ON BEES.

To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor. SIR,

I BEG leave to thank you for publishing a pious, useful, and much wanted work for the poor.

In your Number for November, 1826, you have given an article from the "New Times" on the very erroneous mode of smothering bees, shewing how it may be avoided. The "driving" may be done as your article directs, but the mode of feeding should be fully described, and the articles specified.

Sugar is frequently used, but it is now believed to be very injurious to those useful labourers.

Huish's Treatise on Bees is considered the best. He shews the errors of the general system, how much the Cottager may gain by bees, and how surprizing it is that being so profitable as they are, they are not universally kept *. am, Sir.

Your humble servant,

APIARIAN.

SELECTIONS FROM BISHOP HALL.

To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor.

SIR,

THE enclosed little extracts struck me as suitable to the "Cottager's Visitor." They are all from the edition of Bishop Hall's Meditations, published by the "Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge." I am, Your's &c.

Jan. 23.

T. E. M.

A very useful little Treatise on Bees is sold by Milton, No. 10, Great St. Mary-la-bonne Street, but not equal to Huish, price 2s.

How wisely God weighs out to us our favour, and crosses in an equal balance; so tempering our sorrows that they may not oppress, and our joys that they may not transport us: each one hath some matter of envy to others, and of grief to himself.— Bishop Hall, Vol. I. 77.

In vain doth he fly whom God pursues. There is no way to fly from his judgments, but to fly to his mercy by repenting.-Vol. I. 34.

As the wicked have no peace with God, so the godly have no peace with men; for if they prosper not, they are despised; if they prosper, they are envied.-Vol. I. 79.

A good heart will rather lie in the dust, than rise by wickedness;-"how shall I do this, and sin against God?"—Vol. I. 96.

Public persons do either good or ill with a thousand hands; and with no fewer shall receive it.→→ Vol. I. 116.

Malice makes men incapable of good counsel; and there are none so great enemies to justice, as those which are enemies to peace.—Vol. I. 123.

The very worst men will obey God in some things; none but the good, in all. He is truly desperate, that makes an universal opposition to God. It is an unsound praise that is given a man for one good action. It may be safely said of the very devils themselves, that they do something well: they know, and believe, and tremble.-Vol. I. 167.

God hath set such an impression of majesty in the face of lawful authority, that wickedness is confounded in itself to behold it.-Vol. I. 206.

Violent adversaries, to uphold a side, will maintain those things they believe not.-Vol. I. 244.

There is no better remedy for ambition, than to cast up our former receipts, and to compare them with our deservings, and to compare our own estate with inferiors; so shall we find cause to be thankful

that we are above any, rather than of envy, that any is above us.-Vol. I. 245.

Those that will complain without a cause, shall have cause to complain for something. Discontented humours seldom escape unpunished, but receive that most justly, whereat they repine unjustly. Vol. I. 263.

When lust hath blinded the eyes, it carries a man whither it lists. A man besotted with filthy desires, is fit for any villainy.-Vol. I. 282.

O the desperate infidelity of careless men, that shrink at the thought of a momentary death, and fear not eternal! This is but a killing of the bodythat is a destruction of body and soul.-Vol. I. 393.

The mercies of God are ill-bestowed upon us, if we cannot step aside to view the monuments of his deliverances. As Samson had not found his honeycomb, if he had not turned aside to see his lion; so we shall lose the comfort of God's benefits, if we do not renew our perils by meditation.-Vol. I. 430.

