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British & floreian Gpracerins |

Po RYRY. :

HAUNTED,

BY ELIZA P. MORIARTY.

Oh ever through the long, long day
I's image flits before my sight,
In crowded streets or lonely rooms
I seem to see my lost delight.

The image of my lost, lost love
Is ever with m@tay and night;

Where’er I go, where’er I turn,
8 ;
I see again my lost delight.

Lever sce his dark, durk eyes,
They shine on me like twin stars bright
From out the depths of memory’s skies,
While I deplore my lost delight.

Though other eyes oft smile on me,
And chase away the shades of night,
Yet in the soul sad tears arise
For my beloved, my lost delight.

atliscellanecous,

EARLY LIFE OF LIVINGSTONE.

The earliest recollection of my mother
rveealls a picture so often seen among the
Svottish poor—that of the anxious house-
wile trying to make both ends meet. At
the age of ten L was put into the factory
as a‘ piercer,” to aid by my earnings in
lessening her anxiety, With @ pari ofmy
first week's earnings I purchased Ruddi-
mai’s ** Rudiments ¢{ Latin,” and pursued
the study of thai language for many years
afterward, with uuabsted labor, at an
evening school, which met between the
hours of eight and ten, ‘The dictionary
part of my labors was followed up till 12
o'clock or later, it my mother did) not in-
terfere by jumping up and snatching the
books out of my hands, 1 had to be back
in the factory by 6 o’elock in the moraing,
and continue my work, with intervals tor
breaktast and dinner,, till 8 o'clock at
night. 1 readin this way many of the
chissien) authors, and knew Virgil and
Horace better at 16 thai t do new. Gur
schoolmaster — happily still alive — was
sipported in part by the company; he
was attentive and Kind, and so moderate
in his charges that all wished for educa-
tion might have obtained it,

My ieading while at work was curried
on by placing a book on a portion of the
spinniug-jenny, so that L could catch sen-
tence alter sentence as L passed at my
work; [thus kept up a pretty constant
study undisturbed by the roar of the ma-

qt ioge—education |
sampietely ab-
aM enrvanndinar nate
and write vith pertect
comfort amid the play of children or near
the dancing and songs of savages. ‘The
toil of cotton spinning, to which [ was
sromoted in my 1th year, was excessive-
y severe on a slim, loose -jointed lad, but
it was well paid tor; and it enabled ine to
support myself while attending medical
aud Greck classes in Glasgow ia winter,
as also the divinity lectures of Dr. Ward-
law, by working with my hands in’ sun-
mer,

I never received a farthing of aid from
any one, and should: have accomplished
my project of going to China, as amedical
ini sionary, in the course of time, had net
some friends advised my joining the Lon-
ionary Society on account of its
pertectly unsectari It sends
neither Episcopacy, nor Presbyteriauisin,
nor Independeuey, but the Gospel of Christ
to the heathen, ‘This exactly agreed with
my ideas in regard to what a missionary
soviety ought to do; but it was not with-
out a pang that [offered mysell, for it was
not quite agreeable to one accustomed to
work his own way to become in a way
dependent on other; and L would not have
been much put about thoagh my oifer had
been rejected,

Looking back now on that life of toil, T
cannot but feel thaaktal that it formed
such a material part of my early educa.
tion; and, were it possibly, L should like
to begin life over again in that same lowly
style, and to pass through the same hardy
training.

GIVING JOY TO A CHILD,

Blesse 1 be the hand that prepares a
pleasure for a child, tor there is no saying
when and where it may again bloom forth,
Does not almost everybody remember some
kind-hearted man who showed him a kind-
ness in the dulcet days of his childhood?
Lhe writer of this recolleets himselfat this
moment, as a baretooted lad, standing at
the wooden fence of a poor litte garden
in his native village, while with longing
eyes he gazed on the Jowers which were
bloongng there quictly in the brightness
of a Sunday morning. ‘The possessor
came forth trom his litte cottage; he was
a wood-cutter by trade, and spent the
whole week at work in the woods. He
had come into the garden to gather towers
to stick into his coat when he went to
church, He saw the boy—and breaking
off the most beautiful of his carnations—
it was streaked with red and white—he
gave itto him. Neither the giver nor the
receiver spoke a word, and with bounding
steps the boy ran home, And now here,
at a vast distance trom that home, after 0
many events of so many years, the feeling
of gratitude which agitated the breast ot
that boy expresses itself on paper, The
cartation bas long since withered, but now
it blooms afresh,— Douglas Jerrold.

