eried to Jesus for protection, was itself a token inspire emotion. I knew not how to account for that a new life was dawning. There might be this state. I had believed that the work of nervous excitement, but there was also a spiritual change and renovation had been completed, at awakening. There might be morbid sensations; least carried to so high a degree that it was imbut the pervading conviction was scriptural, and possible I could wilfully sin against God again. the consequent change of thought and feeling was I abhorred the thought; yet here I was in darkpermanent. That change we shall leave Mr. Wil-ness, and sin palpably abounding in my heart. liams to describe:

How sad was the sight of myself! It was the first glimpse at the inherent corruption and orig. inal depravity of my heart. It was the first of a series of painful but important lessons which convinced me that God had only hitherto instructed me in the first principles, and laid the foundation for my faith; but that the work of grace had to be carried on, and an absolute change of heart effected, by many a severe and

"It was on the 15th day of September, 1846, that I was taken ill. It is now September, 1847, when I am writing this. The delightful feelings of the first few days of convalescence I remember well. Joyfully exulting in the interposition of Divine Providence and mercy, which had brought me out of thick darkness into the glorious light of truth, O what a heaven flitted through my soul! Holiness, with its celestial gilding, fiery ordeal. seemed to tinge every object around me. The "In the course of weeks, I was enabled to take world was no longer the same world; its people a trip into North Wales. Here my connection no longer the same beings. Myself and my fel- with the world was first re-established. All the lows I no longer regarded as creatures of a mo- avocations of man, that were apart from his reliment's duration, but I saw eternity impressed as gious duties, appeared to me to have vanity legia seal on the whole generation of men. The uni-bly stamped on them. On my route, I stopped verse was no longer a confused assemblage of in- a short time in Liverpool; but the bustle and distinct parts, moving towards a gloomy terminus, commotion excited no pleasurable sympathy, for but, as far as the Divine purposes were concerned, I felt that it was all vanity. The whirl, the din, a bright whole of uniform perfection, and the en- the confusion, all told me of the world's spirit; tire expanse filled with love, unbounded love. and in the countenance of the busy throng I God himself seemed to move everywhere. All could not read one expression in unison with my was joy to my soul. I looked on myself as a own feelings, or which came home to my heart. brand plucked from the burning, and rejoiced in At Beaumaris I abode at a commercial hotel; the sure hope of salvation. Jesus was most and there, in the presence of the usual visitants precious to me, my glory and infinite joy. of an inn, I took out my Bible, glorying in the The Bible, hitherto a sealed book, was now a thought that I was thus unfurling Christ's banriver to my thirsty soul. I was astounded at its ner. One of the company entered into conversacontents. As I turned over its pages, wonder tion, and boasted of his religious acquisitions, upon wonder ravished my delighted heart. I and of the high position he held in the church felt that I would care to live only for the sake to which he belonged as teacher and deacon. of reading it. It was a glorious light. At times But gradually he drank to inebriation. I was its heavenly rays would subdue me into a mellow glad to find a room to myself, and in dejection to and peaceful benignity; at others, rouse me into ponder over this first instance of a false professor. ecstatic bliss. Everywhere was the authority, the love, of God recognized. Its power to command my obedience was as the thunder-clad arm of Omnipotence and its pleadings for holiness were as the gentle whisperings of love, to which my heart, my mind, my soul answered assent. How I wondered at my former darkness! How amazed did I feel that the precious light had so long shone in my way, and I never had perceived it! I re-glorious to know that a pathway had been opened solved to make it the absolute rule of my life.

