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THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. June, 1335.
There are two articles in Blackwood, "The Canada
Question" and "Municipal and Corporate Revolution,"
to which we would call the especial attention of the pub-.
lic, both being written with great ability, and both
being equally worthy of that consideration. The
Canadian article commences with deprecating the ex-
treme indifference with which colonial affairs are
.ciunmonly regarded by the newspaper press, and as a
consequence by the public, notwithstanding their import-
ance, who in ignorance of facts or details take for granted
whatever is foisted upon them as the truth. All the ills
ith which Canada has been afflicted sihce its conquest
and final cession in 1763 may he dated from the constitu-
tional Act of 1791, which diiided the then province of
Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. After detailing
the consequences of this blunder, the writer proceeds to
say:—

"By the second clause of 31 Geo. 111. tbeprovinee of Quebec,
-or Canada Proper, till then one and indivisible, was divided as
we have said, into two separate proiuces, with House of Assem-
bly, council; governor, andall the usual machine.' y of government
distinet from earls other. This separation was decreed not only
without consulting the wishes, but in direct opposition to the re-
monstrances of the inhabitants of both Upper and Lower Cana-
da. :Vainly were representations the most urgent repeated against
this suicidal resolution. It is difficult •to conceive upon what
principle of policy or of expediency, or of advantage, present or
prospective, it could have been fontided;. unless
.indeed as a
means of ensuring dependency-by, the application to the colony
of the ancient maxim directed against open foes—divide et int-
pera. One thing is already sufficiently- clear, the means have
jlot compassed the end. We have indeed laid the foundation u

