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os , Self to be an adopted gipsy, Massingberd Heath | aR nd besought himyto save her from Massing- » ter's a THE COUNTY OF PERTH HERALD, STRATFORD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1864. 5 "Stonewall Jackson's dead." Virginia! from thy hills and plains, To-night the wail of sorrow comes ; The solemn dirges' haunting strains, The hollow roll of muffled drums, Low sobs and wailing fill the wind ; Down war-worn cheeks the tear-drops run-- The struggling South, with hot tears blind Mourns for her best her bravest son. Nor there alone ; wherever floats Upon the gale the azure cross, Sad requiums and funeral notes Confess the patriot hero's loss. Nor there alone ; wherever beats A heart attuned to gallant deeds, To swell at tales of martial feasts, And manly worth and truth--it bleeds. He died, as he had lived, a brave Defender of God's sacred word : His is no dark and silent grave ; Nor hushed that voice, at all times heard Bearing true witness to the faith-- Teaching, like Havetock ; 'tis true, 'That man may wage, unto the death, God's battles and his country's too. His death-wound came in battle's smoke, 'As on his conquering legions poured, And foemen fled the avenging stroke That flashed from his resistless sword. He fell ; but the bright orbs of heaven Shall fall, with crash and blinding flame And the lone sepulchres be given, E'er the fond South forgets his name. Thy battle's o'er--rest, warrior, rest-- Green be the sward upon thy grave, Light rest the sod upon the breast 'No,' retorted the ruffian coolly. she; for there was more than one who had a fancy for her in town, and would have taken her off my hands.' 'My father's fingers mechanically sought the knife which lay beside his half-finished basket ; but my uncle Morris stood up between him and the speaker, and thus replied : 'Massingberd Heath, I sent for you to tell you something which cone rns both us and yov. Many months ago, yoa came to us, uninvited and unwelcome, and elected to be a gipsy like ourselves. This makes you smile very scornfully ; yet if you did not mean the thing you said, you lied. However, we believed you. You were admitted into what, however wretched and de- based it may seem to you, was our home, and all we had to offer you was at your service. You fell in love with that poor girl yonder, and she did not tremble at your voice, as now, but trusted to your honor. It is true, your. position in the world was high, and hers was what you saw it to be. Still, you wooed her, and not she you; that is so, and you know it. Do not slander her, sir, lest presently you should be sorry for it. Again and again, then, you demanded her hand in marriage--such marriage. that is, as prevails among our people--not so ceremonious, indeed, as with the rest of the world, but not less bind- ing. This we would not grant, because we dis- believed your protestations on your honor and before your God; and disbelieved them, as it has turned out, with reason. Then we fled from you and your false solicitations to the north, hundreds of miles away; even thither you fol- lowed us, or else accidentally fell in with us ; I know not which. You renewed your offers and your oaths. We found, all worthless as you are, that the poor girl loved you still, yielding to your repeated importunity, we suffered her to become your wife.' That shrined a heart so true and brave. Virginia weeps! her tears, like rain, Shower blessings on that honored head 'Then girds her for the strife again-- The gallant Sronzwaut Jackson's dead. From Chamber's Journal. LOST' SIR MASSINGBERD. (Continued.) CHAPTER XV.--THE REASON CONTINUED. 'About a year after our departure from Fair- burn, Sinnamenta and I had been to sell some baskets, the making of which was a great trade with us at that time, at Wooler, in Northumber- land; and on our return from the fair that was being held there, we met a number of gentlemen driving home from shooting in the Cheviots. They went by very rapidly, yet not so fast but that I recognised one of their number; I had only to look at my little sister's cheeks to see that she had recognised him also. The very next day came Massingberd Heath to our camp, pro- fessing himself injured by our abrupt withdrawal from his society, volunteering his companionship as before, and reiterating his vows and promises to Sinnamenta. Ske expressed herself in such a manner as to lead us almost to fear she might be induced to elope with him; while he, upon his side, seemed prepared to sacrifice everything to obtain her: his very selfishness caused him, as it were, to forget himself, and I do believe, if it had been insisted upon, he would have had the bans published in Wooler Church, in the hearing of the fine friends with whom he was staying, and been married by the parson. How- ever, he again proposed to go through the Cin- gari ceremony, and this time, Morris. and his Sather agreed