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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Signal, 1848-09-29, Page 1.4 r, e i TEN SIIILLINUti in ADTAeCe. VOLU M N: 1. 1,500,000 ACRES OF LAND FOR SALE IN CANADA WES1`e THF CANADA COMPANY have fur despond, about 1,600,000 ACRES OF LAND dispersed throughout most of the Townships in Upper Canada—nearly 600,- 000 Acres aro situated in the Huron Tract, well known as tone of the moat tactile parts of the Province—it has notated its popula- tion in Ave years, and now contains up- wards of 90,009 inhabitants. The LANDS aro ofTerrd by way of 1. 1. A Y E , for Ten Years, or for Safe, C A S H D O W N—tet plan r f one fifth Cosh, and tar Mslance in /es(ul- wents being dose messy wile. The Roots payable 1st February each year, are about the Interest at Sia Per Ceet.upon the price u( the Land. Upon most of the Lots, wheat LEASED, NO 51ONEY iS REQUIRED DOWN—whilst upon the others, accordteg to locality, one, two, or three years Kent, must be paid in advance, —but theirs payments will free the Settler from further calls until Said, 3rd or 4th year of hes term of Lease. The right to PURCiLINT:'the FREE- HOLD during the tern, is secured to the Leasee at a fixed sum named in Lease, and an allowance is made according to entice patted payment. 'rats u( Lands, and any further informa- tioo can be obtained, (by application, if by letter post-paid) at the Cuereer's Ontctts, Toronto and Codcric! ; of R. Btaus.ee, E.q., Asphodel. Colburne District ; Dr. ALLI Io, Grelpk, or J. C. W. I)ALr, Eaq., Stratford, Huron Lhctrtet. Godench, March -11,1848. 7 STRACHAN 8 LI7JARS, BARRISTERS and Attornte. at Law, L Solicitors to Chancery, and Bankrupt- cy, Notary Public and Conveyancers, Gtele- rich and Stratford, Huron District, C. W. Iona ST1t1CI1Ax, GoJcrlch. Da iugL Hod'h LKAas, Stratford. God.ricb, April 90, 1848. 6m1 NOTICE. APPLICATION will be made to the welt Session of the Provincial Legielatium for leave to bring in a 21111 to sonsutute and form the following Townships and Gore, and Bleck of Land, viz :—North Easthope, South Easthope, Downie end Gore,—Ellice, Blanchard, Fullerton. Logan and lltbbert,— Wellesley, elornin_ton and Mary -borough, and Western half of Wilmot, and tee Beek of Land bebmd Logan,—Into a new Dis- trict. ALFA. MITCHELL. Scc'y of Committee. Statlyd, [Huron), tat of April, 1848. 4 • 10m8 FARM FOR SALE. THE Subscriber offer. for sale Lot No. one in the seventh Concession of the Township of Colborne, West Division. There is on the premisn a small Log Barn, with 15 acres ander good cultivation, and well fenced. The Land is of excellent quality, and within 6 o,iles of the Town of Godench, eoouimog 100 acres. TERMS of Sale wall be made known by applying to William Robertson, Esq., Can- ada Company's Office, Goderich, or to the subscriber. DAVID SMITH. Gedeneb, March 1'.t, 1848. 8tf TO THOSE IT MAY CONCERN. MR. OLIVER; having left the whole of hie unsettled accounts with the Clerk of the 1st Division Court, Godench, telvises all parties indebted to hint to see that gen- tlem■ before the 20th of next month.— Any information rcquiree, will be given at the office only, where a person will be al- ways in attendance. Goderieb, Juno 29, 1848. JOHN J. E. LINTON, n O T A a T Gbmntiseioner Queen's Ben**, AND COPIVEYANCER, STRATFORD. NOTICE. /TIME inhabitants of the town of Goderich will apply to Parliament few en Act to leotpo- rete the said t.wa. Godench, July 5111111, 1848. g;if DR. HAM- LI TON, $ IJRG EON, WJUT state?, 0 0 O i R i C H. E. C. WATSON, PAINTER AND GLAZUERr PA PLA PIANOS',,4s•t*, O ODEk1CII D. Vii A T R 0 N,. RARRi3TF.R AND ATTAR'•BoY AT LAW, saucer.% ew cnAnessr, ea•xtttrevey, ke. OPI'WE iK THE MARKET SQUARE, GODERIC11. 1.8.,1848. Sy "THE GREATEST POSSIBLE GOOD TO *He GREATEST POSSIBLE NUMBER." (UDERICII, HURON DISTRICT, (U. W.) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1848. p o c t t!. MY HUSBAND USES TOBACCO. 114 sits is hie chair from m- oraieg to sight, 'Tu. smoke, chew, smoke ;. He rises at dawn his pipe to light, Goes puffing and chewing with all his might, Till the hour cl sleep. 