interesting, warm-hearted man, with a powerful eye, and a forehead finely developed.

Yesterday was our first Parisian Sabbath. Our meeting at the Faubourg du Roule was held at twelve o'clock, and was attended by a considerable number of people, generally English. At six o'clock we repaired to William Toase's Wesleyan meeting-house, by appointment. After a time, it was quite crowded, more so, they said, than ever before; and certainly it was a truly solemn meeting. My dear sister was first engaged, at some length, in exhorting to vital and practical religion, and was well interpreted for by our friend Lucas, a minister among the French Methodists. I afterwards followed on part of John xiv :-"Je suis le chemin, la vérité, et la vie," &c. I trust help was given. The congregation separated in the feeling of much love and sweetness.

CHAPTER XL.

1843. ET. 55.

ENGAGEMENTS AT PARIS CONTINUED; DUC DE BROGLIE; GUIZOT; DE TOQUEVILLE; PROTESTANT MEETING; FRENCH BIBLE SOCIETY; VISIT TO THE KING AND QUEEN AT NEUILLY; JOURNEY ΤΟ THE SOUTH OF FRANCE; MACON; LYONS; AVIGNON; NISMES; CONGENIES; VISIT TO THE FRIENDS; ILLNESS AT CONGENIES.

Paris, 4th mo., 25th, 1843.

I wish most sincerely that we may all be preserved from the feeling of dissipation, in the midst of the interesting and ever-shifting scenes which befal us in this place. It requires watchfulness and care, and I do not feel that we are without our difficulties; yet I humbly trust, indeed I fully believe, that the Lord is near to help.

Yesterday morning, (24th,) Josiah Forster and I made a few calls together. Our first was on Baron Rothschild, to establish my pecuniary credit. He was abundantly civil. He seemed to me to have the same kind of acuteness and intelligence as his late brother Nathan, and to be pursuing the same career. I ought to be thankful for the convenience . of moneyed facility in this temporal world; one feels it particularly when abroad. May all that I have and am be rightly devoted to the Author of all my blessings!

We then paid our respects to Lord Cowley, the British Ambassador, younger brother of the Duke of Wellington, a sensible, elderly gentleman, who, though very busy, received us kindly. We talked to him about the case of Tahiti and the Sandwich Islands. He said he had received official assurances from the French Government, that the Protestant

missionaries in Tahiti shall be fully protected, and the Independent Sovereignty of the Sandwich Islands acknowledged. At a later hour we called on the Duc de Broglie, of whom I had so often heard, and whom I was really glad to see. He received us in a very friendly manner. His late Duchess, the daughter of La Baronne de Staël, was a woman of decided piety, a Protestant, and died the death of the Christian. She was well known to our sister Fry. The Duke is a liberal Roman Catholic, and is the author of the projet de loi, on the subject of emancipation, which has just been published. It is said to contain a vast mass of well-arranged evidence; and, though far from fully satisfactory in its provisions, is probably as good as the Duke could make it. Neither he nor Guizot can be regarded as their own masters in this important

matter.

In the evening our rooms were opened to the coloured people, besides several of our own friends. It was a highly interesting occasion. There were perhaps forty of them, chiefly young men-lively, intelligent, polite; affording abundant proofs that "black blood" has no tendency to destroy the powers of the mind. I told them a little about the West Indies, in a French address; then Josiah Forster and I questioned them respecting the condition of the respective islands, &c., with which they were connected. We had representatives from Bourbon, Cayenne, Guadaloupe, Martinique, and Hayti; and they gave us, in a truly vivacious way, much information. Slavery everywhere seems to wear the same characteristics of ignorance and brutality. The slaves appear to get no education in any of the French colonies, and are liable to much cruel treatment. In Hayti, too, education is at a low ebb. It appears that the late revolution there has been bloodless, and that President Boyer has made his escape to Jamaica. We ended with a psalm and a solemn pause. I trust the impression made upon our guests was useful, and that the evening's service would not be in vain. Yet, had we been a little more watchful and faithful, the end might more completely have crowned all.

This morning Josiah Forster and I made agreeable calls on

Vicomte de Tracy, and Passy, Anti-slavery deputies, of great talent and influence. We were anxious to recommend such a declaration, on the part of the Chamber of Deputies, as would pledge them to the consideration of the new projet de loi at the opening of the next session. But this, it appears, is not according to the forms of the French Chamber. Some one in the house will address the needful questions to the ministers, as to their intentions on the point; and it is hoped that their answer will be favourable. We learned, in one quarter, that even the printing of the Rapport de la Commission or projet was carried in the Cabinet, by Guizot, with difficulty. We must, therefore, reckon him a faithful abolitionist, and conclude that he cannot do all that he would.

We also visited a large school of boys, girls, and infants, under the care of Pressensé and the Protestants; about 800 children. They were at play and at dinner in the yard. We asked the boys many questions from the New Testament, to which they gave ready answers, showing a considerable degree of knowledge. Nothing could exceed their pleasure and liveliness on the occasion. From thence to the Normal School under La Société Evangélique, where we found fifteen young men under careful Christian training for the office of schoolmasters. The establishment is intended to be much enlarged, and is likely to operate very favourably on the community. A short interview with Lord B- -, is another incident of the present morning. He is somewhat aged, and looks pale; but not out of health. O if he had followed the Star of Bethlehem in its course, and discovered the Prince of Life and Immortality for himself, how truly great he might now have been!

4th mo., 27th. In the evening of the third day we had the company of several ladies and young women, including who has passed through many deep afflictions, and has a great attraction towards Friends. Her son, a modest young man of twenty-three, has lost his all by disappointing the wishes of his father and uncle, in absolutely refusing to go into the army, or take any part in military affairs. This is a remarkable instance, and I believe not a solitary one in France.

We had also the company of Köhl, the German traveller, whose works are known in England, and of his brother and sister, all of Bremen. Rigaud, the deputy of the Peace Society, read us a short lecture, and several of us added a few remarks. After a comfortable reading of 1 Cor. xiii, in French, and a short pause, the company separated,

It is

Yesterday morning, having obtained the authorization of the Prefect of Police, Gabriel Dellessère, a man of talent and energy, and very kind to us, Josiah Forster and I visited the new prison, des jeunes détenus, now complete; about 500 boys in the establishment, the number made up of all the little vagabonds and thieves, which France, and principally Paris, happen to furnish, who are shut up here by a kind of summary process, according to the will of the magistrates; not so much because deserving their terms of imprisonment, (some of which are for three, four, five, or six years,) as under the consideration, that they will be themselves benefitted by the system of care and discipline. Many are sent to the establishment by their own parents. The whole is arranged on the système cellulaire. solitary confinement, as it regards their fellows in bondage, but alleviated by the frequent visits of their teachers and keepers, &c., also by a very fairly comfortable diet, meat four times a week, and plenty of bread; constant employment, school learning, and some handicraft business, filling up the day in succession. There are a large number of corridors, all well warmed; each corridor under the care of a superintending officer, who acts both as schoolmaster and maitre de metier to the boys inhabiting it. The boys are taught in matters of religion, by two monks, twenty-three at a time, in a room divided into little departments, so as not to see each other, with a desk in the centre. They kneel before the Host (without seeing it) at the sound of a bell, every Sabbath day. Each boy is allowed half an hour's run during the day, in one of the four airy court yards. Each cell is provided with a comfortable bed, and suitable provision for reading, writing, and cyphering, besides the implements of the work on which the inmate is engaged. I observed no want of neatness, air, or comfort