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These lectures have been gaining in popular appreciation,
and each succeeding lecture has been mare fully attended
than' •
~..41„.nfinl character of the audi-

Lts predecessor

BArNSZIG-G-N commenced by remarking that every
one is familiar with the diversities observable in,the human
I.nuntenance. which are not, he observed, more markedly

increas
Mr.]

Knowing this, the: first great point should' be; to ascer-
tain the peculiaritiivs of disposition children.manifest
the first dawning of their character. For this purpose
constant observation; is necessary, to enable us to direct'
the undeveloped faculties, and to secure a fixedness of

than like seed sow'
fruit, either for good or for evil
The characteristics of a robust child are Bdt:6m:those
of one of delicate conformation. One is prone• to 'be hasty
and impetuous ; the other to be sensitive and.shrinking.

t a venture

which may bring forth

The one is too bold for falsehood; the other has,not reso-
lution enough for truth. The integrity of theltrst may
spring from structural energy ; the evasive prevarication•
of the second from an enfeebled condition of the system.
In fact, there may exist keener perception of-right in
the one who violates it, than in the other, whose daunt-
lessness carries him on by the straight line. Indhstrpand,
indolence may, likewise, be traced to physical (-Ames.
If the passions have a powerful influence upon the
character, sometimes imparting to it injurious impulses,
the affections offer themselves as divinely implanted
ministers of good. Love guides with a silken string, sub-
duing the headstrong, and' stimulating the depressed.
The predominant feeling of this passion is to impel to the
performance of all that may be agreeable to the object of
it: Enjoying the love of our• children, we can lead them

to their own happiness. Love will strengthen theta to
overcome passion, and teach them to lift their thoughts
to another world. Hope is another of those heaven-ira-
plAnted aspirations which lead. to a high degree-of excel-
lence in every walk of life. Without hope, the human
mind would soon become a blank : what would action be
without hope ? Nay, what action could there be without
hope? When based upon good principles, hope acts us a
powerful incentive to good conduct ; and the complacency
of mind resulting from it, when operating under these
conditions, has also a beneficial influence on the bodily
health. Depression of spirits, by diminishing the energy
of the circulation, and so loading the lungs with an seen-
mulhtion of blood, is often confirmed into disease. Fear is
one of those emotions of the mind most injurious to the
body. It is the unhappy off Spring of our knowledge of
evil. What could man have feared, had he not learned to
sin? and, sinning, to fear ? Fear prostrates the mind,
sinsas Under tn. us enssusuoussu, ...
stead of being progressive, is retrograde ; and just as hope
leads on to excellence, so does fear crush down into im-
becility. Emulation ought to be sedulously discouraged;
it promotes rivalry with its strife ; desire of superiority
with its enmity ; and aims, not so much at the attainment

