an enterprise that has thinned the workhouse, and the hospital, and the jail, but that has helped to fill the school, and the lecture-room, and the industrial exhibition; an enterprise that has turned into useful citizens those that were pests of society-one of the best educators of the masses, one of the very chief pioneers of the Gospel; an enterprise which is not Christ, but which is one of the holy angels that go upon His mission. Like some fair spirit from another world, our great enterprise has trodden the wilderness, and flowers of beauty have sprung up upon her track. She has looked around, gladdening all on whom her smiles have fallen, she has touched the captive, and his fetters have fallen off; she has spoken, and the countenance of despair has been lighted up with hope; waved her magic wand, and the wilderness has rejoiced and blossomed as the rose. Like the fabled Orpheus, she has warbled her song of mercy, and wild beasts, losing their ferocity, have followed gladly and gratefully in her train. She has raised up those that have been worse than dead, sepulchred in sin, and she has led multitudes to the living waters of salvation." It is due to Mr. Hall to say that his labours have always been given voluntarily, without any pecuniary emolument; his addresses in nearly every important town in the kingdom thus form a substantial contribution to the cause which he has so much at heart. Forty years' untiring and consistent advocacy of a movement, of which the fiftieth anniversary has only recently been celebrated, is a testimony of which any man might be proud. Such is the record which can be claimed for Mr. Newman Hall. When he entered the field, ministerial supporters were far from numerous, and it required no little courage to step forward as a public advocate of Total Abstinence. While many were content to tolerate, or at the best to condescendingly patronise the pioneer labourers, he heartily resolved to become one of them, and so, standing shoulder to shoulder with the earnest-minded workers who led the movement through its early struggles, he yielded to none in the intensity of his passion to advance the cause to its present magnificent proportions. Mr. Newman Hall took the degree of LL.B. in 1855, at London University, and gained the Law scholarship. He was unanimously elected Chairman of the Congregational Union in 1866. XI. "Nature is beautiful; where'er we go, Kind Nature's various wealth is all our own." WORDSWORTH. 'HE pedigree of the Waterton family can be traced THE back to the Conquest, and the subject of the present sketch never ceased to delight in claiming lineage with the great Sir Thomas More. The eminent naturalist, the Rev J. G. Wood, tells us, "A clock, which had belonged to Sir Thomas More, is still in existence, and occupies a place of honour on the upper landing of the central staircase of Walton Hall (the ancestral home of the Watertons). It is but a little clock, and has a single hand, but it keeps time as well as ever.” Charles Waterton, the "Wandering Naturalist," as he is often called, was born at the family mansion, Walton Hall, near Wakefield, in 1782. He soon manifested a keen interest in the beauties of nature, and never wearied of watching the habits of his "feathered friends." At the age of ten he was sent to Ushaw School, near Durham, which has recently been appropriately enriched with the valuable and deeply interesting natural history specimens, collected by him throughout his long life. After four years at Ushaw, Waterton entered Stonyhurst College, "where he continued to |