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POETRY. SUMMER MORNING'S SONG.

Ur, Sleeper! dreamer! up; for now There’s gold upon the Mountain’s brow— There’s light on forests, lakes, and meadows— The dew-drops shine on flow’ret bells, The village clock of morning tells. Up, men! out, cattle! for the deils And dingles teem with shadows.

Up! out! o’er furrow and o’er field ; The claims of toil some moments yield For morning’s bliss, and time is fleeter . Than thought—so out! ’tis dawning yet. Why twilight’s lovely hour forget ! For sweet tho’ be the workman’s sweat, The wanderer’s sweat is sweeter.

Up! to the fields! thro’ shine and stour; What hath the dull and drowsy hour

Se blest as this? the glad heart leaping To hear morn’s early song sublime ; See earth rejoicing in its prime: The summer is the walking time,

The winter time for sleeping.

Oh, fool! to sleep such hours away, While blushing nature wakes to day.

On down thro’ summer mornings snoring, "Tis meet for thee, the winter long, When snows fall fast, and winds blow strong, To waste the night amidst the throng,

Their vinous poisons pouring.

The very beast that crops the flower Hath welcome for the dawning hour.

Atrora smiles! her beck’nings claim thee; Listen—lookgound—the chirp, the hum, Song, low, and bleat there’s nothing dumb— All love, all life. Come, slumb’rers, come!

The meanest thing shall shame thee.

We eome—we come—our wand’rings take Thro’ dewy field, by misty Jake And rugged paths, and woods pervaded, Ry branches o’er, by flow’rs beneath, Making earth od’rous with their breath ; Or thro’ the shadcless gold-gorze heath, Or’neath the poplars shaded.

Were we of feather, or of fin, How blest todash the river in, Thread the rock-streams as it advances, Or, better, like the birds above, Rise to the greenest of the grove, And sing the matin song of love Amidst the highest branches.

Oh, thus to revel, thus to range, [|] yield the counter, bank, or change ; he bus’ness crowds, all peace destroying ; The toil, with snow that roofs our brains; The ®eéds of care, which harvest pains, The wealth, for more which strives and strains, Still less and less enjoying.

Oh, happy, who the city’s noise Can cut for nature’s quiet joys,

Quit worldly sin and worldly sorrow ; No more ’midst prison-walls abide, But, in God’s temple, vast and wide, Pour praises ev’ry even tide,

Ack mercies ev’ry morrow.

No seraph’s flaming sword hath driv’n ‘(hat man from Eden or from heav’n, j Froin earth’s sweet smiles and winning features ; For him, by toils and troubles Jost, | By wealth and wearying cares engross’d, For him a paradise is lost— But not for happy creatures.

Come—though a glance it may be—come. injoy, improve, and hurry home, for lif’s strong urgencies must bind us Yet mourn nots morn shal] wake anew. And we shall wake to bless it too— iiomewarde! the herds shall shake the Jew Vve'll leave in peace behind us.’

is IS TRUE LIBERTY WHEN FREESBORN MEN—HAVING

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TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC—MAY SPEAK FREE.”—Mi.ton’s Evriripes.

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Woman.— It was while spending a dreary and incle” ment winter at Yakutsk, that Ledyard penned in his journal his exquisite and celebrated eulogy on Woman —a simple, unstudied effusion, with which the sex have more reason to be pleased than with all the most elabo- rate and finely-termed compliments: that gallantry or flattery ever produced:—“{ have observed (says he) among all nations, that the womer ormament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They donot: hesitate, like man, to per- form a hospitable or generous action ; not haughty, nor arrogant, nor supercilious, but full of courtesy and fond of saciety ; industrious, economical, ingenious; more liable in general to err than man, but in general, also, more virtuous, and performing more good actions than he. I never addressed inyselt in the language of decen- cy and friendship to a woman, whether civilised or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Fin- land, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uni- formly so; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kinda manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweet-draught, and if hungry, ate the coarse morsel with a double relish.”

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FasHtonaBLe Giossary.—In a publication called the Parterre;the following quizzical glossary occurs: Age—An infirmity no body owns. Buying—Ordering goods without purpose of payment. Bore—Any thing one does not like ; any person \vho speaks of religion. Conscience—Something to swear by.’ Common Sense— A vulgar quality. Charity—A ¢rold ticket to the opera, or any other fashionable perform ance., Debt—A neces- sary evil. Duty—Doing as others do. Drunk—Hap- py. Dressed—Half naked. Deuth—A very disagree- able thing; not to be mentioned. Day—N ight; or speaking from 1 p.m. till4a.m. Leonomy—(Obsolete.) Fushion—The ne plus ultra of ex:cellence. Husband— A person employed to pay one’s debts. Honour-— Standing fire well. Home—Every body’s house but your own. “wt home”--the domestic amusement of receiving three hundred peopie ina small room, to yawn atone another. ‘“ .Votat home”-—Sitting quietly in your own parlour, learning the lastnew song. Love Meaning not known; the word to be found in novels. Modest—Sheepish. Music—Exe:cution. Matrimony— A bargain. Merality—A troub)esome interruption to pleasure. Vonsense—Polite conversation. . Vew—De- lightful. Old—Insufferable. .Priudence—Parsimony. Prodigality—Generosity, Piety-—Hypocrisy. Quiz— An inoffensive person outof our own circle. Religion —Gging tochureh every Sundzy morning. Style— Splendid extravagance. Spiri—-Contempt of decorum and modesty. Z'ruth—Meaninyy uncertain. T%me— Only regarded in music. Vice—Only applied to men- servents and horses. Wicked—Iruesistibly agreeable.

