the "human form divine," by thatching their pumpkins with black-hued chimney-cans! MAJOR.-I had almost forgotten to introduce to you my old friend, Captain Mackinnon of the Royal Navy. LAIRD.-Guid guide us, man, has the puir body been standing at the Shanty door, in a' this plump o' rain? MAJOR.-Calm yourself, good Laird! I allude not to the Captain's corpus, but to the volume which he has recently launched, and which is named "Atlantic and Trans-Atlantic." LAIRD.-Is the skipper a freend o' yours? MAJOR. He is. I met him in Antigua, some years ago, and in his book he gives a most graphic amount of a hurricane which devastated that island at the period of his visit. DOCTOR.-I have read the Captain's production with considerable pleasure. He is a close observer and an accurate describer, though I think he is overly partial to our neighbour, brother Jonathan. MAJOR.-Perhaps he is. Mackinnon is a warm-hearted fellow, and having received much kindness and hospitality in America, naturally speaks well of his entertainers. However, he never conceals the truth when it falls under his ken, as witness the following passage. Having asked the question why a greater mortality should prevail in the United States than in England, he observes : York, reaches only years it runs up to th "A few instances own knowledge, sho common prudence an them, in the hope ence to health, that may read and profit rican lady of twentybeautiful and intellig plaining bitterly of t and her little son, ab course of a long con she rarely went out of ercise. Her rooms in be at a lower tempera were often above 90 eating a hearty meat chance she took a w luncheon; and a third but light and thin shoe ther or dry, she had man would be consider abroad in. Who can health, or faded beauty "But your little bo life does he lead to mal "I fear to let him o is so delicate; and his day in this stifling stov "Do you, then,' "What else can I sigh. "As I had previousl play a tolerable knifewas absent, I determine for on the succeeding and examine his diet. room where luncheon w "No stranger landing in New York, can fail to be painfully struck by the pale, wan, slight, and delicate appearance of both men and women. Af-ed the "tender chicken ter residing some time in the country, and acquir ing a knowledge of their habits, instead of being surprised that so many of them die prematurely, one is astonished that they manage to live as long as they do, or look so well. following dainties, after fully round to see that t ing up a small pitcher, into a plate, then cut a mixed it well with the n self; that is a capital "You nasty little be tion, and other complain mated them with the ot pounced upon some pick menced eating this hidd of the room to inform his overcome with anger and astonishment she was not peared to consider the "In a lecture recently delivered in New York by Dr. Fitch, it is mentioned, as a striking fact, that in the States only four out of every hundred individuals live to the age of sixty. In England, however, he asserts that seven out of every hun-bout the table with an an 64 Seizing a spoon with dred attain that age. Still, though the climate in the latter country is warmer, and more temperate, it is much damper, and has all those atmospherical and other conditions which contribute to produce an immense amount of consumption. The people are so confined and closely packedmillions live so poorly, and in such miserable habitations that a far greater tendency to the above disease exists in England than in America. Why then should a greater mortality prevail in the United States? The reason is to be found in the different habits of the people. In England, the experience of the old is reverently regarded, and taken as a guide; while in America, experience is but little estimated, and the young consider themselves more knowing than their fathers. The result is, that they often find a fool for a teacher and die promotuse course. the great error in diet p "This is, perhaps, an It can not, however, be d materially shortened by to of animal food, and the n zens themselves admit it exercise." DOCTOR.-We hear a ionable hotel in Wash- so on downward, until his premises round the base of the house were swarming with magnificent grunters. Foung woman, seated near ng dinner tables, suddenly Eation with another young ide, who was divided from She was forced to elevate am, to drown the clatter of -ks, &c. After a discordant tes' duration, perfectly au▪m, she turned suddenly to ony. e screamed, 'as for me, I y man (I don't care who he enty-three. Oh, my!' d into silence; and I could interest on that expressive, Ful countenance. In repose, angel: but the moment her h opened, and the delicate hat a sound! The illusion me fable of the peacock sing alled to my mind." bipeds, the Yankee is the resources. Place him in you please, no matter how artening