Le Télégraphe = The Telegraph, 26 avril 1837, mercredi 26 avril 1837

[" The Telegr { | aph.reg ue VOL.L\u2014NO 17.THE TELEGRAPII Published ir French and English on the Mornings of MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY At TEN o'Clock.\u2014Price ONE PENNY per NUMBER, ADVERTISING.See lines and under, 2s 6d first insertion, and 74 each subsequent insertion : 10 lines and under 3s Id first inserliaa, axl 104 cach subsejucnt in crtion : above 10 liazs, AL per lize for th first nsertion, end onc penny per line for every subsequent insertion Communications, Advertisements, Ke.are received poat paid, at Peren RUTIVEN 3 Book- Stone, No 15 St.John's-street, where the papers taoy be had.ADVERTISEMENTS.CO UNDER ITAL PALRINAGY OP IS LACELLENCY Fill GOVERNORIN CIHEYR In the highest state of perfection, is now and will continue to be manufactured ol NIXON & COM ESTABLISHMENT.St.JOHNS STRUERT.TYIXON & CO.having determined to produce un article, super.oc Lo any ever vf- fered to the Pablie in Caneuds, have spared no ex- pase in fitting up their apparatus in à most splend- 3d manner, tid on a quite new principle 5 it with they challence any SODA WATER mirnutreractu in Canada to meet them on the Cuir ficld of competition, or to produce any article superior, or even equal to tirs,\u2014the machinery for preparing witiel i< solely of their san invention and manufacture.They will ales manufucture MAGNESIA WATER, LIEMONADE, AND SOLUTION OF MAGNESIA.This Last article they would particularly recam- mend to the public, a4 being a safe and easy mer thod of taking Magnesia, and eapecinlly of giving it to children, us it is deprived of that nauseous taste which renders it so disgusting to take, NIXON & CO having appointed Messrs BILGG é URQUITANT, Chemists nd Druggists, No.13.St.John street, as their sole Agents 5 all orders for the above articles will be executed by tem on the shortest notice.N.B.\u2014Coffee-Houscs, Hotels, Steam-Bouts Ke, Ke.fitted up and kept constantly supplied.Quebec, 224 March, 1837.FRESH GARDEN SEEDS.mie Sutzgcriber has just reccived n supply of ExGrists (by teay of Nerr-York,) and AMERICAN GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS, T'arranted th growth of 1836.\u2014ALSO\u2014 Timothy, Red, White and Crimson Clover Sccds, Lucerne, Mangel Wurtzell, &c.&c.and a few Bulbous Roots.J.J.SIMS, Apothecary and Drugeist, Upper Town, Market Place.Sth, April, 1837.= | undersizned, nt Indian Torette, at present oveupi- QUEBEC, WEDNESDAY APRIL, 26th.1837.WINES, &e.JOR SALE by the Subscriber: 8 logsheads Superior Madeira Wine, 2 Quarter Casks do Constanc ia do 50 Cases Superior Old Port (2 & 3 doz each,) 45 Do do Sherry, ( do ) 42 Do do Madeira, ( do 93 Do pure Ilollands Gin, warranted (1 doz each) Cases Warren's Blacking, G, D, BALZARETTI, 20 20th March, 1837.NOTICE.LL Persons having clnims against the estate of tho late LOUIS PAQUET, Merchant in the Suburbs of St Roch, are requested o forward their accounts duly attested ; and those who are indebted to the said estate, tu pay imine- diately to the undersigned.G.D.BALZARETTI, March, 20th 1837.Curar.to NOTICE THE subscriber offers for sale, in addition: to a large assortment of Fancy Goovns\u2014 Men's, Womens and Childrens India Rubber shocs, French galorhes mul a good assortiment of shoes of all descriptions.C.GINGUE.No, 9 Hope Street LORETTE IIOUSE TO LET.To LET, and possession given on the 1st May next, the house belonging lo the ed by Mr, Ricianp Deveney, as an lotel It is a two story stone house, with an hangard, couch-house, stable, garden Ke, Ke.offering cvery possible advantage to a person desirous and capable of keeping a public house on a resperta-.ble footing; it is undoubtedly one of tho most beautiful situations in the environs of Quebec.For Carther particulars apply to the proprietor, N.B.The necesaary Furniture for tho house will be sold on reasonable terms, if it be required G.D.BALZARETTI.20th March, 1837.