with a willing mind," for if you seek him, he will be found of you;* and you will remain to be, as many of you have been, supports of the building, under the protecting providence of the Lord; who is the sole and true builder of his spiritual house, the "house of prayer for all people." more correct and enlightened opinions in regard | have not known him and served him fully and to penal inflictions, Thomas Fowell Buxton faithfully, seek him, "with a perfect heart, and may be justly regarded as one. Yet on that subject he seems to have left space for a further progress. We do not find that he ever vindicated the abolition of capital punishment in case of murder. He was probably influenced in his judgment by the passage in Genesis so often quoted and so generally misapplied. May we not hope that the advance of Christian civilization will at length clear the penal laws of this and other nations from that vestige of a darker time? (To be continued.) ADVICES OF LONDON YEARLY MEETING. (Continued from page 789.) The And you who are intrusted with much of the good things of this life, you who cannot disclaim the title of affluent--we believe there are among you many good stewards of the temporal things committed to your trust; yet we desire that others may duly consider, whether they are so "rich in faith," as to be "heirs of the kingdom,"t being fruitful in those good works which are We may now turn from subjects which concern every state in life; and direct the course of not have to labour with your hands, the cause produced by faith. Though, friends, you may our Christian counsel to the states more in par of Truth has business of importance for you to ticular. And first, you who are not intrusted do; and it may be promoted or obstructed by with much of the possessions of this life, you the right or wrong application of your property. are still the objects of our constant care. Much responsibility lies on you; your property Society has long endeavoured to consult your is an additional article in the account; and we interests, and to place within your reach what much desire that you may be so awake to a ever is necessary for your welfare, and for that sense of these things, as to be prepared to render of your offspring. And you are equally the care of Him who provides for the sparrows; to his "P your accounts with joy, and to receive the answer of "Well done." ear your access is as easy as that of any condi- rich have their appropriate virtues; and, at the The poor and the tion amongst men; and if, by his holy assistance, and by a conformity to his will, you become truly and to be humble, we believe it may be truly same time that each is required to be content poor in spirit, yours is the kingdom of heaven.* said, that as contentment is a peculiar ornament But, dear friends, suffer us to remind you, that of the poor, so is humility of the rich. Your there is not a passion that can infest the rich, station in life subjects you, more than others, to which may not also, in a degree subversive of be tried by associating with other wealthy peryour peace, be fostered in your minds. You may covet, and give way to pride and anger, and sons, among the people at large, with whom the to all the "foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown cross of Christ is often in too little esteem. You men in destruction and perdition." Therefore may be leavened by their conversation and exdo you partake of the universal necessity of pay- and rapidly upon your children. ample; and it may operate still more sensibly Therefore we ing strict attention to Christ's sacred injunction, tenderly intreat you, for your own sake, for that when, addressing himself to his immediate fol- of your offspring whom you are bound to prolowers, he closed his address with these memo-tect, and for the sake of the cause of Truth— rable words, "What I say unto you, I say unto we intreat you, dear friends, we beseech you all, Watch." by the mercies of God," "Be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." "For," continues the apostle, "I say, that is among you, not to think of himself more grace given unto me, to every man through the highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every As for you, dear friends, who occupy what are termed the middle stations of life, you have every cause to bless the Lord for the sphere in which he hath permitted you to move. In you, seems fulfilled the wish of Agur: "give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me; lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Among your number, the Society has often found many of its more useful members, of its more able advocates. Be content therefore with your stations. Seek not great things for yourselves; "Mind not high things; but condescend to men of low estate." But above all things, "Follow on to know the Lord;"¶ or, if you yea, 66 man the measure of faith." 1808. P. E. In a well-ordered family, short opportunities of religious retirement frequently occur, in which the mind may be turned in secret aspiration to the Author of all our blessings; and which have often proved times of more than transient benefit. It is our present concern, that no exception to this practice may be found amongst us; whether * 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. † James ii. 5. Rom. xii. 1—3. 