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    Oct. 20, 1860J The Saturday Analyst ami ...

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    ' AMERICAN VERSE AND PllOSE.* WE STERN' ...

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    over the whole colony . Since 1841 , the professional and trading classes in the country , ¦ districts' declined ; but mechanics , artisans and . labourers , increased more thnri five-fold ; the -number of th ( pastoral and agricultural class had more than doubled ; domestic servants Lad similarly , increased , and the residue had nearly trebled . The period of the census of 1851 is one of the most inportant . A great change was" then impending in the social condition of the people . The discovery of gold had become an indisputable fact , and the Government had issued licenses to dig- for the precious ore . "Within two years of the discovery a great rise had taken place in the estimated commercial value " of landed property . In some portions of the city of Melbourne , almost fabulous prices were paid per foot . In little more than three years the population of Victoria increased by about 100 , 000 souls . The pastoral class , which had , prior to . the gold discovery , been the most prominent feature of the occupation tables of the country districts , assumed an inferior position . The new class of gold " miners embraced upwards of 21 peivcent . of thei total country inhabitants . In the next triennial period the sale of land became still more extensive , and riearly 174 , 000 souls were added to the . population ; the manufacturing- and labouring- classes , together with the gold-mining one had also wonderfullyincreased . The miners had augmented to 02 / 128 . There were also ^ O . OOO Chinese , Who successftilly applied themselves to mming pursuit . s— generally , however , confining their operations to working out claims previously abandoned by Europeans . * Domestic servants aiid others had also increased , from 21 , 300 tt > 3 B , G 65 . The number of . -persons ministering- to science and literature had risen from HGq to 1 . 7 (} C > . 'A similar development had taken place in the . country . districts . '¦ . ¦ , In the infancy . of the colony it was not possible for the inhabitants of Victoria tog-row the bread they consvmed . Grain , flour , and biscuit were -imported ' for the new-coiners : It was not until 1841 the inhabitants produced ^ eyen a . ¦^ tl ^ il : < loi ; thc . ^ y lle ¦ ath 0 cessary ¦ ¦& l ^ thd ¦ r ¦¦ c ¦ onsllinp ¦ - * i ° -,. ^ . l ' 84 < 5 i they had advanced so far as to produce two-thirds of theirVequirements ; and by 1850 , they gi'ew as niuch as 01 per cent , of : the wheat . ayuHaMe for ' . consumption ... This proportion has riot been reached since ; the goldfields drained the . country of agricultural labourers , and the growth of . 1854 and 1855 was only a little over 10 per cent , of the annual need of the colony . In the year 1850 , . strenuous effortswere made to revive the agricultural interests , and a . third of the necessary brcad ^ tuffs was once more the ' result . ' - In 1858 , the harvest yielded inore than 5 i per cent , of the requirements of the colony ; and in 1859 , the proportion bf wheat grown , to the total quantity of wheat , flour , and bread ' availabler was a little over -14 per cent . These details are full of the highest interest , and rich in hope . The inheritors of the golden past may fairly expect a still more golden future ; and t ] io report of the present ' Registrar-General ' ' is not only satisfactory in itself , but lavs readers of every class under obligation for the information that it imparts .

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    Oct . 20 , 1860 J The Saturday Analyst ami Leader . 881

    ' American Verse And Pllose.* We Stern' ...

    ' AMERICAN VERSE AND PllOSE . * WE STERN' Canada has long been ablo to boast of a new American poot , who has delighted to sing of the " St . Lawrence and the Snguenay , " and Who , in the spirit of Wordsworth , has communed with the genius of tho lofty hills and mighty waters in the presence of which he has lived , and derived from them an intelli g ence thait has blended with his own , reconciling- his heart and mind , or rather identifying- them with the character of the « ccnc . Canada justly claims him as her own poet , who paints "her mountains , maidens , manners , morals , hikos , rivers , Valleys .. ' seasons * , woods , forests , and aborigines , her fuith and hope , " and whatsoever in hor is amiable and good . Who speaks approvingly , not only of his never-failing charity and poetinil talent , but of his reverence of tho Godlike , his love or the beautiful , and his adoration of thu true . And now this siime poet , with his credentials accumulated und ratified , conies . 'forth again ,-at-tired . in his singing- robes , " and ' culls on the world .-admiringly to listen . And . it will wo Ifatuuthough Mr . fSaujji-ntor in far i ' rom boinjj : a faultless poet . itiUu tho ¦ sun ,. ho law jiumeroius spcok-i in his orb , but ho shines ¦ brightly novertholoss . His now voluinu is one of exceeding beauty . ' It is almost entirely lyrical . In tho . etu'liov poonia , he- seeks ( to adopt his own words ) to "touch tho / irmmnont < nf starry thpug-ht , " but somotiincs ho dao . s more , ho would transcoiid it , In his " Hosporus , " a loMcend » C Iho-Kfcurs , ho sours bnivoly ; but ho is not always intelligible . Nor does he appcui" to concoivo it possible to ho : — <( Tlioii » ht 3 too rofined for uttoranoc , ICllicrcul na tho nil * , Urowd Mirougli tl » o braiii ' a dim hibvriiiths , And louvoLhpir impvoas thorc . " IVrluips there is too iinich of this Hiibtlo word-weavinj , " in th <; so initial notmis ; their spirit , however , camnot bo too highly commonclecl . Tho rljupnodiut thus descvibcH himself •—" Dfonmor in tlio roahna noriul , Scuryhov for thu tn . io ond food , Hoprn * for tUo high , cjLluu'vul Li mil ; of j 3 cnLilii ( . U < , Jj \ t ' l thy liuuri to heaven , fov U » oi ; o 1 ' s oH } bii , liuod Oiy 0 [) iril < pi'nyQi '; Hot in words is blurinoel tliyprnvor , But thy thoughts nwuitf } thoothore ,