'Tis his delight To smoke, chew, smoke. The quid goes in when his pipe gees ost, 'Tr, chew, chew, chew ; Naw, • cloud of smoke pour, from his throat, Theo, his mouth sends a constaot stream afloat, Sufficient to carry • mill or a boat, 'Ti. chew, chew, chew. He sits all day in a smoke or fog, 'Tis puff, miff, puff ; 11e growls at his wife, the cat and the deg, He covers with filth the carpet and rug, And his only answer when 1 gree hint a jog, Is puff puff, pug The house all o'er (rote end to end, la snwke, smoke, smoke; is whatever room ort' way I weed, 1(1 take his old clothes is patch and mead, Umgrateful perfumes will ever ascend, Of smoke, smoke, smoke. At borne or abroad, afar or near, 'Tis smoke, chew, smoke; , flit month n staffed Asrw-eer ro air, Or puffing the stump ofa pipe so dear, .and hi. days will end, leerily fear, • la smoke, smoke, smoke. Young ladies, beware ' lire single, iudeed. Ere you marry a mu who aloes " the weed:" !tetter that hu.baods you ever should Zack, 0, Than marry a!'►esbend who sees tobacco." ON A NEW FASHIONED BONNET. Julia, one day, put on i bran•new bonnet, And Fnnk, her sweetheart, an odd sort of /tick. • Feeling inclined to cat a joke upon it, Slaty remarked—" 1 see you've chosen a aiss- rna-quirk." -. Yee'n wrong," cried Julia, in a playfel mood : "But if you really wish its name to knew, "As L'm food of plenty of a thing so ppd. "Iehese—wkat think you, Freaki+e Ake 71. -slow . ,, From the Ornstein Examiner. CHRISTIANITY .AND SOL TALISM. [CONTINUED !KIUM OCR L.t,T.] Little fruitful as the ctL rt• of political econmuts have been in establishing • true social order, and discordant as their views have been, there are a few principles tbat appear now to have the sanction of the leading thinkers of every school. First, it is allowed that all international warfare is a mutual injury, and teat all ag- gressions by one nation upon the rights of another is virtually an assault upon its own customers or market,—an attack upon its own interests. There is something very cheering in the peace doctrines that are now so extensively taught. The ideas once deemed so visionary, when enunciated by St. Pierre, have been taught In almost eve- ry portion of Europe from the pages of Say, and have found no champion more able than our own countryman, Carey. Sesondly, •the condition of the laborer is now anxiously considered, and methods are sought by which he may be made to share more abundantly in the distribution of the wealth to the production of which he is so essential. Mr. Mull regards tho future of the laborer as the great question of social science, and reviews with much wisdom and humanity the means pointed out for eleva- ting the laborer's condition. If he had spoken his mind fully, we doubt not that he would have taken the right ground as to thelaw■ of entail and primogentture, and condemned a system that tends to exaggerate the evils of monopoly and limit the salutary diatribe - lion of wealth. The •pint that animates his " Political Economy " is far more gene- rous than that which breathes through the pages of the "Christian Polity " of Chal- mers. The Scotch theologian is right in regarding the religious education of the people as the chief ground of their welfare, but ba too much disposition to make lugbt of the tremendous, tojusuce of Ikutisb legis- lation. The third principle acquiesced in by most polleeal economists urges the removal of all restrictions upon industry, hopes more from opening free paths to individual enter- pnse than from attempting to adjust the interests of labor by legtalative control, asd looks with chief oos6deees to the general culture of the people a the meas. of their social elevation. The Leiser: /sire doc- trine, the Imt•alone policy, mon end more prevails. No great none in political econ- omy advocates the opposite course, except as • temporary expedient. Mr. Mill would isms pauperism (removed at mice by colon,• Deane sed other nt.an., yet b• trusts to the i08uence of education, and not to industrial lime, to keep the • ail from returning.— Political economy t us leares to other hands the solution of he great bocia( prob- lem. it chime no power to regt:hte pries, that tenable Malley whishdispotisms a/e- seee or starvation in musky. Biangvi thee closets has portraiture of tk. stat• of Pommy us Europe :—" Rebole what singular coa- trasl. ! Political •o"eomy le 611ed milk them, and mees.1IIle a sew history full el eontrvt• still mon strap opens upon it, jest as lite dream* 1h We turn now to another quarter, which presents claims to our regard far more em- bltimes. We will glance at the doctrines of the S.ecuJtats. We use the term in no offensive sense, but ui its philosophical meaning, as it is glow used in Europe. It designates those who into to reform society by a new social science, and cduprehends the must venous cl , from the wildest communist to the must careful and scientif- ic philosopher. It takes to Owen and Louis Blanc, St. Simon and Fourier, and certainly then not exclude thinkers Tike !