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having been passed, it is but rational that a few reflections should occur te our minds not inappropriate to be offered to our readers; for we hold that no man of common intelligence and who is daly sensible of the fact, that he and all are but babbles on the stream ever flowing onward to the tem), and ever receiving fresh additions to its volume —can regard the stated return of another year without feeling the prompting of his better nature suggesting a review of the past. This, which is true of the individual, is equally so of the many who in the aggregate compose a p rople ; and we shall, therefore,

in our capacity asa public journalist, take a cursory view ol

the principal changes which have characterized the year that |

has just passed, and the state in whieh it has left the nations.

The prominent event of the last year, and one which is des tined to have the greatest effect upon the destinies of the world, is the Peace concluded by the Allies with Russia. This Peace, purported to be the termination of a giant struggle between

aia ; i ‘ ae the civilized Powers of Western Europe, enlisted to oppose th

ruthless invasion of a horde of barbarians into the territories |

of a neighbour—weak indeed in the appliances of modern war- fare, and in the strength derived from the superior civilization of the Allied Powers, but strong in that devoted spirit which brought the Moslem into Europe, and has kept him there from the days of Mahomet II. to the present time ; and which, wile

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excluding from his adoption the improved, and constantly im-|

proving, social and political systems of his European n ‘igh- bours, has not only left unimpaired, but actually strengthened | his attachment to the prineiples — social, political and reli- | gions — which have descended in one long and unbroken line } from his vietorious ancestors. This retinence of old customs | and institutions on the part of the Turks, although by many considered as a blot upon the European escatcheon of the age, and a standing libel on the alleged progress of mankind, has not been without effect ; for nothing but a close adherence to | the rules laid down by their Prophet, and a compliance with | his precepts, externally at least, could have prevented the | *Asiatics encamped in Europe’? from being an easy prey to) the threats or seducticns of the powerful and wily foe who lay | upon their northern skirts. One great and permanent good | has resulted from the contest which the late Czar—true to

the traditional policy of his ancestral House — waged against Turkey. It exhibited to the world a spectacle not witnessed since the time when the lion-hearted king of England led his legions into Palestine, as brothers-in-arms of the warlike sub- jects of Louis of France. This one fact is in itself so suggestive of future changes, that, whether we consider the good feeling and spirit of fraternization which subsisted between the Allied forees—the entente cordiale which characterized the commu- nications of the Sovereigns of the two great nations — the loyalty with which the Emperor of the Freneh fulfilled his obligations to the Queen of Great Britain—or the delicacy which, under circumstances s» calculated to revive them, re- pressed any manifestation of irritating reminiscences on the part of the troops of either nation, — we cannot doubt that we are now living in a time pregnant with results which will ehange the aspect of the whole world.

It is not many years since Nelson told a young relative who came on board his ship as a midshipman, to hate a Frenchman as he would the Dovil. Now, in the last year we have seen the Sovereign of Britain delegating to her cousin the pleasing office of distributing British medals to French soldiers, and Englishmen in Paris heard and appeciated their proud and

joyful shout, “ Vive la Reine d' Angleterre,’’ as the glittering

RPA | mist, eould not find themes overflowing W , and was pWrtly) charmer — the land of the lion, the eleph:

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THE EXAMINER.

eunuchs, veiled female attendants,

"4 “ . | i . 7 veal hi ! ls in incidents ag sttange as any which the | her native country ~ her ailed forms j real history abguisids 1" Ineke a f the time of Clive to and romantically attired servants, maintaining in the heart of } 1 rom } i 1 i : | | 3 period in the history London the sacred seclusion of the Zenana, Generally referred

mia periot I ne ‘ y al eeono- | to in the English papers as the Queen of Oude, we have pre-

imagination ever ¢ neeived; a that of Dalhousiv, there has never be lof India in which the nov list, the poet or the ; | ith suggestions , and the serpent his ex-majesty’s respected progenitor is reported to have had

politic for | ferred designating her as the mother of the late Sovereign, as

t! their peculiar pens. The land of the serpent ir pecullar ns. ’ ' ' share , int and the tiger -- no fewer than some two hundred wives, and it might be a

the land of the Suttee aud of the Thug—the land of the blood- | question which of those was entitled par excellence to the 1@ 1G 6 2 ‘ 5

wased Juggernaut and of the se

yarlike Affghan — of the gentle of subject for the literary or

Jf-torturing fakir—the land Sovereign rank, for we know that and submissive Ilin- «* Love levels rank, Lords down to cellars bears,

of the : . ' And lifts the brawny porter quits up stairs.’’

