A STRANGE PREACHER.

His name was Stange. Many will think his conduct was strange also. it was a sealous preacher and sweet singer. Nothing gave him no much pleasure as to about the country prcachiti and single . A benevolent gentle- man, wel oil’ in worldly ear, desiring to make Iiim and his family com ortable in their decli- ning ears, generously presented him a title- deed or three hundred and twenty acres of land. Strange accepted the donation with tliankfulness, and went his way, preaching and singing as he went. But after a few months he returned and requested his generous friend to take back the title-deed. surprised at the request, the gentleman inquired,

‘ is there any flaw in it‘! ’

' Not the slightest.‘

‘ is not the land good 1 ’

‘ First-rate.’

‘ Isn't it healthy! ’

‘ None more so.’

‘ Why then do you wish me to take it back‘ It will be a comfortable home for you when you

ow old, and something for your wife and children ifyou should be taken away.‘

‘ Why, I’ll tell you. Ever since I’ve had that deed, I’ve lost my enjoyment in sin ing, I can't sing my favorite hymn with a g conscience any longer.’

* What is that?’

‘ This-

" ‘ No foot 0‘ltIn(I do I possess, No cottage in the wilderness, A poor woyfaring tnan , I dwell awhile in tents below, Or gladly wander to and fro, ‘Till I my Canon gain. Yonder's my house and portion fair, My treasure and my heart iirethete, And ttiy abiding home!’ "

‘There !’ said Strange, * I'd rather be able to sing that hymn than own America. Without, I‘ll trust that the Lord will take care ofmy wife and children.’

He continued singing and preaching, and

reaching and singing, and the Lord, said the‘

ecturer, did take care of him and his children after him. _

HASZAR.D’S GAZETTE. AUGUST I8.

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH HAIL.

Tits Crimes.-—A despatch to the follow- ing effect has been received from Prince Gortschaltoﬂ, dated Sebastopol, July 238:- “ Yesterday the enemy opened a heavy ﬁre, which lasted two hours and a half, against the bastion No. 4 (the F|agstaﬂ'). We have replied with vigor. Between the ‘.231! and 27th, nothing new occurred at Sebasto- pol, nor upon the other points of the Cri- men.”

Prince Gortschakoﬂ' writes, under date

PROSPECTS OI’ THE WAR.

We are still without intelligence of any ma- terial importance from either of the two princi- pal seats of war. In the Crimea, the obstinate defence of a couple of Russian out-works is holding the whole army of the Allies in check. In the Baltic, a couple of Russian fortresses have reduced the wheat ﬂeet that ever swam to it state of comparative inertncss. It must he confessed that this is very far from being a satisfat;tot'y state of things ; and, as the summer is now rapidly waning, it is not without consi- derable anxiety, that we inquire whether the brief season of fair weather which yet remains

30th July, and says--" Nothing of import- ance has occurred before Sebastopol. The enemy continues a partial cannonade. We reply vigorously.”

As the allies advance to the actual de- fences of the place, says one, they must expect to meet tiiore elaborate works and obstacles, heaped one on another, with all the care which many months of preparation admit. Even now, the enemy are strength- ening the Mulakolf, every day. It is not now what it was on the 18th ofJune, and a fortnight will not pass by, wlich it will be: again changed. The battery at the VVliitc Works still goes on, and its eﬂect will soon he proved.

A boat belonging to the British ship Ajax, captured a coach, containing the Russian mails. All the letters addressed to oﬂicial persons, such as the Governor of Finland &c., are written in cyplier.

The Russians agree that ﬂags of truce may he received at Cronstadt. Sweaborg, Revel, Libeau, Vindcaii, Wash and Y0- men.

fortifying the Spit of Arnhas. Since the fence have been adopted. Don have been closed and rendered inac- cessible. linttcrics have been erected on the coast,nnd a ﬂotilla ofgun boats establish-

What letters of the alphabet does a donkey like bi-st7—A and e's.

'I'|:I.t-tcasrti or I‘IAlR.—-A young lady sent us one of her hairs, as a curiosity of length. It was wound round a card, and the two ends fastened with sealing-wax ; and we never had thought of unwinding it, till the other evening. It is of the wonderful len,-uh of seven feet and one inch! it is ofthe most beautiful suhurn golden. lint what length of electric telegraph would this lady's hair make. if extended in a line! The average number of hairs in a head has been ststed at two hundrcdtliousand. Her golden loclis therefore, would reach. like the Sebastopol iron, from New York to Albany, and a little over. A lady’s heed may make s one hair telegraph of two liundred and sixty-eight miles!

