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LETTER-CARRIER.-BIOGRAPHY.

It may not be! he hath bound her fast,
And he bids her perish there,
As he glanceth fiercely on her brow
In its still and calm despair:

He had vow'd in love's sweet morning hour
To cherish fondly e'er ;

But he trampleth now on the broken flower,
And curseth her soft low prayer.

She had listed but to the glorious theme
Of a Saviour strong to save:
For this, for this, she is doom'd to pass
To an early, fearful grave!
Yet not to her, for a holy light

On her stricken heart is gleaming,

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LETTER-CARRIER.

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I'LL beg the favour of you to send or deliver the enclosed letters according to the directions of them. One is for Harry, our pious friend; another to one of our sisters, to his care; and the other for Samuel, whose wife lives at Mr. Oakmar's.

I take this opportunity of returning you particularly (as well as my other friends in Eustatius) many thanks for your kindnesses to me. The work of God in your island will lie near my heart as long as I live; nor shall anything be wanting on my part, as far as my power and influence reach, to promote it. And I trust it will prosper in your heart, and in the hearts of all your family. That is the grand point, my sister, which you are to mind above all things; the life of God in your soul. After a few years are past, all things here below will be of no worth to all eternity. Take care then to secure the main point, even your eternal interest. For this

purpose, be much in prayer, that the Lord may manifest himself to you as he does not to the world; that he may shed abroad his love in your heart by the Holy Ghost given to you, and give you the knowledge of salvation by the remission of your sins; that Christ may be in you the hope of glory.

I need not, I am sure, recommend it to you to be kind to Mr. Hammet, or any of our Ministers who may, from time to time, visit Eustatius; nor, I hope, need I recommend it to you to follow their godly advice in matters relating to your soul. Give my affectionate love to my kind friend, your son. Tell him that I thank him for all the trouble he gave himself concerning me; and tell him that I trust he will not forget the important advice I gave him in my bedchamber. Give my Christian love to Betsy, and to all the family. Let me have a line from you without delay. Direct to the Rev. Dr. Coke, at the New Chapel, London; and let Mr. Hammet have the letter, and he'l convey it to me. Leave nothing undone on your part to bring the Gospel into Eustatius. God bless you and yours.

I am your very affectionate and much obliged Brother,

(Signed) THOMAS COKE.

BIOGRAPHY.

MEMOIR OF FANNY TARGELL. FANNY TARGELL died Feb. 9th, 1845. She was brought to see herself a sinner under the faithful ministry of the late Rev. Joseph Taylor, and sought the Lord with all her heart, and found him, whom from that time she never ceased to love and serve. Having

joined the society, she continued a steady member to the close of life. Ever anxious to spread the Saviour's praise, she opened her house, then situated in Holloway, for a class-meeting, and also for preaching; and many of the poor in the neighbourhood first heard the words of eternal life in this humble

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sanctuary; and when the room became too small to receive the congregation, a larger room was taken in the Wells-road, and from thence, the preaching, and also a good Sunday-school, which had been raised, were removed to Widcomb. Of Fanny Targell it may be said, she walked humbly with God. For many years she was greatly afflicted; but her grateful heart could sing only of the goodness and mercy of God in supporting and comforting her, especially in raising up friends to help and visit her. Through the grace of God, she was enabled to look forward to a blessed immortality; and trusting alone for salvation to the merits of Christ her Saviour, she departed in great J. C. peace, aged sixty-four.

MEMOIR OF WILLIAM
FAULKNER.

WILLIAM FAULKNER was born at Cadishead, November 6th, 1825. Nothing particular marked his life till his eleventh year, when, during a revival of religion, he was made experimentally acquainted with the truth as it is in Jesus. No sooner had he joined the church of God, than he began to evidence the sincerity of his profession, by a consistent life and conduct. He was not only a Christian in the house of God, and in the ordinances of religion, but also at home. We want more family piety, more of the life and power of godliness in our social circles.

He carried his religion with him into the world; and his whole deportment witnessed that he had set God before him, and that while he passed through things temporal, he had also an eye to those that are eternal. His friends indulged the hope that he was preparing for usefulness in the church of God; but "His ways are not our ways;" and after trying him in the furnace of aflliction, he called him to his eternal rest, March 2d, 1845, aged nineteen years.

