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” Oh, the summer night Ilas a smile of light,

And she sits on a sapphire throne; Whilst the sweet winds load hor With garlands of odor,

From the bud of the roso o’er-blown.

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1855.

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| have ventured to make from time to time in the course of those The fate of war, and the wlicy of powerful states enga operations. Dispassionately considered, and cleared of that} in hostile operations, is sel dein determined by any sudden in- PIII LPL EPP PAPAL PPP PPP PAD APRLARRARAS | oxcitemONt Which is sometimes raised by a glimpse of a distant | cident. The termination ofa campaign by such blows as those NIGHT. object, the events of the war may be traced in their logical) of Austerlitz, Jena, or Waterloo, is a rare exception. it is _—— connexion from the landing at Gailipoli to the fall of Schusto-| not the loss of a batUe or of a fortress which determines the BY BARKY CORNWALL. pel. They bear evidence of a plan deliberately formed with submission of the enemy; itis the exhaustion of his resources, reference to t.e circumstances of the tine, and executed with | shown by the inability to repair bis losses. That is what has the utmost firmness and perseverance. Strange and novel ob-| already partially occurred in the Crimea, where the Russians stacles undoubtedly did arise, as they must ever arise amidst) have been compelled to concentrate their resources under the tho chances of war; but these were provided for and overcome | circumstances most unfavourable to their power. The see with extraordinury rapidity, insomach that—to sum up all in| being in the hands of the maratime powers, and the navigaticn one crowning and demonstrative fact—the most dificult and; of the Sea of Azoff cut off and destroyeu, the process of ex laborious siege in history has boen brought to a conclusion | haustion became rapid and inevitable. One of the most ro within twelve months by the seer superiority we bad acquired | markable omissions of the Russians was their not having roe But the autumn night over the armies and arsenals of the cnemy. We trust that fortified the straits of Yenikale after the sunken veesse!s were lias a piercing sight, | looking at all these facts and to their results, some of those | carried away by the melting of the ice; and on the other And a step both strong and free; — and eager men who spent the spring of last year in ex-| hand, it may be said that the admirals in command of the And a voice for wonder, ‘ hausting every contingency of failure which imagination could fleets last year might have explored and attacked that impors Like the wrath of thunder } suggest, will acknowledge Chat ignorance and impaticnee—not | tant position at an earlier period! In summing Up the resulta When he shouts to the stormy S98. I to speak of other motives—sometimes pr wailed in their minds! of the campaign, we may fairly cleim for the Goyernincnts >

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lover reason_and truth. We may well leave the past at rest.! which plangwed and executed the Crimean expedition, and for I It is vindicated by the suceess of ‘the policy of the Government| those who have constantly promoted and defended the great and by the glory of the army. But for the future we may | enterprise, the honour of haying foreseen and acted upon tess presume to inyite these hasty and sometimes unjust eritics to | weighty general considerations ; and whatever may have becn

And the winter night Ts all cold and white,

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Agency. September 10. , Shs eas To the forest des i} bs 5 4 Fa aR) The forest bird to its —¥ Wholesale Dealer in To care bright hours, , ‘ : ‘ —e And dreams of flowers PAINTS, OILS AN D WINDOW GLASS, Aud that balm to tho weary—rest, Drugs, Medicines & Dye Stuffs. iets

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October 22, 1855. 2m et ee Tt" Gilded aD Come, Patrick, clear up the storms on your brow ; pevert al e Stratford Hot ok. iT. 4 You were kind to me eonce—will you frown on me now— ITE SHOTS Esta “ey aa oe is delightfully situated on Shall the storm settle here when from heaven it parts, the South Side of the Hills jorough om commands an “And the cold from without finds its way to our hearts? extensive view of the City and Harbour, IS JUST OPENED, | No. patrick, no! sure the wintriest weather

Oh, the night, the night!

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Tis a lovely sight, Whatever the clime or time;

For sorrow then seareth,

And the lover See His soul in a staybright rhymo.

