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Mr. Sheil, all men expected much; Mr. Macaulay's | An analysis of Mr. Sheil's speeches would powers, except, of course, as an essayist, were show them to be in the highest degree artificial. known only to a comparatively few of his personal friends, and those who had been his contemporaries at Cambridge. If he therefore made, by comparison, a more brilliant speech, and achieved a more complete triumph, great allowance must be made for surprise. Mr. Sheil, notwithstanding the extravagant expectations formed of him, also achieved a triumph; but it took him a longer time to acquire his absolute ascendancy as an orator. People, too, were always afraid that his nationality, which had been so useful in the agitation, would every now and then break out in some anti-English demonstration.

It is his object to produce, by the most elaborate selection of themes, the most chosen forms of phrase, and the most refined art in their arrangement, the same effect which the spontaneous efforts of an earnest orator would have had in the highest powers always at command. Mr. Sheil speaks but seldom, and takes much time to prepare his speeches, which, though delivered with all the air of passion and abandonment which the enthusiasm of the moment might be supposed to inspire, are studied even in the most minute particulars-in the words chosen, the contrasts of ideas and imagery, the tone of voice, the very gesture. But Mr. Sheil showed himself almost as great This preparation may not extend perhaps to every a tactician as he was a rhetorician. The war over part of the speech. In the level portions, or in and the victory won, he buried the sword and for-those allusions which are called forth by what has bore to exult over the vanquished. Throughout happened during the debate, he trusts in a great his subsequent parliamentary career, he has identi- measure to the impulse or the judgment of the fied himself with an English party; and, while moment, though even here you may every now still advocating, with eloquence as energetic but and then detect a phrase or a thought which smells more chastened, the "wrongs" of Ireland, he has of the lamp; but the great passages of the speech never run counter to the feelings of the English as those which the world afterwards admires, and a nation. In this respect he differs from Mr. which, in fact, form the foundation of the fame O'Connell and the parti prêtre as much as from of the orator-these are hewn, chiselled, and pol"Young Ireland" or the party republican. Grat-ished with all the tender care of a sculptor, reitude for emancipation made him, together with hearsed with all their possible effects, and kept in the new Irish Catholic members, vote with the reserve until the moment when they may be incormass of the English people on the Reform ques-porated in all their brilliancy and perfection, with tion. That gratitude has never died within him. the less conspicuous parts, where they shine forth The penal laws on the Roman Catholics he con- resplendently like bright gems in a dull setting. ceived to be the real badge of national subjugation; those once abrogated, he considered himself one of the people of the British empire, and, while still urging on Parliament the gradual fulfilment of the contract of 1829, in what he would call its spirit as well as its letter, he never forgot that justice to England was quite as sacred a duty as justice to Ireland. Not so all his friends.

It is in rhetoric and sarcasm that he is most distinguished. As a rhetorician he is almost perfect. No man whom this generation has ever heard speak equals him in the power with which he works out an idea, an argument, or an illustration, so as to make it carry all the force and weight of which it can possibly be made capable. And this, although it is really the result of such art, is done This tact and abstinence in Mr. Sheil very ma- by means apparently so simple that the hearer's terially lessen the difficulty of criticizing the mind is unconsciously captivated. A happy adapspeeches he has made in Parliament. If they are tation of some common thought, an infusion of ever disfigured, it is not by wrong sentiment or nervous metaphor, which gives a coloring to a the undue infusion of political feeling; their blem- whole passage without leaving open any point ishes are obvious only in a critical point of view, tangible to opposition; delicate antithesis, the and are at the same time so entirely counterbal-more effective from its not appearing forced ;anced by their beauties, that they might be passed these are among the many arts which Mr. Sheil over, were it not that their exposure might possibly prevent a very seductive example being followed by others. It should be added, too, that our remarks apply to Mr. Sheil's speeches as delivered, not as printed in the newspapers. From the extraordinary rapidity of his utterance, and the abrupt transitions of voice in which his enthusiasm and ardor lead him to indulge, even the most experienced reporters find a difficulty in rendering his speeches with perfect fidelity and freedom. It is obvious that an orator whose beauties of style depend so much upon the most slight and evanescent touches, the nicest discrimination of language, the artful collocation of words and sentences so as to make emphasis supply in many cases the thought which parliamentary custom will not permit to be expressed in words, must suffer irrevocable damage if in the process of transmutation the fine aroma is lost, or the exquisite tints and shades confounded in a general flatness and tameness of coloring. Nor is the case mended when he afterwards writes his own speeches. He then falls into nearly the same error. The heat of his mind has cooled, and he cannot so speedily reproduce it. Sometimes an intelligent and able reporter will produce a better version than his own.