1819. P. E. it take place on the reading of a portion of the | Sweet is the condition of the grateful mind: sweet sacred volume, or when we are assembled to is a state of contentment and of daily dependence partake of the provisions with which we are on the Lord. supplied for the sustenance of the body. On these latter occasions, may the hearts of our young friends also, be turned in gratitude to God, who thus liberally provides for them. May the experience of us all be such, that we can adopt the words of the Psalmist, "Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray."* 1817. P. E. In the wilderness of this life, dangers assail us on every hand: but if we look with entire reliance unto Christ, the great Head of the Church, He will lead us safely along; He will protect us from being entangled by the briars and thorns; He will shield us from the sun, and from the storm; He will permit us to know his voice, and to distinguish it from the voice of the stranger; and humbly to believe that we are of that one fold, of which he is the everlasting Shepherd,t-that He will give unto us eternal life, and that none shall pluck us out of his hand. How inviting are these truths! how animating FRIENDS' REVIEW. PHILADELPHIA, NINTH MONTH 9, 1848. The notices of Rebecca Jones, which are resumed after a temporary suspension, owing, among other causes, to the indisposition of the compiler, who was thereby prevented from visiting the city for needful conference with the editor, are expected to furnish in our future numbers some truly interesting extracts from the sea voyage, diary and correspondence of that valuable Friend. By a letter dated 29th ult., from a Friend at Salem, Ohio, we are informed that our beloved friends, Benjamin Seebohm and Robert Lindsay, Canada. They were about to attend the Quarterly had just arrived at that place, from their visit to Meeting of Stillwater, after which they purposed being at the Yearly Meeting of Ohio, which commenced on the 4th inst., the Meeting of Ministers and Elders convening on the 7th day preceding. In our 17th number we copied from another periodical, a notice, that our friends Lindley M. Hoag and George Wood had associated to establish in New York, a store in which the articles offered for sale were the products of free labour only. We are now informed that Lindley M. Hoag has been withdraw from the concern; and that George Wood has also withdrawn; but Robert Lindley Murray, a Friend who is considered well qualified for prosecuting the concern with advantage, has purchased the stock of Hoag and Wood, and designs carrying on the business from which his predecessors have just withdrawn. are these assurances! But this attainment is to be ours, only as we look in faith unto Him who declared, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow me." To deny ourselves, and to take up the cross, are duties which we desire earnestly to press upon all. If we seek for divine aid that this may become the daily engagement of our lives, we shall te induced to make a narrow scrutiny into our thoughts, and into the motives which influence our conduct. Frequent self-examination will convince us that we are frail, and unworthy of the Lord's mercies. A conviction of our own weakness and trans-induced, on account of the state of his health, to gressions will make us fearful of speaking of the errors of others; and tend to restrain us from tale-bearing and detraction. At the same time, divine love operating on our hearts, and begetting there the love of our neighbour, will constrain us to offer a word of counsel, in a way most calculated to produce the desired effect on such as we deem deficient in moral or religious duty. Precious and very desirable is an humble, contrite, teachable state of mind, in which the earnest prayer is raised, that we may live in the love and fear of our great Creator, and in all things walk acceptably before Him. Oh! that all may be kept in the low valley of humility, where the dew remains long; where they will know the Lord to be "as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest." Here preservation is witnessed within the holy inclosure: here we are guarded against the snares which beset those who would make haste to be rich. How safe, how necessary it is, for the humble Christian to set out well; to watch against the first temptations to covet great things! When we reflect upon the astonishing activity with which the traffic in slaves is now prosecuted, and the stimulus which that traffic has received from the change of British policy in relation to slave-grown sugars, and remember that slavery, in all its forms and modifications, owes its vitality to the market for its products, we can scarcely doubt but that Friends who have been hitherto justly considered as pioneers in the work of African emanci pation, will see the propriety and importance of affording their liberal patronage to this effort at supplying the consistent opponents of slavery with those articles, which habit has classed among the necessaries of life, untouched by servile hands, and unstained by the gain of oppression. From the liberal and enlightened view of this subject which has been taken by New York Yearly Meet ing, we must confidently hope that the enterprise | names are Drayton, Sayres and English. The of our friend R. L. Murray will be generally ap- trial commenced on the 27th of 7th month, before proved, and amply sustained. the Criminal Court at Washington, by the arraignment of Daniel Drayton, the supercargo, on a The following notice was copied from one of our charge of stealing two slaves, the property of periodicals: "ENCKE'S COMET VISIBLE.