cessions daily occurring in the ranks of the adult societies, and which can be distinctly traced to the agency of the young. Go on then in the work which you have thus early begun-adhere stedfastly to your principles-strive to persevere to the end; and by so doing you will reap the double blessing, that while you seek to do good to others, you are at the same time benefiting yourselves. I will not detain you longer, but introduce to you Master James Stewart, who is to move the address to his Royal Highness-which he himself has prepared.

Master James Stewart, a boy of fourteen years old, then came forward to propose the address. He said -Mr. Chairman and dear friends, many loyal and congratulatory addresses have been presented from various parts of the country to her Majesty and her beloved consort Prince Albert, occasioned by their friendly visit to this part of the country. It has occurred to the friends of the temperance movement amongst the young, that this would be a befitting time for them to adopt an address to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, for the purpose of bringing the subject of abstinence under his consideration, and should he feel inclined to patronise this movement, we believe, Sir, incalcu

lable good would be the result, and might, by the blessing of God, be the means of stemming the fearful torrent of crime and juvenile depravity which at present threatens to overspread our beloved land. I have drawn up an address which, with permission, I will read to this meeting:

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES.

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May it please your Royal Highness,-We, her Majesty's loyal and faithful subjects, the juvenile abstainers of Glasgow and neighbourhood, feel anxious to express our cordial welcome to your Royal Highness on your return to our native land-your own Highland home.

We therefore avail ourselves of the present opportunity of presenting our sincere regard for your welfare, and our hope that your Royal Highness may be long spared, and abundantly fitted for the high station which, in the providence of God, you may yet be called upon to occupy.

The association with which we are connected has been instituted expressly for the purpose of opposing the drinking usages of our country, which, if allowed to continue their influence as at present, are certain to destroy the happiness, honour, and repatation of our highly-favoured land, and fill it with disease, misery, and crime.

It would be difficult for us to say how far the temperance movement has been successful in stemming the current of vice and immorality; but its past history bears evidence to the fact that not a few thousands of her Majesty's subjects, whose moral character had been destroyed by the use of alcoholic liquors have, by the blessing of God, through the medium of abstinence societies, been reclaimed, and are now classed among the useful and respectable inhabitants of our country; while many thousands more of the rising generation have been kept from acquiring habits in every way prejudicial to the interests of society.

May it therefore please your Royal Highness to think favourably of our cause; and that the Most High may spare and lead you safely through the dangerous paths of youth; honour you at a future, and we trust distant, period with the Crown of the British Empire; and at last bestow upon you a

diadem of glory which will never decay, is the affectionate prayer of the juvenile abstainers of Glasgow and neighbourhood.

Signed, in name and by appointment of a meeting of the juvenile abstainers of Glasgow and neighbourhood, held in the City Hall of Glasgow, on Mcnday evening, 10th September, 1849, by

ARCHD. LIVINGSTON, Chairman.

Master Alexander M'Innes-a boy of thirteen years of age-seconded the motion. He said:Mr. Chairman and friends-I rejoice to see so many assembled together upon this most important occasion; an occasion that is unparalleled in the annals of the British empire. We have met this evening, my friends, for the purpose of adopting an address, which it is our intention to present to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the purport of which is, to request that this illustrious personage would be favourably disposed towards the total abstinence movement; for by his doing so, we are confident, that as heir apparent to the British throne, he will tend to promote the future welfare and happiness of the people of those lands over which his imperial sway will extend, and thereby exhibit a good and great example to the young and rising generation, who will, at no distant period, have to fill the stations and professions which this present generation now occupy. It is our greatest and chief desire that the rising generation may be trained up

in the path of sobriety, and most assuredly inestimable benefits and blessings will result from such a course being pursued. It will assist, to a great extent, in stemming the mighty and almost overwhelming torrent of vice and immorality, occasioned by the drinking customs of our country; and, particularly, it will have a tendency to lessen the enormous amount of juvenile depravity, which prevails to a great extent in a large and populous city such as ours. It will, in a great measure, put a stop to the progress of a fatal, infectious, and almost incurable disease, which is more direful in its effects than cholera and fever combined, namely, drunkenness. It will impede the march of an enemy that spreads ruin and devastation in its course; that has depopulated more cities, and laid waste more villages than ever did Attila or Julius Cæsar. It has possessed itself of more extensive territories than did Rome when at the highest pinnacle of fame. That enemy is drunkenness. It will preserve them from becoming the slaves of a despot-from a worse than Egyptian bondage, a slavery of the mind that is fatal and destructive both to soul and body. (Cheering for several minutes, accompanied with waving of hats, caps, and handkerchiefs, followed the conclusion of these addresses.)

The Chairman, after several pieces had been sung with great spirit, said, If you were within a few miles of Balmoral, the sound of your voices would be conveyed to the ears of the royal family, nearly as quickly as if you were to send your proceedings by electric telegraph. Now, we cannot do less, seeing the occasion on which we are met, and the feelings you all entertain, than give three cheers for her Majesty and Prince Albert.

After more singing, the benediction was pronounced, and the vast assembly separated, all highly delighted.

OFFERING OF THE BLEEDING HEART. A LITTLE Hindoo girl was once sold to a Mohammedan woman as a slave. She became deeply exercised in regard to the subject of religion, and sought consolation at the shrine of Mahomet, but all in vain. Failing to receive any comfort from this source, she sought relief from the rites of the religion of her fathers, but was totally discarded by the priests of that religion, till she should pay a large sum of money, because she was accounted an apostate. But even after having satisfied this exorbitant demand she found no relief. At length