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Vol. XL LITERATURE.

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Teckly Hournal of 4

“'DPhis is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak tree.”*---Euripides.

stranger ; but I didn’t know then how much it takes seriously to injure that elastic bit of

enn nr te we eee a physiology Oniv there was a very sore PAPA. WHAT m A NEW SPAPER? feeling under my watch pocket Whenever | “ae thought of Fanny, years afterl bad sunk hov into the abyss of old hachelor-dom bre a uv ‘ —" . . —— ‘ y y boy ** Well, one evening [ had been out very ~ oe : late, and was returning leisurely to my rooms = ; \ at the hotel, half inclined to rejoice that "he v ney 7 . , : there was nobody in frowns and curl-papers ‘ ‘ i vt v e A : Te Fe to scold me for not coming home sooner A 1 , bachelor has few envagh privileges to con- News from all countries and climes, my boy, ; ; i 3 2 {gratulate himself upon, and [ don’t think he

Advertise ments, essave a nymes, my boy,

Mixed up

of f

with all sorts lying reports And published at regular times, my bey Articies able and wise, my bey, At least in the editor's eves, my boy, And lewie se grand That few understand

To what in the world it applies, my boy

Matistice, reflections, reviews, my bey,

imetr

Little eeraps to i ict aud amuse, my boy, And lengthy debate Upon matters of state,

For wise-headed folk to peruse, my boy.

The funds as they were and they are, my boy, The quibbles and quirks of the bar, my boy, Aud every Week A clever criti

jue

On some rising theutrical star, my boy.

The age of Jupiter's moons, my boy, The stealing of somebody's spoons, my boy, The state of the crops, The style of the fops, And the wit of the pablic buffoons, my boy.

List of physical ills, ws bey,

Banished by somebody's pills, my bey, Till you ask with surprise Why any oue dies,

Or what's the disorder that kills, my boy.

Whe has got married, to whom, my boy, Whe were cut off in their bloom, inv boy, Whe bas bad birth Un this sorrow-stained earth, And who totters fast to the tomb, my boy. The price of cattle and grain, my boy, Directions to dig and to drain, my boy, But ‘twould take me too long To tell you in song A quarter of all they contain, my boy. Se cigeeaapiictetini

UPON THE SAND.

BUILDING

"Tia well to woo, ‘tis well to wed, For so the world has dune

Since myrtles grew, and roses blew, And morning brought the sun

But have a care, ye young and fuir, Be sure ye pledge with truth ;

Be certain that vour love will wear

Beyond the days of youth For if ye give not heart for heart, As Well wo egw fur lip, Jeu'll fiud you've played the unwise part,

Aud built upon the sand.

‘Tis well to save, ‘tis well to have A goodly store of gold, Alid hold endugh of shining stuff, parity is cold. re not all rour hopes and trust t the deep mine brings ; t live ou yellow dust with purer things.

And he who} Will often hav® to stand

Beside his cotter wQgnd own ‘Tis built upon the sand. “

ap wealth alone,

‘Tis good to speak in kindly yugee,

And soothe whateler vou can #

For speech should hind she hu a mind, And love link wan to aan

But stay not at the gentle w b Let deeds with danguage dwell ;

The one who pities starving Murds Should seatter cmube -7 Avil.

For taese who talk J yet fail to do, Jiut build upon phe sind ——

The werld grows old, and men grow cold jfxt seeking treasure ; igh want, and care, and toil,

Bat never

I gaily if we will and be contented.

Life rolls «

If we are wand would be rich, ft will nat be by pining :

No! stead hearts and hoping minds Are lifes bright silver lining

There's a'er a man that dared to hope, Hat} his choice repented ;

jest suuls on earth are those

Who swile and are eoutented.

m grief doth come to rack the heart, td fortune bids us sorrow, Prom hope we may a blessing reap, @nd consolation borrow. . Uf thorns will rixe where roses bloom, Kt eznnot be prevented ; Be make the best of life you ean, And gwile and be contented

ASTOBY OF BALMORAL BOOTS. BY AMY RANDOLPH.

