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Ten years later, * Jittle Pet.” now a)
handsome young lady ot twenty, douned
Bridal robes; and William Sprague, of
the firm of Whitcomb, Sprague, & Co., |
was the haapy bridegroom. |

Mr. Whitcomb, atte: the ceremony Was)
over, lett the parlor with Mis, Sprague |
on his arm, and, drawing her into a recess, |
said,—

* Since your son robs me of all that is
left me in lite, it js but fair that I should}
have recompense. ‘Time has left its im-
pression on our hearts since our bereave-
ments, and why sh-uld we not follow the
example of the young people? Can you
become the wife of another Mason ?”

«To one who was so faithful a one.and
filled his vows so taithtully to Richard and
his wife, yes,” was Muggi’s reply.

NOVA SOOiIA AND CONFEDERATION.

from Wilmer § Smith's European Times.

M.. Bright has taken up the case of
the Noyu Scotian remonstrants with char-
neteristic energy, and on Tuesday night
he made, in the Mouse of Commons, a
powerlul speech, in which a strong case
was made out in their favor,

About a month ago the member for Bir-
sningham presented a petition from Nova
Scotia protesting against its absorption in-
ao the Canadian Confederation, It was to
the statemc nts contained in that petition
Mr. Bright ealled the attention of the
Touse, The petition declares that the
government and destiny of the colony and
ihe management of their own affairs were
danded over mainly to another colony by
the-Parliament of the United Kingdom not
enly without the consent of the colonists
{Nova Scotia, but directly in the face of

‘thcir pronounced disapproval. To show
the state of feeling on the question, out of
19 members elected last September to rep-
‘resent Nova Scotia at Ottawa, 17 have
ziven their adhesion to the petition, and
have declared themselves hostile to Con-
dederation. Out of 38 members elected
Jast Septem¥er to the Local Parliament or
ilouse of Assembly of Nova Scotia, not
fewer than 36 haye signed the petition

presented to the House of Commons. Mr.

right argued from this that it was clear
the teeling of the Nova Scotians was
strongly aguinst the union, and proposed
an address to the Crown praying that a
Commission might be sent outthis autumn
to inquire into the causes of discontent
ielt by the Nova Scotians.

The despatch from the Duke of Bucking-
ham to Viscount Monck, nade public on
the day previous to the debate, showed
that the Government had distinctly ranged
themselves on the side of the Canadian or
Federal party, and prepared those who
take an interest in the question for the
course which the Representative of the
Colonial Office would take with reference
to Mr. Bright's motion. Mr. Adderly op-
posed, it would be ** insane” to re-open the
question at the present moment. The
motion was rejected by 183 to 87.

The decision of the Llouse of Commons
is much to be regretted, and it is to be
hoped that the Government will reconsider
their policy on this question. Mr. Bright
«loes not contend for immediate repeal ot
the Union between Canada and Noya Sco-
tia, but for inquiry by an impartial com-
mission, which is no very great boon to
grant. The least the House could do
would be to inquire into the alleged grie-
vances, in the hope that the enquiry itsell
might have a soothing effect, and probably
Jead the way to an amicable settlement.

However advantageous to the interest:
of England a union of the British Amicri-
ean Provinces might be, no consideration
of English advantage or English vanity
should lead us to use force in constraining
colonial populations, or to deny them those
rights of self-government which we have
ever claimed for ourselves. It is difficult
to exaggerate the importance of the ques-
tion at issue, involving as it does not only
the permanence of the North American
Confederation, the formation of which was
hailed with so much satisfaction, but the
probable duty and position of the mother
country in case a rupture should take place
in the states comprising it. Mr. Cardwell,
who had something to do with carrying
out the federation scheme, as well as Mr.
Adderly, look upon the discontent of the
Nova Scotians as a mer3 temporary ebul-
lition of annoyance. When a new Gover-
nor General, whose antecedents do not es-
pecially connect him with Canada, calls
in at Halifax on his way to his new goy-
ernment, and talks the mutter quietly over
with the remonstrants, their ill-humor will
subside and things will come right in tie
end. Suppose, however, instead of com-
ing right, as these eanguine people expect,
ihings get worse. Suppose the Nova Sco-
tians, finding that the British Parliament
will not do anything to relicye them from
2 connection which they declare is so odi-
ous to them, should quietly secede from
Canada and refuse to recognise in any
way tho authority of the Confederation
Parliament. Are we, in such an event, to
assist Canada to maintain the Confedera-
tion by force of arms? Such an idea is too
absurd to entertiuin for a moment. Our
position would be an embarrassing one:
either to allow Canada to try her hand at
another war agaiust secession, or under-
tuke the hopeless task of keeping the peace
between the to colonies, The result
might be to drive one or perhaps both into
the arms of the United States.

