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A BATTLE PIECE.

BY CROLY.

The Turkraan lay beside the river ;

The wind elayed loose through bow and quiver,

The charger on the bank fed free,

The shicid hung gtittering from the tree,

‘The trainpet, shawn and attabdal

Were hid from view by cloak and pail,

Fer long and weary was the way

The hordes had marched that burning day.

‘Above them, on the sky of June,

Broad as « buckler glowed the moon— Flooding with glory vale and hill,

In silver sprang the mountsia rill, ‘The shrud in etiver lustre beut,

A pile of silver stood the tent;

All soundlees, sweet tranquitity—

All beauty, hill, and tent and tree.

There came 8 sound —'treese lise the guch When vient winds hate the rose's bush ! Shere exlne a eound-—‘rees ius the tread Of wolves emung the walley’s Bed! There cane a eonind—'t eee lite the roar Of ocvan on re wine ahore !

“Doath tothe Turk!" ap reve the yell — On relied the chayge—a thunder peal! The Tartar arrows fell like rain — They cient of hein, and caai!, aud chain, to bhaed 12 Mele, ie Geath were twimed Savede uodGreek, mad, bleeding, blind, And ett! on Axuk, and front, and rear, Raget, Constante ! ty trureting spear!

Porowey ard Hie--% t¥ ive of down—

Lewhed the cmon through the deep’ping £:veon.

Dora tluaged her orb — ‘twee pitchr pFucere :

Tiow. Purkiaan, arn thy reine for fight!

@n ruse d thew thousaada through the ard ! :

Pat in the corny eo radde mpark

hike ay uucertaim weteor reeled —

Thy tand, wrove kung, thet firebrand wheeler!

Wild buret rhe burmed clement,

O’er can and courser, flag and tent!

And throngs the diez the Greeks out- Sprang,

Liike awe bloody—hoof and fang!

With dswuwur gab, 3nd falchion’s eweep,

Dely ug tnestunn’t ead saggering beap,

Bid lay fae eleve, by chief aud kean,

Mud ai was goue that once was maa!

KH wailing on the Euxine ehore-—

Hey chivalry shail cise DO more—

Tine c2's wathaw om tny hits, Altai! Poe cliete the tivectan vulture’s prey; But Bosyharue! thy silver wave, Heirs s!.cats for tay eeturming brava— The guenest of her king!y hne—

Por there comes glorious Consetentine!

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Neh Oe ROD APB AMANO &

PROGCHRESS. Dies the earth contain one spirit Boved deeponient to the dust, On the midnight of whose vision Beams no star of Hope and trust ? JLet that coul but pause and ponder Oc the worka the Past has done, And 10 earnest, bright and glorious, Pur the Future shal} be won.

For the sou) must feel the stirring Of its destiny suolime, Who but rightly views the Present, ~ With its earnest heart and mind. oiling iu the earthly vineyard, * Many hands have found a place ; me are nearly tothe sammit— Wome are at the mountain’s base,

time tft tte Beso

“THIs IS TRUE LIBERTY

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WHEN FREERP-BORN MEN“HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC—MAY SPEAK FREE.” Muron’s Leriiprs,

CHARLOTTETOWN, JANUARY. 4, 1951.

Progress is the stirring watchword—- Cheers them apward to the herght ; Can'st thou patse and play the lagvard, With its glories full insight ?

And while fair, and broad, and glorious In our VigiION we can see,

Still the future brightly stretching Into far infinity.

Who shall tell what bond or barrier To improvement heaven designed P Who shali dareto fill the limits To the onward march of mind ? Only He, whe into being Called the vafathomed human soul, He for whom the hyinn of Progress Throagh eternity shall roll!

Rerorts on Banarstans.—Searjeant Cockle, who was a reugh biustering fel- low, once got froma witeees more than he gave. tne trie! ofa richt to a fishery he asked the witnesa,Po'st thou love fish?’ * Ave.” replied the witness. “ but f donna Ike cockie sance with it!” ‘Phe reer of laughter whier eehoed tNrouch the court rether diaturhed the learned sergeant.

