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'I'HE MERCHANT AND GENERAL ADVERTISER circulates largely in tho Townships of Darling ton. Clarke and Cartwright, It ia a common platform, open t o the free d1scusa1on of all quea tlOll~ 1u \Vh ch the gener ~l pubhc are concerned. illlll.MS WEST DURHAM Steam Job Printing Oi!ce Krno ST REE~', BowMANVILLE. Ec\cni~ f'c. lct1f! Jfr 211\11 ind vance. The 'Merchant' and 'Obser· ver,' $2-00. RATES OF \DV .l!.RTISING AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. VOLUME POSTERS, P AMPHLE'l'S, CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS CHEQUES, NOTES, One column H <\lf do Qu ~rter d<. · 45 pe1 anuutn 2n 1 f HANDBILLS, LABELS, CARDS, TICKETS, &c , &c, &c, 1 rrans1ent itdverhaements,5 eta per lme firrrt m ae1tiou, and 2c per hne, e;;i.ch Bubaeauent one 15 " VII BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMER S, 1875 flooJ. and field, and, above all, the associations that rush m unbidden upon hiw "ho BEYOND. first beholds it, combme to produce a sublime impre~s1on In nty owu case, at least, Beyond hfe's tl'ltla and o!\ree, J feel that the lithograph from those stone Its hope.It nnd Joys, its weariness and sorrow, in a gold ring, with the king's last word, W·lls will never fade while the retrna of Its aleepleas inghta, its days of smiles and tear~, NUMBER X a breach of confidence , but being a repub- EXECUTED IN FIRST CLASS STYLE wardly and outward!; May he be cursed H·vmg sold outm) CABINET& UNDEit'IAKINGBUSINESS to MR W P PEow>: I 'vould reapBctfully recommend him to th~ Pnbhc who lta\u fa.vored tne with their pa.tronag for tht: le.st lh1rty y1:1ara, as a Gentleman well quahtied to meet then· '\ants in the above line of tr :1.de, and belie., u tha.t he will give the utmoBt sa.tusfac.:tion to all who favor him with their pa.t ronage. Respefltfully yours. POETRY. R S MANNING. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY I Tra.1n15 w1ll 1cnvc Bo,\~mauv1lle Station, llow1nanv1lle time, as follows OOlNG \VEST GOING E AST CHANGE To the Public: of :&-ls R S l\f~N:>ll::i G , OF BUSINESS! Ha' ing bought out the anJ '~h1cb Will be long sweet life, unma.tked by yes.rs, One bright, unending morrow Beyond time's troubled stream, Beyond the chilling wa.ve11 of death's d-.rk nver, Be:yond bfe's lowering clouda a.nd fitful glea1ns, Its dark realitleS and bnghter dreams, A beautiful forever N IJ ach)ng be~rts. are there , No tear dlmmed eye 1 no fo1 m by sickness wasted, No cheek grown pll.le through µenury or cM"e, No spirits Crulihed beneath the weight they bear No signs for bhsa untasted . Luual* . 7 20 1 a. 1n I Express Express 9 30 a.m Mi xed Th.f1xeJ. 2 20 p m I Local ~ --....,EJCpress Q 00 p tn T E""Dress '-.>'f h1s tnua runs ev ery u:&r -1lni:; 1t:Ionda) a c:xcepteU, 8 30 a m. 4 20 pro 7 00 p m. 9 00 I> 1n of we~k, CAEINI!JT BUSINESS I purpose ori.rr;)ing on a.t the Drs. Reid & Boyle. SURGERY---SILVER S'.l'. .BowmR.nv1lle, Aug Old Stand, King Street Bowmanville, '\Vil! eudea\ or to ki:ielJ evct) th1,ng on l1and tr at 1s needed in the Furn1tureL1ne Raving b~d TE~l YEAllS exper1enoe in the Bowman ville Fnnntu1e Factory and being appointed Agent to sell for the Con1pany in llov. 1n,\n\ille, the Public can depend upon get- I beg to say that I :::o, 1875 Prof. J. Ruse, !\DU AllE of J3ax.ter Un1vcrs1ty of Music GRl!'r11' 1ndsh1p, N ew Y k 01 BEST FURNITURE IN THE PROVINCE, at i.\fodcrate rate1:1, by gn1ng me a call '£e3.cher of P1a.uo and Orgau, cultrva.t1en Voice, S1ng1ng-, ~rhorough Baa8, Harmony REPAIRING Compos1tiou, &c OF 'ALL KINDS No i;ad farewell i15 hea , No lonely wiul for lovmg ones det>arted, No dark remorse HJ there o'er memories atured, No lflll1]e of ecorn, no ha.rah or cruel word I intend to SELL FOR CASH, making but Sma.11 To grieve t11e broken hearted l'1 ofi ts No long da.rk n1ght is therE", tn1J the DONE, AND CHARGES MODERATE. No light from sun or Bilvery morn 1e gn:en, But Christ, the Lamb of God, aU bright and fa1r 1 Darhngton, July 16th, 1874. 41 ly HAVINa BOU GHT A NEW HEARSE, !Humes the city with effulgence rareR R LOSCOMBE, The glorious hgl1t of heaven BARRlSTER AT-LAW, from tho celebrated 1'-!eea1s ArtnAtrong'a, of Guel-ph, I am prepared to fumu1h Fune alr:1 with 130LIOITOR IN CHANCERY, il:c a.n outfit unsurpassed in any City in the Province, 1.1:1 0F.FIO.E,-0ver McClung's Sto1e sa.me flat I r.keep on hand, a 8plend1d lot of Coffins, Shrouds, etc , \\ h1ch can be ~ent out uuon one J Hrunaco1nb 1s Dental Rooml.'l - hotl1 's notice, at any time, thu11 tneeting the \\ant that emergencaes soinetunes cause to Snee, in Bowm'l.n~1lle. Oct i7th, 1868 ly the country LITERATURE. AT (~om. MA'RRIAGE LICENSES. 