two rival empires, each differing from the other in laws, lan-
-guage, and religion—we have laboured with might and main to
transplant the hatred, to eternize the wars and the national
hostility of the old in the new world—between French. Lower
and British Upper Canada. Such is the poisoned garment with
which the two provinces have been regaled its the act of division
that finally will estrange both from the metropolis no less
absolutely than each from the other.
"The rule adopted. in the demarcation of limits, and the
assignment of territory to the respective new provinces, betrays
•a-singular contempt for the economy and the wants of the one,
and that one exclusively the BRITISH PORTION, which, by the
royal proclamation of 1763, inviting settlers, and guaranteeing
privileges and protection, ought, if partiality were to be shownj
.to have had a preference in the eves of the supreme powers.
By the geographical position of Upper Canada, it is cut off from
all direct communication with the sea for the exportation of
produce, or the importation. of supplies, except under favour of.
Lower Canada, sovereign paramount of the St. Lawrence, or of
New York, lord of the Hudson. With a humility or a stolidity
which would be marvellous any where out of Downing-street,
the conquerors, were stowed far away inland—locked f p rear-
ward and westward, and the keys of this prison-house, eouverted,
by industry and perseverance matchless, into a storehouse for
nations, consigned to the keeping of the vanguished—seaports,
fortresses, river debouches, all abandoned to the Franco-Lana-,
dians conquered on the heights of Abraham, whilst the victors
were left .to hew their way through forests, to tempt the rapids,
and accept the wilderness for an inheritance."
After desctibinw the venality and corruption which.
prevails in the House of Assembly, in Loper Canada,
the article proceeds as follows : -
Our readers must feel a curiosity, natural enough, for some
information touching the redoubtable house of assembly itself,
and its composition. We beg them to bear in mind, the heroic
deeds it has accomplished, and the more heroic exploits it is
meditating: how valiantly the members have warred with the
almost unresisting legislative council.: bow daringly they have'
assaulted law-officers and judges : how formidably they enter
into session, preceded by their committee of grievances, and
supported by the Vigers, Feltons, Tennancours, Evanses,
Dickersons, and all the other hired array of spies and informers
—of the Castles and Olivers : how fiercely' they can beard the
governor-general absent, in whose presence they would fawn,
and lick the dust, and expunge his messages from the journals,
when fairly recovered from the awe and trepidation their de-
livery had caused them. Gentle reader! behold the joints, not
of the O'Connell, but of the Papineau tail. The actual mem-
bers of the house of assembly of Lower Canada consist of
2 Merchants.
4 In general trade, or wholesale storekeepers.
1 Publican and sinner, alias tavern-keeper.
1 Bailiff (query, hum,) Court of King's Bench.
14 Farmers, or " habitans."
2 Professions or trades unknown—probably gentlemen at
large.
1 Lieutenant, R.N.., half-pay.
1 Collector of inland' customs.
I Mariner—a master of a boat.
THREE PERSONS OP INDEPENDENT MEANS!!!
18 Attorneys !
10 Notaries!
11 Surgeons.
2 Land-survey=ors.
This is the barebones' parliament of Lower Canada, and it
will bear a comparison even with the original tail in this coun-
try, which is free of the beggarman's kitchen for hub and grub;
and roosts; three in a bed, somewhere about St. Giles's. Some
of the honest-hearted
_"habitans"—and more honest, simple-
minded, and kind-hearted creatures do not exist—who figure as
M.P.'s, are altogether as innocent of the Euglish language as
the babe unborn ; unluckily, some are unable to read, and more
to write, from the misfortune of having been born, and put to
the plough, before reading and writing was made easy to the
meanest capacity. It happens charmingly—thanks to. the
" constitutional act"—that a man is q'tialitied there for an M.P.
who here and elsewhere would not pass muster fur more than a
porter; but, after all, these poor people are wanted not to talk,
but to make count, and for this end have- been dragged, un-
willing instruments, from their families by the attorneys and
notaries, whose schemes their unsuspecting simplicity and pro-
found ignorance are so well calculated to advance. It is, how-
eYer, impossible to deny that these parliament men represent
fairly the Cimmerian darkness of the " Nation Canadienne,"
however,, the sample belie the sack for straightforward honesty
and simplicity of character. " Within the last two years,"
states an address of the Montreal Constitutional Association,
" in each of two grand juries of the Court of King's Bench in
this district, selected, under a provincial law, from among the
wealthiest inhabitants of the rural parishes, there was found but
one person competent to write his name; and trustees of schools
are specially permitted by statute to affix their crosses to their
school reports." There are many of these enlightened grand
jurymen in the assembly no doubt, for we happen to know that
several of the members can neither read Mir write; and we have
heard from respectable authority, that more than one, on taking
their seat, subscribed the oaths with their cross. As the member
for all Ireland feeds his pennyless substitutes, so also were those.
of Papineau's refuge for the destitute to be provided,for. Less
generous than his great Irish prototype, although alMost equally
endowed out of the public chest, the Canadian agitator denied
to his needy servitors the crumbs that fell from (bis) the rich
man's table, and quartered the whole upon the country. In
defiance of the legislative council, which rejected the various
bills of appropriation sent up to it for the purpose, the members
of the lower house assigned to themselves ten shillings per diem ,
during the session, with Jour shillings per league for carriage of
the motley animals to their menagerie. The annual profit to a
member may be fairly stated at seventy pounds; an immense
sum amongst a people almost universally poor, but without
which a large proportion of the members would be unable to
take or to retain their seats. The sort of laws to he expected
from such a body may be judged of from one among others
passed by one of its predecessors. This was a bill to make no-
tice of action served on the attorney-general for damage against
the crown legal and binding. IT the suit went against the
crown, it was farther decreed that execution might issue against
the governor, and the furniture of his house, or the guns of the
fortress.

