HASZARD'S GAZE'l"I‘E, JUNE 16.

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“ WILL, after all, I eu pose it is not very much to be wondered at. Your disoonsolate widowers are always the first to take comfort. Poor dear Ann! not dead two years till Se tember, and Edward married a in The doo- tors ought to be ashamed of tﬁinselves. put- tiu it into one’s head,that he was ing into a doc ins. am sure I couldn't rest ay or night for thinking of him.”

“ I congratulate on on the relief this news must be to you, anny. Thomson says our brother is looking better than he ever did in :.ie‘life; and he tells me his wife is a decided

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" Iyoannot help thinking that he mi ht have ven us warning of his intentions ear ier. It

ooks so awkward to know nothing of one’s own brother’s aﬁirs. I talked so much about his grief that I shall get ﬁnely laughed at when he comes home wi a youn wife."

“You must endure wit your usual ti- ence, Fanny. I do not think he has use us

rticularly well ; but it seems she was furious or him, and when a beauty of eighteen falls vielentl in love with a man of six-and-thirty, it mustlie allowed that it is suﬁcient to turn his head."

“0! you men alws s attach so much im- portance to youth. or in art, I should

ave thought Edward woul ave had too much sense to be can ht by a miss in her teens; besides what can sue a girl know about the management of children."

“ I suppose she cannot know very much at present; but that comes by instinct. I do not think she is likely to make the worse stepmo- ther, because she islyoun ; and Frank is such a pretty child that the ifanger will be of her spoilin him.”

“ 0, it will be well enou h till she has chil- dren of her own. Pmr ittle Frank's good looks will not do him much service then; and you may take my word for it, Wilton, that it was a bad day for the poor child when his father first saw this Helen Maodonald."

Sir Edward Irwin, the subject of the fore-

oing téte-5-téte, was a baronet descended from a respectable family, and possessed of very con- siderable estates in the North of England. lie had ..iar'ried, early in life, a lady of a sweet amiable temper,and, escliewing'fashionahle gaieties, had found his happiness in domestic enjoyment, and in literary and scientiﬁc pur- suits. The premature death of his wife start- led him from the even tenor of his life. It was the first sorrow that had befallen him, and he was overwhelmed b it. His wife had been so constantly his companion; she had met all his requirements with a sympathy so ready and so intelligent; that he felt as t ough the dearer half of his soul were taken awa , and as if it were im ssibie for the other half to linger behind. T e caresses and necessities of his son, a child of some three years old, were powerless to reuse him. He was unhappy in havin nothing to force him from his sorrow. His amp e means, his obsequious retainers, his anxious f'riends—all ministered to it oil, the hard but sweet necessity of the sorrowin multitude, brcu ht no aid to him: he nurse his woe and fed it, till his bodily strength gave way. Friends interfered; dortors were con- sulted; his aﬂ'ection for his child was appealed to; and he submitted passively to be sent to Italy, that change of scene and change of climate might be tried. He went without hope

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' —without desire of recovery. Italy or En - . . h

land—what mattered it to him? e wor d was one graveyard, with one barren mound of earth, by which his heart sat and wept. So he said, and so he thought.

He took his child with him ; for, though in his saddened mood the sight of the pretty boy only served to whet his sorrow, he clung to him as all that remained of her he had lost; and watched over him with a nervous solicitude

'evcus to behold. The contrast between the hirilalthy child and the sorrow-stricken father could hardly fail to strike the most careless observer; it very uickly awakened the atten- tion of Mrs. ‘and issotdacdonald, wh_o hap- pended to occup an adjoining palasso in Flo- rence, whither ir Edward had betaken him- self by the direction of his physicians. The simple story of his bereavement mused the in- terest of both ladics—an interest which, in the younger, quickly assumed the character of passion. _ _ _ _

Young, beautiful, and undisciplined, Helen Maodonald revelled in wild notions of an all- consuming and imperious love. Iier ardent temperament had been era gerated by the loose

- morality of the unprincip ed South, and she

easily accepted the handsome etran r as the incarnation of an ideal, which alrea y at ei h- teen she had despaircd of meeting. Sir d- ward’s sunken e e and wan cheeks, his tall, worn person, on his rare and sorrowful smile, moved her. as the perfection of health and manly vigour might have failed to move her. What was not the love worthy which (mild set such a mark on the bereaved one? She sympa- thizcd with, she admired his sorrow: and to soften it, to pour balm into the wound which he loved to keep open, became the ambition—- the object of her life.

