ne, he was haunted with tormentreflections, and would awake in eat terror, if his candle happened y to go out in the night. And, twithstanding all his high pretenons to learning and philosophy, his easiness constrained him to confess, men he came near to the grave, that he was about to take a leap in the ark." With Voltaire's writings, I nagine, you are well acquainted: uring a long life he was continually eating the holy Scriptures with ontempt, and endeavouring to spread ne poison of infidelity through the ations. Forget not the manner of is death; it was an awful scene! Recollect, Sir, what he said to the

doctor who attended him of

occasion. Doctor, I will gi

half of what I am worth, if yo give me six months life." H informed," that he could not weeks." Never let his reply be from your memory: "Then I s to hell"-and soon after expi think you cannot have forgott Paine, in his dying hour, lost hardihood, and declared tha ever the devil had an agent u earth he was one."

Gent.-Sir, I am not to be sulted. You imagine! You Who authorized you to imag to think for me? Am I to beli falsehoods which whining

Ex.-Sir, I must request you to etire; the bell informs me, that the ompany which I expected now waits dmission.

Gent. I have already indulged you Do long with my company; and with anatical politeness you have liberally ewarded my condescension.

EXHIBITION ROOM.

Mr. and Mrs. Maple, and
Exhibitor.

Mr. Maple.-Good morning We are old folks to be sent to but our excellent friend Mrs. I having informed us that you to the aged as well as the your should like to see some of yo tures; are they in that case, Si

Ex. That is the Camera, S I shall be obliged by Mrs. and yourself looking through

asses, and informing me to what e scene alludes.

Mrs. M.-O dear, Sir, we know it very little about pictures: it is ue, we have sometimes amused ourlves and our children with the rints in good old Bunyan; the lions, ne hill Difficulty, giant Despair's astle, and the rest of them. And hile my husband has read the book, we have looked at the prints, and thus we have been both amused and intructed at the same time.

Ex. I hope something of that kind will be the case at present.

Mrs. M.-But then, Sir, you must e spokesman. Our worthy landlord Mr. Neville told us that you would.