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abled them to Jeap down with ease upon the decks of the cor- vette, As the two ships lay locked in a deadly embrace, Capt. James would have reinforced his officer with his last mon, rather than fail in his object. But there was no need. The vld Scotchman, with along two-edged Andrew Ferrara, which had done good service in many a well-fought field, led the way

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THE EVERGREEN.

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BY GHOROR P. MORRIS.

«* Love cannot be the aloe-tree, W hose bloom but once is seen ; Go search the grove—the tree of love Is sure the evergreen ; For that’s the same, in leaf or fame, ‘Neath cold or sunny +kies; You take the ground its roots have bound, . Or it, transplanted, dies!

** That love thus shoots, and firmly roota In woman's heurt, we see;

Through smiles and tears in after-years lt grows a fadeless tree.

‘The tree of love, all trees above, Forever may be seen,

In Summer's dloora or Winter's gloom,

nobly, and more than one guard went down beneath its terrible sweep. The good cutlasses and long pikes which followed him made short work. The tide of battle never rolled backward for an instant. The quarter-deck was first taken. Then, after a deaperate struggle, the Frenchmen were driven along the waists, the boardera battening down the hatches as they ad- vanced. @ There was one valiant rally on the forecastie, tll a last charge drove a mass of fighting men over the bows with thete arms in their hands = [n a quarter of an hour there wae neta living Frenchman Jeft upon the deck,

Captain James. who had coolly counted on the capture as a matter of co: rse, had given the strictest orders that they were if possible, to prevent the crew of the corvette from striking her | flag, and this they succeeded in doing.

When at last the tub cast the corvette off, the French flag ) was still flying at her peak, and the commodore imagined that she had succeeded in beating off the attack

An enquiry ight uaturatly be made, how thai respected

a ? A hardy evergreen. | officer bad been employed during the interval.

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4 CRUISE IN A TUB | imagined that she wished to decline ‘he combat. é + a & . |

lrade soon lay eo completely between them sete cover the Amid the varied improveme is in naval architecture to which | Baglish ship (rom bis fire. the latter half of the nineteenih century bas given birth:

the course of construction, tha: befure she is launched a'! traces | of 4 prize crew. of she mode! on wlich she was designed are lost. there are atl! |

