cup filled with Danish crowns*. On the cup was en graven, in a few words, an account of his generous behav iour to his poor, helpless neighbour. An act of Intrepidity and Humanity. THE following act of intrepidity and humanity lately performed at Portsmouth, we have particular gratification in recording in the pages of The CHEAP MAGAZINE:— Three officers of the Inverness Militia were in a pleasureboat, and when sailing between the prison ships, a sudden strong current of wind upset the boat, which having heavy ballast, immediately sunk. Two of the officers 'could swim, and they kept themselves upon the surface until boats took them up; but the other was in the most imminent danger of drowning. A French prisoner, on board the Crown, named MORANG, the moment he saw the officer struggling, jumped off the gangway, where he was standing, into the water, and by putting his feet under the officer's body as he was sinking, raised him to the surface, and then held fast of him, till, by further assistance, he was taken up. A representation has been made to government of this preservation from death; and, no doubt, one part of the brave fellow's reward will be a releasement from his present situation. He has been seven years a prisoner of war-and what increases the interest felt for him is, he was a non-combatant when taken. HAVE The MARCH of LIFE. you ever walked through the crowded streets of a great city? What shoals of people pouring in from opposite quarters, * A Danish crown is three shillings of English money. like like torrents meeting in a narrow valley! You would imagine it impossible for them to get through; yet all pass on their way without stop or molestation. Were each man to proceed exactly in the line in which he set out, he could not move many paces without encountering another full in his tract. They would strike against each other, fall back, push forward again, block up the way for themselves and those after them, and throw the whole street into confusion. All this is avoided by every man's yielding a little. Instead of advancing square, stiff, with arms stuck out, every one who knows how to walk the streets, glides along, his arms close, his body oblique and flexible, his track gently winding, leaving now a few inches on this side, now on that, so as to pass and be passed without touching, in the smallest possible space. He pushes no one into the kennel, nor goes into it himself; by mutual accommodation the path, though narrow, holds them all. He goes neither much faster nor much slower than those who go in the same direction. In the first case he would elbow, in the second he would be elbowed. If any accidental stop arises, from a carriage crossing, a cask rolled, a pick-pocket detected, or the like, he does not increase the bustle by rushing into the midst of it, but checks his pace, and patiently waits for its removal. LIKE THIS IS THE MARCH OF LIFE. In our progress through the world, a thousand things stand continually in our way. Some people meet us full in the face with opposite opinions and inclinations. Some stand before us in our pursuit of pleasure or interest, and others follow close upon our heels. Now, we ought in the first place to consider, that the road is as free for one as for another; and therefore we have no right to expect that persons should go out of their way to let us pass, any more than we out of ours. Then, if we do not mutually yield and accommodate a little, it is clear that we must all stand still, or be thrown into a perpetual confusion of squeezing and jostling. If we are all in a hurry to get on as fast as possible to some point of pleasure or interest in our view, and do not occasionally hold back, when the crowd gathers, and angry contentions arise, we shall only augment the tumult, without advancing our own progress. On the whole, it is our business to move onwards, steadily, but quitely, obstructing others as little as possible, yielding a little to this man's prejudices, and that man's desires, and doing every thing in our power to make the journey of life easy to all our fellow-travellers as well as to ourselves. BARBAULD. REMARKS ON THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, AND THE DUTIES OF PARENTS IN THE FURTHERANCE OF IT. TO THE EDITORS OF THE CHEAP MAGAZINE. GENTLEMEN, As your useful publication is very generally read and admired in this populous district of the country, I request you will have the goodness to insert the following Remarks on the Education of Children. THE proper education of youth is of the highest importance, both to themselves and the community, being the natural means of preserving religion and virtue; and the earlier good instructions are given, the more lasting must they prove. To deny children instruction, seems as unnatural as to withhold from them their necessary subsistence. From the the excellent plan on which education is conducted in this part of the kingdom, by the erection of so many respectable parochial schools, instruction is brought as it were to the very doors of all ranks and classes in society; and, therefore, renders ignorance quite inexcusable.-The neglect of this most important duty being, for the most part, chargeable on the parents, I hope the following Remarks will not be taken amiss. Attending constantly at school is one great hinge on which the whole machine of education turns. It is a common remark among parents, "that masters have holidays too frequently."Why then should they add so many more to the number, by allowing their children to remain at home at least one day every week, for the most trifling reason, or rather for no reason at all? Nothing, in my opinion, tends more to retard their progress than this loitering disposition, especially when countenanced by the parents, who ought never to let their commands run counter to the master's; but whatever task he assigns his pupils to be done at home, they should be careful to see it performed exactly, in order to keep them out of idleness. Parents should endeavour to be sensible of their children's defects, and want of parts, and not blame the master, when his greatest skill, with some, will produce but a small share of improvement. But the great misfortune is, as the proverb expresses it, “every crow thinks her own young the fairest ;" and the tender mother, though her son be of an ungovernable temper, will not scruple to say, "he is a meek child, and will do more with a word than a blow," when neither words nor blows are available. Again, some children are of a very dull and heavy disposition, and are a long time in acquiring but a-little learning, and yet their parents think them as susceptible of im provement as those of the most bright and promising parts: and when it happens that they improve but slowly, though in proportion to their abilities, they are hurried about from school to school, till at last they lose that share of learning, which otherwise, by staying at the same school, they might have been masters of; just like a sick, but impatient man, who employs a physician to cure him of his malady, and then, because the distemper requires time, as well as skill, to procure health, tells him, he has all along taken a wrong method; turns him off, and then applies to another, whom he serves in the same manner-and thus proceeds, till the distemper becomes incurable. Children are likewise very apt to carry home, and report to their parents, what they see and hear at school-and often more than truth; and some parents are found weak enough to believe them, and even encourage them. Hence those misunderstandings between the parents and teacher, which are sometimes carried so high, that the parent, in the presence of his child, will reproach him with hard names, and other abusive language, to the utter ruin of his child's education and improvement. On the other hand, if parents would have their children improve in their education, they must cause them to submit to the little imaginary hardships of the school, and support them under them by suitable encouragement. They should not fall out with the teacher upon every idle tale, nor even allow, not to say encourage, their children to speak to his prejudice; but rather inform them frequently, by all means, that they ought to be good boys, attend to their books, be always obedient to their master, and that, if they are not, they must undergo correction. It is very observable what a harmony there is between the master and scholars, when the latter is taught to love and have a good opinion of the former -with what case does the scholar learn! with what |