One of the grievances most prominently remonstrated against
by this house has been the increase in the expenditure of the
civil government ; yet that expenditure does not average an
increase since 1805 of more than 40 per cent. ; whilst that of the
legislature, which, in 1805, was £l.BOO, now amounts te£lB,ooo
annually, showing an increase of 1,000 per cent. Of this, the
house of assembly takes the lion's share, the respective quotas
being—
House of Assembly £13,000
Legislative Council.. 5,000
£lB,OOO
Of the £13,000 patriot Papineau appropriates as his own portion
the thirteenth part, his salary as speaker being £l,OOO per an-
num. Such a remuneration does seem grossly disproportionate
to the duty performed, seldom, we believe, exceeding two mouths
in the year, and to the population and revenue of the province.
If this Man be entitled to £1;000 a-year for two months pre-
sidency over a brauch of the legislature representing half-a-mil-
lion of souls only, surely the speaker of the imperial Commons
House is underpaid at £5,000 per annum for presiding over the
representation of twenty-four millions. Squaring the relative
durations of service and the populations by the respective sala-
ries, the British speaker, tote on a par with his more magnifi-
cent contemporary of Lower Canada, ought to have at the least
£60,000 or £10,003 per annum. And what has been the con-
duct of speaker Papineau with this enormous salary? Why,
that not only has he been the most factious of the King's sub-
jects, but that he has excited his countrymen of French extrac-
tion to hatred, nay, even to another St. Bartholomew massacre,
of those of another origin; and that be is, and has been, the
apostle of treason, preachinwit in the house he ought to preside
over with dignity, and out of the house organizing rebellion and
revolution. In his late address to the electors of the west ward
of Montreal, he presumes to style Lord Aylmer, the governor-
general, the "soul of faction"—the constitution is denounced
as "having ceased to exist de jure"—his opponents are stated
to have been aided by "a dozen scoundrels in place"—" Gould,*
Gillespie, ana Logan," are stigmatized as " intriguers," and as
carrying on a "hateful and mendacious correspondence" with
the colonial office—Mr. Robinson, M.P. for Worcester, as the
"paid director of the land company," and furthermore, as "a
vile sharper (escroc)'•—the judges are styled " prevaricating"
—Colonel M'lutosh is called a "fanatic brute, in the habit of
dining every day with the other fanatic brutes,. counsellors,"
&c.—J)r. Robertson, a magistrate, is the "hither of lies"—
again, "lying and deceitful magistrates"—the.people, we are
told again, "will have no more" of the constitution—Mr. Stan-
ley and Mr. Spring Rice are " declared enemies of the wishes
and rights of the majority," &c., &c. Such is some of the mild-
est and most decent language of this infunated reptile, not pub-
lished during the heat of a contested election, but fourteen days
after its termination, when his patty, after horrible scenes of
bloodshed and violence, forcibly closed the pull, disfranchised
numbers of the electors, and falsely returned him, This vaga-
bond lawyer oroceecls then to donounce all of British origin,
and to forbid dealing with them,—he calls to his countrymen to
RUN FOR GOLD 10 the banks; to ass FORWARD, "and always
take back the notes ;" and they are bade significantly to DE-
FEND THEMSELVES. In order more effectually to ruin the
banks; a FLASH RANK has been commenced or announced, un-
der the firm De Viger and Co., the capital stock of which con-
sists of nothing more solid than the well-known credulity of the
poor Franco-Canadians, and whose directors, we pi esuine, are
the hired spies and informers of those names who figure in these
pages. The upshot of this concern, it requires no second sight
to perceive, will be nothing more than another swindling cru-
sade of the clique against the pockets of the people,—that is,
plundering them of their gold, and loading them with paper
valueless as empty coffers can make it. Were the bank De
Viger based upon substantial resources, and really projected
fur useful purposes, we should be disposed to applaud. the enter-
prise without reference .to the absurdity of the national prejn-
dices in which it originated, for the sake of a competition in the
money-market by which the public could only gain ; but as it
is, and considering the character of its directors, it can only be
regarded as the device of schemers to extract real in lieu of fic-
titious money from their sirnple-minded countrymen, for the
purposes of continued agitation and Of pei sonal aggrandisement.

* Nathaniel Gould, Esq.' of the highly respectable firm,
Gould, Dowie, and Co., to whom Lower Canada owes so much.
Mr. Gould is the same name, and a near relative of the late
Nathaniel Gould Esq., not more known and respected for his
tens of thousands spent in charities during life, as well as his
tens of thousands bequeathed to public charities at his death ;
than known, beloved, and revered as the friend of the poor fac-
tory children of Lancashire, and the author of a factory bill
passed for their protection, after a most strenuous opposition,
somewhere about the year 1815 or 1816—many years before Mr.
Sadler benevolently unertook the same task in Yorkshire.

Our space precludes us from extending this or giving
any other extract. We must therefore content outselves
wite again recommending " The Canada Question" to
the attention of our readeis.

Fraser's Man•azi'ne, for Jo no.
It is singular enough that the only magazines worth
reading are those which adyocateponservative principles,
and are not ashamed of the good old name of tory, in
which William Pitt and Lord Nelson rejoiced, and in
which John Scott, Earl of Eldon, Arthur Wellesley, Duke
of Wellington, and a noble host still rejoice. Look at
the whig and, radical magazines! Nobody reads them,
cheap though they he. The New Monthly is only fit
for London milliners; the Metropolitan, we suspect, is
defunct, for we. have not seen it for the last three years;
Tait, fallen from 2s. 6d. to Is., circulates only in the
pot houses, and we believe there is no other worth
mentioning.

