mention is made of any land birds or insects having been seen in February, as though the doldrums were too farfor the It will, also, be noticed that the prevailing wind on the eastern side of the square is northerly, instead of being northeasterly, or more from the land, as in the previous three monthStormy petrels seem to have been most abundant between the two TradeVariouThe only mention of red dust was betweenand, on the eastern side of the squarBest Route across the Equator.In square , in February, the winds to the westward of the Cape Verd Islands are decidedly stronger than those to the eastward, by about a mile an hour of Beaufort’s ship; and as the diagram shows them to be much stronger on the western than on the eastern side of square , there can be little doubt that both outward and homeward bounders should keep well to the westward, especially when we find that the homeward bounder would meet with a large percentage of northwesterly winds the most trying of winds on the eastern side of the square, whilst they do not exist on the western sid St. Roque are favourable for getting to the southward in February.March,Isobars and Wind ArrowIn March we find the lowest in the southwestern corner of the squar The owest monthly mean pressure for the whole square exists in March. The isobars of and have shifted to the northward since February, and that ofstill exists in the northwestern corner of the squar There has been a general decrease of pressure in the square, owing no doubt to the northern advance of the sun; the greatest decreasewas betweenand; betweenand it had increaseThe isobars are still closest in the northwestern corner of .the square, where the relative length of the wind arrows shows that the strongest wind prevails; the wind arrows also show that theTrade is still much more easterly in the western than in theeastern half of the squar Northwesterly winds are common on the eastern side of the squarTheTrade is more decided betweenand than in February: it has, however, slightly decreased in force generally. In February the northern part of the square was cooling whilst the southern was growing warm; now the whole is getting wanner, which may account.

commenced it.It appears from the foregoing remarks that unless the Government should call on them to extend the sphere of their operations, it will not be necessary for them to ask at present for an increase of their grant.Appendix XI. gives a list of the present staff in the employment of the Committee, and of their several occupations and remunerationSummary.The operations of the year may be conveniently summarized as follows:I. Ocean Meteorology.The number of ships supplied with instruments by the office has been nearly doubled, the numberof barometers afloat on the 1st of January 1871 being 124, a8 compared with 69 twelve months previously.In addition, all ships in commission in the Royal Navy have, as usual, received all their meteorological instruments from the officFortythree gentlemen have sent in registers which have received the mark of ” excellent.”As regards the progress of the work, all the old materials in the office have been thoroughly examine conditions of the equatorial portion of the Atlantic Ocean is in an advanced stagMonthly charts of data for the west and south coasts of South America have been lithographed, and will shortly be publisheThe discussion of the anemometrical observations made at Bermuda and Orkney has made satisfactory progresAn investigation into the weather over the North Atlantic during the first week of February 1870, has been taken up by Captain Toynbee, which it is hoped will lead to some interesting resultThe cost of this department has been 2,0072.165. 8II.       Telegraphy and Weather Warning.No change of importance has been made in the system during the year. At the end of April 1871, the stations where the drum signal is hoisted were 123 in number, viz., 74 in England and Wales, 32 in Scotland, 12 in Ireland, 3 in the Isle of Man, and 2 in Jersey. In addition, warnings are sent to France, Holland, Hamburg, and Norway.Copies of the lithographed Daily Weather Reports are sent out regularly to 10 newspapers, and to other applicants, including the authorities at seaports, 58 in number.Since the commencement of the year.

