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     1ng very ﬁnest mould ;' and the mouth is more capable of 
     
     J 1", meanin than an I remember to have seen, except 
     
     131‘:th of 
     
     ' J‘Vdinury sense of that term as a plied to the mouth. 
     
    
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     ' d ﬂeets had made a also attack-in 
     
     ﬁgmmvﬁth the object of landing the Turkishl 
     
     troops, andEnglish and Austrian marines. To ex- 
     
     plain the nature of this thlse attack, to readers not 
     
     versed in warlike maneuwes, let us (for we love all 
     
     homely instances) resemble it to a run-away knock, i 
     
     athing' so well understood in this city. ' 
     
     We ], the Admiral gave a run-away knock at 
     
    
     Ibrahim’s door at Beyrout; Soliman, the porter, as 
     
    
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     mmmfli’eghdaszfsgg‘tldgggwtﬁe Ammowmziof good-humoured irony, or bitin 
     
    
     i in the thicf-takin language, called a, ‘sneak.’ 
     
     The Admiral, h§g in his sleeve, sailed away, 
     
     and snugly smuggled the Turkish army ashore 
     
     some seven or eight miles oﬁi The army so hap- 
     
     pily hndod were instantly packed up in an intrench- 
     
     ment, Commodore Napier having himself taken a 
     
     shovel in hand toassist in fencing them in. The 
     
    
     as of the ﬂeet commanded the road by which 
     
     Elohim must march to attack them, and it may 
     
     conﬁdently be said that the allied army is sqfe, which 
     
     is a great thing ,to say—safely planted, so 'long as 
     
     the wind does not blow on the shore, In which case 
     
    
     ' the ﬂeet must leave the roads—we meanboth that 
     
    
     road on shore, and the road at sea,—and clawpﬁ' 
     
     the shore, for its own safety, instead of clawing 
     
     Ibrahim Pacha. Thus the success of our operations 
     
     depends in some sort upon the wind, which in 
     
     November, will be very apt to favour Mehemet Ali. 
     
    
     But the Syrians—ay, t e Syrians—came in large 
     
     numbers, and showed a laudable eagerness to. take 
     
     our arms. All the accounts of their enthusiasm, 
     
     especially at Djibail, were excellent; but we confess, 
     
     that we do not like the circumstance, stated in the 
     
     despatch of Captain Martin, that large bodies of men 
     
     whom we have armed have returned to the moun- 
     
     tains, as they say, to blockade a very ﬁne Emir that 
     
     the know ofin a convent. . _ 
     
    
     is to be regretted that Captain Martin did not 
     
     begthem to 've us the pleasure of their company, 
     
     instead of gomg after the desirable Emirin a con- 
     
     vent. 
     
    
     It is a happiness to reﬂect that there are no pawn- 
     
     brokers’ shops in Syria; but still we wish it were 
     
     quite certain that those excellent Syrians would 
     
     come back with our arms. We pray that the Emir 
     
     me not be too strong for them. 
     
    
     hat the Syrian insurrection may turn out as well 
     
     as the fondest heart can desire of insurrections, we 
     
     b no means would dispute. The revolt may re- 
     
     ize all the rose-colored anticjlpations of Lord Pal- 
     
     merston, and for burning an destroying, bloody 
     
     surprises and massacres, it may come up to the 
     
     beau ideal of such thin and leave nothing to be 
     
     desired. It is seldom ﬁt any of the devilsguns 
     
     ﬂash in the pan. For be it from us to damp any 
     
     ho s of a ﬁerce rising in the sacred‘cause of liberty 
     
     an Turkish government. All that we mean to _say 
     
     is, that the thing was not done, was not quite ﬁnish- 
     
     ed, not quite settled, when the last news came away; 
     
     but the next arrival will, probably gladden _us With 
     
     the intelligence of progress both in restoring and 
     
     destroying the Sultan’s towns. So, too, we shall be 
     
     stirs to hear of the arming of more Syrians; but we 
     
     In more impatient for the tidings of the use they 
     
     have made of our arms. 
     
