been wanting instances of apparent hardship and disaster among the proprietors of the islands. The evils of the great social wrong of Slavery had taken too deep a hold on master and slave to be altogether eradicated by the dissolution of the unnatural connection. The present generation of both classes must pass away, before the beautiful order of Freedom can fully establish itself upon a territory cursed for weary centuries with a system which transformed the one into luxurious despots, and the other into reckless and ignorant slaves. J. G. W.

A TESTIMONY

Of Norwich Monthly Meeting, concerning JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY, deceased.

(Concluded from page 70.)

In 1843 his mind was again drawn in gospel love towards the continent of Europe; and one of the special objects he had in view, was that of mingling in sympathy with those who, not being satisfied with a mere formal profession, were seeking better things for themselves. In this engagement his wife felt it her duty to accompany him, and they were accordingly liberated for the service. After having visited Paris, the South of France, including all the meetings of those professing with Friends there, and most of the large towns in Switzerland, with Strasburg, Stutgard, and Brussels, they returned home, and renewed the engagement in the spring of the following year: when, commencing at Boulogne, they proceeded by way of Paris to Nantes and the South-west of France; and returning again by Paris to attend the Yearly Meeting, they subsequently visited the islands of Guernsey and Jersey.

In this journey, and during the greater part of the former one, they were accompanied by their valued friend Josiah Forster: and their sister Elizabeth Fry, having a certificate to visit Paris, proceeded so far with them on their way. In the course of these journeys, and of that in 1841, our beloved friend had access to the sovereigns of France, Denmark, Prussia, and Wurtemburg; with all of whom he had religious communications, and also satisfactory intercourse on various subjects of a benevolent and philanthropic character.

In 1845 he again visited Scotland and some of the northern counties of England; and not feeling quite clear of one of those districts, he was again liberated in the following year to complete the service. On returning from this visit, in which he had laboured diligently in the Gospel, he writes:-"Surely it is not too much to say, that the dear Master was remarkably with us on these occasions, showing us tokens for good, and giving us a banner to be displayed for his truth, yet the creature truly

has had nothing to glory in; the language has been deeply felt: Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth.""

The last service of this kind in which he engaged, was a visit to some of the smailer meetings in our own Quarterly Meeting, and a few in the adjoining counties, with many public meetings. The minute granted him for this undertaking had not been returned to the Monthly Meeting at the time of his decease, although the work had been fully completed.

It seems incumbent on us briefly to notice his labours of love in the different branches of Christian philanthropy. The slave-trade and slavery, capital punishments, and the inspection of prisons, as regarded their discipline and management, engrossed much of his attention for many years: and unwearied were his labours for the abolition of the former, and the improvement of the latter. We believe that, on more than one occasion, he succeeded, after great exertions, in obtaining a reprieve for a condemned criminal; and in cases where this could not be effected, the visits which he paid to those that were appointed to die were such as became a minister of the Gospel of Christ. Some idea may be formed of the earnestness of his Christian zeal, and the force of his religious efforts on these occasions, from a simple narrative of one case which he published, and which has been very extensively circulated. Nor were his endeavours to effect the improvement of prisons confined to those at a distance. Amidst much opposition, he exposed the mismanage ment of that in our own city, in which one of his ancestors had been confined for his Christian testimony, and which has since been removed.

It is sufficient only to mention his warm attachment to the Bible Society, and his continued labour for its support and prosperity; arising from his conviction of the vast importance of the sacred writings, and their blessed effects in promoting the religious improvement and welfare of the human race. And closely connected with this conviction, he was indefatigable in extending the blessings of education amongst the poorer classes of society. For these objects, he spared neither personal labour nor pecuniary aid; and his charitable donations to the poor and afflicted were commensurate with the enlarged means which Providence had placed in his power.

Earnest were his desires, that our religious Society should rightly occupy the place assigned to it by the great Head of the Church; and so highly did he prize the value of Christian unity amongst his brethren, that he felt great exercise of spirit at the least interruption of it. In the 12th month, 1821, we find the following entry in his journal:-"Yesterday was a low, but edifying first-day; I felt much satisfaction in

