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WISGRAW Ys Poet ‘fron ix EXAMINER. ] i LOVE TO SEE THE STARS OF NIGHT.

Whence do ye come, and whither bound, O, shining

orbs on high,

What mission are ye sent upon, that thus ye wander

through the sky ?

THE EXAMINER.

counsel to deceive him-when he learns that day after day, the life entwined .with his own, has been a lie and a stag-mine, he feels not the softness of grief, nor the absorption of rage ; it is mightier than grief, and more withering than rage; it isa horror that,appals. The heart does not bleed; the tears do not flow, as in woes

something out of the course of nature had taken place ; something monstrous, and out of all thought and fore- warning ; for the domestic traitor is a being apart from

; . Z iE > ; "ee é eit "Tis leng since Time’s dark shadow fell, o’er many Nj the orbit of criminals; the felon has no fear of his inno-

ancient light,

But ye seem to despise his dreaded power, ye glorious

stars of night! ’ Shine on, shine on, in glorious might, [ love to see the Stars of night! -

The vestal lamp in Grecian fanes, hath been extinguish-

ed long ago;

On Persie’s hills the worshipped flame, hath lost its

sacred glow ;

And years have fled'since the fire-lit cloud, and Salem’s

temple bright;

But ye gaze as ever o’er that holy land, sweet change-

less stars of night!

Shine on, shine on, in glorious might;

{ love to see the stars of night!

‘Long have ye look’d on our world below, on the vale

and mountain brow ;

Ye beheld the ancient cities rise—ye behold their ruins,

now: ‘Ye beam on the poor man’s cottage home, as well as the palace of sovereign might;

And shed your lustre alike on all, O, heavenly stars of

night! Shine on, shine on, in glorious might, I love to see the stars of night!

Where now are the holy seers of old, that through you,

knew fates to come,

Ere the Pyramid’s height had tow’rd above, ’mid Kgypt’s

desert home ?

Ye still convey the truths ye did; ye bless the eye that

marks your light, } And ye shine where gallant ship hath never sailed, O, watchful stars of night! Shine on, shine on, in glorious might, 1 love to see the stars of might!

Much have ye seen ’mong Adam’s race, of Love, its Hopes and Fears; : And bloody deeds of darkness, too, where fell the vic- tim’s tears; Say, are ye placed to mark us out—is the great record in your sight ? Methinks, ye long for judgment on the earth, O, sleep- less stars of night! Shine on, shine on, in glorious might ; I love to see the stars of night!

Yet glorious was the song ye raised, to greet the new created morn;

And from that period until now, the sound seems still to linger on ;

‘Though ye have shone on countless graves since Eden’s dawning light,

Ye point there’s Hope and Glory still, O, cheering stars

of night! Shine oa, shine on, in glorious might ; I love to see the stars of night!

Taen when the great momentous hour shall Nature’s works at last dissolve,

And ye, bright lamps !—the starry host—shall cease and never more revolve ;

Yet other suns will rise instead, and shine on with im- mortal light,

A.nd these “a be God’s CHosEN ones, ye heavenly stars of night! .

~~” Shine on, till then, in glorious might; I love to see the stars of night! St. Peter’s Bay, July, 1848. J. M. K,

ACROSTIC. TO

Since thow hast left thy childhood’s home,

‘) still may happiness be thine ;

P erhaps thy thoughts still linger where

Hi eaven saw sweet Love and Friendship twine. i ndulge the hope—thou still may’st live to see A round thy place Gems sweeter far than THEE,

St. Peter’s Bay, August, 1848, J. M. K.

liousggoLp Treason.—Heaven support thee, old man ! thou last to pass through the bitterest ordeal which honor and affection can undergo—household treason !— ‘Yhen the wife lifts high her blushless front, and blazons out her guilt; when the child, with loud voice, throws otf all contro), and makes boast of disobedience, man re- volts at the audacity; his spirit arms against his wrong ; its face, at least, is laid bare; the blow, if sacrilegioys,

4s direct. But when mild words and soft kisses conceal! the worst foe Fate can arm—when amid the confidence}

of the heart starts up the form of Perfidy—when outjcept for small boats, from the reptile swells the fiend in its terror—when the | *reast on which man leaned for comfort, has taken!

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cent children; with a price on his head, he lays it safely on the bosom of his wife. In his home, the ablest man, the most subtle and suspecting, can be as much a dupe as the simplest. Were it not so as a rule, and the ex- ceptions most rare, this world were the riot of a hell!— Bulwer.

[nish Sarewpness.—A few days ago a countryman went into the Cavan Bank, and requested gold for some Bank of Ireland notes he had. The elerk declined, Stating that they gave gold for no notes but their own. ‘Well, then,’ says Mick, ‘ will you give me Cavan notes for the Bank of Ireland? ‘Certainly,’ said the clerk ; and the exchange was made forthwith. Mick walked out, but in the course of two minutes returned, and lay- ing down the notes of the Cavan Bank on the counter, exclaimed—' By dad, my man, I have you now; give me goold for thim notes.’ It could not be refused, and we went on his way, boasting how he had done the

anker.

Tue Puiwosorner’s Srone.—Mahomet Bey, the ruler of Tunis, was dethroned by his subjects. He was a clever man, and had the reputation of possessing the philosopher’s stone or the art of turning common metals into gold. The Dey of Algiers restored him to his throne upon the condition that the secret should be com- municated to him. Mahomet, with great pomp and solemnity, sent the Dey of Algiers a plough.

