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Seiad Nabiiiiniee aia “AT? THE LAST.” ‘Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening.” The strean j “al ms >r) it “ar } i tream is calmest when it nears the tide,

And flowers are sweetest at the eventide,

And birds most musical, at elcs*: of day, And saints divinest when they pass away. | Morning is lovely, but a holler charm | Lies folded close in evening’s robe of balm; | | And weary man must ever love her best, For morning calls to toil, but night to rest. | She comes from heaven and on her wings doth bear

A holy fragrance, like the breath of prayer;

Footsteps of angels follow in her trace,

To shut the weary eyes of day in peace. All things are hashed before her, as she throws } O’er earth and sky her mantle of repose ;

There isa calm, a beauty, and a power | That morning knows not,

hour.

in the evening

}** Until the evening,’ we must weep and | toil,

Plough life’s stern furrow, dig the weedy soil,

Tread with sad feet our rongh and thorny way,

And bear the heat and burden of the day.

| Oh! when our sunis setting, may we glide, Like summer evening; down the golden tide, And leave behind us as we pass away, Sweet, starry twilight round our sleeping clay. ~ 7_ WitTaeA Ug.

The morning op’d its rosy gates,

And ting’d the clouds with gold, And set upon each ocean wave

A beam from beauty's mould.

The angel came with perfumed wings, And linger’d round our hearth,

To bear the tidings up on high, Of darling baby’s birth.

And ere the day had wander’d fur, A little stranger came,

Aud slept upon its mother’s breast A babe without a name.

And when her faint and feeble cry First shook the silent air, : The unseen rush of seraph’s wings

Left but one angel there.

No violet e’re with bluer eyes Held glittering drop of dew, And tiny curls her forehead elasp,

Of shining golden hue.

And when she slumbers, linked smiles Play round her cheeks and eyes:

For then she dreams of little babes She left in Paradise.

LITERATURE.

KATHARINE.

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A TALE OF WOMAN'S TRIALS.

CHAPTER XIIT,—Concluted

All this time they had forgotton their new acquaintance and were giving their last directions to the driver, when the stranger advanced, saying to Edward, ‘you have forgotten me; how am ! to find my way to Grosvenor Square ?’

‘Oh,sol had. I beg your pardon If you cross the Park where you see that column, and then ask at the first shop in Waterloo Place, they’ll tell you your way

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| Now, good-bye!’ and he held out his | | hand with that peculiar somewhat imper-

directly ; or if you take acab from here,

Square, you'll soon be there.’ ‘Thank you,’ replied the other, with a

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| report of the sufferer’s progross transmitted | daily through their messenger, they took leave. There was to be an early dinner | that day in Grosvenor Square; for Kate | had promised to accompany her boys in | their first visit to the Opera.

Excited by their adventure, time had | passed unheeded, and as the lads ran down the hospital steps, they were startled to

hear its great clock strike the half-hour past four.

‘Is it indeed so late?’ cried Kanulph,

stopping in dismay, and snatching out his watch to compare it with the official time- piece.

‘We miuet cab it again, Edward, or we | shall be too late. Have you any money? | 1 gave my last crown to the nurse just | now.’ | ‘No; none at least that I can very well

spare, but that’s of no consequence. We’re going home and Simpson will pay. And see, as luck would have it, there’s the very fellow who brought us. hail him.’

iil | ‘* Dinner has just been served, sir’ said | the butler, meeting the boys as they ran up stairs, and Mrs. Du Val begs that you will come at once to her boudoir without staying to dress.

‘Oh, impossible! Tell my mother | shan't be five minutes ; but I cannot pres sent myself in this state.’

And bounding on, three steps ata time, Ranulph disappeared up the stairs ; while Edward, throwing his gloves into the hat he had just handed to the servant, shook himself like a great Newfoundland dog, and walked at once into the room. But this haste did not appear to have expedit~

| ed dinner much; for when Ranulph came

down, he found his mother lying upona couch, Edward sitting sulkily at the table, and a servant waiting his appearance to remove the covers.

