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in this country, generally speaking, would, when plentifully manured, yield much greater crops than can commonly be obtained in England; chiefly owing to their summer, or season of vegetation continuing a greater length of time than with us. In the evening I arrived at Philadelphia. 10th Month, 14th. This being the first day of the week, I attended meeting; and, in the after-noon was at the burial of S. E. who had been a friend and customer of mine some years. The uncer- tainty of life, and the fluctuating state of things in the world, were seldom more fully exemplified than in the case of this young man. Few men have pur- sued business with more reputation and success than he had done; so that, in a few years, he had honourably acquired a very large property; and, only a very few weeks before, was united to an ami-able young woman, to whom he had for some time been sincerely attached. At this moment, when everything on earth seemed to smile around him, and there was every prospect of many years of happiness, a blight was brought over all, in an unexpected and awful way. He was suddenly deprived of reason, and, after a few weeks con-finement, departed this life, leaving a mournful, although instructive lesson of the mutability of all earthly enjoyments. Having received an invitation from my countryman T. S. I supped and spent the evening at his house.