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Oat The Huron News -Record R1.50 a au.tr- 1.•-'S in Adran.M: !�'calue4.11ty', Dceetuth er 1, It4.t47 •t®tom Stafford vw. McDon11e11. Itov. E. A. Stafford of the •Intro- politan Methodist church, 'Toronto. preached to a large congregattou, giving a review of Iloy. D. J. Mao Donnell's recent sermon on total abstinence. Rev. 1Ir. Stafford took for his text htotaans see., 21.—It is pet teethe. to eat 11'-1l, nor to alriulc wino nor anything . whereby thy brother stouthh.t h, or 3s made tweak. I. Corinthians. viii., 13--\1'11e1•efote meat snake my hrol.her to offend, I will eat no flesh virile the \vurld sIaltdollt lest I slake my brother to offend,. The paster of a great church in this city has given us a recent sermon on the text in favor of moder- ate drinking. To suspect his motives or his honesty in his treatment of the subject would be a baseness which Mr. Macdonnell would never attri- • bute to any one whom he wouldnot- ice at all,and I shatl,therefore,take no• more time up on his eloquence or ability or honesty. Viewed calmly, the sermon is an attempt to .check the effect of the obvious interpreta- tion of this and kindred passages, which has beeu.almost universally concurred in for a long time I ao not see as much danger in• this sermon as many seem to do, ohiefly because it is a somewhat labored attempt to prove what is generally believed That ie,that there is no sin per se in drinking intox- icating liquor. '1'o me there is noth- ing new in this announcement. I have saki ft rnd heard it said again and again. the Most earnest advo- cates of total abstinence do not class the drinking of liquor as a sin with lies and theft and profane swearing. Let it not .be overlooked that this conclusion is,the not outcome of Mr. MacDonell's effort. lie does not claim •that it is any man's duty to drink. ITe says, "Are we hound theta tdrink ? \Inst assuredly not, no more than you are hound" to eat piokles." So that he leaves us jus' where . most thoughtful sten stood before. In itself it is not a sin to drink intoxicants. That is •alt.• But I do not want that any word of mine may eause any one to do or think ttniustly of Mr.':facdoutiell's effort. iie has really given much support to total „abstinence prin- e:pl_s. '\'his is easily discerned as soon as the reacher can lose sight of, the labored effort to vindicate a liberty not worth ,vindicating and which, I think, nobody denies, the liberty to drink .lvhen it is exped- ient. To l.rgi t :with, there is an setter - tion of we wisdom of total abstin• once until a person ie twenty one years old. This is rather-dog:natio and arbitrary, and, logically, is a con- tradiction of the very principle of liberty which he has been laboring so hard es maint tin, but it is good as far as it goes. It is difficult to per- ceive on jets whet grounds this re- commendation is based ifa•man is tt b Tin drinking after that time. I woul I put it just the other way, and let boys drink until they are 21, and then abstain 'forever after. Beyond a d.lubt this would secure the safety of a larger number than the other plan. Then Mr. Mac:lennall • labors through several inches in a column to break the force of a certain Scrip• tural argument against drinking, supposing that some irregularities had crept into the priestly office through drink, and having done his • utmost he ends the paragraph by giving it: all way and handing the whale enter to t;ta es en argument in favor of total abatighjttce. It is one rare case of a preacher being con- verted by his own preaching. • •• Then I understand him to admit that after ail a regard to our brother's safety should have some influence in determining whether •we should drink or not -so that there is much in rhos sermon from which It0tal abstinence reformers may be' en- coureged. The champion of modera- twn and self control cannot get away from the strong reasons in favor of abstinence. 