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come ona certain day to “lend hima band.” . On the day named fifteen of twenty weighbors come and help him to pull out wrt pile up the stamzs... He gives them a gowd dinner and a | \ few glasses df whiskey. Ta thé evening a few | of the ne) shborjag lasgesdrop in, and the hard} « day's wor cisended by a dance of longer er |} shorty? © wtiweiiinee. This : ti ”" frolies, every one goes thickening or fulling | a long time to the Island what balls and | the mae re refined circles ‘Tho’ ostensible business | to full the piece of home- | in those days—yearly | every farmer's family. | there were done at these | niné-tenths of the cowrting |

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sured by the farmers’ wives and | t pug hite ro Was. fujled by hand at these frolics. Tha is tite Way in which it was done. A long aul ° og of rough boards, firmly braced, Was ¢rectedin the largest room that the house

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“aenoss the board, at the same time shoving it aleng On one side towards the top, and those @ppesite towards the bottom of the table. Ai intervals the cloth was wetted with a strong srlution of soap. As this was pretty hard work there wore generally relays of hands, one read) _ te tale its turn when the other was tired. The

young men shewed their gallantry by offering ~~ gocrelieve their fair companions ; and a pretty girl @ fit be seen shyly offering to take a-

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taan’s place—not her lover's, you may |

That eparkl'dsin her yet Tid wither'd hopes of other yeara Awake in memory?

Ste hush'd the sigh of sadness, Aud wiped the teugg away} And with the RY olips ob gladness Seem'd happy Dew and gay. Still music aM to joy beguil’d, And Time went sweetly by; But though she dane'd, aud sang, and smiled, She'd turn aw ay and sigh.

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WERAND.

A CHANGEOF GOVERNMENT REQUIRED.

We would recommend toy each and every leefor who will be shortly called ou to decide the velitical fate of this Island for several vears, these

is the stump’ aye werds of Horace: Eripe tanpi cole jugo: liber,

iber sum, dic age.

Loose thy neck from this iynoble chain, Aud boldly say then rt free

Phe peopleof this Colony have been too long de-

ceived by politieal tricksters, and we are glad to

The probainlity that the incapable» who have ruled our

learn that tkey are beginuing to peregive it,

destiwes for the last eight years, will soon be

semt ta rusticate in the cool shades of Opposition,

mst be a source of pleasure to all the (riends of

liberty and progress. Tho electors now by sad experience, what

they committed when they entrusted the Conserva-

‘ the lads and lasses of those | tives with the reims of power. The foliy and ex- guilty of, Many a happy marriage | travagance of the Goverument are now too well

known to dblate on. Detivant reges, plectuntur Achivi.— Hor.

Our rule s folly wakes the people rue. The most talented and energetic politicians often becwme careless and apathetic when cloyed with the sweets of office; but when they bare neither talenta nor energy they are mere nuisances, and serious obstacles to iberty aud to secial and puli- tical advancement. That our present rulers are uot possessed of talents, energy, or administra- tive honesty, is quite evident froin their political When they succeeded the Liberals they wade great promises,

acts during their tenure of office.

tor the tulfilment of whieh the peopic have waited with patience, but in vain. For example, our tenants were to be all treeholders in eight short months; but they have new waited eight long years, and their grievances remain as yet unre- dressed. The Land Commission was established, and Delegates were sent to England at an ener- the Fifteen Yeara’ Pur-

chase Bill was passed; but nothing was achieved

mous cost to the cbuntry ;

except the strengthening of the doubtful titles of lr

tenants long? te get rid of masters whom they

the proprietors. is no wonder then that the have placed in power only to tyraanize over them aud deceive them. }we never imagined that the Conservatives would

We are not disappointed, for

settle the Land Question in a manner satistactory to the tenantry. We judged aceording to thei

antecedents, or according ts the Greek proverb,

Sagi pee~

‘ merriment mi cht notyhave been very refined, Bere. But it was, for the most part, pure and hearty. ae Those who were not at the board were not by P of: ‘any menns idie. Every chair and dench in the eh Ahouse bid its barden of loving couples, whisper- Rs ding the tender nothings that have such a charm ve on young folks all the world over. The

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- seareity of seats rendere-! it necessary for the “young men to accommocate their sweet hearts with uw seat on their knees, which, to tell the truth, was not found to be a very great incon- venience by any of the parties concerned. The work done, and the web rolled up in due form, ali sit down to a substantial hot supper; afte: which, the chairs and tables being cleared away, the youngsters either danced away the remain ig hours of the night, or when the old félks woald not allow dancing, amused them- selves with forfeits and other games for an c - hoar or two before breaking up. The young +. men, of course, escorted the girls to their homes, and those long walks over the crisp snow in » the brij:ht starlight were by no means the most unpleasant of one’s life experiences.

