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LITERATURE.

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THE SWEDES IN PRAGUE.

CHAPTER XXViI. High waved the colora, and loud rose the

j

~~ Se eee eevee rere |

| shouts of the patriot bands, as they arrived |

at the threatened gates, whence, on mounts

AND MECHANICS | ing the walle, they could desery the hostile

| ranks, their arms glittering in the sunbeams, | aud their march in double quick time.

| Among the foremost of these, alvancing | against the New Gate, commanded by Wul-

| jestic stature, enveloped in a grey fur man tle, ahd showing the most despera'e zeal.

|

| duced so much weakness, that indeed he is ' no longer

a | quite insensibls.’ | den, was t> be distinguished a man of mas | '

| On foot, like ali the rest, with a partisan in | | Sis left hand, he pressed on his people, to

| the attack, of the whole of which he aps } pesred the very life ard sou!, | Wulden felt that

he alone

possessed j the Swedes of thir leader won'd be equivas lent to defeating them altezetiier. But bis force Waa too emall to attack the Swedish

division,so commanded. Fortunst ly, owing

—m ft > ° 9 ‘ . | to Wa'lenstein’s well-managed defence, the

} attack on the Wisschrad had been repulsed ond Geneial Wartemburg had retreated - General Cooti therefore ordered our | ero t | proceed with his party to the New Gate, i} which the beicg ecalld on to eupport his friend. | The Swedes had twice renewed their at- | tack. and cach time been repulsed. But | the officer in the grey fer mantle led them | forward a third time.

It seemed as if he bad set h’s mind upon penetrating into the town; his exhortations, his threats, and his

| example, serving again and again to ani-

} mata his disheartened soldiers, once more

j they pressed forward, and Wulden saw the

jcoming danger, anxiously and wistfully did h> look out for reiuforcements, which,

| owing to the considerab’e distance, could not a8 yet be expected to appear, and at that moment his eye caught the fizure of the mighty Swede, «s, with his higi-swinging partisan and fliminz look:, he called to his | troops, an! hed advanced onward £0 rap ly | a8 to be separated but by @ small remnant | of the wall from the interior of the town. | Just then, Leopold suddenly sciged a fires iock out of the hands of one ef the soldiers standing by him, fixed his man, pulled th trigger, ard down dropt the officer with the | Whole weizht of his powerful body under the ruius and dust. The Swedes, when they beheld their leader fall, sent forth a shout of terror and despair and took to flizh’. In vain did the other officers endeavor to rally | and bring them back to the breach ; with | that man it seemed as if all their cour. ge | had vanished,

The Bohemians, sesiog the disorder of the ;enemy, pressed on, pursued and overtook | fugitives; and thus, on this side als >, Was | the enemy completely defeated with cons | siderable loes, and the city saved,

Wulden lost no tima in hunting for the distinguished Swedish officer, desirous, should he yet live, of having every care and

attention psid to his wounds, for he had

| proved himse!fa gallant foo. He was, afier | awhile, lifted from among the ruins, still alive. Leopold had him placed closa by: upon the breastwork, and summoned the | attendance af asurgeon.

The surgeon commenced his oxaminat on, and declared, there was little hop of the | wounded man surviving, the vital parts be- ingafected. Stil, however, the wound wa carefully dreesed, and they were just corsults ing about the most proper p!aca where‘o to bear a pereon of sich evident renk whan

and ecn- Wallenstein errived, with his reinforcement at the New Gate. To the surprise and mortification of ou | hero, he found the conflict at an end, and heard that the fal! of one man had decided | the whole affair.

se uenco,

| your dead!’ eaid Albert, as be etepp-d tom wards the Swedi:h cflicer, who was lying in a etate of complete insensibility. amiued him more closely. Blood, dust, and ) agony, had, it was true, discomposed end defigured the features; but a fearful re- semblance became more and more certain, and, in brokea accents, W allenstein exclaim ed, ‘ Leopold, it is Odowalsky!’ The name

