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THE LOST EXPEDITION.

BY THOMAS HOOD.

Lift—lift, ye mists, from off the silent coast, Folded in endless winter’s chill ea:braces ;

Unsbroud for ue awhile our brave ones lost! Let as beheld ther ‘aces.

Joa vain—the North bas hid them from our sight ; The snow their winding sheet—their only dirges The groan of ieebergs 1m the polar night, Racked by the savaze surges.

No funeral torches with a smoky glare

Shone a farewell apon their shrouded faces ; No monumental pillar tall and fair

Towers o'er their resting places.

But Northern Streamers flare the long night through, Over the cliffs stupendous, fraught wish peril,

Of icebergs, tinted with a ghostly hue Of amethyst and beryl.

No human tears upon their graves are shed— Tears of Domestic Love or Pity Holy ;

But snow-flakes from the gloomy sky o'erhead, Down shuddering, settle slowly.

Yet History shrines them with her mighty dead, The hero-seamen of this Isls of Britain,

And when the brighter scroll of Heaven is read, There will their names be written.

THE TWO VILLAGES.

Over the river, on the bill,

Lieth a village white and still ;

All around it the forest trees

Shiver and whisper in the breeze : Over it suiling suadows go

Of soaring hawk and screaming crow, And mountain grasses, low and sweet, Grow in the middle of every street.

Over the river, under the hill,

Another village lieth still ;

There I see in the cloudy night Twinkling stars of household ligh’, Fires that gleam from the smithy’s door, Mists that curl on the river-shore ;

And in the roads no grasses grow,

For the wheels that basten to and fro.

In that village on the hill

Never is sound of smithy or mill;

The houses are thatched with grass and flowers ; Never a clock to tell the hours ;

The marble doors are always shut,

You cannot enter in bal! or hut ;

All the villagers lie asleep ;

‘Never a grain tu sow or reap;

Never in dreams to moan or sigh ;

Silent end idle and low they lie.

In that village under the hill,

When the night is starry and still,

Many & weary soul in prayer

Looka to the other village there,

And weeping and sighing iongs ta go

Up to that home from this below ;

Longs to sleep in the forest wild,

Whither have vanished wife and child,

And heareth, praying, this answer fal :

* Patience! tliat village shall hold ye al!"

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Betow run Atvantic.—Soundings in the Atlantic hare

_ apprentice, and for want of paper was obliged to work his

“This is trne Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”---Euripides.

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| losophers and statesmen. William Guilford, the editor ofall; if you get hold of one that’s a trump, it’s al] good, and the Quarterly Review, was in youth an humble shoemaker’s | (hero's sartin to be one out of four, And above al}, Bob. be ; never take a man’s trick wot don’t belong to you ;

algebraic problems with an awl. Robert Burns, ploughma slip’ cards, nor ‘ nig,’ for then you can’t Jook your man

‘of Ayreshire, Scotland, was afterwards the greatest of Scoteb / iu tue face, and when that’s the case there's no fun in the |

‘poets. James Cook, for a long time a common seaman, but yame, it's regular ‘ cut throat.” So now, Bob, farewell: re- \ afterwards commander on voyages of discovery, sailed three member wot I tell you, and you'll be sure to win and if you \times round the world. Jeremy Taylor was a barber's boy, | don’t, sarves you right if you get * skunked !”

‘and afterwards a D. D. Thomas Tedford, the great civil | —-—-=

| engineer, was once a shepherd's boy. Inigo Jones was first) Top Unsanacranee Worwess.—-Witnesses are often ex- | 4 journeyman carpenter, and afterwards the chief architect | ceedingly stupid, but we don't krow whether this witness lot his age. Halley, the astronomer, was the son of a POT | ought to be culled stupid or not. He was before Baron | soap-builer. Haydn, the composer, was the son of a poor) Wari. It was desired to get from him an exact account iwheelright. Teury, the chemist, was the son of a weaver. o¢ 4 certain conversation without the says 1” and “ says | Smeaten and Rennie, both eminent engineers, were both of he.” but the council could not make him comprehend the them at one time merely mokere of mathematical meeremenre” form in which he was wanted to make bis statement. So the And when you have read the lives of all these, ask y urse! court took him in hand. “Now, my maa, tell us exactly whether perseverance had hot as much to do tn wiking these opie passed.” “ Yes, my lord, certainly. 2 said that 1 | mee great as sRy other quality which they possessed. would not have the pig.” ‘ Well, what was his answer?” Sdawost Cease bes | — He said that be had been keeping the pig for me and | Iserewiries or tue Great.—HHandel, Milton, and Delille that he—” “ No, no, he did not say that—he could oot | were biind; Lucretius, Tasso, Swift, Cowp>r, Rousseau and | have said it. He spoke in the first person.” © No, L was | Chatterton, are melancholy cases of insanity. the first person that spoke, my lord.” * I mean this—don’t

| Richelieu had oceasiona! attacks of insanity, in which he| bring it in the third person—repeat his exact words.”

