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or worship, is to be found in all the Old Testament
through. . An additional sacrifice in the Temple was
all. Good men, no doubt, used its hours for devotion,
and many would feast with their friends—in which
our Lord joined; but the only command was, " do
no work." How different in the New Testament ,
not one word of ceasing from work. No, a higher,
a more animating injunction is given by him who
was the Life of men—" Meet for worship,"—l say
not when—l say not where—but " meet." If so
persecuted that only two or three can assemble;
" meet." I will be where but two or three are " ga-
thered " unto me. Neglect not the "assembling "
of yourselves together. Thus legislates the dispen-
sation of love, the truly social system of redemption.
0, that Christians understood the genius of their own
religion ! That they would seek to inspire men with
the love of worship, instead of coercing them to a
legal bondage !
I am ashamed to have occupied so much of your
space, and to ask for more another week, to illustrate
the injury done both to the godly and ungodly, and
the benefits which might result to both, by rejecting
custom for truth, and Judaism for Christianity.
I am, Sir, yours, sincerely obliged by both your
Anti-Sabbatarian and Anti-Church-rate articles,

Bradford, Feb. 8.

EVANGELICLTS.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS

The Imperial Academy of St. Petersburgh has just
been joined, by order of the Emperor, to the Academy
of Sciences of that capital, as a special section of Rus-
sian language and literature.
The Brussels Observateur says that reports are cur-
rent in the Belgium capital of its being the intention of
the Government to make before long some changes in
the diplomatic body, and to place at the head of " one
of the most important legations" the Duke d'LTrsel, or,
according to some, the Prince de Ligne, or else the
Prince de Chimay.—The Gazette de France says that
the lezation is that of Paris.

M. Desrosiers, of Moulins, is at the same time
editor of the Revue de Riom, and printer of the Journal du Bour-
bonnais. In answer to an article concerning the late disturbances
at Clermont, and announcing a fuller report, the Gazette d'Au-
vergne made an attack upon the Revue de Riom. The editor of
the Journal du Bourbonnais proposed to reproduce the attack,
adding comments greatly aggravating. The printer, who only a
few days before had been brought before the Court of Assizes, and
had since found himself obliged to refuse printing an article fro:n
fear •f a fresh prosecution, conceiving that this new publication
would be injurious to his own interests, positively declared he would
not put it to press. The editor of the Journal du Bourbonnais has
accordingly commenced an action against M. Desrosiers.

