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VOU. XVI. 1 LITERATURE,

WASTED TIME.

Alone in the dark and silent With the heavy thought of a vanished year,

ight,

When evil deeds come back to sight,

And wood deeds rise with a welcome cheer ; Alove with tne spectres of the past,

Phat come with the old year’s dying chime, There glooms one shadow dark and vast,

The shadow of Wasted Time.

The chances of happiness cast away, The opportunities never sought, ‘The good resolves that every day Have died iv the impatience of thought. The slow advance and the backward step la the rugged path we have striven to climb, How they furrow the brow aid pale the lip,

When we talk with Wasted Time.

What are we now? what had we been, Had we hearded time as the miser’s gold, Niriving Our weed to win,

Through the summer's heat aud the winter's cold

Sirinking from naught that the werld could do; Fearing asught bat the touc!: of crime ; Labouring, straggling, all seasons through,

Aud knowing no Wasted Time ?

Who shall reeall the vanished years ; Whe shall hold back this elbbing tide

That leaves us remorse, and shame. and tears, And washes away all things beside ’

Whe shall give us the strenut! een now, To leave forever this holiday rhyme,

To shake off this sloth from beat and brow, And battle with Wasted Time?

The years that pass come ot again, The things that die no life renew ; But e'en from the rust of his cankering chain

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truc Liberty, when

jou, ina whisper. Then, finding the pail | minutes longer, and then a baker’s man ap-

empty (it was nearly full at half-past nine,

ee a Le when I entered),

' had playfully thrown to the further end of ithe shed.

the pail stood close to my head; so that I

peared with a great wooden tray piled up

he considerately went and with just such slices of bread as we had re- | refilled it, and even took much trouble, too, | in searching fur the tin pot which served as} to an able-bodied casual, who took his place |

ceived over night. The tray was consigned

|a drinking cup, and which the last comer with the taskmaster at the shed door; and

|then, in single file, we re-entered the shed,

| ought to bave mentioned that|each man and boy receiving a slice as he

passed in. Pitying, as I suppose, my unac-

had peculiar opportunities of study as one |customed look, Mr. ‘Taskmaster gave me a

after another of my comrades came to the

}fonntain to drink, just as the brates do in The pail re- filled. Daddy returned, and was seen no more |

those books of African travel.

| till morning.

lt stili wanted four hours and a balf to|and **skilley! skilley seven o’clock—the hour of rising—and never | before in my life did time appear to creep

/80 slowly. } parish chureh, and of the Parliament Houses,

as well as those of a wretched tinkling Duteh |

clock somewhere on the premises. The parish church was the first to announce the hour (an act of kindness | feel bound to ac- | knowledge), Westminster came next, the

jlazy Dutchman declining his consent to the | He never uttered a word in reply, or showed |

_| time o’ day till fully sixty seconds alter- wards. ence of sixty seconds an injury—il the officers

|} of the house took their time from Datebman

It may seem atrifle, but a minute is some-| one of which fluated a small tin saucepan, | buck ?”” some listenerasked. *

| Slice and a lurge piece over. The bread devoured, a clamour for ‘* skil- ley’? began. ‘The rumour had got abroad

Mreebor

that this morning, and on all future morn- |

ee ee ee ee kw a ee ee ae eiges- © RK i lei | eit as : - PEIN ieee lll Bt

my old woman as lived in the borough. Well, one day, a woman agwas in the house ses to we, ses she, * Don’t you go past the | Deaf and Dumb School as you goes home !° So T ses, * Yes.’ So ses she, * Would you mind callin’ there and takin’ a message to my little gal as is in there daf and dumb?’ So 1 ses, * No.’ me in, and [ tells the mess:ge, and they sbows me the kid what it wa for. Pooty | little gal? So they tell ber the nessage, and

| then she begins making orts and crosses like |

j

on her hands. * What’s shea doin’ that for!’ ses. ‘She's a talkin’ to you,’ ses they.

m Men, having to advise the Public, may speatl«

Well, I goes and they lets |

[AL OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AN

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— = : a a a ; 2 a <7 on 7 CK EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, MARCH. 19,, 1560.

