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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1859.

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Provincial Parliament.

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ADDRESS FROM THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | sep TO THE QUEEN ON TEE FORMATION OF THE GO-}

VFRNNENT, AND THE ASSEMBLY’S REPLY.

May 14 & 16, 1859. Committee on Address to the Queen in answer to the Address of the Legislative Coancil. Chair.

Mr. John Yeo in the prep Government.

| of the Government, that they could invite a gentleman of that ‘persuasion to take a sead in Council. It was to bo hoped that ‘at no distant time they would see that their present course | was not calculated to benefit themselves, and that they would combine with their fellow-subjects in promoting the real in- terests of their common country. There had been, and there was, on the part of the Government, and of the party which rted them in the House, mo desire to exclnde Roman Catholics—on the contrary, it was to be regretted that they had practically exeluded themselves.

In opposition to the Address-of the House, it was contended principally by the Hon. Messrs. Coles and Whelan, that the | Address of the Council was fully justified by the position in | which the public affairs of the Island had been placed by the That the statements it contained were ully borne out by the facts, and’ that the Council had acted

. : . ° ° “2: | tn The Address of the Couneil having been read by the Chair- 'wisely and constitutionally in bringing to the notice of Her man, the discussion was commenced by Mr. Howat, who re-| Majesty the extraordinary degree to which the constitution

a the assertion that the exclusion of officials from the I

ouse was a violation of constitutional principle,—which had by the Government.

had been violated, and-its fundamental principles disregarded It was urged by Hon. Messrs. Coles,

been infringed by se Council, in censuring the conduct of the} Whelan, and others, that the Council had as much right to representatives of the people, to whose wishes they should | complain of the conduct of the Government, as the latter had

endeavour to give effect, and who had, at the late eleotions, | t) complain of them. it Council

most distinctly signified their desire for saci exclusion.

Although it were desirable that the should co-operate with the Honse in giving effect to

was the luty of the House to resist this unprecedented ene the wishes of the people, they were certainly entitled to*have croachment on their privileges, which struck at the Toot of their own opinions as to the nature of those wishes. The

Responsi le Government, as it was an attempt bo have Govern- | present Government, by refusing to take departmental offices, ment constructed, not in accordance with, but in oppositicn| had not trented their opponents fairly, for their predecessors |.

to the popular will.

Longworth, Yeo, Pope, Gray, and McAulay, who, after }sameterms as-they-had-them, via:

; | had resigned when they found themselves in a minority, and He was followed by the Hons. Messrs. Palmer, Haviland, | were willing that the majority should receive the offices on the

by. virtue of the.approval

arguing that 1t was the imperative duty of the House not to! of the constituencies, indicated by their re-elections to their

suffer the Address of the Council to go to the foot of the | seats, after théir aceeptange of Offigial situations. throne, without contradiction or comment, proceeded at con- | assumed opposition oO '

As to the the Couficil to*thé myority of the

siderable length to review seriatim the statements it contained, | House, it was competent for that body to adopt sueh line of and to controvert them. The Council at present comprised 9 | action as they thought most in accordance with the princi sles

members opposed to the views of the majority of the House, and of these 7 owed their seats to the late Government, which was not represented by the minority. The question was, whether these 9 or7 councillors were torule the Island against the wishes of the people, and the large majority of the Louse —which had ‘yesterday declared, by a majority of 23 to 2, the necessity fur a change in the constitution of that body? And although some difference of opinion had been manifested as to the details in effecting the change, yet the mode was settled by a vote of 17 to 9.

The assertion in the Address, that a system of Government had been conceded, similar to that in foree in the other Colo- nies, was untrue and its fallacy had been fully demonstrated in the debate to which he referred. Responsible Government had not been granted te any Colony in any particular form— but the concession was uf the general right of self-government.

The charge that the trovernwen® had violated the constitu- tion, was a presumptuous and unwarrantable assertion. The Government was based on.the support of a majority of the people’s representatives on the floor of the House, and if the people wished that no office-holders stiould be there, they had a perfect right to exclude them. That such was their desire, had been amply proved ; and with the knowledge of that fact, he was surprised at the temerity of the Councib in charging them with a violation of the right of self-government,

In reciting that the officers of the present Government were not in either branch of the Legislature, the Council has stu- diously ignored the practices of the late Government, which had availed iteclf of a discreditable sabterfuge, for the pur- pose of deceiving the people. The Jaw stipulated that any member of the House accepting one of the principai Govern- ment offices, should vacate his seat and go back to his constita- ents fur re-election. bat any one holding one of the most petty offices, such as Commissioner of Small Debts, Roads or Boundaries, need not vaeate his seat on being appointed to the highest office. And if any pliant tool, whose services were required to support the party who employed him, could not obtain a seat in the House. what was easier than to put him into the Council with an office? Equally untoundud was the assertion, that the dissolution in 1854 was caused by any attempt to subvert tbe constitution. The Assembly of that year was dissolved principally on account of the new Franchise Bill having been assented to, which gave a very great addition to the number of electors, who had previously no political

wer watever.

