of diet,... the purpose of this is thought to be, not only to accustom them to a simple and hardy way of living, but also that they should provide for the aged, and not be allowed to appropriate all to themselves. Selfishness is therefore no part of their character; and all observers are struck with their custom of dividing anything they may receive among each other a disinterestedness that is seldom seen among civilized nations." One or two of the savages of Terra del Fuego might be useful adjuncts to the mission, if the account given in the "Voyage of Her Majesty's ships the Adventure and the Beagle" is correct:

"The receivers (little Terra del Fuegians) were selected by Maria, who directed me to the youngest children first, then to the elder ones, and lastly to the girls and women. It was curious and amusing to see the order with which this scene was conducted, and the remarkable patience of the children, who, with the greatest anxiety to possess their trinkets, neither opened their lips nor held out their hands until she pointed to them in succession."

How much have we to learn! Haygarth, in his "Bush Life in Australia," represents a native orator of New South Wales making a speech, the profundity of which a good many of the members of the House of Commons could by no means fathom. It appears that he had been called a rascal for spearing some cattle. "This roused him to a defence of his conduct, and, after a hot argument and a good deal

of excitement, he proved pretty forcibly that, in the natural course of things, he was not the aggressor, and that his tribe, the first occupiers of the district, had as much right to help themselves to a piece of beef, as the white man, by his intrusion and presence, to drive away the emus and kangaroos, which the black denominated his cattle." What a lesson of delicacy does the North American Indian teach us; who avoids even mentioning the word "brother" to those who have lost theirs (Bancroft): and of hospitality, when he gives up his only bed to his guest, and passes the night in the forest (Ibid.). The Circassian, who leaves a little corner in his wheat-field for the birds, teaches us kindness to animals (Spence); and tenderness for the desolate and the helpless may be learned from the practice of the old Peruvians, who watered the fields of the widows and orphans before their own (Temple).

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EMPTY consequential people have, generally, a strong aversion to men who think, for many other reasons, and because it is extremely probable that such persons are not thinking about them.

ONE of the best works written on the different social and commercial condition of England and France, is one written every day by more than a hundred authors, viz. the advertisement sheet of the "Times" newspaper. It shows us almost even a greater difference in the nature of want and supply,

and the free communication of them, than the other sheet does in freedom of political discussion,-without perhaps taking into consideration the book advertisements and the character of the books advertised: undoubtedly the two portions of the paper act and react upon each other.

It would add the force of example to precept if every clergyman were obliged to practise, in his own case, some one of the forms and kinds of patience or abstinence to which many of his hearers are compelled to submit. Recommendations to self-restraint do not always come very gracefully from those who are not themselves obliged ostensibly to submit to it in any form, except for health's and wise moderation's sake. Perhaps it might be desirable, if society would tolerate such a thing, to compel some of the clergy to live even on eighty pounds a year, if it were not even still more their duty to relieve poverty, than to exemplify it. But if any one should absurdly commend, according to a common argument, poverty in the clergy because the apostles were poor, let him remember that the apostles could recommend their doctrines by the substantial benefit of healing helplessness and diseases; whereas, it is only in a metaphorical sense, and with very uncertain effects, that a country curate could say, "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk."

No sensible man is an advocate for plethoric bishoprics, they are too much like absolute monarchies; the use to which they are put depending entirely on the virtue of the individual possessor. Yet I cannot help quoting, as an instance of "non sequitur," and of the extent to which a writer may be persecuted by one idea, the following passage: "The Arab cameldriver asks no bed but the sand, no roof but the sky, a fountain of pure water is his most luxurious tavern, his sustenance is moistened meal, and for these he offers thanks to heaven. Five times a day he prostrates himself on the ground, laying his forehead on the sharp stones of the desert, if such be the paving of his route; and pours out his prayers to his heavenly guide, protector, and provider. What an example to the well-fed bishops of Christendom!" (CHAMBERS's Papers for the People on Deserts of Africa.) If every one would make a collection of similar passages he has met with in his serious reading, it would make a fine body of what Junius, and Curran after him, admirably call "negative instruction."

"The abolishing the Christian religion upon a frugal principle must be bad policy, if we may judge what will be, by what hath been, in the great pagan states of antiquity, whose religions, on a fair estimate, will be found to have been more expensive." Bishop Berkeley appends the above note to the following passage: Hippodamus, the Milesian, in his scheme for a republic, allotted a third part of the land for maintaining divine worship."

Discourse addressed to Magistrates.

IF you are thwarting a person in his main object you will find that not a thousand indulgences of your own choosing will be accepted as a compensation.

We always throw into our judgment of other people, and into the advice which we give them, something of our own character, "Every man's censure," says or quotes Herbert in his "Jacula Prudentium," "is first moulded in his own bosom;" and, as we form our personal estimates from ourselves, so we are led to form our general social estimates from our immediate profession, The clergyman, the lawyer, the magistrate, the physician, have their judgments pressed upon by the cases that come before them, in their several provinces, to a degree that even statistics will not altogether correct.

THE merest fool, who has plenty of the gregarious instinct and selfish caution, is, on the ground of his conformity, more likely to be called a man of sense by the mass of society, than a man of genius and sense too, with original tastes, modes of thought, and motives of action.

It seems presumption in a man of the world to say what means a man of genius may think instrumental to his happiness.-SHENSTONE's Essays on Men and Manners.

WE may have our style of language and writing slightly imbued with the forms of some foreign lan