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ntatttt non roit was IIAIWI-:8’I‘.

he runs uonntus. Thank God once more. for the fruitful plain, here waves a see bending in; Where the Idea hues of morning meet lrtor t is the dew-bathed wheat.

The fentine-lend with his wl had thrown

A cloud of gloom o'er the sari ‘a wide zone, And the peasant boy lone in the world had wept, Tillhefoundaeeusbwherehis -netherslept.

But now the about of the reapero rings, Till the blackbird starts on his trembling wings. While his heart

ows glad as he dies away, O'sr the harvest’:

brown and flagrant hay.

Gay sounds are heard where before ewolte No sound from shuttle nor anvil stroke,

And where was heard but the voice‘s wail, The dance, the song, and the smile prevail.

Then God be praised for the fruitful plain, Where waves a sea of the ' sin ' Where the golden hues of the morning most A mirror bright in the dew-bathed wheat.

GIVE ME A FAITIIFUL HEART.

Ido not crave bright gains of earth, Nor gold of dsaaling hue;

But I ask for sotnetltitig of more worth-— A heart that's pure and true.

'I‘lrough earth may yield her costly gems. That looked so fair to view; ask not for such disdeins. But a heart tlrat’s pure and true.

A heart tltst glows with noble deeds,

For this I o'er will see;

A guilsless heart trons envy freed- A heart that's pure and tree.

A heart like this is real worth-- It nothing can sure ins;

'Tis all I ask for here on earth-— A heart that's pure and kind.

filiatcllaittoiis.

A NIGHT ON BEN LOMOND.

On reaching the peak, the sight was one of beauty and grandeur, ssoh as itxr ination never painted. You see around you groups of hills, exquisitely dressed in the soft purple of the heather, ennd

' Iih till tllnlecrnts of the

w 0 II . and drink In thtise of the heavens. Peelt beyond peek caught from the shifting I3: all the colours of the prism, and on the farthest e el-com seemed hovering in white robes. _ bout our o'clock we began our descent. _ Near the euntm t ih- tracesof the path are not distinct, and I said to_ Mr. 8.. after a while, that we had lost it. He said. he thought, it was of no con- sequence: we could find our way down. I s.-trd,_I thought, it was, as the ground was full of springs, that were bridged over in the thwsy. He accordingly weirt to look for it, and I stood still; g:cause I was so tired, did not like to waste on labour.

Soon he called to me that he had found it, an I followed in the direction where he seemed to be. But mistook, overshot it, and saw him no more. ’ ' I soon sank down utterly exhausted. When able to get up again, and look about me. I saw alight that looked about as big as n pin‘s head, that I knew to be from the inn at Ilewnrdennn, but heard no sound, except the rush of the waterfall and the g of the night-wind.

For the first few minutes after I perceived [had got to my night's .

odging. such as it was, the circumstance looked appalling. I was very lightl clnd, my feet and die“ were very wet. I-had only a little shew ‘to throw round me, and the cold autumn wind had al- rea y coins. and the night mist wits to fall on me, all ft-vered and exhausted as I was. I thought. I should not live through the iiiglit, or, ifl did. I must be air invalid lienceforwurd. could not even keep myselfwarm b walking; for now it was dark, it would be dangerous to stir. ll chance, linwttver, I.iy in motion; and no convinced was I of this. that I tlid keep in motion the whole of that long night. imprisoned as I was on such a little porch of that great inountoin.

For about two hours I saw the stars: and very cheery and com- panionalrle they looked; but then the riiist fell, and I saw nothing more, except such iipparitions as visited Ossinn on the hill-side when he went out by night. ‘o me, too. cams t one visionary shapes. I"lontiiig slowly trtid grace-full , their white robes aould trnfurl front the great hotly of mist in which they had been engutti.-rl, so come upon me with ll kl-ts, pO'l‘IllI|IIVt9ly t'.«~lt.l III that of tlr-atlt. Than the tiiotin ruse. I could not t|t't' he- ; I_lIll lritr 'lllVI'.l light lillt,-tl the itiist. Their I knew it was In o o'clock. niitl that luviiig \\ en. theved eetso much ofthe night, I might the rest; and the hours hardly seemed long to use more.

