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''* THE NEW INMATE OF HILFONT. A THRILLING -SToKY OF OLD ENGLAND. CHAfTEJllll. Tnat night was a violent, trTny"NoveTi- ber night blasts of sncw driving against the windows, and the fierce gale rushing back -through the bare trees, which groaned again, and sending melancholy echoes through the bouse, kept up a continual conflict of sound through the dark long w.nt.-y Bight. I did no: aUep much, hut so far bMsnted by tbi* new intererc, lav awake half amuael, naif <iisappnictd, and very considerably puzzled thinking of oar visitor. I did not "take to her " cer- tainly at first ugh-., bat 1 di 1 my best to convince myself that it wu. and must be. ig* whatever yon cay say. waa dehvered with sach per- and quietness that I really so far as to think poor papa is not dead, aad I don't waar you to sappoas tnat I make beluve to be cheerful. I>o not b* overcareful of what you say to me, Aon'. Clare. L'ncle Lterwen: told me yoa were very kind, and I am son yoa will aevr hart my feelings whatever The* apse* feet sobriety and quietness that I really could maks na answer to i:. I sat iilenr and iiscosjriied, foaling that my yoaag companian took *, ait* the inperisr plsce ; that th* sorrow aad distress I had looked for was some oerety ronantic and visionary folly, possible to some people, perhaps, but not to ssnsible people like Lucy Croftea. 1 found aa TiBsnraaatshl* ditSeulty in re- in my mind for so ess safe subject. Lacy. elf-restraint stretchad to an oulovely and I wwwr. saved me even ua: trouble. undesirable extent which made Lucy so j I hav* often*haard papa peaTol mad* you kepueal of tha ascayaty : bat this i* a peculiar ease." ' They will all meet at Car almaa, ' aaid f. "Tneyare very suitable in aga. aad Lacy is portionless, and will appear to roar heather a vary bad match for hi* son. which will doahtlaat have its weight in attracting Harry. If yoa could persasae his father to warn him against her. I should tlim* that woila 1 b* coactusiv* so far a* Harry ia coo- cercod." " Don': b* satirical, Clara, "amid Derwent. langhing, yet looking a little paused. "And wha: of Lacy ? " " Oh. La.-y will not objaet to have a hoass sad rank of her owa, ' said I ; " aad. I should think, is quit* disengaged, and very Ukely to be ; J*a*d with Har.y .a. H seemi a perfectly natural and likely arrangemea-. withoa: aay match- Ut* i afraid to a. bar crocnst so qui.tly. working and talking "0 B , certaialy. a very good girl. 1 unmanageable, so ill natured, without looking at me. If she had teen answered i aad so conversation tiiii . , -. my dearest fnend. I must have felt a certain displeasure, whether I would or no. "I am sorry. Lacy, that I suoold hare come in the way of any of your plans." I said, with a smile, which. I daresay, was not the sweetest in the world. "Not at all, aunt, " said Lucy. eerioo*ly went'* happiness was the firet thing to be And of course it was only by "How does it happen that you call ilr. Crofton uncle?" said I : "the relationship is coasin, I believe." him cousin, so 1 called him I'ncle Derwwt whoa 1 was a child. I ought to have asked y our Pnnissioo, Aant CUre. bat it eesn straags to call him uncle and yoa Mrs. Crofton. May I go SB calling yoa auat. Surely," said I. "It ** natural indeed that there should be some title of relationship. Do you know your coutins, the other Croftoas? they wiil be bar* at Christmas We have to se* a good deal af our neighbor* about (hat time bat yoa calm and self-po**asaed. "It will b* differ- out to-morrow," I said to myself; -when *he knows us better, she will kniw that nothing which is unnatural is looked for here; it will be different to-morrow." Hat even while I said so I became *ware taat my heart, in- stead of opening to her, began to rise ia in- voluntary antagonism against this iriendlens yoaag creature though the was friendless and of Derw-nt'* blood. I was dismayed to feel this: I ought : > have loved her, re- ceived her, been as my husband said, a mo- ther to her. Can any one command love' I becam* disgnsted with myself. Was it i not