It bringeth sleep

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consider the effects of the viulent course they have hitherto

Queen's Government in the conduct of the war, they have in the Executive Power, weaken the confidence of our Allics, dis- tract the councils of the nation, and e,cn impugn the justice of our cause. To all these attacks what reply could be made by the sovernment or its supporters? The grand justification ef their policy is the plan of the campaign, but that cannot be disclosed. Next come the means employed to give effect to these projects; but they must be kept secret. ‘Lhe military oficers are to be covered from the discouragement of parlia- mentary censure even when they have done wrong. Our com- munications with our Allics are of the most confidential character, for they involve not only the honour of this country, but the interests of another whica are in our keeping. In short, the only effectual answer to be made to these innumera-

and it is the duty of the Ministers of the Crown to advance steadily towards their great objects, as little moved by the turmoil around them, as that adventurous hero of eastern fable who bore off the speaking bird from the Black Mountain.

Iu the conduct of military operations, it is generally im- possible to foretell with accuracy the particular incidents of 2 campaign and the time of their eccarvence, for there is in all these calenlations an wekaown quantity, viz;; the exaet strength and resources of the enemy. The Russians have throughout this war been eminently successful in maintaining the secresy of their communications. and neither before nor

fact exhausted every mode of opposition w hicheould embarrass!

ble assailants is to be found in the results ef the campaign ; |

| the difheulties to be surmounted at particular moments, we

| pursued, Professing the utmost eagerness to support the|have never ceased to rely on these principles to ensure our

ultimate suceees.

(Te be continued.)

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\A TALE FOR TEE CHRISTMAS FIRESIDE.

| Jt wasa bright sunny morning in June ; the little town of Subery seemed to have poured forth its whole population inte | the streets, and the square whieh surrounded the church was | crowded to excess. This was evidently a festive day.

The town, nestled amidst lofty hills; is chiefly inhabited by miners, who pass their days in laborious toil buried within the | howels of the earth. A holiday was therefore to them a double- | welcomed event. The occasion of their present festival was | the completion of some extensive repairs which their old churcls | had lately undergone.

According to a long-established custom of the country, the aster-slater was to receive, in addition to his wages, a come

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m | plete new suit of clothes, in honor of the occasion, and be had viyen notice that he was en this day te ascend the steeple for

the last time, and to perform on its very summit a tour-de-forcs i which would astonish the spectators.

Master Madel, the titular master-slater of the place, would neyer have lent himself to such fuolery as this—for he was a prudent mam and the father of a family—but he had lately Loon yery il, and had been compelled to visit the adjoining baths ef Carlsbad in search of that health which was so

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and has superior accommodations for Private Families and! |, easiiy borne when we bear it together. Transient Boarders ; and the Subseriber trusts, by ussiduity | :

and attention to the convenience and comfort of his guests, to werit the countenance and support of the public generally. There is also guvod STABLE accommodation on the premises. October 29. tf. GEORGE MOORE. Commission Merchant & General Agent. PENHE undersiened having geod Sher Ware- house room, offers bis services as General Agent and Commissioi Merchant: would attend to the purchase and ehipment of Produce, dc. Rerexences.—Llon. Jaurs Peaxt, 6 OW. W. Lopnp, ‘=D. Breas, ‘ Cas. Youne, W. B. Drax, Esq., Am. Con. Agent. GEORGE MOORE. Stratford Hotel, opposite Charlottetown, Nov. 5. 2m.

Freehold for Sale. FOULAT well known Prechold, of 55 acres, “ EGLANTINE POINT,” Fortune Bay, formerly owned by Epwarp ABE Lt, is now offered for sale, of which a good and valid title can be given For further particulars apply to W.U. DEAN, teygistered book 24, page S78. ef July 23.

Dweiling House and Land nesr Charlotte-|

town for Sale.

OR SALE, the newly built and ecommodious Dwelling House in Charluttetown Royalty, late the residence of the Hon. Charles Hensley, together with eighteen acres of Land adjoining The

Dwelling House contains— Dining Room, Drawing Koom and Study; two |

Kitchens, with Stere-rooms, &c.; and Nine Bed-rooms. There is also Stables, Cowch-heuse, Kovt-house, Pump, dc ,on the premises, The dis- tance from Charl ttetewn is rather less than cne intle

Alesse ts let irom year t year, or for a term of yeurs, as acteed upon, several Pasture Lots in Churloticiown Reyaity, near the above Dweiling Lvuse.

For Terms of Sale and Lease apply to the subseriber at the Attorney Genera'’s Office, Culunial Beilding, Charluttctown.

July 30. éOSEPI UENSLEY.

Public Lands.

