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: = == ; = — i “This is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.’’--- Euripides. s ol pS te pe silenctaretnatiie iit Te a es ei! nat peas ol be “ — a rll eile aeeaeta = soe eb ce ag = Mitiaetinen=ceecnttell ce v . & ‘oe wnby rey ) Teun ‘ / TY ’ / roy: | > ~ YN . : yo. XVI. 1 CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1867. ~~ fC NOY | ennarnemasatamnneennaunss ee Se a a ——= - —— ~ ene ——— ae sana -one-stliee cee * . = ie Y A a a oe ———— on aii aie ee nail gis a be found | object in vain, and that the day is far distant | gling into life. | Like it decestor, the Bill | and a ” a _ we ° }which, more than any other, is suggestive of \incited to their unhallowed work by the in- | ‘‘kings and crowns unstable” is to be founc i? ject in vain, and that the day 1s far distant | gling into life. Like its predecessor, the Bill | and manners, and even in their of ex- es whe Oxi mimer, peace on earth and good will to mea, we will | terested promptings of unprincipled knaves.| in the effect which the “dark cloud which! when the sword will undergo its transformation | introduced by the late Government brought its | pression. He.who hes attained hes j eet nennnmnennnnn mummers, | refer to the successful submerging of the At-| We were aware of, and made allowances for, | lowered upon her house,” has had upon the | into the ploughshare. |parents to grief, and involved a change of | beheld even greater ch = boylivad aarlottetown, January 7, 1867. lantic Cable of 1866, and the recovery and re-| the necessity under which a Government such | mind of the young and beautiful wife of Maxi-} It is not improbable that the so called Greek ; Ministry; and public opinion welled up 80 | he has seen the greater part country Xi ’ " ‘ . * ‘“ . . i . . » . fi Te +5 ~. 5 . , ‘ . ees | Suscitation of its drowned brother of the pre-| as that of the States sometimes lies, of seeming | milian. Having left the countries of her birth Question, the incubus of the diplomacy of strongly in its favor that opposition was over- covered with the primeval forest. rom every Wy 7 st ail cade 8 ceding year. to be blind to acts which are patent to the | and of her wedded life to ascend an Imperial | Western Europe, may set the spark to the now | whelmed, and the measure became the law of | hill-top landwaids nothing meets eve but @ “4 | FOR rE ms

IN THR WILDERNESS.

reshiag shade

! ug

eneath the cool re Cast by the moving he wand’ ring sous of Jaco strayed,

One vast commingled crowd.

dothers and childr n, joined with men, Their voices high to raise From mowatain, plain, or wrdaat glen,

In tuneful songs of praise

Thousaads of cattle pastured near, " And nazaerous fleecy flocks, Whilst savage beasts in abject fear Fled to the distant rocks

For God's owa Angel, always by, Had man and beast in charge,

And safe, beneath his watchful eve The cattle roamed at larze.

Aad when the sun his beams withdrew, The cloud ascended higher,

And then, to the admiring view, Burst forth in flaming fire.

Before the camp the colam bright Moved oaward, or stood still,

And poured around its brilliant light O'er tented plaiayor hill.

And all along their journey through Phe cloud each day returned,

Aad thus fresh herbage fregly grew Where all was pare we Wened. ensley. §

Thus power and lovedi® , .» To cheer the wand’rinf®,, ..) ¢ And aightly shone the guardian bre O’er all that desert land.

And thas, poor weary soul, inay you Whe dread some coming :1!,

Your oaward journey still pursue, For God is with you still.

When faint, and sinking by the way With Jonab you complain,

The cload shall intercept the ray And shroud the arid plain

And when the evering shades prevail, And earth is hushed ia nizht,

Lest faith and courage too should fail The Pillar lend its light.

I. .C..2. January, 1867. em THE OLD YEAR.

“Canctis rebus inest quidam velut orbis, ut que- m temporum Vices, Vertautuc.”