“ By the way, Lypp, you've never condes- Sided to tell me the a. when, and where

Jour matrimonial egperience. What are jm staring inw that shyewaker’s window ’ Du you know that we're stopping the Milie thutuaghfare ?

\ Sumply 4 pleasest association of ideas.’’ _— you 7 J , is a8 that I fuund my wile in that ere shoe-sture, and hon J wes guided very deaant pair of Balrsoral boots, not eat én a at to thoae in the window, with- how rn et in’em. Come on, aad I'L) tell

« ‘4 ppened asWwe vo alung.

1 was an old }

the i WG Gaebelor. 1, putation, in any degree whatsoever.

world out, confess that | walked the pecher ne I stwckings and unhemmed “a Po kerchiels, and always dudyed ~ aaa street when i saw crinolive coming : calla Vane balf my feminine acquain- Sed on ih mea brute; the utter half in- oc thet J bad never eared fur any hae a. sauce Pauoy Ellis ran away from “0d warried sume pour shiftless fellow, bam@e did not even ask. Fanny and

w T had Gne w the sume spelling sehool, und |

When ae butes wcruss ty one another weil te jluaster Was not looking, uotil— ing + Yatil [ chougine wyself privileged in feel- “agcly jealous uf all the other boys who ee her with red apples, or undertook * her howe.’ L fancied my heart was aod when Funny Ellis eloped in the storm mpest of w winter's uight with an utter

| ing.

| like canal+yoats and

i don’t deny |

} i

vi those

gugut to be blamed for making mu fow..””

** You'er not going to undertake the de- fence of the guild?’’ | ‘*No—simply to claim justice for them. Bot it was rathera advantage, alter ail, and | cogldn’t help acknowledging as much to myself, as | fitted the key into | the creaking lock and entered my solitary iroom. There it was — just as | had left it—the [crumpled up newspaper on the floor—the fire

lonesome

jemouldering dimly im the grate—the gas | flickering under its shade. But there was lene thing which I had not lelt—a paper

} pare: |, bearing no direction, but tied up with |

jmultitadineas coils of twine. I took it up | from the table where it lay, and turned it } curiously round and round. Had 1 been |} buying anything, which by chance might | have been sent home in my absence? No; | | bad purehased nothing but one oyster-stew, | which had been promptly disposed of on the i spot, and two cigars, which were safe im the iamost recesses of my coat pocket. So, by | way of solving the mystery, | gave the twine ja slash with my penknife, and—what do you | think the unfolded cerement of brown paper | revealed ?”’ ** Possibly a bottle of brandy ?”’ | Do you suppose [ shouldn't recognize | that by instinct, through paper, twine and ull? Nosir, but a pair of the smallest, pret- tiest, most matty-luvking Balworal boots in ithe world !’’ ** Cinderella and the glass slipper over |again, asl live! My dear Lynn, didn't the marvels of the Arabian Nights rush into the | fastnesses of your brain ?”’

** Not exactly, for on the side of one soulier was a tiny patch, which | fancy never deco- rated a slipper of glass.”’

* Oh, indeed! that rather detracts from the romance of the thing. Well, go on.’

‘* I dropped. them as if they bad burned

}my fingers—what the mischief were a wo- | man’s sives doingin my room? Led some

lenergetic female formed the full resolve of |

|marrying me by s:orm, and sent on her effeets beforehand? Or wasl in somebody else's dominions? That eouldn’t be, for there lay my dressing gown on the bed, and | L was willing toswear to the nfverschaum and blacking-brushes under the sofa. I rang the bell, furiously, and demanded of the waiter what it all meant? He was respectful, but firm—the parcel was for No. 59, the boy had declared, and there was no guin-saying that 59 was the number of my room. ** There's some mistake here '* T exclaim- ed, ruefully eyeing the mysterious Balinv ‘rals, which | held off at arm’s length. | +++ Possibly, sir,’ said tie waiter—and | eaw that the rascal was grinning at uy per- | plexity. | ***Go about your business, fellow !’ said I | wratbfaliy, as | shut the door peremptorily | 1m his face, and sat down to contemplate the intruders. * After all, they were very pretty shoes, _and evidently moulded by the impress of very pretty feet. Slender round the ankles— high over the instep, and daintily narrow at the toes. A good deal worn, too—and as | | lounged there, smoking the friendly weed |

| had ignited to help me out of my quandary,

{ couldn't beip thinking of the many, many

| steps those little feet must have taken.”’