to it. Having acknowledged him- was joi:-ed in wedlock to Sinnamenta Liversedge: the ordinary ceremonies were dispensed with, by command of Morris, the bride and bridegroom only pledging themselves to one another solemn- ly in the presence of the assembled tribe. It was then, since he 'could not purchase such suitable presents in'such an out-of-the-way district, that I received from that man's hand this shooting- flask, as a remembrance of that day ; my uncle commanded me to accept it (although I vehe- mently disapproved of what had been dene) and I therefore keep it now, when every other gift of that accursed man has long been committed to the flames, For my part, I could not understand this noyel pliancy on the part of Morris and my father ; while Sinnamenta, as I think, implicitly believed in her lover's protestation, that for her sake he would all his life be a wanderer like ourselves. That very day, however, 'he took her away southward, on his road to London, For beauty, as I have said, and for gentleness, there never breathed the equal of my little sister, and yet in six short months this Heath grew weary of. her; like-a spoiled child tired with a fragile toy, he cared not what became of.her, so leng as it vexed his eyes no more... Itis not necessary to tell what brutal ingult he put upon her; enough to say~that she fled from him in terror--as he had intended her to do--and re- turned to us, heartstricken, Woe-begone; about to become a mother, with nothing but, wretched- ness in the Future, and even her happy Past a dréam dispélled. It was dreadful to look upon little sister, and compare her to what she had béen so short a time before... She "felt the cold after her luxurious life in town ; but she was far more ill at ease in mind than body. Above all, she sorrowed because lover's desertion had loft her disgraced--that she had brought shame upon all who 'belo do her. Incited by the poor girl's misery, is and my father put inté} effect an audacious design which they had pri- Vately had long.in hand, We were back again- bP tale hat Se 9 ley Garewy who was: away about a new horse for our covered cart-- not camping in the plantation, as of old, for fear of Sir Wentworth, but upon the common hard by. On a-certain morhitg,fieither my father nor uncle went forth as usual, but sat at home smoking and watching at the opening of the tent. Not long after breakfast, there appeared Wayfarer in | the distance, Whose form 'shewed gigantic in the summer haze. ~ ae 'That must be a big fellow, little sister, said i, drawing her'attention to it. She was si ting haddled up, as usual, in front of the fire; but no sooner had she caught sight of the object in question, than she ran with a ery to her father's , even then, at that last moment, if father or uncle had butconsulted me, or let me into their plans, /Shuddering face. before me, as -now--the | large eyes wild, the full lips pale with: terror! | He had. beaten, her---poor darling--even before' the scene that was coming ; but she had even: more 'reason than 'she knew for fear. This man') came striding on to the entrance of the tent, and») stood there looking at its inmates with a wither- ing scowl. 'Why don't you speak,' said he, * you vagabonds! For what is it that you have dared to send for me? I should not have my little sis- 'server--he carries" it to' this 'Wife !' repeated the renegade contemptuously. 'Do you suppose, then, that I valued your gipsy mummeries ut a pin's head ? You might as well attempt to tie these wrists of mine with the gos- samer from yonder furze,' 'We know that, Massingberd Heath, although the girl did not know it; she trusted you, al- though your every word was false.' 'She is fool enough for anything,' returned the other brutally. 'But I know allthis. Have you dared to bring me here merely to repeat a story I know so well?' "A story with an ending that you have yet to learn,' pursued my uncle sternly. 'You were wedded by no gypsy mummeries, as you call them; you took Sinnamenta Liversedge,.in the presence of many persons, solemnly to wife.' 'Ay, and I might take her sister there, and marry her to-day after the same fashion, and no law could say me 'nay," "Yes, here, Massingberd Heath; but rot at Kirk-Yetholm.' 'And why not?' inquired the ruffian witha mocking laugh, that had, however, something shrill and wavering in it, 'Because Kirk-Yetholm is over the Border, and, by the laws of Scotland, my niece Sinna- menta is your wife, proud man, and nothing but death can dissever the bond !' An awful silence succeeded my uncle's words. Massingberd Heath turned livid, and twice in vain essayed to speak ; he was well-nigh strangled by passion. 