The canadian gleaner, 20 février 1873, jeudi 20 février 1873

[" a I TOC > + Te ay A LA mm FARM FOR SALE.F.subecri offers for sale his farm, being Lot TT\" 13 Lee oncession of the Townshi of Dun- Xe.ning 100 arpents more OF less, delightfully dety ry Lake St Francis, baving & awd © { tendid view of te of cultivation, with good far i 10.82 exc oa thereon, & very large young ke.For further particulars apply to John gs jr.at Dundee Village, or to the undersign- David Promise, JOHN DAVIDSON, Ba.BEAUCHEMIN OTABY Fans.Office at the Registry Office, N Huntingdon.NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.situated on and Tenders addressed to the undersigned BITTEN eived until Friday the 14th March 1, up 10 3 o'clock pm.for the construction of a next or St Andrew's Church, Huntingdon.Mie Plans and Specifications are to be seen with thee mittee do not bind themselves to accept y f the Tenders.the lowest OL BY \u201cCORBETT, ecy Treas.B.C.CALL AND SEE | FINE ASSORTMENT OF VALENTINES.NS all prices, Keys, Bridges, Strings, Bows, ve concentinas and Noto Book.A PHESH SUPPPLY Fiunan Haddics and Fresh Oysters in solid meats, at JOHN GILMORE'S.Fely.13h, 1873.00 FARM FOR SALE.3 riber offers for sale his Farm, being part TT oto.20, in the parish of St Anicet, con- wining fifty acres more or less, adjoining the plank rad, near Ogilvie's Corner, mostly all cleared.For he -ulars apply to the undersigne turther particulars apply PL d OINN.st Anicet, Feby.10th.NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP.undersigned bugs to inform his friends and TE lic generally that he has taken the Black- swith Shop belonging to Mr Ferns in the village of Huntingdon, and commenced business therein, A share of the public patronage is solicited.Batisfaction , d or no charge made, gumatead © BON I HOMAS GAMBLE.Janwars 15.TUSTATIONERY ! STATIONERY ! The stock of Stationery at the Gleaner store will Le found at present unusually well-assorted and complete.Notwithstanding tho rise in paper, tho old prices are still adherad to.SALE OF CONTRACT.IE undersigned will sell to the lowest bidder, T the crection of a Frame Bchool-house for District No.4, on Saturday, the 22nd of February, at 10 o'clock, on the ground, on the Farm of Mr Robert Cowan, Godmanchester.Specifications may be scen on application to JOIN CUNNINGHAM, or ALEX.CUNNINGHAM, Superintendents, W.W.DALGLIESIL Has removed to his NEW STORE, where he has much greater fucili- ties for doing business, and hopes to merit a continuance of the very liberal patronage he has hitherto received.Huntingdon, Jan.30.\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014 CANADIAN DAIRYMEN'\u2019S ASSOCIATION.Tur sixth annual meeting of this association took place at Ingersoll, Ont., on Tuesday, 4th inst.Wo annex a summary of the proceedings : Professor Bell, of Belleville, delivered a lecture on \u201c chemical composition of milk and cheese, floating curds, pasturage suitable for dairy stock,\u201d &c.Ho opened by saying that the co-operative mothod of manufacturing butter and cheese were beneficial, and were very important in a medical respect.Milk, ho said, was a binding body, whoso ingredients were held together by chemical forco.Ho described very minutely the chemical composition of milk, showing that it possessod those ingredients which are very liable to suffer decomposition, un- Jess the utmost care was taken in the mani ulations it went through in being manufactured.Ilo was most emphatic in, assorting that the utmost caro and cloanliness was an absolute necessity in the manufacture of anything into which milk entered ; and it could not bo too much impressed upon those who, from ignorance and carelessness, ro- fuse to exerciso that scrupulousness and cleanliness which he spoke of.Such persons should have no connection with manu- factories whatever.Aftor describing the usual appearance and appliances of butter and cheese factories, he dwelt with great force upon the necessity of washing them out, not with warm water, but with scald ing hot water.He pointed out the injurious effects of using impure water for cattle, and ated upon the necessity of providing : ades in pasture fields to shield the animals om the scorching sun.He also gave direc- 1008 in choosing grass seeds, in order to provido for cattle such food as was suitable or them.They required thatthe pasturage long, the construction of their mouths od such that they wore unable to take T à a hold of grass as sheep or horses.he 5 he said, sheep and horses would com © à on pasturo that would starvo a milk ch all the articles manufactured from mor Cheese was the most nutritious ; it was In » nutritious than any other kind of food.° tration of this, he told a story of an omer in England, of his own acquain- aces who made a practice of asking his a Aervints when thoy newly entered his u F oyment, to lift a cortain stone he kept able «* Premises.As a rule they were un- perh 080.Again, at the end of six, or te ir twelve months, ho made them try he the stone again, and almost invariably mor tend do so.At the same time the fardent care to explain to them that this quant pu'crense in strength was due to the diets Ity of cheese they had received in thoir ous i He also remarked upon the vari- unclean of impure milk, In addition to in be a Tness on the part of those engaged a ling it, fon] atmosphere and stagnant tion Fosribatod reatly to tho putrefac- vicinity Ti K, 8 well as dead carrion in the fo the 3.Of hero they feed.With regard cial] beet breeds of cattle, and those es vid ich are found most profitable, for and hn aking, lie mentioned the Alderneys perior a Ayrshires, which he thought su- the baat all others.He also referred to press style of cheese-presses ; the screw sad the lever press, and the effects of © screw required continual attend.each.Th that magnificent shoet of water.The NO.449.he Canadian Olenner HUNTINGDON, Q., THURSDAY.FEBRUARY 20, 1873.$1.50 A-YEAR.anco to keep it tightened, whilo the lever, with a weight attached was liable to be too much pressed at first.The best kind of prose in his opinion, was a combination of th lever and escrow.He congratulated the Canadian dairymon on the success attending their efforts, and as a proof of the great progross that was being made, he re- ferrod to the statement of Professor Arnold, at the Convention of the American Dairymen, to the effect that the commercial interests of tho American dairymen would bo materially affected by the Canadians, who were progressing very rapidly, and mana- facturing largo quantities of cheese for export.A discussion arose as to floating curds and their causes.Mr James Belmont attributed them to lack of care on the part of the \u201c patrons.\u201d When he found curds likely to float he increased the temperature and added more acid.One thing which contributed greatly to the presence of floating curds was the presence of stagnant water in the locality of tho factory, or in the districts from which the \u201c patrons\u201d came.Mr Webb said that in a case whero he was bothered with this curd in his factory, he found on searching for the causo that the cows walked through stagnant water to and from tho pasture, and tho mud got spattered upon their udders, and thus thence to the mill in tho process of milking.Mr Willard, of Now York State, expressed the pleasure it gave him to meet once more with the Association, and thanked them for their good opinion of him and willingness to hear him.In respect to dairy matters it was necessary, as well as in all others, that progress should Lo made, and it was encouraging that such progress was actually being made, even if it wero slow.It was not the will of Providence that man should reach perfection at onco, but step by step, and they must be content that perfection is coming nearer.If we could only impress thom with a singic idea that would be of benefit to them in this direction, he should have reason to be thankful for being present with them on that occasion.lle referred to tho power which the State of New York wields on the commercial interosts of dairymen throughout the world.Cortain great changes, however, wero going on in it which were slowly but surely altering its position in this res- poct.Immense quantities of butter and cheese wore presently being manufactured in that State and exported ; but all the land around the cities was boing quickly absorbed for tho growing of hay, and of course proportionally lessening the production of dairy articles.It had been found that three acres of land were required to support a cow, while the same number of acres under hay, selling at $14, 816, and sometimes 818 per ton, yields a much