If we were disposed to be philosophical, we would pause here to write a disquisition on the changes that have been* made in the social habits of the people of this country by the in- troduction of Fulling Mills. The change is, we verily believe, not an improvement. People in those days were much more sociable than in _ There were fewer jeaiousies, bickerings and hea t-burnings, and infinitely more enjoy

ment. There are now too few social gather Sage am. ong the people in the rural districts — | - too little amusement—too little healthy ex-| eitement. People, not knowing enough of |

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; Aivng that eee bail. Sadia nee, they have had to repress popular

He A geiden harp was streaming indignation! the point of the bayonet; they have om Its soft Comptaous art. had recoutse (0 the mdat odious measures to ad And oyes te eyes were beaming wain'ain the auth ‘ity of the law; they have 4 é The language of the heart. piuuged the Colamy jor debt in building barracks ; And (laneere tripp’d it merrily und ail the requirements of a wilitary establish-

% a Qeiss SrSing how; went; they have squandesed the public money in

And gay spirita botnded cheerily delegations ; they have, we may AAy confirmed the

Ta youth and beauty's glow. proprietors tiles; they bave virteaedy avstroyed the

* Proud pleasure said te sadness, Free Education Act; they bave digagste4 many

Tower not this happs place— ‘ aven of their own friends. Jn a word, iby Their

Mar et my hall of gladurss, ne apaeity and poliveal deeeit they have retieged

Ber eloud the sunny fare, themselves odious. , Tae words of the poet are

of Thickeniwz Frolies, when all well-behaved people mét on an eynality, and before youug ladies and young ladyixm were invented.

e Werhave much more to say, but we have and have also, we fear, trespassed on the pa- tience of our readers. But we think that we have sail enough to convince them that very great changes have taken place im our Island Home within the last thirty years; and that if aay one who left it at that time, or even ten years later, were now to return, there is not a single & ‘tlement in the country that he would

pees sniz ‘: and that he would observe almost |

: as great chan zes in the condition and manners

2 of the pee sle as in the general appearance of the commtry,

— . [Pog THe examiner ] A YALL WAS WREATH'D.

A hall wae wreath'd with garlands, OF byaciuth and ree, And dowers of sunoy fartands, W vere the grape aud olive grows; And lampa shone bright, and ssiver hgib Giean'd from the mirror’d wall,

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Kakon korakos kakon oon—* Bad the crow, bad the egg’ And, in fact, cau our rulers poiut out te any acts of theirs which have beeo of any prac- tical benefit to the general interests of the Isiand, other than a few lawa which they have passed re- lative to geese, rabbits, partridges, oysters, dogs, rams, ewes and pigs! which could as easily, and with one-fiftueth of the cost, have been passed by two or three aldermen of a one tenth rate city or county corporation in any other part of the eivi- lized world. This, certaiuly, is small legisia- tion ; but our statement is no Uurlesque—it is the plain, jiteral truth. According to their own ver- sion, the Conservatives possessed, within their own charmed cirele, ali the talent, energy, wealth and influence of the Island; but they bave proved themselves to be vot unlike all vain beasters. The best proof of this is to be found in their acts. They have not bad the brains te initiate a single measure for the benefit of our ill- used people; on the evntrary, they have been obliged to fall back ou the Land Purchase Bill, tormerly passed by the Liberals against the most dogged and determined opposition of those new In power. Never bad a Government a more inglo- rious career than that which is now tottering to ite downfall. Seleet a dozen of old women from

