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their example. This has been the case to an immense extent im the new States of the great western praters as well asin the older States Of the seaboard. dnd is also the case tn} a miaor degree WeCarnada, Nova Scotia, and New Breaswick.. Wealt! creates wealth— immigration creates Hamicration , when more | Ho) more follow; ard «a confederation of

States strong enough &) held their own i

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against the world, will naturally attract aj.

larger portion of the migrating stream of men than could be hoped for hy a congeries ul un- cygnnected cxlonies

Great Britain will not be without abound

wood penée for ber wire, inberal, and |

: Rrdly ‘eotatvative policy in this great work

o> Bhesone weak point im her mtetcourse with

athe Pransuthentre world will be weak no “e@énger, And il at any time she be pressed by

““~ serious danger, or a comwlination of fovs

commeneed in Rarope. and supplemented or completed in America, there will be one piuce beyond the teeming hmits of ber home doasia where she may look, and notia vain, for a supply of hardy mariners — inured to - danger aod fervid with patriotism —more ‘than is sufficrent to man as splendid a Geet in hor defence as ever steamed or sailed upon the ocean. “The tisherwen of New Brunswick, Gepe Breton, and Newloundland will b: ready to her call; and, honouring the tradi tidns of her glorious fag, will do their part. without stict of blood or bravery, te add

many years to the old and memorable thou.) the |

buttle ’ and courted the breeze, and carried |

sand during whieh it has ** braved

: ~ the blessings of civilization beneath its folds tu the remutest corners of the earth.

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IBLE la the reign of Janes

a tearful height, the following coufliet eceurred

between the Duke of Bo and the Lord of B, cou

cerning a beautiful Coeatess of E. The duke

challenged the lerd, and, contrary to usage, gave

him the choice of weapous, the challengee’s pri-

' A TERR DUEL.

Vilege, They met the next morning—a cold rany, miserable morning; time, five o'clock;

place. the first tree behind the ledge in Hyde Jrark, They stripped off their fine scarlet coats, trimmed with geld and silver lace—the duke ex ceasivels iodignant that they should examine his vest, ae as te be certain there was no unlawtul protection underneath, but Cie lerd, more accus towed to the formalities, sa>mitted to the seareh coolly enough—and then they took their pistols, before taking te their swords, according te the fashion of the times. At the first fire the duke

miserd, but Lord B hit bis grace near the thumb; |

ut the second fire, tue duke Wit the lord. They

then drew thetr swords and rushed on cach other |

Atter the first or second tinust Lerd Bo entang- led bis foot ina taft et erase, and teil; but, sup- porting howeelf with bis eword band, he sprung back, avd thus aveided a thrust wade at his heart. The seconds thew jutcriercd, aud attempt-

ed te bring about a reconciliation; but the duke |

-—whe seems to have beeg the most fiery through- out—angrily ordered them back, threatening to eteb the first whe again mterfered. greed play and fine parrying they come te a“ close

lock which pothing but the Aey of the body eould |

open”

‘Thos they stood, unable to strike a blow, each

afraid te give the other the smallest advantage, |

Yet eueh strauggi: gte tree liseli from his en- tanglement. At lust, by o Wrenel stronger than the others, they tore themselves away > and pat the same time bet their swords sprang oul of

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theie bands—Lord I's six or seven yards in the |

air. This accident, bowever, did not retard them long ; they seized their weapons again and tought ou. The lord was then wounded in the swerd.-

aru: but bearing back, and before the duke bad |

quite recovered from his lunge, be ran bin throush the body. The blow left ie lord tnguarded; and, with the sword throng him, the duke cut dud threst at his autagenist, whe had only his naked hand wherewith te guard bimeelf.

