" BY HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST." 173 



travagant to presume that all this mundane creation 

 is actually dependent, for its sustentation in being, on 

 the existence, in health and abundance, of an animal 

 and a plant far too small to be seen by the human 

 eye to which it is presented. 



Thus we see how one great function of Divine be- 

 nevolence, " He openeth his hand, and satisfieth the 

 desire of every living thing" (Psalm cxlv. 16), is an- 

 cillary to another putting forth of might by Him who 

 is our " God and Kinsman," " who upholdeth all 

 things by the word of His power." (Heb. i. 3.) 



The ink of the above lines was scarcely dry, when 

 information was received from the deep sea, setting 

 ah 1 our speculations at defiance, and confounding all 

 our conclusions. Animal life is actually flourishing 

 under the pressure of a mile and a half of superin- 

 cumbent water. H.M.S. Bulldog, under the com- 

 mand of Sir Leopold M'Clintock, has returned from 

 surveying the Northern Atlantic, from Cape Fare- 

 well to Labrador, and Dr Wallich communicates to 

 the Annals and Magazine of Natural History the 

 following statement, the interest of which will war- 

 rant my citing it in integro : 



" During the recent survey of the proposed North 

 Atlantic Telegraph route between Great Britain and 

 America, conducted on board H.M.S. ' Bulldog/ some 

 important facts have revealed themselves, from which 



