Estiiblislied 18523. T .1-_ “itxssunss. iro-r unn.";“ng tin r ',i,lfarmers’- jijoumal unit V , iiAszA1tn's' GAZETTE, Burris Irotltera & 00.. Printers and Pub TlflII—Ile per annum.——'I‘. Bunnie, Responsible Editor. Advertlsceientc inserted at the canal rat is. rniwfiwo nr ALI. i-rs snawciina srsa-rev nxscirrnn A1‘ -rate uanerrn orrtce, sou-rir sine euneiv aqua (Frost CItoetbcre's Edinburgh Journal.) THE BABY—S'I'EALER OF THE N UNDY. DROOG. ' I was a very lively girl of eighteen when, left an orphan, I gladly accepted the protection olI'ered me by your father, then many years in the civil service of the East India Co peuy. in the Madras presidency. He was, as you know, my etc brother, many years my senior; and my recollec- tions him were faint. But your dear mother, to whom he had not Ion been united, was the friend of my youth ; and when, slso_ y before, she accompanied her parents to India, I little thought how soon we should be joined by even closer ties than those of friendship--that is to say, if any can be closer. I had no regrets at leaving home. I never had had I l°'f|’. ‘ill by no means of a sentimental or tender natun :' nor, indeed, had any strong claims upon my affections, for l was left without the privileges of independence, and was pizerved b your father from having to provide myself, as I will I with a hoIe—such a home as is found in re- turn for service of mind or y. elcome and kindness were what I encountered at Madras. and there I resided a year most happily. At the end of that time. my brother w ioted to a station " u country,” where his duties '3' llP°"|No UNI IIIVOIVIII fluent journeyings to and fro amongst the towns, villages, e hamlets of the district he was in charge of. Our head-quarters. however, were at Nuadydroog—-then, as new, a wild and mountainous place, where we h little society, and seldom wished for more then we found. We were all equally tired of the geisties and pseudo-pleasures of Madras and St 'I‘homas'e Mount, and our domestic and other tastes were more then usually congenial. Nuudydroog line since so uired a bad repute in sanitary records; but though it certainly was not fever-proof. we were all blessed with health; and perhaps the energy with which woatrovc against that lounging, lazy langour so apt to attack and snbdue the British in India, may have counteracted all tendencies to disease. At Nundydroog, when your sister Thus was three years old, you were born, and became a very acceptable interruption to my studies of the botany of the East, the I-Ilttdcetanee language. and co- casionally of a science that is generally proscribed to the fair esx—a proficiency in the use of a fowllng- iece. Your father was a resolute " hunter of the woods, ’ and seeing that my tastes were of a stamp somewhat adventurous, by no means discouraged use; indeed, he was pleased to have me for hie companion on many occasions where female society is little coertcd ; and our explorations of tracts very raeel visited by Europeans extended for many miles ateodd. Bomctiuieetwe were joined by others; sometimes piwsim were formed; but on those occasions w_e felt that a . on leather, loo herdy—I will not any less " moccnllne,” for a no woman is still woreatbait an elbiiiinatc man- recreetions ; but she enjoyed, ings, our rseits of them ; and then her botani- cal knowlcdgc was superior to mine, whilst her music, her books, and drawings always rendered our hours at home do- lightful. You have seen my hnrtoc aioeue with your mo- ther'e drawings, my dear Cuthbcrt; and as you have a turn for bctanyfiyourself, and are about to he (once amongst those Indian jungles where you were born, but which you have not seen since you were six years old, on can guess that to tea there could be few things more p eaeant than such a life as we led’—- ' And where was Uncle Allan at that time ?’ interrupted ‘ My dear, I have told you I had no lovers tltert. You may take my word for it, that beforcl married your nnele,l h a lover; and I never had but one. You shall hear of him in due ccason'—- ‘ Aunt Rosa,’ interrupted I, in my turn, ‘-ipit really true that on once killed a tiger !‘ _“" t ' ea, my dear, and there was a man in his month. But I have no time to tell of that just at present. I mean to con- fine myself to a short account of an adventure that befell you when you were newly weaned, and which I shall term a contribution to your cradle-history. If it involve a l'cw pen- oillittgs of the woods and wilds in which it occurred, it is be- cause you like to hear of such things; and sometiniee a slight acquaintance with the tion of the East may turn to practical be I know an omcer who served during the old Burmese war, at a time when the army were actually growing diseased through the want of vegetable diet—rice bein the only anbctitntc for garden prnduce—whose botani- cel nowledgc taught him the use of perfectly wholesome and nutritious plants em lo ed by the poor natives as food, but utterly ignored by t c ritieli stranger. Ilia brother- re, who began b contemning what they called “ his weeds," ended by gla ly sharing in the feast of wild-greens, beans nfthe weeds, and roots of the