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A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LITERATURE

AND

Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.’ --- Euripides.

I'TETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1866.

LITERATURE, ONIN INN Ll ll PP al Nr A SCORE OF YEARS AGO.

Down by the breaking waves we stood, Upon the roeky shore;

The brave waves whispered courage, And bid with friendly roar

The faltering words that told the tale I dared not tell before.

I asked, if with the priceless gift, Il er lowe my life she'd bless,

Was it her voice, or some fair wave~ Forsooth I scarce may guess —

Some murmariung wave or her sweet voice, That lisp'd 80 sweetly * Yes.”

And then, in happy silence. too, I clasped her fuir, wee hind ;

And lung we stood there, carelessly, While o'er the darkening land

The sun set, and the fishing boats Were sailing from the strand.

It seemed not many days ago— Like yesterduy—no more,

Since tus we stooc, my love aud f, Upon the rocky shore ;

Bat [ was four-aud- twenty then, And jnow I'm forty-Joar.

The tilly hand is thinner new, And inv her sunny hair

1 see some silvery lines, and on Her brow some lines of care:

Bat wrinkled brow, or silver locke, She'e not one whit less fair.

The fishing boats a score of years Ge sailing from the strand ;

The crimson sun a score of years Sets o'er the darkeniog land

And here to-night apon the cliff

We're standing hand in hand.

“My darling there's onr eldest girl, Down on the rocks below! What's Stanley doing by her side 7" My wife saves,“ you should know ; He's telling her what you told me A score of years ago.” ———— pe

TO. AN OLD HAT.

0 shocking hat! paor, unregarded thing!

Thy pristine black all changed to dingy brown Bereft of rim. and, like a conquered hing,

(Whom vandals have despoiled,, without a crown! fud vet, O buttered cylinder! I know

On hamean shoulders thea hast proudly gat, And once—perhaups a dozen years azo—

Thon wert a good and fashionable hat !

Perchanee, at first. with what a pronty cock ! A dandy's vacan’ temples thon didst bind ; To set thee bravely off a charming block! And serving well! to advertise thy kind. Pon diless thon wert a lover's hat; since few Love vot. who have a head; and ofttimes In friendly sort has hil from valgar view

Rose-sceuted billet d-ut and aworeus rhymes,

Mavhap a lawyer, in thy yonthfal dava And his, rej iced —with uniden fee elate— Po call thee * chattel.” in hie tewal ptrase, Enhancing much his personal estate !

A lawyer's hat! what paper mischiefa then Rustled within thee at the owner's nod? What‘ Writs

And in sad mockery named * the Grace of God!

’ ill-boding—werit by gmeeless men,

Chon may thave thatched a parson. and could boust Of “the divinity that stirrea within’ In shape of sermons ofien flattering most Tie sinner, while the preacher banned the sin ; Or, better, written by a pastor bold Tn dainty ears to ponr unwelcome newe, Who feared his Maker more than man, and told Phu truths, anawed before the velvet pews.

Thon may’st have crowned the Tlonorable head Of some grave Senutor; and so, perforce, Wert deep in Bill-—to raise the price of bread; Or cheapen labor, diamonds and diverce, Petitions many, to reform the ase Of taxes—heedless of the treasury gap ;

Speeches, of sovereign virtne to produce

What thea hast wanted long—a decent sap! {

At second-hand ‘tis ten to one thou wert A Hebrew's barguiu ; dearly sold, erelong, To Jolin the ostler; next, begrim'd with dirt, A vagrant’s purchase for an ill-seng song ; Till, shorn by Time of all thy former state, Beyond a chance alike of use or sale, Phe beguar cast thee from his senevy pate * To point a moral or adorn a tale.’

THE **BEWITCILED”’ FARM. |

IN TWO CHAPTERS.

CHAFTER IL—TUR MYSTERY EXPLAINED.

( Concluded.)

It would be nothing to the present purpose te describe the fex-hunt. At the cover-side we found astrong tuster, aud among these present were two or three friends of Treddeck, whe had heard something of the malicious damage done at his farm. They were proluse alike with their

syinpathy and their suggestions; but Tom was

not very Communicative on the subject, and gene-

changing horses, ax if desirous of testing her by his own riding. Things went on well for perhap’

| a quarter of a mile, when, immediately after we

had passed through a gate, and just as Treddock

was turning im bis saddle to rescure the latch, | down went the mare in exactly the old fashion;

and being taken unawares, Treddeck got a tery ugly fall.

