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incumbent seems to be quite beneath all consideration'
There is evidently no occasion to treat him as a gentlenia.
by even answering his letters. What we want is sib
the performance of those duties without which our eunr.
can never prosper. We want the clergy to have a f.gir,
share of respect from their own bishop, and nodehat It
lshould be lavished on dissenting preachers. al,
churches to be attended to, as well as mechanics
tutes. We should like to have more time for necessV,
intercourse with our diocesan. At present onlyone
in every week is professedly set apart for this purer
when the episcopal palace is, for a few hours, ex d
for an office in town, attached to which is a small duty au
disagreeable rocm, occupied by the clerks, whereng.
ordinary visitors must wait until they are suram°:.
And happy that poor incumbent or curate who can &at:
an early interview before the wealthy or the officious, t
the querulous layman shall arrive ; otherwise he
dance a long attendance, and, perhaps, have to repeat
to the
visit a second, or, it may be, even a third Tuesday, h.
neglect of important duties at home, ere his humble.aiPteli"
cation can be attended to. Now, is this as it should
Is one day in a week sufficient for listening to tilel;
peals, and consulting for the necessities, of a cliocese
this ? And yet even this is not what we get. Par- off
mentary duties, and visits to distant friends, take °t
too frequently from this small allowance, and we can°
o.s
get work done, and, consequently, we cannot pros Per
ought. And so things go on, many self-denymg and 11';
working pastors sorrowing at the state of affairs amon.Est to
and some, even if they have the opportunity, dreaawgn as
• have an interview with one who should be lookeduP°o-00t
a friend and a spiritnal father, but who receives
with a scourge in the right hand. We do, indeed, 18.„11,
a change m the state of things, and sympathy in "
difficulties."

FAMILY PRAYER.
ea YD
ME following pastoral letter has just been issil
the Bishop of St. Asaph
to nIY
:
Mr DEAR ARCHDEACON,—I have, in my charge
clergy this year, pressed: upon them the duty of our
to bring it to pass, that Family Prayer should be es
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lished in every house in their parish. lam fully *raj
that much delicacy is required in a work of this sort, b
cannot but hope that the blessing of the Most ill;
would attend our exertions in endeavouring to earl
so godly an attempt. f our
I can hardly doubt but that the great majority to
people will hail with joy the prospect of extendillo
every hearth that blessing, of which they themselves,,„
the value. But there are three classes of persons IVO.'"
less cordially accept our exertions.
In the houses of the great, there is often a diffiesN,b.
assembling regularly all the members of a large estabp
ment ; a real difficulty, of which they who have never b!7,
connected with such matters are hardly aware. Attu 01
will happen that great people, who have never been used
o, or who have neglected the custom, may be little plessc;
when the minister of the Gospel presses such matters 1114,
their notice. They may not like to be interfered withe
Now, our success in such a mission must depend ,°„„11 we
Christian way in which our attempt is made; and "' we
are in conscience bound to make the attempt, so are the
called on to mingle the wisdom of the serpent with per.
simplicity of the dove. We must try to let such ja
sons as we would convince see, that we ourselves area.
earnest in our desires to serve God, not to magnify
selves, and to enforce our clerical authority ;—that we';s
to promote the good of their households by introdnelnL°
Christian custom, not to constitute ourselves the direewo
and masters of their families. It is not difficult for d
humble Christian to do this ; but it is not easy for alloy
us to be in truth humble Christians. We must Vino
wait our time. Mention the subject generally "•ty
sermons. Give the owner of a great house an opPorbi;to-
of speaking to us. And if all other means and opP°'''..
•
nities fail, then it is generally easier to communicate
letter than by word of mouth ; and in writing such ill,
ter we have an opportunity of expressing our goo.
and unwillingness to interfere, where duty does not c
otQ
pel us to do so. Writing not as though we would Inlibie
ourselves lords over God's heritage, but as the hllll3
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servants of Him who never feared the face of man, ";j.
will not allow His faithful soldiers to do so, when the 5‘,,t
vation of the souls of both master and servants rag be
stake. In all this we must use much caution but we
not be afraid of man ; and in such a case, if, be 1,
special difficulty, it is easy for a clergyman to consult ""
bishop. ere
The next class of persons with regard to whom t
may be some difficulty is of those who differ from °of
Church, and sometimes reject our ministrations, ill
course we cannot hope to do much good to those wil° •
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not receive our ministry, but as in general all Christi
en
who profess a sense of religion approve of family P tto
I cannot believe that any of our parishioners will objec
it
our inquiring whether they practise this godly enstit
and in case we find any who are negligent—will not auof
the propriety of our remonstrances, and the kindness tie
the offer of assistance, in commencing the habit of dotae!,,A
devotion, and should we find any so unreasonable, we
only pray for them.
The third class is the most numerous, and the most en;
cult to deal with. I mean those who are so dead tO
sense of religion that they admit not the duty of fame
prayer, and are offended at our mentioning the subject se
them. There are in most parishes men who have no seed
of religion—who never hear our public exhortations, :9""t,
are offended with our private admonitions. Now, we 113 tob
like St. Paul (2 Cor. xii. 16), "being crafty, try t° etitod
them with guile." We must not by our bluntness o
very
them, and drive them further from religion, but use
Christian method to draw them to Christ. If we on
no hold on the parents, we must teach the children to Pone
and beseech God that these children so taught may brarate
the instructors of their parents. Many a prudent bored
has opened the door of a house, which has been long g
who
against him, by the hand of one of the little one- all
belong to that house. But we must use all patience, to
gentleness, that, if it please God, we may win 6c)me er
Christ, Who are at present deaf to the voice of the charnl.4
and remember that it was the importunateness of
(Ito°.
widow which gained the attention of the unjust a
That it was because he went on knocking that the fries
obtained the loaves. f trYills-
And here I cannot help mentioning the duty o best
to teach our school children to pray at home. The the
way of effecting this seems to me to be to enforce to
subject on them by oral instruction in school. The,„.ll.ith
accustom them to a form of prayer in school, which, -sec-
some small alterations, may become their bedside Pr3:avy
And then to ascertain from them personally and sever
whether they do pray by themselves. Mel)
I have distributed a form of school prayers sy— be
have not yet ascertained the success, but which ninttetl
employed by the children themselves at home if corn° le
to memory. The children, too, should be taught to nilliZre•
in their regular forms of prayer such petitions as are
necessary from their own special wants at the time.
I have caused, also, a short tract containing sorae fin'be
liar forms of prayer for children and poor families be
be
reprinted from my Parochialia, which may Perbarb-oPq
found serviceable in promoting this object. And
by the assistance of some friends, to put out some fon.-
family prayer in Welsh and English. jaible
When we have done all we may obtain but little
success, but our Heavenly Father will accept our exertn'
and I hope bless them to se of our people. 'VP*
I shall thank you to giveom this letter as much publiel
you can, and to believe me, yours, truly,
THOMAS VOWLER ST.
To the Venerable Archdeacon Clough.

