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THE MILLENNIUM. " Haste, thou sweet Millennial morn !" Let the sons oflsrscl say ; ' “ Haste, O Saviour, to return, ,‘And roll our long reproach away!

“We are scatter’d far and wide—

Our harps are or. the willows hung; We’ve rejected him who died,

Whose tender heart for us was wrong.

“ Though we, through sin, were broken all, And other nations grafted in— '

Poor and despised, by Gentiles mock’d, Oppress'd by misery and sin—

And we shall to our land return; Thou wilt our broken hearts restore, And cause us to rejoice—not mourn l". E. ‘ CharlottetOWn, Dec. 1840. ti __ 1 0 SCOTLAND, HERE’S A HEALTH T0 THEE.

Air—“ The Lea Rigg."

. Old Ocean clasps thy stately form,

Broad Heaven crowns thy lofty brow,

, And proudl , mid the sweepin storm,

“ - Thou look’st u on the scene slow;

' Where from thy ighest mountain height, Along the vale, around the shore,

There's not a spot but beams with light

Ofglory from thy bright Claymore.

No fetters but the chains of love Thy gallant sons have over bound, And o'er thy soil as free they rove, Where'er they tread is classic ground. Then tho' thou boast no rosy bowers, That fla’unt in sultry sunbeams bright, Yet than are deck‘d with lovelier flowers, I‘hat bloom in intellectual light.

How gay, how gallant, rich and fair, Thy tartan sheen, thy lofly plume, How fitting for the brave to wear, Or mingle charms with beauty‘s bloom. How sweet thy song, how bright thy charms, Thou sacred birth-place ofthe free, Then land ofglorinns deeds in arms, 0 Scotland, here’sa health to thee!

a cumous CANDIDATE FOR THE nous: 0F COMMONS.

Among the advertisements of the Ayr Adver- tiser of Thursday last, we observe an electiOn- eering address, “ To the free and independent electors of the County of Ayr,” signed “ John Parker, Laird of Assloss and Sliddery Braes.” The composition of this document is certainly unique. Mr. Parker having avowed his ambition to represent his native county, and being assu- red, from the signs of the times, that We must soon have a dissolution of Parliament, proceeds to state his religious and political creed :—

" I am warmly," he says, “nay, enthusiasti- cally attached to the church of my forefathers— the glorious Kirk of Scotland—that church of many martyrs—and will spend the last shilling in her defence, against all the powers of hell, backed by the pious majority of the Court of Session.”

This is at least explicit. In consistency with his religious opinions, the Laird of Assloss and Sliddery Braes thus candidly avows his political sentiments :—

" In politics I am an outmod-out-double- distilled-Radical—but take care—no Chartist or Socialist, the deluded followers of the unhappy Owen, formerly Of Lanark Mills—a man who should have been in a lunatic asylum years ago. My models ofeloquence are—the great Apostle of the Gentiles, magnanimous Paul; Demosthenes, and‘the first Earl of Chatham.”

On the subject of character the Laird is as plain-spoken as on politics :— v

“ Now as to private character, which in an M. P. should be good, I refer you to every man, wo- man—l had almost said child—in Kilmarnock. My constitution, thanks to grace, is excellent, and was well tried in my younger years. My models Ofcriminal and civil jurisprudence, are Sir M. Hale; Lords Talbot, Denman, Glenlee, Mon- criefl', Jefl‘rey, Cunningham, and Fullarton. My books of consultation are the ever blessed ‘ Word of God,’ all the puritanical divines,Clialmers, Gordon, Buchanan, &c. I am fond of agricul. ture, but not very practical, being seldom at home." \

The Laird continues this strain of free and easy communication, and in openness and candOur is_ certainly superior to most of the Non-Intru- sionists :—

“ I am ashamed to say I am still unmarried, but under God’s grace, intend to play benedict soon; but as there are two to that bargain, par- don meOfor not saying more at present. If I am spared llll. next week, I shall (D. V.) have great pleasure in paying you all, if in my power, my personal respects, if] can get horses to' keep up with my. enthusiasm. Now, God bless the Queen and Prince Albert, and turn their hearts unto Himself; old Melbourne—not a bad fellow on the whole; worthy, excellent Fox Maule; and great successgtO

~ ii? “ Joun PARKER, . “ Laird Of Assloss and Sliddery Braes. " King's Arms Inn, Ayr, 27th Aug. 1840.”