larger return in cash, without tho extra trouble of attending the cows, The demand for hay came principally from the large American cities, where a ready market was always found for it, in consequence of the number of horses omployed by tho railways and on the streets.The milk districts were thus continually receding from tho cities, and there was, therefore, no foar of the dairy interests of Ontario suffering from want of demand for their staple.Indeed, the prospects would be that they would increase on account of the want of supply thus caused, as well as the increased demand which tho growth of the American cities entitled us to expect.He laid great stress upon the character and cleanliness of the food given to cattle, and reminded his hearers that whatever milk the cow gives is the production of this food, and partakes vory largely and very directly of its character.It was impossible to expect a large product of good milk unless the food supplied was both healthy and abundant.It mattered little, in his opinion, and according to his personal experience what the breed of the cow was as long as she was perfectly healthy and received the proper nutriment, the character and quantity of which materially affected both quantity and quality of tho milk, IIe then went minutely into tho composition of milk, quoting many authorities with regard to the various supposed causes of the changes which milk undergoes during decomposition.Professor Caldwell, of Cornwall, deliver- od an address upon « Tainted Milk.\u201d He explained very fully the various causes producing fermentation and putrefaction.It had been found on examination that both these conditions were the result of the presence of fungi.Having onumerated tho names of the different fungi, as existing in different bodies, and the several develope- ments of their existence, ho remarked that it was a very difficult thing to destroy them.A certain degreo of temperaturo\u2014that is to say about that in a comfortable sitting-room \u2014was most favourable to their production.They were known to live at a very low temperature, and the only means that could be used with good results for their destruction was scalding with bailing water and a plentiful use of disinfectants.The fungus was & grent onemy of the duirymen, and was difficult to get rid of.He would approve of thorough cleansing of the milk vessels with brushes.Milk turned sour much more readily in » closo than in an open atmosphere.Transferring milk in a warm state from one lace to another was proof of this, because it was invariably found to have a tainted taste, He advocated keoping milk in shal- tow vessels, and if possible ærating it.Mr Farrington addressed the meeting on the best pastures for dairy stock.The observations he had to offer, he said, were gathered from personal observation.Ho referred to the state of tho pasture in Ohio, and the poor class of cheese it produced.The pasture was red and dry, and the cheese partook of the samo feature.While clover, he thought, was very favourable to the production of cheese, tire best quality always being found in places where it abounded.Tho red clover was said by some writers to tontain the properties which were favours ble to the production of choese, but even if this were true, it contained medicinal pro- perties, and cattlo always preferred natural grass, foeding to a large extent upon the | grass which grows at the sides of the foncos when confined in a red clover park.He thought that in the absence of natural grass there was nothing better than white clover.Large bladed grasses are always beat, of whatever kind.Mr Butlor also believed that large bladed grass was sweetest, and richest, and produces tho best milk, and the finest butter and cheese.All grasses that took root deoply were the most juicy.Ono thing that hindered this deep footing was the wot land, and he thought draining must be attended to before good grass can be expectod.Wet land was invariably sour, and the grass it produced was also sour and stunted.Ho said that white clover exterminated all other grasses and he believed in timothy.He also spoke highly in favour of Western corn as a food for dairy cows in winter.Mr Harris fully endorsed the sentiments of the first speaker as to white clover, as he had himeelt lost a great number of cattle from their cating natural Indian grass.According to a veterinary authority, this grass tended to thin the blood of the cattle ; and tho consequence was that soventeen of his stock, well housed and well-conditioned, were frozen to death.Ho approved of a mixture of timothy and Alsike cloves, and the white clover came after those.Mr Webb, in answer to a question explained tho process of butter dealing on the continent of Europe, more particularly as to tho manner of selling it.The farmors did not pack the butter themselves, but sold it to men who made a regular trade of packing.The principal opposition to tho Canadian butter supply in the British market was from Russia and Finland.Kiol butter sold in the English market at about 130s., Normandy butter 1408, and Canadian at 80s.Mr Caswoll said that in Canada we had the land to produco good butter, and the ladies to mako, but it was spoiled in the handling.He had sent Oxford butter to the old country in 1872, and sold it for 112s., but he questioned if it would now bring much more than tho half.[It was not the country that was to blame, it was the way in which the butter was handled.He did not see any reason why Oxford butter should not be sold at rates as high as Brockville butter.'This it had done in somo cases ; he had himself sold it for an equal price with Brockville butter.1Io approved of a butter market, and considered that, so long as dry- goods men handled the butter, and the same price was paid for good and bad, ns at present, and so long as thoy did not pay cash for it, so long would the butter be positively inferior.lt was an actual fact that Canadian butter had come to be considered a nuisance in tho British market.An inspee- tor ought to be appointed ; and he understood that the matter was likely to bo arranged soon.The packing of Canadian butter was bad, but the salting was still worse.British merchants complained that the butter was spoiled, and the flavour completely destroyed by the amount of salt which Canadians put into it.This would be the ease 80 long as the salt used was tho same as that with which thoy salted pork.(Laughter.) lie was informed that a greater amount of Canadian salt had been used for this purposo during the last year than for any previous one.Mr Morrison said that many people of his acquaintance sold their milk to cheese factories, and found it paid them better than to make butter.Ie accounted for the poor butter in the western portion of the country from the strong Scotch and German clement pervading the inhabitants, not from the want of cleanliness on the part ofthe ladies.The Scotch got the credit of being the hard- ost on the ladies of any.[Instead of men helping the women in the manufacture of butter, the ladies wero allowed to do the whole thing, and it was well known that they, when they got tired, are apt to heat the milk.For the last ten years, he said, butter averaged from ten to twelve cents per pound in the market.The Chairman remarked that Brockville butter was looked upon as being better, much because butter-making was thore a speciality, and because the manufacture and sale was carried on upon a business principle, and not through dry goods men.Mr Harris said ho used at one time a large furnace underneath his factory, carrying the hot air to the room by pipes, these entering the room at four different places.Latterly this was changed, and the heat introduced into the building at one place with four hot-air drums.This was for the purpose of keeping the cheese from freezing, and it had becn quite successful.Stoves did not do so well, as the temperature was less equal.lle kept the temperature at about 45 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermome- tor.The apparatus he had in uso cost from $50 to 860.A fellow who has been shaved in China says the barber first strapped the razor on his leg, and then did the shaving without any lather.The customer romonstrated, but was told that the lather was entirely useless, and had a tendency to make the hair stiff and tough, and was, therefore, never used by persons who had any knowledge of the fuce and its appen .After the beard had been taken off\u2014and it was done in a very short time\u2014the barber took a long, sharp, needle-headed spoon amd begun to explore tho customer's ear.Then the barbor suddenly twisted his subject's neck to ono side in such a manner that it cracked as if the vertebræ had been dislocat- od.