1f there were no blinding by negatives of the legi- timate issue of the text with which ha started, the sermon had not carried its head without turuiug wholly over to that view of Lhe case. Let me take with thanks the help given and leave the truth to work its own way. The great principle embodied in this discussion of Paul will thrust itself forward continually, and no evil issue will long depress its force. On Rev. Mr. Stafford's Reply to Rev. D. J. Maodonnell. (From rho eilobt.) Sia,—Will you permit me to an• swer Mr. Stafford's reply to Mr. Mae- dolmen.? ac-dounell•? Mr. Stafford admits "that there is no sin, per se, iu drinking intoxicating liquor." Yet he says that S01110 who read it (lir. Macdounell's sermon), who ars "moving .feebly in the path• of reformation, may tlis- oor: r a w' leu •ss in their impelling lr1UtI%'e) and turn aside," ot&.. I ask,. if they turn asi.lo to that which is not a sill, as he admits, crow eau harmC'iltlO to thea ? :\gaol t —"Now•, though it is not said in words, yet the fact of preaching that sermon at all 1s suftleient to leave the rulpressi.7u [het at least in some cases it is more uxp,•dieut in drink than, to abstain." Certainly it is: St. Paul did not luawe the option for !nothing. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, Matthew Arnold, Dr. Bain, author of "Mind and Body;" Bancroft, the historian; Maximo Du Camp, Hyde Clarke, Wilkie Collins, Professor Dellinger, Dr. Dowdeu, Mr. Fronde, Mr. Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Ilauterton, Frederic Harri• son, Dr. Stanley Loathes and a host of others I might name, are not men without common sense, and all of thetu hayo found , it "more expedi- ent to; tlrrl.k than to abst.tin." Mr. Stafford says :—"What reason could havo led hnu (Mr. M.) to break the silence by calling men to such a use of their liberty." What is liber- ty for, if not for use ? If Mr. Staf- ford'swords mean auythiug they mean that there aro certain things In the Scripture about which silence should not be broken. This means that we are not to search the Scriptures, that there is soIn(thing to ho kept back. Was it for this that Luther, Zwin;lc and ?.1eianetlu)n fought ? And if dripping is not a sin, as Mr. Stafford adluits, what right~ lino Ito to preach that \which is 1101 e*,cutial to sah•a- tiou ? \there. does Ito gat authority? Not in the Bible, nor from Wesley, who said the clergy were to "teach nothing as regnired of necessity, to eternal salvation hut that which may be concluded and proved by the Scripture." Total abstinence is not imposed by the Scriptures, and \ir. Stafford admits that it 1s not, for he says "there to no sin per se in drink- ing intoxicating liquor." Mr. Stafford says ;—"I do not sup- pose -that any one ever yet addressed these. passages (of Scripture) to drunkards with the hope of reforming them. 'I'o thong the only effective exhortation is to try by the help of God and 'then, to break off the oyil habit." Is not quotiug passages of Scripture trying by the help of God ?• If so, why does he complain of Mr. Macdouucll'et application ? Again Mr. Stafford says :—,'When Paul wrote there stood between him and those who suffered in conscience froth meat and drink a middle class who dill not suffer at all. His appeal was to this middle class . . . What is that middle class in relation to temperance? Undoubtedly those who can drink in moderation. The claim that Mr, Macdonnell snakes, that if Paul had been address- ing this middle class to prevent drunk€Inness he would rather have neat the words, "Be not ye, therefore partakers with theta," etc., is not g•')otl, because they \vert 40 Ito danger of falling into the sante weakness." Speaking pi the wines of Palestine, IIIc, Stafford say., .