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n aK ' 7 | POETRY. ONLY A YEAR. ringing voice, And clustering curls of sunny hair, Too fair to die. Only a year,—no voice, no smile, No glance of eye, No clustering curls of golden hair, Fair but to die. One year ago, what loves, what schemes Far into life! |W hat joyous hopes, what bright resolves, What generous strife! The silent picture on the wall, The burial stone, Of all that beauty, life and jov, Remain alone. One year, one year, one little year, And so much gone!— And yet the even flow of lif Moves calmly on. I'he grave grows green, the flowers bloom fair,

Above that head: No sorrowing tint of ieaf or spray Says he is dead. ‘

No pause or hush cf merry birds ~ -That sing above Tells us how calmly sleeps below The form we love.

Where hast thou been this year, beloved ? What hast thou seen ?

What visions fair, what glorious life, Where thou hast been!

The veil, the veil--so thin, so strong *Twixtus and thee!

The mystie veil, when shall it fall, That we may see?

Not dead, not sleeping, nt even gone? But present still,

And waiting for the coming hour

Of God's sweet will !

Lord of the living and the dead, Our Saviour dear,

We lay in silence at Thy feet This sad, sad year,

LITERATURE.

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MARCUS WARLAND; THE LONG MOSS SPRING, CHAPTER V.—Continued.

It is probable the reflections of Dr, Man- ning would not have assumed the charac- ter they did, had he indulged any sanguine hopes of the recovery of his patient. Days, even weeks passed away, and all his skill and kindness availed not: Poor Cora’s doom was sealed. Mrs. Bellamy had re- covered the use of her hands, and assisted in nursing the dying mulatto. So great and protracted had been her sufferings, that even King was willing that she should die rather than live longer in hopeless anguish. At first Cora clung to life with strong convulsive grasp, and would entreat the doctor, with pitying accents, ‘ Not to let her die,’ but gradually the convulsive grasp relaxed, the wild glance of despair melted into the softness of tears, and she begged her mistress to pray that she might be made willing to die. Holy were the prayers that went up by her bedside for the boon of Christian resignation, and they were not breathed in vain. The same gentle hand that had embraced the flames for her rescue led her, a trembling, but accepted penitent, to the feet of her Savi. our.

It seemed as if the blazing element that had consumed the springs of her existence was touched by the beauty of her face. No defacing mark was there, but her cheek remained as smooth and transparent as when it blushed beneath the bridal kiss. Just before she died, she turned her eyes in all their languishing brightness towards her mistress who bent ever to catch her faint low accents.

‘Let me kiss once more the dear hands that suffered for me,’ said the expiring mulatto; and her weeping mistress softly pressed her hand on the cold lips, once red and bright as the coral of the ocean. There is a plain white slab in a green enclosure on Hickory Hill, sacred to the memory of Sora. There are sweet flowers and shrubs blooming around it, The mourning bridegroom of an hour planted a weeping willow by its side, and many a night, when the moon was shining on her grave, the tall, dark form of Hannibal would wander to the spot, certain that he met there the spirit of Cora, and that she | looked kindly upon him, Indeed, all the negroes on the plantation saw her ghost, and it was always dressed like a bride, in white muslin, white roses, and white kid gloves.

One incident connected with the history of the doomed bride should not be omitted here.

A short time after her death, {annibal fell sick, and Dr. Manning was summoned to his bedside. He had attended him the previous year during his ilJness, and Han- nibal hada grateful remembrance of his kindness and an unbounded admiration for his skill.

One night, when the General's fever was unusually high, and he began to have some fears for his own safety, he requested to be left entirely alone with the doctor.

‘ Doctor,’ said he, ‘do you think I going to die this time.

‘I hope not, General; you don’t look a dying man yet.’

‘But I may die for all that, and I wants to tell you something, if you please, doc- tor, cause I knows 1 ought to confess it. ‘Spose a man wants to kill a man and don’t do it, ’taint murder is it doctor?’

