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house, the other was raised to her mouth, and she was biting her nails like a maniac. One of the children, poor little innocent creature, cried, Mamma, has not father brought the bread he promised, we've had none to-day. Her whole frame shook, her bosom heaved, she looked wildly at her children, then again on her husband, then lifted her eyes up towards heaven. O! could I paint her agonized features; the mingled affection, sorrow, and despair exceeds immagination. Her sighs quickened into sobs, and then, after a few moments' stillness, she uttered a melancholy stifled shriek, and thus threw the load off her heart, which must otherwise have made her a corpse or an idiot. Who does not execrate the wretch who can cause misery like this? A flood of tears came to her relief, I have seen it somewhere said

The tearless grief that cannot speak, Whispers unto the heart, and bids it break. She sat herself down on a few bricks that were piled up for a seat; chair, table, or stool, she had not.

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The children seemed to take little notice of what was passing; but a little girl about eight years of age, after giving her share of potatoes to the lesser children, walked softly to her mother, and kneeled beside her, putting her little hands on her lap, she said, Mother, don't cry. I will go in the morning to sell some matches to Mr. Belton's; he gave me a quarter dollar last time I went for two bunches, and bid me call again; saying, that he would rather give the industrious double for their work, than give any thing to idle beggars.

A beam of hope darted into her mind ; a mother's kindness, and a wife's affections, rallied round her heart. She smiled upon her child, and kissed her. Just at this moment, the drunkard rolled over on the floor, and began to make an unusual noise; she went to him, and found him black in the face, and almost strangled by his handkerchief. She loosed it, then lifted him upon the straw bed that lay in a corner of the room. She gazed eagerly on him for a few moments, and muttered in broken sentences, My husband-the father of my children-bad company-far from home and friends-was a good husband onceloved his children—his mother-pious woman-may yet reform." As she said this, she bent down to pull over him the ragged remnants of blankets, and let a tear fall on his cheek, which she kissed off. After having done all she could for him, she joined her children on the hearth, and began to assist the little girl to make the matches which she was to sell in the morn

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ing, before they could break their fasts. Some time in the night he came to himself; he rose half up-all was dark and still-then conscience, with her whip of scorpions, found him.

I have often heard drunkards say they like to get drunk, and do not dislike to be drunk; but the horror of getting sober again, is past describing. If there be a hell on earth, 'tis felt by a man when he is returning from the wild tumultuous state of intoxication to reason and consciousness; when he has nobody to speak with; nor strong drink, to drive him back into the regions of unreal existence. So it seemed with this poor wretch. In the greatest agitation he exclaimed, "Where am I? in hell, or in life?" The cricket chirpt on the hearth, "Ay, that's an earthly sound." As he moved to break his solitude by awaking hls wife, the rustling of the straw-bed brought to his recollection, how he had sold the feather-bed his mother gave him on his wedding-day; the tick which she spun, while she watched his cradle. He felt a tear start in his eye, for a thousand associations were connected with this thought, and he involuntarily sent his hand in search of the sheet to wipe his face: but, alas ! no sheet; his wife's mistress gave her two pair when she was married, as a reward for her good conduct, and long service; but all these he had sold. He felt a chill of horror, and a trembling seized him, he strove to find his wife's cloak, that latterly had served to keep them warm in the night, and in the day had served to cover her rags when she went abroad; but he found it not.

Conscience gave him another unmerciful lash, and she repeated her strokes with such force, and in such rapid succession, that he could bear it no longer, but called upon her whom he had abused and ruined to get a light, “ Mary, Mary, Oh! do get a light.' She in her soul yet loved him, said nothing, but obeyed. How the conscience-stricken sinner dreads darkness and solitude! and how gladly would he flee from himself if he could. She soon procured a light, and found him holding his head with both hands, as if to prevent it from splitting open. She bound her only remaining handkerchief round his temples, and then he opened his eyes; but he found that the objects that surrounded him contributed nothing to his comfort. The dirty bare walls of his room, a few bricks and a large stone the only seats; then ten thousand tender recollections rushed upon his mind at once; although he had never been rich or affluent, he had always lived in a gentleman's house, and enjoyed domestic comfort.

