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wrongs. What a sad state of things must that 

 be, wherein this oppression is openly countenanced ! 

 What punishment are prisons to the wicked? 

 They are too often the schools for vice. Many of 

 the inmates associate with companions worse than 

 themselves, despising the laws of God and man. 

 When they come forth again into the world, they 

 have learnt their lesson, and never fail to turn 

 it to a bad account. What should be done ? 

 Ignorance cannot be put forth as a proof of im- 

 morality ; nor is ignorance any plea for crime. It 

 is not learning that makes one good or honest. 

 Goodness scarcely can be taught. I believe it is 

 hereditary — a thought or habit imbibed in infancy, 

 handed down from one generation to another. 

 Crime is destiny, or a fate that bad men weave 

 for themselves and their children after them. 

 Philosophers and others have written and spoken 

 on the subject ; but they have failed to arrive at 

 the truth. It is not education alone that can 

 produce morality. The want of discipline and 

 respect for the existing laws, prevent its rise in 

 general; and if embraced, it is too often studied 

 for the sake of one's appearing good in the eyes of 

 the world — not as being an essential duty man owes 

 to his Maker. These are poor inducements. It 

 should come instinctively. Moreover, morality is 

 conscientiousness — the spirit of purity and good- 

 ness. People think it is a mystery — perhaps it is. 

 Our mental condition must be totally changed for 

 the better, ere crime is eradicated. Neither 

 sermons nor prisons will prevent its giant strides. 

 Religion and morals must join without any cloak. 

 When this is effected, crime will then cease. — 

 Jane W., Mile End. 



[Why, Jane, you are quite a philosopher — in 

 petticoats ! We are proud and happy to hear you 

 reason thus ; and to observe how great an advo- 

 cate you are for a clean heart, and for the habitual 

 practice of all that is good and lovely. But 

 neither you nor we — sad to say it — shall ever 

 gain a hearing.] 



A Devonshire Cure for the Tooth-ache. — Go 

 into a churchyard when they are digging a grave ; 

 and if a skull is thrown up, wipe off the dirt and 

 take hold of one of the teeth between your own. 

 Then pull it out, keep the tooth in your pocket ; 

 and if at any time you feel the toothache, put it in 

 your mouth three times. The pain will then leave 

 you. I actually know a man who pulled one out 

 in the manner above described. — C. F. T. Y. 



u Cheerfulness for Ever!" — A smiling face is 

 like the rising sun ; it always rejoices the heart to 

 look at it. A merry or cheerful countenance was one 

 of the things which Jeremy Taylor said his enemies 

 and persecutors could not take away from him. 

 There are some persons who spend their lives in 

 this world as they would spend their lives if shut 

 up in a dungeon. Everything is made gloomy and 

 forbidding. They go mourning and complaining 

 from day to day, that they have so little ; and are 

 constantly anxious lest what they have should 

 escape out of their hands ! They always look 

 upon the dark side, and never can enjoy the good. 

 They do not follow the example of the industrious 

 bee. He does not stop to complain that there are 

 so many poisonous flowers and thorny branches 

 on his road. No, he buzzes on ; selecting his 



honey where he can find it, and passing quietly 

 by the places where it is not. God bless you, my 

 dear little Editor, and all yonr amiable correspon- 

 dents, for advocating so powerfully and so sweetly 

 what I so much love and delight in, — Cheerful- 

 ness, goodness, innocence, harmony, and all the 

 Christian Virtues. — Lilt of the Valley. 



[God bless thee, — fairest and best of women !] 



Admiralty Register of Wrecks. — The Blue Book 

 under this title, which is annually presented to 

 Parliament, has recently been published for the 

 year 1852. The wrecks on the coasts and in the 

 seas of the United Kingdom during the year were 

 1115; which may be thus classed: — Totally 

 wrecked, 500 ; totally lost in collision, 33 ; 

 damaged seriously and had to discharge, 558 ; 

 damaged seriously in collision, 24. The number 

 of casualties in each month were : — January, 

 126; February, 77; March, 32; April, 44; May, 

 41 ; June, 29 ; July, 18 ; August, 42 ; September, 

 85; October, 164; November, 189; December, 

 268; total, 1115. Of these 464 occurred on the 

 east coast of Great Britain, 158 on the south coast, 

 and 235 on the west coast. 128 wrecks strewed 

 the coasts of Ireland, 5 were cast on shore at 

 Scilly, 9 at the Channel Islands, 18 on the Ork- 

 neys and Shetland, and 18 at the Isle of Man ; the 

 remaining 80 occurred in the surrounding seas. 

 The loss of life during the year, as far as has been 

 ascertained, amounted to 920. Of these 100 were 

 lost in the Amazon, destroyed by fire about 90 

 miles from the Land's End ; 13 in the Columbus, 

 wrecked near the Hook lighthouse, Waterford ; 

 12 in the John Toole, wrecked on the Arran 

 Isles, near Galway; 15 in the Amy, wrecked at 

 the Seven Heads, near Kinsale ; 75 in the Mobile, 

 wrecked on the Ark low banks ; 10 in the Ernesto, 

 wrecked near Boscastle, Cornwall; 15 in the 

 Minerva, wrecked near the Bar of Drogheda ; 

 15 in the Ocean Queen, wrecked at Wembury, 

 near Plymouth; 45 in the Louise Emile, wrecked 

 at Dungeness; 15 in the Haggerston iron-screw 

 collier, wrecked off Filey ; 36 in the Lily, stranded 

 in the Sound of Isle of Man, when her cargo 

 ignited and she blew up ; 13 in the Alcibiades, 

 wrecked in Ballyteigue Bay, Wexford; and 10 in 

 the Broad Oak, wrecked in Denbigh Bay, Skib- 

 bereen. The remainder were lost, in smaller num- 

 bers, on the coast ; or in vessels that foundered in 

 the adjoining seas, — making in all, 920. — A. F. 



Bees. — Will some of your bee-keeping readers 

 afford me information as to what may be the cause 

 of a difficulty I have found, in raising a queen by 

 the transformation of the larvas of the workers. I 

 have by this means, at various times, supplied a 

 vacant throne, but I find the practice could not 

 be relied on with certainty. In the present in- 

 stance, I have twice presented comb containing 

 the larvae and eggs of workers to a queenless stock ; 

 and each time the brood has been hatched, but 

 no attempt has been made to raise a queen. On a 

 previous occasion, in summer, the bees refused 

 the first time, but immediately constructed royal 

 cells on a second piece of comb. An instance of 

 similar indifference is related by Dr. Bevan in the 

 " Honey Bee." It cannot be supposed that the 

 community is unconscious of its loss, as the dead 

 queen was brought out under great excitement ; 



