The Montreal witness, 27 février 1856, The Canadian Review and Journal of Literature

[" THE CANADIAN REVIEW AND Vor.IL \u2014 THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW-\u2014Ocrossa, 1855.\u2014 Republished by Leonard, Scott & Co., New York.May be bad of al! Booksellers.An.L\u2014Peter Daniel luet.\u2014Lile and opinions.Some men make much of few materials, whilst others waste powers and ac- quirements of the bighest order in unfruitfulness.It is not he that knows most, that always makes the tnost of what he knows.Some are unfruitful through indalence.Gray, for example, with such au exquisite genius, how little has he left behind, yet how that little makes us long for more.Others err in an oppesite direction ; they write too much, and the thoughts which might have been coucen- trated 1n an immortal treatise, sre diffused over the slipshod pages of soon forgotten volumes, Sometimes, as we know, this is matler of necessity ; the poot author writes for bread, and cannot afford tv spend years over a work, albeit he is consious that by so doing he would securely build up his own fame, (for literary fame ever refers 10 quality).But very ofien, where there is no such urgent cali, an author, ftom mere pleasure of writing, will send forth volume after volume of milk and water trash ; and such ie often the character of public taste, that, let the style only sparkie, and he will be secure of present readers.We say present readers ; for future readers there will be nove.He Las had his reward, and is speedily forgotten.The writer noticed in the above article wrote, we think, too muth for his own fame.Of unquestionable genius, and with great nccomplishments, he has left no great work behind ; frittering away his strength in mediocre performances, he has beep lost in the crowd of literati of the seventeenth century, and the only appareut reason for recalling him to notice is that he was connected by study and correspondence with the most eminent men of his time.The article we ate noticing gives a very pleasant resume of his career.Art.2.\u2014S8chool Sermons.The energy of Puseyism has never bean more strikingly manifested than by one of its chief expounders, Mr.Sewell, who has lately sacrificed the quiet of a College lite for the hasassing and irksome duties of the head of a public school,\u2014 that school founded at a great expense by himself.Bat he is wise in his generation.Give him the trainiog of youth during their most impressible vears, and it will be marvellous if they do not come forth imbaed with his peculiar sacerdotal notions.For it is not the mere schoolmaster that be aspires 10 be, but the tutor, the guardian, the guide of those who are untrusted to his care ; this pot merely in things scholastic ur secular, but in things heavenly and spiritual.From these sermons, we should judge that he has set before him a very high standard of excellence in his office of instructor, and is not far from realising it.When we see such proofs of eminent ability wo wisely employed for ils end, we cauuot but mourn that the principles inculcated are so unsound.In another instance of a similar kind (Marlborough College) the Principal seems also to be a man of eminent ability, and from the specimen of his sermons, quoted in the article, we would judge his principles to be according to the Gospel.If so, we wish him God speed.de 3 & 4.\u2014 The Newcomes and Caldwell Papers, articles of no great interest, Art.5.\u2014 The Charities and the Poor of London.This most able and interesting article, though professedly giving an account of the Charities of London only, contains so much that is generally instructive, that we would gladly transfer the whole of it to out columns.This, however, our space forbids, and we must content ourselves with giving our readers an idea of ils varied contents :\u2014 \u201c Many a man of feeling, in bis walks through London,\u201d says the Reviewer, \"is harassed by two contradictory convictions.On the one band, he knows that somewhere in the wilderness of brickwork with which he is surrounded, is to be found some scene of wretchedness which a mere trifle would relieve, (and who bas not felt a thrill of awe on discovering what utter ruin a mere triflo may at times avert?) ; on the other, experience has forced on him something more than a suspicion that every case which obtrudes itself on his notice is ovo of vagraucy or imposture.Accordingly, his charity is hesitating and inconsistent.* ¢ * And yet if chance brings to the knowledgo of the public some unquestioned case of genuine distress, the donations which pour in from unknown benefactors, prove how freely the stream of charity flows when the ioe of incredulity is broken.As long as this state of things is common * \u201c ° precise information is a more effoctual stimulant to benevolence than the most eloquent appeals.\u201d An important principle is here developed, which we commend to the attention of those who have the management of Charitable Institutions amongst ourselves.The charities of London are multifarious and enormous, and a pamphlet of 450 pages contains little more than a bare catalogue of them ; and with all their defects they afford a wonderful demonstration of tha expansive and benevolent spirit of Christianity.There are almshouses for the aged poor to the number of eighty -1wo, besides eleven colleges aud foundations, magnificently endowed by the rich and bevevolent men of old time.Sixteen bensvolent So- cisties dispense some £18,000 a-year, in the shape of small pensions to the indigent who have sven better days, and 14,500 child- ten are educated and maintained in 31 schools for orphans and ne- censitous children.There ate twelve great medical hospitals, one of which (Guy's Hospital) was endowed by ste founder, a hookseller at Tamworth, with the enormous sum of £450,000, besides an immense number of smaller hospilals and dispeusaries, as well as institutions for the Blind, and for the Dearsnd Dumb.The sggrogste musa of charity lhus recapitulated in one seuteuce, is constautly at work in the great city, and who can tell tbe benefits which ramily into every branch of Society from its oporativn.Tbe subject of mendioity is one, unfortunately, of personal interest in the great cities of Canada, and tho manger in which the matter \u2014 MONTREAL, FEBRUARY, 1856.\u2014 - 2 has been dealt with in its very head-quarters, will be found instructive.\u201cAt the close of the great European war, the evil had reached its height; professional beggars © * * quartered the town among them, and stories were currently told of the nightly carousals and orgies which were defrayed by the proceeds of their frauds.In 1618, an association was formed for the purpose of effecting that which the Sate neglected to do, or despaired of doing, It took the name of the \u2018Society for tbe Suppression of Mendicity.\u2018The Society issues to its subscribers or to purchasers tickets for distribution, which insure to the holder & meal, the examination of his case, and employment, if he chooses to take it at the Focie:y's work-yards.The offer of a mendicity ticket will generally cause the professional Impostor to betray himself, though he will not always be so maladroit as directly to refuse it; when the a plicant gives an address, the case may be referred to the Society for investigation ; but in a majority of instances the address will prove false.The tender heart may be consoled by dispensing these touch-stone tickets instead of pennies and sixpences, assured that if the distress is real it will receive suitable relief, The Mendicity Society also undertakes to investigate the cases (which, without such aid, would be $0 perplexing to the charitable) of the higher class of beggars, who write letters, or who pay personal visits, snd, by the respectability of their appearance, often succeed in obtaining an interview.\u201d A very interesting account is given of the \u201c District Visiting Societies,\u201d now organized under the direction of the Church of England in nearly every London parish, as well as of the efforts made to provide a better class of dwellings for the laboring classes : these, however, we must pass by for the sake of giving a slight notice of the Ragged Schools and of the City Mission :\u2014 The writer had the pleasure some years ago to visit one or two of the London Ragged Schools, and was deeply interested in marking the werk going on therein.They were situated in the worst part of London, and from the intricacy of the narrow streets (inhabited almost entirely by thieves and vagabonds), the schools were difficult to find.A policeman watched at the door,\u2014 for sometimes he was needed to quell the riotous proceedings of the unruly.The seholars were a motley assemblage ;\u2014most of them ragged and diny eneugh,\u2014about an equal proportion of boys and girls; yet all bearing that peculiarly cunning and precocious stamp which characterises their class in London ;\u2014most of them were children of thieves or professional beggars,\u2014many were thieves themselves, Yet they were remarkably orderly,\u2014a great change for the better having taken place since the establishment of the school ; for at first the boys would play all sorts of wild tricks,\u2014turn a summerset over a form into the next cluss, and when the singing began, burst out with \u201cJim Crow\u201d or some equally appropriate melody.All such disorder had now passed away,\u2014and except an occasional outburst from some violent-tempered little vagabond, the proceedings were as decorous as those of an ordinary Sunday School.Nor is this all, \u2014 for spritual fruit has not been wanting.Since the above visits\u2014 \u201c So great has been the progress made that the simple idea of a Sunday School has been developed into day and evening schools, refuges, industrial and feeding schools, besides adult classes, clothing clubs, ragged churches, and various other charitable devices for raising the character and improving the cocdition of the poor.The number of schools bas reached 306, and they impart instruction to upwards of 18,000 scholars.