Jt must not be forgotten that the Con-
federation does not include all the mari-
time Provinces. Newfoundland and Prince
Edward Island are not members of it. If
all the seaboard provinces had been in-
eluded they might have held their own,
and preserved their old low duties. As it
is, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are
outvoted on questions of fiscal policy by
Canada, And there is good reasen for
supposing that the tariff question, if it has
not led to the discontent prevailing in No-
ya Scotia, has at least aggravated it. The
people of Canada are protectionists, and
the people of the maritime provine:s arc
freetraders. The Nova Scotians ought to
be the best judges of their own interests,
and their petition should not be lightly re-
jected or condemned without examination.
‘To ignore the importa.ice of the movement
in Nova Scotia may lead to a serious in-

convenience, and mar the unity of the em-
pire.

Mason Excursion.—At a meeting of
Boston Eneampment of Knights Templars,
held Friday evening last, it was unani-
mously voted to go upon a stonmbont ex-
cursion, leaving Boston about the middle
of July, and to be absent a week or more
the trip to be northward, touching at
Portland, then up the Penobscot river to
Bangor, and to St. John, N. B., and per
haps Halilax, N.8., at all of which places
the Knights will doubtless receive a cor-
dial welcome from the resident Knights,as
well as the Masonic Fraternity generally.
The Boston Encampment now numbers six

hundred active mombers, and they will
require a large first class steamer for the
oceasion. They will have atull band of

asic, and will probably be accompanicd |! \
their ladies. The knights will be in| danger. deliverance, sorrow and sucess, | «
,& general good time can be | thanksgiving : nd blessing.

¢ regalia
# pated, —Loston Fort,

Summerside Hownal.

"THURS

DAY, JULY 9, 1868,
No notice can be taken of anonymous Com. |
munications. We must know the names and
addresses of our correspondents as a guaranty
of their good faith. We cannot undertake to
return communications that are not used.

The Rev. Morley Punshon
in Charlottetown.

“* DANIEL IN BABYLON,”

Tire arrival, according to announce-
ment, of this great orator, on Saturday
evening last in Charlottctown, created
quite a stir in that city, Hundreds of
persons gathered around the steamer—
as did many here when the boat touched
the wharf—all eager to catch the first)
glimpse of—what they afterwards found
him to be—a plain english divine, but a
great man! On Sabbath morning the
spacious Wesleyan Church was crowded
to excess by over two thousand expectant
listeners, anxious to catch the first words
fulling from Mr, Punshon’s lips. ‘The
text was Philippians ch. 3, verses 12,13,
and 14. The theme was the Christian's
onward progress toward the mark of holi-
ness, While the prize of heaven was kept
steadily in view. Very cheeringly, and
grandly, and in words of chastest elo-
quence, was this portrayed before the
mental and spiritual vision of the vast
audicnee, stirring to their depths the
souls of all who heard, and lifting many
hearts but too well acquainted with the
heaviness and gloom of earth, into the
atmosphere of heaven. Never before, in
the hearing of many, had human clo-
quen¢ée so grandly

* Put on Religion’s bright array,”’

and never before had they heard the
story of fuith in Christ told in such seem-
ly and thrilling words.

The Revd. gentleman's Lecture on
‘Daniel in Babylon,” was delivered on
Monday evening, in the same building.
Aiter prayer was offered by the Rey. Mr.
Moore, the lecturer was introduced by
the Hon. Col. Gray, who, in very appro-
priate terms, referred to the European
reputation achieved by Mr. Punshon,
aad to the good fortune and happiness of
his fellow townsmen in haying the oppor-
tunity of listening to him. ‘The lecture,
a synopsis of which we give below, was
then commenced by Mr. Punshon, who
held the audience spell bound for the
space of one hour and ten minutes. Many
of his glowing periods were followed by
impressible bursts of applause, which
culminated at the close in one long con-
tinous round of cheering. ‘The Chair-
man then rising to proffer the thanks of
the audience to Mr. Punshon said, that
seldom, if ever, in all his experience in
Europe and America, had he heard the
equal of the words still echoing in his
ears, and vibrating in the hearts of the
assembly, The Lecturer then replied in
a suitable strain.

In passing we may say for the credit
of our Island, that in no other country
has it ever been our lot to mect a more
graceful and able chairman of public as-
semblies, than the one then present, the
Ifon. John Hamilton Gray.