uses to insinuate his views and feelings into the mind, while avoiding the appearance of making a deliberate assault, or laying himself out to entrap or to persuade. Occasionally there are bursts of passionate eloquence which it requires all your skepticism to make you believe are not the warm outpourings of an excited mind; but so you may say of a Kemble or a Macready. In his speeches on Irish subjects especially this apparent sincerity is most conspicuous. His heart always appears to be in his appeals to the English nation on behalf of his country, and no doubt at many times he must fling off his habits of preparation and give rein to his feelings or his imagination. In speaking of Ireland he personifies her-talks of her and her wrongs as he would of some lovely and injured woman, whose cause he was espousing. Some times his propensity to personify runs him into extremes. Speaking of the address for a Coercion-bill in 1833, he characterized it as one" which struck Ireland dumb, and clapped a padlock on her lips; though it never could stop the throbbing of her big and indignant heart!" One of his most remarkable and beautiful outbursts of nationality was in 1837, in his celebrated attack on Lord Lyndhurst for his "alien" speech. Alluding to

the alleged charge that the Irish were aliens in blood and religion, he delivered this magnificent burst:

"Where was Arthur Duke of Wellington when those words were uttered? Methinks he should have started up to disclaim them.

which he so successfully assailed Lord Lyndhurst with the keen arrows of his oblivious passion.

