awake over a book thai he might rouse them as he had promised at the hour ap pointed he heard a ooise and descended the btair to ascertain the cause by this lime the ooise had ceased and though he search ed every where he found all right again he returned to his room and continued read ing till near the hour of one he then went clown stairs a second time and when near the bottom was astonished to see a man running quickly into the lundry without either coat hat or shoes tho footman followed traced the intruder to a closet off the apartment jist named and then called on him as he valued his personal safety 10 state who he was and what he wauted to this question ho received no answer aod his suspicions of the mans intentions were increased when he found the closet door made fast from within as it was possible tho man might have confederates he proceeded to awaken a fellowservant aod another person a bellhanger who happened to be sleeping in the house at the time his next care was to procure his masters gun loaded with small shot and armed with it and followed by his compa nions repaired a second time to the lun dry the closetdoor was now unfasten ed and on pushing it ajar he beheld the same person making his way through the window a task of great difficulty from the closeness of the bars again he callod on the intruder to give his name aud explain what he was doing in such a place at such an hour adding emphatically speak or ill fire still no answer was returned a most unfortunate circumstance for in a moment the fatal trigger was touched and drawn and the unfortunate youth mortally wounded almost simultaneously with the report of the musket he dropped from the window feebly exclaiming oh the las scs and in less than three minutes was a lifeless corpse the scene that followed was heartrendering io the extreme the deceased was far above the character of a rubber and his errand to kuockhill was to visit a girl to whom he was attached and about to bo married and though he had chosen a most unsuitable hour aud was farther hlamable in concealing his name coosternatioo was depicted in every coun tenance when t it- i circumstances of the case were ascertained aud the full extent of the calamity discovered the feelings of the girl it is impossible to describe but alto- who were so snon to he united in matrimo ny the one a lifeless corpse and the other so long as consciousness remained bending over the bleeding body aod bathing it with her tears the sheriff has investigated the case fully and all that can be said at present is that the event was most unfor tunate and will remind some of our read ers from the neighbourhood of tho locality and other circumstances of the beautiful hallad and wellknown tradition of fair helen of kirkcoooel lee the footman the author of the said calamity is a stran ger in annandale aod had never seen the deceased before effeminacy and cruelty the fig- uer of viscount dundee was slight and of low stature yet restless aud active to such a degree as might well excite the idea of it being the tabernacle of n spirit hisvisgewas beautifu even to effeminacy aud still farther softeued by a multitude of pendulous riogletswhich he disposed arouud itmuch after the female fashion ofmod ern times and which it is remembered he trained with much car- ir proper arrangement by wearing them in leads when in undress inevertheless this curly pated adonis was the bloody cla- ver house abeing whose severity of dis cipline was drsadfal t i ment he inflicted was death death hz sai wn propeily the iui pjthntrtit vtiihn gentleman could submit to and all his mn he held to be of that rank because it alone relieved him from the consciousness of crime it is reposed of him hnt having seen a youth dy u his nrstacnonbe pre- teodod be had sent him to the rear on a mes sage tho youth fled a second time he brought him to h frout of the army and saying that a gentlemans son ought not to fall by the hands of a common executiooer shot him with his own pistol miscellany from the globe employment of steam war- vessels a curious discussion took place in the chamber of deputies ou friday week on a vote for steamvessels in the course of which the advantage which they might give thefreuchioa war with england was particularly dwelt on general lamarque lamented in a passage which is worth extracting that steamvessels were not brought into use ru the last war were war to break out between england and france a fatal event the supposition of which the wishes and the intrests of two great nations doubtless reject wo shall have only two ways of reaching the giant of the ocean who with his thousand arms surrounds and grasps the globe first to attack at all points the commerce which feeds him that commerce without which he cannot live and with large frigates with light squadrons appeariog suddenly in every sea return upon him after a de claration of war the evils which have fre quently been inflicted on us in the midst of peace by enemies acting like pirates who are now punished hut who would doubt less without a blush repeat them in future if the attack directed against commerce should not be sufficient the enemy must then be grappled with hand to hand and for this steam will nfford the means steam seems destined as was well said by