Thp tabernacle and ark were never fixed, but some? tunes in one place, and sometimes in another; but now God proceeded to choose Jerusalem. thoroughly conquered, or taken out of the hands of till David s time. It is said in Joshua xv.” As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem the children pf Judah could not drive them out: But the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.” But now David wholly subdued it, as we have an account inSam. vAnd now God proceeded to choose that city to place his nam theie, as appears by David s bringing up the ark thither sooi fter s apd therefore this is time God proceeded to choose a city to place ts name there i and chap. xii.Afterward God pro eeeded to show David the very place where he would hav# his temple Mill, vb. in the threshing floor oi Araunah th Jebusite.The city Jerusalem is therefore called the holy dty ; ami it was the greatest type of the church of Christ in aH the Old Tesarment. it was redeemed by Datid, the captaih of th hosts of Israel, out of the hands of the Jebusites, to be God’s city, the holy place of his rest for ever, where he would dwell ; as Christ, the captain of his peopled salvation, redeems Mi church out of the hands of devils, to be his holy and beloved city. And therefore how often does the scripture, wheit speaking of Christ’s redemption of his church, call it by th# names of Zion and Jerusalem ? This was the city that God ban} appointed to be the place of the first gathering and erecting of the Christian church after Christ resurrection, of that re markable pouring out ef the Spirit of God on the apostles and primitive Christians, and the place whence the gospel was te sound forth into aft the world ; the place of the first Christkf church, that was to be, as it were, the mother of all other churches through the world; agteeably to that prophecy, Isa a” Out of Ziofc shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem : And he shall jtodge among the nations, and shpll rebuke many people, &c.

Bessy could not forbear to smile, though the new idea, which he h&d suggested with regard to Edmund, filled her with alar She had been so selfishly absorbed in her own regrets and sorrows, she had scarcely noticed what was passing around her. She reproached herself for her want of sympathy; her forgetful. Bess of the happiness of other, she took a seat by Edmund, who sat as Estelle had described, apart and abstracted ; with a paler cheek and sadder brow than she had seen him wear since his retur “How forgetful, how neglectful have I been’ thought she, ” m this dear, irreproachable brother of mine! How completely sugallowed up in self! Shall I brood in sullen secrecy over the image of a stranger, oblivious of one whom I have always loved with such idolizi ing affections and he too may be unhappy !” I      These selfreproachful thoughts gave an inexpressiblesoilness to her countenance, and tenderness to her manner, as, seated closely at his side, she leaned her arm in his lap, and her radiant ringlets glittered on his breast. There was something so endearing in her attitude, so supplicating in her look, so beautiful and graceful in her whole appearance, that Edmund gazed upon her for a moment as upon a lovely picture; then putting his arm around her, he drew her closer to him, and the shadow passed away from his bro Estelle came running in, with her white apron full of flowers, and sitting down on the carpet the other side of him, began to arrange them into group ” Stop,” cried Laura, approaching the “Don’t move, any of you; you must be attitudinizing for a pictur I never saw any thing so pretty in my lif I wish Viv was her Don’t you, Bessy ?”" No: she don’t,” answered Estelle, covering Bess a short, quick sigh with the sound of her eager voic ” She wouldn’t beg him to stay when I asked her; and she didn’t even bid him goodby. I don’t like Mr. Vivian at all, for not staying and painting Aunt Patty and me, when he’d got the big canvas all ready. I neard Aunt Patty tell Bessy, the other day, if he did come back,And did Aunt Patty say that,” exclaimed Frank.Bless the dear old sool! I’ll go, this miouj#, and takpinch of snuff with her. and praise her bedrquity till my tpngue.