Metaphor and antithesis are the chief agents he uses in his speeches. Sometimes the latter is exquisitely perfect; sometimes, on the other hand, labored and clumsy, and so forced as to defeat 'The battles, sieges, fortunes that he 'd pass'd' itself. Too often he is run away with by the seduction of this pleasing but mechanical mode of ought to have come back upon him. He ought to pointing thoughts, to the manifest injury and have remembered that, from the earliest achieve- weakening of his argument or of the general tone ment in which he displayed that military genius he wishes to convey. Then you see that he is which has placed him foremost in the annals of only the orator, the sentence-maker, the painter modern warfare, down to that last and surpassing of brilliant pictures; that he wishes his triumphs combat which has made his name imperishable-to be more over the passions or the imagination from Assaye to Waterloo-the Irish soldiers, with than over the reason or the judgment. His style whom your armies were filled, were the insepara- has other defects akin to these. For instance, he ble auxiliaries to the glory with which his unpar-will often sacrifice the real strength of a phrase alleled successes have been crowned. Whose were and endanger the success of the thought or arguthe athletic arms that drove your bayonets at ment it conveys, led away by the seductive sound Vimiera through the phalanxes that never reeled of some word or words rhythmically pleasing in in the shock of war before? What desperate combination, but the application of which in such valor climbed the steeps and filled the moats of a manner the judgment rejects; and he will also Badajos? All, all his victories should have rushed lose the force and beauty of real antithesis in the and crowded back upon his memory; Vimiera, glitter or the novelty of its false counterpart. Badajos, Salamanca, Albuera, Toulouse-and last For an odd paradoxical phrase he will risk the of all, the greatest. Tell me, for you were there simplicity and truth of a sentence. Speaking of -I appeal to the gallant soldier before me, (point- the Whig Tithe-bill, he exclaimed, "Tithes are ing to Sir Henry Hardinge,) who bears, I know, to be abolished. How? By providing for them a generous heart in an intrepid breast-tell me, a sepulchre from which they are to rise in an im for you must needs remember, on that day when mortal resuscitation!" This is an abuse of lanthe destinies of mankind were trembling in the guage. His metaphors are bold and striking. balance, while death fell in showers upon them; Among many brilliant things in his speeches when the artillery of France, levelled with the against Lord Stanley he said-" The people of precision of the most deadly science, played upon Ireland behold the pinnacles of the Establishment them; when her legions, incited by the voice, in- shattered by the lightning of Grattan's eloquence." spired by the example of their mighty leader, He excels in sarcastic humor, which is generally rushed again and again to the contest;-tell me if conveyed in the most delicate touches. He is for an instant, when to hesitate for an instant was like Lord Lyndhurst in the apparent ease and artto be lost, the aliens' blanched? And when, at lessness with which he infuses the most keen and length, the moment for the last decisive movement cutting allusions by the addition of a word or the had arrived; when the valor, so long wisely turn of a sentence in the midst of the most level checked, was at last let loose when with words argument. He seldom makes a "dead set" at his familiar, but immortal, the great captain exclaimed, victim, like Lord Brougham; and he therefore Up, lads, and at them!'-tell me if Catholic produces the more effect. Some of his smartest Ireland with less heroic valor than the natives of hits of this kind were at Lord Stanley. It was he your own glorious isle precipitated herself upon who spoke of that minister as "the then Secrethe foe! The blood of England, Scotland, Ire-tary-at-war with Ireland ;" and, when alluding to land, flowed in the same stream, on the same field; Sir James Graham in council with the noble lord, when the chill morning dawned their dead lay cold he spoke of them as "Lord Stanley and his conand stark together; in the same deep pit their federate." On another occasion, speaking of "dibodies were deposited; the green arm of spring is vine service," as referred to in an act of parlianow breaking on their commingled dust; the dew ment, he jetted in a parenthesis (" divine is an falls from heaven upon their union in the grave. alias for Protestant") well understood by the Partakers in every peril, in the glory shall we not Roman Catholics, and having as much force as participate? And shall we be told, as a requital, twenty elaborate speeches. He is not very revthat we are estranged from the noble country for erent in his jokes. Alluding to the Temporalitieswhose salvation our life-blood was poured out?" act, he observed that "Lord Stanley had struck The effect produced by this passage will not be off ten bishops at one blow; he blew off ten mitres easily forgotten. The passionate vehemence of from the head of the hierarchy at a single puff.' the speaker and the mournful music of his voice If he can make a witty point or shape a felicitous were a living echo to the deep_emotions with phrase, no fastidiousness of taste or delicacy of which his soul seemed charged. Lord Lyndhurst feeling restrains him from wreaking his wit on an was in the house at the time, and although con- antagonist. There are several instances on record scious that the whole passage was only a beautiful where he has done this towards individuals, though phantasmagoria raised by the art of the rhetorician, never in an ill-natured or spiteful spirit. He is still he could not but admire. It would seem in- equally liberal in his sarcastic allusions to classes vidious to attempt to neutralize so fine a burst of or bodies of men, and not more delicate. We feeling; but a few words of truth will go far to remember an instance in one of his speeches which do it. It unfortunately happens that Mr. Sheil illustrates this peculiarity in his style. He had himself, in a speech at the Roman Catholic Asso- been drawing a somewhat glowing and overciation, in January, 1823, laid down in distinct charged picture of the good results to ensue from and unequivocal terms the very same doctrine-church reform, and he summed them up in terms that the Irish were aliens-for giving currency to of characteristic power, and of a degree of coarse

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ness not often met with in his speeches. He said, I has said, speaking of Mr. Sheil's personal appearas a climax to his anticipations of good, that when ance,

these reforms should have been effected, "the "Small in stature and make, like so many men bloated paunch of the unwieldy rector would no of genius, he bears the marks of a delicate organilonger heave in holy magnitude beside the shrink-zation. The defects of a figure not disproporing abdomen of the starving and miserably prolific

curate."

