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‘la.-:i.",\wm':v"“"'1 “3 "‘ ' ""3 , Kingstoh Isotoptedbyaliord Sydenlizitiy astlia seat of Boyeyhmeh of Canada, node; the reunion ace, is :Lsitiir atied collie-St. awrsnce, about it thousand miles fl’l‘lfl unnatural boundary io’fthe Province,‘ folirjhuhdred from Quebec, and ‘ two hundred from‘Montreal, and about six hundred, miles from the. westernmost settle. IIIth of the late Province ofU er Canada. V l

The town is nine or ten miles ronithe United Stores’ Iido of the St. Lawrencc;‘but the American , territory isinot visible'ifrom Kingston, the shore being lbw. 3”.

concealed by Wolf or‘ Long Islaird, (G‘ranchslc)

. ':""'I'he toivit occupies 'a point of little elevation» formed by tho. .bayof-tlie Cataraqui stream to the north-east, and an indenture of the shore to the south-west. Porrit Frederick isa low point on the other side of the Catara- qui‘Bny. With a number ofextensive and substamlal stoop. buildings, for the use ofthe Naval department; aback ofit, at a distance of nearly a mile from Kingston, i!- ‘ROlmvlknsyflrisiog them a hundred feet ghoygthe W ofstlvs Water,” crowned by Barracks and military worksflrhich are being increased. Point_Frederick rs joined to the town by a long, heavyvbuilt‘, decaying wooden roll-bridge. To. the south of this bridge. on the Kingstbn side, is 'tli'e'site of the old French. Fort, Frontenac, This [site is still occupied by the military. vvh'ol'liaie chit stron’g built stone bar-racks, surrounded b ‘1 wall with loop-holes for musketry. Further; up, to ,t ’ ‘north, at a short distance, is a large space‘of rising ground, occupied by the artillery, and a Union flag is here kept hoisted on an. eminence. To the west and north of the town are three or four wooden block-houses, on stone foundations, erected during the late American war. » '

The substratum of the whole site ofthe town is lime- ‘stone, which in many places appears in horizontal beds, “or the surface, while in other parts there is a depth of a few feet of clay loam, with boulders of granite on the siirface. - "

The town consists of four main‘Str'eets, viz :—Store Street, running ‘ from the mail“ steam-boat wharf, about north-west; Brock Street, on the eastern side ofthe market square, and Front Street and Church Street, called King's Street, to the east, running in a south- westerly direction across the point." There are several other inferior streets on. both sides of the foregoing, run- ning nearly paipllel to the aforementioned Streets.

The houses in the main streets are well built of lime- stone or brick, painted red, generally one or two stories high, but there‘are some of three stories, and the shops in rlmse streets are respectable and Well filled. The Wholefjesideiit population, may be about 5,000 souls. ,Store Street and Church Street may have good houSes

