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No. 4776.-OCTOBER 24, 1878.]

our readers,

Tas British barque Ferona, from Now

p.m.j

to this pest-house of Hongkong.

Quadrille,.. Un Ballo in Mashers....Strauss. Overture, Zanetta.... Auber. Potporri,.....Las Malaguenas, Taborner. THREE were very few cases before the sit Vatre Les Roses O'Metrating magistrate (Me Creagh) to-day. There

Reminiscences of Donizetti.......... Galop Miners. Bergman, was one case of no light or pass, two for assault, the defendant in one case being a

March....

Overture,..... Le Macon,...

THE CHINA MAIL.

SIDNEY HERBEAT,

THE DOVE.

The Band will also perform the follow- European seaman, named Richard Doghar- A COMPANION TO 20E'S LAVEN. ing programme on the Orloket Ground to-ty, who was charged with assaulting a haw-Once upon a summer evening morrow afternoon, commencing at 4 p.m.-ker and stealing some bananas. Dogharty While the twinkling stars were beaming

As I lay reposing, dreaming, Cantion...

...GungL

appears to be rather a desperate rascal and their light was faintly gleaming ..Auber. Selection......Grand Duchess,....Offenbach, he has only been about a week out of gaol, Through the window of my room, Quadrille,.. ......Martha....... Buchanan,

Like the manhur of a billow, Buddenly beside my pillow, Valse Blue Danube, Gung'

Or the sigh of weeping willow, Polonaise.....................auth................................Gounod. Galop,..

Mid the shadow and the gloom, Glanen,..

Bertel

There was heard a gentle sound, Floating on the air around,

As an echo from above; And I, waking, saw a dove Perched upon the whitened bead

BRANDY.

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MR Justics Russell eat in Summary Juris- j stand in our midst, hot beds of disease. "The Dove," which takes a more sheerful the great lady because * her set' do it: all TRE LAST DAYS OF VOLTAIRE. warm heart. Soon afterwards he became diction to-day, but the litigants were Chi-The lowest alums In London are a paradise and sool-inspiring view of the "dear depart fashion; not a thought of anything hotter

(Pall Mall Gazett ).

delirious, and his mind continued to wander * ed." Instead of a dark winged messenger in the matter. Church-going, again, ia a zero, and the cases were of no interest to to them. The contrast when once one of sorrow and gloom, a bird of brighter species of Kahit just as the housemaid the Marquia de Villetic, on the quay which the next day, when he died without pain. Ho alighted at the house of his relative, with lucid intervals, until the evening of emerges into the Caine Road is so marked, plamage and sweeter voice obes back from allps on her silk grown and her white-tille now beats his name; and it is a proof of his The instant the breath was out of his body that it appears positively unfair to lavish bereaved lover. To all Christian hearts that at being the lady of fashion, so she naturally foot for a ramble through the town in search ance of his plays and the sale of his work

Aiden" to the silent chamber of the bonnet en Sundays, and plays for the nones activity that he at ence ast out alone and on the Government interdicted the perform- so much expense on ourselves whilst we look beyond mere literary excellence, this goes to church with her young man. It is of his old friend, M. d'Argensan. On his and ordered that his body should be removed York with a cargo of Kerosine Oil, reports leave thisne, the Chinese, to wallow in filth tender poem of faith and hope will prove not that the gates much good from it, or return he found a long line of coaches and from Paris as privately as possible and be having been sabore on Leith Island, Gaspat and misery, It is useless to say that they volume of poems and many of his hymns aures up helpful words of wisdom for the his house, and from that time visitors of the Abbé Mignot, obtained loave, however, most acceptable. Its author has published a listens attentively to the sermon, or trea-sedan-chairs blocking up the approaches to buried without any pomp. Elis nephew, Straits, and a part of the cargo had to be

