given a haughty and unfavorable reply to the final, to have a talk with the Imperial Viceroy, and afsummons of Austria. Meantime, the Austrian terwards with the leader of the insurgents. government says, in general terms, that Austria will not disappoint the hopes of Europe. Prussia manifests daily less disposition of siding with the Western Powers.

The French transport ship, Pericles, with 2,000,000 francs on board for the army in Turkey, came in collision with a steamer off Malaga, and sunk with all the treasure.

The Russian fleet is reported to have left Sebas. topol, and the allied fleet sailed from Baltschuck Bay on the 11th, in search of the enemy.

Advices from Baro Sound to the 25th ult., state that there were then three ships at that place, and eight cruising between Helsingfors and Cronstadt. The rest of the fleet were near the Aland islands. The Danish government refuses to allow the establishment of a cholera lazeretto for the allied

forces.

Neutral vessels are permitted to leave the blockaded Baltic ports.

SPAIN. The Revolution continues triumphant. The country is quiet, awaiting the arrival of Espartero at Madrid. The capital also is quiet, though the troops still guard the palace and the citizens still carry arms and continue to erect barricades. The junta of safety and defence has decreed the re-organization of the national guard. The ex-ministers would continue in office until the arrival of Espartero, which was expected to be on the 28th ult. It was supposed that Gen. O'Donnell would accompany Espartero ou his entranre into the capital.

Queen Christina is in concealment, and queen Isabella keeps close in her palace.

VENEZUELA.-Affairs in this country continue in the most distracted state-several battles are reported to have taken place between the government forces and the revolutionists, with various success. From all we can gather we would infer that the revolution continues to make progress.

NICARAGUA.-The latest intelligence from Nicaragua states that the war in that country is still raging, and the whole state is in the greatest confusion. The self-appointed Dictator, Chamorro, is said to be shut up in the city of Grenada with a small body of soldiers. It was thought that he would soon be obliged to yield.

BARBADOES.-The ravages of cholera on this island continue to be truly fearful. Up to the 10th ult., 15,000 persons, or one ninth of the population, had died of this disease, and the epidemic was still raging.

CALIFORNIA. By the arrival at New York of the Star of the West from San Juan, and the Empire City from Aspinwall, San Francisco dates to the 15th ult. have been received.

The Commander of the English schooner Bermuda has declared Greytown under marshal law, and established the blockade of Port English. Punta Arenas is held by the British ship of war Espeigle: the Commander declaring that he will hold it as security until some arrangements are made between the governments of Great Britain and the United States. The rebuilding of the town had commenced. Another great fire occurred at San Francisco on the 11th ult. Between sixty and seventy houses were burned, eighteen of which were hotels or large boarding houses. The loss is estimated at $250,000.

FRANCE.-General Ney, son of Marshal Ney, On the 12th, a still more terrible conflagration died lately of cholera, at Gallipoli. broke out in Sacramento, twelve blocks of buildJerome Napoleon Bonaparte and son, of Balti-ings being either wholly or partially destroyed. more, are in Paris. They have been received by Louis Napoleon with all the honors of princes of the Imperial family.

The cholera is raging to a frightful degree in the southern part of France. Lyons, which is watered on both sides by the Rhone and Saone, has entirely escaped the pestilence. It is stated that the cholera has never appeared there. At Avignon, however, where French troops were stationed, it was extremely fatal. Out of 800 troops stationed there, 245 died; the rest marched to Arles, carrying the disease to that place, where also its ravages were frightful. The disease was also carried to Marseilles by troops sent there for embarkation, and such was the panic, that 80,000 persons had fled from the city. The deaths in the remaining population of 129,000, have been from 130 to 187 per day.

The loss is said to reach half a million of dollars. On the 10th, nearly the whole town of Columbia, in Calavera County was destroyed by fire. The fire is attributed to an incendiary; loss, half a million. The town of Minnesota, in Nevada County was totally consumed on the 8th ult, with the exception of three houses. Loss $50,000. Fourteen hundred acres of wheat had also been consumed by fire in Suisan and Vaca Valleys, ard 400 acres belonging to the Mormons at San Bernardino. The crops in all parts of the State promise a favorable yield.

the utmost harmony, not a single quarrel having occurred among them.

