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Vou. VI. CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1856. No. 17. ee SS SE A AE oe SE Pe A pa — A ST ne rn ten ce Lit ‘atur \loved her—for three days. But some one told me, as a pro- | she told me that my svealth placed a gulf between us, because | his bad points—his good ones being an unvarying readiness ucraiure, found secret, that he was engaged to Fauny, five minutes| of her father’s avarice. She had resolved, she said, never to | to fight any body he comes across, and a disposition on all a NADIA ee hit Bel Ohi die) Be te dT marry a rich man, because she knew her father would always | occasions to throw down “a handful of bezants;” his bad A SONG.

BY BARRY CORNWALL.

Sleep !—the ghostly winds are blowing ; No moon's abroad, nor star is glowing ; The river is deep and the tide is flowing To the land where you and I are going ! We are going afar, Beyond moon or star, To the land where the sinless angels are !

I lost my heart to your breathless sire ; ("f'was melted away by his looks of fire ;) Forgot my God, and my father’s ire, All for the sake of a man’s desire :— ut new we'll go W here the waters flow, And make us a bed where nene shall know.

jengaged to twenty people at the same moment, and she was| be calling on him for money, and would embitter the domestic /never married, because, a few days before the appdinted | liféof her and her husband. TI urged, as a defence, that we | , wedding, she received letters trom most of her former lovers, | would live separately, that I would not yield any money to' ‘threatening to forbid her marriage in church, on the ground | her father at his request, and that nothing he could do should} 'that she was engaged to them. /make me regard her with diminished affection. She was “Tere is a note from Clara, on whom every one doated. | fast yielding, when her father came into the garden where I was her favorite for a time, and [ prided myself on it most} we were, and called her to him. When she came, he told | absurdly. I was engaged to her till a young earl came to|her not to pay any more attention to me, as he was about | |stay in the place, and then of course [ was vanquished. | to invite the rich Mr. Lendrum to his house, and that she Shall I ever forget that summer night calm and fragrant ;! must aim at gaining his hand. The daughter refused. She the stars looking down, as if they were the sky’s eyes, approv- | would not marry any whom she did not love. | ing, as [ then thought, a youth’s passion. Thad anappointment! + * And why should you not love Mr.Lendram, girl ?” ask- | with her in the meadow behind her father’s house, and she | ed her father. ‘You'll find gold a great stimulus to love, if /did not come at the time. I waited there two hours, won-| you look at things in their right light. I order you to love | dering why she did not appear. Finally my patience was|Mr. Lendrum: disobey me, if you dare.’ The father | exhausted, and as 1 saw no light in her window, I did not. hereupon retired into the house, and [ dried the daughter’s | venture to climb up to it, as 1 had so aften done, I heard |tears, by assuring her that our marriage was now easily to |

ones, a slight tendency to choler, which leads to many unfor- tunate mistakes in the way of hanging—an uncontrollable inclination to imitate the great King Edgar in the case of his female subjects, be they maids, wives or widows, and, we must confess, a cruel but pious love of torturing Hebrews. Our old friend the banished noble, who lives in the woodman’s cottage, and magnanimously saves the king’s life when the boar is just going in to finish him, is of course a prominent character.

The Flower of the Farm is a harrowing tale of “ innocence betrayed,” but betrayed in such a remarkably agreeable man- ner that we are quite thankful to the author for sending us away in so good ahumour. The noble seducer is certainly ‘a villain,” aud “ the flower” is certainly to be pitied. But she has such capital fun in the splendid villa—where, we’ eus- pect, ducks and green peas, with standard sherry, were placed

7, ] — hd? t upon the groaning board daily—has so many new dresses, and 6 worl erue ne yria’s Cc; ! . . ° e e . - ‘ alts ’

se : . a = a } a i soft and low voices in the garden, and looking over the wall, | be accomplished. I received the father’s letter onmy return | such “ brilliant gems,” that we cannot feel all the horror we

No work, ae bes ad, however we suc! _ | I saw her walking in the shadow that a eedar opposed to the | home, asking me to pay him a visit with my tutor. I} ought. When, however, eventually forsaken, and presented

W hat is there left fur ua to do,— But fly—fly, From the cruel sky, And hide in the deepest deeps—and die? «wee > --—--— —- -

THE SHADOW ON THE PILLOW.