    
     At resent we may content ourselves with the 
     
     proud eat of the hero in Tom Thumb— 
     
    
     " Thus far with conquest have our arms been crowned, 
     
    
     Because we’ve found no fee to ﬁght withsl." 
     
    
     -—Etmn¢r. 
     
    
     LORD Lrnnnuas-r. 
     
     (Abridged/him the Britannia.) 
     
    
     Next to the Duke of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst 
     
     is the most inﬂuential man in the House of Lords. 
     
     He is as much feared by his 0 ponents as he is res- 
     
     pected and valued by his frient 5. Like his younger 
     
     coacl'utor, Lord Stanley, he, too, enjoys the honora- 
     
     ble distinction of being well hated, and few men 
     
     have been more virulent] abused by Mr. O’Connell 
     
     and the Whi His in uence in the House, how- 
     
     ever, is of r. different kind from that of the Duke. 
     
     The latter is a moral inﬂuence, grounded upon the 
     
     respect universally entertained for his fprobity, expe- 
     
     rience, ﬁction] turn of mind, and un inching hon- 
     
     esty. rd Lyndhurst’s inﬂuence, on the other 
     
    
     hand, is founded more especially upon his intellec- 
     
    
     tual pro-eminence, in greater ower as a debater, 
     
     and the stern, unliesitating etermination with 
     
     which he brin those powers to bear upon the ques- 
     
     tions under ussion. But the inﬂuence which 
     
     sprin from fear is never so great as that which re- 
     
     sults in respect. A practised and powerful deba- 
     
     ter must always have enemies, either among those 
     
     who envy him for his talents, or among thoae who 
     
     have smarted under his lash. He must, therefore, 
     
     necessarily be more owerful as a partisan than 
     
     ﬁful as a guide. \ hat we would submit to from 
     
     for whose long-tried sagacity we feel an habi- 
     
     tual reverence that has become interwoven with our 
     
     intellectual and moral system, we should resist from 
     
     another with whom we had been in the constant 
     
     ctice of conﬂict. Yet Lord Lyndhurst is very far 
     
    
     in being a mere partisan. On the contrary, he is 
     
     possessed of more political wisdom than the great 
     
     majority of living politicians; but it is as a debater 
     
     that he has shone the most, and he is, therefore, 
     
     always looked upon in that character more than as 
     
     an originator of the course of policy pursued by his 
     
    
     party. 
     
    
     Lord Lyndhurst’s rsonal pearance is an in- 
     
     dex of his mind and c cter. t is strikingly mas- 
     
     culine. Considerany above the middle height, he 
     
    
     would appear tall, but for the breadth and muscular ‘ 
     
    
     development of his frame ; and there is that in his 
     
     mall, and somewhat stately 't, which would com- 
     
     man your respect, even be you no knowledge of 
     
     his big reputation. His carriage, indeed, is peculiar 
     
     to himself; and is as distinct from the easy amble of 
     
     Sir Robert Peel, as from the staid rave paces of 
     
     Lord Aberdeen. His chest is expan ed; his tread 
     
     is ﬁrm a_nd natural ,'. and (O rare accomplishment in 
     
    
     Englishman!) his arms fall into their right place 
     
    
     thout any appearance of effort. His countenance 
     
     is not less remarkable than his mind. It is capable 
     
     of an inconceivable variety of expression, and all 
     
     high] intellectual. When in repose, it has the dig- 
     
     n' gravity that becomes the judgment seat, en- 
     
     lightened and made grand by the serenity of deep 
     
     thought. In this phase of its expression, it might 
     
     have been taken by an antique sculptor as his model 
     
    
     ﬁts the ideal of wisdom. But when animated by the bea 
     
    
     .smcitement of public debate, how indescribably viva- 
     
    
     ;ep i; now radiant with goo 
     
    
     with ' andssrt'astic. I-Iisforehead is h' h, broad, 
     
     and inte] actual; his eye is full, clear, intell eat and 
     
     expresgive; the contour of the whole face is in the 
     
    
     humour, now 
     
    
     mund can. It is not handsome, in the 
     
    
     are none of the lines of upid about it. But 
     
     = es up for the want of beauty in the possession 
     
    
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     much and deeply. 0 (Sea both ab?“ mid 
     
