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F. M. CAMPBELL.

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AVCTIONEER LE BROKER | TRINITY CORNER, GEYRUETOWN, PEL |

AGENT FOR THE Mandard Life insurance Co. Sept. 1, 1873. ly

HASZARD BROS.,

Commission Merchants & Anctioneers,

FORWARDING, MANUFACTURERS,

AND General Agents. Gt WATER STREET, Opposite Merchants Bank,

Charlottetown, - - - - P.E-L

J. E. Haszarp, | Horace Haszarp. oom, O (— REFERENCES Messrs. Greenshields, Son & Co., Montreal, Messrs. W. & R. Brodie, Quebec, Mevsrs. J. S. Farlow & Co., Boston. Heary Lawson, Esq., Halifax, N. 5 . Hon. Daniel Davies, Charlottetown, P. E. I. May 3, 1875.

HERMANS & SON, RK

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véli-Hengers, Gun ad Tin-swiths, QUEEN sTrt kT,

OPPUSITE WATSON’S DRUG STORE, EG to return their thanks to the general public for the liberal patronage extend- ed to them since their commencement in

business, and ask for a continuance of the ‘ame. They keep constantly on hand:—

A NEAT ASSORTMENT OF

TiAWARE, KITCHEN UTENSILS. ke. de. &e. All orders in the above business will be punctually attended to. iaving lately made large purchases in the Cheapest Markets, intended for House Builders, such as

Gas Fitting, Water Closets, Bell Fitting, &e., &e.,

We are prepared to sell them at Rates as Was can be had in the city, and will fit ‘hem up in a good workmanlike style. To a generous public we would say, that all orders in this branch of our business will Sttended to with d: spatch. A lot of First-class WATER COOLERS % hand. Sayers ‘stal Blue

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MARINE

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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

Roser Loncwortu, Esq. §President, Ilon. Jas. DuNCAN, Hon. L. C. Owen, Ilion. A. A. McDona.p, tion. J. C- Popr, THoMas HANDRAHAN, Esq., GronrGe R. Beer, Esq. Risks taken daily at their office, corner Great George and Lower Water Streets. hf. W. HALES, Secrretay. Ch’'town, March 22, 1875—ly

ST. LAWRENCE

Marine Insurance Co. | PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

Nee ee $300,000, Subscribed Capital, - - 148,960,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, President. Joun F. Ropertson,

ARTEMAS’ LorD,

P. W. liynpMAN,

RaLtpu B. Peake, Tuomas Morris, GEORGE D. Loneworrn,

Risks taken daily at their office, Exchange

| Building.

FREDERICK W. HYNDMAN, Cl’town, March 22, 1875.—1ly Secretary.

Hitt

INSURANCE,

'MIPE IAL

‘Fire lesurance Company

OF LONDON,

Subseribed & Invested Capital, £1.965,000 Stg.

PHENIX

(NSURANCE COMPANY,

OF BROOKLYN, N. ¥

Cash Asse's, - - - $2,015,383.84.

The above Offices being of UNDOUBT- ED STANDING, guarantee perfect security and Prompt Payment of Losses.

=" | DETACHED DWELLINGS insured for

Oue, Twe, or Three Years on SPE- CIALLY ADVANTAGEOUS} TERMS.

FENTON T. NEWBERY, AGENT. Jan. 18, 1874. ly

THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON

AND CLOBE

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FirnE AND BLIFe.

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al of Canada, Other Investments in Donzinion of Canada,

162,800 367,091

YAIR RATES. Prompt & Liberal Settlements.

Insurance against Fire effected upon Pri- vate Residences, Household Furniture3and Farm Proyerties, for

One, Three or more years, At Reduced Rates,

Office—Great George Street, Charlotte town, P. E. I.

