across the Pacific Ocean in a north-easterly direc- differ 7 or 8 minutes from the times as given in tion served rather to keep alive and increase the tion, the centre of the shadow will arrive at a that almanac for 1831, in the Boston Almanac fire of honest zeal for the Truth, than to extin. point about 500 miles west of the mouth of the for this year, and from our own computations; a guish or diminish it, so that they were preserved Columbia river, lat. 45° 31' N., lon. 134° 46′ W., difference which cannot be wholly attributed to from the lukewarmness which seems the use of any improved tables; and if it be an abound in the church, whose greatest enemies error, is one we should have hardly expected to are, in many instances, those of its own household find in so scientific a publication as the "Ameri- by profession. can Almanac." where the sun will be centrally eclipsed on the meridian; a ring of light of considerable width surrounding the moon, and forming one of the most splendid phenomena in nature. The central line pursues its course over the Pacific, and enters the American continent in about lat. 48° N., and lon. 125° W. Thence its direction is a little to the N. of E., until it attains the lat. of 49° 45', which is its greatest northern limit. Lynn, Mass., Fourth mo., 1854. W. B. O. now to Where there is little or no cause of outward suffering, the enemy is often busy within, caus. ing in some a settlement at ease, without the possession of truth, and in others a creaturely activity, under the profession of right authority, by Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of which the work is greatly marred, to the unspeak Adult Coloured Persons. For "The Friend." able loss of these, and the honour of Truth. Outward knowledge, and creaturely zeal come to usurp To the Association of Friends for the Free In- the place of Divine light and authority; so that struction of Adult Coloured Persons, Curving then to the south it continues its path through the wilds of North America, and first touches the United States near the Lake of the Woods. It then crosses Lake Superior, and passing by the northern shore of Lake Huron, The Managers report: the river St. Lawrence, again enters the United States in New York. After traversing the northern part of that State, it crosses Lake Champlain into Vermont, approaching very near Burlington, thence into New Hampshire, and passing near Concord and Portsmouth in that State, and Ber instead of the power, we have only the form; and thus we become as those dwelling in the outward along the southern border of Canada, and across That both Schools were duly opened on the courts. The view of a state like this, as seen in evening of the 3rd of Tenth month last, at the the light of Truth, is cause of suffering to those usual place, on Raspberry street, under the charge who are capable of feeling for the affliction of of the same Friends who acted as Principals last Joseph-for the state of spiritual bondage, in the season, with the usual number of Assistants. land of captivity, where the spirit of this world is in dominion; and as these are made willing simPly and humbly to suffer with the suffering seed, they shall come to know of reigning with Him, who "hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are." wick in the State of Maine, enters the Atlantic 10 23 47 10 24 47 10 25 47 10 26 47 10 27 47 10 28 47 10 29 47 42 30 41 47 40 57 39 52 68 24 66 21 63 57 61 00 56 25 On the evening the Schools were opened, 32 men and 73 women were enrolled as scholars. The female department rapidly filled up; that for men more gradually, but steadily. The Schools were kept open five evenings in each week, until the 28th of Second month, when they were closed for the season. The whole number of men entered as scholars ance of the former for the season was 42, and of was 131, and of women 248; the average attendIt is by what we suffer that obedience is to be the latter nearly 58. The order in both Schools learned; and however lamentable it may be to was satisfactory, and the industry of the teachers behold the prevalence of worldly wisdom and before them. A lively interest also appeared to gave strong evidence of their interest in the work fleshly zeal in the church, it is encouraging to believe that there remaineth a goodly number who be felt by most of the pupils in their studies; and have not bowed the knee to Baal, or kissed his in some instances a marked degree of progress was inade. The Moral Almanac and a selection of Friends' tracts were distributed among the scholars, and a few copies of the New Testament were procured and sold to them at a reduced price. At the close, numerous observations made by the scholars, evinced their sense of the usefulness of the Schools, and it is to be hoped the benefits resulting therefrom may increase. In conclusion, we would express our belief, that if Friends would manifest their interest by more frequent visits, the stimulus of such encouragement would prove decidedly advantageous to the Schools. Philada., Third mo. 7th, 1854. OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. Secretary.