ystem become co-extensive with that division of the county. There the testimony of the Venerable Bishop of Bath and Wells, as quoted by the Rev. T. Spencer, that it is "an unmixed good," has received ample confirmation.

"The gentleman just referred to states, respecting his own parish of Hinton Charterhouse, after relating the observations he had made on the Bishop's allotments at Wells,-"I lost no time in endeavouring to introduce the system into my own parish. I had no land there myself, but I prevailed upon the owners of Hinton Abbey to allot first ten acres; these were readily taken, and more was eagerly sought for. Fifteen were next allotted, which were soon increased to twenty, and there are now nearly thirty acres divided among sixty tenants. To this day neither party has repented, and not a penny of rent is due. The system is one which will bear examination, and it will gain favour by examination. The labourer, who has strength, sinews, and industry, must thrive under it."

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At Exeter, a Labourers' Friend Society, of which Lord Rolle is patron, and the Earl of Devon president, has been recently established, for the threefold purpose of granting allotments of land, forming a loan fund, and a benefit society for the usual purposes, which are enrolled agreeably to the acts of parliament. There can be no doubt that in Exeter, as in other places where a similar plan has been acted upon, these several objects will not only harmonize, but materially subserve each other in promoting the welfare of the labouring classes.

"At Hull, also, a Labourers' Friend Society has been established, in which there are already 200 tenants, with a prospect of further extension, not only in that town, but through other parts of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

"The agent at present employed by the Society, in West Kent, was engaged, at the close of the last year, in superintending, in five parishes, the appropriation of 112 acres of land,-namely between the 1st of October

and the 31st of December, and since that period sixtytwo acres have been engaged in seven other parishes.'

"Your Committee would conclude this report in the figurative language of one of its most zealous and faithful friends: When a man plants a valuable tree, he uses care; he prepares the soil; he spreads the roots, and supports it with props; he then watches it from season to season, until it is sufficiently matured to withstand, in its own strength, the blights and blasts around it, and he welcomes with calm exultation its healthy blossoms and its ripened fruits. The field-garden plan has passed through all the vicissitudes of this little tree. It was planted with caution; its supports were adequately arranged; its roots have spread firmly in the soil; its branches have put forth with vigour; it has borne unscathed each adverse element; its blossoms have perfected, and it yields its fruits so abundantly that now we may calmly leave the issue to Him who causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of

man.

The finances of the Society were reported to be in a satisfactory state, and among the Resolutions adopted was the following one:

"That it is very desirable to show to the public the benefit, by contrast, of the Society's principles, on the state of crime existing among the labouring classes before its establishment and since, which has been satisfactorily shown by Mr. Martin: it is therefore resolved that the committee be requested to do this, in a note to the annual report.*"

The statement made by Mr. Martin, which occasioned the passing of the above Resolution at the Annual Meeting, referred to some information given to him by one of the old officers of a populous parish in Kent, in which a Labourers' Friend Society was established in the year 1834. The statement was given on the authority of the said officer's books, that in one year just previous to the formation of the society, there had been thirty-four persons committed to prison from that parish; and that in the last year, 1839, after the society had been in operation very little more than four years, only three commitments had taken place."

INSURANCE OF COWS.

THE insurance of the lives of men and women has been for some time becoming more and more prevalent, but a society for insuring the lives of cows is a decided novelty in this country. Such institutions have been found productive of great good in Scotland, and we are glad to observe that it was resolved lately, at Alnwick, to establish a Mutual Insurance Society to insure the cows of hinds, &c., in Northumberland. A small sum like 2s. 6d., as a subscription from each member half-yearly, is deemed sufficient to cover the risks, with the contributions made gratuituously to the society, by the neighbouring landowners and gentry.-Tyne Mercury.

JEFFERSON'S TEN RULES

FOR OBSERVANCE IN ORDINARY LIFE.-1st. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to day.

2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it.

4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, or cold. 6: We seldom repent of having eaten too little.

7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

8. How much pains the evils have cost us which never happened.

9. Take things always by the smooth handle.

10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

KNITTING.

KNIT stockings and socks are much stronger than what are generally bought. If the knitting-bag be kept about, many spare minutes will be found in which the. work may be forwarded. Knitting can be taken up at any time, and laid down as readily. The dark hour in winter, and that of dusk in summer, may be well employed in knitting.

It is stated, that in the Electorate of Hesse, and farther north, the men knit by the cottage fire during the long winter evenings, while the women spin. Is this not much better than spending the dusk hours in the beer-house? And why should not a man make stockings as well as shoes?-Saturday Magazine.

LEECHES.

LEECHES thrive in water at the bottom of which is a layer of charcoal, the water being changed and the vessel well cleaned every ten or fifteen days. After they have been used, they may be thrown into a plate covered with wood ashes; when they have disgorged all the blood they had sucked, and been well washed with fresh water, they may be put back into the vessel so as to serve several times. This should only be covered with a piece of linen.-Magazine of Domestic Economy. SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL.

God hath written a law and a gospel-the law to humble us, and the gospel to comfort us; the law to cast us down, and the gospel to raise us up; the law to convince us of misery, and the gospel to convince us of his mercy; the law to discover sin, and the gospel to discover grace, and Christ; through the instrumentality of the law as the rule of his justice, we behold God governing his creatures from the beginning of the world to the end of time; while, in beautiful harmony, the gospel will at the last day appear as the glorious instrument of salvation.

CHEAP LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR.

To the highest and most salient point of the building, such as the angle of a chimney, a pole should be attached surmounted by an iron point, about two feet long, and having a hook at the lower end, from which a rope should be suspended, made of rye, or other strong straw,

three or four inches in circumference, passing along the roof and down the side of the building to the ground, 'which it must be made to enter by means of an iron chain, fastened to the lower end. The electric fluid will be attracted by, and it is said, will pass down, this conductor as well as down a metallic one.-The Nouvelliste. LOVE TO GOD.

Do persons who profess to love God as their Creator, and He who can ever make them happy, love his company? do they seek retirement? We all know that friendship deals much in secrecy, kindred souls having a multitude of things to hear and to utter that are not for common ear. This is a kind of life which the Christian has, and which the worldly man, whether rich or poor, has no notion of. It is that which leaves no sting behind. Surely every one who thinks of having God and heaven as his portion ought, in justice to his own soul, to inquire how he likes contemplating them now.

MANURE.

HINTS ON MANURE.-Remove litter of every kind; dig vacant spaces, and lay up in ridges those plots where the soil is of a clayey or binding nature. It would be well to save the shoots of raspberries, old strawberry plants, clippings of hedges, and such litter, with cabbagestumps, potato-haulm, bean-stalks, and other unmanageable refuse, which will not rot freely in the dungheap; when dry, to burn them, and preserve the ashes, under cover, to be mixed with finely-sifted coal-ashes, as lightening dress for binding soil. A fair proportion of such materials, scattered over and between ridges, in early spring, before digging and levelling, would very much improve both the soil itself and its texture.

SEASONS OF MANURING.-Manures spread upon a garden in autumn or winter, are in part either washed y rains too deep into the soil for the roots to reach them,