now put in more than fifty pounds the first year, or more than thirty during the whole of any other year; and that every person who brings money to put into any Savings' Bank, shall sign a declaration, stating that he has not money in any other Savings' Bank. These are the principal provisions of the new act, and it is easy to see that they do not affect the poor at all. The proper subjects for Savings' Banks are to go on just as they did before.

V.

METHOD TO BE ADOPTED WHEN OXALIC ACID HAS BEEN SWALLOWED BY MISTAKE.

It is distressing to find that dreadful accidents still occur by mistaking Oxalic Acid for Epsom Salts. A young man has lately lost his life by the mistake. It surprises some people that this should be so when such various methods have been proposed for preventing so fatal a mistake. The persons, however, who suffer from this mistake are generally those who know nothing of the danger, and who, therefore, take no pains to avoid it; otherwise, it is the easiest thing in the world to discover the difference, by merely tasting a very small portion on the tip of the finger the Oxalic Acid, as we have on a former occasion observed, being a strong, hot, and powerful acid; the Epsom Salts being comparatively quite mild, having only a sort of bitter saltness.

...A medical correspondent tell us, that the very best possible method to be adopted when this dreadful mistake has been made, is for the person who has swallowed the poison immediately to drink a large quantity of water; and his opinion is, that this will so dilute the acid, and weaken its burning power, that he believes it would generally succeed. When a quart of water has been thus swallowed,

and the acid diluted; he recommends a feather to be put into the throat to produce sickness, and thus get away the dangerous ingredients from the stomach. This is recommended as being a remedy always at hand, and which can be applied without loss of time, before medical assistance can be procured.

RECEIPT FOR PREVENTING CHILBLAINS.

A CORRESPONDENT informs us, that rubbing the part with dry salt, finely powdered, as soon as any chill appears, will effectually prevent chilblains. Even after they have become swelled and painful, if not broken, the same remedy will relieve them.

SELECTIONS FROM DIFFERENT AUTHORS. THE returns of prayer, and the blessings of piety, though not perhaps given at the time we expect them, yet, at the last, will come and crown all our wishes with a sight of the Redeemer, and a participation in his joy. Bishop Horne.

They who govern families should be conscientious in frequenting God's public worship themselves; they should season the tender years of their children with early notions of good and evil, and bring them to a right knowledge of religion by such methods, and in such degrees, as their tender minds will bear. They should seek to beget in them an earnest reverence for the glorious truths of Christianity, and a becoming value for the inestimable blessings of our redemption. They should, from the first, make their children their companions in the service of God, and imprint upon their minds such strong and lasting characters of His Majesty and goodness-such an habitual awe and love of Him and His commands, as may lay the foundation of a wise and holy life. Dean Stanhope.

If we compare life to a year, youth is its springtime, upon which the prosperity of all the other seasons depends. It is then, the seeds must be sown, and the plants cherished, whose fruits may delight us in summer, enrich us in autumn, and sustain and cheer us when winter shall have arrived.

Bishop Dekon. Foremost among the qualities which mark the unwise youth, is a disregard of the principles and offices of religion. It is religion which must elevate, purify, and adorn the human character. Sent from the courts of heaven by the everlasting Father, as the minister of His best blessings to mankind, she opens to the mind the sublimest truths; she brings for the heart the most precious comforts; she pours upon our paths the brightest light; she conducts our steps to the highest bliss. The Same.

The meanest and most inconsiderable of creatures is under the Divine protection *; let us then observe that every act of cruelty towards any of them, and more especially towards such animals as are serviceable to man, must be highly displeasing to the Almighty, who formed both us and them from the dust of the earth. Bishop Mann.

When one of the disciples of Christ said unto him, "Lord, are there few that shall be saved?"-our blessed Lord, instead of answering the question, says, "Strive to enter in at the strait gate;" teaching them to be watchful, rather than to be curious. Our Lord cautions us against unnecessary curiosity about the salvation of others; but teaches us to be careful in working out our own "with fear and trembling," that is, with diligence and humility, not trusting to our own merits but to God's mercy.

The Same.

