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EIL RANKEN begs leave to inform the | MERCANTILE and TRADING COM-| MUNITY of Prince Edward Island, and the | Neighbouring Provinces, that he has made | arrangements for the immediate prosecution | of business as an

Auctionecr,Commission Merchant | & General Agent,

an aach of which lines all Commissions with | which he may be favoured (at home or from abroad) shall receive his prompt and best} attention. ! Charlottetown, July 8, 1861.

GEORGETOWN.

WILLIAM SANDERSON, |

Commission Merchant. Wholesale & Re-| tail General Agent, Auctioneer & Broker. |

NOTARY PUBLIC. Agent for Col. Life Assurance Company in| King’s County. Agent for Pictou Iron Foundry.

Tewn Lots, Pastare Lots, aud Farms for! Sale in King’s County.

Nov, 18. : : | SWABEY & ROBERTS,

Commission Merchants

AND

Wine and Flour Dealers, GREAT GEORGE STREET, Ce ee his on vec occ P. BE. ISLAND. |

N. B. Cousignmettts advanced on, and Grain Cargoes purchased on Commission. April 14, 1862. ly

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MR, W. A. JOHNSTON, OF HALIFAX, N.S.

Attorney and Barrister at Law, Notary Public. &c, &c.

EF Orewe—Mrs McDonald's. next door to Mrs. Forsyth’s, North side of Queen Square.

Charlottetown, October 21, 1861.

Rockwoll,

Commission

Merchants,

iw « | For life and death, for woe and weal . ' 1) And Wholesale Dealers in | oo me ro eath, for “ ‘ and weal, hum, as it swept the clifs vear Balaklava, FLOUR, GRAIN. POTATOES, EGG@B, | 3-5 s04 the beewtes, ke wi ; ot ’ ae 4 ’ . id é 2, LG >; And gird thy beuuteous limbs with steel, loudening as it burst along the valley, tril i} BUTTER, CHEESE " Maryland, my Maryland t , are re Muryland, my Mary lund. came with arush past the teut, aud died > » a 7 . : : Beans, Pork, and Produce generally, | Toon wilt not cower in the dust, }away with a mournful sob in the woods near 44, NORTH STREET, BOSTON, } Maryland, my Maryland. 'Kamara. The canvas fla; ped, and the . | Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Sicilian the : le neg me (Opposite Merchants’ Row.) | Maryland, my Maryland. ridies on e pore jing d, as though with References in Charlottetown— | Remember Carrol's sucred trust a shudder, at the wildness of the night. Iu W. CUNDALL, Eaq W. b. DEAN, Esq ~_ oth a — - a > 5 — the lulls of the wind, [ could hear the sul- at , } ADG ail th siulverers With th j t, _ dune TI, bse2 jo , Maryland, my Maryland. len roar of the distant cannon, coming now

Dentistry.

7 c Il . is prepared at all times

¢@v attend to the vuarivus branches of the profeesiva.

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Uffice hours from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.

Charlottetown, Jan. 20, 1862. tf

- WM. KOUGHAN, |

Gonoral Commission Merchant,

AND DEALER IN Groceries, Provisions, Liquors, &c., &c SMARDON’S BUILDINGS,

North side Queen Square, (formerly occupied by H. Fraser, Esq.) Charlottetown, P. E. Island.

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JAMES McCOMB, IMPORTER OF Clocks, Watches, Jowellery,

FANCY GOODS of all kinds, Ambrotype and Photographic Goods, Chemicals, &e. W helesa!e and Retail.

Bazaar, Groat George Street. Nov. 4, 1861.

‘JOHN & ROBERT SCOTT,

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‘This is trne Liberty, when M'receborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”---Euripides.

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Weekly Aonurnal of Politics, Literature, and Hews.