t may give an idea of the extent of the mountain. that though I called, every now and then, with all my force, in case by chance, some old might be near,-—and though no less than twenty mt.-n,with t ir dogs. were looking or mo.—I nert-r board a soiiiid, except the Pttsli of the water fall. and the -ighiug of the nixlrt-ntnrl, and once or twice the startling ofthe grouse in the lie.-itli--r It wits lttliliitin indeed, I rrever-to-he nrgttl pro-at-irliititiii of alt-tn, st-rette realities. At last ruins the signs of day. Iht! ‘ftltlfllll clennng and breaking up, some faint souotls from I know not what; the li.tlc flies, too, arose from t eir bed amitl the purple In-ntltt-r, and hit me. 'l'ruly they were very welcome to do so. t w rat was my dis- appointment to find the mist so thick, that I could see neither lake nor inn, nor any thing to gu' e me. ascended the hill, crossed the torrent in the waterfall, hm drlnhlag sortie ofthe winter which was as good as nrnbrosis. waterfall triads steps, as it were 'I‘o be sure, they were covered with water; butl was already entirely wet with the artist. on lllirl it did not matter. lltept on scrsetbtiag. as it hap- nttrded, in the right direction, till about seven, some of the sliep- s [hand me. 'I‘lreJnoment they cans. all my feverish strength departed’ and they carried me home, w my arrival reliev

y funds ti’ distress far greater than_ I had undergone; for I lied

y grand soliottude. tny ienic visions: while they had only dpebt,aueeutiag to anguish, and s fruitless search tlrroegh the uight.—.Uewotn if Jluigttret I‘. Ouoli.

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IIAMBSI-Z DEI'I‘lI‘.8.

Curiosity. Itilllotl by a special permit, induced me once, during ‘I! 390'?“ 0‘ l3'"_‘ll|0l|r to vblt those two most remarkable edifices In the whole empire of 8lsnr—t watts, or temples of the two White I-1lephants—those most revered of all tho Si.-imese deities, and which, as the cross In the Chrbsiun, and the crescent in the

‘ Ovlsttt. lost proudly for the Olsstess In the banner or their ne- ticn. Au els eat is certainly more tempt gmtglegtntimt of the WC y eof tyranny than M3 thing I t I ltnow of; at least, in ary own humble opinion, I won rutlrwt he tretlden under foot ‘by spy other qusdrsped. where I reduced to the miserable neces- uy, h-:¢':t'9‘:_snsnvi-'t;ts“ohot:s.“ h'I.‘he watts bl:s.etrrselves were

I tags. I! wit a t gsrgssn utiss ' ll srsfits. The first er s the frstwereresud bessillkl sreeteras. ls

‘ _d‘bdwlsass.shsstlts|l'-a-ni|sltenthsshwe.sests

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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, TUESDA Y, SEPTEMBER 21, 185.2.