The Address of the Council alleged one objection to the present (iovernment—which was founded in truth—tbat no member of that body was in the Executive Council, although two were alleged to be supporters of its policy and principles. No practical benefit could result from the appointment to the Executive of either or both of these gentlemen, as they would find themselves in so hopeless a minority in the Legislative Chamber to which they belongedshat they need expect nothing but the contemptuous ridicule of the majority. Although thé Council denied that t!.eir condact had been, or would be, influenced by party feelings or organization, the best refuta-

tion of that assertion was to be found in their proceedings |

with reference to the only Government measure submitted to them during the present session. The bill providing for the prepayment of the postage on letters for Europe bad been summarily rejected; and the journal which was the organ of the majority of the Counciland of the minority of the liouse had misrepresented its character, describing it as an arbitrary attempt to compel a revenue from the pockets of the people, whether they would or not. That bill had been recommended by the Inperial Government, and its principle and details had been adopted by other Colonies, as being essential to an ani- formity of postal arrangements, which would greatly conduce to the advantage of the Colonies by simplifying the present system © sountry to reduce the rate of ocean postage. the only one of the Colonies which had declined to come into the arrangement. The late Government, last summer, referred

the subject tothe then Postmaster General, Mr. Owen, for! . ; the Legislative Council.

his report. ‘That gentleman, actuated, mo doubt, by conseten-

tious objections, gave it as his opinion. that it would not be | the popular desire fo bill, as he thought its enactment would which the majority asserted. especially the settlers! the Jate Queen’s Printer, were triumphantly returnéd, and

expedient to pass the involve inconvenience to the poorer class, in the backwoods. The matter was subsequently referred to his successor, Mr. Davies,and that gentleman reported in fivor of the scheme, and his report was referred to a sub-com- mittee of the late Executive Council, and mét their approval, and afterwards was adopted by the whole of the late Govern- ment. It thus appeared that in carrying the bill

[louse the Government had but followed in the footsteps of | was defeated, bathe had left his former district.

of the constitution, and the requirements of the country. The British House of Lords had never been considered a mere echo | of the Commons;they had deferred, indeed, to the determined wishes of the people, but their opposition to any measure emanating from the popular branch had not been made a pre- tence fur abolishing or swamping them, as was threatened here, beeause the Council thought the Government had in- | fringed the constitution. If our constitution was supposed to bear any analogy to the British, we must have the system of Gevernment by responsible heads of departinents, as was the ease in the mother country. Members of Governmert taking office, and being re-elected by their constituencics, would necessarily oceupy positions+f more independence than at present, when po. Gpportunity was afforded the people of ex- pressing their opinions as to the manner in which the public offices were filled. In the year 1850. preparatory to the adoption of Responsible Government, it was considered neees- [sary to-provide pensions for the then Attorney General and

Coloniai Secretary, because, ander the system about to be

in the Legislature ; and the gentlemen to be displiced had taken and held their offices under no such obligation, The Government had used the ery of exclusion of ofice-holders from the Assembly to gain support at the elections, ander the plea, that by sach means the independence of the Legislature would be increased ; they had not, however, said anything abvut the presence of members of Government oa the floors of the House, of whom they now had the unprecedented number of,seven, representing more executive influence than had ever been thers... As to the charge that the late Government had ap- pointed ty offices rejected candidates, it came with a bad grace from the men who put into office those who would not dare to seek a constituency. A: man might be rejected, although he possessed the contidence of a large portiom of the constituency to which he appealed, and of the populadgion generally ; but we now had menin office who could not obtain any appreciable number of votes. Notwithstanding what had been sard to the contrary, the dissolution of 1854 was caused by the bill reia- tive to the partial exclusion of officials from the House, intro- duced by the Government. and the passage of the new Franchise Bill was a co-operating cause.

