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‘ .2 l . > ; . P—d- . TO PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND; unster'd “,Islu‘nd oft’fte West,” ' ith fertile soil and beauty blest, ,Ropose and peace to thee have flown,

And cl‘aim thy’ valleys for their own. Protected from wild Ocean’s roar,

Behind Cape Breton’s bolder shore, .."'Th'y verdant layvns are seen torise, _ 'Beneathihy clear and Krilliant skies, 5 And every thing speaks calm and rest, ' , Upon thy .gently swelling breast: " ‘ Permit a wanderer of the's‘ea To stay his weary steps on thee; “In distant climes,-’on_distant seas, He oft has felt ‘the tropicbreeze; wHe'oft-on India's coist has sailed, lAnd there'the spicy breeze inhaled, Where ev'ry op’ning, sunny glade, m ' '- -,In Eden's beauty seem’d array'd; But there the dreaded Tiger roams, And heeded Snake with venom foams, While alligators seek their prey, Or on jthe’junglo’s margin play. .80, not for 'me is tropieshore— _ ' I’Il'venture on its beach no more,

' Brit fix my lot on thee sweet Isle, ' 4Where nature always seems to smile: ‘Whether in garb ofAutumn green . Tilly pastures and thy Woods are seen,

0r mantled o'er with purest white,

Still calm and pleasing is the sight.

The features ofn land impart

Kindred influence to the heart,

Gracia, a Land the loveliestknown, ad mind and beauty all her own,)

Thy sons and daughters thus we find

In manners gentle, calm, and kind:

Then, lovely “Island ofthe IVest,"

Admit it wanderer to thy breast.

PALXNUBUS. o

(From fiinsworth’a Magazine.)

’ 5' ~ , THE CONTRAST. IVGGIITED nrfrtu'. Two ii 1 ~ MAGAZINE."

V QUEEN ELIZABETH. lCritdledv 'tni V lcenes of' violence and blood, So grew thy :pirit masculine and brave, Elizabeth! in] stern misfortune gave

To thee the scrpent’s wisdom—strong and shrewd,—

Witlt virtues fitted for thy time enduerl ; Thine is the praise whichJihlest rulers have, , Nor yet hath time effaced it from thy grave! Yet history isjust, and truth is rude,— Aud these lay bare to our reluctant gaze Th ‘ meanest failings-Ally most wayward mood,— oor vanity, with no redeeming grace, And cold, false cruelty——all are revicw’d, , Until at last we blush for her we praise, . The glory and reproach of womanhood:

QUEEN VICTORIA.

The day-star of our hopes, how didst thou rise“ Lovely and pure, above’ the troubled scene Of clamorous faction! Still thou wert serene,

v Or. only moved-by sufl'ering’s feeble cries.—

Not always are the sternest the most wise, The firmest heart dwells with tho gentlest mien ; And hence wrought into th young life have been

Those royal virtues we most fimdly prize. Thus hast thou well deserved that happy crown,

: Which hath life’s fairest flowersvwreatlicd in between Long may they bloom thy own,

Its sparkling vents! 'And no harsh blast of sorrow, unforeseen,

Wither berjoys, whom, first on England's throne, We praise both as the woman and the queen '.

M. W. Y.

UICIDE OF THE EARL 0F MUNSTER.

George Fitzclarcnce, Earl of Munster, Viscount Fitz- clitrence, and Baron of Tewksbury, in the peerage of’the United Kingdom. was the eldest son of the late King ,Willittm IV., by Mrs. Jordan, the celebrated actress. He

rm born 29th January,“ 1794, and married, 18“

her, 1819, Mary Wyndham, daughter of the Earl of Egremont, and leaves issue by her ladysliip, two daugh-

. The earl was a privy councillor, baring;_been appointed on his creation in 1831 ; governor and cpptain, also constable and lieutenant of Windsor Castleg‘;calonel of the Ist Tower Hamlets militia, and It commssioner of the Royal Military College and Royal Military Asylum, and knight grand cross ofthe order of

lore and four sons.

