By these deeds of violence, the French were extirpated from Acadia. Only a few in obscure nooks escaped; and the descendants of these till the present day retain the language, the manners, and the religion of their forefathers--a curiosity in the present social system of Nova Scotia.

ions, of sons anxious to reach and relieve their many other instances, "has made countless thouparents, of mothers mourning for their children." sands mourn.' Theirs, truly, is as sad a story as Poor wanderers! how they sighed for the it can readily fall to one's lot to read; and, as pleasant villages whence they had been so cruelly such, it cannot fail to excite interest and sympadriven out, and where they had so long dwelt so thy in all who can feel compassion for the desopeacefully! But the hand that had expelled late and oppressed. them was sternly raised to hinder them from returning. Their villages, from Annapolis to the isthmus, were laid waste. Their old homes were heaps of ruins. In one district, as many as 250 of their houses, and more than as many barns, were entirely consumed. Their confiscated live stock, consisting of great numbers of horses, sheep, hogs, and horned cattle, were seized as spoils, and disposed of by the unscrupulous officials. "A beautiful and fertile tract of country was reduced to a solitude. There was left round AN EPISODE IN MONKEY-LIFE. the ashes of the cottages of the Acadians but the faithful watch-dog, vainly seeking the hands I HAVE had some experience of what a junthat fed him. Thickets of forest trees choked gle-life in India is, and cannot therefore ignore their orchards; the ocean broke over their neg- a certain amount of familiarity with a class of lected dykes, and desolated their meadows." animals which, from the days of Eve's temptaThe whole land was cast back into the wilder- tion, has acquired a character for cunning, maness, and, had the dispersed inhabitants gone lignity, and spite, from which its aspect — at back to it, they would have hardly recognized a times, indeed, the very beauty of uglinessspot within its boundaries.

From Chambers's Journal.

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The exiles could not rest in their captivity; by no means exonerates it. Emblems of the but relentless misfortune pursued them, by what revolting and the terrible have serpents always ever way they sought after deliverance. Those been, and yet who can deny that a certain sent to Georgia, drawn by a love for the spot singular fascination belongs to them, which where they were born, escaped to sea in boats, renders the slenderest details about them and went coasting on from harbor to harbor strangely interesting, even to those who retill they reached New England; but just as they gard them with utter abhorrence? Not only would have set sail for their native fields, they in the kingdom of Snakedom have I freely were stopped by orders from Nova Scotia. Those wandered, without, alas! having acquired that who dwelt on the St. John's were once more magical masterdom over the reptile race of driven out from their new homes. When Cana- which George Borrow naturally boasts, but I da surrendered, the 1500 who remained south of have also had some ongoings with the monkeythe Restigouche were pursued by the scourges tribe; and the other day, as I was hunting up of unrelenting hatred. Those who dwelt in

Pennsylvania presented a humble petition to the a parcel of old manuscript journals for some Earl of Loudoun, then the British commander-records of my ancient soldiership, I came upon in-chief in America; and in return, his lordship, a page or two that contained anecdotal remioffended that the prayer was made in French, niscences of facts which I had myself witseized their five principal men, who in their own nessed in reference to both snake and monland had been persons of dignity and substance, key, of sufficient singularity to warrant_publiand shipped them to England, with the request cation. Let it not be supposed that I am a that they might be consigned to service as com- naturalist, a scientific judge of the creatures mon sailors on board ships of war, and thus be of the woods, be they crawlers or catamounts, kept from ever again becoming troublesome. No doubt existed of the king's approbation of these proceedings. "The Lords of Trade, more merciless than the savages and than the wilderness in winter, wished very much that every one of the Acadians should be driven out; and when it seemed that the work was done, congratulated the king that the zealous endeavors of Lawrence had been crowned with an entire success."

mice or monkeys. I intend simply to relate what fell under my own observation, without pretending to describe classically, or even to classify methodically, the peculiar races to which the individuals of my text belonged. A soldier from early youth, rudely trained in camp and cantonment, I was far more eager to study the gazels and rekhtas of the love-sick Wherever they turned, or whatever they did, Hindoo poets, as chanted by the sweet-voiced these despoiled and outcast people encountered nothing but calamity. In their abject desolation, dancing-girls of the Deccan, than to acquire it even seemed to them that their cause was re-even a superficial knowledge of that useful jected by the universe. "We have been true," branch of natural history which would have said they, "to our religion, and true to ourselves, taught me to distinguish at sight a poisonous yet nature appears to consider us only as the ob- from a harmless reptile, a useful and edible ject of public vengeance." Their hard fate from an unwholesome or deleterious vegetable. might well impress them with even that disheart- Many years ago, in the year 1823, I hapening conviction; yet it was not nature's doing pened to be with my regiment- - a' battalion but man's inhumanity to man," which in solof Madras native infantry on the march

