ae \ formation, on Agriculture, --and as NSPS SRILA us ata ae toa te este Sp ( 'i OT RS am, : ; "SAMUEL R. WARD, Editor. » ALEX. se akadbeion Cor. Editor. «¢ Self-Meltance ig the Crue Moad to Tndependence." TORONTO, GANADA WEST, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1854. 'PROVINCIAL FREEMAN, UE BEV.G, RL WARD, EDITOR, » REV. ALEX, M'ARTHUR,/ COR, EDITOR. - The Provincial Freeman will be devoted; to Anti-Slavery, Temperance and, General Liteta- ture. "The organ of no particular! Political Party, ithwill 'open its columns to'the views of men ot different political opinions, reserving the right, as an.independent Journal, of full-expression on all: questions or projects atiecting the. eople in a po- litieal way; and 'reserving, also, the right to ex- press emphatic condemnation ofall projects, hav- ing for their object ina .great or remote degree, the subversion of the principles of the British: Constitution, or of British rule in the Provinces. Not committed to the views of' any religious | sect' exclusively, it will carefully observe. the rights of every sect, at the same time that a. reser- vation shall be made. in favor of an existing, dif- ference of opinion, as to the views or actions of the sects respectively, | i vAs'an advertising hase «as 4 vehicleof in- an enemy to vice in any and every conceivable form and a promoter of good morals, it shall be made worthy of the patronage of the: public. a /M. Av SHADD, Publishing Agent. - Ofice) 5," City | nia Bie Street East) "Torents, ras ana "Business Directory. ¢ a DRAINS "CHARLES MARCH. How USE sie and Ornamental Painter, Grainer, Glazier and Paper Hanger, Carver, Gilder and Glass Stainer. Mixed. Paints, Putty, Enamelled and Plain Window Glass ome Looking Glass, for Sale at. the lowest Cash prices. sa No. 29, King | Street West. FOrontO} oe aie 1854, wind 4 aot be R. 8 S! MACDONELL, Barrister, At torney at Law, Nee abi &c., &c., Veil apty Cc. W. "ESSRS. R.P. & ADAM CROOKS, Bar- IV risters at' Law, Attorneys' and Solicitors, Wellington Street, Toronto. ; Cas & CAMERON, Barristers, &c., &c., Office i eae Street, next door to the Court House: Wittiam Cayiey, ¢ a see | Marraew Crooks Oi ain! oe B. Icn NES, "DEALER IN "GROCERIES "AND GROCKERY WARE, No. 314 DUNDAS STREET, LONDON, COW eee & NDREW. HENDERSON, Apaenser and [ Commission Merchant, No, 32 , Yonge St, " References, --'Thornas' 'Clarkson: Esq., "Hreeh "4s of the Board of Trade; John Robertson, « Messrs, A. Ogilvie & Co.; Messrs, How- ant eh Messrs. D. Crawford & Co. ~D. FARRAR, & CO., IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, &6. &e. hile 15, DUNDAS STREET, LONDON, c.Ww. VANKOUGHNET & BROTHER ARRISTERS, tntoreys, &c. &c.--Office in Church Street, over " The City Bank" Agency, two doors south of St. » Andrew's Church, CHARLES FLETCHER, : BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, No. 54, Yoncr Srrerr, ho haces TORONTO. "British and American Works imported and fot sale: at the smallest -- advance | pen the | wholesale prices. 25 te PUN OTUALITY | 19% sti oR. OW N ie A haw: Late of Be! oh Moye. HONABLE, BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS, No. 33 Be Street West. 'All work warranted to be done in a Sy; rerio Style. Repairing done with neatness and | dis- pal Feet measured on anatourical prices : "Toront March 18th. A864: 3 ; a -REMO! OVAL. | ha Fashionable 'Hair Cutting ! HE SUBSCRIBER grateful to his old A. patrons, and the public generally, for 'their past' favors, would respectfully invite them to visit him atthe CITY BATHS, Front Street, 'East of Church Street, to which place he has lately removed, where he will take great pleasure in waiting on all who may favor him_ with their patronage 'in the line of HAIR CUTTING, SHAVING, HAIR: CURLING, or SHAM- POOING. Ae ote and. Conn BATHS at all hours. 2] nga tae fy "THOS. F, CARY, Toronto; Angus 12) 1854. ri "G. HARCOURTS CLOTHING STORE, KING STREET. EAST. HE. 'Subscribe thas just received a very su- erior assortment of West of England a Cloths, 'Cassimeres, Doeskins, T wéeds, Vesting of the 'newest pattern and material. Every article. belonging. to a gentleman's com- iy outfit kept eopsianhy on hand. GEO, HARCOURT, 11, King gees Bae pi "NOTICE. pT. tundetsigned heey to. Dibra thins ae géneeelid, that he is prepared ta meen pe sootane articles at pork wholesale and retail : | AXE: HANDLES, | ADZE HANDLES, --BUCK-SAW FRAMES, - 'SAW-HORSES, &e., made in the best manner. i stags pid the: Retail, New' BUCK-SAWS, of the. best quality, n complete order for service, Also forShaw's tee qoalty' gd wipe and also handles put into axes: and ee ae SMALLWOOD'S Saw Factory, ihn 5s wee Lalla No. 88.: a Y "ha. 131m, PICK HANDLES, oes ti FINE Waren Es, EWE LRY; SILVER AND PLATED WARE. rp > PARSONS, PORTER 'and gi 'stand; St; Paul's Str FY ey ah t "St Catharines, C: W., and. Silver, Watches, Jewelry, Silver p Pai Ware, Pocket Cutlery, Razors, Spec- sine ae Mirrors, anid a great variety of . mere cecaonert workman cat devote his whole attention to repairi Fine Watches and other jot -work, which wil be ed ee ARSON, Bio ' "Teveller i. "St Catharines, Canada "West. &: ral dealer, at i ais old ot Ge it Wholesale. and Retail, every description wt ~ LPP LLIN Cold Water. BY HORACE 4 8. RUMSEY, "OF wine let: Hadehatialians: sing, Which maddens, stupefies the brain, . Which doth unnumbered horrors bring, Piercing the heart with sorest pain; But the pearly dew We offer you Contains no hidden, deadly' bane. 