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EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.

THE CRUCIFIXION.

With joy-with grief, that healing hand I see :
Ah! too conspicuous! it is fix'd on high.
On high-what means my frenzy? I blaspheme :
Alas! how low? how far beneath the skies?
The skies it form'd: and now it bleeds for me-
But bleeds the balm I want-Yet still it bleeds;
Draw the dire steel-ah, no! the dreadful blessing
What heart or can sustain or dares forego?
There hangs all human hope; that nail supports
The falling universe: that gone, we drop;
Horror receives us, and the dismal wish
Creation had been smother'd in her birth.-
Darkness his curtain, and his bed the dust,
When stars and sun are dust beneath his throne!
In heav'n itself can such indulgence dwell?
O what a groan was there! a groan not his :
HE seiz'd our dreadful right, the load sustain'd,
And heav'd the mountain from a guilty world.

A thousand worlds so bought, were bought too dear!
Sensations new in angels' bosoms rise,

Suspend their song, and make a pause in bliss.

Young.

MOTTOES.

A FIRM and uniform exercise of power, that keeps children to their duty, excites their respect and love.

The reins that are held firmly and regularly guide unconsciously. The capricious exercise of power, shown chiefly in punishment, excites anger and stirs up resistance.

Expose not an erring child to his companions, but chide the offender apart.

It is said that more flies are caught with one drop of honey than with a tun of vinegar.

Never attempt to remove one sinful passion by the encouragement of another.

Accustom your children to obey without asking questions.

Teachers should be content when they see the blossom, and not expect the fruit till its season.

We encourage children in selfishness, and then feel disappointed

at our own success.

Never let phrase and profession anticipate the growth of real feeling. Put yourself in opposition to your children, and you stir up all that is bad in their nature.

Punishment should be regulated, not by the consequences a fault occasions, but by its guilt.

Like the physician, the Teacher should endeavour that his medicine is sufficiently strong to do its work.

Quarterly Educational Magazine.

JAMES DAVIES' SCHOOL AT LLANGATTOCK LINGOED.-We are glad to learn from a newspaper which has been sent to us, that the first stone of this school was laid on the 26th of April. An account of the project will be found in our April number. We understand that sufficient funds have been already contributed to defray the cost of the building, but that something considerable is still required to secure a sufficient endowment. We trust that this also may be ultimately provided in furtherance of the declared object of the pious founder, which is, to "establish a school which may be carried on after his days, and prove a lasting blessing to the place." For this purpose, he proposes, with exemplary self-denial, to give up his present situation and stipend as schoolmaster at Devauden, and to devote himself for the remainder of his days to teaching the poor children at Llangattock "without any salary or pay whatever."

HUMILITY.-A holy-minded and devoted minister of Christ, who lived a century ago, and whose writings are calculated to warm the coldest heart, thus expresses himself: "I have gone to school as long as the best of Teachers, and am already employed to give others their lessons, and yet I continue myself such an helpless infant!" In taking leave of a friend, he recommended the four following things for his notice and comfort: 1. The atonement of Jesus. 2. The words of Jesus. 3. The Spirit of Jesus. 4. The example of Jesus.

ANECDOTE FOR SCHOLARS.-A Superintendent having occasion to visit the parents of a little boy seven or eight years old, was met in the lobby by the boy himself, with a number of younger brothers and sisters; and feeling an interest in his position, said, “Well, Henry, are you the oldest of this little band?" "Yes, sir." "And can you render them any assistance?" "Yes, sir, I can pray for them.'

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SUMMARY OF NEWS.

"There are many devices in a man's heart: nevertheless the counsel of the Lord that shall stand."

AGITATION in England, though we trust effectually crushed, has not been destroyed. Our readers, whose habitations are fixed in the large central towns of the country, know this to be a lamentable fact, from what they see and hear. There are still bodies of men, composed of the lowest and most ignorant classes of the community, who meet to clamour against the constituted order of things, and to threaten and cry for justice. But we trust that there is no real danger to be apprehended from them. Even among their own order there is a vast majority who are indifferent about the matter, and large numbers who are opposed to them. The middling classes, against whom the cry has been principally raised, are for their own sakes arrayed against them; aud the higher ranks of

the community know too well, from former results of popular frenzy and turbulence, how unwise concessions to the will of a mob would be.

But though safe, through divine Providence, from internal anarchy, it is impossible to say how long the wide-spread commotions of the Continent may be confined to the countries where they have originated. As yet the Government has adopted a noninterfering, and, in one instance, a mediatory policy, with the belligerent powers. This is, undoubtedly, if it can be maintained, the wisest, as it is the only pacific, course.

