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On the Ferry.

To the city, lying dim

In the mellow mist of evening

By the river’s further rim:

On the ferry, gazing outward

To the ocean calm and cold;

While the blue bay dips its waters

In the sunset’s fleeting gold.

On the ferry, gazing outward,

O thou ocean deep and wide,

Every pulse is beating measure

With the rhythm of thy tide!

Loving waves kiss warm and eager;

Motionless the great ships stand,

While above each pendulous pennon,

Lures me with a beckoning hand.

Calm on the uneasy waters

Leans the sunset-bars of flame,

Like the legendary ladder

On which angels went and came.

In another summer evening,

On a little way before,

I shall reach another ferry,

Seeking swift a dimmer shore.

I shall cross a wider ferry,

Crossing to return no more,

Sailing for a fairer city,

Waiting on a lovelier shore.

Will God’s sunshine beam around me,

Fusing every wave in gold?

Gently will you row me over

Charon, boatman, calm and old!

When these life-airs cease to chill me,

When my meager day is done,

Boatman, bear me through the splendor,

Falling from the setting sun!

Bear me outward to the mystery

The Eternal will unfold,

To the unrevealed glory

Shut within yon gates of gold.

Life may touch the soul so gently

We can hardly call it rough;

Yet we’ll all say in its closing

Our brief day’s been long enough.

Thus I stand with gathered garments,

Ere the deeper shadows fall;

O, my heart! drop thy last idol,

Listening for the boatman’s call.

Come! and by my spirit’s sinking,

By my shrinking fears untold,

Bear me gently o’er those waters,

Charon, boatman, calm and cold.

The Accusation Against Mr.
Gladstone.

My last letter was about Gladstone; and, as at the end of it I was very far from the woe which Voltaire pronounced upon "the man who says all he has to say upon any subject," this letter shall be about Mr. Gladstone also. A very serious accusation is being pressed against him. All the Tory papers and all the Toryized Whig ones are ringing the changes upon Mr. Gladstone's "haughty bearing" in the House, upon his "imperious spirit," and especially upon the alleged "irrasci- bility of his temper;" and they constan- tly affirm that the catastrophe to his Re- form Bill and to his administration was largely owing to his display of these qualities.*********

As to his having been lacking in com- mand of his temper, and in proper de- ference to the House, since he became its leader, I believe that a statement more baseless it would be impossible to manu- facture. The question becomes a very simple one of testimony. I will not in- vite myself into the witness-box; al- though I could testify that, whenever I have enjoyed the privilege of being in the House of Commons, I have been struck with admiration at the dignified and graceful courtesy of Mr. Gladstone; at the charm and fascination of his bear- ing; at the total absence of any tinge of arrogance in his treatment of other mem- bers; at his unflagging attention to every reasonable appeal, from whatever quarter of the room; at his forbearance toward foes who were raging for his destruction; at his marvelous patience under insults the most annoying and unseemly. I will summon to the stand two witnesses of the highest eminence and of the most unquestionable reliability.

In a speech at Lambeth, on the 22d of June, the celebrated Thomas Hughes, author of "Tom Brown's School Days," made these remarks:

"Then it is said that the Liberal ma- jority has been lost through Mr. Glad- stone's imperiousness. I ask you to look this matter fairly in the face. Is it a proof of imperiousness that Mr. Glad- stone has given up to the Opposition every point except those which he deem- ed absolutely material? Is that the con- duct of a haughty and intolerant man, who tries to put down honest opposition? Never was there a baser calumny uttered against a great man. [Cheers.] My ad- miration for that noble man has been growing all through the session, when I saw how earnestly he battled to keep the promises he had made. Give me the leader who acts as if he had a work to accomplish, as if a woe was on him if he did not accomplish it. [Cheers.] It is a disgrace to the House of Commons that they don't know a great man when they see him. [Continued cheering.] All this session they have been like a pack of hounds let loose on the leader of the House of Commons."

The highly respected member for the city of Cork, Mr. J. F. Maguire, who must be known in America by his ad- mirable "Biography of Father Matthew," has just made public a letter, from which I take the following sentences:

"And how did the people's champion bear himself in this protracted struggle? I watched him with singular interest in all the varying fortunes of the campaign —for that it was; and I must conscien- tiously admit that I do not believe that any statesman, having a due regard to his own honor, could have borne himself with more loyalty to his cause, or with a juster deference to the legitimate wishes of the House. From his very organiza- tion he must be specially susceptible to taunt, sneer, insinuation, however deli- cate or covert it may be; and Heaven knows these were rained on his head for four long months; yet I do not remem- ber a single instance in which he lost his temper, compromised his dignity, or transgressed the limits of that decorum which is looked for in a minister of the crown, human as he must be. He was necessarily compelled at times to employ the same weapons that were directed against him; but he has on many occa- sions held back his hand rather than strike, though the enemy's armor was all agape with rents and crevices, or though his opponent was naked to his thrust. I shall say nothing of his marvelous en- durance, as night after night he was faithfully at his post, ever on the alert, ready at any moment to meet his op- ponents, whatever their mode or manner of attack; or how, when the emergency called for a fuller display of his powers and a bolder enunciation of the living and essential principles of his measures, his oratory borrowed majesty from the immineuce of the perils, and his words swelled like the deep notes of an organ, or startled like the blast of a trumpet. Let me only say that he fell with honor —-fell, but to rise stronger than ever in the public conviction of his honesty [and truth.

Will the London correspondent of the New York Times accept these two little bones, and oblige the world by picking them?

Socrates, on one occasion, being com- plimented for having the best possible temper in the world, replied that he “had the worst possible temper, with the best possible control of it.” I do not say that the former part of this Socratic con- fession would exactly apply to Mr. Gladstone, but he has shown that the later part would. A finely strung, ex- citable, sensitive man, in several emergen- cies, while still in a subordinate position, he has grown extremely angry in the House of Commons; he has got into a passion; and, giving the rein to his boundless powers of sarcasm and invec- tive, he has scourged his antagonists to his own and their content. Upon the death of Lord Palmerston, almost the only doubt in the minds of Mr. Glad- stone’s admirers was whether he could always and infallibly command that high and stormy spirit of his; for it would be fatal to a leader of the House if his op- ponents knew that, by a series of judici- ously-contrived insults, they could throw him off his guard. The Tories of all shapes and grades raised the cry that he would certainly lose his temper; and they evidently resolved that he should. They worried, tormented, insidiously at- tacked him; and they have been exceed- ingly angry because they could not make him so. When one of their champion brow-beaters, like Mr. Lowe, of rare vituperative genius, has risen to conduct an attack, a scene like this has been usually presented: Mr. Gladstone would quietly settle far down on the Treasury Bench, stretch out his legs in front of him, and there, with his feet against the base of the table, his hands folded over his breast, the back of his head against the back of the bench, his pale, sad, but resolute face upturned, his eyes closed or gazing calmly at the lighted roof of the chamber, he would receive the pel- tings of the storm; and hour after hour, as the assaults raved on, he would make no sign of passion or resentment, nor any movement, save occasionally when some taunt of peculiar malignity would seem to send a pang to his heart and a nervous twitching for an instant across his face.

