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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Signal, 1850-11-07, Page 1TIN SHILLIMG/I Iw ♦ata OCU. S VOLUME III. "THit GREATEST POSSIBLE GOOD TO THE GREATEST -POSSIBLE NiiMI = GODF.RICH, COUNTY OF HURON, (C. W.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1850. Ije guron igliat, re parlfae ale ewstia■1D Tae0WA, BY THOMAS MA('QUEEN, "rima ass ►sorIIOToa. comma amenaT'$QuAae, 001011115011. •.' Beek and Job Poetise, 'mated with amoral and dispatch. Tara. o, run Hera. grout. -TEN SHIL- LINGS per seam if paid strictly in advance, or TWILta ani SIX Pasco with t6a ezpintio• of the year. No paper di•eootisoed until arrears are paid op, salmi the publisher *Maim it his advan- tage to do so. Any i.dividsal is the eeestry hee.tsai•g re - "possible for au abeeribsn, shall receive • the copy gratis. ItT All letters addressed to the Editor most be post paid, or they will sot be takes eat of the post once T airs or AAAAAA MOM. eta Tines aid ,.der, first homilies Each eobeogeeetinsertion Ta lives Rod seder, first iasertioa Each sabsega•ut ilsertios .. 0 0 10 Over on Ours, first issertioa, per 1iee, 0 0 4 Each phonies to«,ries, 0 0 1 IT A liberal dtooast made to Chow wee advertise by the year. /026 ou7j 034 sm pottrn. OCTOBER. IT sane sues CAasT. Not the Tight e( the lop, blue 8amater, Nor the 6.wery huntress Spring, Nor the chilly and mvasug Winter, Doth pace to my boom bring. Like the hay sad red October, Wbe• the woods staid bare and brews, And into the lap of the eouih nod, The bows are blowing dews. When el Dight long. in the meolight, The boughs of the rooftree chafe, And the wind, like a wandering poet, Is singing a mouroful waif. - And all day through the cloud armies, Th. sunbeams coquettishly. rove - For thea io my path first nafolded The sweet passtoc-flower of love. With harm as pale as the en -"bell, And soft es the rise swots, And leek. like the wt -brawn shadows 1■ the light of the wakes sea, Cam the mades whams wonderful beauty E.ebe.ted my seal from pais. And gladdr.rd my bean that w never, N. steer be happy again. For away hoot liar's pais and passion. Aid oar Ede* el Ion, she went, Like a pale sear (raise ee(tty From the mora .g•. geldea teat. Bat oft. whips the Warn, of Antonin Is warm with the 8*nnner bourn, We met is abs palfd ah.a... That border the led of dream.. Tor. seeing my saw through t6. 'pleader That bevels about her above, She pots from he: forehead the glory, And Hummel/Ma to my love. A•ouriew tars Durermiin.—The George - tow. RepshI..us of Wednesday says: -A meet- ing of the Committee of Satry and citizens were assembled te-day to tab into eosaideretlo the condom ..d depertme•t Miter two Maine geetle- ntao, Capt. Beardsley of the schooner George and Wiliam. aad one Scott, pei6.ps a officer ea beerd the same vessel, who were regarded as fit subjsets to leave Immediately, and without ceremony were waited os by a committee ago misted for that purpose, .ad invited to leave is twe.y•feer bears, sad tot to return under. pen- alty of a owl .( tar and teethe'. Subsequently. however; a ommittsesaw them safe on board of their vvasel at .erase is ear hay. aid 'Mead .et. The pPiple hare taken their Mosinee. Tato their ows bsidi, and, astray be imagined, it is atten- ded to as it should b..-(C6arleeto Mercury. Fuemvs Stove Law. -Is Masachaaetu the foaling of reaiatasce is more general than to say other part of the Eaten Bates. Meetiage have bees held is Baton, Lowell, and other eitiec, whieh proclaimed death to any we who offers to sweet a fugitive lave *oder the m•eslroos law which retie the North fiber Arles, and eessigoe e bet.g, made is the image of Godois the (ettera of slavery. The Bw'o. Chreaeypa, of reesot reosai'sties, bas hoisted the basset of define* te the law, sand calls epos all friends of rhe slave to pretest at all hazards, the Attritive is his free- dom. The Lowell Americas, km called epos thea slaves to stay where they are, or If they tome goes be Caasde, to mems back, & Mt the makers el thole. toe it there can be Mead men to take them sway. Away from the seaboard this feel- ing prevails is Mai.., New Hampshire, Ver- sos*, Mods Wand. Masssebubetts, and