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nave been dead these ten years. But no man dead or alive, ever heard me accused of wrong doing till this charge was made i; and what had to do with the fowls l-l could have lived without them-I needed not to steal them. Steal I did not steal them.'

 Again Jacob seemed to forget his sub Ject; he talked on incoherently until he seeemed weary, when the judge again pre- pared to pronounce the sentence.

 Il would call some of my relations, said Jacob, but that now remember they are all dead.'

 When he was again silent, the judge said to the officer, take the old man to 1 the prison, and let him wait there 30 days, (the shortest time allowed by the law for his offence) and let there be endorsed on the commiltal, an order for him to be ad- mitted to the almshouse as soon as the thir- ty days are passed.' Jacob rose when tho officer approached him, but it was evident that he had paid but little attention to the sentence. He took up his bag, and as he was moving out 1 ot the court room, he muttered, sentence f-I did not steal.' He raised his eyes to the crowd that were gazing upon him-a slight hectic flush passed over his visage- he repeated, 'but they are Gu deGd,' and then began his journey to the prison. For more than 70 years, it seems that Jacob had mingled with society, man and boy, he had been known as honest; no temptation had caused him to swerve from the track of duty, and he had grown up and grown old, with none to gainsay his credit. Childhood's sunny years, the long eternity of boyhood, youths gay sallies, and mans sober occupations, had all come and gone, and Jacob had passed through h all unscathed by serious censure, unmarked by premed-- itated gult-and OH the threshold of his coffin, slipping as it were into the grave. with almost four score of years upon him, in an unguarded hour, he made shipwreck of his whole voyage, and in sight of port sunk into infamy.

 Do parents, do guardians see nothing in Jacobs late his only error, upon which to build a caution for offspring and their charge? We all, it is hoped, hedge about our children with constant precept and wholesome example, and fix their influence by early prayer. And we should make them act from principle. We should make not a policy, not calculation. but first movement, the instinctive feeling and prompting of the mind and this must come from care-long continued watchings. This year of his. lustre may pass in safety, temptations may assail us in vain, and we may look back on half century of unsulli. cd life, and thank God that we are not al other men; but when pride of goot standing fails us, when our outward rela tions are fair, when the strong incentive

 to good from various connexions cease, al

 must then depend upon an mixed, saf and sure principle of right. We are no always safe; even the .attendant spirit o good which each of US hath to watch ove and guard US, seems sometimes to hay. closed the eye, or have lifted it towards , higher power-it is not on us, and we fail