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Br J.CS. Bocxisonal, Esq.

Hail ! Sovereign ofthe \Vorld ofFloods ! whose majes- and might Firm mics—then eiiraptures—tlicn o'erawes the aching

.Ji ht ' 'll‘hs pgmp' of Kings and Empgrors,'in every clims and zone

.Grows dir’n beneath the splendour of thy glorious watery throne. No fleets-can stop thy progress—no armies bid thee 'Blt oqud—onward—onIard-thy much still holds its way ; _ ' rising mist that veils thee, as thine herald, goes . re, . _ And III mic that proclaims thee, is the thundering Cw“ roar.

El'hy Diadeni is an emerald gtaen, of ihe clearest, purest 1 , as ‘ - ‘Bst with were of snow-white foam, and spray of

‘ feathery dew. , 'Whtls‘trsues of the brightest pearls flout'oer thy ample

sheet, . And the Rainbow lays it gorgeous gems in tribute at thy ' fest.

Th, is of the ancient days—thy sccptre from on hi —

'Thy birth was when the morning .stars together sang “ with joy, ‘ The Son, the Moon, and all the orbs that shine upon .now 3811.. first wreath of glory which twiiied thine infant low.

that hour to this, in which i gaze upon thy

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led biNa _ and r. ' tubing, and natural qualities, they could not fail to

H, ;* hugs to age—in winter’s frost, or summer's sultry beam -

.3] by, day night—without a pause—thy waves, with

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lnesassts- nounds have still proclaimed, the Great Burnnlfsnsuie-l ’ _

For whether, on thy forest banks the Indian of the w 7

0r lince his days, the Red Man's for: on his father land

v has stood—-

Whos'er has seen thine incense rise, or heard thy tor- réat'sl‘ber, ‘

Must have bent before the God of All to worship and odors.

Ethen, 0! supremely Great! 0! Infinite! O

[From this primeval Altar—the green and virgin sod—

'-Tlso humble homage that my soul in gratitude would pay

To the. ! whose shield has guarded me through all my wandering way.

For, ifths Ocean be as naught in the hollow of Thine

And the Star! of the bright firmament, in Thy balance,

. 'ns of sand , If "Egan’s rolling flood seem great—to us who lowly w- 0! Great Creator of the Whole ! how passing great art Thou.

Yet tho' thy power iii greater than the finite mind may 'ter is Thy mercy, sliewn to werik dependant

an : Far him Thou cloth'st the fertile fields with herb, and fruit, and seed— For himathe woods,the lakes, the seas, supply his hourly nee .

Album—on high—or far, or near—the Universal Whole Proclzi‘ilns Thy glory, as the orbs in their fixed courses I _

Add {gun :Creation's grateful voice—thy hymn ascends p re . ‘ _

while Healvsn rs-eohocs; bank to Earth, the chorus, “ God .1: Mrs."

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,‘MR. BUCKINGHAM'S LECTURES. ‘(Frmii the Montreal Courier, flag. 31.)

In his last lecture (on Thursday evening,) Mr. Buckingham gave some interesting details respect- ing the present Ruler of Egypt, Mehemet, or Mo- hammad Ali, who by a pe dious massacre put an end to a race of Sovereigns who had reigned for four .osnturies, raising himself upon their extinction. The use in question was that of the Memlooks, or Mame- .htc, as it is generally written. They were a for- eign, self-per tuatiiig caste drawn origiiiall from

‘ an Circassian slaves, who were formed into a militaryprivileged class in Egypt, and annually recruited by selections of the most promising youths .of the same nativity. The Mamelukes were admit- leon to be the best cavalry in the world, ckingham chewed that from their early

my. the whole world in horseinanship, as they wore themselves unsurpassed in bravery? Of this body, 24 were elected by the rest as Boys, and these upon the death of the ruling Bey elected another ,fi'om amonfg themselves—The form of Government “a, there ore, an elective military despotism. This Government acknowledged the Turkish Sultan as superior, and paid tribute. In 1811, Mohanimed Ali,

the t Ruler Who had risen from the ranks in ‘ the ’

