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— POETRY. LETS MEET OUR FORTUNE SQUARELY. Lile holds some bitter histories, As most of us discover,

And many darksome mysteries Above our hearthstones hover,

| But if our fale hold love or hate, Or cold indifference barely, | Let’s bear us up, what'er the cup, | And meetour fortune squarely. in } | If those in whom we put our trust, Should prove but summer friends. } The thoughtthat we ourselves are just, Wili sureyY make amends, If, soon or lite, we think that fate Hath trea ed us unfairly, It’s all the sime, let's show we're game, And meetmisfortune squarely. } if midway i) our journey through, We find oirselves bereft : OU: some iron our heart chosen few | We must ive/or those are left. And think lat those are spared the woes | Of those who are left behind. ; And we've not fullilled the path God willed

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a am da = = ile LITERATURE. how I should like him fora father-in-law,’ spectators, and the noise of their voices

| because he had not reached that print | migtt be heard a mile off, like a roar or » yet. Some shadowy ides of this kind may | great tamult. The militiamen advanced, have flitted across his brain, it | without fiimching, and as they seemed so had ehaped itself definitely he would have | steady and determined, the mob gradually | dismissed it as ridiculousandabsurd. The , made way for them. They were greeted with ideas, however, which intend to take a pers Shouts of laughter and sarcastic express manent lodging in the mind are careful sions of admiration. The day before they not to present themselves in visible shape | were laughed at because they had no uni» at first. They come in a gaseous state and forms, and this day they were laughed at solidify themselves gradually afterwards. | because they had uniforms, Apparently Mr. Stedham’s companion, the florid | the population of Whittleeup had a natural man, turned out to be a calico printer of | gilt of satire, which was not likely to lack er lof Whittleeup. His name was Joseph | suilicient reasons for exercising itself. * Nothing of the sort... t's nobbut our | Anison, as he told Philip Stanburne, very | Pereem a6 want to go on the spree. He | simply adding, ‘If you feel lonely,sir,some~ CHAPTER XXI, | reckons he isn’t so well a now, and - | times of an evening. during your stayat| The officers’ mess was rather a good thing mun go and play him fora fortnit at hars | | for Garley, He charged four and six-

: ; Whittlecup, amd would like to amuse your- | a | cannot make where he finds th self ata game at billiards, I’ve a good table pence a head for dinner without wine; and | brass.

ile owes money all up ond down, | at my house, and should be very glad to | although the (‘ulonel and a large majority and there's eight or ae Catneney in Whit» | see you. Anybody will tell you where || of his officers were temperate men, a good tlecup as could stop his outin’ if they were | live— outside the town, near the river,about | deal of protit may be got out of the ordis ’

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CHAPTER XIX.—Cnntinued.

‘We're goin’ to have your parsyn to’ preach at Whittlecup on Sunday,and a good

, maany ‘ll go to hear hina, for he’s very well |

liked in Whittlecup.’ ‘ What is he coming to preach here for ?

{sita charity sermen? Is ita propaga, |

tion ?’

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so minded,’ | two miles above the bridge.’

| uary vinous and spirituous consumption of ‘ Does he drink as much as he used dor

‘You'll heara very good sermon next aset of English gentlemen in barder exer. Sunday, Captain Stanburne,’ Mr. | cise than usual, and more than usually dis. | Stedham ; our incumbent ~a¥ Sootythorn, | posed to be convivial. Even the cigars

in’? * Why, no, | cannot say he does; but he

said

HIS Company insures Farm Property,

| Mr, Blunting—a very eloquent man.’ Philip was already aware that Mr, Sted- ham was strongly Protestant,and hesitated slightly as he answered that, being Catholic, | he should hear mass at Saint Agatha’s at |

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| follows worse.’

| + How so? what d’ye mean ?” | * Lasses.’

| Here the grey man expressed his sense |

| Lonpon, Nov, 28.—The conterence on the | | Eastern questior at Constantinople will as- | semble after preliminary meetings, which

, of astonishment and disapproval by a pro- | begin Dec. 8, at the residence of General

and contents, Churches, | [gnatieft, at which the decision of European | Schoolhouses, and other isolated risks, on | he Three Years System, at lowest current | oar : ’ rates, Pays all losses caused py lightning, ference will imply divergencies between | come into Whittlecup to-night.’

powers is to be settled. Opening of con- | powers settled. Their resolution will then be submitted te the Porte for its adhesion.