. .
Turn, however,: to the, tory magazines! We hate
Blackwood as fresh and stryng as ever—as vigorous
as when he flourished his broad claymore among the
cockneys, flooring Leigho Hunto, killing poor Johnny
Keats, squabashing Hazlett, and all the heroes of that
very despicable school. Next comes Fraser, in . the
prime of young We, lively, laughing, and independent,
advocating sterling principles, and scourging. the up-
tarts of literature into oblivion. What Blackwood did

for the late lamented gentleman who established it,
Fraser is doing for him Sell—making his fortune,—
despite the ruin which bas overtaken the London hoOk
trade since the. memorable 1825. Currie, too, in the
Dublin University Magazine, is making his way in the
world with a fresh breeze. That magazine, like the
others, ought to be in every reading-room and gebtie-
man's library. But we are forgetting. Fraser. The
present, igwoJier, is like all its predecessors—excellent.
The article "The duty of a conservative at the present
juncture" has many claims upon our attention, but we
cannot make room for it. The " Poets of the day" is
,beyond all praise;
,but where is Father Prout Y Not
in a watering place, we hope, nor on the continent.
The following rough sketch is full of low Irish humour,
and true to the life :
A two months' leave of absence—the first
.I had received from
the regiment—having expired, it was incumbent on inc to re-
join the head-quarters of the 18th, Or Royal Irish, then stationed
at Fermoy ; and as wowere commanded by Colonel Gauntlet,
whose name I had occasion to mention in a previous paper as
being a particularly taut hand of the old martinet school, I felt
exceedingly nervous lest some untoward circumstance should
occur to prevent thy appearance at -muster ; especially as my
stay in the paternal mansion of dear old lallybeg had been
prolonged to the last moment by my loving mother—rest her
soul !—who thought she never saw enough of her darling first-
born.
Though the high road from' Galway to Limerick passed my
father's door, no mail coach ran upon it in those unsophisticatedtimes. Almost all journeys in that part of Ireland were made
on horseback ; and therefore, according to the usual mode of
travelling, I took one of my father's hunters to Ennis, where I
slept, from whence I was to procure some species of conveyance
to Limerick. Next morning, the,24th day of December, some
five or six-and-thirty years ago, the dawn found me on the road,
occupying the only means of triinsport I could procure, viz., a
hired jingling jaunting-car, drawn by a blindish; lamish sort of
a mare, which, however, I was assured.by. the owner and driver,
Was one of the best in Clare county, anewhen once warm in the
collar, would trot like shot. " Oh, I'll engage, your honour,"
he said more than once, " ve'll make out the road finely—never
fear !" And, accordingly, we ended our journey twenty mi-
nutes after the Cork coach, which was to have dropped me at
Fernley, began its—he of the jingling, jaunting-car laying the
blame as usual on his hard' fortune—for he swore the coach had
always been at least half an hour late in starting till that very
morning,." bad luck to.it !"
'Time, tide, and the 24th, never yet waited for a subaltern : a
cock-and-bußstory about the lame mare, though she was the
best in Clare county, would prove but a sorry "reason in writ-
ing" (when anything went amiss in the regiment. we were
asked by the commanding officer for reasons in writing;) and
Gauntlet's reports. to the Horse Guards were not waste paper.
Therefore though but as slenderly provided with cash as an
Irish, gentleman's son could decently be, 1 was obliged to hire a
chaise and proceed : which I did without any extraordinary
mishap till I arrived at Killdorrerey, one stage from may deSti-
nation. 'Here the winter's night set and
the chance of my
getting poSt-hoises on to Fernley was but small, seeing that a
Charleville chaise was standing quietly in the street, while from
within a gruff voice soundly rated mine host for not having any
means of taking him' forward to the Very place I wished to go Di.
NO horses for One traveller—still less for two; we might join
company, to be sure, yet ,still he only united in misfortune.
The gruff voice swore roundly enough, and I sympathised with
it ; which the voice appeared to like, for it invited me to join it
in the chaise if animals could lie procured. A pair had been
kept by the landlord ; but unfortunately one of the pair had ex-
pired of the glanders that very morning, and nothing could per,
suade its disconsolate mate to draw a chaise alone. The idlers
about the yard, of which in Erin there is a plentiful abundance,
suggested divers steeds ; brit one man's horse had been carting
turf all day, another's had " divil a shoe to her foot," and that
of a third was averred by the owner to possess "a quare sort of
a wakeness about her after nightfall." At last a‘• cow it," be-
longing to an absent neighbour, was mentioned as a substitute
fur the defunct. This suggestion was-like a spark to gunpowder.
The colt was caught, harnessed, and put to with great despatch ;
but who was to drive seemed a question in the yard : though