'I thank Heaven, Rachel,' murmured my little sister, 'that Iam not that shame to thee and to my race which I thought myself to be,' 'You shall have but little to thank Heaven for, girl, if this be true,' cried her husband hoarse with concentrated rage ; 'somebody shall pay for this,' 'It is true,' quoth my father, 'and you feel it to be so. Nothing remains, then, but to make the best of it. We do not seek anything at your hands, nor'----- 'Only the right of camping undisturbed about Fairburn,' interposed my uncle Morris, who was of a grasping disposition, and had planned the whole matter, I fear, not without an eye to the advantage of his tribe. 'You wouldn't treat your wife's family as trespassers.' 'Certainly not,' returned Massingberd Heath with bitterness; 'they shall be most welcome. I should be -xtremely sorry if they were to leave my neighborhood, just yet. In the meantime, however, I want my wife--my Wife. Come along with me, my pretty one,' ' He looked like a wild beast, within Springing distance of his prey, 'O father, uncle, defend me!' cried the miser- able girl. 'What have you done to bring | this man's Vengeance upon me?' 'Ay, you are right' there!" answered her hus- band, in'a voice that froze my veins, 'That is still left for me--vengeance. Come along, T say ;/J hunger until it shall begin" 'Massingberd Heath,' cried J, throwing myself at his feet, ' for,God's sake, have mercy upon her ; it isnot her fault. She knew no more than you of all these things. ~ Look how ill and pale she is--you above all men should have pity on her wretched condition, "© leave her with us, leave my little Ksee hoa? ond neither she nor we will ever*trouble you; ever come near you. It shall be just the same as though you had never set eyes upon ns it shall indeed! Oh, you would move a heart of stone. : 'Could/I not be ctuelf teturtidd' he, with a grating laugh, 'ay, to even sucha one as she? Ask her--ask her. om 4 nieve. " There' was' no octasion to' pit the que 'ion ; you saw the answer in her shrinking' for ; her ing limbs = this : every sw rd fell mpon her OC SA Mal 7 Bw 'She has not yet. known, however, what I can be tomy Wife, continued he. 'Come my pretty one, gome,'f*" 4 i. 1 Vwol 'She shall not,' cried my father vehemently ; 'it shall never bein:his power to hurt her.' 'What! and I her. husband ?'_ exclaimed _the 'Other mockingly;" "Both 'one thtil death ve do part! Not come?! 9" "> |% ' He will kill her,' murmured my father; 'her blood will be on miy head.' * Are' you. coming"wife 7' Heath in \a terrible voice; he and grasped her slender wrist with fingers of steel. Morris and my! father rushed forward, but the man had swung her behind him, placing, himself between her and them, and at the same instant he had 'taken from his' pocket a life-pre- 'day--armed' with which he was'a match for five'such'men:' "« And now, eried: he; "what mat' shall 'stop "me "from i whatTywill with myown?" '-- 0 eos | word some dark mass launched itself $0 violently against the throat of Massingberd Heath that the Biaut. toppled and fell ; upon his huge' 'bréast, knife in hand, knelt Stanley Carew, his eyes gleaming with hate, his lithe body working like a panther's. He was not hesitating, not he--he cried Massingberd My father pointed towards Sinnamenta--' Is not that cause enough, Massingberd Heath ? was only drinking in a delicious draught of re- venge, before he struck. stepped forward, | 'What is | she to me? The drab has come home to her | thieving friends again, it seems--the more fool ' His all, 4 | } exclaimed 'a sudden voice,' and 'with' the! lgtowd Pere bat ill you not, could not surely be cruel to such a one ag | shey'p» Le ky be Ce | "oT gi A iat) | =e y 0; ed' to hér as shewstood Glinging to her A thas et Aa cok for bide | as in appeal, so beautiful, so pitiful, so weak ; a spectacle tol' "warn 'his nephew, if you be his 'Strike! cried I; 'strike hard and quick, Carew! But while the blade was in air, Morris and my father plucked him backwards, and suf- fered his intended victim to rise, although de- spoiled of his weapon. 'No, Carew; that will never do,' quoth Morris. 'We should have the whole country upon us in an hour, and they would hang us altogether.' ' Carew is that man's name, is it?' exclaimed Massingberd Heath. 'I will not forget it, be sure. You shall all pay for this, trust me; but he, and this one, more than all. Come away, wife, come away.' 'Yes, she must go, Carew,' interposed my uncle, checking a furious movement of the young man's. 'He knows all now, and has a right to what he demands, 'Ay, but if he lays one finger upon her,' cried the passionate gipsy--'if he dares to harm her even by a word, and I hearof it, as sure as I see the sun this day, I will know what is the colour of his life-blood. You may take her away across the seas, but I will follow you; you may sur- round yourself with precautions, but I will come at you; you may go day and night in mail, but this knife shail find your heart out,' 'Massingberd Heath nodded contemptuously, Without speaking; and striding from the tent, signed to Sinnamenta to follow him, which she did, moaning and weeping, and casting back- ward, ever and anon, pitiful glances upon the home and friends she had exchanged for such an evil lot. I.neversaw my little sister more.' As if the remembrance of this.sad scene had utterly overcome her, Rachel Liversedge hid her face in her hands, and wept until the tears welled through her tanned and shrivelled fingers. 