MuUeE Commissioner of Public Lands gives notice that per-

sons who have given bonds for the purchase of lands—having had favorable terms offered them—sheuld they not speedily settle their accounts, by calling at the Commissioner's Office, and agreeing to the balance thereon in the terms offered by the Goverament—render them- scives liable to any alteration iu these terms which may be thought

advisable. September 17, 1855. Notice. LL persons are herehy cautioned against trespassing on é these lands situate on Lot er Township No. 46, the property of

Captain Byrne, the heirs of Mrs. Taylor and of Miss Gun Cunningham,

and lying between the western boundary of Major Crovke’s land, and

the eastern boundary of Lot 45. Any person or persons so found

espussing, will be prosceuted with the utmest rigour of the law. KOUEKT STEWART,

Agent for Captain Byrue, the heirs of Mrs. Taytor |

and Miss Gun Cuaninghaw.

Charlottetown, April 23.

Notice to Tenants. YHE subseriber requests all persons indebted to him for

Rent, of arrears of Kent, on bis part of balf Lot or Township No. | sentiments called furth by a national victory. The Allied Powers had staked on the siege of Sebastopol a large share of |

37, to pay the same forthwith. de is also prepared to lease or sell any part of the above property—his titles being now duly recorded; and takes this opportunity of notifying that any person or persons found trespassing un the above property, will be prosecuted to the utmost rigour of the law. Also, the Tenants on the E-tates under the manage- ment of the subseriber, viz:—on Lot or Township Ne, 26—the property of Messrs Thomaons; on Lot or Township No. 36—the property of the Rev. John Macdonald; and on Lot or Township No. 49~—the property of Messrs. l'aythorne:—as mo arrears will be aliowed to remain dae after the first of January, 1856. JOUN KR. BOURKE. Mili View, Nov. 15, 1855. E. I. H’s G.—1m.

Rogular Trader and first Spring Ship for Charlottetown, P. E. Island.

IN EW Clipper Ship “ MAJESTIC,” M. Warsn,

V) Commander,—900 tons, A. 1, iron kneed and

metalled,—has superior accommodations for Cabin

aud Steerage Passengers, and is in every respect a

first rate conveyance fur fine Goods,—has proved herself a fast

sailer on her first voyage,—will be despatched from Liverpool

on the Ist of April, 1350. For particulars please apy to Messrs. D. Cayxon, Sox & Co., 52 South Castle Street, Liv

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_ _.__ Unclaimed Property. AY ANCHOR, landed from the barque “Sir Alexander,” in 1354, is still in the subscriber's ion, unclaimed. The owner can have the same by proving property and paying

e Ses. “Charlottctown, Nov. 6, W. W. LORD.

pool ; or the owner Nov. 5, 1355.

after the invasion of the Crimea have the allied generals found essential to the yery subsistence of his family . Lhe task of

| Though the rain’s dropping through fgom the roof to the floor, And the wind whistles free where there once was a door, Can the rain, or the snow, or the storm wash away All the warm vows we made in our love's early day?

| No, Patrick, no! sure the dark stormy weather

Is easily borne if we bear it together.

Ot elie tm Ah aint i ait ell Eh ae lh we. tell, ill at A PR A _ When you stole out to woo me when labour was dono, | And the day that was closing to ua seemed begun, | Did we care if the sunset was bright on the Qowers, | Or if we crept out amid darkness and showere ? |No, Patrick! we talk’d, while we braved the wild weather, jor all we could bear, if we bore it together.

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Soon, soon, will these dark dreary days bo gone by,

| And our hearts be lit up with a beam from the sky!

Oh, let not our spirits, embittered with pain,

, Be dead to the sunshine that came to us then!

‘Heart in heart, hand in hand, let us welcome the weathor, _And sunshine or storm, we will boar it together.

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THE RESULTS OF THE CAMPAIGN.

(From the Edinburgh Review for October, 1855.)

