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ou $2.00 per Annum VOL. 2, No. 9.] "AML extremes are error, the opposite of error ts nottruth but error; truth lies between the extremes." STRATFORD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1864. im advance. [WHOLE No. 36. Select Poetry. DOP PII nnn enn The Child and the Dew-Drops, 'Oh, dearest mother, tell me pray, Why are the dew-drops gone so soon? Could they not stay till close of day, To sparkle on the flowery soray, Or on the fields till noon ?' The mother gazed upon her boy, Earnest with thought beyond his years ; She felt a sharp and sad annoy, Which meddled with her deepest joy, But she restrained her tears. My child, 'tis said such beauteous things, Too often loved with vain excess, Are swept away by angel wings, Before contamination clings To their frail loveliness. Behold yon rainbow, brightening yet, To which all mingled hues are given! There are thy dew-drops, grandly set In a resplendent coronet Upon the brow of Heaven, 'No etain of earth can reach them there ; Woven with sunbeams there they shine, A transient vision of the air. But yet a symbol pure and fair, Of love and peace divine.' The boy gazed upward into space, With eager and inquiring eyes, While o'er his fair and thoughtful face, Came a faint glory, and a grace Transmitted from the skies. Ere the last odorous sight of May, That child lay down beneath the sod ; Like dew his young soul passed away, 'fo mingle with the brighter day That veils the throne of God. Mother, thy fond, foreboding heart, Truly foretold thy grief and pain ; But thou didst choose the Christian part, Of resignation to the smart, And owned thy loss his gain. [From Chambers' Journal. THERE IS NO HURRY! A TALE OF LIFE-ASSURANCE, BY. MRS. 8. C; HALL. From Chambers' Journal. ( Concluded.) It was no easy matter to oblige her cousin to understand what she meant; but at last the declaration that she had refused her old lover because she had placed her affections upon Edwin Lechmere, whom she was en- deayoring to 'entrap,' was not to be mis- taken ; and the country girl was altogether unprepared for the burst of indignant feel- ing, mingled with much bitterness, which repelled the untruth. A strong fit of hys- terics into which Mary Charles worked her- self was terminated by a scene of the most abe kind--her father being upbraided y her mother with 'loving other people's children better than his own,' while the curate himself knelt by the side of his be- throhed, assuring her of his unaltered affee- tion. From such a scene Miss Adams has- ' tened with a throbbing brow and a burning heart, She had no one to counsel or console her ; no one to whom she could apply for aid. or the first time since she had ex- perienced her uncle's tenderness, she felt she had been the means of disturbing his domestic peace; the knowledge ofthe bur- den she was, and the burden she and hers were considered, weighed her to the earth; and in a paroxism of anguish she fell on her knees, exclaiming, 'Qh! why are the dependent born into the world? Father, father! why did you leave us, whom you so loved, to such a fate!' And then she reproached herself for having uttered a word reflecting on his memory. One of the every- day occurences of life--so common, as to be hardly observed--is to find really kind good-natured people weary of well-doing. "Oh, really I was worn out with so and so; _ they are so decidedly unfortunate that it is impossible to help them,' is a general excuse for deserting those whose continuing mis fortune ought to render them greater ob- jects of sympathy. Mr. Charles Adams was, as has been shown in our little narrative, a kind-hearted man. KHstranged as his brother and him- self had been for a number of years, he had done much to forward, and still more to protect, his children. At first this was a pleasure; but somehow his ' benevolence,' and 'kindness,' and 'generosity' had been so talked about, so eulogised; and he had been so seriously inconyenienced by the waywarduess of his nephews, the thoughtless pride of his sister-in-law, the helplessness of his younger nieces, as to feel seriously op- pressed by his _responsibility....And now the one who had never given him aught but plcasure, seemed, according to his daughter's representations, to be the cause of increased sorrow--the destroyer of his d happiness. What to do he could not tell. His daughter, wrought upon her own jeal- ousy, had evinced under its influence so deer 'child's much temper sue had never displayed be fore, that it seemed more than likely the cherished match would be