His frantic eyes met those of his wife, as he rolled them about in search of something on which he dare rest them; here he fixed them for some moments-he strove ineffectually to tear them away. She, poor creature, all unconscious of what was passing in his agonized soul, expected oaths and curses as formerly, and feared to break the horrid silence; at length he sighed out "Mary! you are not like the same woman you were when I married you, then you had rosy cheeks and a cheerful countenance, but now you are pale and thin."

"Yes, William, but—” Mary, that's enough!"

"Stop! stop!

"Oh,

After a long pause, and with strong emotion, she resumed. "I was going to say, William, that if you would leave off your bad company, and give up drinking, we might yet- a deep sob choaked her utterance for some moments- 66 we might yet earn our living here; but if you go on much longer, you will kill yourself, and break my heart; and then the children-" He then started as if he was shot. don't say another word!" Seeing he was not the fiend-like wretch he had for some months been, she felt a hope, almost a confidence, that he would be a changed man; she saw by his writhing, his perspiration, his sighing, and his clenched teeth, what he felt. He even let the word mercy escape his lips. She tried to soothe him; she threw her arms around his neck, and said, "William, I yet love you." "What! love me, when I hate myself!" The children, who were at the other end of the straw bed, being awakened by the conversation, and seeing a light, lifted up their little innocent heads, and seeing their father was not furious, but in distress, and their mother also, they came to inquire what was the matter. This was the climax of his misery. The ragged bed-clothes exhibited a memorial that he could not look upona piece of his wife's wedding gown.

His naked children, his emaciated wife, the remembrance of former days, the prospect of ruin, and— -I must beg of

you, Sir, to infer the rest.

I must, however, tell you, that he joined the Temperance Society, gradually recovered his health, became a loving father, an affectionate husband, an industrious and religious

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GLEANINGS.

Experiments on Feeding Animals.-The experiments suggested to the council of the Zoological Society, and noticed in our Number for May, p. 248; have been carried into effect, and the following are some of the results. Two leopards were weighed, the weight of one was 91 pounds, and the other 100 and a half pounds: the first was fed in the usual manner, with 4 pounds of beef daily, given in one meal in the evening; and the other with 2 pounds of beef in the morning at 8 o'clock, and the same quantity at 8 o'clock in the evening. After an interval of five weeks they were again weighed, when the weight of the first was 92 pounds, and of the other 100 pounds. The latter animal became more ferocious than he had previously been, and was particularly violent. Two hyænas were weighed, 86 pounds was the weight of the first, and 93 pounds of the other: the food of the first was 3 pounds of beef given in the usual manner; and of the other, the same quantity of meat divided into two equal portions, one of which was given in the morning, and the other in the evening. These animals were again weighed after an interval of eight weeks, when the first was found to have increased in weight 1 pound, and the other to have diminished by the same quantity. The latter animal was observed to take less exercise than usual, and to sleep more; but his temper was not affected. Similar results were obtained from the same experiments on two ocelots.

Trifles constitute Perfection.-A friend called on Michael Angelo, who was finishing a statue; some time afterwards he called again; the sculptor was still at his work. His friend locking at the figure, exclaimed, You have been idle since I saw you last! By no means replied the sculptor, I have retouched this part, and polished that; I have softened this feature, and brought out this muscle; I have given more expression to this lip, and more energy to this limb. Well, well, said his friend, but all these are trifles. It may be so, replied Angelo, but recollect that trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.-Penny Magazine.

Curious Mode of Punishing a Murderer.-Sir George Staunton visited a man in India, who had committed a murder; and in order not only to save his life, but, what was of much more consequence, his caste, he submitted to the penalty imposed; which was, that he should sleep seven years on a bedstead without a matress, the whole surface of which was studded with points of iron, resembling nails, but not so sharp as to penetrate the flesh. Sir George saw him in the fifth year of his probation, and his skin was then like the hide of the rhinoceros, but more callous; at that time, however, he could sleep comfortably on his bed of thorns," and remarked, that at the expiration of the term, he should most probably continue that system from choice, which he had been obliged to adopt from necessity.-Penny Magazine.

Political Aphorism by Heinse.-All constitutions are bad, if the government is not in the hands of the wisest. All the difference between a democracy and a monarchy is this ;-that in the former 500,000 and some odd fools may decide against 400,000 sensible people, and, in the latter, one fool may ruin 999,999 philosophers-if they will let him!

