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ADDRESS TO THE SUN.

(The following beautiful and spirited verses are ex- srsoted from Cooper's “ Prison-Rhyme,” « Chartist production of great poetical merit, and known to very few in the Colonies.)

Hat glorious Sun !—all hail the captive’s friend! Giver of purest joys, where sorrow fain W ould enter and abide, and traitorous, lend Her power io aggravate the tyrant’s chain: — Great Exorcist, that bringest up the train Of childhood’s joyance, and youth’s dazzling dreams Prom the heart’s sepulchre,—until, again, I live in ecatasy, ’mid woods, and streams, Aad golden flowers that laugh while kissed by thy bright beama

Ayo,—once more,—mirrored in the silver Trent, noon-tide majesty f think { view

With boyish wonder; or, till drowsed and spent With eagerness, peer up the vaulted blue

‘With shaded eyes, watching the lark pursue Her dizzy flight ;—then on a fragrant bed

Of meadow eweete stil] sprent with morning dew, Dream how the heavenly chambers overhead

‘With atepe of grace and joy the boly angele tread. 3:

Of voices sweet, and harps with golden wires, Touch'd by the fingers of the Seraph throng ;

Of rddiant vision which the Cherub choirs Witness, with jubilee of rapturous song,

Aod without weariness their joy prolong,— I lie and dream,—til], with a start, 1 wake,

Thinking my mother’s home is still among Barth's children, and her yearning heart will ache,

if for those angel joys, her smile I should forsake. — 4

Q heart,—aow cold in the devouring grave, And torn, no more, by scorn and suffering,-~ How fondly didst thou to thy darling cleave! Although thy tyrants but a worth!ess thing Kateemed him. Rankied, deep, oppreesion’s sting In thy recesses :—still, in hardihood

Of conscious right, stern challenge thou didst fling

Back at thy foemen and their hireling brood,— Aad beat unto old ape with free and youthful blood! 5

Mother,—thy wronge,—the common wrongs of all To labor doom’d by proud and selfish drones, Kaduringly have fixed the burning gall Deep in my veins—aye in my very bones. I hate ye,—-things with eurplices and crowns!— Serpents that poison,—tigers that devour Poor human kind,—and fill the earth with groans, Through every clime! God send ye were no more Ye'd have @ merry requiem from shore to shore! 6 Taxes for king and priest a knave was wont To filch from my poor widow’d inother’s toil ; And while the prowling jackal! held his hunt, He battened on the offals of the spoil,— And wiock’d the sufferers! How my blood did boil When iately I beheld a gilded stone Raised to the memory of this vermin vile, And pious charity ascribed thereon To kim who gray beneath the Poor's grim curse had grows! é laid my aged mother near the dust Of her oppressor; but no gilded verse Tells how she toi!’d to win her child a crust, And fasting, still toil’d on: no rhymes rehearse llow tenderly she strove to be the nurse _ Of truth and nobleness in her loved boy, Spite of hia rage

O Sun! thou dost amerce _ My wither’d heart, for the poor fleeting joy With which thy beaine began my sadness to destroy. ~ ‘

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Bright Gazer on the wilderness of woe Called Earth ;—dost thou in mockery amile Above,—like al] thou look’st upon below ? (fondly hoped thou wouldst, a little while, captive of his cunkerous care beguile— But,—for one glimpse of cbildhood’s cheerful bloom,— Thon hast browght back upon my heart a pile ; Of achiags rendered to the dreary tomb ; a mak's: me fee! | iasten to that relam of gloom. e ®

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Resplendent light! now wanee beam ;—yet who the morrow shall survive o see, shall thee behold gilding the pains, And hear thy gladden’d birds rechant their joyous strains.

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WHEN MAY A SCOTCHMAN BE CALLED DRUNK.

“ Well, Doctor, pray give us a definition of what you consider being fou, that we may know in future when a cannie Scot may, with propriety, be termed drunk.”

“Well, gentlemen,” said the Doctor, ‘that is rather a kittle question to answer, for you know there is a great diversity of opinion on the subject. Some say that a man is sober as Jong a8 he can stand upon his legs. An Irish friend of mine, « fire-eating, hard- drinking captain of dragoons, once deciared to me, on his honor as a soldier and a gentleman, that he would never allow any friend of his to be called drunk till he saw him trying to light his pipe at the pump. And others there be, men of‘learning and respectability too, who are of opinion thata man has a right to consider himself sober as Jong as he can lie flat on bis back without holding on by the ground. For my own part, J am a man of moderate opinions; and would allow that a man wae fou, without being just so far gone as any

a story about the Laird of Bonmemoon, that will be & good illustration of what I call being fou.

“The Laird of Bonniemoon was gae fond of his bottle—in short, just a poor drunken body as I said afore. On one occasion he was asked to dine with Lord R ——-,a neighbour of his, and his Lord- ship, being well acquainted with the Laird’s dislike to small drinks, ordered a bottle of cherry brandy to be set before him after dinner, instead of port, which he al- ways drank in preference to claret, when nothing better was to be got. The Laird thought this fine heartsome stuff, so on he went filling his glass like the rest, and tell- ing his cracks, and ever the more he praised his Lord- ship’s Port. ‘It wasa fine full-bodied wine, and lay well on the stomach, not like the poisonous stuff, claret, that made a body feel as if he had swallowed a nest of puddocks.’ Well, gentlemen, the Laird had finished one bottle'of cherry brandy, or, as his Lordship called it, ‘his particular port,’ and had just tossed off a glass of the second bottle, which he declared to be even better than the first, when his old confidental servant Watty, caine starving into the room, and making his best bow, announced that the Laird’s horse was at the door.

