the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, wings and towers, and all!

Filagree is another pretty kind of wire-work. Silver wire, or gold wire, or gilt silver wire, is here twisted into fantastic and artistic forms, partly by the fingers and partly by small tools and machines. Some of the productions in this art, especially those produced in Italy and in India, are wonderful for the patience bestowed upon them. It is scarcely English art: we seem to be busy and bustling to bestow time on these prettinesses. The wire is very thin, but of course much exceeding the thickness of the film of gold on the silver wire for gold lace. Perhaps the thinnest bit of wire ever actually made and isolated was that produced by Dr. Wollaston, a philosopher who had an extraordinary knack of doing things which no one else could do. He procured a small rod of silver; he bored a little hole through it from end to end; he inserted into this hole the smallest platinum wire he could procure; he subjected the silver rod to wire-drawing processes, until it became the finest of silverwires with a platinum filament running along its centre; he dissolved the silver in warm nitrous acid-and there remained an exquisite little platinum wire, one thirty-thousandth of an inch in thickness!-Household Words.

FRIENDS' REVIEW.

PHILADELPHIA, NINTH MONTH 9, 1854.

The article which is copied from the North American and U. S. Gazette, into the present number, is certainly worthy not only of economical, but of serious and religious consideration. Though the all-bountiful hand still causes the sun to shine on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust, it does not necessarily follow that the rain and the sunshine are dispensed without regard to the virtue or vice of those to whom they are sent. There is nothing incompatible with a correct estimate of the Divine dispensations, in the belief that the vices and follies of man are sometimes corrected by withholding the fruits of the earth. And when we reflect on the extent to which these fruits, and especially that valuable American production, Indian corn, are perverted to purposes worse than useless, we can hardly fail to perceive that a general deficiency in our usual supply ought to teach us a salutary lesson.

ferior a description of pork, that we may fairly consider the corn as wasted when subjected to distillation. If the six million quarters of grain used for distillation and malting in Great Britain and Ireland would feed six millions of their people, then on the same estimate the twelve million bushels of corn distilled in Ohio would feed one and a quarter millions of their people, or about five-eighths of the whole population of the State. Now this provision is not only cut off from the support of human life, except so far as it appears in the form of inferior pork, but is converted into a liquid sufficient to fill a reservoir covering nearly two acres of ground, and twenty feet in depth; and that liquid, used as it generally is, a potent generator of misery, pauperism and crime. If Ohio was the only State in the Union which duced there might well excite an effort to put an manufactured alcoholic liquor, the quantity proend to distillation there, except for medicinal and artistic purposes. But Ohio is only one of the States in which that manufacture is extensively prosecuted. We have not at hand the documents necessary for estimating the quantity of liquor produced by distillation or other means in the United States; nor does it appear requisite to go far in search of evidence to impress the import ance of the efforts recently awakened into life, to put an end to the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages. And probably no time could be selected which would be likely to be attended with greater success than the present, when all the grain in the country will probably be demanded for food, either for men or domestic animals. Let us learn by the things which we suffer, if we will not be taught by milder means, to apply the bounties of Providence to purposes more congenial with the design of the Donor, than the production of a beverage destructive to the bodies and souls of men.

WHITE'S MANUAL LABOR INSTITUTES.-In the eleventh number, vol. 4, of the Review, a concise notice was given of the bequest of our late friend Josiah White, of this city, in addition to several other legacies for charitable purposes, of $40,000, to be appropriated to the establishment and support of two Manual Labor Schools, to be located in the free States of the West, for the inIf our readers will recur to pages 23 and 43 of struction of poor children, white, colored and lathe present volume, they will find the number of dian, which institutions he desired to place under bushels of Indian corn produced in one year, in the care and direction of Indiana Yearly Meeting. the State of Ohio, computed in round numbers at An equal portion of the $40,000 was allotted to 60 millions, of which about 12 millions are esti- each of these seminaries. One school was demated to be consumed in the manufacture of signed to be located in Iowa near Salem, on a alcoholic liquor. It is true the refuse of the still tract of 1440 acres, for the purchase of which a is used for feeding swine; but it supplies so innegotiation was commenced by the testator a short

time before his decease, and was consummated | these families would be productive of various and by his Executors.

