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fav fa THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIPE. BY CHAELES WACKAY.

‘* What joy attends the fisher’s life !

Blow, winds, blow ! ‘Lhe fisher and his faithful wife.

Row, boys, Row ! lie drives no plough on stubborn land, liis fields are ready to his hand ;

No nipping frosts his orchards fear, Iie has his autumn all the year. Yeo! heave! ho!

« The husbandman has rent to pay, Blow, winds, blow ! And seed to purshase every diy. Row, boys, row! But he who farms the rolling deeps, Though never sowing, always reaps ; The ocean fiields are fair and free, There are no rent days on the sea. Yeo! heave! ho! ‘- Then joy attend the fisher’s life ! Blow, winds, blow The fisher and his faithful wife. Row, boys, row ! May favoring breezes fill his sail, His teeming harvests never fail! And from his cottage on the strand Come forth defenders of our lend. Yeo! heave! ho! eb 2Se S —

TUE-TWO ROSES.

BY GERALD MASSEY.

Softly stept she over the lawn, In vesture light and free : A floating Angel might have drawn Her hair from heaven in a glory-dawn, And her voice rang silverly. Then up she rose on her tiny tip-toes, And reacht and reacht among the boughs ; You are tall and proud, my dainty Rose ! But I have you new, said She.

O £0 lightly over the lawn, Step for step went he! — Thinking how, from his hiding-place, The war of Roses in her face, Dear Love would laugh to see! Two arms suddenly round her he throws, T'wo mouths, turning one way, close ; You are ta'land proud, my dainty Rose! Bat I have you now, said He.

MYSTIFICATIONS.

Nearly forty years ago great merriment was exzite] in Edinburgh by certain personations performed in the highest Whig cireles by a young lady, to the perfect deception o! all who were not in her secret. In concert with one or two persons, she would leave a drawing-room, and return as a stranger lately arrived, having meanwhile assumed the dress of an old lady, and’ then she would act and converse for hours in her assumed character without being recognised by a single person not previously aware of the scheme. What added to the piquancy of the performance, her old lady was what is called a character—full of whimsical ideas and oddities, and professedly maintaining the language and dress of a former zeneration. Of course, such deceptions could not be long kept up in'so limited a society ; yet it is re- markable how often she imposed upon persons who well knew both her and ber tricks—even upon. individuals who bad expressed a wish to see her in some of her characters — the cleverest” people being always the most easily imposed upon, and children and dogs the only detectives.

"Miss Stirling Graham—for such is the lady’s name—has at length been induced by her friends to print, for private cireulation, 2 small volume containing a selection of ber most distinguished ‘mystifications;” and, a copy having come into our possession, we feel called upon by a principle of benevolence towards the public, to break through the restraint which the modesty of the author has imposed, and give, at least, one example of her personations. It shall be one in which the victim was no le-s eminent a persona than Francis Jeffrey, the editor of the Edinburgh Review. ‘

“ At the theatre one Saturday evening, in the year 1821, Mr. Jeffrey—afterwards Lord Jeffrey —requested ine to let him see my. o/d lady, and on condition that we shou!d lave some one to ‘ake in, I promised to introduce her to him very soon. Accordingly, on the Monday, having ascertained that he was to dine at home, [ set out frora Lord Gillies’s in a coach, accompanied by Miss Helen Carnegy of Craigo, as my daughter, and we stopped at Mr. Jeffrey’s door in George Street between five and six o’clock. It was a winter even- ing ; and on the question, ‘1s Mr. Jeffrey at home ? being answered in the affirmative, the two ladies stepped out, and “were ushered into the little parlour, where he received his Visitors.

“There was a blazing fire and wax lights on the table. He had laid down his book, and ‘seemed to be in the act of joining the ladies ia the drawing room before dinner.

