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Our receipts have not been as large as would be desirable, and it is hoped that increased interest may be manifested by Friends in our proceedings during the coming year, and ample means furnished for more extended usefulness.

promotes distinctness in uttering words made up ing House, Orchard Street, with the other of those elements. Now, the phonographic al-Tracts. phabet, as we have explained, is made up of these Purchases have also been made from various elementary sounds; and the young phonographer, sources of about Thirteen Thousand Tracts, and while he studies it for a different purpose, is in the whole number printed and purchased is fact taking a most valuable lesson in elocution. about Fifty Thousand. But further, phonographic writing indicates exactly the pronunciation of the writer. It is, as it were, a daguerreotype of his speech. A teacher, in correcting a phonographic exercise, has thus an important opportunity of correcting errors of pronunciation. It is beyond doubt, therefore, if the teacher himself be competent, that school instruction in phonography, would insure general correctness and uniformity of pronunciation; and save the necessity of any special attention to the subject, such as is now given.

Copies of this pamphlet may be had at the Chamber of the Board of Control, Athenæum Building, South Sixth street, Shepherd Holman, No. 1, North Eleventh street, teacher, Henderson & Co., Fifth and Arch streets.

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We would also encourage Friends in the va rious sections of our Yearly Meeting to form Auxiliary Associations, or where their situations are too much scattered, at least to make contributions, the value of which will be returned to them in such tracts as they may designate, charged at cost.

Signed on behalf of the Association, ROB'T. LINDLEY MURRAY, Clerk. New York, 5th mo. 11th, 1854.

THE WAR IN THE EAST.

"Have you ever thought seriously of war? Do you understand what it means, and perceive all it involves? The question may be fairly asked of a generation at peace for thirty-nine years. Your fathers knew something of its horrors and sacrifices, and the recollections of these are still fresh in the minds of the advanced in life among you. And if you knew but half of what they know, of war and its effects, your feelings would undergo a considerable diminution of satisfaction, for they would tell you that they never yet knew a war, but the voice that was heard the loudest in that war, was not the shout of armies in battle, or the song of a nation's victory and glory, but the same voice that was once heard in Rama, 'a voice of lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, the voice of the mother-country 'weeping over her children,' and refusing to be comforted, because they were not.'

"As a Christian Minister, let me suggest a few of the necessary incidents of war, which lead to these painful results: and I do this the rather, because it would seem that the present occasion is one in which we are peculiarly tempted to overlook them, owing to a general impression of the righteousness of our cause, and to the present

A lively interest has also been felt in the preparation of Tracts particularly adapted to arrest the attention, and suited to the comprehension of children, and the following have been pub-popularity of the enterprize in consequence of lished, viz :

The Four Pistareens.

My First Lie.

This Little Hand Never Struck Me.
The Soldier.

Joseph Harvey and Ruth Middleton.
Explosion of a Bomb-Shell.

that impression. No better season than the present could be found, for offering a few considerations upon the evils of a state of war. Should it prove obstinate and serious, it is easy to foresee that a change will one day occur in the public opinion respecting it. When men find out its disastrous character, and the drain it inflicts upon A quantity of these little juvenile tracts have our resources, it is to be expected that they will been put up in packages containing three of regard it with gloomier eyes. Such a period, each sort, and are for sale at eight cents per should it come, would rather be a time for sympackage with covers, or six cents without covers, pathy than for warning, therefore I would avail may be had in the Book Room of the Meet-myself of the present opportunity.

and

"May it please Almighty God to incline the war. Love to enemies-patience under injuries hearts of both contending Powers, and indeed-truth towards all men-kindness to the feeble the hearts of all European nations and their and the golden rule of doing to others as we rulers, to consider earnestly how much their own would they should do unto us,-these most holy best interests are involved in the maintenance of precepts of our faith, in which as Churchmen we peace. And when I say their 'best' interests, were trained by our Catechism, which taught us brethren, I use the word advisedly. I refer not that our duty to our neighbor is to love him as merely to social interests, or to political or com- ourselves, all these are set aside of necessity mercial ones, for I believe that the best, the high- when swords are drawn to shed the blood of His est, the eternal interests of mankind are jeopar- creatures, who hath made of one blood all the died, whenever contending armies' cry Havoc," nations of the earth.' Whenever battle-fields and let slip the dogs of war.' are purpled with streams from that common fountain of human life, no one can help perceiving, that, however sound the arguments may be on which such hostilities are founded, (though one of the parties must be in the wrong,) the act is one which does violence to the spirit of the Gospel, and that its doers are shutting their ears for the time to the voice of their Redeemer'Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time-An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil, but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.'

