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Chis is true Liberty, when Free-born Men, having

to advise the Public, may speak free.—-EURIPIDES.

WARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1858.

WEEKLY JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND NEWS.

No. 26.

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- ea nee ee ae : : i Literature. c ly & : Celestial Emperor, “ the brother of the sunand moon,’’seems| Another episode in the history of this blood-baptised mutiny +5) c YANN c ¢ ° determined to out-stoicise the Stoics, and shew that he ean be | which arrests our thoughts is, if possible, of a darker hue “ lia : riots verawe moan vice... =|‘ Master of himself though China fall.”’ The very fact that | that which we have just noticed. A young English girl, id THE BIRTH OF TH j - , : wa E YEAR CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.1., JANUARY 4, 1858. | no attempt at active hostilities has been made on the part of | beautiful, accomplished, and admired —the daughter of the ae BY F. TENNYSON, —~ ~ ~ - —_- °f

Let us speak low, the Infant is asleep, The frosty hills grow sharp, the day is near, Aud Phosphor with his taper comes to peep inte the cradle of the new-born year; Hush ! the Infant is asleep;

His lips shall curl with mirth and writhe with sorrow, Aud charm up Truth and Beauty from the deep : Softly ! softly ! let us keep

Our vigils; visions cross his rest,

Prophetic pulses stir his breast,

Although he be asleep.

Now Life and Death armed in bis presence wait, Genii with lamps are standing at the door; Ob ! he shall sing sweet songs, he shall relate Wonder and glory, and hopes untold before. Murmur memories, that may creep Into bis ears, of eld sublime; Let the youngest-born of Time Tear aiusic ia his sleep!

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1857. Ar the commencement of a New Year the mind is naturally led to reflect upon those events which, occupying a relatively

prominent position, may be considered as characterising the

{but, not presuming to enrol ourselves in either, our readers need not fear that we shall inflict on them any quasi

authoritative exposition of the hidden sources whence some of | the remarkable events of the past year had their origin, or

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/any oracular utterances as to their political results. We but | purpose to ask their attention to a cursory review of those occurrences which are ef sufficient importance to assume his- torical dimensions. Those occurrences, principally, if not | entirely, in their present state, fall within the peculiar province lof the British historiographer, for, while, doubtless, their results, more or less remote, will for all time affect the world, | their present is all that is vouchsafed to our eyes, and it is | with that only that we purpose now to deal.

| The stage on which the ‘bloodiest picture in the book of

the Chinese, during the temporary absence of the British force in India, is quite sufficient to convince the most eareless ob- server that they are conscious of their utter inability to re- sist the enemy, and that their stupidity and pride prevent the , admission of their inferiority.

nations. Owing to the promptness with which the British | authorities acted, and the courage and determination of those |

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who were employed on the ficld, a few brilliant affairs put a | | speedy end to what might have ramified into a very serious | complication, affecting not merely Britain and Persia, but the | Whole of Europe and Asia. This brief but most decisive | campaign was characterized by deeds of daring worthy of the | best we read of knight or paladin; and while we feel that it | is invidious to select one where all is good, yet we cannot re- |frain from directing attention to that feat, unprecedented in the annals of modern warfare —a feat never performed by

| the French even ‘when led by Murat of the snow-white plume

} |— the breaking of a solid square of infontry by cavalry fairly | ag bs | | leaping on and over the bayonets. J

late General Wheeler—so perfidiously murdered by that in- carnate fiend Nana Sahib —

“* Let his name stand aye accursed in the calendar”

— having been made prisoner by the rebels, and having been subjected to the vilest treatment -— having witnessed the awful

into phrenzy at her wrongs — appears upon the scene no longer the delicate English girl, the admired of the ball- room, the charm of the social cirele, “* the bright particular star’’ around which attendant satellites revolved, — but a re- alization of the old Greek idea of the Furies. Those tears, which doubtless a tale of suffering or of sorrow had readily caused to flow, were now forever frozen at their source ~~ those lips which had ever a kind word or a swile for all, were now compressed in stern determination — those eyes which once

