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"Jacko was permitted to make one at the dinner-table, where he was seated in a child's high chair next to his master, and took off his glass of perry-and-water in the same time and measure with his patron. * * * One of these apricot-tarts enriched the board at a small dinner party, and was placed nearly opposite to Jacko, who occupied his usual station. The host helped one and another to some of this exquisite tart, but he had forgot poor Jacko, who had been devouring it with his eyes, and was too wellbred to make any indecorous snatch at the attraction, as most monkeys would have done. At last Jacko could stand it no longer: so, looking to the right and left, and finally fixing his eyes upon the guests opposite, he quietly lifted up his hand behind his master's back and gave his tail such a tug as made the powder fly, withdrew his hand in an instant, and sat with a vacant expression of the greatest innocence. His master gave him a look, and Jacko gave him another. It said, as plainly as look could speak, Don't be angry-don't thrash me-they did n't see it -I beg your pardon, but I must have a bit of that apricot-tart.' He was forgiven and helped." Le Vaillant's narrative of his travels in Africa, has afforded Mr. Broderip some interesting and diverting details touching the monkey. The following is among the best; and it proves that, however crafty the monkey, he may sometimes

find a craftier than he :

their looks and their absolute cunning. The author, speaking of one which used to be in the Zoological Society's collection, then in its infancy, in Bruton street, says:

"The expression of his countenance was peculiarly innocent; but he was shy, very shy, and not to be approached with impunity by those who valued their head-gear. He would sit demurely on his cross-perch, pretending to look another way, or to examine a nut-shell for some remnant of kernel, till a proper victim came with in his reach, when down the pole he rushed and up he was again in the twinkling of an eye, leaving the bare-headed surprised one minus his hat at least, which he had the satisfaction of seeing undergoing a variety of metamorphoses under the plastic hands of the grinning ravisher.

It was whispered-that he once scalped a bishop who ventured too near, notwithstanding the caution given to his lordship by another dignitary of the church, and that it was some time before he could be made to give up, with much mouthing and chattering, the well-powdered wig which he had profanely transferred from the bishop's head to his own. The lords spiritual of the present day, with one or two laudable exceptions, are safe from such sacrilege."

The Wanderow is sagacious as well as cunning. We remember, some years since, standing before the large cage in the gardens of the Zoological Society, witnessing the endless gambols of "To tear up these roots, Kees (the monkey) various ecstatic members of the Simian race. To pursued a very ingenious method, which afforded a Wanderow which came near us we presented me much amusement. He laid hold of the tuft a very hot ginger-lozenge, which he seized and of leaves with his teeth, and, pressing his four bit with great avidity. The hot morsel, however, paws forwards, the root generally followed. puzzled and annoyed him extremely: he turned When this method (which required considerable it about, smelled it, tried his tongue on it, force) did not succeed, he seized the tuft as be- but remained dissatisfied. At length, after a fore as close to the earth as he could, then look of absurdly profound cogitation, he rushed throwing his heels over his head the root always to a little trough of water which was in one yielded to the jerk which he gave it. In our corner of the cage, into which he plunged the marches, when he found himself tired, he got lozenge and held it underneath the surface for upon the back of one of my dogs, which had the some time: he then alternately licked and imcomplaisance to carry him for whole hours to-mersed it, apparently to his great satisfaction; gether. One only, that was larger and stronger than the rest, ought to have served him for this purpose; but the cunning animal well knew how to avoid this drudgery. The moment he perceived Kees on his shoulders he remained motionless, and suffered the caravan to pass on without ever stirring from the spot. The timorous Kees still persisted; but as soon as he began to lose sight of us he was obliged to dismount, and both he and the dog ran with all their might to overtake us. For fear of being surprised, the dog dexterously suffered him to get before him, and watched him with great attention. In short, he had acquired an ascendency over my whole pack, for which he was perhaps indebted to the superiority of his instinct."

The monkey tribe in general, and the Wanderows in particular, are famed (the latter in an especial degree) for the guileless simplicity of

and when he felt the ginger again "hot i' the mouth," he reverted to the remedy of again holding it in the water until he thought there had been a sufficiency of the cooling fluid imbibed to render the lozenge once more palatable to him.

But we must leave our active and sprightly friends to gaze for a moment at the grand and goodly sight of elephants which Mr. Broderip has arranged with taste and skill for the public satisfaction. No portion of his book will prove more attractive to the scientific inquirer, nor gain more applause from youthful curiosity, than this elaborate division of the "Zoological Recrea tions." In it he has narrated with great fidelity, and with rare absence of ostentatious display of learning, on a subject on which the author has displayed much learning, the natural history, the uses, the habits, the sympathies and the antipathies, of this huge yet gentle lord of brutes.

