with paintings, statues, votive offerings, &c., and there is a profusion of attraction about the high altar, and the Chapel of the Virgin, which hardly admits of description.* On another occasion, I may beg the read-loungers, as under the " King of the French;" er's indulgence to some thoughts upon the religion which is taught by the Roman Catholic Church in France.

liant array of articles, both useful and ornamental, but principally the latter; the cafés are as elegant and attractive as in former days; the boulevards are as fashionable for

The cathedral at Amiens is more than 400 feet long, and not quite 80 in breadth; and though not near so grand and imposing, yet reminded me forcibly of York Minster.

and the Palais Royal, Champs Elyseés, Gardens of the Tuilleries, &c., are now, as much as ever, the resort of young and old, the gay and the grave, the demagogue and the true lover of his country. At the first glance, one might suppose that there was no change of consequence produced by the expulsion of Louis Philippe, and the predominance of republican rulers; but a second look, and only a short experience, teach a far different lesson. Paris feels deeply the change which has taken place, and all the more deeply because the complaints are not loud or obstreperous. The middling class, those who live by ministering to the wants, as well as gratifying the tastes of others, the

It was late on Saturday afternoon when we arrived by the railway in Paris, the nearer to which we approached, the more evident became the traces of revolution and outbreak along the line of the railway, the mob having vented their spleen upon the stationhouses, and obstructed the road in various ways, so as to prevent the troops from going to Paris. A tedious delay at the station, on our arrival, in consequence of the law relat-hotel-keepers, and the large number of pering to the octroi tax, put us quite out of humor, since we fancied that under a republic they might allow us as much liberty as we enjoy in our native land, and we could not but feel that it was ridiculous to open our trunks and valises, to see that we brought no potatoes, or onions, or fish, or anything edible into the capital, without paying duty on the articles. At last, as everything human has an end, we got away from the station, and soon found ourselves much more comfortable at the Hotel Bedford, Rue de l'Arcade, near the

sons who hire out apartments, the restaurants, the cafés, the places of amusement, etc., all have felt, and still realize, the pressure of the change from the former to the present state of things. The hundreds and thousands of English visitors and residents who flock to Paris every year during the season, to enjoy its gayeties and pleasures, have all taken their departure, and the tens of thousands of francs which they were accustomed to spend for fancy articles, bijouterie, clothing, amusements, and what not, have also gone with them; and the poor Frenchmen are left to The general aspect of Paris seems much shrug their shoulders, and in secret, or in the same as ever, and I have taken a good muttered tones, bestow their maledictions deal of pleasure in going over various por- upon their ill fortune, and the unprofitable nations of the city, with which I had become ture of "liberty, equality, and fraternity," so familiar on previous occasions. So far as ap- far as they are concerned. The hotels, pears at first sight, matters and things look which abound in Paris more than in any city about the same now as they did under the with which I am acquainted, are comparativemonarchy; the shops present the same bril-ly empty, and the numerous retinue of ser

Madeleine.

"The interior is one of the most magnificent spectacles that architectural skill can ever have produced. The mind is filled and elevated by its enormous height, (140 feet) its lofty and many-colored clerestory, its grand proportions, its noble simplicity. The propor tion of height to breadth is almost double that to which we are accustomed in English Cathedrals; the lofty, solid piers, which bear up this height, are far more massive in their plan than the light and graceful clusters of our English Churches, each of them being a cylinder with four engaged columns. The polygonal apse is a feature which we seldom see, and nowhere so exhibited, and on such a scale; and the peculiar French arrangement, which puts the walls at the outside edge of the buttresses, and thus forms interior chapels all round, in addition to the aisles, gives a vast multiplicity of perspective below, which fills out the idea produced by the gigantic height of the centre. Such terms will not be considered extravagant when it is recollected that the vault is half as high again as the roof of Westminster Abbey."-Whewell.

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vants have little else to do than to lounge about the court, and be on the look-out for an arrival, an event which, I have noticed several times, is hailed with extra empressement, and a turn out of nearly the whole force of the establishment.

According to Murray's Hand-Book for France, which, of course, relates to the state of things before the revolution of 1848, the official returns set forth that there were in France 66,000 English residents. At the comparatively low estimate of five francs per day for each person, the amount expended by them for the simple necessaries and enjoyments of life, could not well be less than $25,000,000 per annum. It is quite evident, that as the Parisians had the principal benefit of English residence and visiting in France, that they must feel very keenly the change which has resulted from the events of February and June last, (1848.)

