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A POEM—

Feelingty and Respectfully Addressed to Desponding Maidens—

ts FAITBYOLLY INSCRIBED To “xk. #. @.” Io

Dear E. H. H., your sexe’s woes,

- Potrtray’d in your lament for beaux, The Islander put out last week, To witty, truthful and unique : A gentle sighing, soft petition ‘fo men to alter your condition. And eo they should; I always said, None of the fair should die unwed, Whom wisdom plann’d to pass their ljves Pirst children, girls, and lastly wives ; But if cold men refuse to wed Aad lead them to the nuptial bed, And all their hopes seem born to fall, Likd whitewash from a ruin’d wall— Their tempers getting short and shorter, As tainted fish and dried up mortar, And all their lives a burden are, ‘As bees and flies ¢nrobed in tar,— It were humane to interfere In favor of each hapless dear, Take philanthropic occupation, The views to forward of creation— ‘Cheer the despdénding maidens up With lover ties and marriage cup— Get each a husband, if one can, To please fier and to better man. And with this moral, friendly wiew, T'll do the best that | may do; The girls are willing—so am I ; They shal] be married by and bye; The gentle, forward, tender, tough, Shal! husbands have, and love enough.

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Tis hard in these enlightened times Young Ladies must appear in rhymes, And sore lament thé lack of Beaux— The sterling ones that would propos®, Aud make each one for mortal life

A tender mother and a wife.

’Tis stranye, now spring or suinmer here, ‘That Boys with Girls refuse to pair; The very birds, with love elate, Have taken each a willing mate ; Aye, every Frog in every pond Croaks love-lays to his listening blond ; The saps are mantling in the tree ; ‘lhe flowers are edtrting on the le&. All nature charm’d, is won and wed, from valley to the mountain head. — Though fields, and flowers, and birds prto- claim) Progression enters not the brain Of any sparks about our town, ‘Vo don the matrimonial crown, | hope there is no reason why Our C. T. Girls are aught but shy, And they, as FE. H. really knows, Are languishing for marrying Beaux ; And all the lads are full of life— Each seems in tune to take a wife. ‘The Girls are ready, but the Beaux— Confound the fellows !~—don’t propose. It is their fault, a sin and shame, The girls must keep their maiden name, Come rouse you, each un-thoughtfui lad, And wed those, running husband mad ; ‘Take pity, too, on Widows here, » On eager hunt to catch a dear. ‘will be your credit 80 to do, By serving G— and nature too .

Why C. T. girls are darren s0,

Of what they call a proper beau, (ue’s at a loss, and scarce can tell ;

But I may guess 2 little. Well! Youll recollect no point I press; { caiy make a random guess. May be aome are extremely pert, Aga’ Others only fit to flirt.

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FREE-BORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC—MAY SPEAK FREE.”—Mirtor’s EURIPIDES,

That some too anxious for a prize,

A manly bosom will despise.

That some so vain, have noxious grown, And some with years are overblown. That some’s pretensions scar so high, They in the netion maids will die.

Some adepts are in littie tattle—

That some wag foul detraction’s rattle— That some wil] smile when eye to eye» But absent, sadly vilify,--

That some are prattling silly girls, Whose minds embrace but dress and ¢urls. That some, rude language smartly pit *Gainst sense and worth, and deem it wit. That some are slovens on the street, Their homes just like them, never neat— That some like toys which please the eye, We see, and pass the trifle by :

Scarce playthings for a gallant spark

An hour to toy with for a lark—

That some mayhap do lack the brain

A reasoning soul could entertain— That 8ome, so frequent on the street, Are empty thought and indisereet— That some, extravagantly gay,

Would ruin one with bilis to pay— That one and all of whom [ve sung, The old, the middle, and the young,

Are blemish’d so, that, on my life,

Not one would maké a so-so wife.

These are conjectures all, I know,

And do not say the fact is so.