lleld, he and his agent- out Madras dcutoetic served up to them with their salt-beef, tough bulalo, or sickening old pork rriesecs ; and the result wee beneficial to health. ‘ But to return. Nondydroog is a strong hill-fort in the dominion of the Mysore rejah. The mountain on which it is built is same I700 feet high. inecocmiblc on all sides but one. A Itavaldat’c guard constituted all the force of the upper fort; but at the foot were barracks, now occupied by one regiment of native infantry ; the bungalows if the olecrc and our own mansion being scattered ahou' amidst "mam par saves by no means devoid ofa certain wilo cilvan beauty. The country on our side of the dr-egg, or hilL waa fertile and cultivated. though every held and but were ncighbeiircd by partial jungle; whilst behind the mountain. extended roclry diiiglee, deep woods, and vast prairies- thoegli that is not an Eastern word--where nenseluoel locks of the hairy cheep of Hindustan were tended by their keep- erot or here and there a patch of arable-land employed a lonely sync and hie fenaily during a portion of the year. Two several rivers have their rise in those mountains, and on the backs of one of them rose our comfortable bungalow. Now .w had a fancy, daring the cool season, to make an excur- sion behind the hill-fort in search of the source of this river. the Penner, which was said to issue from the heights of Chinseycoedah—an extension, on a lower scale, of tlie uedydrcog range; and as we knew there was good shoot- ice is that quarter, and a hunter ohsrc milk and eggs eeeld be purchased. we anticipated a few days of pleasure. more particularly as we had never nctrated so far. and re- ceived to ennlne cor picnic entirely to oorcelres. The dis- eases of the ed a as our resting-place was only twelve inllmi and though the only read was of the tough- all narrowest, we know there wocld be no diflenliy in and a few necessaries in the nphotstsr ine, bu ‘ - itherbe. "Ycr was delmte, an tt;c"re- s assets at a year E-saal,w at man I to‘ the cavalry else II, we ' lot more it than we had to give the woofi s m- flowers, of all imaginable colours; and scattered _ttc ed. A green and gentle declivity sloped down to the river, here a narrow an shallow stream, through which I Ittelnt to make my way before the day wee many minutes o_der. There was a foreground ucrose it, so clear from either brush or cultivation, that it had the sppearanec of a gcntleman’s park ln a lovely English county: and taking off my slippers. I soon foided the ltttce-deep water, already glittering beneath theunoreasing dawn. Acl seed at the contrast between the light stream and the dark ietsnt back- ground pf jungle. I could have fancied that golden arrows tipped with ightning were being launched by some invisible hand into the myltsricus obscurity. Birds were up merry as I reached the tempting glade where I had deter- mined to collect a perfect beaten, or flower-bed, wherewith- al to gift my friends on my return. There was no lack of round were some beautiful trees, a few of which I will briefly describe. First, there was 8. clump of mangoes ; one tree was a com- lete flush of bloom, making a superb picture; the young eaves, which are of a purplish green—ae though an emo- rald and amethyst had been interfused into each other—-con- trasted finely with the foliage of the last season, which was of a sombre red, not unlike the colour that enriches the floating dulse-weed of our sea-coast. 'I‘hc blossoms, yel- low as topaz. diffused a rich and almost too powerful aroma, evidently attrectige to the innepfhrace, for they hummed about them in mytiads. Second etrbeauty were many trees of the Bruce froitdora, that drop their darlt-green leaves when the season of flowering draws near; and now the blaclt branches were one scarlet blaze of glorious bloaaom. The petals are of a deep orange-red, iinmereed in calyxes soft and shining as jet-blsclt velvet; and the show they made amongst the other trees was pro-eminently lovely. There were also clumps of tamarind, and o rycltrtos pota- foruns in rry; and those tvhity-yellow berriee are useful in refitting and clearing the muddteat water. ' Presently came lowing cattle to their morning meal from the hamlet, so that life was not wanting to the picture. Wanting, in truth, it was not from the first, since water is the life of landscape; and the animation imperte by its vitality of motion and sound filled me with delight, as I turned from the bubbling waters to the hills of Nundydroog in the distance, above which now rose the sun, seeming to send down the jutting crags, as bya ladder, a brilliant army of rays, that soon reminded me of the wisdom of retracing my II I 5 Q. e a. ‘PA dark little urchin, with bright eyes, gazed wondering- Iy at me as, slippers in hand, I prepared to recross the atreani. “ Dekho 3" cried be. pointing over to the spot I had just left-—-“ Dekho!" (behold); and suddenly there was a rush and a slirill serccch behind me; and looking back, I behold a large hideous ape chattering and rnrrtpeugn irtg, as we say in Scotland, on the bank, ready, as it seem- ed, to pursue me wit oetile intent. I took