\u201d Great numbers of these are totally withdrawn from their former vicious life, and are put in the way of obtaining an honest livelihood.The City Mission was organized to carry the Gospel to the vast multitudes who are living \u2018 worse than hesthen\u2019\u201d life in the midst of Christian ordinances and example.\u201cIts agents boldly entered these dens of infamy, which the police, except in force, dare not approach ; they fearlessly addressed the druekard and blasphemer, and brought the messenger of salvation to those whose ears seemed closed to all but evil; they nursed the sick of cholers, and availed themselves of the terrors of this scourge to awaken the hardened and ignorant to a sense of their responsibility and their danger.\u201d The details we must notice at some future time, as well as those of the Reformatory Institutions for reclaiming felons, which have produced results alike graufying and wonderful.Operations like these are the brightest fruits of our common Christianity.Chailes Dickens and Henry Mayhew have visited the low haunts of Loudon professionally, that is, merely to get materials for an exciting chapter of a story ; but have never, to our knowledge, done one atom in the way of ameliorating the condition of the thieves and vagabouds they describe.These might remain thieves and vagabonds for ever, for anything that such men do.Instead of sympathising in the philanthropic efforts (or their relief, the former has prostituted his high genius in caricaturing thoee efforts.The City Missionary, the Scripiure Reader, the District Visivor, however, with noble purpose, pursue their arduous vocation, now and then cheered by brilliant success, yet often cast down ; but whethes successful or not, they gu on their way, « abounding io the work of the Lord, forasmuch as they know that their labour ie not in vain in the Lord.\u201d An.6.\u2014 Latin Dictionaries.Art.T.\u2014Arago and Brougham on Men of Science From this pleasant notice of the Biogiaphies of Meu of Science, by M.Arago and Lord Brougham, we extract one of two matters of general interest.In that of Ampère, à famous Freuchman, M.Arago introduces us to the 1errible scenes of the fist Revolution, and to the besotted and ignorant multitude who thea bore sway :\u2014 Whon Lavoisier hoped to obtain a reprieve by asking to be permitted, before he died, to complete some experiments important to humanity, one of his judges cried out that they had no longer need of sewants.The Re- volutionista showed the sincerity of their professions by roo out seminaries of overy description.They even suppressed, in 1792, the College of Surgeons.\u201d * À momber of popular Society of Auxerre, objected to the discretion exercised by (ho Municipal authorides in assigniug the titles North, East, South, aud West, to whichever quarters of the towna they ploused.© * * He roposed that tbe names should be distribu- tod by lot.1 required the eloquence of Fourier to convince this apostle of liberty that the points of the compass were fized, and that the magis- LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TO \u201cMONTREAL WITNESS.\u201d No.3.trates, in callin, Ni Ni croached on he Aghte of poopie the South, Sout, bad not en- The closing days of Ampére displayed a singular abmorption of mind in his favorite studies.When very sick, and racked with a violent cough, 8 friend desired him to pat aside the discussion of some philosophical question, on the ground of his health.« My health! my health I\u2019 he exclaimed, \u201c much has this to do with my health.The only question between os here is of eternal truths {7 M.Arago, speaking of the age to which the philosopher had astain- ed, observes that Ampére might bave said with the Daren painter, Van Overbeck, « Reckon double, gentlemen, reckon double, for I have lived day and night.\u201d The jealousy which these ferocious brates entertained against those who were in the least degree elevated above poverty, 1s terribly illustrated by an anecdote of Monge, a famous geometrician, who was employing bis talents in the service of this abominatle Government without pay.His wife had one day aided a littie cheese to his usual fase of dry .bread.\u2014* You will orig me into trouble,\u201d he exclaimed ; \u201c did I not teil you that having been rather gluttonous last week, I was alarmed to hear the representative Niou, say mysteriously to those about him,\u2014 Monge is getting easy in his circumstances ; look, he eats radishes!\" \u201d He dared not flavor his dry bread with cheese for fear of the ecaffoid, and shostiy ai- terwards he was compelled to fly! What crimes, on liberty, have been committed io thy name! He went with Boonaparte to Syria, and on one occasion fell in with a soldier in the desert, dying of thirst.Monge had water, and offered it.The soldier drank a mouthful.\u2018 Drink again,\u201d said Monge, persuasively.< Thank you,\u201d answered the man; \u201c but you bave shown yuurself charitable, and I would not for the world expose you to the atrocious torments [ suffered just now !* Is not this one of the moat beauuiul instances of seif-denial on record ?The paper concludes with a striking anecdote of Napoleon.After Waterloo, and when expecting that he would be permitted to remove to America, he sent for his old friend Monge, and communicated to kim a pew scheme of scientific enterprise.* Coudemued no longer to command armies,\u201d says he, \u2018\u201c I see noibiag but the scinces which could take a strong hold upos my mind.I wish in this new career to leave works and discoveries which shall be worthy of me.I must have a companion to initiate me rapidly at the outset into the actual state of the sciences.Then we shall traverse together the New Continent, from Canada to Cape Horn, and in this im- mease journey we shall study all tbe great physical phénemena ut the Globe upon which the world has not yet pronounced.\u201d It was to find him such a companion that be summoned Monge; but whether any benefits to science would have resulted from this gu- gantic enlerprise cannot now be said, for shortly alterwards he was removed to Si.Helena.Art.8.\u2014 Pitt and Fox.This masterly essay on the (wo great political giants of the English Parliament, we must be content to leave unnoticed, as in order to give anything like an idea of its varied coutents, we should have to transfer nearly half of it to our own pages.With reluctance, therefore, we pass it by.THe NarvioNar Macazive.Agent for Montreal : E.Pickup.$2 per anoum.ln the numbers for February and March are Scandinavian Sketches, \u2014Recreations in Ornithology,\u2014Chucch Architecture, all well illustrated with excellent wood cuts.There are also various miner articles, tales, poetry, &c., with the usual literary and sci- enlific items of intelligence, book notices, &c.The anicle in the February number, on ** Suengibening the Laoguage,\u201d is cloverly written.Some of the faults of modern authore aud orators are most unmetcifully ridiculed.The outlines of a Synonynical Sermon is 8 good hit at those preachers who manage to throw an infinity of words around the most triding ideas.The satire in the following remarks, on using words that people do not undersiand, will amuse many petvons, and, perhaps, prove a corrective to others: \u2014 \u201cThe language is to be strengthened.It can be done.Endless repetitions, synonymical sentences, and both blended with High-Falutinism, will do the work.We call upon the clergy of every name to keep an eye in this direction, and to keep it wide open.They will tind difficulties in the way, and obstacles of uo common wagnitude; but it is generally thought that if the clergy cannot overcome ditkcultics, they can at least lock them steadily in the face, Will they doit?Will they all remember that it is withiu the compass of their power to render dictionaries and lexicons casentially necessary to that class of their hearers who are not satistied with sweet sounds,\u2014who, with old-fashioned vulgarity, with wouth and ears wide open, gape after intelligibility.There are yet those who talk of bullocks, and who persist in callieg a spade a spade.Now the grave question is, Shail the pulpit descend to their level?In this age of the world is it to be tolerated that public speakers are to make it their paramount object to be understood ?From ten thousand voices we soem to hear the respunsive negative.The general cry is, Whatever else we du, or leave undone, let us strengthen the language.Let the broad banner of High-Falutinism wave over the leagih and breadth of the land.Let it be reverberated from the Nadir to the Zenith, and from one extremity of the earth's axis to the other, that the weuk and feeble language of our ancestors is to be rejuvenated, invigorated, and made puissant Above nil Greek, abore all Roman tame, Aud as for those who persist in their purpose to fathom the meaning of what they hear, why let them gore in the Cimmerian bog, or at their leisure thrum over the pages of Webster.That will be a recuperatory digitation that will delectate and desiderate.Uf course we have nothing to bope, and, certainly, nothing to fear, from those who bave nu higher ambition than to speak intellgibly.Simpleminded men! When they have nothing to say, they say uothing ; and we have been informed, on good authority, that there are those who stop when they are done ; Who do not understand the iteratious or the synony- mical method, and to whom even Higb-Falutiaiem with all its witchery is an unstudied art.It bas Leen said too, but we do not vouch for its truth, that there are to be found.even in the pulpits of our own land, men who have no loftier idea of language \\ban to auppuse it à more vehicle of thought\u201d JERRY SY Fp 00500 marl a mr ete ne rer pra a EE EE EE eo + FEDER it » St = a 10 CANADIAN REVIEW AND LITERARY SUPPLEMENT OF THE MONTREAL WITNESS.ee - ET SA \u2014\u2014\u2014 To those who inquire what High-Falutin means, the writer says :\u2014 * In answer we give a now lying before us, the Lord's Prayer, translate vastly admired at the present day.How tame, simple.weak, and wishy-washy that language is.Listen now to tbe same sentiment high-falutinized.dan spheres anihiary revolution our diurnal sustenance I\u201d There is fiequently much of this style in public prayer, leading some persons away from a devotional feeling, to wonder what 1s meant by the words used.Such phrases as the above\u2014and we have heard some not very different\u2014may sound fine, but few can tell what they mean.The beauty of the Liturgy of the Church of England consists largely in its abundance of Anglo Saxon wonis.AMERICAN AXD FonziGX CHnistiaN Union.