‘If he would do it if he could, he com~ mits murder in his heart, General,’

‘Oh goodness,’ cried Hannibal, rolling his hot head from side to side on the bol- ster. ‘Qh goodness, I would akilled King if I could, fore poor Cora got burned to cinders; I didn't think of anything else doctor.’

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doctor, trying to soothe the excited con-

it now?’ ‘Qno,no; I so sorry for him, | wouldn't

hurt his little finger fer him. I repented

ever since. I keep repenting as long as

I live.’ ; :

‘Then I doubt not you are forgiven by

Him you have offended. But keep quiet,

General, or I shall never be able to cure ,

‘1 quiet now, I confess it; 1 make clean breast this time,’ sai

ting to the will of his medical adviser whom sacerdotal power.

voted friend of the widowed King;

‘Bat you have repented since,’ said the |

science of his patient; ‘ you would not do |

said the negro, submit- he had invested for the time with

Hannibal recovered, and became the de~

CHAPTER VI. “She had hair as deeply black As the cloud of thunder She had brows so beautiful,

And dark eyes flashing under Bright and witty Southern girl! Beside a mountain’s water ;

I found ber, whom a king himsel! Would proudly call his daughter The life of a youth in college is full of | monotony. One day is an epitome of the |year. If he be ardent and ambitious, if | his lip thirst fur the dews of Castally. and | his spirit for the groves of Academus, he | may, like Marcus, forget the realities of his | condition in the classic life of his mind, | Such was his thirst for knowledge, and the rapture with which he imbibed it, that | it was a perennial spring flowing inward | and giving perpetual freshness and green- ness to the intellectual and moral region. He loved to embosom himself in the thick oaken wood that surrounded the Univer- sity, and while he felt the verdure of its eternal youth in his own soul, he drank in the almost divine philosophy of Plato and wandered with him in shades deep and luxuriant as his own. Ifin his rambles he had met some bubbling spring, he found inspiration in its waters, by associ- ating them with the fountains of Parnassus, and the virgin Castalidas who drank of their waves.

Had Marcus isolated himself from his | See enone during their hours of re- | creation, they might have envied his super- | | jority; but he mingled in their sports with | such hearty good-will that he soon exer- , cised Over them the same rare personal | influence he had done on others. Though | his fellowship with all was kind and cours

teous, there was only one with whom he | had intimate and unreserved communion. | This was a youth by the name of George | Delaval. who, after Marcus had been in col- lege afew weeks, evidently sought him out by that principle of elective affinity by which things entirely different are attracted towards each other. Delaval was a gay, dashing, don 't-care-for-anything kind of a young man, generous to prodigality, proud, | aud sometimes overbearing, but with a flow | of animal spirits that made him exceedingly popular as a social companion. That he was very wealthy there was no doubt, for he spent his money like grains of sand, re- gardless where it fell. Knowing his reput- ed riches, and proud though reckless chars acter, Marcus would never have manifested a desire for his acquaintance ; but when De» laval showed him the flattering distinction of seeking his society on many occesion:,’ Marcus, with the natural frankness and geniality of youth, opened his heart to his advances, and soon conceived for him a warm attachment. He had never forgot the brunette of the fountain, and in a mo~ ment of confidence he described the meet- ing to Delaval, and his extreme desire to ascertain the name of the dark little en- chantress. Delavel seemed excessively amused by the deseription and the impres- sion she had made on the imagination of Marcus. ‘I dare say she is some told little vixen, that would flirt her riding-whip over your shoulders with as much grace as she splash. ed about the water, if she had a chance, said Delavyal. ‘1 don't think I should like

goose fancy. | from me Warland ?’

ment. had nothing to do with it; then, could have been the bearer?’