The war between the Austrians and Italians is proceeding favourably towards the latter. One fierce engagement has been fought, in which the Piedmontese were decidedly victorious.

A blood-thirsty insurrection has taken place in Naples, the populace siding with the king against the troops, on the condition, which was granted them, of being freely allowed to plunder.

There is little new from France. The Government, having quelled the late revolution of the operative party under Louis Blanc and Barbés, still continue firm; but there are, unhappily, the same features of distress and discontent-of the breaking up of credit, and a general lack of employment, prevailing as before. Whether these are but the lingering remains of the storm that has burst there, or the gathering clouds which betoken a fresh one to come, the future will shew.

Mr. Mitchell, the principal agitator in Ireland, has been convicted of sedition, and transported to Bermuda for fourteen years. There is at present a greater degree of quiet in that country than has been known for some time-a lull, we fear, rather than settled tranquillity. An ominous sign that all has not passed away is to be gathered from the fact, that the manufacture of pikes was never carried on more briskly than now.

We are glad to see that amidst all these political troubles the spirit of Christian philanthropy is still walking abroad, and searching out fresh objects of compassion to befriend and succour.

We allude principally to Lord Ashley's motion in the House of Commons with regard to the condition of the Metropolis. His object was not to lay before it the state of the poor in general, but that of the lowest and most wretched among them-the professed beggars. Our readers must be familiar with accounts touching their miserable way of life, from the pages of the London City Mission Reports and the journals of Scripture Readers; but these materials form the darkest picture which has been ever introduced before a British parliament. Let us take one statistic. He visits a lodging-house

in some obscure part of the Metropolis. He finds one room, eighteen feet by ten, swarming with a dense crowd of human beings. Shall we say that ten sleep alive in it? or twenty? or thirty? This would be a fact shocking enough to our feelings. But here he finds that 58 human beings-27 grown-up persons, and 31 children, constantly reside. Or let us take another instance. He mentions 15 ragged schools, at which, on an average, 2,345 persons attend. Of these 162 had been in prison several times, 116 had run away from home, 170 slept in lodging-houses-a specimen of which we have just given-253 lived by begging, 216 had no shoes or stockings, 280 no caps, hats, or bonnets, 101 no linen, 249 never slept in a bed.

The proposition of the noble lord was that Government should give facilities to this class for emigrating—that a thousand should be selected every year from the most industrious and deserving in the ragged schools-a free passage given them, and other advantages on landing in the Colonies. Sir George Grey, on the part of the Government, promised that he would give the subject his best attention.-There are objections to such a system. One is, that the Colonies are now deluged with convict settlers, and it would be a hazardous experiment to introduce from the most abandoned classes, after so short a period of probation, such additional large numbers. As we have transmitted to Australia already some of the vilest of our population, it is our duty now to send them over some of the most respectable and steady. We hope, however, ere long, to see so extensive an evil effectually dealt with, as well as exposed.

NOTE. In the "Summary of News" in our last, the sum raised by the Home and Colonial Infant School Society should have been stated as £5000-not £500.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The communication entitled "A National Prayer" has been twice sent to our printer, but not inserted, from want of room. We do not insert it now, because the occasion to which it refers has passed away.

Received a

66 Parable for a Sunday-school."

FOSTER, PRINTER, KIRKBY LONSDALE.

THE

TEACHER'S VISITOR.

No. 52.

AUGUST, 1848.

VOL. IX.

ADDRESS TO OUR READERS.

In the beginning of this year, we printed and sent a circular to many of the clergy and other individuals likely to be interested in our little periodical. From it we shall make some extracts:

"The TEACHER'S VISITOR was set on foot by the Editor in 1844.

"He had previously been frequently urged by various friends to edit a Monthly Magazine, dedicated to subjects specially interesting to the Teachers of Sunday and Week-day Schools. It was evidently undesirable that the only magazines which professed to occupy this field should be, as they then were, under the control of those who dissent from our Church.

"In these circumstances, the TEACHER'S VISITOR WAS projected and established. While disclaiming all uncharitable feeling towards Dissenters, and freely acknowledging the blessing from God which has often followed their labours, the Editor nevertheless desired to establish within the pale of the Church of England a channel of communication for her Teachers, through which they might not only claim what they require, without fear of meeting with such reflections as are calculated to weaken their attachment to that Church in whose busom they are labouring; but through which they might be reminded of the peculiar privileges of that Church, and be brought to be more and more in love with her truly Scriptural constitution, and spiritual forms of worship.'*

"That these objects have to some extent at least been realized, the success which has attended this little peri*Introductory Address to the Teacher's Visitor for May, 1844. VOL. IX.

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