can’, if ancomplunemary epithet of tab.’’ Aud in so dos. £» acquitied herself very respectably. these ecoffere may be considered merely to wnply that the crafi | in question does not reach their td-as of perfection. sides with the Englishman, passing her almost within pistol Navy & more special signification daye « tud was a fory-four gun smip. She carneds:xteen guns | the weight of shot, though fortunately noe* struck ber below ob het main, sixteen on her lower, and the remainder on her) the water line. quarter-deck and forecastie. hu | proportion from the English broadside, and the crew gave & Her burld was similar to thet which popular prejudice as- | cheer as they hastened to reload. sigas to the aldermen of the Civy of London ; for her claims to} symmetry were materially affected by the undue proportion) commodore. But his triumph was doomed to be short-lived. which ber circumference bore to her Jength. Her sailing | He has sigaalied to the corvetie to stand off and rake the Eng- powers were those cf a hay-stack. She wen before the wind | lishwan, but she does not appear to comprehend. Pernaps. 10 admirably. | the sinok», she has been unable to mtetpret his orders. For jt was not then with feelings of unmixed satisfaction that the | now she sails under her former comrades’ stern. But oh, Howorable Captain James L — received the intelligence of | horror! Whatis this? Crash go the esbin windows of the his appointment to a ship of thus description. _ | commodore. One, two shots strike the mizen mast, and it goes The struggle between England and ber American colonies | by the board Che corvetie pours in the whole of her broad- was drawing toa close. France, Spain, and ioliand had suc-) side at biscuit throwing distanc~, raking with every gun. Quite cewwely declared agamat us, and our naval supremucy was by | unsuspicious that she had passed into Kaglish & inds, no effori ko means undisputed. had beea made to avoid her man@uvre, and the old Scotchman Caytain James belonged to a gallant family. Two of his| had judged his distance admrabiy. Half a dozen guns are drothers had won laurels both afloat and on ehore, and he bim-)} dismounted by her fire, and the French commodore and the wf, at the age of e1gh!-snd-twer y, was already a distinguished | next officer in command are killed by a eplinter from one of oficer. This, aceording to the rules of English naval policy |tnem. Uhe wreck of the mizen-mast fouls the rudder, and for from time immemorial, would fuily account for hie being se-/ a short time she becomes unmanageable. ' ected to command a tub Such as she was, however, lie was) the old tab tekes advantage of tier disaster, and c ossing her folly prepured to make the best of her. siern, rakes her once wore, (ler decks are piled with killed He eatled with orders to intercept, if possible, some of the ,and wounded. She figh’s gallantly for some tine longer, bub convoys which were then leaviag Brest fur Awerica with stores she can do litle against the two ships, which are bo-h beaut und wnanitions of war. fully handled. At last ber forvemast follows the fate of the {r wae on a fine Sunday evening that he dropped out of Pty- mzen, and she is compelled to sinke. mouth harbor, taking advantage of the eb'-tide under his lee, When the English captain came on board to receive the with light cire from the eastward. After making a good offing | sword of the evmmanding officer, he found a midstipmen ie from the Lizard he shaped his course go as to cross the track charge. Every superior ollicer was kiled of placed hors de af the convey? 46 @000 a8 possible. combat. ; On Montay, the wind gt round a little to the southward of Tiere was a great deal to be done in the way of making east, freshenung a itile at the same time, apd with ths leading | arrangamenis for the disposition of the large number of prison- breeze ali he old tub’s canvas to d. 'ere, and there was a terrible amount of work cut out tor the out daylrght on Wednesday that the look-out an- surgeons. Bios slot 4 asonge Bail was 10 jews As the day Broke he. At last Captain James found a few moments toexehange gave notve of another and another, and by mine o'clock thes | congratulations with his first leutenant. oi bed sighted five vesseis—the largest apparently of heavy iets! ‘* You are not sorry we edged up to look at them 2 he said. —and the about ix gules distant, broad apon their larboard, But there was stil! a cloud on the brow of the careful Caledo- bow. ' oan, which success alone was unable to remove. He would

od with the amount of caution which the combination | richly gilt. . ae iilctens might oaturally be expected to pro-, * { conse help thinking aboot the merchantmen,’ he replied. duce. fe evidenily did nut like the aspect of affairs; and |“ [t's just a vara great pity they should get awa’. . when the made out anuther of the ships to be « large corvette, For be it known to the untiated, that though capturing ships apparent! of French bavid, bis anxiety became manifest.

‘One ta time would have saved us better,’ said the capt. | brought the larger profit. addreveng bum, and indicating the eseny. ; “ Wed, ver hanor, we can just show them a clean pair o' | for epending the largest amount in the shortest time, he aught neels, w the wind as Ht is 1” ihe moo.” | hove been backed freely ayain-t any officer in H. M. service. «fy wll be time enough to think about thar, if the worst Accordingly, he caught in a moment at the suggestion of the tomes t¢ the worst,” replied the captain; ** but | showid Iske) first lie@renant.

to have. better took atthe first. Edgea lite cioser,master,) “If you think the corvette can catch them, you are quite ud lei # see wha’ they are like.” | welcome to try, but [ cannot give you more than enougi hands

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The naster smiled. as he gave the necessary orders. He had | to sail her. aut ‘

aied vh Cavtain James defore, and formed hie own con-| “ Weel, captain, if we just keep up the French flag till we cusos wih regard to what “a litle closer” meant, oa . aa

‘ d) streek without firing a shot.

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f Proch and American ships. Vhe largest, which bore the And the canry Scot's supposition proved perfectly correct. tradennan: of a commadore, wos nomoatly a fifty-gun ship, | He sighted the chase early the next morniag, and they verv bu. a was usual with French vessels of war at that tine, she | esligingly hove to for hua to overtake them. W repay td per- earre some half-dozee guas more ‘han her raving, and 4 wore | ceived their ertor, U was too late to retrieve it, he three tmevus crew than would have been found im aa English | siups would have been more than a match for the corvette, Yemweut the same eize. Une second was a corvetiea, sunller | manned as she was; but the sloop of war showed a clean pair

