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Parties wishin? to digpove of or purchase Property of any‘ descriptions, to let or lease Houses, Stores &c., will please apply by let ter stating particulars,

tar SECKECY, wheo observed.

required, etrictly

A. McNEILL.

Exchange Buildings, Ch’to wn, ; Mav 15. 1871. tf

CITY LUMBER DEPOT,

POR SALB AU THE CITY LUMBER DEPOT.

ALL KI 0S

OF LUMSGER!

Pine and Sprave Bourds and Plank, Sewer )

, Cedar

Split Shingtee (Cedar Pme & Fir : a tadding

od te and Feace Rails, Svanting, and Lathe,

Enguire at Mr. maker. Dorehegter Sireet, near she Duapel, or of the Subseriber.

ALSO ;

BRISK ANS STONE

POR SALE AT THE

LUMBER DEPOT. BENJA MIN WILLIAMS. Hil sboro? Square. Ch’town, ; ct is

June 19, 1871. Queen Square Farnitare Store ! Children’s Carriages,

James Barrett's, Block- Sa

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_April 24, 1871

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OF

Seasonable Goods! Just Received

By Steamers from England and Scotl for Sale Cheap, by

HEARTZ & SON,

the fellowing Goods, viz: 250 Pieces Fancy DRESS GOODS. 200 oe Black and Colored COBURGS & LUSTERS.

and, and i

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80 06©*)~— Plain and Fancy WINCIES. 60 * Prated COTIONS, Grey COLTTONS,

hoo |

COTTON WARP,

White & Colored.

Fancy Cloths and Heavy Coalings,

| . a Splendid assortinent,

TAILORS’ TRIMMINGS!

a great quality.

Also various other articles, too numerous to mention, which we offer

Wholesale and Retail. HEARTZ & SOX,

Ch’town. Sent 18. 157).

| ' |

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. F . 1400.-=—-FARMERS ! a NB THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED HEAVY GRAIN BAG», 2 tw 5 busn., im stock tad to errive, Witi be Sold Cheap. W, A. WEEKS & Co., Sept. 18, IS7i. Queen Street,

PONCEAU !

And Analine Dyes,

in all Colors, at WM, R, WALSON’S.

;

Sept. 18, 187],

FROG WER FOURDLAND.

Pure Cod Liver Oil,

Manufactured trom Shore Fish, at WM. R. WATSON S.

Fresh,

Sept. '8, 1871.

NOTICE.

(PRE Subseriber offer tor Sale a VALU-

ABLE FREEHULD PROPERLY of 151} Acres of LAND, at Moreli, Lot 40.

No. 1 Containing 45 Acres, 30 Acres under cultivation, the remamder under Hurd and Sott WOOD, with a good Weil of WATEK at tie door, anda good Fruit GAR | DEN, with variety of FrantsTREES. There ie on the Farm one MAKE It years old, and one do,, 8 years,and a FOLE 2 months old, Build- ing and Farming utinsais will be Sold together with the remainder of thie Stock, which is too tedious to mention.

No, 2. 54 Acres with ten Acres under cultivation, and the remamder under tard and Soft WOOD, and the River Marie in rear, where there can be plenty of Water for to build Mills on the same River.

No. 38. 55 Acres, with 4 Acres cut down, and the remainder under the best of Hard WOOD. This Property will be Sold in one or in d.ferent Blocks, o:. or before the Second of September inst, The Subscriber can be coveulted at any time before 2nd September, where particulars will be made known. = If the Property 1s pot Seld before nex: Septem- ber, it will be put up at Auction for Sale.

N, B. This Property is in the beat stand in the County for merchant oF dealer, within a few yards of St, Peter's Main Port Road, aod a Pablie Road in front of all this

Land. JAMES AYLWARD. Morell, July 13, 1871.