HORTICULTURE.

WnEnE there is a geometrically arranged flower-Pfirhig
den, its utter want of beauty during the winter 0'14,14 MY
months is felt to be a great drawback. The beauti , ,tai
pearance they present in summer makes the contras ho'
disagreeable • a very little management will'Aetter
ever, remedy this defect. Mr. Barron, the head g,r,:geo:
at Elvaston Castle, introduced the plan of filling
...a ye
~p'
metric beds with dwarf evergreens, grown in pots, P.'" lav
dwarf by pruning ; by this means the beds, if not 50 ,the
liant as in summer, certainly look very ornamentilin'o, and
variegated varieties are extensively used at Elva:
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add much to the general effect. An abunilanee„,.,-cti °-
evergreens may be obtained in considerable v'rvlace"
every good nursery, and they might be immediateY ' 10-11
in the beds for the present season without p° 11 care t
April they could be taken up and potted, and, if vls:,e neat
for during the summer, would be in better tri to the
winter : they should be removed, when Pnttetouietrj
reserve garden. In placing these plants in the g coves 7
garden, the plants, of course, should be entirelled oil
with the soil of the bed, and they should be Piac„ 30c t
I
close together, so as to produce a dense taas',geine r
brilliancy of effect may be introduced in this arlod ot 0
by placing pots, filled with crocuses, snow-droPs' -ergr
spring flowering bulbs, between every alternate fruite' trthiee:
of the marginal row. The season for prugiFnrig of.loit.
and bushes has now commenced, and an will Pe'icie,
kind should be proceeded with when leisare,„ chrort
The following good advice, from the Gardenet7eoers
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will be valuable to amateurs and cottage gn;,..pple trees
LopriNG.—Nothing shortens the lives: °'
~se thellt not
much as the removal of large branches, beef." at I_,lncegg
from such amputations do not heal, t,e wow",rhis 0
readily. The surface of the cut blackens, .ne. v 0
and dies, water gets in and increases the als,ro.raduthe
the origin of those hollow trees which flu'reted.ieolc
pieces, if they are not at once broken or 1113 the bin well
wind. It should never be necessary to Ilse. heal is
hn* 1e 00
in a properly managed tree; for, afterwhen t i ors,
trained in the nursery, it should be visited orthree Its or
down, if not every year, at least once in. tsv° the shoe
each
in order to take off with the pruning.guLluat cress ailf
branches that are too close together, or i,g; eveutne
other; and in general everything that free
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prove injurious, either by preventing the frl,e4;;;Tirig
..mt,
and light between the branches, or by uff ,rove bw_n„
shape of the head, or that hangs over so asntv
,5„ this in_l't
ful to the undercrop, should be cut off. .-1° '''' etaciell
perly requires intelligent foresight, united_,,t°etaa don, ie,ia
acquaintance with the phenomena of vlhieh we b1,,,e
with the habits of the species or varieties Nv
ot reaeb,,r4
to manage. Where the pruning-knife
v__ eeaveine_ut ,
averuncator is a good substitute. It is at egses viitb_li
instrument, which can be used in °8
rat
the latter 173'
getting up into the tree, and thus save
esit almost invariao
little bruises. After an abundant crop,
a. been bent ci?
_,
happens that the lateral branches, ha nir,
former position. If they were an
cattle, and they would Wog
they would be within reach of this, the WV 11,
with the weight of the fruit, cannot jeodmetobarcekmahtel tol;3'n
branches soil too much. To remedy
those
ng should be ire4:41,1
take an upward direction. p
should be cut back to one oofn _ e
-It gives the b/
in the winter following the heavy crop.
of
owing to the bending, usually,h- push
graceful form, recruits the vigour thecae:,sa
a more
confining the sap to a smaller number
better cror". bt
allows the ground beneath to produce
by
the vie 4
any accident, such as breakage by wind or
necessary, la•-- tel./
of fruit, renders a large amputation _ la
le
wax, or Forsyth's composition should be iinv`--iib •
d as sPeedilY as
applied, in ordert heal t1wN..........::............1n
.th upshprr tssid"e, aciltle
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Pended tbe
THE LONDON BAN3CRIJPTCY COURT has sir. v ,_,,,tise
certificate of Lord Huntingtower for six monttis,f:i;,aa•
he did not keep books, which every person rendevP'''
self liable liNabulmeStoEuthoer b4nuktruEsphtcayvelabewes
South Australia, from South America, and ere to the
til
played in carrying. copper ore and fuel to and ''.-
copper mines. nwimaspreedundintoto. die:be .ra;