"My stay in North Wales, especially my visit to Llanberis and Snowdon, afforded my mind the healthful occupation of contemplating and adoring God as revealed in his works. To me the God of nature and the God of revelation now were one, and I began more sensibly to feel the relation wherein we stand to God by the conjoint link of creation and redemption. How

for the rebellious sinner to the favor of the great "These first days were as though they had Eternal, whose hand had formed the mighty fabbeen a foretaste of heavenly peace. Never shall ric of the universe, and who had given the being I forget my first mortification at finding that sin and life we enjoy, but from whom I had so long still existed within me. There had been no been severed, and to whom I had never felt my actual committal of an offence that my con- relation, nor acknowledged my obedience! But science charged me with; yet a sudden and un- the great Eternal was now the Lord my God; expected change had come over me. There was and I, the creature of his hand, could, through a cloudiness in my mind; my faith was dim; the Redeemer, look up and believe that the my heart had ceased to exult. It was as though Power which guided the planets in their course, all had been a bright and glorious dream, and I would direct me in all my ways, and preserve me had now awakened to the stern realities of a cold by his providential care. I felt that he had first and miserable world. Alas, the bitterness of loved me. I felt that God so loved the world as that moment! I strove to recall my hopes, to give his only begotten Son, that whosoever they seemed delusion. I read my Bible, the bright revealing light which had heretofore almost made the very print more clear, was gone; and, although I still knew it to be the Word of God, the page had ceased to enkindle rapture or

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believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. I felt that it is the First and the Last who there expresses his care for all the family of man, including myself, a worm so insignificant. At that mercy I could only wonder

and adore; and, with faint conceptions of his matter for future psychological analysis and love and grace, I could but humble myself before comment. They cannot prove otherwise than of deep interest to all engaged in the study of

him."

We place upon record the preceding ex-medical-psychology. tracts from the two volumes referred to, as

From the Examiner, 26 Aug.
OUR NEXT ALLY.

Let England and France declare that the fulfilment of the Treaty of Vienna is a fifth condition of their treating for peace with Russia, and Sweden becomes from that moment their ally. We are quite aware that the provisions of the Poles all that they have a right to expect at the hands of Europe. But still if the treaty were faithfully carried out, a great step would be gained towards the complete restoration of Poland. If a national organization can be maintained in the several portions of Poland, their reunion will assuredly be one day accomplished.

THE Swedish papers are employed in canvassing the question whether Sweden can safely join the league of the Western Powers against Rus-treaty fall lamentably short of securing to the sia. The conquest of Bomarsund is, no doubt, an important step towards the formation of the new alliance; but does it, in itself, offer a sufficient guarantee to Sweden? It is thus that the Nya Vermlandstidning explains the dangers to which that country will be exposed in the event of its being engaged in a war with Russia:

In the mean time an effectual bridle would be The northern provinces of Sweden, like the Da- placed on the power of Russia in the north of nubian Principalities, which were likewise invest-Europe. Poland is the great corn-growing couned before the commencement of winter, are ex-try, from whence the supplies of Dantzic and posed to an occupation. Sweden has no Silistria Odessa are derived. The rivers, the forests, the or Rutschuk there, to arrest the march of a Rus- fortresses by which it is encompassed, render Posian army. Nor is there a Balkan, or even a Wall land a sort of European citadel, from whence the of Trajan to be crossed, ere the capital is reached, Czar dominates over half Germany and the shores so that Sweden will have to defend herself in open of the Baltic. If Poland had her natioual army, fight and in her own country. her recruits would be cut off; and the Poles might one of the chief sources whence Russia derives be counted on whenever a necessity for acting against Russia might arise. The restoration of Poland would, moreover, prevent Russia from turning to her own ends the sympathy with which she is regarded by the Southern Sclavonians; a sympathy from which she may possibly, before long, derive some great and unexpected advan tage.

It is true the fight will not last beyond the six months of winter. Then the fleets will re-appear, and stop the retreat of the enemy, if it has not been sufficiently hasty. But meanwhile a considerable portion of our country will have been exposed to all the sufferings of war, to all its dangers and all its sacrifices; the ravaging of Norrland, the seizure of the shipping of Gefle (exchanged for Brahestad), the plunder of the noble treasury of Upsala, and the wealth of the capital-all this risk would then be incurred.

It is, however, evident that this is a danger for Sweden which will not pass away with the present war. It may arise at any future moment; and Russia, even if now deprived of Finland, will doubtless be able to find a propitious moment for revenging herself on a State which, for six months in the year, can receive no succor from the maritime powers. It is clear that Sweden cannot become our ally with safety, unless the power of

Russia is sensibly reduced.

