HASZAltD’S GAZET

TE, SEPTEMBER 15.

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3003 in thy southern grave, Eva, Best 'neath the orange trees, Let a requiem be sung over thee

By eeeh softly sighirig breeze.

Sleep in that sunny land, Eva, Let naught disturb thy rest,

Let brightly budding roses Bloom o’er thy spotless breast.

From that low narrow chamber, Thou shalt no more aris

Bat thy happy spirit now, has found A home in yonder skies. '

No. from th dreamless slumber Thou shaft no more awake

Until heaven's awful summons 'I'he bonds of death shall break.

Why mourn for one like thee, Eva, Why weep that thou are ﬂown, Into that blissful climate, Where death no more is known?

Why wish thee back to earth, Eva, F rem that bright angel band, t thou are now united to In Canaan's happy land.’

Even when thou wast on earth, Eva, Thou worest on thy brow,

The seal of that dear Saviour Whose arm upholds thee now.

With love thy heart was ﬂowing To all ofhiiinan kind,

Thou fiiin would’st every fetter Oflhe oppress‘d unbind.

Sweet child! thou now art joining In that all-glorious song,

Bung to the harps ofseraphs And by the ransom'd throng.

Nor pain nor grief annoys thee, Thou‘rt ee from every fear, Where every eye is beaming Undini’d by sorrow's tear. 29th August, 1855,

MISCELLANEOUS.

INSURMOUNTABLE.-—I once dissuaded at youth from entering the army, on which he was bent, at the risk of breaking his mo- ther’s heart, by asking him how he would prevent his sword from getting between his legs. It quite staggered him; he never solved the difficulty; and took to peace in- stead of war.—Rev. Sydney Smilh.

Mas. PARTINGTON has bought a horse so spirituous, that he always goes off in a. de- canter.

Qunsriox roa CoL'Nsi:L.—VVliether a man suffering under extreme weakness could be cured by power of attorney?

Reciri: ron Onraiivinc Goon Ssnvaxrs. —-Let them observe in your conduct to others just the qualities and virtues that you desire they should possess and practise as respects you. Be uniformly kind and gen- tle. Ifyou reprove, do so with reason and with temper. Be respectful, and you will be respected by them. Be kind and you will meet with kindness in them. Consider their interest, and they will consider yours. A friend in a servant is no contemptible thing. Be to every servant a friend; and heartless, indeed, will be the servant, who

oes not warm in love to you.

A HINT on Housi;noi.o Miiuoi::sii:Nr.— Have you ever observed what a dislike servants have to anything cheap? They hate saving their master's money. I tried this experiment with great success the other day. Finding we consumed ii. vast deal of soup, I sat down in my thinking clinir, and took the soap question into consideration, and I found reason to suspect, we were using a. very expensive article, where a much chea or one would serve the purpose better. I or ered half-a-dozen pounds of both sorts, but took the precaution of changing the pa- pers on which the prices were marked be- fore givingcﬁheni into the hands of Betty. “ Well, ty, which soap do you ﬁnd washes best?”—“ Oh, please, air, the dear- est, in the blue paper; it makes the lather as well again as the other. ”—-“Well, Bet- 3, you shall always have it, them” and us the unsuspecting Betty saved me some pounds a ear, and washed the clothes bet-

$er.—Sy neg iSsi'

A blow from a frying-pan, though it may not hurt, sul ice. A caluuiny, though known to be such, too often leaves a stain on the reputation.

EXECUTION OF REBELS AT CANTON. (Ham the Friend of Cliimz, March 14.)

In our remarks on the retirement of the rebels from Suchow, it is stated, that the thousands of men brought to Canton as prisoners are now being decapitated at the rate ofa hundcd and fifty a-day. That was the number, we were told, executed on Saturday last, a spectacle to which we were witness. The Canton execution ground has before been described in this journal, and for all our renders it is not necessary to repeat, that it is situated about 100 yards from the river, at a distance of two miles or so below the factories. The ground is oblong, about 150 feet in length, the entrance on the side nearest the river being about six feet. This is closed with bars during practical operations. At the grand entrance the ground is about 20 feet wide. On the right hand, doorways open to several oven and tile innnufactorics.

As we approached the execution ground many were met with hands to their nostrils, or with their tails tied round their faces, for the purpose of avoiding the horrid stench, , which could literally be “felt” at a con-, siderable distance. The ground was co-I vered with partially dried gore, the result of the ast day’s work. There are no’ drains to take the blood away, nor is any sub- ' stance used to slnke it. One man was found‘ digging holes for two crosses, on which, he v said, four were to be tied and cut in pieces. The execution had been fixed for noon.; At half-past eleveiilialf-a-dozen men arri-3 ved with the knives, preceded by bearers of rough deal-wood boxes, decorated with bloody sides. These were the coffinsf Unconccrn was the general appearance of the soldiers and spectators, of whom, alto- gether, there may have been one hundred and fifty. The day was dull, afresh breeze from the Cit.~‘l\VllI‘d carryiiig the stench away fi'om‘fo:-<-igncrs, who, to the number ofa dozen, li':d obtained adinittaiicc to the top ofone ot'i:ir houses on the far side of the street passing the entrance of this “ field of blood.” At a quarter to twelve the first batch of ten prisoners arrived, speedily followed by the rest in similar quantities. Each prisoner (having his hands tied behind his back, and Iubel|e;l on the tail) appeared to have been thrust down in a wicker basket, over which his chained legs dangled loosely, the body riding un- comfortably, and marked with it long paper

