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126 being made to the Assembly, anarchy and confusion, strife-and contention, will We mot ee ee a land. And it may be said li ch fi, that you Were ag 2 big flask of sweet oil cast up@h the ace strife. — ’ C¥oursttlyy) | | "IRONY. N. B. Ushould like to secure your sterling services for our Pulpit in this town, it would fit you better than the one in anticipation at St. Peter’s, ~ -

To tac Eptror or Tae Examiner, Mr. WHELAN ;

Sir,—In the last Gazette the Editor of that paper attempts—and indeed as far as he goes a very plausi- ble due—to exculpate the Lieutenant Governor from all thevevil consequences which are likely to-erise from having no Signal Telegraph in operation, by stating that the House of Assembly having refused to pass an Appropriation Bill, the Liewtenant Governor acted rightly in declining to sanction the expense. Granted. But, relying on the accuracy of your Correspondent, “ Tuckler,” that the Lientenant Governor has refused to allow the Telegraph to be “rigged” up at private ex- pense, | wouldask if the House Assembly passed any Bill to prohiiit the Lieutenant Governor from allowing the Flag Staff to be rigged at private expense; perhaps the Kditor of the Gazelle will be so obliging as to answer

the question for AN ENQUIRER. May 16, 1850.

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THE RRATINER. | which those treasures of his memory had been finally one. He sailed for Lrelattd—ptoceeded up thé Shan- non the vesse! ahehoted in. tite Pool, near Limerick ; and he Hired a small boat for the purpose ofianding.

|Thecity was now before hint; and he beheld'St Mary’s

steeple, lifting its”turretted head above the smoke and mist of the old town. He sat in the stern, and looked fondly towards it. [t was an evening so calm and beautiful»as to remind himoof hisown native skies in the sweetest time of the year—the death of the spring. pine, broad Stream appeared like one smooth mirror, and the little vessel glided through it with almost a noiseless expedition. On a sudden, amid the general stillness, the bells tolled from the Cathedral; the rowers résted en their oars, and the vessel went for- ward with the impulse it had yeeeived. ‘The old Ita- lian looked towards the city, crossed his arms on his breast, and jay back in his seat; home, happiness, early recollections, friends, family, were all ia the sound, and went with it to his heart. When the rowers looked round, they beheld him with his.face still turned towards the Cathedral, but his eyes were closed ; and when they landed they found him dead! The excitement of his feelings.had been too much for his already weakened and decayed frame.—om an old Scrap Book.

ELECTRO-BIOLOGY. [Observing that the newly-discoxered science. of

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{We extract the following beautiful verses from the Halifax Acadian Recorder. It will be perceived they have emanated from the pen of a correspondent who favoured us with some stanzas on the same subject, which we published on Saturday last. ft is not often the periodical press of the present day gives utterance to strains so swéet, and so worthy of the wilderness gem whose praises they sing.—Ep. Ex’r.]

TO, FAN C Y..

Come to the grove where the Spring Bird is singing,

And red Robin roundly, his matin is ringing,

W here rills ripple music to’streams loudly flowing.

By banks fresh and fair, where the May Flower’s blowing ; ©! there my love, there where flow’rets are born,

And nurs’d by the dew drop and kiss’d by the morn,

Comé sing with soit echo as fondly we stray,

And gather the tender-loved blossom of May,

Away, and away to Jake, mountain, and scaur,

‘T'o ravjne and dell, o'er the desert afar,

‘To the fir forests waving al] proudly on high,

‘Their evergreen cones in the glance of the sky ;

And there, my love, there by rock, ravine, and steep, Where Genii of nature their bright reve! kee),

W'Ji twine for thy bosom im modest bouquet,

‘lhe pride of the forest aud glory of May.

Remember, remember, the first time we stray’d,

O’er green hil}, and vallev, and copse, wood, and glade, Aud the shadowless hopes of ihat happy. hour,

When life was as fair.as the sweet little flow’r,

That grows in the wild by Jea and on mountain, Unbosoms its bloom by the gush of the fountain,

Is sovereign of flow’rs en the wilderness way,

‘The Queen ofthe year and the Flora of May.

Pale dew be}Is are smiling on green bush and tree ; Brigit sun-beamis are glancing on mountain and lea ; Glad bands ofthe forest rejoicing reply,

‘l'o the smile of the earth and laugh of the sky ;

The morning breathes sweet in the balsam tree shude, ‘The foam bubbies sparkle by fount and cascade, Wake! waken! soft sleeper, arise and away, ‘To the haunts of the beautiful wilding of May.