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fonday, August 4, 1862,

New Series.---No. 30,

p 0 ET f Y : | we consumed with much adherent oil, core | | recting the richness of the repast with smal! | pieces of very dry biscuit. A few minutes | |afterwards the tent was filled with tobacco- |

smoke, in which we sat gravely pondering |

HLOMELESS.

It is a cold dark midnight, yet listen

To that patter of tiny feet! ;

oo tat roo ee over the scene we had recently quitted. | Is it one of your dogs, fair lady, 4 : : , Who whines in the blank cold street? When Jack could no longer bold the pipe

% one of your silken spaniels : : : : oT fe it one of your silken spaniels in his mouth for yawning, he undressed,and Shut out in the snow and the sleet? : ie 5 : | turned into his camp-bed. My sleeping ar- | My dogs sleep warm in their baskets, | rangements were speedily completed. ‘Tey | e darkness and sriow ; i 5

Safe from t!

| consisted, first, in taking off my coat, which

All the beasts in our Christian England Find pity wherever they go [ rolled up fora pillow ; and next,and lastly, | are only the homeless childr i: . : ee Those are « ly the homeless chi iren lin pulling off my boots. l then lay down

Who are wandering to and fro. : ion the ground, which bad once been turf,

but was now trodden into quite a sofi| mould, and formed a very tolerable couch. |

Look out in the gusty dark ness— I have t garain and again, That sha

Up and « After shifting from one side to the other, to | It is surely some criminal lurking ind the m i hele I selected that | eel aye dnp encase i | find the most easy possition, I selected that ul lere it he VULel Ail . % | which placed me with my back towards the} Nay, our criminals all are sheltered, | tent-pole, and my face to the canvas. They are pitied and taught and fed: } an : That is only a sister-woman, | During my preliminary turns “ in bed,” | Whe Pee See eee ee ee See {LC had glanced at the interior of the tent, | And the Night cries * sin to be living,”’ pe . o : . And the River cries “ sin to be dead.” {lighted up as it now was by the moon, and, lin the way in which one sometimes observes Look out at that farthest corner ’ . rl ” . Where the storm stands blank and bare: | obj ets accurately without any well-defined | ‘an that be a pack which a Pedlar | purpose, L had noticed the position of vari-| as left and forvotten there ! : _ : " | a ae be aan a ie a }ous articles in the tent. ‘There was my | Will be spoilt by the damp night air. | companion’s bed, its Juxurious occupant | i ;comfortably tucked in, and already fast Nay—gooda in our thrifty England es . : ; Tos i Ave not lait to fhe aad arow rotten, fasleep. His sword, the clothes he had just For each man knows the market value taken off,and some bridles, dangled from Of silk or woollen or cotton are ER He . —, : : ick ben eteantie tie shakes of Musiend nails in the tent-pole, Under the foot of | I think our Peor are forgotten. the bed was his writing-case, and near it a | bullock-trunk, with a loaded revolver lying 7 > , ‘ ~ i Our Beasts and our Thieves and our Chattels ; a. ying | Have weight for good or fer ill; fupou it. These were close to the canvas,on | * But the Poor are only His image, the side opposite to that which I occupied. His presence, His word, His will—

My riding-whip, with its leaded handle, lay | within my easy reach. J had seen all these, | and mentally noted their arrangement, and

And so Lazarus lies at eur doorstep Aud Dives neglects bim still.

MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND. being fanned by the air which blew in under |

The despot's heel is on thy shore, * a ’ Maryland, my Maryland. the * fly” of the tent.

His torch is at thy temple door,

uow turned my back upon them, my face) and grasping its other extremity, | was in

breath was held till L could endure it no longer, and then a brilliant ray of moonlight filled the tent.

