The single arrow may be easily splintered, but, to use the memorable words of Genghis-Khan, "So long as the sheaf is bound together in three places--in love, honesty, and good accord--no man can have power to grieve us; but, if we be divided from these three places, that one of us help not the other, we shall be destroyed and brought to nothing." We recommend the moral contained in the apologue of the old Asiatic chief to the serious consideration of all men belonging to the Conservative party; for this they may rely upon, that, not only is prolonged discord an act of egregious folly, but that any one who refuses, in the present troublous times, to lend a hand to the reknitting of the severed tie, cannot, in the estimation of good men, be considered a friend to his country. And if this be so, what faith can we repose in him who cut the cords asunder? _Printed by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh._ * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Obvious typographical errors were repaired, but valid archaic spellings were retained. Hyphenation variants have been standardized. P. 570, "summons to a sick funnel": original read "sick funuel." P. 612, "and looking on the vigorous and growing": original showed "oking" with extra space before it. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848, by Various