the hour of death! I have been so forgetful of my Maker!" He often lamented his inability to settle his mind on anything that was good, saying, "Had I sought to do so in health, I think I should not now be thus tried." At another time, after an evening of much conflict, he was favoured to experience consolation, saying, "I feel that my Saviour loves me; how merciful! How great is the mercy of God! how unworthy am I It is all of mercy; Jesus is sweet! Jesus is kind!" The following day, being First-day, he said, "I do not now wish to live to be a man, lest I should live to offend my Maker." For several days he continued to experience much sweet consolation. One day, his mother, observing him weeping, inquired, what troubled him? He replied, "I feel so much at leaving you all; and, then, I know my poor father will fret." His mother remarked, that she hoped he would be made willing to leave us; on which he said, "Yes, if I were sure of going to heaven; I want a fuller assurance; I am so afraid the happy feelings I had a few days ago are all a delusion of the enemy to keep my mind easy." His mother replied, "The wicked one could not create such feelings as he had experienced, and that, as he endeavoured to keep watchful, the Saviour would come again to comfort him." At another time, he observed, "I always had a high veneration for religion, and for Friends' principles; and yet, for all that, days, weeks, months, and years rolled over, and I was forgetful of my Maker! How awful would it have been, had I then been snatched away! I was happy at my work, and happy in my amusements, which were innocent. I now feel thankful to the Almighty, that I was preserved from forming bad associates, or being led away by them, for I have, accidentally, been thrown in the way of such." tion." On the following day, he was heavily afflicted, his cough being very severe; conflict of mind also appeared to be his portion, under which he said, "The little hope I had on First-day seems now almost gone." The Saviour's presence seemed to be withdrawn. and he was in anguish of soul: he lay for some time, repeating, in a plaintive tone— "Return, O holy Dove,-return, Sweet Messenger of rest; I hate the sins that made Thee mourn, And drove Thee from my breast." Shortly afterwards, he said, "Oh, that I may have one gleam of hope before I sleep this night!" and, after a pause, he continued, "I think I can now pray :-Holy Father! grant me an evidence of acceptance with Thee: and, Oh! forgive the trespasses of this day, for thy dear Son's sake!" A few minutes afterwards, he said, "I feel consoled: Oh, Father! enable me to return Thee thanks for this favour; it is proper thanksgiving should arise." On Fourth-day morning, he said to his father, "I am so thankful for this feeling of peace; Jesus is kind." To his mother, he said, "It is sweet to think of heaven-to meet to part no more; We know not what to pray for as we ought.' Through the whole of the day, sweet peace was the covering of his mind. In the evening, this precious child was seized with acute pain in the chest, and, for some minutes appeared to be in the agonies of death, scarcely able to articulate, yet crying out in anguish, "Lord, have mercy! Lord, spare me this night! Mother, I have no acceptance at the last!" His mother replied, "Simply hang on Jesus, and I have not the shadow of a doubt of thy acceptance." Soon afterwards, he said, with sweet serenity, "Thy will, O Lord, be done;" and, after a few minutes, he added, "God is merciful! I now feel an humble confidence of final acceptance, through the atoning blood of the ever blessed Jesus. Heaven is a blessed place; no more pain-no more sickness-no more sorrow!" One day, speaking of the difficulties he had had to encounter in his travels and during the voyage, he thus finished the conversation:-"When I was far away from you I had many trials, but this sustained me-that 'Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth;' and I feel thankful, I had not one repining thought, and was resigned to the Lord's dealings with me, and was willing to return" home ill, or in health, as He might see meet." On his uncle, aunt, and cousins coming into the room, he kissed them all, and said he was going to heaven." He then turned to his father, and said, "I can now freely give you all On the last First-day of his life, he appeared to up." He wished to see the servants, shook be enduring great conflict of mind, and said, "I hands with them, and bid them farewell; after fear I have been unwatchful; Satan has drawn me which he revived a little, and said, "Perhaps it aside; he is cruel!" He then wished all the is the Lord's will I should remain with you a members of the family to sit around his bed. To little longer; if I do, I hope I shall be as willing his eldest brother and sister, he said, "Prepare to go then, as I am now." He became gradually in time of health. I have a little hope of being weaker, though quite sensible to the last, and saved; had I been taken off suddenly, I should quietly fell asleep in Jesus, on Fifth-day mornhave been lost! Oh! do it in time of health-ing, the 15th of 6th, month, 1848. do it in time of health: try to live so that we may meet again. I have a little