Le Télégraphe = The Telegraph, 1 mai 1837, lundi 1 mai 1837

[" = VOL.L\u2014NO 19.\u2014 A TURN ON THE ICE, [Coutinued.] While Mr.Pickwick was delivering himself of the sentiment just recorded, Mr.Weller andthe fat boy, having, by their Joint endeavors cut out a slide, were exercising themselves thereupon, in a very masterly and brilliant manner, Sam Weller in particular, was displaying that beautiful feat of fancy sliding which is currently denominated ¢ knocking at the cobleds door\u2019 and which is achieved by skimming over the ice on one foot, and occasionally giving a two-penny post man\u2019s knock upon it, with the other.Tt was a good long slide.and there was something in the motion which Mr.Pickwick, who was very cold with standing still, could not help envying.\u201cEt looks a nice warm exercise that, doesntit?he enquired of Wardle, when that gentleman was thoroughly out of breath, by reazon of the indefatigable manner in which he had converted his legs into a pair of compasses, and drawn complicated problems on the ice.¢ Ah, it does indeed, replied Wardle * Do vou slide 7° * I used to do so, on the gutters, when I was a boy,\u2019 replied Me.Pickwick.¢ Try it now,\u2019 said Wardle, * Où, do please, Mr.Pickwick,\u2019 cried all the ladies.¢ I should be very happy to afford you any amusement, veplied Mr.Pickwick, ¢ but [ haven't done such a thing these thirty years) ¢ Pooh, pooh ! nonsense! ?said Wardle, dragmeing his skides off with the impetuosity which characterized all his proceedings.* Here ; I'll keep you company; come along\u2019 And away went the good tenper- cd old fellow down the slide with a rapidity which came very close upon Me.Weller, and beat the boy all to nothing, Mr.Dickwick paused, considered.pulicd off his gloves aud put them in his hat, took two or three short runs, baulked himeelt\u201d as often, and at Inst took another run and went slowly amd gravely down the side, with his feet about a yard and a quarter apart, amidst the gratified shouts of all the spec- ators.¢ Keep the pot a boilin,\u2019 said Sam y and down went Wardle again, and then Mr.Pickwick, and then Sam, and then Mr.Winkle, and then Mr.Bob Sawyer, and then the fat boy, and then Mr.Snodgrass, following clogely upon cach others heels, and running after each other with as much eagerness as if all thier future prosperity in life depended on their expedition, It was the most intensely interesting thing to observe the manner in which Mr.Pickwick performed his shave in the ceremony 5 to watch the torture of anxiety with which he viewed the person behind, gazing upon him at the imminent hazard of tripping him up ; to see him geadually expand the painful force which he had put on at fist, and turn slowly round on the slide, with his face towards the point from which he had started ; to contemplate the playful smile which mantled on his face when he had accomplished the distance, and the cageracss with which he turned round when he had done \u20180, and run after his predecessor, his black guiters tripping pleasantly through the snow, and his eves beaming cheerfulness and gladness through his spectacles.And when he was knocked down, (which happened upon the average of every third round,) it was the most invigorating sight that can possibly be imagined, to behold him gather up his hat, handkerchief, and gloves, with a glowing countenance, and resume his station in the rank, with an ardour and enthusiasm which nothing could abate.The sportwas at its height, the sliding was at the quickest, the laughter was at the loudest, when a sharp smart crack was heard.\u2018There was a quik rush towarils the bank, a wild scream from the ladios, and a QUEBEC, MONDAY, MAY, Ist.IS37.ice disnppeared, the water bubbled up over it, and Mr.Pickwick\u2019 hai, gloves, and handkerchief were floating un the surface ; and this was all of Mr.Pickwick that any body could sce.Dismay and anguish were depicted on overy countenance 3 the males turned pale, andthe females fainted 5 Mr.Snodgrass and Mr, Winkle grasped each other by the hand, and gazed at the spot where their teader bad gone down, with frenzied enger\u2014 uess , while Mr.Tupman, by way ol rendering the promptest assistance, and at the same tine conveying to any person who might be within hearing, the clearest pos sible notion of the catastrophe, ran across the country at his utimost speed, sereaching ¢ Fire ! ?with all his might and main.It was at this very moment, when old Wardle and Sam Weller were approaching the hole with cautious steps, and Mr.Benjamin Allen was holding a hurried consultation with Mr.Bob Sawyer, on the advisability of bleeding the company generally, as an finproving litle bit of professional practice-\u2014it was at this very moment that face, hand and\u201d shoulders emerged (rom beneath the water, and disclosed the features awd spectacles of br, Pickwick.