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 la QMiied on *.hu^, General Agents,! uti Portlaaa eTen tw ,toLiT.-i,ool,»nahi r to Liverpool, nliji* Pd33eD:;erE for SooS ire,vi»Ha!ifai»a48l atiF dunag Bummaii ow lines sail dnrl l«nd, Bcston and nA becwcau Qlaigo* »adl Boston, weekl:»adQ tiy. !, or other ^^^t ler Co., Baltimi Shea Co.. St jm •SCO., St. John, hi I o 76 Aldea.^ 'jnta Allann. Bm ti :, Fhl'Bdephia; al ., Jijntreau iSVarcTeriecuiS iW I aud always Eg-^ ^^» SenledparticuS Licine Co.,Philadeii I 2nd hand BiojtldJ cycles. ' T Send for list 3nd3c. stamp for IsL, rue ever issued in K3F. TOrrs are the I ^U.ii «'i. Order i â- it -i' r. Xalie no .:uv,!5-. "ItaTOB ' .â- rf.i:.-j?.s3-:ad:3a tj 1 croiino) aio-a mull â- _'%:: •.:.: Gi5;i aiii*f li.li. ^. doi!»r 'o^s c "2sj-. C..i ' iiA.- •I'iSjL.XSIS. :ty Acres of Actual Seta«» thr'ftjr, menl in aianitoto; ^OR THEJ'ARMEE. riie small Spring drains. OATS, be Buc-easfal with oata, the seed be got m as early m spring as the .can b" put in good condition. Lite oa-3 ara very liable to rust and blight, Va'arly in sjultiern New England. more northern sectiona, where the ,^ is cooler, tarly Beeding is leas a Ly good oats being often harvesed [e a« the middle or last of Septoaiber. L three southern New England States, [intended for a crop of griin should TTn as early in April as possible. la ariy epring, they do well started in L}i .-â-  the ground is dry enough. of :he oats now raised in the milk- Beotionsarecut green, and made lij-. In this case, the seed may be 1 iter, bat the tendensy to blast is astd by lata sowing. We hive had amersosrn crop destroyed in three I ^i;iie after the rust struck the field, |rop not being more than half grown. \ev3 are often advised to get their ffrcn the North every year, or every Id \e;ir, as home grown seed ia leas n'jbi plump and bright, but wa fknown careful farmers to raise the 1 va'-ic'-j' of tat8 for thirty or forty L, ?,nd get as bright, and heavy crops it y^^'c s earlier. It is extra care fending to ail d stalls tha*! brings suc- aiijf- ui-'uGrtaking. SI-KING EVE, fia? rye is a f^ntin that many farmers te hi-i 'ran oal" in many sections Ih'j land f r the clicnate has sonaehow [e 1 in w ij-a that make it a peculiarly Ita-.n c r p The same class of f Armera jao found ouO that wheat could no • be rviiaad^aere, Bu-^wheatts raised, kheijsE, and with as heavy yields fany prirrvtuaa tima in the history of loiiutry a"id sooie farmers are Btill Js-fa; ni Kettitig good crops of spring Tne riqaisites for this crop, as for lars, efiriy sowing, good, mellow soil V.em. a 'uiid seed. This crop ia raised tnora fir soiling c'ittle than for grain, se^ d is often in good demand at Iprices, and in licaited quantities, it JroSable crop to grow for the seed. esown crop in this latitude, is almost I to blast or rust, so as to be nearly Jess. KAKLEY. • tley is getting to be of considerable Jrtance for feeding green to dairy I late in autumn, after the season for growing is passed. To have barley fffing late for fodder, the seed muse ovn t ar-y in the season, as late sown J, like late sown oats and rye, is like- Irast, or fill very poorly. All these reqi'r.3 cool weather for best re- and f r this reason, should be sown â- !y aa the 3?.ison will permit of doing Iwork. AU the^e crops do best sown 1 land tha' has produced a hoed crop previo;; ytar, yet "we have grown Icr 'p3 in sod land ploughed the pre- fill, but the cultivation was done ust th: rough manner, so much so henewiand, at the time of receiving ^ed, 7^:13 ;i3 fine and mellow as any nd c-rxld he. The fertilizjr was al- cn 1 'ic prtviou fall, anci thorough ^ke:i i:it' tlie soil, do that the young I rcot-i V ave a3 good feeding ground Ihe land hvl hetsn previously. plant- Id caltiv.ited. ipri.:;.' .;nuii3 to be usei for fodder, b.' cut aj soon as the heads are Ere .V.I, !-n^ dming the earliest stages loaiicu. Tie fodder will then be la^" •,ilir,j.'