American shore. The

‘They remained stationary for a few Ihe dllasion was caused by

[tis no uncommon

}and large lakes open saddenly im the bosom

_ . . ; snc — g a + hen th ’ hand the eonvalsive suddenly the ships disappearod, seemed to ( . presont ruins of all that we] melt from view, and nothing was seen but the 1 . is i away into pensive | rocks and the breakers dashing over them. ' hat it wastn the dayaol its} A moment or twe afterwards, instead of the lov \ vould ro it such a sertow | watery space between the lighthouse and in i rh it aiay sometimes | Rueky Point, appeared a wall of solid rock, tire vt over the bricht hour | as elearly defived as the Olympian range of t id a deeper eadness over the | mountains on the hour ‘ who would exchange it,! rocks shortly disappeared, and the three : f pleasure or the burst of | witips were again seep, this time nearer the rerelt N re isa voles from the tomb! American side, and apparently bouod up the E@ert her There is a remembrance | Sound wf ¢ how mh eveu from the | @omenta, then faded slowly away, and re- i () the gray } turned no more i ry error vers every | mirage, whieh arises from a peculiar rarified ren very reseotment | From | atate of the atinosphere ite poaes ful bosom spring none bat fond regret| occurrence to see apparitions of dense forests nd tender recollections Who ean look and mountains in the vicinity of Race Rocks, lown upon the grave even of an enemy, and

mipunctions throb, that he should { with the poor handtul of

elac fave wart earth that lies mouldering before bun !

Bat the grave of these we loyed—what a place for meditation ! There it is that we fall ap in review the whole history of virtue and gentleness, and the thousand en- dearmeste liyished upon ua as almost unheed et in the daily intercoarse of intimacy—there it is that we dwell upon the tenderness, the solemn, awa parting seene The bed of death, with all its stifled griefs— its nuiseless attendance—its mute, watchful esviduities. The last testimonies of expiring love! The feeble, fluttering, thrilling—oh ' how thrilling !—pressure of the hand! The

j long

{ tenderness of the

faint, faliering accents. struggling in death .”

to give one more assurance vt alfeetion! The

lust fond look of the glazing eye, turning

upon as even frum the threst old of existence ! Ay. go to the grave of buried love and ‘ meditate. Chere settle the aecount with thy Gunscivnce for every past benefit unrequited —every past endearment unregarded, of that dey arted being, who can never—never—oever return to be soothed by thy contrition ! If thon arta child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the seal, or a furrow wo the silvered

brow of ap affectionate parent—if thou art « husband, and bast ever caused the fond bosom that yentured its whole happiness in thy arms to doul s moment of thy kindness or thy truth<-if thou art a friend, and hast ever wrot _in thoagat, or werd, or deed, the BT iit that generously ¢ ynfided in thee—if thou art a lover, and bast ever given one un- qerited pang to that trae heart which now lies eold and still beneath thy feet -—then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, cvery “ungentle action, will come thronging ‘back upon thy wemory, and

knocking dulefelly at thy soul—then he sure a »; wilt lhe duwn sorrowing and re-

. the yrave, and utter the unheard | 7 | t unavailing tear; more d 5, mor “fr itter, béeause unheard and unavailing

fea weave thy chaplet of flowers, and sirev sof nature about the grave , ‘ y pirit, if thea canst, with these | er, yet futile tributes of regret; but take warning by the bitterness of this thy ecantrite affliction over the dead, ae beneeforth be more faithful and affectionate |

ia the discharge of thy duties to the living.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Discovertss at Pourzttr.—The Naples cor-

of some mountain on the opposite shore ; buat objects sach as ships ander full sail have been rarely seen here ws mirage. — Victoria ( Vancouver s Island) Chronacle.

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Brarvs.—In the seventeenth century lived the German painter John Mayo, nick-named Jobo the Bearded, on account of bis splondud beard, Although he was 4 tall man, i reached to such a length that even when he stood upright, it swept the ground, and therefore he wore this unwieldy ornament hooped in his girdle. The Emperor Charles V. used to take much delight in seeing this extraordinary beard unfastened, and the wind blowing it against the faces of the lords of bis cvurt. :

By law Russians dare not shave. This enactment was confirmed, in the time of Peter the Great, as a kind of revenge, by compelling the peasantry to wear the beard they refused at his command to part with. A beardless man himself, he was jealous of others, who had a flow of bair, and being a man of a power he was too fund of abusing, he sought to compel the ase of razors through- out Russia. Un all ordinary occasions, Peter was the idol of the mass of his people; but when he snapped at their beards he was de- ciared a tyrant aod an enemy, and the for- midable opposition excited against him gave the opening to the discontented of the nobles to excite a rebellion. He wes obliged to soften his determination into the form of a beard tar, which was afterwards repeuled, and the statute executed which enforces the wearing of the beard. However, this statute does not bear very heavily on the Russian peasant, for be giories in his beard.

