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Codfish per qtl Herring per bbl Mackerel per doz. SOARDS.

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| His Grace of Marlborough, legends say. Though battle-lightuings proved worth, Was scathed like othefs in his day, By fiercer firés at his own hearth.

The patient chief, thus sadly tried— Madam the duchess was so fair— In Blenheim’s honors felt less pride

Than in the lady’s lovely hair.

Once (shorn, she had coiled it there wound Her lord when he should pass, *tis said,) Shining across his path he found The glory of the woman’s head.

No sudden word, no sullen look, In all his afler days confessed ;

Iie missec the charm whose absence took A scar’s pale shape within his breast.

I think she longed to have him blame, And sooth him with imperious tears— As if her beauty were the same, He praised her through her courteous years.

But when the soldier's arm was dust, Among the dead men's treasures where He laid it as from moth and rust, They found his wayward wife’s fair hair. S. M. BLP.

SO SPN ARRAN RRR IN ARON ED OR FRIRIRIRAN ER PRIN EN CRON

WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER V.—Continued, . There was a nice little cellar at Twistle Farm, for no inhabitant of Shayton ever neglects that when he builds himself a new house, and Mr, Ogden had wine in it to the value of four or five hundred pounds. Some friends of his near Manchester, who came to see him in the shooting season and help- ed him to kill his grouse, were connoiseurs in port, and he had become careful to lay down 4 quantity of the finest he could get. He was less delicate in the gratification of his own palate, and contented himself with a compound of no particular vintage, which had the advantage of being exceedingly strong, and therefore allowed a sort of dis« guised dram-drinking. It need therefore excite little surprise in the mind of the reader to be informed that when Mr. Isaac had drunk a few glasses of this port of his the nervous system began to feel more comfortable, and at the same time tempted him toa still warmer apprecation of the qualities of the beverage, His mind was clearer and brighter, and he read Macaulay with a sort of interest, which, perhaps, is as much as most authors may hope for or ex- pect; that is, his mind kept up a sort of double action, following the words of the historian, and even grasping the meaning of his sentences, and feeling their literary power, whilst at the same time it ran upon many subjects of personal concern which could not be altogether excluded or sup, pressed. Mr, Ogden was not very delicate to any of his tastes, but it seemed to him, nevertheless, that clay tobacco-pipes con~ sorted better with gin-and-water than with the juice of the grape; and he took from a cupboard in the corner a large box of full- flavoured Havanas, which, like the expens sive port in the cellar, he kept for the gratification of his friends;

Now, although the first five or six glasses

had indeed done no more than give a bene.

ficial stimulus to Mr. Ogden’s brain, it is not

to be inferred, as Mr. Ogden appeared to

infer, that the continuation of the process

would be equally salutary. He went on,

however, reading and sipping, at the rate

of about a glass to a page, smoking at the

same time those full-fiavored Havanas, till

about eleven o’clockatnight. Little Jacob

and the servants had long ago gone to bed ;

both decanters had been on the table all

evening, and both had been in equal re-

quisition, for Mr. Ogden had been varying

bis pleasures by drinking port and sherry

alternately. At last the eloquence of Mac~

aulay became no longer intelligible, for

though his sentences had no doubt been

construed originally in a perfectly workman-

like manner, they now seemed quite out of

order, and no longer capable of holding to-~

gether. Mr. Ogden put the book down

and tried to read the Manchester paper,

but the makers of articles and the pennys

a-liners did not seem to have succeeded

better than Macaulay, for their sentences | were equally disjointed. The reader rose

from his chair in some discouragement and

looked at his watch, put his slippers on

and began to think about going to bed,

but the worst of it was he felt so thirsty he

must have something to drink. The de

canters were empty, and wine would not

quench thirst; a glass of beer might, per-

haps—but how much better and more ef-

ficacious would be a tall glass of brandy and

soda.water | Alas! he had no brandy, nei<

ther had he any soda-water, at least he

thought not, but he would go down into

the cellar and see. He took a candle very

deliberately, and walked down the cellar

steps with a steady tread, never staggering

or swerving in the least, ‘Am I drunk?

he thought; ‘no, it is impossible that I

should be drunk, I walked so well and so

steadily. I'm not afraid of walking down

these stone steps, and yet if | were to fall I

might hit my forehead against their sharp

edges, sharp edges—yes, they have very

sharp edges; they are very new steps, cut by masons; and so are these walls new—

good ashlar stones; and that arched roof— that arch is well made; there isn’t a better cellar in Shayton.’