The Post Othee Bill, concerning the rejection of which by the Council so much capital had been made by the Govern- ment, was by no means identical iw its nature cr provisions with that which the late Government would have been will- ing to have carried. The one merely provided for the ulti- mate payment of double postage in case of non-pre-payment of the single rate ; while the late measare prohibited entirely the transmission of any letter to Britain, unless the postage were prepail—in other words, the letter, the postage of which might, not be paid in advance, was not to be forwarded at all to its destination.

The absence of Catholics from the Government was an un- Goubted, and, indeed, an admitted fact, and the Government would in vain attempt to gloss it over. The cerisus reterns showed that the members of that communion comprised nearly one-half of the gross population of the Colony; and the de- claration in the Address before the House, that they had sent no supporters of the Government to the House, was a signi-

'ficant admission that they did not possess the confidence of

that large and influential section of the people. ‘The late Governmeut had left a vacant seat in the Legislative Couneil, which the present might have filled up with a Catholic, of

which denomination many vote for members of the majority.

| As a branch of the Legislature, co-ordinate witn the House,

the Council were entitled to courteous and respectful treat-

‘Post Office accounts, and enabling the mother | ment ; their Address fo the Queen only stated matters of Phe Island was| fact, which could not be contfoverted, such a8 the exelusion|

inaugurated, their successors would be requited to have setts |

Literature. A SONG FOR SEPTEMBER.

‘ BY THOMAS W. PARSONS.

September strews the woodland o’er Vith many-a brilliant color ; The world is brighter than before—

Why should our hearts be duller ? Sorrow and the scarlet leaf,

Sad thoaghts and sunny weather, Ah me! this glory and this grief

Agree not well together.

This is the parting season—this The time when friends‘are flying ; And lovers now, with many a kiss, Their long farewells are sighing. Why is earth so gayly drest ; This pomp that autumn beareth A funera! seems, where every guest A bridal garment weareth.

Rach one of us, perchanee, may here, On some blue morn hereafter, Return to view the gaudy year, But not with boyish laughter ; We shall then be wrinkled men, Our brows with silver laden, And thou this glen mayst seek again, . But nevermore a maiden !

Nature perhaps foresees that Spring Will touch her teeming bosom, And that a few brief months will bring The bird, the bee, the blossom ; Ah! these forests do not knuw— Or would less brightly wither— The virgin that adorns them so Will never more come hither !

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[From Blackwood’s Magazine for August, 135).]

THE HAUNTED HOUSE. [Continued.]

We regained the bedchamber appropriated to myself, and I then remarked that my dog had not tollowed us when we lefi it. He was throsting hiunself close to the fire and trembling. [. was juvpatrent to exaumne the lerters; and while T read them, my servant opened a little box in which he bad deposited tle weapons [had ordéred him to bring ; took thea Out, placed them ona table cloge at iny bed-heud, and thén ecenpied bim- self in we dog, who, however, seemed to need him very little.

The leiters were shor'—thev were dated ; the dates exuctly thirty-five yeareauo. ‘They were esidentiy from a lover to his mistress, or a husband te some yeung wife, Not only the terms of expreasion, but a distimet reference to a former voyage indicated the writer to bea seafarer. ‘Phe spethng and hand- wrung were those of a man unperfect!y educated, but still the lanyuage itself was forcible. Iu the expresstons of endearmen there was a kind of rongh, witd love ; bor here and there were dark unimelligible hints ats m secre om t f love—some secre that seemed of crime. * We ueht to love each other,” was one of ‘he sentences Lremembe ,* fo: how everyone else won d execrate us ii all was known.” Ayan: * Don't let any one bean the same room with you at nigh!—you ta'k in your sieep.”’ And again: ** What's done can’t be undone; and fT tell you there is nothing against us unless the dead could come to hfe.” Here there was underlined in a better hundwriting (a female’), “They do!” Atthe end of the letrer Jatest in date the same fermale band had written these words: * June, the same day as mm

I put dowa the letters and began to muse over their contents,

Fearing, however, that the train of thought into which IT fell might unsteady my nerves, I fully deterinined to keep my mind in a fit state tu cope with whatever of marvellous the advancing night might bring forth. [ roused myself—laid the letters on the table—stirred upthe fire, which wes still bright and cheer- ing, and opened my volume ot Macaulay. J read quietly enough tll about half-past eleven. ed upon the bed, and told my servant he might retire to hisown room, but. mast keep humself awake. | bade him leave open

