The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-26

them during the year was 81 400 92.
After the reading Of the report the Rev L. MAnooS
Addressed some humorous and encouraging observations
to the children present .nterspersed with anecdotes Of
little boys and little girls which received with mani
festations Of great delight by the Juveniles.
hymn was then sung. the last Of which were
follows
Far rs elm has planted woe
Sound the tidngs far and wide,
Jesus suffered bled, and dicd.
Missionary spirits 20,
Far rs 0cesn's biiioWs flow,
Spread the Gospels glorious light
Der each region clad in night.
Missionary spirits 60
Far 90 mighty winds IAN blow;
Breathe upon the pr0stI ate slain,
And the dead shall live sgain.
Missionary spirits, 90
Far as Gin has planted woe;
Prayer shall follow when you lead
TIL Helfs captives all are freed
The Rev A. d. Gillett then delivered feeling sad
eloquent address appealing to the congregation on be-
collection was then made, and another hymn sung.
Rev D. Glett gave the benedictsn, and the meeting
separated.
Lecture or Mr.. Thomas Francis BIeaghsr on
Australia.
Last evening Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher, the distin-
gushed Irish exile gave lecture Australia at Me-
tropolitan Hall Never was that building so filed with
human beings befoie The charge for admission
fifty cents The time announced for the opening Of the
doors 7 o'clock-ths lecture to commence at
O'Clock So early O'Clock the hall beseged and
at O'Clock the crowd became dense and threaten
ing that the committee found 1t necessary to open the
doors 50 that at o'clock tho house nearly filled
and those who came puncuay at that time to get good
seats disappointed So great the rush that the
crowd carried away the barriers, and number got in
Without taking the trouble Of delivering tickets pro-
curing them The Of ST. 900 taken at the door.
There were fully 4,500 persons in tho building.
large number went away. Not only every
seat every part Of the building occupied but the stage
the passage ways and every avsabe standing spot were
denssly crowded; in fact, the people as densey
wsdged together as 1t was possible for them be- We
observed Mr Msxwell, the collector of the port ON the
stage and Archbishop Hughes occupied private box
The audience listened with breathess atte nton to the
brilliant lecture that occupied two hours and halr in
its delivery, and which would fill page Of space
We are necessarily compelled to give but outline.
ut eight O'Clock accompanied by friends, and was
greeted with prolonged and hearty cheers He said
The great clock Of tho Basts ticks inaudible In its
inner court there at ito ease hour after hour
thirg special for 1t or the world were passing.n
The secrets Of thoe eight grim towers" yet
disturbed These two cannon there mounted with silver
the ancient gift of his Majesty OF Siam to Louis XIV
are not yet soied BY the touch OF the people, camuic
Desmouns has mo- yss stuck the green leaf in hs hat
has not yet mounted his chair in the Paas Royse
not yet exclaimed. Friends shall die like hunted
for where there is &raSsau hs
yet exclaimed looking at the poor king covered with
his jewels and his ribbands--" Behold the vic
AntoiDette msy still sit beneath the canopy Of
purple velvet aprinked with golden lilies in the church
Of Noire Dame The mobiles may still surround her in
Their black coats elk cloks lace cravsts and featheed
hats Or ampng upon the national cockads pledge her
their swords in derious festivities Versailles Not
tber year will Msdame de Montmoriu wife of the
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, looking down from the gal
ley in the hall at St Louis and checking the daughter
wrong to rejoce this event forebodes much misery
France and to ourselves" The winds stil in their
caves but there signs In tina aud strange
things have to pass The Parliament of Paris had
passed decree for the second time against the istes
eocha for the recall Of sll exiled persons rhs
Able de Sieyss had written" The Ties Etat are
nothing. What ought they to be?-every thing -
La Rochefoucut had interrupted the Archbishop of AK
Of CHI istiau piey excsiming. the spontaneous offer
ipgs Of christian pietyon which there forty
thousand law suits in this realm ~ The courtisrs
heard 10 applaud in private the Declaration of Rights
drawn by Jefferson The English had evacuated the
city Of New York The officers who served under La
fayette at Brandywine and Monmouth had returned
bome-had been everywhere received with honor-were
equally esIessed by the philosophers and the ladies.
Necker had been recalled from exile and instructed TO
repair the finances Of the Kingdom There was an enor
nous deficit in the treasury-so enormous that 1t
called the abyss" Something at hand. The clouds
ready hid Yes, even the bronze figure of the king
on that tall monument was growing dim in the
huge prison which had only another year to stand and
the great clock of which licked insensbly at its ease
hour after hour az II nothing special for it or the world
were passpgar down in their vaults the prisoners hear
the mufled din ofan earthquake In another quar-.
ter Of the earthawsy in the blue soudes the
gateway in black wall Of rock, six huaired feet in
height, ship is disappearing One by one, tho white
wings vanish, and as the wall closes in, red riband
utering In the air tells you the of the king OF
which che Is the messenger. The stranger has dissp
peared There is nothing to be seen but the black
south for miles and miles There is nothing
to be heard but the dull sound of tho slow
waves as they roll in against the vast ram.
part, and mutterDg for q moment roll back again to
the sotudes Of the Spring that rock there
grasp that tough root above your footing
rest moment There-look up-the wall has grown
higher since you lesped As You gaze upon It, 1t grows
higher-you see 1t growing There is life in the black
IL Lifts itself up-touches that solitary
star! Steady rest moment longer Tighten your hold
upon the root Take heart, the hunter Of the Tyrol
speeds along more fatal path aud starts the chamos
other rock Grasp the long grass to left Do you
that ledge there! 1t shelves too suddenly
your hand in the er.vice straight before you Now,
the other band up up! Then you come to a
slab of sandstone; cross It, and you reach the trees
The wall still towers many feet above the climber and
there is weary and dangerous path still before him.
But between him and the which vets the rock
upon which he FIRST sprung there Is precpice tie has
eashed the trees He grasps the first swings himself to
the second then to the third He has gone The moving
speck is lotn the darkness of those Alps Is that
cry! The waves utter cries tho rocks dumb
the trees moan only whom the storm Is coming Another
moving tpeck-moving towards the cloud-moving to-
Mhrus tue sun no pigBer than ths nhnu, YET more us
tinct than cloud or moving silently far up there
in the szure sky. Hurrah the climber has topped the
wall, has startled eagle from bis throne. and
now looks down upon. and far and vide into the
land they call Australia Below him In the shadow OF
crclinR forest, lies noble lake mirroring the green
islands which sleep in flowers upon its breast, the black
swans that sail H. utteng cries mournul and
musical, and the tall that speeds along the sands
more fleetly than the wild dog-and that ship, with its
white wings furled and the red crest dropping from the
peak, which disappeared through the gateway in the
rock 1t Is the Sirius," from London -one year aud
twelve days out-in charge Of Captain Philip. With six
hundred prisoners beard and guard Of marines t~o
hundred fifty strong On the 10th OF January 17sS
the Captain landed, up the English engn, and read
the proclamation constituting the colony OF New South
Wales Eighteen years before Captain Cook casting an
chor in bay few miles farther TO the South, had taken
possession he vhoo OF the eastern coast In the name
Of George the Third King Of Great Britain Defender Of
the Faith.
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