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locity with which her desperate crew were foreing her

me! ids myself that remimbers poor Letty Lorimer, the pur. |

pass my lips!” It was a just rebuke to myself, a big man.

SET

Whsie

THE MESSAGE OF THE SUN crowded city,

ach gilde ] spire :

the «estern windows,

s departing fire —

each cloud that cradles areh’s funeral pyre.

Saneet o'er the Lightin fr up Gleam and glow

With the day Lea} s the flame Near the mor

Far beyond the azure zenith, High the floods of glory rolled — W aves of crims n radiance breaking In a sea of wolten gold ; Deepning glow:ng with the ardour Of a splendour yer untold,

Little children toss their ringlets,

taise their wide an? wondering eyes, Clap their bangs in exultation,

Laugh in innoe:nt surprise— All their life-long rainbows blended

SLL LLL LD

through the broken water ; gallantly, coolly, and with stern resolve she was held on that fearful course, as if gathering up her speed and her strength for the last great struggle to ‘escape destruction, Already wastne towering mass upon her, another moment and she would be rolled broadside on into that seething ealdron, a mass of riven planks and j timbers, the chaos of despair, of death ! We held oar breaths in torturing anticipation of what was to follow; already the ‘ery of the strong swimmers in their agony seemed resound. ing in our ears; no mortal hand could help, no human aid could reach them. Suddenly her helm was put down ; as jshe came up in the wind the thunder of her shivering canvas sounded like the knell of doom ; she lifted buoyansly to the giant sea, rose upon its advancing crest, as if with the last great effort of exhausted strength, burst through the curling ridge of white foam, and, falling off on the other tack. dis- appeared from our fevered gaze in a column of spray-smoke and rain-mist. | “* Bravely done! Bravely and well done!” shouted old Moriarty, in intense excitement. “ Ay—ay—by my sowl, the child that sails her is no chicken! He kuows every

tiest Colleen Dhas that ever (ossed a spidthers-web from a/to hear that from the lips of a child; bat I was wake and grass-brake on a May mornin’, an’ beccorse all the gay young |fe:ble, and the vreat black thief was sthrong thro’ his own chaps about these parts used to be cocking their caubeens at | cowardly selfishuess—so, what could [ do? When a man her, but Letty id have none of ‘em; she was grand-like in| is driven to death by inches, he craves for life more than her idayies, an’ was given to readin’ about great men that | ever—pride, manliness, everything is wake in him; but that wint across the says, an’ med great fortins. Well, there | boy was a hero, it ever there was one born. At last the day | were two apprentices sint to ould Clement—the sons of mar- | came that all was gone; another and another followed, and | chints he used to have dalins wid—one was a fine dashin’) Black Will Gardiner stooped over me and whispered « horrid young Scotchman, none uv yer hard-lined, skin-the-cat sort | timprtation, for says he, * if we can only prolong life a couple of chaps, hud a great. big-hearted, jovial chip; och! shure, | of days more, we'll be sure to fall in wid some of the home: | they said he was descinded from the great Kiny Robert the! ward-bounders!" My blood curdled at his words ; but as the | Biuce ; anyhow no matther who was at the beginning of him, | day wore on, and no signs of'a sail, he spoke to me again ; | he was a raale fine, handsome, slashin’ sa:lor, an’ no two! but I swore at him, and he swore at and cursed me, and! ways about him; to’ther fellow, they said, was a side wind | cal'ed me a drivellin’ old fool to cant about merey to a from Spain, bud he'd an English name at al! events, an’ was| Worthless brat. I wondther now he did not throw me over- a great big-limbed, dark-lookin’ customer,— morose and self- board, but the coward was afraid of his conscience —he feared | given like —nobhody farcied him, but bonny Donald Bl.ir| being alone. At last, he spoke out bold, and said the time was in everyhody’s mouth ; an’ the way he'd dance the ree! | was come we should draw lots for life, one must die to keep of Tallogorum, 4:;” sing the Laird o’ Jo’ pen, bedad it id bring | the others alive. The lots were drawn, and, God forgive him the tears into yer eyes wid fair delight. William Gardiner | and me! the lots were drawn falsely, and poor little Donald was ould Lorimer’s favourite, at all events; whether his} —Oh! God shield that sight from my memory !—there was people had more money nor Donald's nobody knew rightly ‘that areh-demon struggling wid that poor small ehild. I

In one glory of the skies!

ithriek as that wid ber, Ifa rope yara failed him, his sperir id be on the road to glory now. ‘The Lord.be praised for his marcy in spariv’ thim! — [d’s down on ther knees they Ought to be this blessed minit !"’