Con- necticut to se uiraotdiesry degree, and then is se teabt the execution of t8o law will be resit- ed without re ga0 is conaeq.nee. 1a Ohio, the fall.,prsvot 1f passible, to a greater ..teat Ores is sores of the New Engked States. Then ate a great may fugitive ohm in the intens sad e•nbmS Nebo.. •1 the Brats, mid beth po- linesl porno. see `ser.W to obelitiwism. The Bests sed Cemptemissal •44,e ties* take place to day: sod thosgh rano uv bot tweCeognaiee.l medidaw who ere avowedly tree miler", there is set tee of either party who d.is oppose the .he Ilties sasvemvat. LAae Hurs•tos,—Aaa,v.L ow Correa. —The Propeller ladrrwtdeace came down es lb. II lb Inst., with 199 toes of copper ie maws sad stay work. from the Cliff Mies. The propeller Arspeia.a brought d weesterdey 20 tone of sapper from the Cliff Mites. Ietbie shipttisest of the i times gte sev.rmiswee of .sersaeie weights.-- The eight. _The largest weighs our f,000 Ihee—three oaken, 4.900, 4.800, 2.214 gad a Acus mm ., weighing as follower -3,700. 2,600, fr20, 2,000, L684 2,774. 8.800, 2,3.4 $p0 0b 11.940. 2,800. Then f. • mats new ready for shipment alt the North Watt Mies, weights, over 6,000 Ilia This kis mut promising mine, bwie( .bippa+ Nim see.es over a >eedr.d ion .1 sapper. sed beets( es head, mil to ease forward Ude Tall, about two bri- dled tens sf the same sort. These steamers are bristle& dew., every til* •least, teen or kw a7 same* she the aiambems Lawlor sed Peca:rikti M us - study labia( N bases. i1.bssbsseue ea suety day be.1...s to seemimeos of rep - re areletair sad &poetise, sed ea thin se- em% we de let amiss etrw►y emelt Alp. ,rirw tlbep4r ('Aldi MIL Afrin) Isersa AGRICULTURE. Linsaso..—The seed of the fi.ir plant, or linseed, bas long been known by farm. en to be a very nutritious substance ; as well as one that may be used to advantage in certain complaints of cattle, as a ears and efficacious medicine. The whole wed boiled soft, and, together with the water in which it has been boiled, is given in many parts of the country as • cordial drink to cow. after calving, and as a tonic to pro. Mots recovery alter an illness. But, like all seed. having • strong envelope, when administered in a whole state, even on be- ing boiled, is •pt to paw through the diges- tive orgasm of ruminating animals unalter- ed. To derive all its nutrient property, it should be used only when bruised or conver- ted into meal. In the form of meal it has been need, after being boiled into porridge or jelly, as an seen food to milk for the older calves, until they are weaned. Lin- seed sept, when boiled and used hot, forms also an excellent poultice for the drawing of any sore that may affect an animal. Ott.-cans.—Oil-cake has been long and much employed in Engla nd for the feeding of cattle. and is making its way in that res- pect into Scotland. It consists of the compressed basks of linseed, after the oil ham been pressed from It, when it is form- ed into this oblong -cakes. The cakes, when need, are broken into pieces by a machine. Cattle are never entirely fed on oil -cake, which is always associated with other substances, as turnips, potatoes, cut hay, or eat strew. When gives with cut hay or stew, an oz will eat from 7 to 9 lbs of it a -day ; and the bay or straw Induces rumination, which • the cake itself would n ot dq. Oil -yaks and cat meadow hay form a very palatable and nutritious diet for oxen, and is a favorite one in England. - When given with turnips and potatoes, 3 ba. or 4 lbs. a -day will suffice. WELL, WHAT FRIT?—Somebody hes invested a machine for milking cows. - When we first saw a notice of it we supo Posed it w.. a joke, but the Rochester American refers to Has follows : kimono Cows -=-A New MErson.-The n ew method of milking which oar readers may already bare seen something of in the papers, is no joke, but a practical reality. - An informant of ours witnessed the opera- tion in the farm yard -of Joseph Fellows, Esq., of Geneva, but a few days since.