-nd^will be readily eiten. po thr'e fcusliels of rye or barley, to liv3 of oats to the acre, will ine Bfra.v that can be rapidly cured pcrdbl. 'i.sy weather. For growing coriBiue -ably less seed will be re- .:rl 1' Si Ktiil if ^-rass ia sown with F"n I this case, the less grain fttsr f 1 the "rasa. flic I^ciisje Of the Blizzard. ^Hy h • \.:d, if you want to have |et up I ]ej;nre and bring it out Tfhe!! rlie 1 1 zzards are ripe. Oil l^y m .riiiiig I made a drive of twelve lacrrerj rlie cjtintry from Tabor to pn. jS'ow, when it blows out in YnG. it I loAs It doesn't stop for the and It 1 â-  ... It b:,-. Ina il i 8U!t i':. f place s. ftjy bAre lijks fro rttlcd ov the e^nt stop to inquire the a thousand miles a min- tiads a sno ff^-drift located :t jast moves the drift into rl sweeps the old ground ofsnoT. And cold? The 'â- 2 to cur feet, less or more. v;r the rough, frozen roads jround was bare, then we Plaage into snow-drifts up to the corsets, and all the time the plti- md, sweeping all the way down Alaska, whirled the light snow in ifs and searched oat every crevice "nkle in blanket and ulster. Shade great white bjar, bet it was cold far as tha eye could reach across sat, whits, drifted prairie, the snow sweeping, whirling into fantastic ruing in great, gyrating columns, g over like ccaan breakers. MQa intrymile the arctic dance went â- nd the ghostly squadrons of the north went charging over these reless plains, and ever the fierce Of the sibilant, hissing winds, for lis no forest here for them to sing »ar through Time and again the onTf^l"""^^^^^ away from the trt^i '"'^i°8 of my comrade i' tI"" ^^" '«»^ and *• laid in 'eretL 'rf.^^°' of%torm and to fl'\^'^-^^ ««°at'y chUdren y Mi f"" ^^8 bDys hailed us over -m ' ^V?"*^ "^« »" Tbat'a "".-[Brooklyn Eigle. .^JffiWf Jl^tSL J^**^«Mhe flaod«d ConHloek winm ebbs and flows with tbe r«(jnl«it/ot ooott tides, the Virgini. (fifey.) ChtoioB^. A fresh invasion of the right* of the sab- ject is recited from Paris, where the Prefect of Pol c a has drawn ap« decoee absolutely prohibiting the dispBir of tod banrers. The MontpeUier Medical thinks that wheiher or not smoking is an excitine cause of cancer, the use of tobacco often preserves people from contagioui dig. orders. The practice of persons kissing the Bible when being sworn in aa jurota and witnesses has been abolished by Jadge Samuel Lompkinof the Northern Oircait in Georgia. A prayer book was offered for a drink to a Lowell, Mass, saloon keeper recently by a man who stated that he was out of money and hadn't anything else he conld pawn. The offar was refused. Dr. Flint is reported as having said that many lives are lost by starvation ow- ing to an over estimate of the nutritive value of beef tea and meat jaices.' In typhus and typhoid fevers, he says, there is no good subatitute for milk and eggs. A New England preacher says that the Chin^^se students who have retamed to the United .States after a two years' ab- sence in China have great difficulty in re- membering the English language, which they were supposed to have learned so well. The Medical Era has discovered a re- port that the University of Pennsylvania is about to start a hospital for dogs and other domestic animats. A " Philadel- phia lady " is supposed to be ready to en- dow a department for cats â€" literary and otherwise. Iq the town of "Warwick, in Rhode Isknd, i^ a boulder so poised on another rock that a person standing on it can rock it from aide to tide. "When it is rocked a dull booming sound is given out, which which can be heard for miles over the country on a still night. A legend says that in this manner the Indians were ac- castomed to summon their warriors to council at this place. AL the ladies presented in Dublin to the Princess cf Wales were, by a court order, to wear white. Hence many tears. Over thirty-five years had gone by since the last royal