Pnttrrr Nsut run MARK.—I was in

company the other night, a number ofladies being present, when a young men proposed a conundrum, which he said he had read in the papers. It was tliis:—“ VVhen is a lady not a lady?” There wasa pause.- “ Give it tip," said all around, when to the inﬁnite horror of the whole party the que- rist exclaimed, “ When slie’s a little bug- gy.” Nobody laughed—some were demure, some indignant, and some no doubt inclined to scratch—the querist’s face a little. He was disappointed. Fumbling in his pocket he pulled out a paper, which consulting for a moment, he ejaculated, “ Oh, I beg your pardon, I made a mistake. The one- wer is, When she is a little sul/ry. I knew it was some sort ofa carriage.”

From late American Papers.

Tau Bosros STEAISHlP8.—W0 are happy to learn, says the Herald, that the Boston capital- ’ ts and merchants are takin hold of the new I amship enterprise with ilie right spirit. Subscriptions are iven by those applied to in amounts that excee anticipation, and we can safely say, that but a short time will elapse when Boston will be possessed of as handsome and elﬁcient a line of steamers, plying between this city and Liverpool, as there is in existence.

Tar Csot-s.—The New York Tribune.aays the cry of unfavourable weather for gathering the I eat crop in that State is got up by specula- tors, and is a false alarm, but very little wheat having been in'ured, and nextto none s ilt while curing. ' he editor vouches for this rom

rsonal observation, after a pretty extensive tour through the wheat growing-region.

The editors of the Rochester Democrat and ¢hoAlbany Evening Journal give substantially the same re rt. a a retty extensive per- aonsl exam n eir own hands and

eyes. Courier says-Offers have already

‘ed on the iivcr. There is also a strontv thody of CUS~,'il(,'I\'S and other troops, under I u

the coininninl --t General Bngovert, collect-

A ed near Nicliolnieﬂ'.

Rostoff, and the channel of the l)on is ob- structed.

The Sultan has ordered magniﬁcent neck- laces in brilliants to be made, as presents for Queen Victoria and the Empress Eu- genie; and saddles, embroidered in bril- liants, to be made for the Emperor, the King of Sardinia, and Prince Albert. The value of these presents will be about 2,000,000f.

Omar Pasha is tired of his position in the Crimea, and wishes for n ﬁeld where he can gain some distinction, or at least keep up the reputation he gained on the banks ofthe Danube.

Tan RESTORATION or Pot.Aivn.—'I‘he

ublic will learn with surprise that, notwith- standing all the ﬂourish of trumpets with which a meeting in favour of the restoration of Poland was announced to be held in St. Martin’s Hall on Wednesday night, no meeting took place. The crowd who at- tended at the doors was, we are told, sulﬁ- ciently great to have ﬁlled the hall twice over,—a fact suﬂiciently indicative of what the feelings of the people of England are with regard to the restoration of Polish nationality. The reason assigned for post- poning the niecting was the illness of Sir De Lucy Evans. Tits. ROYAL Mstiaisotz BROKEN orr.—— Tlio marriage which it was believed had

Don Francisco de Paula of Spain, and Prince Adalliert of Bavaria appears to have been broken off. The Prince sudden- ly quilted the court, and it is said, that he has been summoned home to join the army, but it is possible that this has only been done to cause the marriage to fail. .

Tris Rttoiva SrI:AMttas.—It appears from the Courrier dc Morsdlles to be perfectly true that the French government has pur- chased the Rhone steamers for operations in the Black Sea. They are list bottomed, and the number of boats purchased is 97. By this means it will be possible to land even 50,011) men on points which would be inaccessible to vessels of ordinary construc- tion.

