applause truly distressing to a well-ordered mind. If children hear parents speak with disrespect of those above them, need we be astonished that they become rebellious, fearing neither law nor gospel. They know not their friends from their enemies. They "walk after the flesh, and despise government: presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." Read the second chapter of the second of Peter, where the signs of Christ's second coming are mentioned, and judge if we have not just ground to urge upon all this virtue of obedience. Consider what is taking place in other lands, and fear to listen for a moment to those who live in error; who, while they promise you liberty, are themselves the servants of corruption. Know your friends; that is, a friend who gives you good counsel. The government under which you live, and all who strive to promote rule and order under it, are real friends, for by them we all enjoy liberty and tranquillity. Above all, God is your friend, if you will allow Him to be so. Christ is your friend, He died for you. The Spirit is your friend, for He strives in you. The Bible is your friend, for it makes known unto you the law and the gospel; it tells you of pardon for sin and peace with God and man, through Jesus Christ our Lord. M. B.

SEDITIOUS DISTURBANCES HURTFUL TO THE POOR.

THERE have been persons anxious to disturb the quiet of the state at all times and under every government. Plenty of men are to be found every where who have brought themselves to poverty, and lost their character. These men are always ready for a change, because they cannot well be satisfied with their present chances of getting on in the world, since they are too well known to be trusted or employed in any honest business. They hope that if all things were upset, and the laws of property and trade done away with, they would be better off than they ever will be, while justice reigns and industry is supported. Very likely they would be better off for a little while. If they could rob and plunder at their will, they would be richer,

just at first, at least. It would soon be all spent; for illgotten gains have a proverb against them, that seldom fails of coming true. But all this while, what would the industrious, and honest, and sensible people in the country be doing to let them have their way; to let a small number of scoundrels and villains cheat them out of their hard-earned property, and leave them penniless, when they have the power to put them down. Sedition is very little else but robbery on a large scale, perpetrated by a few thousands of men together, instead of two or three by themselves. It always must rob a great many, however short it may be the time it lasts, by the fear it creates, and by the loss of time and wages which all disturbances in the state must of course occasion. As it is the duty of the state to put down thieves, so it must be also a duty, of much more consequence, to put down tumult and revolution. But those men who deal in sedition always try to persuade the poor man that it would be very much for his good, to overturn the state if they could do it, and to begin a new order of things, just making the rich people as poor as themselves. The greatest evil will be, if they can succeed in persuading a large number of the labouring classes to think this would be good for them. We know how many thousands there are who seldom ask what is right? and what is wrong? so much as what will be good for us, and bring us more money? These poor men, if they are deceived, may do themselves great mischief, if not cause their own ruin, from following the advice of those ne'er-do-wells, who want to make a disturbance. They may not know how to answer the nonsense talked by the seditious, and we wish they knew, all of them, how to see the real truth of the case. In the last number we tried to show how it is that the interest of the workmen and the master are the same, and that they ought to hang together. Let us now show what would happen, if all property was divided at once among the whole population, as some foolish and wicked madmen seem to wish should be done. In the first place, if this robbery took place, no one would ever trust the security of property again. A new division would be always expected. If so, who would care to be industrious

and saving, who would labour to gain capital, who would be able to set any great and useful business on foot, how could there be any mills or manufactories, or useful trades on a large scale, or commerce with other nations, which all require large sums of money, to buy materials, to employ workmen, to give them tools and implements to build ships, or workshops, or factories, and all the rest of the means required for every flourishing business? There could be nothing of the sort. Industry would therefore come to nothing, in every shape in which it now makes our country prosperous, rich, and happy. All would turn away from useful employment and honest saving, to a reckless despairing way of life; soon consuming all they had, and then dying in misery and beggary. The division of property would for a short time provide the worst characters with something more to drink and something more to smoke, and all the advantages would then be over, which would have been purchased by the destruction of the beautiful order of society, and of all the security and all the happiness of millions of people. It would end in utter ruin to all the nation, without even excepting the sellers of beer and spirits, who would certainly be the first to grow rich under this system, but whose riches could do them no good. Industry is the soul of the state; it is the source of all the earthly happiness enjoyed in it; whatever discourages industry is sure ruin to the country, and brings misery on all its inhabitants. Seditions and disturbances are found to discourage industry more than any thing. They cannot therefore be good for the poor. E.