from Bangalore, in Mysore, to Kulladghee, in diabolic agencies. Yells, shrieks, hootings, the Doab. We had reached the hill-forts of indescribably wild, detained us as if by a spell Badaumy, in the province of Bejapoor, where for more than an hour; and presently when we halted for a day; and at any place more the moon rose we could distinguish the impstrikingly picturesque we had not stopped dur-like creatures springing from tree to rock, and ing the three hundred and odd miles we had from stone to stone, up among the cliffs, and, traversed. Yet it has curiously escaped the as we supposed, exercising some warlike evoobservation and description of which it is wor-lutions, or engaged in some fierce gala, of anithy; as far as I know, the only mention of mal life, until by dint of observation we really Badaumy on record are the few lines in Ham- came to think they had got up a dramatic reilton's Gazetteer, that give it a lat. 16 deg. presentation for our peculiar amusement. We 6 min. N., a long. 75 deg. 46 min. E., and were afterwards informed, that the opposite term it a place of some strength, which can be ridges of the mountains were severally occutaken only by a regular siege, which would re-pied by two distinct families or clans of monquire a heavy equipment. To this scanty keys - the very Montagues and Capulets of and vague account I will only add, that not the order Simia-between whom reigned a only from its position, on and among strange- perpetual feud, which often terminated in ly shaped mountains, and the capabilities it blood and death. possesses, and which have been taken advan- Some months after our arrival at Kulladgtage of by the Mahrattas, as a fortified station; hee, I applied for a few weeks' leave; which but likewise from its being a noted stronghold being granted, I resolved to revisit Badaumy. of Hindoo idols, in caves and temples, and I reached it at a season when the surrounding mysterious crypts, reached only by winding country was arrayed in the brightest livery of subterranean stairs and passages cut through the cliffs, it deserves a close survey and scrutiny from some individual willing and able to describe, fully and truthfully, the place and the marvels it contains.

summer; and in addition to the attractions supplied by the wild windings and subterranean passages to the fort-hills, with the cavernous temples in the rocks, containing the whole Hindoo Pantheon in beautifully carved images I have never witnessed the wonders of Elora of an amazing size, I found great pleasure in or Elephanta, but though on a diminished traversing the jungles around, climbing the scale, the lions of Badaumy are of the same rocks, and penetrating into the ravines, in nature, and compel admiration from the least search of plants and wild berries, whose nature enthusiastic observer. The hill-forts them- and native names were revealed to me by my selves, comprising two different sides or peaks faithful Mussulman moonshee, or teacher, who of the same mountain-ridge in whose recesses had consented to accompany me. To this truly the small town is built, are specimens of what excellent man, Noor-ood-Deen, I owe my first art can do when nature has prepared the introduction to the art of simple gathering; foundation for its labors. At the very top of and in after-days, during a campaign, when the steepest precipice, a pool of excellent wa- the addition of a single wholesome vegetable ter supplies that element from sources which to our wretched meals became a rare luxury, no amount of heat has ever exhausted; and I had reason to remember with gratitude that down in the narrow valley, amongst the houses his advice and teachings had suggested the of the village, a large and well-built talab, or utility as well as lovableness of the study of tank, of delicious water-cool and whole- botany. some, though of a bright smaragdus green He taught me likewise to observe the habits affords unfailing refreshment. On each side of those very monkeys, whose nocturnal orgies of this pond are houses or gardens, and over had startled us on our first arrival at Badautwo ends of this mountain-gap lower the twin-my, as well as to distinguish the speckled gray fortalices, oposite each other-the highest and white tree-snake, which is so fatal, from precipice, called Runmundle, being grotesque the spotted brown and green one, which haunts in shape, and terrific in gloomy grandeur. the same bowery recesses, yet is harmless. Encamped outside the town, no sooner had night descended upon us, ere the reports we had heard of the number of sacred monkeys that abounded in the neighborhood were confirmed. Had we reached the place at night, ignorant of this fact, we might have concluded that we had fallen upon some terrible Armageddon, haunted by rebellious ghouls and afrits in venomous conflict; for from every peak and jutting promontory arose such a discord of monkey-voices, as, in other circumstances, one would have been only too ready to ascribe to