* Th'er no sthrangers here any how, Murtagh !”

“ Thrue for you. Billy Duncan, alanna, ay, indeed, that

Aching brows, on restless pillows Tossed, and comforitless by pain,

Turn, with eager, wistful longings To the earth and sky agar ;

For that stream ag Splendeur tells them Life and strength were not in vain. }

Weary women raise their lashes— Put aside their teil and care—

Lean from out the chamber windows, Gaspingly to breathe » prayer—

**Ob! to walk with epr ised turebeads Through those amber folds of air.’

wind ; but my ould eyes are so mildewed wid the say dhrift, that [ can’t make out what she is at all !”

* Warsht, boys, whisht! Spake aisy, can’t you? Ye'll know what she is now. Don't ye see who's comin’ along the pier ?”

All eyes were turned from the rapidly approaching vessel, in the direction indicated by the speaker. A tall and stately looking female was striding along the ragged causeway,

heediess alike of the furious tempest or the pitiless peliings o! rain and spray. She was clothed in garments of rusty | black, which barely sufficed to cover her poor weak frame, much less to protect her from the inciemency of the elements In the burd-drawn lines of her aged and care-worn features ' could be traced tne vestiges of early and wondrous beauty — : the wreck of one of evrth’s fu'rest flowers. A look of paticnt suffering strangely contrasted with the expression of her bright dark eyes, from which a baleiul, a most {crocious, fire gieamed firfully. Her hands were clasped with feverish energy. as if in earnest, ceaseless supplication: her guze wanvered not: it was fixed upon the approaching ship. She moved through pointed rocks, and actoss yawuing chasms, ike a being of another world. Ever and anon ber lips moved, as if in prayer, yet she spoke to none, nor seewed to be aware of the presence of a human being. The moment she gained the lighthouse platform she kuelt at its margin. louely, sud, and wierd looking, swaying her body backwards and forwards, her hands raised ia prayer. Her voice now ro-e in incoherent murwuring:, aud anon died away; but the

Pallid men at desk and ledger, Toiling throu,crh the livelong day, Homeward bound, eateh rosy fresimess From the sunset’s deep'ning ray : Hope was born of gotden ether—

lieaven seems nut su far away.

Every pining beart thus gladden'd With the mes sage sunset bore ;

Faith rekindies in the bosoms That w- re desolate befure ;

Through those rifted mists are gleaming Lights from the eternal shore.

Paler now, die fast the splendours,

_ Showing how carth’s brightest things

Soonest fade—but thirsting mortals Drank the light from living springs ;

Oh the burdens had grown lighter When the anvels furled their wings!

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a, des ae THE LOTS UPON THE RAFT.

Some few years sgo I happened to be wind-bound in the / if A furious westerly gale had set ia at the } . ; :. port of 1. . ae J } « Letty Blair, God help her!” exclaimed o!d Murtagh. full of the moon. and raged with a vielence winch can bs rT me age : ' °

A eee ‘a ching.” At L was Black Wili Gardiner, I'd sooner my bones were uppreciated only by those « whd go down to the sea io sdips, , hg “PE : . : ” : washing under yon cliffs than face such a welkim as this and “* behold the wonders of the deep. aia J 5 lei “on

: . . a aliber every V 7 ' ' d Our r ew enjoy the shelter of r - P :

; Right ao aoe “7 said 4s Geteatied cosy} “ For Ueaven’s sake, Murtagh! what is the meaning of

: ‘ ven; grouped ar sheerful, cos , , ,o that qesiat old Saves; gre 2 a atnachenale ‘social /#ll this? Surely the poor creature must be mad: she will

cas'e, cadoose giving a meriy, b eiy, social : 3 : ; forecastie, the can ge ving 3 i bair-breadth “ie from such exposure. Let us remove ber to shelier and biaze, they yarned away ol by-gone dangers and bair-breadth nen “-* 7 . iS. nen all war

escapes, which caused the older seamen to “ee their ee “ Hist, yer honoar, hist! it's poor Letty Blair. ave attention of the narrators’ truth, and the green boys’ | ' ees Sey ~) : in grave attention of the narrator rurh, anc £ “. goin’ to curse Biack Will Gardiner, the skipper of the Gipsy to listea with open-mouthed wonder. thinking, and perchance a : ol : : ‘ ride. hoping. that the day might come when they too six ald be - i . os send oll thi ies

