FACTS, HINTS, AND GEMS. Facts, Hints, and Gems. Farts. EMIGRATION TO CANADA OR AUSTRALIA. CANADA. Cost of Passage.-To Quebec, including provisious, cabin, £12 to £20; intermediate, £7 to £10; steerage, £5 to £6. dren under fourteen, half the price Chil of adults. Infants under twelve months, no charge. Length of passage, forty days. The month of May is the best time to arrive in the colony. Sale of Lands. · Crown lands range from 1s. to 7s. 6d. per acre. Emigrants desirous of purchasing these lands in Upper or Lower Canada, may obtain the fullest information as to the price and quality of the lands for sale by applying to the Government land agents, appointed for the several municipal districts in Canada. Wages.-Labourers, not less than from 3s. 6d. to 4s. sterling per day. Masons and carpenters from 6s. to 8s. sterling per day; bricklayers, 4s. to 6s.; tailors and shoemakers, about 4s. In Upper Canada the wages are about 10 per cent higher. AUSTRALIA. Cost of Passage. Varies from £35 to £50, according to accommodation required. Length of passage about four months. gration Commissioners. It may be had of the booksellers, price 3d. Government Emigration Officers. -Officers of great experience are formation as to the sailing of ships appointed to give gratuitously inand means of accommodation, and ship-owners and emigrants are duly to see that all agreements between performed. They also see that passenger vessels are sea-worthy, that they have on board a sufficient supply of provisions, &c. They attend at their offices (London, 70, Lower Thames Street; Liverpool, Stanley Buildings), on every week day, and afford all the assistance in their power to protect to obtain redress where oppression emigrants against imposition, and has been practised on them. Government Immigration Agents are in the colonies to render every assistance in their power to emigrants on their arrival. Hints. LIFE IS A VOYAGE, in our progress along which, both we and the scenes around us are ever changing; first, we have childhood behind us, then youth, and then manhood. Happy he whose old age sees the port of everlasting peace. HONEST LABOUR is a sure defence. It feeds the belly and clothes the back; and it keeps out the constable with his summons to the county court. RICHES HAVE WINGS. - Sometimes they fly and settle where they were not expected. Sometimes they start off, like the swallows in autumn, no one knows where. Well may Paul call them "uncertain riches." HE WHO HAS MOST of this world's good may be stripped of all, and his FACTS, HINTS, AND GEMS. worldly comforts, like so many withering leaves, may all drop off one after another. So very uncertain is all earthly good. A GREAT TALKER is a great bore; and he generally talks the most who has the least to say that is worth hearing, THOSE PARENTS act wisely who bring up their children in habits of industry. This will do more for them in after life than a stock of money. SOME VAIN PEOPLE make themselves ridiculous, not by shewing what talents they have, but by pretending to have what they do not possess. WE ARE SUBJECTS OF FITS sometimes, of anger or joy, which sorely puzzle us. They come we know not how, and go we know not where. This should teach us to be patient with others, who are men of like passions with ourselves. Gems. DESIRE OF HAPPINESS is natural and common to all men. Desire of holiness is supernatural, and must come from God. IF WE ARE WILLING to be saved God will save us. Why? because he has said so; and he cannot deny himself. But he will do so for Christ's sake, not ours. WHEN WE THINK of the infinite love of God in Christ, we wonder that it does not make every heart BE CAUTIOUS; for if you would not fall in the way of doing things unlawful, you must sometimes deny yourself of things that are lawful. SALVATION always draws nearer to us when we draw ourselves nearer to it. It is now nearer than when we first believed. HE THAT HAS A BLIND CONSCIENCE which sees nothing, a dead con. science which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable condition as a man can be on this side hell. Poetic Selections. ON LOOKING AT A WATCH. BLESSED BE THY NAME FOR EVER Of midnight's gloom and dawning day, WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST? leap for joy, but when we think how IF ask'd what of Jesus I think, depraved all men are we wonder that any welcome the good tidings. IF YOU FORGET GOD he will not forget you. Dont think his memory. is like your's. He never forgets. He will bring every work into judgment, and every secret thing. FOUR THINGS we should labour after to be humble, thankful, watchful, and cheerful. Having these we should be happy. Although my best thoughts are but poor, I say, He's my meat and my drink; My life and my strength, and my store; My shepherd, my brother, my friend, My Saviour from sin and from thrall, My hope from beginning to end, My portion, my Lord, and my ALL," A PRAYER. AND still, O Lord, to me impart THE CHILDREN'S CORNER. ADIEU. ET The Children's