' fancied himself a horse ; he would prance round the billiard-|* There was no third person, my lord—only him and me.” |

‘table, nsighing. kicking out at his servants, and making a/* Look here, my good fellow, he did not say tie had been great noise, uotil, exhausted by fatigue, he suffered himself) keeping the pig; he said * 1 have been keeping it.” “ L as- ‘to be put to bed and well covered up. On awaking, he re- sure you, my lord, there was no mention of your lordship’s | membered nothing that had passed, name at all. We are on two different stories, my lord. | Shelly had he!lecinations, Bernardin Sc. Pierre, while) There was no third person; and if anything had been said | writing one of his works, was “ attacked by a strange illness” about your lord-hip L mast have heard it.” So the court | --lights flashed before his eyes; oljects appeared to double hud to g.ve it up, though the witness was only too ready to and in motion ; be imagined ali the passers-by to be his ene- tell all he kuew, mies. Heine died cfa chronic disevse of the spine. Metas- ne | tasio early suffered from nervous affections. | A minister of Crail had been long annoyed by the drowsy | Moliere was liable to convulsions. Pagalini was cataleptic propensities in church of a farmer, one of his parishioners, 'at four years old. Mozart died of water in the brain. Beeth-|* one David Cowan, in Treustrie ;” aud remonstrating on joven was dizarre, irritable, hypochondriacal. Dou zetti the subject, had his patience coneiliated by two cart-loads \died in an asylum. Chatterton and Gilbert committed sui- of coals which the offender engaged to drive to the manse leide. Chateaubriand was troubled with sucidial thoughts; | door. Nevertheless, a few Sundays afterward, Mr. Cowan, ‘and George Sand confesses to the same. Sophocles was ac- soon after the commencement of the sermon,fell into a sound leused of imbecility by bis son—but this was after he was | sleep as formerly ; and not only so, but made so‘much noise leighty. Pope was deformed; and according to Atterbury as to disturb the sitters near lim, aud the minister. Mr. jhe had mens curva in corpore curvo. He believed that he | Glass bore with it fora while; but at last, being able to ‘stand it no loager, desired the people ia the north loft—

once saw an arm projecting from the wall of his room. {| Cromwell bad fits of hypochondria. Dr. Francis was un- Anglice gallery—io wauken David Cowan.” David, | quivoeally insane. Dr. Johnson was hypochondriacal, and awaking suddenly, and forgetting where he was, asked the | destared that he once distinctly neard his mother cal! to bim, | minister “if he didn’t drive two cart-loads of coals to the '+ Samuel!” when he was many miles distant. Rousseau manse Jast week,to let him sleep.” ‘ True,’ replied the min- | was certainly insane. Saint Simon is said to have committ- | ister, * but 1 did uot agree to let you snore !”

‘ed suicide under circumstane:s indicating insanity. Fourrier —— -

' passed his life in a continued hallucination.” Cardan, Tus Mayor's Nesr.—There is a good anecdote told of | Swedenborg, Lavater, Zimmermana, Maho:net, Van Hel- | Robbie Johnston, who, in the year 1769, was Provost of /mout, Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, St. Dominic, all had Dundee. His services being required ou a certain occasion, | visions. Even Luther had his ‘hallucinations ; Satan fre- |g mnessenger Was despatced to his house, who, upon asking

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diabolical a contract, extorted the last farthing which was at- _.|'ainable, by ¢ squeezing the cabins, clo‘hes, blood and vitals’ of the tenantry, devote them by expulsion to starvat-on, with ag little ceremony, and as fitie remorse, as a scullion ex- periences in hunting out @ rambling rat’’! Monthly Chronicle,

| No. xxxii. p. 331.