heart, how. ever, when the little cow-hord,~beginning to laugh, pelted the creature away. " Poorana dewul so bender aiahie"- (It in a monkey from the old pagoda); and on inquiry, he told me that some few miles distant, near the Gooty road, there wee a very ancient pagoda, which, though long aban- doned by buman worshippers, wee frequented a colony H. 2 . e oI stonesl, es muy smell Mghairhgru an in ormaut e I called th in. ' I need not tell you of the admiration my nosegay received, or of the laughter my monkey-adventure excited; but I was pleased to find thiit the old pagoda was known by re- port to my brother, who deemed it worthy of a visit. Nei- ther need I tell you how happily we spent a few days uhere we were, but proceed at once to that portion of my recital which more especially pertains to you. The monkey- dewul was a few miles out of our return route, but that met- teted not, as it was nearer to Nundvdroog. Here, then, we found ourselves one day, pitched at some distance from the ruin, to avoid tnonkey-intrusion. As there wee no hamlet here, we had brought all that was necessary to make us comfortable for it day or two ; and our train of camp~follow- re was increesv-d by an aspirant for pagehood in little llyder Khan, the cow-boy, who had professed a strong at- tachment for myself. It was a delicious cool nftcrnoon on which we repaired ttlih our sketching materials to take separate views of the pagoda, which we found to be one of those edifices that betruy it mixture of Hindoo and Moorish architecture so common in certain districts of India; or, per- haps, they are buildings whose ori in is guessed at from Jewish and Iigyptian lI'lIdIIlOI]I. fit was, in its state of robust dilapidstion (an to speak), worthy of iibler artists; and the creeping-plants with which some of its prominent buttresses were clothed, whilst other portions gepetl liutigri- ‘ ly in stony gloomincss, bare and hold, made it quite a fea- ture atnidst the grassy liilloclis that surrounded it. Your fither had stolen off with his gun ; your mother was seated in frotit of the temple, alreiiily busy ; while the ayalt, with her little charge—_vourself, Cutlibcrt—accoiiip:tniod me to the re tr, where a magnificent l)“IfbVfIIl~lI’I:8, now covered with red mosaic figs, called for pictorial illustration at my hands. llyder was ostensibl_v our guiiidtatt; but as hitherto few monkeys had shown theinselves, we began to suppose they had gone, like ourselves. mi a picnic ; so he wandered iiliuiit, collecting berries in ilie skirts ofthe jungle, which ltore extended close to the piigodzi. How time passes when one Is thoroughly absorbed in a favourite pursuit, you riiu some day know. I forgot everytliing ; and though a sort of consciousness of great silence around struck me, I did iioi think of looking to inquiru why iiyab and baby were so quiet. ' The uict, if natural. was broken by aecream so on- naturally fierce and shrill, that for It minute I was too terri- fied to look wlience it came. When I did look, I behold the ayelt. still slirielting, in pursuit of what at first I believed in be a ltutrian being. Where is the child! I could not one it; and in aiiotliur iiioinrnt flashed the terrible conviction on me of tits wliole trutii. I rushed frantically after the ayah, and as she fell lifeless across my p:itli,I neither stayed to‘ pity nor to help her, for there before me. bl" I “W Will paces, was a hideous apc—-yoii in its arma—and I was con- vines-.d it was the identical ape of the river. 'I'lie creature, in seeming enjoyment, kept at is certain price from me, still making into the jungle ; and the tester I followed. ilI0.m°f¢ speedily it trotted on; wliilet at last broke out your piteous little voice, almost itisddeiiing me. On an on I went- still through woods that begun to tlticlten. so that twilight was arnun me. Every device I could hit on to arrelt the steps of the malignant creature. failed to have any other ¢fl'ect than to elicit a discordant chatter; aod.when at last, completely fatigued. altnoet fainting, I lost sight of it in a dense thicket which I hail not strength to penetrate, I fairly gave way, and lying on the ground, cried bitterly ', oh, more bitterly than I have ever done since. ut I gave not way to the nervous hysteria that threat- ened me. I felt that in this matter there was nothing more that Icould do, and as I prayed for that higher Ilel which I knew could do all, my spirit bccaine calmer, and erotic, determined as best I could to el|l'If.‘.lIO myself from the jun- gle. I knew not what course to talte—a|| were alike to use —bot nitric were so dense as that which led into tliccopse, amidst which the ape had disappeared, from whiclt, indeed, no sounds now p save the monotonous and plaintive coo of the wood-pigeon. I teolt than what seemed the least intricate track, where path was none, and are many minutes ccmc apot. op... .I|iI(l, with more grace than trees. In} to my ' y beheld that the sun was not yet below the hurt- gg t-ccvcvle are reached our title encampment It see his gave me courage, and I hastened on and on. ll“ poll; t as everything had been forwarded several at length the red and golden trail of the set of ‘also was ‘III heave-hwhee IO , all was ready. all 6 and that remained of day. Then I quivered at the idea of bein Oenghdvsc eaplercttccs were tctrrdieicd for day. we lieeig there, and stripped tor a manner to reflect. thd cake a little ymcas la the idea of having eocad struck on III ears—a faint or —not the can of the loved so peectret lctn oohoowe cl-vs, nor the gattarsl call of the qua‘ . nor the bark of the Q well we might be, of erg a ya that. Again! it is a child's voice; or is the frah t ,ce ethee h or eeluol. 