Ten thousand French troops are to fonn a camp of reserve st Maslsk, and the bar-

‘ farmers to contract to deliver ttoes in this city, at harvest time, at 37} cents _psr bushel

racks of Galata and Peru.

is to be employed by the Allies in the same abortive and fruitless manner as the summer. tmonths which have receded it. i It is every day coming more and more palpable that the plan upon which the Allies l have based their operations, both in the Baltic land lilack Sea, have been. founded in error. ‘It was, doubtless, a noble instinct which led .tliciu in the first instance to hurl deﬁance at ; the enemy at the points where he was known :to be stroiigcstantl least assailable. To chal- {lcngc hint at Sebastopol—to defy him at Cron- :stadt—ivas it thou ht worthy of the ﬂeets and ‘armies of Englan and France; but when Se- lbastopol and Cronstadt are found to be so

lThe Malakhcl and the Redaii command a

certain portion of the southern district and fortiﬁcations of Sebostopol,and so tar undoubt- edly present a point of considerable sdvants to attiin ; but in their turn they are themselves commanded by the superior wprks which ling the northern heights, still leftin the undisput- ed possession of the enemy, and from the tire of which every part of the southern town must be rendered perfectly untenable by an adver- sary. 'l‘o satisfy a point of honour it may be requisite that tho -Redan and the Malakbol should be carried; but as far as the ultimate capture of Sebastopol is concerned, we are strongly inclined to believe that they might just as well be let alone. The plain truth of the matter ls, that So- bastopol can never be reduce and carried from the unlucky oint at which the Allies have attacked it, i‘ an proof of this were needed it would be foun in the fact that after a nine months‘ siege, conducted with all the "energy that an army thrice trium hunt in the ﬁeld could direct against its vval s, its works ‘of defence are at this moment as strong, if not linﬁnitely stronger, than they were at the moment when the were first assailed. The allied troops an generals have alike been contending against diﬂiculties which it is im- possible for any amount of courage or skill to

rstrong as to be capable of withstanding the

overcome. on account of the original viciousness

Tits Sea or Azort-'.—'I‘bc Russians are:

bombardment of Aganvcy, measures of de- Tlic arms ofthe,

Strong fortiﬁcations are being erected at’

been resolved on between a daughter of

ziuost powerful eﬂorts that can be made for. li.l|t‘l|‘ reduction. and when it is plain, that. ‘neither can be carried by the usual dirccti ‘iopcrationa of war, excqpt at the cost of al carniige that no comiuan er would be justiﬁedi in incurring, it becomes obvious that the merel, {accumulation ofan immense ﬂeet in front of: l the one, and the concentration of a prodigious;

| army in the vicinity of the other, amounts to}

. nothing more than the vain and prolitlcss dis- play ol a power which can accotnplish little or Tiiothiiig at those particular points, and might : be tiiuch more eﬂl-ctivcly ciiiployed clsewlicrc. It is not too much to say that at the present J moment the whole naval :ind military might of . England and France is held in check by these two isolated fortresses. and from the iuanncr , in which our operations have hitherto been 1 conducted, it would really appear as if we were u at war only witlisebastopol and Cronstadt, and f not with the Russian empire at large. 5 With a ﬂeet in the Baltic capable of carrying ﬁre and sword and all the dcstructiveness of ! war into every port and haven along the whole l line of the encmy‘s coast, scarcely anything in the way of hostile a rression has been accom- plished or attcmpte , simply because Cronstadt has as yet deﬁed all endeavour to approach it. ‘ again in the Crimea. With an army more

the siege could demand, and with a ﬂeet in undisputed possession of the sea, nothing what- ever is attem ted against the vulnera_ble oints

of the enemy s adjacent territory, simp y be- cause Sebastopol still holds out. This is where our commanders err. If Cron-

stadt and Sebastopol cannot be taken by direct assault, why should the bulk of our ﬂeets and armies be fruitlcssly detained before their walls? It is the boast of England that she has now “ a hundred pennants" proudly ﬂaunting in the Baillie breeze. Can an one doubt that ten or a dozen of those pennants loftily display- ed in front of Cronstadt would um ly suﬂice to confine the whole Russian navy to its cowardly anchorage behind the batteries.’ What is tbcie to prevent the remainder from carrying a ter- rible and destructive war into every other part ofthe enemy's coast’ Are Revel and lliga to enjoy an immunity from attack for the siuiplc reason that the waters before Cronstadt are too shallow to admit of our large ships gettin ~within reach ofit? Because Cronstadt cannot be reached, is no other place to be approached! Because the Russian navy will not come out to to be ingloriously occupie the summer in the chase and capture of a few miserable fishing boats? We trust not. We trust that the gallant Dundos will at least spare the superb ﬂeet which he commands from such ti reproach as that.

