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THE SKIPPER'S BRIDE. Oh! fair was the face of his promised bride, As she stood on the deck by the skipper's side; But the bloom on her check decayed and diod When the mariners, lifting the anchor, oried
"Heave, hot though the winds blow,
The sailor must labour aloft and alow," Then her lover, the skipper, so brava and bold Smoothed back her beautiful treases of gold, And he kissed ber lips that were wan and cold While the sang of the mariners loudly rolled,
"Heave, hot though the winds blow,
The sailor must labour aloft and slow.".
And he took one tress of her golden hair, And he gave her a golden ring to wear, And her young head fell on his bosora, where It lay in its sorrow and beauty rare.
Heave, ho though the winds blow, The sailor must labour aloft and alow.
the heart than the more serious ones after life produces.
Jokes are dangerous artioles to play with. A joker should understand their nature, and the nature of his company well, before he introduces them,
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The man who labora to ba witty loses his breath, and is considered to have rathor
weak mind.
Never was there a truer sentence written, and one which, view it in every way, muet And again he kissed her and said, "Fore-reenit in the same conclusion, than "a
silent tongue showeth a wise head."
well,"
fell
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And the words from the lips of the skipper On the car of the girl like the saddening
knell,
As it drops at eve from the passing bell. Heave, ho though the winds blow, The sailor must labour aloft und alow.
Then she went ashore at the lighthouse pior, And parted from him whom her soul held
dear And she watched the ship o'er the waves
сатеет,
Till it faded away in the twilight drear. Heave, bol though the winds blow. The sailor must labour aloft and alow. And months went past and then nows of grief Was brought to shore that the "Royal Chief" Had struck and sunk on a hidden reef, And all had perished without relief.
Heave, hot though the winds blow. The sailor must labour aloft and alow.
And we heard a moan like a ghostly cheer.
Heave, hol though the winds blow, The sailor must labour aloft and alow,
A ghostly cheer, and it rose again. Like the babbling prying of drowning mon, And we saw a shadowy crew, and then We know that they were not living man.
Heave, bol though the winds blow, The sailor must labour aloft and alow.
Then the ship moved in till she touched the
pier,
sear,
And her hull was hofod and her sails hung Twas the "Royal Chief," and a mighty fear Whitened the face of each person near.
Heave, hot though the winds blow, The sailor must labour aloft and alow.
THE CALAMITY ON THE THAMES,
THE NUMBERS LOST AND BATED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE FUTERAIN.
On Sept. 9 the funerals of a large-num. bor of the dead took place at the cemetery at Wickham. Nothing could exceed the respect which was shown to the processions as they passed along the streets. Shutters were closed in all the streets; on the river flags were half-mast high, and the church bells were tolling nearly all day.
DEPOBITING OF THE CREW).
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[No. 1778.—October 26, 1878,--
for the condition of the inside of the wreck The principal is that conducted by Air is the love of privacy. You love to keep you arrive from China, Japan, or parts un- was one of the greatest confusion. The Cartier at Woolwich; but Mr Lewis is yourselves to yourselves,' as you call it, and known, and feel that the out of your clothes No; it is witnessed in the experience of furniture was found, piled and looked to also conducting an inquiry for Esox at carry, this prejudice with you all over. and your hair is not up to New York every one; in the friendship of life, in the gether in quite an unaccountable way, and the schoolroom, Creek's Month, Barking, This love of privacy gives many hotels the style, you can be fixed right off the reel family circles, in business; what misunder-the heaped-up tables and phairs effectually it was arranged, however, that he should air of model prisons; the silence and the You can have a bath and be shaved, get standings, what ruptures, what bickerings, frustrated any attempt to enter rapidly. do no more than take formal evidence of gloom which overspread them are so de- your hair cat, your moustache dyed, your strife, and irreconcilable differences have Every object also was clothed In mud, identification; and if, at the close of the pressing. I will not go the whole figure, eyebrows painted, and your ears syringed; arison from one-idle word! It may have which covered the floors to the depth of Kent inquest, the result should be satisfac. and say that there are no good hotels in you can buy underclothing, shirts and been spoken in jest, in a spirit of levity, in more than three foot. One of the first to tory "to his jury, it will merely meet and England; but they are few and far between.. socks, cravate and gloves; you can get an attempt to be witty, or it may have bean make their way into the after-cabin said return a verdict of Found drowned." Becking a good hotel is rather like seeking yourself rigged out in a suit of clothes of said innocently or inadvertently, with no that the whole place looked as if somebody There is another inquest at Stepney, which good wile; and, as the late Mr Lincoln the latest fashion; you can put on now aned to say, 'I am reminded of a story boots and one of Melton's latest hata; you ́ motive and no intent; and still, for some had been doing as much harm as, he could will take the same course.
