air two hours before, announced her intention of accepting Mrs. Meadows's kind offer, and learning Athalie. She was sure that by getting up at four o'clock every morning [N.B. She was always the latest riser in the school]-by being up every day at four o'clock, she was sure that she could do it, and she was sure that the task would do her good; she should be able to learn the common school lessons more easily another time. She would get Athalie by heart, with Mrs. Meadows's leave.

She had

All at once the truth burst upon us. given her two guineas to the French woman! and, on being questioned by Miss Stevens, she avowed the fact much in the style in which she might have confessed a great fault. She could not help it, she said, the poor young woman cried so; and two guineas was the exact sum needed. Besides, she was sure that her sister, Gertrude, whose husband had sent her the money, would herself have given it if she had been there; and that her papa would not mind its being charged in the bill, especially if he could but know how the poor young woman cried: her papa never liked to see people cry, if he could help them, especially foreigners in a strange land. She was sure that her sister and her father would not be angry for that, however they might blame her for speaking English and running in debt to the mark; and, for her own

part, she would rather learn Athalie-it was not so very long after all; she was sure that she could learn it, and that the task would do her good.

And she did learn Athalie; for Mrs. Meadows, whilst listening almost with tears to her generous resolution, was judicious enough to determine that she should earn her own approbation, as well as that of her friends, by completing the sacrifice. She did get up at four o'clock every morning to study Athalie, and the effect of this exertion, not only on her subsequent lessons, but on her habits and character, was salutary and permanent. She did learn Athalie, and she had her reward; for the poor Frenchwoman, for whom our good governess also interested herself, reached Norman Cross in safety, and found her husband recovering; and the news arrived on the very morning of the markfeast, at which Caroline Cleveland, her task completed, was chosen to preside, and over which she did preside, glowing, colouring, and smiling, the gayest and happiest of school-girls.

ALTHOUGH the Gentoos of India are amongst the gentlest of the human race, and particularly careful not to destroy animal life, the Mahomedan natives are by no means so scrupulous, but take a delight in those ferocious sports which once formed the chief amusement of the Romans, and keep elephants, tigers, and other savage beasts, for the sake of seeing them tear each other in pieces, in an arena constructed for the purpose.

The following description of one of these spectacles, will serve to give some insight into the character of a people who can take pleasure in such pastimes, reminding us in some respects of the bull, bear, and badger baiting of our ancestors. May the progress of true religion and philosophy humanize and refine their tastes, as it has, in a degree, done ours, and cause them to prefer intellectual gratifications to the demoniacal satisfaction afforded by the rage and sufferings even of brutes!

In front of an open building or banqueting room, called Sungi Baraderi, a space about fifty feet square was enclosed by a strong bamboo railing, to secure the spectators on the outside from danger, as it not unfrequently happens that a tiger, when pressed by his antagonist, attempts to leap over the barrier amongst the people.

A tiger, which seemed, by his reluctance to leave his cage, to have a presentiment of the fate that awaited him, was at length driven from it by fire-works, he took several turns round the arena, attentively regarding the crowd. On a buffalo being driven in, he appeared to shun the combat, and retired quietly into a corner. Recourse was again had to fire-works to compel him to the attack, but whenever the buffalo advanced towards him, he retired and laid down. Seven other buffaloes were introduced, but nothing could overcome their reluctance to engage, and so cowardly

was the tiger, that a dog which had been thrown into the arena, drove him from one corner to another by snarling at him.

On an elephant being brought forward, the tiger uttered a cry of terror, and attempted to spring over the fence. Failing in this, the elephant, urged on by his mohout or rider, made up to him, and endeavoured to crush him by kneeling on him, but the tiger by his agility avoided the danger, and ran to another part of the arena. No efforts of the mohout could induce the elephant to make a second attack on the contrary, hastening to the gate, he forced his way through and retired, while the tiger, too much alarmed to take advantage of the opening, lay panting in a corner. A second elephant was now introduced, which made a similar attack, with no better success, and the tiger sprang on his forehead, where he fixed by his teeth and claws. Stung with the pain of this infliction, the elephant dashed him with such violence to the ground, by a sudden jerk of his head, that he lay stunned and motionless. The former, however, did not follow up his advantages, but rushed against the barrier, lifted up the whole frame work with his tusks, loaded as it was with spectators, and made his way through the people, who fled on all sides. The tiger was too much bruised to follow.

How melancholy is it to reflect, that man ap