; beamed with gladness or melted with pity, now burned with

the glow of vengeance, as, her whole nature changed, this heroine of a fate worse than that of Judith, arose in the still hour of the night, and alone among her hellish foes, she

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oe “ - Day ie ight, | year that has just terminated—events which are to afford sub-|_ Our next reterance to the aflsing of the Rast rt eg by our atrocities of Cawnpore — having seen her father and friends i , ish tchake hs tee * _ | jects for future philosophers, and historians whose theme is| files to we he misnndendunding with Persia. This is remark- basely betrayed and slaughtered — haying been agonised by : : |‘* philosophy teaching by example.’’ To each class the Year| #ble principally as illustrating the wisdom and true mercy of the hourly accumulation of the terrors which, on every side, Ho} Those arms shal! eresk great serpents cre to-morrow, 1857 is pregnant with subjects for theories and speculation ; | Vigorous action at the commencement of an outbreak between | surrounded her, until at length her feelings culminated A i His closed eyes shai! wake to laugh and weep; ir

stint ssilltitatine — eae:

Paint cnttuene : ite Be Quiekty he shall awake, the East is bright, | ; | Persia — this — | sought the eouch whereon lay he whese chattel she had be- ; ; And the hot glow of the unrisen sun y Sime has been exhibited during the bygone year, has been vel of daring. In reading the account of this gallant affair | come — he from whom she had incurred u AS Hath kissed his brow with promise of its light, erected in Asia, in that portion of God’s heritage first bestowed | one recalls to mind Macauliy’s ballad :— +4 hi: Sviesitilibcsee tials oat ke cheat t j i ’ roves -) His cheek is red with victory to be won. upon man—the seat of our first parents — the clime from | « Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, | That turns the coward’s heart to stecl, the siugyard’s blood to flame.” b Quickty shall our King awake, | which the pioneers of humanity, carrying with them know-| ©@rge fur the golden lies now, upon them wita the lance! f

Strong as giants, and arise; Sager than the old and wise The Infant shall awake ! ‘His childhoéd shall be froward, wild, and thwart; His gladness fitful, and *.is anger blind : But tender epirits shali o’ertake his heart—

ledge and civilization, colonised the earth. The close of 1856 ois Britain involved in a serious difficulty with China—that | preat hive of human life, which arrogates to itself an anti- | quity of imperial rule, dating back over two thousand years

| before the commencement of the Christian computation, and

}only 140 years after the Ark rested upon Ararat.

A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close bebind the snow-white crest; Aud in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Awidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre,” i ; ~ | Let the name ef young Moore supersede ** Navarre,” and the |

quotation is perleetly applicable.

There as he slept, his sword which had drank so deeply of the blood of his hapless victims, by his side, offered its hilt to this avenger of blood, and grasping the gore-stained weapon

from which she would, in vther days, and under other cireum-

| Stances have shudderingly reeotled—her phrenzy giving her the ~ ~

Passing down the Persian Gulf, we come upon the Peninsula strength and nerve of manhood — the unsexed girl severed the }

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; 1 Ls Into the | 1 y r of sleen! -rote Je r} j ae ; Sweet tears and golden moments, bland and kind. a dh a aac ak Seer re hof Hindoostan, for centuries the theatre wherein have been | vead from the body of the sleeping wretch. Next with a pis- i : i ilies . ‘ }merit of such claim it is not our intention to enter; buat cer-! oo : : 4 ; he sho a cs i iaaieiedh Resteetanes jmale. i: i He shall give delight and take, . one i 7 f the a ws: exhibited the contests of the advancing Kuropean with the | tol she shot no less than five of the retainors of the arch-mon Charm, enchant, dismay, and soothe; jtain it is, that, irrespectively of the particular dates we detest which. ¢) : a } ,/ ster; and then, her work of vengeance being complete, it but ; i ; : : . pe ° Asiatic power, Which, though greatly superior in numbers and : we . # iti ; Raise the dead and touch with youth; | have mentioned, in the pride of ancient descent the native | I ’ : _" oe avern

Oh ! sing, that he may wake !

