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THE ROPE-WALK.

| BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.

In that building, long and low, With its windows all a-row,

Like the port holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward duwn their threads so thin,

Dropping, each, a hempen bulk.

At the end, an open door ;

Squares of sunshine on the floor Light the long and dusky lane ;

And the whirling of a wheel;

Dull and drowsy, makes me feel All its spokes arein my brain.

As the spinners to the end Downward go and re-ascend,

Gleam the long threads in the sun; While within this to of mine Cobwebs brighter and more fine

By the busy wheel are spun.

Two fair maidens in a swing, Like white doves upon the wing, First before my vision pass ; Laughing, as their gentle hands Closely clasp the twisted strands, At their shadow on the grass.

Then a booth of mourtebanks,

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With the smell of tan and planks, And a girl poised high in air, On a cord, in spangled dress, With a faded loveliness, And a weary look of care.

Then a homestead among farms, And a woman with bare arms, Drawing water from a well; As the bucket mounts apaec, With it mounts her own fiir fuce, As at some migician’s spell.

Then an old man in a tower Ringing loud the noontide hour, While the rope coils round and round, Like a serpent at his feet, And again in swift retreat Almost lifts him from the ground. Then within a rison-yard, | Faces fixed, alk stern, and hard, Laughter and indecent mirth ; Ah! it is the gallows-tree ! Breath of Christian charity, Blow and sweep it from the earth !

Then a school boy, with his kite, Gleaming in a sky of light,

And an eager, upward look— Steeds pursued through lane and field— Fowlers with their snares concealed .

And an angler by a brook.

Ships rejoicing in the breeze,

Wrecks that float o’er unknown seas, Anchors dragged thro’ faithless sand ; fo driftine overhead,

Sea to viw-and lead

PRINCE EDWARD ISL

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out, and we found ourselves engaged in measures and in debates | of the most momentous consequences to the honour and interest (of the Empire. In peint of liberality and even profusion, no Parliament ever voted the supplies of war with greater readiness, and no limit was placed on the expenditure of the military departments, for to have refused the supplies would have been openly to betray the cause of the nation. But on every other question the House was turbulent and discontent- ed; fer it had not acquired confidence in its leader, and Lord Palmerston himself was well aware that, at such a time, this confidence was only to be obtained by military success. In a word, the fate of the,Government was staked upon the siege ef Sebastopol, and the consolidation of its power may be ranked, we hope, among the results of the campaign. Victory itself is not more precious to the country or more necessary to our national interests, than the restoration of greater stability in the counsels of the Executive Government ; and there is no one subject to which we can turn our attention at the present time of equal importance to the maintenance ef a fixed and definite power at the head of affiairs.

We speak without the slightest knowledge of the intentions which may prevail in the higher regions of the State, and we express no more than our own independent judgment and con- victions. But we think it evident, that there never was a time at which it more strongly became the daty and the in- terest of the Ministers of the Crown to appeal to the nation, and to rest their future continuance in oflice"upon a vote of confidence, net of Lord Derby’s House of Commons, but of the people. Enough has been done in the last few months to strip off many disguises, to remove much obscurity, to lower some great reputations, and to fix the confidence of the country upon those statesmen who have not wayered in their course. {f that confidence be sincere, let us know it. If it be the will of the people of England te prosecute this war to a glorious termination, hy an honourable peace, let them repudiate the captious and time-serving, who, from different motives, have lent a practical support to the enemies of their country. Above all, let the experiment be tried of a Parliament elected under a strong unanimous sense of patriotism and of duty, to promote those objects which can only be attained by a de- gree of forbearance and discipline which the present House of Commons has not displayed. Come yhen it may—and it is impossible the trial can fong be delayed,—it rests with the constituencies of the United Kingdom to pronounce the verdict, and to choose for their representatives men who faithfully re- fleet the prevailing convictions of the nation. In the changes of modern political society, the members of the House of Commons are tanght to look less to their ostensible leader on the front benches, and more to the directing spirit of the country. The divisions, the intrigues, the tricks of faction, and the cabals of personal ambition, lese their value and their force out of deere; and to the great detriment of the House | of Commons—we may even add, to the great danger of the} Constitution—a suspicion floats over this country, that a pub-

more tenacious, than that which can be traced in the dis- cussions cf that assembly. Nothing can be more fatal to the

AND, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1856.

