friend of liberty, &c., and public meetings were called in several of our large cities, speeches delivered, and resolutions adopted to encourage him in his laudable efforts to give free civil institutions to the people of Italy. But according to the statements in this volume, no such design was ever entertained by him. He appeared to yield for a while to the public sentiment which demanded a reform; and the revolutionary patriots made use of his name as a watchword among their fellow-citizens, to arouse and extend the spirit of liberty. But this was not done by his permission or approval. He was at heart a despot, and would have displayed, as he has done since, his decided opposition to the movements of the people if he had possessed the power to control them. Despotism is an essential element of Papal rule. The former can never be remedied without destroying or enervating the latter. The circumstances of this struggle for liberty and its failure through the intervention of a foreign army cannot fail to excite in American hearts mingled emotions of sympathy and indignation, sympathy for those patriots now in exile, and indignation that the Pope should be sustained in the exercise of political power against the will of the Italian people, by the presence of French bayonets. Let these facts be read and pondered.

THE CAMEL; his Organization, Habits, and Uses, considered with reference to his introduction into the United States. By GEORGE P. MARSH. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1856.

The learned author of this pleasant and useful volume has raised the fame of camels, and done them honour in return for their great service. It seems that the meaning of the word "camel" is "Ship of the Desert," although some affirm that it simply means vehicle. Mr. Marsh's book contains a large amount of information about the breeds, the general anatomy, the training, the burden, the speed, the endurance, the military uses, &c., of the camel. The hump, which is one of the chief peculiarities of the camel, is thus described:

"The hump is simply a fleshy or rather fatty protuberance upon the back, like that of the bison, unsupported by any special bony process, and it is least developed in the highest bred animals, so that the mahari of the Sahara is popularly described as being without that appendage. The fulness of the protuberance, however, depends much upon the condition of the animal. The state of the hump is a test constantly referred to in the sale or hire of the camel, and the jockeys resort to various contrivances to give it an unnatural plumpness and solidity.* When the .camel has been, for a length of time, full fed, and subjected to moderate labour only, the hump assumes a greater plumpness of form and hardness of texture; but if ill kept or overworked, the fat of the hump is absorbed, the protuberance becomes flaccid, and it is sometimes even reduced to little more than its skin. It undoubtedly serves as a repository of nutriment, and the absorption of its substance into the general system appears to be one of the special arrangements by which the camel is so admirably fitted for the life of privation to which he is destined.

"According to Burckhardt,† when the animal is in the best possible case, in which condition he is only found among the richer nomade Arabs, and even there but rarely, the hump is of a pyramidal shape, covers nearly the whole back, and its length is not less than one-fourth of that of the entire body. Of all the members it is last exhausted and last fattened. In long journeys it slowly wastes away, and a repose of three or four months is required to restore it to its full

*The camel-dealers perforate the skin, and blow up the hump of the living animal, as dishonest butchers do their meat, to make it look full. Tavernier I, 1832. † Bedouins, 264.

volume. The Arabic language has at least thirty words descriptive of the conditions of the hump, with reference to its dimensions, its fatness or leanness, its solidity or flaccidity, and the causes of all these different states of this important appendage."

We commend this interesting volume to the attention of the general reader, as well as to children and youth. If we mistake not, boys and girls will find as much entertainment here as in the best "story books.”

The Religious World.

THE BRICK CHURCH, NEW YORK.

THE last religious service held in the old Brick Church, occurred in New York, in May last, during the meeting of the General Assembly. The church was thronged on the occasion. Dr. Spring preached a most affecting and eloquent sermon, giving a history of the church, especially under his own ministry, and narrating many interesting incidents.

It is understood that lots have been purchased in 23d Street, near the 5th Avenue, for the new building.

A New York paper gives an account of the state of the old burial-ground. "Thus far there have been removed from the Brick Church buryingground one thousand and forty-three bodies, of which 213 were from the general vault under the church, and were placed there about twenty years ago, when the chapel was built.

"The graveyard originally occupied the whole site of the chapel, and the number of dead buried there may be inferred from the fact, that these two hundred and thirteen corpses were taken from the excavations for the foundation alone. There is no cellar under the chapel, which is built over the graves, and consequently, when that building is torn down, there will still be hundreds of skeletons to exhume.

"When the foundations of the chapel were excavated, the bones brought to light were inclosed in pine boxes, as those removed at this time have been, and carefully packed in the vault. On opening the vault this week hardly a vestige of the boxes was to be found; all had crumbled away, and the bones lay piled up in a great heap, dry and white, and light almost as feathers. They were reverently gathered together again, inclosed in boxes, and buried in the Cemetery of the Evergreens, where, we trust, they may be allowed to rest undisturbed."

BLACKBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ILLINOIS.THE following account of the Blackburn Theological Seminary, under the management of Trustees of the New School Presbyterian Church, is taken from the "New York Evangelist:"

"A meeting of the Trustees of the new Theological Seminary for the Northwest was held at Carlinville, on the 5th of March. The object of the meeting was to hear the report of a Committee, previously appointed, in regard to the settlement of claims, and attend to some other matters of

business with a view to an early and complete organization of the Institution.

"It is known that this Institution is in large part already endowed by the efforts of the late Dr. Blackburn; it was therefore decided at the present meeting of the Trustees to call it the Blackburn Theological Seminary, in honour of the noble founder.

"The lands now in the possession of the Institution are thought to be worth considerably over $100,000. It was resolved by the Trustees to reserve $100,000 of the property of the Institution intact for the endowment of professorships. The churches may be called upon to aid in the erection of Seminary buildings, or for other purposes, but the professorships are already endowed.

A primary school is already commenced, under the care of Rev. John C. Downer, who is also to act, for the present, as agent of the Seminary. "Wm. C. Bostwick, Esq., of Galena, was elected a Trustee, in place of Charles Hempstead, Esq., resigned.

"Carlinville, where this Institution is located by the terms of the endowment, is a thriving village on the Chicago, Alton, and St. Louis Railroad, thirty-five miles north of Alton. It has doubled in population since 1850, and is gaining an accession of a very fine class of inhabitants every year. "Eighty acres of land are reserved for the Seminary site, three-quarters of a mile northeast of the village, on high and beautiful grounds, on the border of a delightful grove."

I HAVE a rich neighbour that is always so busy, that he has no leisure to laugh the whole business of his life is to get money, and more money, that he may still get more and more money. He is still drudging on, saying that Solomon says "The diligent hand maketh rich.” And it is true, indeed; but he considers not that it is not in the power of riches to make a man happy, for it was wisely said by a man of great observation, "that there be as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them." And yet God deliver us from pinching poverty, and grant that, having a competency, we may be content and thankful. Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches, hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle, that they clog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly. We see but the outside of the rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silk-worm, that when she seems to play, is at the very same time spinning her own bowels and consuming herself. And this many rich men do-loading themselves with corroding cares, to keep what they had already got. Let us, therefore, be thankful for health and competence, and above all, for a quiet conscience.-Izaak Walton.