After the inquest on dept. 11 Mr Carttar which neighbour Quachenboss is fond of can buy a bottle of perfume or a box of cause of which you are totally ignorant, a with an axe and hammer, and the descrip certain party applied the remark, and in a tion could hardly have been improved upon. and the jury went on board a steamer at telling after his second cooktail, Marriage, Cookie's pills with equal case-alt without moment a fire-brand was kindled.
It was some little time before anything was the Woolwich Fior, and, followed by Mrssys Quackenbosa, is like patting your setting your foot out of dours. You can I found of more importance than beer bottles Samtida's stem launch, bearing the police hand into a bag containing ninety-nine enter a obrysalis, and emerge a butterfly. I and glasses, but the searchers at last came flag and carrying Superintendent Hindes snakes and one eel. You may get the eel, had nearly forgotten the hotel cerk, upon that which they would willingly have and others, proceeded to the spot on the but the chances are against you. That is This gentleman in a peculiar product of avoided. In the ladies' cabin, where it had Kont there, a little above the powder so, and it is the same with English hotels. American civilisation; he is ever présent probably been washed by the water, the magazine, where the two halves of the They are some of them big things, and are in the spacious office, and knows everything, body of a man was discovored in an ad- wreck are beached. Both the vessels which elegantly buils and furnished. Perhaps from the price of stock to the moment vanced state of decomposition. Soon after- bad brought the jury and the police down this may result from your contractors not when the next train starts; he is Brád- Somehow shaw, the & BO, the Post-oflise London wards one of the lightermen, named John to the spot were moted alongside the being no amart as our boys. Waterfall, came upon the corpse of a female Conservancy barges, on one of which was you got the stuff put into your big struc Directory, Burke, Debrett and the Royal under a table in the after-cabin. The body, Mr Wood, preparing to accomplish the last tures, and I guess you have not many re- Rod Book-or their equivalents all rolled though sadly disfigured, was evidently that work of lifting quite out of the mud and cords like that of the City Hall in New in one; he in prepared to take an interest of a fine woman. The deceased had on a water in which it was half-sunk the boiler York. It was a good idea to make your in you at once; he will take a charge of green dress, a black jacket, and black kid of the Princess diice, a orsuo being in raadi- railway dépôts into hotels, and is almost your money, act as your banker or agent, side spring-boots. Further search but too mees for the purpose. The jurymen were clever enough to make one forget that, and pay for your parcels when sent C. 0. quickly brought to light a third body, also rowed in the police boats the short distance with all your talk about comfort, you D.; he has seen every new play, and is pro
anch institution as Adam's pared to give you the benefit of his 'experi». A careful analysis of the numbers taken that of a woman, which lay buried in the from the barges to the after part of the have no
a lo ence; he has read Ouida's last new novel, on board and landed, which was laid mud under a large piece of oilcloth. These cundered vessel, which lies about sixty Express. It is pleasant to run before the coroner on the 7th September wore the only bodies taken from the wreck, yards from the fare half. By a little exer-comotive right into an hotel, especially and has heard the latest scandal down town by Mr Hughes, unlicitor to the company, The views of those who considered, that the tian and some contact with the mud of this if it is a good one like the Great Medieval or up towa; his appearance is majestic