[have never felt the soft calm light of the moon fall upon me with so cheering an influence as it did at that moment. In a single glance, my eyes took in the whole scene, but to my intense surprise, I could see fothing to account for what had passed. [ looked anxiously around; everything seemed in its place, and I began to fancy myself the prey to some illusion. But this was not so, for in another moment I had discovered that the writing-case which had been under my friend’s bed was ne longer there. Nor was this all. I will not affect to deny that a vivid feeling of horrer came upon me when suddenly, and without visible agency, the trunk began to move! 1 could

| only stare without attempting to interfere,as

slowly and noiselessly it gradually disap- peared, aud the canvas dropped behind it. As it glided away, 1 distinctly noticed the loaded revolver lying upon it ; but such was | my state of astonishment, that I did not} think of snatching the weapon ere it was too late to retrieve my error.

What should Ldo? My first thought was to awaken Jack ; but the conviction that he would be sure to start up in bed, and shout out loudly enough to cause an alarm, deter- mined me against this course. I crept cau- tiously to my feet, stood for a while hesita- ting, and then looked for some weapon. Sus- pended from a nail in the tent-pole was a sword, which [ endeavoured to detach, but found, to my annoyance, that [ should first be obliged to remove some bridles, and thia I dared not attempt, ou account of the noise which the metal would occasion. Suddenly, [remembered my heavy-handled riding-whip,

possession of a formidable club. Thus armed, I untied the fastenings of the tent, and step- ped cautiously out. At the sume time, |

Maryland, my Maryland.

Shall we ever explain the cause of that

| UBERT, Dentist,

} That batiles nunioi

But thine was ever But lo! there surges forth a shriek j

Avenge the patriot's yere, That flecked the streets of Baltimore, And be the Battle Queen of yore

Maryland, my Maryland.

alert? Never have I experienced the feel-

| ing more strongly than | did on this night, | Hark to a wandering son's appeal,

Higley & Garland, |

| My mother’s State, to thee I kneel,

and never was it more vague. ‘The wind Maryland, my Maryland. : ‘ Nya . , came up in stormy gusts from

Maryland, my Maryland.

at lengthened intervals on'y, and remiuding

is bright and strong,

Come, for thy shiel|

M iryi sid, my Mary land. oue ot the au sry growls ofa wild beast dis- Come, for thy dalliance does thee wrong, appointed of its prey. I thought of the Maryland, my Marvland. : . : . a Maryland, my Mary and |deaths which each report siynalied, and of Come to thine ow: ero throng, j ’ . r r } Chat stalks with liberty along, jt é loving hearts far away who Were per | And shee anew Key eines at! Werelin’ |chance even then dreaining of the safe re- | akuryiand, iny Murry land, ° . ’ t | rr : . | tara of those who had just fallen. The} Dear mother, burst the tyrant’'s chain, }mooulight suddenly disappeared. In ima-| {

Maryland, my Maryland.

Virginia should not call in vain, ; ‘ = : , ‘ — } pee real oleae wilidle ed , mn acrose the } laryland, my Maryland. | ragged Cugzes, Wudiy speeding On across the eee sky, and deepening the gloom of night. The | Sic semper, Us he proud retrain “ > So

; | vague feeling of insecurity which [I have | mentioned rather increased as time wore on

| [t made me impatient of my companion’s jeasy slumber, irritably anxious about the jexact space of time which elapsed between jeach roar of the cannon, and, tired as I | was, left me without hope of sleep. Perhaps,

8 back amain, Maryland, my Maryland.

I see the blush upon thy cheek, Maryiand, my Maryland. bravely meek

Maryland, my Maryland.

From hill to bill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake,

Marylaud, my Maryland. ; : ~--some of those which do not pass a man’s

lips, but, from being pent up and carried in his breast, come out upon a night like this, and attack him in great force.

I have no means of knowing how long I

Thou wilt not yield the vandal toll, Marylaad, my Maryland. Thou wilt not breok to his contro}. Maryland, my Maryland. Ketter the fire upon thee roll, Retter the blade, the shot, the bowl, Than cracifixion of the soul, Maryland, my Maryland.