‘Well, Warland, if you are a brilliant scholar and a blithe companion, you are withal the most stupid fellow I ever beheld, to prate about the why and how the letter of a young lady came into your possession without having interest enough to peruse its contents. If I were the favored mor- tal, | should have torn the paper into inch pieces before this, in my fiery impatience.’

‘jts contents are sacred, whatever they may be, from boyish levity. You will ex- cuse me for reading them alone’ The accents of grave rebuke that fell from the lips of Marcus were drowned in the gush of laughter, that followed them, from: his wild companion. Plunging into the thick~. est part of the grove, and feeling himself alone with nature, he unfolded again the mysterious letter, and no Jonger doubted its genuineness.

‘ Master Marcus Warland, ~ as the light- ning darteth from the east, and shineth uns to the west, and thou knowest not whence itcometh not whither it goeth,’ began his unknown correspondent, ‘so do the elect» ric rays of thought, flashing from one mind to another, instantaneously traverse inter+ vening space, though mountains may rise, and oceans roll between. Compare me not, I pray thee, to the destroying bolt, that furrows the black stormscloud with its burns ing ploughshare, but to those Jambent fires that sport harmlessly round the evening horizon, brilliant but innocuous. Thou art ambitious. Well, beitso. Ambition isa glorious passion in a man. Foolish girl that J am—Iam ambitious too. Were! a boy, | would climb the Jura peaks of liter. ature, nor stop till | reached the sun-clad summit of Mont Blanc. No yawning chasms beneath could appal me—no glacial heights above deter me from ascending. ‘Thou wilt win the highest honours offered to the candidate of classic fame. Aspiring youth! —who can dare all, and attain all. Such is thine own bold language. But knowest thou not, that there are some things beyond the reach of human ambition, all lofty and glorious as it is? Camst thou catch the lightning’s chain, and imprison it in thy grasp, even when it plays around thy fing- ers, and scintillates before thine eyes? Thou wonderest why I addrest thee. Thou wonderest how these random rays have have glanced into the pages of thy book. Seek not to know, for thou eanst not dis. cover. As well mightest thou attempt to separate the drops I scattered over thy hyacinthine locks from the waters ot the fountain ; as well mightest thou seek to stay the varfishing tints of the rainbow, when the cloud fades away, as to tell whence | come, and whither! go. Press on, Mar- cus Warland, with thine eye steadfastly fix- on those victorious honours thou so proudly claimest; and though perchance invisable to thee, I shall be there to greet thee when they twine the laurel garland round thy

her at all. I bave no taste for these dark beauties; give me one of your fair, blues | eyed gentle lassies, that steal upon you as | insensibly as the dawning light. I have | no idea of ever being taken by storm. Marcus could not help thinking of his gentle, violet-eyed Katy, while listening to the description of Delaval, whose flashing black eyes mocked the lustre and the hue of jet. He frequently regretted afterwrd that he had mentioned the young incognita to his friend, for Mademoiselle Lightning became his standing jest, and Marcus felt as if he had wronged her by exposing her to such light ridicule. He might never see her again—indeed he feared he should not; but her image was traced on his memory it characters as vivid and thrilling as the lightning whose name she had spor- tively assumed.

One evening, 2s he sat in the recitation. room, waiting for his turn to be called up by the learned professor, and was carelessly turning over the leaves of a book he had carried with him, a letter dropped to the floor. [le took it up, supposing it one from his sister that he had accidentally | left there, for he perceived that the direc. | tion was in a fair, feminine hand ; but up- | on nearer inspection he saw that a stranger must have traced it, and the paper was of a most delicate, transparent tissue, scented with the attar of roses. He looked at the seal, whose device was a kneeling figure, with lightning darting from a cloud into its breast, the motto, La Lampegqia degli occhi. With kindling curiosity he opened the envelope, and glancing at the signature, beheld the single word, ‘Lightning.’ With a burning blush he folded it hastily and concealed it again within the leaves of his book, reserving its perusal for the soli- tude of the thicket. Delaval, who had obs served the fallen note, the deep blush, and hurried concealment of the paper, rallied him the moment he had left the recitation- room, and insisted upon seeing the mysters ious envelope.