— india rubber bags were drawn over the cow's teats, which set close enough to six- clode air, in the lower end of which metalie tubes were inserted, closed by taps. When the four were adjusted, the laps were wilbefrews, and the milk streamed from eacb teat into the pail exhausting the 'whole quanttty in the cow's bag, in half thulium that it would take to milk in the ordinary way.. is a useful invention, against which, no valid objection can exist, and will be likely to come into general use. The prime cost of a met -four milkers, we shell have to call them, cannot exceed fifty cents. They are simple ; easily and cheaply manus factored. When cows are stalled, it would seem that one mai could milk ten in fifteen minutes, 1(6e wu supplied with the milkers for each cow. men can afford it. If you starve them they will starve you. It will not do to hoe a great field (.r a little crop, or to mow twenty acres (or five loads of bay. Enrich the land and it will pay you for it. Better farm thirty acres well than fifty acres by halve.. la dry ppstures dig for water on the brow of • hill, springs are more frequently war the surface on a height than in a vale. The foot of the owner is the best manure for the land. Cut Mahe. that you wish to destroy, in the summer, and with a sharp instrument, they will bleed freely and die. Accounts should be kept, detailing the expenses and product of each field. When an implement is no longer wanted for the season, lay it carefully aside, but first let it be well cleaned. Obtain good seed, prepare your ground well, sow early, and pay very little atten- tion to the moon, Cultivate your own heart aright; remem- ber that "whatsoever a . man soweth that shall ho also reap." Do not begin farming by building an ex. ten.ive house, nor a spacious bun, till you bavd.omething to store in it. Keep notes of remarkable events on your farm. To M•AN:Me IIAT IA THa STA.C..—Mors than twenty years since, I copied the fol- lowing m•thoi; of measuring hay from some publication, end having verified in general accuracy, -I have both bought and sold by it, and believe it may be usefu: to many (armee, where the means of weigh- ing are not at hand.—" Multiply the length breadth, and height') into eacb other, and if the hay is somewhat settled, ten solid yards will make • ton. Clover will take from ten to twelve yards to every ton." How To agar aorraa.—Fill 'kegs that hold from 199 to 140 lbs. with well salted butter, and when beaded up, put each barrel oto common sized pork; barrels with brine end keep it in a cool cellar. io the month of November following the butter is found to be as good as when first put up. A STRANGER'S OPINION OF OUR CITY AND GOVERNMFNT. Ong of the Editors of the New -York Truth Tease, one of the oldest and most respectable Irish Catholic newspapers in the United States, while on a visit to Toron- to a short time since, writes as follows in his Editorial correspondence. Some of our readers would do well to bear in mind the closing aeotence. of this extract; they contain exactly our own views on the same *object, and we have reason to know that the same feeling is generally entertained on the other aide of the line. Few cities of an equal size possess so maoy magnificent poblif buildings as Toron- to. Among the most imposing, we find first of all, St. Michael's Roman Catholic Cathedral, which is decidedly the hand- somest Catholic -Church in eatber of the Canada.. The Style is that of the Middle Ages -Ornamental Gothic, showing the principle of the wood -work in the interior. The Cathedral is one hundred and ninety- digAt feet long and eighty wide, the Iran• scepts being twenty feet eacb. Immediate- ly adjoining the Cathedral is the Episcopal Palace, a handsome structure of the same style of architecture as the Cathedral; it wee built by the late Bishop Power, who promoted it to the decease, ae also the ground on which the Cburch it built. The Cathedral when entirely completed, will cost not far from one hundred thousand dollars. I have seen no Church either in the United States or Lower Canada which will at all bear a favorable comparison with the Cathedral here. The Cathedral of Notre Dame at Montreal is an unwieldly and ill proportioned edifice, displaying but little Catholic tate in its style and decor- ations. The late churches which have been erected by Keely approach nearer to their standard than any of the others. Ow great adeaita a which the Cathedral here possesses, and which we should like IMPORTANT IlvaleTtome.