11,fR JOH:\ II EYNON, Lot 7, 6th Con ll.l Dai l1n ~ton 1 f near Bethes<la ChnrcJ1] 1e duly authorized to iilsue Marriage License" Darlington, No" 19, 1874 rr18 tf Bo\\ rnanv1lle Sept 9th, 1875 D. E. McMillan, ATTORNEY Al' LAW, SOLICilOR IN ORANGERY, OOh VEY,1NUER, J!e , NEWCASTLE. ONT. Nev.: castle, Oct 8th, 1875 mOl tf .A.UOTION EERS For the Township of Da1·lington H. T. PHILLIPS, IIAMP'fON. Prompt atfa~ntion given to sfiles, &c, on reru;on- a.ble terms, Wim.. Barton, r ENNISKILLEN Sales promptly attended to on Teasonable terms. ALLAN LltlE STEAMSH IP. Liverpool London, and BoWJlla.n\ille, .Juno 9th, 1871. Gla._~gow apply to FOR 'l'icketa, or infvrma.tion, W A. NEADS, Age»t. tf-30 SO, HO! Oentlemen of Fashion ---~ NOT SO FAST. I ba..ve \Vnttcn these few lin('s And all I have to say, That you can find me still at homo I a.m not gone ay.; ay , So a.11 my kind old friends may come And all the young ones too And .e:et their garments n1col:y made In fasluons that are new Whertt old au<l young de1.i.r fr1 e11rlm!=: we et A welcome greeting by R PEA ':L1E Bowma.nvilltt, June 19th 1873 W: BUNNEY, BUILDER, ETC. h<1pes, by continued ~tr1ot personal attention to bua1ness 1 aull \\Otklng at the 1I1ost reasonnble p1ices, tu cnf!ul ea continua.net of public patron W B is prepa1 ed to bu1ld houi:ics, etc , age on the most modern style of a1 cl11tecture Job bing µrowptly attended to Plans and apec1fi eattotie: gvt up on apphcatton, on the 1nost rea iwnablc terms, ancl of e\ ory descupt1un Office and Shop, Ontario Stt eet, nearly oppoalte :i\fr T Bowden'$ BegB to return thanks to his friendfl fol' the sup pvi::t he has received the }Jast t\\O years, and ' Bowmanvillo Dec 24th, 1874. 13 !y New 'I'ailor shop, - - GOOD FITS GUARANTEED hhn. 'With a call menced business 111 the Shop next to the Eic preas Office, one door east of ,T Milne's Having had several years exper1e11ce in the trade, he hopes to sa.t1sfy all who may fa, or WITH F Y COWLE, beg· to m· ' LATE the p11bUc generally, that he has com form JOHN HEAL - Bow1u&uv1Ue, Sep. 4th, 1872. m49 tf New Partnwrship ! Morris & Watson GENERAL OO:NTRAOTORS AND BUILDERS ManufactlU'ers of Sash\Blinds Doors, Mo1lldings, anct Window Frames, With or mthout Oasivg With or u;ithout Band Moulds. FROM Planing, Planing & Matching, sawing and Turning, Ornamental Pickets, in evm y variety, and Scroll Sawing, of every de15cript1on CNE ORDER, on the SHORTEST NOTICE. Shops on Liberty Street. North of th~ Eastern House, Bowmanville. Bowm·nvi!le July 9th, 1874. 41 ti J. CHAPLIN, DE.ALER IN J?ruit arid Ornamental Treu. Seeds, BuUJs, Flowers, &:c., &:c 1\.!r C guarantees to furDish nothlng but F11at class trees, aud true to nama. ..\ ddrese. P 0 Box 65 Bowronnvillto bp-Jy m17 <4, Jan, 22nd, 1875 HM'prr'11 .1.lla.gai-ine fot l>ecembr.r) (Concluded J In the Harle1an llh·cellany thl8 vers10n 10 repeated, after which 1s added the follow- myself to 1 saying so" ~O\Y to 'say' that mg ' Talking over thlll account of Bark- you have been to court is within the power atead's with the Rev Mr Sm--, of .of every body, and therefore none need be G--, wbose father had Jong s1ace reSided J··loua of the man that has aboolutely gone in Florence a.a a merchant, and afterward as through with 1t munstcr from King Charles II , and had The usual w·y of approaching Wmdsor tn es after been wel 1acqua1Dted with the fug1 from London 15 by the Great Western Railthe restoration, he assured me he had often way, trom which, as it cro~ses the Thamea, beard the same account by other hands, you get a view of the castle that ia (save those miscreants always boasting that they fron1 one other pos1t1on to be descr1Ue<l) ab had wrecked their revenge agamst the fatb solutely 1nco1nparable , o.nd it was from this er, as far ae human forethought t:ould carspot that Turner took hIS famous picture of ry it, by beheadrng him whtle [1V1nµ:, and Yet 1f the reader will the stately place mahng '"' best fnend1 th· <X·ffitors of the ut take u1y advice·, he will v1e1t "r111dsor ftom :,,/'" most rignominus upon him when dead He the opposite dtrcction, namely, by coming (Cromwell) contrived his own hurial, as by the Southwestern Railway to Virgrn1a owned bv Barkst·ad, bavmg all th· honors Water, which is itself a port10n of the forof a pompous funeral patd to an empty cofest, and dr1v1ng or walking through it to fin, into which afterward wa· removed the the town ThIS lake is the largest piece ol corpse. of the. m"rtyr, that 1f any sentence artific1al water in Ellg1and, and \\US laid should be pronouncea npon the body, ,t out by the order ot the Duke of Cumber· might effectually fall upon that ot the krng land, the hero of Culloden , bttt 1t is cbiefly .The secret be1ug only among that abannoted as being the 0ccaa1onal resort of Geo doned few, there was no doubt ID the rest IV aad his mistresses It IS very pretty, of the people but the body so exposed was and a few hours may be pleasantly spent 10 what it wa.e AS.Id to be, had not aoml! whose explorrng it , tut