The extensive ranges of large, elegant, struck me as indicative of a state of things and commodious houses, devoted to suites of not the most desirable, and not destined, I private lodgings and apartments of all sizes, hope, to be permanent. The public authoriqualities, and prices, are now almost deserted; ties, especially the department of police, are and to look at the hundreds of notices put out extremely busy, and continually you see on in front, and the advertisements in the papers, the corners of the streets decrees emanating one might imagine that the half of Paris was from the prefecture of police, and a crowd to let; on inquiry, too, it is found that they gathered around, reading them, and making are willing to make almost any terms with a their comments. In every nook and corner lodger, frequently diminishing the price to of Paris you are solicited to purchase newsone-third what was usual under the regime of papers, an extensive brood of which have the monarchy. The restaurants and cafés, sprung out of the confusion and turmoil of those places where Frenchmen live, and revolution and disorder. Many of these are which English and Americans soon learn to of the most pernicious and wicked character, like extremely, are not deserted-by no having no aim but to mar the efforts of the means; for people, even republicans and ethe- patriotic and the good, no desire but to give real philanthropists, must eat and drink; and currency to opinions more abominable than all parties, both in France and every where absurd; no expectation but that of the poor else, agree in this matter, if in nothing beside; and abandoned wretch who knows that whatbut yet they present a different appearance ever convulsion may seize the body politic, from what I recollect in years gone by; now he can be no worse off, and may profit by the you see hardly a face beside the moustached general distress. I am not able to say how and whiskered Frenchman; once there was many of these daily and weekly emissaries of a tolerable number of sturdy John Bulls, and discord and ultra-democracy are, or have democratic and aristocratic Americans, who been, issued; but the number I know is large, served at least to give variety to the scene- and the government is constantly harassed once, other foreigners did their share in eating with the necessary steps to be taken to counand drinking the good things which none teract their evil tendency, or put an entire know better how to provide than Parisian stop to their circulation. Several of the decooks; but now the change is manifest: the crees of the police department have been isrestaurants are not so full, nor the cafés ever sued solely to announce the fact that certain crowded, as I have seen them in other times.journals are suspended, and certain others The public gardens and promenades are hard- wholly suppressed. To the thoughtful lookly so gay and lively, and, as I am informed byer-on, this warfare with the press is a disthose who know, the places of amusement are tressing sight; for though it be necessary, much less crowded by visitors. The streets and the supremacy of the government must are more or less filled with soldiers, almost be maintained at all hazards, yet, nevertheevery other man you meet being a national less, it is a confession of weakness, when the guard, or one of the garde mobile, or the executive power cannot afford to brave the troops of the line; the drums beat through-clamors of these petty journals, which find out the city morning and night, at 8 o'clock; parades are frequent in the streets, and large bodies of troops, both horse and foot, are marching to and fro every day; all the public buildings, the Tuilleries, the Chamber of the Representatives, the Luxembourg, Palais Royal, Bibliotheque Nationale, &c., &c., to the number of more than fifty, are under guard, and sentinels parade in front at all hours, and troops are quartered both in them and near at hand, so as to be ready for any emergency. Indeed, ever since the horrible insurrection in June last, the strong hand of military rule has been felt in every direction, and the brave general Cavaignac, and his coadjutors, have been on the alert to prevent any recurrence of outbreaks which have affixed an indelible stain upon the national escutcheon of France and its gay capital.

I might add to this hastily-drawn sketch, some other features of change which have

support only among the vicious, the careless, and the wrong-headed; or is obliged to resort to force to put out those flames which receive nutriment from passion, prejudice, and chimerical notions of liberty and equality. It is much to be wished that the day may not be far distant when the republican government may be so firmly established in France, as to do away with the necessity of an enormous military array, and consequent burden upon the public finances; and when, being firmly seated in both the convictions and affections of the people, it may safely venture to do, as we do in our happy land, permit entire and unrestrained liberty of the press, and may dare to go forward in the discharge of its high functions irrespective of the clamors of the demagogue, the fancies of the theorist, the fault-finding of the alway-dissatisfied, the absurd flattery of dependents, and the disgusting adulation of the unprincipled and the

