case. We accordingly find him again engaged in connection with his friends Wilberforce and Macauley, in deep deliberations on the most effectual mode of conducting their operations. And it is pleasing to observe, that he fully recognised the importance and necessity of Divine assistance in those philanthropic labours to which his life was devoted. He had then in his view, not only slavery and the slave-trade, but the burning of Indian widows, which he brought up several times in Parliament before the custom was finally abolished; as well as the melioration of the penal code, and the improvement of the prison discipline. As a preliminary to the contemplated parliamentary proceedings, efforts were made to arouse the attention of the public. Early in the spring of 1823, W. Wilberforce published an appeal on behalf of the slaves. Near the same time the Anti-Slavery Society was formed, of which Buxton was appointed Vice President, and a committee of that association engaged warmly in collecting and spreading information on the subject through the country. Public feeling was roused and petitions began to flow in. The lead was taken by the Society of Friends, and it was determined that the presentation of their appeal by the hands of Wilberforce, should be the opening of the parliamentary campaign. (To be continued.) Communicated for Friends' Review. ON CONSIDERATION. We pass on to the last branch of Consideration which we shall notice; it comes to us recommended by the benediction of heaven, and thus lays claims to our most especial attention. "Blessed is he that considereth the poor." It enters into a right consideration of the poor, to recollect that poverty is not an accidental occurrence, but a state to which, from the fall of man, God in his all-wise decree has appointed the greater number of human beings. "The poor shall never cease out of the land." "The poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good." It is intended then by the Almighty, that at all times there should be many within our reach whose varied and pressing wants have a religious claim on our compassion and assistance. In considering the poor, therefore, we are not merely called upon to look into particular cases of distress with tenderness, and to relieve the sufferers from time to time, but we must be prepared to do this with effect, by coming to a definite determination of laying aside regularly whatever portion of our property we conscientiously feel should be annually dedicated to God for the benefit of others. Let this not be done hastily, but as in the presence of our Heavenly Father, from whom we have received every temporal and spiritual bless- I ing. Such an arrangement as this by no means crosses that most needful command, "Let not your left hand know what your right hand doeth." Let charity be indeed without display, yea without the leaven of a momentary internal feeling of self-complacency, but let it be a wise, well regulated, and discriminating act; for as we cannot possibly effect all the good that we may desire, it is the more necessary that timely consideration should guide us in giving, where, as far as we can judge, the greatest degree of suffering, distress, and want may be relieved. This sober-minded and Christian liberality, which is acted upon as a duty, although it does not proceed upon mere impulse, yet it is accompanied with true feeling towards the objects in whose favour it is exercised; and having had its rise in a deep sense of gratitude for innumerable favours freely conferred, it flows out with thankfulness instead of vain-glory, considering that "it is more blessed to give than to receive." A Bible is given, with thankfulness that the treasury of Divine truth has been open to us from childhood. We provide instruction for the ignorant either at home or abroad, with thankfulness that the ministers of Christ were sent to us when we asked not after them. We assist a free-school, with thankfulness that parents and friends watched over our early years, and procured for us the advantages of Christian education. And in the more private opportunities of charity, the same feeling should still be found to pervade, causing the gift to be bestowed with simplicity, "and as of the ability which God giveth.' Thus in all cases glorifying Him who has been graciously pleased to make us the channel of His mercy. Those who have had much intercourse with the poor in endeavouring to befriend and instruct them, will also have learned how necessary it is to have patience as well as compassion in assisting them. Their temptations are many, their wants great, their habits coarse, and their opportunities of improvement few. To judge them therefore by the rule by which persons of a superior class are measured, is not considerate; and even when their minds have been brought under the power of vital religion, we must not expect refinement or quick progress, for the atmosphere in which they have lived, and by which they are still surrounded, both in a natural and moral sense, will cause an obtuseness to many things, which at times may be almost revolting. The state of mind above described will also lead us into a spirit of gentle and kind consideration for the feelings of those who are benefitted by our bounty. Alms should never be given as if they were yielded to importunity, or to get rid of the annoyance of being so often applied to; many give in this spirit. A