the reporter to establish equality on the seas as gunpowder has on land it will render use les6 naval tactics of which tour- ville was tho inventor but which have proved more advantageous to our neigh bours than to us it will set aside the ad vantages of a windward position of break ing the line or doubling a line aud of all those implicated evolutions which at sein es aboukir aud trafalgar secured to our rivals triumphs which our mariners might otherwise havo wrested from them naval battles will perhaps become what they were io the time of the romans contests io which intrepidity skill physical strength and numbers will give tho victory ah had not he who from the heighrs of bou logne so long threatened england rejected the offers made to him for four years by the american fulton it would not have been as a captive that he would have visit ed the hanks of the thames the forts and all the jcprks which terror raised oil the other side of the channel would no more have imp ded the march of the army of austerlitz than the fencibles or the yeomanry other destinies would then have been reserved for the world and had providenco which has willed that france should be free brought hack amongst us the ancient race of our kings they would not have been returned with a foreign chief who stripping our measures violating ourcapitulations trampling on our national pride proved to os asclosterseven proved toourfathers that the traditions of puuic faith had sur vived carthage 1 cannot then approve the reductioo of 2000000 from the sum for steamboats nor 2000000 from the item of maritime operations certain of which are destined to protect on tbe banks of the tagus the martyrs of liberty and legitimacy i object also to the opposition made by the coromitee to an expense neces sary to give a preponderance which ac cording to the report we can only acquire at the expense of our best interests we never will have a continental war hut such as will be excited and paid for by england it is then on england that we shall endea vour to make the evils of war revert- we think general lamarquo might have omitted so much of this gascoohdo as to render it unnecessary to remind him that tbe eveoti of tho last war showed that the english could raise a force capable of fightiog even on the land and though proba bly tho martello towers would have opposed no insurmountable obstacles to the progress of the army of austerlitz the men who formed the armies of salamanca ard vit- some impediment but we must concede to general j marque that the invention of steambqj had it been earlier brought into pracjj in the coolest manner possible that there never can be a war on the continent unless it be stirred up by englaud a pleasant assumption ou the part of a countryman of lois the fourteenth lately ou the subject of napoleon but absurd as this idea is it i sufficiently prevalent to make it desir ably that no countenaoce should be given to t by auy forwardness on the pan of the english government or people to engage in wars for the preservation of the balance olfowcr in europe unless wo are quite sure that the states whom we intend to serve by our exertions and on whose co operation we must rely are likely to have sone sense of the utility of our services monday evening we have little doubt of their being able to accomplish satisfactorily what they have so well begun at all events the use to which the pro fits of their theatre is destined will be suffi cient to rob criticism of her sting and lead the people of kingston to eucourage the spirited and generous efforts of the highlanders from a late british publication an american landlady how long uebre dinner madam when ye see it on the table i guess yell kuow was tbe rafid answer true very true said a paiseuger we did not think of that- gcessyed best bring thoughts along with ye and in a twinkling darted towards ihe fryingpan in the kitchen the shoul derblade of lamb aod bacon and eggs were soon on the board and we commenc ed depredations have you any cider nudum and how is it said in y friend iberesciderand theres water try which voi like best aod youll soon and out how 7ftsaid our attendant with an aspect tartenongh to make good vinegar of the whole mug all this was of course very amusing and we felt in a humour to make further experiments the clock seem6 ratfier slow madam a good half hour at least behind our time the clocks a gowd clock enoighooue o yer wooden clocks nearer right that any of your watch es ill warraut we wind it every monday w found this rather sharp shooting for us haviugheen worsted every time we were disposed to make peace and for this pur pose proposed rogulatiug our watches by a clock which was wound up so carefully but oven this submission did not prevent an expression of countenance a kind of em phatic twist as who should say nobody cafes about yer watches by this time the blueberry pie was finished and the ta ble nearly cleared by this active waiter who disposed of the plates as rapidly as she aftledher tongue now madam whats h damage damage sayshe kuit- tirig her brow what dye mean by datn- ho no hciuingo tltiiio iimpoi ut we msan how much to pay for tho din ner i theres tbe owner ask him why dye ask mo we merely thought you would u able to tell the price of a good dinner