Portfolio.
THE GATE CALLED BEAUTIFUL.
"And they brought a man, lame from his birth, and laid him daily at the gate of the Temple which is called. Beautiful."
Lame from his birth; and who is not as much Though in his body he be stout and strong And in his mind an athlete for the truth;
In conscience, too, a giant against wrong For who that guesses what a man may be, In all bis powera and graces how divine, And then bethinks him of the thing he is- So far below that glory, Gud, of thine-
would say:
Though he were greatest of the sons of men, "Why callest thou Me good P he still And all the heights already won would point To higher peaks along the heavenly way. Lame from our birth; and daily wo are
brought,
And at the gato called Beautiful aro laid; Sometimes its wonders make us free and glad
Sometimes its grandeur makes us half
afraid.
The gate called Beautiful; and yet, methinker No word can name it that begins to tell How soar its pillars to the highest heavens,
And how their roots take hold on lowest
hell!
With what designs its panels are in wrought
O'ertraced with flowers, and hills, and
shining seas,
And glorified by rise and sets of suns,
And Junes of blossom and October trees.
So beautiful, yet never quito the same
The pictures change with every changing
bour;
Or sweeter things come stealing into view
Which stronger things had hidden by their
power.
There all the stars and systems go their way: There shines the moon, so teader in her
grace; And there, than moon, or star, or sun more
fair, The bleased wonder of the human face.
•
Faces and faces! some of children sweet;
And some of maidens, fresh and pure and
true;
And some that lovelier aro at even-time
Than any can be while their years are few.
This is the gate called Beautiful: it swings
To music sweeter than was heard that day When St. Cecilio, rapt in cestasy,
Heard through her trance the angelic
roundelay-
dreame;
Musio of little children at their play:
Of mothers bushing them to sleep and Of all the birds that sing in all the trees,
And all the marmuring of all the streams. And at this gate, not at wido intervals,
Are we, lame from our birth, laid tenderly, But daily; and not-one day passes by. And we look not upon this mystery, Gate of the temple! surely it is that!
It opens not into vacuity; For all its beauty, it is not so fair
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once; a firmness of tread, and easy self. assured preserice, yet a modest general bearing, without the shade of a suggestion of inferiority, but rather of reciprocation of good-nature and good-will. Dignified he will be, always, for bo has a high, though just estimato of himself that never wavers; although he is far from hangütlnesa and austerity, and is not prone to utter what is uppermost in his thoughts, until the occasion shall be quite fitting for it. Nor will any dispute that quietnes predominates in his maonor. Cultivating in all things a nice sense of propriety, he is never lond or rude; nor yet too fastidious; an acquired and if begotten temperance and habitual self- possession giving him smoothnem and grace of demeanor. If he may be also polished may elegant in his manner, it will give him a charm that may serve to conquer the esteem and admiration, nay, win the love of mankind, when hin real virtues might otherwise be slower in finding go eral recognition. Indeed we revolve in nairale, and return to the point of first departure, when we say again we shall find him in all things gentle, while in all thins a man, "a verray gentil knight cherishing (as Chaucer says) trouble, honour, freedom and courtesie," for the sake of his manbood and love of his follow-men:** and of ble port as moke as a mayde," for the sake of his breeding and love of his order.
