TENACITY of LIFE IN INSECTS. MR. BEDDOME, chemist, of Tooley street, Southwark, relates the following singular circumstance:-" I had purchased twenty large hives, and a hogshead of Dutch honey in the natural state, not separated from the wax, which had been in my friend's warehouse above a year; and, after empty. ing my hives as well as I could, I boiled them for a considerable time in water, to obtain what honey remained between the interstices. A considerable number of bees that had been mixed with the honey, were floating on the surface of the water, and these I skimmed off, and placed on the flag-stones outside my laboratory, which was at the top of the house, and then exposed to a July meridian sun. You may imagine my astonishment when, in half an hour, I saw scores of these same bees that had been for months in a state of suffocation, and then well boiled, gradually come to life and fly away! There were so many of them, that I closed the door, fearing they might be disposed to return, and punish me for the barbarous usage they had received at my hands."The wonderful vitality of insects has often been remarked by Naturalists. They live, it is stated, when deprived of their heads or intestines; some will exist in alcohol; others will bear to be frozen as hard as stone, and yet revive. One species is found to inhabit bading springs." Surely, "the Bible of Nature," to borrow the somewhat insidious expression of an Archinfidel, must be allowed to have its mysteries, as inexplicable by us as any that are contained in the Bible of Revelation. We have been agreeably surprised, on finding, from a late number of a publication notorious for its sneers at Christianity, that the facts specified in this article have unawares extorted from one of its writers so much of homage to truth, as is implied in the following remarks:-" Such a miraculous suspension of the faculties of life baffles our philosophy, and leaves us only to admire that hidden economy of nature, in her most minute productions, which we must despair ever to understand."

EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS.-A very curious Memoir has lately been communicated to the Royal Academy of Inscriptions, &c. in France, by M. CHAMPOLLION, jun. which, it is thought, will be found to contain one of the most interesting literary discoveries of our times, and to lead to a result, no less

important than that of enabling us, at last, to decipher some of the earliest monumental records of the earth. The various Egyptian monuments, covered with inscriptions, which have, of late years, been brought into Europe, and especially the inscription on the Rosetta Stone, and that on the base of the Obelisk brought from Phile by Belzoni, are said to have afforded the materials on which this discovery is founded. MoNs. C. has laid before the Academy the signs which he believes to be equivalent to the Greek vowels and consonants, and by which he interprets the hieroglyphic inscriptions in question. He professes to have made out the names of ALEXANDER the Great, the ProLEMIES, CLEOPATRA, BERENICE, and others; and to have read the titles, names, and surnames, of several of the Roman Emperors, &c. &c., on the monuments of Philæ, Ombos, Thebes, Esné, and Denderah.

COMPARATIVE NUTRIMENT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOD.-A Report on this subject was lately presented to the French Minister of the Interior, by MESSRS. PERCY and VAUQUELIN. The result was as follows:-In bread every hundred pounds weight are found to contain eighty pounds of nutritious matter; butcher's meat (averaging the various sorts) contains only thirty-five pounds in one hundred; French beans, (in the grain,) ninety-two in one hundred; broad beans, eighty-nine; peas, ninety-three; lentiles, (a kind of half pea, but little known in England,) ninety-four pounds in one hundred; greens and turnips (which are the most aqueous of all vegetables used for domestic purposes) furnish only eight pounds of solid nutritious substance in one hundred; carrots, fourteen pounds; and, what is very remarkable, as being in opposition to the hitherto acknowledged theory, one hundred pounds of potatoes only yield twenty-five pounds of substance, valuable for nutrition. One pound of good bread is equal to two pounds and a half or three pounds of the best potatoes; and seventy-five pounds of bread, and thirty pounds of meat, are equal to three hundred pounds of potatoes; or, to go more into detail, three quarters of a pound of bread and five ounces of meat are equal to three pounds of potatoes; one pound of potatoes is equal to four pounds of cabbage and three of turnips; but one pound of rice, broad beans, or French beans, (in grain,) is equal to three pounds of potatoes,

see the eager attention with which they hear the word.

I consider, that the Heathen in this place, with those of Somerset, to all of whom, through the kind indulgence of their masters and commanders, we have free access, are sufficient to give employ to one Missionary; and I am sure, no Missionary will labour long among them without his reward.

You will be pleased to hear, that, about three months ago, we formed a

Branch Missionary Society for Albany. The settlers are very poor, but they have not been backward in coming to the help of the LORD, as far as their scanty means will at present allow. One man, at Salem, has generously devoted a cow, with its increase, and the money obtained by the sale of milk and butter received from it, to the Missionary cause. I rather think, we shall not have reason to blush, at the end of the year, at the amount of subscriptions.