R. R. FITZGERALD, Agent ly 27, 1874.—6m

Chitown, Ju

MONTREAL 10 CASCUMPEC.

fQXUE Subscriber offers for sale on arrival— 500 bbls FLOUR, 100 bbls BREAD, 30 bus. Timothy SEED, 100 bus. Seed WHEAT, (a good article. ) 10 doz. BUCKETS, 10 doz. BROOMS, 600 lbs. CLOVER SEED, 50 boxes assorted CRACKERS, 100 kegs NAILS, all sizes, 2 tous Rope, from 8th to 4 ineh 6 eases HATS and CAPS, 10 do PAINTS, 20 do UAY RAKES, 20 doz, Haying TOOLS, 20 doz. SHOVELS, HOES, &c., 10 casks Paint OIL, 5 tons PAINT, 25 cases BOOTS and SHOES.

From England

Putty, Paint, Glass, Olive Oll, Iron, Steel,

12 cases shelf HARDWARE, 6000 bus. SALT,

From United States.

BUCKETS, BROOMS, FISHING GEAR,OIL CLOTHING, HOOKS, LINES & TWINES,—

Which, when received, will complete one of the best stock of Goods in Alberton, and will be sold

Cheap for Cash,

ved credit. gh G. W. HOWLAN, May 10, 1875.—tf

~ Prive Btward Island Railway. THROUGH TICKETS !

Moncton, St. John, Pictou, Halifax,

Montreal, Portland and Boston,

may now be had at the Ticket Office of the P. b. I. Railway, Charlottetown. W. McKECHNIE, Sup’t. Railway Office, Ch’town, Aug. 27, 1875.

98 Gheaper than ever, [Nov. 11, 1871.]

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‘ET YOUR HANDBILLS AND (iP owers printed at the office,

POETRY.

SOP FOLDED DOI LL OL Caf AL OL OLAS US asp tp

GILLYFLOWERS.

Old fashioned, yes, I know they ary, Long exiled from the gay partarre, And banished from the bowers; But not the fairest foreign bloom Can match in beauty or perfume Those bonny English flowers.

Their velvet petals, fold on fold, In every shace of flaming gold, And richest, deepest brown ; Lie clese with little leaves between, Of slender shape and tender green, And soft as softest down.

On Sabbath mornings long ayo, When melody began to flow From out the belfry tower, I used to break from childish talk, To piuck beside the garden walk, My mother’s Sunday flower.

In Spring she loved the snow-drop white, In Summer time carnations bright,

Or roses newly blown: But this the flower she cherished most, And from the goodly garden host,

She chose it for her own.

Al mother dear! the brown flowers wave Iw sunshine o'er thy quiet grave, This morning far away ;

And I sit lonely here the while,

Scaree knowing if to sigh or smile

Upon their sister spray.

I well could sigh, fer grief is strong,

I well could smile, for love lives long, And conquers even death ;

But if I smile, or if I sigh,

God knoweth well the reason why, And gives me broader faith.

Firm faith to feel all good is meant,

Sure hope to fill with deep content My most despairing hours;

And oftentimes he deign to shed

Sweet sunshine o'er the path | tread

’ As on to-day these flowers.

And chose he not a bearer meet, To bring for me those blossoms sweet, A loving little child? And child and bonny blossoms come, Like messages of love and home, O'er waters waste and wild.

—All the Year Round.

LITERATUKE. MARCUS WARLAND ; OR, THE LONG MOSS SPRING.

CHAPTER V.—Continued.

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SON Nene

It was a great mortification to Marcus that he could not answer the letter of the young incognita, [He knew not to whom or where to address a reply; and buffled on every side, he chafed with impatience under a mystery which he could not unravel. But though he could not address his excited thoughts to her who was now the inspira. tion of his ambitious hopes, he threw them on paper, in the solitude of his room, in glowing prose, or reckless numbers. One evening after a most magnificent thunder- shower, he seized his pen and wrote the following lines : Oh ! not for me the sunny ray

That gilds the day-god’s noonday throne. Nor yet the mooabeam’s silvery play, On quietbower and streamlet lone.

Be mine the dighinirg’s arrowy gleam, Though death be or in its dart ;

[fd lurk beseath the scorching beam, And bind it buraiag to my heart.

I'll climb the mountain steep of fame And rouad my brow its laurels twine ; 'Tis but to grasp the electric flame, And makeits radiant glories mine.