_ The following song, from the pen of Mr. James Ballantine, of told her nine times that he would willingly die for her, Lwas' “Such is the history of some of my loves. [ hayen’t| which are every week served up to the fiction-loving portion . Ted, ae Pan ees Rise Nett ot ete ere unable to suppress my anger, and I moved, preparatory to! inclination to trace them further, The young lady who has | of the poor, We have said not a word of the generous noble- Che song is founded on the following incident, communicated by Sir| Springing upon him aud clutching him by the throat. But! married already,and did not wish her father to know it; the | Plan who, being repulsed in his overtures to the blacksmith’s i John MeNeill :—* A Highland soldier bad his arm so severely wounded | by the movement I made I got out of the shadow, and the young lady who was forty years of age, and wanted to be| wife, immediately requests Heaven to inform him whether ; aU heltuse aamian ue i Sat tach under saree Gating oe ‘fond lovers saw the shade of a body on the moonlit sward.| thought twenty; with the numerous other specimens of| such things can be, bestows 60,000 crowns on the blacksmith’s : arm might be preserved. By ber unremitting care this was accom-| Of course Clara screamed, and the earl put himself into a| female purity that a rich young man meets with in his passage | family, and invites the “honest fellow ” to supper the same : plished; aud the pour s dice on being asked what he felt towards his | posture of defence, erying out, ‘ Come forth, base spy ! Show | through life, Poor women ! that have to bear, not only the | night. We have said not a word of the high-born lady whose preserver, anid that tbe only pete be a F Giyieg tent feeling | thyself, eaves-dropping coward !’ then there was a scene! faults of their own sex, which are large enough in all con- husband, a gallant knight, is thrown into a dungeon by his chileightheaand sd her cle! ety th "indeed! [boasted of'a higher and holier claim, like some | science, but have also to bear all the faults of men, which, feudal lord, and whose release is only tobe purchased by his

] ie he held of Gel {young fellow in Bulwer’s novel, and we spoke indignantly | people say, are caused by them. How many men are tkere| wife’s dishonour —- this being, as_ is very well known, the

Sorne helpless from the field of fight,

liewn down with wounds and scars,

‘moonlight with the young earl. I crept round silently, and | accepted his invitation, and came to bis house, much to his (got under the tree, so that I heard all their whispered con-| surprise of course. Well, to make a long story short, she _verse. I thought it strange that he made the same vows andj discovered that she did not really love me so much as to | protestations that Lhad made to her; that he showed the prefer me to my tutor, whom she married privately by a | same ferveacy and spoke in the same overstrained language. special license, being given away by me. The father | But I thought it stranger that she received them in the same | stormed, and would have abused me, but that I had stopped | manner that she had received them from me. When he had | his mouth by a Joan of a hundred pounds the day before.

| for some minutes, in the true lover’s jargon, Our interview} who always makes fools and knaves of themselves in the might have lasted forever, but for the arrival of a third party, | most natural manner, and then say the sex has caused it.”

with £100 cheque, which she gives in disgust to the crossing- sweeper, she returns to her broken-hearted parent, and dies in her arms, we feel that probability and morality are alike satisfied.

If our readers imagine that we haye been practising on their credulity in the above sketch, they are wondrously mis- taken; we have given but a faint pictare of the absurdities

recognised mode of proceedings among the nobility and gentry of the period. We have not attempted to describe the

