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Again the eastern skies, 1 wander thro’ the lonely forest green, And muse, while gazing on each varied scene, Of thee.

When languor crowns the day, And droop the flowers fair, And leayes seem hur z alone Upon the breathless air. I sit beneath our oft-freyuented bower, Aad think, while looking on each drooping flower, OF thee. At twilight’s dewy hour, When balmy breezes sigh, And evening shadows flit Across the sammer sky, I leave the heartless world, a seck the grove That shades thy lifeless form, and speaks of love Of thee. When Spring returns with flowers To deck the withered: lea— To dress in robes of green Oar sweet love-haunted tree, I wander thro’ the woodland paths once more With step less high, but thoughts as those of yore Of thee.

When from the downy snow The leaves are fading fast, And scenes of beauty rare Are mingling with the past, Sadly [ watch the mournful changing dell Where long ago I took my last farewell Of thee. U lonely seems this world . Since thea hast left me, love, To join the happy band And dwell with God above ; For thou in sorrow dark would solace bring, Sweet words, which still around my mem ’ry cling, Of thee. Freetown, Jaly 16, 1857.

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‘done, or there happens to be no one to do it, is it to be left undone? And, alack, most frequently whether or not it ‘ought to be, it is.

the skirts of every male relative or friend they have, sinking pitiably year after year, eating the bitter bread of charity,

—every one of which might have been spared them by the early practice of self-dependence.

I once heard a lady say—a tenderly-reared and tender- hearted woman—that if her riches made themselves wings, as in these times riches will, she did not know anything in the world that she could turn her hand to, to keep herself from starving. A more pitiable, and, in in some sense, ha- miliating confession, could hardly have been mad6; yet it is that not of hundreds, but of thousands, in England.

Sometimes exceptions arise: here is one:

Three y ung women, well-educated and refined, were left orphans, tucir father dying just when his business promised to.realise a handsome provision for his family. It was es-

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(than any blind clamour for ill-defined “ rights ”—into what ought always to be the foundation of right—duties. And | there is one, the silent practice of which will secure to them |

of fair womanhood in order to assume the unnatural armor. of men; but simply by the full exercise of every faculty, | physical, moral, and intellectual, with which Heaven has endowed women, severally and collectively, in different. degrees ; allowing no one to rust or lie idle, merely because their owner is a woman. And, above all, let us lay the! foundation Of all real womanliness by teaching our maidens | from their cradle that the priceless pearl of decorous beaut y: | chastity of mind as well as body, existsin themselves aloue ; that a single-hearted and pure-minded woman may go, through the world, like Spenser's Una, suffering, indeed, but never defenceless ; foot-sore and smirched. but never tainted ; exposed, doubtless, to many trials, yet never either degraded or humiliated, unless by her own act she humiliates herself.

For Heaven’s sake—for the sake of “ womanhood,” the most heavenly thing next angelhood, as men tell us when they are courting us, and which it depeuds upon ourselves to

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sentially a man’s business—in many points of view, decidedly ‘make them believe in all their lives—young girls, trust an unpleasant one. Of course, friends thought“ the girls” | yourselves; rely on yourselvés! Be assured that no outward must give it up, go out as governesses, depend on relatives, | circumstances will harm you while you keep the jewel of or live in what genteel poverty the sale of the good-will| purity in your bosom, and are ever ready with the steadfast,

might allow. But “the girls” were wiser, They argued: “Lf we had been boys, it, would bave. been all right; we should have carried on the business, aud provided for our mother aud the whole family. Leing womea, we'll try it sull. It is nothing wrong; .it is simply disagreeable, It needs common sense, activity, diligence and sel {-dependence, We have all,.these; and what we have not, we will learn.” So these thre elegant and well-informed. women laid aside their pretty feminine uselessness and pleasant idleness, and sct to work. Llappi'y, the trade was one that required no personal publicity ; but they had to keep the books, manage the stock, choose and superinteud fit agents—to do things most difficult, not to say distasteful to women, and resiga en- | Joyments that, to women of their refinement, must have cost daily self-denial. Yet they didjit; they filled their father’s place, sustained their delicate mother in ease and luxury, never once compromising their womanhood by their work, but rather ennobling the work by their doing of it,

Another case—diflerent and yet alike. A young girl, an eldest sister, had to receive for step-mother a woman who ought never to have been any honest. man’s wife. Not Waiting to be turned out of her father’s house, she did a most daring and “ improper” thing—ske left it, taking with her the brothers and sisters, waom by this means only she believed she could save from harm. She settled them in a London

odging, and worked for them as daily governess. “ Heaven |

very last things we learn, often through a course of miserable ‘helps those who help themselves:” from that day this girl helplessness, heart-burnings, difficulties, contumelies and pain, | never was dependent upon any human being; while during is the lesson taught to boys from their school-days, of self | long life she has helped and protected more than I could

dependence.

