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domestic habits generally than we possess to pass any judgment on the matter, but, unless this newer England of ours differs very much in its methods from its venerable prototype, the minds of men should bo much more occupied in attempting to fjet rid of one wife than in a desire to add three to the number. We do not know, in fact, that even an adoption of Moslem cus'ems could bring us to more shame in the eyes of a rightly judging woild than has been incurred by England hersolf Gwing to recent events -and to a long course of such.

It would appear that the methods of piety are

A queer UNDERTAKING.

almost quite beyond finding ouf. A young girl ha 8 just died in Queensland, wi ere she was sent for her

health, wbose occupation it had been for fome time previous to her death, to work for the conversion of the whole police force of Victoria, by sending them monthly packages of " Gospel papers." History does not record what the motive was that turned the mind of this maiden in the first instance to the police force ; nor why they alone of all the servants of the Government became the object of her solicitude. Possibly, however, no such grand idea had entered the head of any devoted Christian, since that year in which Miss Whateley, a daughter of the late Archbishop of Dublin, undertook the conversion of the whole garrison of Malta by means of a publication known as the Gospel Trumpet, and whose dissemination she promoted through the hands of a pious sergeant, stationed on the island. But that was a great many yeais ago, and the fruits that have since been apparent in the British aimy have not been of any important consideration. The chief fruit, perhaps, was the amusement caused when the event came out at a certain trial held in Dublin, in which the Archbishop and his family cut rather n. droll figure. — It related to a quarrel between one Captain Stuart and his wife, who had been 'm inmate of Dr. Whaleley's household. — It may, however, very will be questioned as to wh. ther a police force of unexceptionable piety wouM be of as much service to the community in general as the force as it exists, at present, —we will not siy in a condition past praying for, but of no particular evangelic^ power. — Meantime, there is nothing at all to astonish us in the premature death of this extremely pious young person. — With all the sins of the force upon her mind and nothing to combxt them but bundles of tracts, it is only a wonder that she survived even for a single day But we feai her place in the annals of the Colony will be only that of affording another illustration of the freaks of which human nature, when unwisely directed, is capable.