why any hesitation was shown we had yet to learn. At the end
of five minutes' whispering, however, a loose-looking character
swallowed a couple of glasses of whisky, rolled his cottamore
about his person, flourished a cudgel, with a rope tied to it by
way of a whip, about his head, seized the reins, crammed his
hat, such as it was, down over his ears, and having perched
himself on the driving bar, gave an encouraging " hellups !" to
the nags; but he might as well have thus invoked spirits from
the vasty deep— the chaise did not stir. " Drive on !" cried my
companion, whom I had perceived by the light from the soi-
disant hotel to be a downcast, black-looking genius, like a half-
washed coal-porter.
Drive on !" was the sentiment echoed from the crowd in
several voices and in different modes of phraseology. For in-
stance: "Can't ye be after starting ?" cried one : " Hit 'em,
Jack," exclaimed another : " Baste the hide of the cowlt, John
Carty ; 'tis he have the raal go in his bones," roared a third :
" Quilt 'em both, your sowl to glory, Johnny !" exclaimed a
fourth: " Strike him strong," was the enthusiastic advice of a
fifth. Accordinely, John Carty, as it seemed our Phaeton
junior was called, struck the old horse a thwack with the butt
end of his whip, which I thought must have splintered three of
his ribs at least, with about as much and no more effect than the
Abbeis of Andouillet's address to her mules in the Sentimental
Journey—the smited steed would not budge. He whisked the
lash lightly over the other's loin's; the cowlt, putting its head
between his forelegs, kicked at him like fery-. But it appeared
that John Carty Gad too much of a thorough-going Jehu in his-
composition to he scared by such trifles as horses' heels, for with
a " monamon dioul!" he returned the colt's compliments in style
with his cudgel, to the extreme gratification of the lookers-on,
who audibly encouraged both combatants. But though this
interlude was choice amusement to them, and even, perhaps,
might have been fun for Jack Carty, I was by no means delight-
ed with the prospect of a capsize.. Bang! bang ! went the colt's
feet against the splinter-bar and front part of the post-chaise--
for that I did not much care; whack ! whack ! sounded the
driverl's whip-handle on the horse's ribs in reply—neither did
that give me pain : but I expected plunging and bolting to fol-
low, which would have upset us in a twinkling; and accordingly
mentioned my fears to nay companion, who, however, did not
appear to be at all fearful of personal accidents, as he only told
me to " sit aisey."
To "sit aisey," indeed, when I expected a broken neck, was
not part of my system at all, so I tried to open the chaise door
next to me ; but it was hermetically closed (with tenpenny. nails
I verily believed) as was the black-hole in Calcutta. I cried for
emancipation as vigorously as a Roman catholic; I besought
my friend with the gruff voice to try the door on his side, by
which had entered this unhallowed vehicle ; I 'cursed Jack
Carty from the. very bottom of my soul, with curses both loud
and deep; but my cries were unheeded amidst the din of delight
that rose wildly among the idlers; my new acquaintance was
obdurate ; Jack Carty was minding his cudgel play and shifting
his shins; my imprecations were as froth in the tempest. The
cowlt was, typical of my lively country, lashed into rage by the
arch-agitator, Jack Carty : the chaise, the constitution it wished
to kick to pieces. How fervently and for the only time did I
pray
.for an immediate repale of our union ! In short, I was
obliged, literally speaking, to grin and bear it.
When this desperate work had continued for a couple of
minutes, Carty suddenly altered his tactics. He ceased to
strike ; and one of the spectators, thinking him vanquished in
the strife, exclaimed, "By Gor, boy-o ! the bastes have flogged
you entirely."
" Divil a hap'orth, you spalpeen with an ugly face!" returned
our driver. " I'll start 'ern yet. never fear ! Padreen agra,
fetch me a sprig of furze out of the gap; and, little Thady, my
blessings on you!- just rowl a taste of red turf in a whisp of
straw, and bring it hither to me. I'll engage, your honour,
we'll go by an' by, if we have any luck."-
His emissaries performed the parts assigned; one bringing a
branch of a furze bush, and the other appearing with a bundle
of straw; but for what purposes these adjuncts to his cudgel
were paraded I could not guess. "Now boys," said Carty,
" one of ye's howld the head of the cowlt firm till I give the
word. Are ye ready with the whisp ?"
" We are;" answered little Thady.
" Give it a whisk in the wind till it lights, my bottelial ; and,
Padreen, lift up the old horse's tail, and shove the sprig between
it and the crupper."
" By George, I won't stand this !" cried I ; " these vagabonds
will have us (lashed to pieces. You, Carty—Carty, you scoun-
drel don't you hear ?"
" I do, your litinour," answered Jack; but I'll engage we
don't keep you long now, any way."
" I'll not pay you a tarthiog,' I roared; "I'll break your
head ; I'll"

" Ah now, sir, sit aisey, can't you ?" interrupted my compa
nion,in a most dissatisfied tone.
_ .