TO LET. TANNERY & DWELLING:

Wili be let on reasonable terms, phe Tan am nery on the St Pevers Road, six miles ie from phe City, the property of the late James Kobertsan, Esq , in complete working or- der There is also a lwelling attached, which will be Jet with the Taunery, or separately if re- uired. i For farthes particalars please apply on the pre-

miges Lo MRS. JAMES ROBERTSON. tf

May 16, 1870 tf COTTON WARPS. ROM NEW BRUNSWICK COTTON MILLS. 9 Bales Assorted Vambers in White and Colored, FOR SALE by

CARVELL BROS.’ May 1, 1871.

“IMPORTANT !

Doetor Flagg’s Medicines

Cc be bad at the Drug Stores of Theo-

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For Nova Scotia and Cape Breton,

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Tuesday to Hawksbary,

Thursday, to Port Hood,

Saturday, to Georgetown ;

CHARLOTTETOWN

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Ch'town, Oct. 2, IS71,

Returning to from

THE ARLINGTON PURO.

Wood's Parlor & Vestry Organs

ce above instruments are amongst the best manutactured in the United States,

Those about to purchase a firet Class Piano or Organ would do well to address the subscriber,

P R BOWERS, St Stephen, . Weadtusk, {N. B.

PIANO & CRGAR TURING.

‘aR HOOPER, <f Boston, having

« long experience in

Nov. 28 1870

Piano and Organ Tuning,

intimates that he is at presentin CHARLOTTE TOWN, where be will attend to any business entrusted to him. Having facilities for repairing Pianos xnd Organs he ean warrant giving per fect satiefuction, Pianos re-capped and renovated to w good coudition at a reusonuble charge. (H Orders left at the Store of W R. Watso

| Esquire, will be puuctually attended to. Ch town, Sep I, 871.

WOOD WANTED N Large or Small Quantities, 1000 to 2000 Cords of Wood, 1a Logs, Timber, Spars and Cordwood, to be of Oak, White ask 3itch, Beach Eim Spruce, Pine, Cedar, Fir, ind Poplar, to be delivered at the

HILLSBORGITGH MILLS,

Corner of Pownal and Water Streets,

| ALSO~ASH HOOPS & HOOP POLES.

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| Connolly, Esq., or to CARVELL BROS. Ch*town, Oct. 27, 1970. tf Executors’ Final Notice.

LL Accounts aue the Estate of the late

Hon. EV WARD WHELAN, will be

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The following gentlemen have kindly consent ed to receive debts due in King’s County to the said Estate, in their respective localities:

Peter Sinnott, Morell,

Anthony MeCormack, Head St. Peter's,

J.C Underbay, Bay Fortuna,

M McCormack. Souris, JAMES WARBURTON, 2, DANIEL BRENAN, * { Trustees

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Executor’s Notice.

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WOOL. WOOL. Stanfield Woolen Mlills.

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is7il.

r ! E Sabscriber. thankful for past favors would inform the public that be continues to

MANUFACTURE CLOTH

from CUSTOM WOOL as heretofore, and at pre

vious rates 1 WOUL, clean wasbed free of mats and hip-

locks, may be left at Hos. H. J. Cauceeck’s Char

lottetewn or ut Messrs. JouN D. Rep & Bros,

Summerside, where & moet extensive supply of LOTH will be found.

Ss, E, DAWSON, Jun ‘fryon, May 22, 187} as KBoa1iders Wanted. LIMITED nuwber of BOARDERS can

A be camlortabiy aecommodated, in & con- venient aud pleasantly siwated part of the

Executors.

ty- : "por further partioulars, apply at this office.

Ch’town, Sept, 18, 1871. ie WOOL WOOL C= paid for WOOL on delivery, at

the f

=" H. J CALLBECK. Ch'tewn. May 30, 1870.

a

TO LET.

SHOP, CELLAR, & WAREHOUSE Pe acising the RANKIN HOUSE, in ‘ p Apply to : ws PP SOHN DOUSE. Qet, 9ih, 1971.

Street.