Asia and some Asiatic people enjoy the monopoly of the finest beards in the world Che Turks, amongst others, have very beau- tiful beards—that of the late Sultan, Abdul Medjid, being a case in point.. But to the Persians is due the credit of growing the most splendid beards ever seen.

The Persians, in very early times, were accustumed to give great attention to beards. We are informed by St. Chrysostom, that Chue-cang had hw beard interwoven, or watted, with gold thread, and the accuracy of this informetion is evinced by the ancient Persian sculptures, which still remain, and in which the common: beards are curiously jand nicely curled, while those of the throned personages ure still and matted.

In the same sculptures other persons who, from the offices they are performing, appear to be slaves or servants, have tie beurd in its natural state. Even in Persia the beards

respondent of the Morning Post says:— | have, however, undergone fluctuations * The follow ing are some of the most remark-| During the Saffavean dynasty —— that uropeans,

bhe af th amd conv ‘you Napies. 1 mast give the first rank to a| beautiful gold lamp, with two burners, stand- ing, with ita pedestal, about 18 inehes bigh, | ud weighing exactly a Neopalitan rotolo , | equivalent to. punces, Withuut its cover, | however, whieh is wanting, but which per-| hap brought the original weight of the lamp tu 36 ounces, ur three Roman pounds. The! ied is perie tly pure, and the quantity and | quality of the metal form the valae of the| lamp, which in other respects is not to be} comperet tou many of the bronze ones extant, being quite destitute of ornament, although net inciegant in design This prize was | discovered in the spring of the present year, | in the middle of a newly-excavated street, | . evidently dropped by sts owner or bearer in| the hurry and alarw of a nocturnal fight. | it is placed tm a giass case in the cabinet of |

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/bjeets recently found in Pompeii, | only moustaches were common. to the pational museum in| Who travelled in the country during that

riod, describe and delineate the Persian ace as destitute of beard. At the present time the ancient zeal for beards has revived. and the late Shah had one of the finest ever seen. It reached below his waist, and was altogether sv imposing an appendage that it formed an unfailing theme of admiration amongst his subjects, who really seemed to think thatif there were other claims want- ing, his beard alone would entitle bim to reign over men.—Huirdresser's Journal. ————— ip oa A New Rewepy ror Dipruzrm. — The Revue Therapeutique, & medical journal pub- lished in Paris, has a paper by Dr. A. De Grand, vice-consul at Havana, in which be mentions ice as an infallible specific for this disease. The following cases are related, in which his treatment was perfectly success-

preciuus objects im the maseum, together | ful :-—

with a pair of gold bracelets,of elegant work- manship, found atthe same time. bronze utensil departmens in the museum is |

*“Qne of Dr. DeGrand’s patients was

The | seized, and as he could not immediately at-

tend, another physician was calied in, who

so full that it has become a difficult metter! ordered emetics and sluminous gargles, which

to find room in tt, although it consists of Be- | produced no effect

At length Dr. DeGrand

veral extensive halls, for the continually re-| eame, and found the tonsis greatly swollen,

