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‘morning repast. She sprang into the near- Tible shriek ! est tree, uttering at the same time those

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startling human cries which had frightened the python and nearly unnerved me, As

leaves subsided. The Jion was uppermost. | of Polish liberty. It is aleo expressly stated The left arm of the gorilla was across his! that the peasants have nowhere taken part

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The noise and fury of the ly, are acknowledged to have kept wholly ‘districts along the eoasts and mountains ; it combat were redoubled for a minute or two! | aloof from participation in a revolt which in has reached tne middle class of societ Then came a pause! The dust and cloud of| possible contingency can promote the cause | it is ascending fast to the highest.

—nay,

ere is now ** a melaneholy rivalry as to the relative depths of the present destitution, more

hole is received I know a girl with teeth of pearl, Fa fi os i 2 be ade : i : . as ! : BaP achat cgay, ber aconalhg: rv pot shpabee hates Uae aaa r. close and pitchy, provocative of closed eyes| to my guide, he had not seen my danger, | tremendous mouth. It was the crunching in the movement, which is representedehiefly forcibly showing the utterly prostrate con- tioned GROCERIES, all which were parchased ain tive 4 re ’ land slumber ; it was a greenish black, living, and he was still watching the male gorilla, | of the double bones of the fore arm which I confined to a whee of the town population. | dition of the Irish people.” It would be Sor Cech. he io: therefore coalident no one in the Tee ae eee |startling, intelligent and wakeful, as though patiently awaiting my decision, and expect. had heard! His claws were firmly fixed in It appears to be beyond a doubt that these |

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Her sunny hair is wondrous fair, And wavy in its flow Who rh

Toe) One littie tress

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Wouldn't you like to know?

Her eyes are blue (celestial hue), And dazzling in their glow;

On whom they beam very © With melting gleam,

Wouldn't you like to know?

the light were struggling to break through |

from the outside, and exciting hope that it would succeed momentarily. The eyes strained to pierce the verdant gloom. They

seemed to feel a power within them to be-|

come accustomed to it, and to dilate their | pupils sufficiently to magnify the few attenu- jated rays which had floated into and Jost | themselves in that leafy roofed dungeon un- itil they should be made to illuminate its | depths and unfold its secrets.

ing every instant the report of my rifle. |The shrieks bad startled him a little, not so much however as they had affected me; for he had heard the like before, and he knew they would be uttered the moment that either a shot should be fired or the female ‘should discover us by any chance. But when a roar, that shook the ground on which we lay, announced the nature of the danger

‘from which the female gorilla had so yar-|

rowly escaped, my Fan friend, black as he

The pause which my guide now made) Was, actually became pallid with fear.

_the gorilla’s shoulder and head, but he was disastrous disturbances in no way implicate himself nearly torn asunder and disembow- the mass of the nation or its natural leaders ; elled! Huge rents were in his body, and and we are at liberty; therefore, to hope that

the feet of the gorilla were buried in his loins, | their suppression will not be followed by

whilst the mighty right arm of the ape was harsh and violent measures against the,

free and would be active again directly breath | Polish people. From the very first, we have had been taken. ‘been assared, in repeated telegrams, that | The final struggle quickly came. Up rose | ** Warsaw is tranquil’’—as, indeed, it well | the cloud of dust and leaves again ! ing, shrieking, bounding, striking, growling, of 40,000 men The students, as a body, are Struggling, groaning, the confused mass/ distinctly declared to have refused to join in -rashed hither and thither with increased the movement ; and, apart from the reported | velocity ! Over and over it rolled like a arrest of a few priests ou the charge of dis- | tangle of fighting demons, until it came un-' tributing revolutionary writings, nothing is

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was longer than the first one, but to me it was not so painful. The oppression was | necessarily great, but my nerves were strung | more perfectly to endure it, and my expec- tation was higher, more assured, and calm.

Her lips are red and finely wed

Like roses ere they blow ;

} What lover Sips

Those dewy lips—

Wouldn't you like to know?

Siasietnienbidinihttiined hii The Fan looked round to see where L was.

