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VOLUME I.
"THE GREATEST POSSIBLE 0000 TO THS GREATEST POSSIBLE NJMIBER."
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GODERICH, HURON DI.STRICT, (C. W.) b'RIDAY, MARCH 3, 1848.
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ILT'All bade*/ look sad Jeb Priming, is ta
'GOA sad Amok Isegessee, asecsert with
diktats's tad dispatch.
Boo es kis amt --as if of yore,
All lifelike, sits he here !
With that same aspect which be wool
Winn light to kin was dosr.
Bat whore the right hZed'astreagthe—the breath
That breatied se stoutly, where? •
What time the pipe its lusty wreath
Best eheerly Wooed) the air 't
And where in• Merk-like ;ye, ales
That west the Jeer pursue,
Weal the wares ripphag gram,
-Or fields that shone with dew I
Are these the limber, bounding ksr,
That ewer.* tho waster snows?
•• What stateliest stag a fast awl &et t
Their speed eatstript foe's !
TUN arms that lb** the sturdy bow
Could supple from its pride,
• Hew stark ael atelier bug they store
, Mita the stiffeied Nide
Tot wsel hise thee prowl away,
Whom saw eaa fall more,
To &Ids where dwells weal Mar,
Lad toil itself is (Vet I
Where birdlime bralse ea Ittrw/ brake—
Where fewest; mesa With deer—
Whirs glide the fish through every lake —
One share from year to year !
Wish spirits sow he feasts above ;
Ho letvoierlist glory rive—
n* deathless deeds for praise and lore,
The deed clay kir the grave !
high the Death -wing wails for thee,
Thy Walitasbell we forget,
All in My grave shell buried be
We lay the sae beneath kis haul
Ths bear es whisk WU *mum fed --
Th• ay from earth is long !
That orroot saw.
Fronawhich the axe liad spoilhl the life,
1 h. paints that deck't the Deed, bestow—
Yee, place them in hie heed—
That red the Catty Shade ray glow
Amidst the Spirit Larid !
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
NT W. sta.rtar ettasitirte, D. O.
We begin with observiag, that it is an
eet of justice to Bouperte, to remember,
that he grew up under dialastrous influences,
in a troubled day, when iseo's minds were
sostrulstd, old institutions overthrown old
opinions shaken, old restraints snappe'd u -
spurned, and youth abasdosed to unwonted
license; when the imagination las made
feverish by visions of iadistinct good, and
the paeans swelled by the sympathy of
millions to a resistless torrent. A more
dangerous school for the character cannot
well be conceived. That all.seeing Being,
who knows Om trials of his creatures and
the Herein of the heart, can alone judge to
what degree crimes are extenuated by cir-
cumstantial so inauspicious. This we most
remember, in reviewing the history of men
who were exposed to trials uoknown to
ourselves. But because the turpitude of aa
evil agent is ditniniabied by infelicities of
education or condition, we twist not there-
fore confoUnd Lb* immutable distinctions of
right *Ad wrose,-and withhold our repro-
bation front atrocities which have sprad
misery and slavery far and wed*.
It ur also due to Napoleon ter ofseerre,
thallium hes always 'sifted, and still exists,
regard tit the crimes et tallibuy and
life. The wrotst-fielag of pebble mew se a
late *ale, has serer drawn epee them
that ekeeervi, batty alahareeee which visits
private eiert. Hatless have seemed to ease
hums miesseefel
The wrap, irom widish men We sellbred
meet,* hely aed Wed, we pet eepeetsboti.
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liberate teak:lieu, without a mouu.
inquiry as to its justice; and to place h
N ita passive instrument in bands, wh
u all h.atory teaches, often reek web bl
eausek.ly shed.
His first political auociatios was _
the laeobioe, the moat saegeiasry of
the factions which retrad re Prow,
whose sway is era *neatly called "
r.tgs of terror." The service which see
e d his command la Italy, was the turine�
his artillery oa the People, who, bowe
dasgsroue when acting as a mob, hippo
is the .presoot case to understand t.
rights, and were •directing thou viols
against mutfab asurpatioa.