L., when duelling rose to |

After muet |

ART THE FAMINE IN INDIA,

REVOLTING SCENES NSAR CALCUTTA,

A geatioman whe has travelled nearly JOU miles through the districts seuth weet of Caleutta, in Which the famine is ragieg, has sent to the Times the following details ef the stekening spectacles

Pwhich met lis view at Various parts of hia jour-

ney “T started from Midnapore. a civil station about 70 miles south-west of the capital, on the morning of the Qith ef Ja w, ood lead tardey proceeded seme seven miles When commenced the paintel sighte whieh. varying only in uitensity, coulinned uatil Lagulu reiurnued te this place

“Rain had fallen heavily during the night, and bihe paki them Were Crodging slowly through the laud, when a little after daybreak T saw two bo- | dies vader a tree. As Chere seemed to be aelight liwetion mene Lalighted. and on going up ton | iwand, covered vuder an old cloth, with just a | <park of tite left in tim, an old man slowly dying | trom hunger. He appeared as if he had a thin prece of Transparent ind a rubber tightly drawn lover tts skeleton frame so emaciated had he be- come. Lave tim some beer, and he slowly tal terec out lia tale of wee. He said that he aud tre conmpanion bad ett their homes, aller gecing their tawilies die from the effeets of cholera and of famine, and had got this far en thei journey | towards Miduapere, hoping to get reliet there, whet one, struck by damp and burger, dies on lrhe read under a tree, and the other awakes te | find bis friend a corpse, and himself, exnausted aud drenched, by the heavy rains that had fallen during the wight, unable te move. The deys and jackals feast on the body, while the living skeleton but a few paces off is powerless to pre- vent them. He tantly begs from the passers-by, but in vain) Llwnger is gnawing their vitals alse Phey all turn a deaf ear te hisery. ‘The beer pseems to revive him, and Ll went to my palit te | get some biscuits, but returned to tlud the poor sufferer in a state of coma, and ina few minutes he was dead. The half picked body of his com- panien attested his tale. Tcoutinued my journey, passing at jatervals the dead as they lay unburied, and in every stage of decomposition ou the side fef the road. Semetimes | would see a cluster jiege her. laone place there were 22 bodies | within the space of halt a wile, in anether six Felose together—all mere oc less mangled aud tera by jackals, dogs, aad vultures. Pushing my | Way through the jungle and over paddy fields, often obliged to swuu sundry streams swollen by the late Moods, in ene of which my palkia was up- faet, | traversed 120 miles of country, wheo I } reached the house of a Mr. Falls, an assistant to Messrs. Waterson and Co.'s indigo concern here Phat gentleman informed me that a weman had died by the roadside, and that a living cluld was |said te be at ber breast. Tle sent out bis ser- vauts, Whe returned, saying that they bad found the corpse and the child, but the mother’s arm clasped the latter so tightly that in bending it j back, sult aud cold, it broke. They say that the hivit £ and the dead had been thus liked together | fortwo days; at any rate, the poor littl infant, }exhausted by exposure and want, died as it was | released

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“The above gentleman and myself were tra- | Velling through a deuse jungle. Miles away from lany human habitation we perceived a tamished

he bad thrown himself down te meet certam death; but a little brandy rekindles the viral }spark, and loath te leave tim te be a prey ter the jeckal and leaperd, we have bin placed ea the reefota pathi. The palki-bearers, however, re- tused td budge an neh, saving their easte would gone, “ Suaciter in moda” is tried, but * ne ge“ forteter in re then came inte play. They wurnwured, looked at the patki, asked ter a battle oft grog, and then tradged aleiyg with their tipsy } burden—the brandy had been too strong tor tim | Lam glad to add that in 24 hours after this the burden was walking about.

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“The misery entailed by the famine = has brought out all the worst qualities of the lower ¢lass of the natives Asa rule, alfectionate and | tend of their homes, they have in teo many in- | etane 8 fled, leaving their wives and families to

Atter| starve; but as aneye witness in twe cases where

his band bad been fearfully niangled with puttivg | nebler feelings beld their sway, l here record

aside bis enemy's sword the lord was iu his turn ruu threcghb—one rib below the heart. Again the seconds miertered ; again without suecess: when the lord, faint trem loss of blood, fei back ward, and im falling drew his swerd eut of the duke's wound

Recovering himself, a littl before he was quite

them :—

“A woman with her three young children

(crawls up tea planter’s Gouse just as luncheon i was being carned from the table; she begs for the remains of the curry aud tice, Which are at

ence taken oat into the verandah and placed be- tere her, Without attempting te eat, she quietly

native, of the Santhal tribe, lying on the ground ; |

j his eare and mouth, and it is beliewed he erent lenrvive the injury. ‘The othet boy and girl were drupped, and both fell on the bed, and whthogh | laeverely shocked hy the concussion “they tay re- leaver. Mrev Hartz next dropped, and ehe lickily struck on the bed, avd was taken tp apparently inet much injured. Mr. Hartz then sprang ont. | By this time the umes were rightupen him, Tn) itis haste he leaped too far, and missed the bed, letriking with great force on the sidewalk. Ie lwas teken tp insensible, and is said te be fatally linfured, All the injured parties were by the order lot Captain Mount conveyed te the Hospital tor lnedival treatment. THE OTUER TENANTS escaped with but litte or pe injury, except te | their household effects, which &re pretty much all | destroyed,