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the centre ofa garden, deliciously scented with the tube-rose, tht. yellow honeysuckle, and that rare specimen of the passion-flower. called by the Siamese the ball-lower, from its very great resolu- blance to a be On either aide of the watt were two huge banysn trees, evideatl of long growth, ftoin the great number of shoots that had taken no root in the round, and were now forer- ing dilI'ereut and distinct branches oI't eir own. Under these trees a whole e of Siamese priests, clad in gambogc-d ed dressq, were chsunting leudstory verses about the great white elephant, a with the exception ofone innlevolent glare at us, as we en- tered the highl -Iiiiishod gates of the wallet nt enclosed the gardens of the watts, t ey took no further notice of our proeesdi , allowed us to round toe rden uumolasted. picking such ric bon- quets as would made the heart ofa bull-going young London Indy palpitate again with joy and excitement. Afler a lapse ofeb t aqanrter an hour, which was pletisnntl enough spent in veying the outside of the watt, its thousa pretty pedestals, pil as many indescribable and singular little images, a venerable loo - ing old fellow; clad in a most remarkable ellow surplice, w wore a smile of satisfaction upon his face, which plainly indies that he had been well feed by our attendant Cicerone, carne forwu and ofered to conduct as into the presence of white elephant, the senior. We closely followed our guide. and were admitted iutp the presence of this noble animal. I have never before seen so large an elephant; his skin was as smooth and spotless and white as the driven snow, with the exception of a large scarlet rim round the eyes The brute was too dignified and accustomed to homage to pay the slightest attention to the intrusion of such unpreaum' visitors as nurse ves. but went on helping hiiusolf to leaves an branches from the mighty iles that were that were heaped up be- fore him. The room itsel was an unpresutning one, exceedingly lofty, with windoweuround the loftiest part; but the fioorio was covered with s met-work, wrought of pure chased gold, each In- terwoven seain being about hnlfetr inch wide, and about the thick- ness of s half-sovereign! I this was not sin to snakes, as the Yankees say, I don't know what was. The idea of a great an- vreildy brute. like the elephant, trampling under foot and wearing out more gold in one year than many hard-working people gain in ten. And then the‘ soiled mess that this costly capeting was in, in; many parts, would have been slllicient to cause s iuiser to go «. -instantly. Several priests were busily engaged, in dilI'er- ent part of the room, polishing u tarnished spots; others, profes- sionally goldsmlths, were extracting the worn strips, and replacing theta with new ones, so envy and so bright, that it made our eyes and mouth water to see such infsinous waste. Every one to his liking, however. 'I‘Iie sovereigns and poicntates of Europe ma- nage to tnnke millions slip through their fin era in the pursuits of the pomps and vanities of this wicked worl , and indulging every n its that vicious nature can give birth to. 'I‘he King of Sintn would doubtless do the sutne if he could; but e can’t. for this simple reason. that so lintited are the resources for gratification and pleasure, and socheiiply obtainable these few, that his Majesty, who does not spend much in wearing apparel. turns his treasures into mate for his favourite doll or deity to tread u on. 'I‘lte titan who was so fortunate as to entrep this elephant got from the king of Siam. a pension ofone thouuiir ti o a per annuin, which pension is lrereditury; besides this, he was raised to u very high otlice in the kindom, that of carrying water for the elephant to sluke his thirst with; and the jars in which the water is transported, and the trough from which this leviathan drinks, are both more or less fi- lngreed and worked with gold. 'I‘he elephants are the only digni- taries cennected with the court, that are permitted to breakfast be- fore his Majesty, and, if the don't get it early roar for it in it very appalling tirunner. 'I‘lre e ep(ant'e trumpeting must certainly drown the feeble cracked notes of the king's bugler. These creatures eel-1 does or next ' eelleeeeepe feast days, when they head a procession that marches round their respective watt some htrlfdoxen times, and are then re-led to their stately

" My little man. you are very sick, and you must take some medicine. It will taste badly, and will make you feel badly for a while, and then I expect it will make you feel bette "

The doctor prepared the medicine, and the boy took it at once, and withnitt the least resistance. He said also, he would take anything from his mother which the physician prescribed, but would not take anything else from her; for alto had so of- ten deceived him, and told him it was good, when she had given him medicines, that he would not trust to anything that she said. But he saw at once that the doctor was telling him the truth : and when he took the bitter draught, he knew just what to expect.

Is not honesty with children, as well as with others. and in all circuinstsnces. the best. policy I How can parents hope to gain anything in the long run by deceiving their children I

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A PLAIN imvsitxisttru Tau.-About four months ago, a young nten from Lincoln, named Bealby, took a house and shop in High-street, Boston, and furnished and fitted it tip as for a grocer. On 'ootl Friday he married a respectable female from Spilitby, and brought her to his new house. After two or three days, he proposed to his wife that, before they opened shop, they should visit some relations of his in Scotland. She _a!sented, and he took her to Liverpool. On arriving there. secured a passage for himselfantl wife for New York, and hav- ing sailed. halfthe voyage was msdo.before the wife discover- ed the imposition. The small-pox, the measles, and the ship fever broke out on board, and the husband was attacked with the first and the wife with the last. On landing at New York, the husband, instead of engaging in any business, lived in idle- tress, till all his money was expentlcd. He then determined on proceeding to California, but his wife, having no faith in him, refused to accompany him, and decided on returning to Eng- and. To accomplish this, having no funds she donned a garb that would ensure her from iiisult. and obtained an engage- ment as cook's mute on board a vessel bound for Old England. (The cook himself was a man of colour.) She reached her destination without accident, in the exclusive possession oflier secret. a few days since. Her steps were iitiinediatcly direct- ed homeward, and the last 57 miles she travelled on foot,doing it in 99 hours, passing through Boston about I0 o'clock on Sunday night, in her sailor’s attire, and arriving at S iilsby.|lt8 home of her parents. at 2 o'clock last evening.—Bu_[j‘ala Cam- nterciul.