LETTER FROM AN EMIGRANT.

SIR,-The accompanying extracts are from a letter written in February last by a labourer, who emigrated. from an agricultural parish in Norfolk, about eighteen or twenty years since. Perhaps they may be considered of sufficient interest to insert in your useful publication. He is one of five brothers who have within that period gone to America, and he mentions six or seven families from the same parish who are living near him and doing well. He had three children when he went out, and has

five born in America still residing with him and attending school, for which the long winters are favourable. I remain, yours, &c.,

LETTER.

L. M.

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"We will now tell you a little about ourselves, and how we have got on since you last heard from us. We are at present renting a farm of seventy-three acres within five miles of Ogdensburg; we keep six milch cows, besides a quantity of young stock; we have three horses and one colt, also about twenty sheep, besides the different farming utensils necessary for farming, such as ploughs, harrows, &c. We have also a thrashing machine; we travelled about with it this fall. We did not buy it until this last summer, and we being anxious to make it for itself, induced me to go about with it. When we first got it we paid sixty-six dollars, that is about 177. 12s. of your money, and got credit for the remainder; but thank God we have paid for it all but about ten dollars, or two sovereigns and one shilling of your money. We have also some hogs; and here we will tell you how we kill our pork in this country, it is very different from the way you do in England. We generally kill here in the month of December, and salt it down in barrels, instead of earthen pots as you do; we also make our hogs much larger than you, the usual weight we kill at, is from three to four hundred pounds, or from twenty-four to thirty stone, according to your weights. We killed last December about 1100 lbs. for our own use; we also made 650 lbs. of butter for sale, besides what we use for ourselves, which is a considerable quantity, as we have a large family. You will think, perhaps, that 1100 lbs. of pork is a good deal for our own use, but I will explain to you; when we hire any one to work it is the custom here to board them, not as it is in England for them to board themselves. The general wages here is for men half a dollar a day, that is, two shillings of your money, and their board, that is the wages in the winter season; but in the summer the wages are double, that is, one dollar a day, or four shillings English. We have before told you that we had twenty sheep; we have the wool spun at

home, and get it wove into cloth at the factory; we have had. thirty-five yards of cloth made this season, besides our stocking yarn. I will now give you a short account of the country itself. We have very long tedious winters, and a great deal of snow; we do a great deal of business by sleighing. I don't suppose you know what that is. It is something like your harrow-sledge; we draw all our wood and heavy lumber upon them, and can draw near double as much as you can upon your waggons. We have had a very favourable winter; we had a dry summer and very favourable crops, every thing fetches a very good price, wheat is about one dollar a bushel, or 4s. of your money; oats about 2s.; potatoes the same; pork and beef is worth about 6d. the pound; butter about 10d. Cows are worth about 20 dollars a head; horses are worth from 50 to 100; sheep from 12s. to 15s. each of this coin, or about 9s. to 12s. of your coin. I should like very much to see you all here, but would not attempt to persuade you to come for fear you should be dissatisfied; but I am quite sure that you would do much better here than where you are; if you should think of coming, let me know."

EXTRACT FROM MY FAMILY BIBLE.

MATTHEW Xxii. 1—15.

My dear family, God hath made a marriage for his Son. He has wedded Him to the Church'. How many refuse to come to the marriage, though a feast of good things be provided for them. Pardon, peace, and perfect righteousness, doth the Bridegroom give at this feast. All things are delivered unto Him' to give away to them that will come properly dressed for the blessed occasion. The Jews, the people particularly invited to the marriage-supper of the Lamb, would not come, each man had his excuse; God therefore sent to the other nations of the world, and the wedding is furnished with guests, both bad and good, some with wedding garments, some without; many, indeed, are called, but few are chosen. The wedding garment is wanted. The

1 Ephes. v. 25, to the end of the chapter.

2 Matt. xi. 27.