THE PLAY-GOER.

MR. POWER.

THE fame which this gentleman has acquired, and the numerous eulogia which have appeared in the Metropolitan and Provincial papers, prepared us for receiving a rich treat on his appearance at our theatre. Nor were we disappointed. We have seen many indeed, we believe, all the performers celebrated for their delineation of Irish character, but they all sink into insignificance compared with Mr. Power. When personifying the higher classes of the sister kingdom, they too frequently forget the power which cultivation must naturally possess, in refining and softening down the peculiarities so proverbially connected with that country. And on the other hand, when performing parts in the lower ranks of life, they often descend into gross and disgusting vulgarity, which we readily admit may give pleasure, and consequently call down thunders of applause from the more exalted part of the auditory; but, to the refined and true lover of the drama, can never fail in producing feelings of disgust; and, we doubt not, is one of the many causes why the stage has been looked upon as a degenerate profession, giving just reason for parents instilling into the minds of their children, and the clergy into that of their congregations, a dislike, nay, even an abhorrence to theatrical representations. We conceive it therefore to be our duty, and the duty of every critic, to take notice of, and reprobate every circumstance that may tend to establish so very erroneous and narrow-minded an opinion, and to show that, wherever the stage is lowered from the exalted station it so deservedly merits, the cause must be solely attributed to its professors.

Mr. Power's performance of the part of "Sir Plenipo" was, truly, excellent. When he first appeared we could scarcely trace the slightest indication of the brogue, but, gradually, as he became animated by the business of the scene, then, and not till then, could we perceive it. It is evident, from this gentleman's performance, that he must have moved in good society-he has all that ease, grace and freedom, so peculiar to the man of fashion; every sentence, look and gesture, discovered the light, free and well-bred Irish gentleman.

On Wednesday we witnessed his performance of "Padreen O'Rafferty and Larry Hoolagan," and cannot possibly conceive any thing finer.

SPORTS OF THE LAST CENTURY. THESE are to give advertisement to all persons, that have a mind to run Fastenseven Race in the Green of Kilmarnock, upon the 17th of February, 1713, that the prize to the foremost in the forenoon's race is a guinea of gold, and to the rest as formerly. They are to run nine times about the Green, which will be betwixt two and three miles of way.-Scots Courant, Monday February 2, 1713.

ODDS AND ENDS.

THE FASHIONS OF FORMER DAYS.-The bucks of the reign of Elizabeth stuffed out their breeches with rags, feathers, and other light matters, till they brought them out to a most enormous size. They resembled wool-sacks, and, in a public spectacle, they were obliged to raise scaffolds for the seats of these ponderous beaux. To accord with this fantastical taste, the ladies invented large hoop farthingales. Two lovers could surely never have taken one another by the hand aside. In the preceding reign of Mary, the fashion run on square toes: insomuch, that a proclamation was issued, that no person should wear shoes above six inches square at the toes. Then succeeded picked-pointed shoes.

Why is the Glasgow Theatre Royal like a magnet? Because it has the Power of attraction!

Why will Alexander's corps dramatique become impotent on Saturday? Because it will be Power-less !

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

LINES to a "Coquette" will not suit us.

"Ode to Winter" is rather out of season.

"The Secret History of Puffing, with the servile means which have been used to induce Editors to gull the public," is under consideration.

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THE CHRISTIAN TRAVELLER.-No. II.

"And yet, was every faltering tongue of man, Almighty Father, silent in thy praise,

Thy works, themselves, would raise a general voice,
Even in the depths of solitary woods,

By human foot untrod, proclaim thy power,
Th' eternal cause, support and end of all."

HENRY MARTIN.