The ho is clothed in purple and fine linen: ho showed that, by the pler-masters' returns, disclosure of what the after-cabin contained unsavory shore, the coroner and jury ma- Junction, a kind of work of art. 491 persons went on board at Sheerness, would add yet another 100 to the number naged to get on board, when they took a Great Medieval in quite an institution, and oiled and curted like an Assyrian bull? and wears a brillinet of the purest water la and four left; that at Gravesend 81 landed of the dead were therefore happily proved brief survey of all that was to be seen. if a traveller wanted to get an idea of an and 79 embarked; and that at Rosherville wrong. In a brief space after the recovery That the vessel had been cut down on her ancient castle with all the modern improve bis spotless shirt-front-When you come to see us always be on good terms with the 183 more were added, making a total, with of the three corpses, the Heron, which has starboard side was so plainly evident that a mente laid on, he could not do better than 29 of the crew, of 652. But children under had lately such a ghastly duty to perform, mere glance sufficed to show the facts and visit it. The general structure is according hotel clerk, for he is a power, and can make six were admitted free, and there were a hove in sight, and having received her melan- the next subject of remark was the thinness to your A 1 Gothic architect, and the or mar you. The great Fifty-Fifth Avenue considerable number of these; and obildren choly freight, steamed to the dockyard with of the iron pistes, which were crumpled up inside is quite a sight, with its big äro Hetal bardly shines as an architectural Afterwards, having places and fire-dogs, and sasient square triumph. There are folks who say with a under twelve were charged half fare, so the bodies. After the discovery of the hu- like so old kettle. that two were reckoned as one adult in all man remains, nothing of an eventful naturo thanked Mr Hindes for his attention, the cornered get-up generally. You can sleep sniggor-that the author was inspired by a The coroner re-ambarked with the jury on board in a medieval hall in the best modern vision of a whitewashed packing-case. the returns. The coroner therefore adds occurred at the scene of the wreck.
After some thought, I have arrived But then people don't live outside of 150 for children, bringing the total up to lighters, instead of being close together, as their steamer-leaving the pouce launch to style. 802, To this reckoning Mr Wrench Towns, on the previous day, had parted company, return to Woolwich and went on to view at the conclusion that a poulet à la chevalière hotels, but inside them, and in our hotely Heave, ho! though the winds blow, the general manager of the company,two remaining near in shore, and two over the actual spot of the collision, placing that I consumed in that house is about the the guests do live on the fat of the land. The sailor must labour aloft and alow. replies that the number given at Sheerness the spot where the lost boiler was lying. their vessel in the position, as nearly as best hotel dish I have tasted in England. Yes, air. There is a story told of an En was distributed between three steamers, As the day advanced the people began to possible which must have been that of the You have also your very exclusive, your glishman who arrived at the Fifty-fifth And we stood on the lighthouse pier that and that his own impression is that 550 to accumulate, and shortly after noon the Princere Alice when she was struck. It was high and dry family hotels, where you diue Avenue Hotel a few years ago, after a 580 was the outside number of those on Woolwich boatmen were plying, as busily night o'clock-an hour nearly correspond. Fin your own rooms in gloomy state, as if rough passage over, feeling a powerful ap night And the skipper's maiden was there so white board, including the crow and the stewardo. as on any day since the catastrophe, being with the time of the collision when you were assisting at the funeral of your petite, he looked at the programme and digestive organa The dinners are not noted the hours for meals; he observed As the crest of the wave in the moonbaats It seems, however, to be quite certain that tween the pier sad Gallion's each. So the jury returned on shore,
good, but you have the satisfaction of that breakfast was served from seven to bright,
all these official estimates are far under the inquisitive were many of the visitors that
privacy and the pleasure of paying extra, eleven o'clock, lunch from one to two, din And her eyes were lit with a strange wildmark, stace evon that of the coroner has the duties of the policemen stationed on
It will probably be some days before the It is true that your waiters are respectful,ner (à la carte), from two to five, dinner light.