“The Lady Pitlyal wasaunounced, and he stepped for-

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD

country are very apt to fall into on. their first arrival in the metropolis. Mr. Jeffrey bowed and handed the old lady to a comfortable chaise tongue on one side of the fire, and sat himself down opposite to her on the other. But in his desire to accommodate the old lady, and in his anxiety to be in- formed of the purport of the visit, he forgot what was due to the young one, and the heiress of the ancient house of Pitlyal was left standing in the middle of the floor®

“She helped herself to a chair, however, and sat down beside her mother... She had been. educated in somewhat of the severity of the old school ; and: during the whole of the consultation, she neither spoke nor moved a single muscle of her countenance.

“* Tell,” said Mr. Jeffrey, as he looked at the old lady, in expectation that she would open the subject that had pro- cured him the honour of the visit.

“* Weel,’ replied her ladyship, ‘I am come to take « word.o’ the law frae you.

‘“*My husband, the late Ogilvy of Pitlyal, among other property which he left to me, was a house and a yard at the town-end of Kirriemuir; a!so a kiln and a malt barn.

“¢The kiln and-the barn were rented by a man they ca’d John Playfair, an} Joho Playfair subset them to anither man they ca’d Willy Cruikshank, and Willy Cruikshank purchased a cargo of damaged lint—and ye widna hinde: Willy to dry the lint upon the kiln—and the lint took low and kindled the cupplés, and the slates flew aff, and a’ the flooring was burnt to the ground, and naething left standin’ but the bare wa’s.

“+ Now, it was na insured, and I want to ken wha’s to pay the damage, for John Playfair says he has naething ado wi’ it; and Willy Cruikshank says he has naething ¢o do i wi’; and L am determined not to take it off their band the way it is.’

* Has it been in any of the courts ?”

©¢ Qu ay, it has been in the Shirra Court of Forfar; and Shirra Duff was a guid man, and he kent me, and would ha’ gien’t in my favour, but that clattering creature, Jamie L’Amy, cam in, and he gave it against me.”

“*T have no doubt Mr. L’ Amy would give a very fair decision.’

“ «Tt was naa fair decision when he ga’e it against me.’

“¢ That is what many people think in your circumstances.’

“¢The minister of Biairgowrie is but a fule body, and advised me no to gae to the law.’

‘«¢ T think he gave you a very sensible advice.’

«Tt was onything but that; aod mind, if ye dinna gie’t in my favour, L’ll no be sair pleased.’

« Mr. Jeffrey smiled, and said he would not promise to do that, and then inquired if she had any papers.

« «Qu ay, L have a great bundle of papers, and I'll come back at any hour you please to appoint, and bring them wi’ me.’

«Tt willnot be necessary for you to return yourself— you can send them to me.’

** And wha would you recommend to me for an agent in the business ?

«That I cannot tell; itis not my province to recommen | an agent,’

«*Then how will Robert Smith of Balharry do ?

« «Very well—very good man indeed ;.and you may bid him seud me the papers.’

‘: Meantime her Jud@yship drew from her pocket a large old fas:ioned leather pocket-book with silver clasps, out of which -he presented him a letter directed to himself. Ue did not look into it, but threw it carelessly on the table. She now offered him a pinch of snuff from a massive gold box, and then selected another folded paper from the pocket-book, hich she presented to him, saying: ‘ Here is a prophecy that I would like you to look at and explain to me.’

“He begged to be excused, saying: “I believe your ladyship will find me more skilled in the Zaz than the prophe's.”’

“She entreated him to look at it; and on glancing his eyes over it, he remarked: ‘Phat from the words Tory and Whig, it did not seem to be a veryrancient prophecy.’

“«« May be,’ replied ber ladyship ; ‘ but it has been long in our family. 1 copied these lines out of a muckle book, entitled the Prophecie of Pitlyal, just before I came to ycu, in-order-to have your opinion on some of tae obscure passages of it. Aal you.will do me a great favour if you will read it out loud; and I will tell you what I think of it as you go on.’

