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.rw many sere in the boat which was found bottom up.
At the Northern Hospital the sufferers are going on as
7ell as can he expected, with the exception of John Roach,
who has since died. The following are the additional
persons at present lying in the Northern Hospital .—Han.
nab Tossey, Fergus Brown, Patrick Williams, and Patrick
Geogban.
Both vessels are nearly new, having been built last

estrous nigl

year, and are entirely constructed of iron. The Rambler
is consigned to Messrs. Martin and Burns, and the
Sea Nymph to Mr. Thomas M`Tear, by whom
she had been purchased only a few months ago from the
North-wrst of Ireland Steam Navigation Company for
about £20,000.

QUEEN VICTORIA'S EMPIRE.-" The Queen of Eng-
land is now sovereign over one continent, one hundred
peninsulas, five hundred promontories, a thousand lakes,
two thousand rivers, and ten thousand islands. She
waves her hand, and five hundred thousand warriors
march to battle to conquer or die.—She Lends 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 her de-
pendent provinces, her subjugated kingdoms, and her
vanquished empires. The Assyrian empire was not so
wealthy. The Roman empire was not so populous. The
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 diffused. 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 Macedon ! 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 of Empires.

THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE OF FEROZEPORE.—
The annals of war present us with no parallel to the re-
spective positions of the hostile armies that night. They
were both within the lines, both bivouacking where they
had lately stood. the dead and dying lying in multitudes
beside them. The English bad carried the entrenchments
and kept them ; the Sikhs w.!re entrenched again in a
strong village, and both parties waited for the dawn to re-
new the battle. 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 about from regi-
ment to regiment, speaking cheeringly to the sound, and
kindly and smilingly to the wounded, and telling all that
"they must fight it out on the morrow ; for it would ne-
ver do for a British army to suffer such a repulse."
Moreover, the Sikhs exhibited no signs of et-image 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 regi-
ments to stand to their arms and take the gun. And no-
bly these corps, the Queen's 80th. and the `Ltd 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 ti:e remainder of
the night,—such rest, at least, as those find, who suffer
from the combined pressure of cold, liiinger,:and

and have nothing to support them except the hope of vic-
tory on the morrow. Sir Hugh Gough, in his excell-nt
dispatch, calls it " a long n'ght," and so it was; but will
the approach of dawn there was a prompt arous ng from
every bivouac fire; and the formati4,o 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 been
fought. Again was the horse artillery at its stations on
either flank. Again were the heavy pieces formed in the
centre ; and as soon as there was light enongh to discern
objects, the strife was renewed.— Froser%v Magazine.

WYCLIFFE AND THE FIRST ENGLISH BlBLE.—Wy-
cliffe remains in the full possession of the honour of

the Bible. Neither a paraphrase of the entire contents,
nor a literal version of certain parts, were regarded by
him as sufficient. He looked at revelation as a perfect
whole, and felt that, as such, it should be studied ; nor
did be make his translation for his own use, or that. of the
priesthood. It was for the people. He intended it not to
be laid up on the s.,elf of his own study, or even to be

copied for monastic libraries, but to be published, multi-
plied, and circulated, in all directions, for the ti,e of his
fellow-countrymen at large. Nor would he guard it with

he felt it to speak for itself, and sent it forth without note
or comment—thus virtually asserting the right of private
judgment, thus practically anticipating the great principle
of the Reformation. That this act of Wycliffe's was a

that it gave a tremendous shock to Papal prejudices, is
apparent enough from the pages of his contemporary his-
torian, Knighton, who utterly deplores that the Gospel
Pearl was cast abroad, and trodden under foot by the
swinish multitude. It may seem in the present day no
mighty thing to make a translation of the Latin Vulgate,
and to attempt its general circulation; but those who are

fame
mof our first translator, should remember how wel
the detractors from the glory of Columbus, the first to
sail on an untried ocean, were rebuked by the familiar
example of the broken egg. In such an age as that in
which Wyeliffd lived, to translate the whole Bible for po-

pular use, to conceive the ph,n as suited to the times, and
to execute the project when so conceived, implied the pos-
session of qualities both of mind and heart, such as only
the truly great and noble of our race possess. The ver-
sion made by Wycliffe, and the revision of it made by

some of his followers, had an extensive circulation. This
appears from the numerous MSS. of them which still
exist, and which must have been multiplied and perused
by private individuals, since they were excluded from col.
legiate and monastic libraries, es books tainted with
heresy. The effect of this extensive circulation, we are

persuaded, has been greatly underrated
agree with Mr. Anderson, that the religious opinions in
England. which excited the opposition of the Rom.sh
Church before the Reformation, were " indigenous," and

Nod we fully