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Thus, O sweet minstrel, [long forthe light, -- Long for a radiant face shining above, Shedding its smile on me morning and night, Journeying on to the land of my love. Literature. LOPS Prince Bull--A Fairy Tale. Once upon a time, and of course: it "was in the Golden Age, and I hope you may know when that was, for I am sure I don't, the least fault with, pretending that they had done a wonderful amount of work when they had done nothing, making the most un- meaning speeches that ever were heard in -the Prince's name, and uniformly showing themselves to be very inefficient indeed. Though, that some of them had excellent characters from. previous situations is not to be denied. Well! Prince Bull called his ser- '| vants together, and said to them one and all, "Send out my army against Prince Bear. Clothe it, arm it, feed it, and pro- vide it with all necessaries and contingencies, and I will pay the piper! Doyour duty by my brave troops," said the Prince, " and do it well, and I will pour out my treasure like water, to defray the cost. Who ever heard ME complain of money well laid out!" Which indeed he had reason for saying, in- asmuch as he was well known to be a gene- rous and munificent Prince. When the servants heard these words, they sent out the army against Prince 'Bear, and they set the army tailors to work, 'and the army provision merchants, and the makers of guns both great and small, and the gunpowder makers, and the makers of ball, shell, and shot; and they bought up all manner of stores and ships, without troubling their heads about the price, and appeared to. be so busy that the good Prince rubbed his hands, and (using a favourite expression of his), said, " It's all right!" But, while they were thus em- ployed, the Prince's godmother, who was a great favourite with those servants, looked in upon them continually all day long, and lived in a rich and fertile country, a power- ful Prince whose name was Bull. He had gone through a great deal of fighting in his time, about all sorts of things, including nothing; but had gradually settled down to be a steady, peaceable, good-natured, cor- pulent, rather sleepy Prince. This Puissant Prince was married to a lovely Princess whose name was Fair Free- dom. She had brought him a large for- tune, and had borne him an immense num- ber of children, and had set them -to spin- ning, and farming, and engineering, and soldiering, and sailoring, and doctoring, and lawyering, and preaching, and all kinds of trades The coffers of Prince Bull were full of treasure, his cellars were crammed with delicious wines from all parts of the world, the richest gold and silver plate that ever was seen adorned his side-boards, his sons were strong, his daughters were handsome, and in short you might have supposed that if there ever lived upon earth a fortunate and happy Prince, the name of that Prince, take him for all in all, was assuredly Prince Bull. But, appearances, as we all know, are not always to be trusted--far from it; and if they had led to this conclusion respecting Prince Bull, they would have led you wrong, as they have oftenled me. _ For this good Prince had two sharp thorns in his pillow, two hard knots in his crown, | two heavy loads on his mind, two unbridled night-mares in his sleep, two rocks ahead in his course. He could not by any means get servants to suit him, and he had a tyran- nical old godmother whose name was Tape. She was a Fairy, this Tape, and was a bright red all over. She was disoustingly prim and formal, and could never bend her- self a hair's breadth this way or that way, out of her naturally crooked shape. But she was very potent in her wicked art. She could stop the fastest thing in the world, change the strongest thing into the weakest, and the most useful into the most useless. To do this she had only to put her cold hand upon it, and repeat her own name, Tape. Then it withered away. Atthe Court of Prince Bull--at least I don't mean literally at his court, because he was a very genteel Prince, and readily yield- ed tohis godmother, when she always re- served that for his hereditary Lords and Ladies--in the dominions of Prince Bull, among the great mass of the community who were called in the language of that po- lite country the Mobs and the Snobs, were anumber of very ingenious men, who were always busy with some invention or other, for proniting the prosperity of the Prince's subjects and augmenting the Prince's power. But, whenever they submitted their models for the Prince's approval, his godmother stepped forward, laid her hand upon them, and said "Tape." Hence