pressure has been betweenand where the lowest pressure existed in March. provides for the northern advance of the doldrum and its followingTrade, for in May we shall find that Southeasterly winds prevail betweenand which could not be the case if there were not a higher barometer there than in the zone to the northwardBoth pressure and temperature have increased this month, which is rare; perhaps it is a kind of heaping up of the air before the increased activity of theTrade sets in, causing freer egress to the upper current. Perhaps the great amount of Easterly wind experienced in higher northern latitudes at this season may be related to this heaping up of air in the doldrums; for before Easterly winds can blow in our islands, the barometer must be higher to the northward than to the southward of them, and any check to the upper current which supplies air to the area of high pressure in about would tend to produce such a state of thingThe plain wind arrows show that the strongest Northeasterly wind is still in the northwestern corner of the square ; that theTrade has increased in force betweenand, especially on the western side of the square; also that betweenand the prevailing wind is still very northerly.The dotted wind arrows show that theTrade prevails up to, and that it is weaker and more easterly than the Isotherms of Air and Sea.The isotherms of air and sea are remarkably similar in their shape and positio The air still remains one degree colder than the sea. From the Equator to there has been a slight decease in the temperature of the air, whilst that of the sea has increase The sun having been a month in the northern hemisphere, we may expect the air of theTrade to be cooler, as it would feel the change sooner than the water. The temperature of both air and sea is remarkably uniform fromto, but there is a gradual decrease of aboutFahr. to each degree of latitude between this andsouthern part of the square during the year, appear in its southeastern corner in April.Current ArrowThe plain current arrows show that Westerly currents are the most prevalent throughout the square, whilst their relative lengths indicate that they are strongest in th.

account of small differences in the focal lengths of the lenses attached to the instrumentIn order to bring all the traces to a uniform and convenient standard, they are severally reduced by Mr. Ga]ton’s pantagraph p. 30, which reduces in length and breadth, independently. By its means they are considerably compressed, and their vertical scales are rendered unifor The style of this pantagraph is a steel cutter, which scratches the reduced copies deeply into zinc plate A single zinc plate is allotted to each day at each statio The barogram and two thermograms are cut on its obverse, with fiducial marks attached, and the wind’s direction and velocity are cut on its reversThe wind velocity trace is divided by means of the same pantagraph into hourly sections, starting afresh from the same base linea plan which affords a more useful and intelligible representation than the original recor is due to Mr. De La RuIn respect of this mode of representation of the wind records, the Committee are glad to be able to say that it has received the approval of Dr. Romney Robinson, who is admittedly the highest living authority on all aneraometrical questions, and whose instrument has been adopted at the observatorie By his permission, they reproduce the following extract from a letter lately received from hii think the specimen curves which you have sent me are a great improvement on the former one.They are beautifully distinct, and the scale is quite sufficient to convey all needful informatioThe velocity lines in particular are a great improvement.Notwithstanding their want of parallelism, their extremities form a sufficient approximation to the velocity curve, of which I spoke in my last letter to you, to make an exact delineation of that curve unnecessary.In addition, the rainfall has been inserted for all the observatories at which it was measured at that tim The entry is made at 9 a., and refers to the preceding 24 hourThe accompanying diagram shows the exact size of these zinc plates, and contains the record for the observatory at Falmouth, for the storm in questioThe next step is to bring five of these zinc plates into a row with their fiducial lines carefully.