"I. One well known evil connected with a state of war, is injury to commerce. This evil is one which usually falls more heavily upon a great trading nation like England, than upon some neighboring countries. Now, at first sight, it may not appear, how the diminution of the national commerce occasions any diminution of the national morality, or affects the spiritual well-being of the people. Yet there is a connexion between these things, though it is too commonly overlooked. For the depression of commerce is indissolubly linked to a diminution of the labor engaged in that commerce, and the diminution of "Brethren, I do not say that such interferlabor is nothing less than the cutting off the earnence with the letter of the precepts of the Gospel ings of the working classes: so that the very first to suffer injury from war are the poor. And not I raise no question as to its necessity in the premay not sometimes become an absolute necessity;* only does this occur by a reduction of their earnsent case; but this I say, that such a necessity ings, but their poverty is made more pinching by is a painful thing for a Christian mind to conthe equally inevitable rise in prices and I need not do more than remind you, brethren, of the Christ on human councils is as yet greatly infetemplate, because it teaches that the influence of close connexion which experience has shown to rior to that of the world, because we cannot but exist, between poverty and vice, to raise within fear the pernicious effect of the example set by your minds a feeling of anxiety as to the unhap-so-called Christian nations shedding one another's py effects which the present war may thus pro- blood in battle, and because it urges us to induce. Let the poor man then remember, that increased prayer for the speedy kingdom of Him, a state of war, his class is the first to suffer, and under whose mild reign it is foretold that 'men to suffer bitterly; and let the rich remember, that shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and when the poor suffer, they will suffer too, from spears into pruning hooks. the misery, the discontent the murmuring and not life up sword against nation, neither shall despondency, the immorality and crime, which they learn war any more.' Assuredly it is the are the common result, even to a well ordered people, when they are seriously straitened for the spirit of Infidelity alone which could point in

necessaries of life.

"II. But, secondly

"Let me allude to another evil, of which war is always the parent,-a moral evil, so vast in its magnitude, that nothing but the most rigid proof of the righteousness of a war can ever justify its introduction; and even this plea has not always availed to reconcile conscientious minds to its adoption. I allude to the violence which war does to the spirit and to the influence of the Gospel of Christ. For be it ever so righteous, ever so justifiable, ever so necessary, a declaration of war is nothing less that a declaration on the part of those who are responsible for it, that they are prepared for the time to disregard the most solemn precepts of the New Testament. It is hardly possible that either our statesmen or our warriors can conceal from themselves, that this is one of the most dreadful evils connected with

their

Nation shall

scorn to the amiable efforts of those members of the Peace Society, who (though we may deem them mistaken in their doctrine of the unlawfulthat their principle is, at any rate, something betness of war) have recently given the world a proof ter than a mere idle theory, and have shown themselves practically anxious to put it to the test. Consistency is always entitled to some respect, especially when it is exercised in the attempt to uphold great and acknowledged Christian principles."-Ed. Harston.

If by these observations, the author merely intended to intimate that he was not then enquiring whether war could in my case be justifiable for Christians, but pointing out its inseparable concomitants, the sentiment may pass without animadversion. The language, however, seems to admit that an interferference with the precepts of the gospel may sometimes become necessary. Against such an admission

A MOUNTAIN OF DEBATE.

The Dundee Advertiser, speaking of Friday's debate in both Houses of Parliament, says, "In The Times it extends to twenty-nine columns, or 4,525 lines. These, if extended in one line, would reach upwards of 1000 feet in length, and the 270,000 types, which compose this enormous mass of speeches, would, if placed end to end, on end, reach as high as the Himalayas. And yet, all this talk was uttered, taken in short-hand, transcribed into long-hand, put into type, letter by letter, read, corrected, made up into columns, arranged into pages, and printed, between five o'clock in the afternoon and sunrise next morning.-Times for the 7th ult.

