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Hc 4zaOtte f>FeSSs---A great and terrific moral engine entrusted to so many hands, must always be liable to the most fragrant abuses. The man who feels conscious that he holds, as 1t were. in the hollow of his hand, the fiuctuating passions and wavering affections of large masses of people. is ever. apt to use that power over taeir passions and energies for his ambitious or selfish purposes. The overwhelming influence of the press is felt at the present day, in every nation of the civilized earth. Pfinting-born in a little and obscure town of Germany-has become the regenerator of earth. The press, like Brareus, with his hundred hands-powerful either for good or for evil--is undermining, with irresistible might, the tottering thrones ofthe old continent-but whether it's effects are to produce anarchy or freedom, the future only can tell.

 five inquire how 1t is that the House of Commons of Great Britain, of which, until lately, one half ofthe members came in by parchdse, or blythe nomination of single pro- prietors of great estates-and of which, it is also said, one half are elected by less than seven thousand voters-ifwe inquire how it is that this body has always been So much in- fiuenced by popular opinion, and so true an index of the peoples will--the cause will be found chiefly to be the great freedom of the English press. In no country has this free dom been more abused-and in no country has 1t been more truly a palladium of liberty. What was the immediate cause of the Revo- lution of the Three Days, in France! It was the tyranny exercised over tho press, by the tenth Charles. The. contest between the press and the king, provoked by the latter, ended in his discontinue. A century ago, the king would have triunphed. Even in Russia it's influence IS felt, and serfs are growing bold in the expression of their opi- nions.

 When we recognise the tremendous and majestic power of the public press, and the nnegnalled benefits which 1t has bestowed upon mankind, we are not blind to its abuses

 and to the perversions of it's power. We are

 thoroughly aware that it is, in many cases

 debased and degraded. We know that where

 itdazzles most, and is most mighty, it is ofter

 only the lustre and the strength of the faller archangel. Personal abuse, sophistry, ant : falsehood, have, in many eases, usurped tn, 

 :. places ofcourtesy, reason, and truth. It i [ ito be iamented that the editorial fraternit. l seem laboring to diminish their own dignity and to repder themselves a reproach and 9 bye-word in the community. It is a reaso : enormously assigned for not taking nor e than one paper, that if we took two, one 0 e each side, we should not know which to be $ !lieve. Do our readers remember the horde I, lof illiterate schoolmasters who once hfiooae -- the West, and are still to be found in i g hooks and corners! Even such are many in our editors uncducated and incompctel