HASZA RIPS GAZF/I"l‘E

OCTOBER 18.

Tu: Pittivcsss Rout. AND nan. Levon.- An anecdote touching Prince Frederick William and his future illustrious consort is current here among the highest circles, which reﬁects great credit on the perfect sense and judgment ofthc former, and upon the high intellectual and sterling qua- lities of the latter. On returing frotn Eng- land, Prince Frederick William is said to have been asked by the Prince his father, what he thought of his future royal bride? “In my osition, and with my future des- tinies,” rejoined the son, “my special duty is to consider the mind, character, and ten- dencies of my future consort inﬁnitely morethan all external appearances. The latter won my heart,--the former my ad- miration und my profound respect. They are such as are fully worthy of her royal mother, and such as are best qualiﬁed to ensure my domestic happiness. and to win for my wife and me the ove and esteem of the Prussian nation.”—B¢rlin fcffer.

Tits GRAND IMPERIAL BALL AT Moscow. —In reference to this event, a Paris jour- nal contains the following :—‘‘The grand ball given on the I-tth by the Emperor Alexander was remarkable in this respect- that, the ball taking place on a Sunday, the English ladies were not present, with the exception of Lady Granville, who is a Catholic. Alterthe polonaise with which the ball cotninenced, the imperial family having passed into the saloon ofS.tint Alex- ander,.a country dance was itnmediately formed there. The reigning Empress dan- ced with the Count dc Morny. After this country dances,waltzes,ond polkas succeed- ed each other uninterruptcdly. This time it was a real hall, and.every one danced vigorously—the intperial family, and espe- cially the Grand Dukes Michael and Nich- olas, setting the example.”

“Titc Ctttt.n ts Fitiiiit-zit or THE MAN.‘'— This dictum of Wordsworth was never more aptly illustrated than by the following anecdote of Henry Brougham, the schoolboy, which we had in a deliciotis volume of the reininiscences of tire lste Lord Cockbnrn, just publisltel by Adam aitd Charles Black, with the title “Memories of his Time, by Henry C..cltburn." "llrougliain made his first explosion: while to l“razer’s class (at tltc high school of Ildinhur,-_vh.) lle dared to difl}:r frorn Frazer, a hot but good-natured old follow, on some small hit of Irttinity. The master, like other men in power, ni tintained his own ifallibility punished the rebel. and ﬂattered liitnself that the aiitir was over. lint Brougham re-appeared the next day loaded with books, returned to the charge before the whole class, and compelled honest Lake to confess that he had been wrong. This made Brougham famous throughout the whole school. I remember, as well as if it had been yesterday, having had him pointed otit to me as ‘the fellow who beat the master.’ It was then thatl first saw him.”

Hts "Mittens" Srncn.—Addison, the well- known editor of the “Spectator," was a man of the greatest modesty of his day. He was a most excellent writer. but. strange as ittnay seem. no speaker. This is of very frequent oourrencs.

On the other hand, we ﬁnd men of great orato- rical were, but who are averse to writing. And st-ldom do we find turn gifted. to any degree, with both powers. How is this! It looks as if Providence dispenses gifts as widely and varied as possible. A sample of the former of these ma be given in the case of the talented Joseph Addi- Io. above noted :

As Secretary of State, of course his place in the House of Commons to defend the conduct of the Government. required no small were of volnbili- ty and which, as a writer, icon was thought to possess at time tries everything. He arose to make his maiden speech :

‘Mr. Speaker, I conceive-———,’ and there he stuck.

‘Mr. Speaker, I conceive halt.

,' and another

‘Mr. Speaker, I conceive ,’ a dead hslt.

Up started a wag—‘Mr. Speaker, the getitls- be

III: has conceived three times, and brottght forth set in

The house was in s rosr, and poor Addison tlhppcd into his out like a hot potato. This his Irst and last speech in that or any other house as he never attempted the trial of his sloqusncs I 'a.

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Man is a wonderful creature to sup. He can sup-ply, sup-plant, sup-plicate, sup- P000. sup-press, sup-port, sup-soup, and -up-on.

Moss honesty a man has, the less he stfscts the air of a saint; tbs aﬁsctstiou of sanctity is a Notch on the face of piety.