‘My dear mother,’ he began hastily, as recognizing his step, she rose and came forward, laughing and shaking her head, ‘i am so ashamed, so sorry. I had no idea that we were so late, or that you would wait.’

‘So you thought I shouid dine alone, monopolize these famous eels that Morris has taken so much pains to get for your especial gratification? Well, I hope they are not quite spoiled by your knights errantry and that we shall have time to dine quietly before the carriage comes round, without my losing the account of all the adventures which Edward tells me you have met with. You have made a myster- ious acquaintance, I hear.’

‘Yes; but as he is Edward's own pecu- liar property, I think he ought to have the privilege of describing him.’

‘And this poor boy ?’ asked Kate, when the first part of the story was ended. ‘He will be well attended to, | hope? Have you given Simpson orders to send down to the hospital to-night, so that we may know how he is when we come home? Poor child! if he recovers, we must take care of him, Ranulph.’

‘But he is blind,’ observed idward. ‘ What can we do for him, or, indeed,what can he do for himself?’

‘Not much at present, | daresay; but if be is not too old for admission into the Blind Asylum, he will soon learn sufficient there to make himself useful. For the

half smile. ‘Then I am to understand that you decline to have anything further to do with me, and withdraw your offer to | show me the way yourself entirely? ’

‘I am really very sorry,’ began E dward | who, although neither nervous nor awks | ward, was but a boy after all, and felt em- barrassed by the persevering stranger. I am really very sorry, but you see—’

‘ Yes, yes, | see; and having seen | shall not require to visit Grosvenor Square. | shall not forget this meeting, nor the ims pression it has made; and lest you should do so, look at this when you get home.

ative manner, which to young and shy peos ple seems to compel a corresponding move~ ment.

‘What a queer fellow!’ said Edward, half affrontedly, as they drove off. * He’s as free and easy as if one had known him for years; yet there is something about him I like, too—something straightforward. I wonder what he is!’

‘The best way to discover is to look at the paper he gave you. I! daresay it is an address.’

‘Of course. What a blockhead not to have thought of that before! But hallo, where is it? [thought I put it into my waistcoat pocket; but it seems I didn’t. { must have dropped it when we were shaking hands. How provoking!’

‘Well, never mind. I don’t suppose you wish to improve the acquaintance ; and if he does, he knows where to find us. I observed that he listened very attentively to the policeman, as he repeated and took | down our address.’

‘Did he? Well, that’s satisfactory ; for somehow I have a notion that he is a man of mark in his own class.’

‘A Chartist delegate, perhaps. But ser« iously, jo\ing apart, I must allow that he had a very striking countenance; not handsome, but intelligent, the face of a man one would like to talk with, though not trust.’

‘Exactly. I felt that from the first, though he has an authoritative manner, as if he were used to be obeyed.’

‘Yes, and at first 1 rather liked it. In a manof his stamp, it seemed to indi. cate a sort of manliness—an honest pride in his position, us if, whatever it was, he was satisfied with it.

‘Ah?’

‘But I altered my opinion afterwards. I do not think it pride so much as conceit ; but Ido not think he is so well satisfied with his own station as envious of his su-

periors.’ ‘Conceited and envious! A nice chars acter,;certainly. How closely you § must

have watched him to find this out so soon. I had no idea that you were attending to

present, however, he can do nothing but get well. And now for the Opera. The | carriage will be here in a few minutes, and |

| your father has promised to come to us dur-

ing the evening.’

Magnificent beyond description was the scene which burst upon the boys’ bewilder- ed sight, when, advancing to the front of the box, the whole grand spectacle lay be- | fore them.

From pit to roof the whole house was one blaze of light and beauty ; diamonds flash. ed, plumes waved in every direction, and all the splendour which had showed 0 poor and cold in the white chilly daylight, warm- ed and blazed into life under the gorgeous lamps.