MARCH Or AN ABYSSINIAN ARMY.—At an
early hour, Uhi's army began to climb the hill by the winding
footpath' which we bad descended the day before. A part of
the disorderly train had reached the summit four miles off,
while the hindmost were still in the valley, and yet no gaps
were discernible in the long line of march. Here was a
troop of women of the lower class laden like beasts of burden,
with large dishes, and the most miscellaneous assort-
ment of all indescribable kinds of property ; there a knot
of ladies of quality on their mules, surrounded by their
female attendants, most of them young, on foot. In
many places were groups of priests— some in leather
shirts, others in yellow, mantles. The most remark.
able party was a band of four - and- twenty kettle-
drummers on white mules. They wore red jackets, and caps of
the same colour, terminating in two sharp points. They sat
quite back on the rumps of their beasts, with a large and a
small drum before each. Uhi was distinguished by the suite of
distinguished warriors, on their beautiful mules, who clustered
round him. • 'l' 41 At the top of the hill we were
met by a horde of priests in party-coloured garments, some of
whom had velvet canopies held over their heads, whilst others
carriel Greek crosses of silver on long sticks. They re-
ceived Uhi and the females who accompanied him, with a
prolonged quavering cry of joy. An ox was killed, and the
warm quivering flesh devoured raw. The scene of this
barbaric feast had only been a few days clear of snow, and
from the want of wood it was impossible to light a fire. No
human beilgs but an Abyssinian army would have lingered in
such a spot for a small slice of raw flesh; to the beauties of
the sublime panorama, splendidly lit up by the sun, which
stretched away to the north, all of them were dead.—Rup-
pelrs Travels.
THE INTRODUCER OT TOBACCO.—TaIk of
Wellington and Nelson, indeed, while no memorial exists to
remind the grateful smoker of his best friend, Sir Walter
Ra'eigh, the discoverer of the true philosopher's stone, or
rather the regenerator of that discovery—for surely the an-
cients were well acquainted with " the w red," otherwise how
could Homer have invented for Jupiter the epithet " cloud-
compelling," which clearly demonstrates that the great bard of
Greece was not only a smoker himself, but likewise deemed
the occupation of smoking as one of heavenly origin ; or what
can Horace mean by the line, " Ducere selicitm jucunda ebb-
via vita ?" If the jucunda oblivia mean not the Lethean
odour of " the week," then, as the Yankees say, am I " up a
tree." Methinks I spy old Flaccus now, reclining on his back
upon the green sward, his arms under his head, his eyes half
shut, with a pipe of slender stem and ample beryl in his beak
—calamo agresti—graeili avena—and wondering at the ab-
surdity of human nature, which can never be contented with
its lot, and blow a cloud like an honest pagan, but must. ever
be envying the occupation of others, and fretting after posses-
sions which it can never attain.— Sporting Magazine.
MODE OF EDUCATING DAUGHTERS.-The
desire which many persons feel to give their chil-
dren a better education than has been bestowed upon
themselves, is laudable, because it proceeds from sincere
affection ; but how often is the success equal to the mo-
tive which actuates ? How often is the manner of at-
tempting at all calculated for attaining the object so ear-
nestly sought ? An ambition to promote the welfare
of children reconciles parents to part with them at that
tender age when they ought to command more constant
care than they generally need at a more advanced time
of life ; and this ambition is so strong, that it will even
cause little girls to be consigned to the blighting atmo-
shere of a crowded school-room, there to bewail the loss
of the warm hearth, or the airy room of their own homes,
and all the comforts which depend upon a mother's soli-
citude. With a view to their being educated,—that is
to say, fitted for the world, and for the discharge of their
respective duties in it,—girls are sent to school, and are
there condemned to a dull course of lessons, before their
minds have sufficient strength to imbibe any kind of
learning that requires mental labour, and before their
understandings are equal to any greater exertion than
that of receiving the difference between a roasted apple
and a sugar plum.—English Housekeeper.
A letter from Algiers of the sth instant, says :
"Throughout the campaign General Mustapha has shown himself
as skilful in general policy as he is experienced in arms. It was
supposed by some that he would have taken umbrage at seeing
raised to the dignity of Bey a young man who was living in obscu.
rity at Mostaganem, and of whom we knew nothing, except by his
claims to the Casbah of Oran, which, lie said, belonged to him.
This, however, has not been the case, and, on the contrary, Mus.
tapha has cordially cooperated in the views of the Governor. Gene.
ral. The new Bey is 36 years of age, has a fine countenance, and
wears his gold-embroidered dress with ease and dignity. When he
appears at the head of 300 or 400 Medjehers, who compose his
maqzen, he is preceded by his colours, and a band of native rausi.
cians, who are considered by the Arabs to be excellent, follows,
playing triumphal marches. The squadron of Mekahlia or fusileers,
which was composed of about twenty deserters from the red ca-
valry of Abdel Kader and of the elite of the horsemen of the tribes,
is to be comprised in the new organisation of native troops. The
command is given to Capt. Walzin d'Esterhazy of the Artillery.
The battalion of tiralleurs raised from the Tusks and Coulouglis of
Mostaganem will also be included. It is commanded by Captain
Bosquet. These two officers are immediately to be promoted to
the grade of chef d'escadron. Their troops, without being under
the immediate orders of the Bey, will be at his disposal for the sup-
port and defence of the tribes who have made their sobrnission.
With the contingents of these tribes, and this nucleus of regular
troops, the Bey will be at the head of an imposing force, and in a
position to attack or resist under all circumstances. The true na..
tive force, however, remains in the hands of General Mustapha.
This is composed of the 1.400 cavalry of the Douairs and Smelas,
who are all brave, hardened in war, and habituated to contact with
the other tribes, either to compel them to pay their taxes or to chas-
tise them." _