$1 per annum.The contents of this thoroughly Anti-Romish journal for March are : L.The Romish Confessionai\u2014Il.The Romish Church in Mexico\u2014 Hi.The Festival of St.Augustine\u2014IV.Conventual Lits\u2014V.An Appeal to the Friends of Missions for Christian Union\u2014 VI.Italy \u2014 The Waldenses.The remaining portion of the magazine relates to the Missions of the American and Foreign Union among Roman Catholics.The great design of the Union is the conversion of Roman Catholics 10 the faith of the Gospel.It makes an annual appropriation to the French Canadian Missionary Society.\u2018Lhe Union has also published a number of excellent works on the Romish controversy, which ought to be widely circulated throughout Canada.One dollar enclosed in a letter addressed to 156 Chambers Street, New York, will secure the journal for one year.The following are some of the books 10 which we have referred :\u2014 Christian Union, cloth, 6s 3d; Popery ihe Man of Sin and Son ot Perdition, by the Rev.Rob.Gault, Giaagosr.\u2014a Prize Essay, 6s 3d; Fox's Book of Martyrs, 3s &d; Gavazzi*s Lectures, 3s Sd ; Story of the Madiai Family, 1s 104d; Facts in Maderia, concerning the Persecution, 1s 104d; Romanism compared witb the Bible, Is 6d; Rise and Fall of Papacy, by Fleming, 250 pp.18mo., Is 6d ; Book of Tracts, on Romanism, 1s 63; Middieton\u2019s Letter, with the Author\u2019s defense against a Roman Catholic Opponent, 1s 3d ; Trial of the Pope of Rome, 1s 3d; Ciocci,\u2014A Narrative of Rome in the Nineteenth Century, 1s 3d ; Secret Instructions of Lhe Jesuits, new edition, Latin and English, 1s 3d; Exiles of Zillerthal, Is; The Conversion and Sufferings of Sarah Doherty, Is; Romanism in the Light of Prophecy and History, 1s; Wonderful Adventures, Is.Bracxwoon's Macanixe for January.New York: Leonard, Scot & Co.83 per annum.The articles in this number are : \u2014 1st, The Gold Screw, and its consequences, a long article agaiost the late Sir Robert Peel\u2019s Currency Bill.\u20142ad, The New Peace Party, in dialogue form, giving the pro and con on the Peace question, a high toned tory article.\u20143r4, A Military Adventure on the Pyrenees.\u20144th, Lancashire St ikes.\u2014 5th, The Inns of Court, and the Bar of England.\u20146th, Wet Days at Bryn Cefn.\u20147th, Drinking and Smoking.\u20148th, On the State of the British Army.After sll that has been said and written on this subject for the past two years, if the British army does not imen, taken from « quarteeiy publication from tbe weak and simple English of oùr ancestars into the strong and uervous dialect so C Girne ws thu day owr dauy bread.\u2019 ner upon wa during fA mun- \u2014 A Norti-stoz View or Staveav.- Fux Rervosk; or the Nai- ratives of Fugiuse Slaves in Canada, related by themselves, with an account of the Hisory and Condition ul the Colored Population vf Upper Canade\u201d By Benjamin Drew.12mo.pp 387.81.the slaves are happy tu their bondage.Here 19 presented the ner- ratives of pearly 1:20 individuals who have made Crnada a refuge dent in Canadian towus and villages.The perusal of (hese narratives may produce a feeling of deeper interest in the temporal and spitiual condition of this unfortunate people.The story of their sutfeniugs and wrongs should elit the sympathise and prayers of every Christian, and lead to tie exercise of à lit: le furbearance with weir faults.Uneducared, exposed almost continually to an evil example, kept 10 constant fear and anxiety, and barbarously treated, It 1s à wonder that they are not more degraded aud ignorant.The following extracts from tue narrative of the Rev.Alexander Hemsley, are interesting : - * My idea of freedom duriug my youth was, that it was a state of liberty for the mind\u2014that there was a freedom of thought, Which ! could not enjoy unless I were free\u2014that if 1 thought of anything beneficial for me, should have liberty to execute it.My escape was not owing to any sudden impulse or fear of present punishment, but from a natural wish to be free : and bad it not been for near and dear friends, I should mot have remained in slavery so long.! bad an uncle who was a preacher.He had a good many boys.I confided to him that 1 wanted to leave, and would like to have his boys accompany me.He said be would not dare to tell bis boys, for if we were {0 undertake it, and get caught, it would ruin us all.The fear of being caught, was then, I think, a greater restraint than it is now.Now there is a different spirit in the slaves, and if they undertake to escape, it is with a feeling of victory or death\u2014they determine not to be taken alive, if possible to prevent it even by bloodshed.\u201d (Mr.H.resided in New Jersey some years at great risk of recapture.) \u201cWhen 1 reached English territory, [ had a comfort in the law\u2014that my shackles were struck off, and that à man was s mao by law.I bad been in comfortable circumstances, but all my little property was lawed away.[was among strangers, poverty-stricken, and in a cold country.1 had been used to farming, and so could not find in the city such assist ance as | needed : in o few days [ left for St.Catharines, where I bave ever since remained.My master did pot use to do much at buying and selling, but thero was a great deal of it in his neighborhood.The unwillinguess to separate husbands and wires, parents aad children was so great, that to part them seemed to me a sin higher than the heavens, \u2014it was dreadful to bears their outcries, as they were forced into the waggons of the drivers.Some among them have their minds so brutalized by the action of slavery that they do pot feel so acutely as others, the pangs of separation.But there are many who feel a separation from their offspring as acutely as human beings can possibly feel.Masters sometimes show respect toward some particular persons among their slaves.| was never an eye-witness to » punishment where a man seewed to inflict it in any spirit of kindness or mercy.I have heard of a merciful disposition at such times, but never witnessed it: as a general thing they would manifest malignant, tyrannical feelings.I have seen a woman who was in a state of pregnancy, tied up and punished with a keen raw hide.Contrasting my condition here with what it was in New Jersey, I say, that for years after I came bere, my mind was contiually reverting to improve it must be considered hopeless.Articles 4 and 7 suggest my native land.For some ten years, | was in hopes that something thoughts for consideration at another time.Dre's Druinzaton, $2; Dye\u2019s Mirror, Semi-Monthly, $3 per an- num.This Delineator is a | mpblet of 285 containing a i Rami fe of the United States and Canada; by a reference to which, it may at once be ascertained whether any note has been altered : and, as nine tenths of the forgeries in circulation are alterations of a lower denomination into a higher, this Delineator must be exceedingly useful to all description of all the notes issued by all the Ban persons handiing much paper money.The Mirror describes forgeries, frauds, quotes the discount on the varicus Banks, &c.; and the two publications together constitute the must pertect safeguard against frand.Haxrzn\u2019s MaGazisE ror Feaavany Contains 1he following sriicles:\u20141st, (ieorge Washington, by Jobn 8.C.Abbot, with pictorial illustrations.20d, Adventures in the Gold fields of Central America, atundautly illustrated with cuts and people of Nicaragua.3rd, Birchknoll, a new of the scene: might happen, whereby I might safely return to my old home in New Jersey.1 watched the newspapers and they told the story.I found that there would be a risk in going back,\u2014and that was confirmed by many of my fellowmen falling into tbe same catastrophe that I did,\u2014and the same things happen now.When | reached 3t.Catharines, | waz enfeebled in health.I had come to à small icferior places there were pines growing all about here where you now see brick houses.