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m s FOETEr. ■.4 1 y* idora- ne=s and seriou stbs.9. ’jV About 3ix months thjfparticulan^^B The ago. her husbandbegan first to suspjctthaj. Guernsey—the Si-ties, the Forties, awl the ' she en^^tinedTh^passion^fot^u shopieeperi people of no account, ortho noughts, if one named Yalterna whom she had knownfor a 1 J u ~ 1 11 a '"“ jlSTANT SHIP. BY MRS. IIEMANS. .*6e sea bird’s wing o’er ocean’s breast, Shoots like a glancing star, While th4£cd radiance ef the west,. ?' Spreads, kindling fast and far; , Ana yet that splendor wins thee not— Thy still and thoughtful eye Dwells hut oh one dark, distant spot, Of all the main and sky. Look, round thee!—o’er the slumbering deep v A solemn glory broods; A fire hath touched the beacon-stecp, And all the golden woods; A thousand gorgeons clouds on high Bum with the amber light; What sprtl from the rich pageantry, Chains down the gazing sight? A chas .'.rig thought of human cares, . A £*»nwg linked to earth\— j^int «oii epe-ct a bark, which bears The loved of many a heartb ? Oh! do not hope and grief and fear, Ci own her frail world even now, * Jkhd manhood’s prayer, and woman’s tear Follow her venturous prow ? Blight are the floating clouds above, Tbe glittering seas below ; eldest required so modi .fade for tion, ^perhaps the second might ] parson was thereby prevailed upon to smoke another pipe, and the second daughter was brotighl-in, to whom he addressed himself as to the former, and also allowed her an hour’s time to consider of it. Yon may be sure, during this short interval, the father and motherworked up the girl to say yes, as plain as if she had been in the church.— The time being elapsed, the parson was im patient to go home—wife or no wife, he was indifferent. The second girl was now called in, and the parson asked her whether she had considered of the matter? She answer ed “Yes.” “Then will you have me for a husband?” She answered “Yes.” “ Ve-y well then, (says the parson to the fat^O is done but the solemnity of ir«‘riraony— and when shall that be?”—“When you please,” (says the Then says the parson, “let it be <n Tuesday next.” “ But (says f'.e father) wbo shall get the license ?” “ I will take care of that, (says the parson) so, taking leave ofthe father, away he goes. When he had got'about three or four miles, and thinking of the licenser, he remembered he had not taken a note of his intended; tired to bed ; aria it seems as soon as she wife’s christain name—so back again ho I perceived that he was asleep, she arose, There are three classes in (-have your doorbell unstrung, and to know that all your neighbours are cursing you for th&f is spread before long time.f<Fired with jealousy, T'tanza not only forbid Yalterna his h^ise,^t cau sed him to be severely cudgelled^ two Buli, or hired bravoes, and *0 police to prohibit Yalterna frfih passing be fore his windows. On th/iSth of January, Laodina went to the* T '-« ie de Canibo- ano—-the performa^ was»Paolo et Virginia h er lover w^ in the pit, and kept his eyes coAstantl v/xed on ber- Laodina appeared to beo a y er than usual; but it was remark- f^’oy one of the persons with her, that in a certain part of the performance, she said, as if to herself, and in a tone of melancholy foreboding” “ Ah” such is the fate of all true lovers.” Laodina had that morning sent her children to pass some time with her mother. On returning home towards mid night, she handed her husband a glass of agro dicedro (a kind of lemonade, )in which it would appear she had put a little opium, and took another herself, in which there was poison. Laodina and her husband re rode as hard as he could drive—and coming up to the house, he found the eldest daugh ter at the door: He asked her christain name, she' told him, and away he went. The day being come, and the licence be ing got ready, the parson comes to fetch his quited the room, which she locked upon him, and admitted her lover, with whom she shut herself in another apartment. About three o’clock in the morning, some of the neighbours were awakened by the report of things, anil lair, 1 is'.ottlhe bark’s lone way, human Hearts are 'there. in livi A Doctor then Physic And lu had a — Will* ll«b She yarned I:' lira paticn [The enEtiii. g is an old-jest that ha9 been frequently remodelled, but of tho different dresses in wliich we have seen it, we thir.k none come up to this . .. ^ j If IN TROUBLE, jn the county of Fife, tisic ’em, ho J .fe was the plague of his life, |liulkr^ bai^cn’j I10! P teazed the unfortunate elf— ere few, he was patient himself; But at last sheMdl