There was no soda-water, but there were bottles whose round, swollen knobs of corks were covered with silvery foil, that glitters edas Mr. Ogden approached with the candle, ‘pe glitter caught his eye and he raised one up. It wasn’t exactly soda- water but it would fizz; and just now .Mr.

Ogden had a morbid, passionate ' longing for something that would ‘ fizz,’ as he ex- pressed it in his muttered soliloquy. So he marched up stairs with his prize, in that stately and deliberate manner which marks his particular stage of intoxication.

‘Tt’s good sleek,’ said Mr. Ogden as he swallowed a tumblerful of the sparkling wine, ‘and it can do me no harm; its only lady’s wine.’ He held it between his eye and the light, and thought it looked really nice and pretty. How the little bubbles rose up and sparkled. How very dear and transparent it was! Then he sat down in the big arm chair and thought he would have a smoke. He had smoked a good many cigars and perhaps he had better not; and whilst his mind was resolv- ing not to take any more, his fingers were fumbling in the box and making a sort of pretence at selection. At last, for some reason as mysterious as that which decides the famous donkey between two equidis~

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tant haystacks, the fingers came toa deci- sion and the cigar, after the point had been duly amputated with a penknife, was duly inserted between his teeth. After this the willmade no further attempt resistance and the hand poured out cham- pagne into the tumbler and carried it to his lips with unconscious and instinctive regularity.

Mr. Isaac was now drunk, but it was not yet proved to him that he was drunk. [is expedition to the cellar had been perfecily successful; he had walked in the most un- exceptional manner, and even descended those dangerous stone steps. le looked at his watch—it was half-past twelve; he read the hour upon the dial, though not just at first, and he replaced the watch in his fob. He vould go to bed—it was time to go to bed; snd the force of habits ac. quired at the Red Lion, where he usually went to bed drunk at midnight, aided him in his resolution. But wken he stood upon his legs, this project did not seem quite so easy of realization as it had done when view~ ed in theory from the arm-chair. ‘Go to bed !’ said Mr, Isaac, ‘ but how are we to manage it ?’

There were two candles burning on the table. fe blew one of them out, and took the other in his hand. He took up the volume of Mcaulay, with an idea that it ought to be put somewhere, but his mind did not successfully apply itself to the so- lution of this difficulty, and he laid the book down again with an air of slight dis- appointment and a certain sense of failure. He staggered towards the doorway,steadied himself with an effort, and made a shot at it with triumphant success, for he found himself now in the little entrance hall, The staircase was a narrow one, and closed by a door, and the door of the cellar was next to it. Instead of taking the door that led up to his bedroom, Mr. Ogden took that of the cellar, descended a step or two, discovered his mistake, and in the attempt to turn round, fell backwards heavily down the stone stair, and lay at last on the cold pavement, motionless, and in total dark- ness.

He mighs have remained there all night, but there was a sharp little terrier dog that belonged to little Jacob,and which was domiciled ina snug little, kennel in the kitchen. ‘The watchful animal had been perfectly aware that Mr. Ogden was crossing the entrance on his way to his bed~ room, but if Foe made any reflections on the subject, they were probably confined to wonder that the master of the house should go to bed so unusually late. When, how. ever the heavy thud of Mr. Ogden’s body on the staircase and the sharp click of the falling candlestick came simultaneously to her ears, Foe quitted her lair at a bound, and guided by her sure scent, was down in the dark cellar in an instant, to the alarm of the fat rat, who, in his hole, scented the canine ordor. A less intelligent dog than Foerach (for that was her Gaelic namie in in the far off Highlands where she was born) would have known that something was wrong, and that the damp floor of the cellar was no place for a gentleman to sleep, and no sooner had Foerach ascertained the state of affairs then she rushed to the up- per regions, to the great relief of the old rat in the hole.

Foerach went to the door of little Jacob’s chamber, and there set up such a barking and scratching as awoke even him from the sound sleep of childhood. ‘Then she re- peated the same process at Jim’s door and at old Sarah's, after which she again ran to little Jacob’s room and finding the door now open, jumped up to her beloved young master and barked louder than ever. Old Sarah came into the passage wiih a lighted candle, where Jim joined her rubbing his eyes, still heavy with interrupted sleep. ‘There’s summat wrong,’ said old Sarah, ‘1 am feared there’s summat wrong.’

