them, "Enter into the joy of your Lord." Then was sung with loud voices this anthem.

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Blessing, honour, and glory,

and power be to him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever."

TEMPERATURE OF SPRING WATER.

WHY does spring water vary in temperature from the weather in summer and in winter?-Because the water supplying the spring comes from such a depth below the surface of the earth, that the heat of the sun (in consequence of the earth being a bad conductor) cannot penetrate far enough to affect it; neither can the cold of winter reach it; hence it continues to send forth its limpid waters at the same uniform temperature during both summer and winter. In consequence of the warmth of the weather in summer the water appears cool, and because of the coldness of the atmosphere in winter the water seems warm; though the real temperature must remain the same at all seasons, unless the fountain from which the spring is supplied be near the surface of the earth.

GREAT METROPOLITAN RAILWAY TUNNEL.

FROM the crowded state of the London streets it has become a subject of serious importance to discover how a part of the traffic could be diverted and improved. The late cab strike has been a further inducement for the public to seek other methods of transit. The blue clay which underlies London suggested the facility of easily forming a tunnel, by which means passengers and merchandise could be transferred safely and rapidly from a station to be formed near the Great Western Railway at Paddington, taking a direct line to Blackwall, with intermediate stations to correspond with the different bridges the passengers to ascend and descend by means of a geometrical staircase. The projector of this railway tunnel, Mr. Smith Evans, on his submitting his plans and sections to the directors of the Great Western Railway Company, was at once referred to their engineer, I. K. Brunel Esq.; since which he has consulted several of the most eminent engineers and geologists in Paris, who confirm from their own knowledge of the geology of the Paris basin, (which is similar to that of the London basin), the practicability of the undertaking. As very few houses will be affected-the tunnel traversing beneath them—the expense of its construction will be comparatively small, and as the Paddington terminus is 80 feet above high-water mark, the tunnel will descend gradually to its terminus at Blackwall; which has further suggested the expediency of forming beneath the road large drains to carry off the sewerage into the Isle of Dogs, there to be manufactured into manure for various agricultural purposes. A company is now in course of formation, in order to carry out the above gigantic undertaking.

THE MOTHER'S GRAVE.

I KNEW a little maiden, than falling snows more fair,
Her laughing eye was azure, and golden was her hair;
Her voice was sweetest music, for all she said was kind;
I met her in the meadows, where flowers she went to find.
I asked her why she pulled them, she bade me come and see;
She led me to the grave yard, and showed a grave to me;
"My mother's home is here. Sir, and every morn and night
I come and spread her threshold with flowerets sweet and bright.
"And though I never see her, I know that she is here;
And, oh! I am so happy, when with my mother dear!"
heard the little maiden her simple feelings tell,
And on the narrow tombstone the tears of pity fell.

I helped to strew the flowerets, and went upon my way
In mingled joy and sadness, not sorrowful nor gay;
But, oh my heart grew heavy when tidings reached my ear,
That she, poor little maiden, had joined her mother dear.
She culled the fairest flowerets to deck her mother's bed,
And now the brightest blossom, that little maid, is dead.
But in a blissful Paradise, 'mid ever-blooming bowers,
The mother and the daughter now gather fairer flowers.

CHILDREN.

How much they suffer from our faults,

How much from our mistakes,

How often, too, misguided zeal

On infants misery makes.

We over-rule and over-teach,

We curb and we confine,

And put the heart to school too soun
To learn our narrow line.
No; only taught by love to love,

Seems childhood's natural task ;—
Affection, gentleness, and love,

Are all its brief years ask.

P. J. ALLAN.

L. E. L.