“Flere, then, with a smile at the oddity of the request, and a mixture of iwpatience in his manner, he read the fol- lowing lines, while she interrupted him occasionally to re-

‘mark upon their meaning:

EX!KACT PROM THE PROPHECIE OF PITLYAL. When the crown and the head shali disgrace ane anither, And the bishops on the bench shal! gae a’ wrang thegither;

When Tory or Whig

Fills the judge’s wig;

When the Lint 0’ the Miln

Shall reek on the kiln;

O’er the Light of the North,

When the Glamour breaks forth,

As its wild-fire so red

With the daylight is spread ; When woman shrinks not from the ordeal of tryal, There is triumph and fame to the house of Pitlyal.

(The Light of the North was Mr, Jeffrey—the Glamour was herself;

but we must give the Lady Pitiyal’s own interpretation, as she appeared

unconscious of the true meaning.) ««* We hae seen the crown and the head,’ she said, ‘ dis-

-werd a few paces to reecive her. a “ She was a sedate looking little woman, of an inquisitive | law-loving countenance; a mouth in which not a vestige of a tooth was to be seen, and a pair of old-fashioned spectacles | on her nose, that rather obscured a pair of eyes that had not altogether lost their lustre, and that gave to the voice as | ‘much of the nasal sound as indicated the age of its possessor | to be some years between her grand climaeteri¢ and four-| score. She was.dressed in an Irish poplin of siiver gray, a White Cashmere*hawl, a mob cap with a bandof thin muslin that fastened it below the chin, and a small black silk bonnet that shaded her eyes from any glare of light. ~ | “ Her right hand was supported by an antique goldheaded cane, and she leant with the other on the arm of her daughter. | “Miss Ogilvy might be somewhere on the wrong side of | twenty; how many months or years, is of no particular im- | portance, Her figure, of the middle size, was robed in a) ress of pale blue, and short encugh in the skirt to display | & very handsome pair of feet and ankles. On her head’ she Wore a white capote; and behind a transparent curtain of

Pure white biond, glanced two eyes of darkest hazel, while’ p

Tinglets of bright auburn, harmonized with the bloom of the Fose that glowed upon her cheeks. Her appearance was, Techerche, and would have been perfectly lady but for an attempt at style—a mistake which young ladies from the}

grace ane anither no very lang syue, and ye may judge whether the bishops gaed right or wrang on that occasion ; and the Tory and Whig may uot be very ancient, and yet never be the less true. ‘Then there is the Lint o’ the Milo —we have witnessed that come to pass; but what the ‘ Light of the North’ cau mean, and the Glamour, I canna mak out. ‘he twa hindmost lines seem to me to point at Queen Caroline; and if it had pleased God to spare my scn, I might have guessed he would have made a figure on ber tria!,.and have brought “ triumph.and. fame to the house of Pitlyal.”” I begin, however, to think that the prophecie

ISLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1859.

terrupted by her ladyship asking Mr. Jeffrey to tell her where she could procure a set of fause teeth.

““* What ?’ said he, with an expression of astonishment, while the whole frame of the young lady shook with some internal emotion.

“*A set of fause teeth,’ she repeated, and was again echoed by the interrogation, « What 2’

“A third time she asked the question, and in a more audible key; when he replied with a kind of ‘suppressed laugh: ‘There is Mr. Nasmyth, north cornér of St. Andrew Square, a very good dentist; and there is Mr. Hutchins, corner of [lanover and George Street.’

‘* She requested he would give her their names on a slip of paper. [Ie rese and walked to the table. wrote down both the directions, which he folded and presented to her.

“She now rose to take leaye. ‘The bell was rung, and when the servant entered, his master desired him to see if the Lady Pitlyal’s carriage was at the door.

“Te returned to tell there was no carriage waiting, on which her ladyship remarked: ‘This comes of fore-hand payments—they make hint-hand wark. [ ga’e a hackney couchman twa shillings to bring me here, and he’s awa’ with- Out me,’

‘There was not a coach within sight, and another had to be sent for from a distant stand of coaches. It was by this tine past the hour of dinner, and there seemed no hope of being rid of his visitors.

