than in the ocean. What is not needed is dear at any price. He who buys too many superfluities may be obliged to sell his necessaries. A fool generally loses his estate before he finds his folly. A man who hoards riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. Towers are measured by their shadows, and great men by their calumniators. That man who knows the world will never be bashful; and that man who knows himself will never be impudent. Hasty words often rankle the wound which injury gives; but soft words assuage it, forgiving cures it, and forgetting takes away the scar.

“Pat, you are wearing your stockings wrong side outward." "Och, and don't I know it, to be sure, there's a hole on the other side, there is."

There is no music like the voice of a happy child, and no beauty like that in the face of an intelligent one.

THE DEATH OF AN INFANT.

In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till wildered eyes

See white wings lessening up the skies,

The Angels with us unawares.

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death!
Shall light thy dark up like a Star,
A Beacon kindling from afar
Our light of love and fainting faith.
Thro' tears it gleams perpetually,

And glitters thro' the thickest glooms,
Till the eternal morning comes
To light us o'er the Jasper Sea.

With our best branch in tenderest leaf,

We've strewn the way our Lord doth come:

And, ready for the harvest-home,

His Reapers bind our ripest sheaf,

Our Beautiful bird of light hath fled;

Awhile she sat with folded wings,

Sang round us a few hoverings,—
Then straightway into glory sped.

And white-winged Angels nurture her,

With heaven's white radiance robed and crown'd,
And all Love's purple glory round,

She summers on the Hills of Myrrh.
Thro' Childhood's morning-land, serene

She walked betwixt us twain, like Love;
While, in a robe of light above,

Her better angel walked unseen.

Till life's highway broke bleak and wild;
Then, lest her starry garments trail

In mire, heart bleed, and courage fail,
The angel's arms caught up the child.
Her wave of life hath backward roll'd

To the great ocean, on whose shore
We wandered up and down, to store
Some treasures of the times of old:
And aye we seek and hunger on

For precious pearls and relics rare,
Strewn on the sands for us to wear
At heart, for love of her that's gone.
Ob, weep no more! there yet is balm
In Gilead! Love doth ever shed

Rich healing where it nestles,-spread
O'er desert pillows some green Palm!
God's ichor fills the hearts that bleed,—

The best fruit loads the broken bough;
And in the wounds our sufferings plough,
Immortal Love sows sovereign seed.

GERALD MASSEY.

ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.

His Honour Mr. Croute, a judicial functionary in the West of England, was recently one of four gentlemen in a Great Western Railway carriage, of divided compartments. He occupied one compartment, and two others

the other compartment. The three chatted pleasantly. His honour, seated apart, joined not in the jaser. At length, one of them said, "It is very cold, will you permit me to smoke a cigar ?" The two with him replied readily in the affirmative; but his Honour, on being addressed, replied not. The querist then lit his cigar, and his Honour exclaimed, "If you do not put it out, I will give you in charge to the policeman." He repeated this. The smoker said, "Don't give me in charge, as I am on particular business. Here is my card, and I will answer the law in any shape." The card bore the words, "His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge." His Honour permitted the Duke to smoke without further let or hindrance. Western Times.

FEMALE DEGRADATION.

Most of the women of the East are devoid of all accomplishments, either of body or mind; they possess no fascinating graces nor attractive charms; they have neither delicacy of sentiment, nor elegance of expression; vulgar, obstinate, violent, malicious, revengeful, selfish, incapable of love and tenderness, and destitute of all the beauty and gentleness which captivate the heart, and render them estimable and the ornament of society. Another evil is, most of the women are married long before they understand the importance and responsibility of the step; and as the husband generally never sees his intended till the fatal die is cast, disappointed expectations, withered hopes, and delusive dreams, are his cruel lot, and he can only lull himself into contentment with the opiates which convenient Islamism, under such perplexing circumstances, affords its votaries. Five or six shillings procures a divorce, and the enslaved woman, a few weeks after the consummation of the marriage, becomes the prey of another tyrant, or, as many of the Persian females do, subsists on the miserable wages of iniquity. If the woman belongs to an ancient family, or is connected with any noble house, the husband dare not proceed to extremities, and rid himself of this courted encumbrance; but he endeavours to compensate himself by purchasing a white Circassian

slave; or, should his bride be very indulgent and complaisant, he may unite himself to the daughter of a friend, a neighbour, or a lady of his own tribe. This liberty may, however, prove a chastening-rod in the hand of his haughty mistress; for, should the new intruder possess any qualities by which affection is attracted, and love and attachment acquired, jealousy and resentment will fill the heart of the defeated rival, and vent itself in vollies of abuse, and sometimes in more sentient demonstrations, on the submissive and patient husband. Some Mahommedans of note and influence assured me that, whenever they bought a present for their women, they could not venture to present the gift to one in particular, for fear such an unintentional preference might kindle the fire of envy, and fill the house with rancorous strife and implacable malignity; their usual mode was to throw the purchased articles on the carpet, and let each help herself. Others are frequently compelled to engage separate houses for their respective wives, for fear the malevolence of the contending rivals should terminate in a tragical catastrophe. The unhappy offspring who are reared in these hothouses of malice and lewdness, scandal and pollution, are from their infancy inured to all the impure, loathsome, and abandoned practices of their immoral parents. If the espousers and apologisers of Islamism had only a faint glimpse of its destructive and immoral tendency, I am certain that they would check their pens, and convert their unmerited panegyrics into severe satire and violent invectives.-Dawnings of Light in the East.

THE BISHOP OF NATAL'S EASY AND ACCOMMODATING

CODE OF MORALS.

The Bishop here has taken the liberty of expressing himself somewhat freely. Let us hear him :

I must confess, that I feel very strongly on this point, that the usual practice of enforcing the separation of wives from their husbands, upon their conversion to Christianity, is quite unwarrantable, and opposed to the plan of teaching of our Lord. It is putting new wines into old bottles, and

placing a stumbling block, which He has not set, directly in the way of their receiving the Gospel. Suppose a Kafirman, advanced in years, with three or four wives, as is common among them,-who have been legally married to him according to the practice of their land, (and the Kafir laws are very strict on this point, and Kafir wives perfectly chaste and virtuous,) have lived with him for thirty years or more, have borne him children, and served him faithfully and affectionately, (as, undoubtedly, many of these poor creatures do,)—what right have we to require this man to cast off his wives, and cause them, in the eyes of all their people, to commit adultery, because he becomes a Christian? What is to become of their children? Who is to have the care of them? And what is the use of Abraham, Israel and David, with their many wives? I hitherto sought in vain for any decisive church authority on the subject. Meanwhile, it is a matter of instant urgency in our Missions, and must be decided without delay in one way or other. I may add that I returned to England in the Indiana, with an excellent old Baptist Missionary from Burmah, Dr. Mason; and I was rather surprised to learn from him, that the whole body of American Missionaries in Burmah, after some difference in opinion, in which he himself sided decidedly with the advocates of the separation system, have, in the early part of the year 1853, at a Convocation, where two delegates attended from America, and where this point was specially debated, come to an unanimous decision to admit in future polygamists of old standing to communion-but not to offices in the church. I must say, this appears to me the only right and reasonable course. In the next generation, but not in this, we may expect to get rid of this evil; for, of course, no convert would be allowed to become a polygamist after baptism, or increase the number of his wives.