Its opposite, either plainly, or impliedly, has been preached to us all our lives, “ Au independent young lady”—* a wo- man who can take eare of herself’’—and such like phrases, have become tacitly suggestive of hoydenishness, coarseness, strong-miudeduess, down to the lowest dress of bloomerism, cigarette-moking and talking slang.

And there are many good reasons, ingrained in the very tenderest core of woman's nature, why this should be. We are “the weaker vessel”—whether acknowledging it or not, most of us feel this: it becomes man’s duty and delight to show us honor accordingly. And this honor, dear as it may be to him to give, is still dearer to us to receive.

Dependence is in itself an easy and pleasant thing: depen- dence upon one we love perhaps the very sweetest thing in the world, To resign oue’s self totally and contentedly into the Eandg of another ; to have no longer any need of asserting one’s rights or one’s personality, knowing that both are as precious to that other as they ever were to ourselves; to cease taking thought about one’s self at all, and rest safe, at ease, assured that in great things and small we sball be guided and cherished, guarded and helped—in fact, thoroughly “ taken care of"—bow delicious is all this? So delicious, that it seems granted to very few of us, aud to fewer still as a per- manent condition of being.

Were it our ordinary lot, were every woman living to have either father, brother or husband to watch over and protect her, then, indeed, the harsh but salutary doctrine of self- dependence need never be heard of. But it is not so. In epite of the pretty ideals of poets, the easy taking-for- granted truths of anti-woman’s-rights educators of female youth, this fact remains patent to any person of common sense and experience, that in the present day, whether voluntarily or not, one-half of our women are obliged to take care of themselves—obliged to look solely to themselves for maintenance, position, occupation, amusement, reputation and life.

Of course, I refer to the large class for which these thoughts are meant—the: single women; who, while most needing the exercise of self-dependence, are usually the very last in whom it is inculeated or even permitted. From baby- hood they are given to understand that helplessness is fe- minine and beautiful ; helpfullness—except in certain received forms of manifestation—unwomauly and ugly.’ The boys may do a thousand things which are “ not proper for little

count—pupils and pupils’ children, friends and their children, besides brothers and sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces, down to the slenderest tie of blood, or even mere strangers. And yet she has never been anything but a poor governess, always independent, always able to assist others—because she uever | was aud never will be indebted to any one, except for love while she lives, and for a grave when she dies, May she long possess the one, and want the other!

And herein is answered the “cui bono?” of self-de- pendence, that its advantages end not with the original | possessor. In this much-suffering world, a woman who can take care of herself cam always take care of other people. She not only ceases to be an unprotected female, a nuisance and a drag on society, but her working-value therein is

clean right hand, of which, till you use it, you never know the strength, though it be only a woman’s hand.

Fear not the world: it is often juster to us than we are to ourselves. If in its harsh jostlings the ‘‘ weaker goes to the wall ’—as so many allege always happens to a woman—you will almost always find that this is not merely because of her sex, but fromsome inherent qualities in herself which, exist- ing either im woman or man, would produce just the same result, usually. more pitiful than blamable. The world is i hard enough, for two-thirds of it are struggling for the dear life—* each for himself, and de’il tak the hindmost ;” but it has a rough sense of moral justice after all. And whosoever denies that, epite’of all hindrances from individual wicked- ness, the right shall not ultimately prevail, ittipugns not merely human justice, but the justice of God,

Tue age of chivalry, with all its benefits and harmfulnesses, is gove by, for us women. \Ye capnot now baye men for our knights-errant, expending blood and. life for our sake, while | we have nothing to do but sit idle on balconies, and drop flowers ; on half-dead victors at tilt and tourney. Nor, on the other hand, are we dressed up dolls, pretty playthings, to be fought and scrambled for—petted, caressed, or flung out of the win- dow, as our several lords and masters may please. Wife is ; much more equally divided between us and them. We are | neither goddesses nor slaves ; they are neither heroes nor semi- demons ; we just plod on together, meu aud wemen alike, on the same read, where daily experience illustrates Liudibras’s keen truth, that