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THB HARVEST IN LOWER CANADA,

We regret to chronicle further extensive dam- age te the ¢reps tu this section ef the Provinee, Phe wet weather continues with teo little inter- aussion to allow bay aud grain that have been wing Weeks on the ground to be saved. In this extraordinary wet seagon all sigue secu to fail; the unustally heavy dewot Monday night had not evaporated when another deluge ef rain fell, followed by a close, damp atmosphere and a teu- peratore in the last degree injuriotis to ripe grain, cut and aueet. From afl the iteration we ean vbtain, we are justified tn stating that nerth of | Moutreal fully a third if not balf the hay evop is jyet unsaved, much having been carried in bad jorder. lu the Richelieu district, the wheat crop

was the largest in area, and the mest prov-ising lia appearatee, for thirty years; it isaluost total. fiy ruined ; very litle has been saved in a sound } condition; the greater part is so sprouted as to be lhardly worth the saving. Peas suffered so much jtrom rain and cold in the early part ef the season, jas te promise only a small yield; this has been reduced in quantity and injured in quality by the jsatne Cause since, the ripe shedding ow the tield, jaud the loss being partially replaced by a second yrowth that did not fully reach maturity. Barley and oats have also suffered severely; the uuripe fields of the lattter only promising a geod yield of tair quality. Potatoes are rotting more gene- rally, and in a greater degree than for many lyears. Should the rain continue another fort- Uso et ora sharp frost set in, three-fourths of the crop of Lower Canada will be lest, and an amount of suffering tiflicted on the rural popula- tien that is grievous to contemplate. Tu the | Reman Catholic churches this week, a special jservice has been Leld, aad prayers offered for fair | weather, a course which might well be indicated | by other denominationa.

Piere is no sadder sight than that presented by the daily accumulating ruin of what promised to | ber a bountiful barvest. while these who depeud jon it ter food and ranuent must stand by and lwateh with anxious bleeding hearts the trastration of their reasonable hopes, and the loss of all their jlabor. A ecaulamity se general and widespread sel } dom falls Hpen a country, and we trust that the | apparently hepeless prospeet may yet be brigh'- jeued, and the hearts of a suffering people be wade vlad by a return of fine weather.

The Montreal Telegraph of the 13th publishes the Grand Trunk Railway Company's * Crop Re- j taurus” forwarded to the head office by tie station | masters aud others along the line, The distriets reported from comprise nearly the whole length jand most of the breadth of Canada, East and

| West.

| graph says:

In referring to these returns, the Tele-

|} “© As these returns aeem te be carefully eom- pled with and eome trom reliable men, they mas (be taken as a fair statement of what the yield would have been throughout the whole Province it the uuexampled weather of the past two months had not set in to blast the hopes of the farmers Phe statements nearly all agree in saying that owing to the slight fall of snow dast winter mi the Upper Province and the consequent exposure ot the seed to the cold, Pall Wheat generally proved a failure; bouton the other hand, withont scarcely anexXception, almost equally agree in stating that the yield of Spring Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rye, &e, Would amount to a fuilaverage and the root crop to one of the largest ever gathered in Cana da. Harvesting had begun in some localities when these returns were compiled and there was reason for the belief that one of the most beunte ous crops within the memory of man would again | fill our barus and rick yards to repletion, but the rains of the past six or eight weeks have, in very

down, he faltered forward, aud, failing with bis | seats the three children around the dish, who ma jmany districts, destroyed these hopes; and judg-

thigh across bis sword, snapped it in the midst

tew minutes dewmelish its contents, and although

jing trem the present. almost dismal prospect, we

The dake then took bis own sword, breke it, aed) the mother is wasted to a skeleton, yet, mumbling | should say that in Lower Cavada almost ove hall

sinking ot: the dead body of his antagonist, sighed deeply, turned once, aud died ; the cold, drizzling rain tailing chill ow the stifl-uing bodses and the | dank grass.