harsh unsympathising manner neutralizes the good moral effect which might be produced by our bounty; and | especially mentioned in the message: The considering of the poor will further lead us to respect the effort of the more respectable amongst them to conceal their destitution. Private assistance may be devised in many ways. Clothing suited for attendance at public worship, amongst other things, is frequently of great importance; and though the want of decent apparel may sometimes be made an excuse for carelessness in seeking religious improvement, yet we should not expect those who have been reduced from comparative ease of circumstances to deep poverty, to possess sufficient holy resolution to appear publicly in clothing which must be an evidence of their want. It would be tedious to enumerate at greater length the varied manners in which the disposition we have been endeavouring to recommend may find opportunity for exercise. Let us, therefore, in conclusion, turn our admiring eyes to the Great Exemplar of this and every other virtue" Let us consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession." How beautifully in the whole of his conduct did he fulfil that which was prophesied of Him, "A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench." Look at the grateful countenances of the parents who had been discouraged by His disciples, when they heard his blessed voice calling them back, and saying, "Suffer the little children to come unto me. Oh, how the soothing echo of the benediction then pronounced must have been prolonged in their hearts, giving them hope for their little ones for time and eternity! "Tell my disciples and Peter, behold, I go before them into Galilee," marked how well he knew the fears and doubts which would naturally harass the soul of that weak though repentant disciple. But while a friend is thus remembered and restored, do we find that enemies are forgotten? Oh! merciful Lord! Thou who "pleadest the cause of thy people," didst not in the extremity of thy sufferings omit to offer up a plea in extenuation of the guilt of thy murderers; and thou didst expire with a word of blessed consideration on thy lips, "Father, forgive them, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO!" CHAMPAGNE WINE. This wine takes its name from the Province in which it is made. It takes much labour to prepare it from the juice of the grape suitable for market. It costs much money for bottles and corks, many of the former breaking during fermentation. Ten per cent. breaking is not regarded as a loss, because the wine is considered better, and rises in proportion. M. Jaqueson, a wine merchant of Chalons sur Marne, it is said, has cellars in which he ferments his wine, more than a mile in extent. He alone pays for corks yearly $30,000, which is 5000 more than the salary of the President of the United States. What all the wine merchants of the Old Province of Champagne pay for corks would defray the salaries of President and Congress; and what all the wine growers of France employ for that purpose, would pay all the expense of our government, including the Mexican war. A bottle of this wine in the Province of Champagne can be bought for about 40 cents. Now the jolly fellows of the United States think they get the best of this wine to drink. Why shouldn't they? The following facts will show them the chance they have of drinking pure wine. With a ticket, a prize can be calculated on with more certainty, than the purchase of a bottle of the wine pure from the vintage in this country. Multitudes thronged around Him, to hear his word, and to be healed of their diseases; but while "grace and truth hung upon his lips, and he was opening up the fountain of life and immortality; while he caused the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and the dumb to speak, His mind was not too much engrossed by the greater importance of these works, to remember that the people stood in need of more ordinary mercies. Neither their distance from There are 32,000,000 of bottles of false chamhome nor their want of food was forgotten. "Ipagne every year sent to Russia, about as much will not send them away fasting (said the considerate Saviour,) lest they faint by the way, for divers of them came from far." The invitation which He gave to His disciples, to pray that labourers should be sent into the harvest; and His own night spent in prayer previous to the choice of the twelve Apostles, was the result of the same considerate compassion with which He beheld the people scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. No degree of opposition, no ingratitude or presumption, could check, even for a moment, his forbearing recollection of others. His look upon Peter, and the name of that disciple being more is sent to England, and fully equal to that quantity to the United States. There is a company in Paris who make natural champagne wine. They take poor chablis, for instance, sweeten it with candy, refine it, and then pass it through an apparatus which charges it with carbonic acid gas, and in fifteen minutes it is ready for the market. Immense quantities are also made from cider, by the employment of all sorts of drugs, and in England, a great deal is made from gooseberries and the stalks of rhubarb. It is not so good as the genuine, but nine out of ten of those who drink, can't tell the difference; and it will make them just as