390 Reformation in Manners a slow Operation. 



arise is their predilection for improvident and 

 premature marriages. Education cannot fail of 

 inculcating the advantages resulting from a due 

 obedience ta the will of God, and a cheerful 

 compliance with the laws of man. A funda- 

 mental change, a thorough reform of habits 

 and opinions, is the work of ages, and can only 

 be effected by a gentle and slow operation. It 

 is above the power of government to effect by 

 legislation such a radical reform. Example, 

 encouragement, and patronage, may greatly 

 promote it, but the work must be performed, 

 as in all other laborious undertakings, by the 

 people ; and, happily, they evince a kindly dis- 

 position to assist a revolution so interesting to. 

 every friend of humanity. 



We had scarcely travelled a mile from the 

 spot which had afforded us so unlooked-for a 

 source of gratification, when we had an excite- 

 ment of feeling of a very different kind. Our 

 attention was called to one of those scenes 

 which unfortunately are so common in this 

 country. A poor woman of about forty came 

 from a cabin at a little distance from the road, 

 assisted by a girl about eight or nine years of 

 age. When the carriage came opposite to her, 

 the poor creature fell on her knees, and lifted 

 up her hands with a fervency of supplication that 

 indicated the extreme of distress, proceeding 