broken off. His highminded niece saved him any farther anxiety as far as she was concerned. She sent for, and convineed him fully and en- tirely of her total freedom from the base design imputed to her. * Was it likely,' she said, 'that I should reject the man I love lest I should drag him into poverty, and plunge at once with one I do not care for into the abyss I dread? This is the common-sense view of the case; but there is yet another. Is it to be borne that I would seek to rob your child of her happi- ness ? The supposition is an insult to gross to be endured. I will leave my mother to- morrow. An old schoolfellow, older and more fortunate than myself, wished me to educate her Jittle girl. I had one cr two strong objections to living in her house; but the desire to be independent and away has overcome them.' She then; with many tears, entreated her uncle still to protect her mother ; urged how she had been sorely tried; and communicated fears, she had reason to believe were to well founded, that her eldest brother, feeling the reverse more than he could bear, had deserted from his regiment. : Charles Adams was deeply moved by the nobleness of his niece, and reproved his daughter more harshiy than he had ever done before for the feebleness that created so strong and unjust a passion. This had the contrary effect to what he had hoped for : she did not hesitate to say that her cousin had endeavoured to rob her both of the affection of her lover and her father. The iajured cousin left Repton, bowed beneath an accumulation of troubles, not one of which wasof her own creating, not one of which she deserved ; and all spring ing from the unproviding nature of him who, had he been asked the question, would have declared himself ready to sacrifice his own life for the advantage of that daughter, now compelled to work for her own bread. To trace the career of Mary Adams in her new calling would be to repeat what I have said before. The more refined, the more informed the governess, the more she suf- fers. Being with one whom she had known in better days, made it even more hard to bend ; yet she did her duty, and that is one of the highest privileges a woman -can enjoy. Leaving Mary for a moment, let us_re- turn to Repton. Here discord, having once entered, was making sad ravages, and all were suffering from it. It as but too true that the eldest of the Adamses had deserted : her mother, clinging with a parent's fond- ness to her child, concealed him, and thus offended Charles Adams beyond all recon- ciliation. The third lad, who was walking the London hospitals, and exerting himself beyend his strength, was everything that a youth could be; but his declining health was represented to his uncle, by one of those whom his mother's pride had insulted, as a cloak for indolence. In short, before another year had quite passed, the family of the once rich and fashionable Dr, Adams had shared the fate of all dependents--worn out the benevolence, or patience, or whatever it really is, of their best friends. Nor was this the only consequence of the physician's negleet of a duty due alike to God and society: his brother had really done so much for the bereaved family, as to give what the world called just grounds to Mrs. Charles Adams's repeated complaints, "that now her husband was ruining his industri- ous family to keep the lazy widow of his spendthrift brother and her favorite children in idleness. Why could she not live upon the 'fine folk' she was always throwing in her face?' "heir daughter, too, of whose approaching union the fond father had been so proud, was now, like her cousin whom she had wronged by her mean suspicions, deserted ; the match broken off after much bickering ; one quarrel having brought on another, until they separated: by mutual consent. Her temper and her health were both materially impaired, and her beauty was converted into hardness and acidity. Oh how utterly groundless is the idea, that in our social state, where one human being must so much depend upon another, any man, neglecting his positive duties, can be called only 'his own enemy!' What misery had not Dr. Adam's neglect entailed, not alone on his immediate family, but on that of his brother! Besides, there were ramifications of distress; he died even more embarrassed than his brother had at first believed, and some tradespeople were con- sequently embarrassed ; but the deep misery fell upon his children. Meanwhile, Mrs. Dr. Adams had left Repton 'with' her younger children, to be the dependents of Mary in London, é It was not until a fatal disease had seized upon her mother, that Mary ventured to appeal again to her uncle's generosity. 