done nal -<Wie . “ ee SPRL ete REREAD EIEN SEINE STORM ate AC Sa

443 rT) - | tHE BATE VER TE CANAL }

fh time in December last two letters from Professor Hind appeared in the St, | John Paily Telegr phon the suhiect of the proposed Baie Verte Canal letter the engineering and scientific prob-

lem was dealt with, while the second set

forth the commercial results that might be

expe of a short cut

gulf and the Bay of Fundy

pulet, acopy of which we have received,

| of construction, an open gut, establishing

MO eit SON REESE et ote eG HA Cane anh 0 rip Dar 4 NT) 1 forty sty feet. or somewhat more rhe) ies that aide | have tisnally & 0 reular,projecting base.con N ‘ ed to MAKE ' : ; 13° sminiscence Is sting of one, two,or three steps,or plinth . ' for Tar Rev. Dr. Macdonald's reminiscences | sisting , I ; mas oy Pasa ingen : . éthenush Rrin’s Isle’ were | 82d are furnished at the top with a conical t Hy On Lop ofhis recent tour ‘through srin’s st | roof of stone, which frequently as there 1s t ' i : vt ' very interesting. Many of those who com. | every reason to believe, terminated with : - cs posed (he large audience assembled to bear | a ero<s formed of a single stone. The wall tae ace pt hi ture. in St. Patrick’s Hall, on Thurs. | towards the base, is never less than three pee ee on 1 sie of - | z st t have been highly | feet in thickness, but is usually more, and on wee ae eee ss oecasionly five feet, being always in accord st Ler ! ' . summer that delighted with the + mple but perspicuous noe with the proportions of the building w xi road, had it been | a forcible pourtrayal of ecenes ‘to mem- | In the interior they are divided into stories, ' am io ; te . wy dear snd ali—no matter from what | varying in number rom wee to hoe ot . ond hes « ‘try th prung—must have been} 4s the wotgne of be i ver pe 7 or, a ; : | usually about twelve feet in height. These im d on t s anot eased and instructed With the ex- stories are marked either by projecting “ . om : : — ception of a couple of short extracts rer bolts of stone, sets off, or ledges, or holes . : . ma \ ne, of which we happen to have | in the wall to secure joists, on which rested ; oo % : y i noke for| the floors, which were almost always of t } i } t m in two, ‘ \ i if osesession t s a ound In the uppermost of these stories af em, nS - eer ae 6 te, 8 ee ee the wall is perforated by two, four, five, six : : , . oo pric hand manner, without the sid of notes or or eight, but most usually by four, which t a ym ail aan manuscript, A few moments were occup!t 1} sometimes face the cardinal points, and ; } pie L ts med . with in the recital of his adventures from the | 8|OMelimes nob, The lowest story,or rather : ® +h r } * 1 j . + Its pe we is sometimes Cc ymposed of 8s hid ; _ ; a par eye. dee d oe left Charlottetown till he set foot masoury, and when not so, it never has any Island, Nort iver Bri Age W i be a very upon the ‘Ould Sod.’ Then the lecturer \perture. In the second story the wall is good | eo } deseribed Dublin, with }ts grand prospects, | usually perforated by the entrance doorway, ; eye tgedor ie t “ ; its beautiful streets and squares, its colleges | Which is generally from eight to thirty feet atte ied to is wt a t ist c J ¥ a 7 _ ce + P he vronn anc } r larga enone! oO } The Com sioners should apy oint and its cathedral, its castle and Pheonix dik cee =r oa a fm hose thata nted with the rer - Park. To a person who leaves Charlotte- | pepmediite stories are each lighted by a t auey, ? t the ¢ iy ube | an town, and ina few days finds himselfinsuch | single aperture, placed variously, and usu- i 7 = —— Bb pees re acity as Dublin, the contrast is very striking. | ally of very small size, though in ar ; foux Nerson Viewed from Carlisle Bridge, Dublin presente | NStnces that placed directly over the [ | doorway is of a size little less than thit of ME HASLAM'S & magnificent appearance, whether you look | the door way, and would appear to be in. ; : , north or south, east or west. The Bank of | tended asa second entrance. In their " ( ay County. Ireland —once the seat of legislative power | Masonic construction they present a con» ena a Sill 10 of its most interesting | erable variety, but the generality of | S I received a postal card from you, | in Ireland—is one of its m , ©) them are built in that kind of careful ma- le time since, requesting me to give objects Parts of it are still just as it | sopry called spatled rubble, in which small you my Views o1 r road service, and HOW | was jn its palmiest days, St. Patrick's | stones, shaped by the hammer in detault of , prove it i Cathedrsi is also worthy of mention. Ip) suitable stones at hand, are placed in every n ® frst ‘ tiere s A . 8 : ' : interistec of the cer sto so at very perintendent « ads for each County, | WS 7 eta ne so ae errs little aa : tr t0 aes Hu luty it we i be tot ike charge « f the late Sir B. L. Guinness, at an ex- the body of the wall: and thus the outside of { district ha report (CO) pnenge of £150,000 sterling Christ's spaufed masonry, especially, presents an wl a ee i Churel nother very old edifice - was also | almost uninterrupted surface of stone, sups the na make estimates | u being renaired at ‘ost of £200 000 sty, | Plementary splinters being carefully in- ng vo set contracts On tie : a oe ©" | serted in the joints of the undried walls ft i roads as far as Dy y Henry Rowe, Esq. The number of Such also is the style of masonry in the t be e. tie should Keep on the urches, colleges, and charitable institu. | post ancient churches; but it should be continually during the season thatthe | tions in the eity is re markable. Trinity | added that in the interior of the walls of ads would be clear of snow This would ’