His first campetgn was to Italy, tad
have still a vivid recoilectioe of the alio
rapturous admiration, with which we toll_
ad his brit triumphs ; tor thea we w
simple enough to regard bins as the cbo
guardian of liberty. Iiia peculiar tac
Were sot then understood; the secret of
suet... had not reached us ; and bis res
iciness stimulated the imigiaation to
est him with the m eteriou. power o
ero of romance. W. confers that
anent now read the history of bis' tial
wars without ■ quickened moveweot in
etas. The rapidity of his cooceptio
ffe inexhaustibleness of his invention ;
stingy of bis will ; the decision wh
ubcred nota moment's pause between
purpose and its execution ; the presence
niod, which, amiast sudden reverses and
be brink of ruin, devised the mans
afety and success : thee. commanding
tbates, added to a courage shish, bo
ver suspected afterwards, never falter
ben, compel us to bestow, what indeed
are s+ desire to withhold, eh. admirati
Bich u due to superior power.
Let not the friends of pace he offend
V. have said, and we repeat it, that
ave no desire to withhold our admuat
ons the energies which war often awake
real powers, even to tbeir perversion,
t a glottytus nature, and we may feel t6
grandeur, whilst we coodemo, with o
hole strength of moral feeling, the s•
penton by which they are depraved.
We are willing to grant, that war, abhor
we may, often developer sad places
roe( Tight, *force of intellect inn purpo
bicb rates our conception of the hum
ul. There is perhaps no moa.ent m li
which the mind is brought into such i
tease acuon,,Ie which the will is so sue
its, and 1a which &rapeseed.* excitation
so tempered •ith self-peseesston, as
• boor of attire Sell greatness of
arnor is poor and low compared with
magaaainuy of virtue. It vanishes befo
• grottoes* of principle. The martyr
inanity, to freedom, or religion; the u
sinking adherent of despised anddesert
uth, wbo,,elooe, unsupported, and ecorne
th so crowd to infuse tato him courag
variety of objects to draw hie though
m himself, Do opportueiiy of effurt
materna to rouse and nourish energy, su
ed. himself calmly, resolutely, with i_
ible philanthropy, to bear prolonged an
queries suffering, which ow retracua
ord might remove --ouch a man is u au
✓ to the warrior, u the tranquil a
oak's heavens above us, to the lo
th we tread hepatitis our feet.
We have spoken of the energies of min
led forth by war. If we may be allow
abort digression, which boweeer ba
ectly on our main subject --the merits o
potion—we would observe, that =liter
ant, even of the highest order, is lar fro
ding the first place among iotellectu
dowmeats. It is one of the lower forte
geoius ; for it a not conversant with t6
best and richest objects of thought.
e grant that a nand, which takes in
e country at a glance, and understand
est by ietuiuoa, the pontioes it afford
a.uceeesfnl campaign, u a comprebensiv
vigorous ow. The general who die
hu forces so u to counteract a great
force ; who supplies by skill, rcieece
invention, the want of numbers ; wh
a into the counsels of bis enemy, and
o gives unity, energy, and success to
t variety of operations, Is the midst o
Gaines sed obstructions which no ws
could foresee, manifests great power
.tdl the chief work of a general u t
ly physical obatructtoos ; to avail bins
of physical aids and tidvaatages ; to ac
matter; to overeaten rivers, ramparts,
.tains, sad Inman muscles : and these
n ot the highest objects of rated, Dor d
ilemitad iataibgeace of the high..
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parison in point of latest and reifies bet.
wan such men and Milton, Bacon, URI
Shakspeare, is almost a* moult on that
illuotraious woes. Who can think of these
truly great tatellagences ; of tbe range of
their minds through heaven and earth ; ol
their deep lineation into the soul ; of their
new and glowing combinations of thought ;
of the energy with which they grasped
and subjected to their main purpose, the
ture and hie afford—who cite think of the
forms of transcendent beauty and gtandeur
trbich they crested, or which Wer3 rather
emanations of tbeir own minds ; of the
calm wisdom and fervid imagination which
they conjoined ; of the voice of power, in
which, " iholgh dead, they still speak," and
awaken intellect, sensibility, and genius, in
both hemispheres—who elan think of such
men, and not feel ibe tinniesse ieferierity
of the most gifted warrior, whoorkektuents
of thought are physical forces and physical
obstrAttioes, and wbose employment is the
cotriliination of the loweat class of objects
on which a powerful miod cam be employed.