it came to pass, that when any particularly good discovery was made, the discoverer usually carried it off to some other Prince, in foreign parts, who had no old godmother who said Tape. This was not on the whole an advantageous state of things for Prince Bull, to the best of my-understanding. The worst of it, was, that Prince Bull had in the course of years lapsed into a state of subjection to this unlucky godmother, that he never made any serious effort to rid him- selfof her tyranny. I have said this was the worst of it, but there I was wrong, be- cause there is a worse consequence still, be- hind. The Prince's numerous family be- came so downright sick and tired of Tape, that when they should have helped the Prince out of the difficulties into which that evil creature led him, they fell into a danger- ous habit of moodily keeping away from | him in an impassive and indifferent manner, as though they had quite forgotten that no harm could happen to the Prince their father, without its inevitably affecting them- selves. , Such was the aspect of affairs at the court of Prince Bull, when this great Prince found it necessary to go to war with He had been for some richi ing their families at his expense, domi- neered over him dreadfully; threatening to Ss ee Se A a en eee RE eae, whenever she popped in ber head at the door, said, " How do you do, my children? What are you doing here?" 'Official bu- siness, godmother." |" Oho!" says this wicked Fairy, "Tape!" And then the business all. went wrong, whatever it was, and the servants' heads became so addled and muddled that they thought they were doing wonders. _ Now, this was very bad conduct on the part of the vicious old nuisance, and she ought to have been strangled, even if she had stopped here; but, she didn't stop here, as you shall Jearn. For, a number of the Prince's subjects, being very fond of the Prince's army who were the bravest of men, assembled together and provided all manner of eatables and drinkables, and books to read, and clothes to wear, and tebacco to smoke, and candles to burn, and nailed them up in great packing cases, and put them aboard a great many ships to be car- ried out to that brave army in the cold and inclement country where they were fighting Prince Bear. Then, up comes this wicked Fairy as the ships were weighing anchor, and says, " How do you do, my children? What are you doing here ?"--" We are go- ing with all these comforts to the army, godmother." <' Oho!" says she, " A Plea- sant voyage, my darling. Tape!" And from that time forth, those enchanted ships went sailing, against wind and tide, and rhyme and reason, round and round the world, and whenever they touched at any port, were ordered off immediately, and could never deliver their cargoes anywhere. This, again, was very bad conduct on the part of the vicious old nuisance, and she ough to have strangled for it if she had done nothing worse; but, she did do some- thing worse still, as you shall learn. For, she got astride of an official broomstick, and muttered as a spell those two sentences: " On Her Majesty's service," and "I have the honour to be sir, your most obedient servant," and presently alighted in the cold | and inclement country where the army of Prince Bull were encamped to fight the army of Prince Bear. On the seashore of that country, she found piled together a number of houses for the army to live in, and a quantity of provisions for the army to live upon, and a quantity of clothes for the army to wear; while sitting in the mud gazing at them, were a group of officers as red to look at as the wicked old woman herself. So, she said to one of them, " Who are you, my darling, and how do you do?" "Tam the Quarter-master General's De- partment, godmother, and I am_ pretty well." Then she said to another, " Who are you, my darling, and how do you do?" "Tam the Commissariat Department, god- mother, and J am pretty well." Then she said tojanother, " Who are you, my darling, and how do you do?" "Tam the head of the Medical Department, godmother, and J am pretty well." 