     below 'vin some countenance an exI)resalon . e 
     
     the siérﬁldigﬁl ofthe lion. Thus it becomes, P0135 
     
     large and broad, the most conspicuous mm m. a 
     
     face, even when Lord Lyndhurst is not speakinr- 
     
     B in the excitement of debate, it assumes to”l Y 
     
     ldi erent characteristics, obeying msmmli’ "9‘7 
     
     lmotion and thought of its owner. In the expresglqn 
     
    
     sarcasm, It IS 
     
     alike re-eniinent. There is a ﬂe_x1 ilityabopﬁ the 
     
     muse es rarely witnessed. A smile Will anticiPa‘i 
     
     an ar ment, or a sneer refute one. Frequently 
     
     have nown before-hand, from the expressmn of the 
     
     mouth, what Lord Lyndhurst was about to say, all,“ 
     
     I have as often observed an antagonist put out in his 
     
     attack by the peculiar meaning Visible on the coun- 
     
     'tenance of the noble and learned lord, as some start- 
     
     ]in proposition was enunciated. The inﬂuence 
     
     which he wields in this manner is sin-pnsing. 
     
     Though he sits in a remote part of the house, he 
     
     seems to be the centre, of all observation ;' and a 
     
     smile, a sneer, a scornful laugh, or an ironies] 
     
     uhear! hear !” seems to run like the electric ﬁre 
     
     through the assembly. , 
     
    
     But, if thus formed by nature to command respect, 
     
     even without exerting himself to that end, how much 
     
     more inﬂuential is Lord Lyndurst when addressing 
     
     the House of Lords on any of the great questions 
     
     that come before them, or when makin one of 
     
     those searing attacks on ministers which ave pro- 
     
     cured him from his enemies so much of the res ct 
     
     that springs from fear. I do not exaggerate when say 
     
     that he absolume commands their intellect; Even 
     
     his opponents, however reliant on their own v'nws of 
     
     thin confess, in their faces, now pale, now ﬂushed, 
     
     and in an twitchings of the frame, his inyiisuble 
     
     power. 1gb);- his ability is precisely of that kind With 
     
     which a supercilious critic can ﬁnd no fault He 
     
     does not aspire to excel in the mere arts of oratory 
     
     —in the laborious climax, the remembered Wit, the 
     
     prepared peroration; therefore he cannot be saeered 
     
     down as superﬁcial, as Lord Brougham has been. 
     
     Nor does he attempt to dazzle with brilliant lan- 
     
     guage or poetical imagery, like Mr. Macaulay, and 
     
     so be a ﬁne speaker, and nothing more. Nor, with 
     
     all his sacrcastic power does he ever betray even 
     
     the appearance of ill nature; therefore his enemies 
     
     cannot ﬁx upon him the imputation of malignity, 
     
     which O’Connell has cast at Lord Stanley. No: 
     
     all that lhlls from Lord Lyndhurst is massive argu- 
     
     ment, sound common sense, logical analyis, set off 
     
     by a species of humour that is quite legitimate, as it 
     
     serves more to exemplify the arguments than merely 
     
     to wound the feelings of the antagonist ; for the 
     
     noble and learned lord, if ever he allows himself 
     
     the use of sarcasm, expends it upon measures, not 
     
     upon men. With him it is the corruscation of the 
     
     intellect, pointing and vivifying and relieving from 
     
     the dull solemnity of debate, not, as with others, the 
     
     forked lightning of passion, searing and wouiidin , 
     
     blinding and exasperating. His most favourite styﬁe 
     
     of sarcasm is a milder mode of expressing that 
     
     feeling of the mind. He ever and anon indulges in 
     
     a vein of delicate, natural, unpre ared irony, which 
     
     has all the effect of ridicule in tickling the risible 
     
     faculties of an auditor, while at the same time it 
     
     rather excites shame than anger in the objects of it; 
     
     because, while it is perfectly good humoured, it 
     
     carries with it conviction, growing, as it irresistibly 
     
     does, out of the point of the argument it embellishes. 
     