enough tha: Derwent liked her, that ' sh* was his near relation' Bu: reasoning ' did not improve the matter. At last I found i y spirit so unmanageable, so ill-nature.!. so determined to dislike and condemn, that I turned my head from the light, and I obstinately went to sleep. Oar breakfast- room next morning was as pleasant an apartment as could b* supposed in sach weather. Like all the rooms at ' Hilfont.it ha* an admirable view. A great broad (now-covered slope of country .drop- 1 ping down softly, w-.thevery angle cushioned into roundness by that wiatry veil: from the j heigh ca where we stood, to the lower level ! ot the plain through which the river, so i longer in motion, stretched its proper lias, I with one icebound barge in the centre of the view, and line* of benumbed pollard willows, i mitten to tbeir heart* with th* apathy of cold, tracing the chilly lines of its farther I banks. Th* sky hung low over all. a heavy gray vault of cloud*. Tne trees and scat tered houses, and even the far-off pin- nacle of the cathedral, far sway yonder in Simonburga, which we could just see, were all distinctly touched and soitensd with drifts and droppings of th* snow. I am always young as regards snow. This landscape pleased me, cold though i' wa, x and within was the bright breakfast-table, with that little bouquet of flowers which Dsrwent had bound tne gardener to provide for me e\*ry morning all the year round a pale, coi.1 J inter of tender blossoms now, jet *ti!l flowers ; the warm crimson curtain* drawn quits back from th* window, to let ,oall the li^ht there was. whi.-h wat a soft- ened inowy light, rale, yet with a dazils IB it, a light which radiated more from the white gronnd than th* opaqae sky and the merry frost-exhilarated tire cracking with clee like * school-boy and the sharp air and ice with. at. I myteif entered this room about nine o'clock of that snowy mornioc. ond was hastening to take my plac* for prayer*, when some one rose to salute me Lacy ' Well ' it was very pioper she was an extremely coed ciru Still one is human one * self, and prefers to sse in one's frientlf (oraethiag of the weakness of commoa nature. It waa no doubt much letter to get up early, to be ready in proper time, to be down itair* before any- body else ; ttiil but of coarse she was right I ought to be the last rerson in th* world to blame her. When IVrwent pronounced ner " a brick" at breakfast, I am afraid 1 must have look- ed rather doubtful, i said I feared ihs was ...lit* overexerting herself , at which Lu.'y looked up quit* senouily in my eyes. "Are you ditpleased. Aunt Clare?' (he said i and of course 1 -a.. I, "No. no, cer- tainly not :" and feit very uncomfortable and ashamed of myself. lh<pleaaed '. whv should I be diipie*se.l ? but certainly 1 would rather have had somsthiag for my companion which was l*e* reprovingly correct and unexceptionable than Lucy. After b>ktat IVrwent left u* to attend : much sentiment about either ot them, you to his own net very *eevy businsas. I sat | knew and well. BO one can tell I with my work as near the bow window as thought differently some time are bat th* cold woald permit, and watched how the j ihore * ih* chance that they might be oar sun came gliding over the landscape, shah- , sacoeaeors in Hilfoat. Clare." ing lightly the snow otf ths branch**. Lucy ' by this time had taken some crochet-work eat of her bag. Aftsr her night's rast, sh* Hil- fent," she resumed ; "lie waa her* before L'ac.e Derwen: waa married, besides know- j . ing it well in his youth ; but he stayed here ; tUM the whole snmmcr that time. Did yoa no: know?" "I target,' said I. hastily. I dii no: chooae to let ny on* sappone that I did not know, not taat I .-area, oat beaaaas Lacy looked up sigtun.