treasures inside and out; the great square with the Tuileries it encloses, where an army might muster and parade; the long vista of woodland, with a bright sun glancing through plashing fountains-a swarm of life flitting around green trees, whose quivering foliage half reveals more palaces beyond, and a massive arch-portal shutting out the far distance, like some gigantic barrier against the common world. Gay Boulevards, where the stream of human pleasure flows on unceasingly, brilliant temples of glass and light, crowded by occupants who seem to be freed by some prescriptive right from the curse of labor, shady gardens with grand old horsechestnuts clustered in spring-time with flowers that nod over savage animals shorn of

half their terrors and unsavoriness.-Sketches in France.

SOCRATES.-Socrates was a profoundly religious man. He was, moreover, as we learn from Aristotle, a man of that bilious, melancholic temperament, which has, in all times, been observed in persons of unusual religious fervor, such as is implied in those monitory exaltations of the mind which are mistaken

for divine visits; and when the rush of thought came upon him with strange, warning voices, he believed it was the gods who spake directly to him. Unless we conceive Socrates a profoundly religious man, we shall misconceive the whole spirit of his life and teachings. In many respects he was a fanatic, but only in the noble sense of the word; a man, like Car

lyle, intolerant, vehement, "possessed" by his ideas, but unlike Carlyle, preserved from all the worst consequences of intolerance and passion by an immense humor and a tender heart. His saturnine melancholy was relieved by laughter, which softened and humanized a spirit otherwise not less vehement than that of a Dominic or a Calvin. Thus strengthened and thus softened, Socrates stands out as the grandest figure in the world's Pantheon; the bravest, truest, simplest, wisest of mankind.-Geo. H. Lewes.

A bill is before the South Carolina Legislature which provides that professional gamblers who are found guilty of gambling shall receive thirty-nine lashes, in addition to the punishment now provided by law. If this bill, when passed, does not suppress gambling in that State, no law can.

MISSIONARY PREACHING.-I sometimes im

agine to myself the unconscious blunders no doubt, often ludicrous enough-nay, the downright though most innocent errors, heresies, and blasphemies, which have fallen from the missionary's lips in his early efforts. I am afraid the Gospel, if we were heathens, would

stand but a poor chance of being listened to with attention if a foreigner came to preach it to us in broken English, with a foreign pro| nunciation and a foreign idiom. If one told us, with the Frenchman, "Dat de evangile was come from heaven to be a book of revelation of the will Divine, and to cause to repent a man of all his sins;" or, with the German, "Dat it vos a melancholy ever-by-man-to-beremembered fact dat we vos all but cucumbers of de ground!" Correspondence of R. E. H. Greyson, Esq.

EXECUTION OF A SPANISH BISHOP BY THE CHINESE.-A letter from Hong Kong states that the execution of a Spanish bishop took place at Ram Ting on the 20th of July. His head was cut off, and his body was carried through the streets in procession, after which it was put into mats, rowed away at the stern of a boat toward the sea, and as the rowers sat with their backs to the body, the spot where it was cut adrift is not known. Every effort was made to prevent the Christians from obtaining relics of his holiness.

INVESTIGATION OF CORRUPTION AT WASHGrand Jury of that city are making investigaINGTON. The Washington Union says that the tions which may prove of great public interest. It is also intimated in another quarter that charges against Mr. Cullom, late Clerk of the House of Representatives, have been made to the Jury, and that a full inquiry into the matter which involves allegations of official corruption, is now taking place.

ANALYSIS OF DRESS.-I never see a person proud of fine dress but I think, "Well, he has only cast off clothes, after all; he has the jacket of the lamb, and the old great coat of the sheep; from head to foot he is dressed in what the trees or the animals have used be

fore him. His shoes are made of hides, his stockings of the cotton shrub, his shirt of the flax plant, his handkerchief is spun by the caterpillar, and his gloves are the waistcoat of the angola."

COMMON OBSERVATION teaches us, that it is as necessary to supply slices of bread to the mouths of working men, as it is to supply billets of wood to the mouths of furnaces of

working locomotive engines, to sustain the movements of their respective mechanisms.

A CURIOUS INSECT.-The Brachyni, or a genus of insects about the size of a barleycorn, possesses the singular faculty of ejecting an acid humor, accompanied by a puff of smoke and an explosive noise, when they want to attack or defend themselves.

A MODERN tourist calls the Niagara river "the pride of rivers." That pride certainly has a tremendous fall.

they recognize him, in a mysterious way he vanishes out of their sight-he ceases to be seen of them.

Taking the thought which is thus presented-expanding it, and applying it to the holy Supper,—we have as a most delightful subject of contemplation. Christ revealing himself to his people in the breaking of bread.

The holy Supper was instituted by our Lord shortly before his death. It was designed to commemorate his sufferings and his death-to symbolize, to the latest generations, the great facts connected with the atonement, to point believing hearts to "the hope of their Salvation," and to seal unto all who worthily partake of it, the forgiveness of their sins and their adoption into God's family. It is full of the fragrance of Christ. It fails not to carry the thoughts of the devout Christian back to those scenes and events, which, clustering around Calvary, have woven into them, an imperishable interest. It exhibits Christ as the grand object of faith, hope, and love. And more than this, it gives to the believer, Christ, as the portion of his soul. The broken bread and the poured out wine,-are they not the communion of the body and of the blood of Christ? In this blessed feast-in these visible Emblems-our Lord seems to say to his children, as he did to unbelieving Thomas, "reach hither thy finger and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing." Here may all doubts and misgivings be taken away from the believer's mind, and wavering hearts become established in the holy faith. Here may the sorrowful find that comfort which the world cannot give or take away. And here, amid the touching memorials of his own sacrificial death, will Christ ever delight to manifest himself as the righteousness, joy, and complete redemption of all believers.

It was in the breaking of bread, at an ordinary meal, that the two disciples recognized their risen Lord Much more

shall he be recognized by those who wait for, and delight in him, at that special supper, which he has provided for their comfort and refreshment. It is the Lord's Supper-and shall not the Lord be there? It is the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ-and shall not Christ be there? Will not the precious promise "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world," be fulfilled, when the people of Christ remember him in so solemn and sacred a service as the celebration of the holy communion? Yes, in this breaking of bread, and in this drinking of wine, he will not fail to reveal himself as the Lord and Master of the feast. The table is the Lord's, and the house in which it is spread is his; and shall the head of the house remain away when his guests come? Shall he hide himself beneath an impenetrable veil, so that no eye can look upon him? Shall the visible elements, which speak so touchingly and so eloquently of him, speak of him as an absent-a far-distant Saviour? Ah, this is not the law of the Master's house! When his guests assemble to do him honor, he will be present. When they receive the bread and wine, which, when he himself dispensed them, were accompanied with the soothing words "given and shed for you for the remission of sins," the believing heart will feel him to be near, the eye of faith will see and know him, as "the chief among ten thousand and altogether lovely."

The two disciples could not recognize Christ in the conversation by the way, although he came so near to them in the words which he spake. Their faith was wavering and weak. They feared that their enemies had obtained the victory. And even when the supposed stranger rehearsed and expounded to them the Scriptures concerning the Messiah, and especially the Scriptures which spoke of his dying and rising again on the third day, they still could not recognize the person of their Lord. But when it came to the meal; when they saw him blessing, and breaking, and giving the bread, their eyes were at