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WAIFS IN VERSE, &C.

I9AY

WAIFS IN VERSE, &C.

G. W. WICKSTEED Q. C.

for fifty years
Law Clerk of the House of Commons ok Canada.

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OTTAWA:
A. BUREAU & FRfeRES, PRINTERS

1891.

HIAY

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219503

THE MEMORY OF MY WIFE

MY CHILDREN AND MY FRIENDS

THIS VOLUME IS

AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

•r

Ce fin rtcucti de poesies u4lacMc«, oil renthouiivime du patriote se mile ik la
v«rve c.-iu^itique du chansonnier, la iiute Itigurcment sentimentale avec la petite
poiiite du satiriste de bonne huiiieur. C'est Ih un 'petit volume fort int^ressant sous
•bien des- rajiports, at pour luquel noU« ufiTrons-nos plus. Mncires remcrciements Jk
I'auteur — Dr. L. FRicHtxTE, La ratrU, IK July, i3S4.

"WAirs lit Vkbsk," a brilliant amusing and instructive tittle volume. Mr.
Wicksteed's great age, (over 80) does not prevent him from still indulging in the
writing of excellent verse, and occasioha! irarislations of great merit . Serani;s.
Canadian Itirtlutay Book, Toronto, 1887.

I J

APOLOGY

FOR MY

WAIFS IN VERSE.

Gkntlk Kiaobr and Friind,

Except only in the matter of dollara^ any intention of
making which by the Hale of my Waifs I utterly renounce, the
Preface 1 wrote for my good friend Mrs. Grant's " Stray
Leaves " so nearly states the inducements which led me to print
this little volume, and the spirit in which I wish you to road it,
that on the points which that prefaces touches I need scarcely
say more;— and I have, therefore, (contrary to my general
rule.) placed it first in my table of contents. But the reasons
therein given for bespeaking your favorable criticism, rolMe
only to the quality of the articles, and I must therefore say
something about their matter and spirit. Tbey are indeed
Waifs, born of the occasion and with no object beyond it ; and
so little care had I taken of them, that many were lost altoge-
ther, and but for the kindness of some of my friends who had
kept copies of them, and more especially of my brother and my
excellent friend, the late Honorable Judge Black of Quebec, I
should have been unable to collect enough to make this modwt
little book ; and as Waifs, written each for its own special
occasion, and generally at the instances of some friend whose
views and feeling it was to express, I wish them to be judged.
Many of those which may seem most trivial to the general
reader, will be most acceptable to some of my dearest friends,
from the pleasant memories they will awaken. For the rest, I
must not hope entirely to escape the application of Mrs. Grant's
confession : I may have a modest wish for honorable mention in

VIM

An Apofnifi/J'ot' nil/ Wnifa.

tho Cimadiiin List of Authors, as havinof written Homothing be-
hIcIos 8latiitos and Tables ofSlatnles; —

In Mor(;an's usi-ful hook iny plnce is small ;'
In stati'ly Taylor's work I've none at nil. —

I may have a Hocrot aspiration for u higher place in the former
and Home little obscure niche in the latter: — " Vanity perhaps
f.Bsisting." r have arranged the pieces almost always in the
order of their birth, and tho earlier ones arc therefore the most
sentiment il. 1 was young then and am old now; but hope you
will think tho linos on old Christ Chui'ch, and tho touching In
Memoriam to the Timm^ show that in my old age tho quality is .
not quite extinct in me. "■

But, you may ask, why should I, a rather ancienl Q. 0.
and Law Clerk of tho House of Commons, write and print
verses. My good friend, what I have done officially is the very
reason and justification for what I am doing now. An Knglish
author apologizing for his hero, an apothecarj', who attaches a
short poem to tho neck of his physic vial, exclaims, —

" Ajiothtcary's verso !- -and where's the treason ? ""
"If patients swallow physic without reason,"
, " It is Init fair to .idd a little rhyme ; "' —

and asks indignantly — * ' *<■' •

" Can n't men have taste who cure a phthisic."
-, " Of poetry tho' patron Ciod,

" Apollo patronizes physic." *

Now I have helped to make the public to swallow some
thousands of pages of heavyish reading prescribed by legislative
doctors, in the shape of laws, and I am, therefore, not merely
entitled, but bound in fairness, to give them a /iV^/e rhyme ?
Lawyers and Legislators have been poets. A grave Lord Chan-
cellor of England in advising students at law as to the distribu-
tion of their time, after bidding them give six hours to the

* See Notes.

An Apnloijy for my Wa\ffi.

study of ^' equal lawn," and cortain othor hourn to other tbingH,
tells them to give the rest to the MuseH, — '• Quod aiij)«rest ultra
Sacria largire Camixnis." Tolfourd was a 8ei'|jfont-at-low when
ho wrote " Ion," on the beauties of which our leading litleroteur
Ih 80 fond of diwcoursing. The late Mr. Joseph Howe and Mr.
D'Arcy McClee, both publisiied some very capital poetry. I do
not know that any of our present leading politicians have dis*
tinguished themselves in verse, but they must have the main
element of poesy in them, when their very opponents acknow-
ledge their speeches to be " full of invention," and of "- imagi-
nation all compact." On this point, therefore, I am justified
by precedent and authority as ample as a lawyer could wi>h for.
But you may perhaps object, that I have occasionally been
a little harder on public men and their doings than betitA my
po.sition: — that I by no means inculcate teetotulism as becomes
the author of a Temperance Bill ; — and that I am sometimes
slightly critical on my French Canadian fellow subjects. But
be pleosod, my dear friend, to remember that I almost always
wrote in a representative character, and had to express the
feelings and views of my constituents, my nonpaying clients,
rather than my own. The Quebec Gazette, under the late John
Neilson, and his successor, had its own notions about things in
general, and the Coalition in particular, very different from
those of the Transcript, a literary papci' edited by Mrs. Grant:
— while the Pilot differed from both ; — and when I said, in the
New Year's Address of the latter, that, Mr. Hincks,—

*' Would the Taxes imix)se in so charming a way,

" 'Twould be bliss to receive them and pleasure to pay ;"

my Muse w&s in charge of her Pilot, and steered my verses as
he directed, and. if Mr. H. did not quite fulfil her vaticination
it was not my fault,— nor perhaps his ; he tried his best, as Mr.
Cartwright is doinjr now; and even he may possibly come short,
find the complete accomplishment of the prophecy may beleft fo^

An Apology /or my Waifa.

\\\e Finance Minister of the Millenium. Then as to Tempe-
1 vnce ; — I am myself fond of cold water, — but I was not to sing
my own songs. Lord Byron complains of being expected to
make Lucifer talk like a Clergyman ; and tio one who knew my
friend Archibald Campbell, Esq., Her Majesty's Notary Public,
of Quebec, would have thought it natural to make him sing like
Father Matthew or 'a Bouge from St. Eoch's. When 1 wrote
for my worthy brother or Major Lindsay nothing could be
more innocent and harmless than my'lines. • •

As to my Gallic fellow citizens, I loved th6m dearly, as
Mr, Neilson did, until they broke out into rebellion, and I love
them again (as he would do if alive) now that they are quiet
and loyal. They should not have rebelled ; but after all they only
contended for what we would all now fight to retain. Messrs.
Papineau, Vigor, Vallieres, Lafontaino and Cartior were my
tried and honored friends. Of all the Speakers under whom I
have served, no one was kinder or more courteous than Mr.
Papineau; of all the Ministers I have worked with and for
none more so than Sir George Ctrtier. I have always loved the
eloquent language of France and been conversant with it I
was Translator before I was Law Clerk ; and perhaps the most
acceptable compliment I ever received was from Mr. Vallieres,
when in returning me with thanks a translation I had made for
him, he said " jEquavit ne-dum superavit exemplum." I was
young then and had a name to make and never forgot the
kindness. ' ' *■

The New Year's Addresses are only lively versified memo-
randa of some of the more marked events of the expiring year,
viewed in the spirit of the Journals they were written for, but
they will, I hope, awaken many not unpleasant recollections of
old times in many of mj' readers. The Ephemeral Government
Bill, and the Coup d'Htat, are but short chapters in rhyme of
^be history my heroes made; and the Wbite-Wash Bill is a

An Apology /or my Wai/a.

versified " Tract for the Times." The "Little Gun" is the only
article into which any thing like personal feeling entered.
With the help of Messrs. Hincks and Dunkin, I amended the
Attorney (reneral's Seigniorial Bill, and abolished that oppro-
brium of the seigniorial tenure, the W« et ventea. or mutation
fines. We did not think we got our full share of credit for
this work. Hence our little squib. But we are all good
friends now, and have been for the four and twenty years since
past. L. T. D. and Mr. Dunkin were made judges, Mr. Ilincks
became Sir Francis and a Governor, and I got my Q. C, not
undeservedly, I trust, for, apart from this great service to
Lower Canada, few men have given H. M.'h advisers more
accepted advice that I have done. 1 was told that on thia
occasion I came near upsetting the good ship Coalition, but the
Attorney General kindly gave way and relieved the strain, and
shemvam upright again.

With this exception I never had a misunderstanding with
Minister or Member; yet before this year is out I shall have
been tifty years in my present office of Law Clerk i^nd Trans-
lator, and forty of these as Chief; nor has an}' one ever said
that I gave undue preference to any party or person, though it
has depended on me that many thouaanda of bills should be
examined, printed, corrected, noted, translated and put through
all their stages, each in its lawful order and turn; and a very
considerable portion of them had to be drafted or amended.
I made many a Bill for the Legislative Assembly of Lower
Canada, and translated the famous 92 BeBolutions; — was Chief
Assistant to Mr. Attorney General Ogden in the time of the
Special Council, and helped to make ( tnong others) the first
Begistration Bill and Municipal Bill for L. C, and the first
Board of Works Bill. For the Legislature of the United
Canadas, I drafted, under Mr. Draper's instructions, the first
Municipal Bill for U. C, the first Post office Bill under Mr.
|jafontaine's and the Ifrst Currency Bill undei Mr. Hincks,

An Apology for my Waifs,

ji'id a great many others under divers Ministers and Ministries
i om 1841 to 1867; and for the Parliament of Canada I have,
u:ider divers Ministries also drafted, consolidated, revised,
amended, or had some not. unimportant part, in almost every
Public Bill which has originated in the House of Commons, and
have worked with and for almost every Minister and every
Member of note. I am proud to say that the best and ablest on
either side have ever treated me with the most consideration
and confidence. I am by nature and habit non-partizan and
inclined to look at both sides of every question, and this was
well, for no party man coald perform the duties of my office
with pleasure to himself or satisfaction to the House. Party
spirit has run high, tmd Members have said hard things and
accused one another of all sorts of abominations, in the heat of
party strife; — but this I can say, — no one of any party has ever
asked me to draft or help to draft, bill, clause, amendment or
resolution which I do not think he honestly believed to be for
the good of Canada independent of party; — and I feel sure that
the foremost men on either side, whom I am proud to call my
friends, might, and would in their calmer moments, fairly say,
with Coriolanus, to those of their opponents worthy of their
steel, —

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" I've done as yoit have done, — that's what I could, —
" Induced as you have been, — that's for uiy country."

I have ventured to finish with a National Anthem for
Canada. There are plenty of poems and songs about "Canada
First," and woods and lakes and mountains, and maple loaves
and beavers, many of which are very pretty in themselves, but.
want concentration, and are not singable to any tune that any
body knows. I have tried to avoid these objections ; and trust
there is little of the expletive or diffusive in my wording,
while my theme is widely patriotic, and ray tune known and
sung or piayed wherever tho British flag flies. There can be 1^9

An Apology for my Waifs.

XIII

National A'Mhem but "God save the Queen " for Her Majesty's
Dominion of Canada.

G. W. W.
Ottawa, 23rd April, 1878.

Note. — In the present Beprint of my Waifs in Verse; I
leave the old Title and Title page, becauRe all it contains was
wiitteii while I still held the office of Law-Clerk of the House
of Commons of Canada, which I resigned at the end of
January, 18S7, when I nad held it, and a like office under the
Legislatures of Lower Canada and the Province of Canada, for 58
years, and was rather over 87 years of age:— I retain my
"Apology" as equ'illy applicable to the contents of this and to
those of the former little book. I have added several " Wai/s"
written since it was printed, and some explanatory notes.
With respect to the longest of ihe new pieces, (my translation
of Dr. L. Frechette's '•'^ Fors Vhonnetir^'). I may say, that ha-
ving been at iho same time Law Clerk and Chief of the
Translation Department, [ thought it well, "Vanity perhaps
again assisting," to insert a sample of mj'' quality in the latter
capacity', in which I had for so many years, had the French
Version of every Act passed by the House, read over to me by
the French Translator with the English before me; and I
believe, wo left but few mistakes if any.

The prose additions in the Appendix belong rather to my
quality of Law Clerk. I have always refrained from meddling
with personal or parly politics, but in questions of pure law or
public policy I have taken deep interest, and have now and then
ventured an article in a Law Journal or Newspaper. I insert
two on subjects which drew considerable attention at the time
and which are still of great interest. To that on " Time" I have
added an explanatory note. That on " Socialism " scarcely
needs one, in view of the recent outburst of Anarchism preach-
ing the enforcement of the wildest doctrines of Socialism, by

An Apology of my Waifs.

murder, robbery and the violation of every right held sacred
by honest men ; the only avowed end being the destruction of
life and property by the moat cowardly and inhuman means

To whatever criticism my little book may be open, it can
hardly be said to want variety, or harp always on one string
or deal only with one class of subjects or mood of thought. —
" / Mum fere scribendi genus nan tetigit ". — The ablest critics are
always the kindest ; will any very gentle reader add, " Nullum
quod tetigit nan ornavit," — and oblige— His or hers very truly,

Ottawa, 18 November, 1887.

G. W. W.

Note. — In the present reprint I have added to those mentioned in the
preceding Apology and Note, some articles subsequently written, and to which
I have prefixed, (p. 185) a short notice of their raison d'itre. They will show
that since my superannuation I have not ceased to take a deep interest in the
public affairs of Canada. I have printed nothing for sale, but every article in the
book appeared first in some journal of wide circulation, and my W. is reason-
ably well known. On some important questions I have tried to say something
which, if not new or profound, might at least be intelligible, brief and clear, and
tend to peace and good understanding among Canadians of every race or creed ;
and I venture to think that my translations from our French Canadian Laureate
Frechette, side by side with the originals, and my notice of Dr. Kingsford's His-
tory of Canada, will not give an unfavorable impression of Canadian literature and
feeling. ' '

G. W. W.

Ottawa, ist December, 1891.

CONTENTS.

Preface to " Mis. Grant's Stray Leaves"
Song, " As slowly glides from Shore the Bark '
Sicilian Mariner's Hymn. ... ....

Hymn at sea ... .... ... ...

Song " Partant pour la .Syrie " ...
To my Friends in England ... ....

Song, " Rousseau's Dream " . ....

To my Sister, with Thomson's Seasons

Hymn, " Adeste fideles "

Hymn. "German Hymn" ...

Samson's Prayer ... .... ....

Advent Hymn . . .... ...

104th Psalm

Epitaph, on a young Lady .... ....

Horace ; Ode XV, Lib. i. " Pastor quum iraheret "

" Ode XXX, Lib. i. " Persicos odi, puer, apparatus"

Martial VH, 89, "I, felix rosa "

Epitaph, on a favorite Cat .... .... ....

Epitaph on a favorite Dog .... .... .... ....

Song, " Donne I'Amore " ... .... ... ...

New Year's Address ; — Star, Quebec, 1830 ...

L' Amore Dominatore .... .... .... .... ...

Beautiful Things ... .... .... .... ...

Sonnet to a God-daughter .... .... .... ....

Song, " The Constitution "

Song, " Phrenology "... .... ....

Song. "St. George"

Song, " St. Andrew's night " . . . . .... .... ....

Song, " Men of Scotia's blood and land " .... ....

The Bombardier's Recruiting Song .... .... ....

The Quebec Debating Club, Song .... .... ....

Song for Sir Isaac Newton's Birthday .... ....

Epigram — Plains of Abraham

The Ladies' Address to Lord Gosford — Nobody gives us a ball

The Fancy Ball, Lord DuflFerin's .... .... ....

The Devil's Extra, a Real Fancy Ball, of the Rebellion ....

Lord Gosford's answer to the Ladies' Address

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Song of the Volunteer Officers

With Artillery accompaniment .•. . .
The Ladies' Address to the " Inconstants "

The " Insconstants " Answer

Sonnet lo my Wife with "The British Poets"
Canadian I'ic-Nic St)ng, "Vole, men coeur, vole'
An Album's Petition . . .... ....

To my Sister .... .... ....

New ^' ear's address, Qiiehec Transcript, 18.^9. .

A. W. toM. K

New Year address, Quebec Gazette, 1839. .
New Year*!- address, Quebec Transcript, 1840. .

(J. \Y. W. to.M. K., 1840

The Lady's Answer .... ....

Ba]3tismal Address, a Sonnet ....

An Ordinance respecting Albums. ...

Birthday Sonnet ; with a Theological t^uestion .

New \' ear's Address, Quebec Gazette, 1840

The North Shore Railroad, 1847

New \'ear's Adclress, Pilot, 1849 ....

The Carrier's Carol, — Quebec Gazette, 1849. . . .

Epitaph on Mr. John Neilson ....

The Steam Excavator or F'atent Irishman, Latin Ode.
The Carrier's C\\a.\m\.,^Quehec Gazette, 1850. . .

The little Gun ;— Exhibition of 1854

The Carrier's Coalition Addrese, Quebec Gazette, 1855.

The Patriotic Fund ;— Committee's Address

H. ^L Ephemeral Covernment ; — a Ctmservative Coupd'Elat .

In Memoriam ; — Old Christ Church

New Christ Church ;— The Attack

New Christ Church ; — The Defence

Thule or Thule, a Joint Stock Poem . .

In Memoriam Teinporum ....

Epitajih on By-Town j ....

The White Wash Bill

The Coup d'Etat (Reform)..

The Queen's Birthday — ^Toasts ... ....

Epitaph on L. n. Holton...

Something for Esther's Album

Something for Maude's Album

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Leap Year Valentine ... ....

About Rag Money. . .... ....

Sir ( ieo. Cartier and the Civil Code. . . .

La Statue de Cartier

All lost but honour ....

Jubilate, for the Queen's Jubilee

National Anthem ...

Notes and Appendix to foregoing Waifs
Bibliographic (Frechette on the Waifs)
Standard or Railway Time ....

Socialism .... .... ....

Waifs in Prose, &c. ....

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Disallowance of Provincial Acts ....

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Robert Browning .... ....

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Behring Sea Case .... ....

Kingsford's History of Canada, Vol. I\'.
Review of W'aifs — Montreal (la/.ette
In Memoriam — .Sir John A. Macdonald
C S. to her friend entering his 92nd year
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WAIFS IN VERSE

'^cSt^aS^laaS*'

PREFACE

To Mrs. Grant's " Stray Leaves."

WrUten at her reqwat.

Should you ask me gentle Eeader,—
Very kind and gentle Reader, —
Easy, kind and soft subscriber
To the volume now before you,
How I came to write this volume, —
What inducement made me print it, —
How I hope to pay the printer ! —
I should answer, I should tell you,
In the strain of Hiawatha :
I had not the least intention,
When I penned my modest verses,
That they ever in a volume
Should collected be, and printed ;
Printed, prefaced, bound, and published !
Thus it happened :— From my childhood,
I

Preface.

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Like young Popo, " I linped in numbers "
(All, I foar, we have in common,)
And whene'er occasion prompted,
Slight or weighty, grave or merry,
Birth or burial, christening, weddin.-.
Sad removal, happy meeting.
Tearful parting, joyous greeting.
Action brave or patriotic,
Faithful love or warliUe daring,
I must have my " lines " upon it.
Venting all my soul in rhyming.
As I grew in years and statui'e,
Editors my verses welcomed,
Friends around me kindly flatter'd.
Urged me to collect and publish,
Offered to become subscribers.
Offered to procure me others ;
Talked of profits, talked of dollars,
(Things I very sadly needed,)
Talked until at last I yielded, —
Vanity, perhaps, assisting.
Thus it comes to pass, Header,
That I throw me on thy mercy, —
Book and author on thy mei*cy.

Sages tell us that the medium
Through the which wo see an object.
Gives it colour bright or gloomy, —
Gives it ugliness or beauty,
Makes it lovely or unlovely ;
Therefore, when thou art perusing
This my unpretending volume,
Sead it with the eye of friendship.
Bead it by the light of kindness,

Sony.

Through good naturo'tt rosicHt gloHsos ;

So its itnprosuming pnget4

Shall for thoo soom gay with fancy,

Bright with wit and warm with fooling,

Burning with poetic pasaion,

Glowing with reflected beauty

From thy heart, gentle Eoador !

Thus shall recomponHo be made thoe,

Pair, and good, and manifold.

And thy dollar bo repaid thoe,

Like a "greenback" turned to gold.

SONG.*

As slowl}' glides from shore the bark,
When day's last beam is just departing,
And all around is drear and dark.
Life's saddest tear is starting ;
Nor hope itself can lend a ray
To light the pensive wanderer's way.
Allegro. — Yet morn again shall gild the skies,
And love's gay visions yet shall rise.
To soothe the pain of parting.

How dear is then our native shore.
How dear, to every better feeling,
The smile that fond affection wore
Love's purest form revealing : —
How sad, o'er ocean's waste to roam.
Far from the sacred joys of home. v

* Written for a lady and adapted to the Air of " Mary of the Ferry."

Sicifinu Afariiier'n l/ymn.

All. — But ht)i)OHhnll conio with coining day
To chuHO tlio houi't-folt tear iiway,
Tlint down the cJjoek in utoaling.

Tho »l»ip slill cleavoH hor foamy way,
From homo and lovo and friendship gliding,
Opposing still tho dashing spray,
And wave from wav8 dividing:
But onward as tho vossol goes
Again the parted waters close: —
All. — So hearts, where love and friendship reign.
Shall only part to moot again,
In mutual faith contiding.

And fiercer now the billows rise,

Against the gallant vessel beating;

Before tho gale, — as on she flies,

The clouds of night are fleeting;

But winds that part from all that's doar

Serve too our onward path to clear :
All. — So years of painful absence past

Shall, when wo meet again at last,

Enhance tho joys of meeting.

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SICILIAN MAEINEE'S HYMN.

Holy Virgin chaste and fair

Hoar the wandering sailor's prayer ;-

Empress of the restless sea.

Let our vows ascend to .thee.

Swiftly o'er the swelling tide

Bid our bark in safety glide :

yf^fmn at Sea.

Still tlio pilots broust inform,

And nhioid us from the huwiinp Storm.

Holy Virgin, Ocoftn'n Quoon,
Let thy mountain star be seon. *
While the world is wrapt in sleep
We must roam the pnthlews deep ;
Far from pleasure, peace and homo
O'er the bounding wave must roam.
Still the pi Ioi'm breast inform
And shield us from the howling Storm.

HYMN AT SEA.

Creator of the Waters,— thou whoso hand,

Formed them from nothing, — and at whoso command

The reetless winds are hushed,— thy guarding arm,

Can shield the wanderer on the wave from harm ; —

To thee, while o'er the trackless deep,

A pensive exile roaming,

Where angry winds the waters sweep

And broken seas are foaming ;

Still ore ray soul can sink to rest

My prayers, my vows, shall be addressed.

While o'er the desert ocean's dreary waste
Form each dear scene of social joy I haste,
Though me afar the rolling waters bear
My prayers are England's and my homo is there :
My dearest wish, my fervent vow,

* The Pole Star :— Tramontane.

III-

Song.

With more than passion's zeal devoted,
To Heaven's high throne is rising now
For those on whom my heart has doated : —
From pleasure banished let me rove
Where'er ihou wilt !— but those I love,
Almighty father ! — let thy power
Make happier with each coming hour.

The sun has set, his faintest rays of light

Are streaming from the west, and sullen night

Wraps in her deepest shade the sea and sky : —

One solitary star is beaming high.

Whose dimly seem yet cheering ray

Thro' scenes of thickest darkness glancing. —

Still as the foaming waters play,

Upon the high dark wave is glancing. —

— Tho' friends are far and peril near

Faith can the wanderer's bosom cheer,

And beaming on his spirit be

Like the lone star on Winter's sea.

SONG.

" Partant pour la Syrie. "

Parting for Syria's crimson'd fields

The youthful Stanley came

To Mary's hallowed altar, there

Invoked her sacred name.

" Chaste Queen of Heaven, " he kneeling cried,

" Oh grant a warrior's prayer ; —

" Let me be bravest or the brave

** And love the fairest fair, "

To my friends in England.

He vow'd his vow to Mary there
With every sacred rite :
Then followed Eichard to the war
And fields of thickest fight :
True his vow, 'mid battle's rage
Aloud he shouted there, —
" Let mo bravest of the bravo
'* And love the fairest fair. "

Through him the victory was won :

His gallant leader cried,

" By thee my glory is obtain'd,

" My daughter be thy bride.

" For this I'd tell my warrior band,

'♦ Tho' Eichard's self wore there,

" Thou art the bravest of the brave,

" She fairest of the fair."

The war had ceased, and Stanlev then

Eesought his native land,

And there at Mary's altar soon

Eeceived his Emma's hand ;

And all who knew his gallant deeds

And saw his Emma there,

Owned him the bravest of tho bravo,

Her fairest of the fair.

TO MY FEIENDS IN ENGLAND.

Bright in the south now beams the God of day,
And tin-clad roofs return the sparkling ray ;
From every chimney silvery vapours aise,
|n >vhitening eddies to the deep-blue skies,

To my friends in England.

fl 'Ml

The cold snow creaks the passing foot beneath,
White on'his eyebrow hangs the traveller's breath,
Th'else sallow cheek with deepest crimson glows,
And mocks the paleness of surrounding snows.

Frost o'er the scene in chilling splendor reigns

And binds St. Lawrence in his icy chains;

From bank to bank rough fields of ice extend,

Save one dark lake — whence steaming mists ascend,

^ 8 if the waters breathed. The cariole now

Speeds on its way beneath the tall ship's bow :

The red-tuqued habitants the market throng.

With noisy jokes and rough old Norman song;

The frozen meats now choke the crowded way,

And " coldly furnish forth " the well fill'd sleigh ;

Hard hearted greens have felt stern " winter's flaws; "

Geese, turkies, fowls, confess his *• biting laws ; " —

To brittle fish the grating saw's applied.

And brandished axes solid milk divide.

Now annual visits must be duly paid.

And solemn calls with strict punctilio made;

The knowing whip — with "conscious pride of art."

In ticklish tandem plays the driver's part,

O'er the smooth road his graceful cariole glides,

And spotted furs o'erhang its polish'd sides ;

Half the proud seat his blooming partner shares

And muffled to the chin the breath of winter dares.

Now fashion's votaries ply the knocker hard,

Madam's not in, — tant mieux— yon leave your card : *

She is — you enter — taste her cakes and wine, —

Pay compliments, — observe — " the weather's fine

But cold " — she smiles — you bow — and haste away

With other dames the same dull farce to play. ,

To my friends in England.

But, scorning fashion's cold and heartless law,
Close to the roaring stove my chair I draw,
Pensive I sit, — thick crowding fancies come.
Thought follows thought and every thought is home.
And memory wakens : — at the enchantress' call
Bright visions rise — and home is in them h\\.

My father, — blessings be around thee spread,
And many a year fly gently o'er the head ; —
My mother, — oh could words my heart declare —
Expression wrongs the fervent wishes there,
He, whom alone I honor more than thee,
When I forget thee cease to think on me.

Dear Emily — may every coming year

Make thee to me — to all — more justly dear : —

Smooth be thy path — thy every prospect bright —

Thy days unclouded — and thy slumbers light :

A brother's blessing be on thee, my love,

And peace around thy steps where'er they rove.

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Alfred, Horatio, — Shakespeare's honor'd pages
Have told us human life has " seven stages : "
Oh may your stages with unjolting wheel
O'er life's Macadamised causeway steal.
In pleasure's colors bo each scene arraj'^ed
And hope's gay varnish over all be laid,
Honor and faith the lamps your course to guide,
And honest hearts the passengers inside.

Thou royal throne of kings— thou sceptred Isle."
Land of my boyhood— where a mother's smile,

Song.

First waked my heart to love, — a father's hand,
Tended my infant steps, thou dear, dear land ;
From thee my feet but not my heart may roam,
Thou, England, art my Country and my home !
An Exile blesses thee from cot to throne :
May every patriot virtue be thine own :
Thy sons in arts and arms tor ever shine;
Valour and beau'y be for ever thine;
Thy flag triumphant over ocean wave.
And heaven's protecting arm my Country save !
See Notes.

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Air—" Rousseau's Drbam."

Softly round thy pillow stealing
May love's image still be nigh.
Calling from the depths of feeling
Passion's tenderest, purest sigh :
May kind fancy's touch entrancing
Soothe thy soul with visions blest,
Till the sun's first day-beam glancing
Gently breaks thy balmy rest.

May magic tones of music falling
Seem to charm thy list'ning ear,
Joys that long have past recalling —
Bidding long lov'd friends appear.
Like the moonbeam falling lightly
May thy dreams, dear Mary, be,
Coming o'er thy soul as brightly
Ab that beam descends on me,

Hymn.

TO B. M. A. W. WITH THOMSON'S SEASONS.

When I am gone, sister, forget me not ;

When spring's returning warmth shall call each floweret

To wonted beauty, let affection's sigh

Be breath'd for me : if summer scorch the earth

Or autumn crown it with deep-blushing fruit,

Thro' all the seasons still remember me.

But chiefly when around the winter's fire

With well lov'd friends thou sittest and the tale

Of other days is caught from tongue to tongue.

When music's magic tones shall to thy memory

Eecall the hours that we have passed together,

And friends then near us at the potent spell

Shall rise, like phantoms in a sumrr.er's dream.

Before thy waking eyes, — forgot me not.

HYMN.

Air — "Adbstb Fideles.

When deep'ning thunders roll on high,
And flashing light'nings rend the sky.
While thickening clouds obscure the day
Thy power, Jehovah, we survey.

When summer shines serene and fair
Thy balmy zephyr cools the air :
When autumn's waving crops appear
Thy love with plenty crowns the year.

Thro' the wide world thy power is shown,
Jn every land thy name is known.

Hymn.

•ill

And rocks of ice or plains of sand.
Display the same Almighty hand.

Thee burning Afrio's sons confess,
Thee frozen Lapland's children btoss,
For thou art He by all ador'd,
" Father of all," Creation's Lord.

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HYMN.

Air — "German Hymn.

Glory be to God on high,
God whoso mercy fills the sky
Peace on earth to man bo given
Man the wed belov'd of Heaven.

Now let men with angels sing
Glory to the Almighty King ;
Praise to him by all ador'd
Halleluiah to the Lord.

When the trumpet of the skies
Bids the buried dead arise.
Bocks shall melt and mouutains fall
And boundless ruin swallow all :

Then the sun shall feel decay,
Then the stars shall fade away,
As the fleeting dreams of night
Vanish with the morning's light!

But with awful glory crown'd
Amid the crash of worlds around,
Jehovah's truth for ever faf • .
Shall for endlesB ages last,

Advent Hymn.

SAMSON'S PRAYER.

Hear Jehovah, thou whose hand
Did the rushing wuterw close,
When from Egypt's hated land
Israel fled, on countless foes ;
Now, while Dagon's sons of shame
Thy avenging arm defy,
While they mock thy sacred name
Hurl thy vengeance from on high.

God of Jacob, hear my vow,
Hear my last — my fervent prayer ;
Strengthen thou thy servant now
Aid the efforts of despair :
On Philistine heads around
Soon this vaulted roof shall fall
Dash'd in ruin, on the ground,
And destruction bury all.

He speaks— consenting Heav'n his prayer attends-
Ho bows, — the fabric fulls and thousands die
Beneath its crush — and vengeance is his own.

ADVENT HYMN— (New Verses.)

Now, the sleep of ages breaking,
Hear th'archangel trumpet sound :
Nations from the grave awaking
Rise in countless myriads round.

Halleluiah, Amen.

104th Paabn.

Earth and soa, their dead restoring,
Shrinking own his awful name :
Bonding crowds, their God adoring,
Now the Son of Man proclaim.

Halleluiah, Amen.

He, th'unjust, the proud, th'opressor.
Dooms to never-dying fires :
Pure religion's mock professor
Trembling at his word retires.

Halleluiah, Amen.

But the just and good approving
Who their Saviour's name confoss'd,
He, mid saints and angels moving
Leads to endless joy and rest.

Halleluiah, Amen.

Hark ! the blest Eedeemer praising
Millions join the glorious song :
Golden harps in triumph raising
Seraphim the strain prolong.

Halleluiah, Amen.

104th PSALM.— (New Verses.)

In light as a robe

Our God is arrayed ;

At the voice of His thunder

The hills are afraid.

On the wings of the whilwind

His chariot is borne,

While myriads of angels

His triumph adorn.

Epitaph,

O'or the waves of tho doop
His messonger flios;
At the voice of his bidding
Tho billows arise: —
Tho storm and the tompost
Are hushed at His will,
They hear His rebuking
And ocean is still.

O'er all that hath life
His providence reigns,
His goodness created
His bounty sustains :
'• To God their Creator,
" Let all creatures raise
" The hymn of thanksgiving
" Of worship and praise."

EPITAPH.

To the Memory of E. M. who died in her 4th year this Stone is dedicated

by her Mother.

"Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."

To anxious hope, and ceaseless prayer denied,

He lies a father's joy, — a mother's pride;

Oh, V ho that watched her infant mind expand

To reasoning thought, beneath the almighty hand,

And day by day beheld new beauties bloom

Could deem she blossomed only for the tomb :

Could deem nor wit, nor worth, nor youth could save,

Our loved Eliza from an early grave.

Horace: Ode XV. Lib. /.

Forgive, Oh God, forgive a mother's tear,
Who dared to murmur at thy judgments here,
A tear like hers the pure Redeemer shed
When holy Martha spake of Lazarus dead ;
In the cold tomb the lov'd disciple slept,
The God rostor'd him — but the Master wept.

HOEiCE: Ode XV. Liu. I.

' Pastor quum trahcrct. "

When the perfidious Shepherd boy

Spread his light sails, and bore to Troy

The perjur'd Queen, — the azure main

Stept tranquil, the prophetic st -.in

Old Nereus waked, th'unwiling winds were still,

While thus the prophet sang the course of future ill :

" With Gods averse, thou bear'st away

The cause of many a bloody day,

Whom banded Greece shall seek in arms

And curse her fate provoking charms ; —

Till Troy shall see her God erected wall '

And Priam's ancient house, and Priam's kingdom fall."

" War comes with all his horrid train ;

The foaming steed shall snort with pain ; \

Proud man shall bleed, — the tortur'd horse

Shall spurn the already lifeless corse, —

Lo I Pallas, even now, prepares her dreaded spear,

And shakes her Gorgon shield — while nations quake with fear."

Horace : Ode XV. Lib, I.

" Trusting to Vonus' aid in vain —

Thy l}ire shall wake th'ignoblo strain;

In vain with soft unwarliko care,

Thy hand shall comb thy golden hair ; —

In vain within the shameless harlot's bed

Thou hid'st from Cretan darts thy false dishonor'd head."

" In vain thou shun'st the Grecian sword

And the fierce ire of Sparta's Lord:—

In vain thou fliest with frantic fear

Swift Ajax' hot pursuing spear :

By Grecian steel shall coward Paris die

And soiled in dust obscene his golden tresses lie."

" Seest thou not stern Ulysses here,

Tne scourge of all thy race, and near

The Pylian sage, while from afar

Sthelenus, Teucer. wake the war ;

Both skill'd alike in glory's chase to lead,

To crush the shrinking foe, or rule the iiory steed. "

" See Merion to the fight advance

And shake aloft his ready lance,

And haughty Diomed, whom thou.

Forgetful of thy boasting vow.

With panting breast and pallid cheek shalt fly

As flies the trembling stag when the giim wolf is nigh. "

" Brief is the time the Gods decree
To tottering Ilion and to thee : —
Pelides' anger may delay
Awhile the inevitable day : —
Yet Troy shall fall at last, and hor proud dames
Shall see her haughty towers consumed by Grecian flames."
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•* I'crsicos odi, pucr, appar.iluH."

Gugy my boy, I hato the big
PutlM Hwollitig ol'au Englitth wig :-
Lot it Hit, ( u hotter placo)
Ovor some unmeaning face.
Lot the tailor's caroloHH hand
Make me a Himpio gown and band,
These, my boy, sit well on thoo,
May they sit aH well on mo.
Who, beneath thy caro discerning,
Drink the stream of legal learning.

MARTIAL VII., 89.

I, felix rosa, mollibusque scrtis
Nostris cinge comas Apollinaris,
Quas tu nectere Candidas, — sod olira, —
Sic to semper amet Venus, memento.

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Go happy roses, form a wreath around
Apollinaris' hyacicthino hair ;
And mind, so love you Venus, it bo bound >

By you, — long hence, — when snow has fallen there.

Epitaph.

EPITAPH.

Sci'utching, purring, mowing, crying,
liound in giddy circioH flying, —
Seoiting over varying plays ;
Thus I puHKod my kitlori duyu.

ThoHo I loft: — in cathood's primo,
When Hoboror joys employed my time,
Fiorco rats have trembled at my si/'lit,
And mice tlioir bacon Haved by flight.

And lovors tried their amorous wiles : —
1 was " was a toast upon the tilos,"
And tabby beaux in whisker'd pride
Scampor'd o'or house-tops by ray side.

A numerous family I rais'd,
For cat-like virtues all were praised ;
And slaughter'd mice, and frighted rats
Have proved my kittens' kittens cats.

A mistress too I loft behind,

A gentle being, fair and kind

A little gny light hearted hollo.

Who loved her friends and pussy well.

All those I left: — ah I what avail
The goosobery eye, the graceful tail,
The rosy nose, the shining vest.
The spotted back, the spotless breant V

For he who laughs at charms like these,
And catches cats, as cats catch fleas,
Grim death, my joys with envy saw
And lixed on mo his murd'ring paw.

Epitaph.

Go reader — iearn from pussy's fate

That beauty's but of transient date:

That rosy cheek, or rosy nose,

That splendid fur, or gaudy clothes,

That slender waist, or graceful tail,

'Gain'st the sharp claws of death will nought avail

And learn from her, — of mortal charms the best,

In cat or woman is the spotless breast.

EPITAPH.
Hero Philis lies — weep reader if you will,
For all who knew her worth lament her still :
No angel, tho' by nature's self inspired
To more than human virtues she aspired.
She never once, when fortune's tide grew slack,
On those she once had courted turned her back ; —
Faithful thro' life she ne'er betray'd her friends
Nor flatter'd foes to gain her private ends ;
And never once, — (ask those who knew her well)
In whisper'd hints aspers'd a sister belle.

Tho' in Hyde-Park admired by many a beau,
She went for exercise and not for show.
With graceful ease she bore her beauties rare,
It seemed in truth she knew not she was fair.
And when old time, that foe to mortal charms,
Attack'd her beauties with resistless arms,
Without a sigh she saw her graces fade
Nor curs'd the ravages that time had made.

If thine tho boast, — " O'er stiff-neck'd beaux I reign. '
From Phillis learn, — all mortal charms are vain ; —
In pride of beauty if thine heart boats high —
From Phillis learn, e'en beauty's self must die.

Sotty.

SONG

Air — " Donne l'Amobe."

Oh Lady, lovo is light,

As summer's hroath when lightest:
And fleeting as the bright

But fading ray of eve :
If thou receive him,

Life's early hope thou blightest.
If thou believe him

He will, he will deceive !
With faithless tears and fickle smiles

He still the trusting heart beguiles,
Oh never then believe him.

Yet Lady, love is sweet,

Tho' light as summer's breathirg,
Like evening's ray will fleet

But is as heavenly too : —
Wilt thou reject him

Flowers and thorns en wreathing ? —
Wilt thou neglect him

While yet the dream is know ?
'Tis better sure to smile and weep.

Than tileep the long unchanging sleep
Of hearts that love ne'er waken'd.

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Of the Carrier of the Star and Commercial Advertiser.

Quebec, January i, 1830.

Twice has this earth since we our course begun,
Wheeled on her silent axle round the sun ;
Twice has the sun, upon the polar snows,
Arisen and sunk since first our " Star " arose ;
" The beacon of the patriot's course " 't has been ;
Not like that star in Cassiopeia seen
A Sun, and then a Cinder — No; it came
And lit the horison with a steady flame ;
With equal motion, unabating force,
Climbs and will climb slong its destined course,
Until it reach its zenith. — Shall it fall
Thence like an exhalation — losing all

The glorious light it should for aye reserve,

And leave the world to night — and La Minerve ?

We cannot tell — the times, alas are gone,

When poesy and prophecy were one.

But while old Earth along her orbit ran,

And traced the great ellipsis, what has man

Been doing ? — Th'autocrat of Russia's nation

Holds the professorship of Moderation,,

And gives good proof he ought, by merely lunching

On certain Persian Provinces, and munching

A moderate share of Turkey by the way

Of dinner. There was once a wolf, they say.

Who somehow got a crane's neck in his jaws,

* A College Journal edited liy A. S.
late brother 11. S., and now, 1887, C. J.

now Judge S. C, (Quebec, and his

New-Year' a Address^ 1830.

And did not bite it oil— no doubt tho cauoe

Was the wolf's moderation^ as he said,

And the crane humbly acquiesced. We read

Eome's founder sucked a wolf, and that may be

The reason why in history's list we see

No nation half so moderate, save the Roman,

As are the Russians now, — a fact which no man

Will contradict, — The sword has done its work,

And man has suffered much. The Russ and Turk

Have bled, tho' not alike. War's horrid blast

Has swept across the East, and when it passed,

Destruction marked its course. But then, 'tis true.

Much good has followed — " Tout est pour le mieux : "

The blood of nations hath not flowed in vain :

The once bright Orescent now is in the wane ;

Now where his fertile shores the Danube laves,

Christians no more shall be the Moslem's slaves.

And, more than all, no longer Greece shall be

T'le opprobrium of the world ; for Greece is Free.-

More good shall follow — to its native East

The tree of knowledge hath returned, — its feast

Of goodly kind is spread : By British hands

'Twas planted, — girt by British swords it stands.

Not to forbid approach' but to ensure

The blessings that for ages shall endure :

O'er the dark East the mental day shall spread.

Till Burmah's golden-footed chief shall read

A Burmese " Star ' by gas-light. Usurpation

Shall but assist thy maich, Civilization 1

Hero in the west " Our President " has been
Saying soft things to Europe's " Ocean Queen. "
Perhaps some million acres, more or less,
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West India Trade is good, and calculate

That both together will return the state

By way of profit more than cent per cent,

For words employed in well tarned compliment.

But give the Devil his due,—" Old Hickory's blood "

Is English— and when he in battle stood

Against us in the field, he only did

His duty to his country : God forbid

We were worse friends for that, — and now his hand

Is stretched in friendship to the gallant land

Whence he and his descended, let us take

The hand he offers with a hearty shake. —

Our " Houses " too will meet, and our respected
Collective Wisdom be again collected ; —
Accounts will be examined — rulers taught
Economy — and lectured as they ought
On saving public money, by the light
Of spermaceti candles, night by night.