tioned, and yet not strictly symmetrical, are overlooked in the play of the all-informing mind, Sometimes his sarcasm on individuals is really which keeps the frame and limbs in rapid and harsearing, sometimes playfully severe. We remem- monious motion when in action. The body, though ber one amusing instance of the latter. One day, so small in itself, is surmounted by a head which at the Catholic Association, a volunteer patriot- lends it dignity-a head, though proportionately a Mr. Addis, we believe-came forward and made small in size, yet so full of intellectual developa very strong speech, more remarkable for enthu-ment, so wide-browed, that, while it seems large siasm than prudence, in which he offered, if neces-in itself, it raises the apparent stature of the wiry sary, to lay his head on the block in the cause of frame on which it rests. The forehead is broad Ireland. His address was rather a dangerous one and prominent, but, at first sight, it rather contrato those whom he professed to serve, as the crown dicts the usual development of the intellectual; lawyers were at that time more than usually on though really deep and high, it seems to overhang the alert. Mr. Sheil desired publicly to counter- the brow. Under it gleams an eye, piercing and act the possible mischief. He rose, and, with his restless even in the repose of the mind, but indepeculiar sarcastic emphasis, observed, "The hon-scribably bright and deep-meaning when excited. orable gentleman has just made us an oblation of The mouth, small, sharp-the lips chiselled fine, his head; he has accompanied his offer with till, under the influence of passion, they are almost abundant evidence of the value of the sacrifice." transparent like a shell-is a quick ally in giving Columns of abuse from Mr. O'Connell would not point and meaning to the subtlest ideas of the have proved half so effectual as this quiet rebuke. ever-active brain; apt in its keen-like expression, But we must draw these observations to a close. alike of the withering sarcasm, the delicate irony, The characteristics and defects of his speeches or the overwhelining burst of sincere and passionhave been more dwelt upon, because his eccentrici- ate vehemence. The features generally are small, ties of delivery have been frequently and power-but, under the influence of ennobling emotion, they fully described. There is a striking correspond- seem to expand, until, at times, they look grand, ence between his personal peculiarities and the almost heroic. Yet when the baser passions leading features of his speeches. He is unique as obtain the mastery over this child of impulse-as an orator. There is a harmony between the outer they will sometimes over the best in the heat of and inner man which you do not find in others-party warfare-these features, so capable of giving for instance, in Mr. Macaulay. Having read his expression to all that elevates our moral and intelspeeches, if you see him, you are not surprised to lectual nature, become contracted, the paleness of find that it was from him that they proceeded. concentrated passion overspreads them. Instead Small in stature, delicately formed, with a strongly of the eloquent earnestness of high-wrought feelmarked countenance full of expression, he looks ing, you see (but this is rare, indeed) the gloating the man of genius, and betrays in every motion hue of suppressed rage, the tremulous restraint of that impulsive temperament on which excitement cautious spite. In place of the dilated eye, and acts like a whirlwind. He seems" of imagination features flushed with noble elevation of soul, or all compact. You see the body, but you think conscious pride of intellectual power, you have a of the mind. It is embodied passion, thought, | keen, piercing, adder-like glance, withering, fasfancy; not mere organized matter. "Look! what cinating, but no longer beautiful. Yet the intelcomes here?-a grave unto a soul, holding the lect, though for a time the slave of passion, is the Eternal Spirit against its will!" you are tempted intellect still." to exclaim with the poet who of all others could have appreciated such rare products of nature's love-labor, such unusual blendings of the spiritual and the material. Yet there is nothing of the beautiful in a physical sense, little of that personal perfection or refinement which made a Byron or a Shelley so loved or worshipped by their intimates. The charm of Mr. Sheil's appearance consists in the striking and powerful development of intellect; in the quick reflex of thought in the features; the mobility of body, the firm grasp, as it were, which is taken by the mind of the corporeal frame, making it the ready and obedient slave of its slightest and most sudden will. Thoroughly masculine in moral strength, in the intensity of his feelings, and the strong power with which he impresses them on others, Mr. Shiel has also all the feminity which we attach to our idea of the poetical temperament, though it shows itself not in personal delicacy or symmetry so much as in a supreme and serene control over the body by the spirit. There is more of Edmund Kean than of Shelley in this transparency of the corporeal man to the intellectual light within. A writer, who would seem to be well acquainted with his subject,