‘or hewa pine, $250 cents per theasand. feet, | board measure ; dressed pine, 25 per cent; other | woods, round, hewn or sawed, 20 per cent, and Paes 25. percent, like these could. not. be entertained for an instant by the people of the Provinces.

The Canadian press, without an exception, are | unanimous in expressing satisfaction at the rejec-

tion of the unfair terms proposed by the Com- |

jmittee of Ways and Means. The Montrea!

| ministerial organ and a journal thoreughly devot-

{Repo Euripides.

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tariff. Ten per cent. duties may be substituted | determined beforehand

for twenty and twenty-five, and balf, our tax

ation thrust upon our neighbors by their purchases | in a cheaper market thap they can find at home. Of course propositions | Wealthy Amencans by thousands will make a!

| trip through Canada conducive te their healt! and advantageous to

their wardrobes; and the | belles of Newport and Saratoga will find the |

{ NO. 19 eens to shackle the trade of the and they have succeeded. Upon them, and them ouly, rests the blame!

' But, now, behold themagnavimity of our neigh- ' bors! Ly avrogating the Treaty they have lost | the use of the Prosiacial.in-chore# ishevies—" the

~ two countries,

| attractions of our shops as necessary to the en- finest in the hemisphere,” as the N. Y. ‘Times de-

hancement of their charins as the five breezes’ of) seribes them. American manufactures feel- |

| the St. Lawrenee. , ling the weight.of taxation will transfer thei

| | whole world beside.

But they seem to have decided already that their fiechermen shall not leave the

skill and carry .t to Canada, for while they only fishing grounds. Their newspapers boldly tell us, Gazette, whieh may be held at the sawe time a pertially lose thereby the trade of the United | that the-fishermen will hardly be induced to xa

States, they gain in exchange that of nearly the! 8 The tide of emigration will |

the poor Previncialists’ rights inthe valuable pro-

lings, there would be skilley at breakfast; |‘ Oh! 1 ses, ‘what's she talsin’ about?’ ed to the commercial interests of the country | flow from over taxed America, torn by internal | perty; on the contrary ; the men who served with which centre in Montreal, gives the following ac- | dissensions, toa country where freedom exists in | Farragut in Federal war-ships will probably

'*? resounded through jthe shed. No one had hinted that it was jnot fortheoming, bat skilley seems to be

L could hear the chimes of aj thought an extraordinary concession, and

after waiting only a few minutes for it, they ittacked the taskmaster in the fiercest man- liner. They called him thief, sneak, and |**crawler.’’ Liitle boys. blackguarded him jin gutter language, and looking him in the | face, consigned him tu bell without flinching.

& sign of impatience ; and whenever he was

And Lt deelare L thought that differ- | obliged to speak it was quite without temper, There was a loud ** hooray !°’ when the|

longed-for skilley appeared in two pails, in

‘She says you're a good boy forcomin’ and tellin’ her about her mother, and she loves you.’ Blessed if I could help laughin’! So L ses, ‘ ‘here ain't noeall for her to say that.’ Pooty little kid she was! L stayed there a

count-of the feeling evinced in the commere metropolis on the reception of the news:—

tion, and the maximum of political and social

ia} | the largest measure with the maximum of taxa- | 4 shoot on the spot” any one. who attemps te jorder.” There opeus up for these Provinces a interfere with their piraciest We shall hare ne

Men snet in little groups to discuss the question | grand future if our rulers are. only wise enough | Inter- Colonial Railway ""—no ‘* Inter-Calenial

'goodish bit, and walked about the garden| in the Exchange, and the expression of satisfae- | to see where the stream is bearing us, and to cast = a 4

with her, and what d’ye think! Presently she takes a fancy for some of my jacket but- tous—brass ans they was, with the name of the * house’ on ’em—and | euts four on ’em off and gives her. Well, when | gave her i them, biow me if she didn’t want one of the ‘brass buckles off my shoes. Well, you mightn’t think it, but I gave her that too.’’

|

Rather! Got

| thing when a man is lying on a cold flag- | with a stick thrust into its handle, by way | ep without dinner and walloped as well, 28 | Stone, and the wind of a winter nightisbiow- of a ladle. Yellow pint besins were provided | I wouldn't tell what Id done with ‘em.

iingin your hair. Three o'clock, tour o’olock | struck, and still there was nothing to be-

| guile the time but observation, under the! We obeyed with the utmost alacrity ; and | the master

one Haring gaslight, of the little heaps o! outcast humanity strewn about the floor ; and after a while, I find, one may even become j accustomed to the sight of one’s fellow-crea- | tures tying around you like covered corpses lina railway shed. For most of the company were not bundled under the rugs in the ghast- jly way I have already deseribed—thoug!

for our use, and large iron spoons. round the walls!"