PP. : = s -an woul I ess hic aused % this excite- enabled to relate simelar wonders of maritime adventure. Meanwhile, the vemet watch eens

Th hurri histi idly through the rigging; great ment had drawu nich, and ber bowsprit now appeared as

oe wWhistie! wi roug er ’ “* : ae . ; a

ia a - ; oak nt on inte ieee shee aaah breast- “be rounded the pier end, in such close pri xinncy that a unserer — a a ‘ 1a - om oe . = whirled ™#2 might have stepped en to ‘er bulwarks U-ually, when Fork OcKS der woiose sheiter we iay, were ithe m Sup a “= + ses : : ps . inst the black scud that | 4 Vesse returns to her port after a voyuge, there are those at e + th > @ours. - ing ag st the sc ; ; ena ee er eee tee I baie he hand to give the tempest-tossed mariners a cheery welcome sreered above, Like clouds of snowdrift flying through the 5 7) es id ca " . t home. Some few stragglers bad joined us, but, save an 01

e = bp . t : de. a c A : i “" wend pines on a dark mountain side ery of recoznition, her dripping aud startied-lookivg crew

same intensely vengeful light gleamed ever from her eyes.

She's

shtick in her timbers, too, or he'd never thry such a divil’s

th’er not; here she comes now, squared away afore the

From boyhood [ have been a lover of Nature, in calm and in storm, in saniing peacefulwess and dire wrath; by land

were grouped forward in sulleu silence : no joyous outburst welcowed the wanderers of the deep; vo tr.umphant cheer

y j her beauties; but of ail the scenes 5 aud by sea have I eae mer Ream a : . dd acknowledyed the gallant batile for i1fe that bad been fought I luve to dwell upon ts thatof ihe sea, when Jashed into wilk e =

and won. No: a deep aud ominous gloom appeared to hang over the ship and her crew. At this moment she appearance and movements of the captain of the Gipsy Bride arrested tiny atteution. Le was a man in the pruwe of il ossal stature, powerful and athletic frame, but withal of a stern, gloomy, and fur bidding aspect ; and if ever the face of man gave index of the mind, his mizht be read without envy. Lis swarthy features were couvulsed in a manner fearful to

fury by the roaring temp st.

Such a scene bad I vow before me: in the bottom, or rather, as a sailor would cull it, the * bight’ of a deep bay, lay the little haven of I. —, securely sheltered by a ma-s- ive breakwater of granite rock; on the mgt, as you wwooked seaward, the margin wa d fined by rugged precipices and outlying cliffs, whilst the left hand side was bounded by a chain of lofty mountains; obliquely up this bay was bow raging a south-wester'y yale, hurling the giant waves of the broad Atlantic into co.fused masses of fiaanng broken water; ever and anon tremendvus squalls wou d sweep down with resistiess force, murking their paths by dense masses of smoke-like mist torn from the mighty surges that rolled ulong in solemn grandeur, artil brokeo by crag and el ff and solid rock wall, théy roared a dull yreat roa of impotent rage, as though they would sake earth 8 fuunda- tions, and open @ passag to the ravening Wa’ eis. Turning from the fieree battle of the elemenrs that raged without, the peaceful security of the well sheltered lirtle harb ur, our own good litle ship looking s» neat aud trim, as if hugging herself in the enjoyment of such good quarters, the merry voices and jocund ssugh ‘bat occasionally resounded frow ber | datusled Madelne * décks. formed such & picture of war and peace, that bem)" 1) Ges! will no one strike that old hag from my lost in -sileut contemplation, 1 was not aware of a compauion) | ,,, spril aclighttenel upon ‘de sa. ond the gene eS Oe) “Lt was a solemn sight, accompanied by fearful sounds ! taugis old pilot, Mariagh Moriarty, smote upou ay a ai ned That ship aod her crew just gliding into the sale and sheltered