the foiest itself, of which curiosity had brought them nearer the tree 1t forms but the extre.rn1ty, haR 1nore press· observed with horror, the remains of a couu· i:ug clauna on the attention Nowhere 1n tenance they little had expected there, and Grl!at Br1ta1n, nor perhaps in all the world, ·t·* **&& § on untying the cord there waa a strong ~a1n seen ot once, such ferti 11ty and grandeur CASH. about the neck, by which the head had are CASH. as are exh1b1teil in t the (~reat Park,' as been, as was supposed, immediately after that vast portion of the forest is called ON tmd AFTER the fhst day of Oct, 1875, (}U r busiuess will b& the decollat10n, fastened to the body Thia which for generations have been caiefully corducted on a CA:SH_l@cs1s _\Ve have, after duly consrderrng the ma.t- berng wlispered about, and the number8 tended, so that their age lB undoubted, are te1, concluded to a bi.nd ou tbe C1mm r SYsrnM and to sell our goods for that came ~<t the dmnal sight hourly rn- here to he seen The pollarda are of vast 1eady nton ey, or its e quivale nt It is unnecessary to iesort to argument creasmg, notice was J<nmediately given of size One beech tree neax Sawyer's Lodge 01 explanation to show that1 in these clays, the C1ed1t System is injuuous the s1rnp1c10n to the atten<lmg officer, who Mr Jesse f(lund to be tbnty·tlix feet round alike to seller and purchaser , and rt is umversally admitted to be an in- d1spatcbecl a messenger to court to 1cquarnt nt s1 i feet from the ground, and two oakJU> tice to th ose who buy fo1 casb 8 0 the101s no a poloi,iy necessary, on them >Vith the run1or, and the ill co~··· treea near Cranbourn Lodge are even larger om pa.it. fo1 miiking the proposed change quences the spreading or exnmrnmg mto it One ot these is termed Wilham the Con· This new method "ill enable us to ta.kc evet y ad vantage of the mar- further m1gbt have, on ~ htch the bodies queror's Oak. Whether it dateRfrom that kets, and place w1thrn om iea,ch laige trnde discounts on cash pm- were umnedrntely ordered down to be buri- monarch 'a time or not, it is certain that it chases ed again 1fa11y c1rcumstances make tb1s and a thousand other trees around it have The benefits w.l:uch will result to our customers under this system are account not altogether improbable, as nil seen many and many a generation of man· mamfest , not only shall we be able t o buy our goods considerably cheaper those enthusiasts lo the last moment of their krnd grow up and fade, wh!le they are hnle under the advantages referred to, but much smalle1 p10fits then weie l 1nes ever gloried m the truth of it' To and green as ever necessary under the old system, w11l s uffice tins vie" of the matter, aa we havo said, d .. .. Old summers, when th1:1 monk was fat, u \ " e nre etermmed, this season, to push om business with renewed Lord Clarendon's vague account of the buriAnd issu11Jg r>tron~ and ideek:, ene1gy, and shall endeavor to excel m e\ery depa1tment Our ar1ange- al of Chnileshas given some countenance Would twlllt h,. g>rdle t>sht, and pat men ts aie such that no estabhsbment can undersell us Remember, then, Upon thoee who bore the kmg's body en· The gtr!a upon tho cheek" that the right place for cheap goods is termg St George's Chapel at Wmdsor, with The aspect of these noble boles and "h1ch they had before been well acc 111arnt- spreadrng branches suggests not only the ed, 'they iound it so altered and transform lCtpse ot tinie, but their victorJ over it, and eJ, all inscript1ona and those land marks invests them \\lth ahv1ugmaJesty Herne's pulled down by which all men knew every Oak, or Sir John Falstsll"s O·k, a· it was Bowmauv1lle, Sept. 1st, 1875. particular place In that church, and such a called after Sbakspeare's gen1us had unmor· dian1al mutation over the whole, that they tahz:el it, is not in this portion of the park J know not where they were, nor "a' there but there 1s no doubt that Shakspeare him· one old officer that had belonged to it, or self, as well as many of the men and woknew where our princes had used to be in men of his Merry Wives of Wi.11.~o-r, have terred At last there "as a follow of the trod the turt, have sought the shade, that town who undertook to tell them wlierd nr~ so grateful to us now. New plantations, there \la· · vault m which Km~ Harry too, are perpetually growlD~ up as though VI II and Jane Seymour were interred, to assure us of the perpetuation eI this noble And as near that place aa couhl con ven1ent- fortlst, and in front of each is placed a small ly be they caused the grave to he made.' iron pillar, with the date of plantmg. How As etood the matter at the Restoration, mterestrng would euch pillars he, bad the "hen 1t "as naturally expected that the practice been 1Dstuuted from the first' royal martyr's body would be dmntombed Then, as \\ell as ' Prmce Albert'· Plantaand buried v..