I hear the distant thander hum, Maryland, my Maryland. The oid-line's bugle, fife and drum, aryland, my Maryland. She is not dead, nor deaf, ner dumb, Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum,

{ felt at the same instant that peculiar thrill which seems to tighten the sealp, and thence

Maryland, my Maryland. find difficult to describe.

| Viction of the near presence of another liv- |

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| previous occasions, by leaving us no better | ments there succeeded to this state of dis-

|panion, It has probably occurred to most

A WILD NIGHT.

One evening in the month of August | 1855, when the allied troops lay before Se- | bastopol, the firing in the direction of “ the | front” had been so heavy and continuous as | 5, my mind that I could not throw it off

,and to this result we have not been guided apparently by any one of our ordinary isenses. My condition much resembled this;

vague foreshadowing of coming evil which | the moon, and knew that its friendly light seems sent to us as a warning to be on the| would very shortly cease. The circular form |of the tent limited my view on first emerging | from the folds of the canvas. | caution, to avoid noise, I turned to the left, the Black | 224 took a few steps; the mystery was at

lan end ! ; ; an end, Sea; 1 could trace its course by the distant |

‘not to disturb them.

| est robber.

igination, L figured the b!ack clouds, with |

| perfect study of horror. | as quickly as possible, but it was too late.

too, I had my own private sorrows or hopes | tinny at a speed which made pursuit hopeless. |

had thus been lying, when I found myself brought back with extreme suddenness to. the remembrance of my actual position,and |

‘bole scooped out under the canvas showed /extend tingling to the very soles of the feet. | She breathes! she burns! she'll come! she'll come! | Accompanying this was a feeling which [ | It was firm con- | | ‘Those of my readers who are acquainted

MISCELLANEOUS jing being besides my acknowledged com-/| with Turkish police arrangements will not be ' | suprised to learn that the perpetrators of the

,of us, on entering a dark room, to feel con- | robbery were never discovered, jvinced that there was some ove already in it, |

whilst the idea became so strongly impressed | he | ; ast | of visiting, and also privately entertaining |

noticed that clouds were rapidly approaching With great

The fading light of the moon showed me two men in Turkish dress, bending over Jack’s trunk, which lay between them. One had his back, the other bis face, turned towards me, bat my approach had been so quiet as The nearer one held his revolver in his right hand, whilst his companion was endeavouring to force the lock of the trunk. Near them lay the writ- ing-case, with its conteats strewed about. In | all probability, a few moments of calm re- | flection might have changed my plan of oper- ations, bat wrought up as | was to a pitch | fF excitement by the events of the night, I | acted upon the impulse of the momens. and instinctively prepared for a blow at the near-

* order to give it greater effect, | I took a sudden step ferward—a fatal error, | for in dving 80 my leg came sharply against | a tightly stretched tent-rope, and | fell heavily upon my intended victim!

] am paintully aware of the bungling cha- racter of this catastrophe ; it would never be admitted in a work of fiction ; but Lam deal-| ing with facts, and am not therefore account- | able for it. My blow of course missed its | ybjeet, and a moment of ladicrous confusion | ensued, during which the faces of tie two) men, as they caught sight of me, formed a| L rose to my feet |

The thieves darted away in different direc

1 made a rash attempt to follow them, but | the ground was covered with loose stones,and [ was without my boots!

A shout soon aroused Jack, who rashed out of the tent in some consternation. On| striking a light, we found that a small sum | of money had been abstracted from the writ- ing-ease. The trank, which contained a much larger sum, was fortunately still un- opened, but the pistol was gone. A large

how the trunk had been drawn from its place in the solemn and mysterious manner I have described. ‘This also explained the seratch- ing noise.

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GIANTS IN GENERAL.

giant,”

Yin. Besides the above we have at the College

casts of the hands of Patrick Cotter, the Irish

His height by measurement is 6ft

giant, whose height was Sft. Thin; also of|

Mr. Louis Frenz, whose height was 7{t 4in. Also casts of the hands of an English giant named Bradley, and of a Lapland giant ; the heights of these latter being unknown. But last week we saw recorded in The Fieid an account of an Irish giant, named Murphy, and [ will not here repeat the account there given.

