all been from one to twenty-seven times in prison; but two cannot sailors, bargemen, and shopmen. They stated that they have makers, masons and carpenters, blacksmiths, miners, bakers, up to the following trades:-Tailors, shoemakers, cabinetone at the second, who (exclusive of labourers) were brought "THERE WERE fifty one thieves at the first meeting, and forty

tell the number of times they have been in prison, they have been in so often.

"BUT HERE I wish to impress your lordship with the character of our last meeting. Sixty-nine of those present left this room to go to sleep at different workhouses, as casual paupers or vagrants; leaving behind them sixty-nine felons. Of these sixty-nine vagrants or casual paupers, forty-two ascribed their present state of ruin to being allowed to sleep in the casual wards of the workhouses.

"IF SUCH BE the results in a meeting so small as that which we held on Tuesday night last, what must be the effect on casual paupers generally? It confirms them in falsehood; it is a nursery for crime; it prepares for imprisonment; and it is destructive of domestic happiness. Many sorrowing parents have wept in my room, while uttering their complaints against the casual wards; and many youths of both sexes have wept, and said, I wish I had never known a casual ward; for before I knew it I was right, but now I am ruined.'

"WHEN these young men have applied to me, they have represented themselves to be most anxious to have the means to emigrate. Many of them have tried the offices of emigration, but in vain; for a felon has no chance of success from loss of character."

THE missionary declared that all then present professed earnestly a desire to begin a new course, if only they could no so without starving; and under these circumstances they desired the counsel of Lord Ashley, whether anything could be done for them; and especially whether it would be right to petition the Government of their country, or to memorialise the Prime Minister to ask for means to emigrate.

THE missionary concluded his address by referring to the deserved esteem in which Lord Ashley was held by thousands of our juvenile population, and their numerous parents. He implored him to devise any plan by which their purposes of refor mation could be carried out.

"I KNOW," said he, "if your lordship can, you will; and the blessing of these, who are ready to perish,' will descend upon you, and they and their children will call you blessed.

HUNDREDS have knelt down with me to pray, through Jesus Christ, that for his sake the mercy of a forgiving God may wash their sins away, and that He, in His good providence, may open a way for them, that they may be enabled to rise from their present ruin and degradation, and be numbered amongst those who can walk the streets, and associate with their friends, and live as a regenerate body of men, to be an honour to their country and a blessing to the world.”

LORD ASHLEY, on the conclusion of this appeal, addressed the assembly of felons and vagrants at considerable length, and in a most careful and judicious manner. He recommended them to petition both Lord John Russell, as the head of her Majesty's Government, and Sir George Grey, as her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, and promised to present their petition; but he would do so only on the condition they should at once abstain from thieving. It was arranged that the petition should be signed a week hence; when the question was generally asked, "How were they, as known thieves, to live between this and the next meeting?" A pious gentleman recommended the use of prayer; one of the principal theives rose and said " My lord, and gentlemen of the jury, prayer is very good, but it will not fill an empty stomach." There was so general a response of "Hear, hear," to this speech, tat "the directors of the meeting were in considerable difficulty."

THE embarrassment into which the gentlemen visitors were thrown appears to have terminated by the proposal of some voluntary subscriptions of £58, which were a short time afterwards devoted to sending twelve of these thieves to the United States. This humane and laudable effort led to the misunder standing referred to between the worthy missionary, Mr. Jackson, and two of the emigrants' wives, who were left at home; and this "misunderstanding," under the merciful dispensations

of Providence, has been the means of the public being put in possession of such appalling facts as will, in all probability, prove our future guide to the restoration of the vagabond and the thief, and to the preservation, protection, and recovery of the morals of the country.

OCCUPATIONS OF CHOLERA VICTIMS IN LONDON.

DR. GUY has favoured the Registrar-General with the following account of the professions or occupations of 4312 men of the age of fifteen and upwards, who were destroyed by cholera. It will be seen that the disease in London was not only fatal to the poor, but to many artisans, tradesmen, shopkeepers, professional people, and persons of independent means. Of the men who died of cholera, 135 were returned simply as gentlemen of independent means, 6 were clergymen or ministers of religion, 16 medical men, 18 magistrates or lawyers, 11 architects or engineers, 11 merchants, 11 officers in the army and navy, 25 master mariners, 100 clerks or accountants, 11 customhouse, 7 excise officers, 14 builders, 14 booksellers, &c.; 14 carpenters, undertakers, &c.; 13 cheesemongers, 17 drapers, &c., 11 fishmongers, 13 fruiterers, 20 grocers, 13 oilmen, 42 licensed victuallers, 5 wine merchants, 8 master shoemakers, 6 master tailors, 6 tobacconists, 19 travellers. Of the classes returned as artisans and labourers, 52 were bakers, 32 butchers, 102 weavers, 80 tailors, 151 shoemakers, 47 bricklayers, 17 masons, 20 plasterers, 70 cabinet makers, 111 carpenters, 28. coopers, 73 painters and plumbers, 33 sawyers, 20 shipwrights, 22 tanners, 18 turners, 16 coachmakers, 35 cabmen, 57 coachmen and cabmen, 15 saddlers, 52 carmen and carriers, 37 grooms and ostlers, 6 drovers, 11 engineers, 10 railway guards, 13 stokers, 16 letter carriers and postmen, 99 porters or messengers, 24 policemen, 7 watchmen, 62 soldiers, 299 sailors and Greenwich pensioners,

27 watermen, 18 bargemen, 7 ballast heavers, 53 coalporters and coalheavers, 25 footmen and man servants. 756 labourers are returned Dr. Guy has given in the table "a rough approximation to the ratio which the deaths bear to the living" in the several occupations. This determination is as difficult as it is interesting. The occupations were only returned for the metropolis in a very general way by the census commissioners, in 1841, and in the trades masters were not distinguished from men. The results which deserve most attention are those which relate to well-defined, numerous occupations. "Labourer," "gentleman," "manservant," are terms very loosely employed; but the statement that I in 67 labourers, 1 in 200 gentlemen, and I in 1572 menservants, including footmen, died of cholera, expresses something near the risk incurred by the three classes in the epidemic. The domestic men-servants of London were 39,800 in 1841, and 25 died of cholera; the clergy, doctors, and lawyers, did not exceed 12,000, yet 35 persons belonging to the learned professions died of cholera in 1849.—Official Return of Registrar-General.

A question has arisen, whether each of the Magi offered severally only one of these presents [of gold, frankincense, and myrrh,] or all three of the presents together. It is most in accordance with the mystery before us, to acknowledge each as offering the three; for the faith of each individual rested on Christ as a King, as a God, and as a Man.-Anselm.

With their bodies they [the Magi] worship; with their gifts they do homage; with their dutiful services they adore; with their eyes they see a man; with their acts of obedience they confess a God.-St. Augustine.

A father above the common rate of men has commonly a son below it.-Dr. Johnson.