been almost reached by the number of board the wreck to warn the too curious off
soon assumed a very arduous character. On soroner's, jury at Woolwich begins to re sad have by long praction acquired the (table d'hote) at half-past five, tea from six Persdus sotually accounted for,
About 150 have been saved; and, up to the shore hundreds of persons assembled,ceive evidence as to the accident; but habit of walking as silently an oats. If to nine, and supper from nine to twelve Sept. 11, 591 bodies have been found. A among them being many women who were various depositions have already been taken you venture on a remonstranco about the seventeen hours of copious refreshment. And while we stood on the lighthouse pier, list of persons saved was handed in on content to stand motionless for hours gron oath under the Merchant shipping Aot.soup, the sole, or the mutton, you are With the brain of a general planning a Capt. Harrison, of the Bywell Castle, has listened to-not insulted, as sometimes campaign, or of a London alderman fore We saw the lights of a ship draw near, Sept. 11 to the coroner by Mr Daghes, who ing at the empty hull.
made an affidavit to the effect that, in his happens in my great country, where the casting his dinner by tiny dots and ticks on And her hull was holed and her sails hungls solicitor to the proceedings at the inquest.
opinion, the cause of the casualty was the proud stamp of the waiter's boot-hools the bull of fare, the new chum struck out a Bear,
The list was afterwards added to, and the
Princess Alice improperly starboarding her intimates that bia vote is as good as your plan of action. He was not a mean, but a copy given below was increased by a few
Your drink, too, in good-that in so, hard customer at a deal and thought him. Dames after the coroner rose. It gives 152
helm, and that it might have been avoidedown. as the number of those saved. The addi-
if she had continued her course sader port and although your port and sherry are too solf bound to get the better of the hotel heavy for Americans, your light wines are proprietor. Well, he got up early that is tion of those found in the river to the
heim. number of those thus reported to be saved
Mr G. T. Long, the mate of the Princess A-1. Bat privacy and quietness are dearly one good polat about our native hotels, gives about 760 as the minimum number of
Alice, who has also embodied his statement bought at the price of gloom, Every they encourage early rising you are bound the passengers on board. Of the 107 bodion
in an affidavit, adde-In my opinion, the operation is attended with swiul solemnity, to get up early, whether you like it or not cause of the casualty was dareless naviga- and smoking, as a general habit, is kind of-that's a fact. You may, when you first baried as unidentified (some recognised
The first funeral was announced to leave tlon on board the Bywell Castle, and it sat upon. You feel that you are doing arrive from Europe, try to carry out your later being devoted), 63 were women, 28 men, sud 28 children. Biz of the latter the dookyard at ten o'clock, and punctually right have been avoided if the Bywell everything with frills on, that the slightest sleepy old-world notions of lying late in A Castle had starboarded her helm when the atop will land you outside of the proprieties the morning, bat 1 guess you will soon be were infants: Of the other deceased, 489 at that hour the procession started.
and diminish your dignity in the eyes of reformed and lead an earlier and a batter have been classified. Of these, 183 were mounted constable led the way, and in the collision beosme imminent.
John Byres, A.B., the bolmaman, and the servants, To figure it all up, your life; for what with the guests arriving by women, 147 men, and 100 children. Taking capacity of chief mourners were the charch- all the classified together, we have 185 wardons and overseers of Woolwich and a John Rand, look-out man on board the hotela are made to suit you and nobody the Owl train and other trains, and the women, 178 men, and 126 children; making doputation from the Local Board of Health. Princess Alice, corroborated their mate, else. They are English-very insular, and guests departing early to all the four gaazə Band sald-Arriving nearly at the top of are as different from ours as a prayerters of the earth, and the slamming of a total of 464. As the bodies recovered ars. Next came tour ambalance waggons, con, 482 or 481 in number, there are, it will be taining thirteen of the unidentified. All Halfway Reach, deponent abserved the meeting from the Derby-day. They to doors, the banging around of luggage, and tean, 80 or 40 unclassified, owing to the along the route the streets were llued with green and masthead lights of the Bywell full of good points in the way of quietness the general clatter set up by Biddy (the olerical errors in making up the classified people. At the cemetery gates the cortégo Castle over the paint, and reported to and civility; but, as neighbour Quackenboss Irish help) to let you know that now she is the chief mate, "Steamer right ahead." remarks in his classical style-Quackenbona in America she is as good as you are, and lists. An imperfect statement is the best was met by the Hoo, and Rev. A. Annon,