Gracious heavens ! can the annals of any country in the wide |world, whether Christian or pagan, present any thing half sa | | beg to cal the particalar atiention of the tenante of th’s, creel or atrocious as that which 19 unfolded in the unperalicled \Island to some of the fruits of the landlerd system in Sreland | persecutions, the barbarous, Satanic tyranny which have been |—a sysiem which some of our loca! petty tyrants »ppear de- | for centuries exercived agaist the Irish? Have cruelties one (sirous oF perpetuaing in this Colony. The Rt. Rey. John | thousandth part so monstrous ever been perpetrated by the go- Wilson Croker, mm his work on the stite of lretand, tells usthat | vernments of Aus'ria or lialy, against the excesses of which )‘f rents In that count y are not a portion of the produce, but|e hear 80 much said by * bowling fanatics’ and mouthing |nearly the whole of i; that the actual cultivator is seldom | philanthropists, ae have been committed in an integral part better paid than by scanty fond, ragged raiment, and ajvf the British empire, and under the sanction of British faw ? |miry hovel.”’ In the Times of the 25th Oc'., 1839, we find | Even at the present time are there not wafied across the A’ | the following :—** More misery 1s crewded into a single pron | tantia from the persecuted and down trodden Pa:try, the vince in Ireland than can be found in ail the rest of Europe put | heart-rending wailings and lamentations of the sterving widow together. To this pass are things come, in order to benefit a and the perishing orphan, whom a rathiese, mitred eel has small knot of haughty, unfeeling, rapacious landlords, the well- | by the aid of the m: itary, mercilessly evicted from i hap y

being of millions is disregarded, famine and misery stalk through | homes, Which have been by him ievelied to the ground ? bo “the land, and all good government in Ireland is rendered im-\We not read even in the Times of Bishop Plunket figuring to |possible, and government of any kind impracticable, except \he world ‘in the unseemly character of a wholesale evicior through the medium of a military force.”’ collecting ‘red armies’ and * black armies,’ and pulling down | ‘The next witness ts Mr. Sadler, who represen'ed the Duke | houses over the heads of their aged and long settled occupants. }of Neweasile in the Hou-e of Commons. In a work on the) - Sending his myrmidons over the country, armed wits jevils of Ireland, second ed. p IG1, he says: --** fs a@ sys'em | picks and crow-bars, to pull down houses and turn people out of | wh ch can only be supported py brutal force, ond wh ch is kept | doors ia this dreary month of November ?”’ jup by esant blood-shedding, to be perpetuate | fur ever? No language can adequately pourtray the refinement of cruel'y | Are we stil to garrison a coun'ry to pro ect the property of with which Ireland bas been treated during these three cen- those whose conduct occasions aii the evils under which the |turies. The facts almost stagger belief, and the recital makes coun'ry has grosned fur centuries—p-operty whjch has been | our very blood freeze in our veins. Waat are we to think of a treated in such a manner that it would aot be wo th a day’s penal code which forbade Carholics to open schools for the |purchass were the proprietors its s le pro’ectors ; but the education of their children; which set a price upon the heads ipresence of a large body of military and police enab'es ihem of Irsh priests, and hunted them down like wild beasts; which | to conduct themselves w th as |i't'e apprehension as remorse ? double taxed, ground down with unheard of extortions and |The possessions of the whole empire would be lost to their openly desp iled Catholics of their property ; which authorized owners were such conduct genersl ; and are these so meri- | the apostate son to drive his grey headed father from the pater- lorious a c'ass that they are to be protected in the audacious | nal roof, if he refused to turn Protestant in his old age ; and outraye of all tho-e dures, upon the direct and reciprocal dis-| which relentlessly pursued religious non-conformity with fine charge of which the whole frane of the social system is found- | and impr.sonment, with fire and sword? Whatare we to think ped? If they persist in this course let them do so at their own |of a policy which necessarily induced ignorance and poverty, peril; the Briish so'dier is too noble a being to be degraded ‘and then sneered at both ? What are we tu think of a govern- into the exac’or of enormous rents,” &c. ment which adopted the systematic policy of firet driving the |_ The next authoriry to wh ch we shall appeal is the Quarterly Irish Catholics inte revolt, by intolerable exactions and cruel- | Review, Vee. 1835, 9. 145, which says :—** In Ireland alone | ties, and then despoiling them of their property, and butchering is to be found a population abandoned to the elements of chance, them in thousands ; which has given to jandlords the power of \or rather of the lega: owners of the soil, who are protected by an | dismissing whole villages fuli of people—turning them adrift | ormed police, and a strong military garrison in the exaction of \n & condition more destitute than the bessta of the field—of lunheard of pecuniary rents from a destitute tenantry—rents expelling women sometimes in the act of death, and sometimer, which are only paid by the exportation of the great bulk of the to the wnutterable shame of hamanity, in the very act of partu- | food raised in the country, leaving to those who grow it a bare ritton!—of burning and levelling the cottages of the labourers ‘subsistence, eked out with weeds. WE FEARLESSLY assert | —of destroying even the very food of the tenants—and in the THAT THERE RESTS NOT SO FOUL A BLOT UPON THE CHARACTER ‘exercise of uacontroliable despotism, of establishing the very (OF ANY OTHER GoveanmenT. The wretchedness cf the mass head quarters of hunger in a country which Bacon described as | of the people has no parallel on the face of the globe, in any |‘ endowed with ali the dowries of nature’? ? nation, s:vage or civilized A population of eight millions left; We cannot attempt to go inte lengthy details concern- to live or die, as if may happen — the people starved, disspirited,|ing the esufferiig of Ireland under British misrule. The naked, and beggarly~-THe PRODUCE oF Witosk INDUSTKY 1s recital would fill volumes, That sad story ia familiy to the SWEPT OFF YO OTHER Lanns, fo be sold for the exclusive bene- most of our readers. ‘There is not one generous heart in the Sit of men whom the law invests with the unconditional owner- | c:vilized world which it has not touched in its tenderest chords,