™ Hardy weather, bar ly ¢ ater. aed 7 aon —- . : of haven, escaped as by a marvel of Providence from a horrible Murtagh, ducking bis b re ideath, and imstead of voices upraised in glad thanksgiving for foam ihat arched over the rocky parapet. wercy vouchsated. to bear that awful shout of ribald tlas-

“Ay, ay, pilot; for the poor ielhewe. cute phemy rising bigh above the roarmg of the sea and the and wild work indeed !" And ceo that weird-louking kneel-

« Troth, id jagt is wi cruel Work ; a shure

which erime entails upon its followers, reigned in tury: the veins upon his forebead stood out like knotted rope yarns; bis powerful grasp cluiched at everything within reach us though he fevered to grapple with a deadly foe. Phe strug: yle tor mastery over his feelings was terrible. The short quick walk along the quarter deck ceased the moment he caught sight of that kueeiing woman. He stood glaring like -owe ferocious beast about tu spring upon his prey. A how! of torture—tbe peut-up ery of racking mental agony-—burst ifrom his lips. Be ‘His haud shook like a man’s with ague, as pointing to the form which bent over him from the rocky platform, like that

the hill si jes

ide, it’s rough | aire at. yer. bouct soys,—wicked, wild, Howling of the wind! d make one’s heart bleed for thy poor coasthers that’s sint to say in sich wid wiuthery weather, 20° wid vessels il!-found, wid ropes as ould and as rotten as baybands; short manned, too, the way they may bring long prfits to their nay gur-beartud owuers ; he troth, yer bono, many is the brave-hearted stout sayiman yt that has had (0 gx i whio humaa oatbur qoplgn pene tne sea, sleeping or waking, in bealth or in sickness, that agia bardships that id break a frame Uy IroO 5 au’, ed Lord a werey, sir deur! iay’y id cruel wringin’ to a sthrong man's sperit, when he finds higns-If in the pride uv his prime, an health and stringth, sowid may be to save a few latboms uv rope or a few feet UV new plank; wn” hurryin Oo J) the broad light uv day agin the tail eliffs that stan’ Up like « tombstone forninst biw, wid his white shroud bilin’ up an roarin’ all rouns bim! * Sail bo! asail, Misthur Moriarty ! jewel '’ exclaimed two or three fishermea who had je us

tering forth incobereut ejaculasious, in which invocations of Heaven's wrath were strangely mingled with supplications fur mercy

rhe innoceut trem the doom of the guilty! By the night or

ihe stroug frame, aud dry up the ‘ Gardiner—the outeast of God and of maa!

Gipsy Bride safely mcored, her captain

the good ship the t site ; his evil spirit could best find a resting-

‘bestowed wherever A sail, Murtagh piace; the mysterious visitant of the pier, ined | broken he

at leugth, bavi

peowient ee his appearance aft.

‘We peered anxiously to seaward, and in the intervals of i et hel

the drift avd mist, just under the jofty cliffs, aud almost within the broad belt of snowy breakers that foamed at their | base, was a gallautship under cloge-reefed to)suils aud po courses, staggerivg under the pressure of the latter, a8 if | carried ou with a re kiess [at akin to ee ° order to extricate her from the fearful position into which | om ned the old pilot, making the cabin to we Taers as Ge eee nae er. Os yer boner, fat two of uz raye ° : ¢ , : ‘ by

: God be mareiful! Bud by the livin'—~_” | should be thinking the i po

Whatever else the old pi'ot would have gaid died upon | «Now, then, a a in’ ‘ pete tede 4 hoyahe ty dagdy emt Sntykln gw beset | Zz eye cone muny a long year since ould the hapless bark just as she was about to clear the point of | ** Ay, yer. honer. - ees greatest danger; fora moment she wavered Ov her coarse. | Clement pao was a big man, as though ber helmsman was parglyged at the appalling | baue sume er o Basins perl; it was, however, for a mowent ouly ; agaig she lay | great many P aoe over to the burricane squall, uatil ali ber broad decks were as another Maus bond. visible; there was a great sbeet of hissing surge boiling out | poor wake craythur yer

or Letty Lorimer?” « Perhaps, Murtagh, your memory,

be retreshed by damping! compound of Adwiral Vernon's favourite mixture.