Belfast, Strathalbyn and West River, and get thew

know ’

an egregious blunder

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Who always favored the proprietors?) Who spent something like teu or twelve thousand pounds in building barracks? Who brought the soldiers here and sent them through the country? The TORIES. The Liberals always syaypathized with the tenants; the Tories seut Sheriffs and soldiers after them. Tt is ne wonder, then, that irrespective of the neglect of public improvements the fenantry should abominuate the present Gov- ernment. A large majority of every other section

of the community—except the proprietors and land agents—have more than sufficient reason te long for the day that will drive our rulers from a position which they have shewn themselves so | unworthy and so incapable of filling. Notwith- standing this, let all be on the alert against fur

ther trickery and double-dealing; and let all liberalmided aud progressive wen form them-

selves into a solid phalanx, so that they may be euabled with greater ease to resist the attack

back into oblivion those who have abused the confidence of the people and brought odium on the Colony,

ial ——

A WORD OR TWO ON AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT. If any one thing within the teach of political

action shows more clearly than another the paternal nature of a Government, it is surely the mode of action which that Government adopts with regard to the encouragement of education We coutine ourselves, tor the present, to a swall portion of What the histury of England teaches us in this respect, and we ask the most superticial student of that important branch of study if the sovereigns who iave most endeared themselves to theif subjects, from Egbert to our owu Victoria, have failed to juterest Lacmselves in the totellectual Alfred the Great s

extraordinary labors in this direction are too weil

improvement of the nation ?

kuown to require repetition bere; they were such as few sovereigus of any country since his time haveequalled. To the Plautagenets, Tudors, aud Stuarts, considerable praise must also be awarded ior their liberal patrouage of education, however much some of them may bave disgraced thei country, and humanity itself, in other respects Phat English literature made very great progress during this period, no one is at the present day tvol-bardy enough to deny. A distinguished Irish scholar, for imstance, said sometime ago: * Eliza. beth, James, and Charles encouraged learned wen, and adopted a policy favorable to literature. Almost all the poets, and many other writers, were either courtiers theuselves, or under the immediate protecloa of courtiers, and were con- stantly experiencing the smiles or benefactions ot royalty. The court, therefore, exercised great in- flience on learning, and it is no wonder that writers should fix this era as ‘ by far the brightest in the bistory of English Literature. Ot this period also the Edinburgh Review thus speaks, and its authority on such a subject, notwithstand.

ing its prejudices, is certainly very considerable : “There never was any thing like the sixty or, seventy years that elapsed from: the middle of Elizabeth’s reign to the pertod of the Restoration In point of real force and originality of genius, uveitber the age of Pericles, nor Lhe age of Augustus, ner the times of Leo X., ner of Louis X1V., cau cowe at all in comparison; for in that shert period we shall find the nawes of almost all ihe great inea that this nation has ever produced, —the names of Shakespeare, and Bacon, and Spenser, and Sydney, and Hooker, and Taylor, and Barrow, and Raleigh, aud Napier, and Hobbes, and wany others; men, all of thew, not merely of great talents and accompiishments, but of vast compass

and reach of uoderstandiog, and of winds truly

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ereative and original, and enlarg- mg to au ineredibie and unparallelled entent, both the stores and tae resourses of the human facul- ties.” Of what bas been dove in England sinee that era under the savction of public authority we need not speak ; every person tolerably well read in the history of that eountry Knows that, al: bough much unquestionably requires still to be dene, yei wuch has been done. Une of the latest instances of the encouragement given to Education by the British Parliament, is the granting of a Supple- mental Charter to the (Queen’s University in Lre- land, enabling that bedy to grant degrees to the

ww legislate, they certainty could do vo less for the good of the Island than the pompous individuals whe now lord it over us. When our masters stepped inte authority, the ship of state was in an excellent condition. She was new; the sails,

cordage, and all the other nee-searies for a pros

perous voyage were in a splendid condition. There

were in the dest of spirits, and the passengers | were rejoicing in the hope that they would soon | Bur, | The|

arrive wm ‘satety af the wished-for haven alas! how bave matters now changed?

is, besidis, oar honest conviction, that not only | ship is leaky, the cordage is rotten, the sails are would the amount of enjo;ment he greater, but | tern ; provisions have tailed; the erew have muti- that the tone of general morality would be! nied; several have been attacked by malignant | raised if we could go back to the good old days distempers and bave been thrown overboard —

some ot these latter have been swallowed up by

the waves of Confederation ; etbers, having es-

caped a watery grave, have drifted to foreign lands, where they have consoled themselves io studying Natural History. The old captain has been put in irens, the mate has absconded, the

second wate bas lost the confidence of the crew ;

| ridiculous, we would here wish respecttully to ask

jour Island Soleus if their sage beads were eve: } was plenty of provisions ou board; the crew |

j students of the Catholic University,—a very sual! jitem, however, towards paying a very large | Bill.