Teen "TIM Ilinaeliv."—aT 41181/T.
CWATTIll /V.
Was Mr. Probe had departed, I had a
rumination with myttelf on wbwt bad passed,
and I could not but think of his expression,
"nay client.' It waa very clear to-uie that
Mr. Curry was the gentleman himself, and
therefore I resolved to be on my guard to-
wards him, and to.take care not to let him
keow my suspicion : I also Lateen, it was
very probable, if be were the client, spoken
of, that a would let his man of business
know that I was * true Stumm Pure ; all
which put me on my mettle ; and thus it
happened, that when he called in the morn-
ing, I was prepared ; indeed, his calling
was to me as a proof -from Holy Writ tlet
he was the man himself, for tie had DO par-
ticular DC1114012 to call, nor sore we oa
town of such intimacy as to make the
civilly at all tecessary.
But Mr. Curry was a pawkie man, and
had a reason ready ; for he said,
"I just met in the atreet, eel was coming
along, with Mr. Probe, and told me that a
had been witk you last night."
"Iftw wasrlresilied "and wows to be a
&evil sad porpoo-like character; bat doubt,
Mr. Curry, if tits client and my friend, you
undetatand, will be able to close."
"Indeed ! why so r
"Because he expecti a•greater price than
1 have made up my mind to gire." •
"Oh, there may be some modification
ffe told me the'. you bad offered only a
thousand pounds per session e now, Sir.
Johbry, that is rather too little ; but you
will -hear from him what hie cheat says.'
I saw by this that there was • desire on
the pert of Mr. Curry to let me hare the
seat tor what he called • fair price ; but
bating some knowledge of his repots as a
man of business, 1 maid briskly, "I believe,
Mr. Carry, after all that this is a very
foolish notion of mine. What are I to do
with Parliament 7 ie. just an idle longing
e -the green sickness of idlenese. Really,
my conversation with Mr. Probe hoe chang-
ed my mind in a material degree. What
am I to get for a thousand pounds, but two
or three franke for letters, and be under an
obligation to bear as much aciesenge telked
acmes a drinklese table, in the small hours
of the aight,„11 ever honest man heard over
to pay money, I have got an inkling that a
much better bargain may be had else -
I saw that Mr. Curry was inoculated with
the apprehensions when I said thie, for he
looked bamboozled ; so I fellowed up the
blow with another maaterly stroke, adding :
" Indeed, Mr. Curry, it would be very fool-
ish extravagance for mo to give any such
sum as a thousand pounds per session for
the vain bauble of a seat ; and when ye con-
sider that • whole Parliament can be got,
am ye said youree:f, for about dye thousand
pouods divide that by seven sesaions. and
ye'll them come nearer what the mark filould
"There may be some truth in that Mr.
friary," was the reply ; " but I understood
trona Mr. Probe that you hail offered a thou-
sand poomde."
"Oh ! that was in words of cores."
"In parliamentary affairs," said Ise, very
emtba."riousedly.,,," the etrktest honour is to be
" No doubt ; but an agent, you know,
cannot pledge himself for ftts principah—all
is 10.8,0011n appeobation."
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"In a ammo, I'll near deny that to yew •
but Mr. Probe all knows me as the friend
of a 'natant's who hie turn -for publie
ripselrieg, whieb I hese not, and who may
tern a parity out of his talent : in short, Mr.
Curry, something between firm busdra sed
seven beaked is mere like a retreats] pricer,
give so morn"
" But you hare tussle an olikr,
*0! that was in a preliminary way."
"Mr. Prole, however, may theist upon
the Mkt being fulfilled."