. “se ;

A TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION.

Whatever version may be gicen to a cirenm- stance that oveureed in this city, yesterday after- hoon, the most thenglhtleas most per torce adait that the result is beth strange and startling, and well culeulated te turn the serious man te more | greteund meditation, and even stay the reckless | wan in bis course. A man of robust bealth, and | in the prune of life, is accused of a ertme under | cifeumstances of aluost positive proofs of guilt, und while he calls upon God to bear witness | le his innocence, is struck dead alaeost before the uppeal has left bis lips. Incredible as the circam- stances may appear, they are literally true. . A bitle ever a year ago thece lived in a small Village in Sweden a man by the name of Rasen. | christ, whose vstensible pursuit was that of a! tailor, but ramer had it that his principal revenue was derived from poaching and stealing, and as this impression was se strongly coufirmed that he suddenly left that village to evade the arm of justice. He came to this country about eight tes thes age, aud took up his residence in Chicago. where he agam worked at his trade. Having a fanely he foand it sery difficult te support them in the city, and, consequently sent thea: ona faru about fourteen miles from Chicago. He thereupon feook up lodgings at a boarding-house No. 144. Buruside street, aud tor a lony tame wo suspicions were cutertained as te his character. Reeently | several valuabie articles belonging te boarders at the howe were nnasing. but ne clue as to the perpetrator could be detected. Yesterday afternoon another theft was discovered, and the preots of guilt painted direct!) to Raseuchrist, no one else having beea wear tite apartment since the teme the articdes stolen last were seen. On being | accused, be etoutly deuied the theft; but, finding be eredence was given te the denial, he suddenly grew wete passionate, and, fling up his hands towards heaven, exclaimed that he heped his “tongue world tet iatis mouth, bis head drop from hos shoulders, and Ged strike him dead ot the spot,” if he was guilty. No seener had these words escaped his lips, when be suddenly began | te reel and stagger, and before support could be | gicen, he fell to the foor—dead. The excitement | fifix ereated aneong the bystanders cau better be | imagined than deserised. Strom mien #tand pa! ralyzed, women tainted, and none were able to! speak for some minutes. Phe occurrence was se | horrible, this apparent retribs ciew so terrible, that | ween doubted their senses. Pot the dead man re-| watered prostrate en the flror—a ghastly proet | ef the revlity. The rumer of this strange and | siartling fatality seen spread through the neigh-| berbewd, and in afew minutes the house was filled | willl herrer strickeu peopie, nove of whew deubt-| ed that the hand of God was (us wade etsitte.— Lhicage Times.

i -~ “oe. Lambermen and Farmers. if you would pre- | cent all il effeets from drinking too mueh cold eaters tn hot weather, add to it a little of Bloods | Kiewmatic Coaneund ; it wi! warm the stomach

avd prevent Diarrhea aud 1)) sentry. jl las clildren to some parbes ou the awning; bis | "+ — bey clung buuself to the waidew blind. The wile

Tervin.e Seeker aboed Pause Ham —Te! Me. J. 8. Mill, member for the borough of West- | tinmeter. the public is indebted tor the informa- tuou thal theis barr is false, i) ladies are not; that | i) is @ matter of large trade, aud bought and sold | as the “leech,” of, tere comaenly speaking, Churchyard hare. The dealey draws atteation (| the tact with pride, that it has wot beew eat bat | @rewe from wature with the bulb intact. Some. | times Ghie clase of air comes to market with | pieces of cealp shea al the ew! Tow (his hate i- obtained ie a mystery Che trade does net care to fathom, but it comes dewus the dead men and dead women, foc hae ix abepeat iudiatructible. The! beautilul wig of auburn deer cow in the Museu, | Dudes, kad lain tthe tews of a Theban naire | tay for dpwards uf 2.000 years detore it townd ite | way te the wations collection, pet the hair is as dren as tomate if tad just come femme the hands | @! the bir dewnsee, aid (he curl ds we edeong thal | Oh cmtanel be tauken eat owen by the wypleation of feat The choveipard haw i+ brongitt inte aasis | Ket by home as Weill a8 bereigs collectars. Ther | eeu be bithe doubt that the cunjerity of the deny |