We have all heard of the instinct of the ele-, formed for inflicting pain, and dealing destrucphant, which warns it never to trust its immense tion and death, reconcilable with the mercy atweight to any doubtful support. It is certainly tributed to the Creator, who manifests, in the the triumph of teaching which brings the ele- structure of the lowest of his creatures, the best phant to disregard this instinct. When we con- adaptations to its wants and pleasures?" Hear a template this huge monster, that cannot be portion, at least, of Dr. Buckland's reply: tempted to pass a wooden bridge or tread a stage till it has satisfied itself of its sufficient strength -in a similar situation the fame of all biped rope-dancers, as Mr. Broderip remarks, fades before the nicely adjusted skill of the gigantic quadruped.

"The law of universal mortality being the established condition on which it has pleased the Creator to give being to every creature upon earth, it is a dispensation of kindness to make the end of life to each individual as easy as possible. The most easy death is, proverbially, that Of perfect training turned to various purposes, which is the least expected; and though, for the good Bishop Heber mentions a horrible in- moral reasons peculiar to our own species, we stance. It appears that a mohout, or keeper, deprecate the sudden testation of our mortal who had been offended by the loose tongue of a life, yet, in the case of every inferior animal, scolding woman, gave a private signal to the such a termination of existence is obviously the elephant, which, in obedience, instantly killed most desirable. The pains of sickness and deher; the sign, however, was observed and under- crepitude of age are the usual precursors of stood by others, and the mohout was executed death, resulting from gradual decay. These, in for the deed. Another instance is cited by the human race alone, are susceptible of alleviaTavernier, who, when travelling with the Mogul's tion from internal sources of hope and consolaMahomedan army, was for a time lost in wonder tion, and give exercise to some of the highest at observing that the elephants, in their progress, charities and most tender sympathies of humaniseized the idols that stood before the pagodas ty. But throughout the whole creation of inand dashed them to pieces, to the pious horror ferior animals, no such sympathies exist. There and discomfiture of the Hindoos. Of course, is no affection nor regard for the feeble and aged this arose from no religious sentiment in the-no alleviating care to relieve the sick; and the caoutchouc bosom of the elephants; these simply extension of life through the lingering stages of obeyed the secret signals of their Islam keepers, who took joy in making them the instruments of destroying the symbols of faith, which faith and symbols were equally odious to them.

decay and old age would, to each individual, be a scene of protracted misery. Under such a system, the natural world would present a mass of daily suffering, bearing a large proportion to "The beleaguered city of Phurtpore had for the total amount of animal enjoyment. By the a long time been pressed by the British army, existing dispensations of sudden destruction and attended by its host of camp-followers and at- rapid succession, the feeble and disabled are tendants. [To eight thousand fighting men there speedily relieved from suffering, and the world were eighty thousand followers.] The hot sea- is, at all times, crowded with myriads of sentient son approached and the dry burning winds were and happy beings; and though to many indiat hand; as they prevailed, every tank and viduals their allotted share of life is often short, every pond was dried up, and the enormous it is usually a period of uninterrupted gratification; multitude of human beings and cattle were thrown whilst the momentary pain of sudden and unexupon the wells alone for their supply of water. pected death is an evil infinitely small in comThe scene of confusion at these points of at-parison with the enjoyments of which it is the traction may be better imagined than described. termination." Two elephant drivers with their beasts were at one of these wells together, and when the usual struggle and confusion amid a war of words were at their height, one of the elephants, which was remarkably large and strong, snatched from the smaller and weaker one the bucket with which his master had provided him, and which he carried at his trunk's end. Loud and long was the squabble between the keepers. The little elephant quietly watched his opportunity, and, when his gigantic aggressor was standing with his side to the well, retired a few steps, and then making a rush came with his head full against his antagonist's side and tumbled him in !"

In allusion to the destructive weapons, offensive and defensive, of sundry animals, he says: "It has been asked, how is this ingenuity in the formation of cruel instruments, expressly

THE EXPULSIVE POWER OF A NEW

AFFECTION.

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."-1 John ii. 15.