Do we read, with enthusiasm, the narration of the traveller, as he describes the country through which he passes, its beautiful scenery, its verdant hills, its transparent lakes, and its broad savannas? and shall we turn, with indifference, to the narrative of the moral traveller, as he seeks to diffuse the light of pure and undefiled religion over those dark places of the earth, where man trembles before the idol his own hand hath formed, or madly rushes before the wheel of its lofty car, as its bloody track is marked by the groans of self-de voted victims? But, whatever class of persons may read the volume that contains the life of Martin, they cannot fail to be gratified by its perusal. It contains a graphic account of his voyage, his residence in Brazil, his visit to the Cape of Good Hope, his impressions of India, his embarkation on the Ganges, and his visit to Persia; and these only form a few of the many attractive points in his narrative, whilst his devotedness to the great object he had in view, that of teaching and instructing the native inhabitants of India, ought to elevate, in all men's eyes, the character of one, who at length died in the cause he had so zealously espoused. Henry Martin is not to be confounded with those half-educated men who undertake the teaching of the heathen, having little else than good intentions to assist them. He was an accomplished scholar and a gentleman. Pious, from a conviction of the truth of religion-zealous, because he felt himself honoured by his employments-and, although his body fainted and failed, he was carried forward by the ardour of his heavenly mind, and he has left a record of his labours of love, nobler than that which, however splendid, only perpetuates the vanity of the prince who reared it, or the number of his fellow-creatures whom he immolated, to gratify his lawless ambition.

After receiving an education that sufficiently prepared him for more advanced studies, he, in 1797, entered his name at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1799 he returned to Cornwall, carrying with him no small degree of academical honour, though not all that he had anticipated, "for he had lost the prize for themes in his college, and was only second again in the first class at the public examination, when he hoped to be first." In 1800 his object was attained, his name stood first in the university list. At the public examination for a degree, his decided superiority appeared, and the highest academical honour was adjudged him in January 1801, a period when he had not completed the twentieth year of his age. Having thus seen Henry Martin obtain the honours of his university, we shall pass over the intervening portion of his life and behold him employed in British India. It had been long the object of his heart to carry religious instruction to the natives, and, with what devotion, he entered upon this extensive field, the extracts from his journal sufficiently testify. The most remarkable trait of mind exhibited by Henry Martin was his sincere and unfailing resignation to the divine appoint

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Father, thy will be done," seems to have pervaded his every wish; and circumstances, where even distinguished Christians might have been supposed to repine with reason, only afforded him new opportunities of proclaiming the goodness of his God, the submission of his own heart, and the power of those unswerving principles which regulated his will and directed his conduct.

We shall now, however, let him speak in his own words::

"Nov. 11.-This morning, after prayer, Mr. G. took his leave. I returned to my work without interruption, and with no small delight. The thought occurred to my mind very strongly-how much have I to learn of divine things. May "I have grace to live above every human motive; simply with God and to God."

Nov. 25.-Reached Patna this afternoon, walked about this future scene of my ministry with a spirit almost overwhelmed at the sight of the immense multitudes.

26.-The multitudes on the water side prodigious. Arrived in the afternoon at Dinapore, but did not go on shore. My spirit, this evening was sweetly elevated beyond the people and concerns of this world."

The objects for which Henry Martin encountered the heat and discomfort of an Indian clime were three-fold—the first was, that he might establish native schools-the second, that he might acquire sufficient knowledge of the Hindostanee to enable him to address the words of truth to the unenlightened inhabitants, and, finally, to prepare translations of the Scriptures. Of the extent of the difficulties he met with in the latter employment, we may form an idea from the circumstance, that, when he passed out of Bengal into Bahaar, he found that he had to acquaint himself with the Baharee, as well as the Hindostanee, and in dialects so various, that his instructor informed him, every four miles the language changed." This, although probably an exaggerated account, indicates its capricious and varied dialects.

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The labours of scriptural translation did not restrain the ardent spirit of Martin in other important duties. In February, 1807, he completed a work which greatly interested him, "The Book of Common Prayer," which he also translated into Hindostanee. And, on Sunday, March 15, he commenced the performance of Divine Worship, in the vernacular language of India, concluding with an exhortation from the scriptures, in the same tongue. "The spectacle was novel as it was gratifying: to behold two hundred women, Portuguese, Roman Catholics and Mahomedans, crowding to attend the service of the English Church, which had lost nothing of its beautiful simplicity and devout solemnity in being clothed with an oriental dress."