for a distance of~a‘quarter ofa mile on each. In the West and rear of the town is a number, of scattered buildings, on streets laid out, but not yet distinctly formed ; to the south-west is a large field of between’ 10 and 20 acres, serving as an exercising ground, and lately purchased by. govqrnmentfrom the heirs, Mur- pey, for £10,000; beyond that, out of the town limits, “about halfit mile from Store Street, is the ground which belonged to the late' Rev. Mr. Stuart. Here is the General Hospital, (now Parliament House,), a stone building of rather a sombre appearance, three stories in height, about 60 feet by 105—and a costly jedifice ,erected by the present Archdeacon Stuart, at it shert distance to the north, now occupied as an hotel, with a number of small buildings to the front of the: Hospital; ‘On a point, at the water’s ed 0, is the humbleone story svooden mansion of tbe‘late llev. Mr. Stuart, the- first Minister ofthe Church of England in Upper Canada, with a few pine trees of small growth to the west, and an orchard and garden enclosed by stone walls, falling ‘to decay. This property, it is said, has been purchased by Government; about a' mile further, is Alwington House, the'rresidence ofthe Hon. Charles Grant, now occupied by Lord Sydenham; and a little further is‘the Penitentiary,“ both invisible from the town. Between Alwington House and Mr; Stuart‘s farm, is the farm said to he purchased by Government, at the price of £25,000 sterling. It'has rented heretofore for a mere trifls.'~ ‘v if: i -' "' Great speculations on real estate have been going on blocs. it was supposed Kingston would become the seat ofGovernment. The trade ofthe place has recently increased, and‘a. great many buildings are now being erected in town. and new wharvos formed or im roved. At the West 'tand of Wolfor Long Island, is th main opening of Lake Ontario, (the British side,) and vessels or steamboats are generally seen in the distance, coming in,_or. going out. The principal business ofthe tor‘vn is forwarding—The country, back and along the river, is poor for a distance ofnine or ten, miles, where the land begins to improve: the inhabitants have markets ‘on the Bay onuinté. The works ofthe Rideau Canal, which have cost the British Treasury about a million and a halfof sterlian money, begin about six miles to "he'ndflll fifth? lot-fin. on the Cataraqiii Creek, which has been dammed rip-at a place called Kingston Mills, at the‘head of the shallow buy, east ofthe town. Here Jro-four locksrising 46:} feet; they are 33 feet wide, all Mexoeflentl workmanship. The depth” of water-isJii/e 'feet ;; unfortunately, some ofthe Grenville Locks on‘ the route to Montreal are only 20 feet wide, the same, I be: ’lieve, as the» LachineCaiial. Beyond the Locks at Kingston Mills, thero‘is the appearance of a lake with the most uninviting shores, and the country through which the Canal passesis'represented as very poor for a great distance.'. _ Smal ,stearsboats- leave Kingston by 'fie>Q¢dl,"d§lfy,'jnd yeh'dowh to the Lachine in lwo, three,an four,‘days,..according ‘to circumstances. The daily steamboats from Kingston downwards to the head ofthe Long Sault, about a hundred miles, are principal- ly for ‘the ’conbeyance ofpassengers, and the. :mail. Marry Durham boats go down by the St. Lawrence and come up hy-tlie Rideau. The whole distance from ngston to Montreal is—tofyBytoivn, 126 miles, Bytown :0 Montreal, 120—246. By the River it is. about 40 ess. " YEThe iiiliabitants‘of Kingston appear lobe industrious and Well-behaved. They are obliging to strangers. There are-fourlor five churches or chapels, well fre- quented, viz :—Chnrch of England, Scotland, Catholic, Methodist, are; Temperance has been making good progress. The‘ Court-House and Jail aria under the BPMIWC {Offline a very. Jespectablelooking. building, ,‘mh ' °“P°"‘: The Old'efllholic Church issmall; it nu'rebuilt 'inv1808,‘1’aud’its’patron isSt'.‘ Cpl urban.

There are threc‘Bankin'g, establishments or branc '63 in

' fireplace. 'and three new a ers and four rin ' V f- . tion.-firMecMnies are gettiiigpt'rom 6s. 3d. tovwsintifdti}, .1 :La‘boiirers about 33. satay, findhj‘g’_them. selves. ‘ ,Serygnfs’ wages. rents. provisions ...a board are high, adhere risen in consequence of the place being the

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fig i lofdilhvernniepti It is possible that [he] will toler-

dO'fhlnghiiat'KihgsIOn, as has happened at other places, wlionfgrsnt gainslwere expected. -. I 'P,

..The Polioesoi‘the town wants improvement—gigs and Poultry rare the principal scavengers, but do not carry away all, and cows, sic, are straying in theatreets at all hours. The streetsare encumbered wrth building materials and repairs; but this is excusable. ' Th'ey. age wide. The appearance'of the best streets is spodcg. Y P'Ojemlng signs, doc. _ Persons in the last stage Obllll- toxication, are to be 'met with, lying exposed to pu to view; the worst water from the Canal arid the. harbour is allowed to be taken up for the inhabitants ' and the

, condition ofthe poor and destitute to be met With 10

the streets or about the wharves and emigrant sheds. does not figure well with the shewy attempts of Others to imitate real wealth and grandeur. Kingston. hOW' ever, once called a toryJown, is'now decidedly a riffm'm one, and. it is to be hoped that the word alone will not satisfy its inhabitants. .