Twice seven wise men from old St. Stephen's Hall

Where chosen, met, looked wise, and swallowed all

The piteous tale about the dreadful state

Of Canada, and her unfortunate

" Condition : " and the men whose nation owes

Only eight hundred millions, felt the woes

Of Canada, that neither pays nor buys,

Placemen or patriots, ministers or spies,

Army or navy — So they wrote a book

Which their wise brethren here for Gospel took, ^

And px'actising the economy they'd hinted,

Ordered six hundred copies to be printed. —

Strange things like these bOyond all doubts betoken
Some near and great event. We have not spoken

UAinore Diminatore.

Our thought before ; but we can understand
By signs that the millennium is at hand,
Or just begun. If so, our " House " shall reign
A thousand years, and meet and meet again.
Our Speaker freed from patriotic fears
Enjoy his thousand pounds a thousand years ;
A thousand times shall A-B,— right or wrong,
Present his bills a thousand clauses long.
A thousand times our gracious House shall give
The thousand pounds we printers shall receive, —
A thousand judges yet shall feel the lash,
Some thousand witnesses shall touch the cash.
A thousand times shall we repeat our rhymes,
And which " All health to all " a thousand times.

L'AMORE DOMINATORK. *

"That very strain that mourns a broken vow,
" Is sadly sweet because it breathes of love."

I saw an ancient castle stand
In varied light and shade.

And softly on its battlements
The glancing sunbeams play'd.

From many a pictured window there
Eeturn'd the softened rays : —

The very air the spirit caught
And breathed of other days.

* Written in humble deprecation of L. K, L's attack upon the credit of tht;
rosy god.

UAmore Dominatore,

And closely there the ivy twined
Around each warlike tower,

And blooming o'er each pointed arch
Was seen the sweet wallflower ;

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Emblem of ancient days, when love
Was half the soldier's duty, —

And on the steel-clad wai'rior's helm
Was seen the scarf of beauty.

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I saw that castle's future heir,

A noble generous youth ;
On his clear brow was honor stamped,

On every feature truth.

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And yet there was a listlessness

And languor in his air ;
His spirit flashed not from his eye

And genius slumber'd there.

Time passed : — I saw that youth again,
That listlossness was gone : —

His eye had caught a keener glance
His voice a clearer tone : —

I marked the poet's glance of firo
As he raised the glowing song ;

I heard an echo sweet and low
The gentle notes prolong.

And soft as on the breath of spring
The tender strain arose, —

One word, one oft-repeated word,
Was beard in every close.

L' Amove Dominatore.

In sweetor notes — in clearer tones

It thrill'd along the grove —
It echo'd back at every pause :

I listened,— it was,—" Love. "

His country calls — her bravest sons

Bush to the battle-field.
And British arms in Britain's cause —

The sons of freedom wield.

That youth was first: — on crimson 'd plain,

Or on the slippery deck :
He dauntless braved the raging storm

The battle fire, the wreck.

War ceased — they bound his brows with oak

The youthful warrior came.
And grateful thousands lined the way

And shouted forth his namc>,

Mid thousand faces one alone

That youthful warrior sought ;
'Mid thousand eyes one eye alone

His answering glance has caught.

The approving look, the timid smile,

Of yonder blushing maid,
Are more to him than all his fame.

His toils are overpaid.

For her he fought, for her he bled.
Her name his song inspired,

Her gentle love the sole reward
^is beating heart desired,

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Again — I saw a wedded pair ;

Around their quiet heart
A group of smiling infants played

In childhood's reckless mirth.

Fondly around a brother's neck
A sister's arm was thrown,

Affection smil'd in every look
Love spoke in every tone.

I mark'd the matron's eye of pride,
I saw the father's smile; —

Envied I then the hearts of those
Whodaro love's name revile?

Time held his course — again I look'd

And saw an ancient pair :
Each form had lost the grace of youth

Time filver'd o'er their hair.

One gentle feeling still unchanged
Each look — each action prove,

It breathes, it speaks in every word,
'Tis chasten'd but 'tis Love.

I turn 'd to tales of other days,

I read the rolls of fame,
They spoke of many a godlike deed

And many a deathless name.

Yet still I found the noblest hearts
One softer power could move.

The bravest knelt before his shrine.
The proudest bowed to Love,

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V Amove Dominatore.

Eome's haughtiest son on Rorao herself*
The storm of vengeance hurl'd, —

All had been lost, — love spake and saved.
The mistress of the world.

He first in every youthful heart
Did generous thoughts inpiro,

Ho nerved the warrior's arm in fight,
He fann'd the patriot's fire.

And more than all — th' immortal verso

Was taught by him alone ;
He glowed within the poet's breast

And song was all his own.

To thee, oh love — in youth or ago

Life's purest joys we owe ;
From thee the sacred ties of homo

From thee its blessings flow.

Hail then to thee, and at thy shrine

Let every mortal bend,
As husband, father, brother, son,

As lover or as friend.

" They cannot paint thee," — for the forms

Which youthful poets see
When rapt in visions of the Muse,

Alone can picture thee. — %

* Coriolanus.

X L. E. L's poem ends with

" They cannot paint thee, let them dream

A dark and nameless thing,
Why give the likeness of the dove

Where is the serpent's sting."

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Have you heard after all the pro and the con —
Of counsellor Supple and counHollor Pliant,

When the judge had summed up and the charge was done,
A verdict returned for your own good client ?

Have you stood by the clerk to see it recorded
That nothing might happen your hopes to dash —

Have you heard, as you saw it was properly worded,
In fancy the chink of your client's cash ?

Have you lost your way in a pathless wood

When the sun was set and the sky growing dark,

And puzzled and tired as in doubt you stood
Have yoa leapt to hear the watch dog's bark 7

Have you stood by the bow of a noble ship
When the place of her building grew suddenly bare;

Have you seen her keel in the waters dip,
Have you heard the cheer that greeted her there ?

After Canada's winter have you seen

The St. Lawrence set free by the generous sun : —
While the birds returned and the hills grew green,

Have you heard the first seen vessel's gun ? i'

Have you ever heard, when far away

(As you thought) from all that could breathe of home,
Some song that you learned in a happier day

Like a voice from the dead in a strange land come ?

* Written for some ladies and suggested by certain lines they sent with their
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Have you over heard Pbganini play,

Or Braham sing his •' Eobin Adair,"
Or Miss Stephens chaunt " Auld Robin Gray ; " .

Have you heard Rossini's " Di piacer " ?

Have you sat by a maid you would fain should be
Your own in woe and your own in bliss ;

Have you said to that maiden " lovht thou mo "
And half-felt, half-heard, that she murmured " Yos: "

When the soul that hath gone astray is forgiven,

The song the rejoicing Seraphim sing
May bo the sweeter, perhaps, but on this side heaven

You shall hear no sweeter, no holier thing.

SONNET.

ent with their

A Lady to her god-daughter.

They tell me you're ray god-daughter, dear baby,

And therefore, tho' at verse I'm not a dab, I

Feel that the honor is so great — that on it

I cann't do less than pen a little sonnet.—

And now I am your god-mother, and therefore

Ifyoitare sinful, /must answer; — wherefore

Be a good girl and woman, big or little.

Not breaking toys or hearts tho' both are brittle ;

And bo not pettish tho' you be a pot,

And if you're pretty be not a coquette : —

And keep your dresses clean and sav^ your pins,

And say your prayers at night ; — or for y<mr sins

While you are coaxed and flattered, praised and toasted .

Perhaps your poor aunt Aggie may be roasted.

Song.

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Air—'' Dido and I. "

Thoro's tho Rose in our wino, —

And tho Shamrock Hhull bo
Tho mystical sign

Of tho proud one in three,
Our good constitution,

Lords, Commons and King,
Which no Resolution
To ruin shall bring : —
And tho Thistle, tho hardy old Thistle, God bless it,
Tho Thistle that '' nemo imputie laceaait, "
Is the type of the bearing wo show to our foes
Who daro to provoke Thistle, Shamrock or Rose.

Nor shall Cambria's sons

The occasion lot slip,
There's a Leek in their hats, —
There's no leak in our ship ;
And the old constitution

For ever shall be
Tho bark of the loyal
The brave and tho free : —
And tho boys from tho Shannon, tho Tweed and tho Wyo,
With tho sons of the Thames, all her foes shall defy ;
Each alike the bold treason of Joey| condemns,
Let him come from Tweed, Shannon, or Wye or old Thames.

* Written at the request of H. Black, Esq., and sung by Archibald
Campbell, Esq., at the dinner given to A*. Stuart after he lost his election in 1834.

t Hume of " baneful domination " memory.

Song — Phrenology.

And whut nhall we do

Who ttlono upon tho ourth
Huvo no nittionnl name

In tho Innd of our birlh;
Cullod 'CanadiunH" in Britain

And " Foroignors" horo,
We've a country wo love,
And wo'vo rights that are dear.
Tho do8cciid:int8 of Britons, and Britons in heart,
In this true British strugglo we'll all do our part,
Prom our hrothron of Kuropo wo never will sovor : ~
'* Here's tho King, Constitution, and Stuart for over."

old Thames.

SONG. *
Air — "The Hdntinq of Hari."

Oh what science can compainj

To the one that through our hair,
Can by feeling, can by feeling.

Tell the feelings that must guide us :
To Phrenology I've turned,

And I sing of what I've learned
From Parnell,~l)r. Parnell,—

Who's a monstrous clever follow,

Clever fellow.

Written at like request and sung by the same gentleman as the ast, on St.
Patrick's day, 1835, for the Toast "The Rose, the Thistle and our own Sham-
rock." — Dr. I'arnell having examined and turned all the heads in (Quebec just
before and being present at the said dinner.
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Song — Phrenology.

In the head of Johny Bull

Alivientiveness is full,
So his failing, isO his failing,

Is to get a little mellow ;
But when friends are smiling round,

And wit, wine and song i»bound,
He that could not, or that would not,

Is a mighty churlish fellow.

Churlish follow.

Under Sandy's sandy wig

There's AcquisitiveneSD big.
So he's toiling, so he's moiling,

To put placU and plack thegither ;
Yet he'd spent his last bawbee

But he'd make the couple three,
And, with John and Pat, his whistle wot,

A gay and canny fellow,

Canny fellow.

In Paddy's scull we guess

Thei'o is a large Combativeness^
And another bump, a tender lump.

That makes him love the lasses ;
But Paddy he can do

Something else than fight and coo.
O'er his whisky, — Ho gets frisky.

And a roaring jolly fellow.

Jolly fellow.

But the best of all their lumps.
And the very King of Bumps,

Is Adhesiveness, Adhesiveness,
That binds them all together.

Soiig. — »S^^ George,.

Pat and Sandy hard and fast

Stick to Johnny to the last,
And who beats them, — or who cheats them,

Is a dov'lish clover fellow.

Clever fellow.

Toast — " Dr. Parnell and Phrenology in a bumper."

SONG. *
Air— "There is nae luck about the house."

St. George he was an errant knight

And rode about the world,
And when he saw a dragon, straight

At him his spear he hurl'd. —
These dragons were the grievances

That did the earth infect ;
So good St. George's march was like

Our march of lotellect.

St. George became old England's Saint,

And thus she did inherit
His cordial hate of all misrule.

His anti-dragon spirit : —
When Lackland did a tyrant turn.

In thought and word and dec i,
St. George inspired the Barons bold

Who camped at Runnj'mede.

* Sung by Archibald Campbell, Es(j., at Si. (Jcorgc's dinner, 23 April 1835.

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Song — St. George.

And ever against tj'ranny

Hath gallant England stood,
And strained for freedom every norvo,

And bought it with her blood.
She will not bear that King or Mob

Should rule without control,
And spurns the tyrant aggregate

As well as tyrant sole.

Earth's dragons are, — antique abuse

Eeceived upon tradition,
Despotic sway, and slavish fear,

And vice and superstition : —
In Kingdoms (and Republics too) '

Corruption or excess,
And mob-made law ; — and earth's St. George

Is England's public press.

And there/ore is she first of all

That are or that have been
Among the nations of the earth.

And therefore Ocean'i* Queen ; —
And therefore on her flag the sun

Doth hourly rise, — and will,
Because the Spirit of St. George

Is England's spirit still.

We've Dragons here who sit at once

In places three and four ; —
We've one with four and thirty heads.

And one with many more : —
Another's ignorance that doth

Imagined evils forge ;—

Song — St. Andrew.

Another's — Mr. Joseph Hume,
And Peel is our St. George.

TOAST.

St. George and Merry England — may
The hearts of all adore them ;

And may the dragons of the earth
For ever fall over them.

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Air — '* The Storm.

Cease your loud and blust'ring railings,

Politicians one and all ;
Search not for each others failings,

Seek not places great or small : —
Whether democrat or tory.

Juste milieu, left or right.
Listen to St. Andrew's story ; —

He's our autocrat to-night.

When he came for the conversion

Of our fathers wild and free,
He, good saint, had no aversion,

To the taste o' bailey bree;
Well he knew, — like all our Masters, —

Christian, Eoman, Greek or Jew,
Nothing softens life's disasters

Like good wine or mountain dew.

Sung by Archibald Campbell, Esq., on St. Andrew's night, 1837.

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Song — St. Andrew.

Well he knew unaided reason

Cannot fancy perfect bliss, —
Love itself has thorns, and treason,

Once at least, profaned a kiss : —
Preaching's nought without example,

Only what we feel wo know :
Men must drink, or taste no sample

Of unmingled joy below.

Thus our fathers, waxing daily
Better in their deeds and words,

Spent the day in good, and gaily
Passed the night round festal boards,

Never trod a Scotsman faintly

In the path his sires found right ; —

Kindly, freely, gaily, saintly.,

Let M« pass St. Andrew's night.

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Air — "Scots wha hae.

Men of Scotia's blood or land,
No longer let us silent stand —
Our " origin " while traitors brand.

As "foreign " here.

We scorn to wear a coward mask,
And when the boasting Gaul shall ask
Our claim, 'twill be a welcome task

To bid him hear —

Sung by Archibald Campbell, Esq., at St. Andrews dinner, 1837.

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Upon the crests of Abram's heights.

Victorious in a thousand fights,

The Scottish broad-sword won our rights

Wi' fatal sweep ;

By gallant hearts those rights were gain'd -
By gallant hearts shall be maintain'd ;
E'en tho' our dearest blood be drain'd

Those rights to keep.

Then when th3 Gaul shall ask again,
Who called us hero across tho main ?
Each Scot shall answer bold and plain,

" Wolfe sent for me."

Be men like those the hero brought,

With whose best blood the land was bought,

And fighting as your fathers fought,

Keep it or die !

THE BOMBARDIERS SONG.
Air—" Barney Brallaghan."

Twas on a busy day.

Which we shall long remember,
When Bombardier Blazeaway,

Some time in last November,
When radical boasts were loud

And Yankees talked of invading.

* Written for W. B. Lindsay, Esq. , Clerk of the Legislave Assembly, and
Major of Volunteer Artillery ; and sung by his Lieutenant, H. A. Wicksteed.

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Recruited among the crowd,
And this was his mode of pursuading :
" Only say

" You'll be an artillery-man ;
" Don't say nay ;
'* Now's the time, — if you will you can,"

'* With a clerk of Assembly's whim

" If the service should happen to chime, boys,
" We'll refer some ordinance to him,

•' To report from time to time, boys.
" If an Auctioneer comes, that we'll rid

" The country of rebels sure them am I,
" For he'll only wait for a hid

" To knock down the forts of an enemy.
" Only K.iy, &c.

" Come Lawyers, you're not raw,

" (Tho' drilling your knowledge enlarges,)
•' For you know the canon law

" And are famous at lieavy charges :
" You can't ho much at fault,

" J'or this I can say without flattery
" You can profit by an assault^

'' And make the most of battery.
" Only say, &c.

'• Come, ye Merchants' come,
" Leave you goods on the shelf now,

" Honor the notes of the drum,

" Think no more of j-our f>elf now :

" At a glut of our goods we scofi,
^' Dven rebels and Yankees have sept for 'em \

The Bombardier' a Song.

" Tho' they're lieavy they all go off^
'* For we always find a vent for 'em.
*' Only say, &c.

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' Gome all ye Medical Tribe,

" Like physic oar science in fact is,
For we doses of powder prescribe,

" And have plenty of mortar practise.
• Come, Printers, your knowledge will grace

'* The tools we are always dandling,
' For you constantly stand around the chase,

" And the primer are frequently handling.
** Only say, &c.

The man that deals in fruit
" Can prune the wings of the foe, sir,
And a capit&l good recruit
" Is a cam«<er-handling Grocer;
And if Papineau makes a fuss,
" We never need fear the event, he
Will find it's all nuts to us,
" And we've shells and colonels in plenty.
" Only say, &c.

" All you that are fund of the grape,

" Or of fiddling and dancing, we call, boys,
" For we are the lads for a scrape,

'' And give spirit and life to a ball, boys,
" Even a Tailor's skill

"To part of our business reaches —
" He can work at his loop-holes still,

"And practice the making of breaches.
" Only say, &c,

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" As we stand to our guns in bands,

" A parson may help to man one ;
*' And they say every Bishop commands

'' Many a minor cayicni,."
But I finish the Bombardier's song,

Lest it suit our corps to the letter.
For our piecos! are heaey and l<mg.

And the bigger the bore the bettor.
" Only say, &c."

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TWAS IN THE MERRY MONTH OP MAY."

When Discord had the apple thrown

And Paris's award was known,

Heaven's Club upon Olympus met.

And stormy was the loud debate ;

And arguments were fierce and long

That Paris had been right, or wrong : —

But while with speeches Heav'n was ringing

Old Bacchus slyly took to singing, —

" Come let the magic goblet pass,

" 'Tis better than dull reason's glass,

" And blends in one extatic hour

" The joys of wisdom, love and power.

* Sung at the Quebec Debating Club by H. A. W.

Note — Discordia threw a golden apple to Minerva, Juno and Venus, with
the inscription "for the fairest." I'aris was made arbitrator. — ^Juno wanted to
bribe him with a kingdom and great power. -^Minerva with wisdom. — But Venus
promised him the most beautiful woman on earth, <ind he gave her the apple. —
hence arose great jealousies on" Olympus among the inmiortals who took part
with one or another. — Oi.i) Mythology,

Song — Debating Clubs.

Apollo took the hint, and moved
A banquet, — and the Gods approved :
The feaat was spread by Jove's command,
And Phoebus sang and lot the band :
The songs v^ere good — the nectar rare,
Old Thunderbolt was in the chair ;
Aud Jove when once with nectar mellow
Becomes H very jovial fellow. —
Then let the magic, &c.

Debating clubs then rose on earth,
And Phcebus smiled upon their birth.
They made men wise ; — but then he know
That wisdom spoils life's rosy hue,
And therefore did the God ordain
That hue should be restored again,
By mirth and song, by feasting, drinking,
When members' thoughts grew dull with thinking.
Then let the magic, &c.

Old Paris choice we all approve.
And power and wisdom yield to love :
But surely they must wiser be
Who in thefr choice can blend the three :
With wine — to kingly joys we rise, —
With wine — the silliest soul grows wise, —
A nd while the wine cup smiles between us
Each girl we pledge is fair as Venus;
Then let the magic, &c.

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For Sir Isaac Newton's Birthday. *

Air— "'Barbara Allbn."

When Archimedes, reverend sage,
By trump of fame renowned, sir,
Deep problems solved in every page,
The sphere's curved surface found, sir;
He e'en himself had still outshone
And higher borne the sway, sir,
Had he but once our secret known,
And drunk his bottle a day, sir,

When Ptolemy so long ago
Believed the world stood still, sir,
He never could have fancied so, ..
Had he but drunk his All, sir;
He'd then have seen it circulate,
And learnt without delay, sir,
That he who'd be both wise and great
Must drink his bottle a day, sir.

Copernicus, that learned wight.
The glory of his nation,

* This song, I am sorry to say, is not mine. It was written by my uncle the
late Mr. Justice Fletcher, of .Sherbrooke, a brother of Sir Richard Fletcher, R.
E., who was killed at St. Sebastian. The Mathematical Society of London had
been prosecuted by a common informer for having had some notices printed inad-
vertently without the printer's name. Mr. Fletcher, a member of the Society,
had successfully defended them, and the Society had voted him a silver cup which
was presented to him at their annual meeting on Sir Isaac Newton's Birthday,
1802, when he sang this song which he had written for the occasion. I have the
Cup — and cannot forbear taking this occasion of telling its history and giving the
song and a little Epigram by the same hand,

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With draughts of wino refroshod his sight
And Huw the earth'u rotation ;
Each planet then its orb described,
The moon got under weigh, sir.
The truth he thus at once imbibed,
For he dranl< his bottle a day, sir.

Ye Philomaths, what then avails
It how the world map state us, —
Experiments can never fail
With this our apparatus.
Let him who'd have his merit known
Remember what I say, sir,
Fair science yields to him alone
Who drinks his bottle a day, sir.

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By I he same oh seeing a crop of oats on the Plains of Altram,

Some men seek glory, others sigh for groats ;
Here Wolfe reaped laurels — and Dalhousio outs.

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EXTRA BXTRAORDINAEY. *

We have jusi received the followiug communication, -announ-
cin|Lf u danger with which Her Majoniy's Government iw threa-
tened from a new and unexpected quarter. We lone no time in
laying it before our readers : —

Ft*)' the Quebec Mm'niuy Herald,

Mr. Editor. — I am commanded to inform you, that the Henti-
mcnts expressed in the following song have been unanimously
concurred in by a brilliant assembly of no less than 92 ladies.
If the grievance complained of be not npeedily I'odressed, let
the parties implicated look to it.

1 am, Mr, Editor,

Your obedient servant,

Miss (Quadrille. *
Quebec, I8th Dec, 1837.

SONG.

Air—'* Oh dear, what can the matter be ! "

Oh dear what can the matter be ?
Dear, dear, what can the matter bo ?
Oh dear what can the matter be ? ;

Nobody gives us a ball I

Vainly my ringlets I braiding and curling am,
Vainly in dreams, too, I twisting and twirlin/' am,
Oh, my Lord Gosford, great Baron of Worlingham,
Why don't you give us a ball ?
Oh dear, &c.

* I did not invent this signature, — some young lady corresiwnilent had used
it ; and I took a great fancy to it as charmingly odd.

Hony — by Miaa Quadrille,

Ho promised, when tirHt lio cjimo, ho'd givo uh plenty —
Wo thought in ouch Hooson we'd got nt least twenty ;
But if to perform that fair promise ho meant, ho
Would Huroly now givo us a boll.
Oh dear, .'v J.

Then our beaux are all priming a»;d lomliug apa\ (billing;
With bravo loyal ardour each bosoiin is ll!riiHnc,
If the bravo lovo the fair,— why tiie 'ui; lovo qnadiilling, —
Then why don't they ^',ivc Ui; a ball V
Oh dear, &c.

Let them ne'er think that m\\H check niyi'ri a?'i0n>. fu;- lighling.
Or that J!;m»i/)« throw cold wutc v or vrlint ihoy 'leli/.^ltf. '.n \
For the man who all points of war's scior/a. ^v«l right in,
To Waterloo went from a ball.
Oh dear, &c.

If our Governor, lovers, or brothcfH ov ppouPM,
Will not open their castles, their h«&rts an.i their houfjfjs,
And their tyranny once our resistance nro«H0<«,
We know who will give us a ball.
Gh dear, &c.

We'll resolve that the grievance surpasses all .ennon ;
We'll declare such brutality justiiion treason;
We'll compound with the rebets fov oro iti<jriy season : —
And Fapinoau '11 give us a. ball.
Oh des'.i-, &x..

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all fitting occasions, until our grievance is redressed ; or " wc
seek elsewhere a remedy for our atflictions."
By order of the Committee.

The Fancy Ball at Rideau Hall.

THE FANCY BALL AT RIDEAU HALL. *

The following is out of place as to date ; but its subject is so
cognate to the last article that I insert it here.

Dear Times, — Your paper is a sort of omnibus, and a very
nice one ; can you find room in it for a young lady, without
crowding out some of those chui raing articles in which toe so
much delight, about bishops, and priest of St. Albans, and
aprons, and candlesticks, and Alderman Waller, and Mr.
Martin. Try like a good soul. Our dear Governor's ball has
been talked about and written about a good deal and not badly,
though I have heard there is high authority for saying that the
right account of it has yet to be written. But nobody has
adverted to its constitutional virtues and the impetus it has
given to loyalty. In the dark days of 1837, when rebellion
was rife, Lord Gosford, a good kind soul as ever lived, seems
to have forgotten this point of policy — and the extract I send
you from papers of the time, will show you the peril to which
the State was exposed in consequence. Miss Quadrille was
my grand-mamma, a worthy girl as over lived, and no more
inclined to look to Washington than one of Her Majesty's
Ministers — as loyal and as British as the fair lady who enacted
Britannia at Bideau Hall. Think of the pent-up suifering
she must have endured before she was forced in her agony to
cry out as she did. Lord Gosford gave the ball and aaved the
country. Lord Dulferin, more far-seeing, gave his ball without
waiting even for a hint, he knew the " well-understood wishes "
of the ladieu, and met them, and he has not only been good
himself but has made others good by his example, and those
ducks of Ministers and ^Aeir charming ball followed his lead of
course. I am in possession of the 'archives of the Quadrille

See notes.

The Fancy Hall at Jiideau Itall.

family, — and, if your readers desire to see it, I can show
thorn Lord Gosford's answer, which my dear grand-mamma used
to say he sang most feelingly to the air of " The Sprig of Shile-
lah," like a jolly son of Erin, as he was. * I have an account of
ihQ fancy hall, too, of the time, reported by a very junior mem-
ber of your profession, since perhaps an editor — or dead. -|-
Before closing, I. must tell you, that at a jolly meeting of a
number of young men and maidens, who had been at the ball,
I ventured modestly to imitate my tuneful ancestress and sang :

SOLO :

Round me while singing, cxullingly stand, yo boys
And yo girls, smiling all ; — and ve girls and yo boys
Join in one choor for the chiof ot'tho Clandoboys,

(liver of beautiful balls !

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No, no, holhing's the matter now,
No, no, nothing's the matter now,
No, no, nothing's the matter now —

Dutferin gave us tho ball!

And I assure you tho chorus could not have been given more
heartily if Mr. Dixon had written it for us uwA Mr. Mills hud
drilled us.

Artectionatoly youis,

Miss Quadrille, Jr.
Ottawa, March 3, 1876.

* Lord (i.'s answer will he found at llie fool of the ne\l article.
Dufferin's Kancy IJall was simply Magnificent.

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The Devil's Extra.

THE DEVIL'S EXTEA.

Of the Quebec Alorniiii,' Herald, for New- Year's Day, 1S38.

We were in despair — It was New Year'K Eve — we had paHscd
the earlier portion of the night at snap-dragon and other pas-
times in which innocent fiends like ourselves delight:— but the
hour of retribution was come upon us, and fearful was our
agony. — It was late and we had not a word of our address
written, nor could we compose u line. Bloodt«hed and Rebellion
were most unseasonable subjects, and, Devils as we are, we
could not resolve to talk of them to our Patrons on New Year's
day. — We leave it to our professional antagonists to preach the
duty of being dismal. — We roamed desolate and miserable thro*
the deserted printing room. Every thing looked gloomy to us,
the disordered types were but typos of our own thoughts, a
confused dark mass without form. — Yet our master could
make them speak oracles on all subjects ; they wanted nothing
but arranging. It was even. so with our thoughts: with the
help of a dictionary we can think every word in the language,
and the faculty of arrangement is all we want to enable us to
surpass every human production, but the Herald — that alone we
esteem perfect — We have genius enough, we lack nothing but the
Bump of Order. — We cast our eyes listlessly on the Editor's
desk, — there was a note upon it. Our eyes rested upon the
superscription and our listleness vanished instantly. That
superscription was, in the most delicate of female hands —
"To THB Devil."

We remembered that for one day we were an Editor. We
opened the gilt-edge envelope — we breathed the perfume of
the enclosed Billet — we read it on our knees. It was from the
adorable Miss Quadrille. After hinting at the sacrifices which
her sex, from Eve downwards, had made to please us — she

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expressed a hope that wo had equal complaisance for thorn.
She told UH that she had sent Mr. Mercury an energetic remons-
trance against the dull rudeness of N. O. Quadrille, but that
the God of Thieves had shellerod the impostor. Sho throw
herself on our gcllantry and solicited our aid — tho' she know
the Mr. Mercury [who is a groat wit] would say that like
u true woman, sho had como to tho Devil to gain her point.

Hero was a subioct for us; and wo thought in our simplicity
that because we wore an Kditor, wit and wisdom would come of
course: — wo sat down in the Editorial chair, but they came not.
Wo felt duller than ever — Wo oven caught ourselves nodding ;
we f'ought till then that Editors never nodded. Wo grew
sleepy — wo slept !

We wore in tho Reporters' box in the Hall of Assembly,
which was illuminated with unusual brillianc}'. Tho triple
windows, typical of tho threefold medium thiough which the
light of collective wisdom reaches tho "great body of tho
people,"- -wore curtained by the flag which rules the ocean.
The clock showed that midnight had passed — it was Now Year's
day. — Our kind- hearted Governor was in the Speaker's chair-
On his right and loft hands stood ihe Officers of our gallant
Volunteer Corps. Tho floor of the Hall was occupied by the
most brilliant assomblago of lovely women we had over seen,
and a little in advance of them stood one of surpassing oleganco.
The bravo smiled on the fair, and tho fair returned tho smile :

" Soft eyes look'd love to eyes that spoke again,
" And all went nieiry as a marriage bell," —

but they mingled not. We were puzzled to know why, 'till,
recalling our senses, wo remarked that a most delicious band
was concluding the symphony of tho " Spriff of Shilelah"
and we know that Miss Q. and the ladies had just presented

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their address, and received His Excellency's answer.* It was
heard with one burst of unmingled delight: we remembered
that "when maidens sue, men give like gods," and felt that by
this act, at least as much as by his Prochunation, His Lordship
has deserved the delicate compl nent in the Addrofus from
L'Acadie, and " S'est placv cotnme P Intermkiiaire entre la Divinity
et lea homines." The picture of the fourth Cteorqe seemed to
smile approval on the representative of llis Successor, and we
almost expected to see him leave his frame and salute Miss Q.
after his accustomed fashion. Wo listened breathlessly for the
answer of the volunteers to Miss Q's suggestions — they came
in rapid and delightful succession. All were, of course,

*LORI) GOSFOHDS ANSWEK.

Dear Ladies, I (iiul you've been taking a hint
From the last of the Loyal Adilicsses in print,

Where .St. Roch's and St. Valliei's their fcelinjjs express ;
If they get all they ask, they're ofloyalty rare,
If they don't they'll he rebels that is, when they dare : —
Tho' they speak not, dear Lathes, as frankly as you,
'Tis the feeling that runs thro' the famed ninety-two,

And is echoed about in each Loyal Address.

The first author of thi.i is a Judge of tile land,t
And Debartzch sits a Councillor on my right hand.

For a similar hint about (iovernnient faults;
But as curls would look (|ueer in a three-cornered hat,
And a seat in the Council, just now, is n<jt at

Any premiun, I hope to conciliate all ./

My fair threat'ners by " cheerfully ' giving a Ball,

When Miss Q. and myself shall lead off the first waltz.

I acknowledge your grievance, you've cause to be vexed.
And, no longer by fears of rebellion perplex'd.

To its gradual removal Lll give my chief care. V

Then don't join the rebels, dear Ladies, in haste,

For Sir John gives them Balls that are not to their taste : "v

Let the lovely be true t<i their lovely youug (^ueen.
And I'll give you a Ball such as never w.^s seen.

For I'm pleasing my .Sovereign when pleasing the Fair.

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favorable, the music struck up, " Oh Abrafiam Hewland" and the
Captain of one of the Lower Town bands sung — *

Fair ladies each note

At a premium we quote,
Which your sweet lips have ever let fall, dear;

We shall honor your draft,

And your health shall be quaffed
At the supper whicli follows our ball, dears.
Oh ! wonderful beauty !
Charming, adorable beauty !

May our purses be low,

And our credit so so.
When we fail in devotion to beauty.

The commander of another gallant corps from the same place
selected the lively nir of '■^ I'd rather have a ifuinea than a one,
pound note,^' and chanted his answer thus : —

Wo should feel
A great deal,

If we made spruce ladies pine;
And our ball.
To you all,

Shall be extra-superfine;
For the man that for the ladies would not work with

heart and hand.
We'd reject from out our Mesa, and as " unmerchant-
able " brand.

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A. M.— Banker,

H. L. — Lumber Merchant.

A. C— Notary Pul)lic.

I'. O'C. — Captain Irish Vohinteers.

W. P. — Captain and Advocate.
J. C, N. P.— Son of an M.P.
W. McC— Major of Vol. Artillery.
T. L.— The Inimitable.

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There was no mistake who was to be next singer, wlion we
heard the music of the '* The Campbells are coming ;" the words
of the answer were :

Sure the ladies are jesting, oho, oho,
When they talk of protesting, oho, oho.
For they know we're too fond to depart from our bond.
And we've mortgaged our hearts to the fair, the fair.
But our deeds shall be mended, oho, oho,
Ere the protest's extended, oho, oho,
We'll give them a ball, shall acquit us. of all
Suspicion of slighting the fair, the fair.

The leader of a gallant corps of Irishmen followed. Need wo
name ^^ St. Patrick's Day in the Morning '' as the air to which
he sang, —
Though rebels around us are making wry faces.

The loyal, the bravo, and the fair should be gay ;
And the thought of begrudging them pleasure disgraces
The heart that conceives it on New Year's Day.
Then oh if a ball
Can please them at all,
And light one sunny smile in eyes blue, black or grey ;
There's no son of our Isle,
' Whom that one little smile

Would not more than repay for the risk we might run, '

Of disloyalty frowning because we are gay :
And bad luck would be ours if the year were begun,
By neglecting the fair upon New Year's Day.

The next answer was 'powerfully given ; it was from another
Irish corps, and the melody chosen was " Through Erin's
Isle-y

Beyond dispute,

You've gained your suit,

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And of our hoarta made ssoizure:

In your eyes one sees

Betaining fees,
And each command's a plea-^v\re.

The court have thought

That judgement ought
For you to be recorded ;

We only pray

Ten days delay,
And that has been awarded.
We'll give a ball ; — to make it gr.y wo try shall ;

The learn'd and fair

Will all be there ;~
Of course Miss Q. and I shall.

The replies of the several corps were in the same spirit, but
the applause with which one answer was received frequently
continued after the next was begun, and we lost the words of
several. In some instances, too, the air was unknown to us*
Th ""^irine corps answered with " The Bay of Biscay,'^ we
observed that the singer expressed his great respect for old
established Cuatonis and held it to be a duty imposed v/pon him to
comply with the whishes of the Ladies. A young gentleman,
'* in the garb of old Gaul," (with more confidence than we could
have expected from one so young, till we heard that he had a
hereditary talent for addressing public bodies with effect), sang
to the air of " ^i Highland lad my love was born" —

A statesman was my father born,

And all innovation holds in scorn ;

And he says that the precedents are most express

In favor of acceding to this address.

Sing, hey my braw John Highlandman,

Sing, ho my braw John Highlandman,

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Thoro'll not be a ball, go were you can,

Shall match with tho ball of the Highlandman.

We then heard, though we cannot remember, a very pointed
and polished answer, in a very sharp Uey, from the '• Faugh a
ballagh " boys. The measure appeared to be that of Canning'w
celebrated '■''Tell me^ knife </rinder, Jiotv you came to (/rind knives^" —
the air was unknown to us. Perhaps the most exquisite
musical treat was the answer of another corps, to an Italian air,
which showed that the singer had indeed " swam in a Gondola,"
As in most Italian airs, it was impossible to catch the words,
but the effect of the music was inimitable. At everv succeeding
answer, however, the gaiety and tho uproar incioused. Had it
not been for the exertions of the Master of the Ceremonies in
obtaining silence, we should have been unable to distinguish
and record tho answer of the three corps of Artillery. This
was indeed the " crowning rose of the whole wreath," and was
admirably given by a gentleman who seemed to be well accu-*-
tomed to the Hall. Handel is said to have conceived the idea
of introducing cannon into music; it was reserved for tho
Volunteer Artillery to carry conception into effect. The
guns were those of the Grand Battery, and the precision with
which the accompaniment was given reflected the highest
honor on tho corps. The singer being accustomed to addresses,
had furnished the ladies with an official copy of his answer
which enabled them to reply to the same air of " Oh dear, what
can the matter be." .

As sure as the powder the bullet despatches,
When the bright flame darts into the gun from our matches,
Our bold corps from your bright eyes new energy catches,
And quickly will let off a ball.

o£ C Bang 1 Bang I ") At a Ball Cupid snatches aye,
g } Bang! Bang! [-Such occasions he watches aj'e,
O (^ Bang ! Bang ! ) Gay weddings in batches may

Be the sweet fruits of our Bf^ll,

The DeviVa Extra

CHORUS OF LADIES.

Ploasiiro iind hope in all bosoms are sprlnijinfj now,
Soft, lively music in all ears in ringing now, —
Ev'ry fair maiden is joyfully singing now,

"All the bi'uve give us a ball."

a£ ( Bang ! Bang ! '\ Hark to the feu do joie !

§ \ Bang ! Bang ! y^ay thoughts our souls employ !

;& (^ Bang ! Bang ! ) High leap our hearts with joy !

All the brave give us a ball.

The music ceased ; the ladies mingled with the gentlemen, their
graceful and elegant forms and attire contracting beautifully
with the martial garb and manly bearing of the soldier citizens.
Brilliantly anddazzlingly " bright lamps shown on fair women
and brave men," and yet more brilliantly was the light reflected
from brighter eyes. The scene was one of enchantment. A tall
gentleman, who had evidently been a soldier, stood close by us ;
from the deep interest with which ho watched every movement
of Miss Quadrille, we conjectured thai he was her relative. We
wore right—he was one of "The Lancers." He told us he
had been in the best company in every civilized country, and
had seen nothing like the spectacle before him. He was evi-
dently excited, and, in fancy, fighting all his battles o'er again,
and we heard him murmuring " None but the brave deserve the
fair." We could see but two sour faces; they were near us,
and scowled like vampires. Their owners were Miss Mazourka
and N. O. Quadrille. The former we recognized at once as a
man in woman's clothes, under which we clearly saw his round-
toed unpolished boots, and pepper and salt inexpressibles. The
latter puzzled us for some time ; it was too coarse for a woman,
too puny for a man ; its mode of sitting betrayed the secret —
it was a tailor in petticoats.

The music commenced the waltz in that most sweetly
diabolical of operas, Der Freischutz, possibly in compliment

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to 1/8. Our oxcollont Governor, who never changes his avowed
purpose, took the hand of Miss Quadrille; he led her into the
centre of the hall; he kept his word; they danced the first
waltz together. Faster and louder came the music on the ear,
and quicker and quicker spun the illustrious couple: then the
strain fell again ; it became softer and slower, until, as
they disappeared through the door-way, it melted gradually
away *' in a dying, dying fall. * At that instant an unexpected
salute was fired ; the first report startled us, and — we awoke —
it was the morning gun. The cold grey light was peeping
through the ink-stained windows. We had slept soundly in
the editorial chair; wo were initiated into the mysteries of the
craft ; we had dreamed a dream, and we could make an article
of it. We had not slept in vain — we had only to record our
vision in an Extra : We had now something to say, and we
have said it.

THE DBVILS TO THEIR RBADKRS.

Air—" St. Patrick's Day."

Though our betters the prayer of Miss Q. have rejected,

And sent the fair pleader unheeded away,

It shall never bo said we the ladies neglected.

Or slighted their cause upon Now Year's Day.

Through all the year round '

May all pleasure abound,

And the hearts of our patrons be merry and gay ;■ -

But there's one little hint

That we wish to imprint . \

On the minds of all those on whose bounty we count:
It is this— that as all have the " devil to pay,"

Their regard for the fair will be guessed by the amount
Of the presents they make us on New Year's Day.

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The Ladies' Adihv$s to the '' J nconatantg."

THE LADIES ADDRKSS TO THE
STANTS."

INCON-

Wo saw tho HnatinyB hastitig oft'

And novor made a fusH ;
Tho Malaharti' departure waked

No malady in us.

We were not piqued to lose the Piques ;■

Each Lady's heart at ease is
A I tho' the Dms are on the seas,

And gone the Hercu/eses.

Our parting with the Andromnchea

Like Hector's not at all is ;
Nor are we Washingtons to seek

To capture a CornwMis.

And no CharybdU ever caught
Our hearts in passion's whirls ; —

There's not a girl among ua all
Has ever fished for Pearls.

Tho Vestals with their sacred flame
Were not the sparks we wanted ;

We've looked Medeas in the face
And yet were net enchanted.

But when our dear Inconstants go
Our grief shall know no bounds,

Tho dance shall have no joy for us,
The song no merry sounds.

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in Quebec Harbor in the summer of 1838. Captain Pi-ing commanded the
Inconstant, and Commander Hope was his first Lieutenant. And see Note in Appcn*

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All dismal then will bo the Wnltz,

The dull Quadrille as bad,
And wearily we'll hurry through

The joyless Gallopado.

WeMl gaze upon each changeful cloud
As through the air it skims,

We'll think of fickle fortune's wheel
And fashion's turns and whims; —

Sweet emblems of fnconnfancy

In each of these we'll find,
And our Inconatants constantly

We'll fondly bear 'h mind. —

And spite of Durham's fetes and balls,
We'll pine and mourn and mope

Our long, long winter season through.
As girls without a Hope,

And when the spring shall come again,
Our hearts to pleasure dead

Shall sigh for spring without an S,
And wish for Pring instead.

Unless indeed sweet spring with Hope
Those hearts again should bless,

And bring our dear Inecmatanla back
And Spring without an S. —

Qdbbkc, 6th July, 1838.

The '* IiionmtaiitH " AuHioer.

THE " INCONSTANTS" AN8WKK.

All languugo fuilH to toll how much

Wo vuluo your uddrosH,
Or Nuy how dooply wo partako

Tho feolingH you oxpresw.

Wo wondor not tho men you numo
Your hoaivs have never moved,

And qui to agree that only wo
Are worthy to bo loved.

Those Jlnstiru/s tiro u hasty Hot

And left you in a hurry ;
Those Mnlabara are malapert

And hot as Indian curry.

The Pearls for whom you must not tish,

Are pearls of price 'tis true,
For if you have no golden nets

They won't be caught by you.

But we Inconatants to the shrine

Of youth and beauty bring
The countless charms that even wait

On each inconstant thing.

The moon, — the summer sky, — tho breozo.-

The ever-varying sea, —
The course of love, — the morning's dream,-

The butterfly, — the bee, —

The sun himself that round the world,
From land to land, doth range, —

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The seasons in their pleasing round
Of never-ending change.

Ai'O types of us : — but wo have yet
More lovely ones, for yow,

So young, so fair, so kind, so good —
Must be Inconstants too.

Forget us, — and lone bachelors

We all our lives will be,
Condemned to single blesssodnoss

By 3'our Inconstancy.

Be true, — and thon the breath of May
Shall fill our sails, and bring

Our willing ship, our eager heavls,
And (Spring'— and Pring -and Ring.

And each of you for one of ours
Shall change her maiden name,

And as we're all Inconstants, you
Of course will be the same.

Kamouraska, August, 1838.

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Sonnet.

SONNET

I'o my wife — with the British Poets.

Lovo is like poetry, both lend the hue

Peculiar to themselves to all they touch.

And clothe it with a loveliness all new,

A strange but most delightful sweetness. Such

The beauty by the pictured window shed

On the cold walls of some cathedral aisle,

Tinting the sculptured relics of the dead,

Till marble dames and warriors seem to smile.