/111 and Lo marline. We will speak, however, of the only &chord of Socialism that datum cdrn- pleteness,—the school of urns - whom Blas- qut clan as the third of that trio of Utopian economists, Owen, St. Sinton, and Fourier. 01 the communism of Owen nothing need be said, am It !has reduced itself to an absur- dity, and the common sense of mankind can never favor a doctrine that robs men of mo- tive and society of wealth, by impairing the inducement to -labor in destroying the coo section between industry and reward. $t. Simoniautnn has vanished In vap;rr. Be- ginning to attempt, at industrial reform, it lostelf in theological mysticism and svpersublitluted sen.Balism. The uoly el- ement that it possessed of any permanent Milne pained into the sy.tem of Fourier — the doctrine that men should be employed accord:rag to their capacities, and rewarded according to then work. it did not adv. - este community ul property, although at sought to abolish the right of inhentaace and leaned to another kind of communities even more objectionable. it aimed at a fraternal order, whilst at strove to erect a despotic hierarchy over labor and lute.• Fourier professed to have discovered the true social wiener-, and his followers urge the claims of bis system with a positive- ness and confieence that have no parallel to history except in the ranks of that Church which is deemed by in members infallible. We do not propose to enter into a renew or criecium of his doctrine., as -they have in so many ways been of late brought before the public. The scheme surely is very 110 - posing, and in tits pretensions unites a cer- tain Oriental magnificence with the exact forms bf European thought ; as if the spirit of Vyasa ur Manes hid entered the mind of Laplace or Babbage, and dreamed their mys- tical dreams in the formulas of mathematics, NM is e11 the strange utnsgery furnished by the isdestrisl and acienttee wonder, of the nineteenth century. With the generic principle of the system of Fourier we have no quarrel. Association khis country. ft would be difficult to find passage' in the Arabian Nights more ex• travagant than some of Fourter's specula- tions upon the phtloeopby of Datura, or to 'elect any passages in the Whole range of political economy more acute and compre- hensive than some of bis dissections of our present civilization and statements of need- ed reform. A matt must have mon than the maw of Gargantua to ,wallow Fourier - inn whole, in all the strangeness of its cosmogony, metempsyehosu,bureal crown., aid predicted moos, whilst the acuteness even of Bentham could not fol to receive many of Its statements as just. To us the the Aeauciationtet theory seems altogether to overestimate the power ofex- ternat arrangemeuts to transform the di.po- mtiows of men, and some of its arrange- who ts to erect his central palace on the menu Ind principles, moreover, are morally shores of the Bosphorus, and dispense order objectionable. flow it is that life un the to the nations with a majesty of which "phalanstery" is to be free from the usual Cunstantine never dreamed! iefirrnities and passions of mankind,—how The followers of Fourier profess their strifes and hatred are to cease within those readiness to test their principles by the sec - favored precut., and industry and order and cent of a fair experiment. We wait the affluence are to abound,—we cannot con- result of an actual phalanstery to free us entre, unless the members of the auociatioe from the dilemma in which their pretensions are a very select class, already educated place us,—the doubt whether their system under the best Christian influences. How will suffer more from wait of completeness Use evils of competition are to be avoided be- in attracting men to industrial order, or of Meta nvaf phalanaterie., and the fiuctua- efficiency In keeping them in subordination tons of prices and the awards of labor kept to the establishes rule. The author of the at a desirable limit, we cannot understand, book to which we have just referred does without presupposes, • state of things that not expect his vision of the Spherical Re - cannot exist in a senna not wonderfully gency, Universal Harmony, Renovated pervaded by the blessing' of education and Globe with its Boreal Crowns, to be rev .. its attendant taduatry and frugality. We zed for centuries ; yet he urges the noees- object. too, to the theory of human nature my of immediately starling a model phal- hvored byFourier, which ascribes evil so auste►y. The auCeees of the expenun.nt Inclussey to circumstances, vice solely to would, Wilk molt persons, decade the rnents misfortune, vindicates tendencies which of the system. Until success crowns the Christianity coedemne, and takes away effort, we must assign to Fourier a place in meal of the ngsificaaee with which Chris- Utopia with Plato sod Sir Thomas More. temity rebukes oto sod r is its doom.