to rebuild, what else can we do but pull down
here and there a street at a time, and reconstruct it on a better plan? It
is miserable work this pulling down. One is blinded by dust--one loses
one's way; all seems ruin and confusion. But the new street rises--the
rubbish is removed--the dust is laid; one finds one's way again, and finds
it twice as short as before. It is only by successive changes of this kind
that the great city of our jurisprudence can be adapted to the wants of
its multiplied and changed inhabitants.

We ought perhaps to mention, that Mr Warren has been discreetly silent on
some of the topics to which we have ventured to allude. He has very wisely
avoided all questions of casuistry; and we trust that, in our glances on
the moral position of the bar, we shall not be thought to have manifested
any want of respect for a learned body, the members of which, in their
individual character, stand as high in our estimation as those of any body
whatever, and which, as a whole, presents a greater array of talent than
in any other denomination of men could be met with. We revert once more to
Mr Warren's very useful, able, and praiseworthy publication to wish him
success, not only in this undertaking, which may be already said to be
crowned with success, but in the still greater and more laborious
enterprise which he has on foot, and which this specimen of his legal
authorship shows him fully competent to achieve.

MARGARET OF VALOIS.

On the eighteenth day of August 1572, a great festival was held in the
palace of the Louvre. It was to celebrate the nuptials of Henry of Navarre
and Margaret of Valois.

This alliance between the chief of the Protestant party in France, and the
sister of Charles IX. and daughter of Catharine of Medicis, perplexed, and
in some degree alarmed, the Catholics, whilst it filled the Huguenots with
joy and exultation. The king had declared that he knew and made no
difference between Romanist and Calvinist--that all were alike his
subjects, and equally beloved by him. He caressed the throng of Huguenot
nobles and gentlemen whom the marriage had attracted to the court, was
affectionate to his new brother-in-law, friendly with the prince of Conde,
almost respectful to the venerable Admiral de Coligny, to whom he proposed
to confide the command of an army in a projected war with Spain. The
chiefs of the Catholic party were not behind-hand in following the example
set them by Charl