In order, then, to secure the alliance of Sweden-an alliance of the utmost importance to their future plans the Western Powers must show that they are prepared to advance beyond the four conditions, sine quâ non, of their late communication to the Conference. None of these conditions, however effectually they may restrain the power of Russia in the Black Sea, can materially lessen her preponderance over the Baltic powers.

Besides, it has been part of the policy uniformly istrations, whilst abstaining, for the sake of peace, adopted by this country, under successive adminfrom insisting on the performance of the treaty of Vienna as regards Poland, by no means to recognize in Russia any right contrary to its provisions. But should the allies, in now coming to terms with Russia, remain silent respecting the notorious infraction of previous stipulations, may it not fairly be held that they have waived the right to insist upon those stipulations being carried into execution?

Policy, then, no less than justice and humanity, requires that England and France, whilst carefully watching over the safety of a Mohammedan, should not altogether neglect a christian nation, which has suffered still deeper wrongs than Tur key, at the hands of the Emperor Nicholas.

EFFICACY OF MEDICINE.- Thunberg ob serves, "that almost always, and everywhere, his Now the Treaty of Vienna affords the bellige- medicines acted with the greatest efficacy, as well rent States an indisputable ground for the reduc-as certainty, upon the slaves; which he accounts ing the power of Russia in the Baltic within the required limits. The kingdom of Poland was erected by that treaty, and its first articles are devoted to the maintenance of Polish nationality.

for, because their constitutions were not so much impaired by improper diet as those of their masters, and because they were also less accustomed to the use of remedies."

AMERICAN NOVELS-FASHION AND FAM

INE: THE SHADY SIDE.*

From The Spectator. [doings; an old English lady with a touch of greater mildness. Jacob Strong, the old attendant of Leicester's deserted, ill-used, but criminal wife, loving his young mistress with a passion THE decision that an undomiciled foreigner and leading him even to the wearing of a livery hopeless in the outset, but surviving everything, cannot convey a copyright valid in this country, in Europe, so that he can watch over her,—is a seems likely to work some change in the booktrade, and in a direction that needed no stimu- conception general in the outline, but truly indilus, genous to America in the filling-up, and perhaps that of mere lowness of price. Mr. Hodg-only to be naturally developed in a land of equalson announces two of Cooper's later novels in his "Parlor Library," with Mr. Bentley's per- huckster-woman, is a piece of worthy nature, ity. Mrs. Gray, the large-hearted, charitable mission. Mr. Bentley himself has advertised the

belonging to all countries, at least of Northern origin.