extensive beneficial results, especially to the In the 10th month, 1851, the subject of this be- much of the injury which flows from the many young people, and, at the same time, prevent quest was laid before the Yearly Meeting of Indi-pernicious publications constantly issuing from

ana, which body agreed to accept the charge, and referred the subject to the care and attention of the Meeting for Sufferings. In the year 1852 , that body presented to the Yearly Meeting the copy of an act of incorporation for the purpose of carrying the design of the testator into effect. In 1853, the first annual reports of the trustees of the two institutes, founded on the bequest above mentioned, were presented to the Yearly Meeting, and were copied into the 11th and 12th numbers of the present volume. By these reports we find that the Indiana Institute contains 760 acres which were purchased for $8,200, and the Iowa Institute holds 1440 acres, which were purchased for $7,760.

A correspondent has recently furnished the following information, relative to the condition and prospects of the Iowa MANUAL LABOR INSTITUTE: In a letter from one of the trustees, he states, "By another year we shall have 640 acres under cultivation, divided into 80 acre tracts with a hedge; and on six of these tracts a snug house designed for tenements for those to whom the farms will be rented. The other 160 acres will be fitted up for the immediate use of the school, on which the school building will be erected. This done, the balance of the 1440 acres will by degrees be brought into cultivation, and rented out for the support of the school in like manner with this that we are now improving. The location is five miles south from Salem, and one and a half from Chestnut Hill meeting house. For beauty and excellence the location cannot be excelled, and we shall endeavor to make it all that the donor de signed, but it will require time to accomplish all."

J.

PUBLISHER'S NOTICE.-The following circular was sent, a few weeks since, to our Agents and a few other Friends, and is now inserted in the Review, with the hope that it will receive the attention of many subscribers in neighborhoods where no agents reside.

CIRCULAR.

PHILADELPHIA, 7th month 25th, 1854. Dear Friend,-As the current volume of Friends' Review will be completed in a few weeks (Ninth month 9th,) the Publisher solicits thy kind attention to the importance of renewed efforts to in crease its circulation. Having no pecuniary interest in enlarging the number of subscribers, and not being responsible for the editorial depart ment of the paper, he may the more readily be permitted to urge the claims of the Review upon the support of FRIENDS.

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mote the religious welfare of the young people,
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with a specimen number, and show the great dif-
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cited; and, as new subscribers generally prefer to Thy co operation in this work is earnestly solicommence at the beginning of a volume, early attention is desirable. The Terms are the same as heretofore:-for single subscribers two dollars per annum; for six subscribers ten dollars; and, at the latter rate for any number over six, payable in advance. The postage, when paid quarterly or yearly, in advance, at the office where the paper is received, is 13 cents per annum in Pennsylvania, and 26 cents per annum in other States. Respectfully thy friend, SAMUEL RHOADS,

50 North Fourth street, Philadelphia.

DIED, On the 17th oflast month, at the residence of his parents near Salem, AMOS COOK, son of Nathan and Sarah Cook, in the 24th year of her age, a member of Salem Monthly Meeting, Iowa.

On the 18th ult., at his residence in Salem, after a short illness of twenty-four hours, JOSEPH HOBSON, in the 69th year of his age, a member of Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends, Iowa.

Seventh month 28th, 1854, at the house of her brother-in-law, Joshua Shove, of Freetown, Mass., ANNA D. WING, in the sixty-second year of her age, a worthy member and minister of R. I. Monthly Meeting. She had taken a minute from her Monthly Meeting in the 6th month, to attend Salem Monthly Meeting, and to visit the families thereof, and was on the way to Salem when arrested by sickness and death.

A general failure in the cereal crops of this country is of exceedingly rare occurrence. Certain causes, natural and mechanical, have at times affected quite seriously the agricultural interests Some untoward vicissi of particular sections.