~‘ - TEHPEBANCE (From the London Weekly Record)

sltvnuru or A ssitttis or LE'rTElts T0 DISTINGUISHED PERSONAGES. or A itirritorottrsrt DIVINE.

Should not Melhadism sustain (lie Temperance Principles of John West 3/?

10 ran ulv. rititsiurivr or run: wzstitnx

court-:ai:.~tcn, itsv. ttoatrtt-r YoU.\'G.

Rxv. Sta,-I feel constrained by three con- siderations to address you on the important subject of the Temperance Reformation.

' Because it pleased God to raise up the devoted and pious founder of your denomi- nation to be it. most signal instrument for arousing the great niassos of this country to a religious concern about their et--rnal inte- rests. In doing this he was the true embodi- merit of. Christian energy and self-denial, and he lived and laboured only for the glory of God and the good of man.

Secondly. Because the original principles of Methodism and some of its explicit rules related to this very subject of Temperance, and therefore indicated, that your counectional in- fluence would be favourable to great and direct means for removing and preventing drunken- ness in the land ; an

Thirdly. Because there is a very general impression that Wesleyan Motlidodistii is not so fully carrying out this port of its mission as its founder an its lttws would seem to de- mand of a great people with your societies, and chapels, and ministers. rind moral inaeliin- cry of usefulness spread all over the land.

'ou ossess etnitient facilities i'or greatly aiding the Tciupernnce cause. It is, therefore, uiost desirable that your sympathies should be distinctly with those who are toiling in this great work. It cannot be necdful, that I should refer you to the fearful ravages of interoper- niicc in our midst, to the enormous amount of inuncy consumed, to the dire results of drun- kenness, us poverty, ilisettse, uttd crime, which abound, or to the progres:-ive advancement of this notorious evil in spite of itll tnettits that have been adopted for our nation's deliverance from it. No hind possesses more of tltc nin- chincry for exerting a good moral iotluence titan ours. ssess it plenitude of the Word of Life Tltousttnds of devoted ministers of the Gospel. An extensive provision of Christian sanctuaries and schools. We have every kind of benevolent associations for meet- ing specific forms of evil and suﬂhring, and yet, notwithstanding all this, intem critnee is the prevailing evil of our land. suppose for every house of pro er, we have forty or ﬁfty houses for the sac of drinks, whose inﬂu- ence goes to counteract all good institutions and irectly to demoralise the people. The national intemperance of the land not only does a great amount of mischief in its positive aspects, but it prevents our religious and mo- ra iustrumcntalities being effectual to an

out extent. It stultiﬂes much of the Bible

ciety‘s exertions, it prevents greatly the reli- ious education of the children of the land, it Eseps its thousands u on thousands away from the House of God on the means of grace, and more than this, it rubs the Sabbath-school of many of the children who have been taught there, and removes them into dau rons paths of society. How many become irrc i ‘ens, and not a few the inmates of prisons an suitca- tisrics, and others of refuges for the lssoluts and the degraded. It does more than this—it robs the Church of God of many of its mem- bers, of not a few of its olhcers, and not unfro- queutly even of its ministers, and causes them to wander in the dark regions of apostscy and condemnation. Now, dear sir, can these dssolstlu scenes prsvcu|sd,cr in on degree l_csssu ! lfso, than you will coufsss ow anxious we should be to sleet it. It is manifest from the experi- snce of the last century, that the ordinary means do not fully meet the case, so that for this s ilic sud rampant evil we must ado spcci c and mi hty instrumcutslity. A ow me most rss ct ul y to say, that the Tempeiu succ priucipc and practice present for this and just what we need. This ex rim_eut for starving out the enemy, by wit holding the ailment of its existence, by abstaining cu rely from t c use of all iutoxicauts, has had a very ensrs and cxtousivc trial. _ For thirty years it has been adopted in mcrlce, and in ‘the Protestant Churches of the United States, it is now the great role and almost universal cus- tom of the people. Bishops, ministers, dea-