of good for its own sake, as self-aggrandisement and ap-
ple-we. Sensibility is another dangerous passion, when
left-unguided; but full of rare promise when turned into
a salutary channel. Ridicule. has often great influence
over the minds of children, and it may deter from the
commission of vice or of folly. but never purifies the
heart. That the emotions of love, of hope; of fear, of
ridicule, powerfully influence- the-physical condition, was
unknown by men in the darker ages of the warld. Know-
ledge, springing from enlarged civilisation, alone has in-
structed us in this. Be it remembered, that the mind
cannot act without material. instruments, and that all
knowledge must be acquired through the instrumentality
of the outward organs. In the brain we have a union of
all the varied structures of the nervous apparatus. The
brain is the instrument by whichthemind acts externally.
The emotions of which we have been speaking affect the
body through this means.
While the passions act internaittingly with more or less
vigour, by frequency of operation. they create habit in the
mind : this is denominated temper. The variety of the
phasesnf temper is innumerable, and its peculiarities in
each particular case should. be the subject of anxious
solicitude to the parent and, preceptor. What is natural
cannot be eradicated, but the asperities of bad temper
may be softened by judicious management. Perhaps no
one point in the whole range of education so much affects;
the happiness of the individual as well as the circle coming
within his influence as temper. 111-temper is easily made
habitual through physicalcauses. In innumerable instances
it is induced through the body, more than the heart or the BISHOP SEIWYS is expected in England egasrei
mind. In regard to this peculiar affection, there is a valuein spring, probably in February. The visit of the 1);i0,11,0t
example far above the, power of words. The presence, of New Zealand to his native country, after all Ifreoet
a gloomy person casts-a shadow over all, while there is an twelve years, is connected with missionary 7,1 of
atmosphere of sunshine wherever a cheerful person comes. his lordship is expected to bring with him his lialley
The genial influence of an amiable temper, in a parent or for the purpose of placing him at Eton. Thlej to IV
preceptor, is not only reflected but perpetuated; who-can Barbadoes, we are informed, is also expeo`.cesf'
say to what extent ? England for some months in the course of nelt,. . aat
A most important point connected with education is Bishop of Montreal, we believe, has left for C:11'08 vS-01•9
carefully to avoid forcing a too early development of the Tun romo WING PRESENTATIONS have bee,he renir
faculties. We defeat our own object by labouring to by the resignationor death of the incumbents :-Viiie ill6ol'
attain too much. The brain of the child is just as in- of Gratwich St: Mary, value £l6O a-year, at °. , Sto,4oe,
capable of increasing exertion as his body, and we might bency of Kingston°, value £l2O a-year, both li!•sere',, et
as well expect that he could dig in the fields the day long, shire ; patron, the Earl Talbot. The vicaragq psb°l4lo4
as that he could fix his mind to study for many consecutive near. Salisbury, value £2OO a-year ; patron, o.':iton, loe
hours. In some the structure appropriated to thefnnctions Salishury. The vicarage of Stapleton, near 141, Wiemre
of the organic life is weak and defective, requiring the £lBO a-year ; patrons, the Dean and Canons t)'
-f aaea'''ite
increasing vigilance of affection, and the prudence of a
well-informed judgment, to preserve it in the best con- The incumbency of Accrintong, Whalley' tees,
_,ir
dition possible to its own feeble conformation ; while in value £2OO a- ear ; patrons, Hulme's Trils„ tee,V
others the whole organic frame is so strongly constructed incumbency of St. James's Church, Jersey, V• 1„ I,lo', ett
-
as to be capable of often repeated and extreme exertion nation of the Rev. J. A. Coghlan, 31. A., valll4.;ry °:ret*4l
Exertion and repose must each prepare the way for the
• annum ; patrons, the proprietors. The resilver7f
other. Properly apportioned activity augments the func- Alban's Wood-street, with St. Olive, pad
tions called into requisition, while its excess impairs and ll'
London; patrons, Dean and Chapter of St. ~/4
Eton College, alternate. , ;ii d)frof°ef
enfeebles them ;on the other hand, if they are left in corn- rr 0
...HE...XI:TECH IN AUSTRA.LIA.—The 3..a...all_tilig ,te,
parative disuse, they soon fall into decay _and impotence. gives an interesting account of the- annual rape' gelsr:"
The want of observation on this subject has often been the NewcastleChurchSociety,heldatMorpethintbeo 01",
source of the deepest affliction the human heart could feel. May, under the presidency of the Bishop, 'ol to
The life of many a child, whose mind was full of the his gratification at the crowded meeting, 01.,.(?'" 114 to t,l
rarest germs of hope, has been sacrificed, just because the with such a pleasant report as he had to relieear,,tll3°,,.
activity of the brain was not prudently repressed. Nay— ship said : 'ln the year 1851, their first ibeg;y lor.
still worse—perhaps unwisely stimulated, by praise and receipts of their society were £531; and ii,.i.j*,7l,e 0 to.
promises,—by emulations and rewards. What has been the receipts were no less than £1,412. Ailide,,l'etaig_;,.....,
the consequence ? What will ever be the consequence of menced the present year with £174, collec,, , el',.„ ON'a.
this violation of the laws of Nature ? It will be read on tory at divine service on the morning of 'ated '';' the ci)e,
the tombstones of innumerable-little grass-grown mounds, day
bearing the names of those who lie cradled in almost in- the offertory collection had awe° lost 0,, all
tb
another most gratifying increase and car vo not. stipeS.,.
fact graves, who might have lived, to love, and bless us -dulled progress of the, societ. But this‘'e, clergi 04,1,1)
with their presence (I speak, I hope, always under sub- had in hand for the year 1858. From tlance °„, of ';,l
mission to the Divine will), had the great laws of phY- fund collected during 1852, £042, aNI a sil'"4 11. iii
siological education been regarded in their training. Rest mained unexpended, and adding to tbis,,is of Zaal j
and activity must have alternate intervals, just as day and paid in for the year 1853, and two sraot ipta alli,
night succeed each other, if we would have the processes of
our humanity go smoothly on. Hence, that most merciful £2O paid in today for the same year, bas" airea,,,Josit 0:1)
the offertory amount, a total of £446 wresaltsi'idielli
provision, sleep, which was ordained us a relaxation from for the year 1853. He thought these o_, eaei,'
.4, ,;
the labours of the mind and body. lying and encouraging, and should Lire' his ellic),,'"ug tP„g
System and method are, undoubtedly, the most able among them to continue and inerleport,.4 (red alli°1;0'
assistants to the minds of the young, in all progressive Ai distibil', tee
Rev. W. M. Cowper read a detailed
education. The same exercise of the same faculties, at the satisfactory increase was genellw*?oras parts t;, of lot
the same hour as each day revolves, brings with it all the the nitro district associations gene` ions colanit ed t° e)
ease of habit, either associating with it the inclination for
the labour, or supplying its place with that species of cese. The principle adopted by
_t,, „„oportion .. clai it
society was to make a small grant aid °DIN, Pio
mechanical habit, which is so much like instinct. After
fund they received for that puvi'l'. theraselvey ',0.,
recapitulating, at considerable length, the various toiLics_
buildings wherever the inhabita showed a real Tev:::,
. _ 4,A-A . I &On' tV •I_-•rlad A

