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nlace at , that [had gone into Wales for the sake of change of scene. After roaming about for a fort- night amidst the wild solitudes of Cernarvonshire, I took the stage for the city which | knew the court was to visit, and arrived on the day previous to the opening of the assizes.

‘ Well, are we to have a heavy calendar?’ I inquired

next morning of a brother barrister on entering the court. ‘ Rather light fora March assize,’ replied the impa- tient conse}, as he bustled onward. ‘'There’s Cart- wright’s case—highway robbery—in which I am for the prosecation. Hell swing for it, and perhaps four or five others.’

‘A good hanging judge is A~-~—, said the under- sheriff, who at this moment joined us, rubbing his hands, as if pleased with the prospect of a few executions.— ‘Nochance of the prophecy yonder coming to pass, f suppose ?” | yore

‘Not in the least,’ replied the bustling counsel. ‘He never looked better. His illness has gore completely off. And this day’s work will brighten him up.’

Cartwright’s trialcame on. I had never seen the man before, and was not aware that this was the same person whom Harvey had incidentally told me he had discharged for theft; the truth being, that till the last rnoment of his existence, that unfortunate man had not known how much he had beea a sacrifice to this wretch’s malice.

The crime of which the villain now stood accused was that of robbing a farmer of the paltry sum of eight shillings, in the neighbourhood of Ilfracombe. He pleaded not guilty, but put in no defence. A verdict was recorded againgt him, and in due form A—— sen- tenced him to be hanged. An expression of fiendish malignancy gleamed over the haggard features of the feion as,he asked leave to address a few words to the court. It was granted. Leaning forward, and raising his heavy scowling eyes to the judge, he thus began :— ‘There is somethiug on my mind, my lord—a dreadful crime—which, as I am to die for the eight shillings I took from the farmer, I may as well confess. You may remember Harvey, my lord, whom you hanged the other day at ?

‘What of him, fellow” replied the judge, his fea- tares suddenly flushing crimson.

‘Why, my lord, only this—that he was as innocent of the crime for which you hanged him as the ehild vatunborn! I did the deed! I putthe watch in his trunk! And to the unutteradle horror of the entire court, he related the whole particulars of the transac-

tion, the origin of his grudge against Harvey, and his

delight on bringing him to the gallows.

‘Inhuman, execrable villain? gasped the judge in extreme excitement.

‘Cleverly done, though! Was it not, my lord?’ re- joined the ruffian with bitter irony. ‘The evidence, you know, was irresistible; the crime as clear as the sun at noonday ; and if, in such plain cases, the just and necessary law was not enforced, society would be dis- solved, and there would be no security for property !— These were your words, I think. How on that occa- sion [ admired your lordship’s judgment and eloquence! Society wovld be dissolved if an innocentiman were not hanged! Ha!—ha!—ha! Capital!—capital!’ shouted the ferocious felon with demoniac glee, as he marked the effect of his words on the countenance of the judge.

‘Remove the prisoner "’ cried the sheriff. An officer was about to do so; but the judge mentioned him to desist. His lordship’s features worked convulsively. tle seemed striving to speak, but the words would not come.

‘I suppose, my lord,’ continued Cartwright, in low and hissing tones, as the shadow of unutterable despair grew and Settled on his face—‘ I.suppose you know that his wife destroyed herself. ‘The coroner’s jury said she had fallen accidentaliy into the water. I know better. She drowned herself in the agonies of a broken heart! i} saw her corpse, with the dead baby in its arms; and then [ felt, knew, that I was lost! Lost, doomed to everlasting perdition! But, my lord’—and here the wretch broke inte a howl wild and terrific—‘ ie shall «9 down together—down to where your deserts are known. A—h—h! that pinches you, does it? Hound of a judge! legal murderer! coward! I spurn and spit upon thee” The rest of the appalling objurgation was inarticulate, as the monster, foaming and sputtering, was dragged by an officer from the dock.

Judge A—— had fallen forwards on his face, fainting and speechless with the violence of his emotions. ‘I'he hiack caphad dropped from his brow. His hands were stretched out from across the bench, and various mem- bers of the bar rushed to his assistance. The court broke up in frightfal commotion,

‘T'wo days afterwards the county paper had the the following announcement :—

‘ Died at the Reyal Hotel——, on the 27th instant, Judge A——, from an access of fever supervening upon a disorder from which he had imperfectly recovered.’

She prophecy was fulfilled!