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[ L Pee os i ee i nen help the right | another lover, who had waited three hours in a garden bower, | vi wesw? of ere _ “os ee — mi flashing , iii EF Breathe ker niall (3 ‘according to appointment with Clara. He reproached us ‘ cye, she assures the proud earl that, rather than submit “ to ~ aie wile 4. otdads tallies — | with ro Seeednensiie and really he seeded to take the LITERARY PABULUM. his loathed embrace,” she would bury herself in the depths 1 woke—and lo! an angel hand iatter very much to heart. So strong were the proofs he a ce : ‘ ’ of “ yon dark lake ; " or, should. all else fail, that she “ bears 5 Was suvothing down my pillow. gave us of her love to him, and her fuithlessness to as, that/ Few of our readers, while perusing flaming articles in the that about ber will protect what she values more than life— a Pi | we both resigned her to him, much to her disappointment, | T#mes, and other big-wig journals and magazines, on the li-| hase despot !” touching at the time the point of a dagger, of ‘Twist death aud life, through day and night, for he was poorer than either of us, They were married berty of the press, are really aware of what this phrase actually exquisitely polished and adorned at the hilt with jewels of é My wounds anconscious kept me sometime after, and she henpecked him grievously. Now he| indicates. They have a vague idea that there is now no/ inestimable value. We have altogether passed over the ett or * a ha nd bright . \is dead, and she purposes to throw herself on his tomb, 1/Star-Chamber or High-Commission Court; that prosecutions thrilling incident of the gentleman who muréered his betrothed fz 1 Pg aaa in tee es Mier d |don’t suppose he will like her to get inside the tomb, but | for libel are much diminished in cg ge be altogether altered | in mistake for a chimney sweep, and did penance for the rest « ; Had waved the weeping willow, | will prefer to have the earth interposed between them. - kind ; that a man cannot a be pilloried for the Leafs of his life by Wearing a scraper next his heart—of the noble- iy Mad it not beem the angel hand This is a valentine from the only honest woman I ever | reflections on an “ old marquis,” or have his ears docked for! hearted damsel who hid herself for three days in the robbers’ EB Phat sinvothed the soldier’s pillow. jmet. LI won’t tell her name, for that would be slandering | contumelious comments on the bench of bishops; they glory) cave,to detect the foul conspiracy against the life of her (her, and depriving her of all future position among her sex, |i# the thought that Higz, Suigg or Blogg may start his penny lover, who was to be accused of poisoning his rival, who had ¥ Oh, earth but once hoard such a tale, vand all chance of occupation. She did uot love me. Her | journal in favour of oppressed nationalities, and ruin himself} in reality been put to death by the robber-chief, at the insti- oa st FI nt eee, parents threatened her with a parental curse if she did not | f-band without any one caring a exe about it—and a very! sation of a neighbouring ‘ chatellane,” who eoveted his broad Th a ail ev) vee ieee " endeavor to win my affection,—a good parental homily on | glorious and admirable privilege this is too, we are uot going | jands—of the repeatent miser, who succours the stranger What marvel thet « ecidier icll-~ ‘love, faith and obédience! The father drew up a rough - sea d a a a oe vo en | youth something after this fashion : : ie bd ideate eas > o Pig ks as : , an he other side of the pic -—nev rou 8 to| 1 4 : , 2 : ; He kemed ae aa o ered Were bal auttened: His her Insc anbiet Rody fitiy inquire what kind of literary entertainment is kept for their! * My business with thee is brief,” said the miser : “thou'rt

At midnight on his pillow.

‘into his business-like hand, and it seemed with him like draw- | Pooret brethren ; just as our greai-great-great-grand-fathers, |

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leg ‘ing up—T. Lendrum, Esq., Dr. to One dauzhter’s| Who delivered us from tyranny, never concerned them | i aaa am sta aete wretched,” 3

ae a ce : ae about the goings on at Newyate and Tyburn. <A} pity thee—t pity thee. : c

nVrerirnry tre sgt oly ati ae affection, Settlement, £2,500-a year. Ditto, ditto, Pin-money, | Selves abou © goings ab News J . . E

TWENTY YEARS’ VALENTINES. Provyger aoiauiinds aa hadiieblendes ae, ‘free government was the ery in one plaee; a free press isthe, Thanks, thanks, good Jasper,” said the young man ; 4

rt : ‘ ‘ ‘ could wor disobey her father when he ordered her to do wrong, Cry 1 the other. But we must not let the advantages of the Oe a = the en a your oe §

n old bachelor was s'tting on the fourteent! february; . : : casted deat ineiple bli ; ss faults ings | Creatures Goes honour to your ’

An Af von . be ~ 7 b aa patent ower _seeing that she had not disobeyed him when he told her to do | general Byrnes wi us to the gross faults and shortcomings becomes your gray hairs,” y Pm Soe, ane well :

