FEW VICES WILL OBSCURE NOTES TO THE CALENDAR. (Continued from July page.) which we have slightly abridged. The story is told as being related by a gentleman in Manchester: "I knew a young man named Wild, in the volunteers-a very modest, shy lad; but he afterwards joined the army, rose by merit, and became lieutenant. He was with the British army in 4 25r Rise 20 Spain, and was in that slaughter 9 59 7 45s 10 29 21 7 42s 11 43 23 night 5S 10th Sunday aft. Trinity. 4 32rAft Mid 24 6M Act passed permitting Jewish M.P.'s to omit 7 39s from the oath the words, "on the faith 7 Tu of a Christian," 1860. Baron Rothschild 4 35r (after repeated rejections) was allowed to SW take his seat on July 26, 1858; and to 7 34s commemorate this event, he endowed a scholarship in the City of London School. 4 37r Comes once too soon."-OLD PROVERB. 11th Sunday aft. Trinity. 7 27s Gen. Georgey traitorously surrendered 30,000 4 44r Hungarians to the Russians, 1849. Look back and improve. 9 Th "A Saturday moon, 10 F If it comes once in seven years, 11 S Dog days end.-Commence July 3rd. 19 Bonaparte born, 1769.-In memory of his 4 47r France. A 25 0 30 1 3426 2 38 27 3 48 28 uncle, the present emperor has decreed employed in sweeping chimneys, 1840. on Tower Hill, for high treason, 1746. 1 7 31s Sets PM 6 58 441r 729 758 2 7 23s 849 4 8s 057 12 12th Sunday aft. Trinity. 4 53r 11 22 20 M In 1619, potatoes, then recently introduced, 7 11s Aft Mid were sold at 1s. per pound. 21 Tu The Act for the registration of births, mar-4 56r 22 W Battle of Bosworth-field, 1485 7 2,814,040 square miles, with a population 5 3r 2613th Sunday aft. Trinity. 6 59s 30 Th And gilds the straw-thatched hamlet wide, KIRKE WHITE. 31 F Where innocence and peace reside." TIME'S PROGRESS. ALAS! it is not till Time, with his reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the book of human life, to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number, and to remember, faintly at first, and then more clearly, that upon the early pages of that night 415 7 5 Rise PM 655s 8 318 5 9r 83419 9 720 book was written a story of happy ing affair-I think Salamancawhere Colonel White was shot; Wild being wounded at the same time. Colonel White became delirious from the effects of the wound, and as he was carried to the rear; he began singing. The Duke of Wellington passing at the time, stopped, and when he saw poor White's condition, tears came into the eyes of the man who has been called The Iron Duke!' Subsequently, Wild being at an out-post, was taken prisoner with some of his men, by the French troops, and they were marched up the country. The officers were very civil to Wild, and after some days' march they reached headquarters, and received the honour of an invitation to dine with Mar shal Mortier, then commanding a tained the words: Bring your Wild was in no plight to dine with garrison town. The invitation con- other article of attire, and by their regle; and at length, after coffee, The marshal requested them to leave when the French officers had to hear himself addressed in plain English: Well, and where do you come from?" His reply_was From beyond Rochdale, in LanCrompton?" In this familiar style ished guest, naming Smithy-door cashire." Well; and how's Dick Mortier chatted with his aston and other well-remembered local ities, and appearing much amused to learn that his old acquaintance, Dick Crompton, was then town-major of Lisbon. After a pleasant conversation on Lanca shire men and places, Wild was reconducted to his quarters, and remained some time in prison. He succeeded, with the aid of a kindly girl, in effecting his escape, and long rambled about the country, under great risks, till at length, he made his way back to the head-quarters of the British army. After attaining a captaincy he was placed on halfpay, returned to Manchester, and took an inn. He married a very beautiful girl, but all went wrong; and poor Wild was taken as a debtor to Lancaster Castle. Hearing a bell ring in the evening, he asked what it was, and was told it was the time for the prisoners to be locked up. He fell down, and expired on the spot." STRIVE FOR THE BEST, AND PROVIDE AGAINST THE WORST." THOUGHTS OF THE FUTURE. "The Future does not come from before to meet us, but comes streaming up from behind, over our heads."