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i ? 2 i A wh advertise by the year or half-year. LAW RESPECTISG NEWSPAPERS Sabwcribers who do not give xres matice bx writin. I Satweritvess apder the discoutomanee of tery poets, tise publisher my conti: to «ud thems mtd 2 fiar ages ape pond. \ Wf Subscribers weziert or reid to take thew papers fovam the cfice 10 which they are diverted. 11 HLH afiiief hil ] ; { Then stepped a child into the chamber, the little son of the Queen. Tears stood in his eves, and on his delice cheeks. He carried a large closed book, bound in velvet, | with large silver clasps. -- + Mather I" said the little one, " oh hear what 1 have read." : And the cki seated itself on the bed, awe ledd Tpresitie 1 they have scitiod thew tls, axl edd | ad read out of the bwk of Him who ¥ inden Neuwiive wether places without Selim ing the Publisher. Sunt the Jovy jit sean 30 the testi 85 POETRY. WInTER. BY GLI LR SIWCIAIR. Chaegr to las Al the mich Fe ees shall stand Wikis lemtbs arraho? of has crystal ball, Yet we welcome the mocarch--mith fond Grewell Te ro eds md vi, Sie we jamie 0 catch Emgering swell i Dedt nt 10 38 comes th winters voice With 3 burden or joyich strum ; The erry heart may well rejobc That knows ne want os pa © ods boar hall they hi »ésenre hail To whem the weap ef bi- may tul" | Wipe shall the lgmelcse hide his bead Froan tive choi aod Litter last * Whener shall the starve; crowd be fd PTH wont is overpass © [3 .. thom meerry Moar, sud think © nhl) nt dog bei frit rb Miscellaneous. ONE OF ANDERSEN'S STORIES TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN A 3 | zave Himself 10 die on the Cross, in order to save men, and even unborn genera tions, Greatar love is there not! And 'a rose blush spread over the { Queen's cheeks; her eves became so { brizht, for she saw the fairest rose spri | forth from the. leaves of the book {likeness of the one which blbothed from | the blond of Christ on the Cross. i "lsee it! saul she. " They never | die who laok on thi¢ rose --the fairest in the world." - EE -- {THE DULLNESS OF NIGH LIFE i Few persors, says the Duchess of St. Albans, have seen <0 much of the various | aspecss--I may say extremes--of life as Al Ss Sraramae--A ohildieyes whole soul will ificline 10 yours, and en- graft itself] ds it were, on the feeling which is your feeling for the hour. | Suow'ino Rapid Conrosiriox.- Speed in ition 'is a ionable advan- ton." We See one pouring out verses more id'v mn a seéretary could write them; the r buildin= up, in the watches of the dark, a few majesti¢iines One leaving his treasures to be easily into a single volume--ihe other to be spread abundanily over forty- fifieen d: tage. Poctic history records two names | W., FRIDAY. Fe hofoe IN ur? . ) i * Our iesders muy 'recoliect in Apr . the folly ] 4 i bi Lp i RH Hi ; : I ; | 4 i : E t 4] Lf gif | Fi a % BEE 1171 without & ters' tools; and what seems to the Committee a most serious defect, being common, it is feared, in many of our |3t passenger steamers, there was a want of proper organization in regard to the relative authority and-daties of the officers and crew of the vessel; each of agen "ihe parlour, apple-cuts, hold of > S dull affair, compared with moon- ; for we ofien watched, as we well remember, with feverish anxiety the ha 1 to mind the old times © Ah! there was rothing like moonlight » eg Curiosities of Tobacve. ject is 100 long for repetition under its East. em Suffice'it that @ viper was res. waving glory ef the former, on the eve of some old fa n ki i i i i i 0 , Hudson' 24th July, and thence till arrival surrounded with ice and dense fog: . Wha: can the Was Office say fothus endangering the lives of our women children? Some one is in fault; add we should like to know whether the blame lies with Lord Panmure, the Hadson's Bay Company, or the com- mander of the forces in Canada. | €ix quartos. One gaining p --the other a hundred thousani ducats. One sitting at the door of his house, when the sun shone, in a coarse coat of gray 'ah, and visited ouly by a few learned men from foreign countries-- the other ed, while even the children shouted afier bim with delight* It*is only since the carth has' fallen on both that the fame and the honors of the Spaniard and the He r, with forty or sixty dsys' loss of time'; whereas, in fact, the time from P™ hand. Up tothe perry g, or ing | When some hem! The day- Teepe light would