‘Stop you here,’ said Jim, ‘I'll wake up master; he’s gotten loaded pistols in his room. Its thieves, and it won't do to feight them wi’ talk and a tallow candle,’

Jim knocked at the door of his master’s room, and having waited in vain for a second or two determined toenter. There was no one in the room and the bed had not been slept upon.

‘Hod, thy din dog,’ said Jim to Foerich, and then, with a pale, grave face said: ‘ It isn’t thieves, it’s summat ’as happened master.’

Now, Lancashire people of the class to which Jim and Sarah belonged never, or hardly ever, use the word to die, but in the place of it use the pariphrase of some~ thing happening. Jim would never have said, ‘if our master were to die,’ but he would have said ‘if anything were to hap- pen our master,’ and as he chanced to use the expression now the idea conveyed to Sarah’s was the idea of death, and she be- lieved that Jim had seen a corpse in the room, He perceived this and drew her aside whispering, ‘he isn’t there. You stop wi’ ;little Jacob.’ So the man took the candle and left Sarah and the child in the dark wondering and trembling. Foerich led Jim down to the cellar and he saw the black inert mass at the bottom of the stairs. A chill shudder seized him as he recognized the white inanimate mass, One of Mr. Ogden’s hands were one on the floor; Jim ventured to touchit and found itdeadly cod. A little blood oozed from the back of his head and had matted the abundant trown hair. Perhaps the head had been cold simply from contact with the hard stone but Jim did not reflect about this, and eoncluded that Mr. Ogden was dead. He went hastily back to old Sarah. ‘Master Jacob,’ said he, ‘ you must go to bed.’

‘No, won’t go to bed, Jim !’

‘ My lac,’ said old Sarah, ‘ just come into your room, and I'll light you a candle.’ So she lighted a candle, and they left the child, and Jim quietly locked the door, upon him. The lock was well oiled, and Jacob did not know that he was a prisoner. ‘ Now, what is it? said old Sarah, in a whisper.

‘ Master’s deead; he’s fallen down th’ cellar steps and killed himself.’

Old Sarah had been fully prepared for some terrible commtfnication of this kind and did not utter a syllable. She simply followed the man, and between them they lifted Mr. Ogden, and carried him, not with~ out difficulty, up the cellar steps, Sarah carried the head, and Jim the legs and feet, and old Sarah’s bed=gown was stained with a broad patch of blood.

It is one of the most serious convenienc- es attending a residence in the country, that on occasions of emergencies it is not possible to procure prompt medical help ; and Twistle Farm was one of those places

to beerhouses much more to be

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were than the rare and occasional peril of delay in the arrival Poor Sarah felt the insolation of Twistle Farm in quite a new sense that night; for people become accustomed to the most lonely places of residence, and it is not when help is urgently needed from the outer world that the sense of loneliness and remoteness is quite effectually brought home to them. When they had got Mr. Ogden on the bed, Jim said,‘I mun go an’ fetch Dr. Bardly, though I reckon it o’ no use;’ and he left Sarah alone with the body.

The poor woman anticipated nothing but a dreary watch of several hours by the side of a corpse, and went and' dressed herself and lighted a fire in Mr. Ogden’s room. Old Sarah was not by any means a woman of pusillanimous disposition ; but it may be doubted whether, if she had any choice in the matter, a solitary watch of this kind would have been exactly to her taste. However, when the fire was burning up briskly, she drewa rocking chair up to it and to keep her courage up through the remainder of the watch, fetched a certain physic bottle from the kitchen and her heavy leaden pipe. She did not attempt to lay out the body, being under the im, pression that the coroner might be angry with her for having so when the inquest came to be held.

The physic bottle was full of rum and

Sarah made herself a glasa of grog, lighted her pipe and looked into the fire. She had drawn the curtains all around Mr. Ogden’s bed ; ample curtains of rich brown damask, with an elaborate looped valance, from whose deep festoons hung multitudes of little pendants of turned wood covered with flossy silk. The movement commu- nicated to these pedants by the act of drawing lasted a long time, and Sarah was startled more than once when, on looking around from her arm chair she saw them swinging and knocking against each other still. As soon as the first shock of alarm was past, the softer emotions claimed their turn, and the old woman began to cry, re« peating to herself incessantly, ‘and quite young too, quite young, quite a young man!’ Suddenly she was aware of a movement in the room. Was it the littledog? No; Feorah had elected to stay with his young master, and both little Jacob and his dog were fast asleep in another room, She ven~ tured to look at the great awful curtained bed, The multudinous pendants had not ceased to swing and vibrate, and yet it was now 4 long time since Sarah had touched the curtains. She wished they would give up and be still; but whilst she was looking at them and thinking this, a little sharp shock ran round the old valance, and the pendants rattled against each other with the low dull sound which was all that their mufiiing of silk permitted ; a low sound but an audible one — audible to ears in high ex~ citement; a stronger shock, a visible agi- tation, not only of the tremulous pendants, but even of the heavy curtain folds them- selves. Then they open, and Mr, Ogden’s pale face appears.

