_ W 1857 FEBRUARY. 9 RemarkaMe days- 1 4th Sun. after Epiphany Parliament buildings and Library at Quebec burnt 1854. Steady frost 2 Candlemas. Purification B. V. Mary . for some 3 time 4 making good travelling 5 on the ice 8 Septuagesima Sunday. 10 Queen Victoria married 1840. 11 Expect more 13 snow, 14 Valentine. 15 Sexagesima Sunday. 16 Steady fine 18 weather 20 /or some time. 22 QuiNQUAGESIMA SUNDAY. 24 Shrove Tuesday. 25 Ash Wednesday 20 appearance 28 of a snow storm. True Friends!.—As to true friends, choose them with great care, and le! their number be small. Have no friend who does not fear God, who is not!.-,, wholly governed by the truths of religion. To ■friends like these, open Wour heart without reserve, 'and keep nothing secret from them but the secrets of others. Good Intentions.—It is the common law of Provi¬ dence, that in this world at least, very little is ever granted to merely good in¬ tentions . Starting Right or Wrong..—" In the first place," says the late Amos Lawrence , in a letter to a young college student, " take this for your motto at the commencement of your journey, that the dif¬ ference between going just right or a little wrong, will be the difference of finding yourself in good quarters, or in a miserable bog or slough at the end of it. To this simple fact of starting just right am I indebted, with God's blessing on my labors, for my present po¬ sition, as well as that of the uimerous connections that have sprung up around me." A Summary of Reli¬ gion.—There is no salva- lion but by the free mercy of God; no mercy but through the mediation of rist; no interest in Christ except by faith in him; no justifying faith but that which works by love and purifies the heart; no love to Christ which does not include love to his people, his example, his precepts; no genuine love to his people which does not influ¬ ence a man to do good to them, as he has ability and opportunity.