-A letter from the Cambridge Observatory, dated Aug. 30, and addressed to President EVERETT, states, that on Monday morning last, about two o'clock, the Comet of Encke was seen at that observatory by Mr. G. P. Bond as an exceedingly faint nebulous patch of light. It was, however, so soon obscured by clouds, that only one pretty good place was obtained by the readings of the circles of the Great Equatorial. On the night of the 29th and the morning of the 30th, the examiners were enabled to get a series of micrometrical measures with illuminated wires. The comet is yet a rather difficult object, but has increased in brightness since Monday morning." Encke's comet, we may recollect, is one of three, the orbits of which have been so correctly determined, that its position can be computed for any given time. It was first discovered in the autumn of 1818; according to Professor Littrow of Vienna, it passed its perihelion 5th mo. 4, 1832, with a periodic time of 3.29 years. Hence it may be ex pected to pass the perihelion, the point of its orbit nearest the sun, about the middle of next month. It can, however, be an object of very little interest to any but astronomers, not being visible to the naked eye. It is, however, doubtful whether the comet now announced is Encke's. Andrew Hoover, of the value of one thousand dol- Sayres was then put upon his trial for larceny, and after a contest of three days, was acquitted by the jury. He was subsequently tried and acquitted upon a second indictment. It appears, however, that indictments for misdemeanour, sirnilar to those against Drayton, were found against him, on all of which he has been convicted, CURIOUS PENALTY FOR KILLING OR STEALING A and a fine of $200 imposed on each, amounting CAT.*-Among our elder ancestors, the ancient collectively to $14,800. It is stated that the tesBritons, cats were looked upon as creatures of in-timony on which the conviction of Drayton printrinsic value; and the stealing or killing one, was a grievous crime, and subjected the offender to a fine, especially if it belonged to the king's household, and was the custos horrei regii [the keeper of the king's granary,] for which there was a very peculiar forfeiture.-Blackstone B. 2 Ch. 25. This forfeiture is given in a note, to this import: If any one shall kill or steal a cat, the keeper of the king's granary, he shall cause the cat to be suspended by the tail, so that the head shall touch the floor, and shall pour over it a quantity of wheat sufficient to cover the animal, tail and all. THE SCHOONER PEARL.-In our 32d number it was stated that seventy-seven slaves escaped from Wash. ington, D.C.,in a Northern vessel, the schooner Pearl, but were quickly overtaken and carried back into slavery. Three white men engaged on board the Pearl were captured at the same time, and imprisoned, to stand their trial on account of their real or imputed participation in the transaction. Their cipally turned, was retracted on the trial of Sayres, and that his acquittal of the charge of larceny arose from that circumstance. It thus appears that the effort to fix on Sayres the charge of attempting the removal of the slaves from the possession of their masters, for his own advantage, has failed, and that if the testimony, now retracted, had been withheld on the trial of Drayton, a similar verdict would probably have been given. Still the charge of transporting, not stealing, these slaves remains, on which a heavy penalty is impending. English, the cook of the vessel, has been discharged, as he appears to have been ignorant of the object which his employers had in view. Exceptions to the proceedings of the Court have been taken by the counsel of the defendants, and an expectation is entertained that the case will be eventually carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. The great question, whether slavery has a legal existence in the District of Columbia, This is the law referred to in the editorial, page 792. I will probably be closely sifted. MARRIED,- On Third-day, the 29th ult., at MINUTE OF LONDON YEARLY MEETING. Friends' meeting house, North Sixth street, Phila." The Clerk has informed this meeting that he delphia, ABRAHAM M. TAYLOR, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has received a letter under cover, addressed to to ELIZABETH R., daughter of the late Charles himself, purporting to come from a body calling Shoemaker, of Cheltenham, Pa. themselves the Yearly Meeting of Friends in New England; but seeing that we have already received an epistle