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applies in the first instance to their own representatives,—an election, and the elective assembly, would assume a very dif- ferent character. Instead of a candidate, fit or unfit, seeking to win a seat, we should see an intelligent body of electors secking a candidate, and ‘choosing him not for his accidental position or his importunity, but for the qualities which fit him to discharge the greatest trust that can be confided to him by the citizens of a free State. At the present time more especially the cheice of the representatives of the people in the House of Commons becomes a duty of the hivhest —— tion, for it will determine not only the temporary ascendane of this or that party in the State, but the position which the British Government and the Brition Nation are to maintain in Europe. Not all the sacrifices of a reyenue doubled by loans and war-taxes—not all the valour of our armies and fleets— and the sagacity of our diplomacy or the zeal of Ministers, can compensate for the inherent weakness of a Government wanting the strength of stability,—that strength, in short, which the Heuse of Commons and the people of Englantl can alone confer. So strongly do we feel on this point, that we do not shrink from a declaration that any Minister who will pre- serve our alliances, cultivate our resources and conduct the war with energy and judgment, deserves the public confidence 3 and that those politicians who can from factious or personal motives lend themselves at such a time to the practices of opposition are guilty of treasen to .their country. Upon a dissolution of Parliament the country would have the remedy for these backslidings in its own hands ; and we cannot doubt that the returns would establish that the Administration which has had the good fortune and the merit to bring the present campaign to a successful result, continues to enjoy the con- fidence of the nation.

THE THIRD BOWL.

** Draw yeur chair close up. Put your feet on those skins. You will find them soft and warm. Light another pipe, and fill your glass, Philip. It is a bitter night. My old bones shudder when I hear the wind wail over the house andthrouch the oak-tree. Capital punch, that! - John has a knack at the article that [ have rarely seen equalled—never surpassed. Ilo is a prince of seryants, is John, if-heis black. I haye had him with me now—let me see, it must be thirty years, at least— it is thirty-two years next Christmas week, and I have never quarrelled with him, and he has never quarrelied with me. A rare history for master and man. I think it is because we love each other’s weaknesses, and here he comes,

‘John, another bowl of “the-pumch, if you please. What, not another! Certainly, man, | must have it. This is only the second, and Philip, yonder, has -drank half, of course. Not drank any! You don’t mean to say that he has been drinking nothing but that vile claret all the blessed evening ? Philip, you dog, I thought yeu knew my house-rules better than that, But.yeu always would haye your own way.

** One more bowl, John—but one. It shall be the last ; and John, get the old Maraschino, one of the thick black bottles

existing institutions, and even to the liberties of this country, than such an opinion ; and it is a matter ef vital interest to the nation that the House of Commons should lose nothing of | its dignity and authority in supporting the measures required | for the defence and government of the Empire. But if the | authority of Parliament has sometimes allowed itself to be usurped by the Press, and if the judgment of the public has h to repudiate and condemn in the conduct of our re- |

seen Inuc: presentatives, the House of Commons are alone to blame for | a course of action which threatens to impair its great influence. | Within its walls, it is customary for its members to pay a) frequent homage to the good taste, the wisdom, and the | patriotism of its proceedings. But beyond those walls that Assembly is judged with the same freedom which attends every act of our public men; and the country, conscious of the in- | dispensable conditions of military power, perfeetly understands | the mischievous consequences at such a crisis of the eneroach- | ment of the Legislature on the Executive power. We trust,

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All those scenes do I behold, | These and many left untold,

In that building long and low ; While the wheels go round and round, With a drowsy, dreamy sound,

And the spinners backward go.