u percentage over, and the ecattering of which is at present available. Its record rector of Woolwich, who, reading the pro Engines were stopped. In a minute or bas that fine old Roman, Qaistus H. is sufficiently sad. No fewer than 126 sional sentences, preceded the bodios to two engines were set ahead, helm was hard Flaccus, at bis fingers' ende-Among the children about the passages, there is noiss little children, many of whom went on the the graven, of which two hundred were starboarded, and a caution was given by sweets spring up the inevitable bitters, enough to wake Bip Van Winkle himself. water by no choice of their own, perished, prepared. The coffine, which were cov- the master, "Mind the helm, on account They are steep in price. A few days ago, I If you turn ugly, and refuse to get up and in addition to about 200 women and 160 sred with black cloth, and severally of set of ebb tide." The Princess Alice walked with a friend into a first clues hotel take a hand to the general uproar, Biddy bare a plats giving the number of answered her helm quickly and rounded at a watering-place. We partook,' as will soon fix you. If you are not out of the body in the police books, were then the paint close to the powder magazine on your police officers say, of luncheon; the your room by eight o'clock, she will raise lowered into thirteen of the graves. The the south shore. The Bywell Castle was alimmest possible luncheon--two thin slices thunder at your door, and if this does restor addressed a few words to the crowd then a little to the north of this vessel, of cold corned beef, two slices of bread, not bring you out, will then gather two on the suddenness of the accident. The coming on with port helm. Tho master three potatoes, and two tankards of bitter spectators, who included many mourners hailed the coming steamer to starboard ale. For this banquet we were taxed side your door, and hold a kind of wake that had not found their friends, displayed belm, stapped and reversed engines, but seven shillingu, sassed an follows: lun- over you in a sweet brogue, thick enough Heave, bol though the winds blow,
great emotion. Before the first spadefuins the Bywell Cartle coming on with etemcheon five shillings, ale a shilling, attend to out with a knife. That will fetch you, I ance no shilling. Bat this is the way bet my bottom dollar, and you will turn up The sailor must labour aloft and alow,
The fore Baloon, where many passengers of earth had been thrown upon the coffins, struck the Princess Alice.
Christopher Dix, the pilot of the Bywell with English hotels; they are eccentric in at breakfast an apry as a hawk and as hungry might have been expected to be aheitering a member of Mr Anson's congregation, Then the skipper moved through the sha-from the night air when the scadent Miss Broughton, of New Cross, went to Castle, said that he observed the red and their ways and their alarges. Their pro- as a bear.
dowy troop
occurred, was almost clear of bodies. Five every grave, one by one, and cast into it musthead lights of the Princess Alice over prietors are possessed with a one-horse idea
To return to my English friend: he was only were found, one of these being so sweet-smalling flowers, heartesse, fuchsias, Tripcock's Point, about three-quarters of s
of going it heavy on extras. They begin tightly jammed in the bannlater of the stair and geraniums. In the coarse of the day mile distant. Deponent kept his course, moderately enough; but they never leave up soon after aevea, with the appetite of s that the woodwork had to be out away eighty interments took place.
carefully watching the coming steamer, off charging; and what with attendance, dormorant who had bolted a bottle of before the leg could be extricated. In the The sad task of burying the unclaim. After the Princess Alias rounded the point and lights, and other extras, produce a Angostura bittere. Being properly posted, Heave, ho though the winds blow, forecastle, just abaft a water-tight comparted dead was contiated on Sept. 10, but hor red and white lights were two points total as steep as that smuggling institution began with a melon with pepper and umber and onion, and then took kindly to The saller must labour aloft and alow, ment at the bows, a place that is, ordinarily although the operations were on a much on the port bow and neatly half a mile the Rock of Gibraltar. In plain, simple, salt, and a few tomatoes out up with on- his hot rolls, bis Graham bread, a slice of speaking, reserved for the crew, no fewer smaller scale, the public sympathy mani-distant. Deponent ordered his helm, which intelligible American, you are a great and The up to this moment had been steady, to be energetic people, you are often spry, and Quoth be, "I have sailed o'er a deep, dark than seventeen bodies were found, the feated was in noviss diminished.
majority huddled together under the table, funeral cortège was to have quitted the slightly ported, which caused the vessel to sometimes real smart, but but you can't Spausts mackerel, a bit of beefsteak, a few eggs au miroir, a little broiled ham and BOB,
some fried potatoes, a taste of smoked beef Where danger and death sweep wild and a man and woman were clasped in each dockyard at three o'clock, bat the actual steer slightly towards the south shore, run an hotel.