·1th greater respect , but either hon,' we should have bad ' King Stephen's,' Charles II was averse to such unpleasant \\Ith pe1hapR half a dozen unc1ent pollards proceedings, ot thought he had done enougli to represent it, or 'Henry Vlll 's,' whose m the vray of honoring his father by dis ' m·n mrnded offoet rose,' llB the poet tells honoring hie enemies. Hia averenon to take uQ, 'to chase the deer at five 1 The amount any such etep gave add1t1one.l color to the of ~ame is enormous, and so ta.me are these aubshtut1on story, wh1cb for the Emke of creatures of the forest that you might anp· poetical Justice, it is much to be wished l1ad pose they hacl never heard a gunshot The been found correct. It was, however, left hare does but cock h1s eara the whtle you for the Prince Regent, in 1813, to settle pass, the rablnt ceases not to "-fondle lns · the "hole question , and Sir J[enry Ha.1· ""own harmless face,' nor does the statt:ly ford, bis phys1c1an, relates the inmdent.s of pb.easant qn1cken its speed for your presence its du;covery Wh1le completing the a.a it runs across the 'drive ' Above all, mausoleum Jn the Tomb house it became the deer are every where ; 'in copse and necessary to from a passage to it from under form,tw1nkle the innumerable eara11d tail,' the chmr m St George's Chapel, and rn underneath the trees and m the open, mostconstr1ict1ng th1s an aperture "as made in ly in herde, but sometimes in companies of tho vanlt of Henry VUI In the vault six or seven, they throng the glades as were known to be laid himself and Jane thickly as under theu great protector, Nor· Seymour, but a third coffin, covered with a man Wilham d b d ]] black velvet pall, was now beheld in it, Then presently, whlle you are still luxu1, h aa d ec1 de d t o go ou t o f th e D ry uoo s usmess, an wi commence on the and tbig was supposed (and, ae 1t turned out, riatmg m new ·ylvan beautt.s, the forest correctly) to bold the remains of Charles, parts before you, and through the gap thus I The examination was made in the pres made by art you behold, miles away, yet ence of the Regent hunself, and after a cen- as distinct as though 1l were close at haod, tury and a half the royal n1artyr's bon~s for nothing hes between to mar the \Ie\\", were once more brought 10 l!glii, and 1dent1- · thatJ;i>~l .d.w.!!}lir>g, a!!o?.§: \He reat_fejtllnd tied beyond question. It had been embalm· compare,' Wm<ioor Castle. The Sprmg Impo1tations only having been completed a few weeke, tha ed, of course, thou~h clnms1ly, and 'it was It ia tho fashion to exaggerate the effeer StcK ts very large and well ass01ted. As it must be aold within a d1flleult to deny, notwithstandmg much dis- of architecture upon tbe mind, and 1 muet gnen time, figurement, that the countenance bore a confess that I have looked upon many a strong resemblance to the p1Ctures of Kmg fair cathedral without exper1encmg those I by Vandyck' The beard was a transcendental emotions which are suppos01·m· Four rnont!ts Charles rcdd1sh-bro··n, but the rest of the hair, black ed to be proper to the oecas10n, but tho Credit on app rovad notes. long, except at the back, where 1t had spectacle ol Wmdsor Castle is really oveT· The Ta1Jonng In Order· d Work, will be contmued as usual, durmgthe Sale. been probablJ cut short for the headsman s powermg, Its coloaaal ""e, its beauty, and F F M oARTHUUR axe On holt!mg up the head, "h1ch was the variety of it, its position, set on a high Bowmanville, May, 1875. loooe, the mu·cles of the neck were found Jnll 1 commandrng ao rich a }'·norama of Yours, etc., W. P. PROWER. WINDS0.8. CASTLE. d1gmty of rurnd, but the size of the servants through every pltt of his peraon.) May the Sou of the L1V1ng who attended upon 'our royal progress ' Remember,' engraved upon it the mind endures upon wh1ch 1t ~as first through the castle, or noiselessly nrose from God, with all the glory of II is 1viaJ eHt.}, curse This IS but one of a. hundred historical pnnted From the moment you have once their con1fortable cbn1rs at our approach, him And may H eaven, with all the events w bich crowd upon the reflectlon of seen 1t, this glorious obJect haunts ) ou on .llade considerable unprcsaion on me I powe.rs that move therein, rise llp against every man of cultivatien ae he first sets eyes your forest way, till at last, as you reach the wonder w he th er it 1s no uee to apply for a him and curse and da mn lnm unless he reon Wmdsor Castle, and I have only men- extremity of that magnificent avenue called s1tuat10n m the royal household of Great pent Amen.' tioned tt been.nee some of its details ate the Long Walk, it appearo right m front of Britain unless one is over SJX feet high I The If Sir George Bowyer reqmres further not generally known In Mr. Jesse'· popu- you This a venue, ho'\\ ever, though so obsequ1ouanees of these scarlet giants to my- evidence I would reft:!r bun to 'The Delar Day at Windsor, for example, not a broad that, while !med by the tallest trees self, who am wholly unaccuatonted to such bate on the Catholic Rehg10n between A \\ord 1e said of tbesubstitut10u storJ, wh10h no snadow from one ever touches the op respect 1 amused me "astly, especially aa ~t Campbell aad Tuhu Pnrc·Il, Bishop of C1ngives eo great an lnterest to the denowment po!31te ne1gbbor, extends for three nules 1n contmued after I had parted company with c.1nnat11' held in C1nc1noati1n January, 1837 my roya.l entertainer I was not the rose From whatever side you app1oach thrn a straight lme. of England, but I had been near the rose, -page 330 glorious bmldmg, it presents a splendid The entranoe of the caetle now opposite and w·s respected accordmgly Bishop Purcell, learned and keen as he spectacle , but for the advantage cf the to us, JS called George IV 's Gatewp.y and A great contrast to all th1a magmficence \Vas, could not deny this fact 1 American v1s1tor1 I am about to state what 18 only used by the royal fanuly and those awaited me that evening in an experience Sir George will find ID Labb1 and Coswhich "'BS in its way, however, quite as tn· seems to me to be the best method of domg v1s1tors who are staymg with them The sart's 'Councils' that anathema s1gn1fiea so, and of spending a day 1n this most inter· ordinary entraneee are approached from teresting, nnd which also hes w1thin the reach of any Amencan who goes to Wind· 'conde1nnation to eternal death ,' and not, estmg neighborhood to the greatest advan- W1ndeor to" n That one 1n 5eneral use, sor. Instead o[ takrng up his quarters tor as he says, 'nothing more }ban greater extage. It may not foll to every one of my leads Into the Lov. er ~rard, as it l~ called the night w1th1n the towa 1 or returning to · fellow couutrymen, as 1t happened to my- the great court.yard in whLch St. George's London. I would recomniend h1m1 by a.U communication ' means, to ·v.lk through the grounds of Eton I am, Sir, your moat obechent servant, self, to 'Vlflit Windsor Castle 'by royal com· Chapel stands and the homes of the m1h· College to Salth1ll, where an old fashioned cps. m11nd, 1 but it1s 1mpos1nble not to enJOY 1ts tary knights, and thence through the M1J.- hotel, called Botba.m1a-its immense front Oct. 30 beauttes even without that crowning felici- dle Ward, by the Nor man Gate, to the ter- cove1ed when I visited it by the bloasoms ty Indeed, m V!Sltmg very great person- races and the state apartments open to the of the wistaria, and presenting a most at· ages, the pleasure eften consmts lesl!I public when the Queen is not 1n residence, tractive spectac1e- w1ll afford h1m excellent e11terta1ament It IB here that in old days the 111 lhe fact it·eH than ID the satisfact10n of Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar, But we ourselvee (for one can not really .Montem ot the Eton boys used to be beld, talkmg about 1t afterward to others who stoop to uae the s1ngular on such an occa Qn a httle hill wbere they collected .alt, as have been less favored-a circumstance s10n) ore admitted through George's IV ·s the money \\BS called, for whieh every vis If you can imagme a pineapple, eight feet which, on reflection, gentle reader, you Gateway mto the Upper Ward, aud are set Itor was put under ccntr1bution The k111gs who al\vays attended in person, ga~e one high, and thick lD proportion, reatiog upoIL will allow should by no means render your down-Just think of thrn rec1.der, Rnd respect hundred pounds, anU every noblen1an at it::!> base, and denudt:!d of leaves, you will 1 present humble servant an obJect of envy your author-at the 'Sovereign's Entrance ' least five pouuds, nor, I hehevP, \vaa less have a good idea of thP trunk of tbe tree, ' One hkee to have gone up 1\-Iont :Blanc, Many a crowned heatl, even in these latter than gold taken from anybody. The collectors \\i ere the head hoya of the schools which, bo\\·ever, ·was llot the color of an merely to say so,' observed an athletic days, from Alexander of Russia to the Shah dressed In magnificent fancy co.qtumea, and anana, but a dark dingy brown, ond appar) ouag gentleman of my acquaintance of Per81a, bas passed beneath that stately each v.:1tb a bundle of tickets, one ot which From the ap·x of ' V.T eH,' rt'J01ned a lesR Al pine friend of his, portal to behold such wondt!rs as, I venture be gave ) ou when he bad rticeived your entl; as hard as iron this truncated cone, (at l.,,ast two feet in 'I nm rather lazy, a.nd thtrefore confine to say,are not to be found ln thtlir own roval ~~~ to be retracted, which proved that the decapitation had taken place durmg hfo 'l'he idenhfi.cat1on was therefore complete, and a portion of the hair"·· sent by Sir Henry Hallord to Sir Walter Scott, who bad 1t set hcan, no such experiment v.: as, of course, bt- in his bra1ns and b1a vertex 1 in his templeP, wmpted on me It may seem a stroke of in his eyebrowi:i:, in his cbeekS, in bis J!:1.