'Then, she said to some gentlemen scented with lavender, who kept themselves at a great distance 'from the. rest, '"' And who are you, my pretty pets, and how do you do?" And they answered, " We-aw-are-the-aw-Staff-aw-Department. godmother, and we are very well indeed." "Tam delighted to see you all, my beau- ties," says this wicked old Fairy, "--Tape!" Upon that, the houses, clothes and provisions, all mouldered away; and the soldiers who were sound fell sick; and the soldiers who were sick, died miserably; and the noble army of Prince Bull perished. When the dismal news of his great loss was carried to the Prince, he suspected his godmother very much indeed; but, he knew that his servants must have kept company with the malicious beldame, and must have given way to her, and therefore he resolved to turn those servants out of their places. So, he called to him a Roebuck who had the gift of speech, and he said, " Good Roebuck, tell them they must go." So, the good Roebuck delivered his message, so like aman that you might have supposed him to be nothing but a man and they were turned out--but; not without warning, for that they had had a long time. And now comes the most extraordinary part of the history of this Prince. When he had turn- 5 out those servants, of course he wanted others. What was his astonishment to find that in all his dominions, which contained no less than twenty-seven millions of people, there were not five-and-twenty servants al- together! They were solofty about it, too, that instead of discussing whether they should hire themselves as servants to Prince Bull, they turned things topsyturvey, and considered, whether asa favour, they should hire Prince Bull to be thei» master! _ While they were arguing this point. among them- selves quite at their leasure, the. wicked old red fairy was incessantly going up and down, knocking at the doors of twelve of the oldest of the five-and-twenty, who were the oldest inhabitants in all that country, and whose united ages amounted to one thousand, saying, " Will you hire Prince Bull for your master? Will you hire Prince Bull for your master?" swered, "I will, if next door will;" and an- other, " I can't if he, she or they, might, could, would, or should.' And all this time Prince Bull's affairs were going to rack and ruin. At last, Prince Bull in the height of his perplexity assumed a thoughtful face, as if he were struck by an entirely new idea. The wicked old Fairy, seeing this, was at his elbow directly, and said, " How do you do, my Prince, and what are you thinking of?" "Tam thinking, godmother," says he, "that among all the seven-and-twenty millions of my subjects who have never been in service, there are men of intellects and business who have made me very famous both among my. friends and_ enemies." " Aye, truly?" says the Fairy. 'Aye, truly," says the Prince. " And what then ?"' says the Fairy. ' Why, then," says he, "since the regular old classes of servants do so ill, are so hard to get, and carry it with so high a hand, perhaps I might try to make good servants of some of these." The words had no sooner passed his lips than she returned, chuckling, " You think so, do you? Indeed my Prince!--Tape!" There- upon he directly forgot what he was think- ing of, and cried out lamentably to the old servants, " QO, do come and hire your poor old master! Pray do! On any terms!" And this, for the present, finishes the story of Prince Bull. I wish I could wind it up by saying that he lived happy ever af. terwards, but [ cannot in my conscience say so; for, with Tape at his elbow, and his estranged children fatally repelled by her from coming near him, I do not, to tell you the plain truth, believe in the possibility of such an end to it---Household Words. = Hliscellaueous. {cg Tuomas Hoop describes an intended duel which was prevented by an amicable arrange- ment made upon the ground. The parties--Mr. Bray and Mr. Clay--rivals. for the affections of Miss Lucy Bell, find it necessary to appeal to arms : LI We But first they found a friendapiece, This pleasant thought to give-- That when they both were dead, they'd have Two seconds yet to live. To measure out the ground, not long The seconds next forbore; And having taken one rash step, They took a dozen more. . They next prepared each pistol pan, Against the deadly strife; By putting-in the prime of death, Against the prime of life. Now all was ready for the foes; But when they took their stands, Fear made them tremble so, they found They both were shaking hands. Said Mr. C., to Mr. B., " Here one of us may fall, And like St. Paul's Cathedral now, Be doomed to have a ball. " ¥ do confess I did attach Misconduct to your name! If I withdraw the charge, will then Your ramrod do the same?" Said Mr. B., " I do agree ;-- But think of Henor's courts,-- If we be off without a shot, There will be strange reports. " But look! the morning now is bright, Though cloudy it begun; Why can't weaim above, as if We had called owt the sun ?" So up into the harmless air ig Their bullets they did send; And may all other duels have That wpshot in the end! . The Family of the Late Czar. The Emperor Nicholas leaves the follow- ing numerous family :--- His wife, the Empress Alexandria, Fedo- rowna, (formerly called Frederica-Louisa- Charlotte-Whillimina,) daughter of the late Frederick-William IJII., King of Prussia, was born July_13, 1798, and isin very weak health. 