#@ 104+! (without one alteration upon the original pion), ané| ‘They hauled down their flags, a8 8 mutter of course. After with crew almost equal in number, though not im any ovher | they had strack, the wary bentenant ee ~ cee ree i of their crews on board the corvetie, ane Carefully stowe ”

tespet, 10 that of the ** tub.” | of j . :

Te third was e sloop of war, and the two remaining vessels | away in irons below with the rest of the prisoners.

ter American merchantmen carry ng letters of vow tel vale

Fr some time the French were in.doubt with regard to the | her great prize. a £ ult

wen: of the strange: under their \ee, being half-inclined from | keeping the Jater ofloat, and had been compe ath eo = ea

Saeal appearance to put herdown as a merchanimnen, tnvking | pesoners work at the pumps. But now the tee est pagent

tgater show then her resources were likely to support. They (the sou hword and westward, and enabled the . all oa

fet rateful tu her also for saving them the trouble of going out) Piymourh Sound in safety. A revenue eptiers w a a : wey

Of tere way to teke her, which would have been contrary to them a few hands, acted as their herald, and the people flocked : 779

coors « 10d lled 10 the | welcome

"(such as she was), the Preach commodore signalied to tie) we! 2. aaa ct

opt mane to go on auder easy gail, and that he} Iu the many long years of pone! rnd bare i et

rad take them a soun as he had captured the English-| « thousand fights where the long odds lay against the &

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aptain James had continued the process of “ edging”’ for | road to victory, as the pointers guide the glance towards (he

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tmurpose of “ looking at them,”’ ill a distance of littie more! polar star. i a rule anda half intervened. Then the French commo- meee the corvette hauled to ‘he wind, and Love in Btays to her coming foe. We must fight now,” seid Captain James to the first lieut- trying hard to suppress the delight which would show

A THRILLING STORY.

The following incident occurred on board a British frigate, in his countenance and was communicated to the a ee een oon i . oy, about four 1 ens a j t : with | old man-of-war’s man. A tim! Vs " of ; Tihs ee ee eee getting ready age, hesiiated to go alofi, but by the ene arenes ete hie moment ye were nearing the enemy rapidly, having forcibly pui _ ee ee ear es = 04 » i ' e >» la 2 2 1 ener qn thew weather bow, and the corvette still Seo Shetenes detenitl legs and arms trembled, he anes to argh ee Captain James, “ haul sharp up to the| the shrouds, he cried, he prayed the inhuman poe roe * “ reoe us try if we cannot weather them both.’’ sake to have mercy upon him, but all in — e _ oe A. oie the aldermanic build of the old tub stood her in| mate was ordered to jay Fe a ee ao wnat , icker,| the boy’s piercing screams wh , i

stead. She could wear and «tay a great deal quicker, Fg eg hr Pang

mn turn from the brutal scene with disgust. ’ 9 wae ie toce acta Great Eastern, though she Ce frou his back, im blood followed the er st ea d out—** Lay on, boatswain’s mate! ith oue

‘ : t mach sea, and the French ehipe| tyrant roare é : oo _m ee: "gatas tack, so that ehe passed — scream ee ise ~ hei eet priapesedes

P co ‘ ing with ag g : > B fi oe a cables” Jength of the cowmodore’s bows, though es en cat, passed up the topmast and feet rigging ae ith wn ished speed, shinned the unrattied royal rigging, in- fthe Frenchman that ehe| with undiminis , . iering e here foretop-galiant mast and| and a a de ey yng Na ge Boom F ere keeping to their usual | streame rom the ma . re ' ay lies. 1 a aa Sear ae ’ fearlessly upca the deck below. All ao a see a swdily.tha sane ahead ieerdne @ portentous silence. | hie cries and crue! treatment had arepee ~ the ea The aa ia Seid ofa set te the starboard quarter, who | aud, if possible, had innreneny none eats i he ae , e Nollowed Captain James from bus ant ship, with the licence | wonaiet Nat, Ore eof those iyrente who boasted that the

' men . Wed to favourites, beaought piieously to be allowed to give | exper!

y appli ything. Still he ** just one’’ as they passed, ‘ ( cat, properly applied, could make men do anything fer your physic for the corvette, Jack,” replied the in,