AN HOUR IN THE CAR OF A BALLOON. The following letter has been been addressed to the editor of an Emtlislijuurnol :— _ _ Siti;—.-\ltlu-ugh numerous have been the descriptions given of the beauty and delights experienced in a balloon voyage, still, perhaps. the following account of my visit to

suite.

N0. 1176.,

A BEAUTIFUL HOIIE SKETCH.

The Knickerbocker. for July, says of the following that

many an over-praised novel, is these latter days, tloes not prion! ’balf the natursluess and true feeling of this little e etc t’——

'‘ S_arcastic people are wont toss that poethdtvcll is gutters, and simple oplc believe it. An others. neither ssrusstro not simple, send” them up aloft, among the rubbish; ' they do not know what to do with them down stairs ‘ ptuong folks.‘ and so they class then under the of . bish, entl consign them to the grand receptacle of dila ‘ has-beens,’ and dot ised ' used-ttrbs's,' the old garnet. -

“ The gerret is tot e apartments of the hotuatend what &

know how to dispose of iaconsigned to the list of adverb‘ And it is for this precious reason that we lovegsrrsta:

they do contain the relics of the old and the psst—soevssirs of other and happier and simpler times.

“ They have come to build houses now-a-days without garrets. Impious innovation I _

" You man of bronze and ' bearded like the pard,’ who would

make ople believe, it‘ you could, that you never were ‘a _t_oddlin' wee thing ;’ that you never were ‘a ri jingled a rattle-box with infinite delight that you never had a mother, and that she never me an old wotnsn, and .wus'w caps and spectacles, and me -be took snuff; go home once more, after all these years of a nce, all booted antl wltiskered, antl six feet high as you are, and let us go up the stairs to- gether; in that old fashioned, spacious panel, that extends from gable to gable, with its narrow oval windows, with a spider-web of a each, through which steals ‘ aditn religious light‘ upon a museum ofthiugs unnamesble, that once is below stairs, but were long since crowded out by the Vandal hand of these modern times. ‘- The loose boards ol the lloor rattle somewhat as they used to do—don’t they ?—wltcn beneath your little psttering feet they clsticrcd aforetiine, when of a rainy de , ‘ mother,’ wrestled with many-tongued impnrtunily, grentetfthe—' let us go up to the parrot and play.’ And play! Precious little of ‘ play’ Iiave you had since, we'll warrant, with your looks of dignity and your dreamings of ambition.

‘ ere we are now, in tltc midst of the gerrct. The old b:irrel—shall .we rummage it! Old files of newspapers-— dusty, vellow. a good deal tattered I ' This the Colombian Slur. How familiar with the‘ letters or spers for father !' “ Dive deeper into the barrel, There. A bt|||dle—upil comes, in a cloud dust- Old Almanacs, by all that is use- morable! A|manscs,tltin-lesved lodgers of time, going to—let us see how far: 1845, I834, l823—before our time-— l805, when our mothers were children. And the day-book- how blotted and blotted with many records and many tests!