WHAT 18-A GENTLEMAN I their system by arts which were not un-
A gentleman" is a bright embodiment common in the days of the Spanisk Inquiet-
Hongkong, May 27. of most of the cardinal virtuer. He must tion, but which alarmed and irritated the
We are now? preparing for busy times, bs not only the soul of honor, the pink of mon in power. The consequence was that the persecutions which in certain provincos being just about to begin our usual oppera propriety, the porsonification of chivalry, had been practised upon the Tapanoso who tion in rea and Silk. The latter article but he must have the indispensable grace of refused to become Christians were now put has advanced considerably with you of late porsonal presenos vaguely called manner. in play against those who had become can we lears, and when the new crop opens we Here we have him drawn by a popular verts, and hostilities to the new religion, fear it wil bo at too high a figure to insure writer:-
His air and deportment are usually cha or rathor to the new religionists, aggravated a proft in Europe, as the Chinese lavariably by the fear of the national independence combine against the foreigner until the racteristically noble You expect to And being betrayed, resulted in a vast and latter gives way, and pays him higher than a steady, open, unabashed look, yet with pitiless attempt to exterminato Christianity London quotations. It is to be hoped that no undue assurance, or any approach to altogether from the country. It is the trade will be carried on moro safely this superciliousness, nay, with an air of defer- memory of these days that forms the ob- ensuing season, and that the lessons of stacle to the present spread of Christianity the past sonsage will not be overlooked. in Japan. If Christianity were now pre Banking establishments are certain to con- rented for the first time to the Japanese, doot their department with much more care it would probably have "a free course, run, and watchfulness, owing to their heavy and be glorified." There is nothing in the losses last year, and this will act as a chock Shinto faith to present any great or lasting on the operations of individuals who have obstacles to the simple religion of the nothing to lose themselves, but who entail Gospels; and even Buddhism, as it exists heavy losses on the trade of China generally in Japan, in one of its principal sects, throught their wild and inconsiderats tran- seams to offer a singular, and to me sations. It is expected that money will wholly unexpected approximation towards become stringent throughout the ensuing Christian doctrine. I refer to the Shinshu season. At the present time it is hardly sect, who believe and tonoh the doctrine of possible to procure a loan for any fixed salvation, by faith, although the object of period, under $12 per cent, an, as our their faith is, of course, other than the basy season develops, we may hear of the I had Chinese paying their old figure of 20 per object of the Christian's faith. considerable latercourse with the chief dent, for advances at the porta rather than acelesiastics of the Eastern and Wostera sell their Silk, and Tea at reasonable rates Shinebu churches, and learnt from them to the foreigner. Exchange banks never that the close resemblance of our religion case to have their funds looked up in loans to theirs supplies them with a lively hope in China during the busy season, because of converting England to their faith. The when the exchanges are unnaturally high, existence of such a feeling, which will no bankers prefer to invest their last available doubt be largely reciprocated in this farthing in sterling and await their op- country, shows at least that the antagoniam portunity of drawing bace their tunds at between the Buddhism of Japan and the very paying rates, even compared with the religious doctrines of Europe is not nearly Chinese rates of interest, Interest some. so pronounced as many might suppose. An times rules as high as 50 to 60 per cant. indication of great impending religions amongst the natives, but I do not think changes in Japan is to be found in the fact that foreign banks have ever been able to that the temples are already the scenes of squeezs out more than 3 to 31 per cent. extremely free discussions between the per month even at the very busiest time of priests and the people. A discussion which the year. One thing, however, to be said took place in August last at the temple of that foreign baoks have not the capital Shin kui zhi, at Shinagawa, Tokio, during la Chin se ports which they once had; two
In the fourth year after bis marriage he discourse by priest on "Infinite Vision," of them in recent years have closed their furnished an illus ration of this. Numerous branches in Hong Kong, whilst other two lost his whole fortune. Adapting himself, members of the audience interrupted and of our oldest establis red banking institu- without whine or whimper, to the change cross-examined the preacher, one of themtions have spparently resolved to cut down in bis position, he left his cottage home on Baying, "All that the priesthood offirms on their buslocant the lowest possible dimen-Windermere; settled in Edinburgh, taking sions in China (the Oriental and Mercantile up his quarters in his mother's house, and the subject of heaven and hell is a mere fabrication." Even this rudeness was meekly Banks), whilet in Japan the only banks left endured by the priest, who answered will will be the Oriental and Hong Kong and patience and temper the various dis- Shanghai, The Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris has almost withdrawn from business putants.
in the Far East in comparison to its former position in past years. The Deutsche Bank of Berlin doserted China and Japan some two years ago, so that we can hardly have the foreign capital to work which we once bad,
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LONDON GOSSIP.