Wise, affluent, and magnanimous statesman! Hitherto renowned for strength to do, and henceforth worthy of the grander renown of strength to suffer! Higher from defeat than your enemies are from victory, advancing in the impenetrable armor of integrity, sus- tained by the benedictions of Heaven, and cheered by the homage and love of the millions who in all quarters of the globe speak the mother-speech of Eng- land, may your power be as great as your beneficent purpose, and may your stately career long continue to shed gladness on palace and on cottage, to lighten the bur- dens of the weary, to uplift those whom cruel circumstance has depressed, and to leave to the generations of mankind a model of the highest Christian statesman- ship!—-N. Y. INDEPENDENT.

Southern Feeling.

As one page, or feature, of the present historic times, it may not be altogether uninstructive to place on record some of the utterances, that now and then appear in the Southern Press, concerning the ladies who go to teach the Freedmen. Not content with the damning crime of keeping the negro in ignorance, making it by statute, a penal offense, to be punished with heavy fines and long imprisonment–- or oftener capital, by the code and court of Judge Lynch–-to teach a slave to read even a single page of the Bible, when, with some show of dreadful reason, they could plead the necessities of their fearful system, they now show how deeply “the iron of Slavery has entered their own soul,” by their fiendish malice towards those who, at great personal sacrifice, are trying to supply their lack of service–-to undo the terrible mischiefs of their former wicked- ness. With rare exceptions, our teachers are treated by the Southern whites with complete social ostracism. Instead of the friendly call at their homes or recognition in the streets, they encounter at best the averted eye and silent contempt, if they are spared the words of blackguardism, or that feminine accomplishment, peculiar to Southern gentility, of “gathering up their skirts,” that, in passing, their dresses shall escape the hated contact.

In rare instances have our teachers been able to find board in white families, for the reason, that public sentiment sets so strongly against them, that even those, who may be comparatively friendly them- selves, or who would be glad to do it for the money, are afraid. One of our mission families in Virginia, was compelled to forego the use of meat for weeks, because the Freedmen was not able to furnish it, and the whites had no meat for “nigger teachers.”

We have intimated that there are excep- tions. There are. We trust they will in- crease. Down in Norfolk, two of the leading clergymen welcome those very "school marms," the Editor so berates in the extract below, as they do also that Northern aid we are rendering, (thus do- ing what they cannot do) and bestow on one of our schools the, no doubt, merited compliment of being the best school, white or black, they had ever visited.

But the general ANIMUS of the South is well expressed in the following extracts, we clip from Southern papers. And it seems to us, they clearly indicate,

1. That the Freedmen's Bureau is still a necessity;

2. That, if as one of the Editors phrases it, their "former masters" are the Freed- men's ONLY "natural protectors," their case is a bad one; and

3. That the North has here a work on its hands of no mean dimensions and prob- ably of no brief continuance.

The following is from the leading editor- ial in the Norfolk VIRGINIAN of July 2;

They are Gone or Going.

Our grief knows no bounds—-our eyes are two fountains from which rivers of tears flow continually and refuse to "dry up," but roll down our innocent nose with increasing volume. We are, like Calypso, inconsolable—-and we mourn in a spirit of abject despair, that refuses all comfort; for hope has died within us. The only joy of our existence in Norfolk has deserted us. The negro "schoolmarms" are either gone, going, or to go, and we don't much care which, where to, or how-—whether it be to the more frigid regions of the northern zone, or to a still more torrid climate; in- deed, we may say that we care very little what land they are borne to, so not again to "our'n" even though it be that bourne whence no traveler returns. Our grief at their departure is, however, lightened somewhat by the recollection of the fact that we will get rid of a most abominable nuisance; and here the theory of compensa- tion comes in to compensate and console us, and dry up the fountains of our tears.

Our only fear is that their departure will not be eternal, and like other birds of prey they may return to us in season, and again take shelter with their brood of black-birds, under the protecting wings of that all-gobbling, and foulest old fowls, the well-known buzzard yclept Freedmen's Bureau.

In all seriousness, however, we congratu- late our citizens upon a "good rid[?]ance of bad baggage" in the reported departure of these impudent missionaries. Of all the insults to which the Southern people have been subjected, this was the heaviest to bear. It was the refinement of torture. It did not draw our flesh off the bones as with hot pincers; nor did it stretch our muscles on the rack, and fill our whole physical system with aches and pinches; but it was the more refined torture of an insult to our pride of manhood and our feelings; it was heaping coals upon our mental anguish-—to have sent among us a lot of ignorant, narrow-minded, bigoted fanatics, ostensibly for the purpose of pro- pagating the gospel among the heathen, and teaching our little negroes and big ne- groes, and all kinds of negroes, to read the Bible and show them the road to salvation, just, as if we were Feejee Islanders and worshippers of the African Fetish gods, snakes, toads and terrapins; but whose real object was to disorganize and demoralize still more our peasantry and laboring population. In this way they have done incalculable mischief. Had they confined themselves merely to teaching the objects of their idolatry the rudiments of our English education—to read, to write, and to cypher, (which is more trouble than they take with the children of their poor white neighbors at home,) we might have let their impudent assumptions pass with the contempt of silence; but they failed to confine themselves to these harmless ob- jects, and at once set to work assiduously to array the colored race against their former masters and present natural protectors.

And the people of Norfolk have submit- ted to all of this—-to this terrible indignity, without even a murmur. Was ever such respect shown for women, for order for peace, for obligations imposed by the ad- verse fortunes of war? Would any other people—-would the citizens of any of the Northern States—have allowed themselves to be so foully insulted? Had the South dared to send missionaries among them to teach their ignorant masses to read and to write, and instruct them in the duties of Christianity, their indignation, we opine, would have been manifested in some more striking manner than by a formal protest in words. We care nothing for these school- marms, nor how much knowledge may be crammed into a little negro's head; but it is the iron of the insult which enters grat- ingly into our souls, and like the clanking of Mr. Davis's chains, forces us to cry out "Oh! the shame; oh! the shame."

We trust, now that the negro schools have had their annual examination-—which came off with all the adjuncts of music and declamation, and Bureaucratic gran- deur—-and that they are to have a summer vacation, that we have seen, or soon shall see the last of these impudent women, who have done us so much harm, and that their return to these latitudes may be post- poned indefinitely. We have plenty of the South and to the manor born, to make teachers for these colored schools, and who can instruct them aright, too, in the duties of their station as well as in the less important rules of English syntax and natural philosophy.

We hail with satisfaction the departure of these female disorganizers, and trust n favoring gale will ever return them to ou shores, and that their bureau and oth e furniture may soon follow in their wake.

The thrill of horror at the Memphis massacre still lingers, and we can better appreciate what the Memphis AVALNCHB ssys in connection therewith in the follow- ing extract:

"Another lesson has been taught the white fanatics. It is that we want none of their 'school-marmus' among any of our population, white or black. It is said they have all left in a great fright. A happy riddance we have. They were nuisances. Women, who could come down South to teach negroes, are unfit for any but negro society. The South never learnt anything from New England. The Pharisaical reli- gion, the morals, the 'isms' of that land of hickory hams and wooden nutmegs have never obtained foothold among us, never will. These 'isms' are sprouts to be plan- ted among us by these 'school-marms, and the South will rejoice when they have left us."

Per Contra.

In the above we have the dark and re- pulsive side of the picture, that, which now "unfortunately" constitutes the too general aspects of Southern thought and feeling. There are however, as intimated, other and more encouraging demonstra- tions of returning sanity and juster views of the situation, and what the exigencies of the times require. The number is in- creasing, who see the wisdom, if not the justice, of giving their late slaves, now that they are free, that education which their own interests and safety require.