“Range |

the tauskmaster shouted. |

then what I should judge to be about three- fourths of a pint of gruel was handed to each | if us as we stood. [ was glad to get mine, | because the basin that contained it was warn, | ind my hands were numb with cold. 1 tasted | a spoonful, asin duty bound, and wondered more than ever at the eateem in which it was held by my confreres It was a weak decoc-

Chen they was goin’ to wallop me again, 80 I thought I’d cheek it out; so l up and told all about it’? ‘* And got it wuss?’ * No, I. didn’t. The master gave me new buttons and a buckle without saying

another word, and my dinner alung with my

supper as well.”’ Lhe moral of all this 1 leave to you. seems necessary to Say something about it,

for the report which Mr. Farnall made, alter | ) visiting Lambeth

Workhouse on Saturdry,

I!

; here and there a cropped bead appeared. | tion of oatmeal and water, hitter, and with- | scons ineant to suggest an idea that what | surmounted by a billy-cock like my own, or | out even a pooch of salt to flavour it —that ] | hus been described here is merely an irrega-

by a greasy cloth cap. Five o clock, six o*-| could diseuver. But it was hot, and on that | larity. So it may be; but an irregularity

A golden truth is glimmering through ;

‘That to him whe learns from errors past, And turus away with strenyth sablime,

; | weleome—of the world without, an he bie ifieult ersut , jden on the night when somebody happened And waketh each year outdo the last, | weleome—< orld aCe d of the! LU had no difficulty in persuading one of the | 4¢ g y happ

}elock chimed, and then [ had news—mousi | account, perhaps, was so highly relished that which consigned some forty men to such a |

There is no Wasted Time. —_—-

GOING UP AND COMING DOWN.

This is a simple song, ‘tis true And songs like these are never nice ; through

Aud yet we'll try and seutte

real beginning of day. Half a dozen factory bells announced that it was time for working men to go to labour; but my ¢COMpanions were nut working men, and sv snored on Out through the gap in the canyas the stars | were still to be seen shinning on the black sky. but that did not alter the facet that it | was six o'clock inthe morning. | snapped

decent men to accept my share.

It was now past eight o'clock, and as I knew that a certain quantity of labor bad to be performed by each man before he was al- lowed to go his way, I was anxious to begin. |

|The labour was to be ** crank’? Jaber, The | ** cranks ’’ are a series of iron bars extending vcross the width of the shed, penetrating

to be there to see, is probably a frequent me; and it certainly is infamous, | And then as to the other workbouses. Mr. ar- nall was in ignorance of what was done at Lambeth in this way, and I seleeted it for a visit quite at random. Doves be know what gees on in other workhouses? If he is in- clined to inquire, 1] may, perbaps,‘be able to

| tion at the turn things have taken was fat more | themselves fearlessly upon it,

| general than we could have expected. A dozen |

Providence has given us marvellous strength for the oecaeion;

, feeling” —no “Inter-Colouial Union” —and, finally, j no Fisheries!! The Yankees will eventually claim

callers at our office of en Whose cpivion en pub- | never before were the’ Provinces sevich in ineans ; | to regulate everything for us, and even prescribe

| lic affairs we greatly respect, expressed, in decided | terius, the sawe view. We have: not, on the!

| other hand, heard oue single expression ef regret ; |

juor yet of anybody who has. ‘There has also been, as we remarked the other day. a singular |

that it weuld be folly to say too much for Reci-| | procity, and that we can do without it. There is | | a feehng in the city and throughout the couniry | that it will be an advantage for us, as a people to} touch bottem, to know where we stand, and to | | feel our own resources. Some men jeven go By | | far as to express annoyance that these provinces | should have gone to Washington at all ro the po- sition of suppliants, Bat those go tov far. There is no bamilation in what has been done; and it is of advantage that we should know the exact measure of our commercial reletions with our re- publican neighbors,