it may be, he will e two ends meet, and have . If ever the problem of e a silk purse out of a sow's Jonathan is the man by l be accomplished. Jour from New York to Washion of Captain Mackinnon one of his fellow-passengers, g colloquy ensued: lowed. In a few years he had amassed a consi"Money came in apace; and fame soon folderable sum, and his business had increased so much, that he had several acres of pig-styes, filled with fat and contented grunters. Alas, for all porcine greatness! The horrible odour of his boarders became unbearable. The neighbours grumbled; then loudly complained; and lastly, flew into a violent rage. Our enterprising pigboarder was indicted for a nuisance. His enemies prevailed, and this unique and luxurious establishment was broken up forever. "He had, however, cleared a large fortune."" LAIRD.-I am sorry to break up the sederunt, but I must be off to Toronto. Rax me my hat, Doctor. MAJOR.-What is in the wind now? LAIRD.-Oh, I promised to gang wi' Clarke, to hear Clirehugh to-night. MAJOR.-Clirehugh, pray who may he be? LAIRD.-A musician, last frae New York, but a son o' Auld Reekie. They tell me that he is a graun ballad singer, and that after puir Wilson, few can haud the candle to him in "My wife has ta'en the gee" and "The Laird o' Cockpen." DOCTOR.-Wait a moment and I shall bear you company. I am desirous to hear the tone of these same minstrels for more reasons than one. He is a lineal descendant of the Clirehugh immortalized in Guy Mannering as the host of the tavern where the Pleydell and his convivial confrères used to hold their high at large, many-storied house ?' jerks. MAJOR.-Good night, then, and "Joy be wi' you a'!" COLONIAL CHIT-CHAT. CANADIAN PARLIAMENT. it by all means,' returned I. lf on a large stone, he related No public measure of special importance has , which I give verbatim. Mr. Hincks go, a 'cute Yankee rented that passed the House since our last. introduced a bill to amend the laws relating to pa distillery. After a year or the University of Toronto, by separating its satisfied with his profits, which functions as a University from those assigned per cent. This he regarded as n, hardly worth consideration. to it as a College, and by making better rere engaged in the same trade, promise for the management of the endowment petition existed, that he clearly thereof, and that of Upper Canada Collegeis were more likely to diminish second reading in a fortnight. Mr. Morin brought forward a measure to extend the elective franchise, and provide a system for the registration of voters. lerable reflection, he determined e of his whiskey, and set up a ouse!' Accordingly, he coming to take pigs in at a certain rms were considerably less than their owners, he was speedily rders. The immense quantity of by his increase of business, coneduction of the price of whisky, make his boarding-house a mine ements were capital. Squeakers, INCORPORATION OF VILLAGES. The following places have been proclaimed under the Municipal Corporations Act of Upper Canada, as Incorporated Villages, to take effect from the first Monday in January next, when the first election will be held in each, viz: Brampton, in the Township of Chinguacousy, garret; porkers, next floor; and' and County of Peel, one of the United Counties EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA of York, Ontario, and Peel. Proclamation dated 17th September, 1852. John Lynch, Esq., Reeve of people are now leaving Ne of Chinguacousy, Returning Officer for first Nova Scotia, to try their fort Election:talked of golden fields of Aus DISGRACEFUL.-Last mon Irish female emigrant dropp street in Hamilton, from Trenton, (heretofore known by the names of Annwood and Trentport,) situated partly in the Township of Sidney in the county of Hastings, and partly in the Township of Murray, in the County of Northumberland, one of the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham. Pro- exhaustion. On the inques clamation dated 25th September, 1852. Trenton stated that the last money he as Incorporated, to be annexed to and form part on the preceding evening in 1 of the County of Hastings. The Sheriff of the for his family. The heartless County of Hastings, to be the Returning Officer, Irish landlords who expatria for first Election: paupers, to die in foreign lan strongly reprobated. Vienna, in the Township of Bayham, in the County of Elgin, one of the United Counties of Middlesex and Elgin. Proclamation dated 9th September, 1852. The Sheriff of Middlesex and Elgin to be the Returning Officer for the first election. FIRST LOCOMOTIVE IN UPPTR CANADA. The Locomotive Lady Elgin, says the Colonist, was tried on the 6th ult., on the Northern Railroad, by the engineers, under whose direction the engine was erected. The trial was satisfactory. This is the first locomotive that has been run in Upper