has already
emigrated, and take his advice on the subject? Write also for full
particulars of expenses and advice to the secretary of the Colonial
Emigration Society, 13, Dorset-street, Portman-square, W. The rates of
passage, third-class, are, L18 and kit; sailing vessel, second-class,
from L20 to L28; third-class, L17 to L21.

A LOYAL IRISH GIRL.--We are very glad that you have been improved by the
late competition. We are much obliged by your kind offer. Your letter is
very creditably written and composed.

SWEET WILLIAM.--Directions for bookbinding were given in vol. ii., pages
342, 426, and 810.

R. L. I.--Our paper can be got in all the colonies. Many thanks for the
information that the free grants of land were stopped in Tasmania in
January last.

A NURSERY GOVERNESS, we think, is unhappy and discontented because she
dwells on herself and her own feelings too much, and thinks too little
of other people and their happiness. She must try to live most in
others, and in giving pleasure and love to them. As yet she fails to
comprehend the Christ-like character which is so lovely an acquisition,
and the higher service to which we are destined by following Him in all
things. Love is the keynote, and, if she try, in so doing is the
happiest and truest life to be found.

YOUNG LOCHINVAR should bear in mind the enormous ages attained by the
antediluvian patriarchs, and that the world around them was so quickly
populated that Cain might, and did, meet with plenty of people who
possibly, as he thought, would regard him as a monster to be driven from
amongst them. A long course of years succeeded that on which he slew his
brother through envy and a hatred as to what was holy and God-fearing.
In the first days of man upon earth they married their sisters, there
being no physical objection to it ordained by a merciful God.

M. R. (Norwood).--We pity you! To what a miserable, unwholesome state of
deformity you have reduced yourself! We do not open our columns to
persons who boast of having so far degraded themselves.

F. M. C.--On no account take a cold bath if it do not agree with you.
Have it tepid, or as warm as you feel comfortable. If the bath-sheet
were warmed you would run no chance of being chilled. The 17th June,
1865, was a Saturday. The violin is not an easy instrument to learn, and
requires a good ear; but we should recommend it in preference to the
banjo or the concertina. The guitar is also unsuited for ge