Yair! fair! is my Love, asa pearly cheek’d rosa, Her yoice is a zephyr when softly it blows,

Her blue eye is bright as the far azure glow,

As Alder trees tasse]s her fair tresses dow ;

She comes with her jox heaving bosom elate,

As the parted to home, as a bird to her mate, ‘There’s song on her lip breathing Jove now away, ‘I'o the home of the sweet little wilding of May. WERAND,

LIMERICK BELLS. Tne remarkably fine bells of Limerick Cathedral were originally breught from Italy; they had been manufac- tured by a young native (whose name traditioa has not preserved), and finished after the toil of many. years; and he prided himself npon-his work. They were sub- sequently purchased by the prior of a neighbouring con- vent; and with the profits of this sale, the young Italian procured a little villa, where ke had'the pleasure of hear- ing the tolling of his bells from the convent cliff, and growing old in the bosom of domestic happiness, ‘This, however, was not to continue. In some of these broils, whether civil or foreign, which are the undying worm of a fallen land, the Italian was a sufferer amongst the many. He lost his. all; and, after the passing of the storm, found himself preserved alone amid the wreck of fortune, friends, family, and home. The convent, in which the bells were hung, was razed to the earth, and these last carried away into another ijand. The owner, haunted by his memories, and de- verted by lis hopes, become a wanderer ever Europe. His hair grew grey, and his heart withered before he again found a home or a friend. In this desolation of epirit be formed the resolution of seeking the place to

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Electro-Biolegy is creating interest and excitement in the neighbouring Provinces, where numerous lectures

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selves. It is evident that the power in question, though it may, be sometimes, as im ca8e8 already referred to

employed for good, may also be Used for great evil, Is it not probable, from its present indiscriminate diffusion, that it may in some ifstances be used for the purposes of crime? Whether or not, must depend on the dispo- sition and purposes of individaal operators, These considerations may not be merely fanciful. With re ference to that powerfa] and sometimes erous agent, Chloroforas, it is reported, thet, Elance hag been employed fox the purpose of robbery. Persons in

the railway trains, & seems, have been subjected to its

agency, and thus their pockets have been rifled.

One thing seems certain, that the public should be put in possession of all the facts relative to electro-biclogy. Why concea) any of the processes by’ which its effects are produced ? Why require a promise sofsetrecy on making them known to individuals ? Concealment is at- tended with danger. The public should know ant, thet it may guard agamst any abuse of the power, and there can only be one reason aaa the secret a moment —that of cupidity, whieh sacrifices the safety of the pub- lic to ts selfish gratification. To this, of course, not the jeast consideration eught to be shown.

kk would appear that persons in feeble heaith, or of feeble cerebral organization, are most quickly and most. certainly subjected to the action of electro-biology, and that eonsequently a Jarge'and healthy brain, strong in- tellect and moral will, are unfavourable incidents to its: action; but this may admit of many and palpable ex-

— : les should be especially on their guard against electro-biology. Their organization is generally more

rent and not information appeared to be the object,— we have much pleasure in presenting to our readers the following lucid exposition of its prine:ples, for which we are indebted to the Montreal Pilot.—Ep’r. Ex’. }

The term is derived from the Greek. Electron means (strictly) amber ; but is now extended to electrical sub- stances in general ; add to this, bios, for life, and logos, for discourse, and you have in the term electro-biology, what relates to the operation of the electric fluid on the. operations of the liviag body. |

The effects of this so-called science eannet be dis- puted. The public exhibition of them in this city discloses a tremendous and dangefous power—a power, too, of such a kind as to be wholly inexplicable on any supposition of deception. No satisfactory attempt has been hitherto made to show the physica} cause of this power. The means by which it is made toact is known only to the initiated. Whatever it be, its effects ex- ceed, during the time of its action, those of the strong- est medicines, and of chloroform itself. It disturbs and changes the dynamic action of the brain and nerves, of the heart, the lungs, the stomach, and the voluntary and involuntary muscles. The pulse is rendered quick or slow, strong or weak, by its agency, and has been rais- ed, ina very short time, in healthy persons, to from 130 to 140 beats in a minute. [t has also been rendered imperceptible. There can be little doubt, that im sus- ceptible individuals, this power might be made to produce death. It can deprive a limb of all sensation. Hence, in surgical operations, it may sometimes be a great benefit in such as are obliged to undergo them. But it is a capricious and wncertain agent, sometimes affecting a person almost instantly, and in the strongest manner ; at other times producing a very feeble effect; and at others none at all, even after repeated trials.