'he issue of this marriage are : First.--Alexander Nicolaivitch Ceshro- vitch, the present Emperor, born April 29, 1818, married April 28, 1841, Maria Alex- androvna, the present empress, (formerly Maximilienne- Wilbelmina-A ug usta-Sophia- Maria) born May 8, 1824, daughter of the late Louis II., Grand Duke of Hesse. Issue of marriage :--Nicholas Alexandro- vitch, the present crown prince, born Sep- tember 20, 1843; Wladimir Alexandrovitch, born April 22, 1847; Alexis Alexandrovitch, born January 14, 1850. Second.--Maria Nicolaievna, born Au- a 8, 1819; married July 14, 1839, to Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenber, Prince of Eichtedt; became a widow, November 1, 1852. Lhird.--Olga Nicolaievna, born Septem- ber 11, 1822; married to Charles, Prince Royal of Wurtemburg, July 18, 1846. Fourth--Constantine Nicolaievitch, born September 21, 1827; married, September To which, one an- |. born July 20, 1830; issue, a son anda daughter. Fifth.--Nicholas Nicolaievitch, born Au- gust 8 1831. Sixth:+Michael Nicolaievitch, born Oc- tober, 25, 1832. The late Czar also leaves two sisters; Maria Paulovna, Dowager, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, and Anna Paulovna, widow of William II, King of Holland. Also a sister-in-law, Helena Paulovna, widow of the Grand Duke Michael, and daughter of the late Prince Paul, of Wurtemberg. This lady's daughter, the Grand Duches Catherine Michzlovna, is married to the Duke George, of Mecklenburg, Strelitz. Mason anp Drxon's Linz.--What was the origin and purpose of it ? We hear it frequently spoken of as connected with sla- very, and as originally relating to that sub- ject. Nothing can be further from the truth --at the time that line was established sla- very existed on both sides of it. A brief account of its origin may be of some inter- est. As early as the year 1682, a dispute arose between William Penn and Lord Bal- timore respecting the constuction of their respective grants, of what now form the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Mary- land. Lord Baltimore claimed to and inclu- ded the 40th degree of north latitude; and William Penn mildly yet firmly resisted the claim. The debatable land was one degree of 69 English miles on the south of Penn- sylvania, and extended west as far as the State itself. The matter was finally brought into the Court of Chancery in England, and and after tedious delays, on the 15th day of May, 1757, Lord Chancellor Hardwick made a decree, awarding costs against Lord Bal- timore, and directing that commissioners. should be appointed to mark the boundaries between the parties. The Conimissioners appointed met at Néw Castle on the 15th day of November, 1775, and not being able to agree, separated. After a further liti- gation and delay, the whole matter was set- tled by the mutual agreement between the surviving heirs of the original litigants. In the year 1761, Mr. Charles Mason, of the Royal Observatory, was sent to Pennsylvania with all the needful astronomical instru- ments to measure a degree of latitude. That duty he performed, and a report of his proceedings was made to the Royal Secre- tary of London, for the year 1767. This Mr. Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were appoin- ted to run the line in dispute, which appears to have been done in conformity with the Lord Chancellor's decree. This is the fam- ous " Mason and Dixon's line," and the boun- dary between Pennsylvania on the South and Maryland on the North. Any one de- sirous of more detailed information will find it in Douglas's History of America. pub- lished in Boston in 1751, Proud's History of Pennsylvania, the Memoirs of the Histori- cal Society of Pennsylvania, and-1 Vessey's Reports, 352, Penn.--Lord Baltimore. Lit- tle did the actors in this matter think that in _after times the line established with so much trouble and expense, would ever be connect- ed with a subject calculated to shake a na- tion to its centre. aR Bie mee The Press in Canada. Within the last few years a literary spirit has been manifesting itself to an unusual and most gratifying extent in the various Colonies. They are creating for themselves a Periodical Litera- ture which cannot fail to prove of great and lasting benefit to everything pertaining to morals, religion, and good government among them. Canada is not behind the other Colonies in this respect. It has already a number of excellent general papers, with a few