rjmt you prepare so often i guess we dont tell all we kuow and if we did it wijd not be much neither resort was do v had to the old host whosai quietly smoking his pipe at the window and the bill adjusted by this time our worthy pattern of the laconic was seated io tio rocking chair knitting with all conceivable velocity when onj of our number by way of experi ment hat the temerity to ask her if she had evervisited the white hills white hills- m what should i go there for perhau to enjoy the grand 6cenery said he llave you ever been there was soon retorted upon us never but going asfastaposiiblc wellhow dyouknow the scewery is grand i guess you go by hearsay this was too much for us the stage wm rfeady and we made a preci pitate retreat the chronicle kingston nov 14 les9 we have to return our warmest thanks to our military and naval friends for the interest tbey have evinced in our establish ment by frequently affording us the perusal of scotch and english papers from which we hare made a copious use by arranging such extracts as would suit the general taste of our readers such politeness just ly demands our gratitude we shall always be happy to receive for tbe chronicle original poetry of merit aud to no one shall we feel more disposed to afford a corner than to lyra whose first contribution of we hope a succession of pieces will be found in this days paper the following beatiful stanzas so accu rately descriptive of the misfortunes of tbe unhappy charles edward are said to be from the pen of mr woir of greenock prince charles lament the storm is raging oer tbe kyle and oer thy glen dark aucbuacary your prince has travelld many a mile and knows not where to go or tarry he seeb far in the vale below the wounded soldier home returning and those who wrought this day of woe are rouud yon watebflre dimly burning o scotland lang shall rue the day she saw colloden drenchd and the sword tbe bravest heart may slay but some will tell the mournful story amidst those hills that are mine aio i wander here a houseless stranger with nought to shield me from the rain and every hour beset with danger ory egular files law of divorce in china in- the chi nese laws one of the grounds ou which a husband may divorce his wife is her being too muchgiven to talking what rare work for doctors commons if such a law were to be passed in this country from the london age more errors ofthe press we pre- ceive that zeta of the morning post notwithstanding all the pains we have taken to convince him of his errors it is all un hanged unchanged morning journal yesterday a youog lady was knocked down iu fleetstreet by the driver of a cabriolet it is miraculous that she was not killed by the force with which the marriage c struck her morning chron icle tho first witness who was nearly relat ed to the prisoner shook like an aspen loaf while giving ber evidence herald a meeting was held in the vestryroom of st pauls coventgarden last week to fix the parish ruts rates for the ensuing year times at the recent execution of four brothers in clonmell there were a greater number of parsons present than we ever witnessed no accident strange to say occurred dublin morning register mr robert montgomery is a bright and shining pot poet morning advertiser irish ladies complain that the duchess of northumberland gives very cold praties parties dublin evening mail in- now generally admitted that mr shcil the irish orator has sold himself to lord george bereeford for a good fat bride bribe and nobody is astonished it being always expected thathe would jdo something of tbe kind at last warder on friday last a handsome piece of plate was presented to sir richard birnie by the inhabitants of white hartyard as a small joken of their gratitude for his paternal attention to their welfare court journal there is one circumstance which will miliate considerably against the new police 115 it holds forth a strong temptation to ac cept bribes we mean the insufficiency of their fop pay sun would have had an important inflne on the late war and will have effect on f ture contests between maritime pow but if the change which general lamaf contemplates is that naval battles are h we received this week our of newyork papers but they contain no more recent intelligence from europe than was furnished in our last from the late prevalency of easterly winds we hope speedily to he relieved from the auxiely that tbe unsettled state of aflairsinthe east has universally produced from the various representations made to u not only of the progress but excel lency of tbe stupendous works now carry- on at kingston mills on this section of the the rideau canal we were induced to ob- femalc benevolent society tbe follow ing is from the pen of somo unknown cor respondent of the chronicle we think it a duty we owe this society not to allow to pass unnoticed their exer tions which are no less laborious than they are praisoworthy emanating as they do from all those soutimeots of affection and tended sympathy of which the fair sex have ever been the happy possessors in all its delicate acuteness they are bow about to spread the gol- deu wing of charitable protection under the hovcriogs of which will be gathered the desolate the friendless and tho laat not least worthy of our commisseraiioo