If we did not fear being accused of making a rather hurried descent from the sublime to the

engaged forsone moment in considering the great

lesson that we have endeavored to derive from the | !evel with the wisdom of the law. of Literature, especially that of English Liter- ature, proves that public morals improve with the spread of koowledge and civilization.

conduet of their masters in the art of legislation Cau they fied, in the whole range of British his- tory, a single instanee of a party in power that | has continued for eight years to employ as Visilor |} of Sehovis an individual who is scarcely fit te uct in the capacity of Secretary to a Temperance Does British legisiation turmish any | precedent for spending a nice little sam yearly i supporting what is generally believed to be a kind | of School-waster Factory, but of whose influence jon society the public see aa little as if ite doors

were for ever kept locked, and the words,

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as it used to be, and that the people who ishabit it are pigmies, intellectually aud physically, with little houow, houesty or goodness,

The vauuted wisdom and perfections of our ancestors will be found wore imaginary than real by any one who takes the pains to inquire whereim that superior wiedow consisted. At, w bat particu- lar period were wankind more bappy, More ¢om- fortable or wiser than at the present ? When did the supremely blest period ealled the Good Old ‘Times begin andend? Were the people of that undefined aud undefnable period better Christians than their degenerate descendants of to-day 1 At atime when religion, or rather scholastic theology formed the principal, almost the only subject ef tudy or of thought, and when all jntellectual energy Was exerted in speculation on that one topic, we might naturally expeet to find people devout. We are told that the time was when a

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iis sword betore him, while the Gospel was read, osiguity his readiuess to supportit. But this war ike devotion led to more lamentable consequences, nasimuch as it led the devotee to look upon deviation from orthudoxy as a thing not to be He first stigmatized Doubt by the odious name of Heresy, aud then punished it as a

tolerated, crime. In our day, when every civilized mat allows every otver man to pursue lis thoughts on religious and protaue subjects to any extent of speculation, We cau scarcely appreciate the bless- ing of such liberty, and are apt to forget the hurrors of the stricter orthodoxy of our forefathers Further argumeut on this subject may be avoided by referring to ove horrible writ devised by the wisdom and enforced by the piety. of our an- cestors: so common as to be one of the legal forms given in elementary Books oi Practice, aud so long and lately cherished by our wise forefathers that a Protestant Sovereign repeatedly executed it, deliberately and literally, against harmless and obscure Baptists. Being now rarely printed, and not well kav sn to the heteredox of our degenerate day, it will not, perhaps, be amiss to subuii it for (ueir pecusal, in the hope that it may excite an awtal reverence for the ages when Sheriffs en- need virtue and godless through the laud by ite grun authority :—

* The Queen, &c, to the Mayor and Sheriffs of Loudon, greeting :

Whereas the Venerable Father Thomas. Arch- bishop of Canierbury, Primate of all Enylaud, &e, with the couseut aud assent of the bishops aud alse of the Whole clergy of his province in bis Provin- cial Council assewbled, the Urders of the Law in this behalf rejuisite being in all things observed by his delinitive sentence, pronounced aud declared William Sawtre, sometime chaplain, a manifest Heretic, aud decreed him wo be degraded, &e , and bath decreed him the said William Sawtre to be lett and bath really iett him to the secular court. according to the lawsand canonical sauction set torth in this beball, and Holy Mother Charel bas uothiug further to do in the premises: We, ihere- fore, being zealous for justice aud a lover of the Catholic Fait, willing tv maintain aud defend the

duly Church and the rights and libernes thereot aud (as much as i us lies) to extirpate by the roots sach Leresies and errors out of our Kiugdow of Bugland; aud to punish beretics so convicted with condign punish ment; and being mindtal that such heretics, convicted im form aforesaid, and eon- demned aceording to the law, divine and hamen by cauynical justitalion, aid in this behalf ac- customed, oaglit to be burnt with a burning fame of fire--CoMMAND you most strictly as we can firmly enjoiuing that you commit to the fire the aforesaid William Sawtre, being in your custody in sole public and open place within the liberties of the City aforesaid, before the people publicly, by reasou of the premises. and canse him realiy to be burnt in the same fire, in detestation of his crime, and to the manifest example of other Christians ; aud this you are by bo means to omit at your peril ln witness whereof, &c &c."