Henry Martin's labours were somewhat varied; for, at times he was obliged to leave his books and interpreter, and betake himself to other branches of his clerical duties, and he details, with little apparent pleasure, a journey in which eight days were consumed, in a voyage of a hundred miles, for the purpose of performing the ceremony of marriage.

A being who held so much "converse with the skies," as in various portions of his journal we observe

Henry Martin enjoyed, might well be said to realize, in the far distant land that was the scene of his exertions, the following beautiful lines of the poet. "Should Fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climesRivers unknown to song, where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains-still 'tis nought to me, Since God is ever present, ever felt,

And where he vital breathes, there must be joy."

In such a spirit did the subject of this memoir write the lines, which we have extracted from his journal, and with which, until another opportunity offer, we shall conclude.

"I am happier here, in this remote land, where I hear so seldom of what happens in the world, than in England, where there are so many calls to look at the things that are seen. How sweet the retirement in which I live here! The precious word now my only study. Though in a manner buried from the world, neither seeing nor seen by Europeans, here, the time flows on with great rapidity. Let me be ready for every work. To leave this delightful solitude or remain in it, to go out, or go in, to stay or depart, just as the Lord shall appoint."

LITERARY CRITICISM.

THE SCOTTISH PULPIT, No. II.-Glasgow, 1832. THE present number of the Scottish Pulpit contains an outline of two Sermons, the first by Dr. Gordon of Edinburgh, from Isaiah, xxix. chap. 13th and 14th verses, on which we shall briefly remark, and the other by the Rev. J. Johnstone, of Glasgow, from Luke ix. 28th-31st verses, which we shall notice more in detail.

The first of these sermons is an exceedingly unfavourable specimen of Dr. Gordon's powers, and is entirely destitute of intense thought, or of a prominent introduction of the great and leading principles of Christianity, and, in comparison with the earnest and forcible appeals which we have heard from its author, or contrasted with any of the sermons in his volume published some years ago, it must be pronounced a failure. In truth, it only is a slight historical sketch of the reign of some of the kings of Israel, and it merely reiterates the oft-proclaimed truth, that sin is followed by punishment. Alas! had fallen man no poor other doctrine revealed to him than this, it would have been better for him that he had never been born. Mr. Johnstone's sermon is lucid in its arrangement, striking in its illustrations, and forcible in its arguments. The subject is presented to us in a new and impressive manner, and this discourse cannot fail, we think, to satisfy the reader, that it is the production of a studious and cultivated mind.

There is no history, taking it as a whole, which is more interesting, and which merits our closer study, than that of Jesus of Nazareth. The incidents with which it abounds are varied, and it exhibits unto us a character in which all the sublimer excellencies are blended with those which are more soft and lovely. Our souls are melted into tenderness when we contemplate him relieving the wants of the poor, imparting joy to the sorrowful, and administering consolation and hope to the broken-hearted and the desponding. Our minds are filled with wonder and awe, when we behold him in the plenitude of his power, stilling the rage of the tempest, liberating the victims of death, and irresistibly controulling the fierce malignity of the demons of hell. In the whole course of that history there is not a single event but what is worthy of our notice, and which does not teem with instruction. There are some events, however, which are of greater importance than others, which consequently excite a deeper interest and demand our more serious attention and of this description, you will readily grant, is the transfiguration on the holy mount.

Mr. Johnstone then mentions some of the important purposes the event mentioned in the text was calculaed to serve.

I. The transfiguration, and the circumstances attending it, were calculated to prepare the mind of the Saviour for meeting and encountering the sufferings which he was soon to endure.

II. The transfiguration of Christ, and the circumstances connected with it, were calculated to rectify the misconceptions which the disciples had formed of his character, and to prevent that despondency which his death had a tendency to produce.