hope you know I love you dearly." On Second-day morning, he said, he "felt relieved that he had been enabled to speak to his brother and sister; he felt so much for them all, leaving them in a world of tempta : STATISTICS OF HUNGARY. Hungary is divided into 5 circles or provinces, containing 57 counties. Its principal rivers are the Danube, the Drave, the Maresch, the March, the White Doresch, the Izarnos, the Theyss, the Waag, and the Ternes. It contains 56 large towns, 751 market towns, 11,707 villages, 1,307,172 houses, 2,885,500 families, 5,917,202 males, 6,179,000 females. Total population, 12,096,202. Of these, 5,500,000 are Roman Catholics, and about 2,000,000 of the Greek Church, about 1,000,000 Lutherans, 2,000,000 Calvanists, 250,000 Jews; and its regular army before the war 56,000 men. There are about 15,000,000 acres of arable land, American measure, 1,330,000 in vineyards, 4,800,000 in gardens, 4,850,000 in pastures, about 15,000,000 acres of woodland: 4,500,000 head of horned cattle, 650,000 horses, and 8,000,000 sheep. Buda, the capital, stands on the right bank of the Danube, and has 25,000 inhabitants. It was once the residence of the kings of Hungary, when it was taken by the Turks. For 160 years it was contested between them and the Christians, and was finally surrendered to the latter in 1686. In 1810, 600 houses were destroyed by fire, but they have been replaced by improved buildings. Immediately opposite Buda, on the east side of the Danube is Pesth, or Presburg, which is the largest city in Hungary. It is well built, containing many elegant public buildings, and mansions of the Hungarian nobility. Its University is one of the most richly endowed on the continent of Europe, and this city of Pesth contains about 60,000 inhabitants; it is about 130 miles east south east of Vienna. Throughout Hungary the Sclavonian population are the most numerous. The Magyars, or Majjars-the original Hungarians-though generally illiterate, are a spirited and intelligent race, fond of active employment and a military life. In 1837, there were in Hungary not less than 259,618 privileged noblemen. The number since that time has considerably increased; but they are, by a recent law of the Republic, placed on an equality with other citizens. No slaves of any kind are held. From the New Haven Palladium. IS THERE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ELECTRICAL STATE OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND CHOLERA ? The papers have recently given wide circulation to several articles, partly of foreign and partly of domestic origin, tracing new and singular conditions of atmospheric electricity, and implying an unusual and mysterious connection between those conditions and the cholera. One finds that sealing wax, when subjected to friction on woolen cloth, no longer affords the usual indications of electrical excitement by attracting light bodies; another, observing that his electrical machine gives shorter sparks than common, infers that the ordinary supply of the electrical fluid is withdrawn from the atmosphere; at one place where cholera prevails, thunder storms appear to have nearly ceased, while at another, where it rages more violently, they are frequent and severe. Having, from the nature of my pursuits, been somewhat conversant with the phenomena of electricity, I have been very frequently interrogated as to my opinion on these points, and I have thought I might render some little service to those whose curiosity is excited on this subject, by offering a few suggestions; or at least, that I might be the means of a still greater benefit, should I be so fortunate, by opening the discussions, as to elicit the opinions of men of science, who are more capable than myself of enlightening the public. On a close examination of the facts, I think it will be found that the atmospheric changes in question, are all such as are known to result from variations of heat and moisture, and that the apparent connection between electricity and cholera, consists in this-that certain causes which change the electrical state of the atmosphere, tend also to increase or diminish the ravages of the cholera. Let us then inquire, first, what causes change the electrical state of the atmosphere; and secondly, whether these causes have any tendency to aggravate or to allay the violence of the malady in question. The relations of the atmosphere to electricity, are controlled chiefly by the combined agencies of heat and moisture. It is when air is both hot and damp, that thunderstorms usually occur. Every one has observed, that just before a thunderstorm, a cup or tumbler of cold water becomes covered with dew, which is sometimes so copious as to run down in streamlets. This shows that the "dew-point" is very high; that the air is so nearly saturated with watery vapour, as to require cooling only a few degrees in order to condense that vapour into water. If the air, when in such a state, becomes suddenly cooled by the influx of colder air, or by any other means, the condensed vapour descends in rain, attended, when the process is sudden, and the quantity of rain is considerable, by a copious evolution of electricity, with thunder and lightning. Favourable