Kate had purposely arrived late, that her sons might loose nothing of the effect of a first impression, by watching the house fill, and she was amply rewarded for the loss of Grisi’s first scene, by the delight and amazes ment which glowed upon their countenanc- ea, as first the theatre itself, then the band, and then the singers, excited their raps tures.

The house adjourned early, and, to the boys’ infinite satisfaction, their mother's box was soon crowded with visitors, men of note either in the fashionable or political world,and with whose namés and doings they werefamiliar. It was a proud, happy night, andone that lived ins Ranulph and Edward Du Val’s memory for years —one which, in far different times and scenes, gleamed like a starthrough the heavy darkness of their fate.

The next morning, as their father had predicted upon hearing their adventures,

the young Du Vals were summoned to give

evidence against the ruffian from whom they had rescued the blind boy ; but upon their appearance at the police-court, they heard that the hospital report was so unfavour- able, that all proceedings were adjourned

until the issue of the sufferer’s illness was known. Three days after the poor boy died.

During all this time the preparations for the great fancy fair at Wallasay went on. A plan of the grounds had been submitted to a man famous for arranging tetes of all descriptions ; and under his directions mat- ters proceeded rapidly, nce having con- sented to the project, Mr. Du Val threw his whole energies into the scheme, and soon began to regard it as a point of honour that nothing should be wanting to carry it through brilliantly -

So marquees, and tents, and stalls were erected, temporary sheds run up, and fresh inlets to the grounds made in all direcs tions.

For weeks before the whole house was in confusion, all comfort and peace scared out of it by the inroads of carpenters and workwomen, and the arrivals of boxes and cases. Every nook and corner was in ré~« quisition, and every spare atom of room converted into a warehouse, so that, as the important day approached, it became asub-

a word either he or | said.’

‘Indeed! Then you must be a bad judge of countenance ; for I am sure mine must have betrayed the curiosity | felt.’

‘No, indeed,’

being principally relative to a certain phys siognomical theory of Ranulph’s, we will spare the reader.

Arrived at the hospital. the boys were readily admitted to see their protege, who was still insensible, and after delaying sometime to receive the surgeon’s opin- ion, giving their names and address, and

receiving # promise of haying @ faithful

replied Edward; and | ‘thereupon ensued a discussion, which —

ject of serious anxiety to Katharine and her housekeeper, where all the guests invited | to stay at Wallasay were to be lodged. Fortunately for Kate, Lady Clyde, with whom the idea had originated, offered her | assistance in carrying it out, and early and late, morning and night, saw her at work. And certainly the fe‘e and the Du Vals seemed likely to be indebted for much of their success to her ladyship’s tact and mancuvering. She was a skilful diplomat- ist, and without offending any, managed in every case to get the right people to do the ‘right things. Her list of stall keepers was | perfect, scarcely a beautiful or popular girl was absent ; while the matrons were chosen with such admirable taste, that it seemed as if half England had been sifted for its

| best.

| HARBORS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. | {[lrom Mr. Boyd's Report.) As an opinion prevails, which from a su,

perficial examination of the map might ap» pear to be a correct one, that no part of | Prince Edward Island is more than eight or | ten miles from navigable water, it may be well, by ashort sketch of the various har- | bors to show, what facilities they really do | furnish for the shipment of produce and the requirements of ordinary trade.

The great bay lying between North Cape andEast Point is about 105 miles wide and 25 miles deep. The tides set in strongly towards the shore from both ends of the Island, meeting oft the North of St. Peter's Bay. ‘This peculiar set of the currents has possibly worn the coast into its present shape. The bottom is rock and there is no anchorage except off the mouths of those harbors, where the sand furnishes a precari. ous holding ground. All the harbors opens ing into this bay are similar in charaeter ; they have narrow entrances between banks of sand, while dangerous sand bars are found outside, on which the sea breaks heavily in bad weather leaving no visible channel. Vessels caught inside a line be- tween North and East points by a North- easterly storm must therefore almost inevis tably be driven ashore, and as these storms sometimes arise suddenly and pre- vail generally in the fall, the time the ship~ ments of produce are being made, the har- bors on the North coast, though valuable as fishing stations, are not to any extent to be depended upon as outlets of the trade of the Island.