Accounts from the mines continue favorable. The accounts from the Indian reservation are highly favorable. The Indians continue to work with the utmost alacrity and their wheat crop averages thirty-five bushels to the acre, estimated to be worth from $300,000 to $400,000. Indians atCHINA. This country is represented as being rive daily from all parts of the State, and though ir. a state of fearful anarchy, the Provinces partic-belonging to various tribes, they live together in ularly the central ones, being devastated by armed bands of robbers. The great commercial mart of Honan is reported to have been burnt by an armed mob. It is believed that the insurgents continue to be victorious, and a rumor prevailed that they had succeeded in capturing Pekin. No reliable information, however, has been received on this point. The American Minister to China, is said to have chartered a small steamer with the intention of proceeding to Ningpo and Fushow,

DOMESTIC.-The appropriation bills passed by Congress during the last session amount to upwards of sixty-seven and a half millions. Of this sum $10,375,000 was for the army, $9,851,000 for the navy; $3,000,000 for the six new steam frigates; and $964.000 for Fortifications; making in all upwards of $24,000,000 for war purposes; during a period of profound peace!

FRIENDS' REVIEW.

VOL. VII.

A RELIGIOUS, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS JOURNAL.

PHILADELPHIA, EIGHTH MONTH 26, 1854.

EDITED BY ENOCH LEWIS.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE LIFE OF HENRY HULL.

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No. 50.

not being willing that any rightly concerned Friends should be deprived of an opportunity of expressing what was upon their minds; yet very desirous we should be preserved from unnecessary speaking. The meeting was large and ended solidly. After this I went with my kind friends Joseph and Elizabeth Fry, to their house at Plashet, and rested some days, and was favored with an increase of health and strength.

A meeting being proposed by Mary Dudley, to be held on third-day morning, 1 attended it, though very weak in body, and it proved a favored season-several Friends being engaged in testimony and supplication. Sometime before the meeting concluded, I was under great concern, lest the work of the imagination should be substituted for the putting forth of the heavenly Shepherd. There needs a care on this account, when seasons of Divine favor are experienced, and the waters are up. The Lord is a God of order, and deliberation and care are necessary, that we do not move too soon one after another; and an abrupt breaking up of a meeting immediately on a Friend's sitting down, is not of good The Quarterly Meeting for London and Mid-report. I found my seat rather a trying one, dlesex drawing near, we set our faces toward Tottenham, in order to attend it, and were at the first-day meeting there. On second day the meeting of ministers and elders was held in London, which was largely attended, and I had some observations to make on the advantages resulting to the church, from the ministers and elders keeping their stations and places in true dedication and singleness of heart, so as to be ready to obey the call of the Lord, in visiting the dis- The meeting at Ifield, held the first day of the persed up and down in the nation; for want of year 1812, proved a favored time; next day we which godly concern, in the watchmen and watch were at Brightelmstone, and the day following women, it is to be feared many have gone astray, at Lewes, from whence we rode to our friend and the waste places of Zion have been enlarged. John Glazier's, who, though indisposed in body, Having been very unwell for some time past and appeared alive in the Truth, and his company my strength gradually declining, I felt very poorly was truly pleasant. In the early part of their after meeting; but through the kind attention married life, he and his wife had been members of my dear friend and sister Elizabeth Fry, I of the Methodist society; but John being diswas refreshed and recruited, so as to be able to satisfied with the forms and activity on which attend the Quarterly Meeting. During that they so much depended, sought the Lord in repart of it appropriated particularly to Divine tirement, endeavoring to draw near unto him in worship, the power of Truth was in dominion, spirit. This resulted in his joining himself to and several Friends were engaged in the line of Friends, a people who depended on the immedi the ministry. In the meeting for discipline, ate operations of the Lord's power revealed in there appeared a want of solidity in transacting the soul of man; in consequence of which, he the business. There are, however, many dear endured the reproaches of his former associates, friends in and about London, with whom my and his wife also expressed her dislike to his spirit is nearly united, and I prefer them to my-change, saying to him, as she herself told me, self, for their greater experience; but, alas! "I wonder you should go with so silly a people others give evidence, that they are not baptized as the Quakers!-what good can there be among for the work, though they may keep very strictly to the letter of the discipline. O! that it was otherwise with them, that the visited youth might be encouraged by their example, to come forward in the right line.

them?" He very calmly replied, "Thou dost not know what I have found amongst them, or thou wouldst not wonder at me ;"-which reply so wrought upon her mind, that she could not rest satisfied without seeking to know what he

had met with, when Infinite Goodness was pleased to manifest himself to her, with the conviction, that they who worship the Father aright, must worship him in spirit and in truth-that the Lord is not pleased with feigned homage, which it is to be feared is often the situation of those who sing psalms, the mind being more intent on the harmony of the sounds, than engaged in fervent concern to express only the words of truth and soberness, from a living experimental knowledge of the goodness of God, through which they have been delivered from their spiritual enemies, so as to be enabled to praise Him on the banks of deliverance.

