established Confederation, says Gov. T. is not so easy a matter as some seem to think. The project I meet with in some of our newspapers, of forming conventions, of withdrawing our Senators and Representatives, will repeal no law or treaty now binding upon the whole. Those who act under the authority of the General Government if they do their duty, must, on its performance, bring the two authorities in collision. There is no eluding the question; it would arise the first hour after the dissolution is attempted, and then-but I will not go on. The picture, or rather, the reality, ought to be veiled, forever veiled from

our eyes.

"I do not yet despair of the Republic: I cannot believe that the strongest motive which actuated the States in forming this confederation, can long be lost sight of I mean our foreign commercial relations. I believe that when this regulating of commerce, so much relied on, shall be found to have destroyed it, that our General Government will retrace her steps. I well remember when Mr. Jefferson, and a majority of the wise men of the nation, maintained that, by commercial restrictions and embargoes, he couldbring Great Britian to terms-in other words, that it was a substitute for war. At this day, how many advocates could you find for this mode of making war? The opinion is gone out as completely as the opinion of that Pope and Conclave who condemned Gallileo to the Inquisition, for saying that this world of ours was round.

"Our Representatives in Congress demonstrate, with too much success, that, with the present minority, they can afford us no relief; and I still rely on the ballot box: when the nostrums of our political empyrics shall have failed to bring down the showers of gold into the laps of all the North, East and West; when our own energies and self-denials shall have left them to bear the brunt, in paying the bounties they expected to wrest from us; when they see that we can and will raise our own horses, mules, cattle, and hogs, and 'spin, and weave, and wear our own homespun, and make our own iron; when they shall perceive, that even among ourselves, these tariffs are calculated to make the rich still more rich, and the poor still more poor; then the suffrages of the People, and

not of great capitalists, would tell. Then the cries of the land-locked Yankee sailor will be heard. I have not despaired. I see nothing yet to make me willing to give up the ship.

"If I have any firmness, it will be exerted to preserve the Union- 'to preserve, protect, and to defend the Constitution of this State and of the United States."

At another dinner, Mr. McDuffie, Member of Congress, spoke in a spirit very different from that of Governor Taylor. This might be expected in a hot-blooded duellist and an aspirant to political distinction; but such conduct was not so consistent in the head of a literary Institution. We hear of meetings, among the rest, for dissolving the Union, of the students of the S. C. University-headed and instigated by their President.

FOREIGN. Very little political news has reached us during the month. In relation to Russia and Turkey, a great battle has been reported in the papers, but it proves to be a fabrication. The Sultan succeeds in getting together a force considerably formidable in point of numbers-but ineffective in point of discipline. About 70,000 Asiatic troops are said to have passed through Constantinople on their way to meet the Russians. The capital remains tranquil. The people manifested the characteristic indifference of the Mussulman faith to a state of war, when the Turkish declaration was publicly read in the market places.

The operations in the Morea are comparatively unimportant. Greece takes breath while the attention of her enemy and of the world is turned to the more important scenes in Turkey.

In Portugal the affairs of Don Miguel are nearly in such a posture as the enemies of treachery and despotism could wish. The aspirant to absolute monarchy appears to be too weak or too dastardly for the enterprise he has undertaken. He has been shouted king in some places, but has met with a vigorous counter revolution in others.

In order to give form and sanction to his usurpation, he judged it necessary to assemble the ancient states of the kingdom which in the days of their power were alone competent to proclaim the king. The decree for con

voking the Cortes, was accordingly issued official notice of which being communicated to the resident foreign ministers, they refused any further communication with the government. The Brazilian plenipotentiaries in Europe have also published a spirited protest, addressed to the Portuguse nation, against the violation of the rights of Don Pedro and his daughter; against the abolition of institutions legally established and sworn to; and against the unlawful convocation of the Cortes.

In the mean time the Emperor of Brazil, ignorant of what was passing in Portugal, lately declared his final abrogation of that kingdom in favor of his daughter and the constitution, and confirming also, by the same act, the treacherous Don Miguel in the regeney, which he has so shamelessly abused.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Education in Canada. It is a bad comment on the state of popular education in Canada, that out of the 87,000 persons who presented a late petition to Parliament, only seven thousand were able, it is said, to sign their

names the rest made their marks.

A Society exists in London for the suppression of Mendicity. It is stated that the number of meals distributed the past year was 271,051,-to 35,895 persons. The number of young va grants apprehended by the constables of the Society, and committed to prison, was 403. To test the disposition of able-bodied applicants, they have been provided with work, on condition of receiving an adequate compensation. Not more than one in thirty have been found willing to avail themselves of the offer.

April 30.-The Rev. DENNIS PLATT and Rev. WILLIAM CLARK were ordained as Evangelists, at North Coventry, Conn. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Platt of Darien.