drunk, and give them the same habits, aud such as promote the harmony of civil horrid headache, and why then is it not just as as well as religious society, is an object of particuvaluable? True, some poisonous drugs are lar attention in the management of this perisometimes used in the fabrication, but none, per-odical. haps, worse than alcohol. As the tastes, capacities and attainments of our readers are necessarily various, it will unavoidably happen, that in the composition of such a periodi The annual production of France in this article of Champagne wine, is about 50,000,000 bottles. The annual consumption of the world in the same time, is 300,000,000, so that cal as the Review, some articles will be occasion250,000,000 of false wine goes down some-ally introduced of too scientific and recondite a body's throat, is a clear case. At Campania, in Italy, the vintagers, it is said, let themselves to pick the grapes from the trees over which the vines grow, on condition that if they fall and are killed, their employers pay the funeral expenses. If such an agreement was made by the drinker with the vender of wine in the United States, the trade would be anything but profitable.-Newark Advocate. FRIENDS' REVIEW. PHILADELPHIA, NINTH MONTH 23, 1848. In offering to his readers the introductory number of the second volume, the Editor may freely acknowledge his conviction of the responsibility of the station which he has assumed. A journal bearing on its title page an intimation that it is conducted by a professor of the Society of Friends, may be reasonably expected to exhibit a correct representation of the views generally prevailing among them, on the subjects which are discussed in its columns. Though we entirely disclaim the character of an official exponent of the doctrines and principles of Friends, the public have a right to expect that the information on those subjects which they find in our columns shall be entirely correct as far as it goes. It has therefore been an object of particular attention, to confine the articles which are professedly doctrinal, to extracts from those writings which have received the sanction of the Society. And to this practice it is intended still to ad here. character to be interesting or instructive to those who have given but little attention to subjects of that nature. Yet, as it is desirable to encourage an inclination for scientific enquiries, the editor confidently trusts that the insertion, at proper inof the attainments of some of our readers, will not tervals, of articles which rise a little above the level be deemed objectionable. Our readers will of course judge for themselves how far the Editor has succeeded or failed, in answering the expectations held out in the introduction to the preceding volume; he can, however, rest in the assurance that he has earnestly laboured, and designs still so to do, to render the Review an interesting and instructive companion, particularly to the juvenile portion of his readers. And, above all, it is hoped that nothing will ever appear in our columns which can in any degree degrade the taste or impair the morals of the rising generation, or diminish their reverence for the great Author of our existence, or their love for their fellow men. OHIO YEARLY MEETING.-Since the publication of our former number, some further information from that meeting has been received. On Seventh day, the 8th inst., the business of the Meeting was proceeded with, notwithstanding the continued intrusion of disowned persons, and the repeated objections of many judicious Friends, who considered such a procedure to be entirely inconsistent with the discipline and usages of our Religious Society. The proposition from New York Yearly Meeting, respecting a conference, was adverted to and re On Second day, 11th, the queries and answers were read; and near the close of the session a committee was appointed to prepare epistles to other Yearly Meetings if the way should open. The meeting convened next morning at 9 o'clock, when essays addressed to all the Yearly Meetings, except New England, were produced, read and approved. It may, however, be observed, that in a periodi-jected. cal designed for extensive circulation, subjects of a moral character must occupy a prominent place. The great principles of the Christian religion, which are acknowledged by all the denominations of Ghristendom, furnish a platform on which we may stand without deserting our own peculiar doctrines, or contesting those of others. Though it is freely admitted that religious principles constitute the proper and only solid basis of sound morality, yet we readily perceive that the principles on which all can fully agree, supply a groundwork on which a fair system of morals may be erected. To inculcate sentiments favourable to correct moral The Appeal issued by direction of Philadelphia. Yearly Meeting, last year, was read, and 1500 copies were ordered to be printed for distribution. It is well understood, that in relation to all these proceedings, many valuable Friends withheld their co-operation in consequence of the intrusion to | yet." A little while after, "Patience"-" Only which we have alluded. The Meeting closed on Third day, the 12th inst. We learn, by a letter just received, that George and Susan Howland, whose departure for Europe was mentioned in our 50th number, arrived at Liverpool on the 20th of last month. WEST TOWN SCHOOL. The Committee to superintend the boarding school at West Town will meet there, on Sixth day, the 6th of next month, at 10 o'clock, A. M. The Committee on instruction meet at the School on the preceding evening, at 74 o'clock. The Visiting Committee to attend the semiannual examination, commencing on Third day morning, the 3d of 10th month. THOMAS KIMBER, Clerk. Philadelphia, 9th mo. 23d, 1848.