— %Ve take counsel now of the Cbristian We are willing that einem should be roe- moralist, and ask what solution he can giv Bred attractive, but are little disposed to of the social problem of our age. in al accept the nee, that whatever is really iris 'Chnau•nity has core -creed itself se attractive must, under even the bent earthly tively with the social condition nT man, ,land arrangement., be virtuou,. 'We reject the Church has never utterly forgotten 1• utterly ,the claims of any man'to be pier ehjoin mercy upon the powerful, and offs moral guide, who is willing, in the booted comfort to the feeble. The Apostolic comprehensiveness of hie theory to organize Church, in the enthusiasm of its first love illicit love, and among the divisions of the had property in common for a nine, al phalanstery to erect into • distinct class though the act of surrender was purely vol those whom he designate. as Rapider" and Beyaderes. Under any state of things that we .an imagine, the exuten.e of such • body an any thing lake .octal vicinity must be • auimaace utterly to be deprecated.— We eprecated—We are away! that our Associationists re- n. another name for ..ei.t and the Pre '1 pet the charge, that such licentiousness has 7+ p a necessary consecuon with their esaeotial greet of eocie'y is but the development of principles. We are far from considering the pried; to of ssaociaucn. A Christian Rem as favonng immorality or as respoo- township differs from. a mange wilderness stale for ■11 the opinions of their leader.— by the extent to which association is car- Still we feel ourselves warranted in .peak &ted and the principle of accommodation Hite of this objectionable point, when we are taken the place of strife. Ices 'great thing, told that Fourier has expounded the com• that we lice in town, and cities, when, road.• s. tare,, plate social science, and all other teacher, I rch � r'•, hall" churches, are to hide their dnutntshod heads. The have bean created by mutual accummnda- whole doctrine of the desirableness of luxe - nen, and each man for a tri8iog tax eojoya Ty, whish.ties at the basis of the phalanst.- advantages which cont millions of dollars to psovede. The prtnctple that calls man into et, seems to ne very gticetionabl.. That 1 e more society calls bum to constant progress, and merit mulles ever ,awg an cbe favorable loeot than athe true or Ver - who shall pt out a tonna to the power of life of man, we cannot easily believe. Whole accommodation 1 Baths, garden., fountain., in this world, we cannot so entirely repudi- meats, it is undeniable that the rise of the seienttfic hall., musical concerts, might be ate the self–denial of the cross, nor du we various denominations has been attended open to the inhabitants of mut considerable think it well to tell men striving for their' with a constant development of social ter - community, if they would devote to them a dailybead and cheered byho f on- tue, , and portion of the sem they waste on indulgen• r hopes oreason-1 p"wer, oroe Parity• Who will deny ter that unbruteand impovendh Them. able .access, that they ought to feast better . that the history of Christianity constantly lo common with imr. Mull, hware ready than kings and revel in every indulgence, ullustrates the connection between Christian and acknowledge, moreover• the desirableness with lees should not be, content. principle and good acral economy, or that of admtll le tabor to a r. th in the profits Yet we rejoice at the agitation of the 1Vesley, Bunyan, Fox. and such !anode, of arbutuses. Men work betwhen their leading que.tions raised by tbe,Aasociation- have done far more to bring on a true civ - pay depends upon their zeal; and the head stn' They stand on ground mostly tree of the establishment is interested in making from the evil. of communism, and are de- of workmen feel them.etres partners In hie success. The experiment of Leclaire of Paris, praised by the North British Review and by Mr. Mill, is worthy of Serio ie con- sideration, and th. (peanut' should be ask- ed, Hew many' laborers ioo.t beneficially bccocome partners in the profits of their work ? It is very obvious, that, until they are able to take some "baro in the risk of the titmice's, they cannot expect to claim work on Swedenborg and Fourier, that the Chnsuedely of the New Testament is a sealed