to submit for the consideration of another body. How was it possible to suppose that, in the face of so clear and distinct a declaration as this, any kind of agitation directed against the existence of the present Ministry could succeed? What pretext was there for agitation, seeing that the decision which must ultimately regulate the nature of our commercial policy depends upon the will of the constituencies? [Q] The passage to which we allude is certainly remarkable. It occurs in the twentieth book of the Iliad, and is as follows:-- "Αὖε δ' Ἄρης ἑτέρωθεν, ἐρεμνῇ λαίλαπι ἶσος, Ὀξὺ κατ' ἀκροτάτης πόλεως Τρώεσσι κελεύων, Ἄλλοτε πὰρ Σιμόεντι θέων ἐπὶ Καλλικολώνῃ." Which is thus literally reduced into English:--"And Mars yelled aloud on the other side, like to a dark whirlwind, sharply animating the Trojans from the summit of the city, at other times running beside the Simois upon CALLICO-LONE." Great is the ingenuity which the commentators have displayed in their researches as to the nature of this place, Callico-lone, which appears to have puzzled them. The most learned of them, however, agree in this, that it was a building situated without the walls of Troy, and _decorated with a tall shaft_; in short, that it bore a striking resemblance to a modern cotton factory! The reader need not be surprised at finding such allusions in Homer, who was not only a great poet, but an enlightened political economist. He was decidedly against unrestricted imports, as appears from the following passage, which is put into the mouth of Hector:-- "Πρὶν μὲν γὰρ Πριάμοιο πόλιν μέροπες ἄνθρωποι Πάντες μυθέσκοντο πολύχρυσον πολύχαλκον· Νῦν δὲ δὴ ἐξαπόλωλε δόμων κειμήλια καλὰ, Πολλὰ δὲ δὴ Φρυγίην καὶ Μῃονίην ἐρατεινὴν Κτήματα περνάμεν' ἵκει, ἐπεὶ μέγας ὠδύσατο Ζεύς." We believe that the following translation will be found to express the meaning of the original in its integrity:-- Once we were a wealthy city, and our fame abroad resounded As a place where gold and silver, and all precious things, abounded; BUT WE TOOK TO IMPORTATION, and the sad effect has been, That but little of our former wealth within the walls is seen. It has gone away to Phrygia, and Moeonia growing-grain, And we've eaten all they gave us--Jove has made our thrift in vain. --_Iliad_, xviii. 288-292.