tg eed Leeson comes trou tbo heads of criminals. |

tide meersnary the charming dacke of our fan

eres ahwadd be enppleneuted tren thea aetiren, | Suey whomld a Jeast be intorwed that they are nol were eomenuuing for assistance to those in the wbtained withest waths, prayers, aud Ulasphe-| street, Seaie parties procured a feather bed, Reed BY Ternwems sport the deaperlers, which the) whic ¢ puteideed tresses was desired te ket dis family diep duwn one b Aanee pendiduns on Weeder pecks aud shoulders | Sais

teelivs tthe deep af as tho Secs is the meteantile defercation whieh we wb-

sais spon good autlwilg. aed we ave sure that the reBeeGans it suggests wh) wet add te the ples.

Bier ae bresses, bas recourse to merchandise, The wuly cathartic that will relieve t' @ bow els,

Cleanse fee blend and renee ote the system effect

wally. Without causing giving pains in the bow la, fe Parson's Pargative Pills.

| Weak te raise herself.

j and net woutil halt the rive is thus gone docs she

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| Givitation wae @ brightlul wue to drop oe jump

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; , of being eaugil by those below, but there was vo Pure ot Lie apeetator ot the pl -asuce of the wearer, | alteroatise ; af dad to be done, avd dove owhe. funte de mecux, ot in the absence of luxaré or burut alive. ‘The fame at that time was in the

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her thanks, she turns away gratetul that her off- pring have been fed, eveu while she berself still hungereth

“Ju anether village we met a little girl and her wether, lying under a mange tree. Both were iaiet from hanger; they hid been trying te keep dite tegether by feeding on enails picked out ot | pouds, berries, and lizards, where they could ob- ‘tain them, but daily teeling weaker, they had sunk dewn under a tree, awatting a lingermmg death We got some boiled rice and put it Gelere them The younger is the strenger; the mother ie toe Al:hough the cluld’s big eyes flashed with hungry gleam, yet her little hands, well filled, first seek the mother’s mouth,

herself eat.

* It is iunpossible te judge of the numbers that have died trom actual want, ax no returvs are kept, but taking the three districts of Balasore, Cuttack. aud Midnapore, 1 should say quite 1200 aday. In Balasore large plague pits bave bad te be dug near the towns te receive the bodies of these found dead near their precimets, but in too tany instances the bodies are left to ret ou the roadside.”

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DREADFUL CALAMITY. AWFUL SCENES AT THE BURNING OF A NEW YORK TENEMENT HOUSE.

(From the New York papers, 2ith.)

Attwou' clock yesterday morning a fire occurred in the five storey Conement house corver of Thir- teenth street and avenue A. The inmates being all asleep, and the flam s having full headway before they could be aroused, a scene of wild cou- fusion aud terror ensued, during which nearly all the inmates leaped trom the windows aud received severe injuries, while five others were burned to death. The fire was first discovered in the rear, vod had gained the stairways before an alarw conld be given, avd it progressed rapidly until all of the three upper floors were gutted, | The most frightiul part of the calamity was the

TERRIBLE SITUATION OF THE OCCUPANTS of the different apartments. ‘Those ou the second floor of course hod the best advantages of escape, there being a large woed awni:g in trout over the stere, Which gave easy exit to these nearest if; but te these on the third and fourth stories it did avail but little. There were twe faniilies on each floor, and when awoke to their sense of danger the screaming of the women and children is said to have been heart rending at the windows of the third and fourth stories The poor people cried aloud for help, but nove could be readered, as at that time the firemen with ladders had not ar- rived. The whole of the staircase was on fire, aud there was uo possible means of saving theu- selves but by jumping trom the windews. Quite a ommber of persons, aided by Captain Mount aud his men, were in trout of the premises calling to those in Che upper steries to heep at the win- dows, as ladders would be there soon; but to keep them quiet was a matter impossible, as the heat and sieke were draving them from their apart- raents. August Globe, wite and two cluldren, on the teurth theer, frouling the avenue, were the first te leave the house. Mr. Globe dropped one

was then lowered down, and she tell, bruising bersell considerably; but ne bones were broken The wan then dropped, and as he tell he seraw- bled on a window bind, which helped much to break bis tall He landed ou the awning bruised but wot badly injured. “The poor bey bung on the shatter for seme Ome anil be was rescued by the firemen, OCCUPANTS OF THE THIRD STOREY. *

