redundancy of labour at home, while our foreign lands were dreary only for want of labour,-while an open sea lay between,-while we had shipping to spare to traverse it, and while we were spending nine millions a-year in the fruitless support of our paupers. The best plea for us in that day will be that we did not understand our own case. By the time we have spent nine millions, or the half of nine millions, in relieving our labour market, we may have discovered, how inferior is that superstitious spurious charity which doles out bread at its own door to an unlawful petitioner, because to give bread was once charity, and that enlightened, genuine benevolence, which causes plenty to spring in the far corners of the world, nourishing at home the ancient household virtues which have been well nigh starved among us, but which are not dead. The ultimate checks by which population is kept down to the means of subsistence, are vice and misery. Since the ends of life are virtue and happiness, these checks ought to be superseded by the milder methods which are within 'man's reach.'" It is melancholy to think how capital continues to be wasted in building workhouses, and supporting paupers in them, in Great Britain and Ireland, when the Queen of Great Britain rules over such a country as Australia. In such asylums the young are trained up in a state of servile discontent, which must foster the worst dispositions; so that, when the miserable inmates are let loose on society afterwards, prisons must be built for them-soldiers and police paid to keep them in subjection-crown solicitors and judges paid large salaries for trying and condemning them, and hangmen small salaries for executing on them the last sentence of the law. Would it not be better policy to clear out the workhouses in time, and give their inmates

encouragement to virtue and industry, by a judicious system of emigration, than to tempt them to commit crimes, (as Earl Grey is doing,) by giving no reward to a British subject for virtue, until he has first been a convicted felon? Instead of erecting walls for workhouses, why not employ the "wooden walls of old England," to bring her sons and daughters to Australia. "An Australian morning is always charming; amid these scenes of primæval nature it seemed exquisitely so. The Barita, or Gymnorhina, the organ-magpie, was here represented by a much smaller bird, whose notes, resembling the softest breathings of a flute, were the only sounds that met the ear. What the stillness of even adds to such sounds in other climes, is felt more intensely in the stillness of morning in this. The rapture of repose that's there,' gratifies every sense; the perfume of the shrubs, of those even that have recently been burnt, and the tints and tones of the landscape accord with the soft sounds. The light red tints of the Anthistiria, the brilliant green of the Mimosa, the white stems of the Eucalyptus, and the deep grey shadows of early morning, still slumbering about the woods, are blended and contrasted in the most pleasing harmony. The forms in the soft landscape are equally fine, from the wild fantastic tufting of the Eucalyptus, and its delicate, willow-like, ever-drooping leaf, to the prostrate trunks of ancient trees,-the mighty ruins of the vegetable world. Instead of autumnal tints, there is a perpetual blending of the richest hues of autumn, with the most brilliant verdure of spring; while the sun's welcome rays in a winter's morning, and the cool breath of the woods in a summer's morning are equally grateful concomitants of such scenes. These attach even the savage to his woods, and might well reclaim the man of

crime from thoughts likely to disturb the harmony of human existence. When I read this description, from the pen of Sir T. L. Mitchell, it occurred to me that if the Prophet Haggai were in England now, he might address British legislators with as much reason as he did the Jews of old, when he invited them to build the temple at Jerusalem a second time.

"Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, the time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built. Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet saying, Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house, lie waste? Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, consider your ways. Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord. Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man into his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from her dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant

In the French language the potato is called pomme-de-terre ; literally translated, apple of the earth.

of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, and the people did fear before the Lord. Then spake Haggai, the Lord's messenger, in the Lord's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord. And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came, and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their God." * Oh! that Haggai were to rise from the dead now, and stir up the "spirits" of Queen Victoria and her ministers, and the "spirits" of the Evangelical Archbishops, Bishops, and Clergy of the Church of England. Oh! that they would send out living stones in "hearts of oak," to "subdue the earth," and erect the Spiritual Temple in Australia. How might the words of the prophet in a few years be applied to this beautiful country! "The glory of this latter house, shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts; and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts." In all the promises relating to New Jerusalem, the vine is spoken of as one of the great blessings the Lord's people are to expect as their reward when assembled in it. In fact it is the most valuable of all trees to the human race, for independent of its producing wine and brandy, spirits of wine is a most important article to chemists to enable them to extract the virtues of other plants; and grapes in the season when they are ripe, are found efficacious in restoring the health

of invalids. Dr. Jouest a French physician says, that there is nothing in medicine, that can so completely change the blood, as grapes; and that no complaint of the stomach can resist the adoption of the following regimen.

When the grapes are ripe, the patient should begin by eating a pound and a half the first day, divided into six parts, one part to be taken on awakening in the morning, two parts at ten o'clock, two parts at two o'clock, and one part at five. The quantity should be increased each day, until on the eighth day it amounts to five pounds. That quantity should be continued for four or five days; the patient should then take a dose of Gregory's powder, and on that day no grapes.

The next day the diet should be recommenced at three pounds per day, and continued for six weeks, without any more medicine. The patient should take a walk between each dose of grapes, not too long to cause fatigue, but to be in the open air as much as possible; and should be up and dressed at seven in the morning, and not sit up late at night. The other articles of diet should be a basin of good beef tea, free from fat, for breakfast at 8 o'clock; an hour after taking the grapes. At one o'clock a dinner of mutton chop or chicken. At seven a bowl of beef soup, with vermicelli or barley in it; and at all the meals as much bread as may be agreeable. Tea, coffee, wine, and beer, should be avoided while trying this regimen.

I shall select a few texts from Jeremiah to prove that the inhabitants of New Jerusalem are to come from North to South; that the vine is to be very plentiful; that spiritual as well as temporal blessings are to be enjoyed. This prophecy could not be fulfilled until the Geography of the earth was completed; and the gospel