to his

series of Prescott's Histories at a cheap rate; but unless the price is that of print and paper, with the usual profit thereon, and the style of getting untary principle" have been a frequent subject The Shady Side. The workings of the "volup as plain as readers of Prescott will put up of treatment in this country, as well in fiction, as with, he will be under-done by somebody, or sev in more formal argument. The points chiefly eral bodies. In fact, the same publisher has in- dwelt upon here, however, have been the intercluded Mrs. Ann Stephens's fiction of Fashion ference of the congregation with the minister's and Famine in his "Railway Library," at onetwentieth part of the price for which less effective theology, and the necessity under which he lay novels have been published with a copyright of rendering his sermons "acceptable" attached. The Shadg Side, another American Paymasters, by observing a discreet silence on fiction, from Mr. Low and Mr. Constable, of reticence by an onslaught upon those of other their own backslidings, but making up for that Edinburgh, is perhaps a more remarkable example of low price; while almost even as we write, people. In The Shady Side, an American novel, competition issues another edition of Fashion and in this direction, so dear to human vanity, may "by a pastor's wife," some turn for mastership Famine, as well as another edition of Mrs. Stowe's be found. But the main topic of illustration is Sunny Memories. With this last, "cheapness," we believe, (though we have not seen the publi- pecuniary. If the circumstances of this story cation,) has gone to a pitch that seems impossi- salvation in the cheapest market, have any general truth, the Americans seek their ble, if the whole work is really printed. nay, below In speaking of Fashion and Famine as an effec- the "cheapest market" of the economists, for they will not pay the price of producing and tive novel, it must not be considered that we maintaining a divine. According to the Pastor's count it a first-rate fiction. The story is essentially very like the usual run of stories that aim Wife, the best city livings do not more than supat combining an intense interest with sketches of port a man in the way he must of necessity live; every-day life. Neither are American manners smaller town and the mass of country congregaleaving him without provision for old age. The shown in the book, otherwise than incidentally, tions either retain a map with a family in abject and in a way that the writer cannot help, having laid her scenes among her own people in the poverty, or he has to exhaust his own means in Empire City and the country round about. The living comfortably. effect is for the most part very strongly melo-gifted" minister of the Congregational Church The story of The Shady Side is soon told. A dramatic; the leading person of the piece being marries a young, accomplished, and amiable one of those cold-blooded, selfish, artful, all- woman. accomplished roués, whom we continually meet cal income is insufficient to support them, as Their own means are small; the cleriin romances of the intense school, exaggerated their expenses increase with their family. Their by American magnificence of idea beyond the soberer nature of Europeans; for certainly Amer- private resources are exhausted; embarrassment ica, among her other claims to distinction, is added to poverty; and after several changes, "beats creation" in her fictitious villains. Still Mrs. Ann S. Stephens is a mistress of her craft. There is a story which moves along from beginning to end; there are scenes of great power, though often too theatrical and glaring in their effects; there are sketches of fashionable society in New York and Saratoga, with a little too muneration of American ministers as they are If we take the general facts respecting the remuch of what Lord Sydenham called "Broadway finery;" but there are also some very pleas-didactic novels in general. Where it is deficient, given, the logic of the tale is better than that of ing pictures of homely or domestic life in Amer- the deficiency rather adds to the effect of the ficica. Mrs. Leicester, the mother of the libertine, tion. Edward Vernon, in his college career, is a nicely-drawn character, quiet, lady-like, aimed at the bar and the loftier walks of life, conscientious, grieving over her son's wrong which legal success opens to a man in America *Fashion and Famine; or Contrasts in Society. death of a beloved sister, the wishes of his perhaps more than elsewhere. The decline and By Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. Published by Bentley. The Shady Side. By a Pastor's Wife. Publish- mother, and his own religious feelings, subseed by Constable and Co., Edinburgh; Low and Co., quently lead him to the church. He is conscienLondon. Itiously and laboriously devoted to his duty; but

for the minister's merits are sufficient to induce invitations, - where promises are not kept, husband dies prematurely, and his wife, after or the expected advantages are not realized, the striving to support her young family by teaching, follows him to the grave.

in times of exhaustion, or depression, or when his highly sensitive nature encounters rubs, the old leaven of scholarly or worldly ambition rises within him.

Morton's visit was not productive of good to his classmate. He was a man of fine social qualities -a man of talent and ambition-recently admitted to the bar; a professor of godliness withal; but his piety, if genuine, had never gone, with its melting power to the depths of his nature, firing and fusing the soul, and working an amalgamation conformable to that apostolic model, "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord."

Esther Anne's little brown shop was now the centre of attraction, not so much on account of its new millinery as of the information there to be obtained on the subject of the young minister's 'matHis friend's change of profession had always vex-rimonials.' Almost every one was taken by sured him. Now that he saw his unwearied efforts prise. Some, who had benevolently selected for for the prosperity of his people-and saw, too, that him, were not a little piqued. A few, who had these efforts were often at the expense of his own still nearer hopes, sighed as they were thus dashed mental culture and finish of style and execution at a single stroke. he vented his feelings in a way that did more mischief than he imagined.

Esquire Lewis's daughters were among the first that called; and they were not easily suited in the It was at the close of the Sabbath, when Edward choice of bonnets. One after another was examwas inwardly chafing with the thought that his ined and rejected, being used as foils to hide their sermon had fallen far below his design, that Mor-excessive interest in the one topic on which they ton said, abruptly: "What a fool you are, Vernon had resolved thoroughly to examine Miss Brooks. -pardon me-to waste so much time in running "You are sure this report is true?" after your people! You had a splendid sermon there, in conception, but you gave yourself no time to elaborate it. Why, my dear fellow, the materials you had in that discourse, wrought up as you are capable of doing it, would electrify the most cultivated audience in our land. Your are doing everything for the people and too little for yourself."