III. I remark, in the third place, that the appearance of Moses and Elias on the mount of transfiguration, furnishes us with a most powerful proof of the immortality of the soul.

IV. The circumstances connected with the transfiguration were calculated to teach us the existence of the body, and some of the properties which it would possess in a glorified state.

Having illustrated these very important topics with ability, Mr. Johnstone concludes his discourse with the following peroration:

Such are the important purposes which the transfiguration, and the circumstances connected with it, are calculated to serve. Those disciples who witnessed this splendid scene enjoyed a singular privilege; and this high favour which was conferred upon them, they doubtless rightly appreciated. Such a privilege is not now conferred on any of the disciples of the Redeemer; yet by faith we are permitted to contemplate the Son of God, in circumstances far more exalted than even those in which he appeared on the holy mount. For we now see Jesus-who, for the suffering of death, was made a little lower than the angels, that he might taste death for every man-crowned with glory and with honour. Let us, therefore, fix our thoughts upon Him who has obtained a name above every name. And let this particularly be the exercise of our mind when we have the near prospect of again observing that holy ordinance by which we commemorate that "decease" which formed the subject of discourse on the mount. In fine, let us remember that there is a day rapidly advancing, when the Son of Man shall appear resplendent with glory, shining bright in his own glory, in the glory of the holy angels, and in the glory of his Father. Our eyes shall see him, and happy indeed will it be for us if, when we see him, we shall be found to bear his image. Happy will it be for us if, in that day of the Lord, we are found among the number of the redeemed, who shall be carried away to the land of beauty and of bliss, where they shall for ever behold the glory of God and of the Lamb. Amen.

CEMETERY OF PERE LA CHAISE.

Ar the present moment, when this City has the prospect of obtaining something similar to the Cemetery of Pére la Chaise at Paris, by converting the Fir Park into a Garden Church-Yard, it will, perhaps, be not altogether inappropriate, to present our readers with two beautiful little pictures, from Eugene Roch's contribution to the "Livre des Cent et un," illustrative of the feelings which are so frequently experienced during a visit to that last resting place of man. The first we extract is entitled

"THE BRIDE'S GRAVE

"I held several garlands in my hand; but knew of only one tomb upon which I could place them! Eight years had elapsed since I assisted at the wedding of one of my friends. It was a funeral rite-the last consolation of pure and virgin love ! There exists a disease more cruel than every other, because it wages pitiless war against youth instead of age, and commences its very first attacks upon the breath of life. The physician, on discovering its well-known symptoms, turns away his head in sadness, for he is without resource against its ravages. The destructive germ of this malady, in its last stage of developement, was in the bosom of the bride. The young man, her betrothed, who loved her with an affection as passionate as her own, was not selfish enough to refuse this vain phantom of a marriage. It afforded her consolation, and he was eager to gratify her. She allowed no part of the ceremony to be omitted; and, in spite of its immediate danger, encountered the death-chill of a particularly damp and cold church. It was, as I have already stated, the last consolation of a dying virgin. We conducted her to the house of her husband; I took her arm, and helped her to ascend the staircase. She moved with pain. Alas! how were my thoughts pre-occupied! I felt sure that this young and lovely creature would never again descend these stairs alive. On entering the nuptial apartment a ray of happiness beamed upon her pale features, and a spark of hope seemed to shine there, but in an instant it disappeared, and left no trace behind. Exhausted with the fatigue, she immediately retired to her chamber; she had her chaplet bung up within view, and her wedding dress spread at her feet. For twenty days she looked at them with a sweet but heart-rending smile!-on the twenty-first she saw them no more. Having accompanied her to the altar, I had also to accompany her remains to the grave. She was buried on an eminence, opposite to the old entrance. A tear started in my eye as I looked round and saw before me the grave of the virgin wife."

Our next extract is one of a most touching kind, it is entitled :—

"MATERNAL AFFECTION.