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frequently insufficient to pay ; and who, after having under so

quently appeared, not only to have inkstands thrown at his for the Provost,was told by the guidwife that he was * awa’ | sophistical head. but to get into the reformer’s bed and lie to the hill for a pockfu’ o’ whins.” Off seamped the gal-

beside him. Jeanne d’Are gioried in her celestial visions.

lant to the * whin hill,” and soon the Provost appeared, and

ship of this fair portion of God's earth, and with the power of absolutely starving its inhabitants; and this law we expect this unhappy population to cherish, venerate, and implicitly obey.

and stirred to its very centre. Oft has the poor exile from Erin, as he wandered a stranger in some distant and uncongenial cline, sat dowo and wept when he remembered how the

Na gua ‘throwing down his faggot, pulled off bis bonnet, and wiping

| Tue Rivat Dansrcses —Miska Hauser, the violinist, thus | the sweat from his bald -pate, sail, * Janet, where’s ma wig. | describes an exciting seene which he recently witnessed in| Ca to sitio julgment the day.”—*Yuar wig!’ quo’ Janec ;

Meibourne, Austra'ia:—** The curta'n ro-re. A’ French| did I ever hear sie a oian!. [How can you get your wig ? D'ye no kea the ken’s layiag int?”

, dancer—an elegant, supple young lady, of uo great beun'y, , ‘ Tie degrees of crime are thus defiue®: **Lfe¢ who steals a

but mach expression, ard apparently on good terms with

herself—appeared in the scene in her short lace dress, re- ‘million is only a Gaancier. Who steals a half million is a!

ceived by « burst of applause, and by the martial trumpets defaulter. Who stea's a hundred thousand isa rogue. Who of the archestra. But from the other side came a youthful, steals filly thousand isa kuave. But he who steals a pair blooming Span'sh creole, with beautiful eyes : larze and solt ; of boots or a loaf of bread is a scoamdrel of the deepest dye, her compiexion rosy, her figure tall; in fact the impersona- 20d deserves to be lynched.

tion of Terpsichure. She bowed modest!y—and the enthusi- “ate

asm of the public, surprised by her beauty, manifested itself Srroxa Writinc.—TheEdinturgh Review says: There

in vehement cheers. The two dancers struggled for the palm is a schoul of writers now iv existence who appear equally

of victory ina graceful Tarantula. Like glittering bu ter- incapable of descending to common-place language and of flies,they whirled round, accompanied by music and applause. ‘ris ng above commonp‘ace thoughts. Tuey describe the Phe wereurial Parisienne made use of her most seductive | + prison-world” of an age, or the “ hearth-lile” of a class. wiles, of her most refined pirouttes, of her most enchanting They «have somethiug fierce to say, to whoever displeuses