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A child was found close- departure took place quite an hour and a When the vessels approached within about In my country hotels are fixed differ and eggs, and a broiled chicken,-winding pressed in his mother's artas, his toy quarter later. As on the previous day, a quarter of a mile of each other deposent ently. I am aware that in some entab up the whole performance with a heap of trumpet in one hand en angled in her hair, the procession was headed by a mounted ordered the engines to be stopped, audiments they go by the European plan rise cakes, a couple of pe ches, tea, coffee, his other hand sleeping her neck. A well-policeman, who controlled the traffic with sounded his whistle. The Princess Alice of charging for every item, but I am speak and other fixings. He walked down town was still showing her red and white lights, ing of the Amerian plan of putting you in high glos, and came up smiling to lunch, dressed lady was discovered holding fast remarkable efficiency. It consisted of our between her teeth locket containing a Army service transport waggons, three of inclining slightly towards the north shore, through for so much a day. For the making awful havon among the raw oysters portrait and sented to her neck by a guard which contained four bodies eaob, while the Bywell Castle slightly inclining towards sublimation of the true ides of au hotel and the stewed oysters, the fried oysters Then spake the maid, "O'er the deep, dark that had in the last struggle passed over her the last bore five, including one child. As the south shore, The Bywell Castle had I think the world is indebted to America and the pickled oysters, the cold abioken, bars; she wore gold earrings with red alone. It started the bell of the parish church still way on, and when the Princess Alice With us the thing has not gradually grown ham, and tongue. At dinner he was again to the fore, looking bappy and hungry, but On Sunday evening the taak of removing began to tell, thus adding to the solemnity came to about 800 or 400 yards' distance and developed out of the old-fashioned inn. the remainder of the yeasel was commenesă Several hundred people had assembled she showed her red and green lights quite it in a new thing i distinct and cosmic, not I guess rather streaked at the bill of fare, by a party of forty men, under Mr Charles outside the dockyard gates to see the mourn two points on the port bow. Deponent blundered into by dint of experience, but which included two soups, two fabe, even Wood the very skilful officer of the Themenful procession pass, but the crowd was not ordered his helm hard aport, and put the the aleat outcome of the Yankee brain, soid dishes, six releuds, ten entrees, seven Conservators. By midnight the wreaks had so dense as on the 9th Spectators lined engines full speed astern. Loud shouts The profession of hotel keeping is with us roasts, eighteen vegetables, nine varieties been placed alone to shore and out of the the streets for a considerable distance, and were heard from the Princess Alice, and she an dignified as it in useful. Hotel-koopers of pastry, eleven kinds of fruit, lemon and way of navigation; but she was not placed vast numbers were visible at the windows was halled to port her helm. Suddenly are millionairea. They drive four-in-hands, ram isa oreams, and coffee. He was equal in a position to be thoroughly examined. of houses, while shopkeepers evinced their the Princess Alice's red light disappeared they wear big diamonds, and their wives to the occasion beginning gently with Then the skipper's maiden, so fair and white, Some bodies had previously been found in sympathy by partially closing their abutters, and the green only was visible. A collision put on enough jewels and furs to buy a tomato soup, he next attacked the boiled Flew to his spirit with wild delight; the saloon, amongst them that of a lady in large concourse of persons-attracted no became inevitable. In my opinion, the down-town lot. They are of course on bass and the broiled whitefish, and after a And the ship moved off and faded from sight, black, wearing kid gloves; and another, doubt in some measure by curiosity--pro cause of the casualty was the Princess Alice terms of equality and friendship with their little boiled chicken and ham, fell upon the While we heard these words o'er the breeze also in black, with rings on har fingers and coded to the burial ground, notwithstand improperly starboarding her helm, and it guests. I recollect onse the proprietor of entrees like a lion. He despatched fu quick golden oznaments at her wrist. During the lug the dusty condition of the road. The might have been avoided by the Frincess a first class hotel, en beleg appealed to sucosion files of beef larded, with mush of night, Heave, ho! though the winds blow, day a great many of the dead were over. cemetery, which is situated in one of the Alle keeping her course on the part helin. concerning the quality of his whisky, saying, room and oyster patties, sweetbreads with Other witnesses from the two ships have guess I got the worst of my last whisky green peas, lobster à la Valéncennes, and The sailor now resteth aloft from his ed from the river, making a total of 508 most charming spota in Kent, and is laid