** Wasn't that rather a dangerous turn of thought for so susceptible an individual ?*’

** Possibly—but you, know that at auy rate I couldn't get rid of the shoes before morn- Then I could at least take them to Hylton's the shoemaker, whuse business card

| lay im one of the folds of paper—but in the | meanwhile they fairly haunted me.

** Why didn’t you lock them up in some

(closet or other and get them out of sight?”

* Couldn't, I tell you! | Don't look so in-

| eredulous—you would have experienced ex-

wetly the same contradictory sensations, if yeu had been in my place. I always ad- wired a gracefully shaped foot. Crooked

. - } moses and red hair | don’t so much mind, but SMILE AND BE CONTENTED. : j}ebeminate the Venus de Medicis herself, with

aclamsy fovtor an elephant tread—I should

these attributes. And the more I contem- | plated the Balmorads standing right and left | on their shelder heels on my hearthstone, the | more [ wae convinced that none but the trim- mest and most piquant of womaukind could ever have stood in’em! I pushed one of my boots up alongside, te see how it would hear comparison—and it looked so intolerahly ‘clumsy aad gigantic that I kicked it acrose the room in disgust.—Why do the sons of St. Crispia make a man’s toot-gear so mueh wooden subots? Is it any wonder that they go tramping through the world like regiments of cavalry? Now, &@ woman's step, thought I, is another thing altogether—and then | pondered whether the tiny shoes iad not become worn in pattering jeultly about the curtained gloom of sick- | Foomnse—wmoving noiselessly hither and thither i like w bright ministertng spirit! I remem- | bered how J had been sick not three months j since, in the tumult of a great hotel, how | | | had tossed, and raved, ana longed vainly for | sips of ice-water, and drawn curtains, and | (ten thousand other things that were never | | to be had when | wanted them—how I had

thrown wy pillows at the door, by way of

| summening the dilatory attendant and seold-

ed myself into fevers, forty times a day, be-

cause nubody could be induced to comprehend

my necessities. Now, if—and | looked al- | most tenderly at the Balmoral b 0ts. | ‘** At ali events,’ quoth IL, internally. '* I'll tuke these affairs round to Hylton’s my- self, to-morrow morning, just to see whom they do belong to—only oat of courivsity, of course !"’

* Couriosity isa perilous frame of mind,

Lynn—were you aware of that?"’ | ** Certuinly—-but forewarned isn't always

forearmed, in spite of the old proverb. My

dreams were swarming with infinitessmal

shoes all night long, and the first thing of which L became conscious in the morning was that I was sitting bolt upright on the floor, trying with all the force of muscle and bout-juck to draw one of the farry Balmorals gu tomy mammoth pedal extremity.” | ** Didn't succeed, I suppose ?”’

** No, [ didn’t—but that was the origin of

@ wicious corn on my instep, which rewinds we very disagreeably of its existence once in @ while. Sweet and bitter are very curivus-

ly mingled in this world, but | wou't stray ‘into the regions of plilusuphy.”’ ** Dog’t—J shouldn't appreciate it?” | * After breaklast 1 wrapped the article | neatly up, aod sauntered round to the estab- | lishuseat of the wurthy cordwainer, whose blunder had cust we so many unwouted thoughts and nuyel reflections. | ** Bey pardon, air, J°m sure -- sorry you should haye taken sv much trouble,’ quoth

| he courtevusly. * Mrs. Seymour sent them to be mended yesterday morning,and, through | the carciessness of wy errand buy, they were }taken to No. 59 Margue's Llotel, instead of | No. 59 Marque Strees. Very sorry—sery | Sorry, iedeed !’

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, February 3, 1862.