and where As for Instance, fa hill was being cut away with water he might appoint & person to attend to it and save money \nother benefit it would be, l have a knowledge of all places

chance tosee when

’ prompt action is necessary.

ne woui

which would be necessary to put in repatr early in the spring—a very desirable ob« ect. In a word he should be a person of

nd should have full power proper, subject, of Phis would

‘Oo do as he tnougnt course to the B ird of \ res,

niiorm system which would soon e understood by all road makers. All

bridges should be built under the special

eare of the Superintendent, as that will be fter this a most difficult thing on account f the scarcity of good lumber. where stone cannot be obtained. And where stone can be obtained watchtulness is even more

necessary. Following out this plan the Board appropriation should be made ev for the whole County instead of the

driblets as at Statute Labour

l resent.

should be done away; and a road tax ins stituted. This might prove rathera knot- | ty point, as taXes are alWays unpopular at fir-t. Buta road taxat first, equal to our

commutation could not be forund fault with.

College is an institution which no traveller can afford to pass by. The bronze statues of Goldsmith and Burke, by Foley, adorn tue entrance. They are superior, in point of art, to the statue of Moore, in College Street. The statue of W. S O'Brien stands

lower down, near Carlisle Bridge. miuseum contains a full and complete col- lection Of Irish birds. Nothing took the lecturer's fancy so much as the antique harp of the Brian Now-as

great Borow

days, people have no idea of the

the people of freland once bore for

the harp. It is extraordinary that only on {reland’s standard is the emblem a musical instrument. lions and tigers, sun and moon, and stars and stripes; but the symbol of Ireland was the barp, and she was justly styled the ** Land of Song.”’ harper and the minstrel The harper always accompanied the king to battle and stirred up the people to deeds of heroism