When lilies fairest grow ; The movemeut gave me pleasure, because I was then certain that my progress was so

Whose hand they presa a ; completely noiseless that even the quick ear

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| Waslin’s ven ths 40 tna jof my savage friend had failed to detect the |

erushing of a withered stick or leaf beneath me. As the black turned his face to me, his eyes were the only features that were distinctly vis:ble. They appeared to be lighted up by a lurid fire within them, and _ when his head was sufficiently brought round

has a name, the sweetest name ito look upon me fully, his eyes glared

Her foot is small, and has a fall Like snow-flakes on the snow ; And where it zoes } Beneath the rose— Wouldn't you like to know ?

| The roar of the lion was instantly an- 'swered by a deeper, hoarser, louder, and

‘more savage roar. A sound so expressive (of anger, defiance, and relentless, savage, ‘cruel ferocity, 1 never heard!

| I looked at the Fan, and smiled, ‘understood me instantly. His limbs ceased

ito tremble. He closed his mouth with an

‘effort, then grinned, placed his fingers on his

‘lips, and turned to watch the combat which was vow inevitable, and in the occurrence ‘of which lay our best hopes of safety. Searcely thirty yards on our left, the lion had come crashing through the jungle, and had cleared the close inner tangle with a ‘bound. He now stood full in sight in the

clear open, his head erect, his mane standing

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/comfortably near to where I and my negro guide were lying hid. It swayed away from ‘us, returned again, rolled off, then back ; /and just as the Fan and I both sprang to our feet to escape from such dangerous proximity the combatants, locked in their deadly em- brace, came crashing against us, knocking us ‘over and into a deep pit which we had not 'seen, falling upon us with a force which for an instant deprived me of consciousness. Recovering myself, however, I struggled fu- |riously, fearing that even if the beasts had | killed each other, I should be smothered ander ‘their bleeding carcasses. I kicked, struck, ‘and tried to push the dreadful load away. |The noise above me was terrific, but I was | able to distinguish my own name amidst the uproar, and it struck me that the voice in which it was pronounced was somewhat fami-

| specifically alleged tending to connect the representatives of the popular religion with ithe reyolt. The insurrection cannot, there- fore, be regarded as a rising of the country against alien rule, as such. The Emperor Alexander himself, with creditable prudence and moderation, has been prompt to acknow- ledge this, and to exonerate the Poles from national complicity in the outbreak. * Even in the presence of these atrocities,’’ be ‘* will / not accuse the whole Polish nation.’’ Dis- | passionate critics may have theirown opinion of the justice of his invective against that revolutionary party ‘*which everywhere seeks to overturn legal order ;’’ but it is something gained to humanity that the first impulse of an offended Sovereign points to the direction of justice and mercy. Where Nicholas would have ‘‘ rung a bell, and directed the

|Tepesting a too familiar tale to select an

aumber of cases exhibiting the utter want of food, raiment ana bid covering in the present desperate state of Irish destitution, without bounds in its exteut save the shores of our Island. ** Jt is therefore high time,’’ says the Archbishop to the Premier, ** for the ad- visers of the Crown to take counsel to rescue Ireland from ruin by providing for the safety

Whirl- | may be in the presence of a Russian garrison | of its people ; and of that people there is no

portion that uires their solicitude more than the landed proprietors themselves.’ Dr. M’Hale condemns the theory of those who throw the blame of bad harvests on the moisture of the climate. The climate was always moist since the island was green. The people suffer, not because the climate is soft, but because the Government is hard. Let the farmers get leases and the elective franchise, and Ireland will be once more the granary of Europe, marshes will be drained by the brawny arms of industrious men, and landlords will be —— and happy, in- stead of being swallowed up in the vortex of destitution. A meeting of the county of Limerick was held on Saturday last for the pur of petitioning Parliament fur the im- mediate amendment of the law regarding drainage, with a view of relieving the eevere distress which may be anticipated dnring the ensuing season. The Right Hon. Mr. Mon- sell addressed the meeting, and maintained that the country was retrogressing instead of advancing in prosperity — that her farmers