as such a state of the air is to the production of thunderstorms, it is nevertheless peculiarly unfavourable to the action of the electric machine and other kinds of apparatus used for producing electricity artificially. These work well only when the external air is dry, for it is then only that the electricity can be accumulated so as to discharge itself in long sparks, or to exhibit with energy electrical attractions and repulsions. But the hot and humid air which generates thunderstorms, and which, at the same time impairs the action of electrical reception, is also remarkable for promoting chemical changes in bodies, especially in animal substances. In such a state of the air, meat becomes rapidly putrescent, bread sours, butter grows rancid, milk coagulates, and sweet-meats ferment and become acid. Such air also is sultry and oppressive to our sensations. Being already nearly or quite saturated with moisture, it is peculiarly unfavourable to the process of insensible perspiration, and we lose the cooling evaporation from the surface of the body, which, when the air is dry as well as hot, tends exceedingly to refresh and exhilarate us, but when the air is hot and humid, the moisture, instead of going off in vapour, collects on the surface of the system, and produces languor and other oppressive sensations. A dry air of 90° is less oppressive than a humid air of 80°; and hence it is that we often find the temperature of the evening and night more intolerable than that of the day, although the thermometer is ten or fifteen degrees lower, the increased humidity of the air more than balancing the diminished intensity of the heat. If we duly weigh these familiar facts, we shall readily perceive that the same state of the atmosphere which precedes and attends thunderstorms, and which impairs the action of electrical apparatus, has a tendency to aggravate malignant diseases; and if at any place where the pestilence is prevailing, there is an unusual absence of thunder and lightning, we may devoutly regard it as ordered in mercy to repress the march of the destroyer. Thunderstorms do indeed sometimes appear to "purify the air," but this is not owing to any direct agency of the electricity, but to the fact that, in such cases, the colder wind which, by its mingling with the hotter air that preceded the storm, generated the storm itself, prevails after the rain is over. But while thundershowers, preceded and attended as they are by a sultry humid air, have a tendency to aggravate pestilential diseases, a full and copious supply of rain, especially when attended by a reduction of temperature, has a tendency to arrest, or at least to lessen their ravages; for such an atmosphere does not promote but represses those chemical decompositions, which accompany a slight shower attended by thunder and lightning. Some regard to this principle, may usefully be had in sprinkling the floor or the streets with water in a hot day. When a floor is perfectly clean, we may find it promotes our comfort to sprinkle it, since the conversion of the water into vapour changes a portion of the sensible into latent heat, and cools the apartment; but if the floor is soiled or dusty, then, in a hot day, the rapid evaporation of the water carries up with it an offensive and noxious effluvium. A similar contamination of the air results from a slight sprinkling of the streets in hot weather, especially if they are in a filthy condition, since water is no sooner applied to such substances, than they begin to ferment and generate noxious effluvia, while, when perfectly dry, they would have remained inert and harmless. When, however, either the floor or the street is drenched with water, the offensive matter is held in solution, and only pure watery vapour is exhaled. To conclude, we may remark, that ever since the grand discovery by Dr. Franklin of the One of the most thorough students of nature and the elements, especially of the winds, in this city or land, expressed to us in conversation the other day, the same general sentiments as above, only in stronger terms. He said the electrical phenomena noticed by Dr. Audrand and others, proved nothing as to the relative quantity of electricity in the atmosphere, but only as to its facility of manifestation, which was regulated chiefly by the combined influence of heat and moisture. THE BRITISH EAST INDIA OVERLAND MAIL. A writer in the Newark Daily Advertiser thus lays down the route of the Overland Mail the British keep established between Europe and their possessions in the East: "A steamship leaves Southampton about the 19th of every month, passes through the Straits of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean to Alexandria, stopping a few hours each at Gibraltar and Malta, and making the voyage in about twenty days. From Alexandria, the traveller takes a small high pressure steamer fifty miles through the Mahmondye canal, which connects that city with Atfeh, a navigable point on the Nile-and thence up to Cairo, 120 miles farther. From Cairo vans are taken to Suez across the Desert, completing the whole journey from Alexandria in 72 hours. The distance being 86 miles, there are seven station houses for refreshments