ish tinny to be a Colonel, invited the 24 Boys to a festival, in the midst of which his guards not upon them and slew all but four, who cut a way for themselves through their assassins, and escaped and-s confusion. Mr. B. described this eastern but- cher as a man of considerable sagacity and intelli- gence, who has brought all modern Arts and Scien- osulothe anyientdand of their adoption, and who w energies to Equip the white soil of commerce is country. ' e ecturcr traced the .of Egflnian dynasties from the first _ on record, cries, 2,000 years B. C. down to the end of the Pharoahs,—which means not, as is _ supposed, a roper name, but is simply a , equivalent to term King—to the accession Jabs Psmn race afier the conquest by Cambyses, his years B. C., thence to the conquest by Alexan- der of Macedon, two hundred years B. C., and through the reign of the Macedonian successors, the Ptolstni to the much celebrated adventures of the W. , ‘ 'pstra,.snd the Roman succession under my Cesar, 30 years before the comin of the . Mr. Buckingham’s description of Cleo. pstrl‘s attractions, an the state in which she tra- and of Marc Anthony’s ‘ colossal’ love-present m Jag of $10,000 manuscript volumes, as a com- Wt or nest-e g of a public library, which lecturer contrasts with the biblical ofl'eringvofa ' Annttlilal or Albttms, by the suitors for female grout- in small ny. was extremely amusin m Mg, and leaned to_ afford much pleasing The Alexandrian library of which ,rhie m. the beginning, afterwards ,exten ed to 700,- can volumes, some say, to 1,200,000. Its extraordi- nary ital-tom was accounted for by the decree of Me, which required all _‘ us coming to M to take their books 'clibnry,

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- work to . returned to the owner with the originak

be sent by the next packet which will invest Colo-

-chan e, where were ‘ J 0c Howe’ and ‘Reform’ when

rice is soadvantageously situated for a point of ,

.0 a. to be co ied, and, as a bait, decreed a copy ofeaclr

This brou ht man s eculators from all parts of the world wing carng oiP books, for the sake of the extra copy. The Alexandrian libr was burned upon the capture of the city bv the lahomedan Caliph Omar, in the year of our ord G38. Omar forwarded the petition of the inhabitants, for mercy to their books, to the Sultan, his master; but the Sultan, having consulted his divan, learnedly replied, that

if these volumes were opposed to the Koran, they g

were pernicious, and must be destroyed, and if they were in accordance with it, they were there sur- plusage, for the Koran was enough for this life and the next. This was so perfectly satisfactory to the believers in the Koran that they. set fire to the Library, and after many days burning, there yet re- mained stones of written wisdom sufl'icient to heat the baths of the City of Alexandria, 4000 in number, for six months. Thus ignony perished this Colossal library, which had been upwardsof stx centuries in formation, and with regard to which, as the lecturer remarked, it was diflicult to say whether its origin, pro so, or end were the most Singular. _ l

r. Buckingham gave an interestinu' description of Alexandria, built by Alexander, as apital ofthe wide s read dominions over which he ruled by the right 0 conquest, adverting with minutest details to its architecture and monuments, its street five miles in length, and 800 feet wide, with Colonnades on either side the whole length—t0 Cleopatra’s needles, two Obelisks, 67 feet high, each composed of'a sin- gle unbroken piece of granite, Pompe ’s pillar of the some, 90 feet in length, 85c. So di cult was it to thove these obelisks, that the French and English armies, after the battle of Alexandria and the peace of 1801 made them friends attempted to move one which lay prostrate, and found after seven days’ labour that they had onlv succeeded in moving it a space of seven inches. ompey’s piller is said to be 276 tons Weight. Yet these obelisks which modern engineering with all its wondrous powers can scarcely move, the ancient Egyptians planted 1000 upon the banks of the Nile alone. Mr. Buckingham described modern Cairo and other‘Cities, and gave anecdotes and descriptions illustrative of the man- ners of the people, concluding by assuring the ladies of that which they seemed rather hard of believing, viz: that the Mohammedan fair were perfectly happy in the polegamic state of matrimo- ny. He declared himself both by inclination and moral principle to be an advocate for the blessed state of single matrimony enjoined by Christianity and practised by all enlightened people; but he persisted in declaring ,tliat polygamy did not in those countries bring misery upon the female, and that the females would oppose a proposal to change the law as an insult upon their institutions and ancestry.——The Chapel was quite full.

NEW BRUNSWICK.

We understand that His Excellency Major Gene- ral Sir John Harvey, our Lieutenant Governor, has been appointed to the command of the troops in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Dependencies, on the departure of His Excellency Lieutenant General Sir Colin Campbell, and that the head quarters of the divisions are to be transfer- red to New Brunswick—an arrangement which we feel to be a subject of just congratulation to this Province on every account. The removal to Fre- deriction of the whole of the heads of departments may perhaps not take place before the Spring, as well on grounds connected with the ersonal con- venience of several of the individua s (which Sir John Harvey is well known to be at all times ready to consider, as far as it can be done consisteifily with the interests of the public service,) as to afford time to make the necessary preparations with re- gard to accommodation, &c. dam—Fredericton Gn- zette.