W herever he | icllawed ‘bi d votarved al hort in | fought, gietory hovered over his party, an? | ys BNE Fetarne@? alter @ short in the | | strength of half a regiment. To deprive |

s divaredt en

calmly.

| bis very lips, to catch tha sounds, when he

lait-r hastened to do, bappy in |

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| spread, which very probably the mans coune

| painful.

i contemplating the statue-like marble figure

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“ ‘ Baa Ae SIO SR re eee rE RRND OIEREY SERA weer? claimed; > we have endeavored to res | lid not aim at ing the e upon Ro-| the Island D rien -but t ) fis iT? COD. cover him, and to bind up h vad again, ie ens man Catholic [t simply provided that | man had for reasons best known t himeelf | ee: wt Exhie ne i ie . a : * VAMPRELL Conid not enter into the ! < Rae oe a y sa Ve a4 ™ i nenenennnt thancdh ‘ very three years would be of neneh és but all in vain, The state of his breast, discussion of this not enter into th | when a parent wished his child to read it ined it _ the Government \ dae : ‘+1 oy all : ee att nN enoug to bites : i Milite ns bel 1s question with the same | in the schools, he should have the liberty of | useles to.offer it to another Roman Cetho, | suit eee tical purposes, But as regards ut still more his men‘al agony, must soon | ability as his colleague, (Mr. Stewart) and | doing so. lic, and had filled the vacancy with the prin» | the products of the field and garden, and ag

put an end to his existence; it cannot last another half hour.’ * Does he stili suffer much,’ with evident anxiety. ‘Searcely at all,’ replied the medicel man; ‘the sudden and great loss of blood has pros

asked Albert,

in a state to fez! pain. He is

‘May Heaven be merciial to him in he last momen's !’ aps a his

exclaimed Wallenstein yroachinzg a ‘vindow in order to conce emotion,

At this moment an attendant came to tie door, and made asicn to the surge n. who terval,

‘And bow goes # now, doctor ?’ asked

‘Why— well!’ replied the doctor, g-ayely. [t is over with him, He expired quite He made a sigu to me te approach, and I was forced to lean over him, even to

whispered, ‘ My thanks to Wallenstein!’ ard with these words upon his tongee he gave forth the last weak easp of li.’

Wallenstein spoke not. Deep ani con- flieting emotions seemed strogzling within his breast, «s he pointed to tha door of the room whera lay the corpse of Odowalsky. The surzeon understood the siznal, and Jed the way, followed by the young men, one of whom had been the chief object of the dead man’s hatre?, while the other had deprived | him of life

And lay the tall, onee powerful soldier pale and lifeless, but upon the bed. There were no more traces of that wild raze and fury whieh hed eo of- ten accompanied bis actions; over passionate features a mild calm

there

not disflgured,

the once was now

for his whols life appsared to have been a tiesue of feverish excitameet, eithe

tesance had never Cisplayed before ; pleasurable or ‘fe was the foe of many,’ said Wulden,

before him.

“But of himself the greatest!’ replied Walleastein, as, having loosened, by the sight of this spectacle, ths suffocating feeling about his heart, he motioned to quit the apartment.

A few hours, afier the battle, the rolling | of drums in the vineyards opposite the New

| Gate announced thet the Swedes wished to !

summon apariey. They demanded a truce

' of twentysfour houra, in order to afford time }on both sides for burying the dead, which

| was granted.

|them, making great havoc amongst the |

BY STEAM.

| their wish

|

| this effect, who, having given hs acquies-

| ed his loss and among these

* Well, we will at least aseist you to bury |

He exs |

| and joy eprang up in h's heart, —the lovely

| struck et onceto the heart of Wulden, und | both youths were, for a moment, buried in |

d ep reflection.

