Miscellaneous.

Colonist, Issue 8, 17 November 1857, Page 3

Miscellaneous.

The Bribe. —I have speculated a great deal upon matrimony. I love to get, unobserved, into a corner, and watch the bride in her white attire, and with smiling face, and her soft eyes meeting me in their pride of life, weave a waking dream of future happiness, and persuade myself that it will be true. I think how they will sit upon the luxurious sofa as the twilight falls, and build gay hopes, and murmur in low tones the now not forbidden tenderness ; and liow thrillingly the kiss and beautiful endearments of wedded life will make even their parting joyous, and how they gladly come back from the crowded and empty mirth of the gay to each other's quiet company. I picture to myself that young creature, who blushes even now at his hesitating caress, listening eagerly for his footsteps as the night steals on, and Wishing that he would come, and when he enters at last, and, with an affection as undying as his pulse, folds her to his bosom, I can feel the tide that goes flowing through his heart, and gaze with him on the graceful form as she moves about for the kind offices of affection, soothing all his unquiet cares, and making him forget even himself in hei1 young and unshaded beauty. Igo forward for years, to see her luxuriant hair put soberly away from her brow, and her girlish graces resigned into dignity, and loveliness chastened with the gentle meekness of maternal affection. Her husband looks on her with a proud eye, and shows her the same fervent love and delicate attention which first won her; and her fair children are grown about them, and they go full of honor and untroubled years, and are remembered when they die.—> Washington Irving. ■ »■ Pepys on Epsom Downs.—We found a shepherd and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the bible to him: so I made the boy read to me, which he did with the forced tone that children usually read, that was mighty pretty, and then I did give him something and went to the father, and talked with him; and I find he had been a servant in my cousin Pepys' house, and told me wha.t was become of their old servants. He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's reading, and did bless God for him, the most like one of the old patriarchs that ever I saw in my life, and it brought those thoughts of the old age of the world in my mind for two or three days after. We took notice of his woollen knit stockings of two colors mixed, and of his shoes shod with iron, both at the toe and heels, and with great nails in the soles of his feet, which was mighty pretty; and, taking notice of them, ' Why,' says the poor man,' the downes, you see, are full of stones, and we are fame to shoe ourselves thus , and these,' says he, ' will make the stones fly till they ring before me.' 1 did give the poor man something, for which he was mighty thankful, and I tried to,cast stones with his home crooke Told me there was eighteen

score sheep in his flock, and that he hath four shillings a-week the year round for keeping of them.— Pepy's Diary, Punctuality.—There is a habit so injurious to the practice of punctuality, that I cannot refrain from mentioning' it. I call it a habit of hanging fire. There- are persons ] who got up to go away an hour perhaps before they really depart; and who linger at, the door of the room, make a full stop on the landing place or in the hall ; and if one attend them to the door, linger still on the threshold; and even when in the street, calling up fresh energies, elevate their voices in a few parting words. How can such as these ever be strictly punctual ? I would particularly warn young persons against such a habit. I would say ' When you aiv going, go; for, remember, the moments you thus waste in loitei'ing are bringing even you, the young, nearer every instant to eternity.' Nkw Form op Action" for Breach of Promise —Assault b? a Lady.l—The Northern Daily Express states that, at Darlington,, on Monday, Miss A—, a lady residing in Harewood Grove, was charged with assaulting Mr. B—, a solicitor, her next door neighbour. Mr. B— stated that on meeting him the other day in the street, she spat in his face and over his dress, and called him a liar and coward, and she followed him for some distance, assailing him all the while. Miss A—■ did not deny the charge, but said.in justification, 'He came to my house for ten years, and made me. an offer, and has said-to-Mr. R—-, the grocer, that it was only for pastime.' Mr. B— having denied this statement. Miss A— said, ' I never told a lie in my life, and you are a liar and a coward.' She also charged Mr. B— with having thrust a 'disgusting and blackguard letter' under her door. This also Mr. B— denied. Miss A—th< n said, I know I took the law into my own hands, aid don't care for its being known to all the people that I spat at that liar and coward, and I wanted to get a stick to thrash him with, and, failing in that, I took the course I did. She was fined £3 aid cost?.

