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vernment, deserving to be encouraged andpatronized. рат-

tial good they done is great.ly exaggerated in their

infated statements, while the positive evil efects of their

intolerance are kept and of ,sight, and the intolerance

itself difers but in пате from that of ignorant reli-

gious fanaticism directed by а few speculating heads, whose

cunning ambition is а fair sample of genuine jesuitical and

inquisitional spirit. The true and the best promoter of the cause

of temperance, is homoepathia; and it is only through her

successful salutary адепсу, that, in this instance, the wishes

of а patriot сап be realized, and his object fully attained. God

speed her!

Оп the subject of а new invention, imparting to tin de-

corations the property of resisting fre, as detailed in your

extract from а St.-Petersburg journal, ат sorry to say, that

journal is the only authority for the existence and achievement

of so great а desideratum. Something 0f the kind, in соппес-

tion with the building of а theatre, has certainly been attemp-

ted in Boston some time ayd; but the signal success, crowned

with the imposing presentation of а brilliant suf box etc.,

is а mystery about which the good folks of that city, so рто-

verbially «full of notions», аге profoundly ignorant, and are

likely to remain so. This invention is akin to that of the

«artifcial yest» (levure artifcielle) which, three years since,

was located in all its glory, by St.-Petersburg journals, in the

good city of New-York, and for the procuring of whic.h

received offcial orders with thanks before hand. It took те

weeks and months to fnd it out, and whem found at last at

the obscure shop of ап obscure apothecary, it proved to be

nothing тоте than а soda powder! сап not but grieve and

wonder that such fctions are so eagerly caught at home,

while real, eminently useful inventions and practicable improve-

ments, sent from time to time through our own offcial адепсу,

аге uniformy rejected by «the committee of inspection», which,

as long as it acts under the predominant English inHuence