—"If when the fcrulentod jnico of the grape was the easy\\ gest drink of which then suede any use," etc. Let ate tell ilir. Staf- ..ford it was not the strongest drink, for spiced winos, and liquors with herbs, Intim, and skirrett, were used The passage in Prov. xxiii, f31, indt- cafes that strung drugs were used, for it effervesced and left its color in the metal or earthenware cup of that clay. Again Mr. Stafford says :— ',Tow thoughtful persous will be. shocked by the statement that Pant and iris fellow•tliseiplos, if living now, would apply -tome principles which they taught in a manner different front what they did." Is this not an admission that "le rev. gentleman was applying Fel-. .1. s er Paul and the disciples in 1.01 :1' different from what the duh ? The only ati-twor to it, however, is :—If the manner of the Disciples' teaching or the principles they taught should in any particular be atnonded for the present day, then they aro not in every particular a safe guide for ns. Again, Mr. Stafford would have us believe there was little or no drunk. rands in Palestine, and that Christ "probably never saw a drunken ratan.,' 'There are a great many passages in the Scriptures which world leas] nit to believe that drunkenness was prevalent among the people ; and it would be atrauge_indeod if He who went among the worst classos and lived half an ordinary lifetime amoug them, never saw a drunkard. Yet it world not matter whether or not He ever saw ono for IIe knew what a drunkard was. Mr. Stafford says ; —If every statement (of Mr. Mac - 'tl emeeeireeieseerionieweetieetapeeereles dounell'et) were fully proven and uoth- iug assumed, still it would be only setting up the laterality of 2,000 year:; agotd Mr: Macdouall certainly dM not accept the morality of 2,000 years ago, nor of any age. Ho dououueed sin as common to all eras, But he accepted tho teachiug of Christ aud His apostles in the first cuutury as the guide for all titue. Mr. Stafford makes light of the liberty Chet Paul gives. I think anything .that Paul gave should not be undervalued. On reading the matter over I find he placed greater iutportaucu ou liberty than ou the lesson lir. Stafford was so anxious to impress on his hearers. Paul emphasised this peiut again, "Why is my libertyudi;ed by auoth- 'er's conscience!" "Let each be fully assured in his owu uiiutl," "My defence to theta that exawiu.s hue is this :—Have we no right to at and drink ? etc.?" "Let no man, therefore, judge yon in 'twat and drink." Mr. Stafford admits drinking in moderation is not a sin. 't'her'e aro thousands who claim it is a virtue. and deutautl the cuutinutuicc of tho tight to govern themselves. Yet Mr.Staffortt uses his iufuuucu to bring about Prohibition, which would take front these thouseu^ls the right of conscience in, the matter. Proltibit- iou does not leave a plan free to the guidance of his conscience, therefore it is-coutrary to Scripture. 711 Doeembt r. W. T. TASISE. A Oomparison. A. week of two ago the Spectator asked tha London Advertiser to figure up the increase or decrease of population in the New England States and compare the result with the result of similar figuring on the population of Canada. The Adver tiser declined to undertake rho job, probably for the . reason that it felt quite sure that the result would not help the great cause of Commercial Union. But the Sl. !'hostas Times, undeterred by the considerations that govern the Advertiser, has plunged boldly into the figures, and brings forth a sotnewhat astonishing result. Comparing :Maine with the maritime provinces, the 'Times finds the figures to be as follows ; 1860.1 1.`S0.1 Increase Maine . 628,279 048,430 28,157 Mar. Provinces., 552,940 761,714 178,774 That compnrtsuu covers •t p.•riotl ut' twenty Teats. 'Ile Times then makes a fifty year comparison, including Priam. E lIVIu•al Tslanrl among the provinces, 1530.1 1880-1 lnt:rea,,,r Maine .399,455 0.48,4:36 21',051 Mar. l'roviuces..275,179 869,491 184,110 'file next comparison ineltides Maine, New Hampshire and \"canton on one side and the maritime provinces :1111 (.jueliec on the other 1130.1 1880-1 Increase The States9;1),4;1 1,327,7 1.1 37"S,'278 I'hc provinees821,11I 2,2.27,)90l 1, ;1)9,4.11 Another ccnupmiken rovers 1111 grutuld, including all the all provinecs of C:tiiayla on on,) side and the whole ,ef :'sew Eng hold—\lassaohttuetts, [thude Ia:uul, fou- lueetieat, Vermont, New 111111 hire and Maine on the uthsr side. The h;, l:o:.'mc these : 15:30.1 1880.1 lnetta,a, titate, .1,053,717 4,010,024 2,050,13tat Provinces, .1,005 ,215 4,111,!,24 3,‘065,209 'thus it will he spelt t.h•tt while the New England .States have e d. ,6.iled I heir population in, hili' 1 tcutwy, the Canadian pv011111005 71.i 1 twat 1414 