At eight o'clock on the evening of Sept. eat with ornamental trees and shrube, was given accounts similar to the above. Abre deal. It ain't first class, that's a fact, but rics birds in cases with chemgagne sauce wae,"
the number brought to the dockyard was reached in little over an hour. The cortige ham Dennis, master of the Banratta bargo, there are only thirteen barrels left, and then oume the heavy artillery of roast ham 588. It was expected that many more was then escorted by the Rev. R. T. Love, who bad witnessed the colllaion, states that would bave been found in the afterpart of ourete of St. Mary's, Woolwich, to the top in his opinion it was caused by the Bywell guess you boys had best drink it up slick, with shamgagne sauce, roast turkey poule How inadvertently spoken, and yet how the vessel, but the lifting operations on the of the hill, but the ceremony was delayed Castle porting helm as she approached the and then you'll get a better brand. They and roast grouse, followed by lobster mind frequently with serions and painful results! Dth were unsuccessful. The wreck was, for a few moments by another funeral that Princess Alice, and might have been they are easy too. When Colonel Skooter tion sundry of our national vegetables, such are frea, are our hotel proprietors but at intervala my friend tasted at my solicitar How many hearts has an idle word sev however, explored by divers without result of a poor woman whose remains had been avoided if the Bywell Castle had kept her the editor of a three-cornered paper is green dorn, baked and stewed tomatoes, and it whe hoped that be great sumber of identified, but whose friends had been course straight down strasts a little south came down to his bottom dollar just after red besta, succotash, sweet potatos, squaab, For true is it that a thoughtless expres- bodies remained to be recovered; but, on prevented by insuficiency of pecuniary of said stream. Joseph S. Burnitt, master the war, the gentleman who kept the hotel Lims beans; and fried egg-plant: "Through Hon will make a breach between those that the other hand, it is thought that my mestis froms removing the deseaned to Sheer of the schooner Ann Elizabeth, also gives he boarded at never asked kits for a dent all this he worked heroically, but weakened fate, in its visitations, could not divide; have been buried in the mud of the river, ness. Although the burial of fifteen bodies is an his opinion that the cause of the casu for six months i and theu a zival hotel set on the pastry, paying little or no attention did not occupy more than half an hour, the alty was the Bywell Carile keeping of portap on the next block, asked the colonel to to the peach pie, the orange ple, the hearts that would have struggled together and will never be found at all. through the storme of life, that would have i The stern of the vessel was safely brought sight at the grave was one of deep impres the balm when a collision became imminent take a drink, and said persuasively, pankin ple, the sliced apple pleto ay slung to each other for strength when its to land on Sept. 10, between the hours of Elveness. The sad spectacle was witnessed and that it might have been avoided by the Colonel, I guess I like your company like great on ples in my country the puffs and huffelinge had almost overwhelmed them twelve and one, and the aundered portions by at least 8,000 persons, who conducted Bywell Dusile keeping a straight course my first drink of a morning; but don't jellies and dusterde; but brightened up at that would have braved all the changes of of the unfortunate vests are now lying themselves with the utmost decorum down river, and passing the Princes Alice you think you might as well give the new descort among the grapes aid raisins, Eng Aastasting fortunes, and still see in their close together on the western extremity of throughout. They formed a large drole on the starboard side. The Bywall Castle institution a turn. They are great folks, fish walnuse and american peanuta, citron ow unchanging love s gleam of brightness the property belonging to the Government, around the staves, and as coffin after soffin appeared to adhere too rigidly to the post our hotel men, and their establishments are melons, and rosybearted water melons. Fi through the blackeet olond.
and forming part of Woolwich Arsenal was lowered into its last resting place many holm. The several parts of the bull will probably an eye glistened with tears. Not a fow A high hill he broken up on the spot where they now people took up positions an lie, the injury they have received being of overlooking the grounds, in order to ob. such a nature as to render it quite imponi serre what transpired. ble to them ever again to be put to any nautidal purpots. The whole of the wreak has been surrendered by the Sisimboas Company to the Thames Conservatore.