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cases, the regular hearers of the Gos oi, do totally abstain from intoxicating drin s. has been tried on is ver considerable scale in this country since 182 . t has also been adopted in most of the Protestant missionary stations throughout the world, and everywhere it has been most successful, under the Divine blessin , in reclaimiu the drunktsrd, and in proserviu the sober. on are no doubt aware that tltc mcrican Methodist Conferences never meet without passing the most strin iit laws or recommendations on this subject. t is then most clear, that we do not want either argu- ments or precedents in order to induce the religious denominations of this country to be- come fully and publicly identiﬁed with the Temperance Cause. and thus to give it all the force that their religious inﬂuence can confer. Especially do I think that it would be well for the Wesleyan Conference to do this. No other

ody has so complete an organisation to carry out any effort simultaneously as yourselves. A Conference address on this subject would be known at once through the whole body; and the ministers, if duly feeling its importance, could give it practical eﬂiciency in every soci- ety in the kingdom. I need not so , however, to do this it would be quite essential that, in

our oﬁicial station, your brethren in the ini- nistry became practical and avowed friends of the ' emperaincc Cause. do not say menthers ol any distinct Teinpcrttnce society, but tlmt the principle and practice of totally abstaining l'roin intoxicating beverages be adopted an professed.

New this reformation is really indispensable to the true honor and credit ofyour deno:nina- tion, and without it Methodisni must fail to be all and to do all that Mr. Wesley intended. Whatever pecuniar inﬂuence you might lose by this step, it would purify the atmosphere of

our societies, bring down the blessing ofGod, and result in the revival ofreligion among you. But so long as this state of things continues, it will greatly retard the Gospel's power among the people to whom you minister the word of salvation. 'I‘lte two influences are directly op- posite. The drink-scllers are injuring society, corrupting and degrading it. unﬁtting it for the consideration oftlie truths of the Gospel, and acting as pttndercrs to the innttto depra- vity of the heart, and as allies to the great destroyer of the bodies and souls of iuen. ilow, then. can such he kept within the bosoni of the Uhtirclt ofCln-istl llotv c:in such be ltonorcd its Christians and follow-Itelpurs of the truth 3 No! there must be it sepiti-:ttion between the holy and the vile, and this evil must CBEISIJ froiu your connection, and from all Christian Churches, before the retiring blessing of (lot! can be consistently prayed for or consistently expected. if either the per.-onal adoption of the principles of the Tciitperttncc Society, or the purging out of this t‘.\'ll lcaven of the trailic should be it. work of dillicttlty and self-denial-— yeti have only to it |l)t.‘ilI to your illustrious founder as an exnmp e. or, still higher, to the holy sell’-iminolntion of otir divine Saviour, tvlto, for our salvation, humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Of Mr. Wesley it has been appropriately said, " The great purpose of his life was doin good. For this he relinquished all honor an preferment, to this he dedicated all his owers of body and of mind, at all times an in all places, in season and out of season, by gentle- ness, by terror, by argument. by persuasion, by reason, by interest, by every motive and ever inducement he strove with uuwearied assi uity to turn men from the error of their ways and awaken them to virtue and religion. 0 the bed of sickness or the coach of pros- perity, to the prison, the hospital, the house of mourning or the house of fcastiu , wherever there was a friend to serve or a son to save be readily repaired, to administer assistance or ad- vice, rcproof or consolation. He thought no oﬁcs too humiliating, no coudcsccusiou too low, no undsrtakiu tosrduous, too reclaim the meanest of God's o pring. The souls of all men were equally prec our in his sight, and the value of an immortal creature beyond all estimation. He penetrated the abodes of wrstchcducss and ignorance to rescue the prodigats from penit- ttou, and be communicated the light of ifs to those who sat in dsr ess and the shadow of death. He chan d the outcasts of society into useful mem rs, civilised even savsgcs, and tilled those lips with prayer and praise had been accustomed only to oaths and im rccstions. His constitution was excellent an never was a constitution less abused, less spared or more excellently applied in an exact subscrvieucc to the faculties o his mind. His labours and studies were wonderful : the latter were not confined to theology only,.but extend- ed to every subject that tended either to the

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the mind. If we consider the rcadiu _ be dis- covers b itself, his writings and is other labours themselves, any one of them will

appear sadcieut to have kept a person of ordi- nsr application busy durin his whole life,- , in s ort the transactions of is life could never . have been performed without the utmost exer- l. tiou of twoquslitics which _dcpcudcd not upon ‘ his capacity, but on the uniform stcsdfsstuess

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of his resolution. These were inﬂexible temper- and uneaxmpled economy of life. In these he was a pattern to the age he lived in, and an example to what a surprising extent at man may render hitnsclf useful in his genera- tion by tetuperancc and punctuality.”

