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PORTRY

MUSIC,

BY ELIZA COOK.

Oh! music ! gentle music ! There’s magic in thy strain;

Come where thou wilt, in lady’s bower, Or on the battle plain.

The wild harp with a witching spell About its silver strings ;

Can aught on earth excel the charm

’ Its pensive breathing flings ?

*Tis music’s, gentle music’s power, That steals the listening soul away,

Till man, entranced in rapture’s dream, Forgets he wears a form of clay,

Oh! music! stirring music ! i have seen the war-stead rest, With dust upon his tired limbs, And white foam on his chest ; Stretched,quivering with many a wound, Upon the red sod lying ; His rider leaves him, for he deems The gallant charger dying; But hark! he hears the trumpet’s blast, He starts, he shakes his clotted mane ; Music! bold music fires his blood, And brings him to the ranks again.

Oh ! music! mighty music! Thou art all of bliss on earth;

Thou givest the lover’s moonlight tale And poet’s song their birth,

There’s not a heart, however rude, However base it be,

But hath some slender string that yields An answering note to thee !

With promised music heaven ailures, With goiden harps,and cherub’s love ;

Rejoice, then, that we have below A foretaste of the bliss above!

ANGELS.

Earth has ber angels tho’ their forms are moulded But of such clay as fashions all below; Though harps are wanting, and bright pinions folded, We know them by the love-light on their brow.

I have seen angels by the sick one’s pillow, There was the soft tone and the sound- less tread, Where smitten hearts are dropping like the willow, They stood “ between the living and the dead.”

And if my sight, by earthly dimness hin-

dered. Behold no hovering cherubim in air, i doubt not, for their spirits know their kindred, They smiled upon the wingless watch- ers there.

There have been angels in the gloomy

prison. In crowded hal!s--by the lone widow’s hearth ; And where they passed, the fallen have uprisen— The giddy paused--the mourner’s hope had birth. ihave seen one, whose eloquence com- manding, Roused the rich echoes of the human breast ;

The blandishment of ease and wealth withstanding, That hope might reach the suffering and oppressed.

And by his side there mov’d a form of beauty,

Strewing sweet flowere along the path of life,

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And looking up with meek and love-lent ay :

I called her angel and he called her wife.

Oh, many a spirit walks the earth un- heeded, That, when its veil of sadness is laid down, Shall soar aloft with pinions unimpeded, And wear its glory like a starry crown.

MISCELLANY.

SIR ROBERT PEEL—A SCHOOL BOY.

Charles King, President of the Colum- bia College, who was contemporary with Sir Robert Peel at the celebrated School of Harrow in England, speaking of those school-boy days, says:

The startling and sudden death of this eminent foreigner finds us in the midst of national grief, for a loss et home of our honoured and lamented President—and it adds another to those monitions in which the chapter of man’s history so much abound—of the uncertainty of human life, and the vanity of human grandeur,

Sir Robert Peel was, at the moment of hls death, the most prominent political person in Great Britain, although in a private station; and possibly his death, more than any intrinsic strength of their

,own, will confirm in their places the

actual Ministry of the Queen, which seemed on the point of disso! ution.

But to the writer of these lines—for

Robert Peel—the tidings of his death came fraught, less with sorrow for the loss of aneminentand honest public man, than with a sense and reminiscence of earlier days, when neither the living nor the dead dreamed of ambition, nor of the scorpions which the most coveted wreaths of political success conceal within their spacious round.

It is a sad pleasure to recall him as he was nearly halfa century ago—the liglit- haired, blue-eyed, fair-complexioned, smiling, good-natured boy — indolent soinewhat as to physical exertion, but overflowing with mental energy, and vifted with a most remarkable facility of acquiring knowledge, What cost to others hours of severe study, seemed to be acquired by hit without an effort; and once acquired, was appropriated for ever. His habits asa schoo!-boy were less gregarious than those of school-boys generally. While others, m the hours of recreation, were engaged in cricket, foot- ball, hunt the hare, or other violent bodily exertions, he would be wandering off alone, strolling through the fields and along the heuge-rows, communicating with nature—possibly with himself—but every now and then knocking down a bird with a stone, at which he was a great adept.

Among those of his own age and stand- ing in the school, ‘Harrow, were Lord Byron, the present Duke of Devonshire, then Marquis of Harrington; the present Duke of Grafton, then Lord Ipswich ; and other men of distinguished rank and name among whom he, the untitled son of the cotton spinner—old “ Parsley” Peel, was a peer in every sense, but that of artificial rank and station...

It is among the merits of an English public school—that it teaches practically and indelibly the best lesson—that capa- city, conduct and diligence, and not rank or title, give precedence and reputation Among three hundred boys—the Peer was of no more consequence than the peasant—except as he could stand, or go

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VISE THE PUBLIC—MAY SPEAK FREE.”—MiLton’s Evniriprs,

Peel soon asserted and always main- tained his superiority as a scholar—the Classics were almost the only study at that day—but they were studied to some purpose, and with some results. Peel mastered their language and their litera- ture; their poetry, their history, and so thoroughly familiar was he with them, that it has happened to the writer more than once, after a half-holiday, when each boy of the upper forms was required to produce a copy of Latin or Greek verses, to see Peel surrounded, while the schoo] bell was yet ringing, with boys who had neglected their exercises, call- ing upon him to supply them, which he did; writing now Latin, now Greek, with as much facility and accuracy, as though it was his mother’s tongue, and upon every day topics.