PROGRESS.

A hundred years ago, when some of the
North American Colonies of Great Britain
were asking not to be taxedgwithout rep-
resentation, and gradually Wigan to hint
separation, a roar of contempt and anger
arose in Parliament, and even Edmund
Burke, our chief triend, eaid that he did
not deny the authority to tax, but held
that it Was inexpedient to exereise it,
‘Then came the war first to subside the re-
bellion, and alterward to prevent the sep-
arvation—a war which shook Great Britaln
to the t, which was the sonree of in-
numerable disasters, and which planted
the seeds of an almost inextinguishable
jealousy between America and land.
But wow, when the Canadian Colonies

EST peg to change their condition, John

Sright spenks tor the common-sense of his

country in saying: ** For his part he wish-
ed the population of the province to do
what they felt to be the best tor their own
interest; he would allow them to remain
connected with this country if they liked,
to become an independent society if they
desired it, and to start upon that career
of glory and grcatness which their advan-
tagres and virtues might insure them; or if
they liked better to annex themselves. to
the United States he should not complain
of that.”

Had this been the sentiment of Great
Britain a century ago we should have been
most faithful mutual friends and allies in-
stead of distrusttul and wary rivals. Bat
the new England which Johu Bright and
his friends represent should and will pro-
duce in this respect a new America.—
Harpers Weekly.

DOMESTIC LIFE IN JAPAN.

“Nothing produced a more agreeable
impression upon me,” says Dr. IL. Maron
in his work upon Japan and China, ** than
the amicable relations prevailing in the
family circle. In the smallest hut, as in
the more opulent houses, a sincere interest
and affection is manifested by the inmates
toward each other, which, while it  w
entirely free from mawkish sensibility, i
accompanied with a politeness and equality
of manner that iy more civilized countries

tele resaii only ot the highust cultiva-

© The social position of woman is primi-
tive and natural, She is not a slave as
among most Asiatic nations; neither is she
the spoiled, pampered goddess whom we
worship with such exaggerated devotion ;
she is the fiiend and adviser of her hus-
band, from whom slice invariably receives
attention and respect, the shaver in his
pursuits, and, while she is always protect.
ed trom rudeness by the sacredness of cus-
tom, should she ever be attacked with in-
sult from without, she is sure ot being
promptly and chivatrously defended. But
her domain is limited to the superinten-
dence of the houschold and the education
ot her children, ‘The sterner calls ot busi-
ness and authority are answered by the
manalone. The Japanese treats Lis wile
tie useful being, equal with himself, who
is created for the happiness and embellish-
mont ot his existence; and the law as well
as custom has decided that the relations
between them can never be reversed.
There ave therefore neither Nantippes nor
goddesses in’ Japan; neither romantic
shames who pine for love, nor strong-mind-
ed women; the young are careless and
merry, the matrons sensible and industri-
ous, ‘The Japanese inaiden is perfect y
vware of the fate that awaits her as regards
imarviage, and is indifferent as to the choice
Ue PORES AES dou AN adi oH ot
latter, for in Japan allare alike; and in
each are seen the same mats, paper door,
portable hearth, food and clothing ; in cach
prevail the same duties and ri ler
heart no doubt speaks its pret und
teels as deeply us that of her popean
sister, but she docs not weakly sink into
the despair of nameless griet if her wishes
be frustrated, TLer educntion has a solid
and unchangeable foundation which per-
mits no deviation from: its rules, and pre-
pares her methodically for hev real yooa-
tion—to be loved. ‘The end and object of

al the bestowed upon her is, the hus-
band, Our young lulies are too proud to

educate themselves merely for domestic
lite, too weak to render themselves com-
petent to live alone, and thus they float
through lite without suilicient ballast to
keep them steady. ‘They learn too little
for independence, too much for real loyeli-
ness,

‘The relations between parents and
children, and the rational manner in which
the latter are brought up, are not the least
admirable features of dapanese domestic
tile. ‘The rules which govern the system
of education: are directly opposed to the
laws governing the state, which impose
the penalty of death for every infraction
of blind and stupid obedience. The child,
on the contrary, is treated with the most
inexhaustible patience; and if persua ion
aud kind reasoning must give plice to
punishment, the mildest one that scan be
thought of is ever that resorted to, [have
yer Witnessed the correction of a child,
iscovered any instrument which could
bly be used for such a purpose, nor
can L remember ever to have heard a little
ice either sobbing or crying, yet [can
t with trath that in no part of the
world have [met with such thorough well-
behaved, amiable children as those in
Japan.”

