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. but a poor. vhlitless. hvl‘llvel. insignificant erm- _ __ No more to be totapand to his ailet'lt'll than a 7 WI to the great roaring cataract oi Niagara. (Ap- I amt-n. there was a tum-.1 blush to say it. when the. was a bat-helm; and it more miserable crrsturt- V” will hatdlv rapid-t to iiml. Every day l tolled

"I. aid at night I ensue home to my ruttilviriltee gar- le—II. . no iro. no tiotistttg. lately think; was its clutter. and in the aural: ot the poet—-

“ Confusion was nitmnnh of all to curve} ed."

Here In a pair of punts. there a dirty pair of boots. there a play bill. and here it pile of dirty t'lulItv‘. What wonder that I took “tape at the gaming table “blamed liar-mu. l lonntl it would news- do. urn- tlouvtt. and. in a lot lty tnonwtd. i ttswrtl in reform.— heavenly bad the pruuiiw passed my lips. when a knock was heard at tht- door. and in came Susan I'llmphttitt ut- It’f v dilly t‘lttllts‘v.

" t'.- Spit-ct." stud the. " l‘t‘v- washed for you via tnontlsa. tutti I haven‘t item! the ill}! tt-d cent in the way "f ltd: taunt. Kurt. l‘d like to know what you are gel lat tltt about it." ‘ . . _

I hi» my tuckst-lmok. 'Ihcn' was notinngtn it. Ind know that tit-ll enough. .

" Bliss Sunplrim.“ raid 1. “ It‘s Ln usi- tic-n} tug it-—l Itat‘ett't “of the pewter; I with [or \Ilttl' stiltr. I had.“

" There.“ mid blit‘. promptly. " don‘t trash ttnotztttr rag for you.“ _

"Step." said I. “Susan. I will tin wimt i ran for mu. b'tlt'rr tttttl gold intro I none; hut it my heart ittitl hand will do. they ate tit. your Sm \‘lt'l'."

“Are you in earnest P” said sl:t‘. lot-hing a little so: ldt‘ioua.

" Never more so.“ said I.

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"'I'hrlt.“ say: sitl'. "a: there seems to be no prospt-etl

of getting my pity any way. I goes: I‘d take up with the «M's-r."

Enough said. We were mal‘l‘lt‘d in a wet-It: and what‘s more. we haven‘t repented. No more titties for tut-.1entlenicn. I live in a used house. and Itatestmte- body to wash my t'Intht'a. When l write a poor. |Illrl'l'- able bachelor. 'ettileuten. I used to he as thin as a trust-l. Now um :: fat it: a porkrr.

In conclusion. gentlemen. it you want inbeapoer. tagged fellow. without a coat to your batch. or a shut- to your loot; it you want to grow old before your time. and an uncomfortable. enct-ally. as it “ hedgehog rolled up the wrong wat."‘l ntlilsa yo: to t'ruuli- I bachelor; but if you want its got married, I‘ve get ten daughters. getitlrmen—(overpowering applause)—-antl you may have your pirk.

Mr. Spies-r let down amid long continued plaudits.— 'l‘he at heron: proposal with which he concluded gained him live aona’In-Iaw.

MONSIEUR DU CllAlLLU AND THE (EOBILLA.

Monsieur P. ll. Du Cltttillu. the famous traveller. has beast lecturing to immense audiences in this city on the subject of his exploration in Equatorial Africa. He is an undersized. delicate looking man Ul middle age. The sun has left it: tan upon his face. which is rather serious and thoughtful. and it: he wears a white necktie Mid black coat. he has the appearance of a returned minim» ary'. Ia glancing at his slender bod . which bears the scars of poisoned arrows. and wit ch has been ntten proatrated by fatigue and lover and BXpOIuW among lavage: in an inimspitable climate. one would not be impressed with the idea at grunt endurance. anti per- seVet-anca that acorns obstacles. and physical courage. which fm’dmger with a senior fire and nerves of

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Yet that small. quiet. modest man. with scarcely strength enough to hold a musket at arm‘s length. has spent eight years among tho ttntutured natives of Africa and penetrated regions which no miter white man has ventured to visit. Under a tropical Inn—in Inllzal'luus Illett‘ictev-v-lttt has waded swamps. climbed mountains. tileaded jungle: and Woods. crossed llt‘Itfll’ll. some- timattaaded. sudtetltnea accompanied by savages. and abvaya exposed to the dangers incident to the your made. This brute and intelligent explorer t'an aha risk of sickness. starvation. and death. that he might gratify a laudable ambition and add minimum the stack of scientific discovery. We tire indebted to him fuethe discovery of the " man ape" or the “ gnrilla.’ as It I: most grin-rally railed.