Canada. A considerable number of persons congregated near the Queen's wharf, to witness the trial, and appeared much pleased with the "Iron Horse," as he snorted along the track. The rails are laid for about 14 miles. Much as the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Union Railroad has had to contend against, it is determined to be the first in operation in Upper Canada, and not to be least important, as a public convenience and source of profit.. NEW BRUNSWICK, RAILROAD. We learn that the contract for the European and North American Railroad, from Shediac and the Nova Scotia line via St. Johns, to the borders of the United States, has been closed with Mr. Jackson, the great English contractor, on the following terms :The Province takes £1,200 per mile stock, and loans the company £1,800 per mile, by debentures paying 6 per cent interest, secured by a first mortgage on the whole road, rolling stock, stations, &c. The price per mile is £6,500 sterling. The road and all equipments to be of the most substantial and permanent kind, capable of sustaining the greatest speed. The bargain is considered a good one. EMIGRATION. The numbe which arrived at Quebec, du year, up to 30th Sept., is rep being an increase of 890 in compared with 1851. WELLAND CANAL.-The r Welland Canal, during the m ber, were £8,206 2s. 04d.-ar ponding month of 1851, £ This will exhibit very clearly trade of the country. SINGULAR LAND-SLIP NEAR of the abrupt rises which occu tween the channel of the Gran level of the surrounding coun large morasses, or bogs, of co and extent. One of these, property of Mrs. Lockie, abou the town of Galt, was lately p the brow of the hill, where i rested for ages, to the level la tance of three or four hundred from the appearance it now p have come down with fearful channel excavated by its des places, ten feet deep, the bott curious concretion of lime. A stream now gurgles down the impregnated with lime. The strange occurrence appears to pressure of water from some obstructed in its passage, and of quicksand underneath the quence of which was to hurl i sion the whole mass from nence. BELLEVILLE.-As a proof of prosperity of Canada, we may daily newspaper is now issued little town of Belleville. OPENING OF EXHIBITION.-The Provincial Exhibition at Fredericton, in which great interest is taken by the people of the Province, was opened on the 5th ult., by his Excellency, the Governor, who was received by a guard of honour and a salute of 19 guns. Altogether derives its information from the displav was veru grand and lanse NUMBER OF VESSELS ARRIVE According to the Canadien, w attempt any thing like a tribute to the memory of the deceased, is a task from which we shrink: the very ablest and most practiced pens in England are already at work in framing new chronicles of his life; the most sagacious minds are elucidating his character; the most industrious of reporters are collecting the minutest details of the closing scene. he hitherto invincibleDuke, the Duke, as men and most appropriately -ked for this intelligence lily, for Death stole no er was taken by surprise; knew, that his career was For gossiping particulars of the Duke's death work was done. Never- we make no place. Happily there was no exciteeated by this event has ment or curiosity for incessant bulletins; the and will be profound in public was at the same moment made acquainted be, wherever British men with his illness and his decease. He breathed his o pronounce the name of last on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 14th of unquestioning reverence. September, afrer a brief succession of epileptic pulous cities or amid the fits, to which of late years he had been subject, rural districts, whether and to which his vigorous frame finally succumbed. Hindostan or ice-bound Until the morning of that day he had been in the cannot reach indifferent enjoyment of his customary health; nor was there et will scarcely be en- at first any apprehension entertained that the end was come; but insensible was so nigh. He was insensible for some hours 1, in which emotions will before his death, and yielded up his valorous and mpt to probe these, or to loyal spirit, without a struggle or a sigh. By his 60 side were his second son, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lady Charles, a medical attendant, and a valet. The room wherein he died was a small one, in Walmer Castle, the habitual and favorite residence of the Duke during the autrmnal months, and held by him in virtue of his ofe of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. It stands close to the sea- | beach, about a mile from Deal; facing it lie the Downs and the Goodwin Sands; from its windows, on a clear day, the coast of France is visible. It is picturesque from its age and associations, but somewhat dreary of aspect. None of the attributes