Suame! Smame! we repeat.’? And we add, shame on tiat | beautiful Island of his birth has been marred and made desolate degraded wreich who has said ‘ the famine arizes, im a great by the hands of the oppressor; even ag the coptive Iereel pmeasue, from the indolence an! improvidence of the Irish|of old once wept on the waters of Babylon, at the re- ithemse.ves 5°’ shame on the individual who prostitutes h.s | membrance af the beloved Sior from which the arm of violence Journal to the propygation of such vile slander! and shame on had rudely tore him, and whose glories had been ecattered by ‘hose in high piaces who allow a servant of the Government to the hand of the sroiler, It was a sad day for Ireland whea be a direct partic:pator in such foul infamy ! ithe Saxon first set foot on her green and lovely soil. lt was Mr. Willan Kemmis, who was for forty years C.own Soli- | for her the beginning of all her sorrows. Saxon misrule, con- e:tor for the Le.aster Cireurt, and also for the County and Civy | cinued through long centuries, has strewn ber surface with of Dablin, states : © That three fourths or more of the crimes ‘ruin and desolatioa, in the midst of which a poor, miserable, commuted in Tipperary are produced by the landlords turning | starving peasantry, the children of the former lords of the soil the tenants out of possession.”” Lord Powerscourt gives us, subsist and move along, like spectres through desolate and in page 127 of his pamphlet, (The Merits of the Whigs). the | abandoned castles, In the graphic language of Mr. Lester : jtotlow mys extract of a speech delivered by the Very Rev. Mr. |** To a@ distant observer that beautiful Isiand appears Ike a Laffan, ata dinner in Tuur es, wh: re Lord Lismore presided, | city of ruins in the saddened light of evening. Her glory and in Nev., 1833 :— | her strength seem departed forever. But it is not of the pserry ** Toere is no man who abhors the crime of murder more {of the past the lover of Irelaud must speak. Her lords never thin Edo; bet f know that those murders are the offspring of |sang in strains so mouraful aud pathetic as the aad lullaby of oppression. Lcan teil your Lordship that there are savages tn | the mother over her famisting child. The complaint of poverty vroad-c oth as well as in frieze. It may not be believed by | and the ery of sutler.ng are more heart-breaking then ber most men like your lordsh:p, who have kindly hearis in their bosams ; | plaintive melodies. Her woes and her dishonor move not the

been particularly pushed forward, and have excited, on ac- count of the telegraph cable, more general interest than any others yet taken. They have revealed the fact that at least two hundred and thirty miles from the coast of [reland the} water is still ehallow ; or, in other words, that there is another Ireland only waitiag to he raised—thus reversing the famous panacea for keeping the country quiet. It is just beyond

this, that the true Atlantic begins : the gulf suddenly sink: | itan:t0. salen dee, eewaliidia sea Bulinane, deteine | — thousstd feet. Feus, Ireland ‘may one day! . 4 with looks full of hate and fury boxed the ears of her | bave —_ ue = bigh ab tb Hee. The whole floor off rival. Tue audience hissed and heoted, while she exclaimed the Atlantic is paved with soft sticky substance, called oar, | with much passion ‘* Tne wretch tripped me!’ The poor

| Creele deciared with dignity that she was innocent of the |

attitudes; but the Creole seemed patronized by the Graces }themseives. Thundering app!ause encouraged her; anJ, so often as she came forward with her graceful modesty, nose- gays, and rings and bracelets were thrown at her feet. Tue | French Jady struggled with her last strength against the

fell to the ground, ‘The creole approached her with compas-

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nine-tenths consisting of very minute avimals, many of thom |

ihe The world * sets its ghastly teeth” at their herves, iti ¢ heroes in reply “scowl at the century,” * clench ure O.\ savagely,” aad ‘fight out their life-battle,” with other similar contortions. We earnestly recommend these gentle- men to consider what they have to say, and say it plainly.

for standing ou his head. et “My dear, what shal] we name Bub?” “ Why, husband, I've setzled on the name of Peter.” “ O, don’t,” be replied ;

'* I never liked Peter, for he denied his master.’’—'* Well,

then,” replied the wife, ‘what mame do you hke?” *

but what would your lordship think of the man who would go 10 the cabin, and turn out a woman who was on the eve of child- birth, and who afterwards was delivered in THE OPEN AIR! | What, my lord, must be the feelings of the husband of that poor /woman ? Such scenes, my lord, are not of unfrequent occur rence in this County.”’

‘ triamph of ber rival, until, disheartened and exhausted, she’ They may rely upon it that a dwarf looks none the taller) The following are some other instances of grinding tyranny.

heart of her oppressors, but they are noted by the God of the

| poor.”’ A TEACHER,

Jan. 16, 1861.

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To rng Eprror or tux Exaqiner.

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\“ The Rev. Michael Keogh states that 174 fandies were| Sir—In cities drains or sewers are very necessary to carry

jejected by one landlord, Mr. Cosley, (Lewis, 80). Mr. Cahill, Civil Engineer, mentions 1126 persons as being evicret in an- | other plice(Lewis, 84.) A great many of them died of hunger”’ (ibicy. Mr. Bleckourn says: ** Lord Stradbrouk's avent, | attended by the Sheriff and several to asvst him, went upon |the lands and dispossessed the numerous body of occupants.