4" VERY TUESDAY and FRIDAY morn-|

Literature. 3

SKETCH OF THE LIFE

OF THE

HON, LOUIS JOSEPH PAPINEAU,

ouitihasonoan Tue fol'owing brilliantly written Bio- graphieal Sketch of one of the most emi- nent men that Canada ever produced is | translated from Le Pays, specially for the EXAMINER, by PRoressor A. BECHARD :

Parr 1.

It was for a long while that the metro- politan policy had been partial and unjust towards the French Canadians ;

That all the abuses of administration had peen excessive;

That trouble and discord had been reign ing between the three powers of the Colo- nial State ;

That all the reforms suggested by the Canadian people, through the worthy voic® of their leaders, had been brutally set aside ;

That the English minority had been in| possession of the departments of the Execu- tive aid. through means of the Councils had been monoplizing a legislative power | equal to that of the numericaly French |

minority represented by the Lower House ; |in 1815, and was chosen as president of the

House, on account of the withdrawal of Mr. | Panet: he was then 28 years of age. He constantly occupied that position up to 183s, with the exception of 1822 and 1823, when he | was reeimplaced by Mr. Vallieres de St, Real,

That between these two rival bodies, the

wishes of the majority through the medium of the Governor ;

under the cover of perfect impartiality, | upholding, in the mean time, the Council |

claims of the Representatives of the people ;

That the vituperation of the Engiish

~

Jawsuils had been carried on ona large scale ;

That the national party of the Patriots had been asking in vain for :—the indepen- dence of the Judges and their estrange- ment from politics; the responsibility of the public Officers; an Eleetive Council more independent from the Public Chest und more interested in the welfare of the nation: the applying of the Jesuits pro- perty to the promotion of Education; the liberty of spea ing the French language and of praying to God in the tongue of the old Mother Country; the grant of the Crown Lands in franc alleu returier (freehold soc cage) and the Fretith laws for the ad- ministration of the same; the control of the people over the Municipal Lnstitution ; the control of the State revenue and the voting of t'e Subsidy; and finally the re forming of all those tyranmeal abuses which were compelling Canadian inde- pendence and franchise to bend befvre British domination.

It wus many years since Lower Canada was expecting all those reforms; and all those reforms so just, so necessary, SO rea- sonable were always denied.

At that time appeared a man sprung from un illustrious family, and endowed with a noble soul and a vast intelligence ;

A man with a fiery look, a vibrating voice, a noble and majestic carriage a striking gesture, a haughty head and sen timents both sublime and patrio ic: That mau was tie Hionorable Louis Joseph Papineau.

That man has just closed his earthly career and his newly closed grave brings with it the eternal remembrance of the gratitude of the Canadian nation.

Papineau was born in Montreal, on the 7th of Uctober 1786; so that in a few days more. he would have reached his 85th year; but death visited him on the 23rd of September, 1871.

He sprung from an illustrious family been among whom transcendent talents have been hereditary. His father, Joseph Papineau, one of the patriarchs and the most faithful guardians of our po itical liberties profess- ed as a Notary, at Montreal, from J770 un til 1841, the year of his death. He was a distinguished orator and an eminent jurist. His legal opinions have often been cited in the Parliament

His son received, from his infancy, the patriotic instruction of the father. Endowed with a precocious intelligence and an aptitude which were a wonder to every one, he pass ed through a good classical evurse of studies, partly at Montreal and partly at Quebec.

An illustrious writer, now dead, Mr. Philippe Aubert de Gaspe, his frend and com- panion, has eollected, in his Memoires, in- teresting details on the youth and studies of Mr, Papineag.

“The young Papineau’s fame had preceded him to the Seminaire de Quebse. Every thing, even then, announced a brilliant oareer to that preeocioua child, so fond of reading, and whose mind was already better adorned than the mind of most of the pupils who were com- pleting their course of studies.