-antly, a* if aha mean: something. i quarter* nere a ft* had a auad. or break ua "Lnd. Derwent meant papa to live with the eld hoaat to bits if he had a Bind, hm there. I was not with him. I was with Aunt Hatley, poor mamma's sister, Lucy, "bat I was to ha-e come, and were to have lived at Hilfont : so papa "Lacy :h:nk* expected; bat tnat was before w* knew of a very pleasan' prospect," sad L "lam you were going to be married. Aunt Ciare." : not iar . ta . t .he'/aite forgi for it." , B i L ?2L f% '^ slightest sigh in the Derwen: laughed, looked at e a little world. Does anybody woader that I felt doubtfully. "But von think he is a rood omewhat aggravated? Sh* went on with girl, don't your' he' said. I: scarcely s*ems to platu you, how- said Derweat, looking at at* flinly for a moment. " Perhaps 1 v cpokan rashly. Oar* : tasks fnaada you know I would aot give yoa pain for the world. " "Vet. I knew that very well : bat there is always some on* point upoc woi.-h every- Jy is unreasooahU ; and this was stune." "Lacy tells me," said I. af:*r a paaas, her father expected saata time nacs) th: taey were to live iter*. " "Yes," *aid Derwent. with thst honeet glow of feeling which brightened hi* whole rce i "a: a certain period af aty life, when L in! no: care two itraw* wha: Uranse <-f Hilfoat or myself either. I one* told old Crofton that he aught eat quartan here if he had a miad.'or break f w - I waj a Clareles* man. and c*rao nothing far , said anything. I believe for en* - Timer tney <1 we wer n<re . I for StlewoiBefl, *CJ ot per: the Harleya, .\ .-.- :r.cd Lucy, "am I not aa erp haa aad risamdant aa you ? if L'acl* Dsrwent had no; broorh; a ban, I easnli niv* been very thankful to get aJtaiftewes) to letaoart, for Isaaeoasyoa bring them up for gowraesses ? ' I waa vary anch prorokel, but it was in vna to be angry. "When did yon hear of Esteoart, Lacy?" I aaked. "Oh, from lira. Reginald, aut. Pear papa waa vary 41 thaa, aad I kaaw I sh-ald soon be .iasatuu; SB I always thearht, if not .-.ing else appeared, that yea weald take m* in there. IT ii in gaasiues *f jiin inn' Bat I am grieved that yea shoald Uuak I weald !ook dew* upon the Mis* Barleys. How am I any better thaa :ay r Bat, ia spits of Lacy'* humility. I eoald not hrip feelim ejttrsnssly annoyed. Waa it pauihla that their education a: ritoaail choald pat a chanty-child n*stalia upon y dear girl*? T- i HER WORSHIP RULES THE ROOST. Tee Weaaaa Wajer Tm % leelaaa' 1 Tall* *>*wa lar! CMaaelllerv. Mrs. Ya:ei, the "Mayor " of Onea in New Zee^and, is :ronoled apparaatly wi:n oaa or tw* unruly eaaaeaUara, and ha* sosaa dimcolty ia keeping her teas* in order. At a recant eaeeuag. repotted in the new Zealaal Herald, the are deecnbed as "lively.' Tb/ under diar nation was aa outbreak ef typacid fever in toe borough. At an early stage IB the <iinaasiis Mr. Tapp expressed the opin- > fcv a few ^ JrtB^ealsniag the lurfaee af as, tne ongiaal discovery of which waa nriiiejitsl, baa af lala beea tha abject af ariaBrair mrasugauoa, aad it ia to cnooat saeh east as ar* heat suited for the purpose, aad als* to paiat oat the sooros ef their per*lisr power ever the wave*. Tha sunstiea *alislsri. ahow. hy the report* ef sea capts ass tsi*is*lvss. that nsaay a vessel has beea save*' not aaly fram asriaas injary txa frasn ssaaaanaic. by the aai of a few gaUaas af eal *Ww!y mck- lad into th* sea. The > * ef th* ail f r*qaaetly ijesmbed ia sach repacta aa weadarfoi, magioj, aad alamt aMredihle. It is aet dtCcolt ta aw apaa what taia set* *xpUaat**a ef it involve* a math- Uke a thia akin drawa ever the water. IUBSJ the teadeacy af the latter to break inta spray oader tha feroe of taa w.aj. The daager ta a ship the waves. As long M their tarfacea an and their creau onbroken, the eessel and aaialy. Bat when they it taat night. But even Lucy's virtues were y rather against her with me. She was a very good ! g-.rl : i-. was first down-stairs .a the mem- ' ing : the was read to Jo anytninf in the world to save me troubin. A: braeucfast MB tha: k*at back. The mayor, with marh "I insist anon an apelaay from yoa. Tapp. for mating tha: remark, and adopt a similar courae with any had been Mr. ; ier wcr.ri.pct *^Vb . >!, a>UU., *! t i-UVTT. *srri'JU*IV , - , "I am sure we were very glad ': facie Der- M * "" * W9 " xloai tonelp, andpuade .' . *T\ff *n A- * .A-Ar -n -K- HAW *- ...! me to eat : ia^r in the day becaos* Bsssl acre concerned aasat my exrrcie*. aad labored to ladace me to <o eat. with anu- abie wiies aad sxpedienta, wh.ck the waa evidently rather complacent of. and w ed with, but which "agrravalevi" my tern- per very ooaeuierably. aad oftea rrove me ' to take refuge in my owa room, in ih*sr deepair. Sae herself walked every day. practiced erary day, and every day, d.J > much crochet or embroidery : th* took an j interest in th* conservatory,, and had a fancy W^W*1 I i_^_ u._ J- . . 