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extent of its resource,

well as the extent to which fertility has been subjected to
the hand of culture, and the rapidity with which these re-
sources are being developed, under the life-bringing touch
of the enterprise which peculiarly characterises its inhabi-
tants, is gathered from the bare glance at the fact that
the commerce of the four great lakes, including all capital
afloat, during the year 1843, was estimated by the Topo-
graphical Bureau at 65,000;000 dollars. The total

United States on these Lakes for the improvement ne-
cessary to protect and convpnience this commerce is stated
by Mr. Whittlesey, of Ohio, at 2,100,000 dirs.
When the projected ship canal around the Falls of St.
Marie shall be completed, the wide expanse of Lake Su-

perior will be added to the present extent of the lake naviga-
tion, allowing the adventurous commercialist to crowd
some 175 miles still farther north, and several hundreds

the whole expense of improvement is estimated, if we
rightly remember, at 230,000, dollars. _ By this compara-

y small outlay, access is at once obtamect to me wnoie
country tributary to Lake Superior—a tract so rich in tim-
ber and mineral wealth, that it has not been unaptly

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,ally marking the disinterestedness and singleness of _
mind with which, from the very outset, he devoted him-
self to his holy calling, characteristics, for which every HOW NORAH, OUR IRISH SERVANT, DID
step of his course had been as remarkable up to the From " The Greatest Plague of LY'e, or
(resent hour. His resolution being once determined, a Lady in search of a good Servant."
Tr. M'Neile's course of life and study was influenced But though Norah Connor went on very well just at
orlingly. Even then he appears to have commenced first, still, after a time, she got so frightfully familiar and
ing the poor in their cottages, reading to them, and
presuming, that really the woman used to speak to me as
'sting them in matters of the deepest moment. In
if I was her equal ; norcould I for the life of me get her
'lv part of the year 1820, Mr. M'Neile was ap-
to pay me the respect that I felt was due to me. Now,
`,,e curacy of Stranorlar, a village about seven
for instance, I remember, one morning, about two months
before little Annie was born, I rang the parlour bell, and
the woman came into the room I said in a quiet
" I want a glass of water to drink, Norah."
" You want to drink a glass of wather ?" she replied.
,ne career of the reverend gentleman since his entry " Well, I've no objection. Drink away, darlin' !!"
into the church is familiar to most of our readers. Those " Then," I continued, blandly. " I should feel obliged
to whoin it is not so well known we must refer to the if you would be so good as to let me have one directly."
pages of the Dublin University Magazine. " Let you have one_?" she exclaimed. " Faith, an'

ldventures of

miles from the episcopal town of Raphoe,-on the banks
of the river Finn. Here, amid a numerous and intelli-
gent ProtPQ+--' ' ceene of his first

.t poyulation, was ti

voice

didn't I give you EeTmis§ion just now

. . .
ANECDOTES OF FERGUSON OF PITFOUR.—There are This was past all bearing ; but I restrained myself, and
some men, whom no position can render ridiculous, and merely said, with becoming dignity, " I didn't have you
there are some quite the reverse : of the latter class was up stairs, Norah, to know whether you would permit me
Ferguson of Pitfour. Ferguson's notion of the essential to drink a glass of water in my own house, or not."
quality of a Lord Advocate was tallness. "We Scotch To which she replied, as familiarly as if she were speak-
members," said he, " always vote with the Lord Advo- inn- to the servant next door, " Well, by my cowl, when
cate, and we therefore require to see him in a division. I 'heard you ask me if I'd let you have that same, I
Now I can see Mr. Pitt, and I can see Mr. Addington, thought you mighty stupid at the time. An' what is it
but I cannot see the Lord Advocate." His lordship evi- you do want, then, mavourneen ?"
dently not rising to Ferguson's regulation size of a states- 4 Why," I returned, in measured terms, rer-
man. One evening, as Ferguson was taking his dinner my station, " I want what I told you before, as
-room, some one ran in, to say, that " Pitt a Person could speak—a glass of water."
" Every one rose to leave the room, ex- ` Why, then," she cried, "by the powers !if I wen
pt rerguson. " What !" said they, " won't you go to You, I'd get it ! Isn't there plenty down stairs, honey ?"
sear Mr. Pitt ?" " No," he replied,. " Why should I ? " But, I continued, calmly, ` perhaps you will be
do you think Mr. Pitt would go to hear me ?" . kind enough, Norah, to bring me a glass up here.
REPEAL AND FAMINE.—The famine has taught the " Och !' she exclaimed, "so an' it's only a glas you're
empire an important lesson as to Irish repeal. For many wantin me to fetch you, afther all ! A glass wid nothin'
years past that country has been convulsed and the empire in it, is it you mane ?"
harassed by the loud and threatening demand for the re- " No, I replied, almost losing my temper, " A glass
peal of the union, and the incessant outcry that the Irish of water, woman, and not a glass without anything in it !
people are perfectly equal to the duties of self-govern- Do you understand me now ?"
ment, and that all their distresses have been owing to the " Out an' out," she cried, with a nasty, low wink.
oppression of the Saxon. The wind of adversity has <<You'd be havin' a glass of wather wid somethin' in it !
blown, and where are these menaces now ? Had Provi- Oh,
,go along wid you—wanting a drop on the sly, now !
dente punished them by granting their prayer—had En- You re takin' to the bottle, though, betimes this mornin',
Astrwri (..+ +ha v.-trio ac Mr I:MA.(4r cairl (mil la thorn art_ I'm thinkin'." .

rthering

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where would Ireland have been at this moment ? Drift- I'm sure my fair readers can easily imagine that this
ing away on the ocean of starvation. Let this teach them threw me into such a passion that it quite made my blood
their dependence upon their neighbours, and let another boil. I told the fury to hold her tongue, and never dare
fact open their eyes to what those neighbours are. En- to open her mouth about such things again. But the im-
glllaTl has replied to this senseless clamour, this disgrace-
f I ingratitude, by voting £10,000.000 sterling in a single rdent hussey only made me worse, for she kept declaring
mum was the word with Norah," and saving, " that I
to re' '1- '- '""'t go a • ' '-t her findin'9ut my sly

year, _ _—.ve the distresses which the heedlessness and needn , nurryin' mysilf abou. ----
indolence of the Irish had brought upon themselves. We thricks,'' and telling me to be " asy, for that the masther
say advisedly, brought upon themselves. For mark- should never hear of it from hersilf.”
worthy circumstance ! the destruction of the potato crop So that at last, I declare I was positively obliged to run
has been just as complete, anti the food of the people has
been just as entirely swept away in the 'West Highlands lup stairs into my own bed-room, in order to get rid of the
of Scotland as in Ireland, but there kis been no grant of , creature. There I threw myself on the sofa, in the most
dreadful state of mind, I think, I ever was m all my life ;
public money to Scotland. The cruel Anglo-Saxons have ( and, torn with all kinds of horrid ideas, I said to myself,
given it all to the discontented untaxed Gael in Emerald ! " Norah washes very well, it is true—but alas ! what
Isle.—Blackwood's Magazine, 1 washing- can compensate me for this !"