'Of water pure, as it bubbles Up, te tel sparkles i in the laughing rill, - Drain o'erand o'er the'refreshing cup ; » Tt giveth strength to nerve and will; _ It happy makes... Him who partakes, Who spurns the liquid of the still, Ho! quaff ye of the mountain stream, Or from the fountain gushing free ; Then heavenly sweet' will be each dream, Your days shall all glide joyously ; The rosy, blush ; The cheek shall flush ; Crowned with ripe years your lives shall be. . Cold water, we thy praises sing, Thou blessed gift of worth untold, The cooling draught from well or spring, Best beverage for young and old! »Where'er ig'seen: Thy silver sheen, ' Hygeia's friend may we behold. ' Oh ! when will man thy virtues learn, Forsake the maddening damning. bowl, The venomed draught for ever spurn, Which kills the body and the soul ? When"we shall gain The Law of Maine, The waves of sorrow back shall roll. Ho! brothers, rouse ye, every one!, Let us one solid phalanx form, And with our ballot, Paxhain gun, _ King Alcohol's str ong castle storm, Its. fiery wall Shail riven fall,' If true the army of Reform. [Kenona, Steuben CO. LN. Y. ; Pipeegteee. DIS RLDLAI Ne A Rainy Day in Town. Some ¢ynical person has remarked that people are given to talk most about what they least' understand---an observation, by the way, which although it has passed into a maxim pretty generally current, is, like most of the. dicta of your sarcastic philosophers, true only in a limited sense. It is strikingly -truc, however, with regard to Jolin Bull and his numerous family whenever their talk is about the weather. John, from his insular position, is more exposed to the 'skiey in- fluences,' as fine writers call the changes of the weather, than any of his neighbors; and -being 'a personage whose business, and whose pleasures too, lie very much out of doors, he wuuld be glad to know, were it possible, how'to manaye his movements so as to escape the foul and enjoy the fair. Hence it is that the weather, and its pro- bable state at some not very distant or closely: impending period, is a. universal topi¢ with honest John. It is a question in which he has 'a personal interest, and one often' of greater moment than any other which' a 'mere' casual acquaintance could discuss with him. A Frenchman or a Ger- man, an' Italian or a Spaniard, may, it is true, be equally interested in the weather-- but then he 'is seldom, if ever, in the same uncertainty respecting it! With a wind from any point but the west or south-west, your continental friend does not fear getting drenched to the skin; but John knows from awkward experience, that he has 'no cause for solid 'reliance: upon any wind that blows; and that) rain may. come' to, him, and' does come to him at times, from all points of the compass. 'So' he is ever on his guard against it, and prophesies concerning its ad- vent and: departure--not very often, it must be confessed, with the happiest result--thus shewing that' though /he talks so much about it, he understands it very little indeed: But he is not content with talking only--if he were, he' 'wouldn't' be John Bull) He arms' himself against foul weather, as he would against any other enemy; and has contrived noend of munitions and' fortifica- tions against the assaults which the clouds are for ever preparing or' discharging upon his devoted head. If, on the one hand, he is annoyed by water, he is on the other, defiant in "waterproof" Run your eye down the columns. of | his morning paper, and see what a prodigious store of bulwarks he has prepared against' the storm.' Read the list of gallant' defenders, withthe im- mortal Matintosh'at their head, who have levied contributions from the resources of universal nature for the purpose: of keeping the hostile .moisturé on the safe 'side. of John's waistcoat--from coats of four ounces, 'warranted 'to. keep: out twelve hours' rain,' to coats of twice as many capes, which would laugh at a monsoon--and_ from idro- tobolic hats, which keep his bald pate dry, and ventilate it at the same time, to gutta- percha soles that don't know, and won't be prevailed upon, under any circumstances, to know, what itis to be damp. 