‘ Acknowledge, Delaval,’ said he, ‘that it is a practical joke of your own, and I will forgive you? You must have written this yourself to impose on my credulity, though I acknowledge you are a greater master of penmanship than | ever imagined you.’ Marcus here exhibited the bgguti- ful and fairylike superscription of the letter, and again repeated to Delaval his awaken- ed suspicion.

‘No, Warland’ replied Delaval, in a more serious tone than he generally used, ‘| never wrote that letter. I may sport in words to amuse a passing moment, but I think you ought to know me better than te suppose I would be guilty of such a silly girl’s trick as you accuse me of, :

« Nay, be not angry,’ said Marcus. * We college boys do so many foolish things we ought never to be offended at any charge. / lt is certainly very mysterious, very sur- prising. [ never mentiened her to any one but yourself. How it came within the leaves of my book | cannot divine ; un- less, he added, ‘jf you did not write the letter you acted the part of the carrier- dove, and dropped it from your wings into my book. I am sure it is a very innocent jest, and I forgive you for it.’

+I will accept your forgiveness when I have earned it Warland, by playing the foolish part you seem fit to have assigned me,’ answered Delaval, in a somewhat tone; ‘you must think yourself of more consequence than

brow, LigurNine.’

Spellbound over the magic lines, which be again and again perused, the boy sat, unconscious of the sinking of the sun or the gathering of the night~shades. letter was from her, the electric girl of the fountain for to no one but her had ‘he ut~

} should trouble myself about such a wild- | Is it what you would expect

‘No, Delaval,’ answered Marcus, witha eandid blush; ‘I must again ask you to exeuse my charging you with an office so idle on the plea of my extreme bewilders Tam convinced now that you have who

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PUBLIC OPINION.

When the atmosphere becomes loaded a thunderstorm ensues. When sanitary con ditions are outraged an epidemic is super- induced. When a man neglects the laws of health sickness overtakes him. But when things get bad enough they general+ ly begin to amend. The thunderstorm purifies the air; the epidemic leads to the better observance of sanitary laws; the sick man is forced to conform to hygienic res quirement:, and so gets to be convalcscents Something analogous to all this has taken place of late years in the politice! condition of this country. The debasement of polis tical morality culminated in the circum- stance which drove the late Dominion Gov- ernment out of office, and in this article we propose to glance at some of the indi- cations which lead us to conclude that Can- ada has entered upon anew and better phase of political existence. The indepen ent consideration of a question, and the sincere expression of conclusions derived from such consideration, are the conditions, upon which we accept newspaper articles as approximate expressions of public opini- on. In articles of this stamp we are willing to recognise at least a particular phase of prevailing sentiment. The newspaper press leads public opinion only in so far as it gives shape and expression to what is in the public mind. A leader-writer’s power is in saying what others are constrained to endorse. To him prevailing opinion, float- ing unshaped in the public mind, is a palps able influence which acts upon a speaker ; and in the case of both the journalist and | the orator the prevalent influence generates | a@ power which re-acts upon those who generated it. Your true journalist is a vates acted upon by the afflatus of public sentiment, and his chief strength lies in being en vapport with it.

A few years ago, newspaper opinion in this country could not be accepted as pub- licopinion, The majority of newspapers gave a mere reverberation of one or two party organs which, on their part, were

ed politicians rather than of public opinion. “It is not long since every Reformer,” says the Wallaceburg <Advoca/e, “ quoted the Globe in proof of his side of the argument, but,”’ it signgficantly asks, ‘‘is it so to- day ?”’ We note with pleasure and satisfac- tion that a process of difterentiation is go- ing on in Canadian journalism, snd that as a consequence, public opinion is being freed from the thraldom of newspaper Legrees. “Time was,” says the London Advertize, “when the utterance of the press at the local capital carried, conviction’ (and some- times consternation) far and wide.” It adds, ‘it requires no great acumen to see that a monopoly of influence will not soon again be possessed by the Leaders, Globes and Mails of the future."’ Mr. Gladstone has recently stated his belief that it is the provincial papers in Great Britain which alone express the unsophistscated thoughts of the people. We suspect that the sume is ina great measure true of Canada, and that the improvement which we are glad to note in the tone of our newspaper press is developing more rapidiy elsewhere than in Toronto.