‘Get out o’ that ye fause loon,’ cried the Laird, pull- ing off his wig and flinging it at Watty’s head. ‘ Dinna ye see, ye blethering brute, that I’m just beginning my second bottle?’ ‘ But Maister, says Watty, scratching his head, ‘its amaist twall o'clock.’ ‘Weel, what though it be ?’ said the Laird, turning up his glass with drunken gravity, while the rest of the company were like to split their sides with laughing at him and Watty. °It canna be ony later, my man, 80 just reach me my wig and let my naig bide a wee.”

Well, gentlemen, it was a cold frosty night, and Watty soon tired of kicking his heels at the door; so, in a little while, back he comes, and says he, Maister, maister, its amaist one o’clock! * Well, Watty,’ says the Laird with a hiccup—for he was far gone by this time,--it will never be ony earlier, Watty, my man, and that’s a comfort, so you may just rest yoursel’ a wee while langer till I finish my bottle. A full belly makes a stiff back, you ken, Watty.’—Watty was by this time dancing mad; so after waiting another hall- hour, back he comes and says he, * Laird, Laird, as true as death the sun’s rising.’ ‘Weel, Watty, says the Laird, looking awful wise, and trying with both hands to fill his glass, ‘let him rise, my man, let him rise, he has farther to gang the day than either you or me, Watty.’

“This answer fairly dumfounded poor Watty, and he gave it up in despair. But at last the bottle was finish- ed; the Laird was lifted into the saddle, and off he rode in high glee, thinking all the time the moon was the sun, and that he had fine day light for his journey. ‘Heech, Watty, my man,’ says the Laird patting his stomach and speaking awful thick, ‘ we were nene the warse for that second bottle this frosty mornin.”

“* Paith” says Watty, blowing his fingers and Jooking as blue as a bilberry, ‘ your honor is may be nane the waree for it, but I am nane the better; [ wish f was.’ Well, on they rode fou cannily, the Laird gripping hard at the horse’e mane, and rolling about like a sack of mea} ; for the cold air was beginaing to make the epirits

tell on him. At last they came to a dit of @ brook that srowesd the road, and the Laisd’e horse, being pratty

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well used to having his own way, stopped short and put down his head to take a drink. hie had. the fleet make the poor Laird Jose his balance, and away he went over the horse’s ears into the very middle of the brook. The Laird, honest man, had just sense enough ‘to hear the splash and to know that. something was } wrong ; but he as so drunk that he did not in the least suspect it was himself, ‘ Watty,’ says he, sitting: up in the middle of the stream and stammering out the, words with — difficulty, ‘ Watty, my man, there’s surely something fa’en plout into the brook...‘ Faith you may say that,’ replied Watty, like to rolloff his horse with laughing ‘ for it’s just yourself, Laird! . ‘ Hout fie, no, Watty,’ cried the Laird, with a hiccup between every

word, ‘it surely canna be me, Watty, for I’m here?” Now, gentlemen, continued the tor, here is a case in which | would ajlow a man to be drunk, alth he had neither lost his apeech nor the vee. of his limbs, — The Old Forest Ranger, by Capt. W. Campbell. : . YET

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. PONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.

TO EDWARD WHELAN, FSQ:,.M.P.P. No. Il.

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In the first place then, the Government would be so constructed as wholly to corsist of some of the leaders of the liberal movement and others, advocates and friends of the Responsible System. ‘This having been done, the next step would be to confer all the principal government appointments upon men who, besides being duly qualified by education and experience to discharge all the duties of their several appointments, had proved the sincerity oftheir attachment to the Responsible System, by their uncompromising advocacy of the cause, when for any one prominently to rank with the Liberal

insidious slanders of the dominant faction, and to be assailed by all the shafts of ridicule and misrepresenta-

lings of corruption.

These changes would be strictly in accordance with the principles of reason, justice, and sound policy: for they who laid down the plan of any truly glorious and triumphant campaign, and officera and men who meti- toriously distinguished themselves in the field during ite continuance—they who devised and they who carried into effect the operations which have led tothe este- blishment of the freedom, peace, and prosperity of a country, are, undoubtedly, the parties upon whom a grateful people would be most eager to bestow rewards, and whom they would be most solicitous to honour with their confidence, by elevating them to places of dignity, authority, and trust.

The parties then whose zeal for the extension of the true and constitutional liberties of the People, shall bring about the establishment of such a System of Go vernment, as shall be beet calculated to work for the general good, are they from amonget whom should be selected, not only the members of the Government, but all its principal officials. No subdued enemies must be retained in places of trust and power, either in the Ca- binet or the Camp of the conquerors. Upon the faith of such men no fall reliance could be placed. The more freely the principles of the British onstitution are ad- mitted into that of this Colony, the more closely must the practice of its Government approach to that of Great Britain.

Having thus shewn who, on principles of reason, justice and sound policy, ought upon the introduction of the Reaponsible System, to constitute the Government, and hold the principal public appoitments, I will next briefly endeavour to prove that, were these men a thoroughly selfish, base, and corrupt, as the still dom+ nant, although tottering faction and their payees repre- sent them, the Responsible System,

“The only one which wary statesmen know To make men honestand to keep them £0,”

whieh will bring them inte power, will compel them, if they have any regara at all for their own interests, to act honestly and in conformity with the public princi- pies which they now profess.

‘Ae f have alreadyfenid, those who, under the Respon- sible System, will be called upon to constitute the Go- vernrent and occupy the public offices, will, generally speaking, have to make some arrangements, involving

persopa) sacrifices, in order to doe; and haowiag that

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