“ There, you have hit your head against that beam. Time

regions of epace,on Monday last. in Mr. Hsmpton’s Erin-gt» brali, from the Rosemary Branch, lslington, may not prove altogether uninteresting :—At 7} in the evening, everything being in readiness we took t.-trseata in the car. viz: Mr. Ham- ton, Mr. Dean. and myself; and just as the signal was given to let go, Mr. Coxwell. in the Sylph, which started from the Eagle Tavern. passed directly over our heads, but was _eltnost tnmetlitttely afterwards lost sight of in a cloud. Being re~ Ft-and from our esrthyly ties, wedarted upw " . our rival: and it was not long before we followed IIlS.68lfl_lple by entering the same cloud, and l'or sometime remained in a

coach. The white elcpliapt juirtor differed from the white elephant senior considerably in size and appearance, and conse uently lux- tiriated in silver instead of gold. Ile was evidently t e younger son of a junior branch of the family, and was accordingly neglected and ill-treated. Even the pfle.-lll neglected to repair the rents in his silver matting. which was fast going to pieces, and if one might judge frotn the meagre and sickly look of the poor nniiiinl. it was not likely to live long enough to tread upon a new. 'I‘he watt in which this poor brute was confined, was also insiguificint in corn- parison with the other, and the garden, though ubounding with flowers, was evidently ill-looked after and neglect This prob- lem is easily solved by the fact, that the Kin is in the daily habit ofstteoding the other watt, and his fifteen undred wives supply themselves with bouquets therefrom; whereas this watt has never seen the stunt shadow of his Majesty since the first installation of the ill-conditioned elepliant.—.N'¢al¢‘s Residence in Sitna. —a=— VANCOUVEIPS ISLAND. The dcspatchcs received from \'nncouver‘s Island continue to give favourable accounts of its capabilities. The climate is found to be agreen e. and even in the northern part. considerably milder than that of England. For settlers. the facilities, botlr Ill rcgiirds the raising of produce and the erection of works and dwellings, ap- pear to be greater than hiid been anticipated. Game is ovetyivlrero abundant; and is calculated to prove an iinportiint iteitr in ecoiio- niizing domestic expenditure, while, in addition to wild fowl on the waters, there are miiii valuable fisheries, besides a great fre- quency of oyster-beds. Deer are often tnet. and there are also sortie black bears. which, however, are considered harmless. One of the most reniiirkable peculiarities of the island is the great num- ber of inlets, or artiis of the sen, wlriclkbeing eep and narrow, and penetrating it considerable distance inland, furnish in many iiistnncr-s. front the great rush of water in and out, an important and pt-riiintwnt motive power. 'I‘lic natural features of the country are tlt‘iICrlllt9tI III being very beautiful, owing to its lnkos, liills, woodluinls. and occasional patches of prairie. ’ ‘ oak is abun- dant, frequently growing in gliidus, with park-like regularity. There is also a cypress which grows to a large size, and is particu- larly valuable for building pur see. The pines are of three sorts, and are found I60 feet in lieig t, and from I2 to 16 foot in circum- fr-rr-nce. One tlcscri tion is extremely plentiful, and posselscs superior qualities l'or sliip-luuiltliiig piirpo-es. Varieties of tiinple and t-tlu-,r trees are likewise rotiitnon. and the valuable hemp, known as the urlicti cazitrbinn grows wild and luxutinntly in the woods. Artificial grosses, ii is lit.-llevrtl, might be cultivated with great ad- vutitnge, iintl seeds of several descriptions have been sent out. The soil generally is a dark vegetable mould, averaging 18 inchr-.s in dt'p'Il, rind unusually fertile. Coiilrary to what is seen in Hriglniid, the best land-uore mostly those where pine trees row. The flora of the island is much the seine us that of Great iitnin. With re- gard to its mineral resources, the principal rocks are stated to be all ofnii excellent kind for building materials, both as respects up- nrunce and dura ’ ' It is also considered that the geological I':stures of the districts thus for surve ‘ed are all such as strongl to favour the anticipation that gold may found throughout an sive range. I iere is an abundance of felspnr and quartz. spec of which have been trensniitted to London for examination. stone is likewise found in several places. but its value has not been determined you. The quantity of iron is sutlicient to e the compass cons' etably, and captains of vessels who have via the island. are of opinion, that this disturbance is naesua greet along its shores. ‘be native Indians behave well, n small party of settlers penetrating into the interior with a can not a number of them, by whom the were warmly welcomed. They described a large lake, whic no white man had ev yet seen. but which the explorers now visited. and found to be- tween I0 and 30 miles in length. and from I to 8 miles in breadth. —Leaderr Tiinss.