with some people-we give the following notices from that moral and religious work, "The Bible Bull," whose editors appear to place themselves on a level with the King, and think they can do no wrong, in spite of their being fined and imprisoned for not doing right.

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'Mr. Coke, at seventy-four, and his beautiful bride, Lord Albemarle's daughter, at eighteen, are spending their honey-moon at Paddington; enquiries being made at the house the morning following the bridal night, the reply was-" That Mr. Coke was as well as could be expected, and Lady Ann was the same as the day before!"

Mr. Coke has, we believe, several grand-children, one of whom is married to Lord Anson, and is the mother of the present M. P. for North Yarmouth. Lord Anson is well known in the gay world, and it is whispered that Mr. Anson, heir-at-law to Holkham, is unable to pursue his "vocation" of pleasure upon the sum of five thousand per annum, but

"Starves, in the midst of Nature's bounty curst,

"And in the loaden vineyard dies of thirst."

Mr. Coke has been eulogized for refusing a Peerage, so has Sir Watkyn Williams Wynne. The latter is a greater man in Wales as he now is, than if he had an Earldom.*

Mr. Coke would willingly have been a Peer of his own creation, but declined to be one of the Minister's making. For this purpose, he treated for the purchase of Arundel Castle, which conveys the title of Earl of Arundel to its possessor: but Ministers foiled him in his views, and he remains plain old Mr. Coke, with a young Lady, by title, to warm and cherish him under disappointment.

*It may not be amiss to mention an anecdote of him when the Prince of Wales remarked that he was a "greater man than his Prince:""6 No," replied Sir Watkyn, "your Royal Highness is Prince of Wales-I am only a Prince in Wales."

It would not astonish any one acquainted with the uxoriousness of old age, to see a future earl in the family at Holkham. When we find a man at three score and ten change his situation, and make a desperate rush into the arms of youth and beauty, it would not be surprising to find him change bis politics to please her for if he cannot please her in one thing needful, he must in another.

The world are aware, from Mr. Coke's thundering speech at the opening of the present Session of Parliament, that he is not impaired in the strength of his lungs, nor in his passion of the brain, for which the Speaker called him to order. Heartily do we wish that his fair spouse may not have to call him to order about the weakness of passion of the heart, till many years have passed after the birth of a son, whom we are sure he will pride in as Jacob did in Joseph-the "child of his age" whom he tenderly loved.

We have given a plate in this number, which will be found chaste and appropriate: it is meant in good part-to record a singular event, and one as unexpected as that winter should repose in the lap of summer, and roses bloom on the stem of an icicle.

That David loved a young Shunamite is a royal truth, and who dare disbelieve it ?—indeed, Mr. Coke has a royal example of modern date, hereafter to be recorded in other books than Bibles, that Dandies of Sixty, after years spent in the society of ancient matrons, turn to youth for a little warmth to put them in mind of a passion that tingled through their veins forty years ago.

But our veteran Benedick has the best apology in the beauty and accomplishments of his virtuous and lovely bride.

In La Fontaine's Tales, entitled "The Old Man's Calendar, are the following lines, freely translated:

ON AN UNEQUAL MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE,

Oft have I seen, in wedlock, with surprise,
That most forgot from which true bliss would rise;

When marriage for a daughter is design'd,
The parents solely riches seem to mind;
All other boons are left to heaven above,
And seventeen must seventy learn to love,
And wintry cold with summer's warmth to move:
How curst her lot, to honour and obey
One whose soft passions long have pass'd away;
'Tis purgatory on earth-a lighted fire

Fann'd into flame, next moment to expire.

Hot and Cold Baths, near

Norfolk Street.

PHILO-GUNIAKOS.

THE INFLUENCE OF LOVE ON SOCIETY AND MANNERS, IN EUROPE.

"Man is not form'd to be alone."-STERNE.