sick, and was laid on the shelf, With hcifsigh’ away, die away, ho! Now in sables the Doctor had often rehearsed, Whine Away, groan away, ho! And he alwnylworc mourning>for fear ofthe worst, With his ^Lm-to-grieve, laugh in sleeve, ho! So a coffin he Mfoght of a friend in the trade, • ground very snuglyoras laid night Bolus married Aiis.maid, ; of shame! change F h? that ‘night that A '§ the And niadam j And tlic very jne W’ith her fit 1 Now it happen V, Dig away, a’o the grt With Rang Ancrt But must describe them at all. The Sixties are the original settlers, the nobility a* it were, the ancient families, and like the great peo ple in most places, they are for the most part the narrow minded arid stupid, the worst educated, arid the least prosperous persons in the island. The Forties' come next, they are the people of yesterday, the terras illii, and among them may be found themos^ wealthy and the most enterprising persons in the island. But the Sixties will not as sociate with them. Many of the Forties, the children of rich men. receive the best education in England, and are received in the nest English society; but when they return to Guernsey, they a;o refused admis sion into the assembly rooms, and cut up by the Lilliputian Aristocracy,as an inferior cast. I now come to the distinctions. It _ is the proud distinction of the Sixties to be Morning Chronicle. J entitled to carry two candles in the lanterns, bv which they see their way through their filthy streets and narrow lanes at night.— The Forties are permitted to carry but one candle in their lanterns ; but as for the ze roes, or nobodies, 1 do not know whether they are privileged to carry a light or not,— they may he permitted farthing rush-lights, but I can speak with no certainty on the head. Certainly, on the night of a drum, (a Guernsey party of a very handrum char acter, so called,) it is a great and glorious the tan bark tri&t is spread before your house. It is to be fed with a spoon, and to wax lean upon panada. It is to have the cat jump on your bed, and to parade leisure ly about, without your being able to throw her out of the window. ’It is t^Phave some dissipated old musquito make abanquet from vour nose, and to be too feeble to eject him. It is to receive an invitation, to a party, w here you will be sure of meeting a lady witli whom you.are three-fourths in love, and to forego the radiance of her sunny eye, and the melody of her silvery tongue. It is to let your beard grow until you look as venerable as the he goat of Schreckhorn.— It is to have your eyes look like old bullets, and your cheeks like leather-breeches.—* And finally, if you die, it is to be spoken well of by every body, and to have your name misprinted in the newspapers.—[N pistols, but bearing no further noise, they wife. Away goes* the father with him, and ; paid no more attention to tli8 circumstance. 1 thing, to see the beacons of worshipful pe- three daughters, and two or three other re-) The next morning, the young man who jrie&trians blazing, the ensigns of an ancient tions, to church, where the parson and ; opened the shop surprised at not seeing Te-1 race shining about the streets and alleys, ‘ r nza appear, at half past ten o’clock w’ent not flashing and flitting at the rapid undigni- to his room, and after knocking for a consid- fied rate of lamps borne by a rattling Lon- crable time, succeeded in awakening him. don carriage, but proceeding at the staid, Transported with jealousy at not finding his decorous paee of a maid of all work, in red wife by ]his side, he burst open the door of cloak, marshalling her sixty, master or mis- 1 clerk were ready to perform the ceremony The parson asked the father & parson B , which of the daughters was to be married ? Parson B answered “the second daugh ter :” But the parson told them the first daughter’s name was to the license, and his room, and finding the door of the other | tress, the_way that he or she should deign /tfifiel!, <d sell: or he’ll tell, cash, ho! the door, again, ho! [card somebody snore ,, fEMlahuJukl 10 shall describe the poor doctor’s surprise, VVhcn he opened the sack to examine his prize; - For his wife was come back! and she opened her eyes With her squallery, bawlery, ho! And the doctor—he dropped her, and ran away, oh! FROM THE GLASGOW MAGAZINE. Curious Account of a Courtship and Mar riage of a Clergyman. Mr. B., though possessed of ' considerable estate, lived w ithout thought of marriage, till the age of fifty years; at which time one of his parish ioner? put him in thoughts of matrimony.