I eare not if the bolt consume

The daring hands that mock its power, Love shall the sacrifice illume,

And triumph erown life’s latest hour. Throwing down his pen and extinguishing his light, he sat in the window till a late hour, watching the play of the electricity on the retreating vapours, flashing from eloud to cloud like fiery shuttlecoeks tossed by invisible hands aceross the firmament. It was not till after his hurried return from prayers the following morning, that he rememembered the impassioned strains he had left upon the table. Hoe looked for them, but they were gone. He turned every book upside down and fluttered every leaf, but in vain. He emptied his portfolio, but with no better success. The same invisible hand that had borne him the mysterious letter, had probably spirited away his bold stanms. For one moment he was tempted to believe in the supernatural, and that the dark, bright nymph of the fountain was really embodied lightning, who made the clouds her chariot, and whose steeds were the wings of the wind.

It was not till after his return from Bel. lamy Place, where he passed the summer~ vacation, that he heard again from the in- cognita. In the delight of meeting once more his beloved benefactors, his lovely sis- ter and faithful nurse, he had thought less of his romantic corespondent; and even on his return her image was secondary in his mind. He was not to visit Bellamy Place again till his graduation, when Mr. and Mrs. Bellamy, aceompanied by Katy, were to come themselves, to escort him home. Mar- cus had not forgotten the ruby ring, the parting gift of his benefactress ; and not a day passed that he did not gaze upon .its sparkling crimson, and renew the vow he had breathed in the ferryman’s hut and on the margin of the Long Moss Spring.

The morning after his arrival, as he ap- proached the table, where many a ponder- ous tome was laid, he percieved the frag- rance of roses in the atmosphere, and look- ing dawn beheld the same delicate tissue directed to him by the same fair hand. This time the device on the seal was an eagle grasping a thunderbolt in its talons, the motto, Je vaincre ou je meurs.

‘I wrote for the amusement of an Idle hour,’ resumed the singular sprite. ‘I wrote because the bold promptings of your ambi- tion corresponded so well to the eagle flights of my own wild spirit. I did not think you were weak enough to prate about love, that silly jest of the school,boy, that time-worn theme of the brain-sick bard. You have taught me my folly in supposing you above the rest of your kind. Climb the moun- tain steep, twine the laurels round your brow, but beware of the electric flame your rash hands would vainly grasp. Farewell; this is the last time the nymph of the foun- tain will breath her accent in your ear. The wild impulee that guided her pen may be deemed bold and unfeminine by those who understand her not; but the verses are at least characteristic :

“ Attempt to gM/sp the lightuing’s chais Aad bina it in round thy brais,

Ob! rather be the waves my stay, The cloud om which the ings play,

‘The summer that ares h ve, bet coldly change, thas uman ,

This was indeed her last communication. In vain he poured out his his heart in flowe ing numbers and in flashing sentences ; no fairy messenger bore them to her who ins

THE EXAMIN

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SETTER CARE a 1S ANG RRA

PIS cas:

THE RECENT BANK FAILURE.

The suspension of the Mechanics’ Bank followed so rapidly on the heels of the Jac-

of Paradise.

spired; no rose-scented epistie hereafter diffused around his room the balmy breath

The time drew near when the honours of graduation were to be distributed and when it was announced that Marcus had won ithe first, the intellgence was received with ac. clamation. The second was awarded to De. laval, whose popularity was manifested in a similar manner. Marcus was not elated by his success—a success so easily attained. He felt within him capabilities to win so much more exalted honours, that this seems ed but boy’s sport to him. Still, when Mr. and Mrs, Bellemy arrived, snd warmly con. gratulated him and Katy, a most lovely and interesting girl of seventeen years, with a cheek fair as a magnolia’s waxen petals, and eyes whose modest violets still sought the ground, but looked up to him with such re~ Joicing pride, he could not but exult a little for their sakes in the distinction allotted him.

