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Rh such as do not concern them. A sedate-looking gentleman, who lives in Finsbury Square perhaps, and whose money is in the funds, raves about the corn laws: another, in a black coat, forgets to make his Sunday sermon, in the composition of a speech at a meeting for the abolition of West India slavery. But from the affairs of our next-door neighbour, to those of church and state, we take an intense interest in those of others. S,when he came from Brussels, at the time of the revolution, was asked what it was like. "Like?" said he, "why, like a vestry meeting." We talk of vanity, discontent, patriotism; but the real first cause of the passion for politics is the love of talking, inherent in masculine nature. In the mean time, Edward found that love and politics had been adverse influences on his destiny. His brother's most unlooked-for marriage altered all his prospects as regarded his succession to the Etheringhame title and estates: his difference with Mr. Delawarr closed the principal avenue of his political career. His future path in life must be cleared by himself.

The energy with which he set about the task shewed he was equal to it. He had inherited a