brance of my want of dedication in these meetings. "Second day morning. We had a little sitting among ourselves, desiring to feel our way from, or detention in this city, rightly ordered; we were afresh helped to believe, that, as the eye was kept single, He who had led forth would continue to preserve us. We went to tea with a family named Decknatel-a widow, her son and two daughters; these were educated in the Anabaptist profession, her husband having been a preacher among this sect, but since his death they have not joined in communion with any particular people, but kept themselves select, except going sometimes to the Moravian worship. A sweet influence prevailed in the house, and a good deal of religious conversation occurred, J. Vanderwerf being with us to interpret. They believe in the sufficiency of the spirit of truth to lead into all truth, though they seem not fully to have entered into that rest where there is a ceasing from our own works, as they sing hymns sometimes, and have an instrument of music in their house. They were very desirous of understanding us, and our errand-it seemed strange to them for me to leave a husband and seven children, but feeling liberty to enter a little into the cause, and some particulars of my convincement, &c., as the remembrance arose with renewed thankfulness, they appeared not only fully satisfied, but to comprehend the language. This conversation introduced to a solemn silence, in which they readily joined, and we had each to unite in the testimony that the salutation of 'peace unto it' belonged to this house: this memorable season closed in awful supplication, and we parted under a feeling of that pure love which throws down the narrow barriers of nominal distinction, and baptizes into the unity of the one Spirit. "9th. At four o'clock this afternoon we had another public meeting, which was well attended as to numbers, but the people were unsettled in time of silence; the doctrine of truth ran clearly, and a hope was raised that some felt a testimony to it in their own minds. "10th. Left Amsterdam with J. V. jun. and Frederick Mentz, in a carriage boat, the usual way of travelling in this country; it is drawn along a canal by a horse, and consists of a small cabin, calculated to hold seven or eight, and a larger room which will contain about thirty people, with seats to accommodate all the passengers, and light sufficient to work by. We arrived at Utrecht between three and four o'clock, felt exercised respecting a meeting here, but, not living enough by faith, and looking too much outward, discouragement prevailed. "11th. Set off from Utrecht in a post wagon, and travelled over deep roads, through a woody country thickly inhabited, though the land is poor, and we found but indifferent lodging and entertainment until we reached Dusseldorf, on the evening of the 13th, where we got to a good inn. "14th. Concluded to stay this day, to feel whether bound or dismissed from hence; in the forenoon called on Michael David Wetterboar, whom our friends Decknatel recommended us to see, we also drank tea with him, and found him an inward retired man, living pretty much alone, and not knowing that he has any companions in this large place, where superstition seems to reign. We had a season of solid retirement after tea, and some profitable conversation through R. G. in French. "15th. Went off the direct course about eighteen miles to Elberfeld, expecting to find some seeking people; we were directed to a person named Smith, with whom we spent a little time; he speaks English and was civil, but seemed fearful of engaging to be our interpreter: he informed us there were some mystics in the town, who met together on first days, but we found no way to get into their company. In the morning we walked out, G. D. and I one way, and R. and S. G. another, but though we called in at some houses, no way opened for a meeting, we therefore returned to Dusseldorf to tea. M. D. W. spent the evening with us, and we had a season of spiritual refreshment in the feeling of Christian liberty and love, under which we parted. 17th. Left Dusseldorf about half past-six, and got to Cologne to dinner-a dark place of popish superstition, crosses and images appearing almost every where in and about it: we all felt oppressed and glad to leave this place; reached Bonn, a smaller town, where similar idolatry prevailed: G. D. and R. G. walking out saw the Host, as it is called, carrying about, and the people kneeling to it. "18th. Rode through a beautiful valley of vineyards, and other plantations, bounded on one side with richly cultivated mountains, and on the other side by the Rhine, on each side of which, towns and villages thickly appeared, also some monasteries and ruins, altogether forming as diversified and lovely a scene as I ever rode through; but in this day's journey I found nature unusually oppressed, so that it was hard to bear the motion, and my illness increased so much, that when I saw a town on the other side the Rhine, not knowing it was our destination, I thought it looked a desirable resting place, and wished to get to it; when the driver turned the carriage that way, and it proved to be Nieuvied, a place to which we had recommendations.