. Zs hensive that the boy might destroy himself, and |

eerie used against him ut the Admiralty, where he knew representations of hie cruelties had ae — 4s has bows at half the distance at which she had passed} The men gazed in silence, nokan™ Sl ~ a ¥ ne Bomnodore, she hulled her w.th ximoat every gun, receiv-| the captain, who was seate: near the ew an ee fonly the contente of her bowrchasere in reply. be seen speaking to one ee Saas ty Se an if Now, master, bear up and run alongside of the corvette in| even at night spies were under ee ds of the winkiin ofs bed en they whispered. The officers wall nd oe vere an just fg reload the upper deck gune, and to| quarter oe cecasionally casting their eyes ’

10 On emechi ide borh decks, when a crash |eilent as the men, senetuded 4 pie en ae vesecie. The helm! playing with the pennant, apparently yaconscious o Bees put suddenly up, according to the captain's order, | BP he twd ren stem on into the corvere’a quarter, The bows ou iH eaught her afier-rigging, and in « moment the two vessels} down!” a : © BR heaving together upon the deep. rieing himse!f erect,

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nd the corveite received a full dose; for as the tub ran

sung out through the apesking trumpet. ‘Down from alofi,

boardere ; ; d been mn hie arms out gave a wild, laughing scream, en ~ fur san Wn: aaa ‘cee hoagie of the nen oan himself forward. The captain jumped to his feet expect-

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Boglish ship luffed and crossed his bows without firing, he had deceived when she opened fire upon the earvette, but his com- After he had forged some «ivance appear lke pillared columns. At 8/anead, by the time he had ago borne up, 80 a8 to lav bread-|evea and delicate skin; his face oval and fuil, but void of cane When a man-ef-war may underyo so many alterations in side on tothe Englishman, the corvetic was taken, and in charve expression-—neither love, fear, revenge nor pleasure could be The ship of the French commodore wae a fine yesse), with a extent vessels with the dietingushing imtiale H. M.S. before | weit trained crew ; and when attacked exact!v as she expecied, their names, to winch the profene are avt to app y the sigetfi-| of aliowed to fivht according to her own ideas of propriety, she

When, therefore, she at last succeeded in exchang ng broad-

But in the year 1782 the term ** tub’’ possessed in the British | shot, her superior weight of metal ‘old with deadly effect, and |

The commodore’s ship suffered much less in

As she broaches to, |

The firt lieutenant was an old sailor and a Scotch nan: and | have set little value on @ statue of Victory, if it was not very

are pretty cloee, I've ove doot when we show our own they’l! |

j : ¢ . ir fate. | tan he Bngitsh stip, but a beau itul crafi, busit on toe last | of heels, and lefi the heavily-iaden mercbantines to thelr fate. |

On the evening of the second cay they overtook the tad and |

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ing to see the boy dashed in pieces on the degk; but when clear of the shade of the sails, he saw him sliding along the main royal stay towards the foretop-gallant masthead, and heard him laugh and chatter hke a monkey, as if enjoying the sport. | Hle reached the masthead in safety, and then descended along | the top-gatlant backsiay hand over hand. The captain luoked | at him, and was about to speak, but could not find words. The | boy frothed at his mouth and nose, his eyes seemed starting out of his head ; he rolled upon the deck in eeavulsions ; al! stained with the blood which trickled from his back. He was a@ maniac. The surgeon’s skil! in the course of a few weeks restored his bodily health but not his reason.

From that time he was fearless In the darkest night—in the fiercest gale—he would scamper along the deck like a dog, and bound aloft with a speed which no one on board could equal. He would run over the yards without holding, pass from mast to mast on the stays, ascend and descend by the leeches of the aails, and run upon the studding sail booms. He was as nimble as a cat, and had forgotten fear Some of the light duties aloft he learned to discharge with them—he did so a: they did, but could not be trusted to do anything himself. , One order he always obeyed without hesitattons At the com- mind, § Away aloft,” he was off, and never paeeed anti) he As he was baruless agd rarely spoke, (th captain kept him on board and sent him aloft for asnuse ment. His strength increased with his years, but his bulk and

reacted the masthead.

became a maniac. His ribs, back and breast seemed one case

| 1 le was une | height remained nearly the same at eighteew as when he

o bone, end his einews and muscles made his legs and arms |

He was fair, wuh light blue

ftraced in his solid ou line. He stared at everything without appearing tosee, and when he apoke there as rarely an | meaning in his words. duties like a dog following his master. struck or startled by a boatswain'’s mate, be ray ap the rigging screaming at the top of his lungs, and never peused vat he performed the first evolution which had made hm a maniac.