May 9.-The Rev CHRISTOPHER MARSH was installed over the first and second Churches in Biddeford, Me. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Fessenden, of Kennebunk.

May 10.-The Rev. WILLIAM CAHOONE as an Evangelist, by the second Presbytery of New-York. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. De Witt.

May 18-The Rev. JAMES OTTERSON was installed over the Reformed Dutch Churches of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay. Sermon by the Rev. J. Schoonmaker, of Jamaica.

May 21.-The Rev. OTIS C. WHITON over "the Old Congregational Church in Westmoreland," N. H. Sermon by the Rev. Mr.. Whiton, of Antrim.

May 22.-The Rev. MOSES GEROULD over the Second church in Alstead,N.H. May 31.-The Rev. JOSEPH NIMMO, to the work of the Ministry, by the Hannover (Va.) Presbytery. Sermon by the Rev. William J. Armstrong.

June 3.-The Rev. JOSEPH P. TYLER at West Stafford Conn., to the work of an Evangelist. Sermon by the Rev. Ansel Nash, of Tolland.

June 4.-The Rev. TIMOTHY STONE, late of Cornwall, was installed Pastor of a Church in Chatham, Conn. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Harvey, of West Chester.

June 4.-The Rev. PHILIP BUNNELL, over the Congregational Church of New Portland and Freeman, Me. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Thurston, of Winthrop.

June 4.-The Rev. E. W. FREEMAN was installed over the First Baptist Church in Lowell, Mass. Sermon by the Rev. Howard Malcom.

The Rev. FARMAN KNOWLTON over the North Baptist Church in Stamford, Conn. Sermon by the Rev. John Ellis.

The Rev. EDWARD TURNER, late Pastor of the Universalist Church in Salem, over the Unitarian Church in Charlton, Mass. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Walker, of Charlestown. How can two walk together except they be agreed?

TER OF MISS JANE GRAY JENNINGS.

AMONG the most mysterious, and at the same time, the most instructive dealings of the Most High with his creatures, is the early removal from the world of individuals distinguished for their interesting and useful qualities. Seldom can this remark be made with greater propriety than with respect to her who is the subject of this article. A gentleman who had been her instructor, and in whose family he had spent several months, uses the following language to the writer respecting her death. "This event is surely among the mysteries of Providence. That a person so amiable, of such acquirements, of such piety, and of so much promise, should be taken away just as she was stepping forth to begin to act her part on the stage of life, is a problem not easily solved." Though the incidents of her life were neither namerous nor striking; though she did not live long enough to perform any uncommon service to the church or the world, and to lay her cotemporaries under any very special obligation, still by those who knew her best it is thought that a slight memorial is due to her intellectual and her moral worth.

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Conn., April 13, 1804. She was the seventh in a family of eight children, and was early noticed as an uncommonly interesting and promising child. As her mind expanded in early youth, its capacity for application, its readiness of perception, and its power of retention, were found to be above the ordinary stamp. Soon after entering on her sixteenth year, having been deprived of her father by death, she removed to Tolland, a short distance from her native place, and took up her residence at the house of a friend, which through the remainder of life she regarded as her home. Under the guidance of this friend she soon commenced a course of classical and scientific studies, which she pursued with perseverance and success.

The change in public sentiment within the last few years on the subject of female education must by every intelligent individual be regarded as auspicious. While more importance is attached to the subject itself, of female education, a juster estimate is entertained in respect to the plan on which it should be conducted. Merely fashionable and external accomplishments, which were too often regarded as all in all in the education of young ladies, is giving place to the solid cultivation of the mind. The

discovery has been made, in this as in every other part of the Creator's works, that it is only solid bodies that are capable of a durable polish.

On these principles the education of Miss Jennings was conducted; and the result was highly gratifying. She shortly acquired habits of mental application, and by the time her twenty-first year was completed, she had taken a much higher range of study than is customary with young females of the present day. In this were embraced, besides the more common branches of education, the Latin and French languages, some of the higher departments of mathematics, natural and mental philosophy, and chemistry. In justice to her, as well as for the sake of example to others, it ought to be stated that epitomes and abridgements were not found among the helps which she employed in the acquisition of learning. Whatever she acquired in science or literature she acquired thoroughly. At every step of her progress she exhibited a mind capable of high cultivation. Her powers were solid and well-wearing rather than of the most brilliant kind. Not that she was deficient in imagination, but the characteristics of this faculty of her mind were soberness and accuracy. Her fancy was under the control of judgment, and was chaste and delicate rather than bold and excursive. Her mind as a whole was eminently a safe one. If it had not the highest measure of vigor, and was not capable of the lofty conceptions which we witness in some, it was free from their frailties and mistakes. As evidence of this, she seldom had cause to change her opinions, and was seldom found on the wrong side. To her belonged a maturity of intellect which is uncommon. While always an interesting companion to persons of her own age, she was not less so to those who had seen any number of years.