This is even worse than Distress for Rent !

Neither is it at all clear that the morals of those primitive times were loftier or purer than

those of our own day. [thas been well observed

by a modern historian that whatever we may lnagine Concerning the usual truth and sincer- ity of men who live i a rude and barbarous state, (here ts much more falsehood and even perjury aweng thew than amoug civilized natious. Pub- he virtue is nething but amore enlarged and mere cultivated reason, and never flourishes to any degree, nor is it founded ov any principle o! honer except when a good education becomes general When perjury was cultivated by the ridiculous habit of obliging those suspected ot crime to bemg compurgators—by requiring 72 witnesses fo couvict a Bishop, 27 to convict a deacon, and ouly two to convict a laywwan; wheu litigated points were seitied by the combat of chosen champiens—it is hard to furm a very high estimate of the morals of those who volunteered their oaths as compurgators in a strange cause, or their prowess to elicit the will of Heaven concerning a dispute of the merits of which they were totally ignorant. The morals of the com- purgator and champion must have been on a The History

The geogs liceatiousness of a great portion of the most magnificent literary productions of the classic |. authors is at once a proof of their gevinus and im- morality. From the days of Wycherly and Con- greve down to the present the moral tone of our »wu literature has been steadily improving. The writings of Dryden and Pope, Smoilett and Field- i {

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gious age=that the world is not somehow as good | tion of his own soul and those of nis ancestors, | Death lurks within ite treacherous epell— felvase to all Christians a third part of what waa) A spirit of the art of hell—

owing by them toJews.” Courts of justice have A ceased tu extract evidewor from witnesses by the

thumb-screw und the byot; Catholics are no longer forbidden to have their children educated in their

holding or inheriting land by reason of their not subscribing the Declaration against Popery ple no longer buy wind and rain from wizards ; nor are old women burnt alive for riding the wind on a broomstick. Formularies for exor@isms ate ue longer prescribed to protect the innocent of both sexes from the pollution of intercourse with infernal fiends. ‘The Devil vo longer attewpts to throttle those he cannot vanquish in argument, as he repeatedly did with the redyubtable Martin Luther. Dutch women vo longer bring terth sovterkins—no Rol Roy McGregor steals cattle he was too lazy to rear ;—daring Freebooters and

which the enemy is seeretly projecting, and hurl | knightawhenever present at mass, held the poizt of | Borderers, whe, in their day, achieved historical }

notoriety, would now be convicted as thieves or Our weonlight bas ne Meu's

lives are not endangered by the baueful influence

as wurderers.

hanged

fairies, aud the darkuess has no ghosts,

of comets, or rendered miserable by the respouse of the augurer or the interpretation of a dream. We may stil bave vices (» curb aud errors to correct, but a review of the superstitious credulity of our aheestors will surely couvince every Une prejudiced man that our race bas outlived a great joily that kind miserable by exciting unfounded tears, aud

mass of and error rendered man puulshiog as criaies Sspeculauions and opinions that ure bow properly cousidered not ameuable to legal correcuva. The long and ardueus struggi for liberty by the people of every country in inodern times bas been one continuous contest with intolerant and oppressive legislation and ab- surd maxims, fabricated in the Good Old Tiwes by the Wisdom of our Ancestors, and perpetuated

by the selfixhuess or prejudices of those who re-

To fascinate to deadly. harm— Allure, decoy the wenk away, I

: ee Over Virtne’s corpse and bovor dead, own religiong wor are they disqualified from I

Pep. | This curse of base satanic birth

Sinites hope of heaven—wrecks peace on earth ; Within its pale of midnigit dye

The virtues all dethroned lie,

And vice succeeds aud infamy.

