DOMESTIC MANNERS OF TUE rRÜSSIANS.

Tho last summons, it was arranged, was to be addressed tothe heretics by tlio Diet of Speier, which was to take place onthe 25th June, 1526.

On the opening of this Diet, the first step of the Evangelicalprinces, after entering the town, was " to ask," say thehistorians, " for a place of worship." The Bishop of Speier,Count-Palatine of the Rinne, having indignantly refused thestränge request, the princes complained of it, as an act ofinjustice, and ordered their ministers to preach daily in thehalls of their palaces, which were immediately filled by animmense crowd from the city and the country, amounting tomany thousands.

In vain, on the feast-days, did Ferdinand, the ultramon-tane princes, and the bishops, assist in the pomps of the Romanworship in the Kaiserdom ; the simple Gospel preached in theProtestant vestibules engrossed all bearers, and the tawdrypageant of the mass was celebrated in an empty church.

All the followers of the Evangelical princes in thosedays wore, embroidered on their right sleeves, the initialsV. D. M. I. iE,, that is to say: " Verbüm Dei Manet In.ZEternum" (the Word of God endureth for ever). The sameinscription might be read on the escutcheons of the Lutheranprinces suspended over their hoteis.

In every part of the city, too, hawkers were selling Christianpamphlets, written in Latin and in German, and ornamentedwith engravings, in which the errors of Rome were vigorouslyattacked. One of these books was entitled, " The Papacy withits Members,painted and deseribed by Doctor Luther;" and init figured the Pope, the Cardinais, and all the religious Orders,exceeding sixty, each with their costumes and descriptions inverse.

But in the interval between the summoning and assemblingof the Diet, Pope Clement VII., whom Charles was about to