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CHRISTOPHER NORTH.
addressed himself to the labors of a literar life with a buoyancy that give his des criptive essays the freedom and flashin beauty of sea waves, and a sustained in tensity of application that would bave don credit to the veriost hack. It is impossibl to read the tale of the establishment by hir and Lockhart, aided by the judicious mis William Blackwood, of Blackwood's Mago nagement and instinctive shrewdness zine, without being astonished at his pro digious vitality, his productive opulenc bis wild, unequal, frequently oppressiv but on the whole, genuine and racy hamo (t is, no doubt, true that a great deal the famous "Nocter Ambrosianm” strik English readers as the mere horse-play overgrown schoolboye, dependent for 1 enjoyableness on exuberance of anim spirits. But there is an irra fonal eleme in all wild humor, and we must not allo ourselves to be drilled and formalized our critics of the French high-art scho into incapacity to laugh at such fon moved the Homerio gods to inextinguis and the Homerio heroes to similar delig the Sterling Loan to the Chinese Govern-ablo laughter at the limping of Hephaleto ment of 1877. The Hongkong Bank ap
race, came flip into the bloody mire he gears to have a monopoly of the Chinese when Ajax, on the point of wlosing t
overnment business from the fact that ite local resources are so great in comparison left by the sacrificed bullocks Witho with other banking institutions who have
the gouins of a great poet, a great noveli or a great philosopher, Wilson posse morely branches in one or two ports. The misfortunes of the older exobange banks, faculties eminently suited to criticism. which created aim at a parte in London Gladstone has pronounced his Homerio Last spring, have tended to augment the tiques supremely good, and some of volume of business of the local bank to aapers on Shakspeare, reprinted by the N Shakspeare Society, are brilliant and st great extent of late.
$25,000,000 geative. It is perhaps, however, in his d the deposits now average
2.000.00 criptive essays, as in that upon "Stream 1.300 000 that he is at his beat. These bring us {1 the very sound of the bill-breeze, the v scent and sight of the blooming heather $28,300,000
The Spectator.
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MR E. J. REED, M.P., ON JAPAN. houses of the Ministers, but the wives of Mr Reed writes to the Times as follows: those Ministers who have travelled abroad In my opinion, Japan is a country which wear European dress. Some of the Ministers the British people will take more into their reside in European and some in native regard just in proportion as they learn houses. In the great cities of the interior, more and more of it. By the British such as Kioto and Osaka, there are extremely people I do not mean-these alone whose few Europeans to be scen, and almost the eyes are so intensely set upon mere trade only European houses belong to them or the that they can see nothing else; I mean Government. In the barracks for troups, those also who regard and care for the and in some schools, the old system of living In the Imperial relations of Britain with other has been changed for the new. States, and those, too, whose interest is ancient capital, Nara, I saw no European whatever, and but ong European building, quickened by matters of art, science, re- ligion, and social progress. Many foreigners the Government school; and the same is true besides our epuntrymen have taken a lively of soures, I may say hundreds, of large cities interest in Japan, and favoured her with and towns through which we passed. their advice and assistance; but if we except I felt deeply interested in the education of the French impress which her array bears the country, and visited the principal schools and the German charneteristics of her of most of the cities in which we stayed. medical schools and systems, it is Great On one occasion in the western capital of Britain and America that have wrought the Kioto, I was asked by the American