* *Copy of one of the Introductory Letters given by the family of Decknatel. MY DEAR BROTHER; call Quakers, from England; perhaps they will call "I give this address by these Friends, whom they in their journey at Nieuvied-though you cannot speak Here we got to a comfortable inn, like a private | chapter and expounded-we sat still until they lodging, kept by Moravians, who received us had concluded, when a few words were, as well cordially, and we took up our quarters with them. as the language admitted, conveyed to them. "19th. I was very ill, so as to lie in bed all On the whole we were not sorry we obtained this day, low in mind as well as in body; dear S. G. acquaintance with their manner of worship, as indisposed also, and we felt glad in this state to others denominated them Quakers, and we were be in a quiet asylum. now able to unfold to them the difference between us. We have abundance to discourage us within and without, many fears, and no outward help but the comfort we find in being closely banded together; and beside the suffering we are dipped into, no apparent prospect of these tending to gather many, if any, from the barren mountains; for let us feel as we may, we have since leaving Utrecht been unable to convey our meaning to the people in general, and appointed no meeting, "20th. First day, my complaints continuing I was not able to go out, my dear companions sat at my bed-side where, in a season of quiet refreshment, we remembered with comfort that it was when the disciples walked together and were sad, that their great Master joined Himself to them. what our passing through, and being as gazing stocks may do, must be left; it will, I trust, increase our humiliation, if no other good be done. (To be continued.) EXTRACT. "21st. A day of distress every way, mostly in bed during the forenoon: after dinner went to see the Moravian establishment, the Schools for girls and boys, &c., but so low that nothing seemed capable of cheering me; my faith and patience are so tried that I am often ready to fear the honor of the great name, and that excellent cause which through every discouragement is dear to my heart, may suffer by my engaging in this embassy. I feel myself so in-fles, that roughens the daily experience of a The excitable peevishness that kindles at trisufficient for the work, and even at seasons when million families, that scatters its bitter stings at holy help is near, qualified to do so little, that I the table and by the hearth-stone, that introam ready to query for what am I sent? Yet I duces a prickle into the whole clothing and remember there are various vessels in a house, movement of life, what does this, but unmixed and it may sometimes seem proper to the Master to call for one of the smallest, to use as He harm? What ingredient does it furnish but gall? its fine woundings may be of little consequence pleases to convey what He appoints; and if care be only taken to have this vessel kept clean, tracted; but, when habitually carried into the in some given case, and its tiny darts easily exthough it may not be often called for, or able to whole texture of life, it destroys more peace contain much, it may answer some little purpose, by having a place in the house; and help to fill plague and famine and the sword. It is a deeper up some corner, which a larger one could not anguish than grief or the gasp of death; it is a sharper pang than the afflicted moan with; it is so easily get into. I know that I sought not a heavier pressure from human hands, than you this, that I ventured not without feeling the feel when the Almighty "hath touched you." weight of Woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel' where the holy finger is pleased to point : and the remembrance of these baptisms, with the renewal of frequent close conflicts, raise a hope through all, that though the sea may be permitted to swell, and the waves rise exceedingly high, the poor vessel will be preserved from becoming a wreck amidst the storms, and the little cargo be safely landed at last. than A Memorial of Shappaqua Monthly Meeting, concerning our beloved friend, JACOB L. MOTT, deceased. Feeling deeply sensible of the great loss we have sustained in the removal, by death, of this our beloved friend, and believing the remem brance of those who have been examples of "23d. We called this morning on an old faithfulness to manifested duty, has a tendency man, belonging to a sect who call themselves in- to strengthen and encourage others to "walk by spired a little conversation through an inter- the same rule and mind the same thing," we preter proved rather satisfactory. At seven in feel it right to prepare a memorial concerning the evening we went to sit with these people in him, fully believing he has received an entrance their meeting, expecting, from the account re-into that heavenly kingdom which is the reward ceived of them, that they sat mostly in silence, of the righteous. but we found it far otherwise. They remained awhile still, with apparent solemnity, then all kneeled down, and used words as prayer, afterwards singing, then one of them read part of a He was born in the city of New