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WHEN I MEAN TO MARRY,

BY JOHN G.

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When I mean to marry ?—Well— "Tis idle to dispute with fate ; 3ut if you chcose to hear me te’l, Pray listen while I fix the date. When daughters haste with eager feet, A mother’s daily toil to share ; Can make the puddings which they eat, And mend the stockings which they wear. When maidens look upon a man As in himself that they would marry, And not as army soldiers scan A sutler or a commissary ; When gentle ladies who have got The offer of a lover’s hand Consent to share his ‘‘earthly lot” And do not mean his lot of land, When young mechanics are allowed To tind and wed the farmers girls, Who don't expect to be endowed With rubies, diamonds and pearls ; When wives, in short, shall freely give ‘Their hearts and hands to aid their spouses And live as they were wont to live, Within their sires’ one-story houses. Then maiden—if 1’m not too old— Rejoiced to quit this lonely life, I'll brush my beaver, cease to scold, And look about me for a wife!

LITERATURE.

WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER IX. —Continued.

‘T say, doctor, why don’t you drive a tan- dem? You—you ough tu drive a tandem. ’Pon my word you ought, seriously, now.’ The doctor laughed. He didn’t see the necessity or the duty of driving a tandem, and so begged to have these points explain. ed to him.

‘Well, because, don’t you see, when you've only got one hawse in your dogeart or gig,or whatever two wheeled vehicle you may possess, you’ye no fun,don’t you see?’ & The doctor did not see, nor did not seem to see.

‘I mean,’ proceeded the Colonel, expla- natorily, ‘you haven’t that degree of anx- iety which is necessary to give a zest to ex- istence. Now, when you’ve a leader who is almost perfectly free, and over whom you only exercise a control of—the most gentle and pressive kind, you’re always slightly anxious, and sometimes you're very anxious. For instance, last time we drove back from Sootythorn it was pitch dark—wasn’t it Fyser ?’

Here Colonel Stanburne turned to his groom, who was sitting behind; and Fyser as might be expected, muttered something confirmatory of his master’s statement,

‘ It was pitch dark; and, by George! the candles in the lamps were too short to last us; and that confounded Fyser forgot to provide himself with fresh ones before he left Sootythorn, and—didn’t you, Fyser ?’ Fyser confessed his negligence.

‘ And so, when the lamps were out it was pitch dark; so dark that I couldn’ tell the road from the ditch — upon my word I couldn’t; and I couldn’t see the leader a bit, I could only feel him with the reins. So I said to Fyser, ‘ get over to the front seat, and then crouch down s9 low as you can, so as to bring the horses’ heads up against the sky, and tell me if you can see them.’ So Fyser crouched down as 1 told him; and when I asked him if he saw any- thing, he said he did think he saw the lead, er’s ears. ‘Well, hang it, then, if you do see ‘em,’ I said, ‘ keep your eye on ’em.’’ ‘And were you going fast?’ asked the doctor.

‘Why, of course we were. We were trotting at the rate of, [should say, about nine miles an hour; but after a while Fy- ser, by hard looking, began to see rather more distinctly—so distinctly that he clear~ ly made out the differences between the horses’ heads and the hedges; and he kept calling out, ‘ Right, sir,’ ‘ Left, sir,’ ‘ All right, sir,’ and so he kept me straight. If he’d been a sailor he’d have said, ‘stars board’ and ‘port;’ but Fyser isn’t a sailor.’ ‘ And did you get safe to Wenderholme ?” ‘Of course we did. Fyserand I always get safe to Wenderholme.’