The Toronto Globe and Leader—the two most influential and largely circulated papers in Ca-| jnada—for once agree. The former journal

{says °—

But serious as the coming change in onr foreign / commerce from the abrogation of the treaty ur-| | doubtedly is, we heartily congratulate the country | on the escape it has made from an uaspeakably | | greater evil. The imposition of dnties on our | | products sent to the United States is but a tem-| porary loss which by energy and enterprise may | be ttiumphantly overcome, and better outlets for | our traffic opened up in room of those we have lost. But to have submitted to the humiliating conditions—whether offered by our negotiators, or attempted to be exacted by the Americans—

never before so united in sentiment; never before Was the delermination of independence so general, and never the material tmeaus te conquer it so plentiiul, What we want isthe statesmanship te guide, aud the mercantile euergy te seeure the

‘unanimity among the newspapers throughout the | fruition of wise legislation. Let us hope that | |** Didn't yer get into a row when you got Province on this subject—a general expression | these will be forthcoming — 1), Mareh 3. |

--— ~<a — AMERICAN INSOLENCE.

We ought to feel thankful that we have got Great Britain at our back in these troublesome Linwes,

Otherwise, the tender mercies of our American neighbours would be extremely cruel. Indeed, it as been a difficult matter, of late, to read, calinly, the remarks of the American Press on Colonia! questions, so abusive and insulting is A case in point is found in the Bos- ton Journal, which, when forced to admit the value of a Reciprocity Treaty to American com- werce, advocates a new basis cf trade, chiefly be- cause it beheves that extended trade with the States would perpetuate Colonial disunion! Hear this moderate journal ou the failure of recent ne-

gociationa:—

their tone.

“It will be dangcrous to give encouragement, eve tenipdratily, to the Intercolonial feeling which certain influential men, both m Britain and in Ca- nada, ave \doing all iu thei power to eulticate. The suspension of reciprocal trade wall be a cogent argument with the. Canadians-in favor of the building of ‘the Intercolaniad » railway, WHICH EVERY INHABITANT O& NEW, ENGLAND SHOULD

our diet, dress and religious ordinances. Verily, the Americaus are a great natien, and we Provin- cialisis are aniserabie communities, only fit te minister to the wants of our powerful neighbors 4

Well, perhaps we are weak and defenceless, but, God oe praised, the arm of Old England is around us—or we would fare badly at the hands of the adjacent natien of fillibusters.—St. Juhu Telegraph.

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FENIANISM IN IRELAND.

Subjoined is an extract froma letter received | by a gentleman in this eity, whieh came to hand iby the last mail steamer from England. Ths writer, who dates bis Jetter at Lismore Castle, 18 au official in the service of a nobleman in Lre- land, and he is also the brother of a Renen-Ca- The information contained in the paragraph will not only be found instrue- tive but also perfectly reliable. It is te be deeply regretted that any such delusive movemeet was ever made. Fenianism cannot possibly be pre- ductive of any good, and will probably result in wueh harm to those eulisting in its ranks. It 4 unfortunate in such cases tnat the innocent euffer equally with the guiliy:—

“On Menday next we will have 100 acldiere quartered bere in the Castle to menace the Fenian corapiracy. The authorities are uneasy about

tholie Bishop there.

h or two of sound ad vice ingers : he Dute! t auxty assis he investio t j int; mv) , : : , : A pinch or two of sound ad vice my fingers at the Dutchman, with his sixty through the wall, and working a our mili |® ist the investigation by this hiat ; my ‘as the price and penalty of a renewal.of the| seek ro PREVENT BY ALL PROPER aeans, | !¢ Sympathy for the movement, but the delusion Then listen, pompons friends. and learn | seconds slow, forin another hour [ fondly) on the other side. Turning the ‘crank "| COMPaeions hada diacuasion during the might) 7.0 1y of 1354, would have been, to draw down and whieh, With the coutinuauce-ef reciprocity, | 8 Yery prevalent among the working classes that Never ta boast of mach renown: hoped to be relieved from duty. A little! i. Like turning a windlass The task ia notal the rrege chive merits of the yarione upor, ourselves lasting injury and distrace. To | and the prosecution of the Lntereoluuial aie. wiil, armed assistance will come from America te Wins Decbidinhe tied oenthcialg while, and doors wera heard to I en ee ane (bushels workhouses ; and the general verdict was that make modifications in the terms of the Treaty, to | ia our opinion, never be built, Clesely allied te fight England and take Ireland. They appear te

Aad some go ap and seme come down.