\"REMOVAL.Cd WwW AM.DRUM, Camiser Maxer, Up- HOTSEERER, Ke Ke reeopeetfully informs ois friends and the publie, that he will remove on the Ist of May, to the house opposite St, Paul\u2019s Market, near the buildings burnt last tall, and ormerly known as the Quebee Baths, OFFICE OF TNE PEACE, Qubee, 181k April, 1837.NOTICE is hereby given, that the Sur- LA veyor of Highways for the City of Quebecbefore proceeding to the emelioration and improvement at the landing place fn the Lower Town of Quebee, commonly called La Place, has deposited in the Office of the Clerk of the Peace, in the Court House, à Plan nnd Proces Verbal, re- fereing thereto according to Law\u2014which Plan and Procès Verhal remain in the soid Office for the inspection (grafis) of the proprietors of ground, houses or other buildings adjoining the same, and every other person concerned therein, in order that they may at any time, not exceeding one month from this date, lodge such observations ar oppositions as the may have to the contrary, tha justice maa be done in the premises ; in failure of which, the said Plan and Procés Verbal will be homogated and put in exceution, 5zrecably tu their tenour, PERRAULT & SCOTT.Clerk of the Peuce, 757 This notice to he incerted in all the papers published in the City in their respective languages from this day to the 20th day of May next, inclusive.\"BY G.D.BALZARETTI.Evening Sale.SALE OF WATERPROOV CLOTHING, Ke.From the Rochurg India Rubber Factory, Boston, On THURSDAY, the 27th instant, at SEVEN o'clock precisely, at his Sale Rooms, (positively without reserve) the following articles viz : (OATS hair Camlet Cloaks, Wrappers and Surtouts, drilling frock-coats, pra-coats and surtouts, pantaloons, life prescrvers, velvet Insting and drill cushion ; moleekin iravcliing bags 3 ladies\u2019 and gotlemen\u2019s shoes; air beds and pillows ; ladies\u2019 aprons.The articles will be ready for inspection two days previous to the sales Conditions of Sale \u2014Cash on delivery._ Queber, 19th April, 1837.APPRENTICES WANTED.WYANTED as apprentices to the Prin- TING BUSINESS, tivo youz men that can read and write english.N.DB, None need apply hut thasa wire can be THE MORALITY OF SHAKSPEARE.(Conlinued.) These acts of violence display the character of the \u201c choleric Æing, ° and prepare us for the mornful conseq'ences.Benefits cannot bind the unprincipled, and our indignation against Lear is forgotton in our pity for his suflerings and our horror at the * marble=henrted god,\u2019 that shows itself in the conduct of his daughters.But Lear is still hiniself, and it is not from a character so unrcasonable, so little under self~government as his, that we are to look for the calm and intellectual virtue of fortitude.Accordingly wo sce the same irascibility that produced tyranny and injustice in prosperity, bursting forth in adversity with vehement impatience and increasing every sorrow by its unmeasured violence.We shudder at the curses that fll from the lips ofthe incenre:l father, and behold, without surprise, the madness in which all these hitter feelings terminate.Horrible as is the fate of this ¢ poor old man, as full of griefs as age,\u2019 and ready as we are to acknowledge him to be ¢ a man more sinned against than sinning,\u2019 vet we cannot mt perceive that his afflictions are all the off #pring of his own misconduct, the dread avengers of his violence and injustice.The vices are generally of kindred birth, and thus in the ferncious Goneri! we behold how easily the depraved mind swells its list of crimes.Filial ingratitude is followed by conjugal infidelity.and the poisoning of a sister, and the projected assassination of a hushand, show how rapid & how vast are the strides of iniquity, ending, in this instance, where, disappointed and detected, sin so often terminates, in suicide.In like manner, the cruel and_unnatural Regan avows her passion for Edmund, and thus excites the -{ jealousy that occasions her own destruction ; while, instead of the compassionate and fond lamentation that is awnkened by the murder of the virtuous Cordelia, the untimely death of the guilty excites no tender regret, but, more shocked than grieved, Alhany exclaims, \u201c \u2018This judgement of thr Heavens, that makes us Touches us uot with pity,\u201d (tremble, Edmund hung himself, the slanderer of his brother.the traitor of his father, the deceiver of all, meets the overthrow and death that he deserves ; nnd the post expressly points the moral of his very existence in the fate of the poor Wind Gloster, \u201cThe Gods arc just, aud of our pleasant vices Make instruments to secourze us,\u201d Such are the various reflections that arise from the perusal of this deep, this heart- thrilling tragedy! Such ig the regular chain of moral causes and effects, which its events display, from the first scene of anger and injustice to the sentiment which its story cannot but make us feel, ¢* How sharper than a serpent\u2019s tooth it is To have a thankless child ! and also, that it is only in the most depraved & hardened bosom that filial ingratitude, ¢ mare than the soa monster,\u2019 can ever find a place.From the view of this unnatural crime, we turn to the tragedy of Hamlet, in which the whole business