In the year 1684 was exhibited in public,

}at Oxford, Edmund Meloon (born at Port

| Leicester, in Ireland) : he was nineteen years ‘be 15fe. high,

| giants, some commentators have gone so far

of age, and was 7ft. Gin high; not so big as M. Brice; his finger was 6fin. long, span I4in., cubic 2ft. 2in. In the year 1682 was exhibited, at Dublin, another giant. His father was in no way remarkable for his height, and his mother was cf more than or- dinary low stature. When he stood on the bare ground, with his shoes off, he measured full 7ft. Tin,

Oa a tombstons in the charchyard of Calverley, in Yorkshire, is an inscription to the memory of * Benjamin, son of John Cromach, who died 25th Sept., 1826, aged 25 years,” who took a coffin 7ft. Llin. long.

Again in 1572, Del Rio saw a Piedmontese |

more than 9ft. in stature. Julius Sealiger describes a giant he saw at Milan lying up- on two beds placed end to end. Gaspar Bauhin cites a Swiss of 8ft. A Swede, one of the body guard of the King of Prussia, wes 8} feet; aud Vanderbrook saw a black man, a Congo, 9ft. high. Berkeley, the celebrated Bishop of Cloyne, was of opinion that he could raise up by artificial means a rival to Og and Goliah. He tried the ex- periment on a lad named Macgrath. The lad waxed taller and taller, aud at length

Bashan, and Goliath of Gath. Of the hight

| were not so much giants iu physical statures |as great atheists and monsters of impiety, | | rapive and all wickdness. says the learond Dr. Derham, in

| Physico-Theology,” “be the matter as it | % tide to Harrowor E

accounts of giants, and the following are some of the principal expre-sions made use of. Thus we read :—** There were giants in the earth ;” “ We saw giants, the sons of Anak ;” * Og, King of Bashan, remained of the remnant of giants ;” “ Bashan, called the Land of Giants ;” “ The lot of Judah at the Valley of Giants,” &., &e. The chief of these giants were—Og, the King of

of the latter, viz, 6 cubits and a span, there has been great disputes, one account making him to be 10ft. Gin., another 9ft. only, while Bishop Camberland (in his “Jewish Weights and Measures’) makes him to be above II ft. Again, Oz, the King of Bashan, is said to As to the antediluvian

as to say that these * Nephilim” or giants

will, it is very manifest that in both these places (the giants before the Fiood, and the giants seen by the Israclitish spies), giants

| are spoken of as rarities and wonders of the

age, not of the comman stature.

I cannot conclude these remarks without stating that I do not believe we of the present race are smaller than men of ancient times, be they post or ante-diluvians,

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Guizor on Certain Men or Marx.—The first amongst these, of whom M. Guizot speaks, are Lord Melbourne, Lord Aberdeen, and the Duke of Wellington. Lord Mel- bourne he found ‘* the least radical of the Whigs, impartial from clear sense and indif- ference, a judicious epicurean, an agreeable egotist, gay without warmth. and mingling a natural air of authority with carelessness which he took delight in proclaiming. ‘It

his | a8 well as politicians.

Just, however, as he had reached the age of

gan to account for the presence of the ele-

The last diving giant | had the pleasure

is all the same to me,’ was his habitual ex- pression.’’ Lord Aberdeen he describes as ** the most liberal among the Tories, serious and mild in temperament,upright and refined, dignified and modest, penetrating and reserv- ed, imperturbably just, with a heart pro- foundly saddened, for he had been stricken by repeated blows in his warmest affections, while he still remained tender and full of do- lightfal companionship, under a frigid exte- rior and a sombre aspect.’’ The Duke of Wellington surprised M. Guizot. “I found him,”’ he says, ‘* aged, thin, shrunken, and

was carried all over Europe as a show.

twenty and the stature of 7ft. Sin., accord- ing to the London Chronicle of 1760, page 006, the poor giant died.