are naturally filthy; the sin in none the less and lyrics are much admired for their purity difficulties of the coming week; but it is a distinction thronged the place daily. The to bury him in the Abbey do Soellières; jettisoned before she could be floated. The our own; it is our duty to compel them to of thought and graceful measure. The habit like any other like the bread-and- Opeen sent) her friend, the Princess de and there Voltaire lay until 1791, when the vessel. herself sustained little or no damage. be outwardly clean whilst Hving amongst mondation from my poor pon, and I desire in the afternoon. Similarly, the squire's Ring sent his brother, the Count of Fro-faueral and a tomb in the Pantheon. I.3. Dove" is a production that needs no com- cheese for supper, or the cleaning herself Polignac, with polite compliments; the National Assembly decreed him a splendid us. A little less outlay on superfluona walls, only to state that it comes before the public family go to church morning and afternoon, vence (afterwards Louis XVIII); then the Rousseau, who died five weeks after Vol. Tas Band 74th Highlanders will perform and new and pretty walls in the centre of at my earnest solicitation, and, after con- or the paterfamilias escorts his daughters Secretaries of State arrived and several talre; on the 2nd of July, was honoured in the following programme at the Officer's the town-if there be no other alternative aiderable hesitation on the part of the ac- to the High Church, matins, as part of the bishops, along with academicians, writers, the same way, and his remains were laid

complished author. Mess to-morrow night, commencing at 9.15would enable some attention to be given joint study and comparison of the two poems dance at public worship comprises the duty Benjamin Franklin, who was than in Paris, pare now been lying for nearly ninety I am sure that the Sunday routine. In the country the atten- actors, and noblemen without number. beside those of his great rival. These two remarkable men, who hated each other in aside from their literary merits-will do of example. How can the village maiden came too, bringing his grandson, and beg years in one vault; and they have the your readers good. It can but serve to fail to comment on and admire the Lady ged that Voltaire would bless the boy: Pantheon all to themselves, for no one elaa encourage and strengthen their faith and Bountiful as she sweeps into church in hor Voltaire laid a hand on the child's head whisper comforting words to their bereaved sables and feathers, followed by the tall and said in English, "God and liberty is buried there. and stricken hearts.

footman, who gracefully hands her her Then, having tried to carry on a converes. Atlanta, Ga.

Prayer-book, and then meekly subsides, tion with Franklin in English and finding in all his dignity of fat calves and plush his memory of that language fail him, he breeches, into the retainers' pew behind? said: "You must excuse my mistakes, but According as the mistress of the Park's I want to talk in English; it is the lan habit of drinking brandy who have any but There are probably few who are in the genuflection be long or short, her atten guage of liberty." Voltaire was never tired the faintest conception of its noxious effecta dance at early celebrations or harvest of receiving visits, and he ofarmed all who upon the human system, more especially festivale constant and regular, the tenants, came near him by the sprightliness of his the inferior brands of which find only | awe-stricken, Took on her as beautiful wit; nevertheless, he had presumed too too ready a male and consumption in the

example.

mach on his strength, for on the 18th of Far East. There la, we believe, a large Sometimes force of association leads February ho fell ill suddenly, and the re-assumption of it in Singapore, and per- people to church, as when a sailor sleuchos port spread through Paris that he was dy-haps, therefore, the following paragraph. Into a seaport chapel, or the traveller at Ing. Thereupon the ouré of St. Sulpice, about "Brandies and Brandies" from the tenda divide service in a barn in some out M. Gauthier, a bigot, arrived in hot haste, London Globe may be of interest. of-the-way corner of the world, and the and in a private interview sought to alarm tones of the organ or the familiar words of the philosopher about his soul and to pre portant of the discussions which have been