Soulllny &

candles burring on the table by my bed-hend. Opposite to we the fire burned clear; seemingly asleep, lay the dog. In sbout twenty minutes | felt an exceediuziy culd air pass my cheek, like a sudden draughr.

place, wiust have got open; but no—it was closed.

with one hand, my dagger with the other. my weapons should fare the fate of the watch.

hmy servant called ont is that you, sit ?”’ * No; be on your guard.’’

ears moving qiuekly backwards aod forwarcs,

Lost at sea the 4:h of

slow, loud, distinct knocks were now heard at the bed+head ;|—[ do not fear.”’ | stretching out my hand towards the weapon on the table; as I did so, on the arm and shoulder L received a strange shock, The dog now ratsed himself and sat on his haunches, his | and my arm fellto. my side He kept his | my horror, the light began eyes fixed on me with a hook so strange that he concentrated —they were not, as it were, extinguished, but their flame all my attention on himself. Slowly he rose up, all his hair'| was gradually withdrawn; it was the same with the fire—

alone, placed my weapons on the table beside the fire, seated myself, and recommenced my Macaulay.

Perhaps in order not to appear seeking credit for a courage, or rather a coolness, which the reader may conceive I ex- aggerate, | may be pardoned if I pause, tg indulge in one or two egotistical remarks.

AsI hold presence of mind, or what is called courage, to be precisely proportioned to familiarity with the circumstances that lead to it, so I should say that I had been long sufficiently familiar with all experiments that appertain to the Marvellous. I had witnessed many very eXtraordinary phenomena in various parts of the world—phenomena that would be either totally misbelieved if [ stated them, or ascribed to supernatural agen- cies. Now, my theory is that the Supernatural is the impossi- ble, and that what is called Supernatural is only a something in the laws of nature of which we have been hitherto ignorant. Therefore, if a ghost rise before me I have not the right to say, ** So, then, the supernatural is possible,’ but rather, ‘* So, then, the apparition of a ghost is, contrary to received opinion, within the Jaws of nature—i. €. not supernatural.”’

Now, invall that | have hitherto witnessed, and indeed in a)! the wonders which the amateurs of mystery in our age record as fac's, a material jwing agency is always required. On the Continent you will find still magicians whe assert that they can raise spirits. _ Assuine for the moment that they assert truly, still the living material form of the magician is present, and he is the material agency by which, from constitutional pecul- arities, ceriain strange phenomena are represented to your natural senses.

Accept, again, as truthful, the tales of Spirit Manifestation in America — arusical or other sounds—writing s en paper, pro- duced by no discernible hand—articles of furniture moved with- out apparent human agency ~or the sight and touch of hands to which no vodies seem to belong — still there must be found the mgorum or living being, with constitutional pecaliarities capable of obtaming these signs. In fine, i all such marvels, supposing even that there is no imposture, there must be a human being like ourseives, by whom, 0: through whom the effects. presented to human beings are produced. LL is so, with the now familiar phenomena of mesmerism or electro-biology ; the mind of the person operated is affected through a materia! lwing agent. Nor, supposing that a mesmeraed patient can respond to the wili or passes of a :nesmerizer a hundred miles distant, is the response less occasioned by a inaterial being ; it may be through a material flaid—cail it-eleciric, call it odic, call ut what you will—which has the power of traversing space and passing obstacles, that the materia! effect 1s communicated from one tothe other. Hence, all that Uhad hitherto witnessed , or expected to witness in this strange house, | believed to be oecasioned through some agency or inedigm as mortal as my - self; and this idea necessarily prevented the awe with which those who regard as supernabural things that are not within the ordinery operations of nature, might have been impressed by the adventures of that memorable night.

As, then, it was my cogjecture that all that was presented, or wonld be presented to my senses must originate an some

haman being, gifted by constitutiem with the power so '0 pre-

‘sen& them,and having some motive so to. do, b felt an. interest

in iwy theory which, m its way, was rather philosolpical than superstitious. Aad [| camsay,sincerely, that | wasin es trangn)! atemper for observetion as any practical experimentalist could be mm awaiting the effecis of some rare, though perhaps perilous chermeal cembination.. Of course, the more | kept my mind detached from fancy, the more the temper fitted for observation would be obtained ; and [ therefore riveted eye and thought on the strong daylight sense in the page of my Macaulay.

T now became aware that something interposed between the page and the light—the page was overshadowed ; | looked up,

jand Esaw what I shall find it very difficult, perhaps unpossib|e

to deserbe.