    
     Let us suppose him taking a review of the events 
     
     of a session. He proceeds, in a voice sonorous yet 
     
     clear as a trumpet, and in the very evo'on of 
     
     simple manly e oquence, to catalo e t errors of 
     
     the year. He ﬁrst lays the foundation by a statement 
     
     of events, lucid, and unencumbered by a single 
     
     unnecessary word. Facts, dates, causes, eﬁects, all 
     
     follow each other in aclear, unhesitating nnn'ation, 
     
     combining the minuteness of the politician, with the 
     
     dignity and perspicuity of the historian. Some 
     
     speakers encumber this rtion of their addresses 
     
     With useless details, antimdigressions dictated by 
     
     uncontroulable party feeling; and they refer ever 
     
     and anon to piles of papers, the very sight of which 
     
     ﬁ'ightens and wearies the house by anticipation. 
     
     Not so Lord Lyndhurst. His mind is a magazine 
     
     wherein all the stores are arranged in due order, and 
     
     are at instant command. His intellect, accustomed 
     
     to analysis in the severe exercises of the law, distils 
     
     the essence and rejects the crude material. You 
     
     have all that you need to know, and are saved the 
     
     confusion of too much information. Having thus 
     
     stated the foundation of his arguments, Lord Lynd- 
     
     hurst then proceeds to the attack, not with the 
     
     virulence .of party feeling, or the vain desire of 
     
     displnywhich acsuates so many orators, but in an 
     
     unsophisticated exposure of what he conceives to 
     
     have been .crrors, intended and calculated to prevent 
     
     their repetition. It is not in isolated brilliant efforts 
     
     that the charm of Lord Lyndhurst’s oratory consists ; 
     
     it is in the sustained, concentrated ower that reigns 
     
    
     of a compact, muscular, practised athlete quells your 
     
     phySical courage, and beads on in submission, 
     
     because all hope of competition is at once negatived. 
     
     _What is the cause of this spell exercised upbn your 
     
     intellectual nature? It is, as I set out with saying, 
     
     the unvarying, natural, inborn self-possession of the 
     
     man. He is one of nature’s aristocrats. Wherever 
     
     his lot had been cast, still he would have swayed 
     
     the minds of his fellows. This peculiarity, which 
     
     he enjoys in an eminent and unequalled degree, 
     
     forms the key to his character and his success in 
     
     the political world. . 
     
    
     Lord Lyndhurst made the best Lord Chancellor 
     
     this country has had for many years. In the court 
     
     he was . respected, because his legal knowledge 
     
     was. universally admitted. In the house he was 
     
     admired, and his authority submitted to withou a 
     
     murmur, because, with that tact and instin ve 
     
     self-respect which belongs to such sterling charac- 
     
     ters, he never exceeded its due limits. 
     
    
     To those who are curious in rsonal de ' ' 
     
     may be as well to add that LorSeLyndhursttmilss'fil7t 
     
     years of age, but does not look more than ﬁve-and- 
     
     forty; that he wears a brown wig, which ﬁts so well 
     
     that it does not look like a wig at all; that, in private 
     
     life, 'he is one_ of the most agreeable men living 
     
     smkin all political differences in a pervading spirit, 
     
    
     of 
     
     wig the ladies; and that, after bein left a widow r 
     
     be has united himself to a oung lad? of considerable, 
     
     ' uty and unusual inte lectual accomplishments, 
     
     With whom he enjoys all that happiness which a man 
     
     experienced in the ways of the world knows how to 
     
     extract out of the marriage state. I regret to add 
     
     however, that his recent severe illness has very 
     
     much impaired his personal health. 
     