"One of the most interesting and Im prayer call up to his memory tender volees vail upon him to confess and take the na- going on before conferences and congresses or hateful sounds. Often, indeed, church erament. Voltaire declined, but, acting in Paris at this season was that which is resorted to as a mode of killing time, 83, ander the threat (se he afterwards affirmed) related to the subject of alcohol in general, for instanos, when young ladies in country that if he died tupenitent he would be regarded both from a sanitary and a moral houses say, Let's go to church, or the day buried like a dog, he consented to this de-point of view. An unscientific person will seem so long or youths in a marching elaration: "I die in the Catholic religion admitted to one of those learned scanoes regiment panetiliously attend service in the in which I was bora; I ask pardon of God would have been a good deal astonished at hope of seeing fresh faces, or getting up & and of the church if I have offended them." the terms used by the profeanors present. little exoitemont in the shape of a new The next day he felt better; but on Fe- He would have learnt with some wonder flirtation. Such motives frequently animate bruary 28 there was a relapse, and believing the divare qualities and dangers of a poore the congregations in garrisons or noaafde then that his end was imminent be asked of different sorts of alcohol, and perhaps watering places, where time would appear hia secretary, Wagnière, to bring him sowo shuddered af the thought how quickly home an unmarketable commodity, and far more paper, and wrote: I die worshipping. of them will bring a man's life to an end. difficult to dispose of than Turkish bonds God, loving my friends, not hating my en Statistica bearing upon the comparative or American railway stock. There are emies, and detesting only superstition." harmlessness of different alcohols were ex. other phases of church going. There is However, he recovered from his prostra-pounded by M. Dajardin Beaumeta as the the feverish emotional aspect, where the tion, and was soon busy pushing on the results of a long series of experiments upon fair worshipper, clasping her gilded Charsh rehearsals of his "Tibao," which was to dogs. 1 was found that in the last rank service hysterically to her breast, haugs come out at the Théâtre Français. 1t is sa regarda polaoping capacity were to be devoutly on every utterance of her beloved worth noting that Voltaire gave his tragedy placed the following alcohols--the common prlest confessor, or rises to a pitch of to the actors of this theatre on the special sort made and drunk in France, and known eostatio devotion, which componentes for condition that they should not describe as cognac, the "spirit of wood," the the difficulties of early rising, long fasting, themselves on the playbill as "Les Comé-minanthalie, the capuylic, and the glycerine,...... or self-dental in the matter of balla and diens ordinaires du Roi." He was a great all kill when given in doses of eight gram- parties during the Lenten season sthetic stickler for the dignity of the stage, and mes to every thousand grammos which the fastes too are gratified under these aroum thought this time-honoured formula dedcinker weighs. It would thus take a good stances and many a woman who would grading. The actors referred the question deal more than a pint of these liquide taken shrink from visiting a loathsome uninterest to the King, as in duty bound, since they at a time to destroy a man of 10 stone ing London artisan'a home, reeking of enjoyed a grant from the Civil List: and weight. Very different is the operation of poverty, and smelling of unvarnished Louis XVI, though effonded, told them to the alcohols known to the learned as amylio vulgarity and gin, will feel her whole soul call themselves as they liked. From that and butylio. These are capable, when ebbing out in rapture as she kneels with time they have always described themsolves clasped hands, drinking in harmony and collectively as La Comédie Français. beatitude. Thors are too some practical minde who carry superstition into every thing, and who belleve that in some my sterious recondite way they are punished in the week by an avenging Providence for the Sabbath omission. These will say, 'O, I knew I should have no luck, for I did not go to church last week, and of course the horse I back for the Leger did not win; or, I cannot gain a single rubber of whistor, the girl I proposed to would not accept me; or, my new gown, that I took so much trouble about, was a dead failure, and did not fit. Weak-minded souls like these forget that they are really a klud of fetish worshippers, trying to con- oiliate the Deity with potty little offerings and sacrifices--the kind of things we langb at amongst the savages and the heathen we take such pains to convert, and deplore in the case of bigoted Roman Catholice. Possibly the most respectable kind of pisty nised him, a wall was made that the two

While I lay entranced and dreaming, Startled by the echo seeming

To be whispered from above, With its form of beauty beaming, In the starlight faintly gleaming,

where he had been confined for two months. for stabbing the ohlef officer of the vessel he belonged to. On the present occasion MB J. BUCHANAN, Bandmaster.

if appears, that he stole a few banansa from a hawker's stall, and when the man re We are given to understand that the monstrated with him, he struck him in the British ship Arabia, which we reported a mouth. A number of hawkers took part

Of a statue near my bed, few days back as having put into Amoy in endeavouring to arrest Dogharty, who And it seemed with soft, low cocing dismanted, and otherwise damaged, has not thereupon, doubtless thinking discretion My lone heart to soothe with wooing,

Like an angel from the sky, fallon into pleasant places. The Arabia the better part of valour, made off as fastOr a spirit hovering nigh. left this post bound to Callan; and she motes possible, and so determined was he to her misfortunes in the neighbourhood of escape pursuit that he jumped over a re- the Paracells; she could therefore as easily taining wall 16 feet high, and was then ar- have turned back this way, as she made rested by Sergeant Heanossy. Mr Creagh Amoy, and her owners and underwriters sent him to 3 weeks hard labour for the would have benefited by the alteration in larceny, and fined him $10 or one month's the programme. At least, If our informe- |-bard labour for the assault. tion is correct the modest sum of $58,000 · Inaked by the Amoy folks to complete the necessary repairs to the unfortunate vessel, and, without assuming to know too much of the art of sawing or abipping wood, or the price of copper or tar, we fancy some of the enterprising folks here would have been found willing enough to accept a modieum of that sum for the work, while Hongkong workmanship is not generally considered the worst in the world. We would suggest a tow down as likely to lemon the evil.