There are two ways in which a practical moralist may attempt to displace from the human heart its love of the world-either by a demonstration of the world's vanity, so as that the heart shall be prevailed upon simply to withdraw its regards from an object that is not worthy of it; or, by setting forth another object, even God, as more worthy of its attachment, so as that the heart shall be prevailed upon, not to resign an old affection, which shall have nothing to succeed it, but to exchange an old affection for a new one. My purpose is to show, that, from

the constitution of our nature, the former method | sire, with its corresponding train of exertion, is is altogether incompetent and ineffectual, and that the latter method will alone suffice for the rescue and recovery of the heart, from the wrong affection that domineers over it.

not to be got rid of simply by destroying it. It must be by substituting another desire, and another habit of exertion in its place; and the most effectual way of withdrawing the mind from one object, is, not by turning it away upon desolate and unpeopled vacancy, but by presenting to its regards another object still more allurSuch is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of, and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system. It will now be seen, perhaps, why it is, that the heart keeps by its present affections with so much tenacity, when the attempt is to do them away by a mere process of extirpation. It will not consent to be so desolated. The strong man, whose dwelling place is there, may be compelled to give way to another occupier, but unless another stronger than he, has power to dispossess and to succeed him, he will keep his present lodgment inviolable. The heart would revolt against its own emptiness. It could not bear to be so left, in a state of waste and cheerless insipidity. You have all heard that nature abhors a vacuum. Such, at least, is the nature of the heart, that, though the room which is in it may change one inmate for another, it cannot be left void without the pain of most intolerable suffering. It is not enough, then, to argue the, folly of an existing affection. It is not enough, in the terms of a forcible or an affecting demonstration, to make good the evanescence of its object. It may not even be enough to associate the threats and the terrors of some coming vengeance, with the indulgence of it. So, to tear away an affection from the heart, as to leave it bare of all its regards, and of all its preferences, were a hard and hopeless undertaking, and it would appear as if the alone powerful engine of dispossession, were to bring the mastery of another affection to bear upon it.

Such is the demand of our nature for an object in pursuit, that no accumulation of previous success can extinguish it—and thus it is, that the most prosperous merchant, and the most victori-ing. ous general, and the most fortunate gamester, when the labour of their respective vocations has come to a close, are often found to languish in the midst of all their acquisitions, as if out of their kindred and rejoicing element. It is quite in vain, with sucnstitutional appetite for employment in man, to attempt cutting away from him the spring or the principle of one employment, without providing him with another. The whole heart and habit will rise in resistance against such an undertaking. The else unoccupied female, who spends the hours of every evening at some play of hazard, knows as well as you, that the pecuniary gain, or the honorable triumph of a successful contest, are altogether paltry. It is not such a demonstration of vanity as this, that will force her away from her dear and delightful occupation. The habit cannot so be displaced as to leave nothing but a naked and cheerless vacancy behind it-though it may so be supplanted as to be followed up by another habit of employment, to which the power of some new affection has constrained her. It is willingly suspended, for example, on any single evening, should the time that is wont to be allotted to gaming, require to be spent on the preparation of an approaching assembly. The ascendant power of a second affection will do, what no exposition, however forcible, of the folly and worthlessness of the first, ever could effectuate. And it is the same in the great world. You never will be able to arrest any of its leading purits, by a naked demonstration of their vanity. It is quite in vain to think of stopping one of these pursuits, in any way else, but by stimulating to another. In attempting to bring a worldly man, intent and busied with the prosecution of his objects, to a dead stand, you must address to the eye of his mind, another object, with a charm powerful enough to dispossess the first of its influences, and to engage him in some other prosecution as full of interest, and hope, and congenial activity, as the former. It is this which stamps an impotency on all moral and pathetical declamation about the insignificance of the world. A man will no more consent to the misery of being without an object, because that object is a trifle, or of being without a pursuit, because that pursuit terminates in some frivolous or fugitive acquirement, than he will voluntarily submit himself to the torture, because that torture is to be of short duration. If, to be without desire and without exertion altogether, is a state of violence and disconfort, then the present de

You may remember the fond and unbroken tenacity with which your heart has often recurred to pursuits, over the utter frivolity of which it sighed and wept but yesterday. But the morrow comes, and the business of the world, and the objects of the world, and the moving faces of the world, come along with it, and the machinery of the heart, in virtue of which it must have something to grasp, or something to adhere to, brings it under a kind of moral necessity to be actuated just as before, so that the church, instead of being a school of obedience, has been a mere sauntering place for the luxury of a passing and theatrical emotion; and the pre-ching which is mighty to compel the attendance multitudes; which is mighty to still and to solemnize the hearers into a kind of tragic sensibility, is not mighty to the pulling down of strong holds.