‘ Well, Sarah, I hope you’ve made your. self comfortable, you damned old rums drinking thief! D'ye think I cant smell rum? Give me that bottle.’

Sarah was much too agitated to say or do anything whatever, She had risen from her chair, and stood looking at the bed in speechless amazement. Mr. Ogden got up, and walked towards the fire with an uns steady pace. Then he possessed himself of therum bottle, and putting it to his lipls, began to swallow the contents. This brought Sarah to herself.

‘ Nay, nay master; you said you wouldn't drink no sperrits at Twistle Farm upo’ no count,’

But the rum had been tasted and the re-~ solution broken, It had been broken before as to the intention and meaning of it, and was now broken even as to the letter. Isaac Ogden had got drunk at Twistle Farm, and now he was drinking spirits there—not even diluting them with water.

After emptying old Sarah’s bottle, which fortunately did not contain enough to en- danger, for the present, his existence, Mr, Ogden staggered back to bed and fell into a drunken sleep from which he did not awake until the arrival of Dr. Bardly. The doctor found the wound at the back of the neck exceedingly slight ; there was ab- rasure of the skin and a swelling, but no- thing more. ‘Lhe blood had ceased to flow soon after the accident; and there would be no worse results from it than the tems porary insensibility, from which the patient had already recovored. The most serious results of what had passed were likely, for the present, to be more of a moral than a physical nature. Dr. Bardly dreaded the moral depression which must result from the breaking down of the only resolution which stood between his friend and an utter abandonment to his propensity. Twistle Farm would no longer bea refuge for him against the demon, for the demon had been admitted, crossed the threshold and had taken possession.

Mr. Ogden was not in a condition to be advised, for he vas not yet sober, and, if he had been, the doctor felt that advice was

enough of it already. try if he liked, but it seemed to the Doctor that the case had now become one of those incurable cases which yield neither to the desire of self~preservation nor to the fear of hell; and if the warnings of science were disregarded by a man intelligent enough to appreciate the certainty of the data on which they were founded, those of religion were not likely to have better success. To be Continued.

Bishop Kelly, the successor of Bishop Field

cese he had some years previous to the | death of the late Bishop, been coadjutor, | has called a special meeting of the Synod for the 20th of September next, for the purpose of electing a coadjutor to himself. The ‘Church Chronicle’ of Halifax says it is understood that the choice will fali on the Rev. J. J. Curling, who is deservediy held in high esteem by both the clergy and laity of the whole Island. Mr. Curling served in the army, in which he held the rank of lieutenaut in the Royal Engineers. Believing himself called to the ministry of the Church, he left that service and now devotes his ample means to the spread of the doctrines of the Gospel.

of a doctor. |

not likely to be of any use; he had given | The parson might

in the see of Newfoundland, of which dio- |

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| Island to Canada, In remote ages there {can be no doubt that Iceland was a much | more desirable place of residence than it is now, and contained a far larger number ot residents, but within the historic period the climate has rapidly changed for the worse, and there have been some alarming symptoms in recent years of Iceland be- coming almost uninhabitable. An English writer who visited Iceland recently has said of it, that it can be described by negatives, there being scarcely any of those things there which we in Canada would consider essential to comfort. The whole interior of the Island is full of volcanic mountains,

and husbandry is entirely confined toa fringe of land along the coast,and to two or three narrow valleys. ‘he prospect of the available soil becoming insufficient to sustain the inhabitants, who number some sixty thousand, has stimulated emigration,

and now thatso many have found their way to Canada, there is no doubt that others

will soon follow, and that before many

years have elapsed we shall have most of the people of Iceland on Canadian soil.