¢ Keep yourself up for an instant\u2014for only one instant,\u201d bawled Mr.Snodgrass, ¢ Yes, do let me implore you for wy sake,\u2019 roared Mr, Winkie, deeply affected.The adjuration was rather unnecessary\u2019; the probability being, that if Mr.Pickwick had declined to keep himself up for anybody else\u2019s sake, it would have occurred to him that he mightas well do so for his own.¢ Do you feel the bottom there, okd fellow 17 said Wardle.¢ Yes, certainly,\u201d replied Dr.Pickwick, wringing the water trom his head and face, and gasping for breaths T fell upon my back.I couldw\u2019tget on my feet at fest.The clay upon so much of Mr.Pickwick\u2019s coatas was yet visible, bore testimony to the accuracy of this statement : and as the fears of the spectators were still farther relieved by the fut boy\u2019s suddenly recollecting that the water was no where more than five feet deep, pradigics of valor were performed to get him out.After a vast quantity of splashing, and craeging, and strugzing, Mr.Pickwick was as lenth fairly extiicated from his unpleasant position, and once more stood on dry land.* Oh, hell entch his death of cold, suid Lanily.¢ Dear old thing ! ?said Arabella.© Let me wrap this shawl around you, Mr.Pickwick.¢ Ah, that's the best thing you can doy\u2019 said Wardle ; \u20ac and when you've got it on, run home as fast as your legs can carry you, and jump into bed directly A dozen shawls were offered on the instant 3 and three or four ofthe thickest having heon selected, Mr.Pickwick was wrapped up, and started off; under the guidance of Mr.Weller; presenting the singular phynonicnon of an clderly gentleman dripping wet, and without a hat, with his arms hound down to his sides, skimming over tde ground without any dearly defined purposed, at the rate of six good English miles an hour.Si, Whether W.B.ranks mong the \u201cthe great in science,\u201d the would-be-cducated, ot the \u201cgreat unwashed 3 or takes his posr among the conscientious doubters or disbelievers in Scripture, the religious or the would-be-religious, we have nothing but the crude materials of his own production where- from to judge, and the merits of the present discussion have nothing to do with his principles, however rigid or however lax they may be.He, howevor, (as has been justly observed by my unknown coadjutor A.B.Cto whom [am under obligations for his very shout from Mr.Tupman.A large mass of able and laconic defènse,) willully inisun- pressé.the primitive organs of Gall & Spurzheim,\u201d and in the present received theory :\u2014and the latter, of ¢ showing confusion in the enemy\u2019s camp,\u201d and at the same time of gleaning a few plausible objections in order to enable them to hold five minutes rational conversation on the subject;\u2014charging these also with inconsistency in attaching such fatal consequences to the establishment of the science, and at the same time exhibiting such a villanous indiflerence as to its truth or fallacy.Now sir, this conduct on the part of W.B.(in his own misapplied terms) * to say the least of it, is direngenuous.\u201d But let that puss.W.B.says in substance that a \u201clarge wiajority™ of the educated in Quebee attended Barbers lectures and declaved against the science.This is a pitiable account of the state of education in this city, and but a scurvy compliment to the judgment of the educated few; for he cannot be presumed to mean that the absentees gave any opinion inthe matier, although from W.B\u2019s¢ logical deductions\u201d he must charitably be supposed to have formed one of them.It appears the same © large wajority™ have determined that Phrenalogists have failed in proving that the mest important of the principles of the science have their foundation in fact aud truth.This at bestis but a vague and puerile assertion.What means he by stitute the stock, lock & barrel of the theory.any circumstances, likely to lead to uzeful and beacficial results.