Wallenstein (his first shock of surp:iss over) decided on baving the Colonel, who still continue! to give a few signs of 1 f», placed where he migkt be accommodated as his state demanded. He was provided with a comfortable and befitting apartment, and & more experienced eurgeon was sent for,

, Whose statement confirmed, however, what

had at first beem pronounced as to the prot | New Gate, under cover

| to screen

| bable effect of the wound.

| His surgeon’s skilful treatment, together with the strengthening potions which were

| administered. eff-cted, after some interval,

| $0 much that Odowalsky recovered a little,

in @ place quite unknown to him, and | among strange faces, he inquired in a tone almost inaudible, ‘Where am I? He was informed and an expre:sion of the most violent raga distorted his features, and shook his whole frame, when he heard that he was | @ prisoner in Prazue.

| tend, and provide for the honorable inter-

| ever, one pleasnre—a pleasure he had not | anticipated, and, indeed, had long since | given up. had been infased into it, and had | opened it to every softer sensation.

! |

| honored asasoldier, but, as man, could never

| |

| appointed spot, there where the other Swe- and opened his eyes; when, eee'nz himself, dish officers

’

, Wrangzel, it appeared, was unable to send

| Wallenstein bad withdrawn fiom obsers |

| vation ; for he felt that he was certainly not | an object, the sight of which would serve to | calm the agitation of the sufferer. | therefore, took his statien at the window,

| from whenee he bebeld the marks of indignas Drawing Room, tion vented by the people, upon hearing that

Odowalsky was inside the house. He went out, fearful the noise might disturb the | wounded captive, and endeavored to prevail "upon the malcontents to retire.

| Reasoning, however, with a passionate and | ignorant mob, is bat lost labor, as Wallens | stein soon perceived, from the increasing turbulence of the crowd before him ; and he was, accordingly, not ill-pleased to see his friend Leopold advancing with an armed

piquet. Catching hie eyc, Wallenstein ads

dressed the young Baron as hie inferior offis |

cer, witha command to ‘ Disperse the mob!’ directions which were epeedily acted on, as ‘soon as Wulden saw the really critical situa- ation in which his companion stood.

Having sueceeded in doirg this, Leopold _ expressed his astonishment that Wallenstein

| should feel inclined to rua any risk for the

friends proceeded up the steps to see how

| the invalid wenton. On their way, how-

| ever, they were met by the eurgeon, with an agitated countenance.

y | the city might not be brought over to a e,

| | |

} i | } |

_ sake of a public traitor and a personal foe. | | © ft is simply,’ answered our hero, smiling? | ‘because he was my enemy;’ ond the tro) her knees.

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His heart was nov more wildly attuned than |

| terme, as, it wes well known, he would not

The two friends had another object which caused them somo anxiety ; neimely, the boly of their prisoner. It would have been to have him interred in one of the churchyards of the city; but thia they durst not attempt, on account of the ill<diss position of the people, and Wallenstein lighted on the thought of deliverinz over the remaius secretly to the Swedes. Ac cord ngly, he spoke with Count Colleredo to

cece to the proposal, the aTair was imme> diately en‘rusted to the ch:rge of an officer Of the garrison, who acoompanied the ens emy's drummer back to their headquarters, in order to make the necessary arranges The news of Odowalsky’s fall wae ly known there. Many regretted him as a usefa! partigan; sill more were glad to | be rid of him ; whil

menis. aire ‘some few really mourn™

was his fiend Coppy.

‘The to the camp, accompanied by the Bohenian officer, whom Kosigsmurk himself announces el to speeting the proposed truce ; and he then| introduced the with introduced by the Bre leader. Chaiies Gustavus learnt, by this wish, of the death of Odowalsky, which somewhat a7Zected him at first, for he was conssious of havinz com nitted, the preceding day, some injastics toward the deceared ; but, after awhile, regarding the event in another point of view, a ray of hope

before*mentioned drummer returned

the Prince as brinzing intelligence rea |

hemian

odject of h’s adoration was now freed from her engrossing and petulant almier! He ultimately commissioned Konigsmark to ats!

ment of the body. Konigsmark rejoiced at this eommissicn.