As love's first offering for the new-born year,

This Volume, rich in Britain's choicest song,

No inappropriate tribute will appear

From him whose fondest prayer shall bo, that long

As life is thine, thy days and years may be

Made fair and bright by love's sweet poesy.

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CANADIAN PIC-NIC SONG.

Boat Sony, *

Air — Vole mon cceuu vole.

Chccrly lias tho day begun ;

See how bright tho glittering snow

Sparkles in the meriy sun ;

On u pic-nic let us go.

Hamel'.^ house has had its sway,

And Lake Boauport and Lorotlo,

What shall bo the place to-day?

Montmorcnci's left us yet.

RBl'RAiN.

What to-morrow '11 bo wo know not,

But to-day's our own,

We shall lose it if we go not,

To the smooth, tall Cone.

Bustle, boy, our things to find,
All the marche donrs now are ready ;
Skins before and tails behind,
Jingling bells and drivers steady.

What to-morrow, &c,

Now we're muffled warm and well.
Sprightly talk and laugh and song
Of our merry purpose tell,
As we gail}' spank along.

What to-morrow, &c.

* A Canadian lioat Song consists of .an indefinite number of very simple
verses ; each verse after tlie first In-jfinning with ihe repetition of the last
couplet of the preceding one ; the singer fre(|uently roniposes as he proceeds.
The nir has three long notes answerinfj to the long vowels in the words
" day .s our own " — and " smootii tall cone. "

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t;r)' simple
If ihe bsl

Ilhc words

At » giillnnt diishing rate
Now we rattle Hi rough the town,
'Till wo reach old Palace Gate,
Tlien the hill wc scamper duwii.

What to-morrow, &c.

Swiftly pass wo o'er tho ice,

Soon we gain the Beauport shore,

Ti'oiting on 'till in a trice

Tho Cono is gained, — tho journey's o'er.

What to-morrow, &c.

How each litllo rogamufl5n
Counts our coppers all his own,
As the ladies panting, puffing,
Slowly climb tho slippery Cono,

What to-morrow, &c.

Each upon her ti ny car,
Like an avalanche they go
Down the icy hill and far
O'er tho snowy plain below.

What to-morrow, &c.

i>row again the course they try,
Toiling up the glassy sleep,
Gain the top, and from on high
Swift as arrows down they sweep.

What to-morrow, &r.

Thus wo pass our pleasant lime,
Frost and fund our hearts elating,
Down wo slide and up we climb
'Till we lioJir that — dinner's wailing.

What to-morrow, &c.

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See the crowilod table spread,
Flesh and fowl and fruit and li>!i ; —
That we might bo duly fed
Every guest has brought a dish.

What to-niDrrow, &c.

Every hou-<e has sonnething sent,
Pies and puddings, oakes and sweets,
All good cheer they repi'csent,
Quito a Parliament of meats.

What to-mori'ow, &c.

Ladies lair have made ihe tea
Beaux politely hand about ;
pSavageau with eager glee
Draws his nimble tiddle out.

What to-morrow, &c-

Listen to the merry din,
Galoj^ade, quadrille and waltz ;
How we caper, how we spin,
No one flags and one halts.

What to-morrow, &c.

But the hour of starting's come,

For the East is growing red ;

Beauteous belles must think of home,

Brilliant beaux must go to bed.

What to-morrw, kc.

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As in sleep again we slide

And of future i)ic-nics dreiim,

Down a shawdowy Cone to glide

Phantom boys with sledges seem.

What to-morrow, &c.

An Album's Petition.

AN ALBUM'S FM^rriTION.

To each dear fricnil and kind i-clation
Of its mistress, — of what nation
They may ho eoo'er, and whether
Known or not. — to all together,
Young or old, or dull or witty,
Kich or poor, or plain or ])retty,
A modest begging book's memorial
Humbly sheweth—

That to glory, all

Who it.s pages will adorn
Shall bo by its pages borne,
And go down to future times
With the author of those rhymes, —
—They who're youug may write about
Love's sweet dream and anxious doubt ;
And they who have been long on earth
May tell us what the dream is worth.
They who have the brains and wit
On many a brilliant thought can hit,
And they who've not can borrow one
From the good king Solomon.
They who're rich can pay at will,
For another artist's skill,
But they who're poor, unhappy elves,
Must try to write or draw themselves.
They w^ho're pretty, if they're wise,
Their bcjuity will immortalize
By having each bewitching look,
Glowingly copied in this book ; —
To thooc who'ie plain twill be a duty
To show how wit surpasses beauty.

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To my Sister.

Como ladies fair, and gentlemen,
Wield the pencil or the pen,
You can fill me if you try ; —
Write or draw, or cut or buy,
Verse or picture. j)i08e or print.
Act on a gentle album's hint ;
Give my mistress something clover.
For itself she'll love it ever;
Or if it be of those that perish,
For your sake your gift she'll cherish ;
So shall your production bo
Made famous by its place in rao. —
Be of my requests observant
And my lady is your servant ;
Accede to them without delay,
And your petitioner shall pray;

&c., &c., &c.

TO MY SISTER

In joy, in grief, in laughing safety's day,

In frowning danger's hour, when blai' : dismay

Filled sterner hearts than ours, — we two have been

Companions my sweet sister ; — tho' we part

In person, still I know that heart to heart

Will speak and answer ever: write and tell

All that may grieve or please thee, knowing well

That all that pains or joys or interests thine

Pains, joys or moves this faithful h^art of mine.

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NEW YEARS ADDRESS.

Quebec Transcript, 'S^g. *

A Btoam steel pen of fifty poet power,

Kind patrons, scarce could tell you what we feel ;

Poetic parturition's trying hour

First comes upon us now. Could we reveal

The throbs and throes which seem the only dower

That bright Apollo gives to those who kneel

Before his shrine, we think no luckless wight

Who ne'er wrote verso before would venture verse to write.

We are not hardened devils like to those

Who run from door to door with the Gazette ;

Their seventy years have taught them to compose

In verse without an effort, we, as yet,

Scarce count a twelve month since our Transcrvpt rose

To give the world its light; — but e'er it set

(Some hundred years from hence) we hope that we

" Most sweet, enchanting bards," like them, shall surely be.

To you the first-born offspring of our Muse

We dedicate and leave without a name :

Baptize it as you will, — we'll not refuse.

The name you give : — to pleasure you it came ;

For Godfathers airi Godmothers we choose

Our paper's patrons : — it it's quite the same

To yoM, to u% we own it would be pleasant

You'd give its authors each some little christening present.

Let other devils tell you what the year
That died last night wa^: famous for ; — the rise
Of foul Rebellion and its brief career ; —

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How mighty Durham charmed our WDiidcring oyes

With gold, while f^ilvoiy acociits on lh<^ oar

Pour'd golden promises;— or to tlic skies

Extol the pomp that graced the celebration

Of our fair, young, good Queen Victorias coronation.

Or let them tell how Judges were suspended

For thitdiiiig Sj)ecial Councils might ho wi-ong;

— How well our martial citizens dei'ended

Our country from tho synipatliisiitg throng;

— How those whose labours ouyht to have amended

Their countrymen, must sing their New Year's song

Through prison bars : — our earnest hope must be

That time will prove their hearts iVom impious treason free.*

For us the year had been one great event

That swallows up the rest, — the Transcript's birth : —

If to your vacant moments it hath lent

Tho charm of poesy ; ii flowers «)f' worlli

Transplanted to its pages have been sent

To grace your evening hours with harmless mirth,

It peeks no better praise, no mo)-e i-enosvn : —

Upon your smiles it lives, — i- dies if you should frown !

Generous patrons, kind and true, ' '

Each of us to each of 3'ou,

For this joyous season wishes

Appetite aud savoury dishes ;

Health and wealth and Christmas cheer,

And a happy, happy year.

* Some Editors had got into trouble.

I^ew Yi'nr'a Address — 18S9.

A. VV. TO M. K.

We may or may not moot jjgaiii, I may or may not see
Thy face again or hoar thy voice, l>iit 1 forget not thee:
Our fViontlyihip'H not of uncioiit dale, no l<indi-o(l forn s our tie,
And yet I weom to know liieo well and lovo theo tenderly.

TI)oii wast m}' guest wiien first I called a husband's house my

home ;
1 cannot think of that swoot linu" but what thy form will come

Before niy fancy and my heait with ))leasant memories move,
Thou dear iind cherished friend of those whom [ am proud to
lov.

Forgot not thou that pleasa-a tinie when much that met our

view.
To thee as to myself was strange and beautiful as new,
T will please me if whene'er thine eye this simple verse surveys
Like mo thou reckonest that time among thi lO happy days.

May the rich blessing of our God who is all truth and love,

Be round thy path and guide thy feet wherever they may rove ;

Thy virtuous thoughts bear fruit in deeds, thine errors bo

forgiven,
Thine home be happy whiie thou liv'st— thy home of homes be

heaven.

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NEW YEAE'S ADDRESS.

Qitebci- Gazette, iSjg.

Goddess of the sage and witty,
Whom thy democratic city
Worshipped happily of yore,
Till Demagogues and faction tore

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The bond of peace ; — And, thus divided,
Her Sons, " misguidhig or inisffuided"
Became the dupes and prey of those
Who, holding all Athenians foes,
Fomenting discords — parting friends
The better to attain their ends,
Kept their own intorest still in view,
As Yankee SympathisorH do ;
While Ph. lip held a neutral tone
As Yankee Piesidents have done.

Bright Goddess, come — if wisdom yet

Delights thee — here's the last Gazette ;

Or if thy other art appears

More charming — see our Volunteers I

Since Cadmus' day, so fine a set

Of sudden soldiers never yet

Rose at a word. It seemed Sir John,

With serpents' teeth the land had sown.

While thus we sang the Goddess came ;

But as in olden time the dame

Appeared to mortals in the guise

Of him whom they esteemed most wiso,

So now she took her ancient way

And came — the Mentor of our day — *

The man whom all our factions own

For moderation stands alone ;

Who, if his creed be something changed

On abstract questions, — never ranged

Beyond the pale of loyalty.

* John Neilson the first English Editor in (^anacl(^,

New Year'n Address. — 1839.

Ho thought the mui)H of men might be
Entrusted with the destinies
Of Nations — for he was too wise
T'abuse the power, and liindly thought
All felt like him and as they ought ;
'Till stubborn facts and mob excess
Compelled him to esteem them loss,
And put off his democracy
'Till all should bo as wise as he.

When thus Minerva had put on

The likeness of our '• glorious John,"

She, while our knees with reverence shook,

A slightly Scottish accent took,

And kindly promttted what to say

To Patrons kind ' n New Years day,

And taught poor devils to rehearse

The year's events in simple verse.

When the last year its course began.
Disorder through the country ran,
And to Bebellion's usual brood
Was added foul ingratitude ;
And men who but for Britain's power
Had never known a single hour
Of freedom, but had lived and died
The vassal slaves of Gallic pride.
Or 'mid the Democratic host
Laws, language, and religion lost.
Had dared to scoff at Britain's might
And bared their puny arms for fight.
The loyal then at once arose
As one brave man, and to their foesi
3oldier and soldier-citi^eq

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Their faces turn'd and struck ; and then
At the first blow the Rebels qnailed,
And sympathizing Brigands failed.

' Then came the Lord of high pretence

And wonderful magnificence. —
Consistent— iho' he seemed to be
Embodied inconbiptency: —
The ballot man, despising nil, —
Th* Aristocratic Badical.*

He thought within our land to rule
Just like a master in a school,
And deem'd the country needs must thrive
When governed by himself nnd^i;*,
Who, learning all things in a minute,
Consulted not a soul within it.
But time, who air-built castles evens,
Showed all at sixes and at sevens;
Too true himself to think his friends —
Would give him up to serve their ends,
Too brave to think that loj'alty
Required a captive foe should die, —
The Rebel Leaders ho befriended,
But rather far his powers extended.
Brougham led the attack with ancient hate,
And Melbourne left him to his fate. —
Deserted by his friends and cuifd
By enemies — the Lord got huif'd,
And when Glbnelo was next awake
He'd a new Governor to make.

Meantime Victoria's brow was bound
With Britain's diadem ; and crown'd
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New Year's Address— 18S9.

In the world's proudest, highest place,
She peerless sat, with j'outhful grace ;
And Ealeigh's spirit comes again
To British hearts,— and British men
The deep devoted feeling prove,
Of mingled Io;-alty and love.

As if to grace the maiden's reign,
Steam speeds the news across the main ;
The tidings to Virginia camo,
In shorter time than she from whom
Virginia has her name, could send
A message to an Irish friend.

Stern winter came-^the Lord was gone,
And at his post was good Sir John ;
And they whom beating could not teach,
Whose hearts his men»y could not reach.
Once more in mad rebellion rush'd
Against him, — and again were crush'd.

Our Council then the laws amended,
A nd Judges were themselves suspended ;
They held that our wise Council's laws
Had a great hole, thro' which a deep
And subtle advocate might creep. —
Thro' the whole case the Council saw
And sagely passed another law.
Declaring, what the Judges call
A hole, to be no hole at all.

But members of the craft that we
Held gifted with all purity.
All learning and ail eloquence,
All loyalty, and common sense—'

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Men whom we imps with reverence saw,
On whom we cast our eyes with awo,
Are now (Heav'n grant with little reason)
/ Suspected of the crime of treason !

This, — this, the hearts of devils breaks.
And iron tearrt run down our cheeks ;
Sobs choke our voice — but we must try
Our sobs to chock, our eyes to dry : —
The joj'ous season calls for joy.
Gay thoughts all honest hearts employ.
Bright be the prospects of the year
To you, and all whom you hold dear,
Kind generous Patrons: — all wo ask.
Now that we've done our yearly task.
Is, that you kindly take our hint.
And deign to smilo on what toe print.
And that we please you, Patrons all.
We hope for Proof whene'er we call .
All health, all joy, all peace be yours,
The pride of pleasing you bo ours !

NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS.

Qttebec Transcript, 1840.

Behold another New Year's day :—
Twelve changeful months have passed away

Since first mm wrote for fame;
To us your smiles have, as it passed.
Made each a " Transcript " of the last,

And welcome as it came,

New Year's Address — 1840.

But what, kind Patrons, Hhall wo tako
To be our theme to-day, and make

The Kubject of our verse ?
We ci.nnot ask ov/r Muse to bend
To Politics, or condescend

Its squabbles to rehearse.

We hold the Politician's schemes,

Lord Russell's plans, Lord Durham's dreams,

But necessary evils ;
Wo talk of them in proso sometimes,
But in our hearts and in our rhymes,

We're Literary Devils.

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About them many make u fuss,
But things like these appear to us

To verge upon the stupid :
We chant love ditties as we stroll,
And each of us in heart and soul

Is but an Inky Cupid.

Our Ministers and Gracious Queen
Each bent on " Union " now are seen.

We like our Queen's the best ;
And tho' we wish she could prefer
A Briton to a Foreigner,

We hold that union blest.

Of those who think the otJier right
And just and wise, we are not quite

The foremost on the list ;
And yet, we almost wish we were,
For he who seeks to win the fair

Must be a Unionist.

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Dear Readers, if " United, ' may

Youi" joys increase each New Year's day ;

And if your bliss be single,
May such sweet Union soon be found
That Love and Bliss in endless round

Of hap})iness shall raingle.

Wo have a gentle wish ourselves, —
But we ai'O all such modest elves

That for our lives we cann't sue ; —
If you can guess it we're delighted, —
And Hfieen ugly pence " united "

Make a most lovely trente sous.

G. W. W. to M. K., 1H40.

Remember us ever — remember Quebec,
Remember its virtues, remember its faults :
Remember our dance on the gay frigate's deck,
Remember the people who taught you to waltz;
Remember our pic-nics, remembei" our balls,
Remember our moonlight quadrille at the Palls.

Remember your taste of an Editor's evils,
Remember the types and remember the press ;
Remember the Transcript, remember its devils,
Remember their neat lilUe New Year's address:
Remember the pleasure of Mining the Vi.
Remember your squabble with poor Mr. Y.

Ilemomber St. Giles, and remember yc\\v blind.
Remember our drive through the woods all in flame:
Remember poor Memory, riding behind.
Remember our horse and remember his name.

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Eemember
Remember

Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember

Miss Smith and the cows and the uheep,
the river, remember poor Sweep.

Anne Mocock, remember her face,
the Elephant hung in her room;
the Chaudiere, that picturesque place,
the Etchemin bridge and the boom ;
the rain's constant drizzle and mizzle,
our wishing for something like swizzle.

our ice, and remember our snow,

the Marche-doncs, remember their skins ;

our Towns, both Jibovo and below,

the house whoi'e you dwelt for your sina :

the evenings that in you've given,

the reason we christened it " Heaven." , >

your neighbors, your friends and well-wishers,

the parties at which they all shone ;

the Fletchers, the Lindsays and Fishers,

the Natural Steps and the Cone :

this Poem's delightfully clever; '-"

us all and remember us ever.

Inserted by permission.

THE LADY'S ANSWER.

I'll ne'er forget thee, dear Quebec, — thy clear, bright frosty

days,
I'll ne'er forget thy carioles, thy bark canoes or sleighs;
I'll ne'er forget thy bitter cold that made our fingers tingle,
I'll ne'er forget thy nice warm stoves, both double, dumb, and

single.
I'll ne'er forget thy gentlemen befurred up to the eyes,
I'll ne'er forget the strange snowshoes that made them look

such guys ;
I'll ne'er forget thy martial men, the gallant volunteers ;

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ril ne'er forget the Artillery, Queen's Own or Engineers ;

I'll ne'er forget a single star of all the varied throng ;

I'll ne'er forget a single ball, a piunic, dance or song.

I'll ne'er forget the dear abode of friends sincere and many,

I'll ne'er forget the one I loved the very best of any :

I'll ne'er forget to nioarn its fate, its destiny so cruel,

I'll ne'er forget to grieve that it was turned at last to fuel ;

I'll ne'er forget the «oir^(e« there, the gay, the merry joke,

I'll ne'er forget *' The time I've lost," nor yet " The brave old

Oak ; "
I'll ne'er forget sweet Annie's voice, her song, ''They come,

they come,"
I'll ne'er forget dear Harriet who always ** Loved to roam ; "
I'll ne'er forget the witchery, the power of music mighty :
I'll ne'er forget His Majesty " The King of Otaheiteo ;"
I'll ne'er forget huw harmony entranced the list'ning ear,
I'll ne'er forget how all encored my song, *' The Soldier's Tear ; '*
I'll ne'er forget the Pleasant Mount, nor e'er the wedding-day,
I'll ne'er forget the evening the bride was borne away ;
I'll ne'er forget her happy smile, her graceful, gentle mien,
I'll ne'er forget the company who graced the busy scene,
I'll ne'er forget good, kind papa, who did our mirth partake,
I'll ne'er forget, tho' last not least, the charming wedding-cake.
I'll ne'er forget my own abode, — beyond St. John's I mean,
I'll ne'er forget its charming site, or beautiful " wood-scene."
I'll ne'er forget the troubles that as Editress I knew,
I'll ne'er forget the kindly friend who always helped me through.
I'll ne'er forget thee, Canada, the land that rapture wakes,
I'll ne'er forget thy lovely falls, thy mountains or thy lakes;
I'll ne'er forget thee, tho' I may not see thy beauty more,
I'll ne'er forget in memory to visit oft thy shore.
I'll ne'er forget you, oh, my friends, wherever I may be,
I'll ne'er forget to hope that you will aye remember me.

M. K., London, 1840.

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An Ordinance respecting Albutnu.

. BAPTISMAL ADDRESS.

To H. Z., a Boy.

Your Godfather and Godmother, sweet Baby,
Salute you with a joint eponsorial icisa; —
They send you nothing else just now— but may be
Their loving kindness will not end with this ; —
If aught that's nice for ornament or pluy be
Found in the town the chance thoy will not miss.
So now, be very happy : — and do, pray bo
Exceeding good, — in virtue place your bliss:
And go to school betimes, and mind your book;
Go twice a day to church, thro' shine or showers,
At least until you get confirmed — for, look,
Till then we pay for all your wicked hours. —
If you must sin. pray sin on your own hook,
And at your cost and peril, — not at ours.

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AN ORDINANCE RESPECTING ALBUMS

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1840.

Friendship calls
her special coun-
cil together.

They pass an
ordinance.

When Friendship heard that Harriet meant

To Hport an album, off she sent

Her messengers to summon Wit,

Wisdom and Poesy, to sit

With Music and Design and Plan

('Twas thus the writ of summons ran)

How the said Album should be filled

By persons competently skilled.

They came, the}' sat with due decorum,

(Five just made Friendship's Council Quorum.)

And after grave debate, at last

The following ordinance was passed.

An Ordinance respecting Albums.

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Preamble.

An inspector of

contributions

appointed.

Certain articles
prohibited.

Proviso.

An ordinnnce for tho protection

Of Harriot's Album hy tW inspection

-By some one competently skilled

Of things with which it shall be filled.

Whereas it hath boon represented,
That Harriet Fletcher hath consented
To keep t.ii Album which she sends
For contribution to her friends, —
And whereas it importoth much,
The contributions should be such
As ought in Albums to appear —
We have in special council here.
Ordained, enacted, and directed
Each contribution be inspected
By E. T. F., and be rejected,
If when he comes to look it o'er
He thinks he's seen its face before.

And be it furthermore ordained

That no admission shall be gained

By any verses incomplete

In decent, rhymes, or short of feet ;

Or drawings, where a rose receives,

A lily's stalk and poppy leaves.

Or music which performance mars

By disregarding time and bars :

But, saving this, we will that all

Be taken — if original : —

Provided that each contribution

Admitted to the Institution.

For reading, looking at, 6r fiddling,

Be classed as •' good " or " bad " or " middling "

By the inspector, who shall brand

Suob class upon it out of hand.

Birthday Sonnet

Love verses to
nameless ladies
prohibited.

Proviso.

And further, lliat as love in rhyme
Is apt to wnstu his bruins and time,
And fiachelors if lot alone
Will rhyme upon no theme but one,
And books of nameless Ladies full
Are apt to be exceeding dull ; -
It is ordained that none shall dare
To write on love to any fair,
Unless he prove his passion's strength
By giving all her names at length.

Provided always, and it is
The true intent and sense of this,
That it shall be th' Inspector's duty
To find vast wisdom, wit and beauty,
In each foregoing clause and line
And brand this Ord'nance '^ Superjine."

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BIRTHDAY SONNET.

To If. F. with Cotvper's Poems.

A bard unmarried, Harriet, might, perchance,

A volume of a warmer tone have sent,

Some rhyme of love and passion, some romance <

Of hope and fear and joy and rapture blent :

Bat / have but an elder brother^ voice

To wish thee years and hours of health and peace :

And therefore for a Birthday gift my choice

Hath fallen on one whose numbers never cea^e

To praise our calmer joys, who was content

With virtue for a theme, and wove a strain

Whose grave rebuke or harmless merriment.

The Carrier^ a Addreaa^ 1847.

Reproved or luughod ut vice and folly'H reign.
Among the volumes which thy boudoir grace
The Sofa'8 bard may hold a worthy place.

14 December, 1839.

Most gentle Reader, —

Was Cowper's CalviniHtic croud all right ?

Was I predestined ore 1 saw the light

To make and send th' above dulightf'ul sonnet?

Were you foredoomed to smile or frown upon it ?

Or did his creed err ^

THE CARRIERS ADDRESS.

Quebec Gazette, ist January, 1847.

Hark I once again the midnight chime,
Hath given a solemn tongue to Time,
And the last tone of yonder bell
Hath bid the vanished year farewell ;
Gone like all years before, and cast
In the wide Gulf we call the Fast !
Yet that year's influence may extend
Far hence to time's remotest end,
And future good or ill may fix
Its earliest root in " forty-six."
Shall he have cause to grieve or laugh,
Who writes the dead year's epitaph ?
Let's see — Her Majesty the Queen
(Whom may God prosper) hath not seen
It fitting in this year to bless

The Carrier's Adtlrea$, 1847.

John Bnll with Prince or with Prinooss.
But yet we trust that bets are even,
We've one or both in forty-seven.

Princes, the King of France has thought,
Are getting scarcer than they ought.
And that the royal Crown of Spain,
Might fit a Bourbon's head again ;
So sends his sons to fetch the Bride,
With hopes of Crown and wealth beside,
And though the British Lion'n growl
Somewhat disturbs the Gallic fowl,
France bnives the storms that o'er hor lower
And turns for comfort to the dower.
— Cracow, the Autocrats agree,
Had better be no longer free.
And though the Lion threats hor foes
And Gallia's Bird against them crows,
Poor Cracow's glory's past away
Till freedom hails a brighter day.

Old Uncle Sam cares nought for this,

Th' affair he thinks is none of his ,

And holds it very little odds

Which way old Europe's *' balance " nods,

Provided that same balance scheme

Molest not his ambitious dream,

And that no Prince or Queen assume a

Bight to the Halls of Montezuma.

For Uncle Sam hath modestly

Besolved that these his own shall be.

— Our '• balance " here is rather nice
And may be upset in a trice ;
Lord Elgin will not find two pins

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Of odds of weight' twixt outs and ins,

So even do their chances seoin.

That either yet may kick the beam.

Much work (between ourselves and you)

The gracious Lord will have to do ;

And if he satisfies the claims

Of every party, — if he names .,

Men to each office, who shall be

Prom all objection wholly free, —

If he shall fill the public chest,

By means that all shall hold the best, —

If he to Parliament shall send

Measures that all men shall commend, —

Tf under him our troubles cease

And jarring factions work in peace, —

If on the " College question," he

Shall get all interests to agree, —

If Baldwin shall be hand and glove

With Sherwood, — if Lafontaine move

A vote of confidence in Draper

And laud each Ministerial paper, —

If Williams' verdict shall attest

The Ministerial "Channel " best,

And Armstrong own that none bat Turks

Would vilify the Board of Works, —

If GuoT shall praise with pen and tongue,

Indite the praise of Colonel Younq, —

If editors in Montreal

Shall cease among themselves to brawl,

Until our own old " Glorious John "

Has nothing to comment upon, —

He will, (we speak with all respect,)

Do quite as much as we expect,

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Patrons and friends, the bygone year,
Hath left one little score to clear ;
Through wind and rain, thro' cold and sun,
Our weary round we've daily run,
From north and south, from west and east,
We've brought the intellectual feast :
We hope some proof that not in vain,
We've faced the wind, sun, cold and rain,—
Some token that our work of love
You've deigned to notice and approve.
Carriers love Cash — We say no more ;
We've proved your generous hearts before.
And bright and blissful may your New Year be,
From every care and every sorrow free ! —

THE NOETH SHORE RAILROAD.

'^ Quebec Gazette, i8jy.

Dkar Mr. Editor.

I know I have no right to appear in verse more than once
a year, and that my time for this year is past ; but as I trudge
through the streets distributing your invaluable lucubrations to
every body, every body will talk to me about the Rail-road, and
really the poetic lire within will consume me if I do not give it
vent ; — pray print me then, and I will carry you about with
double diligence. '

I am. Dear Mr. Editor,

With profound respect,
One of the humblest of your devils,

A. B. C.
What is it that awakes my lyre,
And fills me with unwonted fire ?
The thing to which all hopes aspire ;

Our Rail-road,

The North Shore Railroad.

Whnt's that on which we all agree,
Old Nestor* within the " Journal " free,
And Cauchon with the Mercury ?

Our Bail-road.

At whose success we'd all be glad,

The Tory, moderate, or the rad,

All sects and sorts (except the mad) —

Our Eail-road.

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What will be far the surest plan,

To keep us loyal to a man,

And make us laugh as Jonathan ?

Our Bail-road.

What will the provinces unite,
In real union, firm and tight,
And keep us British and ail right ?

Our Ball-road.

What, if we don't the boon refuse,
Will forward every body's views,
And make us all as rich as jews ?

Our Bail-road.

What will convey our wood and grain
At every season to the main.
And bring us British goods again ?

Our Bail-road.

What will the rapid steam cars dash on
To bring us London's newest fashion
And gratify dear woman's passion ?

Our BaiUroad.

I most humbly crave your, pardon, Mr. Editor for this poetic license.

New Yem'B Addreaa — 1849.

What may perhaps do something more,
And to mis-ased Qaebec restore
The rank she held in days of yore ? *

Our Eail-road.

And then perchance it may befall,

Onr t wives shall hear the pleasant call,

To grace Lord Liberal's Castle Ball !

^ .> Dear Rail-road !

Then let us heart and hand combine,
And all in one great effort join,
To urge this wonder-making line

, . Of Rail-road.

NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS.

» Pilot, 1849.

Huzza ! for the Pilot that weathered the storm, —

Huzza I for Lord Elgin— Huzza ! for Reform, —

Huzza ! for our Ministers, honest and able, —

Huzza ! for the measures they'll lay on the table, —

Huzza I for the Session that's going to be,

The Session the Province is longing to see. —

Huzza ! for ourselves, who in prophecy bold.

In our last New- Year's Rhyme, all this triumph foretold.

Proving thus that in gifts, if no longer in name.

The Poet and Prophet are ever the same.

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man then (thanks to the Rail-road) and Lord Liberal may choose to forget I was
a poor devil once, if he knows I was alwap an honest one.

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Huzza! for the friends that stood ^jteadily by us, —
Huzza ! for Lamartine — Huzza I for Pope Piue, —
Huzza! for the Banner of Freedom unfurl'd
For the good of all nations, the weal of the world ; —
Huzza! louder than all for our own native land,
For its c) erful obedience to lawful command,
For the best Constitution the world ever saw, —
Huzza ! for the people, the Queen and the Law 1
And, huzza ! for the men that asifiist the attack
Of the Communist's doctrine : — long live Cavaignac.
We haven't got much, but we'd like to retain it,
Not divide with the boys that did nothing to gain it,
Nor sharing our New Year's emoluments sweet.
With the first ragamulSSns we find in the street.
But this is digression, — our present vocation
Is to deal in poetical vaticination.

The Session that's coming shall ever bo blest,
As the longest, the wisest, the greatest, the best :
Mr. Baldwin shall make all our Colleges flourish,
LaFontaine shall justice and equity nourish, —
Mr. Drummond all crimes shall detect and repress,
Mr. Blake all abuses expose and redresH, —
Mr. Morin shall charm ug with eloquent words, —
Mr. Caron shall do the same thing in the Lords, —
Mr. Leslie shall answer all questions and calls
Mr. Merritt shall give us all kinds oi comawU, —
Messrs. Cameron and Tach^ make bridges and roads,
In all sorts of places, and all sorts of modes, —
Mr. Yiger shall lessen our national debt —
A thing that no tory has ever done yet, —
Mr. Hincks shall make perfect our Bepresentation,
Shall get us Free Trade too, and Free Navigation, —
^hall the duties impose in so charming a wa^,

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'Twill be bliss to receive thorn and pleasure to pay, —

With such exquisite tact he the Tariff shall fill,

It shall gladden John Glass and please Peter M'Gill ; —

He shall issue Debentures (a marvellous thing),

That shall pay themselves off with the profit they bring :

Libel law shall amend that the Press may be free,

And that men may write truth without fear of Gugee: —

He shall make us all rich : — but if thus we run on,

In foretelling his deeds, we shall never have done. -^

If you know what is good for our country, you know

What he'll think, say, and do, and — Amen, be it so I

Having thus drawn aside the dark curtain of State,
And unveiled the designs of political fate —
Having speechified from our poetical throne,
Which we hold v.more'B the pity) for one day alone.
We come to the point, which, in all ihronal speeches,
The great end of Government touchingly teaches ;
Tho' a point of vast import in few words it lies —
" Dkar Ladies and Gentlemen orant us Supplies : "
You know what the Carrier's necessities are, —
We^ll accept of Debentures^ and take them at par !

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THE CARRIER'S CAROL— FOR 1849.

Quebec Gazette.*

Amid the orash of thrones and flight of Kings, —

The downfall of timc-honor'd thoaghts and things, —

'Mid violence bafliing freedom's brightest hope, —

And the brave oflbrts of the libei-nl Pope ; —

'Mid Rebel outbreaks and the fiery gleam

Of Towns bombarded, and Italia's dream

Of adding one more nation to the list : —

'Mid Red Republican and Communist, —

'Mid democratic movements near and far, —

And lurid portents of impending war. —

A year hath passed and ended ; — heaven be praised.

The withering storm hath yet but lightly grazed

Our British Parent, while ourselves have gazed

Untouched spectators of the wreck around,

In tempered freedom safe, by love and duty bound I

True, our funds are rather low, \

And Debentures do not go

Quite so readily at par

As we could have wished, — yet far

Be it from our thoughts to grumble :

In the universal tumble

We have lost in cash and labors

Less than many of our neighbors :

That is the Province has — for we.

Imps as we are known to be.

With a deep affliction mourn

O'er our lamented Patron's Urn ! f

Would we could raise his cenotaph

And there inscribe this Epitaph !

* See Notes, f John Neilsoii,

The Carrier's Carol— for 1849.

THE EPITAPH.

An honest man lies here, — not falsel}' biand,

But kind in very deed and true in heart, *

With unbought zeal who served our native land,
And not for office played the Patriot's part.

Wielding with easy power his trusty pen,
Keen without gall, without un kindness free,

His aim to raise and serve his fellow men,
He tempered censure aye with courtesy.

Our country weeps in him her sagest friend,
The press its ancient ornament and pride ; —

In us all mournful thoughts and feeling blend.
Guide, friend and master lost when Neilson died.

When in our final case we lie,
Knocked out of form and into />t,
May we a like impression leave ;
Like proof of love may we receive,
And inky Imps our praise rehearse,
In honest if in rugged verse I

But we must not be gloomy — the New Year is come.

And the Session is coining, to make us all glad.

For our Ministers (bless them 1), with trumpet and drum,

Have proclaimed that they'll rid us of every thing bad,

And will give us all good things, — a College, and Cash,

And a new Judicature, no second-hand hash

But a spic and span new one, — and free Navigation

To make us a mighty magnificent nation.

New Taxes, new Duties, new Corporation

Of Cities and Boroughs, and new Registration ; —

Of Post Office matters a new Begulation,

New Districts, new Counties, pew Eepresentation,

New School laws ensuring us Illumination,

The Carrier' a Carol— for 1849.

New Census Bills giving us now information,

New schedules of Salaries, working vexation

(With a salvo, of course, for their own preservation)

To overpaid placemen, and great tribulation ; ^

New schemes for our Revenue's vast augmentation.

For increasing industrious and sound population,

By encouraging Settlement and Immigration,

That is by addition and multiplication ; —

And many more things that need verification I

Don't we wish we may got them ? — no matter 1 we'll hope ; —

Who'd have thought Reformation would come from the Pope?

If they do all this good and remove all these evils,

We'll all turn Responsible Government d Is ;

We'll hurra for LaFontaine and Baldwin, — we'll take
The oath of allegiance to Drummond and Blake, —
We'll confess (as the Pilot apparently thinks)
That there may be some good in our friend Mr. Hincks,
We'll believe that there's virtue in Leslie and Price,
And that Tachd and Cameron are free from a vice.

Patrons, may the coming year

Find and leave you happy here ;

And, life ended, may you be

Happy through eternity.

Do you wish such happiness ?

Seek your fellow men to bless.

Would you, now that cash is rare, ?i

Invest at interest high, yet fair ? —

What's given to the poor is lent

On better terms than cent per cent, —

And on these terms poor way-worn elves, —

We'll take a trifling loan ourselves.

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THE STEAM EXCAVATOE OR PATENT IRISHMAN.

The following poem, was wiitien expressly for a young gen-
ileman ut Upper Cannda College, as an appendix to his Theme
on this subject ; the Ode tho' not strictly Horatian, expresses
my admiration of this Invoiiiion. I am proud to say that it
obtained the applause of Dr. Scadding who marked it as " Good —
" worthy of Hildebort."

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AD EXOAVATOREM.

O, Excavator nobilis I
O, Machina mirabilis!
Quae longe ante alias, is, *
Potentior Hibernicis,

In terram fodiendo I

E patrifi Yankeornm.
Venisti ut laborum
Levamen sis nostrorum,
£t versuum meorum,

Tutamen in canendo !

Te pueri circumstantes.
Te senes et infantes,
Aspectu Jubilantes,
Ingenio triumphantes,

Laudabunt in videndo 1

Virtutes, quas narrare,
Nee laudibus esquare,
Nee versibus can tare,
Non credo me prsestare, —

Mirabor in silendo I

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Quebec Gazette^ January, tSjo.

Oh I had we a Pegasus willing and able, —

We'd mount him and ride; but there's none in our stable.

So we'll oen take a hint from balloon loving Gale,

"Who proposes in search of poor Franklin to sail :

Our balloon shall be made out of last year's Gazette.

And our gas be the hope that you will not forget

The poor Imps who have brought it you. (Thanks to our Mayor,

We might get real gas if we'd coppers to spare.)

And thus mounting on high, we at 'vantage may cast,

A glance o'er the future, the present and past.

We are up— we can see over all fortt-ninb,

With its good deeds and bad, from the Pole to the Lino.

Towards the future, dark clouds seem to limit our view.

But with breaks here and there we shall try to peep through.

We see anarchy nipping young Liberty's bud,

And " baptizing the first birth of freedom in blood,"

Upsetting each landmark and tried constitution,

And rejecting Beform to embrace Revolution.

We see France preaching fraternization and hope

To her brethren at Rome, and — restoring the Pope !

We see Christians engaging in butcher-like work, * j,

And the victims of tyranny — saved by the Turk If

We see Pestilence march with her death-flag unfurl'd

Spreading fear and dismay o'er" three-fourths of the world,

'Till the Angel of Mei'cy came down to their aid .

At the cry of the lands, and the Demon is stay'd; —

Now the bright gleam of hope hath succeeded despair, u

And man's gratitude breathes in thanksgiving and prayer.

At the Holy Sepulcre ! f Kossuth, &c.

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Why from Canada latit ? Hatli uhe none to oxpross ?

Wax her strait not as sore ? Ih hor thunUugiving less ?

But perhaps my Lord Eloin wuh waiting to »qq

What his fate with the TorontowogiaiiH would bo.

True, we've plagues enough left, but they're such as we may

With a will and an effort sweep deftly uway ;

And there's good with the bad :— Wliilc wo'jo up in the sky

fioth the good and the bad we can readily spy,

And as each meets our view we shall just jot it down ; —

We can't handle the globe like Commissioner Brown.

We see our ovation crown'd Governoi , who

Is eggregi (o) U8 Professor of dignified — whew ! —

With one hand he rewardetb ihe Eebels who tried

Annexation by force in their indolent pride ;

With the other chastiseth the men who are seen

Humbly seeking the same thing by leave of the Queen :

While Bbn-Holmbs, move consistent, resisted the force,

But applaudeth the thing in its peaceable course !—

We see our Responsibles handling the pelf,

And each taking good care of his friends und himself.

We see the five C's that embellish our City,

Standing each for a Chiseller cunning and witty ;

Chauvbau, Chabot and Cauchon, and Caron, — and then

The great Chiseller of Chisellers, our own CITIZEN. *

Number one is a turbulent, troublesome boy,

But he's not a bad chisel— ask Circuit Judge Eoy.

Number two's mode of working was clever tho' queer,

For he chiselled himself in.to Chief Engineer !

Number three in a Pilot-boat followed the sport,

'Till he found himself out a snug berth in our Port.

Number four most of all by his chiselling gains

Getting lid of the work while the profit remains.

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With a certain gold pen about which thoro'n a mystery:
Standing chief among OhiHollorH, uloof and alone,
And doubling the pay of the Houhe— and his own.
But there en revanche, Htandn our oxeollont Mayor,
Our four times unanimous choice, whose good care
Hath enlightened our City with Gas, and who sought her
Health, safety and profit, by seeking for water;
(Employing a Baldwin who hated a job,
And HO differed in that from responsidlo Bob,)
And hath tried party feeling and quarrels to smother
Until cit should meet cit as a friend and a brother.

We see annexation — But stop, through the oloud

We've a glimpse of the future, — that future is proud.

No stripe sullied flag doth our Citadel deck,

But the Standard of Britain waves over Quebec;

Montreal hath regained her old mercantile fame,

And her sons have abandoned their errors and shame ; *

Toronto gleams bright in prosperity's sun.

And the trade of the West hath been tried for and won ;

Of the tide of good luck the Kingstonians drink ;

And the new seat of Government's — where do you think 7

We may not tell more,— but it has but one seat,

(And that one in the place that's most fitting and meet)

And no more like the softest of members is found

Which between its two seats tumbles bump to the ground.

And Lord Elgin is off— and all parties are tired

Of bemiring each other, and getting bemired ;

Even Editors argue, as Editors should,

Not for argument's sake, but for Canada's good,

And have found that a Country is little or great,

Not bee .use it's a Colony, Province or State,

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The C^rrier'a Ckttimt—1860.

But that wUe ro«n attain tu the end thoy'ru pursuing,

Not by tnlking or bogging, but thini<ing unci 'loing;

That tho boHt of ail ways Capo MiHfortuno to weath§r,

[h a long pull, a strong pull, a pull all togothei.

Is this glimpse of tho future to bright to be true ? —

Ask yourselves, — tho solution depends upon you.

We dislike not the Yankees, Iheyre clover and brave,

But the blot on thoir escutcheon's tho whip and the slave;

Let thorn banif>h the stripes when tho stars are unfurl'd,

And their flag may compote with the pride of the world ;

With the red cross of Albion it then may go forth,

As the banner of freedom, of wisdom and worth.

Let them Winthrop elect and thoir Congress bhall bo

The boast of Columbia, the hope of the free ;

Let them list to his counsels, their Eagle shall rise

With his pinions unfetter'd, and soar to the skies.

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And now again we rest on oarth
And hear the sounds of human mirth :
Seasonable sounds of glee.
Laugh and jest and revelry.
Hut cold and rough the wind doth blow
And sharp the frost, and deep tho snow ;
And many in winter's season rude
Lack clothing, shelter, fire and food.
Give then, ye rich ones, to the poor ; —
The gift shall largo increase ensure,
Returning thus your offered gold
In blessings rich and manifold.
Would ye for mercies numberless
Your gratitude to Heaven express?
The most acceptable thanksgiving,
Is worthy, holy, Christian living ;

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The Little Exhibition of 1854-

And of the Christian virtues three
The chief and beat is charity.
Better than penance, prayer or shrift,
Is God'h delight, the cheerful gift I
And don't forget, that cold and wet,

Or faint with heat, the CARRIEE ooor,
Hath toiled his way, from day to day,
To bring your Neilson to your door,
And Cometh now to wish you all good cheer,
A merry Christmas, and a happy new year !

THE LITTLE EXHIBITION OP 1854.

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A little man did make a Gun,

A very sorry thing,
The barrel weak, the stock awry,

A lock with crazy spring.

And on the back side of the stock,

A silver plate put he,
Marked " eighteen hundred fifty-four "

And " Fecit, L. T. D."

He laid the Gun before the men
Who judge of things like these,

They thought it bad, and yet they wished,
The little man to please.

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For twice before in vain he tried,
The public prize to snatch,

And three long years had toiled away,
That luckless Gun to patch.

They gently hinted, that they would
For some good workmen send, —

Who might in some particulars,
Stock, lock, and barrel mend.

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So said, so done, — those workmen made

A barrel sound and slick,
A stock right good, of walnut wood,

A lock as lightning quick.

But on the backside of the stock,
That plate you still may see.

Marked '' eighteen hundred fifty-four "
And " FecAi, L. T. D."

The little man who feared the work,
For hi8 might seem too good,

Stiffened the lock, — the barrel scratched.
And scraped the varnished wood.

