We have looked over these pages, with much anxiety, to see if there is one word which we ought to alter or modify. We cannot find any. The approaching political struggle--however it may be disguised by local influences, whatever complexion it may assume in districts more or less interested in the solution of particular questions--is a national one, and upon its issue the destinies of the country must depend. If there are any who look with complacency on the expatriation of the British labourer, on the decline of the colonial empire, on the depression of once thriving branches of industry at home, and an unsettled trade abroad--if there are any who think that a democratic form of government is the safest and the best which can be devised by the wit of man; who agree with Mr Cobden, "that the instinct of the million is wiser than the wisdom of the wisest"--let them by all means cast the weight of their influence into the opposite scale. But let those who wish to see the harmony of interests restored, and the conflict of classes ended; who desire that labour should be justly dealt with, and native industry encouraged; who deprecate all rash innovations on the Constitution; who uphold the cause of Protestantism, and appreciate the value of sound government--let them rally around Lord Derby in answer to his noble appeal; and the triumph of the cause of truth, justice, humanity, and religion is secure. _Printed by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh._ * * * * * Transcriber's Note: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Obvious punctuation errors and minor printer errors repaired. p.456: (Fennimore Cooper's novels) in original (across hyphen), corrected to (Fenimore Cooper's novels) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852, by Various