(From the Edinburgh Phoenix.)

Let us suppose ourselves carried back seventy years in the stream of time, and to live again the youthful subject Of the young king, George III. Let us likewise imagine, that, in those days thedivme spirit of prophecy had come upon us, unveiling to our sight the events ofthe future. In seven yearsrfrom this time the British empire shallbe rent in With (American war, in 1776). In. fifteen years m‘eh shall rise from the earth, and fly through the air (invention of balloons 1790). In twenty years the French monarchy, the oldest that ever was and now so flourishing,

I the farthest bounds of the kingdom ere‘ the set-

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' x ‘. I» XVI. 1793) not yet king, shall in twenty years lay down his life on the sca'fi'old; his Wife and sister shall share the same fate. In those days, news shall travel with the speed of the wind, and what was done at the mid-day shall be known at

ting of the sun (the telegraph, 1794). In twenty- six years a conqueror will arise (Bonaparte) who will water his horses in the Nile, the Jordan, the Tagus, and the Borysthenes. This conqueror shall restore the chair of St. Peter, and throw down that he had restored (dethronernent of Pius VII.). Finally, he whom the world could not contain, shall die a captive on axocky Island, (St. Helena,) neither in Europe, Asm, Africa, nor America, but in the' midst ofthe vast ocean; a few feet of earth his empire, a willow his mo- nument. In those days metals shall be found which float on the water, and burniinder it (sodium, discovered by Sir Humphry Davy). Ships shall stem the stormiest ocean Without sails or oars (steam ships). Carriages shall run With- out horses with the speed of wind (locomotive engines). The ordinary speed ofthe Wind is 35 miles an hour; that Of the engines on the Great

Western Railway is 39. Men shall be conveyed to India from the mighty Babylon in a month; to America in ten days; from one end of En- gland to the other in 8 hours. Bridges shall hang by a chain over the sea, while roads shall be made under it. (the Menai bridge and the Thames Tunnel.) To those days of blood shall succeed days of liberty. —The negro shall no longer be bought nor sold. The slave shall be set‘free. The Greek shall be freed from the Turk; the Catholic from the Orangeman. The very beasts in those days shall have laws to pro- tect them. Those days shall be days of great light. Men shall plough without horses (steam plough,) they shall spin without hands (powei; looms ;) they shall calculate by wheels (Balfiges, machine ;) the sun shall engrave for them (Du- guerrotype;) they shall write Iwnh_ lightning (electric telegraph.) One machine Will print. in one hour many thousand books, each of which will take a man many days to read; a man may buy a book fora penny, for a penny he may send it to the ends of the empire; They shall read the rocks instead of a book (geology,) and de- cipher the history Of beings which lived and died ere man existed. In the heavens new stars shall be discovered; some sisters of the earth; some brothers of the sun (the planets, five in number, discovered since the American war; and the double stars by Sir William Herschel ;) and of all the colours ofthe rainbow. In those days, likewise. they shall read the Pyramids (Young's and Campollion’s discoveries). They shall find out the mouth ofthe Niger and the Magnetic Pole; the way to every thing shal have been discovered—but the way to be happy