the destitute emigrant all lingering as it is natural to suppose from the want of proper nourishment under some painful malady which if not checked by physical skill and suitable care must inevitably end in he lamentable dissolution of thosa wretched in dividuals thus afflicted by divine provi dence in this pitiible state ocfeuman mi w ja ocucmuaii uey come for ward and taking those objects of indigence and affliction under their protection t hey are furnished with suitable food mediciue nttendauce and to the honor of the me dical gentlemen ofthis town he it said phy sical advice in contemplating the almost incalculable advantages of this society in which is comprehended all that is laudable charita ble and sympathetic we feel at a loss to express io words which would in any wise convey to the reader ourfeelings picture to yourself the irish emigrant as we believe there are more of the land of saints emigrate here than any other lauding hi a country with which he is en tirely unacquainted and amongst a people to whom he is an entire stranger you will form a more accurate estimate of the wretchedness of this individual when you take into account the mighty ex pectations he fondly entertained ofbeing the moment ho landed put in possession of all that is necessary to make him comfort able his wife and well say at least eight children sad experience poor fellow has been the unhappy instrument of pwtting to flight all those happy anticipations which a rude imagination is capable of suggest ing and with a mind equally sensible of its disappoiotment he reflects with horror upon future misery which must he the evi dent result of proceedings so wild and pre mature well b appose the winter just setting in with all its penetrating frigidity no home no friend for the wretched irish emigrant hirimhmit wih nrth rfrfft ritn femmmfe offspring he knows not whift way t0 turn whilst perhaps a tear of sag remorse steals trickling down his cheek aq free zes as it falls disease with iron grasp defenceless prey and 4 gloomy of the crave are found tn fimtjk howl on ye winds the hills are dark theyre shrouded io a gloomy covering then haste thee oer the sea my bark f01 blood bounds are round mebovring o scotland scotland fare the- well farewell ye hills 1 dare not tarry let histrys page my suff rings tell farewell clanronald and glengary we observe with regret that mr stew art the spirited editor of the perth ex aminer is about to withdraw from that es tablishment the quebec official gazette says lieutenant colonel francis cockburo- 2d west india regiment ha receive the brevet rank of colonel in the arj my in honduras only of which place he is superintendent under the gov nor of jamaica the honble robert boyle aiddvl camp to sir peregrine maithmd hatj exchanged into the 79th highlander mr boyle is a younger son of the ettl of cork and orrery a few days since in the family ofa poor person in one of the soutbei streets of this city a child wa bornl without a mouth the preservation its life if possible was deemed a dut and every thing was done that appeal conducive to this object but at end of five or six days the infant died this strange fact became known to rkr neighbors and of course excited genenl curiosity many persons living nearvi- sited the house and examined the chili both before and after its death fhil ckron bustle gives false peace by leaving leisure for reflection h more after to depend on intepidity skill p ocuiap f rf fe am durj cal strength and numbers what we rf ask have they depended on hitherto fhe advantage which the english have hay i0 wars has been fopnd in the maritime wars has been loimu in tne uj bers of their ships and where supe numbers could not be brought to bear on the enemy in superior intrepidity ti and physical strength it may be easier to get men to work a doicn steamboats than sailors to mau a dozen ships of the line hut when the whole efforts oftwo nations aredirected ta competition the same superiority is as likely to be found on one side as another in the management and numbers of sailing vessels the su periority will depend on tho natural advan tages of the country and the aptitude of the people it will depend besides ihe quautity of nautical skill still available on the abundanee of fuel and the ability of ihe mechanics now in these two advantages england excels france still rnoro striklag- ly than in maritime skill england is the country of cheap coal englishmen invent ed and perfected the steam engine tt might not be difficult to show that by the invention of steamvessels englaod io a future war will gain more than she has lost against the most formidable rival steam supplies us with a defensive force of incalculable value it will not be possible in a future war for an american privateer to shew itselfin the channel by the pro per employioen of steamvessels our coast ing trade may be carried on in the war without interruption or loss- as the para mount advantage in the employment of steamvessels is o have fuel in abundance aod at band our coast might easily bo rendered unassailable at a smaller expense than that of the construction of the martello towers whatever temporary reverses our sailing fleet might suffer on the subject of steamboats we are quite at ease not withstanding the