“to develope this

the say, au’ his word was us good

life, of col-|

‘behold: hatred, rage, fear, despair, all the evil passions |

! The visitation that destroyeta the body and the | soul was prayed for in the same breath as the exemption of

| gtew fast, an’ ould Clement bey:

‘Fate was on him, but Black Wil! himself, aud nobody else

It inereased into a half-shriek, balf-roar. |

of an avenging angel, with a burst of tearful impreeations, he |

bud people said that Letty was to be married to him whin he was out ov his time. ‘Ther’s always two voices to a bargain. | and although Le:ty wasn't much consulted at first, bedad she | wus daytermined she’d have her own way; s0 the very | day Donald Biair was out uv Ais time the two uv them sets! off an' gets married bard an’ fast, an’ may-be there wasn’t | the devil’s own rookaun about it; however, Clement, sinsible | like, med the hest uv the bargain his daughter got, an’ hud | them home, an’ daycently married, an’ a powerful jollification | ther’ was; everybody got dhrunk uv coorse, for Donaid was | such a fivourite that nobody euvied him but one, that one | was Will Gardiner; next or near the weddin’ he never kem, | but was black and sulky as a cRained bear. L’m told twa dhreadful to hear the oaths he swore about the revenge he'd take on Donald Blaiy. :

* Clement Lorimer, to wake tp wid him like. gev him the command uv one uv his best hips, an’ to show that there | was no ill-will betwixt nor between them, he sent Donald | Blair out as chief mate; she Was as five a barque as ever | yer honer clapped eyes on, oh] a raale beauty, called the | Carlo Zeno ; that was a woful vyfige for Dousld, poor, light. | hearted, gay, Donald Blair, he ngver kem back ; he was log- | ged as washed overboard in a §quall off the Great Piton|

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Rocks, near the island of Saint Tueia ; there was whisperins | uv foul play, but Will Gardiner challenged ’em all, an’ as! the log was found all square, an’ the crew spoke up, why! there the thing ended. “Not wid poor Letty, though; the poor eraythar! she! never lifted her head from tat day; an’ the poor oald masther, too, wid all Donald’s wild ways was fond uv him, | for who wouldn’t; the poor lad was as honest an’ open-| hearted as the light uv day, only fond uv his joke, an’ his divurshan, small blame to him, ids ‘a sorry sow! that goes through the world without rubbing a few bright spots in id

“Ln the coorse of time the widow Blair became a mother ; an’ if ever the dead came to life agiin the father did in that boy, only he bad the mother’s beauty an’ all her winnin’ ways to the bagk of all poor Dogald’s dash an’ bravery ; he to regard him as the apple uv his eye, couldn't bear him out uv his sight for a minit ; bud the dark tames wor at hand, things began to go cross wid the poor ould masther,—first.one ship was wracked, thin another, until, at last, the only one be bad left was the Carlo Zeno

*- Well, the time time kem when something must be done wid young Donald—le’d no longer bis grandfather to look to, so beded the heritage uv his poor drowned father was | bestowed upon him—and he was sint to sarve out his iime) wid Will Gardiner: oh! but that was a sorry partin’, for Clement Lorimer bad parted wid his last to him, an’ in sending his darlin’ grandson wid him id ed like a last hope that he’d bring back the fortune that was gone. Many, many was the requests he made uv Will that he’d behave to his poor boy, and do by him what he had done for Wil! Gardiner to make him an honest sailor, anda Christian | wan. That same night Biack Will, as we have always called | him, had a long talk with Mrs. Blair, and he asked ner the) question that had been the aim and object of his life; he asked her to be his wife, and to forget all she had ever loved as only a woman can love—once ; but he spoke uv him that) was dead and gone, of the man with whom he'd broken the. same breat, and drunk the same cup as a ne’er-do-well that desarved to be forgotten; little knowin’, the black-hearjed villian! the woman he had to dale with. Ob, my jewel! it was Letty that up and gev him her mind, and he left her that night wid the scowl upoa his brow and the curse upon his lips.

“ More nor a year passed away, and still no news uv the. Carlo Zeno The poor mother was well nigh disthracted, and as for ould Ciement, he was fairly beside himself, At last. one fine day, who should come back, asif the finger uv

wid the exception uy Art Sullivan, a very ould man, who

/ was carpenter uv the ship; she bad foundered at say—the |

erew escaped on a raft; but, afther days uv awful sufferin’, the only two that were picked off that fatal raft was himself and the carpenter,

** The measure.of poor Clement Lorimer’s bitterness was | now full; he had seen ships aid money and everything pass away from him, and now the only being that bound him to earth, that his poor old wearied heart clung to, the fair

| golden-haired laughin’ boy, whose pr-sence was like sunshine

to him, and whose life was wrapt up in his own, he was

|yone too, and ali the world was black and dreary to bim.