As Exrraorpixary Dream Verirren.—Shortly after the death of Lorenzo de Medici, Cardiere, a young improvisatore, entertained by his son, secretly informed Michael Angelo with whom he lived in habits of friend-

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ragged pall of black over his naked body, and com- manded him to announce to his son that in a short time

the vision, but Cardiere, aware of Piero’s haughty tem- per, would not follow his advice. ‘Some morning after this, Cardiere, terrified ‘and pale, came again to M. Angelo, and told him that Lorenzo appeared a second time and repeated his injunctions, accompanying them with a violent blew on the ‘cheek. M. Angelo, with great earnestness, insisted on ‘his compliance, and Car- diere set off directly for Careggi, where he met Piero and his sister returning to town, and instantly acquaint- ed him with what he had seen and suffered. Piero and his attendants laughed at and ridiculed him, and Cardinal di Biliena told him he was mad to fancy Loren- zo would chargea stranger with amessage which he himself might deliverto his son. Dismissed in this manner, he returned to M. Angelo, and prevailed on him to quit Florence and go to Bologna, where he had scarcely settled in the house of Gean Francesco Ald- ronandi, before the predicted revolution took place, and the expulsion of the whole family of the Medici, with all their party, confirmed the vision of Cardiere.

Cuance 1n Enciisa Newsparers.—The tone of our press has in one respect decidedly improved; it is no longer chiefly that of mutual squabble, alternate abuse, recrimination, denunciation, Billingsgate. Each organ of party seems te hold forth to its own audience. Journalists have “ome to perceive that there are other people in the world better worth addressing than each other; and in consequence, whena topic does occur which forces all to pay united attention to it, and gather as it were, around the same tapis, the gentlemen of the press do not, as of old, fall to scratching, and tearing, and flinging their wigs in each other’s faces, but cor- duct themselves towards one another with the well- bred apathy and polite coldness of good society. The reign of the personal and vituperative school of journal- ism has indeed been put an end to by the extinction or metamorphose, or we mignt call it the dilution, of that once formidable unity. the editor. Now, the public has overgrown the school-bench. Every one is muitifariously informed, learned, and opinionated, and Mr. Editor is

|therefore will be placed within the means of every in- | dividual, and it will not be expected that losses of unin.

his son should be driven into exile and return no more. | sured property will be made good, or even partially re- M. Angelo exhorted him to execute the commands of opr by public subscription. From the caution sed

in the constitution of this Company, and from the ju- dicious selection of the Board of Directors, we fee! con- fident every satisfaction will be given; and instead of sending a large sum of money annually out of the coun- try we will have it funded in the Island ; and we hope the time is not far distant when every member of the Company will have his property insured at a mere no- mina] premium.— Gaz,

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Cromarty Gagtic Cuurcu.—Her Majesty, upon the application of the congregation, has been pleased te present the Rev. John M’Lennan, of Prince Edward Is- land, to this charge.—Caledonian Mercury.

Vernon River Institute.—On Monday evening, 15th ult., Mr. Daniel Enman delivered a highly instrue- tive Lecture before this Institute, on “The improve- ment of Society.”— Com.

MARRIED.

kins, Mr. James Campbell, of St. Eleanor’s, to Mary Rose, eldest daughter of Edward Buxton, Eeq., of Winsloe Barton.

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DIED.

At St. Mary's Priory, Princethorp, England, on the 20th December, Matilda Alice, daughter of the Hoe. Donald Macdonald, of Prince Edward Island, after « short but severe illness, in the 28th year of her age.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. | Arrivals in Europe from this Island. Bideford, Dec 29—Prince of Wales. Liverpool, Jan. 2—Roseland. Bristo!,Jan.8—Devonia. Milford, Jan. 10—Douglas. Deal, Jan. 11—Mary M’Whinnie. Bideford, Dec. 31.—The Prince of Wales, Lowther;

no monopolist of wisdom. His duties have outgrown the compass of one man’s intellect, be it ever 80 capa- cious ; and a division of labour has taken place there as! in other callings. This has destroyed the impersonality, | and with it the irascibility of this once redoubted per-| sonage. His tone has shrunk from the thunder of the) pulpit to the doctrinal persuasion of the lecture desk. He must instruct, not impose ; and reason rather than! denounce. ‘Then he must fill his columns with news, | news; the host of small-typed paragraphs which con-' stitute it being more interesting and sought after by, the general reader than even the able Jucubrations in: large type. A daily paper is now a magazine in quality | as wellas size, where each person seeks what interests him ; and the larger and more copious the magazine, the! more likely it is to be bought by the greater crowd of; chapmen. The tendency of our daily journal to avg- ment in size, and furnish news rather than opinion, | gives it a decided advantage over the foreign journal, | the aim of whose directors seems to be to furnish its! reader with as scant means as possible of forming his! own judgment, so that they may furnish it with their| own views. |

present becomes the past even while we attempt to de-| fine it, and, like a flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ‘Time is the measurer of all things, but is it-| self undisclosed. Like space, it is incomprehensible, | because it has no limit, and it would be still more so if it) had. It gives wings of lightning to pleasure, but feet of lead to pain, and lends expectation a curb but enjoy-; menta spur. It robs beauty of her charms, to bestow} them on her picture ; and builds a monument to inerit, | but denies it to honour; it is a transient and de-; ceitful flatterer of falsehood, but a tried and final: friend of truth. ‘Time is the most subtle, yet the most! insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take no-| thing, is permitted to take all; norcar it be satisfied! until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the, world. Time is the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition; it is the stern corrector of fools, but the salu- tary counsellor of the wise—bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

