is very flattering. The place of worship lately built here by Mr. Haimes is well attended, and a spirit of enquiry into the doctrines of the New Jerusalem pretty generally prevails. The Rev. T. Goyder of London has recently paid a Missionary visit to this place, and has also preached at Chellaston and Loughborough. NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH FREE SCHOOL. By the recent arrangements which have been made by the Committee of Management of this institution, we are happy to say that it is intended to receive into the establishment 200 girls immediately. We cannot speak too highly of this School, nor is it necessary, we presume, to press upon the minds of the members of the Church, the necessity of giving it their support. Every one who has the cause of the New Jerusalem at heart, will feel a great delight in supporting an institution which promises to be of so much service to the rising generation. REV. J. CLOWES. We are happy to inform our readers, that the Rev. J. Clowes is recovered from his recent serious indisposition; he is however, (he writes in a letter to a friend) unable to study. We sincerely hope that the bodily infirmities of this amiable man will not render him wholy incapable of continuing to benefit the New Jerusalem by his cxcellent writings. March 22d. 1827. SUNDAY SCHOOLS. ON OBTAINING THE EARLY AND REGULAR ATTENDANCE OF YOUR SCHOLARS. From Lloyd's Manual. If you wish your children to be early and regular in attendance, it is necessary that you should on no account be late and inconstant. If you are once after the time, or once absent, your children will carry their imitation of your example to a greater extent, and be late or absent several times thus your class will become completely disorganized. In your class-book it is necessary that you should enter a complete account of the attendance of each child; and, after the first ten minutes from the commencement of the school, you should record the exact time when each scholar arrives, and the excuse made for being so late. Never suffer a child to be absent or late without ascertaining from his parents the cause thus you will prevent truant-playing, and loitering in the way to school. Always require the parents to send notes or messages, if they wish their children to be absent on any particular occasion, and mark such requests by a tick in your class-book. Should the parents neglect to send this information, always visit them, or send one of your most trusty scholars with a note, which may be printed, leaving the blanks, to the following effects: Sunday School. was absent from School Please to state the reason by the bearer, A. B. Teacher.* The excuses made should be entered in your class book. You will find it a good plan never to suffer two absences to go on without being accounted for: thus you will check irregularities at once. A first offence may lead to a second, and thus gradually a confirmed habit of irregularity may be formed, because the first aberration was suffered to pass unnoticed. By the adoption of these prompt and decided measures, the children will feel convinced, that, if they become truants, you will infallibly detect them; and this conviction will be the surest means of keeping them from transgressing. Also, if any of your scholars should be taken ill, you will thus obtain immediate information of the fact, and will consequently pay them a visit. Some children have been lying ill for weeks, and some have even At the bottom of the note, the rule of the School relative to attendance should be printed. died, before their teachers knew any thing of their situation: this would not be likely to occur on the plan suggested. ; Your children will soon find out whether they can trifle with you or not and you may be sure they will act accordingly. Some teachers, by their laxity of discipline, actually furnish a bonus, rather than a check, to irregularity and truant-playing; the parents fancy their children are at school; the teachers are deceived by the scholars; and habits of the most baneful kind are thus gradually formed, without detection or opposition. This rigorous adherence to system may at first occasion some trouble; but, in the end, it will prevent much inconvenience, and will prove highly conducive to the order, the improvements, and the best interests, of your pupils. VARIETIES. HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND LITERARY. PREFERMENT. It is said by a certain writer, "The revealed will of God, and not the success of those who depart from it, should be a Christian's rule of action. They who aspire at nothing in the Church but preferment, and by unworthy actions obtain it, should regard this subject. These reprobates lose all sense of the guilt of succeeding in the pleasure of success." SOCIETY OF TEN. The number ten was much noticed and used by the Jewish people: and it repeatedly occurs in the Sacred pages, were it is representative of all, or what is full, as also a fulness of of the state of remains as much as is conducive to uses. Among the Jews a society or congregation might be formed when there were ten persons in one place to form such congregation, but less than that number did not make a congregation or society: and wherever there were ten persons in a place, they were obliged to build or open a synagogue. SHEEP AND GOATS. It is said concerning the Lord, that "he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left." It is not to be doubted, but that many customs which obtained among the Jews had a representative origin: hence they placed those to be acquitted on the right hand; but those individuals who were to receive sentence or condemnation on the left. THE LAND CRAB. ? The Land Crab, or Violet Crab, with a smooth entire thorax, and the two last joints of the feet armed with spines, inhabits the Bahama islands, as well as most lands between the tropics, and feeds upon vegetables. These animals live not only in a kind of orderly society in their retreats in their mountains, but regularly once a year march down to the sea-side in a body of some millions at a time in order to cast their spawn, which is there matured. As they multiply in great numbers, they choose the month of April, or May, to begin their expedition; and then sally out by thousands from the stumps of hollow trees, from the clefts of rocks, and from the holes which they dig for themselves under the surface of the earth. The procession sets forward from the mountains with the regularity of an army under an experienced commander. They are commonly divided into three battalions, of which the first consists of the strongest and boldest males, who, like pioneers, march forward to clear the route, and face the greatest dangers. The main body of the army is composed of females, which never leave the mountains till the rain is set in for some time, and then descend in regular battalia, being formed into columns of fity paces broad, and three miles deep, and so close that they almost cover the ground. The rear guard follows, three or four days after; a straggling undisciplined tribe, consisting of males and females, but not so vigorous as the former. The night is their chief time of proceeding; but if it rains by day, they do not fail to profit by the occasion. MOLUCCA MARRIAGES. "In the Molucca islands, the marriage ceremony, captain Forrest tells us, is performed in the following manner. The woman, attended by some of her own sex, comes into the mosque, and sits down; then the Imum, or if the parties are persons of rank, the Calipha, holding the man's right thumb, asks him if he will marry that woman, and live with her according to Mahomet's law? To this he answers, "I will." Then the priest asks the woman, still sitting, besides the like respective question, if she will obey? Three times must she answer, "I will." The woman rising, the man and she pay their respects to the company present: the woman is then conducted home; but before she goes out of the mosque, the priest gives the husband the following admonition: "you must not touch your wife with lance or knife; but if she do not obey you, take her into a chamber, and chastise her gently with a handkerchief." CURIOUS WEATHER GAGE. The original form of these lamps which were invented some months ago is this: one of those capillary tubes used by milliners, and called bugle beads (about half an inch long) is fixed into a semicircular copper or tin cup, about an inch in diameter. The cup floats on the top of the oil with its cavity uppermost. The glass tube stands upright within it, open at both ends, and with its lower end, which passes through the cup, immersed in the oil. The cup is so loaded that the upper orifice of the tube is just a hair breadth or two above the level of the oil or the outside of the cup. The oil thus rises easily to the surface of the tube without running over, and when a light is applied, it takes fire and produces a smail but bright and steady flame. As the oil burns down, the cup, floating on its surface, descends with it, and thus it is of no consequence whether there be much or little oil in the lamp, as the supply at the orifice is always the same. The lamp should consist of a small crystal vessel, that the light as it descends, may pass through its sides. FIGURED APPLES. Apples marked with the impression of a leaf are sold in the bazaars of Persia. To produce this impression, a leaf of some flower or shrub is glued or fastened with a thread on several parts of the fruit, while yet growing; the apple gradually ripens, and all that the sun reaches becomes red; the parts covered by the leaves remaining of a pale green or yellow colour. The Dublin Philosophical Journal contains a description of a weather gage, for which a patent has lately been taken out by a gentleman named Donovan. This ingenious instrument shows the number of cubical and perpendicular inches of rain that fell during a given period; the precise hour, minute, day of the week, and of the month, when they fall, and whether by day or night. It also points out the commencement and cessation of showers; while it is raining, a bell rings quickly or slowly, according to the force of the shower, and the gage also shows the day of the month, the day of the week, and the hour of the day. It registers the intensity of the rain for the whole year, so that by reference, it may be ascertained whether it rained fast or slow, at any particular period. It keeps a separate account of rain, for every hour, day, week, month, or year, and spontane ously separates the weekly accounts from each other every Saturday night at 12 o'clock, and at the same hour at the termination of every month, of whatever number of days it may consist. Many other services are performed by this instrument, which is undoubtedly one of the most