'Think, of voluminous folds of vuicanised caout- chouc and gutta-perchified cloth--of rugs and railway wrappers--of paletots, bequemes, bear-sking, pea-coats, Chestertields, Codring- tons, Whitney Overs, Derby. coats, Melton, Mowbrays, Wellington sacs and wrap- -rascals --tosay nothing of the millions of umbrellas, of which everybody has.one to use and two to lend: 'think of all these, and a thousand more.of the same sort, and say if John Bull be not tolerably well provided against yon- der black cloud. _ Come, we are not going to be afraid 'of 'arainy day, at anyrate, though we do pre- fer the sunshine ; and it is well we are not, | for itis coming down in. torrents just now, and we must be off to the office to our daily task, let it come as it may. Jonas, our vola- a6 begging on such a morning as this. that this is a ° delectable swizzle,' and, no mistake. We know what that man means, well enough. But Jonas's wife has tied a comforter round his chin, and he is off, and we must follow close at his heels, ' swizzle' asit will, or else lose a character for punc- tuality, which will never do. The street- door slams us out. Wheew! but it is a soaker! Whata clatter the big drops make tipon the strained silk!--we "could spare such hydraulic music. The sky is one dull] sheet of lead; the nearest houses appear as if veiled in a gauze dress, and the further ones are behind a wet blanket, and. won't appear at all. All London is just now under the douche, and. undergoing a course of | dydropathic treatment. Much good may it do thee, thou dear old wilderness of brick: | thy alimentary canal has long been out of order. Drink, old Babylon! Drink, and forget thy filthiness, and show thy countless offspring a clean face when the morrow's sun lights up thy forest uf tall. towers. In the meantime, though, this is but a sorry joke. Slippety, sloppety, squash! Concern that loose paving-stone! and an ovation to the man of genius who invented gaiters, by which we are spared an involuntarily ' futz.' What is that? 'Clickety, clackety, skrsh!' Pattens, by all that is poetical! 'O the days | when we were young!' as the poet says, when pattens were the genteel thing--when comfortable dowagers went waddling abroad exalted on iron rings, and with their heads buried in calashes shaped like a gentleman's cab, only not quite so big. Ah, those were the days! What a rush of tender recollec- tions comes with the clatter of that single pair of pattens! It seem an age since we last heard that once familiar sound; and it seems, too, as though we had entered anew world since: that sound was of everyday oc- currence. But we must not indulge in these pensive recollections. Swizh |--p-r-r-r-r-r-p ! whirr!--no indeed !--if this isn't enough to swill all sentiment out of a fellow. ' Halloo! Conductor, stop that bus! ' Full inside, sir, plenty of room outside,. sir? 'Not a doubt of it; but Dm eae al- ready ! No admission for gentlemen in distress. Never mind--we shall be sure to find an omnibus in the City Road that will take us in. Really, this is the very sort of a day to turn into a night; and were it not for 'the despotism of Business, that genius of modern activities, who rules us, as he rules all his subjects, with an iron sceptre, we should be tempted to follow the example of an eccen- tric artist of the last century, and by turn- ing back to our home once more, and by simply closing the window-shutters, lighting candles, and poking' 'up the fire, transform this drenching morning into a cheerful even- ing. But that won't do either, lest we fall into a practice that will entail upon us rainy days of a' still less endurable complexion. Sweeper Jack, yonder, is of the same way of thinking: he has scraped his crossing as clean as he can with his worn-out broom- stump; but his function is no sinecure this morning, as new puddles are forming every minute in the track which his daily sweep- ings haye hollowed out. He-cannot afford to 'Tose his morning coppers; and though he is wet through to the skin, and hasbeen for this hour past, he will not quit his post till his last regular patron has gone by on: his way to the city. He holds out a hand, sod- den, likea washerwoman' s, for his custom- ary half.penny, and deposits it in one of his Bluchers, lying high and dry under. the shelter of a.doorway--a piece of practical economy that, because he finds it cheaper to subject the soles of his bare feet to the mud and slush of the season, than it would be to submit:the soles: of leather' to the same destructive ordeal. Sweeper Jack. is not much worse off.on such a day as this than the whole tribe of peripatetic traders whom the sky serves for a roof every day in the year, and who prefer the risk of drowning abroad to the certainty of starving at home. 'Eels! live eels!' cries one; and we: can faney them swimming: at their ease in the broad basket in which they are borne aloft. The soles, haddocks, and cod are: travelling ence more in' their own element, and the salesmen. are particularly lively, knowing, by experience, that a drenching day, when economical housewives don't care to!plunye over the way. or round the corner to the butcher's, is not unfavorable to their trade. Ten to ove that we find a cod's head'and shoulders.on the table when we return to dinner at five. Charley Coster's cart looks }remarkably fresh and green 'this morn- ing; but that poor ¢ 'moke' of his is evident- ly "depressed i in spirits, and, after the man- ner of his kind, lowers his head and-bends back his. ears in silent deprecation of the ex- tra weight of moisture he has to drag through the miry streets, Yonder is a potato-steamer, which the prudent proprie- tor has moored snugly under a covered arch- wy: his