** Sorry—so wast! What business had those dainty Balmorals to belong to a Mrs Anybody ? Urash went my castle in the air! IL turned briefly away, making inward reso- luti ms never to draw conclusions in fatur ye unless my premises were at least reasonably evident As if my misiortunes were not yet complete, | stumbled, in my haste, over a fat three-year old, whose dumpling shaped feet were being encased in new scarlet shoes by its loving mamma, who indulged in seve- mul stinging remarks, quite audible to my ears, about the eujinent propriety of people in general looking where they were going and minding their steps-—all of which didn’t tend, in any degree, to sweeten my temper. And when [ found myself suddenly arrested, and turned round, only to find that my watch chain had caught in the flimsy fringe of another woman's shawl, and that | was ‘in for it,’ until the polite clerk eould disentan- gle us both, L felt a/mes¢ like indulging in a salvo of profane language. But | retrained.’’

**Por which you deserved infinite credit !"’

*Didn'tl? You would have thought so

if you could bave seen the good woman's |

| baby making frantic dives at my nose and whiskers during the whole operation. I was so occupied in selfdetence that [ did not | notice the noiseless entrance of a new comer, nor did L look round, until | beard the man of shoes end a vuluble sentence of apology with ‘* +L regret it should have caused any an- noyance, Mrs, Seymour!’

**Then 1 started so suddenly that the |

fringe snapped, and my chain dangled free

once more. But l wasted no thoughts on that, |

{su intent was Il in marvelling where | had seen that face before. Dark liquid eyes ;

hair parted from the low, broad brow in rip- | | ples of si:ken jet, and a complexion of pale, |

clear olive, relieved by a dress of worn and faded black; L remember it all, as people

sometimes remember vague glimpses of a pre- |

vious life in some oblivion shadowed shores! 1 stood rooted to the spot, until Mr. Hylton alluded to me as the gentleman who had brought them from Marque’s Hotel, and | was obliged to bowawkwardly, She blushed to the eyelashes—and beautiful once they were, too—as the shee-maker unfolded the pareel, and shewed her the little patch com- plete with its dainty white stitches. ~ #6 6 Ves.’ sha said, almost ina whisper, as if replying to my inquiring look, although I | had mot asked a question, nor even spoken, *Lam obliged to study economy, since my poor husband's deat. A slulling, did you jsay, Mr. Hylton?’

‘« The instant she spoke every cloud of doubt roled away from my brain; | remember it all—tlie old school house, the mterchanged presents of twisted notes and dark red apples, the boy and girl loves of long ago. I knew that the pale young widow was my Fanny Kilis !

‘++ Panny! have you forgotten me?’ I could not refrain trom exclaiming.

** The radiant Andalusian eyes were fixed on me with a wondering surpr for an in- stunt, then her face brigiitened as if a sudden light h id flashed up in her heart.

*** Henry Lynn!

**T walked direetly over fhree-year old, wowan, baby and all, and twok both the quivering bands io mine,

** Yes, I was right, those Balmorals never could have belonged to any but a pretty, ti-

se

mid creature like Fanny Seymour. I carried |

them home for her.and L’m very inuch afraid 1 didn’t hurry myself on the way. How could [ with the little glove resting so s.fily on my arw! Gentlemen stared and opened their eyes to see Harry Lynn walking with anything that wore bonnet and shawl ; their wives turned back to louk a second time, as though the first testimony of their eye-sight were not to be trusted ; but whut did J care ? Not a red cent!

** Well, I can tell you that Marque’s Ho- tel never looked drearier than it did on that stormy autumnal evening, when | came home from my business cares. Nothing suited me. Books were uninteresting, smoking a bore, and [ concluded to spend the evening with Panny.”

«There I suppose you found it pleasanter."’

‘* She told me her whole life, and when IT heard the cares and trials through which she h.d passed I ceased to wonder at the pensive droop of her eye-laskes. [drew my chair a little closur to her sufa—it was pretty cluse before—and said, softly :

‘** Then you have not been a happy wile, Fauny ?’

‘* She shook her head, with a scarce per- ceptible sigh.

*¢ * Well, don’t you think,’ [ went on, in- sinuatingly, ‘hat ii you were to try the ex- periment a second time it might be more succeseful ?’

‘* Her soft eyes said, wonder :

« « What can you mean ?"

‘© *T mean that | want to marry you,’ said [, pithily. ‘ Fanny, | love you, will you have me?’