Ferdinand of Wirtemburg. His lordship was

versed in the Sanscrit'and other eastern languages, and pt: vauiremeuts in that path ofliterature may be judoed, or he held the honourable office of Vice Presideiii of the Asiatic Society for 18 years, when in May last he

was unanimously elected President. the Royal Society. , The earl was a major-general in the army, in

He was a fe

,branch of the service he entered at the early ace of 13

l . When ensign, he served with Sir DavidDBaird’s , corps in the campaign of 1808 in Spain, and was severe- ; ly wounded at Toulouse. In 1815, he went with his re-

iyea‘rs.

"giment to India, where he first evinced a taste

oriental languages, ofwbich he was justly considered I During his resulence in India he was Iide-de-eamp to the Marquis of Hastings, the governor

very proficient.

general, and returned to this country in 1818.

noble earl was recently appointed, after the brevet, to a command in Devonshire, and was in the course of the ensuing month gomg to assume his post, having taken a

mansion in the neighbourhood of Plymouth.

The subjoined is an abridgment of the evidence at the Inquest held on Monday evening, March 22d : fucks, footman in the family, deposed that on Snoring,“ igjit, shortly after 11, he distinctly heard what ) I. h The library he‘ll rang Violently immediately afterwards, and his lord- ,tfhlp came out oftliat apartment, calling “Miller! Miller ~-_aWent down stairs, where he met his lordship, who said, “I have had an accident; I am shot. in the band. Go for I” I His lordship requested witness to show ,g Jug}; light, the deceased having come down stairs in ,' gall}? dark. Witness followed his lordship up stairs with

he thou; (To be a discharge ofa pistol.

Mr. Hamilton.”

swindle, which he placed at the end of the table

Iifii‘aryfand the deceased again requested him to go im-

' mediatel'y for Mr. Hamilton. His lordship was ,V dressing-gown. ' see

.mbutler, ranup stairs, and on entering the library,

his lorgphip lying on the-410m on his side, with his face Shamiedi§nd bloodwoa his right hand,.3nd apparently dead. ness went immediately for Mr. Hamilton,

yyho,returned with him. Did not know that his lo , kept pistols in the library.

I r afifiy‘ell‘,1and in low spirits. 1? " Dr. Chambers 'said, he was sent for by Lady hf

x in Sunday afternoon, and saw the deceased for the first

time, about9 o’clock. He. found his lordship sitt the‘l'rbrary, with Lord Adolphus ,Fitzclarence, Mr.

Straw: and Lady Munster. He logs informed his lord-

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Saw his hand was bloody, but could not ,5, ther it was shattered. He (witness) immediately gala, A Mr. Miller, and said his lordship had shot him- I, and while informing that person, he heard another '» discharge ofa pistol, and exclaimed, “ his lordship has

shot himselfagain.” Mr. Miller, himself, and the under-

His lordship had appeared

and he found the deceased was both bodily and mentally very low. .On conversing on the symptoms generally, he received rational answers, but his lordShip spoke rather hastily, and-his general manner was hurried. After having examined him sufficiently, be (Dr; Chambers.) requested Mr. Hamiltdn, his lordship’s ordinary medi- cal attendant, and who had seen him several days pre- viously, to retire with him into the next. room, that they might confer together on the case. As soon as they were alone in the: room, they simultaneously exclaimed that his lordship was surely going mad. He (Dr. C.) then wrote‘a- prescription for a quieting medicine and settle draughts, and then came to the consideration of the question how his lordship should be treated as to the restraint which could be put upon him, as his lordship had not committed any obvious overt act ofinsanity. It was clear to them, under slich circumstances, that it

would not be expedient to treat him as an insane person, although they thought it right to communicate their fears as to the state ofthe deceased’s mind to his family. On returning to his lordship after the consultation, he (witness) took occasion, before parting with his lord- ship, to‘ say that he trusted his lordship wou‘ v k'e his medicine and go at once to bed to compase , ~ elf tiri- til be (Dr. C.) saw him next day. In answer to that advice, he was surprised at his lordship answering rather sharply, “I shall not go to bed until my usual time.” Witness askcd what time that was? His lordship said, “About II o’clock,” and he (Dr. C.) assented, and left the room with Lord Adolphus Fitccl:ireiice, Colonel Fox, who had then arrived, and L‘idy Munster. ' here was nothing unsound in his lordship’s remarks, but. his man- ncr was hurried and abrupt, and there wire a moodiness which was unusual, for on attending his lordship on previous occasions, his lordship had always conducted himself corirtcously. '