“Papineau was seldom sen playing with children of his age: be used to read during @ part of the recreations, play ® game at draughts or at ehess, or was conversiag on literature, either with bis masters, or with pupils of the classes superior to his, The general opinion was that he would always have kept the head of his olass, had he not preferred reading .to the stady ot the Latin language.”’

The pupils of the Seminary took it inte ‘their head to forma House of Assembly by | elections. They divided themselves into tw) | parties, and Papineau constituted bimeelf the jeader of the opposition, At that epoch, he might have beea from 13 to 14 years of age. On the day of the election, be ascends the

tribune and makes a speech which is thus ap |

| pregigted by Mr, de Graspe :

/was on that day.

/not hesitate to unsheath the sword, notwith- | standing the disgust he felt for a Government

minority had been subduing to its yoke the |

That the secret missions of the Gover- | nors had been to dissemble their tactics |

composed of men appointed by the Crown, | and who were like a barrier against the}

wess knew no bounds, and that political! ,.q giso (the Governor) lately come from

‘‘T have often heard him declaiming with violence in his provincial Parliament against abuses, corruption, oligarchy; but I may cer- tify that he never was more eloquent than he Th> priests of the Semi- nary were exclaiming: it is bis father, it is entirely his father! What a champion to de- fend the rights of the Canadians! And the Messrs. Demers, Lionnais, Bedard and Robert, who were speaking thus in his favor, were competent judges.”

Mr. Pupineau’s career was indicated before hand by his characteristic talent: he chose as his profession that of a lawyer, and was ad- mitted to practise on the 9th of May, 1810 | But his taste for polities, and the interest he | was taking in gieat popular questions, soon brought him on the parliamentary ground, |

in hearing the groans of the victims of 37 and 38.

Oh! let us spread a veil over that page of our history. say this:

Let us not aceuse; let us only The guilt of those then in power was superior to the guilt of those they were ruling,

The excitable young mep of the country had brought Mr, Papineau on the slippery slope

of rebellion and violence. Outstepping his

| Views, they did not remain within the delicate and difficult limits which he had assigned to

them. He was not in favor of operied-armed their anger is once in action, we understand the feelings of the French Canadian population, so long insulted, de- |

spised, trampled under foot sacrificed ; we |

| city. rebe!lion; but masses do not reason when |

He passed the remainder of his days in re- tirement, surrounded by the memories of the past. The study of philosophy, kistory and botany, then became bis favorite ocecupation, His immense library, formed of serious works, used to charm his leisure hours,

He used to pass the winter in Montreal, and the summer in his villa, at Montebello,

Kvery one remembers to have seen bim, not

one year ago yet, carrying nobly his 84 years, and taking his daily walk (promenade) through the most frequented streets of the We have not forgotten the delignt of the people wheu meeting with that handsome

How well do | old gentleman, whom they were always ad-

miring, Endowed with an exquisite polite- ness, Mr, Papineau never failed to raise hig hat with a courtesy recalling to memory the

He was solicited to accept the representation ‘understand that being coustantly struggling | old French politeness.

of a county when he was a minor. Of course

| with an implacable antagonist, the children of

The eloguence of Mr, Papineau was an

his friends’ zeal had to be cooled down for | Canada had, at last, to break that barrier of eloquence of combatand struggle; he was not

some time, but be was only studying law | "espect that had kept them in cheek, until | afraid of mmterruptions, he did not avoid them, . | y . . ;

when he was, in 1809, elected as representa-|then, Too much swelling of the |.eart will | he rather courted them: he was threatening,

tive of the County of Ch-mbly. He, of course, sided with the national party led by his father, Joseph Papineau.

When the war of 1812 broke out, he did

He served with loyalty and courage until 1815, He was elected as a member for Montreal

so ungrateful towards his countrymen,

|and sent by the Parliament to the English Ministry, there to defend the complaints of the Canadian people against the despotic ad- | ministration of Lord Dalhousie,

On his return, he was re-elected as speak- jer of the House. The straggle with the

| Governor was renewed as bitterly as ever: he

Londor, and there were no bounds to his tyranny, until a petition, signed by 69,700 Canadians effected his remeyal in 1828.