Se wrote the great Anaalist of Rome, and Ww the same effect wrote greater and wiser than be, long ages ere Rome was. The matebiity of all things human is so trite a sibject—has from the commencement of man’s sojowa upon earth been so brought home to the consciences of ali, not of those only who

“ Have walked the cart! ln poets, heroes, martyrs, sages,” but of those who have gone down

“To the vile dust from which they sprung Unwept, unhouored, and unsung,”

that any allusion to it, in a secular journal, *might be considered inappropriate, save ina

Tacitées.

review of some of the occurrences which have ° ° . j . . . e

wade their marks upon the not inconsiderable | probabilities of occasions of quarrel arising, of | time when the Republic is one seething mass @gme-t of the allotted three score years and | preventing any hasty action caused by imper-| of internal strife—when Stephens, after re-

ten, known to Chronology as the year 1868.

As Spriag is succeeded by Summer—as sum- | more remote the occurrence of actual hostilities. | landing in Ireland ere the expiration of the

mer gives place to the pleasing melancholy of

a. ? ° ° — ° . e “2 a Aatumn—as mighty Winter closes the cycle, | intelligence, must soon have its value recog: | session of information which justifies it in adopt-

bidding expressive silence muse His praise who called them to their separate functions—so it iswith the rise, progress ani decay of men

aad night, and the mutations in the physical eenstitation of the human body, from the help- lessness of infancy to senile lecrepitade, and “the last stage of all,’ point the same moral and illustrate the same fact.

ations, to their laws and

Sarmly to moaarchy, mankind! have been hap-

Mill, for guidance by his auth rity. The wheel levolves, the ery of execration against regal

Tight is raised, and the new doctrine that each functions, by the abrupt cessation of so active

When old Horace, in the plenitude of his| world, and were willing to take their diletlanti Te CLOUD AND PILLAR OF FIRE | love for his poet-friend about to coast along | interference with their Fenian friends as a ithe shores of the Adriatic in a Roman galley, }denounced the impious hardidood of the wretch | they professed, it was their duty and their

i who first dared to violate the lawful majesty of

ithe Non tangéenda vada, his imagination as well as his philosophy would have been sorely tasked by the prophetie vision of the then il- ' limitable great uniting in iustantaneous lightning communica- tion an unknown world to the land of the savages separaied from the rest of mankind.

* Galley to whom we trust, on thy parole, Oar Virgil, mark, Thou bear him on thy bosem, Safe to the lund of Greece, for half my soul, (hb vallant bark, Were !oat, if I should lose him.” When Gray wrote that “ Full many 4 gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear,”’ it had not been given to the science, theoreti- cal and mechanical, of his day and generation,

to afford to the muse themes so werthy of the

these cables and their scientific precursors. Much, as all men know, has been said and sung, as to the marvels of the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph, and as to the changes they had wrought and were still destined to effect in the various mutual relations of individuals and of nations; but awarding to each the full merit of the praises they have received, we see in the practical success of the great Atlantic Cables the cul- minating glory of them all — the key stone of the arch which they have raised — the Corin-

the constituent parts, at once the ornament

Pygmalion animated by fire from heaven. That it had been reserved for Britain and her great offshoot to have thus annihilated time and space, and made their inhabitants for all purposes of communication one country, should be, and, to reflecting minds will be, the proudest fact in the contemporary history of each — that the unconquered energy and con- fidence in his views, manifested by an Ameri- can,has been justified by the results, —that those results have been obtained by the liberal co- operation of the science and wealth of Britons, is, in the highest degree, honorable to both countries ; and no paltry spirit of international jealousy should ever, with its skeleton appari disturb the amicable feelings of the people of the countries whose children have