teacher deepest effects upon this ancient_nation, of a girls school if I desired to hear the now rupully taking a high and worthy place pupils read English, and was surprised to among the civilized communities of the find that several of the native children read earth. As Great Britain and America have it with fair fluency. In a boys' school of cornmen language (with some odd, but the same city a youth of 15 stood up and minor differences), it is difficult to measure declaimed Grattan's "Eulogium upon Wil- their respective influences upon Japanese liam Pitt" in well-modulated tones, and life and institutions as they now exist. It with no imperfection of accent that his is plain, however, that although America teacher was not responsible for. The great has for the most part been singularly drawbacks to native education in Japan fortunate in her representatives of all kinds are its language and its caligraphy. The in Japan, the arind of the country, with its Tanguage is a complex hieroglyphic system, own ancient history and traditions, turns and the caligraphy a system of drawing or chiefly to this "lund of old and just re- painting. Every sohoolboy has to learn at nown" At both of the interviews which least 1,000 different characters; in the His Majesty the Emperor did me the honour elementary schools of the Government 3,000 of according me, I gathered from his words have to be taught. A man with pretentions that the country and the people from which to scholarship must be soquainted with I came were prezent to his mind as he framed about 10,000, and a very learned man with his kindly and gracious sente:ces, and daily that number multiplied many times. My intercourse with his Ministers continually friend Captain Brinckley, R.A., of Tokio, a demonstrated that His Majesty's sentiments master of the Japanese language and the were warmly shared by them. It must not author of the first work written in Japanese be inferred from this the political relations by a foreigner, informed me "it may be between the two countries are such as they roughly said that a Japanese must devote at ought to be. I may have opportunity here- least ten years' persistent and earnest study after to show that we are holding the to the acquisition of his own language if he Emperor of Japan and his Ministers in a desires to possess a knowledge of it sufficient position which must occasion, and does for the purposes of an educated man." The occasion, ceaseless and unspeakable pain to mechanical art of handling the brush so as to paint the characters with skill and them, without the smallest advantage to ourselves, and I am quite certain that when rapidity occupies no small part of a learner's once the existing state of things becomes time. If our country could be induced to known to Parliament and understood by the take a friendly interest in this beautiful Bountry, its amendment will be sure to far-off land of Japan, there is no good reason follow. Still, whatever causes of discontent why the Anglo-Saxon tongue should not the Japanese Government may have, and become the language of the country, which howover pained they may be, their disposi would be a better defence for it against tion ie to respect and work with us, and if Asiatic aggression than many ships and estrangement comes they will deeply regret fortresses, and at the same time a great it. It is characteristic of the refined man- fartherance to that adoption of a commou
The Swedish Crown Prince, who is now ners of the Japanese that throughout my language which the colonial empire of Eug- stay among them no mention of the painful land sad the United States of America pro-anong us, is supposed to have come for part of their relations with us was ever nise to the world. Unhappily, the learned other reasons than to look at England. His inade until my departure was at hand, und meu of Japan, having acquired their emin- eyes, whose language must be a mewhat then only in reply to searching inquiries offence by such laborious study, are averse impeded by the spectacles be is obliged to my own.