From that epoch begins the prominent political role of Mr. Papineau, His talents were fully ripe. It is pleasant and interesting

cause its bursting ; when injustice is united to outrage, it briags insurrection. ‘The teachings of the history of nations are | ln 1871, before our conscience, and in presence of that freshly opened and

great,

national grave, we ask: is it the nation that has lost its senses by dint of injustice and brutasity, or the Caesar who, with autocracy, and in order to satisfy the duplicity of his conscience, stifles the bit- ter complaints reaching his ear?

The country became a sinister place; those who had loved her too well, had to take the road of exile. A large sum was offered for the head of him who was considered as the leader of the rebellion, Mr. Papineau bad to leave, abandoning in the precarious state of

Who is more guilty,

a military regime, the people ior whose rights he had so long fought im the Parliament. He went to the United States in 1837, and to France in 1839. He came back to the country only in 1945.

The true intentions of Mr. Papineaa have been sometimes, wrongly represented, in regard to his long struggle against England. We couid not betier justify him from those unjust preventious, than by citing the words of an European publicist: -* When,” says he, ** the Governors kad got rid of the Britsh

to see him then surrounded by an army of elite, surrounded by such men as Neilson, Viger, Cuvillier, Latontaine, Morin, Bourda- That phalanx was not fight- ing with the sword or with the cannon, but the blews they were giving were no less terrible ror less resounding, Constantly at work, these men never ceded one inch of ground to their antagonists. They were struggling with great courage: victory to them was the sal- vation of the country.

ges, Quesnel,

They were scourging with eloquent words that Legisiative Council composed of men not only irresponsible, but antipathetic to our most sacred and dearest rights. They were scourging that most sudacious proclamation about the bold and insolent English views for the anglicizing of the Canadians,

that decree of death to our mother-tongue,

They were struggling against

upheld by the Metropolis; against that con- stant violation of all the constitutional and parliamentary -laws; agamst that contempt for the fulfilment of our treaties; against that hatred and that jealousy for a nation that was conquered, but proud and noble in her defeat. Such was the cause of the parlia- mentary struggle from 18i0 to 1837! Sueh were defenders of our ri-hts! What men and what an epoch !

And amidst those men animated with the proudest and purest patriotism; amidst that group of patriots united by the same thought, the same feeling, and the same wants, springs forth the colossal feature of Louis Joseph Papineau. He is above his contemporaries by his noble and proud head. He is the acting soul, He is the leader of. the debates, He speaks: allare silent around him, The nation (patrie} receives with a pious feeling those burning words coming from his lips, and his manly accents go echoing all through the land, vibrate with enthusiasm,

They cause every Canadian heart to His menacing voice is heard across the Atlantic, and causes

Cabinet. England, in hearing that deep roar- ing, resembling the furious roaring of the ocean, trembles and repents.

It was too Jate |

Then, there wae something like an electric current going through the land, One man’s voice inspired the young and enthusiastic population longing for liberty and action; and the nation made her voice heard!

Papineau is the author of the 92 Resolu- tions, including all the grievances of the Canadians against Great Britain, These Re- solutions were brought before the House by Mr. Bedard, as one of the eldest ehiefs of the national party. It is in the defence of those Resolutions, that vibrated all the e} quenee of him whose death we are now deploring, See- ing that England was refusing to grant the just demands of the Csnadians, he advised them to refuse to pass the Revenue Bill, and to abstain from buying British goods in our markets, hoping, thereby, to bring the Eng- lish Ministry to a better understanding, Abt the eame time, Lord Gosford, ia 1836, passed the Revenue Biil, and determined to rule the Province without the conecurrenge of the Legislative Assembly,

We have now come to 1837.

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Parr If.