The Times’ correspondent says: ‘The occupation of Bulgaria has become almest & political point of honor for Russia from which she will not recede, while nox thing will induce Turkey to acquiesce.’

Lonpon, No, 283—p. m.—Cable dispatches unimportant.

Russia and German diplomatic circles doubt that the conference will be able to | settle the complications,

Abdul Kerim Pasha is preparing to invade Wallacia, being convinced that Roumania | will co.operate with Russia. | Consols 95 3-4.

New York, Nov. 28.— The South Carclina Board of Canvassers were released on a writof habeas corpus issued by the U.S, Circuit Court.

Leading South Carolina Democrats pro- test against Gov. Chamberlain’s call for Vederal troops.

Two men and two women were burned to death in a restaurant which took fire in Chicago last night,

The Mexican revolutionists recently won & victory over the Government troops, rout- ing 2,000 regulars and capturing their can~ non and supplies.

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THAT GODEKICH JOB,

Mr. Mackenzie has a few peculiarly zeal- ous organs. Much of their time, as may be supposed, is taken up with endeavoring to explain awav lis numerous shady transac-~ tions, Nome of thems, uuwever, su Tar as we

have seen, has yet had a single word to say about the Goderich Harbor job. We in- vite them to a consideration of this mat» ter. The public is somewhat anxiously waiting to be informed why the work was given to one contractor ata price $25,000 more than the tender of another contrac. tor, whose business and financial reputation was of the highest character. [t has been boldly declared that it has been refused the one and given the other because the one was a Conservative and the other a Grit. If Mr. Mackenzie’s recollection has got somes what rusty, or it is not convenient for him to remember enough to instruct his organs,

we refer him to Mr. Blake, who knows ail about itand has a good memory. With the evidence now before the public, it is impossible to say anght else than that a very gross job was perpetrated, If there is another side to the question let us hear it —the sooner the better.— Toronto Mai/.

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THE VICTORY IN QUEEN'S COUNTY.

The truckling, shuffling Government at Ottawa, by which Canada has had the mis- fortune to be misgoverned during the past three years, received a sharp blow on Wed- nesday last from the electors of Queen’s County, P. E.I., who at the last election returned the Hon. Mr. Laird by acclama- tion, Ihe Hon. J.C. Pope has been elec- ted after a warm contest by a handsome majority, amd goes to Ottawa a determined opponent to the present Government,

Both on personal and general grounds this success is ground for congratulation, Mr. Pope is a very able man and will bring an important accession of strength to the Opposition in the Commons. But the ric> tory is still more important as signifiing that Prince Edward Island, following the glorious example of Victoria,in Nova Scotia, is coming into line, and will soon be in com- plete accord with the Conservative party. The Battle in Queen’s was fought out be» tween Mr. Pope, the conservative candi. date, and Mr. Welsh, the Ministerial candi. date, on questions ef Dominion politics. Mr. Welsh announced himself the humbie follower of Mr. McKenzie. In his address to the electors he said, * the general policy of the Mackenzie administration, based as | believe it to be, upon principles of honesty and justice, paeets my cordial approval.” Mr. Pope, on the other hand, boldly and persistently attacked the policy of the (t. tawa Government. Its record during the past three years was fully discussed before the electors. Senator Haviland, who made an able speeeh in the Athenwum in favor ot Mr. Pope, subjected the various acts of the Mackenzie administration to a scathing res view, and declared himself an uncompro- mising opponent of the Grit rulers. ‘1 have always been a suporter of Sir Joba Macdonald’s flag, and am so still,’ he said. The triumph of Mr. Pope is, therefore, an emphatic condemnation of the present

Government, and the result in Queen's County shows beyond all doubt that a friend

election in any constituency in the Island. Montreal Gazeite.

