Ways of Meeting Trouble.

Colonist, Issue 133, 28 January 1859, Page 4

Ways of Meeting Trouble.

There are several ways of dealing with any trouble or misfortune. One is to magnify it. Machiavelli, in his celebrated letter to Vittori, after describing his sordid occupations and the company he keeps, (a lime-kiln-man, a butcher, and the landlord of a small country inn,) says : '.'I develope; the malignity of my fortune." He thought by magnifying it to overcome it. Then there is the stoical way, to ignore misfortune. " ' . '.

Then there is the humorous method; in which a man pretends, as .it were, not to know his misfortune, or will look at the droll side of it. . -,

Then there is the calm and business-like way of dealing with misfortune-rto look at it full in the face—measure -it carefully, and see what good there is in it, what-can be done with it, and how it can be stowed away.

Arrangements have been made, under the direction of the Bishop of London,- for a series of church services for the working classes in the metropolis. A young man residing at Sou thsea, having had some few words with his mother, dressed himself in his best, wrote a note which 'was found in his pocket, and deliberately walked into the sea off Southsea Castle, ancl drowned himself. The note explained his awful determination, y. The capital of Missouri was in a state of great excitement on the 10th; ult., when Governor Palk could not be "sworn in for want of a: Bible!" Among- high and low,, a copy of the Sacred Volume was sought—none could be found. At the last moment, however, when the ceremony was about to be delayed for a day, a Bible was found in the Penitentiary. ; '■[