little tin funnel is fizzino' away. amongt a group of boys and lads "driven there for shelter from the storm. He has got his steam up early to- -day--foul weather acting invariably as an impetus to his pecu- liar commerce: a hot buttered. potato for a half-penny, with salt @ discretion, as the French say, is too good a bargain to go far An- other 'wandering son of commerce, who pro- fits especially when the clouds are dropping fatness, i is that umbrella hawker, who stands there at the corner, roofed in under a.mon- ster-dome of ging ham, from which he utters ever and anon in a cavernous voice: ¢ A good um'rella for sixpence! Sixpence for a good um rellat! A silk un fora shilling? | You will not see him driving business in that fashion when the sky 'is without -a cloud; you might as well look for a rainbow. -twere but little hay that would be made while the sun shone, and Vauxhall and Cre- morne Gardens might shut up shop... But | of all the gainers by the liberality of Jupi- ter Pluvius, the cabmen are the most active and the most exemplary. Now is the very carnival of cabs; and every driver assumes an air of increased importance, and sways his whip with authority, as t)dugh he were | chief monarch of a wet world, which in some sort he is. But there is not a single cab on the stand. The stand itself is wash- ed away--all the disjecta from the nose- bags, every wisp of hay and straw of fod- der, is floated off the stones; the very water- man has disappeared, and taken. for the nonce to burnishing pewter-pots in the back- slums of the Pig" and Whistle--his tubs alone are the only vestiges which are left to proclaim the fact, that four-and- -twenty ve- hicles, all of a row, have their home and resting-place on that deserted spot... Caby is abroad stirring up the mud in every high- way and byway of unirersal London; and Cabby's horse, under the impetus of uniimit- ed whipcord, is straining every nerve to compensate for the idleness of yesterday, and to devour as many miles, measured by sixpences, as will satisfy, if that be possible, the expectations of his owner. But now we emerge upon the City Road, and hear the weleome syllables, ' Room ' for one,' from the conductor of a favorite omni- bus. With a foot on the step we look in upon a not very inviting spectacle: ten stout gentlemen, each with a dripping um- brella, and one stouter dame, two single Niobes rolled into. one, with a weeping um- brella and a plethoric bundle to boot--all packed together almost as tight as Turkey fiys in a drum, in a locomotive vapour-bath reeking and steaming at every pore. It is im possible to pass up the centre, and so we are jammed into the corner next to the con- ductor, who, enveloped i in oil-skin, consider- ably bars the pelting drops from our face by exposing to them his own broad back... We comamence a conversation by observing, as a sort of leading remark, that such a drencher as this i is a capital day for omni- buses. 'Why, you must be making ames a fortune to-day.' ' Hexcuse me, sir,' says he, 'but that ere's a wery wulgar hertor. Penple thinks, be- cause they finds the -buses full when they wants to go to town of a wet day, that the wet weather is best for the trade. *T'ain't no sich thing. We goes to town this morn- in', for instal full; but we shall come back empty well-nigh, and shan't do nothing to speak of afore gentlemen has dene their business and comes back in the evening. Buses that runs along the business- lines' does tolerable well perbaps; but I'm bound to say, that them as goes north and south don't do half a average trade sich a day as this.» No, sir--fine weather is best for buses, if I know anything about it. Peo- ple walks out in fine weather to enjoy their- selves, and gits tired, and rides home; or they rides out for pleastire, and to eall upon their friends, or they rides a-shopping, and: brings home their bargains; but when sich weather as this shuts people within. doors, of course they can't ride in buses.' Tere was no denying the force of the conductor's logic, backed as it was by a long experience--and we sat corrected. Here our vis-a-vis, the stout dame with the bundle, slops the omnibus, and. stumb- ling hastily into the muddy road, drops some halfpence into the conductor's hand. ' What's this, marm ?" 'Why, the fare--threepence to be sure.' "Threepence ain't the fare, and this ain't threepence. Dye call that a penny ? "Lis only a half- penny as ha' beer run over.' 'O dear me! are you sure it's not a pen- ny? it's big enough. I thought your fare threepence. ; Conductor opens the door and shews the printed table of fares. ' You see, marm, its fourpence. I want three hali-pence more.' 'Odear, I wonder if 've got any more.' Niobe lays her bundle on the step, and dives into her pocket. First dive, fishes up an enormous pincushion, red on one side and green on the other; dive the sésond, a pocket handkerchief and a ball of worsted; dive the third, a nutmeg-grater, a nutmeg half consumed, a piece of ginger, and an end of wax-candle, which shews signs of being on terms of the closest intimacy with a skein of thread; dive the fourth, half of a crumpled newspaper and lump of gingerbread. 