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Then Peter took from out his poke

A gold chronometer,
And shrewdly said, " 'Tis now past six,
" I can't stay chatting here.
"To Dublin I must go upon
" The tenth-class fEronauticon.

" I've got five bushels of musk-seed
" For Mr. Toole in town—
" Go tell your mother that by seven
" For supper I'll be down :
" By then the turtle will be boiled—
" 'Twon't suit poor folks to have things spoiled.'

A CLEVER PUN.—Weston is said to have been a proto-
type of Liston, occasioning roars of titerlaug by a single look.
This seems confirmed by the portrait om by Zoffani, in
Dr. Last. On one occasion, when the audience were dissa-
ted at some assumption of Weston's, and called out
"Shaert I Shorter
I" Weston, looking towards the lady who
was on the stage with him, exclaimed, with an appearance of
simplicity, " Why should you shoot her? I am sure she
plays her part very well "

THE LAND OF LIBERTY.—The New York Courier and
Enquirer informs us that a French paper recently established
in New Orleans, called Le Bon Sens, has been Lynched.
The friends of some candidate not liking the remarks of the
paper on their favourite, assembled in their " primary
sty," flogged the publisher, and threw all his types,
,ses, and furniture, into the Mississippi, and then, ac-
ording to the account of the matter in one of the New Or-
-- " adjourned to the St. Louis Exchange to take

leans papers,
a drink."

A CHINESE LADY'S NAILS.—Not long before the evacua-
tion of Ningpo, a report was brought very early one morn-
,g to Mr. Gutzlaff, that the head of his Chinese police, who
bout aan ;of a mile from head quarters, had
iisappeared as also one of his wives, while the other lay
Mr. Gutzlaff, a soldier. and myself,
house, to see ifW we could trace any
e found the woman
. She had been dead
I observed what ap-

sided about a quart

murdered in

needed to inspect the
33 of

murd
g on the floor
Wh
in 1

appers

,er throat cut

ooking at II

ared drown slips of bamboo loosely fastened
2nd her wrists ; and remarked to Mr. Gutzlaff, how singe-
"..t they should have found it necessary to bind

r it was
er. But

Those are her nails

Ae exclaimed, '
it was, as I found when I looked close. It appears
that fine ladies are in the habit, when going to bed, of
ing their nails in warm water, and then winding

soften-

heir wrists to pr

vent their

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RESPONSIBILITY

—lt is often

el that our circumstances

igilancf

call on us to

a happin

it our office or our profession has
; and that we have need,
dater diligence and care, that we disgrace
, of the manifestations of the wisdom of
„ when we feel the greater burden of respon-
then also are we naturally

made our character conspicuoi

Providence, that
, roused to greater exertions
and, almost without reflection, rise to loftier aims and a more
rigid uniformity of conduct. But, on the other hand, I
scarcely know a more fatal mistake, or one more common,
than from undervaluing the effect of our example, to suppose
ourselves at liberty to relax our watchfulness; and, because
we are comparatively unknown and unimportant, to lay aside
all concern for our consistency. Let us always recollect that
every Christian, even in the meanest circumstances, is called
to the maintenance of a peculiar and an elevated character;
that the light of a holy and consistent example will often
shine out the more effulgently for the very obscurity and
darkness with which it is surrounded ; that the piety of the
household servant, or the conscientious conduct even of a
child, has not unfrequently put to shame the blaspheming
master, or the unbelieving parent.—iVew vol. of Dr. 211`.All's