'l'rii: Passrxo Cumin—“The Passing Crowd" is d phrase coined in, the spirit ofindilference- Xe}; ‘0 a man of what Plato calls “universal sympathies, and even to the plain ordinary denizens of this world. Whi‘}, can be more interesting than the “ passmg chWd? Does not this tide of human beings, which we daily 580 passing along the ways ofthis world, consist of persons animated by the same spark of the Divrnle essence, and, partaking of the same high destinies wrtli ourselves. Let us stand still but for'a momentin the midst of this busy, and seemingly careless scene, and consrrler what they are or may be‘whom we see around us. In the bony of the passing show, and of our own sensations, we see but a series‘of unknown faces; but this is no reason why we should regard them with indifference. Many ofthese persons, if we knew their histories, would rivet our admiration by the ability, worth, benevolence, or piety, which they have displayed in their various paths through life. Many would excite our warmest in- terest by their sufferings—sufferings, perhaps, borne meekly and well, and more for the sake of others than themselves.‘ How many tales of human weal and woe, of glory and of humiliation, could be _ told by those beings, whom, in passing, we regard not! Uiivalued as theytare by us, how many as good as ourselves repose upon them the affections of bounteous hearts, and would not want them for any earthly compensation! Every one of those persons, in all probability, retains in his bosom the cherished recollection ofearly happy days, spent in some scene which " they ne’er forget, though they are forgot,” with friends and fellows who, though now far removed in distance and in fortune, are never to be given up by the heart. Every one of these indi- viduals, in all probability, nurses still deeper in the re- cesses of feeling,,. the remembrance of that chapter of romance in the life of every man, an early earnest at- tachment, conceived in the fervour of youth, unstained by the slightest thought of self, and for a time purifying and elevating the character far above its ordinary stand- ard. Beneath all this gloss ofthe world—this cold con- ventional aspect, which all more or less present, and which the business oflife renders necessary—there re- sides for certain a fountain ofgoodness, pure in its inner depths as the lymph rock-distilled, and ready on every proper occasion to swell out in the exercise of the no- blest duties. Though all may seem but a hunt after worldly objects, the great majority of these individuals can, at the proper time, cast aside all earthly thoughts, and communicate directly with the Being whom their fathers have taught them to worship, and whose will and attributes have been taught to man immediately by Himself. Perhaps many ofthese persons are of a loftier aspect than ourselves, and belong to a sphere removed above our own. Brit, nevertheless, if the barrio? of mere worldly form were taken out ofthe way, it is». .m- bable that we could interchange sympathies witlr‘ ese persons as freely and cordially as with any of our own class. Perhaps they are of an inferior order; but they are onlyinferior in certain circumstances which should never interpose to prevent the flow- of feeling for our kind. The great common features of human nature re- main; and let us never forget how much respect is due .to'the very impress of humanity—the type ofthe Divine nature itself! Even when our fellow creatures are de- graded by vice and poverty, let us still be gentle in our judging. The various fortunes which we every day see befalliiig the members of a single family, after they part offin then several paths through life, teach us, that it is not to every one that success in the career of existence is destined. Besides, do not the arrangements ofso~ ciety at once necessitate the subjection of an immense multitude to humble toil, and giro rise to temptations before which the weak and uniustriir‘ted can scarcely escape falling? But even beneath the soiled face of the poor artizan there may be” aspirations after some vague excellence, which hard fate has denied him the means of attaining, though the very wish to obtain it is itself ennobling. The very mendic‘ant was not always so; he, too, has had his undegraded and happier days, upon the recollection of which some remnant of better feeling may still repose.. . These, I humbly, think, are reasons w not look with coldness upon any masses of men 'with whom it may be our lot to mingle. It is the nature of a good man to conclude that others are like himself; and ifwe takc'the crowd promiscuously, we can never be far wrong ‘in thinking that there are worthy and well-

directed feelings in it as well as in our own bottoms.— Chamber's’ Journal. 7 ' '