[ rented s house, and with another maa took five acres of cleared land, and got along with it very well.We did not get enough from this to support us ; but I got work at balf-a- dollar or seventy-five cents a-day and board myself.We were then making both ends meet.I then made up my mind that salt and potatoes in Canada, Were better than pound-cake and chickens in a state of suspense and anxiety in the United States.Now I am a regular Britisher.My American blood bas been scourged out of me ; I have lost my American tastes ; | am an enemy to tyranny.I would as lief meet serpents as some people I know of in the States.If I were to meet them, my figh propensities would come up.To meet one here, I would not mind it; there | would be afraid of the ghost of & white man after he was dead.1 sm no scholar, but if some one would refine it, I could give a history of slavery, and show how tyranny operates upon the mind of the slaves.I have dreamed of being back on my master's farm, and of dodging away ghost story of old Virginia.4th, Fur-hunting in Oregon.5th, Sen-|from my master; Le endeavoring to get between me and the land I was timent and Action.6ib, P rican, with illustrations.Tih, illuetrated, 4 chap'ers, begion able and abundant, as usval.teresting and instructive number.with ae fifth.es of Eastern Travel, by an Ame- itlle Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, aiming for.Thea I would awake ina complete perspiration, and troubled in mind.Oh, it was awful! When you go back bome, remember poor 8, Literary notices, Joseph in Egypt.bis is, upon the whole, a vary in- I have served the peoplo in the Provinces as a minister in the Methodist persuasion for twenty years.My pay has been little, for our people all start poor, and bave to struggle to support themselves.My mind has Tue Quantenuy Reronten of the Young Men's Christian Asao- \"CE been to trust the Lord.f hate never prayed for wealth nor honor, ciations io North America.2s.6d.per annum.This Journal is published by the Confederation of Young Men's Christian Associations in the United States and the Briush Provinces.The design of the paper is, to afford a means of communi- eation beiween the Associations, to present an account of their progress, and 10 form a medium, through which suzgestions may be made, calculated 10 increase tbe efficiency and usefuloess of Young Men's Christian Associations.We recommend this Journal to all who feel an interest in such Associations.Subscriptions may be sent to W.H, Neff, Cincinnati, Ohio, to Jobo Paton, Kingston, or 10 F.B.Grafion, Montreal.Missiomany & Sanat ScuooL Reconp.sustained, especially as it gives, ue articles and intelligence not to be found in the bool papers of this continent.for Oge Dollar per annum.Tux Lire Boat.Montreal: H.Rose.2s.6d.per annum.Montreal : J.C.Becket.\u2018This Montbly Missionery Magazine for Youth ought to be well but only to guide his church and do bis will.* Ermraim HoLptmo\u2019s Domestic Appresses, Friendly Remarks, and Scraps of Experience.32mo., gilt.%.3d.Ephraim Holding, like old Humphrey, used to be read by us with great interest in our younger years.The beauty of his addresses are, that they are practical and short.The title of a few of the addresses may excite the curiosity of many sufficiently to lead them to procure the volume :\u2014¢ Have you wound up the Clock 1\"\u2019\u2014 ¢ What shall we have for Dinner 7\u2019\u2014« Dear me | how time flies!\u201d = On Family Visiting,\u201d &c.We append an extract from an address headed « ls the Newspaper come yet 1?\u201cIn country places, where the changes that take place are principally chiefly, old ny relie brought about by the revolving seasons of the year, and the different em- unday Six copies are sent to one address places, perform the same duties, partake the same comforts, and rise and ployments occasioned thereby ; where the same persors occupy the same retire at the same customary hours, thers is not much inquiry after the news.A weekly newspaper is all that is expected ; and this brings up the affairs of the world to a date quite recent enough to satisfy the rustic This little Temperance journal comes monthly, freighted with inbabitants of the village: but it is far different in the populous town much that will please and instruct youthful readers.and crowded city.There the newspaper forms s part of the day's supplies : not more necessary are the hot rolls for breakfast, or the muffins and crumpets for tes, than the morning and evening news.We read in \u2014 The Westminster for January just received, contains, 1.Ger- ply writ, that \u2018the Atbenians and strangers which were ln Athens spent man Wit; 2.The Limited Liability Act of 1865; 3.The House of Savoy number 000.: Azone.By Marion Harland.This is a religious novel, of 384 from the fact, tust it is in its nineteenth thousand.for the purpose of reviewing, is out of the question New York : J.C.Derby.MacavLay\u2019s History or EnoLanD.Poiliips, Sampson & Co.50 cents per volume.This edition is very little inferior to that of Harper's at 634 cents, Passing arente sa « pictare of real | and has, we commanded à most extensive sais.Oun Mrmonies or Tux DEAD, made a sweet savor to Christ.Boson : J.P.Jewett & Co.A sweetly written children, rn Aner + Shady Side.\u201d ; 4.Russia and tbe Allies ; 5.Military Education for Offi-|and many an cers; 6.Athenian Comedy; 7.Lions and Lion Hunting, &e., ke.New York : Lenord Soott, & Co.We will review the contents of this to re es, and must be interestiog To read it, even Vols.IIL, and IV.Boston : te Parents, who have recently lost their time in not else but either telling, or hearing, some new thing ;' fant of the town and city comes under the same description of persons.The g one newspaper excites an appetite another.Bo many things are told us that we did not Yoon, aad 90 much is left unfinished that we want to hear the end of, that & nows- paper reader cannot rest without his mental meal; be gets fidgetty and uncomfortable if the journal be delayed, and the inqulry, Is (Ae newspaper come ye! 7 in very frequently repeated.This being the case, it is bere introduced to your potice as one of the Domestic Addresses of Ephraim Holding.A \u201cnewspaper is such a prolific source of observation, that he who cannot talk about it by tbe hour must be somewhat sluggish in hig conceptions, or altogether ungifted in his powers of speech, A few words, however, well applied, will be more to our purpose on the present occasion, than & lengthy oration of general remarks.As a chronicles of a nowspaper bas a wids Influence ty, &o., kc.WessTea's Qoarro Dioriowsny.pp.1367.Upringflald s J.&C.Merriam.88.A Good Dictionary is nlmost indispensable in every family.Webster's is the great American authority oa the spelling and pro- This voiume is a scaibing rebuke to the people who assert that.trom the oppression of the South, and most of whom are now resi- [Fæsavarr, 1856.pe - EE SE nuncistion of words.His Dictionary, from the number of words and the accuracy and extent of its definitions, is one of the best that van be procured.lis cheapness is not the least important recom- metidation iv its favor.A writer, tu show lhe excellence of the work, amd the labor involved in ita preparation, takes at random the first word which meets his eye on opening the book, and says\u2014 \u201c The very first word, purely English, which moets ing the book, is Stall, and what do we learn about ome ally (ream) (BSaxon, stael, stal, stall, a place, a seat, or station, a stable, state, condi- tou; Dutch, stal; German, stall, a stable, a stye; Danish, stald ; Bwed- ish, stall ; French, stalle and etal; Italian, séalla ; Welch, ystal ; from the root of (ierman stellen to set, i.e.to throw down, to thrust down ; Sanscrit, sfulls, & placo.Hee Still] Then follow six different definitions, Arranged numerically, with illustrations of four of them, drawn from Dryden, the English Bible, Spencer, and Warburton, Now conceive of the amount of study necessary to give such an analysis of this one word, And consider, fur s moment, the information conveyed, We learn that Stall was used by the Gothic race, who were in Europe before the age of authentic history ; by the Celtic race, who precedod thom, and finally, by the speakers of Sanscrit, who dwelt in Asia, beyond whom + the memory of man runneth not back.\u201d All these, therefore, were probably of common origin.Besides, we are referred to the word sill which upon consultation, we find cognate with a Greek word, thus introducing the Pelasgic race into the great company who used this one vocable.\u201d This valuable Dictionary gives first, the Etymology of English wordy deduced from an examination and comparison of words of corresponding elements in twenty languages of Asia and Europe.Second, the true Orthography of words.Third, Pronunciation exhibited io a clear and simple manner.Fourth, accurate and discriminating definitions, illustrated by examples of heir use.Pro- fixed to the volume is a long and able dissertation on the origin, bis- tory, and connection, of the languages of Weatern Asia and Europe, with an explanation of the principles on which languages are formed.Appended tothe volume are Pronounsiug Vocabularies of Scripture, Classical and Geographical names.Every young man aiming at self-education or self-culture, should get this volume.A copy of it should also be in every school-room in the land.Tux Cunistian\u2019s GaæaT IntrazsT.In two parts.By Rev.Wii- liam Guthrie, late minister of the Gospel, Fenwick ; with an introductory essay by Thomas Chalmers, D.D.New York : Carter & Brothers.16mo.p.p.248.This is the seventh edition by the Messrs.Carter\u2019s, of a standard volume, which has been a source of spiritual comfort and strength to many thousands, in North Britain, and elsewhere.The introduction, by Dr.Chalmers, is worthy of his pen, sad there is a brief memoir of the Author, who was born in 1620, and consequently lived in the time that tried the metal of which men were made, a time that threw Christians, of necessity, so much into communion with their God, that they possessed nearer, clearsr, und more realizing views of salvation, than have since been ordi- oarily obtained.Indeed, it is to be doubted, if, with all the extended benevolence, and missionary activity which characterise the church at the present day, there is #5 much of the * real root of the matter\u201d in personal religion, as there was in the days of the English Puritans and Scotch Covenanters.We commend this litte