“ Her ladyship said she was in no hurry, as they had had tea, and were going to the play, and hoped he would aecom- pany them. He said he had not yet had his dinner.

“* What is the play to-night? said ste.

“«Tt is the Heart of Mid-Lothian, again, I believe.’

“They then talked of the merits of the actors, and she took occasion to tell him that she patronised the Edinburgh Review. .

‘“©« We read your buke, sir!”

“*T am certainly very much obliged to you.’

“Still no carriage was heard. Another silence ensued, uatil it bethought her Jadysh‘p to amuse liim with the poli- ties of the country. :

“* We burnt the king’s effigy at Blairgowrie.’

«That was bold,’ he replied.

‘“«* And a pairof dainty muckle horns we ga’e him.’

““* Not very complimentary to the queen, | should think.’

“ Here the coach was annoancel, and by the help of her daushter’s arm and her gold-headed cane, she began to more, complaining loudly of a corny tae. She was with d fiiiu'ty got into the coach. The Rosebud s'epped lighily a‘ter her.

“The door was closed, and the oder given to drive te Gibo’s Hotel, whenee they hastened with all specd to Lord Gillics’s, where the party waited dinner fo. them, and huile! the fulfilment of the * Prophecie of Pithyal.’

“Mr. Jeffrey, in the meantime, impatient for his dimer, joined the ladies in the drawing-room,

«What in the world has detained you? sail Mrs. Je ifr y- :

«+ (ne of the most tir.some and oddest old wemon I ever met with. I thought never to have got rid of her;’ and be- ginning to relate sume of the conversation that had taken place, it flashed upon him at once that he had been taken in

‘Ie ran down stairs for the letter, hoping it would throw some light upon the subject, but it was only a blauk sheet of paper, containing a fe of three guineas.

“They amased thém-elves with tha relation; but it was not untit the day after that he fowad out from his valued friend Mrs. Gearge Rass2ll who the ladies really were. He laughed heartily, and promised to a'd them in any other scene they like] to devise, an] he returne] the fee with tho following letter :—

“Letter from Mr. Jeffrey to the Lady Pitlyal, re-

turning the fee of three guineas.

**¢ Dear Madam—<As I understand that the lawsuit about the malt-kiln is likely to be settled out of court, I must be permitted to return the fee by which you were pleased to re- gard my services for that interesting discussion ; and hope I shall not be quoted along with the hackney coachman in proof of the danger of fore-hand payments. 1 hope the dentists have not disgraced my recommendation, and that Miss Ogilvy is likely to fulfil the prophecy, and bring glory and fame to the house of Pitlyal; though I am not a little mortified at having been allowed to see so little of that amiable young lady.

‘*** With best wishes fur the speedy cure of your corns, I have the honour to be, dear ma!am, your very faithful and obedient servant, F. Jerrrey.

To have imposed upon Mr. Jeffrey only two nights after he had ioid the young lady that he would like to see her in character, was certainly a brilliant stroke. ihe same time, bat admire his gentlemanly patience during the visit, and his good-humoured letter returning the fee.

party, and spoke of nothing else fora week. At length a friend hinted that it might be Miss Stirling. That he said was impossible, “for Miss Stirling was sitting by the old lady the whole of the evening.” There must have been a latent or unconscious impression of the actual persoa in kjs inind, all the time that the ideal was occupying. it;

The volume contains sone specimens of poems and songs, of a dezree adding much to the claim which we now feel in- clined to advunee, that there should be an edition of Mysti- Jications tor the service of the pablic.

Gieanings from late Papers.

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Srory og THE Spiper any THE SNake.—-I will net attempt | to say where instinct leaves off or knowledge begins, but, per- jhaps I may as well, by way of illustration, tell a story, though most of you haye undoubtedly heard it, and many

| Were witnesses to this wonderful sagacity on the part of the

spider in stringing © snake-up by the neck. The great thing \in the whole affair was in putting his web over the mouth of

One cacnot, at! nose touched the water.”

pletely taken in with the old Lady Pitlyal at an cyening |

No. 6.

died ; the spider had raised the head of the snake from the fleor slowly, but surely, each day, and when that work was finished he commenced biting the snake about the head, suffi- cient to draw the blood, which could be seen with a glass. Each time the snake was speared he would jamp and spring 80 as to stretch the web several inches. I travelled fifty-two miles, and made two journeys jo see this most wonderful per- formance.