NOVA SCOTIA. w Rumour has been very busy since the arrival o

the Britannia. It is confidently asserted, in every part of the town that ‘ Head Quarters are to be re- inoved to Fredericton.’ And upon this text main 3. doleful comment has been made. There is no lack ofprophets who tell us, ‘ all the heads of the military departments—the staff—the garrison—the troops—are all to be removed—bolus bolus, and no mistake—to New Brunswick, and therefore Halifax will be utterly ruined as sure as eggs are eggs!’ ‘ Them’s my sentiments,’ says a knowing one, whose credulity and nervousness make him the oracle of the street corners, and he adds, ‘ now you see what Joe Howe and Reform has done !’ We, however, can discover no foundation for sitch horrid anticipa- tions of evil, and aspersions upon Mr. Howe and Political Reform. They have grown out of an anti— cipation, received by the Britannia, that orders will

nel Smelt with the rank of Major-General and the Command of the Garrison—Government consider— ing the duties of a Legislator or Statesman and of a Military Commander too onerous, if not incom- patible with each other, for one individual to dis- charge effectually. ‘ There exists no authority for asserting that our garrison is to be diminished to a very small degree, . owever magisterially some augurr may impart the nnformation; they have no authority for their re- ports but invention; no reason for their imputations against ‘ Joe Howe’ and ‘ Reform’ but mortification, at seeing Sir Colin Campbell unexpectedly apprised by his successor that Her Majesty’s advisers have no intention of annoying the people of Nova Scotia, by allowing him to preside over another Legislative Session, notwithstanding their efforts to retain him. We would ask those wise individuals whose love of old times makes them shudder at the very name of

the ockflard establishment was removed to Ber- muda? it likely that the commodious North and South Barracks, with the buildings annexed to them, the Lumber Yard and Ordnance, Fort George, Point Pleasant, St. George’s Island, the Eastern Battery, &c. all erected at a vast expenso, will be abandoned by Government to neglect and ruin? Has Great Britain stifiicient means to war- rant the squandering of her resources upon the erection of such barracks, when no need of them exists in New Brunswick? True, New Brunswick immediately adjoins the United States, but the fron- tier of the States is fully as vulnerable as that of New Brunswick, and consequently the former has no advantage over the latter as liar as regards attack or resistance. Besides, France is arming recruits, prondin munitions of )var, and increasing her navy. lngland is not backward in strengthening her land and sea forces, while the martial spirit of the States is dwindling and expiring from the gene- ral indifl‘erence of the nation to every thing calcu- lated to afi'ect their institutions, save the election of their ublic functionaries.

Ha ifax must continue an important. military sta- tion so long as the parent state maintains an army in these Colonies. No other place in North Ame-

E ' ' ween 'n . _ zzdnnfizgéai2nthrbente of tghe surrounding Pro- vinces," it wo'u . are to row , ._ $233119"; sign... to those which wepltlrsseélfié alipst has fi'e‘quem‘y :2::a-.a;.*:.. .. three years, that any "um ’ t'ce to [whatever moved hence, at a moments no 1 ,, . . f d ‘ no confii mation 0 quarter they may be requxre. , t the Whale re- 's assertion be 'ond arefeience o _ ttiinents tlmtrhavg bfien fienfveyzgtéolplpglply $11113 tuitousl in the — ept o I j I . V - fiance, \iithout delay, when called to New iuns wick and Canada, is deemed needful: I d The~ causes of removmg our arrison are tra(t:e by those who pretend to know a1 about the mat ett', to a design on the part of the Home Govprnmerlrix , to punish ‘Joe Howe and the Reformers .for tre clamour which they have raised against: Sir Colin Campbell, and to Sir John Harvey holding a miS .1: my rank higher than any. officer nowhere.fli it John is certainly a distingutshed,‘ deservmg o_ 0;], but he is one of the youngest Major Generals in t 1!: Army List—having been promoted from the ran of Lieut. Colonel only upon his appomtment to the Government of New Brunswick. A well informed authOrity in London—the United Service Gazette-— who must necessarily be better informed of the in- tentions of the Government than any person here, in a spirit of bitter hostility to the Ministry, rather

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' - ’ f b extremer piodigal waste 0 M lii:itizcoinmodations for a garrison p

Guard. At five, the 'mn in by d from ulogncun'fina H: e aiding her for , whining. v». osed to.itlie dangefrs thesto 4 . h ' " with her amiy,anii m i. ‘.v_ .332ng afl'ecti the extreme. W the town parted With its august guests, Boulogne.

The Bsi'rrsit QUEEN, Steamer, hash... , Blackwell, by the Board of 03mm . , , ' engineers, stokers, firemen, 8w. .. conceal a cask of tobacco among the can, quantities in different places. I‘hefe .‘ , facilities and hiding place among, g. V machinery, that they concealed as mu was liable to between £300' . and A J L I the men were detected iii endeavouring ,

le tobacco on shore by havmg it rolled , . I , egs. All the people in the engine roan), of forty in number,) are so _posed to be. , 1 Captain Roberts and his 9 c_ers, of com“, suspicion of the goods being in the , ‘ . tleman, who attended on_ behalf of thet American Steam Navigation Company, wt Queen belongs, informed -tlie magim - company did everything in their power ‘ smuggling amongst their servants, [and th in not allowing them to draw more in ‘ upon account was that they might not.