In the following extract from secular papers expression is given to these views and feelings;

The Charleston
Colored Schools.

We take great pleasure in recording the interest everywhere manifested in behalf of the education of the colored people. No small credit is due for all this to the much abused school-marmas, for the self- denial and philanthropy which induced them to leave their much vaunted and be- loved New England, and visit this benight- ed Southern land, illuminating the night of our barbarism by the light of their con- tinuance.

It should be remembered, moreover, that this serious step is not usually the result of the evanescent dream of young romance. By no means. Those who engage in this important and laudable missionary work generally are ladies of riper years, who may be supposed to have well counted the cost of the venture.

Preaching to the heathen, instructing and civilizing them, appears an innate passion with the pious descendants of the Pilgrims. Fortunate they to find the PARTHEN INFIDELES brought almost to their very doors. Here they can gratify their holy zeal without incurring the danger of a long sea voyage, or the disagreeable pre- dicament of being incorporated with a sandwich. What a pity our tropical climate and its concomitant epidemics make such sad inroads upon their health and spirits; and we do not think that, in our selfishness, we ought to insist on their remaining here any longer than the present month. All the meteorological signs con- cur in predicting a sickly season.

We regret the necessity of this Hegira; for we can ill spare these Plymouth pil- grims of progress. There are some among us it is true, who are either so ignorant or prejudiced, as to suppose that Southern ladies are the equals of these accomplish- ed Northerners. Such is not our opinion. No Southern lady can impart that assurance and self-confidence, which we saw crop- ping out on all occasions among the per- formers at the late exhibitions. We might enumerate other differences, but want of space compels us to bring our long school account to an abrupt close.—AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Moral Courage in Every-day
Life.

Have the courage to discharge a debt while you have the money in your pocket.

Have the courage to do without that which you do not need, however much your eyes may covet it.

Have the courage to speak your mind, when it is necessary you should do so, and to hold your tongue when it is prudent you should do so.

Have the courage to speak to a "seedy" coat, even though you are in company with a rich one, and richly attired.

Have the courage to make a will and a just one.

Have the courage to tell a man why you will not lend him your money.

Have the courage to "cut" the most agreeable acquaintance you have, when you are convinced that he lacks principle. "A friend should bear with a friend's in- firmities," but not with his vices.

Have the courage to show your respect for honesty, in whatever guise it appears; and your contempt for dishonest duplicity, by whomsoever exhibited.

Have the courage to wear your old clothes until you can pay for new ones.

Have the courage to obey your Maker, at the risk of being ridiculed by man.

Have the courage to prefer comfort and propriety to fashion, in all things.

Have the courage to acknowledge your ignorance, rather than to seek credit for knowledge under false pretenses.

Have the courage to provide entertain- ment for your friends, within your means —-not beyond.

Bangkok Recorder.

The Presbytery of Siam.

The regular meeting of the Pres- bytery of Siam took place, according to the notice given in our last issue, at the Chapel of the Presbyterian Mission to day at 10 o'clock A. M. There were present Rev. Messrs. Wil- son, McGilvary, McDonald, McFar- land, and George—-together with Rev. Mr. Carden of the Presbyterian Mis- sion, and Rev. W. Dean D. D. of the Am. Baptist Mission, and Rev. D. B. Bradley of the Amer. Miss. Association, who were invited to sit as correspon- ding members, and participate in all the deliberations of the body, but were not allowed a vote. The Rev. Dr. House was absent on a visit to the U. S.

According to a custom in the Pres- byterian church, the Presbytery was opened with a sermon by the last Mod- erator or presiding officer-—Rev. D. McGilvary from John XIV: 30—31.

After the sermon the Presbytery was constituted by prayer, when Rev. Mr. Wilson was chosen moderator for the present session, and Mr. McDon- ald temporary clerk.

Among the items of business of a general interest we might specify an interesting report read by Mr. McDon- ald, chairman of a committee appoint- ed at a previous meeting, on a ques- tion that had been referred to the Pres- bytery for its advice. It is one of general interest in this and all coun- tries where the system of slavery exists, viz, what is a church session to do in case of an application for church membership by a slave, who is com- pelled by his master to work, on the Sabbath, or subject himself to punish- ment.

The report took the open ground that there is but one course open in such cases, that the Bible recognizes no lowering of its claims in regard to the 4th commandment more than the 2nd, and that in all cases, where the commands of God and those of man conflict, we must resolutely obey God rather than man, and that he who is not willing to do so even in face of persecution, creates a probability that he is not prepared to seek communion with the church. It called forth a pleasant and rather animated discussion be- tween some of the members and es- pecially the corresponding members as to the extent in which a slave is exonerated from guilt in the violation of God's commands by the constraint of a master.

On the one hand it was maintained that in all such cases where a slave really and sincerely endeavors to obey the law of God, but is hindered by his master, he becomes merely a mechanical tool in the hand of that master, and the guilt rests with the master. On the other hand it was maintained by the majority that no such exoneration could be claimed. That in the subject of religion, while the Bible teaches and enforces sub- mission “to the powers that be”—every man must make his election and de- cide whether he will take God as his sovereign and law giver or man. The vote was then taken, and the report unanimously adopted.

The Presbytery then took a recess till 2 P. M.-—when an invitation was given in behalf of the ladies of the mission to all present, among whom we were pleased to see our friend J. M. Hood Esq. U. S. Consul, to par- take of a hospitable tiffin at each of the three families. We need not of course remark that they, as ladies al- ways do on such occasions, performed their duty to the satisfaction of their guests.

In the afternoon, according to a standing rule, half an hour was spent in devotional exercises. The prin- cipal item of business besides was a free conversation among the members and corresponding members on the progress of the mission work during the year. On the whole there seems much ground of encouragement. Some marked progress has been made during the year though less than we could desire to see. Besides the reg- ular preaching of the gospel at the different stations and missions repre- sented, in most of which there have been a few accessions, we might men- tion as an encouraging feature a board- ing school conducted at the mission where the Presbytery met, in which seniors as well as religion is taught, and some smaller schools elsewhere, while we have endeavored, and we hope with some degree of success, to make both of our papers, and especially the Siamese edition, hand-maids of religion, and aids of the mission cause. The Presbytery adjourned to meet next Monday morning, when a little remaining business will be attended to.

Sandwich Island No. 5.

In the beginning of the year 1823 the Missionaries had among their re- gular pupils twenty-four princes and princesses, there being about an equal number of both sexes. Kapiolani and her husband Naihe who were subse- quently eminently efficient in planting the gospel in southern Hawaii were members of those classes.

The mission was reinforced that year from the U. S. by 3 ordained missionaries, 2 licensed preachers, 1 physician and 1 superintendant of se- cular affairs, and their wives. Their names were William Richards, Charles S. Stewart, Artemus Bishop, Joseph Goodrich, James Ely, Abraham Bla- tchley, and Levi Chamberlain. King Liholiho, welcomed them in a letter to the Captain of the vessel in which they came, in the following laconic words.

Captain Clasby:—-Love to you. This is my communication to you. You have done well in bringing hith- er the now teachers. You shall pay nothing on account of the harbor,—- nothing at all. Grateful affection to you. LIHOLIHO IOLANI.