"I observed the motions of a young female, among the shrubs, where grief and sorrow retire to uninterrupted solitude. She was a wife, and had lost her first-born. With what care did she re

did she press her foot upon the spade, which she feared to make enter too deeply into the soil! With what care did she use the contents of a small watering-pot, which she took from behind a yew-tree; and how lovely, yet how melancholy, her smile at the first shoots of verdure! It was a smile pourtraying the deep pathos of maternal affection. Three feet of soil seemed not to conceal from her the face of her son. She appeared to look upon him, and hung over his tomb as if it were his cradle. Tender mother! thy babe is asleep, thou smilest upon him and fearest to awake him. A stranger to everything around her, and her attention absorbed by fond recollections, she heard not the bustle of the rich man's funeral.

"Every one else ran to witness this pomp; and each, to save himself trouble, climbed over the graves in his way, sullied with his footsteps the white grave stones, and made the slight black rails, which form but a feeble rampart to the sepulchres, bend under his weight. The very persons who but an instant before had, with religious care, adorned the tomb of a relative or friend, trampled, without pity, upon the freshly-turned flower-borders which filial piety had not yet had the courage to surround with rails, or threw down the garlands of white flowers which surmounted the monumental inscriptions or adorned the graves. So true is it, that even the cypress of the tomb is sacred for him only by whom it is planted. This heedless profanation is renewed each time that a bier is attended to the place of its last deposit by solemn and ostentations pomp."

If all that is stupid, false, superfluous, irrelevant to the subject, were struck out of books, we should have authors of forty or fifty volumes reduced to eight or ten-the three volumes of most novels, to one-folios to duodecimos, and many essays that fill several pages, to become observations like these.

When individuals, although strangers to one another, are placed on any occasion, in similar circumstances, and their interest becomes the same, a tacit partnership, or treaty offensive and defensive, is immediately concluded among them.

A stranger of merit or distinction is no where more caressed than in a place where the society is divided into parties; for each party being anxious to secure him to itself, he is courted by them all. Invitation follows invitation, and he is always the favoured guest. His judgment is frequently appealed to, and his decisions implicitly admitted. He has thus daily opportunities of experiencing the hospitality of his new friends; of being gratified by the compliments paid himself; and amused at the many sly hits, and good-natured observations which the hostile parties are pleased to pass on each other.

We frequently feel attachment to particular places in which we may have sojourned, and aversion to others; but it is not always the places themselves, that occasion our partiality or dislike, but circumstances that may have occurred in them. When anything disagreeable has befallen us, or any bad news reached us, we insensiby connect our painful sensations with the place in which they were first felt; and, on the other hand, when any thing favourable has taken place, or any happy tidings been communicated, our satisfaction gilds the spot with its own sunshine forever after.

LACONIC SAYINGS.

LIFE may be likened to a web of cloth, from which a small patch is cut every day.

Genius can make any subject shine, as art can make glass out of sand, and produce the most beautiful manufactures from iron.

The more simple things, in daily use, are the better. When they are complicated they give us more trouble in using them than the benefit we derive is worth.

Whatever grievance we take to heart, however trifling it may be, stings us as much as if it were a greater misfortune.

Nothing can better illustrate that every thing must be used in moderation, and in its proper capacity, than the familiar instance of a fire. When we sit at a right distance from it, it diffuses agreeable warmth and vigour through our frame; but if we were forced too near, it would occasion uneasiness and pain; and nearer still, torture and death.

We often blunder on for years in ignorance of many things which we ought to know, and which it would be extremely use ful to understand, although it would require but a slight exertion of industry to unravel the difficulties that perplex us, and set ourselves right for the future.

The severest satire that can be composed, against certain characters, is that which does not load them with imaginary deformities, but describes them exactly as they are.

Courts of law seem often more anxious to observe their own forms and precedents, than to elucidate truth, or dispense justice. Nothing can be more disgusting than the manifesto of a despot, proclaiming the interest he has never ceased to take in the happiness of a people he is about, perhaps, to enslave, and whose dungeons are already filled with such of them as had evinced spirit enough to resist his arbitrary decrees.