| doo — afford every variety

yur business with it, however, at present, mo reeent annexation to the Britioh o ‘of Britain’s Jittle wars, where we shall linger no longer than | minions of the compact ant sulous kingdom of a rhe | will suffice to state that another ‘little war’’ appears to be ;measure, though it may savour, .— of ur Does imminent; and, in fact, the outrages which characterize the |

Pass we now to the Cape of Good Hope—the scene of some

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“ics Sagle’s swoop a , ae nerican Bagl I | preliminary stages of hostility, on the part of savages, have,

Jonathan, of something akin to the 4 expansive |

. . over Texas, Mexico and Caba, we can assure out ' shalf of humanity.

ie elacie RS-GUNECKS | TA : : ; : : — 'Kaflirs, who will submit when their precarious and fluctuating

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F i itied woe — the erue : } of the deposed monarch groaned In unpiit “— ' 'resourees shall have been exhausted ; and who will renew the ‘spot who oceupied the throne —

probably, commenced,—to terminate in the loss of life and pro-

|ncighbour, was imperatively ealled-for on bi perty by the frontier settlers, and the temporary Defeat of the

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indiffrence of the sensual dk : , | Struggle at the first opportunity which may offer itself, after -? . ‘tely misgoverned | : : a . a kingdom so completely misgoverned | they shall have recruited their exhausted energies.

rendered it necessary that | Come we now to Europe, and the state of Spain demands a

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should not imperil the contiguous British territory, by calling |

ontented and turbulent marauders.

The King was depo

: ‘ di aetna he was allowed the] . : ; : was wrested from his nerveless hand, he Ie | will have cause to exclaim—** How are the mighty fallen!’ | i. amas C150 ¢ sterling a-year—asumampiv;. . . ° } munificent pension of £150,000 st ling ay ee | Spain—the land of the Moor—the native country of the Cid—|

we » enable hi eratify his personal tastes, and to | ; To sufficient to enable him to gratify his } ni ' . {the kingdom held by Ferdinand and Isabella —~ the country , aintai is persons is >, without ealling into exercise | : : P : 7. maintain his personal dignity, withou ni katie! which sent forth Columbus to discover the New World — the | ‘the miserable resource * oriental tyranny. to wring the! ; : : 3 the miserable resources of ort . . S country whence issued Cortes and Pizarro, which dominated |

| Her Majesty has, we fear, made a bootless journey, and we |

| graphieally portrayed. At the risk of being tedious, we make one or

two extracts:—

means of luxury from the suffering millions who may be the

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subjects of a heartless profligate.* Another remarkable fact connected with British India is the

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actiye conduct of the Government in the construction of rail- |

-ays. carriage roads and gigantic aqueducts. Our space is too | : : : | Ways, Carriags roats other European powers — the country which could equip and |

limited to allow us to give our readers the interesting details | which recent English papers furnish us on these subjects, but | no one ean estimate the importance of these great improve- ments in such a country as India.t

| In eonneetion with this portion of our subject, we may mention, as not the least curious event in the history of the last year, the fact of the mother of the ‘* discrowned King’’ having taken up her abode in the modern Babylon, with a view to the reversal of the fiat which had gone forth against her child, ** that the glory bad departed from his house.’

notice her arrival in London merely for the purpose of direct- ing our readers’ attention to the singular fact of an Eastern

Queen, surrounded by the peculiar pomp and cireumstance of

* The Edinburgh Review for Oct. 1855, contains an admirable review

| of a work entitled ** The Private Life of an Eastern King,’’ in which |

the tyranny, rapacity and cruelty practised by the Court of Oude are |

“It is probable, indeed, that this world—the scene of so much misery—hbas never witnessed such a Government as that of Oude, unless it be thought impossible that any tyranny should surpass that of Nero or Domitian.