Keopuolani, the king's mother, hav- ing for months given good evidence of being a converted woman, was receiv- ed into the church in 1823, and was, the first who received baptism on the Islands. Being “a daughter of a race of kings, wife of a king, and mother of two kings,” she was consequently one of the highest in honors on the islands, and was, before her conversion, regard- ed by the people with the greatest veneration, so much so, that they dare not look upon her person but from the profoundest prostrations. But when she became a christian, she had little relish for such honors, and greatly dis- tinguished herself by her amiableness of temper, her gentleness and benevo- lence. When in her last sickness, be- lieving that she would not recover, she gave a particular charge to her friends and her people that the custom- ary heathen superstitions should not be practiced at her death. Her charge was obeyed, and that was the begin- ning of the great reform that soon took place with regard to those abo- minations. She died in the triumphs of faith on the 16th of September 1823.

In the autumn of this year king Liholiho, having an ardent desire to know more of the world, and being exceedingly impulsive, determined that he would embrace an opportunity which then presented of visiting Eng- land. He did so, and took with him his Queen Kamamalu and two of his chiefs. But, most unfortunately, soon after his arrival he and all his retinue were seized with the measles before they had had an audience with king George IV, and both he and his queen died of that disease. But the two chiefs recovered, and returned a few months afterwards to the islands. One of them was still alive when Dr. An- derson visited the place in 1863, and was then Governor of Hawaii. His name is Kekuanaoa, and is the father of Kamehameha IV. Princess Kaahu- manu became regent on the death of Liholiho, and gave her decided and strong support to the gospel. Through her influence, schools were established for the people of all ages and ranks, most of them being taught by persons who had received their first lessons from the missionaries.

Kapiolani, whose name is above mentioned, another distinguished prin- cess, on becoming a christian, used her great influence directly and pow- erfully for the encouragement of the missionary work. She made a jour- ney on foot one hundred miles with a numerous retinue to the volcanic cra- ter Kilauea for the purpose of prov- ing to the people, that the remaining superstitions concerning the godless Pele who was supposed to cause the earth to quake and the crater to belch forth red-hot lava, was all a mere hum- bug. While near the place, she in va- rious ways proved to her auditors that none need dread any evil consequen- ces from showing contempt of those superstitions.

The remains of the late king and Queen who died in England were very considerately sent back by the English government to the Islands in charge of Lord Byron in a British Frigate. A council of the principle chiefs of the island was held soon after the arrival of the Frigate, which his lordship at- tended in company with the mission- aries. That council is said to have taken a marked christian character, and made a formal acknowledgement of the authority of the christian reli- gion. And hence that may be said to be the first introduction of the Sand- wich Islands into the family of Chris- tian nations.

The Princess Regent, Kaahumann was most active and thorough in a great variety of reformatory measures for rearing a christian government. Kapiolani and her husband she com- mended for their powerful aid in sup- pressing "murder, infanticide, theft, Sabbath deseecration, drunkenness and licentiousness." Prince Kauikeaouli, then aged nine years, the brother of the deceased king, and heir apparent "was placed under the regular instruction of the missionaries that he might shun the errors of his deceased brother." In all these measures for the improve- ment of government, as well as for missionary instruction in general, the Islanders were encouraged by the coun- sils of Lord Byron.

Near the close of the year 1825, Kaahumanu, and nine other principal chiefs were admitted to church mem- bership, having been propounded for it nine months. These all ran well the christian race, and finished their course in the triumph of faith. Though the Sandwich Island government was thus, as we may say, christianized at the beginning, and the church and state in one sense united, yet they have ne- ver to this day been united in the com- mon acceptation of the term. While the people have become a church go- ing people, and the state a Christian government, the two have been kept distinct in their organizations and duties.

As early as 1826 the Islanders had been accustomed to assemble in great multitudes, generally in the vicinity of some chief to hear the gospel. This made it necessary to build large meet- ing houses. At Kawaihae, on Hawaii there assembled that year not less than 10,000 persons at once, to listen to the preaching of the gospel. A meet- ing house was built by the nation the same year at Kailua, 180 feet long by 78 feet broad, that would seat 5000 persons. The chief rulers of the na- tion attended its consecration, and made addresses to the multitudes, de- claring the purposes of the govern- ment to follow the principles of chris- tianity.

There were then schools establish- ed in every district of the Islands, comprising 400 teachers, and 25,000 pupils, nearly all of whom were adults.

Strange to say, there were not wan- ting in that place and time of wonder- ful awakening and reformation, per- sons, among whom were Europeans, who had the hardihood to stigmatize the efforts of the missionaries as being a curse to the nation. Mr. John Young whose name was mentioned in our first article, had then been a resident on the islands forty years, and had been "the confidential adviser of the first Kamehameha, and grand father to the queen of Kamehameha IV," gives the following very interesting and credible testimony concerning the re- formation that had been wrought. It was written at Kawaihae the 27th of November 1826.

"Whereas it has been represented by many persons, that the labors of missionaries in these Islands are at- tended with evil and disadvantage to the people, I hereby most cheerfully give my testimony to the contrary. I am fully convinced that the good which is accomplishing and already effected is not little. The great and radical change already made for the better, in the manners and customs of this people, has far surpassed my most sanguine expectations. During the forty years that I have resided here, I have known thousands of defenceless human beings cruelly massacred in their exterminating wars. I have seen multitudes of my fellow beings offered in sacrifice to their idol gods. I have seen this large island (Hawaii) once filled with inhabitants dwindle down to its present numbers through wars and disease, and I am persuaded that nothing but christianity can preserve their total extinction. I rejoice that true religion is taking the place of superstition and idolatry, that good morals are superseding the reign of crime, and that a code of christian laws is about to take the place of ty- ranny and oppression. These things are what I have longed wished for, but have never seen till now. I thank God that in my old age I see them, and humbly trust I feel them too."

It would appear that one of the false witnesses against the Protestant Mission on the Islands was a French- man by the name of Rives. He had been living sometime among the peo- ple, and at length, secreting himself in the ship which bore king Liholiho to England, he secured a passage. And having arrived, he proceeded to France and falsely represented himself as being the owner of large plantations on the Islands, as having great influence with the king of Hawaii, and as having a great desire for the conversion of that people to the Roman Catholic faith. He succeeded in persuading three French Roman Catholic priests to go as missionaries to Hawaii, and several laymen of the same faith to accom- pany them as agriculturists on his pre- tended plantations. They reached the Island July 7th 1827.

"Such was the origin of the Roman Catholic mission to the Sandwich Is- lands. Their arrival was annoying to the native rulers, who regarded their worship as a return towards their for- mer idolatrous system, and as so far contrary to their laws."

The present king of Siam.

Though a good ruler is supposed to encourage enterprise and patronise learning and religion, that is accom- plished in a good government more by protection than patronage. In pre- senting the reign of any king there- fore, we should look at the laws and usages of the country to determine the rank of the nation, the power of its ruler, and the hopes of the country.

When the present king ascended the throne he found usages establish- ed, and a system of jurisprudence in practice, which he must have perceiv- ed exceedingly defective. But one man, though a king, cannot upturn long standing customs, without great disturbance. So that often it is better to endure the defects of a custom al- ready in force, rather than immedi- ately institute an entirely new usage.

We are free to pronounce, the old system of punishing and detecting crime, and collecting revenue, (which seem to be the great works of govern- ment, the one to protect government, the other to pay for protecting, and to institute such internal improvements as shall promote the interests of the people,) to have been so managed as to have almost made the government a clog, rather than a stimulus to indus- try and progress, a fetter to keep down rather than a plume to produce boyant hope and enterprize.