" Yee tweet net speak tbat way to nee or
maybe I may, by petition, semis, hint to the
Moseerrart• Mosso of tradletiag is emu.,
lied sell you by semi as • willies.. What
week, either lee er hineliret say to that 1"
I saw that lite cheated esteem and that
hie either Bp Oven* ; so I said to tint.
nt omit 0.0 par w-
ebs, weak yes will snow. le eery liberal
for am of raoor, who hot it is MO row -
er, if sot well used, to make bts complaint
to the House."
"I can only gay, Mr. Jubbry, that from
all I know of the subject, Mr. Probe's clieoi
will never accept your offer."
" Very well, that's in Ing option ; but I
have an option likewise."
"Whit is that r
" Didn't 1 hint about petitioning 1".
Moot unparlianientary."
beads in the grass, Ira the foolish °gumbos,
aad think,,because we do so, that our hin-
der ads aro not eta : the matter in hand
is contrary to law•, and therefore we must
not apply the rules of law to anything
nefarious ; howsoever, so far conform to
a corrupt practice, that ni give the flve
hundred guineas, as I ate said."
" You will never get the seat for that."
"That may be true ; hut the Hotiourable
House, like a Spartan judge, is desperate in
punishing a detected delinquent : in short,
Mr. Curry, If ye have anything to say anent
this negotiation. ye'll advise a compliance
with my proposition."
I could diecern that Mr. Curry was in a
filiog condition ; but he wss a man of ex-
perience, and it was not in my power to
draw out of Min that he was at all art or
part in the business ; so not to waste tune
with more ta1k, I passed izto the news of
the day, and Mr. Curry presently took his
leave ; while I very much wondered at my
own ingeoct in acquieng the art of padre
ranting so readily ; and I had soon good
cause, as I shall presently &hew, for the ad-
dress wals which I was en that occasion
,SLIDE OP ALPNACH.
Amongst the forests which flank' many
of the lofty mountains of Switzerland, eome
of tbe finest timber is found in positions al.
most inaccessible. The expense of roadM
eren if it were possible to make them in
inch stuatiorte, would prevent. the inhabi
tants from deriving any advantages from
these almost inexhaustible eupplies. Placed
by Nature at a considerable elevation above
the spot at which they can be niado use of,
they are precisely in fit circumatances for
the application of machinery to their re --
moral ; and the inhabitants avail them-
selves of the force of gravity to relieve
them from some portion of this labour. --
The inclined planet which they liareoetab-
helar.hed ie-seeterie.litraste, by which the tim-
ber has beep sent down to the water -cour-
ses, bate excited the admiration of every
traveller ; and in addition to the merit ot
eimplicity, the construction of these elides
requires ;mutely anything beyond the ma-
terial which grows opoirthe spot.
Of all throot rucermens of carpentry, the
ble, froM it. great length, and from the al.
moot inaccessible position from which it
descended. The following account of it is
taken from Gilbert's Manatee, 1819, which
is translated in the second volume of Brew-
ster's Journal :—
" For many centuriee, the rugged tlanks
and the deep gorges of Mount Pilate& were
covered with impenetrable forests ; which
were permitted to grow and to perish, with-
out beteg of the least utility to man, till a
foreigner, 'Who bad been conducted into
their wild reccores in the pursuit of the
chamois, directed the attention of several
Swiss gentlemen to the extent and supe-
riority of the timber. The meet sktlful
individuals, however, considered it quite ina-
practicable to avail theinse/vee of such in-
accessible stores. 117as not till the entl
of 18 16, that M. Rupp, and three Swiss
gentlemer, entertaining more sanguier:
hopee, purchased a certain extent of the
forests, and began the construction of the
slide, which was completed _in the spring
• " The Slide of Magda is formed entire-
ly of about 2S,000 large pine timer, deprived
of their bark, and united together in a very
ingenious manner, without the *14 of iron.