* Hold on!\u201d shouted the party, alarmed for the safety of his neck.replied tho tonsor ; \u201c meno hurt you\u201d ; and 'he continued to jerk and twist the head : motioned to the shopkeeper until it was as limber as an old lady's dish rag.He then fell to beating the back, br be Samnmelled the muscles till they fairly lowed with the beating they receiv fre then dashed a bucket of cold water over his max, dried his skin with towels, and de- the d kind Tr see! the on lared t his work was done.Price two eo words which, u ni sen ° Si Paris bappily to sloop.pointed out to cents.THE BLARNEY STONK.A TRAVELLER, who recently visited Cork, and went to sce Blarney Castie and the cole- brated stone, thus describes his jaunt :\u2014 The colobrated Blarnoy is situated about five miles from the city.lt is a pleasant walk, or, perhaps, if you have a suitable companion, adrivo in a jaunting car along the north bank of tho Lee is preforablo.Blarney Castle built in the fifteenth century, must have boon thon a groat place of strength, as the massive donjon towor plainly indicates, and from the top of which there is a fino view of the Leo and « the Groves of Blarney.\u201d In fact the old castle itself , _« Math a plonsant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly rocommends itself Unto our gentlor senses.\u201d The * roal blarney-stone\u201d is supposed to have becu the one that is still to bo soon about twenty feet from the top of the wall, with the inscription Cormach Mac Carty Fortis Mi Fieri Fecit, A.v, 1448, which has been humorously translated\u2014 \u201c Cormac Macarty, bowld as bricks, Made me in Fourteen Forty-six.\u201d Lortunately for thoso bolievers in tho blarney-stone, another ono has been provided in à more accessible part of the tower.It would appear that the proper meaning of the word blarney is ¢ the sweet, persuasive, whoodling oloquonco so porceptiblo in the languago of the Cork paople ; and not, as some writors have supposed, a faculty of deviating from veracity with an unblushing countenanco whenover it may be conveniont.\u201d Perhaps as naive a definition as any is that given by a genuine Irishman\u2014¢ Suro it taichos you policy ?\u201d says Pat.« What do you mean by policy!\u201d « Why, saying ono thing and mayning another.\u201d Probably no subject has been more fro- quently handled by all kinds of poets than the blarney-stone ; one says\u2014 \u201c Oh, when à young bachelor woos a young maid, Who's eager t> go and yet willing tostay, Sho sighs and she blushes and looks half afraid, Yet loses no word that her lover can say.What is it she hears but the hlarney ?Oh, a perilous thing is this blarney ! ¢ But people get used to a perilous thing, And fancy the sweet words of lovers aro true; So, lot all their blarney be pass\u2019d through a ring, The charm will proventall theill itean do; And maids have no fear of the blarney, Nor the peril that lies in tho blarnoy.\u201d While another, attributing a still greater power to it, remarks in somewhat characteristic fushion\u2014 \u201c Like a magnet, it's influenco such iy, That attraction it gives all it touchos ; 1f you kiss it, they say, That from that blessed day, You may kiss whom you plaze, with your blarney.\u201d Ah, me! what bachelor but will wish and try to believe in the truth of the last lino just quoted : especially when he meets, ono after another, with the pretty girls of Cork.Of course if he is a man of a philosophic turn of mind, he will disdain all such weaknesses, remncinbering ho in a « lord of cren- tion.\u201d Ilow many < ancient maidens\u201d would fondly wish for the magic power of that stone, so that they might quickly and quietly glide into tho pleasant harbour of matrimony ?Now that the ladios are keon- ly contesting for right and liberty to serve under lisculapius (for with this exception it scems to be genorally admitted that thoy can fit themselves for almost any sphere of life), why don't they cut the matter short by going over to Ireland in a body, and there kiss tho blarney-stone ?What University would then dare to close its doors against them, or who would presumo to say that tho ladies did not possess, in an eminent degree, the perceptive facultios of the keon- eyed physician, with the firm nerve and manual dexterity of the skilful surgeon ; besides the physical capacity to be out at all times in all kinds of weather ?The native Christian community in India was in 1850, 91,092 ; in 1861, 138,731 ; and in 1871, 224,161 persons, showing an increase in the lust ten years of 85,430.This is at the rato of sixty-one per cent.; while the rate of increave between 1830 and 1861 was only fifty-three per cont.The number of communicants has more than doubled, there having been in 1861, 24,976 ; while in 1871, there were 51,813.Three-fourths of tho increase of converts came from the aboriginal and inferior tribes, while perhaps not more than 20,000 converts were from Hindoos proper.Christians in Bengal have multiplied more than one hundred per cent, there having been in 1861, 20,518 and in 1871, 46, 968.This is principally owing to the progress made by the mission in Chota Nagpore, which ten years ago had 1631 native members, but now has more than 20,000.Two small provinces of Tinnevelly and Travancore contain 90,962 Protestant Christians.An \u201c Englishman\u201d in the London Daily Telegraph, relates the following pleasing little story of the late Emperor Napoleon : \u2014 During the Winter of 1868-69 (he writes) the Emperor happened to enter a shop in the Rue de la Paix, with a view to purchasing some etrennes for his friends wpon the approach of the iour de l'an.In the shop was a lady accompanied by her little boy, who was eagerly eyeing a bicycle which he importuned his mother to buy.* I cannot afford it, my son,\u201d said tho lady, after ask- ¢ All right,\u201d { go home.\u201d arms and sides with his fists, then quired her name and ing the price ; \u2018 n° nses plus, and let us ; ; The Fonporor Beau while, had seated himself in a chair, and finger on lip, not to be- teay him.When the disappointed child and mother had left the shop, the Em in.=o .as MEDICAL TEMPFRANCE DBCLARA- TION.Wir the view of undeceiving the public mind of the mischiovous osror that alooholic liquors are beneficial, the following declaration of opinions has boen prosented to all the modical gontlomon of Montreal with whom an interviow could be obtained, and subserib- ed to most cheorfully by those whose names aro appended.As no other class of men ovils wrought by strong drink in our community, so, both from this knowledge and from their character as conservators of the public health, nono are entitled to speak with groator authority in favor of total ab- stinonce :\u2014 medical profession in Montreal, are of opinion, 1.That a large portion of human misery, poverty, disoase and crime, is produced by the uno of alcoholic liquors as a beverage.2.That total abstinence from intoxicating liquors, whother formentod or distilled, is consistont with, and conducive to, the high- ost degree of physical and mental health and vigor.3.That abstinence from intoxicating liquors would greatly promote the health, morality and happiness of tho people.G.W.Campbell, Prof of Urinciples P'ractico of Surgery, and Doan of MrGill College.% H.Trudel, Prof of Midwifery.W.F, Scott, L\u2019rof of Anatomy.W.1T, Ilingaton, Attending l\u2019'hysician of St Patrick's Ward, Hotol Dieu.J.T,.Leprohon, Prof of lygione.J.M.Drake, Prof of Institutes of Modi- cine._ Hoctor Peltier, Prof of Institutes of Modi- cine, R.P.lloward, Prof of Theory and Practice of\u201d Medicine.ALL David, Prot of Theory and P'rac- tico of Medicine, and Dean of Faculty of Bishop's College.d 1°.Rottot, Prot of Medical jurisprudence, Robert Craik, Prof of Chemistry and Registrar of Faculty o£ McGill.Thos.d'Odet d'Orsonnens, l'rof ot Chemistry and Pharmacy.FA.Campholl, Prof of Institutes of Modi- cine, Registrar of Faculty of Bishop's College.J.Emery Codorre, Prof of Materia Medica and Therapoutios.R.T.Godfrey, Prof of Principles and Practico of Surgery.John Waunloss.4.H.'Trenholme, Prof of Midwifery.Pierre Munro, Prof of Sargory.A.H, Kolimyer, Prof of Matorin Medica and Thorapeutics.D.C.McCallum, Prof of Midwifery.Geo.Ross, Prof of Clinical Medicine.R.A.Kennedy, Prof of Anatomy.Jan.Perrigo, Demonstrator of Anatomy.S.KE.Tabb, Prot of Botany nnd Zoology.Gi.Grenier, Demonstrator of Anatomy.| Wi.Faller, Demonstrator of Anatomy.| John Reddy; 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Filiatrault ; E.lleroux ; Dr Bondy.February, 1873.i and acuity of MISCELLANEOUS, EASTERN EEXTRAVAGANCE.