    f G-od loves the silent worshipper .- : , .. The grandest hymn . ' j That nature chants , the litany . . ; Of the rejoicing stars , is silent praise . Their iniyhfcj antlieins stir The souls of lofty Seraphim [ ¦ In the remotest heaven . The melody Descends in throbbings of celestial light Into the heart ofnaan , whose upward gaze , ... And ¦ ' meditative aspect , tell ' Of the heart ' s incense passing up the niglit . Aboye the crystalline height . The theme of tiioughtful praise ascends . . Jfot from the wildest swell ¦ Of the v . oxed ocean soars the fullest psalm ; . - But in the evening calm , . And in the solemn midnight , silence blends With silence , and to the ear Attuned to liarraony divine Begets a strain j Whose trance-like stillness wakes delicious pain . " We mig-ht . multiply extracts of equal merit . We can , however , only indicate the contents of the A'olume . There is , for instance , a charming Tennysoriian lyric , entitled "Mariline , " whose bridal is celebrated with appropriate sweetness . A . cantata of " Happy Harvesters " supplies some capital rustic song-s and ballads . We have then a true Canadian chant on . " tlie Falls of the Ohaudiere , Ottawa , " in which ¦ . . " the Torrent Prophet "is made to si ) eak like " an inspired Demosthenes ; " / Uy the bye , this is not a new iig ure with Jvlr . fSang-ster . He is fond of picturing ' his native streams and rivers as orators . There arc some i ) oeiiis , also ,, welcoming the Prince of Wales ; and these , too , are rig-ht hearty compositions . . Moreover , the volume , contains iipme good sonnets , though not always correct in form . The poems , however j to whiclithe poet would attractjinost attention , are those forming- a series under the title of " Iiito the Silent Land . " These appeartohave been suggested-by the death of his wift . They are , indeed , tenderly pathetic ; arid-exquisitely realize the sentiment hnpiied in the following-fine lines : — -: . " We carve our son-o \ vs on the face of joy , Reversing t ; he true image . " . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ' Dr :. Child's book on Pope's doctrine ,. '' Whatever Is , is Right , " is poetry of another kind . Minds to ¦ \ vhpm the . gift of verso has not been- imparted , extract from the actual existence around them a . sort of realised '' poetry' which , liqwevdr short it mny fall of real excellence , satisfies them . ]) r . Child be- long-s to the sect of Spiritualists , and frequently corroborates his arguments by the uttxjrariees of ecstatic clairvoyants . For the transcendental arg-iiment itself which . he would enforce , he has sought to state it iu the -form that would most excite opposition . He states it boldly , broadly , bravely ;— -but with too much . of .. the Walt Wliitinah swag-g-er . Nor will he condescend on the metaphysics of the subject , but leaves the doctrine of fatalism in . its naked and unmitigated severity . of outline . . He does not seem to m-iko any difference between moral suasion and physical lorce , —that , working- in a sphere of liberty , ih } a in one of necessity , but both with equal certainty—and therefore shuts out tho action of human freo will from his demonstration . He is probably unequal to the task of making 1 nice distinctions , and can only go ahead with his transcondentalisinf , as he would with any other speculations ,. cotnmercinl ones included . There in , in this respect , a characteristic . sing'ularity in the American mintli Thoy certainly-import to these hig-h doctrines an sippenranee of orig-ihality , and . all parties , , advocates ? . ' and adversaries aliko ,. treat tho topics as if on the tapis for tlio first time . This course of speculation was undoubtedly stimulated ! l ^ first hy writer ^ who Juid matriculated in tho German schools of thoug-lit ; but Jiuthors liko Child and Whitman . never re for to philosophioiil syHtomM , but ndout tli « -ir results as discovoribfi of ' their own , aiid dcnl with them in tho crudest , maunor , They mauifeHtly despiso inothod , anil only need that their impulse should be awakened , ana then dash nlonju : the rugged places of thought without a guide , mid with inanif ' est . danger both , to thomsulvps tiud otlio ^ s , In this tondenoy the iVeodom of the spirit of tho iNew World is declared;—but its lawlessness is also exoniplitiyd . Accordingly , we could have desiderated less Hcojimo than thin strango littlo book evinces ; and shoiild have liked it liettor had its argunmntu been , worked within tho liniitw , and on tho lovcl occupied by the earcl ' ul studont , ww \ i'euognis . od by tho judiciou .- } logiuiiui . «_ . ^^ kr ^ j . j ¦ ¦ *

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    F0ke1gn Coluucfrpondjencis , Sl'icc'ial....

    F 0 KE 1 GN COlUUCfrPONDJENCIS , Sl'ICC'IAL . IIanoveh , October 10 , 1800 .. rrviIK ohiof ovontof last , week in this quavtor was the settlement . JL of the , iSktilc JJicoa affair . Tho ebnnnisuion appointed by the king to consider this question , has decided upon accepting tho proposal made , by tho English Government . Tho fljfiiUBtor of Finanoo thought tho sum offered too low , and oxpreseod it as his opinion that a jtnorp advantageous arrangement for Ijfanovor' mi ^ ht liave boon obtained , On tho other hand , tho Minifltor for h oroign Affairs , nncl tlioUanovorian Ambassador at London wore , from political voaso . UB . in favour of thq Kngjiah solution of tliiiuong disputed question , and ^ $ it proves , their arguments prevailed wjtli tho comWssipn and the Icing . The propoeu } made b £ tho English Qovqwiment i

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 20, 1860, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20101860/page/9/