to the adoption of an easier language; wear-are said to be turned in the direction The present condition of Japan and it and so are many other Japanese Conserva- of England's only unmarried royal daughter, future prospects cannot be in the least tives. But their conservatism, like that that fair lady to gain whose hand so many degree understood unless careful regard is of others, will be brushed aside by the aspirants hava vainly striven. If the Prin hail to its history, and more particularly to omnipotence of natural forces. I feel satis-cess Beatrice does not object to a tall, dark, its history during the last few years. For fied that the general adoption in Japan of tolerably good-looking young man in the first thousand years of our era, the our language which already appears upon spectacles, belonging to a nation very nearly Mikados of Japan were the real governors its coinage and otherwise officially-would related to ourselves, neither will ho of the country but from that time forward, very greatly promote nad quicked the do-country. The house of Bernadotte has not down to our own time, a series of military relopment of the country; and, on the other tong been accounted royal, but there is no chieftains successively held the Mikados in hand the retention of the present language isolation and impotence, theraselves conduct- will work incalculable mischief. Language ing the actual government as they pleased.is but an instrument, of course, and no The last of these military usurpers, the student who has to devote ten years to its Tokugawa funily, held the governing power preparation can be expected to compete in froia 1603 down to 1868, and Keiki, its literature or science with those who possess latest representative, although he resigned a language that can be acquired in a year his high office of Shogoon in November, or two. 1867, made a desperate straggle for renewed The art of Japan, by which I hore mean power early in the following year, and only its drawing and painting. is undergoing retired from the contest after the three marked changes. Derived originally from days battle of Fushimi had destroyed the Corea and China, it hus in the course of hopes of his principal partisans. The Toku centories undergone many changes of style, gawas had governed the country on a highly at first being merely employed for the de. organized feudal system, under which their coration of palaces, developing late into a vassals and retainers were the masters of means of depicting ceremonial dresses and the people. In the extremely brief space separating into various schools of what we None are of the eleven years which have elapsed since understand by pictorial art. the averthrow of this system, and in face of more ready than the Japanese to acknow- considerable uprisings in 1868 of the remain-ledge, however, that all which the art of ing partisans of the Tokugawas, and the Japan can boast of in grace of outline, formidable revolt of Saigo in 1877, the rea- freedom of stroke, and doliency of colour
So the position of this bank is a very strong tored government of the Mikado or Emperoring is borrowed from the foreign-sources
one, and being quite a local institution has has covered the country with schools in many before named. In the matter of perspective of which English is taught; has established the iufiuence of European art is now be-
nearly absorbed the whole banking business hai'the Oriental Bank last year endeavoured postal and telegraphic systems which would coming strongly manifested. Vatil late
of the Far East of a yearende for to share the heel business; but in would ping one be creditable to any European country; has years Japanese painting was so thoroughly given perfect freedom to the person and full and constantly defective in this respect etficiency of the iron rule in the govern security to property in every part; has or- that it was a safe principle to lay down that Jarlyle, ranked by many as the first thinker appear from the Chairman's remarks at last maudlin tears ran down their chee
aulted in most disastrous losses. Now, it may well be suspected that child-ganized a potice system which not only per- wherever the laws of perspective were cor of bis time, and by all as a master mind, testing that this new line of business the Hongkong Bank, the next institution in hood, in many wel reulated families, is forms its own duties efficiently, but greatly rectly observed in a picture it could not be has, after a career of continual activity, and
standing and importance is the Chartered too often the suffering victim of this pre-aided the troops during the revolt of Saigo a true example of Japanese art. These the publication of 40 or 60 volumes, ac in Satsuma has provided and trained an laws are now, however, becoming studied quired, in his eighty fourth year, an valence of bereditary error; and that a larger allowance of the "et alone" plicy army which is considered to be sufficient for and understood by Japanese artists, and I income of little more than £1,000. Robert Bank of Indis, Australia, and China a very in the pursery, the school room and at the all the purposes of the State; and bought have seen many examples of considerable Browning, held by a number of critics to be conservative, but ably conduc ad bank, which fireside, nay, the leaving of nature a little and built a navy which would effectually merit in this respect. In fact, one cannot the fist of living posts, would not have has the reputation of having from its very of accounts of any financial body connected more to her own resources, would better debar any foreign Minister from inflicting but view with surprise the skill with which bean able to support himself bad bo not bad origin pub ished the most honest statement subserve the interests of humaarty than all wanton injury upon its people, or from some of the younger artists of Japau are a private fortune. It is questioned if even