An Ingenious Rhbctke.—A general officer, who was in early life much addicted to profane oaths, dated his reformation from the memorable check he received from a Scotch Clergyman. When he was Lieutenant, and settled at Newcastle, he got involved in a brawl with some of the lowest class in the public street, and the altercation was carried on by both parties with abundance of impious language. The clergyman, passing by, was shocked with the profanity, and, stepping into the crowd with the cane uplifted, thus addressed one of the leaders of the rabble :—' (■) John ! John! what is this I hear? you only a poor collier-boy, and swearing like any lord in the land! 0 John! have you no fear of what will become of you ? It may do very well for this gallant gentleman,' point" ing to the Lieutenant, 'to bang and swear as he pleases; hut you, John, it ig not for you, or the like of you, to take in vain the name of Him in whom you live and have your being!' Then turning to the Lieutenant, ' You'll excuse the poor man, Sir ,• for he is an ignorant body, and kens n*e better.' The young officer shrank away in confusion, unable to make any reply. Next day he waited on the Minister, and thanked him sincerely for his well-timed reproof, and was ever afterwards an example of correctness of language, An Honest Debtor.—-A public dinner was recently given to Mr. M'Dougall, Inverness, by some of the leading merchants in Glasgow. In 1837, from a variety of unfavorable circumstances. Mr. M'Dougall had to place his affairs in the hands of his creditors. His liabilities were large, but the composition offered was accepted, and Mr. M'Dougall received a full discharge of the balance, amounting to nearly £6,000. This sum he has voluntary repaid—an act which he modestly referred to as simply one of duty, but which led to the flattering testimonial accorded to him by the merchants of Glasgow. The plate presented by Sir James Campbell, is one of the value of £336. After the purchase of the plate a surplus of about £40 of the money subscribed remained, and tills the committee very handsomely appropriated to the purchase of a gold watch for each of Mr. M'Dougall's two daughters. A Pleasant Habitation.—There are in New Orleans 2800_ drinking-houses to a population of 80,000; that is, a grog-shop to every 29 persons. Masquerades and theatres are open everv evening during the week. Assassinations are of nightly occurrence. Ten epidemics have raged with dreadful severity within the last seven years. Difference op Salutations.—ln Spain the common form of salutation is—'How do you stand V In drunken Glasgow, the usual style of salutation is—' What are you going to stand*?' A Very Thnheh CoNscrENCE.—A celebrated liquor importer in Boston, United States, recently had his pocket-book, containing a large sum of money, taken from his pocket while entering church. A few days subsequent he received the pocket-book through the post (postage unpaid) accompanied with a note, in which the writer stated that after spending the money he discovered to his utter horror, that he had been making use of funds obtained in the infamous liquor traffic. He returned the pocket-book, and would do the same by the money, should he be able to lay his hands on it.— New Orhans Ddta.

M.P.'s and Pigs.—An old fashioned farmer, not many miles from Wycombe, gives the following comparison between pigs and members of Parliament. He says, 'When they want your vote, they hollers after you like hungry pigs'in a farmyard ; but when they have been elected, they will allow you to pass by them without notice, much Jess thanking you for the vote—-just like pigs.'

