results of the experience of all nations, for the common benefit of all. It disavows all political or sectarian spirit; adopting philanthropy as a neutral ground where all parties and persuasions may work harmoniously.

The Council of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, in a special meeting held on the 22nd of November, 1861, unanimously adopted a resolution proposed by Henry Roberts, Esq., F.S.A., one of the VicePresidents at the Session of Congress held at Frankfort in 1857, inviting that body to hold its next session in London, in conjunction with the Sixth Annual Meeting of the National Associa

tion.

A general committee, including the names of many influential persons, has been appointed for carrying into effect the foregoing resolution.

A committee of organization has made the following arrangements in concert with the Executive Committee of the National Association :The use of Burlington-house having been granted for the London meeting of the National Association and the Congress, an office has been established at 12, Old Bond-street, where the members of the Congress will enter their names on arriving in London.

On payment of £1, they will receive a ticket admitting them to all the meetings of the Association and Congress, and to all the advantages open to members of the Association during the London session.

As the expenditure required for ensuring the success of the joint meeting of the National Association and Congress will far exceed any sum likely to be derived from the issue of tickets, donation lists will be opened, to which the members of the Association and Congress may subscribe.

The Session will be inaugurated on the 4th of June. Six days will probably be devoted to business. Arrangements will be made for visits to the Great Exhibition and other objects of special interest in or near the metropolis.

It is proposed to direct the special attention of the members of the Congress to those articles in the various departments of the Exhibition which may be most deserving of notice in a sanitary and benevolent point of view. It will be the province of the Congress to consider the expediency of recommending that the articles

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and inventions thus noted be collected together at the close of the Great Exhibition, for constituting a special Exhibition of Domestic and Sanitary Economy.

Care will be taken to give to the deliberations of the Congress a character of practical utility, and to afford to every member an opportunity of fully expressing the results of his experience. At the same time, it is essential that in an international assembly, comprising persons whose views on ecclesiastical as well as on political questions greatly differ, such discussions as might wound the feelings of any of its members should be avoided.

Written communications should be in French or English. In oral communications, German or Italian may also be used by special permission.

At the close of the session, the Committee of Organization will be replaced by a Special Committee, for the publication of the Transactions, of which a copy will be placed at the disposal of each of the members. The Transactions of the National Association will be added on payment of 5s.

Before separating, the Congress will advise as to the best means of giving active development to the system of International Correspondence recommended at the Frankfort Sessions in 1857, and of thereby maintaining to the Congress a continuous existence, and ensuringgreater regularity in the convocation of its successive sessions.

The Programme of the Congress, which has lately appeared in French, and from which the foregoing information is derived, proceeds to explain the nature (of the communications to be addressed to the Congress, giving at considerable length a classified enumeration of the subjects recommended to the attention of persons interested in promoting the improvement of the moral, intellectual, and physical condition of the people.

It may be mentioned as a proof of the interest taken on the Continent in the Philanthropic Congress, that 1,000 copies have been requested for France, and 200 for Belgium. Active cooperation is expected also from Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.

The Programme may be obtained, on application, at the office, 12, Old Bond-street, or to P. Le Nève Foster, Esq., at the Society of Arts.

POETRY accepted, with thanks.-" Glimpses of Beauty;" Snowdrops;" ;" "The Oppressors and the Oppressed;""The Journal."-We shall be glad to hear from this contributor again; but to save trouble, it must be distinctly understood that all poetry is gratuitous, and sent at the risk of the writers, who are requested to keep copies.

PROSE received, with thanks, from "J. B. S., Greenock;""Edible Birds" in our next; "The Sparrow and the Primrose."

Received, but not yet read."The Unhappy

Marriage;" "What John Woodly did with his Fortune;" Stray Thoughts;" "Gertrude ;" ." "Oldborough."

Miss H. CLAY.-We have not had the manuscript of which this lady writes.

POETRY declined, with thanks." The Stream in the Hollow." " They lived, and then they died." The title of this we confess is sufficiently prosaic; but though some of the ideas are good, others are only half thought out, and the whole is defaced with bad grammar.

CHAP. VII.

Lady Jane Grey and Lord Guildford Dudley studied regularly and profitably under the benign superintendence of the good Master Ascham. Recreation alternated pleasingly with study; and though both were occasionally interrupted by the unwelcome intrusion of measles, mumps, nettle-rash and such like visitants, still, upon the whole, the course of these young lives was like that of merry brooks prattling gaily towards the greater waters. Bright sunshine glorified their days, stars and moonlight beautified their nights, the leaves of the forest "clapt their little hands in glee," and wished them godspeed as they tripped along beneath them; and the happy little birds, looking down on them from fearless heights, warbled to them of the fountains of tenderness that flow for ever from the throne of the common Father. All tender flowers were joys to them; and when the flowers died and the snows of winter lay on their graves, their souls rejoiced in the stainless whiteness, and opened all the more to the old friendship of the little birds that came to be fed at their hands. The very rain, the long-continued rain, had to them a gleesome sound; and they played with all things that came to them from heaven, without fear and without reproach. And so the years came and went, as years will come and go till the Great Tale shall all be told, and all form and change and circumstance be swallowed up and gloriously lost in the changeless rapture of the Immortality of love.

Willie Hepburn had from his earliest years shown a strong predilection for a sea-life. Every little boy is, as a matter of course, destined, according to his own idea, to be either a great military commander, or to scour the seas at the head of a really invincible Armada. For a long time Mr. Hepburn, who was no stranger to his son's maritime inclinations, looked on them merely as the natural efflorescence of the boymind, which would soon give place to the maturer leaves of Virgil, Ovid, and Cicero; these again to be destined at some distant but not the less certain date to stuff a Professor's chair-"Hu

manity," of course-on which his son William was yet to sit as the great Dispenser of Consular and Imperial Roman bounty to his own and perhaps to future generations. But when he found that his son, in proportion as he became proficient in his classical studies, became still more and more addicted to Cook, Hall, Jewitt's Adventures, the wreck of the Antelope and such like, and not only to such like, but to the more serious study of Navigation itself; and when he saw him, as oft he did, lift a not unappreciative eyes from the loveliness of Roman song or the majesty of Roman oratory, to fix it with something far more adoring than mere appreciation on the beautiful Frith of Tayforth, that looked so bright and inviting from the schoolhouse windows, with the sails of ships all silvery white, doubly beautified by the gliding shadows beneath; and when at such times he saw the tear trickle silently down the cheek of the young student, and knew thereby that the soul of the boy was away on sunny seas and among bright isles of the South-at such times it entered into the heart of Mr. Hepburn, till at last it became a settled conviction, that nature was often the voice of God, and that he would have to make up his mind to part with his only child. The strangest thing of all, to him, and that which seemed to stamp the divinity of the call, was that on stormy nights, when he would call Willie from his sleep to listen to the howling of the wild wind, and to ask him to fancy himself out, even then, on the sea surging remorselessly, to think of the wind whistling through the shrouds, the struggles of the sailors to reef the stormfilled sails, the flying and dashing of unmanageable tackle, the straining and creaking of the distressed ship itself, thrown forward, and anon dashed backward by the infuriated deep, and the whole tumultuous whirl and turmoil of the tempest tenfold aggravated by the horror of darkness-at such times, as the boy sat up in his bed, his face seemed to his father, in the dim-lit chamber, to assume a strange light, and he would seem to peer forward, as if the walls were no hindrance to his vision, and as if he were contemplating with angel serenity the very circumstances his