While this was geing on the poor family whose sad death we have te relate made their appeat- ance at the third storey windows, which were tLe apartments they occupied; and had they remain- ed at the windows and kept the doors closed they would have been saved; but some perso called te them, “Go te the root,” “go te the roof.” Taking this tor good advice they disappeared, aod that was the last ever seen of thea alive. Subsequently their burned and charred remains were tonnd ou the landing of the top floor, hud- dled together, the mother having been the last to fall, as she lay on the top.

Tit MARTZ FAMILY.

Qu the Thirteeuth etreet frowt of the house the tear apartawnts of (he ourth flooe were ocetnpied boy Phat Martz, wite and tour children. They hh wae hele Sy several persous, and Hartz one, aud Ciey wwauild catch dheu ouihe bed. The from o tows storey windem, and run the chance

quickly,

jot the cereal and vearly ali the potatoe crop wil, jhe destroyed. Upper Canada has also been atieet ed by the wet weather, but by ue meaus to such an unprecedented extent”

In the Western States also, we hear that great anxiety is felt lest the early frosts should over- take the corn crop before it is ripe. The following is trons the Chicago Tribune on the subject:

“No little excitement exists among operators in the cereal products upon the prospective con dition of the corn crop. At ai early period dur- ing the past season the beart of the farmers was wladdened by the view of his extensive fields, giv- ing every promise of an vbundant yield and a baudsome returu tor the labor expended on them But as the season wore along, the weather grew were Ubpropilieds, rain storm succeeding ram storm, and cold when there should have been heat wid sunshine, And thas it stands at presest. Prematurely advanced at first, the development has not kept pace with its rapid growth; and now the fear i almost universal, that nuless a week or two of genuine Warm weather shall immed ately intervene, the crop will suffer a material damage. Market values a ¢ regulated accordingly. Specu- lation has already counted upou the probabilities, and prices are advancing upon the evil prog- nostications of what present mdications certaim- ly warrant. It is also to be hoped, however, tha so dire a calamuty as the destruction of our mos! valuable crops may be avoided.”

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GrovresqueLy Hornipie Ixctoenr -- A husband keeps the corpse of his wife, and is com- plained of by the neighbours. —A correspondent of ‘he Spriugticid Republican, writing from San Franeciseo, furnisies the following incident, se horrible in its details that the peu of Hawthorne wight weave it inte a somanee. Complaint was wade to the health officer that the occupant of a haudseme residence in ove of our fashionable quiar- ters Was creating a uuisance by keeping the corpse of his wife in the building, to the great dis- comfort and ill-health of the weighbourhood. 1: appears that the wife of the person complained of died about a year ago, when the husband pur- chased a metuihe coffin, and placed the corpse in ene of the rooms of lis residence. It was alleged more particularly that the day previous te the complaint he had taken the ody from its coflti: and washed it with the garden hose, afterwards replacing itn the coffin, and Where, at the tune ot the complaint, it still remained. Sincere as was this evidence of nudyig and unalterable at- ieetion, the spectacle of that stricken and ineon- sulable widower playing the arden hose upon the decomposed remains of his former partner seems

to have been too much for the ueighbours | The health officer theught so tee, and the wut sance Was abated. The whole picture, with

this terrible mingling of the ghastly aud ludicrous, requires ny comument, eS a

Tragic Scent av Vienna.—A tragie scene eccurred at Vieuna last week, at the canal of the Danube, near the Aspern Bridge. A’ woman, modestly dressed, suddenly threw berselt trom the quay inte the water. A man, whe at the same moment Was bathing his Newfoundland dog in the canal threw a stone te the direction where the woman had just disappearcd. Meantime the latter, owing lo the iuflatien of der garwet.ts, rose several Limes te tue surtace of the water. The dog canglt leld of ler while she was thus floating and tried to bring her to the shere; but she was determined to destroy her life, and she dragged the deg down with her. Among the crowd, which was herror-etrichen at the sight of this terrible struggle between life and death, was a soldier of the police, whe courageously plunged inte the water to the helg of (be unhappy Woman. Searce- ly bad he seized her than be was likewise carried away by her to the bottom of the water, and in a tew seconds the woman, the soldier, and the dog had disappeared in the canal, never to rise again.