It occupied about 160 worker(' during
eighteen menthe, and cost easily 100,000
francs, or £4,250. It is about t bre* league*,
or 44,000 E. glish feet long, aed terthinates
futile Lake of Lucerne. It has the form t f
w trough, about six feet broad, and from
three to six feet deep. Its bottom is formed
of three trees, the middle one of which bee
a groove cut in the directioo of its length,
for receiving email rills of water, which are
conducted Into it from various .placev, for
the purpose of diminishing the friction.—
The whole of the slide is sustained by about
2,000 anpports ; and in many places it is
attached, in a very iegenions meaner, to the
tuned precipices of granite.
" The direction of the stele is siometimes
straight, and sometimes xig-xsig, with an
iodisation of frocn I 0 to 18 degrees. It is
often carried along the side* of hills and the
leaks of precipitous rock., aml sometimes
La=over their evimmite. Occasionally
lumirts Ifrowld. lad at other times it
le ~ducted over the deep gorges by sear -
&Wage It° feet in height.
The boldness which characterizes this
work, the sagacity and skill displayed in all
ito arrangenteete, have 'scared the wonder
Of livery person who basi rain it . Before
any step eould be taken le its erection, it
wee sectiessry to cot several thine/arid tree,
te *twain III asset* through the impenetra-
ble thickets. All these dificultiesi, how-
ever, wen surmounted, and the engineer
bed at Iset rho satisfaction of seeing the
trees &weed from the mountain with the
:ety of lighteMg. The larger pipes,
were about • husdred feet Intl', sell
tee filches thteh st their wailer ettreualty,
MO thrower tbe epees of gee* learita, or
be m▪ ap feet le leagth. The armee-
Meek ke this pert MI the aperstise were
extremely simple. From the Neat eel
the slide to the upper read, where the trees,
-regular distances', and se soon am evtry
thing was reedy, the wort/luso at the lower
end of the elide cried out lit the one above
Iteated from one to euuther, and reached the
top of the slide le tiiree- minutes. '1'he
worktuea at the top of the slide then cried
out to the one beli•w " /I riser (It
comes), sad the tree was lestaatly Iseoch-
ed dowe the stole, preceded by the cry
which tvas repeated from po•t to poet. As
soon as the tree bad reached the bottom.
•nd plunged into the lake the cry ul Lueliez
was repeated as before, and a new tree waa
'seabed in a similar manner. By these
means a tree descended every five or ma
minutes, provided no accident happetted to
the slide, whtcb' arnsietnue• toult place, but
which was instaatly repaired when it dad.
" In order to gale th• enormous furee
which the trees aequired from the great
Velocity of their dement, M. Rupp mule
arrangements ter catering some of tbe
treee to spring from thri slide. They pene.
trated by their thickest extremities 00 less
than frunt eighteen to teenty-four feet into
the earth ; and one of tiie trees baring by
accident struck against another, it instantly
cleft at through whole len:,tb, as if it had
beco struck by lightning.
" Atter the trees had descended the slide,
they were collected into rafts upon the lake,
and conducted•to Lucerne. From thence
they descended the Reuss, then the Aar to
near Ltrugg, afterwerds to WsIdahut by the.
Rhine. then to Baele, nod even tO the sea
when it was eecessary.
"It Is to be regretted that this magnifi-
cent structure nu longer exists, and that
scarcely a trace of it is to be seen upon the
!Janke of Mount Pliatus. Political circum-
stances having taken away the principal
eoume of demand for the truiber, rod no
tither market haring been found, the opera-
tion of cuming acid transportteg the trees
necessarily ceased."'
Professor Play fair, who visited this singu•
ler work, states, that six minutes was the
usual time occupied in the descent of a tree;
but that in wet weather, it reached the lake
in three minutes.
• Tbe 'nines of . Belt... io Mexico are sup-
plied wish umber from ibe Wlyseent rooantal as by
a elide similar to that of Alpuitch. It was con-
structed by SI. Flume, • gentlemae well ac-
climated with Switzerland.