George Elist has, notwithstanding her much with Eastern busin. It appears to be patty embargoes, bounties and stop laws, impulsively menacing the Government with adopting European methods. I have pos
institution in Singapore, Penang and Let us have a little lean materialian, and a naval violence-things, both of them, far sessed myself of several proefs and illustre talked-of literary rewards, gined as much essentially a Streits Bauk, being the leading Its circulation of notes in the Rangoon. Htle more faith, hope and charity exercised frora unknowa in Eastern waters. While tions of this, of which I may mention à set by her famous nove's as Reynolds is cre towards these little folks. Let us not crush accomplishing the foregoing objects the of photographe of battle scenes taken from dited with. One cause of the extraordinary
a series of pictares illustrative of the recent popularity of bia stories among half. Straits Proper averages $980,000 and in the beart out of youth by discipline, brata Government of Japan has had to incur and in character or excess, however well in-discharge great expenses incidental to the contests in Satsume. They might he taken educated people is, that he almost invariably China $800,000, therefore collectively it
is noticeable, for Gladstone has never tended. Let us never degrade or bumili change of system from feudalism to freedom, for the work of one of the most vigorous represents the nobility and the upper classes very closely approaches the total amount of because it wisely preferred to pension as far battle painters of France, but are all from as supremely sensual, shamefully depraved, the local banks, which is given at $2,000,000, ate the man in miniature. Let us trus
All loal institutions here appear to be bis favorite. He says the name of G as possible the daimios aud samurai whom it the hand of a Japanese artist, who has brutally selfish, and panders in every way including China and Japan. more to nature and time, and less to
I must to the passionate prejudices of the poor and compulsion. Let us have a sep rate key displaced, rather than be engaged with manifestly studied in Europe
present moment. The passenger traffic on the prosperity of the kingdom. The pe cariously adapted, with cunning design, to them in interual hostilities which must confess however, that I fear the influence bumble against the rich and titlel. He doing a steady and healthy business at the stone is associated in the English mind the Caxton River has lately increased remember that during his Premier unlock every lit le heart; and not seek to have cruelly injured the innocent people. of Europe upon Japanese art will not be worked this vela moss energetically, and
to a most wonderful extent, the steamer whether he had anything to do with Yet, in spite of all, it has contrived to wholly for its benefit, some of the most whether honest or not, found it very pro force them all with the same crow-bar.
In fas-without subtracting from par. maintain its foreign-credit unimpaired, hav-charming effects of Japanese painters being fitable. Hardly any of his literary con
KIDDLE'S SPIRITS -Henry Kiddle w ental authority or discipline, in cases of evil ing promptly met every pecuniary obligation produced by arrangements and dispositions temporaries except fannyson and Dickens acommodation being found far too limited not, there were good timer.
unknown to, and probably can be mentioned, who have dabbled in ink for the traffic, some hundreds of passengers inclination, or abnormal temperawoutlet outside of the country; and although, under which are
to so much pecuniary purpose as he, The being left behind occasionally from either us still protest against all tyranny exercised the heavy exceptional pressures which irreconcilable with, our European system. over childhood. While deprecating neglect have named (to which several others might
In the matter of religion Japan prosents most liberal compensations for literature port. It is quite possible that the late rush to the Banner Light, which hinted th a, most interesting field of study.
themselves to be Shakspeare, Byron, The are often given to those whose productions may be but temporary, and the fact of the book was composed of communications of parental duty, and the ils of misbe added), its paper money is at present at a
the pinch all the more keenly felt.
It looks as if the Chinese wore buying ap other distinguished authors, declaring encouraging filial obedienco, le ns never by measures which mast heartily commend
the whole island of Hong Kong. Foreign such an idea is preposterous. He has theless advocate the right of a chi d, within themselves to us-viz., the reduction of purely indigenous, has been revived as the at all.
