Price two dollars per annum, payable in advance, or her peace. The testimonies of Truth became six copies for ten dollars.

In the year 1786 she was married to our friend Thomas Wistar; a union which was permitted to continue during the unusual period of nearly fifty-nine years; and which through submission to the manifestations of divine grace, was made remarkably conducive to their mutual growth in the Truth and their usefulness in the church. Not long after this event, it pleased the Lord to visit her with severe affliction, and As an overseer, she laboured with offenders as expressed by herself, she was made to under- in the restoring spirit of the gospel, with meekstand the language, "Who may abide the day of ness and tenderness; and was often engaged to his coming? and who may stand when He ap-administer caution to such as were in danger of peareth?" being led astray.

ing, and filled this important station with humility and godly fear. Being brought into very close sympathy with those who were young in the ministry, her counsel was freely imparted to them, and she largely partook of their exercises.

In our meetings for divine worship, the solemnity of her countenance gave evidence of the introversion of her mind. In these seasons of waiting upon the Lord, she was often brought under a living exercise on her own account and that of others, and on returning from them, frequently expressed the refreshment she had experienced.

Both in her private deportment and in meetings, she was concerned that no cause of offence should be thrown in the way of any, especially of the young, and of those who were under serious impressions. Those who were entrusted with the care of young children, were particularly objects of her solicitude, and she often found it her duty affectionately to impress upon them, the obligation to bring up their tender charge from early infancy, consistently with our religious profession.

As she advanced in years, this subject appeared to rest with increasing weight upon her mind. The last time she attended our Monthly meeting, when labouring under much physical weakness, she was engaged in great tenderness to impress upon mothers the necessity of faithfulness in the discharge of this important duty.

She was a diligent reader of the Holy Scriptures, and in her silent waiting appears to have been favoured with precious openings of many passages, to her comfort and edification. With the writings of our early Friends she was much conversant; often remarking the deep interest and instruction she had felt in tracing their Christian experience. Her memory being stored with incidents connected with the rise and progress of our religious Society, she was accustomed to dwell upon them in conversation, especially with young persons, and earnestly to recommend the perusal of these valuable works.

In the early part of 1843 her health declined, and in the Fifth month of that year she was attacked with paralysis, which for some months deprived her of the use of one side. During this afflicting dispensation, she was kept in resignation to the divine will, and was heard to say, that she did not wish it different. To a friend who visited her a few days after she was first taken, she expressed with much feeling, her sense that it was all right; adding, "how many things I have to be thankful for! how much of mercy is mingled in this cup of affliction." partially recovered from this attack, but remained under great weakness of body, yet retaining the powers of her mind in much clearness and vigour. She continued to make exertions to attend our meetings for divine worship, when her infirmity was such as seemed to render the attempt hazardous; and often returned refreshed and comforted.

She

Throughout her sickness she was preserved in quietness and serenity; enjoying the society of her friends, and making instructive remarks to young persons and others who called to see

her.

She often expressed her sense of her unworthiness, saying, "that her hope of salvation rested solely on the mercy of God, through the atonement and mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ." During the last four months of her life she read much, and almost exclusively in the Holy Scriptures, which afforded her great consolation. She frequently said that the fear of death was removed, and that she felt willing to go; adding, although the time was hid from her, it could not be long.

She passed first-day, the 15th of the Twelfth mo. last, [1844] sitting up, but appeared more unwell than usual. It was evident that much solemnity covered her mind, although she said but little; about an hour after retiring for the night, a cough came on, with difficulty of breathing, and shortly after, she gradually reclined on the pillow, and as we reverently believe, fell asleep in Jesus.

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Being favoured with clear scriptural views of the doctrines of the Christian religion, as they have always been held by us; she was, in common with other faithful Friends, brought under The visitors shortly afterwards quitted the great concern upon the appearance within our Star of the West, with the clerk of the agents, borders, of those anti-christian sentiments which and returned to Liverpool in a small boat. The led to the recent secession of many individuals vessel remained at anchor awaiting the return of from our religious Society. Firmly upholding her captain, with a new cook and steward. On the testimony of Truth, and not shrinking from the following morning, when I walked along the the trials to which she was subjected, she was noble esplanade of the Prince's Dock, and lookvery useful in the support of our discipline at thated towards the place where I left her, she was eventful period.

As she drew near the close of life, it was manifest that her mind became increasingly imbued with Christian love, which was evinced by meekness, patience, gentleness, and a forgiving disposition.

not to be seen. She had proceeded out to sca with a favorable wind.