Delaval, too generous to cherish envy, was perfectly satisfied with the position as- signed to himself, and certainly divided with Marcus the laurels of the day,

The night before commencement, while Delaval was sitting with Mareus and his fri- ends, enlivening them with his gay and graceful nonsense, he was called out by a servant. Returning to make his apology for departing, he said to Marcus at the door :

‘Some friends of mine are arrived. Dis~ tant acquaintances perhaps, still they claim some politeness from me before the Profes- sors illustrissimi, doctissimi, who are to sit sublimely around us, with their black robes and solemn faces,’

Marcus, whose part being first in honour, was last in time, felt at leisure to survey the throng that had gathered in the hall,

till it was crowded to overflowing. Amid the brilliant array of beauty that beamed upon his gaze, the pure, sweet face of his sister shone with transcendent loveliness.

Dressed in unadorned white, the fitting at« t tire of virgin innocence, she sought no eye t but her brother’s, though many an admir. ing glance was levelled at her.

‘She is not here,’ said Marcus to himself, ‘that strange, capricious being, who for a while made me her plaything. I am glad ofit. She might perchance talk to me even as she wrote, to beguile an idle hour; and if I presume to measure with her her own t bright weapons, she would curl her saucy me of the reverence due to her inaperial

s little highness,’

Why did Marcus arrest these rather uns | _ graceful thoughts, and bend forward witha quickened pulse and a heightened colour? The crowd fell back from the door, and lean. ing on the arm of a very dignified gentle- man, appeared the brunette of the fountain —the capricious incognita—the fairy of the pen. He recognised at one glance, the dark | s resplendent countenance of the embodied Lightning, and so great was his excitement that had it been his turn to speak, he could not have uttered one syllable. taller and less slight, though not above the | s medium height, and her whole costume ex« hibited the exhuberance of wealth and the redundance of fashion: There was a spark~

evening, and a glitter of black, shining ringlets on her cheeks and shoulders that | ¢ threw back the sunbeam that followed in her track as she moved from the door. De- laval had just risen to make the salutatory address as this brilliant vision passed along, and had scarcely made his low obeisance to the various dignitaries of the college when she took her seat. Marcus noticed that her eye was eagerly turned towards the speaker, and that she said something to her dignified companion, which also directed his attention to Delaval, and that they both listened with marked attention to his ani- mated elocution. The only thing that gave to the face of Delaval the character of besu- ty, was a pair of very expressive black eyes; and he did not excel in those light graces | ; of oratory which captivate the stranger's eye. His oration, though written in pure and beautiful Latin, Marcus hardly supposs ed Mademoiselle Lightning could under- stand. Yet, it was evident she was pleased with his appearance, interested in his ora~ tory, and when he concluded, an approving smile irradiated her countenance. Had she seen and recognised himself? Once he thought he felt her eyebeams burning on his own, and that a mocking smile flitted across her lips. Then she turned to the wincow near which she was seated, end

system. plicit contidence in the monthly statements upon oath of the affairs of the banks, as publish in the Canada Gazelle. case of the Jacques Cartier and of the Me- chanic.’ Bank, these statements were dis~ covered to be worthless—mere blinds to de- lude an unsuspecting public. reserves of specie and Government securi- ties which the monthly statements showed to be in the vaults were found to be little better than mythic. chanics’ even the paid-up capital stock pros ved to be not paid-up unless by paper of little more value, it may be, than the worths less stock itself. In a word, the statements have been demonstrated to be palpable and gross frauds, and what gives poignancy to the disgraceful disclosures is the connection with those frauds of the names of some of our leading financial men—names even his» toric in the commercial annals of our citY- With the discovery made too late by those who have lost, in some instances, there all, that great names are no guarantee either for the honesty of the boards of directors or for the solvency of the institutions man- aged by them, what confidence can people be expected to place in other boards and other institutions ?

ques Cartier Bank suspension, together with the revelations connected therewith must tend largely toward shaking public confi» dence in all our banks if not in our banking Heretofore the public placed ims

Both in the

The large

In the case of the Mes

What are the principal lessons taught by

the exposures of the last few weeks or of the past few days? The necessity for the prompt punishment of all those connected with the fraudulent transactions which have been revealed. ample to evil doers, and as a means wheres by to wipe away the reproach from our com- mercial and financial community. as may be practicable, let the spoilers be compelled to disgorge their ill-gotten gains for the benefft of the widows, orphans and others who have been lured into a trap and despoiled of what little they possessed. Let

This is necessary as an ex~

So far

he Government move in the matter, and let he deluded small shareholders ca!l upon

the Courts of law to assist them in procur~ ing redress. upon having with them the sympathy of every honest man in the Dominion.