of a more religious character. Among these is the Canadian Inde- pendent, a small but useful publication. compris- ing, as it does, excellent matter, both original and selected. It is so cheap that even paupers may procure it, and so replete with evangelical instruction, that to peruse will be to be profitted by it. The Montreal Witness, now in the tenth vo- lume contains a valuable and somewhat copious digest of all important matters both British and American. For an insignificant expense, there is here a Jarge amount of useful and interesting information, comprising all sorts of subjects. It is an excellent compend of the literary and other matter scattered through the Journals both of the Mother Country and the United States. Weare amused.to see, from their Address at the opening of the year, that, like other Journals, they have some complaints. One is that the paper some- times fails to reach its destination--a complaint not unfrequent, it appears, in Canada more than Australia, and even in the Mother Country. On account of this irregularity, some hot-headed sub- scribers have given up the Journal; on which the Editor very properly remargs:----" The indi- vidual who gives up a paper because he dues not receive it regularly, must do without one al- together." Again, they have complaints that the news is old. [t were strange if English or Euro- pean news should appeer there and on this side of the Atlantic on the same aay ; and, in the case of all weekly papers, of necessity some part of the intelligence must be at least six days old. But whatof it? The Witness, however, tells us, that another ground of complaint is price; but it seems this complaint is very limited, and the bulk of subscribers seem willing to increase their sub- scriptions, as circumstances, such as the expense oflabcur and of the paper and composition, re- quire it, Canadian emigrants should send these and the ene! papers by thousands to their friends at ome. --_-- <8 > The Jews of the City of New York have no less than thirty-one charitable and mutual benefit societies among them. They have also ten well-built synagogues, some of which are capacious and elegant. Vicious Puzasures.--Centres, or wood- en frames, are put under the arches of a bridge, to remain no longer than till the lat- ter is consolidated. Even so, pleasures are the Devil's scaffolding to build a habit upon: that formed and steady, the pleasures are 11, 1848, to Alezandra Josevona, daughter * si life. of Joseph, Duke of Sax-Altenburgh ; was sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this CANADA. The manifestations of a republican spirit are plainly to be noticed in our Northern neighbor. Secret societies, whose aim is the Independence of the American Colonies, are said to have been formed throughout the provinces, The work of republicanizing the colonial governments goes steadily on. Great Britain is wiser now than when our. fathers rose in rebellion, and the independence of the Colonies already finds many advocates in the parent country. We have little doubt that Canada lias only to express her wish, with any degree of unanimity, for Indepen- dence, and it will be granted to her after a few years consideration by the British people. The feeling doubtless is much stronger for Independence, than for Annexation to the United States. That the latter probably will come about sooner or later, we do not deny. Should such an event oceur--which may Heaven and the good sense of the masses forbid !--as the often threatened secession of a considerable number of the Southern States from the Union, doubtless an annexation would then take place very soon with the British Provinces. Of course if those Pro- vinces willed it, the British Government would not be able to prevent it. The area of the British possessions in this country, is, we judge, even greater than that of the United States, including our recent acquisi- tions of California and New Mexico. At least half of this area, we should suppose, is capable of cultivation. Connected with the Union as it is, it would make one of the greatest nations on the globe. But we have no desire to annex the Canadas and the other British possessions, until they think it for their own interest to be connected with the Union, and they can come 'without money, and without price." We neither would have them bribed into coming, or the mother country bribed to let them come. Though Canada especially juts down into our northern boundary in the most inviting manner to a Filibuster imagination--though it looks on the map exactly like a big bite made by the teeth of the British lion in our un:ted shoulder of mutton--and