We were sorry that the admission fee
was so high, depriving as it did many of
hearing an effusion which could not fail
to elevate and bless all present. Surely
some one concerned in the arrangements
made a blunder. ‘Three shillings is all
that other cities in these Proyinces have
had to pay, to hear the renowned orator
about whom * the half has not been told,”
and the Charlotonians should not have
arked more, It is likewise scarcely jus-
tice to the Lecturer himself, to cut off
from him the inspection of a full house.
Had the fee been fifty and twenty-five
cents, we venture to say that there would
have been three thousand instead of one
present. For the benefit of our readers
who had not an opportunity of hearing
the lecture, we subjoin the following: —

DANIEL IN BABYLON,

«There were giants in the earth in those
days when those old heroes and prophets
murvellous race of men—lived, whom
it is diflicult for us to regard as belonging
to the same creation as ourselves, ‘They
were not soldiers, yet they rebuked kings
with 2 courage that might have been en-
vied by the most gallant crusader, ‘Chey
were not priests merely, and yet has priest
never spoken more svlemn words with
more simplicity of ideas, nor with finer
power. When we notice their lofty aims,
and their noble wonders erewd upon our
memorics, we sink, and shrink trom any
discussion of their actions as if they were
so mun superior beings from the Spirit
land. Such feelings come over us as
might have been felt by the Gergesenes
when they saw the spirits subject to the
word of our Saviour, and prayed him to
depart out of their coasts; or us was ex-
perienced by Peter when he telt the influ-
eace of the miraculous power and cried
out, ‘‘ Depart from me, lor I am a sinful
man,”—a sort of mingled fecling which is
part admiration and part awe, “They are
not men so much as individual persona-
tions of influences, passing beneath their
heating respiration, like angels standing
before the Lord ready to check the light-
nings which are His messengers, or the
stormy winds which fulfill his word, It
is manifest that the possession of their of-
fice and their leading lite differing from
that of humanity in general, prevent us
from acknowledging their fitness as ex-
amples by which vw regulate our own life
and conduct, ‘Chere is running through
the entire human nature something which
has formed ideas of its uwn as to what its
patterns ought to be. and which demands
that certain rigid forms must be gone
through by him who would become its
guide andexemplar, ‘There must be iden-
tity, and there must be similarity of cir-
cumstances—the man muat have like pas-
sions, and those must have been most tor-
cibly tried. Failure here would destroy
the jorcu of example, just us Lercules
would have ocstracized Apollo from the
fellowship of the gods because of a blemish
in his physical symetry, On this account
there is none, peehaps,among the prophets
whose history is so profitable as the royal
Prince of whom we are to hear to-night.
All the constituents that are shapely in
experience are met with in his character.
‘True, he was inspired, but his inspiratiou
wus something apart trom that lite of lis
in Which We recognise the elements of

He comes not

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No, but in him we see all that

we value in ordinary life. He comes eat |
ing and drinking, with common failings |
and common teelings, doing common
things, although always in a 1: ificent
way. Let us new see whitlessons we can
draw from his lite, And at the outset 1}
muy as well tell you that my olject is to
do you good, for although the platform 1s
an open field where one may gather aposy
to cheer jnd refresh you, yet 1 cannot for-)
get my life-work,nor fail to teach the truths
of that gospel, which is to throw a light
upon alltime. It has been said that the
religion of Jesus Christ is suited to all
cli nd to all conditions of the human
family, and the claims of its advocates |
have had to be subjected to the severest)
tests and yerified by the experience of
every generation, Christianity cannot be
held’in by lines of latitude, nor compassed
by any walls of paity. Itis free and un-
bounded, exerting its transforming influ-
ence upon all men, and tr iting its lan-
guage intoevery tongue. Like its tounder
it delights in the habitable parts of the
earth, and wherever man is, whether it be
in the great metropolis or upon the wild
savannah, amid the hum of business or in
the lonely forest. there she takes up her
abode, and if embraced, suiting herself to
man’s condition becomes at once the ange!
of his cfyenmstances and ot his life. Now

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circumstances are exceptional, You im-
agine religioa is very good at ce: tain times
and in certain places,—in sylvan groves,
and woodland shades, by winding streams
and grassy glades. You have heard it
said. God made the country and man
made the town,” and therefore think man
should claim all that is the work of his own
hands, but it is not true. Heaven is as
near to the noisy town as the breezy down,
and you can buitle against evil, and walk
as cluse to God to-day, even in London the
modern Babylon, as did Daniel in Babylon
the ancient London. And this leads me to
notice his religious characteristics, and
these were devotion and consistency. His
religion was no surface sentiment to be
held as loosely as some tradition harded
down from the fathers, Opinions, you
know, are sometimes entailed with estates,
Men will rally round crimson banners,and
hurrah for bluff or blue, tor no other rea-
son than that these colors were worn by
their ancestors. But the seat of Daniel’s
religion was io his heart, and of that brave
sort, that no disaster could trighten it from
its integrity, although it was no easy mat-
ter to retain it. Notice the circumstances
in which he tirst comes belore us. He was
lonely, tempted and in danger, Some ol
you, perha;s, from personal experience.
know what it is to be thus situated. But
beyond all this you must add bondage—a
word I am thankful a Briton does not un-
derstund—and then you will know some-
thing of Daniel when he was first introdu-
ec into the palace of the King ot Babylon,
Moreover the cireumstances in which Dian-
iel was placed at that time, would of ne-
cessity expose the piety of ayoung man to
more than ordinary severe attacks. It is
no easy matter for a slive to profess a
faith differing from thatot his master, ‘Lhe
victory of Nebuchadnezzar oyer Isracl
would barb the tongue of the Chaldean
scotfer with a sharper sarcasin inst the
Ilebrew prisoner, Babylon was at. this
time wholly and carnestly given up to
idolatry. here Belus, magnificently at-
tired, was worshipped as the Supreme