The love of the world cannot be expunged by

ness.

a mere demonstration of the world's worthless- | as God in Christ, who alone can dispart it from But may it not be supplanted by the love this ascendancy. It is when he stands dismantled of that which is more worthy than itself? The of the terrors which belong to him as an offended heart cannot be prevailed upon to part with the lawgiver, and when we are enabled by faith, world, by a simple act of resignation. But may which is His own gift, to see His glory in the not the heart be prevailed upon to admit into its face of Jesus Christ, and to hear His beseeching preferences another, who shall subordinate the voice, as it protests good will to men, and enworld, and bring it down from its wonted as-treats the return of all who will, to a full pardon cendancy? If the throne which is placed there must have an occupier, and the tyrant that now reigns has occupied it wrongfully, he may not leave a bosom which would rather detain him, than be left in desolation. But may he not give way to the lawful sovereign, appearing with every charm that can secure his willing admittance, and taking unto himself his great power to subdue the moral nature of man, and to reign over it? In a word, if the way to disengage the heart from the positive love of one great and ascendant object, is to fasten it in positive love to another, then it is not by exposing the worthlessness of the former, but by addressing to the mental eye, the worth and excellence of the latter, that all old things are to be done away, and all things are to become new.

and a gracious acceptance; it is then that a love, paramount to the world, and, at length, expulsive of it, first arises in the regenerating bosom. It is when released from the spirit of bondage, with which love cannot dwell, and when admitted into the number of God's children, through the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the spirit of adoption is poured upon us; it is then that the heart, brought under the mastery of one great and predominant affection, is delivered from the tyranny of its former desires, in the only way in which deliverance is possible.-T. Chalmers.

DANIEL O'CONNEL and thE COW-STEALER.

The following anecdote is copied from a Life of Daniel O'Connell:

"I was once," said he, "counsel for a cow stealer, who was clearly convicted-the sentence was transportation for fourteen years. At the end of that time he returned, and happening to meet me, he began to talk about the trial. I asked him how he had always managed to steal the fat cows; to which he gravely answered: Well then, I'll tell your honor the whole secret of that. Whenever your honor goes to steal a cow, always go on the worst night you can, for if the weather is very bad, the chances are that nobody will be there to see your honour. The way you'll always know the fat cattle in the dark, is by this token-that the fat cows always stand out in the more exposed placesbut the lean ones always go into the ditch for shelter.' So (continued O'Connell) I got that lesson in cow-stealing gratis from my worthy client."

The love of God and the love of the world, are two affections, not merely in a state of rivalship, but in a state of enmity, and that so irreconcilable, that they cannot dwell together in the same bosom. We have already affirmed how impossible it were for the heart, by any innate elasticity of its own, to cast the world away from it, and thus reduce itself to a wilderness. The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection, is by the expulsive power of a new one. Nothing can exceed the magnitude of the required change in a man's character, when bidden as he is in the New Testament, to love not the world; no, nor any of the things that are in the world, for this so comprehends all that is dear to him in existence, as to be equivalent to a command of self-annihilation. But the same revelation which dictates so mighty an obedience, places within our reach as mighty an instrument of obedience. It brings for admittance, to the very door of our heart, an affection which, once seated on its throne, will either subordinate every previous inmate, or bid it away. Besides the world, it places before the eye of the mind, Him who made the world, and, with this peculiarity, which is all its own, that in the Gospel, do we so behold God, as that we may love God. It is there, and there only, where God stands revealed as an object of confidence to sinners, and where our desire after Him is not chilled into apathy, by that barrier of human guilt which intercepts every approach that is not made to Him through the appointed mediator. It is the bringing in of this better hope, whereby by a stranger, and informed in an undertone, that we draw nigh unto God; and to live without he had a sum of money concealed in his neckcloth. hope, is to live without God; and if the heart be without God, the world will then have all the ascendancy. It is God apprehended by the believer

Though it is to be hoped that this lesson in cow stealing will be of as little practical advantage to our readers as it was to O'Connell, the philosophy of the case is worth knowing. Fat animals of any description suffer less from exposure to the elements than lean ones; consequently, the owner of domestic animals, if he consults their comfort, must defend them from the weather, either by providing them with shelter, or stocking them with fat.

