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Epiiaphs and Church-yasds.--Who does not love to wander among the hab- itatious of the dead, and read their va ried inscriptions? Volumes of instruc- ton and curious information may be gleaned from grave stones, but it is inei.. ancholy to observe the little care that is taken in our own country to preserve these, perchance the only memorials of the deceased. Our church-yards arc in

 deed, enclosed by ornamental and sub stantial pailings-the grass waves green and luxuriant above the ground, uDpro-

 famed by tic footstep of the brute crea- tion--but where is the pious hand to protect the tomb itself from the rayagcs of time---the vicissitudes of the seasons and the dilapidations by accidcnt?-- Where do we behold any of those sim pie yet touching tributes of affection, which, in other countries, are paid at the shrine Of departed genius and worth? ?

 It is cold, cold philosophy, that teach

 es to neglect such acts as useless and un.

 availing--that demonstrates that the

 body is but the prison-house of the soul --the soul only immortal--that when

 she quits this curious workmanship and life TO longer animates it, that then should cease all those feelings of vencr- alton and respect with which before we were won't to regardit. 1fsuch be the cffcct--and we fearit is so--of modern philosophy hy-then may we we'll question

 our boasted superiority over the ancicnts flor they thought it not unworthy Of the departed soul to embalm the body in

 which had dwelt that soul, and to pre-

 serve it in splendid mausoleums as the

 once sacred deposit of a precious treas- ure.

 se,rsa.. Patriotism the day of the dissolution of the National Assem- ply of Servia, Prince Milosh took occa- sion to read the deputies a lesson on their civic duties, during which he introduced the following remarkable instance of sclfdcvotion of parental feelings to the public good :-"Though few of you

 said ne, ahaye not frequently afforded unequivocal proofs of your patriotism, yet there is ore example of eminent vir- tue, which Mility Jevanowitsch has dis played for our mutual emulation, that

 deserves to be publicly publicly known. 7 At 1t these words, he presented to them com

 mon peasant from the district ofSemen-

 dria, whose age might be about fifty. )-

 aThis man had only one son, who, in

 conjunction with two youths, murocred a stranger five years ago. and threw the

 body into the Morava. Out of the mos ncy found on fhe strangers person Mili-| |ty's son received for his share eiehtee,

 piastres, (between five and six shilIings> and brace of pistols. Heburied hot'a in order to avoid any ineniry on his E:,. ther's part; and shortly afterwards one