-Charles J. Allen. For The Friend." The Benefit of Affliction. image; but are concerned to maintain their allegiance to the Captain of our salvation, who continues head over all things to his own church, and will abundantly crown the faithful labours of his devoted children, enabling them to overcome all their enemies through faith in Him. Let us then be willing to suffer the subduing of our own wills, through the chastening of his holy hand, that we may know of being united together in him, having fellowship one with another, in suffering as well as rejoicing. Then having no end or will of our own, we should be unitedly engaged in advancing the one cause, for which we profess to labour, having for the aspiration of our hearts this simple prayer, "Thy will be done." We should not then be found hastily moving in our own wills, and thereby offering the sacrifice of fools in our religious meetings, either for wor◄ ship or discipline-having learned for ourselves that "obedience is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams"-neither should we suffer ourselves to be idlers, when secret or open service was required at our hands; but in all things our endeavour would be, to conform to the will and mind of Truth, so that no discord or jarring should be known amongst us. A Word on Coughing in a place of Worship. -We copy the following from an autobiography which Hugh Miller is now publishing in the Edinburgh Witness: In this day of outward ease, it might seem to the superficial observer, that the soldier of the cross had but little to endure; and this may be "A simple incident which occurred during my true as to outward suffering, when compared with first morning attendance at Dr. McCrie's chapel that of those who have gone before us, and who strongly impressed me with a sense of his sagaIt is doubtful whether the eclipse will be annu- counted not their lives dear to them, that they city. There was a great deal of coughing in the lar at Boston, but should it be, the ring will be might finish their course with joy. Many of place, the effect of a recent change of weather, very fine on the northern limb of the sun. these suffered the spoiling of their goods, the loss and the doctor, whose voice was not a strong one, It is worthy of remark, that the times of the of outward liberty, and even of their natural and who seemed somewhat annoyed by the ruthphases of this eclipse, at Boston, at least, as given lives, rather than let fall the precious testimonies less interruptions, stopping suddenly short in the in the American Almanac for the present year, which had been given them to bear; and persecu- middle of his argument, made a dead pause. When people are taken greatly by surprise, they For "The Friend." Jesus said unto his disciples, 'I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.' Divine nature, and so cannot but witness redemp-upon us a church to bear a testimony against the tion from the earthly corrupt nature. Now it is sin of Slavery. not any striving, believing, or obedience of man's We have believed it to be our Christian duty to own spirit, which can effect this; he may will represent the wrongs inflicted upon the people of strongly, he may run hard, and yet never obtain; Africa, and repeatedly to plead the cause of the he may so cast himself upon the mercy of God, Slave in Addresses to our own Government. We and hope concerning his mercy in Christ, as to rejoice and are thankful at the progress which has miss of it: but the principle of life which is from been made in this country and in other nations, God, and faith in God from that principle, without in this cause of righteousness. Hundreds of fail effects this, and no other doth. But out of thousands of slaves have been restored to liberty, this are the mysterious images and idols, and and many of the nations of the civilized world subtile workings and devices of the cunning one, are now, to a large extent, delivered from the to take up the mind with somewhat which ap-guilt of the African Slave Trade,—a trade which pears as substantial and truly excellent, but is not the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, pronounced to so indeed. His birth hath desires after the king- be "a scourge which desolates Africa, degrades dom, (and makes no question, but it shall be his,) Europe and afflicts humanity;" and for the sup wills, runs, strives, believes, hopes, prays, reads pression of which laws have been enacted. But Scriptures, observes duties and ordinances; and our hearts are sorrowful in the consideration that in these they meet with a wrong knowledge, a this traffic is still carried on to a large extent, wrong sanctification, a wrong joy, a wrong con- and that a vast amount of the population of the This our early Friends knew to be a living fidence and assurance, a wrong rest and peace, in western world is still subject to the cruelty and gospel truth, and by humbly yielding to the inter- which there may be a great warmth, and seeming the wrong of Slavery. We desire to cherish this nal operations of light, grace, and the Holy Spirit life and pleasure from the fire and sparks of their sympathy, and that we may behold the increase of Christ in their hearts, they were enabled to dis- own kindling and blowing up, which the mind of it amongst all men everywhere. cern between light and darkness, and between that is blinded by him, can hardly suspect that it is One God is the Creator of us all; his eyes are the good seed