betray, but the mild beams Se eaitain, as the legitimate superior kof the sister of the might guarded the and ; and this 3 'of | S*ift but wary fodtsters across the fields. actisn*wae Hid more observable in the | The' heart bounded in every step, for | department of the engineer. It may | both were as light as the dreams of tha be inferred from the evidence given | dreamy period. Alick-a.day! how | that the original fault, and that which ™2py castles were built and tenanted | led to the catastrophe, was in neglect with some fair deity in' calico, which ing t0 kdep up'n sufiiient and con- |{UMmbled into ruins while, perhaps, - the tinuous head of steam, ; when it | dear creature smiled vulgariy'upon some wits found to haye fallen so dangerous- | ™°T® A ipper, 8 ly low, in there not being greater and | the inmate of some less airy, but more more timely effortsexerted to replenish | Substantial dwelling. . it by supplying the furnaces witit fuel, | But we were speaking of mooalight. lof which: there was at PA Tew weeks since there were some of stopping of the en- the most beautiful nights that were ever gines, we do not fiml that any water silvered--~as brightas of yore, if not so of consequence had reachéd thé engine | UH enjoyed. Théy remind ug'of-i room, 'mor was there any reason to ap- well, of many things --apple-cuts, for in- | prehend such a resgit so long as the stance. v, did you ever fun 1 old Casi a tery. In Transylvania the pemaliy was far greater ; in 1939 entire confiscaticn of property was the sentence of 'those who should ob smoking and souffl taking under the pen- alty of having the nose cut off ; while Mo- hdmed IVN son of the Sultan Ibrahim, 1665, punished the practies with decapita tion. It is related of Amurath that a smo." king saphi once struck the momarch him- fires "were properly kept up, and the o duties of the officers and men in the [C9 1--one of the regular od fas engineers' department' faithfully per- BE ylecun : y To formed. It does not appear from the) ave posed upon thes nial How Toronto 10 Red River will be one hun- Bowel) by crowds whérevér he appear. ired dnd'ten days, or ninety days longer than the right mad. If the movement | of olir trops in-lndia will be no better | zed than those for thé Red River, | the®sooner a chang- is made the better | in i Englishman have been ch d who nearly finished an breakfast, in his [myself ; and few, therefore, can be bet! Lol sich of monumental bi graphy ; ter judges of the difference -betwien afer all. this doesnot by any més con- | stitute the chief and most importa dis- | No: thé signal, the sriking not in the external circumstances, but ivé enj ym en of existence." The society in which 1 formerly moved was all cheerfulness-- vivacity. cared for nothing, | thought of nothing, beyond the pk ereit poverty and gredr wealth; ag. and be who, loug chéesing, bogan late, is roles, and with laurel round his head, in the citiéx cf'many*lands; having his tinction between the high and low states | ju: and this' weltome-in every devout (E0nlrast. is | hogy, and upon every learned tongue of 18 | the Christian world. THE JEW. over the lisiory' of tha a uh pitis--al fon, frolic, &n| 4, man race for the last cightcen hundred years, we have' invariably found that of the present hour; and to those they | | gave themselves up i relish. Look at the circles in which I! | now move? Can anything be more | la weamy; stale, flat and unprofitable," | than their whole course of life? Why. : | one might as well be in the tread mill as| toiling in the id, monotonous round | in fact, very cheerless and heavy work. | Pleasure, indeed when all merriment. | all hilarity, all indulgence of our natural { emotions, if they be of a joyous nature. | are declared to be vulgar. There can : A great Queen once Fy in whose garden bloomed the loveliest flowers from all parts of thé world, at every season of the year. Bat above aX other flowers she loved roses; and fai r d the test be no cordiality, where there is so much tus ss and pri No; allis erldaes<, reserve, and universal exnwi. | evén where this starchness of mapeer is unaccompanied by any very siriet rigor | in of duct. Lok, now, ai! varicty of these, from the wild hedge- rdse, with green, apple-scented leaves, to the most beautiful rose of Provence. They grew on the castle walls; twined round thé pillars and brer the case- nients of the corridors and stloons, and the rosPs