Words of haired are heapd. They Death to oppressors, And the anger

| horizon, mean: ot the nation still increases. of war goes through the country end trans- forms our peaceful farmers into as many soldiers and herocs. Two tragical episodes take place: St, Charles aud St. Denis mark the pages of our history with two stains of blood f

And the pation, at last conquered, suceumb-

trouble and alarm in the mind of the British |

The bad genius |

haughtiness, he received them with dirnity at his hotel, and French ambassadors to the United Siates, who have visited Montreal, may have believed themselves in one of the | salons of the elite of Paris, Those informa- tions, which are strictly correct, do not cor- respond with the general idea we entertain about a political leader, represented as a vio- lent, wild and fanatic patriot, who hasa for- tune either to make or to rebuild, who is de- prived of instruction, and springing from a faciion of which be is the blind tool, posses

sed with an illimitable ambition, who accepts all extravagance, and who throws himself in- to civil war in order to usurp the power. The Honorable Louis Joseph Papineau has higher recommendations. His manners are mild and polite; they partake of the civilization brought into that rude climate by France, a seed that has happily fructified, by the promo- tion of instruction, bv the exampie of our own country, by the neighborhood of the United States, by the development of British institu

tious and industry, Louis Joseph Papineau, odious to the Hnglish political party, has also enemies amongst some of bis own countrymen. The fear of the dangers of the future, misre- presented by personal interest, the gold which

othera, the jealousy that a popularity of twenty years inspires to almost every one, when the same has come to its apogee, such are the causes of those sorrowful rivalries of in terest. Nevertheless, they have not prevented the Canadian orator from going through all Lower Canada, seeing all the population run- ning to him, and anxious to form committees and meetings. He was then recommending a strong but patient opposition, in order to free the country. more efficiently from the commercial monepoly ; he wae citing the ex- ample of Ireland, in part cular, and of old English colonies. It is in vain that the name of Charlatan, protector of King Louisel, of O'Connell, has been applied to him by hatred ; nobody has dared to attack his pri- vate life, which bas remained spotless,”’

When in exile, Mr. Papineau occupied himeelf with historical studies, His sojourn in France was very tavcrable to our Canadian history, for we owe him numerous and pre- cious manuscripts, His social connections were very large, and he was intimately ac- quainted with the most illustrious men of the age; among whom were Beranger, Cormenin, Benjamain Constant, Lamennais, &c. He published, in the Parisian papers, the Revue du Progres, the first part of hig Histoire de U Insurrection Canadienne,

Part III.

On his vetarn from exile, in 1847, he was elected for the County of St, Maurice, and also for the County of Deux Montagnes,

This second phase of Mr Papineau’s polit- ical life is not ¢o interesting as the fret. Lle is always the upright and pure citizen, the statesman, always faithful and devoted ; the patriot, full of zeal for our interests and wants ; but being little esed to struggle with a responsible Government, amongst peaceful men, seeking to draw a benefit from the lessons of the past, and the best of the Con- stitution, he saw himself no more surrownded

A dark and frightoing eloud appears at our by that youth of olden days, always ready to |ephold bim in his bold schemes. The eight

| years that had severed him from his country.

some one has received, the one offered to!

He united sang-froed, presence of mind, scorn- ing acd haughty repartie to the inflexibility of a:titude, to the invincible logic of reasoning. Profoundly eouvineed bimself, every time he was speaking in favor oi the interests of the nation, his voice was beeoming the echo of his soul. He was uttering burning words; bis sentiments were expressed with deep sighs, his whole heart was on his lips. Sometimes he would, with a thundering voice, ut- ter those great truths which were the terror of the English pation, and the resounding : sounds of bis eloquence were echoed as fur as the gloomy apartments of Windsor Castle or the most retired oflices of St. James’ Cab- | inet. Great in the attack, invincible in the reply, be would speak, and the wishes of others had to recede before his, less through persuasion than through fear, less by the means of the suavity and charm of his speech, than from the force of his logic, and the jus-— tice of his rights. His phraseology was in- eisive, each sentence was failing like a thun- der-bolt producing conflagration. Such was his parliamentary language. Sometimes al- so, his voice wis becoming plaintive ond mild; toais were moistening his eyet; hie,. thought was hovering about some bitter re- miniscence—bis words had that melancholy and pure expression (teinie) which moves and impresses deeply. Sueh was his lane guage to his countrymen when speaking to them of their misfortunes. Always! be was noble and great!