and the evil, and the effects of both not true; yea may be taken with it, and strongly in every place beholding the evil and the good. if followed. justify it in its own thoughts for the true, and set He will bring every work to judgment, and every Isaac Penington says, There is a principle of it above that, that is indeed the true. This, this secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be darkness in the hearts and minds of men, which is the great mystery of iniquity, which hath great evil. The families of the earth are all of one is as a seed or root of corruption in them, bring- subtlity of deceivableness in it, to pick up and blood; all partakers in the same corrupt nature ing forth in them fruits of sin and unrighteous- steal away the good seed out of the heart, and to consequent upon the fall of man; all are alike ness unto death. steal in a false image and likeness thereof, which subject to infirmity, disease and death, and all And there is also a principle of the pure hea- may have a more glorious appearance to man's amenable to the same judgment after death. In venly light, as a free gift from God, to discover eye than the true seed itself, (for that is the least the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ there is no the darkness, turn man's heart against it, and lead of all seeds, makes the least show of any,) but respect of persons; He tasted death for every him into the way and path of life. Now as Satan hath not the same nature, virtue, and power. man; all distinctions of country, tongue and colrules in the principle of darkness, and there is the Ah! the Lord God of tender mercy help all the our, are merged in the immensity of that love in power of death therein; so God rules in the prin- poor souls that breathe after him, that they may which the Father has sent the Son to be the Saciple of light, and there is the power of life and not be thus deceived. And those that are thus viour of the world. Wherever the religion of the redemption manifested by God therein; for this deceived, and in the snare of the enemy, (and do Gospel of Christ obtains its proper place within principle is of the Father, of the Son, of the not witness the faith which hath the Son's domi- us, it softens our hearts; it brings man into felSpirit; yea, the Father, Son, and Spirit are in nion in it, and gives victory over sin, Satan, and low feeling with his fellow man; it brings him to this principle; and here the soul meets with them, the world, and wherein the blood of sprinkling, regard every man as a brother, and to look upon and is brought into union and fellowship with which livingly washeth, is felt in the light of life, the nations of the earth as all of one family. them, and feels the everlasting arm revealed and wherein the redeemed walk to the praise of their Amongst the millions of mankind there is not one stretched forth for its delivery from corruption and Redeemer,) the Lord guide them also to that beneath the notice of our Father who is in hea the captivity thereof, into the liberty of the sons wherein all deceits are made manifest, and where of God: and he that is here, meets with the sub- the truth, which is of the Son, is made to shine in stance of things, and that which all the types of such who were once in the barren places, and in the law shadowed out; meets with the one offer- the thick darkness, but now are light in the Lord, ing, the cleansing which is thereby the imputa- and who have a dwelling-place with the Lord in tion of righteousness, or of faith unto righteous- his light, which is the pure and everlasting habiness; yea, and with somewhat more, even with tation.' Amen.'-Penington's Works, vol. 2, the everlasting righteousness itself brought into second edition, page 123. the heart, and dwelling there; insomuch as his nature is changed, (truly changed,) his spirit changed, his mind, heart, soul and conscience changed, his conversation changed, the leopard's spots and the Ethiopian's skin washed away, the deceitfulness of the heart removed, and the new garments of righteousness, life, and salvation put on in the stead thereof; so that he is unclothed of the evil, unholy nature and spirit, and clothed with the Spirit of the Lord: for Christ is really made unto him wisdom, righteousness, sanctifica. New Jersey, Fourth mo., 1854. S. L. ven: if we be partakers of his love, it leads us into pity for the forlorn, the helpless and the oppress ed; and it constrains us to do what we can to mitigate the pain and to assuage the sorrows of those who are in suffering, to befriend the friendless, and to labour for the improvement of the condition of the most degraded of our race. We are now assembled in our Yearly Meeting for the promotion of charity and godliness amongst ourselves, and, according to our measure, for the spreading of truth and righteousnesss upon the TO SOVEREIGNS AND THOSE IN AUTHORITY IN earth. The condition of the natives of Africa, as THE NATIONS OF EUROPE, AND IN OTHER affected by the continuance of the Slave Trade, PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE THE CHRIS- and that of the Slaves in North and South Ame TIAN RELIGION IS PROFESSED. rica, and on the islands adjacent to that ContiFrom the Yearly Meeting of the religious Society of nent, have again awakened our