'Tam indeed dist«essed,' said I, ' to have caused you so much pain. I will not make you sad by telling me more.' 'Nay, my boy, sinceI have begun it, let me finish with it; I shall think of it all the same, and it is better to speak than think, That very night, Stanley Carew was arrested upon the charge of stealing the horse which he had bought in open market, and ridden home just in time to play the part Ihave described, In the days | speak of, forty pound Was given as a reward to those who gaye such evidence as produced a capital conviction, and many a gipsy perished innocsntly in consequence of that wicked ordi- nance. It is possible that this accusation was made by one of those who made'a practice of earning blood-money ; but I am positively cer- tain the false witness was set on by Massingberd Heath, even if that man did not originate the charge. It was pressed against poor Carew very harshly ; and although the farmer of whom he bought the animal came honestly forward, and swore to its being the same which he had sold the prisoner, his evidence was rejected on account of some slight mistake in the description. You must have heard tell of that awful execution long ago at Crittenden jail, when the wretched victim to perjury and revenge uttered these terrible words: 'O God, if Thou dost not deliver me, I will not believe there is a God.' That unhappy man was Stanley Carew. My father and uncle were pitilessly persecuted and imprisoned, and died before their time. These wrists have worn fetters, this back has suffered stripes; nor did the vengeance of our enemy cease even with one generation. One of my boys is beyond seas, and another within stone walls ; yet I know that the hate of Sir Massingberd Heath is not yet slaked,' 'But what became of your little sister--poor Sinnamenta ? 'I know not what she suffered immediately af- ter she was taken from us; Heaven only knows: her husband carried her a great way off out of her kin. But this I have heard, that when he told her of the death of Stanley Carew, she fell down like one dead, and presently being delivered of a son, the infant died after a few hours, the mother lived--a maniac, Yes, Massingberd Heath, you did not kill my little sister, after all ; yonder she lives, but recks not whether you are kind or cruel; she drinks no more the bitter cup of love's betrayal.' 'She is surely not at Fairburn ?, said I, 'is she ?' : 'What else should keep us here, boy, to be harried by keepers, to be vexed by constables. and justices? What else: should keep me here in a place that tortures me with memories of my youth and of loving faces that have crumbled into dust? What else but the hope of one day seeing my little sister yet, and the vengeance of Heaven upon him who has worked her ruin' The old woman rose up as she spoke, and looked menacingly towards Fairburn Hall. 'T could almost exclaim with poor Carew,' cried she, 'that if Massingberd heath escape some awful end, there is no Avenger on high. I am old, butT shall see it, yes, I shall see it before I die' If there had been more to tell, 'which. fortu- nately there was not, I do not think Rachel Liver- sedge could hare spoken further; her emotion far more than. her exertions, had reduced her Strength so far, that though she utteréd the last words energetically enough, I had had for some time'a diffichlty in hearing what she Said. 'I thank you for listening to the tideousness | of an ancient dame so long,' murmured she: 'if you were not'a good boy, and half: gipsy, you would never have been 'so patient. I have told' allthis, to' ouron your guatd : it's no' rs heard it.» Dis- i Heath ; and riend, not to yenture again within his uncle's reach) 4. , Lwill, 1 will" cried 1; 'andT thank you in his name.' I held out my hand, 'and she turned it over in her own, ages ote ' An honest palin; 'quoth she, "without a stain. There is one unlucky cross about it, Peter, that You must not fret for that,' Prgbe I mounted my horse amid cordial ' good-byes' fromthe _gipsies, who had been pursuing their usual advocations during the above recital, as though nothing was more common than that the head ofthe family shculd have a secret of two hours long to communicate' to a Strange young gentleman ; and throwing a shilling to the boy who had shewn PRs the way,.I took my leave. It was not till I.left the plantation far behind me, and had ridden at speed for some distance 4 batiee st Massingbe 5 2 | ony they open woad,s that; I was Jable* to'shake: off! the sombre feelings that oppressed me, and to| meet Mrs.' Myrtle's welcomie to' the Rectory with an answering smile 4 ey , | ' robe Fontibuca | A Nie Pristine A hohe tis te Obit Béeiory TA igttoe nas coheed to the attention df the Society a new variety of the }pdtatoe) whiel is {yemarKable in the | triple Boat behce trteroa outehte 1d lity seh Airset ted ptr to bea variety of what is called chardon in Belgium. Its stalk ightdt twelve inéhes, dnd'thvows outmany branches. The blossoms is of a pale violet color, and roduces no fruit. A field of 'one acre of third class' quality, liglitly ianured, produced 22,000 kilogrammes of sound potatoes. The neighboring farmers were astonished not only at the enormous produce, but at the ab- sence of any unsound potatoes, The crop was dug out on October 12th. 