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His peculiar style of eloquence, his rapidity of utterance, variety and impressiveness of action, and harmonious tones of voice, now deep and richly melodious in the expression of solemn emotion, now loud and piercing in the excitement of passion, almost defy description. Imagine all the beauties of Kean's performance of Othello crowded into half an hour's highly sustained eloquence, and you have some tangible idea of what is the effect. While the impulse is upon him he seems as if possessed, his nature is stirred to its very depths, the fountains of his soul pour forth unceasingly the living waters. His head glows like a ball of fire, the soul struggles through every outlet of expression. His arms, now raised aloft, as if in imprecation, are, in a moment, extended downwards, as if in supplication, the clenched fingers clasped like those of one in strong agony. Anon, and the small, thin, delicate wiry hand is stretched forth, the face assumes an expression the very ideal of the sarcastic, and the finger of scorn is pointed towards the object of attack. A thousand varying expressions, each powerful and all beautiful, are crowded into the brief time during which his excitement (which, like that of actors, though prepared, is genuine

while it lasts) hurries him on to pour forth his whole soul in language of such elegance and force.

slightly literal and feeble. His composition has a singular mixture of the simplicity of the old divines with the peculiarity of the modern Methodist tract, Mr. Sheil occupies a position different from that and something of that original unkempt character of most of his countrymen in parliament. The which people acquire in solitude, and which gave Irish member who most approaches him in intel- such individual raciness to the men of the middle lectual qualities, though not in actual eloquence, ages, and even to our grandfathers. His weakis Mr. Wyse. Like Mr. Wyse, he has associated ness and peculiarities, however, impart interest to himself with the whig party, who chose him to be the book, as they present a truer view of the com one of their ministers when they desired to frater-mon life of the country, and of course homelier nize with the Irish Catholics, because he was at information, than if a more judging eye had once talented, moderate, and respectable. For selected the subjects and a more skilful pen prejoining them, he has been made the subject of sented them. They are also full of suggestions virulent abuse by the extreme party in Ireland; and intimations. In the superstitions of the people but he has too much steadiness of purpose and respecting haunted houses, supernatural warnings, good sense to be much affected by it. His position unearthly horsemen riding by night, and other in the house is well earned, not merely by his elo- sounds as mysterious, we have a picture of "old quence, but also by the general amenity of his dis- England" such as it was before rapid locomotion position, whether as a politician or a private indi- had banished the belief of the invisible world, or vidual. Were all the Irish members like Mr. at least the avowal of it, save in those out-of-theSheil, the Irish question might be speedily and way places which modern improvements have not satisfactorily settled. reached. More striking still is the manner in which it enables us to read and realize many things in the olden time: we transport ourselves "beyond the ignorant present." Mechanical and

From the Spectator.