She . : » © ‘liar, 1 paused in my effort to extricate my- | aide-de-camp who answered it to give orders,’’ | and peasuntry were almost steeped in ert ula . . > i raiy c : : : P OF ’ yw vorty ai W. W. LORD & CO. That language can bestow ; | brightly and fiercely as those of a royal | ta and out, all ey like the hair of an self, and listened. Againand again my name | stamped with the impress of hie own ruthless |—that her agricultural produce had fallen Charlottetown, Jan. 12, 1363. 2m "Twould break the spell Bengal tiger. Mine must have looked ®®gty Cat, maguilying his apparent bulk to was called loudly, distinctly, and earnestly. | vindictive nature, his successors first thought | off at the rate of millions of quarters of cereal connate, ee If I should tell— similarly upon him, for he made a geature | Coloseal proportions ; his tail, which at first + John, John!’ It was the voice of my} to discriminate between the innocent and | produce—that her live stock was declining in B E N _ Q L E ' Wouldn't you like to know? of surprise with hand and countenance, then | stood nearly straight, Was waving from side | wife whom I had left safely at home in Lon- | the guilty, and to disclaim all thought of in- | quantity, and that even her money in the or grinned, showing his brilliant white teeth to side. At length it struck his ribs al-| don. dicting a whole people. It is to be hoped funds had declined in amount. Resolutions

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| A TERRIFIC COMBAT.

My black guide, whose movements were that a gorilla, if not a whole family of those

was about two yards in front of me, pushing bringing forward his rifle so as to see that | jgently but swiftly on hands and knees | the cap was right, he resumed bis cautious | {through the tangled underwood and thorny advance. Turning a little to the left he

as noiseless and gliding as those of » snake, | delicate monsters, was within view, and |

ternately on either side with sounding blows,

roar than that which he had given when ‘the female gorilla escaped from him. | Opposite to him was the male gorilla, now

looking most unlike the uncouth, sleepy |

figure which we had seen propped against |

‘mouth, which I interpreed as.an intimation |2%4 he uttered a longer and more terrific |

‘John, John! Wake up, will you? You've got the nightmare, and have fallen out of bed! John, John, do get up, dear! You've dragged all the bedclothes down on the floor with you. You've rolled yourself up in them so tightly that I can’t get you out. You'll be smothered if you don’t wake up. Oh dear, oh dear me! Wake up, you great stupid, do!”

that nothing may occur in the progress of this lamentable canflict between military authority and popular frenzy to change a purpose which accords with all that we wish to believe of the mind and temper of the present Emperor of Russia. Whether the inevitable suppression of thie latest outburst of Polish misery and disaffection be near or

in accordance with the object of the meeting were

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slight hiss, and placing his right hand be- overshadowed and destroyed every plant

from all his four hands together, and coming tumbling into this horrid pit, why the

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down upon all fours again. When the lion gorilla’s wife didn’t come to Ais assistance.

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i hind him, made with it a gentle movement, | and shrub within its reaah, occupied the warting me to be silent aad cautious. ‘centre, and formed the dense canopy of this)

roared, the gorilla seemed at once to com-

Wanted at the City Tannery. How long we both remained motionless | FPPENDERS will be received at the office | and hardly daring to draw a breath | know) of the abeve Establish ment, up to the Slst} not. It may have beep five minutes. It

prebend the nature both of the challenge and, the adversary, and to resolve upon fighting,

although it would have been easy for him to

open. A slight gesture from the black hunter directed my attention to the foot of the giant of the woods, but he at the same

You know she might have done it easily and safely enough, for the lion wouldn't have let go his bold, and if she had sprang on his} back she might bave enabled her husband to freshen his grip. They might have quickly

throughout Poland, it way be hoped that other thoughts and eares will resume their wonted place in the mind of a Sovereign who has given proof of a sincere desire to merit the esteem and good-will of mankind. It does not appear that there is anything in the causes and circumstances of the présent revolt

private band, to whose strength will be

about 200 vocal and instrumental performers. The Berkshire Rifle Volunteers, namberin

about 900, will have the honour a

doing duty as a guard of honour at Windsor on the occasion of the marriage. The plans and other arrangements for the procession