\u201d Assuredly not, W.B.for this was not the ¢ burden of their song\u201d It is ditlicult tosay whether the un- ter\u2019s or W.B's bull 5 but in cither case it is the d\u2014l\u2019s own blunder.But seriously, what has the truth of the existence of any given philosophical fact to do with its utility?How can the practicability of a north west passage to the Pacific affect the truth of its existence or non-existence?Will W, B.deny the discovery of the Georgium sidux, because his philosophy cannot dream of the object of its creation?Was it ever attempted to deny the pmver obtainable from the com~ pressibility of steam, although its application to practical purposes remained for a long time problematical 1 Certninly not.\u2014It remained for the logical, ingenuous, conscientious, religions, witty W.B.to make use of such an argument.\u2014The writer appeals to the Edinburgh, Quarterly and North American Reviews, and to the Metropolitan Magazine in support of his opposition, aud has the audacity to assert that fuctsare there bro't forward sufficient to convince any one except that swallower of camels, a Phrenologist\u201d ! Now sir, the very opposite of this assertion is the truth.The Edinburgh, Quarterly & Metropolitan exhibit a total dearth of \u201cfacts.\u201d With thisthey have heen repeatedly charged.The first was written some ten years ago.It admitted the science to be, in an emphatic degree, one of observation, and that upon the issuc of fact the question must ultimately depend.The ground it assumed is now It denied the truth of the science, because it was inconsistent with the analogy of the external senses of seeing, hearing, &e.and their connection with the brain.on the oxternal surface.been silent ever since.derstands my communication, which was nothing move than an appeal, as well to the believers as to the disbelievers in Phrenolo- Ey, to embrace the opportunity now offered them\u2014the former, or such as \u2018stick close to the faith,\u201d of attesting the accuracy of their belief, by attending the lectures of a ¢ professed Phrenologist who dares to point ont several errors which he asserts to have detected in the most important of the principles! ! Methinks the establishment of these would con- And further, \u201ctat phrenology is nol under Price Ox PENNY.to ridicule the science.The North American, the most candid of the whole, certainly does appeal to the experiments of some French Anatomist in the dissection of the brains of idiots as furnishing facts adverse to the theory of Phrenology ; but it admits the science to a certain extent.These are the only \u2018facts\u2019 attempted to be brought forward by these sapient reviewers.They abound, like W.B.in a multitude of assertions, with however, somewhat more of decency and ingenuity.Read them W.B.they will at least improve your english-give you some idea of \u2018 logical positions,\u201d and inay proba-\u2019 bly prevent your again being made the cat's paw ofsome \u201cdisingenuous\u201d opponent ofthe science, who attempts through you to gull the multitude.\u2014W.B.has manifestly writ= ten ad captandum vulgus and he could scarcely dismiss the subject without pandering a little to their prejudices.He is pleased to advance that Combe denics the Scriplural account af the state of our first parents in paradise, and the doctrine oforigional sin ; that Adam und Eve could cver have been in « state of perfect innocence and thal deall was brought into the world by sin.Thero is nol such a sentence or sentiment to be found in any one of Combes works.It is a libel upon that dirtingnished author, and I challenge W.B.to put his hand upon the page which bears him out.But to anticipate him, as he may be rather dilatory in this respect, D will cite à few passages from the same author, of quite a contrary character.Constitution of man\u2014pnge 86.« Opposition between Science and Revelation I sincerely believe to be impossible, when the facts in nature are correctly observed, and divine truth is correctly interpreted 5 but I put the caze thus strongly to call the serious attention of religious persons to the mischievous consequence to rehigion, of rashly denouncing, as adverse to revelation, any doctrine professing to be founded on natural facts; every instance in which the charge is made falsely, is a gross outrage againet reve lation itself; and tends to lead men to regard fortunate negative monosyllable be the prin-| scripture as an obstacle to the progress of science and civilization, instead of being a system of divine wisdom, in harmony with all natural truth.Page 10.