--Every Wenn kis ova Camila maker !—We were yester- day presented by Mr. Ezra Clark, of Port- land, Maine, with something new, in the shape of • Candlestick, which makes and wicks its own candles, out of melted tallow, lard, or any grease that will burn. It has- hes. well oboved that " there is noth- ing of a utilitarian out that is above the aim, beyond the reach, or beneath the no- tice of a yaakee," and the promo. invention (nes to prove the truth of this remark. - The advantage of this new article, bays the Portland Tranecrtpt. which is at ranee Can- dle -,tick and Candle maker, aro manifold. itis about the pia* of a common lamp, of a mist sad w8tantial appearance. and for the cost of a pound or bo of lard, grease, or tallow, gives a clear sad steady light for • week, allowing it to be burned four hours per eight. The tallow is melted sod poured into the %ewer chamber of the can- dle stick--. qurentity of wicking having been previously inserted -sed when it has esSomatly cooled, a few turns of the bet- ties beteg out a easdle all wicked sed rea- dy for use. This candle can always be kept at nit length, does sot drip or run down, sed, hoe lose of Ibe florist, vibr*tiag • untie• ea vetratloee to the eyes el ..s44/111. All this is effected by a very simple motel - trance with,. the stick, and its eheepeese and meat we tbisk, recommed it to peerad ass To ieemN. and .there, whe always have s plenty of tallow er lard an head, it meet be vary esef.l, waist, as it dost wary sae his airs mulls esker. - Nisei►uiveudeker. Pewees sae Tnstse.—It to as siren to pls.*.sad Seat a State timber Smith. 1s • eehl moue oily the teed from a colder IYee3.tsfY tips tewll. PIMP lamp year oasis aborti fav fan of introducing a measure rendering the council elective at the late sesioo, but it hes not as yet been taken up. It would be a moat desirable reform and would cer- taioly meet with general approbation throughout the country. The Govern- ment of Canada is daily becoming more and more democratic, and how else could it be, situated as it is upon the borders of the great expounder of Republicanism. -the bead gnuters of democracy. It is said in futon, Parliarneut will sit alternately in Toronto and Quebec, in fact l believe monies have already been appropriated for the erection of suitable buildings in Quebec The Atmosphere of Montreal is rather too hot for the political health of our Canadian Legislators --you of course remember that the Parliament Bedding. were burnt to the ground by a mob last year, and that the Governor was assailed in the public streets d Montreal. You must not havo any faith in the annexation scheme of the former tory party. There is not the least sincerity in their protestation., and it is merely to an- noy the present ministry that they have adopted their present "hod and cry." It is all talk with them; the Lord preeerve Re- publicanism from such defender.. -Toronto .Mirror, FIRST DISCOVERY OF CALIFORNIA. Oa the 15th of November, io the year 1577, Capt. Francis Drake wiled from Plymouth with five ships, carrying 164 men and officers, proles- "Ply rofesssadly oe a voyage to Alezaadria, in Egypt, but really with the intention of wiling into the Pa- cific Ocean, where the Eogluh flag had been seen before. After paasiog the Cape de Verde Islands, he ailed during fifty-four days without the sight of land, sod then catered the River Plate. After supplying his vessels with water from that great river. Drake wiled mouth - wards, and passion through the straits named af- ter the only tircamssvigator of the globe who had preceded him -the straits of Magellan, be entered the Pacific Ocean on the 6th of Sept. - He arrived at Valparaiso on the 29th of Novem- ber. He pinadered the town of 8t. Jago, when he look a booty of 45,000 piezoc of very Nutted fine gold. Proceeding thence to a port aimed Tarspace, he landed, and foaod a Spaniard sleep- ing by the seaside, with thirteen bars of silver lying by him, of the ,alae of 4000 ducats. He' took the silver and left the owner to 6si it his nap. Not far from thence, going inland fur wa- ter, bis men meta Spaniard and an Indian boy driving eight lamas, or