THUR

DAY, J ULY

with such a ceremonious piety? Why exhibit
such a sanctimonious fustidiousness? ‘This
is a very small thing, and he need not be 80)
strange aud fanciful. ‘There was no oceasion |
for him to know cortainly that the meats had
been consecrated to idols. Why need he
make so much of such a trifle?” A trifle!
Yes, but these trifles are in reality the ele-
ments of the most mighty furces. ‘The fall of
an apple, the drifting of a log of wood, the
sing.ng and pufiing of a tea kettle, wat tri-
fles these are! But wait, let the mind pon ler
upon them, and what then? Why these the
law of grav tion, the discovery of Ameri .
and the thousand and one appliances of steam.
‘There are no tritles in the whole universe of
God! Speak me a word, and it goes ringing
down through the ages. Show me the word
of sin spoken to-day, and I will show you in
after years the lang rved in the walls
of the body. ‘Phere is nothing little! Daniel
commenced at once, defeated the first enemy
that presented itself, and gained a victory.
After that the rest were easy. It iy against
this Leginning of evil—this first branch upon
the sacredness of conscience, that you must
take your stand. It is the first careless drift-
ing into the current that carries you on through
the rapids to the mi: 1, where your
bark will be lost in the fuaming gulf, and lost
forever. Go to that place of dissipation, enter
that gambliug hell, follow that strange wo-
man to her house,muake that fraudulent entry,
engage in that doubtful specultion, make ight!
of that S bbath with a!l its hallowed blessings,
and you weaken your moral sensibilities, you
forge the dagger that will at length be driven
into yourown soul, Brethren, L warn you,
tenderly and affectionately, against a peril so
threatening andimvending. Now let the con-
flict be decided. Break from the toils of your
first foe and conquer your first enemy. Close
on your heels is the resolute and yengefal
adversary. Flee for your life! Run though
your fect bleed as yourun! Face that wall
of difficulty and scale it with a bound, Seck
the city of refuge, and gain admittance there.
And if you will not do this, then a time will
come when you will flee, but you cannot es-
cape, and at last weary and despairing, you
must give up a poor fugitive, but hopeless,
slave.

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Daniel met the foe at once. This was the
Corinthian pillar of his life; and now having
viewed this structure let us glance at the ac-
anthus leaves that so gracefully climb and
twine around his character, and may we learn
as we pass along to be as contented under all
the chenging circumstances of life as Daniel's
piety made him, He was, it is supposed,
sout twenty years of age when he was carried
ciptive to babylon. Ile was young, sprightly
and just at the age when the voice of the past
touches the sweet chords of the fancy aud the
future stretches out brightly before the view.
Ile was connected with the Royal fimily ot
Judah, and this not unnaturally spread before
him a life of state and pleasure, without a
dream of sorrow or pain. Hard must have
been the fute which tore him trom his country
and robbed him of his freedom. How rudely
must every sensibilily have been shocked,
how cruelly every hope must have been blight-
ed by such a transition, Whit a sudden
change was that trom the courtly Prince to
the position of a menial, from Jerusalem to
Babylon. ‘These being the circumstances in
which he was placed, how did he act? There
were three ways open to him other than the
one he took. He could have given himself up
to the Dominion of sorrow, have suffered a
deep melancholy for his privations to have
overlaid and humbled all his energies, have
benumbed and bewailed his sad fate, as with
agrief burdened heart he sat beneath the

frailing willows and tearfully remembered
Zion. Or he might have formed some deep

and solemn purpose of revenge, and glared
out upon Lis captors under his eyes looks
whose language was Murper. Or he might