_ James Montgomery is the author of the following sen- timent—beautiful in its simplicity. ‘ When I ama man,’

poetry of old age.

Old Cotton Mather’s definition of a drunken man is as follows: ‘ Whenne a manne fallethe offe hisse beaste, or essayethe too lighte hisse pipe at ye pumpe, hee isse too bee esteemed drunken.’

THE “HULKS” OF BERMUDA,

It may be interisting to some of our readers to know where Mitchel, is condemned to linger out his days in confinement on board of a prison ship. They are (re- marks a knowing correspondent) truly named ‘ Hulks,’ and I would add loathsome hulks, too. I was once a prisoner of war and confined on Board of them, and have a most vivid recollection of those floating castles.

The Bermudas, or Somers’ Islands, are a smal} group, situated about half way between Nova Scotia and the Antilles, and about 600 miles from the American coast, or from Cape Hatteras.—During the war of 1812, it was the head quarters for the British army and navy on the American station. It was from the Bermudas that the army under Gen. Ross sailed for the Chesapeake, and for the attack on Baltimore. It was also from the Bermudas that one division of the army destined for the attack on New Orleans, departed, under the com- mand of Gen. Keen—the division under Gen. Gibbs, for the same destination sailed from Jamaca. These Is- lands are about thirty-five miles in length, and about twenty broad, and are divided into forty Islands, the sea running through them in every direction, forming bays and inlets on almost every side.—One of the hulks, the ‘Goree,’ an old African ship, is situated at the head of the St. George’s harbour, and is used asa receiving ship. The ‘ Ardent,’ sixty four, was situated in the bay, about four miles from the navy yard at Hamilton, and three miles from the tanks, at the head of a long and danger- ous reef of rocks which extend from the eastern end of the islands for about 30 miles, in a kind of semi-circle, running alj around the western side of the island. I[n-

‘side of this reef, and near the head of it, lies the

‘Thames,’ a large dismantled ship, her lower masts only standing, looking like three stumps sticking up, and a bowsprit sticking out Jike a dog’s tail cut of This is the place where Mitchel is incarcerated. This hulk—the Thames—has taken the place of the Ardent, which has been hauled into the docks at Hamilton. Confinement in one of these hulks is bad enovgh

for sailors, who are accustomed to a wet jacket and

scenes of refinement, it is, absolutly, unendurable. His fare is the condemned provisions of the British navy— the scenery is the constant dash of the ocean against the rocks, heaving it into white foam—shut in on the south by high hills, and on the west, open to the broad Atlantic, but locked in by that impassable reef no ves- se] dare venture near,

Nothing but stratagem can ever relieve the unfor- tunate Mitchel from his position. In the passage up,

inside of the reef, at least four hundred guns could be

‘brought to bear upon any vessel that should venture

in, and these at a high elevation. The reef isa per- fect barrier to any direct approach from the sea. ‘There is no passage through the islands any other way, ex- and they would have to pass through the harbour of St, George in order to reach

the upper bay,

to which humanity is commonly subjected ; it is as if

is the poetry of childhood; ‘when I was young’ is the;

Joun Mircuer.-—We learn that a a ee over some public works in in this City on ‘Tuesday. When he left Berm ten days since, Mitchel was well and ieee limit on which he could walk for the benefit of his health He still wears his own clothes and is not asked to wor and is treated in every respect like a gentleman, eo,, sistent with his safe keeping. No one is allowed t, speak with him, and all Irish not in the army and wh hold civil situations under the Government, haye “ea dismissed, and a strict supervision kept upon all Irish who dwell on the {sland. This wholesale dismissa} o¢ the Irish was the cause Tan the informant of our cop. respondent left Bermuda. Mr. Mitchel is allowed books but neither pens nor paper. His feelings cannot of course be ascertained, but he does not at all look de. jected. No doubt he is buoyed up with the strong hope of his country’s freedom and his own release — V. Y. Herald.

person who Was Bermuda, arrived

CuaTeausriann.—A Soldier, traveller, ambassndgt’ peer, prime-minister, academician, and an author pni- versally honored as among the first of his time, perso- nally acquainted with most of the illustrious men of two generations,—with Mirabeau, Fox, Burke, Pitt, Sheridan, Canning, Washington, Napoleon, Welling ton, Nelson, Bolivar, Mehemit Ali, and a host of ¢ brities in the literary world,-- having slept under the wipro of the Huron and under the tents ofthe Arab, —having mused in the halls of theGrenadas and by the side of the Holy Sepulchre,—having wandered amid the ruins of Rome and of Carthage and Mem- phis,—having been the tenant of garrets and the guest of kings,—he has seen character in all its forms, and life in all its aspects; and his memoir written by his own hand, and embellished with all the rare tints of hig fancy and the glowing colors of his diction—cannot fail to prove one of the literary treasures of the age.— Correspondence New York Cour. and Enquirer.

In his speech at Newburyport last week, Gen. Cush- ing justly remarked that ours was at the present mo- ment the only stable government in the world. ‘We have seen,’ he said, ‘ within the last few months the old monarchies of Europe overthrown on the instant by mere popular tumults which would be harmless in this

country. In Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Milan, Naples, a mere mob has been able to destroy the old appa- rently time-compacted constitutions of the em-

pires. What could a popular tumult in New York effect against the Constitution of the United States? Though it were as numerous, as resolute, and as well armed as ‘the socialists and communists of Paris, and should maintain a four days’ fight in the streets ; it would have no more effect on the integrity and stability of the Union, than the blast ofa winter’s wind against the mountain side.’—Boston Trans.

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