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The following our readers may call w Perhaps the best definition would be book mentioned by Cotton Mather, which was entitled ‘f Crudities Hastil Apvrcnt-g—Tbisiis‘a cheap article. It costs nothing. It is'good sometimes, and sometimes it is not worth the words thatexpress it. .Its value depends, in some mea- Snre, upon theperson who gives-it. He who receives it, can judge of its value. He knows whether it is given from-selfish or disinterested motives; whether the giver expects to receive an equivalent for it or not. lfyou find it valuable, follow it—if not, you can reject it. The smallest morsel of knowledge is always of value. The fragments of good instruction are w'orth their iveiglit‘in gold. They arelike the dust ofdia'monds. Dwain—Every body is bornito labor». No man lives without hearing some portion of it. Act well your part, is the advice ofthe poet." Man was destined to earn his bread by'the sweet of his brow. SOmefeel but little ofthe curse which was entailed open the human race; others, as we know from experience, are doomed to bear up against it the best way they odd. " ' , Knowcso’cn.--There is no danger ofga man’s acqui-

hat they. planes. that ofa quaint old

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own conceit. They think-that they know .everything.

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ring too much knowledge. Some people are, wise in their

and are wiser than the" generihgoohi be a lesson to pressing from an ordinary rndrvr ua _l y to him during one,'i5lfich will prove-of IHOStlmabla-Ya ue ,vhat is more hislife. A man may leogn irlivtwo miinsuéfippos‘essed bf i ecious'to him than go . o one _ I I, ‘ iii: overplus of knowledge, and it behaves a mzsétgllgzll'g all he can, and he will live to see its value. idea never let slip an opportunity'of gaining a new I .. re IMPROVEMENT or? Time—There are always bclsiuest moments which may be employed in_ study. '1 'e‘tqm of workman can spare some moments in theiacqfim it. is knowledge. The learned blacksmith, Elihu am 1;, or a remarkable instance of this. Whether you “501' A]. play, do it in earnest, but never be uneiiiplloye . ma ways have a book Within your reach, whch you“ 0);. catch up at an odd moment. Let a certain. por to d time be devoted to reading every day, even if you run but a single sentence. It you can gain fifteen intiinuftetsh: day, you will find your account in it at the_enb 0 last year. Resolve in your mind. what you have, lpen de reading. and doubtless some improvement can 3 ma ofit. There is never a time when the mind can be use; lessly emploved. Remember that some of the mosd matchless effusions of Robert Burns were conceive when he was following the plough. , .

DsLiRiUM Threatens—This is a most frightfqhmala— dy, consequent upon the abuse of vinous and spirituou: drinks. It ' has recently been carefully traced an. minutely delineated by some of the most eminent medi- cal men ofthe day, and is said to bear With it a I?!“ ofsymptoms .more melancholy than even hydrophp in. Some time previously to the worst features of this isot- der, there are observed weakness, langour and emacta: tion. There is no appetite for breakfast or dinner, there is a peculiar slowness of the pulse, coldness of the hands and feet; a cold moisture over the whole surface ofthe body; cramps in the muscles of the extremities; giddiness, nausea, vomiting. To these signs succeed a nervous tremor of the head and likewise of the tongue: the spirits become dejected, a melancholy feeling per- vades the mind, the sleep is short and interrupted—this may constitute the first stage. After this, a second comes on, attended with the highest degree of nervous irritation; mental alienation is its marked ‘feature. There is great restlessness, a constant excitement, objects of the most frightful nature are presented to the imagination, the eye acquires amost striking wrlduess, the individual cannot lie down, he fears sulfocation,-he talks incoherently, he fancies he sees faces of extreme hideousness before him, beings about to enter into a conspiracy against him. One medical writer, who has very‘ably discussed the subject, witnessed a very dis- tressingincident of a‘patient who, for a Considerable time before his death, imagined he saw the dam at the ceiling above his bed, and as the disease, which term}- nated fatally, increased, he fancied. the eVil spirit approached him with a knife to cut his throat, and he actually expired making violent efforts to field the fatal instrument.

