Scriptures, than George Fox. His sermons and epistles are filled with quotations from the Scriptures, and even in courts of law, he frequently appealed to their authority. An intimation that he rejected or undervalued them, is therefore sadly out of place.

fessors by pointing out the incompatibility of their | his opinions, by more copious references to the actions with the example of the holy men of old. That he waged war against all who refused to accept him as their teacher, is quite an erroneous declaration, for he invited his hearers, not to receive him as their teacher, but to turn their minds to the true teacher, who, he declared, had come to teach His people himself. His own declaration was, "I was sent to turn people from darkness to the light, that they might receive Christ Jesus; for to as many as should receive him in his light, I saw he would give power to become the sons of God. I was to direct people to the spirit, that gave forth the scriptures, by which they might be led into all truth, and up to Christ and God, as those had been who gave them forth."

This certainly was not proclaiming a new gospel, or making war on those who refused to receive him as their teacher. That he never deserted his principles, or denied his faith, to escape physical suffering, is unquestionably true; but that he was ready "to inflict any amount of pain or privation, for opinion's sake," certainly cannot be proved. I apprehend we may search his history and his writings in vain, for any passage supporting this declaration. The assertion that George Fox "ventured to reject the Scriptures when they could not be made to harmonize with the light within," appears to be founded on a very erroneous construction of his words. The passage referred to, in a note, in support of this declaration, is probably a commentary, not a text, as I cannot find it in the journal. George Fox declares that none can understand the Scriptures aright, without the same spirit by which they were written. He does not say the same measure of the spirit; but the same spirit. And we observe he never speaks of judging the Scriptures by the light, for the purpose of condemning or rejecting them. He always inculcates the doctrine that the light of truth, by which the Scriptures were first given forth, as received and obeyed, enables believers now to understand, and rightly apply the truths of the Scriptures.

We have no intimation from George Fox, or his coadjutors, that they ever found the Divine light fail to harmonize with the testimony of Scripture; and Robert Barclay expressly declares, "We are very willing that all our doctrines and practices be tried by them; which we never refused, and never shall, in all controversies with our adversaries, as the judge and test. We shall also be very willing to admit it as a positive certain maxim, that whatsoever any do, professing to the spirit which is contrary to the Scriptures, be accounted and reckoned a delusion of the devil."*

Probably no man ever fortified and illustrated

* Apology, page St.

At page 458 of this volume a word was omitted, by mistake, by which omission the grammatical construction was destroyed, and a fact mis-stated. It was intended to say that Gilbert Latey was among the first offerings to the Lord in the city of London.

By a letter, recently received from England, we learn that our friends John and Elizabeth Meader, had completed their visit to the meetings in the North of Ireland, and were proceeding comfortably and acceptably to their friends. We are also informed that our friend, Hannah Rhoads, attended the meeting at Liverpool on the 12th ult., on her way to Ireland.

EXTRACTS FROM MEMOIR OF JOHN CARTER. BY WILLIAM JAMES DAMPIER, VICAR OF COGGESHALL. [Concluded from page 461.]

John Carter, obliging to all, and thankful to required of him, was often a good deal tried by all, and ready to undertake any work that was the tax now and then laid upon his talent and his good nature. Drawings were brought to him to be copied, not fairly within the reach of his powers, and not very pleasing to his superior taste. With the best intention of amusing him, and adding to his little means, drawings of a needlessly difficult kind were submitted to him, involving an enormous amount of work, yet producing comparatively little effect when donesuch as elaborate, though sometimes poor, subcolors. Some would bring dogs, some cats, some jects in mezzotinto, and miniatures in waterfoxes, and some pieces still less pleasing to a pure and refined taste; and all these in turn he would execute with the greatest care, when his own inclination would have engaged him upon some elevating subject.

Yet he was never, that the writer remembers, known to refuse the most troublesome and unsatisfactory piece that he was requested to under

Within the last twelvemonths, wearied a little, perhaps, with the monotony of his work, perhaps My name is John Carter. I am thirty-three feeling after fresh powers, he expressed to the years of age the thirty-first of this month, July, writer a desire to try some heads in chalk. 1848. After leaving school, where I had been Some fine studies were immediately supplied; taught to read and write, and made some little but Carter would first try his power upon an in-progress in Arithmetic, I was sent to work at the ferior subject, and the result was an admirable silk trade. After assisting the weavers for some fox's head. He after this, finished two fine heads time, I was put to a loom, and learnt to weave and then abandoned the style; possibly, because in the figured branch; and following the exam

ple of my fellow-workmen, I was frequently at the public house, and soon took delight in all evil and mischief. It was when I went to school that I first remember having an inclination for drawing; whenever I had a pen or pencil in my hand I was sure to be drawing in my books, or on my slate, and at home about the walls of the house. The manner in which I came to draw after I lost the use of my limbs, was as follows:

Being fond of reading, I used to borrow books from my neighbours and others. My wife one day brought home for me a tract which gave an account of a young woman in some asylum at Liverpool who had lost the use of her limbs, and used to amuse herself by drawing with her mouth. The thought at once came into my mind that I might certainly do the same, and I could not rest satisfied till I made the attempt. My first piece was a butterfly in water colours. After drawing this way for some time I at last adopted the style in which I still continue to draw, which is to shade them after the manner of a line engraving.

The remarkable physical phenomenon in this case may be thus described:

together with the successful exercise of an extraordinary mechanical power, immediately connected with the seat of the injury, will be an interesting fact to all students of physiology..

But there are, also, other considerations arising out of this case, that cannot fail to strike the attention of the philosophical moralist. It is one of those examples (especially valuable at such times as these) which go far to show that the soul is a spiritual unit, and not the mere concord of numerous animal faculties; for all the moral powers remained unimpaired-nay, were refined and exalted by the loss of everything short of life.

Surely the fact that John Carter for fourteen years retained and even increased all his powers of mind and spirit, even when his body was well nigh dead, may help to show how reasonable, as well as true, it is to believe that the life of the spirit of man, depends not upon the life of his body.

During the winter months John Carter was a close prisoner at home, amusing and improving himself by reading; for the light in winter time was seldom strong enough to enable him to follow his drawing with satisfaction, or for any length of time. Occasional conversations with The nature of the original injury now appears friends who visited him, the reading of good from examination, to have been a disturbance of and useful books, and his own regular devotional the fifth, sixth, and seventh of the cervical ver- exercises, which consisted chiefly in mental tebræ, which were thrust out into an arch, and prayer, and the reading of the Holy Scripturesthe dislocation of the seventh vertebræ, by which more especially the appointed lessons for the day the column of spinal marrow, without being-formed his chief occupation and delight in the severed, or perhaps, even lacerated, suffered severe compression, such as to deaden completely the nerves of motion and sensation, yet not such as to destroy, or even damage the nerves connected with the respiratory and digestive systems; for the functions of life were carried on for a course of years with but very little occasional medical assistance; in fact, marvellous as it may sound to common ears, the injury was of that peculiar nature, that a man may be truly said to have lived fourteen years with a broken neck, and to have acquired, during that time, the singular power of executing the very finest line In the summer time he would often be brought drawings by the motion of the head, in the man-into church on week days, to join in the daily ner particularly described in a former part of this

memoir.

Carter experienced no sensation of pain in his body or limbs. He might be severely pinched, even till the skin was discoloured, without consciousness of pain in any degree; but he experienced considerable advantage and comfort, when his appetite for food was sluggish, or when he was suffering from exhaustion, in having his legs gently shaken to stimulate the action of his system. There is not, perhaps, on record, a more extensive paralysis of the human frame than this of John Carter; and the perfect possession of the faculties of the mind, and the fair perform ance of all the functions of life, under these circumstances, and for a period of fourteen years,

winter; but when the summer sun shone into his window, he began to feel that he had been shut up, and longed earnestly to be out again, that he might enjoy the beauties of nature, of which he was very observant, and for which he had a keen relish.

For some years the subject of this memoir was sensible of an increasing weakness of the chest. His winter cold and cough lasted longer than usual, and more caution became needful in planning for his going out, either to take his airings or to go to church.

prayers, and was at all times a worthy example of reverence and calm devotion. The congregation in which he was wont to worship, have to lament the loss of a continually-present, but wholesome memorial of human suffering and helplessness, and of a constant living admonition to patience and cheerful reignation. He rests, it is believed, in peace.