«Neither do I intend to teach that the natural laws discernible by unassisted reason, are sufficient for the salvation of man without revelation.\u201d This is surely sullicient to satisfy ¢ any unprejudiced person\u201d that this charge * to say the least of it, is disengeunons,\u201d and that the anti-phrenologists, defeated at every point, have heen driven to this \u2018 dernière planche du naufrage\u201d to escape from the odiun of their unphilosophical warfare, begun in ignorance and terminating in an ignominious retreat.The opponents of phrenology in this country are rather a day after the fare.It is not surprising that, ignorant of the sci= ence itself, they should be in total darkness with respect to its advancement in Europe and other quarters of the globe.Reviewers attack ity and forthwith the work which forms the subject of their silly ridicule and criti- cisin starts into half a dozen editions.Phrenology is now confined, says W.B.to a few superficial ninnies whom \u201c phronolo- gists have flattered into the idea that their heads contain something,\u201d and the science has the merit of the discovory.\u2014I wonder W.B.does not turu Phrenologist!!! This very rehgious, conscientious writer has been rather lavish of his terms of ¢ old women,\u201d \u201c ninnies\u201d and © quidnunes.\u201d W, B.is rather naughty.He ought to adhere to his own ingenuons, logical, chaste style, & leave to the canaille, and to boobies of an inferior caliber, tho plebeinn privilege of reasoning In short it would not admit the circulation of | by nicknames.Such auxiliaries are altogé- the bloud, becausc the pumps, or other|ther unworthy ofa man of his soaring genius.clumsy hydraulic apparatus by which it could bo transmitted from one extremity of|in Paris, London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, the body to the other, were not discernibia| Glasgow, Dublin, Calcutta, Philadelphia, Spurzheim answered the Reviewer and the Edinburgh has| places, und which stands accredited by the The other threo are | immortal names of Cuvier, Broussais, Elliotof recent date and are mere puerile attempts| son, Conolly, Johnson, Basow, Macintosh, The science which has produced societies Washington and Boston, and many other eu 3 Gregory, Macnieh, Audral and Abernethy, the most of them distinguished for their eminence in medical science, is in.no danger of being upset by a writer sho confounds the \u201c most important principles\u201d of a theory, with the truth of the whole problem :\u2014-who dogmatically appeals to authors he never read, and in the plenitude of his conscientiousness, attempts to foist upon the public, statements unwarranted by their works j\u2014 who assumos the sacred garb of religion in order to startle the prejudices of the illiterate, and then, with due religious decorum, dips his pen in tho filthy vocabulary of Billingsgate, to cover the shallowness of his reasoning with the mask of vulgar wit, and to crown a marcens in which tha heterug>- neous and repulsive jumble of religious hy- pocriey, scepticism and atheism is only surpassed by the most consummate ignorance of the subject upon which he attempts to reat.: X To the Editor of the Telegraph.Str, 1 have baen a sojourner in many portions of this \u2018 habitable g'obe,\u201d have dwelt in many co intri \u20183 disting ished by many social particularities, but in none have I been more steuse with thie singalarities in eus- toms than in this.Thisis the first of May an | all the trvn appear to bz in commotion.M:mn, won anl children, bad, balling, furniture, anl live stock are all on the move :\u2014 At first the sight appalled m2.