In this they may safely rely

The urgent necessity for what we have

persistently advocated. namely, a thorough~ ly reliable system of Government inspec-

ion for the banks, has been very clearly des

: monstrated by the recent events referred lips, wave her haughty hand, and remind to , ee oy

Such inspection is now a matter which hould concern our really solvent, honestly

managed banks even more, if possible, than

he general public. It is needed asa way

whereby confidence may be restored; for without the public confidencs banking, un- der our system, would be impossible. To put the matter very plainly, if people re- fuse any longer to invest their savings in bank stock, place their money in banks for

afe keeping, or accept as money, bank

notes or promises to pay money, it is obvi- ous that banking, as a business, must cease, Our banks live upon the confidence and She looked | credit accorded them by the public; and

uch being the case, it is behoovable that

all our banking institutions whose business does not require concealment, should unite with usin demanding Government inspec~- ling of jewelry about her neck and arms that | tion. reminded one of the starry adornments of | fully restored, a consummation to obtain which the banks could well afford to bear

In this way alone can confidence be

he charges incident to the inspection ins

dicated .— Montreal Evening Star.

(OE 0 a oe QE A ee

The latest news from Stanley, in Africa,

is to the eftect that he reached the shore of Take Victoria, Nyanza, early in March. He lost twenty men ina battie. Barker, two white companions, died from fever. middle of May.

Pocock and

He was surveying the lake in the

Enterprising Japs.—The Japanese are

shipping bricks to California, and can sell them cheaper than thuse made in the State—notwithstanding there is an ad vals orem duty of 20 per cent on them. Japanese brick is 8} inches long 44 wide, and 23 thick.

The

There are rumors of an impending Min- sterial crisis inthe ‘Jurkish Cabinet be-

cause of dissensions upon questions of war, The complication of matters is increasing. 500 Turkish troops entered Servia on Mons day and killed some frontier guards but retired upon the approach of the Servian reinforcements. very bitter feeling among the Serviana, In the engagement on Tuesday the Turks lost 320 men and insurgents 128.

The proceedings caused

Faitcre or A Rerigious Dairy.—Mr.John

Dougall has found that the publication of a religious daily newspaper in New York city is nota profitable investment. ( A nesday morning his paper, the New York ‘Daily Witneas,” announced that it will

On Wed-~

her ringlets.

played with the leaves that fluttered against Marcus by this time had re- covered from the dazsling effect of this ap- paration, and resolved not to oppress her by the fixedness of his gaze. Should she meet him with haughtiness and repulsion, he could be as haughty and repelling as herself, He was not blinded byjher wealth

nor awed by her state, nor would he be wounded by her eaprice. What kind of re- cognition Marcus expected it would be dif- ficult to tell. He could not be envious of the interest the very spirited and manly oration of Delaval had elicited from her. He was incapable of the meanness of envy. Was it jealousy? Very lofty and noble minds are sometimes misguided by its in-

train. When the exercises were suspended

at noon he lost sight of her, while he sought

his sister,who sat in another part of tae hall.

But while walking through the grove to~

wards the president’s house, where Mr. and

Mrs. Bellamy were invited to dine, he saw his incognita considerably in advance, in company with her tall guardian, and Dela- laval was walking on the other side of her, evidently engaged in earnest conversation.

How eagerly had he sought an introduc- tion! how favorably had he been\received ! Remember what he had said for his indif- ference to dark beauties, and his admir- ation for blondes, he could not help think- ing that his own fair sister would be more likely to captivate his imagination than this dark-haired maiden.

During dinner he heard merry remarks made upon the bright young stranger, but no one seemed to know her name or local- ity. He also heard many encomiums pass- ed on the talents and elocution of Delaval, whieh, in spite of the little twinge of jeal- ousy he ee caused, gave him sincere and heartfelt pleasure.