Hh & COMfortaoie anartl I ruren artisticu 4s ( ave; ., y a 4 : Z tr tne | Woich exist in detail, : , ‘ “:

sett ein ad ieee ade, : «4, |/right? So she sent the valentine ; and on my discovering « Bah!” exclaimed the miser; “ enough of this— Be

aa 7 atv - = . in ~~ seiaaaebaatndes the sender, which [ did with some ingenuity, [ fell in love} . We have on our table before us some score of the penny! uined !” ? ough of this—thou'rs :

eee ie wield pleth - a aiid ml cae (a row | With ber, aud made an offer, It was declined, On this L} publications which are provided for the hebdomadel amuse | Beggared !” 4

of handsome volumes in ostentatious crimson bindings, shone brought forward ee and _— ae aeons - oe of ns sdioe sles and ew - oo rdekae “ His words move me,” said the miser aside; “and there :

; Lelind glass doots whieh were newer opened, ‘The few books | '¢@8 but with a firm demeanor, she revealed to me the | mechanic; and very stimulating and attrac ive their titles) something ‘in kaise seice and features tliat Te tein :

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: ; oe ‘ : snvietar | Whole matter. How Ladmired her then! Her conduct was/ and contents are. e doubt whether any lady in the lan I q inom tal ,

tie walls were classics, and friends to their proprietor. ; ; ; ; ec . : : am wandering. ou lov’st the fair Alice Clifford ! ;

; Mr. Lendrum, for such was the umpoetical name of the | "¢toic, and [accordingly swore eternal friendship and esteem in fact we don’t about it—gets as mach excitement out of |”, To distraction,” said the youth S

| hs oh a was en vided in oxacntalng at aitetel letters, The’! for her, as she would not allow love. I said I would nother circulating library, which supplies her with Jane Byte.) 4 But her uncle has resolved to sacrifice her to another ; ;

aie n the table were old and Geented ; the ink of some | eves! her name. What would the sex say to a woman who | Zoe, Blondel, and other works of high art and delicate loose- is’t not so ?” :

aie Caine pai ches: Candienn : hed pvt. De se thei dedidte | refused the heir to £5000 a year, solely because she did ness, as Betty Lutestring or Bill Blinkers gets out of the|~ ;, Alas!” said Perey, “’tis too true.” F.

“rs - ee fas i eal had sone ‘feithe tate dou love him? Mr. Snake, in the ‘School for Scandal,’| Mudies and Cawthornes of the New Cut, Shoe Lane, and 1. Aad shat eck te fon of doing 2” .

ater “magnon " ee your | requested everybody not to tell of his one ood action, because | Holy-well Street. The Poacher’s Bride, or the Blasted! ,, . : : s : he

hands by post on that day, being delivered by your maid-|{°4" ow : 8 | : ; To win myself an honourable station in the service of :

fal talinis Minlth lead coat ton would have suid they | 2¢ lived’ by the badness of his character, and he would lose| Beech; The Brompton Burglar; The Spanish Brigands, or my country, and to forget that such a being as Alice ever >

ee ewe ee Y every friend he had in the world, if it was known that he had|the Fatal Dagger ; Sidney Belville, a Tale of the Present;/ 7.035, °” 6 Z were valentines. And such they were, ; existed.

Mr. Lendrum was at present in possession of a smal) income, on which one man eculd live comfortably, though a married couple would have been driven to strange contrivances. int antil he was thirty-five years of age Mr. Lendrum had

once acted rightly. In the same manner a woman lives by | Coeur de Lion, an Historical Romance; the Flower of the flirting and breaking hearts, and the fuithlessness and frivolity | Farm, or the Titled Traitor — are a few of the epics and of her character. Were it known that one woman bad once | tragedies which are doubtless at this moment rending with acted sincerely, the whole sex would be suspected. I do not! passion or drowning with tears half the miliners’ and shoe- |

“A brave resolution, lad,” said the miser; “but thou must not want money; thou’/t need it.”