Where is the sword to gird upon his thigh ?

Where is his armour, and bis laurel-cruwn 7 For he ehal! be a ¢onanzeror ere he die,

And wit him kingdoms wider than his own; Like the earthquake he shall shake

ities down, and waste like fire;

Then build them strenger, pile them bigher, When he shal! awake.

In the dark spheres of his unclosed eyes

The sheeted lightniags lic, and clouded stars, That shull glance softly, as ia summer skies,

Or stream 0’er thirsty deserts, winged with wars : For, iu the pauses of dread hours,

He shall ing his armour off,

And like a reveller sing and laugh

And dance in ladies’ bowers.

Ofttimes in his Midsummer he shall turn

Ts leok on the dead blooms with weeping eyes; O’er ashes of frail Beauty stand and mourn, And kiss the bier of stricken Hope with sighs : Oittimes, like light of onward seas,

He shail hail great days to come,

Or hear the first dread note of doom,

Like torrents on the breeze.

His manhood shall be blissful ard sublime,

With stormy sorrows and ceverest pleasures; And his crowned age upon the top of Time

Shail throne him, great in glories, rich in treasures.

The sun is up, the day is breaking,

Sing ye sweetly, draw anear,

Immortal be the new-born Year,

Aud blessed be his wiking !

aa He mom 2 LOVE-LETTERS MADE OF FLOWERS.

BY LEIGH HUNT.

An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love’s most honeyed kiss, This art of writing billets-doux

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he oldest families’? recorded in the genealogy of nations. |

. - . . : | are fighting for their laws, customs and religion, have ever |

a i hat niger ;,, | Suceembed to the sterner qualities of their opponents. his people, so suspiciously guarding their country from the|

i . ~ i nro tha ng vier Plo f tha i , r > aTyere « y |access of strangers, that to all the rest of the world it was| During the carlier period of the matiny of the Bengal army

ss ‘ m » . lwe a a some not! iINiGNS AS a >* la en as | 2 terra incognita, until within the last few years when some | © S4*¥¢ af Some length our opinions as to the probable causes

Sie ith aes ' ; remained to her to join the martyred band who had preceded ek os ah P . | animated by the epirit which they feel who eonsider that thev - #7 (of China is entitled to boast that he is descended of « one of | : - : ' *) . “)

her through the valley of the shadow of death, having suffered

similar indignities, but not, like her, having taken vengeance

on the perpetrators. When life had nothing left for which to

live — when all that her weak arm could do had been done —

, : ; aM oa a ies a da ee | with one heart-rending ery to Heaven she bade adieu to earth, trading stations were won from its rulers by European | Of the outbreak, and from time to time we copied into our | ti

. . . ‘ ‘¢ 2e) pitatine orself j ‘ 7 oO rhea ; ay a+ 2 arms, has during the last year had its privacy somewhat} Columns various details of horrible incidents which charac- | and precipitating herself into a well wherein lay the mangled " ” : 5 ' . }

| . » a ] ie » é oa} aya, "wo o » ise yl } | rudely disturbed, and the opinion of invincible superiority— | terized the conduct of the rebel Sepoys towards the unhappy | odies of her slaughtered countrywomen, her bruised spirit

the sure offspring of long continued isolation from the ever| Victims who fell into their power, whether by violence or fraud.