- Of congestive fever, on the 8th of last mo., in the 46th year of her age, ELEANOR LINDLEY, a member and elder of Back Creek Monthly Meeting, Parke county, Indiana. Being, in the early stage of her illness, impressed with an evidence that her dissolution was near, she was concerned tudes of the weather, or the ravages of insects, to call her relatives and friends and testify to them and like evils, have, now and then, either totally what the Lord had done for her soul, earnestly destroyed or greatly diminished the harvests in exhorting them to be prepared against the pale- certain localities. But we have seldom had ocfaced messenger should be sent to their habitation.casion to lament a calamity of this sort, covering Her frequent and earnest prayer for an easy pas sage was mercifully granted, all her pain being apparently removed for some time before her departure.

At Flushing, on the 9th of 8th month, in the 31st year of her age, SUSAN H. wife of Samuel B. Parsons, and daughter of the late George How land, of New Bedford, a member of New York Monthly Meeting.

During the last two years of her life she had suffered much from ill health, which she bore with much cheerfulness and sweetness of spirit, evincing at all times deep interest in the welfare of our religious Society.

On First-day evening, Eighth month 20th, in the 58th year of her age, MARGARET WHITE, wife of Aaron White, a member of Milford Month

ly Meeting, Indiana, and a minister.

She had been in a low state of health for a considerable time, one side being much paralyzed, and had therefore been nearly confined to the house and frequently to her bed. Being able on that day to be about the house, the family went to meeting, except a daughter and a daughter inlaw, who remained in care of their mother. Soon after noon, passing near the stove at which the family dinner was cooking, her clothing took fire. Her daughters alarmed by her cry, and hastening to her relief, found her garments in flames. The fire was soon extinguished, but she was so severely burnt that she expired on the same evening.

She was greatly beloved for her meekness and Christian virtue, and her death which, had it occurred under ordinary circumstances, would have been greatly lamented, caused a deeper sensation amongst her numerous friends on account of the afflicting manner in which it was brought about.

HAVERFORD SCHOOL.

Providence any very large area of territory. has peculiarly blessed us in this respect. While a dearth, approaching famine, has frequently affected communities inhabiting comparatively small districts, the United States, stretching over a vast region, of varied soil and climate, and of exhaustless fertility, has been exempt, hitherto, from a wide spread blight, and seems, indeed, effectually secured by nature against a misfortune of that formidable and alarming character.

We are well satisfied, therefore, that the immense agricultural resources of the country can never be so affected by any accident as to reduce the people to a point of starvation. Such an event as that we may very justly regard as a physical impossibility. But it must be confessed, that there is just now such a condition of things prevailing, as may make us apprehensive of results which, should they not happily be averted by some speedy accession of copious rains over a large portion of the Union, must be attended We have been sufby distressing consequences. fering a dry season, which, in the length and breadth of the territorial surface over which it has extended, and the long period of time during which it has been protracted, is, perhaps, unprecedented. Accounts of its fatal effects are reaching us daily from all quarters of the North, and West and Southward, and, as may be sup posed, the farming portion of the population is in a state of unexampled tribulation and des pondency. This gloom is now beginning to per vade all classes in prospect of the scarcity of one great staple of food which it is feared will

ensue.

The Winter Term will commence on the second Fourth-day of the Tenth month next. Application may be made to JONATHAN RICHARDS, Superintendent, at the school, in person or by letter addressed The drought which has lasted, without mate to West Haverford, Delaware County, Pennsyl- rial interruption, for a period of nearly two vania, by whom all the information required will months, prevails from Maine far to the South