Percy looked at the wretched old man with more astonish- ment than ever; but the miser averted his gaze.

eine Si Baad : wonder at the ill-treatment received by the only honest makers’ apprentices in London, It is an indispensable}, Oh, where shall I find a helping hand?” said : = ‘ad oe oaks ve cemaeniaanien a ses woman I ever had the pleasure of meeting from her fellow | qualification in all these serials that they should be illustrated.; Take this pocket-bookk,” replied Sainhi te rn a : rnwch uttention, and that he was courted by every young lady pete PF 4 pecmets page of The Poacher's Bride Contuine a portente Of sufficient for thy wants for some time to come—take it, : ; en tion, : : “ Here is a valentine from aclever woman. She actually | Arthur Coventry, a young gentleman who is a mysterious d H hee !” b im the neighborhood. During the twenty years between the : ; ; Sees offvehs : h h her, who | 22¢ may Heaven prosper thee ! ; age of sixtees and thirty-five, « heap of letters came into his fell in love with me, and was only cured by observing how connection of the wealthy squire, who ates the poacher, who), Oh, generous sir” said Perey. ; ‘aunds on every recurrence of the fourteenth of February. foolish one of her admirers looked, when speaking of a passion es Arthur, whe has protected his bride — the “law-) ,, Nay, nay,” interrupted Jasper ; “ L am unused to grati- Phe packet he had thea on the table was composed of all for her which she did not feel for him. Being cured of ow er _s ~ purse-proud ero, Ww — em tude. ‘ake it; and when thou art in a foreign land, in thy f the valentines he had received during his period of wealth love, she turned satirical and aneete novel, introducing all eee enka house, whe ee prayers forget not the wretehed old man, Jasper Scrimpe ; : Bae ate ling balf the I| in the forest, whence he sall to meet th . Of course, when the rich man to whom Mr. Lendrum was | @¢t lovers as characters, and libelling balf the county. in the forest, nee he sallies every evening eet the!) needs them.” F heir died, and it was discovered that he had spent more than | 2@Ve had valentines from many clever women, but I never daughter of the clergyman, who is also beloved by the squire’s| ,, Good:old man, hear me.” F his income, and when Mr. Lendrum, like an houest fool, gave| fell in love with any. It is absurd to see a lady who is nephew, who is accidentally slain by the aforesaid Arthur,| ,, Away!” said the miser; ‘I would be alone.” : : : » EXv" |about to write a novel on flirtation, practising for it on some | who is very nearly hanged, but is rescued at the last moment

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up the estate to the creditors, the valentines ceased to pour in, and the young ladies turned their attention to retired merchants and bankrapts who had made their fortunes by being ruined. The old story. Ovid told us long ago what we had to expeet from friends :—

** Donee eris felix, multos numerabis amicos. Lempora si frerint tristia, solus eris.”’

Mr. Lendram was now soliloquizing upon each letter as

he took it from the table. I will give his reflections, word for word. “This was the eldest Miss Jenkins, frem whom I received these rhymes :-— ‘*** Dear Thomas, if you will be my valentine, J only am waiting to say I’ll be thine.’

“She had onty been waiting to say that to some dozen! money.

men, but she never found a suitor. She was thirty-five when | she began to seek for lovers, Before that she had plenty, all

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_ young man or inexperienced soldier, who believes his charms

are fascinating the designing coquette. Of course this pe seems often well grounded. That is the lady's fault, not the gentleman’s.

“All these valentines came before I was twenty-one. | When I came of age these letters took a more serious ‘character. They hinted at the blessings of marriage, of two hearts beating in concert, joined by sacred ties and for ever ‘united. I was informed by several young ladies, by post on the fourteenth of February, that the age was now attained

| when mauhood was commenced, that two bearts together

more in the same affectionate strain. All this love was’ ther.

transacted with an eye to business; the amount of endearment

affection was not mercenary, and whose regaids wer to be

by the poacher, who had been present at the blast beech when the fatal deed was done, and who ultimately proves Arthur to be the legitimate son of the squire’s elder brother. The young man in question is clad in the usual attire of an Knglish gentleman—namely, a double-breasted sailor's jacket,