tion,

sea, being made the means of

highest poetry, and so calculated to eiicit it as |

thian capital of the column of which they form

and highest stone of the pillar— the statue of |

reasonable vindication of that neutrality which |

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Such the

spirit in which their conduct was viewed by the

esire to preserve inviolate. was | Press and Parliament of Great Britain: and the | immediate discharge from custody of those who, by flying to an American national vessel, had realized that discretion was the better part | of valor, und that a masterly retreat is oft- times more advantageous than a successful advance, was not regarded in any strange light | than a politic act of forbearance on the part of Executive Jonathan towards a large section of It was thought that the miserable termination of the attack upon (

|of it by the American Government, with the

his political supporters ‘anada, coupled with the official discountenance

liabilities under which the captured Fenians found themselves to the outraged justice of /Canada, would allay the rampant nonsense | which had at length brought forth such rampant jerime. But the Government which hung, by ‘virtue of the summary process of a Military | Commission, the men who murdered the late | Abraham Lincoln, and a woman whose com- | plieity in the horrid crime was never proved, } and was, and is still doubted — could have the | assurance of interposing and deprecating on | behalf of murderers as foul as ever polluted a | gibbet, the consequences of guilt ascertained, not by an excited tribunal of Military partizans | after a patient and thorough investigation in a civil court, where the accused had the benefit of the ablest of counsel, the careful decision by a learned Judge of all legal questions arising, | and the calm and dispassionate opinion as to their guilt or innocence of twelve men sworn to do justice. The excuse for this modest }application was that the offence of wanton Well, Jefferson Davis has lingered out his weary days

murdér was “eminently political.” in prison without being brought to trial, and the air of the Northern States has long re- echoed frantic cries, for his blood. His offence, it may by some be considered, was “ eminently political.’’ Mrs. Surratt was hung without proof of having committed any wrony, political or otherwise. Yet other nations found it not con sistent with their duties to interfere. But a| menace was implied in the official appointment of a person to watch the courses of the trials | on the part of the American Government.

;many and gave up historic Venetia to the ar-

crown but

“polished perturbation, golden care, That kept the ports of Slumber open wide To manya watchful night.’

| The former factions, which, for years, had rent

byword among nations, for once united in common opposition to the stranger monarch | and receiving the moral, and, we have no doubt, immoral support of the great and grasping Republic, which, from the immediate north casts its portentous shadow over the future des- tiny of their country, assumed a position of

active hostility to the new regime, or in sullen

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inactivity left the foreign soldiers to defend |

that throne for which no native sympathy was | felt. solution of the United States not to recognize

Confronted by the open and avowed re-

| Mexico until its political life had become a very |

| but persistent decadence of European Turkey | fluence cxerted outside the polling booth is|as almost to appear {is patent to every observer of the signs of the striking!

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times, and Russia reg

too long for his inheritance.

the new order of things—helpless without the active co-operation of France, the withdrawai of which, within a certain period had been sti- | pulated, the unhappy sovereign sent his willing wife to impetrate from the Emperor of the | French that

maintain him, even for a time, in the position

assistance which alone could

in which the latter potentate had placed him. |

Unsuccessful in obtaining the object of her mission, she had to experience the bitter feel- |

ings consequent upon the humiliation of her | husband's house by the result of the brief but |

bloody war which drove Austria out of Ger- | | dent longings of Italy. Overwhelmed by this combination of misfortunes, and wisely not

allowed to sink her private fortune in the vortex |

of her husband's wreck, the reason of the un- happy lady reeled from its throne ; and, fallen | from her high estate, she became personally | the object of those feelings, which, from the

sovereign to his meanest subject, makes the whole world kin.