‘I shouldn’t recommend you +> try that experiment hoftens,’

‘ Well, but you see the advantage of driv- ing tandem, If you’ve only one horse you know where he is, however dark it is—he’s in the shafts, of course, and you know where to find him; but when you've gota leader you never exactly know where he is unless you can see him,’

The doctor didn’t see the advantage,

‘ Well, well,’ answered the Colonel, with an uncommonly sly expression, ‘ you’ve got Nanny Pickering to occupy you, and I have not. You see you’re so dull in that gig of yours that you’re obliged to have recourse to female society. I knewallaboutit. I was looking out of window at the thorn when you entered the town, and Mr. Garley was in the room, and he told me. I cons gratulate you, doctor; I congratulate you ! They say she’s got plenty of tin, and that’s the main point. She ain’t exactly hand- some,and she don’t look particularly young ; but 1 suppose a sensible man like you is not affected by these considerations.’ Notwithstanding the ioud rumble of the gigantic wheels, the Colonel was aware of an audible giggle on the back seat.

‘ Fyser,’ he said, ‘I heard you laughing. What were you laughing at ?’

Fyser turned round, his face purged of risibility, and respectfully touched his hat. ‘ Beg your pardon, sir.’

* What were we talking about ?’

‘Didn't distirctly hear, sir; but I believe you was talkin’ ahout tandem-driving.’

Mr. Fyseft, who had lost nothing of the allusion to Nanny Pickering, now listened still more attentively, and missed nothing of what followed.

‘ You'll perhaps believe me,’ said the doctor,’ when I say that that I’ve no inten~ tion of marrying Nanny Pickering, if I tell you that she hasn't a penny in the world, and that her name’s down on Lady Helena Stanburne’s blanket list for this Christmas.’ ‘Then I do believe, doctor; but people say she’s a rich woman. You know better, of course ; you're the best possible autho~ ity, you know the lady so very intimately. The reader will have gathered from this specimen of Colonel Stanburne’s conver- sation that he wasa pleasant and lively companion; butif he was rather hasty in forming his opinion of people on a first ac» quaintance, he may also infer that the Colo. nel was a man of somewhat frivolous char- acter and very moderate intellectual pow- ers. He certainly was not a genius, but he conveyed the impressien of being less intel~

than nature had made him. His predomi- nant characteristic was simple good nature, and he possessed also, notwithstanding a sort of swagger in his manner, an unusual share of genuine intellectual humility, that made bim contented to pass for a less able amd less informed man than he really was. The doctor's preception of character was too acute to allow him to judge Colonel Stans burne on the strength of a superticial acs quaintance, and he clearly perceived that his friend was in the habit of wearing, as it were, his higher nature outside, Some ponderous Philistines in Sootythorn, who had been brought into occasional contact with the Colonel, and who confounded gra- vity of manner with mental capacity, bad settled it amongst themselves that he had no brains; but as the most intelligent of quadrupeds is at the same time the most lively, the most playful, the most goodnas tured, and the most affectionate — so amongst humo n beings it does not always follow that s man is empty because he is lively ead amusing, and seems merry and careless, and says he does some foolish things. :

‘But I should advise you to get mawid,’ continued the Colonel; ‘when a fellah’s mawid he finds out how expensive it is, Now there’s my wife, a nice quiet body, that hardly eats anything but a small slice o' b.ead and butter, and yet I don’t hesi. tate to say that (so far as mere cost, you know, is concerned) I'd rather undertake to keep ten fellahs like Fyser here, who can eat a leg o’ mutton—I would indeed.’

The doctor replied thit he knew some single ladies who lived very handsomely on wonderfully small incomes, and * »at he did not think, on the whole, women were so expensive in their babits as men,