** Aud if you're in any wise curious to know what she said, ask my dear little wife, she ll tell you all about it, and show you, in the bargain, the very Balmoral boots that haunt- ed my stambers on that wild October night. Now, do you wonder that the windows of a shoe-store have w mysterious attraction for me? If so you are destitute of romance, that’s all 1 have to say.”’

in their uplifted

“MISCELLANEOUS,

A PRECEDENT AT LAST.

When our last week’s paper was issued, the mail that brought the subjoined article trom the ‘Times’ of the 27th ult. had not been received. We congratulate our readers—and condole with Mr. Everett, Judge Bigelow, and Protessor Par-

sous—on the tardy diggmg-up of a case actually |

in point.

Although the weight of the authority that has been brought to bear on President Linecoln’s Ca-

binet by the representations of our own Govern |

ment, together with those of France and Austria, may be expected to induce concession, if the Ame- ricans are really willing to do justice, yet even a this late hour we ought not to neglect an oppor- tunity of strengthening our case, and thus aiding the cause of peace by making reparation ® plain aud uumistakeable duty. Our readers have, no

doubt, been surprised to see a case which is ex- | actly in point with that of the ‘Trent’ alluded to |

tur the first time more than turee weeks alter the first discussions have begun. Indeed, it is most

extraordinary that no lawyer has mentioned the |

case till within the last few days, for it disposes of most of the retorts which have been addressed to England by the Americans now residing m Europe.

Wien the news of the capture of the Coumissivn- | hands of Englawd, is absolately out of the |

ers reached us, the first feelings of indignation were mingied with an uneasy suspicion that acts of our owu nearly resembling that of Capt. Wilkes might be brought forward against us. In our former Wars it has been truly said that we carried belligerent claims to the furthest poiut, and that vur politicians, our officers, and even our Admi- ralty Judges, were disposed to restrain neutral rights in a manner which foreign States deeply re- sented. The Law of Nations i really decided by

the conscience of the strongest, aud though in the | the ally ot the most scandalous rebollion in would cheertully do housework, if the young

case of KEugland that couscience was ior many

| years in the Keeping of a man sy acute, learned,

aud upright as Sir William Scott, yet it is asserted, perhaps wath justice, that be was uncunseivusly

viassed by the circumstances of Lis own country, |

aud enunciated principles which the present aye is disposed to modify. But though the judgments ot the English Prize Courts anu the acts of ou vver-zealuus post-captaius have been narrowly

‘searched to tiud # precedent for the seizure ot

heen unable to extract a miserable tu quoque from the records of fifty years since—from the history | rights were regarded but

of a time when neutral

ttle either by our great lversary, Napoleon, on and, or by ow ‘s on The ocean.

But. s iW tlarly enough, t i question which arises i the case af the ‘Trent’ bad even then been de- cided. In the infancy of Maritime Law an act

like that ef Captain Wilkes had been rebuked, The

case of the‘ Hendrie and Alida’ is parallel to that |

of the ‘Trent,’ the only difference being that it is much stronger, and the capture far more justifi- able than that of the “Trent’ would have been, had

Captain Wilkes even thought fit to trouble himself In the year 1777 the Dutch |

about Prize Courts. brig ‘ Hendrie and Alida’ was captured by a Bri- tish ship of war and brought into Portsmouth. The brig was bound from a port of Holland to the Dutch settlement of St. Eustatia. ‘ She was laden with L cargo ot arms and ammunition, and she had on hoard as passengers five military officers, with their servauts. These offisexs were furnished with connaissions in the xebel axmy, granted by Benja- min Franklin, who was at that time actively en- waged as oneotthe Commisstoners of the rebe! pro- vinces at Paris.’ Now Shere we have a vessel la- }deu with contraband of war, which was beyond all doubt intended for the provincials, and carry-

of the enemy, actualiy preceeding to the seat ot war. There could be not the slightest doubt that this vessel was carrying military persons and stores for a belligerent, and there was a strong presump- tion that her real couwrg® wee not to St. Pustatia, but to some port of the revolted colonies. On these grounds her condemiation was asked by the King’s Advocate. But the Judge of the Adimi raity Court, after hearing counsel, adjudged the i ship and cargo to be Duteh property, and directed

their own colonies or settlements everything they

pleased, whether arms or ammunition, or any |

other species of merchundis®, provided they did it with the pecmission of their own laws.”