American T'ra.—The New York Journal of Com- merce publishes a letter from Dr. Junius Smith, dated Golden Grove, Greenville, 8. C., Jaa, 14, 1850, in which that gentleman thus describes the progress he has made in his experiment of tea culture :—-

“You will be pleased to hear that the tea plant, in strength and vigour, is in bud amd blossom still, and promises to continue until greeted by the vernal breezes, and cheered by solar heat. J liave one remarkabie plant, a branch of which isso loaded with seed, now about the size of a pea, that it bends under its weight, and almost touches the ground. ‘The tea-plant is a most a curious shrub, and to watch its developement is aun amusement deeply interesting. In answer to your enquiries respecting the probable time of my being able to dispose of tea-plants and seed, I beg to inform you that it is my intention to accommodate the public with plants and tea-nuts the ensuing spring—most Jikely in March—and thus open the way to an extensive cultiva- tion in the United States.”

Anotnuer Trvo i Lucx.—Mr. Joha G. Savryer was last week elected Secretary of State by the’ Maine Legislature. Mr. Sawyer served his apprentiéeship in the Office of the Easiern Arzus, at Portland, and is every way qualified to discharge the atduous duties

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To tHE Epiror or tae EXAMINER. Mr. WHeuan ;

Sin,—I perceive by two letters which have lately appeared in the Examiner, that the propriety of select- ing the School Inspector for Prince County from the Central County has become a subject for public discus- sion. Deeply interested in whatever affects the pro- gress of Education in this Colony, I have perused these letters with attention and given the question involved, that consideration to which, I conceive, it is fairly en- titled. The Office of School Inspector is one about which a difference of opinion has long obtained. While some have, perhaps, overrated the advantages resulting from an exercise of the duties of the Office, others have disputed its utility eltogether, and contended that in a Colony like this, where it is notorious the Teachers are very inadequately remunerated, it would be sounder policy to dispense with Inspectors, and in- crease the Government Grant to Teachers, as a more likely method of infusing spirit into the Schools at present operating in the Colony, or which may hereafter come into operation.

That the course of Instruction in the District Schools is merely elementary, is a fact founded upon the “ Re- ports” of the severa! School Inspectors, which have been printed for the information of the public. Even those Teachers—who have by an impulse almost superhuman squeezed themselves through a little of Euclid and Latin—find, when entering upon the duties of a District School, that their knowledge of the Classics and the abtruse branches of Mathematical Science is in danger of evaporating entirely before they are called upon to exercise it for the “edification” of their pupils. The question in the present instance is not—Can the Office of Inspector be dispensed with ?—But, does it require a person of extraordinary attainments to visit with good effect the Schools in Prince County? To abolish ihe Office would, I think, be taking a retrogade step, ana at a time too, when—looking at the improvements of Society in every other department—we are forcibly reminded that “forward” ought to be our moito. The whole amount of money employed to defray the Salaries of the three Inspectors is so smal] at present, that even were it equally divided among the ‘Teachers already licensed, it would scarcely make any perceptible in- crease inthe amountof theirincome. [I shall, therefore, come to the real point at issue, whether or not it is advisable to select the Inspecior for Prince County from Charlottetown when it is supposed very generally in the Country—and perhaps with some reason too— that Charlottetown has already “ walked off” with more than its fair share of the “ hips and honors.” Viewing the question in the abstract, without reference to any imaginary superiority which the incumbent for last year may or may not possess over others in Prince County who may feel disposed to apply for the place, I shall fearlessly express my own opinion on the subject, which I doubt not is the opinion of the majority of the people of Prince County. The Inspector for Prince County then ought to be selected from among the people of that County, provided a suitable person can be found so far West, to perform the duties of the Office. It appears by the Inspectors’ Reports, to which I have referred be- fore, that the majority of the pupils are in the rudiments of learning, and are likely to be removed from Schoo! —as is too frequently the case in the Country—before they have completed an English, not to say classical Education. It may be said that greater caution 1s necessary on this very account to secure in the Schools the benefit of a sound system, and that a wrong step at the beginning is frequently the cause of much trouble afterwards. But surely it cannot be supposed, that amongst the licensed Teachers who have received thei: Certificates of qualification from the Board of Education not one is to be found willing to undertake the Office oz able to discharge the duties of the same. This would be saying very little in favour of the Teachers of the County or the discrimination of the Board of Education in granting to them Certificates of qualification to dis- charge the functions of an Office themselves, of wich they were individually and collectively unable to form A jtst estimate In others.

Again, Mr. Editor, 1 am decidedly antagonistic te favouritism, and as much opposed to a p'urality of offices. Would it not be more in accordance with, the spirit o! colonial reform, as well] as wiih the wishes of the good people of Prince County, if the Office were filled by a

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