But still the thing was capital,

A first rate shooting gun,
The Judges gave the prize, — and all

Applauded what they'd done.

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As any peacock proud,
Parades the Gun, and shews the prize,

"QxA boasts are long and loud,

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If any man presume to douot,
That his the work could be,
He points unto that silver plate,
And shews him " L. T. D."

The skilful workmen are forgot,

And few may know their name,
Theirs was the work, — the little man's

The profit and the fame.

Interpretation Clause.

Put " Bill " for " Gun,"— be wide awake,—

Thou clever M. P. P.
And tell me who the workmen were ? —

And who was L. T. D— ?

M. P. P. thinks a little and then guesses right.

" Eureka " shout, — thou'st found it out,

Thou cleverest of men ! —
Kight well, I say, — in wordy fray.

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THE CARRIER'S COALITION ADDRESS.

Midnight, 18S4-S — Quebec Gazette.

" God bless the master of this house,

And mistress also ;
And all the little children

That round the table go ;
With their pockets full of money,

And their cellars full of beer —
And God send you all a happy New Year. "

Tolls that loud bell for fifty-four

Or doth it welcome fifty-five ?
Mourns it the year that is no more,

Hails it the year that's now alive ?
Mourns it for England's; France's brave ?
Knells it o'er valour's early grave ?
Or peals it cheerly through the night
For Inkerman's all glorious fight?
Tolls it for Elgin who is gone,
And all the good he might have done ?
Or greets it him who rules instead,
Our untried, welcome, hopeful Head ?

We cannot say — for good and evil
Come now so mixed that we, the Devil,
(Of the Gazette) can hardly say
Whether we shall be grave or gay.

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If Drummond sat not by his side ;
And charming Cayley might appear
If Chabot were not quite so near ;

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(How in silk gown so spruce and new

"Will ho the Law-Bricklaying do ?)

Macdonald would rejoice our sight

If Morin sat not on his right:

Bob Spence would far more pleasing show,

Were he not linked with dull Ohauveau ; —

E'en honest, jolly Smith looks cross,

Clapped cheek by jowl with blundering Ross.

Is there no chance our British men

Should ever get their rights again !

Is Lower Canada so low,

That her best man is P. Cbauveau ;

Her lawyers so extremely small,

That Drummond overtops them all ;

In her wide confines is there not

An engineer can beat Chabot;

Is genius to her clime so foreign

That her first specimen is Morin ?

May her good freemen never hope,

That one or two at least may sit
In council, who mistrust the Pope,

Nor cringe to Priest or Jesuit?

Shall our good city never be

Cleansed of that odious A. B. C. ?

Yet there is one un mingled good —
One shadowless and sunny spot,

Smooth, cat like Bolph is out and gone,
To pestle, pill and gallipot : —

However bad the rest may be, *

They are not half so bad as he.

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Our rulers have three little Bills
To prop their fame and cure our ills :
They boast of Beciproclty

And how they'll make the Yankees pay,
But Jonathan's as 'cute as we,

And that may turn the other way.
They boast they've finished the Reserves,
And well they may — but there, methinks,
A greater gun the meed deserves,
The great ten-thousand-ponnder Hincks.'"
Whipp'd Lewis brags about his Bill.

We might as well be told
The patient made the Doctor's pill

That cured him of his cold.
He swallowed it — the thing was good —

No man hath e'er gainsayed it.
He swallowed wdl, but — * by the Bood, f
He should'nt say he made it.

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But truce to Ministerial tricks,
And truce to dirty politics.

And truce to in and out ;
Apart from these the gentlemen
Are just as good as nine in ten,

And generous souls no doubt :
So as their Poets Laureate, we
Expect from them a double fee.

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more energetic and our rhyme and metre quite as gootl ; hut the Editor thought
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Address — Patriotic Fund. 1855.

To them and all Happy Year,
A cellar full of foaming beer

And lots of Christmas Pies ;
And if our budget you approve,
Kind Patrons, then we humbly move

You grant us the Supplies.

Poor suppliants to your doors we come,
Our Estimate's the usual sum,

But yet. we would be glad,
If, seeing beef and bread and wood
Are very dear, you only should

A moderate Bonus add !

ADDHESS.

The Patriotic Fund Committee to their fellow citizens.

Ye sons of Britain, Ireland, France,
Whose brethren side by side advance
Against the ruthless Cossack lance,

And freedom's foe;
The wives and orphans of the brave.
Whose valour earned a soldier's grave,
Appeal to yon to help and save

From want and woe.

For they who fell on Alma's height,
Or Balaclava's hero fight, ,

Or died for froodom, God and right,

At Inkermann,
Stretched on the soldier's bloody bier,
Bequeathdd you those they hold must dear,
That you might dry the mourner's tear,

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Tour brethren strive on battlefield,
Who best his country's arms shall wield,
Who first shall force the foe to yield,

Or bravely die :

Strive ye, who first and best shall be
In the great work of charity,
To sooth by generous sympathy,

The mourner's cry.

By Erin's Harp and Shamrock green,—
By bonnie Scotland's Tartan sheen, —
By England's Bose, — by Britain's Queen,

(Long may she live I)

By the red cross your fathers bore
To victory on every shore,
By Gallia's glorious tricolor, —

Give, — freely give.

Give, — and so may the hallowed gold
Return to you a hundred fold,
And blessings and rewards untold.

To you be given :

To succour in their deep distress,
The widow and the fatherless.
Is virtue's purest happiness,

Forecasting Heaven. —

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No. looo. — 1st Session, 6th Parliament, 21-2 Vi:tonm, i8j8,

BILL.

An Act to immortalize certain Membors of Her Majesty's Most
Ephemeral Government.

First Reading Monday, i6th August, 1858.
Second and Third Reading instanter.

Mr. V. Orrrn.

Nena Sahib, Printer to the King of Delhi.

No. 1000.] BILL. [1868.

An Act to immortalize certain Members of Her Majesty's Most
Ephemeral Government.*

FTTTB FIRST.

1. A pleasant game of Fox and Geese

Was played by cerain famous men,
'Twas not in Egypt, Borne or Greece —
We won't say where it was or when.

8. Baited with place and power and cash
Sly Senard sot a cunning gin ;
The leading Gander's soul was rash,

And twelve great geese at once rushed in.

3. He might have caught at least a score, ^ .

For all were eager to be taken, /,.
Only the trap would hold no more,
And so the small ones saved tfareir bacon.

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4. One curly gosling seemed to pout,

And others' eyes the tears ran o'er in,
That bigger geese should crowd them out,
And that the trap would take no Mor'in.

5. ThoHe in the trap grow mighty proud,

And little dreaming of disui>tert<,
Strutted about and gabbled loud,

And thought they were the Fox's Masters;

6. Not so the Fox — in merry mood

He laughed to Bee the waddling rout ;
He broke no bones, he drank no blood,
But pulled their prettiest feathers out ;

7. He clipped their wings in Vulpine play.

He spoilt their dream so fair and bright,
Then turned them out to find their way
Back to their pen as best they might.

8. Sweet pen I where they with brazen throats

In oratory used to dabble,
And daily gain their ninety groats
By legislative noise and gabble.

9. Alas I the way is hard to find,

And very rough ad rude the track,
And many may be left behind
And never, never more get back !

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10. Who played the Fox and who the Goose —
lu that eventful time ? —
Attend the answer of the muse
In true and deathless rhyme.

H. M. Ephemeral Government. 1868.

11. The Pox a mystery remains,

N'OMlNIS UMBRA STAT,

And people puzzle hard their brains
In guessing this and that.

12. Son;e think what seems the Fox's Head .

Vice-regai honours wears; —
While others hold that in their stead
A lawyer's coif appears.

13. Some think him wrong, some think him right,

(Those Quidnuncs of the Town)
Some call him black— some call him white,
But no one thinks him Brown.

14. The name of every goose he caught

In print recorded was,
In that great work which may be bought,
Of Mister Desbarats.

16. And not among them all was seen
A goose of orange hue,
But some were rouge — tho' all were green,
And now look very blue.

16. And one you'd think could never be

Entrapped, — he looks so sage,
And so deep read, — no doubt but he '
Enjoys a green old age.

17. The geese uncaught were of all hues,

Including White, they say ; — ,
(Between the reader and the muse)
The curly goose was Grey. , ,

H. M. Ephemeral Government^ 1858.

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18. But there nre men of other creed

Who hold the Pox a myth,
Like Fellowes' voters, — or a. feed
By Mr. Speaker Smith.

19. ThoHe think the Fox was love of power,

And love of profit to, —
And Dorion'H maxim for the hour,
Was — tout est pour Lemieux :

20. In short that in ambition wrapped,

Nought heeding wisdom's frown,
Foley by folly was entrapped,
And Brown by Brown done brown.

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21. Thus was the game of Fox and Geese

Played by those famous men : —
They were in luck who saw the piece,
It can't be played again.

22. Great geese, ere Agamennon reigned,

No doubt the ancients saw ; —
No tuneful Poet they obtained,
And died by Nature's law. —

23. Our greater geese through every age,

Like cocks of Gullia mat/ crow,
Their names are writ on. Clio's page.

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In Memortam.

IN MEMOBIAM.

0/J Christ Church.

Ottawa. 5th March, 187a.
Dear Old Times—

They arc pulling down Old Christ Church. It was not handsome certainly,
Init it had memories attached to it which the new one cannot have. I, for one,
cannot help feeling grieved ; and perhaps some lines in which I have tried to give
expression to my grief, may find an echo in the heart of more than one old
Bytownian : if you think so you may print them and oblige

Your's most truly, lANE

Farewell old Ohurob, where on my infant brow

With solemn rite the rayslio sign was traced,
And when my youthful fate renewed the vow,

On my bowed head confirming hands were placed :
Where first I shared the Ohristian feast divine.

His flesh the bread, the atoning blood the wine :
Before whose altar once I stood a bride,

And where through many a year I knelt in prayer,
A thoughtful wife, with children by my side,

And on my Saviour oast my every care :
Where over oNi the thrilling words were read,

Which when the weary leave this scene of strife,
Console the living, sanctify the dead.
And tell of resurrection and of life.

A fairer fane may rise to take thy place,
Whose broader aisles ma}* own a statelier grace ;
Through pictured windows richer light may stream
On moulded architrave and sculptured beam ; \

From loftier tower the Sabbath bell be rung.
By fuller choirs the swelling anthem sung : —
These will be well — but no new church can be,
What THOU hast been — thou dear old Church, to me.
Ottawa Times, March 8th, 1872.

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THK ATTACK.

A f.ay hy a Layman.

(AFTER TENNYSON)

["The Now Clirisl Church will contain ux hundred sittings"] — Repott
oj the Building' CoininiiUc.

Deop in debt, deep in debt,
Deep in debt, deeply, —
Swiftly to ruin'H brink

Drift the uix hundred.
" Build, build " the Rector said ;
Fuint hearts they nil obeyed,
Into the clutch of debt

Sunk the six hundred.

Now the foundation's laid,
Wise men all stand dismayed ;
But though the laity knew

Some one had blundered ,
Their.s not to question why ?
Theirs not to reason why ?
Theirs but to pay and sigh : —
Truly in slime of debt

Crawled the six hundred.

III.

See all their purses bare,
Filled now with nought but air,

Paying the workmen there,
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New Christ Church — The Attack.

Paying an army, while

All the world wondered :
Plunged into carpets, glass,
Grand organ, lamps, and gas ;
Native and stranger,
Sickened, discordant mass.

Worn out and plundered : —
Parsons are pleased, — but not,
Not the six hundred.

IV.

Duns rough to right of ihem,
Duns hard to left of them.
Duns firm in front of them

Threatened and thundered.
Callous to writ and bill,
Swallowing the bitter pill.
Into the Bankrupt Court,
Into the legal mill.

Must go the six hundred.

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When will the debt be paid ?
O the rash move they made ;

All the world wondered.
Pity the error made,
Pity the poor betrayed.

Hapless six hundred.

R. J.

New Christ Church — The Defence.

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THE DEFEKCB.

My Dear "Times'," — Today find tomorrow tho ladies
offer us a Christmas Tree and other pleasant things in the base-
ment story of Christ Church, and on Friday next, there is to
be a very amusing entertainment, at Gowan's Hall. — both in aid
of the Organ Fund of tho Church. Shall ihey fail ? St. Cecilia
forbid I They must be a great success ; and as poets have Ji
prescriptive right to bo prophets, I venture to send you a little
poem about them in the prophetic spirit, as if written after tho
event, but differing from that of another of your poets, vvlio,
though a little severe, may have done us, (as I am bound to
believe he intended to do), good service, by shewing us what
debt might lead to.

Ever yours, most truly,

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One op the Six Hundred.

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" Deep in debt, deep in debt," —
" Let not the thing be said," —
" fiouso ye my faithful flock,
" Up and repel the charge,

" Faithful six hundred ; "—
Thus our good Eector said,
Cheerfully all obeyed ;
Spurning the shame of debt,

Rose the six hundred.

II.

All to their Christmas tree
Thronged with such kindly glee.

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Soon it was plain to see

No one had blundered ;
Theirs was the motive high,
Theirs was the brave reply,
Theirs was the noble cry,
" Freely our help we'll give ; "—
Worthy six hundred.

III.

Then came they one and all,
Crowding to Gowan's Hall,
Answering their Bector's call,
Heaping their offerings while

All the world wondered ;
Clergy with laymen vied,
Opening their purses wide,
Swelling the golden tide ;
Poor man and wealthy

In feeling not sundered,
Giving their best to God,

All the six hundred.

IV.

Croakers to right of them,
Croakers to left of them,
Croakers in front of them.

Vainly had thundered ;
Strong in their sense of right
Strong in their cause's might.
Bravely they fought the fight.
Freeing their Church from shame.
From the reproach of debt.

Generous six hundred.

New Christ Church— The Defence.

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Glorious the effort made,
Heavy the debt they paid,

While the world wondered ;
Praise we the victory won,
Praise the work nobly done

By the six hundred.

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Thule or Thtile.

THULE OE THULE.

The following letters, — inserted by permisHion. — throw
some light op the composition of the poem in question, and
they show too the interest which His Excellency took in the
modest production of the Company's Muse, and that he was
graciously pleased to

" Read it by the light of kindness "

" Through good nature's rosiest glasses," —

an example which I trust the readers of my " Waifs " will
loyally imitate.

Ottawa, 8 June, 187t>.

My Lord,

If Your Excellency were only Governor General of Canada,
I should perhaps doubt whether so dignified a personage as a
Q. C. of rather ancient standing, might with propriety edit, or,
having edited, offer for Your Excellency's acceptance the accom-
panying trifle, — the first production of " The Thulo or Thule
Passage at Arms Campanj' (Limited) " — of which I have the
honor to be the Editor. Ejiut as the author of '' Letters from
High Latitudes " and more especially of the famous Latin after
dinner speech in Iceland, I cannot but hope that Your Excel-
lency wiJl take some interest in our attempt to throw light upon
what our Benedictine Friar calls " the weird mysterious Island's
name," And Your Excellency, though not a member of the
Company, is in some sort responsible for its formation, — for
without The Ball, there would have been no Britannia
among us, and without Britannia no " Passage at Arms," which
was a real bond fide encounter of the wits of some of Your Excel-
lency's faithful Canadian Lieges, the greater part of them being

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of the Civil Sei'vice. In proof that one of us (Our Friar) is
capable of higher things, I inclose a paper* which I had the
honor of editing for him some time ago.

I have the honor to be,

with profound respect,

Your Excellency's most obedient servant,

G. W. WlOKSTlBD.

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Ottawa, June 10th, 1876.

My dear Wicksteed,

I am really most obliged to you for having sent me such a
charming jeu d' esprit.

I only wish Lady Dutferin and I could have been by at the
Passage of Arms thus happily rendered immortal. It would,
however, have been as an humble spectator, as I should have
hardly felt competent to engage in so learned a controversy.

Yours sincerely.

BUFFERIN.

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Ihule or Thule.

THULE OR THULi:.

{A PASSAGE AT AKMS IN RHYME.)
Respectfully liedicated to Britannia.

May farthest Thule obey thee.
Tibi serviat ultima Thul^.

THE ARGUMENT.

(j. W. W. mentions in the course of conversation " Prin-
cess of Thule.' A lady whose excellent impersonation of the
character at the Great Fancy Ball, entitles her to be designu.
ted as firitannia, thinks it should be " Thule, a place in Scot-
land." G. W. W. very respectfullj' begs leave to diflFer. W.
H. G. takes up his lance for Britannia and becomes her Knight,
G. W. W. fights in his own defence and right. Each Knight
mounts his Peerasus and couches his lance.

First Trumpet sounds a Point of War.

If any man respects his school, he
Certainly will call it Thuld ;—
But if he owns Britannia's rule,
Why then perhaps he'll call it Thule.

Second Trumpet answers.

When Irish Celts follow the funeral car,

Their grief finds expression in " shule, shule, agrah ! "

" Oh Patsy ohone I and why did you, die ? "

" Shule, shule, agrah," is their wailing cry.

Whiskey and sorrow may make them unruly,

3ui never, oh never, will make thorn sav " Shule | ''

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Now Thule may, I think have a Celtic aflSnity,

And escape from the rules of your worship's latinity ;

So if I should bow to Britannia's decision,

I may very well be on the side of precision ;

If her trident won't serve her to govern a word,

Why as to the waves, — it would be quite absurd.

(W. H. G.)

First Trumpet sounds again.

Though Britannia's command of the waves may be great,

It is very well know that she don't rule them straight ;

And her feminine subjects too often complain.

That she puts them to somewhat unwarranted pain ;

So now, — with a semi-barbarian Celt

Who wont let their names be pronounced as they're spelt,

She conspires many amiable ladies to tease,

And by cruel cur<ai7ment deprive them of Eea.

And Thisbe and Hebe and Phoebe protest

That the thought of her tyranny robs them of rest ;

And Niobe vows, with abundance of tears.

That Lethe can't make her forget it for years :

They deny that you give any reason for that

Which you say, — tho' they own your authority's — Pat.

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Second Knight loqttitur — pro Britannia.

It tries my patience sorely, to find that all this fuss is

Made on behalf of a pack of Pagan huzzies,

Who, you tell me are given up to tears and affliction,

Because, forsooth, to suit them I won't mend ray diction ; —

Your Hebes and Tisbes seem their Eea to fondly prize I

They spelt them with an Eta (H), or the ancients have told lies,

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Thule or Thule

Tlion my waves ore not straight !— If I ruled not as I do,
Pi ay my brave Britons, — what would become of you ?
Your seas for proleclion would not bo worth their scdt^ '
If my ways of ruling did not cause your foes to hall.
But now I'll say no more than just to let you know,
That when you speak of Thuld I shall still cry, No ! No !
Things must have come to a pretty puss, truly,
Before 1 consent to call Christmas " Yuley ! "...(W. H. G.)

First Trumpet sounds agairi a Classic flounsH

First Knight loquitur.

You've your dictionary makers, giving words the sounds most fit.
Prove me wrong by any one of then and then I'll own I'm hit:
Bring out your big '' Imperial ' and I'll abide by that :
But I'll be , well, say " tridented " before I bow to VoA.

Second Trumpet sounds, a Celtic flourish.

Sevond Knight loquitur.

When the Greeks to that Isle in the Hebrides came.

Of course they inquired of a native its name; f

And the native of native intelligence full

As certainly answered by telling them " Thul ; "

But as this was a name that no Grecian could speak.

They added an Eta, and so made it Greek. \

And thus I have proved in my logical verse, "^^

That " Thul ' is the right name in orthodox Erse,

Tho' the Greeks and the Romans dealt with it unduly,

And by adding a letter transformed in to Thuld ;

And Britannia's not wrong when she followelh Pat, in

flis pronunciation tbp' not Gr^ek or I^atin,

Tkule or Thulc.

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First Knight challen^^es in heroic verse —

I burn to meet thee on the Imperial tield.

And throw my gauntlet down, and touch thy shield,

They not a course without serious tiaiiiagc to either ; ami a Queen of Beauty
is appointed to crown the victor ; The Lists remaining open —

A Pup.dit appears on the field.

An aged Pundit pcLssing by

And seeing Knights thus valiantly

Engaged in Arms, did thus discourse :

Such a Pundit as I am can see very clear

That to rightly pronounce the queer word we have here.

To the Court of Analogy appeal must be made,

And judgment when given be strictly obeyed.

This word I hear vaunted, by one gallant Knight,

Of Hellenic descent is, — wherein he is right :

But his classic complaisance 1 e'en must disturb,

By stating I know of savory Herb

That grows in his garden, wherein he may smell it,

And then, if he ])lea8e8, may afterwards spell it,

This herb it is Thyme, of good Grecian descent,

Just as good as is that now in hot argument; —

But by lisping its h, who is there would dare

To smirch the good name of this verhum so fair?

And so it is seen, by analogy's law,

That the h in the word for which thete Knights draw,

Full silent should be never breathing a breath,

But passing a life of dumbness till death.

Then, next, I could wish that these Knights simply knew,
That clearly the '• double ' sound is in U, —
As in " rule " it is spoken ; — a point though so plain,
That is scares needs more light from my light-giving strain*

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Tfmle or Thule.

Now touching the Tail of this troublesome word ;— ^

" It wagleaa must be, like the tail of the bird,"

Cries one gallant Knight, Britannia's defender;

Whereon I could wish that the Gods would but send her

A Knight better versed in true verbal affinity,

And with more of respect for our Greek and Latinity.

Wagless ! or Voiceless ? Then why should not Acm6
Be " Ackem " pronounced ? A vile thought to rack my
Sensitive nerves and compel my apology
To every student of English Philology.

Having thus with much wisdom disclosed on what data
I determine these questions of i?er6a veaia^a,
'Tis easy to see to pronounce their word truly,
These ^rcMft! chevaliers should agree upon Tooley.

(B. F. K.)

First Knight loquitur.

I/ts Trumpeter sottiids a flotirish

Mr. Pundit, my ladies you mightily please,

By rightly and kindly protecting their Ees ;

But the rest of your argument's feeble and vile,

For if Thumos makes Thyme, must not Thule make Tile ?

Second Knight loquitur

His Trumpeter sounds another flouiish.

And if Thule becomes Tooley, then Thyme should be Thym-ey,
Qr your reason's inferior far to your Rhym-ey.

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Britannia loquitur. Superbu-
Soiiiu/s Lord Nelson s Trumpet ami crushes the Pundit.

My Nelson was christened ut victory's font,
By a title which some people call Duke of Bront : —
Would you, my good Pundit, have ventured, I wonder,
To call my great Hero, My Lord Book of Tnnder !

An Oaten Pipe is heard playinjj a classic strain.

The Schoolmaster bein^; abroad in the ncighliourhood and hearing a row
among the boys, thus addresses them :

Young folks let me teach you analogy fails

In matters of language and custom prevails :

So tho' Thule be Thule, yet Thyme may be Thyme ;

And tho' Bronte be Bronte, yet Rhyme may be Rhyme.

Poor Pundit, you're hit on all sides, I may say ;
But comfort your grief with this saying of Gay, —
♦' The men who in other men's frays interpose,
" Will oft have to wipe a sanguineous nose."

Sir Caledon Gilder, a splendid Knight in Gold Armour, takes part in
the fray, ami runs a-tilt wildly, trumpeting thus, —

If dealing in concrete objective reality,

1 fear that Britannia's bump of locality

For once is creative and includes 'neath her rule,

A region of fictitious, the " Kingdom of Thule."

True " Mainland '' of Scotland to the title laid claim,
But 'twas only in fancy and never by name ;
And Borva, where Black has enthroned his King,
Is of Hebride, east-ward of Scotland's west wing.

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Thufc or ThuU.

We'll tloem her in error, and not like lior " Lender "
Jn ^rced territorial, that titular feeder,
Who thrusts before Kuropo his " EmpresH Hill Titles"
Conservative gnawing conservative vitals.

But the ancients made Thul^ the end of creation,
At a time when Scotch thrift had caused little sensation,
And Britannia, mayhap, to their mercantile keenness,
Would accord them the Ultima Thnld of meanness.

But I, as I turn o'er each page of his fiction,
Alight on such rare vivid scenic description,
That I think, of this art, we might not undul}'
Pronounce Mr. Black the true King of Thule.

(C. G.)

Chorus of all the contemiing parties.

We bid you fair welcome, most valorous Knight,
Who have ventured the breaking a lance in our fight;
Your intentions were good and so far you deserve
Our praise, which ^"e give with this only reserve,
That as for your verses, we've analized </icw,
And, — simply, Sir Gilder, they're " nihil ad rem,**

An Infantry Soldier appears on the scene.

Pedes, attracted by the warlike sounds, comes boldly forward attd thus
announces himself a combatant :

Oh ! worthy Knights who high on horses ride,

I also in this fraj' would take a side ;

I am no Knight, as my name doth imply,

On my own understanding I rely.

The name of Thule given in times remote,

Doth signify the house of Johnny Groat,

A worthy Scot from whom I claim descent ;

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(The Scots full vnlinnt aro in arf,'iimont) ; —
Now thoiigl) in Scotland 'tis tho conHtnnt rule
Not to pi'onounco tho final « in arJiu/e,
Or yule^ or /ule. or any Huch like word,
In Thnid tho Inst o is always heard.
*Ti8 known by thoKo who prizo old classic lore,
This name is used by one who wrote of yore.
And if vou will but read his work sublime,
With Thulo only can you make a rhyme.
Therefore 'tis Thuld that alone is right.
Though Thule may be defended by a Knight:
And such I will niaintair^ 'gainst any score,
Come they before me on two logs or four.

(J. F. W.)

A Benadictino Friar

Startled from hys hookes, lookcth out from a wituiowc hanie by, and thus

di scour seth.

Dilecti fratres, benedicite, —
What moans this preparation for a fray ?
These Knights in armour dight, with eyes aflame.
Girt for tho onset ? — And this armed dame
Wielding the gloiious trident which of yore
Old Neptuno gave to guard our native shore :
— A Pundit, too, — a wise and genial tnlkor, —
A Pedes, — or in other words a Walker ; —

And, last a Ptedagoguo ; What is tho vow ?

Tell me, good people, what's the nwitter now ?

Thule or Thule. You tell me this alone is

Fons et origo disputationis ; —

The cause of strife and subject of dispute

Lie in this word, — and whether wo should view't

As made up of one syllable of two ?

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Hence all this clang of arms, and wild halloo,
Hence the air darkens, thunders roll, the ground
Quakes with a dull premonitory sound,
And fierce Bellona, from her dreadful car,
'Cries havoc and lets slip the dogsof war I

Thule or Thule. When Pythias of Marseilles

(A traveller fond of telling wondrous tales)

Wrote of the far-famed Island in the north,

The extremest limit of the peopled earth, —

He called it Thule; so, iji later days,

Wrote the Cyrenian Eratosthenes ;

So also Ptolemy th' Egyptian,

Procopius, another learned man.

And other Hellenists of rtges gone,

All named in Facciolati's Lexicon.

Then for the Latins, — come now, tell me truly,

How can you make it otherwise than Tule,

When in old Maro's Georgicon divine

We find it as a spondee close the line ?

And so with every other Soman poet

Adduced by Fatchy, — his quotations shew it.

On classic grounds then surely all agree

The true pronunciation is Thule,

Or better, if Erasmus we obey

Rather then Rouchlin, then we have Thuley.

But hore Britannia's Knight remarks again,

*' The word is Celtic, and should so remain."

But how may this be proven ? — Whence inferred ?

What Celtic author uses such a word ?

[s there a vocable in prose or verse

Like Thule, in Breton, Gaelic, or in Erse ?

I know of none. I've wandered to and fro,

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With Celts held frequent commune, and must go
Still unconvinced. Let him the fact declare,
If such their be: — I find none anywhere.

How came the word in use? Where all is dark,
Permit me hero to hazard the remark,
That in the language of the ancient Finns,
Whose history roiminates where ours begins,
Tuli means " Fire." In old primeval days,
Sailing far north, perhaps the sudden blaze
Of Hecla flashed upon their wondering sight
And tinged the sky with red volcanic light
And thus the weird mysterious island's name
Haply from these rude navigators came.
And so, — a mere conjecture, — pardon me, —
I finish with a Finnish theory.

Brothers farewell. I hear the vesper bell
That summons me to — Where I need not tell.
God ye good den. Sit Dominus tutaraen.
Laus Deo semper in excelsis. Amen.

(E. T. F.)

77/« Queen of Beauty speaks ami makes her award.

Now stop the strife;— let no more bones be broken.
The contest s ended when the Church hath spoken ;
Her word is law ;— for truth hath ever graced it. —
And victory's crown must lest where she hath placed it.
Yet a fair wreath shall gra( e the Celtic Knight,
Who against fearful odds maintained the fight,
And proved at least, Britannia may be right.
Cease then to deal each other stalwart blows ; —
Wipe, learned Pundit, thy sanguineous nose: .

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Thuie or Thule.

Do strive to put more purpose in your strain :
And, Pedes, learn that Viigil's work sublime,
Which you appeal to, — was not writ in Rhyme.

And now let every angry feeling cease,

Join hand in hand and kindly part in peace.

I grieve the learned Friar could not wait,

Lest he for Vespers should perhaps bo late ; —

But I perceive without him we are eight ;

And were he here, that holy man would tell us,

"Nunc pede libero est pulsanda tcUus."

Sound trumpets once again, — this time " the Lancers ; "

Britannia and myself will both be dancers.

And when that's done, I hold t'would not be bad,

We sought our homesteads in a Galopade !

But first, — march past my throne, and, as you pass,

Salute me in the words of Hudibras I

TAey mate A past, saluting the Queen with

" Madam, we do. as is our duty,

" Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie,"

And bow before the Queen of Beauty. ' *

" They dance the Laiuers. — For want of Laiiies the Puudit and School-
master pair together, — and Pedes walks the figures with Sir Caledon. As they
finally go off in the Gallop, the Friar looks at them from the window of his cell, and
says: " Beati pacificatores. Amen."

Note. — The several portions of this little Epic, to which initials are
appended, were really written by gentlemen whose initials they bear, at
Ottawa, Quebec, or Montreal, without any understanding, collusion, or com-
munication, except only of the portions preceding theirs respectively.

In Memoriam Teniporum.

IN MEMORIAM TEMPORUM.

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As they
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initials are
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ion, or com-
ely.

Farewell dear Times, Bray'n Vicar of the press,

But not, alas! with his renowned success.

He died a Vicar, thou by sad mishaj),

Did'st die for lack of patronage and pap ! —

Conservative, then Grit, and then again

Conservative, became thj' pliant pen. —

JSut as thou died'st repentant of thy schism,

\ very Magdalen of journalism ,

V'e trust thou'st left non-j)a3nnjL'- work below,

For that good place where virtuous journals go.

I'd write thy Requiescat^ — but 1 fear

That super-protestant religious sneer

Would call it '• praying for the dead " — and hope

I had not quite gone over to the Pope ;

And mix me up in that unseemly brawl,

Where Christian priests, unmindful of St. Paul

And of the poet's bitter couplet,* call

Each other ugly names, and each in turn

Inclines to think his brother priest nmst burn

Hereafter, — not remembering that of three

Great virtues, far the first is Charity.

How shall I miss thee at my morning meal, —
How at my noon-day lunch thine absence feel ;
And how, when weary to my couch I creep,
Without thy leaded leader shall I sleep ?

" Christiani- have burnt each other quite persu.ided

" That all the Apostles would have done as they did." — Byron.

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Besurqas; — may'st thou rise again and find
A farger patronage, more rich, more kind,
Perchance another name ; — as Bytown died *
And rose as Ottawa, the crown and pride
Of the Dominion, so thy poet's rhymes
Vaticinate that thou as the "New Time-,"
Shalt like a Phoenix rise, and by that name
Mount the very peak of wealth and fame I

4th Session, jrd Parliament, 40 Victona, 1877.

SPECIAL NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

April Slat, j Mr. Neutral (rVcy— Leave to bring in
IStT. I the following Bill:—
An Act to amend some musty old laws,
Contained in some fusty old sayings and saws.

HEEBAS—

An ancient proverb, heretofore held right,
Declares two blacks can never make one

white ;
And as this saying has of late been spoiled
Of its old force, by party spirit's might ;
As both sides handled pitch and were de-
filed,

Preamble:
HANSARD,9th
April, l8>7.

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brief and alliterative —

Epitaph on Bytown. >

" Bytown was built by By — butby-and-by —
Both By and Bytown died, so bye-bye By. "
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Special Notices of Motions.

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And the good Commons voted one was white,

The seventy-two rejoining, " Scriptures II. Kings,

show '^' ^'

Who left a Prophet's presence white as

snow."
As none decide where parties disagree,
Committees sticking fast at C. A. V. ;
As law and practice should agree in one,
And nothing be required that cann't bo

done;

Her Majesty, considering the facts,

With Senate and with Commons thus
enacts : —

1. When either party does a deed of shame,
The other side may rightly do the same.

Mutual
Whitewash.

2< The atoning rule's reversed, and he alone Stoning rule
Who's black himself shall cast the foremost "reversed.

stone.

8< The Independence Act is so amended, -j y ^ ^^

That these provisions shall be with it amended.
blended.

4. May briefly cite this Act, whoever will, Short Title.
By its short title of " The Whitewash Bill. \

26 Mr. VerdatU Green will move in amendment to
strike out all the words after •' enpcts " to
" blended " inclusive, and insert : —

All now offenders shall be pardoned when
This Act is law, and held as blameless men
And most Immaculate Commoners ; but then,
With this proviso, " Don't do so again." —

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Mr. Deep Black will move in amendment to the
amendment, to strike out " n't," in the last line.

"■ Who can come in and say that I mean him,
When such u one as he, such is his neighbour.
Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits
His folly to the mettle of my speech.

— Let me see wherein
My tongue hath wronged him: — if it do him

right,
Then he hath wronged himself; — if he be free,
Why then my taxing like a wild goose flees.
Unclaimed of any man."

Shakkspeare— v^j You Like It ; Act. II., See. VII.

THIRD. PARLIAMENT-FOURTH SESSION.

Scene the Last — The Coup d'JStat.*

The members meet — the Speaker in the chair :

jEmilius holds a paper with the air

Of one who knows a thing or two ; the House

Attentive sits ; all quiet as a mouse : —

" Sir, our report on some election cases," —

The members rise e. pectant in their places ;

The Speaker takes it, hand it to the Clerk,

Who, standing up, reads half a line, when, — hark ! , ,;

A knock I " Admit the messenger " — no more :

The mace is shouldered, and the session's o'er.

Sir John protesting, does not see the joke,

But his indignant protest ends in smoke.

When Monsieur Frenchman, smiling, cries " Ha I ha !

*' Cela s'appelle un fameux ooup D fexAT."

A. P.

Ottawa Citizen of 4th May, 1887. ._.

* S(e Notes, , ^ ' , ,

The Qtveen's Birthday, 1878.

THE QUEEN'S JIETHDAY, 1878.

Toast attd National Anthem.

THB QUEEN.

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Tho Queen, — this day around the world

As westward rolls the sun,
The British flag shall float unfurl'd,

The British cheer shall run,
To her, — the great, the wise, the good.

The Sovereign of the free, —
Each true heart warmed by British blood

Vows deep fidelity.

In Her, — our glory and delight,

We own a right divine :
We'd pour our blood for her in fight,

We pledge her in our wine.
Then fill tho goblet hig'i, — to shrink

Were ungallant and mean.
As men we to the Lady drink, —

As Britons to the Queen.

The Queen,— beneath her gentle sway,

With equal rights and laws.
May all her subjects truly say.

They own one common cause ;
That cause the common good of all,

Who are and who have been
Beady alike to stand or fall

With England and the Queen,

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THE aOVERNOR QENBRAL.*

Our Governor General — long may he live.

From all and to all to receive and to give

All honor and pleasure, as here he hath given

To all, and from all hath received; — and tho' riven

The close tie that bound him to Canada, — yet

ISTo time and no distance shall make us forget,

That the trust of his Sovereign was never abused, —

That his powers and his eloquence ever were used

For Canada's welfare, — her pons to unite

In love for their Country, their Queen, — and tho right: —

When ho goes, can we hope his successor will bo

As able, as good and as genial as he ?

THE COUNTESS OF DUFl'ERIN.

Our hoart-winning Countess, — whose kindness and grace

We can never forget, nor can hope to replace ;

Our Queen of the drama, encouraging still

Our timid beginners with critical skill :

Our pattern in useful and womanly life,

In benevolent enterprise foremost and chief.

And, — to sura up her gifts and her virtues in brief, —

The Lady Lord Dufferin chose for his wife.f

* In allusion to Lord Dufferin's expected departure the following
may be sung with the National Anthem :

God bless the Chief we lose,
Who, were it ours to choose,

Ne'er should go hence ; .

Who by strict honor nerved, ^

Never from duty swerved, •'

But still unfailing served • v

Country and Queen,
t Portia pleading to be admitted to the fuH confidence of her husband,
says, — ^

" I grant I am a woman, but withal

" A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife" ' ' ' ' '^_

As the best proof of her worth,

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EPITAPH.

Luther H. Holton, M. P.

Here Holton lies, all earthly ties now riven

For him, his last speech made, his last vote given.

No more to rise to catch the Speaker's eye.

For timely motion or for keen reply ;

With gentle words to calm the fierce debute,

Or check the virulence of party hate. —

He sleeps where party feuds and quarrels cease,

And even politicians rest in peace.

— Scorning with promise false the mob to bribe,

Or yield to influence of the lobbying tribe.

By no mean thought of private ends perplexed,

He served his country first, — his party next.

Bemaining to the last as he began,

At once a statesman and an honest man ;

To sum his sterling worth in one brief line.

And honest truth with well earned praise combine.

The Spartan epitaph reversed must be ; —

His country had few worthier sons than he.

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There was an Esther who so won the love
Of Persia's King, that she was made his Queen
To her he held his golden sceptre out,
Granted her prayer, recalled his hard decree.
And saved her people from impending death.
— It is not given to all to wear a crown,
Or save a people by one earnest prayer ,
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His love by duty done in any sphere,
Lofty or lowly :— may our Esther strive
To do her duty so, and so to pray,
That He the golden sceptre of his love
May hold out to her and accept her prayer

SOMETHING FOR MAUDE'S ALBUM.

Something original, dear Maude, you ask,
Something that's new,— for me a hopeless task.
Solomon thought that since the world begun
No new thing could be found beneath the Sun,
Though thousands of big volumes had been penned,
And of book making there appeared no end.
How then can I, a modest modern bard.
Attempt to do what David's son found hard ;
When myriads more have plied the writing trade
And millions more of volumes have been made.
The thing's too hard, however you may view it.
For me a miracle, and I can't do it,
Tho' your good fathqr might be equal to it.
So now, for honeyed rhymes a beau might write.
Or lines a learned pundit might indite,
Instead of Verse keen critics might applaud.
Take the best wishes of your old friend, Maude ;
May all that's good conspire to make you blest.
The world give whbt it can and God tbe rest.

Leap Year Valentine.

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LEAP YEAR VALENTINE.
A YouNa Lady to a youno Gbntlkman,*

Dear BashAil, it's leap-year you know,
And a girl has a right to propose

To the man whom she likes as a Beau,
And could love as a mate,— So here goes.

Will you love me till death do ns part?

Will you take me for better or worse ?
Will you give me your hand and your heart?
— Not to speak of your house and your purse.

I should make you an excellent wife, —
I have very few failings or faults;

In Charades I can act to the life,
And am great at a Galop or Waltz.

I have solid accomplishments too,
(I could tell you them better in prose)

But I'm good at a pudding or stew,

And could care for the children and clothes.

I shall be at (tJuit) party to-night;

If you tip me a nod or a wink
Or whisper me softly " all's right ! "

I shall know what to do and to think.

Don't be modest and silly or coy. —

Don't be blushing and that sort of thing;

But say " yes " like a jolly good boy.
And go for the license and ring.

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Something about Rag Money.

Then I'm yours my dear B. till I die ;—
I may not trust ray name to my pen,
But its tirst letter sounds like a sigh,
And its finishing letter's an N.

(Or tw the case may he.)
14th Pebr., 188—

SOMETHING ABOUT RAG MONEY.*

To the Editor of the Canadian Spbctatoh.

Sir — By a very clever little vignette and article in the
Grip, I saw that the nurses in churgo of the Rag Baby will not
allow that their little bantling is dead, and t'.iut nurse Wynne
slaps any one's face very hard who says it is even sick. And
by another equally clever vignette and article 1 saw that
certain •' unco' righteous " clericos have put the " Pinafore "
into their Index Expurgatorius and under their anathema majus,
I read these items after dinner, and pondering over ihem I got
bewildered in that curious circular syllogism by which
Baby's nurses prove to their own satisfaction that they remove
all objections and endow the Baby with untold virtues, by
making their irredeemahlea exchangeable for Bonds payable
principal and interest in like notes, or to be " sold" (they do not
say to whom or at what discount) for gold to pay any foreign
creditor; and, being puzzled over the theological and financial
problems growing out of Mr. Grip's two articles, I fell into an
" after dinner sleep" in which things got considerably muddled.
Burns whispered in my ear his version of Solomon ; —
" The rigid righteous is ae fule,
"The rigid wise anither,"
and Tom Moore sang about the way in which the Regent was
responsibly advised to supply the want of gold and silver fishes

lent was
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Something about Ray Money,

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in n mimic rivulet which waH to run down the middle of the
table at a ri^ht Royt{\Jete .—

" Sonie sprats had been l)y Yarmouth's wish

I'romoted into silver fish,

And ,i,'ni/^iriv>n, so Vansittart told

The Kegent, were as good as gold."*

And ihori I funcied mywelf at a roproMentation of tlio '' P'^-a-
foro,"," and Little Buttercup "mixed up" the Ffg Bii*'y v^lth
the others, and she and Captain Corcoran snii;;^ '♦.<) tiunouB <i«»Pt
in which she mystifies him, as the R. B.'s riursu:! WDuld the
public, in this wise :

L. B. — " Things are seldom what they seem •
Some soft-headed members deem
Rags as good as sterling gold.
Being so by Wallace told."

Cait. C.

" Very true, — so the/ do,"

L, B. — " Busts the Ijubble, stops the mill,
Rags go nearly down to nil ;
Call the Baby what you will,
It is hut a swindle still ?"

CaI'T. C— "Yes, Ikno'v, — that is so'"

The loud chord at the end of this verso woke :\ic up, end
thinking over my dreams, I came to the coiolusjon that Vauait-
tart was perhaps right, and that for certain poiiaca!. Inancial
and theological purposes—

" Gudgeons are as good as g;)!>l/'

But it occured also to me, that perV.ipa our bank-law reformers
are for amending in the wrOig place, when they make the
security of the bank r<>te thuir main object. There has been
very little, if any, eventual loss on the notes of failing banks.
The losses have fallen mainly on the shareholders, and have
been occasioned by defaulting and unfaithfVil or negligent offi«
cers or directors, and for these, a hi'^her standard of morality, a

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sterner nense of duty, and a strong public opinion, are the best,
if not the only remedies

" You yourself have said it,
And it's greatly to your credit,' .,

that you have done so.

Yours with profound respect.

AntiJiag,

SIR GEORGE CARTIER AND THE CIVIL CODE.*

Canada Law Journal, i April, 1885.