varied 'in scent; form and colour." But care and sadness Yiwelt in that palace; the Queen lay gniber sick-bed, and the physitians said must die. «There is, however,a re; vy fr her," said the wisest among them. "Bring to her the friresC rose in the world, -- the one which is the expression of the highest and purest love,--if thatcomes before her eyes ere they close, she will not die." And young and old cante from all lands with roses, the loveliest that bloomed in every garden, but none was the right one. The flower must bee brought from the 'garden of love ; bift 'wht ese could be the i those quadrille-dascers in the other room : | they have been supping ; they have been | drinking as much champasné as they liked ; th- band is capi:al ; the men are; young, and the girisare pretty ; and ver did you ever see such crawling wove. | were ail drageing themselves throuz! | the most irksome task in the world ?| Oh, what a different thing was 2 tcun'ry dance 'in my younger days! -- ; H = Fxecvrioxs axoxc The Hesrews --1 The Hebrews had no executioner. When | a man was guilty of homicide. the cxecu. | tiofi" devolved on the net of kin, by the | right of blood revenge ; in' other cases | criminals were stoned by the pecple, the wit setting the pl ; and when | the king or chief ordered a person to he | put to deat; the office was peiformed by the person to whom the command was given ; and this was generzliv a person | whese ideration in hfe bore sone of the highest, purest Yove ? And the poets sang 'of the fairest rose in the world,--each one his own. And messengers were sent through all thé commtries round, to every rank and every age. " No one has yet named the flower," «aid the wise man. the place from whence it springs in its beauty. It'is not'otie of the roses from the bier of Romeo and Juliet, or from Walburg's grave, though these fi « No oae has shown | an: proportion fo that of the person 10 b slain.. Thus Solomon gave the commi< | named | sien 10 kill Joab, the commander.in.chief. | 10 Benaiah, a person of so much distinc | tion as to be himself immediately pro moted to the command which the death of Joab left vacant. In fact, the office , it came to be en- will evér bloom in legends and songs. It is not one of the roses that bloomed forth from Wiokelried's blood-stained "anc, --from the holy blood which which flowed irl death from the breast of thé héro for the , thougli no death's sweet- £190 15th Is redder hen the blood which then fidws. It is, alSo, nct'that wonder- fibwer, for the cultivation of whith man 5 -F iL Ls 1 i tinguished person to death ; and, on the hand, the death itself was hanor- k able in proportion to the rank of the per. son by whom the blow"was infliéted. It ras the greatest dishonor' to perish by the hands of a v thi¥-feeling=diftiner' in -- where the (wd pine to die by Gideon's 0: han thafof a youth'whb ha ob ained no missioning H it was perhaps partly 12 honor bi distinction' of bavi > <lain two enemies of Israrl, as well as becauss the rules of G .|1wo centuries ago, it was demeanor to plunder hiny, hi igmow a; chia 'have recail ed upon themstlves.< When the Catho with the keenest |v; employed fire and sword 10 root out Protestantism, were not some of the fir-t men the world ever produced the P o- testant martyrs? Again, when Protes- tantism gainéd the upper hand, and fiercely persecuted Catholicism, were not the cleverest and most learned men of what they call pleasure. but which is. | 1.5; faith has ever brought forth the mar- vrs? Where isthere a race or body of men who havé béen 'so érseveri réued to destruction] a¥ the Jews 7-- For eighteen centuries, it. all parts of the world, a Jew has been looked upoa as a criminal---as something "unclean---as a iting to be trampled 6m; rubbed, kicked, and despised. Yet when Gi ibir race stand higher than at present 7 When did we cver before find as many of the srightest ts of the fi ial, the mercantile, the literary, the mu-ical, and the dramatic world 10 be Jews ? The world 10-day whrshiis Manmhon as zealously and as entirely as it"ought 1 worship G id, and the very 'hiWh-phiest of this religion, the first fidancier of the menis--such solemn looks--as if' they | orld, who holds peace and wir in his | hands, and at whose frown emperors qaake, Kings tremble, and ublics maintain peace, isaddw Id litdrarure, the Jewish element is still'lnore promi- nent. The D'lsraelis--the elder, im moral