Though authentic accounts of giants in the flesh are not very common, we find in- stances innumerable on record of the bones and skeletons of giants having been fouad buried in the earth. Some labourers who were digging gravel in front of St. John’s |

College, Oxford, discovered and trundled | bent, mach beyond what his years then de-

off to my father a wheelbarrow full of giants’) manded. (Le was in his seventy-first year.) bones, which he immediately decided to be| He looked with those dimmed and vacant the boues of fossil elephants, The men/eyes in which the soul, ready to depart, were persuaded into this belief, but they be-| seems no longer to take the trouble of showing iteelf; he spoke with short and wavering utterance, the feebleness of which resembles the emotion of a last adieu. But once enter- ing into conversation,all his firm and accurate intellect still maintained itself, though with labour, and sustained by the energy of his will.”’

At the first levee which M. Guizot attended, though he thought the ceremony Jong and monotouous, the scene inspired him with real interest :

«I regarded with excited esteem the pro- found respegt of thai vast assembly, courtiers, citizens, lawyers, churchmen, officers, mili- tary and naval, passing before the Queen, the greater portion bending the knee to kiss her hand, all perfeetly solemn, sincere, and awkward. The sincerity and seriousness were buth needed to prevent those antiquated habits, wigs, and purses, those costumes whieh no one even in England now wears, except on such occasions, from appearin somewhat ridiculous. Bat I am little sensible to the outward appearance of absurdity, when the substance partukes not of that character.””

Of Lori Durham, M. Guizot says, he was a spoiled child of the world, clever, popular, still young and handsome, satiated with the

: ae . | Successes, and irritated by the trials of life. bones belonging to some of the biggest quad- | Lord Grey pleased him inGaitely. * There

rupeds, as elephants or some of the largest | 1. the “elevated head, the dignified and sorts of fishes of the whale kind; and I am | gentle demeanor, the placid took, ready to persuaded that the large tooth mentioned by | become animated if any subject of interest Ol. Wormius was nothing else than the tooth | arose, the remains of early beauty under the of the Cetus dentatus, or spermaceti whale.” | sadness and weariness of age.’’ Not with- All this I fully endorse. It is a curious poy ene, ns ras pays cS ‘ ul ré&. ** One nm _— and one of the Gret thet began to saa. He bade me amis this. * eng

throw light upon the popular legends and | iy he said, ‘ when I was young, scarcely

phant, coming to the conclusion over the beer received as the price of the giaats’ bones that fossil elephants were all nonsense, and that the elephant whose bones they found must have teen one that died in Wombd- welis Menagerie, though no one of the com- pany could call to mind such an event ever having happeued.

These ‘ giants’ bones” are and have been found and talked about by all nations; and whenthe rude inhabitants of Siberia disco- vered the celebrate. fossil elephant in the frozen earth, they called it the “* mammoth, or animal of the earth,” and, believed the re- mains were those of a gigantic animal that was still living like a mole, beneath the sur- face of the earth. Many accounts are given by ancient authors, such as Kircher and others, not * of gigantic bones only, but of vastly gigantic men found baried under- ground, or in the holiow eaverns of moun- tains." Of these a learned author, writing | in 1722, says: “ Remains, such | mean as are truly bone (for some are only natural petrifactions and lapides suz generis.) were

stories of former days, when scionce Was yet | any one passed my door,men or women,with- young, and exhibitions of giants’ bones were | out calling to see me. To-day, from that not uucommon. In 1721, for example, the! window, I see them all go by as formerly, |

hand of a giant was publicly shown for money, | but they enter no more.’’’ Rarely, indeed, |

this hand being according to the author | do men escape, when old, the visitation of above quoted, “ the bones of the fore fin o! |neglect. Here isa group of foreign Sighe- |