The captain, availing hinself of the | lersure, was going to be married, and the newe was communi- ‘eated by his servant to the cook. who soon circeiated it on the | berth deck. among the men, whocursed all ef biskin. lis } Servant came on board of the hulk where his mew were lodged,

(the name the boy was known by) met him at the gangway and asked intelligently if the captain would be martied that evening and where? The servant gave hin the informanon he desired, and went about his business. ‘That night, while the captain | Was undressing, he was seized by the throat,and dragged to the bridal bed. ‘* Look, fair lady, on me,’’ said Crazy Joe, “but do not scream, or | will kill you. ULookon me ; [ hold

fieud who has seourged the tacks of hundreds ¢! rufiian who has robbed me af my reason; | holé bin within the , very grasp of death at the very moment his | ttself within the reach of bliss, Monster! look apon your lady j;—hink a moment of the beaven of earthly jo}

your reach—then think of me, poor Crazy Joe, and of the hell |

to which [send you! Die wretch, die.” Whes we alarm was

given, the strangled body of the captain was found lying »alungside the bridal bed, but the manise whodridled him was Prever recognized afierwards. He beionged ty Corowall, and probably found shelter in the mines until the excitement passed away. The jady stated at the time, and many years afterwards, that the attack of the maniac was su eucden aol silent that she knew nothing of it unti! the curtains were oushed aside, and she felt the pressure of the eap'ain'’s body bem over tle edge of the bed. Joe held his vietim around the vegeeweth bis right j} hand, and turned him trom s-de to etde as evsily as if he had jheena child, while the forefinger and taum) of the left hand graeped her awn throat, ready to extinguish tor life of she tried to raise an alarm. His face was pale an hike, his eyes istared, but W@re motionless, aud every wa uttered seemed to issue from the very depths of his eeul. The eaprain’s looks were of terrible description—death left the nogress of ferocity jupoa his darkened features, How the maging entered or left |the roam she .ever knew ; his departure Ww Dna noiseless as |his entrance. So paralysed was she with fear, that an hour elapsed befure she could muster courage to call for heip, but

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And yet, why? Where is ever feeling more atoused in favor lof virtue than ata good play? Where is goodness so feelingly, | 80 enthusiastically learnt? (What sa solemn as to see the excel- j lent passions of the Human heart called forth by a great actor, fanimated by a great poet? To hear Siddons repeat what | Shakspeare wrote! To behold the child, and tis mother—the j noble, and the poor artisan —the monarch, and bis subjecis—al! /aves and all ranks convulsed with one common passion, wrung ;with one common anguish, and, with loud sobs and cries, |

| What wretched infaruation to interdict such amusements as jtnese! What a blessing that mankind can be aliured from | sensual gratfications, and find relaxation and pleasure in such jpursuis! Bat those who dub themselves “ evengelicals’”’ are junitormiy paltry and narrow—always trembling at the idea of ‘being entertained, and thinking oo Christiameste who is not dull. As to the spectacles of nopropriety whiek are sometimes witnessed in parts of a tueatre, ench reasons apply ta a much | stronger degree to pot driving slong the Strand, or any of the | great public streets of London, after dark ; andif the v.riue at | well educated young people is made of such very frasl materials, heir bes! resource is t0 4 nunnery atance. f is w very bad

rule, however, never ta quit the house for fear of catching |

‘cold .—Sydney Smith

ON NN

A Coot Woman.—An afternoon or two singe, a conductor ‘on one of the Cambridge horse cars, while ov West Boston

}draw a well-dressed lady jump over the bridge. He im- | mediately stopped his gar, aud, looking over, saw the lady floating down the stream with the curreat. , He culled to

, soe sailors on board a sloop that was lying near by, point-

| ing out the whereabouts of the lady, who immediately lowered |

a boat and proceeded to the rescue. Wheathey reached her she was floating, aided by her erinoline, appwrently at her ease, and without mach concera to her position, Instead of taking the lady in, they towed her to a wharf where, by the

He followed the men in (heir various | Whenever he was)