curious and useful of the kind ever glide over a field of ice, and then invented. LAMPS WITHOUT WICKS. A lamp has been recently exhibited in Manchester, in which the wick was susperseded by a capillary glass tube. GLACIERS. The scenes which these bodies of ice exhibit are as various as their extent. At one time a great mass of water congealed at the period of a tempest, presents waves resembling those of a lake; at other times these irregularities disappear, and leave nothing to be beheld by the astonished traveller, but one immense mirror of polished ice. Here superb portals of crystals appear fallen into rivers, and brilliant spires broken to pieces: in other places, avalanches of snow stop, and, reflecting the rays of the sun, display the form of pyramids and obelisks unseen before. These glaciers are of essential service in furnishing to the continents slowly, CRUSTACEOUS FISH. A communication from M. Ro and in an almost regular manner, waters, which without this congelation, would be precipitated with bineau Desvoidy was lately read at impetuosity from the height of moun- a meeting of the French Institute, tains, so as to overflow and devastate in which the existence of the organs the countries which they ought to of smell in crustaceous fish is asfertilize. serted. THE TARTARIAN LAMB PLANT. The most extraordinary of the curiosities of little Tartary, is the Vegetable Lamb as it is called in Russia. It grows between the two great rivers, the Don and the Wolga. This plant is remarkable for possessing a great portion of animal nature, that it is called the animal plant. The fruit is of the size of a gourd or melon, and has the figure and all the limbs of a sheep. It is fastened to the earth by the navel upon a stalk of two feet in length: it always leans towards the grass and the plants around it, and changes its position as much as the stalk will suffer. When the fruit is ripe the stalk dies. It is covered with a hairy frizzled skin, like that of a newly born lamb, and this fur defends it from the cold. It is said never to die while any grass remains around it. The fruit yields a juice like blood, when taken from the stalk, and some assert that it has the taste of mutton. It is however certain that the Russians who call it Barometz, or the Lamb, use it to en. snare the wolf who is known to be very partial to this plant. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The difficulty of applying rules to the pronunciation of our language may be illustrated in two lines where the combination of the letters ough is pronounced in no less than seven different ways, viz. as o, uf, of, up, ow, oo, and ock. Though the tough cough and hiccough plough pursue. Halibut (in the Bay of Hammerfest), caught by means of hooks, sometimes attain the enormous size of 500lb. weight, or even more; and instances have been known of their upsetting the boat, when they have been incautiously drawn up, without being first despatched. The flesh of the halibut, which is known by the name of queite, is highly prized, and esteemed a great delicacy, being beautifully white, of a fine flavour, and exceedingly firm.— LACONICS. Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so: but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Many who find the day too long, think life too short, but short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates. He that can please nobody, is not so much to be pitied, as he that nobody can please. In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say, "is there any harm in doing this?" the question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another, "Is there any harm in letting it alone?" It proceeds rather from revenge than malice, when we hear a man affirm that all the world are knaves. For before a man draws this conclusion of the world, the world has generally anticipated him, and concluded all this of him who makes the observation. Such men may be compared to Brothers, the prophet, who on being asked by a friend, how he came to be clapped into Bedlam, replied, "I and the world happened to have a slight difference of opinion, the world said I was mad, and I said the world was mad, unfortunately I was out-voted, and here I am.” LITERARY NOVELTIES. Classical Literature-M. Mai will shortly publish, at Rome, some hitherto inedited fragments of the Greek historians Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Dion Cassius, Lunassius, and others, in one volume 4to. with a Latin translation by the editor, and some notes. This discovery, the most important of all those that we owe to M. Mai, merits the entire attention of the learned of Europe. POETRY. ON CHANGE OF WEATHER. AND were it for thy profit to obtain Think'st thou, that thy laborious plough requires There must be both: sometimes these hearts of ours We MORTALITY. I've seen a beauteous blushing rose, Shed its sweet fragrance o'er the lawn. I've seen that individual rose, A tree that in the garden grew, Again I look'd, the lightnings blast, Torn were its branches by the storm I've seen the tuneful bird arise, But, ah! the sportsman's fatal shot Has brought it lifeless to the ground. Man is like the bird, the tree, He is not certain of an hour; He buds, he blossoms like the rose, Till death's rude hand removes the flow'r. The lesson we from hence should draw, Is all our evils quick to fly; For this the truth that is declar'd- TERTIAS. |