'I\o of lit aw’e normals still in my ears! Nol for hamlet ecntci not are than twenty hate; and If not then follows the csckllag chatter of the iounksy, and a thrill caused some wonder, it was no doubt qerchf dlo- of hope made my 'rcolate. I resolved to conceal my- presence polled when the peaceful and gentlciriltabitanta were told self, to watch an o portaaity, end. are the acetate inc. snatch the in ant from its grasp. at all risks. I event is t It I h it . , d d it: coft':s're?s’tst had o::s'3iii.°lli°s b.enteh?k.tIlc:P?f"smiI3' morning then, before behind a thick bush. and, presently, etill carrying yon, al- other was stirring, I‘ meet as expertly as your ayah might have done, the ' est "*le forth jest ‘fut. em eolcuviiiga of light cetsta flutter-\ appeared. In advance of the line It took was a greasy - I'll in. bird-liltc, amongst the trees near which we were lo I praywhen I31’. l are w, eoroe paces from the shrubs that screened inc. '1' . this it hrtook itself, and laying its borders on the ground, went through a series 0 grotesque notice, which, cedar other circumstances, might have diverted trse, t now terri- are me as to their issue. Your complete eilcecc _hc' htcncd my fears ; had the animal strangled you, or was it destroy you ? Presently, still keeping so close to you that I hesitated about rushing out upon it until al'aire want more favourably, it began to pluck up the grace, as if in of roots. At that moment, I became aware that another actor had entered on the scene. _ \ ‘ In a direct line from me. and beyond the hollow, per- haps eotnc doncn of acne. stood a thick low tree. its trunk visible, but its root thed in foliage. It was the or wild-fig, and in the twilight Its branches showed crimson with its studs of vcriuilion fruit. dead ripe. A movement‘ amongst the lower unibrage arrested my gaze, and I could preceive the crouching shape of some living creature. some dangerous animal perhaps, or was it another monkey! A rustle of leaves interrupted the labours of the child-eteelcr, and, skipping about, he ran towards the fig-tree, as if to ex- amine it. Beltolding nothing,I suppose, but the fruit, be instantly applied himself to satisfy his hunger, apparently forgetting his former occupation. Now, I thought, was the time for an exertion to be made ; but, as I moved, a rotten stick on which I trod made a noise, which instantly attract- ed the vigilant creature‘s notice, and turning his back to the tree, he stood listening, as be gaaed towards the spot where I watched. At that juncture, to in incxprcrsible astonish- ment, two tiny paws—werc they ands 7-—wcre protruded from the fig-tree, and ere the most startling heart could beat once, out sprang around the monkey's neck a noose of cord. And lo! screaming and struggling with hideous contortions, with rain efforts to free himself, the creature dashed‘ about in agony. With a spring I reached you where you lay, in-- deed senseless. but not dead. and held you to my heart. is it who stands beside me, ointin to the ape bound firmly by the strangling cord to t e true of the tree . Ah! my little page Hydcr! bravely have you done! and, but for this dear babe upon my breast, I could have taken him in my erirta and thanked him with many iases. mes- ed h was to End metherc; but when by degrees you be- gan to recover. and I found you still alive, and, barring scratches and scars whence blood had freely flowed, seem- ingly unhurt, great was our joy in that dark hour. I-Iyder plucked the ripe figs, and they served to moisten your dry ipa and to refresh us : and then he told me how he strayed away to gather fruit, when the cries of the syah had reach- ed his cars. e heard from her what had happened, and instantly made for a part of the woods where he knew the monkeys often come to dig up the roots of a plant of which they are fond, and which grew abundantly only in the lace I have called the “ grassy hollow." I may as wel you that this plant was a species of wild-yam—thc Dior- corea bttIbt_'/"era, by no means espicable fare for man or inun- lrey. Hyder's cow-boy belongings of a tether became use- ful in his pagedom novitiate; but when he assured me I must have travelled five miles, I doubted how I could man- age to reach the pagoda, so tired and upset was I. t was almost quite dark. as we came upon a good beaten treck—thc Gooty road, Ilyder told me. I sat down In i:scLagl_ii_le, and pl _ west to cd my clia c 1li.o_t_I"y sleeping in my lap. "Dekho, Beebcc sshib! pa cc atec his Gooty eay !”