-RAHEL. T is not in the hey-day of health and enjoyment, (wrote Southey,) it is not in the morning sunshine of his vernal day, that man can be expected feelingly to remember his latter end, and to fix his heart upon eternity. But in after-life many causes operate to wean us from the world; grief softens the heart; sickness searches it; the blossoms of hope are shed; death cuts down the flowers of the affections; the disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive. "THE footsteps of a future doom we hear, Against whose coming nought may e'er prevail; And vague presentment of some evil near Falls on our heart and turns its current pale. We tread upon the verge of mighty things We grasp the veil, but with unseeing mind; Death hides the light the soul unconscious brings, And on the edge of fate we wander blind." Charles Swain. "AND THEN!" IT is told of Filippo Neri, a good and pious man whom the Church of Rome has enrolled in her calendar of saints, that, whilst at one of the Italian universities, a youth, whom he had known as a boy, accosted him, with a face full of delight, to tell him that what he had long been wishing above all things in the world he had at length attained,-that his parents had given him leave to study the law, and that he had come to the university, attracted by its fame as a school of law, and that he meant to spare no pains or labour in mastering his studies, and thoroughly accomplishing himself as a lawyer. In this way he ran on a long time; and when at last he came to a stop, the holy man, who had been listening to him with great patience and kindness, said, "Well, and when you have got through your course of studies, what do you mean to do then?" "Then I shall take my doctor's degree," answered the young man. "And then?" asked Filippo Neri again. "And then," continued the youth, "I shall have a number of difficult and knotty cases to manage; shall catch people's notice by my eloquence, my zeal, my learning, my acuteness; and gain a great reputation." then?" repeated the holy man. "And then!" replied the youth, "why then there cannot be a question, I shall be promoted to some high office or other; besides, I shall make money, and grow rich." "And then?" repeated Filippo. "And "And then," pursued the young lawyer, "then I shall live comfortably and honourably, in health and dignity, and shall be able to look forward quietly to a happy old age." "And then?" asked the holy man. "And then," said the youth, "and then-then I shall die!" Here Filippo Neri significantly asked, "And then?" Whereupon the young man made no answer, but cast down his head and went away. This last "And then?" had pierced his soul! and he went sorrowfully away; but it became to the young man the text of a long discourse, which he preached to himself till it was applied by a higher Teacher. The youth shortly afterwards forsook the study of the law, gave himself up to the ministry, and spent the remainder of his days in godly words and works. The late Archdeacon Hare, in one of his sermons, made the following application of this story:-"My brethren, the question put to the young lawyer I would put to all of you. I would urge you to put it frequently to yourselves. When you have done all that you are doing, all that you aim at doing, all that you dream of doing-even supposing that all your dreams are accomplished, that every wish of your heart is fulfilled-still I would ask you what will you do-what will you be then? Whenever you cast your thoughts forward, never let them stop short on this side of the grave. Let them not stop short at the grave itself; but when you have followed yourselves thither, and have seen yourself laid therein, still ask yourselves the searching question, And then 15" OH! that this ceaseless current of years and of seasons were teaching us wisdom; that we were numbering our days; that we were measuring our future by our past; that we were looking back on the twinkling rapidity of the months and the weeks which are already gone; and so improving the futurity that lies before us, that when death shall lay us in our graves, we may, on the morning of the Resurrection, emerge into a scene of bliss too rapturous for conception, and too magnificent for the attempts of the loftiest eloquence.-Hanna. NOTES TO THE CALENDAR. 17.