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Massacre oF Evrorrays 1x Borxzo.—A correspondent at Batavia has forwarded to Messrs. James Finlay & Co., of Glasgow, the following intelligence :

‘‘We have the greatest regret in informing you that we have, by the arrival of the Dutch Government steamer Ardjeno, from Banjermassing, on the 21st instant, reecived the most disastrous tidings regarding the coal mine establish- ment of Kalungair, which has by some accounts been entirely, by others only partly, destroyed by an insurrection among the native subjects of the Sultan of Banjermassing ; but, saddest of all, the whole of the European employes have been brutally murdere], without leaving one to tel! the tale. The tragedy was enacted on the 18th of the month, and atteaded with horrors not exceeded by anything which oc- }curred even at Cawnpore. The particulars you will find described in-a circular addressed to the shareholders by the directors of the company. Reinforcements of troops are being sent in all haste from this and Samarang, with three or four steamers, which will be no doubt sufficient to restore peace and order in the country, and we trust may arrive in time to save the remaining Huropeans at Banjermassing and neighbourhood,

‘The cause of the insurrection proceeds in no way from d'stike to the mines, where the greatest peace and content- ment have always prevailed, but to a long-brooding dis- affection of the natives of Banjermassing to their tw Sultan, who had been maintained on his throne mainly by the pre- tection of our Government, coutrary to the will of the people, and as it would appear, in disregard of the legitimate right of suecession of an»ther prince named Iidayal, who was at the same time the favourite of the people. This dis- affection among the people excited to revolt and murder by some Mahommedan priests lateby returned from Meeca, is supposed to have been the cause which has led to the sacrifice of so many precious lives, already amounting, so far as knowa, to 50 or 51 in number. Among these four German mission- aries, three of their wives, and nineteen children, are statcd to have fallen victims to the knives of the assassins.”

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Tue Dave tuar Kiturp Nesson.—The fatal shot. that deprived Evgland of her greatest naval hero was. fired (coutrary to the reevived account) at random from the top of the Redoultable, by a French soidier named Kebert Guillemarde, who escaped uowounled, and when his ship struck, was taken on board the Victory. The fatal. bullet wasnot diseovered until the Victery reached Spithead. It had struck the fore part of the hero’s epaulette and. entered his Icft shoulder, It then descended obliquely into the thorax, fracturing the second and third ribs, and afier pene- | trating the left lobe of the lungs aud dividing a large branch of the pulmonary a:tery, entered the left side of the spine, passed through the muscles of the back, and lodged there. A considerable portion of the gold lace, pad, and silk cord of the epaulette, with a piece of coat, were found attached to it—whilst the gold lace was as firmly fixed as though is had been inserted into the metal whilst in a siate of fusiow, The ball together with the lace was mounted in erystal and silver, aud presented by Capt. Hardy to Mr. (afterwards Sir W.) Beattie, the surgeon of the Victory, who died ia 1842.

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Tue Great Eastern.—This verse] has been getting én wonderfully during the last few weeks. The three iron masts rise 122 {cot above the upper deck, and have a diameter of 3 feet G inches fora height of 70 feet, when they decrease gradually to 2 feet G inches at the cap. The three wooden masts, which are also in their places, are not built masts, but are single “sticks.”? The fore and mizen masts are 140 feet in height, and they are 34 fect in diameter at the deck ; the jiggermast is 122 feet in height, and of the same diameter. The trees which formed these masts were New Zealand pines. The sh'p is built in’water-tight compartments; and so con- pletely water-tight are they that a few days since the. fore- most one was filled with six thousand tons of water, pumped into it from the river, and not adrop eseaped into any adjoining portion. ‘The object in pumping this: mass of water into the fore part of the ship was to’ bring her down ‘at the bows, and raise the stern while they fixed the screw. | This weight brought her down till, said one of the men, “ her She went down cleven feet for- | ward, and was raised seven feet aft; a portion of her keel