Occasion is rarely wanting to those who:

heartily seek it. In the present instance the child naturally opened the way to the father. The little boy s heart was easily won by the smiles and caresses of the beautiful stranger, who spoketo him in the language of his mother, and folded him in her arms almost as tenderly. The name of Helen Maodonald was constantly on his li s, until it beoaine familiar and grateful to his father's ears. Ccurtes required that Sir Edward should rouse himse f to show some sense of the kindness lavished on his child. The first step taken, the rest fol- lowed naturally. Secure in his grief, Sir Edward submitted to the attentions of his neighbour. Her rofound admiration, her sympathy unuttere , but spoken in ever look, in every esters, were a ﬂattery which e ac- cepted without suspicion. The meeting with her came the event of the day, until the sweet pile image of his lost love passed from his mind like breath from the face of a mirror, and the living passionate Helen reigned su- preme. One itter struggle he endured—one sickening attempt to return to his st state of feeling; but the flesh overcame e spirit, and with a sigh, half of sorrow at his instabi- lity, half of relief, he ielded himself to the intoxicating rapture of is new ssion.

elen was so very beautiful ; so tender, yet withal so jealous, so imperious, that she kindled for ii time his more lacid temper into a semblance of her own. S e was his tyrant and his slave; but in all her moods, so full of witcher , that she left him no time for back‘ ward t ought, but tilled him heart and soul with her own ima .

No obstacles stood in the we of their union exce t such imaginary diﬂicu ties as the rest- less ancy of Helen created. Her mother, who in many respects resembled her daughter, was still in the meridian of her beauty, and was not ill-pleased to be relieved of a child whom she could not govern, and who had become a rival, and to have her creditably established as the wife of one of the oldest baronets in Eng- land. Sir Edward, on his side, had no near relations but his sister, and he had been so little in the habit of consulting her, that it was only on the eve of his marriage that he wrote to her. And the same letter which announced to her his complete recovery and approaching marriage, informed her of his intention of bringing his wife immediately to England.

('l‘o he continued.)

SINGULAR EFFECT OF LIGHTNING.

The Melbourne Argus sa 's that as the clipper ship Flying Scud, Capt. ' . Bearse, was crossing the Gulf Stream in Sept. last, on her passage from New York for Australia, she was twice struck b lightning, the first shock pros- trating severa men, an the second knockin down most of the hands on deck. fter the second shock was over, it was discovered that it had affected the shi ’s compasses in a singu- lar manner, causingt em to vary ﬁve ints to the eastward of their true bearing. fter the lapse of ﬁve or six days, the amount of varia- tion diminished from ﬁve to three points, and thus continued for a period of several months. The Argus says :

It would appear that the lightning struck the mizen mast and descended by the lightning rods to the channels. The wind appeared to blow the copper wire of the rod against the chains, and from thence it was conducted through the bolt into the interior of the ship, where it mag- netized a large quantity of iron and steel im- plements which were in the after-hold.

To rove that these were the seat of attrac- tion, a t. Bearse placed a compass in all parts of the s ip. The inﬂuence varied in diflerent places. On the top-gallant forecastle the com- pass seemed to return somewhat to its proper

caring; abaft the mainmast the inﬂuence was muc stronger, and in the after rt it was most potent. Placed upon the cabin ﬂoor, the compass still revolved with considerable velo- city. On a board laced ten feet out upon the larboard side of t e ship. the compass was found to become nearly correct; by this means the true course of the ship was found.

The inﬂuence above mentioned prevailed durin most of the passage, until Dec. 7, in latitude 43 deg 45 south. and longitude 110 deg. 15 min. east, when the com asses seemed to become more correct, being ound to vary but 3-4 ofa point to the eastward. It is also worthy of notice that in this region, several cla of thunder and ii htning were observed an that these were fo owed by thick foggy weather which precluded the possibilit of any observation for four days. hen t is was obtained, the ship was found to be 150 miles to the southward of her true course, in conse- quence of having been steered by the compass on the supposition,that it continued have the some variation as at ﬂrst. When the observa-

tion was made, it was found that the compasses P

had all returned to their true bearing.

