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PAREWELL TO A FRIEND.

To souls less formed than thine to feel, Less idie were the tale,

How feebly words the heart reveal! Expression’s power how frail!

Bat thee the voiceicss pangs that rend Thine own warm besom tell

How vain, how poor, the aid these lend To speak the heart’s farewell.

The clouds that on the future rest, And ardent hope restrain;

The thoughts that mem’ry will suggest, And parting turns to pain;

The fear that doubts ali other love, Save that we've proved so well:

Qh! these expression’s power above, Embitter a farewell!

A long farewell !--The feeling mind Will own a tinge of sorrow, Though sure the triend it has resigned *T will meet in smiles to-morrow, Then what the pang when years must roll, And life’s stream cerse to swell, Wor bring the dear one of cur soul, To whom we bid fare weil!

Farewe!|!—whatever may remain Of fitful change for me,

Be not the oft-breathed prayer in vain For weal to thine and tiee.

Too Jate we meet, tao soon we part, And friendship’s dreams dispel ; Doom’d just to know another's heart,

And say—a long farewell!

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BELEST TALE.

The Traitor Lover. BY WASHINGTON IRVING.

During the siege of Damascus, Derar was appointed # patrol round the city and the camp with two thousand horses. As a party of these were one night going their rounds near the walls, they heard the distant neighing of a horse, and jook- mag narrowly around, descried a horseman eowing etealthily fromthe gate Keisan. Halting in a shadowy place, they waited until] he came close to them, when, rush- ing forth, they made him prisoner. He wasa youthful Syrian, richly and gallant- ly arrayed, and apparently a person of distinction. Scarcely had they seized bin when they beheld another horseman waning from the sane gate, who ina sofi vece called upon their captive, by the mame of Jonas. They conmmanded the Jatter to invite his companion to advance. He seemed to reply and called out some- thing in Greek; upon hearing which, we other turned bridle and ga!loped back inte the city. ‘Ihe Arabs, igno- raat of Greek, and suspecting the words to be a warning, would have slain their prisoner on the spot, but upon second thoughts, conducted him to Khaled.

The youth avowed himse}f a nobleman ef Damascus, and betrothed toa beaut?- ful maiden named Eudoces ; but her pa- rents, from some capricious reason, had withdrawn their consent to his nupitals ; whereupon the lovers had secretly agreed to fly from Damascus. A sum of gold bad bribed the sentinels who kept waich that night at the este. The damse! dis- guised in male attire, and accompanied by two domestics, was following her lover at a distance, as he allied in advance. Hie reply in Greek, when she called upon him wae, “thet the bird is caught,” a war- ming, at the hearing of which she fled Beek to the city.

Khaled wes not a manto be moved by & love tele; but he gave the prisoner his

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alternative, “ Embrace the faith of fs}am,.” said he“and whea Damascus falls into our power you shal! have your bethrothed; refuse, and your head 1s the forfeit.” The youth paused not between a sci- metaranda bribe. fle made immediate

profession of faita between the hands of

Khaled, and thenceforth fought zealously fur the capture of the city, since its downfall was to crown his hopes.

When Damascus yielded to its foes, he sought the dwelling of Eudocea, and learut a new proof of heraffection. Sup- posing on his capture by the Arabs, that he had fallen a martyr to his faith, she had renounced the world, and shut her- selfup in aconvent. With a throbbing heart he hastened to the convent, but when the lofiy-ininded maiden beheld him a renegade, she turned from him with scorn, retired to her cell, and refused to see him more. She was among the noble ladies wow followed Thomas and Heris into exile. Her lever, frantic at the thonghts of losing her, reminded Khaled of his promise to restore her to him, and entreated that she might be de- tained; but Xialed pleaded the cove- nant of Aba Obediah, according to which he had free Jeave to depart.