MEMOIRS OF A CHURCH OF ENGLAND MIS- material facilities have induced in this country a

SIONARY IN THE NORTH AMERICAN COLO-
NIES.

division of labor and a fastidious refinement which attach fully enough if not too much to conventional and external forms. We are so accustomed to a MR. MUSGRAVE, whose colonial life as a clergy-"professional gentleman," much more a clergyman is narrated in this volume, was, by dint of man, not soiling his hands by doing anything usebooks on geography, early smitten with "roman-ful, that when we read of ancient enactments tic ideas concerning America ;" and it was his against divines frequenting public-houses or keep boyish determination to settle in what he then ing them, or pursuing any secular occupation for thought an earthly Paradise. This idea passed gain, no effort of the mind can reconcile us to the away; but in very early manhood "a circum-idea; and much the same might be said of the stance occurred, involving in its consequences so much of sorrow and misery as led him to form a more true and correct estimate of the comparative value of the things of heaven and earth than he had ever done before." He studied for the church; took orders; passed some time as a hard-money is scarce and population thin and scattered, working curate in a large town; and in the year 18- was appointed a missionary for a township in one of our North American Colonies, (which seems to have been Canada,) by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

farming parson, not yet entirely extinct. In the Memoirs before us, we are led to see the absolute necessity of many of these things in the outset (however improper or corrupt they might finally become;) and that in a poor country, where

the clergyman cannot receive a money salary, but must derive his subsistence to a great extent from his own exertions. Where tradesmen of any kind are rare and there are no capitalists, he must work himself, or overlook the workmen he hires; ride The Memoirs contain an account of his life and like a post-boy or a jockey, and indeed harder, in experiences, from his first arrival in the colony, full the mere fulfilment of his duties; and put up with of the hope and buoyancy of youth, till he has any accommodation that may offer. No doubt, the reached mature age, somewhat broken by toil, forms of things are different. In Canada there are narrowed circumstances, and domestic afflictions. no tithes, which the Romish Church in Europe The topics of his pen are the character of his managed to exact at a very early period; on the parish duties and of his parishioners; the troubles other hand, a money salary, though insufficient, is he had in raising money to build churches, and in paid to the missionaries; and the knowledge even contending with sectarians; various incidents of a of the most ignorant settler is very different from singular, or, as Mr. Musgrave is inclined to think, popular opinion in the dark ages. The picture of of a "providential" kind, occurring among the a clergyman's life in Canada also suggests the rough and simple people by whom a district is first advantage of celibacy to a missionary; as his broken up; with accounts of occasional conver-labors indicate that monasteries in the first case had sions among his flock. The more biographical a real utility. Independently of the obvious adsubjects involve his own adventures on various vantage of dividing labor according to the aptitude occasions when travelling about the country, the of men's natures, transferring the coarser business personal difficulties he experienced in household to the coarser mind, and reserving the religious affairs, from the peculiar position of a clergyman duties and the scholarly pursuits to the better and and the backward state of the district; together more refined character, one man was really insufwith some domestic incidents-his marriage, the ficient for the duties of a large district. In the deaths of children, &c.; and a sketch of the cam- Protestant church this separation cannot well take paign against the rebels, when he turned out, un-place; and in new or poor countries a divine must armed, at the head of his armed parishioners, who become something like a jack-of-all-trades-with no great advantage, we suspect, to his intellect or his delicacy.

rose en masse.

With a slight touch of provincial fine writing, the narrative of Mr. Musgrave is very real, but

These opinions will be best tested by a perusal

of the book the proper extracts to support them fully would occupy more space than we can spare; but here is one.

A CLERGYMAN'S DUTY IN A COLONY.

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tions on my trunks, and questioning not only my servant but myself also, my name and purpose had been successfully made out before I had been an hour in their company. I was far from being sorry for this, as I received from them the most "On one occasion I was called upon one Satur-marked and flattering attentions. day morning, I well remember it yet, to marry a couple at a settlement fifteen miles off. I started very early, and got back about five o'clock in the evening, weary and almost worn out, more by the excessive heat than by the length of the journey; and was very thankful to return to my comfortable home. But on giving my horse, which was about as tired as myself, to my servant, I was informed that a man was waiting for me, and had been for several hours, to go with him twenty-five miles to see his wife, who was thought to be at the very point of death. I directed my servant to give the man his dinner, and got my own; and then immediately set off with him on a fresh horse, and arrived at my journey's end about ten o'clock at night. I found the poor woman very ill, worse indeed than she had been represented to be. I sat up and talked and prayed with her, or read to her, till four o'clock in the morning; when her happy spirit ascended to Him who gave it.