This monster curse bas sacrificed ;

verently and blindly tollowed in their footsteps. When we remember the vast amount of rdicu- lous -pousense our forefathers believed, and the prolific source of misery that their credulity and ignorance were to mankind, it is astonishing thet any mivasure should be now supported merely be- cause it recommended itself to the wisdom of our aucestors. The wass of nonsensical beliefs and crude theories, now bappily exploded, proves ibat our ancestors were far from bemg paragons ot wiedom—that they were scarcely moderately wise. Nor isthe distant past the Old Times—it was but the infancy of the world—the green age of eur nation’s youth, when our forefathers, ignorant of things now familiar to little children, groped their way in undiscovered regions of expe- riment to search at haphazard for results which their knowledge did not enable them to arrive at by an act of reason. The Good Old Times in- deed! The Good Old Time—the best Old Time that ever dawned upon the world is the Present We are older because we number more years irom the creation. We are wiser because we have the experience of ali ages as a lauip lo our The Present is the Good Old Time, hoary with age, learned in all knowledge, wise in the

leet.

accumulated wisdom of ail Lhe sages of the past. lustead of foolishly worshipping the imoeginary per- tections of bye-gove days, let us rather be thankful tor the excellent wercies of the Present, and look forward to the Good Time Coming; tor,

© There® a good time coming, boys,

A good time coming ; We may vot live to see the day,

But earth shall ylisten in the ray Of the good time coming.

Worth not Birth shail rule mankind, Aud be acknow ledved strouyer ; The proper impulse has beeu given:

Wau a little longer.’

[FOR THE EXAMINER |

A CURSE.

A enrse there is of ample bound,

Iu human cireles ever fouand—

A vangrenve thing of fatal toils lusidaons, life consuming coils—

W inding around the human frame— Round head, and heart, and soul, gnd brain, With dread embrace its victims roand, Dread as fell Boa ever wound ;

His sealy nervons twists around ;

Pill crash'd and bleeding, lifeloss lay The creatare for the monster's prey Butah! a winning, pleasing foe,

This enrse which charms to utter woe, In friendly guise—deceptive. worn, Seductive, wily, eheerfal borne—

And blandty to its courts invites ; There gilds the baue of false delights— Cheers ou with sabtie artful voice ; Might Pandemonium’s hosts rejoice, Till treacherous vice triampbant stands, And smiles o'er ruin of her banda.

If further of this enrse yond know, Read on—these lines lay bare and show

Its bane, its victims, vice and woe.

Phen come, my friend, no wizard hand

Iilusive peints at my commaud—

No foul imposter here I stand,

No dark delusion do present,

But truth unfold of dire intent.

If such you seek, with me agreed, ng, are infinitely chaster than the writings of} Enquire and leara as we proceed— To scan crime’s Wretched victins o'er “ Haunted House,” painted in hideous letters over | productions are too indelicate aud sensuous for | Ad probe this carse into its core.

he purer morals or better taste of the present! Ack him on gallows seaffold bound—

the new Captain steers now in one direction, HOWs little question about erippling the Acts of Educa- generation. Today's reader of Peregrine Pickle| Ask him with gibbet irons crown'd— in another; sometimes the ship is left to herself, tion fur which we would wish tu ask a precedent, and Count Fathom will be rather amused at] Ask impious haud deep gorey dyed

and is vielently tossed about by the waves; even the rata, that bave stuck to the ship for a long number of years, are fast abandoning her—a pretty sute sign, it is said, of speedy shipwreck ; and the passengers, naturally evongb, are in a state of ex’retme trepidation and despair, seeing that they are fast dritting towards the rocks and quicksands of destruction. The captain, in order te enterce bis authority, has brought on beard the ship a number of marines, arined cap-a-pied with swords, cutlasses, &e, and bas pointed on the

disatiected passengers two large swivel gune to | | keep them within bounds.

Under such circum- staneea the poor tellows must be very civil and circumspect, hut tt is evident that they are only waiting the first opportunity te seize the captain and his satellites aod swing them to the yard-arm, in order to preserve (hemselves aad the ship trom jumminent destruction.