'much sooner and long before its time, and stops heart, that heart which had been kept in excess | his, eyes, the Wek Y waa existence, -tobaceo';)Cavour was a gourmand, exhausted' The Opposition Leaders Accused. Small wonder that the Hon. William Wash- ington McDougall should be anxious for a motion of non-confidence, when it is shown that while in office he took every advantage to help himself and friends to all the good things he could. The Quebec correspondent of the Leader shows that he was not cherry in taking advantage of every opportunity of enriching himself at the ex- pense of the country. As. Commissioner of Crown Lands, he was in a position to know more about the gold regions than any other per- Son, and acting upon that knowledge, he is charged with having helped himself and friends to large slices oi the public domain where gold is said to abound. That Mr. MacDougall was ever a patriot, none will be foolish enough to be- lieve ; he cared for neither principle nor honor, and did the best he could to improve his own position. He was not slow to charge his op- ponents with being corrupt, when in fact he was corrupt himself, as the Leader's revelations only too clearly prove. He clung to office like a leech, and was prepared to sacrifice anything for it. When compelled to relinquish it, however, it is upon record that he was willing to retain it even under Messrs. Cartier and Macdonald. It has been denied that any of the late Ministry were willing to act with the leaders of the present Ministry ; but we have it in the statements of Col. Tache and Mr John A. Macdonald, that overtures were made: Mr. J. A. Macdonald stated positively the other night, that he was in- vited to join the Rouge-Grits in the formation of a Ministry, but that he declined holding any position in the Cabinet. This Mr. McDougall tells us that he would scorn all connection with the Coalitionists ; yet itis proved beyond a doubt that he was ready to act with them ina Coalition Admnistration ! What part other members of the Government had in Mr. McDougall's land transactions, we are not given to know. He was certainly not alone, and the proof goes to show that he was acting in concert with foreigners. As alock to Washington genius, he could have: no scruples in dividing the spoils with Gen. Wallbrdge, of Now York .--But, he was likewise mindful of his organic friends, Messrs Sheppard and Black- burn. 'The latter intimated through the London Free Press that he had actually sacrificed $10,- 000, yet he finds money to buy up gold lands with. What/are we to think of this matter ? Can it be possible that the lands were given to poor Mr. Blackburn, the ill used and impover- ished publisher, who although he received $50,- 000 from the Government, it cost him $60,000 to getit! As for Mr. Sheppard, his Financial Com- mission business served him in good stead, and with a salary of fifteen dollars per diem, he doubltess made a good speculation out of the Government.--Then comes the great, the immor-, tal champion of Upper Canadian rights, who has such a holy horror of want of principle that he despises every man who has not a hobby that he will stick to. Mr. Brown, however, played the traitor to principle, and abandoned the great question for which he had formerly sacrificed so much. He give up his darling hobby of Repre- sentation by Population, and went in for plunder, that is, if the Leader's correspondent ig right, What he really obtained we do not know, but report says he became the recipient of a large grant of land. 1t is probably not generally known that Mr. Brown has long dabbled in the public lands ; in Hincks' time he got the Both- well estate at a mere nominal value' in con- sideration of his supporting the Government, No one has talked louder about speculators be- ing allowed to take up the public lands; yet he did the very thing he has so often denounced.-- A number of persons* offered to purchase the Bothwell estate for actual settlement, But Mr. 'George Brown being a speculator, was allowed to take up the property en block. This is the man who has recently made such a noise about Mr. Galt and others purchasing land in the gold regions! Perhaps he will condescend to tell the | public where his own purchase was made.' The arrangement isno doubt.a very good one for the parties concerned ; but they are guiliy of corrup- tion, nevertheless.