George Miller, (butler,) stated that the last time he saw his lordship alive was about ten minutes past II on Sunday night. His lordship desired him, as usual, to put the lamps out, as he did not want witness any more. His lordship took his chamber candle when witness left the library, and went to bed. It was not more than ten minutes after, when Robert Snooks called from the bot- tom of the stairs,“ Come down directly, for‘his lordship has shot himself.” He ran direct. to the library, and found his lordship lying on his side. Ilis lordship gave four or five groans, when witness. raised his lordship’s bead and placed a pillow beneath it. He saw the large pistol, a duclling pistol, which his lordship used to com- ‘rnit the act, about two feet from him. Witness sent im- mediately for the doctor, as the nearest at hand. The pistols belonged to his lordship, and wire usually kept in the pantry, and not ordinarily in the library, but his lordship sent his clerk for them in order to have them cleaned, and they had been in the library about three weeks.

Mr. Thomas Hamilton; surgeon, of Piccadilly, depos- ed, that be immediately attended, and found the d'eceas- ed ql‘ite dead. On examining his wounds, be perceived the roof of the mouth was severely shattered, and the head extensively fractured frotn the effect of the ball. There wasa wound in the right hand, in which a bullet was lodged, and he imagined the unfortunate act was done by the left hand. Witnes'shad not ' seen his lord- ship for teii days previousto this unfortunate occurrence. When he first saw him, his lordship was taken with symptoms ofgout, and complained that he had some im- portant business in hand, and appeared much depressed at the thought of not being able to follow his usual 0c- cupations. His lordship spoke to witness on several 0c; casions respecting the disastrous news from India, and seemed very much agitated. The deceasedappeared deeply interested in the fate of the ladies reported to be captured at Cnbool, and it was on his lordship alluding to that circumstance to him that he (witness) first per- ceived a hasty and agitated manner about his lordship, who was much excited. ’

After a brief consultation, it was not deemed necessary to call any other witnesses, and the jury unanimously gave their verdict“ That his lordship died by his own hand while in a state oftcmpcrary mental derangement.”

i Octo-

TllE VAGRANTS' LODGING-HOUSE.

The landlord was a big, strapping fellow, who had passed some of his earlier days iii a inetropolitan'prison for sundry acts ofpetty knavery, but who had repented of his unprofitable career, and had succeeded on the death of. his father and mother to the rights and privi- leges, property. good-will, furniture, and all the rest, of the King's Head—the vagrants’ lodging-house. He must have been not less than six feet high, with strono siuewy arms, and looked one vast mass of muscle and gour. His head was round, red, and heavy. His upper lip was scowling, and his pliysioguomy severe. No one would think of attacking liiiii single-handed; and he would be a match in physical, strength for two or three of the stoutest and bravest ofhis customers. His. wife was made in a very different mould. She had once been handsome; but coarse language, coarse associations coarse lodgers, a coarse husband, a coarse mode oflife: and a habit of“ driving dull care away,” by tliejug and the bottle, bad converted her into a fallen beauty, and a mere shadow of her former self. Twosquallincr, screech- ing, savage, disobedient, untractable children? were the fruit oflier marriage with our host; and the King’s Head was known all round as being the most musical but least harmonious family iii the neighbourhood. - {Vben the landlord had seen the two~penny beer placed before me, lie’turned to a thick-set, wild, savage-lookino man who had a small bull-dog at his feet, and who tfavelled with another man, much like himself, and with their canine companion. The wild, savaoe-lookincr man had jet black hair, an old brown leatherii belt, aiid a little sack thrown across his shoulder, clothes which hunt! upon him but lightly, and covered his body but ill and; hat which both the winds and the rains of heaveii had visited most roughly. He was a “ prig.” He belonged to the class of vagrants who are most exceedinoly clever at drawing a purse, watch, or pocket-book, froiii persons in crowded places. Races, fairs, and prize-flirth are their most favourite resorts. His companion wa: so inuch like him that they must have been brothers. As he was talkative, however, his brdther was taciturn ' and Bob Davis (for such was the elder brother’s name) gave all the orders, and superinteiided all the ar‘ranoemen'ts. The eldest might have been twenty-five, the youngest four years less. “ In or out, gentlemen 'l” asked the land- lord, as he eyed his suspicious inmates. “Why in to be sure,” replied Bob Davis, "and no mistake.” 2‘One shilling the whole bed,” said the landlord, in a voice of thunder. “ No. 7, first-floor, bed to the rioht only two beds in thereom." “Two halfbeds will stilt fts better ” replied Bob ; “ we. don't sleep together; never mind sie- paration,” “ There’s no cheesing here,” said the land. lord. “ Ift‘hat .don’t suit you, you can accommodate yourselves clsei‘vlie're—‘lor—out, if you prefer it I” The