'Come, be alive, marm,' says the conduc- tor; 'we can't be waiting here all day.' 'O dear me, how it does rain! Don' t be ina hurry, m my good man--lI feel the money 'now; and, sure enough, dive the fifth pro- duces, together with a handful of ends of string, reels of coloured cotton, and a tin snuff-box, a couple of peany-pleces. The fare is paid--bang goes the door, and on we roll towards the Bank. The city wears rather a blank appear- ance. It is busy, as it always is, with the working-bees of commerce, but the drones are absent, and of pleasure-takers there are none to be seen. Greatcoated figures flit hurriedly backwards and forwards beneath their hoisted umbrellas; and the indispen- sable business of the day is done in spite of the unceasing tempest that | pours from morn to night. But retail trade is almost at a stand-still) That immense standing-army whose lives are passed i in the service of the ladies, experience, it'may well be,a welcome intermission of their labours. The 'shop- walker may rest his weary shanks, and the: -shop-talker may give his 'tongue a holiday. Drapers' assistants' have 'no goods to drape,. and may assist one another in the laborious oceupation of doing nothing. Now and then the shopkeeper walks to his front door, and, with one hand in his pocket, while he rubs posies? 2 sky, He sees no symptoms of a pause in the pattering storm; so he retires, and buries himself in his back-parlour, where, | with his nose every now and then between the leaves of his bad-debt book, he falls to making out fresh bills for stale and long- forgotten accounts. We mourn for our old friends the book- -stalls, which lie all day long under-a pall---a pall of dilapidated floor-. cloth, which no man stops to lift and look beneath. 'The search after knowledge may be.carried on: under some difficulties, but not under such a sousing shower-bath as this. It has actually washed away the ap- ple-woman from the herbstones, which are known to be as' waterproof as Macintosh himself; and it lias driven the orange-girls off the pavement to the shelter of covered courts and theatrical piazzas, But if the rain has dispersed a whole host of professionals, it has at least brought some new ones upon. the scene. Here comes acharacteristic establishment, 'vamp- ed up for special use on a rainy day. It is nothing less than-an ostensible' father of a. family, with six impromptu children, all born to him this identical morning--children | whose father was humbug, and whose mother was a promising ten hours' rain. He, unfortunate man, informs yowas plainly | as the cleverest pantomime can tell the tale, that he'is an unsuccessful tradesman' who has seen better days, and that these six for- lorn infants, all clad in neat. white pinafores, but paddling with naked feet on the cold wet stones, are the motherless children of his dear departed. wife, who has left lim in sickness and poverty to he the sole guardian of their tender years." As an evidence that he has brought them up in the right way, they are singing, as lustily as they, can bawl, a pious hymn to a sacred tune, to, which he | himself groans a deplorable bass in a de- plorable voice--holding out. his hand the while as a modest appeal in behalf of his innocent orphans. If you are prudent, you will not be ina hurry to tax your sympathies. You may feel quite. at your ease, and. rest assured that this unhappy family, which shews so pathetically amidst. the: driving storm, owes its" very' existence to. 'this dismal day, and to nothing else. Had the sun shone brightly. this morning, each 'of these motherless: infants. had remained in charge of its own-maternal "parent, or pass- ed the day in raking the. mud of Westmin- ster; and the domure sorrow-stricken father himself, had been of chalking the pavement, shamming the cripple, doing the deplorable ' fake,' or "cadging in some ingenious way on his own private account, among the gulli- ble: population of some'other district. "We know the raseal : well enough 3 but he con- trives to sneak onthe safe. ae of the law, and laughs at exposure. If you want to help him to a debaueh of gin, bestow your charity, but not otherwise. Such a day asthisis adead loss to a'mul- titude: of out-of-door professionals, not a few; of whom, will have to put' up. with short- commons, as the result of such an inhospi- table sky. It is not very pleasant to think what becomes of a host' which numbers so many thousands of needy individuals at such an untoward time, when they cannot be abroad, and when it would be of no_ use if they could, because their friends and patrons the public are snug at home. Where. are the, poor music- -grinders 2 2? Where that solid phalanx of Italian piano- players ? Where those gangs of supple acrobats and street- jugglers? Where that battalion of *heedy knife-grinders ? ? Where the travelling- tinkers, swinging their sooty incense beneath' our noses? Wheré the hawkers of fruits, of nuts, 'and sweet stuff?» Where the bands of children with their bunches of lavender? Where' those merry little tender German:| 'Where the: street-sta: tioner, with his creamy note-paper? Where | tindersmerchants? the violet-girls, with their sweet-smelling And where that'vast' and indiseri- minate'cruwd that hangs perpetually upon | the skirts of ousiness or of ' pleasure and, like Lazarus from the rich man's table, supply their daily necessities from the abundance and the superfluities of their more fortunate' brethren? .In what cheerless homes, what wretched slums and corners, what dark and unwholésome dens, do they lurk in hunger, cold, and. bodily discomfort, while the relents | less rainshuts them out: from the chance of earning, an honest. penny? Truly, a rainy day in London has its dismal aspect within doors as well as without.' 