We have been reminded pleasantly, but a little reproach-
fully, that our columns have never contained a tribute to the
memory of the late Sir George Cartier, an eminent statesman
and lawyer, under whose auspices, as Attorney-General for Lower
Canada, the Civil Code of that Province — the first work of the
kind ever attempted in Canada— was projected, drafted, and
brought into force ns law in 1866. A lawyer who loved his pro-
fession and its professors, and its supporters too, for his favou-
rite toast at a Bar dinnei- was '' The Client," adding u few
words in praise of that always welcome personnage. We are
going to try to remedy this omission in our present number by
the insertion of two articles, the first by a hand which will not
besupected of flattery, and the other by an old and valued
contributor of ours, a lover of our deceased brother in the law,
the most English of French Canadians, — nn Englishman speak-
ing French.

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Sir George Cartier atui the Civil Code.

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The first extract, taken from a recent issue of T/tg Week,
is as follows : —

Sir George Cartier, whose statute was unveiled the other day by his old
friend and colleague, .Sir John Macdonald, may be classed among the best
representatives of French Canadians. More perhaps than any other of our
public men he combined in his own person the theoretical and the practical
Reformer. In his career were seen strong marks of the rude transition from
the oligarchical to the constitutional system. Against the former, at an age
when the blood is hot and wisdom young, he fought at St. Denis, where
dlscip/ine prevailed over ill-armed enthusiasm ; and he found refuge in exile
with a price upon his head. The belief was for some time general, that in
his attempt to es;ape he had perished miserably in the woods. Exile did
not sour his temper, and when, the storm having blown over, he returned,
no one was jealous of the distinguished young a Ivocate, who was only
known for the hair-brained adventure in which he had taken part, and in
which nothing but defeat had ever been possible ; and no one in his wildest
dreams saw in the returned exile the future Premier, nc one had any interest
in curbing his ambition and holding him back. Cartier did not, like Papi-
neau, in 1848, look to France for a model ; he accepted in good faith the
new C(mstitution, and determined to make the best of it. The redeeming
jioint in the Conquest of 1760 was, in his estimation, that it saved Canada
from the misery and the infamies of the French Revolution. Though he
bore his part in carrying the leading measures of his time, Cartier's best
monument is to be found in the Code of Civil Law and the Code of Procedure :
a code common to the whole country was an achievement impossible to our
public men. In the first he saw the individuality and the nationality of his
race and his Province. He used to say, half in jest and half in earnest,
though he could not seriously have believed the prediction, that Ontario
would one day borrow the civil code from her French neighbour. A French-
speaking Englishman, as he would on occasion call himself, he settled in
favour of his race the long-contested question of which law should prevail
in the Eastern Townships, French or English, with the result that the
French population which was before gaining ground, bids fair entirely to
swamp the English in a regior where Lord John Russell thought it desirable
to brild up a rampart of English colonists between the French settlements
and the American frontier : a project founded on a state of things which has
entirely passed away. Judicial decentralization in Quebec was one of
Cartier's most difficult achievements ; the local opposition aroused by divi-

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ding the Province into nineteen new judicial districts being of the most for-
midable nature. When in 1857 he succeeded Dr. Tache as leader of the
Conservatives of Lower Canada, Cartier breaking through the narrow limits of
party, took two Liberals, M. Sicotte and M. Belleau, into the Cabinet, and
made overtures to M. Dorion which the Liberal Chief was not able to
accept. On the Lysons Militia Bill his immediate followers, yielding to
vague fears among their constituents of the conscription, not less than the
great increase of expense, deserted in numbers, leaving him with only a
small minority at his back. A good Catholic, he had yet the courage to
defend the rights of the State against the encroachments of Bishop Bourget,
at a time when the Bishop's influence was omnipotent ; an act of duty which
cost him his seat for Montreal. He saw the beginning and the end of the
Legislative Union which he cordially accepted and assisted in working, and
which when it had served its purpose he was among the first to assist in
superseding by the Confederation. Whatever success he attained was due
in a large measure to hard lalx)ur and perseverance ; for the first fifteen years
of his public life he was, when not disturbed, as he was often, chained to his
desk fifteen hours a day ; and for thirty years fancied that to get through his
task he must labour seven days a week.

The other article appeared as a letter in an Ottawa paper
some weeks 8i nee : — 1

Two Ministers, who had been his colleagues and knew him well, spoke
at the unveiling of the statute of the late Sir George Cartier, and eloquently and
lovingly eulogized his qualities as a statesman and the great services he ren-
dered to our country ; and he deserved their praise, for no man ever worked
more earnestly and impartially for the welfare of Canada and of Canadians
of every race and creed. Here in Ottawa he will be long remembered for
his kindly geniality ; and very many of our citizens and visitors will recol-
lect the pleasant evenings at his house on Metcalfe street, when arran-
ging his guests in make-believe canoes, with make-believe paddles in their
hands, he would sing and make them join in his favourite boat song, with
the refrain of which Sir John, in concluding his speech, so happily apostrophised
his old friend and colleague. I feel sure that they, and all who knew Sir
George, will join Sir John in saying from their hearts as I do —

" II a longtemps que je.t'aime,
Jamais je ne t'oublierai."

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Not through the statue which his country's love
Math to his honour raised, hut through the deeds
And qualities which won that love, shall he,
The patriot whom we mourn, forever live
In true Canadian hearts of every race.
And chiefly through his strong and steadfast will
That difference of race, or creed or tongue,
Should not divide Canadians, but that all
Should be one people striving for one end.
The common good of all. His country stretched
From Louisbourg to far Vancouver's Isle,
And claimed and had his patriot love and care.
And thus he won a high and honoured place
Among the worthiest of his name and race.

G. W. VV.

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Fait pour triompher des autans,
Celui qui servait de moddle
Auz patriotes de son tempa !

II reparait, superbe dans sa force,

Dressant un front qui n'a jamais plie.

CcBur g^nereux, " chene a la rude ecorco,"

Le Canadien ne I'a pas oublid,
Ne Ta pas oubli4 !

Yenu de I'epoque lointaino
Oti rintrigueoppriraait le droit,
Get h^ritier de Lafontaine
Nous affranchit d'un joug dtroit.

Grand ouvrier dans la tfiche commune,

Avec ardeur il a sacrifi^

Sant^, repos, et bonhenr et fortune.

Le Canadien ne I'a pas oubli^.
Ne I'a pas oublie I

Le souci de la politique

N'altera jamais sa gaite, '

Souvent la verve podtique

Chez lui brillait en liberty.
Et, bout en train, type de Jean-Baptiste,
Comme il chantait 1 'amour et I'amiti^ !
L'humble couplet nous rdv^le un artiste.
Le Canadien ne I'a pas oublid,
Ne I'a pas oubliS I

Cartier's Statue.

CARTIERS STATUE.

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Here in enduring bronze

Proof against time and stornij

Stands he, *' Ihe mark und glass "

Of patriots of his time !
A head to frame his country's laws,
A brow that never blanched with fear,
A generous man,— a " rough burked oak."
Whom Canada has not forgot,
Will not forget!

Born in that long past time

When intrigue baffled right ;

True heir of Lafontaine

He broke our galling yoke.
Brave toiler for the common good,
Without regret he sacrificed
Health, pleasure, fortune, rest.
Him Canada has not forgot,
Will not forget !

The wearing v^ares of state

Checked not his gaiety ;

His pleasant strains of verse

Flowed often bright and free.
And once set off, true type of Jean-Baptiste,
How well he sang of love and friendship's charm ;
His modest rhymes t'ae artist's skill I'evoal,
Whom Canada has not forgot,
Will not forget !

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La Stattie de Cartier.

Prds des souvenirs que j'honore, ,
Son image est dans ma maison ;
II convient d'applaudir encore
Son esprit ferme et sa raison.

A ]a jeunesse il enseigno I'histoire,

Car son dostin fut le plus enviS.

Nous I'avons mis au temple de memoire.

Le Canadien ne I'a pas oublid
Ne Ta pas oublie !

Bbnjamin Sulte.

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'Mid treasures highest prized,
His portrait decks my home ;
Good is it that we love to praise
His steadfast will, by reason ruled.
His story teaches virtue to our youth,
For his the path that all should strive to tread
In memory's temple still ho lives enshrined.
Him Canada has not forgot,
Will not forget I

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C'est par un soil* huinide et ti'iste de I'automne.
Dans les plis dn brouillard, ]a plainte monotone
Du St.-Laurent se mele aux murmuves confus
Des chenes et des pins dont les domos touffus
Gouronncnt les hauteurs de I'ile Sainte-H^lene.
Au loin tout est Ingnbre ; on sent coramo une haleine
Do mort flotter partout dans I'air froid de la nuit.
Au zenith nuageux pasun astre ne luit.
Tout devrait reposer; pourtant, sur I'iie sombre.
A certaines lueurs qui so meuvent dans I'orabro.
On croirait entrevoir, vaguemont dessines.
— Groupes mysterieux partout dissemin^s,
Et se sen-ant la main avec des airs funebres,
Corame des spectres noirs roder dans les tenebres.

Tout a coup, sur le fond estompd des massifs,

Et teignant d'or lo f&t des vieux ormes pensifs,

Dans les petillements attises par la brisc,

Et les craquements sourds du bois sec qui se brise.

Eclatent les rongeurs d'un immense brasier

Prenant pour piedestal Taffut d'un obusier;

Un homme, au meme instant, domino la clairiere :

A son aspect, un bruit de fanfare guerriere

Eetentit; du tambour les lointains roulements

Se confondent avec les brefs commandements

Qui prompts et saccades, se croisent dans I'espace.

Place I c'est la ruraeur d'un bataillon qui passe.

Un autre bataillon le suit, et, tour a tour, ^

On voit les regiments former leurs rangs autour

Du rougeoyant brasier dont les lueurs troublantes

Eclairent vaguement ces masses ambulantes,

A chaque ba'ionnette allumant un eclair.

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ALL LOST BUT HONOUR.

Wet, dark and ciad comes on the autumn night ;
Through the thick mist the river'n murmuring sound
Blends with the rustling of the oaks and pines
Crowning St. Helen's Isle ; and far and near
The landscape saddens, and the heavy air
In the chill night feels as if charged with death.
No star the zenith brightens, and o'er all
Quiet should reign : but on the sombre Isle
Faint, wavering lights that flicker in the dark,
Make dimly visible mysterious groups
Scattered around with clasped hands as if
Black spectres moved about in darkness there.

Sudden against the back ground of thick woods,

And tipping as with gold the pendent elms,

Amid the rustling sound of rising wind

And crackling as of dry wood breaking up,

Burst forth bright flames as from a furnace based

Upon the broad black carriage of a gun :

A man stands forth and dominates the scene,

On whose appearing warlike sounds are heard ;

The distant roll of drums blends with the brief

Prompt, sharp command ; — Make room ! — They come,

Battalions followed by battalions pass ;

Each following each the regiments surround

The glowing furnace whose bright flames illume

The moving mass, until each bayonet seems

To bear the lightning's flash upon its point.

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Alorn, couvrant le bruit, un timbro m&le ot clair,
Ou vibro jo no huIm quel trotnblement faroucho,
Eesonne, et vopet^s tout baa do boucho en boucho,
Parmi los cliquetit*, los clamours ot lo vont, ».

Laisso tomber cos mots : —

— Los drapertux on avant I

ArretonB.nouH devant cette page d'histoire.

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Cerne dans Montreal, lo marqnis de Yaudreuil,
Apres plus de sept ans de luttos et de deuil,
Apres plus de sept ans de gloire et de souft'rance,
No voyant arriver aucun secours de Prance.
Le d^scspoir au coeur, avait capitul^.
L'orgueilloux ennomi mdme avait stipule, , ,

— La rouireur a ma jouo, h^las ! on monte encore, —
Quo lo lendumain mSmo, au lover de I'aurore,
Nos defonseurs, parquea comme de vils troupeaux,
Au general anglais romettraient lours drapeaux.
Lours drapeaux !...

Cos drapeaux dont le pli fier et libra
Durant un siecle avait soutenu I'equilibre
Contre lo raondo entier, sur tout un continent!
Cos drapeaux dont le vol encore tout frissonnant .
Du choc prodigieux des grands tournois ^piques, . .,,
Cent ans avait jete, des poles aux tropiques, , ,

Son ombre gloriouse au front des bataillons I

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Cos drapeaux dont chacun des sublimes haillons,
Noir do poudre, rougi de sang, couvert de gloire,
Cucbait dans ses lambeaux quelque nom de victoire I
Cos Standards poudroux qui naguere, la-bas,
Sous los murs do Quebec, avaiont de cent combats
Couronne lo dernier d'un triomphe supremo !
Cos insignes sacres, 11 fallait, le soir mdme.

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All lost hut flanour.

Then rises o'er the tumult clear and stern
A voice that all obey, and the command
From mouth to mouth repeated, sounds above
The clamour of the crowd and roar of wind : —

'* The colours to the Front I "—

And briefly scan a page of history.

Here let us pause

Our conquerors were masters of the ground ; —

Close pent in Montreal, the brave Vaudreuil,

After seven years of glory and of suffering,

Seeing no hope of succour sent by France.

[{ear^broken by despair, capitulated ;

And the proud enemy had stipulated,

(Shame makes my cheek burn while I mention it)

That on the following morn, at break of day,

Our brave defenders, penned like timid sheep,

Should into English hands deliver up

Their colours — colours whose folds proud and free,

Had foi a century held their own against

A world in arms, throughout a continent I

Whose onward sweep, still bearing the impress

Of the great epic contests of the past.

During a hundred years, from pole to line,

Bore them in front of conquering battalions ;

And upon every glorious rag of which,

Blackened by powder, red with blood, was stamped

The proud memorial of some victory !

Those colours, battle-stained, which at Quebec

Had left the latest of a hundred fights

Triumphantly, — to them there naust be Ba|4

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Indignd, r^volt^ par ce pacte odieux,

Ldvis, ce dernier pieux de la grnnde ^pop^e,

Le regard mena^unt la main Bur son dp^e,

S'dtait levd soudain, et sans long argument,

Contro Tinsulto avait protest^ fldromeiit.

Vingt mille Anglais Kont la qui campunl dnns la plaine,

Lui n'ii plus qu'un debris d'nrm^o A Sainto H^Une:

N'importe ! les soldats frnnqftis out hu jadis

Plus d'une fois combattro et voincre un contre dix I

La Prance, indiff(6i ente, au sort nous nbandonno :

N'importe encore ! on raeurt quand le devoir I'ordonne !

II veut, sans compromis, r^sister jusqu'au bout.

ll'se retirora dans I'ilo, et la, debout

A son poste, en h^ros luttera sans relache.

— Dans mes rangs, disait-il, il nest pas un seul Ifiche!

Ne prdtez pas la main A ce honteux raarchd ;

Je puis, huit jours au raoins, dans mon camp retranchd,

Avec mes bataillons tonir tete A I'orage; ■

Et si la Franco encor, trompant notre courage,

Refuse d'ici lA le secours implord,

Dans un combat fatal, sanglant, d^^ec^p^r^,

Tragique d^nodimcnt d'une antique quorelle.

Nous saurons lui montrer commtMit on meurt pour elle

Yaudreuil signa pourtant. Refuser d'ob^ir,

C'dtait plus que de braver la mort, c'etait trahir.

— Trahir 1 avait pensd le guerrier sans reproche... ^

Et c'est lui, qui dans I'ombre, avant que I'aube approche,
A ses Boldats dmus, dans la nuit se mouvant,
Avait jet^ ce cri ; — Les drapeaux en avant 1
^Uait-il les livrer? Allait-il, A I » face

All lost hut Honour,

That night, with shatno and grief a last adieu I
Indignant at the odious compromiBO,
L^viH, the truest knight of that dark time,
Fire in his eyes, his hand upon his sword,
Bose sudden, and without long argument
Against the insult proudly made protest.
Upon the plain were twenty thousand foes
Encamped ; — the ruins of an army all
He hud upon St. Helen's Isle ; — no matter, —
Soldiers of France had often fought before
With ten to one against them, — and had won.
If France uncaring leaves us to our fate,
No matter still, — We die when duty calls.
His voice was for resistance to the death :
Withdrawing to the Island, there would he
Stand firm and fight, a hero to the last.

Within my ranks no coward can be found I
Yield not one jot to this contract of shame.
I can, eight days at least, in camp entrenched
With my brave comrades stand against the storm ;
And then, if France deceiving our fond hope,
Still fails to send the succour we implore,
In one great battle, bloody, desperate,
The tragic closing of an ancient feud.
We'll show her we know how to die for her."

Yet Yaudreuil signed. Refusal to obey

Were worse than death — were treason to his chief;

So thought our warrior irreproachable, —

And in the dark hours that precede the dawn.
He to his soldiers stirring in the night
Gave that command, — " The colours to the fiont I "
To give them up ? Would he before the eves

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LSvis s'avance alors. Dans son oeil energique,

Oil le feu du brasier met un reflet tragique,

Malgr^ son calme, on sent trembler un pleur brtilant.

Vers les drapeaux en deuil I'homme marche a pas lent,

Et, pendant que la main do I'histoiro bnrine,

Lui, les deux bras croisessur sa vaste poitrine,

Devant ces fiers lambeaux ou tant de gloire u lui,

Longtemps et fixement regarde devant lui.

Dans le fond do son coeur il ^voquait suns ooute,

Tous les morts g^nereux oublies sur la route.

Oil, le pli tout baignS de reflets eclatanls,

Ces guidons glorieux marchaicnt depuis cent ans.

Enfin, comme s'il eut entendu leur r^ponse,

Pendant <e son genou dans le gazon s'enfonce,

Befoulani ^es sanglots, devorant son affront,

Sur les fleurs de lys d'or il incline son front,

Et dans i'emotion d'une ^treinte derniere,

De longs baisers d'adieu couvre chaque banniero...

— Et maintenant, dit-il, mes enfants, brfilez-les,
Avant qu'une autre main ne les livre anx Anglais I

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Alors, spectacle etrange et sublime, la foale,
Ondalant tout a coup comme une vaste houle,
S'agenouille en silence ; et solennellement,
Dans le bucher sacre, qui sur le firmament,
Avec des sifflements rauques comme de" rfiles,
Ddtache en tourbillons ses sanglantes spirales,
Parmi les flamboiements d'^tincelles, parmi
Un flot de cendre en feu par la braise vorai,
3ouB les yeux du h^ros grave comme un apotre,

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Of his old comrades, work such deed of shame ?
Soil h\» escutcheon with so foul a blot?
Heart-broken they awaited the dreaded word.
Levis comes forwaid ; in his kindling eye
Reflecting the fierce blaze, his soldiers see,
Despite his calm, a scalding tear;— towards
The colours draped in black, with a slow step
He marches, and while History's muse records
His act, ho with his arms crossed on his breast.
Fronting the colours with such glory crown'd,
Stands looking on them long and fixedly.
His thought, no doubt, invokes th' heroic dead
Left on the fields, where, throwing back the light
From off thair ample folds, these glorious guides
Were borne before them for a hundred years.
And then, as if their answer he bad heard, —
Kneeling upon the turf, stifling his sobs,
And striving to control his mighty grief,
He bows upon the golden fleurs de lys,
And in the agony of a last embrace
Covers each flag with kisses of farewell.

" Now burn them, boys, before another hand
Can give them up unto our English foes."

Then, sight sublime and strange, like a vast wave

Sinking in silence, knelt that warrior band,

And solemnly into the sacred fire,

Which, amid sounds as of death rattle, shot

Spirals of blood-red flame in eddying whirls

Into the firmament,— amid the rush

Of glowing ashes, one by one were thrown,

Under the hero's eye, grave as a saint's,

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Chaque drapeau fran^ais tomba I'un apres I'autre !

Qttelques cr^pitements de plus, et ce flit tout.

Alors, de Montreal, de Longueuil, de partout,
Les postes ennemis crurent, dans la rafale,
Entendre une clameur immense et triomphale :
C'^taient les fiers vaincus qui, tout espoir detruit,
Griaient : Vive In France ! aux echoB de la nuit.

O L^vis ! 6 soldats de cette sombre guerre !
Si vous avez pu voir les hontes de naguere,
Que n'etes vous soudain sortis de vos tombeaux,
Et, vengeurs, Heco'iant les augustes lambeaux
Do vos drapeaux en feu, dans votre suinte naine,
Venus en cravacher la face de Bazaine I

Montreal, avril 1884.

La Patrie, 24 juin 1884.

Louis FrIbchetts.

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The colours he had loved so long and well !

Some few slight cracklings more, and all was done !

From Montreal, Longueuil, and every point

The hostile posts believed that in the storm

They heard loud sounds of Triumph ; 'twas the shout

Of the proud vanquished, who in thoir despair

Cried to night's answering echoes, " Vive la France ! "

L6vis ! brave men of that sad war !
If you beheld the shame of later days,
Why did you not, arising from your tombs
And wielding vengefully the sacred shreds
Of burning flags, in consecrated hate.
Smite the dishonoured face of false Bazaine I

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Montreal Gazette, 19 Ju]y, 1884.

G. W. WiCKSTEBD.

The Queen's JubUee 1887.

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JOBILATE.*

1887.

God save the Queen! — From millions of (rue hearts

And royal lips rings out the patriot hymn,

Throughout the widest Empire earth has known :—

For she, descendant of a Roj^al line,

Holding her crown by strictest rule of law,

Hath yet a better title, — royal worth,

And that divinest right — her people's love.--

And God hath heard the prayer : — no fifty years

In England's story match this peerless reign :

Her laws, her language, her true liberty,

Spurning the tyranny of king or mob,

Helping the right and battling with the wrong,

Her hardy sons have planted in far lands

Savage and wild and waste before, and there

Have founded colonies which shall become

The seats of mighty Empire yet to be ; —

In the unbounded West of Canada,

Where the red Indian roamed the prairie wide,

Or dense and pathless woods, and tribe with tribe

Waged savage, unrelenting murderous war; —

Or in Australia's semi-continent ;

Or in dark Africa by Congo's stream

Or new found sources of the ancient Nile , —

Or whereso'er adventurous daring led, ^

Or tempting prospect of extended trade.

Or Christian love could hope to plant the cross.

The " gorgeous East " has bowed to British rule,
And her barbaric kings and potentates
Have hailed Victoria's benignant sway

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And crowned her India's Empress — British men
With gentle art have taught the dnsky race
By bright example how our justor hiws
And kindlier customs, raise iho human soul
To loftier virtue and n nobler lite.

Science and art and careful statesmanship
Have joined to glorify Victoria's reign,
And spread her Empire. Britain's pioneer
In his lone hut amid the wildest scenes
Of Asia or Africa, feels his lot
Softened and smoothed by rapid intercourse
With loved and 'oving friends in distant home,
By letter or by message lightning borne,
Putting " a girdle round about the world,"
Swifter than Ariel's flight could compass it ; —
Or picture t aced without a paintei-'s hand
And true as painter's skill hath ever made :
And yet within +he exile's slender means,
And travelling safely in a letter's folds ;
Drawn by God's purest agent holy light,
Which to the qjq of science hath unveiled
The mystery of the universe, — one law
Prevading all creation, yet combined
With infinite diversity of form,
Beauty and life and happiness, and all
The infinite variety of good. —

These are the triumphs of her reign, to these
She gave all kind encouragement and aid,
Assisting and assisted by the man
" Bearing the white flower of a blameless life "
She chose as consort of her life and throne.
The glory of a virtuous life, is hers, —
Her duty done as daughter, wife and mother, —
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Her court, tne home of purity and honour,
Her faithful truth to him she loved and lost,
Her life devotion to her people's good. '•

And true observance of her sacred vow
To rule in strict conformity to law. —
Defender of the faith, bhe held it right
To act as Christian faith enjoined, — and kept
Her coronation oath inviolate.

And therefore, — Canada, which from her hand
Eeceived self government in freest form,
And Ottawa to which nhe gave the palm,
As the Queen city of this fair Dominion ; —
With Loyal hearts of every race or creed.
Within her Empire's wide circumference,
Join in the patriot prayer, — God save the Queen.

Ottawa, 21 June, 1887.

G. W. WlOKSTBBD.

A NationaL Anthem.

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A NATIONAL ANTHEM.

Editor of The Citizen,

Sir — When I was a young man (ii\ 1878) I ventured to
write a National Anthem for Canada, Though there were
plenty of very pretty songs about " Canada First " and woods
and lakes and maple leaves and beavers, I thought, they wanted
concentration, and were not singable to any tune the people
knew. Lord Dufferin was pleased to call my iinthem "excel-
lent" : Sir John said he wished it could bo sung in every Cana-
dian home; and Lord Lome and Sir George thoroughly shared
my wish for cordial amity among Canadians of every race and
creed. I should be glad to see it, with its little addendum, in
The Citizen when our city keeps its double holiday in honour
of the Queen's Jubilee and the Birthday of our Dominion. If I
were an M. P. and an orator, I would conjure Canadians of all
our nationalities. —

By Erin's Harp and Shamrock green, —

By bonnie Scotland's Tartan sheen, —

By England's Rose — by Britain's Queen, —

By the red cross their fathers bore

To victory on every shore. —

By Gallia's glorious tricolor ; — .

to join heartily in the prayer with which I conclude. There
muet be parties, I suppose, and they must tight over the loaves
and fishes ; and when the tight is done,

'• And they who win at length divide the prey," {Corsair.)

there may be some mild differences of opinion among the win-
ners as to their respective shares, and the manner in which the
said prey can bo best divided — for the advantage of the country.
But all parties agree that the Yankees must not have the
"fishes," without a fair compensation, in which all Canadians
shall have an equal share.

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God save tho land we love,
Showor bletisings from above

On Canada :

Let her fair fame extend,
Her progress never end,
In her two nations blend,

Britain and France.

Each has a glorious name
High on the roll of Fame : —

Noblesse OBLIGE : —

May we be noble too,
Nobly to think and do,
All to each other true,

And to our Queen.

Fast joined in heart and hand,
Proud of their goodly land,

And of their Sires, —

Let all Canadians then,
Gaul, Gael, or British men
Sing, with a loud Amen,

1887

"Shall not thou and I, Kate, between St. Denis and St. George, compound
a boy half French half English, that shalj go to Constantinople and take the
Turk by the beard ?— "

" That Englishmen may French, French Englishmen, '

'.■' " Receive as brethren, — God speak this Amen.

Shakispeare, Heniy V. , Act j.

Tfie Anthem.

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" And tiius Hhull. Canada, which from her hand

Ucceived self government in freest form,

And Ottawa lo which she gave the palm,

As the Queen city of this fair Dominion ; —

With loyal hearts of every race or creed,

With'* her Empire's wide circumference,

Join in the patriot prayer, — God save the Queen."

Ottawa, Ist July, 1887.

G. W. WiCKSTFiD.

Note. — " I do not w.ant the walls of separation l)etween different orders of
Christians, or Nationalities, to he destroyed, hut only lowered, that we may shake
hands a little easier over them."

The words in Italics are mine, the rest are those of the Revd. Rowland Hill ;
and very good words they are.

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These notes are repenteti without alteration from the copy of the Waikr printed in Nov.,
1887, and must therefore be read as written and spealting at that date, and not at that cf the pre*
tent Reprint.

Apology. — Page viii.

Some of my readers may not know the short poem in question or its tragic
sequel : — The words are

" When taken, to be well shaken."

The attendant, not having graduated under Miss Nightingale, applies them
to the patient instead of to the physic. The Doctor inquires after the effect of
his prescription and learns the fact ; the cons quence is dramatically told in the
following dialogue :

What ! shake a patient, man ;— a shake won't do.

— No, Sir, and so we gave him two. —

Two shakes, — Odd's curse.

'Twould make a patient worse !

It did so, Sir, and so a third we tried.

Well, and what then ? — Then, Sir, my master died.

The poem was short and clear ; but the clearest and best writings are liable
to misinterpretation. Think of Galileo, and of the authority adduced for bishop*
burning and the Inquisition. Even my Waifs might be misinterpreted, but for
the great intelligence and kindness of my readers.

« Thou England art ht Countrt and hy Homk." —

Page 10.

This was written fifty-seven years ago. Since then I have been constantly
resident in this Country, and have learned " not to love England less, but to love
Canada more." I married in Canada, and my children are Canadians by birth.
I was born at Liverpool, in December, 1799, My father was a member of the
Cheshire and Shropshire family of our name. My mother of a Lancashire family,
by name Tatlock. I came to Canada, in 182 1, on the invitation of my uncle, Mr.
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St. Francis, and remained so for 22 years, until his decease in 1844. I had
studied mechanical engineering in England, and was for some time employed in
work connected with that profession. The gout du premier mitier is not quite
extinguished in me, and I still take great interest in engineering matters. But in
1825 I commenced the study of the law under the late Col. Gi.gy, to whose family
I had been introduced in 1821, by the late Mr. Andrew Stuart. In the fall of
1828, I entered the service of the Legislative Assemlily of L. C. as Assistant Law
Clerk, Mr. Willan, Col. (Jugy's brother-in-law, being my principal. He was
afterwards made Clerk ot the Crown and Peace, and Mr. William (ireen became
my chief; he died of cholera in 1832, and was succeeded by the Honble. Hugues
Heney, who eventually got into trouble with the House, by becoming an Executive
Councillor, and was removed ; the late Mr. Etienne Parent was appointed in his
stead, but never acted ; — the times of trouble came on, the Constitution was
suspended, and the .Special Council for L. C. constituted : and after some time I
became one of its officers under the Attorney-General, Mr. Ogden. In 1841, on
ihotion of Mr, John Neilson, I was appointed Law Clerk and Chief English
Translator to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada : — and in 1867
to the same office in the House of Commons of Canada, and I hold it still. In
1841 I was appointed, with the Honble. Mr. Heney and Mr. A. Buchanan, a
Commissioner for revising tht Statutes and Ordinances of Lower Canada, with
the present Mr. Justice Johnson for our Secretary. In 1854 His Excellency the
Earl of Elgin gave me my silk gown. In 1856 I was appointed with Sir J. B.
Macaulay, Ex. C. J., and five other gentlemen from Upper Canada, and Messrs.
A. Polette, R. MacKay, A. Stuart and T. J. J. Loranger, (all now Judges,) and
Mr. Geo. De Boucherville, (now Clerk of the Legislative Council,) from Lower
Canada, a Commissioner to "examine, revise, consolidate and classify" the
Public General Statutes of Canada. The Upper Canada Commissioners under-
took the Statutes affecting their Province, and the Lower Canada those affecting
theirs, all the Commissioners undertakinc those affecting the whole of Canada.
The three Volumes were reported to the Legislature in 1859 and i860, examined
and passed, the Governor being authorized to cause the Statutes of the Session to
be incorporated with the work of the Commissioners ; which was done for Upper
Canada by the Hon. Sir James Macaulay, one of the Commissioners, — for Lower
Canada by me, — and for all Canada by Sir James and me jointly. In 1864-5 ^
was a Commissioner with Ex-Chancellor Blake and Mr. Justice Day for fixing the
remuneration to be paid by the (jovernment to the several Railway Companies for
the carriage of the Mails. These Commissions were official or profeisional. In
Lower Canada I had been one of the Commissioners for building the Parliament
House at Quebec, and for divers other public works. On the death of Mr.
Lindsay, Senior, Sir Geo. Cartier offered me the Clerkship of the Legislative

The Transcript was a very nice little literary paper edited by my friend Mrs.
Grant, of the " Stray Leaves," and her sister, (the M. K. of page 78,) and printed
by Mr. T Donoghue, their brother ; but it was before the age and died young,
^ things fair and fragile will do,

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Assembly, but told me the Government would prefer my remaining in my then
position, which he considered at least as important. He promised that it should
be made equally good in rank and emolument ; and it was made so accordingly.
I have been twice married in Canada, first to the second daughter of John Gray,
first President of the Bank of Mont; 'al, and secondly to the eldest daughter of
Captain John Fletcher of H. M. 72.>d Regiment, then an officer of H. M. Im-
perial Customs at Queliec : and I have l^e^n a householder in each of the five
Cities 'vhich have been the Seats of Government. I think, therefore, that I may
now fairly call myself a Canadian, without ceasing to remember that I am English
born. I write this brief memoir for the information of my children and my
younger or newer friends.

The Fancy Ball at Bideau. — Page 48.

The little article on Lord Duiferin's Ball is out of place as to date, but its
subject is so cognate to the Fancy Ball in the Parliament House at Queliec that
the anachronism may lie pardoned. The Fancy singers at the Quebec Ball were
all officers of the Lower Town Volunteers. Lord Gosford was himself the most
good-natured and jolliest of Governors and of hosts.

Thb " Inoonbtants."

n. M. S. ^'^ Incotistant" was really the loveliest vessel of the twelve ; and
though the officers of all the ships were, as sailor officers always are, high in
favor with the ladies, yet somehow the " Inconstants" stood first. Possibly there
was a charm in the name.

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QuBBKo Transobipt.— Pages 69 and 76.

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Page 74.

'* The Lord of high pretence " was of course Lord Durham, who kindly com-
muted the sentence of some of the rebels, and sent them to Bermuda, where of
course they were released on habeas corpus, and the Lord was called over the coals
in Parliament. "Good Sir John" was Sir John Colborne who put down the
rebellion with a firm but merciful hand.

Page 93.

The Hon. John Neilson, to whose memory I have here paid the tribute of a
few lines, was the first Editor of a Canadian newspaper in English, dating I think
from 1769. He enjoyed the perfect confidence of the French Canadians, and
represented the County of Quebec in the Legislative Assembly until he opposed
the 92 resolutions and the violent measures then resorted to, and lost his election ;
but he was again restored to favor and elected to the Parliament of United Canada
in 1 84 1, a sobered man as to some of his former opinions, but a true patriot and a
firm supporter of free institutions. He was ever my good friend. I have put into
the mouths of others what I myself felt on losing him, but I know that they felt as
I did.

" HkR sons have ABANDONBD THKia ERRORS AND »HAHE."

— Page 98,

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After Lord Elgin gave the Royal Assent to the Rebellion Losses Bill, and the
consequent burning of the Parliameut House, the annexation feeling became very
strong in Montreal, even among the formerly most loyal citizens, and the removal
of the Seat of Government did not tend to allay it. It died out gradually, and is
now extinct in Montreal as in the rest of Canada.

Page 100.

I havie referred to this little squib in my V Ajrology." The Seigniorial Act
was passed in 1854. Mr. Drummond brought it in and very ingeniously contrived
the Seigniorial Court, which finally settled the disputed points relative to the
tenure. Mr. Dunkin most ably and zealously explained and defended the rights
of the Seigniors, and I, with the potent aid of Mr. Hincks, succeeded in getting
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out of provincial funds. Mr. Drummond and his friends wished to apply the
government aid to the reduction of the heavy rents exacted by some Seigniors, but
these, if unlawful, could be reduced by the Court : the lods et ventes, a fine of one-
twelfth of the value, nat of the land alone but of all buildings and improvements on
it, were perfectly lawful, but a hindrance to all improvement and to all free deal-
ing with the land, while they were a constant source of attempted fraud on the
Seignior and of vexation to tenants : and no fair terms of compensation by the
tenants for their abolition could l^e contrived, because while they bore so heavily
on those who wished to improve or were willing or compelled to sell their lands,
they were not felt by others who had their lands from their fathers and meant to
leave them to their children. Mr. Drummond for some time opposed the amend-
ment but eventually acceded to it. The Act went into force and was perfectly
successful ; so completely was every difficulty removed under its operation, that in
the Act passed in 1856 for codifying the Laws of Lower Canada, the Commis-
sioners were forbidden to say anything of the Seigniorial Tenure.

" Thb qrkat ten thousand poundkb H1NOK8."— Page 105.

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It is, I hope, unnecessary to say, that this has nQ reference whatever to Mr.
Hincks' income or fortune, but simply to the tremendous weight of metal he
carried, and the great initial velocity he could give it. Sir John Macdonald
brought in the Clergy Reserves Bill and carried it, with the very efficient aid of
Mr. Hincks, then an independent member and not in the coalition administration.
" Let both divide the Crown," for both deserve it. — The whole Civil Service of
Canada owes a deep debt of gratitude to Sir Francis Hincks for the Superannua-
tion Act, an invaluable boon to every member of the service, and not the less so
to the Government when wisely used, — as of course it will always be. I never
assisted with greater pleasure in preparing any Bill than this.

H. M. Ephimbral GovBRNMiNT. — Page 108.

This was a Conservative Co»p d'Etat. In his late Pamphlet " A Constitu-
tional Governor " Mr. Todd records it thus :

" In 1858, upon the defeat of Mr. John A. Macdonald's ministry by an
fidverse vote in the Legislative Assembly upon the question of the Se^t of

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(Jovernment, the Governor General (Sir Edmund Head) appointed the Brown-
Dorion Administration. Before the new Ministers had taken their seats, or an-
nounced their policy, the Legislative Assembly passed a Vote declaring a Want of
Confidence in them. They requested the Governor to dissolve Parliament. His
Excellency acknowledged his obligation ' to deal fairly with all political parties :
but (he considered that) he had also a duty to perform to the Queen and the
people of Canada, paramount to that which he owed to any one party ; or to all
parties whatsoever.' He therefore declined to dissolve Parliament at this juncture,
for stated reasons, and especially because a General Election had already taken
place within a year. Upon which Mr. Brown, on behalf of himself and his col-
leagues, resigned office, and the late administration was recalled."

But he does not give the picturesque movement from which the incident
received (from its opponents) the name of " The Double Shuffle." —The law
which required that a member accepting office should resign and go to his con-
stituents for re-election, had a proviso that this should not apply to Ministers
resigning one office and accepting another, also ministerial, within otu month ; so
while the game of '* Fox and (ieese " was in progress, a little game of " Puss in
the Comer " was played on the other side ; — each of the old ministers accepted
another office than that he had liefore held, and then resigned that and accepted
his old one again. And lo ! each appeared in his old place in aliout a week : and
there is no doubt that they were within the law. The question was mooted in the
House (in the case of Mr. Sidney Smith) on the 7th July and decided in their
favor. The same proviso is repeated in the Dominion Act 31 V. c. 25 ; but in
the Bill of this .Session (1878) words are added excepting the case of a change of
Administration.

"NiNBTY GBOATr*."— Pago 109.

Equal to thirty shillings or six dollars, the daily pay of a member in those
times,— expressed in terms cc^nate to the subject.

''FcLLowKs* Voters oa a.Febd, &c."— Page 111.

ii:

The Voters were of X^cfamy kind : the feeds, if not quite so, had at least the
angelic auality of infrequencv.

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Ucl at least th^

Old Christ Chuhch.— Page 112.

A copy of this little poem lies in the hollow of the corner stone of the new
Church. Archdeacon Lauder saw it in the Times, and liked it. Without know-
ing whose it was, he printed it at the end of his last sermon in the old Church,
and the sermon and jjoem lie buried together in that stone. , ,. ^ »

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Epitaph on By-Town.— Page 132.

Mr. Lett and'I cannot he jealous of each other. — I don't know whether he
likes my brevity, but I delight in his powers of amplification. His force and lire
almost make one imagine he writes by steam, his engine l>eing of course high
pressure and non-coitdensing. But his sentiments are noble and patriotic, and his
style earnest, vigorous and manly. Magis magisquejloreat,

Thk Whits- Wash Bill and Ahkndmentb. — Page 132.

The House eventually passed the Bill, substantially in the form suggested by
Mr. Verdant Green, without the Preamble, but with the Proviso "don't do so
again" — Mr. Deep Black's amendment finding no seconder. Many members
have since resigned under its provisions, and almost all of them have been re-
elected. The Act says nothing about profits (if any) obtained by the violation of
the law, leaving the question open, as a matter of conscience on which Honorable
Memliers could scarcely have any doubt. Hamlet's Uncle had a very strong
opinion on the point : —

"Then I'll look up,—

My fault is past — But oh what form of prayer

Can serve my turn : — Forgive me my foul murder, —

That cannot be, since still I am possessed

Of those effects for which I did the murder.

My Crown, mine own ambition and my Queen : —

May one be pardoned and retain the offence ? "

Hamlet, Act 3, Sc. 2.

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For the benefit of unprofessional gentlemen I explain, and for that of non-
cerulean ladies I translate. The letters stand for Curia Advisare Vult, the court
wishes to deliberate : and mean, that the judges are puzzled and don't exactly
know what to say.

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Thi Coup d'Etat— Page 132.

A' This was a Reform Coup d'Etat and a very clever one. It would never have

done to allow Mr. Irving to make his report. Like the Conservative one im-
mortalized on page io8 et sequ. it was perfectly within the law, and saved a
wonderful amount of trouble and confusion.

Ottawa, St. George's Day, 23rd April, 1878.

LiAP TiAR Yalkntini.— Page 139.

This may be useful in the present or any future Leap Year, it is very
straightforward and effective, but requires to be used with caution, as it would
certainly support an action for breach, if the lady should change her mind. The
Queen or the heiress apparent has a perpetual Leap year, and proposes to whom
she pleases, and in the latest case on record was gratefully accepted.

Something about Rag-monbt.— Page 140.

I have always had a horror of irredeemable paper, and helped, with pleasure,
to demolish any little bill or scheme tending that way : and I have known M. P. 's
wUh a leaning towards it. I must have had some attempt of the sort in my mind
when I dreamt the dream I have recorded. Mr. Wallace was a ring leader in
favor of the Rag.

In BfiMOBiAH— Sir Giorgb Etibnnk Gartisr.— Page 142.

This Tribute to Sir George Cartier came warm from my heart.
"He WM my friend, faithful and just to me."

The article from the " Week " is not mine, but is good, and I know it to be
true. The French verses are from the graceful pen of Mr. Benjamin Suite, of the
Militia' Department, an intimate friend of .Sir George and a sincere mourner for
his loss. The Ministers who spoke at the unveiling of the statue, were Sir John
A. Macdonald and Sir Hector Langevin.

In MiMORiAM, Sept., 1*760.— Page 150.

I read the original of this in the St. Jean Baptiste day's No. of La Patrie and
thought it very good. And remembering Lord Byron's lines about Marceau,

" Our Enemy, but let not that forbid

" Honour to Marceau.— He kept,

" The whitwieM of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept."

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I translated Dr. Frechette's tribute to our brave enemy, L^vis, and sent it to
the author, who liked it and got it printed in The Montreal Gazette, and at the
same time wrote and printed in La Patrie the following very kind and elegant
notice of my " Waifs " —

BiBLinORAPHIK.

Waifs in verse by G. IV. IVicksteed, Q. C.hMontrial^ches Lovell, 187S. —
Comme on le voit ce volume de vers n'est pas tout ce qu'il y a de plus recent.
Mais I'auteur ne <late pas d'hier mm plus, puisqu'il a aujourd'hui plus de 84 ans.

Pour faire de la po^sie jusc|u'& cct &ge, tout en s'occupant de compiler des
statuts ; (M. Wicksteed est ce qu'on appelle ici greffier en loi de la chambre des
communes,) il faut avoir bien conserve la fratcheur de ses illusions, et surtout
avoir, comme lui, un talent tr^s remarquable servi par un grand amour du
travail.

M, Wicksteed a ^t^ attache depuis plus de cinquante ans k notre Legislature,
k Qu^liec, k Montreal, k Kingston, k Toronto, et k Ottawa. Toute notre histoire
si accident^e, si dramatique, depuis 1830, s'est d^roul^e sous ses yeux.