“ Her knees are broken thia time '” he shouted, scrambling up, and rubbing bimself as be went back to her. No, there waa not a mark on either leg! “Toever saw a horse fall like that before,” he said staring in fresh wonderment at me.

TL eaid that [never did, for though I had not witnessed the whole process thia time, I knew ex- actly what it was like from my own experiences.) He remounted, but we had not goue two hundred yards further before precisely the same scene was re-enacted.

“Stop, Treddock'” I shouted, and wheeling my horse round as his animal rose unassisted, 1 went close up, and with my whip brushed the tips of the mare's ears. I had found out the secret! At the first toneh. down she went. She was instantle up again; and I repeated the ex- periatent, with jost the same rent,

“© Why. itis a trick somebody has learned her!” roared Treddock from a balfreeumbent position in the middle of the oad.

* That is it, certainly, and nothing else,” I an- swered. © Twas lovking, and I saw your whtp touch her eara; and then it flazhed across me that mine did ao when she fell in the Geld.”

Treddock tried the manw@uvre himself, and ae certainly as the whip touched a hair of her eare, so aurely the mare rocked forwards then back- wards, then went down, but eometicw seemed to recover herself, almost, ae it appeared, without touching the grown? with her knees,

* Dean never truat Nell on herback after this,” groaned Treddoc\ ; * but it is qiite w providence that we have found it out. But everything un- lucky is coming upon me at onee, E think! I fancied Lhadasplendid bargain. The veterinary- surgeon fellow that had her in hia stablea wae a thief not to tell me of it, and he knew she was for But he shall hear about it. I'll put ny whip away, to make sure T don’t touch her unkoowiugly,” be added, sticking it into his eoat pocket, and watching the r:are’s ears closely.

Here was another cirenmstance not to be abruptly communicated to Mra. Treddock, for it seemed she had taken a great faney te the mare. Tom, however, stated that it would be impossible to break the animal off the trick, new it had once acquired it; and supposing that we found no dis asters at home, he promised the veterinary-sur-

a lady’s riding.

geon in the aeighbouring town. from whem he boaght the mare, a lively visit on the morrow, engaging me to accompany him. The ereature went right enough as long as her eara were not touched; and at the end of what onght to have been a more pleasant ride, along field-paths, and throngh country lanes, we eafely arrived at the Grange between two and three o'clock in the Mre. Treddeck and all the reat greet- ed as wiih bright looks, for there had not been a single mishap, subsequent to the mysterious death

afternoon

of the second deg before we started. As for the old constable, he bad quite rallied, and was again in the very fluest possible feature, plainly ce- suming that it was his authoritative presence as the funetionary of law and order wiich had in- aured this state of safery. Dinner, of course, had been put off, awaiting our re'urn, and we had brought back with us hunter's appetites; but the enjoyment of the meal was rather epoiled by hatieg, in recotnting the moruiag’s spert, to evade Mra. Treddock’s inquiries for full detatta as to the behaviour of ber mare. T praised the animal's easy going and her fine leaps, but did not mention her falls; and for my reticence, Tom Preddock drank te me with his eyes over the riw of his glass in taking embarrassed draughts of porter.

My friend and I, soon after dinner, made a

couplete circuit of the farm, and all was found ‘acting upon that conviction; some were bringing

as it should be; the legs of the cows were not broken, no more sheep had been prematurely slaughtered, and poor Bob was still the only horse with a broken head. We rambled on down the lane, past the church, into the village, which I found was a pretty ancient-looking place, and I could hardly bring myself to believe.that malice, such as that evidently afoot at the Grange, could find a dwell- Everywhere, as 1 was proud to see, my

underoeath ite thatched roofs

ing. friend was received with reapect and deference. Some of the older people talked with bim about

the injuries dove at the farm, and all seemed in- dignant and sympathetie

He hed a short unter: |

rest to make up, and I had nearly dressed when he looked in at my room-door. The old constable was awaiting us below in the very highest possi- ble condition of se‘fsatisfaction, and was only lingering to receive my friend's congratulations (with something more substantial, I believe, added,) before setting off for the village, having, as he confidently intimated, cleared everything up, though, ag far as any explanation went, things were really Jeft as much a mystery as ever. No- thing further had occurred; that was all that could be said. Bat in our evntent at this, no one was over-logical; all seemed only too anxious te conclude that the strange affair had ended: and everybody indefinitely praised the old man, as if he had really been in some way the cause of it, Chuckling loudly as he went, be took his leave; and Treddock and I, with the lady of the howse- held, who had now jcined us, sat down to break- fast in the best of temper. Some ten minutes elapsed, and we were rediscnesing the incidents of the hunt of yesterday, when a yelling shout

arose just underneath the window near where |

we sat, and a dirty hand came beating on the casement outside, ao fiercely that a diamond pane shivered out of its lead casiug, and tinkled asitfell inside Mra. Treddock gave a scream, and nervously clutched the child to ber bosom.