ingenuity with which gen eral samarque shews that if tbe last war had not turned out as it did it might have ended differently but there is a point in general lamnr- ques speech by which some of our euo- tryme- ofit he take for gramted past week were highly gratified by a visit we paid to this sceneof bustle and industry we found three locks in rapid progress ex hibiting the mostsubstantial pieces of archi tecture wo have ever witnessed and s science ia their construction highly creditable to the talents of mr drummond the contractor forthis section of the works we were highly pleased with the opera tions of tie steamboat which with his uiual enterprise he constructed for the pur pose of pumping with the aid ofa double en gine the vvaterfrom the coffer dam near ly 300 men are employed in various occu pations exhibiting a scene of bustle and energy little understood by our town folks who iu not frequently visiting this source of enterprise and activity evjnco an apathy scarcely to be supposed to exist in the neighbourhood of so much industry the utmost regularity prevails in each de partment and a cordiality and good fellow ship exists aaiong all classes of this mix ed commuuity highly creditahle to tho sys tem mr drummond has established we shall again revert to this interesting subject and in the meantime cordially wuh this gentleman every success in his undertak ing that his merits so justly entitle him to we have been looking at the place fitting up by the amateurs of the 79th regiment for dramatic exhibition add could scarcely conceive that in so short a time they could have it fitted up with so much taste and neatness it does no small degree of credit to any corps that the men should be capable of affording this species of intellectual amuse ment to the public the 79th are now showing their disposition to do so and on seizes its mansions grave are rouna f the last peaceful repository forfo poor victims of suffering but as far as human efforts we capable of being a preventive iostrumt ad as far as pecuniary resources will ndmir the kingston female benevoleo society humanely interpose the physjpjnn gene rously offers his services the ladies of the society by their unwearied exertions uni ted with the liberality of a putyj by no means insensible to the poignant feelings of suffering humanity procure 4 fund a steward is provided the indigent and wretched native as well as twse of a fo reign soil are furnished with at hospital medicine aod nourishment suitably admi nistered health is for tbe most part thro the mercy of providence restored and as the cheering aspect of spring approaches those creatures are by the nobfe exertions of the fatherless and widow and hy the sympathizing bosom of public compassion put in a state of selfexertiot this in deed is hut a very faint picture of the util ity and merits of the female benevolent society but we shall feel ourselves more than recompensed if we may fee allowed the gratification of reflecting that we have opened the gate to the intellectual trnvcller whilst pursuing tbe path of female merit a lawsuit of great importance to a num ber of persons in the caoadas and also to many in great britain has beon in progress and is still pending in the court of kings bench for the district of montreal wbere- iu henry mkenzie esq is plaintiff and the trustees of the estate of the late firms of mtavish nvgillvrays co and m- gillvrays thain co are defendants mr mkenzie supposing that the estate of the former firm of which he was a partner whs not insolvent notwithstanding it bad been represented to be so and alledging the hon hudson bay company with which the above firms commouly known by the appellation of the north west company had entered into partnership some time be- sjksswsluttflwws latter entered an action for the recovery often thousand pounds being the amonnt duo him as partner and left in the hands of the company upon his retiring from the firm the progress of the suit has involv ed several important points of law and has called forth as able and as strenuous exer tions od the parts of the learned counsel re tained on both sides as the annals of civil jurisprudence in this province can boast of every step has been closely contested aod warmly disputed by the defendants aod there is every probability that a considerable time will yet elapse before the action can be brought to a close the issue of this suit is looked for with deep in terest by the numerous creditors ofthe late north west company should it terminate in favour of the plaintiff all debts of the firm will of course be realized in full with interest on the same one ofthe most important steps taken in the conrse of the proceeding was an or der of tbe court for the attacbmeoi and examination of the hooks and accounts and other documents beloogiog to the said firm of mctavish mcgillivrays co in the course of the examination which followed this order there appeared to the arbitrators appointed for the purpose to be several circumstances which required minute in vestigation a number of accounts having been closed in such a manner as to render the correctness of the balances exhibited questionable whether the suspicions now afloat on this delicate subject be well found ed or not we do not pretend to saybutccr- txfty