7—ww—f—"v ' ' " -" " "h-M" --7 - -—r--~~ -~ -- _. ,, ,mvo'rci) 1‘0 Gax_r:n_;_\i._i§ijui.i.ic ZVCE. LIT stator? 1'15- AND SEMI-WEEKLY ADVERTISER. , N r‘LIVIItAII-lhk .tNlth—t.ii‘.lv.4th‘t)-N. \TOIJI. N0. 56- 5""...- MOOi"S PHASES. MARCH. (Lthaarter, lst day. lh. 59m morn. '. New Moon, 8th day, 2h. 22m mom ) rim Quarter. 15ih day. 9h. 38m even 0 fall tloon. 23d day. 4h. 4m after ( Last Quarter, 30th day, 0h. 46m allar *— MAI [.S. has. Caps Traverse. 'l‘ryoti River. are nails apaveryMonday morning at It) o'clock. Pant. Mount, Courier. The Eastern Mails to Bay Fortune, Fair- leld, Mount Pleasant. Lot 47, St. Margarets. St. Peters, Sunnis—every Wednesday morn- " It to o’clock—PAT. Fenian, Courier. 1‘!» Western Mails to Bed ae, Caacuni- ,sc.t‘,avandish. l‘lgmnnt Bay, .nt l6. New Glasgow. New London. Park Corner. Port Hill, Prince Town. St. Eleonora. Ti'fl‘lh. . Traveller's Rest—everyThursday nioriiingst Ino'ctork.—Ricisaan BAGNALL.Courior. The Southern Mails to George Town- Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 8 o'- clock. 'l'o Belfast, Murray Harbour. Vernon River, Whi'o Saiids~every Saturday at 9 o‘clock, A. M.—SAMUIZL LANE, Courier. .m._ - POPULAR TALES. TH E VACAN T CHAIR." You have all heard ofthe Cheviot mountains. If you have not, they arearutigh. rugged, majestic chain nfhills, which a poet might term the Roman wall of nature; crowned with snow, belted with storms, surrounded by pastures and fruitful fields, anti still dividing the northern portion of Great Britain from the southern..- ll'ithtlicir proud summits piercing the clouds, and their dark rocky de- clivities frowning upon the. glens be- low, they appear synibolical ofthe wild and untameable spirits of the Borderers who ence inhabited their sides. We say, you have all heard ofthe Cliet‘iots, and know them to be very high hills, like a huge clasp rivettiiig England and Scotland to- gether; but we. are not aware that you may have heard of Marchlaw, an old, grey-looking farm-house, sub— stantial as a modern fortress, recent- bond. for aught we know to the con- trary, still inhaliited by Peter El- liot, the proprietor of some live hun- dred surrounding acres. The boun- daries of Peter’s farm, indeed, were defined neither by fields, hedges,nor stone walls. A wooden stake here, suds stone there, at considerable distances from each other, were the general landmarks; but neither Peter nor his neighbours considered a few a- cres worth quarrelling about; and their sheep frequently visited each other’a pastures in a friendly way, harmoniously sharing a family din- Mr.in the same spirit as their masters :niide themselves free at each other’s 8 es. Peter was placed in very unplea- taut .circumstauces, owing to the situation ofMari-hlaw House, which. unfortunately, was built immediately acrossthe‘ ideal line' dividing the "to kingdoms; and his misfortune "‘Silblt, being born within it, he knew not whether he was an English- mol': Scotchman. He could trace ‘ Fro-i Wilson's Tales of the Borders. .cn. CHARLO'I'I‘E’I‘OWN. PRINCE EDWARD ND, MARCH 15. 1845. __ _._._ .___,§_ _,____, ______-_- ‘———‘ . e ’ ‘ his ancestral line no farther bark tha the a ;anll he was still as happyJB’ the freshness and clenrness of the his grent-grgndfath'er. who, it appear- ed from the tamin Bible, had, toge- tlicr with his grandfather and father, claimed Marchluw as their birth-y place. They, however, wore ii in: volved in the same" perpleititieg‘~ “T their. descendant. The parlour tans distinctly acknowledged to be in Scotlandmnd two-thirds of the kitch- . re as certainly allowed to be in England: his three ancestors were born in the ronm over the parlour, and, therefore, where Scotchmen he- yend question: hilt Peter, unliickily, 11.. Mails by the southern roots to 8a., being brought into the world before the death of his grandfather, his par- ents occupied a room immediately over the debateable boundary line ‘which crossed the kitchen. The - mom, though scarcely eight feet ,square, was evidently between the | two countries: but, no one being able to acertain what portion belonged to each, Peter. after many arguments and altercations upon the anhject.was driven to the disagreeable alternative ot'confciision