book without hie mystical commen• tart'. He thinks it not inaptitude'. appa- rently, that Christianity may soon appear in a new development quite a marked as Coat in which Athenanes fixed the doctrine, Leo led the organization, and Hildebrand will arise to carry out the doctrines ret Swedenborg and the organic laws of Four- ier. We can bardly believe that any genius leas stern anal despotic could succeed to reducing to practice a system which, unless a miracle should enable it to harmonize all discordant elements and suMlue all refrac- tory wills, must be enforced by commanding power such as of old make kings tremble and thrones fall. Where is the autocrat TWELVE AND li1X PENCE AT TNK IND OP Ten Test. NUMBER 33. 'LIMPING UP APPEARANCiI1'i.. IIT ILriten £ owetneL. Tim keeping up of appearances is • dio- cese not peculiar to one individual or one claw. All the sound is always trying to keep up appearances. It is the means by which every body deceives every body, and more curfuus still, constantly deceives him - eel f. When any unfortunate individual fain in the attempt to keep up appearances, a!l the reel of the world flies at him and tears hint peacuureal. Ito is dragged before judges appointed fur the purpose, in a court'solely appropriated to try such fools; and there placed in confinement, that he may not have the opportunity of again disgracing the world by failing in hu attempt to keep up appearances ; nine -tenths of his judges and detractors all the while trembling on the verge of the same destructive fall : yet limy smile on, as if the greatest 'tato of security, lavishing their melon with troubled souls, because they must keep up Reentrant—ea. The world is always straunurg and over- reaching itself, in all its grades, to be in the one above it. Every one wishes to be thought something more than he or see really is. Thus you see the maid of all work, or family drudge, hunger for bar holiday ; and when it arrives, fag herself to death by wandering through the etreets in her best things—many degrees too fine— with a veil and boa which she must put in her pocket before see returns house: uwtely fur the fleeting vanity of being taken for somebody who did not know the shape of a atop or • scrubbing brush. Many a man who is obliged to keep up appearances by dressing well—which is a very expensive part of the delusion—meet cut down his expenses in other quarters ;— e 'consequently his lodging loses in respucta- t I bllity of situation what his coat gains in texture and cut. To have his boots alwa7e In an undeniable state, be must put up with a second floor back ; and if Insane enough to r indulge to a taguont with velvet facings and Llama shawl, suppers must be represented by hard biscuits• The cheap locality in which this kind of . single appearance lives is of little conse- gnenco to him. His cautious manauvres to get out of it, from his nervous apprehen- sion of being sero by the world that really cares nothing about him, are amusing and droll. Ile pops out suddenly with a hurried glance around, to see that the coast is clear; the door is slammed to with a nervous twitch, as if he placed this trap upon the dome&tic demon in posseastan of has secret. Bet before emerging from the end of the street into the word, he looks up at the name of the street, when, seeing all right, he starts out upon the broad pavement, de- fying the world to say or believe that he had cleaned his own boots of unexceptiona- ble make. The keeping tip of appearancee i. in'the main a drollery, prompted by vanity. pride and folly ; yet to many cases it is a thief/ter e much pathos, and through its wnrkinge en*: shown some of the most beautiful feeling.. , of our nature. We can see unmoved ikb stripling issuing from his .widowded rnotlb area door to seek the drudgery of his office, that promises him, ere long, • renuuneratioe that will enable him to place that fund mother in comfort—see his nicely folded cellar, white as snow, falling over the ecru pnlonsly brushed jacket ; and the old silk handkerchief tied un by her careful hand lo guard against the early morning cold. In a neat paper packet, he bears his frugal dun- ner unknowing that lits mother makes her tea du fur dinner and all, that sbe may have a comfortable meal for hei darling buy on hs return ; thus touching on the very verge of starvation that he may keep up appear- enee.. , untary, and each man was left free to gave or wtlhhuld its own. Afterwards more judicious counsels prevailed, and Christians, as they Increased in numbers, shunned the dangers of communism by relieving the wants of the needy through contnbutionu that wore based upon the idea of the right of Individual property, under a sense of rest poneibiliues to God. 1Ve need not name the seeial revolutions produced by Christi- anity, --the rebuke of oppression, --the emancipation of the slave,—the elevation of the laborer,—the defence of the feeble,—v the protection of woman,—the aboliton of eelvierev,--,the care tit the poorr.