sheep of Peri, which are big as asses. every one of which had on its back two bags of leather, each bag cootaisiag 50 lbs. weight of foe silt•er. Btiogin` the lamas and their burdens to the ship, they found in all eight cwt. of silver. Theses they proceeded to Aries, where they plundered a vessel containing fifty- seven wedges of silver, each weighing 20 lbs. - On the 13th of February they arrived at Lima, where they plundered alt the ehipsin the harbor, ie on. of which they fousd a chest fall of rails of silver, rod good store of silk. and linen cloth. - Here they heard of a rich treasure ship named Caeaftego, which had sailed to Nita. They isonggmdduaely gave char. but ea arriving at Pal- ta, wand that the Cacafuego had sailed for Pa- n ama. They at once renewed the chase, and in the canine of it they picked up a vessel, which contiaed 80 Ib. weight of gold, and • crucifix of the same metal, "with gnat emeralds set in it." Continuing the pursuit. they at Inst come up with the Caeafeego, widely well repaid them for the trouble that it had given them. Besides preeioui mom they found thirteen chests of rails of silver, righty pound weieht of gold, and 26 to.. of uscoined silver. This rich eapt.re eau made off Caps St. Francisco, about 150 league. from Panama. From this point they proceeded to Gsatslcn, sed thence toCeoo, when they ca- ressed their ships. On leaving the, Island Ceno, "which is in eight degrees north latitude,"Drab raome.l his cruise, and took another rich Pip- ▪ ed being now satisfied with hit booty, he deter- mined to return home by the islaods of the Ma- iners., and " thence to sail by the coorue of the Portugal., by the Cape of Bona Esperanca."- Fer this purpose, he rax northward for 500 leagaw. to get a favorable wisd, and on the 5th day of June, "being is 43 deg. towards the Pole Arctic, being speedily creme out of extreme heat," Drake found the air o cold that his men being pioehed with the same, complained of the extremity thereof ; and the (anther they west, the more the cold iscrased "poo them. Wbere• upon they theagbt it best to seek lard, which they (.sed mho sot meastu.o.s,but plain lead. "We drew back again ;says the historian of the voyage) without lading, till we eame within 36 degrees toward• the line. In which height it pleased God to send as into • fair and good bay, with a good wind to eater the some." This country was so doebt the eneurry which bas re. cosily become so 1....s soder the nate. of Cal- i(orsia, and this bay was probahly the great bay of S.. Francisco. The tohebita•us came down to the shore, gays Drsk. • very friendly recep- tion, and the king offered him the Government of the eos•tr "Wherefore, in the name and to the u se of herMajesty(Queen Elizabeth) he took the sceptre, crown, and digo:ty of the said country is ►fa hands, that the riches sad immures there- of might o oovesiatly be transported to the tepee introduced into every Catholic Church earichieg of her kingdoms -.s it abosedeth in the is America, is the absence of pews. There sante." "Then L no part o(esrth hen to be :e not • single few in the entire Church- tekeo up wherein then is not some special Ilke- every one has a chair to himself, and poor lihook of gold or silver." At his deperave from and rich are tithe placed upon an equal foot- the co.atry Drat. est op, as a monument of his ing. We have no hiring seats for • month havi., hoe■ then, .s air of her Majesty's right or • year, or selling them Drat auction to sed utllito the same, " a platy, naid,d spiv a ft► rv.t pest, wheraopeu saes eegnved Ger Ma - the highest bidder -let Toronto ban the *le, (QOM; Elisabeth'.) name, the day and honor of doing away with this detestable year .