onward current of the world’s business—has been doomed to

with, if not a liking, at least a respectful fear of some few

ef the things of earth. Our readers know well.the origin

’ } ! : pnenee a shock which will probably inspire the ‘¢ Celestials’’ } ' of the last and still continuing quarrel, the affair of the | Lorcha ‘* Arrow,” that apparently trifling difficulty which jany but a Chinese official could and would have settled within a day, has led to the destruction of an immense number of | vessels of the Chinese navy, the destruction of forts, and the It has done more, it has —if they can be taught anything by bitter|

| experience — taught the Chinese rulers that the mystery in| | 4

{slaughter of great numbers of the defending force. } i

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which they shrouded the internal state of their empire can | | be preserved no longer,—they have found their heaviest arma- | | ments, placed in their strongest positions, unable to withstand a few hoats’ crews, led by Keppel and Elliot into the rivers and | canals of ihe interior,-—they have found mere handfuls of the ls barbarians”’ attacking their large citics, where never was it | supposed that the stranger would venture to appear. The de- | | tails of those proceedings we have, as they respectively reached us, laid before our readers ; and no one who has read them, as! | they should be read by the light of general history, can for | ‘one moment doubt that, rude as may seem to he the means'| | ma ployed, the civilization of the West, originally derived | from the Eust, will be the regenerating influence on the effete | ,institutions ef the Oriental World, as the Roman daughter |

supplied from her own fountains the life-sustaining draught! |

We have no desire to recapitulate the ghastly catalogue, bat amid the scenes of torture, murder, and outrage worse than murder, two events stand out in such bold distinctness that memory wil! not let them die amid the undistinguished hor- rors by which they were surrounded. Who unmoved can read the melancholy fate of the gallant Skene and the hapless sharer of his fate? This young European with his fair English bride, was but recently wedded, fur away from merry England, arid scenes under any circumstances strange to the new comer, but what must have been the impressions made on her young mind, as day by day she received the soul-sickening accounts of the barbarities practised upon her countrywomen and their chil- dren by the fiends permitted for a while to show what human nature is capable of? Shut up with her husband in the only stronghold to which they could obtain access, she witnessed the gradual dimunition of the little band which held the place against odds so fearful that no hope remained of ultimate

;and the weary are at rest.’’ All trac men hope that she has ' found it.

! | We have noticed those two incidents not that they are ex-

songht that region where ‘the wicked cease from troubling

ceptional, or that it is probable that cases of equal or greater painfulness have not occurred during the mutiny, but because we have received the details of them with more particularity and minuteness than have accompanied the narratives of other cases no doubt equally shocking. If there is one characteristic which more than another distinguishes this outburst, and il- jlustrates the substratum of the Hindoo mind, it is the vile similarity which has throughout marked the deportment of the rebels towards women and children. Never sinee man | first did wrong and outrage, have records of a people’s hatred shown so deplorable a consistency in violence against the weak and defenceless. The aborigines of this Continent, savage and all untutored as they were, never in the times of their bloodiest history treated the wives and children of their enemies in such

few short months before he had vowed to love and cherish un- | til death, and nobly did he fulfil his vow.

, two shots in his pistol, and now that they availed no longer |

success in repelling the foe. When, after all resistance was| fashion. The scalp of the foeman was the trophy of the victor, hopeless, when the beseigers had succeeded in effecting an en-

—his wife might become his captive, but we may search in vain trance, then it was that poor Skene turned to her whom but a|

the records of the time,

* When wild in woods the noble savage ran,” He had reserved

for anything approximating to the unmanly outrage towards , ca ; 'women and children which have rendered the Hindoo charac- for the protection of his own and that other life dearer than |

ne ; ‘ . | ter infamous for ail time. his own, he would expend the one in saving from pollution |

g : ne ; . : | the treatment endured by the wives and families of our bre- her who had left her happy home, and crossed the wide ocean ; A alaatal esi led a i '

: . ; biel thren in the East, we have recalled to our mind the nervous to share his lot—the other should mingle his dust with hers. |” oe

Bio chot her and then himecif! | lines of Byron on the battle-field of Leipsic, as descriptive of e sh , self! r