the Mountain,” sits so heavily and doggedly on their shoulderYes! in many things we are wiser. In arts and sciences; in inventions and machinery; in rendering all the conveniences and luxuries of N life more accessible to every classwhat progress has been made! Old as I am, I cannot, I will not denynay, with gratitude I acknowledgethat, with scarce an exception, things are better socially, morally, intellectually, religiouslybetter on the wholethan M in the merry days when we were young.” Would all this improvement have taken placewould the inventions, the discoveries, the giant strides in agriculture and manufactures have been made, except for the stimulus of adversity and distress? as with the individual. We have to agonize our way to peac But let us not because we perceive the manifest end of the chastening hand of God upon us, and humbly acknowledge its justice join thosewho persist in calling evil good, and good evil. It is necessary that evil come; but woe to them by whom it cometh! In His own good time, I will yet hope that the day may come when the commercial classes shall rise superior to that delusive jargon which, in spite of their convictions, seems ever getting the mastery of their natural judgment, or of their courage to avow their opinions, as to the real cause of that periodical incubus which weighs them and the working classes down to the earth; a day when class shall no more be arrayed against class, and which, among its other blessings, shall lighten the hours of toil to labour, and increase the workers share in his own earning”Emigrate ! Be off with you I There is little or nothing to be hoped for in England by such as youmen with horny hands and hungry stomachsEngland has too many of youget you gone! Your country is embarrassed with your presence, but is too bankrupt even to be able to ease herself by facilitating your departur” So says John Bright, the tribune of the people, the captain of the marching regiment of intellect, the great mouthpiece of vernacular eloquence, the chosen champion of.national progres He can only give you such counsel and comfort as anxious and excitable crowds usually receive.

The little band ofPilgrim Fathers,’ who, on the th oi oenteniDor. io»u. set sail m tne gooa snio “mavnower.” to seek a refuge and the right of worship wilderness of America, were the heroic heralds of a mighty movement, which, as by the wand of enchantment, has since changed that rugged wilderness into one of the greatest nations which the world has ever seen.Since this penod, England has been constantly throwing off her swarms, sending forth hive after hive of earnest, enugntenea unrisuan communities, uonunent ana lsiana. wilderness ana lungie. lorest ana uraine. out a iew vears since m© aesoiate naunts oi me savaff© ana oi nrownncr ana Greening miners. are now aiive wiin me dusv nam oi commerce, and echoing with the glad sound of the churchgoing bell.On that luxuriant plain, which but a few years since revealed no trace of human kind, save the wreathing smoke from the wild mans solitary wigwam, von see nocKS ana neras ana goiaen cfods surrounding the busy city, teeming withcivilised life. The clear waters of that noble river, for ages undisturbed by aught save me native’s irau canoe, or tne wuci neasts wmcn came at nightfall to lap their dnnk, are now ploughed by gaudysteamers, and thronged by fleets of tall merchantmen and ncn argosies irom tne most distant regionstne eaixn. And we are winning these new worlds of ours, planting our banners over these new and fruitful southern lands, not as in days of old, by the blighting march of armies, by fire, sword, anil desolation, out i»?