Scarcely had Carter begun to enjoy his little rides about the neighbourhood, in the summer of the present year, than an awkward and distressing accident occurred to shorten his days on earth. He was being drawn about on the 21st of May, Whit-Tuesday, but thinking to give his sister, who was his constant watchful companion, the full enjoyment of a favorite walk on a beauti

kindnesses, which he would recompense sometimes with good words, sometimes with little presents of his drawings; steadfast of purpose, remarkable for his self-possession, notwithstanding a somewhat sensitive nature and a high degree of nervousness; charitable, reverent, and devout; but perhaps the most striking feature in his character was a singular patience in enduring trials, and in accomplishing his purposes. This energy of character may be traced more or less distinctly throughout his life, as far as the writer has been able to present it in this brief

ful day, he insisted upon her leaving him, and, the character of this remarkable person: He sent her home across the fields, while he was was intelligent, enquiring, thoughtful and redrawn on the road by a little boy whom he usually fined; obliging, humble, grateful for the least engaged for the purpose, and a relative who had come to visit him in the Whitsun holidays. He watched his sister anxiously, as long as he could, to see that she was not alarmed at the cattle, and, in the course of a few minutes, in conscquence of the boy who was guiding the carriage down a slight descent, tripping and losing his power, the carriage was thrown over, and Carter was seriously bruised and shaken by the fall. This severe shock to his whole system, it is supposed, gave an advantage to his old complaint, which found him this time without sufficient stamina to rally. A considerable quantity of extra-memoir; and one lesson to be learned from the vasated blood in the immediate region of the original dislocation leads plainly to the idea just expressed, that the fall from his chaise, although not the immediate cause of his death, which was from pulmonary affection, very much accelerated it. It will not fail to strike the reader as somewhat remarkable, that a fall should have been the occasion of his long affliction; and that after fourteen years of peril, in which, in the most utter helplessness, he had had to trust himself in many different hands, a fall should at last have contributed to his release. But a great work had been wrought between the two accidents, and this is the consolation.

case of this interesting person is, that many a character which appears to us daring and mischievous in a high degree, has in it those elements which, when brought under the dominion of grace, make it proportionably strong in all that is great and good.-Living Age.

THE QUEEN'S TOBACCO-PIPE.

We have seen pipes of all sorts and sizes in our time. In Germany, where the finest canaster is but twenty-pence a pound, and excellent leaftobacco only five-pence, we have seen pipes that resembled actual furnaces compared with the The soreness of the bruises passed away, and general race of pipes, and have known a man for a time Carter felt as if he were recovering smoke out half a pound of canaster and drink a from the effects of his fall. But the great mis- gallon of beer at a sitting. But this is perfectly chief was within, and he soon became sensibly pigmy work when compared with the royal pipe worse. On the evening of the 2d of June, he and consumptive tobacco power of Victoria of expressed to the writer a persuasion that he England. The queen's pipe is, beyond all conshould not continue long on earth; reassured troversy-for we have seen it-equal to any other him of his deep sense of past sin, but of his thousand pipes that can be produced from the humble belief that his iniquities were pardoned pipial stores of this smoking world. She has and put away for the merits' sake of his Re- not only an attendant to present it whenever she deemer, Jesus Christ. Still the thought of the may call for it, but his orders are to have it alpast, and the thought of sin only, was a pain ways in the most admirable smoking state---always and a trial to his spirit. His repentance, how-lighted without regard to the quantity of tobacco had been sincere, his faith was firm, and it may consume; and, accordingly, her pipe is his hope was fixed; and therefore he had the constantly kept smoking day and night without a peace of the penitent; and on the Sunday even-moment's intermission, and there are, besides the ing (June 2d) about nine o'clock, was taken to

ever,

his rest.

Himself a singular instance of patience, he prayed for patience; but when the period of his departure was close at hand, and he found himself entering into his last struggle, he prayed earnestly for help in the awful hour of death. "O Lord, have mercy on me!-help me through this misery, and lead me in the way everlasting. Help me through this misery, and pardon and forgive all my sins; and receive me into thy heavenly kingdom, Ó Lord, I beseech thee, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. O Lord Jesus make haste to help me."

Thus he fell asleep, leaving to his aged parents and affectionate sister a good hope that his prayer was heard. To sum up, in a few words,

grand pipe-master, a number of attendants incessantly employed in seeking the most suitable tobacco, and bringing it to the grand-master. There is no species of tobacco which the queen has not in her store-room. Shag, pig-tail, Cavendish, Manilla, Havanna, cigars, cheroots, negrohead, every possible species of nicotian, she gives a trial to by way of variety. A single cigar she holds in as much contempt as a lion would a fly by way of mouthful. We have seen her grandmaster drop whole handfuls of Havannas at once into her pipe, and after them as many Cubas.