York, on the 13th of 9th month, 1784. His parents were Jacob and Deborah L. Mott, the latter a worthy member of our Society, who was much concerned for her children, and it is believed her example and care had a good effect upon our deceased friend. Although not addicted to gross evils, he was prone to levity and mirth; and his testimony is remembered, that when returning home from such pastimes; the convictions of truth on his mind were so strong, that tears of contrition have fallen from his eyes, as he passed through the streets of the city, when little was to be heard but the watchman at his post. Early in life submitting to these visitations of his Heavenly Father's love, he was drawn to attend the meetings of Friends; and he writes of himself, as a brand plucked from the burning, and a monument of the mercy of God. He was married the 6th of 8th month, 1806, to Hannah Riker, with whom he lived in great harmony and mutual affection for fifty years. It may be truly said of him, he was an affectionate husband, a tender parent, and a kind neighbor, being cheerful in his deportment and upright in his dealings among men; he was much beloved by those who knew him. He was received a member of New York Monthly Meeting, at his own request, in the 4th month, 1807, being in the 23d year of his age. It appears to have been his practice to commit to writing some of the exercises of his mind, on various subjects, and we believe nothing can describe him more pertinently than some extracts from them. After taking the responsibilities of a family, and entering into business, he says: "I had many close trials, besetments, and temptations, in which my religious faith was closely tried. I now see very clearly that many, or at least some of the difficulties and troubles that I have experienced might have been avoided, had I always attended to the revelations of the spirit of truth in my younger years; they were brought about by my unfaithfulness; I wandered from my inward guide, and was almost forgetful of the day of my espousal. But blessed be Israel's God; thanksgiving and praise be ascribed unto him, although I wandered from the fold and went into the wilderness, he followed me, and kept close to me, and, giving me strength to resist temptation, preserved me from falling into the hands of the enemy, and thus renewed my faith, enabling me to bear up the testimonies of our Society. Although a part of the time I resided out of the city, I seldom missed attending a meeting, notwithstanding I had to row a boat ten miles to get there, and sometimes returned the same day." In the summer of 1814 he settled within the compass of this Monthly Meeting, and became a member of it, by certificate, and when health permitted was diligent in attending meeting, although living nearly ten miles from it. In recording the faithfulness and perseverance of our dear friend in this particular, we desire not to eulogize him, but to stimulate others to press through difficulties in the peformance of this reasonable duty. Having experienced the benefit resulting from an early dedication to the service of his Divine Master, he was often deeply concerned for the welfare of others, and sometimes in meetings it seemed right for him to express it; but feeling that the call and qualification for the solemn work of the ministry are of God, he put it off from time to time, until about the thirty-first year of his age, when, in a public meeting at Shappaqua, he appeared in supplication for the preservation of himself and the assembly, under the weight of which he was deeply humbled, keeping in view the testimony of our Holy Pattern, my doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me." His communications were sound and edifying. He experienced the sustaining hand of Almighty Goodness to be as a wall of defense around about him, preserving him in the faith, for which he was concerned earnestly to contend. His ministry was acknowledged, and he was recommended as a member of the meeting of ministers and elders in 1830. "This," he says, "again increased my responsibility, as now I was at liberty, if I felt a concern to visit Friends of other meetings, to open it to the Monthly Meeting." Feeling himself a monument of mercy, raised up in order to proclaim the goodness and mercy of God, he endeavored to stir up the pure mind in others, by testifying of his grace, the word nigh in the heart, and in the mouth. He was frequently concerned to visit meetings, in our own and neighboring Yearly Meetings, we believe to the satisfaction of his friends, and it is evident he realized the truth of his own language, "that the Good Master never sends his servants out in their own strength, but amply supplies wisdom out of his inexhaustible treasury." He was zealous for the maintenance of good order and the right administration of our discipline, being deeply concerned for the prosperity of our Society. Earnest und affectionate were his appeals to the rising generation, to come forward in faithfulness to the requisitions of their Heavenly Father. "On you," he writes, "must depend the future prosperity and character of our Society. If you are faithful, some of you 'ere long will be called to