When reading the various details of

When we read the woful tale

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. ani ae ain ; she owed her bi ‘ ; . : : ; s 7 many a scene which has been witnessed during the progress of In buds and odors and bright hues ' | to the aged and infirm parent to whom she owed her birth, and) yo yoealled to mind the beautiful address of the Roman father |” ~ S dy d ; een ss eee cialis ely ee Ph als mamen A : : : this bloo rama :— In saying all one feels and thinks on whose breasts she had so often hung for the sustenance *) ere he sacrifices his child to save her from the licentious ; J : j : aiatil Salen aac as, * But the softest note that soothed his ear, In clever daffodils and pinks; a | ecemvIr : : Was the sound of « widow sighing; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, The present state of the Chinese difficulty is, in all respects, | ons then his oe om very , and nie Sees began to swell, = taht sei, coed ay iey ae i Charming for their truth, of daisies; ‘ a oe ee : : oe fa ; And In a hoarse, changed voice he spake, ‘* Farewell, sweet child! Fare- nen Aosror troke © blue eye Clea i rer ome, ; as peculiar as is the normal state of the empire with reference | Obt how I loyed my darling! Though stern I sometimes be, [well! Of a maid by her lover lying—_ Uttering, a0 well as silence may, {to European arrangements. Daring the period of active | To thee, thou know’st, I was not so. Who could be so to tuee? As oe oe yo long ames betaihiati The sweetest words the sweetest way. j ‘ ‘ a i a | And bow wy darling loved me! How glad she was to hear And she looked to Heaven with that frenzied air, operations in the Chinese waters, we were fighting, it is true, My footsteps on the threshold when I e baek tact wont? Which seemed to ask if a God were there! r the lady’s bosom ! : : , . | My tootste; ‘eshold when I came back last year! t ; How Gt, too, fo 7 ati ‘orees, capturing and burning tie national vessels | And how she danced with pieasure to see my civic crown, And streteh’d by the wall of a ruined hut, { ; , the national forces, cay g g , . The place where éillets-doux repose ’em. , : . wi | And took my sword, and bung it up, and brought me forth my gown? With its hollow cheek and eyes half shut, ; lof war, but all without any formal declaration of war, OF | Now, all those things are over——yes, all thy pretty ware, A child, of famine dying; b ; i i j e,¢ . « (mp ts . a? a F; la 2 Cs r aru 2» 7 hat delight, Sa eeeyRAENS Ag {open recognition by the Emperor of the acts of his subordi-| Thy needlework, thy praitle, thy snatehes of old lays; ~ eee aoe ee was done, Combining love with garden plot, ' i ho I 3 Ived hi . ‘ id ot | And none ee when I go forth, or-smile when ] return, ud the lall ui the vaialy flying. . i 3 ae yho hé S country im @ contest NOU; Or watch beside the old man’s bed. or we yon bi . ; ‘ ‘ . At onee to-cnltivate one’s flowers j nate oflicers, who have involved hi ed, or weep upon his urn. — Rites Be 1 wtakee the miscreants Pe ‘ e . . ba cts Tue house that was the bappiest within the Koman wails terrible retribution has, ere this, overtaken th scre . © ‘ Vo 2 us : an W 8, ; ; And one’s epistolary powers ! with an isolated Commissioner or Admiral the servic -| The house that envied not the wealth of Capua’s marble halls, who have *‘ got drunk with blood to vomiterime.”? Delhi has : Growing one’s own choice words and fancies | the British Government, but with the Sovereign and people of | Now for the brightness of thy smile, must have eternal gloom, ; r ate ; ‘tine his trial f; } I i . - | And for the music of thy voice, the silence of the tomb. fallen —the puppet King is a prisoner awaiting his trial for ast f orange tubs and beds of pansies; that Empire oa which the sun never sets. And after having! ,. time is come. See how he ney i need Riedel tite denbd a : ! : i One's sighs and passionate deciarati : : : ees eg a ot eee ere Coe mone ie Ways life, the result of which we should consider a ‘* foregone con- : saeeenahy Conansaens violated their territory, by penetrating far up into the interior | See how his eyes gloat on thy grief, like a kite’s upon the prey! al ae , : f In odorous rhetoric of carnations; lial eS cae Pe thei terial | With all bis wit, he little deems, that, spurned, betrayed, bereft, clusion’’— his sons, who were of the rebels, received their J ail , ; —hay aflicted seri in upon their material resources, |: ath in his despai ‘cart ofett. : ~ Seeing how far one’s stocks will reach: hay ing inuicted Serious lajury up ; Thy father hath in bis despair one fearful refug le t well-merited fate at the hands of the gallant Hodgson. Luck- 4 Taking d sf ; nd far greater on the moral influence which the compulsory | He little deems that in this hand I clatch what still can save : : ¥ aking Gue care oue's flowers of speech a 8 " al 4 | Thy gentle youth from taunts and blows, the portion of the slave; now has been relieved, and the ** galvanized ramroud,’’ Have- $ guar m blight as isolati: ople gave thei rs—and having wonder- | Yea, and from nameless evil, that passeth taunt and blow— : : : @ a ~ et co da Te ee emery naa : - : ee h ze . a Foul outrage which thou know’st a which thou shalt ne know | lock, who seems to have chained victory to his chariot-wheels, 4 e's ; ifie yi C: : } . . . a i ° . . é a < y Gay patios ! fully intensified the force of the old reference to the doings | Then clasp me round the neck once more, and give me one more kiss; |has had the glory of setting at liberty the long-beseiged yet e nl I inne

