proached the private apartments | nigh a ruined man, so I was of the nobleman; he heard a bold, and came to your lordship's voice, and, drawing near, found door; and as I stood there I it was his lordship's, and that could not but hear your lordship he was engaged in prayer. Re- praying to the Virgin Mary and tiring to a short distance, he St. Francis, and you seemed unwaited till the prayer was con- happy. Now, my lord, forgive cluded, and could not but hear me, but I cannot help thinking his lordship pleading earnestly the Virgin Mary and St. Francis with the Virgin Mary and St. will do you no good, any more Francis, for their intercession in than your lordship's steward and his behalf. At length his lord- porter did for me. I had been ship ceased. Donald, who had a ruined man if I had trusted to stood trembling with anxiety for them, but I came direct to your the result, now gently knocked lordship, and you heard me. Now, if your lordship would but leave the Virgin Mary and St. Francis, who will do no more good for you than your lordship's steward and porter would do for at the door. "Come in," was his lordship's reply; and Donald entered. "What are you, man? What do you want?" was the inquiry. Donald stated his case. The me, and just go direct to the peer listened, was touched with Lord Jesus Himself, and pray to the tale, and, having heard some- Him for what you need, He will thing of Donald, assured him of hear you; for He has said, 'Him his protection, and that his lease that cometh unto me I will in no should be renewed. Many art-wise cast out.' Will your lordless but earnest thanks followed, ship forgive me, and just try for and he was departing, when, a yourself?" thought of anxiety for his noble master occurring to his mind, Donald returned, and spoke thus: "My lord, I was a bold man and you forgave me, and have saved me and my poor family from ruin. Many blessings attend you! I would again be a bold man if I might, and say something further to your lordship." "Well, my man, speak out." "Well, my lord, I was well It is said that his lordship was struck with the simple argument, and afterwards found what a poor penitent sinner looking to Jesus always finds - pardon, peace, and salvation! Ten thousand thousand souls there are Entered within the door; These countless souls are entered in, And yet there's room for more. The helpless and the poor, his mother. In reply, he said he did it to purchase tobacco. Although he was not quite fourteen years of age, he used to spend threepence, and sometimes sixpence, a week, in tobacco. He gave the missionary his box, his pipe, and the remains of the tobacco, and asked him to try and persuade his bad companions to give up smoking and stealing, and to take warning from himself, for he had brought himself to the grave through stopping out all night. The missionary believes this thief died a true penitent. He was with him at his last moments, and his end was peace. At the request of his mother he attended the funeral, and conducted a service in the room where the corpse lay. Some of his companions in crime were present, and the scene was most solemn. May his death be made the life of many. A PENITENT BOY THIEF. A LONDON city missionary says: A young thief called on me one day, and said, "If you please, sir, I want to give up stealing, and will do anything you tell me for the purpose of getting an honest living." Upon inquiry, I found that he had attended openair services; and, according to his own statement, on one occasion he picked a gentleman's pocket, but he had been very unhappy since then. The missionary succeeded in getting him into a reformatory, where he manifested true signs of repentance. But he was soon taken seriously ill, and had to be taken to Guy's Hospital, where he died in the month of November last. "I visited him there (says the missionary), and found he had not forgotten what he had heard at the open-air services, and that the Holy Spirit had enlightened his mind, which led him to see and feel his lost condition in the sight of a holy and just God; and he was likewise led to see Jesus as the only Saviour of sinners. At one of the visits I paid him, he said, 'Oh, my dear mother, she was the first I robbed, I cannot forgive myself, but I believe God will forgive me, for Jesus Christ's sake.'". The missionary endeavoured to ascertain kills so many young officers in from him what caused him to rob | India." SMOKING AND DRINKING. A LONDON Medical adviser, said to a young officer who was going with his regiment to Indiaduring the late rebellion-" You have a delicate constitution, but mark this, if you take to smoking in India you will soon be under the sod. It is smoking and drinking, not the climate, which My rest is in heaven, I seek it not here, Then why should I murmur when trials are near, It is not for me to be seeking my bliss, I pant for a country by sin undefiled. The thorn and the thistle around me may grow, I would not lie down upon roses below; I ask not my portion, I seek not my rest, Afflictions may damp, but they cannot destroy, names. Youths' Department. THE ROYAL PAVILION, BRIGHTON. EXTRAORDINARY things are associated with these two BRIGHTELMSTONE was the original name of the town, and that, it is said, was derived from an Anglo-Saxon bishop. Scarcely 100 years ago Brighton was a fishing village of 700 or 800 inhabitants. In 1703 and 1705 the sea swept away 130 tenements, and did other damage, estimated at £40,000, and fearfully impoverished the people. Brighton is now one of the most elegant places in England, and is said to be the first watering place in Europe. Some designate it "the elite of London on the sea." Many of its buildings are superb, and its streets are proverbially elegant and clean. Its resident population is eighty thousand, and from thirty to sixty thousand strangers additional live in it for the benefit of its mineral and sea waters and pure air. From October to March is its most fashionable and profitable season; the wealthy of England and many foreign nobility then reside there, and on fine days crowd its beautiful sea promenade of three miles long, with carriages, riding horses, and fashionable ladies and gentlemen, almost as throngly as the chief thoroughfares in London are crowded. The town, chiefly supported by visitors, is rapidly multiplying its palace-like buildings, elegant houses, and shops. To meet their spiritual wants there are forty-four places of worship, twenty of which belong to the Church of England, one to the Church of Scotland, and two to the Roman Catholics. The remainder belong to the dissenters, including two Wesleyan chapels, (one of them rented), one Bible Christian, and one Primitive Methodist chapel,-and yet the accommodation is said to be very far short of the actual wants of the population. The Royal Pavilion was the fanciful palace of George IV., built for his marine or sea-side residence in the vigorous part of his lamentable career of anti-virtue, while he was Prince of Wales, and after he was crowned king of England. King William IV. and Queen Adelaide next occupied it for many weeks in each year, and they completed the buildings by adding the northern entrance archway in 1832. Our beloved Queen Victoria visited it a few times, but its Turkish exterior, gorgeous internal arrangements and decorations, all anti-English, and chiefly of Chinese and eastern styles, blending romance with loose pleasure, unavoidably calling to the mind of the occupant, and even the |