On the 23rd of last month, at Stanford, N. Y. SARAH, wife of Abner Duell, and daughter of the late Samuel and Comfort Upton, in the 56th year of her age. She was a valuable Elder of Stanford Monthly Meeting, and in her family, as a wife and mother, her loss will be severely felt. As she endeavoured to live the life of the righteous, she left an evidence that her latter end was like his.

right to compensate the slaves, by whose labour he | his departure, said he felt a peaceful and quiet was accommodated; and when he was laid on the state of mind, or words to that import. bed from which he was never to rise, his solicitude on this subject was not forgotten: but he made it a condition with his physician, that the medicine administered should be such as did not come through polluted channels or oppressive hands. And afterwards, finding the disease "affect his head, so that he could think little, and but as a child," he requested that if his understanding should be more disordered, nothing might be given him which his attendants knew he had a testimony against. Though this allusion was probably intended to apply to other things besides the products of slavery, it can hardly be questioned that these were principally in view.

In Royalton, Niagara county, N. York, on the 19th of 12th month last, of typhus fever, MILLY, wife of Seth D. Wolf, a member of Hartland Monthly Meeting, aged 32 years.

On the 20th ult., at the residence of his father, near Mount Holly, New Jersey, BENJAMIN, son of Benjamin and Sarah M. Taylor, in the 17th

CIRCULAR.

The Managers of the Free Produce Association of Friends, of New York Yearly Meeting, have the satisfaction of stating, that a store has been opened for the sale of articles exclusively the result of free labour, at No. 377, Pearl street, New York City, by Lindley Murray Hoag, and George Wood, both of them members of our Religious Society.

The course which J. Woolman thus thought him-year of his age. self called to pursue, though he was probably alone in that particular, has within the last few years been taken by thousands. If the conduct of John Woolman, in that respect, was the fruit of pure and enlightened christianity, (and who will assert that it was not?) it is well worthy of close and impartial examination, whether the same regard to the openings and leadings of this divine teacher and guide, would not conduct others into a similar path. If those who endeavour to follow the example of this remarkable man, in regard to slavery and its products, should be wise enough to conduct their movements under the influence of the spirit by which he was evidently actuated, there can be no doubt that the result would be a happy one to them selves and to the world. A righteous cause is most effectually promoted by means which christianity approves and suggests.

Our friends Benjamin Seebohm and Robert Lindsey, having, since the Yearly Meeting of Ohio, which was held in the 9th month last, attended those of Baltimore and North Carolina, and visited nearly all the meetings within their limits, arrived in this city last week, and attended the evening meeting in Mulberry street, on the 27th ult., the last for the season, where B. S. was largely engaged in gospel labour.

They offer for sale, at fair prices, a general assortment of Groceries, consisting of sugars, molasses, teas, spices, dried fruits, etc. etc. They have also an assortment of Free Cotton

Goods.

The upright character of the parties engaged in the business, will, we hope, give confidence in the sources of supply being scrupulously investigated; and we have, therefore, no hesitation in recommending the store to the patronage of Friends and others.

When we reflect on the position taken by our Yearly Meeting, in the adoption of the Minute given below, we cannot doubt that the opportunity now afforded for families to provide themselves with goods the result of compensated labour, and not the gain of oppression, will be extensively embraced.

"At the sitting of the Yearly Meeting, on the 24th of 5th month, 1845:

"The Essay contained in the Records of the MARRIED,-At Friends' Meeting house, Down-Meeting for Sufferings, on the subject of traffickingtown, Pa., on 4th day, the 23d of last month, NATHAN J. SHARPLES and RUTHANNA EDGE.

On 3rd day, the 29th ult., at Friends' Meeting House in this city, on 6th street, EDWARD TATUM to ANNA C. daughter of Dr. Moses B. Smith, all of Philadelphia.

DIED,-At the residence of Joel G. Hutchin, of Elk Monthly Meeting, Preble county, Ohio, on the 28th of 1st month last, ENOCH S. DICKS, a member of that meeting, in the 21st year of his age. He was confined to his bed about six weeks before his decease, and manifested much patience and resignation throughout his illness; and a little before

ing in, and the free use of articles produced by the labour of slaves, was fully approved by this Meeting, and directed to be transmitted to the subordinate meetings, with the extracts."

The following is taken from the Address to the members of our Yearly Meeting above alluded to, commencing with a short extract from John Woolman.

"The trading in,' says John Woolman, 'or frequent use of any produce known to be raised by those who are under such lamentable oppression, hath appeared to me to be a subject, which may yet require the more serious consideration

Average number: 78 boys, 61 girls; total 139. Cost of each pupil, including the items enumerated above, $101 28. Salaries and wages, $2,161.