A Wire’s Fonmuovcrrr.—There never was a wiser maxim than that of Franklin——-“ Nothing is cheap which you don’t want.” Yet how perfectly insane people are on the subject of buying cheap things. “ Do tell me why you have bought that cast-off doonplate ’l” asked the husband ofone ofthese notable bargainers. “ Dear me ! ” replied the wife, “I had it dirt cheap, and you know it’s always my 'plan to lay up things in time of need; who knows but you may die, and I marry a man with the same name as that on the door-plate l”

Squaszmo THE Hana—It is but lately that we have understood the strange constructions that are sometimes put upon a squeeze of the hand. With some persons it is entirely equivalent to a declaration of love—this is very surprising indeed. We must take hold ofa lady’s hand like a hot potato, afraid ofgiving a squeeze.'lest we should burn our fingers. Very fine, truly! Now, it was our ancient custom to squeeze every hand We got in our clutches, especially a fair one. Is it not it won- der that we never' have been sued for a breach of pro- mise? We would not give a scupper nail for one of your_cold, formal shakes of the hand. Every person who protrudes one or two fingers foryour touch (as ifhe were afraid of catching some cutaneous distemper) should go to school'awbilo to John Quincy Adams. He shakes your hand with a vengeance, and shakes your body with it unless you should be as thick-set as him- self. Well, there is nothing like it; it shows a good heart at any rate; and we would rather it man should crush the bones of our fingers and shake our shoulder out of joint, than he should poke out a reluctant paw, as if he were about to come in contact with a bear or liyena. The ladies may rest assured of this, that a man Who will not squeeze their hand when he gets hold of it, does "0‘ (la-99’”? to have such a hand in his possession;

and that he has a heart smaller than a grain of mustard seed—American paper. -

PSALM TUNES.——“ Religious harmony,” Says Collier, quoted byBishop Horne, in his ‘masterly sermon on church music, “ must be moving, but noble withal, grave,solemn and seraphic, fit for a martyr to play‘and an angel to hear.” Such is the character ofthe ancient music ofthe Church of England; but sad havoc has been committed in modern times by the introduction ioto many of our churches of vulgar and light produc- tions, devmd of the slightest pretensions to taste, and full ofthe grossest offences against (the laws of musical composnion. .Suchpsalm tunes as those composed by B. Milgrove, Shoel, Marian, Tucker, Husband, Rippori Leach, and a host of other psoudo-musicians’of the semi stamp, full of solos, attempt at fuge, and the like should be most rigidly excluded, and the compositions of such men‘ as Croft, Green, Boyce, Battishill, 'Arn'e Jackson of Exeter, Hayes, Wainwright, J. Smith Stan-i Icy, Jeremiah Clark, Nares, &c. made use of. We are quite aware that a very great number of persons prefer vulgar and " trashy compositions to sound cla5sical niustc, ,and argue that because a melody happens to please them, it must be necessarily good. This is however, just as absurd as if an uneducated clown werd to maintain that some vulgar ballad, full of offences against the rules of syntax and prosody, was superior to the poetry _of Shakspeare, Milton, Pope or Dryden Music has its grammar, as well as language and an. compasition in which the rules of musical gr’ammar y disregarded, must be bad, however pleasing itma' hire pen .to be to persons who have not a competent l; P- ledge of the serene—(Church Magazine. now-

, Organs are of great antiquity, The former was brought to E empire in 758, and Violins we 1477, and introduced by Charl music was first invented by Musical glasses are of German

biit Violins are not. urope from the Greek re first invented about es II. The gamut in Guy L’Aratin, in 1025.

’ Dr. Franklin, 1760.

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