—(I.oolr, lady, a palsnquin is coming from Gooty !) And in truth a flash of distant lights iii in my eyes, a sound of humming voices in my ears—a palsnquin with its full compleitient of bearers and torches. and the loud but not unpleasing chorus of their song. Before half an hour they had come tip to tie: and when Hydrr hailed them, great was their wotider on hearing what had occurred of which they immediately informed their sltitnberiug freight. ‘ I have little more to say, my dear. The gentleman, whom they were conveying in Madras, was soon beside us ; he was quite a stranger to me, but insisted on my taking his place with you in the palkee, and on accompanying us to the pagoda, where I need nctdcscribe the warmth of wel- come that awaited us, for your poor mother was in a state of distraction. etid your father had only just returned after a vain search in quest of us.’ ‘ Dear Aunt Rose, who was the kind gentleinati l’ ‘ My dear, there he is on the sofa 2 it was your Uncle Allan.‘ G as an O , tairi ; men who many a time and oft \ r _ ’/s‘a'£e.,»r’ Qimummial .4. Q 81' SPEAK WHOSE WORD LIAPS FORTH A1‘ ONO! TO ITS IPIIGT, WHO OALLI POI THINGS THAT All I0?’ Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Wednesday, February 11,1357. ‘ V it was a fair one; at any outside agreed that the rcposel My "ms", rate they promised to n ide by it. the dire necessity of the ease, consented to leave his shelf ter. Ienlarged hiiii ct the hell door: the mob, trtlvéo its pledge, stood on the hill about two hundred yo! I bout 9: 5 The u r started off like a deer, and as e huutod deer heg:aiI°his best. He cleared the first little rivulet In excellent at Ie, end just as be was rising the hilly rid which divi ed the smaller from the b I rsucra broke loose like u f. ho, ho liuutsmeii were all Big leridmeu-- young, with breath and aiiiew strong to b , o'er bug and broo- had run from the u r, and now they were or/fer him with fast foot so ful cry. From the ball door the whole course of the hunt could be a_eeii : tho!» 50"‘? ekelter down the lawn, rushing s_wift and wild: he. trudging elong, toiliniup the opposite bill, and straining every nerve to gain I s top. At length he passed “I0 ridge, and, disap tiring rushed down to the _IsottttIu- Herc, out of breast , and no time to stop or hesitate, he took the water. and boldly mode the plunge into foaming river. A swimmer, out _o breath, cucum- bered with his clothes, the water rushing dork, deep, and rapid, amid surrounding rocks—tbe poor man atrufilcd and struggled on for life : the enemy yelled behind im, whilst it watery grave seemed to encompass him about- Frightened and exhausted, be bad well ni h cvei-—nnotlier minute, and be had been a rcwiied man —when his pursuers coming u , two or three of the boldest and best swimmers rue ed into the river and saved him. . The huntsmen now tbered round their strtck_eti and captive deer. They ro led the r man about until they t the water be bad ewellowe out of his stomach; they 9 o “"2 ere en go in rubbing him into warm e everything which humnnity could sugfieet to bring him to life. Happily our friend had not on into the cruel clutches o a rty of Rokitee, who are more careful of the life of it pig than a human creature ! No ; the Done- l mountaineers had a deed to do—but not a deed of oath; they were about a deliberate work—but not a work of . _ The moment the poor gnu r was restored to life (and in order to contribute to an heater: is recovery, an em- ple dose of the ‘poison’ he had come to poured down his throat), they proceeded to tie a bandage over his eyes, and mounting him on a pony, off they set with their captive to the mountains. ' , during a whole day, Removing him from Icon to through gleus and deb es—up one mountain, and dowti another-—et length, towards the close of a summer's evening. they brought him to the secluded lake of Glen Veagb. Here they embarked him in e curragb, or wicker boet ; and after rowing him up and down the lake for acute hours, they let: him on a little island, where was a but, which had often served as a shelter to the fowler, as he watched his aim at the wild water-birds of the lakp, and still Hofteuer as the ‘still-house’ to the dia- % ,_ - ¢_ .9! .. Io oft ergo of two test!” m:§—&fiO'£t a care- fully kept on his eyes. e was well cared for, and fed on trout, grouse, bares, chickens, and other delicacies of the place and season; plenty of poteen, mixed with the ore water of the lake, was his portion to drink: and or six weeks be was thus kc I cooped up, its it were, in the clerk, like a fattening fowg. The period of his strange captivity bein now nbout to expire, his kee ere one morning took him under the urni and conducts him to lh t, in which the rowed him up itud down from island to island. They t on brought him to the mainland, him on u pony, and again, for the length of a day, ed him hither and thither, through glen and mountain, till towards the close of night, the bewildered but now liber- oled tiger finds himself alone on the high road to Letter enny. The poor man returned home tbut night to his family, who had given him over, weeks ago, its either murdered or one to Aiuericit. Yet how changed he stood before their eyes !