\u2014 M :thoug'it some rumours of immediate invasion hal heen revsived in town and the paaczable inhabitants not wishing to trust thanselves to the tend or mercies of the in- va ling army ~were quietly walking off to save their bacon 3\u2014hut such was not the cas for T was soon informed that this was th: first day of May, whon all parsons here as if by common consat change their dwellings; at this intelligan:o Lwas not a litle ralieved.Ia the gsaeral bustle anl confusion consequent on suc!) movements, I hal already brought my wind to the con- vietion that the wark of agitation had in- dze | commanced and that the supmeness of tha pzople wusntlength aroused In other cnuatries persons ac-quire a permanent local Habitation, live loag in the same house, amd s2ldo n chang, unless necessity calls them abroal.Here it is a fashion to chang: ons's abale annually ;\u2014n certain restlessness takes possession of the minds of persons here to sn great n degree that relief is only to be founil in change.\u2014Whence this mal-aise?Durs it depend upon our climate, or the state of our society 7\u2014It is difficult to determine, The principle of chang?is strong'y Tlustrated however in the annual move:nents of our worthy cits ; after the first of May it is difficult to find out the rasidsnez of one\u2019s mast intimate frien 1, if he has not had the precaution to inform you of his future abode.\u2014That fecling almost of veneration which is so often excited in our bosoms when we contemplate, in many parts of Europe, the old inansions of som> respocte.l in:lividual who has lived in th?self sam house for scores of vears, is never called into existence here.\u2014The ac- cilents of forlune or a ton slavish com- plyance with the custom of the place induce perpetual changin the places of our abode 5 a hoase is aban.loned with disgast hy one person an eatereld int, immadiately with pleasure by another win in his tura leaves it with the same fesling the former occipant induigxl and is suceceilsd by à tenant Tajdiemg in his change.Truly we are fickle mortals, E.PA Sr Se AS QUEBEC: MONDAY, MAY, 1st.837.- The TELEGRAPH will hereafter be pu- blishzd at 6 o\u2019clrek A.M.on the morning of Monday, Wednesday & Friday.\u2014This arsangament is so excecdinely jirlicions that we doubt not it will m2et with public approbation.\u2014Afier the first day of Mav, the Telegraph office will be removed to N 3, 6 Mountain Street.It is the intention of] ths publisher of this pap2r to procure additional type &e.So'thot the Telegraph will -\u2018soon appear vith considerable external im- _proyements; \u2018and \u2018also onable the publisher Ie.2er to undertake all kinds of Job and book printing, on the most reasonable terms and exe- in the best and most expeditious manner.of May, and snow covers the Country round\u2019 with its white mantle.When we consider how brief are our summers and how inter- winably long ore our winters, we may well doubt whether nature ever intended these hyperborean regions to be the permanent residence of the European.All nature pines and degenerates under our rigourous climate.Man becomes prematurely old here, and each succeeding generation affords stronger evidence of deganeration.One of the many evils whic.attond colonization is to be found in the fact, that men arriving in a colony, at first carry with them their former habits of living, &e.and do not philosophically adapt their manière de vivre to the circumstances in which they are placed.I here confine iny remarks to one subject in particular, and that is the adaption of the modus vivendi to the nature of the country we inhabit.Living as our Farmers do chiefly upon fruits, milk and veg:tables, with little or no adimal (oad, cannot but be injurious to the human constitution, sub cet to so many trials by reason of the severity of the ¢ imate hzre.This pythagorean dict doubtless was the accustomed fave of the carly colonists previous to their establishment and hence bocame their favorite food, when change of cireu:nstances wouid have renlereil some= thing more nourishing necessary to them in this fégil zone.Nations in the north of Europ: know better how to adapt things to the circumstances in which they ave placed than we do.Noither their physique nov moral suce from the severities ol high northern latitudes.The inhabitants of those regions have grown as it were like their pine trees from their own soil.The Swede, the Norwegian.the Russian and the Pole, amply prove that man by his constitation is not fitted to umilergo the severity of cold in- tient to countries inthe north of Eusop: without degenesating, Unfettered by the arhitrary customs of other co ties, they have only availe.l themselves of the a-lvan- tages nature has