With the exception of Vascumpee and Richmond Bay, they are not navigable for any of the larger classes of vessels. Cas- cumpec has a depth of from 9 to 10 feet on the bar at low water, with between two and three feet rise of tide. The harbor affords good shelter and is much frequented by fishing vessels. Richmond Bay is separated from the Gulf by ranges of sand hills. It is from three to six miles wide and extends inland nearly twelve miles ; its South-east~ ern extremity being within four miles of Bes deque Harbor. It has many creeks and in. lets, some of which are navigable for large vessels, all of them can be entered by fish- ing boats and small schooners. Malpeque Harbor, at the Eastern entrance of Rich- mond Bay, has sixteen feet water on its bar at low water, with depth and space inside for any description of vessels.

Tignish, New London, Rustico, Covehead, Tracadie, Savage Harbor and St. Peter's are navigable only for coasting schooners. Tig» nish has been much improved by the con- struction of a breakwater. Previously to the construction, the northerly storms de- posited a bar of sand across the mouth of the river, leaving only about one foot of water, where there is now a uniform depth of eight feet. West of St. Peter’s there are, besides those mentioned, numerous smaller inlets which afford shelter to fishs ing boats; but between St. Peter’s and East Point a distance of nearly 40 miles, no har-~ bor of any description is found.

The principal ports on the Eastern coast are Georgetown and Murray Harbor. Cieor- getown, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Montague and Brudenell, is one of the tinest harbors in the Gulf of St. Law- It is of considerable size and well | sheltered and has depth of water sufficient for the largest vessels. It is clear of ice for several weeks later in the fall and generally opens earlier in the spring than the other Gulf Harbors, and hence it has become an important port for late shipments, Oneof the objects aimed at in the construction of the railway ef which Georgetown is one of the termini, is to give all parts of the Island access to open water as long as possible. River Montague is navigable for large ves sels for a distance of four miles, and River Brudenell of two miles above Georgetown. tiver Cardigan, which falls into Cardigan

rence,

Bay near Georgetown, is navigable for ves- sels of any ordinary size as far as the bridge, 6 miles above its mouth.

Murray Harbor is of large extent and has good depth of water inside. Its entrance is obstructed by a bar of sand havinga depth of only ten feet over it at low water and which is rendered impassable by the heavy sea which breaks on it during easterly storms.

Souris, Rollo Bay, Bay Fortune, Little River and Grand River are available only for coasting schooners, though large vessels are built at all of them and floated out light. Grand River has plenty of room and is deep inside, and were it not for the shallow sand bar at its mouth, would be a fine harbor. Souris is of importance as a fishing depot, as being the Eastern terminus of the railway, and the principal place of shipment for the products of the more easterly section of the Island. The harbor is formed bya long breakwater of brush and stone at the mouth of the River Souris. Some expenditure is necessary to adapt the place for any increas» ed trade, but the proper location and ex- tent of the works cannot be determined without a survey of the whole of Colville

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The West Coast from North Cape to West Point is an unbroken range of sand stone cliffs with a few sandy beeches and some small shallow ponds where open boats can be secured. Small coasting vessels lie off the shore and take in cargoes in fine weather but there is no harbor werthy of notice on the coast for a distance of 100 miles from Cascumpec to Summerside.

Summerside, situated on the South Coast, has a good harbor. There is a low water depth of 16 feet at the entrance, and a rise of tide of from 5 to 7 feet, giving ample depth for large vessels. During the open season, steamers run three times a week between Charlottetown, Summerside and Point du Chene, N.B., at which place they

Ship- building is carried on to a considerable extent, and in general trade and importance Summerside ranks next to Charlottetown, which it threatens some day to rival. It has a population of about 2,000. Charlot- tetown, the capital of the Island,a city with

cofluence-of three rivers, the Hillsborough York and Elliot. The harbor is large, deep,

. MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1875.

connect with the Intercolonia! Railway. | P®

Charlottetown and the latter place, where | a considerable amount of ship building is done During the summer a connection with the Intercolonial Railway at Pictou, N. S., and Point du Chene, N. B., is made by steamers three times a week. A line of | steam packets runs to Boston once a week, | touching at Halifax. The boats or the oar) Ports ! ine from Quebec and Montreal call | once a fortnight.