provided on the road. Near by Suez the steamer is ready every month for the regular passengers, and takes them immediately down the Red Sea, through the Straits of Babel-mandel, to their respective ports, stopping for coal at Aden, a British possession in southwest Arabia. The Bombay steamers sail directly for that port, making the whole voyage in less than forty days from England. Those carrying the mail to Calcutta and Hong Kong stop at Point de Galle, (pronounced de Gaul,) where they meet steamers of another line to these points, to whom the passengers and mails are transferred. It then returns to Suez. The one bound to Hong Kong goes through the Straits of Malacca, stopping at Singapore. Seventy-five days are all that is banded, refusing to serve with the French, or under the Pope. Garibaldi is reported to be at Civita Castellan, in the mountains north of Rome. The Republican movement in Baden appears to be put down, except that the fortress of Rastadt has not been taken. required to carry the mail from New York to | rulers. The Roman soldiery have generally disCanton, though, as this communication up the China coast is very irregular and uncertain, letters for us at Ningpo will be often long detained. The mail for Hong Kong reaches that port about the 20th, and the return mail leaves on the last of every month. Letters to the United States cost about six shillings the half ounce." 1 KINGS, CHAP. III. 6, 9. If Solomon for wisdom prayed, The Lord before had made him wise; Else he another choice had made, And asked for what the worldlings prize. Thus He invites His people still: He first instructs them how to choose, Could we our wretched choice obtain, Kindle our love to him again. But, when our hearts perceive his worth, But pant for holiness and grace. And dost Thou say, " Ask what thou wilt ?"— I pray to be released from guilt,— More of Thy presence, Lord, impart,— Give me to read my pardon sealed, And from Thy joy to draw my strength; To have Thy boundless love revealed In all its height, and breadth, and length. Grant these requests,-I ask no more, All shall be well if Thou art mine.-NEWTON. SUMMARY OF NEWS. EUROPE-By the steamer Cambria, we have Liverpool dates to the 21st ult. The cholera continues to increase in many parts of England. The deaths in London from this disease during the last week were 339. A riot took place in Down County, Ireland, on the 12th, growing out of the old Protestant and Catholic feud of that region. A procession of Orangemen, or Protestants, was attacked by a band of Ribbon-men, or Catholics, and a number are said to have been killed in the conflict. The potato disease does not appear to prevail to any great extent, and strong hopes are entertained that it will not be very destructive. The French elections have resulted generally in favor of the government party, but the number of votes is said to be much smaller than usual. The late President of the Roman Constituent Assembly, who is a son of Lucien Bonaparte, and cousin to the French President, has been arrested in France,— for what reason does not appear, The French army continues to hold possession of Rome. The authorities are busily employed in undoing what had been done by the Republican An armistice has been concluded between Denmark and Prussia. It appears now to be established that the Russians in Hungary have taken Debreczin, and that their main body has occupied Pesth and Buda. The main Hungarian army at Comorn is therefore between two hostile forces. Richard O'Gorman, Jr., one of the most prominent Irish agitators, recently arrived in New York. He escaped from Ireland in disguise, after the failure of the insurrection, and went to Constantinople. From that city he went to France, and thence sailed for America. CHOLERA.-St. Louis, 30th ult. 40 interments, 15 cholera; 31st, 14 interments, 3 cholera. The epidemic having almost disappeared, the daily reports have been discontinued. Cincinnati, 1st inst., 21 interments, 5 cholera; 2nd, 30 interments, 13 cholera; 3rd, 26 interments, 10 cholera; 4th, 34 interments, 11 cholera; 6th, 29 interments, 6 cholera. Buffalo, for 48 hours ending at noon on 4th inst, 110 cases, 33 deaths. Albany for same period, 31 cases, 10 deaths. Boston, same period, 30 deaths; for week ending 4th inst, 52 cholera interments. Montreal, for 24 hours previous to 4th, 20 interments, 10 cholera. Quebec, 1st, 30 cholera interments. From the 4th to the 27th ult., 522 deaths by cholera were reported. Toronto, from the first appearance of the disease, to the 27th ult., 105 deaths. In Sandusky, Ohio, the disease has been very destructive. On the 27th, 14 interments were reported; 28th, 31 deaths; 29th, 37 deaths. The population of this town, is we believe, about 4000, and of these it is asserted that at least 2000 have left the place. Physicians from Cleaveland and Cincinnati, have gone to the relief of the sick. Toledo and Oxford, Ohio, are said to be suffering severely with the disease; also Alamo and Covington, in Montgomery County, Indiana. New York, 1st inst., 170 cases, 60 deaths; 2d, 159 cases, 67 deaths, 4th, 142 cases, 58 deaths; 5th, 64 cases, 32 deaths; 6th, 97 cases, 45 deaths. Brooklyn, 3d, 36 cases, 10 deaths; 4th, 30 cases, 12 