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Inews, he appears to trut-
,ts we find him insisting
f Protestantism, rattier than on

formers as to his throleg
eat advantasEr. In his wriiin

.nd
was decieerily in adyanct -6,-, his works reveal.
lightened and enlarged siews of Christian doctrine
practici-, such, perhap., ss would be found on the
of no other ftrtorrnt r of the early part of the six.
3 Centllll7.—BritiAh Quarterly Review.

m to ceremonies
of his

—The pract

I, the f+vourite shots

emrles, the hollow over tF

t the ear; in all

t•C3
ion of the brain, and le-
-4,mh these weaker pats
he first shot in Ceylon,

In the o

when you let an elephant
does not drop him, and

the retreat will

Itne of a very short start. It
at wirb the c'oseness of cover
and To he sure of your b;rd,

find :4 about ten paces, and occ
to hear their friends s.J

n elephant off
is more common than to see them

the brain dro

take a dozen shots'and -^i;.;;;:,-;:•;;;a They—l-ra-v—e _.._---
take
known to take many more, anti afterwards fairly to defeat
the party opposed to them. There is a wide difference of
opinion as to the most deadly shot. I think the temple
the uno.4 certain ; but autiiori. y in Ceylon says the Iron-
ter. It is the pretrie-t ,•hot, no doubt, but I have seen it
very often fail. Behind the ear, they say, is deadly ; but
I never fired it, or saw it fired, that I remember. If the
-ball go critically true to the mark, all shots are certain ;
,but the bones on either aide of the honeycomb passages to
the brain are so thick that there is in all a glorious uncer-
tainty, which keepl a man on the qui vive till he sees his
elephant down, and even that does not insure results.
ElephentB, after beim left for dead, and their tail• cut off,
are often seen up again, and, like " the Old Original
Coach and Horses new revived" on the Harrow Road,
lourishing in active business.—Fraier'e Magazine.

MAY.—May is emphatically, called the merry month,
from the laughing aspect of nature. The flowers come
forth upon the broad grin, and•the voice of Nature seems
to be aderes,ing to each some facetious word of encourage-
Her cry is, " Go it, my tulips !" to the lovely
that name; while to the grass site teems whis-

plants o

pering, " Come up, my jolly blades ! arc' join in the ge-
neral gaiety." Everything seems to invite
accordingly makes his ap

eomes

pearauc

fists somewhat at

alhis r

should be considered low in the mouth of the nightingale.
—The Almanack for the Month.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S EMPIRE.—•" The Queen of Eng-
land is now sovereign over one continent, one hundred

two tho

sand river

and ten thousand islands

waves her hand, and five hundred thou-and warriors
march to battle to conquer or die.—She bends her head,

and at the signal a thousand ships of war and a hundred
thousand sailors perform her bidding on the ocean. She
walks upon the earth, and one hundred and twenty milli-
ons of human beings feel the slightest pressure of her foot.
Come, all ye conquerors, and kneel before the Queen of
England, and acknowledge the superior extent of ter de-
..

pendent provinces, her -subjugated kingdoms, arid her
vanquished empires. The Assyrian empire was not so
wealthy. The Roman empire was not so populous. 7he
Persian empire was not so extensive. The Arabian em-
pire was not so powerful. The Carthaginian empire was
not so much dreaded. The Spanish empire was not so
widely d ffused. We have overrun a greater extent of
country than Attila, that scourge of God, ever ruled ?
We have subdued more empires and dethroned more
kings than Alexander of Mac, doo ! We have conquered
more nations than Napoleon in the plentitude of his power
ever subdued ! We have acquired a larger extent of ter-
ritory than Tamerlone the Tartar ever spurred his horse's
hoof across."—Finch. Boundaries rf Empires.

THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTI.E OF FEROZEPORE.—
The annals of war present us with on p.trAtel to the re-
spective positions of the hossile armies th.t. nicht. They
were both within the lines, both bivou-tckitig where they
bad lately stood, the dead and dying lying in multitudes
beside them. The Engli-h had cirried the entrenchments
and kept them; the Sikhs were entrenched again in a
strong village, and both parties waited for the dawn to re-
new the bittle. Only a couple of hundred yards, at the
most, divided them. And then might be seen with what

untiring zeal and energy good officers exert themselves to
sustain the courage, and soothe the anxieties of the sol-
diers. Sir Henry Hardinge and Sir Hugh Gough seem
never to have closed an eye. They wet t ab.dit from regi-
ment to regiment, speaking cheeringly to the &mild, and
kindly and smilingly to the wounded, and ttliing all that
" they must fight it out on the morrow ; for it would ne-
ver do for a British army to suff,r such a repulse."
Moreover, the Sikhs exhibited no si:ns ot courage abated.
On the contrary, having found out where the governor-
general had established his bivouac, they opened upon it,
and upon the regiments near, such a fire, that, at mid-
night, Sir Henry found it necessary to direct two rt-gi-

ments to stand to their arms and take the gun. And no-
bly these corps, the Queen's 80th. anti the 2.11 Bengal
European Light Infantry, performed their allotted task.
They rushed upon the gun, bayoneted the gunners,
drove away the line of infantry that supported it in the
rear, and brought back the piece in triumph. There was
rest for the wearied soldier throughout the remainder of
the night,—such rest, at least, as those find, who ruff r
from the combined pressure of cold, hur.:4er,7ahci
and have nothing to support them except the hope of vie.
tory on the morrow. Sir Hugh Gough, in his excell-nt

the approach of dawn there was a prompt amps ug From
every bivou,,c fire; and the formati. n of a line, less ex-
tensive than- it had been on the previous day, but as regu-
.

lar and as pliable as if no sanguinary battle had heen
fought. Again was the horse artillery at its stations i,n
ither flank. Again were the heavy pieces formed in the
and as soon as there was light erumgh discern

objects, the strife was renewed.— Ftriser's Magazin

WYCLIFFE AND THE FIRST ENGLISH BIBLE

cliffe remains in the full possession of the honour o
having been the first to prepnre a complete translation

the Bible. Neither a piraphrare of the entire contents,
nor a literal version of certain parts, were regarded by
hiin as sufficient. He looked at revelation as a pet ft et

udied ; nor

or that of the

whole, and telt that, as such, it should b
did he make his translation for his own usr
priesthood. It was for the people. He inteno.
be laid up on the s elf of his own stud,
copied tot monastic libraries, but to be p
plied, and circulated, in all directions, t

1 it not to

or even to b

)nblished. n

the u-e•ef his

fellow-countrymen at large. Nor would lw gliani it with
a gl• ss, the general practice of preceding tiauslators, hut
he felt it to speak f,r itself, and vent it torth without note
or comment—thus virtually asserting the right of private
judgment, tt.us practically anticipating the great principle

That this act of W;.el,ffe's was a

ling innovation, a de

of nAle daring