, The War from the landing at Gallipoh to ths Death cf Lord Raylan. By W.U. Russete. Cvurrespondent of the Times. yidun : 1845. | It belongs to our daily contemporaries rather than to our- selves to trace the varying incidents of a campaign, and to record with a fidelity unknown at any other former period jof history the fugitive impressions produced by the great spectacle of war. The volume before us dosorves to retain a place in our literature from the extraordinary fidelity with ‘which, under circumstances the must various and som stim :s ‘the most adverse, Mr. Russell bas presented to the British

ponte the aspect of the successive encampiments, the fields of

vattle, the murderous encounters, the appalling hardships, and |

ithe stout endurancesof the Britiss army in the Kast; and we ‘must add that it is bonourable to this gentleman, and 1» ihe | powerful journal which employed him, that he has performe: isu delicate a task with fearless independence, strict veracity and considerable judgment. The volume which comprises these letters in a collected form has already attained a circulation of 17,000 copies; and in reading over these communications, ‘faithfully written, at the time and on the spots they descrid., ‘we pass through all the successive emotions of the campaign. ‘Much, however, that appeared conflicting, discouraging and ‘obscure is now cleared up by more complete information ; and ‘though the journal of a campaigu conveys the most vivid pic- ture of its pregress, the criticand the historian will fora thelr judgment from a more dispassionate survey of tho cours. ef l events. It belongs to others to bear the heat and burden of the day, and to mingle in that eenflict of emotions and opinions which | the interests of the nation and ‘the fate of the army hourly ‘excite at such a period; bat we cannot permit the great and | clorious events of the last few weeks to pass unnoticed in his

place, and we claim our humble part in the proud and grateful

their military fame and of their political influence. Forty i . i. a : years had elapsed since any of the great Powers in Europe had ! been seriously engaged against each other in a grand operation of war. The object of this war was to set bounds to the ex- cessive power of Russia, and by a fortunate concourse of cir- cumstances the attack on Sebastopol became the ordeal of our

‘strength. To return from the contest without haying suc- ceeded on that point, would have been to return virtually de- |

‘feated ; to terminate the siege by a triumph, and by the forced

evacuation of the place by the enemy, was already to socure,

in the eyes of all mankind, the chief prize of the struggle. ' The result has fulfilled our expectations. It has rewarded the efforts of the Allies; and it jus more speedily and

effectually than could have been expected, the Governments |

'whieh planned and executed this vast enterprise. Nor is tis jfeeling at all diminished by the fact, that the British attack on the Great Redan was unsuccessful, like those made by our gallant allies on the Little Redan and the Central Bastion : without detracting in the slightest degree from the glory of

er- those brave French troops who carried the works of the Mala-

_koff on the 8th of September, and so struck the decisive blow jat Sebastopol, the results of the campaign fairly belong, and in very nearly an equal e, to all the troops which have bech engs from first tu last, apd on different points. in this great enterprise. %

| We confess that amongst the minor cafsos of satisfaction which so great a public success res to us, we are enabled

to look back with confidence,—and ee tert Sinducs amy of our geadexs t look back,—-t9 #8

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his army has not disdained to use this artifice, and he even |