It was a Darkness shaping itself out of the air in very undc- fined outline. 1 cannot say it. was of a buiman form, or rather shadow, than anything eise. As it stood, wholly apart and distinet from the air and the lignt around. uy ifs dimensions seemed gigantic, tie suinmi! Rearly touching the ceiling. Whi! | gazed a feeling of intense cold seizedme. Aniceberg before me could not more have chilled me ;. nor cond the cold of the, iceberg have been more purely physical, | feel convinced that it was not the celd caused by fear. As | continued to geze | thought—but this I ,cannot say with precision—that | distin. guished two eyes looking down on me from the height. One moment I seemed to distinguish them clearly, tle next they seemed gone; but stil! two rays of a pale-bine hght frequentiy shot through the darkness, as, from the height ov which | half

I then threw myself dress- | pelieved, haif doubted, that I had encountered the eyes.

| strove to speak—my voice utterly failed me; I could only think to myself, * Is this fear? it is mot fear.’’ I strove to rise

the door between the two rooms. Thus alone, [kept two}—in vain; 1 felt as if weighed down by an irresistible force. I placed my | Indeed, my impression, was that of an immense and overwhelm- watch beside the weapons, and calmly resumed my Macaulay. | ing power opposed to my, volition ;—that sense of, utter in- and on the hearth-rug, | adequacy, to cope with a force beyoud men’s which one may

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| fancied the door to my right, communicating with the landing- shark of the oeean; d¢ felt: moratly.

feel physicaily in a storm at séa, in a conflayraiion, or when confronting some terrible wild beast, or rather pervaps the Opposed to my will was

F then | gnother will, as far superior £0 its strength as storm, fire, and turned my glance to my left; and saw the flame of the candles! shark aré superior in material force to the force of men.

violently swayed as by awind. At the same moment the watch beside the revolver. softly slid fromthe table—softiy, softly— |Jast, horror—horror te a degree that no words can convey. no visible hand—it was gone. I sprang up, seizing the revolver ' Still L retained pride, if not courage ; and in my own mind | 1 was not willing that! said, ‘* This is horror, bat it is not fear ; unless I fear, I ean- Three | hot be harmed : my reason rejects this thing ; it is am illusion

And now, 2s this impression grew on me. now came, at

With a violent effort I succeeded at last in

pErycr. And now, to add to slowly to wane from the candles

of officials from the Legislature, ‘the absence of Catholics! bristling, and stood perfectly rigid, and with the same wild’ the light was extracted from the fuel; in afew aninates the

from the Government, and of members of the Executive from

he lute Col. Seeretary, and

|the late Registrar of Deeds had withdrawn from the contest,

jand his place was supplied by a person of similar principles 5! forth.

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lof only 8, and nearly 50 votes of parties non-resident in the} the stairs,

i the

through the | district were recorded against him. ‘True. the late ts The asser- |

their predecessors; and the bill had, in the Legislative tion of unqualified and factious opposition of the Council to

Couneil, met the opposition of two members of the late Go-| measures of the House, was unfounded and unjust.

vernment, the President and Hon. Col. Swabey, who had previously been in favor of it.

measures sent from the House. .

members of the Catholic thought that they could mak circumstance. It was possible that Council Uhamber might come to be regard of the faith. Noone would deny the right of any body Christians to share in the honors and rewards of political life,

arded as the defenders

participation with their fellows in

litical, and religious equality. :

man Catholic body had, with but one or two exceptions, identified themselves with the minority, and manifes opposition to Under these cireumstane 3, it could not be expected, that where not a solitary Catholic had been elected as a supporter

In view of such a state of facts, there was but little reason to give credit to the deciara- | tion in the Address that the Council was ready to approve |

In alluding to the absence from the Government of any be found, rsuasion, doubtless the Council thrown out many bills of Ke excellent capital out of such a | nog argue the blind subserviency which had been attributed the 12 notables in the, ‘to them. body oh tains t ‘summary conta arid no class of religionists in the colony could with truth say sides, the Address was that their creed had been a barrier to their full and equal the enjoyment of social, James Yeo, The truth was, that the Jyavies, Douse, McNeill, ' —_ their | **%. Owen. 17. the Government in every way they could. |

They

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‘had passed every measure sent up, but one—the Post Office

should adopt a conciliatory course, than one which could have but the effect of producing discord and bad feeling. Lt would on reference to the Journals, that the Council had the late. Government, which

After a very protracted debate, of which the foregoin

Yuas—Hon. Messrs. Gray, Palmer,, Laird, Longwort Haviland, Pope, MeAulay, the Speaker, Messrs. Montgomery, Holm, Howat, Jtam-

Nays—Hon. Messrs. Coles, Kelly, Wightman, Thornton,

, Messrs. Cooper and Sutherland.—7 Po oath ear eT ae no W. M. Howe, Reporter.

stare. { had no time. however, to examine the dog.