eurring contributions from Pom peit. this account that the must recently discover- ed o} jects in bronze are as yet on the ground fluor at the entrance of the Pompeimn paint- ing gallery. Among them I chiefly admired a bronze urn and brazier of very elegent shape and tasteful decuration, the two laterai hundies being each formed of a couple of ath- eves wrestling, whilst the knob, su to say,of the cover consists of a Cupid riding on a dolphin. It is to be regretted that this ad- mirable production should have suffered the same kind of partial decomposition a8 moat vi the bronzes found in Pompeii, owing, no doubt, to the chemical nature of the eruption there, which was evidently different from the voleanic stream whieh overwhelmed Her- ecalaneum, as the bronzes tound in the latter city are in perfect preservation, and have kept unchanged their original dark colour, whilst the Pompcian bronzes are generally covered with blue and green oxides and en- erustations. ‘Lhe large glass case contain- ing the objeets most recently brought in from Pompeii 8 4 museum in iteelf, with vases, vrookmg Utensila, orfaments of dress, gems, and coms, Two beautitul auret or gold evins, Of Vespassian apparently, look as new a8 if just out of the mmperil mint.”” > Cyurtous Mrrace in tus West Inpies.— Your readers may remember the descriptions given by Latham and Vince of the unex rect- ed appearance of the elear outline of the Freneh coust, with the fishing boats, as seen frum Hastings ; and the curious phenomenon of having the whole of Dover Castle above the horizon from Ramegate (see the writer's ++ fittroduetion to~ Meteorology,’ p. 249, § 275). Analogous to this was a refraction witnessed by the writer, on the 28th of July, 1363. in Britiah Guiana, on the Essequibo We were then in the closing part of the long wet senson, with great sun-heat and heavy showers alternating ; and mach rain, follow- ing thonder, had fallen in the early part of the day. ‘Towards 2 P. M. the rain-clouds took up, and a britliant K&ky opened, such as w often witnessed in South America ir the rainy months. Having ocensivn to ride to a plantation on the Wakenadim Island, some miles off, to take boat for one of the Islands higher up, | eame ty a spot which commands no view beyond a narrow circlé of luxuriant treea and pasture. I bebeld the whole seene vhanged. Lefore me’ the land was dwarfed, and tog Istand, from its north-western lino, ouwartds to tts northeastern, Was seen, with tive chanuel between. ‘Though a little hazy, { satisfied myself’ that the voathie was correct, with the tall eourada and mangrove trees which gird the beach lt was a mavellous deception, produced probably by strata of air, of unc qual density and tem pera ture, not tar from the earth. On getting oat wpon the river, which was very calui, and looking to the north in’ the direction oppo- site te that of the mirage desertbed, I bebetd lisland at the mouth of the Kasequibo goo to speakn ai. This phenomenon i have olten sven. At might the moon Gas srrounded by a white halo, about 20° in radius, mut ‘unlike the vie wentioned by Llumbuldsé, as seco a6 Cumana.’ During the ruchhl aw ¢ rid hatnd breeze blew, and the ful- , opened with threatenings of

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heavy rai, the river was calm, and the foliage of the neighbouring island obscured, ihe aspeet of Nature being gloomy and in-

tensely Gropieal. But the vain did not tall, and a atrong sea-breeze followed.— Corres- ViAcnaum, in Britush Guiana. - a a Mim

Puaxtrom Suiuvs.—Two gentlemen strolling upen hill on the 20th of June witueesed a rare sight. Three large ships, with all sails bent, a; peared to rise as it were from the water between Rocky Poins and Race Rocks, and with thei white chnvas glistening ta the sun, and the spray dashing from thew prows, headed directly fur Victorte The spectators, knowing the dangerous lucality in which the vessels. were, avd alarmed lest they sh luld be dashed to p-eces ub the cocks sprung to theirs icet, whea

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and a false membrane covering them. He immediately administered small pieces of ice, and by the ae morning the tume- factiun of the tonsils bad diminished by half, and the false membrane had nearly disap- peared. That very evening she was enabled to take food. Profiting by this example, a few days after her brother was seized with sore throat, presenting the same preliminary symptoms as those of bis sister; but he, without waiting for the doctor, at once took some ice, and was rid of his sore throat in a few hours. Some days later, Dr. DeGrand was sammoned to a young lady who had been laboring under the disease for sume 48 hours ; all remedies had failed, and the parents, re- lations and friends of the family were plung- ed in the deepest sorrow. hen Dr. De- Grand ordered ice, a general ery of astonish- ment was uttered by all present. Ice tor a sure throat! Impossible! It was sheer marder! Dr. DeGrand maintained his ground, and after much ex postulation, during which time was lost, be obtained bis end. Before 24 hours was over the patient was in full convalescence. Being at Vera Cruz on & mission, he was requested to see a young man who was attacked with malignant sore throat, and had beep treated without effect by cauterizations with hydroclorie acid and astringent gurgles. llere again he had to battle with the prejudices of the family, but was at length allowed to administer ice. The young man recovered in the course of the following day. Dr. DeGrand has now been using this remedy for the last twelve years, without having met with a single failure. This is whut he says, but even if only halt of whiat he says were true, the method should be tried by others. Cold gargles have been employed with success by Dr. Blanc, of Strasburg; why nut ice.’ >.

We lately met a grammarian, eays a Califorma paper, who has just made a tour thro’ the mines, conjugating or rather cogitating thus; ** Positive mine; com- parative, miner ; superlative, minus.”