CHARLES FAULKNER.

MEMOIR OF MISS HANNAH PUGH.

MISS HANNAH PUGH (grandaughter of the late Joseph Janion, of Chester,) was born at Winsford, in the county of Chester, March 22d, 1807. Having lost her mother (who made a triumphant end) before she was twelve months old, she was taken in charge by her excellent grandmother, Mrs. Pugh, of the New Pale; under whose kind and fostering care, she was brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." When about nine years of age, she was the subject of gracious impressions, and for some time met in class; but whether from the volatility of her growing youth, mingling with gay companions, or from the loss of her pious relative, it is too true that her goodness at

that time was like the morning cloud and early dew, that passeth away. On the decease of her grandmother many weighty domestic cares devolved upon her, which probably had a tendency to produce worldlymindedness, and consequently indifference to the great duties and privileges of true religion. She was naturally of a quiet and reserved disposition; and this might hinder her union with the people of God. Still she was preserved, by the restraining grace of God, from running into the sinful practices and vanities of the world. She was always plain and neat in her dress. Her chief ornaments were good works, and a meek and quiet spirit. For even in her natural state, she was noted for kindness and attention to the sick and the poor; following in this respect the steps of her zealous and faithful grandmother.

When about sixteen years of age it pleased God to awaken her to a deep sense of her guilt and danger; and while in this state of mind, a pious young friend in the neighbourhood invited her to the class at Ashton. She for some time experienced that "godly sorrow" which "worketh repentance unto salva

tion."

At length she found the pearl of great price; and through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, she was enabled to rejoice in a sense of sins forgiven. From that time she became a humble and diligent follower of her Lord and Master. She possessed naturally a tender and sympathizing spirit, so that although she was modest and timid, yet the love of Christ constrained her to visit the cottages of the poor and the afflicted, in the surrounding country, that she might administer to their necessities, and direct them to the Saviour. She took a lively interest in the Missionary cause; and became a joint Collector with a pious young friend, who might be seen with her at most of the Missionary Meetings, held in the village chapels, for miles around. It was her uniform practice to retire three times a day for reading, meditation, and prayer; and thus, like a wise virgin, waiting for the coming of her Lord, she daily trimmed her lamp, and kept her light burning bright. The day before she was taken ill with the small-pox, she attended her class in Chester, (her grandfather having removed to Mollington, near that city,) and expressed herself as 'being very happy in the favour of God, and as having a strong desire to be found fully prepared for another world, because eternity seemed very near." Her tears and deep feelings prevented her saying much more. She was

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generally more ready to deeds than words. During her heavy and short affliction, she often expressed to her nurse a desire "to depart and be with Christ." It was a great trial to be denied the visits and kind attentions of her beloved relatives and friends; but she bore her illness with great patience and resignation to the will of God. On one

ORIENTAL SCENES,

occasion, looking at, and lifting up, her feeble and disfigured hands and arms, she said, "Soon these hands shall wave a palm of victory; and soon this weary head shall wear a crown of glory." On the 20th of June, 1845, she fell asleep in Jesus, without a struggle or a groan. C. JANION.

MEMOIR OF MARY POOLE.

MARY POOLE, the subject of this short memoir,was born December 26th, 1801, in the Staffordshire Potteries. Her parents were members of the Wesleyan society in that place, and they endeavoured to bring up their children in the fear of God; so that it may be said of her, as St. Paul said of Timothy, "From a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation." At an early period of her life, she gave her heart to God, and could say, "One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life;" and there can be no doubt she is now enjoying her heart's desire, in that bright world above, "where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." When she was about fifteen years of age, she began to teach in the Sunday-school, under Mr. England's superintendence, by whom she was much respected. When that great and glorious plan was found out for obtaining supplies for carrying the glorious Gospel to the Heathen, by going from door to door to solicit weekly subscriptions, she was one of the first to offer herself as a Collector, and in many instances obtained subscriptions where others had been refused. There was an amiability of temper, associated with powerful arguments for the poor Heathen, that could take no denial. She continued in those different offices as long as it was prudent for her