through his "Curiosities of Litera- tare," and the younger, a novelist of the first class, ih tionist party ofthe British Commots--are alone suffidientextmpld. Id tie musical and drarhatic world, Racké®, the Queen of Tragedy, Juliana, the matchless can- ratrice, Marin, the great tenor, Rossini. | Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer, the com- posers, and [lenry Heine, the critic, poet and philosopher, are but a portion of the illustrious Jewish list. Veiily, the Jew is outliving persecu- rion pu ight scorn. llunted up and down the earth these many centuries past, snd held good préy for the Christian in all the civilized world,' he is at lenzth ing his status in the human family, and ing into the ils and con- sideration of nations. In Kng where. a mis- member of the House of Commons, and Lord Mayor of London. Iu Paris, St. Petersburgh, London, Hamburgh and sidered a sort of howor 10 put a dis | Madrid, he is the monarch of the ex- change. Even here, he is potent in| Wall-street and Chatham, while one of his race inister abroad P usgs men We do not shrink from contaet with him, : i | made it necessary | of them old maids, have issued a call for "10 gain a true of the nature ani ins -- are not fi suggest to 4 right way to oo Why comedy 'before | the leader of the Protec- | - H 1, ing the in apal i v--_ Yo TEE | ABDUCTION OF A SCHOOL GIRL: A young girl, 17 years of age, named ter, is as the subject of the ) and early on last Saturday 'down in a tity railroad carfo'vemch a book store, where she wished fo' make a purchase. Before she alighidl irbm the in male a'tire,, 3 sed Sone. vo- marks to her, which the girl, who is said to be hard of hearing, understood to be, 1" Wil you get out and walk with me?" Frightened at this address, she shrunk from her persceuntor, who remarked, «1 will have you yet." She related the circumstances on her return, and her el. | dest sister at once placed a veto upon | Monday motning she left home, as u<ual | for school, but had not proceeded far be. | fore the same individual accosted her ; | she attempted to run, when he seized hold | ¥ | of her, and to prevent her fv Siting au} alarm, placed a cloth over her She supposes that this'was wet "with chloro- | form, as she remembers no more uinil | bed she shared on Monday and Tuésday night. Meantime, she had heen missed | and a rewdd of 'fifty : for information "lehdihg to her recovery. | The domestic saw' the advertisement, | Sook Sh SHI gs 9g Srenle 4s + sroof of her "identity, and 'thus obtained 'release. She bad not been wal. treated, except in being threatened and festrained of. her lierty." The place from which the girl was rescued was a vile den of prostitution, in [Howard street. ! Officer Re:be took the girl to ber friends | Montreal Arg=s. Two Roepens Poisoxes sv A Lacr-- An Americdn exchange gives an ac ecunt of the following occurrence, whicl | tok place recemily at Anapulgus, | Georgia. A gentleman who bad re. | ceived a consider ible sum of money, was | compelled to go from home, leaving his distance from any other dwelling-- | Towards evening two entered | the house and demanded ofthe lady money, or they would faké her life. Be- ing a woman of great coolness, she saw! at once that it would be useless for her produced the money and gave it to them. | 7 i § i : £ : £ i | Einma Deitz, of good family and irre- She lives in the upper part of the city, |. she came 10 herself in'a "hive in How. -- -- dollars was offered | pen wife alone in the house, situated some rupt had madé a mistake at his Sunday toil- | ette, and caused us a side-ache. i referee, * thé oldest inhabitant,' fo paral- | listemwith heads so near together. uri and | ®d Fathbr Hgems may awake from his * verb--Rex H testimony, that there was any serions . s } i Ny much of fun and frolic! how many of leak in the bottom of the vessel, or |™ py hours. TH ros hi self for. smoking with him incognito on board a caique. Amurath informed the saphi that the royal decree referred equally to himself. " No," replied the saphi, " [ fight for and would die for him. It does fracture or break of any part of the bs 3 machinery; but that the Livin as| worth remembering shod the nee we already remarked, were prevented ~peak of. They sa sich You ul days, frog working only by want of steam, and Pease, W fed Ay mning Jan and that the water insidnously and wild with He spar, BSnap em slowly entered the vessel." and catch Hi ion; i tse | The Committee will send in another days, nor laughter esl bg § report on the " necessity for, a rans ule; Jud thew whet Jats " Cth { - - > - » i el ac ua ofilworing eyén Steamers. | ursil the rude tenements were stu i ig ! the very pampkin-poles: On horseback | J ertipetanon; land on fort they «came; by singles and | GRAND DIVISION SONS OF bydozens. Old bachelors and old maids TEMPERANCE. --stalwart young men and gentle ones, | with forms of real flesh and blood of no! childish dimensions.