\VpRthos, and an adm1ssion of great waut of bones, 10 his nostrils, in hie t~eth' (and so -- -- - The Queen's Audience Chamber, .. uh its ce1hng by Verrio, its festoons of .flowers~ Grmhng Gibbons, and JIB tapestries liy hnnds unknown, indeed, but which must have epnt a. lifetime 1n the \\ork, the Queen's Presence Chamber; the Guard Chamber , St George's Hall (200 feet long), with 1ts throne, the twenty four shields 'aalt' to exempt) ou from further demands The sum tbus collected, often amount1n,-.:- to diameter,) eight huge leaves sheer to the a. tlJouaand pounds, was gt ven to the head ground, like door& swung b11ck on their boy ol the college on the fo1'ndation, that hinges. These leaves, which wereJ01ned nt IS, a po'or scholar, not a rt ch 'oppidan,' as tie top of the trees at regular mtervale, moat Eton1ans are, to support lnm dunog were about eleven or tv;·elve feet long, and his residence at the un1vers1ty When this bead boy was unpopular, hts genna used to shaped very much like the leaves of an They be much lessoned by the damages wh1ch A mer1can agave or celltury plant bis school-fellows comantted, Jn order to are two feet through ID their thickest pomt, spite htm, tn Botban1's be::aut1ful garden, aud three feet wide, t a pering to a. Rharp 1875. 1875. lengthed portraits of the eleven sovertl1gns writing, ~!r Botham, o. perfect repos1tor' of old world Eton Rtories Attr11ct1ve al' b) Vaudvck, Lel~, Kne)]er, and Lawrence, \\ill be his Uo<Jpttahty, I tnuf:lt, bowevt:r, the Ball Room, with its Loma XIV furm- trouble my reader, after he ha~ p:irttiken ot ture and appropriate] tapestries ot J asou 1t, to accompany me in an even1ng w~lk of and the Golden Fleece, the Throne-Room ; some two m1les Tlua will bring htnl to a sequestered chllrch yard, with an ancient the famous Waterloo Chamber, w1~h its sn- chnrch and yew-tree as old as itself, sur and thITty heroes upon caavas,R.lmoat a.11 b.} rounded on one side by rugged elms, on the Lawrence, the Vestibule , the l{1ng'a Draw· other by a charming pastoral landsr.ape ing Room, illustrated by Rubens only , the Tins is Stoke Pogis church ya.rd, the scene l{ing's Council Chamber, the Kiag'ti Closet, of Gray's" orld famous Elegy He himself with the amorial bearings of all the English space cut 1n tbt:i tree, for a fine v1ew of convex on the outer (h ut nov. undf'!r) bU?· kmgs from Edward III, and with the full- \Y1ndsor CaRile, and also, at this present face, and on the und~r (ttO\V upper) surface Tb1s conca\e face was thickly eet l\lth Fttrong thorny books, like those upon the hi:ad of the tenzle These leaves, hanging thus limp nnd lifeless, dead green in color, bod 1n appearance the mns .. shghtly concave and for wb1ch he had to pay The garden lS still in existence, "ith n po1nt that looked like 1J. cow's horn, very s1ve strength ot oak fibre The apex of the MCCLUNG CASH BROri~HERS' hes buried in a humble tomb which his the Qtteen·s Closet, the Queen's Dra .. mg- piety erected to bis mother, whom, says be, Rooru-all adorned by the finest painters of 1\ 1th nlore pathos than reason, ' I bad the the purest times, and the Vandyck Room, misfortune to survive ,' but a. hu~e cenotaph has been erected at a little distance, upon which are engraved sowe oI the finest verses from his immortal 'Ode to Eton Col· lege,' and hi 'Elegy 1u n Country Church· Yard,' each of which objects hes within view Fresh from the splendu1s of the palace, the sin1ple lines that describe the hfe of the poor, and contrast it not ignobl} with that of the great, tnade a profound 1m pression upon n1"' 1 but in such a time and CIRCULAR. itself a treasury of art-all these are included 1n the State Apartments, aud rnay be seen by any visitor at \.V1ndsor between certain hours Bnt the Sovereign 'r:1 Private cone was a round white concave figure hke a amaller plate set w1tb111 a larger one. This was uot a tlo'i\er, hut a rli'ceptacle, and there exuded into it a clearly treacly liquid, honey-sweet, 11ud posses. . ed of viol ent 1ntox~ icat1ng properties From underneath the rim, so to spenk, of the undermost plate, a series of long, bany, green tendnls stretch~ ed out in every d1rect1on to wards the hori .. ZOD rrhese \\ere seven or e1ght feet long 1 and tapered frotn four inches to a. half in Apartments, which occupy the whole east wing of the castle, are reserved for those A 'vent alike the inevitable ho11r eo consta.utly aull vigorously ln motion, \\1th not choose but admire , the splendor tcl by J'be va.th Ctf glory 1ttadS but tO the grave, I no means the most str1ktng feature, aad is a lesson that not only princes need, but