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END OF AUTUMN.

Astamn departs—but still his mantle’s fold

Rests on the croves of noble Somerville,

Beneath a sirroud of rasset dropped with gold

‘Pweed and his tributaries mingle stil! ;

Moarser the wind, and deeper sound the rill,

Yet lingering notes of sylvan musie swell,

The deep-toned cuzhat, and the red-breast shrill

And yet some tints of summer splendour teil

When the broad sun sinks down eu Ettrick’s

western fell.

Aatumn departe—from Gala’s fields no more

tome rural sounds our kindred banks to cheer;

Bleat with the stream, and gale that wafts it o’er,

No more the distant reaper’s mirth we hear.

The lest blithe shout hach died upon our esr,

od harvest-home hath hushed the clanging wain,

(Jn the waste hill no forms ef life appear,

save where, sad laggard of the autumnal train,

Some age-struck wanderer gleans few ears of

scattered grain.

Deem’st thou these saddened scenes have pieasure stili,

Loves? tneu through Autumn’s fading realins to stray,

"To see the heath-flower withered on the hiil,

‘Te listen to the wood’s expiring jay,

To note the red leaf shivering on the spray

To mark the last bright tints the mountain stain,

On the waste field to trace the gleaner’s way

And moralize on mortal joy and pain?

@! ifsuch scenes thou lovest, ecorn not the

minstrel strain.

Wo! do not scorn, although its hoarser note

Slearce with the cushat’s homely song can vie,

Thovgh faint its beauties as the tints remote

Phat gleam through mist on Autuma’s even- ing sky,

And few as leaves that tremble, sear and dry.

Wher wiid November hath has bugie woun’;

Wor mock my toil—a lonely gleaner |,

Through fields time-wasted, on sad inquest bound,

Where happier bards of yore have

found.

harvest

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ennai Derence or a Prayer. An itinerant player, possessed of more wit than money, was a few days ag driven by the hard master, hunger, to

commit the high crime of poaching, in|

the neighbourhood of Birmingham, and boing unlackily detected in the act

a player’s Jove for hate is no less than his. If then that friend demand why a player rose against a hare, this is my answer :—Not that { loved hare less, but that [ loved eating more. Had you rather this hare were living and I died starving, than that this hare were dead, that I might live a jolly fellow? As this hare was pretty, T weep for him; as he was nimble, [ rejoice at it; as he was plump, [ honour him: but as he was eat- able, T slew him.” Here the gravity of the Court was obliged to give way ; pros- ecutors, spectators, and all burst into langhter at the ready wit displayed by the “ poor actor.” The information was withdrawn, and the knight of the sock and buskin left the court with poekets much heavier than when he entered it, with the intention of appearing on the stage the sainé evening in an “entirely new char- eeter. ”—[This is an old Joe Miller.— Editor of the Evening Mail.)

Yankee Traper.—“I kalkilate I couldn’ drive a trade with you to-day ?” said a true Specimen ofa Yankee pediar, as he stood at the door ofa mercliant of St. Louis.

“ | calculate you ealcniate about right, for vou cannot,” was the sneering reply.

“Wal, [guess you needn't get huffy about it. Now, here’s a dozen jenuine razor strops worth two dollars and a half —you may have ’em for two dollars,’

“(tell you | don’t want any of your trash, so you had better he going.”

“Wal, now, | declare! I'll bet you five do'lars if you make me an offer for them ere strops, we'll! have a trade yet.”

‘ Done,” replied the merchant, placing the money in the hands of a bystander.

The Yankee deposited the like sum— when the merchant offered him a picay- une for the strops,

* They’re vour’n,” said the Yankee, as he quietly fobbed the stakes. “ But,” he added with reat appparent honesty, “| ealenlate a joke’s a joke, and if you don’t want these strops Ij! trade back ?”

The merchant’s countenance bright- ened.

* Youare not a bad chap after atl; here are your strops—give me the mo- ney.”

“ There it is.” said the Yankee, as he received the strops, aud passed over the nicavune, “A trade’sa trade—and now vi owre wide awske in airnest. I guess the next time you trade with that ere pic, you'll do a little better than to bay razor

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strons.? Away walked the pediar with his strops, and his wager, amid the shouts of the

langhing crowd.

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Law anv tts wiaims.—~When Ju sons wasa practising lawyer, he w

i ; * whict employed to nlead two cases incourt,waoicn

ke, butin one he was

were precisely al; enzaged for the defendaat, and in It happened that both crises were tried the same day; he spoke for half an hour to the first jury, and the ease was given to them and they When he appeared before

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carried forthwith before a bench of mag ~| the second jury he made use of very dif- | ferent arguments f; ‘om those em ip! OY red by {

‘strates, when the offence was fully proved. The knight of thebuskin, liow- wer, beicg called upon for his defence, ttouished the learned justices by adapt- ng “ Benttas’s spcec h to the Romans on the ceath of Cesar’ to his case, in the biowing manner: —* Britons, hungry wen, and epicures! hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear; believe we for mine honor, and have respect for wine honor, that you may believe; cen- ‘ta me in your wisdom, and awske your Wnses, that you may the better judge.

there be any in this Assembly sany

him before, of which the ceurt too Ik no- tice, reminding him that he seemed to have chenged his tune, and repeated to him what he had said but a few

before. Mr. Parsons fixed his keen eye upon the judge, and rephed: “ May it please your honour, [ meh! have been wrong halfan hour aco, but now i know Fam right” He roee eded; and when the juries returned, it wae found he had vained a verdict in both cases!