\u2014ÀA correspon dent in the Levant writes :\u2014 | send you a couple of casos illustrating the ways of life out here.The late Sultan, wishing to «ive the Indies of his harem an idea of the Crystal Palace, commissioned a firm of ship builders on the Thames to construct the iron framework of a huge dome-like structure.It was, whon completed, put up in England, | and then taken to pieces for conveyance to Constantinople, whore it was re-erected and covered in with glass, and formed ono of the most conspicuous and pretty objects which met the travellor's gaze on going up the Bosphorus, The prosont Sultan, however, thought that it interfered with his view, and ordered it to be demolished, and the debris of a building which from first to last must have cost £100,000 has been sold for old ncrap iron.The latter story ia still more strange.The Father of the Faithfal some time ago ordered a new and gorgeous imperial residence to be built for himself.Art, money, and science, were lavished on tho structere, tho sum total of the cost of which was almost fabulous.The day arrived when the Sultan was told that all was prepared for his reception in his new abode.is Majesty quitted his old and inconven- tent palace with a light heart, and hastily repaired to the splendid and more modern one ; but alas | whether his impatience or ardour got the better of his dignity is not related, but on crossing the threshold he stambled and fell.The omen was of too serious & character to be lost on an Oriental mind.The Sultan retraced bis steps, sent for the architect, and commanded that the address.Which was the bicycle upon which the little fellow .| bad set his heart ?* It was promptly indicated, and : Em « Sond that to him at once with r\u2019's kindest wishes,\u201d were the A$ least one child in ; question in despair ro ! ; the order, bat as à dernier resort p orgeous and magnificent edifice should be farsi to the Fond.The gentloman in izier, who failed to obtain # revocation A glish Ambassador, who at once can be moro fully cognizant of tho manifold |.Wo, the undersigned members of tho|P° ired to the Grand #ach an act would make him appear before the civilizod world.This, vi other arga.ments, saved the palace, but the evil eyo is supposed still to rest on it, as it remains sup.4 Caivese Saryivos.-Whon à man açeks advice and won't follow it, they Som pare hig to \u201c a mole that is continually eaht.ing out for the newspaper.\u201d A drunkard's Nowe is said to be « a lighthonse, warping us of tho little water that passes underneath.\u201d If a man is fond of dabbling in law, thoy say ¢ he bathes in a son of sharke.\u201d The father who neglocta his child is said to \u201c run through life with a wild donkey tied < \u2018 0 his pigtail.\u201d The young wife of an oldr .wan is compared to \u201c tho light in a sick bed-roum.\u201d \u2018Their picture of ambition ix a * mandarin trying to catch a comet by putting salt on ita tail.\u201d And mook hi an- thropy has boon described by one of their Kroatost pocts as * giving a mermaid a pair of boote.' Tho Irieh Govornmont aro placed in an uncomfortable position by tho disagressblo ocoontricitios of a high judicial functionary \u2014Judgo Christian, Tord Justico of Appeals in Chancory.The Lond Chancellor of ire land is a vory admirable and ablo man, but not a groat oquity lawyer, whoreas the Lord - Justioo is supposod to be n superior as an equity judge to any one living.I'he latter, despising the Lord Chancellor, loses no op- rtunity of protesting against his procsed.ings, actnally commenting on the course he adopts from tho bench.Rocontly an anonymous pamphlet appoared, which, coneh- od in terms of tho bitterest narasamn, roview.ed the doings of the Chancellor.Its profound ability instantly attracted ationtion, and, couplod with the animns known to exist, pointed to Judge Ohristinn as the author, who presently arknowledged that is camo irom him.A judge of a superior court can, in (ireat Britain, only bo remnoved by an addross of Parliament te tho Qaoen praying for such removal.So this very sharp thorn must apparently continue in his hapless collunguie\u2019s flank, nx ita wounds scarcely yot justify wo high and mighty a course boing ndopted as could, appurontly, alone remove him.8omo interesting dotails concerning the spood of rmiway trains in Fagland have recently been published.\u2018Tho average ralo of speod at which the quickest ox pross trains travel is 473 miles an hour.But thore are two linos on which this pace is excooded, The ten o'cloclætrain on the Groat Northern road ronchos l\u2019otorborough at half past clo.von ; tho distance is 76} miles, and the pace 51 miles nn hour.The quarter to twelve train on the tiroat Western makes the run to Swindon, 774 miles, without stopping, and does it in 1 hoar and 27 minutes, or at tho rato of 63} miles an hour, \u2018There aron number of othor ronds which make runs at tho rato of from 406 to 52 miles an hour; hat the journey from london to Hath in the quickest in the world, Tho distance ix 107 miles, and is dono in 2 hoursand 1 § minutes, including a stoppage of 10 minutes at Swin- don.Tho actual time of travelling is 2 hours and 3 minutes\u2014something over 52 miles nn hour.Gormany, nmong other reforms, is making war upon slates.Some of the objections urged against their uso is that they aro noisy, hurtful to the eyes, aml assist in forming a bad chirogeaphy, which it takos years of pon practice to overcomo.Their place in to be filled with an elastic, light paper slate, upon which ink can ho used, and from which it can bo removed an uften as needful.Tho total abolition of alates will be a joyful move for touchers as well us pu pils, and the day which witnesses the sharpening of tho last slate pencil should be marked with a white stone by overy teacher whose toeth havo been \u201c noton edge\u201d by the horrid sound A correspondent of the Smithsonian In.stitntion, who haa spont considerable timain invontigating tho subject, in answer to a remark by Professor Henry, that \u201c immense water-power ut Niagara may, in tho progress of practieal science, bo applied to the par porcs of industry,\u201d atatos that by the * lant consus there are 55,107 water-whoels in operation in American manufacturing estal- lishments, giving a power of 1,30,419 horses, while Niagara Falls gives à power of 11,363,038 horses.\u201d A Hamilton, Ont, paper says :\u2014An interesting but melancholy case of*the poisonous effects of copper or brass, when taken into the system through flesh wounds, comes to our notice from West Flamborn.\u2018Mrs Wm.Jackson some few woeks ago, in hanging somo nowly-washed clothes on « rose bush in the yard, was pricked in the tingor with a thorn from the bush.The thorn entered a considerable distance in tho finger, and for some timo caused quite n sharp pain.A few hours aftorwards sho cleanod a rusty brass kettlo.An hour afior that the pain in the finger was renewod, and at the end of twenty-four hours she was in à porfect delirium of agony.The hand quickly became swollen, the swelling running up the arm, thon to her shoulder, and by tho time the doctor could be called in it had spread around the upper portion of the body.Jlad the physician boon lems skilful or had - he arrived a little Inter it might have terminated fatally for Mrs Jackson.As it wos the arm had to be amputated, and the strictest modical attond- ance given until the poison was withdrawn, The physician, who is a man of long prac., tice, says he never know a limb to swell up so rapidly, and the poison to circulate nu malignantly and venomously as this.He careful when you work among rusty metals.A Scotch paper publishes the following extract from a lettefIately roceiverl from Wellington, New Zealand.Ho saye\u2014 « Since I wrote to you I have hoen to a new place\u2014the Chatham Islands.They lie about 470 miles eastward of Now Zealand, and are of moderate height above the sea.The climate is vory equable and healthy, and tho land is in many places of wonderful fertility.Tho soil is, in fact, just what the rdoner takes such pains to make for rais- ng delicato planta ; it is decayed peat and other vegetable matter, with a proportion of silver sand, and the- planta w in a hurry.Buch potatoes |\u2014fine, forge, meally fellows.Sheep, cattle, and horses thrive wonderfully.Tipiness.