character has only to make its claims extensively known, to be fully appreciated and liberally responded to by the affluent and humane throughout our land. THE CLIMBING BOY'S TALE. IN London town, they say, Now, if I knew the way, I would go there and see. I'd travel all the night, And hide myself by day, For fear my master might Obstruct me on my way. If there I should arrive, I'd walk the great ligh Street, And knowledge would derive From folks I there should meet. I'd view the place all round, And find where could be seen The Palace, where is found Victoria, our good queen. Should I the place explore, I would not be afraid, But loudly rap the door, And wait to see the maid. The Queen might come to see And then take off my cap. I then should tell the Queen, Her subjects in the North. "Observe, the Act designed And made for boys like meWhich you, the Queen, had signed, That we should all be free "At first was not received, And which they now refuse; And, could I be believed, They send me up their flues. ! "As I'm a friendless boy, Your subjects will persist, "I do the best I can To moderate my grief, In this I find relief. "I am, lest I should grow, Each morn supplied with ginAnd thus it is, I know, I'm stunted, short, and thin. "To climb through narrow flues, That smaller boys are best. "I climb the lofty flue, With angle, bend, and slant; "If unperformed my task, But say, 'I've done it well.' "Tis as a brush I'm used, Oppressed, disdained, reviled; ' "When I a flue ascend, And cannot well succeed 'Tis then a boy'll attend, 1 "Now, you must understand, And so acute the pain, "I hope for some relief When I the bend have passed, "Tis then that I entreat And all his aid bestow. "He makes his hold secure, While he himself suspends; Those efforts made for me, Are each to each made fast, They drag me down at last. I wished, in this sad state, "My life is not secure, And none their care bestow, "I here observe the fact, "In suffocating flues They rendered up their lives; I thus would bring to view, How well, were all agreed, Nor were inclined to wait, To make this matter straight. And when they sweep their flues, A poor, defenceless boy. A MODEL REPUBLIC.-In the Dead-man's fingers (Alcyonium) and some other zoophytes, the qualities, fraternity and equality, are exhibited in a manner far superior to any republic, ancient or modern; but there In these curious is very little liberty in the case. creatures communism prevails to its fullest extent, one for all and all for one. There is one body, so to speak, the polypidom as it is called, and from this body protrude, under favourable circumstances, innumerable polyps, each one gathering its nutriment from the surrounding water, and conveying that nutriment not to its own body only, and for its own aggrandizement, but into the general polypidom, affording to each of its thousand relatives a portion of its own nourishment, and receiving from each of them some modicum of their own.-Wood's Common Objects of the Sca-Shore. THE BRITISH FRIEND has been registered at the General THE BRITISH FRIEND. GLASGOW, 7TH MONTH, 1ST, 1858. Sixth-day, the 28th of 5th Month, 1858- the Meeting of Ministers and Elders having been held the day preceding. There were several ministers and others in attendance with minutes, from other Yearly Meetings, and yet the number appeared to be considerably less than on any former occasions. Epistles were received from all the other Yearly Meetings except Philadelphia and Ohio, including the larger body in New England and the "Binns" Meeting in Ohio. But few communications of a religious nature were FRIENDS TRAVELLING IN THE MINISTRY.-At Dub-made during the first session, and but little business lin Monthly Meeting, held on the 15th ult., ABIGAIL O'NEIL was liberated to visit the Meetings of Friends in Scotland; and we understand she is likely to enter on this service early in the 8th Month next. JOSEPH and ELIZA ANN HOPKINS returned their recent certificate on the 16th ult, having closed their religious labours in London and Middlesex at Plaistow, immediately after the Yearly Meeting. They are likely, before long, again to hold some public meetings at intervals within the limits of their own Quarterly Meeting. Since writing the foregoing, we learn they have been at the Quarterly Meeting at Mansfield, as well as at their own at Lincoln. Our latest accounts of ROBERT LINDSEY and wife, state, that they were engaged in visiting Meetings in Iowa, having returned in good health from Kansas, where they visited all the settlements of Friends. They were present at the opening of the two new Quarterly Meetings in Iowa. Tidings from PRISCILLA GREEN and MARY NICHOLSON, up to the 24th of 5th Month, mention that they had attended Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, since which time they had been