To what has been already said of this power, it may be added, that an operator can exert, apparently, an un- limited contro] over the intellect and will of the person operated upon. He can conjure up all sorts of mental illusions, destroy the sense of identity, and make the

Persons ip this city have been rendered blind; at the same time, the pupil has been dilated as much as it would have been by “ belladonna ;”’ and thus the physi- cal and menial phenomena have been exhibited m their natural coincidence. A person has been made to take pieces of a newspaper for banknotes, and to sign a receipt for them, as in payment of a just demand!

A common impression can be made upon a aumber of persons at once. They can be made to see and be- ‘lieve alike, and to act in perfect concert, in dancing, ‘singing, swimmiag, and a multitude of other operations, | When once an individual bas been impressed, he re- mains in that state as Jong as the operator pleases, and the moment he is pronounced “all right,” the charm is wadone, and the person operated wpon returns instan- taneously to his natural state of perception and action. Where many act together, the most rdiculous delusions and most fantastic tricks are thus put an end to in a moment. A person ance impressed remains subject to the will of the operator for a length of time, at present unascertained. He can cause such person upom gain- ing his attention, to. approach him against his own desire, and to place himself at his side in the lecture room, and then can. subject him to any illusions. and movements. he pleases, Can any doubts remain, with these faets hefure us, that:an impressed person loses his moval will and kas. surrendered it, as well as his understanding, into. the power of the-operator. What security then remains, or what limit can be set, in. cer- tain cases, to the will of an unprincipled operator ?

The most important considerations here suggest them-

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in such eases, pecttitarly susceptible, and have been ex- cited, in this city, even in men, to madness, by eleetro- biology. Besides, the power which the operator appears invariably to obtain over the impressed subject, is a rea- son for the utmost caution.

The veal value of electro-biology, if it should: turn owt that its fuvure use is desirable, must be limited to its operation in the cure of diseases and the mitigation of pain; and at this moment it may be safely recom- mended that it should never be allowed te be used for purposes of mere amusement. It may become.a future qitestion whether its employment ‘ought not to be pro- hibited, except by the authorized praetitioner of medi-. cine. Persons belonging to that profession fee] a natu-

this way the amusing spectacles presented to the public are unfavourable to a sober enquiry into its merits.— Notwithstanding all these considerations, it 19, like mes~ merism, a subject for philosophical scrutiny and care- ful experiment ; the present modes. of using it, ho-vever, are not likely to end in anything like complete and satisfactory results.

It has been said that it is merely the power of one mind, or imagination, over another.—But this is no ex~ planatios, Whatever it be, it isa power affecting ‘the mnost important functions of vitality, and as such, de- serves the investigation of the medical profession. That profession should be able to determine hereafter its uses, its abuses, and its limits.

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Ixpra.—The Peshawur frontier of our new domin- ions continues greatly disturbee. The communication betwixt Peshawur and Kohat, before only occasionally interrupted, is now completely closed. Captain Coke, senior officer on the spot, hearing that a detachmeut left in the hills, were threatened, proceeded immediate- ly to reinforce it ; he succeeded in his object after some sharp fighting and the boss of tea men, but it seems. not unlikely that he may be compelled to retire. Another expedition into the hills was ia. contemplation. The last was proclaimed a defeat by the mountaineers, who looked on their triamph as the greater as the Com- mander-in-Chief was present with our force when foil- ed. No sooner had Captain Coke returned to Kohat,

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the number of 2000 men, under Dorosa Khan, and advanced towards the tower held by us. They ap- proached under regular breastworks, and succeeded m cutting off our supplies of water, On the 3rd, the garrison being rendered hopeless, was withdrawn by means of negotiation. The enemy having secured: their object, dispersed.

A “yentilating brick” has been invested in England, which is recommendedfor accomplishing the foliowing objects :—1. A thorough draft through the wal!s of the building, so as to. ensure perfect dryness of the walls,— 2, The-easy and economical diffusion of artificial beat in hot-houses and other. buildings of that description.-~ 3. A saving in the cost of the- brickwork itself, to the extent of upwards of 30 per cents

A committee is now engaged in collecting sulsertp- tions in New Orleans, with a.view of presenung Father Mathew with some substantial assistance, to enable him to continue his labours.

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A French Canadian, whose-name we have not learn- ed; returned last week to the neigliboerood of Lapra- irie, which he left for the West asout 14: pears aco

ral repugnance to cea) with an agent introduced and: exhibited as evectro-biology has been in this city. Im

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