He told me that venomous serpents are generally marked by a greater width of cerebral formation behind, which gives to the neck the appearance of being smaller than it really is; and he warned me to beware of dark and briery paths, where the track of snails was discernible- - such being a sure indication of the vicinity of snakes. From him I learned, that some of the deadliest, when taken unawares, roll themselves up spirally, the head elevated, when suddenly uncoiling, they spring forward on their disturber, man or beast, with surpris

ing velocity. Strange things he related of got so familiarized with my appearance, that the dawa, or revengeful feeling, retained by they seldom condescended to honor me with the cobra da capello against any individual a snarl or a bough flung towards me in sport. who has pursued, or tried to kill it; and of the I was conscious that something went wrong odd antagonistic feeling of the ape against the with them; and as I knew their sentiments of cock, the serpent, and the apparently harm- superstition, if not of humanity, preserved less tortoise. A monkey has, indeed, a ridicu- them from the persecutions of the natives, I lous horror of the latter; and I have often became curious as to the cause of the prevatested its more legitimate terror of the viper, lent excitement. Creeping round a rock, beby enclosing one in a chatty, or earthern-pot, hind which they appeared to congregate, and with a covered lid, placed near poor Jacko. on which grew a large gum-arabic tree, comEver inquisitive, he instantly flies to scruti-pletely golden with the abundance of yellow nize the contents of the vessel; but the mo- blossoms which covered it, and which, like ment he slowly and cautiously raises the lid, Tennyson's lime-tree, was in sooth and the serpent's head becomes visible, it is ludicrous to watch the mixture of dread and prudence which agitates him. With a quick I at once found myself on the stage of a motion, he shuts down the lid, screams and strange tragedy in simian life. In the volumimakes the most hideous grimaces, dances nous folds of an enormous boa constrictor was round the pot, and presently returns to it, touches the lid, but too wise to lift it, makes a sudden exit from the scene.

A summer-home of murmurous wings

being slowly inwrapped a beautiful brown monkey, whose last cries and struggles denoted that I came to late, even had I been preBut now I come upon that point in my sketch pared to do battle with the reptile in the cause which bears upon my promised anecdote. of oppressed innocence. The monkeys, in The moonshee did not accompany me as I set evident alarm, ran hither and thither, moping out one bright morning to ramble about my and mowing, and chattering; but not one adfavorite rocks, where I found ample store of vanced near the spot, where presently their wild plants and flowers, whose names and poor companion became almost quite hidden qualities I better know now than I did then. from view in the embraces of its destroyer. Amongst the most striking of these may be Determined to watch the process of the affair, mentioned the beautiful bacl-tree (Egle mar-I quietly sat down, until gradually the monkey melos), which bears a hard, rinded, apple- had been moulded, as it were, into a proper shaped fruit, of aromatic smell, and covered condition for deglutition, for I could hear the with a slimy exudation. It has recently been bones crack as they were broken beneath the introduced into medical practice in England, pressure to which they were subjected; and as an astringent of efficacy in diarrhoea. Uperelong, as the serpent began to untwist its and around this fine tree clambered a magnifi-folds, I could admire at leisure the magnificent parasite, the Caesalpinia paniculata, fes-cence of its glittering scales, that shone like tooning the glittering leaves of its supporter some richly variegated metallic substance. I with dark glossy foliage and gorgeous racemes shuddered as I beheld its grand and awful of orange blossoms. A shrub, which seemed head - the prominent orbits of the eyes — to be a favorite food of the monkey, yet which and the eyes themselves large, and luminous belongs to the deleterious oleander tribe, had with a fiery light. The creature was at least a peculiarly striking appearance, from bearing twenty feet in length, and was apparently famat the same time a profusion of snowy blos-ished by a long fast. Perfectly heedless of soms and a grotesque fruit, not unlike twin-the noise made by the monkeys, it unwound pods of a bean, their narrow extremities unit- its coils till the victim, now an unrecognizable ed together. The whole plant is full of a sli-mass, lay before it lubricated and fit to be remy milk; and if, as I conclude, it be the ceived into the destroyer's stomach. Nerium tinctorum of Roxburg, and of the or- When the reptile had fairly commenced its der Apocyneæ, it possesses very powerful repast, and the before flaccid body began to qualities as a medicine and as a dye. The fill and swell, I retired from the arena of conDatura, too, abounded, scenting the air with flict and hall of banquet, desirous of summonan oppressive odor, too luscious for enjoyment. ing my friend Noor-ood-Deen to assist me in The seeds are frequently conveyed into the capturing the sated giant. I knew that when portions prepared by the Thug and the Dacoit gorged to repletion, there would be no diffito stupefy their intended victim. But a long culty in making a prize of the serpent; article might be made about these Oriental the moonshee entered into my plans right wilplants, whilst I must proceed to my story. I lingly. Accompanied by a stout lascar, bearwas climbing one of the slanting ascents of the ing a strong cudgel and a sharp knife, for Runmundle cliff, when I became aware that an unusual commotion reigned amongst my friends the monkeys, who had by this time