Yet we are happy to say the king in this department, instituted an or- der of things, which while it does not immediately disturb old laws and old regulations, will gradually undermine the old and introduce a better way.

The king has taken the trouble to introduce a foreign master of police with a liberal salary, and a police force, that had been trained in the nearest English port Singapore.

He has tried this police force for several years, and seemingly pleased with its operations, he is now esta- blishing a native police on the same model, all the officers and the police force to be from Siamese subjects. This is as it should be. If a country wishes to be strong, it must be self re- liant as fast as possible.

Yet when we say subjects, we do not mean what may be called pure Siamese: we mean the native born, and those who have adopted the country and expect always to live here, to edu- cate and rear their children here, and here to live. We would think it good policy to introduce this people as fast as possible to all the privileges and powers of Siamese subjects. We be- lieve the Laos, Cambodians, Cochin- Chinese, Chinese, Malays, Peguans, &c. &c. would make just as good sub- jects as those in whom flow what is called Siamese blood. This latter class are already almost entirely a fusion of races, and why not admit the pure races at once and give them the pro- tection and advantages of subjects and make it for their interest to seek the advancement of their adopted country.

When people adopt a new country which gives them better sources of livelihood and improvement than their own country, they owe it more grati- tude, and if they adopt it, will stand by it to the death even to the detri- ment of their mother country. There need be no fear they will be treacher- ous, if they are protected and justly promoted. I now mean of course, as a gradual measure, with appropriate restrictions and conditions.

America is a noble example in this department. Scotch and Irish, Ger- mans French and English, Spanish Italians and Portuguese, Swedes Danes and Russians, join hands amicably and call themselves a great nation, greater than all their ancestry, and on a high- er better platform of government. We wish the same joining of the eastern races in Siam and the same success. We think it possible, feasible and desirable.

We are glad the native population have so good a leader in the English- man who now stands at the head of the police force, which is to give pro- tection to this city of multifurious ra- ces. An official with a beam in his eye cannot see clearly to pull the mote from his brother's eye, or a breaker of law be a fearless champion for rectitude, lest some culprit should turn upon him with “thou that sayest a man should not steal, dost thou steal.” Our European police master is exemplary. His residence is neatly and thriftily kept. His wife tidily and tastefully keeps her house and house- hold, and they are church-goers.

Such a man is doubly effective. He acts by precept and example, and can thus speak and act advisedly, for he has experience. He can say come and go with us, and we will do you good. Leave your bad ways, adopt a true course, and be an honest exemplary, happy man. It is possible. It is ne- cessary to progress and happiness. Sin leads downward and destruction- ward.

But while the European policeman is well paid and exemplary, he has a great vantage ground over the native officials as "a terror to evil doers." He has a good salary, and can afford to deal justly and fearlessly. Before the treaties with the western nations the revenue was so meager, or rather there was so much absorbed by royal ty, there was little left for subordinate officers' salaries, which were almost nominal and hence bribery, & oppres- sion took the place of justice and pro- tection in departments of business. Hence it became a usage to give small salaries and make up the deficit by perquisites. Judges and the whole phalanx connected with the righting of wrongs have become the greatest wrong doers. They were driven by necessi- ty to take bribes to live.

We come from a country well gov- erned, where officials have delegated power, and means to help them fully meet the expense in any way which government may arrange that shall meet conveniently the wishes of the officials, and officially and justly admi- nister the government. The officials are liberally salaried for their onerous duties, and to receive a bribe or em- bezzle the public revenue is a great crime.

Protection and stimulus to every laudable enterprize is the watchword of government, supposed infringements of law after a fair trial are decided up- on by a large jury supposed to be im- partial, and the penalties of law promptly, efficiently and judiciously executed, both to reform the offender, and as an example to make the lawless fear. When the guilt is certain, it be- comes the duty of government to see it though in all its bearings, punish- ing the wrong and seeing it as far as possible righted. Paying the cost of trial falls entirely on the offender as well as remunerating the injured.

Siam at present, has little of this efficiency. Let an illustration show the difference. A man was caught stealing. It was an undoubted fact though of small amount. The owner of the stolen property made over the thief to proper authorities, asking for justice. Months afterward a messen- ger came to him from prison saying the poor wretch was pining in prison and chains on the brink of the grave. What in chains still! was the exclama- tion. Yes, was the reply. It is the custom of the country. He will stay till he dies if no friend comes to the rescue. Let the poor fellow go, was the order of the injured party, and so he was set free perhaps to pursue his old course for he had nothing but chains to make him better.

We need a Howard here beyond measure, to visit the prisons, represent their defects, and show the working of the present measures. The king is the father of his subjects, he wishes all the people to be good and happy, and should so arrange all his measures as to secure these results. Punish- ment should be prompt, just, and al- ways and every where for the good of the whole people. It should not be the policy to destroy but to save.

There is another feature here which is very disheartening in the party seeking justice. In the developements of the infringements of law, prominent men often become implicated, and the policy of government seems to be to shield them and substitute a scape- goat. If we want a country to pros- per, justice must be done though the sky falls. That is, justice must be known and the penalty affixed. Af- ter sentence is passed, pardon becomes possible, or an amelioration adjusted. Murder may, for example, be commuted to imprisonment for life; or a king may set a culprit free for sufficient rea- sons. But law must take its course, and sentence fall where it is due, or law becomes a byward, and govern- ment but sounding brass and a tinkling symbol.

Domestic Animals.

In our last article under this head we wrote of the Tookhaa. Our friend A Res- ident intimates that it is a monstrous perversion of language to class this creature, being so much like a croco- dile, and in fact belonging to the same genns, among domestic animals. We confess that he has a great hanndle to his ideas, but it appears to us as much out of proportion to the thing he wishes to wield by it as a hanndspike to a jack knife. With far more pro- priety might he say that it is out- rageous to call a dog a domestic ani- mal because he belongs to the wolf tribe, or that a cat must be ex- cluded from the same category be- cause he stands gennerically among lions. But we are only playfully re- plying to our correspondent in this writing, having caught the spirit from him. We are thankful for his artiele as it was written in a good spirit, and has brought out more of the nature and characteristies of the animal under diseussion than we had thought of.