well. Cintas 10 think of it there is mood wanner+pial union argument in these Ilgnres. it is evident that the. New 51o71:1(1 1 Slate, are in a ticplo'ablo condition ; that their re• sources are, not fully developed ; that eaip. ital fights ,shy of them ; and the e�oe.lus plays'liavoe with ,theta, •awl that their tanners are hopeless and helpless. ['here is no salvation 1'o1. the New in, land states bat the wiping out of cite t:,is• (out houses that they may extend the market into Canada and .get melt out of the new trade with ties millions of Can- adians. It is to be hoped that when Mi'. \\'itnan finds it convenient to visit the NOV England States he will put this_ phase et the question strongly before Chir ,tuhfortuunte 1)00114.—spectator Indian Ward in the North-West. Below we give a synopsis of an address delivered by ltev.MrMcI)on- ald, Presbyterial luiuistery of Sea - forth, in Goder.ich on Monday of last week. It is taken from the ,Slut. It was almost cruel of Mr, ;McDonald to publicly make sttlte- ruouts in his capacity of minister of the gospel, so utterly at variance with those which his bruth'tr Refor- mer Mr. 31'. C. Cameron so loudly proclaimed and so per.eisteutly; and broadly promulgated (luring and previous to' lest geuer:tl election :-- • A:e announced in, 1lit's' columns' last w'eok Rev. tri'. Mcl)onaltl, of Settfoi'th, delivered an address in Kuox C'hin'ch on 'Monday evening, under the auspices of the \\'un.us,, Anxilliary home Mission,Society. He recounted het visit to the lielie1) reserves in the Northwest., as one of the 6 delegates appointed by the Presbyterian Geeeral • Assembly to visit the reserves in conlplience with the invitation ext•'it it i by Liout.-Goveru r !Yee': ,e•ie 'Ch1, object of the visit wee to test the trout of the .reports of neglect end nlignlanagonlont, and to son what was being accomplished in the eche cation awl care of the Indian Nem lh, The six deleglteas were accouipenied by2 t other lumbers of that body and three clergymen of other tienontine tions. Tho C. 1'. R. generously furnished free transparlatiun firm Winnipeg to Regina ei el return. Tho speaker referred to the resolu- tion passed by the Assembly in 1886, condemning tho alleged treat- menti of the Indians, an 1 he candid- ly admitted that the deputation was quite prejudiced in their opinion of Goveftior 1)ow•dnoy end the govern- ment officials generally. Bet their reception at Regina was a pleasant surprise—the Liont-governor wee found to be a pleasant, courteous and oapsble official, and every kind - noes emsfacility, for trate fullest ob- servation wero•ahowu•the'viaitore. Tho storehouses under the charge of the agent were inspected, and the flour and bacon which the de- putation had expected to find very bad, proved to be the best, and their agricultural implements all that could be desired. This was the state of affairs at all the reserves visited, and the various tribes were undoubtedly making good progress, and were well looked after by the instructors aud agents. Tho diffi- culties of educating and training the aborigines to an industrious and e.ivilized life wet ally recognized by ,the speaker, and gave abun- dant reason fur his be that the government was doing a good work in its management o thein. Ho referred to the article vhioh appear- ed in, tho press (first ' the Globe) after tho delegates rotu'ned, alleg- ing that they had been hood-wiuk- od by Governor 1)owdney, who, it was stated, had bribed the Indians to be all at work the days the de/e- gates visited each reserve,. and in other ways fixed things to make as good a showing as possible; but that his plans had nearly Inas-carried on the last reserve visited through a -delay of ono day on the part of the visitors. This story Mr.' Mc- 1)onald chtuauterised as false from beginning to end,, and he added: "1f Governor Do}vduey dial accom- plish all this title showing by brib- ing the Indians, and pulled the wool over our eyes, and made all this display in two days, you ought to have hint down hero in Ontario --be twoild bo better for you titan ten Commercial t'nions," The story was preprusttrrous—the results shown 011 those reserves could uuly be accu111pIisliecl by years of peticllt labor and careful training of the Indians. Marriage -Making in Iroland. It is one of the contradictions in the Celtic race that, amongst a peolile eminently poetical, marriage is t41tltost entirely platter of busi- ness. A father having a marriage- able sou looks about among his neighbours for a girl whose portion will, about match what he is prepar- ed to give his -boy.