“Hoo mestur! Hoo, mestur!’ cried a led’s tervified voice, as Treddock flung open the win- dow, * th’ constable is done fur; they've killed him at the back o° the little bean-stack!”"

This was awful Treddock and I rushed ont at the front, and inade for a couple of bean stacka which stood in a near corner of the yard, round the east gable, net far from the dag-kennel: Stretched apeu the ground lay the poor eld con- stable, his head and shoulders resting in a little pool of blued, the haggard face turned upwards, lwoking aa theagh be were quite dead. Upon onr raising bim, we found that he still breathed, but hig injaries were evidently frightful, and the most dange ‘ous; and, as had happened iu all the other casea, the wounds bad been inflicted on the bead, aud had the appearance of being done by a blunt weapon. Treddock shouted loudly for some one to bring a chair for the better carrying of the in- Jured man; and in the meantime we supported him in @ sitting posture as well as we could. I noticed that Treddock’s eyes were attracted ever my shoulder towards some object as we knelt.

* Look there!” he eaid, in a hollow whisper— “that mare has seen it done! Whoever it is she knows them. Ob, if she was but a Christian!”

I turned my head and looked, There wae the black mare on the other side of a little low fence, not two yarde away, protruding her head over, her nostriis dilating, aud her eyes glaring in the wildest fear; while we could see through the pales that the terrified creature trembled in everytimb. Bot the next oinete the bonsehold was clustering around ua; nor was it greatly to be wondered at that the women screamed, and the men tarned pale at the ghastly spectacle we carried through

their uidst. Several of them, searcely teu min

utes before, had seen the old oan jaunty set off

for bomen good health and strength. A ser- vant was mstantly dispatch-d on the master’s horse for the nearest surgeon, but be uufortun- We laid the poor constable on the kitchen hearth, propping him with pillows, aud tried to staunch the bleed- ing with cloths,

“Ellen, you and the baby innat quit this honse at once,” said Treddeck, turning his face, now pale enougr, towards his wife. “ The plae® is bewitched, and something will happen to you Go, and get you ready,” he urged, his voice shak- ing; “we sball have the eounty poliee here now, knocking haman beings on the head ja different to killing cows, and sheep, and dogs. [fhe dies there'll have to be an inquest beld.”

Mrs. Treddock hugged her child to her breast, while she bent over the injured man > but she an-

ately lived a couple of miles away.

swered that she should not go away, unless Tred-

dock wénut with her; “everybody,” she said, ‘had better go, aud leave the place to itself” The servants, short as the time was, were already

boxes down stairs, aud one or two had got their benuets on. This last horrible affair, occurring in broad day, had broken down the ceurage of everybody, and the whole premises had instantly been thrown inte confusion, no one daring tu ven- ture new from one reem inte another alone. Meanwhile, the constable continued to breathe, and more heavily; now and then, he tossed about wis arma, but he seemed to be quite unconscious Very shortly people cawe hurrying up from the village, the messenger sent for the doctor having told them the startling news as he passed through The house was filled with persons quickly. Iang

view, by the gab!e of Dixon senior’s cottage, with | gested that the police should be sent for from the

Dixen the younger, the owner of the bull-dog which that morning had so etrangely come to an uutimely end; and as the conversation fini-bed, | the chink of money passed between them, and | the grinning rustic finished by inquiring whether he should bring his other deg up to the Grange—

iseeming quite willing that it, teo, should be |

county town, and Treddock assenting, a second messenger Was ordered to saddle the black mare and hurry away on bis errand, with a whispered injunction from me, at which he gave me a puzzled stare, not on any account to foach the animal's vars, unless he wanted a tumble. The man, a few minutes afterwards, shouted m at the kitchen

rally shortened the talk under seme pretext Hesiod on the bead at the same liberal tariff of | door that the mareh ad got loose in the upper

After one false scent, we got well off tor a merry | run, and afterwards a second fox was started and

hited; but on nether oceasion did Pieldock or 1) make a respeciable fiaish at the death. He could have done se, if he had chosen to leave me be- | |

rau; and the most annoying part of it was, iat

compensation. answered in the nega‘ ive.