‘Of course they ain’t so long as they are single. If my wife had been an old maid, she'd have lived on thwee hundwed a year, and I dare say kept a cawidge and a pair in it, and subsewibed to chawities, and ctit a most respectable figure; but when they get mawid it’s quite a different thing. Their ideas enlarge, doctor—their ideas enlarge. A mawid lady don’t seem to spend more upon herself than a single one does—and I must say that in all that relates to her per~ sonal expenditure my wife is moderate, very moderate; but what I mean is, doctor, that when a man’s mawid, the general expendi- ture of his house seems to mount so. When | was a bachelor I used to dine on mutton chop and a bottle of stout, and perhaps a bit of cheese and a potato—and so I dare say my wife weuld if she were a single woman ; but when we are together as man and wife, there’sa sort of respect due from me to her ladyship, and from her ladyship to her husband, and so we sit down toa real dinner every day, whether we've an appetite or not. We haven't got a maps cook but we got two wonderfully heavy womanscsoks, and they look so strong and so red and so very determined that, by George ! my wife funks them—she does ins deed. She's a good deal more afraid of those two blessed females than I ever was of my schoolmasters; and they cook and they cook, and they do whatever they please always. And it’s not only these women but the number of other women that are about the house that cost money, It is quite astonishing, doctor, how they increase and multiply. I believe they breed, and have a special faculty for coming into matu« rity, like mushrooms. I’m always meeting some new faces on the s*‘irs, and some~ times pretty faces too, let me tell you, for my wife ain’tin the least jealous, and she likes to have good+looking people in the house. And then say, ‘ Helena, my love, have you been discharging some of the women ?’ and she looks quite surprised and says she has been discharging nobody, and asks why I ask and then [| say, ‘ because I see we've got & new servant; ’ and then she demonstrates to me ina manner altogether irrefragible ‘‘\.t an additional hand was abs solutely neceis2"y in some department or other. How m*1yservexts do you keep doctor?’

‘I keep an old woman, and a boy for the stable,’

‘Well, that’s just a nice little establishs ment. Have you got a copper coal-scuttle in your house ?’

Tae doctor was a little surprised at this question ; but, as it happened, he did’ pos~ sess a copper coal-scuttle, and answered in the affirmative.

‘ And I have no doubt your c-al-scuttle is bright and clean. But when my wife purchased a copper coal-scuttle about twelve months ago, there wasn’t a single creature in the whole house that would clean it. The two fat cooks said they could not cook it, and king was their busi-~ ness, The scullery maids said it wasn’t a pan. The butler said it wasn’t silver; and so didn’t come under his department; and the grooms said as it did not belong to horses it was no concern of theirs. The thing was not cleaned at all and began to look so beastly that, by George! an idea struck me, and I had it electro-plated, and sent it into the plate closet to get cleaned; but the butler would not touch it, and so he left the house, oras he expressed it, ‘sent in his resignation’ So I had the coal- scuttle wrapped ap in silver paper, and put it into the plete closet, where the new butler found it ard accepted it as proper. But he only lets us have it on state occa- sions.’

By this time thay reached Eigton, a little dull village, quite out of the manufactur- ing district, and where it was the Colonel’s custom to bait. The remainder of the drive was in summer really beautiful; but as it passed through a rich agricultural country, whose beauty depended chiefly on luxuriant vegetation, the present time of the year was not very favorable to it. All this regiom had a great reputation for beauty amongst the inhabitants of the mans ufacturing towns, and no doubt fully de- served it; but it is propable that their faculties of appreciation were greatly sharp~ ened by the stimulus of contrast, To get fairly clear of factory smoke, to be in the peaceful, quiet country, and see no builds ings but picturesque farms, wasa definite happiness to many of the inhabitants of Sootyhorn. There were fine bits of scenery in the manufacturing districts itself—pic

turesque glens and gorges deep ravines and hidden riyulets, and stretches of purple moorland ; but all this scenery lacked one quality—amenity. Now the scenery from Rigton to Wenderholme had this quality in a very high degree indeed, and it was in- stantly felt by every one who came from the manufacturing districts, though not so perceptible by travellers from the south of

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soothing influence to their nervous system when they drove fhrough this beautiful land ; their minds relaxed and were reliev- ed of pressing cares, and they here fell in a state very rare indeed with them—a state of semi-poetical reverie,