t

a . 1@ Minet 8 tha ar ? ‘ _— This, taking the census of 1871 would |”) oe minstrel ra wet sasotbarefln Peas en mh tne ranks of death vou'll fi hin give, by this tu e, $12,000, and tor tax on His fat} : a . eo 7 him, } ° () cine £17 OOD wie father s sword he has girded on, Hoases, SAVY So , Waki E ii 11s , " : ’ ie : ‘ And his wild harpslung behind him. would more than cover the statute labor’ .,.. d of sope! aid tl } Land « on Said the warrior baz ft te A } , ” oe ots > or ' 1 some lg more : : ; ‘ es penditure, bat I think s metoit mor Phough all the world betrays thee. than this is wanted. A road tax should ow ae <0 s , ; 7 c i, Bt cast, thy rights shal guar reach men of means as Well as the indust- faitl harp sl} raise thee rious poor { would not advise a tax in the first instance to reach more than :25-{ } strei but the foeman’s chain } I ¢ } r bi nda ; Kas a higher rate than that wouid not be OG no = Ne hts proud soul under; * barnp he ed er enoke ‘ needed at first supplemented, of course, by I of arp he loved never spoke again, a grant from the general revinue. \ = He t chords asunder - ‘ay : sai > chains sh sully t With regard to the construction of roads : thal a all sully thee, ‘ ; Ahou sou 1jove an ray y! n genera!,much: more care is required than } -p : a . - . I - Lg y I r ft pul lf now used lhe width ot a road would | The ilies ; a o aie I ull me s slavet

depend on the amount of traffic that ma le iding thor« ugh

passes over i ('n fare it should be eighteen or twenty feet, |

—well rounded to the centre, not flat on

top as we ten see, Cap ible of holdi z large quantities of water, but forming a | complete segi tle from the

ent OF a Cl bottom of the ditch, whic twenty foot road feet, or say filteen inche

ditch

h should in a least two s above the level! ot the surface of the drawing to the centre at the rate of eighteen inches r one footdeep This would

e raized at

c

on the leveil

concentrate the water in a narrow slope and cause it to discharge more freely where there is a descent. It would be also advantageous if a pereon had

had to cross the ditch with a wheeled vehicle as is often the case. (ther and minor details might be added, but may here be omitted. For the winter roads, Overseers would have to be appointed whose duty it would be to see to the breaking af the winter roads, also to the filling of the pitches,—the breaking to be done as at present. The filling of the pitches might be paid for from the road funds. And here the Superintendent should see that all winter nuisances, be re-

moved as im in many cases trees and hushes are growing on the road-side with- ii the precincts of the road, which causes } ue nowbanks to accumulate, and ir ™m ny cases ( ay complete blockade year alter year Another reasun why this plan should be adopted, is that if pul lic mone was | aid for breaking the | roads, in many places farmers would not alow parties to enter their fields, and to let public officers do so would

» above report,

be very unpopular. Should * hints be useful in forming yo they sre at your rervice. remain, Your obedient servant Witirax Hasta

Tne Voyacs or tHe ‘ CHALLENGER.’—From V al paraiso, vhere H. M.S. ‘¢ ‘hallenger ’ has arrived, an interesting account has been received of the doings of the ship during the previous three months. The scientific party explored a series of active volcanoes in an unftre juented island of the North Pacific, and were rewarded by the magnifi- cent spectac.e of surging waves of moiten lava and spray of briiliant fire. A run of 250) miles to Tahita followed, where the members of the expedition passed an agree- a>ie fortnight, examining everything of interest there. The dredging on this yoyage, at the depth of 2000 fathoms, Was very fertile of marine curiosities. Afier teaving Tahiti, forty days were spent in yoyaging 5, UU miles to Chili, the sounding anu dredging proceeding with the most sg iti-factory results,the average depth being Phe island of Juan Fernan-~ cl fi

2 (A) fathorn

dez wuich is first reached, was unani- mously dec ared to present the most beau titul scenery of any throughout the travels,

» this is sna is rative of A’ Selkirks’ lence, which has been immor. story of Robinson Crusoe eties of birds and 24 nove! here obtained. The island swarms with cattle and goats, and the bay stbounds with fish and seals. A ge was made to Valparaiso lenger’ will sail to the ands, via the straitsof Magellan.