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A Kentucky editor advertises ag follows ; ** Wanted at this office, a bull-duog, of any color, except pampkin and milk, of respect- able sizs, snub noze, cropped ears, and abbreviated continuation—Wwho can come when called with a raw beefsteak, and will take his * pound of flesh’ from the man who squirts tobacco-juice on the stove, aud steals our exchanges !

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_- - | A Jady who drowned herself for Jove near | Pawtucket was recently borne to her grave jon a bier carried exclusively by women, and | one hundred other womea tollowed in pro- Cession.

CORRESPONDENCE. To ras Epiror cr ran EXAMINER.

Sin,—The ma)-edmipistrators of this little | island are every day giving proofs of their | inconsistency, 88 for instance, the appoint- | ment of Little Dan, or “ Dan the Member,” ty anuther office at Montague Bridge. This | fellow holds no less than five ottices under | Goomamens at the present time; and the

fret i8, he is not capable of filling either ot them. Bat * Dan the Mewher’’ is capable | of doing any dirty work for the sake of gain ; such as allowing vessels to dispose of their fish without inepecting one solitary barrel, and then charging the captain half the fees a'lowed by law for not doing that which the Act requires him to do; and praising the Government for their consistency in the af- fairs of the Award, in sending the Delegation to England w force the Duke to terma, be- cause, a8 he says, Mr. Pope bas lost his agency, he is therefore very bitter against the proprietors, and will make them submit. (What @ farce!) And, Sir, t add w the | disgrace of the Goverament, he is a Univer- sulist. which no man or body of men profess- mg to be such models of christianity would for one moment have in their serviwe. Yet such is the mua chusen to fill Government

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offices at Montague Bridge, notwithstandmg there are quite a pumber of respectable men in the vicinity eapable of filling those offices, and men in whom the public could place confidence. And what, Sir, let me ask, 18 the purport of this office? In my opinion, it is this: the very people that trust the merchant to weigh such as tea, leather, and other expensive articles are not to be trusted to weigh oate at 2+. per bushel. This, Sir, was blown into the minds of a certain race of people, that they ought to petition the Giv- vernment to appoint an officer to superintend the measuring of grain; and Little Dan kvew well, from the particular attention he paid to dirty affairs, that he would likely be appointed, especially as Fioley has great in- Huence with the Government. Now, Sir, suppose 20 M bushels of grain will be ship- ped from the Bridge, Little Dan gets a .arth- ing per Dushel, which will amount to nearly £21: uw nice sum for farmers to pay to keep him in idleness, especially as the merchants are more worthy of public confidence than « Pan the member,’ and show by their in- dustry that they eat their bread by the sweat of their brow, aud not hang on the public and paltry offices fur a subsistence.

Yours, TRUTH.

Lot 59, Sept. 2ith, 1863.

Che Examin

er. Charlottetown, October 12th, 1863.

MILITARY AND NAVAL MATTERS.

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WE have given, in another coluinn, from the pen of Our Own Reporter in charge of Military Affairs, a somewhat lengthy review of a letter which recently appeared from one of the paid lnstructors of the Volunteers, and we feel that we ought to offer a word of apology for devoting so much space to that matter. Sergt. Major Bacon—the letter-writer referred to—is not, we believe, a very important individual,—we have not had the felicity of hearing his name before, al- though he has done us the henor to call us his friend, which, in truth, we are, being a friend to all mer of genius and valour—but his letter derives some importance from these facts :—That he is, or has been, a paid servant of the Govern- ment—that, from being a Drill Sergeant, instruct- ing our Volunteers, he does, and ought to, know a great deal about the working of the Volunteer System, and that he confirms our opinion, to a degree that we did not expect, as te the worth- lessneas of the sham that bas been imposed upen us as a Military defence. The Sergt. Major hugely admires the Movement, but he admits that it has been going tu the dogs here, on account of the stupidity or incompetency of all other Drill Sergeants but himself connected with it, and that the Reviews which have been held here at Head Quarters, under the nose of the Commander- in-chief, have been very laughable farces indeed. We knew all this long ago, but certainly we did not expect that it would be blurted out by an old experienced soldier, and one of the pillars of the Volunteer movement; and least of all, did we ex- peet to find such testimony in the colomns of the principal Government paper.