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to thpe Kiftg’s Hegd—bnt for flash company, for private

interviews for secret. chnfabulattons, and for those cus- . .,

tomers who,»froni their superiorprowess or taflcnt, gain; ed most money from the public, and there ore spenh ‘ ' front room was nine most at the public-house. _. [‘he ' d I d, a smaller than the back, but it was better lighte , an fie hostess served her guests. “ Much I company 1d" the front room ’l” asked Bob. “ Not to-night, replie ft‘ e landlord. “Four merchants, at fire-lurk, and two or- eitrners—all old stagers.” “ Then well take Supper hg’re’n replied Boll u Bacon‘aud eggs, bread antnmut; phies, and no mistake I” “A '1 here shall be none. eat the landlord. “ One shilling and four’pence, if yobu please!” “ And three pints of beer, added Bo “ Sixpence more l” said the host; and one shilling agr tcnpence were paid down long. before the supper ma :- its appenrance. But when it did so, it was most inVin ing; and I shall never forget'tbe Sigh of a poor yv'ryrlna who was travelling towardslnv‘erpool With four c it to gain her native parish, and wno begged their way toad singing psalms, when she saw the rich supper- sdpr .. before her more fortunate neighbours. Multiplie mis- fortunes liad driven her from comparative comfort to widowhood and beggary; and whilst these two pick. pockets were fattening on good cheer, and had decrded for a bed, she and her fatherless children had to crouch into the stables and sleepiii the straw, after 'havmg made an insufficient and wretched meal of stale crusts and water from the pump. "The dear hungry children look- ed with sleepy or with streaming eyes on the rich repast of these unprincipled “ prigs;” and I was almost unable to resist the temptation oftbrowtug off my disguise, and ordering the landlord to supply them With a hearty meal. “ Whv what‘s this, they say of you ’1” inquired the landlord oifa little man of about fifty years of age, whose companion was a child between twelve and thir- teen, and a young man of nearly five-and-twenty. “ I

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hailed that light with more joy tend. art thesame moon;”‘I said,’ " thew-g I W dome, the long-aisled cathedral, tbe'vpr A, . cheerful plains, the rich man’s castle and t e' I K cottage, the prisoner’s cell, the captiv? s now the wrechedrehamberbfa Vllgliflfl&§ylm*g’ ~ Deign, pale Fingara, to shed t’hyrtygg abode of misery and ofvrcel’ It I} ’ I bed by the Fside of Blind Tom. . Ofepurs my clothes,-kept bludgeonfggpk inpi‘yh’,‘ solved that Morpheus should p o. Insid _ my wakeful eyes.. The grand i313”, ,' some time with her pretty but. most. Wicked. I evidently was dissatisfied With my.» meager. " “Why don’t you go to bed, and not hermit} ' ( V your clothes ’I” asked the fairbut Wicked: _ 1' _ my habit,” I answered; “especrally when I, .rpis did not content her ; out sleep an; suspicions, and'I alone resisted the tmpgfl) Morpheus. As long as the moon command, felt neither uneasiness nor unhappiness, all was darkness; and a little after that-hog great tumilt in the adjoining chamber. . plentiful; accusations the most horrul w r and blmve, howlings, and groans; were more terrific by a rush to thestaircasez' 1, him! Down with him 1”: was the cry';',aq‘ fall shortly afterwards apprised me that"t'li I agiuing he knew the bedroom in which daughter had slept, had - stealthily lbirttd ’ ritory of'a less accommodating cOmpa covered too late his error, and was not like fl, get his “ indiscreation." He crawled away- rnorning’s light had dawned upon the Ktng’s_ changed his_ route, but doubtless, .noteh Once more the King’s Head was tranqtti ballipast four, as near as possible, I heard 3 ing in the bed next the door. The prigs w and were planning their operations. among his browns,” whispered one, who fast asleep; and snon afterwards he groped room very lightly, slowly, and cautiously grandfather’s bed was first visited. Ididm