travelling in the state of New York. transacted beyond that which is necessary for the organization of the meeting and the reading of the epistles; after which a committee of reply was appointed. An elder then proposed that the committee be verbally instructed to present a draft of an epistle to the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia, from which, for two or three years, none had been received, and to which none had been sent. This was united with to a considerable extent, and seemed likely to prevail; but it being remarked by the clerk that a minute had been made last year and was upon record, referring this subject to the present meeting, and proposing that the subject be left until it came up in the regular order of business; this was acceded to. The representatives were desired to meet at the close of the sitting for the nomination of clerks, and then adjourned to four in the afternoon. On the opening of the afternoon session, on the report of the representatives, the clerk and assistant tention of the meeting to that part of the report from were re-appointed; and the clerk soon called the atWestbury Quarterly Meeting, recommending a revisal and reprint of the Book of Discipline. This occasioned considerable discussion, and at first seemed likely to Besides holding meetings with Friends, they had exhibit much diversity of sentiment—a revisal at this not unfrequently appointed meetings with the "Hick-time being undesirable in the view of some members; sites" in their own Meeting-houses, to which they but, inasmuch as all the speakers who advocated it were generally ready to agree. One such meeting disclaimed the desire for an extensive revision, or for they had held at Hudson, and were about holding making any changes of important matter, the opponanother at Poughkeepsie, and thence intending to pro-ents of the measure gave way, yielding their objecceed to New York Yearly Meeting. Their health was pretty good; PRISCILLA GREEN often feeble, but again wonderfully raised up to declare the unsearchable riches of Christ to large companies. In the spring they had visited Baltimore and Virginia, and had felt the depressing effects of the presence of slavery. In Virginia they had made an effort to have a religious meeting with some of the Coloured population, in their own chapel, but although the minister (a white man) made no objection, the Mayor was informed of it, and did not incline that it should be held. Altogether they had a glimpse of the cruel bondage that prevails in the slaveholding states, and felt the anguish of seeing and hearing of the every-day barbarities of the people. NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING.-Through the kindness of a member of New York Yearly Meeting, we have been furnished with the following account of its late session: The Yearly Meeting of New York assembled on tions; and a committee was appointed, to unite with one from the Women's Meeting, to consider the subject and report upon it at a future sitting. The minutes of the Meeting for Sufferings, for the had claimed its attention, it had caused a memorial, past year, were then read; among other matters which remonstrating against the extension of slavery to territory now free, to be presented to Congress. Its proceedings were approved by the meeting. Then adjourned to ten o'clock on Seventh-day morning. On Seventh-day morning the meeting entered upon a consideration of the reports from the Quarterly Meetings on the subject of education. It appeared by these that there were nearly 1400 children in the aggregate of suitable age for school, that of these about 100 only were reaping the advantages of an education in schools under the care of the Society, while nearly 1100 were attending the district schools. There was no action proposed in the matter, and it was passed from without much remark. A visit was then received from Priscilla Green and Mary Nicholson, of England. A lengthy memorial of our late Friend, Joseph Talcott, deceased, was read, and the meeting adjourned to four in the afternoon. gether with the one about to convene in the State of Indiana, were presented and read. A committee was appointed to attend the opening of the last-named meeting, and present the epistle. And the meeting then adjourned to meet at the usual time next year. AMERICAN SLAVERY - BOSTON ANTI-SLAVERY BAZAAR.