Among the most prominent traits of Miss Jennings' character were modesty and self-diffidence. The

latter of these she possessed to a fault-being always disposed to ascribe less merit to herself in every respect than was ascribed to her by others, and at times falling short of her just influence from not claiming that to which she was fairly entitled. She was never known to assume airs of self-importance, or to endeavor to cause others, how much soever beneath her, to feel their inferiority. Such was her retiring disposition, such the softness and delicacy of her manners, that no one except an intimate friend, would be likely to form a correct estimate of her mental endowments, or the extent of her acquisitions. She needed to be known that her merits might be properly appreciated, and they would be appreciated the more highly the better she was known. This is said the more confidently from an intimate acquaintance with her social feelings, and the natural qualities of her heart. Probably no person was capable of stronger attachment, or deeper emotions of friendship. In her perfect confidence was reposed with entire safety. No one of her friends ever feared to trust with her all the secrets of his life from the apprehension, that, through inadvertance or any other cause, she would betray him.

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In the habit of her mind there a degree of pensiveness, at times approximating to melancholy; though in the circle of her friends she was for the most part cheerful, and often elegantly pleasant and sportive, with occasionally a delicate intermingling of wit and satire. her gayest moments she was never kown to transgress the limits of Christian decorum, nor on any occasion, to show herself unmindful of the wishes and feelings of those with whom she was conversant. Few individuals of the same years have ever exhibited equal forethought and discretion.

The following extracts, taken without much selection from Miss Jennings' familiar correspondence, may

iliustrate some of the preceding state

ments.

"It is somewhere said that epistolary writing admits of every variety of composition, and the most abrupt transition from one subject to another. I shall therefore avail myself of this license, and write what the present moment suggests: so be not surprised if you observe some incoherence in the hasty effusions of my pen. "It is true, friendship is a trite subject, both of conversation and composition; but this does not diminish its value when it exists untainted by self-interests and founded on pure principles. But so various are the motives and dispositions, which actuate mankind, that we rarely meet with one so generous and disinterested as to merit our confidence. But there is a friendship founded on a basis not to be shaken by the vicissitudes of time, nor interrupted when all sensible objects shall recede from our view; a friendship which will enable us to sustain the rude blasts of adversity and remain unmoved against the slanders and invectives of our enemies;—and this is the friendship of God. It can only bud in this uncongenial clime, but it will bloom with increasing and unfading splendor when transferred to its native soil."

The following extracts were written after the death of her mother, which took place about eight years subsequent to that of her father.

"The loss of a mother, a name which kindles every kind affection of our nature, can duly be realized by no one who has not experienced the desolating stroke; and it is perhaps more keenly felt by a daughter, than the loss of a father. During the early years of childhood, when the mind is most tender, and it may be recoils at a father's sternness, we resort to the tenderness of a mother for the indulgence of our youthful wants, and in her bosom lodge all our little troubles and our secrets. And when maturer age arrives, and pain or grief

assails, the dictate of nature leads us to a mother to sooth our sorrows and alleviate our sufferings: and when too our path is strewed with flowers our pleasures are but half enjoyed until participated by the friend most dear. But derive not the idea from what I have written that I had not one of the best of fathers, indulgent in every thing that would secure the best good of his children, and that I did not feel his loss. Yes, I felt it, deeply felt it, and the recent stroke which has snatched from my embrace a surviving mother, has served to open anew a wound which time had begun to heal, and to aggravate the smart. But though bitter is the cup I will not repine. Thanks to my heavenly Father for the blessing of such parents. Long will their memory live fresh in my bosom, and afford a satisfaction pleasant and mournful to the soul."

"It is one of those serene moonlight evenings when we almost forget that we are in a bustling world, and our contemplations resting awhile on nature's works, are uplifted to nature's God, and we seem to be, as we really are, surrounded by the Deity. An hour like the present, I assure you, is most congenial with my present state of mind, and so adapted to awaken every faculty of the soul, that I should almost say, a person who cannot enjoy it, is a stran ger to some of the finer feelings of the human heart. Memory rushing back to earlier years, opens anew many interesting as well as melancholy scenes, through which I have passed, and with which are connected impressions which I delight to cherish, and awakens in my recollection here and there a friend, whom I have met with, have loved, and who is gone perhaps forever. Imagination carries me over a few intervening miles, and places me on the grave of a fond father. I`weep awhile, and would return to solace my grief in the embraces of a mother; but she too is gone. I awake