Mr. Arthur Atkin, in Me ." Natural [list*.
ty.sf the Yeti," narrates the first vital func-
This is the race,' a of the rap after the troto
is moderated, and the earih sufficiently
thawed. The atmorbedt veseefs composing
the inner bark reed) to the extremity of the
fibres of the roots, aod thus, through the
roots, imbibe water, which, mixed there
with a quantity of saccharine matter, forins
sup, and is 'from thence. abundantiy distri-
buted through the trunk and branches to
every individual bud. The birch tree in
springi on being tapped, yielded/reap, which
is fermented into wino. The palm tree In
the tropics of the satne season pads its sap
by thi• method, which is made into pitloa
wine, and the sap of the sugar inapa
North America being yielus the
maple sugar.
"This great acceiwion of nourishrnent
(the sap) causes tbe bud to swell, to break
througo its covering, and to spread into
blossoms, or lengthen into a shoot bearing
leaves, This is thefirst preemie, and, pro-
per;y *peaking, Is all that belongs to the
apriaging or elongation of tree, ; and to
many pirate, that all 'those which are
annual or deciduour, there is no other pro-
cese ; the plant absorbs jiiicee from the
earth, mad in proportion to the qiiantity ol
these juices increases in size exparde
ite blossoms, perfects its hurt, and when the
ground M inespalde by drought or ferret ot
yielding any more moisture, or when the
vessels of the plant me not ahle to draw tt
up, the plan tyeriehes. But in tress, though
the boginning and end of the first proctor
is exactly similar to what take: 'place
vegetablee, yet there le a second process,
which at the emine tirue that it adds to thetr
bulk, enables them to endure and g„; on in-
creasing through a long series of yeare.
" The second process begins soon after the
find, In this way. At the base of the foot•
formed ; but the absorbent veseele of ibe
leaf Paving exhausted themselvev in the for-
mation of the bud, are unable to bring it
nearer to maturity : this state it exactly
resembles a seed, contatrung within it the
rudiments of vegetation, but destitute ol
abaorbent vessels to aOlifilin and evolve the
embryo. Being surrounded, howevc-, by
sap, like a seed in motet earth, it is in a pro-
per western for growing ; the refloeses ot
tho sun sets in motion the juices of the bud
gni of thereto, ea the hat operouit tn
both of them /5 10 send down root. a cer-
tain depth into the ground for the purpoire
of oteainisg the necessary moisture. The
urn the isnot bark of the tree. till they
reach the art covered by the earth. Wass
moisture, civring to the clogged enedition
the absorbent vessels, cause Dm fruit arid
to fall, oo that, tscept the provietin
of bud. with root'', the remainder of the
tree, like annual piano, entirely dead : the
/suttee tboi Bower*, „and keit ate pee, aed
whet was the Meer bark, 18 Om Wire or
genteed, while the 70•it. Di the bed. term •
sew leiter bark ; end thus the beds with
their rusts Millie all tbet remora alms et
the whole tree. it is *win to thus enamel
meastioe of the ismer lark, Oist the tree
added every year, we are lo.nce
with an easy sad exact method ef &scar
ing the age of wee by meeting the nu/vi-
bes et coucentrict cucies uf which the Meek
is tooposed. A tree, therefore, properly
sleeking, Os rather • congeries ot a multi-
tude of animal plante, than • perennial in-
Thp rap in trirea always rises as soon
as the frost is •bated, thxt when the swim-
uf the warm weather in the early spring
act• upon the bud, there should be at hand
a supply of food for Its sourishmeut ; and if
by any means the sap is prevented from
aecondrag at the proper time, the tree in-
falibry perishes. Of (hie • remarkable ;p-
ittance °crime(' in Loedon. during the
spring succeeding the hard winter of the
year 1791. Tbo snow and ice colleming
to the streets so 44 to become very incon-
venient, they were cleared, sod many cart -
loads were placed io the' vacant quarters of
Mourfirlds ; Julie's! of these heaps of snow
and troxea rubbieh were erred round
of the elin-trees that glow there. .At the
return of spring, those ef the trees that
were not surrounded with the •novir 11-
panded their leaves as usual, while the
uthera, being sti/I girt with a Jorge frost It
mase, continued quire bare ; .fur iho
was, the absorbents in the lower rart of the
'stein, and the earth id which the trees 'toed,
were still exposed to a freezing cold. In
some weeks, however, the ieow was thaw-.
ed, but tbe greater number of the trete
were dead, and those few that did produce
any leaves were very sickly. 4' d coritinued
in a lenguishing state all summer, and there
From the Pilot.