    
     u lePEBANCE REFORM IN IRELAND. 
     
    
       extraordinary vaqLili‘tli'lt‘in of modern 
     
     esis nowm ro ssin ' d 
     
    
     the labours of Theollialgre Mathew, and,h1:m|l‘)‘l:dbl:l{ 
     
    
     eloquent Roman Catholic Priest, of Cork. If; two 
     
    
     When in repose, there is that comma. 
     
    
     years ago, any one bad redicted that bef 
     
     close of 1840 more than twii million ‘ ofou‘ii 
     
    
     throughout, that subdues your inte lect, as the sight 11' 
     
    
     -fellowship; that he isauniversa] favourite M 
     
    
     ' ‘ that 
     
     ‘ n] to form habits of sobriety, 
     
     ibdgb‘miiig‘ehlre and would bathe sceiligos‘vzm 
     
     cis] revolution unparalleled in history, at this 
     
    
     ' d a visionary enthusiast; 
     
     have bhiiigggslfbility has been accomplish by Hi: 
     
     :Ports of a single individual, and the good examp 
     
    
     ' es in the father land has_exerted a 
     
     fiiostilhayriiilyliiilﬂgence on the Irish and theIi‘iildescen; 
     
     dents in Great Britain and America. I ilsmgsrpz- 
     
     chan e in the moral character ofa peop e t m- 
     
     sult from no fanaticism or mania. A grea an“ 
     
     jority of those who have received the temper on- 
     
    
     led'e from Mr. Mathew have done so in c . 
     
     p g the improved health and cir- 
     
    
     f witnessing _ 
     
     23%]:lmgs of friends and neighbours who havef 
     
     joined 'the society; the extraordmary success 0 
     
    
     ' ' o be attributed to the personal inﬂuence 
     
     :fhlt‘li; lsfdunder on all who attended the meeftinlgs 
     
     he addressed, and on the peculiar character _0 t 16 
     
    
     opulation, who were willing at once to glye up 
     
     ilieir besetting sin when the contrast between intem- 
     
     perance and sobriety was fairly presented befOre 
     
     Them. The extent and inﬂuence _of the rest Tem- 
     
     perance Movement in Ireland Will be _ st under- 
     
     stood from the following history ofns pro r985, 
     
     which we compile ﬁ-om a recent number of an s 
     
     Edinburgh Magazine and other sources, and from a 
     
     recent speech of Mr. O’Connell before the British 
     
     and Foreign Temperance Society, appended to this 
     
    
     ticle. 
     
     m. The ﬁrst attempt to establish a Temperance So- 
     
     ciety in the South of Ireland was made in Cork. by 
     
     some members of the Society of Friends. It was 
     
     attended with little or no success; and Mr .Mafhew 
     
     was solicited to commence one on similar principles, 
     
     his friends rightly judgin that twenty ears zea— 
     
     lous performance of the. ones of his o co, which 
     
     had gained for him the enviable reputation 'of being 
     
     the poor man’s friend, was the best of qualiﬁcations 
     
     for an apostle of temperance. , Mr. Mathew was not 
     
     sanguine of the success of his undertaking. At its 
     
     ﬁrst commencement, he would have thought him- 
     
     self fortunate in obtaining ﬁve hundred members. A 
     
     meeting, however, was held and the society formed 
     
     on the widest possible basis; the only form requisite 
     
     on admission being a repetition of a pledge by each 
     
     person to abstain from all intoxicating liquors, unless 
     
     recommended for medical purposes, and to discou- 
     
     rage, by all means in his power, the practice of 
     
     intoxication in others, Mr. Mathew adding, ‘May God 
     
     bless you and enable you to keep your promise.’ 
     