Ve know a vast amount of stocks A vust amount of pride inanres

Bat Fate has picked so many locks, We wouldn't like to warrant yours,

Remember then and never spurn

shut; yeta little while, and the voice of

ther early bird ; and then j distinetly caught the word ** bundles—tor my pleasing brown coat, for the warm if unsightly *+ jersey’ which | adopted as a judicious substitute for + waistcuat—for my curduroys, and liberty

*Clang!"" went the Workhouse

clock.

Daddy was audible in conversation with an-|

they were called—but that is doubtful) have to be ground every morning by the hig it's butch of casuals. 1 up to the cealing hangs a belli connected with the machinery ; and as each measure is ground the bell rings, so that the grinders may kaow how they are going on, But the grinders are as lazy as

We

se

to work

those of ‘Tottenham and Poplar were the worst in London. stated, that at one of these workhonses the casual sleezs on bare boards, without a bed of any sort !

One word in ‘conelasion. I have some horrors fur Mr. Farnall’s private ear (should he like to learn about them), infinitely more

It is true, as 1 heard it}

amend iis details, to extend the scope of its operations—to meet, in short, the views of our | neighbors ia any reasonable manner that could be suggested—so long as the principle of Reciprocity { was adhered to, our. conneetion with Great Bri- ltain respected, and our own self-respect as a people maintained—every one in Canada, we are persuaded, was heartily prepared ter. But to

this is the political Coufederation of the Previpees, which cau Hever be brought to pass usless an un- friendly policy on the part of the United States shall Jforce them, for their mutual protection and prosperity, ito a closer compact and alliance than now exisis.”

Here we have it broadly stated that American interests are opposed to a better understanding

be more inclined to spend the money collected in New York and abuse one cuother. Most of the aristocracy are leaving the country, and going te Dublin and England to live till this excitement is over, Of course the unfortunate people

will suffer for employment. Lt necessary 200,008 men, With parks of Artillery, would be here in a few bours from England te crush this most formid- able outbreak. The poor people would be

The one whose hand is hard aud brown \ ’ as te »DACE UC . Were no svguer sel Sh a oe ee coke a ts permit the Awericans to remodel our whole fiscal 7 . er i ' . ; : ke ; ores dy ‘ : revoutiny bhi any thx ai Uppe : ; ; . : m : aw Gev, hsb i 4, eeld Oo leo we Sow then! wake ‘em op!’’ cried Da GY | than the tuskmaster let us to our own sweet tH : he mm ee eon inne systemm—to permit them to dictate the removal of | among Colonists themselves—opposed to the con- aa ; pee shot = cats, 1 aay mare officers or he is like ogo up, as already up—sittin: es : these papers. ee a ‘ cs ty: si j or 2 . ad citaeds ms ae | | was already up—: ituing up, that | haing | will, with nothing to reatrain ite exercise but | ©” paper certain custom duties, the imposition of certain | struction ef a railway betmeen the Coleniee—cp- and sol iers from Amé rica going about he re, whe Aud you are likely fo come down. fangious to Witness the resurrection of the in occasional visit from the miller, a weakly - custome and excise duties, and the chvsing Be oF d d litical i | hich Coleniat : mits“ hunted Som lawn io: tome by d avmmn § hostia ‘Gouses te. he ail Bt 7 : é ur Free Ports, simpty to suit their convenience | POSe to apolitical union by which Colonists may | ost of them returped with whole skina, I think A wathnes ti ee Weill ghastigy figures roiled in their rags. rut expostulating man Onee or twice he came! ar FRHIUAS ie arr a os our ret orts, simply to sult ih con ( : : a tee hing oO i apre Fe ‘ ' ’ ? . x " fa 4 : ? : : r i. m 7. . ey » , . ot waar e moe nabody but myself rose at the summons : aaikat ULEASIRUS F tS ‘i if TE PAPERS —perurit them ta go aver our ivapert list of manu-| mutually protect each other! We are left to un- | they will not be very easily seduced again. 1am Tis toutt a f } ‘Quay mye re: 8 weve , in and said mildly, ** Now then, my men,) Wbebesstenii het 4 me etwa : “4s : inclined to think ‘thet Irish : mn ere Say Se Se wer: oeeernrs Chey knew what it meant well enough, and oe es a | factured goods, and select from it just such ar-| gerstand that Americans will prevent any and all | clined to think that Irishmen whe are nearly Hey I The i ane i wri, ana why don t you stick to it? and su went One ee nnn . stand < i “opt J ‘