OUR Congregations on the Sabbath are generally numerous, serious, and attentive. So large are they sometimes, that our Chapels overflow. The mass of our hearers, of course, are negroes. In preaching to these, we often feel peculiar pleasure and enlargement; and the gladness which beams through their sable countenances, while it cheers our minds, indicates the effect of the word, and proves the truth of what they sometimes say, "Massa, de word makee me too glad."In Kingstown, many very respectable persons attend, and we hope that some of them do not hear in vain. Our weeknight congregations are not so large, and in the country parts of the Circuit, they are in fact very small; this arises principally from the lateness of the hour to which the negroes are employed, and from the fatigue which they feel at close of the toils of the day.

Our catechumens are hopeful; they generally attend regularly; and many of them have learned the first principles of the doctrines of CHRIST, and can answer most questions on fundamental points. O that the seed thus sown may be watered with the dew of Heaven, and these tender plants become trees of righteousness of the LORD's right hand planting.

The supply of Missionaries, in our Brethren MESSRS. BAKER and POWELL, was very seasonable and very welcome; for they were much needed. We much regret MR. BAKER'S ill health, which has rendered it absolutely necessary for him to leave us, and proceed to a climate more congenial to his health. We should have rejoiced could he have continued with us; for he is an eminently zealous and diligent Missionary, and promised to be very useful here. Nothing but the necessity and urgency of his case could have induced him to leave us, or us to part with him.

In consequence of MR. BAKER's removal, our supply of Missionaries is again

deficient, and we may say with regard to this station, "Truly the harvest is plenteous, but the labourers are few." There are now two openings, with pleasing prospects of usefulness, into which we cannot enter for want of help : they are at Calliagua and Bequia. The former is a small town, a few miles distant from Kingstown; it contains a considerable number of inhabitants; several estates are contiguous to it. There is no place of worship, and the people are anxiously desirous that we should visit them. Bequia is a small island separated from this by a narrow channel. It is supposed to contain above 1000 negroes. There is no Clergyman or Minister of any denomination resident on the island: there is none to care for these souls, nor is there any public worship of Gon. During the last year, a respectable Merchant in this town informed us that some of the principal Proprietors were very desirous that we should visit the island, and that they had requested him to signify their wishes. He very kindly offered to take us over in his own vessel, on any Saturday that might be convenient. This kind proposal would have been long since embraced, if it could have been done without neglecting and injuring the cause already established here. The Hon. WM. WYLEY lately visited that island, and considering it as an important sphere for Missionary exertions, requested we would mention it to the Committee, that it might at least be supplied from this Station. The passage from Kingstown is but a few hours' sail, opportunities are frequent, and it might be attended by the Missionaries here, in the same manner as those of Antigua supply Barbuda. With four Missionaries this might be done; but with only three, St. Vincent's alone cannot be fully supplied. We therefore earnesly recommend to the Committee to appoint four for the ensuing year.

DOMINICA.-Extract of a Letter from MR. IT falls to my lot to communicate to you the painful intelligence of the death of my colleague's wife, MRS. HARRISON. She died on Monday, the 26th of August, at twenty minutes past eight in the morning, on the seventeenth day of her illness. She was taken sick on the 10th of August; this was at St. Joseph's; but, on the 13th, she was brought to town, (Roseau,) where she died. On the 12th, observing her disconsolate husband at the foot of the bed, (whose foreboding heart told him the worst,) she said to him, "My dear, the LORD will do all things well." On the 17th, growing weaker and weaker, she called her husband to her and said, "My dear, the medicine now appears to fail of its effects. I have given myself up into the hands of GOD. I only desire to live to make you happy, and, in consequence, I have taken every thing. Tell me now if there is any hope." She was then told, that when our hopes failed, she should be informed of it. With that, she was completely resigned. Calling her husband again, she prayed the LORD to bless him in every thing he took in hand, and to reward him for his great love to her. And, after desiring him to give her dying love to some that were dear to her, she mentioned a relation, whose eternal welfare was near her heart, praying that she might have an interest in JESUS CHRIST. When told that one ray of the divine glory would compensate for all her sufferings, it appeared to overpower her. On the 25th, the day before she died, when asked how she felt, her reply was,

who are weekly taught to read, and are catechised. Several of our scholars are sixty years of age, and yet their desire to learn to read is intense, and their diligence very great.