that his day's work was hastening to its close; and on one occasion, a little while before his illness, he pleasantly remarked, "I think I have now at least set my outward house in order, which is a great relief." On the belief being expressed, that it was not the outward house only that was in readiness, he replied, with a look of great abasedness, "I trust, through pardoning mercy, it may be so; but of myself, I am the very poorest, most unworthy and infirm of human creatures." A fall from his horse appeared to be the exciting cause of his sudden removal. It gave him no pain at the time, and he was remarkably shielded from suffering of mind or body, throughout his short illness, of only eight days' continuance. There was much tender mercy manifest in this; as he had a natural shrinking from the pains and attendant circumstances of a dying hour; and expressed a fear that he should not have fortitude to meet them. A remarkable covering of heavenly peace was spread over his sick chamber, and when the tide of life was gently, and, to himself, unconsciously ebbing out, he said, with a sweet and radiant smile upon his countenance, "I think I feel a little joyful;" and a few hours afterwards, amid a profound stillness, a deep and holy solemnity, his ransomed spirit took its flight, as we reverently believe, to the mansions of eternal rest and blessedness. Thus, having accomplished his day's work in the daytime, he was gently gathered, by a hand of unutterable love and mercy, from all the trials of this changing scene; and he has, we reverently trust, received from Him, who is the Judge of all, the blessed sentence of "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," ," "enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." He died on the 4th of the first month, 1847, and his remains were interred in Friends' burialground at Norwich, on the 12th of the same. There was an unusually large attendance, both of Friends and others, on this solemn occasion; his fellow-citizens, of every class, appearing deeply. to sympathize with his sorrowing relatives and friends. He was in the 59th year of his age, and had been a minister nearly thirty years.

For Friends' Review.

AN ELEVATED RAILWAY.

It may not be known to some of the readers of the Review, that a plan has been approved by the corporation of the city of New York for avoiding the great annoyance and tumult of the numerous omnibusses continually traversing its principal thoroughfare-Broadway.

The estimate we give below, from a respectable journal of that city, of the number of times that a station is passed by those cumbrous and noisy vehicles will afford an idea of the necessity there is for an alteration in the present mode of locomotion in that neighbourhood.

The method proposed to be adopted, is that of an elevated rail road ten feet above the pavement of Broadway, along which cars are to be continually passing in either direction-accommodations for foot passengers seem also to enter into the calculation. But we will let the paper above alluded to (The Home Journal,) tell its own story in its own way.

"The corporation have approved the Superterranean Rail Road; and the great thoroughfare of New York, like its society and pastry, is to have an upper crust.'

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"We stepped in yesterday to see the model. *** It is proposed (in connection with the rail road ten feet above the sidewalk,) to pave the central space between the two tracks with a second story highway, whereon processions and pedestrians may parade and walk; and through the translucent substance of which light may descend to the cart and carriage track below. We mean literally a street of glass, for such is the proposition before the City Council, 'Brittle as glass' is a true similitude no longer, it being demonstrated that it may be laid in slabs like marble, and bear almost any weight that is put on without concussion. A street for wet weather and a street for dry; an elevation above danger from carts, and (a consideration likely to be popular) above paying involuntary admiration to those who ride in carriages.

"The model at the corner of Lispenard street, representing this aerial rail road in operation, is very curious and interesting. There are two tracks on each side of the street, one for the passenger car which never stops, and another for the small tenders which pick up and let down passengers at every corner, overtaking or falling behind the large carriage, at the will of the conductor. There is a platform at each corner, up to which passengers ascend by staircases, or by a perpetually ascending and descending sofa, worked by the machinery of the road. The engine is stationary at the terminus, and the cars are drawn by a rope running over wheels. The dread of danger from a wheel's giving way is anticipated and guarded against by two other sets of wheels, upon which the cars would drop in case of fracture.

"That Broadway must in some way or other be depleted of omnibusses, the city feels.-Omnibusses, by a recent estimate, pass St. Paul's 4,000 times a day. Paving stones and eardrums can stand it no longer. Paris, suffering from the same evil of over-crowded thorough fares, is proposing subterranean rail roads, enlarging its capacity by growing down. prefer our plan of enlarging by growing up.'

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"But, by the way, if a city can thus grow upward and downward, instead of lengthening and widening,-if we can double our property by a draft upon zenith and nadir-it is time landholders began to look at the rights of perpen

dicular. If A. B. has a city lot, does the government claim anything under or over him? The growth of New York is not to stop here-it will quadruple in this century. But it will sooner grow four stories higher than four miles wider or longer should this experiment prove success ful. It seems to have been prophetic that they commenced numbering in Broadway at Fourth street.' We shall have First, Second, and Third streets over Broadway, perhaps Deep, Deeper and Deepest streets under it—a city in six stories! What variety in taking a walk! What scope for novelty in architecture! What demand on inventions for hoisting and letting down! What laws to prevent sitting on chimnies, fingering the hands on clocks, and making free with the bells in the belfries."

T. J.

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN TUNIS. The last number of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter contains abstracts from the Parliamentary papers on the slave-trade, recently published, consisting of the correspondence between Sir Thomas Reade, British Consul at Tunis, and Lord Aberdeen, together with copies of the correspondence between the Consul and His Highness the Bey of Tunis, with respect to the breaking up of the slave marts, and the abolition of slavery in Tunis.

From these documents it appears that, in 1841, the Bey commenced that great work of reform, by prohibiting the exportation of slaves, or their importation from the interior. On the 8th of 12th month, 1842, he declared all children born after that date free. This was followed by the suppression of the great Tunisian bazaar for the sale of slaves. Acting under his orders, the Bey's officers proceeded to the place where for centuries blacks and whites had been bargained for like cattle, drove out the detestable traffickers, and, to express in a solemn and emphatic manner the abhorrence in which their rulers held the commerce in human beings, pulled down and destroyed the huge markethouses.