—-not its is rim ghost at the door, but as it well fed, fut. nnti happy oolting mun. C ev THE GUAGER’S RUN. 1 I suppose there are few who have not licord of the denioralisation und crimes produced in Irelond by illicit distillation. In the present day there are comparatively few disorders from this cause,ns the excise laws been considerably modified, end the up tite for whisky has become less uncoiu romisirtg. rs ago, however, the people in t on parts of the country where the distilling of spirits was carried on olandeetinely, were ut consttint war with the oflicers of excise, and the most fearful encounters took place between them. Donegsl, where I resided with my family, we sew uiuc more of this than was at ell pleasant, and on one occu- sion were aocideiitly involved in one of these ever-oa:ur- ring quarrels. . t was a very beautiful tuornin in June, and I was preparing to descend to the brea first purlour, when I was startled on benring is noise at the gate in front of the dwelling. Looking out to ace whet was the matter, I observed that one of the domestics was refusing ed- mittisncc to e decently dressed men, who was ur ently nod anxiously trying to get into my remises. I osten- iug to ascertain the cause of the isturbance, I soon learned that the suppliuut for shelter was an unfor- tunate excise oficer-—or ‘ go get,’ as he was called b the country peooplc. ‘ Oh, for iriercy'e sake.’ cried the intructed man, ‘let me into your house; look me up somewhere, or anywhere; hide me, save me, or I am a. deed men !' I did not hesitate to bring him in, and mak- ing him sit down, I oI'erod him refreshment, as be ap- rcd exhausted and fniiit. I be of him to recover liiodiaelf, and to take courage, as t ere was no deuger. At this moment an immense crowd of men and boys sur- rounded my house ; and one of the men came forward to the door and demanded admission. l o tied the window to inquire what he wanted. He repli . ‘ You have got the gttuger in your lioucc, air, and we must have him out -—we want him.’ ‘ What do you want him for?‘ ' Oh, our reverence, begging our hotsour‘e pardon, that's no ueiness of yours to m die in; we want him, and must have him.‘ ' That ,may be, but I can't allow it‘: he is under my roof; he has ooiric claimin my hospitality, and I must and will give him shelter on protection.’ Doc tor, there are two we to that bargain. You ought to have asked us before you let him in. And to be plain with you, doctor, we really respect you very mueh—you are an honest good neighbour, and mind your own busi- uses: and we would make the man sore and sorry that would dare to touch a hair of your head. But you must give us the tiger. To be at a word with you, doctor, we must at or tear open or tear down your housc,or get him; for get him we will!’ What was to be done! I could do nothing. I had no gun or istol in the house. ' ,' says I, * must a will, It seems. do as you like. rotcst against what you are about; but nce you most are or own we , as you are Irishmeti, lderiierid Mr T a man inside had ten mittens’ law of me to my house: let him have the use -- 75 ‘volt him. Do you now go back to the hill yonder, at side of the house, and will let him out at the hell the per fellow have the start, giving him dcor,aed tot Ni “ '23. s tics‘ in he was , t too I I .'Is men,whowoo Why would hcablc lb. resehtherlvar .ohlahi-endaspsad hread.he- twcsn high and rocky henke,cbont a quarter of a ulte- ollu front of tha‘houce,and.b swimming ' he would shot his escape non persons. EVE ' w etlll: let bite out he the warns of the shelter I have ....g Now, it may be asked, why till i is mad pursuit to icetcli ii guuger, merely to fatten him and let him loose 3|!“ in 1 The capture wire it mutter of important conse- quence to the mounIttineers.- A lowless deed it. surely was, yet almost pnrdonuble, seeing that the result might have produced serious consequences to the erpetrabore in the district. 'l‘o repress the system of illicit distilla- ' tion in Ireland, amongst other enactments, there was run not passed its contrury to the spirit of the iritish It-onstitution its to the common principles of right and justice—-it Iuw punishing the innocent in lIII)!III|IIl0I2l for tlie guilt ! This low mode the townliind in wli oh the still was ound, or any port of the process of distiilntiun detected, liable to pay is heavy fine, to be levied on all its ltiridholders. The consequence of this not (now re enled) was, that the wbo1e north of Ireland was involve in one common confiscation. It wus the fiscal triumph of tin- rs and informers over litndlords cud proprietors. Act- ing on this anti-sociitl end iniqitous system, the gougor of the district in question her! iuformntions to the uinouut. . 