He readily gave orders for receiving, before the of nizht-—in order it from the maltreatment of the mob—the body of him, whom, indeed, he had

respect; and then to have it interred on the

reposed, who had been killed during the siege.

News of the most unpleasant fature now reached the campo! the besiegers. Geveral

the reinforcement demanded, he himself re- quiring even more troops than he already had at his disposa!. The Palatine summons eda council of war, at which two things were determined on; first, to try whetber

peaceful surrender, before the reinforcements artived ; and, secondly, to endeavor to keep any intelligence of the force marching to their aid, from the knowledge of the Pra- guese. In pursuance of the first of these res solutions, another flag of truce was dispatched to the city, accompanied by a general offi cer, who, in the name of the Princs Palatine, —influenced, as he said, by a desire to spare the furtber effusion of human blood—offered favorable terms of capitulation. The Bohe- mian authorities felt strorg'y disposed to dismiss this proposal in a summary way ; but the policy of gaining time occurred to them, and, in conformity with this, they promised to give the Prince’s offers due consideration, It was subsequently deters mined that, next morning, Colonel Count Gotz, accompanied by Count Wallenstein, should be deputed to wa't on the Prince, and suggest such modification of his Highnsss’e |

agree to.

| greater power, and compelling the attend-

| hold his seat.

No French or English women ef cultiva- | tion, nowsa-days wears her garters below | The prineipal vein of the leg | strikes there beneath the muscles; and varicose veins, cold feet, and even palpitas | tion of the heart may be brought on by a) tight garter in the wrong place. When it. is fastened above the knee all this pain and

‘The Swedish officer is dying, my Lord!’ | deformity may be avoided.

it was not necessary he should doso, He | spoke _of the change which had taken | place in the country since the Freehold | system had been introduced. If ever there | was aman who was a benefactor to his | country, it was the patriot who had intro-

duced that system. Under it every man | and child, be he rich or poor, could obtain a good common school edueation. fhe result was that there was no more intelligent community than on this Island. He agreed with the first sentence, the preamble, of the resolution under discussion, but not with the latter part of it, If we were to have free education, it should be free—free from religious teachings, It was a matter of conscience with Roman Catholics that they could not support the present schools, but must have schools in which their own religion was inculeated, they should re- member that it was equally a matter of | conscience with Protestants not to grant money to such sectarian schools, The Protestants were in the majority, and could, if they desired, have such religious teachs ings given in the common schools as would make them Protestant in effect, but they sdught to do no such injustice. He had heard no arguments to prove that the present system was wrong. It was not the fault of the system, if it was not in some localities carried out as it should be. The resolution must not be taken simply as it sfood, but in connection with the Pastorals, and thus taken it meant nothing less than the complete overthrow of the secular sys- tem. it was the entering of the wedge. There was no doubt that the party which granted its demands would obtain favor for the time being, but more concessions would be demanded from one party or another, until the Free School system was over

tirown, and the sectarian plan introduced generally. Ifthe dissatisfaction in the city arose from the failure to provide proper schoolrooms, the blame rested with the citizens alone. He did not know that any dissatisfaction existed in the country. The Catholics in the country did not wish the system overthrown. The teachings of the schools were not anti-Catholic. In the school district in which he resided there was not one Catholic child, and yet they had had during the past nine years a teacher of that religious belief. This showed the harmony which existed. The Solicitor General was a member of the Government, and why did he not bring in some measure to remedy the state of affairs which he had described in the city schools? The citizens were to blame in this matter. He would not ask that Catholics should contribute to the support of Protestant schools. He qtestioned the sincerity of the hon, mem- ber for Georgetown, when he said that a gievous wrong existed, and yet he would not vote to remedy it for feir of losing hs seat Tho system which Mr. Perry scught to introduce here, was the one which he said had worked so badly in Ires land. His arguments told against himself, If some teachers were drunkards, as the hon. member had said, the remedy in such cases wis in the hands of the trustees They could dismiss such 4 man and employ abetter. The present, no doubt, required some amendments, such as giving trustees