-- Spectator. Tobaceo and other Stimulants, Tobacco in any form is not only a narcotic, but it is stimulant also; it not only blunts the sensibilities, but. goads both mind and body to unnatural activities, and the machine made to run faster than was ever intended, wears out so forever! " Doctor why do you use tobacco so ee said-we a few months since to a physician whom we met on the street, whose whole mouth seemed to be so full of it that@e was crunching it as persons do who have a mouthful of water-melon "T must do it to stop the pain in my teeth." We neyer saw. him afterwards, and the record of his. death reads thus in the American Medical Times : "He suffered death from disease of the aortic yalves of the heart, leading to dropsi¢ 1 effusion, resulting in mortification of the legs and feet, ending in tetanic symptosm and death." What a fearful concatenation of human maladiés : heart disease, dropsy,:mortification and lockjaw ! any one of which ailments is enough to destroy an iron frame. But note: the disease began in the of excitement for so many years by 'the long, steady and large use of tobacco. re .; With beacon-lights li é these' pate full in , the man who persists in the employment of tobacco, i As shape « r forn , and.who, to all. arguments against its employment can only re- ply, "I can't" or "I won't," only confesses him- self a moral impotent or a reckless criminal ; for 'thatitis a crime to knowingly persist in practices which are destructive to the body, can scarcely Wedenied. wine wie peat 1... nf. Thus it is that when persons come to their final sickness, who havé used stimulants largely, whether of tobacco, opium. or spirits, there is a lack of recuperative power; their disease is of the typhoid type; there is no elasticity of mind, or body; ir latter une aa the vere ; asleep, a atient lies" ours 'and/day in ay bao re ale bu is only madé conscious by shaking the. body violently, by loud words, or some acute pain, the death throe' of? nature' for _ Mr. Webster died in this way, so did Mr. Douglas, and Count Cavour, and Dr. Rease, , and multitudes of other eminent men, who by keeping the system stimulated beyond its natural |: condition, exhausted its, vitality, its neryous| power, in advance; hence, when serious ilfness came, there was nothing to fall back upon no" Féénpetative power; andst the grave! ' Choate used opiumj'as was said; Rease used thé' life-power in advance, by overtaxing the powers-of the stomach. It is notorious that men who, working aboutthe breweries. of .London, swill beer by the gallon daily, do by the time they reach forty years, become so deficient in recuperative power, that an abrasion of the skin, Of the loss. "Having thus ace tainly fatal as a bullet through the brain or body. These are terrible teachings, but they are true.-- (Hall's Journal of Health.) Mr. Galt and his Assailants, The opposition press appears to have made a dead setagainst the Minister of Finance, and assails him whenever they can get an excause for doing so. It is well known that the opposi- tion bear no love to'Mr. Galt; his great ability leaves them no room for attacking him, other- wise than upon any particular course he may choose to take. When formerly in office he abolished the canal tolls, and the consequence was a large increase in the carrying trade of our lakes. On the advent of the late Ministry how-ver, the tolls were re-imposed ; and Mr. Galt, adhering to his former policy, recently caused the tolls to be removed to a certain extent, a course which the Upper Canada Op- position journals persist in asserting has been adopted solely for the benefit of Montreal. How Strange that the Montreal papers should denounce Mr. Galt for doing what the Clear Grit) sheets say is beneficial to Montreal alone! The truth is, an excuse was wanted for attacking Mr. Galt, and it was not long in being taken advantage of; but we do not see that anything will be gained by it. That a difference of opinion exists with respect to the canal tolls, is not to be denied. Mr. Galt's policy is to remove the tolls, in order that the country may receive great benefit by an increase in the carrying trade. His view is that the tolls drive the shipping from our waters, and in this he appears to be right, for there was a very con- siderable falling off after the re-imposition of the tolls. The revenue derived from such a source is merely nominal, and does not compen- well known fact that the largest busines done Was between the time the tolls were removed and when they were restored. The business at that period was immense, and it would be go again under Mr. Galt's plan, A Toronto paper argues that the freights were actually higher during the free toll era than at any other time ; and the reason is obvious. Such an impetus was given to the shipping on our lakes that vessels could not be had to do the business; conse- quently freights ran