In these noble movements—all of which were attended with great difficulty, owing to the fixed prejudices and long-established customs of his Mohammedan subjects-the Bey was encouraged and supported by the counsels and official influence of Sir Thomas Reade and the Abolitionists of England.

THE MONEY WASTED IN WAR.

Give me, says one, the money that has been spent in war, and I will purchase every foot of land on the globe. I will clothe every man, woman and child, in an attire that kings and queens might be proud of. I will build a school house upon every hill-side, and in every valley over the habitable earth. I will supply that school-house with a competent teacher; I will build an academy in every town, and endow it; a college in every state, and fill it with able professors; I will crown every hill with a church consecrated to the promulgation of the gospel of peace; I will support in its pulpit an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill shall answer to the chime on another around the earth's broad circumference; and the voice of prayer, and the song of praise, shall ascend like the smoke of universal incense-offerings to heaven.-Penny Magazine.

EFFECTS OF PRAYER.

Franke replied, "I am not surprised that you are not able to reconcile yourself to your mother

Its days of joy, its vigils of delight;

She did so. Her own pastor asked her why she had not done so before.

She replied: "You admonished me to be reconciled, but did not tell me how to get a forgiving spirit by praying to God."

A COTTAGE SCENE.

BY L. H. SIGOURNEY.

I saw a cradle at a cottage door,
Where the fair mother, with her cheerful wheel,
Carrolled so sweet a song, that the young bird
Which, timid, near the threshold sought for seed,
Paused on his lifted foot, and raised his head
As if to listen. The rejoicing bees
Nestled in throngs amid the woodbine cups
That o'er the lattice clustered. A clear stream
Came leaping from its sylvan height, and poured
Music upon the pebbles; and the winds,
Which gently 'mid the vernal branches played
Their idle freaks, brought showering blossoms down,
Surfeiting earth with sweetness. Sad I came
From weary commerce with the heartless world;
But, when I felt upon my withered cheek
My mother Nature's breath, and heard the tramp
Of those gay insects at their honeyed toil,
Shining like winged jewelry, and drank
The healthful odor of the flowering trees
And bright-eyed violets,-but most of all,
When I beheld mild, slumbering innocence,
And on that young maternal brow the smile
Of those affections which do purify
And renovate the soul,-I turned me back
In gladness, and with added strength to run
My weary race, lifting a thankful prayer

To Him who showed me some bright tint of heaven
Here on the earth, that I might safer walk,
And firmer combat sin, and surer rise
From earth to heaven.

TWILIGHT-HOPE.

There is an evening twilight of the heart,
When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest,
And the eye sees life's fairy scenes depart,
As fades the day-beam in the rosy west.
'Tis with a nameless feeling of regret

We gaze upon them as they melt away,
And fondly would we bid them linger yet,
But Hope is round us with her angel lay,
Hailing afar some happier moonlight hour;
Dear are her whispers still, though lost their early power.
In youth the cheek was crimson'd with her glow;
Her smile was loveliest then, her matin song
Was heaven's own music, and the note of wo
Was all unheard, her sunny bowers among.
Life's little world of bliss was newly born;
We knew not, cared not, it was born to die;
Flushed with the cool breeze and the dews of morn,
With dancing heart we gazed on the pure sky,
And mocked the passing clouds that dimm'd its blue,
Like our own sorrows then-as fleeting and as few.
And manhood felt her sway too,-on the eye,
Half-realized, her early dreams burst bright,

green.

DIED, At his residence near Milton, Wayne Co., Indiana, on the 14th inst., in the 75th year of his age, BENJAMIN HIATT, an approved and much esteemed minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends.

on the 22d ult., at the residence of his father, near the village of Saratoga Springs, in the 23d year of his age, RICHARD H. LAWRENCE. He was a young man of much early promise, of quick and cultivated parts, and a lively imagination, and was greatly endeared to his friends by his amiable disposition. A cold caught in the autumn of 1846, terminated in a lingering consumption. During the summer months his strength and voice failed, so that he could speak but a few words at a time, and scarcely above a whisper. He was early aware of and resigned to his situation, saying on one occasion, that he might be taken away at any time; but that he trusted solely in his Saviour, and entertained the humble hope that it would be in mercy. He enjoyed greatly the reading of religious books, and especially the Holy Scriptures. Observing his mother to be much affected by his daily declining strength, he said, "Dear mother, do not grieve, let us be resigned to the Lord's will, whatever that may be; and receive with equanimity all his dispensations;" adding with emphasis, "whichever way this may terminate, all will be right." He died on the morning of the 22d ult. without a sigh, groan, or struggle, exchanging, as is humbly hoped, through the mercy of his dear Redeemer, this scene of trial and temptation for one of endless bliss. The Friend.