— Hi said he had been so intent on his studies that he never thought of a wife; but that Bow, if he could find out a good one, he would marry. The gentleman told him, such a person, about twelve miles off, had three daughters, either of whom would make him a good wife, but their fortunes were but small. The parson said he knew the gentleman very well, but did not know the daughters; and as for money, that was a thing he did not value. The parson in a short time, gave the gentleman a visit, who made him very welcome, not knowing the design of his coming—but the parson told him that he heard he had three daughters, and that one of them would make him good wife : the gentleman replied, he had three daughters, and that he hoped they would prove to the satisfaction of any per son who should marry them, adding, that either of them was at his service. The par son said they were all alike to him; but since : t was usual to marry the eldest first, he would take her. The gentleman replied with all his heart; upon which the eldest daughter was called in. The parson, sit ting in his chair smoking his pipe, told her he had heard she would (riake a good wife; the young lady, surprised, told him, she did not know that, but that she would endeavor to be a good wife to any one that should marry her. The parson put the grand ques tion whether she wofildhave him! She told him matrimony was a thing of such mo ment, as required a great deal of considera tion, and riot to be so speedily determined on. He told her his studies would not al low him a long courtship—and pulling out his watch, laid it on the table, and told her he would give her one hour’s time to con sider of it.—Away goes' the girl—but be Heftfng it tabe a banter, she passed few thoughts on the subject. The parson look , ihg on his watch, and finding the hour had expired, he desired the young lady might be tailed in. When she came, the parson showed her the watch, telling her the hour was past, and that he.hoped she had con sidered of what he had spoken of—she told him, that it being a matter of such great consequence, it required much longer time than he had allowed for that purpose. The parson hereupon began to pet, and told her father, hefoimd she did not choose to have him, and therefore he desired his horse to hebrought, for he must be going home.— The gentleman pressed him to stay a little longer, withal telling that though the therefore, he could not marry them till they had got another license. Parson B said he could not defer it any longer, and therefore, he would have it despatched some how or other—and told them it was all one to him, which of them ne had. He went to the eldest, and asked her whether she would marry him? And, she having by this time, considered the point, answerq^, “Yes” and so they were married. From church they went home to their fa-. thdPs house, and saluted her for the first time*, After he had bid her welcome, and they had set about half an hour, the parson c'&tfe the old maid, and bid her J>ring the j spinning wheel, and told his wife he did uot j doubt but she was a good house-wife, and knew how to make use of that instrument; she told him yes; he then tells her he ex pected she would work while he was at work, and no longer; So away goes he to his study, and Mrs. B— 1 — to the spinning. About an hour after, he comes down and tells her she must leave work, and bids the old maid got supper ready- ‘ After they had supped, he goes again to his study, and she to her wheel. When he returns lie tells her she must now IqaVe work. After a short discourse he went to prayers with the family, and then ordered the old maid to light her mistress up stairs, and put her to bed. Away goes Madam Bride to bed, without the ceremony of eating sack-posset, or throwing the stocking—and, as soon as she went to bed, in comes the parson, and to bed goes he: But sitting up in it, he bids the maid bring him a little table, a great can die and such a book from the study—which she did, and the parson fell a reading, upon which the bride called to the maid; the parson asked her what she wanted? She told him something: The maid coining, bid her mistress speak to her, who desired her to bring up the spinning wheel, and a great candle in the long candle-stick—which the maid having done, Mrs. Bride went to whirling it about as hard os ever she could drive—at which the parson could bardlv forbear bursting out into laughter .and find ing that spinning and reading did not agree well together, he put out his candle and lay down. The next morning he told her he found her a wife of very pliable temper—and that for the future, she might work or play