We have exhausted, perhaps exceeded, our limits; and we have only extracted a few of the most striking ideas from the first hundred pages of one of Guizot's works--_ex uno disce omnes_. The translation of them has been an agreeable occupation for a few evenings; but they awake one mournful impression--the voice which uttered so many noble and enlightened sentiments is now silent; the genius which once cast abroad light on the history of man, is lost in the vortex of present politics. The philosopher, the historian, are merged in the statesman--the instructor of all in the governor of one generation. Great as have been his services, brilliant his course in the new career into which he has been launched, it is as nothing compared to that which he has left; for the one confers present distinction, the other immortal fame. Footnotes: [1] Little girl--or girl, merely. [2] Mr O'Connell stated in his speech, after "the liberation," that that most unexpected and miraculous event had been publicly prayed for in all the churches of Belgium. [3] Taken from Lewis's Statistics of the Four Reformed Parliaments. [4] The following account of the number of freeholders on the register, in 1837, when the number was largest, and in 1841, taken from Lewis's tables, will show an immense decrease in those counties completely under the control of the priests and agitators, and where their power is unassailable. 1837. 1841. Clare, 3170 1785 Cork, 4180 3706 Galway county, 3074 1990 Galway town, 2084 1600 King's county, 1520 1078 Limerick city, 2813 1670 Limerick county, 2850 1893 Mayo, 1569 1064 Meath, 1850 1236 Roscommon, 2077 1059 Tipperary, 3460 2464 Waterford, 1494 802 Wexford, 3031 1739 All those counties and cities are, and always have been, represented by Radicals and Repealers; so that it appears the Repeal party are invariably best off where there are least freeholders, notwithstanding their constant complaints of what they suffer by the domination of the constituencies. [5] Qualifying under the "solvent tenant test," (which was generally adopted by the Conservative barristers,) the claimant was obliged to swear and to prove that "he could obtain from a good and solvent tenant a clear yearly rent of ten pounds over and above what he paid himself," while the freeholder, qualifying under "the beneficial interest test," (which was acted on by the Whig and Radical barristers,) had only to prove that the crops and produce raised on his land by his own labour, yielded him a surplus of ten pounds over and above the amount of his rent.