Publications of this class generally run to some thirty or forty numbers, and the author is usually paid at the rate of about a guinea a sheet—the sheet, as our readers know, con- taining sixteen pages—and as, even in the smallest, a page contains upwards of forty lines, this is somewhere about the

with braid in front, and large buttons on the upper part of the cuffs ; a short single-breasted waisteoat with brass buttons ; turn-down collars ; and tight white ducks. His hair is parted | in the middle; and the expression of his countenance is some- |

seale of a farthing and a half a line. They are greedily devoured by the wholé class. of domestic servants, especially housemaids and pages, by young gentlemen and ladies “behind the bar,” and by shop-girls of every description. Their effect

thing between that of a chorus-singor at Evans’s and a Jew is not doubtful : the least pernicious consequence is that it

attorney in Gray’s Inn, of the name of H. Jones.

renders boys of this class dissatisfied with their situation in more readily warded off the troubles and perils of life, and | The Crompton Burglar is a different style of affair altoge- lifé, and leads them to form all manner of monstrous sehemes- Here we have a frontispiece and no mistake, displaying for their advancement, which are well if they ended in

citizens carousing, and attired in those marvellous garments nothing less than disappointment. But on their female was as exactly regulated as would be the amount of pin-| which are known to the vulgar as trunk-hose, doublets, sur- readers the effects are more dangerous; their heads are filled

No wonder [ was disgusted with all these | coats, &e. The enormous chests and sinewy legs of these with visions of lords and ladies—of sudden conquests and professions, and searching for some young lady whose

worthies are delightful to look upon; and the gable-ended brilliant nuptials—of dangers and temptations encountered houses in the background are of that well-known character and overcome by their heroines, to which nine hundred and

of whom she jilted. Here is the seeond Miss Jenkins, who purchased without money. I found one girl of this species, for which the Adelphi Theatre is so deservedly famous. 'ninety-nine women in every thousand must have succumbed. had her ne cast-off suitors, as de: had her cast-off clothes. eat made love to her ici. She aid not know that r Covar de Lion, by the author of Jack Cade, is the re Nar | OF course they believe they are capable of as much them- Ln that fimily the eldest sister played with any thing as was heir to £5,000. # year, and after a long siege she ly business—none of your mere flimsy love-stories or of selves—a delusioa found out too ate 5 at the —— sa long as she conld, and: then handed it over to the second. yielded, and began to return my love, Her father did not | low life, but a gevuine historical novel on the grand James their passions being excited by highly aap Pepe S a. ‘Phus it deseentied from one tothe other. I was behind a look upon me with any degree of favor, for he wasa mer- and Bulwer seale, where “ my halidome,’ and “my troth,” muking, which, though they sone nothing | eee . : busi onee, and heard « youth’ offer his ’art and ‘atid tothe’ cenary man, and was looking oat. for the rich Mr. Lendrum, ‘and “b’yr lady,” form the staple of the dialogue; and the: indecent or immoral, are still s sort y guanine Pt videst Miss Jenkins, and what’s°more, [ heard the charmer not knowing that the object of his search was at his rt hero on his roan war-steed peforms nearly as many marvellous an infinite amount of mischief. e most earnestly caution

: : a i in hi ’ humbler readers against this trashy and noxivus species Seommend him to pay his court to the second sister, He feet. . ms od nia feats as the author himeelf * his Place 24, Astley'e. , He our tale sili d into their families, will t id. « - a. be Bis “ Oni Pad fi ies a banner which, from its size and serves, we | of literature, which, introduced into their families, will too gay pms ee ag ee es ara pleat” OS tt ae cyt Sad oe egal beeing a Phigtert ¥ 20 FAS Use Pee sixth |, visvisisog si 3 eae een a ition, ,She trembled; and| lance is about the bulk of the mast of a ship, and bis persuade their daughters to say “ Yes” to the first pair of ig te cr was from Fanay—iny Pauny, as I omee called, this “Tey my» actual. position, She trembled,

> : we. See oe ve - ° ° s sks them. her—every one’s Fanny, as Lyery soon discoveréd. Hew almost wept. 1 asked ber the reason of ber emotion, and; moustaches touch his shoulders, This hero has his good and handsome moustaches that a ks them