he knew not what couno tryman he was. What rendered the confessing the more painful was, it was Peter’s highest ambition to he thought a Scotcbman. His arable land lay on theScotch aide: his mother was collaterally related to the Stuarts: and friw families were more ancient or respectable than the Elliota. Peter’s speech, indeed. betrayed him to he a walking partition between the two kingdoms. a living representation of the Union: for in one ivord be pro- nounced the letter r with the broad, masculine sound of the North Briton. and the next with the liquitfibn‘ of tho Northumbrians. Peter. or. if you prefer it Peter Elliot, Esquire, of Marchlaw, in the counties ot'Northumberland andRox- burgh, was for many years the best runner, leaper, and wrestler between Wooler and Jedburgh. Whirled from his hand, the ponderous bullet whizzed through the air like a pigeon on the. wing; and the best putter on the Borders qiiailed from competi- tion. As a feather in his grasp, be seized the unwieldy hammer,swept it round his head, accompanying with agile limb its evolutions, swiftly as swallows play around it circle, and hurled it from his hands like a shot from a rifle, till antagonists shrunk back, and the spectators burst into ashout. ‘ Well done, Squire ! the Squire for ever’ once exclaimed a servile observer of titles. ‘ Squire ! who are ye squiriog at P’ returned Peter. ‘ Coiifouod ye lwhere was ye when I was christened Squire ? My name’s Peter Elliot~your man, oronybody’sman, at whatever they like !’ Peter’s seal was free, bounding, and buoyant, as the wind that care”- PRICE. ONE PENNY. goiter-mini, and as free.' me fair finest gpring miter. A pailfnl con- chililrnri sat around their. domestic; gaining f0."- gaming,- msy be purifiel hearth, and one, the yoiirigling of the: by a single tea spoonful, flock. smiled upon its mother’s knee. l ! ' Peter had never known ‘sorrow; hel was blast in his wife, in his children, in his flocks. He had become richerl ' lthau his fathers. He was beloved 10' PMOW“ 3" “ R39 “"7 ' hi; neighhnufg‘ the “Hers of PROCESS --A platiua Crucible i8 made around. and herdgmeflg yea. [)0 and maintained red hot OVOI' . llrga .man envied his prosperity. But a Wifillflmp- 30'“ "lithium! ""1 blight passed otter the harvest of his is poured into it. 'l‘hisacid, though .joye. and gall was rained into the at common temperatures one ofthe THE GATH ERER. cup of his felicity. It was Christmas-day, and a more melancholy-looking siin never rose on the 253th ofl)ecember. Ono vast, sable cloud,like a universal pall,over- spread the heavens. lt‘or weeks, the ground had been covered with clear.dazzling snow; and as, through- out the day, the rain continued its tinwearied and monotonous drizzle. the earth assiimeda character and appearance melancholy and troubled as the heavens. Like a mastifi' that has lost its owner, the wind howled dolefully down the glens, and was re-choed from the caves of the moun- tains, as the lamentations of alogimi of invisible spirits. The frowning. snow-clad precipicas were instinct with motion. as avalanche upon ava- lanche, the larger burying less,crowd- ed downWard in their tremendous journey to the plain. The simple mountain rills had assumed the ma. jesty of rivers: the broader streams were swollen into the wild torrent, and,gitshing forth as cataracts, in fury and in foam. enveloped the val- leys in an angry 4100‘. At Marchlaw, the fire blazed blithely; the kitchen groaned beneath the load of prepa- rations forn joyful feast: and glad faces glided from room to room. Peter Elliot kept Christmas, not so much because it was Christmas, as in honour of its being the birth- day of Thomas, his first-horn, who, that day,entered his nineteenth year. With a father’s love, his heart yearn- ed for all his children; but Thomas was the pride ofhis eyes. lards of apology had not then found their way among our Border hills: and. as all knew that, although Peter admitted no spirits within his threshold, nor a drunkard at his table, he was, never- theless, no niggard in his hospitality, his invitations were accepted without ceremony. The guests were assem- bled: and the kitchen being the only apartment iii the building large enough