though there are twenty military.and commercial reasons why the Canadas are necessary to our safety and " self-preservation," where there is one relative to Cuba, still we do not feel it right to covet in the least this neighbouring pro- perty, which would straighten' and fill up so beautifully our northern line. No--even though the St Lawrence, the natural avenue for the immense commerce of the great lakes, empties into the ocean through an alien country, we do not consider this a sufficient reason for striving to annex, by fair means or foul, the adjacent territory" of New Brunswick. Though some argue that we must have Cuba, because of its posi- tion relative to the- mouth. of the Mississippi. No--though there is not one sensible rea- son urged for the acquisition of Cuba, which cannot be urged with tenfold: force for the acquisition of Canada, we preach up no fili- bustering doctrines relative to our northern neighbours, but desire to do by them, pre- cisely as we would like them to do by us. And yet we believe that the Canadas and the other British Provinces, are " graviating"' towards this Union with threefold the force and certainty of Cuba. In fact, we are free to say-- notwithstanding the predictions of such eminent gentlemen as Messrs. Everett, Fillmore, Marey, &c.--that there is no natural gravitation on the part of either the Spanish or Creole mind towards the people of the United States. : ~ If we are rightly informed, the Creoles of Louisiana have not amalgamated in spirit and feeling with the American portion of the population, to this day. And if Cuba were made to-morrow an Independent State of this Union, its population at the close ofa century would be as alien to us in social eus- toms, feeling and sympathy as they are now. The Americans who would go there, enervat- ed by the climate and the manners, would not be able to Americanize the Cubans, but would be Cubanized themselves. All history teaches the lesson, that even conquering races are in this way finally conquered by' those whom they have subdued. This probably was the reason that the Jews were command: ed to drive out or exterminate the Canaan- ites. Vanquished Greece 'conquered its Roman conquerors. Captured Capua con- quered the veteran forces of Hannibal. The effeminate Romans subdued the victorious and hardy barbarians. The Saxons con- quered the proud and exclusive Normans. No people thus that possesses and cultivates the soil of a country, can really be overcome by aliens, If the latter would really estab- lish themselves, they must drive out or exter- minate the great mass of those whom they have annexed or subdued. We argue therefore from this principle, which is, we believe, generally admitted by students of history, that inasmuch as the great masses of the population in the West Indies--including Cuba--are blacks and mulattoes, that the colored race llamately will crowd out the whites, the Creoles as well as the American born. Our mercantile readers know that a depreciated currency will drive a better one out of circulation-- even if the latter were originally of equal amount. But if the mass of depreciated currency greatly exceeds that of the gold and silver, for instance, the latter will soon vanish from circulation. And the white faces are now vanishing from the West Indies, about as rapidly as the silver coin did some years ago from our currency, when the yellow pieces began to flow in by the bushels from California. The whites who stay in the west Indies, ultimately will find it necessary to infuse the fashionable tinge 'into their blood. -- . See But, the same principles that repels the West Indies from us--though they will seon Sn eR TEN ESSA begin to attract the colored people of the United States, and our colonization friends should be prepared to aid this exodus, bene= ficial and joyful as it will be to all partie -concerned---on the same principle Canada is. attracted to us. For the population of Ca- nada is composed of similar elements to our own--an Anglo-Saxon basis, mingled with the Celtic French and Ivish. The propor- try as in Canada--though there isa great deal of French blood in the veins of our peo- ple, derived from the numerous Huguenct settlers, who came at an early period of our history, and thus exercised a grecter influ- ence upon us than a much larger number would at the present time. We have, how- ever, a large proportionate infusion probably of the Irish--which is also Celtic blood, and thus tends to produce a somewhat similar result on the leading race. Therefore, for all practical purposes, the people of the States, and of the British provinces, are kindred peo- ple--and, from this very fact, will graviate, another. But politicians--mere trading, huckster- ing politicians--looking not at great and controling facts and principles, but merely at straws, to see which way the little petty wind of the, hour blows--ignore these impor- tantand controlling considerations. Are we unjust to then ?