HUMPHREY CHETHAM.

Humphrey Chetham was born in 1580, and died at his house at Clayton, near Manchester, aged 73. He was one of the earliest and most munificent contributors to the future prosperity of the town of Manchester, particularly by encouraging education and industry. He is described in Fuller's Worthies of England as "dealing in Manchester commodities sent up to London, and singularly improving himself in piety and outward prosperity. He was a diligent reader of the Scriptures and of the works of sound divines, and was respected of such ministers as he accounted truly godly, upright, sober, discreet and sincere. He discharged the office of High Sheriff for the county of Lancaster, and out of respect to his character every gentleman at the assizes did wear cloth of his manufacture." In his lifetime he took up twenty-two poor boys to be educated and apprenticed to trades so as to be able to support themselves by their learning, skill and industry. By his will the number of scholars was raised to forty, bequeathing £7000 for the purchase of an estate, the profits of which were to be applied to the support of his newly formed charity. The children were all to be of poor but honest parents, not under six years of age, and at fourteen they were to be apprenticed. He bequeathed also £1000 for the purchase of books for a library for the use of all who desired to improve themselves by reading, and £100 for a suitable building for the library. For the augmentation of such library he left the residue of his personal estate, amounting to upwards of £2,000. The value of this property is now so

the editor of the Review would enter his decided and

unhesitating protest. If we believe, as every true Christian must, that the precepts of the gospel are of Divine origin, and of universal obligation, it would be an impeachment of the power or of the wisdom of the Creator, to maintain that the moral government of the world had been left unprovided with means to obviate the necessity, in any possible emergency, of violating those precepts.-ED.)

much increased as to be sufficient to educate,

maintain, and clothe 100 poor boys. The library then begun amounts at the present to 23,000

volumes of the best works. One of the

his

present day, who has benefitted through Chetham's charity and prospered in business, has, out of gratitude for the advantages of an education received at this school, erected a costly statue to memory in the Cathedral of Manchester. Whilst honoring the feeling of gratitude in what form soever it is manifested, we presume to query if this tribute to the memory of a benevo lent man who has been in his grave just two centuries, might not have been more appropriately applied in extending the charity of the deceased philanthropist, and in this way have done honor to his memory with advantage to the living?

J. P.

"THE BIBLE IN MY TRUNK." "When I was a young man," said a clergyman, "I was a clerk in Boston. Two of my clerks, about my own age, which was eighteen. room-mates at my boarding-house were also The first Sunday morning, during the three or four hours that elapsed from getting up till bellringing for Church, I felt a secret desire to get a Bible, which my mother had given me, out of my trunk, and read in it; for I had been so duty at home to read a chapter or two in the brought up by my parents, as to regard it as a Bible every Sunday. I was now very anxious to get my Bible and read, but I was afraid to do miscellaneous books. At length my conscience so before my who room-mates, were reading some got the mastery, and I rose up and went to my trunk. I had half raised it, when the thought occurred to me, that it might look like oversanctity and Pharisaical, so I shut my trunk, and returned to the window. For twenty mindoing wrong. I started a second time for my utes, I was miserably ill at ease; I felt I was trunk, and had my hand on the little Bible, when ter emotion, and I again dropped the top of the the fear of being laughed at conquered the bettrunk. As I turned away from it, one of my room-mates, who observed my irresolute movements, said laughingly

'I- what's the matter? You seem as restless as a weathercock!"

"I replied by laughing in my turn; and then, conceiving the truth to be the best, frankly told the both what was the matter!

"To my surprise and delight, they both had Bibles in their trunks, and both were secretly wishing to read them, but were afraid to take them out lest I should laugh at them.

Then," said I, "let us agree to read them every Sunday, and we shall have the laugh all on the one side."

"To this there was a hearty response; and the next moment the three Bibles were out; and

I assure you, we all felt happier all that day for reading in them that morning.

"The following Sunday, about ten o'clock, while we were each reading our chapters, two of our fellow-boarders from another room came in. When they saw how we were engaged, they started and then exclaimed

"Bless us! what is all this? A Conventicle? "In reply, I smiling, relating to them exactly how the matter stood; my struggle to get my Bible from my trunk; and how we three, having found we had been afraid of each other without a cause, had now agreed to read every Suuday.