-Those friends of the slave who have, in former On the opening of the afternoon session the meeting engaged in the examination of various matters embraced in the reports from the Quarterly Meetings,-Philadelphia Friend, of 6th Month, 12th. mostly not of sufficient general interest to require special notice, and the committee appointed last year to obtain subscriptions, and, under certain restrictions, to purchase a property at Union Springs, Cayuga county, N. Y., for the purpose of opening a boarding-years, been accustomed to contribute to this bazaar, school in Western New York, made a report. They had succeeded in obtaining subscriptions to about half the amount to which they were limited, and had purchased the property, when the financial difficulties of the past year put an end to their labours for the time. The meeting accepted the report as satisfactory, received the property and continued the committee, with directions to resume their efforts to raise the remaining portion of the sum of 15,000 dollars, for the purpose of carrying out the original design of the meeting. Two meetings for worship were held during Firstday, and were largely attended. Second-day was devoted almost exclusively to the consideration of the answers to the queries. Three only were passed during the morning session, and the extended remarks evinced that the subjects embraced in them had taken deep hold on the minds of many of the members and others present. The remaining six, in the afternoon, though occasioning less labour, were yet the subject of much interest to the close. The subject of the correspondence with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, referred on the minutes of last year, was then taken up. After some little discussion, and the expression of diverse views thereon, it was again referred on the minutes to next year. Then adjourned to ten on Third-day morning. Third-day, in addition to the necessary attention to various unfinished matters contained in the reports from the Quarterly Meetings, the report of the committee having charge of the boarding-school property at Nine Partners, was presented to the meeting, and, after a pretty lengthy discussion, was left in the hands of the trustees for another year. The committee appointed on the proposition to revise the Discipline reported that they had met and conferred together on the subject, and had concluded to recommend to the Yearly Meeting to refer the subject to the Meeting for Sufferings, with instructions to report next year. A concern was then opened that the meeting appoint a committee of men and women Friends to visit the subordinate meetings during the coming year, which was united with, and a large committee was appointed for that object. Adjourned to four o'clock on Fourthday afternoon. Fourth-day afternoon.-A committee was appointed to have the oversight and care of the boarding-school at Union Springs-one having been already started there by the committee that purchased the property; and then essays of epistles, directed to all the Yearly Meetings with which this is in correspondence, to will have learned that it is not to be held this year, but that an attempt is to be made to raise money, by direct subscriptions in cash. The committee of ladies in Boston, who have, for twenty-four years, so successfully conducted the bazaar, assign the following reasons for desiring this change in the mode of raising funds for the American Anti-Slavery Society: "At the beginning, before the principles of the cause were understood, we could not, with the slightest hope of success, ask of the public, whose affair it is no less than our own, direct contributions of money. We, therefore, devised an annual bazaar for the sale of contributions of articles, and it afforded an opportunity of great usefulness, both financial and social, to the cause. "But the changed state of the public mind now suggests greater directness in the method and increase in the usefulness of this anniversary; and we propose, this year, to give our usual sums and take up our accustomed collections by direct cash subscription; and we entreat the friends, both at home and abroad, who have been wont to co-operate with us, to do the same, nothing doubting the result will much exceed the sum ($3000) raised last year.” While it cannot be expected that money will be collected in Britain equal to the value of the work formerly sent, we believe there will be a general desire felt still to help on the cause; and if each would give the amount they used to expend on materials for their needlework, and try to procure a little more from their friends, there is no doubt but a respectable sum might be raised. The same parties who have hitherto taken charge of forwarding work to the bazaar, will be glad to receive and remit to Boston subscriptions and donations in money. They will also take charge of work to be forwarded to the Annual Anti-Slavery Bazaar, to be held near the end of the year in Philadelphia. Those who still prefer aiding the anti-slavery cause by the work of their hands, will be glad to know that this bazaar has been held for twenty-two years for the same purpose as that at Boston; and the committee there have solicited some of that aid that has formerly been sent to Boston. The 1st of 