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HOUSEHOLD TREASURES.

at tun! HOWITT. - Wan; are they ‘l—gold and silver, Orwhat such ore can buy 7 The pride of silken luxury— Rich robes of Tyrian dye 7 Guests that come thronging in, With lordly pomp and stata‘l Or thankless. liveried serving-men To stand about the gate 1

Or are they daintth meats, Bent up on silver line? Or golden chased cups, o'erbrim_m’d will! rich Falcrnian wine 'l 0r parchment: setting forth Broad lands our fathers held 1 Parks for our deer, ponds for our fish, And woods that may be fell'd’l

No, no. they are not these! or else God help the poor man’s need 1 Then, sitting ’mid his little ones, He would be poor indeed ! They are not these l—our household wealth Belongs not to degree; It is the love within our souls— The children at our knee!

My heart is filled with gladncss When I behold how fair,

How bright are rich men's children, With their thick golden hair!

For I know, ’mid countless treasure, Gleaned from the east and west,

These living, loving human things Are still the rich man’s best!

But my heart o’erfloweth to mine eyes, And a prayer is on my tongue, I When Isee the poor man’s children— The toiling, though the young— Gathering with sun-bumt hands The dusty wayside flowers !— Alas! that pastime symboleth Life's after, darker hours.

My heart o’erfloweth to mine eyes, \Vlien I see the poor man stand, After his daily work is done, \Vith children by the hand ;— And this he kisseth tenderly. And that sweet names doth call ; For I know he has no treasure Like those dear children small! Oh, children young, I bless ye; Ye keep such love alive !

And the home can ne’er be desolate Where love has room to thrive ! 0h, precious household treasures— Life’s sweetest. holiest claim— The Saviour bless’d ye while on earth,

I bless ye in his name! m

Cs'rnonic Inn'rr'rn'rn.—An association has been formed, designated “The Catholic Insti- tute of Qgeatfiritain," and which is ,distribu ed in branchas Over the large cities and towns, & also ,bountry» districts. They hold I meetingh‘monthly, ‘tbr the purpose of receiving reports and promoting'the interests ofthe Roman Catholic Church. The Institute is extensively supported by nobility and others who are of the Catholic profession ; and these monthly meetings are meant for the purpose of afl‘ording all classes the means of participating in the efforts to pro- mulgate the effects ofthe Institute. On Monday evening we attended one ofthe monthly meetings, which was tolerany wall attended, at the Roman Catholic School, Richmond-street, Portmau- market. There were a number present whose sphere of life might be humble enough; but their conduct and their attention would have done credit to any class of society. The follow- ing resolution will to acertain extent explain a portion ofthe arrangements z—Fourtli Resolution ofthe Catholic Institute.—-“ That every individ- ual ofthe Catholic laity, who shall contribute not less than six shillings by the year, or six- pence by the month, shall be a member, and shall continue to be a member so long as such contribution shall be paid." Every matter connected with the Catholic religion is taken inteponsideration, and reported upon, as regards legislative enactments, doc. The Rev. Mr.

tion of the Institute, and also the immediate purposeofthe meeting. The Rev. gentleman asid they had had much to encounter in their endeavours to support their hon faith—that which had been handed down to them from Jesus Christ..and which had been supported by the eloquence and sufferings of St. Paul and other primitive fathers’of the church. They were desirous to disabuse the minds of their dissenting brethren. They had had the press against them,which bad promulgated the grossest oalumnies about them, and they had found it prudent, as well as necessary, to employ the press in their service, and to do themselves so far justice. He was happy to say that their efforts had been beneficial, even in that immedi- ate neighbourhood. The tracts which had been issued b the Institute, and the means afforded ° i‘has done much for the cause of th. number of gentlemen address- ' _ @g, and a series of resolutions were used "irigaccordance with the objects of the nstitute.—-Morning Advertise}.

On Monday night, while the congregation assembled to hear Mr. Fletcher deliver his dis- course to young people, were dispersing, a fellow was busily employed in disseminating among them an infidel tract, contaiiiinga gross attack

inate reading. When encountered by an indi- vidual who had receivml a copy, he denied that the paper was an infidel one. The heartlessness and indecency of choosing such a time for the diffusion of infidelity—of putting into the hands of young people what was intended to disparage the book of God—is worthy of all emigration.

