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which his innocently worldly daughters|artist ? Are these not all, more or less, were brewing. But evidence like this}/poems conveying to us something of feel- does nothing to contradict otr visdom.|ing, and life, aud youth, be we ever so tad Johnson been compelled to conrpose seared by perpetual contact with coarser his superb style, at a moment's warning,| and harsher econtemplations and enploy~| by the coffin side; had Goldsmith pos- ments ? May we not call up such pic. sessed no treasury of adventure and ex-|tures,;may we not southe ourselves with perience. to draw upon, no power to such harmonies,—may we not lay them, handle the pen already learned —neither| to our soul as evidences P We must not Indae nor Mrs. Primrose would havejuse them by way of unction flattering us| been alive at this day. Without prepar- into the sentimental Waiting Gentlewo-, ation, training, craftmanship, there is man’s notion that crime is to disappear little literature—there is no art. Ballads} like a scene in a pantomime, and thieves inay grow up, but not epics be produced,|all ofa sudden to grow~ as orderly ‘as nor five-act plays be constructed, nor|beadles; but we may apply them as tales be woven, nor even a complete lyric| alternatives when we are in danger of be finished. It has fallen to the let ofjbeing wearied into doggedness, by the every one of us too often and again, to!man who enacts fits at the street corner see hearts fevered, hopes wrecked, life|—or by the begging-letter imposter who embittered, and Death (or Madness)|wriags crowns out of kind-hearted and courted, because men cannot—and their}economical . souls, who must, for their friends will not—sufficiently fix their/credulity’s sake forego their holiday —or ininds on this plain truth; because incli-|by the Pole with his anti-Russian pam- nations are perpetually mistaken for/phlet, who makes his way in, to abase powers; because, bewildered by some himself by fawning and gentee] mendi- faery dream that the world in which ajcity, under pretext of being a friend’s Scott is king or a Siddons is queen, in| (F\end—or by thesight of such a pillar paved with gold, every boy who can cut, of stone as the woman who went into the paragraphs into lengths fancies that he is,confectioner’s shop to buy gingerbread, a Scott, and every girl with a strong|‘ because they were going to see cur voice who loves play-going, that she is ajSally hanged and should be hungry

Tady Macbeth, a Cleopatra, a Queen} Yes: if sights and provoeations and

—force themselves into our highways, all the more need is it that all celestial appearances and sounds in our bye-ways, be they ever so few, faint, and far, should be eollected and set down. Be they ever so rich, they will not be rich enough to justify an over complacent or supine spirit ——still less to tempt the healthily-minded to confound dross with pure gold; be

in one and the same direction,—not the they ever so meagre they ought to keep living, breathing, hoping, fearing being,| alive in us the faith, that no portion of the human like ourselves, yet better, than, earth is so barren, that Truth or Beauty, ourselves, with whom we can sit down at 22d Love, and Patience, and Honour, ean- meat, and kneel down at prayer, not the| "Ot grow therein,

fragment of Heaven upon Earth, to en- counter and make acquaintance with, which redeems us from utter heartless- A FRENCH DESPERADO.

ness or discomfort. The Poetry of ap- one

house down.’

Atal! events, in such mistakes as the above, followed by their sure conse- quence of misery, lives not the Poetry which we are seeking. In its place wa too often encounter a dismal wax-work show, a creature with glassy eyes and hot red cheeks, and a stiffarm, in a noble attitude perhaps, but always beckoning