the ‘Challenger’ shouid be 13 to reach Montevedio early

The ‘ Challenger’ will then raight course for home deeply

xandei four years’ solitary res tciized im the everal hew Var ferns were

pecies O

stormy vo whence the Cha Falkias a | Letters fe mostead so next mont make 4 laden with tinuons series of yoyages on record, - -_—om © -

Gen. Sir Fenwick Williams, C. B., of Kars ealebrity, has retired from the (Covernor- ship of Gibralter. The gallant general sent in bis resignation to the Duke ot Cam. bridge on the ground of ill health. Sir Fenwick, who 1s in his seventy-fourth year, was I'ritish Commissioner in Turkey, in [540 45, at the conferences preceding the signing of the treaty at Ezeroum, 1847 British Cornamissioner for the settlement of t .e Turco- Persian boundary, 1348, Commissioner with the Turkish forces, 1855 - General-Commandant at Woolwich Governor of the British forces in Canada, 1359-65; and Nova Scotia, 1865-70 to his last post in 1870,

1856-9;

lle was appomted

onene . The Rvuvert is powerful iron-clad turret ship and ram lately completed in the firse division of steaim reserve at Chatham, and ready for commission. She has a displacement of 5,444 tops, and her engines work up to 4,538 hor-epower. She carries in ber tur- rets two Is-ton Isinch guns, throwing 4114. pound shot, and on her upper deck two smaller guos. Her complement when com, missioned will be 200 officers and men. Oem

The number of pounds of cheese made at the Playfair factory fast year was over 20,000. The amourt of money divided among the patrons was 815,092,

& monument commemo- |

the spoils of the longest con-

British |

Lieutenant-Governor of |

1 c

These are words which the sight of that } .

|mind. There is also, in Trinity College a library consisting of over 200 000 volumes. and a rare collection of old Irish

scripts. Among these—as well as in the

lrish Academy—are to be found manu- written

fourteen

| scripts hundred years (ago. There is no literary relic of ;antiquity equal to the “ Book of | Kells,” copied by St. Columba. All the institutions of the Continent may be searchs

ed in vain, for anything to compare with it.

timent than reality in the tales concerning ancient Irish literature. But I must—after seeing that book—now own that I was miss

taken.

two learned Professors, all the way from

[rish manuscripts. foreign libraries,

found

others in

& manuscript is

surpasses all

which beauty and delicacy of coloring, there, at Irish hand This art was brought to perfec-

tion in Ireland,

once, the

worker,

tury,”’ writes Lady Wilde, “that the fame

of Irish learning and skill of Irish artists |

began to extend to England, and from thence to the Continent; and Irish scribes | were employed to make copies of the Gos | pels and teach the eplendid art of illumina-~

period till the end of the ninth century the lrish were a power in Europe from their learning and piety—eminent in Greek as well as in Latin, and the great teachers o scholastic theology to the Christian world.

monks ot [ona in the seventh century, and now ‘ the glory of the British Musium,’ form + most important element in the early history of Celtic art, and this book seems to have been the principal mode! for suc

ceeding artists.

“In the splendid Polio copy of the Gos. pels at Copenhagin cf the tenth century, supposed to have been \grought to Denmark by the King Canute, the figure of St. Mat hew seated, while another saint draws back + curtain, is copied from the Gospels of

ns

century style. The (Gospels of St. « had now in Lichfield Library, are in the Irish sty e of the eighth century, and are very noticeal le as having marginal notes in Latin, Anglo-Saxon, and ancient British language now in existence, The iiluminations also are copied from the Lindisfarse book. St. Ubad, it is known, was edueaied in Ireland, in the School of St. Finan. There are frish Gospels at Durbam of the eighteenth cen- tury. The Gospels of Mac Regal are at Ox ford, and the Gospels of Mac-Duran, the smallest and most beautiful known, are in the Archbishop’s Palace at Lambeth. As Saxon art progressed and became influenc- ed by Roman models, the Irish seribes were chiefly employed wherever harmony of colour cr extreme delicacy of touch were