** Nine tenths of the population are in the position of the cottiers of Treland. The possession of land is to them a necessity, the very vital element:—if they have it not, they starve, with their wives and little ones. It is no wonder, therefore, that they cling to it with the same desperate tenacity which distinguishes the peasants of Connanght, sub- mitting to any amount of extortion and wrong, rather taan abandon it. | Sorely is this tie strained in Oade. The several districts are either farmed out, or are managed by Amils, who regard their offices only as a means of amassing wealth from the difference between what they can extort from the Ryots, and what they are compelled (for the process is often one of compulsion) to pay in to the royal coffers. Where there are Zemindars, the only difference is that another screw is interposed between the farmers general or amils, and the actual cultivators of the soil. The zemindars often exact payment from their ryots, and then hold out in their mud-forts against the aril, until the contending parties can arrange, after a certain amount of battering and a sufficient nun. ber of parleys, the exact sum which will satisfy the royal exchequer, and leave a suitable balance for the benefit of the amil. Between such millstones as the amils and zemindars of Qude, the unhappy ryot is of course ground to powder. Besides growing the crop and paying the revenue, he is impressed by the zemindar to fight bis annual battles against the amil, whose rabble retainers spoil his goods, and deveur or drive off his cattle. The battles in question are of every day occurrence A member of the House of Commons recently stated in his place, that whilst marching through Oude some years ago, he had heard the sound of artillery, either on the one side of his road or the other, on each of the first nine days of his journey. That was and is the ordinary mode of collecting the revenue from land-holders of power and courage suflicient to resist the authorities, rather than patiently submit to be piandered, When the end in view cannot be effected by these which we have truly called ordinary means, still stronger measures are resorted to without seruple. Within the last ten years, an amil sold a thousand men, women and children into slavery, in order to make good a de- ficiency of revenue from the proceeds of the sale.

“The same despotic lawlessness pervades every department of the Go- vernment,—if a state of things so wretched be worthy of such respecta- ble terms. Very recently the King appoiuted one of his fiddlers chief justice of the realm. Probably the jadge was upon a par with the Court. Police there seems to be none for the prevention of crime; Go- vernment exists for the collection of revenue. Men are shot down in broad day-light close to the gates of Lucknow, and the murderer re- places the pistol in his belt, and deliberately walks off, without question or hindrance fiom any one. We are indebted to the surgeon of the

sritish Residency, now a member of the Medical Board, for the follow- ancedote:—He had been out in the country to attend a patient. On his return to the city, he heard a pretty brisk fire of musketry, but such

testimonials of their courage and conduct were aflixed to their manly breasts. That the Peace to which we have referred may be of long continuance, we hope ; but we could not but think at the time of its being concluded, that it was premature —that Russia had not been sufficiently punished — that the damage of war had not been brought sufliciently home to her —that her anxiety for a suspension of hostilities proceeded

more from internal exhaustion than from a sincere wish to

cultivate the arts of peace — to improve her internal organi- gation — to advance the material interests of her people by im- proved means of communication -— the emancipation of her countless serfs —the adoption, in short, of the principles which create a public opinion, and of the institutions which tend to foster its expansion, and at the same time limit its

_ expression within legitimate bounds. Theseapprehensions we

still think will be found not to have been visionary. Searcely had the ink with which the Treaty of Peace was signed dried upon the parchment on which it was inscribed, when the

Scythian, witha faithlessness which his savage ancestors would |

have scorned, declined to comply with the express stipulations

of his authorized agent; and now the dark cloud of war

against Britain is hovering in the far East, and there is no subt that Russian intrigue and Russian agents are and bayve a 5 5

been at work, instigating the Shah of Persia to assume an | attitude of hostility to Kugland. The particular incidents |

which have brought the meteor flag of England into the Per- sian Gulf, as the standard of an enemy, have not yet been made public; but we doubt not that the complication will he found to have been a part of the policy of Russia, to distract

the attention and divert the power of Britain from the scene }

of the recent stragzle in Europe, while she might with the aid of her ally beyond the Caucasus and the Caspian, strike a blow at the Indian possessions which form sy important a part of tic empire on which the san never sets.

This brief reference to Persia, with the history, policy and topography ef which we confess we are but slightly ac- quainted —-naturally brings to our notice that immense

ervitery in disputed supr@acy. The country of the wildost fictions, its

ndia, over which the Union Jack floats in un-

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| sounds were too common to excite any great surprise. After passing | the gate, however, he found that two regiments of the King’s infantry \having quarrelled, each corps had taken possession of the houses upon one side of the principal street, across which they were keeping up a smart fusillade. When the officer, who-e person and equipage were | well known, approached the scene of action, a chief combatant of one |of the regiments rushed into the middle of the street, and bawled out 'at the top of his voice, ‘Stop, stop! wait a minute till the Doctor Sahib has gone by !’”