God. ‘here the astrologer affected to read
in the heavens as in a sparkling

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form of pagan worship—for of all idolatry
that of fire worship was at once the most
priuitive and the most plausible. There
the things of lite were linked to ideal as-
'soclations and ideal ceremonivs. ‘There
everything that cond al!
lated to tempt the ItepreW mind shone
in full glory, whilst at the same time jl
that could awe and stiike into his soul the
tear of death, was everywhere displayed,
And yet Daniel stands firm amid all the
danger. Iver since the insidious question
was put, ‘Doth Job serve God for
naught?’ the old Jiav has striven to turn
man from God by the insinuation that
Christians ave Christians only for what
benefit they can get out of their profes-
sion. And some Chaldean scoffer might
thus have pitted the giant against the Me-
brew youth: * Daniel is yet young, wait
Ull he is a little older, Let him taste the
luxuries of Babylon and he will suon for.
get the tame pleasures of Canaan, Wait!
he will soon enter into all the gaities ol
our festive worship and forget the dull
monotone of Ilebrew rites.” Ah! such a
scoffer, like many another in one day,
would have found his prophecy very grie

viously fail him. Was he caught by the
glitter and gaicty around him? Did his
piety fail him? nelt he not as devoutly
in the palace of Shushan as in the temple
at Jerusalem? Did not his heart go out
in prayer, ‘as his manner was,” to the one
Lord of earth and heaven? And what, I
ask, ave the circumstances that should
frighten a true man when his heart is set
within him to do the thing which is right?
Let « man be firmly determined to be de-
yout, and tropical heats and aretie colds
willnot daunthim, and he may travel from
one to the other without his religion catch-
ing cold on the journey. Set him in a
desert, and just as the palm tree sends its
rootlets down between the stones, the seed
manages somehow to get moisture there;
banish him to Patmos and he shall see a
grand apocalypse ; thrust him into a dun-
geon and make his feet fast in the stocks,
and a doxology shall swell from his_ lips,
which, piercing the rocky walls, shall find
its way to the heart of the jailer and turn
him into a man again, whilst the prisoners
nearing shall gently drop asleep and
dream of freedom and of home,

Now, I as, what is your religion made of?
Ts it a hot-house plant that must be covered
up with glass lest that boisterous young fel-
low, March, should blow upon it and shake
the life out of it in his rough dallying with the
flowers? Oris ita hardy plant, that when
the storms howl about it stands firmly rooted.
bending to the breeze but never Lreaking?
What we wantis a robust Christianity —a piety
which cannot be frightened from its course by
the noise ard cheering of the victorious hos
of sin, but which seeing beyond them all the
crown of triumph, presses onward singing
it goes: ‘Hinder me not, I mean to wear it.’

Noteworthy in this connection is the fact
that Daniel made the stand at once. He did
not allow the first occasion on which temptation
was presented to be the means ot his ultimate
defent. Ohno! there must be nd encroach-

in the slightest degree. Ile proposed in his
heart not to defile himself with the King's
meat, nor with the portion ot. wine which he
drank. You know by the Mosaic law certain
meats were not permitted to be eaten by the
Hebrew, You know, also, that it was cus-
tomary for pagan nations to consecrate their
meats to idols, for they were not ashamed as
we are to mix up religion with every day af:
fairs of life. So to Daniel these meats were
forbidden by this ceremonial law, and even
though harmless, yet forbidden because agso-
ciated with idvlatrous customs, Lt was there-
fore his duty to refuse, Ab! I sev that smile
on the lip of the scoffing world!ing, and as he

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nients upon conscience, no giving way even

have resigned himself to dreamy listlessness
and live exhibited an indolence which would
torever hive prevented his striving to fultill

‘There the followers of Zoroaster lingered | oven the faintest picturings of his own dreams.
and clung to the most pure and ancient) put Daniel was not the manto give up in

}such a manaer. He was too true, and brave
jand reyerent not to recognize the Providence
of God in all Ilis dealings, und therefore could
|} not pursue any of these courses. Ue knew
/thatit was his duty to make the most of the

ve or wits caleu- }circumstances in’ which he found himself
ont | placed; to cherish and exemplify a contented |