-Israel Putnam was one of those remarkable but unobtrusive men, whom great crises always bring from comparative obscurity. Born at Salem, Massachussets, in 1718, and commencing life as a farmer, he continued in that peaceful avocation till the French and Indian war broke out, in the year 1753, when, at the age of thirty-six, he took service in the English army, and from his known courage and energy, 2S 14th Sunday aft. Trinity. 6 44s 11 19 received command of a company of 3 M Meanwhile to glad September's dawn, 4 Tu Together hath mild Autumn drawn, 5W Rich gifts from bounteous Nature's stores: And still about his footsteps pours 6 Th Profusely from the copious horn, 7F Fruits well matured, and golden corn.” 517r 6 40s 520r 5 23r 8S The English and French made their last 631s attack (successful) on Sebastopol, 1855. ces. 93 15th Sunday aft. Trinity. 5 27r 10 M The Year 5627 of the Jewish era commen-6 26s 11 Tu A young woman, named Moyes. threw her: 5 30r self from the Monument, in London, 1839: 12 W and shortly afterwards a youth, named 621s Hawes, threw himself off. time only, in England, 1851. 13 Th The Bloomer costume appeared, for a short 5 33r 14F Duke of Wellington died, aged 83.6 17s 15S Mr. Huskisson killed at the opening of the 5 36r Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1830. ticut, 1790. 16 16th Sunday aft. Trinity. 6 12s 959 their disastrous retreat homewards, 1812. drum Bay, 1846. 5 43r Aft mid night A. M. 040 9 10 11 142 12 254 13 himself one of the bravest and ers. The following characteristic During the war of independence he caught a man lurking about his post at Peekshill, on the HudSir Henry Clinton, claiming the British service. The answer of anecdote is related of him : son. A flag of truce came from prisoner as a lieutenant in the Putnam was brief and to the point: "Head-quarters, Aug. 7. "Edmund Palmer, an officer in the enemy's service, was taken as as a spy, and shall be executed as a 23 S 17th Sunday aft. Trinity. 548r 4 514 pating in the final from Paris or 24 M There was a great commercial panic in Eng land in 1825 and 1826, to meet which, the 554s Rise PM 552r 633 16 25 Tu Bank of England issued £1 and £2 notes 24. The year 1825 saw the downfall of some seventy-nine banks in Great Britain, with fiftyeight branches, whose liabilities amounted to fourteen millions sterling. The loss to their customers on the liquidation of these concerns was about three mil lions-and-a-half; and the loss in the next year (1826) by twenty-five similar failures was about a million-and-a-half. It may readily 30|S |18th Sunday aft. Trinity. 540s 10 12 21 be imagined that public confi BE CHEERFUL AT MEALS. THE benefit derived from every kind of food depends much upon the condition of the body while eating. If taken in a moody, cross, or despairing state of mind, digestion is much less perfect and slower than when taken with a cheerful disposition. Some topic of interest should be introduced at meals that all may share in; and if a hearty laugh is oc casionally indulged in, it will be all dence was very much shaken; and as an instance of how soon a "panic" could be created, it is related that a poor woman, having met with a slight accident, seated herself to recover strength at the door of one of the banks in Lombard-street, London. A crowd immediately collected, and a report soon ran through London that the bank was unsafe. In less than an hour there was a fierce panicstricken "run" upon the bank, and with difficulty it was able to meet the sudden demand upon it. 66 'THE SMALLEST PARTICLE OF KNOWLEDGE IS WORTH REMEMBERING." DIAMONDS FOR THE MIND'S CASKET. ON CIVILITY. N our intercourse with the world, the importance of civility cannot be overrated. Far more depends upon the little, often despised, civilities current in society than many of the other circumstances by which men rise or fall. DO GOOD. He is, indeed, the wisest and happiest man who by constant attention of thought discovers the greatest opportunities of doing good, and with ardent and animated resolution breaks through every opposi tion that he may improve those opportunities. - VALUE OF EXPERIENCE. EXPERIENCE keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct they that will not be counselled cannot be helped. If you do not hear Reason, she will rap your knuckles.-Franklin. SELF-EXAMINATION. LET not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.-Pythagoras. BE SINCERE. SINCERITY is the basis of every virtue; the love of truth, as we value the approbation of heaven, or the esteem of the world, should be cultivated. In all our proceedings it will make us direct and consistent. Ingenuousness and candour possess the most powerful charms, and carry an apology for almost every failing.