concluded by explaining to the congregation, if he thought proper, the reason for this ceremony of christening the bells, which was that they might act as preservatives against thunder and lightning, and hail and wind, and storms of every kind, and moreover that they might drive away evil Spirits. To these and their other virtues the Bishop of Chalons alluded in his late truly Gallican and Roman Catholic discourse. “The Bells,” said he, “placed like centinels on the towers, watch over us and turn away from us the temptations of the enemy of our salvation, as well as storms and tempests. They speak and pray for us in our troubles; they inform heaven of the necessities of the earth.” Now were this edifying part of the Roman Catholic ritual to be re-introduced in the British dominions,—as it very possibly may be now that Lord Peter has appeared in his robes before the King, and been introduced by his title,—the opportunity would no doubt be taken by the Bishop or Jesuit who might direct the proceedings, of complimenting the friends of their cause by naming the first “holy and happy family” after them. And to commemorate the extraordinary union of sentiment which that cause has brought about between persons not otherwise remarkable for any similitude of feelings or opinions, they might unite two or more names in one bell, (as is frequently done in the human subject,) and thus with a peculiar felicity of compliment, shew who and who upon this great and memorable occasion have _pulled together_. In such a case the names selected for a peal of eight tunable bells might run thus Bim 1st. — Canning O'Connel. Bim 2d. — Plunkett Shiel. Bim 3d. — Augustus Frederick Cobbett. Bim 4th. — Williams Wynn Burdett Waithman. Bim 5th. — Grenville Wood. Bim 6th. — Palmerston Hume. Bom — Lawless Brougham. Bell — Lord King, _per se_;— —alone _par excellence_, as the thickest and thinnest friend of the cause, and moreover because None but himself can be his parallel; and last in order because the base note accords best with him; and because for the decorum and dignity with which he has at all times treated the Bishops, the clergy and the subject of religion, he must be allowed to bear the bell not from his compeers alone but from all his contemporaries. CHAPTER XXXI. P. I. MORE CONCERNING BELLS. Lord, ringing changes all our bells hath marr'd; Jangled they have and jarr'd So long, they're out of tune, and out of frame; They seem not now the same. Put them in frame anew, and once begin To tune them so, that they may chime all in! HERBERT.