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' nat exercise af the moral powers —the a eee ind by the acquirement of know- aplazgement strenethem ng of ts capadilities for ied gy pre wad of pe vitadle evils, and for eneigy efiar', pe aaah as they winy overcome, are the ends panne” i has to attain, ‘The power of the mind hich Oe ce imnense, Let that power he called as - = be tratmed and exereised, #nd vigor both of oy - body will be the result. ‘There iga homely, inne - he r, thut “it 18 better ta wear out than ae - bot it tells a plan trath; rust consumes as yse. Better—a million times better-—to work hare, even to the shortening of existence, thrn to deep and eat away this precious gift of bife, giving no sther cogmizance of its possession By work or indus- ‘ of whatever kind it may be, we vive a practical wknowledgement ot the valite of hfe. of ite high in-

jong, of its man:feld duties. Rarnest, active indus- t; a jiving hyinn of praise, & never-failing source of

jness : it is obedience, for it is God's great law of agora) existence.— The Physical Training of Girls at ghool, by Madame de Wahl.

Tax Tuan or |ire.—From forty to sixtya man, gho has properly regulated hingelf, may be considered w in hia prime of lite. 1lis matured strength of con- ditution renders bim almost impervions to the attacks d dieeaze, and experience has given his judgment the

ndness of almost infallidity. His mind is resolute,

aad equal; oi) bis functions are in the highest ader; be assumes ihe mastery over iis business builds gpa conpetence on the foundation be has ‘aid in early 7 d, and passes through a period of life atlended by many yrnt.fic..tions, Haviag gone a year or two, past aixty. he a)jives at a critica) pesos in the road of, aistence: the river oi death flows before him, and he remain: Ata stand stil, But athwart this river isa via- | duct.cailled “The Turn. of Life,” which, if crossed | aiely, leads to the valley of “Old Age,” around which!

ite nver winds, and then flows beyond, without boat or, aoseway to eff at its passage. The bridge is, however, constructed wf tragile jateriils, and at depends apon| bow it is trodden whether it bend or break. Gout, apa | plexy, and other bard cuaracters alee are rm the viewmuty fowaylay the traveller, and thrust bio fiom the pass; wt Jet bun gird yp tus lows, and provide bimsel! with! afitting stuff. and he may trudge on in safety with per. | fct composure. ‘The quit metaphor. “the turn of lite” wa turn ether of prolonged life or into the grave. Tie

system and powers iaving reached their umost expen-!

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son now begin either to close, like flowers at sunset, | o Weak down wi once. One injadicious stimulant, a single tatal exctiement, may force at beyond its strength

all that tends to force a plant, will sustain it in beauty and in vigor until pight has entirely set.— Zhe Science: ¥ Life A THE POET'S CONSOLATION. The poet's lovely faith creates The beauty he betieves; The light which on his footsteps waits, He trom himself receives. His tot may be a weary lot; His thrall a boavy thrall; And cares and gnefs the crowd kaow pot, His beart may kuew them all:

But still he hath a mighty dower, The loveliness that throws Over the common thonght rnd hour The beauty of the rove. ‘REMORSE tt is the past that muketh my despair

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ment;—that, in short, the qaeen shal! have power of eympathy, when expressed for aim. Thet our beloved nonauating the hall-dezen or half-score officers of ihe} Faiher way be restored to us, is the fervent prayer of administration, Whose presence is thonght necessary injour hearts, and we wait tremblingly in the hope, thar parliament, to offic ial este there, without reference tolthose who are now to decide in thia case may see the any constituency put her own only, which of course |terrible injustice that has been committed, and hae will mean her prime minister's, A very small en-|inflicted so much suffering op so many. Believe me croachment on the present consittution of parliament :! spr, gratefully yours, Harner W. Wessrter.

fering int hanve } s ; offering minimum of chanyve in present inethods, and | A Smant Woman.—The Grove Hill| \Ita) Recorder

almost think a max'muin in results to be derived there- nde 3 C

from. The queen nominates Jahn Thomas (the fittest “tes that to ee oe watt ont Prewitt

man she, much inquiring, can hear tel) of mm her three ed at the present sessions of the Alabama Legislature, u woman was charged with murdering her husband, and

kingdoms) president of the poor law board, under-secre-| > * h es

tary of the colonies, under or pechaps upper-secretary4 @Pinyed a lezal gentleman, whose naine it is not ne-

of what she and her premier find suitublest for a work-|C°"3?/¥ te mention, to defend her, *pronrising’ hitn’ two

ing head so eininent, a talent so precious : and grants nevroes as her fee, He undertook ner defence, anu comirary 10 the expectation of ail, she was acquitted;

him hy her direct authority, a seat and a yete in parhia- he called upon her for the two negroes, when she grave 7 ane pan ore, 5 went so long as he hulds that office. Upper secretaries, ly informed him. ihat the negnen holoegedte, tet

having more to do in parliament, as being eo bound to er !