and

slaughter and skinning, we lost little time in reaching the scene, where, however, fresh marvels were being enacted, proving that the pas

sion of revenge is not confined to the human describable discord, by a vigorous movement breast. Keeping aloof, we resolved not to mar they shoved it sheer down. The heavy mass by any interference the by no means mysti- fell right on the serpent's head, crushing it as fying operations in which the monkeys were if it were a cocoa-nut; and as the reptile engaged. lashed its fearful tail about in the final strug

The boa constrictor lay, thoroughly gorged, gles of life, we could not refrain from joining and like a log of wood, beneath the same pro- in the singular chorus of rejoicing with which jecting mass of cliff where I had left it. On the monkeys now celebrated their accomthe summit of this rock a troop of monkeys plished vengeance. Truly, from the feats of had assembled, and three or four of the larg- the malicious baboon that gloried in the name est and strongest were occupied in displacing of Major Weir, to the amiable creature of an immense fragment of the massive stone, al- which Phillip Qualres tells, I can remember ready loosened by time and the elements, from of no recorded facts that surpass this evidence the rest of the ledge. This mass almost over- in favor of monkey-memory and monkey-wisshadowed the reptile. By enormous exer- dom, and I vouch for its truth as far as it goes, tions, made in a silence that was rare with knowing well that my friend Noor-ood-Deen, them, they at last succeeded in pushing it on- still flourishing in the Black Town of Madras, wards until it hung over the boa's head, when will add his testimony to any applicant for uttering a fierce yell, in which every separate confirmation of the anecdote. voice mingled until it took a diapasm of un

From the Friend.

COULDST THOU NOT WATCH ONE HOUR?
THY night is dark-behold the shade was deeper
In the old garden of Gethsemane,
When that calm voice awoke the weary sleeper,
-Couldst thou not watch one hour alone with me?

O, thou so weary of thy self-denials,

And so impatient of thy little cross, Is it so hard to bear thy daily trials,

To count all earthly things a gainful loss?

What if thou always suffer tribulation,

And if thy christian warfare never cease; The gaining of the quiet habitation,

Shall gather thee to everlasting peace.

But here we all must suffer, walking lonely

The path that Jesus once himself hath gone; Watch thou in patience through this hour only, This one dark hour before the eternal dawn.

The captive's oar may pause upon the galley,
The soldier sleep beneath his plumed crest,
And peace may fold her wing o'er hill and valley,
But thou, O Christian, must not take thy rest.

Thou must walk on, however man unbraid thee,
With Him who trod the wine-press all alone;
Thou wilt not find one human hand to aid thee,
One human soul, to comprehend thine own.

Heed not the images forever thronging .
From out the foregone life thou livest no more;
Faint-hearted mariner, still art thou longing

For the dim line of the receding shore.

Wilt thou find rest of soul in thy returning
To that old path thou hast so vainly trod?
Hast thou forgotten all thy weary yearning

To walk among the children of thy God?
Faithful and steadfast in their consecration,
Living by that high faith to thee so dim,

Declaring before God their dedication,

So far from thee, because so near to Him. Canst thou forget thy christian superscription"Behold we count them happy which endure?" What treasure wouldst thou in the land Egyptian,

Repass the stormy water to secure ?

And wilt thou yield thy sure and glorious promise

For the poor fleeting joys earth can afford? No hand can take away the treasure from us That rests within the keeping of the Lord.

Poor wandering soul-I know that thou art seeking

Some easier way, as all have sought before
To silence the reproachful inward speaking-
Some landward path unto an island shore!

The cross is heavy in thy human measure,
The way too narrow for thine inward pride,
Thou canst not lay thine intellectual treasure
At the low footstool of the Crucified.

O, that thy faithless soul, one hour only
Would comprehend the Christian's perfect life,
Despised with Jesus, sorrowfal and lonely,
Yet calmly looking upward in its strife.

For poverty and self-renunciation,
Their Father yieldeth back a thousand fold;
In the calm stillness of regeneration,

Cometh a joy they never knew of old.

In meek obedience to the heavenly Teacher,
Thy weary soul can only find its peace,
Seeking no aid from any human creature;
Looking to God alone for His release.