BODY AND SOUL. The reciprocal influence of these in that state which has a like benign and salutary inupon each other, is fully and clearly set forth in the sefluence on the soul. The common practice is exactly cond volume of a Philosophical Essay on Man. Two the reverse. Men indulge passions in the soul which inferences are to be drawn from this consideration. (destroy the health of the body, and introduce distemFirst, that we should stock the soul with such ideas, pers into it which impair the powers of the soul. sentiments, and affections, as have a benign and salu-Man being a compound creature, his happiness is not tary influence upon the body. Secondly, that we complete, till both parts of the composition partake of should keep the body, by temperance, exercise, &c., it.-Bishop Horne.

SUPERANNUATED;

OR, THE RECTOR OF ST. BARDOLPH'S.-A Sketch.

BY REV. FREDERIC W. SHELTON.

CHAP. XIV.

(Continued.)

The arrival of a Boanerges, or Son of Thunder; his influence on the Parish, and how Mr. Admuller disposed of him.

N the course of a day or two, climbed the hill-tops, admired the richness of when it became generally the land, the rolling fields, and the expansive known that a clergyman was river. Then he used to return to the Rectory a guest at the Rectory, some and smoke his pipe in the parlor, making it of the wardens and vestry- necessary for the window sashes to be raised men called to pay their re-twenty times a day, and annoying the Recspects: among others, Mr. tor's wife exceedingly. But at last Mr. AdPugsley, who was very obsequious, muller told him good-humoredly, that if he and invited Mr. Coolman to visit his would come into his study, make himself persplendid abode. The latter did not fectly at home, take the arm-chair, and put make much delay in accepting the his heels on the table, he could furnish him invitation, and was delighted with with a meerschaum and some of the best everything which he saw, and he Turkish tobacco; to which he acceded. One was industriously taken around to see every day after dinner he was so employed, when thing. Indeed, he assured the owner that the Rector of St. John-in-the-Wilderness arhe had never beheld any house or grounds rived, and there was the chance of seeing two at all comparable; such high rooms, such a very queer people together. In a few mistretch of landscape, such a profusion of flow-nutes Mr. Pugsley also came in, who, after ers! and then the pictures on the walls, stiff brick-dust, ridiculously accurate likenesses of the different members of Mr. Pugsley's family, both of the present and previous generations. His grandmother, with protuberant chin, in the act of knitting; his former wife, as sitting for her picture; and himself in reflective mood, with his chin upon his hand, and his elbow upon an end-wise book, labelled on the back, "Revised Statutes." They were good likenesses, but decidedly bad pictures, and by no means came from the brush of Sir "You seem to have very little idea, sir, of Joshua Reynolds. Mr. Pugsley had the relative positions, and that you are assuming weakness to admire admiration; he was there- an office which does not belong to you. Were fore favorably impressed with the Western you in my parish-and I thank God that there clergyman; he thought that he was an honest, is not a single rich man in it-I should teach simple-minded, no doubt, very good man, and you differently; and I am afraid that my friend, he invited him to preach on the next Sunday, Mr. Admuller, has not done his duty by you; and Mr. Coolman accepted the invitation. In otherwise, you would surely know better than the mean time he passed his time pleasantly, to invite a stranger into your Rector's pulpit. while Mr. Admuller was in his study, in going That is not your prerogative. Certainly not. about and getting "acquainted with folks." It belongs to your Rector, and if he is too He held conversations over garden walls, and faint-hearted to tell you plainly--you know I stopped frequently to talk about crops and am a stranger and have no particular fear for farming. He walked about the church, en-you-I will do it for him. I am perfectly tered the grave-yard, read the tomb-stones, surprised at you. Sir, let me tell you that

some common-places, said that as he had no doubt that "some of our people would be very much pleased to hear the new comer, he had taken it upon him, in the name of the congregation, to extend an invitation to the Rev. gentleman." A flash of indignation passed over the Rector's face, but before he had time to say a word, his friend, the Rector of St. John-in-the-Wilderness, who was standing with his back to the fire, remarked, without changing a muscle:

you don't know your duty; or if you do, you don't perform it."