volume to every Christian family.Mzxico anp 11s Revicion, with Incidents of Travel in that Country, and Historical Notices of Places Visited.By Robt.A.ilaon.Klustrated.New York : Harper & Bros.12mo., pp.This book is the fruits of nearly four years travels in Mexico, and is replete with interesting sketches of men, manners, and places.It is valuable for its revelations of the character and doings ting of Popery and Priests in that country.The senusuality and self- seeking of the latter being an almost necessary consequence of banding celebats together with a common interest.The pictorial illustrations are numerous.The display, luxury, gambling and licentiousness of the higher classes in Mexico, seem to indicate that no institutions in that couatry can, without the infusion of a new population, be either just or permanent.The author thinks (very erroneously in our opinion) that Mormonism is destined to overrun Mexico.Au InrnonucTion To THE Sruny or Borant, including a Treatise on Vegetable Physiology, and descriptions \u2018of the most common plants in the middle and northern States.By J.L.Comstock, M.D., Author of Mineralogy, &e., &c.New York : Farmer, Brace & Co.12mo.Pp- 88 This is the thirty-second edition of a popular school book, which, or some equivalent, should be in all the higher, and even common schools of Canads.Why should not our agricultural population know soruething scientifically of every piant and tree with which they may meet in the fields and forests.Miron\u2019 Parapise Lost and Parapise Reoainep, with Explanatory Notes.By Rev.J.Edmonston.London: T.Nelson & Sons.12mo., pp.468.5e.It has been said that the more learned a man is the better is he able to appreciate Milton\u2019s great poem; the explanaory notes, forming about one-third of the volume, must therefore greatly enhance to general readers the value of this edition.The notes of Addison, Cowper, Bishop Newton, and others, with many by the Editor, will be found valuable, as they explain those scientific terms and classical references which occur so frequently in Paradise Lost.Homz.By Anna Leland.New York: J.C.Derby.This is a sort of autobiography of & family, in which truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.One Mother's death\u2014The advent of « second Mother\u2014The Grand-Father and Grand-Mother\u2014 Country Scenery\u2014 Pine Mountain\u2014Boston as it was\u2014The New Home\u2014 Bangor\u2014Neighbors\u2014The Heiress\u2014The Orphan\u2014are all sketches of quiet beauty.We think this book might advantageously take the place of what is known as yellow-covered literature.A Beamon Preacuenp ox Tus ocoasion OP THE DEATH or tas Rxv.Roszar McG, D.D.By the Rev.John Cook, D.D.Mort- real: H.Ramsey.pp.27.le.3d.By the numerous friends of the late Dr.McGill, this sermon will be specially prized as & memorial of departed worth.The topio of the sermon is the blessedness and perpetuity of the Heavenly State, and it is treated in a way well-fitted to minister consolation to all who are mourning the loss of friends.SESSA Fepnvary, 1856.) Sysremamio Bexericemce\u2014Three Prize Essays.16mo, pp.496.It is gratifying to find the attention of the Christian Church so generally directed to the important duty of giving.Thousands of Christians are wronging God and wronging themselves by withholding more than is meet.Men put Jittle faith in the old Bible proverb,\u2014* There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.\u201d The essays under notice are:\u2014\u201c The Great Reform,\u201d by Abel Stevens; The Great Question,\u201d by L.White; and « Property Con- | secrated,\u201d by Benjamin Fry.The foregoing are published at the | Methodist Book Room, New York.Camp-Finrs or TE Rev Man; or, A Hundred Years Ago.BylJ.R.Orton.New York : J.C.Derby.This is a sort of Indian Romance, aiming, however, 10 be a truthful picture of the \u201ctimes as they existed, in what is now York State, a century ago, when the Georges were our Kings, and the confederacy of six nations of Red Men, our Allies.\u201d The scenes of Ind dian lite among the Mohawks are sketched with vigor, aud many traditions of what was then border life arg preserved in the narrative, the chief fault of which is, that it aims not to give valuable information, but to produce a thrilling effect from high-wrought incidents and perilous positions.Tux Risx or Canana raom Bansagism to CIVILIZATION, Roger.Quebec: P.Sinclair.Octavo, vol.1, pp.412.This volume devotes one chapter of about 5 pages to the discovery, early settlement, French government, and English conquest of Canada, and of course goes rapidly over these interesting annals of our early history.The second chapter contains a more detailed history of the British administration of affairs up to the war of 1812.The third chapter chronicles the events of that war at considerable length, and brings up the history to 1816 ; whilst the fourth chapter gives the history of both Provinces to the departure of the Earl of Dal- housie\u2014the main part of it being occupied with the struggles between that nobleman as Governor, and the Lower Canada Assembly.Jackson amp New OnLEaNs.An authentic Narrative of the Achievemenu of the American Army, under Andrew Jackson, before New Orleans, by Alexander Walker.New York: J.C.Derby.This is a minute and circumstantial detail of the short campaign, which terminated in the battle of New Orleans, and of the rejoicings By C.which succeeded that victory, written from an American point of us view, and intended for American readers.To such it would have been intensely interesting within a few months of the battle, but, after a lapse of more than 40 years, its circumstantialities appear entirely out of date, unless, for the personal friends of General Jackson, who is, certainly, sufficiently glorified throughout.Dreams anp Rearizies in Toe Lirk or a Pastor anp Tracurn.By the Author of the \u201c Parish-Side.\u201d* New York: J.C.Derby.12mo., pp.439.This work consists of a series of sketches strung together, as forming a sort of biography of a country pestor called Elbert Castlereagh, who added the care of an Academy to the duties of a small parish ;\u2014the scenes and incidents being probably real, but the names fictitious.There is much that is pleasing and instructive in these sketches, which must possess special interest for New England, where the scene is laid.Hagoal, ZrcHARIAH, AND MALaCHI, the Prophets of the Restoration,\u2014a new translation, with notes.By Rev.T.V.Moore, D.D.New York: Carter & Bros.8vo., pp.408.10s.The author of this work is à Minister of Richmond, Virginia, who has bestowed much pains on the translation and exposition oi the Prophets above-named, and in doing so has diligently availed himself of the best sources of information.The work is got up in very superior style, and would make an elegant present to a pastor.A more extended notice of it will appear next month.CoMuMENTARY ON TUE Grex Txt oF THE EPIsTLE To THE CoOL- ossians.By John Eadie, D.D., L.L.D., Professor of Biblical Literature to the United Presbyterian Church.New York: Carter & Bros.10s.8vo., pp.307.This volume may be called a continuation of the previous one on « Ephesians,\u201d bestowing like it, great learning and research on the investigation of the grammatical construction of the original.It is a volume which can only be appreciated by scholars\u2014quotations in the original Greek being frequent, and a considerable portion occupied with verbal eriticism: but to the Ministers\u2019 library it will be a very valuable addition.We shall revert also to this important work next month.Evemxo Incense.By the author of ¢ Morning and Night Watches,\u201d + Words of Jesus,\u201d ¢¢ Mind of Jesus,\u201d ¢ Footsteps of St.Paul,\u201d «Groat Journey,\u201d ¢ Wood-Cutter of Lebanon,\u201d ¢ Family Prayers,\u201d &o.&c.New York: Carter & Bros.pp.130, 16mo.40 conts.This book, like ite predecessors, is redolent of evangelical spirituality, aad may be perused and meditated upon by old and young with grest advantage.It appears to us, however, that 25 cents would be enough for its size.Ecements or GeoMETAY ann Mensunation.By James B.Dodd, A.M,, Professor of Mathematics in Transylvania University.Now York : Farmer, Brace & Co.12mo., pp.237.This work goes regularly up from the the elementary principles of straight to the oylinder cone and sphere.Its last chapter treats of the mensuration of planes and solids.It is a well arranged and clearly oxplsined elementary work.Lxs Institutions DE L\u2019HistornE Du Cawava.2d Book.Messrs.Bibaud and Richer are editing, under the above title, historical ressarches on the early history of Canada, under the French Dominion.This publication will form a valuable addition to Canadian Literature.It ia very complete and lucid in ite arrangements of facts and doouments, and will become a useful book of reference, Cumssrian Dury in Reration To Tug Times.By John Cameron.A small tract on an important subject, deserving the serious attention of every Christian.The tract is reprinted by Mr.Peole, of CANADIAN REVIEW AND LITERARY SUPPLEMENT OF THE MONTREAL WITNESS.The AweusLy\u2019s Soars Cavecrian, lllustrated by This excellent collection of anecdotes will whilstitwill aid 10 impress truth on their minds.Tue Sauree\u2019 InszniTace, on Tus WorLp 70 Come, B H.P.Hill.12mo., pp.264, 4th edition.Poston : J.P.Jowett & to.3a 9d.This volume advocates the Personal reign of Christ upon the! earth during the Millennium.That during that period the Saints will be immortal, and that the location of the Stow inheritance will be the renewed earth\u2014the author regards the opinion that the Jews as a people are to become a conspicuous and honorable ple, to be again located in Palestine, as an error\u2014and à revival of Judaiam in the Christian Church.He devotes a chapter to show that there are *\u201c No covenants or promises to Jews, more than to Gentiles.