-Blair. BE CAREFUL OF TIME. Be avaricious of time; do not give any moment without receiving it in value; do not allow a single day to pass without increasing the treasure of your knowledge and virtue. The use of time is a debt we contract from birth, and it should only be paid with the interest that our life has accumulated. EARNESTNESS OF PURPOSE. THE longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men-between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant is energy, invincible determination-a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory! That quality will do anything that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.-Buxton. "THEY SAY" often tells that which is not true. He is about the worst authority to produce in support of the credibility of a statement. Scarcely ever is a suspicious report put in circulation, but this Mr. They Say "is the author of it; and he always escapes responsibility and detection because, living nowhere, he cannot be found. The truth of a report which comes from the authority of "They Say," should be suspected.-And it should be remembered that every "May be" has a "May not be." "I SAY!"-"HE SAYS!" IN conversation, such phrases as "You know," and "He says," and "I say," should be carefully avoided. Dr. Sharp, of Hart Hall, Ox ford, is said to have contracted the habit of prefacing his sentences with the words, "I say." An undergraduate having mimicked this peculiarity, the doctor sent for him to give him a jobation, which he began thus:-"I say, they say you say, I say I say"-when, perceiving the ridiculous combination, he briefly concluded his lecture. ALL SHOULD BE USEFUL. It was not the intention of Provi dence that men should pass a few years here in ignoble sloth, either with indolence in safety, or pusillanimity in danger, but that we should come forth, and act some useful and honourable part on that theatre where we have been placed; might glorify Him that made us, and, by a steady perseverance in virtue, rise in the end to an immortal state.-Mathew. SOURCES OF VEXATION. I HAVE at length learned by my own experience (for not one in twenty profits by the experience of others), that one great source of vexation proceeds from our indulging too sanguine hopes of enjoyment from the blessings we expect, and too much indifference for those we possess. We scorn a thousand sources of satisfaction we might have had in the interim, and permit our comfort to be disturbed, and our time to pass unenjoyed, from impatience for some imagined pleasure at a distance, which we may, perhaps, never obtain, or which, when obtained, may change its nature, and be no longer pleasure.-Dr. Moore. TRUTH ALWAYS THE BEST. TRUTH has all the advantages of appearance, and many more; and upon every account, sincerity is true wisdom. As to the affairs of this world, integrity hath many advantages over all the arts of dissimulation and deceit. It is much the plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way; it hath less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard; it is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last, when deceit and cunning, which continually grow weaker and less effectual, will finally fail us.-Tillotson. TRY! NOBODY knows what strength of parts he has till he has tried them. And of the understanding one may most truly say, that its force is greater generally than it thinks, till it is put to it. And therefore, the proper remedy here is but to set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigourously to the business; for it holds in the struggles of the mind as in those of war, dum putant se vincere, vicere. A persua sion that we shall overcome any difficulties that we meet with in the sciences, seldom fails to carry us through them. Nobody knows the strength of his mind, and the force of steady and regular application, till he has tried. This is certain: he that sets out on weak legs will not only go farther, but grow stronger too, than one who, with a vigorous constitution and firm limbs, only sits still.-Locke. OCTOBER-31 days. THE MOON'S CHANGES. 9 min. past 6 morning. 58 min. past 4 afternoon. 24 min. past 9 night. 12 min. past 12 night. 45 min. past 2 afternoon. WHEN FORTUNE SMILES SHE OFTEN DESIGNS THE MOST MISCHIEF. 