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ing Wowan, wrapped in her graveyard garments of woe, mut- |

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: by the day, in the calm or ia the storm, by the land ur by |

“the worm which dieth not, and the fire that is eed ched,” wight prey apon the spirit, blast the hope, wither | 1 ye ee a life’s biood of William |

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He lonzed for rest, the rest that knows no brakin’ till the last day comes, and the poor broken-hearted sowl was not long findin’ it. We laid him in his last res in’-place, and all that remained uv the once great ship-master Was a nar- row grave and a plain little headsione ; and poor Letty was left iu solitary widowhood to mourn the days that wor past —100 happy to be lastin’ and too fleetin’ to be true.

“The little that was left her she spent in charity and yreparin’ herself for the home were those she loved best bad gone hefore her.

* Well, yer honer, one night Lotty was tou'd that a dyin’ man wanted to make his pedce wid the. wor'd, and that he should see her,

«+ Do you know me ?’ gays he to her whin she wint into the wretched cabin, where he was lyin’ on a lock uv sihraw.

** You're Art Sullivan!’ says she, ‘a faithful servant of my poor father’s.’

“* Ay, God help me, Miss Letty!’ says he; ‘ I was once

| honest, au’ had a clear conscience, bud for tbat black villaio |

The close of that eventful day saw the storm unabated, |

z If awaiting the pilot and his | ‘yf the terrible past, ad myse gt 1m. \ | int * nision | ig » rat | ng satisfied ins craviug for a | for that { sint for you. Whin we escaped on the raft young| Colonial Minister had no objections 10 submit these questions | Donald was sate and -souvd, and so wor all the crew, but | to the Commission, bat he ohjected to the instructions which

Will Gardiner !' says he. - ** What about him? What of him? says she. *Oh!) Art Sullivan, asthore machree! if you know anything of}

I trust, where her | my poor lost boy—as you are vow about to appear belore | art and fevered miud were tulled into forget'ulness | your Judge—tell we !’

“+ Listen, my poor colleen!’ says he. ‘ Listen—"twas |

« ['m thinking yer bovour is wiger to hear the story of | we had days and nigtts of awful sufferiv’—hanger aud thirst |

and the killin’ heat by day soon sent most uv thim mid, and)

she got worse than ever.

iknow, the poor maniae mother may still frequent the little |

screamel; L tried to rise and help and save bim; but no, | [ was feebler than he was, an] at last the blow was struck ; | ay, God forgive him, that man-devi!l ! he murdered poor little | Donald—he drink of his blood and he eat of his flesh, and he forced it upon me, too, and bound me by fearful oaths | never to reveal what Ido now, but I could not die aisy. | Oh, merey! mercy, Miss Letty! [ am goin’ Lam— ‘The | wild ery alone auswered, the spicit of the old man had fled, | and with it the senses of poor Letty Blair.’’ And is it possible, Murtagh?’ { exclaimed, “ that | nothieg has ever been done about this?” ‘*» God bless yer honor!’ said the old man, * what could | we do? Letty told me the story herself in a few odd clear |

moments she had after the first shock passed away, bud then | Our only witness was dead, and |

who would take a man’s life on the word of a poor crazed | woman? Bud his day will come, yer honor—sooner or | later! The finger ison him, sure an’ fixed! He tried | sailin’ from other ports, bud he always comes back to this. | Bud tell me, yer honor,’ said the old man with intense eager- | uess, ‘do you believe in the appearance of sperits from the | other wor.d ?’”

‘Why do you ask the question 2”

‘ Because poor Let y otven wand:hers by the sayside, and says that she is talking to little Donald ; and thin she kneels

down beside old Clement's grave and whispers to him to be!

of good cheer, that little Donald is comin’ to him, and that she is comin’ too, but that she must wait for Will Gardiner; and, sure enough, when we see her doin’ this, we all know

he is not far off; and let it be by day or by right that he}

comes back, there she kneels upon that platform of rock— the first that he sees whin he eomes, and the last whin he goes away. God forgive her poor wanderin’ broken sperit, it’s vot Christian-like, but shure she knows no better—she asks for her poor lost son—once the pride of the heart that shall never bloom again, the light of the eyes that shall never sparkle more but in madness. Terrible will be the tate of the man that wrongs the widowed and the fatherless !”’