I beheld the snowy dove: With a thrill of wonder, gazing On the visitor, amazing,

I demanded: "Who are you " And the gentle bird of whiteness, With its snowy robe of brightness,

I am sent," he said, "from Alden,

Answered with a coo: By a fair and lovely maiden,

With a message unto thee; I am come to soothe thy sorrow, Bid thee from despair to borrow

Who is thine for evermore," By this joyful news excited, Raptured, ravished and delighted,

Two seamen, named James Pritchard and William Mortimer, were charged with being stragglers from the American ship. George Skolfeld, The defendants com plained of ill-treatment on board the ship. Mortimer, who noted as spokesman, and gave evidence of his being what la generally known as a sea lawyer, said: Woll, Bir, Hope that thou her face shalt seo we have been knooked about all shapes, it For thy cherished ono is living, is no use your sending me back to that ship. And her thoughts to thee is giving, for I would rather be hung, drawn, and On a bright and distant shore; quartered first, I won't go there, so it's no And I come, her carrier dove, use sending of us. I for one won't go, our With a message from thy lover lives are not safe on board of her.

They have threatened to throw as overboard, if we came on board again, and they will do it too. I will make away with myself or A BAMBLE around the western part of the ama British subject, and I claim the pro- somebody else if I am sont on board. I

western district of the Colony did not im-tection of the British flag. press us so favorably with our public works department, as did a stroll in the opposits direction a few days ago. Starting from the Cross Boads, we noted the demolition of the premises lately occupied by Mesare Blackhead & Co., opposite the No. 5 Police Station, which is to be replaced by Chinese houses, and we only olte it as another sign of the rapid decrease in the value of foreign house property an sgainst Chineze.

His Worship remarked that they could

only claim the protection of the flag under

which they sailed.

Mortimer replied: What's the use the Captain has been to the Consul and poison- ed his mind, we've been kicked and cuffed, and knocked about in all shapes, we can't get any redress there, and lookey here, Sir, if we are sent on board, 1'll jump over board. We have been kept in irons in this harbour by the Captain for 38 hours, and want to know if that is Barbour law, if that

is Maritime law.

I

Defendant continued to talk in this strain, and added: Well, I only wish Plimsoll was here.

We are not seamen, we are firemen, Wo. Pritchard, the other defendant, said:

shipped whilst drank.

Mortimer added: Yes, and the Captain is constantly reminding us that we are no seamen it we are no use, why dosa he went to keep us. I know why, we have got If we had $200 or nothing coming to us.

30 ming to us, we could run away, and

Asked, with earnest voice inquiring,

I, the snowy bird addressing, What my soul was most desiring, Ho would set my heart at rest Still the tumult in my breast, And assure me that my maiden, In the distant fields of Alden

That her name to me expressing),

Waited for me on that shore Would be mine for evermore. Then I spoke with greater fervor, 1, the maiden's ardent lover:

"Does my own departed live P (To the bird of whiteness listening While my eager eyes were glistening,

For the answer he should give); Tell me, O thou carrier dove, Of my absent, cherished love,

Whom I knew in days of yore; Of the blessed land immortal, Has she passed the shining portal

Does she move in light and splendor, Going through the golden door? Do the graces all attend her,"

On that fair and distant shure " Words and tones and looks revealing All my depths of inward feeling he would help us to do so.

Moved, affected by my pleading, Pritchard: Yes, Your Worship, and I And my anxions question heeding, have had all my clothes stolen by the men. Thus the dove, my soul discerning, and I have got nothing now but what I Answer made, these words returning: stand upright in.

"In the distant fields of Aiden, On a bright, Elysian shore, Dwells a fair and lovely maiden,

And her name is Elinore; Mid the flowers about her blooming, 'Mid the adora sweet perfuming

Mortimer: Never mind your clothon, friend, it's not only your clothes, but your heart's blood which has been stolen. I only wish I could seo Plimsoll's Agent here.