- Nor these alone. | Even » younger strata -of litle folky _ At the late Sessions of thé Grand Divi- sion Sons of Temperance, C. W., the following officers were appointed : De. John Beatty, G.W.P., Cobourg ; Tmlip J. Kovim, G.W.A_, Shannoaville; Rev. C. Manson, G. Chaplain, Napanee ; E. Stacey, G. Scribe, Kingston ; 3. W. Sharrard, G. Treasurer, B 3 Bowen Aylesworth, G. Con., Williams. yille; James Brackenridge, G.S., Eliza. Pi * y | hole was filled to its utmost. And then sxing of tongues and she wane | firing of tender glances commenced. But: we have no time to write a his- tory -of 'details now. The last tubful was pared ; pans, knives, and peelings { gathered up; all s-ated that could be, | Bethioriesr lafier a wash in the yard; and the pie] 2 was handed found. And then came a' PROMIBITION CANDIDATES. | _calm.: All shrank' from starting a Resolced,---That this Grand Divisioniplay. At Jast some wide-a-wake girl | hereby remew the pledge given to each makes a attack upon a fellow, and other at the Prescott Session of the the next moment a couple are circling | Grand Division, namely : that we will {around them as they stand up in the | not support any candidate for the Pro. | middle of the floor. The ring fills up. | vincial Parliament at the next general | From stairway, bedside, and chimney | election, unless he is a Temperance man | corner they are snapped out, and round | in principle- asd practice, where at all and round 'they go, over. chairs. across| practicable. - the hearth, pulling calico awry, and! - --=-- | tearing coats from the boys, down on they floor, and agaiw-on the: canter, until the | whole scene was'ooe of io, joyous | touching grief there | hubbub. How some of 1 girls would | Rr .|run! Twas » oack's visk Jo nich 'om; rous, which will provoke to laughter in {but when they dd turn et-tay, the way) hwnd pin Some littte incident, sud- | they surrendered<lit makes our mouth | and P d, whl' i un. | water to think of it--it does. Then the | hing= the saddest mood, and, utterly made; the * needle's eye," | il the sol ity of thie an sister "* "old winfer," "scorn," | We remember a case in pot One |" hunt the thimble," bind than's buff," | still, sucny Sabbath afierncon; in sum:{and a thousand and one gr od old pastimes | mer time, we sat listening tothe pastor | were entered into with an energy and | 3 b which wore the | THE LUDICROUS. ring was i, in a country church! Wb feif peculiarly yancy of feeling impressed ~ with' thé hished stillness ln swifily on. Even tlieold lady of of the scene. Théré was not » sound house was pressed ino thie sport, and | save the voice from the desk, and 'thé' }ér matronly cheek gallaatly remem. | low humming of the flies upon the win- | béred by her young grests. Little fel. } dows. The clergyman was speaking of | lows reached eagerly ap afier the hard. | the ravages death. had made in their won reward of a clase chase after some chtirch' circle--of the young forms tall but light-footed girl, and long legged which had gone to their Guiet rest: be. | gents stooped like hawks swooping down | neath"the green' of thé village burial. |Gpou'plamp and panting specimens of} ground. A chord was touched which not "long drawn om." But vibrated to many a heart in the congre- | even apple-cuts must come 10 an end. --| gation, and all were more or sym. | Things are hustled on, while bashful pathetically affected. We heard an ab-|gallants stand in ludicrous embarass.