The oli pilot eased, and [ shall do the same, good reader. [ tell you the tale as it was told to me: and, for aught I

pier of L , and ij lack perous; but, as sure as come.

I need hardly say that

Will Gardiner may still be pros- | the old pilot said it, his day will |

the names I have introduced are |

| not the real ones.

ES I iy

The wind is unseen, but it cools the brow of the fevered one, sweetens the summer atmosphere, and ripples the surface of the lake into silver spangies of beauty. So, goodness of heart, | though invisible to the material eye, wakes its presence felt ; | and trom its effects upom surrounding things, we are assured | of its existence.

Correspondence. |

mission unless the arbitrators were lef to their own discre- tion ; and there‘ore the Governor in Council had to with- draw their proposal for making an arrangement between landlords and tenants ; and the advice of the Islander for the tenants to appoint advocates is not supported by the Minister's instructions, nor by any other authority, and could only serve to entangle the try. If it were as true, as I believe it #3 false. that the Commission is sent here to bind the ‘eants to the landholders, the award could be set aside as unjust; but if the tenants were to send alvceates to make proposals to the Commission, whatever wrovg suck advocates might advise would be imputed to the tenants as of their own seeking.

_ The arbitrators will have their authority from the

in Couneil, and their award will have to be returned to that tribunal for the Royal assent; and I believe it wil be just aud equitable if the arbitrators are left to themselves.

: Wa. COOPER. Sailor's Hope, July 24, 18690. m as =

RULE AND MISRULE OF THE PRESENT MINISTRY. * > (Nor 3.

For rue Cxaurver. Mr. Eprtor ;—

“ To speak his thoughts is ev ’ To peace and war, 4 Nesttah wane

When I began these letters, it was my intention to lay before the public eye those objectionable acts which. were committed by the present Ministry shortly after the assump- tion of the reins of Government. The act which was passed last winter, intituled ** An Act relating to the Reeovery of Small Debts, and to repeal certain Acts therein mentioned,” is such a high-handed and uncalled for measure, affording the Government such an excellent opportunity of plain their own creatures in office and displacing men of oe worth, long experieuce, and excellent qualificacions, that I am prompted to say something respecting it here, rather out of place,

When Mr. Coles was at the head of the Government, we would every now and then read of a new appointment in some portion of the Island—where required, But. our present ralers could not content themselves with this mode of procedure, They enact a Bill which bas the power of sweeping all—holus Lolus—for no other crime than that the majority of them profess liberal principles. The Islander of a late date contained a hatch of Commissioners for the Recovery of Small Debts, which reminded one of an Auc- tioncer’s catalogue, Still, the Gavernment wnd its supporters will ery vengeance against the late Government for the un- pardonable crime of putting a few, liberal geatlemen into office! Does this not remind one of the Devil reproving sinners? No doubt the Government will boast ot the great overtarning! But at the next election they will (od—not. withstanding their many official supporters throughout the eountry—that they have carried their ehins rather high, and will be apt to walk into the gutter. Ther’ each and every one of them will be hauled up and eatechised like 93 many converted heathens. The cry of vote by Ballot. EB eetive Legislative Counci's, Land Comfffiidus, Public Printing to tender, Bible in the Schools, o sion of members from office, will not suffice. them abyut as much to whistle jigs to a millate preach such things to us at the next general election. ;

Before I point out any more of the *isdeeds of the present Government, I purpose to say a few words on Property Qualification. It may be rather out of place here ; but as it is well known that mawy of our legislators are opposed to the Elective Franchise, and have done all ia their power to pre- vent the passage of the law securing that privilege, it behoves me to express an opinion, But a few days ago, one of our Government members argued publicly that it is the height of injustice for an individual to have a yote when he has no property.

am opposed to monoply in all its varied forms, and belicve when man is placed on this earth he should be allows. ed to exercise the talent with which he is endowed, for bia own benefit and the benefit of our race, untrammelled by artificial distinctions. I consider the law which renders a

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deceive the tenantry, and these are some of them.

| feiture, the Crown beeomes the proprietor, to protect every occupant in possession of his land, until errangements for a

| sion of disinterested men.