And He will come in His own time and power,
To set his earnest-hearted children free;
Watch only through this dark and painful hour
And the bright morning yet will break for thee

From The Spectator. IRELAND TEACHING ENTERPRISE

TO ENGLAND.

IRELAND at this moment constitutes the strongest rebuke that could be addressed to those philosophers who tell us that nothing can be done by deliberate preconceived legislation; that a country can only "grow," almost unconsciously, and cannot be directed for better or for worse. Accident, no doubt, has assisted the practical legislator in Ireland; but the history of the country gives the unmistakable results of a distinct purpose, and proves that the legislator can to a great extent predetermine the condition of a country, if he acts with the forces of circumstances.

and Scotch enterprise has been introduced. The annual cost of the Commission, including its incidentals, is only about 15,000l.; and a fee of 1d. in the pound would exactly have covered the entire cost of the Commission and have rendered it self-supporting,

Accompanying this act, has been another, which in part preceded it by a couple of years, to encourage the draining of land by advances; and under that act not fewer than 153,000 acres were drained down to December last.

The marks of improvement following this change in the condition of the people and these auxiliary measures cannot be mistaken. It shows itself in every form. The wages of labor have risen by at least 1s. on the general level. Crime has strikingly diminished. The About five years back, the condition of commerce of Ireland has greatly increased, Ireland seemed hopeless. The potato disease and the newspapers are continually filled with deprived the people of the low diet to which evidence to its constant advance. Mr. Locke their own self-cheapening habits had reduced rests much upon the increase of commerce in them. Pestilence followed, famine, and ruin Belfast, the manufacturing centre of Ireland: trod upon the heels of both. Many districts since 1817 the exports have increased 925 per in Ireland were so insolvent that they could cent, whereas the progress of Liverpool is innot support their own paupers, and charity dicated only by an increase of 558 per cent from England did the work of the Irish poor- The exports of Belfast, including goods ship rates. The misery of the island put a screw ped by the way of Liverpool, Glasgow, and upon the purpose both of the inhabitants and London, amounted in 1853 to a total of 8,500,the legislator. The people ran away-that is, 000l. Nothing, however, exhibits the extreme they emigrated; and whereas their numbers alteration in the state of Ireland more than had been increasing faster than their means the diminution of crime. In Limerick, the of subsistence, they now relieved the overbur- number of criminals for trial at the Spring dened agricultural system of the country, and left it to develop itself with a less encumbrance. Already measures had been adopted for improving the lands in Ireland, and they were enlarged; but the most striking of all was that measures for the compulsory sale of encumbered estates, which introduced a principle of bankruptcy into the treatment of real property, and had the effect of transferring land from an honorary possession in the hands of those who had not the capital to use it, to those who could only acquire it for business purposes. The combined result of these accidents and deliberate measures is exhibited in a pamphlet by Mr. John Locke, an officer under the Encumbered Estates Act.

The first petition under the act was filed on the 1st of October 1849; we have the report of the proceedings down to the 1st of October 1854. During that period, 1152 estates have been sold, comprising nearly 2,000,000 acres, or about one eleventh of the land area of the island. The sum realized has been above 13,500,000l.; of which barely 2,250,000l. represents the purchase-money of British purchasers. Irish purchasers have taken the remainder, represented by 11,260,000l. It is not true, therefore, that any large proportion of the land of Ireland has been alienated to non-Irish purchasers; while unquestionably a very useful element of English

Assizes in 1849 was 250; it had diminished at the Summer Assizes of 1853 to 25, and of 1854 to 19. The cases of murder had diminished respectively from 11 to 4 and 1. The cases of attacking houses by night, which in 1849 were 30, of cattle-stealing 63, and of highway robbery 20, had entirely disappeared, except that in the Summer Assizes of 1854 there was one case of cattle-stealing and one case of highway robbery.

No doubt, we must take into account the effect of industrial training in the workhouse, now adopted by all but 25 in 163 unions; and of public education, which has constantly increased, until in the last year the children numbered 556,478. But this education had not prevented the crime which disgraced Ireland down to 1849, though it might have diminished it; and the industrial training had not fed the people, though it might have fed a subsequent generation. The real screw put upon Ireland to check her downward progress appears to have been, first, the famine and pestilence, and secondly, this measure for rescuing the land of Ireland from its honorary and insolvent proprietary, and throwing it, so to speak, into the free-trade market. Deliberate legislation, therefore, has done something, for it can point to tangible results.

The same rule would hold good in other places, though the working might be less naked.