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The following characteristic aneedote from the same source is worthy of quotacion. If we could imagine that our cotemporary the Islander was published for onlytone short week in his Oudian Majesty’s dominions, and was characterized by its usual sickly attempts at wit in 'the shape of intercepted letters, how soon would printer, editor and devils share the fate of poor Rajah Buktar Singh !—

“ Rajah Buktar Singh—a Hindoo, as the name indicates—was the | general of the King’s army, and chief of the police. Up toa certain minute he was the prime tavourite of the King. Then he was disgraced | and ordered for immediate execution, (with great difficulty averted), | | for the simple offence of making a bad joke. The King twirled his | | thumb through the top of his hat, and the general said, ‘ There’s a hole in your majesty’s crown.’ Instantly went forth the mandate, ‘Take | / cif ins head.’? Dy means of the interference of the British Resident | | his life was saved, but he was literally stripped to the skin, of honour, property and clothes. “*Allthe garments of the disgraced chief had been nears | richly-ornamented turban, Lis magnificent oriental dress, his tuiwar or |

_ sword, his pistols, his coshmere seart, used as a belt,—all had been re-) This outrage, 80 unprovoked, so gross an inyasion of the rights

|moved. With a scanty eloth tied round bis loins,—a cloth such as the |

Jowest of the labouring classes wear,—he was lying, when we entered, | | on this uncomfortable coach,’ (a rough native bed, such as is used by with the freedom of debate, in the Legislative capitol of the

| native servants, without mat or mattress,) * otherwise naked.’ ”?

| + In Blackwood’s Magazine for August, 1856, we notice an elaborate _review of Lord Dalhousie’s administration of the Government of India, in Which the writer traces with a masterly hand the vast material im- provements that have been effected in the newly acquired territory, under the direction of the distinguished statesman referred to. We can /make room for only one short extract:—

“ 1349 miles of road have been cleared and coustructed; 853 miles are under construction; 2487 miles have been traced; and 5272 miles surveyed—all exclusive of minor cross and branch roads. This wasia 1852, and great lengths of road then under construction have since been completed. But take the statement as it stands, and realise its mean- ing It tells us that, before the Punjab had been six years a British | province, there were completed in it, er in process of completion, roads | of sufficient extent to traverse thrice the length of Great Britain from

John 0’ Groats to Dover—or, in other words, to form three parallel lines of geod read from oue end of our Island to the other;—while the 8600 ‘miles of road projected, and already traced and surveyed, would suffice

to form 120 roads crossing the entire breadth of our Island, from the

German Ocean to the Atlantic and Trish Channel! Surcly these are

rtupendous undertaxings—and all within a siugle province of our Indian , Rapire!”

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the southern portion of this Continent, from the Mississippi to California—the country whose history is romance, the facts of |

which history are, indeed, stranger than fiction—the country | ! whose treasure-laden galleons were once the envy of all the |

= —————————————— ee and fraud, been completely perverted to serve the vile purposes and interests of the worst portion of the population. In Kansay we have had presented to us the most revolting details of mur-

der and rapine whieh the history of any part of the world ever

exhibited. A set of ruffians, countenanced and supported by the Federal Government, haye inyaded the territory, setupa sham Legislatare and Governor—ruthlessly destroyed the pro- perties of the peaceable settlers, many of whom they murdered and scalped! and have, in armed bands, forcibly prevented intended settlers from entering the territory, whenever they supposed it possible that the immigrants might entertain a belief in the doctrine of the much-vaunted Declaration of In-

dependence, that all men were born equal, with equal rights to the pursuit of happiness, &c, These proceedings in Kansas, and at Washington, arising as they do from the total irrecon- cileable antipathy between freedom and slavery — between

intellectual power and brate foree—between the speculations of the philosopher and the bludgeon of the bully—indieate to us, pondering on them under circumstances removed from all that can tend to warp the mind from a calm and dispassionate review of the facts necessary to the formation of an impartial judgment—that the bond which holds together this bundle of sticks is so weak that the duration of the Union is not fated to be long, and that the respective stars and stripes which form the federal ensign will shortly be subjected to a division, im

/which each of the present constituents of the Union will receive

as its future symbol its solitary star and its fragment of a stripe, as there are not suflicient of the latter to afford one to each.