TRADE or CHINA.-—All the legitimate trade Of China with European nations (Russia except- ed) is conducted at Canton. The Russians are the only nation not permitted to have a resident or factory here ; the commerce between" the two empires, which is very extensive, centres at Kiachta, on the borders of the empire, in Mon- golia. The policy which has determined this regulation, as well as that which has fixed the only foreign mercantile port at almost the great- est possible distance from the' capital, is probably dictated not only by a jealous fear of strangers passing the boundaries of the empire, but also from a demo, on the part of the government, to obtain the greatest amount of transit duties. The European trade, nowso immense, origin- ated in a commercial treaty between Emmanuel, King of Portugal, and the Emperor of China, in 1517. In 1634, some British ships first touched at Canton. In 1680, the direct trade of the East India Company with China commenced. In consequence of the extraordinary increase in the demand for tea, which, from being a luxury seldom seen, so late asthe reign onueen Anne, even in the houses of the nobility, has become a necessary Of life, used by the poorest classes, the British trade with Canton has progressively and rapidly increased since 1700; and the great mass of the foreign commerce (which, exclusive of that of the junks, is estimated at $80,000,000 yearly,) is carried on by the English and Ame- ricans. Until the expiration of their charter, in 1834, the British trade was entirely in the hands of the East India Company; and during the last three or four years of their monopoly, that body imported tea (which has always been the prin- cipal export from China) into England to the amount of 31,500,000 lbs. annually. After the expiration of their charter, the quantity was still greater. In 1834, no less than 150 British vessels, with a united tonnage Of 82,470 tons, resorted to Whampoa, near Canton, and brought away 43,- 641,200 lbs. of tea. The import ofthat article subsequently diminished; but it is stillgreater than at any period during the Company’s mo- nopoly. In the season from Oct. 1, 1836, to April 10, 1837, the British traders took away 33,211,332lbs. Often, in the proportion ofone part green, to three-and-a-half black. The total value of tea exported that year was $20,255,065. Next to tea, raw silk and silk piece-goods are the principal articles of export; their aggregate value having amounted in 1837, to above $10,- 000,000 ; then follow treasure, sugar, and a host of inferior articles. The trade between British India. and China, has been greater in amount apd importance than that between China and England. The principal export from India. was formerly raw cotton, chiefly. from Bombay; but opium has. long exceeded that article in impor- tance, paying latterly been clandestiner im- ported into China to such an- amount thatiis value has exceeded that, of, the“ tea exported. Very recently, hoWevet, the‘ Chinese government have, in appearance at least, set vigorously to work to suppress the trade in opium, and to ex- clude it from the empire. But those best ac~