Those that have once thralled themselves to a known evil, will make no other difference of sins, but their own loss or advantage. A liar can steal; a thief can kill; a cruel man can be a traitor; a drunkard can falsify. Wickedness once entertained, can put on any shape. Trust him in nothing, that makes not a conscience of every thing.—Vol. I. 447. We are beholden to government for order, for peace, for religion. Where there is no king, every one will be a king, yea, a god to himself. We are worthy of nothing but confusion, if we bless not God for authority.-Vol. I. 459.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC NEWS

PAPERS.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. A_numerous and highly respectable meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge was held at the Society's house, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, on the 6th of December, hisG race the Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair, at which a considerable portion of a very voluminous correspondence was read, principally relating to the state of the Missions in the South of India, and the great and exemplary efforts made by the late lamented Bishop of Calcutta for their furtherance and extension. The most honourable and affectionate testimonies were throughout the whole of this correspondence borne to the extraordinary zeal and assiduity with which Bp. Heber had laboured to spread the blessings of the Christian religiou in India-to the success which had attended his unwearied exertions-and to the deep and general grief, both on the part of Europeans and natives, which had been felt in consequence of his being so suddenly called from the scene of his earthly labours. It was suggested that the fulfilment of the duties of the Diocesan of Calcutta were infinitely beyond the power of any individual, however great might be his physical strength or mental energy; and that both Bishop Heber and his predecessor, Bishop Middleton, had fallen sacrifices to its overwhelming cares.-Morning Post.

Cough. The following receipt is recommended as excellent for a cough. Six ounces of Spanish liquorice cut into small pieces, and put into a quarter of a pint of best vinegar till dissolved. Two ounces of oil of almonds. Half an ounce of tineture of opium. Stir the whole together. Take two tea-spoonsfull on going to bed, or at other times when the cough is troublesome.-Morning Post.

Small Pox.-The small pox is raging with much violence in the neighbourhood of Stroud, in consequence of the refusal of many of the people to avail themselves of the advantages of vaccination, which practice appears generally to keep the small pox away from those neighbourhoods where the people are sensible enough to have all their children vaccinated. In some countries abroad the people are obliged, by law, to be vaccinated, this being the way to put an end to small pox infection altogether. But England is a land of liberty, and the people are therefore allowed to be ill if they like it.-Gloucester Herald.

Abraham Hill, a common carrier, from Bawdsey to Woodbridge, Suffolk, was lately convicted in 100l. penalty, with loss of horse and cart, for having contraband spirits in his possession-in default of which he was committed to the county gaol till the fine be paid.-Country Paper.

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Fires. A very dreadful fire, a few weeks ago, broke out at Mr. Oxley's, a haberdasher's shop at Bristol, in which his wife, and three children have perished in the flames. It seems that the family slept with a light in the bed-room, and that it was set too near the bed-curtains. Mr. O. was awoke by the flames; he forced his way, dreadfully cut and burnt, through a window into the strect. He appears to have been in such an agitation that he could not make any one understand the situation of bis family. His wife appeared dead, probably suffocated, before he left the room; her body was afterwards found half burnt to ashes. She was about thirty-five years of age; the children from six to nine.-London Paper.

A fire broke out not long ago in one of the stables of Mr. J. Gillet, at Hoighton Farm, Buckinghamshire. The stables and a few out-buildings were consumed. It is said that the fire was occasioned by the carelessness of a carter, who, a short time before, had gone into the stable loft with a lantern in his hand, which seemed not properly to protect the candle; a spark fell upon the hay.-A light among the hay and straw of a stable is a frightful thing; and sometimes a candle is carried without any lantern at all; no practice can be more dangerous.-Morning Post.

An alarming fire lately broke out at the Goat Inn, in Wells, which, in less than two hours, reduced those premises to a heap of ruins. The fire originated in a bed room where a servant had lighted a fire for the purpose of airing some linen, and it is supposed that the clothes-horse having upset in her absence, the finen had caught fire, and communicated it to the bed curtains, and thus in a few minutes enveloped the chamber in flames. Amidst the property destroyed in this room, was 501. in Bank notes.-Bath Paper.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received the communications of T. A. C.; Rusticus. ; T.; and a Constant Reader. We beg to inform the latter Correspondent, that the book of Martyrs to which we referred in the "Village Conversations," was an abridgement of Fox. It was published some years ago by Hughes of Ludgate Hill, It contains some frightful pictures, and some horrible accounts of the Roman Catholic persecutions. We much doubt, however, whether this is the right way of supporting the Protestant cause. We have better arguments to rest upon.