It is also worthy of observation how he noted when he thought that the poor members of the society were injured both ecuniarily and in health h the use of tea. e says in his jour- nal. Ju y 6th, 1746--“ After talking largely with both the men and women leaders, we agreed it would prevent great expense, as well 0 health as of time and money, if the poorer

eople of our society could be crsuaded to cave oti drinking too. We rcso vcd ourselves to begin and set the example I expected some ditﬁculty in brettkin oil a custom of six-and- twenty years’ standing, and accordingly the three ﬁrst days my head nched more or less all the day long, and I was half asleep from morn- ing til night. The third day, on Wednesday, in the afternoon, my memory failed almost entirely ; in the evening I sought my remed in prayer. On Tliursdny morning my lieu. - ache was lgone, my memory was as strong as ever, and have found no inconvenience, but a sensible beneﬁt in several respects, from that very day to this.”

loo will see here that he acted with the people. Ile abstained for their sakes, an thus carried out the identical riuciplc of the 'I‘empcranee society on that subject. He fortn- ed, too,an association for effecting the end, and thus he has left a bright and noble course of action, which, were all the ministers hear- ing his name to adopt, could not fail to bless the world. If abstinence front tea was need- ful, how much more abstinence from nlcohol—- the bane of the Church, the plugne.spot of our nation, and the curse of the world? Let iue, then, respectfully and earnestly request your kind attention to this subject, and may I hope that the statement I have presented may not a deemed unworthy ofyour candid consideration.

Wishing you every blessing, ttitd praying that God m:t mttkc our denomination again eﬁicicnt for t to revival of pure and experimen- tal tiotlliness in the land, I am, dear and rev.

ir, Yours most truly.

.l.\Cl{ AND HIS HARD Llfllll’. , A jolly Jack Tar was f-llTW3lls‘lll[! one d.i_v. 'I'hron;_vh lltc streets of the city he tvendotl his

Wily. Willi a suit ofuetv toggs and it clean shaven chin, e loolt'd just as smart as a newly-niado pm.

Just over the road stoodthe“Arv.-hor and Crown,” ‘Twas its splendid a “man-trap " as any in town ; At the door stood “our host,” who (as every one

knows,)

Had a sweet smiling face and jolly red nose.

“Hallo, my good friend,” quoth the landlord to Jack,

"You are oliin a hurry man,wcu’t you come back; How nhy you are getting, come, don’t rtitt away, Take a glass of hot grog, ’tis a very cold day.”

Turning round on his heel in true sailor-like style, And screwing his face ’twixt a pain and a stnile, “C no, I can’t drink, my good friend, “Jack re-

p let , _

“For I've got a hard lump growing right at my side.”

“Just what I expected," old Cherry-nose said,

“Tie with being teototal, as my name is ad ;

And if you continue so (mind toll true).

You’ll have a hard lump at your other side too.”

“'1‘ru_c, true,” replied Jack, and laughed at the jo c,

As he drew a large purse from his blue jacket po c:

“Do ye ken my hard lump, feel its weight, us its in " ,

And its held it right facing the publicsn’s eyes.

“Good day to you landlord, ‘its true I dare say,

If I drink, my hard lump will soon vanish am y,

So l’ll try if I cannot keep out of your not. And I'll get a lump, trust me, on t'stbsr side yet!"

MAIIAGIIIIIITI. The friends of Temperance, says the Boston Telegraph, are by" ‘no means asleep in many towns o the commonwealth. Sonic sxcsllcent meetings have recentl held with good results. New societies have been formed, and large ntimbeis have signed the pledge A ssisurs of sixty gallons of liquor was in in Northampton on the 2d of July Asa Boy was found guilty in ten minutes after the cause was submitted the jury, at Concord—-the first under the new law in that town. Charles P. Cook, of

well, was convicted on two ofsnces for liquor selling, and sentenced to the House ofCorrsctiou. One or two other liquor dealers were in jail for the same offence. The highssts courts have just sustained the sonstituionslity of the Massachusetts Probibitionsry Law.

lrzis the child who criss to get yesterday back again. The man accepts to-day, and looks for- ward, with faith and hope to a bright to-morrow.