ae aeathe att eek Baek Pe? "| appeared to me as many hours. I felt | time placed one hand above his eyes, thereby pres 6 ei ty aay ech og Lycee ee valaen ne os a te . oe ie ‘rom the castle to the chapel are nearly set- No tenders will be received for a less quantity | neither fear nor apprehension of danger, but | intimacting to me that I must shade mine). JG: TT i ki lik eet). and stend- uaelet ce ois em What stuff and adden 9 we : oe wont f, Me with the view | led, and the services in the Royal Chapel Bo ee heel at each tontect. PERM" | ny anxiety to obtain a sight of a living yo- | tefore looking, lest the glare of them in the i a a ‘ jm d et are you talking ? Lions and gorillas !— of ‘reooneilin Poland to the Haporial rete, | Till be disscptinged aiher, the, 25th, em Churlotietown, Fe », ims. } rilla, and, if possible, to get within shot of larkness should attract the attention of our Se ieee “en 7 powerful negro, | fiddlesticks ! There are gorillas and lions There is eotttiie that need suggest to the the workmen will immediately commence - . ' him, and the hope that my black hunter | game. Laying myself along my double. | 200ut six feet two inches in height, he uttered | enough in the street! Drunken women Emperor's mind that it was an error to res- operations. Should arrangements be made BANK OF P. E. ISLAND. \had at length marked one, eaused my heart | barreled rifle, [ shaded my eyes with both | his tremendous acceptance of the lion's sereaming, and nasty men fighting, and the | tore oontiseated estates, to appoint Poles to for the procession to pasg through the Royal

FAXUE Anoual Meeting of the Stock-| (9 throb with expectation so loudly, that in holders of thia Bank will! take place at the | > en's ° ° 4 oe

Sint: Geewienn, Gnocts Gitiet, Charicttetown, on | otder to still it I was obliged to hold mj

TUESDAY, the Jed day of MARCH next, at 1z| breath forcibly until the seuse of suffocation |

for the parpose of choosing Seven | beeame unbéarable, and it was with great |

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the day of meeting

| challenge, beating his breast at the same | time with his huge fists alternately, and pro | | ducing sounds like heavy blows upon a bass) drum. When the lion sprang into the in-|

my hands and looked towards the great tree. Sitting on the ground, cross-legged, with his back against the trunk, his hands lying carelessly at his sides with the palms turned

alice trying to take them off to the station. The noise they made woke me, and there | found you snorting and grunting and strug- gling on-your back and the moment I touched you, away you floundered out of the bed,

places of authority and trust in the local administration, or hold out a prospect of at least that qualified provincial independance which is compatible with the unity of the It is certain that a discontented,

borough, either in going to or returning from the chapel, it would afford a most gra- tifying sight to thousands of loyal subjects who will visit Windsor upon this occasion, and otherwise would not find a chance of

Dinwtors for the enmminyg year, and transacting such |). ° i Wd, F . ta sure d stood bristlir o ; } Empire. a 2 . an le cin ek aia a Tee | diff culty I repressed a spasmodic tendency | up, and his head sunk down between his | osure an ristling before him, the rolling yourself up in the clothes, and drag- ait and despairing Poland is a per- witnessing the procession .— Court Journal. N. t.—y the (th Bye Law all persons voting | to relieve my lungs by a scream. At length | shoulders in a dozing, if not sleeping state, | a on upon all fours ogee; with ging them all away with you. Oh, don t/| manent weakness to Russia ; and it is equall In most of the principal towns and Cities in an ae een ta cenaiammabetiee {my guide moved forwards, but so silently | was a huge male gorilla. His profile was| - pom a the — “y eyes, which | git On the floor there, likes great donkey, | certain that the old way of dealing with oe aeeon epee ye Pog: mado 3 that bis progress was more like that of a towards us. At the opposite side of the| ame ike fire seen t roug rubies, fixed | with your night-cap on one side, looking 80 | Polish discontonts has proved a failure. The or celebrating the marriage 0 e Prince of

WM. CUNDALL, Cashier Clarlottetown, Feb. Zi, 1365

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shadow than oj anything having life and | eight in it. His hand was still carried | PRINCE EDWARD ISLNAD | behind him, the open palm towards me, and | ; every motion of the fingers instinct with in-|

CLOTH MANUFACTORY, | telligence and warnings of the presence of) TRION. | danger the most immivent and deadly. The

HE Subseriber, encouraged by the very | Fan (my guide was a spleadid specimen of |

amphitheatre, the tree sometimes concealing | them from our view, were a female and a} young male feeding, and gathering some | kind of nuts which the female occasionally carried and threw on the ground close to, her dozing Jord and master. I watched)

the proceedings for some time with intense |

upon his dreadful enemy, and his eyebrows | silly and ridiculous. Do get up and help working up and down with inconceivable me to set the clothes straight on the bed rapidity, giving to his countenance a look again” . of such demoniac ferocity, that it seemed to ‘What!’ said lL. ‘* Was it all a dream,