drawing room was held in Dublin Castle. Consequently several ladles wh had been waiting this long time to be pre ented to royilty found f at their charms had matured somewhat too much for being suitably and becomingly set in white. Referring to the willingness of the Ojibeway Indians to fight in defence of the British Empire, the Rev. Pahtoh Qaahnng Chase, hereditary chief of the tribe, and a missionary cf the Colonial and Continental Church Society, at a meeting at York, England, spoke of the part che tribe took in the British battles in North America in 1812 and 1814, for which his grand-father, then chief, was presented with a medal. He added that if the tribe were called upon now they would rise, young and old, to a man, and be ready to march at a day's notice.. A Cheap Fence. Mr. Z. A. Gilbert gives the following plain descripton of a chsap post and raU fence, such as he has had in use for many years upon hia farm. Where lumbar is cheap, this fence is claimed to be as eco- nomical as barbed wire and quite as effi- cient in holding stock â€" The fence is built with three rails only, for cattle. The posts should be seven feet four inches long, set three feet in the ground, with a piece 1^ inches thick, nailed across the side of the post, at the bottom, with two heavy nails. The dirt being tamped down upon this piece, will prevent the frost from heaving the post out. The rails should be 13 feet long, the posts set 12 feet 5 inches apart, from cen- tre to centre this gives 3^ inches of rail beyond bolt, to prevent splitting. The rails of one length of fence are placed on one side of she post, and the next length on the other side of the same post, and the bolt goes through both rails and the post, with tha r.u' tn ool op, holding the rails firmly in place. Tne rails being hung on the side of the post, the water all runs off and prevents the rotting that occurs in any ordinary rail fence, where the rails cross each other. These bolts are 5-16 ilO inch carriage bolts, costing, by the ICOO, 2;^ cents each, or J cants per rod. It will be seen that it requires four rails to the rod, and 1^ posts. The eost per rod is, there^re Kails, 16 posts, 16 cents bolts, 9 cents, and labor 20 cents, or 61 cents per rod. The writer has built and had in nae, for 15 years sev- eral hundred rods of this fence, and re- gards the exemption from repairs as eqoal to the cost of the fence during the time he has had it in use. The top hole for the bolt is 4 feet 2 inches above the ground, and the holes below 14 inches a- part. A board pattern is easily made, each poet is marked quickly. And for sheep instead of another rail nnder, *ome throw up a ridge on a line with the posts, thus leaving the opening too small for sheep to get through. " It all comes o' beln' poor," eaid an old lady, trembling with indignation, to hir sick husband. "I ji»t stepped in a minltat the Rich's to teU 'em as howjou wasn't gettin' any better and Mrs. Rich edsha was sorry, and "ted fueto bring you a bottle of whae." ** Did yott brW itrastaid the rick mto^*ag«ly. " n! I heard het say it had oe^^T-. in' dqwn in the cellar ewr ««V»^1»J5J* when she offered it to me 1 jwt w^ed off without aayin' a word." i ':fK.-ja3ni:.rr.^ wsmmmik Hiiyta "fS^ JKTBKM^^Iir^TATISTICS. J ?rA«*BaE7 iniKkllreF464,; There are onlj 2,370 maes of raiWaj in Ireland, M wliia~1rat 668 arv dbnMe linea. 7ke number of penbna ton rquare miH in Kitish Inis 211 Feooiatory ittdiia; 89 aU India, 162. ' T In 1849 the export trade of France amounted to £49,C0O,OCO ia 1879 it had aonk to £34,000,000 aterling. The Fbat-Offiee now retnma 17-4 times aa much aa it did in 1840, the revenue having riaen from £447,605 to £7,790,000. Out of 1,000. 