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Yorkshire.
Rev. A. Russell, to bc,Curate of HerstinonceauX• i 0114,1
Rev. F. E. Tower. DA., to the Rectory of Kirk dr.
with the Rectory of Elinsthorpe, and the Incumbe " the
Shilton, annexed, Leicestershire. , to
tim
Rev. E. Venable% late Curate of Herstinoncoa tot
Curacy of Bonchurch, Isle of Wizht. x°
coo
Rev. H. H. Westmore, M.A., to be a Minor
Cathedral Church of Manchester.
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which had been treated of in the course or me prececung
lectures, and demonstrating their sequence and mutual liberal contributions and enorw, Llv
fol
dependence, the learned gentleman proceeded. and laity, supporting resolutions 1 for,
In concluding these lectures, I may be allowed to give urging increased exertions.
ny opinion upon the comparative advantages of public
end private education. I refer, of course. to boys only. _........................
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' soon ourselves there to see it, and L➢Clcay. jw., .11
n have to contend in his customary pew, with his lady, and
laity 01 4,11
ng nrA trained to liyinw. nobody else :at any rate there was p w0r,,70
tale as it was told to us. Thus it runs—l-1 er'or ad,toot./
without puttingLiCof

Il passions— to inconvenience.
which it Church Pastoral Aid Society, and consequently
_oft- iter,,
. hich it has congregation than usual. The pew opener wils,Tovioo
youth should have to find seats for a couple of under-graduate:,:itiei )y,:01
wip
ledge of the human very insufficient idea of the mightiness of ,
•noii which he dared to marshal them to his worslopro;
ted
presumption, it is A v jOali
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malice; re-

the-lime of money, with the vulgar prid
engenders, when wealth crowns the hopes

11 the various pas:

iot in mimic repre
,nd what place_

I tlle world in miuiatur

seized hold of the door ot ms pv- r t„,„
necessary know- tugged in one direction, while the pew oPenei stra°,l
et. large seminary may be termed another. In the course of this very becoi.ur_id
all the passions, which are the civic mace came tumbling down with a 101',,;,p1a.)4
Berm and incipient state and the whole congregation were edified b3":„ii 15,
a passion
ich may be temper and dignity of a kind which, we ht
the principal performer is rather asnainca
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my,hpilisbrnents of ti1,c.,120

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