teach us that the blessing should _first_ be shared by those who have
done most to deserve it--who know best how it should be used--and who
have the most powerful hereditary claims upon the sympathy and
consideration of Christians. The time is surely at hand, when the badge
of ignominy shall be removed from them--at least in Britain--where, but
for the exception to which we refer, Freedom is the birthright of every
native of the soil. Cromwell knew their value to a state; and had he
lived a few years longer, the Jew would have been at liberty to
cultivate his own lands, and manure them (if it so pleased him) with his
own gold, any where within the sea-girt isle of England.

We must no longer digress, although upon a most important and most
interesting topic, but proceed to inform our readers what they must
already have anticipated, that Zillah had little inclination towards the
husband procured for her by her injudicious friends. The Rabbi thought
it altogether a suitable match, particularly as Ichabod could trace his
descent from the tribe of Levi, and was of undoubted wealth, and,
according to belief, unspotted reputation; but Zillah cared little for
reputation, she knew not its value--little for wealth, for the finest
and rarest jewels of the world sparkled in gorgeous variety upon her
person, so that she moved more like a rainbow than a living
woman--little, very little for the tribe of Levi, and less than all for
Ichabod. His black eyes she likened to burnt cinders; she saw no beauty
in a beard striped and mottled with grey, although it was perfumed with
the sweets of Araby, and oiled with as pure and undefiled an unction as
that which flowed from the horn of the ancient Samuel upon the head of
the youthful David. His stateliness provoked her mirth--his deafness her
impatience; and when she compared him with the joyous cavaliers, the
brilliant and captivating men who graced the court of the gay and
luxurious Louis, for whose gallant plumes and glittering armour she so
often watched through her half-closed lattice, she turned from the
husband they would have given with a disgust that was utterly
insupportable.

Her father had prevailed upon the family with whom she lived to remove
to Paris during his residence in England, which had been prolonged from
day to day, in compliance with the desire of the Protector. He was
anxious that his child should be instructed in such elegant arts as
those in which the ladies of