--recal but one recent fact to your mind. Which of all your " great" politicians and " statesmen" foresaw the com- ing of the serious " Know-Nothing" gale? Tt was the business of their lives to watch "the signs of the times"--with "fear and trembling" too--and yet not one of them, we repeat it, not one of them, knew of the tem- pest until it was upon them--and then the most of them said, like the antediluvian whom Noah refused to take into the ark, that they * did not believe it was going to be much of a shower! And where are they now? Strangling in the wild waters. ex Do not misunderstand us. We are not justifying that " Know-Nothing" movement --nor condemning it. Itis not our business to do either. Our business is to conduct a neutral paper @@foted to " morality," and, we may add, common sense, in as independ- ent a manner as our position will admit. We. simply bring forward this fact to prove the ignorance and incompetency of our professed "statesmen" and "first men." That we- ourselves really comprehend the popular heart a little, was proven by our remarks upon the ' speeches of certain Senators relative to the Papal Envoy, Bedini. Re 6 And the Maine Law enthusiasm and era-- which of these " great" statesmen knew that that was coming? We believe that you might have gone into that respectable assem- blage of solemn dulness and dignified puerili- ty, the Senate of the United States, and polled the whole body-----only one month be- fore that Law was passed by the state of Maine--and five men out of six would have pronounced its passage by even one State of - the Union, an impossibility. Probably not three Senators cut of the entire number, fore- saw this moral storm of 'Temperance, before it was upon them. And yet "these are thy gods, oh Israel !" aoe ; We instance such undeniable facts to prove that our professedly wise men are merely ac- quainted with the feeling of the hour. they pander to it, unknowing what the really liv- ing Present is brooding over, and what the Future necessarily must bring forth. We tell them boldly to their faces, that--if fou leave both Canada and Cuba to the simple operations of " gravitation" and " inevitable destiny"'--Canada will some day be united with this country, and that Cuba never will. Not natural causes --nothing but the strong hand--will ever make Cuba ours, "And if we should. reach forth our arm over the natural boundaries of truth and right, and. pluck it, its taste may he sweet enough in the mouth, but it will be " bitter in the belly": Calhoun is_said to have compared it to that "forbidden fruit'? which, in the garden of Eden, might not be touched. Whether he did or not--and he, of ull our recent '" states- men," was about the only sincere and down- right honest man--it is the fact. And though those who foresaw not the coming of the Temperance and " Know Nothing" storms, may sneer at this assertion--the men who live ten years from this time will acknow- ledge its truth.-- Saturday Evening Post. . Don't be Hasty. 1. Because you will be likely to treat quite lightly two very good friends of yours, Reason and Conscience, who will not havea chance to speak. : 2. Because you will have to travel over the same ground in company with our Sober Second Thought, who will be more likely to have with him a whip of scorpions than a bunch of flowers, fms 3. Because the words or actions involved in it are more likely than otherwise to be misunderstood, and, therefore to be severely judged. "alll Dpe eae 4. Because this is one way to please and give great advantage to a great enemy of Prince of this World," and who has caught more people than can be counted in this very trap. 2 See 5 Because in so doing are you likely to be a feliow-traveller in such company as fol- lows: " He that is hasty with his feet. sin- neth" "He that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly." " Seest thou a man hasty in words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. "The thoughts of every one that is hasty fetid "only to wank UR _ 6. Because such a fire may be kindled that it cannot be put out even by all the water a whole engine -- throw, with Secend Thought for their captain. & = ae Sg! des a At ee tion of French is not so great in this coun- and are rapidly gravitating, towards one -- 3 yours, one powerful enough to be called " the