\u2014 Tidy\u201d women always make & good impression upon their friends.Yot a tidy woman is not necessarily oxtrava- gant.She does not dress in rich apparof nor don gorgoons jewels\u2014a single finger ring may e limit of adornment in any way whatever.Tidincas consists of an ensemble of good taste, with no minance of any peculiarity, and is one of those vite taos or ions whish seem to come of bis Majesty how ridiculons nature, just ps does its opposite, aloventi- ee SA LANE alan gg PR arr te = p\u2014\u2014 JSUT ABDICATION OF THE KING OF London, Feb.o'clock this morning despatches received from Madrid giving an account of hich is more favorable crisis than was hoped ber turbance of any kind is repo to be a disposi maintain order and support the measures of isional authorities.wa 0.Cortes yesterday was the contral ins of interest, and bulletins of its proceedings were anxiously awaited by crowds of persons in all the public placos of the \u201che two Houses assembled at a late hour in the day.The formal message of abdication of King Amadeus was read to each chamber soparatoly.It opens with the statement tbat the King bas maturely considered the question of what course ho ought to pursue with reference to tho Spanish throne, and has firmly resolved upon that course.When ho accepted the crown he did so under the beliet that the loyalty of the people who had called hiia would compensate for the inexperience which he brought to his task.lle had found that herein he was deceived.Ifthe enemies who had beset his path had been foreigners, he would not have taken the course now determined upon; but they are Spainiards.By them Spain has been kept in perpetual disquiet.All his efforts to quiet.her or put an end to the intrigues which wero the source of her agitation, has proved unavailing.It was not enough that he had a partisan support.He had no wish to remain on the throne as the king of a party.He therefore announced his abdication on behalf of himselt and his beirs.Upon completion of the reading, the Senate and Congress met together in the Chamber of the latter, and constituted themselves the Soverign Cortes of Spain.Senor Rivero, President of the Congress, was called to the chair, and, in a brief speoch, declared himself ready to answer for the preservation of order and the execution of the decrees of the sovereign power.A vote was then taken on the question of accepting, without discussion, the abdication of Amadeus, and it was accepted unanimously.A commission from the members of the Senate and Congress was then appointed to draft a reply to the message, and another commission to accompany the King to the frontier.° Senor Pi y Margall then moved several ropositions, among which were the following : That Spain be declared a Republic; that the National Assembly assume all the powers of the supreme authority ; that they appoint a rosponsiblo Government to oxe- cute their decreos ; that to another Assom- bly, to bo hereafter elected, be referred the duty of determining the form of the consti: tution.The resolution was divided into several parts, and each part was voted upon separately.The provisions declaring the Ie- public and vesting the sovereign power in the Assembly were adopted by 255 to 32.The remaining clauses were thon taken up for discussion.Senor Salmeron supported the remaining \u201c clauses of the resolution.Senor Zorilla demanded that n now government be elected before the proposals of \u2018Senor Pi y Margall were adopted.Senor Rivero answered that the President of the Cortes was responsible for tho preservation of tho public peace and order.Senor Zorilla came down into the body ot the Chamber, and urged the propriety of his demand.He was called to order by the President, and asked to resume his seat upon the Ministerial bench.Senor Martos, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said it was to be deplored that the President kept up the forms of tyranny, when the Monarchy was being superseded by the Re- ublic.P Senor Rivero thereupon left the chair and the House, and Senor Figuerola was called to preside, when the following Government was elected : | Figueras, for President of the Council, received 244 votes.Cordoba, Minister of War, 239 votes.Piy Margall, Minister of the Interior, 243 votes.: Nicolas Salmeron, Minister of Justice, 242 votes.Francisco Salmeron, Minister of tho Colonies, 238 votes.Beranger, Minister ot Marine, 246 votes.Castelar, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 245 votes.Becerra, Minister of Public Works, 233 votes.Echegaray, Minister of Finance, 242 votes.The newly-elected members of the Government took their seats upon the Minieter- ial bench.Figueras then addressed the Assembly.He said he owed his appointment to politi- coal circamstances.He believed Orenee would have been nominated had he been present.He promised that the Spanish ple should in future have the utmost om in the choice of their rulers and representatives.He then read numerous telegrams from the provinces, showing that the public peace and order had been cverywhere .preserved.He hoped the Republic would established forever, and that Spain would henceforth exercise hor just influence in the affairs of Earope.He believed that other Latin nations would not be slow to imitate her example.The Government now chosen would insure the national integrity.The Assembly then adjourned.A President of the Cortes will be clected to-morrow.Tho city is quiet.To-night the revolution will be celebrated by a grand illumination.London, Feb.12\u2014The Spanish consul at Liverpool has offered a liberal reward for information which will lead to the discovery of shipments of arms to the insurgents in Spain and insurrectionists in tho Spanish colonies.Paris, Feb.12.\u2014Prince Alfonso, the son of the ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, is ox- ted to arrive in Paris to-morrow from to tho International Society marched in pro.little doubt that the whole line of this road, jenna.It is said the principal communists cession through the streets.Several muni.if it were now completed, would be studded and Geneva, bave [cipalities in Ostalonia have distributed with forges, furnnces and mills for iron and of London, Brussel tion on all hands to Francois d'Assise, the husband of ox-Quoen Isabella, has loft Paris for Madrid.Rome, Feb.13.\u2014The abdication of King Amadeus is received in this city with satis faction on ull sides.Neithor King Victor Emmanuel nor the Italisn Government gave any advico to Amadeus, Tho latter tele graphed to Rome frequently, giving infor mation concerning the situation and his urpose.P Borlin, Fob.13 \u2014Tho patienco and courage displayed by Amadeus while on the throne of Spain is universally praised.~ Madrid, Feb, 13.\u2014p.m.\u2014All the civil and military authorities of the provinces, as fur as heard from, have givon in their adhesion to the now regimo.The city and country, with the oxcoption of the districts where Carlist bunds are present, continuq tranquil, Amadeus and tho mombers of his fumily met with the most respectful consideration at the railway stations, on their way to the Portuguese frontier.Madrid, Feb, 14.\u2014The address in reply to the King's message of abdication was adopted.It concludes with the decluration that when the present perils, conspiracies, and obstucles ure overcome, Spaniards will not bo able to offer Amadeus a crown, but they will offer him anothar dignity\u2014that of being the titizen of a free and independent country.The Imparcial declares that the act of abdication was voluntary and person al, The King's father Victor Emanuel war opposed to jt, The Correspondoncin suys the flag of tho Jtepublic will be violet, white, und red.Rome, Feb.14.\u2014The Italian Sonato has adopted a Jaudatory and affectionate address to Amadeus, late King of Spain.Berlin, Feb.14.\u2014Tho Spanish Minister had a confurence of two hours with Prince Bismarck to-day.The immediate recognition of the Spanish Republic by Germany i~ expected.Madrid, Feb.14.\u2014A council or the Minis- tors was held yesterday.One of the first acts of tho new Government was to issuo a decree for the pardon of several men who wore sentenced to bo executod at Barcelona to day.Versailles, Feb.14.\u2014At a meeting last night of the Deputies in tho l\u2018ronch National Assembly belonging to the party of the Lott resolutions wore adopted congratulating the Republicans of Spain upon the es tablishment of the Spanish Republic.Lishon, Feb, 14.\u2014In the Caamber of Deputies to-day a debate arose on the recent events in Spain, Niva said there was reason to expect that the changos in the neighbor ing country would have an echo in Portugal.He urged all to support tho Constitution.The Primo Miuvister replied that he saw no danger to the country.Amadeus will leave Lisbon for homo as soon as the Queen can bear the fatigue of travel.The iden of the union of Spain and Portugal is gaining strength.Lisbon, Feb.11.