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coarsely hints that an oflicer senior to Sir John 1 Harvey will be put into employment on the removal z of Sir Colin Campbell.—Halifax Recorder. ‘

RACE CUE—We are informed that the Queen has been pleased to order that the sum of Fifty guineas shall be appropriated, from the Casual and Territorial , Revenue, to the purchase of a Cup, to be run for at the Halifax races. _ 7

HALIFAX, Sept. 29tli.-——We are informed, but how correctly we cannot say, that an alteration in Her Majesty’s Executive Council is about to take place, and that the following Honorable Gentlemen, T. N. Jeffrey, Enos Collins, Samuel Cunard, H. H. Cogs- well, Michael Tobin, sen. and James M‘Nab, have received intimation that after to-morrow they Will not be resummoned, These vacancies are to be supplied by Sir Rupert D. George, Bart, C. W. Wallace, J. B. Uniacke, Joseph Howe, and Herbert Huntington, Esqrs., the three last gentlemen being members of the House of Assembly, and the two former holding oflicial situations. we are also in— formed, that the Attorney and Solicitor General are to be members by right of office. We Sincerely hope that these changes, if actually to take place, may be productive of much good, that our country may no longer be disturbed by the severe bucket-- iiigs with which it has been for some time past agitated—Times.

FROAI PAPERS BY THE BRITflNJVIfl.

RESTORATION OF THE JEWS. (From a Correspondent of the Times.)

The proposition to plant the Jewish people in the land of their fathers, under the protection of the five powers, is no longer a mere matter of speculation, but of serious political consideration. In a minis- terial paper of the 31st of July, an article appears bearing all the characteristics of a feeler on this deeply interesting subject. However, it has been reserved for a noble lord opposed to her Majesty’s Ministers to take up the subject in a practical and statesman-like manner, and he is instituting inqui- ries, of which the following is a copy :—

Q U r: R i' r: s:

“ I. What are the feelings ofthe Jews you moot with respect to their return to the Holy Land?

“ 2. \Voulil the Jews ofslutlon and property be. inclined in return to Palestine, carry with them their capital; and invest it in the cultivation uftlie liiiid, if by the opera- tion i.f'lziw and justice life and property were rendered secure ? ,

“ 3. How soon would they be inclined and ready to go back ?

“4. \Votild they go bark entirely at. their own ex- pense,rcquiring nothing further than the assurance of safetv to person and estate ? "

“ 5. Would they be content to live under the govern- ment oftlie country as they should find it, their rights and privileges being secured to them under the protec- tion of‘tlie European powers?

“ Let the answers you procure he as distinct and dc- cided and detailed as possible: in respect to the inquiries as to property. it will of course be snflicient that you should obtain fiiir proof'of the fact from general report."

The noble lord who is instituting these inquiries has given deep attention to. the matter, and is well known as the writer of an able article in the Quar- ’ terly on the subject, in December, 1838.

In connection with this, a deeply interesting dis- covery has been made on the south-west shores of the Caspian, enclosed in a chain of mountains, of the remnant of the Ten Tribes, living in the exer- cise of their religious customs in a primitive man- ner, distinct from the customs of modern Judaism. The facts which distinguish them as the remnant . of that branch of the Jewish family are striking and incontrovertible, endure about to be given to the world, An intrepid missionary, the Rev. Mr. Samu- el, of Bombay, has made the discovery, and resided amongst this people several months, under per- mission from the Russian Government, who disired him to institute inquiry concerning them.

PERILOUS SITUATION or THE ROYAL FAMILY or FRANCE.

CALAIS, AUG. 18.-—The King, Madame Adelaide, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Nemours, the Princess Clementine, the Dukes of Aumale and of Montpensier, accompanied by the Ministers of War, of the Marine, and of the Interior, embarked at Eu, the 16th instant, at 12 o’clock at night, their intention being to touch at Boulogne, which her Majesty the Queen was to reach by land. The weather having been very stormy, the Veloce, after trying to enter the harbour of their destination, was obliged to make for Calais. At 2 o’clock of the afternoon of the 17th, the Royal steamer was in sight of the latter port, and guns were fired to announce the arrival and to signal a pilot. At half past two, the vessel was threading the Channel, when the violence of waves and wind bore her bows on the works of the new jetty, where she gi'ounded_1n a situation of imminent peril, after experiencing some damage in her hull. As soon as it was possible to effect a debarkation, the Kin ordered all on board to be landed, and determined to remain the last on deck. The inhabitants of the place, who thronged to the shore, received the august travellers with an enthusiasm of devotion plroportioned to the imminence of the ' r, and