of the scene is derived from the strong suggestions of lal affection, and to show us how our hest feelings may he perverted to evil, and how necessary it is at all times to he watehfull over ourselves ; Hamlet, Lacrtes, and Optelia nre all the victims of this amiable virtue.The supernatural means by which the murder of Hamlet's father is discovered, are not within our consideration ; for, though leading to the just retribution of wickedness, yet, as not agreeing with the belief of the present age, they offer no warning against the commission of crime, and therefore present no goncral lesson of morality.We da not now fear the approach of a ghostly visitant; it is the certain, the unavoidable effects of guilt, that lift up their threatening forms before our minds ; these aro all that we insist upon, well reeommandad, and these tha powerful pencil of Shakspenro Price ONE PENNY never fails to draw, however his imagination may delight in adding to them a visionary creation.The Queen, though innocent of the actual murder of her husband, yet while ¢ seeming virtuous,\u2019 having been ¢ won to the shameful lust?of his brother, became.in a manner accessory to the decper crime which she thus encouraged and rewarded.An act, therefore, from which her own mind would probably have shrunk with horror and has, by the indulgence of an illicit passion, instigated and aided in another ; sadly evincing how for beyond our imagining may extend the wretched consequences of a fall from virtue.Tlie gross and hrutal language of Hamlet to his mother, which not even his cireums- tances can excuse, awakens her slumbering conscience.She exclaims\u2014 \u201c Thou turn\u2019st mine eyes into my very soul, And there 1 see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinet.,\u201d e e ° e - © e \u2018These words, like daggers, enter in mine cars.\u201d ° ° ° ° e ° e LA \u201c Oh, Hamlet, thou hast clef my heart in twain !* And, to sharpen these feelings still more, though apparently too weak in intellect to reason upon any thing, she must feel that vice has placed a bar between her and the son on whon she doats, and that where she hada natural right to look for uffection and respect, she is assailed with reproach and scorn.The hypocritical king, by whose hand his brother was ¢ of life, of queen, of crown, at once despatched,\u201d still bears about him tha punishment of guilt.When surrounded by his court, he can \u2018 smile and smile;\u201d but retired within his chamber, with no eye to witness lin but Heaven, the * villain sinks under his load of wickedness.\u201d He trembles at the justice \u2018\u2018 above\u201d that awaîts him,, attempts to pray, but dares not; (ll, agonized and hewildered, he exclaims, *¢ 0 wretched state! O bosom black ns deatht 0 limyd soul ! that, gtruggling to Le free, Art more engaged ! Help, angels | take usseyl Bow, stubborn knees 1\u201d Yet, all these eflorts unavailing, he at last.rises with the mournful acknowledgement, \u201c\u201c My words fly up, my thoughts arc all below.\u201d In his subsequent conduct we perceive how readily a mind accustomed to the indulgence of its \u2026 ions, yields to every new temptation.Notwithstanding hia remorse for the murder of lis brother, hie perseveres in repeated attempts against the life of Hamlet; and afler his first accessories, Rosencrantzand Guildenstern, are made the vie- tims of their own duplicity, he works upon the grieved and fiery temper of Laertes, and, prompting a deadly revenge, converts an honorable man into un artful assassin, whose, \u201c treacherous instrument,\u201d \u201c unabated and envenomed,\u201d turned upon himself, draws from him the scknowledgement, \u201cI am justly killed with ny own treachery.\u201d The poisoned cup, which the king had prepared for Hamlet, is tasted by the \u201c wretched queen,\u201d who thus receives her death by the villany of him who had first drawn her into vice; while he becomes the victim of his own plot, is stabbed with the envenomed weapon, and compelled to drink the poisoned draught by the very person for whom he had intended both.In the sweeping mortality of this play the deaths are all by violence ; and there is not one, excepting that of * the fair Ophelia,\u201d that is not brought about by some ill deed in the sufferer.Even the poor old courtier, | ¢ the rash intruding fool, is placed by his inquisitive meanness in a situation that oc- casiers his destruction.The fate of the in- noceut Ophelia shows how closely interwo- | ven are the destinies of the blameless and the faulty, and how far beyond our apprehension may extend the consequences of a rash or guilty action, The poetic beauties, with which this play is so abundantly replete, it is nat within que - present object to remark, except indeed eo far as they are connected with the virtuous sentiments and the truc moral wisdom that aro found in some of its finest passages.The Va ~ Ls à EE celebrated soliloquy, \u201c To be.