000,OCO letters delivered by the General Post-Office the proportion of Bussing property and non-property let- ters waa only '04 per cent*. The SoDth K'*ti«ingfaa Muaeum htt: been open 29 years. The number of Vinton daring that time has b«Bn22,077»- 654â€" viz morning, 15,676,155, evening, after 5 pm., 6,401,499. The manofacture and export of ndsina is rapidly increasing in Cyprus. From the sum of £4,800 in 1868, the value of the export of raisins had increased in 1879 to aamuch as £18,000. About 3,000,000 acres of land are un- der cultivation in British Burmah. Of this total, all save 300,000 acres are de- voted to the growth of rice. Tobacco, sugar-cane, cotton, and oil-seeds of dif- ferent kinds form the other crops. Qoicksilver is carried and shipped in wrought- iron fluks of 25 1"). containing 75 lb. cf the metal. The consumption of quicksilver in the world was estimated in 1876 to amount to about 80,000 flasks per year in 1877 it reached 100 OCO flasks since then it has averaged 133,- 000 flasks a year. The United Kingdom annually pays the foreigner a tnbate of £10,379,793 for butter, cf £2.295,720 for eggs, and £8,- 880,223 for bacon and bam â€" in all, £21,- 555,393 for articles not only perfectly capabla of home-production, bat astually better and of superior value when pro- duced at home. "Weight Gabtiied by IsFAxriiir Sol- diers.â€" rA return haa been prepan^d by order of the R i9Bi%n Minister ot War of the weight actually carried by the infan- try soldier in each of the large E iropean armies when in the field in time of «raf At the head of the list stands the Rus- sian soldier, with a load of 32 kilogram- mes, or between 70 lb. and 71 lb. Next comes the Bren-;h soldier, who c!H'ries30 kilogrammes, or 66 lb. and then come the English and Italian aoldier, each with a burden of 28 kilograimmes, or between 61 lb. and 63 lb. The Austrian foldi)r carries only 26 kilogrammes, or .o7 lb the Swiss 22 kilogrammes, or botw^Pii 43 lb. and 4Q ib while the German soldier, finally, is ceiled upon to c-rry only 21 7 kilogrammf E or 47o lb. Th^re is rhus a difference of 23 lb ojtween the weight of the kit and accoutrements of the Russian and German soldier. The' Slahdi's Military Organiza- tion. An Arab paper contains an interesting description of the organization cf the Mahdi's forces, according to which the tactical unit of his army is the ' ' brother- hood," consisting of ten men, who are originally under the orders of their senior in age. Any soldier, however, who especi- ally distinguishes hi^nself may be pzo- moted to the leadership. Ten of these 'â-  brotherhood ' form a company, at the head of which is a ferik, and ten com- panies form a regiment, which is com- manded by an emir and his lieutenants. Every company haa its linen flag, which invariably baars the crossed swords that form tlie military device of the Mahdi but the color of the flag varies, each regi- ment having its o vn, and, in fact, being known by its color. Ddeda of bravery are rewarded by a present of gold, and any private may by continued gallantry raise himself, to the rank of emir. When the Mahdi commands In person he ia ac- companied by ten cmlrs, who constitute his staff, by teu officers who act as aids de camp, and by four mounted standard- bearers. These twenty-four immediate com par ions of the General- in-chief are alone eligible to sit on court mutials and councils of war. But the Mahdi has several unofficial councillors, and among these doubtiess are the two Frenchmen who, according to Paris papera, have thrown in their lot with him. The Real Test of a Horse. Test trials of speed against time to make a record, caa never be considered as the correct determination of what constitutes the true value in horse fltsh. The true test of a horse is a contest of atrangth, speed or endurance, snrronnded by the conditions met in the contest of everyday life. A horse may exhibit great apeed in a trial agaiost time when all the conditions are most favorable, and yet fail entirely when the elements of alurdly c^nteated race are prewnt. However perfect may be the drUl of abody, that