between the prisoner’s jacket and his back. These “man-baskets,” slung with small cords, were carried on hamboos on the shoulders oftwo men. As the prisoners arrived, each was made to kneel with his face to the south. In a space of about ‘.20 feet by IQ, we counted 9. sniaiiy as 70, ranged in half-ii-dozen rows. At five mi- nutes to twelve a wliite-button mandarin arrived, and the two to be first cut in pieces were tied to the crosses. \VIiilst looking at this frightening process the execution commenced, and 20 or 30 must have been headless, before we were aware of it. The only sound to be heard was a horrid cheep —cheep—cheep, as the knives fell. One blow was sufficient for each, the head tumbling between the legs of the victim before it. As the sword falls, the blood- gushing trunk springs forward, falls on the breast, and is still for ever.

In four minutes the decapitation was complete; and then on the other victims

the tail to a limb ofthe cross, was severed from the body, which was then dismember- ed of hands and arms, feet and legs, sepa- rately. Afier this the mandarins left the ground, to return, however, witha man and woman; the latter, it was said, the wife ofoiio ofthe rebel cliiefs—the man ll leader of some rank. The woman was cut up in the way we have described: for the man a more horrible punishment was de- creed. He was ﬂayed alive. We did not see this, but it was witnesed by the ser- jcant ofthe marines ofthe U. S. S. J. . Kennedy-—the cry at the first insertion of the knife across the forehead, and the pulling ofthe ﬂesh over the eyes, being most horrible.

THE INTERIOR OI" SEBASTOPOL. The following letter, from the interior of Sebastopol, appears in the Vienna papers :—

SEBASTOPOL. Aug, 5.—“ As lwrite, a heavy torrent of rain is sweeping past in door, for you are aware my mud-habitatioii has no windows; the reverberating thunder keeps me on the qui tire; I keep on fancy- ing that messieurs les besiegers have some- thing in the wind, but it is only the illusion of fancy; the wrath of God evidently dis- pleascs them, for not a shot is to be heard! To-day they have, relatively speaking, sent but a few bombs into the town; this comparative stillness seems strange to us all, for the car had got used to the eternal booming of a thousand guns, and no one feels at ease during this repose, monienta- rily interrupted by the thunder and the rain. Spies and dcserters bring us word that the enemy is preparing ii boiiibardiiient, and that the French “Suvarofi"’ means af- ter that to hazard it fresh storming attack. “'0 have been long expecting this, and are ready at an lioiir‘s notice to meet the enemy with the sign of our holy cross. I saw the other day two French prisoners in Cathe- rine Ilarbour, and they were being convey- cd to the north side. One of them was a iioii-coininissioncd officer, the other ii pri- vate, but both of them were gay young fol- lows. This never-failing clieerfulness ofthe

i-ciich is it reiiiarkaililc feature in their character, and it looks, as iftliey liked be- ing prisoncr.-I. On the non-commissioned ofiiccr being asked whether he should not

eaaaiiai. niranuoaiion

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

IXPORTATION or IRON rnoiiinrren. The Gazette contains an order in Council prohibiting the exportation of the following articles, viz.:—Rivct iron, single iron, rivets, strips iron, vLowmoor and Bowling plates, sheet plate iron, exceeding a qua;-. ter of an inch. and round bars of from Q tog of an inch in diameter, to any place in Europe, north of Dunkirk, and permitting the export of these articles to any other part of the world upon taking from the persons exporting the same a bond that they shall he landed and entered at the port of desti- nation.

Upwards of 4,000 tons of projectiles have been‘ shipped from the royal arsenal at Woolwich within the last six days.

No fewer than 75,000 persons visited on Friday thetipartinents of the Hotel de Ville, at Paris, and on Saturday the municipal palace was again thronged with persons who wished to see the decorations used at the fete given to Queen Victoria.

The Birmingham statue of the late Sir Robert Pecl was formally inaugurated on Monday last, in the presence of at least l5,000 persons. The statue, which is by Mr. Hollins, and cast by Messrs. Elking- ton and Mason-the first colossal work of the kind ever produced in one piece in Birminglizim—is in bronze, and stands eight feet and a lialfhigli. It weighs upwards of (I. ton.

WANT or itussiax orrici-:Rs.