; ‘nitial letters. Thus, the | Augustin, said to be from Rome, and which

resembles in style the manuscript Virgil, of |

ot the fifth century,in the Vatican, is fram. , ed in pure Celtic art. _ also, the boarders of the great manuscripts were generally confined to Irish hands. <A Latin copy of the Gospels at Treves, evi- dently produced by one of the establish- ments founded by the Irish upon the Rhine, is remarkab!e for a combination of Keltic, Tutonic, and Francoe-Byzantine art. The j illuminated borders have the glitter and radiance of a setting jewel, and are

: | thus admirably suited to fultil the true ob-

| ject of all orpamentation.which Mr, Ruskin defines as being ‘ beautiful in its place, and | perfect in its adaptation to the purpose fo. | which it was employed.’ ”’

\Il this shows that what we read about | the early cultivation of the arts among the Irith people, rest on a solid foundation,

| We soon reach another celebrated spot 'Glendaloch. This place is also called

the Seven Churches. Of these churches,

nothing now remain but the ruins, The round tower at Glendaloch is one of }the best specimens I have seen of

} : ; the celeLraied round towers of Ireland Dr. Petrie thus describes them :~-

‘ These Towers are rotund, cylindrical | Structures, usually tapering upwards, and , Varying in height from fifty to jer-

| Bape one hundred and fifty fet; and in

| external ciroumference, at the base, from |

sove

Other nations have |

Next to the king was the |

venerable old harp can never fail to call to

manu-

valuable and rare collection of the Royal

I once really thought there was more sen- |

It may seem incredible, that when | I visited the Royal Irish Academy | saw |

Germany, busily engaged in copying ancient | Wherever, among the |

1s recognised as the }

It was about the end of the sixth cen- |

tion in the English monastries. From that |

The Gospels of Lindisfarne, executed by |

particularly requisite, as in the borders and | Psalter of St, |

On the Continent, |

id mint df nich ad’ Leaving Dublin by rail, at an early hour, |

them both, grouting is abundantly used

| In some instances, however,the towers pre-

sent a surface of ashlar masonry (but rarely laid in courses perfectly regular), both ex-

| ternally, though more usually on the ex-

| terior only; and in a few instances, to low- er portions of the tower

In their architectural features an equal diversity of style is observable, | these the doorway is the most remarkable, When the tower is of rubble masonary,the doorway seldom presents any decorations

not a cunal locked at

object, he says,is to show thata natural,

ted to follow from the Opeaing up

] between the St. Lawrence

These letters

Professor Hind holds that an open gut —

both ends ~—is per-

fectly practicable at moderate cost. His but now

closed, communication exists be-

tween Baie Verte and Cumberland basin, through which, in former times. the waters i he G if rf © I rrancea ¢ d 1 } of the Guif of St. Lawrence and those ot | tie Bay

with a current less

of Fundy, passed and repassed, that

eXists In many parts of the

than which now Jay of Fundy

. ; ’ and in the reaches of very many great navi- steamers of |

Also, |

gable rivers through which their way

large size daily pursue natural channel or channels be | ; 1

that if this cleaned out and in part deepened, we shall | odtain, at a comparatively small cost, and |

largely contributing towards the expenses |

easy and uninterrupted coummunication | for steamers and sailing craft between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy, | He ens | deavored to sustain the following proposi-

at all hours of the day and n ght.

Lions —

{. The Maccan river formerly fi directly towards and into the Gulf of St Lawrence at Baie Verte, instead of, as sow, inte Cumberland basin.