'My second brother,' she said, 'has, out of his small means, remitted her five pounds. My eldest brother seems altogether to have dis- appeared from amongst us: finding that his unhappy presence had occasioned so fatal a separation between' his mother and you--a disunion which I saw was the effect of many small causes, rather than one great one-- he left us, and we cannot trace him. This has broken my poor mother's heart; he was the cherished one of all her children. My youngest brother has been for the last month an inmate of one of the hospitals which my poor father attended for so many years, and where his word was law. . My sister Rosa, she upon whom my poor father poured, if possible, more of his affection than he be- stowed upon me --my lovely sister, of whom, even in our poverty, I was so proud--so young, only upon the verge of womanhood --has, you already know, left us. Would to God that it had been for her grave, rather than her destroyer !--a fellow-student of that poor youth, who, if he dreamt of her dishonor, would stagger like a spectre from what will be his deathbead to avenge her. Poverty is one of the surest guides to dis- honor; those who have not been tempted know nothing of it. It is one thing to see it, another to feel it. Do not think her al- together base, because she had not the strength of a heroine. I have been obliged to resign my situation to attend my mother, and the only income we have is what I earn by giving lessons on the harp and_ piano. 1 give, for two shillings, the same instruction for which my father paid half-a-guinea a lesson; if I did not, I should have no pupils. It is more than a month since my mother left her bed: and my youngest sis- ter, bending beneath increased delicacy. of health, is her only actendant. I know her 'mind to be so tortured, and her body so couvulsed by pain, that I have prayed to God to render her fit for Heaven, and take her from her sufferings. Imagine the weight of sorrow that crushed me to my knees with such a petition as that! I know all you have done, and yet I ask you now, in re- membrance of the boyish love that bound you and my father together, to lessen her bodily anguish by the sacrifice of a little more ; that she, nursed in the lap of luxury, may not pass from -life with starvation as her companion. My brother's gift is ex- pended; and during the last three weeks I have earned but twelve shillings; my pupils are out oftown. Do, for a moment, remem- ber what I was, and think how humbled I must be to frame this supplication; but it is a shild that petitions for a parent, and I know I have never forfeited your esteem. Tn a few weeks, perhaps in a few days, my brother and my mother will meet my poor father face to face. Oh that I could be assured that reproach and bitterness for the past do not pass the portals of the grave! Forgive me this, as you have already for- given me much. Alas! I know too well that our misfortunes drew misfortunes upon others. I was the unhappy but innocent cause of much sorrow at the Grange; but oh! do not refuse the last request that I will ever make!' The letter was blotted by tears. Charles Adams was from home when it arrived, and his wife, knowing the hand- writing, and having made a resolution never to open a letter 'from that branch of the family,' did not send it after her husband, 'lest it might tease him.' Ten days elapsed before he received it; and when he did, he could not be content with writing, but lost not a moment in hastening to the address. Irritated and disappointed that what he really had done should have been so little appreciated, when every hour of his life he was smarting in one way or other from his exertions--broken-hearted at his daughter's olighted health and happiness--angered by the reckless wildness of one nephew, and what he believed was the idleness of another --and convinced that Resa's fearful step was owning to the pampering and misman- agement of her foolish mother--Charles Adams satisfied himself that, as he did not hear to the contrary from Mary, all things were going on well, or at least not ill. He thought as little about them as he possibly could, no people in the world being so con- veniently forgotten (when they are not im- portunate) as poor relations: but the letter of his favourite niece spoke strongly to his heart, and in two hours after his return home, he set forth for the London suburb from whence the letter was dated. It so chanced that, to get to that particular end of the town, he was obliged to