There is an anecdote similarly relisted of Sergeant Davy, a great lawyer of the last eye. A ventlemnan once appeared in the Canrt of King’s Bereh to vive dail in the sam of £3000. Serveant Davy want- mg teditelay hia wi. ead tehim sterniy, * Aad pray, gir, how do vou omuke out that you are worth £3900 ?’ The gentle. man stated t1@ particalare of his property upto 2vO4. © That's all very gon.” sual the Sergeant, “but vou want £50 niure to be worth £3000." “For that sum.” renied the wentleman, in no way diseonceried, “Lhave a note of hand «fone Nerceant Davy, end} hope he wall have the hones?y soon to settle it.” The lauzh- ter that this raply excited, extended even tathe beach; the Sergeaet looked sbasn- ed, and (ard ManeSahl ohaervead im his vental urbane tone, «© Well, brother Davy, Ethink we ‘nev zocept the bail.”

Dupnivg, while examining & witness gaked him if ke did not live at the very verze of the court. © Yea Edo,” was tie reply. © And pcsy why hava yon selected auch a apet for your residence 2” “In the vain kupe of eeractng the rascally immpertinesee of renive.” was the retort. A witneas with ¢ Parce!pAian nose coming in Donning's #47, hewaid to him, * Now, Mr. Conper-moss, vow have been sworn, what do yeu vay?’ “hy upoe my oath,” replied the witneag, “PT would not exchange my copper nose for your brazen face. "—Law und Lawyers.

Garat Swexine. —Lord Eldon relates thet the Duke of Norfolk, towards the latter end of his life was extremely apt to fall asierp. Vhia happoned very oftex in the House of Lords, snd its proceed. ings were in seme mexeore interrupted by the peiee which bia Gerace’s snoring nade Upon one day, ehilet he was sound aeleep, aad very eonorays, the members ef the House of Convaons came up with a bil), and (announced to the Hause of Lords ae the speaker the message from the Commons was, that the Commons had paeaed s bill relative to the Great Snoe- ing. ia which they desired their Lordships conenrrence. spoke very loud when | mentioned Great Snoring, which, witha lauvh throughout the House, awoke the Quke ont of his great snoring, who very heartily joined in the laugh. Great Snor- ing is a parish, { forget in what county, (Norfolk) and the bill was a bil! fer en- closing the commons of that parish.

A Lawren's Tarcx.—A_ remarkable nstance is remembered in Westminster Hall, of a lawyer acting in the face of

Ja jury, at ‘the critical moinent of their

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= ORES SBR beginning fo consider their verdict. [fe had defended a gentlenan of rank and tartune, against 4 charge of an atrocious deseription. fle had performed his part with more than hia accustomed zeal and skill, As soon as the jndge had sammed up, he tred up his papers deliberately. and with a face smiling and easy, but carefully turned towards the jury, he rose and eaid, loud enough to be generally heard, that he was enwaved to. dinner, and in ao clear a case there was no occa-

sion for him to wait) what must be the!

certain event. He then retired, delber- ately bowing to the court. One of the jurors having occasion to leave the court, found that ell this confidence and fear- lesanesea had never crossed its threshold —for behind the door stood Sir James Scarlett trembling with anxiety, his face the colour of his brief. and awaiting the reault of the “clearest case in the world,” in breathless suspense.

Docroa Frawsxiin’s Toast —Long after the victories of Washineton over the French and Enegbah had mace tis nanie fanitier to all Parone, Dr. Franklin ehaneed to dime with the Enetish and

- o . } “ranch Ambassadors, when og nearly me

the precise words can be receileeted, the following tonata were drank --

‘Enyland—The Sun whose brieht

beams eniiehten and frucefy the remo-f, aad ie head 'y private @ohseription, and by ioams,

test corners of the earth.’