II fut I'ami de Papineau, de Viger, de Valli^res et de Lafontaine. C'est lui
qui traduisit les fameuses 92 Resolutions. Dans sa preface il rend ce t^moignage
aux patriotes de 1837 : " lis n'auraient pas dfi se revolter, dit il ; mais apr^s tout
ils luttaient pour obtenir ce que nous nous battrions tous aujourd'hui pour con-
server." Ce mot peint admirablement I'esprit qui rigne dans ce fin recur'' de
poesies d^tach^es, ou I'enthousiasme du patriote se mele k la verve causti< • du
chansunnier, la note l^g^rement sentimentale avec la ))etitc pointe du satiristt- At
bonne humeur. C'est \k un petit volume Vort int^ressant sous bien des rapports,
et pour lequel nous oflfrons nos plus sincires remerciements k I'auteur. — £m Patrie^

Dr. Frechette, is our best French Canadian Poet, tho' others are very good,
and has lieen crowned as such in France. I was pleased at being " latidatus ii
laudato" — and I may say, I hope without vanity, that I think his Poem and my
translation, very fair contributions to French and English Canadian literature.

Thb Quiin's Jdbilii,1837-87.— Page 160.

By the kind assistance of Mr. Johnson, of the Ottawa Citiutt, my "Jubilate "
appeared in it, on the morning of the 2ist of June, the appointed day of Jubilee ;
and on that day, immediately after the morning Service in Christ Church, I had
the pleasure of receiving the most kind congratulations of a great number of my
friends, the very foremost of whom was the Honble. .Sir Alexander Campbell, now

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Lieut. Oovernor of Ontario ; a circumstance which for many reasons highly
gratified me. There was no "damning with faint praise," — the congratulations
were hearty and appreciative, and I was and am very thankful for them. His
Excellency the Governor General very kindly sent the Jubtiate home to be laid
before the Queen ; and subsequently wrote me word that he had been instructed
by Her Majesty to convey Her thanks to me. The National Anthem and intro-
ductory letter ap|)eared in the Cititen on Domimoit Day the 1st of July, 1887.

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APPENDIX.

Standard Time.

EniTOR Law Journal,
Sir,

The difference of local time according to longitude having been (ound very
inconvenient by the managers of railways in Canada and the United States,
especially as to their time of tables, a conference of these gentlemen was held in
1883, at which it was decided to recommend for adoption a system of statulard
time by which railways should be run, each 15° of longitude (one hour in time) to
form a time zone, within which all railways should be run by it ; the time of the
centre meridian of each zone being taken as the standard for the seven and a-half
degrees on each side of it, and that of 75" of west longitude from Greenwich being
chosen as the stJindaiVl to be used by railways within the territory Iwunded by the
meridians of 67^° and 82)^", including the Atlantic States and a large part of
Canada. The same rule was to be ol)served for the whole distance across our
continent. This system was nominally adopted l)y a very large majority of the
American and Canadian railways. But it was found difhcult to abide by it in
some cases, in conse(|uence of the sudden jump of an hour in time in passing from
one time zone to another, as many railways in both countries must do ; and it
seems the Grand Trunk, (ireat Western and Canadian Pacific are each run into
two time zones within Ontario, and the Intercolonial into two such zones in
Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. There must be many railways in the
United States which violate the conference rule in like manner, and this is a very
great imperfection in the rule itself. But this is a matter for the consideration of
the railway magnates themselves. The matter to which I desire to call your
attention is the legal aspect of the case.

Many people (not lawyers, of course) seem to suppose that standard time has
become legal time, and seem inclined to govern themselves and their doings by it,
thus putting the railway managers in the place of the Legislature. Now, looking for
the moment at Ontario alone, standard time at London is about twenty-four minutes
earlier than legal time ; and there are places in Essex where the jump occurs from
one time zone to another, and by which standard time is an hour earlier on one
side of an invisible line than on the other. Now our Act 32-33 V., c. 21, § i,
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defines " night " for the purposes of ihnt Act ns comniencing nl " nine o'clock in
the evening of each day and ending at six o'clock in the morning of the next suc-
if/ ceeding day," so that by standard time it would he night on one side of the line
when it was day on the other ; and by sec. 50, hia-iflaiy is defined to be the conw
mission of certain offences \n ihv nij(ht only, so that the same offence woidd be
burglary on one side of the line and not on the other. Mr. Robertson, of Mamil-
ton, has now a Bill before the House of Commons making burglary jumishable
by imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. Kancy a man tried for burglary in
the neighlwurhood of that line, and a <piestion arising as to the hour when the
<)ffence was committed. Hut, even in London, the oflence would be burglary
twenty-four minutes earlier in the evening by standard than by legal time, and the
offender, if he did not break in, would have twenty-four minutes longer to break
out. Then, again, the Ontario Revised Statute, c. Ili,i$22, provides that no
Registrar shall receive any instrument for registration except within the hours of
ten in the forenoon and four in the afternoon, and he is to endorse (m the instru-
ment registered not only the year, month and day, but the hour and minute of
registration. Now, suppose him to shut and open his office in Londtm by standard
time ; he would shut it twenty-four minutes before and ojien it twenty-four minutes
before legal time. Might he not do serious wrong to a person whose mortgage
or other claim he received or refused illegally ? And might he not be liable in
heavy damages for doing so ? Or suppose a Returning Officer closing or opening
his poll twenty-four minutes before or after the legal time ; or a tavern-keeper
doing the same by his bar ; or a case of insurance with a |)olicy expiring at noon,
and a loss occurring after stamiard but before legal noon or vice versa. And so of
an infinite variety of cases, where time is the essence of the act done and its
effect.

In England, where they look closely into the consequences of such things,
difficulties of this kind were foreseen when Greenwich time was adopted for all
England in 1880, and an Act, 43-44 V. c. 9, was passed making li legal time,
which, of course, they knew it would not otherwise be. I can believe that the
advantages of the change may there have been greater than the disadvantages ;
for England is comparatively small, and the greatest difference between standard
and the old legal time is only about twenty-two minutes, and there is no jump of
an hour ; the sea bounds the time zone, so that no one can mistake it ; and they
have taken care to leave Dublin time for Ireland. Our case, and that of the
United States, is different. We have five jumps of one hour each ; and with all
due respect for the railway authorities, I think it would have been better if they
had adopted or would adopt the time of 90° west longitude as the standard for the
United States and Canada right across the continent — one railway time without
jumps or breaks, and the two oceans for the limits of the time zone : leaving local

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l)e ihc corn-
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lime for the ordinary pur|>oses of life. A ilork with two hour and minute hands,
or hands with two points, would show legal and standard time at once ; and there
would be no places with two slandaril times, ns there arc now at the boundary of
each time zone. I am informed that the authorities of the Naval Observatory at
Washington hold the same opinion. — If any but the present legal time is used as
such the change slwiitii he made by law, as it was in Kngland. In the United
States, it appears that every State has power to fix its own legal time ; Congress
has it only for the District of Columbia (ten miles s(iuare, I believe), and has
exercised the jniwer by an Act adopting standard time of 75" west longitude.
But the said <listrict is smaller than Kngland, .ind there could hardly be a minute
of time diflerence between any two places in it. In Canada, I think the |X)wer
rests with the Dominion Covernment. I am of opinion that there should be

no change in the legal lime ; that Canada is too big to adopt one legal lime for its
sixty or seventy degrees of longitude, and tlial no jump system could be made
rational and workable in law. I hold that the Dominion (lovernment and the
(iovernments of the several Provinces should slate authoritatively that the mean
solar time of each place remains as hitherto the legal lime thereat, and that all
officers and functionaries must so cimsider it, and open and close their offices and
be governed in the performance of their duties by it and by no other.

At the International Conference for the purpose of fixing a prime meiidian
and universal day, heUl at Washington in October last, .^uch Universal Day to
begin and end at the same immienl all over the world as it does at Oreenwich,
was adopted *' for all the purposes for which it may be found convenient, and
which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desir-
able." It would have made the day at Toronto begin at seventeen and a-half
minutes before what we now call seven p.m. and Sunday would begin at that
time on Saturday. I think this would not be "found convenient," and that we
in Canada shall not adopt it. It has always been used at Greenwich, I believe,
for astronomical purposes, except that the day began at noon, and in to begin at
midnight. It is excellent for scientific purposes ; and, for the adoption of Oreen-
wich as the first meridian, England, and all men of English blood and tongue owe
a debt of gratitude to the Conference and to Sandford Fleming.
I am, dear Sir, very truly yours,

This was written on the adopticm of the (so called) .Standard Time by the
railway authorities, and when many people fancied that it had become legal lime ;
a fancy which might have led to very serious consequences. I had asked some
questions of the authorities of the Observatory at Washington and of the Astro-
nomer Royal, and received very courteous answers. The gentlemen at Washing-

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ton thought with me, that the better plan would be, one railway time, (that of
90° West,) across the continent, and the Astronomer Royal seemed to incline the
same wa) , as it would agree better with that adopted in England and with his
grander plan hereinafter mentioned. The Railway gentlemen preferred their
own plan, as for railway purposes they had a perfect right to do. I have men-
tioned some of the objections to its adoption for general purposes. To these the
Astronomer Royal assented, but answered that they could be overcome by legis-
lation as in England, and the District of Columbia, and as I had suggested. I
called the attention of the Minister of Justice to the matter, and he agreed with
us, but thought it would be wise to pause before adopting any new scheme, saying
there could be no doubt that the old mode of reckoning time is and would remain
the legal one until altered by law. I hope 'hat Registrars, Returning Officers,
and other public functionaries, have seen that it is so, and governed themselves
accordingly. Even for railway purposes the Zoue scheme in imperfect ; the
Zones have never been defined, and meridian lines which no botly can find will
not do for bounding them ; if made legal they must be defined by known metes
and bounds.

The Astronomer Royal, Mr. Fleming, and the Longitude Conference have
propounded a grand scheme for a Universal Day and one Time for the whole
world. It is admirable for scientific purposes, tho' perhaps, for the reason I have
mentioned, not quite convenient for every day purposes ; \nA is it quite con-
sistent with the Conference decision to reckon Longitude East and West 180°
each way ; and may not the several nations of the world possibly object to be
ruled by England, which would alone have a natural and naturally divided day,
in domestic time reckoning, tho' they may consent to be so as to the nautical
matter of longitude : the plan may however come into general use before Volapuk,
the Scientific Universal language.*

The 24 hours day is excellent, and for Time tables especially so, and has
been long ivsetl in Italy and elsewhere ; but its use must be optional with A.M.
and P.M., and ladies must have five o'clock or seventeen o'clock tea at their
pleasure. •

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SOCIALISM.

What is Socialism ? What do Socialists want, and believe they have a right
to insist upon ? The fullest and most direct answers to these questions seem to
be those contained in an article by Annie Besant, in the July number, 1886, of the
Westminster Review. She begins by quoting the saying of Professor Huxley,
" that he would rather have been born a savage in one of the Fiji Islands than in
a London slum," — declares the Professor right, and gives reasons, not easily dis-
putable by those who know what a London slum is, for the declaration. She
then states the growth of the doctrine she expounds : the decay of religious belief
among the classes interested, the influence of foreign writers, more especially the
(ierman, and the modification of their doctrine by the habits of English life and
their Democratic tendency, and says that "no mere abuse can shake the Socialist ;
no mere calling of names can move him ; he holds a definite economic theory
which should neither be rejected without examination, nor accepted without
study." .She maintains that Socialists assent to all the sound doctrines of
]X)]itical economy, and more especially that capital is the unconsumed result of
past and present labor ; but they hold, — that individual property in land must
disappear, that the soil on which a nation is born and lives ought to belong to
the nation as a whole and be cultivated by individuals and co-operative groups
holding directly under the State ; that capital always has been, and must be,
obtained from the partial confiscation of the results of the labor of others, and is
not found in the hands of the lalwrious and industrious, but of the idlers who have
profited by such confiscation. She says, — the laborer is not free ; nominally he
may be, but in reality he is no more free than the slave. The slave is free to
refuse to work, and take in excnange the lash, the prison, and the grave, and
such freedom only has the laborer ; if he refuses to work he must take the lash of
hunger, the prison of the workhouse, or, for continued refiisal, the gaol The
renedy is the alx>lition of the landlord and the capitalist. Interest on capital as
no place in .Socialism, strongly as it protests against the whole system of which
landlords and capitalists form an integral part, it reserves its uttermost reprobation
for the theory which justifies a class of the latter in living solely on money drawn
as interest on investments. So long as capital remains in private hands interest
will be demanded and paid perforce for its use, and so long there will be an idle
class, a burden on the industrious who may labor for their support. Socialism
aims at rendering the existence of an idle class impossible Healthy adults will
have to work for things they require. The very young, the old, the sick, will be
free from labor ; but for the strong and mature no bread of idleness, no sponging
upon the people. In thus condemning an idle class, socialism does not assail th«

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individuals who now compose it ; they are not to blame for the social conditions
in which they were born ; it is one of the most hopeful signs for the Socialistic
movement that many who are working in it belong to the very classes that will be
abolished by it ; they can do no good by throwing their fortunes away, and plung-
ing into the present competitive struggle ; all they can do is to live simply, and
use their position as a pedestal on which to place their advocacy of Socialist pro-
paganda. There is no fear that individualism will be crushed. Exhausting toil
and growing anxiety, these crush out individuality and stifle genius. Socialism will
give leisure as well as work to all, lift the burden of care from all shoulders, and
allow lime to think and to endeavour. She adopts the doctrine of Malthus, except
his objection to early marriages, for which she would substitute prudential
restraint, and twits him quietly with having eleven children, thinks the doctrine
is essential to the success of Socialism, and that highly educated women, full of
interest in public work, and taking their share of public duty, will not consent to
spend year after year of their prime in nothing but expecting, bearing, and suck-
ling babies, and she concludes with the following emphatic passage :

"A glance backward over the history of our own country since the Reform
Bill of 1832 opened the gate of political power, to those outside the sacred circle
of the aristocracy, will tell how an unconscious movement towards Socialism has
been steadily growing in strength. • Our Factory Acts, our Mine Regulation Acts,
our Land Acts, all show the set of the current. The idea of the State as an out-
side power is fading, and the idea of the State as an organized community is com-
ing into prominence. In the womb of time the new organism is growing ; shall
the new birth come in peace or in re^■olution, heralded by patient endeavour, or
by the roar of cannon ! This one thing I know, that come it will, whether men
work for it or hinder ; for all the mighty forces of evolution make for Socialism,
for the establishment of the brotherhood of man."

The article, of which I have endeavoured to give the substance in a condensed
form, is inserted in the "independent section" of the Keview, set apart *' for the
reception of able articles which, though harmonizing with the general spirit, may
contain opinions at variance with the particular ideas or measures it advocates."
Very able indeed the writer shows herself in the statement of the views anc^ inten-
tions of Socialism, and it is well that these should be widely known, for they con-
cern us all. Forewarned is forearmed, and knowing what they are we shall be
better prepared to deal with them, and they strike at the very root of civilization
and progress, in atx)lishing the right of property, and forbidding a man's enjoying
or leaving to his children the enjoyment of the fruit of his labour, which is the
great motive of exertion, bodily or mental.

To all fair means of promoting the more general distribution of wealth, and
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workers, and by laws such as the writer refers to as passed by the British Parlia-
ment, there is no objection, and I rejoice with her at the spirit which led to their
enactment. The writer has told us what she wishes for, but she has not told us
by what means her wishes are to be carried into eflfect, or what are the enactments
by which she would provide for the division of all casting wealth equally among
all, furnishing all with work equally well paid, and compelling them to perform
it. The raising of the common fund, and the division of it equally among all
would be no easy matter, and requires explanation. The scheme of general con*
fiscation would probably l)e resisted. There must be government of some kind to
enforce if, and we have a right to know how such government is to be constituted
and maintained. The proper carrying out of the ^f althusian doctrine which the
writer declares (very truly) to l)e essentia! to 'he success of Socialism, would
require some rather difficult and delicate legislation. With every wish to believe
in her good intentions, I can hardly think the writer expects to induce the
millionaire to divide his millions with the labourers by moral suasion ; and indeed
her last paragraph would seem to imply — "quietly if possii)le, forcibly if we
must." There may be a gentle touch of dynamite in her "come it will." To me
her scheme seems absurd as it is dangerous, and to be jKissible only if and when
it shall please heaven to endow all of us with equal strength of arm and brain,
with the same powers, wants, and wishes, and with such perfect faith in the
Socialist dispensation as will preclude all desire of progress or improvement of
condition. — What may come to pass in Europe, with its ever increasing popula-
tion and apparent want of useful employment for it, I do not know : the prospect is
not bright, and even Punch speaks anxiously in words and cartoon, and the Laureate
denounces it in patriotic and prophetic verse. lUit " there's a divinity that shapes
our ends, rough hew them as we may," and that shaping will be for good. In
America there is less reason for anxiety. The Knights of Labor do not adopt
.Socialism or Anarchy ; and in Harper's Weekly of 6th November last there is an
excellent article by V. M. Arthur, (Irand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, in which he maintains there is no antagonism between labor and
capital which cannot be easily overcome. — He says, " Every man of industrious
habits may hope to become a capitalist ; indeed, the desire to accumulate is one
of the most powerful instruments for the regeneration of society, it supplies the
basis for individual energy and activity. I have no sympathy with men who claim
that might is right, and that the rich owe the poor a living." Let us try to
diminish the amount of poverty, and to mitigate its evils by legislation in the spirit
of that referred to with approval by Annie Besant, and by all other means that
wisdom may suggest ; there is the highest authority for doing this, by the exercise
of brotherly love and christian charity in the highest sense of the words, but none
for confiscation, robbery, or violence. Poverty has its hardships, and we must

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strive earnestly to remove or diminish them ; l)Ut difference of wealth or station
has but a limited influence on human happiness, and is a far less evil than what
Socialism proposes to substitute for it :

Order is heaven's first law, and this confessed
Sonte are — nay, must be greater than the rest ;

iore rich, more wise ; but who infers from heme
That such are happier, shocks all common sense.

The Wrek, 1887.

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WAIFS IN PROSE, &C.

Having been at my own roquent, placed on the superannua-
tion list at the beginning of 1888, when my age was rather over
eighty-seven, but being still kindly allowed to use the seat [ had
occupied for more than twenty years in the room assigned for
my office as Law Clerk in the House of Commons when the plan
of the Parliament Building was made, I could not help still
taking a deep interest in public, aud especially in Parliamentary
aifairs ; nor could I abstain from now and then writing quiet
little articles(never touching party politics) which Editors were
kind enough to like and print; and some of which I have had
the vanity to collect and get printed together in the following
pages, for my own use, or that of any of my friends who might
like to have them as a memento of their old acquaintance, W.
And a few of these relate to important decisions and considera-
tions touching public matters. '

G, W, WlO^STSKD,

Ottawa, 11 Jul^, 1890.

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Manitoba vs. C. P, B.

Itlditor of The Citizen :

3(11, — Tlie ^reat caso has boen heard, and the grand tourna-
nient of the Kniglits of the Bar. and Railway has been held. On
the 14th proximo wo are to huar the result, and the Chief
Justice, as the Quepn of Beauty presiding at the contest, will
award the laurel wreath to the victors. The Knights of the
Bar and their E:4quiros did not break the record of their prowess.
Mr. Blake, clad in the panoply of the strict letter of the law,
stoutly maintained that under two clauses of oar Canadian
Constitution, a Provincial railway declared by our Parliament
to be a work " for the i^enertil advantage of Canada," is with-
drawn absolutely from Provincial legislative authority and
control, and placed exclusively under that of the Dominion
Parliament, and that the railway in question had been so
declared. And Mr. Mowat, opposing to the letter of the law
which killeth, the spirit which giveth life, contended resolutely
that the said clauses and declaration merely gave the Dominion
Parliament power to make the railway, if it chose, though
entirely within a Province, or to assume the control of it if
made, and not that of sa^'ing, ct la dog in the mangor, " We
won't make it and you shan t; ' and to argue that the Imperial
Parliament intended that a Province would lose its right to
make a railway because it would be for the general advantage
of Canada, was giving a very severe twist, not to the British
Lion's tail, but l<) his parliamentary clause

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Referring to the case now before the Supreme Court in re
the Province of Manitoba and the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company, wo gather from the reports in tiio papers, that Mr,
filako contended, that the Manitoba railway in question came
within the do>uription of ihose which had been declared by the
Dominion Parliament to be '' for the general advantage of
Canada," and was. therefore, by the i)rovis.ion of the Constitu-
tional Act in such case, withdrawn from the legislative authority
of the Provincial Legislature, and exclusively placed under
that of the Dominion Parliament, and was therefore, unlawfully
made under the Manitoba Aci, contrary to the said provision
of the Constitutional Act, and was not entitled, under the
Railway Act of i888, to the benetit of the provisions therein
made respecting railway crossings. Mr. Mowat on behalf of the
Province, maintaining thiit the proviwion of the Constitutional
Act did not prohibit the making of a railway declared to be
*' for the general advantage of Canada," but made it subject
thereafter to the legiblativo authority of the Dominion Parlia-
ment, and placed it, when made, and until the said Parliament
should otherwise direct, under the laws governing railways
under its authority; that the Dominion Parliament had made
no special provision as to the said railway, which was, therefore
entitled to the benetit of the provisions of the Railway Act of
1888, including those rosipocting railway companies and others,
which by section 4 are declared to be applicable ' to all rail-
way, whether otherwise under the authority of Parliament or
not;'' and that this construction of the Imperial Act seemed
more consistent with common sense, and with the allowance by
the Dominion Government, acting of course under the opinion of
the Attorney-General, of the Provincial Railway Acts cited by
him (Mr. Mowat) and more consistent with the intention of the
Dominion Parliament, than the view which supposes it to have
been intended to prevent the construction by a Province of ^

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Avork entirely within its boundaries, because it was declareU to
le " for the general advantage of Canada."

The Imperial provision has been frequently extended to
Provincial railways, but always for the purpose, not of prohibit-
ing them, but of extending them, so that they should be for the
greater advantage of Canada. It is difficult to believe that a
Parliament which, in the then last sost'ion, had repealed the
enactments establishing railway monoply in Manitoba under
one form, intended to re-eetablis^h it in another, which Mr.
Blake's construction of the Imperial enactment would certainly
do.

W.
^' Canada Law Journal," Ui December, 1888.

In a very strong editorial of The Week for 29th November,
the Government and Parliament wore ^^overol^' handled with
respect to this matter, under the supposition that Mr. Blake's
interpretation of the Imperial provision was the correct one ;
and W., believing that the Editor was mistaken in this view,
wrote, and The Week published in its then next number, the
following letter :— i

Editor of The Week ;

Sib, — fieferring to the article in your number of November
29th, respecting the case now pending in the Supreme Court
between the Canadian Pacific Bailway Company and the Pro-
vince of Manitoba, I think you should acquit the Dominion
Government and Parliament of any intention to re-establish,
under the provision in the Railway Act, the monopoly tney had
abolished in the preceding session. It is only reasonable to
believe, that the Government and Parliament held that the
provision of the Constitutional Act, respecting the effect of ^

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declaration that any Provincial work was one '* for the general
advantage of Canada," was not intended to prevent a Province
from constructing a railway wholly within such Province, but
to enable the Dominion Parliament to make such railway, or to
subject it, when made by a Province, to such provisions as might
be established for the government of railways generally, us the
Railway Act does ; and under this interpretation of the Imperial
clause the Government, acting of course under the opinion of
their Attorney-General, must have acted in allowing the Pro-
vincial Acts cited by Mr. Mowut in his address to the Court.
The Dominion Parliament never claimed the power of preventing
the construction by a Province of a railway within its limits :
and when the Government desired to prevent the construction
of certain railways, as tiot consistent with the general advantage
of Canada, the Act passed for the purpose only declared that
Buch construction would not be sanctioned ; and this declaration
was acted upon by the exercise of the power of disallowance.

The Railway Act does not forbid such construction or
requite such disallovvance, and therefore does not re-establish
the monopoly you so justly denounce as inconsistent with good
faith and equity. Abiding by their consistent interpretation of
the Imperial provision, the Government was not bound to call
the attention of members to the possibility of a pretention on the
part of the C. P. R. Company, invalid in law, and which .seems
only to have been raised for the sake of profitable delay. How
far the managers of the Company are justified in not having
called attention to the point when the Railway Act was under
discussion, is for them to show. The Company, and not the
Government, is contesting the right of the Province to make a
railway declared to be for the general advantage of Canada.

W.
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Jeauita* Ealateti Act.

And on Saturday, the 22nd of December, the Supreme Court
una.iimously declared its opinion, that the Manitoba Act is valid
and the railway constructed under it entitled to cross the C. P. R,
subject to the approval ot the Bailway Committee, as provided
by the Railway Act.

No'iK. — The two letters appeared in the issues of the papers mentioned, next
after their resjiective dates, and the article from the Law Journal, in its No. for
1st December, antl they have therefore been largely circulated separately. The
writer hopes that he may be pardoned for reprinting them together for the perusal
of some of his friends, now that the Supreme Court has sanctioned the opinion
they express, as to the (rue intent and effect of a i)rovision of the Constitutional
Act affecting the statutory powers of all the Provinces and of the Dominion,
respectively. - • W.

JESUITS' ESTATES ACT.

With reference to the articles in the Law Journal of the
I6th February, 1889, the purport of which seems to be that the
Jesuits' Estates Act, passed by the Legislature of the Province
of Quebec, ought to have been disallowed, permit mo modestly
to express ray o))inion that the Dominion Ministry could not
properly have advii-ed its disallowance ; — not because it was
within the constitutional powers of the Quebec Legislature, for.
If that alone were a sufficient reason, the Veto power would be
useless, as tin Act ultra vires would be ipso facto, null and void,
although not disallowed ; — but because, being perfectly within
the powers of the Legislature, it wns passed without opposition
or remonstrance by any party, and is a fair and amicable
settlement of a long standing difficulty and the expression of the

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C. P. It.,
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lonstitutional
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be that the

Province
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could not
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would be

and void,
Itly within
1 opposition
amicable
Ision of the

will of the people of the Province. It does not violaie the
principle of the Bcparation of Church and State more than the
Clergy Reserves Act : both authorize the isulo of property given
for church purposes and education, and divide a certain propor-
tion of the proceeds of the cale among the parties who appear
justly entitled thereto, once for all, and so avoid any further
interference of the Government which can neither add to nor
diminish the share assigned to each, and such share, in the case
before us, will be moderate enough, for it (>eems likely that the
principle sum, 9400,000, will be divided among several educa-
tional institutions, and the interest of each share, at four per
cent., will be a very modest contribution towards the support
of an institution for superior education. The main objection
made to the grant is that it is made to the Jesuits; but the Act
does not give them the whole or any definite part of it, but
allows the Pope to divide it among institutions, who must use it
within the Province, for the purposes mentioned within the
preamble ; and from the latest reports it seems probable that
the Jesuits' share will not be exorbitant. The articles in question
treat the work done by the Order rather slightingly, but in
Canada at least, their work compares favorably with that done
by any other missionary body, and the martyr spirit in which
it has been done is denied by none. They have shown them-
selves good teachers, and have several educational institutions
against which I have heard of no complaint. St. Mary's College
at Montreal, was incorporated by Act of Parliament of United
Canada (Upper and Lower) in 1852. the corporators being the
Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal and six members of the
Order ; — it has 1 believe been very successful. HiW any complaint
been made against it during the 37 years it has existed ? In
1887 the Jesuits were incorporated by the Quebec Act 50 Vic ,
c. 28, which was not disallowed, nor was its allowance made a
matter of reproach to the Dominion Ministry. — It has been made
a subject of reproach to the Jesuits and to the Pope, that he

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BupproHsed them in 1763 and roHtored them in 1814 ; but may
not the Pope have been right in both casoH, may not the JonuitM
have shown him that they had Huen the error of the practicoM
by which Ibey had offended, and reformed them ? A hundred
years have made great changeH in men's ideas of morality and
right. The Boman Catholic clergy do not now complain of the
Jesuits, though they did in 1763. They have the virtues of
obedience, self-denial, industry and temperance. They opposed
the sale of intoxicating liquor to the Indians when the French
Governor for profits' sake allowed it. The}' are accused of
holding doctrines contrary to morality; but they deny the
oharge, and challenge proof. Their constitution and rules wore
printed in Latin and French at Paris in 1845, and there is a copy
in our Parliamentary Library — why is it not cited to justify the
accusation ? They preach regularly in the church attached to
St. Mary's College at Montreal ; — is their preaching complained
of? I am a Protestant and wish earnestly that all Jesuits and
Boman Catholics were of my persuasion ; but I do not think
Protestants alone are Christians. The vast majority of our fel.
low subjects in Quebec are Boman Catholics, and acknowledge
the Pope as the Head of their Church, and 1 do not think a
more faithful, devoted, or well beloved and respected body of
men can be found anywhere than the Boman Catholic clergy of
Lower Canada. Tennyson has written, —

" Love your enemies, bless your haters," said the Greatest of the Great ;
" Christian love among the Churches seems the twin of heathen hate."

Ought not the members of every Christian church, while
obeying the commandment cited. in the Laureate's first line, to
do their bcbi to prove the bitter taunt in the second to be
undeserved ?

And as respects the article questioning the constitutionality
of the said Act, — it does not seem to mo that the English Acts

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cited in it can apply to Canada, which whon they were paMsed
was no part of the lealm of Er.<j;lnnd, and the inhabitants of
which are hy Hubsoqiiont Acts of tho Imperial Parliament gua-
ranteed the free oxorti>e of the Uoman Catholic religion, of
which the Pope Im tliu head, and his Hupremaoy as Huch part of
its very esseiico. The later law derogates* from and virtually
repeals any former proviaion contrary to it. The Eiigiinh laws
disqualifying Roman CiitholicH from holding certain offices wore
never in force in Canadn. The money ap])ropriated belonged to
the Province, and is grantod by itsLcgislutuie for the purposes
for which the properly from which it arises was given by the
French King, and tho Act of appropriation is Hanctioncd by the
assent of the Queen, who may, without impropriet)'. avail
herself, in dealing will) it, of the advico and assistance of the
Head of the Church and of an ecclesiastical and educational
corporation, which, if not legally the (<ame, is morally the repre-
sentative and successor of that to which the original grant was
made, and which, with the Pope, will be bound to use the money
in accordance with and Hololy by virtue of the powers given them
by the Act. I cannot see that any law is violated or anything
but right done by this provision.

Note The above article was written fur the Law JorRNAi., but the Marcli

number was ready earlier than I expected and I was too late, and did not like to
wait for the next number.

Ottawa Citizen, gth^March, 1889.

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Les Exctyinmunies.

LES EXCOMMUNl^S

Voyez-vous, sur le bord tie ce chemin bourbcux,
Get enclos en ruine ou broutent les grands boeuf's ?
loi, cinq paysans— trois hommes ot deux femmos —
Eurent la sepulture ignoble des infdmes !

Cette histoire est bien triste, et dale do bien loin. \

Comme un soldat mom ant la carabine aii poing,
Quebec 4tait tomb^. Sans honle et sans myslere,
Un bourbon nous avail livres a rArglelorre 1

Ge fut un coup mortel, un long d^chirement,
Qnand ce peuple entendit avec offarement,
— Lui qui tenait enfin la victoire supreme, —
Par un nouveau forfait souillant son diademe,
Le roi de France dire aux Saxons : Prenoz-les !
Ma gloire n'en a plus besoin ; qu'ils soient Anglais t

O Lorraine I 6 Strasbourg ! si belles et si grandes.
Yous, c'est le sort au moins qui vous tit allemandes I

Des bords du Saint-Laurent, scene de tant d'exploits,

On entendit alors soixante mi lie voix

Jeter au ciel ce cris d'amour et de souffrance:

— Eh bien, soil I nous serous frangais malgr^ la Prance f

Or chacun a tenu sa parole. Aujourd'hui,
Sur ce Ifiche abandon plus d^ cent ans ont lui :
Et, sous le sceptre anglais, cette Here phalange
Conserve encore aux yeux de tous et sans melange,
Son culte pour la Franco, el son cachtet sacr^.

The Excommunicated.

THE EXCOMMUNICATED.

In yon rough plot beside muddy road,
Where on wild herbage heavy cattle browse,
Five peasants lie — two women and three men —
Whose burial rites were such as felons have.

The tale is sad and dates from long ago.

Like soldier dying with his arms in hand,
Quebec had fallen. Without disguise or shame,
A Bourbon sold us to our English foes !

Mortal the blow and long the agony
Felt when our people hoard with wild dismay, —
— They who had gained the last great victory, —
The King of France — (soiling with now disgrace
His diadem) — say to the Saxon, — Take them !
My glory needs them not; let them be English !

O Strasbourg ! O Lorraine, so fuir, so great,
'Twas fate at least that made you German land !

Along St. Lawrence, scene of gallant deeds.
The voice of sixty thousand souls was heard
Kaising to Heaven thoir cry of love and grief;
—So be it! We'll be French despite of France!

And each has kept his word. And now to-day.
A centurv since this base abandonment,
And under English rule, this faithful band,
Still cherish openly and unalloyed,
Thoir sacred love for Franco, and hei- impress.

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Les Excornrnuni^d.

Mui8 d'autres repoussant tout servage execre,
Apres avoir brfil^ lour derniere cartouche,
Benferm^s ddsormais dans un orgueuil farouche,
Bevolt^s impuissants, sans crainte et saiis remord,
Voulurent, libres meme en face de la mort,
Emporter au tombeau leur eternellehaine...

En vain I'on invoqua I'autorite romaine;

En vain, sous les regards de ces naifs croyants,

Le pretre deroula les tableaux eifrayants \

Des chfitiments que Dieu garde pour les suporbes ; ^

En vain Ton epuisa les menaces acerbcs ;

Menaces et sermons resterent sans succes t

— Non ! disaient ces vaincus; nous sommes des Frangais ;

Et nul n'a le pouvoir de nous vendre a I'enchere !

La foudre un jour sur eux descendit do la chairo :
L'Eglise pour forcer ses enfants au devoir,
A regret avait du frapper sans s'^mouvoir.

11 n'en resta que cinq :

Ceux-la furont semblables,

Bans leur folie altidre, aux rocs indbranlables :
lis laisserent gronder la foudre sur leurs fronts,
Bt malgre les frayeurs, et malgrd les affronts.
Sublimes egar^s, dans leur sain to ignorance,
Ne voulurent servir d'autre Dieu que la France !

La vieillesse arriva; la mort vint a son tour,
Et, sans pretre, sans croix, dans un champ, au detour
D'une route fangeuse ou la brute so vautre,
Ghaque robello alia dormir Tun apred I'autre.

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But some who spurned all hateful pervitude. —
When their last cartridge had been spent in vain.
Nursing their wrath in gloomy, savage pride,
Impotent rebels, without fear or shame, —
Determined, free and in the face of death,
To carry to the grave their deathless hate.

And vainly was the power of Rome invoked ;
And vainly in her simple followers' ears.
The priest read out the fearful catalogue
Of pains reperved by God for ptubborn souls ;
In vain exhausted all its awful threats;
Nor threatenings nor sermons aught availed I
No! said the vanquished I we are Frenchmen still,
No man has power to sot us up for sale 1

\t length the thunder from the pulpit came :
The Church to force her children to obey,
Struck with regret, but calmly resolute.

Five only braved the blow ; — but these resembled
In their proud folly, the unshaken rock ;
They let the thunder growl above their heads,
And in despite of insult and of fears,
Sublimely mad, in holy ignorance.
Refused to bow to any God but France I
Old age crept on them, — death came in its turn, —
And without priest, or cross, in that rough plot,
Close by the muddy road, where cattle browse
^hese stubborn souls lav down in tarn to sleep.

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II n'en restait plus qu'un, un vieillard tout cassd,

Uno ombre I Plus d'un quart de slecle avait passe

Depuis quo sur uon fronl pesait I'fipre anatheme.

Pench^ sur son b&ton branlant, la levre blSme,

Sur la route deserte on le voyait pouvent, '^

A la brtkne, roder dans la pluie et le vent,

Comme un spectre. Parfois detour nan b les paupidres,

Pour ne pas voir Tenfant qui lui jetait des pierres,

II s'enfoncait tout seul dans les ombres du soir, I

Et plus d'un afflrmait avoir cru I'entrevoir —
— Les ferames du canton s'en signaient interdites —
Agenouill^ la nuit sur les tombes muudiles.

Un jour on I'y trouva roide et gele,

Sa main
Avait laisse tomber sur le bord du chomin
Un vieux fusil rouili6, son arrao de nuguere,
Son ami des grand jours, son compagnon de guerre,
Son dernier camarade et son supreme espoir.

On crensa de nouveau dans le sol dur et noir ;

Et Ton mit cote a cote en la fausso nouvelle, '

Le vieux mousquet fran9ais avec le vieux rebelle I

Le penple a conserve ce sombre souvenir.

Et lorsque du couchant I'or commence a brnnir, —

Au village de Saint Michel do Bellochasso, ^

Le passant, attard^ par la peche ou la chasse, ^

Graignant de voir surgir quelque fantome blanc,

Du fatal carrefour se ddtourne en trorabiant. i

Done, ces cinq paysans n'eurent pour sepulture •<

Qu'un tertre oii I'animal vient chercher sa pfiture !

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One yet remained, a broken down old man,
A shadow ; five and twenty years had passed
Since on bis bead the anathema had fallen.
Bowed on bis trembling staff, with whited lip,
On the deserted road be oft was seen
At twilight, wandering in the rain and storm.
Spectre-like, — turning oft bis eyes away,
To shun the child that pelted him with stones,

He plunged alone into the shades of night.
And more than one affirmed to having seen him,
— The village women crossed themselves in fright-
Kneeling in darkness by the unblessed graves.

One day they found him frozen stiff; his band
Had in its weakness on the road let fall
An ancient rusted gun, — bis old-time weapon.
His friend in the bravedays,— his war companion.
His latest comrade and bis supreme hope.

They dug into the black and hardened soil.
And laid in that new grave, and side by side,
The old French musket and the old-time rebel.

The people cherish yet this sad remembrance ;
And when the sunset gold fades into grey,
The passer through St. Michel de Bellechasse,
Belated at hie sport with rod or gun.
Fearing to see some sheeted spectre rise,
Turns trembling from the fatal spot away.

So these five peasants had for burial place,
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lis le m6ritaient,— fioit! Mais on dira partout
Qu'ils furent bel et bien cinq horos apres tout !

Je respecte I'arret qui les fiappa, sans doule ;
Mais lorsque le hazard me met sur cotte route,
Sans demander a Dieu si j'ai tort en cola
Je d^couvie mon front devant ces tombes la 1

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Deserved it, — yes— perhaps I Yet men will say
They were in truth five heroes after all !

I bow, no doubt, to the decree that struck them,
Tet, when by chance I pass along that road,
— Not asking God if I be right or wrong —
I pause— uncovered— near those lowly graves !

G. W. WlOKSTBBD.

This story is true. Dr. Frechette gives the names of the five, vi/. : iMargi\erite
Racine, — Laurent Racine, — Felicite Dore — Pierre Cadrain, — ^Jean Baptiste Racine,
father of Laurent ; — and that of the Bishop of Quebec, who pronounced the
Anathema, — Monseigneur Briand.

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LE DRAPEAU ANGLAIS.

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Rogarde, mo disait mon pere,
Ce drapeau vaillamment porte ;
II a fait ton pays prospdre,
Et respecte ta liberty.

C'est le drapeau de I'Angleterro ;
Sans tache, sur le firmament,
Presque h tou8 les points de la terre
II flotte glorieusement.

Oui, sur un Imilieme du globe
C'eat r^tendard offiuiel ;
Mais le coin d'azui-qu'il d^robe
Nolle part n'obscurcit le ciel.

II brille sur tons les rivages;
II a seme tous les progr^s
Au bout des mers les plus sauvages
Gomme aux plus lointaines forets.

Laissaiit partout sa fi^re erapreinte,
Au plus f(^roces nations ■
II a porl^ laflamme sainte
De nos civilisations.

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Mainte fois son pli rayonna,
Com me la colombe de I'arcbe,
Qu comme 1 'Eclair du Sina,

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THE BRITISH FLAG.

Behold, my son, my father said,
That gallant banner bravely boi*he;
It made thy country prosperous,
And hath respected liberty.

That banner is the British Flag ;
Without a stain beneath the sky,
O'er almost every coign of earth
It floats unfurled triumphantly.

Over an eighth part of the globe
It waves the ensign of command ;
Covering a little patch of blue.
But nowhere dimming heaven's light.

It waves o'er every sea and shore ;
And carries progress where it flies ; —
Beyond the farthest ocean's verge,
And to remotest forest lands.

Leaving on all it« proud impress,
To wildest tribes of savage men
It comes the harbinger of light
And civilizing arts of life.

And in the march of intellect,
How often hath it shown the way,
Like the dove loosed from out the ark,
Qr Sinai's guiding column's glow,

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Longtemps ce glorieax insigne .
De notre gloire fut jaloax,
Gomme s'il se fQt era soul digne
De marcher de pair avec nous.

Aveo lui dans bien des batailles,
Sur tous les poiDts de I'univers,
Nous avons mesur^ nos taillen
Aveo des rdsultats divers.

Un jour, notre bannidre auguste
Devant lui dut ne replier ;
Mais alors s'il nous fut injusto,
11 a 8U le faire oublier.

Et si maintenant son pli vibre
A nos remparts jadis gaulois,
G'est au moins sur nn peuple libre
Qui n'a rien perdu de ses droits.

Oublions les jours de tempdtes ;
Et mon enfant, puisque aujourd'hui
Ge drapeau flotte sur nos t^tes,
II faut s'incliuer devant lui.

— Mais, pdre, pardonnez si j'ose...
N'en est-il pas un autre a nous ?
— Ah I celui-ld, c'est autre chose :
XI faut le baiser a genoux !

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Of old that glorious flag with ours
A jealous rivalry maintained ;
Deeming itself the only peer
Of ours in the race for fame.

In many a famous battle then ;

In every quarter of the world,

With ours it measured strength with strengtb,-

Victor and vanquished each in turn.

One day our fleurs de lis were doomed
Before that rival flag to bow ;
But if it wrought us sorrow then,
It since has taught us to forget.

And if to^ay it floats above

Those ramparts that were French of yore,

It waves above a people free,

And losing nothing of their rights.

Lot us forget the stormy days ;
And since, my son, we have to day
That banner waving o'er our heads,
We must salute it reverently.

— But, father,— pardon if I dare : —
Is there not yet another, — ours ? —
— Ah! tlmty — that's quite another thing, —
And we must kiss it on our knees.

[ITTK.

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The History of Canada.

THK HISTORY OF CANADA.
By William Kinqhford.

\'ol. I. Toronto: Howsell »>' Huhhinson xSHtf.