The Praya has been patched up where the late gale made inroads, but in a very temporary manner. The roads in the neighbourhood of the West Point Foundry are still in nearly the same. state as they were left after the heavy rains of four or five months ago; the road alongside and to the eastward of the Foundry being open, and in a very danger ous condition, along its entire length. We were glad to note that the Wharves at Wast Point between the Sailors' Home and the Gas-works, to the dilapidated and dangerous condition of which we drew attention some time ago, are being put in a state of re- palt, and will soon be presentable. The bridge across the Patent Slip, which the Fatent lip and Dock Company have been ordered to construct, owing to the continuation of the road to the new Cattle Shed at Lap-sep-wan, is rapidly approaching completion. So much for what is being done, but now as to what is hot being done, the hovels, and their name

"We hear, by the way, that a new weekly te legion, in the rear of the Gas-works espe- paper is projected in Hongkong, for which dially, are greatly in want of sanitary reform with the Shanghai prees, have been secured. the services of Mr Balfour, lately connected

And my cherished Elinore, they are nearly all of the squatters"-but It in reported that the now journal is to be As a fair and lovely maiden, type, and quits nufit for human habita- run in the interests of the Governor and Dwelling in the land of Aldon,

the Roman Catholic Bishop, and is to be

Is my light for evermore. tion. It is a great pity they were not supported either by direct subsidy, or in. There shall 1, my loved one greeting, all swept away, when so many were directly by Government printing, etc. It At our future, early meeting,

Oa that distant, radiant shore, destroyed during the time the forts were very right that a Government should In source of construction. The zonds and have an organ in the press to defend its With custatlo joy and gladness,

action but under present elrcumstances, Free from perting, pain and sadness, mullab, are unworthy the name; they were wa cannot anticipate for the new venture é Clasp again my Elinors,

Call her mine for evermore! particularly brilliant commercial success,

His Worship, after listening to much of this sort of talk, remanded the case until Saturday, and diroasted the polles to take the defendants before the U. B. Conral and give them an opportunity to make their complaints before him.

Tax following paragraph appears in the Japan Daily Advertiser of Oct. 8th ;-

She, arrayed in robe of whiteness,

All the balmy air around," Walks an angel in her brightness,

With a wreath immortal crowned." Then the bird, his wings unfolding, Left me, as I lay beholding,

Filled with transport and delight: With a soft, sonorous coo, Nodding, bidding me adien Through the open window few Out into the gloomy night, But the bright, enchanting vision. Of the distant fields Elyainz,

taken in comparatively small doses, of Causing fatal seizure and convulsions, and The tragedy of "Irène" is rather poor, a man of modorate bodity health and vigour but, owing to the circumstances under may lose ble life by drinking at a sitting which it was perfortned, it of course ob from half to threequarters of a pint, accord Lained an enormous success; and Voltalte ing to his constitution. As a general result accepted an invitation signed by all the of the figures given by Dr. Beaumets, it is comedians and subscribers that he would announced that the order of precedence of attend the sixth representation, which was brandies usually sold for the purpose of to take place on the 30th of March. This being drank is henceforth to be thus day seems to have been kept as a public arranged-In the first class come those holiday; for in the afternoon, Voltaire was derived from wine, then those from sider to be present at a sitting of the Académie, or perry. In the third rank come the and the Parisians turned out in thousands alcohols made from grape skins, and in the to ohoor bis carriage as it passed. When fourth are the large glass extracted from he appeared inside the Palais Mazarin, grains. Next some those extracted from wrapped in an ermine cloak lined with red roote, amonger which those got from beat- velvet which had been given him by Ca root and molasses are the least noxious: therine II. of Russia, he was greeted with and those for which potatoes are used are acclamations so loud and continuous that the most hurtful."Straits Times. he was fairly overcome and aauk into a chair unable to speak. Franklin was pre- sent; and the assemblage having recog.