‘Zz One old channel of the

Maccan has

truck by the boring operations

} Deep

oby differentengineers engaged in locating a canal

‘3. Bycleaning out the old bed or beds of the Maccan (for it may have enclosed au

tarrie dl |

fn the first |

yond the fact, that Mr. J. H. Brydges and

reports -—

} them on a eriminal yrotber-in-law of the fugitive lady, lett | this city yesterday in pursuit, and probably | have arrived in New York this morning, to |

ELUPEMENT IN

‘ A2hHiVUNA BL E LIFE.

ina high state of excitement over the elopes ment of Mrs. McKenzie,daughter of Andrew

‘

Social circles in the Uupper Provinces are

J. Brydg- | es. Telegrams received state nothing be~

\lian, with the only son of Mr. (

Mrs, MeKenzie, of Montreal, after being re- leased on habeas corpus in New York, elop- ed a second time on Saturday, 22nd inst., |

have since been put in the form of a pam. | the lady leaving her two children at Wind- | | 80r Hotel in charge of her brother and |

cousin. No attempt was made to stop |

them after the second elopement was dis-

covered. The Montreal Star of the 22ad

“We deeply regret to have to state that an elopeinent Which has plunged several of our | aud most esteemed families into the poignant grief, happened in this city on Thursday last.

iat si

most

well as New York by the flight of the par- | absolyes us from any delicacy which we might otherwise have in admitting it columns, learned tiem are as follows: Mr. Frede- rick Win. Brydges, only son of C.J. Brydges, | Esq., and who is a member of an tron Bridge Building firm in Philadelphia, has | been on the most intimate and friendly terms with the family of Mr. William Mac Kenzie, of this city, It appears that an in- trigue was got up by him with the wife of Mr. Mackenzie, who is only 24 years of age, but is the mother of four children, She left

ties,

into oul

train for New York, being joined on the way by Mr. Brydges. On arriving in the lutter city yesterday morning, they regis- tered at the after were inleryiewed by Superintendent Walling, who had been telegraphed to, and placed (hem under arrest, but later in they were discharged at the Tombs Police Court, the evidence wot being sufficient to detain charge.

aud

find the parties on their way to Philadelpaia Whither it is said they were bound. Mrs. Mackenzie is a daughter of Mr. Andrew

Fifth Avenue Hotel, but seon |

TUZSDAY, February ist.

| of Pictou and Sydney Large Coal f,

ihe matter having ob- | av Vramatic Performance on the &th. | tained full publicity throughout the city, as | ings,’ will be substituted

island) now filled with moss and clay or! Allen, for whom and his family the deepest |

'

exhibit less of | | regularity than the upper parts.’ The ‘ : PI I } canal at the aie

and on | |} Way,

and are either quadrangular and covered |

with a lintel of a single stone of great size } or semicircular, headed either by the con- struction of aregular arch, or cutting of |; asingle stone. There are, however, two instances of very richly decorated doorw “ys in towers of this description, namely, those of Kildare and Timahoe. In the more reguiarly constructed towers the doorways are always arched semicircularly, and are usually ornamented with archieves or bands on their external faces, tures but rarely present any decorations, |} and are most usually of a quadrangular | form. They are, however, sometimes semi- circular headed,and still oftner present the triangular or straight side arch.

} }

i

These round round towers are about a | hundred and twenty in number. As many The

one hundred and

| as sixty can yet be pointed ont one

|} at Glendaloch is about

ten feet high, and fifty-one feet in circum | ference at its base. Who built these towers? | Some imagine that they were built by the | Danes; others, that they were constructed _ were the work of Christians,

built them you would expect to find them

You do not find them at «ll where the Danes always

You do not find them in England, | or even in Denmark, or other parts of old

| footing. But this is not so.

lived.

Scandinavia. Neither were they built by the

| Irish Christians. Although the cross is ins

many of

scribed on them, this fact only

| prove that the early Christians made use

| of them as they did ot the pagan temples.