Officers. Superintendent, mistress of the family, three assistants, and seven apprentices, all employed in education.

The report of the results of the half yearly examinations, is more than ordinarily minute, and, in this respect, presents an example which might advantageously be copied by some of our schools, whose general and vague statements leave on the minds of their readers, very little impression of the state of instruction. It is remarked in reference to the upper class of boys, "That the introduction of written answers to questions on general history, and some scientific subjects, prepared by the boys, without recourse to books, formed a new feature in the examination, and we were gratified with the proofs of attainment thus exhibited." "Sketches in linear drawing on the black-board, which continues to be regularly taught in the schools, were well executed." "In Scripture history their knowledge was satisfactory and pleasing; whilst in their acquaintance with the great and leading truths of Christianity as set forth in the New Testament, together with the application of passages from the

Old Testament, and the repetition of others, appro- |
priately illustrating the principles of our religious
society, we see reason to feel that they are well
grounded in this important and interesting branch
of their education." In regard to one of the
classes, a defect is noticed which must strike
almost every one in nearly all our schools-in
reading "more regard to punctuation, with less
monotony, is desirable." The report is appro-
priately closed with the expression of sympathy
with the teachers in their important services,
and of encouragement for them, with the craving
of the Divine blessing upon their labour.
Wigton School, under the care of Cumberland
and Northumberland Quarterly Meetings.
Average number of pupils 41, of whom
about one-third are not members of our So-
ciety.

The average cost of each pupil during the last three years, has been, per annum $100 80.

Salaries of officers, including a master, housekeeper, school mistress, two apprentices, and an assistant teacher for boys (three months in the year) $905. Servants wages $128.

Sibford School, under the care of Associated
Quarterly Meetings.

Average number of pupils 57, of whom about one-third are members. Average cost of each pupil $78.

The boys are employed in various ways in the family, in addition to the time occupied in the cultivation of the land and garden. The girls are daily engaged in domestic concerns, and in knitting and needlework for the use of the establishment.

Salaries and wages $765.

Rawdon School, near Leeds, for persons con

nected with the Society, but not members. Average number of pupils 52; average cost of each, exclusive of clothing, $80.

The committee believe that the frequent employment of the boys in the farm and garden, has had a beneficial effect. There has been a considerable increase in the time devoted to these pursuits, also to house work and mechanical labour, the latter consisting chiefly of book binding and carpentering.

Teachers' salaries $743; housekeepers' and servants' wages $217.

Sidcot, under the care of Associated Quarterly
Meetings.

Average number of boys, 40; girls, 21, total, 61. Cost of each pupil, including clothing, &c., $120 62.

Officers.-Master and mistress, one teacher, one governess, and three apprentices.

Salaries of officers $1350. Servants' wages $205.

Penketh appears to be supported by contributions from Friends and receipts from the parents of pupils; the prices of admission varying from $29 to $76 50 per annum.

Average number of pupils: 34 boys and 18 girls. Cost per pupil, including clothing, &c., $98 60.

The object of the institution is stated to be "to give efficient instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and the accurate use of language; and to the girls a practical acquaintance with the use of the needle; adding to this foundation as much higher instruction in geography, history admit; but especially was it deemed important and general knowledge, as circumstances would. to train up the children to habits of industry and the right employment of their time, endeavouring to imbue their tender minds with a sense of the necessity of a close attention to their religious and moral duties-the alone safe ground on which they can place their hopes of a happy and prosperous career in this life, and, through the one offering of our Lord and Saviour, of bliss eternal in the world to come."

Officers.-Master and one apprentice, housekeeper and female teacher.

Salaries and servants' wages $864 20. North of England Agricultural School, under care of Durham Quarterly Meeting.

The prices of admission vary from $38 50 to $72, most of the pupils are admitted at the lowest rate.

The division of time is as follows: average of boys' labour 24 hours per day, average time in school 6 hours, meals and recreation 4 hours. Girls' work 43 hours per day, school and sewing 5 hours per day, meals and recreation 4 hours the instruction, and of the time devoted to labour, per day. The report, speaking of the results of remarks: "We continue to have much ground to be satisfied in each respect, and with the effects upon the character of the children, alike during their continuance at school, and after their leaving it."

Number of pupils 36 boys and 24 girls, total 60. Average cost of each pupil $81 56-less the value of his labour $4 71-$76 85, clothing, &c., included.

Officers.-Superintendent, school mistress and

housekeeper.

Salaries and wages $936; children's labour in the house valued at $148.

LOVE.