ôr riot to be,\u201d \u2018with which almost every;schootboy is familiar, contains a volume of philosophical truth; and the advice of old Polonius to his son possesses not merely the maxims of worldly prudence, but also those rules of honorable conduct which are as necessary to the character of a Christian as to that of a gentleman; and to every young friend of our acquaintance, we would repeat the concluding words of the old man: \u201c This above all\u2014to thine own self be truc, \u201c And it must follow, as tho day the night, \u2018Thou canst not then be false to any man.\u201d -_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014_\u2014\u2014\" QUEBEC: WEDNESDAY, 26th.APRIL, 1837.[\u2014 = \u2014\u2014 LATEST DATES.London - .- - - March 18 Liverpool .- .Do 17 Paris + =- - = = Do 16 Havre « - =.= = Do 13 New-York - - - - April 15 There are no later dates from Europe.We extract the following from the last papers.In the House of Lords, ou the 16th, Lord Glenelg gave notice that he should propose resolutions respecting affairs in Lower Canada, similar to those introduced by Lord John Russell in the other House.He was aware of the importance of the snbject, and anxious to bring it forward as soon as possible.: Me.O'Connell has brought in a hill to secure the liberty of the press, containing «ome very essential alterations in the law of libel, as at present existing.We annex the principal of these.« 1, Ex gfficio informations not to be filed on account of libels.« 2, Indictmnents for libel not to Le prosecuted upon the mere allegation of the criminal intentions of the publishers.« 3.In case of public libel, not neces- gary to prove commission of crime to which libel is accessorial.\u201c4, Indictments (or personal libels to be prosecuted hy the person aggrieved alone.¢ 6, Defendant in actions for libol may prove the truth of his allegations.« 7.Atthe trial of any indictment for a personal libel, it shall be necessary for the prosecutor to prove the service on the publisher thercof, either personnally or at his place of abode, (one week at least before the indictment found) of a notice in writing, calling on him to retract and contradict the libellous matter.¢ 8.Ifthe publisher shall, within one week from the serving of such notice as aforesaid, disclose the name of the author, and furnish the prosecutor with sufficient evidence to sustain the prosccution against the author, it shall not be competent for the prosecutor to sustain an indictment against the publisher.¢ 14.Act nottoextend to prosecutions for blasphemous libels, or libels \u201con His Majesty.¢ 16.Limiting duration of imprisonment and amount of fine.No convicted libeller, whether public or peisonal, to be sentenced to any: greater length of imprisonnment than six months, nor to a greater fine than £100, nor to any other punishment than to imprisonment orto the payment ofa fine.Great preparations were in progress, in various parts of tho kingdom, to celebrated the birth\u2014day of the Princers Victoria, She becomes of age on her approaching birth day.Now when all unite in bewailing the pa- cimniary distress which afllicts this province & concur in admitting that the state of things here is far from being prosperous, would it not be better for all interesied in the welfare and prosperity of the country, to devise means for the amelioration of our condition, than supinely murmur at our unforiunate position.That the natural resources of this province are not developed is à truth evident to every one who contemplates the almost boundless limits of our territory, & observes the concentrated action ot active life to, towns and places immediately adjacent = \u2026 2 well disperiscd with; Large tracts of unui} tivated land, in alniëst every direction, invite man to redeem it from its pristine wilderposs and convert it to the useful purposes of life.Despite the natural severity of our climate, industry \u2018will never fail when directed to agricultural pursuits, in rewarding human labour with success and plenty.Look at the redundant state of population in our old parishes bordering on the river St.Lawrence, and the want of useful occupation or profitable employment in which numbers there live; and say: is it not deplorable to behold the noble energies of man frittered away in idleness, inaction, poverty and want.That principle of adhesion, which so strongly influences the French Canadian portion of Mis Majesty\u2019s Subjects, and attaches them s0 powerfully to particular spots, familiar to them from infancy, and endeared to them by carly recollections, ought to be combatted and destroyed.