Two Kisns 01-‘ Riciii-:s.—“ A little boy sat by his mother. He looked long at the fire and was silent,when the deep thought passed away, his eye grew bright as he spoke: “ Mother, I wish I was rich.”

“Why do_ you wish you were rich, my,

miraculoiis power of the apostles over the

son?” The child said, “Because every one praises the rich, every one inquires i for them. The stranger at our table yester- d_ay asked, Who was the richest man in our village? At school there is a boy who does t not learn; he takes no pains to say his lesson well. Sometimes he s aks evil words. But the children don't blame him, for they say he is a wealthy boy.”

The mother thought the child in danger of believing wealth might take the place of goodness, as an excuse for indolsnce, or cause them to be held in honor who led unworthy lives. So she asked him, “ What is it to be rich?”

After closin

said distiller. magistrate dismissed the c roundly reprimanding the complainant, sued him for molesting the services of the con regation. he power of Methodist preachers to cast out devils, at least within the limits of Conference,’

the services, as he was pass- ng out of t e church, the outnst distiller

with an ofiicer of the law, escorted our clerical friend to the oﬂice of a magistrate

o answer for an assault upon the person of After hcarin the case, the fergyman; and

Since that day, we believe, as never for a moment doubted the

the Ohio

He answered, “I do not know. You tell me how to become rich, that all may

GLEANIIG8 F301 LATE PAPEBI.

ask after me and praise inc.”

_“ To become rich is to get money. For this you must wait until you become a man.

The boy looked sorrowful and said, “ is there not some other way of becoming rich, that I may begin now?”

She answered, “The ge.zi of money is not the only nor the true wealth. Fires may burn it, the ﬂoods drown it, the winds sweep it away, and moth may eat it, rust 1 waptc it, and the robber may make it his

rey. Men are worried with the toil of getting it, but they leave it behind at last. They die, and carry nothing away. The soul of the richest prince of the earth goes forth, like that of the way side-beggar, without ti garment. Those who possess it are always praised by men, but do they receive the praise of God?"

“ Then,” said the boy, “may I begin to gather this kind of riches, or must I wait till I am a man?”

The mother laid her hand upon his little head, and said, “To-day, if ye will hear his voice; for He hath promised that those who seek early shall ﬁnd.”

And the child said, “Teach me, how I _ may become rich before God.” '

Then she looked tenderly on him and said, " Kneel down night and morning, and ask, that you may love the dear Saviour, and trust in Him. Obey his word, and strive all the days ofyour life to be good to all. So, though you may be poor in the world, you shall be rich in faith, and an heir of the kingdom of heaven.”

CASTING A ‘Davii. our’ or CHURCH.-— The New York Tribune presents the follow- ing graphic sketch, which it quotes from a credible authority in Marietta, Ohio :-—-

sirice, preaching to his people on the

demoniac spirits of their day. s he was pursuing his theme, the audience was suddenly startled by a voice from some one in the congregation, demanding in a half- querulous, half-authoritative tone . “ Why don't preachers do such things now-a-days?” In an instant every eye in the house was turned upon the individual who had the efibntry thus to invade the sscredness of their sanctuary. The preacher paused for a moment, and ﬁxed his penetrating

aze full upon the face of the questioner. There was an interval of intense silen_ce, broken at last by the ‘preacher in resuming his subject. He he not proceeded far with his remarks, before he was again interrupted by the same impertinent in- quiry. Again he paused for a time, and and again resumed his subject. Not con- tent with a silent rebuke, our redoubtable questioner demanded again: “ Why don the preachers do such things now-a-days?” and curling his lips with a sneer of self- complacency, drew himself up pompously in his seat. Our reverend friend—who, by the way, is ii young men of great inns- culur power—calmly left the desk, and walked deliberately to the pew where the ‘ intorrogater sat, and fastening one hand.

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upon the waistband of his unmentionablcs,’

ausing eyes upon his audience, on r _ voice said: “As they cast out lll_0.(l(‘.Vll in the form of a dislilIrr;” and suiting the action to the word, out went the knight of‘

street. The _ _ to his desk, and completed his discourse.

escaped convicts from Botany Ba been seen travellin on the rai roads between New York, Philadefp gang numbers 22, including about 15 new members, not well known to the police. Several of them are said to reside in the vicinity of Brooklyn, where some of them have accumula- ted real estate and a large amount of personal property.