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Morvan Insurance Company.—We invite the at- tention of our readers to notice in this day’s paper from the “ Charlottetown Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany,” which, we are happy to observe, is now prepared toaccept risks. As this is the first Insurance Company established in the Island, we hope it will meet with the encouragement to which it is justly entitled. The pe- culiar feature of this Company is, that persons insuring therein become Members of the Company, and will u!- timately derive a share of the advantages thereof, and in the meantime they are protected from being called} on for more than 5 per cent., in any one year, on the amount insured in case of loss, to whatever extent such loss may be. As the Company at present consists of a large portion of the inhabitants of the Town, and it may

mtio, that Lorenzo de Medici had appeared to him ina’

be reasonably expected that it will soon consist of near- ly (if not quite) all the holders of property, Insurance

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of 'Turnips things, the past is gone, the future is not come, and the; ‘Tallow per Ib.

from P. E. Island, has arrived here with considerable damage, and with twelve feet water in her hold, having grounded twice in coming into harbour.

PRICES CURRENT, | FEBRUARY 3, 1849.

PROVISIONS Coal, Pictou, chald.|none Flour, Am superfine [50s slack do |188 8 198 seconds |Wood per cord 9s a 10s P Ef per Ib./24d a24d} SUNDRIS. itye per barre! Tea, Bohea per chest|1s a le6d Corn Meal per barrel per lb = (|2s per lb Idd Congo per chest|2s 44 Oatmeal per Ib il4da 14d per lb [3s 6d Beef, small pieces Ib\3d_a 44d /Coffee P Rico, cwt 84s per quarter (|29da 44d) per lb Is per barrel 42sa 50s | St Domingo,cwt/30s Mutton per |b 3d a 5d per Ibjlld Veal do 24d a dd | Sugar per cwt|44e a 46s Pork per barrel 50s a 60s per lbi6d per carcass (24d a 44d Refined do |9d Butter, fresh, per Ib, 1Uda1s |Molasses, per gal. Is 7d tub, ’ do /9daJld (Raisins, perbox [15s

Cheese, P EIstand lb/4d a 7d ['Tobacco, Fig, P E 1.)1s alsld

American [9d a 10d Cavendish, Aim.|9d

Eggs per doz 10d ~—sIs|Soap, per box 44d Potatoes per bushel] | Is6d a 2/Candles, mould P E I.j1s

10d Is 2 dip, PET. {104

Sd a 10d mould, Am.)10d Lard do ‘td a 8d dip Am. Yd Pearl Barley do j\2d Brandy (Martel’s) gal|12s6 alde

do |5d Wine, Port do|t4e a lés Rice do \4d Sherry do} 12s ao per cwt, 25s Gin (Hollands) de 7e6d ads6 Turkeys each/2sfida 486; Rum, Demerara, high Geese do jis9da2s3 proof, per gal. Se a feSd Fowls do |\9da Is 3 Jamaica, high) proof, per gal $3 6d

Codfish per quintal IIs a 13s ral Salmon each Boards, Pine 100 ft. 5s a 6s

Herrings per barre] /20s a 28s; Spruce do (2s 6d ate Mackerel do |22s a 50s Hemlockdo (2s5d a 3s GRAIN. Shingles 6s a Ws Oats per bushel! Is6dals9 EXCHANGE. Barley do | 8s 6da3s'On London 60 days {324 pr.et Wheat do 30days [35 deo On Halifax 60 deys |20 de Hay, per tom 35a a 45s| Sovereigns Os E | Doubloous 968 Coal Sydney, chald.\37s 6d {Dollars 6s a Ged

ENZAPER LHAN ZVSB. * 4 nimble Sixpence preferred to a slow Shilling.”

Saddle, Harness, and Trank Establish-

ment. [THE Subscriber keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of articles in the above line, which he offers for sale cheap for Cash. SLEIGH TRIMMING neatly executed. WILLIAM D. TANTON. Great George-street (west end), February 5.

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Sons of Temperance. | TOHN LAWSON, ESQ., A.R.S. of the “ Prince Edward Division, No. 1,” will deliver a Lecture on the Order of the Sons of Temperance, at St. James's Church, on Thursday evening, the 15th instant the Lecture to commence at 8 o'clock. The Public are in- vited to attend, February o-

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On Wednesday the 24th ult., by the Rev. Dr. Jen-