As the satlor’s*story runs, the ship arrived at Plymouth to be} fa ihe vocabulaty of those the old tub alinost heeled over on her beam-ends as she received docked and rt fitted. / ;

within my grasp a devil, who delights in craelty—a merciless | yrave meni-——a4 ;

lack sou! thought |

almost witht |

| A Cvercyman’s Aporocy ror THE Stace.—There is | ; i ‘of war might give the greater glory, taking merchanunen | something in the word playhouse which seems so closely con- | C'Ys and only left at half-past 4 in the morning.

|) doing involuntary homage to the God that made their hearts! |

Gleanings from late Papers. THE PRINCE OF WALES’ VISIT.

HIS PROGRESS THROUGH CANADA,

We give below the most interesting features of the Prince’s progress through Canada, which we have selected from Canadian papers.

On the morning of Aug. 2{st, the Prince took up his resi- dence in the Parliament bu.ldings which had been fitted up most handsomely for him. After a short delay several presen- tations was made; the first being those of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, next the judges of the Superior Court of Lower Canada; then the House of Assembly and Council.

Afier the presentation of addresses from both Houses the interesting ceremony of conferring kaighthood on both Speakers | |; Was performed,

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CONFFRRING THE ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD, | Now followed a ceremony which it had been rumoured would j take place, bat of which nobody was certain. Tne Duke of | Newcastle, by command of HL. R. I, advanced to the Speaker and intimated t» him that the honor of knighthood would be |

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land Lord St Germains announced the names. The clerks and | attache 80! the House received @ similiar honor, ‘due dignity and deliberation, they reured.

iC mmnons of Canada appeared upon the seene. First the isergeant, Mr. McDonald, with his silver chain, handsome gold jmace, kuee breeches, silk stockings, &c., bowing in due and jancreat form. ;evormous robe, and the rest of the Commons in plain dress, tail caals, white cravats, gloves, &c. The Minis‘ers of course wore therr uaiforms. The ceremony gone through with this body just the same as the Counc:!. ‘The Speaker, with a Sonofous voice, rolied out the Address, firstin English and

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jyouthful voice were listened to in the deepest silence. Was | Mr. Henry South to receive the honor of kn ghthoad ? was then the anxious thought of every one. ‘The suspense did not last long, for on invitation of his Grace, the Speaker knelt, and |rose a Knight. Then the members filed before the Prince, | Passing the reverse way from tiat of the Couucil, and were ‘presented by name, the whole of them (except Mr. Mowat, who was detained by iliness,) being present. The attaches ot the House were tie last of the procession, and then the Com- mons were bowed out. They generally had the bearing of ventiemen. Some were, however, rather singular, to say the |!eas!, and at these the Prince could not repress an involuutary gnnie.

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| FURYHER INCIDENTS. |

A dozen or more so of the officers of the garrison were next | presented ; afier which a different body came in, namely, the |

Synod of the Anglican Church of the- Diocese of Quebec. After this came the levee, at which about a thousand gentle- men were present, and a number of addresses from national | societies and other confederated bodies were read, though no [replies were given, After a dejeuner the Prince and his sure drove in carriages to the Meontmorenci Falls. here were at (least adozen arches built on the road thuher. The drouses |were dressed with flags, and Dorchester Bridge wag most handsomely oraamenied. ‘here were crowds of people on the way out shouting and cheering justily. The Fails were very ifine, and the volume of water many Umes as great as ugual, ;owing to the late excessive rains | The Ballin Music Hall on Tuesday evening, Aug. QIst. was }a magnificent aflgir the Music Hall, the bandsomest public }room in Canada, had been thoroughly cleansed and repainted, so that it needed no additional decorations save the tastetul wreaths of white and red roses and vine leaves; the figure of | Cupid hovering over each garland susyeaded from the gaselers,

jand beautiful bonquets of flowers were profusely placed where- | she thanked God, when the captain’s cruel characier became |

ever there was room, to make the locale of the Mayor and Citizens’ Ball the most attractive the Prince has yet visited, | The decorations of the Halifax ball room were superb, but they | fell fur short of Quebec.

| he Prince danced every dance with various ladies of the

| At noon of Wednesday Aug. 22nd, the Prince visited Laval

Now, Captain James had no objection to prize-money ; 8Nd | sands in their vocsbulary for every species of avomination, | University, where he received and replied to an address from

jthe anihorities. After this he went to the Ursuline Convent. | which was prettily decorated. An address was here oresented ,to the Prince by one of the young lady pupils of the Nunnery, jtastefully dressed. ‘T'o this address, wih which the Prince jseemed particularly pleased, he reinrned a gracious reply.

| Returaing to his palace, His Royal Highness entertained at ,!unch the remaimder of tue Legislative Assembly and Council; | Tne Prnee, after lunch, went to visit the citadel, and walked ;round if, enjoying the beautiful views.