shall come to an end. A virtuous prince, (Louis

quainted with China, believe, that- thetaste for

the drug is tOo firmly rooted atttQDg the Populwou to admit of the government succeeding~ probability, however, seems to be, that the events that have occurred;_P31'l|°“l§'lY lhe confismnql': of the opium belonging to British mercha‘ptsr “’3 lead to very material changes in the tra_e, an . h ' our relations With China. A 1"" aps' ‘°°’ '"- 300 400 tons fleet of fifty or sixty vessels, of or burthen,'are annually dispatched to Canton from the United States, and the whole of the American trade is valued at about $10,000,000- Abom the same number of pounds of tea are annually imported into America. The Dutch __usua".v send sixteen or seventeen vessels during the season; but many come from Batavia; Md the import direct of tea from Canton into Holland, is not more than 3,000,000 lbs. a-year. About three or four French ships annually have ap- peared of late years at Whampoa; thetrade'of Spain, Sweden. Denmark, and Austria, With Canton, is very small.—-M‘C'ulloc!i’s_ Geographi- cal, Statistical, and IIz'slarical Dictionary; now blishin . PuTHa Mai)an AMAZON.—The Glaneur.du Haut Rhin, relates the following 2—“ There is at Colmara woman who is with difficulty able to ‘obtain the means of existence, but whose extra- ordinary life should make her an object of in- terest. She was born‘at Colmar, in 1783. Her lather was a sergeant, and her mother one of the sutlers of the regiment. Her father was killed during the campaign of Calabria, and her mo- ther’s head was carried away by a cannon ball at the battle of Fleurus. In 1802 our heroine married a drum major of the sixtysecond demi brigade, named Girard. She became, like her mother, a sutler, and entered Spain With the division of General Donnadieu. She was pre- sent at the taking of Saragossa, then passed into Portugal, and returned to Barcelona, at which time she hadveight sons, who all entered the army.‘ From Barcelona she went into Austria, and was wounded by a lance at the battle of Wagram. She was present at the taking of Vienna, and was subsequently in garrison at Naples for several months. She then returned to Spain with her husband, and was decorated at the taking of Gerona, at which she assisted, carrying, on this occasion, a musket, and fighting with the troops. She next accom— panied the expedition to Russia, and was reck- oned among the twenty-five who remained at the famous retreat, out of four battalions of 1,000 each. She was present at Courbevoie, on the re-organization of her regiment, and was engaged in the affairs of Chalons, Troves, Bar—sur-Anbe, and Brienne. She followed the Emperor, with her husband, to the Island of Elba, and was at the battle of Waterloo. In 18I5, her husband was made adjutant in the artillery. In 1823, she accompanied him to Spain, and saw him killed between Barcelona and Garcia. On her return to France, in 182-5, she married a ser- geant major named Varin, and accompanied him on the expedition to Africa, in which all her sons were engaged. She lost her husband and two of her sons, one of whom was a drum- major, and the other master of a hand, during this expedition, and was twice wounded herself. She returned to her native town last year, but has hitherto resisted every attempt to excite sympathy, by making her history known. A subscription has been opened for her at Colmar. Loan Baoucnam A SMOKan.—When Lord Brougham was in the zenith of his fame, ere he took his prodigious leap from the floor Of the House of Commons to the woolsack in the Lords, he certainly derived great benefit from a pipe. When he was working what may be called treble tides, he smoked a pipe between each spell, and returned with renewed vigour to his multifarious labours. After having mystified the box of common juryinen in the Court of King’s Bench, he took one pipe in the afternoon,_before proceed- ing to the House of Commons; and after having spoken for two or three hours, profusely mingling wit with wisdom and instructing his opponents while he flayed them, he returned home, to smoke another pipe before sitting down for an article in the Edinburgh Review. On the con- clusion of the labours ofthe day he took another pipe, as acomposer before going to bed, proba- bly bearing in mind the advice of Lord Bacon, who recommends to those who value their health to seek repose with a tranquil mind—Leeds Intelligencer.

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION —The recent mysterious fire on board the Talavera at De- vonport dockyard, and the probable origin of it from the spontaneous ignition of oily substances mixed with tow and carbonaceous matter, have directed attention to the circumstances in which combustion takes place from the decomposition of such materials. It is afact however better ascertained than can be accounted for, that fixed oils when mixed with any light kind of charcoal, or substances containing carbon, such as cotton,fiax, or even wool, which is not of itself inflammable, heat by the process of decomposition,and after remaining in‘contact some time, at length burst into a flame. The spontaneous combustion takes place in waste cotton which has been employed to wipe ma- chines, and then thrown away and allowed to accumulate into a heap. We have known an Instance of the kind in a manufactory for spin- ning worsteds, where the waste wool,or “slubb- jugs,” as it is termed in Yorkshire, was thrown into a corner and neglected. It then heated, and was on the point of bursting into a flame, when the attention of the workmen was direca‘ed tolthe-lieap by the smoke and smell. 1n comm mills. the danger exists in a still greater degree and it is believed that the destruction of many cotton factories has been occasioned by these mea‘ns.‘ The cause 'ol3'tliis peculiar property of fixed oils' deserves more attention than has hitherto been paid to it.' If the fire at Devon.

port can be satisfactorily tracedtothisorig’n,

he may, perhaps, tend to elucidate

inquiry into a subject of mack ’ ' ‘wlhl hidden phenomena respecting ,: are at present involved in obscurity—a Advocate, I I