The break in the direct cable is at the Cape Race.

discontinue publication with the close of the present week. Between $75,000 and $100,000 have been sunk in the effort to establish the ‘ Witness,’ and the paper is now in its forth year. The publisher has been indefatigable in his endeavour to build up a religious daily sewspaper in New York, and his failure shows that the various religious weeklies fill the field so well that there is no room for dailies. It is under- stood that the ‘Weekly Witness’ will not

be discontinued.

The Archduke Maximilian Luitpold, of

Bavaria, was recently on his ‘vay from Mun- ich to Vienna to visit his daughter. In the same compartment in the train with himself was a talkative Austrian tradesman, who soon got into conversation with his looking compsnion. matters and things for some time and get- ting ample information about his business, a . -, | bis family, his destination, &c., he asked, fluence, and injustice is sure to follow in ite | ¢ and pray, sir, whereare you going ?” Vienna.’ | daughter, who is married to an A ustrian,. ‘Is your son-in-law in good business ?’

quiet- After talking over

‘ Te ‘On business ?' ‘No; to visit my’

‘ Well— tolerably good —but troublesome at

times.’ ‘ What is he ?’ ‘The Emperor!’ At this answer the poor man became covered

with confusion, nor could all the laughing protestations of the good-natured Archduke avail to resume him, and he darted out of the carriage at the very nextstopping place.

Hen Busixessin France.—The Cultira~ teur du Midi gives us some interesting facts respecting the produce of the French barn- yards, France rears annually about 40,000,= 000 hens, worth about £4,000,000 sterling, The sale of these hens produces in course of traffic another profit of nearly £100,000,- G90. Five million cocks sold each year produce a profit of £250,000. The forty million of hens produce annually 100,000,- 000 chickens at least. Allowing for those

destined to replace the hens which have.

been used as food and those lost by accident there remains every year 80,000,000 of chickens, which sold at 14 francs each, give athird profit of nearly £4,250,000, Add capons and lards for £250,000 . Then the forty thousand chickens

rests upon the humblest produce of the farm. Says our French contemperary very ruly, ‘ Ce n’est, certes pas a didaigner,’

EXTRACTS OF A LECTURE ON 1HE WRITINGS AND TIMES OF LORD BYRON.

BY A. CURRIR. Fifty years ago, a great thunder-sterm broke over the classic city of Athens. At that moment the spirit of a young man had ‘winged his distant flight ;’ and there, calm in its long last sleep, lay the shrine of that mighty spirit just passed to the shores of the eternal world!

condemn the wrong, nor cared whether | courts or erowds applauded or hissed, The firm-set lips, now sealed in deat’), fully in- dicated that decision of characte: for which he was so remarkable. That lofty brow betokened powers of mind awiul in the extreme; whilst that fearful brain, even amid the ruins of inteilect, was in full pos- session ot the noblest power of the soul, even to the last.

Like Hugh Miller, his school-boy days met with many reverses ; but Byron had the good fortune of being plaeed under the guidance of s preceptor who at once saw that that pupil he was to direct could be led by a silken cord rather than by a cable. There is a transitive time at which pre- ceptors of youth, as well as parents, must exercise tenderness and forbearance with youth. Death forbade his tender youth to share a father’s guidance, and to this may be ascribed much that is ambigious in the character of the poet. It is not our pro~ vince to draw a biographical sketch of the poet, but mainly to deal with his writings ; and our only regret is, inability to do justice to those wonderful series of inventions which at once exemplifies the mastersgenius that gave them birth.

The great leveller of all grievances has brought to a period when ambiguity in character fails to mar the transcendency of genius. That this is so, may be seen from the fact that a large meeting was held in London, over which Mr, Disraeli presided, to devise the best means for the erection of a national monument to Lord Byron.