. : ops - | matists lightly, but for the most part accu- a porpoise or small whale artificially joined | rately, drawn. Bazon.de Neemenn, * re

|to cause a more than usually strong expec: | yng instinctively every sense was strained | Was a Spauish giant, whom many of nny read- | together.” Here, then, is a good biut for! ¢j.ntial servant of Prince Metternich, intel- |

tation in our camp that rps decisive | to gather evidence. > isone of thecurious para-| ,._. . ine Pose - band oo a *anstof ea thes | ‘Thus intent, became conscious of a slight ee tion of ha: hi fe. those -. iscratching sound, which seemed to proceed } wit é excep 10 ’ 1€ Chieis, Os ” th - Br eh id f . Alth wh Red the other side of the tent. Although | gaged on the spot are ordinarily behind the from ere oats o" | BB f th A te infeuention os to what | I was confidently expecting to see or hear n ation as at | : ass “e ye ‘ mediat i ivbbourhood something to account for the peculiar state g in their immediate neighbour i es , nae | Tn “civilised eudkttiun the journals are at | 0! bervous apprehension ia which L lay, this Ps (hand to afford the latest intelligence ; but, re |in camp any piece of news iiins as tele oven ~ gr stad we vs Hg saat ; | At regular intervals came Jack's usual | by ae aoe through ee ae | music, with which a long and painful expe- . > as to be hardly recognisable after a shor Su

. : : ‘rience had made me very familiar. ¢ ! : ary l endenee is conse- | ; ‘ time, and wery little depen | there was still the scratching, more ener- igetic now, and less disguised. All ona

quently to be placed upon it. Fully im- presses ore aoe, Sa aioe Steer | sudden,its meaning flasued upon me : human ce: ater eee ane eee |hands were tearing up the earth outside, ing on, Jack Farrance and [ rode over to hapa tated. within the teat ! Catheart's Hill, aud took up a position from | P°TD4P% - : :

: : An uncontrollable shudder passed over CER SONS command © vies Se eas I conceived this idea, I strove to active operations against the besiege city. |‘"° * . :

The firing was so rapid as to keep up an |tempt was vain. Assuming that my sup- incessant roar, and the whole neighborhood | position was correct, it afforded no relief to | was lighted up by the glare of rockets and | tie excitement which the sound occasioned, burstiog shells. Occasional flashes down in| 454 which was inercased by the fact that the | the advanced trenches, and the wild notes) mysterious work, whatever it might be, was of a bugle, or the hard rattling sound peed | going on behind me. The position of our | liar to the French drum, showed that, in tont upon a barren hill, and away from the, addition to the bombardment, an active cou-| rect of the encampment, the advanced hour, | flict was going on among the troops. Be-| and the stormy character of the night, all yond this we could discover nothing; and | bore their part in giving a peculiar horror | our journey ended, as it had done on many |ty s9 unusual an incident. In a few mo-,

‘informed than when wo started. After | trogsing perplexity an instinctive desire for looking on for an hour or more, we turned | action, and my heart,which had beeo thump- | our horses’ heads homewards, with the cOn- jing with painful energy, began to subside solatory assurance that in a month’s time) jnty a more natural beat. we should read in the Times Russell’s gra-| my back was turned towards the quarter

stir. | now face it.

be traversed was more than five miles, and | reyersing my posture, and endeavoured with the road, at all times very difficult after | straining eyes to pierce the darkness, but to

nightfall, was so obscured oa the present no purpose. occasion by a storm of dust, that it was fearful was [ of interrupting a mystery

belore we reached Jack’s camp. Mine was | furious gust of wind now shook the tent with still distant some four miles, by yet a worse a force that threatened to tear it from its road; so that, under the cireamstances, | position, The noise thus caused was great, preferred a shake-down in my friead’s tent, but through it I could yet hear the hands to the vague chance of finding my own. now faster at work than ever, as though