* Dogs are of no use when there are no fout- steps,” he vaguely said to me, as we strolled away on our returu-walk ; and it waa easy to are that although, in talking with the villagers, he had pretended to believe that it was all over, hie |

Treddock, however, decisively | tield, and would net let a dozen of them catch

her. He was angrily bade to ‘ake one ef the cari-horses. By and by, though the interval seemed cruelly long, the surgeon arrived, and

after a Lasty examination, he prowourced that the

| constable’s head was fractured in two places. In

answer to aquestion {row Treddock, he said (hat,

L could vot make outhew or why they should ec: | atill had a eecret misgivins that the end of the as far as he could judge, the blows had been

The black mare went hke a bird, and took |

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eur,

This consiec- |

disasters had not yet been reached,

struck wilba dull-edged metal instrument. Under

rasping fenees with ease; but suddenly she went | tien was clearly brought out, when, in our chat | the doctor's instructions, the old man was removes

down like a shet, just as she landed atter topping | a wall net more than three feet high; and then, |

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on the hearth that night, be suggested to his wife | ‘ j

that she and the baby should go away by rail on)

to a couch in another reom, which could be kept free from intruders; for by this time the crowd

the eecond tine, we had a precisely similar mis | 4), following moniing to her mother’s, some sixty | had about taken possession of the whole place,

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hap iu the middle of an open field, where the

miles away, aud shonld remain there fora few |

ucither Tre ddock nor his wife seeming greatly to

grass did net reach to ber fetlocks. They were idays. Mrs. Nelly, however, indignantly scouted | object te it. The presenee of the crowd appear- aot fails so much as stumbles; thatisto sty, Se the idea of such a thing, when they bad a guest |ed to give something like a sense of security, or did not plunge, but went dewn with a recking jin the house; and baby reassuringly crew ed de- at least mitigated the feeling of danger. My big, motion, exactly aa they say camels kneel We | ganee at all dangers. The plan seemed to break | strong friend stood witha pallid face amidst the both axiously examined her less, but she did not } down at the outset; sll, Treddeck was net con- mob of his wnale neighbouts; aud Mrs. Treddock,

seem te turn a hair ia the process, and by equal | teuted.

geod Juck, 1 was vet se much as bruised : al- | though, the secoud time, as 1 was picking myself |

up, I felt ber hot breath on my sheulder, and was) gid, to make a Guish of the business, and acevrd-

startled to Gind her open jaws within an inch of) jygly he biuself insisted on remmiuing at the my face, with a snarling expression, shewing that Grange a seeond night. she bad quite lost temper. Gu beh occastone, | quietly on, and atter supper-iime, e tas fortunately, Treddeck happened to be almost) yake-shift kind was made up for the constable close by my side, and she did net get locre and | in the kitchen, and again the stable and the coru- i eof had each a guardian oecupaut. Treddeock, n't understand it,” he said, the second | as gravely as before, brought the yeomany carb ; “You were ridiug ty my: ee gt tl. gt PETS Bi

away. “fics

time, lwoking very g

fair enough. I hope s

and it is a good jub Nell was In this way it nappeued t

with indifferent bower ig th

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: day-apeemester which i ad ne f

_Dgain A

The constable bad been eet at liberty |

with her frightened child, made another centre

from farther attendance immediately upon our for the moaning cirele of women. Occasionally, |

return; but he was determmed, he valoronaly

The evening wore

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chamber, and then ayarche og ae uble-{ ‘

way, express Lis hopes for the arrival of the police ;

but the mystery waste be explained without their aid; and, 8 fate would have it, I bad a principa part to play in the solution. Treddvch> making auother effort, finally aban aid of chorusing women, iy pero

Treddock would turn te me, and, in a mechanical |

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| iysterious depredator being the mace, from his