The world has always been clamorous against those who have endeavoured to break their mental claims, and enlighten their understandings, as if they were unwilling to be roused from the torpor and debasement, in which they were plunged. It is to such bold spirits, however, that we are indebted for our present emancipation! Had it not been for them, we should still be trammeled with the fetters of superstition, one of the greatest of human evils, and which, according to the able historian of Europe, has often occasioned men to exceed the brutes in folly, and the devils in wickedness.

We see constant instances of men in all situations, and of all professions amassing wealth. Hence it is evident that success in the world depends chiefly on the judgment and industry of individuals, and not on the place where they reside, or the business they pursue.

It is amusing to observe the hypocrisy of those who have been the cause of quarrels between themselves and others, going about from house to house affecting to wonder how the difference happened, and endeavouring to throw the blame on their unoffending neighbour.

If a man whose character is respectable will go into foreign parts, and on his return relate to his countrymen what he has seen and heard, every body will believe him; but, if a man who has gone the journey of life, will tell the result of his experience to the young, they will pay no attention to his narrative.

Industry is always cheered with the prospect of reaping its just reward; but idleness is burdensome without holding out any prospect of future advantage.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

HEAVENLY LOVE.

THE subjoined Paraphrase was written by the late D. F. MLeod, Esq. Assistant Surgeon, H. E. I. C. Service, Madras. We beg leave to return our thanks for the permission which has been so kindly granted to us, of publishing it in "The Day :"

Romans viii. 35, 38, 39.

How boundless and intense the love,
Descending from the Lord above,
To sinful man below!
How wonderful are all his ways,
How worthy of the highest praise,
Which man has to bestow!

The friendship of the world, how frail,
When bleak misfortune does assail,

And chain its captive down!
When grief, and want, their tortures blend,
How oft we see the sunshine friend,
The dearest ties disown.

Not so the friendship of the Lord,
Not so the love His ways afford;

Not such the promise made.
No power can His decrees derange,
His faith to man can never change,
His love can never fade.

The earth, beneath reviving spring,
May flowers and verdure cease to bring,
Forgetting nature's call;
And man may see, with wondering grief,
The barren tree, the withered leaf,
Before the autumn's fall.

The father may his son forget,
The mother may her infant hate,
And curse its smiling rest;
The son, from nature's bondage freed,
With bloody hand, and bloodier deed,

May strike his father's breast.

The earth's foundations e'en may shake,
The sea may from its confines break,

And scatter ruin round;
While in the wide extent of space,
Exists no shadow of the trace,

Where erst proud man was found. But life, nor death, can ever move, Or tear away the ardent love,

Which towards repentance flows; Nor length, nor depth, can mortal hide, Or from the love of God divide; For, with that love the Saviour died, Who all the powers of hell defied, And then victorious rose.

RELIGIOUS NOVELTIES.

A SECOND Volume of Dr. Sumner's Exposition of the Gospel is in the press.

An attempt to render the Chief Events of the Life of our Saviour intelligible and profitable to Young Children is about to be published.

The Theology of Natural History; or, Treatises on the Power, Goodness, and Wisdom of God, as manifested in the Creation, is preparing for publication. This work is written in conformity with the will of the late Earl of Bridgewater, by the following authors: John Kidd, M. D., Rev. J. T Chalmers, D.D., P. M. Roget, M. D., Sir Charles Bell, Knt., Rev. W. Kirby, Rev. W. Buckland, Rev. W. Whewell, and W. Prout, M. D.

GLASGOW FEMALE ORPHAN INSTITUTION.