off into {cess-pools the impurities, which, if allowed bo accu- | mulate, would be injurious to the health of the citizens. It | Mppears to me that the editor of the Monitor has borrowed from the draining system the idea of making hia paper a cloaca marima, or large cess-pool, into which all the moral yn-~ /punties allied to ‘Juersry’’ libertinwe:n flow through various

mere lumps of jelly, and thousands of which could floa: with ease in a drop of water, some resembling toothed wheels; others, bundles of spines or threads shooting from a little globule. Some however, are endowed with the property of separating flint from the sea water—which is more than every | chemist could do; and there are hundreds of square ailes covered with the skeletons of these little creatures. Part of the oaze is doubtless from the clouds of rain dust which rise from the vast steppes of South America in such masses as to) darken the sum, and inake the animals fly to shelter; and) which, after sweeping like a simoom over the country, lose | themselves in the ** steep Atlantic.” No bones have been | found of the sarger animals, so that the kraken and sea ser-| pent might sleep their last sleep, and leave not a bone or a vertebra to tell the tale. Not a mast or anchor, not a block or strand, not a coin or a kcepsuke, has been found to testify of the countless gallont ships, and more gsllant men who) have gone down amid the pitiless wayes—All the Year|

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Tue Apverttstve Koomsor raz Lospos Times.—How silent is the room; scarce any sourd but the clink of money and the low uttered fists of these throned arbiters of ad- | vertisers’ fates. Of no avail remonstrance here; the adver- tixement bas hardly reached their hands—scaree has time enough elapsed to skim it over, before the quiet utterance | of theit judgment ; if one should venture to remonstrate at the charge. his lines are given back,and the next comer serv- | ed ; no words—they have no time fo: words; the first deci- sion is the. foal one; we mean of course in the busier yee ties of the day—from eleven till two. And how use doth

passions of the South in her bosom, and a singular struggle | began. ‘The two excited ladies rushed upon each other, and

lips of the French davcer against her suddenly roused all the ' she, I can’t bear Joseph, for he denied his mistress !” 2 9 oe : Hep tuk Staxes.—A feilow on the race course was stag- wrestied and to nd puiled another's hi: hil De i

estied an re, and puiled one auother’s hair, whilst the | gering about with more liquor than he could carry. ‘* Hallo!

| thunders of the gallery made the whole atmosphere vibrate. what is the matter now ?” said a chap whom the inebriated |

\ " . . . * , . . L never saw a more natural performance, The better class | jrdividual bad just run against. * W by, hie, why, the fact ot the public did uot interfere, but seemed rather to be amus- js, a lot of my friends have been betting liquor on the race

ed by these Uiympie exercises, until the Creole, bleeding and to.day, and they bave got me to hold the Stakes.”

fainting, Was carried away from the scene. Some officers, eee ain,

who, from a box, had wituessed the scene, were revolted at, Cxors ror Newsparer.—" Tommy, my son, what in the the conduct of the Parisienne, and sent for the police to arrest world are you going to do with that club ?”

her, but her friends collected and resisted ihe eoustables.| * Send it to the obiat of course.”

A riot ensued ; they jumped across the orchestra ; the fiddies * But what are you going to send it to the editor for.” and bass viols were broken ; the Jedies were faimtiog; child-| + Well, cause he says thet if anybody will send him a reu crying ; and 1 took to my heels with my fiddie, aud rau club, he will send them a copy of his paper.”

aWay Without sioppiag until L reached my hotel. b

A | Very Pressing —A young girl, who had become tired of Maxine Vinecan,—Vinegar, according toa writer in the | single blessedness, wrote to her (rue swain as follows :— Genesee Farwer, is cheaply made. We publish nis recipe:| Deer Gim, eum rite off, ef you air cummin a tawl, Ed.

(To eight gallons of clear rain water add three quarts of mol- | Qoilings is ensisting that L shail hev him & kisses me so Ss ” aS

aases ; put info a good cask, shake wella few tes, then add | coutineaally that eye kan’t hold out much jonger, but will two or three spoonfuls of good yeast cakes. If i summer, | 6 ieee

|hev 2 kave in your setery. place the eask in the sun, if im winter, nearthe chiunney, hev 2 kave in yourue etsetery

where it may be warm. Tu ten or fifeea days addto the liquid | : TET a sheet of brown paper, torn tn strips, dipped in molasses, and | A facetious boy asked one of bis playmatas how a bard-

good vinegar will be produced. The paper will, x0 this way, | Ware dealer differed from a bootmaker? The latter,somewhat turin what is called the ** mother,” or \ife of vinegar, | puzzled, gave it up. ‘** Why,” said the other, * because the joue sold the tails,and the other nailed the soles.”