| people should be better informed.

| the Escheat Question, the Fishery Reserve Question, and

|property qualification necessary for a leyislator to be not INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE ON THE LAND QuEstion, °®!¥ unnecessary, in poor communities like this, but injurie ,ous in its operation. I believe in the principle of every person having @ yvice in making the laws of his country, To tar Epiron—Sin—lIt appears from the Examiner of whilst he 1s goverved and sabjected to these Jaws. If this the 17th inst., tiat the Islander recommends the tenantry is not the case, the Government which tolerates the evil is 'o appoint advocates to plead their cause before the Land | neither a free nor just one. I would ask some one to solve Commission? Another writer, some time ego, said, there | the question of Property Qualification propounded by Frank- ought to be a Court of Inquiry to investigate the titles before lin in the story of the man avd the donkey, which runs in it went to the Commission? There are many ways tried to substance as follows: A few pounds estities a man to a | Vote. A man owns a donkey, valued at that amount—he In the year 1835, when the House of Assembly was com- | votes, and is legally entitied to vote—the donkey dies—he posed of eighteen members, a Committee of seven were ap- | '* legally diequalibed and cannot vote. Now, the question pointed to inquire into the titles, and they reported that the is, who was in reality the voter, the man or the donkey ?

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‘conditions had not been performed, consequently the grants | Unquestionably it was the donkey. This argument holds

are forfeited. ‘The forfeiture is not denied; but the House | 3°04 with respect to all kinds of property qualification, of Assembly are not a Court to decide on such matters, and | Lastead of being the representatives of rational being; . they they recommended the titles to be tried in a Court of Escheat ; i‘? often the representatives of the dumb creation, or of for when a Jury, constituted to inquire into titles, find a for- | S°™* miseralle swamps called farms,

| I would ask men of intelligence if the few abuses ta which _[ have here briefly alluded are not sufficient to convince the just and ‘equitable settlemont take place. But the Crown Most sceptical, that intellect aud knowledge im legislation could not authorise a Court of Enquiry to find a forfeiture, and rulers 16 not more requisite than proce *9 the pocket or which would extinguish titles, and throw property into con- land in the bush to qualify them fur a faithful discharge of fusion without the right to protect the inhabitants; but it Public duties? So long, then, as labor is the support of answers the purpose of the landholders to put the people on | “averamept, and Goverument the security of life avd pro- the wrong track to ask for what the Crown cannot grant. A PEys all ue have @ voice in selecting men of sound sense refusal to appoint a Court of Enquiry, is not a refusal to | and good 7 one to frame aad execute laws founded on appoint a Court of E-cheat, when it is intended to make a | ween em “at | . destinetion. The greatest objections which Ministers could| , 4% closiag tus letter, let me enquire, are we always to bo the dupes of designing political demagogues? Are we always

have to an [scheat is this: they could pot trust to any party | , then “ here who might have the Government, to protect and sett! / to be represente y the aristocracy of our capital, by pro-

he inhabitants in a manner which would be likely to give | ls and the sons of proprietors, by laud ageuts aud un- general satisfaction, because the leading men are interested |‘ ersirappers, who infest the country, aad by the cffice- or inflaenced on one side or the other; and, thereture, a | sera aren novern creatures who swarm the Island, equal satisfactory sett'ement ean be expected on/y from a Commis. | to the weavel of late years? 1 hope not, [ trust experievce, |combined with common sense, may teach the poor, the diudg- It may suit the landholders for the Islander to try and ing, the tenantry of P. E. Islund to return men of their owa make the tenants believe that the Commiss:on has no power | eee vers om can te relied upon possessing both talent to interfere with titles or the Fishery Reserves; but the. wi) wae ees et oS sof Wee The case which was sent | : . 2 home to the Colonial Minister, to be referred to arbitration, | —— ye apne ap SP Soveiretien electors S a was accompanied with instructions. The ease was fully ud- |? anys * ar it en ‘. ness 0 h elr lees > mitted, but the instructions were condemned; and that case | C8® MIBM'Y Struggie will burst asuuder the iron fetter that which was to be referred to the Cum.nission is in these | !°* bails thew within its grasp. : . words: ** Whereas certain questions, arising out of the Uuceasingly thine, original grants of the lands of this [sland, severally called Queen's County, July, 1860 AURORA.