7000 nguiiist its several townlnuds. These inform- etions were he be brought forward at the iipprouclitn nssizes, end, if sustained, its no doubt they would, the result would be utter ruin to the people. With such a prospect before them, and in the circum- stcuces mentioned, the plot was laid for the seizure and forcible itbduction of the revenue oficer. it having been known that, sotue time previous to the sssiaes, tho gnu- ger was to pass through the district, on his way to coast, and it bein also known that be kept these infor- inetioue about his person, the scheme wits therefore to weylay him and keep him prisoner, in safe custody, out of the way and out of night, until the nssizes were over. And well and efcctually the plan succeeded ! The crown offiocr not being forthcoming st the nssircs, the prosecu- people generally were saved from loss, i not from ruin. Au so ended this curious case of revenue lnw—a low which, with other legislative abuses, helped to make Ireland very much what it is. Virsits Swst.t.owtira -rnttis Yoimc.—A curious fact once occurred to a s rtemsn. When he killed a viper he occa- sionally put it into liia pocket to preserve the fat, which is considered valuable for broiees,rhcumatism, die. It so a cued that one day he went into luncheon, and forgot that a had a viper in his pocket until he had occasion to use his handkerchief, when, to his dismay, he felt a lot of young vipers crawling about. This was a good lesson, and depend upon it, never repeated. I have known five cases of the bite of this venomous reptile, and in all extreme suffering. Ilut one case I would particularly mention in the son of one one tenants; he was then a lad of about ten years old. In his athcr’a garden he stood watching a cat. as he thought, very intent upon a mouse under a stone. e mouse a large viper eeissd him by the forefinger. c very soon because sick and faint. and his aim swelled, with extreme 'e. Ila was taken to a medical gentleman in the neigh- rhocd .end after seine tints and much siiforieg, he recov- . ut the most remarkable fart is this, that he has grown but little since, an if his blood had been literally poi- by venom absorbed into his system ; and, although he b new nineteen, on aceld not from is appearance. gaccs him to be more I an thirteen or fourteen years of age.- Nclss en Ndarcl Hist _ Deccairrtcn or A than or Pt.asaues.—-1' W electt—-we cams ltowsodlrly ; we want eetschcr heota dranli; we wear out rrcll—wc -, out long - at»- ‘E: ried his bod with their long frieze coats ; twcnt bands: rosccute was An- ," on olliiaiice which wits previously distasteful The French, too, ztrc so capricious new peo lc—-blu-.. o lxot cud. cold in their friendships, that the islilrc uh l they tiotie, as a matter of course. fell to tho round, and the , not appearing. he raised the alone, when to his horror, , 6‘t'i'. \‘b .4 site riser costs." - v—_;‘_‘” At New of-‘_. “news at rite LAD‘! ( from the European Tfeiec. I " crdi: -I h1‘hehlestJmccounte'ifrout: China, dW5h5m“ . . P tor t on pro o y receiv . , ing at Canton was still going on. Iuditkil IOUCDC ll late as the 25th of November. AI _ ecthal 0 common cause with the English is thanks rl|I9.__|l absurd ruinous adds that the e heads of the Americans to be sent in ya a so for those of our coun on. It was also rumoured that Shanghai had been attacked by the ubcls-a vary ltkel result, if the rebels were well informed as to the ootusl - tics of the cues. On the authority of e respeuteble oom- iiierciiil house in Mauclteeter one of the H of that city has published it _ Trieste. to the elect that the Governor-General of Indk had declined to send troops to Canton, and had referred‘ the spplication for aid on_ the part of Adtui to the Imperial authorities at home. -If conveys Lord Caniiin ‘a belief that the qusrrol was not is in it else this reading. that the English could without difliculty sustain themselves until they tp own- ing-strect. It must he confessed that these is little cym- iu this country, and perhaps equal] little in Atnericn, for the punishment which has been nfiictedce the Governor Yeh, eriein out of the allsir of the Arrow, although some of the big cat close newspa s, daily and weekly, have shown cleorly that the qttarrc wise or. worth of our arms. be truth is that the exclueiveness an arrogance of the Chinese have made them (greatly disliked by the commercial nations which have he do business with them, and the talk which has prevailed that the Western Powers have enterld into a com ct to_ make the Chinese open‘ their empire to the trade 0 the world has been received with sutisfaoti At the same time. the offer made in this case before ostilitics commenced b Governor Yeb was a fair oiie,—nainely, " That hereafter Chinese oficers will on no account, without reason, seize, and take into custody the people belonging to foreign lorchas; but when Chinese subjects boil for themselves vessels foreigners shall not sell register’ to them, for, if this be done, it I occasion con ciori between nations and jirei sli’ps, and render it dificult to dietinguislr between am.’ We , tly fear that if the case.of the o rested on its merits, and not on the feeltrtg of self-interest which further notice 0 Cltmele arising out of this uarrel are sure to awaken, the sum- mary proeecdin ,w icb our consul and admiral at Canton hnve token we be more generally and strongly con- demned tlieit theyvare. In fnct, these Eastern squebblcs are becoming serious matters. Take the war wifi Persia as is case in poiiit. The leading journal of Wednesday, the 14th, t.