powers, were performed on his native soil, England; but feeling probably the force of the proverb, that "a prophet has no honour in his

own country," he soon after took a fancy to travel, and walked over the sea one fine morning to the isle of Batz.

A Count de Guythuse was then governour of the island, who laboured under a great uneasiness of mind, on account of a silver bell belonging to the king of England, the possession of which, in defiance of the injunction contained in the tenth commandment, he coveted exceedingly. St. Pol ordered a fish to swallow the bell and bring it over. The mandate was no sooner issued, than obeyed; but the saint thus provided a dangerous rival to his fame, for the bell became almost as celebrated an adept in miracles as himself. As usual however in all cases of competition, the public was benefited; and between the saint and the bell, the want of physicians in the country was entirely precluded. The bell was afterwards deposited among the treasures in the cathedral of St. Pol de Leon.

But the isle of Batz, at the time of the saint's arrival, was visited with even a heavier affliction than the mental uneasiness of its governour, it was infested by a terrible dragon, which devoured men, animals, and every thing that came in

its way. St. Pol, dressed in his pontifical robes, repaired to the monster's cavern, accompanied by a young man whom he had selected for that purpose; and commanding it to come forth, it soon appeared, making dreadful hissings and howlings. A stroke of his staff silenced it; when a rope was thrown round its neck, and the young man was ordered to lead the monster away; all this was done without any opposition. St. Pol led it to the northernmost part of the island, where, with another stroke of his staff, he precipitated the monster into the sea, whence it never more returned.

The Count de Guythuse, charmed, as he reasonably might be with such a guest, resigned to him a splendid palace, in which he lived, and retired to Occismor, on the continent, the place where St. Pol de Leon now stands. The palace was converted by the saint into a monastery, and there being no water, he again had recourse to his staff, and produced the fountain which is still in existence on the sea shore; and it is because it was miraculously produced, that it is not affected by the overflowing of the sea. St. Pol was afterwards bishop of Occismor and it was then that the place changed its name. Here he continued for a long time to work miracles; but at length, growing weary of mankind, he re

tired again to the isle of Batz, where he ended his days at the great age of one hundred and two years. The inhabitants of the island would gladly have interred his body there; but the people of Occismor claimed it, on the plea of his having been their bishop: at length a compromise was made, and it was agreed that it should be divided, and that each should have a half. as they were about to carry this agreement into execution, the body suddenly disappeared, and was afterwards found at the sea shore of Occismor, which was considered as a plain indication that the saint himself chose that for the place of his interment.

DR. SOUTH.

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In the year 1680, when the celebrated Dr. Robert South was rector of Islip in Oxfordshire, a small chapel in the gift of the rector became vacant. Dr. South's curate, who, like the curates of the present day, performed the whole duty of the parish without an adequate remuneration, applied for the vacant situation; this was refused. The following Sunday being the fifteenth day of the month, he devoutly expressed his feelings in the regular course of the service by thus reading the seventh verse of the seventy-fifth psalm: "Promotion cometh neither from the East, nor

"from the West, nor from thee, (the) South." The Doctor conceded to wit, what merit had failed to obtain, and the curate found himself in possession of the wished for dignity; "passing rich with forty pounds a year."

MONKISH MIRACLES.

It is solemnly narrated, that two Christian Pilgrims, travelling in Poland, were hospitably entertained by Rusticus, then a Pagan peasant, but who was afterwards happily converted, and promoted to sovereignty, which he enjoyed to the advanced age of 120 years: they arrived before the threshold of this noble convert when he was preparing to celebrate the birth of one of his sons; a fat hog killed in honour of the occasion was the fare, and the fatigued and exhausted Pilgrims were made partakers of the humble, but substantial feast. Gratitude warmed the travellers' hearts, and they determined to work a miracle for the salvation of their host; with many a fervent prayer, and many a cross, they pronounced a blessing on the half-consumed hog,

which, from thenceforth never diminished in its weight," however 'freely resorted to, by the wondering family. Rusticus was, of course, withdrawn from heathen errors; his astonished and admiring countrymen followed the glorious

example, and chusing him for their chief, added to his name Piustus, to denote his virtues.

EASTER CUSTOMS.

The custom of eating Tansy-puddings and Cakes at Easter, now confined to some few places distant from the metropolis, was introduced by the monks, whereby symbolically to keep in remembrance the bitter herbs in use among the Jews at this season; though, at the same time, bacon was always part of the Easter fare, to denote a contempt of Judaism. The Jews themselves, however, long since contrived to diminish the bitter flavour of the Tansy, by making it into a pickle for their Paschal Lamb, from whence we borrow the custom of taking mint and sugar as a general sauce for that description of food.

Aefricke, abbot of St Alban's and Malmesbury, in an epistle to Bishop Walsine, thus censures the folly and impiety practised by some priests in his days, now nearly eight centuries. past: "Some Priests," says he, as translated from the Saxon by the author of "A Testimony "of the Antiquity of the Church of England," published in 1567," keep the housell (i. e. the "sacramental wafer) that is hallowed in Easter "Day, all the year for Syke Men. But they do "greeatlye amysse, by cause it waxeth Horye.