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ciability. andeconomy, and re-

good wife should be
e should not be like—

always keep within her house

she should not

e like a snail, carry all she has upon her
lould be like an echo, always speak when
the should not be like an echo, have always
3. She siiould be like a town clock, always
lid regularity; but she should not be like a town

town may hear her

ORATORICAL CLIMA

—Among

le splendid displays
tinguished the trial of Queen

burst was in the short

insisting on his right to

Powell as to who his client, the prosecutor,was

a of his s

and rushed with indignation from the bar of the house.
was passing out Lord Lauderdale stopped him, saying,
re —.inn.' to now ?" "To have a mutton
was the urried whisper of the infuriated orator. •

Where are yr

try,
tracts of land, which were then desert, or at most only co-
- by obscure hamlets with few inhabitants, have become
into towns, more .populous than any which at that
ed. If it were proper then to plant Bishops at
, Norwich, Chester, Worcester, &c., it has
surely become ten fold more necessary since, to plant them
at Portsmouth, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Shef-
field, &c. Instead of finding Bishoprics too numerous now,
as our Ecclesiastical " Reformers" have done ; truly en-
lightened Christian legislators would have trebled ther num-

Winches

ber. Among the many bad deeds of Henry VIII. let it be
remembered to his credit, that he intended to have placed
Suffragan Bishops i❑ all the large towns without summoning

them to Parliament

THE HARDSHIPS OF A PARLIAMENTARY WHIPPER-IN

—" Voting by the eye" is a common phrase in the House of
Commons, and is night after night reduced to practice. It
consists in the members following their leader, without
having the slightest knowledge of the question upon which
the division takes place ; in fact, their eye points at the
leader, and their vote follow the eye. The division-bell
often hurries a hundred or two from Bellamy's, who know
mhatever of what's going on in the house: they Lie-
_ 7 " vote by the eye." A story was told of a gentle-
man, who was whipper-in in Pitt's time, and subsequently in
that of Mr. Percival. He complained of Mr. Percival being
Now," he used to say, " we could always

nothing

see which way Pitt went, for he was a tall fello
little Percival is lost to the view in the crowd, and our men
have often to vote by guess-work ; and there's no end to the

but tbat

AN AFFECTING SCENE.—The late George Dunn, gaoler—
or, as modern magniloquence will have it, governor—of Kit-
msinharn, was a blunt, kind-hearted Northumbrian, who had
;ssed many affecting scenes in his time. Being required
to mention the incident, connected with capital punishments,
which bad most affected him during his long experience, he
selected one so simple, and so touching, as proves him to
have been possessed not only of very tender feelings, but of a
most correct and delicate judgment. At the last interview
between a condemned criminal and his wife, their child—a
bonny wee thing, just beginning to prattle—was playing about
the cell. Her eye was caught by the glitter of the bolts
which confined the father's legs, and she cried out, in blissful

ignorance of their use—" Oh, daddy, daddy, what pretty
things ! You never wore these at home." " Many a sad
thing I have seen," said the honest gaoler, " and many a
bitter cry I have heard within these walls ; but never one
that made me blubber like a child till then. The mother,
sir, and the poor fellow himself—Oh, sir, it was terrible—
tetrible."— Taies Magazine.

THE FRUITS OF AFFGHANISTAN.—Regarding the fruits
of Affghanistan, I should not be believed were Ito state the
truth. Selected grapes off a bunch of those in the Kohistan
have been known to weigh 200 grains ; the largest I ever
weighed myself was 127 grains. It was the kind denominated
the bull's eye by the English ; I believe the natives call it
the Hoosseinee-Angoor ; its form is nearly round, and the
taste very luscious; it is of a kind not generally purchasable.
At Kardunah they grow in great perfection. Those I ate
were sent as a present from a native gentleman to Captain
Sturt, as were also some very delicious pears from Turkistan.
The largest peaches I have myself weighed turned the scale
at fifteen rupees, and were fully equal in juciness and flavour
to those of the English hothouse. The finest sort are in the
Kohistan, but are so delicate they will not bear carriage. to
Cabul. I have been assured by my friends who have been
there in the•peach season, that the best fruit of the kind at
my table was quite inferior to those above mentioned. The
Orleans blue plum is excellent. There is a green one re-
sembling in appearance a greengage, but very tasteless.
There are also many other kinds, with a great variety of
melons, water, musk, and surda, which is accounted the
best.—Lady Sale's Journal.

FOSSILS IN AMERICA.—Near Zanesville, a great number
of interesting fossil remains are found, of which my son
made a large collection, by a day's active search along the
banks of the canal, which has been cut through a bed of
sandstone rock some years since, and thus exposed these
hidden treasures, The people here feel no interest what-
ever in such relics of earlier ages ; and therefore large quan-
tities of these remains lie scattered almost unheeded. They
are chiefly, though not entirely, vegetable, and mostly of
tropical trees and plants ; some
found among them. Among th

Is and

)ecimens we obtained

were those of the bamboo-cane, of the Oriental palm-tree,
of the cedar cane, and of ferns ; with several fossil shells.
One piece was peculiarly interesting, as exhibiting the pro-
3ss by which wood is converted into coal. The outer por-
on of this piece was rough bark, like that of the common
ine of the Southern States, nearly fossilized; the inner
,sting next beyond this had its woody or fibrous texture
Ind the interior part within this, consti-
highly charred, or carbo-
I possessed all the
rance of ordinary

:hanged

art of the

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PATIO

LADY Sar

—,s.—The ladies were mostly
travelling in kajavas, and were mixed up with the baggage
4 column in the pass ; here they were heavily fired upon.
were killed. On the camel were, in one kajava,
Boyd and her youngest boy Hugh; and on the other
—ely three mouths old,
mrnel was shot

I any cam'

and her infant, scar _
a elaest child. This

i Mrs. Anderso

another behind a man,
r.who
!V .1 nrri

)y the Affghan

Mai❑w

Anders

rried off in the confusion. Meeting
•e, Mrs. M. endeavoured to
but they upset

with a pot

on the I

on foot

until after a t

difficulty of hold
shortly after snatc

so mounted

ad she deServes Tr

child in h

rms_ through the deep Irmo!, but hac

s 0 to P' net Way over the bodies of the dead, dying, and
c!'
wounded, both men and cattle, and constantly to cross the
nf water, wet up to the knees, pushed and shoved
and animals, the enemy keeping up a sharp
,veral persons being killed close to her. She,
nuwever, got safe to camp with her child, but had no oppor-
tunity to change her clothes; and I know from experience,
that it was many days ere my wet habit became thawed, and
can fully appreciate her discomforts.—Lady Sale's Journal.

~• - by men
about

WILKIE'S GOOD-NATURE.-It is related by some who
Wilkie's fellow•students in Edinburgh, that the more
)f their number, when they saw him musing much,
to tease, but could never perplex,
He received all such inter-
id, though they some-

, a stu

jr•••
pr put him out, as the
•

I form. he never remon

to overcome them

med determined to

tell or two on the wall, a

silk, nor

area nay,

d so much, that one of them, an old rough

Whose wallets before and behind did hang."