It iH ihe natural and luudnblo douire of overy man to know
what ho can of the history of tho land ho lives in, and in the
volume montionod in the heading of this article, Mr. King»«ford
undertakes to tell us the stor}* of Canada under French rule
fiom its earliest date to 1082. We understand that his intention
is to continue the work to the Union of Upper and Lower Canada
in 1841, so as to comprise the history of our country under
French rule, until tho capitulation of the Marquis de Vaudreuil
in 1760, and its cession to Groat Britain by the Treaty of Parii
in 1763; and thereafter under the Government of Great Britain
and of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Mr. Kingsford's qualifications for the work he has under-
taken are — the intense interest ho takes in his subject, indefatig-
able industry, a perfect knowledge of the languages in which tho
documents from which his information is derived are written,
and a familiarity with the archives of Canada, now under tho
charge of Mr. Bry mner, to whose ability and courtesy Mr.
Kinghford bears ample and dofserved tobtimony in his work on
the archeology of Canada,— and above all a reputation and cha-
racter which justify our full faith in tho assurance he gives in
his opening chapter: " That ho will make every ett'ort to be fair
and honest," and in his confident hope '* that those with whom
he may have the misfortune to differ, will recognize that he has
consulted original authorities, and that whatever opinions ho
expresses are not hastily or groundlessly formed ; but that, on

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m to know
and in tho
Kingtiford
Von oh rule
is intention
wor Canada
ntry under
a Vaudreuil
,ty of Paris
•eat Britain
and.

has under-
, indefatig-
which tho
re written,
under the
urtesy Mr.
iH work on
an and cha-
10 gives in
t to be fair
ith whom
that he has
pinions ho
t that, on

the contrary, he has warrant for the belief that they are fully
sustained by evidence." With this assurance ho enters upon tho
story of tho occupation and colonization of Canada, and shows
us that in Canada, as in the English colonies in North Ameriou,
the work was commenced, not by the Government, but by pri-
vate enterprise moved by tho spirit of adventure and the hopo
of gain, aided after a while, in Canada, by the desire to extend *
the influence of tho Church, and for the conversion of savage
nations to Christianity ; receiving later some official assistance by
the incorporation of a company with moans and influence and
special powers of settlement and organization ; and lastly, by the
direct intervention of the Sovereign, and the assumption of the
government of the country by France as a Boyal possession.
He then narrates in ordered sequence, the three voyages of Car-
tier to the St. Lawrence, and his ascent of that Biver to Montreal,
his attempt at settlement, and the sufferings he and his crew
endured from the Canadian climate in winter, his discourage-
ment and return to France ; the twelve voyages of Ohamplain,
his discoveries and explorations of tho great rivers and lakes,
his skillful diplomacy in treating and dealing with the Indians,
and finally his appointment as Governor-General of Canada; the
conquest ot Quebec by tho English under Eirke, in 1629, its
occupation by them for three years, and its restoration to Franco
under the Treaty of St. Germain en-Laye.

He then places vividly before tho reader tho great events
and actions of what Lord Lansdowne, on u late occasion at
Montreal, rightly styled the heroic age of Ca/nada ; — the long,
tierce struggle with the Indians, then a numerous and most
formidable enemy ;— tho attacks upon tho French settlements
and posts by tribes coming often from very distant ])arts of the
country, as the Mohawks from tho country still bearing their
name in Western Now York ; and the counter expeditions of the
French against them to like distant places, through tracts of
thickly wooded coutry, with only the Indian trail for guidance

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and without horses or carriages, or in canoes over lakes and
rivors then recently disco^'ered and but little known ; — their
explorations of theretofore unknown lakes and rivers, from the
St. Lawrence upward to Lake Superior, and of the country north
of it to Hudson's Bay, and southward down the Illinois and
Mississippi to the Gulf of )Iexico ; the hardships suffered in these
daring expeditions and explorations, and the courage and per
severance displayed in overcoming them ;— the victories and
defeats, successes and disappointments, incident to these Indian
wars; — the various modes and forms of government tried by the
adventurers, by the Company of the Hundred As^sociates, or by
tno Council appointed by the Crown or Governor ; the introduc-
tion of the Seigniorial system ; the contests of the ecclesiastical
and lay elements for supremacy, and especially on the burning
question of the prohibition of the sale of liquor to the Indians,
in which Frontenac and Bishop Laval took opposite sides, the
Governor being the winner : — and, in a word, the cares, labours,
trials and vicissitudes of fortune under which were laid the foun-
dations of the land we now live in, and in the narration whereof
Mr. Kingsford shows us " Quantte molis erat Canademem condere
gentem." He intersperses in his narrative incidents from the
history of France, and even of England, respecting religious
and political events, and throwing light on Canadian history,
and short sketches of the lives and characters of those who play
parts in his drama, and does full justice to the ability and firmness
of Frontenac, the indomitable courage apd perseverance of De
La Salle and his fellow pioneers in discovery, De Tonty, Duluth,
Joiliet and others ; the ability and religious zeal of Bishop Laval,
and the martyr spirit of the BecoUets, Jesuits, and religious
ladies ; -but his bero is Champlain, whom he calls the True
Founder of Canada, and whose character and deeds he paints in
glowing terms. Indeed we cannot give our readers a better
idea of the spirit and Gftyle of Mr. Eingsford's book than by citing
the following excerpts from his character of .Champlain which

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ikeb and
; — their
from the
ry north
nois and
I in these
and per
ii'ies and
se Indian
ed by the
tes, or by
introduc-
lesiaatical
e burning
e Indians,
sides, the
IS, labours,
i the foun-
n whereof
m condere
from the
religious
[1 history,
who play
d firmness
since of De
y, Duluth,
lOp Laval,
religious
the True
paints in
a better
by citing
ain which

follows the narrative of his death, and the incidents immediately
preceding it :

" There are few men whose characteristics can be more
distinctly traced than those of Champlain ; thoro are few cha-
racters which more satisfactorily sustain the examination
bestowed on them. There* is no moral leaven to weaken the
regard or esteem with which Champlain's character must be
considered. It is seldom that we become acquainted with a life
in which the pure, tranquil, constant advance of an individualism
can be so fully traced. . . . There is no character known to
us in the British or French history of the Amorican continent
in modern days, which can advance higher claims to honourable
fame. If I were to make a comparison between Champlain and
any historic name which we possess, it would be with that of
Julius Csesar, with whose excellences and genius he bears strong
relationship unalloyed by those vices and that social deformit}'
which marked Eoman life. Much of the brighter side of Csesar's
character is repeated in that of Champlain ; his equanimity, his
liberal opinions, his triumphs over difficulties and misfortune,
his modesty and ability in relating his actions, his high-bred
stoicism. . . . Both cultivated the elevating and consoling
pursuits of literature. . . . Judged by his writings Cham-
plain comes before us with a rare modesty, and a careful obser-
vation of truth, 80 that his statements obtain immediate
acceptance. A quiet humour runs through all he tells us. He
does not sacrifice reality to effect. ... To him discovery
was not merely sailing up the waters of a river and never
penetrating beyond its shores. His genius was to advance to
distant localities, to learn the resources of a country, its cha-
racter, the extent of the population of the native tribes, and to
study their manners and customs. He saw that the only means
of gaining this end was by identifying himself with the Indians,
with whom he entered into friendly relations. His discoveries
were remarkable : ho made known from personal examination

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the Ottawa, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, the St Lawrence which
he correctly describes, and Lake Champlain. He indeed traced
out the southern portion of the Province of Ontario, without
the precise minor details. . . . No statue, no monument
has been raised to Champluin's memory. No memorial exists to
teach the youth of the Dominion what excellence there is in a
noble, honest life, marked by devotion to duty, and an utter dis-
regard of self. Canada has shown no honour to his name. It
remained in modern days for Laval University to disseminate
the true perpetuation of his genius in the record of his life and
labours. It is a contribution never to pass away, and one by
which Laval has established an enduring claim to consideration
in the world-wide republic of letters. . . . Cham plain's
name is imperishably written in the first and foremost pages of
his country's history; it is the name of a man of genius, of pure
and untarnished honour, the True Founder of Canada. (See pp.
131 to 134.) " A captious critic might object to the comparison
of Champlain to Julius Ceesar, and our substitution of Canadenaem
for Homanam in Virgil's line. — but we must remember that,
although not invested with the Imperial purple, Champlain's
were

" Hands that the rod of Empire might have swayed," ,

and he would have made a better legislator than the monarch
whom he served. No French- Canadian can be dissatisfied with
the account the book gives of his ancestors, and no English-Cana-
dian can refuse to acknowledge the merits of his French precur-
sors. We trust both will like and patronize this work, and though
some may differ from opinions expressed in it with which others
may agree, none can charge it with wilful mistatemeut or unfair
prejudice.

Mr. Eingsford's style is simple and clear. Some minor
slips of the pen or press ma}* be found by keen-eyed critics, but

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ice which
led traced
, without
monument
I exists to
ere is in a
I utter dis-
name. It
isseminato
lis life and
ind one by
nsideration
hamplain's
•St pages of
ius, of pure
a. {Sea pp.
comparison

imber that,
Jhamplain's

le monarch
Ltisfied with
Iglish-Cana-
Inch precur-
1 and though
Ihich others
lut or unfair

llome minor
critics, but

they can mislead no one. We think it would be well if the
author had appended, or would append in a future volume, a
brief account of the several Indian tribes and the tracts of
country the}' inhabited, and of the rolii^ious orders which are
prominent in his narrative. But, take it all in all, no book yet
published in English seems to us to give so clear and detailed
an account of the period of French government in Canada as the
one before us ; and, believing as we do for the reasons we have
stated, that its statements of fact are correct, we hold it to be a
work whicli no student of Canadian history can afford to be
without. It is well got up and printed, nnd the dates inserted
at the head of each page of the events recorded in it, much
facilitate its use.

KINGSFORD'S HISTORY OF CANADA-Vol. II.

Mr. Kingsford continues his important and laborious work,
and we have before us the second Volume of his " History of
Canada." The first contained the story of our country under
French rule, from the earliest date down to 1682; the present
volume continues it down to 1725, embracing the events occur-
ring in the tirst administration of De Frontenac, those ofDe
la Barre and Denonville, the second administration of Be Fron-
tenac and those of De Callieres and Vaudreuil ; in the reigns of
Louis XIV and Louis XV of Franco, and of Charles II, James
II, William and Mary, William III, Anne and George I, in
England ; a period fraught with most important events for
Canada and the British Coloniej in America, as well as to the
mother countries of both : and very interesting he has K^.ade the
story he had to tell, and has told in the 518 pages of the book,
and an appendix by which ho elucidates the events he has
related.

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It is impossible in the limited space allowed us, to give
more than a very summary account of the scope of this important
work, and to mention some few of the matters as to which we
think it relates facts not generally known, or gives them with
fuller details, or places them in a new light. It contains the ac-
count of the dissentions in the council and the occurrences which
led to the recall of De Fronlonac, and the changes following it
until his re-appointment as governor, and then deals with those
stormy times and events in Canada and the neighbouring colonies
during his second administration, the effect of which still is,
and will be long deeply felt. The ancient feiid between the
mother countries was continued with increased intensity and
bitterness between Now France and New England and the other
Ensriish settlements, and to the suffering and hori'ors attendant
on war in the older countries were added the atrocities of barba-
rism and savagery ; for both sides employed the Indian, and war
was conducted after the Indian fashion — cruel, pitiless and
unsparing — by attacks generally in the dead of night, when
neither women nor children were spared, and when prisoners
were given up by Christian leaders, at the demand of their
savage allies, to Indian revenge and torture. Plans were laid
by each side for the destruction of the other; by the English for
the conquest of Canada, and by the French for that of New York,
with intentions as to a mode of dealing with the conquered less
lenient than that adopted towards Canadians when they became
British subjects. Both plans came to nought.

A separate chapter is devoted to the history of Acadia duritig
the period to which the volume relates, and the war carried on
between it and New England, in which the Indian tribes of the
Abenaquis and Canabas were employed on the French side, and
many attacks made on New England villages, including Cocheco
and Pemaquid, in which the spirit of Indian warfare was fully
developed, and murder, arson and pillage reigned supreme, as
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important
which we
them with
ins the ac-
nees which
allowing it
with those
32 colonies
ich still is,
etween the
ensity and
d the other
s attendant
es of barba-
an, and war
(itiless and
ight, when
n prisoners
id of their
i8 were laid
English for
New York,
iquered less
ey became

[adia during
carried on
I'ibes of the
\\\ side, and
Ing Cocheco
[•e was fully
Supreme, as
jhino by the

Iroquois as allies of the English. Mr. Kingsford has partly
hupplied a want we noticed in our account of his first volume,
by a long note about the Iroquois, or Five Nations, and the
several tribes which comprised the Mohawks, Oneidas,
Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas, and the tracts of country
occupied by them. These tribes generally took part with the
English. Wo think the note should have included the Algon-
quins, Abonaquis, and others who sided with the French.

The account given of the abortive attempt at the conquest
of Quebec by Phi ps in IGOO, is very interesting, and the scene
between his party and Do P'onlenac, who was given, by the
New Et)gland Major, one hour to consider the surrender of the
Fort and its stores, is very picturesque, and by no means to the
credit of the New Englanders. Phips was a brave man and an
excellent sailor, and found his way safely up the St. Lawrence
and out of it, but he had no skill as a soldier or a diplomatist,
and his discomfiture and retreat show the impolicy of New York
in sending him. There is also a g.'aphic and detailed narrative
of the unfortunate attempt to attack Quebec by the English
fleet under Admiral Hovonden WalUor in 1711, when by strange
want of seamanship and precaution, eight ships and nearly one
thousand men were lost at the entrance of the St. Lawrence
which Phips had passed with ease and safety.

The account of the tragic death of De la Salle is touching
and sad, and the summary of his adventures and discoveries very
interesting, as is that of his character as a man equal to any
amount of adventurous daring, but deficient in that power of
winning and keeping respect and affection which ensures un-
hesitating obedience and faithful service, while he had a haughty
manner which excited anger and dislike, under the influence of
which he was murdered by two of his own followers. Mr. Kings-
ford states his belief as to the manner in which Be la Salle's
movements and conduct were probably influenced by the
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A short extract from Charlevoix gives a pleasant descrip-
tion of life and society in Cuiiada in 1720 as compared with that
in the English settlements, very prettily translated, and by no
means unfavourable to our countrymen of that date, and still
less to our countrywomen of the same period.

The account of the death and character of De Frontenac are
graphic and fair, with " nothing extenuated nor aught set down
in malice ; " our author defends him against the charge of extra-
vagant pretentions to power and the adoption of a policy for
private ends, of violence of temper, and of exaction of personal
consideration without true dignity; adding, that even if these
faults be conceded, he still stands forth the most prominent of
French Governors, and that the great stain on his name is the
ruthless character of the massacres which he authorized ; and of
this he says " His nature was genial and kindly, and the fault
may bo attributed to the school in which he was reared, and
the maxim of war then recognized — that anything whatever that
caused disaster to an enemy was permissible." Our historian
calls him the ''Second Pounder of Canada," and winds up with
Charlevoix's epitaph : " After all, Now France owed to him all
she was at the time of bis death, and the people soon perceived
the great void he had loft behind him."

As an appendix, Mr. Kingsford has added a full and detailed
account of the negotiations and events which led to the Treaty
of Utrecht, which had so important etfect upon the boundaries
of Canada and the then English Colonies, and the terms of which
he believes would have been much more favourable to England,
if the conduct of the latter years of the war to which it put an
end had been left to the Duke of Marlborough, of whom he speaks
in terms of the highest admiration, as u general and a man of
honour and unswerving fidelity to his country, and whom he
holds to have been removed by the sovereign from his command
under the influence of mean jealousy and intrigue, and defends
fVom all the charges which have been brought against him ;

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though he acknowledges his love of money to have been inor-
dinate. The chapter is interesting as an essay on a moot point
in English history, as well as in relation to Canada. The account
is not flattering to the courts and sovereigns engaged ; — corrup-
tion was at least as flagrant then as now.

Mr. Kingsford has thus performed the promise he made,
and given us a history of Canada during the time over which his
two volumes extend, which leaves little to be desired in extent
of scope or fulness of detail, ably, and, as we believe, conscien-
tiously written, with as much impartiality as human frailty
admits of, after a faithful and indefatigable examination of
trustworthy authorities. His style is simple and clear, prefer-
ring truth to rhetorical effect. He appears to have spared no
pains to think rightly, and to say inteligibly what he thinks.
We can say of this volume, as of the first, — No student of Cana-
dian history can efford to be without it.

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KINGSFOED'S HISTORY OF CANADA— Vol. III.

We have been favored with a copy of the work of which the
title forms the heading of this article, and though our journal is
not a literary review, nor the work in question a legal essay or
report, it is one so deeply intei'esting to all Canadians and to
lawyers certainly not less than others, as a record of events
which have made Canada what it is, that we feel bound to call
the attention of our readers to it, and to give such brief account
of it as we did of the two volumes which preceded it.

We were at first rather disappointed to find that this
volume does not bring the history down to the conquest ; but
Mr. Kingsford in his brief and modest preface, explains that he
not only found it impossible to fulfil bis intention of bringing it
down to that period, but also, that although the capture of
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rule in Canada, yet the events between that capture and the
final cession of the country under the treaty of Paris, in Febru-
ary, 1763, formed ho important a part of its history that
his worl< could not have been considered complete unless it
included them, and that an account of these events and those
prior to the conquest and not included in the present volume,
would of themselves fill a fourth, on which he is now occupied,
and which he hopes to publish is September, 1890. Among the
events so referred to are — Levis' attack on Quebec, with Murray's
defeat in May and the capitulation of Montreal in September,
1760, followed in 1763 by the treaty of Paris; while among the
subjects indisponisablo to the completion of his work and included
with others in the present volume are — the history of Hudson's
Bay up to its cession under the treaty of Utrecht ; a summary
account of the settlement of Louisiana in its relationship to
Canada; and the events in Acadia after its cession under the
treaty of Utrecht, including the creation of the Province of Nova
Scotia, and the foundation of the city of Halifax ; the capture
and subsequent restoration of Louisburg ; the capture of Port
Royal (now Annapolis) ; the fruitless expedition of the Due
d'Anville ; the sufferings and surprise of the New England troops
by Coulon de Villiers in Acadia ; De la Verendrye's explorations;
the character of de la Galissoniere ; de Celeron's expedition up
the Ohio; the founding of Ogdensburg by Picquet; the charac-
ter and intrigues of LeLoutre ; the Marquis Duquesne's expedition
to the Ohio ; Braddock's expedition against Fort Duquesne, his
defeat and death ; Dieskau's expedition on the west side of Lake
Champlain ; the extraordinary ecclesiastical quarrel at Quebec
in 1727; the State of Canada and Canadian society in 1755-6.

This volume contains 578 pages, divided into 5 books, each
again divided into chapters. It is very handsomely and clearly
printed, the type and paper are good ; and it is altogether got
up in the best modern style. It has a very full table of contents ;
four small but vor^ useful map ; man^ ex|>lanatorj|r notes^ au4

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full references to the authorities for statements of fact, and in
many cases, citations of important passages from documents
referred to. There is no verbal index to persons and events, but
Mr. Kingsford promises that a very full one shall be given
with the fourth volume, to it and the three preceding it. His
style is clear without attempts at oratorical flourishes and
effects; and we hold with respect to this volume, the same con-
viction of the author's conscientious fidelity, cai*e and labour in
collecting and verifying the facts he relates, the impartiality of
the inferences he draws from them, and his charaterizations of
the personages whose acts he records, which we have expressed
as to the preceding volumes ; and as an instance of his fairness
wo give his character of Basle a Jesuit of the Jesuits, a body
for whom M. Kingsford has as little love as we have : —

'In spite of Kasle's persevering hostility to New England
and his never ceasing attempts to embroil England and France
in war, for a small extent of border territory which even to day
is but imperfectly settled, he demands our sympathy from the
high qualities he possessed. Had he been placed in a wider field
of action where his energy could have been exercised, and by
experience and contact with the world he could have learned
to overcome his prejudices, he might have been remembered in
history by the side of Bichelieu, Mazarin or Alberoni. Great pow-
ers always command respect, especially when allied with those
brilliant traits of character which impress us by their pnysical,
rather than by their moral force. To Basic's high ability he added
unfaltering courage and self-reliance ; and it was by no means in
disaccord with his character that he refused to give or take
quarter. In his young years he had been an earnest student
of polite literature. At the Jesuit's College he had been distin-
guished by great application, and was an elegant Latin
scholar ; and throughout his life, though he had been a mission-
ary for many years living with savages, he retained these
pastes. He had obtained a perfect knowledge of Abenaki. an4

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liad attempted to give it Homogrammatiual form. Ho had taught
fioveral of his people to read and write, and ho delighted to cor-
respond in their own languages with them. He is said even to
have written Indian poetry. He knew ibTo Dutch language to
speak it; English only imperfectly. He had a hatred of every-
thing English, the people, their language, their protestantism,
their mode of life ; and accordingly -hia manners were often
offensive. There was no deceit on his part in his enmity, it was
openly expressed ; and Rasle by the side of a ruffian like Le Lou-
tre appears a saint."

The covert designs intended by the French to be ac-
complished through the Indians, and Basic's intrigues for that
purpose, are narrraled at length.

Mr. Kingsford is English, and of course wishes to give the
English view of some matters upon which he thinks existing
histories have created erroneous impressions, and the first two
chapters of this volume are devoted to a defence of the English
claim to the discovery and right of possession of Hudson's fiay.
He says, and appears to us to prove, that nothing can be more
clear than the English claim to the discovery of and settlement
on these northern waters : the northern part of America being
discovered in 1497, by Sebastian Cabot, under a commission from
Henry VII, and Hudson having in 1610, by authority of James I,
taken possession of the bay and straits that bear his name : and he
then cites his authorities and states at length his reasons for the
opinion he expresses.

Another and more important matter, since it affects
England's repuUHion for justice and humanity, is the account he
gives of the deportation of the inhabitants of a certain portion
of Acadia, in 1755, on wich the American poet, Longfellow, has
founded his pathetic and beautiful ]>oom, Evangeline, which
does not directly reproach the English authorities with harshness
or cruelty, but yel leaves the impression that the proceeding
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been disapproved by them, had something of cruelty and tyranny
in it. In England it was looked upon as an act of painful nocen-
sity, tt duty unwillingly undertaken, and performed with as
much care to prevent unnecessary suffering as possible. Families
were not separated, and were allowed to carry with them all
their portable effects for which room could be found in the
vessels which carried them. They had brought the suffering
upon themselves For forty years, says Mr. Kingsford, the
country had belonged tc England, and all its inhabitants over
forty years of age had been born British subjects. They had
been repeatedly asked to take the oath of allegiance, and had
refused, sometimes with insolence, and on every poss.ble occasion
joined the French and Indians in their savage attacks on the
English colonists and their property. Every Acadian was a spy
to give intelligence to the enemy, and their removal was a
painful but unavoidable act of selfdefence. We request any
doubling reader to peruse Mr. Kingsford's statement of the case
in chapter VI of Book VIII.

The time covered by this volume, extends from 1*726 to 1756,
and embraces the administration of the several Governors of
Canada during that period, viz.— Le Marquis Beauharnois, Le
Marquis de la Jonquiere, Le Marquis Duquesne, and Le Marquis
de Vaudrouil, and portions of the reigns of Louis XIV, and
Louis XV, in France, and George I, and George II, in England.

It is impossible in the limited space allowed us to give
any idea of the amount of information and detail in the volume
before us, containing as it does a very full account of a most
important part of the struggle between France and England for
the possession of the northern part of America. The period
embraced has been called the heroic age of Canada, and it was
so as regards daring, hardihood and adventurous spirit, but it
was not the age of Chivalry, or generous rivalry in arms, but
that of '^savage, unrelenting, murderous war," between two na-
(jpns who bad been rivals front; the time of th^ battles of HastingSi

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CiOBsy and Agincourt, adopting m allies iho rndian navago, and
foiced by such alliance into peimittittg, if not adopting, all the
alominationa of Indian warfare. The book before us is crowded
with details of such warfare ; midnight attacks on villages, the
murder of their inhabitantH and destruction of their property,
the carrying oft' of women and children into life slavery, and
the torture of priuonern, sometimes with the consent of Chris-
tian allies, and sometimes in spile of them. The attack and
destruction of DeerHold, and the reprisal on Norridgowock
being specimens of the maiinoi- in which the contest between
two great Christian peoples was conducted in America. Mr.
Kingsford believes, and wo are most willing to believe with
him, that the worst things were not done on the English side;
but there were Indians on both sides, and the Christian victors
were sometimes forced to shut their eyes while their allies
indulged in the pleasure of burning a few captives. This was
called la petite yuerre. Up to the time when the narrative closes,
the fortunes of tno French seem to be in the ascendant ; they had
destroyed Oswego, defeated Braddock, and extended their hold-
ings on Lakes Champlain and Ontario, and the Ohio, and had
gone down the Mississippi to New Orleans, round the English
Colonies; their reinforcements from France, their despotic form
of government and the military character of their people giving
them a decided advantage over the democratic and separate
governments and the mercantile and agricultural habits of the
English colonists; so that but for the coming into power of the
first Pitt, and his energetic policy and action, they might possibly
have carried into eft'ect their cherished idea of driving the
English into the sea, or at any rate of confining them to the
Atlantic seaboard. But Pitt came to the helm of state, and
Bent Wolfe, and roused the latent energies of the English colo-
nists, and it was not long before the aspect of afiairs was changed,
and Canada became an English Province.

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COMMKUCIAL UNION.

Kuilor of The Citizbn.

Sir, — Mr. Chambcrliiin's answers to his intervioworn on the
subject of Commercial Union and Unrestricted Reciprocity are
so perfectly clear and so exactly confirmatory of what you and
your correspondents have said about them that I cannot help
congratulating yon on tho fact ; and thoy are so wise and convin-
cing that I think Canada may fool sure that her interests and
honour are safe in Mr. Chamberlain's hands. He holds
Commercial Union to be a surrender of the power of taxing
ourselves into the hands of the United States, and so ceasing to
be an independent country, which would imply the giving up ot
all claim to become a nation ; and Uurestricted Reciprocity to be
an impracticable scheme, leaving the Custom Houses along the
3,000 miles of border lino, with the difficulty of ascertaining the
origin of every article of commerce passing thorn, which was
found insuperable in England. I wish the supporters of either
to the two "fads" joy of Mr. Chamberlain's opinion of their
bantlings.

It has been said that the Americans object mainly to what
they consider the harsh and unneighbourly provisions of the
treaty of 1818, denying their fishing vessels ihe right of entering
Canadian ports for commercial purposes ; and it does seem to one
not cognizant of the intentions or motives of the framers of the
treaty, that the said provisions must have been inserted solely
for the purpose of preventing such vessels from entering upon
and fishing clandestinely within the thi^je-mile limit, for neither
their buying and selling, or exchangi>ig cargoes, or forwarding

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them over Canadian railways, could bo injarious or indeed
otherwise than advantageous in themselves to Canadian interests.
Our neighbours say they do not want to fish within the three-
mile limit, and if the obnoxious provisions were really only
intended to prevent their doing so, would not they themselves
help to prevent such unlawful fishing, and instruct their cruisers
to assist ours in this duty and so remove these objectionable
provisions ? Our neighbours only ask that we should do by
them what they say they are ready to do by us ; cannot means
be found to avoid what seems to hurt and annoy them without
doing us any good ? or if it does us any good Uncle Sam might
make some little concession in return for its removal, The
headland difficulty might be easily settled by the commissioners,
or if not, by arbitration ; and so also the Bebring Sen difficulty,
where it would seem the harsh dealing has not been on our side.
Where there is a will there will be found a way, and on both
sides justice only can bo desired. " Blessed are the peace-
makers." Some are unwise enough to think that Commercial
Union would settle the fisheries difficulty. It would give us
free trade in fish ; it would not give U. S. our in-shore fisheries,
or take away orr exclusive right to them. Annexation might,
and that would be granted if the two Houses of our Parliament
asked it, and they would ask it if Canada wanted it— but Canada

does not.

W.
Ottawa, December 27th, 1887.

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MR. HITT'S RESOLUTION.

Editor of The Citizen.

Sir, — Mr. Hitt in offering us Commercial Union is kind
enough to say that Canada should be consnlted in arranging any
tariff intended to be common to her and the United States ; and
as such consultation could only be made effective by giving us a
vote in the arrangement, this concession is an admission that
representation must accompany taxation. If the United States
Legislature is to tax us, we must be represented in it as to such
taxation ; and though, as Mr. Hitt says, sixty millions must of
course control five, a vote of one-twelfth is better than no vote at
all, and may even have very considerable eflfect in a body by no
means unanimous on tariff questions. And our right must
extend not only as to the tariff itself (including excise or internal
revenue), but as to all enactments relating to or affecting it, or
the officers, courts and authorities by whom it is to be carried
into effect, the laws affecting it administered, and the revenue
collected, accounted for and divided. And as it cannot be supposed
that such tariff and laws are never to be altered, Canada must in
like manner have a vote in any such alterations. The re-
presentation or number of votes for these purposes, sheuld be
regulated, as in the United Stated, by population in the Lower
House and by provinces in the Senate. Our representatives
would, of course, only vote upon the matters aforesaid ; but as
debates on such matters may come on at any time, they must
always be on hand and ready. The arrangement must be for all
time, for it would never do to have to discontinue it, and to re-
establish the old laws and custom-houses along the boundary

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line, from time to time. Would the United States agree to this ?
And if they would, how must the agreement be made ? Canada
has nut treaty-making powers, for the plain reason that England
could not be bound to enforce treaty conditions made without
her approval and assent ; nor would shq^bo likely to assent to a
treaty to last forever, and we have seen that a temporary arran-
gement would not answer the purpose. The matter would
clearly be one difficult to manage, but probably, if Lord Salis-
bury, the President and Sir John agreed upon it, the thing might
be done. Mr. Hitt has, perhaps, considered the little difficulties
in the way, and sees his way through them : if so I should like
to see his modus operandi ; for it seems to me that Commercial
Union, instead of merely leading to Annexation, is the thing
itself., and must rather be preceded by, than follow it.

Unrestricted Reciprocity would not be quite so hard to work
out; but hard enough if it is to extend to all productions or
manufactures of either country. It would not remove the Cus-
tom houses along the boundary line, for there would remain the
difficulty of proving the place of production. Mr. Chamberlain
when here, stated the difficulty the question of origin had
occasioned in England ; and I have read lately that a Sheffield
cutler complained not of the competition of foreigners as to the
goods made by them, but of their marking them as made in
Sheffield. I believe it is intended that articles subject to duties of
excise or internal revenue must be excepted. No one disputes
the desirability of the freest and most amicable intercourse with
our cousins south of us, and the removal of every check to trade
with them ; but we cannot help considering the cost at which
this is to be done.

Whatever objections there may be to permanent protection,
we cannot break faith with those whom we have induced to
establish manufactories which cannot yet compete with for-
eigners, though we may hope they will be able in time to do so.
And can we afford to abandon the revenue from dulies on Ameri-

Mr. Ititt^a Iteaotution.

3 to this ?
Canada
England
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on Ameri-

can manufactures ? Our Treasury is not overflowing, and our
people rather object to direct taxation. True we have some
among us who favour Mr. George's scheme, and would make the
land holders pay for ail ; but the plan is not generally liked,
though it is favoured in theory by eminent political economists,
as to " unearned increment," or increased value of real property
not produced by the labour or oapital of the owners. There is
difficulty in applying the theor} to improved properly. A feas-
ible plan by its supporters, say in Ottawa, would be very useful ;
there is a very large amount of " unearned increment" in this
city, ai. ' some even in the two hundred feet along the canal,
now . , ute in the Exchequer Court, which, if it should

give t. ■ ;,.jd to the claimant, might, perhaps, subject it to the
repayment of the said " increment." The Court might say some-
thing on this point (jhiter.

Ottawa, 6th Jan., 18U0.

POWEE OF JJISALLOWANCE.

To the Editor of The Canada Law Journal :

Bear Sir, — In what you say in youv last numberof the great
usefulness and value of Dr. Bourinot's lectures I perfectly agree ;
they well deserve to be made a text-book on the subject to which
they relate, and ought to be in the hands of every student of the
profession of the law, and, indeed, of every citizen who wishes
to know his rights and duties as such ; and the admitted lawyer
will find it worth while to have them at hand for reference.
They state very clearly the constitutional law on non-doubtful
points, and on doubtful ones ihey offer comments and saggestioDB
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wisely and lucidly thought out, and aidful towards their solution,
I can hardly think you right in supposing thai Dr. Bourinot
favours the doctrine that the power of disallowance of Provincial
Acts should be exercised only in cases where the powers of the
Provincial Legislature are exceeded ; though I agree with him
that the power in question should be exercised with the utmost
caution and regard for Provincial rights. I observed in a late
number of ;ZVte Week something like the doctrine to which you
suppose Dr. Bourinot leans, but adopting it rather more decidedly
than you suppose the Doctor to do, and, indeed maintaining that
disallowance should never be resorted to except when the disal-
lowed Act is extra vires ; and in some other papers 1 have seen a
like opinion expressed, accompanied with an intimation that our
Premier had adopted it. I do not think this doctrine correct;
and I think Sir John repudiated it in his speech at the laying of
the corner stone of a Methodist church, and said, as a writer of
the article in your journal does, and as T humbly follow them in
believing, that the powei* of disallowance was intended to be
exercised whenever the Provincial Act contained any provision
inconsistent with the safety, honour or welfare of the Dominion ;
as, for instance, repudiation of a'Provincial obligation or contract,
or any provision inconsistert with justice or morality. To
confine the exercise of this power to cases where the Act is ultra
vires would make it superfluous and useless, for the Act would
be void to all intents and purposes, and might be so declared by
any court before which its illegality should be pleaded, at any
time after its passing, and although it should have been sanc-
tioned without objection. It might, of course, be disallowed,
and its disallowance desirable to avoid doubt, delay and litigation ;
but the intent of the disallowance provision in the constitutional
Act was not merely to stop the unlawful assumption of power by
the Provinces, which the courts could do, but to prevent the
abuse of the powers vested in them but exercised to the detriment
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vested in the Governor, acting by and with the advice of an
Executive Council under the virtual control of the Dominion
Parliament in which all the Provincas are represented, rather
than in any courl, which could only have determined the legalit}'
of an Act questioned, and not its policy and effect on the Dominion
generally. Vested as it now is, I hold the power of disallowance
to be useful, and indispensable to the convervation and welfare
of the Dominion.

I6th Nov., 1889.

DISALLOWANCE QUESTION.

Editor of The CiTiz EM.

Sir, — On Saturday night last there was triumph on one side
and wailing on the other over the result of the election of a
member of the Dominion Parliament ; but now there is triumph
on both sides in the victory of patriotism over party spirit, on
Tuesday, when Mr. Blake moved in the House of Commons a re-
solution for enabling the Government to obtain in the best pos-
sible manner, a reasoned advisory opinion on legal points in cases
respecting the disallowance of Provincial Acts, or appeals in
cases touching Provincial enactments on educational matters ;
and Sir John Macdonald cordially accepted the nggestion, sub-
ject to the condition that when such opinion assumed the shape
of a decision, there should bo an appeal to the Judicial Commit-
tee of H. M.'s Privy Council ; and the motion so conditioned was
unanimously accepted by ihe House. Both parties now agree
that the mere fact that a Provincial Act is intra vires in not a
reason that it should necessarily be allowed, but that the power

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of disallowance was intended (o be and ought to be exercised
whenever the Provincial Act is inconsistent with the safety,
honour and interests of the Domitiion ; and that to miiinlain a
contrary opinion is to make the Imperial provi-sion .xiipcrfluous
and useless, as a Provincial Act ultra vires would bo null and
void, and might be so declared at any time by any court before
which such nullity was pleaded. It might, however, be desira-
ble to prevent by disallowance the anxiety, trouble and perhaps
ruin, it might occasion too many if huch Act were allowed to be
supposed in force until formally declared null. There is now a
provision enabling the Government to obtain the opinion of the
Supreme Court in certain cases, but Mr. BluUe wishes his tribu-
nal to have the fullest powers for obtaining evidence and hearing
arguments, as well on matters of fact as on points of law, and spe-
cial enactments will be necessary for this purpose, including the
appeal to the Judicial Commitee of Her Majesty's Privy Council.
No decision under the proposed arrangement would destroy or
impair the power of disallowance, but as such decision might
influence the question of the exercise of that power, or the subs-
equent action of the Provincial Legislature, or of the Governor-
in-Council in educational cases, and judges will not be hurried,
it might be desirable to o' tain an extension of the period now
fixed for disallowance. There would be no difficulty in obtain-
ing it; there was none in obtaining the Special Imperial Act
for permitting representation of the North- West Territories in
the Dominion Parliament. The matter is now in the hands of
the leaders of our two parties, and will be well cared for ; and
the country may be congratulated on having an opposition able
to propose so useful a measure and a Ministry wise enough to
accept and perfect it.

W.
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To <Ae JE'f^iVor o/" The Canada Law Journal :

Dear Sir,— I like your last .mber much, and I was pleased
to see that you had taken that very singular article from Pump
Court about lithographed signatures, where the judges say that
the subject is one upon which no two men could differ — and yet
they all differ, the one from the other. The " clorious uncertain-
ty '' stands out in bold relief- and what a nice amount of costs
might have been incurred if two rich litigants had been the par-
ties interested ! It has often struck me that the great facility
of appeal from court to court, and the possibility, or even pro-
bability, of one winning his case and losing it ultimately, amounts
almost to a denial of justice. Especially is this the case when we
consider that, after having been encouraged to believe that he is
right by judge after judge, a suitor of moderate means may be
ruined by his first success, and through reliance on the judges
appointed and well paid, by Government to decide his case. I
would suggest that the Government be compelled to pay the costs
incurred by the mistake or negligence of the judges whoso deci-
sions wore reversed on appeal to the court of last resort. The
judges might not like it, but it would certainly make them more
careful. If I employ a professional mm, and by his want of skill
or diligence about the work which he is employed to do I suffer
damage, he must idemnify me. I employed him relying on the
maxim '■'• cuique in arte sua perito credendum est^" and he turns
out not to be suflSciently peritus. The public who pay the judges
do so believing them to be peritissimi. Where is the fallacy ?

We have the now Banking Act at last. I hope you will
procure a copy, and tell us what you think of it. I, for my
part, do not quite like the idea of the good banks guaranteeing
the notes of the weaker ones, who might be tempted to issue by
this provision — but nous verrons. There, I have sinned by writ-
ing you officially in French (to you, a champion of Equal
Rights !) Pardonnez, Monsieur. By the way do you exchange
yfhh the Canada Fran^ais Review ! The last number coptains a

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Disallowance Question,

atatement of the amount of Peter's Pence for last year, viz.,
$600,000, which, at one soul for each penny, would make sixty
million souls: a goodly number to make into good Pres by teri«
ans or Methodists, not to say Churchmen. I wish we could so
manage it. The Review is under the supervision of the Profes-
sors of Laval, and is well written.

You will remember that in a little book I printed for pri-
vate circulation only among my friends, and of which I gave
you a copy, 1 made the following remarks about certain viola-
tions of the Act of 1887, amending that respecting the Indepen-
dence of Parliament : " Many members have since resigned
under its provisions, and almost all of them have been re-elected.
The Act says nothing about profits (if any) obtained by the vio
lation of the law, leaving the question open, as a matter of con-
science, on which honourable members could scarcely have any
doubt. Hamlet's uncle had a very strong opinion on the
point: —

Then I'll look up,—

My fault is past — But oh, what form of prayer *

Can serve my turn : — Forgive me my foul murder, —

That cannot be, since still I am possessed

Of those effects for which I did the murder.

My Crown, mine own ambition, and my Queen ; —

May one be pardoned and retain the offence ?"

— '' Hantlei, Act 3, see. j."

I should like to know how far you think the cases referred
to in the said note are like one now under the consideration of
the Election Committee of our House of Commons, and what in
that case, if the alleged offence should be found to have been
committed, would be the effect of such finding as regards profits
the offenders made by such offence.

Ottawa, 2'7th March, 1890,

Dominion Leyinlation, 1890.

231

[We publish with pleasure the foregoing letter from an old
subscriber to this journal and an esteemed contributor to its
columns. It was not written for publication, but we think it may
be of interest to our readers. We spare no pains in making the
Journal useful and interesting to our patrons, and we are
pleased that our number for March 17 is approved by so com-
petent a critic and judge as our Ottawa correspondent, laudatus
a laudato. — V^n. C. L. J.]

DOMINION LRGISLATION OP THE SESSION

OP 1890.

To the Editor of The Canada Law Journal :

Sir, — Allow me to congratulate the Journal, its readers, and
the country, on the close of what His Excellency calls " a some-
what protected session," and on his being able to thank our
representatives for the diligence with which they have applied
themselves to their important duties, and his general approval
of the 109 Acts they have passed. The speech and the list of
Acts you have already in the ofiScial Gazette, and I hope in a day
or two U) send you the list with the Acta chaptered as they will
be in the Statutes, and I ti-ust you and your readers will find no
reason to dissent from His Excellency's opinion of their value.
The Bank Act would, in the opinion of many, have been
improved by the omission of the provision making the
several institutions quasi indorsorsof each other's notes in order
that all may pass currently in every part of the Dominion ; to
these dissenters it seems that it would have been better to make
©ver^ bank have its agent for redeeming its notes in eveiy

232

Dominion Lagialation of the Session of 1890,

■■iii.i

Province, and letting them bo current or not according to the
btanding of the bank in the estimation of the public. Everyone
is pleased that the Government abandoned the idea of confiscat-
ing unclaimed dividends, and has adopted the English plan of
giving public information respecting them. The amendments
10 the Criminal Law are undoubtedly improvements: — perhaps
it would have been well if they had included some provision for
the prevention and punishment of hoodling^ but Mr. Blake's pro-
mised Bill fur better securing the independence of Parliament,
with which that interesting offence has been shown to bo closely
connected, will deal with it : and of this hereinafter. Of the
martyred innocents it is unnecessary to speak,thoir nr.erits and
the loss the country sustains by their slaughter are recorded iu
our Canadian Hansard, in the eloquent words of their respective
parents, and if they deserved a better fate they will attain it in
a future session, and emerge from the chrysalis state of Bills
into the perfect state of Acts. I regret the fate of one little one
for the legalization of standard time, which we have been using
throughout the Dominion for years with great convenience, but
illegally opening and closing polls, offices, banks, and sittings of
legislatures, at Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, and all places in the
Provinces of Quebec and Ontario by VOrignal time., vary '\i\g in
many places from half an hour to nearly an hour from the solar
time required by law. This Bill was brought into the Senate
by Mr. Maclnnes, on the suggestion of Mr. Fleming, who had
distinguished himself at the Washington conference in 1884, for
establishing a prime meridian fur the reckoning of longitude,
and of time as depending on it, and which agreed upon that of
the observatory of Greenwich. But Mr. Maclnnes moved too
late in the session, and we are to go on illegally for another
year before we follow the example set us by the Imperial Parlia-
ment in 1880, by the Act 43-44 Vict., c 9, doing for England
and Ireland what Mr. Maclnnes wants us to do for Canada. It
seems now, that something may be done by Congress for th^

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233

ing to tho
Everyone
confiacai-
sh plan of
lendments
— perhapH
Dvieion for
lake's pro-
arliament,
bo cloeely
r. Of the
merits and
•ecorded i\i
respective
attain it in
te of Bills
e little one
been using
nience, but
sittings of
aces in the
arying in
n the solar
the Senate
who had
n 1884, for
longitude,
ion that of
moved too
Qr another
ial Parlia-
• England
anada. It
iss for i\\^

United States, which has hitherto been prevented by a supposed
difficulty as to State and Congress jurisdiction. If Congress
takes the matter up we may perhaps follow ; I would rather we
had led.

