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Sik MIi-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.

“THis Io TRUE LIBERTY WHEN FREE-BORN MEN—HAVING ‘TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC-MAY SPEAK FREE”

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OCTOBER 16, 1850. ‘Vol. 1: No. 73

on ——me a ee ee aa ad ieee hae oe See ieee: a ee - . Leemesaeipenenieallaniiacntion a meena’ . ‘POVERTY PARTS GOOD COM- THE DOOMED COUNTRY. are the hands which guide them. Mean- | the atmosphere laden with the flowers of PANIE” sbi did while on the foot pavements, a countless} Hymen. In some parts the tnlabitents

BY ‘RLIZA COOK,

We ilove the sayings of olden times, We quote them in age, we leara them is youth ; ‘Luey tall on our ears ike ding-dong chimes, That exeerionce rings in the beifry ef truth. But { wonder what people it wag in the land, Ani I wonder 3a mach where the land might be, So stepidiy wise that the proverd could rise, Or Poverty parte Good Comparie.”

‘Twas e woeful thing for man to prove, And sorrow was in the tale it told, For said that goodness, worth, and love, Weighed little without they were cast in gold. And now in the world ‘tis better to hear, &od sadder yet to feel and see, Fiat velretis shy when rags go by, Aad that “ Poverty parts Goed Companie.”

Voere’s many a board where laggards sit tieavy and duilas a Winter's morn; Rey even red Muacatel brightens their wit, Yei, how can we nurture what never was born ¢ #pintaud brain of a diamond light Biight quicken the feasting with eloqtent glee; Bai telent is often in beggarly plight, Foe “ Poverty parte Good Comparie.”

Pai! many 2 sinner of poor estate, With nothing to leave but a felon’s name, Has wacked to death through the prison gate— ‘ae example of law and the target of fame. Est seeing the deeds that rich men do, tie coulnd point to many of high degree, bed think they might share the hangman's care— Bat “ Poverty paris Geod Companie.”

Wa punish the whining regue, who seems Te be what he is not in the open streets ; Ant the Judge in his sapient wisdom deems

The villain in pence is the greatest of cheats, Bs hypocrites live in grander guise, Wily and cunning as rogue can be; lasy might rank with the beggar for mean- pees and fies, But © Poverty parts Good Companie.”

Fat many a heart hath made its home With hope and honesty close by its side ;

Temptution may whisper and lure it te ream, Ye! safely it goes with these to guide,

Rat the Beldame Queen of Want comes is, Ané hope and honesty quickly flee.

Wa jethe lone heart groans in ita reckiess sin, “Ob! Poverty parts Good Companie”

Flom the Guernsey Slar ef July 25th. PRESIDENT TAYLOR.

“tam prepared to die; for { have tried To de my duty !"—Was it Nelson’s twin, Who spake so like a hero, with forgiven sin? \ ee '—~it ig one, Columbia’s honest pride fAod mother England’s joy—we claita him 0.) Who now is gone far other apoils to win han late of Palc-Alto —higher meed, Trophies of nebler fame and praise more irae, )van those a faithfal country well decreed Vo ber best son ; her best and bravest son, Soagh for the fight, but ready heart and hand, Yo make itup with victory won, ‘\ War—and peice—the Glory of bis Land! Nwuarasey Mangtin F. Terese:

Who ean deny that England, since the date of the Act of Navigation, has ac- quired the dominion of the seas, and that her naval power, warlike or merchant, is now the first in the world ?

Who can deny that England in a com- mercial point of view, has become under its farmer policy, the first in the world, and the chief moving power, the univer- sal agent, the sovereign people of credit,, circulation and commerce ?

Who can deny that British agriculture, onan equal extent and quality of soil, givesa greater return for the labour of the husbandman, than lands the most furrowed by the plough or favoured by the sun ?

Who can deny that the British Isles— two iniserable little spots, when looked at on a map of the world—have for cen- turies taken their place among the great- est empires, and obtained an_illusirious place in the history of the powers of the earth ?