sympathy. We Friends of Great Britain and Ireland, held in Lon- believe it to be a duty laid upon us to plead the don, 1849. cause of these our fellow men. We submit to the It having pleased the Lord to bring our fathers consideration of all those in authority in the na tion, and redemption. How is that? Why he to a sense of the cruelty and wickedness of the tions which take upon them the name of Christ, that was once a fool, is now made wise unto God, African Slave Trade, and of the injustice of hold- the utter incompatibility of Slavery with the Diand the things of his kingdom, by the mystery of ing their fellow men in Slavery, they were strength- vine law, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyhis Son's life and power revealed in him. He is ened to act upon the conviction wrought on their self;" "All things whatsoever ye would that men a child of wisdom, and he hath heard the wisdom minds: they set at liberty those they held in bond- should do to you, do ye even so to them :" these of his mother, and learned wisdom of her. So age, and in their faithfulness they enjoyed the were the precepts of our Lord. He spoke as putting on Christ, who is the righteousness, being answer of a good conscience towards God. In never man spoke, and of his words he declared, ingrafted into him, being brought forth in him, that love which comes from Him their hearts "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my he partakes of the sweetness and fatness of the were enlarged in love to their neighbour, and they words shall not pass away" they are the law of olive-tree, and is renewed into the image of the could not rest without endeavouring to bring God's righteousness to all generations. We subtrue righteousness and holiness, and drinks in others to that sense of justice and mercy to mit whether, without breaking this law, it be posthe virtue and life of the precious promises, which the Lord had brought them. From that sible for man to hold or to claim a right to prowherein and whereby he is made partaker of the time to the present day we have felt it to be laid [perty in the person of his fellow man; whether admitting the supreme authority of this law, man can buy or sell his brother; whether he can withhold from those who labour for him that which is just and equal; whether the forced and uncompensated labour of the Negro Slave be not the breaking of this law; in short, whether any man or any of the nations of men can, in any one of these things, violate the law of the Lord and be guiltless. Signed in and on behalf of the Meeting. GEORGE STACEY, Clerk to the Meeting this year. Nightly Serenade.-Every night, while in the upper part of the river, we had a concert of frogs, which made most extraordinary noises. There are three kinds, which can frequently be all heard at once. One of these makes a noise something like what one would expect a frog to make, namely, a dismal croak; but the sounds uttered by the others were like no animal noise that I ever heard before. A distant railway train approaching, and a blacksmith hammering on his anvil, are what they exactly resemble. They are such true imitahave often fancied myself at home, hearing the famitions, that when lying half-dozing in the canoe, I liar sounds of the approaching mail-train, and the hammering of the boiler-makers at the iron works. Then we often had the "guarhibas," or howling monkeys, with their terrific noises, the shrill grating whistle of the cicadas and locusts, and the birds; add to these the loud, pleasant hum of the peculiar notes of the suacuras and other aquatic mosquito in your immediate vicinity, and you have a pretty good idea of our nightly concert on the Tocantins.-Wallace's Amazon and Rio Negro. spring dear to him as his own flesh; but he knows in the highest, and on earth peace, good will tonot the day nor the hour in which he may be torn ward men." from his wife, or in which his children, at their tender age, may be snatched away, sold to the man-trader, and carried into far distant captivity. So long as Slavery is upheld by law, we can have no security for the extinction of a trade in slaves. Such are the contingencies of the system under every modification of which it is capable, that, For the space of three hundred years, the trade until Slavery be abolished, men, women and in Slaves has been carried on from Africa to the children will, we fear, be imported from Africa, opposite shores of the Atlantic; and this traffic in and he bought and sold like the cattle of the field; the persons of men is still prosecuted with unre- and the barbarities of the Slave-market will conlenting and unmitigated cruelty: year by year tinue to pollute the towns and villages of those countless multitudes are torn from all that they islands in the West Indies in which Slavery hold dear in life, to pass their days in toil and exists, and in the slaveholding countries of Ame misery. Men are still to be found so hardened rica. in heart, so bent upon the gain of oppression, and The subject is so vast and of such manifold so devoid of all that we deem the common feel- atrocity, we think, that even the history of the ings of humanity, as to spend their time and tal- whole world does not furnish a parallel to its ents in pursuit of this criminal commerce. We crime. We