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"Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy Palaces," Oh beloved Island of Manhatto; and we will declare that none but a poor stoic can look at his bay or mountain strand, and not, in the language of Halleck, "feel prouder of his native land." A Great City is a great place, and has in it great men and women, and of course great institutions, and they are all changing, all passing away, a generation has passed with the hand that writes this brief hint, if God spares him who wields the pen, he may give some reminiscences of days lang syne, if the fecundity of age should not leave him entirely minus.

The Methodist Quarterly: Edited by the Reverend Dr. M'c Clintock. Whoever rises from the perusal of this truly valuable periodical, must be deeply impressed with respect for its most pious, able and accomplished Editor; and as he reflects on the several articles, particularly on those of Antigone, Hungary, Methodist Preaching, and Moses Stuart, he must feel an increased respect for the society, and a sense of the moral sublimity accompanying it, which, a few brief years since, was the plain and zealous friend of religion in the humblest and most retired arenas of the world, as well as in the outskirts of the nation; and teaching the principles and sustaining the system of John Wesley, far in the west, where the Multnomah flows, and the Knittenaue roams undisturbed in the Plains. Its men as plain as their coats, and the women as nice as their caps, and whose prayer meetings were of a cast to subdue the proud spirit unto "religions's ways of pleasantness, and unto her paths of peace.

In a Log Cabin, beyond the Mountains, where a Methodist Circuit Preacher sat, who was a native of London, did we hear the question propounded -- "Do you wish to escape from the wrath to come," and altho' from our metropolis, where a little Portuguese boy, a member of the John Street Meeting Class, had often urged us to join, yet we had never responded to the call before, nor ever before had such awakened feelings, as were induced by the prayers and singing of great numbers in the bright nights and pleasant days of a Summer Camp Meeting on the Prairies, now cultivated and settled by the friends of religion and science.

The position assigned in the review to President Woolsey, is a just one, and he no doubt in scholarship, genius and refinement is one of the best scholars of the age, associated in the scholar's thought with Everett and Anthon, and the late lamented Hopkins, and perhaps no one can transcend him in the appreciation and elucidation of the euphonious Greek.

Kossuth is an Ex-Governor of Hungary, a peculiar and suffering people, in number about 14,000,000, who comes over to the United States, on the invitation of Congress, in a public vessel, as an oppressed gallant gentleman, whose principles as developed in most eloquent speeches in his American travel exhibited him as a true, sensible and devoted friend of the rights of man.

Beyond Wesley, Coke and Clarke, the Methodists at one period presented very few of the polished diction of this period, and it is within the memory of the writer of this that the metropolis had so few learned men among the Methodists, that when he invited a friend to go to the St. John Street meeting to hear the early friends and founders of the now great book concern in New-York, Messieurs Soule and Bangs, he was scouted at as simple, for averring that there were men among Methodists sufficiently learned to quote Greek and Hebrew, it not being supposed possible for the Methodists to have men learned in "the dead languages." Behold now their sons in every quarter of the globe -- erudite, enterprising, faithful and brave.

The sketch of the lamented Moses Stuart is very honorable to the review and to the denomination, and although it was said that learned and glorious champion of religions literature and science had the warmest friends among the opposers of his interpretation, viz. the Unitarians; yet we believe for fair-mindedness and religious sympathies, this sweet little article about the good and great is as creditable as that of his subject, old neighbors, the Unitarians -- or even some of his Orthodox friends. The fact is, there is a sort of character that looms above and beyond the panegyrics of mortals. It is composed of those elements that unite by their virtuous and intellectual affinities, and like the brazen Serpent, held up in the Wilderness to the Children of Israel, draws the people unto it, either to admire, respect or imitate. And so the Moses of the Church of New-England presents his monument in the varied learning, virtues and talents of a wonderful disciple, forming a pedestal of symmetry, surpassing conception, the top stone of which is consummated by hosts, with shouts of "grace, grace" unto it, and reflecting from its summit, as the sun of righteousness radiates and irradiates therefrom the glory of the Christian, the Cross of the blessed Jesus, in its unostentatious and essential emanations.