That

Is but a ecaly thing at best

*Codfish Aristecracy

And though the fishes, large and strong, May seek the little ones to woewn,

Vet fishes all, both great and «amall,

im & EPpy Voices Curse d the bell, apd wished it in several Greadiui places; but they did not move until there came in at the hole in the canvas two of the pauper inhabitants of the house, bearing bundles. +* Thirty-two,’

ut aguin.

Ti e resnit of would have disgusted me at any tune, and then. At ldewss one-

laxity of overseeing

this

was intensely disgusting

lhalf the gang kept their hands, frem the

THE: RECIPROCITY TREATY, Our Giles of late Canadian papers, received at the end of last week, give us a large amount of

interesting information respechinrg the negotiations

Are going ap and coming down. ** twenty-eight.’’ they bawled, but not my | orank whenever the rmiilier was absent, and jy

l'for the renewal of the Reeiprocity Treaty, and

ticles to be included in the free list as pleased | them, without or selecting any—toe permit them | lto fashion our Customs Tariils in just sach a | manner as suited their interest, while to the Go- vernment of Great Britain we grant no such pri- | Vilege—to permit them to levy any rate they i choose on our natural products, in the shape at

of these projects—they will promote strife among Colonists—they will thwart the construction of

| an Inter-Colonial Railway, and make New Bruns-

wick and Nova Scotia dependent on them in win-

ter for conneetion with Catiada! ‘hese are the

all very comfortable at that side of the Atlantie ought to try to keep and improve their happy posi- tion rather than venture 3000 miles from thei¢e howes to fight one of the greatest powers in the world. It is much easier for them to gather

money and send over agents here among the @ver working classes to bil their hearts with oan

promises, but they take care not to come te Ire-

number, which was thirty-four. Neither }s.; k tl ' 3 : | [an internal revenue tax, while we levy none on | base purposes of eur Yankee enemies. They

; ‘took themselves to their private amuse. | nee 4 oo el : * | land igh ha wretched i : ue ’ ie ae : 7 aukenk tin alte , aatiaiie ‘anada view ite | thaimmsuere aad he . ‘ ee i and to fight with a wretched set of people without Oar lives are fall af chance wid change, thirty-two nor twenty-erght, however, m= | nents and pursuits. Some sprawled upon the spirit in which the people in Canada : i i se -L port have 7 . ee ee have encouraged the cut-throat Fenians to invade | 4 gug a a pound in ‘thew pusbethe Sos tien

an: vou kno new sure: ie ‘ae o “uece hits - fortune Leis } - “ie “eDe “e are taformed that it is to the influ- | bands of a fereign powe e €v POL © ire es : i : eee ’ . | , .

And chance, you know, is never sure ; - . tue a s a pe — : od : oe ein * MZ) the beds and smoked; some engaged them.) 'P' il. We are taformed that it ss - ia Sine aan te et ee British Provinces to the | US from without, and, in addition, threaten to pro-| this: every man of standing, except the workmen,

‘ ore wm «lk rine new : at “re ir cubed. i ere Culied upon three »lwee as miner Loner m tastes . ne »| ence—ane » have ail i suspec _ Mr. hea " . . a d aan anltiontn - : aie . Aud ‘twere « doctrine new m1 rtp rr J ’ pom Ske! selves and their (riends in tailoring, and one | en iid we have ail along suspected it—ot Mr. | position of a contemptible dependency of the Re-| mote internal discord! This is the Yankee pro- | @re enure ly opposed to this conspiracy, Thera