Corner. KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND. FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST. For Boys and Girls to commit to Memory. FIRST, William the Norman; then William his son; DROIT Two Henrys, sixth Edward, Queen Mary, Queen Bess; Next, Jamie the second ascended the throne; Till Anne, four George's and William, all past, IMPORTANT NOTICE. Parcels of this Publication will be sent, post paid, to any part of the United Kingdom, on the remittance of their value in postage stamps or Post Office Order, to Winks & Son, Leicester. BENEVOLENT LADIES OR GENTLEMEN who wish to have 100 copies of the Pioneer assorted for giving away, will receive them, post paid, on sending thirty postage stamps to WINKS & SON, Leicester. The assorted Pioneers are just adapted for distribution on the way by village preachers, or for being left at houses by Teacher's visiting absent children. They can also be had in quantities for loan. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. LEICESTER: WINKS AND SON. Sold by all Booksellers. PRICE ONE HALFPENNY MONTHLY. OR, LIGHT RISING OVER DARKNESS. THERE are thousands and tens of thousands of people who, though living where the way by which their souls can be saved may be fully known, never ask what they must do to be saved, or perhaps never, or very seldom, think about their souls being saved at all. Though lost in the wilderness of sin, they wander on, until at last they fall into endless ruin. There are also some who, feeling they are lost, are very anxious to be saved. But they blunder in finding the way. In fleeing from the wrath to come, they tumble into the "Slough of Despond." There is no harm in their knowing the worst of themselves; but there is much in their not knowing enough of the rich and boundless mercy of God in Christ. Here is a case of this kind related by a minister of the gospel in the United States: One of the most distressing instances of religious darkness and despondency that I have ever been called to witness, was that of a poor girl, whom I first knew when I was called upon to visit her in her last sickness. She was not twenty years old, her health had departed, she seemed to be doomed to an early grave. A seated pulmonary affection deprived her of all hope of recovery, and she had no hope in God. From her earliest childhood she had had excellent religious instruction.. Her parents were pious people; and, though they were poor, they had carefully educated her. She had been a scholar in the sabbath school from her childhood, under the weekly instructions of a teacher who loved her, and who had taught THE LAST HOURS; her with assiduity, kindness, and skill. But though she had been long the subject of religious impressions, and had carefully studied her bible, and earnestly prayed to be directed into the path of life, she had never found peace with God. When I first knew her, none but herself had any special fears that her life was near its end. She was then able to be about the house, and sometimes, in pleasant weather, to walk out into the fields. But she had given up all expectation that she should recover; and she now addressed herself to the work of preparation for death, to which she looked forward with an indescribable anguish. She regarded it as the commencement of eternal woe. At first I felt no peculiar discouragement on account of her religious depression. I regarded her fearful distress of mind as only the natural accompaniment of a just conviction of sin, and confidently expected that she would soon be led to hope and peace in believing. But it was far otherwise with her. She attained no peace. As week passed after week, she continued in the same despondency, receiving no light, no hope, no comfort. She read, she examined, she wept, she prayed, in vain. And as her health declined more and more, her mind became wrought up to an intensity of anguish mcst distressful to witness. It was enough to melt any one's heart to hear her cries for mercy. Never did a sinner plead more earnestly to be delivered from going down to perdition, She cried for mercy, as if standing in the very sight of hell! She had not a single gleam of light. Her soul was dark as a double midnight, and seemed plunged into an ocean of horrors. No one, I am sure, could have listened to her dreadful wailings, without feeling a sympathy with her, which would have wrung the heart with anguish. I visited her often, conversed with her many times, taught her most carefully all the truths of the bible, which I supposed could possibly have any tendency to awaken her faith in Christ, and prepare her to meet Him; but I never had any evidence to the last, that anything I ever said to her was the means of any benefit. I wondered at her continued despair. It seemed to be the more remarkable, on account of the clear views which she appeared to have of the character of God, of His holy law, of her condemnation by it, of her wicked heart, of redemption by Christ, and of the faithfulness of God to fulfil all his |