1 I. _. _- 1 . - Mr. Tappdd, tapprensAg eorrespc been misunderstood. The Mayor 1 won't allow any conncillor to insinuate that I nave Kept back a of wajer tuonder down apon us decks, sweeping everything ciean. and wneusneei even the strongent hall* anxi the oast see,- maaahip are nee his to prevail in the esss- tost. Tnssis the danger that the spreaiin nf rtlT ,-tw*f r\* q. -i .- r w*^ r^Tntj * e*. It to German in veetigsuers that we owe the discovery of the actire ageat which esj- ahlea oU to exercise its calmiag elect apo* Ihssse I'nJs agent is oteic acid, an ingre d>ent found us lani. eiive etl, and ssaay mrgent nrnpartiesi W laieaiatethe snesrt. esfcctive in controlling the waves. It as hreogh its) gradaal isparetissi frusn the) for birds, aad liked hgat read.ng. Alto- gether lae was no: only a very pretty bat j a very proper JVUM lady. ' vie never I contradicted anybody, and was always pleated with wha: everyone ;g-i:. i. 1: was aard to dnd out Lucy's own will aboat ' anything : bat sh* had a wa> of getting her will watch was ingenious in th* hig e*t degree. Everybody who saw b<rcoag must coa*ld*r yeare*lf quite free to keep U , t * 1 m ' " *' Mw --Na;- o"-~oh a i ^^^^^^r pleasant companion And Lacy hearing afar oj one's ear* are sharp when oaa apart and qsiet for this year if yoa choose. Kor naps'* sake, aunt?" aaid Lacy, m*ing her eye*. I bowed my head in assent : Lucy for t hi* ooe* Ut her work fail oa her kneee while she antwerexi me. " L'ulen you think it proper, and say I am to do it : 1 should no: mm i for myself. it would not do him aay ^lod,'' sud Lucy. "If yon object to my mourning, 1 cap *tay U|Mtair* : bu: otherwise. piease.Aunt Clare, do act think of me aeif :here wen anything one's ears are knows cue's elf ipoken of <rew more: nulini;, more "attentive" > aw, more t anxious about my comfort th -> ever. thought she was doing her : -y, 1 verily , beueve.and pleased herself w : -* t * ought ! that > verv assful . oo, aadof' .u A^'. Clare. Oh, youn< people ' Oh, young laiiee ! I am an ojd lady, and may advise yoa xhus far Jon t do good to your feUow-creatorcs: ' particular required. 1 mould like'to U don't try to be thfa*a*factors*f kinsshtl la just one ot the family without aay on* when Providence ssods you OB a TISI minding me much, for indeed I do not want *n < '>! . what amoont of exaiperatioa to be like a widow, or hav* any notice taken one good girl, bent upon ioirg her duty, of nae>. I will not trouble any one with my ' >> exercising a beqeaciai indasace oa all _.^st savilin.4 r\AP **.** aaawk.1 vadaA t ' ak^ BWA. easy een li trnef." ' around her. may produce i: sh* trie* : but I oaly trnst. Lacy, ihat yoa ar* not I know from my own experience how exercuicg sxosasive seif-restraiat, " aani I. it is, and I was in a nerfec-.ly easy aad aa though I coal*** I BO longer found it : if you are. yea will do yooreelf injury. It i* entirely for your convenience aad comfort We for your that I make aay such suygeattaa. hall like th* other better, if coarse." "Thank you aunt." said thi* young philosopher, and *o returned quietly to her work. I might le embarrassed and puzzled. complicated position If I had been like many wive* in th* heat and btrJea of i HIB*B life sometimes teased by my children, and sometime* a little out of temper with my husband matters mi^ht have been a great deal won*. As it was, Lucy was cartaialy ,mte pleased with hr**lf Sheaever help- ' *\i me to brea.i an.l but: ;r without a Mr. Tapp You quit* ausunderetoe>d me. Mr*. Mayor. V tterward Mr. Tapp laaisted aposi speed- ing what* he was rated ewt of order. The Mayor amid : "I am the psrseq to dictate, nj- v