pass the house his brother had occupied so splendid- ly for a number of years; the servants had lit the lamps, and were drawing the curtains of the noble dining-room ; and a party of ladies were descending from a carriage; which 'prevented two others from setting down. Tt looked like old times, 'Some one else,' thought Charles Adams, ' running the same career of wealth and extravagance. God grant it may not lead to the same re- sults !' He paused, and looked up the front of the noble mansion; the drawing-room windows were open, and two beautiful chil- dren were stznding on an ottoman placed between the windows, probably to keep them apart. He thought of Mary's child- hood, and how she was occupied at that moment, and hastened onward. There are times when life seems one mingled dream, and it is not easy to become dispossessed of the idea when some of its frightful changes are brought almost together under our view. 'Is Miss Adams at home ?' inquired her uncle of a woman leaning against the door of a miserable house. 'JT don't know; she went to the hospital this morning; but I'm not sure she's in. It's the second pair back ; it's easy known, for the sob has not ceased in that room these two nights; some people do take on rt) Charles Adams did not hear the conclud- ing sentence, but sought the room: the door would not close, and he heard. a low sobbing sound from within. He paused ; but his step had aroused the mourner. 'Come in, Mary--come in. I know how it is,' said a young voice; 'heisdead. One grave for mother and son--one grave for mother and son! % see your shadow, dark as itis. Have you brovght a candle? jt is very fearful to be alone with the dead-- even one's own mother--in the dark.' Charles Adams entered the room; but his sudden appearance in the twilight, and evidently not knowing him, overcame the girl, his youngest niece, so much, that she screamed, and fell on her knees by her: mother's corpse. He called for lights, and was speedily obeyed, for he put a piece of gold in the woman's hand: she turned it over, and as she hastened from the room, muttered, 'If this had come sooner, she'd not have died of starvation, or burdened the parish for a shroud: it's hard the rich can't look to their own.' When Mary returned, she was fearfully calm 'No; her brother was not dead,' she said. 'The young were longer dying than those whom the world had worn out; the young knew so little of the world, they thought it hard to leave it; and she took off her bonnet, and sat down; and while her uncle explained why he had not written, she looked at him with eyes so fixed and cold, that he paused, hoping she would speak, so painful was their stony expression. But she let him go on, without offering one word of assurance of any kind feeling or re- membrance; and when she stooped to ad- just a portion of the coarse plaiting of the shroud--that mockery of 'the purple and fine linen of living days'--her uncle saw that her hair, luxuriant hair, was striped with white. 'There is no need for words now,' she said at last; 'no need. I thought you would have sent; she required but littleh-- but very little; the dust rubbed from the gold she once had would have been riches. But the little she did require she had not, and so she died. But what weighs heaviest on my mind was her calling so continually on my father, to know why he had deserted her. She attached no blame latterly to any one, only called day and night upon him. Oh! it was hard to bear--it was very hard to bear |' ; j 'TI will send a proper person in the morn- ing; to arrange that she may be placed with my brother,' said Charles. Mary shrieked almost with the wildness of a maniac. 'No, no; as far from him as possible! Oh! not with him!:She was to blame in our days of splendor as much as he was; but she could not see it; and I durst not reason with her. Not with him! She would disturb him in his grave !' Her uncle shuddered, while the young girl sobbed in the bitter wailing tone their landlady complained of. 