A Swiss journal entertains its readers with the two
following singular narrations :—A traveller going towards St. Mau-
rice, by the Bois Noir, was suddenly surprised by perceiving that his
steps were followed by a wolf. He stopped and turned round, tho
animal quietly seated himself on his haunches, and remained gazing
at him as long as he stood still, but when he moved forwards his
terrible companion pursued the same track, until the bridge at Mau-
voisin was reached, when the wolf quietly turned round and gal-
loped off to the mountain. The second story is:—That, about 11
o'clock one moonlight and clear frosty night, this person, returning
from Martigny to his own house in the country, along the St. Mau-
rice road, he perceived at some distance from him, in the Avenue
d'Ottan, by which he was to pass, a wolf seated on its haunches,and
watching his approach. The traveller endeavoured to scare away
the beast by shouting, but, instead of producing this effect, the noise
brought another wolf over the hedge, which placed itself by the
side of the other, and in the same posture. To face two such re.
doubtable foeslwould have been foolhardy, and our pedestrian turned
and retraced his steps. After walking about a hundred yards he
looked back, to see whether the enemies had retired, but found
them both trotting a few paces behind him, one a little to the right
and the other to the left. Thus they continued to within a short
distance of a farm, where the person, who, notwithstanding the ex-
treme coldness of the air, was streaming with perspiration from
fright, met several men going to St. Mzurice. On the arrival of
this reinforcement he recovered his courage, but his pursuers it
seems lost theirs, for they immediately turned round and ran howl.
ing to the mountains.

The city of Naples, which had already so many
charitable establishments due to the care and philanthropy of King
Ferdinand, has now a humane society for the rescue and relief of
shiptcrecked mariners and persons in danger of drowning. The
Presidents are the Duke de Laurens:ins, Minister of State, and the
Neapolitan Ambassador in Paris, the Duke de Serra-Capriola. M.
Falcon is appointed grand treasurer. A letter from Naples states
that great interest had been exerted there by a sermon in presence
of the Court, the diplomatic corps, and the nobility, which was
preached by the Abbe Lefebvre, of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in favour of
the Infant School. This was the Brat instance of a foreigner being
permitted, under such circumstances, to preach in the Royal Church
of St. Ferdinand,

LIFE OF A MEDICAL MAN.—There is not
any career which so rapidly wears away the powers of life, because
there is no other which requires a greater activity of mind and
body. He has to bear the changes of weather, continued fatigue,
irregulariiy in his meals, and broken rest; to live in the midst of
miasma and contagion. If in the country, he has to traverse con.
siderable distance on horseback, exposed to wind and storm ; to
brave all dangers, to go to the relief of suffering humanity. A fearful
truth fur medical men has been established by the table of mortality
of Dr. Casper, published in the British Review. Of 1,000 members
of the medical profession, 600 died before their sixty-second year;
whilst of persons leading a quiet life, such as agriculturists or theo-
logians, the mortality is only 347. If we take 100 individuals of
filch of the classes-43 theologians, 40 agriculturists, 85 clerks, and
62 soldiers will reach their seventieth year : of 100 professors of the
healing art, 24 only will reach that age. They are the sign posts
o health ; they can show the road to old age, but rarely tread it
bemselves.—Montreal Cnsrier.
111. H., a gentleman of property, arrived a few
days ago, from Lisle, at Tours, and, after dinner, was taking a
walk on the Terrace St. Julien, when he was accosted by a man,
who made the most disgusting and insulting proposals to him.
M.H., in his indignation, seised the fellow, and was dragging him
to a more frequented part of the town, in order to get him ar-
rested; but, in going down some steps, the scoundrel disengaged
himself from the grasp in which he was held, drew a poignard,
gave M. H. a severe wound in the leg, made off,
and has not since
been discovered. M. H. was soon after found lying senseless on'
the steps, and carried to his hotel, where his wound was found to
b• so serious, as to make it apprehensive that amputation will be
necessary.
Mr. F. S. Murphy, M.P., for the city of Cork, is,
we hear, to be raised to the rank 0 Sergeant.atlaw. Mr. Murphy
is a rumba of tbi Northern C4Cuit.