j. Mr. Tapp Oh ' no yoa re not. The Mayor Don t answer sse tack. Mr. Jackson, having moved a reeeJuuon. entered ia:o a lengthy diaaertation aani tary saatters in gasMrsU. As Mrs Vates ras made) a reyuiauon that tne sesi of a reeoia-.io* saaU be ailoweJ only nve m n- utes to iBtrodnc* it, she drew attention to the fact that Mr. Jactson had tpoken seven nunutea. Mr. Jackson laughed, aad aaid th* council had > power to make sach an absurd respalati-s. aad in any caee it did not apply to any one rvptynsg. He would insist aposi li.s r-.gnt of saying what he) had to say, aad did not latesxi bsiaf talked djwtu The Mayor Mr. Jacksoa, are yoa defy- ing -ny r'-Lnc 1 Mr. Jackson Yes, in th: natter. The Mayor -T iea I order ycu down. Mr. Jackaoo said he would not be gnf- ged. The Mayor-Then I rule you oat of order. and if yoa don t obey, we might M well dissolve. Mr. Jacksun-XVell. I shall oertaixdy not obey yoo. Yoa yourself have wasted most of ta* seven miautee, aod must tai inter rapt me. The Mayor Y^u have rambled away frori the su Mr. Jackson-lf 1 did. yoa forced m*. At tins point the bickering ieassd aad the busineees proceeded in >ju:eiasa. rest f tie oil aad its diffassea latkei that olaie acid acts. Whoa a drop of etl the oil aattea* oat th; effect* of 11* own wetgnt. At af the nattsaed dash af ail the elasc r*n*dryte disearv* hi taa vary act ef aietelvakr evolve* energy which ceases the ail to- spread still farther, the* knsias. iw ijgsa caastaatly in ceatact with water ihat haa not yet hecaaa* charged with eleu- aod. This spreading ooat.asea wita great rapidity. until all at tha eiere arid has hasa dissolved. Snamiam th* layer that f ness* I deal net exceed a TTI'T* lairtjealk af aa mca ia thicknea* ? why petroleum t a* ether eila. in smsitkisg wavea : but that J'i.l not affect Lucy ; site knew >ieligatial qaiet conscioa>ns*s in her face herself, and sh* was not much concerned that *h* wai exemphfytag the Chriatxaa about knowing me. CHAPTKR IV. "And now that you hava a*a her, Clare." said IVrwent. wtian w* were alone oa* evening, about a week after our ynnasj guest's arr.val. "what i* your opinion of Lucv now ?" "She i* certainly pretty, ' aai.l I. "I thought you would ay >.' ai 1 my iDiiovent huabaud. with guileless gntinca- P 1 * Uoa. "I havejust been thinking upon that point. Do yon know, Clare, 1 .ion t think you could ilu a better tning than make up a match between Lucy and Harry Crofton duty of loving her neighbors, an 1 waa men Aunt Clare. It turned out that she did not know her cousin* the Creftons (except tne Crofton* of th* Manor, whom ah* had teen abroad), ac.i the was rat ner curie a* to hear about taem. as war natural 1* Mr*. Regmald Crofton com. \ , she said lo me one day. We saw her ia Paris two years ago. I svippoae the eras was young ? ' Pretty when she was yo>unj ' Kate >n ! How old do yoa *uppo*s she is now '" said I. "Nay. I cannot tell," said Lucy ; "but I they'd tun each other famously not too she i* married and ha* babies, an I of court* .* * . .________ _-_V. 1 . . T t \ was even prettier than last night i aad now a languid conversation got up between us. I listened with a swelling breast. I could not either answer him nor see him for a moment. It might have been differ- ent Oh, heaven ' tbal might have bssn ! oa* expect* her to be oldish, hot I like her very much. Aunt Clare." "She is aot coining. ' said I. "Mr. Croftoa * brother, Robert Crofton come* alway* with h * family. There ar* four of them. Harry, theliie*t i then Mary, a | little younger than you ; aad frank aad Kdoari. two little boy*. They are a very nice family. They are the next in sacce*- here. Aunt Clare?' said my young guest, to begin with. "We are very well oft in that reepect," aa .1 I : "you do not know th* capabilities of the country, Lucy." "1 have never lived in the country, in Knirland,' said Lucy : "tki* mow chill* me to look at : but you seem to like it. Aunt Clare '" "1 do," laid I ; "aa Kailish winter it just cold s-iough to bo exhilarating ; at least, so I think." "1 tupposs it is booanse vf poor papa," said Lucy, quietly. "\Ns