A blythe blinking e'e, and a weel-faured face, To cheer ane's e'e wi' the seeing o't; MY MARY. Tune, "What will I do gin my hoggie die?' O say na ye maun gang awa, When ye to unco wheres are gane, I could na gang nearhand yon wuds And on our heads let fa' their buds, Ilk stane wad mind me how we prest I canna stay when ye are gane, Then, Mary, dinna gang awa, THE LASS I LEFT BEHIND ME. TUNE-" Alas that I cam' o'er the muir." Alas, that I cam o'er the muir, O why does fate send me frae hame, * Ramsay and others, judging from oral tradition, which deals in sounds only, have imagined the starting word of the old and lost song to this air to be "The last time I cam o'er the muir." The Skene M. S., lately discovered by Mr. Dauney, and published with able comments by him, restores the original reading, adopted in this present attempt. Mr. Dauney gives a fine old set of the air. Her eyes are like twa beads o' wine, And a' about her sae divine That woman ne'er surpas't her. The best and fairest o' the lave On ane sae lowly born as me, And o'er the muir she, naething laith Forgettin' gear and rank an' a', Her kindness sae did move me, And said, sweet lass, I love thee. She sighed, and till I cam again She vowed she aye would mind me, But ah, her kin may wed ere then The lass I left behind me. THE MEN-FOLK. TUNE" The Sutors o' Selkirk." O dule on the creaturs o' men-folk, It's true we maun pit a shy face on't, Some women may think it provokin' And tho' I am only outspoken, Then come your ways ilka ane forrit, And few will be found to say nay Sae let nae blate callant gang frettin', THE LASS WI' THE NIT-BROWN HAIR. TUNE- "Fy gar rub her ower wi' strae." O! gin thou wert but here wi' me, O! gin thou wert but here wi' me, ; Suld help to keep the winter snell I wadna seek the howffs o' men, To set my winsome lily there, But bear her far frae ilka den, Where life is but a name for care : When simmer's green cam on the tree, Linties wad sing, and lammies meek And morn and c'en, frae day to week, A' wad be peace round me and thee. SONG To the tune of "Awa, Whigs, awa," Burns. Away, Whigs, away! away, Whigs, away! You'll do no good to stay. Our country must to ruin soon Our Queen you as a puppet treat, Our laws, in better days of old, Are spurned by traitors base and bold Our church is robb'd that you may thrive, To crush her spirit, and contrive Then Whigs, away! brave Britons rise, The land your sires were wont to prize, Then away, Whigs, away! away, Whigs, away! CRITICAL NOTICES. Emigration from Ireland to South Australia, by Colonel Torrens, F.R.S. Chairman of the Colonization Commission appointed by her Majesty. WE have, in our former numbers, referred to the various colonies which at present attract emigrants from the mother country, and among others to South Australia; the little pamphlet, however, at the head of this, deserves particular attention inasmuch as it is written as we take it officially by the head of the department, by Colonel Torrens, who in his individual capacity, is an high authority on subjects of political economy, and whose writings have been very favourably received on those subjects; we are particularly interested in South Australia too, inasmuch as it has been selected as a model school for colonization on liberal and equitable principles, for though Paley long since, and more recently Mr. E. Wakefield, and the Archbishop of Dublin have sought to rouse the legislature to the consideration of the principles to be abjured and retained in constructing a colonial society; strange to say until very lately no effort worthy an enlightened maritime nation has been made. The infancy of colonization is but an attempt to force this principle by means often violent, frequently unjustifiable and always artificial; ancient Rome was a refuge for robbers, and the rape of the Sabine women may be excused perhaps by the genius if not the necessity of the times, but would hardly be a precedent for modern imitation; the labouring and mechanic classes of New South Wales, and many of the rich and higher orders of society there are either assigned convicts or persons called emancipists whose period of transportation had expired-indeed it would appear that this colony other wise most favourably situated, has had no power of recovering from the baneful effects of its first origin; scarcely could the second generation rally from the turpitude of the first, before the next general cargo, still going on of convicts, was landed from the mother country, and leavened its rising society deeply and universally. In the West Indies it was not alone that the importation of slaves, and those of the distinguishing colour of the negroes, was a great evil, but the