such a subtle, s1nuou s, silent throbhing ngainst, the air, a.s to suggest of serpents when I was told that a httle cabinet whose 1:1.ll of us 1n our degree, whom she or some member of her family transparent pu.lpi reared themselves tov.nrd 'dehghts to honor,' or, at all events, is so good as to do so. Never before have I been place they can scaicely fail to do otherwise the sky, twirling in a marvellous incessant under any circumstances motion, yet constantly reaching upwards. impressed by the mere s1gbt of splendid tur 1 The bonst of hero.l<lQ.y, the pnmp of power, Thm as reeds and frail as quills, apparently, niture : but here the fine taste goes so bar Ann. all that beauty, all that wealth, e'er gav"', they were } et fh c or six fee1 tall, and were monioualy with the costliness that one can diameter, yet they stretched out st1flly as uou rods. Above these, (from bet" een tha upper and under cnp,) six white, almost the follow1ug verse era.Jly termed Blue, Red, etc, nccord1ng to 1 Him ha\e ~e seen t'be !lreenwood side along, the prevu1hng color of the1 r fittings , and \Vb1le o'er th~ heath we hied, our labor done, from every window of the ' house' (as its Oft ns the '\VOOd lark piped her fa.rAwoll song, 1 '1Vith wistful eyes pursue the settmg sun roval tenants call their dwelling, and which ~laeun \\as of 0µ1n1on thn.t what follOViS 1s one of the few things by whtch tn their was equal to any of the b~tter known vers quiet beauty bad attracted me had cost ten It may not be generally kno11 n that Gray tboaat\nd guineas, I felt extreme surprise struck out no less than three at!lnzas from The pnvate drav.:ing rooms, to the number bis ongtnal MS of the Elegy , after ' to of wh1cb there appeared uo hm1t, are gen· 01eet the sun upon the upland lawn,' came flayed, Jet dancrng on their tails. My ob- servations on thia occasion '\ere suddenly interrupted by the natives, \\ho had been shr1ekmg around the tree with their shrill vo ces, and chanting "hat Hendrick told me were propitiatory l1ymns to the great de' il tree With still wilder sh11eks and chants they now sunounded one ot the women, and urge.cl her with the points of Javehns, until MCCLUNG BROS. unaffected talk you can discern their pro es prietorah1p of this superb abode) there 1s a ' Ha.rk, how the sacred calm that breatheEI slowly, with despamng fllce, she chm bed up around view of garden auJ. forest such as m1g ht the stalk of the tree, ant! stood on the sumBids every fierce, tumultuous pas~1on cca.se well take a poet's heart by storm The In still sma.ll a<.:cents ,-..h1spenng from the mit of the cuue, the palp1 sw1rl1ng all about ground Shah1 I was told, who is. of course, a e:tran· her ' reik 1 tsik " (' Dnnk' dnnk ") cned A cratt>ful ea.rne15t of eternhl peace , 1 ger to fine iohage, was more impressed by and certa1uly those beaul!ful!mes described the men Stooping, !:!be drank of the viscid the vie Vi than by th~ furniture , but a sin1ple exactly tbe poet's favorite scene under the fluid 1u the cup, rt~iu~ instan tly ngain 1 'v1th Be 01tizen like myself may be excused f01 dwell- iofl.ueucc beneath which I beheld it. wild frenzy iu her fuce, and convulsive mg upon the latter. The tapestry ol the vond all doubt upon the cenotaph it·elf corde 1n her hmbs. But she did not JU mp should be mscribeJ. the last (which origmchairs alone was 10 some ci\ses so exq uis1te ally preceded the ep1tapb), m the place of do\vn, as she seemed to intend to do Oh, that 1 r woulJ no n1ore have dared alt on them eome Jess local couplet no I The atrocious cann1 bal tree, that had IiETIRING THE CONrrEST 1 To be Sold without Reserve, at less than Wholesale Prices. $20,000 'VORTH OF GOODS F. F. MCARTHUR 20th of Day, 1875 A G-ra.nd Olearhig Sa.le of :bis Entire Stock. A T:i·e m.e:nd.ou.s :Reducti on. vvill be :m.a.de. TERMS OF SALE :- Under $50, Cash; $50, than would poor Chnstopher Sly m the "£here i>ca.tter oft, the earliest of the years. heen so inert and dead, came to sudden sav· By hands uu:;een, a.re ehowere of v1olete play, to whom, indeed, I 1nvoluntarily age hfe. The slender, Jehcute palp1, with found, compared m7self more than once nnndst The redbreast loves to b·11ld and wnrhle there , the fury of starved a1 rpents, q u1vertid a moAnd little footsteps hghtly print the gl'Ound ' those unaccustomed splendors ntent over her head, tLen, ab if instinct 'vith The finest of all the mternal decorations d~moniac intelhgence, fnstenPd upon her in CURSES. are thought to be those of the Queen's Cor· sudden coils round and round her neck and r1dort agol<len gallery, as it setmed to me, arn1s, and while her awfnl laughter rose The follo1nng letter appearo m the Lonwhrnh runs round ha\f the castle, though wildly, to be rnstantly strangled do"n agam don Twies ne\er approached by any puhhc room Per· 111to a gurgling moan 1 the