Blessings of Slavery.-If any husband or father among our readers should imagine that the condition of a slave is not so wretched as has been represented, we submit to his consideration a few particulars of a slave's situation under these relations. A slave cannot marry without his master's consent; he cannot prevent the sale of his wife at the owner's pleasure; he cannot prevent the sale of his own child; he cannot with impunity refuse to flog his own wife, with her person all exposed, at his master's order; he cannot obtain redress, if deprived of his goods by his master; he cannot attend either private or public worship, without risk of punishment, if forbidden by his master. For any Englishman foolishly to pretend, that under such circumstances the slaves are well treated and happy, is an insult to a common understanding and an outrage upon British feeling.Reading Mercury.

Laconic.-Why was my paper discontinued? Ans. Because it was never paid for.

Economy" A slight knowledge of human nature will show," says Mr. Coluohoun, "that when a man gets on a little in the world, he is desirous of getting on a little further." Such is the growth of provident habits, that it has been said, if a journeyman lays by the first five shillings his fortune is made. Mr. William Hall, who has bestowed great attention on the state of the labouring poor, declares he never knew an instance of one who had saved money coming to the parish. And he adds, moreover, "those individuals who saved money Bre

better workmen if they do not work better, they behave better, and are more respectable; and I would sooner have in my trade a hundred men who save money, than two hundred who would spend every shilling they got. In proportion as individuals save a little money, their morals are better; they husband that little, and there is a superior tone given to their morals, and they behave better for knowing they have a little stake in society." It is scarcely necessary to remark, that habits of thoughtfulness and frugality are at all times of immense importance. -Wilderspin's Early Discipline.

Consolation. Whether the sum of human happiness have increased during the last forty years, is a question which each will determine conformably with the experience of number one; but, that the average duration of human life has expanded, is a comfort placed beyond all doubt by the Parisian Board of Longitude, in their annual report for the present year They state, that in 1789, it was eight and twenty years and nine months; but that in 1831, it had risen to thirty-one years and six months.

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Sir Isaac Newton's House.-Every memorial of so great a man as Sir Isaac Newton, says his late biographer, has been preserved and cherished with peculiar veneration. His house at Woolsthrope, a hamlet about four miles from Grantham in Lincolnshire, has been religiously protected by Mr. Turner, of Stroke Rocheford, the proprietor. It is built of stone, like the houses generally in that quarter, and is a reasonably good one. It was repaired in 1793, when a table of white marble was put up by Mr. Turner in the room where Sir Isaac was born, with the following inscription :

"Sir Isaac Newton, son of John Newton, Lord of the manor of Wallsthrope, was born in this room, on the 25th December, 1642.

"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night,

God said, 'let Newton be, and all was light."" The following lines have been written on the house."Here Newton dawned, here lofty wisdom woke, And to a wondering world divinely spoke. If Tully glowed, when Phædrus' steps he trod, Or fancy formed philosophy a god; If sages still for Homer's birth contend, The sons of science at this dome must bend. All hail the shrine ! all hail the natal day! Can boast his noon-this cot his morning ray." Economy of Stale Bread.-The London bakers, in their answers to the questions put to them by the Committee of the House of Commons in England, appointed during the scarcity of the year 1801, to devise means of affording relief, asserted that three stale loaves were equal to five fresh ones.

Literary Notices.

Just Published.

Part IX. of Biographical Sketches of the Present Reform Ministers.

No. XLII. of the National Portrait Gallery. Franklin's Translation of Sophocles. Complete in one pocket vol.; cloth; forming No. 33 of Valpy's Classical Library

Simonis's Hebrew Lexicon, translated by Seager. 1 vol. 12mo.

Counsels to the Young. By Rev. J. Morison, D.D. The whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, carefully revised, with Life, by Calamy. In 1 vol., royal 8vo. Edinburgh Cabinet Library, Vol. IX., containing the Progress of Discovery in North America.

The Best Things Reserved till Last. By Thomas Brooks. 1657.

Funeral Address on the Death of the late Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke. By Joseph Beaumont.

Constable's Miscellany, Vol. 76: Butterflies, Moths, &c., Vol. II.

Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, Vol. 34: Chemistry. Hours of Reverie. By Louisa Coutier.

The Mosaic and Mineral Geologies. By W. M. Higgins.

A Practical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter. 2 vols. By Robert Leighton, D.D.

Catechisms and Keys adapted to the Lesson System. By Wm. Darling, Edinburgh.