The war to which we have alluded will be memorable in the history ot Europe on several accounts. In a campaign of less than a fort- night's duration, it changed the political map of Europe, laid a mighty empire prostrate at the feet of one of the combatants, and com- pelled the other to purchase such peace as the victor might acgord, at such price as that victor might demand. Austria had hardly taken the field when she saw her last hold upon Germany wrested from her grasp—those German powers which had given in their adherence to her cause, in her enemy’s power as helplessly as

The impudence of such a request, and the po-

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wrought this last and greatest wonder of the world. “The actual truth; that, fardown betow | the influence of the wildest elemental roar —

|}any person conducting himself with decency ita morum, | far beneath the sound of the thunderstroke—|can have access toa B

litical motive which prompted it, are visible at |

‘ a glance. }

No such requést was tecesSary, as ritish court of justice |

his é ° ous , os ‘ . . jof the huge Leviathans of human hostility, | without previous licence—subject to the one |

| the electric wire pursues its peaceful mission of

|transmitting the |

varied communications of millions of human beings — far transcends in | poetry of sentiment aught that the genjus of ‘the most gifted has yet given to the world ; and ‘one would hope and believe that the bad | passions and worldly ambitions of the people of Britain and the United States would be stilled in contemplation of so glorious a practi- cal Union. It cannot be but that the con- |tinual interchange of intelligence, public and | private, will have its effect, if not in the im- | mediate removal of aeerbities between the two

restriction, that there should'be room for his valuable person to stand or sit in. The motive wherein the appointment originated is trans- parent—the intention was to delude the foolish | Fenians, still unwhipt of justice, into the idea | that the Government would not allow the laws of Canada to be enforced on the persons of the im- prisoned liberators. These suspicions, shrewd- ly entertained by some of the journalists of the States, have received confirmation strong by the revival in an offensive manner of the claims for losses inflicted upon Northern commerce by the Alabama and the other Confederate

countries, at least in rapidly diminishing the

fect information, and of rendering more and

The flashing of the tiny spark, pregnant with | nized in the better knowledge each country will '

|have of the real sentiments of the other, and

the longer that the communication is unin-

aad nations. The alternations of morn, noon | terrupted the less will be the risk of future cessa- |

| tion of its beneficent operation ; and as | , ‘ , ‘ “ Time | Has moulded inte beanty many a tower

Which. when it frowned with all its battlements, |

Was only terrible,”

|we doubt aot that many a question otherwise

P ; ea ,

Not only to nature and her works is the law | fraught with danger, will, on the frank and | power by diverting the popular feeling from @ mutation confined; to the government of speedy discussion, the means of which are | the consideration of their domestic policy into ustoms, even to | afforded by this submarine messenger, put off! the channel of a foreign war, in the excitement

distaff of Hercules :

behests of their Sovereign, for direction by his time to the more peaceful occupation of! from the charge of ineonsistency by alleging

spinning yarns.

Not only would the suspension of the cable's

May make laws for himself shatters the tenets | and ever ready go-betweeu inflict injury not to

Of the believers in the “riyht divine of kings.” | be estimated by figures on the United States

Republican Greece becomes a theatre of petty BOvereignties, and the Royalty of Ancient

fs turn finds its grave in a despotic Empire.

Meas whit, are wafted

and highest sytem of policy, will soon be

** Tow and fiy iu "

@tinst the wind

Mdorned the revious of the East, have long left

had superstition, and the have endur-< “ cer Long years i: tries the thrilling frame to bear—~ years Of wutrage, calumny and wrong,

4 Since

‘chosen people ”’

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While they were exiles from their fathers’ graves,

adorer bowed on Sinai's steep.”

+Haviag ne ther time nor inclination to notice | im the order of their occurrence the prominent @vents of the past yrar—a course not essential our ohject, nx they have been chronicled tad commented on iu our pases from time to time, while they severally had the interest of Bovelty —we shall introdue: them as memory. frealls them, and dismiss them in the spirit of Lady Macheth's conduct towards her guests,

Phen she bids them . “* Stand . , ‘, Wieaes of their going yh set notte, wae

their original habitation a prey to ignorance

‘and the British Islands, the whole of Europe,

and much of Africa and Asia would have a

is merged in a fierce democracy, which direct national and personal interest in the

maintenance of this source of knowledge, which

The Puitieal code of to-day is the subject of runneth to and fro, and would lend their aid mi tidicule for to-morrow’s pt ilosophers ; and | prevent its interruption; or, if that were im-