don’t know what they say. not yet care.” answered “‘8 old man, who travelled with umbrella-sticks and whale- boues;.and professed “ _ their own doors and within sight of them. “ Shall _I fell you, then i” asked the landlord. “Just as you lllflf," answered theumbrella-mender. “ Why, they-say you ve got a large fortune left you.’ “That may. be too,” answered the little man. “ res, that maybe too,” echoed his male compliniou. “ I think,” added the landlord, “ your name is George Miller l”- “The same," replied the little man. “ Well, then, if you’re the George Miller wholived in Wellelose-squarc—” “To be sure be is,” interrupted"themcompanion aforesaid. “ No interruption,” said the uinbe‘rella maker, “ though 1 am he.” “Then,” said the landlord,“ you are heir to an estate often thousand a-yenr 1” “It may be 50.” said the umbrella maker, “ but what then ’l” “ Why then you’re a very lucky fellow,” said the landlord. “ And you—you’re the landlord of the King’s Head—-and that’s all I” A“ More civility and less. coarseness,” said the landlord. “ Less blaruey and more information,” retorted the umbrella-mention And I then'the whole room, landlord included, burst into a loud peal of laughter. The landlord produced the newspaper, in which an advertisement had often appeared, addressed to the heir ofJanies Miller, deceased, and which con- tained so accurate a description of the person of George, that ifliving he could not be mistaken. And now, right down living he was, there sat the heir himself. “ Gin and water midis-pipes for all the party,” said the umbrella-maker,——“ do you hear that, landlord ’1” The landlord looked astonished, but counted his guests. “Thirteen glasses at threepencc, makes three shillings and threepencc,’Squirc Miller,” said the landlord; and the old umbrella-maker placed the money 'on the table. I now ventured to speak. “There’s a poor widow and her four children in the’ outliouse, who have bad dry crusts and water,”1 observed. “And an old woman with the rheumatism, who has no crusts at all,” added the landlord. “ Three glasses for the. outs,” said the little umbrella man: “and bread for the old granny.” “One shilling more,” said the landlord of the King’s Head; and, in about ten minutes’ time, the gin.and water, both in and out, and the bread to the stable, were iii circulation 2 but as it is with wine, so it is with spirits; when the gin and water began to take effect, the scene became much more uproarious. The young “ swell” tonk to kissing the granddayighter. The grandfather fell a beating his grandchild. The two brothers vaunt- ed of their “ success” at some neighbouring races, which success they pretended was in betting, but which most oftbeir companions knew to mean pickpocketing. And various scenes ol a grave or comiccharacter riveted my attention, but still did not unloose my tongue. A man in a smockfrock, with the air of'a hawker about him, and who did nothing the whole evening but smoke pipes and mutter to himself over two pints of threehalf— penny, had his tongue set in motion by the mixture of gin and water with- his beer, on, no doubt, a somewhat empty stomach. He had asadly ferocious look, and was evrdently not at ease, either in his reflections or re- collections. “ Well, and what in did ’l” asked this fel- low, not of any one in particular, but of all,—" I say, whatth did l—Whose affair’s that. ’l—Wasn’t she mine 'l *YfES. she was l, Well, who says the contrary ’l—There she is!" and then he made atlasli forward with his brawny- arm across the table, as thought to catch at spmethipg. ‘I‘Shhe’s gone——she’s gone,” he continued. .1 dldn dort, Sir,——-no, I didn’t indeed—But what if I