it woom tend much to do away with such surmise were no difficulties thrown in the way ofa full aod close investigation of the affairs ofthe late north west company in the course of the business mr mc kenzie became involved in a difficulty of which the following we believe are the par ticulars- the person employed by the ar bitrators to examine and remodel the books in question found between the boards and outsido leathern cover ofa ledger a book of correspondence which was said to con tain intelligence of considerablo importance to the creditors the book bad been car ried out of the office and was missing and haviig been traced to have been in ibo pos session of mr mckenzie aud to have been exhibited to some of the creditors of tbe late firms not parties in the action he was considered to have been guilty of contempt of court and was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment unless the said hook was produced from this disagreeable sit uation mr mckenzie was speedily relieved by the person who had the book in posses sion gjving it up and io this state the case stands at present canadian courant amateur v theatricals by permission of cot douglassci commanding 79tk regiment comm dant of kingston and aidduci to his majesty under the immmediate patronage mrs douglass the amateurs of the 79th reg will commence their charitable per ance in their newly erected the opposite the court house on monday tm jyov 1329 when will be brought forward the admired national melodrama in t acts of nj for the kingston chronicle song air lady kenmurt when 6rst my heart was all your own you plaed a flowret there and soon it flourishd though alone aod shone with beauty rare that flowret maidens call itoct and onco you prizd it high till fancy taught your heart to rove and coldly see it die it flourishd only in the light of smiles which soon decayd it sickend at th approach of night and withered in the shade the buds are gone the stem remains to chaso all hope away an emblem nothing oer revives affections blighted ray 6 j lyra beautiful celestial phenomenon the planets jupiter and venus have for some time past from their proximi ty to one another been interesting ob jects of observation in the western part of the heavens their nearest approach to each other was on the evening ofthe 28th ulto venus being only 2 13 de grees south of jupiter since which they have been receding and will continue to do so jupiter approaching the sun un til he becomes invisible in the splendor of solar rays and venus receding from the sun until 26th december next and increasing in brightness until the mid dle of january can courant two circumstances havo occurred dur ing the last week which may be consider ed as memorable in the annals of our na vigation on tuesday last the new felix souligny captain paincbaud arrived from liverpool in tow of the hercules and her crew have since been actively engaged in discharging and loading as she has still to depart for a foreign port the meta captain gaskill has cleared out from this for the cape of good hope there to await instructions to proceed further she is the first vessel we believe which has sailed from canada for any african port mon treal jazette ra i- 12 1 7- or a uj yne sir frederick vernon raskleigh osbaldiston francis osbaldiston rob roy mc gregor bailie nicol jarvie maj galbraith capt thornton mr owen dug aid mac stuart jobson saunders wylie andrew fairservice willie allan sergeant host highlanders soldiers if females diana vernon helen macgregor mattie martha jean mc alpine songs and other amusements afavorite pibro by tle celebrated highland piper stuart io be perforroedonthebeautifuj of pipes presented io him by the hi land society for his perform with the elegant flag and orno a highland reel in full cost after which the laughable farce tickets to be had at the chronicle office armstrongs und watkins stores at olivers late mrs walkers hotel and at the theatre where plans ofthe house will be shown price of admission boxes 5s pit 2s 6d gal lery is 6d doors to open at 6 oclock performance to commence at 7 oclock precisely the band of the regiment will attend kingston nov 14 1829 wanted immediately by the subscriber a young man as clerk in a country shop suitable re commendations or references will be re quired g a claifk hilliernov 101829 bank of upper canada public notice is hereby given for a general meeting of the stockholders ofthe bank of uppe ca nada to be held at the bank at york on friday the 11th day of december next at 10 oclock in the iorenoon for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of calling in further tar stalments upon the capital stock by order of the board thos g ridout cashier york llth nov 1829 notice the subscriber intends to close bis business as soon as possible and offers for sale all his stock in trade on the lowest terms consisting of dry goods groceries iron and steel nails some hardwares wines spirits bran dy gin peppermint and sugar also crorkery and several small articles is the grocery line not enumerated thos turpin tfov 14 1829- all debts due to the subscriber by note of hand or book account must bo paid to him before the 1st of march 1830 or they will bo put in the hands ofa lawyer for collection without fail thos turpin nov 14