preciation when creation is impossible—| (From the Paris Correspondent of the the Poetry of daily life as sung in deeds} Times. }. = , > } ty °s y ; ry °,* s a of unselfishness, delicasy, ee on The authorities Were informed some! temptations, consideration of the weak) days since that the ‘greater number had (let ‘- brute force theorists ‘ sound their! aicam oeAile rs the department of the . ee : ’ anal ia | mn . trumpets and a their Pipes * lovely} Ardeche, which, forming as it does, part a3 if upon themselves devolved the whole! o¢ the 8h military division, i# not, as orchestral and choral noise of Judas) have just mentioned, under martial law. Maccabeus’) and companionship with thé | {ntelligence was also communicated that humble—the Poetry of a healthy, not @/a clandestine manufactory of gunpowde: maudlin love for Nature—these are to Delon an extensive seule existed at Pouzin, sought out and gathered oe In turn w/in the house of a person named Sondey may sit on the bleak hill-sices of Scotland | ran, who was reinarkable for much ener- : ed ii cred alt i | with the separ Wrewnte recat a Ss sae er rate personal Ok. wander down the alleys engl courage. is man had been known to bg vaca whit taieie|a..9. oe ; : manufacturing towns, to sce what fair Yi declare that he would shoot auy one, patternell verge may have been woven) wendarme, police agent, or zeneral, who there, Or ina green lane we may ope® should attempt to take hin: into custody, such a book as good Mr, Barnes has General Lapene, who commends.thesud | published in the Dorsetshire dileet,to show division of the Drome, made arrange- , ’ ; : .aY to ’ : t as now ingeniously music may Py pot out of! ments with the authorities of the Ardeche: a corrupt local English Eee ae Or to effect the capture of Sonbeyran. and, we may cross the Channet to hear Jasmin.!the seizure of the cunpowders [t was in) ) SMoONPn.: 7" rp2zc > »° ’ = - ¥ ite. the Seen aA ee Tee or tO the execution of this project that an inci-; see Redoul, the Nismes baker, bring out! deat occurred, which bears é eloen AP oe Bt oct Budi dent occurred, hich bears rather @ clos anode hot from his oven. But our oust-| resemblance to an interesting passage in ness will be more with deeds than with) Sir Walter Scott’s navel of Rod Rov. words, more with genuine thoughts and| An expedition was regularly planned) impulses in action, than wit second between General Lapene and tie military | hand fancies, faded as the coarse arufl- authorities on. the other side of she, cial flowers of a wmilliner’s shop iD) Rhone, and was to teke piece simnlta- Leicester Square, when the season ISineous on both banks. The Operations, over, which no passer-by, ‘gentle or began onthe 24th, Athalf-past ten o’-; simple,’ can think of taking home. clock at night a.strong detachment of We may have to do, moreover, with |the 3rg Regiment of Horse Artillery and, ~ * . . ° i } sre). ” , : i the poetry of association as conveyed i |four companies of the 32d of the line left, those festivals of joy or of sorrow w hich; Valence, ander the orders of the Com-| 2 1-” . } r ‘ 1 mark the progress of life and the peculia- mandant of the place. This Se wes rity of manners. The nasal, droning,to be reinforeed as it proceeded, by, burial psalm that may still be heard in smaller cetachments of the i8ih and 17th. vemote places of England, winding up a}of the line. It arrived at Povzin at 4 hollow Jane or across the corner of a moor,,0’clock in the morning, after having in-

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ee cemateteieampnensenteimteal aster saniaelaadentaaaiiiaiiaianiatiees snietenmeieaniaiaieteneeen cape, and four rendarnes id human figures, would require segera) aces door, two on Bet side, réea@y tO) pages of Geseiiption, which | ould ae seize him the moment he made hm anal, without # vie / model, prove pearance ;..._whilst the Prefect himse!s, a) tedioug-and unintelligible, man of much- determination, sto Wi C pow '; had a wateh front with a pistol loaded and cocked in w! i in the jewel] of kis his hand, During the short silence tia ind 2 % ker in London pre. intervened a noise was-heard inside, anw ®°nted George 1! 2 OBC sein the close to the door,as of the loading of « same meaner. Its size wag san etung gun, and the ringing ofa stee} ramrod fess than a silver two-peace, and jt in the barrel. After the elapse of some contained one hundred and twenty-five

minutes, an when the Prefect was sbont different parts, and weighed altogether to repeat his summons, the door was sud-/no more than five pennyweighta and denly flung open, and Soubeyran, in his sever grains. shirt sleeves, a red silk “handkerchief. The tomb of Raphael, executed by an twisted round his head, his throat bare, Italian named Raccavalva, ig indeed a and with sandals on his feet, stepped to; wonder. It is only twelve inches in the threshold, and presented himself be-| height, and. from an inch to four inches fore them, One hand grasped a blunder- in diameter. It is adorned with yarioug buss, the other wag extended forward.'architectural ornaments in the richest He evidently did not expect to see 20/ style of Gothic, and also figures of the many prepared to prevent iis escape, and virgin and child. The work is said to be his surprise made him hesitate a moment. of unrivalled merit and beauty. The This hesitation, short ag it was, in all pro- mode! is contained in a ease of wrought bability prevented the shedding of blood ;| gold, and is itself of box-woad, The and the Prefect, profitting by it, rushed at general design may be regarded a3 areh- him in an instant, seized with one hand) itectural, embellished with several com- the arm which held the blunderbuss, and| partments of sculpture or of carving, with the other put @ pistol to his temples. consisting of various groups of figures, At the same time he again summoned) These display different events in the life him to surrender. The gendarmes who of Christ. Some of the figures are leag were stationed at the door were in the|than a quarter of an inch in height, but act of advancing to enforce the capture,! though thus minute, are all finished with when Soubeyran by a violent and audden the greatest precision and skill; and what tnoveinent freed himself from the grasp of renders this execution still more curious the man who held him, drew back a few) and admirable, is the delicacy and beauty: paces (atiJl with his face to his antago~ with whieh the back and distant figures nists,) then turned quickly, still with' are executed.

blunderbuss in hand; leaped over a table =< some and some chairs, burst through a door,' 3 ayr mayen the rebound of which impeded for a mo-' if a 3 3 oa. A a } yu 3 a a ment the progress of his pursuers, reach-| . wee ed a window which hung over the water,’ ,, emi and bursting through it, dashed into the Satur day, Nevember 23, 1859,