'The animal creation, which always sym- pathises. in the, pains and pleasures 'of. us humans, shew: their aversion to, rainy, weather, when it is excessive, in a man- ner not to be mistaken. We cannot pretetid' to decide whether the horse pulls a long: face' ata. rain-storm, his face being never, of the shortest; but his eye is: sadder than usual when he is soaked with a shower. Donkey shows his dislike to heavy rain by invariably' 'getting out of it: when he can,'and' by his unwillingness to face'the driving blast when upon duty. Dog is, in: wet London streets, invariably dragele- -tailed and. down- cast, and out of heart. His post is' too often, 'on these occasions, outside his master's door, on the step of-which he may be seen sitting; his muddy tail, between his legs, and. his. woebegone face confronting the public, up- on when he turns an appealing, lack-lustre eye, telling how much he would prefer sleeping curled up 'by the» kitchen-fire' to: standing seraper....Puss shews her sense of cleanli- ness and comfort by keeping within doors ; though our old ' Stalker' is an exception to the general rule, preferring' to sit on the out- side ofthe window-sill;, where, erecting up ' like quills upon the fretful porcupine,' he gathers a vast amount of electricity and sentry: In company. with. the | | while it is yet tender. every hair in his black coat till they bristle. doubtless knows to be good for his constitu- tion. The London populaag thadd an idea that that the sun has refused to shine when the kept the royal party from visiting Powers- court on the last eve of September, when a storm of rain, which even Irishman acknow- sion on the subject of ' Queen's days.' Time was (when, we were not so thoughtful as we are now) when we entertained a notion that it would have been an agreeable and convenient arrangement of such moist: 'phe- nomena, if all the rain, hail, aid snow, of Mother Earth stands in continual need, had been predestinated to fall after sunset; and mankind. Weare grown wiser now, and should have lost for ever the moral effect 'of a rainy day; and the stock of undeniable which spring out of little crosses and_disap- much in amount, through the lack of a/little gentle moral discipline, that, bad as the world worse, and perhaps hardly bearable for living in. Therefore, with your leave, good weather; and when it rains, let it rain, with- our coats, hoisting our umbrellas, and settin about our. business cheerfully and industri- 'Ing against a rainy day. ee ee African Literature, "Broad the: Neve York Evens Post, The present number of Putnam's 'Magazine history in the 'Life of the Swedish Count Sted- ingk,' an accomplished and brave ally in our' re- volutionary struggle. . The: publication, of arti- sides,' materially increases the reputation of Pud- nam among others than the usual run of maga- zine readers, Another contribution of a similar character, though more generally entertaining, is the one entitled, ¢ African Proverbial Philosophy.' } It contains an account of the geography and na- turalvhistory of Yoruba, au: out-of-the-way coun- | try. in the west of Africa, in addition to a philolo- gical discussion of its language and literature, such as.it has, It so happens | that the literature of Yoruba consists solely of proverbs. ' Yet,' says the writer in Putnam, * nothing tests the na- ubas are triumphant,' A curious collection of Yoruba aphorisms, with parallels from the shrewd sayings of civilized nations, is included in the essay--as follows :-- 1. PRACTICAL PROVERBS. He runs away from the sword, and hides. him- "The stirrup is the father of the saddle. C'st le premier pas qui coute, | He who has no cross-bow but hia eye-brow, will never kill anything. Barking dogs never bite. roaches. Moderation: Half a loaf, &c, ; One lock 'does not know the wards or another, The bald-headed person' does not care for a razor. path of the needle. The sword shows no respect for its maker. Bad actions return to plague the inventor. the road... Evil communications, &c.. . 