Sick of the contemplation of the profligacy and corruption that are sapping the foundations on which our common an- cestors founded their beau ideal of a Republic, in comparison. with which those of Plato, Sir Thomas Moore and Lord Bacon were to pale their ineffectual lights—we gladly ask the atten- tion of our readers to the proud contrast presented by the country which we colonists on the western side of the Atlantic

| Senate Chamber, and striking him on the head with a bludgeon,

notwithstanding the national prejudices and autipathies of

dispatch the armada against the English coasts — the country | 5 5 ~ |30me of us—are proud to call our home.

of the highest and purest chivalry—is now sunk into a depth | The world alles ne shrenans tl chsssnh of ts lt te of social and political demoralization which renders her almost baited Ge tata i i a : oe i oie alts a a bye-word amongst the nations. In place of the high-born | iiecians ee 1 xa ones er oe Spanish noble, and high-souled Spanish dame of the olden time, | — a nee *y Tn orsaate Gunton, pe BPN egy Spain offers to our gaze but the Sovereign of abandoned pro- | if an Saropme Spite for forty years had diyerted the mind of fligacy, and the unprincipled adventurer of the sword, as the |“ nation, essentially devoted to the arts of peace, from that

controllers of her destiny. / attention to its military system which is the prominent object

Italy agitated as she is, and longing for fandamental changes | of most of the other European States — it appeared that the

in the systems of government which obtain within her borders, | T80urces of the kingdom were sufficient to enable her to stand

does certainly present a pleasing contrast to Spain. In noticing | “* confident against the world in arms.”” That glorious review

the state of the Italian Peninsula, we cannot pass without | of the squadron at Spithead, when the Royal Mistress of the

noticing the comparatively small kingdom of Sardinia, whose | proudest fieet that ever swept the ocean passed along the two:

noble conduct in the late war has earned the admiration of the lines of ships, each twelve miles in length ! and then led off in world, and whose constitutional government affords the only | grand procession of the whole— must have formed one of the,. instance on the continent of Europe of a monarch relying on | if not the most magnificent spectacle ever witnessed by man. the loyalty and affection of his subjects for the security of his! The enthusiasm with which the myriads of her brave tars wel-- throne and dynasty. /comed the Royal Lady —the cheering from so many throats.

Of the Austrian empire, composed as it is of different) — the saluting from so many guns — that wonderful iamina- nationalities, kept together by the pressure of an enormous tion of the fleet at night— the voluntary and devoted homage standing army anda gigantic system of police — we cannot ,

shown to a delicate lady by the countless thousands of her sub- predicate a future of prosperity. Made up of various fragments

jects — must have demonstrated to the subjects of other Powers

’ territory which her centra ition in F » gave her a_ ie of territory which her central position in Europe gave ber * that the trae elements of political greatness, the trae source of a Sovercign’s security, are to be found in the affections of a

free people.

chance of obtaining at the termination of any general war, she has contrived to absorb additions to her original purely German

territory as heterogeneous as the contents of a shark’s stomach. ; ‘ y s “What constitutes a State?

Not high raised battlewent or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate;

Italy, Hungary and Poland have each been foreed to contribute to the widening of her skirts and the lengthening of her stakes ; but the guilty usurping power is at easeamid the plunder about as much as the Southern slave-owner who sleeps with pistols beneath his head, as a protection against the passions of his victims.

Talking of slave-owners reminds us that a brief notice of our

Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays or broad armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred or spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride — ; : No!—wmen, high-minded men. neighbours and their affairs may not be inappropriate. The ° e s . > . ° spectacle which the United States have lately presented to the Men who their duties know, world is one which we think will go far to dispel the illusion But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain — which the theory of purely democratic institutions is so caleu-

lated to create. This nation, which boasts, as the foundation

Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain:—

: wo These constitute a § ~ of its constitution, that all men are born free and equal, and oP CARED a Eee