Our supper was not ao elaborate meal, | seizing the opportunity for renewed exertion,

daly 4,198. JAMES PURDIE,

consisting ag it did mainly of sardines,which ' Auotuer pause occurzed, during which my

sound was at the moment quite inexplicable. |

suggest some other explanation, but the at-| ¢

ers must recollect as being exhibited at the

| Gusmorama Rooms in Regent Street. ‘same was Senor Joachim Eleizegue. Ho | ‘came from the Basque provinces of Spain, | 'and his height was said to be 7ft 10in. I! | regret mach I did not take accurate measure- | | ments at the time, as I frequently saw him | ‘in private. I can well recoilect he was not nearly such a fine or such a “ nice” giant as | M. Brice. His cousin happened to be a| patient at St. George’s Hospital at the time { was House Surgeon there, and the giaut was in the habit of paying frequent visits to his invalided cousin, and much the other pa- tients were astonished when he came stalking into the wards.

Among other modern giants I must now mention the following. In the Royal Col- lege of Surgeons, Lincoln’s-inn-fields, is the skeleton of a giant who in his day excited

great wonder and curiosity: his name was QO’ Brian or Byrne, he was commonly known

iby the title of the Irish giant. This man

was said to have been 8 feet high. I have measured his skeleton carefully for my pre-

sent purpose, and find it to be 92jin., as His history, as quoted by |

near as possible. the College catalogue from the * Annual Register’s Chronicle,” Jane 1733,vol. xxv., p.209 is: “In Cockspur Street, Charing

His | of a porpoise or a whale, when the skin has! ayoiding to c:

au English Barnum, for the bones of the fio | ligent, prudent, seriously disercet, carefully

ymamit his court and himself, |

to entertain the Jast su of

a , ae he was in office ; and in ; a life of responsibility that would have exhausted Z the

illing the high place in no merely format and hono way, but doing triumphant battle aingle-handed with hie snemiey with all the shrewdness of age and all the smart- ness of youth. There is ne finality feeling inhim. If he does not feel himself

he fancies the world is still in its youth. Men would forgive him if he put off his ar- mour, and with folded arms talked of the past and his part in the achievements; but he talks rather of the future, and is ready for anything the present seems to demand, whe- ther it & new experiment on trade, an extension of the franchise,or a reconstruction of our defences ; and all this cordially, with the spirit and the sprightliness of ounger men. We say this is a physiologi menon quite as mach as « political one—an affair of temper and tempsrament, of health

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“ Anyhow,” as|and habits, worthy the stady of physicians

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to feel the world still tresh ; to be conscious of no want of sympathy with a generation in which one’s early contemporaries caw searcel be detected ; to be cheerful and genial—a

to make the Commons of England laugh and vote at pleasure, are great qualities. Old age is the time for showing the difference of men who in their middle age seem much alike. Why should advanced age be so often

> menennes eae frailty? Why should nos the vigour of the middle period be projected into the last? The sane to sods quealan must be looked for in the study of lives as that of Lord Palmerston. We should greatly relish a speceh from the noble lord on the art of attaining so an enviable old age. Meantime we can only guess at the secret; but we have no doubt about essentia) parts of it—a certain cheerfulness of disposi- tion, exercise, good digestion waiting on ap- petite, and withal temperance, — the matter of drinks. are i ed, plain expedients. They have been the theme of morulists and poets and physicians from time immemorial. Alas, that so many who praised did not practisethem! May the Premier live long a8 a proof of their power, and as a happy specimen of the mens sana in corpore sano !—Lancet,

0 Errcscan Touns.—The opening of the Musee Napoleon Il. bas afforded M. Nool

Desvergers, a well-known antiquarian, an opportunity of discussing the merits of the precious objects therein contained, in an ar- ticle published by the Revue Contemporaine. As M. Desvergers has himself been an active excavator, his description of the manner in which the Etruscans built their tombs

sents particular interest. He states . after pursuing his excavations for the