Beside, we’ve many gentle dames

To sense and worth With ample claima, Whose graces,evirtues, both impart

A glowing pleasure in the heart 5

And friendship’s faith, with hearts as true A lilly hand they proffer you—

A majesty of soul and mind,

Worthy the best of human kind.

These gems no cattse have of Jament; Their virtues yield them seveet Content, And lovers come and gather here

The fairest flowers among the fair. These human bouquets fragrant tell,

And in the market quickly sell ;

And these my Muse imports the knows Are ready all supplied with Beaux.

For those now going to the wail,

W bo cannot boast a Beau at all, have a scheme—just hit upon—

Will marry all and every one.

Compassion bade me do the deed,

And be the ladies’ friend in need.

While virtue still with pleasure vies,

The single ladies I afvise,

Each for a husband on the go,

To call in Matrimonial Row,

At number One—the house is blue—

[ndicative of being true ;

My siyn is Cupid’s glittering wings,

Inlaid with roses without stings,

And here the sovereign god is too,

With giowing bow and arrow true.

Reclining here, a Jady lies,

With rosy lips, and ieve-lit eyes ;

Her tresses float on neck of snow,

And dangle on her bosom’s fow.

These fire the god, and in her neart

Essays to plant his wizard dart.

Such is my sign. And on the door,

A knocker gilt or gilded over.

A Bell, so you can ring or rap—

{-Il hear the slightest ting Or tap.

Prom nine at morn till drowsy nizht

All husband-seekers [ invite

{n person, or as each may see

Befitting best her modesty.

itm sare to get you married all.

Pray don’t be timid, Ladies! Call.

My terms are these: Each pretty Miss

Is only asked a gentle kiss.

Old Maids, and such too Jate for tea,

In common graceful charity,

Advice shall have, and go scot- free.

Come, Ladies, come! I'll fit you all—

From eighteen up to fifty. Call

At number One, in Cupid’s nook,

And rap or ring, and ask for

SNOOK.

Latest Intelligence.

IRELAND.

{From the Dublin Correspondent of the Hali- fax Sun.)

The efforts of the Irish members in oposition to the Bill of Penalties—other- wise, the Ecclesiastical Titlea Bill, is above all’praise,and the general theme of universal encomium in the mouth cf every man who harbours in his bosom one partic’e of the genuine spititofa Frer MAN.

The Association, in course of organiza- tion, for ‘the protection and increase of Catholic Freedom,’ is making progress ; and, when completed, will present a for- midable front to its foes. Its cause is strictly and fairly viewed; the eause of religious liberty involving the right and privileges not of the Catholic body only, but of the dissentients, generally, through- oxt the Empire tv State Protestantisn. By the way, and before adverting to, perhaps legs interesting, and certainly, less im- portant topics, I may notice that the am- endment by Lord Arundel was pre-emi- rently of this character. He proposed, in effect, that the penal bill should not be construed to interfere with the juris- diction, authority, pre-eminence, or titles, essential to the due discharge of the spirit- ual duties of the prelacy—that, in fact, the bill should contain within itself a distinct declaration that it was not intend- ed to interfere with the spiritual action of the Catholic bistiops, but only with the temporal dignities connected with the epispocal titles, This, as I said before, constituted a test for the animus of the government and of the house. Had the design not beena design against Catho- licity itself, and aimed at the very extir- pation of the Catholic faith, the govern- tent would have gladly availed itself of the opportunity thus afforded of removing any misconception that might have exist- ‘éd on the subject: but their design is against the spiritualities and not against

1e temporalities of the Catholic church, —and Lord Arundel’s amendment was de- feated by a mafotity of 416 to 61.