with an inherent right to the pursuit of wealth and happiness,| ‘The naval power of the nation having been so fally proven, ig not ashamed to hold in bondage millions of men, and. the mind naturally turns to the military arm of the national the executive government of twenty-five millions is put in defence, and when we read of Her Majesty attired in military force to compel a poor unfriended fugitive slave to return | garb, so far as became her sex, riding her palfrey, for the to his serfdom; and he is told that for him the Declaration nonce converted by the adjuncts of the occasion into the des- of Independence is a dead letter—that the greatest tyrant in| trier of the knight of the times of chivalry ; and after the the world is the British Sovereign, in whose world-wide domi- | excitement and fatigues of the day, bivowacking for the night nions not a slave exists! Now, what are the moral and political | under a temporarily constructed roof, and guarded by the effects of this ‘* peculiar institution ’’ of slavery? Start not, | stout hearts and strong arms of the loyal men, who would each reader, we intend not a moral essay; but will leave you to of them have met death ere harm should have come to her or answer the question after you shall have read the following hers—we are reminded of other British Queens, as Boadicea, statement of facts: A person holding the high and responsible | urging her people to repel the all-conquering Roman, and rush- eee OF mecen han af Che Saved ar a eeneren ee cee _ing herself into the bloody ficld ; and of Elizabeth exciting the while attending the Legislature at Washington, deliberately enthusiasm of her gallant subjects when the then powerful shoots a waiter on the floor of the breakfast-room of his Hotel, ‘Spaniard had launched against her realm the mightiest arma- and because the murderer is an advocate of slavery, and a | ment that up to that time had ever appeared in the “ narrow sympathiser with slave-owners, in the capital of a slave terri- geas.”’

tory, and because the murdered man was a foreigner and a

Her Majesty’s family has given a noble taste of its quality menial, whose life was held in no higher estimation than that jy His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Born of of a nigger—he is declared guiltless of any crime! The awful royal blood— nursed in the lap of luxury, with every thing death of the murdered man broke the heart of his wife, who around him to make life pleasant in a land of peace — with soon followed him to his tomb! Take another instance of the | no imperative obligation on him to braye the perils and incon- beautiful working of the ‘‘equality ” theory: A member of | yeniences of war—his generous nature scorned the ignoble the United States Senate, in his place in the Senate Chamber, | life of the faineant, and rushing to the field, he shared the dared to give utterance to his sentiments against slavery and dangers and participated largely in the blood-emblazoned slave-holders, and how was he treated? A ruffian, who was a glories of Alma and Inkermann. On his return to England, member of the lower branch of the Legislature, the House of the people gladly acquiesced in his appointment as Comman- Representatives, attacked him whilst writing at his desk in the | der-in-Chief, as being a worthy suceessor to the late Lord ‘Hardinge, the hero of ‘‘Albuera, lavish of her dead.”

In connection with the late war, no name appears so illu- mined with a halo of glory as that of Florence Nightingale. All our readers, we presume, are acquainted with the fact, that a young, high-born, and tenderly-nurtured English lady _—animated by the spirit of merey —left her ancestral halls,

endangered his life. This was done in broad day, in the pre- sence of several fellow members of the individual assaulted.

of a member of the Legislature—so atrocious an interference

only free country in the world—was visited by what punish- ‘ment, think you? A jury of his country found the offender »®de adieu, it might be forever, to her aged sire and the guilty of the assault, as we have detailed it, and the Court (in V@tious members of her family — to earry comfort and conso- this case the exponent of the popular opinion of the South on lation to the wounded, sick and dying in the teeming hospital slavery), imposed a fine on the murderous ruffian of three hun- | of Scutari— to smooth the pillow of the dying warrior, no dred dollars!! But these instances, gross as they are, and matter what his rank might be, or what his previous life had exemplifying as they do the demoralized condition of society in| been. This model of Christian heroism is unparalleled. When the States —a condition resulting from the influence of the the deadly fever was adding its handreds of victims to those democratic nature of these political institutions upon the | whom war had stretched upon the beds of torture, this lady ** peculiar institution ’’ of slavery —sink into utter insigni- might be seen, ‘in the still watches of the night,” bearing her ficance when placed beside the events which have been witnessed | small lamp — visiting unattended, saye by the unseen angel of in California and Kansas. In the former, we have seen the | mercy, of which to many of those whom she eame to visit she adoption of Lynch-law by the really law-abiding and law-loving must have appeared the incarnation — approaching the couch portion of the people, who were compelled to the desperate re- ‘on which the rude soldier lay — soothing his bodily pains by Source of superseding the ordinary tribunals of the country, the application of human remedies, and bearing comfort to his | the machinery of which had, by the most rascally corruption | mind by those words which none can use so well as woman,