In the evening, we returned to Brightelmstone, and had a large public meeting in Friends' meeting-house, and next day had one at Arundel. On our way to this place, we dined at the house of a Friend, whose wife was one of a large family who had joined the society by convincement. An elder sister being at a meeting appointed by Sarah Harrison, of Philadelphia, was convinced of the Truth as held by Friends. She became an attender of the meeting at Brighton, though her residence was nine miles distant, and her father much opposed to her going. She passed through great difficulties, rising early in the morning and working hard, to have her business accomplished before it was time to set off for meeting; and after her return worked very late to make up for the time she was absent, and all this, beside walking to and from the meeting. This was very trying to her nature; but her diligence and constancy had an effect on her brothers and sisters, and her younger brother soon accompanied her to meeting; after which the others, to the number of eight, one after another, went with her, and all became respectable members of society, as did also their mother. I saw her at Brighton, where she very constantly attended meeting, and afterwards at her own house, where for the first time, her husband showed a friendly disposition towards a minister of our Society, having heretofore avoided their company. He came and sat by us, and entered into pleasant conversation; and when about to part, Elizabeth Fry had to proclaim the offers of peace and salvation to him, from the Author of all good, which he heard patiently and quietly, and very respectfully waited on us to the carriage. His son Samuel, who had been with us several days, seemed pleased and surprised at this great change which had taken place in his father; and we left the family in tender love, and with earnest desires for their preservation in the line of consistency.

In the evening we had a large public meeting, and afterward a tendering time with a poor afflicted woman, who had gone out in her marriage with a person not in membership with Friends. She had a large family of children, and no helpmate in her husband to train them up in a religious life, he being disposed to take liberties

not becoming his station as a parent. Ah! how many of our dear young people, in the days of gayety and vanity, take their flight and become separated from the flock of Christ's companions! There is here and there a solitary instance, where such are arrested, and through repentance are brought back again to know better days; but frequently we see them choosing their own ways in marriage, in opposition to the tender advice and concern of their parents and friends, and thus plunging themselves into sorrow. The apostle's advice is of great importance, "Be ye not unequally yoked together,"-and were the youth concerned to move deliberately in this weighty affair, in the fear and counsel of the Lord, He who prospered Abraham's servant, would not leave them to take such steps as would bring trouble and distress upon them.

Next morning we attended the Monthly Meeting at Liskeard, and then had meetings at Looe and Tideford, which closed our visit to Cornwall. Several of the meetings we attended were highly favored seasons, and the people showed a great willingness to come to them, the houses in many cases being far too small to contain them. The number of Friends in the county is not large, but there appears to be a convincement going on, and I believe some will join the Society; though as respects my own labors I can truly say, my view was to strengthen the good in all, without seeking to proselyte any. Vital Christianity is what I want to see all pressing after, that Christ Jesus may be their teacher, their guide and provider, and that there may be less dependence upon external performances.

We now turned our faces toward Plymouth again, where we attended the funeral of an exemplary Friend, and in the evening had a religious opportunity with his widow and children; then had meetings at Kingsbridge and Modbury, and a select opportunity with the few Friends at Exeter. I was comforted in finding some honest hearted ones here; but it was evident to my mind, that more submission to the renewing and qualifying baptisms of Truth, was necessary for the solid comfort of others, and to prevent them from settling down at ease in lifeless forms. Af ter a comfortable religious opportunity with an aged Friend, we rode to Bridport, and had a large and satisfactory meeting there; then to Illminster, Yeovil, Sherborn and Marnhull. At the latter place lives our friend William Byrd, who married Rebecca Young, the latter of whom I had seen in my own country on a religious visit with Deborah Darby. Having for some days past felt my mind turned toward Weymouth, where there are no Friends but Anna Buxton, a young

*The Anna Buxton here mentioned, is now the widow of our late beloved and valuable friend William lanthropic labors in his native and in foreign lands. Forster, so extensively known for his gospel and phi Henry Hull does not appear to have been correctly in formed respecting Anna Buxton, as she had not joined