Happily for the growth of an enlighten- ed public opinion in this country, “ party” and “party government’’ are fast becom< ing divested of that mystic authority with which popular political superstitions has

originated in fundamental difference of principle have been perpetuated long after

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BRITISH.

The London Times says, that will have to import eleven miliion quarters wheat this year.

In New Zealand measels are killing off the aborgines in great numbers. natives are paralyzed with superstitious notions ani adopt no curative agents.

The damage by the late stormin Liven pool was immense ; nearly every buildin at Manchester suffered. A large mull crushing several buildings and causing great loss of property, but no lives.

MATTERS.

AQvatics-—SaDLer Vs. Boyp ror THe CHAM.

pionsnip ano £400 —The latest mail ad- vices bring the intelligence that Joseph H. Sadler has signed the articles of agreement for the great sculler’s race with Robert W. Boyd, and nothing is likely to intertere with the race coming off, on Monday, November 15. This is to be a straightway race in ‘best and best boats on the Thames, the course being from opposite the Star and Garter, at Putney, to the Ship Inn, at Mortlake, and is for £200. side and the championship of England. Shortly after information of the move. ments of the Arctic expedition has been received—the last that will come to hand before the return of the ships—news of the progress of another Arctic exploring vessel reaches the world. Thesteam-yacht Pan- dora, fitted out by Capt. Allen Young, Lady Franklin and Mr. James Gordon Bennet, is reported as having safely arrived at Disco and having sailed thence to proceed on her voyage. She is smaller than the ships of the British expedition, but as carefully fits ted out for her work, which is not to reach the Pole, but to search for the relics of Franklin's expedition, especially the lost journals on which so much store is set. After leaving Greenland, of course, nothing more wil) be heard of her for many months. That she may return having accomplished her object is the wish of all interested in the exploration ol the frozen North, into which three gallant crews are by this time venturing boldly.

It 1s not often one hears of disaffection or disturbance on board a British of war, but the Daily News refers to disaffec- tion of rather a serious character in con nection with the Triumph, one of the Channel Squadron ships, now at : Until the appointment of the present com- mander the men were permitted to con-

under the influence and control of interest~ | gregate on the upper deck for conversation .

prior to turning in for the night, but now the men have been peremptorily denied the priviledge. The disaffection occasion- ed by this step increased when it known that a seaman'’s leave was stopped for ten days because be wore elastic-side boots, on the ground thatit was not unl. form. At first the men manifested their disaffection by chalking up in conspicuous parts of the ship uncomplimentary and threatening phrases to the commander and growling in an undertone at him as he walk- ed his rounds. Eventually however, a spit kettle was thrown at him by some of crew, and he was struck on with considerable violence. The master was su on deck, but he was unable to identify the offender, and other things have since continually thrown about, and a inquiry is regarded as certain,

man punished tor his grog s

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stands two deck daily, whilst he

boots hours by himself on the and asentry stands over partakes of his ration. The London Times supplies a list ot twentysnine failures in gland, within the last three months, and says :—

the liabilities of the twenty nine firms, whose balance sheets su i amount to £6, 396,656, against assets of £1,4 exclusive of £594,000, which ts etleet “ doubtful’. At the best, these statements show on absolute less of some- thing like 45,000,000, and it may well be much more, The Collie group is as might be expected, the worst, firms connected with his ventures having failed for £3, 83]-~ 000, against which only £839,000,

The | 50 long endued them. Distinctions which | assets can be set, the £551,000 ‘ doubtful’

being worth probably next to nothing, consisting, as it does in great part, of claims against the American Government

tered the presumptuous words, - He could} the aldwin Reformer has ranged himself | which, so far as we know, never was ad-

dare all, and attain all.’ her had he boasted of the prize he was res solved to win. She had remembered him

To no one but} With the whilom defender of the Family | mitted by it.