And it may be observed that honest people may sometimes derive a valuable lesson from light fingered gentry. An anecdote to the purpose just occurs. A man on board a steamboat was accosted

The fact was known to be true, but the wonder was how the stranger discovered it. That difficulty was removed by the informant's telling him

he had once been a pickpocket, and he inferred the | phraseology. But if he should find it expedient fact from observing the frequent and extraordinary even to be wholly silent on religious subjects, attention the man was giving to the dress of his he will still have comfort in reflecting that he neck. The practical admonition connected with has shown, by his behaviour, that what the world deems over-strictness, does not necessarily conthe disclosure, was that the traveller, who is tract the brow, or damp the spirit, or cramp the carrying a large amount of money, should be care-intellect, or blunt the mental taste, or make a ful to avoid the manifestation of particular anxiety man less capable of holding his place among with regard to his baggage. Let the solicitude, as mankind (as far as he himself judges it proper) well as the property, be kept out of view.-[ED. with ease, with respectability, with courtesy, and yet with an independence of mind, which no mere man of the world ever did or could exem

THE CHRISTIAN IN SOCIETY.

"What the associated Christian seeks in the devotional circle, the individual Christian must seek for, and if he would stand at all, must find in the recesses of his own heart. He fights his battles alone-his circumstances do not admit of

plify."—Alexander Knox's Remains.

A FATHER'S TESTIMONY RESPECTING A DEPARTED

SON.

universal conviction.
character," continues the parent, "cannot be
too sedulously cultivated. To be willing to
appear ignorant when we are so-to own a
fault without a vain attempt to conceal or ex-
cuse it, to maintain an exact agreement of our
professions with our motives-may sometimes
put us to pain; but integrity can be obtained at
no lower price. This is the maxim we should
carry with us into all the details of life, "to
suffer, rather than to sin;" remembering another
of no less wisdom and importance, "He that
does not make a conscience of everything, will
soon come to make a conscience of nothing."
It is the little fox which spoils the tender vines,
and a habit of tampering with the moral sense
on slight occasions, never fails to prepare the
mind for greater offences.

any kind of flight; his shelter, as well as sup-beloved son, rejoiced in the remembrance of his A parent, when mourning over the loss of a port, is wholly invisible. The result is, that he can keep his footing only by habitual, at least love of truth, that when the question was put, prevalent, conquest; and when, through the "who told you so?" "then it is true," was the grace of God and a competent course of self"This transparency of trial, he is confirmed in his path, he must possess a species of confidence, which he, who has had more extrinsic aid, is not likely to attain. The man I speak of has separated himself from the pollutions of the world, without withdrawing from its common intercourse; this, however, requires much discrimination, wisdom and unremitting watchfulness, as well as tenderness of conscience; but when the habit is once gained, it is invaluable. He will not go into worldly company for pleasure, because his taste is of quite another kind: but he will not shrink from calls of duty or propriety, because he scarcely fears the world more than he loves it. He fears it enough to make him ever watchful against its seductions, and ever solicitous to take to him "the whole armour of God," but with this safeguard he has no dread of any of its scenes, except when he should be, in any respect, a partaker in the unfruitful works of darkness. When, POLITICAL.-Morris Longstreth, at present one therefore, such a person, does mingle with the of the Canal Commissioners of Pennsylvania, has people of the world, he knows why he does so. been nominated for the office of Governor by the It is no stealthy advance beyond the limits of Democratic State Convention, William F. Johnston, his conscience; no widening of the circle which the present acting Governor, is the Whig candidate. he once prescribed to himself. It is, as concur- the 31st ult., having left Liverpool on the 19th. EUROPE.-The Niagara arrived at New York on ring circumstances have fully shown him, an Cotton is reported dull, a great quantity of the aractual part of his duty. "In the calling" merely ticle having been thrown upon the market. Prices "wherein he was called, therein he abides with were, however, unchanged. Unfavourable weather, God." Acting in this simplicity, he finds fre- and the apprehensions of the potato rot, had caused quent opportunities for useful conversation, of an advance in the Corn market. The arrests in which he avails himself with the wisest manage- noghue have been taken. Martin, the proprietor Ireland continue frequent. Meagher and O'Doment he can use. Being accustomed to view of the "Felon" newspaper, has been tried and conreligion itself as in the most harmonious agrec-victed. Chartist movements had taken place in ment with nature, providence, and all the higher tastes of man, he can graft wise and pious observations on subjects, which would leave no opening whatever to the theological dogmatist: and not having sought religion by the means of any party, he speaks of it solely in the language of plain sense, without danger of exciting either risibility or disgust by any uncouthness of

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

England, and some arrests had been made. The evacuation of Lombardy by the Sardinian army is confirmed. The Austrian army had entered the Papal territories. The Austrians appear to have met with some reverses at Bologna. It is announced that the Cholera continued slowly spreading in Berlin, and that the number of cases had reached 27 since its first appearance on the 31st of the previous month.

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