"Oh how sweet is love! how pleasant is its nature! how takingly doth it behave itself to every condition-upon every occasion-to every person-and about every thing! How tenderly, how readily, doth it help and serve the meanest! How patiently, how meekly, doth it bear all

things from God or man; how unexpectedly so ever they come, or how hard soever they seem! How doth it believe !-how doth it hope!-how doth it excuse!-how doth it cover even that which seemeth not to be excusable and not fit to be covered! How kind is it, even in its interpretations and charges concerning miscarriages! It never over chargeth, it never grates upon the spirit of him whom it reprehends. It never hardens, it never provokes; but carrieth a meltingness and power of conviction with it. This is the nature of God. This, in the vessels capacitated to receive and bring it forth in its glory, the power of enmity, is not able to stand against, but falls before it, and is overcome by it." -Penington.

On the 20th of July, the Expedition quitted this dreary and disagreeable harbour, and arrived in Van Diemen's Land on the 16th of August. Here they were kindly received at the Government House by Sir John Franklin, and they proceeded without delay to refit the ships, and to erect the permanent magnetic observatory-the materials for which had been prepared some months before. In this sequestered spot a series of valuable observations was made, and are now in course of publication at the expense of the Government.

The French Government had fitted out an Expedition to the Southern Seas, consisting of the Astrolabe and Zélée, under the command of Captain Dumont d'Urville. The United States had likewise fitted out an Expedition to the same region, under Lieutenant Charles Wilkes,

SIR. J. C. ROSS' ANTARCTIC VOYAGE OF DIS- in the frigate Vincennes, which sailed from

COVERY.

Abridged for Friends' Review from the North British Review. (Continued from page 366.)

Hampton Roads on the 18th August, 1838. A general notice of the discoveries made by d'Urville and Wilkes was received by Sir James Ross on his arrival in Van Diemen's Land, Captain d'Urville having published an account of his labours in the local newspapers, and Lieutenant

This interesting island, discovered in 1772 by Lieut. Kerguelen, and on which the Expedition remained upwards of two months, is on its north-Wilkes having, in the kindest manner, in a letter ern extremity entirely of volcanic origin. The steep shores rise in a succession of terraces to the height of 1000 feet. The highest hill, called the Table Mount, on the north side of the harbour, is about 1350 feet high.

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from New Zealand, dated 5th April, 1840, made a communication to Sir James Ross, of his experience among the ice, which he considered as of a quite different character from the ice of the Arctic regions. Captain d'Urville had sailed Among the 150 plants found by Dr. Hooker from Hobart Town on the 1st January, 1840. in Kerguelen Island, the cabbage plant, or Prin- On the evening of the 19th, he discovered land, glæa Antiscorbutica, deserves particular notice. and on the 21st, some of the officers landed on a It is," says Dr. Hooker, "an important vege- small islet, a short distance from the mainland, table to a crew long confined to salt provisions, and obtained specimens of its granitic rock. In or indeed to human beings under any circum- the latitude nearly of the Antarctic circle or about stances, for it possesses all the essentially good 67 degrees, he traced the land in a continuous qualities of its English namesake, while from line for 150 miles, between the longitude of 136° its containing a great abundance of essential oil, and 142° East. It was covered with snow, exit never produces heartburn or any of those dis-hibited no traces of vegetable life, and rose to agreeable sensations which our pot-herbs are apt the average height of about 1300 feet. To this to do. ** For 130 days our crews land he gave the name of Terre Adélie. Adrequired no fresh vegetable but this, which was vancing westward, he discovered, and sailed for nine weeks regularly served out, with the along a solid wall of ice, about 60 miles long, salt beef or pork, during which time there was and 150 feet high, which he named Cote no sickness on board." Clairée, believing it to be the covering of a more solid base. The weakly state of his crew, however, compelled him to discontinue his exploration, and to return to Hobart Town.

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The climate of this island is singularly rude and boisterous. Although the anchors and cables were of a weight and size usually supplied to ships of double the tonnage of the Erebus and Terror, yet they were unable to withstand the almost hurricane violence of the gales which prevail at this season of the year, and which sometimes laid the ships over nearly on their beam-ends. Sir James Ross was frequently obliged to throw himself down on the beach, to prevent himself from being carried into the water by the sudden gusts of wind; and he states, that during 45 of the 68 days that he remained in Christmas Harbour it blew a gale of wind, and there were only three days on which neither rain nor snow fell!

Along with his letter to Sir James Ross, Lieutenant Wilkes transmitted "a tracing of the icy barrier, attached to the Antarctic Continent, discovered by the United States Exploring Expedition." In this he expressed a hope that Sir James Ross would circumnavigate the Antarctic circle.

On the 18th November, 1840, the Expedition left Hobart Town on their voyage towards the Magnetic Pole, and on the 20th reached Auckland Islands, and established their observatories.

On the 18th of the following month they arriv ed at Campbell Islands, where they were actively