The value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring. And our value is—exactly what we choose to make it. Perhaps at no age since Kve’s were women rated so exclu- sively at their own personal worth, apart from poetic flattery or unmanly depreciation; at no time in the world’s history judged-so-entirely by their individual merits, and respected according to the respect which they earn for themselves. And shall we esteem ourselves so meanly as to consider this unjust? Shall we not rather accept our position, difficult indeed, and requiring from us more than the world ever re- quired before ; but from its very difficulty, rendered the most honorable ? Let us not be afraid of men; for that, I suppose, lies at the root of all these amiable hesitations. ‘“ Gentlemen don’t

‘doubled aud trebled, and society respects her accordingly, like such and such things." Gentlemen faney so and 80 Kven her kindly male friends, no longer afraid that when | Uofeminine’ My dear little foolish cowards, do you think the charm to their vanity of “being of use toa lady” has|@ Man—a good man, in any relation of life, ever loves a died out, they shall be saddled with a perpetual elaimant for | Woman the more for estecming her the less? or likes her

all manner of advice-and assistance, the first not always fol- lowed, and the second often accepted without gratitade— eyen they yield an involuntary consideration to a lady who gives them no more trouble than she can avoid, and is always capable of thinking and acting for herself iu all things—so

have their limits, which it would be folly, if not worse, for her to attempt to pass; but a certain fine instinct, which, we flatter ourselves, is native to us women, will generally in- dicate the division between brave self-reliance und bold as- sumption.

* Perhaps the line is easiest drawn, as in most difficulties, where duty ends and pleasure begins, We should respect one who, on a mission of mercy or necessity, went through the lowest portions of Giles or the Gallowgate; we should be rather disgusted if she did it for mere amusement or bravado. All honor to the poor sempstress or governess who traverses London sireets, alone, at all hours of day or night, unguarded except by her own modesty ; but the atrong-minded female who would venture on a solitaay ex- pedition to investigate the humors of Cremorne Gardens or Greenwich Fair, though perfectly ‘ respectable,” would be an exceedingly condemnable sort of personage, There are many things at which, as mere pleasures, a woman has a right to hesitate; there is no siagle duty, whether or not it lies in the ordinary line of her sex, from which she ought to shrink, if it is plainly set before her.

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And, herein, I think, lies the great mistake at the root of | most women’s education, that the law of their existence is | held to be, not right, but « propriety.” A certain received | notion of womanhood, which has descended from certain ex- | cellent great-grandmothers, admirable in its way, and suited | for some sorts of women, but totally ignoring the fact that each sex is composed of individuals, Storing in character almost as much from one another as from the opposite sex— some men being womanish, and some women masculine—and |

thaps the finest types of either combining the qualities of |

and that, therefore, to dea) justly, there must be set “P@ standard of abstract right, including manhood and Womanhood, and yet superior to either. Qne of the first of

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its common laws, or common duties, is this of self-dependence. | We women are, no less than men, each of us a distinct

existence. In two cut of the three great facts of our life,

Those who are the strongest advocates for the passive charagtef of our sex, its claims, proprieties and restrictions,

jare, I have often noticed, if the most sensitive, not always

the justest or most generous. I have seen ladies, no longer either young or pretty, shocked at the idea of traversing a street’s length at night, yet never hesitate at being “ fetched”

far as the natural decorums of her sex allow. True, these |

| better for transferring all her burdens to his shoulders, and | pinning her conscience to his. sleeve? Or, even if he did like it, is a woman’s divinity to be man—or God ?

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received. It has since been ascertained that the mutineers, after leaving Lucknow, bent their steps towards Seetapore, hoping to gain over the sepoys stationed there. On their arrival before the place, however, they found the 41st Native

Every one’s experience may furnish dozens of cases of | almost every right they can fairly need-—the duty of self-! Infantry and the 9th [rregular Infantry drawn up to receive poor women suddenly thrown, adrift—widows with families, dependence. Not after any amazonian fashion ; no mutilating them. “They at once beat a retreat, and moved, it is supposed

in the direction of Delhi. In the meanwhile the insurgents in that city have been busily engaged in strengthening their position. By the arrival of stragglers from other mutinous regiments, and the disaffected from all parts of Ludia, their