The ceremonies of the search for "stow-aways" and the roll-call occupied too much of my attention in my visit to the Star of the West to permit me to make inquiries among the emigrants

climbing after them in hot haste. Many a package, containing property of value to these poor people missed its mark and fell into the dock, whence it was rescued, and handed up by a man. in a small boat, who followed in the wake of the mighty ship. Ultimately the whole of the passengers got safely on board--although it is diffi

roar, turmoil, confusion, and pressing of one over another, that occurred within the few minutes that the ship lay between the walls of the dock-gate. It was as difficult to get out of her as to get in, but several visiters took this opportunity of leaving her, and I among the number. When, at last, the ship cleared the gate and floated right out into the Mersey, her full proportions became disentangled from the maze of shipping in which she had been formerly involved, and she seemed indeed to be a Leviathan.

themselves as to their ideas of the New World,, their prospects in it, and their reasons for preferring the United States to the British Colonies. But in subsequent visits to other vessels that sailed within the succeeding five or six weeks, more especially the West Point, Captain Allen, the New World, Captain Knight, the Isaac Webb, Captain Cropper, and the York-cult to say how they managed it amid the upshire, Captain Shearman, I took occasion to enter more fully into this part of the subject. The West Point sailed with nearly 400 emigrants, of whom about 60 were Welsh and English, and the remainder Irish, of the same class as those which sailed in the Star of the West. The Isaac Webb, a splendid new vessel, with a double steerage, took out no less than 770 souls, of whom, as usual, the large majority were Irish. The second-class cabins on board of this ship were exclusively occupied by English emigrants; the price of a berth varying from £5 to £7, while The departures of the West Point, the New the price paid by the Irish in the steerage rang- World, and the Yorkshire, were equally characed at about £4. The New World took out teristic. The wind and weather being highly about 450 emigrants, as nearly as I could ascer- favorable on the day appointed for the sailing of tain, more than three fourths of whom were the West Point, I proceeded twenty miles to sea Irish. The Yorkshire left the Waterloo Dock in that vessel. We were nominally towed out with nearly 400, but as she had room for many by a "tug." In conversation with the passenmore, she lay in the Mersey for four-and-twenty hours, and ultimately sailed with a full complement. The second-class passengers, as indeed was the case in all the vessels that I visited, were English farm-laborers, small farmers, and respectable mechanics, while the steerage was invariably occupied by the Irish. Occasionally a few English, Welsh, and Scotch were to be found among the steerage passengers; but, generally speaking, the Irish had the steerage to themselves.

gers during the short but agreeable sail of twenty miles, I found that very many of them were going out to join friends and relatives in the United States who had preceded them years before, and who had forwarded them money to pay their passage. Some few were going to remain in the state of New York; but by far the greater proportion were bound for Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Missouri. Very few of them seemed to know whether Canada was or was not a British possession: and not one of the The scene when the Isaac Webb-crowded Irish to whom I put the question had ever heard with passengers both above and below-passed of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, or New Brunsthrough the dock gates, was lively and peculiar. wick. One respectable looking lad, of about As usual, although the vessel was two days be- twenty, said he had five pounds in his pocket. yond the time of sailing, a great number of her He knew no person in America, but as he had passengers had delayed coming on board until heard of the state of Ohio, and that land was the last moment. A considerable portion of those cheap, and labor well paid, he was going thither who had already placed their luggage on board, to try his fortune. He was not, he said, afraid and who preferred to stroll about the town, or of hard work, and had no fear but that he should sit drinking in the beer-shops, to lingering in the get on. The English emigrants in the second dark steerage, were also among the absentees-class cabins knew all about Canada and the and their sole chance of getting on board was at British North American possessions, but thought the dock gates, where the passage was not many the United States preferable to either of them. inches wider than the deck of the vessel. At "Besides," said one sturdy man from Lincolnthe critical moment, donkey-carts laden with shire, "we don't know what's to happen in luggage drove up-and the rush of those bela-Canada. It won't always belong to England, ted to get on board with their goods and chattels was tremendous. Thick as flies upon a honey pot, they might be seen clambering over the side of the vessel, threading their difficult way among ropes and cordage. Here and there a woman becoming entangled, with her drapery sadly decomposed, might be heard imploring aid from the sailors or passengers above. Men might be seen, impeded with luggage, and hurling small casks and boxes on to the deck, and

and there may be a 'rumpus.' Its all right in the States, and that's the place for my money.' This man and his family were bound for Wisconsin. In conversation with him upon the generally respectable appearance of the English, the squalid appearance of the Irish emigrants, and the probability that a few years' residence in the New World would much improve the latter, both physically and morally, he showed me a passage in a cheap tract, just published, entitled, "Nine

sidered as the native home of landscape painting, while Switzerland has not produced a single artist of any eminence. Even the town life of the Dutch and of the people of kindred origin and habits of life, in the cities of North Western Germany, is in many ways brought into closer connection with Nature than elsewhere. Their fisheries are often carried on almost beneath their windows; their ships come direct from the ocean to their own house door; and nothing is more common than for the artisans of the town-shoemakers, tailors and tinmen-to carry on at the same time one of the most primitive occupations of human society, that of cattle-breeding.