LA-rm-r raoii Csui-'os.si.i.—New Or-hens, June

4th. The steamship Prometheus has arrived at this port, with dates from California to /the 16th of Ma . All the gamblin saloons in San Francisco to thirty-three square lea ues of land had been conﬁrmed by the Land (.5 tary _alfairs were improving slowly. In the growing crops the prospects of an abundant yield were good.

ad been closed. Co . Snter's clains

ommissioner. Mone-

A lar 0 gain of notorious emf adroit burg- ars, pick-poc eta, &c., most of whom are , have lately

hia and Baltimore. The

SlNGUI.AR.—A human body in a perfect state

of pelrefaction, has been dug up in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Enquirer thus speaks of it: “ This extraordinary specimen of the human race is a male, about ﬁve feet seven inchts in length. The hair is out very short, and seems to have been shaved in several parts, as its formation is perfect, and apparently uninjured by time. This face is singularly formed, differing in shape and expression from any of the present age.

What s more remarkable, the body is perfect in all its

parts, every muscle, ﬁbre, sinew being perfectly developed. The color is a light gray approaching that ofa white man, though :his may have caused by the soil in which it has been buried, perhaps for ages.”

Oil

Fnrscii ECONOMY sun ENGLISH PR0l-‘USlON.-

The French budget for the current year furnishes

a contrast to our own. The gross charge for the Imperial army is estimated at 340,000,000 francs or £13, 600,000. For ihis sum a military force of no less than 378,911 men and 90,000 horses will be kept on a war-fooling for twelve months. It is, however, fair to say, that this sum does not include the whole military expenditure of the Empire he marine-and colonies require an

‘A Methodist clergyman, who has been additional 193,650,000 francs, about £5,000,000 labouring in this vicinity, was, not long sterling. Then again, there are pensions and

pllowsnces, annuities to the members of the Leg- ion l"rance,stend in the place of English half-pay, and the maintenance of the Chelsea and Green- wich Hospitals. ample allowance for every charge, is less than .£'20,000,000 for France; while that for Eng- land, with something less than one-third of the French force, both in men and horses, is estimated to exceed .£'43,000,000 sterling.

of Honour, and other provision, which in

The total, however, making

MILITARY Gssssosi-r..—Lord Adolphus Vane

Tempest, M. P. for North Durham, who is with his regimentpf Guards in the Crimea, having received a but from his mother, the Dowager Msrchioness of Londonderry, immediately on its erection, ﬁtted up a large and roomy tent adjoining it, which be furnished with a library of stand- ard works, several periodicals, and three daily papers, and, having a good stock of stationery, he opened it for the use of the men of his com- pany for reading, and writing letters home. This act of generosity is highly valued by the men.

Cos Livsit Oii..—lt is well known that this

oil has been held up by many physicians as a perfect cure for almost every disease. ford ofihis city, in one of his clinical lectures, asserts, that he cannot boast of much success in using it. use, as he found it to disagree with the stomachs of his pstienst. He has experienced the best ctfecis from the use of olive oil.—N. Y. Scientiﬁc

Prof Bed-

He has been compelled to abandon its

merican. Fisii.—The subject of the breeding of ﬁsh

seems to be, at present, attracting considerable . tte tio . ﬁrmly upon the collar of his coat, the other gocigt n

The New Jersey Natural History has appointed a committee to consider

_ _ the feasibility of stocking the rivers with _sal- lifted him up completely out of the seat, ,mon. 0ur_own Legislature last winter appoint- and bore him down the aisle to the entrance. } ed a cplipmﬁttete to rcpofrtt atkthe ‘pert igssioig ‘ u on e es meanso sec in news rso for a moment mars’ all: i tliis state with ﬁsh. The Rochgestcr American states, that a gentleman is now enga ed in breeding ﬁsh, on the banks of the Canon aigua Lake, and although sufficient time has not _ _ elapsed to show the results, he is confident of the mash-tub, leap-frog fashion, into the being able to stock that beautiful sheet of cod pastor quietly returned water with speckled trout. stocking the rivers with salmon has also been ‘ agitated in the Eastern States.

The subject of.’