Compact and the dyed-in-the-wool Tory with the Clear Grit. In point of fact difter>

It will be well, indeed, if ‘ good * assets prove good to the amount set down. If we include the probable deficit of a couple of milionson the minor

—she had winged her thoughts to him, how | ence of political principle now exists not 60 | firms estates, and on those named above — be knew not — either by the sunbeams of much as between ** Grit * and “ Tory,’’ but which is probably much within the mark.

heaven or the spirits of the air, or by some invisible wire strung from her heart to his. A manteling glow of delight suffused his whole being. mystery in the matter that charmed and excited him. Sbe was henceforth the Egeria of her destiny, who was to lead him

as between these two and those whom they would fain ostracise. Political faiths, like religious ones, when their vitality is

ance of life and vigor, but sooner or later their moribund condition becomes apparent. Thus itis with the two political parties

the nominal liabilities of the two discount houses and Fothergill and Hankey alone reaching over ten millions—we shall arrive at £7,000,000 as the net sum of

There was a romance, a| gone, often mantain for atime the sembl. | floating capital lost through the recent

collapse. It may be found to be £10,000,000, to £12,000,000, ($60,000,000 when all the losses of country peer of firms that have not failed are taken into

on to glory and renown. He placed the which claim a monopoly in the govern-| account ; but, estimated at its smallest, latter in his bosom, where it was warmed | ment of this country; they have survived | this is a very heavy sum for even a

by the pulsation of his heart; and warned by the loud ringing of the bell, returned to his lodgings.

‘ Well, do you think I am the father of that precious morceau now ? asked De- laval, in a mocking voice. ‘No, [do not, Delaval. you should have written it.’ ‘You will of course indulge me with a pe» susal ?’ added Delaval, holding out his hand with a careless confidence that the request would be granted.

‘Though there is nothing in the letter that the best might not have penned; the lines traced by a female hand, when the motive seems as pure as actuates the writer of these, should be sacred from the gaze of curiosity. Even if it be mere girlish whim, as doubtless it is, in my keeping it should be considered sacred.’

‘ You are right Warland. You have the true spirit of a knight. Why, what an ad- mirable Crichton you are! The vaunted Scot revives again in you!’

‘IT have no desire to emulate his fame, said Marcus, ‘to have the bail-fire of envy scorching my two clustering laurels, and to perish at last by the dagger of the mid- night assassip.’

‘You are a second Crichton,’ persisted Delaral, ‘ and I have no doubt you will be poinarded one of these days. You had bet- ter wear a coat of mail under your gar- ments.’

‘{ will, if it will shield me from the shafts of ridicule,’ answered Marcus, with rising anger.’ ; :

: Ridicule!’ exclaimed Delaval grasping his hand and shaking it vehemently. ‘By the shade of Cicero, 1 never was more seri- ous in my life. You have the prospect of making a great many enemies; but as true as there is a silver moon in yonder sky, you have one true and sincere friend.’ :

Marcus believed so. It was impossible to doubt the truth of Delaval, when he spoke with seriousness. Marcus was mers bidly sensitive to the idea of flattery. He could not bear to be complimented on his | personal beauty. He courted the tanning | sun and the darkening wind, but his cheek would be fair. He tried to keep down the rich waves of his curling hair, but they would wander around his brow. Some vem. tured to call him the ‘iady of the College as they did Milton in former days, who was

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you are authorized, to imagine that J

To be continued,