几e New Setdepnent.-It is a Rome henceforth free that I am to write the history -h O.e 尸宁儿r civil administration and the conduct of wars her annuallv elected magistrates. the .碑v r authority of her laws supreme over all her citizens.The tyranny of the last king made this liberty all the more welcome, for such had been the rule of the former kings that they might not undeservedlv be counted as founders of parts，at all events‘ of the city;for the additions they made were required as abodes for the increased population which they themselves had augmented. There is no question that the Brutus who won such glory through the expulsion of Superbus would have inflicted the gravest iniurv on the State had he wrested the sovereiLynty from anv oar the former xinzs.tnrouzn desire ox a nDerty for which the people were not ripe.What would have been the result if that horde of shepherds and immigrants, fugitives from their own cities, who had secured liberty, or at all events impunity, in the shelter of an inviolable sanctuary''-if。工say, they had been freed from the restraining power of kings and, agitated by tribunieian storms, had begun to foment quarrels with the patricians in a City where they were aliens before sufficient time had elapsed for either family ties or a growing love for the very soil to effect a union of hearts? The infant State would have been torn to pieces As it was, however, the moderate and of the kings had so fostered it that it forth the fair fruits of liberty in the maturity of its strength. But the origin of liberty may be referred to this tune rather because the consular authority was limited to one year than because there was any weakening of the authority which the kings had possessed. The first consuls retained all the old jurisdiction and insignia of nly, however, had the“fasces," to prevent the fear have been inspired by the sight of both with those symbols. Through the concession of his colleague, Brutus 70 had them first and he was not less zealous 1n guarding the publicliberty\l1anhepublic liberty than hehad been in achieving it. His first act was to secure zne people, who W'ere now jealous of their newly= recovered liberty, from being influenced by any entreaties or bribes from the king He therefore made them take an oath that they would not suffer any man to reign in Rome. The senate had been thinned by the murderous cruelty of Tarquin and Brutus' next care was to strengthen its influence by selectingA A YI V some of the leading men of equestrian rank to till the vacancies;by this means he brought it up to the old number of three hundred. The new members were known as“conscrioti," the old ones J.产 retained their designation of“patres." This measure had a wonderful effect in promoting harmony in the State and bringing the patricians and plebeians together.