But this js not all. As eur learned correspon- dent “ D. C.L.”

the five iilitary officers frankly declared that they |

held commissions in the rebel army. and that on | their arvival at St. Eustatia they were to address | themselves to certain ageuts of the American Con- | gress, who were to forwaad them onwards to the | rebel army, yet, as they were passengers on board a neutral ship, which had sailed from a neutral port, and was hound to another neutral port, the proxi- mate destination af the passengers was entitled to be regarded as an ingoceut destination, and they were set at liberty. It is Lpossivle to lmagine mere Here were actual milifaryefficers proceeding to the seat of war, instead of civilians who were coming away trom it, as in the case of the ‘Trent.’ And yet more than eighty years ago the Buglish interpre- | tution of International Law was that these persons should be released. Phe Law Officers of the Crown, if they remembered the case, seemed not to have thought it necessary to dwell upon it, in- asimuch as they put the matter ona broaderground —uiuinuely, the assumption by Captain Wilkes of the duties of an Adunralty Judge, and executing his own jnudginent on the get. But even if the ‘Treat? bad been taken inty port we should have jhad reason to complain of the detention of the Comuissioners, unless it be allowed that every Court is to make law foritsdif. Certainly the case

auything conclasive than this case.

of the *

pris pl

other ail pe

e that between one neutral port and an- rsons and things whatever may be le- gitliy carried. And this praciple os evidently in accordance With Conumen gense and ordipary jus- t.@: for, rwise, an} tage belligerenuts, however

liad

quecure, Would baye ayrnlit Peimterrupt the COUR |

| merce of every regiou “ tht vlobe. | i iaiioeenientan A HUMILIATED NATION.

| (From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan 3.)

tish government will ascertain the exact capacity ot the Yankee guns. In suceumbing to the Eng- | lish demand, the Yankees demonstrate that they have no sense of national honer, and that dollars and cents are their supreme law of action in matters public as well as personal. They boarded the Trent with every circumstance of bravade ard

1 the made the act its own

indi nity . goverumeint iy the Comiuissigners

oy recelvil inio its possession and confiutig them as prisouers ; the Secretary of State and of the Navy, and House of Repr

applauded the outrage to the echo; vhole press of the United

‘seuta- the i States teemed with

he most uprearious and defiant exultation over

e act of Wilkes, and hectyred, bullied and hum- bled the British Lion in every conceivable shape aud form. Atter ail this to back down instanta- ueously, and, at the first meuace of England, to surrender the Coumissioners, is to exiibit not only a lack of all honer and manliness, but a shamelessness so shocking that hereatter the Stars aud Stripes will become a badge of degradation and iufamy throughout the world. This lumilia- ting surreuder, so lar irom propitiating the Eure- peau world, will couvinee thei of the conscious | Weakness aud paralysing cowardice of the bluster- | ing power that, with six hundred thousand men in

| aris, permits its uose to be pulled and its face to |

be spit upon without an effort at resentment. We | believe that, to-morrow, if England and Frane

would demand that the Federai goverument re- |

cognise the independence of the Seutheru conte- fderacy upon penalty of their displeasure, they | Would not ouly jchance. Certainly there can now be no longer any fear of consequences on the part of those govern- | ments in themselves recognising the Southern cou- | federacy, or even opening the blockade.

We blush to think that the South has so long

recognise it, but be glad of the

remained in union with a country which has so |

| little sense of public spirit or national honor. ‘The | time was when the North was proipt and brave to resent indiguities upon the American flag; but that was ina past geveration, wuen Northeru men | had vot entered upon the career of injustice and vppression towards their own countrymen, and upon that damuiag crime of invasion and war which bas made cowards of all of | have a semblance of conscience. Who would be back under such government?

| gaze of the British Lion! Who does not desire ito see every star aud bar erased from our own ' flag, that we may no longer have an ensign which ) cau by any possibility be quistaken for that which has become so foul aud degraded in Lincolu’s hands !

— cece HOLT AND COLD.