deem it scarcely possible for a man forbear to enter in detail upon the large variety of the most comprehensive mind fully to possess of human suffering, inseparable from this compli- himself of the extent of the evil. The Lord alone cated iniquity. But we trust we do not take too doth know: none but the Infinite Mind can commuch upon ourselves, in asking those whom we prehend the individual and the aggregate suffer. now address, to open their ears to the groaning ings of those subjected to these enormities. God of the oppressed, and to give themselves to sym- alone can reach the heart and awaken the conpathy with their sufferings; to think upon the science. It is our strong desire, we speak with war, and rapine, and bloodshed, attendant upon reverence and fear, it is our prayer, that He the capture of Slaves in the interior of Africa- may bring every one to a sense of his own share upon what they are made to endure in their tran- in the guilt, and that, ceasing from his iniquity, sit to the coast and in their passage across the the condemnation resting upon the man-stealer ocean; and not to shrink from making themselves and upon those who trade in the persons of men, acquainted with the horrors and the loathsome- may no longer attach itself to any one bearing As this subject now engrosses the attention of ness of the Slave-ship; to follow the poor, help- the name of a Christian; and that the Slavehold- many of the scientific men of the present age, it less, unoffending Negro, if he survive the suffering er, whether he be more or less involved in the sin may not be uninteresting to know the results of a of the voyage, and to think upon his condition of oppression, may be brought to act in obedience discovery which has been introduced by our neighwhen landed upon a foreign shore, and entered to the law of impartial and uncompromising bours on the other side of the Atlantic, for the upon a life of hard and hopeless servitude-it may equity, and, without hesitation and without delay, purpose of testing the existence of a foundation to be-to be worked to death in his early mauhood, restore to immediate and unconditional freedom the ocean, and also to know of what it is comor to live to behold his children subjected to the every slave that he holds in bondage. posed. There has, for several days past, been same degradation and oppression as himself. The Gospel of Christ is precious to us. Through lying in the Southampton waters, an American Blessed is the man that considereth the poor. the mercy of God to our souls we trust we are government surveying brig, called the Dolphin. The blessing of the Lord resteth upon him who, prepared, in some degree, to appreciate the means This brig, which is employed under the act of knowing the evil which attends his neighbour's which, in his wisdom and love, He has provided Congress, in connection with the scientific relot in life, is stretching forth his hand for the re- for the redemption of the world, and the reconcil- searches of Lieutenant Maury, of the National lief of his poverty and distress; and his blessing ing of man to Himself. In the word of ancient Observatory, at Washington, for the purpose of is upon those who, like the patriarch of old, are prophecy, Christ was promised, that in Him all entering into a series of meteorological observainquiring into the sorrows and hardship of the the families of the earth might be blessed. We tions and discoveries, left Chesapeake Bay on the poor, the fatherless, and those that have none to cannot but entertain the opinion that the enlighten- 31st of May, and has completed a perfect line of help them. "The cause which I knew not," said ment of multitudes of the inhabitants of Africa, soundings across the Atlantic to Rockule, off the he, "I searched out." and their participation in the privileges and the west coast of Scotland. The difference between Our sympathies are awakened not for the native consolations of the Christian religion, have been each place of sounding, averaged about 100 African alone, and the victims of the African much retarded by the evil deeds of many who miles. DEEP OCEAN SOUNDINGS. After Slave Trade, but we feel for those who are living have gone among them; and especially that the A line was run to the Azores, to the North of and labouring in a state of Slavery, who were cruelty and wickedness of the Slave Trade have which, about a parallel of forty-five in a southborn in Slavery, and possibly may die subject to done much to keep them in ignorance of Him who west direction, an elevation was discovered on the its privation and its hardship. In those countries died for them. In that love which extends over bottom of the ocean, of about 6000 feet, the soil in which this system is upheld by law, man is sea and land, and seeks the happiness of the whole indicating a fine yellow chalky substance, mixed degraded to the condition of a beast of burthen, human race, we make our appeal to those with with a small portion of the finest sand. and regarded as an article of merchandize. The whom it lies; and respectfully press upon them leaving the Azores, the Dolphin took a westerly slave has nothing in life that he can call his own; to take their part, in accordance with the peacea- direction, still succeeding in discovering the bothis