Lord Stanley has declared that the Whig penal law isnot sufficiently anti- Catholle, and not sufficiently stringent in its provisions for the prevention of * Papal aggression.” Nevertheless, the very pre- vailing opinson is that we shall fave a Stanley ministry, lifted into power on the shoulders of the Catholic members of the House of Commons. This may be ex- plained as follows:

An occasion once again offers itself to the Irish members. ‘The Conservative section of the House of Commons, for theirown patty purposes, are making energetic arrangements to proedre a ma- jority against ministers on the Crylon question. The effect of their procuring a Majority would be the resignation of the Whig minigters, and probably the imme- diate formation of a Stanley ministry. The leading members of his party object to the present bill as uneqnal to the oc- casion, and declare that all synodical ac- tion should be prohibited—that the com- mon informer should be let loose upon the Catholic prelacy, and that the transport ship should be called into the aid of the “law,” should any of the bishops prove refractory.

It is not altogether clear that, in this view, the gain to the cause, for which we are struggling so energetically, would be great,—it might be that matters would be by no means bettered by the change; out still, so strong is the indignant feeling orevalent against the persecuting Whigs, that my own opinion is, that a majority of [rish members will vote to turn them out.

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{ do not pretend to 4 very intimate ac- quaintance with the affairs of Ceylofi. It appears,"however, that the constitution there, has been most violently set aside, and a horrid system of terrorism, under the cover of British bayonets, substituted for the regular procedure of the courts of law, Lord Torrington had set aside the civil -power, on the pretetice of §nsurrec- tion, and let loose all the horrors of mar- tial law on the poor creatures, a priest amongst the number, who were either shot ortransported. The humane Chief Justice, Sir Anthony Oliphant, declared such proceedings altogether illegal: and when he remonstrated against the punish- ment of death in some cases, and life- transportation in others, as severe beyond all measure—when he ‘ presumed’ to interfere with the caprices of Lord T'or- rington, and suggested m ier courses, he was answered withthe execution of all the sentences unaitered and unmitigated.

We have it stated on the authority of one of the interested parties, that Sir Walter Scott, anxious to, procure the brilliant pen of Washingtoif Irving, offer- ed him the editorship of a new Edinbdargh newspaper, at asalary of £500 a year. The offer was declined, but the reason for declining was peculiar, Mr. Irving said he could not write imprompls. He had his moments of inspiration, and be was obligéd to wait for them. But this habit ©f readiness, without which a newspaper writer is worthless, is often a fatal gift. ‘The number of men that it annually “uses up” in the metropolis would amaze the world, if their’ lives could be written. In the first bloom of their powers they are handsomely paid, work hard, speedily break down, and are swept aside like leaves from an orchard. The ditrnal and hebdomadal literature absorbs all the ready men, and talents, that ifconcentrated on a work, would immortalise the writer, are dissipated, so to speak, on the production of ephemera! articles.

Liewt. Green—charged with and tried for causing the death of one McQuaid, Private Soldier, deserted from the de- tachment of the 38th Regiment stationed at Sydney, C. B., has been acquitren ; and, as we gather from the evidence, in go far we have it before us, most properly $0.

“Testimony was adduced, on behalf of the prisoner, to prove that MeQuade, pre- viously to deserting, had said that he nevet would be brought back alive; to prove the Articles of War; to show that Mr. Green was considered by his com- mandifg officer {Major Sparks, who was witness to this point), lenient in the discharge of his duty,—that his temper was good,—and this witness further proved that under the circumstance, if in the posjtion of the prisoner, he shou! have felt it his imperative duty to have ascended to apprehend the deserter, and further to show thatthe deceased was

deterinined when sober—outrageous when drunk.

We understand that the organization of the pensioners for the military defence of Canada, is rapidly proceeding. In the first instance, they will replace the gar- 119003 Of Sandwich and Penetanguishene.

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John Hinds and Alexander Evans, the parties found guilty of robbing the Ke- man Catholic Church at Toronto, a short time @go, were sentenced on the 28th instant to the Provincial Penitentiary, the * former for nine years, and the latter for six years. — Quebes Cace'te.

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