A frightful aceident occurred in the evening, from the faliing (of a platform. Many ladies and gentlemen were severely jinjureé, though no lives foriunaiely were lost.

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| The Prince’s departure from Quebec on Thursday morning,

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. } conferred upon hun, so Mr. Belleau, soon to be Mr. no longer, | j advanced reverentiy and knelt on both knees, while the Prinee, | jee the Duke’s sword, lald first on his Jefi, and then on his | |riught shoulder, saying at the same time, “* Rise, Sir Narcisse |

The rest of the proceedings of the Leg:s!ative Council were, from left to right, and wer: presented individually. Col. Irvine

Thea, with |

Ina few minutes the crimson doors were flang open, and the

Next Mr. Speaker, in all the amplitude of his |

Hark ! Hark! a merry, me i Rings out o’er all the nar, ue

Its echoes through the cloister steal. It fires our youthful band.

Bring harp and song ! let melody,

Let joy gush forth in numbers free,

Of joy o’er all the land! Soro.

’Tis gladness all, thy welcoming, From Albion’s Isle afar;

And loysl hearts their homage bring, To hail thy rising star ;

And joyous youth its promise tell,

While tuneful netes of triumph rwell ;

Lo! Britain’s Heir deigns here to rest ;

Ob ! haste to greet our Royal Guest !

2xp Caorvs,

Weke! Wake! another merry peal, And let it echo long,

While wishes for the Prinee’s weal Are mingled with our song,

May every blessing on thee rest ; Thus rings the merry peal ;

And thus we bail thee, Royal Guest, Thus pray we fot thy weal,

While still that merry peal

tings loud, and echoes long!

At the display of Fire Works at Quebec, the piatform intended

| for spectators, gave way, and caused serious jury to a large number of persons.

_In speaking of the domonstra¥ions in Quebec, for the recep- tion of the Pringe, the Quebee Chronicle says :—

|. ** Phere may have been more elaborate displays in the | Lower Provinces than we could boast «f in Quebee. There “may have been attractions in many respects more brilliant ; but it is not possitle that a more sincere illustration of the loyalty of these Previnces can have been given than that during the last five days in Quebec. _

| To measure the fuil extent of the display in this city, we jhave to take into account that anlike the people of the | maritime Provinces—we are, here, two distinet races. With little, if any, of the United Empire Loyalist blood, which our New Brunswick and Nova Scotian neighbors can boast of— with many sympathies or origin whieh might be supposed ,to divide us, we find a common meeting growad in paying i bonor to the Prince, and every difficulty of race, religion and political feeling, is merged in the common desire to do hon our to the occasion, and illustrate the loyalty of the people.”

The American ship ** Alfred Storer ’’ lying at Quebec when | the Prince arrived, was admirably decorated with evergreens, j}and beautifully illuminated at night.

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Present From THE Prince To THE Carueprat.— Yesterday morning, Major General Bruce. transmitted to the Lord Bishop of Quebec a token from His Royal Hishness in the shape of a Bible, bearing upon the fly-leaf the following inscription : | ** To the Cathedral of Quebec, in memory of Sunday, | August 19th, 186Q.

Avprrt Epwarp.” The inscription is in the handwriting of His Royal Highness. | Tne book is magniGcently bound, and bears the arme and crest of the giver upon the cover. We feel certain that this interesting memorial of the Royal visit will be appreciated by | its present possessors.— Quebec Chronicle, Aug. 24th.