\u201d Mr.Hill writes in an excellent spirit, and the spiritual tone of the volume is very pleasing.ADDRESSEY DELIVERED In New Yoax,by Rev.William Arthur, AM, with a Biographical Sketch of the Author, &e.,&c.A new and enlarged edition.16me.Price 55 cents.This little volume embraces a brief bi phical sketch ; an account of the meeting in the Broadway Tabernacle; a verbatim report of Mr.Arthur's far-famed \u201c Lecture on the Duty of giving away a Stated Proportion of our Income ;\" Sermon on ¢ Christ Saving others and Sacrificing Himself,\u201d preached in the Mulberry-street Church ; Sermon on Exodus xix, 6, preached ia the Greene-street Church ; Farewell Services.\u2014C.A.and Journal.New Recicious Biocaapuizs.\u2014Dr, Lindsey Alexander has prepared a memoir of the Life and Writings of the late Rev.Dr.Ward- aw, which will shortly be published in England.A biography of the late Rev.Dr.Beaumont, well known as an eloquent and popular Wesleyan minister, is also in preparation.A memoir of the Rev.Jobn M.Mason, D.D., who was, in his day, the most eminent minister of the American Presbyterian Church, will shortly be published by Carter & Brothers.Inpia, ANciENT AND MobEaN, Geographical, Historical, Political, Social and Religious ; with a particular account of the stateand prospects of Christianity.By David O.Allen, D.D., Missionary of the American rd for twenty-five years in India.Boston : Jewett & Co.1856.8vo, p.p.618, This able and reliable work fills a great void in our Historical Literature.Ample and accurate knowledge in reference to the io- teresting country of which it treats, has been out of the reach of common men, and nothing approaching this volume in value has ever been published.This treatise is divided into six parts.Part first, containing 17 pages, is devoted to a brief sketch of the Geography of India, and bysical Characteristics, and is illustrated by a\u201d very fine map from the press of Mr.Colton.Part second, containing 281 pages, contains 8 very carefully written history of India, comprising the Hindoo, Mohammedan, and European periods.Part third, containing 58 pages, expounds the curious and intricate subject of the government of the country by the East India Company.Part four, comprising 6 pages, gives an account of the foreign or semi-foreign population of India.Part five embracing 136 pages, describes the native population, their religion, manners, customs, &c., &c.Pan sit, containing 92 pages, expounds the Christianity of India, embracing notices of the Syrian churches of Malabar, the Roman Catholic missions and church, the early Protesiant missions, their present state and the present aspect of the country towards missionary labor.Four appendixes follow, devoted to the ¢ state and prospects of the English language in India ;\u201d (he \u201ccharacter of Sanserit Literature ;>* \u2018é remarks and opisions concerning Polygamy ;'\u201d and a notice of the * Tanwabodhimi Sabba'\u2019\u2014or Society of Reformed Hindoos\u2014at Calcutta.This brief unfolding of the character of this volume will suffice to attract towards it the notice of literary men, and especially of intelligent Christians, as promising large additions to the common stock of knowledge upon the subjects it discusses, and as particularly valuable to the student of the present aspect of Christianity io the East.Its suthor\u2019s long residence in the land of which he writes, his excellent character and spirit, and his acknowledged intelligence and ability, are sufficient guarantees that his account of matters may be trusted.We regard the volume as an important contribution to the most worthy literature of the age, and as another proof of the value of American Missions to science and the highest knowledge.We hope its circulation will be commensurate with its sterling worth.No library should fail to procure it\u2014and no student of history can do without it.\u2014Congregationalist.(Fr Most of the foregoing works, are for sale at the Huness Office, 36, Great St.James Street.Livermore, of Cambridge, Mass.\u2014 Nearly 3 quanter part of the entire collection consists of Bibles and Biblical Works, in various lan- uages, versions and forms, from the ancient Hebrew Manuscript fol to the most modern translation of our own times.written on thirty-six skins of hment, and measuring fifty- feet in length, and one foot in breadth.This fine a t upon a pair of handles and enclosed in an embroidered silk cover.It was formerly used in a Jewish Syn: men of an ancient volume or rolled book.are elaborately illuminated with beautiful initial letters, figures and miniatures.They are of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.Each was, perhaps, the work of a whole life.To these may be added, an Evan listarium, or Selections from the Gospels, for the use of the Church, written on parchment in the one of the oldest, if not the oldest, book in this country.It was obtained at the sale of the library of the Rev.Dr.Hawtrey, Provost of Eton.The Book of Job, a metrical version, by George Sandys, is sup- metly in the lib of the late Duke of Sussex, and is particularly described by Dr.Pettigrew, in the Bibliotheca Sussexiana.Next in order to the manuscripts is the Biblia Pauperem, a Blook Book, or series of Wood Cuts, representing Scripture subjects, with a few lines of text coarsely engraved upon the same page.The precise date is not known, but ibliographers are generally agreed in the opinion that it was printed as early as the year 1440.| There is in this library a fragment of the celebrated Mazarin Bible, the first book ever printed.Although the date does not appear, this work is well known to have been the \\ ress of Guitenberg, and to have been completed in the year 1445.r.L.has also the New Testament, printed by Faust in 1462, being the first in which the date is given ; and quite à number of Bibles published within the first half century from the invention of print-, ing.Servetus\u2019s Bible, published in Lyons, 1542, is a ve work.The entire edition was ordered to be burnt by the rare man | 1558, shared the same fate with his Bible.Carleton Place, C.W.for heresy, and as many of the Bibles as could then be found were vod 10 Kiadle the wood mati greatly interest youth, : during the civil wars.11 {uecdotes.By John Whitecross.New York : nay & Bros, oy copies Secaped the fames, and thers is probably no other in , Cromwell's Soldier\u2019 Pocket Bible, of which only ona other copy is koown to be extant, is a great curiosity.It consists of selections from the Scriptures, published in 1 , for the use of the arm i \u2018 Here are copies of both editions of Eliot\u2019s Indian Bible\u2014the first containing the rare dedications to Ki Charles I], of which only twenty copies were printed : aod à perfect copy of the Commentary of Nicholas de Lyra, beautifally priated in black letter, in 1483, being the first work of the kind ever published, Of English versions Mr.L.has all the editions of Wycliffe, several of Coverdale, Tyndale, Cranmer, the Geuevan, the Bishop's, the Dousy and the ost remarkable editions of our present authorized version, from | rst Blac ter Folio of 1611 - vision of the American Bible Society.» to the recent re A splendid unique large paper copy of Reeve\u2019s Bible, with several bundred original water-color illustrations, by Harris of London, and & New Testament printed entirely in leiters of gold, were added to the collection on account of their beauty as works of art.A special interest attaches to some copies of the Seriptures io Mr, Livermore\u2019s library, on account of their former ownership.The Venice edition of the Latin Vulgate, 1478, was once the property of tbe unfortunate Pope Pius VI., and has bis arms stamped upon the covers.On the same shelf stands Melancthon\u2019s own copy of the Bible, with numerous notes on the margina in the hand writing of the Reformer.A copy of the Geneva version, presented by Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin to the late Rev.Dr.Homer, of Newton, \u2018from whose library it was purchased,) was supposed by its former owners to bave been the identical copy presented by the printer to Queen Elizabeth.The Royal arms can still be traced on the covers.li was printed in 1576.Bui the Bible of Adam Winthrop of Groton, Eng- and, the father of the first Governor of Massachusetts, is more highly prized by the present proprietor.manuscript Koran brought many years from Tarke Edward Wortley Montagu, and the Book of Mormnon, with tbe wato- graphy of Joseph Smith, possess an interest of a different kiod.Mr.L.has, in à large portfolio, The Lord's Prayer ia more than eight hundred languages and dialects.This remarkable work was printed at the Imperial Office in Vienna, and exhibited as the contribution of the Emperor of Austria at the World's Fair in Loadea.Oaly a few copies were allowed to be sold.Cantezs\u2019 New Juvexiees.TacLes vaom Exozism Histony.Illustrated.16mo.75 cents.\u201cThese tales have all of them truth for their basis.being founded on the most striking events in English 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mule of grinding.The clothing of the fatnily 18 home-spun ; everything they use is of home produc.ton\u2014tor thers te no store within (fty wiles.Tea and coffee are unheard-of luxuries.Two of the children have, porhaps, been born there ; and the only variety they know of on the surface of the earth is between bush and cleaning.Vhey have perhaps seen halt dozen strangers in their lives, of whom you make one.of neces- {sity they must grow up ignorant ; and it Will be well, if thus buried [in the forest, the family de not los all sense vf religion.In fact, sottlors like this find it a hani matter Lo keep count of Sunduys \u201cHe may, like a goud man | heard o:, take his com to be ground on | Sunday.