inextricable mazes of gloomy lanes and alleys, out of which issue the most noxious exhalations, the fruits of insufficient ventilation and drainage. I have witnessed those over-crowded populations, wandering about pale and ghost-like from the want of food to eat and air to breathe. And I can foresee that, besides those thousands who will perish on the wayside-those thousands who will bear with them the germ of disease and death, there will be thousands more who will perhaps attain the goal of their pilgrimage in health, but who will be swept away by the increase of suffering which their mere presence will cause. But to return to the Spanish Jews: while they at the period of their exile were in comparative affluence, most of the Polish Jews are in the most abject poverty, depending for their existence upon chances and concurrences probable only in the quarters whence they are to be driven.

"And yet, despite all these harrowing details, I am not aware up to this moment, that a single organ of English Christians has pleaded the cause of the miserable Jews of Russian Poland (I do not mention The Voice of Jacob, for that is only an organ of the Anglo-Jewish press.) If I compare this frigid silence with the outcry raised against the Ancona decree, the uncharitable inference obtrudes itself that it was in that case not so much the cause of humanity which was pleaded as that of partisanship! The Jewish cause then afforded the opportunity to cry down Popery! But, however plausible, I will reject the suggested inference. No, scriptural England knows too well what it owes to Judaism, what hopes are involved in its futurity, when "His feet shall stand upon the mount of Olives," and all nations

shall be judged; blessings being awarded to Israel's benefactors-the curse to his oppressors and false

friends.

"Let, now, those thousands of noblemen and gentlemen who not only profess faith in Scripture with their lips, but respond to its claims in their heartslet them stand forth now, when an opportunity is to be had let them, if they indeed covet it, earn that blessing promised to those who bless Abraham. Let them memoralize the Russian Emperor for pity on half a million of Israel's remnant. Let the humane, the influential, and the enlightened, even irrespective of religious feeling, depict in lively colours the indelible stain with which the execution of this decree would tarnish the name of Nicholas, a stain more indelible than that which still attaches to those of Ferdinand and Isabella. Let them admonish him of the Divine wrath of that dread tribunal, before which he, powerful as he is, must one day appear equally with the meanest of his subjects. Let them remind him of Egypt, whence the cry of anguish ascended, and certainly not in vain, to the GOD of our forefathers, even the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is a Christian: he must believe, he must know, how that once all-powerful Egypt incurred the anger of GOD; even now is it a tributary state governed by the stranger. Let them point to Spain, unhappy Spain, where a fourth century has not yet expiated the guilt: for "He visiteth the sins of the fathers upon the children, even upon the third and fourth generations of them that hate Him." The Emperor is said to be just, and, like most men of generous impulses, accessible, nay, even sensitive to public opinion; surely he will hearken, examine,

repeal, or at least modify, that exterminating decree, and to the house of Judah shall be light, and on the heads of those who stand up for them in the day of their need will Israel invoke the promised blessing, and surely He will hear their prayer."

A JEW.

From our inmost heart, we implore our Christian readers not to lay down this touching appeal, without resolving to do something towards carrying into effect the writer's proposition. Men, indeed, must come forward; but what so powerfully influences man as the intercessory persuasion of woman in a good cause? It was by a woman's wise, tender, humble, yet courageous use of this her natural influence, that the Lord saved the Jews throughout the Persian Empire in the days of Haman: and shall a son of Israel plead in vain for such help as we can give, when the decree of a northern Ahasuerus hangs over the devoted heads of His long-afflicted nation? We venture to say, No; it will not be and we anxiously await a response to this our direct and confiding appeal.

EMMELINE.

I saw her first in fashion's maze,
The pride, the gaze of all;
Her beauty like the meteor's blaze,
Her form erect and tall;

And faultless as that work of art,
Which won the ancient sculptor's heart.

She talked, she laughed, with girlish glee;
She led the dance so gay;

She played, she sung, in numbers free,
Full many a roundelay.

Her youthful pulse with joy beat high,
The husband of her choice was nigh.

I saw her next, a bent, a pale,
And broken-hearted thing;

Her mind a waif on passion's gale,
Unfixed and wandering;

The form, on which I loved to dwell,
Immured within a maniac's cell.

The smile of sprightly youth was gone,
Her cheek had lost its rose;

Her husband, he she doated on,—
Shall I the truth disclose ?-
Yes, his unkindness was the blow,
Which laid that buoyant spirit low.

Had she but known (she never knew!)

The peace the gospel yields;

Oh! that had come, like Hermon's dew
On Canaan's thirsty fields,

To cool the fever in her breast,
And lull her troubled soul to rest!

Poor Emmeline! I could not weep,
My fount of tears was dry;
But I could pray thy God to keep
On thee a pitying eye:

And bless the means employed to heal
Thy wound, the deepest flesh can feel!

Poor Emmeline! It might not be.
Yon turf, which blooms so green,

Encloses all that's left of thee;

And thou hast fled the scene

Of life, to all so full of pain,
Oh! who would live it o'er again?

DR. HUIE.