When she recovered, she reproached herself for her want of trust in God, commended her household to His protection, and tried to school herself to calmness. The storm passed, and soon the clock told the hour of midnight. Another hour passed, and yet another, and then her husband came. Poor Mary! her terror had given place to indignation, and who shall dare condemn her, if for once she uttered words of reproof. r; she only said,  ”George, do you think it is right to leave me alone all this time when I am so ill? I have been so frightened.”  ”You are a terrible love,” was his coarse reply; “I had better not have come at all, if there is no peace here.”  Mary had all her life-time been used to submission, and she could not contend; but there was a weight upon her heart, and a rankling thorn planted there, that for many a weary year was not extracted. The night seemed very long, but morning came at last; and before the sun had reached his meridian, George Lee had again left his home, and all the rest of that day, and through the long night that followed, Mary watched and waited for her husband, but watched and waited in vain. None but God knew the bitter concentrated anguish that was crowded into those two nights: but when about the middle of the afternoon succeeding, he returned, she suffered no reproach to escape her lips.  Weeks passed, and she never again alluded to the subject. He still continued the practice of being out late nights, but returning health gave her strength to endure.  In the meantime, some of the people were preparing to emigrate to the west, and one day George said to his wife,  Mary, Mr. A. and Mr. B. and several others are 16going West, and I think we had better go.  Mary replied quietly, but firmly, “you can go if you wish to do so, but / shall not.” “And why not?”  ”Well, I do not expect that my life will be very long, and I shall not leave every friend that cares for me here, to go away and die among strangers.”  ”Why Mary, don’t I care for you?”  ”You could leave me without aid or protection, to suffer alone when I was sick and helpless. Was that proof of your regard for me?”  George Lee said not another word. His conscience spoke and that sufficed. From that time the subject was never mentioned.  Mary toiled on for years, faithfully performing her duty to her husband, doing the work for a large family, having no help excepting when she was sick, and then for the shortest possible period.  She might have had aid and companionship at those times to which we have referred but she could not do it without exposing her husbands’ errors, and that, she never did, if she could avoid it.  Did he appreciate her generous performance? Aye, when the life that had been devoted to him was yielded up, when after her long day of unceasing labor, she laid her down to rest; to sleep a long night of dreamless sleep; then he knew her value.  Perhaps some one who reads this may say it is an extreme case; but I do not think it is, for I have known a great many worse husbands than George Lee. He could be kind to his wife and children when it cost nothing, and required no sacrifice of his own pleasure ; and in this respect he represents a large class. His incline tions, his convenience and comfort, must be consulted first, and afterward that of his wife. He liked a jovial evening with a few boon companions, a merry chat, a pithy story, a song and a social glass, and he could not or would not, sacrifice these pleasures, for the sake of the welfare and happiness of his wife.  ”But” says one, ” a husband has a right to consult his own inclinations; his wife and children are amenable to him, and not he to them.”  Well, I have heard men say such things; but I know of no law that gives a man a right to do wrong; *o violate a solemn contract, voluntarily entered into and equally binding upon both parties; and yet there are men who exact a rigid adherence to this mutual contract, from the othe party, but say by their acts, if in no other way, that they do not consider it binding upon themselves.

It may be asserted, and most generally this is used as the refuting argument, that if ladies desire to form an association for their individual pleasure, surely there can exist no objection to their doing so. That by imposing certain restrictions upon themselves of a physical nature, they mutually aid each other in the attainment of a better world; that such institutions take their origin in the remote ages of Catholicity, and were founded by men eminently good; and that as the life is injurious to no one, while it brings many holy women to our religion, the institution is deserving of reverence. Thus the clergy explain the necessity of the laity upholding religious houses ; and it is only when some flagrant instance of undue influence being exercised over those who are beguiled into their meshes, that the Catholics of this country are put to the blush to excuse the “over zeal” of their worthy pastors. day may be divided into two classes: those whose rules command utter exclusion from the world, and those who by professing to educate young Catholic ladies, are enabled to obtain an easy competency, and exert their influence towards firmly grounding the religion in the rising generation of English Catholic mothers. The number of convents in England is fifty-three, of which twentyseven are exclusive, but in this number are included the Sisters of Mercy and Charity, who are not confined within the enclosure. These orders are of a more public character. Sisters of Charity and Mercy have long since made their utility felt by those who stand in most need of assistance—the very poor; and as no seclusion is demanded of them, though nuns, 9they are wholly distinct from the inmates of a convent. Of the first class—those whose entire existence is passed in the endeavour to save their own souls, without regarding the spiritual or temporal wants of the rest of their fellow-mortals, are the drones in the busy hive of Catholic propagation; still they have their uses, which are turned to no inconsiderable advantage. The convents of this class are not numerous, and the reason lies in the severity of their regulations, which do not admit of their seeking adventitious means of ekeing out support. Consequently, the inmates are required to be ladies of independent fortune, and it becomes a matter of solicitude to secure such as can bring a a larger portion than the stipulated amount, in order to establish a capital for the institution independent of the life annuities of the community. From this circumstance such convents become the most select, and are sought by such of the wealthy and patrician daughters of our faith as seek total seclusion from the world, and are not desirous to add the laborious occupation of teaching to the other privations of a cloistral life. One or two wealthy heiresses assuming the veil in a religious house of this character, are sufficient to establish not only its resources, but its name; and there is a religious ambition for renown even among the convents.Mere utilitariansim is certainly not chargeable to institutions of this denomination; that is to say, they are wholly innocent of any ostensible good whatever to the world in which they were sent for the purpose of fulfilling the ordinances of their Creator.