of power and state and wealth and honour were around his Grace of Wellington. Walmer Castle is inconveniently small, and is furnished with exceeding plainness. THE GREATNESS OF THE GREAT DUKE-WHEREIN depths of revolutions and of civi IT CONSISTED. Ir aught can lessen this day the grief of England upon the death of her greatest son, it is the recollection that the life which has just closed leaves no duty incomplete and no honour unbestowed. The Duke of Wellington had exhausted nature and exhausted glory. His career was one unclouded longest day, filled from dawn to nightfall | with renowned actions, animated by unfailing energy in the public service, guided by unswerving principles of conduct and of statesmanship. He rose by a rapid series of achievements which none had surpassed to a position which no other man in this nation ever enjoyed. The place occupied by the Duke of Wellington in the councils of the country and in the life of England can no more be filled. There is none left in the army or the Senate to act and speak with the like authority. There is none with whom the valour and the worth of this nation were so incorporate. Yet, when we consider the fulness of his years and the abundance of his incessant services, we may learn to say with the Roman orator, "Satis diu vixisse dicito," since, being mortal, nothing could be added either to our veneration or to his fame. Nature herself had seemed for a time to expand her inexorable limits, and the infirmities of age to lay a lighter burden on that honoured head. Generations of men had passed away between the first exploits of his arms and the last counsels of his age, until, by a lot unexampled in history, the man who had played the most conspicuous part in the annals of more than half a century became the last survivor of his contemporaries, and carries with him to the grave all living memory of his own achievements. To what a century, to what a country, to what achievements was that life successfully dedicated? For its prodigious duration-for the multiplicity of contemporary changes and events, far out-numbering the course of its days and years-for the invariable and unbroken stream of success which attended it from its commencement to its close, from the first flash of its triumphant valour in Indian war to that senatorial wisdom on which the Sovereign and the nation hung for counsel to its latest hours-for the unbending firmness of character which bore alike all labour and all prosperity-and for unalterable attachment to the same objects, the same principles, the same duties, un by the honours and enjoyments age-the life of the Duke of V alone in history. In him, at leas trace a character superior to the abundant gifts of fortune. If the can be not unfairly applied to hi he remained greater than his ow rose above the temptations by of equal genius, but less self-go fallen below their destinies. Hi to gain from the language of p would compare his military expl statesmanship with the prowess or a Cæsar, or with the astonishin who saw his empire overthrown General at Waterloo. They we of passion and of genius, flung fr with meteoric splendour across th collapse in darkness before half t was done. Their violence, their romantic existence, their reverses, will for ever fascinate the inter and constitute the secret of their fi greatness. To such attraction character of the Duke of Welling analogy, if he rose to scarce infe was by none of the passions or they indulged or employed. U the field, his sword was never drav conquest, but for the independence the salvation of his country. Rais versal gratitude of Europe and of the highest point of rank and pow ject of the British monarchy could these dignities and he used that in the strictest limits of a subject's was ever twisted to his will, no 1 sacrificed by one hair's breadth for ment, There lived not a man eit countrymen or his antagonists who the great Duke had wronged him; existence was devoted to the cause ity and regulated power. You se for those strokes of audacious en in other great captains, his rivals won the prize of a crown or turn nations. But his whole career sl steady light of day. It has nothin it has nothing to interpret by the i of history. Everything in it is ma and clear; shaped to one rule of animated by one passion-the lov and the service of the Crown. The Duke of Wellington lived, and governed in unconscious indif dainful aversion to those common human action which are derived fro of imagination and of sentiment. cheap, both in their weakness strength. The force and weight of stooped to no such adventitious inf might have kindled more enthusias in the early and doubtful days of h career; but in his successful and tri suit of glory, her name never passed in his addresses to his soldiers. His and character were moulded on reali to see things as they were. His |