\u2014-supjosing it to be Saturday.To prevent such mistakes hie nnght adopt the pian of another settler, who used at the beginning ot every week to pile up seven sticks, and burn one every day.When all were burnt fe knew that Saturday night had come, and piled up seven again for the next week.(Fesavarr 1866, the last ten year, and this retormation is still in prog Protestant influence now piepondoraies, in Trenton; good congregations at- send the English and the Wesleyan Churches; and a con rega- non of Presby teriana are just taking steps fur the erection of a Church tor themselves, an enterpiise in which they have a claim on the sympathy of their brethren, I'he Valley of the Tront is a great lumber region, and of this trade Trenton (or, as it 19 sometimes called, Trent Port) is the depot.Here the rafts are put tugether which had been broken up to descend the Rapids, aod here tle lumbermen stay 10 cmivuse awhile before embarking on their voyage down the Bay of Quinte and the St.Lawrence.Here tooare collected many of their supplies, and hence a large business is done in the town during the seawn.Hence also has arisen the! demand for intoxioming drinks which has given I'renton so notorious a character for disorder and licontiousness.The saw-mill previously mentioned, is a very fine establishment, and is capable of cutting some thirty or forty 1hou- sand feat of lumber daily.It belongs 10 Mesers.Gilmour & Co.Trenton would be much improved if (ae contemplated canal from is anit.ri.OBC ag A.Ax TAREE liryc ~ 250 æs.PS po eM For manhood\u2019s strength to gain * And is it pot a glotions prize Which meets just now your view! You tremb.ing women as she flies Before your bounds and you! Sister of bee whose paler brow This mura your lips have pressed, Whose glances haunt you even now, Whose presence makes you blest Of darker hue, tut sister still, Reared in your dwelling-place, Does it not make your pulses thrill More wildly for the chase ?Weary she flags, and seiced at last, brag out your galling chain, And bind the wembling captive fast, And drag ber back again.Ther seek your lady's bower once more, And bid her proudly bear Your ta\u2018e of prowess o'er and o'er\u2014 Fit teme for maiden's ear.Then think of that undying fame Which round you shall be cast, In that good time when Slavery\u2019s name \u2014National Era.Is numbered with the past.SKETCHES OF OLD TIMES.I like 10 talk with old settlers about the times gone by\u2014it might appear centuries ago instead of a few years\u2014so wonderful is tue change that Las come over the face of Upper Canada within the memory of many who are now in ripe oid age siting quietly in their arm- chars, \u2014dandimg their frolicksome graod-children ia the houses oi their sons.They are now reaping the reward of their toil,\u2014and in the comtorts which surround them, they have almost forgotten the sufferings of the bush.Yet there are tew but can tll their stories of adveutare and hardship, that are almost as interesting as * Robinson Crusoe.\u201d\u201d Hard times were the early times of the Canadian settler ;\u2014nlanted down in tbe midst of a wilderness of forest swamp and lake :\u2014w:tyout roads, and without inhabitants: no church to Worship In\u2014no neighbor wituin ten miles\u2014no school to send the children to\u2014uo market at which to sell his produce\u2014no grist-mill pearer than forty miles\u2014no way of getting to his little clearing except by a long * blazed\u201d path through the woods ; wolves and bears ali around him.What a place in which 10 begin the world?How desperately hopeless seems the enterprise! Vet many a one with such 1 beginning has proved that the enterprise was not so hopeless as it seemed.Standing on an eminence of the high lands that recede from Lake Ontario, the eye ai the period 1 speak of would take ina vast expanse of hull, and plain, and valley, all densely covered with wood.Away in the distance, on the side of that hardwood ridge, there arises from the forest a faint column of smoke, that tells of the clearing of an adventurous setuer.Away from that, and in another direction another littie column rises, and if you strain your eyes, others, very fait, may be discerned in the distance.The setilers in these little clearings are the only inhabitants of the district, ard ail beside is forest.0 ; Vient the first one.To get to him is quite an enterprise, and requires a good deal of personal strength, besides à knowledge of the woods.To miss your way is almost certain death; so mark the blazed trees and keep the path.If you have a guide, follow him ! and don\u2019t be so opinionated as à party of Englishmen were, whoo a friend of mine was once pioneering into a remae township.He knew the woods well ; the others, Englishmen-like, thought they knew someting too, and, after travelling some distance in the forest, pro that to see the country better they should spread themselves out, still keeping with hail.Their guide, after some remonstrasice, consented W this, and so they marcled on, hallowing to each other occasionally to keep right.But presently one hailoo was missed.The newrest man shouted repeatedly, but obtained uo answer, and accordingly he made bis Way Lo the west, and the whole together were soon gathered round the guide.lt unfortunate!y happened that the just man was the very one who should mot have been lost, inasmuch as be carried the provisions of the party.The guide decided at once what to do.Charging the others not to stir a foot from the spot, he started off in the direction the mau was most likely to have taken, and searched long and carefully for him.Bur all was in vain, not a sound could he distinguish in answer to his shouts, and at last he gave the man up tor lost and retraced lus steps to the party.It was now nearly dark, and by the advice oi the guide (they were now a little more inclined to take it) they pussed the night on the spot; and at daybreak started for the nearest settie- ment, which was twelve or fifieen miles ofl.They had not pro- conded fas before they came to a dense cedar swamp, which the Englishmen refused to cross ; Aud they wavelled along ils edge oa grest distance.At Jenguh the guide calied a halt: said he \u201c we must cross this swamp.\u2019 They declared it could not be done ; he replied that he should try, and they might follow him or stop just us they pleased.Their fears overcame their ubsunucy, and they followed him through the swamp.After 8 sre journey, the party arrived ou the shore of one of the back lakes; and here again the stupid feliows broke put; they would have it that south was north, and could scarcely be dissuaded from foliowing a route which would have led them to a certain destraction.However, they dared not risk leaving the guide,\u2014for by this Le they wars all fwnished aud hungry euough,\u2014and so followin, little grist-mll, and were out of danger.y of the vilier man t Why, he wandered along till dork, a tree Lo spend the night, and tbe next da, stumble upon a clearing, rejoined bis companivus.men,\u2014follow your guide and do what Le tells you.Alter long travel through the wouds, you suddsaly come upon à clenring ad sep the sky sgaiu.The clearing is a vesy little ons, and very rough ; stumps sland thick on the ground ; there is a log- shenty and iog-barn asd st.ble, maybe s yoke of oxen, 8 cuw oF two, und à (uw sheep and pigs.The owner of the whels is by,\u2014 a hardy, wiry-leoking young fellow, with Lis wifu, wit louks as it she knew what hard work meant ; burnt {aces and uncombed jocks.He will make climbed up was fortunate enough to Here Le told his story, and after à ime He has only been there a few years, but he can tell many a tale the Bay of Quinta 10 Lake Ontario were finished ; and considering of hardship.The whole of one summer he was sick with the ague; that a strip of land only a few miles in width separates the two, it 50 sick that the crops had to rot on the ground, except a very small.svems surprising that so important a work was not completed long tim.Wife and children were sick too ; and during the next winter, had he not been able to shoot a buck or two, besides fishing in the little creek, they mast have nearly starved.Not long ago his cows wandered away, and he had to spend many weeks in the woods, hunting about before he found them.In this, he was more fortunate than a worthy English settler in these early times, whose cattle wandered away from him in the full.He 8 large family, and was going to kill one of them for winter*s provision.He set off to hunt them, and toiled on, spending week after week in the woods, traversing a vast extent of country; still cheered by hope, as well as urged on by necessity, till the whole winter passed away.But all was in vain,\u2014he never saw his cattle more.His family, meanwhile, had been reduced to great straits: and shortly after his retaken ill and died.Round this bam, wolves have come howling many nights, and often has our friend risen in the dead of night to drive them off.Every fal} the bears help to clear ofl the standing grain, which they do by a very process, not at ail to the settler\u2019s advantage.He managed to shoot one or two, and has had some narrow escapes with others; for Bruin is a terrible fellow if he comes to close quarters, though if let alone, he is generally good-tempered enough.Indeed, he is somewhat of a gentleman, for a settler told me he was once walking through the woods, when he suddenly came upon a bear, who.was in (he path right before him.He walked cooly on, when the bear in the most polite manner turned aside from the path (I did not hear he made a bow) and allowed him to proceed.A dreary sort of life for a man to lead, thus buried in the woods; and you imagine he would fall into low spirits in such solitudes.Far from it: on the contrary there is in the early settler such a strong spring of hope that he can both do and endure far more than he could in other circumstances, as a substantial farmer told me a short time ago.We were talking of the rapid improvements making by neighboring settlers, when I observed thatthe same amount of labor and intelligence in the old country would have Fielded as rich a result.