\u2014It damps energy and stifles en- terprise\u2014and man under the baneful influence of such a principle instead of progressing in the order of nature he retrogrades and becomes as a social animal wore and more inferior.It is distressing to reflect upon the comparatively trifling improvements our agriculturists have made either in their social conditions or in the state of the country since the period of the conquest.Tis true they have increased and multiplied-\u2014that, the late census establishes\u2014but are individuals better off now than formerly, or has the face of the country undergone any considerable change?I think not\u2014one great sourse of profit is here almost totally abandoned\u2014I mean the lucrative commerce of fish which might be carried on with other catholic countries.The Americans under cvery disadvantage drive a thriving trade in this ar- ticlz of very great consumption\u2014Their vessels are to be scen in every port in the Me- deteranean\u2014South America and other places all frightes] with the treasures caught on the banks of Newfoundland, and in the Gulf and River St.Lawrence.As yet individual enterprize here has gone no further than administering to our local wants in relation to this article of food.Ts the period distant when we will arouse ourselves from our apathy,& successfully compete with our neighbours in supplying the world with Fish ?excreise a powerful influence over the luu- man mind\u2014both have hal their martvrs\u2014 but none more so than the Intter\u2014 Religion is the most powerful spell that operates on man\u2014It concentrates all the enesgics of the mind to one particular point; it payalises the powers of thought when adverse interests are brought under our consideration makes us enthusiastic, and drives poor mortals on blindly in the path of faith\u2014Tt subdues rea- son\u2014and exacts rom her followers belief, the only tribute she demands.Politics makes men interested, Religion raises them above their wants\u2014Tt makes them forget the world and all its little sublunary pains and pleasures, and absorbs the mind with visions of other things.Men seldom commit great extravagancies in polities, and never continue them long\u2014In religion who can paint the deeds her votaries have done, and record the endless record of their actions?How awfully important is it therefore for the teachers ofthe Gospel to appeaso the angry passion of the human breast, and not exasperate mens minds hy seetarian differences, and controversial arguments.Ths unexpected appearance of any work how little soever it may he entitled to inerit, is always attended with surprise.On the present occasion that feeling is changed into delight.\u2014We allude to the publication of Mr.G.B.FartBAUL.T*s work in Bvo.brought into life withont any previous flourish of trumpets or adulatory pean.We really doubted our vision when we first beheld « Calnlogue d\u2019Ouvrages sur P Histoire de l'Amérique, et en particulier sur celle du Canadeæ, de la Louisiane, de l\u2019Acadie, el tres lieux, ci-devant connus sous le nom de NouvELLE-FRANCE ; avec des noles bibliographiques, criliques, et litléraires.En trois parties.\u201d The work itself cannot hut ho useful .\u2014Tt classifies and collects together in the compass of 207 pages the names of all the authors who have ever written upon that all other evidence of the fast may be the subject of Canada.\u2014To the antiquary ?The subject of Politics and Religion doth \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 Fe leg and füjpre historian tof, our country it is kinds \u201cof :pomps, porades and processions.invaluable.The manner in which the book The Ammmum bonum- of vulgar minds is in is got up is highly creditable to the printers.| excitement\u2014give them shows & small beer To the author and compiler any praire of, and you realize the conception of happiness ours is superfluous ; his work bespeaks its merits.\u2014We sincerely hope that the cireu- lation of a work so admirably national and useful will be such as amply to remuncrate the author for the advantage he has thereby conferred upon his country.\u2014We will take an early opportunity of advertingto the work more particularly.