A curious story comes from Paris. It is not so very long since a young man, well dressed and apparently pretty rich,entered a clandestine gaming table. He was play-~ ing at trente-et-quarante, and had already won & little pile of gold. ‘Red wins,’ pre» sently observed the banker and proceeded to hand over 100 Napoleons to the unknown one, for the stakes were high. But the stranger made no attempt to take the gold, and returned no answer to two or three questions in reference to the game. His eyes remained fixed on the red, while his features assumed a ghastly paleness. A player touched his arm—he was dead Then the banker cooly withdrew the 100 Napoleons, observing that that play was in the nature of a reciprocal contract, which could only be entered into between parties both of whom were capable of contracting, and therefore never between a live man and

disease.

of Mr. MacKenzie would have no chance of

| longed whistle, ‘ Why, there'll be the militians here on | Sunday, Robinson tells me as they’ve

* Ay, and a Lonny lot they look too,’ said the red man, who, being an inhabitant of Whittleeup, had been present at the entry of Captain Stanburne’s company. ‘ You never saw such a set of ragamuflins im your life.’

‘Why, haven't they got red jackets same as regular Soldiers ?’

‘Nowt 0’ th’ sort. ‘he look more like five score Irish haymakers.’

‘ And whe’s the officer ?’

‘A young chap out of Yorkshire—some name as what dye call him, of Wendrum Hall,’

* Stanburne ?’

‘That's it, that’s it. He’a the only one of the lot with a uniferm except the ser- geant.’

‘He doesn’t wear a uniform just now, however, observed Captain Stanburne. But his hearers were far too slow of comprehen~ sion to understand the hint.

this, ' line.

|Sootythorn, There was a perceptible change in Mr. Stedham'’s manner after They had come upon a dividing He had been very easy in his pre- vious conversation ; he now became more strictly polite, and even perhaps, a little ceremonious, It would be an injustice to the good people of Sootythorn to say that they were divided by religious animosities ot any virulent kind, but the members of the two churches had lived so much apart that they really did not know each other. They never entered each other's houses, and if they met by chance in some public and neutral place—such as the parlor of an inn—the gulf of separation was acknow-

ledged by a degree of politeness unusual in the ordinary relatiorfs of life. In this

way they had lived side by side for genera~ tions; but of late the Rev. Abel Blunting —an earnest and truly pious evangelical clergyman, who sincerely believed that for a religion te do good every detail of it must be historically true, and who had been endowed by nature with strong combative instincts and corresponding powers, both

‘Beg pardon, sir,’ said the red man ; * but

[ saw him in uniform about an hour since.’ | ‘ You don’t see him in uniform now. I am glad to get back into plain clothes again. |

My name is Stanburne,’

‘Hope you will excuse us, Mr. Stan- burne—Captaia Stanburne, | should say,’ replied the elder of the two; ‘ we meant no offence,’

‘ No offence was taken, but it seemed as well to tell you that the person yon were talking about was in the the room.’

‘Quite right, sir; quite right. One may easily speak of a gentleman, believing him to be absent, in a way that might burl Ula feelings if he was present. should have said anything against you, sir, because we don’t know anything. You don’t belong to this neighbourhood, I be~ lieve.’

‘No; I live on the Yorkshire side of Sootythorn about thirty-five miles from Sootyhorn—at a place called Stanithburne or Stanithburne Peel.’