be in favour there, would, | au pppose, at least till new /Caughter. Not relishing the idea of being cheated out

times and habits come, be expected to be chosen from |°t the negroes, he instiuuted suit against er! perjury,”

among the people's members, as at present. But weieh she detente and onleee bun, for the costs! te s ~ ty a a short time she gave birth to.an illegitimate child,

whether the prime minister himself is, in all times, made oath that he. wus the father, and. compeiled hits

bound to be firste people’s member: and which, or how onset deandieniy oa j psy many, of his.secretaries and subordinates he anght he " Pa SEP Sy FG seastntainanes,

allowed to take as gueen’s members, my authority does not say—perhaps has not himself settled; the project; Mornern Toscur.—A Weardale dactor was lately being yet in mere outline or foreshadow, the practical! summoned to a cottage at Harwood, in Teasdale, and exbodiment in all details to be fixed by authorities found a boy patient in necd of his services, " much more competent than he. The sonl of bis, «put out your tongue,” said the: doetor, »Tiel doy project is, that the crown also have power to elect a few | gtarted like an owl. _ } aie, members to parhament. From wineh project, however! ‘My good bev,” repeated the medica! man “let me wisely it were embodied, there could prol tbiy. at lirst see your tongue,” att ,

or all atonce, no great “accession of imellect” to the| «Paik Byelish, doctor,” said the mother, 2.4 then government offices ensue ; thongh « le unght, even turning to her son, she-cried :—

according to the statute in such cases made and proved.

at first, and a little is alwava peecious: but in its ulteri-

‘ Hopen thy gobbler, and push ovt thy loliker?»

‘sacred fidelity and vryilance that would beseem him, |

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or operation, were that faithfully developed, and wisely! ‘Phe Jad rolled out his tongue in aanoment.— [English presided over, [ foncy an immense accession of intellect: Paper.] e ot

mighthensue—nay, a natural ingress might thereby be} opened te all manner of accessions, and the actual) lower. of whatever intellect the B ith aation vad

might be attracted towards Nowning-street, and con- _ , tinne flowing steadily thither! For It us see a little 1 pay, and nothing but muaked pledge tereturn ro the

what offiets his snople change carries in it the pogei- ga which is nat taexceed 200 irancs ($37 .90.) ts eacle bilities of. flere are beneficent germs, which the, 2P21c#m. Loans are to be restactes, tthe andngt rows

presence of one truly wise mtn as chicf minister, stead- nnd honest poor, who haye been unt» wanate fron fire, ily fostering them for even a few years, with the [Want of employinent,'s:ckneéss, of fhdt rn itt amongs Weir

cattle, or for some such reason, and tonoothers, When

might ripen into hving practices, and habitnal facts, * 10:0 is, applied for, the facis.are to bevser forth wand

valunble to us all—Cuarlyle's Latter-day. Pamphlets, S"pported by the declaration of the applicant and. four 4 ‘witnesses of good repute, who may he memoers of his

family. Two registers are to he kept, in one of which Letter From Proresson Wesster’s Daccutrr.: ill be registered the names of punctual burrowers, and

The French haye just started a uew idea Banks of Honor. Thesé institutions are to loan s dal! suns to

i '—The Manchester (Mass.) Messenger publishes the)! the other the names of dehucnents. hile a careful supply of props, and the withdrawal of}

following letter from one of Professor Webster’sdaugh | op Mn do , wr e) ExtRaoroinarRy Invention. —Cenr IGAL s ters. ‘I'he letter was handed in at the office of the’ ENTtoN. Centar uGat: POMP

—A. Mr. Appold has jpavented- kx! he ‘ TG DPR. eg as, yavented-a remarkySle machine Messenger: by the gentleman io whom itis directed. cajled the centrifugal pump, for draining wurshes,

’ - a I : . ; { > The deep, earnest, sad anxious affection for her unhap | &c.. and a most invenjous adaptation it is. You have ‘heard of the t-oune, a siaall box water-wheel, possess-

py parent. her conlidence in his innocence, and tot forgeifulness of her own, her mother’s, or her sister's; ¢ rer é ‘ wr FP OSISUCT S line extraord ys ey } griefinthe engrossing thought of her father's danger ’ a capabilities varwern.. Wy elt, att. a oe g ; =~" /pold’s model contains snch a model made of tin, a little give the letter an interest and touching beauty which |juicker | ; Ant The fedal denditive biart inust feats MNGREr but no larger than a half penny. Tina is fitted

: at the hottom of a square tube, dipping into a smailcis- Camwainer, April 8th, 1850. heria Containing water, which may represent a lake &e.

Daniel Marsh, Esq.—Ser, | this morning received the "ne little wheel, beine made to rotate with great velo- very kind letter you addressed to me, and which ‘jejty, throws up water rapidly into’ the tube above itself, hasten to answer io thank you in the name of my ‘until it overflows in a continuous stream at the top, and mother, my sisters, and myself, for the TRUE sentiments the volume of its stream is such as io deliver eight ga}- vou entertain for my beloved father. You believe him/lons per minute; and, on applying a nozzle, the stream innocent and you believe what is Taur; he is thelis driven to a distance of 20 feet This, you will say, victun of circumstances, a deeply injured min—that he!is a marvellous effeet from so insignificant a cause; but

The dark. the sad. the irrevocable pyst,

Alas! why should our Jot in life be made Before we know that lite? E«oerience comes, Rut comes too late. [ft coul?é now recall

Ail that IL now regret, how different

Woald be mr choice | at best a choice of ill; Rut better than my miserable past

Loathed, yet desmsed, why must I think of it 3

SORROW. Life nas dark secreta! ard the hearts are few ‘That tressuire nol some sorrow from the world—- A scrrow silent. gloomy. and unknown, Yet colouring the future from the past. We see the eve subdued, the practised rmile, The word weli-weighed before it pass the lip, And know nét of the misery within: Vet there it works incessantly. and fears The time to come; fer time is terrible, Avenging. and betraying.