- Tlhen, the girl being found, there is a consultation with her father, and a mt:oting takes plaee'rtt the house of oitCer, at \vhicli the bargain in!? being satis- factorily concluded, the match is spade. The girl's father begins by offering a su1111101 stun than he means to give, which offer is treated with scorn ; then he advances bit by bit throwing in now live pounds, now a sow, till he has reached the limits of his intentions. The hailtls, are clasped' into each other with a tae• mentions emphasis, the girl and the boy, who have been waiting while their fate hank in the balance, are culled i11 and informed of the happy result, and the evening winds up with festivities to columetllorate the match -mak ''1 About Pet Family Jokes. . What is you fret joke 1 Every- body has a pet story, and it is generally the most stupid one in the world when you hear it. People aro Mostly polite about that. They laugh just to save the teller of a story from humiliation. It is not fait' because it siuiply encourages the Ulan to go and toll sothebody else. Of course, 1 have no sense of humor myself. I knew .that most people who tell hue stories go about and •k lel: and say 1 spoil the point of them when I put thole in this column. .But somehow they keep telling :no them. 1 havo made several of them deadly enemies. have told ale stories and I .havttt't printed them. Tlioy have been pct fancily jokes, too, and 14011r ut' them 1 havo had too inucll reepeet fur to expose thele in their chi ase to a heartless world. But I newer )net anybody w'ho had not a pet joke wjlieh he would toll with the most profound enjoyment ..as often sane cunld got a chance. I -rr.uuotuber 01100 ata big moss ill the Far F,o,st n new man came along and when he gut hold of a bottle of' beer he said cuntontiously "llaer fills Many a bottle and a bottle fills platy a bier." They laughed, and he used to get this off before every stranger that 0011111 to the table. It got tiresome. 1)11) evening there was a crus1d at !hoe r, auci jest a;i he w•as getting ready to tiro it off the gentleman at the heel of Inc table rose up, a glass of beer in his land , and Raid s )leinnly' :-- t with "(ientlentl'n, beer fills many a bottle." The gentleman at the foot of the table rose up after him, and said equally solemnly 1— • "And the bottle fills many- a hies." Thi+ ceremony they kept up for a while every night to break the ,joker. 'then force of habit stepped in, and for years that ceremony was gone through at the mess table every night until it became a kind of religious one, handed down from each head of the press to his successor. A WASTE-I.ff ;ft4FE. The old Man wtao He 1x4&u -a n in the W1 ht and Thought or' Mother. In the quiet waiting room of the Grand Trunk depot iu Lewiston eat a gray whiskered old fellow in a broad-brimtued hat. Ise had boon studying a timetable with some perplexity and had just laid, it aside. A question from him relative to tbo starting of the:trains for Oxford county was introduc- tion enough. His voice was hoarse, but not unpleasant. His inflection was odd. Being a Down Easter, it was safe sor the writer to guess that the stranger tuns from the West. "From the West 1" "You bet," was the reply. "Going to Oxford county 1" "That's whore nu going. Conversation was desultory until the Westerner opened up. Said , he, "It's thirty-two years since I see the hills of Maine. I was raised up in, old Oxford County. I reckon I aiu't thought o' these -hills since 1 were a boy in copper - toed boots with a good old daddy— too good, God bless him, for nary such a youngster as I were. I loft holno when I was 16 and went out West, then I calve back and went to sea. I coasted eight years- and in '55 wont on a deep sea14yage. And brought up in California, I've been there over since. Have come bank now." "Alone 1" "Aloub 1 Yes, alone ! That's the bother of it, my boy. Nary a darned eoul there or hero as I know of that cures whether I get here or not—a lonesome old Ulan. Dou't you du it. `lake iny word for it, it's awful. 