As soon as the tide sank sufficiently to allow the resumption of the search in the second half of the raised vessel a body of Thamos policemen, together with some of And this is not the romanos of youthful, the drew from the lighters, made their way As the bodies of the drowned wake tokad onion, though there in perhaps were into the cables and began the diesgreeable in different juledations it was betery during from the early disappointmenty of sack, ̈ ̈Hamo dificulty attothed to 14 alar, to bold several' ingyoutu.
And when we looked on that ghostly crew, We saw those there whom we all well know, And white were their faces and wet with dew And the light in their eyes seemed cold and
blue.
Heave, no! though the winds blow, The sailor must labour aloft and slow.
And father and mother and sister fair Beheld their relatives standing there, And saw them broken, but none would dare To enter that spectral vessel there.
And he took his place on the vessel's poop, And he spake aloud to our startled group, And the tones that he uttered made all
heads droop.
Through a fog and a mist that ye cannot see I have como for my bride will she come
with me?" Heave, hot though the winds blow,
The sailor must labour aloft and slow.
566,
Where danger and death sweep wild and
free,
I will sail with my love, and its wave shall
be
A pillow of rest for him and for me."
Beave, hot though the winds blow,
The sailor must labour aloft and alow.
-William Cariston (Australian),
AN IDLE WORD,
-red--how many broken ?
A ret an idle word-ots-his sepa tated hearte like these.
The breach once made, others step in to make it wider and wider i false pride, zais taken feelings, the sudden bitterness the heart dan febl even toward those it loves, all sit the work of bruelty: the distance in brenses day by day, until, finding it impo sible to return, like the wrecked mariner, they give up in despair, and sit down to mourn ever their fate, odreless, it seems, whether they live në dis
man.
RAISING THE WREOK.
With aid of the tide on Sept. 5 about ninety feet of the stem of the Princess Alice was placed high and dry upon the shore just above Tripcook's Point, at a spot called
Margaretness.
other's arms.
On Sunday the disaster formed the aub. jedi of comment in thousands of pulpits in town and country. In some chirches the prayers of the congregation were asked for the fopbie of the souls of the faithful de parted who had parished.
TIE-INQUEST.
or three more of her kind together out.
a long way ahead of anything in Europopulled through, he did, and arrived at the at lesat, to our taste. Once located in the les cream and coffee tired perhaps, but not ENGLISH AND AMERICAN HOTELS, Fifty-fifty Avenue Hotel, you can do almost cloyed. As we did not get through dinner anything you like without going out you till about seven o'clock, he had only time (FROM AN AMERICAN EDERRSFORDENT.) can read off the tape the pries of stock and to get a cup of tea and a line of cake in the BIL, So far as a general sense of outrage the latest transactions in Broad street tea-room before we went to Boo h's. After and the sight of a big pile of English hotel you can telegraph all over the world; you the theatre he showed up, but with dimin bills will permit, I am prepared to spose can buy railway tickets to any part of the ished vigour, at supper among the cold dispassionately. Having become since the Union, and can send your luggage by chickens and ham, the bold tongus, and the financial collapse in California rezy much exprem; you can buy all the newspapers; oysters hot and cold, raw and fried; and of a philosopher, I am inclined to regard you can take your boxes of stalls in any then owned up fair and square that no sugh the festitutions of any country on the legf theatre in New York 1 you can bly a digat | board and lodging could be got anywhere timate ostoause of national wants, and at the stand, and smoke it's and can get else in the world for the same money-about populiarities Now one of your most any drink under the sun at the bar without thirteen or fourteen shillings a day all told/ angular and incomprehensible peculiar las the interposition of a waltere Momover it and pary extras.-The Worldh