     At ﬁrst, but few converts were made, and those 
     
     chieﬂy from Mr. Mathew’s inﬂuence with the lower 
     
     orders, whose conﬁdence he had previous] gained; 
     
     but a great improvement taking place in t e health 
     
     of those who had discontinued the use of spirits, it 
     
     was immediately supposed that some healing power 
     
     was possessed by Mr. Mathew, of which the disciple 
     
     received the beneﬁt. This gave a great impetus to 
     
     thegsociety, and the halt, the maimed, and the blind, 
     
     crowded to Cork, to take the pledge'and be healed. 
     
     Mr. Mathew at once discountenanced this delusion, 
     
     and the society was left to rest on its own merits; 
     
     but there remains a strong impression that the pledge 
     
     administered by him is su erior in eﬂicacy to that 
     
     administered by others. 'IPhe rapid increase of the 
     
     sooiety soon attracted public attention, and several] 
     
     applications were made to its thunder to visit distant 
     
     towns to make converts. These he uniformly re- 
     
     fused, alleging that all who were in earnest would 
     
     come to him, and that the fati e and privation in- 
     
     cident to a long journey, especially if made on foot, 
     
     would be likely to im tress the occassion of it deep- 
     
     ly on their minds. he ﬁrst exception to this rule 
     
     occurred when he visited Limerick to preach 
     
     a charity sermon; on which occasion troops were 
     
     called out to prevent loss of life from the mere 
     
     pressure of the thousands who crowded to take the 
     
     pledge. Mr. M was subsequently requested, by his 
     
     eccleSiastical superiors, to visit Waterford and Clon- 
     
     _mel, as the numbers of country people who ﬂocked 
     
     into Cork were, in many instances, overreached and 
     
     plundered by designing individuals, who professed 
     
     to accommodate strangers. It thus appears, that aﬁer 
     
     the ﬁrst establishment of the society, no further 
     
     measures were required, on the part oer. Mathew 
     
     than the enrolment of the crowds who daily pre.’ 
     
     sented themselves for admission. 
     
    
     To make this clear, the ivriter of the article to 
     
     Which we have referred, in Tait’s Ma azine, gives 
     
     the testimony of a number of the re ormed, who 
     
     had, Without an exception, been induced to join the 
     
     Temperance Society. by observing its beneﬁcial 
     
     inﬂuence on their fellows. Alter formino associ- 
     
     ations in the principal large towns in theainterior 
     
     M" .Ma‘he“! .1385, Within a few weeks, visited 
     
     DPblln, and it is expected that he will soon, in com- 
     
     pliance with the earnest solicitations of the British 
     
     Ivivnﬁi Foreign Temperance Society, go to London, 
     
     ready to take his pledge as soon as the can r ' 
     
     it from his hands. On the 28th y e we 
     
     in t e Irish metropolis, “september' ﬁle 
     
    
     he preached in the Catholic 
     
    
     the Marquis of Lansdowne a Cabinet M‘ ‘ 
     
     the same time forwarded to ,Mr. Mathew alhldiied-i‘dzd 
     
     pounds, to be used for the advancement of the great 
     
     reform. This countenance by men ofhigh station 
     
     and great political inﬂuence, is a testimon 
     
     of the value which the intelligent portion of the 
     
     people place upon Mr. Mathew’s labors. 
     
    
     It has been 
     
    
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     statistics, and, accordingly, w; “gaffe” "8 
     
    
     decrease of the duties on'spirits, in the provmce of 
     
    
     su er, and other articles of more 
     
    
     intrinsic value ut the 
     
     I. reports of the su rinten- 
     
     dents of hospitals, almshouse cominissioiizrs, and 
     
    
     police magistrates, furnish the most gratifyin 
     
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     ‘ of the Wesleyan Min-- 1 
     
     the past year more than on 
     
     mumbeenaddedtoihe . .,  
     
     a million and a quarter base been #1:, 
     
     by sale or grant. One hunth'ed and A: 
     
     numerary preachers and two .  
     
     widows, in England'nnd Ireland, V 
     
     ted to the new auxiliary fund, In . - 
     
     sums of different amounts have b... é 
     
     lieve particular cases of  
     
     each have been ranted this year A 
     
     ers, who have it placed. on ’  
     
     list, through age or inﬁrmity; .. om 
     
     with the usual allowance for the  _ 1 
     
     children of preachers, and tbs- nv I g n' 
     
     the sum of £12,000. By a statistical g.  
     
     state of education amongst the W . It 
     
     appears that, as compared With the , 
     
     1a considerable increase had taken, . 
     