\u2014The ex-King Amadous, reached this city this morning, and proceed el to the palaco which had been 1repared for him, No intimation ix given as to the time when he will take his departure for [taly.A squadron of Italian naval vessels is momentarily expected to arrive in the Tagus.The ex-King and family were mot, on their arrival at the railway station, by the King and Queer: of Portugal, Prince August, and tho mombors of the Cabinet.The Italian Ambassador received Amadeus.Tho ox-Queen was weak and was carried in a Sedan-chair to the palace.Tho streets through which they passed wero crowded.Madrid, Feb.15\u2014The establishment of the Republic was celebrated in this city last night by a general illumination.The streets were crowded with people, but no disorder took place.Despatches from the provinces report that tranquility continues everywhere, cxceping in the districts disturbed by the Carlists.It is said, howover, that the army is opposed to tho Republic, and favoura à monarchy ; but is divided in its choice for a ruler between tha Duc de Mont- pensier and ex-Queen Isabella.Don Carlos entered Spain on Thursday last.The Car- lists are working vigorously to advance the interests of their lender.Saragossa is practically blockaded by insurgents.Tho insurrectionists have cut tho railway between this city and the north at Pancorva, a town in à mountain defile in the province of Burgos.Madrid, Feb.16.\u2014Senor l\u2018igueras concluded his speech yesterday in reply to tien Sickles\u2019 congratulations, with the following words : * We hold in the New World an integral portion of territory, destined under the Spanish flug to serve asa connecting link between the two continents.In order that the Antilles may accomplish that mission, and realige our Givilizing objects, we rely on Spanish onergy and the strength of Spanish institutions.\u201d Paris, Feb.16.\u2014Senor Castollar has sent a dispatch to the Spanish residents in Paris, which clearly intimates that the new Government is resolved not to part with Cuba, and to keep the Spanish flag on a portion of Amaorican territory, ns a pledge of the per.tual union of the (ld and New Worlds, he peasants in Andalusia are clamoring for a division of property.Tho students of Barcolona demand liberty of inatruction, the abolition of fees, and the removal of the troops from tho new university buildings.The Governor promises to ask the Ministry.for these concessions.lo explains that the university is occupied by the troops solely becauso it is a strategic point.The Catalonia working men are making de- monstratjons in favor of tho release of conscripts in tho army, and domand arms for the people, municipal selfg®vornment, shorter hours of work, and higher wages.Mass meotings, attended by from 3,000+ to 2,000 working men, have been held.8 hes were made in favor of the Domo.ublic, which were wildly chderod.ace, the working men belonging cratic At one p started from those cities for Madrid.The |arms to tho le.French Government has issued instructions Lisbon, Feb.16\u2014Tho Italian fleot is to the authorities along the Spanish frontier hour] expected to arrive in tho Tagus, to redouble their vigilance for the preven.|The Britis placed at the isposal ot theex-King.Among the articles from America to be Cantwell, died very suddenly at her rosi- $ sed at the Vienne Exhibition is a log dence in Malone, on Wednesday morning, Anot vof.b ne to Valencin|of black walnut, the largest ever grown, Feb.12, © was taken on Tuesday night por an Ino six feet in diameter and eighteen foet long, at about ten o'clock with which was ct in Missouri, and weighs seven throat, up to which time 6 the enjoyment of her usual health.tion of violations of French neutrality.Naples, Fob.12.\u2014An Italian frigate has sailed from this port for Lisbon, to mieet Amadeus and convey him to this country.exhidi to bring away the ox-King's attendants and the court qui London, eb.13.6 am\u2014Dispatohes/ tons, uadron in the Tagua has been æ iles from Madrid aunounce that ex-King Ama | HOW TIE FRENCH GOVERNMENT | deus, with his wife and children, has gone] * TREATS POLITICAL PRISONERS.\u2019 Since 6|to Lisbon, where he will romain until 12\u201410 A.vus beon (Spring.l\u2019aris tolegrams roport that Don Now-Caledonia, by a Communist prisonor.loa is preparing to take advantago of the It contains some details of interest of the ved from Madrid in Spain to push bis claims to tho|voyage in the ship Danad of the eonviets i the ao oped boro last night.No dis-| throne.Masses are to be celebrated for the (rom Brest, Franco, and the attempted os.two differ ns to tho propripty of certain |for the construction of a railway between rtod, and there [success of the bourbon cause.Prince capo of Assi: Tux following letter has boen written from ou will imagine with ing fivo months of sojourn in floating hulk,\u2019 ono would not inflict on one's most er enemy.The ofticors und the crew wero us considerate to us us the directions of tho Ministry permitted ; the condomned ave all arrived hero, at Ducus Island, | where wo remain, ina doplorable state of | woakness and emaciation.Ono of the most moving ovents ol tho voyage was Assi's attempt Lo esenpe.Ou tho 27th of July the slip was getting ready to sail for the Capo.Assi borrowed a glass, examined the const and the positions-of the Luglish vessels that | wero anchored there.At Y wo wore about to weigh anchor.Assi returned the glass to its owner, find made n sien of adiou to his comrades.lte thon quitted the cago where wo were kopt, and wont out, his legs naked, us if looking fur the doctor.A moment after, he turned suddenly on the surveillant, who accompanied him, throw over his head his goat's skin, divad inta the sen, and, under a hail-storm of bullets, struck out vigorous ly toward ono of the English ships.Un- tortunatoly a boat was still down, and he was caught somo 500 yards 1rom our vessel, close to nn English bont.le was brought back without wounds, He was put ian black hole, from whence le Was only ro- leased at Noume ; his hoalth was proof against this harsh treatment.Ho now onco more amuses his companions by gaiety and good humor.[Frown the Capo our voyngo was exceeding long ; we did not follow tho usual track, as the commandor of the Danaé was in no haste to arrive.On tho 1st of September wo were undor the metidian of Australia ; on tho 9th we saw land, and on the 10th wo traversed the Straits of [\u2019ass.We hed still 100 leagues to sail, but as the rato of sailing did not oxcoed three knots an hour, wo wero twenty days over this distance.On the 30th of Neptembor wo caught kept shifting about from beside Honor, who walked, rather stately it was thought, with hor brother Connell, to Mau- rico, who with his two young sisters, each by the hand, moved on before, * Wo must part now,\u2019 said Cormick, looking at his watch, * our service will begin in a fow minutos, | wish you had longer time ta uty, but you won't forget the way to the Lies tho next time you come within ten miles of it, Master Redmond, and any friend of yours will bo welcome for your suke.\u2019 * Tako care, Mr O'Dillon, I and my friends might be coming too often,\u2019 said Fitzmau- rica, ¢ No danger of that, I am atraid ; you young men ure too much taken up with the guietios of Dublin; but I had ho to see your honourod grandmather in Kilmaclone this summer, for business as well as plon- sure.Porhaps you will do me the favour to mention it to her.My lease is running to its end, so are most of my neighbours\u2019, and when thoy and I wished to ronew last Lady Day, Mr Bourke, your friend's father, advised us to wait till our landlady came down, as ho affirmed she would in the course of the summer.\u2019 ¢ Mr O'Dillon,\u2019 and Redmond\u2019s tone grow low and bis look oarneat, ¢ tyke # friend's advice, which is sometimes better thun a lawyer's.Wait no longer, but get your own and your neighbours\u2019 losses renowed, for I fear ny poor grandmother will never bo nble to take another journey to Roscom- mon.\u2019 \u201c1 am sorry to hear it, but time will tell on us all,\u201d said Cormick.\u20181 will take your advice, and | am thankfyl for it.You will mention the matter to Mrs Fitzmaurice, and, above all, give her my best respects and kindest remembrances.\u2019 ¢ Give her mine, too, Master Redmond ; sho will remember Gretta O'Conor, her companion at the I'rench nuns\u2019 school, and the first of her seven bridesmaids when sho married your honoured grandfather in the abbey church.Oh | but things are changed since then.But God's will be done, and tiod bless you, my handsome boy,\u2019 said old Mrs O'Dillon.