"I then threw myself on a sofa, which I found in an adjoining room, for an hour or two; and starting again for home, got there in time to take a hasty breakfast, and to dress for church, at eleven.

"Morning service over, I rode nine miles to one of my outposts, for evening service; and then

home once more.

"I was up early the next morning, in order to be off in time for the poor woman's funeral, which was to be at ten o'clock, by my own appointment. As I mounted my horse, my servant, a raw but well-meaning Irish lad, said to me-An is 't off agin ye are? Sure an the horses 'll be kilt, if the maister hisself is n't.'

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"I cannot help it, John,' I replied; 'I must go.' "Well, well!' he rejoined; I never seen the likes o' this afore! But there's no rest for the wicked, I see.'

"I cast upon him a searching look, to ascertain whether his remark was to be imputed to impertinence but the simple expression of commiseration on his countenance at once convinced me that

he meant no harm.

"I pushed on, for fear of being too late, to meet the funeral at the burial-ground, about three miles from the house of mourning. I was there far too soon, and had to wait several hours. There is an unwillingness on such occasions to be punctual arising, I am inclined to believe, from the fear of being guilty of an undue and disrespectful haste 'to bury their dead out of their sight.'

"It was late in the evening when I got home; and, what with the fatigue and the heat of the weather, and the want of rest, I was fairly worn out, and so ill as to be obliged to keep my room for three days."

CURIOSITY AND GOOD COMPANY.

I thought at first, that, as far as good society was concerned, I had fallen on my feet' but, alas! my judge turned out to be a petty shopkeeper, a doler out of drams to the drunken raftsmen; the magistrate, an old rebel soldier of the United States, living upon a pension of 201. a year from that government as the reward of his treason, and at the same time holding a commission of the peace under the one against which he had successfully fought. The colonel, the most respectable of my dignified companions, had been a sergeant in the regiment, and was now living upon his pension of a shilling a day; and to complete my catalogue, the major was the jolly landlord of a paltry village- tavern."

COLONIAL POVERTY.

"The people belonging to the church, although more numerous than those of any other single denomination, were still very few and the first time I administered the holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper, I had only nine communicants. They were also very poor, as new settlers generally are; and this was comparatively, with the exception of the small village, a new settlement; and yet, strange as it may appear to a dweller in the old country, they were all well off in the world. They had all the necessaries and comforts of life at their command, and even some of the luxuries: still they were poor, as far as the ability to pay money was concerned; they had it not, neither could they obtain it without great exertions, and still greater sacrifices; and nothing else would build the church. Some of the work, it is true, could be done by themselves; and they willingly and freely did it."

THE Annual Meeting of the members of the London Library took place, some days since, at their new mansion in St. James' square,-the Earl of Clarendon in the chair. It appeared, from the report, that this institution is fast progressing in public favor. The plan (which includes the lending of the best books in every language at the homes of the subscribers, and some of these the most rare editions of standard works and books of the highest price, for the small annual subscription of 27. with an entrance fee of 61.,) has obtained such success, that, independently of the presents made by his royal highness Prince Albert and others, there have been expended upwards of 75007. in the purchase of books. The library already contains upwards of 10,000 volumes.

AMONG the public works in Ireland about to be immediately commenced, for the purpose of furnishing labor to the poor, we observe that preparations are making for the erection of the new college in Galway, on the site selected, and approved "I had for fellow passengers a country judge by the Board of Works. The design is described of the Court of Requests, a magistrate, and a as being that of a splendid edifice-of the architeccolonel and major of militia, all belonging to and tural style of Henry the Eighth's time-well residing in my intended mission. Through the adapted to the accidental resources of the locality, indefatigable exertions of some or all of these titled which abounds in limestone of the very best gentry, in examining the partially-defaced direc-quality.

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