Ir gives us much pleasure to learn, that the religious and philanthropic portion of our community will have an opportunity, next week, of shewing their good will to an Institution which has existed for upwards of seven years among us, with the most beneficial effects. Of the many benevolent Institutions, indeed, for which Glasgow is famed, there is, perhaps, none that has greater claims upon the compassion and the sympathy of the charitable, than the Female Orphau Institution. The objects of the charity, particularly at this period of peculiar distress, sickness and sudden death, have claims upon us of a particularly interesting nature. Their youth, their sex, their destitution, their deprivation of their natural protectors, present such an accumulation of affecting circumstances, as cannot fail to call forth expressions and tokens of commiseration from all whose hearts are not totally insensible to the calls of humanity. We envy not the frigid insensibility of him who, possessed of the means, would refuse to contribute his little fraction to the relief and protection, and training to future usefulness, of the helpless female orphan. Let then every one, who would relieve this helpless portion of the human race, who, in the course of an inscrutable Providence, have been bereft of their natural protectors and thrown upon the mercy of the world, go to St. George's Church, on Tuesday, and offer their support and countenance to this useful Institution.

GERMAN SYNAGOGUE AT PARIS. (From the French of Jouy.)

I went to the synagogue about an hour before the time agreed upon, in order to have leisure for the examination of this place of worship, which I had never before entered.

Above the altar, at the bottom of the sanctuary, the tables of the law are enclosed in a cedar press, covered, before divine service, with a curtain of silk velvet, embroidered with gold.

There are two inscriptions in the interior of the synagogue. Over the entrance:

Thou enterest here with God:

And with God shalt thou go away!

At the other extremity, on the moulded cornice which separates the choir from the sanctuary:

Remember for whom thou comest here!

I was making my observations, with my hat in my hand, when one of the keepers of the synagogue approached, and requested I would replace my hat upon my head, because the God of the Jews holds uncovered heads, in his temple, as an abomination. I complied the more readily, because the contrary practice, adopted in Christian churches, has always appeared to me calculated to Without beprove fatal to such as, like me, have delicate langs. lieving that the God of Israel attaches to this ceremonial as much importance as the keeper of the synagogue, I found it more seemly and advantageous than the custom in mosques and pagodas of entering them bare-footed.

The family I was waiting for, arrived; Mr. d'Arcis, his sonin-law, and his grandson, took their seats near the desk, where I joined them. Mrs. and Miss Levy went to the upper gallery, exclusively reserved for females, in conformity to the commandment in Deuteronomy, which prescribes the separation of the sexes in places devoted to prayer.

From the extreme simplicity of their dress, it is easily perceived that the frequenters of this synagogue do not belong to the most wealthy class of Jews. Mr. Samuel, to whom I made the remark, admitted that the richer Israelites, with the exception of three in his own family, attended divine worship only twice a year, and contributed but a very small sum to the expenses of religious establishments.

Nothing is more simple than the service of the Hebrews in their synagogue. It consists in prayer, readings from the Old Testament, and a few psalms.

Their prayers are contained in the formulary of their worship; they are read with solemnity by a rabbi, and at the end of each verse the congregation say Amen.

The readings from the Old Testament consist of some verses from Deuteronomy and Numbers, recited alternately by the rabbi and the congregation.

The service concludes with psalms sung in counterpoint of exquisite harmony. The beautiful voice, and remarkable talent of the principal singer, attracted to the German synagogue, some years ago, the most brilliant company at Paris. The empire of fashion, and the power of music, upon the imaginations of the fair sex, are well known; and it was feared, at one time, that the enthusiasm inspired by the Hebrew singer and his young assistants, would do great injury to the Italian Opera, and fill the synagogue of the Rue Nazareth at the expense of the church of St. Roch.

ODDS AND ENDS.

PIGEONS. By the French law, the lord had a right to the young pigeons of his vassal, except in the March flight. Hartib supposes that there were, in his time, in England, 26,000 dovehouses, and allowing 500 pair to each house, and four bushels to be consumed yearly by each pair, it makes the loss of corn in a year 13,000,000 bushels. In Persia, pigeons are trained to kill the wild ones, of which amusement they are so fond, that a Christian is not permitted to keep any; and Tavernier, who mentions this, adds, that some Christians have become Mahometans, merely to be entitled to this privilege.

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ERMON. FEMALE ORPHAN INSTITUTION.—

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