was, in fact, raised out of the water; and yet so strongly |and so rigidly is she built that under this enormous strain 'the ship didnot deflect an inch. The engines for working the paddles, it is said, may be completed in a week. Every | thing is in its place, cylinders, and pistons, and governors. ‘The engine for working the screw is in, the same state of | forwardaess, and on Thursday weck the steam was got up fur | the first time in the boilers of the serew engines, Tie sums 'which had been expended on. the ship up to the time of its | memorabie launch. amounted to £640,000. ~The whole ex- | penditure on the ship up to the time of its going to sea will |be £970,000, and probably some incidental charges and /contingencies will bring the whole up to the round sum of | £1,000,000.— London paper.

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i ——~9 060. o——___ — | Eyrraorpinary Prices ror Wives —The cellar of the ‘late Mr. Ricketts, of the Grove. Brislington, near Bristol, | was submitted to public competition lately. . The extraordi- nary age of eome of the wines and the superior vintages of | the whole collection attracted buyers from all parts of the ikingdom. ‘The following are among some of the prices ‘ob- \tained :—Fert, thirty-one magnums (two full quarts eacli), isold at £3.63. per bottle. They were of the vintage of 11820. Hight dozen of 1812 port sold at £16 10s, per dozen

may bé fulfilled in the person of my daughter, for which the snake, which was done with aS much skill asa first class’ (ordinary bottles) and two dozen at £18 10:.; nine dozen

reason L have brought’ her to Edinburgh to see and get a guid match for her.’ ~ “ Here Mr. Jeffrey put on a smile half serious, balf qutzzi- cal, and said: ‘J suppose it would not be necessary for the ntleman to change his name.’ 23 «+ [t would be weel worth his while, sir: she has a very

mechanic could have muzzled a dog to prevent his biting. {Lhe web was secured around the snake’s neck, and then hoisting / was commenced, at the rate of one quarter of an inch in 24 ‘hours, by thickening and twisting up the web.» The snake | was first discovered by a merehant under his counter, where ‘he had undoubtedly been carried with sawdust which had | been put in several wecks previous, to prevent the mud from

}of 1815 (another quality) at £11 per dozen, and twenty- three dozen ditto at £12. Twelve dozen of 1834 port realized | £10 per dozen, and some old hock of 1790, £7 5s. per doz. !The principal purchasers came from Liyerpool and Manchester. ——_—_--—wee-- —--- *

guid:estate, and she’s a very bonnie lassie ; and she’s equally being tracked. about the store. When the re tile was first € Tux New Map or Iraty.—Lombardy has hitherto been related baithe to Airlie and Strathmore ; and a’body ino r discovered by the merchant, he took aelub to kill it, but he divided administratively into nine proyinces or delegations,

art of the warld ca’s her the Rosebud of Pitlyal.’

“Mr, Jeffrey smiled as his eyes met the glance of the beautiful flower that was so happily placed before him ; Lut the Rosebud herself returned no sign of intelligence. “ A-pause in the conversation now ensued; which was in-

| observed that it seemed to bo fast without seeing what held ‘it. ‘Lhe web. being too small to be seon by the naked eye. | After he became satisfied, through a magnifying glass, that

,the creatare. was fastened, he next discovered that the web,

was around its neck, and fastened to the under part of the

viz: Milan, Pavia, Lodi-Crema, Cremona, Como, Mantha, ‘Sondrio, Breschia, and Bergamo. The fortified towns of Mantua and Pesebiera form part of the province of Mantua. The fortress ot Pezzighettone is comprised in the province of

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hel. They were watched closely, day by day, until the snake, Cremona. Ader the anuexation of Lombardy to Piedmont