     ’department of school.operations, and 
     
     were adopted for carrying out  f ' 
     
     eﬂicient plan in reference to this 0 .. 
     
     three grants towards annual deﬁci 
     
    
     in the whole to £262," were made by ch. 
     
     ofthe general Che lFund; one 1.. H 
     
     cases had been sett ed, and debtsto h' 
     
     £57,139 18s. 8d. extinguished. The 
     
     cases still under consideration was about a j 
     
     Building Committee noticed the ~. .. ‘ 
     
     largement of 129 chapels and four sc 
     
     mated aggregate expense of which. I! 
     
     to £65,068, and the estimated subscn .-. 
     
     lections to £26,876. Various details m 
     
     the special meeting of the Missmnsry. 
     
     with respect to the Society’s open . 
     
     There is, it appears, at the present ino 
     
     more of expenditure than of income, and 
     
     called upon to make an additional t' 
     
     for the expense of the Ashantee mission, 
     
     in some measure, compensate Africa ‘. 
     
     vous wrongs inﬂicted upon her. Dr. B . 
     
     ed the good opinion and support of the a; 
     
     body in behalfof the new Society for the 
     
     of the Slave Trade, and for the civith ‘ 
     
     A resolution was passed, approving of lb; 
     
     plated objeCt of attempting the . i i  4 
     
     Christian mission in Ashantee. U  
     
     dred candidates for the itinerancy o cred a 
     
     From the returns laid before the Com m1. 
     
     pears that twenty-nine preachers have -. of, 
     
     the last year, namely, nineteen in Eng 1 1 
     
     Ireland, and ﬁve in the missionary ﬁe] _ , 
     
     young preachers, having passed their four ‘ 
     
     probation, have been admitted into full &gt;- a ' 
     
     114 others have been recommended to ' 
     
     once as candidates. Several new ' 
     
     been formed. From the returns it likewise 
     
     that there is an increase of 16,110 mem -. I , . 
     
     Britain, 665 in Ireland (notwithstan ' {g 
     
     600 by emigration), and 5,777 in the Foreign - 
     
     besides 19,603 on trial for admission into i 
     
     ties. , 
     
    
     i 
     
    
     3’ 
     
    
     REFLECTIONS ON THE COURSE or run 
     
     The source of the~Thames is a clear f a 
     
     little rocky dell, near Cirencester, known 
     
     name of Thames Head. This is the little 
     
     stream so great a giant when it arrives 
     
     growth. What reﬂections we might 
     
     human affairs in general from the mere ' I ', 
     
     oozing. well ! What a homily we mi . ' f 
     
     upon this text—the smallobeginnings of _ v H,“ 
     
     -—a.nd what encouragement might be H  
     
     humble genius ﬁom it! Truly, the H H '. .1 
     
     river bears no bad comparison with the W , 
     
     able man, who makes his own fortune’in' the " 
     
     How slight is his beginning; yet not: {and , 
     
     dence he runs on in his career, dashin aver  
     
     obstacles, and taming round others, obfignd to; 
     
     a tortuous course, that his waters may not 
     
     ged into an inland lake, or be dispersed in 
     
     over a niarsliy country; and that he may " 
     
     the sea ofdeath, whither he must come at 
     
     a‘wealthy and powerful name! See, too, 
     
     gathers tribute as he passes—how smaller 
     
     bear homage unto his, and are content to, 
     
     impulses, and run 7 with him in a min led 
     
     See, too, how by his well-acquired weal he 
     
     es the wealth of others—how, by the judi ' 
     
     tribution of his capital, he affords emplo l 
     
     consequent proﬁt, to thousands! 
     
