lth, splendour, flattery, all gone!
The look of favour--the voice of power, no more;--the deserted
palace--the wretched monarch on his funeral bier--the mourners
ready--the dismal march of death prepared. Who are we, and what are
we? and for what has God made us? and why are we doomed to thus frail
and unquiet existence? Who does not feel all this? in whose heart does
it not provoke appeal to, and dependence on, God? before whose eyes
does it not bring the folly and the nothingness of all things human?"

He pauses to pay a tribute to the honesty and patriotism of William IV.,
and then proceeds:--

"But the world passes on, and a new order of things arises. Let us
take a short view of those duties which devolve upon the young Queen,
whom Providence has placed over us: what ideas she ought to form of
her duties; and on what points she should endeavour to place the
glories of her reign.

"First and foremost, I think the new Queen should bend her mind to the
very serious consideration of educating her people. Of the importance
of this I think no reasonable doubt can exist; it does not in its
effects keep pace with the exaggerated expectations of its injudicious
advocates; but it presents the best chance of national improvement.

"Reading and writing are mere increase of power. They may be turned, I
admit, to a good or a bad purpose; but for several years of his life
the child is in your hands, and you may give to that power what bias
you please. Thou shalt not kill--Thou shalt not steal--Thou shalt not
bear false witness:--by how many fables, by how much poetry, by how
many beautiful aids of imagination, may not the fine morality of the
Sacred Scriptures be engraven on the minds of the young? I believe the
arm of the assassin may be often stayed by the lessons of his early
life. When I see the village school, and the tattered scholars, and
the aged master or mistress teaching the mechanical art of reading or
writing, and thinking that they are teaching that alone, I feel that
the aged instructor is protecting life, insuring property, fencing the
altar, guarding the throne, giving space and liberty to all the fine
powers of man, and lifting him up to his own place in the order of
Creation.

"There are, I am sorry to say, many countries in Europe which have
taken the lead of England in th