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(From the Edinburgh Review for October, 1855.)

THE RESULTS OF THE CAMPAIGN.

The War from the landing at Gallipoli to the Death of Lord Raglan. By W.1L. Russert. Correspondent of the Times. London : 1855.

( Concluded.)

Our limits on the present occasion forbid us to undertake a review of the last session in the House of Commons, and in- deed the task would be neither an agreeable nor a profitable one. But all the infirmities of purpose or judgment which prevailed in the country or in the former Ministry with re- ference to the war, were represented with tenfold virulence and absurdity in Parliament. An illustrious Prince, whose obser- vations on political affairs are as rare and temperate as they are sensible, publicly remarked that it was an experiment in our histery te conduct a great war with the unbounded freedom of discussion this country new enjoys; and it was impossible not to feel that this circumstance exposed our allianees to some peril and gave not seldom an adyantage to the enemy. The House of Commons, however, was deaf to this advice. It appeared at one moment ready to transfer the conduct of the war to a committee-room up stairs; and after

ESTABLISHED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT

a. . Capital, Five Millions Sterling. CHARLES YOUNG,

April 14. Agent for P. KE. Island.

NOTICE.

HE Subscriber, being about to make an alteration in his parliament. Out of doors there was no vacillation, and no business, notifies all persons indebted to him by Note of fear, but a common determination and a manly confidence i

having pledged itself by an address to the Crown to the full support of the war, it attempted to force on the Government | a direct breach of faith with our Allies by refusing to sanction ‘the Turkish loan, and it augmented a hundredfold all the

| that the next Parliament will raise the character of the House Le tno F tne should deeply regret to witness, for the |,

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sake of that House and of the Government, the recurrence of | such a session as the last,—tending as we believe it did to | lower the character of our institutions und of many of our) statesmen in the eyes of Europ®, and materially to aggrayate | the difficulty of bringing the present war to a successiul ter- mination.

‘To these considerations may be added the argument (though it is one of secondary importance in our eyes), that a dis- | solution of Parliament, and an appeal to the nation, is the | most complete practical answer to the ery for what is termed | Administrative Reform. The public are supremely unjust when they challenge the Government to employ men of higher | ability, of greater energy, and in the vigour of youth in high | offices, for it is not the Government which gives servants to the State, but the public, and more especially the constituencies of England, which regulate and limit the choice of the Go- vernment. The first condition te high political office in this, country, and even to the secondary political offices, is a seat, and a secure seat, in the House of Commons. Te this ac- cidental circumstance must be added, consistent political con- duct, competent abilities, a certain independence of position— for the English _ despise and mistrust trading politicians —and the personal qualities of a statesman. Take at any | time the House of Commons, as it is now constituted, divide it | in halves between the party of the Ministers and that of the

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men engaged in professional fife, the men engaged in vast private undertakings which they cannot sacrifice for the ephemeral distinction of office, and how many members of that House remain from whom a Minister can, with confidence select thirty or forty statesmen to fill the chief offices in the State? If the country be not better served than it is, and if it be true, which admits of some doubt, that in this country private undertakings are better manazed than public depart- ments, the fault rests with the House of Commons, or rather with the constituencies, which make the House of Commons

| difficulties the pation had te surmount. Meanwhile the de-

meanour of the nation itself was infinitely more composed,

‘consistent and rational than that of its representatives in

Hand or Book Account, that their respective amounts must the future.

be paid before the Ist of FEBRUARY next, otherwise they

will be sued for without further notice. ALEXANDER WALKER, Saddler.

Georgetown, Dee. 24, 1855.