Thus God chose Momnt Sion, whence the gospel was to it sotmded forth, as the law had been from Mount Sinai.VIL here, is God’s solemnly renewing the covenant of grace with David and pwmking that the Messiah should be of his seed. We have in account . of it in the th chapter of the second book of Samuel. It wa done on occasion of the thoughts David entertained of building God an house. On this occasion God sends Nathan th prophet to him, with the glorious promises of the covenant of grace.’ It is especially contained hi these words in the th verse:And thy house and thy kingdom shall be est&bftshed for ever before thee ; thy throne shall be established for ever.” Which promise has respect to Christ, the seed of David, amIs iWfillwi in Mm mly: For the kingdom of David has long since ceased, any otherwise than as it is upheld in Christ. The temporal kingdom of the house of David has now ceased far a great many ages ; much longer than ever it stood.That this covenant that God Jiotr established with David by Nathan the prophet, was the covenant of grace, is evident by the plain testimony of scripture,Un Isa. Iv. There wt have Christ inviting sinners to come to the waters, &c. And in the d vecse he says, ” Incline your ear, come unto me ; hear, and your souls shall live ; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, even the sure mercies of David. Here Christ offers to poor sinners, if they will come to Mm, to give them an interest in the same everlasting covenant that he had made with David, conveying to them the same sure mercies. But what is that covenant that sinners obtain m interest m, rhen they come to Christ, buj the covenant of grace IThis was the fifth solemn establishment of the covenant of grace with the diurch after the fall. The covenant of grace was revealed and established all along. But there had been particular seaton wherein God had in a very solemn manner renewed this covenant with his church, gmng forth a new edition and estabfi&hment of it, revealing it m a new manner.

an assenting smile; and the rest of the evening was employed in arranging this romantic excursioThey all yrent out to have a. better view of the azurecrowned peak, and lingered till evening set a brilliant diamond on its brow, and then another, till it was encircled by a sparkling bandeau of starry gem Beautiful did it look, invested with the regality of heaven, in the stillness of the midsummer night.” What wa£ the name of this beautiful mountain ?” perhaps some young geographer may ask;. tracing the outlines of the map of imagination, undecided where to paus Its name might be told,for it has a name, and it was baptized with the mists of morning, and the dews of evening,and it is a sweet, euphonious name, given by the Indians, who once hunted at its bas But let it now be incog.Reader! art thou a stranger, far from the home of thy childhood, and the scenes of thy youth? Does not the thought of the green fields and blue hills of thy native soil make thy pulses quicken, and thy cheek glow? Do you not seem to sit once more under the shade of some dear, familiar tree, planted by the hand of your forefathers, and feel the same gale that fanned your infant brow, rustling through its leaves ? your vision, was there one lone hill, rising, like an angel’s throne, above the valley that encircled it, which caught the first gleam of the rising sun, and arrested its last purple ray ? And has not your mother directed your young eye to its summit, and talked to you of the days of old, when God came down upon the mountains, and hallowed them with His presence ? Of Sinai, with its thunders aikd lightnings, and thick smoke; of Nebo, where the aged prophet sat and gazed upon that land he was not permitted to enter; or of Calvary, once stained with the Redeemer’s blood T If there is one spot among the granite hills, round which such associations cluster, imagine this to be the same, and it will be sacred in your eyeBy the rising sun,no: it was long before the rising sun, that Estelle wakened, roused her sisters, and knocked at her brother’s door. They were to have a rery early breakfast, so as to start before the heat of the day commence She had hardly closed her eyes the whole night.

areThen it is not the weight o taxes paid out of ?”"The earnings of the country.”" What are earnings ?”" The wages of work.”" Ought not the taxes then to be easier paid when there are more workers ?”" It would seem so.”" f taxation that fifrces you away; for it is not the part of a heavily burdened community to push out those who help to carry the loa”" We are tired of helping to carry the loa”" And you come to the State to ask it to spend money on weakening itself by sending you to the uttermost parts of the earth ?”" We should not want to quit our country, if our country valued u Our country ought not to see us starve!”" Why do you starve ?”" Because work is very bad to get, and when we get it the wages will hardly keep u”" Why dont your employers give you more work and better wage”" They tell us taxes are very heavy, and money is very scarce ; they cant get anything like a fair price for their good Besides, they dont get ready money for their goods, but bills at long date j and they do say the discount off the bills eat up all the profits; so they stop their works, or any way knock off hands and time, and then we starve by million”" But why shouldnt their customers give them ready money for ready goods ?”" Why, sir, I dont suppose there be ready money enough in all the country for that.”" What is money made for ?” ” To pay wage”"What for?”" For making good”" Who are wages paid by ?”" By them that sell good”" How are they to get it ?”" From them that buy the good”" Then money is made to pay for goods ? How much money should be made ?”" Well,should think enough to pay for the goods that are mad”"If there was ready money enough in the country for every dealer to pay ready money for his ready goods, wages would be better and work easier to find ?”"Most likely.”" When flour is very scarce and dear, how do you manage to fill your bellies ?”"We eat potatoes?”" Are potatoes as nourishing as bread and pudding ?”" No ! but theyre a deal better than nothing.”" Tou consider it a sign that bread stuffs are scarce when you see operatives wives cooking great mashes of potatoes as a substitute for loaves and puddings ?”" Certainly!”" Are bills money ?”" I dont know.

