d; their religion in the North, which is the Protestantism
of the Protestant religion; the fact that in the South they hold
slaves; the general diffusion among them of education; the
circumstance that they speak English and that an Englishman is
the unfittest man on earth to argue another Englishman into
being a slave; and the 3000 miles of ocean, between us and
them. It cannot be treated as criminal, there being no way to
draw up an indictment against a whole nation. Indeed, you have
already tried to do this and failed. There remains no way of
treating the American spirit except to comply with it as
necessary. I propose, therefore, to erect a Temple of British
Concord with six massive pillars by granting to America in six
propositions the identical rights which for generations have
been by acts of Parliament secured to Ireland, Wales, Chester,
and Durham, except that, owing to the distance of America from
England, each colony, instead of sending members to Parliament,
shall have the power, through its own legislature, to grant or
refuse aids to the Crown. If adopted, these measures, I believe,
will substitute an immediate and lasting peace for the disorders
which Lord North's measures have created. The unbought loyalty
of a free people, thus secured, will give us more revenue than
any coercive measure. Indeed, it is the only cement that can
hold together the British Empire."

II

EDINBURGH, Sept. 20, 1887.--Edmund Burke was the theme of a
lecture delivered last night before the Edinburgh Philosophical
Society by Mr. Augustine Birrell. "Nobody is fit to govern this
country who has not drunk deep at the springs of Burke," said
Mr. Birrell, and he backed up this contention with a wealth of
wit and argument which delighted and convinced his audience.

The following is a summary of his lecture: "To give a full
account of Burke's public life is no part of my plan. I propose
merely to sketch his early career, to explain why he never
obtained a seat in the cabinet, and to essay an analysis of the
essential elements of his greatness. Born in 1729 in Dublin, he
grew up with a brother who speculated and a sister of a type who
never did any man any serious harm; acquired at school a brogue
which death alone could silence; at Trinity College, Dublin,
became an omnivorous reader;