EARL GREY'S DESPATCII.
We have now to consider the most im-
potent part of Fair/ Grey's Despatch, arid
which has caused very great disserisfaction
tO Our political friends. W. refer to the
'recourmendation on the tobyect of pensions
to mitairc officers generally. It m true that
in England de rigid oi pubtic servants tu
retiring pedaloes. him lung been recegniud
by act ot Parliament, anti British maiesuren
ot all parties *emu to be in favour of it. --
But it notorious that In Caumla pulite)
opinion is decidedly the other a .
If there is any UM suteect un which the
people are MOM united than another it is
tit being opposed to the principle that the
vervains of the puldic are (Riffled to re-
tiring rumens as matter of right. W•
.etionot Clue, ourselves to believe (bat Lar1
Grey deeires to force upon the Caoadran
people a system ',loch thee entirely diaap-
prove of especially as he bas ktnurelf laid
down the rule that " the threctiun of the io-
tended policy of the Colony should be en-
dtsposed to receive his advice with Leery re-
spect, but we should protest against any
dictation to the Colony, as to the course
to he pursued watt reepect to the te
of the public. We might adduce amity at-
gumenis against the system of pensioning,
but we are so fully aware that puoltc Lipton,*
is decided on the subject, thet le do nut
deem it necessary to eolarge moth epos it,.
Why, W8 ark, ahoeld the officers of got- -
eminent be placed on a different Mumeg
Truman other claimer, ol the cornuiunity
The professional man whether ho lie
divine, a lawyer, or a physician, the Mer-
chant, tradesman, or mechanic, must de-
pend for his future sUpport on the earrings
which be snay maker yet ef his present W-
eenie. If be neglect to mak* such prom-
Ite ts liable to be reduced to beggsre•
There is now every &catty tor peewee
ego, or Jur their far:111mo, to obtain it by
means uf deferred annuitiere life insurance.,
loc. and we see UO geed rearon why the
officer.; ut goeereineut shuuld not b• placed.
prectecie the 3ame footing as other !Mai-
tre,. of the comintiuity. We do not bellet•
that in Sam country the greater certautty Or
re
tenure ot attire has produced the result*
ch thirl Grey seems to expect. The
gets of the public are not particularly
tieguished for capacity, and w• Murk on
whole interior tke'ssrvaet• •
armee corporatt,,ns, and tif private loth
%iduals. And this Is the natural reoult irf
the 'lateen. It an duel obtaitte a oil -
soon In a bank Of rail road or land Coups -
Incapable of pt frontons the vrork'asergeem
to On to this eatisfactioa of boo rumps ,
he is sure to be protnptly (hammered, an 1
the tdea of LI* baring dooms on 6111 04.00) -
er would be scouted. un the
hand It Is contended that • situation under
government le 1, he held duraii tile, ali
moreover that the tocumeeot Lammed to
• tearing penman utter 1,cor,aerr period or
service, and the consequence is 16.3 every
tude of officommeliere, three fourths of
whom perhaps are not quitlified for tipt
Armee which they seek. It a man or dm -
wooed for rocipacity, hie eall.• Is /WV to be -
liken bold of by a pole teal party, tad he ts
represented as • indriyr. The true system
would be to pitC• the public sorvaoto on
Th. setertaility of these tenure or utliew
wared iedluee rest* , sou tit WI
ore Oa the leoult WiSelel be that tale 1V•ok
erveld 11. performed with une•ball. bit 40W -
SW el bawl, .• Leed Grey • rec./Leaned tos
propriety id demeniewmg piddle efftsere,
unit nes* sairmemiteri, but hew he tiflo
"woo., ealhoso." to he derided 1 Pt
will aver ha admitted ay oho boorre4.41
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