tnat it is as clearly toe design Qf Providence that the fertile wastes of the New Worldsiionid d© iructmea dv tne emigrant nopuiations oi tee Did world, as tnat tne sun snouid eve ugnt ana neat ; thai Lord Bacon says colonisation is an heroic work; that it is the emigrant who has earned the languageot atiaissoearG ana Milton over nan tne eartn; tnat u Britain be the empire on which the sun never sets, it is to her emigrant warnors that Britain mainly owes the boast: and that emigration is an older and a nobler thing, andone ©reductive oi tar grander results, man arms, arts, commerce, law. pnvsic. or divinity.I’EE booial and economical semefits of emigration., and John Stuart Mill repeats thatColonisation is the very best affair of business in which an old overpeopled country can engage.” The dictum might well blazon in gold as a guardian motto, at Westminster, and be the handwriting on the wall of every chamber of commerce in the kingdom. It is a national truism and this is another,of all Bntish exports, tne most vromaoie export, is tne emigrant.in tne last iortv years o.uuu.uuu oeonie. nearly oneiourtnoar nresent population, nave sailed irom tne United Kingdom to our three great emigration fields. Amenca. Canada, and Australia. The national convulsions, the social earthquakes, which our little islands have escaped by the safe seaward flow of this, its populationlarva, defy an computation, u tnese six minions oi emigrants, ana, their increase four millions more, had been caged up in our narrow streets and fields, increasing a thousandfold the numbers of our destitute and our desperate, who will assert that England would now have been England, that the Guelphs would have been at St. James’s, the Russells at Woburn, the Stanleys at Knowlsey.

Not a day passes, nor scarcely an hour, where there is a family of children, in which there is not a loud call for the qse of this discriminating faculty. Questions of discipline, involving praise or blame, of physical, intellectual,  and moral wants, where queries and doubts arise, together with other inevitable issues, demand its exercise almost continually. Let us notice some points by way of illustration.  Suppose the question is one of discipline. The child has violated some parental command, and is arraigned for trial. whether his wrongdoing is the result of accident or intention; whether his nervous system is not affected by illness, or something else, to incline him more easily to disobedience; whether he has violated the parental command, with a full and clear understanding of the nature of the evil perpetrated, or, whether partial ignorance is the parent of his wrong; and finally, whether the violation may not have  Life  all a sum-mer day, Happy hours of child-ish glee, Hours that never more can be!   All are gone with years long fled ; Happy hours of child-ish jjlee, Hours that never more can be!   Welcome, welcome, festive hours! Light of heart, we hail your light! Rule us with your quiet   When above us clouds are scowling—When our light and comfort fail—’Mid the tempest fiercely  powers, Sway us by your gentle might; Friendship, spread thy sweets before us, Friendship,   howling, Let thy voice of love pre - vail, Shed-ding balm o’er gloom and sadness—’    ehed thy blessings o’er us, Wreaths to deck thy shrine we bring; Friendship reigns, in union Bing.  grief to peace and gladness; Higher, purer praises bring! To the source of Friendship sing.   POVERTY OF AUTHORS.  Few people are aware of the want and suffering that has heen the lot of many whose literary toils have contributed to make the world of letters what it is. American homes are cheered by the writings of men whose penury denied them all the luxuries, and many of the necessaries of life. The following is a somewhat startling enumeration of facts upon this subject.  Defoe was a writer of celebrity, and the author of more than two hundred books and pamphlets, yet he died insolvent. He might not have been a competent financier to husband his means, but still the fact of “much writing and poor pay,” was apart of his experience. Goldsmith, whose fame is still bright in the halls of learning, enjoyed but a miserable subsistence, at least in the early part of his career. He wrote his “Inquiry into the State of Polite Learning,” in a small, uninviting apartment, furnished with but a single chair and table. Samuel Boyce was a well-known literary character of the last century, yet he was so indigent, that his friend, Dr. Johnson, often solicited contributions for him. Nor was Dr. Johnson himself, in much better circumstances. With all his talents as a writer, he was frequently known to shun affluent society because his poverty would not allow the purchase of decent apparel. A fine American Essayist writes the following paragraph of Johnson and his cotemporaries: “A large portion of the life of so eminent a man as Dr. Johnson was spent in a desperate and nearly fruitless attempt to keep up the connection between his body and soul, constantly threatened by pressing wants.” The char  acter of a considerable portion of professional authors was little highe/ than that of street beggars. Occasionally they would obtain a little money. Kiot and gaming soon relieved them of it. With the proceeds of a successful pamphlet or servile dedication, to use the words of another, ‘they soon diced themselves into spunginghouses, or drank themselves into fevers.’ ‘The art of dodging a bailiff and bilking a landlord, was more important to the poet than the art of pointing an epigram or polishing a period.