tendrils, one after SIR -In The Times of to day, Sir George hap· tbe most mterestrng chamber is the another, hkt! so1ne great gr een serpents, Bowyer says that the cursing for1nulo. oftbe smt of rooms on the North Terrace that with brutal energy and internal rapidity, form tbe Library, rnta_ which, as a humble Church of Ro1ne has not been JD use for rose, protracted then1selves, and 1i\rapped centuries Permit me to inform him of the her about 10 fold atter lold, ever tight.emng follower of the profesoion of letter<, I was well known case of the Rev W Hogan, with cruel swlltness and eavage teni1.c1ty of rnducted and allowed to ronm at will The which was legally rnvest1gated lll Philadel anacondas fastening up ')n their prey. It contents of tbit:i place are simply pncelesa, The form of cursmg ex phia about 1837 the origmal MSS of the most valued poets wa.s the barbarity of the Laocoon without commu111cat1on as glven by the American and prose writers, the or1gulal td1tions of itti be11uty-lh1s strange, horrible murder. ~pers in that city, too long to give in ex Anrl now th(· great leaves rose slowly and the moat anc1tnt printed books, the moat tenso, contains the folio"' tng m1IJ. pa~sage1:1 ~nfflv, h'ke the 1un1 of a derrick, erected splendid 1Jlummated MSS of A Bia and Af' Alay he, Wm Ho~a.11 1 be <laolned rica. (~till being collected, for son1e "'ere }!av the Fath ho crt>attls inan the1nselves tn the n1r1 approached one an· brought from the .A.bvssin1an campaign,)Lbe curse bun Mav the Son who snff~red tor other, and closed about the dead and hamA-lay the Holy Ghost, who pered victim with the Silent force of a by· most gorgeous missals, and all arranged so ~ui curse lnm suffered for us in Baptism, ci:;.rae lnm May that the eye can at once behold th·ll con· the IIoly Crosfl, which Christ, for our sal drnuhc press, and the ruthless purpose of a tents, though the brain to master them is vation, tr111n1phiug over His enemies, as· thumb screw A mon1 ent more, and while mdeed but rarely brou~ht with 1t Most cended, cnrse him I could see the bnsea oi theae great leavers ' M~y the Holy and Eternal Virgrn Mary, pre..mg more tightly towards each other, curious of all 1~ the pnvate collect1on of m1n1aturea of the royal faru.1ly 1 1nclud1ng mother of God, curse him May St ~heh· from their interstices tr1ckled down the ael, the Ad\Ocate of the Holy Souls, curse many who were lost before the pu bhc grew stalk of the tree gr~at shcams of the v1sc1d, hu" fam1har w1tb them, and al1:10 many who 'May all the Angels, Principaht1ea, and honey hke fluid, m.ugled horribly with the were a httle less than kin and 111ore that Pe;wers, nnd all Htlavenly Armies curse bim blood and oozing viscera of the victim At 1 1\lay tne praiseworthy mul ..1tudes of sight of this, the savage hordes around me, kind-for example, the famous 1 Perd1ta,' Patr111rchs and Prophet9 curse him . and other mistreesea of George IV Indeed, 'May St John the Precursor and St yelhng madly, bounded for\vard, cro\vded the secret b istory of this princely race may John the Baptiat, and St Peter, aud St to the tree, claspe·J 1t,and with cupe, leaveR, be read b~re 10 bnef--the riches" store that Paul, and St Andrew, and all other of hands, and to:::igueP:, ea.ch one obtained Christ's Apostlee to1?ether curse him ; and enough of tbe hqmd to ·end him mad and ever was la1d bare to the eye of gosSip. may ths rest of our Diec1ples and Evangefrantic -Dr Jay, "' the South Australiait I, however, have no such Jo~tk;ingue, hsts , . s.od the Holy Aiartyrs Regutor. nor would it be !It return .......... to me, . and the Holy Virgi~s damn h1m. for uneought th..iugh deep!........ [J fa. 'May tho Sa1ata from the begmmng of ............__ the world . . damn him l\Iay he vor, where I to descrwe ·be ,......N_.,.lldrl,d· be damned wherever be be, whether m the Antii:;th6nea used to v. ondet at those \\·ho neaa that I received from m~. \1111 !..a&; !t house or m the stable, the garden or the is not the first tune that htera ~ field, or the highways, or in the woods, or \Vere curious 1n buy1og but an earthen dish thus honored at W mdsor Cast! (tboii!:ldi m the church. to see that it had no cracks nor inconven· 1s true, never m the pereon of a~ ba~,a ' May he be cursed m ln ing and dyrng, tepees, and yet would be careless in the scubbler as mvself) and I would fa.m ll;t 'in eatrng and drmkmg · m bemg choice of friends, to take them with the be the f)rst to ~bus: such hospitalit:T. j I ~lll!~"Y and tbirsty,m Jost and aleepmg, and Jlaws of vice. Surely a man's companion 1s T SlLllng, in lying, in working, tu resting any attempt had been made to kmghtme, I . May he be cursed mall the fac- a second geom' to sway him to the good or m1ght, tndeed, have revenged myself b'yttteli u)tid of hJS body. May he be cursed 10- bad, 'I ·iii-. 1 ' ----- -~~-.