There are now some Icelanders in Nova Scotia, of whom we do not receive the most favorable report, but most of those who have come to Canada have gone to Ontario,

Quite a number arrived in 1874, and were located in various parts of the West, and in

1875 there was alsoa large number of ar-

rivals. This year, however, immigration

has commenced on a larger scale. On the

21st, 750 of these people arrived in Quebec

by the steamer Austria, in charge of Mr.

Jonassen, the Government agent. They

arrived in Toronto on Tuesday last. The

Toronto ‘Globe’ says of them: ‘The ap-

pearance presented by both men and

women leads one to be favorably inclined

towards them as settlers. The men who

are allof middle stature, are stout-built,

hardy-looking fellow, and look as if they

were able to go through a hard day’s work.

In their gait, style of clothing and general

appearance they somewhat resemble the

fishermen of the eastern coast of Scotland,

except that they lack in some degree the

shrewd look of the latter, and as a rule are

heavier in the features, Betwixt the

women and the men there is not a great

deal of difference, unless in their clothing ;

like the men they are stout-~built and

strong looking, and like them also they

have a heavy and somewhat dull physiog»

nomy. Yesterday morning there was a

good opportunity for observing the

strangers, as they were all turned out en-

gaged in cleaning, the clean sward all

around being covered with newly washed

clothing which the women that morning

had put through their hands, The cloth-

ing worn by both sexes is somewhat coarse,

but well ca:culated to stand the wear and

tear of the emigrant’s life, and is in a great

degree the work of their own hands,

There is nothing remarkable about the

dress of the women, unless it be an an

article that they wear on their heads, but

whether for ornament or use it is hard to

determine. It consists of a round piece of | cloth with a tassel attached, which hangs | down gracefully on the right side of the

head, This cap is kept in its place by

being pinned on to the hair. To judge

from the actions of the Icelanders they

appeared to be well satisfied with the

reception they received in the land of the

stranger; they showed no signs of despon.

dency or grief at being so far away trom

their native land; and when the meai hours

arrive they are both able and willing to do justice to the good thing provided for thems

The number of children is a matter of ob-

servation, and it is reported that more babies have arrived en route,’

These people are going to Manitoba, where a number of Icelanders are already settled. A second lot of Icelandic immi- grants, numbering 500, is expected soon, and this is prohably but the beginning of a much larger movement. The Icelanders aré an industrious people, generally well educated, and ought to make good settlers. It is to be hoped that they will continue to come to our shores, both for their own sakes and ours, for Canada wants more set- tlers, and this land must be a much more desirable place of residence than their own barren island,

Marry Youne.—Dr. Dio Lewis having learned the minimum quantity of foud on which life can be sustained, advises all young men to marry and settle down in life. His idea is that until a man is married his life is lacking in that which best de- velops his manhood. He gives old baches lors some hard raps in a letter published in the ‘Green Bay (Wis.) Advocate,’ and then administers this rebuke to that class who are anxious to see the world before marry- ing: ‘Seeing the world as the young man does who has to earn his living as he goes along amounts to very little. What he does see is nothing that helps him fight the batiéle of life more successfully, it only keeps him from habits which are in direct antagonism to a correct and happy and successful life, and when he gets through knocking about he has nothing to show for the mispent years save the habits which he must overcome if he would make anything of himself. Do you call that gain or loss ? So young man, take the advice of a man who has kept his eyes open for more years than you have lived, probably, and don’t knock around. [f you think I have overdrawn the picture, look around you and out of the men you know, select those , who have knocked around and see if they do not bear witness to the truth of every assertion | have made concerning the class they represent, Are they men you enyy? I teil you boys, knocking around makes a man good for nothing else,and 1 take it you have a desire to be good for something higher in life.’

Frencu Remains at Sr. Perer’s.—While the workmen were engaged last week sink« ing posts for a fence to enclose the Canal grounds at St. Peter’s, they came upon a wooden box, which, upon examination prov« ed to bea coffin. It was dug up and found to contain a large quantity of slimy dust, remnants of human bones, a silver finger ring, and some very coarse hemp and linen fabric. This coffin must have lain undisa turbed for upwards of a hundred years, an was no doubt placed there by the French when they owned and occupied the island. The soil being very wet and clayey, the pine | boards are in a good state of preservation, the nails are quite sound: they were made by hand of good iron. The beards are up- wards of an inch thick, very roughly sawed by hand; the top of the coflin was arched, but the boards were not dressed. In the excavation for the Canal look, some dis~ tance under the surface, the site of what was a forge once was discovered, several blacksmith tools, as well as other pieces of iron were found therein,— North Sydney