10th Month is the latest time for receiving goods for the Philadelphia bazaar, by those taking charge of forwarding them. FRIENDS visiting Malvern, are informed, that a Meeting-house has just been completed and opened for use in Portland Place, in the town of Great MalThe situation is central, and the building in vern. every respect eligible and convenient. A SENTENCE FOR THE TIMES. Casting all your care on him, for he careth for you." THE great measure of the worth of any religion is its durability to help men. Religion is the son of want and weakness. Moses in old times put the worship of Jehovah to this test, when he said, "For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for?" Now, if the old Jewish economy had this privilege, certainly the Christian dispensation was not less. We in the gospel are nearer to God than were the old Jews, not further off. And if the Lord their God was nearer unto them for all that they called on Him for, certainly He is not less near to us. The present is a time for testing the practical worth of one's religion. A sweeping season of calamity has passed over the land: anxiety, sorrow, want. perplexity, are inmates now in many a dwelling where before they were strangers. Now is the time to discern between him that hath and him that hath not an Almighty helper. Now is the time when some men, who seem to the eyes of the world to have lost all, may glorify their Father in heaven, by a cheerful serenity of demeanour, which seems wonderful to those who know not its hidden source. Whatever doors may be closed on them, whatever reliance may have failed, there is one door which is open wider than ever now-the door of that secret place where they find their Father to cast their care on Him. They must go not in formal phrases, learned by rote, but in genuine heart-openings, such as one friend useth with another. Like the disciples, when they had buried their dead friend, they must "go and tell Jesus." What a heart-eating word is that one little onecare. It has in it an indefiniteness, an uncertain fearfulness; it pertains to a creature who cannot see a step before him—who is every moment exposed to unforeseen calamities and reverses. It has in it all of man's poverty-a poverty which is born with him, and lives with him, and is the twin and intimate companion of his soul, and which none of the things that are called riches or honour can alleviate or lessen in the smallest degree. In all the great straits and necessities of our condition here, an emperor is as poor as a slave; he can no more know the future; he more fend off death; he can no more redeem his loved ones from its power. Hence care sits as close to the skin under ermine and jewelry as under rags. can no more control the forces of nature; he can no No religion but the Christian ever had a sentence like this, "Casting all your care on him, for he careth for you." Many philosophers and wise men of antiquity would have leaped for joy at such a message, but none such came to them. The lilies of the field and the fowls of the air were just the same in their day as in any other, but not till Christ explained their higher and more beautiful significance, did the world understand that a Father's protection and care were written even in the inflexible course of nature. We who have a God to care for us, should show that we have so great a refuge--we must cast our cares on Him. We all know what this means in earthly language. A man says, "I have put all that care on so-and-so:" it means he has discharged his mind of it-he is free to give his thoughts to something else he has for the present done with it, for he has secured its being properly attended to. So, when we go to God and cast our care on him, we lift it from our own souls, and come away from the interview as one who has left a weight behind. But there are times of relaxed nervous energy-times of weakness, when though we say in words, "Lord, I believe," yet the burden still remains on us. Just as relaxed fibre has no power to throw it off; so there is in weakened bodily tissues the blood congests, and the must be treated as a disease. a congestion of care about the brain and heart. This We must say to ourselves as David did, "This is my infirmity, yet I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High." Having gone to God and spread our case, whatever it is, before him, we must, by a firm exercise of will, resolve to treat it as a thing disposed of; we must divert our mind from it-we must resolutely resolve not to allow ourselves to brood over it, and when the shiver of anxiety comes on us, we must divert it by a resolute filling of the mind with duties.. Though God seem long to delay to appear for usthough the difficulties, far from seeming less, grow more, the storm darker, the hail and rain more blinding, still