¢ Mention me kindly to your grandmother, and say that I hope to moet her in heaven.\u2019 Tho rest of tho lonve-taking was soon tinished ; but even onlookers at some distance noticed that it was more warm and kindly with Fitzmaurice than with Bourke, though nothing like coldness wus shown tg tho lntter\u2014it seldom appears without an open quarrel in Ireland ; but he went off with a swaggering air, and got into the chaise somo minutes before his friend, who stood looking after the O'Dillons till they passed into the chapel.¢ Come along,\u2019 eried Bourke : ¢ you'll sec no moro of them now.By-the-by, I nover know you had such intimacy with farming people.\u2019 ¢ I had no opportunity of being intimate with the family at the Lees till last night,\u2019 said Fitzmaurice, as he took his place and the chaise drove on; \u2018 but old friendship and rolationship too soon draw people to- gotlior, and Cormick O'Dillon is of as good blood us the best of my line, though he i their tenant and won't be long so.\u2019 \u201c Well, 1 am surprised to hear a man of your sense and abilities talk of blood and line, ay if such things were of any value in the nineteenth century ; my dear follow, you aro falling behind the age,\u2019 and Bourke ondeavoured to laugh.¢ Perhaps I am,\u2019 said Fitzmaurice ; \u2018 but don't misunderstapd mo; I know that a man's birth or deScont has as little to do with his own worth or merits as the hue of his complexion or the colour of his hair; but 1 hold that to bo well descended is a piece of good fortune, inasmuch as good irth is apt to bring good breeding in its train, and gentlemanly habits of both thought and action, which outward estate can neither give nor take away.\u2019 \u2018 Indeed, theso ure new opinions for a man who was tho greatost democrat at T'ri- nity College, who used to astonish our debating society with his ropublican speeches about the sovereignty of the people and the equality of mankind ; when and where was your conversion accomplished ?I think thore was scarcely time for it at the Lees.\u2019 The bitter sneer on Bourko's face would have provoked 4 man nearer his own calibre, but Fitemaurico answered him coolly, « Except an old bachelor from the error of his ways, I never heard of one converted at an evening party, and no couversion has happoned in my case.Iam as much of a domocrat now as when 1 mado what you ploase to call my republican speoches\u2014as much opposed to class privileges as class government ; but 1 hold birth to bo a piece of good fortune, and one which more especially binds a man to bo worthy of it.Noblesse oblige, as the French say.\u2019 ¢ You,\u2019 said Bourke, ¢ and it obliges you to spoak of a farmer and his family, brought up among the bogs of Roscommon, as if thoy were plo of rank and estate.\u2019 ¢ Hold, Bourke,\u201d said Fitzmaurice ; ¢ the family in question are my relations, and havo behaved as handsomely to you and me, undor the circumstances we were placed in, as the noblest and wealthiest in the land could do.\u2019 Gerald Bourke and Redmond Fitemaurico had been college friends and close companions sinco thoy left the university, by form betwoen characters the most dissimi- Gory atter tho manner of Trinity familinrs, had shared in many a frolic, had mond thravels wid him bekase they're mighty | the opposite road leading to French Park man than me might bo smitten with such a {is mothor, in her black tabinet, and veil girl) ¢ Well, I grant sho is a taking pieco to bo that mountain\u2014what do you call it?I should have no objoction to marry her my- mond Fitaimaurico walked with them, for self; that is, if the old man would count gardens.out properly ; but between ourselves, I ox- pect there is not a large bulance at his anker's.\u201d .Bourke did not see the flushed cheek and flashing oye with which Fitsmaurice an- sworod behind his newspaper, ¢ You are right ; it is the close-fisted money gatherers of Dublin who have such balances, and not a generous gentloman that helps the poor in their troubles, and entertains strangers, like Cormick O'Dillon.\u2019 ¢ ¥top, driver,\u2019 cried Bourke, thrusting his head out of the chaise window with a look which Con Casey aftewards told his gossips made him think something dreadful had happened ; * stop, I got out here.\u2019 ¢ Nonsonse, Gory, said Fitzmaurice, whose good nature and goed sense also told him that his home thrust had been too keen, though given under provocation, ¢ yonder is my unclo's house,\u201d and he pointed to a comfortable farmstead on the rising ground before them ; while Con, ns com- mandod, pulied up at the opening of n lane leading through « thin and scraggey plantation, over which the turrets of a castollated roof wore faintly visible.,¢ They will have soon the chaise by this time, and bo getting ready dinner for us bath.\u2019 ¢ Anybody may got ready what they please for me,\u2019 said Bourke, jumping out, and trying to look cool and important, \u2018My business at tho Priory admits of no delay.[ should have mentioned the fact before, but you were so occupied with those people at the Lees.Good-bye, and good success to your little affaire de cœur,\u2019 and ho bounded down the lane.«What a foolish fellow to tako offenco at a few idlo words, which his own brought out of me,' said Fitzmaarice, almost aloud, as he looked after him.\u2018 Drive on, Con) he added to tho amazed postilion, and Con drove on accordingly ; but neither he nor his passenger wero cognisant of an elevatod spot in the middle of the plantation, where Gerald Bourke paused in his race, and glared at the chaiso through the thin trees till it was out of sight.¢ I'll match you for that, Redmond Fitz- maurice,\u2019 he cried, stamping the ground with fury ; you'll not insult me and my family for nothing.You have set your heart upon that girl, but you can\u2019t propose to marry hor, my clever talking boy, he- causo you haven't got a farthing except what your old grandmother swindles her creditors out of.You'll push te gat money and place now as you never did before, and think to win her at last; but you néver will, or if you do, my high-blooded gontie- man, you'll seek the love that I have won and thrown away.Where's the country girl I couldn\u2019t manage ?\u2014and, truly, she is worth some trouble\u2014and | must stay in this out-of-the-way: corner tor some time, minding the old man's affairs, Well, I'll mind my own too, and unite pleasure with foi ness.There may be a little pride, a little reserve at first ; but any girl can bo brought round if ono takes the proper way; and when 1 have had my dance, Master Fitz.maurice may pay the pipor out of his genteel family.Such is the evil spirit of rovonga ! Sin seldom gocs to work without an apology.Satisfaction upon his college friend for n hasty but well-deserved remark was Gerald Bourke\u2019s excuse for the design, which from that hour ho began to forge, against the welfare of a bright girl whom he had seen for the first time but the ovon- ing before, and against the peace of tho family by whom he had been hospitably entertained, yat half-hated for the proforence, slight as it was, they had shown to their own kinsman.In the meantimo he walked leisurely through the plantation, from which every tree of value had been felled and carted away in tho preceding year to the castellated mansion \u2014 Lord French Park's country seat in Ballinashandry\u2014 known as the Priory, because part of an ancient Benodictine establishment had beon included hin the walls by his lordship's ancestor, who built it soon after the accos- sion of William ITI.Tt had been a stately house for the county Roscommon, and the French Park family had ruled and revelled there through tho greater part of the eighteenth century ; but generations of absen- too owners had allowed tho place to fall so much out of repair and into docay, that it was little better than a ruin, with no ac- cupants but an old man, his old wife, and their grown-up son, when the latter happon.ed to be at homo, for, being hunch-backed and unfit for labor, he had adopted the calling of a hawker.The family name was O'Tool, but they wero known to their neighbors by their ro- spective Christian names as ould Terry, young Torry, and Nablah Plasy, the lattor term signifying a decoittul flattorer, for which tho old woman stood in some repute.It was generally allowed that nobody but themselves would live in tho Priory, for, being lonely nnd ruinous, it was of course belioved to be haunted; but the popular character of tho family was that they would keop the porter's lodge of the wildest and lonoliest houso in the whole country \u201c for the sake