The hydraulic press., 1860-04-28

: SUNDAY ScHooLs.-Thefs are two Sunday
schools in regular operation in this town
one under the auspivesfof the Methodists, at
their meeting house. aud one composed en-
tirely of Welsh children at the Cambri
church. While the religious influence Of tie
preachers extends to but a few adults mot
more than forty or fifty out of population
of many hundreds attending divine service
each Sabbath), it is curious 10 note how
largely the juvenile population has been sur
rendered to the teachings of a faith for
which their parents seem to care so little
At the Methodist Sunday School there is a
regular attendance of seventy -four scholars,
forty of whom are boys and thirty-fotr girls.
There are seven female and three male teach
ers. The superintendent is G. G. Church.
The school has library OF three hundred
volumes. 1t is hardly correct to call it
Methodist school. for the teachers and pa
rents who support it are of various denomi-
tics. Their object is to be useful, without
regard to creeds. At the Welsh school there
is an attendance of about thirty, We are told;
making a total in the two schools OF lO4
pupils. Beside the moral influence which
these auxiliaries of the institutional church
exert, they supply instruction in the rudi-
ments of an English education to several
children who might otherwise grow up in
ig lorance. In this way these seventh-day
schools are quietly doing large amount OF
good, and aiding 10 elevate the character OF
the whole community. So long AS they let
alone mere doctrines and aim TO leach truth
only, may success attend them.
NATURE IN MINlATURE.-As We we're sitting
bent over our daily task one afternoon this
week, 4 clever gentleman-we forgot to ask
his name-popped in upon US suddenly with
wonderful box, which realized " hat IS told
us in eastern tales about magic mil rors tn t
revealed past and future events nd brought
to view far distant scenes We looked
through two small tubes, and 10 the print
ing Office, sanctum piles of exchanges, and
copy-asking devil suddenly van SIZED, and
We were gazing with exclamatofy admira-
tion at that stupendous naval triumph the
Great Eastern, floating like levathan upon
the Thames. There stretched the long per-
spectve of her broad deck, and lowered her
numerous masts, and lay the bent fragments
of her exploded pipe There stood Captain
Harrison, all unconscious of the watery
death that awaited Lin and there was the
reporter for the Times, and the engineers,
and groups of hearty English SPECTATORS
There, too, sat the old rigger, barnaced and
grey, plying his task with rope on knee
There flashed before our eyes the gold and
crimson of the elegant saloon-like the
throne room of palace; and there lay the
ponderous and potent machinery-the un.
throbbing heart of this mechanical monster,
still as sleeping Brobdignag All the des-
criptions we hai previously read of this
wonderful S ell h,d failed to convey such
an accurate image of her proportions and
appearance us wls stamped upon our mind
in FIVE minutes by the magical stereoscope.
1t was like viewing the object itself through
an inverted telescope. Verify, science is the
genuine thaumaturgist, and her triumphs
are immortal it man is not.