physical powers, the limbs of his body, belong ble religion of Christ, in removing every impedi- tom. Steering north, she made a direct line to to another; it can scarcely be said that the facul- ment out of the way, that, through the grace of the "three chimneys," where, at the depth of ties of his mind are his own. All that distin-God, the African, of every tribe and every tongue, 1900 fathoms, bottom' was also discovered. At guishes him as a rational creature is, by the law may be brought to the knowledge of the Truth as this point, Lieut. Berryman, in charge of the ship, of the State, treated as the property of another. it is in Jesus. He may be a man fearing God, and desiring to finding the position of the weather was decidedly May it please the Lord Almighty to bless those unfavourable to a continuation of their research, disciple of Christ-we believe who reign, and those who are in authority, in made sail and came into Southampton. The that there are such: Whatever the consistency of every nation in which Christianity is acknow-greatest depth at which bottom was reached, was approve himself a his character as a Christian, and however ad- ledged. May his wisdom preside in all their coun- 3130 fathoms, in lat. from 41 to 43, lon. 51 to vanced in the cultivation of his mind, all avails cils, and the law of his righteousness be the rule 56. The explorers have brought home with them him nothing: he is still a slave, and the law allows of their actions. May the Prince of Peace, Christ specimens of the soil which has been discovered hum nothing to look to in life but hopeless, help- Jesus our Saviour, be honoured wherever his name at their various places of sounding, and which will less, friendless Slavery. Endowed by his Maker is known. May his holy religion obtain its right- be laid before a committee of scientific men at has his social affections; he may be honourably prepared to offer praise to God in the language | Was capacity for enjoyment, like other men he ful influence in the earth; and the people become Washington, for the purpose of analyzation. The temperature of the water was also tested married, at various depths; specimens of which have also THE FRIEND. FOURTH MONTH 22, 1854. been preserved. During the whole of the obser- and said, as he looked at her, "Dear Lena, you below zero, and the other points are in accordvations, particular attention was paid to the width, will rise again and shine like a star, yes, a sun. ance.-Late Paper. depth, and force of the current in different parts Now that she has gone, I am happy in spirit, but of the ocean, all of which have been carefully in the flesh I am very sad. The flesh will not be noted, for the purpose of being fully discussed and put down, and parting grieves one very much. explained. The Dolphin intends returning at the It is strange, that while I know that she is cerlatter end of the week, and should the weather tainly at peace, and that all is well with her, I permit, will take a line of sounding to the eastern should yet be so sorry." edge of the Azores, that being a portion of the When his friends told him that they were in session through the week up to the time of our The Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia has been Atlantic which has at present remained unexam-grieved for his loss, he replied, "You should reined. Of course a further explanation of the joice that I have sent a saint to heaven; yes, prevailed on the Seventh-day of last week, and paper going to press. The unusual storm which results of this expedition, will not at present be two." (Elizabeth and Magdalena.) He spoke prevailed on the Seventh-day of last week, and given, as the whole of the matter collected, is be- very earnestly to his friends, "My child is sent on the First and Second-days of this, prevented ing carefully preserved for the uses and explana- away, body and soul, and our Father in heaven some from reaching the city in time to be present tion of the gentlemen at Washington.-English has two saints from my body. If my Magdalena at the opening of the meeting. The meeting how. paper. could return to life and bring me the wealth of ever, is large, and the business has so far been the Ottoman empire, I would not have her. O, transacted with much harmony. 'French Protestants.-A precious discovery for it is well for her! Blessed are the dead who die the history of the Reformed Churches of France in the Lord. Who dies so, has certainly everlasthas lately been made by M. Eugene Hagg, of ing life; and I would that I and my children and Paris, in the public library of Geneva. It is the all of you might go, for evil times are coming." manuscript history of French Protestants in the The mother was plunged by this event into various places whither they fled for refuge, a work deepest grief, and Luther comforted her most af composed about a century ago by Pastor Antoine fectionately. "Dear Kate, remember that where Court. As is well known, Court was one of the she has gone she is very well, but flesh and blood men whose faith and zeal principally contributed do as flesh and blood; it is the spirit that is full to sustain Protestantism in France, during the of praise and is willing. Children do not argue, reign of Louis XV., when its legal existence was but believe as they are