The late Expedition up the Nile. —Our readers are aware that last year Mehemet Said, Viceroy of Egypt, organized an expedition oi scientific men to explore the Nile, and, if possible, to ascertain the existence of an immense lake said to exist in the interior, and which is supposed to be the real source of the Great Egyptian river. The Presse has now published a succinct account of this expeditionI,'borrowed from the private journal of Dr. Pouchet, one of its members. Through the instrumentality of M. de Lesseps, the expedition, patronized by the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and several other learned societies of France, England, and Germany, and favored with special'instructions, from M. A. de Humbolt, was ready for its departure about the beginning of October last. It consisted of MM. Aubares, a lieutenant of the French Navy ; Meyer, a German mineralogist; D. Richard, a' botanist; Geng and Boleslawski, officers of the Austrian corp3 of engineers; Georges Pouchet, a zoologist; Twyford, an English captain; Clague, a photographer; De Bar, a draughtsman ; and Tabouelle, secretary to the expedition, all under, the orders of M. Escayrac de Lauture, an African traveller of some note. An immense quantity of provisions and articles of every description, necessary for the journey, had been prepared, including, among other things, a distilling apparatus, two fieldguns, an apparatus, for electric light, and even a sawing machine. The Viceroy placed 500 camels and a large military force at the disposal of the chief of the expedition, a circumstance which induced him to conceive a higher opinion of himself and the authority entrusted to him than was, perhaps, quite in accordance with the interests of the expedition. It appears, indeed, that at the very outset his imperious conduct and the military organization which he attempted to impose upon the members of the expedition led to disagreeable scenes and to unneccessary delay. Meanwhile the vanguard of the scientific expedition, consisting of Captain Twyford, M. Pouchet, and M. Clague, set out from the port of Boulac on the 20th of October, in order to proceed by the Nile to Kartoum, where, they were to be met by the main body, which was to pass the desert. The description given of the passing of the'first cataract is interesting. The word ' cataract' appears, indeed, to be misapplied to the rapids which impede the navigation of the Nile, they being nothing in fact but a labyrinth of islands and rocks between which the waters rush with more or less violence. There are special pilots called reis, trained to that oalling from .father to son, who are entrusted with the guidance, or rather the' lvscue, of the frail barks that a^p to perform the dangerous feat. When the boat reaches a certain place, where the width of the water is not more than about 20 feet, about 200 Nubians, under the command of the chief of the cataract, tow the vessel up the shallow stream, and at' the most difficult point a dozen of the stoutest jump into the river, and actually lift the boat out of the stream, over the bar which impedes -the passage; beyond it the water is deep, and the lateen-sail may again be unfurled. The success of this operation is greeted by the applause of the numerous spectators assembled on the banks to witness it. A quarter of.an hour after this dramatic scene the little flotilla of the expedition lay quietly at anchor in the port of El Mahatta, an important Nubian village. Thence Captain Twyford and his companions proceeded to Dongolha, and, unconscious of the squabble for authority, still raging at Cairo between M. Escayrac end the other-members,of the expedition, arrived at Am'ooukonl, having exhausted their money and provisions. Here they fortunately met the Viceroy and his suite returning from his journey through the provinces of Soudan; and from him they learnt that, owing to the impossibility of establishing harmony between the chief and the members of the expedition, it had been dissolved. Nothing therefore remained to be done but to return to Dongolah, amid great hardships, owing to the illwill of the authorities, who'thought they, had fallen'into disgrace; and these difficulties did not cea^e until they reached Riioda, a place 20 leagues from Cairo, where they were received by a Government s'eamer. The results of their journey in a scientific point of view are very meagre, consisting only of confirmations of facts already published by previous travellers.

George IV. and Lord Eldon. —Bedfordsquare was the scene of the curious interview between Lord Chancellor Eldon (who resided in No. 6) and the Prince' Regent, afterwards George IV. The story is thu3 told. The Prince came alone to the Chancellor's house, and upon the servant opening the door, observed that, as the Chancellor had the gout, he knew he must be at home, and therefore desired to be shown up to the room where he was. The servant said h:s master was, too ill to be seen, ard that be had positive orders to show in no one. The Prince then asked to be shown' the staircase, which he immediady ascended, and pointed first to one door and then to another, asking, "Is that your master's room ?" fjThe servant answered no, until. he came to the right one, upon which he opened the door, seated himself by the Chancellor's bedside, and asked him to appoint his friend Jekyll, the great wit, to the vacant office of Master in Chancery. The Chancellor refused—there could not be a more unfit appointment. It was a round man for a square hole. The Prince, perceiving the humour of the Chancellor, and that he was firm in his determination not.to appoint him, threw himself back in his chair, and exclaimed, ""How do I pity Lady Eldon!" " Good God," said the Chancellor, " what is the matter ?" Oh, nothing/' answered the Prince, " except that she will never see you again, for here I remain until you promise to make Jekyll a Master in Chancery." Jekyll of course obtained the appointment, •