| spirit, eyen though the co; ditions which for-
jmezly produccd and nourished it no longer
surrounded or inspired him, Instead, there-
fore, of brooding in settlea melancholy, or
harboring a vengeful spirit, or settling 14/0
apathy or indifference, he arose, not indeed
indifferent to his altered fortunes, for there
would often come upon his sudden fancy views
of the hills and yales of his native land, and
above all, of the temple whither the tribes
were wont to resort,—yet resigned to meet
them in a hopeful manner and live as content-
edly as he could in Babylon, Here we may
stop and learn a profitable lesson. Perhaps
some of you may be weary of hard work which
you perform merely to enrich others, are dis-
posed to regret the destiny and rebel against
the fortune that dooms you to toil and drudge,
and are often ready to give itup. ‘This feel-
ing is not unnatural, and if we could to-night
raise the demon of Le Sarge, we n
unroof hearts as well as houses, and 1
that doing a great business was not the best
thing that could befiull some of us. Moved
by such feelings many people become wholly
unfitted for the common duties of life, while
others again drivel down into useless hangers
on, who are always, like Mr. Micawber, on
the look out for ** something to turn up.”
These men, however, rarely, with all their
waiting, drop into accidental prosperity.
Popular lecturers probably have done a good
deal to aid this fecling of restles8 waiting and
longing. Young men are frequently urged to
exercise a lofty ambition, to have a soul above
the shop, until at last they begin to think they
onght to have bidies above the shop as well.
‘They are often pressed to aim high, to emu-
late the decds of great men who have risen
from lowly positions in life, They are pointed
to Claude Lorraine, to Burns at the plough,
to Milton at the desk, to Bunyan mending
kettles, to Newton am to Luther in his clois-
ter, until fired by the examples of thece men,
they lose all taste for their own position, and
becoming embued with false ideas are unfitted
for any other, They bevome. indeed, the
subjects of an ambitious phrenzy, although
few L hope turn out ns bad as the boy I read
of in the newspapers who attempted to com-
mit suicide, though fruitlessly, and on
remonstrance for the rash act—as the news-
papers always call it—snid that he was made
by God to be a man but doomed by man to be
a grocer,

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sucess in life, nore destructive to the ener, Fi
or subversive of the character, than those
vapid and unprofitable day dreams, ‘The
mind once surrendered to its spell has lost
all powers of control, and is passive, like the
opium eater under the influence of the hor-
rible narcotic, Real lite is discouraged as
unlikely in the dreamer’s range of vision, and
it is wonderful how people dream! Some
young lady falls in love with the young man
who sells her her silks, because of his fasci-
nating manners and a fair share of good looks.
She is quite sure from his elegant style that
he must be somebody's son and so g
and builds up quite a romance of her own
in relation to lim. A young man takes it
into his head that he has the elements of
success in him, and fondly imagines that he
is born to shine as a senator in the legishitive
halls of his coantry. As he draws himself
up to his full height and throws back his raver
locks from his brow, he almost feels as though
jhe were about to address his fellows with
| unequalled eloquence on some great question
j of State policy, and so he dreams his dream.
Or he sees himscif possessed of
future, running away
chariot and four,

008 on,

an immense
with a fine lady ina

Thus he goes on re velling |
in impossibilities, until at last crash oes the
nay not be able to explain it, I will help him | crockery » or down comes the bale of muslin |
urn itinto words, © Why should he goabout}on his most bunioned toe, or a river ot

re

ame i

Well, if we lecturers have given | the
any assistance to this kind of thing. we s
strive the best we may to undo it. I ca
conceive of nothing more perilous to practic

1858.

boge is too sure an indication of a basket of
eggs. Now, however foolish and unreal all)
this is, yet how near akin is it to the spirit

of the gambler who has lost all his fortune at |
hazard, and then risks his last dollar, Just

because it is so small! What, then? Now 1

hear some one of you say, what! do you mean

that all the counsels we have heard to strive

fora higher lot mean nothing at all? Are we

never tu rise above the sphere in which we

are found to day? Nay, I do not say that;

but then ifthere is genius in you, be sure

that it will come out. Aye! though an Alp
be piled upon you, and you lie hidina rock

hewn sepulchcre with your head in a stone!

But then, I must tell you the truth. ninty out
of every hundred of you will remain just the

men that you are to-day, and the other ten
who may rise will find that in climbing the
hill of ambition they will have to foot ir every

step. here is not the slightest doubt about

it, if you are grocers to-day, grocers you will
remain to the end of the chapter, Still what
of that? Better be of the meanest occupation
—and that is a long way below a grocer—
better be of the meanest occupation than the
dastard or the drone, Better to be all poor
foot-weary mendicant not knowing wnere the
morrow’s food is to come from, than to be
that worst of men, the wealthy and unserupu-
lous rascal who is hurled through the street
in a carriage, built,cushioned, liveried, hors-
od and harnessed with other people's money,
Whatever be the position in which God has
placed you, there you can be honest and excel,
and if you do your duty to Godin the present,
He will tase care of the future for
Depend upon it, the way to succeed in life is
neither to repine and so add to misfortune
the troubless of passion and envy, nor to
waste in dreams the powers which would go
far towards accomplishing the dreamer’s ut-
most desire. Be sure it is better to plod on
all the days of your life than to aim at impos-
sible heroisms, but strive to be heroes in your
own sphere. Don’t go away up among the
clouds to get to heaven, but bring it down to
you to brighten your toils in this work-a-day
world. Don’t go out to be the soured ascetic
among your fellow men, but rather try to be
industrious in your homes in every day life,
so that a light of joy may linger over them as
you meet them and your voice may reach
their ear in harmony, coming upon them like
the benediction that falls in prayer. Seck to

piety and your business with beauty of holiness
You may sometimes feel a tendency to be en-
vious of your neighbors; but if you possess a
contented soul you may look round upon
those whose position in the social scale is a
little higher than yours—that is those who are
a little more favored by that old goddess who
is suid to be both fickle and blind—and with
sunny smiles painted upon your countenance
may break forth into verse and say:
Cleon hath a thonsand acres,
Never a one ha ;
Cleon dwelleth in a palace,
Jn cottage 1;
Cleon hath a dozen fortunes,
Hardly one have I,
Yet the poorer of the twain 1s
Cleon, and not LT.