) it easy to obtain trustworthy information as to the position and | completing parepaie bas shoretaae, yee ABN ae ee j amount of the Russian forces. These difficulties were of course | P8¥s Rien NS 7“ . a fe P pe , ae be SEP PP eae jincreasod by the distant and unknown country which had | Perbone SARI yee eon * Pil wack epee ing th it | bacome the scene of hostilities, for except the campaigns of Mar- | Holding An Bt hand a oA ie i ee 7 . a? ae shul Lasey ih 1736-37, which are well described by a German | of clothes, he hus ern throug at " —- “ai uct bh 7, soldier 6 ime@hamed Manstein, and the works of Professor) ¥#t# tre aguity 7% cat, climbed me araBoy be 4 my jo My. Chirke in the last century, we had little | Founded the ees by. the pew ef a ee oe see a «ama j military or topographical knowledge of the Crimea. But the; 2imseit to the top of the gilt 9 which eh "a anh Crime2zn expedition was suggested andits results foreseen upon | @#24 ciinging to tue —— W en ORAS is Sisday the | stratecical principles of a wider application, and these have packet, and began coolly to Rreny. himselfin the a ae ena i not disappointed us. To attack Schast ypol was netonly to) bicu it contained, at the same timc DOW ine courteous J at the | assai) the stronghold of Russia in the Bast, and the seat of her | CTOW4® of gavers wae stood in = sy mane ae , iyi preponteranee in the Black Sea, but it was to compel her to! tlaving accomplished rp oe aie sf oerpor mak | throw the strength of the empire toa point of the cireumfer- | ‘* ruaking his 7 ay bgt ER one rote a - aan ee lence of her vast territories, that point being more accessible | © 2 found '—the wind aa ae ih LOpp trom “Stig pouss : to the great maritime Powers than te Russia herself. Their! f the cross on which he bad net peng ata ee ugony | base of operations was the sca, supported hy the reserves, the | °? stretched “— 5 r eae ‘ —— the | magazines and the hospitals established at Constantinople ; but | SPeCtiters, Was quickly greens the ent e : gine | boyond#the narrow and mountainous tract of the Crimea,} Bat how was help to be conveyed’ 9 the unhappy sy ey Iu lying between Sim yheropol and the coast, the Russian armies| yain did the municipal authorities offer a sate toward to any | have had nothing but the steppes to fall back upon, and the ) min cr who shonld oT sufactent mete = * aoe to go whole of the Crimea north of the river Salghir is uafit fur the | to bis relief: not a soul stirred + End ‘his ‘weeping ster, the (habitation of man. ‘Lhe supplies of their army were drawn wile of Madel, ae eer ee OF eee a ‘principally from the Sea of Azoff; stores of all kinds were | te only hope left was to bend on Calton rarer —_- | aeusn ulated: i naumemndietithonin Schadiatal but thede-| ru net husvand, wh» alone would dare to climb the dizzy ‘accumulated in enormous quantities in Sebastopol, but the de “i ‘mand exceeded the supply, and the supply could not be re-) YYJS** le ated a epee a Siti newed.* The troops —_ to join the aoas from the interior; The express ee Ses _— a ao lost enormous numbers of men upon the way, and arrived ex-) YO!" Veronica, the slater wor oe ns, anit re a = ‘hausted hy the fatigues of the mareh ; and when the Russian | mother’s band, exclaimed,“ Mamma, % 1S Only = re jarmy which took the field in 1853 had lost large numbers of | uncle wants? If so, f will bring it to eo ns ae ng ‘its officers, noncommissioned officers and seasoned troops, it | ” j used te bring pupa his dinner when he was working tp became impossible to supply their place by the levies ef raw | “T°: . ob ee ty serfs ak drained the abieiak with frightful rapidicy. | Dame Madel et Be the the egnt ed sialon? her ebild, ‘It is, however, a gross inaceuracy to speak of this prodigious | who was but little more ae i } + fie 28 ‘eo tl tem loperation as a sicge and of the defenders of Sebastopol as a | which the pie “y ant: an cea Nee my , ee “a garrison. ‘Lhe Emperor of Russia in his order of the day to! of her only brot ae ae ee ergs ay ; nk 4 aoe ¢ sue was, had a fearless neart as W ell 28 8 SurC 100t +. S60 alter &

moment of anxious thought, she pressed Veronica to her bosom and said, ** Go then, my child, and may God be with thee.” coil of rope was quickly provided ; Veroniea placed it in

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says that the hervic garrison of Scbastepol will now ‘ fall back into the ranks of the army.’ The trath is that the defenders of Sebastopol were the Imperial army of Russia. They were vonly the head of a column, the apex ef a pyramid, which had the entire military resourecs of the Empire behind it. The | “troops qrartered in Sebastopol or on the Mackenzie heights were in direct communication with the trveps massed upon the frontiers of Poland, the reserve corps at Moscow, and the army | ‘of the Baltic, and they were incessantly renewed. In the} }course of the last twelve months it is not one army, much less fone garrison we have had to defeat, butseveral, Of the troops which fought at the Alma, few were seen at Inkermann ; and’ the exbausted regiments of last year’s campaign had dis- appeared before the bloody conflicts of the 16th August and | ‘]&th September. In speaking of a siege and a garrison those terms commonly deseribe the defence of a town or fortress by 'a body of men enclosed within the wails; at Sebastopol the | lines of the town were only the advanced works of an army ‘whos? losses since the commencement of this war are not | - ‘eturs in a blaze. The pealing of the bell soon mingled overstated at 300,000 victims of the poliey of the Czar. Stractare 18 | ae ergs Pending arnt mie : | with the rolling of the thunder, and the good people of Subery,

