their rights, to tlie end that in the exercise of 

 the powers of Government, thepreference which 

 is due ahall be paid to their concerns. We 

 wish not, by rendering them discontented to in- 

 cite them to abandon, but rather to make them 

 love the counti-y, by showing them how fields 

 that are exhausted and would be abandoned in 

 despair and disgust, might be made to yield 

 comfort and honor if not riches to their owner. 

 Having in a just appreciation of their rights and 

 a sense of self-respect, done all that prudence 

 and honor, skill and industry, can accomplish, 



let them leam to be content with their lot. nor 

 pine at the prosperity of the rich and the great ; 

 for neither riches nor greatness caui confer hap- 

 piness. That must be found in virtue. 



" 'T is virtue reigning in the generous heart 

 Alone can true, substantial bliss impart ; 

 'T is this, strong-beaming, though our noon be paet, 

 Rids life's ebon day be splendid to the last ; 

 Cbanns pain "and sickness in the saint and sage. 

 And melts to joy the hour of freezing age. 

 In want, content unenvied wealth bestows; 

 In sickness patience, and in pomp repose; 

 All wonders rise at her invoking breath — 

 A life of rapture from the womb of death." 



HONOR TO MERIT.— TRIBUTE TO THE LATE 

 EARL SPENCER. 

 If any English or French Admiral or Gene- 

 ral, renowned for success in the trade of war — 

 no matter how unhallowed and diabolical the 

 cause of it— had recently died, it would have 

 been announced in flaming capitals in everj^ pa- 

 per in the United States ; .such is the barbarous 

 propensity of mankind to be overpowered by 

 and do abject homage to military achievement. 

 Let a civil man of the amplest means, and the 

 noblest inclinations to use them for the benefit 

 of his species — for the increase of bread and the 

 diffusion of knowledge among mankind— die in 

 the midst of his usefulness, and, for all the world 

 cares, he may die; and Editors, knowing for 

 what appetites they cater, will leave him to be 

 forgotten, while all around is teeming with the 

 benefits of his munificence and the iruits of his 

 good example. 



For ourselves, we take a mournful pleasure, 

 Englishman though he icas ! in putting on our 

 record the following obituary tribute to Earl 

 Spencer, by the Royal Agricultural Society, 

 on the 5th of November last : 



On the motion of Mr. Pusey, M. P. seconded 

 by Mr. Shelley, the following resolutions were 

 caiTied unanimously, namely: 



" That this Council, deeply sensible of the 

 great loss sustained by the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England, in the lamented death of 

 John Charles Earl Spencer, feels it to be a duty 

 to record its deep sense of his unvarying perse- 

 verance in promoting the establishment and ad- 

 vancement of the Srciety; its .sincere estimation 

 of his humility, combined with manliness — of 

 his uniform candor and urbanity ; and its cor- 

 dial sympathy, with his family on the visitation 

 with which it has pleased Almighty God to af- 

 flict them. 



" As a proof of our gratitude and respect to- 

 ward our late colleague, we elect Frederick 

 Earl Spencer to fill the vacancy in the number 

 (?-jO) 



of the Trustees of the Royal Agricultural Soci- 

 ety of England, caused by the event which we 

 all so deeply deplore." 



Mr. John Grey, of Dilston, Northumberland, 

 was then duly elected a General Member of the 

 Council, in the place of Earl Spencer, transfer- 

 red to the list of Trustees. 



THE ROOM OF THE HOUSEHOLD. 



BY ELIZA COOK. 



There 's a room I love dearly — the sanctum of bliss, 

 That contains all the comforts I least like to miss ; 

 Where, like ants in a hillock, we run in and otit. 

 Where sticks sfiace the corner, and hats lie about ; 

 Where no idlers dare come to annoy or amuse 

 With their "morning-call" budget of scandalous 



news : 

 'Tis the room of the household— the sacredly free— 

 'T is the room of the household that 's dearest to mc. 



The romp may be fearlessly ean-ied on there, 

 No "bijouterie" rubbish solicits our ear ; 

 All things are as meet for the hand as the eye. 

 And patchwork and scribblim; unheeded may lie ; 

 Black Tom may be perched on the sofa or chairs. 

 He may stretch his sharp talons and scatter his hairs ; 

 Wet boots may "come in." and the ink-drop may fall 

 For the room of the household is " liberty hall." 



There is something unpleasant in company-days, ^ 

 When saloons are dressed out for Terpsichore B 



maze : , , j 



When the graceful mazourka and Weippeil-led baaa 

 Leave the plain country-dance people all at a stand. 

 There's more muth in the jig and the amateurs 



strum. 

 When the parchment-spread battledore sen-es as a 



drum. 

 When Apollo and Momus together unite: _. 



Till the household-room rings with laughing deugnt. 



Other rooms may be thickly and gorgeously stored 



With your Titians, Murillos, Salvator, and Claude; 



But the Moreland and Wilkie that hang on the wall 



Of the faniilv parlor out-value them all. 



The gay ottomans, claiming such special rcgara. 



Are exceedingly line, but exceedingly hard ; 



They may serve for state purpose, but go. u you 



please, , . . „_j 



To the household-room cushions for comlort ana 



ease. 