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health and family. The last year she acted as a Collector, she obtained £19 for the Wesleyan Missionary Society. For twentyeight years she was a member of the society in the Dudley Circuit, and knew, by happy experience, that Christ was precious. She said but little about herself, but frequently complained that others thought too highly of her religious attainments. Of late, however, there had been a growing meetness for the heavenly inheritance. Being timid, she was fearful of saying much. As it respects her class and Leader, she was much attached to them; and many times, when it was not quite prudent to go out, she would say, “If it were not for the thought of discouraging my Leader, I should not go." As a wife, she was one of the best, kind and affectionate; as a mother, she was desirous that all her children should give their heart to God, and themselves to his church, as Wesleyans; knowing, from happy experience, they could not do better elsewhere. She had been looking with great concern to the time when the day would arrive that she should have to leave those whom she loved better than life she never appeared desirous of living, but to see her family brought up, and truly converted to the Lord God, giving up body and soul to him. She frequently spoke of the approaching termination of her earthly career, feeling so different in herself from what she had ever felt before. On the Monday before her death, she was as well as usual, but about two o'clock on Tuesday morning she became worse. Her medical attendant was called, by whom she was soon relieved; but after two or three hours he began to think her case dangerous. She gradually declined, until her happy spirit took its flight to Him who gave it, June 16th, 1846, aged forty-four.

EDWARD POOLE.

ORIENTAL SCENES.

TRAVELLING IN INDIA.

THE PALANQUIN.-CAR.

THE late lamented Bishop Heber, when describing one of his journeys, says, "All our sails were set, and the masts bending before the wind, the men went ahead, up to their breasts in water, to help by towing, yet all scarcely helped us on two hundred yards. This sort of work continued for nearly three hours, when the wind began to slacken, and we were forced to try another channel, and got on in the first instance without difficulty, passing between rice-fields, and close to a moderate-sized Hindoo village, where I saw

some of the finest draught-oxen which I have seen in this country, and by their bulk and sleekness doing honour to their possessor's humanity and good sense, as well as showing how good and serviceable a breed may be raised in this country with a little cost and care." (Heber's Indian Journal, chap. ix.) Farmers whose means did not allow them to travel in the more stately and expensive palanquin, were accustomed to yoke oxen to a car, as represented in the wood-cut connected with this article. Many attempts have been made to facilitate intercourse in India: the usual modes of travelling, as yet, are neither cheap nor rapid. Favourable changes

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are now in prospect, and some slight improvement has already taken place. By the most distinct route, the distance from Calcutta to Benares is about four hundred and twenty-six miles. A good road has been made by the Government, on which no tolls are paid. There are, however, no coaches, or public conveyances of any kind, and no inns, as in Europe, for the entertainment of travellers. Small mail-carts have now been introduced; but till lately the mails were carried by men, who ran at the rate of from five to six miles an hour, with the letter-bags on their shoulders, each man running a stage of about seven or eight miles. The mails now used on this and a few other roads, take no passengers, but go at rather a rapid pace, carrying merely the letters and papers for the different stations, or towns, on the line of road. As yet, the quickest conveyance for passengers is the palanquin dkah, a mode of travelling post by a palanquin. The traveller provides his own vehicle, and obtains relays of bearers, at each stage of his journey, from the post-office. He has to pay before-hand, from the place at which he sets out, and has also to lodge a certain amount above the fee, to meet any extra charge should he detain the bearers by the way, but to be returned to him, on producing a certificate from the post-master of the place where his journey terminates, in proof of his having arrived there in the specified time allowed for the distance. An order is sent on by the daily post before him, or by express, to each post-master, directing him to have the requisite number of bearers in waiting by a given time, at each stage in his district. The traveller may stop anywhere, as long as

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he pleases by the way, only he must give information of such purpose before hand, that the time of his departure from each place may be duly arranged, and provided for. Should he be too late in reaching his destination, the sum lodged as demurrage" will be forfeited, to remunerate the bearers for the time lost in waiting for him, unless he can show that his detention was occasioned by any want of proper arrangement on the part of some of the post-masters, or by any misconduct in the bearers. Four of these bearers are required to carry a palanquin; but on a journey, at least eight are necessary, besides one, or more, to carry luggage. At night, one of them bears a torch, for which the traveller has to pay something extra, besides the discomfort of being almost smothered for the whole night by its oily smoke, which, as the torch-bearer persists in running on the windward side, is blown into the palanquin full in the face. If his party consist of eight, four carry, and four run on unencumbered, alternately. On one party being tired, they shift the palanquin to the shoulders of the other, without setting it down; and in this way, if the relays are all right at their respective stages, one is often carried thirty or forty miles without being once set down, unless he himself desires to get out for a little, to stretch his limbs, or the bearers should request leave to stop a few minutes, to obtain a drink, on passing a well. Each set expects to receive a bakhshish, or gratuity, at the end of their stage, the amount of which is the only standard by which they judge of the rank or wealth of the traveller. As the one party always tell the next what they have received, or hold it up for ocular demon