Cleon sees no charms in Nature,

In un daisy T,
Cleon hears no anthem singing

Tu the sea and sky.
Nature sings to me for ever,
nest listener 1,
ite for 2, with all attendants,
Who would change? Not 1;

J

[concLUDED NEXT W

THE FIRST YEAR OF CONFEDERATION,
ANDO ITS RESULTS.

THING can be more oppositely ex-
pressed than are the views of our ex-
changes on this question. ‘lhe advocates
of the measure say that Canfederation
has been productive of as much good as
reasonable men could or did expect, while
the opposite cless of papers maintain the
reverse. ‘The Halifax ** Reporter’ says
“+ As we think over the subject the bene-
fits of Confederation rise so thick and
fast around us, that we find we must, to
be at all cifvctive, narrow our subject ;"'
and enters into an explanation of the
present and future benefits, which have,
and are likely to continue to result from
the Postal service of New Brunswick,
Quebee and Ontario. It says the establish
ing of the Inman line of steamers has ef-
fected an annual saving of @ 100,000, and
adds, ‘*we may safely and fairly say there.
fore, that Confederation has giyen us an
ocean line of steamers, for which we, as
Canadians, are beholden to nobody.”
The Pall Mall Gazette says that it has
made the resources of these Provinces
better known abroad, and hes already
commenced to arrest the attention of im-
mig s, and thinks that the ‘ hard-
working man who tries Canada first is
jnever likely to cross the frontier.”

In Nova Scotia, the anti-union journals
speak in strong—some of them at least
—and bitter terms, respecting the recep-
tion which their memorial met with in
the Imperial Parliament; while from
Ontario to Halifax, a feeling of regret is
expressed by allalike, that British states-
men should have so summarily disposed
of that petition. We may expect soon
to hear from the Delegates themsclyes,
who we have no doubt will act as be-
comes able und loyal men. In another
part of to-day’s paper we publish the
views of Wilmer & Smith's European
Times on the subject.

Rtnilway.

Wn learn from a gentleman who has
recently visited New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia, that the Railroad from
Moncton to Dorchester will be opened
next full, that the ene from Dorchester to
the neighborhood of Amherst is in pro-
gress, and will, it is said, be opened in

9. A magnificent

the summer of 186
iron bridge is projected tobe built over
‘Tantramar river, near Sackville,
2 a temporary wooden bridge is now
ourse of erection. Our friend also
says the town of Amherst has greatly
improved within the last few ye: and
that it now affords excellent Hotel ac-
gomodations. In Truro, quite a town
has sprung up at the railway station, and
judging from what the railroad has done
for these two places, he thinks if the In-
ter-colonial will produce the same results
when built, that its effects must be very
beneficial to the country through which
it will pass.

ec A pee

The Mayor of Charlottetown, Theopt.
DesBrisay, Isq., had on exhibition at
his Store, on ‘Tuesday last, two simples
ofnew Votatoce. They were the largest |
we have ever seen on the Island at this |
season of the year,

About seventy persons availed the
selves of the excursion to Chi
on Saturday last, and

they had.

m-
ulottetown
a jolly good time |

The Steam N, Company advertise to

carry possengers for onn FARE, during

make your trade bright with the sanctity of

lot Philadelphia,

upremec Court
‘The Supreme Court, now sitting in
Charlottetown, has had a large amount of
business to transact. ‘Phere were no
criminal cases, but there were no less
than four summary suits, five appeals,
and thirty Record cases. We suppose
that work must increase when the work-
ers do, and this accounts it may be for
so much law now-a-days. Some people
are so fond of law that they will often
rush into court with che most frivolous
and oftimes hopeless case, and thereby
impoverish themselves and their neigh-
bors. But we have not time now to lee-
ture those who thus act.