The reader is already aware that Wender- holme is situated on the opposite side of the hills which separates Shayton from this favored region and close to the foot of them. Great alterations have been made in the house since the date at which our story begins, and therefore we wil! not de~ scribe it as it exists at present, but asit ex~ isted when the Colonel drove up the ays enue with the doctor at his side, and the faithful Fyser jumped up behind after opening the modest green gate. A large rambling house, begun in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, but grievously modern- ized under that of King George the LII,, it formed three sides of a quadrangle, and, as is usual in that arrangement of a mansion, had a great hall in the middle, and the principal reception rcoms on each side of hall on the ground floor, The house was three storeys high, and there were great numbers of bedrooms. An arched porch in the centre, precede by a flight of steps, gave entrance at once to the hall: and over the porch was a projection of the same breadth, continued up to the roof and ter-~ minated in a narrow gable. This had been originally the centre of enrichment, and there had been some good sculpture and curious windows that went all around the projection, and carried it entirely upon their mu'lions; but the moderniser had been at werk and inserted simple sash~ windows which produced ceplorable effect. The same owner, John Stanburne’s grand- father, had ruthlessly carried out that piece of vandalism over the whole front of the mansion, and, except what architects call a string-coure, which was still tra cable here and there, bid effaced every reature that gave expression to the original design of the Elizabethan builder,

The entrance hall was a fine room fifty feet long, and as high as two of the ordiny ary storeys in the mansion, I[t had, no doubt, been a splendid specimen of the Elizabethan hall; but the modernizer had been hard at work here also, and had put himself to heavy expense in order to give it the aspect of a thoroughly modern interior. The wainscot which had once adorned the walls, and which had been remarkable for its rich and fanciful carving, the vast and imaginative tapestries, and heraldic blazon- ries in the flaming oriels, the gallery for the musicians On twisted pillars of sculptured chestnut—all these glories had been ruth. lessly swept away. The tapestries had been used as carpets, and worn out; the wain. scot had been made into kitchen cupboards and painted led colour; and the magnifi, cent windows had been throw. down upon the floor of a garret, where they had been trodden under foot and crushed into a thous sand fragments; and inj{piace of these things, whick the narrow taste of the eight- teenth century had condemned as barbari« ous, and destroyed without either hesitae tion or regret, it had substituted —what ?— absolute emptiness and negation; for the heraldic oriels, sash windows of the coms monest glass; for the tapestry and carving, a bare wall of yellowish plaster; for the carved beams of the roof, a blank area of whitewash, The only attempt at decora- tion was a cronic in plaster of Peris, with meager little festoons sticking on the wall; and a design in the middle of the ceiling in which the little indescribable things that the fastoons were made of were formed into four loops, with four straight ends between them, pointing to the corners of the room. The author of all this ravage had had his portrait taken at full length and hung in the hall of his ancestors. He was in hunt~ ing costume, and looked down upon his handiwork with an air of perfect satisfaction. He had lived and died in the firm belief that he was spending his money usefully and earning the gratitude of his descend~ ents. Yet, if the house had been left to rats and spiders, and bats, and owls for the space of a hundred yea., they would have injured it less than this human being injured it—this respected. proprietor and gentleman, It is not wonderful that men should prefer the beautiful to the pictur. esque—that they should prefer the art of the days of Perciless to the art of the days of Elizabeth; but the marvel is that carved oak and tapestry should have been so of- fensive that they were willing to pay the money to be rid of them, and considered mere plaster and whitewrsh an improve~ ment in art and an advence in civilization, This condition of mind, so prevalent at the close of the eighteenth century and the be- ginning of this, is by us almost conceivable and the only explanation of it which seems in any degree satisfactory or sufficient is per- haps this : Such men as Colonel Stanburne’s grandfather may have regarded the decora- tions of the 10th century as we regard its costume, that is to say, as being curious and picturesque, but not suitable for their own use ; and when they destroyed or removed them it may have been, in their feeling, not so much an artistic improvement as an act in obedience to the dictates of simple common sense. Her Majesty’s state carriage is very elaborate and magnificent, but one would not care to drive in the streets of London

insuch a carriage as that; and Wenders holme in its aucient splendor may have

seemed to Mr. Reginald Stanburne a house no more fitted for modern habitation than a gilded coach seems to us fitted for mod-~ ern use. In a word, to preserve these splendors of the past was, it may be pre- sumed, a violation of the fitness of things. And we must admit that if his taste had not been either elegant or artistic, it had been at least consistent. He had made his home as much as possible a thing of his own time, and suitable for his own habita- tation. When he walked through his hal; after his alterations, there was no incons gruity between the house and the man, be» tween the figure and the background, be- tween such costume as this and such archi. tecture as that. Whereas it is to be feared that in our present love of Elizabethan in- teriors and Gothic exterior, or at least in our perfect willingness to inhabit them, there is something inconsistent with our personal appearance, if not with our habits of life.