from New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, containing evidence that it comes from the body with which we have always maintained a correspondence, this meeting feels that it cannot receive or read the said document, and desires the Clerk to return it to the party from whence he received it, together with a copy of this minute." DIED,-On the 24th of 8th month, at his residence in Wayne County, N. C., of typhoid fever, ELIJAH COLEMAN, in the 43d year of his age, leaving a wife and four children to mourn their irreparable loss. In the death of this dear Friend our Society will sustain a great loss. He had for a number of years filled the station of Elder, and was Clerk to our Quarterly Meeting. "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." In this city on the 2d inst., PAUL W. NEWHALL, in the 48th year of his age. This dear Friend and valued citizen, was a native of Lynn, Mass. He removed to this city about twenty-five years ago. His uniform, gentle and unassuming deportment, has won for him the affections and confidence, in an uncommon degree, of those who have been connected with him by business or otherwise. As a man of integrity, he stood deservedly high. His industry was great, and he was unsparing of himself in his efforts to relieve the distresses of others, and for the good of mankind. He was an active and very efficient manager of many of our benevolent and useful institutions, and in him the widow and the fatherless have lost a friend indeed. In the relation of husband and father, his bereaved and mourning family best can tell his tender and watchful assiduities. During his illness, which was severe, there was not much opportunity to express the state of his mind; but his friends have the consoling belief that his day's work was done in the day time-that he was one of the number to whom the benediction of our Saviour is extended, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." His remains were attended to the grave on the 5th inst. by many mourning relatives and friends, who hold his many virtues in sweet and precious remembrance. ENGLAND. MINUTE OF DUBLIN YEARLY MEETING."A document having at a former sitting been laid on the table addressed to this Yearly Meeting, it was referred, according to our usual practice, to a few friends to examine, who report that it purports to be an epistle from a body designating themselves New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, and signed by Thomas B. Gould as Clerk thereof. We have the sorrowful information that a division has taken place amongst Friends in New England, and believing that the body issuing this epistle has not been constituted in accordance with the good order of our Society, we feel ourselves bound to decline recognizing it as the Yearly Meeting of New England, and cannot, therefore accept the epistle: the Clerk is accordingly directed to return it with a copy of this minute." MINUTE OF NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING."We have the affecting information that a small portion of the members of New England Yearly Meeting had seceded from the Society, and set up meetings under the names of those from which they had separated. A document from one of these meetings, claiming to be the Yearly Meeting of Friends in New England, was found on the Clerk's table addressed to this meeting; but full evidence being had that this association was not set up agreeably to the order of our society, the meeting decided on returning it unread, whence it came; which the clerk is requested to do, with a copy of this minute.” MINUTE OF INDIANA YEARLY MEETING.— "A sealed letter addressed to this meeting has been presented in the men's meeting, and one of similar character to the women's meeting. According to the order prescribed in our discipline, it has been referred to a few Friends to examine Partial and incomplete statements of the pro-and report, whether it be proper to read it in this ceedings of the several Yearly Meetings in reference to the secession in New England having meeting. The said nomination accordingly now been published and widely circulated amongst report, that they have examined the same, and Friends, we have obtained the following minutes of London, Dublin, New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, and Indiana Yearly Meetings, which will give the reader a correct view of the action of all those bodies.