wages, to pick it up and burn it!!"-From Colonel Maceroni's Memoirs. PRACTICAL ADVICE TO HOUSEKEEPERS, AND OTHERS WHO MAY BE IN STRAITENED CIRCUMSTANCES. 1. Always rise early in the morning; it will make the work of the day go on more pleasantly. 2. Keep yourselves, your children, and your apartments clean; it will tend to preserve your health. 3. Let your meals, however scanty, be prepared as comfortably as you can, and at the regular hour; a habit of order and method in the management of your house, will contribute to your happiness. 4. Let there be a place for everything, and let everything be in its place; this will save you a great deal of time and trouble. 5. Wastefulness may be practised even in poor families; this you should always be careful to avoid; wastefulness will increase your sufferings. 6. You will avoid some expense, and also some disgrace to yourselves and your children, if you strictly attend to the old proverb "A stitch in time saves nine." 7. If you feel yourself oppressed by labour or by trouble, never resort to the public-house, except to get a moderate quantity of liquor, to be drunk at home. The practice of frequenting public-houses, is the bane of poor people's conduct. The poor man's fireside, made cheerful by his wife's industry and cleanliness, is the place to afford him far more enjoyment of the real comfort of life, than anything he can meet with in a public-house, and will cost him much less. 8. Such of your children as are of a proper age, should always go to school. Let them have time for play and exercise; but by no means suffer them to lounge about the street or road, where they would be in danger of picking up bad habits. When at home, let them always be employed. 9. If by honest industry and frugality you or your children should become possessed of any sum of money, however small, you will consult your own and their ad 1838.] PREPARED RABBIT-SKINS. 323 vantage by laying it by; and more so, by placing it in the Savings Bank, where it will increase by interest, and may, by that increase, prevent the necessity of an application to the parish for relief. 10. It is of the utmost importance to your own peace and to that of society, that you and your children should strictly adhere to truth, and on no consideration be induced to tell a lie. 11. Avoid all disputes or quarrels with your neighbours; and on all occasions, when you feel yourself growing angry, endeavour to hold your tongues; but never practise profane swearing, or suffer your children to use bad words. 12. Let the Scriptures be read in your families; you will derive consolation from the practice. It is also your bounden duty and best interest to attend a place of worship, you will there be instructed in your religious duty to your Creator, and in your moral duties to your fellowcreatures; the faithful discharge of which will ensure your happiness here and hereafter.-Chester Courant. PREPARED RABBIT-SKINS. TAKE the skin as fresh as possible; mix salt and water strong enough to float an egg, and saturate it with alum. Put the skin into this mixture, blood warm; let it lie twenty-four hours, then take it out, and nail it on a board, the fur inwards; scrape the skin; and a thin membrane will come off; warm the pickle again, put the skin into it, and let it remain five hours longer; then take it out and nail it upon a board to dry (fur inwards); after which, rub it with pumice stone and whiting.-Magazine of Domestic Economy. A prepared rabbit or hare skin worn over the chest, is a great preservative against cold, for delicate persons. They are now sold, lined and wadded, from 15d. to 20d. each; but the above simple mode of dressing them will enable many to use them who could not afford to buy them. Y. LINSEED TEA FOR COUGHS. TAKE an ounce of linseed, and two drachms of liquorice root; pour two quarts of boiling water on them. Let it stand six hours. EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS, &c. The small pox has been very fatal in the town and neighbourhood of Bridport, having been extensively propagated by ignorant and unqualified persons acting as itinerant inoculators. A child lately died from inoculated small-pox inflicted by one of these persons.-Salisbury Herald. Flies. A fly lays four times during the summer, each time eighty eggs, which makes 320; and it is computed that the produce of a single fly, in the course of a summer, amounts to 2,080,320. The Ilsley Cottagers' Society's prizes for sheep shearing (which was not the least interesting part of the proceedings of the day,) were contended for adjoining the wool barn; the competitors were twelve in number, and they were allotted five sheep each-the work was exceedingly well performed in about three hours, and the prizes were awarded as follows:-First prize, Robert Brind, of Snelsmore; second prize, Thomas Deane, of Courage; third prize, James Herridge, of Compton.-Abridged from the Berks Chronicle. German Sausages, Red.-Six pounds of pickled pork, chopped fine, onethird fat, and season it with one ounce of ground pepper, and one ounce of ground allspice; stuff it into skins, and smoke them for a week. When wanted, boil the sausages half an hour. All kinds of skins may be bought of porkmen.-Labourers' Friend Magazine. Sunday Schools. It was in the year 1784 that Sunday Schools were first established by Mr. Raikes, of Gloucester; and in 1788, only four years after, they afforded shelter and protection to not less than 250,000 of the children of the poor. Mr. Raikes first mentioned his plan to a worthy clergyman of the name of Stock, and well knowing that religion was the only foundation on which education ought to be built, they began by gaining the consent of the parents that their children should meet them (Mr. Raikes and Mr. Stock) at the early service performed in the cathedral on a Sunday morning. When Mr. Raikes was on a visit at Windsor, the good Queen Charlotte sent for him to inquire into the nature of his plans, and to express her unqualified approbation of his Sunday schools, and her confident hope that they would prove an incalculable benefit to the human race. Time and experience have proved that this benevolent hope was well founded. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received the communications of G. B.; E. F.; Y.; F. M. K.; P.; A. a.; B. H. THIS festival, which was instituted in the year 834, was first called All Martyrs, but is now universally known by the name of All Saints, and is intended to commemorate those holy persons, who, from their singular piety and exemplary lives, seem entitled to rank among the blessed communion of Saints. The term Saint was first applied to all believers; but was afterwards confined to such as were more peculiarly devoted to their Saviour, having led a pure and godly life, "perfecting holiness in the fear of God." While, in the other Saints' days, our minds are fixed on one individual, from whose example profit is to be obtained by imitating his virtues, and avoiding his errors, so, in this festival of All Saints, we honour all good men; and, more than that, we honour God Himself, through whose grace and mercy it was that these faithful servants were able to perform His will, and are now enjoying the blessedness of heaven. The consideration and reverence paid to the memory of those who suffered, and often died, for their religion, was thought incumbent in the earliest ages; and the first Christians were accustomed to meet yearly at the graves of the martyrs, and there, discoursing on their sufferings, their virtues, and their triumphs, prayed to God for assistance that they might be enabled to follow their bright examples. It was customary, moreover, to exercise works of charity to the poor on these holy days. Nothing can be more consistent and proper than this custom; and it is one that must be both pleasing and beneficial to those who devoutly attend to it; but, like many other of the ordinances of the Christian Church, it has been liable to abuse; and a superstitious belief in the powers of saints, and other false practices of the Roman Catholics, which are revolting to the feelings, and contrary to the rules of common sense, have arisen from the respect and honour once, in all purity, bestowed on the first saints and martyrs. We should admire, and revere, and strive to imitate them; but we should beware of the error of worshipping those, who, though eminent among men, were only men, and not worthy of the adoration due to God alone. Neither should we invoke them as mediators between God and man, for we are directed to offer up every prayer in the name and through the mediation of Christ only. The Scriptures assure us, that Christ ever liveth to make intercession for us, and that there is, to Christians," one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus." "Hence it follows," says a learned author, "that the worship which so many Christians pay to angels, to saints, to images, to bones, and relicks, and to the blessed Virgin, whom they style Our Lady, and the mother of God, and the Queen of heaven, is, in reality, a false worship, hardly distinguishable from idolatry. When it is said by way of excuse that they worship these only as Mediators, that alters the case very little, since to apply to a false Mediator, is as much a departure from |