\u201cYes,\u201d he replied, * very probably; but te could not have done it in the old country.\u201d 1 believe this to be correct.These early settlers performed prodigies of labor, and went through hardships that would kill some of their descendants.The fact 1s, they were inspired by hope.Every tree they felled made a spot where corn would grow,\u2014~every acre they cleared brought them nearer independence.The land was their own; and the improvements were not for a landlord, but for themsalves and their children.That little spot of clearing you have been to see, will widen year by year (and oh! how it gladdens the settler\u2019s heart to see the area of sky increasing.) By and by another settler will take up a lot adjoining, and he be followed by others.again.These paths through the woods will give place to roads,\u2014and down by the creek there mills will be erected, a store and blacksmiths\u2019 shop will follow, then a tavern, a school-house, aud a church, until the place has quite the appearance of a village.Having now a market for his produce, our settler improves rapidly,\u2014moreover, his children grow up and help him.He has a considerable piece of land cleared; and after some fortunate Jean he will build a comfortable house, and improve his out-buildings and fences.Year by year he goes on improving, and, as the woods diminish and the clearings increase, his land becomes more valuable, Thus he grows with the increase of the country ill he becomes a prosperous and independent man ;\u2014his children, too, \u2018enter into his labors ;\u201d* and on the land which he with his own hands reclaimed, and in the house which he himself teared, he spends a green and quiet old age.Port Hope, Feb.11, 1856.TRENTON.After approaching and passing through this little lombering town, I thought of Bishop Heber\u2019s well-known lines, in which, speaking of Ceylon, he snye\u2014 Where every prospect plesses, And only man is vile.the point where it falls into the Bay of Quinte, there are obtained prospects of remarkable beauty ; and | was particularly struek with the landsoape which spread befure the eye of a spectator from the Western road.Even auw in the deptb of winter it is very beauri- ful.The broad expanse of the Bay of Quinie is aeen sireichiog far away till lost in remote distance; a small islaud or two seem jus thrown in for piciuresque effect ; weighs here and there dot the smooths surface of the suow-coverad ice, and fiom the opposite shore rise the well cultivated lands of Prince Edward county, Immediately below us are some preity villas on the ouiskiris of (Le town, then part of the town itself, heyord that the river, which ie here à noble sresm some nix hundred fuer wide.The ground rises atsep- ly on the oppusite bauk, aad the crest of the Lill 1s crowned by the uglish Church, à square-æwered, pld- couvtry \u201clooking stons edifice ; and just below 11, on à point which juts out into the Bay, à Inrge oaw-mill.The whboke lugetber, forms m evene of quiet buauty, of which the details are taken in one by one, and on which the sye delights 10 dwell.\u2018me of what uavelliers teil us of Damascus, which {paradise from without, but proves à wretohediy dirty and misetable Do you ask what became | that onic seems 10 huve di Now don\u2019t be like those stupid English-| But oh, 1he contrast on descending the bill! It almost reminded appears a very place within.The first (luing thet strikes a stranger un entering .Trenton is the enotmeus number ol taverns and selnons which crowd \u201cthe streets on again, they shortly reached a and coms ee thiekiy Their signboasds seam to mot ize the whole space, one siter another \u2014hotel, saloon, saloen, hotel\u2014 t from the woods and clesrings of Canada right into the midst of the Five Points of New York.Within a spase of a few hundred yurds, | think there must be neatly 1wently public bonses ; nd, deducting a law of respectable charavier, hav- ng ncosmenudstions for the country peuple, we may characterise all the rest as superfuous man-trape aud dens of iniquily ; trading in dronkonuess in a licensed or unlicensed meaner, and living b desiroying men.Lad as this is, | ain tld the place was mac] \u2018worse some years ago, when its population was almest so exciu- \u2018sively Romun Uatholio, that à Protestant scarcely durst avow him.wolf amongst them.Then the number of every was greater 1a proportion 1han it is even anw, asd the enones of riot and druuken- and ehuldsen, with rough sus- ness were appalling.The Irish aud French Canadian Calhudice had sks.= welcoms,\u2014 the town eplirely 10 themselves, aud & wrelsbsd place they made for there is always hospitality in the backwoods, deat expest ef is; but a and gratifying change hes taken From the high grounds which recede from the banks of the Trent at place during portion which he managed to get in by exertion that nearly killed.ago.Along wuh this, if the old bridge were removed bigher up, \u2018a capacious harbor would be formed by the broad expanse of he river, along the banks of which warehouses might be built, and the town rendered capable of doing an extensive business.The Grand Trunk Railway crosses the Trent by a girder bridge a short distance above the town.This bridge is in a forward state, \u2018and I saw piled on the wharf some buuilreds ol tons of Rails, ready for use in the coming summer, \u201c| which lime it is expecied (hat the works in this neighborhood will be in a suffieiently forward state to receive them.The grading is already protty generally finished, \u2018and in the neighborhood of Brighton, ballasting operations are being vigorously pushed on.The long pending dispute with the proprie- \u201ctars of the land in the town of Port Hope is also just now settled.\u2018This will enable operations lo be commenced there at once, and turn, worn out with fatigue, heartsick and disappointed, he was\u2019 here seems every prospect that next winter we shall bid farewell to the miserable stages now in use, so wretchedly behind the age as they are, and which seem to have been invented for the express purpose of trying the temper of the traveller by wasting bis time, aod making him miserable.The readers of the Witness will be greatly benefitted by the accelerated speed of the mails, for the news which now takes three or four days to reach thetn in some Districts, will ther be placed before them in one or two.There is already a marked improvement consequeut upon the opening to Brockville, the Witness of the present week having reached this place on Thursday evening.Trenton, Bay of Quinte.DEPRAVITY.It is rare that we bave had a deeper impression of the ides of Depravity than in reading the following passage in * Thompson\u2019s Prison Life and Reflections.\u201d The passage 1s on page 401, under the date of Feb, 10, 1846, and relates to the same notorious Stringfellow, who has been recently at the head of the armed ruffisns who have sought to smite down civil liberty in Kansas, and who was then State\u2019s Attorney for Missouri.In the couversation here detailed, Thompson was asking Siring- fellow®s interposition lor his pardon, to which S, replied : \u201c1am very much prejadiced against abolitionists, and have no sympathy tor you.If you had done it out of rascality, J would have felt for you, but you had no personal interest in view, and sach meddiing | despise, Or if it had been some poor, ignerant, foolish fellow, I could have sympathy, but you are a sensible man, and I have no sympathy tor you.Work and Burr were represented by Swartoat as weak men, having little mind, and led into it by you.1 would not believe you if you said you gave up your principles, You feel as you did before, and if free, would you not (win round and say that auch laws (as made wen property and imprison men for belping slaves,) are not laws Do you not feel lowards the niggers as siways 1° «| feel that they are men.\u201d ¢ And have as good a right to be free as anybody 7?«6 Yes, by all lawful means\u201d?« But [ would leave the continent.\u201d + Yes, aud go right among the niggers, which shows that your feelings towards them are not changed.| saw one of your letters,\u201d ¢ But I would go 10 instruct them, as any other heathen.\u201d + They are good for nothing but slaves\u2014they never could, nor never can take care of themselves.[ cannot promise to do anything for ou,\u201d ete.y Nocomment is needed.In addition, I heard from him more oaths and profanity than I had heard in a long time from the most depraved convict, Again, to prove the truth of bis mesertion, be used his ioflosnce, and plead one hour for the release of one who ¢* did it out of rascslity\u201d \u2014who stole two slaves, and sold them and pocketed the money.\u2014 For him, he had sympathy.Reader, put this down as a fair specimen of Missouri justice.\u201d There is a henet in sympathy with rasgality,\u201d It bas @ fellow- feeling with whatever is meso end bese.Its tender emotions are moved towards rascals, but evowediy it hes no sympathy with a good man.Observe how keenly he can scent out the spirit of doing good to the oppressed, snd how he loves to vent the rhe of his depraved heart againetit.This comes so near 10 loving sin {ot itsown sake we shall henceforth be careful how we venture upon the declaration that such a state of mind naturally 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