*L know the place,’ said the olderly man ; ‘ It's a very beautiful country. There are many curious dells in the limestone formas tion about there, and | have been there oc- casionally to seek for some rather rare plants which are to be found among the rocks just above Stanithburne Peel. Tf must have trespassed sometimes on your | land, Captain Stanburne.’

‘ You are quite welcome to do so, for such a purpose.’

‘ Perhaps you may bea botanist yourself.

If you are, you live in @ place very favore able to the study certain classes of plants. ‘ Unfortunately, though I live constanty out of doors 1 know nothing’ about bot- any. The mere finding of the name of a plant has always seemed an insuperable difficulty, except when it is in flower, and | even then it is by no means easy.’ ‘There are books that would help you over that, and the flora of this part of the country is really not extensive enough to burden a man’s memory very much. Now that you have done your supper, Captain Stanburne, perhaps you would not object to the smell of tobacco. It’s disagreeable when one is eating, even to habitual smok- ers, {ama great smoker myself, and can. not endure to eat in a cloud of tobacco.’

a well.seasoned meerschaum and a well« filled tobacco pooch, and drew his arm chair away from the table. The grey man had a certain attraction for him, and he seemed to improve rapidly on acquaintance. When the pipes were lighted he continued :

‘I got a taste for botany when! was a factory lad at Shayton many years ago. [ used to goon the hills on Sunday after- noons, and 1 met three from Manchester there who were older than myself, but not richer, and who knew every plant that grew wild in our country. J learned a little geology, too, in quarries and coal mines, but merely local geology; and I well recollect what a wonderful new sensation | got from your limestone district the first time I saw it. But I never had leisure enough to follow these pursuits as I could have wish» ed. I began life in the humblest possible cireumstances, and have been a hard work+ ing man to this day.’

‘You used to live at Shayton,’ observed Philip. ‘We have two men in our regi- ment from Shayton—the doctor and lieu- tenant—a Mr. Ogden.’

‘Ogden! Why I used to be foreman at old Mr. Ogden’s mill, and he allowed me a share of the profits. We hada run of good years and it enabled me to starton my own account. I haven't been to Shayton for many years. Mrs. Ogden, who is a woman with a will, thought her husband treated me too kindly,and it was she who prevent - ed him from taking me into partnership, which he would have done 1ather then jet me into Sootythorn. The officer in your

| these victories had lelt his powers of oppo- ' sition without sufficient resistance to keep

| conquered ignorance also—had educated

: , and ne round itin Popery—an institution Not that we

| the mills at the hour of early parade.

Philip Stanburne answered by producing

physical and inteliectual—had awakened a sterner spirit of resistance to the encroachs ments of Rome, and was supported in this warfare by a Protestant association of lay- men, which had Stedham for its President. Stedham had been an ardent free-trader, and a supporter ef the ten hours bill, and |

him happy. He had conquered poverty, too, and in some ccnsiderable degree had

himself beyond the common learning of men of business. He needed resistance,

which, though not particularly flourishing im Sootythorn itself, was big enough else. where to be worth attacking even in its most insignificant outposts. It will be therefore readily understood that Mr. Anison’s invitation to Philip Stanburne was not followed by a similar invitation by Mr. John Stedham; and when the three separ- ated for the night, the chance of a meeting between Miss Stedeam and the young gentleman on whom she had made so fav- orable an impression was as remote and improbable as ever:

It was lucky for Captain Stanburne that all the factory people were just shut up in A little crowd of townspeople and children gathered round the men, but without in- terfering with the business of the hour. The company was formed in equare, three chairs were set in the middle, and as there happened to be three professional barbers amongst the men, they set to work with great energy, and did not cease until every man in the company was shaven and shorn, Their greatest merit was rapidity. They had not that delicate, that caressing man-~ ner which distinguishes the professional caiffeur, neither had they his exasperating indifferance for the value of the patient’s time. This was one step towards a soldier- like appearance, and another was made in Sootythorn that day by the clothing of the men, It was a fine warm morning, and the men did not require a roof to change their dress, The scene of the change of the costume had little which might have gratis fied that great artist who drew the soldiers hastily dressing themselves after bathing in the Arno, but it would have rejoiced the heart of George Cruikshank. Since the men changed their clothes with various degrees of rapidity, they might be simultae neously viewed in all the stages of the the great metamorphosis, (One man hada pair of trousers and a cap, but still retained a ragged old ewallow-tail; another had begun by trying on ared jacket, which contrasted oddly with his old, battered, black hat and his old fustian trowsers. It took the men some time to find garments anything neara fit. A few exceptionally fortunate ones were clothed e]most imme- diately, but some individuals of peculiar bodily conformation could hardly get fitted atall. The uniform was not elegant—the cloth was coarse in texture and dull in tint, and the cut of the coat with ite little tail behind,.was anything but graceful or be- coming. Nevertheless the men looked better and better as their old clothes gradually disappeared in bundles, aud the Captain saw himself at the bead of a much more military-looking company than that which had made its way through Whittle- cup on the preceding evening, amidst the derisive jests and the ironicai cheers of the populace.

Those cheers, and other jests of equal elegance and good taste, were heard once more when the company entered Whittle. cup that evening in the glory of regimen~ tals. The entry on the preceding even-~ ing had teen so very disagreeable to Cap- tain Stanburne that he determined on the present occasion to protect his august per~

regiment must be one of her two sons. Is his name Isaac or Jacolb:!—Isaac, is it?

to see him very weil, and | will see bim. He'll recollect my name if you'll mention

| it to him, Captain Stanburne. My name is marched Captain Stanbiarne, very much at |

| Stedham—John Stedham, The beginning of Mr. Stedham’s speech | bad prepared Philip Stapburne for its con- clusion, Nevertheless, he felt a slight shock of emotion when he heard the name.

Why, then he is the oldest. I! weuld like | same order. The open space between the

son by a body-guard. First marched a | vanguard, four abreast, and at @ distance of ‘twenty yards came the main body in the

| two was protected on each side by men in ‘single file, and in the said open space

| his ease. It was a great satisfaction to him ' in this position to thir.k that no factory girl | could get at him. These precautions were , by no means superfluous, for the crowd was

were no inconsiderable item of profit fo Mr. Garley, who had laid in a stock large enough and various enough for a tobacco. nist. He had cigars to sait every taste ; and the boxes were adorned with Spanish names so very long and sonerous and mags nilicent that the present writer can no more remember them than he can remember the blazoa ot decorations which Chere were thia cis strong and cigars which were supposed to derive some mysterious advantage from being crooked ; but however vurious in these respects, all the cigars at the lhora Inv had oue quality in common—that of beiug very dear—all those, 1 mean, which found their way into the o‘ficers’ room; but there was a box of threepennies down stairs for the commer- cials, A dense cloud of smoke filled the card« room, and through it might be discerned a group oi officers in red jackets reposing after the labors of the day, and wisely abscolving nature from other eftorts in order that she might give her exclusive care to the diges~ tion of that substantial repast which had lately been concluded in the messroom. ‘There was a party of whist players in the corner, and the rattle of billiard balls came through am Open door, Captain Eureton’s servant came in and said that there was an innkeeper trom Whittlecup who desired to speak to the Adjutant. The captain left the cardroom, and the officers scarcely noticed his depars ture, but when he came back their atten- tion was drawn to him by an exclamation of the Colonel's. ‘Why, Eureton, what is the matter now’ How grave you look!’ The Adjutant came to the hearthrug where John was standing, and said, ‘Is not Captain Stanburne a relation of yours, Colonel ?’ ‘Cousin about nine times removed. But what is the matter? e's not ill, I hope.’ * Very ill, very ill indeed,’ said Eureton, with an expression whch implied that he had not yet told the whole truth. + There's no near relation or friend otf Captain Stan-