‘r‘ntllfIl V this stiiiginqluoticc in one of It leadiii articles :—“ Bot _ is Iieret rce y the cause of the war! by, at this very ‘, moment there is going on in the metropolis, and an.~on_gnt ‘ all ' lee tendtii' '3 9 a care g to be well informed on politi chin, a tree as bread as any that ever appeared on . .WhIIe thcnc ' _ , it . ' with triotio m, are min}: thitt Horst is the’ cause of the war, there is not it company in which it is not stated ns_a_mattei- of notoriety that t‘. e cause ion ridiculous qtiert-cl iu a Persian lady.’ _ . British Minister had the iudiacretiou to extend the British logic to it lady of indihrent character, claimed by a member of the Persian court, and on his refusing to give u the Indy to the outr_eged feelings and the violitt;d aw opthe country, had himself, its a matter of course, to retire from it. e tire told that firet—re.te Orieutnl antho- rities, with is full knowledge of the case, have dtclurcd that the British minister wits unquestionably in the wrou , iind tliist Persia had no alternative but to do us she did. Whether this be so or not, it is in every‘»od_v i mouth tbitt it is not IIerut but is frail fnir one who is the cause of the war.” We suspect thnl: ii. large portion of society will speedily urrive at the conclusion, with such fitcts us these before them, that ambassadors of f-ircign Courts tire principally concerned in getting up IIII§‘..lvu":I" standings instead ofliceling them, end the dignity of this country is often more compromised than proinot: by their presence and interference. This Heritt business may prove is serious niliiir : in any case. it cannot fail to be is vcryex nsivc one. We hear from St. Petersbur ofrt political n liance between France and Russia, negociitted by Count: Morny, the ]"t"i'>’UlllII fuvourite of Louis Napoleon, and the Count li-as -lioi-.-ti in his own person is strong a psthy for the l’..:s.~i.iii nllinnrre by murryin is young ¢I(Iy iittiiched, or intended to be tittucltcd, to t e Court of the Cziirinn. The core tnony vrns celebrated in St. Petcrsburg on the 8th. in Illt’ presence of the Em eror nnd Empress ‘Ibo miil'-vi‘ ‘ll this young lady rcsi d, it uppettrs. ti. number of _vt.trs in France ; und its a. proof of the sympathy which at i --r-.-out exists between the Courts of St. Petersburg ml the 'I‘uilcries, it is iiientioiied, that since the writ ct::~ i l'.(.‘ Russian nobility who have visited the French vii; it II have been unusoily nuinpr-ous-flocked over in IIIlI]]llt'I’5 ; .'t‘lIf'.‘I' thiin ever was known previously. These facts llI"‘ -.;ni:i- cent, and ought not to be lost u on its. Tim l.ivr- L‘:-.r Nicholas ttiittlo no secret in the ey-deyof his 1.-v ‘or of his sympathy for the English, and his dislil;-~ French, and so recently its his r‘nn\’el'!!lhIi0tts i-.1 ‘ lluniilton Seymour rtbout the “sick man," t-E. feeling was apparent. Ilis successor is evid.-ntl_v - t_ting it difibrent giiuin, rind the cold shoulder WIlI(‘ll v have turned towards Louis Nopolcori since the war wits in night our rtei hbctl'i"'krt*vr-r-r:. real "he to is close may have proper have entcrtiiinc towiirds Russia since the I)lII‘ttl ii; of Moscow and the overthrow of the first Nnpolcon ‘ t_\' N‘ rlisplticod by on opposite fooling. In fact, htitri-l -t t‘ 2‘ English, in consequence of the crowning defeat at t ‘nint- 00, was at one tinio supposed to be too doc nntl -« iding to be eradicated; but it was piirtinll , i'nor \ ‘tolls. efisced, by our common dieitetors endv dangers 't the Crimce, und it ought to be the polio of the 'l"lgII8II Government, whoever may be temporarily the Sm -reign of France, to remember that the pie tire pct‘-’ iiuent and endurin . No doubt, we be eve, exists 1* .t the Russian lloti it in the Cespinn See me loaded in ipa in the Penal Islands, alleging nncieiit treaties of linncc between Russitt and Persia. It is also said i‘ ‘.I the Russian Ambassador lies quitted Telteren to diet... nd ne- sistunoe for Persia at St. Petersburg. The policy: ' Innis Napoleon in thus ooqtiettiug with the Northern .‘.t.toci-tit is inasterl in n pcrsonsl scusc. t. makes him in l pend- ent, to a ergo de es, of the English nllisuce, an I may enable him to ho d, as it were, through the m-slum of Russia, the gittes of our Indinn empire, It is satisfactory to know that the dispute lmttveeu Switscrlerid end Prussia has been brought to a close. as we alwe declared that it would. through the interven- tion of iplornacy. The Swiss Federal Aseembl I. ll met and received a message from the Federal Couiic I respect- ing the ue ociatione.on the Neufcbatcl question. The proposition is this-—t«o nnniil the proceedings ngninst the insurgents of Neiiiihatel, and to set them at liberty. with a reservation of eeudin them out of the Bclvetle ter- ritory uutil the negoclatione are completed. It seems that this Is enough to satisfy the woitudcd pride of t King of Prussia, whose bounce in the nest Installer: -._- _ his sovereign ri appealing to -- ‘ ‘ r. £-.-Igw,‘-,,-_I,,_‘_.5sf Is“! ’ >‘ I . . verucr for the beads of the ‘uglisb had caused some of ‘. V telegraphic despoteb received front I one to which be cool sefely commit himself, but thorn!" O‘ v I 51 pi