Paoposat ron a Commencement oF Rerorm.— Meanwhile, that ovr one reforming statesman may have fee command of what intellect there is among us, and tom to try all means for awakening and inviting ever more of it, (here has one small project of improvement

en suggested; which finds a certain degree of favour

;will ever take from us this conviction. inever, from the meient he was stintched from his)qnires to be worked by an engine of four-horse power.

ig innocent, we his family KNOW, and nOuing on earth\a wheel about 15 inches in diameter, exhibited at the We have} same time, will deliver 1,800 gallons per minute. Tt re-

home, had a shadow of doubt on our minds, and what-| Mr. Apnold has lately proposed to the engineer of the ever the world may say or do, we shall ever have that} Dutch Government to fix a similar wee! on the Harlem feeling to support us, The knowledge of his tnnocence| Nea, now in process of being drained. by forty punps

supported iny father during the hours of suffering inthe/driven by steam. A centrifugal pump of forty feet in

Court room; and it is that gives him and us calmness/diameter would do more work than all the others put now, ainidst the many sources of sorrow that have over-jtogether. and would deliver--so the inventor asserts-~ whelmed ua. 1,500,000 gailons per minute, With such power at Far different from what we anticipated was the reanlt|command, one would think, we ought never mare te of the trial, for we had heen assured. throughout the|hear of ships foundering at sea; and the emptying ang winter that our father could not but be restored to. us,|reclamation of the Zuyder Zee resolves itself inta and that at the trial he must receive jnstice far the|possibihty. ’ many wrongs that had been heaped upon him. But) pesrxverive ‘Torxapo at Nassap, N. P.—Ose justice ded from the Court room, aud prejudice took her! tjunprep Burnpives DestRovep.— The Nassau(New place. ue, i _ |Providence) Gazetie, of the 30:h March, contains ae- Yet hone still lingers with us, for we trust the public/eounte of a destructive tornado at that place, which voice wil} be raised against che gross injustice that has! destrayed an immense amount of property. The raip heen committed, and will yot allow our country to bear previously fall in torrents, accompanied with the most such @ stivima en her bame, such an everlasting stain, |y opr fic thunder, which was almost incessant, to the as will be that of the sacrifice of one 80 truly innocent) south = About midday, darkness reigned supreme, and aS ny father. And if one word fromus, Sir, can add ajay one o'clock the toronado came sweeping past, de-

"herever | hear it talked of. snd wich seems to meri: much more consideration than it has yet received. Practica! inen theinselvea approve of it hitherto, eo far it goes ; the one objection being that the wor!d is nor 2& prepared to insist on it,--which of course the world hever can be, till once the world consider it, and in the place hear tell of it! 1 have, for my own part, » Opinion of this project. The old uureformed par-

at of rotton boroughs had one advantage ; but that

| » in a far more and effectual manner. secured. late new. The proposal, is. that secretaries unde. wn “pper, that a!] manner of changeable or permanem we inthe porernment) Offices, shall be selectec" oul reference te their pager of getting dptoparliq.

feather'’s weight to the efforts that are being made, Oh. stroying over one hundred buildings, and, ead to relate, may we give yau the deep assurance of our hearts, that) ajgnt lives —three men, two woinen and three children. we feel gratetul for the deep interest you express andity.g it hava happened inthe night time, the loss of feel. and for what you are doing in our behalf. . May!jife would pave been awful. A meeting has been cal- God in his infinite mercy, look down upon you, and!ed to adopt measures for the relief of the sufferers.

oless the efforts that are being made, and if it is not ve His will to bring the truth to light, and to allow this; A Wrecking expedition haz been fitted out in Bostos «wfal mystery to be explained, may He enlighten the for the Bay of Fundy, for the purpose of recovering ninds of those into whose hands the case will. pass, property from several ships which were sunk or eh?

1 mast again thank you, Sir, forthe kind feelings!wrecked there some years since. The Traveller etates

‘ow express towards my dear father. Nothing that the that this is got up by two enterprising young men, Johp

he knowledge that others believe himinnocent, Sym-/great expense in importing machinary, sub-maripa vathy has flowed abundantly from many hearts towards/armor, and men (as divers) from Bagland. The aaue us, hig family, but how muca more prized by Ga iv Uiat!party were at work lest weavon, rscavering property

‘the meritorious poor, withoat bond, writing, of promise _

world can do now giveeua greater consolation, than; L. Gawen and Thomas FP. Wells, who have gone te |

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