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"Not a bad idea," answered one of them,"You have more courage than I have. I have a Bible too, but have not looked into it since I have left Boston! But I'll read it after this, since you've broke the ice."

"The other then asked one of us to read aloud, and both sat and quietly listened till the bell rung for Church.

"That evening, we three in the same room, agreed to have a chapter read every night by one or the other of us at nine o'clock, and we religiously adhered to our purpose. A few evenings after this resolution, four or five of the boarders, (for there were sixteen clerks boarding in the house, happened to be in our room talking when the nine o'clock bell rang. One of my room-mates, looking at me opened the Bible.The others looked inquiringly; I then explained our custom.

"We'll all stay and listen," they said almost unanimously.

"The result was, that without an exception, every one of the sixteen clerks spent his Sabbath morning in reading in the Bible; and the moral effect upon our household was of the highest character. "I relate this incident," concluded the clergyman, "to show what influence one person, even a youth, may exert for evil or good. No man should ever be afraid to do his duty. A hundred hearts my throb to act right, that only await a leader. I forgot to add that we were all called the "Bible Clerks!" All these youths are now useful and Christian men, and more than one is laboring in the ministry.-Banner of the Cross.

JACOB'S ARMY.

A queer mode of defence was that of the Patriarch, not very wise or Christian, according to the views now prevalent among men calling themselves followers of the Prince of Peace. Esau in his wrath had come out "with four hundred men;" a pretty formidable host for that day; and how did Jacob purpose to meet him? What sort of an army did he put in array against this force? His army consisted of "two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats, two hundred

ewes, and twenty rams, forty kine, and ten bulls, thirty she-asses, and ten foals." A cost of less than $3000 of our money. A novel army that! a strange way of repulsing an enemy; but what was the result? "Jacob bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother; and Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him; and they wept."

Here was a real triumph, a Christian victory, that turned a foe into a friend. What a pity that those Christians, who are forever poking about to find in the few good men of that rude and barbarous age, examples to justify war under a new dispensation of peace, could not cull out such facts as these to illustrate and enforce the Sermon on the Mount. There is in the Old Testament something better than war.-Advocate of Peace.

ALCOHOL.

There walketh a Fiend o'er the glad green earth,
By the side of the reaper, Death;

He dazzles alike with the glow of mirth,
Or quenches the light of the household hearth,
With his foul and withering breath.

He stalketh abroad with his hydra head,
The failing foot and the strong man's tread,
And there gathereth in his train
The restless living-the ghastly dead,

And Misery, Want, and Pain.

He nerves the arm of relentless Hate
With his goblet's beaded foam;

He lurks in the halls of the rich and great,
In the beggar's moan, at the palace gate-
And curses the poor man's home.

He barters the wealth of a spotless name,
For the wine cup's subtle glow;
And scathes the pinions of deathless Fame,
Till they droop with their burden of guilt and shame,
'Mid its dregs of sin and woe.

And there seemeth ever a sorrowing wail,
And childhood's cheek grows wan and pale,
In the path of his blighting tread;
And its heart is faint, and its footsteps fail,
For he grudgeth the poor their bread.
Grudgeth the poor their daily bread,

And filleth the drunkard's bowl
With Want and Woe-Remorse and Dread,
With a nerveless hand and a falling head,
And a blight on his deathless soul.

And beauty and manhood-love with mirth,
But the blighted house and the darkened hearth,
And the tears of the sorrowing ones of earth,
Lie deep in its gleam and shine.

Still turn to the languishing wine,

And the Fiend still watcheth with tiresome will
For the swift and the wary tread,
For he knoweth the Wine, with his subtle skill,
Shall gather alike the good and ill

'Neath the crush of his iron tread.

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The British steamers had approached Sebastopol and fired a few bombs, but receiving no reply, had sailed to the Asiatic and European coasts of the Black sea, leaving only a few ships to watch the port of Sebastopol.

Marshal Paskiewitsch is said to have declared that Little Wallachia had been evacuated solely for strategic reasons, and that the Russians will soon return to Krajova. It is also stated that Great Wallachia will not be evacuated.

other chief officers of the government, and proclaimed a new constitution. A government force was preparing to attack him, and several of the provinces were arming in defence of the government.