The influence of the tender passion is universally ac knowledged-even by those who affect to be superior to the amiable weakness of loving another better than themselves. The infant turns to his mother's bosom for nourishment-he has the habit, given by instinct, of playing with his little head over her bosom, the fountain of his existence, before he can express, by a smile, his love and gratitude. As he advances from infancy to childhood, he becomes affectionately attached to the mother; and, when arrived at mature years, is it a wonder that he becomes attached to the same sex as that which gave him birth?

I am not too old to be unsusceptible of the tender passion, nor too young to indulge in it indiscreetly. According to the morals and manners of the present day, love is in most men's bosoms confined to sensual desires. To speak plainly, love and lust are now sy-nonymous terms. The love that induces people of tender years to elope and live together, is only a sexual desire that once being gratified, they seek variety, heedless of consequences and character.

But there is a love, not wholly unconnected with sensuality, (for I boldly assert that, without a connexion betwixt the sexes, there can be no real love.) The disciples of Plato are very rare, probably extinct, save in the confines of a Grand Seignor's harem.

A man must esteem before he can love. Who, that has a family crowding round his knees, in playful innocence, and blessing him in whispering accents of unstudied affection-who, in such a case, but must turn to the mother that bore them with gratitude and love, pure as the balmy breath of an infant's sigh.

Self-love is a fixed principle, and originates often in a mean and lowly mind-a heart formed, not of natural materials, but of pounds, shillings, and pence! Those who inherit this disposition, " oh! my soul, come not thou into their secret!"

Depraved women are very few in comparison to those who are the grace and ornament of society. At the present day, in England, the cloth is no sooner removed, than the second glass of wine is a signal for the ladies to retire. Toasts are then given offensive to delicacy, and those who have just retired, reflected upon in that loose language for which intemperance is not even a justification.

Amongst the middling classes, they have not arrived. at that pitch of refinement which excludes rational women from the table.

The benign influence of women, in softening the manners of men, is allowed by all. Madame De Maintenon made a naturally haughty monarch a just and mild king. Madame De Stael Holstein, whose talents we all admire, created a revolution wherever she resided, Her conversation instructed the literati-she had wit without egotism-science without arrogance -beauty without vanity-and truth without embellishment.

On the Continent of Europe, women have a more powerful influence than elsewhere. In Germany, they associate with the men at all times, and at all hours; the wife is not the mere automaton partner of her hus

band's bed and board; she is always at his side, and partakes in all his cares and pleasures; she hawks, hunts, and shoots with him, and is his companion to the hour of repose. Such was not the case when the "Sorrows of Werter" were fabricated, and rank excluded merit from the boudoir and drawing room.

The French revolution did much for the ladies-aye, and also for the men. It humanized them-it placed the female sex in their proper rank. Josephine Buonaparte was a woman, who, take her for all in all, we shall not look upon her like again. She was the cause of her husband's elevation-moulded his dispositionand, finally, by a sacrifice, (it should be recorded in letters of gold, for the honour of her sex) gave up the man she loved to the arms of another, and even pressed the connexion, in order to perpetuate the dynasty of Napoleon,

The Emperor Alexander was a daily attendant upon Josephine whilst he remained in Paris, and declared, that at her "conversationes" he received more knowledge than he did from his confidential advisers.

In Holland, the influence of woman is more conspicuous: the husband remains at home, smokes and drinks, while she repairs to the mart, negociates his bill, buys or sells his stock, keeps his books, and instead of the husband leading his wife to court, she takes him under her arm, and ushers him to the palace as her protegee. Charles Fox, when asked why he married Mrs. Fox, answered, "she said she would leave me if I did not, and I was too old to throw off old habits."

In Switzerland, the women rule with mild but powerful sway. Society is free and unbiassed; and in no country does more happiness exist than in that where woman reigns predominant.

In Italy, the women are voluptuous, intriguing, and insincere. The inattention of the men, springing from causes not to be mentioned here, is proverbial, and from their indolence, the ladies have a power that regulates, not only society in all its pleasures, but even governments in all its ramifications. It was a saying of the great and immortal Nelson-" Curse your green