The standing rules of the convent strictly direct that no sister shall ever look out from a window that does not immediately command the enclosure; that she never shall raise her veil so as to reveal her eyes to a stranger; that she shall never touch any male, not so much as to press the hand of her father or brother. In this convent the “bars” are maintained; that is, long iron bars run up in the centre of the strangers’ room, so as to divide the visitor from the nun he is desirous of speaking to, who can never be seen without the lady superior’s presence, or that of some nun deputed by her to remain as a compulsory listener. Private communications, either by letter or interview, are wholly impracticable. these rules we leave it to the reader to discover the exact degree of benefit conferred by the order upon mankind in general, or the Catholic religion in particular; and in what consists the good example the life affords for the edification of the world and the glorification of God. The generality of the nuns who become inmates of these exclusive convents are ladies whose wishes have been thwarted in the choice of a husband, and those who by a life of gaiety have become at length so disgusted with their own unthinking folly, that they are glad to retire from its scenes under the false belief that the world is devoid of good because they never endeavoured to discover it; some few there are who enter from a supposed vocation, which, as the conventual life is of all others the one most free from worldly trouble, they ultimately attain a decided partiality for its useless industry or placid quietude. Connexion with the world or its affairs ceases from the moment they are professed, and during the noviciate it is the anxious care of the superior to keep from the postulant any information which may endanger the equanimity of her mind, or draw her attention to matters which might possibly lead her to abandon the life of a nun. Even family affairs—such as require the absolute attention of the novice or nun—are at all times made a matter of disagreeable necessity; frequently, if not according with the interests of the convent, a concise note is received stating that ill health prevents the nun attending to the subject, and that the superior is desired to state that such and such a thing cannot be complied with. Should the relative 11feel indignant at such treatment, well knowing that the ill health is a “pious ruse,” as it is termed in conventual phraseology, he may hasten by “Express” and demand an interview with his kinswoman. The trustworthy daughter of the Church placidly crosses her hands upon her bosom, and from behind the stout iron bars meekly assures the imperative relation that the orders of the convent expressly forbid the admission of any stranger whatever within the enclosure; that she dares not, on the peril of her salvation, allow him to see the sister demanded, who is ill in the infirmary,without permission from their holy father, but she will deliver any message. The indignant relative turns upon his heel, and declares he will petition the pope. The abbess smiles, for she has baulked a worldling, and the convent is the gainer by the “pious ruse.” Redress is, in such cases, utterly impossible, the novice is so controlled that her consent is obtained to any proposition which it may suit the convent to adopt, and therefore legal proceedings are useless, whilst the expostulation with the bishop is only bringing the evidence of an accomplice to acquit the prisoner. Only a few years ago three children were left destitute orphans with a half sister, then a notice in one of these convents, who was possessed of a very large fortune.