houses she occupied-particularly to Barley Wood, the real home of her affections.

Some time after our visit, circumstances to which it is needless to refer induced her to leave Barley Wood and to reside at Clifton. She lived for about four years at 4, Windsor Terrace, Clifton, receiving the most marked testimonies of affection and veneration from persons of all sects and classes. Her end, in the eighty-ninth year of her age, was peaceful as her life was pure; and if strangers had seen the numbers who congregated to attend her to the grave-had heard the tolling of the bells from the Bristol steeples, and observed that every shop was closed as the procession passed on its way to Wrington-if they had noted the mingling of yeomanry, clergy, and gentry, accompanied by the children of the Wrington Schools

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-if they could have been told that the lessons conveyed in the 'Cheap Repository' were as familiar to the people as Thoughts on the Manners of the Great' were to their noble fellow-mourners-they would have honoured those who so honoured the virtues of a lady of humble birth; who by her own exertions, had realised enough to enable her during many years of her life to devote 9001, a year to deeds of charity, and leave a noble property to be divided among the most useful of our Institutions.

Mrs. Hannah More died on the 7th of September, 1833; and in Wrington churchyard, within view of Barley Wood, she was buried. A flat stone, with iron railing, beneath a gnarled yew-aged, yet vigorous with branches and leaves-marks the spot which contains her honoured dust; and not hers alone, but that of her four sisters, each of whom was worthy to repose beside one of the truly excellent of the earth.* It is a quiet and retired spot-meet resting-place for one so good and pure; who had quitted the world long previously-except for the holy ties which linked her to it for its service. But of her, in truth, it may be said, 'Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.' She has made posterity her debtor, for all time: her precepts and her example are alike lessons that will lead to active benevolence and practical piety. The stone contains this inscription :

BENEATH ARE DEPOSITED THE MORTAL REMAINS OF FIVE

In these our times, unfortunately, women have in many instances been so busied about their RIGHTS, as to be forgetful of their DUTIES; as they cannot destroy, they endeavour to set aside, the laws of God and Nature; untuning the sweet and gentle voice, given for the expression of prayer, of supplication, of mercy, charity, patience, hope, and faith, in

The fame of Hannah More has absorbed that of her four sisters-all admirable women; who laboured heartily and continually with her in the great work of improvement. Will Bristol ever erect a monument to commemorate her excellencies-or will it be content to trust her memory to the immortality of her works?

'screaming' for more liberty: proving their unfitness, by the very temper of their demand, for an impossible equality, they lose sight of the beautiful balance which constitutes civilised society; and forget that even in savage life, it is the man who seeks the hunting-ground, while the woman remains in the wigwam to nurse the infant, and prepare the food. It is solely by the softening influence of the Christian faith that women are elevated to the position they hold in Christian lands; and the only course beneficial to them is, by increasing those qualities that will enable them still more to cheer and enlighten the social system, which it is their peculiar province to guide and to adorn. A well-organised and properly harmonised woman has so much occupation in the sphere so clearly defined in the Book of Life, that she appreciates the high privileges of womanhood, in the several relations of daughter, friend, wife, and a joyful mother of children,' too highly, to exchange them for advantages' unseemly, out of keeping, and out of character. She values the power of forming the minds of those who are to be the great acting principle, the mental mechanists, the heroes, statesmen, rulers of our land, hereafter. Her proper sphere is so extensive, that she only fears her life may be too short, her power too limited, to fulfil its duties. What a spirit of harmony pervades her dwelling! Be her means large or small, she has still something to bestow: her humanity extends to all around her; she never keeps the sempstress waiting for her work or for her pay, aud is too just to beat down the value of a necessary to obtain a luxury. A knowledge of her own defects instructs her to be merciful to those of others, and though her servants at first are not better than those of her neighbours, her patience and good management render them so at last she has so early taught the infant at her bosom the duty of obedience, that his pliant will bends without distortion, and instead of rebellious brawls racking his father's heart, the well-trained child already imparts the consciousness of future happiness to his anxious parents : woman, in the quiet noiseless circle of her domestic and social duties, has even more to do with the future character of empires, than the mighty man, whose bolder brain and stronger muscle must fight life's battle till his life is done for after all, perhaps it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that

'Those who rock the cradle rule the world.'

If woman but knows herself, she can work miracles; be she high or low,

rich or poor, her influence is unbounded, if it be properly exercised: it is possible to combine a perfect fulfilment of arduous, literary, or other labour, with a devout and fitting attention to the more pleasing duties of a homecherishing life; still, those women are certainly the happiest whose occupations and pleasures are strictly of a domestic nature; but no woman pursues a safe course who calculates her happiness to consist in any but the path of duty, while she remembers that the road to real renown lies not through mental endowments, however brilliant, or intellectual achievements, however great. The whole career of Mrs. Hannah More is a striking example of what can be effected by one woman—a woman neither high-born, nor wealthy, nor beautiful, nor, in what is understood to constitute genius, as highly gifted as many others whose names are histories: her dramas have had no sustaining power to keep the stage, and her poems, as poems, are little more than amusing trifles; but her Cheap Repository,' her book on Female Education,' her Thoughts on the Manners of the Great,' her Christian Morals,' her Spirit of Prayer,' Hints on the Education of a Princess,' Character of St. Paul,' and her Practical Piety,' despite, as we have said, some occasional conventionalities, are the temples in which her memory is enshrined; and when we recal the formation of those Poor Schools,-when we remember that neither the time bestowed upon them, nor upon her literary pursuits, prevented her fulfilling her duty to the

'Great Father of all,'

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in whom she lived, moved, and had her being,'-when we learn how faithfully her domestic duties were discharged, while she was the benefactor of the poor, and the instructor of the ignorant,-when we remember what she was to society, and recal the kind, playful unostentatious womanliness of her nature, we do greatly rejoice in the triumph of usefulness; we gaze with reverence upon the clear beacon-fire she kindled, so different from the phantom lights that dazzle and betray; and we recommend most earnestly to our country women the study of such a life, and its consequences, as opposed to the malaria of those unhealthy influences which, born of a degraded woman of genius, have, of late years, crawled from France into the literature of England.

THE TOMB OF SIR THOMAS GRESHAM.

HE Merchant Princes of England!' How much loftier is the sound than that of 'Millionaire,' by which it has become the fashion to designate our monied traders ! It recals to us the great men of History, who, though dealers and chapmen, were the counsellors of kings, representatives of the people, and held rule over the empire of the seas; men, great, because their purposes were

greater; originating vast improvements, increasing national power, augmenting natural resources, promoting mighty changes for the general good; helping social progress, nourishing intellectual advancement, sustaining rational liberty, and pouring wealth into the lap of public necessity!

There is something almost magnificent in the term-Merchant Princes!' and it is well to go back and consider what they did, and how they stood, in old times, both in relation to their own and foreign governments: it may be especially necessary to do so now; to permit ourselves to halt,' in the course we are pursuing with a rapidity that infers danger, and which, from the multiplicity of objects that flit by us, permits little leisure for that contemplation and repose of thought which strengthen the mind and refresh the spirit we allow ourselves no space for comparison between past and present,' but rush onward,-onward, not unlike the wild huntsman of the poet's dream-pursued by, and following phantoms! With facilities for accomplishing nearly as much in a minute as it would have taken our grave fur-coated ancestors to get through in an hour, it is well to ponder, and ask