Nothing could be more opportune to corrobor ate Mr. Bacon's statements than the character ot the Sheoting Match which touk place ou Govern- went House grounds the other day. An official report of the affair has been given in the Royal Gazette—(how the Queen's Printer must chuckle when he reflects that he pockets more money than any other individual out of the Volunteer jobbery!) From this repert we learn that the whole number of competitors was fifty-four. Now, fifty-four is a very sinall number out of a Force alleged to be at least a thousand strong ; and we may be sure that there were none eacept officers, besides the Shooting Half Hundred, on the ground. We have a right to assume that they were the flower of the P. E. island Army— that they were the only individuals who could affurd to sport the “ imposing unifurm,” which, the Islande? aseures us, is worn by our Volunteers —that they were the men of the “ graceful and upright carriage,” who, as the Islander hath turther saith, “are irresistible in the eyea of the women.” We shan't question the personal at- tractions of the fifty-four Military Adonisses—we saw a few of the “ irresistible” fellows, and we confessed to ourselves that it would be super- fluous to “ ask the women” a question touching the charms of the said Adonisses. But our ad- miration for the Flower of the Prince Edward Island Army was slightly disturbed when we further learned, from tho Adjutant General's Re- port, that out of the fifty-four shooters “ thirty seven were disqualified after the first five rounds.” The disqualification is, of eourse, understood to mean bad shots—so that there were only seven- teen out of a thousand Volunteers who were allowed to pass muster as passable shots! This fact is more stunuing than all the hard things that Sergt. Major Bacon could write against the Volunteers from now until doome-day.

Now, let us see what were the guerdons for which the seventeen “ irresistible” shooters of the “ graceful and upright carriage” had to coutend. There were eleven money prizes—besides one sett of shirt studs, and one rifle. We can't say whe- ther the latter were offered in mockery or earnest- ness, but the prizes are such as to suggest some queer thoughts. One would suppose that a rifle was not the kind of thing to be presented to men who had exhibited such questionable skill in the use of that article; and as for the shirt studs, would it not have been more sensible to have offered half a dozen shirts — no matter whether of cotton or linen — than bits of cheap jewellery that were nweh less required? Falstafi’s Com- pany—as we learn fre: that veracious historian, William Shakespeare — had only a shirt aud 2 half between them, whieh were made up of nap- kins stolen from the nearest hedge; and the gal- lant Captain deeiarog he would be d—d before he would march with them through Coveatry. Cap- tain Sir John Falstaff was acomieal fellow, but there was one thing wanted to make his comicality com- plete, and that was the offering of a set of shirt studs to the best shooter in his Company. The Duke of Wellington was once asked what did a soldier most require? he answered, “a pair of boots.” His Grace was then asked, what next did the suldier most require ?—he answered, “another pair of beots.” The question was put touching the third requisite of the soldjer, wheu his Grace replied—* A guod pair of boot svles in bis knap- sack.” We are astonished that his Grace never thought of the studs! ee ee

The money prizes, as we learn, were eleven in number,—eight of these were giveu by the ladies, which shews how completely they were con- quered by the “irresistible” Volunteers. We have a great respect for the ladies, as we said in a tormer article on this subject, and we hope our respect will pot be questioned wheu we ask them, would it not have been more creditable to have consolidated their funds into ove or two handsome prizes, than have them doled out in driblets of 208., 168. 8d. and 13s. 4d. sty. each? The whole amount subscribed — partly dunned for even on Gevernment Llouse grounds, and there shelled out with reluctance —was exactly £31 13s. 4d. stg., which would average less than three pounds a piece to the eleven prizes. Old maids and oid women are known to be stingy, generally, in their contributions te publie funds, but we did not ex- pect to find such an illustration of this knowledge as has been just furnished to us by the amount of the money prizes to the “irresistible” Volunteers For two mortal days was the great Volunteer Fores stirred to its inmost depths to produce seventeen shouters who could see the target, and who were, each, ambitious of carrying off a por- tien of the booty, amvunting to the munificent sum of £31 15s. 4d. stg., to make up which, de-

mauded the united energies of the Lieut. Gover-

nor, the Admiral, the Bank, and many of the ladies of the land, — to say nothing of the studs, which cannot fail to make the winner more “ ir resistible”’ than ever be was, and the rifle, which it is to be hoped, by improved shooting, will bring additional glory to its winuer and to the enuse in which it was won,