Rhone that was rolling turbid, cold, and) =—==—-== SP

dark, below, and disappeared amidst its. .

waves, ‘The troops who were stationed pee as Pogson pi inte outside raf at once to the bridge, and 20, @arl of Durham’s admirable Report en or 30 of the horsemen were in a moment/the Affairs of British North America,

on the opposite side, while others lined) will be entirely new to most of our read-

the near bank. Once or twice the end of the red hand-|°3 for we believe they have never yet

kerchief which bound the ontlaw’s head found’a place in the periodical press of

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break on the surface of the water; but; xhmulinetenmannal.” ua tue ae ariiele Soudeyran himself was never since bg Penne ane, en a ee

held. Troops watched Jong on bath, from our own pen, because they will the. banks of the river, expecting to see him. more strikingly contrast with the dreary attempt to land. It was all useless, With sna interminable twaddle constantly ap-

respect to his fate there is some uncer-| a i : tainty. [tis not known whether he per- Pet!9g inthe columns of the Islander,

ished in the dangerous current that shoots on the assumed impoliey of conceding to vetween the’ arebes of the bridge, or this Colony the principles of the British

whet! 2 was able, immi 2 . . ether Be was. ale, Dy Sw imaling ee Constitution, and the alleged evils their

shelter in the hollow of the rocks that in 200ption would produce. that part hang overthe stream; at all) The successful operation of the prin-

events, dead or alive, he has not since ciples recommended for adoption by the

been seen or heard of, 2 ( in his house was found a ianufactory| *° ea ongabelbe Poy of gun-powder admirably organised ; and far, at least, as the Canadas and Nove

a large quantity of which was perfectly Scotia are concerned —constitutes the

prepared, and ready for use,a part aleo highest tribute that could be paid to his

made up in cartriges. memory.

Saree We pity the infatuation of any msn

CURIOSITIES OF ART. who will now attempt to set up his crude

aia ie opinions in opposition tothe experience

It is singular how many men have di- of the past and the present, when it i# rected their energies of mind to perfeet- — | ae hei thei ing toys, which, altho’ displaying won-/ 80+ Possible Dep meen car derfol inventive powers, yet have never —2nd his vanity must be imm essuranie, conferred any benefit on mankind, nor indeed, who thinks thet his advice should

ever have been even used for any other’ be followed in preference to that of the

purpose than as a piece of amusement— | , wey Or Be | she the childish exhibition of masculine mind, most distinguished Statesman that ‘ea

the fame of foolery, and foolery of fame.|exercised imperial authority in British Thus Jerome Faba, an Italian priest,! North America, A greater marvel than

and a native of Calabria, exereised him-|... .

elite a eaaaind oC industry, wonderfai |e perhaps, would be, to suppose thata from its difficulty. He finished a work|#ozen of intelligent people could be found, of boxwood, which represented all the|ready to be gulled by the impudence and

mysteries of the Passion, and which presumption of such a man.

as some little congregation of friends or neighbours bears a dead body home,— the twilight vesper service (intrinsiea|ly tnneless and womusica!l) of the Sisters of Charity. who come baek to their Begui- nage after a long day of hard work, hard prayers, hard consolation, and hard gossip among the poor;—do these things say nothing tous? Is nothing told us by the ery of ssilors as they warp the ship into dock at the close of a wild and win- try voyage ? by the serenade-music with which the impulsive people ofa German town welcome some favourite poet or

vested the communes of Cruax, Vaix, and might be put in the shell of a walnut. St. Laurent du Pape. The Prefect of the,To him was attributed a coach the size

Ardeche had previously arrived at the of a grain of wheat, within which there! rendezvous, having under its orders seve- were to be seen a man and a woman, a) ral detachments ofthe gendarmerie of hia) coaehman, who drove it, and horses that

department. At5o’clock ihat function-'drew it, These were presented to Pran- ary accompanied.by his men, proceeded cis 1, and Charles 5.

to the residence of Soubeyran, knocked} In China, the tomd of Confueius has at the door, and summoned him, in the}been made in small miniature, no larger name of the Jaw to come forth and sure) than a nut, but wonderfully composed of render himse!f a prisoner. No answer'precions metals, and adorned witha pro-

was ‘nade. Knowing the desperate cha-|fusion of zems—-but its value consists of racter of Soudeyran, the Prefect had dis-;the labour expended on its execution

posed of hia men so as to cut off his es ig tandecapes, dragons, angels, animals. i

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“Tt is not by weakening, but strength- ening the influence of the people on its Government; by confining within muelt narrower bounds than those hitherte allotted to it, and not by extending the interference of the imperial authorities m the details of colonial affairs, believe that harmony is to be restoreé, where dissension has so long prevailed ; and a regularity and vigour hitherto un- known, introduced into the administration

of these Provinces. Jt needs no s