up enormously. The through shipping paid our forwarders and ship- owners handsome profits, and the country was generally benefitted. Weare ata loss to un- derstand in what way the Province would be injured by the abolition of the canal tolls, seeing that a large indirect benefit flows from such a policy. It is absured for the Opposition papers to talk of Mr. Galt discriminating in favour of Lower Canada. He never even dreamt of stich a thing. His policy is to benefit the country generally, and we believe he will succeed in doing so, The " unjust discrimination" some of the papers are prating about, amounts to really nothing. Asa preliminary step, the Finance Minister has partially abolished the tolls, a thing which may to some extent operate prejudicially against a certain class of shippers, but it should be borne in mind that it was necessary to give relief to those who were virtually paying double toll. In a short time we hope to be able to an- nounce that the whole of the tolls have been- removed. The insinuation thrown out by the opposition against Mr. Galt, as the cause of the partial removal of the tolls, is that he did it at the instance, and for the special benefit of cer- tain Montreal gentlemen interested in the for- warding business. Itis not worthy the source it comes from, but utterly and wholly ground- less, Mr. Galt is above any such thing as hig assailants attribute to him ; but we suppose it comes natural to the Opposition to attack him, because he is a good mark. He will, however, outlive all the assaults of his enemies, and suc- ceed in perfecting a sound financial and commer- cial policy for this country.--Spectator. Aw Arroctous Oriminan.--A_ most atrocious series of crime has just been committed atBrame- court, near Amiens. A labourer named Theo- dule Boyeldieu, about twenty-four years of age, had been condemned to three months imprison- ment for an outrage upon a woman, and he wag on the evening of March 3lst, called before the mayor of his commune, who had to see that Boyel- dieu was sent to the prison at Amiens. No sooner had the mayor entered the room where Boyeldieu was, than the latter discharg-d a pistol at the mayor, who instinctively raised his hand and received a part of the charge in his arm ; one shot, however, lodging just below the eye. The assassin immediately took to flight, and, enraged at his failure of his crime, precipi- tated himself upon his father, with whom he had been on bad terms fora year or more. He found he oldman in bed, and, after having lighted at candle, he approached him with the candle in one hand and a pistol in the other The un- happy father, seeing his son armed, covered him- self with the bedclothes, and his_son fired two shots without inflicting much injury, Boyel- dieu then retired, but maddened more than ever "by this double failure, he determined to avenge himself upon those who, he considered were the cause of his arrest, by setting fire to their farms, Holding a pistol in his hand, with which. he threatened to shoot anyone who came near him, he set a light toa heap of straw in four different farms. He then went to an adjacent hamlet and set fire tow fifth farm. ©The wholé were burned anda large quantityof corn and live stock were destroyed. No estimate has yet been made " SORPINST His pur. pose, he toek to. flight, and although.the police Gobe/atter: 'him; ie tnd take be thks eS till last account, --x a ee ¥ ' > a : Lorp Piticaseroe ai Ghmektor she Ad- verliser of this morning says :--We understand that ,General Garibaldi, accompanied :by « hig sons, Mr, Seely, M.P. P., and Colonel Chambers had an audience with Lord Palmerston, at Cam- bridge; Ho esterday. a iew, lasted Ley an Hob We have sree i asure in being: o State, that Garibaldi has been in- vited by Lord and Lady Palmerston to dinner at Cambridge Hodee The noblé Lord could not have done a more popular, deed. It required, under all the circumstances, no ordinary amonnt of moral courager; and 'Lord -Palmerston pos- sesses that quality in perha Sa greater degree than any one who for a long period has filled the office of Premier, MONE aaa - + Va Tiecti nr » Swevrar, Drarn,--Last/ Monday a little boy show sleep! cbuter and: Hones used "alcohol ;"}»seven years old; son of Mr. Pendergrast, Pitts- burgh,» 'undertook «to separate two cocks. that Were fighting inthe yard ; while doing so, 'one of the birds struck him aboye the eye with his spur, leaying a portion of itin the wound. On : edtinbtny taal the wound becoming painful, it 'was examined and'thé piece Of épu iscovered and removed ; but immediately afterwards the boy was taken ill, and in about two hours died. Itappears that the spur had penetrated into the wey a cut of the finger, and even the puncture of a splinter or the scratch of a pin, is almost as cer_ brain.--Kingston British Whig. with a virulence there was no reason to expect, -- sate for the loss of business on the lakes, It isa - «ieee?