ance of children. If it was shown that the Prince of Wales Collego did not confer benefits proportional to its cost, he would fayor its abolition. The Bishop, in order to obtain aid for his schools, had only to comply with the Act, open them to the inspection of the Government, and have hiy teachers pass the necessary examina- tion. Why had not this matter beon taken up by the Government, as had been tho land question? This resolution should have come from a member of the Government, not a supporter and official. If the Gov. ernment could not grapple the question, where was the use of bringing it up? Did they expect the support of the Opposi~ tion in the matter? He alluded to the re- marks of tne Attorney General regarding his opinion on this matter, and said that when a member did not represent the opinions cf his constituents en any great} public question, he should not continue to Ie should not place him- | self in such a position that he acknowledg- | ed the justice of such a demand as this, | but was forced to say that his hands were | tied, so that he could not do what he con sidered right. ‘he Attorney General was accountable if any evil existed in the city | and he did not remedyit. A mean madea great mistake when he so far forgot himself as to sell his principles for aseat in this House. But the Attorney General had

| said that he could not lick the hand that

smote him. There was the secret of the whole matter. It was well known that certain concessions had been promised to the Bishop by certain political parties. These had not been given as promised, and, the Bishop having been deceived, withdrew his support, and six members adverse to those who had thus violated their promises, han been returned to Otta- wa. [ere was the secret — wrong—re- venge! '

Hon. Mr. Havizanp.—This question had been agitating the country for many years. He had had to do with the Free Education

| system from its inception to the present | hour.

Iie had had the honor, young man as he then was, of being, 1851, nominated by Mr. Coles, his political opponent, as a member of the Committee who introduced the Resolution upon which was founded the education system as it now existed. He! had never regretted the part which he had then taken on that Committee, and in dos ing everything which lay in his humble power to make the principles of the Reso lution then introduced the law of the land, and in lending his aid, from time to time afterwards, during the reigns of various Governments, toward making the Act as perfect as possible, though it now required revising and pruning to make it such that it would render an equivalent for the large amount of money expended. When the Bill was first introduced, it was not intros duced by Protestants alone. Some of the leading Roman Catholics of the Island were members of the House at thatday. There was the Hon. Edwatd Whelan, who had now gone to his long home, and whose genius all admired. There was Edward Thornton, too, whose name was impressed upon the political history of the Colony. Both these men were parties to the intro- duction of the Bill, He (Mr. Haviland) felt incompetent to enter into the question in the manner in which the hon. member for Strathalbyn (Mr. Stewart) had done. From whatever standpoint his speech was considered, it must be admitted that he displayed talentand research. His speech was in strong contrast with that of his col- league (Mr. Campbell). As regarded the Normal School, it had been found, a year or two before the passage of the Free Edu- cation Act, that the system would be 4 failure unless a school were established in which teachers could be trained for two or three years before they engaged in teaching. It was not intended that the school should be conducted as it was at present; it was simply designed ass training school, Dif, ferences of opinion arose, however, regard~ ing the instruction given by the master of that school, and the late predecessor of Bishop McIntyre found fault with the Bible lessons, and wrote to the then Gov- srnment his celebrated letter. Then the Bible Question arose, and from that time to the present moment there had always been difficulties in the administration of the school law, on account of the differences of opinion between Protestants and Roman Catholics. It had been said that the Pros testants wished, during the agitation of the question. to force the Bible upon the Ro- man Catholics and compel them to read it, and a Resolution which had been worded by his (Mr. Haviland’s) father, who was now in his grave, had been referred to. This was the resolution which that gentle- man moved on the 19th of March, 1858, and such a neck and neck tie was there on the division—eleren voting on each side— that it was lost by the casting vote of the Speaker, Mr, Thornton, The Resolution

‘‘Whereas, It is inexpedient that any | law orrule should exist by which the use | of the Holy Scriptures should be excluded from the Central Academy and Normal School of this Island, in any case where the parents or guardians of any scholars placed in those institutions may require such Holy Seriptures to be read or used therein by such scholars ;