.Like all lion-hearted tut-n. who have wonrnge to strtkr out a stii tor themselves. our trvriler met with c posi- t‘iap w n he announced the result oi histour in irictt. 'l'hera wen I‘llt'lt‘l'ta who said he was a "humhup. there were Iquuteh animals a: apes of such gigantic stature. He had seen out-sing outstth through the mag-

ntb ‘apevtacle: of fancy.“ Some learned men and apt. lat: disputed his reports. and reviewers took up the question until his book was impaled with criticism.

so be carried the war into Alricaa second time. and now return: In triumph to vindicate his former account of his wonderful discoveries.

What i: this curious creature about which he writes antl‘lpeaka with so much’uttctlun and interest. I: it half-human and half-brute? ' Is it a deteriorated savage waiting for the missionary and the light oi civilization to bring lt up to a hi her standard P Has it a head to think. a heart to fee . a hand to execute. a tongue- to explain. a soul to filvt—a grand destiny to sclilot'e.‘

Can science and culture anti physlt-altraitiing scaly» tore It into a butter shape. and bring it to a mum .p.

roll-align) to an accountable and responsible being. he natives seem to be impressed with the idea that it is a beast animated with a union soul fours like a beast. it «and: erect and light: like a men so self-deletion. It is gallant. aleupin no a guard ‘t the foot of a me while its " wife and rind." that i: the 3: age of the discoverer. sleep in the branches. lt ’3‘ e‘ttrlottabllen. all; In companies of six or ten r rd, la a vegetttr an. eating berties. plaintaina. and he various finite of the tropics. The African: use as as argument why they shun d got drunk on pain: and other wines. that the "gorilla drinks watt-r.” We may add mus: this yogi-tartan aml,water~drleeer ad'de a “ton; argumwt in lavor of vegetable diet. Although “shall canine teeth, it never ust-e “win in tearing or tttasttt’iaflu fleshyantl ltt‘ rest physical strength shows that but i: not a soluter necessary to greet atse «body. This animal can bends gun-barrel with me. asphau ltwsre a piece of wire. lteae bad times: as w iii a blow of it: flat. it is snore aha-Lnateh fer aacore of atlas-teed men. An adult baa were? bun captured alive. This powerful empra sometimes attain: the height oi six feet. and a at“! of ale felt Mound the cheat. It i: an lions-nae iridium. whoa-tier: and hand: are intensely black. ‘M‘whvaflat'led it best: it: breast with tts‘band. as that it attends like a drum. while it berks. growls. and manna it approaches it: assailant. Its era: are of a mph older and deeply sunken. and it look: you M ‘ ‘ in the face; it» lips are sharply cut; it: ears astuallct' than those of a man. harm» is .ather tint. “then It it has the br inning of a nuao hone. " “e erilia tiiil'vr: iw than in the following pnrtieu- Mt» v the length at its arms. and the shortness of .laa: t it sieves ow all fours. stasatlag erect only when cw. hell; “I has twelvdfpair of ribs. the gorilla thirteen; man has five letpbar tuvtehrw the gorilla “with” has five sacral vertebrae. the orilla hss ; ami a man reach to the mid l: cftha . their»: of tba‘gorllla reach hurl ' to the knee ; “(fl Melee of the head also tiller front that of a

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Judas Buckner. who latst committed suicide la Kentucky. left. a: an apology tor the act, the lol- lowing extraoadiuary letter :-- ~

"I have no country. no family. no home. no money. no hope. no health, I um old and leeble. almost a stranger to my kindred. It i hitti the phyttical strength requisite to maintain myself. I might desire to live: but my spirit: have been an broken down that I could do nothing uteinl. i should. it I lived longer. be a burden upon my iricudl and reletivrn. This list: been becoming more evident every year since the agonizing strain upon my constitution. canard by the death of my little wile—Janc—nud afterwards by the loss of the litterlio: of my country. I are nothing in the Book of tied which lorbitls us lrutii putting an end to our lives niirn we (‘ltll no longer do; but. if ere lite. mnat ittetitultly hot-onto hurtful to others. I have most centrally pmyrd my God to take me away. or. it it was not Ili- pod pleasure to do so. (as lltad the pltyaivnl power to due") in gill: me the right in my niil llUtl tirtittn in thin matter this: I might not

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Tut. Law or Linux. sh‘u rut: Rituns or 'tustl‘ustes. --Iti a libel sutt bittuglit against llrtittettol the N. Y. llt'l’hlll. Judge “award. of the luprtme Court 0| New York. dct itlt Ii that to hold that the proprietor of a tiewepttpt r ran be sued by etrry one who may itssaglttr he lets ltt‘l'll damaged by it publication common to n court. Would be to prevent its usclulttese as a journal. To hold that Illt'll an action would lie. Would offer and hold out n ptctttium tor individuals to con-thence suits lot that whith they might thlnlt damaging. but whit-h no one else. would. The object oi a journal is infetitsation: that Only can be obtains-d hy inbliahinu tun-h lit the ol fact as may be tit general notoriety. or such public pro- ceetlinue a: may have transpired Delete a hotly having authority to act.