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It is not often that infidelity manifests such fanaticism, and when it does, it should recelt'e the greatest discouragement‘and the hlghes: contempt from all iyho have at heart the ref! good of the species It is not by Christians alone that the most sacred and venerable pages ofthe Bible have‘been venerated. The Infidels who have presented the purest morality to their readers have drawn their lessons from the book whose inspiration they denied The character ofthe Founder ofour holy religion was admired, not only by those who saw his gracious works, or believe that these were manifestations of the incarnate God, but by Rousseau, the infidel, and Shelley, the atheist. And as regards the infidel parent ofordinary prudence, whether would he wish his children to read the Bible, or the wprks which had debased and polluted his own spirit? Whether would the infidel ruler expect his people to imbibe public virtue from the scriptures, or from the reading which went to support his man miserable disbeliefl—From a Correspondent 0f the Edinburgh Witness.

THE REVIVALS IN ROSS-SHIRE.-—“ My friend= Smart," said Johnson, “ used to show the dis-~ tulbance of his mind by falling upon his kneesg and saying his prayers in the street. He wasi deemed mad, sir; and yet, rationally speaking,‘ it is much greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as poor Smart did, thoughI am! afraid there. are \so many who do not pray, that”! through the generality of the neglect. people‘ never think of calling their understandings into, question." Now,_ what was strong snnnd sense! in the days of Johnson, is very excellent sense still. If a man look exclusively to the appro- bation of his neighbours, it is very unsafe for him to deviate from the ordinary course. and quite as much so to rise above the common level of conduct as to sink beneath it. There is a mediocrity of virtue which it is dangerous to exceed, and a subdued style of religion, “ con- tent to dwell in decencies for ever,” to which men who are often loudest in their praise of? tnleratinn, extend their tolerance exclustvely. The Judaism of Gamaliel would have been es- teemed by this class as the well-regulated religion of the man of sense,—the overpowering con- victions of Paul, after his journey to Damascus, they would have denounced as fanaticism; they deem the form of Christianity which can exist independently of conversion, a much better thing than the Christianity which conversion must precede; and regard the man whom the sense of an awful futurity never moved, as a wiser person than the man whom it moves so deeply, that he proves unable to conceal his feelings. . . . . . .Now, to the unrecked madness of this class,—-the class whose number, according to Johnson, prevents people from calling their understandings in question—does the recent work of Revival in Scotland owe the opposition; which it has received, and the conturnely which" has been heaped upon it. The myriiids of which i the classis composer] have been startled from their propriety by discovering that the principle which

and to compel him to cry aloud in Miguish and uncertainty, should have lost none of its energy since, and that it operates on the human mind now, after exactly the same fashion that it opera- ted then. An attenuated and shrivelled form of Christianity had become one of the decencies of society, and men took praise to themselves for treating it with good manners—religion had sunk into a respectable mediocrity, and had become, therefore, a fit subject for being not anly tolera- ted litit recommended, by the class who would have extended neither recommendation nor tol- crance to its author. We remarked,on a former occasion, that the ‘natural principle of admiring or enduring only the mediocrity of virtue was exemplified on Calvary, with a peculiar force and emphasis, of which the history ofthe uni- verse can afl‘ord no other instance—by showing. that it was as fatal to rise infinitely above as to sink greatly below the medium and average line. The world could tolerate neither our S-ivionr nor the two thieves, and it, therefore. crucified both“ him and them. And Christianity in Scotland: no sooner begins to resemble its Master, than thei men who tolerated, and P.va admired it, in its,i state of tame and inefficient mediocrity, turn} round to spit and revilc, and, in short, to treat it exactly as they would have treated Him. We speak, of Course, of only its more respectable‘ enemies—-the mediocritists—the men who, though they would have crucified our Saviour, Would have crucified the thieves also. We do not speak of the men who, like some nfour contemporaries, would have accomplished only half the work, by suffering the malefactnrs to escape. ' ‘ “ ’ We have oftner than once expressed our thorough confi- dence in the work of Revival in Ross-shire. We are acquainted with the ministers engaged in it, the sty'e and manner of their preaching, and the doctrines which have been renderedi efi'ectual in its production; and we are assuredi a time is yet coming when many ofits present enemies will be content to speak of it in it different tone. There is a numerous clasa who can more than tolerate religion in its reflection —though they may hate. it heartily in its reall presence; who can admire it when it hocomesi thetheme of poetry, or is embodied in a classic literature—but not before—who deem family worship a very excellent thing in the stanzas of the Cotter’s' Saturday Night. and Christianity a noble principle in the pages of Cowper. Now, to such men, religion appears good in its reflex influences, though not in itself; and to such the scene of the Revival will present appearances in the future more in accordance with their taste and fancy, than those which it exhibits at pre- sent. The efliects of a similar Revival in the district, which tnok place in the early halfofthe‘ last centurthere felt in it for more than eiohty years after. There were few dwellings, lioiv. ever humble, in which. regularly as the day rose and set, family. waship was not item-sad in

bones into the lagoon.