For Sale, or to Let,

Land—on the Princetown Road—one mile from Char-

lott:town. Apply to i Dee. 51, 1355. ow JOIN 8S. BREMNER.

rAVUE subscriber being about to leave the Island, requests all duties. >

It would not be difficult to trace to ite origin the disorder and disorganisation which so discreditably affected the House of Commons during the last session. If we look back to the ‘circumstances under which it was elected in 1852, an wra ‘seems to haye rolled away since that occurrence. Lord Derby was Minister; Mr. Disraeli led the House of Commons; the

PPUAT pleasantly situated COTTAGE and Ovt-' acication of the free trade contest still vibrated through the Buildings—together with about seven acres of

country, and that compact band of country ntlemen, who

what it is. Those constituencies are sufficiently intelligent and | powerful to make the House of Commons faithfully represent, ‘and even exceed, their own standard of intelligence and

‘ability ; and it rests with them to determine, on the occasion

eompose the Legislature, but to carry on the government of the country. We would most earnestly urge this es upon the serious attention of our readers, because we are aot without hopes that the next elections may witness an a iin that moral power which most deserves to be represente in the Parliament of England. Is a man to he returned ae ‘he is rich, or because he is of an old family, or because he 7 chairman of the railway company, or sent down to a nove | by the Reform Club, or the Carlton, or some ee ce en in the clap-trap of the day, but utterly unfit to deal with the

have remained for nearly thee yous on Ame some Band side | pose interests of the nation? Or is he to be chosen by the

the Speaker, ave the identical patriots who were returned in

1852 to preserve British agriculture and restore protective |

ritish agriculture has not altogether perished in the

persons to whom he may be indebted to furnish their Ac- eeeerel, but the Rang. otoren we o Tory wile ot ae ed ; » e » : | ’ i i ’ e or Ww . 2 rLy . “>; ryder ey daar te gy mks ob oagivul st ae ip oon wdaned to the meagre amusement pa Sey Save m4 ht pt to take office, cover their party with ridicule and OW |

will please pay the same to Mr. Cuartes Wensnu, who is dul authorised to act as the subscriber’s Agent during his absence from the Island.

Dee. $l. aw

Wa. WELSH.

___-Unelaimed Property. A® ANCHE mR, landed from the barque ‘Sir Alexander,” in 1854, is still in the sabseriber’s possession, unclaimed.

The . , ame r: i : ; cg can have the same by proving property and paying harlottetown, Noy. 5. W. W. LORD.

Mr. Disracli’s powers of invective. The Liberal party,

| eee had also icet the bond of union which the cause of free ‘trade had created between statesmen, differing materially their yiews on almost all the other questions of government.

No leader continued to exercise the i ara -ingorneg Mad oer | to be, for it affects the vital interests ef the nation—if thie

bined action. The Gevernment was wea

Commons was divided, and that assembly which needs on | Toa a flict and sometimes lost altogether in bribery and

firmness and an intelligible plan of action in its chiefs, loo for these qualities in vain.

Such was the condition of Parliament when the war broke! recollect that the maxim of

in can alone p

Voice of his fellow-citizens because they place confidence in his character and talents, knowing him to th deliborations of Parliament, and capable of taking an active art in the conduct of public affairs? ‘The former alternative oa a Parliament of dallards and of jobbers, who, when

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the G ment itself with contempt. The latter alternative a sich place within reach of the public service a Parliament of statesmen.

| If the importance of this distinction were felt as it ought

nature of this duty were not degraded to the brutality

in short, the constituencies of England would

corraption—if, ‘ the right man in the right place,’

Opposition, remove from it the incompetent, the indolent, the | There w

a fit man to aid the

with the smail necks, and open it gently. But you know how, old fellow, and just do your best to make us comfortable.

‘“Ilow the wind howls! Philip, my boy, I am seventy- three years old, and seyen days over. My birth-day was a week ago to-day.