as she pleased—that he left alj his temporal concerns to her management—and they lived a happy couple till death parted them. W himsical humors are uneasy companions— but life is attended with a mixture of plea sure and pain: It is, therefore^ prurident to overlook a few imperfections, rather than lose the most essential comfort of a mar ried life—peace and harmony. room locked on the inside, he also broke | to go. These lanterns are the armorial into it, and to his inexpressible horror saw bearings of Guernsey nobility. The dual his wife and her lover lying dead, close by light of their moulds is their proud blazon- each other. They had provided themselves ry. The contrast is vety striking indeed, with two pair of pistols, but had made U9e between the high bearing of a lantern with only of due. Laodina was but little disfi- two candles, and the humble go by the gured by the explosion; she seemed to ground carriage of one with a solitary liave placed the muzzle of the pistol as far mould, and if it were not for seeing the Six- back in her mouth as possible. She wore ties in the day-time shorn of their tallowy suspended round her neck her lover’s por- beams, one would conceive a high respect trait, and had on her fingers the rings he had For them from the exclusive plurality of given her ; she held in her hand a second their lights. But look at them in broad day ; pistol, loaded and cocked. Teranza, with-lent them off from their lanterns, and they out saying a word of the horrible event to are poor benighted creatures; they are as anyone, closed the door, and went to inform bright as glow worms by night, but very the police. His jealous disposition being maggots by day. The Sixties are for the well known, he was kept in confinement un- most part po6r creatures, but their lan- til the physicians had, made their rc-port of terns are of a goodly bigness, and the two the state of their bodies, and the cause of candles therein are proportioned to their their death. As the German authorities roomy receptacles. The Forties, though have their If erther by heart,,they allowed restricted to one light, though groaning un- the ill fated lovers to be buritjd together in der the tyranny ofSixty ascendancy, andde- the Campo Scelarato.—Two nights after, a dared incapable of holding two candles in dirge was played over their graves, whether one lahtem, are allowed to go to any rea- by-Italians or Germans is not known—most sonable size in their lanterns, and I do not likely the latter. It appears by. their letters observe that they differ in magnitude from wliich have been found, that Laodina had those of the Sixties. Indeed, it is a point of remained faithful to her marriage vow , and prudence with the-Forties, not to attempt that it was a straggle between her virtue and to aggrandize their lantern, for such an am ber love that forced her to adopt thq fatal bition would but render the invidious unity resolution of puttingau end to her existence. | of the candle the more glaring.—[London It also appears that Laodina and her lover Magazine.] had determined on sd^destraction on 25th • of October; but sjferal domestic circum- Anecdote of Dr. Young.—As the docto: stances, amongst others the death of Val- was walking in his garden, at Welwyn, in terna’s father, had retarded its execution company with two ladies, one of whom he until the ISth Jan. In many of the letters afterwards married, a servant came to tell Valterna endeavoured to persuade his mis- j him a gentleman wished to speak with him. tress to elope with him. to-which she alw-ays j Tell him,” says the doctor, “ I aim too Billoons, or Airgohots.—Lord Orford, (Horace Walpole) indulges in some curiour speculations respecting the use of balloons, in sonic futuic day, in a letter to his rela y tion. General Conway. After saying that the ancients betrayed their ignorance in sup posing Icarus melted the wax of his wings by tod near aecessTto the sun, whereas he would have been -frozen to death before he made the first post on that road, he adds an ticipated ship ne ws thus:— “ The good balloon Dcedalus, Cnpt. Wing-ate, will fly in a few days for China : he will stop at the monument to take in passengers. Arrived the Yulturc capt. Nabob; the Tortoise. Snow, from Lapland—the Pet-cn- vain, from Versailles ; the Dreadnought, from Mount Etna, Sir W. Hamilton, com mander ; the Tympany, Montgolfier ; and the Mine-A. in a band box,- from the Cape of Good Hope. Foundered in a hurricane, the Bird of Paradise, from Mount Ararat; the Bubble, Sheldon took fire, and was burnt to her gallery. In those days old Sarum will he a town, and have houses in it. There will be fights in the air with ivind guns and bows and ar rows ; and there will be a prodigious in crease of land for tillage, especially in France, by breaking up all public roads as useless. Tobacco.