does not count for more than a preliminary discipline in the contest of battie. Neiuiar does what a hone may do in a race where the speed ia merely agalnat time and nothing could be more injurious to the intereat of breed- era than the eraza that ia made over the performacca of some animal owned by an individual to advertise his wealth, or to draw money to hia coffars by thsaie hippo- drome exhibitions against time. If the law of the turf compSkiA these pheome^ nons to enter into contwts of ao-.nal tsial with hocaea tha« cna fero^ in a roca da^ger- ously near to their Ume. o' diqqnaUly .tkem from JK^ding the! chaapiohsliij), some of the flyers might have -to Bi'telb- gated to ii?bmd i^atta; "" ' '•' "' ' Printers* hS the ^en« jlan^irati iSn he read in ^s* $ifin^ that he had **kicked her under the cellar -atibi." But the reporter only amiled when he read in hia report that 'the people rent ^e air with tkeir ten thouaand anonts," for he knew that an n had got in- to the h box. A person who knows the method of set- ting up the typa readily explains many of the blunders he aeea in print. The varicup lettera are arxai^ed before the compositor-. m leparate boxea or oompartmenta, and hia selects them onf by one, with speed and accuracy^ as required. But the pres- ecoe of a wrong letter in a division. Or a cbanoe dip into the wrong box, may cause a reader to find "oate" printed "cats," arjpoets, "posts " But "aoDga," "tongs, tlift biaane does not always rest with the type compositor. The incorrect spelling a«id- slovenly writing of authora are a frequent and mnatant cause of printers' error^l^ An ariiide- in Chambera' Journal illustiat|^thia iaotby thefoUowiiig e^sim- ples;r-r-f â- *.!' I .- ^.i- I â-  Boerhaave becomes" Boreshiave ' and Et tu Brute! "Eh,the Brute!" Authors should remember that the proof-reader is fallible and may be ignorant when he shoiild have knowledge. If.a paaaage rea'a clearly and gramatically, although conveying any thing but the sense intend- ed, it is not to be wondered fU* that the error is sonetiinea undet9Ct6d by the proof-reader. Much surprise waa oJcaiioned by Sir Archibald Allison, in his History of Eu- rope, including amongst tlie persons pre seat at -the funeral of the Duke of Wel- linglcn the name of "Sir Peregrine Pickle." There can be little doubt that the author had made an unoohacioas slip, intending to name Sir Pcregnne Acton. Sir Thomas Brassey having referred in a spef ch to the Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics, the compositor transformed the title into the " Golden TreMuiy of Soups aud Cynics." Mistakes in punctuation, cuch as the omission or misplacing of a C3mma, may caoao lerioaa alteration to the sepse of a passage. jPhe contract maide for fi^htiiig the town of Liverpool by "wick lamps, during tbe year 1819, waa rendered void by the misplacing of a comm^ in the ad- vertisements, thus "The lamps at present are about four thourand and fifty, and have in general two sponta each, cotapoaed of not less thaxx twenty threads of cotton." The ointraotors would bave proceeded to furnish each Ump with the aaid twentf threads but this being only half tba usual quintity, the Commissioner] discovered that the difference arose Uttm tl e comma following, instead of p;eceding, tne w rd ' e^ch." In the following inatince, it was ho d; ubt a bacholor-coQ paaitor who, setting up the toast ' Woman, without hsr, man would be a savage 1" got the comma in the wrong place and made the sentence read, "Woman, without her man, would be a savage 1" The Queen's Speech at the opening of a recent session of P..rliament was hurriedly published in a Scotch newspaper without being revised by the press-corrector. Her Majesty, instead of saying that certain ne- gotiations "willjl doubt not, lead to sat- isfactory results," was reported as saying, "will, I doubt, not lead to satisfactory re- sults." So much for the