A Letter to Lord Brougham, on the Magistracy of England.

Questions on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 'for Children.

The Parent's Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction. Memoir of the Rev. John Jenkins, late a Wesleyan Missionary in Jamaica. By George Jackson. Example, or Family Scenes.

Election according te the Holy Scriptures, in reference to the Eternal Destinies of the Human Race. By Alexander Denovan.

Counteraction viewed as a means of Cure, with Remarks on the Uses of the Issue. By John Epps, M.D. The noble office of the Sunday School Teacher. By the Rev. G. W. Doane, A.M.

The Church its own Reformer. By John Sandford, Oxon.

Open_Air Service. By the Rev. Ed. Irving, A. M. The Literary Eclectic, No. I.

Family Classical Library, No. 33: Sophocles.

A corrected Account of the Evidence adduced by the Trustees of the National Scotch Church, in sup. port of the Charges against the Rev. Edward Irving, and his Defence.

Sketch of a Petition to the Legislature: by the Friends of Peace and Justice in Ireland. By X. Observations on the Nature of Cholera and its Remedy. By G. R. Booth.

Anti-Slavery Reporter, Nos. 99 and 100.

British and Foreign Temperance Herald, No. 9. Illustration of Political Economy, No. VII.: Cousin Marshall, a Tale. By Harriot Martineaux.

In the Press.

The Amulet for 1833, the Eighth of the Series, is announced for pnblication early in November; among its embellishments are prints from Lawrence's pictures of the Duchess of Richmond, and John Kemble as Cato; the other engravings are from paintings by Wilkie, Newton, Mulready. &c. &c. The literary portion of the work will, as heretofore, consist chiefly of articles of permanent interest and value.

The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not, edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall, will be this year published under the joint auspices of Mr. Ackerman and Messrs. Westley and Davis. It will contain several fine engravings on steel, and the literary contents will be, as usual. from the pens of the most eminent writers for the young.

The Buccaneer, a Tale, in 3 volumes, by Mrs S. C. Hall, is announced for publication on the 1st of November.

The Geographical Annual for 1833, is announced to appear early in October, in a far more elegant yet cheaper form than heretofore: it will include all the new discoveries in various parts of the world, and a new map of Great Brttain according to the constitution of 1832.

Records of my Life, by the late John Taylor, Esq. author of Monsieur Tonson," is just ready for pub lication.

Our Island, comprising two tales entitled Forgery and the Lunatic, intended to illustrate some striking defects in our criminal jurisprudence.

The Lives and Exploits of celebrated Banditti and Robbers in all Parts of the World. By Chas. Macfarlane, Esq.

The Spinster's Web, 'a mingled yarn, good and ill together,' will be ready about the middle of October. The Biblical Annual, uniform with the Geogra phical Annual, is on the eve of publication.

Lord and Lady Nugent will shortly publish a work under the title of Legends of the Library at Lilies.

Handsomely bound in rose coloured morocco, Heath's Picturesque Annual for 1833; containing 26 beautifully-finished Plates, executed by the first Engravers, under the exclusive direction of Mr. C. Heath, from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq. In crimson silk, The Keepsake for 1833.

In Turkey morocco, The Literary Souvenir for 1833, edited by Alaric A. Watts.

The New Year's Gift and Juvenile Souvenir for 1833, edited by Mrs. Alaric A. Watts; containing a variety of highly-finished Line-Engravings.

An interesting and useful Volume, to be entitled, The Missionary Annual for 1833, edited by the Rev. W. Ellis.

Bird.
The Emigrant's Tale, with other Poems. By Jas.

Preparing for Publication.

A new and beautiful Edition of Shakspeare, by Mr. Valpy; containing the whole of the 165 Illus trations originally published in Boydell's splendid edition; in 15 Monthly Volumes: to commence on the 1st of December.

A cheap series of Original Novels and Romances, by the most popular authors of Europe and America, conducted by Leitch Ritchie, and Thos. Roscoe.

A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-street, at the commemoration of Sir Thomas Gresham. By Rev. W. M. Blencowes, M.A., late of Oriel College, and Assistant Minister of St. Mark's.

By Subscription, Notilla Ludæ, or Notices of Louth, agro Linc. To be embellished with Eugravings.

LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY H. FISHER, SON, AND CO.

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