/numbers have increased, it is said, to twenty thofsand. They

have appointed Lal! Khan, a Subadar of the 3d Cavalry, their general-in-chief, with Buldeo Singh, a Subadar of the 20th ultimo, as their second in command. Their first step was to proclaim the Emperor of Delhi, or his son, King of India; their second to fortify themselves. They had ample means at their disposal for this pur- pose, a large siege train and immense stores of powder. ‘The possession of these resources seems to have iuspired them with a confidence which gradually inereased as the

found themselves unmolested. On the 29th ult., they sent out a strong party with five guns to guard the bridge over the little river Hindua. They entrenched themselves on the heights near the river with no ordinary skill; but on the following day they were attacked by a portion of the European foree from Meerut, and were almost to a man shot down. Asa matter of course, their guns and position fell into our hands,

Avrornruent AnD Devarrorr or Srr Cotry Camppen. to command gue Typran Aruy.—TIt was on Saturday only that the Government received intelligence of the death of General Anson, who appears to have been struck down b cholera—at Kurnaul, says one account, at Umbullah, says another—while hastening to the seene of action. General Sir Henry Somerset is the officer nextin seniority to General Anson, and he will therefore assume the acting command until the arrival of instructions from England. On Saturday afternoon only was the post offered to Sir Colin, with the question, “How soon could be start?’ Most men would have considered that ‘‘ next mail” would have been a prompt and satisfactory auswer. Sir Colin Campbell, to his honor, with the simplicity and ardour of a true hero, replied, * To- morrow morning! Stop the Marseilles boat, and I'll eateh ber, and £ can get all [ want in Caleutta as well as in London.” The gallant veteran therefore left on Sunday evening for the scene of former triumphs, where, under Sir C. Napier, in command of a brigade, he took part in that immortal Scinde campaign, one of the most brilliant achieve- ments of our Indian military bisiory.

Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell entered the army in 1808, as an ensign in the 9th Regiment of Foot. He served in the Walchern expedition, and throughout the pen- insular campaigns, having been present, among other engagements, at the battles of Vimiera, Corunna, i and Vittoria, and at the siege of San Sebastian. He_re- ceived two severe wounds at San Sebastian, and. was again severely wounded at the passage of the Bidassoa, He then proceeded to North America, aud.served there during 1814 and 1815. He was subsequently employed in the West Indies, having been attached to the troops which quelled an insurrection in Demerara in 1825. In 1842 he ewbarked for China, in ¢éommand of the 98th Regiment of Foot, which he headed daring the storming of Chinkeangfvo and the operations in the Yang-tzi-Niang, which Jed to the signature of the peace of Nankin. His next field of service was India, where he greatly distinguished himself in the second Punjaub campaign, under Lord Gough, in 1848 and 1849. Through- out that campaign he commanded a division of infantry, which was engaged at the battles of Chillianwallah aud Goojerat, and the other aflairs with the enemy ; and he took an active part afier the battle of Goojerat in the pursuit of Dost Mahommed and the occupation of Peshawar. He was among the wounded at the battle of Chillianwallah, and in consideration of his distinguished services in the campaign “he was appointed Knight Commander of the Bath. Tle sul). sequently held the command of the troops in the district of

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And here, piercing to the Foundation of all truth—I think we may find the truth concerning self-dependence, which is only real and only valuable when its root is not iv self at all | —when its strength is drawn not from man, but from that | Higher and Diviner Source whence every individual soul | proceeds, and to which alone it is accountable. As soon as | any woman, old or young, once feels that, not asia vague | sentimental belief, but as a tangible, practicad law of life, all | weakness ends, all doubt departs: she recognises the glory. | honor, and beauty of her existence ; she is no longer afraid of its pains; she desires not to shift one atom of its, responsibilities to another. She is content to take it just as | it is, from the hands of the All-Father; her only eare being | to so fulfil it, that while the world at large may recognise | and profit by her self-dependence, she herself, knowing that | the utmost strength lies in the deefst humility, recognises, , solely and above all, her dependence upon God. re ee:

Gleaniigs from late Vapers,

THE MUTINY IN INDIA. |

Dervat or tue Murineers at Fgrozerone and Lucknow. | —The 45th and 57th Regiments at Ferozepore, the Qih, | which garrisoned the stations of Allygurh, Mynpooree, aud, Etawah, portions of the 13th, 48th, 71st Native Infantry; | and two troops of the 7th Cavalry at Lucknow, bave followed | the example set them by the Meerut revolters. At Ferozepore the mutineers were attacked by the Glst Foot, the 10th | Cavalry, and artillery with such effect that the 57th Native |

Peshawur, and during the years 1501 and 1852 he repeat-

edly undertook successful operations against the Momunds land other turbulent tribes of mountaineers in the neighbor-

hood of Peshawur and Kohat. He afterwards returned te England, aud proceeded to Turkey in command of a brigads of Infantry. His brilliant servives throughout the operations in the Crimea, during which he commanded the Lighland Brigade and.the Highland division, are fresh in the revol- lection of every one. His services during the Russian war were rewarded with promotion to the rank of lieutenant- general aud the grand crosses of the Bath, the Legion of

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Honour, and the Sardinian Order of Maurice and St. Lazare. He has receutly held the important office of inspector-general of infantry, which he has now quitted in order to assume the supreme command in Bengal at a time when the actual and contingent dangers arising from the mutinies in the Bengal native army render it necessary to employ a general officer possessed of the highest vigour, activity, and capacity, and

'nequainted with the nature of Indian service and the pecu-

liarities of the native soldiery.