These reflections naturally suggest a passing ireference to the questions affecting the rela- |

| tions of the mother country with the States,

The religion which s«anct fied, the science | Which have formed the subject of diplomatic

Which elevated, the literature and arts which

correspondence hetween their respective Gov-

eruments, and been matter of public comment |

Our

readers require not here a repetition of the

by their presses during the past year.

account we gave at the time of the invasion by the threatened raid

lawlesz hordes of western frontier of Canada and the Brunswick. We vefer to them at present as having had a significance which subsequent events induce us to think they foreshadowed ;

but this idea we could not entertain at the time

of their occurrence, as we were unwilling to

believe that any Government, professing to Possess the rights and to observe the obliga- tions of constitutional freedom, could have, to insure atemporary triumph cfa party, descended to the baseness of giving encouragement to any portion of its citizens in carrying murder and robbery to the quiet hearths of unoftfending j neighbors. The folly and wickedness of the affairs to which we allude, were so apparent,

5 2 oarselves, that, in our notices of theni, we treated them , ca

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and instead of causing |

into New!

cruisers during the civil war, and this at a

| peated public declarations of his intention of year—when the British Government is in pos-

ing extra measures of defence—when an unu- sually large squadron of American men-of-war, with the formidable Miantonimah among them, is, Or was, a few days since, in Portuguese | waters, their destination not made public— seems to render it probable that the party ruling at Washington, having been signally | defeated at the recent elections, may have | resolved tobid for the retention of the reins of

oe » te . . . " ie 4 : 4 morals and religious, is it allied. Attached too | its warlike guise, and, for the club, assume the | of which mere party questions would be lost

sivht of. This opinion, we give, oh, reader! |

py in the consideration of their position as| bloody noses and cracked crowns, the powers | without prejudice to our remarks on the pacific | Mere machines made but for obedience to the |that be will betake themselves in process of tendencies of the Cable, for we save ourselves

i that there has not been time for its good results to make themselves felt.

Aeress the southern border of the Wnited States we see unhappy Mexico as far as ever | from the realization of a settled government of | her own. When Maximilian accepted the so- | | vereignity of that long distracted country, all) | the soi-disant patriots had a two-fold ground of | | opposition to the establishment of his dynasty. An Austrian by birth and educatign, transferred

| from the imperial halls of his ancestors to found |

this year, on the cur- possible, to render such interruption as brief as | gy imperial dynasty among the descendants of reat cf popuny opinion, as enibodying the best possible.

Cortez, in a country which had won its inde- | . . . . pendence of the royal misrule of more congenial

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ings of his new subjects, if net an impossibility,

vain, his task of consolidating the alien feel-

jrequired certainly the exercise of qualities rarely found amouy rulers in these days, and | of which, in modern times, at all events, the | PP orraine has not been fertile.

When to the primary difficulty of harmonizing

House of Hapsbur

to his own support the vuried jealSusies and auimosities of persons and of parties, by which | a long series of petty revolutions had rent | asunder the bonds of soeiety, and arrayed one | dishonest faction against another, is added the | fact, that as a foreigner he accepted the throne as the nominee of another foreigner, and by the aid of his bayonets, it might have been readily foreseen that his title. was ‘writ ir ‘water.’ His patron, the Emperor of the |French, finds that affairs nearer home ¥e- quire so much of his attention that he is com- ' pelled to allow his profege to be enrolled in the hist of sovereigns retired from business, and to seek for sympatliy in his misfortunes from his _co-mates in exile, the ex-potentates of Hanover, | | Saxony, &c., in the place from whence he. me.

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insects in the mailed hand of an armed man, and ltahan. Venetia—the Queen. of the..Adriatic— rendered up to augment the dominions of the King of Italy—of him whose sailors and whose soldiers her own land and sea forces had over- whelmingly defeated whenever they were en- gaged during the short but decisive struggle. Although Victor Emmanuel was so great a gainer by the war—although so large and valuable a portion of the spoils fell to his share —we have it on record that on land his infan- try was worsted in every encounter with that of Austria—that his cavalry “fell or fled across the plain’”’ before the charge of their foes; and the fiery naval battle off Lissa, though maintained by the Italians with a cgurage truly heroic, was won from them by a force numerically far inferior in men, ships and gis.