'The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets the sweet, the lid gets the steam. Without powder, a gun is only a rod,' bamboo cstilt)--7..e., Pride shall have a fall, tween them--i, ¢., they are say instruments of another: The covetous man, hot content 'with, gathering the fruit of the tree, took an axe and cut itdown, The goose with the golden egg. { almost killed a bird, said the fowler. Almost never made a stew, was the reply. Almost lakes away half. . is not broken: that all is not lost. He chokes me like ekuru. person: Ekuru is a very dry cake ;--the remain- der biscuit. He who waits for chance will have to waita year. God made differentcreatures differently. The original has a jingle to it, like many men many minds. Want of consideration 'and forethought made six brothers pawn themselves for six dollars, 'A one-sided story is always right. Ear, héar the other side, before you decide. 'He who marries a beauty marries trouble. Though a man may miss other things, he never misses'his mouth, « We wake, and find marks on the palin of our wake, "and find an old debt, and cannot remember how we incurred it. Ifthe poor man's rafter does not reach the roof' in the morning it will reach it in the evening. This refers to. "a traditional poor man who ad- vised splicing two rafters in raising a house : and lowed.--See Hecl. ix. 5. The bill-hook cut the forest, but with no profit to. itself; the bill-hook. cleared the road with no profit to 'itself; then it was broken, a ring was put on its handle, and it was still kept a at work. Sic vos non vobis. i 3, PROVERBS DRAWN FROM NATURE, é. "The dawn comes twice to no man. "To-day is the elder brother 'of to-morrow, and a-copious dew. is the elder brother of the rain, ° One, day's rain makes up for many day? s drought. Itnever rains but it pours, cock rejoiced, thinking that his red tail was spoil- ed; but the:rain only increased its beauty. 'The, sprout of the iroko tree must be plucked As the twig is bent, &c. The parasite vine claims a relationship with every tree, To be trodden: upon: re 'to be,trodden. upon there, is the fate of the palm-nut in the road. Queen has chosen to shew herself to her | SAGs hg aie PAR Re subjects. The clouds are not however, always | ; i i loyal. Such a day as we have been describing | 'ledged to be a drencher, deluged the county Wicklow, and dissipated the popular delu- the hours of daylight had been left to. the. uninterrupted pursuits and enjoyments of blessings to our mental and spiritual nature |' seems,now, it would have been 'infinitely prominent breast has not traded,--a. luding t to the. reader, we will be reconciled to the wet: out grumbling, merely. donning our gaiters, induing our waterproof' soles, buttoning up | ously, which, as everybody knows, who. kaows anything, is the best way of provid-: opens with a valuable contribution to American cles like this, and Cooper's history of ' Old Iron-.: tural quickness and keenness of a nation. more © | than its proverbs ; and tried by this test, the Yor- self in the scabbard. Out, of the frying-pan into. 'the fire. If your stomach is not strong, do not eat cock- Ifone cannot build a house, he builds a, shed. : The sole ofithe foot is exposed to all the filth of | When the man on stilts falls, another . gets the } 'The pestle and the mortar have. no quarrel. be- It is only the water which i is spilt; the calebash Said of a tedious hands, but we know not who made them, we | whose advice was at first despised, and aptares fol- yore nics PROSPECTUS © 1 getr Dp. tile neighbour in a " two-pair back,' has | He gets is living by rainy days; sn if he | his smooth-shaven chin with the other, casts | moisture besides, wea is always the Seni Uness hess falls, one will never get 2 a the oF tae ee just declared, in our hearing, to his wife, | could regulate the calendar i in. his own. way, | an appealing look upwards to the leaden | and the livelier for the process, which he branches. i the weather is always favourable to her | 'Majesty, it having very rarély happened aves see that itis better ordered. In that case, we | pointments, would have been diminished go | The thread is quite seuustomed) to follow the No one should ask the fish wha) happei the plain, nor the Tat of what ha as Water. It- was the death of the fish which 'to the palace. The rat said, I am less angry with the ma killed me, 'than with him who das hed. ground afterwards, Adding insult to i 'The ajao is neither rat nor bi A 'neither fish , fleshy nor good redherring.' _ ; "When the hawk hovers the poaltry. look 1 uneasy. It is easy to cut up a dead elephant, | If you abuse the ettw, you give the aw the heady ache. 7. ¢., Persons feel slights, cast upon their, relatives | these being two birds of the same ge- nus, Conquer the agable, you "thust conquer the arabi. Two insects always found together: © The veranda in the house of'a tortoise will not accommodate a guest, The veranda being the projecting part of the shell. Said of inhospitable persons. " When, the fox. dies, no fow mourns; for the fox rears no chickens. When the fish is killed, his. tail is 'inserted in' his own mouth. "Applied: 10. one who suffers for his own misdeeds, When the fire. burns i in the fields, 'the flakes fly to the tuwn. The crow was going to Ibarra'; a breeze sprung' up behind. » This bs ee me eh a said! the.crow. 1! He isa fool uh cannot itt, an. ant ond yet, tries to lift an' elephant, Swain at a gual, 'Ge. ; uae 3. PROVERBS. SHOWING "A PEELING OR, aA URAL, Pe : BEAUTY. ; ; "Behind and before, the butter fly praises God ei yet, when touched, it 'crumbles like a cinder, Heaven and earth are two Jargé calabashes;\ which, when shut together, can never be opened. ; There isno market in which the dove with the, shape of the cowries used 'as money.' ' Twinkling, twinkling, twinkling stars: ake x6 many chickens behind, 'the moon. | a vit The mock- bird says--L, sing 200 songs in the morning, 200 at noon, and 200 in the afternoon +. and yet | sing many troliesome Dae for amy own amusement, . ae 'The proverbs abound in then Ay observar tion of animal peculiarities. We also. find stri- . king descriptive phrases, such as Se-orwm, the setling sun, when it appears like a-globe. 