On Monday morning W. B. Dawson,
came into Court and gave himself up.
‘Two indictments for forgery were found
against him, to which he pleaded guilty,
He looked as if he was suffering much
from a consciousnes; of the disgrace he
had brought upon himself. The case of
the Summerside Bank vs Thomas Crabb,
was commenced on Monday morning and-
continued until Tuesday evening, when’
the jury gave a verdict for Mi. Crabb.
The principal charge brought against the
Defendant was want of proper diligence or
‘care, but this was not proved. No per-
son ever hinted that Mr. Crabb had taken
the money, his character for honesty
and uprightness is too well known, as
was stated by the Plaintiff's Attornics-
On ‘Tuesday the several trials ayizinst W.
B. Dawson and others, were commenced.
An attempt was made to disqualify Judge
Peters from hearing these cases, on the
grounds that he was a shareholder in the
Bank of P. E. Island, and that that Bank
were among the Plaintiffs. The Judge,
in order to remove this obstacle, sold his
shares, and the cases are procecding.

b

ire.

The alarm of fire was given about two
o'clock yesterday. ‘Lhe Stable and work
shop of Mr, John Grady was tound to be
on fire. ‘The Fire Engine was on the
spot ina few minutes, but the fire had
got so far underway that it was found
impossible to put it out, but the firemen
prevented it from spreading to the ad-
joining dwellings ; the building in which
it originated, Lowever, was completely
destroyed. I’ortunately it was very calm,
and there was a large open field in the
rear. A large lot of treenails und finish
for a vessel's cabin, and a set of harness,
were burnt. ‘The origin of the fire is
not exactly known, but is supposed to be
the work of some boys who were playing
behind the stable. We feel very sorry
for Mr. Grady, for such a loss those hard
times will be severely felt.

Next Wednesday, the 15th instant,the
Wesleyan ‘Tea and Bazaar comes off in
Summerside. ‘I'he committee are making
every arrangement for to afford visitors
a pleasant time. Mr. Galbraith’s Brass
Band will be on the grounds to dispense
swect music, and several avle speakers
to address the assembly. Don't forget
to come,

The Grand Division of Sons of ‘Tem-
perance will hold their quarterly session
at Birch Hill Division, Lot 138, on Wed-
nosday the 29:h instant. A Tea Party,
in connection with it, will be held the
same day, on the adjoining grounds. As
itis expected that several of the Nova
Scotian brethren will be over, an inter-
esting time may be anticipated.

We publish to-day part of the great
English orator's lecture, deliverce in the
City on Morday evening last. We have
j taken it from the St. John * ‘True Humor-
jist,’ our reporter finding on comparing it
' while the lecturer was delivering it, that

jie was well reported.

We were shown the other day, at the
Furniture Rooms of Mr. Geo. Douglass,
the pen knife used by Queen Ann, hay-
ing one gold blade and one stee! one, and
an ivory handle laid with gold; also the
gold snuff spoon of Queen Hlizabeth, and
several pieces of gold, silver, and bronze
coin, some as old as 1500 years. They
were the property of the Rey, Mr. Parn-
ther, of Charlottetown,

Two Artillerymen were killed in Hali-
fav on the Ist July, while firing a salute
in honor of the Anniversary of the New
Dominion. While they were in the act
cf loading the second last gun to be fired
they were killed by the gun discharging
before they withdrew the rammer,—one
instantly, the other lingering but a few
minutes,

We had a most delicious and cooling
drink, the other day, from Large’s Soda
Fountain, head of Queen’s Street, Char-
lottetown. Its a beautiful piece of work,
and will send forth several kinds of flayor-
ed drinks in a minute. Step in gents
and test it. 24

‘The Rocklin Tlouse, S. Frazer Pre~
prietor, is gn excellent temperate house,
and we were glad to find that so many from
Prince County patronize it. ‘This is, in
pars, the result of advertising in the
Journal.

We learn that the Examination at the
Convent, in Charlottetown, on Monday
lust, and the Concert the same evening,
in St. Andrew's Hall, were very creditable
both to teachers and scholars.

Business in Charlottetown seems to be
Tretty brisk. A large number of new
buildings are being erected, and the me-
chanics are kept busy.

We passed through the City Market on
Tuesday last, and were much pleased to
see it so well filled with almost every-
thing the furmer has to sell, Strawber-
ries, vegetables, eggs, butter, cheese,
fowls, and several kinds of meat, Am-
ple accommodation is afforded to those
who take their articles there to sell; as
well as to those who purchase, When
will the inhabitants of Summerside and
the surrounding country wake up to the

|importance of having a Market House ?

The Christain Association will be held
ut the Drill shed, on Lord's Day next.
rhe following Vreache from the L
States, will preach ;—Klder Wm. Rowz
F, M. Green, of Obio,
B. B. ‘Lyler, of Minvis. "Lhe morning
Service will commence at 11 o'clock; al-
ternoon service at $4 o'clock, and the even-
ing service at 64,

a

the months of July

and August, to and
from any port at wh

ich she calls,

Also preaching overy night this week at
the mecting House, commencing at 8

j Melock,