" When I screath thrust the whisp under the cowit's
belly, in God's name !" cried Carty, and his myrmidons promised
to obey him.
I endeavoured to let down the front window, which, by the
way, was nearly ell panel, with a little :view glass at top, in
order to check the,driver's hand with mine, but it was immova
ble. Padreen had the old horse's tail in his left hand, the fa rie-
bush in his right; a flickering flame began to wreath round
little Thady's handful of straw ; Carty again crammed his hat
down on his brows, and held his reins tight; I expected almost
immediate annihilation; and the crowd was hushed in expecta-
tion of the eventful "off."

" Hellups I" roared Carty : it did as well as "off." I'adreen
applied his prickles to the unfortunate brute's crupper; little
Thady's straw blazed between the colt's hind legs; and with a
jerk which I should, have thought sufficiently violent to break
live pairs of traces, we dashed forward into the gloom at a rate
that in a few seconds left the shouters of Killdorrerey far behind.
It was pitch dark; I could scarcely distinguish the outline of
our driver's ,figure; the horses I could not see; yet on we
rushed, swifter than did any chaise before, Carty hallooing to
his steeds, whacking them with his cudgel, though they were
already at the top of their speed, as if impatient for the moment
of our murder and his suicide. I was in an agony of tremor ;
but my companion, with seeming satisfaction, leant back in the
carriage, saying, " Elegantly done, by dad !"
Though our headlong career still continued, up bill, down
hill, across ruts which ought to have shaken the chaise to pieces,
and over stones that should have upset us, yet as no accident
seemed to have occurred, my, anxiety about whole bones sub-
sided to a degree that permitted some conversatiorl with my
present associate; and I learned that he was a Mr. Malowney,
of the Reek, Chise to Newport, or Clew Bay, in the county
Mayo, situated in that part of Europe called Connaught both by
Strabo and Arkwright, and of which ancient kingdom the Ma-
. lovvneys were princes in the old, old,time of all—or, in common
parlance, before the flood; and further, it appeared that this
Prince of Connaught, with whom I had the good foitune to be
galloping at the rate of a steeple chase, was bound to Fermoy to
pass the Christmas (next day) with his wife's family, then and
there residing; winding pp 'this detail by inviting me to dine
with them as often as I pleased, while quartered in their neigh-
bourhood. Forward we still flew with unabated speed ; and the
Prince of the Reek had scarce talked himselfout of breath when
a light twinkled before us : we rushed down a hill like an- ava-
lanche, dashed across a bridge, and found ourselves in the
good town of Fermoy—to my surprise and delight, without
fractured limbs.
" Troph, tr-roph," said Carty to his' horses;—a guttural in-
terjection which Irish nags, understand as an order to stop, as
English ones do " wo-ho," and " way;"--and as they had -been
urged at full gallop over eight Irish Miles, their driver keeping
his cudgel going all the way, as if he had been thrashing wheat,
this hint; joined to a cessation' of hostilities on his part, was
token kindly on theirs. )Ve finished Our course at the inn-door,
and the prince and I jumped out midst the greetings of the
crowd, which, as usual, lounged in the street and stable-yard.
" Didn't I druv your honours finely ?" asked Carty, tri-
umphantly holding his hat in one hand and scratching his head
with the other, white he looked as if a -larger donation than

usual should reward his success.
" Finely !" cried I ; " I have no mind to give you a farthing."
" Alurdher ! murdher ! see that now !" be exclaimed: "then,
by the powdhers of war ! there's not another boy in Ireland's
ground, barrio' myself, would 'rave done that."
" Done what ?''
, " Why, then," returned Jack, " druv the cowit nigh nine
miles healer from Killdprrerey, your honour, with nc'er a bridle
n her mouth, and the night as dark as hlackbail."
" Without a bridle !" I had escaped better than 1 had even
thought.

" Diyil a hap'orth, Carty'; and the crather never had