Why the Accident Happened.—At one time, when Mr. Wesley was travelling in Ireland, his carriage became fixed in the' mire, and the harness broke,; While he and his companions were labouring to extricate it, a poor man passed by in great distress. Mr. Wesley called to him and enquired the cause of his distress. He said he had been unabla, through misfortune, to pay his rent of twenty shillings, and his family were just being turned out of doors. ' Is that all you need ?' said Mr. Wesley, handing him the amount, ' here, go and bo happy.' Then turning to his companions, he said pleasantly, • You see now why our caniago stopped here in the mud.'

Editorial Courtesies at New York.— The Daily Times, which seems to have fallen out with the Herald, says—" The money article of the Herald grows more and more stupid every day. The " amanuensis," who does the falsehoods for the editor and proprietor, is not iip to his business. He has kept one stereotyped for a fortnight. The lying department of the Herald (which embraces nearly the whole of n) used to be fresh and spicy, but it reads now as if it were edited by a bag of old bones dug up from the Brick Church lots. Did the Herald slyly buy up for suqli a use ? "

George Stephenson' and the Dean.— Though mainly an engineer; he was also a during thinker on many scientific questions ; and there was scarcely a subject of speculation or a department of recondite science on which he had not employed his faculties in such a way a.s to have formed large and original views. At Drayton (at Sir Robert Peel's, in 1815) the conversation often turned upon such topics, and Mr. Stephenson . five'y joined in it. On one occasion an animated discussion took place between himself and Dr. BucVlan'd on one of his favorite theories as to the formaiio.i of coal; but the result was, that Dr. Buckland, a much greater master of tongue-fence than Stephenson, completely silenced him. 4 Next morning before breakfast, when he was walking in the grounds pondering, Sir William' Follett came up and asked him what he was thinking about. " Why, Sir William, I am thinking over that argument I had with Buckland last night. I know lam right, and that if I had only the command of words which he has I'd have beaten him." " Let me know all about it," said Sir William, "and I'll see1 what I can do for you." The two sat down in an harbour, where the astute lawyer made himself thoroughly acquainted with'the points of the case, entering into it with all the zeal of an advocate about to plead the dearest interests of his client. After he had mastered the subject Sir William rose, rubbing his hnnds with glee, and said, " Now I am ready for him." Sir Robert Peel was made acquainted with the plot, and adroitly introduced the subject of the controversy after dinner. The remit was that in tW- argument which followed, the man of science was overcome by the man of law, and Sir Willial Follett had at all points the mastery over Dr. Buckland. (t What do you say, Mr. Stephenson?" askd Sir Robert, laughing, " Why/' said he,," I will only say this,—that of all the powers above and u ider the earth, there: seems to me to be no power so great as the gift of thn gab."— Life of George Stephenson, x by S.-Smiles. :