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Instantly everjbody was pouring pel!-mell | through the doorway, but Tom Treddock's fists, striking right and left im sudden fury, made for himself the foremost way, kis peor etark-mad wife, however, keeping a dragging hold of him. But, once outside, everybody came toa sudden standing; the prrents stopped transfixed in won- deting terror, hike every ene else. On the other +id@ of a amall pond. just beluw the house, to the Jeft, and threugh which she must have rushed, stood the inferual mare, wick tle child banging from its jaws, held up by the Gothes; and just ae we all got aight of her, ee ducked her head anl dippod the straggling infant nader water, clearly bedfy ino the pond! § we men who fad been Whetening towards her, steppe] rooted at this mancurre, anlifting her heal the ahe-lesil stovd at bay, white stron of vapour’ escaping from ber nostrila, and her eyes blazing blood-red With a ringing shriek, Mra, Tradco-k rushed towards the pend, and Tom followed her. but once more the devilish creature ducke! her bead and plunged the child into the muddy choking water. The mother fell headlong, and the father stiffened where he checked lrimeelf, with bis big. helpless arms upraised, while every body else re- mained mouonlese, fascinated with borrer, Qune old woman alone bad presence of mind, which afterwards shamed all the rest; she rushed back into the house, and a moment later she thrust a guo into wy bands, [ bappening tu be the nearest. This broke the spell. I ran for the poud, a wild ery going up frow every quarter at the eight of wy weapon. The hellish eyes of the mire met tine, and again she dropped the ebild towards the water; bat in doing sv, she expos-d her neck, aud 1 Bred for the junction of the ahoulder-blade. Although a sort of darkness instantaneously blind- ed my eyes, [ saw through it that the black mare fell at the edge of the water where ahe bad stood, and that the child floated loose, a white epevit on the surfaee of the pout. A moment liter, the feud in bide and hoots was deat, and the half- drow ved infant waa rescued, but not an instant teo avon, Tom Treddock staggered to me, but in the act of grasping my band, taw dled inte the arms of those about buo: the big stout-hearted fellow bad swouned, just as his wife had already doue, and as I was within the toss of a atraw of doing the next moment, What the bisteric Wil- ham Tell’s sensation must have been, immediately after that famous archery feat, [ still de nut pre- tend to know, for Charhe Treddocks was no child of mine; but if the bowiman on that occasion had happened to be not the father himself, bat only a fiiend of bia, I think I bave gome idea of what hie feeling waa, aud I beg tu say that it was pot a pleasant one.

Matters were at last cleared up. It was the mare which had done all the migcbict, and this Jart horrid act was only the climax which dis- closed Uie mystery. The mea who tad been helping te catch her in the field kept on in their efforte after the waggoner gave up, and started upou his errand on another horae , and just ae her purauers bad succeeded in driving her towards the house, the sercant-girl had gone out of doors with the child. She explained that she bad put the infant down to his feet vn the greund, where he propped himself against a enuny wall, while she arranged her shawl; and at that instant, the devil-possessed brute swooped him up in herjawa, and carried hiw off to the poud in the sight ef a score of eyes. [Tt was ue less clear, strange as itat first seemed, that the mare had done all the rest of the horrible mischief. Asehe lay there, part in the water and part out, blood stains, which the water seemed to have freabened inte recent patebes, were discovered on both the hoofs of her dvre-feet. Her iron shoes were ua- questionably the instruments which had inflicted the coustable’s wounds; and they also had beaten out the brains of the dogs, and killed the sheep, and broken the legs of tue cow, and bruised the head of Bub the cart-horee. It all grew as plain as daylight, for it was new discovered that, al- though no human foot-printa, bad been discovered, near the spots where the etrange scenes had oc- curred, there was alwaya marks of horse-shoes there. Subsequently, [ may say, the thing was proved by direct a8 well as by this inferential evidence—the first words the old cou vable utter- ed, eleven days after receiving his injuries, were, that it was the black mare that attacked him im- mediately after be left the house,

The explanation fivally gained, through the tedium of the police, was this, that the black mare had been a “trick” horse in a circus, and had been seld by them on account of ber malice, having seriously injured several of those who per- formed with ber. She hada knack, it was stated, of untying herself from the halter, and could even unfasten a stable door. Nou doubt, she pad in that way got loose, aud so bad, unknown to all, the ran of the premises. How such an infernal «pirit could ever coue to possess a horee, is a question I shall not attempt to answer, The veterinary surgeon professed entire ignorance of the matter, and asserted that the mare was only seut down to him froma distance for sule. Ile, however, thought it consistent with bis own interest to return to Treddock the purchase money be had paid, and aleo to give the constable a suin of thoney,