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| Experiesce of an Arsenic Eater.—The director of the arsenic works near Salzburg, in Germany, says he began the habit of arsenic eating at the age of seventeen, while engaged | in assaying, by the advice of his teacher, a professor in chem- | istry and mineralogy. His teacher told him that if he desired | {0 continue the study of assaying, and to become in the future 4 superintendent wf a factory, especially of an arsenie faciory, jand to preserve himeelf from the il! effects of the fumes, 60 that he might enjoy health and long hfe, it was absolutely | necessary, besides strictly abstaining from spiziimous liquors, ithat he should learn to take arsemc ; but when filte geare of /age he should gradually reduce the dose tons Intie as he began with, oreven less. Ths advice he has followed til now, the | forty-fifib year of hisage. He began with three grains, and at | present takes twenty-three grains of pure white arsenic in coarse jpowder. The dose is taken once a day, early, in any warm !iquid such as coffee, but not in spirituous liquors, About an /hourafter taking the first dose, (which quantity he took daily | for three month-) there followed slight perspiration, with griping Pains in the bowels, and, after three or four hours, a loose excavation ; this was followed by a keen appetite and @ feeling of excitement. With the exception of the pain, the same symp- toms followed every increase of the dose. Evil consequences. ensue only from long continued interruption. On two ocea- | sions he aitempted to leave off the arsenic, at the solicitation (of friends, but the effects upon his health were so serious that ihe resumed the practice fle was iuduced to try ita second jtime from a belief that his first illness might have arisen from |some other cause. ‘The effect is thus stated. | On the third day of the second week after leaving off the | dose, I was attacked with faintwoss, depresion of spiriis, mental weakness, and a total loss of the little appetite 1 still had : sleep, alsa entirely deserted me. On the fourth day | had violent palpitation of the heart, accompanied by profuse pers iration, inflammation of Jungs followed, and I was Jaid up for nine weeks, the same ag on the first occasion of leaving off the arsenic.

Aug. 23, was very prett ly arranged. He left the Parliamen: | fad J not been bled, Ishould, most likely, have died of apo- jtfouse at half-past ten o'clock, with his smite, im carriages, | plexy. As @ restorative, I resumed the arsenic eating in smaller Oa the Champisin Market wharf was a Guard of Ilonor, | doses, and with a firm determination never to be seduced by my forming a hoilow equere, in which were the Corporation of the preceptor. The resulie on both occasions were precisely the

fey in fall dress, and several members of the Government. | Preceded by the national societies with banners, he entered the | -quare ats quarier to eleven, end immediaiely went on board he Kingston ‘This sieamer had been especially fitted out for jis accommodation, The berths had been taken out of tie |} Stare-rooms, and a comfortable bed placed in each. She had been thoroughly overhauled, and imaddition to other ornaments, ja beautifel Pence of Wales had been painted on each paddile- j box ; fresh carpets and furniture of all kinds had been supplied.

When at last they made her out to be a man-of- down in crowds to give the old tub and her four prizesa hearty | Bridge on his way to Boston, observed just this side of the | The sailors were all dressed in uniform similar to that of the

| Koyal nary. As svon as the Prince went on board his s andard was hoisted at the fore, and salu'ed by all the inen-of-war in port, as well as by the Citadel. manned, aod their crews, as also the soldiery and the crowd ussembled, cheered lustily.

THE PRINCE’S ARRIVAL AT THREE’ RIVERS. The Prince and suite reached Shree Rivers at 6.30 p.m. on

The yards of the ships were |

/same, and death would certainly have ensued had [ not resumed | arsenic eating. >

| We have heard of the exploits of many lacy canvassers for their husbands and relatives, but Mre. Macnamara Caleuti beate | both her cotemporaries and predecessors by large odds. The {following i8 an anecdote of the late election for Clere : “* The contest turned wholly upon personal popularity, and Caleuit, 'who isa farmer-like, jolly Insh gentleman, was better calcu- lated to win upon the people than the fashionable young captain ofa crack corps. Hs wife, too, would make the formune of any condidate. A fine dashing woman, she rode about the country in the carnage with her husband im his canvassing expe ditions, jand when he was one day in a public house, seeing @ parish | commintee, and she was outside in the open barouche awaiting jmsreturn, the frieze conte gathered around the vehicle, and | giving three cheers ‘ for her honor,’’ called upon her to inake ‘a speech, Prompt as lighining she replied,‘ 1 won’t trouble