how it ever became replaced by Buddhism ABOUT the antiquated mansion of Go-built houses are rapidly bing pulled down, assured by many spirits, through certain limits, to grow up somewhat natur. expenditures in every department of the religion of the Emperor, and the marvel is aly, instead of bei g brought up too artifi-State, and the simultaneous revision of its at the Imperial Court. If we may credit vernor Wolcott, on South street, Litchfield, whilst native houses tko tacir place, and worthy mediums, that be has not the ancient records, or even if we subject Coun., this legend of good women" still spring up like mushrooms. I do not think imposed upon. “A proper analysis o olally. Let us resist the baleful influence sources of revenue. of all petty domestic despotism. Let us The great political and social change them to all reasonable correction, we find lingers: "At the beginning of the Revoluit is any exaggeration to say that the thoughts expressed in the messye," he discourage alike the misconceived pride, o which has passed and is passing over Japan that Shintoisri was the only religion of the tion, as is well known, the patriots stood in increase of the native population would be will show, according to a proper stac misplaced fondness that tortures the infant is very visible and full of interest to the country for nearly a thousand years before imminent need of ammunition, especially of close on 10,00) for last year, and to judge that they are entirely worthy of the brain into preternatural precocity, and the visitor. In keeping the accounts of the Buddhism found its way across sea from lead to run into bullete, and early in 1776 from present appearances this increase is whom they are said to bave been ins accompanied with such attestatioun headless or wilful violence, or privation, State, for example, there is a curious mixture Cores and it was in the traditions of the the leader statue of George III., which likely to go on in the same ratio for soms They are so decidedly pure and holy written in such a way, that they cann that torments the infant heart into despair of Japanese and European systems, native ancient religion that the empire itself was stood ou Bowling Green in New York, was
the effspring of lying spirits.'” sig and possible diabolism. In behalf of young characters being employed in the written rooted. The first historical Mikado was overthrown and brought to Litchfield, where
Ir is related in the New York G humanity, let us claim a larger liberty, and parts in conjunction with Roman figures, supposed to be the direct descendant of the it was made into bullets by ladies of the vil-
A LADY dropping her handkerchief the ask to bave the individuality of each child After examining the books of the Finance Sun Goddess, from whom were derived the lage, the men being absent on more active recognized, and made the basis of a pecu- Department, the naval accounts, &c., I feel proofs of his divine descent, the insignia of duty. The status was deposited in Governor other day, Landiemann's quick eye caught that at a little dinner party, one Har and liboral treatment.
sure that under the existing Ministers the his authority, and the pledge of permanence Wolcott's apple orchard, and ladies of the the flutter of the dainty thing as it fell to guests, the younger brother of an E country will be allowed to benefit as rapidly for his dynasty. Yet some of the Mikados first rank and fortune-among them Laura the walk. Qrick as thought he pounced nobleman, expressed with commer as possible by the extended adoption of our were among the earliest converts to Bud and Mary Wolcott, the fair daughters of the upon it, and with doffed hat and his sweetest freedom bla opinion of America a TRZE is a report durrant that certain methods. As regards outward appearances dhism, although the people for a time re- Governor-engaged in the enterprise. It smile he approached the unknown fair one people. "I do not altogether lik fashionable ladies of New York are in the in the naval and military service there is sisted the introduction of the strange gods. was rough work for hands unaccustomed to with, Madame, your hand-" He got no country," said the young gentleman habit of visiting the lecture rooms attached but little, beyond the faces of the officers My visit to the country has convinced me labor; ourle were tangled and fair faces farther. It was only Mrs L., disguised in one reason, because you have no to some of our medical colleges, at the in- and men, to distinguish them from European that the Christian religion is not making flushed, and tender fingers blistered by the another new sait. Seizing the cambria here." "What do you mean by ge vitation of their student friends there, to forces. In the civil departaments of the the progress there which other European molten lead, but they persevered, and at as a cat would a mouse, she gave Landis asked another of the company. witness surgical operations performed on Government there is a great mixture of systems are making, and that there are sunset & conical monad of forty-two thousand mann a look eloquent of scorn and con- you know," replied the Englishman, patients, and those sometimes of the most European and native costumes, the native reasons why its progress will continue to be and eighty-eight cartridges (as is learned tempt remarking Don't stand there, gentry are those who nayer painful description. Oor elite are not largely predominating. On one occasion Ivery slow indeed for some time to come. from a paper left by the Governer himself) grinning like a sink monkey, John Laudia work themselves and whose father studying medicine but, according to the had the honour of dining with the Cabinet These consona grow out of historic events. attested the skill and fidelity with which man; and you'd better put on your hat them never did any "Ab," exe rumor, attend, influenced by a certain and with two Princes and Princesses of the There was a time, in the 16th century, they labored. There was a grim sort of before you get cold People at your time his interlocutor, "then we bare pl morbid curiosity if not enjoyment, to wit- Imperial House, who occupy stations near to when the Roman Catholic missionaries of humor, fully appreciated, no doubt, by the of life and bald at that, should be careful gentry, in America, but we don't cal ness these painful spectacles. After this, the Throne. The dinner was a Europena Spain and Portugal had gained no less than stern Governor and his associates, in this how they expose themselves." Strange gantry, we call them tramps. A Paris may no longer a sim to be the bead-one, and all the gentlemen dressed in Euro- two million converts in Japan to their form making King George's statue into bullets that some women can't bear to have their want around the table, and the centre of jaded pleasure-seekers after now pean style, but the ladies wore the native of Christianity. This prosperity encourag wherewith to mow down the battalions of busbands gallant to the fair sex Boston Englishman turned his contestati.