Our session was stormy as well as long, the " Outs " acous-
ing the " Ins ' of all sorts of wickedness, legislative and other-
wise, Knd the " Ins " retorting, as of old, " tn quoqtie ; " each
calling the other very ugly names, and receiving tho same
anrtwer, *' you're another," supposed to be a quile sufficient and
unanswerable reply. But we had, as you know, two first class
feoandals, of which General Middleton and Mr. Rykert were the
central figures. In tho General's case everyone grieves that a
man so much respected and liked, and to whom our country is
indebted, and has acknowledged its indebtedness, for most excel-
lent service in the North-West, did not, whon convinced of his
mistake in declaring certain furs confiscated, and acting ns if he
were the Fisc and had a right to divide them between himself
and his friends, say at once, as we are told and are svilling to
believe be has since done, that he was read}' to pay tho sum
which the committee had reported as the value of the furs and
recommended that Bremner should be paid for them. In spite
of Mr. Blake's clear exposition of tho rules of the British service,
I cannot believe that the General knowingly intended to do
wrong. Mr. Rykort's case admits of no excuse. Elected as a
member of that branch of Parliament especially entrusted with
the care of the property and pecuniary interests of the people,
and paid for his services as such, he, by means which a select
committee of his follow-members has formally declared to be
" discreditable, corrupt and scandalous," and by misusing the
faith which from his position members of the Ministry and
public officers under them placed in him, is reported to have
obtained from the Government for 8500 a grant of timber limits
which is said to have produced ^200,000 to him or the parly for
"^t^om l^e obtainod them, and from \yhom he says he receivec^

234

Dominion Lef/in/ntinn of f/ifi Sutition of 1S90,

$3,000 for thirty dnyH during which ho whh uhIiij^ the means
aforesaid for procuring them. Mr. Bykoi't, havinj^ resigned as a
member of the Commons, is appealing to his former constituents
for re-election ; but would the House after declaring his conduct
to be discreditable, corrupt and scandalous, allow him to sit as
one of its members, remembering the old adage as to similarity
of plumage? Mr. Mucdougall defended him very cleverly, but
the defence was onlj' a demurrer to the Jurisdiction of the
House, not a plea to the merits or an assertion of the morality
of his client's conduct. And if the Attorney-(ieneral (Sir John
Thompson) had, as some assert, previously prepared or agreed
to a report favourable to Mr. Rykort, it must have been of the
same nature as Mr. Macdougall's defence, and not an approval
of what Mr. R. did. As to the question whether an offender can
lawfully retain effects obtained by his offence, and whether the
law aflFordsmeansof compelling him to give them up, the answer
on moral grounds is pretty clearly given in one of your late
numbers, by Hamlet's uncle, that he cannot lawfully retain
them ; and the said uncle says further : —

'< ■

"In the corrupted currents of this world,
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice ;
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law. Hut 'tis not so ai)ove —
There is no shuffling there."

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* Lt

In the case before us is there no way of obtaining the rescission
of the grunt by which $200,000 worth of property are said to
have been obtained for $500? Is there no mistake as to the
property, no concealment of knowledge of its value by the gran-
tee, no fraud which vitiates everything? The Roman law held
lesion to the extent of half the valut) to be sufficient, and though
our modern law, founded more on trading principles, does not
go so far, I think it still says that very gross inadequacy may
afford evidence of the existence of fraud. Is $200,000 obtainec)

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236

in the manner reported by the committee for SfiOO sufticier.tly
gross inadequacy? If English law aflords no remedy 'n Hurh a
case, or it' exists and our lawyers cannot tind it, »'> much liiio
worse for the law and lawyers, and Mr. BlaLe •« ^^'.^vii yiiig BiU
is the more urgently necessary. I think if a iiko cnv* !.ii.(i hi.'jn
referred by Hamlet's father to his Lord Chancello'-, or whoever
might there be the proper authority, and he htwl repDrto;* no
remedy, King Hamlet would have thought an*' •^aul tl.oru was
'* something rotten in the State of Denmark/' which munt tuvi
should be cured.

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June, 1890.

CURIOSITIES OF MKASU-UKMENT.

In our last number we inserted a very interesting engraving
of the Eift'el Tower, now being erected at Paris as ono of the
attractions of the great exhibition to be held there in 1880, i'lo
highest building in the world, the Washington monumont at
Washington coming next. We also add on tho j.Uue *ht3 bfti/'lits
of some of the other lofty structures for ccmparisan, which *Moy
be carried a little further by comparing tb- W'W'.r with oome of
nature's structures, the mountains of the world. This would
show the height of the tower to be .iie-eiirhth of that of Mount
Washington (8.000 ft.) ; about o.Ktifieenth of that of some of the
highest Alps and one tw-mty ninth of that of the hiirhest Hima-
layas ; so that nature beats Mr. Eiffel very considerably, won-
derful as his work will be. But a comparison of the mountains
with the size of the earth itself throws them into the shade, and
shows what small excrescences they are on this great globe we
jnl^abit. We see by the papers that the Paris exhibition is tp

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236

CurioniHen of Measurement.

contnin something that will facilitate this latter comparison.
They say there is to be a terrestrial globe of thirty metres in
diameter, about 100 feet, and we suppose that on this the moun-
tains will be shown in relief, and on a scale which will serve for
comparison with each other, but will probably be much larger
than the Kcale of the diameter, just as an engiiieer shows the true
elevations and depressions of a line of railway on a larger scale
than the horizontal distances. Some years ago there was ex-
hibited, in London, a globe of 60 feet diameter, but turned inside
out;, the spectators being inside it. and the countries, seas and
othei" geological divisions being shown on the inside, elevations
and depressions included, the latter being shown a greatly en-
larged scale, but, even then, being very small indeed, as com-
pared with the size of the globe. The comparison was very
interesting and instructive. We cannot all see either the said
Paris or London globe ; let us try whether wo can use a globe
of no very formidable sixe, and yet get some idea of the compari-
son which we have mentioned. Suppose we have one of forty
inches diameter (thirty-six inches is not uncommon Hut forty
will work more easily into our computatfon), then, taking the
diameter of the earth at eight thousand miles, each inch of our
globe will represent two hundred miles, and one mile will be
represented by the two-hundredth part of an inch. Now, to get
a tangible exhibition of this small quantity, let us take any
printed book of which the edges of four hundred pages, when
the book is close shut, will make one inch in thickness ; that of
each leaf (two pages) will ihen be the two-hundredth of an inch,
and a scrap of such paper as the leaf is made of, pasted on the
globe, will represent a mountain one mile high (5280 feet), or
two-thirds of the height of Mount Washington, or more than five
times that of the Pliffel tower ; and less than six thicknesses of
such paper will represent that of the highest mountain in the
world, and not far from the greatest depth of the ocean, which
\» now considered to be ratl^er more than the height of the lof(.

Ctirioaities of Measurement.

237

pari son.
ictros in
le moun-
*erve for
h larger
the true
rer scale
) was ex-
ed inside
seas and
levations
eatly on-
, as corn-
was very
• the said
e a globe
compari-
of forty
h\it forty
iking the
ih of our
lo will be
|w, to got
,ake any
|es, when
that of
■ an inch,
td on the
feet), or
Ithan five
lesses of
lin in the
I, which
the loft-

iest mountain. We shall thus have a fair idea of the compara-
tively small elevations and depressions in the earth's suifucc,
and of the very slight increase in them respectively, which would
drown whole continents, or leave the bottom of the ocean bare;
and we shall have some idea of the comparative size of man and
that of the world he inhabits, for a thickness of our supposed
paper will represent more than eight hundred times his average
stature ; and yet man's stature and power are admirably adapted
to the world he has lo live in, and neither giants nor pigmies
would bo so well suited to it as ho is.

W.
Dominion Illustrated.

COSMIC FORCES.

In our number before the lust we presented our readers with
an engraving of the Eitfel Tower, the loftiest building ii. the
world, and in our last number, as a sequel, wo gave them some
"Curiosities of Measurement," in which we compared the tower
with some of Nature's works in this world of ours. But what are
the greatest of these compared with God's work outside of this
world ? The sun and his attendant planets, and the stars, infinite
in number, each a sun accompanied, astronomers tell us, by its
attendant planets ; and an infinity of space beyond them again,
with stars whose light has not yet reached this world, Those
of them which we can see are made visible by their light, which
also, by tbo aid of that wonderful insti'ument the spectroscope,
has shown us that many of the elements of which they are con-
stituted are the same or similar to those found on our earth, and
thus revealed the unity of creation. Yet that very light by
which we see these at night, makes them invisible by day, and

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238

Cosmic Forces.

if tho snn shone always upon us, we should know nothing of
those other worlds and suns. Our readers, or many of them,
must be acquainted with Blanco White's beautiful sonnet founded
on the facts we have mentioned, but many have probably never
seen it. It will boar repetition, and wo reproduce it. It has
been called the finest, and is certainly among the finest, sonnets
in our language.

Mysterious night ! when our first father knew

Thee, by report divine, and heard thy name, 1

Did he not treinlile for this lovely frame — \

This glorious canopy of light and blue ?

Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew,

Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame,

Hesperus, with the Host of Heaven, came.

And lo ! Creation widened in man's view. —

Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed

Within thy beams, O Sun ? or who could find,

While flower and leaf and insect stood revealed.

That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? —

Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife ? —

If Light can thus deceive us, why not Life ?

Dominion Illustrated.

EOBBET BROWNING.

To the Editor of The Dominion Illustrated :

Sir, — On a hint some time ago from your excellent and kind-
ly contributor, Lockhart, that he was contemplating a Canadian
symposium on Browning, I sent him the lines I subjoin, and was
rather disappointed at finding fro'm the extract in your now last
number, from the '* Transcript MontJdy^ of Portland" that the
editor had not tound room for them, as I hope yon will. My
praise seems reasonably strong — Mr. Boberts, I see, gently com-

ihing of
if them,
founded
y never
It has
sonnets

land kind-
ICanadian
\, and was
now last
that the
nil. My
itly com-

Hobert drowning.

289

mentson our poet's love of the obscure — and the clear and loving
spirit of Mr, Lockhart's own verse leads me to believe that he
would not object to a little more light and love, and will not be
angry with mo that I incline to agree with Mr. Duvar, in pre-
ferring the wife to the huisband as a poet ; I say nothing as to his
psychological analysis or just and keen satire, or the theosophy
of *' Caliban mi Setebos."

Since you ask nie, gentle Lockhart,
Leader of the band of minstrels
In the songs of our Dominion,
What I think uf Robert Browning —
Take my thoughts for your symposium.
What he wrote, am! what he taught j
Is bright with wit, with wisdom fraugh
Large and lofty, strong and pure.
His pregnant verse at times obscure,
■" But still with some deep thought behind it —

So deep that many fail to find it.
Old proverbs say, that of the dead
Nothing but good should e'er be said ;
Yet, I should better like our bard
If his hard things were not so hard.
Is there not something of the sphinx
In Caliban's mysterious "Thinks?"

Something not Hebrew, Greek or Asian,

And not exactly Athanasian ?

Some hidden thing we long to see ,

In that deep, mystical* "So he ?" _ .

Must we not Browning's spirit call

To lift the veil, and, once for all,

These riddles to expl.iin and solve * '

■* With all the mysteries they involve,

And thus from all reproach our honoured bard absolve ?

Ottawa, 1890.

240

Educational Questions.

EDUCATIONAL QUESTION*^

To the Editor of The Week :

Sir, — I read with much pleasure the paragraph in the lead-
ing article of The Week of the 25th July last, in which yvVi
remark and refer to Tits Bystander as agreeing with you, that
three-fourths of those who use the Public schools are just as well
able to pay for the schooling of their children as for their food
and clothiiig, and are equally bound to do so : that there is reason
to fear the very class for which gratuitous education is needed
don't avail themselves of the provision ; and if the state of the
law is such that we are unable to get the children of the poorest
educated, it should be altered for that purpose , and that the free
education of all classes which is in many cases given in the high
schools is something still more unreasonable : in all which I most
cordially agree, as I do also with your concluding remark that
the provision last mentioned is not merely unjust to those who
make no use of the schools, but is frequently injurious to those
who are induced to use them, when they might be better em-
ployed in manual labour. With reference to this last remark £
think it would do no harm to call the attention of your readers
to the following extract from Mr Punch's sensible and dramatic
illustration of the case as respects the Public schools in
England : — •

TOO CLEVER BY HALF.

Being questions attd answer's cut on the straight.

Question. — So you have finished your education ?
Answer. — Yes, thanks to the liberality of the School Board.
Q. — Do you know more than your parents?

Educational Questions.

A. — Certainly, as my father was a sweep and my mother a charwoman.

Q. — Would either occupation suit you?

A. — Certainly not ; my aspirations soar above such pursuits, and my health
impaired by excessive study, unfits me for a life of manual laljour.

Q. — Kindly mention what occupation would fiwiK you?

A. — I think I could, with a little cramming, pass the examination for the
Army, the Navy or the Bar.

Q, — Then why not become an officer in either branch of the United Service,
or a member of one of the Inos of Court ?

A. — Because I fear, that as a man of neither birth nor breeding, I should be
regarded with contempt in either the Camp or the Forum.

Q. — Would you take a clerkship in the city ?

A, — Not willingly, as I have enjoyed something better than a commercial
education ; besides city clerkships are not to be had for the asking.

Q. — Well, would you become a shop-boy or a counter-jumper?

A. — Certainly nof ; I should deem it n. sin to waste my accomplishments
(which are many) in filling a situation suggestive of the servants' hall rather than
of the library.

Q. — Well, then, how are you to make an honest livelihood ?

A. — Those who are responsible for my education must answer that question.

Q. — And if they can't?

A. — Then I must accept an alternative and seek inspiration and precedents
frcm the records of success in another walk of life, beginning with the pages of
the Newgate Calendar !

— Punch, July 12, i8go.

Punch is a moralitst and philosoplier of the laughing school,
but our English proverb tells us, there is many a true word
spoken in jest. The J?oman philosopher and poet asks : Rxdentem
dicere verum,—Quid vetat f " What hinders a jester from speaking
the truth?" Common sense answers, nothing hinders, and
Punch's illustration is apposite to his case in hand. It is not
right that boys should receive at the public expense an educa-
tion which unfits them for manual labour ; and those who make
the laws which give them such education at the coat of the tax
payer, are responsible and must answer the question Punch's
examiner puts. Education at the public expense should be given

only to those whose parents cannot pay for it, and should applj'
16

Behring Sea Controversy .

to Buch subjects as will be of use to them in Nuch callings und
employments as they may reasonably be supposed likely to be
engaged in, and should certainly not be such Uo would unfit
them for manual labour, the independence and respectability of
which, especially in agricultural pursuits, should be always
strongly insisted upon. Institutions for higher education should
be supported by voluntary contributions, or if aided from the
public purse should only be so to a very moderate extent, and
for purposes in which the state has a direct interest, or which
are connected with the scholar's probable calling and means of
support. No one should be placed, at the coht of the taxpayer, in
the position in which Punch's examinee finds himi^olf, by being
" too clever by half."

The Wbbk, 22 August, 1890.

BEHKING SEA CONTROVERSY.

= m

Editor of Th2 Citizbn :

Dbar Sib, — In the Fbbb Pbbss of the 6th instant I find the
following paragraph :

" Washington, 6th. — The President yesterday sent a further
communication to the House of Representatives concerning the
Behring Sea Controversy. Great stress is laid on the fact of
Great Britain having excluded vessels from within eight leagues
of St. Helena when Napoleon was confined there, and also, the
protection exercised by that power over the Ceylon pearl fishe-
ries. Mr. Harrison objects to the form of the proposed arbitra-
tion, and says it will amount to something tangible if Great
Britain consents to arbitrate the real questions discussed for the

hehring Sea Controversy.

243

last four years. What were the rights exorcised by Russia in
Behring Sea ? How far were they conceded by Great Britain ?
Was Behring Sea inchided in the Pacific Ocean ? Did not the
United States acquire all of Russia's rights ? What are the pre-
sent rights of the United States ? And if the concurrency of
Great Britain is found necessary, then what shall be the protected
limits in the close season ? Secretary Blaine denies that the
United States ever claimed Behring Sea to be a closed sea, and
quotes Minister Phelps, in 1888, where he says that the question
is not applicable to the present case."

This is followed by a brief statement that the Foreign Office
has received Mr. Blaine's letter above mentioned, but nothing
more : and in an elaborate and well written article in yestei'day's
issue, the editor refers to the very great interest of Canada in the
question, and shows clearly how fully Lord Salisbury has already
refuted Mr. Blaine's argumentt). But he cannot refrain from
using the old cry of official delay and red tape, and the readiness
of the British Government to sacrifice Canadian rights to Impe-
rial interests, and the old complaint that Canada cannot commu-
nicate freely with foreign Governments, forgetting that we are a
portion of the British Empire and that it would be inconsistent
with our position that we should be able to make, without the
express authorization of the Imperial Government, agreements
which it only could enforce ; a position which we hold in com-
mon with a State in the American Union, the constitution
whereof expressly provides that "no State shall enter into any
treaty, alliance or confederation." Mr. Harrison objects to the
form in which Lord Salisbury proposes arbitration, and seems to
wish that a number of special points should be expressly refer-
red to, and not the main and real question — "Whether the
United States have any exclusive I'ight of catching seals in Beh-
ring Sea outside the limit of their territorial jurisdiction under
international law,"— in the consideration of which question, that
of all those he mentions (including those he founds on England's

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precautions for preventing the oscnpo of Napoleon from St. He-
lena, or for the regulation of the pearl fisheries off Ceylon.) might
of course be brought up as points affecting the decision, which
would in fact be one determining the righis of the United States
as against the rest of the world; for if British vessels have no
right to take seals in the said open sen, neither have those of
any other country than the United States ; nor could a close
season agreed upon by Great Britain and the said States affect
any country not a party to such agreement, except so far only
as may be required by the comity of nations. If any party has
suffered damages through mistake as to the rights of the United
States in Behring Sea, the amount thereof should be ascertained
and awarded by the arbitrators, Jind paid hy the party by vrfiose
mistake they have been occasioned.

Yours, etc.,
Ottawa, Jan. 9th, 1891.

KING3P0BDS HtSTORY OP CANADA— Vol. IV.

Ir!

Wo have been favored with a copy of the fourth and last
volume of this valuable work, and feel bound, for the reasons
we assigned for noticing the three former volumes, to call the
attention of our readers to that now before us. The close of
Vol. Ill, left the aspect of affairs favorable to French ascendency,
after the destruction of Oswego, the extension of French power
on Lakes Champlain and Ontario, and down the Ohio and Missis-
Bippi to New Orleans. The present Volume records the principal
events which, commencing with the advent of Pitt to power
and his energetic policy and action, ended in the conquest and
cession of Canada to England, and relates— the expedition under

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Foi'bos against Fort Duquosnc, hiw defeat ami heroic perseverance
until, on the repetition of his advance, he found the Fort aban-
doned ; the fiiego and tal<ing of Fort Niagara ; the abandonment
of Port Rouill6 ; the oj)eration8 on Lakes George and Champlain ;
the siege and capture of Quebec, the military and naval
manoeuvres connected therewith, and the persistent and gallant
efforts made by the French after its fall, in divers places and
with alternating success and defeat, until the final siege, capi.
tulation, and surrender of Montreal— in short, the battles, sieges
and fortunes on either side, in the tragic close of the ancient
foud between two of the foremost nations of the world, and their
fierce contest for the possession of North America. And in his
account of the period between the conquest and the final cession
of the country and the establishment of British rule, which is
sometimes spoken of as le reyne militaire, and regarded as a period
of harsh dealing with the French-Canadians, Dr. Kingeford has
shown that the implied reproach is unfounded and unjust.

The narrative is accompanied and illustrated by the fullest
details of every circumstance connected with the events recorded,
tables of the forces engaged and maps of the localities in which
they occurred, and the names and characters of the pei'sonages
who conducted or took leading parts in them. The book is
clearly printed and well got up in every way. The table of
contents gives an intelligible summary of each of the eleven
chapters into which the work is divided, and the index is very
full and skilfully made, so that the portion of the text relating
an}' event, place, or person, can be readily found. The articles
of capitulation at Quebec in 1759, and at Montreal in 1760, and
those of the treaty of Paris in 1763, bearing upon the cession of
Canada to the Crown of Great Britain, and the rights granted as
to Newfoundland, are given at length. The maps, seven in
number, are well constructed and engraved, and placed near the
portions of the text in which they are referred to, and the plan
^opted in the preceding volumes, of placing at the head of eapb

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page the A. D. of the events referred to in it, is continued, so
thut every facility for the use of the work is afforded; and a
succinct but intelligible account of the synchronous events in
Europe which affected Canada is given, as being necessary to
the clear understanding of those in Canada itself. Dr. Kingbford
has again shown his power of appreciating and describing the
characters of the actors in the great dranm he presents to us,
and among others that of Lord Bute, whom he dislikes and holds
up to scorn and contempt as both knave and fool, and of whom
he saj's that '* If there was no word but Newfoundland in the
Treaty of Paris, it would be enough to establish the blight which
Bute's pre!»etice cast upon the Empire ; there is a charge brought
against Bute which it is impossible to pass over unnoticed, " that
he was the recipient of money from France to influence him in
the settlement of peace. " His tribute to the memory of another
Scotchman, Brigadier.General Forbes, who took Fort J)uquesne,
and whom he calls " one of the forgotten heroes who died for
us," is written in the same whole-hearted affectionate strain in
which he writes of Ghamplain in his first volume, and he closes,
as he did in the case of his favourite hero, with the expression
of his deep regret that " no monument is erected to Forbes,
either in his native place, or in Pennsylvania or Virginia where
he had lived, or Pittsburg which he founded ; though notwith-
standing this neglect his name will be emblazoned in its own
nobility in the page of history as that of one whose genius and
patriotism secured for the British race the Valley of the Ohio,
the southern shore of Lake Erie, and the territory extending to
the Mississippi." — This is wrong, no doubt; but how much
greater is the wrong done by Canada to the memory of the man
to whom she owes her existence, for there is still no monument
to the memory of Champlain, though a county, a lovely lake,
" once ours, now lost," and a not very lovely street in Quebec,
bear his name. This should not be ; and though we understand
that a patriot member of our profession, Mr. Lighthall of

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Montreal, and some others zealous for Canada's honor, propose
to put up tablets with suitable inscriptions, at places in that
city where events of an historical character have occurred, and
one of which will record Champlain's selection and approval of
the site on which Montreal was subsequently founded by M. de
Maisonneuvo. this will discharge a very email portion of Canada's
debt of gratitude. Wolfe and Montcalm share one monument at
Quebec, wilh a brief but admirable inscription recording their
equal valour and fame and the gratitude of posterity. Why
should not Montreal liuvo a live memorial of Champlain, which
might be read and understood by our own citizens and by
strangers of every nation. It is some time since we left school,
and law Latin is not generally of the purely classical type; yet
in moving the resolution we must suggest a form suitable for
adoption or for amendment by our younger and more scholarly
brethren, fresher from the teachings of our excellent universitieot

SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN

ViR HONUS FORTIS Christianus

(iENTis Canauiknsis CONDrrOR Verus

(iENERISQUE HUMANI

, Decus Insigne.

We have, in our former notices, stated our appreciation of
Dr. Kingsford's qualifications for the great work he has per-
formed so well ; his extensive knowledge, indefatigable industry,
and deep patriotic interest in his subject; and his honorable
impartiality and fairness in the statement of fkots, and in the
inferences he draws from them ; and we hold the same opinion
still, and believe that he has faithfully performed his duty as an
historian, without fear, favour, or affection, so far as human
frailty permits. He is English and takes an English view on
points which admit of honest difference of opinion ; but we again
repeat the conviction expressed in our notice of his first volume,
\,\}At " 1^0 Frencl)-Canadian can b^ dissf^tisfied with the account

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KhujHfimV a Ht$tory of Canada.

the book gives of his uncoHtorH, that no KngliHh-Canudian can
refuse to luUnowlcdgo the merits of his Froncli precurtiorn, and
that no Htudont of Canadian history can atl'ord to be without
it."

Before we received our copy of the fourth volume, we saw
with great |)lea8ure that Dr. G. M. Grant, Principal of Queen's
University, Kingston, had written for The Week of the 28th
November last, an elaborate and excellent critique on the work
now before us, in which he fully coiiHrms the opinion wo have
expressed respecting it, and from which wo quote the following
passage: " It is satisfactory that wo have in Dr. Kingsford a
historian who has, at the cost of enormous labour, nought and
consulted original authorities, and who, after sifting evidence
and coming to his conclusions, does not allow himsolt to be biased
on one side »r the other, by any considerations of so-called
courtesy or self-interest. No volumes in English known to me
are a nobler tribute to the Fronch-Canadian than those now
completed. Whether describing Champluin, the hero * with no
moral leaven" to weaken the regard or esteem with which his
character may bo considered,' or more complex and very dift'erent
personalities like La Salle or Frontenac, or that Jesuit of the
Jesuits — Rasle — whom he forces us to respect and almost to
love; or in detailing the sacrifice that the habitant was always
ready to endure for his country and his faith, and the piety and
unity of feeling that made a handful of people able to hold their
own against the greatest odds, he is always fair, and therefore,
without intending it, building up the noblest monument to our
French-Canadian ancestors." He then cites a passage from
pages 217-18, and says, " It is impossible to read this volume
without being convinced that, had it not been for the generous
and abundant aid of our Mother Country, French domination
would have been established over the greater part of North
America," and adds, " Dr. Kingsford also speaks some pregnant
^ords in the last pages of his work, and with them I shall brine

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thiH iiotico to a close. May I niHo be pornnittocl to thank him for
the grout work ho hns given uh, and to oxproHH tho hope thot if
no official recognition Ih given him, tho public will do bo in the
best way by ordering liis history to be placed in every
Mochanics' InRtitute, school, and city library, and by purchasing
it freely und giving it to their sons and daughters to read." He
then citcH verbutim, und with unqualified approval, the last four
paragraphs of pages 503 and 504, in which the author claims
that he has fully performed tho promise ho made, to be impar*
tial and to spare no pains to uscortuin and state the truth. Ho
states forcibly and clearly the benefits which all Canadians, and
French-Canadians especially, have derived from representative
and responsible government, and the necessity of that harmony
und unity without which all hope of becoming a nation is base-
loss and futile.

In all this and in all that Dr. Grunt says about our author
and his work, we most cordially agree, as we do also in his wish
for its public recognition in the manner he suggests, and that
our public schools may become such that even a minority of one
in any parish may send his children to be educated, with the
assurance that their faith will be respected by their teacher.
We rejoice to have so high an authority for believing that this
wish can be realized ; and though we are not 4uite without fears,
arising from the great and peculiar difficulties of our case, wo
say heartily — Amen ; so may it be.

Canada Law Journal, -

16 January, 1891.

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WAIFS.

As the nineteenth century nearu its close, living witnesses
of the great events that made its early decades memorable
become fewer and fewer. The great majoiity of persons who in
our own countr}' are engaged either in the management of
public affairs, in profost-ionjil work or in the tasks of commerce
and industry, have attained maturity since the confederation of
the provinces:. If we wish to consult an eye-witness of the
Bebellion Losses bill disturbances, of the Grand Trunk celebrotion,
or even of the trial ot the St. Al ban's raiders, wo must pass by
many a well known figure of this generation. Only a small
fraction of them knew anything of Robert Baldwin or Sir L H.
Lafontaine, save what t^ey have learned from books or occasional
chats with older men. i\v Edmund Head, Lord Elgin, Lord
Cathcart, Lord Metcalfe, Sir Charles Bagol, Lord Sydenham, —
the memories that comprise any personal recollection of the ad-
ministrations indicated by these names gradually diminish in the
order of their mention, till, when we reach the year of the Union
of the Canadas, only a special quest will bring us in contact with
them. If we embrace in our retrospect the troubled years that
preceded that important change — the period of Lords Durham,
Gosford and Aylmer, wo may seek long before we tind a fellow-
citizen whose conscious experience is of so remote a date. And
if wo add still another deuade, and stand in imagination with
those who greeted Lord Dalhousie on his arrival at Quebec, only
the rarest waifs and strays from a past that most living men
know but by tradition or the written record, will respond to
our appeal.

That the Dominion can indeed, furnish as many instances of
longevity, in proportion to its population, as any other country

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in the old world or the new, we have fair i*eason to believe.
The last census showed that more than a hundred thousand per-
sons in Canada had passed the allotted three score years and
ton, while more than twenty-seven thousand had exceeded the
longer term which the Psalmist associates with labor and sorrow,
and more than two thousand had entered on their tenth decade.
Some years before the census was taken, an order of the House
of Commons had called for a return of the names of all veterans
who could prove their right to pensions for service in the war
of 1812. The number of accepted claims was 2,412. Those who
are sufficiently interested in the subject to watch the obituary
columns in our papers, will find further evidence of the same
kind. Dr. Kingston, indeed, says that the climate of Canada,
trying though the extremes of heat and cold ma}' be to persons
of delicate frames, is unquestionably favorable to longevity.
Not only so, but in most cases where old age is attained, it is " a
green, an active, a vigorous old age, and when the tree falls, as
in lime it must, it falls like the mature ash which

' With all its tender foliage meets the ground. ' "

Not the less true is it, that the octogenarian, not to speak
of the nonagenarian is a rare figure in any community and still
rarer is the man of eight}' winters who, with naturally waning
physical strength, has preserved his faculties in healthy working
order and is able to take a cheerful interest in the ideas and
doings of his younger contemporaries. That when he does
appear, he is not infrequently found in the ranks of the world's
busiest workers and of those whose services to their kind have
compelled universal recognition our own age has furnished note'
worthy evidence. It is not necessary for us to scrutinize the
records of the past for instances of old age that are in salient
contrast to Shakespeare's ''second childishness and mere oblivion"
Wh«n Bancroft and von Banke, Bryant and Tennvson, von Moltl^^

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and Gladstone, Dr. Holmes and Lord Tollomacho— to cite a low
of the more striking of the grand old men of our day — attest to
the unimpaired vigor of our race in the nineteonth century. Nor
need we hesitate to add to the list the name of our own Premier
who lately reached his VBth birthday with his intellectual powers
virtually unabated and his grasp of aifairs unreltixcd.

Men like this are not mere waifs and strays from the past
but rather '

A link among »he days to knit
The generations each to each.

The heading of this article is not, indeed, of our choosing »
nor is it altogether, in its titular guise, a sirungei" to many of our
readers. "Waifs in Verse" thej' may recall as the title of a
volume noti-ed in our colums in that retrospective your, 1887.
While all who could recall the Queen's accession wore ransacking
their memories for incidents connected with tliat epoch-making
event, the author of this book could claim to have been a young
man when«Her Majesty was born, could remember the jubilee of
George the Third, and was in Canada before the first year of
Lord Dalhousie's administration was ended. When he was born
the 18th century had still a year to run. And to-day when the
19th has entered its final decade, and he his 92nd year, he is still
hale and hearty, takes (as ho has always taken) an intelligent
interest in the world's progress and especially in that of Canada,
with w^hose legislation ho was officially connected for nearly
sixty years. To his " Waifs in ~^orse " he lately added a smaller
volume of "Waifs in Prose" having already discharged the
friendly task of editor for a sister and a brother poet. A merito-
rious Anglo-Indian (^tbe collaborator of Sir John Kay, in writing
the atory of the Mutiny) called one of his works " Recreations
of an Indian Official " Mr. G. W. Wicksteod Q. C, (for it is he of
whom we write) has, like Col. Malloson, comprised under a
paodest title some very interesting and valuable reminiscences

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nnd reflectionp. When we state that these " Waifs " cover a
period of more than sixty years of an active and useful life, that
(apart from purely literary themes) they treat of persons and
events that had become historical before most of our readers had
seen the light of day, that they doal with situations so diverse as
the Quebec of Lord Gosford's commission and the Quebec of the
Jesuits' bill, and that they touch, always with point yet never
without good humor and good taste, on questions of politics, of
society, of letters, pay tribute to living and to dead friends, bring
into line the aspirations of two great races, and while loyal to
mother England are no less true to Canada, for which he wrote
an anthem that Lord Dutferin pronounced excellent, we have
but a tithe of what we might say about these "Waifs" and
their venerable and patriotic author. May we have the privilege
for years to come of hearing or reading what the fulness of his
heart may prompt him to say or to sing I

NOTK. — The foregoing article from the Montreal Gazette of the 27th
January, 1891, is of course not my work, nor do I know whose it is. though I
have a guess. No copy was sent me, and I saw it first in the Reading Room
of the House of Commons. But it is so ingeniously and well written and in so
kindly a spirit towards me, that I cannot help inserting it, and feeling proud
of it.

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Sir John MacdonaHd.

SIR JOHN MACDONALD.

• Qviis desiderio sit piulor aut modus

Tarn cari capitis. — Hor., Lib. i. Ode 24.

In death's cold arms our country's father lies —
When shall his equal glad her longing eyes ?

By distance parted, when her people were

Estranged and separate, scattered here and there.

He by a compact firm and wisely planned

Gave them for country all Canadian land ;

And stretched o'er mountain step and prairie broad.

For friendly intercourse an iron road.

Long with consummate statesmanship be swayed
The councils of the nation he had made,
Contended for the right with tongue and pen
And won by kindly deeds the hearts of men. —
And old-time friends and old opponents vied
In patriot sorrow when Maodonald died.

Ottawa, 9th Juno, 1891.

[The above beautiful tribute to the memory of the late lamented Premier
was received in this office soon after hisdealh, but through inadvertence was mislaid
and unpublished until now.— Eu. Citizen.]

Citizen, 15 June, 1891. »

C. S. To Her Friend Entering ffis 92nd Year.

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C. S. TO HER FRIEND ENTERING HIS 92nd YEAR.

O bravo gallant Bark, who hast weathered lifo's sea,
For nrnety-one years on this blest happy day ; —

Spread toy sail, fearless still, for thy Pilot is He,

Who will guide and command and shed peace on thy way.

Sail on, gallant Ship, may no tempest annoy; —
May thy sun long delay ere it sink in the west,

May thy Pilot, at last, bid thee enter witn joy
To the haven ot peace and the realms of the blest.

HIS ANSWER.

Over the changeful sea of life my bark

Hath sailed in sunshine, and when skies were dark;-

By gentle breezes oft o'er ocean driven,

Or gales when spars were lost and sails wore riven.

But steering by the chart which God hath lent,

And trusting in the Pilot He hath sent,—

The toils and perils of the voyage past,

I hope to gain the longed-for port at last.

And through the dimness of approaching night,
1 see the glimmering of the beacon light
Raised on ite storm-proof pedestal on high .
To tell the wandering sailor, land is nigh,
And hope ere long to reach that happy shore
Where toil shall cease and peril be no more ;
And wo shall prove, dear friend, that not in vain
Our faith hath told us, — we shall meet again.

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The Behring Sea Trouble.

THE BEHJIING SEA TROUBLE.

Editor of The Citizen,

Sib. — In the letter to Sir Julian Pauncefote printed in your
issue" of the 5th instant, the President, using the pen of Mr.
Blaino, continues the argument in the Sayward case and restates
his six questions for the arbitrators. The first five remain as
before. The sixth, touching the close season, in case the concur-
rence of England is found necessary, is repeated with somepoints
of detail as to the months over which it should extend and the
waters to which it should apply. To these I see no reason to
object; and on every consideratioii of policy and of humanity, I
think (though some authorities doubt the necessity) that a close
season should he established, if it be true that the time over
which it is to extend is that when the seals found in the open
sea are mainly females seeking food for themselves and their
young. The British Parliament, I believe, established an inter-
national close time for oil-producing seals ; but had no fur-bea-
ring ones to deal with. The difficulty seems to be that if the
arrangement were only made between Great Britain and the
United States it would close the sea to them and leave it open
to all other nations, who would have the same rights as £: ilain,
and an international agreement would be necessary ; for there
are many nations who would take advantage of its absence to the
utmost extent. The President then speaks of the question of
damages, and not unnecessarily, for if either party has sustained
damages from the illegal acts of the other, that other must pay
the amount, as we did in the Alabama case, and the United
States in that about the fisheries. Tie then repudiates the
imputation that he ealled Behring Sea a mare dauaum^ in words

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as vehement, though not quite the same as those Pdnoh in his
clever cartoon puts in the mouth of the head of a seal family
rising through a hole in the ice, on either side of which John
Bull and Jonathan ar- standing and bitterly squabbling. The
seal begins by, " Mare claunvm bo blowed ; that's all Blaine's big
bow-wow ; Give us a close time ; we shall be very grateful," and
urges the same reasons for it as I have done. He then complains
that Lord Salisbury has not answered his verbal difficulties about
geographical and diplomatic expressions which may very well
be left to the Arbitrators, and winds up with a new bit of aigu-
ment in the '' tu quoque ' or '■ you're another " stylo, by urging
that a British Act of Parliament makes it criminal for any per-
son to fish in certain ways in a tract of water otf the Scottish
shore, containing some 2,700 square miles, fai- outside the 3-mile
line; and that therefore Mr. Bull cannot object to the United
States doing the same thing with respect to a smaller tract
outside the Pribiloff Islands in Behring Sea. As a Canadian I
ma^' not, perhaps, object to the use of this peculiar figure of rhe-
toric, inasmuch as someof our smaller sometimes, but never —
well, hardly ever — any of our greater statesmen, use it; but
however powerful its rhetorical effect, t totally deny its logical,
in order to which the cases supposed to balance each other should
be alike, while in neither the Ceylon Sea case, or the Scotch
otie, or that respecting St. Holo.ia, does the President assert that'
the British Government seized a foreign vessel, carried her to a
British possession and caused her to be condemned as forfeited
for contravention of any alleged prohibition, — as the United
States did the Sayward ; and it is only fair to hold that when a
legislator prohibits the doing of an act, he must be understood
to mean that such prohibition shall apply only to persons over
whom his jurisdiction extends, though it is not necessary or
usual to express thia in every case. The President concludes by
repeating the claim, that seals living on islands belonging to
the United States, and returning to them at night are th»

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Session of 1891.

property of the United Stateti even when found sixty miles
outside the throe-milo limit, and may be claimed and seized
418 suoh. The point may be left to International law and
the arbitratorn. Fiat justitia is, 1 believe, the honest wish
on both sides ; though J. B. looks at the question through British
glasses and U. S. through American.

W.
Ottawa, Citizen, May 14th, 1891. ' . ,

No IK. -Sir John Macdonald wrote mt- a letter thanking; me fur this and
saying that I had fairly hit Mr. Blaine's argument.

To the Editor o/Tai& Canada Law Journal :

Though I date from Ottawa, I am not going lo toll of any
new scandal, and no more are wanted :

" Enough of hootllers to the law shall yield
In the full harvest of the 'J'artean field."

In the phrase of the day, enough official heads are taken or
to be taken oft", and, curiously enough, there is, and has been
for some time, posted at an employment bureau in the immedi-
ate neighborhood of the Parliamentary buildings a notice infor-
ming us that seventy-live /<.««rf-c/t«j»/>er« are wanted. It is not
stated to whom candidates are to apply. As remedies for the
epidemic, an article in the lay press suggests higher pay for
3f.P.'s, a suggestion probably founded on the absolute absence
of bribery and boodling acro8.s the border, where tht? remedy is
applied! A board of control has been mentioned, but who shall
control the controllers ? The Auditor General's department has
been attacked, and even the Count of the Holy lloraan Empire
has not escaped i

RnVwuy Time.

:i51)

Of hills for amending tho law, there are but few : the Com-
monH BO amended the Anti-Combines Act as to make it effective,
but the Senate has so modified the amendment as to make the
Act a chip in porridge; — for would not a combine causing
*' detriment to the public " be a conspiracy to commit a crime
and punishable without the Act? — .\

At last, ten years after the English Act, 43 & 44 Vict., c. 9.
for the like purpose, we have a bill for meeting tho difficulty
arising out of the rapidity of travel by railroad, introduced by
Mr. Tuppor, the Minister of Marine. It is understood that tho bill
is not intended ti pa>s in the present session, and that it is prin-
ted for the consideration of members and the public; and
therefore, it Is a proper subject for you and your readerb to deal
with, which I hope you and they will do. The preamble refers
to the iiileriiational conference at Washington in 1884, which
recommended the meridian of Greenwich as tho prime meridian
common to all nations (at which Canada was ably represented
Jby Mr. Sandford Fleming, and to which all English-speaking
peoples are indebted for its decision) and then mentions what is
called the " Hour Zone System " of reckoning time, as having
been adopted with great advantage to the public by railway
companies in America and many other countries, including
-Canada, and the doubts that its adoption has occcasioned as to
its legal ett'ect in the latter: for though there is no doubt that
the legal civil time in tho Dominion is mean solar time as
4ieretofore, and no power but the legislature could make it other-
wise, many people believe the time adopted by the railway
■companies, and which they call standard time, has been substi-
tuted for it. The enacting clauses of iho bill do not sanction
this belief, or adopt the fifteen degree hour zone system, as
defined in the original scheme of the railway companies, in the
hill introduced by Mr. Evarts in the United States Senate, and
•more especially in the amusing and instructive article by Mr.
Fleming in the American Engineering Magazine for May, 1891,

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RaUway Time.

but rnuko tiiuc-zoiios ol pi-ovincon, and torritorios, without
reforriii^ to their ioiigitudii, following in thin respect the prin-
ciple of the English Act. But under thul Act the greatest diffe-
rence between the Nf.'itutory time and mean solar time would be
twenty-four minutes, and in the time-zones as defined in Mr.
Fleming's article, tiiirfy minutes; while under Mr. Tupper's bill
it would be more than two hours in Quebec and Ontario. — This
would, I think, be a very great inconvenience, though a diffe-
rence of half an hour might, in England, be rounterbalanced by
certain advantages. The hour zone >ystem has never been made
legal in the United States, excep. in the District of Washing-
ton (ten miles square), and it appears that elsewhere the subject
is one for the State legislatures. The advantage of zone
time would seem to be limited to zones comprised in or com-
prising one country or tract under the same civil juris.liotion.
Boundaries by meridians would be difficult to find aiid' use, jnid
the extent of Quebec and Ontario from east to west is over 30",
or two hours of time. When the question first aro.se, the opinion
of gentlemen of the Washington Observatory was, that the best
plan for America would be to have one Jiailway Time (thai of
90' west) across the continotjt, leaving solar time for the ordi-
nary purpo.«es civil life. — I believe * this would be the best for
Canada, and that Mr. Tuppei-'s bill, with a provision that its
time clauses should apply only to contracts and agreements,
oral or in writing, in which expressions of time are declared to
mean and refer to Railway Tivie^ (but should in them be
binding in law,), would be unexceptionable; though it would
perhaps be still better if one Railway Time were enacted for the
whole Dominion; legal civil time for other purposes remaining,
as heretofore, the mean solar time of each locality. The twenty-
four hour day is very good; it is and has long been in used

in Italy and other countries.

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Ottawa, Sept. 22nd, l!)9l.

* And see article on pages, 176 to 180.

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Albums : -Articles for '37-8

Ajxilojjy for my Waifs viii

Behring Sea Case 242-256

British Flag, K. and F. Translation 202

Browning, Robert 238

By -Town Kpitaph. on -. 132

Carriers' address 1839, Lord Durham 71-74

1847, 1849, 1850 84-89-92

Cartier, Sir lieo. K 142

Coalition, 1854 103

Commercial Union 221

Devils' F^xtra, Volunteer Ball 50

Disallowance of I'rovincial Acts 225

Double Shuffle, Ministerial 108

P'pitaph on a young lady 15

" Luther H. llolton 137

1 litt's resolution 223

Inconstants 59

Jesuits' restates ,\ct 190

Kingsford's ('anada. Vols. 1, 2, 3 2o6

Vol. 4 244

Leap-year Valentine 139

Levis burning his Colours, F,. and F. Trauslation 150

Macdonald, Sir John, In memoriam 254

Measurement — Curiosities of, Cosmic Forces 235

National .\ntheni, Canadian 163

Neilscm, John — Epitaph 72-93

New Years' addres.ses. See Table of contents.

Old Christ Church, Ottawa 112

Preface I

Queen's birthday Jubilee 160

Rag Money 140

Railway case, Manitoba vs. C. F. R 186

Railway time 258

Socialism 181

Translations 16, 17, 18

Waifs reviewed 250

Thule or Thule 118

But see also Table of contents.