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Feaurvi Scexe at a Bern Ficut. —A futal accident at a bull fighta l Expaguol oc- curred in the old Roman Circus at Nismes on Suuday last. A torreador, named Mateo Cab- reva, was run through the chest by one of the buils, and killed ow the spot. The Moniteur du Suir gives the following account of the catas- trophe: — lt was evideut when the very first hull appeared that the pretended Spanish tu:- readors, or at least some of them, either knew uvthing of their dangerous business, or were in such a state of excitement as to lose their heads. They irritated the bulls in must unue- eessary ways, aud their rashuess was only equalled by their awkwardness. At the beginn- iug of the performance the bulls, which, though good enough for our amatcurs, were tame creatures, indeed, when compared with the genuine furious Spanish animals, knocked over several of the torreadors, though without hurt- ingthem. With the fourth hull the unfortunate

room, and dust approaching them; andeed Uiey were tuen mere or less Gurnt, The istant was) the first dropped; that was caught without wach | injury. The wext was the bey 9 pears of age. | He sprung wildly and missed the bed, striiing with great tielence on the gtene sidewalk. He |

j Mas picked up iuscusible, the blved flowing frou ,

Cabrera atiewpted the heop game. But in- stead of watching the bull's movements, and holding the hoop on one side so as to avoid the resh, he held it in both hands exactly before) his breast, and the bull, after running his horns |

through the paper, truushxed the wan. The

he eireus rushed to their They opened his hurt: supported |

other torveadors in ¢ comrade and pieked him up-

waistcoat to see where he was by them he walked two or three steps, then slipped from their hands aud fell heavily. A torrent of blood wyshed from his breast, and he | was quite dead, The sight of the bltvod caused | vreat emotion amony the audience, and several

women fainted: innsnsscteaii + oe A Moyomaxtac. Death —M. Couvreanx, a! French re k up hits | residence some years a70 ut a hotel on the hill of Quisiniana, nea Castellamare, Althoush evidently a luuaties henwns perfectly inotlensive, and passed his time ia Cotap wing Sones and musie. His two tixed idvas were living a lite of unsullied chastity and dying without pain. It appears that . le coflected every medical treatise on death be thé guillotine, aud made up his mind that death by this instrument was painless. Accordingly, he constructed, in the space which separated his sleeping apartment from his dining reom, a guillotine on an im- proved principle, the axe of which weished about-a hundvedweight. Several fowls and cats foom the neighborhood were missed, whose lives had evidently heen victims to the pre pa- ratory experiments. Onee convinced of the excellence of his machine, he set about adorn- ing it. Two masnificent erimson curtains formed the background, avainst which he erecied a sort of altar table, the steps of which were covered with black velvet; on the table he placed a white cushion of cider-down. At half: past nine at nicht, having assumed a dcess of white flannel, M. Couvreux performed the hymn of the Virzia on his orzan, after which he mounted the seatfold, lay on his back, his head resting ona pillow, let so the pulley to which the axe was attached, on which it fell and cut off its eonstructor’s head, which remained ou the pillow, separated but a few hairbreadths from the body. Next morning the waiter of the hotel found M. Couvreaux iv the position deseribed ; a with lying in the centre of the table, by which his property was to be divided among the hotel servants.

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Amentcan Leregatere.—The London cor respoudeut of the Boston Daily Advertiser thus refers to) American literature of the present day :— Perhaps | am singular in my opinion, hut Tam sincere and confident when Tsay | believe that Artemys Ward, and his predeces- sors, and iimitutOm “are amons the enemies ot American literature, so far as its reputation in Half our reading people even, secing the flood of books in slans, in which a low selfishness is far move couspicuous than humor, Appearing as reprints from Ames rican authors, have to beheve that America has little else to send us. The book- shelves at all our railway stations are covered with gaudily bound werks, suld at a cheap rate, written either in the name of ** Artemus Ward” or his numerous parasites. How ! hate the sizht of those yellow covers; the plute of that exéerable, hatched-taced crea ture, on the sides @ho represents the traditional! Yankee,—with his. abominable leer and his horrid jarzon! The very people who admire them do so in the spirit of those who sit at their windows aad -ad¢h at the contortions of the poor wretches who dezrade themselyes by blackening their faces aud distisering their persons by ragsvas if niczer melodists.” To one who enjoys, as [do, the creations of Ame- ricau genius, and who looks with sanguine hope to the refining away of everything that o!fends the taste, and to the formation of a literature which shall astonish the world by its energy, and deli cht it by the purity of its beauty, —these exhibitions of vulgar baffeonery are, to the last dezree, painful. Better be sileut for awhile in the literature of the world than speak in such voices as these. Perhaps the day will come when the dialeet which the people who write this villianous trash regard as itself the product of wit, will he deemed unworthy the place given to it, and Professor Lowell, who has no more sincere admirer than myself, will abandon it, because of the example he affords, and the certainty he gives, that it will be shamefully abused.” :