We propose now to write on an- other animal under the same general head, which it may be thought, even less worthy of a place among domes- tic animals than the Tookhaa. We refer to the crow or raven. Lexicog- raphers seem to make some little distinction betweon a raven and a crow, but we confess to an inability to discover it, and shall content our- selves with considering the two names as synonymous terms. To persons born and brought up in the Western world, especially in America, as yet unacquainted with the crow of this Eastern world, the idea of classing this bird among domestic animals must seem very strange. And we fancy we hear them exclaiming even now, what, call one of the wildest and shyest birds in all creation a domestic animal! It is absurd. Not quite so fast gentle reader. Wait a lit- tle and we will show you that the nature of the crow is wonderfully changed in this Eastern world of wonders. And here we would frankly say, that if it be essential to the idea of domes- tic, that the creature to which the term is applied should live in human dwellings, then we can not properly denominate our crow of Siam a fully domesticated animal. The term is only applicable to it in the sense of living about our houses, frequenting our verandahs or corridors, and occasionally, when it gets a good opportunity, darting into our dining room, alighting on our table while being prepared for a meal, and grabbing what it can most ex- peditiously get hold of, it may be a bit of fowl, or duck, or pork, or pota- toe, or bread, or cake, or even a silver spoon, or fork, if there be the smell of food upon it. The creature is so quick on the wing, and so expert at dodging, that it is next to impossible to catch it, or hit it by any thing you fling at it in the act of thieving. And if you attempt to shoot it while in sight of you, it darts away the mo- ment you begin to take aim at it. Its nature has endowed it with a great wariness of all pointing towards it. When the bird comes and lights on the verandah railing, within eight or ten feet of your table, to have a look at you is eating, and to see if by hook or by crook it may not get a bit of something to eat, and runs over the bare [?] lessons to curry favor with you, with even more graceful genuflexions than the politest French- men, you have only to raise a knife or fork or simply the hand and point it towards the creature, and it spring to its wings in an instant. The bird seems to know well that a bow and string with an arrow attached to it, is an instrument of death, and hence fancies that its life is in danger when near to it. Consequently a bow and arrow hung up in the door way or window opening is one of the best Scare-crows we have. The next best is a wing of a crow suspended by a string, and the next a bit of black rag or a few strings having some slight resemblance to a net work, stretched across your door-way, or near any thing that you would pro- tect against their depredations. Our housewives are greatly annoyed by the crows stealing away their yeast put out to dry in the verandah, or their dough placed in the sun to rise. A white napkin spread over it is not enough, for they will pull it off and away with both your bread and yeast.

It is interesting to observe the wis- dom or canning of our crows in saving the fragment of food which they have over and above what they need for the present meal. They will fly away with it to some lonely place on the tiled or thatched roof of another house near by, and carefully stow it away under some tile or leaf of attap, keeping their eyes out continually against observers of their own kind. Should a crow thus engaged espy an- other crow not in partnership with itself looking at it, it will abandon the place and seek a better one for its purposes.

Our Siamese crows become wonder- fully intimate with our infant children. Put your creeping baby in your ver- amiah, or in the door way with a piece of bread and butter, and very likely if left alone a few minutes a crow perched on a roof or tree near by, watching its opportunity, will dart down and alight first on the railing eight or ten feet distant; and then hopping a foot at a time un- til within four feet, will venture to take its stand on the floor before the child; and then, if it sees no danger nigh, will very genteelly step up and take the morsel out of the hand of the child, or even out of its lips. In- deed our little children who are able to walk, often become so intimate with the crows, that they call them to them, and the birds come and take it out of their hands.

Our Siamese crows have another habit which we never noticed in the western world, and that is, when one of their number has been killed by a shot, they will come together in scores and even hundreds, under great exci- tement, jabbering to the top of their voices, as if intent at all hazards to take vengeance on the author of the murder of their fellow.

There are myriads of crows that have their homes in and about this city, and they perform invaluable service as scavengers of this great metropolis. In the day time they are scattered all about. You can scarcely look out a moment without seeing some of them. But as it grows dark in the evening, they love to flock together by hun- dreds, and take up their lodgings on two or more trees in some temple ground. They have one grand Ho- tel near our dwelling. It is common for them to have a season of the freest jabbering on getting settled for the night, and being very shy, the least unusual noise in the vicinity will start them all to their wings in wonderful harmony, and they will fly hither and thither about the neighborhood, every one talking incessantly in its own way a few minutes until they all get back again to their roost. They are often times disturbed in this way many times before they are quietly settled for the night.

They make their nests in the tops of trees about the temples and or- chards of cocoanuts, betels, mangoes, mangostiens, durians and other trees. We frequently see their young ones just beginning to take their first les- sons in flying, tumbling down among the bushes about our houses, the mother crows coming after them, greatly concerned for the welfare of their young.

Siamese crows in other respects are quite like the crows we were accus-

tomed to see in our boyhood days being of the same size, quite as black and tidy, though they feed much more on carrion than their broth- ers in the western world.

MR. EDITOR,-—In conversation with an acquaintance a few days ago upon the subject of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors, he quoted the oft perverted passage where the Apostle Paul advises Timothy, to "drink no lon- ger water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmi- ties," in support of moderate drink- ing. This same passage is used by a vast number in support of the drink- ing usages of the present day; but the true meaning of it is either unknown to them, or else they willfully mis- apply the whole passage.

What was Timothy? Was he a moderate drinker, or a total abstainer? "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake" is Paul's advice, thereby proving clearly that Timothy was in the habit of drinking water, and water only. Of what use would it have been, supposing that Timothy was a moderate drinker, for Paul to have told him to "use a little wine," when he was habitually using it? The advice which Paul gave to Timo- thy was perfectly appropriate to the total abstainer, but to be given to a moderate drinker it was entirely mis- placed. I therefore conclude that Timo- thy was a total abstainer in the strict- est sense of the term. Paul's advice to Timothy was to "use a little wine" as medicine "for his stomach's sake and his often infirmities" but I cannot find one word that tells me that he followed the advice, and even if he did, that would not prove him to have been a moderate drinker.

Does the moderate drinker know that he is in danger of becoming a drunkard? No man at the outset ever intends to let himself sink so low in the scale of being. He thinks that his resolution is strong enough, and that he is perfectly able to withstand all the seductive influences of the intoxi- cating cup. But once entered upon the slippery path, he finds himself quite powerless, and is carried onward by the fatal current until he finds himself sunk beneath the beast that perishes.

“The prince of this world,” has found strong drink to be a most fruitful in- strument in attaining his ends with men when all his other arts are of no avail; and through its all prevail- ing power, he has reaped an abundant harvest of souls for perdition. Strong drink has proved itself to be man’s greatest enemy, yet strange to say, men are daily sacrificing health, wealth, and happiness to indulge in it. The majority of all classes of men, seem to think that there is no true pleasure in the absence of the wine cup. It is fashionable to use it, and as a fashion and a custom it draws thousands to its shrine. But O the fearful end to which it surely leads!

Slowly, but surely the demon alco- hol gains upon its victim, until the moderate drinker becomes the habi- tual drunkard, and then what a sad spectacle is he to look upon! See his sunken blood-shot eyes, his withered hands, his tottering gait. The very children in the streets are laughing at his bloated visage and haggard appear- ance. He breathes God's pure air and receives unnumbered blessings from His bounteous hand, but no grateful emotion fills his breast. He is fretful and discontented with his lot in life, and with every thing around him. I ask, is there any thing in God's crea- tion that presents so degrading an ap- pearance as a drunken man? No, there is not; for he degrades himself below the level of the brute. He is lost to vir- tue, his character is blasted and all his prospects for this life are ruined; and if he ever looks forward to the eternal world, he sees the sentence recorded, "drunkards shall not inherit the king- dom of heaven," and sinks in despair.

But is there no remedy to save the moderate drinker from becoming the habitual drunkard, and of avoiding the drunkard's fearful doom? There is but one sure remedy, and that is ban- ish forever the intoxicating cup from him. "Touch not, taste not, handle not," is the only safe ground upon which the moderate drinker can hope to stand secure, and successfully resist the demon alcohol.

Would that every one of whatever name or nation they may be, protes- tant or papist, missionary or layman in this benighted land, had the moral courage to adopt, and the energy to carry out the resolution of the Rev. Dr. Scudder. "I would not allow a heathen to see me take a glass of wine for a kingdom." G.

LOCAL.