misplacing of a comma Arab Women as Fighters. From the earliest period of their his- tory, the women of the desert-tribes were as celebrated for their skill with lance or bow, as foi that bronze beauty which the composers of the quaaidah or the moal- lakat were never weary of describing. Before Islam it was the boast of many Arabian tiibes, as it was afterwards of certain Tartar hordes, that their women could fight as well as the men The ELi- maryites were among the mo t famous of these. All through these ancient Ara- bian poems, to which Mahomet is said to have referred as final authority fur the meaning of certain words or phrases in the Koran, one fiada legends of Arab giria calfcbra'ed for their equestrianism, their dexterity with the scimetar, and even for the number of men they have overcome in single combat. Islam, by f nbordinat- ing the woman to the man, and destroy- ing the idea of male and female equality, did much to ixtinguish the warrior- spitit of the fair sex throughout the greater part of the Orient but in the deserts of Arabia and Northern Africa, something of those ancient ideaa atill pre- vail. Turkish Proverbs about Women. Therefereneea to womanareaaungallant as they are unjust. She ia treated as a child, and as such contemptuously par- doned for her shortcomings. '*You ahould lecture neither child nor woman " ib would ba waate time. Her intelligence, too, ia underrated, ** Her hair ia long, her wits short " It ia she who as a mo- ther ' makes the house, and man it," and aha is clasied wilih good irmib aa " a aweet poison." But it mnat be admitted that in thia want of gallantry the Turk is far surpassed by the Penian, who sys ' The doe is faithftil, woman never." The lover is regarded as a lunatic, un- fit for theaociety cf his fellows. "If you are in love flf to the mountaina," for "Lover ahd king brook no companion." Hfl ia ** blind," and distanea u nottiing io him for him ' Bagdad is nat far," and the on1y-eur;s f(Mr lus malady, are "travel and patienoa." A void 9f advice ta thoaa about to jaarry, "Mwry ..below yon, bui do not marry your diua^nter' ab'di^e yon " and " chooae elbth' by itiMge,'aod t^ irife biy her mother." ' â-  "•" --'-•â- â- -â- -' " '-^.-is;^: Vhe Story of ** Anid Robin Crmy." Thia cxquiaite ballad waa written by ^Lady Anneliindaay, daughter of the fifth Bu-1 of Balcatrea She was bom on November 27, 1750, and at the early age of twenty-one peuduoEd tihe baDad which Sir Walter Scott says^ia worth all the dialogues which Coiy don and Phy Ilia have had together, from the dajs of Theocritus downward." Ih 1793 Lady A Lindsay married Mr Ai. drew' Barnard, aoncf the Bishcp of Limerick, with whom she went out to the Cape on lus appointment as Colonial Si cretary under Lord Macartney. Mr. Biimaid dyirg at the Cape, hia widow returned to London, where she eijojed the friendship of Burke, Wind- ham, and others, until her deith, which occuTred in the year 1825. It was not until she was in her seventy-third year that Lady Barnard" made known the â-  secret of the authorship of this ballad. An amusing story is told in connection, with its production. On Lord Balcaires's estate was a shepherd o! the name of Rr^bin Gray, and for some act of his Lady Anae resolved to immortalize his memory. Upon her little siater entering her room cna day. Lady Anne said " 1 have been writing a ballad, my dear and I am op- pressing my herotne with many mis- fortunes. I have »lr?a3y seni her Jamie to aeia, broken her father's arm, made her mother fill ridt, and -given her suld Robin Gray for a lover but I wish to load her with a fifth sorrow in the last fonr lines. Help mo to one, I pray." " Stieal the co"' siater Anue," aaid her siater. Aecordinijly., vve are told that the co'A w."i8 "lifted." Invention of («nnjoyiI'r. In a paper recently read before the Shanghai branch of th*» Royal Aeiatic S jcieiy, Dl' Mac-g;iwan tHi-ujs cbo claims of