"Yes, I am sure of it [that bonnet, Miss Lucretia, is a good fit,] for the girl said her sister saw him every time he came. He has visited her ever since last June, [there, the brim wants raising a little. I can lap it under the crown.] He met her first away from home-somewhere she was visit ing; that time he was gone so long, you remem

ber."

"[Let me look at that drawn silk.] What did you hear of the family, Esther Anne?"

Edward's face flushed, and a bitter smile played on his lip. (Had not his own heart been saying the same thing, though he durst not frame it in "Well, as good as any in Mayfield; hold their words?) He made no reply, and Morton contin- heads pretty high, I guess [that white straw, Miss ued: "I see how it is. You lay down your book, Helen will look sweetly on you]. The girl said, or your pen, and start off to every sick child or her sister said, she heard the gentleman where she whimpering woman that takes a fancy to see the lived say, that the doctor was a clever man, and minister. I would n't do it. I would cultivate the girl well enough; but he had a son in New myself for a higher field. The people here do n't York [the price of that is three dollars]-a halfappreciate such a thinker and writer as you are." "brother of hers in New York was a slippery kind Already, at the thought of the sick and tempted of a man-lived in dashing style. If his debts to whom he had in the past week been a messen- were paid he would n't own a cent." ger of comfort and succor, Edward's bitter feelings gave place to gentler emotions, and remorse smote his heart. He gave Morton a sad, earnest look, as if in doubt whether explanation were not labor lost on a man of so little Christian sensibility. Mary entered soon, and the topic was not pursued.

This want of thorough devotedness to his vocation is shown not only in yielding to such thoughts as these, but in quitting one charge after another, on sufficient lay motives, no doubt, but hardly sufficient on religious grounds. These and other circumstances, as peculiarities of temperament and health, cause the logic to fall short, by suggesting some natural unfitness in Edward Vernon for the ministry; but they give interest to his career, by the human failings and struggles exhibited.

"[I don't quite like this white straw, Esther Anne]. What more did you hear of the young lady herself?"

[Try this French lace]. Not much, except what I told you. She's young and pretty, has always been kept at school [there, that's a complete fit. Just look in the glass.]"

"Never mind; finish what you were saying."

"They say her father has been very indulgent to her, because she lost her mother so young; and he's brought her up to books, and music, and drawing, and all that sort of thing." The young ladies winked to each other under the shield of the her much. She said there were some families in bonnets. "That girl's sister did n't seem to like Mayfield that thought hired girls good enough to associate with anybody; but she had lived six months right over the way from Dr. Allison's, and had not been able to get acquainted with Miss Mary. She said she was always flaunted out with her neck full of curls. She'll have to put 'em up now, I guess, [will you take those two bonnets ?"

"You may lay them aside. We'll not conclude did n't hear when the wedding is to come off, did till mother has been in and looked at them.] You

The story is artistically treated. It is not so melo-dramatic, or productive of what some will think so effective scenes, as Fashion and Famine. The Shady Side, however, is more thoroughly American; every chapter in fact containing a picture of domestic life or manners in the New you?" "No; they guessed not for some time-she is so England States, real and fresh. The scenes in-young; but I find some folks here think he has volving the internal struggles of Edward Ver- gone now to make arrangements." non, the pious resignation of his wife, or the dif- "O no! he has gone to his father's."

