To cheer its toiling inmates. Habit-led,
They sow, and reap, and spread the daily board,
And steep their bread in tears.
God grant them grace
To take this chastisement, like those who win
A more enduring mansion, from the blast
That leaveth house and home so desolate.
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1840.
Among the manufactories of Birmingham, which our limited time allowed us to examine, we were much pleased with an extensive one of plate glass, in the possession of the Messieurs Chance. There we had politely explained to us, by the proprietors, the process of blowing that beautiful material, first into a cylindrical form, and afterwards giving it with emory the last exquisite polish. We visited the manufactures of bronze and silver, and the repository for that of papier-maché, and could scarcely believe that those delicate ornamental articles, trays, tables, cabinets, etc., inlaid with pearl, and radiant with the richest hues of the pencil, sprang from a rude fabric of coarse, brown pasteboard.
We were pleased to see the spacious town-hall, one of the lions of Birmingham, brilliantly lighted, and filled with an immense audience, assembled to advance the cause of missions, and listening to eloquent addresses from its advocates, and from some who