we must with resolute will believe that God has heard us, is hearing us, and is now doing all that is best to be done, and all that, if we stood where he does, we should ask him to do for our relief. There is something sublime and magnanimous in this faith in God. We have not many chances of showing magnanimity Godward. Generally speaking our intercourse is all receiving, and there is no chance to give. It is only in this matter of faith there is a chance for a man to be generous and magnanimous. Yes, he may say, I will believe only the largest, noblest, and most beautiful things of my God. Though He slay me, yet will I trust in him. He has said He will care for me. He has bid me cast my care on him, and I have done it; and though I see no ray of light, nor know not from whence help is coming, yet I know He is helping me, and will help me; and though I should die without seeing my prayer answered, I will bind his word to my heart, I will profess my faith in him eternity, and claim its fulfilment at the foot of his with my last breath, I will take his promise into throne.-H. B. Stowe. THE EARL OF DERBY'S OPINION OF DEATHI PUNISHMENTS IN INDIA. ADVERTING to the defiant fortitude with which the Sepoy rebels met their fate, the Earl of Derby as eloquently as philosophically said "It is clear that which he is to be blown, boasts that he has killed when a man, from the mouth of the cannon from three or four Englishmen, death, by a sudden blow, has no terrors for him, and that he is most probably looked upon, rather as a hero than a criminal, by his vile associates. I, my lords, would inflict upon these life, with the brand of Cain upon their brow. A life, men a doom tar worse than death-I mean, a protracted embittered by severe, by degrading, and by painful labour, would be a far worse punishment than death." The sentiment, never perhaps more eloquently expressed, is that of sages, jurists, sovereigns, and divines -of Bacon, Beccaria, Franklin, Hall, Bentham and Catherine, Leopold and Oscar; reduces the whole question to this single point-does murder merit the severest punishment? We think it does.- Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishments, by Commissioner Phillips, fourth edition. WHAT, when a Paul has run his course, Is Israel left without resource? ANECDOTES OF THOMAS SCATTERGOOD, &c. (Continued from page 123. On the 27th of Third Month, 1788, Sarah Harrison thus wrote: "Yesterday I was at a small meeting in Charlestown, when the states of those present were laid open before them, I trust in a clear light, though not with enticing words of man's wisdom. I often think I am one of the most stammering speech of any that ever were sent forth on such an errand. May He that promised to be with the mouth of Moses, be with me at all times, especially when engaged in his cause, and teach me what I shall say, is the desire of my heart; that so his great naine may be exalted, and self may be abased in me." "Although the Lord has been pleased at times to lead me through the valley and shadow of death, yet there have been times when I could sing praises to his name, and extol him that rideth upon the heavens." It was no doubt one small addition to the trials of Sarah Harrison, in being so long detained in arduous soul-humbling labour in the Southern States, that she was thereby debarred from attending the marriage of her adopted daughter, and spiritual child, Sarah Dickenson. Sarah Dickenson had passed through many outward trials, and inward baptisms in early life, and appeared in the ministry when a very child in years. She had been acknowledged by her meeting as a minister of the gospel of life and salvation, when but eighteen years of age, and now with the unity of her friends, she was uniting herself in marriage with a sweet-spirited, humble-minded disciple of the Lord Jesus, Charles Williams. Charles had for some time believed himself called to the work of the ministry, and he had often in family gatherings, and sometimes in more public assemblies, given way to the calls of duty in this line. His communications were brief but lively, and met with the unity and approbation of his friends. Their marriage took place in the Third Month of this year. A few weeks after that event, Sarah Williams thus wrote to Sarah Harrison: "Philadelphia, Fourth mo. 19th. 1788. "My dear Mother,--Being informed by thy dear husband of an opportunity for conveying letters to thee, I thought I felt a freedom once more to stain some paper, as a testimony of my unshaken love and sympathy for thee; and more especially as my mind was peculiarly impressed, upon receiving such intelligence, with a sacred and blessed promise uttered by the lip of Truth, that every one who had left father, mother, houses and children for his sake, should receive in this life an hundred fold, and