Honob among the Santals. —The Calcutta correspondent of the Times,: in his last letter, says—-"Acurious little incident has ju^t occurred Hustrating the strange medley of races we are called on to govern. There are some hundreds of santal prisoners in our gaols. They &\ e c )n----demned for the rebellion; but they are otherwise not a.bad race, and in gaol they pine for freedom, and die like sheep. . The mortality in the Bhau'phore gaol last year was upwards of forty per cent. The Lieutenant-Governor was accordingly advised to let them loose, binding them to work in the great swamp round Calcutta, called the Sunder bunds. They were asked for their parole of honor not to fly, and, after two days' hesitation, gave it. A few days ago it was announced that all had fled. Yesterday, however, they all came, walked gravely to the Aliipbre gaol, and demanded admittance. Not a man had fled. They said the cholera was so bad in the Sunderbunds—quite true that they could not stay, and so, in obedience to their promise,:they ha:l come back to gaol. They will probably be put to other ■ work, but their conduct has excited strong sympathy. There is not another race in India who under the circuns'ances, would have kept their word. They could have g>ne home just as eaily as to gaol, and all India could not have caught them again. This is the race which has been given to the missionaries.-

Spanish Justice.—A. good comment oh Spanish, justice was made by a Spaniard, when speaking of a,person who, had been arrested, charged. wi:h a serious offence; " The casj isso clear against him," was the artless remark, " that unless he has plenty of money he will certainly be condemned."

Bad as the world is, respect is always paid to virtue; and in the-usual course of comm-m affairs it will be found that a plain understanding, joined ti acknowledged worth\ contributes more to prosperity than the brightest parts without probity and honor. Heiioism.—A. temporary bridge nenr the Murcella bad to be destroyed by powder, during Massena's advance; but tHe match failed, the enemy pmred on, and the passage seemed lost: tlun a man of Charles N.ip er's old corps, the R tyal Artificers—would to God his name had been preserved for posterity—exclaimed, "It shall hot fail, they shall not piss." So^ sa ing, he deliberately walked along the structure, a nWing one, to the mine, relighting the match, and binding his n ibie head over the spark, continued to watch its deadly progress until the explosion sent him from a world he was too heroic to live in ! Why are y>ung men told to lo)kin ancient history for examples of heroism, when their own countrymen furnish such lesSuns l—'Life of Sir C. James Napier.

Land; and Life.—During my researches in mountain t acts, I have usually remarked that the high, points of.) and either team with life, or else a/e perfectly barren. My own experience would certainly tendt) prove that, in a general sense, one ort'ie other of th'.se extremes do?s almost constantly obtain. And, although I would not wish to dogmatise on phenomena, which may in reality be explicable on other hypothesess it would perhap3 be worth while to inquire whether the geological m iveraents of subsidence and elevation will afford some clue to the right interpretation of them. Be this,' however, as it may, [ can answer, that in many countries where there a e strong inJioati )iis of the fo.ihlr, the alpine simnits hub nir an inseot population, to a s'ngular extent,; whilstin others, wliere tlie latter .is distinctly traceable, the upland ridges are comparatively uutenanted.

Now we have, already shown, that where the graduJ lowering of a region has taken place, there will be, of n'c s-ity, an undue a/'cumul ition of life on its lofVest pinn/ic'es—-f >r, even a lowing a ceitdn number of. species (whirh even formerly w^-re only just able to find a suffi cient aliitude for their development) to have perished, we shall have con -entrated at that single elevati >n the residue of all those which have,survived from the ancient elevations, above it. But if, on the other hand, an area, already peopled, be in parts greatly upheaved, there will be either a universal dying out, from the cold, of a large proportion of its inhabitants, or else an instinctive striving* amongst them to desert the higher ground on which they have been lifted up, a,nd descend to their--normal altitudes, —in both cases, however, the present summits will display the same feature, namely, utter &eso\ation.-~~Wotteston on the. Variation of Species.,

Growing Wiser. —A fellow who is considered rather "soft" speaking the other day of the many inventions which have been, made by the present generation, exultingly wound up with—" For my part, I believe every generation grows wiser and wiser ; for there's my father, he know'd more'n my grandfather, and I believe I know a leetle more'n my father did." "My dear sir," remarked a bystander, " what an old' fool your grandfather must have been."