House of Assembly,

Monpay, April, 29.

Hon. Attorney General presented a peti-
tion from one George C, Stiles, of Salisbury,
Westmorland Countyy New Brunswick,
Master Builder, setting forth that he was
the inventor, or discoverer, of a new and
useful Improvement in the construction of
Spinning Wheels, and praying for the pas-
sing of an Act authorising him to obtain a
Patent trom the Governinent of this Colony,
lor the exclusive making, using, and vend-
ing of his said invention,

Ordered, that sail petition be referred to
Committee to report thereon,

Mr. Bell presented a petition from the
Shareholders of the Alberton Masonic Hall

| Company, praying tor an Act of Incorpora-

tion,
Ordered that the same be referred to
pinittee to report thereon,
r. Bell, Chairman of said Committee,
pencil a Bill to incorporate the said
Masonic Hall Company, which Bill_was
recived, read, and reterred to special Com-
mittee on Private Bills to report thereon,
Hon, Attorney General presented to the
House various petitions whieh had been
laid before his bxcelleney, in Couneil, and
reterred to that House, praying for the
establishment of new Post Offices, and
other matters relative to the Mail service.
Ordered that said petitions and docu-
ments be referred to special Committee
appointed to report thereon.
Said Committee are hons, Atty, General,
Kelly, Messrs, Howatt and Kickham.
Resolved, That no new matter on which
a Billean be founded, bo introduced to

this House after Monday, the 6th May
next.

Ilon, Attorney General presented to the
IIouse various petitions, praying tor aid
to paupers, and several miscellaneous
pel allof which were ordered to be
aid on the table.

louse in Committee on the further con-
sideration of expiring laws, reported sever-
al Resolutions trom Committee, which
were agreed to by the House.

‘The Resolution to continue the Act 15th
View, chap. 33, authorising Harbor Masters
to superintend the laying down, erection
and maintenance of Buoys and Beacons,
called forth remarks from hon, Mr. How-
lan, hor, Attorney General and Mr, Bell,

llon. Mr. Howlan observed that when a
new Government came into vena many
difficulties presented themselves; und, in
regard to the subject of the resolution, he
said that he had just reeeived information
to the effect, that the laying of buoys, &e.,
at Malpeque had been sold tor the large
sum of £68, and at Cascumpee the same
service was sold for £13, showing a vast
difference in the cost of perlorming ser-
vices of a like character, He thoucit the
law should be more clearly defined on that
point,

Hon. Attorney General said the Act was
sufeiciuy clear and well: guarded; and,
having explained its provisions, said) that
if Ilarbor Masters acted in’ conformity
therewith, no advantiges could be taken
detrimental to the public service,

Mr. Bell said he thought it would be
better to place a sum sufficient in the hands
of proper persons who would see the work
properly performed. ‘The placing of
buoys, especially on Bar Harbors, required
ereat care and skill, and should, therefore,
be trusted in’ the care only of men upon
whom the Government could depend for
the faithful performance of the work.

Hon, Attorney General laid on the table
the Sheriffs Return to the writ of Election,
issued forthe Third District of Queen's
County,

Ion. Mr. Coles, Colonial Secrets
has been ye-elected a member for s:
District, appeared atthe Bar of the House,
was introduced, and took the usual oaths
and his seat, House adjourned,

APTARNOON SESSION,

Hon, Mr, Ygvies, Chairman of the Com-
mittee on the’ petition of John Compton,
nnd others, rehutive to the advisability of
altering the Act restricting the running at
large of Rams, reported that, after a eare-
tal consideration of the question, a majority
ol the said Committee had come to the
conclusion that it was inexpedicnt to altar
or amend the law relative to that subject.
Ife (hon. Mr, Davies), at the same time.
expressed his own views, differing from
rity of said Committee, believing,
as he did, that the allegations of the pe-

titioners were well founded: Re chatiniay,
topresent the report of the Commiites,

Ifon. Col. Secretary presented various
petitions praying for the opening of new
lines of rows; which petitions had been
laid before [is Excellency the Lieutenant
Governor, and referred to the House.
Ordered that a Commiitee be appointed,
to whom shall be referred all such’ peti-
tions.