'Bnik) awen, "the flickering appearance of airarefied at-} mosphere under sunshine, supposed to, proceed} | from an underground fire made by the tortoise . to. es oa the trees by burning the roots. een COMMERCIAL PROVERBS, Meet The trader, never confesses that he has sold all, his goods, but, when asked, will only : say, 'Trade. isa little better. --Proverbs xx. 14... "The palm of the hand never deceives one. A , bird in the hand, &e, Men: think the poor man, is not as. wise as jhe, - rich, for they say if he were wise, why is he poor? Can 'Wall eee devise a more ingenious de fenee? Heis as persuasive as a seller of cuba Sam) Slick can say nothing more to the point. The borrower, who does hot pay, gets no more. money lent him, "He runs into debt, who cuts up a' pigeonto sell by retail. A man walks freely neta: his defamer,. when, ne knows that the latter has not twenly cowrigs. in his pocket.' Quite.a new modifieation of the! *vacuus cantabil' philosophy!) |» Leta A giftisa gift anda purchase is a., purchase, j 'but no one will thank you for 'Isold it yery cheap.' -_Aje--god of money --often passed by the first . caravan that arrives, and loads the laat with sate 'sings.'> The race is not to the swift, &e, int Inordinate gain makes a-hole in the, petole ite i He earneth wages to put it iuto'a bag with holes. --Haggai i, 6 te oa) : eM. Seley 5, PROVERBS OF 'COMPASSION, The wicked man would not treat his own poet as he treats those of others. A slave is not a block of wood--tit., child of a a' tree.--When a slave dies, his mother hears. noth-" ing of it; yet the slave, too, was once: a child any his mother" s house. 'Birth does not differ from. aie 'as the freeman was born, 80 was the slave. The aro--a sort of cri ipple--is the: porterat ant gate of the gods. gis also! aes basa enh stand and wait. e 6, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PROVERBS... at All mankind are related to one another!))) He who does not love his neighbor acts mali~' ciously. Anger does daha good: patience is the best of dispositions. Anger draws arrows trom the' quiver; patience draws kola-nuts from the bag: A cutting word is as tough as a bow-string; a- cutting word cannot be healed, though a wound. may. The okum--a reptile--has 200 hands' and 200° feet, and yet acts gently. Covetousness is the mother of SS desire. e Consideration is the first-born, galeulation, the. next, wisdom the third. "A bribe blinds the judge' $ ereeh for bribes 'lever | speak the truth. i He who has committed a ee ation, sap- poses himself the subject of all conversation. He who despises another despises himself" Contempt' should never be shown to a fellow-man:' Wiherever.a man goes to dwell, his character goes with him. He.is to be feared who sends you on a message, not he to whom you aresent. . * Leave the battle to God, Pha bediak scare piven Epa voye hands lea / Piet al ca ce iPabren. iad: temper is voftenetl shal result of unhappy circumstances than' of an' | unhappy organization ; it frequently, however' has a physical cause, and a peevish child) often needs dieting more' than: correcting.) Some children are' more prone to show? | temper than others, sometimes on account of | qualities which are valugble i in themselves. For instance, a child of active temperamenty) sensitive feeling, and eager purpose, is more. likely to meet with constant jars and rubs: than a dull, passive child, and if he is of an' open nature, 'his inward. irritation: is imme~* diately shown in bursts of passion. If you' repress these ebullitions by scolding and punishment, you only 'increase: 'the. evil, by: changing passion into sulkiness. A cheerful good-tempered tone of your own, a sympathy with his trouble, whenever the "trouble has. arisen from:no ill conduct on his part, are the best: antidotes ; but it would: be better still to prevent beforehand, as much as possible, all': sources of annoyance. Never fear spoiling ' children by making them too happy. Hap-: piness is the atmosphere-in which all good | affections grow, the, wholesome warmth "When the rain beat upon the parrot, the wood- necessary to make the heart-blood clreHlate healthily and freely ; unhappiness the chill- ing pressure which produces here an 'idempia mation, there an excrescence, and, worst" of all, "the mind's green and 'yellow 'sick- ness--ill temper.--Hducation of the Fel" * ings, by Charles Bray. Hho os \