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stration, the liberal traveller is regarded as a bara sahib, or "great gentleman," and is consequently carried along with the greatest cheerfulness, and the utmost respect, every possible effort being made to please him, and to accelerate his journey; while the "scurvy fellow" is supposed to be some chhota sahib, "little gentleman," and is treated with bare civility. The bearers, of course, get

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their regular hire from the post-office, from which they are employed by the job; but the bakhshish, though an extra, "not in the bond," is such a regular dastur, or custom, that no man of sense would neglect it, though he may give it grudgingly, and screw down its amount as low as possible.-Buyer's Recollections of Northern India.

A POPISH PRIEST.

ANECDOTES.

In the year 1823 an execution took place in the county of Galway, Ireland, the condemned, as usual, avowing their innocence of the crime committed. A Magistrate, who had witnessed it, was expressing, at a dinner-party, his horror at hearing the murderers persist to the last in so notorious a falsehood. The Roman Catholic Priest who had attended them, being one of the company, immediately justified their assertion, declaring that his absolution, that morning given in the prison, had restored them to a state of perfect innocence, and therefore they had spoken truth. On hearing this, the master of the house rose from the table, declaring that either the Priest or himself must quit the room; for he could not sit in company with a man who had sent two fellow-creatures to the bar of God with a lie in their mouths, sanctioned by him. The Priest departed in confusion.-From Charlotte Elizabeth's Tale of "The Rockite."

ARCHBISHOP MAGEE.

Ix 1825, an examination of Archbishop

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Magee, and of others, on the subject of the tenets of the Roman Catholic religion, took place before a Parliamentary Committee. Particular interest was naturally felt respecting his Grace and answers. Two or three Peers, who were strongly opposed to him in politics, cross-examined him sharply; but no man was more perfectly qualified to come off successfully on such an occasion. With one short reply he silenced the most talented of those Peers, Lord Holland. Lordship asked the Archbishop, "Does your Grace really think that there is any person capable of holding such a monstrous opinion, as that the Roman Catholic religion is idolatrous ?" The Archbishop calmly fixed his eyes on Lord Holland's countenance, and replied, "My Lord, some have sworn to it." The force of the application was so striking, that a very strong impression was immediately produced on all present; and Lord Holland resumed his seat, and continued silent during the remainder of the Archbishop's examination.—Life of Archbishop Magee, prefixed to his Works.

MISCELLANY OF EXTRACTS AND CORRESPONDENCE.

CONVERTED HOTTENTOTS. THE following extract from Mr. Shaw's Journal will show that the people under his care have neither been ill instructed, nor are incapable, as has been affirmed, of receiving instruction. The aptness of the replies of the converted Hottentots to the Dutch farmer indicates that the estimate of Hottentot intellect has been often taken very much too low.

In the month of May last, I rode to a farm about twelve miles distant, in order to preach to the bastard Hottentots who inhabit the house. It happened that many of our people followed on foot, and others on horses, so that the house was nearly filled. My poor wife being ill at the time, I, after service, hastened home in the midst of the rain that was falling,

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and our people were left behind. Namaquas, wishing to employ their time to the profit of themselves and those present, held service after dinner; and while thus engaged in worship, a farmer, who had come from some distance, opened the door and looked in. His astonishment being in some measure abated, he retired to the kitchen till the service was ended; and having a desire to converse with the Hottentots, and ridicule their worship, he began as follows:

Farmer. What sort of singing and praying is this that you have had? I have never heard anything like it, nor can I understand anything you have said.

Jacob. I think, Master, you only came to mock us; nevertheless, let me ask, does Master understand this chapter, (John iii.,)

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