in that to come, life everlasting: the remembrance of which I thought was sufficient to bear up such through every proving dispensation, allotted in this state of pilgrimage. And though it is my lot to inhabit very frequently the prison-house, where not so much as one ray of light is suffered to penetrate the thick walls; and also to feel strongly fettered, so that I am not capable of moving hand or foot, yet I have thought some few times, that I have been at least suffered to look, as from the top of Mount Pisgah, and to see far into the holy land. My spirit has secretly rejoiced in prospect, that the glorious gospel day which has dawned will rise higher and higher, breaking down all the walls of opposition which obscure its brightness. Yea, my dear mother, permit me to say, that I believe it has not been for nought that thou hast been called into that desolate part of the vineyard; for the Master, it seems to me, is about to visit the highways and hedges, and to draw, as it were, the heathen by his powerful love to come in and sup with him. "Oh! how my heart often overflows with love to wards those who have sat in darkness-believing that light is about to spring up; and what if it should shine with more distinguished brightness, where it has been least heretofore known! Insomuch that it may be said, 'Where is the fury of the oppressor!" When the lion comes to lie down with the lamb, and there is no hurting or destroying in all the Lord's holy mountain. "I wish not to be like the captive exile that hasteneth to be loosed; yet suffer me to desire thee, if permitted, still to remember me in thy approaches to the Father of mercies, that I may in his time hear the language of Break the bands from off thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion.' Excuse my disclosure of such sentiments to thee; as it is as I have been wont to do. Farewell. SARAH WILLIAMS." How sweetly did this adopted child enter into feeling with her mother in the Truth. We shall yet have to see how remarkably that mother was blessed in her further labours in the south. There are, perhaps, few cases of fellow-feeling more intimate than that which existed between Robert Widders and his valued friend, Margaret Fox. She says, writing of Robert, after his death, "It is too much to write here, what comfort, strength, and assistance he hath been to me and mine, both when we were in prison and out of prison; he would not have failed to come to see us night or day over two dangerous sands, if it had been in the depth of winter. Many a time hath he done so of his own accord, and for the most part I have been sensible of his coming before he came so near and dear he was unto me." Robert Widders was born in Lancashire, in the year 1618, of parents who were honest, and respect able in the community. He was early engaged in seeking after durable riches and righteousness, but found no permanent rest, no clear satisfaction in his religious exercises, until in the year 1652 he met with George Fox, and heard him preach Christ Jesus the Light of the world-the inward guide and director of all the Lord's faithful children. As he received this doctrine in faith and obedience, he found comfort pour into his tribulated soul, and a blessed light to dispel the spiritual darkness he had long been in. In 1653, being at Acton steeple house, he rebuked Priest Nicholls, telling him he was a deceiver, an enemy of Christ, and that the hand of the Lord was against him. For saying this, Robert was arrested by order of Justice Brisco, and was examined at Priest Nicholl's house. The priest at first in the spirit of deceit, fawned on the prisoner, and affected great moderation, but Robert, whose spiritual eyes were anointed to see through the mask of hypocrisy put on for that occasion, told him that the spirit of persecution lodg d in him. He replied, "Nay, I am no such a man.' Almost immediately, however, forgetting his assumed character, he told the justice that Robert had stolen the horse he had with him, and the hatred of his heart bursting into open acknowledgment, he added that he could find it in his heart with his own hands to be the prisoner's executioner. On hearing this, Robert said, “Did not I say unto thee, that the spirit of persecution lodged in thee?" Justice Brisco drew up a warrant, under authority of which Robert was to be committed to Carlisle jail, and gave it to a constable. He then called the prisoner once more, and asked him by what authority and power he came to seduce and bewitch people? Robert answered, "I came not to seduce and bewitch people, but I came in that power which shall make thee and all the powers of the earth bend and bow before it, viz., the mighty power of God." As the prisoner spoke this under a sense of the prevalence of that power in which he was travelling in the min |