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y Canadians, and others
lings it always ap-
On entering,

little inn, a number of

ling their

and sitting in silence

immediately in front of st stove of such excruciating power,
that it really feels as if it would roast the very eves in
their sockets ; and yet, as one endures this agony, the ADVICE TO -AN INTRNDINn SERIALIST.-- have. there-
back part is as cold as if it belonged to-what ta vatted at Ift.te, tittle opportutitty of judging whether the characters
home ' Old Father Christmas!" I one day inquired of a depicted by some of our later serialists, are exact copies
fine ruddy honest-looking man who called upon me, and from nature or reverse. I have, however, beard several
whose toes and insteps of each foot had been truncated, young ladies declare them to be extremely natural, though
how the accident happened.. He told me that the first I confess to have been somewhat puzzled as, to their means

er he can'

forest, and that after

hours, feeling pain

sant to remark, that it seems difficult to imagine what kind

in hisl

from the flesh im-

mediate

o put them on again

sure can be derived from the description of a scene,
which, if actually contemplated by the reader, would in-
spire him with loathing and disgust, or from conversa-
in which the brutal alternates with the positive ob-
. The fetid den of the Jew, the stinking cellar of
the thief, the squalid attic of the prostitute, are not
haunts for honest men, and the less that we know of them
the better. Such places no doubt exist—the more is the
pity ; but so do dunghills, and a hundred other filthy
things, which the imagination shudders at whenever they
are forced upon it,—for the man who willingly and deli-
berately dwells upon such subjects, is, notwithstanding all
pretext, in heart and soul a nightman ! Don't tell me
about close painting after nature. Nature is n't always

His stockings,

old ones, soon wore into

as hurriedly pr

ceedin,
out fee

saw with alarm, hut with-

and then ano-
ces of brittle stick ;
ed to advance till he
to an inhabited log-house,
reat pain, till his cure was

st one tc

reached a path wn
where he remained

—The Etiii.grayit, by Sir F. B. Head

SSDI EN

—There never

to be painted as she really is. Would you hang up such
paintings in your drawing-room? If not, why suffer them
in print to lie upon your drawing-room tables? What are
Eugene Sue and his English competitors, but coarser and
more prurient Ostades?—Blacktrood's Magazine.
CURIOSITIES IN GARDENlNG.—Gardening, as well as
literature, has its "curiosities," and a volume might be
filled with them. How wonderful, for instance, the sensi-
tive plant, which shrinks from the hand of man—the ice-
plant, that almost cools one by looking at it—the pitcher
plant. with its welcome draught—the air trigger of the
stylidium—and the carniverous " Venus' fly-trap" (Dio-
at the shoals of itine- I na?a muscipula—

" Only think of

,eing carniverous 1"

which is said to bait its prickles with something which at-
tracts the flies, upon which it then closes, and whose de-
cay is supposed to afford food for the plant. Disease is
turned into beauty in the common and crested moss rose,

and a tutus naturce reproduced in the hen-and-chicken
daisy. There are phosphorescent plants, the fire-flies and
glowing-worms of the vegetable kingdom. There are the
microscopic lichens and mosses ; and there is the Rafflesia
Arnoldi, each of whose petals is a foot long, its nectary a
foot in diameter, and deep enough to contain three gallons,
and weighing fifteen pounds! What mimicry is there in
the orchises, and the hare's foot fern, and the Tartarian
lamb, (Polypodium Baroneylz!) What shall we say to
Gerard's Barnacle tree, " whereon do grow certain shells
of a white colour tending to russet, wherein are contained
little living creatures ; w ich shells in time of maturity do
open, and out of them grow these little living things,
which falling into the water become fowles, which are
called Barnacles!" What monsters (such at least •'
are called by botanists) has art
ers, in dwarfing and hybridising

produced in doubling flow-
" painting the lily"—
alley, and pink violets

if it be true that there is

no instance of a yellow and blue vari
Foreigners turn to good account this foolish rage of ours
for everything novel, and monstrous, and unnatural, more
worthy of Japan and China than of England, by imposing
upon the credulous seeds and cuttings of yellow moss

roses, and scarlet laburnums, and fra
such like..

grant iteonies, and

SIR ROBERT PEEL IN 1841 AND 1846.—" That party,
[the Conservative,] " gentlemen, has been pleased to In-
trust your representative with its confidence . (cheers) ;
and, notwithstanding all the remarks that have been made
at various times, respecting differences of opinion and jea-
lousy among them, you may depend upon it that they are
altogether without foundation ; and that that party which
has paid me the compliment of taking my advice, and fol-
lowing my counsel, are a united and compact party,
among which there does not exist the slightest difference
of opinion in respect to the principles they support, and
the course they may desire to pur,ue. (Cheers.) Gen-
tlemen, I hope I have not abused the confidence of that
great party." ! ! (Loud cheers.) [Speech of Sir R.
Peel at the Tamworth Election, pp. 4, 5.] I give the elo-
quent and eminent speaker credit for feeling a sot t of
twinge, a pang, a spasm, on reading the above. One
more extract I will give relative to the recent con.:uct of
Sir R. Peel on the sugar-duties !—" The question 'bow is,
gentlemen, whether, after the sacrifices which this country
has made for the suppression of the slave-trade, and the
abolition of slavery, and the glorious results that have en-
sued, and are likely to ensue from these sacrifices, we
shall run the risk of losing the benefit of these sacrifices,
and tarnishing for ever that glory, by admitting to the
British markets sugar, the produce of foreign slavery ?
Gentlemen, the character of this country, in respect to
slavery, is thus spoken of by one of the most eloquent
writers and statesmen of another country, Dr. Charming,
of the United States :—' Great Britain, loaded with an
unprecedented debt, and with a grinding taxation, con-
tracted a new debt of a hundred millions of dollars, to give
freedom, not to Englishmen, but to the degraded African.
I know not that history records an act so disinterested, so
sublime. In the progress of ages, England's naval tri-
umphs will sink into a more and more narrow space on
the records of our race. This moral triumph. ill fill a
broader, brighter page.' Gentlemen," proceeded Sir Ro-
bert Peel, " let us take care that this ' bright page be not
sullied by the admissioh of slave sugar into the consump-
tion of this country, by our unnecessary encouragement
of slavery and the slave-trade." [Speech, pp. 8, 9.]
—Blackwood's Magazine.