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To tHe Eprror or tue Examiner. Nir : : In the Patrivt of the 22nd: September, in a communication headed * Presbytery of P. E. Island,’ I observe the followins, viz: * Refer- ence having been made to certain proceedings, inconsistent with Christian propriety, reported in the public press as having occurred at Souris, ata public Tea in aid of the Protestant Church of that place, the Presbytery agree to express their strong condemnation of such conduct, and cite the Rev. Me, Grawford and his Session to appear at their next meeting in Charlottetown, to explain their connection with this matter.” May I be allowed to ask the Presbytery what were the “ proceedings, inconsistent with Chris- fian propriety, reported in the public press as having occurred at Souris at a public Tea?” I maintain that there were no “ proceedings ”’ oceurred at the public Tea lately held at Souris, “inconsistent with Christian propricty ;"’ nor will the report ‘in the public press” bear any such const-uction, except, perhaps, to some narrow-minded intolérant bigots, who say that dancing is slifuly I,fhowever, say that it: is not: and defy the Presbytery to prove that it is. We read in If Samuel, 6th chap., Mth verse, that David? danced before the Lord with all his might; and Solomon says: There is “a time to moufa and a time to dance.”

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Addison strongly recommends dancin Sterne 7 and the finest lookin +, most handsome man I ever saw, and the best preacher I ever heard—the Rev. Alexander Walker, late Minis- ter of the Chureh and Parish of Elan—was particularly fond of dancing, and an ele- rant and graceful dancer he was,—and was liked and greatly vespected by all the people in the Parish.

In the London Times of the 13th July last you may read: as follows :—* Yesterday, by command of the Queen, a dance was given to all Her Majesty's servants at Osborne, in cele- bration of the marriage of Prince and Princess Christian—a tent having been arranzed for the purpose on the kun,

“At 6 o'clock Her Majesty, with Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louisa, Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, and atteuded by the Ladies and Gentlemen in waitin, enter- vd the tent when dancing commenced.

«At & o'clock supper was provided for all who were present, at which the health of Prince and Princess Christian was proposed, and afterwards that of Her Majesty.

*At 9 o'clock dancing recommenced, and shortly afterwards Iler Majesty, with the Royal Family, again visited the tent for a short time.”

What docs our immaculate (perhaps, iabecile, would be the most appropriate word) Presby- tery think of that? loved by her people, and the most relizious Sovereign in Europe, gices her sercauts, family aud friends, a Daace!!! But a few of her sub- jects here cannot join in a friendly danee with-

Our Queen, the best be-

out being stigmatised by a few half-educated, intulerant bigots, as acting “inconsistent with Christian propriety.” But has the Presbytery any legal right to,exercise or assume an au- thority over the Protestant Church at Souris ? I doubt it. A Committee was appointed by the people, to taise mionuey by subseriptions, to obtain plats and yet the Church built. I was one of that Conniittée. ~The Church was built, and, when completed, we were some £80 in debt to the different éontracters. A joint Note was given by us to the Bank, on which the money was obtained and the contractors paid. That note is not vet paid, and the Building Committee will uot willingly give up the Church uatil they ave satisfied. It was to raise money to pay our Nofe that the Tea Party was gotup. Rey. Mr. Crawford lad nothing to do with yetting up the Tea party ; and had he and the-whole of the Presbytery ordered the danc-

ing to he discontinned, the order woultl have been disregarded, and the dancing would have) | gone on as it did,