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(riendship of Dante, ard to having hie. : = 2 . ‘mmortalzed in the Dwina Commed ey Newton —but why tell of that falling @ Ph se

in hig orchard, which ie better known. the laws of gravitation, ta the disec which ttled 2? Cuvier dissected « emtt and the comparative anatomy of the oy ea | animal kingdom unfolded jteelf before bi gree A single rewain of an extinct anima! or : table became a stend point from wh could infer and deserrhe the furan and p ties o* the creatare or plant to whies ©” longed; and the eubsequent disge further remamns of the eame ey . proved the accuracy of his dedactions. ave of fossil fragmenta igs another lustra’ of the importance of little Chings eye * Sate indeetions. Kepler reaulved t ie from the Austrian vintage, bat, ys the accuracy of the wine-merchant’@ mea- sure, he worked out ome of the var @F sem ples ut what ia now called the mu. an- alysia, What suggested the bt tor the blind? A sheet of pupethters: from the press with the letters accidenta!ly Tiised, What ealled forth the most rat book on diseases of the heart? A pees lying awake and listening to the beatiage of tis own. Giotto is nut the only genius whom a chance visit has rescued irom ob- rcurity. Evelyn was eauntering one day : 4 along a meatJow near Says Court, wher -« looked in at the window of a thatehed tage, and saw a young wan carving one of Cintoretto # cartuuns.— Lhe entered, aduired the work, and suvoq recommended the arties to Charlies Hl. Thus the name of Gibbins beeame known. Milton sees & wretched t mystery’? in fraly, and conceives the pian! of Paradise Lost.” Bhe plague out in Lendun ; be retiree to Chalfont,

the simple questa of & Quaker frend eslls lorth * Paradise Regwned.’’ Gibbon muses among the ruins of Roman grandeur, cna the Deeline and Pall of the mighty Ewpire breaks in long perspeetive on bis view. Welsh burper thr lie the eords at Uam- bridge, and Gray, fired with sadden emotion, writes the emnclusiun of the Bard.” Pady Austen points to a sofa, and Cowper eroates thes Pask."’ Opie bends user a compamon’e shoulder when he 19 drawing a buttery, aod rises up a painter himeell.

Neither in the moral nor in the material world can we concluds that a cause iw in- sufBorent simply because it isuminute. Lome @ pathy, whatever ite errors may be. ia pot without # basis of trath. There is no rea- son why the millonth part of a grain of por son inay nut bave an eff-ct on the baman trame, tor the partion of mepiiuc vapour or fuid which commenicates the plague by o toush must needs be mfinitiesimal ; avd the sine may be said of the media which many intectious disorders, Some bales cotton from Alexandria are opened on the banks of the Thames, and the plazas cuvae ges London, corrying off a bundred thousand human beings in the space of «ix montha, . Tremendous forces Le vn all side dormans arvund esjand many which have slept tor ages may germipate jo a ewent aud epring toa colvssal height. Many taings which wise wen, inspired or net, have written in old times have yet to be apprehended im all chew bearings. and to produce thew largest ree sulta, Actions which in themselves seem trifiing base indaecnees not only the eub- 8 quent lite of these author, Lot the & tion of many generations. Lat allowed bis cavero amoug the moantaing to be eveered with wine, and the fortunes of Moat and Ammon were the tsaue of tia totiseretion. fhe history of patiena, as of omtividuais, hangs on tureads Robert brace was abouts. to join a crusade when a spider, siragg ing to fis bis web tu the eelling, gaye tin @ leagon in persever nee, and, remaming on bie own land, be routed the army of Edward UL, at Bannockburn, and acaeved the inde- pendence of the Se tush crown. Cromwell was about to get sal for America, und clear toresty with his age, when a roval ediot lor bade emigration in unlicensed ships. Lad be embarked the day betore ho would never have been Lord Protector, nor Ubarive Stuart have laid hie bead on the block. Tue feet of Wiliam of Grange bad been driven westward of Torbay. To return on the teeth ot the wind was imposs:ble, and Plymouth, the next port, was garrisuned by Locd Dati, Che Royal fleet was vat of the Thames and bastening down the Channel. * You may xo to prayers, doctur,”’ seid Russell to Bare net; ** allisover’’ DButit was not so A soft breezs sprang up from the Svuth, and the sun esone forth. The fleet turned back. Wiliam Janded, and the Stuart dynasiy veased wo reign. — English paper.

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