: : é “ . /and is nat even my noble Fan a reality ?’ make the lion pause at least, if he did not is wae co ‘adoed 1” wetosted Mere Smith, quail. : oo 3 ; : : | who was beginning to lose her placidity of

Lashing his sides with his tail until he temper. ‘If you are so warm as to want a roused himself to fury, the lion delivered his fan, you may sit up there and use mine. I'll

experience of thirty years has more than sufficiently proved that the whole strength of military despotism, wielded with an energy that knows ne scruples and with a pitiless severity that shrinks from no extremity of violence, is unequal to the task of extirpating a nationality which has sur- vivyed two territorial partitions, and confisea-

Wales with due rejoicings and fegtiyities. ‘8 eer

Fearrut Cataurry at Locarno.—A cor- respondent writing from the neighbourhood of the Lago Maggiore, gives the following account of a terrible occurrence which has recently taken place at Locarno :—

‘This town is one of those pretty little half Italian, half Swiss towns which Jine the

liberal support received in the Cloth dressing | ithe OO ‘ i ibes) |i 1 ; a si rf ; i roscriptions without number. It . business, came Be aon ie dnhsblinain, of ie that noblest of the Content African tribes) anenees. At length the Fan made a sign of second roar, as though his honour were con- | jend it to you and welcome. But please Jet are ge hon the work of conciliating northwest shore of the Lago Maggiore; but Island that he has imported from the best makers | again stopped. His jam expanded, and I | interrogation, which recalled me to a seDse | eerned in outroaring no lesa than in yan- me have the bed clothes, for I don’t want and attaching Poland to the Empire is hope- not being minutely described in * Murray,’

in the United States,

instantly paused. The ground shook with | Machinery for Carding, Spinning and Weaving,

and shortly (in addition te finishing Cioth) will be prepared to receive Wool for manufacturing inte the various descriptions of Cloth usually made in the Colonies. The charge for Picking, Oiling, Carding, Spinning, amd Weaving will be

us and beat flutteringly upon our ears, as) the reader may have felt when the deepest | buss of a great organ is gently touched. At} first 1 did not perceive that the agitation |

of our position, We were too far from our.

a slight tremour. The air v-brated around | dangerous game to risk a shot at bim, which, | on bis part, the gorilla, albeit questions of gold. “The pulice haye taken all the fighting

if it only wounded without killing, would | bring not only himself but possibly his wife | and young hopeful upon us before we could |

draw anotber trigger. If we startled him | without

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was the result of sound, but as the vibration | only, hitting him, he might | was passing away I distinguished a low deep | plunge into the jungle and escape. We}

quizhing by his prowess all antagunists ; and, fanning. My tecth are chattering with the |

honour seemed little likely to be favoured or | and shouting and screaming gorillas and lions, considered by him, accepted nevertheless the | male and female, to the station-house. The preliminary contest of angry noise, and ut-| fansare in the wardrobe. Do, there's a dear, tered another roar so utterly demoniac that get up off the floor. That's right.’

the lion crouched at once to spring upon him and bring the question of superior prowess to

LE TS Oe the proof. A few short, swift steps—a bound | Gleanings from late Papers. of twenty feet—two or three sharp, snarling |

lessly impossible. Such impossidilities are not unknown to history; but it would be rash to assert that the position of Russia in Poland, like that of Austria in Venetia, is such as to put it past the power of states- manship to win a willing allegiance by a just and generous system of rule, Rather, perhaps, may we seek in the Ireland of the | past the trae analogy to the Polind of the |

| have to speak.

it is comparatively little known to the Kng- lish tourist, who hurries past it to the more fashionable Bayeno or selgirate. As tho steamer floats past, the traveller will notice a clean-looking town, backed by a chain of hills, the most striking point in the picture being the cupola of a fine old Cathedral-iook- ing church. It is of this building that I The church of La Madonna