The Conservatives have hambugged and deceiv-

. weft delight eball cheer to-night applica bie te their administration : Servitus crescit Doe sparkling aterry crowd ; nora —<'* a slavery to-former times unknown.” eee Writing boeows, beating bright, The politica! Atmosphere may at present seem

“Bor joy sivail laugis aloud

but we may rest assured that the “vy jerw their confidence has been

calin and sere. ¢, public feel acute betrayed, how they Dare been deecived, bullied

and insulted, aud they aff’ voly awaiting the proper

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opportunity to give wanifert proofs of their hatred ot political deception and tyaany. Some think that there ie but little differences bei ween Liberals and Tories, and hence that there steuld bea Coa- ition.’ Weil, it is only blind met whe easnot nce. Whv got Responsible Government for the

Sune say that the decay of public. wgtae was con- temporaneous with the decline of clawaieal jiera-;periority we owing aluwost as much to what we ture,—otbers make it exist about the Maye the, have lost as to what we base gained—ia owing last of the Apostles suffered martyrdom. Bag | as much lo our having abandoned the barbarous assert ite departure at the rise of the Refurma- practiaes aud eredulous theories of our adgesiors Aubbesk die benenty | besia.

but as the days of our enlightened Government, for good or fur evil, are all but ended, we are not

disposed to remind them of any ‘nore of their sins We are content to let them pase through the death-struggle with as little reworse of conscience | as possible.

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THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

Tue Good Old Times and the wisdom of our | Ancestors are, favorite subjects of admiration with a great many persone. They rever cease lamenting that their lot is cast in our degenerate ‘day. Pérhaps vo prejudice has done more harm than this superstitious review of antiquity. | Among politiciane abuses the most glaring have

been defended and maintained on the sele ground of their being sanctioned by the wisdom of our hancesters. Theologians have adbered to the mos! | bigoted, narrow and intolerant maxiins for ne | other reason than that these maxims were stamped with antiquity, and handed down from our vene- rable ancestors. Legal proceedings have been disagraced by fictiovs, and arbitrary, nonsensica! rulea whieh frequently prevented justice and afforded a shield tor chicanery and fraud, and whieh were allowed long to survive the exposure of their sidiculousnuess, just because they were pro- geuies of the Good Old Times that gave biith to Johw Doe aad Richard Rue. There are even in our days many worthy people who will tell you in the inost svleina atyle of mwuralizalion that the men of the preseut day have po fixed principles of honor like oar ancesturs—that politics have deg cnerated into selfishuess and snuboersey— that tf” religion has either altegefler fled the earth, is £0 Much mixed up with error as to be nv Jowger tke Sion Pure article that prompted the burning of (be Collards aud the witches ot New England—that, in short, public virtue has alwost wholly Jeft the eacth. At what precise period this calamity paseeg py mankiad the worshippers of antiquity are gyt guite agreed

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Swollett’s boast when he “flattera himself that he | I

8 delicate reader into a trespass on the rules of decorum!’ The gradual improvement of public morals in recent times is well illustrated by a tory related by Sir Walter Seoft. of bis, who lived to an old age with unabated ‘

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eighty aad upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which sixty years ago I have heard read aloud tor the amusement of large cireles, consisting of the first and must creditable society in Loudou?”

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inen of the last generation have recorded that it! Ask him, to geuius brightly wed,

was a custom of publicans in their younger days | Who begs alouy the streets for bread —

lw entice thew customers with petices painted Ask homes where discord rampaut rears, on their siguboards, to the effect, “ You way here Aud blows aud curses reba their spleres—

et druvk for a peuny, dead drunk fur two pence, | “

od have clean straw for nothing.”

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has expunged every adveuture, phrase and in-| A*k Incest, iu its foal array— inuation that could be construed by the most | 45* the adalterer, flash’d for prey— Ask the deceiver, as he flies

To gain sedaction’s glowing prize— Ask prosticvution, steep'’d in woes—

Ask the blasphemer, big with oaths— A grand aunt) ,

sk self-respect, in charnel Weeds— sk dark dishonor’s reeking deeds—

igor of intellect, asked hi if he had ever seen| Ask cheat, aud sveophant, and liar— Mrs. Behn’s novels, and expressed a wish to see| Ask mind debased by abject hire— hem, as they were :auch adwired in her younger | Ask destitation, vagrant, lean,