| another channel, Transcript. @goltement,➡="Yew York Graphis.
costume. This was usually the case in the led them to seek still farther extension of King George's army."
But that a greater beauty there can be.
Thy beauty, O my Father! All is thine;
But there is beauty in Thyself, from
whence
The beauty Thou hast made doth ever flow In streams of never-foiling affluence.
Thou art the temple and though I am lame Lame from my birth, and shall be till
dio-
I
I enter through the gate called Beautiful,
And am alone with Thee, O Thou Most
High! -Rev. John W. Ghadwick.
THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN.
We commend the following to the attou tion of those parents who believe in the
ment of the young :-
People are gradually recovering from the asen Bustained in the wild speculation of last autumn in shares of various kinds. Local banks are firm at 50 per cent. premium, owing to receipt of large orders from London, as well as to the fact having hacome known that the late Silver Loan, floated by the Hongkong Bank in April last, wil yield a not profit of between $300,000 and $400,000. I am informed tast the bank took over the loan at 12 throne in Europe more secure, and deser- per cent, but bas floited it all successfully vedly so, than that of King Oscar. And at 8 per cent, per annum; the present then for more than one generation the Ber-market quotation is 2 per cent, prem,
adottes have taken to wield, and ably similar amount of profit was made out of wield, too, the peaceful pen is preference to the warlike sword, the latest addition to the list of books by royal authors being that of the Swedish King, for whom Bentley is about to publish an English translation of His Maj aty's memoir of Charles the XII.
It is said that the late G. W. M. Reynolds had made more money by his sixty or seventy cheaply sensational novels than many of the most distinguished authors i His earnings from bi Great Britain. stories have been estimated as high a £60,000, which may be an exaggeration, trough that would not be much more than £1.000 a novel, and some of his novels are. reported to have brought him in $8,000, $9,000, $10,000, and oven $12,000 apiece. Tyndall, Darwin, Huxlay or Carpenter has we venture to assert, never made one-third as much by his life-long devotion to science. Matthew Arnold, considered one of the most cultured and intellectual authors in Great Britain, could no: count, it is said, £10,000 as the direct product of his pen.
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the National Dest!"
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NEGOTIATIONS begun eighteen mo ago for the purpose of secaring to York a grand obelisk now standing aated. The Khediye has offered the
Official paper Alexandria, Egypt, are successfully ter aument to New York, Department. that effect have been received at the S
Ma Jennings, formerly the editor of New York Times, and now the Lou correspondent of the New York W writes that Gladstone will presently b power again. This, coming from Jenni
chievous license, and while cherisbing ze varying discount, the evil is being remedied ancient Shinto religion, which is probably scarcely deserve the name of literature Kiukiang being laid up for repairs made lying spirits who maliciously repreze
time to come.