The reluctant cession of Venetia to France, instead of one of the hostile powers, deprived that act of Austria of the dignity which should Had it been given up to Italy direct, such concession would have been the open and honest Course, but by handing it over to a third party, Austria mani- fested to the world, or to that portion of it not a secretis to the councils of Kings and Kaisers, a disposition akin to that of him who caanot bring his pride down to the level of his dis¢om- fitted condition, and seeks solace for his wound- ed feelings by paying, through the interyening

accompany national misfortune.

offices of a friend, the penalty of his ill saccess. If Napoleon III. should have entertained for a moment the idea that his action in receiving and transferring the territory in question would have given him even a pretext for obtaining the Rhine a boundary for France, his illusion must have been rudely dispelled when the arch spirit of diplomacy, Bismarek, informed him that his suggestion for “a rectification of the boundaries of France’’ was simply inad- missable. Such a reply from Prussia to such a demand from Imperial France must have shown to the ruler and people of that country that she had fallen from that position relatively to other European powers which she held in the days when another Imperial Napoleon could utter the haughty threat that he would make the nobles of Prussia beg their bread. That the present occupant of the throne of so

so palpable a rebuff, on a question naturally |

important to the country, cannot but have ; barely afford a pretence for the stronger power | 00 : great influence in the future policy of Europe. | to oppress the weaker, with the object of | CQUNPRY LIFE IN PRINCE EDWARD} }* been, in a majority of cases architect, [vvitating it must be to the French people, | diverting attention from internal misgovern-| JSLAND IN.THE PAST GENERATION. j builder, plaister, painter’ and c The walling to their ruler, who, after having quiet-| ment; and Spanish policy in the matter recalls |

found that he had been but nourishing a ser- | pleasant, hurried forth from his domicile, and Calin contemplativu, and poetic. ease.”

pent who stung him, as bis reward.

France will doubfless take the first oppor- |

to effuce the recollection of this scant courtesy, fit by fields whereon her victorious eagles may

~ > arc > . ’ - ’ i soar in unison with those of now stricken| Britain has exhibited, during the year 1866, | bills and valleys, its streams and groves, pre- | neighbors houses uae full view. The tiver the advantages resulting to a nefion from the | sént to them very nearly the same appearance | er creek, which, u few years before, was «

ges re

The success of the Prussian arms is no doubt | adoption of liberal principles oféommerce. Jn|as they did to their fathers and their grand-| hidden by everhargivg woods that only a few

Austria.

jmainly attributable to the use of the needle ; = atin Be »y common consent, intensified by | money, notwithstanding the failures of nume- ‘little altered in fifty or even in « hundred years. the recent practical proofs of their superiority, | rous Banking and commercial Houses for enor. | The very houses that Pps oe ‘breech loading fire arms are the only. ones | mous amouuts, suck is the elasticity of trade; are now the dwellings of ¢ i a : ema ‘available for modern warfare, European eom- when it can pursue its natural course without | The wanderer returns gray-haired to the village

* aa } gun, and as !

batants will, in futare, meet on terms of greater | undue

equality than they did in the recent sttuiggle. The whole of the appliances and ntéans for |

defacing God’s iiuages, when rulers rage, has |

of late years engaged so much of the practical

and scientific knowledge of Europe and 4me- |

rica, thet we cannot shut our eyes to the | jon. |

many and so powerful

ie

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yo

‘from the site of the European conquests of | a5 much as their opponents to a comprehensive

Mahomet II.

to whom they may be addressed, as has been the case already with Russia, with Austria and

Prussia; and this disregard of the opinion of a|

power which so long exercised a paramount moral force in the cabinets of Europe may in-

| duce a readiness to engage in hostilities, which, | ly, to array class against class. He would be

if her active interposition were expected to ensue npon the rejection of her advice, might not be entered upon. .