She was married to her friend Samuel Darby, in the 8th month, 1776, and resided with him for some time in London. Her husband returning into Shropshire, they settled at Coalbrookdale, and in the 5th month, 1779, she appeared in the ministry. Experiencing a growth therein, she was concerned to travel, and in the year 1782, she received a certificate to visit the families of Friends within Grace church-street monthly meeting, and for some other services. A dedicated servant in the cause of her Great Master, she was willing to spend and to be spent in the service of truth. She repeatedly visted most parts of this kingdom, Scotland, and Wales, with many of the islands appertaining thereto. Three times she visited Ireland, and once she performed a religious visit to Friends in North America.

niscient Searcher of all hearts, knows that I left tage, in tempering the vivacity of her own them under a belief, that in so doing I was act-sprightliness, and in checking the emotions of ing conformably to his will, that I might stand youthful vanity, she was often, in after life, conapproved in his sight when the solemn requisi- cerned to impress it upon her friends, and espe tion is made, "What hast thou done with thy cially upon the youth. Her care in this respect Lord's money?" and that in thus endeavoring was uniform throughout her life. Often, when to dedicate myself to his service, I had been surrounded by companions innocently cheerful, strengthened, to my humble admiration, by his her vigilant mind would withdraw from less imgracious living presence, often feeling my peace portant subjects, and would gradually attract flow as a river, and my attachment to, and sta- others to a more excellent communion. bility in the Truth to increase, so that my prayers often ascended to him in sincerity of soul, that I might do nothing which should cause any one to think lightly of his power, or to speak evil of his glorious holy name, being willing to suffer for the advancement of his cause on earth. I had often had to rejoice in spirit, as in the language of the Psalmist, "Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee." But what shall I now say, O my soul? Has the Lord forsaken thee? Has his mercy clean passed thee by? Has he forgotten thee in a foreign land, whilst he has taken from thee thy earthly comforts in the land of thy nativity? O, no! blessed be his name-though he slay me, yet will I trust in him-it is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good-his ways are all in wisdom; and though I am tried, in Being abundantly endowed with the love of some respects like poor Job, yet what am I? the gospel, her line of service was not confined Unworthy indeed of the many favors I have re- to our own society, but she was much led to those ceived at his bountiful hand. A part of the in- of other denominations, amongst whom her telligence I received, related to some disarrange- labors were generally acceptable. She was frement of my temporal concerns, which was an ad-quently concerned to visit those in prison, and ditional trial; beside which, the dear survivors of my little family were in the midst of the raging pestilence, which had proved so fatal, waiting in awful suspense to see who would be the next victim for death.

(To be continued.)

A Testimony from Shropshire Monthly Meeting,

concerning DEBORAH DARBY.

"The righteous," it is written, "shall be had in everlasting remembrance;" and it is important to survivors, to retrace their steps, and to commemorate their conduct; whether, as continued memorials of the Divine power and goodness, or, as additional waymarks to succeeding generations. Hence, we are induced to give forth the following testimony respecting our dear deceased friend, DEBORAH DARBY.

She was the daughter of John and Hannah Barnard, and was born at Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, in the county of York, on the 25th day of the 8th month, 1754.

She was, naturally, of a sweet and amiable temper, and, in her youth, of a lively, active disposition. In early life she was frequently favored to feel the overshadowings of Divine regard, and was led to seek opportunities of retirement, wherein she was often melted into tenderness. This practice of frequent religious recollection, having proved to herself of unspeakable advan

we have reason to believe that her dedication herein was particularly comfortable to some under condemnation.

When not employed in services abroad, she was diligent in attending meetings for worship and discipline at home. She was also zealous in animating others to a due discharge of that duty; and she endeavored, as far as her power and influence would extend, to furnish the means of attendance to as many as were unprovided therewith. Solicitously attentive to her religious duties, yet was she not unmindful of those which are relative and social. As a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother, she was alike tender and assiduous. As a mother, she was particularly desirous that no improper indulgences might injure her offspring. Often, also, she was concerned to inculcate upon parents the great im portance of education, and the necessity for early vigilance, whereby the first shoots of an evil propensity are discovered and suppressed. Concerned for the temporal and spiritual welfare of all, she was especially solicitous for the comfort of the poor, and increasingly desirous that a due proportion of her outward substance should be expended on their behalf. Meek, humble, and patient, she was not apt to take offence, and cautious not to give it; and it may be truly said, that she exemplified in her conduct the gospel she was commissioned to preach.