It is not proper, perhaps, that we should mix up Naval with Military affairs, but we have one or two facts to record that have so much relation to the subject on which we have been discours- ing, that, in our bumble opinion, the record of the facts should be made in this connection. The ‘Town, as every body knows, was alarmed last week by the arrival of two U. States war vessels The Hero of Inkerman House was consulted His Honer saw at once the magnitude of the case, aud regretted more than ever that fortifications were not erected at Braddock's Point. The Vo- lunteers were thought of—there was eome little demur, we believe, about bringing them out, en account of the paucity of numbers; but, at all events, report sayeth that ball cartridges were served out to the seventeen sharp shooters above referred to, and they were required to report themselves for actual service at a moment's notice so as to protect “our hearths, our homes, ou sweethearts and our wives.” Before making any warlike demonstration, it was deemed, however, prudent first to try what virtue there was in peaceful measures, so Mr. Deputy Secretary Morrison was ordered to limp his way, as best he could, to the U.S. Frigate Athol Allen, and hav- ing found a dirty jolly beat, in which he Was propelled by dirty rowers for a few pence a piece, this representative of our Government hopped on beard of the frigate. ‘The officers of the Federal ship were not particularly alarmed ut the sight of Mr. Morrison, even when that important indivi- dual unrolled and read the ominous parchment seroll which he flourished,and which was merely a copy of the Queen's proclamation on the neutrality laws ; but they felt diagusted at being ordered out of the port by such a personage scarcely three hours after they had dropped anchor. They were well aware of the rights and privileges which in- ternational treaties yave them, but they could not understand the stupid officialism which reminded them of those treaties before there was any at- tempt, on their part, at the slightest breach ot them. The Feds. shewed their good manners by declining a parley with the Deputy, or by not even pitching hin overboard, but they heaped coals of fire on his head by treating him as be was never treated in his life before; and the gratified De- puty has made up bis mind, we believe, to write a special despatch to the Lords of the Admiralty, showing conclusively that the U. States Govern- iment have as yet manifested no-hostile intentions ; and that we may, for a little while longer, inter- change international courtesies without endanger- ing our connection with the British Crown.

epee rr THE MONTGOMERY ESTATE.

“The Earth hath bubbles as the Water bath, And this is of them.”

“The Tenantry on Lot 59 will be glad to hear that Mr. Robert Montgomery has wathorized his agent here to sell bis part of it to the Goverument on the same terms that his brother sold his share of the same estate last year, and that His Excellency in Council has accepted the otfer.””—Mosttor.

THE above statement from the Monitor is re- peated in the Protestant of Saturday, and the substance of it is done up with a great flourizh of trumpets in the Jslander of the previous day Now what does it all amount to? Nothing at all. If the brother of Mr. Robert Montgomery “ sold his share” of Lot 59 to the Government last year, why has not that year’s sale been completed ? We are told that wills, legacies, titles and matters of that kind, stand in the way. Then no actual sale has taken place. It is quite certain that the Commissioner of Pubtie Lands has not yet acquired any coutrol over the estate, otherwise we should have seen his advertisements inviting the tenantry to come and purchase the freehold of their farms. We suspect that the whole thing is one of these shams in which the Government of this country are 8 very fond of dealing.

If it should ever come to pass that the Govern- ment have really purchased the Montgomery Estate at two shillings and four pence sterling an acre, it must be suld to the tenantry at a very snall advance on that price; and, then, what, in the name of common sense and justice, should induce that same Government to send Delegates to England for the purpose of asking the other proprietors to take sixteen years rental for the fee simple of their estates, which would make the price of land range from twenty to forty shillings an acre against the tenantry, who would likewise have to pay their arrears of rent? If the Mont- gomery property can be sold to present settlers for 6s. or 7s. 6d. currency an acre, like the Worrell, Lot 11, and Selkirk estates, where are the tenantry who will be fools enough to give three or four times these amounts to other landlords ?

We are amazed at the inpudence of the Go- vernmentjournals,as shown by their claiming credit for their patrons and employers, over a little prospective advantage to the country by the purchase of a large landed property. Surely they cannot forget that the Act under which such & transaction can now be effected was solely and wholly the work of the Liberal Party, and was fiereely opposed in its passage through Parliament by those in power. The Belfast people may thank the Liberals for becoming freeholders. If the Moutgumery tenants should ever attain to a like condition—of which we see no prospect so long as a Proprietary Government are continued in office—let them be sure that the Grays, Palmers, Popes and Company, are nut the men who are entitled to their gratitude.

oo . THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION.