Hlon, Mr. are Mr. G. Sinclair and
Mr. Owen, were then appointed sail Com-
mittee,

Ifon, Col. Seeretary presented to the
House the Report of L. Stewart, Esq,
Indian Commissioner, together with his
detailed account of expenditure, in con-
nection with his ofice, tor the past year.
Ordered to be laid on the tayle.

Ifon. Col. Sceretary presented a petition
from John Seott, and others, setting forth
their invention of a Horse-power Machine
for raising Mussel Mud from beds of Rivers,
and praying the TLouse for such encourage-
ment, either by patent or premium, as
might be deemed expedient.

As the law authorises the Government
to grant patents for such inventions as
may be considered of sulicient importance
and value, it was ordered that said peti-
tion be withdrawn,

FIELD INSPRCTOR'S ADDRESS TO THE BOARD
OF BDUCATION ON TING SUBJECT OF
MILITARY TRAINING IN SCHO®@LS,

Hon. Attorney General said it would be
wellto hear the views of hon, members on
the subject fluded to in the address,

Dr. Jenkins—The necessity of physical
as well as Menu training, could net be
overestimated. The usual school hours

re much lon for exclusively mental
s, than was necessary. It would
be well, therefore, to have yortion of
that time allotted to military training

Hlon. Mr, Coles thought that military
training might be imparted, in connection
with the District Schools, without much
additional expense, as the services of Drill
Serjeants, when not engaged in drijling
Militia Companies, might be secured on
reasonable terms, The restlt of such
training would be beneficial in after lite.

Mr, MeNeill said he would go a little
further, and making military training a
qualification on the part of ‘Teachers, es-
pecially as their salaries was about to. be
increased, Ile spoke of the aptnass of
boys to learn military matters, and in-
stanced the visit of a Drill: Instructor to a
School in his District where the boys were
put through military exercises, which
were performed with great credit, That
officer informed him that be could teach
boys more ip one day than men would
learn in a week.

Ifon. Mr. Henderson, from his own ex-
perience and knowledge of the militar
and edueational institutions of Seotland,
sail the principles shadowed forth by the
address of Col, Smith were similar to those
adopted in said institutions, where military
training, was not confined to boys alone.
Young ladics were also instructed in those
gymnastic exercises peculiar to proper
training. le then commented on the
beneficial effects on health resulting from
those physical exercises, and strongly ree-
commended their adoption inthe educa-
tional seminaries of the Colony,

Hr, llowatt said that the School hours
were sufficiently short for learning the or-
dinary branches of education, and could
not see how the time could be oceupied
by military training. In Charlottetown
they might favor such instructions if they
thought groper, but, in his opinion, it was
not required in the country.

Ifon. Mr. Laird—We are now said to be
living in an enlightened age, and it ap-
peared to him like a retrograde movement

to infuse a military or warlike spirit: into
the youth of the Colony, which wigs became
anation of warriors, It were better to
train them in those branches of trade and
industry that would be of more profit in
afterlife. He instanced Prussia as a coun-
try every child in which reeeived a mili-
tary training, and as a consequence, they
became a nation of warriors, and referred
to their recent victories as such, but con-
sidered it questionable if the warlike spirit
inculeated would tend to. their general
prosperity. Ile believed it better to. in-
enleate peaceful habits in boys than a love
for military life and fame, which could be
productive of no good,

Mr. Brecken—If the time had arrived
when men would turn their swords into
plonughshares, &¢., he would agree with
the hon, member (Mr. Laird,) but it ap-
peared that, inthe present day, military
defences engaged the attention of states-
men of every country. He was of opinion
that physical training was overlooked. It
was essential to the health of the hard
student to enjoy, at times, the recreative
exercises peculiar to military evolutions,
and would, therefore, support the adoption
to a limited extent of military training at
schools,