and altogether it would be very hard to tell what the preacher was driving at. To judge from his manner, although he had nothing to say, you would think that the interests of Christendom depended on what he did say. He elevated his voice, he slammed the cushion, he sawed the air with his arm, he hammered and thumped. When the service was over, one said, " Pray who is that?"-another, "We must have had a blacksmith to-day!one would have supposed that he was striking on the anvil." A third remarked, "I have listened attentively, but could not follow the thread of the discourse. What was it?" A fourth, "What was the sermon about to-day? I don't go to sleep in Church; but I cannot tell."

day, he accordingly assisted in reading prayers, and preached a sermon! It is of this At this so unexpected assault upon his latter that I would design to speak. To say greatness, Mr. Pugsley's indignation was too the least, it was in very bad taste. It had neimuch aroused for words; his cheeks and sto- ther head nor tail, beginning nor end; it conmach swelled toad-like, and he remained tained no distinctive principle which would imdumb. Mr. Coolman stared with a stolid ex-press itself on the mind of the congregation, pression, and Mr. Admuller looked embarrassed, while Mr. Binckley snapped his fingers behind his back, and continued: "Mr. Coolman may be the right kind of man, and he may not. I don't know anything about his principles-neither do you. He may be Arminian, or Calvinistic, Hopkinsian, Socinian, or Latitudinarian. I don't know what he is. I am very glad to meet with Mr. Coolman, and sincerely hope that we agree on all points. If he is a good Churchman, and I have no reason for supposing that he is not, he will certainly acknowledge that what I have said is correct." Just at this moment, when matters seemed approaching an unpleasant crisis, the door was gently opened, as on an oiled hinge, and Mrs. Admuller entered smiling, with a basket of red-cheeked, But Mr. Pugsley said, "That man speaks polished apples. Her presence relieved the with some power. I wish we had a few more company very much. Mr. Admuller took a such sermons, they would do us some good.' dexterous advantage of it to turn the tide of And Mr. Pugsley's tenants and servants reconversation; and the Rev. the Rector of St.peated, "If we had a few more such sermons, John-in-the-Wilderness, forgetting his queer- they would do us some good!" ness and didactics, began to pass jokes and Mr. Admuller thought to himself that his to eat apples with all his might. No doubt, friend must have belonged at some time to the Mrs. Admuller, from a certain instinct, know-sect called Ranters, and he was nearly right, ing that there would be trouble if the afore- though not exactly. But he had been a said parties were collected in her husband's preacher of some denomination nearly allied study, had entered in the nick of time; which thereto; and on the visit of one of our Misshows how valuable is a clergyman's wife sionary Bishops, he permitted the Bishop the who possesses a good disposition and tact. use of his building to hold a confirmation in, Mr. Pugsley presently took up his hat, and for the consideration of five dollars, which went away almost stupified; for he had not was cheerfully assented to, and three persons dreamed of being opposed in his wishes-were confirmed. This was fifty years ago : since he became rich. He told how shamefully the strange clergyman had been insulted in Mr. Admuller's study, and how his own feelings were wounded; and if he could not be better protected in that house, he would never enter it again. This doctrine he instilled into several of his tenants, who were members of the Church, and who scrupulously agreed with Mr. Pugsley in everything which he said. They all unanimously agreed that the whole transaction was shameful, and each received a piece of roast beef as a reward for their opinions.

The Rev. Mr. Coolman, from the papers which he had with him, was a regularly-ordained and accredited minister of our Church, and as such Mr. Admuller had already acknowledged him, and had given him an invitation to officiate at St. Bardolph's, before the visit of Mr. Pugsley. On the following Sun

and not long since, in what was then a village, now a city, seventy kneeled to receive, at the hands of a beloved Bishop, the beautiful rite; and where there was nothing then but cold, uncultivated, barren clods, now all looks cheering, and there are thousands who are attracted by the ritual of our beloved Church.

After the aforesaid visit, the Missionary proved himself so personally agreeable to the Rev. Mr. Coolman, and the latter was likewise so fascinated with the Liturgy of the Church, that he immediately entertained thoughts of changing his connection. opened his mind to the Bishop, who answered his inquiries, but on the very next day was in his carriage traveling to a still more remote part of the Diocese.

He

Mr. Coolman began to read books on Episcopal Ordination, and he presently, to the great surprise of those who knew him, an