WHY COAL BURNS.

is that which takes many people to church great men should eit alde by side, which If you take a lump of coal ont of the coal because it was a part of their infant educa- they did, after having embraced each other scuttle you find yourself in possession of an tion, like eating with cara at table, or wiping amid general emotion. Condorcet, whe irregular lump of black stone, which usual- their feet on the door mat when they enter was a cool-headed man, writes of this scenely acils the hand that holds it, to a greater a house. To train up a child in the way he as the most touching that he, ever wit but one obvious feature-namely, that it or less extent, and which generally presents should go is an excellent maxim, and nine nossed; and we are also indebted to Couclearly consists of this parallel layers some times out of ten early precepts remain in dorost for a graphto description of what of which are usually thin and glistening, the memory with a tenacity that no after took place later at the Théâtre Françalo. while others are more dull and earthly in scepticism or worldliness can eradicate,The theatre and all the surrounding houses though sometimes they lead to queer had been brilliantly illuminated, and the ture, as every one knows who has ever appearance. In consequence of this struc- illogical results, us in the case of Charles struggle for places was so fierce that many stirred a fire, it is comparatively easy to Lamb's aunt, who pored devoutly over her, noblemen had to be contented with bare break up a piece of coal in one direction papistical manual and the Imitation of standing room in the gallery. Voltaire (the direction corresponding with that of Christ all week-days, but toddled to a was ushered into the Court box (not the the component layers,) but repeated blows Protestant church on Sunday, quite un King's, which remained empty), and daring from the poker may be vainly used if the re- conscious of anything inconsistent in her the performance, which lasted four hours, fractory lump be attacked in the opposite he had to rise at least 20 times in response direction (the direction at right angles to the

behaviour.

Something must be also allowed, especial. to the frantic cheers of the audience. He layers.) Now, as bofora reroarked, there is ly in the case of women, for a kind of kept on repeating, with tears flowing down nothing whatever about a piece of coal eraving of natare for stimulants when run his cheeks, "They want to kill me with which would in any way indicato its inflam down and wearled by trouble and monotony, pleasure and indeed it is wonderful that mable nature, and perhaps the first question The soul requires dram-drinking sometimes no old a maa sonld have borne such that we should feel disposed to ask is, Why as the body does chloral or brandy. Clever trying spectacle. At the close of the does goal burn? To answer this question Bormons, well-conducted services, excep. tragedy the curtain fell; but it rose again we must call in the help of our chemical tionally fine muse, all serve their turn, after a few minutes, and the statue of friends; but we can get an intelligible and help to restore the tone of the mind Voltaire was seen on the stage crowned reply without dipping very deeply into the and act as tonics and revivers. Modera with laurel. Then an actress, Madame diseases are mostly pervous; the favourites Vestris, came forward to recite a compil. theory of combustion. The chemist telle of Louis XIV. time rejoiced in sapeurs, mentary ode, at the end of which the audi- the elementary substance which is termed us, then, that coal is composed principally of Richardson's heroines in faints, and atillence, who were well-nigh delirious with carbon and which is seen in its purest form lator French ladies had that inexplicable excitement, shouted with one voios that she in lamp black, charcoal and the wonder disorder called mes nerfs; but it is reserved should go to Voltaire's box, and crown him fully dissimilar blacklead and diamond. for the present day to form a diagnosis of with the shaplet which had been placed on Ho further tells us that carbon, when that moat subtle and mysterious of taisdies, his statue. On returning home after this raised to a certain temperature, has the hystorta. It partakes as much of spiritual memorable performance Voltaire felt that strongest desire to unite itself with the gas depression as of physical weakness, of an

he should die if he remained longer in called oxygen, which is present in a large unstrung mind as of an overwrought body, Paris, and be made bis arrangements for amount in our atmosphere, this union being of nameless agonies as of distinct charac returning to L'erney but by the ill advice attended with the production of light and teristice, and in the cure of it religion plays of his nieco, Madame Denis, he was in heat, and resulting in the formation of the a prominent part. Its viotime must go to duced to prolong his etay, and as a couse invisible and poisonous gue which in teche church, for that is the outward prescription quence he was soon too weak to leave bir nically called carbonio asid gas. When, of the foward and incomprehensible heating, room,

