ABOVE ALL THINGS—CHARITY.

ABOVE ALL THINGS—CHARITY.

THE change from a lay, to a clerical proprietor does not seem to have brought about a corresponding change of heart, so far as concerns the editorial conduct of the Firemen’s Herald The greatest of all virtues, Charity, which, considering the character of its new management, we should have thought would have shone forth in its pages, is conspicuous only by its absence. In its stead the green-eyed monster jealousy glares at us from out its columns. Probably, however, the experience already acquired in the editorial sanctum has tended to infuse into its pages that bile which is always such a prominent feature in all religious papers; though our clerical brother should remember that the Firemen’s Herald makes no pretentions to being a Sunday-school publication, only the vehicle for conveying to a very limited circle of readers a modicum of very ordinary fire news, often at second-hand and without acknowledgment of the source from which it is derived—a line we had hoped would have been foreign to the new management. That atrabiliousness, however, should be overcome, so as to stand in the way of our contemporary’s carping at those trifles of which even the law does not take heed, or, if it must be indulged in, let it spend itself on worthier objects than the mere color of a contemporary’s cover. And while on this topic we would add that, in the Herald's present frame of mind, even if FIRE AND WATER were "clad in robes of virgin white,” its purity of appearance would still prove an offence to one whose diseased temperament can see, not good, only evil in everything—thus verifying the poet'e theory that

All seems yellow to the jaundiced eye. Mean while, in our anxiety to keep up the high reputation of our contemporary for scholarship and higher criticism, might we suggest that, under its new editorial, and presumably scholarly management it should studiously refrain from mixing up the Latin first and second declensions and print, not ad nauseum. but ad nauseam? See any Latin grammar.