"Well, you know the Whitman place is to be tially one tongue, although divided into many sold; and they say Mr. Cook talks of buying it. dialects, inhabits all the islands from the SandSince this thing has come out, many think Mr. wich group near the Tropic of Cancer to New Cook is trying to get the place for Mr. Vernon. What would he want of another house himself? Zealand, which reaches to the forty-seventh Miss Leevy asked him about it yesterday; and he degree of south latitude, and from the Tonga told her if he purchased it there would be some one group to Easter Island, over seventy degrees in this autumn. I hope Leevy will give it up now. of longitude. This race ends with the FriendShe's tried hard enough to catch him." The Misses Lewis could bear no more, but bit ly Islands, which are wholly inhabited by it; their lips with vexation, and went home to report and with the group of the Feejees, 300 miles to their intriguing mamma. Mrs. Lewis was not north-west of them, commence, not one but prepared for the failure of her deep-laid schemes. several races of men, speaking not one but She had withdrawn her daughters from the gay society, taken them to hear every sermon, sent many distinct languages. A few physical feathem to all the prayer-meetings, drawn them in to tures, however, are common to them, namely, the circle of inquirers, rejoiced over their growing a black skin, frizzly but not woolly hair, and interest in religious things, encouraged them to abundant beard. The different varieties of make an early profession of their faith, as fruits of this race extend over all the islands from the the revival; and now to be disappointed thus! Be

tween the two she had thought herself secure. Lu-Feejees to New Guinea, both inclusive. The cretia was just the right age-twenty-five. Helen, French, with some propriety, have called the she knew, was very pleasing, though she had sup- islands they inhabit Melanesia, or the isles of posed her too young; yet she was nineteen last black men; while Polynesia has long been apmonth. She tried to vent her disappointment in plied to those peopled by the brown race. displeasure at the innocent cause of it. "She would not have believed Mr. Vernon such a deceit

At the point of junction of the two races, ful man; coming here, so pleasantly, week after some intermixture has ensued, a frequent inweek; so many interviews as he had had alone tercourse taking place between the Tonga and with Lucretia, and so ready as he had been to ride Feejee groups; a voyage of three hundred miles in their carriage to the neighborhood meetings. It was too bad. He could not be the man she had across the trade-wind being one of no great thought him." difficulty with a people whose residence is alAnd there were others to echo this "too bad." most exclusively littoral, and habits universally There was the shrewd, match-making Mrs. Pritch-maritime. That the black races have received ard, who had recommended no less then three of a large share, if not indeed all the civilization they have attained, from the fairer race, seems probable, and is indeed fully admitted by themselves. The influence of the Polynesian over the Melanesian race may be traced by language, at least as far west as New Caledonia.

her favorites to Mr. Vernon. Another lady of the parish had boarded a niece from the city two suminers, with an eye to the cultivation of a special acquaintance. No wonder she felt injured.

From the Examiner.

Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the
Western Pacific, etc. By John Elphinstone
Erskine, Captain R. N. Murray.

sidering themselves a superior people to the Although (says Capt. Erskine), evidently conTongans, the Feejeeans do not hesitate to acknowledge that they are indebted to the former for the introduction of most of the useful arts

and manufactures, although their own superior intelligence has enabled them to improve upon their original models.

WANT of opportunity has hitherto prevented us from noticing the work of Captain Erskine, but it is never too late to notice a good book. Now, therefore, in our leisure and holiday time, we proceed to render some ac- Previous to their intercourse with Europecount of Capt. Erskine's journal. The cruise ans, the only foreigners to whom either the of this most judicious officer lasted seventeen black or fair races of the Pacific are indebted weeks, and extended over the groups of the for any part of their civilization, are the adPacific Islands called the Navigators or Sa-vanced nations of the Malayan Archipelago; moan, the Friendly or Tonga, the Feejees, the and it is quite certain, from the total absence New Hebrides, and the Loyalty, with the large of all vestige of their languages, that they are island of New Caledonia. These, extending from the 16th to the 23d degree of south latitude, and from the 163d degree of east to the 170th of west longitude, include seven degrees of latitude and twenty-seven of longitude.

not, like the latter, under obligation to Hindus or Arabs, direct or indirect. The influence of the Malays is discoverable only through the evidence of language. Thus all the sections. of the brown-complexioned race have adopted the decimal numerals of the Malays, and even We shall commence with such a general the black races have, in a few cases, done so, outline of the inhabitants of the islands of the to the supercession of their own rude systems, Pacific Islands as may serve to make Captain which extended no further than "five." Some Erskine's narrative intelligible to the reader. theorists indeed who sought, through lingual One race of men, with brown complexions, evidence, to prove that the brown race and lank hair, and scanty beard, speaking essen- the Malayan are one and the same people,