I was greatly struck with the appearance of a cemetery on the western side of the city of Keahinertoo. not verv far from tne citv wans, its taree extent gave a good idea of the numerous and dense population of the town. It had evidently existed for many ages, for a great number of the tombstones were crumbling to pieces, and mingling with the ashes of the dead. But thisplace of skulls wasno barren waste, like those churchyards which we see in large towns at home. Here the dead were interred amidst groves of the weeping willow, mulberrytrees, and several species of juniper and pine. Wild roses and creepers of various kinds were scrambling over the tombs, and the whole place presented a hallowed and pleasing aspect.Leaving the old town behind us. and sailing westward, we entered a broad sheet of water of considerable size, which is probably part ofj or at least joins, the celebrated Taiho lake., and a great part of it is covered with the Trapamcotmm…….a Diane cauea una ov tne v>mnese. itproduces a fruit of a very peculiar shape, resembling the head and horns of a bullock, and is highly esteemed in all parts of the empire. I have seen three distinct species or varieties, one of which has traita Deauniui reel colour.w omen ana oovs were sailing mom on an Darts of me ia&e. in mmtne same size ana iorm as our common washmgtubs. gathering the fruit of the ling. I don’t know of any contrivance which would have answered their purpose better than these rude tubs, for they held the fruit as it was gatheredas well as the gatherer, and at the same time were easily propelled through the masses of ling without doing the mants anv iniurv. jl ne sienta numoerDeople swimming about on the lake, each in ms tod, nad sometnin&r verv maicrous aoout it.After we had passed the lake, the banks of the canal, and indeed the greater part of the country,were covered with mulberry trees. Silk is evidently the staple production in this part of China. During the space of two daysand m that time I must have travelled upwards of a hundred milesI saw little cjlse than mulberry trees. They were evidently carefully cultivated, and in the highest state of health, producing fine, large, and glossy leaves.

while she minds me no more than if I was a wellorganized piece of mechanism, by whose motions her pencil was to be guided.What if, with all her genius, this creature had no heart I And what were it to me, though she had ? government to be purely patriarchal, and that he is at once the ” Law and the Prophet” to his family; never suspecting that he is all the time governed by a girl of eighteen, whose nature, notwithstanding the playful softness of her maimer, contains a latent ambition, which, sometimes breathing in the elevation of her sentiments, and sometimes flashing in the haughti ness of her eye, seems to say, was born to ruleTIt is evident that her mind is naturally stronger than her father’s, though, to a common observer, he would appear a man of masculine understanding; but the difference between them is thisbis energies are the energies of the passionshers of the intellect!

Like most other Princes, mine is governed much by favouritism; and it is evident I already rank high on the list of partialities.I perceive, however, that much of his predilection in my favour arises from the coincidence of my present curiosity and taste with his favourite pursuits and national prejudices. Newly awakened perhaps by mere force of novelty to a lively interest for every thing that concerns a country I once thought so little worthy of consideration; in short, convinced by the analogy of existing habits with recorded customs of the truth of those circumstances so generally ranked in the apocryphal tales of the history of this vilified country, I have determined to resort to the evidence of time, to the light of truth, and the corroboration of living testimony, in the study of a country which I am beginning to think would afford to philosophy a rich subject of analysis, and to poetry a splendid series of romantic detail.M Sir William Temple’ says Dr. Johnson ” complains that Ireland is less known than any other country, as to its ancient state, becausthe natives have little leisure, and less encouragement, for inquiry ; and that a stranger not knowing its language, has no ability.”     Well, this impediment, however, shpll not stand in the way of one stranger, who is willing to offer up his national prejudices at the Altar of Truth, and expiate the crime of an unfounded but habitual antipathy, by an impartial examination and an unbiassed inquiry. In short, I have actually begun to study the Irish language;