—thereli- glees edecatien of the people. It is obtious, that, without entering into any ainbitious historical disquisitions, the experience of any Christian deoomioa'ioo is enough to prove the power of Christianity to remove the worst social• evils. Alloyed as our sectarian religions may be .vitt] baser ele- fenders of the rights of property and the connection between labor and reward.— They have called attentiun to many crying evils of our civilization, and have thrown much light upon the philosopby of society. We hope much from the didcuseions started by them regarding attractive industry, the division of labor, the evils of hostile compe tition, the power of onion, the wastefulness of isolited households, the remedied for the any greatly increased share in 118 profits.— sewn scourges of mankind. We welcome It a obvious, too, that, so long as laborer the many indications against losses by fire areas numerous and ill -educated as at pies•end shipwreck, and towards the whole sye- ent, they can expect tittle alleviation, and tem of insurance in case of property,health, must work at about the nate market price 'ed life. Wile can tell how far the princi- ple of guarantyiem, as the Assoctatiomsts now, sod at beet hope to increase their %Ve call it, is to be corned? Or who will limit gas by with unities' industry std skill. We tA. application of the principle to protection watch souk great inurest the progresa of the movement that tends to assoc�artee the against lou, and refuse to extend it to the laborer with the employer in the profits of attainment of periuve gain! We look business. What hope, however, can there with much hope in the direction opened by the school of Fourier for the results of ju- diciously combined labor, that shall facili- tate productive industry, prevent waste, and Riese a just distribution of the goods of life. Not for any ordinary perpnte has Di- vine Providence furnished man with hs mighty armament of industry. The gigan- tic powers of art, that have Nen discovered within the last century, await a true order of society for thetr worthy use. Only in true association ea. man wield fitly such be of any good result, until labor Is elevated morally and intellectually far beyond its present standard, and Christianity bas in - ermined the power of the workman over his fortunes by increasing hes power over htm- ssll, and so acted upon the capitalist as to move him to regard with more solicitude the lot of those less wealthy than he But the Assocuauonist deems himself dis- missed with faint praise, when his system i. ,poked of, however favorably, merely to mighty weapons. They are arms, not fur its g•eeral principle. Ifs is content with i isolated individuals bat fur eombsed num- no ba.judginent short of the declaration, that hers,—(or what 14wsdenbor mt ht call, in he has hit upon the complete science of so- •lower than kis customary Danns, the ciety, and all evils would disappear if his y Grand Yac method ware followed. To the system of Fourier, thus presented, we orcoursehave many grave objections. 1Ve have been for several years at some pates to acquiat our- selves with Its principes, and hare been a constant reader elite leading able organ in • The foolish attempt of Louis Blanc no fix an •goal rate of wages foe all kinds of labor, and to take the indutry of the nature ander the ima.- agvmeat of the go•ereni..q sane,• to hs•o revue bleed the folly o/ Oweni•m w,,8 Me 4eap.uawi of Se Atnt.eianlssn. W have se doubt that he Ina mesh rmlie..d b his Phaser* sf pnomew.and ha far store comfortable ewes is hut ameigwoua ats.drng is the enamel Amenably than as the Mi'n'er of ladmwry at the paless of the L.xes- bsere. The beet eore for a ruineary is to wt him so earryfsg eat Ne elands We are to follow onr bent light, of detailing that the Providence that !ias brought our race to such interesting de 1- optuaents will open new ages of blesiing upon tis path. That the precise oche/nee of our AsseveisNseim freeds will be realt- Med, we have little futl. It is enough to say of Diem, that th y have been moat earnest tar e•11 interne) to the great prinei- plee of true order, and that every step in human progress must exhibit •ometbirjg of the harmony rel which they dream. They must hide their time. end give np the lolly of 'hinting that all efforts to elevate man- kind are d no meet when disconnected with formulas of their syel.m. We seal be ex- cseed'rem b.B.vieg, with the slither eft8. • thzauon than any of our boasting senates Hardly a more interesting book could be written than one upon the political and ue• tial economy of Christianity, a shown to the history of the Christian Church In its various communions. It would nut fail to prove that the religion of the Bible elevates Its recewvers both to social welfare and in spiritual life, and that their temporal as well as spiritual prosperity becomes a blessing to others as well as to themselves. Dr. Chalmere deserves great credit for the pow- er with which he urges the necessity of Chnstsnity to a people in order to elevate them. • He paints with a masterly hand the influence which a Christian purpuae at once exerts upon a household and upon a com- munity. Ifow can it be otherwise? A man'' wet fare dopende ter more upon his purpose► than upon any of the accidents of fortune. Character controls the outward lot mere• than the outward lot controls character.— What can act more beneficially upon char. actor than a cordial recognition of the Goll of the New Testament, and of the obliga• tions and privileges of that heavenly king- dom -revealed with Di►u,e authority by out Saviour ? Wherever Christianity is sin- corely welcomed, a radical change taker place in the life of the individual and the hebils of the cothmunity. The plainest Chnstan virtues, such as chastity, imbrue tv, frugality, peace, have more to do wile promoting the true prosperity ofa family or town than any specifics of prrhucians or tbeor es of socialists. Where th se vermes fail, the fertility of Eden would become a curse. Where these exist, Um lingenial sod whose native product. are little more than granite mad ace becomes an Eden in pease aid plenty. How potrerful is the Chewier' idea of domestic puny and omen ! AIe adulterous people, I,8. the Parisians, hero not yet learned that there is in tett Rablw a sestet of pol,t,cal *content, far more ellen mri than eon be found in any of the m'e'te speculations of their theorists. The Christian flintily, honest, indulin vas, temperate, Madly, seeking worldly good with a dee regard Ito moral principles and eternal aims, is airways a source .,f power and hisssing to the rmnmu•uty, emaswera- beg swdt.enty or afll,ueme by • spirit that shows how match the kiagdoui of beanie may exist ne tin. pith. The clerk of narrow stipend who *Inns did brilliantly, is taken in by appearanccm, until he fled* it itnpoesible to disentangle himself from the enthralment, of blue eyes and ringlets, and in that moment, which most mea have in their lives, proposes for the fair ooe to the old people, cunning in keeping up appearances, who accept accor- dingly, and he soon marries • young lady with a very nice voice, and a chertning per- former on the pianoforte. That is Melt behind her for her younger sisters to practice upon. Hero begins his struggle to keep up •p - penances. He must oak• and wine tam friends, or they would thunk. him as poor as Is in. "To be poor and seem ■e, us the devil," say the old people, and he c' masts all setts of follies accordingly. In t`,• course of time Inc fine child is christened— every body comes, This is about the last scintillation. Common melee comes to the young couple, and they find that they mast pull in, or they will soon he nnab4 to keep u p appearances at all. Now eonmences hie hard work. flats will get shabb►,ctolhes will get reedy, and boot. •re not evcrlat- mg ; yet it wont do for the nattiest man in the office to lose his piece in the reale.— her new silk dre•s,-*h har M mat' have out a new coat ; she CLIVI and enntnve• to lwrbi.tt op last year's bonnet, see with the aid of new nbsnie people who ere net tee prytwg might r •Ily lake it for • bonnet just ,est home. Her songs and her ,•nukes are for-' go ten in her aux sty test they shouts' keep appearances. If asked hr mug, she stem- bles for want of practice, and seldeet semis .except to the batty, vibe s ao great judge. She fellow* her huskiest to t8e door, oe hs morning departure, w1th the brash In her hand to take off the bast bit of ere, .r have another Weak at ba MI ; and h•, walks out looking •1 least fiwibwdred • year, if PIM more : sad no nw., he leek at hen, would think that 8. was • nein likely to tremble at • water-e•te, frit he keeps up •ppe•na- cos rreotemoniy well. Another child is born ! H,e hat must get r I