'No,' resumed Mary; 'let the parish bury her; even its officers were kind; and if you bury her, or they, it is still a pauper's funeral. I see all these things clearly now. Death, while it closes the eyes of some, opens the eyes of others; it has opened mine.' But why should I prolong this sad story. It is not the tale of one, but of many. There are dozens, scores, hundreds of in- stances of the same kind, arising from the same cause, in our broad islands. In the lunatic asylum where that poor girl, eyen Mary Adams, has found refuge during the past two years, there are many cases of in- sanity arising from change of circumstances, where a fifty pounds' insurance would have set such maddening distress at defiance. I know that her brother died in the hospital within a few days; and the pale, sunken- eyed girl, whose damp yellow hair and thin white hand are. so eagerly kissed by the gentle maniac when she yisits her, month by month, is the youngest, and, I believe, the last of her family--at least. the last in England. Oh that those who foolishly boast that their actions only affect them- selves, would look carefully abroad, and, if they doubt what I have faithfully told, ex- amine into the causes which crowd the. world with cases even worse than I have - here recorded ! _T oo Arrival of the " Liecla." THE APPEAL IN THE "ALEXANDRA'"' CASB DISMISSED. SEVERAL SEVERE ENGAGEMENTS BETWEEN THE GERMANS AND DANES. CONSIDERABLE LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. ONE THOUSAND PERSONS ARRESTED IN WARSAW, THE NATIVES IN NEW ZEALAND DEFEATED* BY THE BRITISH, New York, Feb. 24. The steamship Heclu, from Liverpool 9th, via Queenstown 10th, arrived at this port at ten o'clock.this morning. Her dates are three days later. The judges of the exchequer, in the Alex- andra case, had decided, by a majority of one out of seven; to dismiss the appeal, on the ground of want of jurisdiction. Lord Palmerston said the government had remonstrated with Austria and Prussia, in regard to the proclamation of the Duke of Augustenburg, and in placing Schleswig and Holstein under their protection. Prussia admitted its disapproval of the affair. in Schleswig and ordered its stoppage. In Holstein affatrs were under. the ¢on- trol of the Germanic diet. Prussia also posi- tively declared it would respect the integri- ty of Denmark. It is fully confirmed that the Danes have retreated from Schleswig, evacuated the Dannewerke, and blown up their works at Missunde. The Germans followed the Danes to Fleng- berg, when the latter also retreated towards Duppel. i Several severe engagements had taken place, with considerable loss on both sideg, The Germans had secured great booty, and a large number of prisoners. According to some authorities, the Danish possessions of Schleswig is probably ended. Some assert that the Danish forces will retreat to Jut- land ; while others are certain that a for- midable stand will be made at Duppel, where the Danes, supported by theif fleet, can as- sume a strong position. Great excitement exists at Copenhagen, under the retreat of the Danish forces. It was reported in Paris that a revolution had broken out in Copenhagen, and that the King of Denmark had embarked for Eng- Jand. This has sinee proved to be unfoun- ded. ; The English journals continue very anti- German in tone, and the conservatives hold Earl] Russell responsible for the Danish re- verses. The Prince Satsuma has to Japan. London markets.--Wheat firm for foreign ; flour 6d dearer. The Prussians had occupied Flensberg. The Austrian losses there were 1,100. Ear] Russell stated in the House of Lords that Mr. Adams thought it prudent to with- paid indemnity hold Seward's offensive dispatch, at which. Lord Derby was so indignant, and it haa never been presented. Mr. Layard said America had made no demand, written or verbal, for indemnity for the Alabama's doings. Copenhagen, 9th--The Rigraad voted to-day an address to the army, announcing the energetic prosecution of the war. Vienna, 9th.--At a council of minister on the 7th, under presidency of the emper. or, important resolutions were adopted, to the effect that the London Protocol can no longer be preserved by Austria, as a basis of negotiations between the great powers, London, 9th.--The Times' Vienna cor. respondent says, the Austrian government is ill satisfied with the course of events taken in Schleswig, and it is understood Austria will not consent to cross the northern fron. tier of Schleswig Hamburg, 8th.--Official reports state that the Prussians were marching upon Duppel, and are said to have carried the intrench. ments before Duppel, held by a small Dan- ish force, and thrown forward the main body to Appenrade, to cut off the Danish re treat into Jutland. Roads were blocked by cannon, which the exhausted horses were unable to drag further. The Danish army is reported in a state of complete dissolution. An engagement' oc- curred on the 6th, near Idstedt, in which the Austo-Prussian army were victorious, Advices from New Zealand announce the defeat of the natives by General Cameron, after a severe ment, in which the English lost 41 killed and 91 wounded,--~ Nearly 200 prisoners were taken,