fill prominent stations in the militant church. It is therefore peculiarly necessary that you should be established in the great principles of the Christian religion, in which is involved your own welfare, and that of your fellow men, who at times may be adopting the language, who shall show us any good?' If you examine history, you will find in all ages it has been those who have been faithful to the light of Christ within, that have been made instruments in the hand of God, in gathering to the church. faithful in the little, and you shall be made rulers over more, and, under the guidance of Be gem, Meet ornament for royal wreath, for Persia's diadem. Cheer up, faint heart, that hear'st the tale, and though thy lot may seem shalt be that there may not be monsters of the deep to But, ere of no account, within the watery mass it fellwhom the presence of this intrusive foreigner It found a shelter and a home, the oyster's concave shell; may be an offence unpardonable, and who will And there that little drop became a hard and precious drive it out and destroy it whenever it appears. It cannot be asserted positively that the cable will endure the pressure of the water, which, at a depth of two miles, is estimated to be five thousand pounds to the square inch. It is not positively Contemptible, yet not of it as nothing worth esteem; known that, throughout the entire coil, there Nor fear that thou, exempt from care of Providence, may not be defects in the gutta percha coating An undistinguishable drop in nature's boundless sea. of the wires, that will only be discovered when the cable is entirely submerged in water. None can say whether the mere weight of the cable itself, when suspended from a ship for several miles, may not be sufficient to break it. All of these doubtful points are parts of the grand problem to be solved. The experiment has hardly been begun yet. We may have to wait long before we can decide positively on success or failure. We must, however, contemplate the possibility of an entire failure; but not until years have elapsed, millions have been expended, and the absolute impracticability of the undertaking is fully established. The world will not readily abandon a project of such magnificence. Science may shrug its shoulders and croakers may scold; but there will be a persistence in the effort to carry out the grand idea, at least for some years. Each failure will teach something new, and it may require a long time before the attempt can be properly made; but the delays will be advantageous and conducive to the permanence of the work, if it is ever accomplished. And even should it fail completely, the world will be the wiser for the experiment, and the thought, the labor, the time and the money expended on the undertaking, will not have been thrown away, But we prefer not to think of a total failure, and we hope still to be able to give the readers of the Bulletin, at three o'clock on some fine afternoon this fall, the substance of the news of London and Liverpool at five or six on the same afternoon.-Evening Bulletin. thee live, The power that called thee into life has skill to make rare, station there. From the Quarterly Review A Treatise on the Nature, Fecundity, and Devastating Character of the Rat, and its cruel Cost to the Nation, with the best Means for its Extermination. By Uncle James. London, 1850. Boswell relates that the wits, who assembled at the house of Sir Joshua Reynolds to hear Grainger's poem on the "Sugar-cane" read in manuscript, burst into laughter when, after much pompous blank-verse, a new paragraph commenced with the invocation "Now Muse, let's sing of rats." But, if a mean topic for the bard, they are an interesting subject to the naturalist, an anxious one to the agriculturist, and of some importance to everybody. Though it was no easy matter to throw around them a halo of poetry, and to elevate them into epic dignity-a difficulty which was noways surmounted by calling them, as Grainger subsequently did, "the whiskered vermin race"-yet there was nothing with which they had a more serious practical connection than the "Sugar-cane." It was reckoned that in Jamaica they consumed a twentieth part of the entire crop, and 30,000 were destroyed in one year in a single plantation. In fact rats are to the earth what sparrows are to the air-univerA man passes for what he is worth. Very sally present. Unlike their feathered analogues idle is all curiosity concerning other people's we rarely see them, and consequently have little estimate of us, and idle is all fear of remaining idea of the liberality with which they are disunknown. If a man know that he can do any-tributed over every portion of the habitable thing that he can do it better than any one globe. They swarm in myriads in the vast netelse he has a pledge of the acknowledgement work of sewers under our feet, and by means of of that fact by all persons.