The New York Herald of December 17th, in speaking of the Wilkes affair, remarked :

(BLOWING HOT.) Ilis Wilkes’) conduct has been approved by his government. and applauded by the unaninvus public opiuion of our loyal States, In speaking of the course to be pareued | by Mr. Seward in reference to the surrender,

: | the Herald said :—

| We expect that he will meet the requisi- tions of Lord Lyons. whatever they may be, ‘with such a budget of British precedents, ‘authorities and legal opinions, and with such a catalogue of positive offences against an imaginary outrage, as will carry eonvietion | with it to every State of Europe, and compel ‘even England to recede from her weak and uptenable inconsistencies.

| In any event the surrender of these noto- rious traitors, Mason and Slidell, into the

‘question. [tis difficult to believe that Eng- land will disgrace herself by a demand so

utterly nmpossible of fulfilment as this, and, | las un ultimatum, 80 extremely offensive. |

| Limited as are our ideas of the dignity and too absurd tu suppose that upon a shallow pretext she can be prepared to plunge into a j wasting, profitless and dangerous war, as

the history of mankind.

We do not believe that she can afford to /go to war with us. But whether that be | her condition or not, we will not surrender

Mason and Slidell in dictation tu her threats.

y waritime law promulgated in her own courts ji¢, time who did not perceive the truth of what

and illustrated by her own example for three-

* quarters of a century; and her statesmen Messrs. Mason aud Slidell, yetthe Americaus have ‘way as well dismias frum their minds at once girls—the girle who werk in shops,

ing, moreover, five commissioned military officers |

them to be restored, on the gronad that “the | Duch had a right to carzy in their own ships to |

wrote tous yesterday, ti ough |

Hendrie and Alida’ plainly establishes the |

all idea of the Southern Commissioners being

ever given up to them under any cireum- | labors of house-heeping,are the girls to be married, | them ;

stances whatever.

(BLOWING COLD.)

Now

read the [Herald of the 29th—in speak- ing of

Mr. Seward’s despatch in eupport of

giving up the * Prisoners,’’ the Herald says |

Our Secretary of the Navy, in his annual report to Congress, takes substantially the sume ground; and if the President, in his annoal message, is silent upon the subject, ,be is manifestly so from considerations of prudence and propriety. in view of a peace- uble arrangement, * * * It is therefore but siaple justice to Earl Russell to say that, while this ultimatum involves the alternative of war, the manner in which it is presented indicates a desire for peace.

Again:—Upon the main question—the

restitution of the rebel emissaries consigned to British protection—the apology of Mr. Seward, which will doubtless be satisfactory

to England, will surely be acceptable to the | streets aay pleasant afternoon. The truth which |

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loyal people of the United States. hus, in yielding to the demands of England, we do not only secure her neutrality in the (matter of the Southern rebellion beyond the reach of quibble or pretext, but in maintain- ing our old ground we secure the sympathy and good will of Franee, and of all the other continental nations which have heretofore contended with us against /ogland for the rights of neutrals against a belligerent maritime despotism, Accordingly we con- | gratulate our loyal people upon this settle-

j}mentof the Trent question, and that it is settled to the credit of our government, and upon its own doctrines of neutral maritime rights,

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PATRIOTISM OF THE CANADIANS.

| The people of Canada are on the alert in | forming voluuteer organizations to ensure the se- | eurity of the country. The Archbishop and | Bishop of the Roman Catholics of Lower Canada | have published Pastorals, calling upou their people | to rally to the defenee of their country, The | Bishop of Montreal alludes to the ancient glories j; ot the Lower Canadians, and hopes that every | man amongst them will be ready to defend “ our Canada, the Happiest country in the world.” The | following is an extract from the Pastoral of the Archbishop of Quebee:—

His Excellency the Governor General,in view of | the probability of war with the Northern States | of America, has ordered the calling out of a por- tion of the Sedentury Militia of the Province. For this purpose a company of volunteers is to be formed trom each battalion, to be employed, in | case of need, in active service. We are confident, dearly beloved brethren, that everywhere you wil hasten to respond to the call of the Represen- tative of our mest gracious Sovereign. We are uow called upou to place ourselves in a position tv deieud aud pretect our country and our iustitu- tious, that is to say, all that we hold most sacred and dear in the world, after our holy religion, and when such grave interests are in danger we should not shrink trom them betore any sacrifice.

