being was a Puritan, and how it struck its prey? His courtiers would have taught him to despise and ridicule--his bishops to look askance with solemn aversion,--but who was there to teach him to fear this Puritan?--to teach him that he must forthwith conciliate, if he could not crush? It is worth while to continue the narrative a little further. We adopt Mr Carlyle's words. "At London, matters are coming rapidly to a crisis. The resumed debate, 'shall the army remonstrance be taken into consideration?' does not come out affirmative; on the contrary, on Thursday the 31st, it comes out negative, by a majority of ninety. 'No, we will not take it into consideration.' 'No?' The army at Windsor thereupon spends again 'a day in prayer.' The army at Windsor has decided on the morrow, that it will march to London; marches, arrives accordingly, on Saturday, December 2d; quarters itself in Whitehall, in St James's, 'and other great vacant houses in the skirts of the city and villages about, no offence being given any where.' In the drama of modern history, one knows not any graver, more note-worthy scene; earnest as very death and judgment. They have decided to have justice, these men; to see God's justice done, and his judgments executed on this earth." Adjutant Allen and Mr Carlyle are both of the same mind,--take the same views of public matters, political and religious. But the Adjutant himself would open great eyes at the sentence which next follows:-- "The abysses where the thunders and splendours are bred--the reader sees them again laid bare and black. Madness lying close to the wisdom which is brightest and highest;--and owls and godless men who hate the lightning and the light, and love the mephitic dusk and darkness, are no judges of the actions of heroes! Shedders of blood? Yes, blood is occasionally shed. The healing surgeon, the sacrificial priest, the august judge, pronouncer of God's oracles to man, these and the atrocious murderer are alike shedders of blood; and it is an owl's eye, that, except for the _dresses_ they wear, discerns no difference in these! Let us leave the owl to his hootings; let us get on with our chronology and swift course of events." By forcibly expelling more than one hundred of the members of Parliament, and thus converting a minority into a majority, these "sacrificial priests" contrived to accomplish their very righteous act. In the face of raving such as this, it would be absurd to enter seriously upon any consideration, moral or political, touching the King's death. We would rather that Mr Carlyle occupied the field alone. We saw him just now dealing with his "abysses," and his "lightning;" we quote his concluding comment on this event, which will present a specimen of his more facetious style of eloquence, and the singular _taste_ he is capable of displaying:--