The absorption by Prussia of Hanover, Saxony and the other German friends of Aus- tria, will give her, in any future convinental struggle, an equality on land with her mighty ueighbour, France; and it is better for the general peace of Europe that it should be so, for the forces of the two powers could sweep Europe from the shores of the Mediterranean to the heart of Russia. That such Union will

take place is of course possible, but in our |

opinion it will only be occasioned by the pres- sure of some gigantic interest. Prussia has a long list of bitter memories of France, the legacy of the first Napoleon; and be it remem- bered that the Prussian minf, during the long Napoleonic wars, showed itself very tenacious of the memories of disasters, and ardent to avenge them. Besides, there are no two peo-

les on the civilized globe who have less in common than the French and the Germans. The one fiery and volatile, able and ready to do and dare aught, sothat itbe done and dared quickly, laughing at death and glorying to seek

“the bubble reputation e’en in the cannon’s mouth,”

“* Nescia virtus

Stare loco, solusque pudor non yincere bello.

Acer etindomitus ; quo spes quogue ira vocasset,

Ferre manum et nunquam temerando parcere ferro.’””

The Teuton is the very reverse of this—contem- plative and much given to dream-land, patient and possessed of a dogged capacity of endur- ance, he seems almost intended by nature to suffer the vigorous attacks of the impetuous Frenghman, and to endure preliminary Tener that his own peculiarities of temperament may be brought into exercise in the gradual but ef- ‘ectual worsting of his active assailant.

Meanwhile the quiet with which the news of the extinction of the Royalties of Germany was veceived by the rest of Europe was a charac- teristic of this most practical age. In a most sensible, but most undignified and eminently unregal spirit, he of Hatover quietly ske- daddied with all the contents of the public treasury ; and, we presume, carried off his now useless diadem in his travelling bag. We trust that the symbol of royalty may be saved from the degradation predicted as the fate which awaited the rezalia of Scotland at the time of the Union, when, of the Crown of that ancient kingdom, some ribald scribe, (may we suppose that in our days he would have been an anti- Confederate?) wrote that it would, horresce referens, be converted

‘Into a can For Brandy Pan

(Queen Anne of blessed memory !) To puke in when she’s tipsy.’

Spain, long a prey to civil strife, with finen-

|eial credit shaken in the money anarkets of | disturbed dream than the actual effects of na-

Europe, her throne occupied by a sovereign who neither deserves nor receives the respect due to personal character, has contributed her quota to the history of the past year by a most cowardly and cruel bombardment of the de-

|fenceless city of Valparaiso, where the trophies of her prowess were exhibited in the shattered | serve a passing remark in this article ; but we exhausting labour.

wrecks of private property. She essayed the

that absurdly insignificant nature which could

‘ly and sub rosa, abetted Prussia in her spolia- |the memory of the irascible Paterfamilias, who, | , tion of Denmark, instead of a grateful friend, | finding his domestic arrangements by no means |

1 . . . * . {seeing an unoffending damsel stooping, with) +

her back towards him, engaged in tying one ’ "5 J D

shoe.”

the face of an unprecedentedly high price for

restraints, that an augmented revenue under a dimiaished tariff confronts the prophets who could see nothing short of a complete de- rangement of the commerce of the country.