—When every shop-keeper had a sign hanging out before his door, a Dealer in Snuff and Tobacco on Fish-street Hill, London, carried-on a large trade, especial* ly in Tobacco, for his shop was greatly fre quented by Sailors from the ships in the ri ver. In the course of time, a person ofthe name of Farr opened a shop nearly opposite, and hung out his sign inscribed “ The best Tobacco by Ikrr.” This (like the Shoemaker’s inscription, “ A-dam Strong Shoemaker,” so weft known) attracted the attention ofthe Sailors, who left the old shop to buy “ the best Tobacco by far.”— The old shop-keeper, observing that his op ponent obtained much custom by his sign, had anew one put up at his door inscribed “ Far better Tobacco than the best Tobac co by Farr.” This had its effect; his trade returned, and finally hi3 opponent was obliged to give up business. replied by reproaching him with his want of happily engaged to change my situation.” courage. In one of her letters she says, The Ladies insisted that he should go, as “ Shonld we fly, poor as we both are, we his visiter was a man of rank, his patron could not avoid falling into distress, which J and his friend. As persuasions however, might lead us to the commission of some had - no effect, one took him by the right more shameful action; it is better to ’die.” | arm, the other by the left, and led him to Laodina’s letters are said to be admirable it is probable they will be published.” Italian Lovers—A letter from Milan, gives the following account of a double sui cide, which has recently taken place in that city.—The circumstance has created a ve ry deep and general' .sensation in a country where self-destruction is of very rare occur rence. Marco Uronn, a shopkeeper of Milan, married his daughter, Loadina, about three years ago, io a' young man named Teranza, who was his ward, and who was like him self, engaged in trade. Laodina brought her husband two children: she was equally remarkable in the neighbourhood for her modesty and piety as for her beauty. In crossing the Piazza del Duomo, she was pointed.out to me as one of the prettiest of the rich shopkeeper’s wives, who still perse vered in the old custom of passing a part of the day behind their counters; I never af terwards failed,.when in that neighbourhood, to stop before the shop windows, and en deavor to catch, through the shawl3 and muslins exposed in them, a glimpse of her charming face. Laodina was of middle sta ture. had fair hair, a mild and downcast eye, and ofcxtremely pale complexion ; herfea I the garden gate, when, finding resistance was vain, he bowed, laid his hand on his heart, and in that expressive manner for which he was so remarkable, spoke the fol- “ Tampa's desert strand.”—There is very beautiful picco of poetry, written by the I lowing lines Hon. R. II. Wilde, of Augiista, Georgia, while he was a mere youth, beginning “ My life is like a summer rose,” which has been going the rounds ofthe newspapers for the last dozen years. One of the stanzas has repeatedly been done into nonsense by a. misunderstanding ofthe use of one single H, as the old saying goes, the third time word, Tampa, which is frequently misprin- he the charm, the hero of the following para ted ‘ Tempo,* and sometimes’ ‘ Tempest.’ £ ra P h most Certainly bears a charmed The following is the ori rinnl ro^i nn I life:—There is at present living in a village near Paisley, a man who has been three Pithy Answer.—In a time of much reli gious excitement and consequent discus sion, an honest old Dutch farmer, of the Mohawk, was asked his opinion as to which denomination of Christians were in the right way to Heaven ?—“ Veil den (said he,) ven we ride our wheat to Albany, some say dis is de pest road, and some say dat is de pest; but I don’t tir.k it makes much tifference which road we take; for when we get dare, dey never ask us which way we come—and it is none of deir business—if our wheat is good. Thus Adam look’d, when from the garden driven, And thus disputed oidcrs sent from heaven. Like him I go; but yet to go am loth; . Like him I go—for angels drove ns both. Hard was his fate; but mine still more unkind; His Eve went with him, but mine stays behind. The following is the original reading. “ My life is Gke the print which feet Have left on Tampa’s desert strand : Soon as the rising tide^shali beat, - - All trace shall vanish from the sand; Yet, as if grieving to efface All viatage of the human race, On that lone shore, loud moans the sea, But none, alas! shall mourn forme.