     seen our Thames: here he is alittle child 
     
     crawling timidly about, and ignorant of In! 
     
     strength; by and by he becomes able to walk 
     
     asat Lechlade, where he is ﬁrst navigable- . 
     
     gaining. strength, and increasing in stature. 
     
     comestlike a boy, lingering in quiet nook» 
     
     woody places, and leading a happy life of it. 
     
     we have him at Oxford, 8. youth at who 
     
     mind _ﬁlled with reminiscences of until]!1i 1 
     
     assuming a classical name which does not' ' 
     
     to him, half for frolic and half for ambition. - ' 
     
     emancipated from college, we have him ‘ 
     
     courtier at Windsor, dallying in the co J 
     
     of his youthful grace to gain a smile from ‘ 
     
     and push his fortune in the world by mews  
     
     favour. This he soon discovers was an idle ' 
     
     and hi good sense tells him to trust to ' 
     
     strength for success, and to make himself ' 
     
     the world at large, and not a mere hanger-0n 
     
     palace. He therefore ‘ quits the court, Wi 
     
     _ asbejourneys onghis minde "  
     
     as it were, w ile his hysica] strength  
     
     He now makes himsell'a reputation, his ..v, 
     
     is known over the world, he becomes conce 
     
     mercantile speculations, in which he is univ ; 
     
     successful, and so full of probity that traders 
     
     all parts of the world give him unlimited 
     
     They would as soon believe any monstrous im 
     
     bability as his failure or bankruptcy. N 0W ' 
     
     rich indeed, andhis house, (which me be vv V 
     
     London,) becomes the mart of the war] and that 
     
     sands of merchant princes attend every day at 
     
     levee. He spreads Wealth wherever he goesnand It 
     
     whole population live by him. This is his prime  
     
     life—his busy period—and he goes on, full of years, 
     
     up in the d 
     
     ocean ofdeath.—Tlie and its 1Wtarm - 
     
     Sor'r Sawnnn iN a NEW Forum—So now, when 
     
     I enter a location, alter a little talk about this, that. 
     
    
     i or the other, I looks at one of the young grow’d up" I'r: 
     
    
     galls aimest like, till she says, Mr. Slick, what on 
     
     airth are 
     
     but a most remarkable development. ,A W 
     
    
     most remarkable, too, I ever see since I was 11118? 
     
     Why, what in natur’s that ? says she. Excuse me; 
     
     says I: and gets up, and puts my ﬁnger on her crown. 
     
    
     n reduced in two years—one half ' 
     
     - ' con 
     
     amounts of money have accumulated in tﬁhdhﬂd: 
     
    
     of 1- 
     
     M h whose tenements 
     
    
     . THE WESLEYAN METHODISTS. 
     
     The Leeds Intelligent-er} communicates the follow- 
     
     proceedings 
     
    
     ing details, connected with the recent 
     
    
     What benevolence! says I, and ﬁrmness of slid?“ 
     
     ter! did you everl—and then, says I, I P985“ ‘m 
     
    
     ﬁnger over the eye-brow, you ought to we 1 
     
     positwely ,- it’s your own fault if you don": 10" you 
     
     'ave uncommon petikilar powers that my- Y9“ 
     
     time is large, and tune great; es, and “impala?” 
     
     is strong. Well, how at e . says She; You W 
     
     guessed right, I swore, for do sing, and am “now' 
     
     ed to have the best ear for music in all the” cl“; 
     
     m’s. How on airth can you tell .9 nmndon’! 
     
     Tell, says I, why it’s what th 
     
    
     of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference 
     
    
     and the pro- 
     
    
     e cal] bum  - 
     
     a most beautiﬁil study it is. {can  e w ” 
     
    
     you a-lookin’ at? N othin’, says I, my  f _ 
     
     A remarkable development, says  the h 
     
    
     «v,