It has long since been said that history re- peats itself, amd the agitation in England, for an extension of the electoral franchise, revalls to mindthe state of publie feeling on the su

of the insurgents, has had its origin attributed with mueh probability to Russian intrigue. Rus-| Russell's Ministry was defeated, and conse- rently impenetrable wall

sia wants, and some day will have, Constanti-| quently resigned, there was not to be found | two fields, plentifully dotted nople and the Dardanelles; and if, by contrasting }among the six hundred and fifty-eight members and unsightly stumps, and surrow

The avowed doctrine of non-in- | tervention by Britain in European complications Quaker tribune, Mr. Bright, has been “ wield- | will have the bad effect of causing her remon- | ing the fierce democracy " with a power which | strances to fall unheeded on the ears of those | has stirred the mind of the nation to its ut-

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} " + aa ad ‘ “ se gat throne across the Atlantic, she soon found the | slumbering elements of discord. The gradual|the land. The effect of that recognition of in-| vast unbroken sea of foliage,

y exemplified in the action of Parlia-

ds her failing strength} ment on the present question. In the case of | even twenty years ago, hag

much as a greedy heir at law watches the de-| the first Bill, Ministers weve defeated on the the sight of the immense exp creasing energies of a superannuated invalid, ground that no Reform Bil! was required. The tops, so uniform in height, whose wretched lingeving has kept him waiting flames of Bristol and disturbances more or less | in appearance as to look as if

| serious, showed that the question of reform had

The phrenzied outbreak of the Greek Chris-| permeated the masses far beneath the sociab| The settlements then consisted

tians in Candia against their Mahommedan | strata which were to be immediately affected | simall cleared spaces cut out of ' . . { : ' Buwlas jelde

rulers, quenched though it has been in the blood | by it, and the Barons of England yielded to

| popular feeling. The cther day, when Earl

their present debasement with the former glories | of the House of Commons, a single laudator of the Grecian people, and appealing to the bond | femporis acti hardy enough to propose a reso- of a common Christianity, and still more, of a. lution that no alteration was required. The common denomination of Christians, she can force of public opinion, as yet unrepresented in| Of the “ spacious firmament” ‘involve the Infidel Sultan in conflicts with his|the Legislature, was acknowledged, and the | settler could obtain a glimpse of. | Christian subjects, the effete Turk must retire | successors of the late Government are pledged

addition to the electoral lists. That talented

most depths. We admire his talents and his unflagging energy, but we must regret the im- pressicu which his public course has created in jour mind, that his love of popularity should | have induced him, intentionally or unconscious-

| fur more serviceable to the cause of popular emancipation if he were less indiscriminate in his depreciation of the institutions of his coun- try; and it strikes us that his public statement on the floor of the House of Commons of his objection to attend the official dinners of the Speaker in the dress customary on such occa- sions, should have led his Quakership to its logical conclusion—an open avowal of the sans culotteism of the orator,

At the time of the outbreak in Jamaica we gave our opinion as to the cause whence it arose, and the measures adopted for its suppres- sion,and we do not intend to repeat it here. That wilful murder and unjustifiable barbarity were committed by some of the subordinate officers of Government, is undeniable, — that inex- perienced youths were entrusted with the awful power of taking the lives of their fellow-beings, with nothing but their excited feelings for thei, mentors—that in some cases even the rude tri- bunal of a court-martial did not interpose be- tween the capture and execution of some of the blacks—are facts which are not denied, but have been admitted on the trials of some of those who have been tried for their acts dur- ing the brief and bloody trouble. We cannot, however, but think that ex-Governor Eyre has been harshly dealt with by the Government, and is being cruelly treated by a large and in- fluential portion of the people of Engiand. For whatever acts he may have committed, which

the ‘Gentlemen of England Who live at home at ease,”

may have considered unnecessary and unpopu- lar, the averted countenance of the Government should have been ample satisfaction, That he should be dragged from the retirement of private life, at the instigation of a set of fanatical humanitarians, to be tried as a criminal for ‘conduct which they cannot appreciate, in cir- cumstances unparalleled in their experience—is indicative of any spirit but that offair play. If even handed justice be the plea for this perse- cution of a fallen man, they who advocate it should reflect that the’Government—the recog- nized guardian of the lives and liberties of all its subjects—had disposed of his case in all its bearings, and had imposed what, in its opinion, was adequate punishment for ‘any indiscretion he had committed. reflect? We sircerely hope that a ready verdict of acquittal may cover, with shame aad