*’ .1 times married: each of his wives’ names were the same ; he bad three children by each, and each lived with him three years He was a widower between each marriage three years; has three children living, the third by each wife, and their birth-days are The desert strand of Tampa, here alluded I wHhin three da y s of each other ' His ,ast to, is the uninhabited and sandy shore of w ’^ e has been dead three years, and he ex- Spirito Santo or Thompd Bay, on the West P ects to married again in three months ! Coast or Peninsula of Florida, where the _ . tide ebbs -and flow’s with gTeat rapidity. Miseries of Sickness. It is to wake up With this explanation tho figure is a beautii in the morning, get half dressed, and go to ful one. The author represents the images hed again on finding that your body is not of a * desert strand,’ a ‘ lone shore,’ the loud d » s P°sed to locomotion. It is to see your moaning * Sea,’ the print of a human foot servant enter with your boots nicely polish- upon the ‘ sand’ and the « rising tide’ effa- ed > and to feel ^at his labor has been boot cin^it. None but an empirick in literature fe"* H is to have the whole family rash would think of affixing to such a description int0 y° ur room » screaming, “What’s the the Valley of Tempe, which is no more matter?” ft is to receive a visit from your * fabulous’ than Scekonk Plains, and which doctor, to see him prop his nose with his has neither a * dearest strand’ nor a desert cane ’ shake his ’head ominously, and take one, but was e.eldbrated by the poets for its his lancet out of his jacket pocket. It is to cool shades 'and verdant walks. How ‘sand’ havo y° ur windpipe choked with pills, and could get there, and the ‘rising tide’ and y our P a,ate in °P en rebellion against po- the ‘ moaning sea’when the River Penneus, ^° ns * It is to have your eyes filled with whose banks were covered with Laurels, I camphor, and your nose with hartshorn. It Ti'on _ -.a 1 /* a .1 •- is to answ er the same question fifty times a day, and to see the faces of all your friends dressed for the occasion, in sympathetic sadness. It is to hear all their voices pitched Island of Gdemsey&Gwmsev is the| to a "Wiling and melancholy tone, when very model of an island^ aristocratical as I y°« know . thc y V ]] for S et y° ur suffering the was (lie only water that flowed through it, must be past the reach of ordinary imagina tion,-—R. I. American. » • ^ I » I J wi CHI I0IQIIU -j (It lolUd Utlvtll do I » v * • cl tures Wore a mingled expression of tender-j we are in England, they £eat us hollow in| raoment tke y fl uit y° ur presence. It is to Anecdote of Sir Richard Jebb.—Sir Ri- chard being called to see a patient who fan cied himself very ill, told him ingenuously what he thought, and declined prescribing, thinking it unnecessary. “ Now you are here,” said the patient, “ I shall be obliged ^ to you, Sir Richard, if you will tell me £ow I must live, what I may eat, and whatnot.” “ My directions as to that point,” replied Sir Richard, “ wall be few and simple. You must not eat the poker, shovel, or tongs, for they are hard of digestion; nor the bel lows, because they are windy; but any thing else you please.” A Little Rogue Detected.—On Friday last, says the Easton Md. paper, in this county, a very singular theft was commit ted—the circumstances are as follows :— A lady had her infant’s caps washed, and hung in the garden to dry ; for security they were tied together by the strings—at noon when the servant maid was sent to bring^ them in, one was missing and it was evident some arch rogue had untied the strings. The garden was searched and re-searched, but no cap was to be found; late in the af ternoon the husband of the lady, as he was sauntering in the garden, espied, suspended in the limb of a Walnut three, a bird’s nest which he knew to be that of a Baltimore (a bird so called) and saw attached thereto something very white, which struck his at tention and called for the ladies of his fam-. ily to view the singular looking nest—a so*, vant was sent up the tree and with the as-'v sistance of a fish gig, the nest was taken down, when behold they found the cap; the strings of which were with great inge nuity interwoven in the nest. ft is wonderful how a command or call to be liberal, all of a sudden impoverishes the rich,—so that instead of lessening the poor, such a demand strangely increase? their number. Mr JmSc *ia % $ • 1 .i; (i M j-y,' OK . SflnfaN ' tSU