You might as well deny the existence of the sun as deny any of these things. To over whelm any audacious compari- sons, England has only to exhibit its fleets, its harbours, its domains, its baukw, its manufactoriés, its iron founderies,its mar- kets, its docks, its arsenals, its girdle of colonies and fortresses encircling the globe, composing en empire larger than ever obeyed the laws of Rome.

To speak only of the metropolis. What marveis those riches accumulated be- tween the two banks of the T'hames, peo- pled by a forest of masts, and which al- most superhuman activity incessantly presses and agitates! Llere are to be seen deep and spacious docks, the ample bosom of which no breath of wind ever agitates,and in whieh every vessel of every nation, from the gigantic three- decker to the Chinese junk, finds its al- ‘otted place, and where all the flags of the earth lie side by side, as in the common emporium of nations. There the tributes of every nation of the world | are arrasged in perfect order, in giganti¢ magazines, constituting of themselves an entire city.

Ilere are dockyards, dry docks, forge and iron works, where, under the ham- merand the flame, steei and iron are twisted into a thousand fantastic forms. Industry labours atevery thing ; and yet all this, great ag it is, is nothing cow pared with the works of Birmingham, Manches- ter, Sheffield, Leeds, Merthyr-Tidvil, arid Lanarkshire. In the inidst of the din, the clang, the volumes of smoke. the oceans of fame, which mark these as- tonishing scenes, you would suppose that the fable of the Titans had core to pass and that giants of a rebel race are pre- paring to scale the heavens.

Farther on the eve is fatigued, the mind turns around at the imamensity of the circulation which is perpetually going forward. From one of the bridges over the Thames, you behold from the midst of an atmosphere of smoke hundreds of vessels which pass under your feel, do- cile and obedient to direction, like so many haman beings ; at one moment al- | most rivalling the railway train in speed, at another stopping at the hand ofa child ; racing with each other, and yet steady to their object ; approaching, but never touching ; ploughing through the waves with their wings of flame, seeming to caress, where a single touch would be death! In the city itself, thonsagds of chariots and waggons, of omnibuses drawn by powerful horses, of carriages darting at epeed through the throng, all passing and repaseing, crossing intermingling, and yet never coming

into collisien—€o experienced and wary |

multitude of people, intent on business, amusement, or pleasure, incessantly pours alone; and this is the same from the West India docks to the West End parks, from Blackwall to the splendid squares of Belgrave and f{yde parks, which form the brilliant girdle of that scene of toil and iabour, as the Elysian flelds to the realins of l'artarus, Never has a people inthe material world developed its in- dustry on sucha scale of immeasurable grandeur. The pen cannot describe the | animation of its labours, the activity of ite commercial and manufacturing cities, the extent of its rural industry, Fi- gures alone can convey an idea of its immensity.

Great Britain which is only two hun- dred leagues long, and the soul of which is far from rival/ing in richness the plains of Lombardy or Aragon, yields annually to the labonr of the hugdandman, a revenue of about £140,000,000 sterling ; an in- come, great as it is, which is almost doubled by the value of similar produc- tions in its dependencies and colonies,

Its industry, commerce, and manufae- tures yield a revenue sitperior to that magnificent land estate; thanks to its inexhaustible mines, to its natural riches, to us admirable system of internal com- munications, conducted by eighty-six canais, and seventy lines of rail-way, in all, the general income of the British Em- pireexceeds twelve thousand millions francs, or nearly £500,000,000 sterling.

Its power among the aatious is render- ed manifest by the manner and greatness of its fleets and dominions. In Europe it possesses beside the lesser islands which adjoin Great Britain and Treland, Heligoland, Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian islands; in Asia, Hindostan, with its tributary State, Ceylon, and its foreed allies in Seinde and Punjaub—that is almost an entire world; in Africa, Sierra Leone with its dependencies; the Isle of France, Fernando Po, the Cape, and St. Helena; in America, Upper and Lower Canada, the West Indies, Bermu- da, Newfoundland, and all the lesser provinces of North America; in Oceani- ca, the whole of New Holland, and New Zealand, Norfolk Island and New Caledema. Those united territories con- tain a bundred and fifty: millions of inha- bilants, including the twenty-eight of the British Islee.

