"_Sabbath School_.--On Sunday the 19th instant, a Sabbath School was opened in the Second Baptist Chapel: 33 children and 3 adults presented themselves, and had their names registered as scholars. Suitable books, such as would enable us to arrange the children in classes, are very much wanting. As it is, each having a different book, we are obliged to hear them singly, which makes it extremely laborious, and precludes the possibility of more than one lesson each, during the hours of school." We would gladly copy a perspicuous and rational account which is given in several chapters, of the _climate_ and _seasons of Africa_, the _soil of Liberia_, and the _method of clearing lands_; besides many other sensible and interesting articles, which say a great deal for the editor, correspondents, and readers, of the Herald: but we have so far exceeded the space we had allotted for this subject, that we must here close our remarks. No one can read the Liberia Herald, without not only wonder, that so much intellect should emanate from such a source, but the strongest persuasion, that a colony, which in so brief a time has given such striking evidences of advancement in whatever distinguishes civilized from savage man, _must succeed_. GIBBON AND FOX. Gibbon, the historian, was at one time a zealous partizan of Charles Fox. No man denounced Mr. Pitt with a keener sarcasm, or more bitter malignity. But he had his price. A lucrative office won him over to the ministry. A week before his appointment he had said in Mr. Fox's presence, "that public indignation should not be appeased, until the heads of at least six of the ministers were laid on the table of the House of Commons." This fact is found stated in the hand writing of Mr. Fox, on a blank leaf of a copy of Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which was purchased after Mr. F's death, at a sale of his effects. The anecdote is followed by these lines, also in Mr. F's hand writing. King George, in a fright, Lest Gibbon should write The story of Britain's disgrace, Thought no means so sure His pen to secure, As to give the Historian a place. But the caution was vain-- 'Tis the curse of his reign, That his projects should never succeed. Though he write not a line, Yet a cause of decline In the Author's example we read. His book well describes How corruption and bribes Overthrew the great Empire of Rome; And his writings declare A degeneracy there Which his conduct exhibits at home. STATIUS. In Statius' Poem on the Via Domitiana, are these lines. Qui primo Tiberim reliquit ortu, Primo vespere navigat Lucrinum-- making a distance of one hundred and twenty-seven miles commonly travelled by the Romans in one day. {160} LIONEL GRANBY. CHAPTER VIII.