He continued to receive visits, therefore, we burn a piscs of onel in the And what remains, then, for those who are however, and busled himself indefatigably fire-place, what happens, roughly stated, le imbued with real religious feeling, and who in writing, verses, answering letters, and (1) that the carbon of the coal enters lato some to church neither for fashion, for corresponding with the Department of Jus direct union with the Bygen of the air, endtement, for example, nor for the many stoe about the justificatory memoir he had emitting light and heat la so doing, the other causes we have somerated, but compiled for the rehabilitation of the mar darbonis acid gas thus produced escaping simply and solely for the most unlikely tyred Count Lally Tellendal. This was the up the chimney in an invisible form; aud reston of all-to say their prayers They uppermost subject in his mind, for, having (2) that the earthly and incombustible are such a very small minority that no succeeded in rehabilitating Callas and Sir matter present in greater or less amount in The question is a natural one to ask when great speculation is required about them. ven, he was anxious to clear Lally's memory all coals is left in the grate unburned; fu the doors of the temples stand wide open. Of course they are the real nucleus of also before he died. On the 29th of May the form of ashes and cinders. with the urowds pouring it, and the bella religion ; but the closely-pressing massas, Voltaire took to his bed, and once again be clashing or droslag forth their customary with their complex motives of conduct, are was tormented by the curd de St. Sulpios, Few poems have been more widely read appeal. Crowds are gregarious, and man. by far the most interesting subjects for our who violently exhorted him to recant his and gloomy in ite thought and conseption, large a proportion of the population should we not here all the varied elements of answered the philosopher and soon after than Foe's." Heysu," so peculiar in ita style zere and customs datching yet that on selections. Vanity salishness, fear have creste hell out to die das peace," For long years it has hung over the human be seised with the same desire to do the human asture, all the paralons that make wards he turned on his pillow, and told his heart with a dark, despondent ohillness, and same thing at the same moment suggests a life history, and history life, without which secretary that he felt his life ebbing away, where Borrow and loss and disappointment problem. Underlying the similarity of the record of the human race would be and that he should like to hear that bit had found a lodgment in a weak and sensitive taste in persons so entirely different in age, only an enlarged edition of the Lives of offorts for Imily had not beau urelems. At nature, it has made the gloom darker, the mind, and life as are the congregation of a the dainte, containing no mention of the this very moment Lally's son arrived at the lose heavier and the disappointment still large cathedral, there must be some grand tyrants and unbelievers who were nesemary house, and esat in word exultingly to say greater. Echoing through the sad portals law of nature, some mystery if the tinfresca. In order to carry out the saints martyrdom that the King had aceeded to Voltaire's of bereaved and lonely hearts, the refrain of What is the bond that unites in harmony When we consider all this, the dullest dis petition, and that his father wád to be Nevermore" has been the death knell of such varied elaments! One of the prime cotize, the drabbleet of pulpit bingings, publicly rehabilitated. Therton Voltairs hopes that might have been nursed into movers of modern society in the bugbear the wheeniess of harmoniums, or most called for a pen and wrote with a trembling renewed lite by a more cheerful faith and a called Fashion, a sort of cog-wheel that sets enigmatical of Ritualalle performances, are hand-The dying man revives on hearing brighter and happer visitant from “Alden." all the machinery moving. In certain suddenly imbued with an interest, vig this great news he tenderly embraces M. de With this view of the matter in his mind, classes it le the fashion to go to church, our, a charm, that makes every church Lally he sees that the King is a defender my gifted friend, Rav, JAH. Mardin, D.D The mechanie's wife goas Beesuse it is delightful study, every gougregation of justice, and he dies happy." There were pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of reapsstable; the stonkbroker's wife because varied theme of spasilation, and an endless the lost words which Voltaire wrote, and ollaats, ben written a compentsa prom, ] 11 hooves people of fortune de he plour; store of paychologica) romanty

they are poble words and sprang from a

tonob out up during the rains of this year, nor can we congratulate a gentlemen of hir-Dr J, B. Marke, and gas and water pipes have been laid Balfour's standing upon his connection with bare in all directions, without the sligh:est | it.”

apparent attempt at repairs, Stagnant This must be nonsense.—ED. O. M

pools of water and heaps of flth are to be

found in all directions in the neighbour.

hood, and the approaches to Belcher's Bay;

and piga and phildren are allowed to rus wallowing in a luxury of flith,

Station Street, and the immediate neigh bourhood aboys Po Lok Theatre, la a dis- Stace to the Colony; for Europeans eves, unlas-it may perhaps be a ning policemian, probably visit this nei hbourhood, which is above the main thoroughfare, but what we “saw to-day would lead us to imagine that the roads hete never receive the smallest atten tion, although the neighbourhood is thickly peopled. The inhabitants, are probably the lowest soum of the Colony, but they arenever theless human, and pay taxes in some skape 68 form, and thats per houses arpallowed in

A POETICAL CONTRAST.

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WHY PEOPLE GO TO CHURCH. (World)

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