1'ur thirty-five years nothiug to thick of but work and dig and dive. No wife. Never lad none. No friends, except boys in the diggings when 1 1irsf went there, and in, town where I've been rutinin' a little business of my own for the past eight years. Nothing ahead of me fur the past twenty years but gottiug rich. No letters from anybudy as I knows of. Nothing in my dreams but money. Nothing else in the visions df the mountain !teaks, nothing else in, the chaugin' surface of the Pacific whenever I've caught a glimpse of it. I've beou a sordid, mean, low- livod•skinlliut part o' the timo, and m 1•uistei•in', tetuin' fellow rest of it. Loukin' back it makes a lump in, my throat, buy, it do honest, and I agree that a wasted life is the aw- fullest thing beneath the canopy of blue. It makes hue sick. I don't like to think of it, I,like to talk, ye see, to keep away from thinking of it. "Goin' "back to the old place 1" "The old place 1 h. ! I es, the old place. Leastwise that's what I reckon on. What do you suppose made me 1 hadn't thought o' holuo fur thirty -rive years. Hadn't been to church to speak of. It were only just a song that chid it. A little old-fashioned song that--.I- heard in the evening, three months ago, 'bout a Mother who wanted to -.know where her w•auderin' boy was. It cause up out o' the night way off there beyond the Mountains and I thought of my old mother, God bless her, mud of the old place. I couldn'tsleei) worth aecnt that night. I turned and twisted and sweat great drops. I kept thinkin' about home and about all I had ever read or heard 'about it. Seems as though I could see the old lady's face look- ing into mine, with eyes full of love, as good as she did when I Was a kid. I thought it over for a day or two. Life didn't look half so rosy out there- ,\'act is I wanted to go house, just hone, nowhere else, and you bet 1 started when I )Wade up my hind. I think I only kind o' want to sec the grave of my mother and fix up the family lot, you know, and, do you know, my boy, I been sort o' boldin' on, to have a good cry (solneihin' I ai•u't known for thirty years,) and when I'm dome with that, and when I've shied around and seen all T. want to of the old place, 1''ul goin' to Bos- ton tc.sce a brother of mine, and thein back again beyond the Rockies end die there with my face toward the East. I could afford to do it and I ain't the sort to be asilalned of it. Lot 111e tell you duo thiug, though—all •of life and all its gold ain't worth the loss of your molhor's love. Put that down to keep ; for if you was 1110 you would be able to prove it, and wouldn't run any risk of bnittg lured away from it by any of the other things of teakIt's tho best thing the Lord givos us, and the last thing, I'm tl)tnl:in', Ile ought to take away." rialiougioggssagaiwstsammostast 0R UR j TCOV4PaPlan Our Holiday Gloat. Two years ago last July, toy bet- tor -half, one tnurniug after break. fast, carne and placed her arms a fe fectionately un my shoulders, and gaziug into my face, made the por- teutuus remark : "John, dearest„ I don't think you are looking half moll.,, "Really, my love 1" I replied with composure; for I had never felt better in my life. "No, dear. You look jaded and worn out rather. You have boon stinking too close to that horrid work of late, and I aw sure you want a res t." Now, experience had taught r11G that these spontaneous manifesta- tions of sympathetic concern on the score of my health—which by a strange coincidence had recurred about the middle of every summer of our five years of married life— were the invariable preliminary to• a proposal for a stay of some weeks in .the country or at the seaside ; so, with a prompt and coululeudablo appreciation of the situation I re- joined : "That is to say, you mean that you are tired of' Carlisle, and would like:a change, eh 1 Well, T havo been thinking about it any - self, to tell you the truth. I sup- pose we must go somewhere. And what is the favored 81)01 that your ladyship . would like to ° patronise this sum hes' 1" "John, you are au old dear 1" an- swered ley wife with seeming il•re- levancc, but with groat fervour. Then taking up a newspaper she continued : "Look hero—what do you think of this Z" poiuting to the following advertisement : "Seaside Lodgings.