(ear arrival there, with the free givug op sod aatiCatbolic practice. Then w also et the provisos tete her Majesty's heads. tog•t6- another Catholic Church in the Eat E.4 er with her Highseeesa's pictan sad arms, and R of this eity-8t. Paul's. Among the most elm of size's*. of Eaall•h eeriest meaty;"a•- attractive of the public edifice/ we find the der the plat. was *, o wriues the tams of Cit Ball justerected--UstiCalorie Asylom D"b. •it esem•th ;roam.' hislen•e of the . Lawyer'. hall -the Uoiv.rett of agr) that the h. muster y bete in this part of the eeoary: irnher did ever Upper Cased*, which is sot yet completed- dt«.ver the Issd, by soppy degree se te. moth - the Goveram.nt buildings, melodist the wards( this place." Roth wee dm Pepsi .1 upper sad lower houses of the legislature, this lad .f geld. p.blisbed i. Esg1•sd, id t8• and several other Churches belonging to reign of Q•er. Elisabeth. It .enslely is oaf, e( venous dsn.tmnatioe•. The population of the curiosities of history that tee Ent Iwd ever Toroste :a shoat twenty-dve thousand. It takes poes.aio• .f by the Dogfish es the coui- ssods tare meesbere to the Provincial Par- sent of America should have hoes the famous hamyl sad is at prm..., the soot of the California. and that It eboald ha.. been oreapied Colonial Govegsttatet. The =matey at owls tetra before the Int attempt eau made to Prim"' is N Boat eoMo r the prsviseee, .81.8 hear eisee *owe takes from Poirot pew of m.mbsrs , to b. the TAMP Sato. 0 AmseisaT-Asitu'a total ie knew. here, a. the ;Nom., ye, Lisseposi. Reform party. Several of the autotimers ass [rightism tad esthetes, •mom( the for- Miim• Comtawres.—His greelleney teat nes dad the lisssrsN. Freeing Hiacks, the (keener Geaern! has bees pursed to learnt/sr Geoehl, Itwsorable Mr Drum- direst that ail iadepsailest Ribs Coe*p•ny, teoed, Ssiisstor Guars! far Canada East; be formai s4 the Csbored Militia Mee of Liafset•iee the £4Is..y femoral few Lower the Gusty of Rsdiessed. to be etyl.d the Canelo f. s Pruett Coesdiae and • Heldiniand Inde endeet Ribs Compssy- Cathelis. The present guerament appears Nn guelleney the Governs General to her Flfosaqame( the. ps.pis. The. hes be.e pleased to illegal eo ANellory C.rspssy, .t ier the form.tlof _ppaMbagwiN•tthe Ls(tmlauv. ashes l t'we-oil, is set lain year 8ws.a,, Meets we. Coburg. 1• be styled the Coburg Isd.psa- 1t is applaud by abs mi.4.t, 'ablest diet Artillery Caepasyt the Retire of this bsppgewi et lib Quorum. Than w... cesapssy tis esegslss the Towasbtp w( snip mare e1 the ei.istey's lasladisi do Taws N C.he.v(. There is a naivetes' stir about education. Statesmen -philanthropist -thee clergy - and all patriotic men, in all countries, evince unusual anxiety en this subj: ct. It is one of the most popular themes that can be shown by those who write for the peri- odical press. Wo find it discussed in re- I views, essays, acid newspaper editorials, on both sides of the Atlantic, with unpar- alleled interest and ardour. This is a goodoige. It shows that the public mind 1. roused, and that public opine ion, in regard to this matter, is taking a right direction. For the question is not, wbether the people shall be educated -that is admitted to be the grand desideratum— and the advocates of ignorance have either become an extinct race, Ir have slunk into obscurity, ashamed to avow their cause :- but the question is row may education, of the most useful and effective chuaeter, be secured to the whole population ? There are still to be found some permits, we are aware, who affect to be friends of education, but in heart detest it, and who are continually intrguing to get it under their own control, that they may administer it in homieophatic dozed. And there are some, so contracted in tbeir views so bigo- ted, so intolerant, that they repudiate all educational institutions which are riot con. netted with the religious community to which they are attached, and governed by its clergy. They even expect the go- vernme0t of the country to found apd sup- port scat institutions, at the public charge. It is scarcely necessary to say that we have no sympathy with such persons. But we are bound to cofess that they constitute a body of formu!able opponents. They stand in the way of enlightened measures. Education, to be really serviceable, should be conducted on comprehensive and liberal principles. V,'hen we say that it should bo ronipre-' kenaire, we mean that the avenues of know- ledge should be freely opened, and that all children should have the opportunity of learning as tducb as they are capable Of, in the time which is devoted to their instruc- tion. The right employment of that time is of the highest importance. It is a true) thing to