His Majesty is expected to return to-morrow or next day and commence his annual pompous visitations of the temples.

Since His Majesty the king left for Pitsanuloke, His Excellency Chow Phys Kalanome, the Prime Minister has held a court, as we learn, every evening at his palace in the place of the king, and that because there was but little government business to at- tend to, he has arranged to amuse and please his courtiers every evening by Siamese theatrials called lakawn.

His Siamese Majesty's Gun boat Sherry Wine, commanded by Koon Kam Haang—-Comdet, sailed yester- day for Cochin-China to take home two Cochin-Chinese subjects, who had several months since been taken from a wreck of a Cochin-Chinese vessel near P’ooteinat. This vessel was bring- ing homeward several Siamese subjects who had escaped from a wreck at Hainan last year. P’ooteinat is a Siam- ese port, if we mistake not, on the eas- tern coast of the gulf not far from Campoot. It is refreshing to our hopes for these eastern heathen nations, to notice in this, as well as in many other respects, a growing conformity to wholesome usages in Christian nations. Especially is it gratifying to see Siam and Cochin-China, so long the bitterest enemies, now brethren seeking to please each other.

We learn that the Sherry Wine will, on returning from her destination, cruize a while in the gulf.

We are very glad to learn that the Siamese government have at length employed a gentleman of Dutch na- tionality born in Java, but educated in Europe to serve them as civil En- gineer. He is now in town, having arrived from Singapore on the 27th ulto. with two assistants as passengers on board the Siamese Barque Hera, Captain Buckholdt. It appears that the government has especially in view by his services a survey of the River Mekong, independent of course of the survey which the French have undertaken, but no further, probably, than where the river is in Siamese territory. We hope he will be em- ployed for a month or two at least in surveying for a street on the western side of this river and in making seve- ral inviting openings from the river by land to the new street called Charon Kroong. We wish the gov- ernment every success in this noble enterprise.

We learn that the Viceroy of Egypt has come out against polyga- my and abolished it so far as regards his own family. This is a great and grand stride in the way of moral im- provement in Egypt where the chief rulers have so long made it a high aim of earthly glory to have princely har- em.s. We trust that this illustrious example will soon lead on to a great reformation in that land which has for hundreds of ages been cursed by poly- gamy. Would that His Majesty the king of Siam might see the great good he would do, and the great glory he would acquire by abolishing polyga- my in his family! The harems of the kings of Siam have from time imme- morial made the crime honorable for all, and all have consequently follow- ed it to the utmost extent of their ability; and it is now a terrible curse in the land—-a vampire sucking out the life blood of public morals. Oh that the king would see and feel it! Then would he come out against it by his own example at least, and strike a death blow to the curse. All his prin- ces and rulers would honor him for it, and many, if not all, would quickly follow such an illustrious example, and Siam would consequently take immense strides towards high civiliza- tion and honor. In this matter, as well as in regard to religion, the king of Siam has the most fearful responsibil- ities resting upon him, and he will sooner or later have to give an account of them to the Judge of all the earth.

Rev. DANIEL McGILVARY and fam- ily arrived here from Petchaburee on the 31st ulto. having bade farewell to their "sweet home" in that Diamond City with the view to seek a new one at Cheangmai. They intend to leave this city for that Laos capital a little before, or soon after next Christmas.

The next monthly concert will, as usual, be held at the house of Rev. Wm. Dean D. D. next Monday the 5th inst at 4, P. M.

We are informed that the three steam rice mills which have been run- ning almost incessantly for many months, have turned out on an average about 4500 piculs of rice daily, equal to 135,000 per month. Now about an average result of native mills, we judge, is 25 piculs daily. Hence these three mills are equal in power to 180 hand mills.

The new Mill of Messrs R. S. Scott & Co. was expected to begin operations last Monday, but has, as we learn, been hindered again by some little changes which needed to be made. It will in all probability soon be, running and will increase the Steam force in rice hulling by at least 1500 piculs per day.

We also learn, that still another steam mill of smaller power is in the course of erection below the Ain. Rice Mill on the same side of the river.

Captain S. J. B. Ames, commis- sioner of the police, and his family together with Rev. S. J. Smith and family left on the 27th ulto. for a trip to the Anghin Sanitarium, not as in- valids, however, but in quest of a little recreation.

It is said that very little paddy has been coming into market the last six days. It surely cannot be on ac- count of any scarcity of the article in the country. It may be attributed in part to the king's trip to Pitsa- nuloke, which will naturally induce the paddy owners in that section to have a week of holidays, so that they can have a good look at their sovereign. And moreover this is the regular holiday season for all the people, when all classes must be expected to spend a large part of their time in mak- ing presents to their priests by much parading on land and on water, boat- racing, etc.

Shipping is beginning to arrive fast. During the past week we have had no less than 16 arrivals, the greater part of them foreign vessels. From this onward, we may expect a great in- crease of shipping to take the incom- ing rice to ports in China and else- where. We believe that there will be employ for a great number of vessels in Bangkok this season, the harvest by the present appearance of the paddy fields promising to be an abundant one.

The plumage of the lark is not its song. Look out for short doing and long praying.

The apostles' tents were not built o MARBLE.

A COMPROMISE with sin is a SURRENDER to the devil.

He who pretends to reason with the DEAD is dead to reason.

An impenitent sinner has no more RIGHT to sin than a SAINT.

The "Lying Wonders."

DUBLIN, June 23, 1866.

There is no country in the world, in which that portion of the prophecy re- garding "The Man of Sin" which says "whom the Lord will consume by the breath of his mouth," (that is waste away gradually by the preaching of his gos- pel,) is more strikingly fulfilled at the present day than in Italy. A few years ago, it was impossible for a few persons to meet for prayer, and the reading of the Scriptures, without persecution. Now, the Gospel can be preached, from the Adriatic to the Mediterranean, without hindrance; and congregations meet, and churches are being erected throughout the Peninsula; but, the following, which needs no comment, will show that the Apostacy will continue the means by which it was established, till "destroyed by by the brightness of the Lord's com- ing.