Tryon Crapaud, Pinette and Wood Is. | lands are small harbors on the south coast. | Orwell, opening into Hillsborough Pay, is a good harbor though the channel is narrow. There is 14 feet of water on the bar with a raise of about $ feet and good shelter and anchorage in 5 fathoms at the confluence of the Rivers Orwell and Vernon, Orwell and Pinette are the principal shipping places for a large and fertile section of coun, try which will inno way be accommodated by any of the railway lines under construction. Small steamers run between Charlottetown and Orwell and Crapaud thrice a week. From the foregoing sketch it will be seen that the only harbors navigable for vessels of the tonnage ordinarly employed for for- eign trade, are Charlottetown and Sum.- merside on the south ; Georgetown on the east ; and Cascumpecand Richmond Bay on the north coast.

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JOHN BARLEYCORN IN CANADA,

(From the St. John News)

John Barleycorn sustains very intimate relations with the people of German and semi-German origin. In the fatherland, he is a most notable personage on genial terms with prince, noble, burger, artisan and peasant. In the British Isles he plays, per- haps, a still more conspicuous part, wield- ing great influence in circles, agricultural,

scaland socia!, Itis not yetclear what position né is destined ultimately to hold in the Dominion of Canada, But it seems somewhat probable that John will make himself felt in Canadian affairs, unless, in- deed, he should find in the various tempers ance organizations that regard him with an unfriendly eye, enemies too powerful suc- cessfully to resist.

Leaving, however, the future of our coun-

ry to define its own relations to John, we may, by the aid of official documents, un- fold to our readers facts which relate to his present position intheDominion. Wemay mention at the outset that Canada has a beer consuming population of respectable proportions. She has also beer-producing facilities of a high order. In support of the former statements, we adduced the facts that in the fiscal year 1874, there were en- tered for consumption from malt liquor im- portations 498,779 gallons, and held for consumption from domestic breweries, 10,+ 667,519 gallons, in all 11,166 298 gallons

But it appears that the qnantity furnished fer home consumption by the domestic manufactories in 1874 was, owing to the foreign demands for Canadian barley, less than that thus furnished in 1873 by 307, 641 gallons. It may be inferred that Canada’s average yearly consumption of malt Liquors—ale, beer and porter—will be presently, if it is not already, eleven and a half million gallons.

The official returns do not enable us to determine precisely the quantity consumed in each Province of the Dominion. f the importations, however, of ale, beer and por- ter in casks and bottles, we find there were entered in Ontario Quebce Nova Scotia

92,546 vallons. 155,722 *

103,806 «

New Brunswick 194,490 British Columbia 25,402 », E. Island 10,486 Manitoba 6.237 o

Of this amount all but some 14 0 4) gal- lons were of British manufacture.

Turning to the record of the home manu. facture of Malt Liquor during 15874, we find that we cannnot gather therefrom much in- formation bearing on the question of the proportionate consumption of the article in the respective Provinces. The total quen- tity produced in that year was 10,771,519 gallons, less by 289,002 gollons than the production in 1873.

The exports of Malt Liquor from Canada in 1874 reached 104 000 gallons,

The different Provinces of the Dominion in respect to their Malt Liquor production in 1874 stands thus -—

Ontario produced 6,780,441 gallons. Quebec - 3,165,716 “ New Brunswek * 147,566

Nova Seotia 119,816

YE. Island 111,817 Manitoba 36,787

B. Colambia * 109,376 ”

Upon the whole we conelude that the English speaking people of British Colums bia are, man for man, the champion beer consumers of Canada. Climate consider-~ ations possibly account for the fact, The British Columbian climate, it is said, greatly resembles that of the British Isles; and the average Englishman's beer holding capa- city is known the wide world over.

