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 and to stand upon the great, pure and unassailable lessons ot History. If men stand by them manfully and work for them vigorously, the time may come, nay, it will come, when renewed power and lasting life will further the ends of justice. Men are surely not expected deliberately to doom themselves to death and, under the leadership of Forlorn Hope and Despair, to give it tip, with a resolution worthy of a modern fakir!!! The talismanic word "reaction" is now being sounded throughout France, and nine out of ten educated Englishmen do not know who alone can be the lawful Sovereign of France. Wherefore, we determined, without any pretension to political education or position, to take advantage of the present revival in historical explorations and political expeditions to rebuke the strange phenomenon of ignorant or prejudiced countrymen of ours with testimonies certain and proofs to which no man may add and from which no man may take away, unless falling under the accusations of disreputable sectarianism and unmanly partisanship. From the principles with their effects as laid down in this Essay, it will be easily seen that on this side of the Channel every true and sensible Englishman is in duty bound to stand by Mr. Newdegate, the Parliamentary Representative for North Warwick, and to oppose all shades and fancies of Bradlaughism, simply on the ground that they represent in England the worst and most dangerous principles of French Revolutions and French Republics.