A Sream Sqvapron ror [npra, AND Marines ror Cuiwa.— A steam squadron is to be sent to India. As the exigencies of the service have already absorbed the number of seamen actually voted, it is intended to apply to Parliament for an additional vete of 2,000 seamen, The advantage of a steam squadron in the Indian Seas is, of course, undeniable, but it must not be fargotien that the presence of one European Regiment in Upper India would outweigh that of a steam-

frigate in the Bay of Bengal. ‘The primary value of these

steamships for this emergency is as transports. They cannot

by some female servant, who was both young and pretty, and | Infantry at once laid down their arms and the 45th, after. bring their guns to bear upon the i. eee ae to whom the danger of the expedition, or of the late return losing many of their number, fled in confusion. The 9th assuredly not select the sea-coasi as the s P

alone, was by far the greater of the two. I have known | Native Infantry made no attempt to murder their officers, | tions.

A considerable force of artillery is to be despatehed

: z oF ay ; in thi ‘ anxious mothers, who would not for worlds be guilty of the contenting themselves with the plander of the treasuries. by the most rapid conveyance at hand ; and in this arm, as

indecorum of sending their daughters unchaperoned to the At Lucknow the mutiny broke out in the same manner as/it appears from the re;

sorts forwarded home, the Bengal es-

theatre or a ball—and very right, too!—yet send out some at Meerut, commencing with the burning of almost every | tablishment is, shee, eae picniiiedions other woman’s young daughter, at eleven, p. m., to the stand! thatched house near the native lines. But Sir Henry | regiments actually ordere wt Ee ee ‘i car e — : > fora cab, or to the public-house for a supply of beer. It! Lawrence was ready for the explosion. He at once turned pendently of a hg " we P oe G if ve Se ae never strikes them that the doctrine of female dépendence | out with her Majesty’s 32nd Foot, a battery of artillery, and | other presidencies and from the Persian Gulf upo $

extends beyond themselves, whom it suits so easily, and to that portion of the 7th Cavalry which remained faithful, and turbed districts—the foree which had been appropriated to

; ; 7 : . whom it-saves much trouble; that either every woman, be | attacked the iusurgents : the latter were not only defeated, the Chinese operations has been intercepted at Point de Galle

we are certainly independent, and all our life long are ac- | the “ protection” suitable to her degree; or that each is to killed anda few taken. These latter have since met the

countable only, in the highest sense, to our own souls and the Maker of them. | Is it natural—is it right even, that we should be expected—and be ready enough, too, for itis much the easiest way—to hang our consciences, duties, actions and Opinions, upon some one else—some individual man, or some | aggregate of mankind yelept society ? Is this ‘society to draw

be educated into a self-dependence, which will at least enable her to hold the balance of justice even, nor allow’an over- delicacy for one woian to trenéh onthe Tights, conveniences and honest feelings of another.

We must help ourselves. In this curious phase of social

! history, When marriage is apparently ceasing to become the announced. The exception is Brigadier Handscomb, a fine | Up a code of regulations as to what we are to do, and what common lot, and a happy warriage the most uncommon lob old soldier: the particulars of his death have not yet been

fate which they deserved, by being blown from guns—a déath more calculated than any other to strike terror into the, ‘native mind. In the course of this emeute we have to

| deplore the loss of about a hundred Europeans, including five

officers, whose names have not yet, with one exception, been

; : Fe ed g : ‘anni this measure has. | she servant or mistress, sempstress or fine lady, is to receive but pursued for 30 miles, Several of their number were by summons from Lord Canning, and

received the entire approval and ecnfirmation ef the authorities at home. In order to fill up the vacoum in the China service caused by the withdrawal of these troops, it is proposed to despatch a battalion of Marines to Houg-kong with the least possible delay. The service required is essen- tially one of an amphibious character, to be best performed by a force which can act either by land or by water, as

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