A pleasing contentment there is in a holy obedience to the commands of God. Bishop Hall. God gives us comforts suitable to our afflictions,

* See Luke xii. 6.

to preserve us from drooping, and to sustain our souls in the midst of our greatest sufferings. The least afflictions would overwhelm our spirits if He should withhold His comforts from us, but if he should afford them to us, we are able to bear up against the greatest. Bishop Saunderson.

EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS, &c.

A HARE that was chased at Woodstock, in the year 1818, escaped by the following artful contrivance :-It crossed a stream by a little wooden bridge, formed of a single plank, over which it was followed by the hounds. It then ran about a quarter of a mile, returned by a circuitous route, and recrossed the same bridge. This it repeated several times, till the scent became so intricate, that the hounds were completely baffled, and the hare escaped.

To Destroy Bugs.—Mr. Sealy, of New York, has announced that steam is an effectual means of destroying this noxious insect. It is only requisite to expose the place where they herd for a short time to the action of steam, and the more the water boils the better: it kills the eggs as well as the vermin, -If this is true, it is a very valuable discovery.

German Mode of Curing Hams.-In Westphalia, hams are cured between November and March. The Germans pile them up in deep tubs, covering them with layers of salt, saltpetre, and a small quantity of bay leaves. In this situation they let them remain about four or five days, when they make a strong pickle of salt and water, with which they cover them completely; and at the expiration of three weeks, they take them out of pickle, soak them twelve hours in clean wellwater, and hang them up for three weeks longer in a smoke made from the juniper berries, which, in that country, are abundantly met with.-Economist.

Johnson, the informer, has been making a profitable tour along the Southampton road, by informing against many of the stage coachmen for taking more passengers than the law allows. We hope that this will have some effect in checking a practice by which many serious accidents arise.

Coroner's Inquest.-Alderman Montgomery lately held an inquest on the remains of Mary Kelly, a young female servant, who was burnt to death. It appeared that the deceased had lived in the family of Mr. Higgs, and that the house took fire about a quarter past twelve at night. This poor girl was

in bed with two young children. The fire broke out in the under story, and soon reached the first floor. The whole was quickly in a blaze, and there was no possibility of escaping through any of the doors. This girl, with great presence of mind, and great humanity, caught the children in her arms, and ran with them to the window, and threw them to persons in the crowd below. They thus escaped without the smallest injury. She also assisted other persons in escaping, and then thought of her own safety. She paused a few moments for the sake of looking for some clothing to wrap herself in, when, dreadful to relate, the floor on which she was standing suddenly fell in, and she sunk into the burning mass below. The Jury returned a verdict of" Accidental Death."-This calamity is understood to have been occasioned by some clothes being put to air, on a wooden horse, in the kitchen, too near the fire. They caught the blaze, and communicated it to the floor above, where it spread rapidly. The house was burned to the ground, and the adjoining ones very much injured, and a great deal of valuable property destroyed; and, what is worst of all, the life of this truly humane and excollent girl lost, by leaving a horse full of clothes too near the fire.-Dublin Paper.

Some time ago a coal pit, near Wednesbury, in Staffordshire, was accidently set on fire at the end furthest from the mouth. To cut off the supply of air, a wall was built quite across the pit, and it is supposed that the fire was quickly extinguished; but the wall was not taken down for some months, during which period, the works were carried on as usual, in another part of the same pit. In a hole, hewn in the rock, the miners were accustomed to keep their candles. From this place many were missed at different times, and it was supposed that some of the men had stolen them; but, when this wall was taken down, it appeared that after the fire was extinguished, the rats (with which the Staffordshire collieries abound) had made an opening, and had used the enclosed space as a store-room: for in it were found from five to six dozen of candles, and a quantity of fragments, altogether amounting to as much as filled a large coal basket.

A farmer, in Cumberland, was every night annoyed by the depredations which a fox committed in his poultry-yard. The yard was surrounded by a wall, in the door of which there was a hole, to afford ingress. to the poultry, and at which the fox also, as it was conjectured, entered. Over this he contrived a valve, which would drop as soon as the animal should enter, and cut off his retreat. Reynard was caught: the farmer hastened to destroy him; but, having no instrument of death at hand, he stooped beneath the wall to pick up some stones to throw at him, when the fox, taking advantage