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Correspondent-e from Mum). so far published. is tt the 30th oil. The return: of the election from the in- terior Indicate the more" of the Juarez ticket. Cot-onus and Esrubedo had declared their irelere titre I'orduart-a. The election in the capital pass:- off quietly. No dlat turbance has as yet been reported in any part of the country. (Seaman. the candidate for Vice President. on the lliaa ticket. refused to publish Murder for an election in his State. and had been ordered to the capital to take his trial for disobedience. we: still in the city. lug re-etubaltued.

The body If Musimtlian was be-

The “ sick man" of Turkey is giving signs of vital- ity which is very gratifying to the rituals: of the ex- tension of Russian domination in tho l-laet. That the Qultan is really in earnest in the project: of refottn with which he returned to his capital. is proud by the sol:- aion with which he has insttuutrd his Grand Vizler.

Crete. as well its to the foreigners who took art with them. visa a proper prelude to It. This camp is ofcle~ mom-y come: well from a Power which has hitherto been regarded tts semi-but humus. Ii followed up by the admission of Christians to public once: its por— tiou: ef the Empire where their number: predominate. or by the concession of tin-tr right to a fair represen- tatiutt where they are in the minoritv. it will go far to t'rcottcllc them to a Government in iieh. whatever may he charged against it. i: not wantonly cruel and op- pressive. An entire change of Ministry is spoken at as probable in Turkey.

A dvleifatien of New York iluttncitsi int-n arrived lately at 'l sshington to urge the mineral oi Seerrtarv hit-(foliorh. and to arm)" the sp minttncut lll hl: place of Lcegrnttd Lockwood. a New otk banker.

A gigantic work i: no the tapis. It is nothmgleu than the drying up of a ghost part of the Zn tlcr Zoe. 'l'he eatent ot‘tho land proposed to he rec itned is ill-10.0“) ttcres. and the cost of the work is set down at

'20.65|).000. Of course English capital and enter- prize are to accomplish the work for the Dutchmen.

The most curious psycolopicsl point in the recent e. lot-tions is tin-tr elf-sets on the minds oi‘ certain (‘nn greatness as regards the Inlptrttrltmel'tl question. The number of gentleman who have found it necessary to state that they "are not now and never have been" committed in favor of hit wwbnwnt is aoistrthtug tnar- velloue. The curious pu tit I: tlntl. until recently. tin-st- gentlemen were quite willing to hate uncontratlictt-d assertion: utttdojust the other way. The ' have new discovered that it is wrong to let "N‘llllhl e lon‘er be deceived by careless reporters.-. '. ’. ’J's'taes.

Col. Francis I‘yme flat-ding. C. IL. 22ml next. has been unpainted Governor ot‘N-tw Brunleck.

The lists tire in Woodstock. N. 8.. destroyed proper- ty to the value of “0,000. In consequence of the heavy losses Ills Insurance once: bsVe increased their rateeof premium in that city.

i-rom appearances. it «aims probable that the fill!"- men on our coasts will :ul‘er great distress this winter. The fisheries during the sutmner have been very tut- produutlvw; and tho fall mackerel fishery. on which .hey mostly depend for their wiater supplies. ha: proved a total failure.-—.V. 8. Paper.

It is statedlhat His Holiness Pope Plus is its poms- :ieu of the much-talked of correspondence ltheen Na. pnleon and the lute Ettiperur Maaltuilian. This varies- twndentxtt. whirl: contort-nun before the departure oi the imperial victim to Matteo. is sup ed to contain the letter in which Napoleon Maximilian cote: what atiglst.

We learn from an Ottawa «lo-patch that L. Carroll. Earp. late ofthis city. a gentleman who has had much experience in the mwa‘rmenl of the European and North Amerleatt Bullwar. has been a‘pwletrd to report upon the railways In Nova Sootta an i ew Brunswick.

It is reported that Eoplsod has another little war be- fore an. The l‘oudhel Arabs have loll. troubled the British aottlt-tttent at Aden. and it. i: now found neces- sat-y to llll‘t'IJlltlll to deliver up a son of the chief as a hostage. I'iumpean and native troops will be forntell. and dose putt-bod against tl'nI l-‘oatlhell iArsbe. The expedition will proceed to Aden. sad ireta thence to the sot-ea of war ea the Arabian cult.

Mr hit-Gr» iNI written a letterto Dr. Dawson. Presi- dent ol the 'I‘oat‘hera' Association. in favor of evening schools. for adults. during the winter months.