and West. It is reported to embrace within its | pernicious lengths. This thing is already visitcomprehensive range, not less than twenty States, ing the community with a severe retribution, and in several of which, the destruction of vegeta- if we are wise we will take care to correct it betion will, it is thought, be almost total, while in fore it is too late. all, certain crops cannot but be very considerably As regards the short crops of grain which the reduced below the usual average yield. The In- country will experience this year, and the necesdian maize, or corn, which is more valuable sity which will consequently be imposed on us for our domestic use than any other grains, will, it to husband the supply, there is one particular in is believed, sustain the heaviest injury from this which this economy, for more reasons than apply long continued want of the moisture neces- merely to the question of food, can be wisely and sary to its life and growth; and this fact is to wholesomely exercised. It is known that enorbe regretted the more because it is a crop whose mous quantities of corn are consumed in producdeficiency cannot be supplied from foreign sources. ing alcoholic liquors. It is estimated, for exIt is peculiar to the United States, is produced ample, that the grain annually employed in nowhere else in such abundance, and is largely Great Britian and Ireland for distillation and depended upon here, not only as an article of malting amounts to six million quarters, and household food, but for feeding and fattening would feed five millions of people. In the cattle, especially hogs, which constitute, in the United States, as we learn by the last census, shape of pork, one of the leading and most lucra- the amount of grain used for the same purposes tive of the products of the interior. In the cen-exceeds seventeen millions of bushels, of which tral districts of Illinois, as well as in large sections of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and other States, the corn and potato crops are represented as already in so withered and scorched a condition as to be almost, if not entirely, beyond recovery. The former of the two, however, is a singularly hardy and vigorous plant, capable of enduring severe extremes of weather, and should there occur even yet throughout the regions named, profuse falls of rain, it is possible it may escape destruction. In any event, however, the yield must be abridged in a large measure, and the quality of the corn saved will doubtless be very much deteriorated. It is fortunate that the same cause cannot prejudice other principal grain crops of the States. Wheat, and such other crops as were gathered early in the summer, have escaped the effects of the heat, and are represented in most places to have realized a fair average yield. Nevertheless, we shall have the native sources of our food so far entrenched upon by the rigors of the season as to feel the evil severely, unless we begin at once to exercise the kind of providence and frugality which the impending exigency de

mands.

One reflection suggested by the anticipated emergency is the necessity for a proper economy on the part of all classes in their style of living. Prices will necessarily range high in our provision markets, and these will effect correspondingly every department of trade. The costliness of whatever we may consume or wear will be proportionately advanced, and there are thousands of people who will therefore perceive the policy of adopting early measures to retrench their expenses against the day of need that is coming. Within a year or two past the country has enjoyed an extraordinary measure of prosperity. The circumstance has induced a personal extravagance in habit and expenditure, which all have participated in to a greater or less extent, and which in certain classes of society has gone to most

total there are more than eleven millions of bushels of corn. The greater part of the nutriment contained in this quantity, is entirely destroyed in the process of the manufacture, while what was meant by nature for our sustenance is turned into a deadly poison, detructive alike to the health and morals of a population. It seems, therefore, obvious, in the face of an exigency which will require us to avoid wasting our breadstuffs, that we should withhold them especially from that consumption which makes way yearly with so vast a portion, while it devotes it to the most pernicious use to which it would be possible for a malignant ingenuity to apply the fruits of the earth.-N. American.

GREATEST STEAMER IN THE WORLD.

The immense screw and paddle steamer, building by Scott Russell, at Millwall, England, for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company, is to be completed in twelve months. Her keel has been laid down, and several of her bulkheads, or compartments, are raised, and the works are proceeding with energy and expedition. A railroad has been laid down the entire length of her way, to facilitate the conveyance of the materials from the factory to the different parts of the vessel The exact dimensions of the ship are as follows:-Tunnage, builder's measurement, 22,000 tuns; tunnage burthen, 10,000 tuns; extreme length, 680 feet; extreme breadth, 83 feet; extreme depth, 58 feet; power of engines (screw and paddle,) 2600 horse. Her engines are in the course of construction, and will be fitted in the vessel before she is floated off. The hull will be entirely of iron, and of more than usual strength, the magnitude of her size enabling Mr. Brunel, the architect, to introduce many precautionary measures conducive to support and security. From her keel up to six feet above the water-line is double, of a cellular construction. The upper deck will also be strength