SOME persons were urreasonable enough to object to our article last week, touching Scottish Music, on the ground thatit was tuo partial to the lrh. We are not aware of having written a word on this subject in which we are not borne out by authentic histery. We had, and have, no desire to disparage the very plausible claims of the Scoteh to the bagpipes, bat we eould not shut our eyes to the fact which history unfolds, that the Irish were by long odds before the Seoteh in possessiou of thisadmirable insirument. We gave almost day and date te prove the thing—we certainly quoted history in support of our position, and no one has yet ventured to controvert it. A writer has, indeed, appeared in the Protestant of Saturday, in whose production there is a great deal of antiquarian and historical lore displayed. We have read the article with zest, and we trust with profit; we subscribe to every seatence it contains ; We admit to the full that the pipes are an ancient instrument, and that their music serves to nerve the arm of the soldier in the shock of war. But this does not in the least alter the case, as we laid it down. In fact, the contributor to the Protestant has, in the most agreeable and con- clusive manner, confirmed our view of the case. It will be remembered, as we proved, that the aveient Romans possessed the bagpipes, and we shewed where, how, and when they got them— that Cwsar’s legionaries, when they found their way to Ireland, which they were never able to conquer, had seme very coufused notions touching the rights of property, and that amongst the treasures which the rogues carried to Rome, when they were tired of sacking the savage Britous, the Irish Bagpipes were strangely found to be of the lot. Now, so enamoured were the Romans of the pipes that they were introduced into their most ingenious sculptures. The Protestant writer admits this, when le says: “ The Rowans wust have taken it—(that is, the bagpipes) from the Phoenicians or the Greeks.” Precisely so. Whoever yet disputed ‘the fact, that the Phoenicians, the Greeks and the Irish, were all

one large family? and stealing a thing from the Greeks was like stealing it from the Lrish. We

learn from Robertson's History of Scotland— (Edinbargh edition, 1831, page 7: we like to be partictilar in quoting our authoritivs,) that when the Roman General Agricola “repulsed” the Caledoniana, that race were found to be very rude and uncivilized, but soon acquired seme knowledge of arts, letters’and sciviece from the conquerors, —the North Britons, indeed—frep Robertson, page 7)—were indebted for their knowledge of writing to the Romans. How could such a people as the Caledoniaus, in this state of barbarism, which their own historian aseribes to them, be capablo of cultivating the uinsic of the bagpipes which require such deheate manipula- tion? It ismorally certain that Agricola brought the Irish pipes and the Lrish musie from Rome, with the other refining arts which he bestowed upon the Caledonians, and that the latter, 4a adopting them as their national instrument, did not improve upon their Irish model. ‘The writer in the Protestant refers to the Emperor Nero as “ a master of music,” and oue skilled in the use of the pipes. It is quite true be was, and we are sorry for it, because he was a sensual beast and a blued thirsty tyrant ; and we are ashamed to admit that the very air which he played upon his fiddle while Rome was buruiag, St bis instigation, was an Irish air, and was supposed to be the original of that beautiful tune new known under the Gaelic name of “ Tha na Fir a’ Gol.”

There has been so much said about Scotch Music that we must resist the temptation of writing another word aneut it, although there are severa! unelucidated historical (acts before us bear- ing upon the subject. We canuot, however, stop without expressing our gratification at the interest which it has excited; and we say it beiore the world, that we shall be always glad to hear the Pipes, no wnatter whether they are of Scotch or {rish origin, and we shall be always glad, likewise, to hear the writer of the Protestant thus eloquent- ly discourse regarding them :—

“A few historical remarks regarding the instru- ment before giving the particulars, would perhaps, be desirable. Lt is allowed by Listoriaus, as well as Auiiquurians, thet the great Highlaud Bag- pipe is vt a very early iuveation. It is founded on the oaten pipe of primitive ages. The Chan- ter, made of the most sovuerivus wood, was the first step towards improvement of the instrument ; the bag and drones were, at seme subsequent period, added ; in that unproved state it has been handed down to us by a very remote generation, as is evident by the impressions we see ou old coins. =“ There is now in Rome a most beautiful bass Relieve, a Grecian Seulpture ot the highest antiquily, of a Bagpiper,play ing on his lustrumeut, exactly like a modern Highlander.” ‘The Romans must have taken it from the Pheenecians or the Greeks, and intrudnecd it among their swains, why still use the instrament wader the name of

thore is huge imposition practised in referenee to the Volunteer System we would like to know | what Sergt. Major Bacon considers imposition. | But he further says that the “ Examiner is perfeetly right about the langhable reviews and useless drill of the Companies in and about the City of Charlottetown, for I can say, and that conscientiously, that all the distant country Coim- panies who have arms in possession, and which have come under my observation, are far iJ advance of the City Companies, and why! be- cause they are left to their own resources, thereby not kept back by pon-qualified instruetors as the Cily Companies allow themselves to be.” We commend the next extract from the letter of this excellent military authority to our country readers. He says :—