At avery early age Lord Kyron had a small collection of poems issued through the press, and upon the success which attended the publication of these, is based that well known expression—‘I woke one morning and found myself famous.’ They exhibit- ed the index of a mind bright as the sun, clear as the moon, awful as the tempest, and terrible asa whirlwind. The success which attended these youthful aspirations —the reception which Byron met with—has never fallen to the lot of any one so young, this side of the gates of heaven. This was nota transitory excitement, or a brilliant ovation of the moment, like the glow- worm’s blaze, but steadily increased with unabated, or rather renewed vigor, like the eagles’ flight to her eyrie.

ihere arc a class of men in ercry age, past and present, who find it difficult to say a good word in favor of any man. Some of the lineal descendents of this class were the hirelings of the great Reviews of the day, when Byron ‘descended from the mount’ Parnassus—and saw that life was only wanting to his fame—they poured forth sueh a volume of ribaldry as would crush a man of common powers of mind. But his young spirit was not thus to be crushed, for it only gathered strength from opposition, like the huge avalanche deacend+ ing the mountain side. On the other hand, it enabled him more fully to give vent to those awful powers of mind, hitherto dormant, and deal out, even though his own hand should suffer in the encounter, the sting of satire imbued in gall. [!t is somewhere said that the great Scottish poet, Alister McDonald, wrote a satire on his servant- maid,whereupon, it is said, her head turned grey in one night, like the poor ‘ prisoner of Chillon ;’ but Byron’s satire on the Eng. lish Bards and 8S, Keviewers, was sufficient not only to turn the hair grey but to carry with it scalp and all. ‘ruth, wit, and sar- casm are the principal ingredients in this unique satire. His object in writing in such a manner on such a subject was not to show that he could write, but, if possible, to endeavor to make others write better,or at least ‘to shame them; ’ thereby “Reading the veil of ages long gone by

Aud view their remnants with poctical eye.” And it is only sufficient to take a retrox spective view at those authors and scrib- blers whom he upbraided,and we ask, after a lapse of fifty years, where are they ? Echo answers, Where? Their memory is gone, their names forgotten—cleariy indicating, that although held in such estimation in their day, there was nothing of that genuine poetry contained in those authors that would at all secure them a name, and that therefore their names were certain of being overwhelmed in Lethes’ wave, where ‘ cold oblivion bar.’ Again, we find the few he endeavored to commemorate, though dead, yet speaking. And even some of those Byron lauds to the skies, did not, ia their own estimation, expect to survive half a

century. Henry K. White says, * Fifty years and who will think of Henry?’ Fifty years ago Byron did not think so. Ile well

knew that scanty as was the wreathe of the youthful White, there was that severity of beauty in his writings that would live, as the source that gave them birth. Is it not so? While love of song remains, Kirk White, who, had he lived, would have been the compeer of Byron, shall never be for- gotten. ‘The English Bards’ is an unique satire—a youthful critica! dissertation on ‘the Bards who have been.’

It is urged that Byron penetrate! too much into ‘secret things ;’

‘Beyond the bridge where lime Of Light and darkuess forms an arch sublime.’ While one foot is on ‘ the dasied sod,’ we can trace its steps, but the other, lost amid the ‘dust of stars,’ perambulates a lighter atmosphere, whilst the ethereal elements it traverses, precludes from ‘dim vision’ its trodden paths. Miller among the rocks,showing the footprints of the Creator in ‘clear lines,’ was thought to be ‘ wise above that which is written, pointing from Nature to Nature’s God !|—drew too abund-« antly from that storehouse of intellect, tili all was exhausted, but faith and humility. Byron drew from the same storehouse, a too abundant fund of inspiration, until that awful brain became paralyzed, but retaining its noblest powers to the last. Well may we exclaim concerning him, what he {fifty years ago said of Kirk White,

“Twas thine own genius gavs the final blow.’

It isseldom that great men live to any degree of longevity. The brain requires nourishment, and when too powerful for the constitution, the system must inevitably give way. ;

In the ‘ Version of judgment,’ saints and angels are represented as freely discours- ing, yet the person of the Deity is carefully witheld from view.

It has also been urged that Byron held infidel doctrine. It is easy to make an assertion. Proof is what we want, not as- sertion. The learning of Porphyry, the in- genuity of Faustus, and the wit ot Voltaire, in tampering with revealed religion, is de- nounced by Byron in severe terms—

‘ Mortals who sought by dangerous roads, A path to perpetuity of tame, On daring doubis to pile Thoughts which should call dowa thunder and the flame of heaven.’

We consider this sufficient testimony in refuting the argument of infidelity, and as conclusive as if he had written ‘Watson's Reply to Paine.’