The French srcbaasodor filled with ne tional pride, but being toe pole toe te pute the previous tuast, drank the follow ing—

“Prance-—The Moos whore mild, stesdy and cheerine tays, are the delietht of all nations, consoling them in the darkness, and making their dresriness baantiful.”

Dr. Franklin then srose, end with his usual dionified simplicity, said —

“George Washinston— The Jovhun who commanded the San and Moon to gtand still, and thay obeyed him.”

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Satarday, danzary 4, 1831.

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OFFICIAL DEFALCATION. fy Duncan Maclean had the least pru- dence, or regard for the feelings of some of hia official employers, be would studt- ously avoid in his paper the discussivn of topes which are eminently calentated to awsken reminiscences that can only be recalied with disgrace and dishonour to the party it is present object to serve, His infamous calumnies on the public character of the Hon. Mr. Howe, which appeared in the * Islander” of the 27th nit, whilst they leave entarnished the reputation of the Hon, Provincial Seere- tary, because of the worthlessness and ‘mpotence of the ealumniator—they bring to our remembrance ail the circumstances connected with the notorious defalcations of the late Treasurer.

“Is it not now,” asks the Islander, “believed in Halifax that the deficiency (in the Excise) was advanced by his (Mr. Howe's) friends to save him from

diserace? Is he (Mr. Hlowe) now consi dered in Halifax a fit and proper person ‘o be eatrusted with the management oj a pndli¢ office like the Treasury oF Ex-

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Mark the cowardice of this calumai- ator; lost as he is to all sense ef shame, yet he dare not assert positively these monstrous slanders of Mr. Howe. He asks ifsuch and such things are believed in Halifax, leaving his ignorant readers to snppose that they are. We tell him coafidently they are not believed, even hy the bitterest enemies of the Hen. Provincial Secretary. Whenthe charge of a defalcation in the Excise was first got up by Mr. Howe’s political enesnies, he immediately brought the eubjecs before the House of Assembly and de manded an ingniry. In that Honse were a imnajority of Tories from whom he had little elemency to expect if proved guilty of the offence Isid to hia charge. But Mr. Howe was exonerated in the most satisfactory manner by a hostile Com- mittee, and scarcely an individual ever afterwards believed the fabrication about Such was not the When was well known all over the conu‘ry, that

is being a devaalter. _

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there was a deficiency of thoasainds gn

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ine treasury which had to be aadeoup

odtamed. froin ihe frieads of the cratie- maa holding that «vice! an imquiry inte

ithe whole affair wae asked for by a mem.

bey of the Asseiab!y, and tte calameator of Mr. Howe was avioorst the lietata Ii is trac) a Commit- tee was afterwards apported, bat the

refuse the raquire.

investigation wineh took place under that Committee was so managed as to

a conceal every material fact, aud give the

Preasarer every chance of appearing/ae unmaculate as the new made snow. We shail not cosy the sivie of the Islander but do assert positively, that there was @ deficiency in the Treasury of this Island at the tine we allude to, and that that, deficiency “was ndvanced” by) Mr. Siith’s frends “to save him fromdas srace.? firs taking meney from people under filse oretences—Ais subsequent absconding trom the Isiand~Ais loss: of securities, when even a bad government were stil] disposed to tolerate the mane his diwappoiatment on getting no ones to be a security for him—his secend ab- sconding to England ima vessel owned by the Sheriff whilst writs were out for hig arrest —are circumstances, however, which have no parallel in the case of Mr. Howe, and would not probably be thoughts of, if the sabjeect of official defalcation were Jeft untonebed. So much” for Duncan’s injudicious reference to falee hoods long since refuted.

fr appears that the observations frota,a correspondent, in our Jast paper, in refer ence to the determination of a Comittee of the Agricultural Society not to sedd, for exhibition at the World’s Fair the articles of domestic growth and manufaw- ture advertised for by the Society—have directed public attention to the smbjeet;

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