ning wa‘lk, the V"?°h°a':f ' heard from a most ever - the inhabitants than in many “calm”! 3‘ '33.”: as generally favoured—moreicontggzigfiznwgo . - ,' 'sm “0 ‘ r '15:; £31?”“Egngwgifinin short, Were whatlthfi ' ' “ well-conditioned peop 9- utilitarian tolerant of revivals; and,Wh}] n°t also the literateur. ' They have ‘0."a" 0“ y a my little. —Edinburgh I’Vitness . ,

SUNDAY Nawsmraas.——Durlng the past far, a committee of nestenders was formed in Ion- don, for the purpose 0f Pr°°“""g fl," themsei yes a cessation of labour on the Lord 5 daY; " 1} memorial presented by them. to the proprietoti'ls oh the Sunday press, they 501m" them to pu ls heavy grievance, that afle!‘ ‘he fa"Ewes 0 th previous week~fatignes which make a seven day’s rest indispensable—many of them are ' obliged to 'rise at fiVE. four, and even thrfie O'clock, on Sunday mornings. }0 fouow the" worldly occupation. The committee more esPe‘ ciallv mention the conduct ofthe newsvenders, 35 one bf the many instances to show how generally the desire of a Sabbath rest is spreading through every class of the community.’ As to the neufl‘si papers circulated on the Lord s day. then?!" u truth seems to be, that the pestdential evrl is not lessening. and, from the exposure which has been latelv made of the character of one of them—a paper of which the number circulated every Lord’s-day is about fifty thousand, havtng lmimy hundred thousand readers—it may be questioned whether the enemy of souls wields any Weapon of more destructive efficacy—Ninth Report of the Societyfnr Promoting the due Observance of the Lord’s Day, 1840. ‘

Mn. O’CONNELL AND 'rna DUBLIN Panss.-—- The reporters of the Dublin press came to a re- solution, about a fortnight ago, not to attend pub- lic meetings on Sunday. conceiving that by do- mg so they violated the Sabbath. In this resolu- tion they are supported by the proprietors. Mr. O'Connell assured the Repeal Association, on Monday week, that he would not submit to such conduct, and that, if persevered in, he would have a newspaper established to represent the Repealers. in what he terms their “ holy work,” on the Lord's day as well as every other. There was yesterday (Sunday) a meeting of St. Mary’s parish in this city, to petition for a repeal of the union. Mr. O’Connell attended, but the report- ers did not. Hence the following resolution, which, with others of the usual description, was adopted and published in this morning’s papers: «“ Resolved. that the chairman, secretary, mo- vers and seconders of the Resolutions at this meeting, do form a deputation to wait on the pro- prietnrs of the Freeman’s Journal, Register and Pilot newspapers, to state to them, respectively, that unless arrangements are in future made by them to have the business ofthe Sunday meetings on repeal reported, a new paper will be established on such liberal principles as will sustain that great cause.” >

THE MISSIONARY WiLLiAivrs.—By private letters received from Australia, it appears that her Majesty’s ship Favourite, which sailed from Sydney on lst February, to search for the re- mains of the Missionaries Williams and Harris. has been successful in the object. The expe- dition was accompanied by Mr. Cunningham, the survivor of the massacre, attended by a Samoan chief, to act as interpreter. At the fatal Naputi- Bay, in the Island of Erumango, several natives attended the landing of the boats, who fled precipitately, but being called to by the interpreters, returned, when a negociation com- menced. The natives said that but few bones remained, that two heads remained at the west of the bay, and a few bones to the east. Various temptations were offered to procure the whole, but these were ineffectual, the natives declaring they had made a feast of the bodies at the edge of the brook, and had cast away several ofthe It was not their custom to preserve any part on such occasions, except the arm and leg bones, of which they formed tools and made fish books. The natives: stated, however, that another tribe had made an in- curston upon them, and had taken away the whole or most of 'the clothes. By dint of pre- sents the natives were at last induced to bring down to the boats some human bones, which there was no doubt belonged to white men. It was only by threats, at last, after a lengthened intercourse, that the natives brought down three 50","9, Which they said, were belonging to the Willie men. Although they were unable to distinguish them, they said that they were the remains of the two bodies sought for, and of “mm” While ""1", of whose death no record had been preserved. Captain Croker of the Favourite. felt satisfied that it was not probable any more remains existed, as the Erumangoes loved their fish-hooks tm well to miss the chance 0" "blalntttg them, by allowing a single bone to escape their search. The vessal then set sail for the Samoas, where, surrounded by the com- "lander. Officers. and crew of her Majesty’s Vessels wept Over by his relatives, and deplored Saipoanswlio had heard the missionary Wilsliarii):’;n:l ah‘ies “(the Yenerated