The bedroom assigned to the doctor was as comfortable and as commonplace as his own bedroom at Shayton ; and if it had been in his nature to be afraid of spiritual visitants there was nothing here to excite his imagination. There had been a half-a, dozen magnificent old carved beds at Wen- derholme, but Mr, Reginald Stanburne had consigned them all to a lumber room,where

they all lay ina confused heap, and now all the rooms had comfortable mahogany four-posters, with curtains of curious colors. Mr, Reginald had attempted to follow the well-known system, very convenient in smaller houses, of distinguishing the bed- rooms by a chromatic nomenclature, There was the blue room, the crimson, the yellow room, and so on ; but there were so many bedrooms at Wenderholme that it had been impossible, amongst the primary and secs ondary colors, to find a separate name for each of them, and Mr, Reginald had been compelled to seek supplementary designa tions. Thus the room that the doctor occu» pied was called Mr. Pigott’s room—and tradition lingered in the household that Mr. Pigott had been a ‘ London gentleman ’ and a friend of Mr. Reginald, but that was all that was known about him, and perhaps it would not be easy for the most perseyer-. ing and acute inquirer to ascertain anything further concerning him. In like manner several other chambers were called after friends of the family who had in former times inhabited them. To be Continued,

WORKINGMEN AND THE SUFF- RAGE.

The following statement is made by Mr. if. D. Conway in one of his recent letters :

** John Stuart Mill and Louis Blanc once had a long consultation on the matter of the suffrage. Mr. Mill held that there ought to be some gradation of electoral power by which every man should have a vote, buta more learned mau should have two votes, a professor three, a statesman four, and so on. Louis Blanc said to him that if he (Mr. Mill) should go into a popular meeting of six hundred comparatively ignorant men, and should explain to them the issues of their vote, and convince them how they ought to vote, he (Mill) would thereby have, and would cast, six hundred votes. M. Blanc contended that natur> had determined all the gradations of political influcace anu power, aud Mr. Mill was afterwer4s inclin- edto regard his views of ‘degrees’ with less confidence, In the last elections it was abundantly proved that the workingmen of Paris were resolved to have great men as their represent..tives, Some of the eminent left wing Republicans ci me to the conclu- sion that it might be a political advantage te have a labouring man in the Assembly, and an ouvrier named Quinet having appear- ed as a candidate, the eminent men with- drew from that arrondissement (the Thir- teenth) in favour of the labourer. But it made no ¢‘fference. The working men, who entir™'y controlled the election, entire- ly refused to vote for their own comrade Quinet, and elected in his vlace one of the most. eminent scholarly kadicals who had withdrawn.”