Nature has done much for him. She has given him a high and ereeted statare,@ proud, grand, and detirmined way ol expression, an alegant carriage, @ straight and firm look; his forhead is large and bigh, bis hair proud- ly brushed ap on his vast bead, Ali this, gives his features something partaking of the Roman pride antied to the French sagaci ty. His cast of countenance is Latin, his charac ter 1s essentially Canadian, Courage and loy- alty, perseverance and patriotiem, arf nd lucidity, polstewess aad liberality ; nothing is wanted to form the great citizen and the wreat orator.

In his iu? years Mr, Papinéaa had kept the melancholy impression of the great events he had gone through, At some intervals hé seemed to colleet himself with bis soul in order to seek consolation by the knowledge of having fully accontolished his duty.

Those whe are young in polities or in lit. erature shall never forget their pilgrimage to that castle ‘manoir) of Montebello, that magnificent retreat embellished with rural aud attractive scenes, and which saw the al- was brilliant decline of that great intelli- gence. They shali not forget fora iong time the conversation of that old man who, with words of sarcasm and bitterness for his adversaries of former times, had sill present in his mem- ory all the events of his long and stormy pelitical carecr. They remember what em-. motion brought to their heart the detailed recital of those fiery stiuggles related by the ureat Agitator himself. That reertal, at first familiar, was growing grave and solemn as the veteran was progressing in his narra- tion. Suddenly, his eyes were filled with el- ectric lashes, he waserecting his head, his features were animated with a fiery expres- sion, his words were more accentuated, his voice was menacing and superb, nature wae revindicating her rights, the veteran was be- coming again an orator, What an emotion were experiencing those young men, who, whea left by themselves, were meditating the words they bad just heard! Then, they were thinkirg that he who had uttered those noble feelings, was cot far from them,—-and, turning their eyes towards the window, they were perceiving the great orator, wandering under the trees with their leaves just buret-_ ing forth,—these trees which he had plant- ed himself; there he was listening to the song of little birds basking in the sun of the spring, and gathering those flowers which he was sofond of, or, seated ina perfect and melancholy stillness, or oe was standing with his head down and absorbed in his thoughts,

We have no more toadd, Itis not a bi- ography that we have undertaken to write, It would then be to write the history of the country foracentury. Our intention bas only been to pay a small tribute to the memory of the great patriot, and to throw over his grave a few modest Bowers,

THE WAGES OF ROYALTY, ———_

Royalty is perhaps, the best beisness going, regarded from a peeuniary standpoint. The sal- aries of Kxpperors and Kings are fer the most part liberal, and po dednetion is wade on ac

|eount of absence from duty, The “eight bour

jaw” does not apply to these forfunate personas

wen, had opened too deep an abyss between land when they want ‘a day out” they are net

the two epochs. He thought that his politi- | obliged to put a*sub” on, in order to retain their : 3 ; | *-ait.”” cal career was at an end,and he withdrew) 7. Gear of Russa bas the most profitable

trom public life in 184. the last act of his political life was the re.

maarkuble speech he made before the Institut ) per day.

| Canadien, in 1861. political last will of the aged struggler of

ing at fast uader the number, was agonizing olden times.

We may add that! berth, nis wages averaging $25,000 per day, or 1365 times as much as President Grant recives,

[ne Sultan of Turkey stragles along on 18,000 How ean he do it,with bis large famuy,

That speech was the aad inevitably enormous dry goods bills—it is not leasy to understand, Louis Naypolevn, last Sep-

tember, lost a place that paid bim $14,000 per day; but be bas been prudent, aud has saved ap %

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