A " Tradesman's Lie."—A man named Bryan, convicted some months ago before the Recorder of London for having represented to a pawnbroker that some spoons, lie wished to pledge were equal t0..." Elkington's best A," on which the pawnbroker advanced money, but afterwards found the spoons comparatively worthless, appealed against the conviction on Monday. For the prisoner, it was urged that his statement was merely a " tradesman's lie;" and t!'6 question was, whether the proceeding was an obtaining of money under false pretences. Ten of the judges were of opinion that it was not; and only two (Mr. Justice Willes and Baron Bramwell) being of the contrary opinion, the conviction was quashed.

Both Mistaken.-—Lord Seaforth, who was born deaf and dumb, was to dine one day with Lord Melville. Just before the time of the company's arrival, Lady Melville sent into the drawing-room a lady of her acquaintance who could talk with her fingers to dumb people, that she might receive Lord Seaforth. Presently Lord Guildford entered the room, and the lady taking him for Lord Seaforth, began to ply her fingers nimbly; Lord Guildford did the same, arid they had been carrying on a conversation in this manner for about ten minutes, when Lady Melville joined them. Her female friend immediately said, " Well, I have been talking away to this dumb man." " Dumb!" cried Lord Guildford; "bless me, I thought you were dumb."— -Rogers' Table Talk.

Remarkable ■ Oaks.—The oldest oak in England stands in the most ancient park, belonging to the Dake of Portland. It is called the Parliament Oak, for it is said that Edward I. held a Parliament under its brauches. It is supposed to be : 1500 years oldv Another remarkable oak is. Welbeck Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, which is famous for its oaks. This tree is called c The Duke's Walking Stick.' It. is 112 feet high. Three other of these noble trees claim attention for their extraordinary size and longevity, of which the . Gr.eendafe o.ik is the largest. Through its trunk a coach road is cut, and its branches cover a space of 700 square yards. The. Two Porters, standing near one of the park entrances, are each 100 feet high ; the third is called the Seven Sisters, from its having seven stems rising 90 feet in height from the trunk. The Cathorpe Qak, in Yorkshire, is n/ited as being the largest oak in England. Its girth is 78 feet.— The Half Holiday.

The Coinage.'—Last year, 1856, there, were coined, at the mint 4,h06,159 sovereigns, 2,391,909 half-sovereigns, 2,201,760 florins, 3,168,000 shillings, 2,779,920 sixpences, 95,040 groats, 4,158 fourpences, 1,018,298 threepences, 4,752 twopences, and 7,920 silver pence. The total value of the gold coined last year was ,£6,002,114, and that of the silver coin £462, 528, the real cost or value of the metal having been £434,609. The copper coinage of 1856 included 1,212,288 pence, 1,942,080 half-pence, 1,771,392 farthings,and 913,920 half-farthings, making a total value of £143,717. The purchase value of the copper was only £73,324. Last year 234,200,371 ounces of silver coin was purchased for re-coinage, at a nominal value of £377,550; and that the Mint value at ss. 6d. an ounce being £602,446, it follows that the loss by recoinage was £75,104.

A Novel Mode of Irrigation.—-A gentleman of; this city has commenced the cultivation of a mode! farm in the neighbourhood of Govan. and after trying the various, qualities of a large number of manures, both solid and liquid, the idea occurred to him that What was good to stimulate animal life might have an equal effect on the vegetable kingdom. Day af.er day, therefore, he may he seen wending his way down the Govau road with a flask tilled with the real "mountain dew," and on arriving at his farm he carefully applies the conteßts to,the roots of several garden plants. But these cabbages and cauliflowers are more honoured than any cabbages or oauliflowers were before, as one is named i( Glenlivet," after the name of the manure applied, another ' Ben Nevis,' ' Ardberg,' ' Campb.4ton entire,' 'Adelphi,' ' plain malt,' and so on. We have reason to know that the model farm thrives apace, that the new mode of irrigation continues to prosper in one form or another, and as his'experiment must be interesting to our agricultural readers, we shall watch its developement, and make them acquainted with the result. Vegetarians and total abstainers must look with great anxiety on this experiment, as they may anticipate that they will yet be made glorious on vegetable diet, without in any way violating their sacred pledges.— 'Glasgow Mail.