* *The minutes of the first three were made in 1846, the other three in 1845. find it to be an epistle from a body styling itself New England Yearly Meeting of Friends; and believing it to be from a body of separatists, those who have set up the said meeting out of the regular order and usages of our religious Society, they think it not proper to be read in, nor received by this meeting. Our Friends of the Yearly Meeting in New England informed us MINUTE OF NORTH CAROLINA YEARLY MEETING."The Clerk presented to this meeting two sealed papers, one of them directed to North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends, the other to the Meeting for Sufferings of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting, which were referred to John Newlin, [and others,] who were appointed to open and examine them, and report their judgment to a future sitting." that a secession of a comparatively small number | the same minute to New England Yearly of their members has taken place within their Meeting." limits; and the said letter not having been sent through our regular correspondence, and being signed by a person known not to be the clerk of the regular Yearly Meeting held in Rhode Island, further evidence is thus afforded that this letter is from the said separatists, and that it would be a departure from the regular order of our Society to accept or read the same. The intelligence of such a separation has been painful to this meeting, believing as we do that the spirit of misrule and separation is the offspring of the enemy of our peace; and while we are concerned to testify against it, we desire the preservation of our Friends of this Yearly Meeting, on the one only sure foundation, Christ Jesus, the rock of ages, and in the faith and testimonies of our religious Society, and crave for those who have separated, such change as will bring them acceptably back in the fellowship of, and subordinate to, the Church. The Clerk is directed to return the said communication through the channel through which it came, if practicable, with a copy of this minute, also to the Yearly Meeting of Friends in New England." MINUTE OF BALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING."The Clerk having at this time informed the meeting that he had received by this morning's mail, a document purporting to come from a body styling itself New England Yearly Meeting, and signed by Thomas B. Gould, Clerk, it was concluded to appoint a committee to examine said document and report their judgment thereon to the Yearly Meeting. After a time of absence from the meeting, they returned and reported through one of their number, that upon examination, the said document was an epistle purporting to come from New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, but that in fact it was an epistle addressed to us by a body of seceders they have reason to believe a small body of seceders-that it contains strong charges against Friends of that Yearly Meeting, of oppression and of a departure from the faith and communion of the Society of Friends; that this meeting having had read before it a statement containing an account of the separation in New England, which they believe to be true, as also a testimony of Friends of New England touching their faith, which this Yearly Meeting considers sound; and that said epistle was issued by a body set up out of the usual order of society -they were therefore of opinion that it would not be right for said epistle to be read in this meeting. "After a time of solid deliberation the meeting was decided in judgment that the course proposed by the Committee would be right, and directs the Clerk to return it to the body from whence it emanated, with a copy of this minHe is also directed to transmit a copy of ute. "The committee appointed at last sitting to open and examine certain papers, then present, report as follows: We, the Committee, opened the papers referred to us, and found the first signed by Thomas B. Gould, and dated Sixth month 23d, 1845; the other signed by George F. Reed, and dated 8th of Eighth month, 1845. After reading and deliberately examining them, we are unitedly of opinion that they are not proper papers to be read in this Yearly Meeting, and we propose, that they be returned whence they came, together with a copy of this minute. Signed on behalf of the Committee. DAVID WHITE.' "Of which report the meeting approves, and directs the Clerk to send them back accordingly." Abridged from the Church of England Quarterly Review. By W. T. BRODERIP, Esq, F. R. S., &c. In conclusion, and on the subject of cats generally, we may observe that, for the sake of indulging their sympathies, they will occasionally do violence to their antipathies. A cat loves fish, but has a horror of water; but we have seen this horror surmounted in order to gain the fish, We remember seeing, on the Seine, a very fine cat which would not only watch the fish as they glided past her, but did not hesitate to plunge into the rapid stream whenever she saw that the prey was in her reach. She went in with the rush of a Newfoundland dog, never failing in catching the fish in her mouth, and came out as sleek as an otter. The fish was devoured alive; and, when finished, puss was ever ready to dash in again for more. There is no less of amusement or instruction, in the pages dedicated to the description and history of the monkey and the ape, than in any other portion of the book. We are glad, too, to find that Mr. Broderip discourages the old Monboddo theory, that man is so nearly connected with the monkey as to be one, with the simple deduction of the tail. The fact is, that they are more unlike and wider apart than Monmouth and Macedon something alike, but yet very different withal. These and other details we leave to the consideration of our readers, while in the mean time we give them a taste of the author's quality in story-telling when monkeys are the heroes |