'Then, as regards the army before Sebastopol. ll e are assured upon the authority of oﬂicers who have recently returned to this country wounded or invalided—incn of high intelligence and of great practical cx ‘.'I'lt.'llC0-—illU.Io the

have at last worked themselves into a osition

so complete place from the groan

meat remain open to him on the north. A sense ofmilitary honour in the mind of the

the 18th of June should be rodeem by the capture of the Malukhotfand the Redsn; and for the last six weeks all the available strength of the army has been assiduously employed in the construction of works which it is confident]

anticipated will enable them to accomplish that

object. But, as we observed in commenting

u a th' b‘ t I t k ' If:lakholl'.sii.dl Rodin ;“hs’cs'i"iii£:imtlb!mbli: row. we should still be as far as ever from

obtsininga permanent possession of Sebastopol.

than twice as strong as the mere exigencies of

Allies, owing to the origina error of commen- cing the siege from the wrong point of attack,

_ ly _false as to forbid the faintest prospect of tieir eveily being able to carry the

they now occupy as long as the enemy's sources of supply and reinforce-

present commanders of the allied army seems, torenderit indispensable that the re ulse of

of the position from which their operations were commenced. ’l‘lie_ question is whether this state of things is to continue—whotlier what was begun in error is to be doggedly per- sistcd in now that the error is patent and con- spicuous as the sun at noon day? We fervently trust that a better genius will guide the councils of our commanders, and that no false sentiment lof honour will induce them to incur a wasteful sacrifice ofthe noble troops they command by an obstinate persistence in a course of opera- tions from which no final success can possibly be anticipated. Lctit roduce no feeling of depression or despair in the mind of our readers when we advise that the siege ofsebnstopol be for the prescntraised. We have seen how little the inugniticcnt army now before it has been iihle to accomplish. during the last two months, towards the reduction even of its recently- erected out-works. We liavo seen with what labour and wlnit loss every inch of ground has been won lroin the enemy, and how distant we still are from the great object we have in view. Surely, then, it is necessary that the whole strategy ofthe siege should be changed. If Sebastopol cannot be carried by a direct assault upon its southern defences, it by no means follows that it may not be effectually subdued by a broader plan of operations in the open ﬁeld. Kamicsch and Bala Cluva are now so strongly entrenched and fortiﬁed that a com- parattvely small force of French and English would suﬂice to hold them against any attack that could be directed upon them from the earrison of Sebastopol. 'l‘ho siege, as directed from the south, is plainly abortive, and can never be attended with success. Then why should it not he raised? and whilst an adequate force of the allied army is left to maintain the two maritime positions of Kainiescli and Bala Clava——othcr portions of the arm being at the same time ﬁrmly established at upatoria and ’l{ertch—wl:y should not the reuiainder be traiisplante to some other point of the Russian ttrritory, where it would be enabled to operate in such a manner as to prevent a single cartridge ofammunition or a single ration of food from ever again entering the gates of Sebastopol? [With the sea completely at our command. an ‘with a ﬂeet capable of conveying a hundred , thousand troops in a single expedition, there is ino reascn why an operation of this nature should not be instantly undertaken. Then,

ﬁght. am the it hundred pennunuva of En had indeed. the fate ofscbastopol would_be sealed. d “H “,0 ,.cm,,i,,d,_.,. of. Deprived of all succour from without, its

garrison would shortly be compelled to come out and brave a battle in the open ﬁeld, or else perish within its walls. This can never happen as long as the Allies limit tlieinsclvcs to the assault of its southern defences, and take no steps either to subdue its northern fortresses, or to interce t the aliundant sources of suppli frotn which it has hitherto been sustained an Let us trust. then, that a totally new campaign will he planned and executed before the recurrence ofa Crimean winter shall put an end to all further operations for the year. FRANCE.

The French Government has intimated to all whom it may concern that it will most decidedly resist any attempt to excite dis- turbances in Italy. A certain degree of agitation has been remarked of late among the refugees on the continent, as if some- thing favorable was expected to turn up for them, or as if they expected some important event shortly to take place.

Loss or Assvtiiss AN'l'lQUl'l‘Y.—Inlelll- genes has just reached London of tlie,sl- most total loss of the ﬁne collection of anti- quities which the agents of the French Go- vernment have been employed for some years in bringing to other, from the various ruins of Assyria and BsbIyonis,.for deposit in the Museum of the Louvre.

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