Thaset places high are met +

iyeveral times before they would answer ; and

turned hair cutter for the benefit

cure ; of a gentle- | Morrill, Chairman of the Committee of Ways aud | yybhic. To make the. ¢ t hutniliatic okt : is po doubt that the poor people were aud are in & i : in. é (ag Morrill, ) \public. To make the, eup of our humiliation run) 564 ne—it is well we kuew it. “ Forewarned : an rare Soe nomen gee eee ORIEN, an pa por , — Ha aft puck Wi ian who, unlike Kay, bad nof just come Means, ‘the financial head of the radical party | over, it wanted but that the advantages for which \8 a deplorable state, but L beheve the aew Parliament ore . ‘ 4 welore shaek * . ree ” . SATII, ‘ ‘ar ’ ’ 2 me oy wt . ia . ow aa ; . Aad vield the eeeptre and tlhe erow n, | here, Gans oo ‘ " } _— e yo — re out of I rison. j here were three tailors ’ w in the asce lant,” that the re ult of the ne- | all these powers were surrendered to the Ameri- porenrens é: or dete rinined to do all they can a the way of Tivestniind Mie den jover your sairt and ticket,’’ the bundle- coe ot thom om. tha bade mending. thani neti to ae Pe Feet! wee" cans, should be seenred to us as‘a Treaty termin- The New York Times—(which is the organ of nw 2 ae we gp Be ts gross de- " Our; ’ $ee e; 15 aa. neneien tes ereon ‘4 a at okaat? i ° bia tiatem x ee . Sacstend | | ta : a ; oe iis i J ur ‘ . a , Then B qvee ap and-te-eumeedown. holder answered, whereon twenty eight” | gjats, and the other operating on a re- | gotiations at Washington must be attributed. | able on six. months’ notice, or by ‘ Legislative | the Federal Governmeat, as the Boston Journal | @*% and & mockery for the ers of the

Thia world for you and me, my friend, Hath something more than pounds and pence ; Then fet me hawbly recommend A little use of common sense. Thus lay all pride of place asite. And have a cure on whom you frown, For fear you will see him going up, When you are only coming down.

7 _—_- —

A NIGHTIN A LONDON WORKHOUSE

(Concluded.

Whether there is a rule, says the writer, which closes the casual wards alter a certain

sat up. and divested himseli of his borrowed | eunsbent friend in the rearward part of his | Che Committee seemed to be so constituted that

| shurt, ung it with his wooden ticket; and tis bundle was flung back in return,

clothing. Where the needles came from Il do not know; but for thread they used a

> 1 f s ; s y 94 ; i It was some time betore bundle No. 34) strand of oakum (evidently easy to deal with)

turned up, so that | had a fair opportunity to lobserve my neighbours. The deeent men

them, but the blackguards were in no hupry. | Some indulged in a morning pipe te prepare | themselves for the fatigue of dressing, while | others, loosing their bundles as they squatted

; naked, commenced an inystigation for cer-

*| tain little animals which shail he nameless. | At last my torn came; and * Chucking | cranks went round at a very slow rate, and | the views of Mr. Potter set forth at Detroit.

which the boys were picking in the corners Other loungers strolied about wiith their

ot the day, and playing practical jokes on the industrious few; a favourite joke being to take a bit. of rag, anoint it with greace from the crank axles, and clap it unexpected- ly over somebody's eye

The consequence of all this was that the

over’’ my shurt and ticket, I quietly attired pow and then stopped altogether. Then the myself in clothes which, rigged as they were. | willar came in: the loungers rose from their

The

beau ideal of his policy is to completely isolate

he really had the control ef it in his hands.

the ecoummeree of the United States—to make the

country a-second Japan. He starts with the

slipped into their rags as soon as they got | hands im their pockets, discussing the topics principle that the producer pays the faxes im-

posed at the Custom House; and of course there is nothing to be done with a man who cannot get any other idea through his brains.

| to barriers of this nature, the Colonial Ministers |

found a strong leaven in Washington society of It is doubtful if Mr. W. H. Seward is not the main-