Like many able men, Mr. John Stuart Mill had his impracticable hobbies, and this of ‘degrees’ in voting was one of them. It started from a false principle. It sought to grade the common sense of the country, much as men grade cattle or determine the positioa of children at competitive exami- nations. Mr. Mill, in the above extract, is made to‘ grade’ men merely according to their outward social position, and to take it for granted that a teacher of Greek should know well the merits of a political question, so well as to entitle him to two or three votes, but not so well as another who has got himself passed and labelled as that most undefined and undefinable of all pos~ sible entities ‘a statesman.’ It would be curious to know what would have constitu~ ted Mr. Mill’s electoral unit and what would have been his maximum. Would all pro~ fessors, whether of whitewash or the differs ential calculus, have been registered at three ? and would Disraeli and Whalley alike have four? The fact is the whole thing is too absurd for argument. Hed Mr. Mill known better than he did, he would have found that social position and social advans tages have after a certain point, very soon and very easily reached, little if anything to do with the practical competency of men to form an intelligent judgment and give an enlightened vote on the political questions of theday. Once amen has shown himself & permanent citizen by the payment of taxs es, and nota mere tiansient waif, in nine cases out of ten he is quiteas likely to form an intelligent opinion as the man who has millions, with all the letters of the alphabet +-cked to his name. The sbrewdest thinkers and the most in~ telligent politicians are not to be found among the wellsto-do classes properly so~< eilled, to whom Mr. Mill would have given such a preponderance of suffrage. Very much the reverse. Take the general run of the prosperous men, and they will not be found, as a rule, either so well read or so intelligent as many in material circumstan~ ces very much their inferiors. They may know about trade and may be familiar with stocks, but what would be beneficial to the country, or who would best attend to its interests, is entirely beyond the range of their visions. Why then should such have a preponderativg say ‘1 the government of the land? We have not one word to urge in dispar- agement of education as that is generally understood, yet we would deprecate the educational test. Exercising such a right is of itself the best means of educating. As a matter of fact, while the opinions of indi-+ viduals may be and are often erroneous, yet eventually the conclusion arrived at by the great majority is found to not far from the correct ons. The sneer of Mr: RK. Lowe on the passing of one of the English Reform Bills, that it would thenceforth be necessary forthe better cl: sses to set about teaching their masters the alpbabet, was a very poor one. Experience has falsified the prophesy it was intended toconvey. Asa matter of a fact, the representatives of England are to-day not one whit inferior to what they were when rotten burghs ab- ounded, or when ten pounders were the lowest order that voted, and were driven like sheep to the electoral shambles. The working-man has no such admiration for ignorance and no such enthusiasm for any of his fellow~workers as to fix upon them as his representatives, He has nosuch horror of wealth when combined with intel.igence and culture as to turn away from it and fix his enthusiasm upon more ignorant and flippant pretence because it is exhibited by one who is bis equal. We are often told that the ‘lower classes,’ so called, are jealous of those above them; that they have no reverence for their betters, and no res spect far refinement. For mere wealth divorced from worth they Aave no respect, and ‘ts a great mercy that they have not. Vulgar, solitary wealth craves the respect that was in former. given to wealih combimed with worth. It does not get it. It nevercan. It neverought, But where the true man is recegnized, and where veri- table worth is indisputable, there is as great readimess to-day as ever there was to give it loving and loyal respect. The workmen of Paris referred to by Mr. Conway are not exceptional cases. ‘There are plenty of ins stances of the same kind in many other Jands, and the more the basis of political wer and suffrage is broadened so will liustrations of the same kind be multipled and become still more remarkable,

NO. 3

SAD YACHTING DISASTERS.

THREE LIVES LOST IN HALIFAX HARBOR.

(From the Halifax Herald.)

On Saturday last the yachts of the Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron assembled at 1.39 p.tm., to sail for the Mayor’s prize—a silver salver and coffee set. The day was not fine. The rein was coming down briskly, and the sky gave indications of wind. Soma of the yachtsmen, it is uncerstood, were not willing to go, and two—the Albatross and Nymphia- did not start; but whether on account of the storm or not the writer does not know. At shortly after two o'clock, six yachts—the Pefrel, Psyche, Kate, Circe, Mystery and Cygnet—started, The sad par~ ticulars below recorded refer principally to THE YACHT ‘ CYGNET’ and hercrew. The Cygnet wasa yacht of about 11 tons, sloop rigged and about 2) years old, She carried a very large main- sail, When shestarted on Saturday she had on board Mr, Fay, who according to the rules of the race, had to steer his own yacht ; Mr. Samuel Tupper of the Inland Revenue Department, and a young gentle- man named Sadler. These were members of the Squadron. They were assisted by Benjamin Smith and John Mann, both men of some experience in yachting, and whose services are always obtained by one or other of the yachts on race days. The start was well effected, and the flag-boat off the Is» land was reached without any mishap, but here the first disaster occurred, When- rounding the boat, the ~quaresail boom of the yacht caught between the mosts and shrouds and broke in two, Mr, Fay ors