It is it would be, by a regular plan of Vaccination, tó keep the small-pox quite away. The London Establishment has made arrangements so as always to be supplied with matter, and to attend to any ap plications that may be made. The annual Report says, that, in the neighbourhood of London, seven hundred and twenty-five persons have died of the small-pox during the year; but they have not heard of any one dying after vaccination. said that about eighteen in eight thousand of those which have been vaccinated in and about London are, upon an average, capable of taking the smallpox afterwards. The reports from the country are less favourable; but this proportion is small enough to lead us to believe that, if every body in England were to be vaccinated, there would be an end of the small-pox in every part of the country, as there already appears to be in those places where it has been constantly practised. When small-pox does take place after vaccination, the patient generally passes through a safe and harmless disease. V. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. THIS list of words should have been given in our last Number, after the letter in page 123. The letter must, therefore, be referred to before reading the words. Man.... Woman Boy Girl Hold up your hand, as if shewing the height of something tall above the ground, and touch your forehead. The same sign as man, without The same as man, holding the Head Hair Jaw Tooth Instructions for the Deaf and Dumb. 181 Lip Tongue Chin Throat Neck Arm Hand Finger Foot Touch these, or point to them. It is difficult to lay down a precise rule for making any object the most easily understood. The teacher must use his own judgment, in many cases; and profit by his own experience. Frock Gown Shirt Shift Stockings Shoes Boots Gloves Cap House Move your hand about, pointing it upwards, as if you were look Shew by moving your hands, how these different things are used. Seem to carry it by the handle. Seem to put it on the finger. Respect for Sacred Places. Trot. Bark. 183 J Stroke, to shew it is soft, and imi 5 Shew how it grunts and moves its snout along the ground. Spread out your hands wide, as if Show the beard and horns. Add to the sign for each of the Sheep Goat Ass Crow. Hen Chicken Duck Goose Swan Peck food, moving the mouth quick. Waddle. Waddle, spreading the hands for large. Shew the long neck, stroking your throat with the hand upwards. * Even deaf and dumb children will understand what is meant by "barking," "braying," &c. from the motion of the mouth, especially if the action of the animal be, at the same time, imitated. RESPECT FOR SACRED PLACES. To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor. SIR, IN your Number for February you say that you belfry," for the use of the ringers. This is turning a part of a sacred building into an ale-house.. Every thing that brings disrespect on what should be sacred, tends to lessen the power of religion. The ringers might say, that it signified little," that there could be "no harm in refreshing themselves when they were weary and thirsty." The harm, however, is seen in the melancholy fact, that we seldom find one really devout and religious man among all those who talk and who act thus. There is, indeed, I fear, a great deal connected with the present system of bell-ringing that serves, in a dreadful manner, to keep out religion from the minds of a set of men, who, from their employments, we should suppose would have their minds constantly invited to join in its services, and to partake of its privileges. To like the sound of a bell, and not to like the sound of the Gospel, is to be in a state truly dangerous. You say, Sir, that you have heard that there has sometimes been even quarrelling and swearing in the belfry. I should hope, however, that things are not so bad as this, though, to speak the truth, when I see one proof that the heart of a man is in the wrong state, I never wonder at any sins that he commits. Perhaps, Sir, you will insert the following fact: When Sir Christopher Wren was building St. Paul's Cathedral, he caused the following notice to he put on several parts of the church. This might be useful at present where churches are either building or repairing. "Whereas, among labourers and others, that ungodly custom of swearing is too frequently heard, to the dishonour of God and contempt of authority; and, to the end that such impiety may be utterly banished from these works, which are intended for the service of God and the honour of religion, it is ordered that profane swearing shall be a sufficient crime to dismiss any labourer; and the clerk of the |