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An Arkansas Farner’s Avvice to nis Son.—There is)

}a genuive humor in the idea that an Arkansas wan finds the, Young Lapy.—** Ob, I’m so glad you like birds ; which

Greed im a man; these peromptory officers of the Times) u0.: natural expression, even of parting advice to his son, | kind do you admire most ?” Old Squab—* Well,I think a

rarely or sever err ; seldom will the printed lines fail to bear out their charge; their practised eye fathoms the mnysteries | of every eouceivable ealigraphy, and like seers of the mighty | press, « Geld of the type rushes back on their sight, soon as, their wild orbs rest upon the scraw'. And how the piles ot |

advertisements grow by their side. As they take thew, they |

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exe priated acknowledgement to the advertiser, aud be then’ lds his compositiou, iarpaled with others, which bave pre- |

celed, upon a wire. As we look into the busivess of this 4 ¢ fill up with like small tramps, but you must have the

we wouder where it is toeud. Although in the Lon- ®asoa, when the town is full, the Times issues, not un- frequently, teu pages of closely printed advertisements, of six eolumns each, and each colume 3 long one; yet there are always oa hand enough for several days to come; an adver- tiser canGt expect to see his lines in print for three days, sod sometimes a week from the period that he gives it in.

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Penseveraxce.-~Demosthenes, that i , poor stuttering eon of oe became the most famous orator of the coin time. irgul, the sou of a baker, was the most celebrated of Latin pocis, Hsp, the son of a slave, and almost a slave himself. managed to acquire imperishable fame. Thomas Wolsey, cana of « butcher, became cardinal in the charch of Rome, . ene the King im his day, the most powerful persos oe British dowmions. William Suakspeare. also the son @ butcher, yet one of the most famous poets the world has ad bateld. O..ver Cromwell rose from a comparatively umble station to ‘he Protector of the English Commonwealth. jemia Frauklia Was a journeyman printer in his early J; he afterwards booame one of the most celebrated phi-

in the language of the card-table, and the manner in which goose with plenty of stuffiug is about as nice as any.” the terms of the game ** euchre” are there fitted in the game aid of life is very ingenious: Gh, dinna paint her charms to me, “ Bob, you are about leaving home for strange parts. [ ken that she is fair ; You're going te throw me out of the yame, and go it alone. I ken her lips might tempt the bee— The odds is against you, Bob; but remember also that in- | Hier een with stars compare, — dustry and perseverance are the winning cards; they are Such transient gifts [ ne'er did prize ; the bowers. Book Jarnin’ and all that sort of thing will My heart they could na win ; I dinva scorn my Jeannie’s eyes— But has she ony tin?

‘bowers to back ’em, else they ain’t worth chucks. If luck

runs agin you pretty strong don’t cave in and look like a —-e———

‘sick chieken on a rainy day, but hold your head up aud make| A country editor announces, in the following terms, that

| ‘em believe you're flush of trumps; tuey won't play so hard | he has suspended specie payment: =“ If any man wants to

agiv you. see stars, and appreciate ope of the uses to which brickbats » [’ve lived and travelled around some, Bob, and I’ve | may be perverted, let him approach our vicinity with an

found out that as soon as folks thought you held out a weak | accoynt. : tcl

hand, they’é buck agin you strong. So when you're sorter) “ P. $.—We keep a pile of bricks in our sanctum, and

weak, keep on a bold front, but play czatious, be satisfied | carry one in our hat.”

with a put. Many’s the haud I’ve seen ecuchred ‘cause | ; ree

they piayed for too much, Keep your eyes weil skinued,, Loarc.—Of the Edinburgh University an anecdote is re-

Bob; don’t let em ‘ nig’ on you; recollect the game lays as | corded, in which the son of a Barouet, who resided not far

much with the head as with the hands. Be temperate, | trom town, acted a conspicuous part. He was called up by

never get drunk, for then no matter how good your hand, | the worthy Professor of the time, aud asked the question,

you wou't know how to play it; both bowers and the ace |“ Can a man see without eyes ,

wou't save you, for there's sartin to be a ‘miss deal’ or some-) Yes, sir,” was the prompt answer.

thing wrong. ‘* How, sir,’ cried the amazed Professor, ‘can a man see

* And auother thing, Bob, (this was spoken in a low tone) | without eyes ? Pray, sir, how do you make that out 7” don’t go too much ou the women; queens is kinder poor} “ He can see with one,” replied the ready-witted youth ; cards; the more you have of them the worse for you ; you | and the whole class shouted with delight at his triumpu over might bave three and nary trump. I don’t ssy discard ‘em | metaphysios.