deaths. Philadelphia, 1st, 19 cases, 4 deaths; 2d, 19 cases, 3 deaths: 3d, 23 cases, 8 deaths; 4th, 19 cases, 7 deaths; 5th, 13 cases, 2 deaths; 6th, 24 cases, 3 deaths; 7th, 24 cases, 2 deaths. For the week ending 4th inst., 360 interments; cholera asphyxia 95, do. infantum 54, dysentery 40. Adults 171, children 189. For the week ending, 14th ult., there were 458 interments; cholera asphyxia 179; and for the week ending 21st ult., 505 interments; cholera asphyxia 195, cholera infantum 68, dysentery 28. Until last week the weekly interments of adults had exceeded those of children since the 23d of Sixth month. The coinage at the U. S. Mint at Philadelphia, from First month 1st to Sixth month 30th, is offici ally stated as follows: Gold Silver Copper $2,375,379 00 598,590 00 25,805 89 2,999,774 89 ed me, that if I would be a true follower of the Lamb, I must forsake the world, its corrupt ways, fashions, customs, worships, and all the vain glory, love and friendship of it. I saw, if I now came into obedience to the Lord, who had thus graciously heard my cries, and answered my Price two dollars per annum, payable in advance, or breathings, or rather, the breathings which he six copies for ten dollars, This paper is subject to newspaper postage only. EXTRACTS FROM JOHN GRATTON'S ACCOUNT OF HIS EARLY RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. This worthy minister was born about the year 1641, and consequently at a time when the Society of Friends was unknown. At the age of ten or eleven years, his mind was impressed with serious conviction of the sinfulness of many things in which he indulged; and he became, while quite young, an earnest inquirer after the right way of the Lord. Like many others, he ran to and fro, in search of some who could instruct him where to find the pearl of great price; but "neglecting the great Teacher in his own heart." Of his youthful exercises, he speaks as fol lows: had begotten in me, that I must part with all the repute, friendship, love and praise of men, which I then had, and lived in; and must forsake my old companions, with whom I had wasted much precious time in vain sports and gaming, which we lived and delighted in, with many other things I prized highly; all which I must now let go for the Lord, if I would choose and follow him. At this I was much troubled, for I was very loath to lose either, and would gladly have had both the love of God and the love of men too: I would have enjoyed both God and the world; but could not. My love to these vanities was so great, and I prized them so much, that it went very hard with me, to think of losing all for Christ, yea, even as bitter as death almost to me in appearance; for the love and favour of the people I valued highly, and the cross seemed so great, that I could "Sometimes I felt something in my inward then by no means persuade myself to take it up. parts that was very precious and sweet to me, yet Great was the conflict I was in, and a very sharp I did not clearly understand what it was; but if war there was in me: yet I did not disclose my at any time I did or said any thing that was not condition to any, but kept all in secret from man. right, then I soon lost the sight and feeling of But the All-seeing eye beheld me, and suffered that. Oh! it hath been gone in a moment: Ime not to be overcome, nor the enemy to destroy saw that every thing which offended the holy God my poor soul, though he suffered him to try and and was reprovable, would not abide, but all de- prove me, till the Lord was pleased to raise up filement, and whatsoever was tinctured with evil his living witness in me, which I admired at, and was against it, and it let me see it and condemned could not tell what it should be, and did not know it, and me too so far as I joined with it. Oh! that it was the grace or gift of God that brings this to enjoy is a comfort beyond utterance, to salvation, which appeared to me, though I had that heart which loves righteousness and hungers grieved it, and disobeyed it, till it seemed to grow after it. When I have been talking with a per-less and less, and to withdraw so long that I could son who saw not that I spoke a wrong word, yet I have seen it, and the Lord's spirit gave me to see it, though it may be, it slipped from me at unawares for want of diligent heed, and watching like a doorkeeper, as I ought to have done; and then my sorrows would be renewed upon me, and tears and fears in abundance. Yet a secret desire was in me, that I might die, and go out of this wicked, sinful world, where I found it rare to find a true hearted man or woman." At one time, when walking out alone, he came to the top of a hill, when, he says, "it was show see but little of its appearance. Yet it never wholly left me, though I rebelled often against it; but still it rebuked, reproved and judged me, that I could not be at peace, because it loved me, and would not let me alone, but wanted to be gracious to me; but I was loath to take the counsel of it. I was greatly exercised in mind, and was dissatisfied about the things of eternity, and my sorrows were deep, and no man knew them. my "Before I got home, the enemy came near as if he would have whispered in my ear these words, |