But whatever may be thought of Canada’s beer consuming tendencies and perform- ances, there can be no question of her beer producing capacity. Barley is the chief ingredient necessary to the production of malt from which malt liquor is made, though it seems that Glucose—a prepara-~ tion of corn starch whose sacharine proper- ties are developed by the addition of sul- phuric acid, and sugar and syrup in com. bination with malt, are being increasingly used in the malt liquor manufacture. Now there are wide portions of the Dominion most admirably adapted to the production of barley. What the capacities ‘ the fertile belt,’ may be for barley culture we do not exactly know. If they resemble those which that region possesses for wheat pro- duction they must be something remarkable But the barley raising powers of Ontario, P. E. Island, British Columbia and New Brunswick have been well tested, and proved to ke very superior. Prince Ed- ward Island barley has long had a high re putation. That of British Columbia is a splendid article. That raised on the soil in New Brunswick best fitted for its pro- duction cannot easily be surpassed ; while that grown in the Ontario peninsula bears the very highest reputation with Am- erican Malsters. Hence we find in 1874 although 8]3,684 bushels of barley were used by Canadian Malsters, 3,747,270 | bushels of barley and rye were exported. | The total production of malt in Canada in | 1874 amounted to 31,594,000 lbs, less by more than !12,(00,000]bs. than that of the previous year. But the quantity 54,569,- 016 lbs. taken for consumption last year was greater, we believe, than ever before. At all events the yearly consumption of this article has been steadily increasing since 1871. About one eighth of the malt used last year, however, was for the pro- duction of spirits, and the quantity ex- rted was more than one fifth of the ' amount absorbed in the home mannfacture | of spirits and malt liquors.

From maltand malt liquor the revenue in

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NO... 9.

MISCELLANEOUS.

LEE eee eS

A genteel farmer in Cainsville didn't know how to take a waggon wheel off to grease the axel, and so he bored holes in the hub and poured in the gree,

A woman, living near the Richard Mine in Morris county, N. .J., lost, by the burn. ing of the emigrant ship Cospatrick, eight brothers, two sisters, and her mother, be- sides severai other near relations

The Queen of Madagascar, it is said, hax ordered the liberation of all slaves import~

| ed into her kingdom since the date of the

treaty of 1865, entered into with Great Brit- ian for the suppression of that traffic,

The bill granting £58,00) for encourag- ing the return of Canadians from the States and their settlement on the public lands of this Province was read a third time and passed in the Quebec Local House on Saturday

The Oswego (N. Y.) Palladiwa states that during a recent severe gale one of the large and heavy plate glass windows in the top of the stone lighthouse was shattered by a piece of ice cast up by the waves. The lighthouse is sixty feet high and the glass half an inch thick.

Archbishop Cullen, in a pastoral address condems the mission of the revival preach, ers, Moody and Sankey. He says these men seek to do away with good works, and the necessity of baptism, promising salva- tion by foolish sensationalism, without repentance.

Gen. Butler, by unanimous consent has introduced a bill into congress authorizing Lieutenant-Commander Pierson to accept from the Queen of Great Britain the decor- ation of the Bath for gallant services in the combined attack on the Japanese forts and piratical vessels.

The Pacific Railway Scandal in Canada was sufficient to overthrow a Government. Our neighbors over the line go into the Corruption business on a large scale. The Pacific Mail Scandal is still fresh in the recollection of our readers, in which sev~ eral prominent Senators were, concerned. as having accepted bribes of $100,000 and upwards for their votes and influeace. We observe the Memphis and Pacific Rail- way Company are charged in the Circuit Sourt of the United States with having spent eleven millions in bribing members of Congress to obtain subsidies for their road. Such stupendous corruption indi cates a degree of rottenness in the State, and rascality in the public men, to which, we have reason to be thankful, we are yet strangers.