| meanness ; but a vulgar word which was slipped out of the! should like the name of Joseph.”” “O, not that,” replied | They prostrated the houses Tae number of persons thus de-| canals, ‘called correspondents. ‘This ia no doubt a benefit to

jprived of their homes was very large. Iam sure there were | our community—for if these impurities were allowed te accu- above forty families ~persovs of ult ages and sexes, and in mutate amongst the citizens the wuole moral atmosphere would ‘particular, &@ WOMAN IN THE EXTREMITY oF peata. (H.C. | be corrupted by fetid exhalations. It mav anewer pretty well 1832. Lewis 79.) , to have the canals partially open, so that we may be on our | It might be errrect, according to the principles of poliiica! guard against those parte which are likely to be poisoned with economy, to remove the people from tieir small ho'dings, in | the noxious effluvia ; but it seems to me that there we room {ir ‘order to throw their possessions into one large farm. The inprovement im the system. The ‘‘ Monitor man’’ should tr | giving notice to ninety or one hundred families to quit their | and keep both the cess-poo] and the canals leading lk | possession, and then turning them loose upon the world, might | somewhat more ‘closed—for no sooner doee the Monitor a ; ‘be the means of in-uriag the beter management of gen‘le- each week then a most intolerable fetd stench pervades pens men’s estates, and might be true according tv the principles of tiog of the moral atmosphere, particularly in the weinity of the | polvical economy ; but 1 was not true according to the dictates | canals, and coatuinues until the ** abomination” je evaporated lof moral prncipie and Christiaa da'y, that the landlords were As a great part of the corrupted matrer which flows ed |under no obligation to provide a settlement elsewhere for those | cloaca appears to have been * skimmed from the stink ts°” ithey had drivea from their homes, and thrust loose upon the | of Urangeism, it is no great wonder that the fumes wan te pl world.’’—( Morning Chronicle, June 16¢h, 1840.) | intolerably disgusting. * The Commitee of 1830 state in their first report (p. 8.)| ft hus been said that the Monitor isthe organ of the Govern- that ‘the coudimion of the tenantry who are ejected, in order to ment, but { am inclined to believe that fis Excellency does ‘promote the consolidation of farms, is most deplorable. It) uot read the editorials and communications which appear in that | would be impossible for language to convey an idea of the | infamous paper; for surely he is too much of the gentleman i state of distress to which tiey have been reduced. A vast | knowingly to ailow one of his officia's to be disgracing his Go- ‘number of them perish of want’? (HC. 1830): after having | vernmeat by publishing outrageous, beastly, disgusting attacks ‘undergoue, 88 is stated in the same report, ‘ msery and suffer- | on private character. ; ling such as no language can describe, and of which no con-| A writer in the Monitor has lately been making a series of ‘ception can be formed without ac ually beholding ic’ —misery lattacks on Mr. KB. Roche. The last of ihe onslaughts rid:cules land suffering the remembrance of which prevented Vun | Mr. Roehe up and down, represente him as totally unfit to dis- | Raumer froin going to sleep, even after his departure fron Ire- charge the duties of his profession; it even goes eo far as to ‘land, and whieh compelled Mr Curwen to declare that‘ all the say that he passed his examination ina very unsatisfaciory | waters of oblivion could never wash out the traces which the manner. As Mr. Roche has passed the 2nd or highest ciase scenes of war which he had witnessed in Ire!and had impressed | one of two things is certain—either the members of the Board, i upon his mond.’ (Obs. vol, 2, p. 255.) meluding the Rev, G. o-ge Sutherland, acted very dishonestly | Let us bear the indignant eloquence of the late learned, up | im allowing Mr. Roche to poss if he were not qualified; and ‘right, and independent Judge Fletcher :—** Whar,” exclaimed | theretore, should be ignom:niously dismiased from cher slie- ‘this nobie hearted patriot, * what is the wretched peasantry to ations for having betrayed the confidence reposed in them by ‘do? Hunted from the spot where he had first crswu his the public; or, otherwise, ** A Normal School Student” is a | breath — where he had first seen the light of heaven, — | defamatory scribbler, who ia dangerous to society—a mea- ‘incapable of procuring any other means of subsistence,—can | dacious slanderer, whose very touch is pollution to the gentie- | we be surprised thet being of unenlightened and uneducated man or the Christian. That the latter is the case we have habi's, be should rush upon the perpetration of crimes, followed levery resson to believe, from the following irrefrageble testi- ‘by the punishment of the rope and the gibbet? Nothing re- monies of four different School Visitors regarding the efficie ; mains for them thus harassed, thus destitute, but with a strong of Mr. Roche. In the Royal Gazette of the 4th Feb’y., 1858, ‘hand to deter the stranger from intraiing upon their farms, which contains Mr. Stark’s Report, we find the following :~ | and to extort from the weakness of their landiords—from whose ‘«Pownal, Charlottetown, E Roche, Jamer Kelly, assistant. | gratitude and good feelings they have farled to win it—a sort Regwer 126; Reading 126—Very good, with superior ine’-