to contain them, the cloth cd in a zephyr. or shouted in a htlr-' was spread upon a long. clear, oaken ltable,stretchiog from England into Scotland. On the English end ofthe board were placed a ponderoiis plum- l puddirig,studded with temptation,and a smoking sirloin; on Scotland, a savoury and well-seasoned haggis, ,with a sheep’s-head and trotters; i ricune, upon hs native bills; and his while the intermediate space was body was thirteen stone of healthy, filled with the good things ofthis life, substantial flesb.steeped in the spirits common to both kingdoms and to the of life. He had been long married, ‘ "no", btit marriage had wrought no change upon him. They who siipo pose that wetllrck transforms the lark into an owl offer an insult to the lose- I 1-53,...“ is not so generaly known as ly beings wlm. brightening our dark- it ought to be, that pounded alum est hours with the smiles ofafibction, possess“ the property of purifying teach us that that only is tinbecom- - water. A table spoonfull of pulver- ing in the husband which is disgrace-' ised slum sprinkled into a hogshend fut in the man. Nearly twenty years of water, (the water stirred at the had passed ovorthem; but Janet was time) will, after the lapse of a few still as kind, ltd. in his eye». ll,hours, by precipitating to the bottom beautiful, as ah bestowing on him the impure articles, so purify it that To be continued. Smru MODE or Puairvino WA- b" hlnth “'0 l) Ill.“ 50' '0‘" “lit will be foundto possess nearly all ‘most volatile of known bodies, pos- aesses the singular property of re- maining fixed in the red hot crucible, and not a drop ofit evaporates; in fact, it is not in contact with the crucible, but has an ‘-atmosphere of its own interposed. few drops of water are now added to the sulphate- oiis acid in the red hot crucible.— The diluted acid gets into immediate contact with the heated metal—in- stautly fl ishes ofl',snd such is the ra- pidity and energy of the evaporation that the water remains behind,aoIl-' is found frozen into a lump oficc in a ho! crucible! from which seizing the too- ment before it agiin melts, it may be thrown out before the eyes of the as- tonished observer! ‘ ' This is,iiideed. ” a piece of natural magic.” and as much like a miracle as any operation ofthe forces ol'na- turn could produce. It is certainly one ofthe. most singularly beautiful experiments imagin-ihlc. It was re- cently devised by M. Proroftayne, of France, to illustrate the repellent power ofheat radiating from bodies at a hig't temperature, and of the rapid abstraction of heat produced by cVaporution. ..___- Pacsesr Arraiasuca or VEsUt‘tcs. —:\ writer in the Polytechnic Re- view describes the cratcr ot'V'esuriiis, as it is at present, as a vast cirCiilar pit, with nearly perpendicular walls about two miles. in circumference and 200 feet deep Its bottom c-insists of waves of black lave of sunrise, and in the centre of it rises a cone of scorizn, to the height of 1-50 or 200 feet. This none has two openings on its summit, from which a continual emission of white vapor take-i pit-:0; and about once in five minutes there is an explosion heard far within the. mountain, and which is follow ed in it feiv seconds by the ejection ol a vast quantity offitmes and fragments of melted lava, which by daylight have the color of blood. but after sunset are ofa dazzling white heat, while the vapor is brilliantly illuminated so as to appear like the flames. Lara escapes in abundance fmm the base. ofthe cone. and flows beneath the hardened crust which forms the door of the crater. OccasionalIy,howover, it melts its way through, and runs in a broad stream over the surface. which in its turn becomes hardened by cooling, and a fresh eruption takes place elsewhere. In this manner the whole crater will eventually be filled tip, and whenthis occurs an eruption on a great scale may be expected. \Vosncnrur. Errecrs or Conn Waren.—-.\ Swiss Journal furnishes a curious anecdote of the effects of cold water, which is certainly equal to any ofthe wonders that Priessnitz and his followers can produce, ofthe astonishing effects of their therapeuo tic agent. Every aper should copy it for the benefit a the afflicted.