Presently | room was in utter darkness. The late elections did not. prove! ny servant emerged from his room, end if ever I saw horror in to be thus in the dark with that dark Thing, whose power r excluding office-holders to the extent lthe human face, it was then. | should not have recognized }was.so intensely felt, brought a reaction of nerve. In fat,

The dread that came over me.

{him had! we met in the streete, so altered in every dineament. )torror bad reached that climax that either my senses must | He passed by me quickiy, saying in a whisper that seemed | haye deserted me, or 1 must have burst through the spell. L

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\itagainelap to. [ was left alone in the haunted house,

_searce!l come from his lips,.** Run, run! at is afier me !’” | did burst through it. y 7 s

I found yoice, though the voice was a

\ He gained the door to.the landing, pulled it open and rushed | shriek. I remember that f broke forth with words like these I followed him into the landing involuntarily, and | —* I do not fear, my soul does not fear;*\and atthe same time late Postmaster General*had lost his'seat by a minority! called him to stop ; but, without heeding me, he bounded down [| found the strength torise. Stillin that profyund gloom | clinging to the balusters, and taking several steps xt | rushed to one of the windows—tore aside the eurtain — flung { neard, where I stwod, the street door dpen—heard ; open the shutters ; my first thought was—ziau7.

And when I saw the. moon high, elear, and calm, I felt a joy that almost

tt was but for a moment that 1 remaimed. undecided whether. compensated for the previous terror. There was the moon,

or not. to-foilow my servant; pride and curiosity ahke forbade there was also the light from the gas-lamps in the deserted

, so dastardly a flight. _after me, and proceeded cautiously to the interior chainbder

| door. | dutisbrown paper with which the room was bung. How,then,

tained ingress except through my own Chamber?

I returned to my room, shut and locked the door that opened | a hand, seemingly, | upon the interior one, and, stood on the hearth, expectant and ‘the hand I now pereeived that the dog bad slunk into am!) woman’s he substance of the arguments on both! angle of the wall, and was pressing himself close against it. b {letters that lay on the table ; hand and

d to, on the following division: ‘approached the anima! and spoke to it ; the poor bente was-evi- Then theré came | : 1 p f dently beside itself with terror, It showed allvits teeth, the |heard at the bed-head before this extraordinary drama had

and would certeinly have bitten commenced.

prepared.

slaver dropping from its jaws,

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jby a serpent, Cowering in a corner, anguish which the dog exhibited.

ime if I had touched it. It did not seem to recognize me.

Whoever has seen, at the Zoological Gardens, a rabbit fascinated | sensibly ; | pone may form some idea of the sparks or globules like bubbles of light, many-colored green ,

Finding al! efforts to ssothe | yellow, fire-red, azure.

| re-entered my _rovm, closing the door’! slumberous street. I!moon penetrated fits shadow very palely and partially—but Bill—and it was better that the Government and the House | encountered nothing to justify my servant’s terror. f agair! still there was light. The dark Thing, whateverit might be, ‘carefully examined the wal!s to see if there was any concealed | was gone—exce ‘ ij could find no trace of one—not even a seam im the) seemed the shadow of that shad& agaiust. the oppos:te wall.

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T turned to look back into the room ; the

that L could. yet seea dim shadow, which

My eye now rested on the table, and from under the table

diq | aad the Thing, whatever it. was, which had so seared bin, ob- (which was without cloth or cover—an old mahogany round

there rose a hand, visfble -as far'as the wrist. It was as much of flesh and blood-as my own, but person—lean, wrinkled, small too—a closed on the tt®o tiers both vanished. the same three loud measured knocks I had

table}

of an hand. That hand very softl

ceased, I felt the whole room vilvrate

As those sounds slow! ar end there rose, as from the floor,

and at the

Up and down, to and fro, hither,

/ the animal in vain, and fearing tha: his bie might beas venom | thither, as tiny Will-o’-the-wisps, the sparks moved, slow or ous in that state as in the madness of hydrophobia, | left him swift, each at its own caprice. A chait. (as in the drawing