‘‘ Resolved, therefore, That it is necessary to provide by Jaw that the the Holy Scrip- tures may be read and used by any scholar or scholars attending either the Centra! Academy or Normal School, in all cases where the parents or guardians of such scholars may require the same to be so used by them while attending such insti- tutions, respectively.”’ '

Was that forcing the Bible upon Roman Catholics? It was no use to attempt to make a party question out of this matter. Some pure Liberals—Liberals of the first water, not blurred Liberals like the hon. member for New London—had voted for the Resolution which he had just read. Mr. Palmer, who was a Liberal now, sup- ported it, as did Mr. Wightman, whom he had never heard accused of baing a Tory. Mr. Laird, too, father of the Minister of the Interior, who was an outsand-out Liberal in those days, and one of Mr. Coles’ lieu- tenants, voted for it. This was the division upon the Resolution :-—

Yeas. Nays. Palmer, Warburton, Haviland, Coles, Montgomery, Mooney, Longworth, ‘eGill, Wightman, Clark, Yeo, Muishead, Douse, Cooper Pope, McIntosh, H. Haviland, Dingwel}, Munro, McDonald, Laird, Perry,

As regarded the question now before the House. it was his opinion that it was im- possible to carry out the denominational system in the district schools of this Island. This opinion he had always held. There had been a time when Government aid might have been given to any denominas tional school, whether Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, or Church of England, provided, that at the same time, children of other denominations had a right to attend that school, and could there receive secular in~ struction untainted with the religious tenets of the denomination by which the school was established ; and provided, also, that the school was open to the inspection of the Visitor of Schools, so that the Govern~ ment could have surveillence over it. He believed however, that there were many Roman Catholics who would not take a grant upon those conditions. These were | the views he held in 1868, when he voted | for Mr. Pope at Summerside. Whatever his views were then, he stood to-day pres pared to preserve and maintain the educa» tional system of the country upon its pre- sent basis. He had given a great deal of study to the question, and had come to the conclusion that it was an apple of discord and that nothing but dissatisfaction would result if the demominational system was attempted to be introduced. It was ims possible to do so when a majority of ten thousand were opposed to it. Nothing but secular teaching should be imparted in the schoo's—religion should be left for the Church and the fireside. It was impossible to force this matter when so large a major- ity was opposed to it. He saw how, when the Roman Catholic hierarchy issued their pastoral, no less than fifty Protestant ministers in this small Island signed a counter=Protest. He trusted that after this debate, his Roman Catholic friends on both sides would see that with the present feeling it was utterly useless to press the matter further. It was certain that the policy which had been laid down by his | honorable friend from Tignish, would never | carry the question in the Island. He) would tell that hon. gentleman that ae conscientiously believed that the question | would never be carried by tating -dvantage | of the difficuities of a Government. policy could not be carried out.

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made as their right ; they must educate | public opinion to that belief. The Leader | of the Opposition had said that when cons | vinced that he was wrong on this question, he would change his views. He (Mr. H.)} commended him for this. The old pro- | verb said, “fools never change their minds, | wise mendo.”’ There were some in public | lifé who would never make such an ad-' mission. He (Mr. Haviland) did not know | that the statements made by the Solicitor | General regarding the schools of the city, | afforded any ground or reason for carrying | into effect the resolution now before the House. The blame and censure for such a disgraceful state of affairs, should rest not upon the system of education, but upon the citizens of the town and upon the Board of Education. The latter body had power under the Statute, if they found that the achoolrooms were badly ventilated,or others wise unfit for the purposes for which they were intended, to compel the people to provide better. The present state of the city schools was therefore not the fault of

/ members had read for themselves and made

| deserved greatcredit for whut he had done. |The hon. member held, however, that it _ waa the duty of a priest to give his child | religious instruction.

| education which was contrary to his belief. | The state should afford secular education j only, and guard the children’s morals, and

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