It may abate the wonder of the reader at this stupendous smoking power of the queen, if we admit, as must indeed have become apparent in the course of our remarks, that the queen performs her smoking, as she does many of her

other royal acts, by the hands of her servants., ing two millions of pounds. Proceeding to the In truth, to speak candidly, the queen never London Docks, properly so called, there he will smokes at all, except through her servants. And find an extent of more than one hundred acres, this will appear very likely, when we describe offering water for five hundred ships, and warethe actual size of her royal pipe. It is, indeed, house room for two hundred and thirty-four of most imperial dimensions. The head alone is thousand tons of goods; the capital of the comso large, that while its heel rests on the floor of pany amounting to four millions of pounds. The her cellar, its top reaches out of the roof. We West India Docks next present themselves, being speak a literal fact, as any one who procures an three times as extensive as the London Docks, order for the purpose may convince himself by having an area of no less than two hundred and actual inspection. We are sure that the quanti-ninety-five acres, with water to accommodate ty of tobacco which is required to supply it, must amount to some tons in the year. Nay, so considerable is it, that ships are employed specially to bring over this tobacco, and these ships have a dock of one acre in extent at the port of London entirely for their exclusive reception. In a word, the Queen's Tobacco-pipe, its dimensions, its attendance, its supply and consumption of tobacco, are without any parallel in any age or any nation.

If we have raised any wonder in the breasts of our readers, we shall not diminish that wonder by some further explanations regarding this extraordinary pipe; if we have raised any incredulity, what we are now about to add will at once extinguish it.

The Queen's Tobacco-pipe, then, is a furnace built in the very centre of the great Tobacco Warehouse at the London Docks. This furnace is kept for the purpose of consuming all the damaged tobacco which comes into port. As the warehouse is the Queen's Warehouse, the furnace is really termed the Queen's Pipe; and all that we have related of it is literally true, and is in itself and all the circumstances connected with it, one of the most remarkable things in this country.

If any one would form anything like an adequate conception of the wonders of London, and of the power and wealth of this country, he should pay a visit to the London Docks. After having traversed the extent, and amazed himself at the myriad population, the intense activity, the stupendous affluence, and the endless variety of works going on in this capital of the globe, he will, on arriving at the Docks, feel a fresh and boundless astonishment. From near the Tower all the way to Blackwall, a distance of four miles, he will find it a whole world of docks. The mass of shipping, the extent of vast warehouses, many of them five and seven stories high, all crowded with ponderous heaps of merchandise from every region of the globe, have nothing like it besides in the world, and never have had. The enormous wealth here collected is perfectly overwhelming to the imagination.

four hundred vessels, and warehouse room for one hundred and eighty thousand tons of merchandise; the capital of the company is more than six millions of pounds, and the value of goods which have been on the premises at one time, twenty millions. Lastly, the East India Docks occupy thirty-two acres, and afford warehouse-room for fifteen thousand tons of goods.

The whole of these docks occupying four hundred and fifty acres, offer accommodation for one thousand two hundred ships, and for five hundred and thirty thousand tons of goods.

But these are only the docks on the left bank of the river; on the other side, docks extend from Rotherhithe to Deptford; the Surrey Docks, the Commercial Docks, and the East Country Docks. When the gigantic extent of these docks, and the mass of property in them, are considered, Tyre and Sidon shrink up into utter insignificance.

But of all these astonishing places, our present attention is devoted only to the London Docks, properly so called, as being connected with the operations of the Queen's Pipe; the damaged and unsaleable goods of these docks being its food. In these docks are especially warehoused wine, wool, spices, tea, ivory, drugs, tobacco, sugars, dye-stuffs, imported metals, and sundry other articles. Except the teas and spices, you may procure inspection of all these articles, as they lie in their enormous quantities, by a ticket from the secratary. If you wish to taste the wines, you must have a tasting order for the purpose.

Imagine yourself then entering the gateway of the London Docks. If you wish only to walk round and see the shipping, and people at work, you can do that without any order. As you advance, you find yourself surrounded right and left by vast warehouses, where numbers of people with carts and trucks, are busily at work taking in and fetching out goods. On your right you soon pass the ivory warehouse.

Vast heaps of ivory lie on the floor of this warehouse, in huge elephants' tusks, from twenty to a hundred pounds weight each; tusks, of rhinoceros, and the ivory weapons of swordfish and sea-unicorns. Here lay on our last visit If the spectator first enter St. Katherine's the African spoils of Mr. Gordon Cumming; and Docks, he finds them occupying twenty-three indeed the spectacle is one that carries you away acres, with water capable of accommodating one at once to the African deserts, and shows you hundred and twenty ships, and warehouses of what is going on there while we are quietly and holding one hundred and ten thousand tons of monotonously living at home. goods; the capital of the company alone exceed

(To be continued.)