When Jonas afierwards discovered that Khaled imeditated a pursuit of the exiles, but was discouraged by the lapse of time, he offered to conduct him by short and secret passes through the moun- tains, which would insure his overtaking them. His offer was accepted. On the fourth day after the deparmre of the ex- iles, Khaled set out in pursuit, with four thousand chosen horsemen, who, by the advice of Jonas was disguised as Christian Arals, For sometume they traced the exiles alone the plains, by the nume- rous foot-prints of mules and comels, and by the articles thrown away to enable them to travel more expeditiously. At length the foot-prinis turned towards the mountains of Lebanon, and were lost: in their arid and rocky defiles. Phe mos- lems began to falter. * Cowraze !” cried Jonas, “they will be entanvied among the mottntains; they cannot cow escape.”

In the midst of the carne ©e and con- fusion, Jonas hastened in search of his betrothed. If she had tree'ed him with disdam as a renegade, she sow regarded him with horror, as the trator who had brought this destruction uocn his unhap- py countrymen. All his entreaties for her to forgive and be reconciled to bim were of no avail. She solemnly vowed to repair to Constantinople and end her days ina convent. Finding supplication frnitless, he soized her and after a violent struggle, threw her onthe ground and made her prisoner. She made no further resistance but, submitting to captivity, seated herself quietly on the grass, The lover flattered himself that she relented, but, watching her opportunity, she sud- denly drew forth a poignard, plunged it in her breast, and fell dead at his feet.

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— BISCRLLOMY.

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Pursicrans’ Preseniprions.—The old custom of writing physicians’ prescrip. tions in Latin, should be done away with, in safety to the living. As often as every three months, journalists have to record a death caused by apothecaries putting up wrong medicines, and it is high time that the mystery which physicians have ihrown aroued their profession be known among the things that were; not so much to gratify the curiosity of those unac- guainted with theirart, as to ensure the safety ef those under medical treatment.

No reason can be given why prescrip- tions should be written in Latin, save the one that physicians co not wih the pati- ente to know what they prescribe for“ the

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WHEN FREE-BORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC—MAY SPEAK FREE.”—Mutox’s Euripipes

CHARLOTTETOWN, OCTOBER 9, 1850.

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iis that flesh is heir to,” lest patients should become their own physicians. With a majority of the M. D’s, all the Latin they kuow, and, in fact, all they are obliged to learn, is a smatterine sufficient to write a prescription. It looks all very well to see written “Sal Glan- beri” for Glauber Salts, and perhaps no harm wonld oceur from this: but the prescription for calomel! so closely resem- ble the one for corrosive sublimate, that we do not wonder death often follows by the Jatter being pet up for the former. For ten grains of colomel, the preserip- tion is—sub muriale hydrar, 10—for cor- rosive sublimate—mudriaie hydrar fost.

It is, of course, well known that apo- thecaries’ apprentices, generally speaking, ike al] other apprentices, cannot have the benetit of a classical education, and con- sequently they are lable to make mis- takes of this Kind. The many deaths that have occurred should suggest some remedy, for the safety of the living. It is too late to mourn for the untimely

deaths, but we svegest that in their

graves should also be placed the dead prescriptions ina dead language.

Erirapn ona Kirvren.

“ Requies caTin pace.”

Here lies, by death smitten, A hiaples yourg kitten,

‘To moulder away in the dust; Oh, had it lived longer, [t wight have been stronger,

And died somewhat older we trust. Had it grown up to cat-hood, ‘Phen many a rat world

ilave mourned inthe deepest wo ; Let the curtain be drawn to, We hope it has gone to

That land to which other cats go,

On the fashionable mode of ladies wearing watches in their bosoms :

Among the fashionable belles, No wonder now that time should | in- ger; Allowed to plaee bis rude two hands Where no one else dare place a finger.