Most scholars are now agreed that these

round towers were built in pagan times,and

that St. Patrick made use of them after he

| had way he thought prudent or proper.

conyerted the people,

Glendaloch we go down on the old post road and see | the place of the * Meeting of the Waters,” beautifully

}to the ‘Sweet Vale of Avoca,”’

j} concerning which Moore so

says :-— @

Phere is not in the wide world a valley so j sweet | As that vale in whose bosom the bright | waters mce Oh he just rays of feeling and must } lepart } the b mm f th VS fade from vy heart Y h e | i do’er the scone i rest rvs l brig st vreen I'was ? he soft magic of streamlet o1 hill .) no—it was sowetbing more exquisite stiti

j

i Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom,

} were near,

Who made every dear ment more dear,

And who felt how the best charms of nature Improve,

When we see therm

scene of enchant-

reflected from ook-

i that we love. Sweet vale of Avoca! how callin eould J rest 1 In thy bosom of shade with the friends J ' "

love best, | Where the

world should cease,

storms that we feelin

And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace!

In the same easy style, the lecturer con-

| Cork, Killarney, Limerick, Ennis, Galway,

| Ballinasloe, Athlone, Mullingar, Longford,

| magh, Belfast, and other places of more or less note. He found colleges, Christian

Brothers’ and Convent schoools, and mag:

The

during the | last fifty years was, wonderful. In Moore’s beautiful Melodies, a subdued

| nificent new churches everywhere.

advance made by — reland

he satd,

; and melancholy tone seems to breathe through many of his most exquisite verses For instance, in addressing the dear harp of his country, he says :— ‘Dear harp of my country found thee, The cold chain of silence thee lo | When proudly, my own Isian bound thee,

in darkness I

had hung o'er

or

i Tarp!

and song!

warm lay of loy gladness Have waken'd thy fondest, thy thriil; | But so oft hast thou echo’d thi deep si of sadness,

| The e and the light note of

liveliest i

=

thee still.”’

| The feeling shown in these lines ap ears to | ' : : PI during the Centennial, againstan American

have all but died away. The people seem ,to have grown out of their melancholy. As @ nation, they have always been re- | markable for their strong Faith, Hope, and Charity. And now, that the cold, dreary winter of persecution and proscription has passed away, all admirers of the “emerald

gem of the western world’ may truly ex-

claim -— i** Erin! O Erin! thy winter ts past, And the hope that lived through it shall

blossom at last!

ACKN. WLEDGEMENT. Messrs. Wise & Russel, of Boston, for a copy of the * Twenty-second Annual Report of the Boston Board of Trade.” It contains much valuable information on Commercial affairs. —H. A. Harvie, Esq., has our thanks for a copy of Mr. Jenkins’ latest work—* The Devil's Chain.’ We

tinued his -ketches of Waterford, Kilikenny, |

} Monaghan, Derry, Giants’ Causeway, Ar- | Lindisfarne,while the Sorder is in the tenth | © ys vs t

| from Italy.

{at food tide then in a

drift, an open gut across the Esthusus will | be produced, which may be deepened it | the depth proposed for verte entrance,

“4. The currentin this open gut either | Will be Jess than the current of many now navigated by steamers now prevails in Cumberland |

t » | biit j

necessary

a

great rivers and less than basin.

“3. Thecurrent will be considerably less large river like the

Ohio, with the same fal) and similar vertical | section as the gut, because at the flood } will partake of the character of a river

|

flood wave, whose progress is slower tha

it} play | upbraids his former wife with her abaudon { .

n | ment of him.

sympathy will be felt. Mr. William MacKenzie, who is a son of

She was married to |

}

Mr. J. G. Mackenaie, about six years ago. } It is said that considerable blame is to be |

attached to the husband for the neglect of his wife. It is a strong fact that the very

| night before the elopement Mrs. Mackenzie,

who was at the theatre, saw on the stage an example of the remorse endured by ** Madame Variley,’’ in the play of ‘* Alixe,’ for being unfaithful to her marriage vows. The only intensely pathetic scene in the is where the ** Count de Somerieve”

It is sad to reflect that with-

| that of the natural current of the river, and | in twenty-four hours, with such an example | at the ebb, because the fail will be less | brought vividly betore her mind, a young