of sittin rint free Attorney Bourke, when ho got the suporvision of the dilapidated property, and made his first progress over it somo months before, found the O'Tools so much to his mind that he installed them in Lord French Park's countr seat, ould Torry in tho character of bailiff, brought on its wings tho odours of tho still ono of those intimacies which the chances and the wholo family as cnrotakers general- frosh grass and the lingering wild flowers, and the inoxperienco of youth are apt.to|ly and humble waiters upon him and his, whon business or pleasure brought them to santry wore hastening forth in their holiday lar.They had called each other Red and Ballinashandry.A ring at the crazy but -well-bolted gate every moment fo part company annel heaped upon it\u2014it was alleged that ald Bourke gave orders regarding the immediate provision of dinner.Tha prudent ÿoung man never noglocted his comforts under any cireumstances.While it was in preparation ho oxplored tho surroundin estate, consisting now of somo half-cultivat.od furms\u2014most of their buildings cmulat.cloth and sixty years old at least, leant on] brought up among the bogs at the foot of ing tho condition of the noble proprietor\u2019 Cormick\u2019s arm, 5 mansion\u2014and some misorable cabins, with the usual accompaniments of pigs and potato Into farmhouse and cabin\u2019 alike the attorney's son made his way, conversed with every one he found at homo in the uf.ternoon of All Saints\u2019 Day, inquired into the doings of the late agent, and made notes of them in his pocket-book ; heard a lon: list of griovances, and reasoned them all away in lawyer fashion, proving boyond a doubt that the dweller in Balllinashandry were tho most fuvored and fortunately-situ- ated people under thy sun.At the fall of night ho got back to the Priory, and sat down to dinner in Lady French Park's drossing-room, which happened to bo the best furnished and most weather-tight apartment within its walls.There Bourke diy.cussed his chicken and port by a bright fire of peat and bog-wood, and when they were fairly finished wrote a long and accurate report of the state of things to his father in Dublin ; but whon that also was done, he took from his writing-cfsc a shoct of select paper, tinted and gilt-edged in the fashion of the time, and began another letter, That epistlo was not so quickly written.Two copios proved unsatisfactory, and wero flung into the fire ; but the third attempt Was successful\u2014ono would have known it by the self-complaisant air with which Mr Bourke contemplated his own appearance in the opposite dressing-glass, which had shown the Inst occupant of that room how hor patchos wero arranged, as he sealod tho letter with a flying Cupid bearing away a heurt, the motto ¢ Tout & vous ;* and at that moment Nablal O\"Tool's well-wrappeil hel Was thrust in at tho door with, \u2018 Plnso yor honor's glory, Terry has come back from Misther Macdermot\u2019s house wid yer beautiful gun an\u2019 yer elegant bags.\u2019 ¢ Send him up directly,\u201d 1 have another message for him,\u2019 said Bourke.Nablah disappeared after a statement that it's proud For son would be to do any missago for his honor ; and in à minute or so Terry stood at the door with equal reves ence, \u2018Tho attorney's son knew how to manage his inferiors.\u201d Ho began by a series of questions regarding the condition of his fowling-picce and travelling requisites, which Con Casey had been commanded to leave at tho house of Mr Maedormot, Fitz- maurice\u2019s maternal uncle, when Bourke made his unexpected exit from the chaise, Had they been tho rogalia of the kingdom of Connaught, to which the Bourkes of rv.mote times are said to have aspired, he could not have inquired more particularly about them.\u2019 When Terry had wound up his replies with the assurance that they were in lis own room as safe as a charch, that Mv Mac dermot himself had come to soo him take them away, and said how sorry he was that his honor hadn\u2019t come on with his nophew, « Did you see young Fitzmaurice, Terry «Sure thin I did, sittin\u2019 in the parlor wid tho youngest o\u2019 Misther Macdermot\u2019s children on his knee, an\u2019 all the rest about him, an\u2019 young ladies an\u2019 gintlemon comin\u2019 in tho height of good spirits till a tay-party that they're givin\u2019 to welcomo him, bekase ho couldn\u2019t get there on liallow Eve.\" ¢ No doubt the young man will be quite in his element among them ; but shut the door, Terry, there is a draught in it, and [ have some particular directions to give you about this,\u2019 said Bourke, turning up the letter addressed to his father.¢ You must tako it to tho post-office to night, it is on very important business; and you will have many letters of the kind ta take, Terry, tor my father has put the managemont of everything hore into my hands.The pro- porty is our own, I may say, and if I tind you and your family what you ought to be, 1 may do something for you all.\u2019 ¢ Thank yer honor ; I'm sure you'll find no harm in us.We would ail run mjles to sarve you.I'll set off to the post-office this minute,\u2019 said the delighted hawker.\u2018 Yes, Torry ; but if you woro a handy boy, and could do a bit of quiet businoss fru mo without letting anybody be the wiser, you understand, I would give yon something decent for yourself, and not forgot it to your people either.\u2019 ¢ Thry me, yor honor, cried Terry, be fore Bourke had well finished ; if 1 don't do yer missages thrue as the sun, an\u2019 never let a sow! hear or sec a word of it, may | ind my days on the gallows.\u2019 \u201c Well thon, Tavey, and Hourke produced the lettor sealod with tho flying Cupid, \u2018 do you know Miss Honor O'Dillon, of Kilma- clone ?\u2018Shuro | do; the purtiest girl in the county, an\u2019 come of the gintalest family.\"There's no ind to their buyins from me, an\u2019 the young min that's afthor her is clanc ast countin\u2019 ; but she disdains thim all.'m tould,\u2019 said Terry, his keen oyo glistening with sinister intolligence.; \u20ac No doubt,\u2019 said Bourke ; ¢ but there is always somebody not disdained.I want you to deliver this letter into-Miss O' Dillon\u2019 own hand ; and romember, nobody must sce or hear of it.I also want you to get an an- swor from hor if possible.Take your own way of going about the business, but to i! quickly and quiotly.More than that, Torry.you must find out for mo all about where she visits, and where sho walks\u2014by herself.ou understand ; in short, whero one would avo tho best chance of seeing her ; and it there is any old neighbor or follower of the family that would holp à man who is able and willing to make it worth their while.I'll do it all to yer honor's satisfaction.said Terry.¢ By the break o' day I'll be of} to Kilmaclane an\u2019 git all tho intilligonce, niver fear ; an\u2019 sce if I don't bring ye back a plisant answer, for shuro an\u2019 sartin Ro lady in tho land could refuse the disthrosscs t into brought the trio out to receive his son with of a gintleman like yer honor.\u2019 a scrape together; but|all the honors.The bailiff, in very ragged that Hallow Evo night at the Leos proved |and ill supported nother garments, \u201cwhich tho glons, across meadows and stiles, and tho breaking up of their friendship, for it| threaten over the bogs, they came, young and old, in brought out the radical difference of tho with the rest of his attire, held the gate|small ono, for nover get up early, so om : ; .Fitemaurice's reminder that tho open with one hand, and his remnant of a|night and good » on midst of which stood the popular chapol, a O'Dillons were his relations, and had be-| hat in the other, while he woloomed ¢ the don\u2019t know what lack it might bring toyot by a cemetery haved handsomely, silenced Bourke for|young masther's riverence's glory ;\u2019 the my boy ;\u2019 \u2018 : jy is & restless pas-| trusty housekeeper, with an equally ragged Dich ha raves of the rustic sleepers, with two or sion, and will have its vent.As thoy near- gown, and a head considerably the largest|one hand, while with the other he handed threo family tombs and monumental stones|od their destination he .retarned to the among them, The servico had not yot be- charge with, By-the-by, Red, your friend * Vory woll, To I confide the matter to your care.| Put this large lottor in the post-office to-night and take charge of the on your crrand.and Bourke chinked a purse w pened to bo in his pocket With on of her person from the quantity of over the two letters, which Terry received.a (TO BE CONTINUND IN OUR NBXT.) 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