasphemy and heresy , and all the corruptions which they had in common , with the testimony of their blood , sworn to extirpate . A considerable number of the presbyterian party were ready at least to tolerato the moderate episcopalians , and were thus extremely offensive to tho Cameronians . But there was still a nearer circle of enemies , severed from them by a very little distance , but that distance disclosed a . chasm . These persons thought that tho presbyterian system was that appointed by God , and that it ought to be supreme , and all others should bo trampled under it ; but , whilo holding this ecclesiastical opinion , and not on principle disinclined to execute it , if they had the power , they were not ready , at

    that precise moment of feebleness and humiliation , to come forward as the arbiters of the world's destiny , and , smiting with tho sword all who opposed them , reject toleration for themselves , while they denounced its extension to others , and dealt with every government not strictly covenanting , as a government contrary to God ' s will , which ought not to bo permitted to exist . This was , however , what tho Cameronians deemed their immediate function , and in its performance they isolated themselves from tho rest of their countrymen , throwing defianeo in tlio teeth of nil parties , and firmly believing that , likd tho Jews in tho wilderness , they were sonic- day soon to inarch in triumph to an entire supremacy over the nations of the earth .

    " The naino of this party lives in tho present day , associated , oddly enough , with a , dashing regiment inheriting a long history of brilliant exploits . Even in its early days , however , its warlike character was , as wo shall find , supremo . Peace and submission were far from tho habits and thoughts of Cameron ' s followers With all their deeply Boated devotion , it must bo noticed that they were by no means docile . followers of spiritual teaohors . They were tho kind of church which constitutes itself , and selects a clerical representative , not that which , acknowledging tho separate and superior order of the priesthood , humbly obeys its directions . " And this also from the account of ¦ TItIC CLKliaY OP T 1 TK INVOLUTION .

    " Before concluding this sketch of tho religious settlement of tho Revolution , n fow words may bo ottered on tho social and intellectual character of tho Revolution clergymen . A ghuico tit their literary position discloses tho mid intellectual havoc of tho ugo of persecution . Tho ministers of tho Kovolution wore no inoro a fair upcciinon of tho literary fruit of tho preabytenrm systoni , than tho fugitives of a routed forco nro a fair wpecimon of tho discipline- nnd morality of an army . To

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    . Xtkhjst 6 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 763

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 6, 1853, page 763, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1998/page/19/