“ Again adverting to the £400 voted for the Volunteer Force, and it appears to me that there is some 33 Companies of Volunteers on this Island, and these two non-qualified instructors are receiving £10 a year for each and every Company which they pretend to instruct, for it certainly cannot possibly be called anything more than pretension, therefore their allowance expends nearly one halt of the amount voted annually for the Volunteer Force, and the distant couutry Companies are thereby not only deprived of an instructor, but they are deprived of the means of paying one, unless they pay him out of their ows pockets, the remainmg amount, after the two non-qualified instructors are paid, having ty go to pay an Armourer-Sergeant from Halifax, N.5S., to come and extract, or drill out bullets from the rifles of or in possession of the three City Com- paoies.” He avers 14 another place that the instructors “ receive £10 per Company for leading the Volunteers astray.” Now, whilst we think

that the instructors referred to, are not so much to blame for grasping their share of the public plunder, and that they are not responsible for the “laughable reviews,” inasmuch as the young men de not attend drill, getting tired as they are of sporting their “gold trimmed searlet coats and bright nodding plumes,” we are credibly in- formed that Sergt. Major Bacon's testuneny is partly if not wholly borne vut by the report of the Armourer-Sergeant who has been here cleaning and repairing the rifles during the past six mouths. What a cold shiver must run over that nervous portion of the public whe believe that the young Eagle of the American Republic has been hovering over our heads to ravish all those whom we se fondly cherish, when they learn that they have been in such imminent danger. unerring aim would surely wound if not destroy the golden bird, have been all the summer, and during the excitement which existed dnring the Trent affair, worse than old sticks certainly, inasmuch as they were plugged up with old jeaden

The rifles whose

“Cornu Musa.” Nero, that master of music, used one, and had he not died, was te have bad a grand coneert; and among the instruments, the Utricularies, or Bagpipes, was te be introduced. Nero perished, but the figure of the instrument is preserved on one of his coins The Bagpipes, in its unimproved state, in another ancicut sculpture, secs to have had two long pipes or drones, and a short pipe for the fingers. Some say that the Bagpipes were introduced into Ssetland by the Romans, but Penuant as well as Jamieson, has shown that the Bagpipes was used in Scotland at a much earler period, remarking that it is not at all likely that the Caledonians would cliouse the musie of therr enemies. The Bagpipe has been used by the Scots when warring with the Picts. Ihave no doubt that the exhilirating strain of the Bagpipe led them to victory, as they haye m- variably done up to the present day. Columba, the founder of the Abbey of Tena, bad a bard who was a professor of music, and taught the Bagpipes. In the times of a Wallace and a Bruce the strains of the Bagpipe led the Sons of Caledonia to free- dom and victory, aud the expnision of the Sassen- ach across the border probably then, or at a Jater date, gave rise to the composition of the “ Blue Bounets over the Border.” So much for ite anti- quity, now for its utihty: The attachment ot Scotchmen to their musie is incredible, and has produced effeets on many a gory battle-tield, more marvellous than ascribed toe any other in- strnwent or music, “Its martial sounds can fainting troops inspire, with strength unwented aud euthusiasm raise,” viz : Quebee, 1760, when the British trowps were hard pressed, Frazer's Regiment, with their pipers playing a tavonrite air, restored the fortune of the day. Sir Erye Coote nade a firesent of fitty pounds to each of the Seottish Regunents, to purchase Bagpipes, for their gallant conduct in the battle of Poria Fuva, where they bad to cope with double their number. The Bagpipe bas led the “ Sons of the mountain, the vailey, wud the brave” to victory on the fields of Coruna, Vimeria, Salamanca, Bridge 6f Goa, Lives of Torres Vedras, Waterloo, &c. The Highland Brigade, under the coimmand of the distinguished aud late lamented Lord Clyde, the small “ Red streak of Balaclava,” theybrave 93rd Highlanders, the advance of the brave and noblé Havelock, with the pipes of the 73th Highlandurs, the celebrated strains of the Bagpipe, playing the “Campbells are coming,” of “ Jessie Brown” noteriety, te the final relief of Lucknow, prove to Seotia’s Sons that in whatever clime their lot may be cast, they never should forget their love for the music of their forefathers, language, dress, amusements,de. But ancient and modern histo- ry prove that neglect of uationality lead to most disastrous consequences, both public and private.” —_—___e——_—* SERGT. -MAJOR WLLLIAM BACON