1 M SUN MOON Rises & Rises & Sets. Sets Mn's Age. 2r Rise PM 35s And gathering swallows twitter in the skies." KEATS. 6 5r 018 531s 126 25 233 26 2 Tu The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft, 5 3 W 4 Th Dublin was first lighted with gas in 1825. 5F From June 17 to Oct 2, 1849, the deaths from 6 8r cholera in London amounted to 13,161. 6S Zimmermann (a celebrated Swiss physician 5 26s 8 M and philosopher) died, 1795. 78 19th Sunday aft. Trinity. 6 12r The Empire is peace!" (L'Empire c'est la 5 22s puix!) said Napoleon, at Bordeaux, 1852. 9 Tu Waterloo Bridge Mystery, 1857.615r 10 W Recklessness is the parent of misery. 5 17s 11Th Battle off Camperdown, and signal defeat of 6 19 12F Great Exhibition, of 1851 110sed persons 513s Joachim Murat, ex-King of the Two Sicilies, 6 22r [Battle of Jena, and disastrous defeat of the 6 25r Prussians by the French, 1806. 16 Tu Marie Antoinette executed, 1793. Her hus-5 4s 10 26 band was executed in January previous. 17 W General Burgoyne surrendered nearly 6,000 6 28r 11 27 British to the Americans, at Saratoga, 1777, tions,") 1813. 18Th Battle of Leipsic, (called "the Battle of Na-5 19 F Right Hon. Michael O'Loghlin appointed 6 32r being the first Roman Catholic elevated to 4 56s judge in the Irish Court of Exchequer, 1836, the bench in Ireland since the Revolution. NOTES TO THE CALENDAR. 16. No greater crime ever stained the annals of history, than the murder of Queen Marie Antoinette, by a people calling themselves the most cívilised nation in the world. When this unfortunate queen was arraigned before her inhuman judges, and during a most painful trial, which lasted seventy-three hours, she preserved all that dignity and composure which she had previously exercised when seated upon, a throne. Her replies to the infamous charges which were preferred against her, were simple, noble, and laconic. When all the accusations had been heard, and she was asked if she had anything to say, she replied, "I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children! My blood alone re mains: take it, but do not make me suffer long!" When she ascended the scaffold, scarcely any traces ness which had once charmed all remained of the dazzling lovelyhearts; her hair had long since become blanched by grief, and her eyes were almost sightless with continued weeping. She knelt and prayed for a few minutes in delivered herself to the execu a low tone, then rose and calmly tioner; and thus perished in her thirty-seventh year, the wife of a daughter of the heroic Maria the greatest monarch in Europe, Theresa, a victim to the circumstances of birth and position. 23.-The history of Don Se9bastian, King of Portugal, is very remarkable, from the romantic disappeared. At the age of twen 20 S 2121st Sunday aft. Trinity. 636r 22 M [Battle of Trafalgar, and death of Nelson, 452s 1805. 23 Tu Don Sebastian (posthumous son of the In-639r 24 W The Royal title, "King of Great Britain," 4 47s 22nd Sunday aft. Trinity. 440s 9 British army (7,000 strong) under Lord under Washington, 1781. 31 W All Hallows Eve. circumstances under which he ty-two he chivalrously engaged in desperate battle of Alcazar, in a war with the Moors, and at the Africa, fought in August, 1578, he was defeated, after performing prodigies of valour. A body, said to be his, was given up by the Moors; but some historians say that he was drowned. His subjects, however, believed that he would some day re-appear and tion existed long after the time ceased. The supposition, in fact, which passed from one generation resume his throne; and this no when his natural life must have became a sort of religious belief, to another. In the London Times, December, 1825, it was stated as "a singular species of infatuation, that many persons residing in Brazil, as well as Portugal, still believed in the coming of Sebas tian. Some of these old vision aries will go out, wrapped in their large cloaks, on a windy night, to watch the movements of the heavens; and frequently if an exhalation is seen flitting in the air, resembling a fallen star, they will cry out "There he comes!" It was in allusion to this superstition that induced Marshal Junot, when asked by Napoleon what he would be able to do with the Portuguese, to answer: "What can I do with a people who were still waiting for the coming of the Messiah, and King Sebastian?" |