-Emerson. our house-drains have free access to our basements, under which they burrow; in the walls they establish a series of hidden passages; they rove beneath the floors and the roof, and thus establish themselves above, below, and beside us. In the remote islands of the Pacific they equaltants. But we shall not attempt to write the ly abound, and are sometimes the only inhabiuniversal history of the rat. It is enough if we narrate his doings in Great Britain. Sufficeth them-the simple plan, "The good old rule That they should take who have the power, There are in England two kinds of land-rats the old English black rat, and the Norwegian or brown rat. According to Mr. Waterton the black rat is the native and proper inhabitant of the island; the brown rat not only an interloper but the black rat has kept more than is commonand exterminator, but a Whig rat-a combin-ly imagined. Mr. Waterton is mistaken when ation which he thinks perfectly consistent. In he adopts the popular notion that the old English his charming Essays on Natural History he says: almost totally annihilated by his brown cousin. breed which came in with the Conqueror is "Though I am not aware that there are any The first comer has no more been destroyed by minutes in the zoological archives of this country the subsequent invader, than the Celt is annihiwhich point out to us the precise time at which lated by the triumphant Saxon. As we find the this insatiate and mischievous little brute first former still holding their ground in Cornwall, appeared among us, still there is a tradition current in this part of the country (Yorkshire) that the black rat flourishing in certain localities. Wales, and the Highlands of Scotland, so we find it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My bread's brewery, and in the Whitechapel sugarIn the neighborhood of the Tower, in Whitfather, who was of the first order of field naturalists, was always positive upon this point, and he refineries, he still holds his own, and wo be to maintained firmly that it did accompany the any brown trespasser who ventures into his preHouse of Hanover in its emigration from Germany to Englaud." cincts. The weaker animal has learnt that union is strength, and, acting in masses, they attack their powerful foe as fearlessly as a flight of swallows does a hawk; but if an equal number of the two breeds are placed together in a cage without food, the chances are that all the black rats will have disappeared before morning, and, even though well fed, the brown Brobdignags invariably eat off the long and delicate ears of their little brethren, just as a gourmand, after a substantial meal, amuses his appetite with a wafer-biscut. Having thus given the "little brute" a bad name, he pertinaciously hunts him through the two volumes of his Essays; nay, he does more; for, on account of his Whiggism, he is the only wild animal banished forever from Waterton Hall, that happy home for all other fowls of the air and beasts of the field, against which gamekeepers wage war as vermin. In Carpenter's edition of Cuvier, however, an account is given of the brown rat, or Surmulot, which if true, entirely disposes of this pretty account of his ad-lessness with which he will follow man and The rapid spread of the rat is due to the fearvent. We are there told that he originally came his commissariat wherever he goes. Scarcely a from Persia, where he lives in burrows, and that he did not set out on his travels until the year takes in its complement of rats as regularly as ship leaves a port for a distant voyage but it 1727, when an earthquake induced him to swim the Volga, and enter Europe by way of the passengers, and in this manner the destructive little animal has not only distributed himself Astrakan.* When once he had set foot in England, he no doubt treated his weaker brother over the entire globe, but, like an enterprising and predecessor, the black rat, much as the traveller, continually passes from one country to another. The colony of four-footed depredators, Stuart dynasty was treated by the House of Hanover. Though the black rat was not him- which ships itself free of expense, makes, for inself an usurper, but rather an emigrant, who took stance, a voyage to Calcutta, whence many of the body will again go to sea, and land perhaps passession of an unoccupied territory, his reign is also said by some to have been contempo- have touched for water. at some uninhabited island where the vessel may In this manner many raneous with an earlier change in the royal line of England, for he is asserted to have come over in the train of the Conqueror. He still abounds in Normandy, and to this day is known in Wales under the name of Llyoden Francon-the French a hoary old wanderer has circumnavigated the globe oftener than Captain Cook, and set his paws on twenty different shores. The rat-catcher to the East India Company has often destroyed as many as five hundred in a ship newly arrived delicate animal than the brown rat, and has so from Calcutta. The genuine ship-rat is a more strong a resemblance to the old Norman breed, that we cannot help thinking they are intimately related. The same fine large ear, sharp nose, long tail, dark fur, and small size, characterize both, and a like antipathy exists between them and the Norwegian species. It is by no means uncommon to find distinct colonies of the two kinds in the same ship-the one confining itself to the stem, the other to the stern, of the vessel. The |