Hon. Mr. Davies would, to some extent,
support the views of the Ifon, Mr. Laird,
on the subject of military training at
schools, If teachers were competent to
impart such instructions, he would not
oppose the setting apart a small eel of
school hours for that purpose, He woul
not favor the employment of military offi-
cers, for the services of whom that house
would be called upon to. make provision.
IIon. Mr, Haviland said it were better
that people should direct their attention to
agriculture, science, art and commercial
pursuits rather than to and the sword;
but as long as the present dispensation
lasted, war, with allits concomitants woul l
have to be endured, It was, therefore,
better always to be found in a state of pre-
paration. Youth was the proper time to
acqur: a knowledge of military evolu-
tions as well as other branches of learning.
It was now the policy of all civilized coun-
tries to combine gymnastic and military
exercises with other branches ot larning.
The expansion and strengthening of phy-
sical development was essential to health
ot body and reind, and by the adoption ¢F
that system of training, mental progress
would be by no meags retarded, [Te said,
in reply to the hon, MY, Laird, that Rca AN
Pro was a nation of soldiers, her people
were also lovers of literature, Some of
the ablest scholars in sacred and prof no
history were Citizens. of that kingdom.
They also were skilled in the mechanical
arts and in agriculture, and their military
training did no harm to. civilization a3
evineed by their recent celebrated military
triumphs. Ile also alluded to Canada aa
taught in colleges and schools, and Silil
thas, among those who shed their blood in
defence of their country during the Fenian
invasions of lust summer, were students
from the University of Toronto.
‘The address of Col. Smith, Field In-
spector of Militia under consideration, was
then ordered to be laid on the table.
A Message from the hon, the Legislative
Council, announced that the Council had
passed the Revenue Bill without any
amendment; alter which, a Message from
His Excelleney commanding the atten-
dance of the ILovse at the Bar of the Coun-
eil Chamber, and having retarned, his
honor the Speaker reported to the House
that ILis Excellency was pleased to give
his it to the Revenue Bill, and also to
rclating to limits and rales of Jails
on this sland,
Hlouse in Committee of Supply, reported
several Resolutions agreed to,
On motion of the Ilon, Colonial Seere-
tary, it was ordered that the several papers
now on the table, which had been betore
His Excellency, in Council, aud reterved
to the Ilouse, be now read.
The prayer of the petition from divers
inhabitants of Lot 1Land 12 was supported
by Mr. Ramsay, who explained that tho
opening of the road prayed for, leading
from D, Milligan’s to the shore of J. Carr,
would be of great benefit, not only to the
petitioners, but to the public generally,
The suid several petitions and doeunents
were then ordered to be referred to Com-
mittee; alter which the [Louse adjourned.
Turspay, April 30,
Hon. Col, Secretary laid on the table tha
Sheriffs Return to the Writ of Election,
issued tor the return of two members tor
the Second District of King’s County, in
room of Ilon. Wb. Whelan, Queen's Printer,
and W. E. Clarke, Fs}, Col'ector of Ex-
cise, Whose acceptance of office vacated
their seats.
Edward Rielly and Anthony MeCormack,
Esquires, elected mombers ot suid District,
appeared at the Bar, and having been in-
troduced took the usual oaths and thei¢
seats,

Mr. Bell, from Committee of Supply,
reported several Resolutions auruud 10;
upon which the question of concurrence
was severally put and agreed to,

The Bill to incorporate the Masonie
ITall Company of Alberton, was read a
second time and committed to a Cominittee
of the whole House. Mr. PB. Sinclair in
the chair,

The Bill wasthen read by the Chairman,
in Commiitee, clause by clanse, and re
ported agreed to without any amendment,
and ordered to be engrossed,

Mr. Owen presented a petition from
divers inhabitants of Cardigan, against the
opening of a new road through certain
lands North of Cardigan River.

Referred to Committee on new Roads,

Dr. Jenkins presented petitions trom
certain Fire Engine Companies in Char-
lottetown, praying exemption from Militia
duty.

In presenting those petitions. the hon.
member (Dr, Jenkins), in explaining the
prayer of the petition, remarked that ia
other countries Fire Compfnies were ex-
empt, not only from Mili duty bit also
from the payment of tixes, and trom sery+
ing as Jurors, [t was, therefore, but fair
to place petitioners on a similar footing
with their fellow Colonists of New Brung.
wick, Nova Scotia and other places. It
must be plain to all that it would be im-
possible tor the members of Fire Engine
Companies to attend Drill, as by law
specified, and alluded to in the petitions,
and at the same time attend properly to
their Engine Rooms, and be ready p* %
moment's notice in case 8f an of

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