His superiority as a scholar was tempered by the easiest good nature and the readiest smile. He was not, how- ever, an impulsive boy; nor ever in excess of any sort. He was physically indolent and therefore rarely in mischief, or exposed to the censure of the master, standing in marked contrast in that re- spect with Lord Byron, who was perpet- ually getting into mischief.

A Hint ro Disconsouate Lovens.—- What sort of a carriage best becomes a rejected suitor? <A bashful man would Say a ‘ carriage’ that takes him as fast as possible out of the country. But there is rooin for an honest difference of opinion, We'only beg leave to advise against any- thing desperate. Hanging is vulgar,and as. 4a drowning, drown cats and blind

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puppies. Don’t ever drown yourse!f— in tears, It’s a waste of water. The following instructions of the unhappy swains, the victims of misplaced affection, strikes us favourably. Try °em—When a girl refuses you, assume a philosophical! air, and tell her you are glad of it; you only made the proposal to win two bottles of champaign and an oyster supper you had bet with a friend who thought you had not spunk enough to talk of matri- mony to a termagent.

A medical man was employed by a labourer to attend his wife during her illness. The doctor hinted, (according to the custom of such good folks) his fear of not being ultimately remunerated for his trouble. “[’ve £5,” said the poor fellow, ‘and if you kil] or cure, you shall have ’em.” ‘The poor woman died under the doctor’s hands, {it may be charitable to add that she would have done so withi- out his help) and after a seasonable time nad elapsed, Bolus called for his £5. The man put the following question to him--‘ Did you Kitt my wife?’ ‘No! was the reply. ‘Did you cure her? ‘No! again. ‘ Then,’ said the disconso- late, * you have no legal demand,

A Parson preaching a discourse in behalf of a blind asylum, began by grave- ly remarking—‘If all the worid were blind, what a melancholy sight it would be.’ ;

Gorra Percna.—Gutta Percha is now used in articles of comfort and decoration with the greatest success, and is gradually displacing other raw materials. Some kinds of ornamenta] wood have been su- perceded by it in the construction of knick-knacks and picture frames. Hats and umbrellas are made of it; and even gold has-been dug out of decayed teeth, to be replaced by gutta percha.

The population of France, according to an authoritative estimate, is nearly thirty-six millions, and has not quite dou- bled in a hundred and fifty years.

SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 24.

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Another Mail from England.

The Royal Mail Steamer Europa arrived at Halifax on Monday evening last, in 9 1-2 days from Liverpool. _The mails arrived here early on Thursday in

the Rose. We give below a summary of the latest news.

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ENGLAND.

Notwithstanding the opposition of Lord Stanley in the Lords, the Common’s amendment, to the Irish Franchise Bill,

his £15 qualification, and moved that their lordships should disagree with the £12 proposed by the Prime Minister. This was opposed by the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the £12 franchise for Ireland is now the elective law of the country, by a majority of 126 to 114.

House or Commons.--Roman Catno- Lic Prevares in tue Coxontes.~-Sir R. Ingles said that a certain foreign potentate having appointed to certain persons in her Majesty's dominions abroad a circular had been issued from the Colonial Office, which it appeared would have the effect of giving ‘those persons precedence over other persons appointed to offices by her Majesty. He

to keep. this circular in force ? mh Mr. Hawes said that cirections had been isstiéd to the colonial authorities that the Roman Catholic prelates in those colonies should have their titles recog- nised; but those directions included no precedence to be giver to the parties.

Commerctat.—We still continue to have a good business going forward in every department of trade. ‘The value of all descriptions of imported produce is steady, and transactions to a fair extent have been effected. The prospect of an abundant harvest is good, and this, with our present cheapness of money, wi!l no doubt exercise a favourable influence on our markets generally.

IRELAND.

THe Tenant Conrerence.—The Tenant conference has met, has discuss- ed, and has pronounced. Nearly two hundred gentlemen from ail parts of Ireland, from Enniskillen to Bantry, from Drogheda to Westport, and from every intermediate po'nt, assembled in Dublin on Tuesday morning to ratify the union between the north and south, to bury past feuds, create new brotherhood of Irishmen, and to right the wrongs of the tenant farmers of Ireland. ‘The men who assembled on this occasion carried with them the City Assembly House, where they took counse!, the confidence of the several districts whence they came, and the decision of the imposing body which fthey formed will from the hour of its promulgation become law to the Irish people. "

-We will here barely enumerate the leading principles agreed upon, and these were UNANIMOUSLY agreed “upon :—

That-the tenant shall have his land at & just rent;to be determined by va)u- ation. ,

That no tenant shall be disturbed in the possession of his holding, save for non-payment of rent.’ ’

That a Tenant League be formed to

secure these objects.—Dublin Freeman.

passed the house. Lord Stanley stood by"

wished to know whether it was intended.

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