circumstance that slavery was the inheritance of the children of parents, one of whom might be free, created a collision between the ties of nature and the love of money, in which the latter was but too often triumphant, and led to many and grievous cruelties; we recollect an old naval surgeon who had been in Curaçoa, once telling us that he knew a merchant who had a beautiful daughter by his coloured slave, a woman who fulfilled the duties of a wife without its privileges, yet with tenderness and fidelity, as is the general habit of this most helpless if not innocent race; our merchant made a fortune, and wished to return home, and in disposing of his property actu ally sold his own daughter and her mother to a friend for £200. It was in vain that the daughter pleaded the education he gave her, and with it a relish for purer prospects; she had too prudent a father to forego for those considerations his hundred pounds; he sold his daughter who was a slave as he did his horse and "a fortiori" her mother; such is slavery, "a bitter draught disguise it as you will;" it is not, however, an easy matter if we would avoid the evils of convicts and slavery, to spread upon a new colony a sufficient number of labourers or mechanics to make a beginning with to trust to voluntary emigration before the first objections are over-ruled, and the advantages appreciated, would be to give up the principle altogether; in South Australia the difficulty was solved by the legislature in this manner; an act was framed providing that the land be sold and its produce expended solely in giving a free passage to voluntary emigrants, labourers and mechanics of character. In this, however, there is this dilemma; if the price of land be high, a small but useful capitalist must stay at home; if it be very low, then needy adventurers vain of having land, however unable to use it, become possessors, but soon as in Canada, sell it for intoxicating liquors, to which their lives and characters are soon sacrificed; it reminds us in our younger days, when commissions might be had for love or money, of a young boy of 14, an officer in the 88th Regiment, who was sent home from parade, having broken his leg by falling on his sword, which his size and strength prevented his wearing with safety. We were sorry to see in some of the public prints that (what, indeed, we could not but expect some time or another) discord between the aborigines and the settlers has been attended with fatal effects: three of the latter were murdered by the black natives; but it is some consolation to know that all the natives nearly hunted out the criminals, by giving such information as led to their apprehension, conviction, and execution. We find that efforts are already made to improve the moral and religious character of the inhabitants, native and colonial, by the establishment of a school which admits all denominations of Christians to such religious instruction as their parents approve, and such secular knowledge as will make them useful citizens. Roads and wharfs and railroads are already in progress; and the solitude of the forest, that gloomy spirit which ruled over this vast country from the commencement of time, is now reluctantly yielding its sovereignty to numbers, industry, and civilization, with all its checquered groups of hope, and joy, and care, alas! the constant companions of man wher ever he goes. Water, which is the great desideratum in all countries, does not abound in New Holland. South Australia appears, however, to have more than its share; the Murray is a large river compounded of the Darling and Murrimbidgee and rises in New South Wales running a course of 1000 miles The excitement of intellectual and crowded society must not be looked for in those distant regions, but then domestic endearments must proportionably strengthen and multiply; he who spends his day on the wild and interminable wastes of a solitary wilderness amidst the mute inhabitants of the woolly tribe, will relish his evening enjoyments with his own children and wife gazing on a cloudless sky, a tropical sun, and that property on which no creditor can lay his unhallowed hand, with an intensity of pleasure, which mocks the aspirations of the civilized but anxious citizen of the mother country; he may enjoy "the Secura quies et nescia fallere vita," and while the merry sun beams shine through the drooping flowers spread before him in bounteous profusion on nature's beautiful carpet, he need not sigh for the drawing room at home, for with him the language of Milton will meet a responsive echo, as he says to his partner "Awake, the morning shines, and the fresh flower Calls us, we lose the prime to mark how spring |