(eher branches in the sume proportion. Wool,| roar and found that some terrible beast,|could not lie there all day looking at him | i ; id del Sasso, with 4t¢ dome towering over the hich must be washed and dried. may be lef ith . , p . . * tn n Al y TO na 7 resent. At all events it cannel be seid | ee. °

i ‘ jaa: oor Beak. aaah cans most probably either a lion ora gorilla, was | without doing anything, and we dare not at- growls—and I expected i. see the combatants THE WRONGS OF POLAND. os yi impractieability of conquering Po- other buildings, its colored marbles and

any of the agents for the Mill, from whow further | ¢lose at hand, and was either conversing in| tempt to hold council with one another, as| locked in fatal embrace! But it was not so.! The wrongs and sufferings of Poland once | ja nq by human and equitable government its quaint old frescoes by Luini, is the one

particulars can be learned CHARLES E. STANFIELD. Tryon, April 21, 1862.

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a low tone with his mate, or was uttering | the first notes of suspicion or alarm. I had seen the nagty little birds which

remitted to the sma}l-tooth-comb. how sharp a watch and ward they keep over the safety of their living feeding-ground, and how they scream and dig their sharp and searching beaks into the fierce brute’s ear when anything dangerous or strange ap-

attend the rhinoceros and perform for the | deep folds of his thick but not insensible|in my laying my rifle and taking a long and | the gorilla dropping on him, striking him hide the duty which in civilised society is| steady aim at the side of paterfamilias. It 1 knew)

the lowest whisper would reach either the sleeping or the waking members of the family.

A few moments of irresolution terminated

was difficult to cover my object, for a flickering exhalation was rising from the entire surface of the earth, through which the gorilla seemed to be in perpetual mo- tion, in and out of the sight of my rifle, up and down, flashing and waving, rising and

| —As the lion rose in his long bound, the gorilla sprang also but more lightly and high- er, straight up into theair. The lion struck | upwards to catch him; the action turned | himself over, and he fell heavily on his side,

| twice, and then springing off with a sidling, | jumping ran, to a distance of several yards. Instantaneous as had been the encounter, both were severely wounded. The gorilla was bleeding frum the head and back. The lion had a fearful gash across his ribs; and judging from the crashing sounds of the two blows which he had received, I thought that

more arouse the indignation of Europe against cruel and blundering misrule, aad call forth the sympathy due to its unhappy victims. Tne chronic disaffection of an oppressed peo- ple, whose attachment an alien Government rarely made even a pretence of seeking to conciliate, has again exploded in revolt, under

has been experimentally ascertained. There is no ground for the assumption that the re- generation of Poland as a prosperous and contented dependency of the Empire is in- trinsica!ly a more desperate enterprise than the great social revolution on which Alex- ander IT. has eo manfuily staked his reputa-

the pressure of an intolerable act of adminis- trative tyranny ; and again the strength of | military despotism is tasked to repress and)

unish “ revolationary excessee’’ which are. but the result and reaction of worse excesses | of ite own. It is not difficult to anticipate | the issue of the struggle between the forces

tion and authority ; and the Sovereign who gallantly persists, through all difficulties and perils, in thinking it practicable and safe to abolish Rassian serfdom, may fairly be ex-

ected to believe no less resolutely in the possibility of extinguishing Polish disaffee- tion. He is not responsible for the evil legacy

sight of the little city. On Sunday, the ith inst., there were present in that church a great congregation, composed, as is usually the case in this part of Karope, almost entire. ly of women. The mer, lounging about the piazza, pointed gut to one another the enor- mous quantity of snow which had fallen during the last six days and nights in an al- most unbroken column. The landscape glit- tered in its white covering, and even the buildings of the city looked like « scene in some fantastic play: Suddenly there was a dead heavy fail. ‘ Evidently,’ they said, ‘another distant avalanche ;' and then a