thrown in their way, and have nots we have doae attempted w'transplant the customs and usages of other cli- ates to our own, There is no subject upon which the mb: ralist more declaims than man\u2019s selfishness, and yet in my opinion there is no theme in favor of which better arguments could be advanced for a little inditgence in that particular vice.The lesson man learns in the world, makes him selfish even though no principle of his nature leads him to indu'g it.Ho trusts and is betrayed\u2014he depend: upon others for assistance and support, and finds too late that he has been depending on a broken reed.However glossed over by delusive appearances the intercourse of life may be batween man and man.The experience of every one who may have numbor- ed a few score years will satisfy himsels that all is deceit, artifice and low cuaning.[tis only when accident may have thrown vou on others and made you more or less dependaut on them for protection, that you feel the falling off that ix there.Then does the bitter truth rush into one\u2019s mind that human nature is eminent'y selfish\u2014formeriy perhaps the medium through which you may have iooked upon your fellow man, ay have induced you to believe that he sharacter of the species was not altogether without redeeming points, peradventure a happy combination of circumstances may have inclined you to look upon the animated world with complaisance if not with positive pleasure, and instead of deriving impressions of persons and things from themselves as it were, you invest all around you with the attractions one\u2019s imagination sup- shes.Miserable isthe man who has lived long in such a stare of delusion towards his species, and all of a sudden finds himself n victim to his eredulity.\u2018The bright vision \u2018na moment then is dispellad and how h'- Jeous does the appearance of things strike our eye, we wonder then how we could possibly have heen so long deluded, but re.\u2018 .Sat .ality in all its sadness comes before us and puts an end to needful speculation.We After such a catastrophe, is it of others, confidence betrayed?Man then looks upon creation with misgiving and distrust\u2014Steel his heart against common aflections of his nature and closes all avenues to his fine feelings for ever.He lives a moral dead man in society, without company of his kind.The influence of these habits perhaps is felt by others in immediate relation with him, and thus many 4ninds become poisoned by the disappointment of one.How necessu- ry therefore is it for usall to possess hetimes correct notions upon all that relates to humanity.This is the first day of may and our roads in the City are in a most deplorable plight.The rules and regulations of Police are not attended to by the Public, and our Magistrates render themselves contemptible by making rules which are violated with impunity.It is time that an eflective system of Ruad Laws should he put into operation to facilitate communication.Now when men are so desirous of assuming the discharge of public duties, it is surprising that the interests of the public should be worse attended to than ever, Time which is our best in- stractor, will at last teach us the shsurdity of removing amen from the quiet obsewity of the counter or \u2018shop, to an office the tm- portant duties of which neither their education nor their previous habits qualify them to discharge.: A Militia Court of Inquiry in the nature ofa Court Martial sits to day, at 10 o\u2019elk.A.M.in the Court où Appeals Room, for th> puépose of investigating the complaint nals by Lieut.Cal.Perrault, of the Q.Mi- Yitia Artillery, aint Cpt.T.C.Lee, and Lieut.Ww.L.Felton, of same co pe.Th- Court ix emnnose | of the Dllowing Oicers, Major Louis Panet, President 5; Capt.Caren ml Dosfov, Lieut.R.Shaw and Tao.Black.The Court has anpointel Capt.W.K.Me- Col, to net ns Clerk under the Statute, discharging the duties of Deputy Judue Advocate, Itix understood the Cour! will be open to the Public.The Missisquoi Refrmer complains af \u201che high fees exacted by the Departments in Quebec on Land Patents, and states thai C3.2, 6.is charged to every purchases rom Government for a picee of parchment.Vinclieator truly observes that in the state of Vermont, including the recording fee the Dead costs ganerally one shilling and ten- pence half penny, and at most but three