The upper aper- |

‘6. Anavigable open gut would greatly improve the navigation of Cumberland

straits, and diminish the height of the tides

a Phe current in an open gut will nol

| be detrimental to the marsh Jands, but itis

| in places where the Danes found permanent I j

in whatever ‘ From | Cumberland

i.

| cleaning out its

that the gut wtll create out ol worthless bogs, lakes and swampy lowiands suflleient reciaimed land, of first quality, as

SO pay a Jarge preportion of the expenses ¢

probable

The various conditions of the problem— the Maccan river as it is, and as it is bes lieved to have formerly been, the result of old bed, falls and k velry fall and speed of currents, probable diurnal changes of currents in the gut, when made,

} comparison with known navigable rivers,

} dee s ~ hye Fi : “e: j by the old Pagan Irish; others, that they | the tides and the changes thes the creation

If the Danes |

channel across the

| isthmus would give rise to- are considered

or restoration of a

;at some length; and the conclusion is | arrived at that the project of an open gut is pract cable, and that the expense would

not be great, The physical aspects of the

| subject under review lead Professor Hind to |

| the following conclusions :—

| ‘1. Anold channel } rock has been found to exist between Cum- berland basin and Baie Verte, which if ‘leaned would allow the waters to pass from he Bay of Funoy to the Gulf of St. Law- reoce throuch the Baie Verte Isthmus

‘2. If further investigations, properly conducted, should prove that the old channe} has not the required depth, an artificial sloping channel, eighteen feet Delow the nean level of the sea at Baie Verte, and basin would be a navigab!e rut through which the current would never he so strong as in the estuary rivers of the Hay of Fundy now frequented by steamers and sailing vessels

«3. Thatsucha gut would greatiy im- prove the navigation of the Cumberland straits, and with them be accessible al al}! hours of the day and night during the season

f navigation, and independently of the ides “4, That it would be seif- maintained and self-preserved, and thatit: would give grea ilue toa large tract of country now entire-

The subject of the second letter, viz: the

|} commercial advantages of the proposed work,and the comparative merits of various the Far | West and the Atlantic seaboard, has been so voluminously discussed by many author- ities that we need not here repeat what is

several times a year set forth in Canadian

| | transport.tion routes between

and American papers. — Toronto Mail.

WVhen a stranger asked a Detroit girl, whom he mei at a party, if she was married. she prowptly replied *‘Not quite; but I have sued three or four chaps for breach of promise! "’

Wolves, half-starved and gaunt looking, with the result of starvation depicted in their very gait, bave been bold enough to enter thickly settled parts of Garafraxa and comuait depredations. tecently a couple

!

of these unfortunate swamp _loiterers visited the farm of Mr. Peter Graham and killed four fine sheep, one of which was iimost completely devoured - fully attest ing the strait to which they are driven for food.

It is interesting to know that, according to the latest censuses, the subjects of Queen Victoria, scattered over the tive dis visions of the globe, and not including the 32,090,009 in the United Kingdom, number nearly 203 000000, Of these 5 000,000 are in America, 2 500,00) in Australia, about 2. 000,000 in Africa, 176 000 in Europe, and about 193 500,000 in Asia. The number of miles of railway opened in Great Britain at the end of 1874 was: in England 11,622 in Scotland, 2 700; and in I[relana, 2127,

CENTENNIAL RrvLe Matcurs.— Lonxpon Jan 17.—The English National Rifle Association | have accepted the challenge of the Rifle Association of America to compete in a match for the championship of the world

I un- | ford has arranged ail the preliminaries for

wee Sie Pe ea | the rifle match for small bores between tie And gaye a ry Chords to light, freedom !

| the noted English rifleman, has been for '}some time past, earnestly engaged in or- } That evenin thy mirth it will steal from ganizing an English team of twelve, the | tearn to be One of the many European ones

| pected, while there are good reasons to be- (lieve that rifle teams wili be here from

| Sir Henry Halford, puts the matter in anew | light in so far as Engiand, lreland