DAYS.

Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,

Muffled and dumb, like barefoot dervishes,

And marching single in an endless file,

Bring diadems and fagots in their bands.

To each they offer gifts, after bis will,—

Bread, kingdoms, stars, or sky that holds them all. I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp, / Forgot my morning wishes, hasti! y

Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day

Turned and departed sileut. TI, too late,

a Bull in a China Shop, by exhibiting the prowess of Jolin | Bull in the greatest China Shop in the world,—there is a| cessation of active hostilities in consequence of the Special | Commissioner, Lord Elgin, having been obliged to dispense | with the troops detailed to add authority to his mission, which | | were required for the more pressing emergency of British | India. Yet, while still the means of coercion are in abeyance, | | ere yet the victors return with blood-dyed sabres from India’s | 1 «* coral strand, ’’ no attempt at a pacifie solution of the’ difficulty is offered by the Imperial or Provincial authorities '

of China—no official recognition or disallowance of the Man-

And now, mine own dear little girl, there is no way but this.’? | i : gene 3 . With that he lifted high the steel. and smote her in the side, | undaunted garrison, who, under the command of a Nova-Scotian

And ia her blood she sank to earth, and with one sob she died.” | leader, Inglis, whose services will we doubt not be daly re- cide are crimes to | eognized by the Sovereign whom he has so faithfully served We agree to the fullest ex- |—so long and arduously defied their myriad beseigers. tent that man should not take his own life or the life of ano-| While the nation mourns the Joss of such men as Lawrence, ther ; but we can see in the act to which we have just alluded | B

nothing bat an, exhibjtion of mergy. and, mast devetad love, ; ‘‘sought the shades of night’’ during the pending of this carried out by courage of the highest order.

Casuists may tell us that murder and sui be reprobated of man and God.

arnard, Nicholson, Neill, and a host of others who have

: ati ‘ Cee 2 pated _ " struggle, it has the satisfaction cf knowing that the stuff it be gays that the reba 0 ne who, as t = _ | which, from Cressy and Puietiers to Waterloo, bas added honor tty peers _ we — 2 a ee oe or iv | to its flag, still survives, and that although

could not be laid side by side beneath the marble which might |

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5 Cader her solemn fillet saw the scorn. )darin’s insolence and folly has hitherto been made, and the record their tragic end ! i Where sleep not England’s dead, ‘ 7 f re ag Li AI rat ~ - - Me a i nncemeentll —ovnemenreaneet> ‘* ‘tamales x i aaentermerne ila nace a aes