—Porthpeull- wyd, Pembrokeshire. To let for any period between throe and six weeks, during rho temporary absence of' the owner, a comfortable cottage, furnished. Suitable for small f'am-- ily. Beautifully situated 011St. Bride's .Bay, to a village of three Hundred inhabitants. Battling and fishing excellent. Use of boat. Every convenience. Terms moder- ate. Apply X Z, the postofhcc, Pet•ihpoullwyd, 11. IS. U. "'What, iu tato name of fortune," 1 exclaimed, !(possesses you to think of going to as outlandish place with all unpronounceable jaw -breaker of a name Itke that 1 Why, it will take us two days at least to get thero ; and when we do get there, we may find ourselves in the midst of a laud oto• barbarians, in the ety- mological sense, who won't under- stand a word we say without an interpreter. You would be tired, of it in, less than a week, and find it slower than Siloth. "Impossible," said sho emphati- cally, els the recollection of a month spent at that watering -place rose .-v-ieeistly before her mind. "No, dear ; I thought it would be such a thorough change for us. You know I've always longed to go to Wales" And if the inhabitants are berbar- inns, as yon call thein, so much the more fuu ; we can havo all the sen- sation of being on the continent, and getting misunderstood, for, .less than half the expense !—Besides I don't think it is such an outlandish place. I believe -it is this Porth— what is it 1—that I have heard Ethel Austin speak of as ono of tho quaintest, most delightful old-fash- ioned villages you could' find. It was Porth—something, . anyway; and I know Ivy cousin Tom, who is in, India, one went down as far as St. David's Head, and simply raved about St. Brides Bay forever after- wards. And I thought, dear, (iu- siuuatiugly),"you always said you liked a quiet place, and, that the racket or a fashionable resort was no change fur you," tic. I caved in. To make a long story short, tho mattcr'cndcd, as 'every sensible reader Itas foreseen it, would, in my writing to )C Z .(a, gentleman. it turned out, of the nue common nem; of .Tones), and settl- ing aft;•r satin story inquiry, to take the buuse for a Mouth from the bo - ginning of August. Accordingly, we left Carlisle at the appointed time, a party of four ; the other two being Master Jack—the junior member of our family, a sturdy 3 oung gentleman of the mature ago of three and -a half—and his nurse, liaria Emma (pron., "\faring-enl- 1(1 1") wh') was his constant and. devoted Attendant. Iresist the temptation to expatiate on the events of our journey, or to. haunch forth into detailed descrip- tion of our travelling miseries, which culminated in the seemingly —The Buffalo Coulm•rettl 11,'1411:: interminable ride in a crowded old- odness that there 18 opt '° myth " fashioned stage -coach along a road the nature of which has already been snfflcently and graphically ex- pressed by the laconic description, "Sixteen miles and sovehteon hills.'" Very novel and romantic it was, no doubt, to sit on the box of a last century coach, with the horn of the postillion tooting merrily away to awaken the echoes all around, and the. crack of the driver's whip com- bining with the sound of his terrific guttural objurgations to stianelate.- the flagging energies of the horses. g0 the scientists and ratimialists cannot explode or otherwise kill off. We mean the sweet lie about Santa Claus. That little fiction is as healthy nnd vigorous as ever, and has a tight to he, for; it is good enough to be true, if it isn't. Its influence is in the niralready, and 1N much more welcome, if we de say it ns shouldn't, •than the opening of Parliament, or even the upproarh- ing demise of the present Common Council.