NICARAGUA, also, is said to be in a state of insurrection. Senor Castellan is spoken of as the principal leader of the insurgents. San Salvador was entirely destroyed by an earthquake, on the The shock lasted about fifty night of Easter. seconds, yet in this brief space the whole city was levelled to the ground. Upwards of four millions worth of property is said to have been destroyed, and about two hundred persons are supposed have perished.

CALIFORNIA. By the arrival, at New York, of the steamer North Star, on the 24th, and the Íllinois, on the 25th, California dates have been received to the 1st ult. Col. Fremont came passenger in the Northern Light. The Mexican Consul was convicted of having violated the neutrality laws in enlisting, at San Francisco, men for the Mexican army, but was recommended to mercy. DOMESTIC-CONGRESS.-In Senate, on the 22d ult., a letter was presented from Edward Everett, Twelve Kussian trading vessels had been cap-announcing his resignation as Senator, the resig tured off Sebastopol. A new and extensive levy of troops had been decreed by the Turkish Gov

Lord Raglan with 15,000 English troops had arrived at Constantinople, and a number more would soon arrive. An equal number of the French troops were on their way.

ernment.

nation to take effect on the 30th inst. Senator Smith presented the resolutions of the Connecticut Legislature against the Nebraska bill. Senator The Greek insurgents had been completely de- Clayton submitted a resolution for inquiring into the feated at every point. The blockade of Greece by can consuls in the West Indies as to prevent their expediency of so restricting the power of Ameri the allies is officially announced. Persia has de-issuing sea letters to vessels likely to be used in clared against Russia and demands the restitution the slave trade. The resolution was adopted. of her captured provinces.

Sir Charles Napier had received reinforcements and had sailed on the 1st ult. His destination was supposed to be the Gulf of Finland. The French squadron had proceeded up the Baltic to join the English fleet. The Norwegian navy was cruising in the Swedish waters.

CHINA.-Accounts from Hong Kong to the 3d month 25th, say that the Imperial forces had sustained a defeat.

AFRICA. The missionary station at Ornisco, on the western coast of Africa, has been set on fire by the natives, and the mission-house, church and other houses consumed. Two females perished

in the flames.

Havana dates to the 22d ult., have been received. A French frigate and two small steamers, and an English brig of war, were lying at the port. Their purpose is announced to be the protection of the authorities in carrying out the plan of emancipation.

MEXICO. A despatch from the city of Mexico, dated the 18th ult, announces that Santa Anna made a triumphant entry into that city on the 16th, and ordained three days rejoicing for his victory over Alvarez. The accounts received here are of the most conflicting character, Santa Anna claiming to have gained a brilliant victory over the revolutionists, while other accounts state that he had entirely failed in his attack on Acapulco, and had been obliged to retreat with the loss of a great number of his men and a large amount of provisions, clothing, &c.

NEW GRANADA. Another revolution is announced as having broken out at Bogota. General Melo had captured the capital, with the President and

On the 23d a resolution was passed calling on the President for all correspondence on the slave trade in Cuba, and copies of any late decrees of the Government of the island connected therewith. The Indian Appropriation bill was discussed and all the amendments made in Committee of the Whole were concurred in. On the 24th Senator Seward presented ten remonstrances against the Nebraska bill, including one from 105 Methodist clergymen, and one from 434 clergymen of Michi gan.

the Legislature of Louisiana on the Africanization Senator Benjamin presented the resolutions of of Cuba. A long and animated discussion ensued.

The resolution was then referred.

On the 25th a resolution was passed giving a gold medal to each of the officers of the English ship Virago, who assisted in rescuing Lieut. Shain's party, and to the men one hundred dollars each. The Nebraska bill was read a third time, and passed by a vote of 35 yeas to 13 nays.

The House of Representatives was engaged in the consideration of the Deficiency bill during the 24th, 25th, and 26th. No session was held on the 27th.

The city of Boston was thrown into commotion on the 26th ult. by the arrest of a black man, claimed as a fugitive slave from Alexandria, Virginia. His rescue was attempted in a riotous manner, and a man who was endeavoring to prevent the rescuers from entering the house where the alleged fugitive was confined, was shot, and instantly expired. The final issue of the case was not known when our paper was prepared for the press.

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