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injunctions to ttreat him with severity. Kwang, although a despotic monarch, at the mercy. of the ministerial Mood, - form the “'interior council chamberx’ I. chiefcouncillors are four in number, two and two Chinese; the former always: cedeuce. Below these are a number of, who form the chief council of state. A . feature ofthe government is, the oflice ‘ W who‘are, properly speaking, spies. By_~ *‘f cient custom of the empire, they are pri“ to present any remonstrance to the .. " without danger of losing their lives; are frequently degraded, if their advice is come. These ministers also dictate the i to be pursued, and keep the Emperor” ignorant of the principal events ofhii In all probability, he will not be made a , with the formidable armament invad .‘ territories, ‘until the thunder of the .f artillery is resonnded in the walls of. his; . i and awakens him from his celestial v-~"“ fatal security. . "a

An invention is in progress to snpe .. necessity of using horse-hair for stuffing sofas, 61.0. The substitute (for which] ., is taken out,) is cork, cut into-the minu v ticles, which is found upon trial to he . " to horse-hair in every respect, and the a ”‘ considered at ab0ut 200 per cent. Ane factory is fast progressing, and a large q appears likely to reward the inventor.—n '

FASHIONS FOR. NOVEMBER.—Watered satins, and velvet, will be the most full materials for the toilette this season; in t _4 material, cloaks, pelisses, and ruling”, other pretty accoutremcns of winter, are I , ing, being rendered more-or less elegant r embroidery, lace, gimp trimmings, or orna employed. A cheap description of val made, having the same beautiful appe but the foundation is of cotton: it answa many purposes of dress, young ladies’ .. . &c. &.c. Pelisse cloaks of black satin are pected to be very fashionable, lined with 1. green, or lilac silk, quilted in pretty pat . resembling embroidery, and trimmed either wi black lace or deep fringes intermixed with t , colour of the lining; the form is simple, andxi they are shorter than the dress. Rich ‘ ' beautiful scarfs are made of velvet, in cache patterns, or of plain velvet, ponceau, blue vel &c., with Persian and chiné patterns: 0th are of satin, embroidered all round with pines at: the ends; those of lighter materials willvbe much used in evening dress. L’Orient broché, Resille (le soie, Etnfc naeré Jaspi'ne, chiné roe ille, soie, cristal, 6's. t§°c., are among the new, materials for dress; for negligé they are gent rally of thicker quality. Palestrines and worsted materials plain, printed or broché in rayéspal- terns; Winter dresses will be made long and full, and tight sleeves still threaten to supersede \ the full ones. When the sleeves are tight, button to the bend ofthe arm, havinga deep , , * at the bottom, much wider than a wristband, K full slevés may still be worn. The corsage'san , ceinture of ribbon, tying with a mend; the hub“! is quite confined to negli'gé. Many dresses I73 made of gros dc Naples reps d’Afriques tine, With velvet spencers of the same colour, - body plain, closing with buttonsor Brim“ -. bourgs, with a narrow plaiting round the th , ' or a narrow fluted trimming ifthe body is Open!) birds will be the only trimming used; Howie? are decidedly losing favour. Rulingqu ' much worn; the most fashionable are borde'l’flgd with a biais, the corsagc tight and openriflld tight sleeves; every description ofgimp will." mings is used, card’eliéres, Brandenbourgs, smirles, (Sm, both on silk and velvet dress?!- Bonnets continue to be worn small, but the fronts are a little deeper, and the brides}? placed inside, which gives a more open apps?- ance, and allows more room for the hair; cap“ have the bavolet rather deeper, and the edge (if bonnets is a little turned up; the feathers and flowers ~continue to be placed quite flat on tilt front. Velvet bonnets partake of the cap“ form ; the colours are penséc green grenat : til? newest style is the capote plissé of Tellfi- , leettes continue in favour. Caps are made 0‘ embroidered muslin, trimmed with fine lace: ' and for negligé of cambric embroidered Valenciennes C'licm'lles will be very fasbiptnhl? this winter in trimmings as well as in M Manteaus of velvet, lined with silk of theslfilfi' colour. are ornamented with gimp trimmings: they form a scarfin front, and double pelcritttt behind ; the mnnteau Russe is of white MSW» ' wrth gimp trimmings of ecru colour. The halite- nous continue in favour; the prettiest arefnf