- sob, and turned our eye to the gal- | ment, with their hats twirling in their lery, white a friend was deeply affect- | bands. Trying times! Some are lucky | ed. Aswe did 50, he thrust his hand |and some are not. There is a peeping | into his coat pocket for his handkerchief; : ® b an d crook- and pulled instead a small baby's | ing of the elbuws, where tongues cannot' shirt, and buried bis face therein, the | falter a word. Hearts are broken, but-to little arms sticking out each way. He | heal and be broken again. Others with a strange and mystercous ecstacy at the sight of a familiar shawl or hood ; while yet others, older and more hard- ened in the process of dressing, bees. ing and healing, ily "home in t the homestead append a second Scene to he evening'sentenainme~nt, ané talk and listen--and--and continue to talk" and a shrill'voice from the barn puts an end . d that are not all Sram, = fry mount the bar-posts, EE EY ey ver tou couditt of the older and more advanced. ' Commend us to an old-fashioned mass : pour" mieux "; convention apple-cut for uproarious fun, when hé does come, may leap at once |and healthy unstinted kissing, in the nap--for- he his evidently" over-slept himself--in a no very" blessed humour. He may be acting on the French' pro- 'sauler--and not apply 10 me." A few days subse- quently Amurath sent for him, and making himsef kmown, gave his {ellow-offender a good appointment. But such penal regu. lations appear always to have been evaded. de A h ilway direc- tors, 10 themselves the right of in- flidting a fide of 40s. and expulsion from their line on any one guilty of the sublime act. Bat it is sweet to smoke under diffi. - cultics. Were the prohibition removed, . smoking on railway cars would probably cease. We know of one young man who feigned madness that he might secure a - caniiage to himself. Another on seeing a* bishop alight at an intermediate station... immediately made for the : and calling Fo guard compinied hn t the carriage was i "To be eA do smoke terribly," "answered the official. . " Then don't accuse me of it hereafier," rejoined the youth with an arch smile. Ou one occasion a railway guard thrust hi- head into a carriage filled with devotees in the act of their devotions, and placing his hand on a cushion observed, " There are two very good rules on this line, pentle- men. Smoking is strict'y prohibited, and the company's servants are fofbitiden 20. accept gratuities." -- Athenceum... . CURIOUS EPITAPHS. A correspondent of a Maryland paper ing of epitaphs, writes as follows : r if Willis, in his faney for- queer epitaphs, ever cameacross my. favo- - me: - v Wo Ep in The following ludicrous epitaph, found lpi ios. Be ey N. H., may not rlati ly ludi bat it inly « be L is " some." To all my fiends Fad adicn, A mere woddem dewth you acver kacw, As I was bradingthe old mare to drink She kached aodalied me quicker a wink ™ An epitaph which graces the churchyard of Moreton-in-the-Marsh, runs thus: = Here be the bones of Richard Saewier and second century at latest. It may be yet : earlier. It is an address of children to Christ, in very simple language, begin- ning : some open window in | it wil "I'm thinking of the time, Kate, when, weing bY iby $4, vd shelling beans, za d on thee, and felt a wondrous pride. fi Saat Vaood wos st he. pan aud wel aw H : i ima, Ta he od wean al m curls hung down, Kate, and kissed thy lily cheek'; azure eyes half t : | i I $3,600,000. has found to ber cost. tro ip = If ma | . oma clprunciln 1 waa thea, ueloe laekove that not to be out' of 'the fashion, the old b _ _ |occurred, when ranli beans, ens I AE Stk lly 1 Ihe erindod band a reid, te mere gt Tt ns oe » wl * resumes, hed PE) . er will bis whthmo-increased intensity, but | C/0%ng of the fingers changes ito @ Af. | ge dish, as you-matched upa lot of just as if nothing unusual hid occurred. | WmITIXG'is the painting of 1 smu dkiss. Andyuniden So MOTE 'It EEt--but, at all events; +A | words--ihe giving of and co-| sh made my eyes blind, and I aeither bird in the hand,' &c., and the saving of | lor to immaterial thought, enabling the | saw nor stirred--but the ing of the fuel during a month past, is some as our dumb to 1alk to the deaf. beans, Kate, was all the sound I » Yankee friends phrase it." Nor only to a whole buttoa ----- _ | whole life the word yes may give itscolor| Mr. Tiemann, of New Yerk, has been Wonzos re sometimes of ideas, |and character, as many an unhappy wife | elected Mayor, by a majority of 2,642 over : 10 health by the warmth of the Pro. phet's body. on convales- cence, the ungrs ancounced its intention' of biting its preserver. : "rophet a sued, which ended in the 's i out its original Prophet sucked the venom from his wounded wrist and spat it forth. "From these dmps fiseated tothe use ofthe beadle. At Berne -° - the use of tobacco was classified with adul- i ! a ---------- Ya