20 do Best Porto Rico MOLASSES proaches his resting-place ; and I feared falling, until [ Jost all confidence in my | some of his ribs must have been broken. | of the Russian Empire and scattered bands of | he has inherited from his predecessors ; but Seream and a murmur of great horror, which » o ae anaes a , lest some such courtierly parasite of the| power of taking aim so near the ground, | The lion rushed without a moment's pause at | palf-armed and starving insurgents, fighting | ;),, public opinion of Europe does and will spread through the quiet streets. All rashed 600 tale Canine Banet APPLES woods might have attached itself to the ser-| and, being a erack shot under ordinary cir- | D'S #dversary, but the agility of the gorilla | without leaders, witvout military organiz-|j,o\0 him answerable for a futare which ig & the spot, and found a scene which the “do PEARS = i d th t of th th idal apish | cumstances, I had just lved to risk was too great to permit the lion to close at / ation, and without a plan. Sooner or later, | .+i1) within his power. letters | have seen describe as horrible past 20 du 1 EA RS vice an t e court 0 the an ropot a apis cums ances, a jus resoived to ris every- his pleasure. For some minutes the move- | «6 order’’ will be only too effectually restored, all conception. The dome which covere the

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monarch, and was now whispering into his majesty's ear its suspicions that certain bar-

thing by standing up and taking an open shot at him from the shoulder, when a turn

/ ments of the lion in attack, and of the gorilla in avoidance, were almost too rapid for the

and the hapless survivors of an abortive struggle will expiate their rashness in the |

——- > -——-- -— Justice ry Russta.—A correspondent of the Kolokol gives the following account of |

body of the chureh had never been cleared of the constantly falling snow, and the im-

50 doz BROOMS 30 dez BUCKETS | barian invaders or low and villainous revolu- | was given to my thoughts (and I must con-| eye to foliow their evolutions. At length | mines of Siberia, or in the condemned regi- up ion of justice in Russia. The ™ense weight accumulated was too great for 100 boxes Oriental and Patent Candles tionists of an inferior order of the gorilla | fess 1 got rather a turn myself) by the) the lion paused, bewildered by the speed and | ments of the Imperial army. But these are a too et ood “ralsely es his own ac- | the strength of the warn out building. The 51) do Pale and Extra SOAP | species were trespassing within the bounds | sudden appearnce of a new sportsman in the | activity of hie antagonist. Instantly the not days when opinion sides with power,| cunt. of having "distributed in a Samogi- whole dome gave way and fell on the congre- 20 do CLOTHES PINS | shieh his majesty had been graciously form of a black python, some thirty feet in _ gorilla sprang upon and rolled him over with simply as power. The moral judgment of tian village copies of @ national hymn ob- gation, then kneeling in prayer. In that

I5nests TUBS 2 boxes assorted Candies.

pleased to reserve as the limits of his own exclusive private domain. I listened, but no particular note or chirp struck my ear. The silence was almost appalling ; 80 was (the darkness of that portion of the dense eons forest into which we bad penetrated. Very AUCTION! ‘shortly afier we had entered the woods the [LL BE SOLD BY PUBLIC fierce glare of the sun had ceased to pene- AUCTION, withont reserve— | trate to the ground except at rare intervals. 100 Crates and Casks of ‘The broad juxuriant upper foliage of the CHINA, GLASS and EARTHENWARE, mighty trees completely excluded the blaze well assorted, suitable for Country Merchants, early | of the tropical sun, which shone down ia MAY NEXT, oF on arrival of the Spring Ships | through a yellow atmosphere like the mouth Ten =. ae, aud will be made known at Of an open furnace, from a sphere of polish- Cari Gee. B. O'NE _. ed, glaring, reddened brass. At first there - ONEILL & CO. : February 2nd, 1°53. On were ove conn forest a ey vast ~ gaiielll dead a... ae antic trees, populous and noisy NOTICE. \with birds oF gorgeous aaae but discor-

ALSO, IN STORE, A Quantity of Tea, Boots, Shoes, Spices, Lozenges, &e.

J.8. CARVELL. Peake's Buildings, Dee. 22, 1862. tf

length, which was coiled round a small tree close to me, but which my rapt attention to my game had prevented me from observing previously. The python had unwound a few coils, and having thus freed about ten or twelve feet of his body to enable him to examine me and my proceedings more closely, he was hanging within a yard of my face, his Jong, black, forked tongue darting from his mouth, waving and retiring again with the rapidity of lightning, and his glittering eyes glancing from me to the rifle ‘as though he wondered what sort of an ‘animal it was, and whether it mght prove |tobe a more dainty morsel than | myself might be. I had a Persian scimitar as keen as a razor in my hunting belt. The snake |in his wavings to and fro brought his neck