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to the “ place of execution,” he cheer-yea“ “m? gaoler, that considering the extent of the county.r and the number of executions which might uh ‘-= place, the drop struck him toqbe vary . j “ I don’t know,” said the man. “ To be I. » six ’oud be crowded, but four "and hair ' cornfortable.”—-Bunn': Stage. ' (A ‘ THE Monxs 0F MOUNT Menu-ans- , , Melleray, County Waterford, or‘ my . Mountain as it is called, is now a perfect 7.; though recently a barren heath, until the? ' gr Rev. Dr. Ryan, Abbot of the 'i‘mppmfl'g, his exiled brethren from France,obtained ('1- of the tract from Sir John Kean, whose ‘

nearly all the vicinity is taken by ind ‘ farmers, who acting upon the example org

Trappists, have brought into cultivation a?”

panse of land for centuries in a Wild and bag” state. upon wild enclosed farms, every wherewqw eye, and the surrounding country most exhilerating aspect. When 1):;

came into possession he had but ls MAM .' defraying the expence of himselfand his brethem

to Mount Melleray. The order located9 now consists of 80 members, whose long brown cloak. Their whole time is on“

pied in prayer or field labour, except the)“

devoted to rest. They retire to their bedsu, eight in the evening, and rise at two, " morning throughout the year. Their diet is‘ strictly vegetable, and raised upon their on

gardens, never tasting either fish or flesh vitality». and no drink bntpure Water. In such matted!" they are rigidly austere. The chapel of establishment is exquisitely beautiful, and excites:

the most enthusiastic admiration of every visitor.” 4

The abbot is most attentive to all persons resort-‘ ' ing there, whether through curiosity or devotion, : and visitors are treated with every hospitality: There have been great numbers this year fruit- every part of Europe. The community observe: the most strict silence, and their farming employ- ment is laborious, and almost incessant. ‘

BIBLE FOR THE Brawn—Tho Lords of Her Majesty’s Treasury have just awarded the may” of £400 towards printing a Bible for the blind, .* under the superintendanoe of a Committee at Glasgow, and which was to be fully completed last month. It will be contained in fifieen volumes, large super royal quarto, and malt there will be 3,300 volumes printed. There will be in each 2,470 pages, each containing 37 lines, and will consist of 1,660 reams of paper, weighing 9,860 lbs. The New Testament has,

been already completed in four volumes, and contains forty-two lines in each page. No fewer than 10,850 volumes have already been pub- lished by the Glasgow Society for the Instruc- tion of the Blind.

The usual ezcuscsfiir‘ Non-attendance at Pub-'- lic Worship.—Oversleqi:hiyself ; could not dress in time. Too cold; too hot; too dusty. T00 wet; too damp; too sunny; too Windy; too- cloudy. Don’t feel disposed. No other time to myself. Look over my drawers. Put my papers to rights. Letters to write to my friends. Taken a dose of physio. Been bled this morning. Mean to walk to the bridge. Going to taken ride: Tied to the shop six days in the week. No fresh air but on Sundays. Can’t breathe in Church, always so full. Feel at little feverish. Feel it little chilly. Feel very lazy. Expect company to dinner. Stumped my great toe. Got a headache—Caught cold last night at: party. Must watch the servants. Can’t leave the house for fear of fire. Servants up to all sorts ofmischief when I go to church. Intend nursing myself to-day. New bonnet not come home. Tore my muslin dress coming down stairs. Got a new novel, must be returned on Monday morning. Wasn’t shaven in time. Don’t like a liturgy, always praying for the same thing. Don’t like extempore prayer; don't know what is coming. Don’t like an organ, it's: so noisy. Don’t like singing with musichmakes: one nervous. Can’t sit in a draught of'air; windows and doors open in summer. Can’t hear an extempore sermon, too frothy. Dislike a written sermon, too prosing. Nobody in day but our minister; can’t always listen to the same preacher. Don’t like strangers; too bombasti- cal. Can't keep awake whenin church. Snored aloud last time when there; shan’t risk it again. Tired to death with standing to pray.—Hate to' kneel ; makes my knees stifl‘.