interest; everywhere the clergy cleave to power; the vast lay patronage vested in the proprietors of the soil, draws close the bond between them and the Church; the legal and medical professions, being mainly supported by wealthy patrons, have the same political and social interests. How vast a community of rank and of wealth and of intelligence do these several classes of society constitute! The House of Lords, in truth, is not only a privileged body, but a great representative institution, standing out as the embodiment of the aristocratic influence and sympathies of the country.

3. All was now confusion and despondency. The provisions had been so ill managed by the Committee, that there was no longer food for the troops. The Highlanders consequently deserted by hundreds; and the Earl, broken-hearted by his misfortune, yielded to the urgency of those who pertinaciously insisted that he should march into the Lowlands. The little army therefore hastened to the shore of Loch Long, passed that inlet by night in boats, and landed in Dumbartonshire. Hither, on the following morning, came news that the frigates had forced a passage, that all the Earl's ships had been taken, and that Elphinstone had fled from Ealan Ghierig without a blow, leaving the castle and stores to the enemy. All that remained was to invade the Lowlands under every disadvantage. Argyle resolved to make a bold push for Glasgow, but as soon as this resolution was announced, the very men who had, up to that moment, been urging him to hasten into the low country, took fright, argued, remonstrated, and when argument and remonstrance proved vain, laid a scheme for seizing the boats, making their own escape, and leaving their General and his clansmen to conquer or perish unaided. This scheme failed, and the poltroons who had formed it were compelled to share with braver men the risks of the last venture. During the march through the country which lies between Loch Long and Loch Lomond, the insurgents were constantly infested by parties of militia. Some skirmishes took place in which the Earl had the advantage, but the bands which he repelled, falling

back before him, spread the tidings of his approach, and, soon after he had crossed the river Leven, he found a strong body of regular and irregular troops prepared to encounter him. He was for giving battle. Ayloffe was of the same opinion. Hume, on the other hand, declared that to fight would be madness. He saw one regiment in scarlet; more might be behind. To attack such a force was to rush on certain death. The best course was to remain quiet till night, and then give the enemy the slip. A little altercation followed, which was with difficulty quieted by the mediation of Rumbold. It was now evening. The hostile armies encamped at no great distance from each other. The Earl ventured to propose a night attack, and was again overruled.

EXERCISE XLVI.

GENERAL EXERCISE ON SENTENCES.

DIRECTION. Study these sentences. If you find a fault in any of them, state the reason for any change you propose.

1. The King was wounded in the eye, by an arrow, after long fighting.

2. In his old age the man became wrinkled and broken and bowed.

3. They call me wise, although I am not wise, when they want to reproach you.

4. The house was crowded to its utmost capacity; every available seat was occupied and many remained standing till the close.

5. I had an indistinct glimpse of Mr. H. flying over the fence, and I rolled comfortably out of the sleigh, wrapped in the buffalo robe, under a pine-tree.

6. One of our expert wheelmen was caught in a machine fanning mill a few days ago. The effect is likely to be permanent.

7. I never saw a man in the whole course of my life and the doctors all said so, that observed directions or took medicine better than he did.

8. When the locusts approached the inhabitants shut themselves up to keep them out, but it is impossible as they are so thick.

9. War and famine and death had made them discouraged. 10. When he was first arrested, he said that he and Benwell came to the outskirts of Woodstock that day and he remained there.

II. No real reason can be given for such differences; it is simply the case that the one is customary, or what we are used to, and the other not.

12. The appearance of the serf, or bondsman, was more sad and sullen than Wamba.

13. His absent friends had every confidence in him and believed their deposits were perfectly safe in his hands; and when he told them shortly after the bank had failed that they had plenty to pay every dollar they owed, and that all that they asked was a little time, and the bank would be open in a few days, they fully believed him.

14. It is for this class that the following directions and suggestions are offered, and which, if carried out, will ensure healthy, luxuriant plants.

15. Flower-pots should be washed as often as mould or fungus growth appears, to allow evaporation and a free access of air.

16. A periphrasis is a circumlocutory and pleonastic cycle of oratorial sonorosity, circumscribing an atom of ideality, enveloped in verbal profundity.

17. You have the power of sending your name down through all times, illustrated by deeds of higher fame and more useful import, than ever were done within these walls.

18. Let us inquire whether the present system of education is harmful to the present generation or not.

19. As Addison's subjects are common, so his language was language that could be understood, and his essays are somewhat long sometimes and tedious.

20. Some, perhaps, are not so fortunate as to have a true friend in their teacher, a kind of guide; for I think if teachers knew the

way in which children imitate their actions and follow their example they would be more careful to make that example more like the divine teacher of humanity.

21. As the locusts fell to the earth they were trampled under the hoof of the travellers' horses and they did not miss them their numbers were so great.

22. The city has a large dock-yard compared with its size.

23. He is a boy that has nothing the matter with him, that takes the relish of this world out.

24. He was not an author, but he was a bard.

25. Man has two natures, that of spirituality and that of being corporeal, which always may be considered separate.

26. The doctor answered after a pause for a moment, and rubbing his head at the same time, that it was the only thing he could do.

27. A cloth served in some degree to protect the dignitaries who occupied the chair from the weather.

28. He rode, not a mule, like his companion, but a strong hackney horse.

29. I was not, like His Grace of Bedford, dandled, rocked, and swaddled into a legislator.

30. You have already been informed of the sale of Ford's Theatre, where Mr. Lincoln was assassinated, for religious purposes.

31. The works of God are very wonderful.

32. The duke owed Lord Dice about five thousand pounds, and Temple Grace owed him as many hundreds; Lord Castleford also owed him seven hundred and fifty, and the baron owed him a small sum.

33. As smoke is driven away, so chase (drive?) them away. 34. We played croquet in the morning; we played lawn tennis in the afternoon; and we played chess in the evening.

35. No one seems to have believed our report. (Interrogation.) 36. He worked all night in his office, he worked next day at his trade, and he worked at his garden in the evening.

37. He became, however, as time passed on, sensual, selfish, despotic, and cruel.

38. A diminutive specimen of the feminine gender, rejoicing in the euphonious cognomen of Mary, was possessed of a young animal called, in common parlance, a lamb. The exterior woolly covering of the quadruped was in color white as the driven snow; and to all places and localities whithersoever the said Mary in her wanderings did perambulate, the aforesaid small quadruped in like manner was just as certain to peregrinate.

39. Resolved, That this Association expresses the regret with which they have heard of the death of Mr. J. B., who added to great ability the virtues of courtesy and kindness to the other members of his profession, coupled with the highest integrity, and they desire to convey to Mrs. B. and family their heartfelt sympathy in a bereavement, that is felt by the profession throughout the province.

40. Addison suffered much from attacks of asthma, and died in the calmness of a confident trust in God.

41. He fell forward suddenly one day whilst gardening with his head in a bed of mignonette, and when taken up was as dead as a stone.

42. A man finds himself pleased, he does not know how or why with the cheerfulness of his companion; it is like a sudden sunshine that awakens a secret delight in the mind without his attending to it.

43. "If you wish to find the Professor," said the student, “crucify the quadrangle, ascend the grades, make a dextral vert, and you will find him perambulating his domicile or prospecting his fenestrum.

44. Along the ranks go officer and sergeant until the front rank is reached.

45. Our hearts will go out to those that have helped to make the Convention days profitable, never to be forgotten, and delightful. 46. Being deeply sensible of the increasing evils caused by intemperance, alarmed at the dangers of, and commiserating the