In. addition:

| Reciprocity,’ terminable any day in the week! There was but one possible end ef such an ar- | rangement as that. It meant taay fer.a few brief | years the people of British America should be | | kept dependent on American legislation for the | |surety of their industrial operations—looking to | | Washington in daily expectation of hostile changes | —uniil sick of insecurity and fear of change, they | should forget their loathing of annexation, and | submit to be * absorbed’? in the American Re- |

| public.

i | i

| The comntiercial editor of the Montreal Gazette

observes that many tnforseen results and new \ ontlets te Canadian commerce will spring up to | compensate the country fur the discontinuance of | i i

| reciprocal trade with the States. He points out |

is the trueexponent of American popular desires, ) is devoting considerable attention to the Provin- cial Fisheries, eo coveted by our avaricious neighbours, aud makes use of threats as cowardly as they are auealled for. The Tees gives a very partial sketch of the position of the Visheries be- fore the Reciprocity Treaty was agreed upon, adding :—

‘“* From this position, irritating and pexilous, we were relieved by the Reciprocity Treaty. Our fishermen were allowed, of right, to evter the tinest fisheries of the hemisphere, and most ener- gelically bave they profited by the opportunity. An important interest bas been fustered. A large and lucrative industry bas been cultivated

Femans to be deluding the poor suffering people by false promises, but they will have the money by all meaus.”—Halifar Reporter, March 3. Laelia

Ti CuoLera Conceess.—The suggestion fur a Congress, for the purpose of arresting the north-westward progress of the Cholera, has at length been carried into practice. The latest vews from Constantinople states the nomination of the members has been completed, and that its construction will be entirely diplomatic, and that the Congréss is expected to meet shortly,

Tue Cuorera Conrerence in tTuB East — The following appears in the Levant Herald

spring of this policy. Just now the protectionist |

,couches, the tailorg ceased stitching, the | il oe ‘that it is not too much to expect the establish- * But the treaty in virtue of which these privi- smokers dronred their pipes. and every fel- | Party 18 in the ascendancy at Washington. It has | i i Halifax | le Lee. Ke saved diawe fo a close, Or | smokers drop; Cir pipes, an ay | fa weg ios, Hot te eae ae ad ment of depots for Canadian produets at Halifax | leges have been enjoyed draw “° close. ’ 7 s : or: ‘ ajority J oress, ¢ as -arne i ‘ , . “te es . “ee ‘itw * 2 low was at his post. The cranks spun round im wity in Covg , and ; ’ : *.1 and St. John, N.B., almost immediately. Pro- the 17th of March ri carer’ ae pom + of a fariously again, the muller’s expostulations | how to use that majority for its own ptrpose. | end; ard with ite termination willcome a reviva

| were cleaner than they looked. In Jess than

of Constantinople :—

+The nominations to the fortheomiag Che- lera Conference are now nearly completed,

hour, 1 do not know ; bat b — “tas o clock ltwo minutes 1 was ont of the shed, and in our number was made ap, the last comer), yard, where a few of the more decent rignalising his appearance with a groterque | ¢ 114 ye were crowding round a pale of water.

i j j a - ‘ : . a ae seul. Hie rug over b . shoulders, he and scrambling after something that might | jaing drowned amid a shout of * Slap bang, | » : : Medes sei is fy wil | duce canbe stored at these points in the fall of of Provincial exclusiveness in the matter of the and the Conference will, ~ learn, hold ite walteed into the ehed, waving his hands, and a oe as : ; s | ap bane. | Bat there are sigas that this supremacy will not | perl oS ey ; ; oe te : ia .. | first sitting early in the coming month. The ; ; be called a ‘** wash’’—finding theirown soap | pere -e are again!’ or thia extewporised , * | the year as conveniently as in Montreal or at To-)| fisheries, and the eutorced denial te our fisher: | i W.s Her Mai oe of singing, im an affected voice, as he sidled as far as I could observe, and drying their | wor. -— - last forever. It is evident from the tone of the | coatie coll bm aieee peaitahia feat Meelch ox men. ot liberty to labour in the Jocalities most eer: | Hon. W.. Stuart, Her Majesty's Secretary J to, ¢ ’ ;