** An old bachelor! Yea, verily. One of the oldest kind. But what is age? What-is the paltry sum of seventy years? Do you think Tam any older in my soul than‘I was half a century ago? Do you think, because my heart beats slower, that my mind thinks more slowly, my feelings spring up less freely, my hopes are less buoyant, less cheerful, if they look forward only to weeks instead of years? I tell you, bey, that seventy years area day in the sweep of memory; and once young ferever yeung, is the motto of an immortal soul. I know I am what wen call old, 1 knew my. cheeks are wrinkled like ancient parchment, and my lips are thin, and my head gray even to silver. But in my soul [ feel that J am Young, and T shall be young till the earthly ceasos and the unearthly

}and eternal begins.

‘**T have not grown one day older than I was at thirty-two. i have never advanced a day since then. All my life long since that has been one day—one short day; no night, no rest, no succession of hours, events, or thoughts has marked any ad- vance, ;

‘* Philip, I have been living forty years by the light of one memory—hy the side of one grave.

“John, set the bowl down on the hearth. You may ge. You need not sit up for me. Philip and I will see each other to bed to-night, John. Go, old fellow, and sleep soundly.

‘¢ Phil, she was the purest angel that flesh ever imprisened, the most beantiful child of Eve. [can see her now. Her eyes raying the light of heayen—her brow, white, calm, anid holy—her lips wreathed with the blessing of her smile. She was as graceful as a form seen in dreams, and she moved through the scenes around her as you have seen the angelic visitors of your slumber move through crowded assemblies, without effort, apparently with some superhuman aid.

‘¢The child of wealth, she was fitted to adorn the splendid heuse in which she was born and grew to womanhood. It was a grand eld place, built in the midst of a growth of oaks that might have been there when Columbus discovered America, and seemed likely to stand a century longer. They are stand- ing yet, and the wind to-night makes a wild lament through their branches that sounds mournfully above her grave.

‘«‘T must pause to recall the seenery of the old familiar spot. asa stream of water that dashed down the rocks s hundred yards from the house, and which kept always full and fresh, an acre of pond, over which hung willows, ané ‘maples, and other trees, while on the surface the white blossom of the lotus nodded lazily on the ripples with Egyptian slcepi- e angour. ae = ee was built of dark stone, and had a massive appearance, not relieved by the sombre shade in which it stood. ‘The sunshine seldom penetrated to the ground in the summer ‘montis, except in one spet, just in front of the library wih- dows, where it used to lie and sleep in the grass, as if it loved the old place. And if sunshine loved it, why should not I? |

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| «¢ General Lewis was one of the pleasantest, old-fashioned men, now quite gone oué of memory, as well as out of exist- ence. Ie loved his herses, his dogs, his place, and his punch.

; i : s the men destined not only to jfe loved his nephew Tom, wild, uncouth, rough eub as he n| of a general election, who are the

was; but above horses, dogs, or house, or all together, he loved his daughter Sarah, and I loved her too

«© Yes, you may look at me as you will, Phil Phillips, I loved Sarah Lewis, and, by all the gods, I love her now as [ loved her then, and I shall love her if I meet her again where she has gone. :

* Call it folly, call it boyish, eall it an old man’s whim, an old man’s second childhood, I care not by what name you call it; it is enough that to-night the image of that young girl stands before me splendidly beautiful in all the holiness of her young glad life, and [ could bow down on my knees and wor- ship her now again.

“* Why did T say again? For forty years I have not ceased to worship her. If I kneel to pray in the morning, she passes between me and God. If I would read the prayers at evening twilight, she looks up at me from the page. If I would wor- ship on a Sabbath morning in the church, she looks down on me from some unfathonable distance, some unapproachable height, and I pray to her as if she were my hope, my heaven, all. : a Sometimes. in the winter nights I feel a coldness stealing over me, and icy fingers are stealing about m aaa as cs to grasp and still it. I lie calmly, quietly, and It the ord oa is at hand; and through the gloom and throu ht — - films that gather over my vision, I see as _— » still t ‘same angel in the distant heaypu, and I reach out my arme fo