| We have taken the trouble to extract from the Rassian re-) pactenine to the spot. did all that Jay in their power to ex- | ports of the more important actions in the Crimea, from the outa thee cian Madel, the masicr-slater, stood upen the pattle of the Alm& to the &th of September, 1855, the returns | poof where the danger was most hmminent, and with a tremb- of casualties transmitted by Prince Menschikoff and Prine | Rio Hand djsected the fre-engine towards the spots where the Gortschakof to the Imperial Government. The sem total of Same raved with the fiereest yehemenes. The great heat,-the the losses sustained on the field of battle, exclusive of the final) Qo es which flew around him on every side, and the glowi assault and of the daily losses in the works, amounts t) no! gaiye which dazzled his eyes, caused him intense sufering ; but less than 70,000; if to this we add 30,000 mex for losses in) je and his brave companions persevered, and the fire was ex- the trenches and sorties, which is at the rate of about 60 a-day! tinguished. From that night, however, he became liable to for 566 days and 20400 men for the final bombardment and continual inflammation of the eves, and in six months Master assault, (2,500 men are reported by Prince Gortschakof to | yfadel had entirely lost the use of his sight. i have fallen on each of the three Tast days of the bombardiment),/ [wilt not attempt to describe ‘the auguish which filled the ‘we avive at a collective loss of 120,000 men by the fire of the poor man’s heart when be found, that so far from being ablo ‘enemy. This, however, is altogether independent of the losses ty maintain his family by the labor of his hands, he imust hy discase, by cold, in the hospitals in the interior, and in the | jepyeeforth be dependent upon them for hissupport. He found, | terrible marches of the reinforcements hastily collected from} weyer, a faithtal and tender guide in the litele daughter, ex- all parts of the empire, as well as the losges of the army in| horting her with her latest breath to be—what she had ever | Goorgia, Civeassia and elsewhere. We can thus account ap- been—a dutiful and tender child to the blind father, who had proximatively for che rude estimate of 300,000 men furnished ow no one left to tend and eare for him save her.

to the Government ; and it is no exaggeration to assert, that It was Christmas-cve. The mountaineers sought to forget the siege of Sebastopol and the campaign of 1854-55 has cost | the tnclomency of the season, in the cheerful recreations whieh Russia the best half of her army. imace their hearts resound with merriment. It was their pe 'eastom on this evening to illuminate their houses; and tho * At one of the recent councils of war, held at t. Petersburg, in the | c+ .ots wore early filled with idlers, attracted by the brillianey

resenes of the Emperor. Prinee Dolgorouki, the Minister of War, was tis as ate oa sera of not having sent gunpowder to the army. The Czar called i of the a Veronica ve ns to work ae on bim fer an explanation; bat, before it could be gen, Prince Men- lace-pillow until darkness had closed in, nor woulc ;

schikoi remarked, with a sneer, ‘Ce u’ext pasetonnant, Le Prince n’a | have ceased her labors, had not her crase of oil failed her and

ni senti, ni invente, ni envoye ta poudre.’ The results of the investiga-| her lamp expired in its socket. c ’

tions of the Anzlo-frenct commission, since the ca ture, appear to! ‘ ’ , and uch avarst her will. did she begin to keep 2 car per Then only, and much ag :

' prove, however, that there was to the last no deficiency of any of the | the holiday which was so gaily celebrated around her. Sha manitions ef war in Sebastopol, and Genera] Nic] states that on the fed the r,. vith fresh frel placed her blind father in bis final bombardment of the southern side of the place tie Russians had | '€4 He Btove N -»« her little brother as warmly ee

800 guns and mortars mounted. The Allies had 7%, bat the superiyrity | CASY -cbair, and then on ve Cae Geurgey we will go net of sheix Gre was at last rigvoriourly evtallished. i she could, said to the child, S.-i Din

ae a basket on her arm, and before many moments had elapsed, the anxious crowd stw her on the seaffolding, exerting ali hor feeble strength to throw the eord within reach of her unele. ' At last she sueeeeded, and a loud cheer burst from the as- sembled multitude, who until this moment had been silent as the grave. We need not describe the joyous welcome which awaited both the little heroine and her uncle when they emerged hand in hand from the church, throagh which thew had passed on descending from the steeple. For three days nothing was talked of inall the country round but the herojeu of the slater’s daughter, and even the columns of the uews paper blazoned forth her noble de d. .

‘Aud yet at the end of two years Veronica was forgotten !

Two vears after the restoration of the steeple, the cross by which i: was surmounted was struck with lightning, and the melted piteh falling on the roof, threatened to set the whole

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