-2t. DIED,-In Unity, Maine, on the 15th of Fifth month last, MARGARET RACKLIFF, wife of Clement Rackliff, in the 71st year of her age-an elder of Unity Monthly Meeting. During most of the time of her short illness, which was attended with much suffering, she seemed destitute of a satisfactory evidence of her final acceptance; but near her close, her expressions indicated, to those around her, that she was favored with a foretaste of that mercy, which is in Jesus Christ, our Lord. She passed quietly away, leaving to her friends the comfortable trust, that through the mediation and intercession of our Holy Redeemer, her end was peace. At West Farms, Westchester county, New York, on the 13th inst, GERTRUDE C., wife of George F. Hussey, and daughter of Robert I. Murray, of New York, aged 31 years. The power of redeeming love was witnessed in a very especial manner, in the last illness and death of this dear young Friend. With every thing around her, to make life desireable, she was made, by searching baptisms, more than willing to leave all, husband, children, and friends, for the joys of a glorious immortality, consigning her two little boys, to the care of Him, who is emphatically declared to be a "Father to the fatherless." As the disease advanced, she, with perfect composure, addressed, at different times, the several members of the family, and gave evidence of being one of the redeemed children of the Lamb. She expressed that it had been a great trial to give up her nearest relatives, "but now," said she, "I am perfectly happy, and would not exchange situations with any one of you, but trust to meet you all within the pearl gates." Her love for her Saviour, was strikingly manifest by expressions which frequently escaped her. "What should I do without a Saviour?" and again. "I have been reposing on the love of Jesus." "I feel his arms around me, when I go to sleep, and when I awake." About an hour and a half before her decease, she calmly said, "I think I am going." The family immediately assembled around her bed. "A kiss from you all." I wish I could take you all with Finding she was not going quite so soon as she had anticipated, "Jesus is not ready for me me." the poor body." Then at intervals,-"Beautiful city,-Sweet Jesus-Glory-Come Lord Jesus,"— a few words that were not understood, and the spirit forsook its tabernacle of clay. For Friends' Review. TESTIMONY OF HUGH STAMPER. Since my earliest recollections, I have been fond of the writings of our primitive Friends. The honest simplicity and great dedication of heart, which, in my estimation, so steadily characterised them, were particularly interesting, and are eminently calculated to impress those who peruse the record of their experiences-their baptisms, and the fruits of their faithfulness, with an exalted opinion of that standard of Truth and Righteousness, which, drawn, as they most certainly believed, and we as certainly, from the precepts and doctrines of Christ, they laboured so assiduously to uphold. I think the Editor of the Review has some where assured his readers, that it should be a Friends' paper; and while he has done well to carry out this part of his plan, I am free to acknowledge, I have been pleased with the wide range which his columns have taken with the wide field over which he has led his readersand with the great variety of good things which he has thrown before them, leaving all at liberty to gather whatsoever may best suit their respective tastes. termed in the last number, has my earnest wishes The "responsible enterprise," as it is aptly for its success; and as an evidence that I am willing to cast my mite into its treasury, I herewith forward the "Testimony of Hugh Stamper, in Lurgan, in Ireland, near his departing out of this life." I find it in the third part of Piety Promoted, by John Tomkins, printed in Dublin in 1721. The very serious and weighty matter it contains, will probably induce the Editor to think with myself, that it is well worth reviving in the present day, when it is to be feared too inany of us are suffering the things of this passing world to allure us from an earnest search for the pearl of great price-the enduring riches of the kingdom of heaven. Z. "About twenty Friends being present, he said, I die in the same faith that I have made profession of, and lived in, and suffered for these twentythree years, and I am as willing to die as to live. All the desire I have to live, is to see truth prosper, and if sufferings come, I am willing to suffer for it: there is no weight nor burden lies at my door. I have wronged no man, neither there was any difference, I suffered have I been burdensome to any, but always, if for wrong peace-sake; I have not oppressed any man: so my dear Friends, beware of oppression, walk in love one to another, passing by infirmities, forgiving one another, for even as Christ said, if ye forgive not one another, how shall your Heavenly | grave, but I must bear up my testimony for God, Father forgive you? Even as he, who would