have nad to run about everywhere to avoid th* wintor ; even now I cannot help fearinc it tor rus saks, as if he would feel it. 1 dare say I should like it myself, but, I have never been able to think of that till now. ' " Korgive me, Lucy. 1 fear I have spoken thoughtlessly," said " I, with* great com- How, A oat, 'said Lacy." I sm sure you have said nothing which I could have wish- ed you not to say. I cannot delude myself bat in th* midst of my grief a sudden re- i won after Mr. Croftea. You will like them, * - v* no doubt. " >h 1 am sure 1 *hall," said Lucy. "I who'as yet did not know each, other, were liked Mrs. Reginald so much . and are these ,KA lmnl*ntrtt^_* ?A.l t'.,r-.,l\A 1*** * .,f til \UDt I'lare "' hich the Mranger took hsr full share. ! sealment row IB mv breast, I could almost '1 daresay you hav* not much society fancy those tvm indifferent young people. the supplantere vied forgive me 1 of that dsarest unconscious soal who had hi* inheritance in Heitven. It waa unwise of IVrweui bu. he did not know how hot and terrible were the tears that Minded my syee it was to him a sadness only, a hope disappointed he took my baai*. aad sooth- ed me tenderly : he did not know how all day loar, and every day, I went about the house IB a dumb srow, thinkiag of ether t hing* by tit* and starts, but of tha: always. There was this difference betwaca him and me, bat h* did not know it, and meant no harm. When I oouli speak at last, I though' my voice had hardened down into *** thing toneless and harsh. "I am not a matoh^maksr," I aaid. That M true, " said IVrwent ; "bat this M a spscial case. You *.re very little ef a matchotaker, Clare almoat lea* thaa one would lupfos* a married woman, who wa* happy herself, ought to be. 1 fear year maiden establish cent al Kiturl A New System of Plajr. - :.-k by the fact that theprectet crowd- ing of house* ic eitiee is aafavorabi* ta th* free exercw* of ciMlaren in p.*y. such a* prevailed when Ban lived in a mare scat- tered war. Prot. X T. Skiamor* hat sketched a schene for the evolution of a new >yst*ra of play. Evan aader th* pre- vaii.a,{ condition* th* way for th* develop msnt of proper play is as: a* open a* for anything els* wail* its development requires the geaia* of thought and well directed business aatarpcia*. The professor's plan rest* upon the principle ! - the exerciss af th* faculties a* luch, t he for the sake of the -icing. It is nature working toward her sad in the child hy prompting to the free, objectless exercise of these expansive powers which h* see* at work in real life. If h* seas th. way open and lie ha* th* nasdfal facilities he will imitate ta eioeely in ouniatur* the activities of the ago to which he belongs that his play will not b* a nuisance, so discordant aa to be intolerable. Toe graateM object***) to this theory, as it appear* t* as, is to make the boy a man before hi* lisa* by prompt- ing" him to givs sp all ths old fashsail port* and b* merely imitative sf his elders m the way* and method* of advanced life. It remain* to a*k what is he going to do when he becomes a ! ! Mt that it freaass at aheat 1 8 agrees abovw saro, aad coaseaaesitlv i* anassai in v caia weather. They have fosmd. kcwev that a mixture of eW aesd aad rsmisis l;.;md at ealy S asums ahsve sara. and they aocnrsUairly ri'imnnai soch a mixture a* being the boat wave-calmiasr asasas yet disosversd. Aha sal aay animal or vegetable ail i* better than >oap water ha* beea fsaasl oOavtiv* soap coatamiag pleatv of asak atai, all Mips do not contain, j oassL CHINESE IMMIGRATION TO CAN- ADA !> i el. .11*1. Bae rl4 rell Tax i iae> !! ( OveeMaUa Utlea a*ilar%. flhM* the adsejais* et the Chiaes* Isaau- Cuaa Act in lv*. !