told; all is simple with interdicted, and the chiefs of the Reformed them; they die without pain or anguish, and Churches were either banished or dead. Court without contention with death or bodily distress, published, in 1760, a History of the Camisards, just as they fall asleep." but he had not time to bring to light his great work, L'Histoire du Refuge. In 1784, after the LUTHER IN AFFLICTION. On page 254, will be found the Address which the Friends from England, who left in the steamer Atlantic on the 15th instant, have been engaged in distributing throughout the United States. RECEIPTS. Received from G. Michener, agent, O., for Wm. Bailey, Sen., $12, to 52, vol. 26, for Jos. Talbot, $3, to 52, vol. $2, vol. 27, Jos. Wilson, $2, vol. 27, and J. M. Smith, 26; from Saml. B. Smith, agent, O., for Saml. Smith, $1, to 52, vol. 27; from Edmund Davis, N. J., $5, to 52, vol. 27; from Amy C. Hoopes, Pa., $2, vol. 27. A Female Teacher is wanted as an Assistant in the death of Court de Gobelin, son of Antoine Court, don Quarterly Review, furnishes the following street; or John C. Allen, No. 179 South Fifth street. domestic character of the Reformer. On the day of the funeral Luther could not tear himself away from the coffin in which the child's body had been placed. He stood by it, which he calls the "United States Thermome before 12 o'clock on Seventh-days, will be forwarded. West-town, Third mo., 1854. cents. MARRIED, at Friends' meeting-house, Burlington, N. PRINTED. BY KITE & WALTON, freezing 66 degrees No. 3 Ranstead Place, Fourth above Chesnut street. VOL. XXVII. A RELIGIOUS AND LITERARY JOURNAL. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Price two dollars per annum, payable in advance. AT NO. 50 NORTH FOURTH STREET, UP STAIRS, Postage to any part of Pennsylvania, for three months, if paid in advance, three and a quarter cents; to any part of the United States, for three months, if paid in advance, six and a-half cents. From the New York Spectator. (Continued from page 250.) These constitute the elements of success. We the same cause. They both were in search of a may expect therefore, in the course of the next commercial route to Cathay. three years much valuable information concerning Nor should I omit to mention among the valuthe North Pacific Ocean; for discoveries and re- able labours of the officers of the army, the very sults as fast as made and obtained, are to be sent successful and interesting exploration of the Zuni home to the Hydrographical Bureau of the Navy river, by Capt. Sitgreaves, U. S. army, and his for publication. Thus we have, or will have, to party. Much of the ground that this officer traenrich our archives, De Haven and Kane in the velled over is new. Besides these, Fremont and frozen sea; Strain and Herndon, with Gibbon, his Beale, have also been striving with the Indians, companion, in the Torrid zone; Perry and Ring- and struggling with the snows of that great gold in the East; and Page and Gilliss, and "divide," the latter with that daring and gallanMcRae, in the West. Nor should I forget the try which has challenged our admiration on forline of deep sea soundings, especially, which was mer occasions, the former with a degree of zeal run last summer, by Lieut. Berryman, command- and energy that has seldom been equalled, never ing U. S. brig Dolphin, from the neighbourhood surpassed. of Newfoundland to that of Ireland. That line We owe to him much of our geographical inhas important and practical bearings upon the formation concerning that region of the country, question of a submarine telegraph between Europe and he has made contributions which have been and America. There is bottom for it. But while acknowledged and appreciated wherever geograthe navy has been thus occupied in winning lau-phy is cultivated as a science. An enthusiastic rels as green, may I not say as green, because amateur, that brave explorer is now there at his Commodore Perry, with his accustomed ener- they are worn in times of peace, and in the cause own risk and expense, for the purpose of solving gy, has already had surveys made of several im- of knowledge and of truth, in the advancement of certain questions which in his former expeditions portant places in the East, among them, the har- science, and in aid of that progress which is up- he was unable to decide. From this hasty review bour of Jeddo, which is described by his officers ward and onward, may I not, therefore, say as of what has been recently done, and of what is as one of the boldest and most beautiful sheets of GREEN as any with which it is possible for the doing for geography, by the government and the water in the world, not excepting the harbour of hand of grim-visaged war to deck the brows of people of the United States, it appears that few San Francisco, or of Naples, or of Rio, nor your victors in his battles of heroes in his cause? countries have ever at any time been able to boast own lovely bay. "We ascended," says Lieuten- But while the navy has been thus busied abroad, of more activity in this department of scientific ant Bent, of the Mississippi, in a private letter, the army and other branches of the public service research and discovery. And which of these ex"to within about seven miles (in a straight line) have not been idle at home. The