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Piast Gux.—A boy got his grand- father’s gun and loaded it, but was afraid to fire; he however liked the fun of loading, and so put in another charge, but atl was afraid to fire. He kept on charging. but without firing, until he had got six charges inthe old piece. His vrandmother learning his temerity, smart- ly reproved him, and grasping the old continental, discharged it. ‘The recoil! was tremendous, throwing the old lady on her back; she promptly struggled to regain her feet, but the boy cried out:— ~ Lay still, granny, there are five more charges to go off yet.”

A young lady of respectable standing and family, was taken sick with the dysentery on Tuesday last, in Westfield, New York, and to all appearance she died on Saturday afternoon, and her pa- rents and friends prepared her remains for burial. On Sunday evening, while watchers were in attendance upon the body, she came to life, and was able to speak. There is now hope of her reco- very. This curious fact has produced quite an excitement in the town.—.4/bany wilias.

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News by the last English Hail.

Witreot Burning or aw J[NWDIAMAN: Loss of £40,000-—Accounts have been

received of the destruction by fire, in

Cum-Dingmoon. Bay, in China, on the might ofthe l4th of June, of the Eviza-

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beth, Indiaman. The ship had arrived few days before, from Calcutta, with « valuable cargo of opium, cotton, rice and a thousand bags of saltpetre, and had commenced unloading on 13th of June. The crew sleeping in the forecasitle were awaltened by suffocating sincke, and instantly ran on deck. They gave an alarm by ringing the ship’s bell, and boats put off to her assistance from the shore and the ships in the harbour: very effort was made to extinguish the fire without effect, and the muoring chains Were slipped to let the ship drift inshore. An explosion of spirits in the steward’s room gave warning to those on board, and they took to the boats. Ten minutes afterwards the ship blew up with a dreadful explosion, and in the next minute disappeared under water. An investigation next day led to the con clusion that the fire had been wilfully caused Sy one of the labourers employed in unloading the vessel, but the guilty person had not been detected at the date ofouradvices, The ship and cargo were valued at £40,000.— Observer.

THe Harvest in Iretanp.—The bulk of the harvest in this country (says the Western Star), has now been secured, and we have no little gratification in being enabled to state that all our ac- counts are most assuring as regards the produce of the crops generally. Wheat may be said 16 be rather a short crop, but then there never has been a year in which so little has been sown. Oats never yielded so abundant a return, and that, too, of the best quality; Barley is a fair average crop; green crops magni- ficent in every direction; and, thongh last, noi least, the potatoe has escaped far better than the most sanguine were led to expect two months ago. Rejoice we, therefore, accordingly.

Tur FEELING IN IRELAND.—The Dab- lin Nation, received by last English Mail, in speaking of the great Esstern Rail Road says :—

« There’s good news across the Atlan- tic, a bright “ speck in the Western sky,” this week, We give elsewhere a report from the Saint John Freeman, of a moet important and enthusiasiic meeting held at St. John, whose main object was te make ‘New Brunswick and Jreland the great starting points of Transatlantic trade. ‘They understand how to worka movement of this kind in America. ‘Tne Courts adjourned for the occasion in every town and village of the Province, exeew- tive authorities have summoned meetings in support of the project. . And the com- mittee decisively say, that their part of it (the rail road,) “can be made, wil] pay when made, and therefore mus! be made.” This is the way todo business. They call upon us, too, to be stirring, and have sent statements of their proceedinge to the authorities of our principal ports. We hope the call will be actively and imme diately responded to. A month’s such work on this side of the ocean, as they are doing in New Brunswick at present, and Cunard and Collins would be taking their anchoreges in Galway Bay before Christmas.”

ComrPLeTION oF Frur Barrraryta Brinee.—Menal Straits, Friday, Sept. {3.—The engineers safely lowered the “last” of the Brittannia tubes to its per manent resting place to-day. The Cas- narvonshire end of the tube wag lowered three feet, the opposite end being joined on to the Auagiesey large tube in the interior of the lower on the Brittagsa Koek, and, obedient to the law of the novel operation, the centres of both tubes, as Defere, were raised up several inehea

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