*J.U Celestiala- ~e entered Caaada, paying pell tax ta th* amoaat of over half a mi Uoa dollare : Mt Cbiaeee cam* in exempt from say charge*, beiag either diplansatic agents ar scWamn. From the 10.M9 imnirraasa arriving siaos th* Act weat into fore*) ther* ahaald as dodacted sXWK. who. aa leaving the *eaatt, took oat cert i Boa tee af leave, or ragietered for leave arior ta Joae30. KV. allef who** oarufcasat had become cancelled by hnutattoa. aad a farther number of regiatrat ioa* were out- taadiBg still available far retara. leaving toe net balance ef lees thaa 4.2X1 amvala in excess of departure*. Thee* agiarea cannot, however, b* takea as evideaaa of that increased Chins** popalat lea af the) country since to* Act went into forve. aa many lea>e wita nomtentioa of r- rum.;. aad coaas-juenlly d<> not regisvrr. The agure* are also valueless ia asUmatiag tha prsssat number ia the ceaau-y. a* there etist* a* reliable evidence' at to the aamber ia the coaatry at tn- lisas the Act went into force. The ceasus of April :-. IV.M. gives the tatal nasaber af Chinees in the Dniainiea at that ,Ute ae ugent, "I am so glad : I never cared for of my own age, all Aunt Clare No there is Mrs Fortuaa. Mr. Cro! ton's sister, and her two children, aad th* Crof teas of Stoke. These ar* all your relatioa*. j I expect, beside*, sume young friends of my awn Alice and Clara H*rk>y, who are , about your ar*. from Kstcourt. and Bertie , Nugent, a young cousin trom SasJhurt." Had companions I aid Lucy ; "but I fear it i* a*lti*h to think of that. '-\ not a large party like this b* very fatiguiasi to you " "I think aot, " aaid 1 : I am very wall : you are too sympthetic. my dear. " "Papa used to sav rather th*other way. " said Lacy, with a faiut ,augh. "H* said I was not sympathetic enough. 1 am gle-i you do aot nad me to. Aunt Clara. Aad may 1 ask, please, these young ladies from Raicourt are they some of year orphan*, auut " Jkfy orphaasi I do net qaies aaderatand yoa, Lucy. Th*y are th* daughttrt of th* The Paris LOAD. A correepoaieot of the London Tiasee gives an interesting .iesvnptioo of som* of the scene* attesting the popular lubocrir- tion to tb* Far* mnnu-pal lean of about forty million dollars. The city hall, th* main**, aad the great financial TrtaMish- meau where labecnption* were recsived were besieged ss early a* two o'clock in th* moning. and th* long linee of people lasted during the greater part of the dav. Oae rough was aated a* having cleared $7 by tiling his place in th* line, then gatag. to ths rear and selltag hie place again hea he get near tb* door. At one mairie, where t,'V persons had assembled, the Mayor admitted 900 of them and announced to th* rest that th* subscription was cloasd. thus givinsi them th* opportunity to "try their luck* *lswh*r*. The appli.-anta far tin<ie bond*, or vjoartora, will receive mats than iOG.000 bonds, leaving only SM.OOD for aUotsaea: sjaeag the other applicants. Ths eort a* padnt says the loan was covered mere than eightv timee over, which vtatori ally differ* froa a former staasmsat that the application* were far absut thirty-five bead* a* will b* issaad. .'J9, to which add C.3M am siaca t.ia: dat* and ieduc: 90s) oatataa<liag ear- un ,-te* ot ieav*. and ef ra*jj*avat**a* for leave that have beea iesaed stae* thea. there remains a balance ef U.*4 a* representing the s umber IB th* cevatry oa those who have left without reporting, of which a* reliable estimate can b* given. A New York Tenement Calamity. A New York, despatch say* i A ssmbia exlcioa. followed by a nra. o*can*d;at 4.3U o'clach Thunday moraiag in a diatU- lery oa the graaad floar af a aaaals teae- ment nouee. No, l.N Suffolk strast, result- ing in the death ef Lisxt* Yaega, aged 4 ear* and serieos injuries to foer there. 'wen ty familie* teaaaled th* baiMing. The sxplosioa and are cut th* o*T frvm the stairway. Fifteen children were thrown trees upper windows. Sees* ef the elder aped bv creeping ea the narrow af the second storey ta th* window of the'next hoaat. Explained. Two coantrvmen itnod staring at A fashionable hatter's window, realeaiplatsaa, with mingled surprise aad admiration a newly patented hat, ia the ia*i< of whiaa a small mirror was carefully coecealed. I woader. new. what ia the at* of that looking glass maid* that hat T at length axclaisaed aa* *f them. "Well, yoa BUM be a linaiq t" replied hi* companion, with a ispstaihias air : "why, s* that whoever hay* tha hat May tee if it suit* him of coon* !"