The Hamburg Neirs has published the following letter from St. Petersburg, dated the ltith inst.:—-“ The want of oﬂicers is begiuiiiiig to be so much felt in the army that the Government is obliged to resort to all sorts of methods to fill up the existing vacancies. Last year the scholars of the military schools were allowed to enter the army upon leaving the school, and later still greater advantages were given them. The students of the colleges of Peters- burg and Moscow, who have obtained the degree of ciiiidiilates, and who have gone through it prescribed course of military study, can he immediately gazetted to in- funtry or ciivnlry regiments as officers. The students of the academics can enter

feel homesick in Russia, he answered, ‘Why should I? In Russia I shall learn

carry back this languarre to my country- ) O V - - men. On the other hand the Lnglisli pri-. f ' III C l ' .s.?.'.'i°'.i..§’..'.'f;,ii’..'i.;.° "X3 £§;i}.ii°3{.§.iif! was asked what induced him to desert, and: he inoodily aiiswoied, ‘ Fancy! ’ Another‘ ansivcit-d the same question, ‘I got dull,: and If I had not done so, slionld have blown‘ iiiv brains out! ‘ A copv ofa London news- paper was handed in the hospital to an En- glisliiiian, not severely wounded by-tlic-by, and after he had read it with deep attention, he turned suddenly round to the physician that happened to be standing near, and said in a low voice to him, ‘Can’t you give me some medicine that will finish me out of lizind? ’ The enemy's fleet continues in Kamiescli and Arrow Bays; only a few li- ners and steamers are off the roads at 1! distance cqpal to twice the range of ‘our fort guns. The ships are often exercised at firintr. Perhaps the enemy is again pre- puriiighfor some heroic feat, which it will not be so easy to accomplish against Sebas-

commenced the barbarity which to think of only is sufficiently barbaric. VVitli a short. sharp knife, a slice was cut out from under. each arm. A low suppressed fearful groan‘ from each followed the operation of the weapon. Dexterous as butchers, a slice was taken successively by the operators from the calves, the thighs, and then from each breast. We may suppose, we may hope, that by this time the sufferers were insensible to pain; but they were not dead. The knife was then stuck into the abdomen, which was ripped u to the breast bone, and the blade twistc round and round as

the heart was separated from its holding.l Up to this moment, having once set eyes on the victim under torture, they had become ﬁxed as by fascination; but they could be riveted no longer.

A whirling sensation :

Mrs.Partington says,that she always likes

topol. girt with artillery. Since the second bombardment, there is not it spot in this town that is not strewed with bombs and bull. It would be hard to find in the whole town a single house that has not suffered more or less. The glorious public library —I allude to the edifice—has likewise been extensively damaged, but the books, prints, maps, and book-shelves are removed to a safe place. The news-room however, is crowded as usual, especially on a post-day, with officers of all arms, who, bein reliev- ed for a few hours from bastion uty 0 there to read the newspapers lying on the table. It often happens that while the are reading some very interesting artic e, a bomb will explode with its horrid crack right over the building, or a rocket will hiss

ran through the brain, and it was withfpast the open windows. Not a soul, how-.the governor, the

the army as non-commissioned ofiiccrs; nobles can be passed as officers at the end

tally, pasted on it slip of bamboo tlirustlRussi:in, and when the war is over, shall uf six momh,, and oghe,-5 after any time,

according to their capacity. The period of service in the reserve is also much short- cned. Besides this, the students of physics and inatlieinatics from the universities of Moscow and St. Petershiirg can be admit- ted into the artillery as officers, on passing an examination to that effect. ” RUSSIA ASSUMING rm: oi-‘riznsivi-:.

A letter from a pro-Russian source says, it is the intention of the Czar to concen- ti-ute two grand armies for Asia and the l)anubc, which will open two distinct cam- paigns. The military service ofthe empire will be entrusted tothe militia. Rccruitin is now taking place in several quarters. t is said the Russian Government has suc- ceeded in obtaining moncy both from Eu- rope and America. 'l‘lio Asiatic and Da- nubian armies are intended to act on the offensive. If the forces in the Crimea suf- for any great reverses, we expect they will be withdrawn for the operations already intimated.

INTERIOR or Saius'roroi..—A communi- cation from Marseilles, published in the Semaphore contains a letter from a Russian merchant still resident in Sebastopol. The following is an cxtract:——“I was obliged to emigrate and abandon my quarters for it subterraneous habitation, or rather cellar, whither I was driven, whether or no, by the shot and shell of‘ the enemy. Very man of the houses that survived the hem- bs merit of the last nine months are now in ruins. The cellar in which I now am is dug out of the rock, has no window, and but one means of egress or ingress. The warehouses and shops are removed into Fort Nicholas. The goods are placed in a Ion corridor on the ground ﬂoor, which is vau ted over. The public oﬂices—those of

port, the inagistracy, the ever, turns his head to look after it. so'police, the customs, &c., are all in the much for habit, which in man becomes a'ssine fort. In short, the whole town has second nature!" ; moved into Fort Nicholas."

‘-30 lflﬂl It I "link "00. ltecllllﬂ then Ihﬁ vdiﬂiculty we could keep ourselves from Ibels so ence about the safety of‘ her lug- falling. But this was not all; the lashings _‘age. were then cut, and the head, being tied by