Sermons.
Tug MYSTERIOUS MUSIC.—One of the wonders of the
south-west is the mysterious music at West Pascagoula. A
correspondent of the Baltimore Republican, who examined
it attentively, thus takes the mantle of romance from it :
" During several of my voyages on the Spanish main, in the
neighbourhood of Baragua and San Juan de Nicheragua,
from the nature of the coast we were compelled to anchor at
a considerable distance from the shore ; and every evening,
from dusk to late at night, our ears were delighted with
yEolian music that could be heard beneath the counter of a
schooner. At first, I thought it was the sea-breeze sweep-
ing through the strings of m violin' the bridge of which 1
had inadvertently left standingy , but after examination, found
it was not so. I then placed my ear on the rail of the vessel,
when I was continually charmed by the most heavenly
strains that ever fell upon m ear. They did not sound as
close to us, but were sweet and mellow and aerial ; like the
soft breathing of a thousand lutes, touched by the soft fingers
of the deep sea nymphs, at an immense distance. To the
lone mariner, far from home and kindred, at the still hour of
midnight, the notes were soothing but melancholy. Although
I have considerable music in my soul,' one night I became
tired, and determined to fish. My luck in half an hour was
astonishing—l had half filled my bucket with the finest
white cat fish I ever saw—and it being late, and the cook
asleep, and the moon
shining, I filled my bucket with water,
and took fish and all into ray cabin for the night. I had not
et fallen asleep when the same sweet notes fell upon my ear
;
and, getting up, what was my surprise to find my cat-fish'
discoursing sweet sounds to the side of my bucket. I ex-
amined themclosely, and discovered that there was attached
to each lower lip an excrescence,
divided by soft wiry fibres,
and by the pressure of the upper lip thereon, and by the
exhalation and discharge of breath, a vibration was created
similar to that produced by the breath on the tongue of the
jews-harp." It seems to have been at length ascertained that
the fairy music at Pascagoula is a fish story. If so, it is a
capital one, has had a longer run, and required more wit to
find it out than even the great moon hoax. Symmes, the
novelist, wrote a poem of five hundred lines about it. The
sound is exceedingly singular and pleasing at any rate, and
it is a pity to tear away the pretty romance attached to it of
old.
THE BIBLE THE RELIGION OF PROTESTANTS.—Know,
then, that when I say the religion of protestants is in pru-
dence to be preferred before yours, as, on the other side, I
do not understand by your religion the doctrines of Bellar-
mine or Baronina, or any other private man amongst you ;
nor the doctrine of the Sorbonne, or of the Jesuits, or of the
Dominicans, or of another particular company among you,
but that wherein you all agree, or profess to agree, the doc-
trine of the Council of Trent :' so accordingly, on the other
side, by the 'religion of protestants, I do not understand
the doctrine of Luther, or Calvin, or Melancthon ; nor the
Confession of Augusta, or Geneva, nor the Catechism of
Heidelberg, nor the Articles of the Church of England, no,
nor the harmony of Protestant confessions ; but that wherein
they all agree, and which they all subscribe with a greater
harmony, as a perfect rule of their faith and actions ; that is,
the BIBLE. The BIBLE, I say, the BIBLE only, is the reli-
gion th believe beses
of Protestants!
it, and the plain, irrefrWagable,hatsoever tab undubileey consequences id
of
, well may they bold it as a matter of opinion ; but as a
matter of faith and religion neither can they, with coherence
to their own grounds, believe it themselves, nor require the
the belief of it of others, without most high and schismatical
presumption. I, for my.pFt, after a long and (as I verily
believe and hope) impartial search of the true way to eter-
lel happiness,' do profess plainly, that I cannot find any rest
the sole of my foot, but upon this rock only. I see
and with mine own eyes,
._ that there are Popes against
is against councils, fathers against others,
4ers against themselves, a consent ofthfaethers of
one age against a consent of fathers of another age,
of one age against the church of another age.
tThreardetatirveefmew-
teroretations of Scripture are p.r.etended ; but
d ; no tradition, but only of Scripture,

Popes, connc)

If from toe amly pruy cu
er to have been brought in, in such an age after Christ,
in. Ina word, there is no

can derive its

ay be p

cifficient certainty f Scripture only, for any considering
an to build upon. This. therefore, and this only, I have
•~ believe ; this I will profess, according to this I will
if there be occasion, I will not willingly, I
life, though I should be sorry that

r that in such an a

De any

Christians should

out of t