A system of catechising has likewise been recently adopted, for the benefit of those slave-children who are unable to attend our regular Sunday - schools. Nearly 400 of these are catechised on the Sabbath-day, after the forenoon

service.

CATTS, dated Roseau, September 4, 1822. "Happy!" JESUS is precious;" and when raised from an apparent slumber, to take nourishment, she exclaimed, "What a disappointment!" thinking she was going fast to glory. When asked if she wished to live, she replied, "No; it is better to depart and be with CHRIST." Calling her husband again to her, she said to him, "I am glad to see you, to tell you that CHRIST is precious." In the afternoon, she again called him, and told him her desire of life was entirely gone;-she desired to depart. And when again asked how she felt, she replied, “I am in no pain, and as happy as I can be." Upon being told she would die a sacrifice to the cause of Missions, she said, she" would die a penitent sinner at the foot of the cross;" and on the 26th, the seventeenth day of her illness, she sweetly fell asleep in JESUS, and her happy spirit took its flight unto the realms of endless bliss, there to enjoy that glory which the LORD has prepared for them that love him.

She exemplified much patience and resignation during her illness, and made a most happy end. I preached her funeral sermon, from Phil. i. 21, "For to me to live is CHRIST, and to die is gain," to a very large concourse of people of all ranks, in the Protestant Church, on Sunday, September the 1st. The EARL of HUNTINGDON and the REV. MR, NEWMAN most kindly granted the use of the church, which is large and commodious, our house not being capable of holding one-third of the people who assembled on the occasion.

so during these three months, so that I feel nearly as strong as when I left England.

The following are a few extracts from my Journal:

April 1st.I went to-day with Brother CROFTS to Spanish Town; he having to apply at the Quarter Sessions for a licence, on the following day. We took tea with the REV. G. YOUNG, and spent the evening with much comfort and profit, whilst we spake of the "glory of CHRIST's kingdom, and talked of his power."

2d. I accompanied Brother CROFTS to the Court, and, with great readiness, his licence was granted. The Hon. Custos bore testimony to the utility of our Missions. He observed in the public Court, that the Wesleyan Missionaries had done much good in the community.

7th.-This being Easter Sunday, it has been a very laborious, but blessed day. I arose with my mind deeply impressed with the importance of my work. I preached twice to very large congre. gations, and administered the sacrament of the LORD's Supper to upwards of 1,000 persons, many of whom approached the table with tears; and, I belive, did, in reality, feed on CHRIST in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving.

9th.-Most of this day has been spent in visiting the sick; and I have been much pleased to find, that many of them have a good hope through grace."

22d. Having published yesterday, from the pulpit, our intention of commencing a subscription, for the erection of our new chapel, I was, early this morning, presented with a doubloon, by a woman, who insisted upon my taking it; as she said JESUS CHRIST had loved her much, and that, by giving this, she did him no service; for all she had was his; it was only lent to her.

May 17th.-Death has been making great havock in our Society. I have, this day, committed the remains of four of our people to the dust; three of whom died very happy, having found peace with GOD, through our LORD JESUS CHRIST.

June 3d.-I attended our Missionary

prayer-meeting, and whilst we read of the extension of the SAVIOUR'S dominion, a gracious feeling was excited amongst the people, which led them to join us earnestly in praying, “Thy kingdom come." I felt re-baptized with the Missionary spirit, and thought I could 66 go to the farthest verge of the green earth," to proclaim the SAVIOUR'S love; and how much was this feeling encouraged when I remembered that it was the same evening on which thousands of our friends at home were at the throne of grace, pleading the cause of Missions with GOD.

8th.-Two of the Baptist Missionaries took breakfast with us this morning. One of them resides in this city, with whom I have had many pleasing and profitable interviews; for we have often met together, for the purpose of prayer and religious conversation; and although we do not pronounce Shibboleth alike, we love as brethren; and forgeting minor points, we endeavour to aim at one great object, the glory of GoD, in the salvation of precious souls.

29th. We have just got through our quarterly visitation of the classes, and, after a more than usually strict investigation of the members, we are able to make a pleasing report, which you will receive from MR. HORNE. people are evidently making progress in experimental and practical religion, and, generally speaking, are in a very prosperous state.

Our

July 2d.—I visited a young woman, apparently near the confines of eternity. At the beginning of her sickness, I found that she had no hope of salvation. She was terrified at the thought of death, and felt her sins an intolerable burden; but, this evening, how great is the change! She is rejoicing in her SAVIOUR, and gives a very clear account of having received the peace of God, by faith in CHRIST. All darkness is dispelled from her mind, and her sun is about to set without a cloud. "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like theirs."