to the dykes. Our vessel lifted high up on the, the artist has seized, and transferred to his canbosom of the swelling waters, moves on majesti-vass, those fleeting moments of exquisite beauty cally, looking down like a giant on the country that may be seen at times wherever there is open below. It is scarcely possible to resist an anx-sky and water. Holland may, indeed, be conious feeling when you see how rising a few feet more, the sea might swallow up the whole landscape; but regularly, at the appointed hour, the waters receive the command, and begin their retreat, and instead of destruction, we see the awakening of renewed life. Through out the whole district of Seeland high water produces such a general renewal of activity, as the turning on of the steam in a cotton factory that sets every wheel and limb of the vast machinery in motion. Since there is everywhere a rise of ten or fifteen feet, little ditches that at ebb tide could hardly float a small boat, become navigable for large vessels; ships that had been lying mournfully on their sides on the sand, rise up and recover themselves like sick men restored to fresh air, and at length free themselves from the clammy soil, and float triumphantly on the clear element. On every shore and in every harbour busy preparations are going on; and craft of all sorts and sizes release themselves from the shore, spread their sails, and waft their goods or passengers conveniently from place to place and the large sea-going vessels that have been lying at the mouths of the rivers move forward and swim majestically into port."

The Dutch painters have not failed to remark and take advantage of the many picturesque effects produced by the varying states of the tide, especially of the ebb.

"In Upper Germany cattle breeding is mostly carried on in the villages, which furnish the great towns with produce of this kind. Even in Switzerland herds of cattle and horses are kept on distant pastures and entirely banished from the towns; but in Lower Germany it is otherwise. In the town of Bremen for instance, there is a great pasture ground called the Burghers' Cow Pasture, which lies close to the town, and is partly surrounded by the houses of the suburbs. Here graze thousands of oxen and cows belonging to the citizens: and the maid servants come out daily to milking, in the morning and evening; and on Sundays, the owners with their families walk forth to view their cattle, and observe the condition of the grass-the pasture ground forms also the favorite play-ground of the children. In the winter the cows are driven into the town and accommodated in very curious cow-houses in

It has been remarked that the love of Nature often manifests itself most strongly in those who are debarred by circumstances from its unlimited enjoyment. The fondness for flowers, for orna-kitchens and cellars, where they low and calve mental landscape, and all analogous tastes, which as in the tents of the Arabian patriarch. In the have become a distinguishing characteristic of spring, the day when the cows, calves and horses refined civilization in modern Europe, and par- are again driven out to the flowery meadow, is ticularly in England, have originated with the as regular a festival for some classes of the citiinhabitants of towns. In general, the agricul- zens, as the return of the herds to the mountains tural classes are, of all others, least sensible to the is for the dwellers in the Alps. The herdsmen beauty of Nature, and often scarcely more so usually have their abode in a handsome farmthan the cattle grazing round them; the in-house on the pasture, and carry on business at habitants of the countries most richly endowed, as the generality of the Swiss, for instance, appear to derive less pleasure from the magnificence of the scenery spread out daily before their sight, than the dwellers in lands which can boast few higher attractions than a sparkling river and a green field. The charms of Holland-if the term be admissible-are altogether of a homely and prosaic character, but they are cherished with all the greater fondness by the dwellers among them. The Dutchman, however we may quarrel with his taste in the decoration of his villa, manifests very unequivocally his own pleasure in it: and when fog and rain, and piercing winds drive him in-doors, he finds a consolation in the painted landscape that reminds him of the brief period of out-of-door enjoyment, and in which the skill of

the same time as landlords, furnishing fresh milk and butter to visitors. Almost every Dutch town is provided with one of these common pastures; and one has scarcely caught sight of its towers before one sees also the numerous herds of sleek party-coloured cows, lying scattered like flowers about the grass. Paul Potter and Berghem, the Theocritus of Flemish painters, were sons of these cattle-breeding town tradespeople."

Among other instances of the Dutch fondness for natural objects, Mr. Kohl mentions the tenderness and respect shown to the stork, which has become domesticated in the very midst of their cities.

"One bird I must mention which is held sacred in the Netherlands, where it has found a second home and lends more charm to their land