A Rome correspondent of the PALL MALL GAZETTE gives the following details of another attempt to impose upon the credulity of the priest-ridden Romans. The facts will best speak for themselves, and but one feeling can be entertained towards the murderer—that of regret that so blood-stained a monster should under any circumstances escape the just penalty of his deeds :—"From an authen- tic narrative we learn that Felix and An- tonio di Guiseppe, or Ventura, brothers, originally of Capitignano, in the Neapo- litan provinces, were tainted with every crime. By turns brigands on the high- way and adroit sharpers in the towns, they followed their vocation in every part of the Pontifical territory, committing felonies without number. Finally they were both arrested, and were tried and condemned to death by the Supreme Tribunal of the Council. The pope re- mitted the capital sentence on Felix, the least guilty, commuting his punishment to hard labor for life. It was impossible to extend the same clemency to Antonio di Guiseppe. He was accused of eleven murders, committed in twenty-three years; he confessed to five. He had cut off the breasts of a young girl; and, more dread- ful still, he was suspected of having as- sassinated his own mother. The sentence was that he should be beheaded at Brac- ciano, the scene of his latest crime—the murder of Pietro P.alini, a herdsman. In the prison of the town, Antonio began to evince great contrition, confessed to the priest, and devoted himself to religious duties, celebrating especially every day in his dungeon the service of the "month of Mary," in honor of the Holy Virgin. On the eve of the day appointed for his execution, he informed his confessor, with an air of profound conviction, that the Madonna had appeared to him and an- nounced that she accepted his repentance, and that he should not die on the scaffold, but live to expiate his crimes, and be- come one of her servants. This statement he repeated when the officers came to read his condemnation to him, at the same time declaring that he richly deserved his sentence, to which he listened without the least discomposure. He asked per- mission to walk to the scaffold barefoot; and on his way thither, and even as he mounted to the platform, he reiterated his conviction that he should not be ex- ecuted. He made the same statement to the assembled crowd, asking their par- don for his crime, but adding that he would not bid them adieu. The people listened in silence, thinking him mad, and they were confirmed in this opinion by the composed manner in which he knelt down and offered his neck to the axe. The executioner seized the handle of the guillotine, which had been tried in the night, and found to act effectively. The cleaver, loaded with enormous weights, now descended, but, wonderful to relate, it stopped abruptly by two fingers' length from the neck of the male- factor. The executioner, resolute in his duty, reset the apparatus; again the blade fell, but it was again arrested at the same point as by an invisible hand. Meanwhile the spectators became excited beyond control, and shouted "Pardon! pardon!" while many leaped on the scaffold and released the culprit by force. A courier was dispatched to obtain his pardon of the Pope, and it is confidently stated that the Minister of the Interior has ordered an inquiry as a step in this direction. The miracle has, in the interim, made such rapid progress as an article of faith, that it has been recognized by the popular poets, and this morning they were sing- ing a recital of it at the corners of the streets, and exhibiting in illustration pic- tures coarsely daubed on linen, which represented Antonio receiving a visit from the Madonna in his dungeon, and then his miraculous deliverance on the scaffold. Such is the incident which now absorbs the attention of Rome, and which has been adroitly planned to catch the popular fancy, to raise the courage of the brig- ands, who behold one of their number specially protected by the Madonna, and, finally, to fill the coffers of the Govern- ment.-—N. Y. OBSERVER.

Religion in Business.

THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW says:—- “The pressing need of our faith is not simply faithful evangelists to proclaim its doctrines, but legions of men consecrat-

ing their worldly vocations, witnessing to that truth on which much skepticism prevails, that Christianity, so received as to become an integral part of a man, is omnipotent to keep him from the evil, not by taking him out of the world, but by making him victorious over it. He is a most worthy disciple of Christ who, like Palissy, or Buxton, or Budgett, or Per- thes, exhibits religion as 'the right use of a man's whole self'—as the one thing which gives dignity and nobility to what is in itself sordid and earthly—as the mainspring of earnest and successful stri- vings after loftier ends and a purer life— as the power outside of and within man, which, lifting up conduct in the individual, raises the community—and not as a state of mind mystical, and in active life unat- tainable, high up among things intangible, separated from contact with work-a-day life, appropriate to Sabbath days and special death-beds. Every man who is 'diligent in business, serving the Lord,' is a sermon brimful of the energies of life and truth, a witness to the compre- hensiveness and adaptability of Christ's religion, a preacher of righteousness in scenes where none can preach so effec- tively or so well."

Anecdote of Whitefield.

George Whitefield stopped for several days at the house of a general, at Provi- dence, R. I. The general, his wife, his son, and three daughters were serious but not decidedly religious. Whitefield de- parted from his usual custom, which was to address the residents, in the house where he staid, individually, concerning the wel- fare of their souls. The last evening came, and the late night he was to spend there. He retired to rest; but the Spirit of God came to him in the night, saying, "O man of God! if these people perish, their blood be on thy head." He listen- ed; but the flesh said, "Do not speak to these people; they are so good and kind, that you could not say a harsh thing to them." He rose and prayed. The sweat ran down his brow. He was in fear and anxiety. At last, a happy thought struck him. He took his diamond ring from his finger, went up to the window, and wrote these words upon the glass—"One thing thou lackest." He could not summon courage to say a word to the inmates, but went his way. No sooner was he gone, than the general, who had a great vener- ation for him, went into the room he had occupied; and the first thing that struck his attention was the sentence upon the window, "One thing thou lackest." That was exactly his case. The Spirit of God blessed it to his heart.

BEECHER OF BROOKLYN.—The largest income of any minister in America is probably that of Henry Ward Beecher, a man of exuberant vitality, uncommon sense, lively fancy, and ever ready wit, and the most perfect type of American independency. His congregation pay him an annual salary of seven thousand dol- lars—last year even over twelve thousand dollars, and they may well do this, for it is only about one-third of the income from the pew rents, which are annually sold at auction and sought for by thou- sands eager to hear the extraordinary orator, who, either as preacher or lecturer on popular topics of the day, political, moral, and religious, can gather the largest audiences in the United States, and who, though never rising above the popular horizon, can clothe the feelings and ex- periences of every day life with uncom- mon freshness and interest. The resources of his genius seem to be inexhaustible, and his mind enjoys a perpetual spring. Though he never quotes poetry, he is full of poetry, and passionately fond of flowers and of children. Though break- ing through all the traditional notions of clerical propriety, and turning the pulpit into a rostrum, he interests thou- sands of intelligent young men in vital religion. He is a truly American pheno- menon, which could only grow on Yankee soil; yet I do not wonder that the "Life Thoughts" from his sermons have, even in Germany, found many admirers. I only wish the whole man could be trans- lated and multiplied into German and French, to rouse the indifferent masses of large cities to a sense of religion, as the deepest and highest concern of life. —REV. DR. SCHAFF.

Admirably Illustrated.

There are now multitudes of inquirers who need to be dealt with as Mr. Patrick, of Scotland, dealt with a women who had been long anxious, but seemed to obtain no relief.

“Placing himself beside her and look- ing steadily in her face, he said:”

“Do you believe the Bible?””

“I do,” she replied.

“Can you tell me who made the world?”

She smiled a little contemptuously, and after a pause said:

“It was God.”

To which he immediately replied, “How d’ye ken? Were ye there to see?”

She seemed surprised, perceiving that there was evidently more meant by the question than she had supposed, and then remarked:

“No, I was not there, but the word of God says that he made it.”

“Ah, well, ye believe a’ the Bible says, d’ye?” She said, "Yes."

"Ah, well we'll see. "This is my be- loved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him." Who says that ?

"The Father."

"Weel, will ye do as the Father bids ye? He commands ye to hear the Son."

To this she assented.

"Weel, then, what does the Son say? "Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out." "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." To the woman in the gospel he said, "Daughter, thy sins, which are many, are forgiven thee;" and will he not say the same to you? Is he not saying it even the now? Ye dinna believe that; ye dinna believe him. I tell ye, ye dinna believe a' the Bible."

She instantly saw the shame and sin of not trusting in a promising, present Re- deemer, and instantly ventured on His mercy and found the peace she sought.

LIFE.—-As incessantly as the river flows toward the ocean, does time flow towards eternity; as fast as a bark glides along with the stream, does man float with the stream of time until emerging into eterni- ty. Time is the perishing part of duration.

NEVER.—-Esteem any man, or thyself, the more for money, nor think the meaner of thyself, or another, for the want of it; virtue being the just reason of respecting, and the want of it slighting any one. A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his goings.

GOOD AND EVIL.—-The knot of our life is of a mingled yarn—-good and evil to- gether; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.

We often make life unhappy by wish- ing things to have turned otherwise than they do, merely because that is possible to the imagination which is impossible to fact.