and for his truth. Friends, you know these not forgive his brother, missed of pardon. Keep things before; this is to stir up your minds to stand your hearts clean, and let no rottenness remain steadfast in the truth, and let not your crown be therein. Keep the heart void of offence towards taken from you. Be faithful in the day of small God and man, and when any evil doth appear, things, and despise them not, and the Lord will judge it down with the light, and be not peevish, make you rulers over much; so shall you be nor fretting, it hindreth the springs of life. Walk honorable men and women, and he will shower humbly before your God, and be of a pure mind down multitudes of blessings upon your heads. to him; walk in true love one towards another, O Friends, I desire you again, not to slight and stand not at a distance one from another, for this glorious day, which is now dawning, for it envy and strife lead from God, and eat as a can be called no less than salvation upon earth; canker, so miss of the blessing, which is poured but walk faithful to the receiving of your crown, down upon the righteous, as showers of the latter and you will return with sheaves in your rain. Blessed be the Lord God forever. Bear bosoms.' up your heads, and give not away your crowns, for any visible thing here below, for they are but trifles, and things of no value. Dear Friends, keep your crowns sure, and then you need not care what scoffers, mockers, liars, back-biters and drunkards say, for their way leads to hell, and they cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. 'Dear Friends, in the suffering of all things, you shall come to wear the crown; no cross, no crown; take notice of that, Friends, keep your crown, that your bow may abide in full strength in the needful time, when pains of death come upon you, which will come upon all in due time. Death troubles me not, for blessed be the Lord for ever, the enemy durst never so much as once set up his head, either to twist or twine; since I lay on this my bed of sickness, there is nothing but peace on every side. My dear Friends, I desire you in the bowels of tender love, to love one another, and you will be a comely people, and an honour to God, and to one another; bear the daily cross, that you may be crowned when time shall be no more, and come to partake of the mercies of David, viz: an everlasting covenant which hath no end. If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the wicked and ungodly appear? Oh! the joy and endless felicity that shall be upon the righteous, and what horror and misery shall be upon the wicked. And, dear Friends, let not a bare profession serve your turn, for it will not stand you in any stead, in such a needful time as this, but walk answerably to what you profess, that your bow may stand in full strength, as mine doth at this time; for, blessed be the name of the Lord for ever, I have no more lying upon me that I know of, to hinder my journey, than a child. So my dear Friends, do not will and run in your own wills, but wait daily upon the Lord, and let your whole dependance be upon him, that you may come in at the right door, for whosoever climbeth up another way, is a thief and a robber; so cast your care upon the Lord, and he will in no wise cast you off, but he will work in you, and for you, and you will become the children of the day, and of the light. I do not speak these things to exalt myself, for there is no exalting in the Thus often exhorting Friends to faithfulness, and to be of an honest heart, and to keep nothing there, but that which is of a right nature, saying, take notice of my words, for they are the words of a dying man, and they are very weighty; and if you will not hear, you shall be made to remember hereafter, when I am gone.' And when the time of his departure came near, he said, 'come Lord Jesus, come when it is thy blessed will, for I am ready for thee.' And just before he died, he sat up in his bed, and spake these words; now Lord Jesus receive my soul into thy everlasting kingdom of glory, for thy kingdom is from everlasting to everlasting.' And so departed this life about the 65th year of his age, about the 9th of the Seventh month, 1676." FREE GROWN COTTON. that the Free Produce Association of Friends of It is no doubt well known to many of our readers Philadelphia, had an agent travelling, during several months, through various parts of the South, to ascertain what quantities of cotton, sugar, &c., could be obtained there, untouched by servile labour. A few extracts from some of his letters, are now offered to the readers of the Review. The researches of this agent have furnished the grati fying intelligence that cotton is cultivated by free labour to a much greater extent than was previously supposed. Thus we find that by proper exertions and encouragement, a large amount of this valuable article may be procured through the instrumentality of free labour; and in this, as in other cases, a pressing demand would unquestionably increase the supply. Here is a remedy, as far as it goes, for the evils of slavery, to which no rational exceptions can be taken. The following extracts are copied from the Non-Slaveholder. "Lafayette Co. (Miss.) 12th mo. 20, 1847. "A. H. and I. T., owners of a gin furnished by the Philadelphia Free Produce Association of Friends, think there will be no difficulty in procuring two hundred bales of free grown cot |