'flss aunt of .800 will. it s: said. be the eeeslotial sl- lowsnes of manner: of the Legislature of Quebec. This is quite :ufllciaat to cempeneate tnem fut-the ea- pouse to which they may be put in attendluu Parliament.

lion. It. Hellely. has. we anderitand. been called met: by the Isle-t. Governor to terns a .0"mflolk.- . hp". . " it is untested that during the meat civil war la Chm. nearly ltser volitional bat-an lives were satri. lined-Minibus e our ass mist. spared by lapel-lab iataor Rebels. , rely a {rig ul mortality. ' Swaaattvu s.v Gait. D0!“¢“‘"“h ltaeellerey Halos- "fl'

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THE LOAN AND THE LAND QUESTION.

Sons: of our readera occasionally ash ut—whal hue

this week; but pending the promised t-omstmndenco ol the Attorney General on the subject. we mar be prrtnittt-d to make a llatrment of the case. After tbs.

paiiona. and so arranged the tnttltt-r. that the money would be forthcoming as soon a: the Proprietor: could be prevailed upon. rither volttntatily ur lnvoluntarily.

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It is confidently rapt-tied that. before the taut-ting of the Legitilaittre. utility of linen: I‘toltiirtors will havel yirltlrd to tho drait‘rs and favorablepropuvllllllll of II"! nint'l‘lilllt‘fll. III the meaniintr. the Colony i. rt-Iicvul' item the burden of paying interest upon a large unin-l «and loan. Ilow satisfactory Would it have been to 'he Islander htttl the Govctttturnt. through its agent. the "on. Mr. Hensley. tit-polluted the Loan immediate- ly on his urtival in England. without lll‘el having oh- tained’lsnds in whirh to invest it? We can well Cane} the denunciations in which the proprietary organ Would have indulged httd the Government been guilty of so stupid an at'llult; but the course purlurtl was the very beat that Could be adopted. It the l't’npt'letorl consent to evil Upon lair terms. they as obtain the money down without injury to the trade or finances of this country ; and. "they refuse to "II. the Legislature will see what can be done is the way of compulsion. The policy of III“ Government upon the Land Qil'filinn seem: to be t‘ery plainly laid down in the Examiner of the 21st hit. The leading article in that issue bears the impress of honesty and boldness. and the principle: therein ctn- talnedytill. without doubt. be vigorously maintained. The writer of the article in question ask: why the “feudal grief“ of landlortliam. whit-h oppressed the people of the Old Country. should pursue them to this 'aland alone of all the British Colonies. and answer: the question by saying— “ because the Imperial Govern- ment. just 100 year: age. acting with lavish improvi- dence. alienated lands which should have been preserv- ed with jealous care for the benefit of future genera- tional; Is there no remedy for this grievance? Must it continue to he the prolific source of heart-burnings and disquietude. occasionally swelling up into open de~ dance of the law—perpetually absorbing the attention of our Legislature. of the Executive. and of the most thoeuhtlul and acutest minds amongst us? Most It for all time stand in the way of our public improvements. and absorb the pretits of our labor? Must proprietors' rests. in short. forever constitute a sort of preference stock. a first charge on our Colonial capital? We have always inmgintd. vainly. perhaps. that under the llrl‘ this Constitution a remedy is provided for every griev- ance. and that such need only be proved. when redress iollow: as a natural calm-queried." This is putting the case between the Legislature and the Landlords in its true light. I! the latter prove contutuaciot'ts. and re- iuae to part with their land: upon lair terms. the for- aser must devise meals to compel then to do :0. They cannot be allowed ta retard forever the prosperity of the Country. and we look forward to the next meeting of the Legislature tor some nwasura to rfi‘ect this itn~ portant object. which will meet with the sanction o: the Imperial Gavan-sent. The Islander attributed the are tit-la iron which we have quoted to the pen of the Hon. Mr. llaytltorne. and pronounce: it a: " well calculated to delude the ignorant." If Mr. Haythorna (and we ask the gentleman‘: pardon i‘rr using his slums) is the author of the article to question. he has no reason to feel ashamed of it. It does credit alike to his head and heart. nor can we nrreeive why be. above all men. should wish " to tlwlmll the Ignorant.“ and raise within thrnt i‘slse expectations with regard to their holdings. Ilia course host been honorable and consistent throng :- out. lie bad it In his power (thanks to the Fifteen Years' Purchase Bill) n. demand fittest: years‘ pur- chase. or the. 8d.. an acre for his land; but in the face of that villainous measure. which betrayed the rights oi the Colony. he set a noble example to other Proprietors by It’ll"). his land to his tenants at a much less figure and upon far more favorable terms. Hr. flsythorue is above being as ethos-seeker. and we are very sure that the desire in bi- (If he entertains it at all) oi either leading a Government or forming a net-her of it. is not so strong as to induce hltn "to deiada the igno- rsnt“ for that purpose. We have every confidence In his beauty andthe trnantl my rut assured that the most strenuous eaettious will he made to settle finally and forever the " vetted " Land Question.