Allour young men should, therefore, have at heart, at this moment,to serve sucha noble cause. Chey will be proud to march in the footsteps of our forefathers, who, on two memorable occasions, covered themselves with glory in repelliag the ormies sentby the American Union te conquer the country. It will be a glorious thing for them te imitate the bright egample of the multitude of | their young compatriots who, in former times, en- rolled themselves in military companies, to devote themselves to the service ot their fatherland.

Should the danger of which we are apprehensive

| hot, however, Conceal from ourselves the tact that ‘new difficulties may arise on the first occasion and force us totakeuparms. It would, therefore, be aun immense advantage for our militia men to be skilled, in advance, in the art of war, se as to be ready to encounter the enemy if he should as- sail us. The most efficacious means which we can employ to decide the enenry to remain at peace with us is to show him that we are all prepared to receive hin. We ivyite, therefore, those persons who are in a position to exercise some influeace in their lo- cali cies, not to omit making use of it to aid in the foriaation of the volunteer company which eaeb battalion of the militia is called on to furnish. They will have no difficulty in making our loyal people understand how noble—how gilerious it is to fight fur our country ; and that religion as we as fener makes ita strict duty. Our fiuthful | diocesaus have on inere than one occasion proved that they know this call of religion and honor. We are confident, dearly beloved brethren, that everywhere you will respoud to it with a praise- worthy spirit of emulation; aud that in each parish companies of brave men will be formed who will take part in the defence of our country, if a recourse to arms becomes hecessary. oe

Tue Arrrrupe oF THE Deap on the field of after he had seen the gathering of the first Italian | this pad upon his hoof. The

battle is a very curious which but few ob- | servers have dwelt upon.

M. Armand, a surgeon, m the Freneh army and |

study,

the waithor of a work on this subject, “the study | mourn our best War Minister in Lord Herbert; | little distance it cannot be

| . : - under actual circumstances, pass away, we can- | In the surrender of Mason and Slidell the Bri- | ‘ ve hy :

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lieving their mothers of some of the cares and

But they are not the girls we meet with at balls land parties ; and se, while the young man has de- j termined to marry one of them at last, he has }sought the Butterfly for the present amusement. |The amusement has had this effeet. | Afew meetings at the ball room, a few inter-

views at the social gatherings, a few evening | walks, and the working girl has been forgotten ; | the prize is lost. Butterfly is carried home and a | servant girl is hired to wait on her, the bills are

run up and not paid, ruin comes, in one shape or another, and then all young men are invited to take warning. Their friend’s mistake is not seen, but the fact that he got married is taken as accounting for all his miseries. | Ifthe had married a woman, instead of a bucdle of whalebone, millinery aud crinoline, he would | have got along well enough.

Our belief is, that any man who takes care of hinwself can afford to have some one to help him. Yer plain enough it is, that not one but a million- aire can afferd to marry one of the funny things | thai we eall ladies, which may be seen walking the

‘heeds to be preached just now, is that those ladies jare dressed and educated for the market. If | young nen did not overvalue them, we would not | see them. They don’t know much, it is true; but | they know what kind of a hovk marriageable fishes like to swallow.

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ELoveMent or A RicH Hriess with a VaLbt.—Another of these startling occurrences —which must be regarded asx instances ot true love—has just taken place in the county of Mon- mouth. By an act of carelessness, which shall be inentioned, on the part of the loving couple, we have been enabled to publish the following parti- culars. It appears that a young lady, of fasciua- | ting appearance, with her parents, the ladies’ maid, and the valet, left their revidenee near one of the most flourishing towns in the county, and in tlose proximity to the county of Glamorgan, about a month ago, for a temporary sejourn in the | fashionable city of Bath, then to visit the abode of )anotuer family of influence. During the term it , Would appear that the youug lady, rumoured to be jabout 19 years of age, tormed a deep attachment to the valet of the gentleman with whom she and ,her parents were visiting, and unable to seize a personal opportunity to convey her feelings to the fortunate admired one, she at last hit upon a plan