As to its commercial marine. two faets are sufficient to make its immensity known. It has nearly thirty thousand vessels, including those propelled by steam, beside eight thousand in the co- lonies; and ina single year it exports more than £28,000,000 cotton goods—~an amount for a single article, greater than the whole export of the manufactures of France for everything put together.— Ledru Rolin’ * Decadence de iAngle- terre.

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SCHOOL-ROOM EXERCISE.

BY QUIZ.

“Jonn, bound the State ef Matrimo- ny.”

“ The State of Matrimony is bounded on the north by solitude, on the east by double trouble.on the south by sore-suins, on the west by vexations.”

“ What are its chief products ?”

" Peevish babies, scolding wives, hen- pecked husbands, smoked coffee, burnt liams, and sour pier.”

“ What is said of its climate 2”

“{t has @ more variant temperature than that of any Other state in existence. In that portion ef it called honey-moon foe climate ig stlubrionus and iea!thy — |

experience a freezing cold reception, when they expect most warmth, and in some other parts there is all the sensa- tion of the torrid zone. Sometimes a fellow’s house in the State of M utrimony gets too hot to hold him, and. strange te say he travels well with all speed, not to, but from the poles, where cold is supposed te exist.” C

“Sarah, has John given a correct out- line of the State of Matrimony 2?” “Can't eav, Sir—never was in that State. Bill Sunpkins gave me an invitation the other day to travel in it with him, and when f return lll answer the question.” § ° ’

“Well, Sarah, as you seem to be igno- rant in geography, I will examine you in graniinar. ‘Take thesentence ‘ Marriage is a civil contract.’ Parse Marriage.”

“ Marriage is a noun, because its a name, And though Shekspeare.askes ‘What's in a name,’ and says that a rase by any other name womld sme!! as sweet, yet marriage being & néun, and therefore a name, shows that the rule, established by the Bard of Avon has at least one -ex- ception. lor marriage certainly is of very great importance, and being a noun. and therefore a name, ergo, there is séme- thing in a name.”

“Good !—Wel}, what is the case. of.

marriage 2” * Don’t knew, sir.” “ Decline it and see.” * Don’t feel at liberty to decline max riage after having made Bill the promise Thave. Sad rather conjugate.” “June, can vou tell Sarah in what cnse marriage js.” 3 gioTt ip * Yes, sir, its a very common case, and re ?-

I would’nt care if it was a little comy

er, And s’pose Sarah won’t be

ried a week before it’s in the printer's case.”

“ Can you decline marriage >”

Jane blushed extremely, and answered, “ Had rather not, sir.”

“ Well, Sarah, what person is mar- riage ey, salle 7 ~ © Second person, sir, because the per- son you speak to is one who is goibg to marry.”

“ What number is marriage ?”

“* Plural number now, sir, because Bill and [are twoatthe presenttime. When the parkon ties the knot, marriage will then be singular, because the bible says that ** the twain shall be one flesh.”

* What gender ts marriage?”

* Common gender, becanse either mats or female may get oracried,”

“ Does marriage govern anything or does it agree with something 2”

“ Both, sir. It governs both manh-kind and woman-kind, and as to agreemg; x agrees with the world and the rest.of mankind.” ‘

* My rule is that Bit’ shan’t grumble if | buy two siik dresses @ year, and he shan’t have but one teaspoonful of sagac tu two cups of coffee.”

GEMS. .

What is joy? The honesty of exist- ence; really beneficial and agreeable when partaken of in moderation, bat highly injurious when used to excess.

What is contentment ? Phe philosophy of life and the principal ingredient of the cap of happiness; a commodity that).is under vaiued, in conseqnenee of the very low price it ean be obtained for.

What is happiness ? A btutrerfly thas roves from flawer to fiower in the wast garden of existence, and whic w eageriy pursued by the multitude, in the. vain hope of obtaining the prize, yet it cun-

‘tinuall¥ eludes their grasp.

What te ambition? A fierce and en-