a ‘ rn ee mintiives

Sheridan was never free from pecuni-

tou friend of thia hare, to him { say, that

r >eareh ‘ sae ry Qt avy embarrassments. Aghe wae one day ”

“THIs Is “TR UL LIBE KL ry WHEN FRE BORN MEN—HAV ING TOK ADVISE THE PUBLIC—MAY SPEAK FREE. ”

CHARLOTTETOWN, NOVEMBER 13, 1850.

hacking his face with a dull razor, he turned to his eldest son (who was a chip of the old block), and said, “'’Tom, if you open any more oysters with my razor, Pil cut you off with a shilling.” Very well, father,” retorted Tom, * but where will the shilling come from ?”

Some person asked Charles James Fox what was the meaning of that passaze in the Psalms-—- He clothed himself with cursing, like as with a garment.” “ The meanirg,” said he, “I think is plain enough—the man had a habit of swearing.”

BORRREP OUDRNET

PU BLIC MOURNING.

Mr. Enrror—

I have noticed, in the Royal Gazette, an order from his Honor the Administra- tor commanding Her Majesty’s lieges in this Colony to put themselves in “ decent mourning,” forthe space of six weeks, in respect to the memory of the late Lieutenant Governor. Whether or not the “order” has been generally obeyed, I neither know nor wish to know. For my own part, | must eonfess T have been “undutiful” enough to disregard it; first because [ am ignorant of any circum- stance connected with the administration of Sir Donald Campbell—or any particn- larly good and virtuous trait in his public character, which should induce me to mourn for his loss, and pay more respect to his memory, than to that of any of the other thousand children of clav who are constantly speeding to that “ bourne from whence no traveller returns,” Secondly, beeause I cannot imitate the lackadaisi- cal phiz of the hypocrite, and pretend to lament for an individual, about whos life or death I never felt the smallest And thirdly, because I deem it an unwarrantable presumption on the

concern,

part of any person-even were that person the Queen of Eneland—to command me to put on mourning, at my own expense, on the death of a man whom, in life, I might have abhorred or despised. My on this subject are not inade- quately conveyed in the following pass-

sentiments

age from Goldsmith’s Chinese Letters. Kvery ‘citizen of the world must feel as Lien Chi Altangi was supposed to feel, and deprecate a custom so bypocritical and silly:—

“ When the creat die here, mandarines are ready enough to order mourning ; but I do car: see they are 80 ready to pay for it. Ifthey send me down oe court the wray undress frock, or the black coat

| without pocket-! holes, Tam willing enough

fo comply with their commands, and } wear both; to be obliged to wear black, and buy it into the bargain, is more than my tran- cuility can bear. What! order me to wear mourning, before they know whether [ can buy it or no! Fum, thon sen of Fo, what sort of people have [ got amonrst? where being out of black is a certain symptom of poverty ; where those who have miserable faces cannot have mor tring, and thoee who have mourning wil! net wear a miserable face.”

COMMON SENSE,

Malpeque, October, 1850,

but, by the head of Confactint .

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MR. MACLEAN’S ; PROPOSAL 4 TO BECOME A SNATCHER.

Dorxry Mactiran, in order to show off nis bit of /arning ,in the dearth of politi¢al capital, publishes a tiresome article ‘in the Jast Islander, headed * Algebra— Double Entry’—(most of which he has cribbed, by the hye, froma late American >| publication) and winds it up by saying, that he has some “thought of applying for the office of Instructer General to the Snatchers, on the advent of Responsible Government.” The article would be in- complete, had this “thought” been lefi unexpressed, notwithstanding the air of levity in which it is given. It was his object in giving insertion to it, not 6o much to inform his readers, as to impress them with a notion of his own superior ecquirements, We have not the slightest doubt but Duncan would readily become the hired servant of the Snatchers if he got a higher price than the Snarlers now give him. He very probably sees the hopelessness of attempting to instruet his present patrons, in the acquire- ment of any useful knowledge, and is therefore ready to transfer his services te others. But we think he had better rot make the application intimated, for he would be likely to receive just sucha another rebuff as he got when he begged the Colonial Minister, years aco, to make hit Surveyor General. If, however, he could teach the Roete ers to be honest. in the discharge of their public duties, which he has unhappily failed to do inthe case of the late Treasurer, whom he strove to tuter into the double Book-keeping, whieh, in the self styled Instructor General, was to preclude the possibility of snes a he comd accomplish this miracle, we do think he would merit some ais Adendic at the hands of the Snatchers “on the ad- vent of Responsible Government.” We fear, however, he himselfis not honestly enough inclined to make the attempt.

the opinion of

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OF THE ISLANVDER’S GREAT ‘TRUTHS.

“Tt isa great truth which the people of Prince Edward Island must read, mark, and inwardly digest, that the monarchieai principle represented by a Colonial Go-~ [ vernor, and the democrat! cal, represented by an elective Assembly. are essentially antagonistic, and cannot harmonize.”

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Tue above false and stupid assertion is taken froma childish and stupid editorial in the last Islander, wherein the editor labours to shew thet Respousible Govern- ment would produce corruption and dis- honesty oa the part of the public officers under.that system. The passage is toe ‘udicrous to aduit of argumentation.

We shal! only ask, how dees the moner-

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