A Forcible Remonstrance.—-A worthy old farmer who thoroughly detested taxes and tax-gatherers, was once called on by a collector a second time for taxes he had once paid, but for which he had mislaid the receipt; and as he told the story to his friend, " would you believe it, sir, the fellow began to abuse me ?" " Well," said his friend, " what did ,you do ?" " Do, why I remonstrated with him." " And to what effect?" "Well, Id-.n't. know to what effect, but the poker was bent."

A Bright Boy.—A little boy had a colt and a dog, and nis generosity was often tried by visitors asking him—just to see what he wauld say-—to give him one or both of his pets. One day he told a gentleman present he might have his O'lt, reserving the. dog, much to the surprise of his mother, who asked, ' Why, Jacky, why did'nt you give him the dog?1 'Say notbin', say nothin' mother; when lie goes to get the colt, I'll set the dog on him."

The Art of War.:—After the battle of Waterloo the editor of this biography happened to enter, the Duke of Wellington's opera-box in Paris, on some business, The Duke was sitting alone in an upper dark corner of the box^ the seats in front being filled v/ith fashionable London men and women, who were with great volubility discussing the battle, and assigning all the honors to the cavalry. The Duke listened, laughed, and in a low voice said, ">I have told them that the British infantry won the battle, and all our-battles; but it has been intimated to "me that I know nothing of the matter, and I expect soon to be told I was not there.— >Mefnoirs of iSir 0. Napier.

A Wise Reply.—-Frederick the Great of Prussia was well answered by the third Duke of Portland,' then Lord Titchfield. Their conversation turned on the unpopularity of George 111. "If I were to sit on your throne for three days, "said Frederick, I would make you know what it was to have a king." " I do not think, sir," rejoined the young nobleman," that you would be able to keep your seat three hours."

An Imaginative Irishman.^—"l returned to the halls, of my fathers by night, and I found them in ruins! I cried aloud, 'My fathers, where are they V and echo responded,' Is that you, Patrick M'Clathery?"'

Effects of Cold Wind.—The power of wind.,when" accompanied by rain, not to say snow and piercing cold, in exhausting the' physical powers, is little appreciated, and would hardly be believed if certain evidence of it did not exist. The chilling effect of a current of wind is familiarly known, Arctic travellers have no difficulty in bearing a cold of 30 degrees or 49 degrees below zero, if the atmosphere be perfectly still; but the smallest wind, with a temperature even of zero, is almost insupportable.-. Even in the temperate climate of Great Britain, and at very moderate elevation, not u'nfreque'nt cases ot death from exposure have come to our knowledge, which took place in the summer months. One remarkable instance occurred in August, 1847- Two Englishmen' travelling on foot by a well-marked road from King's House to Fort William, in Scotland, during a storm of wind and rain—l Violent,- yet not excessively cold, and without a flake, of snow—lay down and died on the path. Similar instances have happened of late years in Westmorland. — -Quarterly Review;

Solemn Responsibilities of Parents. —It cannot be too strongly urged upon! public consideration that by a careful study of lays ordained by God, we arrive at the' inevitable conclusion that* under a practical obedience to these1 laws, everyone born with a sound structural formation might pass through infancy, youth, and manhood 9 - in the constant enjoyment of health, both of mind and body; and if we believe the scriptural text informing us that a well trained child will not in after life depart from th6 right way, we' must belive that every crime committed iri the" world is owing to evil training during childhood. HoAV solemn, then, is the trust reposed iri all who have the management of children ! how sacred the duty enjoined upon every mother among mankind !— Jfojyleij's Introductory Lecture on Education