employ children from day to day, from month to month, and that for succes- sive years, in merely learning to read and write, with perhaps the additiun of a little arithmetic -their reading lessons being dry and uninteresting, conveying little or no information -and and no efforts being made (probably they would not ho allowed) to in- struct the popils in science, history, and other branches of useful knowledge. There wore many School. of this kind in England a few years ago. They were mien.called " National" and were chiefly to be found in rural districts, because in more populous place. they would not have been tolerated. The children were cooped up all day in small ill -ventilated rooms, spending half their time in idleness, and their meagre a1-. lowance of instructitn was intermingled with recitations of psalms, catechisms, and prayers, that the education might be called " religious." But they gained neither learning nor religion, and when their course of instruction was finished, they were still is a deplorable stale of ignorance. If similar plane are adopted in soy part of Canada, the results will be the same. - Happily, this is hardly possible where the Irish National School Book. are introduoed and faithfully used. The general adoption of those invaluable aids to instruction will issue in unspeakable benefits to the youth- ful population of this Province. What e boon it would be to (.ower Canada, if Go- verement would procure a limitation of those bouks into French, and recommend their introduction into the elementary Schools of the French Canadian Distracts While this part of the subject is before us, we may advert to an motels which ap- peared in one of the journals a few days ego. It contained an account of a visit to an educatioo•I euablishement, one of the conductors of which is representee as saying that their design of the establishment is not to prepare their pupas for the Colleges, bob rather for theater's sad the workshops ; and that their instructions comprise " the French and English languages, arithmetic practical geometry, and drawing." Now, if this is all, it wants comprebeos'veness.— If the attention of the pupils is• devoted to words, figures, lines, and colors, and these pursuits, in addittoo to religious lessons, entirely occupy their time, they may acgotre eipertnees in the abovementioned partira• lairs, but they will be lamentably d, fic:ent m useful knowledge and mental itwl,rnve-, mint. We do net say that thin to the case: the aeronomy it a to be pre•oined, inad- vertently mistimed a portion only of the branches of education included in hie Wu. canoeist system ;bet it for an dtos- melies. Over Schools most anpply know- ledge of awn and things -of the past and primeval slate of the world -and of the weeks of fled, as well as of words sad 0- litglt ria. 1s order to news the eemprehessive- S TWELVE AND SIX PENCY AT TOM a0D O► TIM TSA•. NUMBER XXXVIII. new we have been 'pealing of, in the. - meotary Schools of this part of the Pro. vioce, we need an Institution for the train- ing of Teachers, and a perpetual inspection of the Schools by competent aid impartial perilous. These are among the most pres- sing wants of Lower ('atia,la. We shall continue to bring them before the Public And the Legislature, till some meaeurc of relief is provided for ter. Education should ba liberal as well as comprehensive. That must be discussed another time.- Pilot. • POLLoa'a "Cottage or Ttrltt."—it was in the sprit of devout self -cons icratios that Pollok entered on the compositions of the "Course of Time," in the beginning of December, 1844, and at }he age of tweaty- seven. The first hint of los poem, we learn from some interesting remloiacences by hi. brother, was suggested by Byron's lines to darkneaa, which he took up one evening in a moment of great menta` deso- lation. While perswng those lines, be was led to think of the resurection as a theme on which something new might be written. He proceeded, arid on the same night fin- ished a thousand verses, intending that the subject of the poem should be the Reeirrea- ttao. Meanwhile, thoughts and images crowded upon his mind, which it would have been unnatural to introduce, under such a theme ; .when all .t once the whole plan of his work row before him, with the completeness and the vividness of a pro- phet's vision. " One night," says his bro- ther, " while be was sitting alone in Moor - house old room, letting his mind wander back and forward over things at large in • moment, as if by an immediate inspiration, the idea of the poen struck him and the plan of it as it now stands, stretched oat before bin. so that at one glance he saw through it from end to end, like an avenue with.the resurrection as only part oftbs scene. He never felt, he said, as he did then ; and he shook from head to foot. over- powered with feeling : knowing that to persue the subject was to have no midd'a way between great success and great fail- ure. From this titne, in selecting and ar- ranging materials, he saw through the plan so well that he knew to what book, as he expressed it the thopghts belonged when- ever they set up their heads." From this time till the finishing of bis poem, his whole soul was on fire with his subject. In the old ioum at Moorhousc, Ind Eaglesham, when hastening to join the worshippers on the "hallowed morn,' on the lofty summits of Balagich, and o(tenee% of all, when he communed with hie own heart upon hie bed and was silent. he was struggling with his great argument, and seeking to give to the images of truth that moved before hie spirit "immortal shape and form." Thoughts rushed upon his mind as if, like the widow's cruse, it bad been supplied by miracle, and only the weep ripens and faintness of his body seemed to clog the movements of a spirit that, at this period, spurned repose. . There is one fact cobnected with this compositibo which we have peculiar plea- sure in recording. His brother informs as that " be kept the -Bible constantly beside him, and read in different places of f,, iii. cording to the Wore of what he was com- posing,. so that his mind, it may be said, was all .long regulated by the Bible. - Finally, he prayed to God daily, morning and evening, for direction and assistance in the work." "The Course of Time" is thus literally the fruit of prayer; the inspiration that dictated it was implored nn bended knees; and those beautiful linea of hie invo- cation are not a mere compliance with the fashion of poets, but the genuine "cardi- phor,ia-the deep utterance of the heart." Many who drop a tear over a penes in distress world do better to drop a aizpeece into the sufferer's hand. There is a paradox in pride; it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. Resolved Dot to be poor. Whatever you have got spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness, it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others, extremely dim - cult. Why is the hub of cart wheel like a hand. tome young lady* Because its always eurrnunded by feller.. To ascertain the weight of • horse,' place your toe under the animal's hoof. The Boston Post say• that young tip- plers should get the following by heart. Men brandy drink, and never think The girl. at all can tell it; They don't suppose a woman's nose Was never made to smell it. 1ieo"11y OF one OT Tan HUTCmir.nl FAwrr.y.-.We learn t' at one of the Hutchin- son Family, wo believe Jodon, was taken east want nn Friday evening a a slate of rav- ing insanity. They were giving concerts at Cleveland, when this melancholy asterion betel thorn, and were, of cootie, obliged to suspend them. Tttouaaods wbo have lis - toned to their singing. will sympathize with I hem. - Rsckester Detetrerat. 1.ATcR rains Ca tl,roavma.—The steam- abip Philadelphia, Horn Chagrm, by easy .d Jamaica, arrived al New York en lea Saturday &Pernoon. Th. Philadelphia bring. 194 p secngers, end 110100.006i. gold dust, beside. a large mosso to the hada of the paseengdn. CAUTrnw TO GniL..+-Tbe yensg mos fall nn the', kn.ei before yon. bot ,..iamb.',( ie hent es the infantry hero,. the eavatry, that they may enagner and kill, or the hes• tor who only on heeded knee takes aim at M. ,inks. Cnaoe Ter Amuse Tae ATuwrvc.—A Bostonian prop.'.. to take see bedevil psaesngen to 12e exhibition at Leede.. twat May, and bark agate /w (100 with en addition of IMO for .vciell.et fire. The .hip to reraera three ,heftbe.