Coast Survey peditions has not the public mind followed with of Jeddo, carrying from 40 to 17 fathoms water is a long-established institution. A report of its interest, and pleasure and profit? To the honall the way. This was nineteen miles nearer the proceedings is annually made to Congress. Gen- our of our free institutions, and of a free people, capital than any foreign vessel had ever previ- tlemen are familiar with the value of its labours, be it said, not one! The popular will is in favour ously been. This occurred after the reception and therefore it is only necessary in this connec- of them all. (of which I will speak presently); and as every- tion, to refer to it as an establishment that has But though much has been done, these rething had gone on very successfully, the Commo- done and is doing much for those departments of searches and these expeditions have, as they have dore did not wish to do anything that would mili- knowledge which it is the especial object of this made their advances, served to extend the horitate against the advantages we had obtained, or Society to cultivate. In the same category comes zon, have given us new lights, and show us that he would have gone, I imagine, in sight of the the Hydrographic Survey, by the army, of the much yet remains to be done. Prominent among city, which was hidden from us only by a point great American lakes. That work, too, is being the agenda of this Society during the coming year, of land some three miles ahead. pushed forward even with more than its wonted is to foster by its influence and its counsels, an "This is the finest sheet of water in the world, vigour. It has already enriched one department other expedition up the Amazon, like Page's in not excepting Rio and San Francisco. Thirty- of geography with an important discovery. You the La Plata. The Amazon is at our own doors, five by twenty-five miles in diameter, surrounded know it has been said that the bottom of Lake and we begin with it. I shall only allude to one by numerous snug coves and most lovely shores, Huron, especially, was far below the level of the other, which cannot fail to commend itself to the it contains not a single island except close along earth. Macomb informs me, that nowhere in good offices and favourable consideration of this its borders, and seems perfectly clear from ob- that lake has he been able to find water more Society, and that is, the exploration of the valley structions of any kind to navigation. It connects than 420 feet deep, which places the bottom of of the Amour, in Mantchouria. This river, I bewith the ocean by a strait, ranging from ten to that lake far above the surface of the sea. hieve, belongs to Russia, though its navigation fifteen miles in width, and forty fathoms in depth." The Mexican Boundary Commission is busily was ceded to China, by Peter the Great, in 1689. He is constructing a chart of that harbour. Ring- engaged in bringing up its results. Besides these That was before modern science and enterprise gold with his squadron, has, just about this time, there are various parties at work exploring routes could have been brought to bear upon it; conseentered fairly upon the field of his operations, across the wilderness for the great Pacific rail- quently, unless a party be sent to explore it from which includes the North Pacific Ocean, with its way. Lieut. Williamson is on the Pacific slope, some of the States of Christendom, it will continue arms, straits and gulfs. That is the largest sur- running his lines with the spirit level and the to rest in its present darkness for other centuries. veying squadron now under any flag. And never theodolite. Governor Stevens is at the North, "In almost every point of view," says Findlay, has any nation sent forth an expedition in the Lieut. Whipple is at the South; and Gunnison in his Directory for the Pacific Ocean, published cause of science better fitted and found than that alas! poor Gunnison-was in the middle. Sci- in 1851, "the Amour is the most valuable stream is. For accurate work and practical results, it ence has its achievements, and peace its triumphs, in Northern Asia. Of all the large rivers of that has with it all the means and appliances that gov- yet how much does it sometimes cost to win them! boundless region, it is the only one that empties ernment in the indulgence of an enlightened liber- Lieut. Bellot, of the French navy, upon the ice of into a navigable part of the universal ocean. ality, could suggest, or that science, ingenuity, the Polar basin, Lieut. Gunnison, of the American is, in fact, the only highway of nature that diand the improvements of the age could bestow. army, upon the great "divide" which separates rectly connects the central steppes of Asia with His squadron consists of five vessels. He is the waters of the Atlantic from the waters of the the rest of the world. But the political arrange. assisted by corps of young and accomplished Pacific, have each fallen victims in the cause of ments of man have decreed otherwise; and at this officers who have entered upon their service con that science whose achievements we celebrate. moment the Amour is infinitely less useful as a Though far apart, they were fellow labourers in channel of traffic than almost any one of the land amore. It |