the Chinese to b 3 the crioinatorB of gunpowder and firearms, Tilis claim was examined ia an tl*bora(e paper aome years sgo by the late Mr. Myers, and de- cided by him in the ns-gauve Dr. Mac-, gowan admi'sthac gur powder w.8 now used is a Earopenn diacveiy. Anterior to its granul.ttion by Scliwar'z it was a cruc'e compound of Utile use In propelling misvles tlus, says the v/rit«r, ia the ar tide first csad in China fhe Inien- diary materials stated ry a Greek his- torian to h»ve been employed by the Hindoo against Akxinder'a army are stated to hava been merely the naph- thoua or petrolenm mixtures of ancient Coreans, arid,in early timfB used by the Chi'ea«. Thj "sUnk p )ta," bo xnuch used by ChinsBo pirates, are, i appears, a Cambodian irjvenricm. •. Macjrowan states also th it as early as t \e twelfth or thirteenth century the ChioeBe attemnked submarine warfare, coatiiving rude to pedoes for that furpoae. Int'-^ yea? 1000 an inveijtorexbiVtedto the Emper- or of Caina "a tire gun and a fire-bomb." He say a ihat wliie tho Chinese discovered the espltsive raiure of nitre, Bulpuur and charcoal in combination, they were laggarcs in its appliL-ati n, from .nablity to perfocfc ita manufaitcre ro, ia the uae of firearms, failing to prorecute ex- periment, they are f ,und bch'nd in the matter of acientific gaantry.â€" [Scientific American. The Seert't Orders of Islam. It is a grievous error to suppose, as many do, chat thesa scattered millions have no power of cv-rabinition. Moham- medanisoi p at^ssfs five secret societies of propa^udiste. Fi'o great Moslem brotherhoods â€" viz the Abd ei-Kider, of Bagdad the Ditrkawy, of Morocco, and the lasawiye, whose headquarters are in Arabia itselfâ€" as thorouunly organized and disciplined as any Nihilist aRsocia- tion. Every pilgrim caravan to Mecca bears with It the emissarien of one or other of these gloomy br therhoods, and Mecca itself ia, atd has long been, as fully recogniz d a pl^ca lA meeting for Muaanlman plotters as Pari^ for conspirat- ora of another kind. Tnese stern apostles preach iqcesrantly that Islam is in danger, and that its disciples mcst riae as one man tod 'fend it, while the formidable "Darka- wi society," of Morocco â€"which, from i^ s savage zaal and percipient advocacy of the most violent measurwi, may ba held to re- present the "dynamita party" of Moham- medantam â€" goes so far as to menace open- ly the Sol-.^n of Turkey and other MuebqI- man pri. c s who have aUowed themselves to be a ' '•vt'd by the irfluence of the ac- cursed ' firs of Franeistan," probably meanic^ France and England. From such a -platform" to i he use of daggets and explosives there is but one step. Effect of English Rule on ludia. England has fostered schools and mia- aionary enterprisea, and these diffuse what may be called political intellii^ence rather faster than an obedient Christian spirit; All these icflaescaa combined are gradually changing the manners, thoughts and characters cf the Hindoos. The Bnddhlata, Musanlmana and Brahmina re- tain their peculiar cnatoma and beliefa, but all are affected more or lesa by the new, restless, q-iestioning spirit let in up- on them by their conquerors. Thia alow dwaning new era is not without ground for O '.xiety aa to tbe future of Eoglish su- premacy. The character of the Bindx) ia a curiousanomalyâ€" gentle, dreaming and apathetic, but yet capab e cf the wildest and mort savage outbursts of passion. The aaifety of Eaglish rule lay in the quiet- ness and lack of self-assertion peculiar to this strange psople and in this dispersion of their strength, resulting from immem- orial religions divisions. I j would seem to follow, thertf jre, that if the infljences al- luded to have tended to remove these aafe- gnarda the resulting condition, although f jkVorab!e to the spread of civilization, ia ominous of future trouble. ' ' m-l I' 8 I tl K â- if. I "TA oil I, i-i;' I Mil