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white coral of every fantastic shape imagina- 

 ble. I collected a quantity of the most beau- 

 tiful, and have some of it now in my cabinet. 

 On getting up our anchor one morning, the 

 captain found a beautiful branching piece of 

 red coral, several inches in length, which was 

 adhering to the buoy rope of the anchor ; 

 this he carefully preserved, as an ornament 

 for one of his rooms. 



Late in the evening we cast anchor inside 

 the "Islands of Glenaus," where the men 

 employed by the captain in getting him 

 Lobsters were stationed. According to the 

 laws of France, we may purchase what 

 Lobsters, &c, we like, but are not allowed to 

 catch them. In consequence of this, the 

 captain has engaged nearly forty men to 

 reside on these islands, and catch Lobsters 

 for him, agreeing to take them at a certain 

 price. This handsomely renumerates them, 

 and enables them to put by money to take 

 home on their return to the north of France. 

 The captain stows them in his vessel, and 

 tows their boats, both to the fishing station 

 and home, when their agreement expires. 



The wind having shifted to the south-west, 

 while we were moving the vessel, it was 

 thought necessary to go on shore, late as it 

 was, in order to ascertain how long we should 

 have to remain before the vessel could take 

 in her cargo ; so the boat being hoisted out 

 I got into her, with the captain and two of 

 the crew, in order that I might see the arrange- 

 ments made for the lodging of these men, as 

 all that was visible from the vessel was a 

 farm-house and outbuildings situated on one 

 of the largest islands, which had neither tree 

 nor shrub on it, and the edges of which near 

 the water were dazzlingly white with the coral 

 above-mentioned. On nearing the shore, half- 

 a-dozen of these fellows rushed down to assist 

 us out of the boat, shouting out that they 

 had "beaucoup des Homards ;" which pleased 

 the captain much, as he would be enabled to 

 take advantage of the favorable shift of wind 

 for our return. 



C. F. T. Y. 



Stockleigh Pomeroy, Crediton, 

 Devon, June 20. 



(To be Continued.) 



SYMPATHY OF CHILDREN. 



Those whose lot has been cast by circumstances 

 amongst young children, can hardly have failed 

 to remark the freshness of their expanding minds, 

 and their readiness to receive impressions from 

 those around them, — impressions whether of pain 

 or pleasure. 



Such of us as take delight in an observation of 

 these (too commonly despised) matters, will read 

 the subjoined remarks of the Hon. Mrs. Norton 

 with intense interest. She speaks first, of a child's 

 eyes : — " A child's eyes ! those clear wells of 

 undefiled thought ; what on earth can he more 



beautiful ? Full of hope, love, and curiosity, they 

 meet your own. In prayer, how earnest ; in joy, 

 how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The 

 man who never tried the companionship of a little 

 child has carelessly passed by one of the great 

 pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower, with- 

 out plucking it or knowing its value. A child 

 cannot understand you, you think. Speak to it of 

 the holy things of your religion, of your grief for 

 the loss of a friend, of your love for some one you 

 fear will not love in return — it will take, it is true, 

 no measure or soundings of your thought ; it will 

 not judge how much you should believe, whether 

 your grief is rational in proportion to your loss, 

 whether you are worthy or fit to attract the love 

 which you seek ; but its whole soul will incline to 

 yours, and engraft itself, as it were, on the feeling 

 which is your feeling for the hour." 



Knowing all this, what a heavy responsibility 

 rests on the shoulders of our modern teachers, and 

 parents almost universally ! 



THE BATH AND BATHING-ROOMS. 

 A KUSSIAN SKETCH. 



BY L. S. HILL, ESQ. 



The bathing rooms in all the public 

 baths in Kussia were, until very lately, com- 

 mon to both sexes ; but by an order from the 

 Government the sexes are now separated, and 

 each has one large room apart. But this 

 very commendable attempt to introduce a 

 degree of delicacy unknown before, has not 

 quite established the principle. In the gen- 

 eral apartment into which we first went, 

 many of both sexes were waiting to enter two 

 crowded bath-rooms : and the scene already 

 presented sufficient proof that the letter of the 

 order alone was yet complied with, or perhaps 

 understood. About a dozen of the coarser 

 sex were seen (dimly, however), through a 

 dense mist ; some passing to and fro, and 

 others sitting upon benches by the walls, and 

 as many of the fair sex. We were in an 

 atmosphere in which clothes were scarcely 

 supportable, and which made us soon put 

 off the greater part of our own. Habit recon- 

 ciles us to almost everything. Indeed, there 

 was so much bustle and appearance of business 

 in procuring tickets for admission into the 

 bathing-rooms, from an attendant who stood 

 within a counter, upon which a smalljflamp was 

 burning, and with the entrances and exits of 

 bathers and attendants, that the scene was 

 calculated to remind us of cases and positions 

 in which we are sometimes placed by neces- 

 sity, — where the mind is too much occupied, 

 perhaps by some work of charity, to leave 

 room for niceness in its perceptions, rather 

 than presented the character which descrip- 

 tion is apt to impress. 



After having cast off almost all our remain- 

 ing clothes (which was absolutely necessary 

 before we proceeded further in our investiga- 

 tions, both on account of the state of the 



