MODERN CHIVALRY:

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 12, 11 July 1848, Page 4

MODERN CHIVALRY:

The modern is to the olden spirit of chivalry, what the commercial and civic Knights of the day are to the Knights of the Round Table, or the Paladians of Charlemagne. Sacrifice is not the virtue of our times, but least "of all sacrifice to " the peat passion," or, to a glorious love of perdous adventu.e. A young lady of lianover BMb a pist as teiclier in the family of the Hospodar of Wallacliia—some domestic squabble arises, and the youns lady's Koyal muster causes her to be whipped. The circumstances do not come out clearly—tha ynune; laity may have been impertinent : but two facts are strted explicity—she was a lady, and she was flogged, liad enoush in the poor Wallacbisras—but of coarse the representatives of civilized Europe flew to her rescue? Wiih difficulty a sort of irregular protection was obtained for the girl from the British Consul, and she was at last to be sent away with a trilling money compensation. The story would have made the blood boil in the veins of any man in the olden time, bat that sensation, in such afihirs, is üb'.olete now. The Chief who has for sixteen years or more, singlehanded, withstood the power of France in Africa, has at last yielded lo the King's son, oho promised an honorable exile to theheio, unvanquished by any one man, and exhausted only by the overwhelming power of the great nation made to bear upon him for years. Is he not received in France with distinction, and somewhat as the French King John was by his Eng ish conqueror, and that conqueroi's fathe.—Jnd does noi the monarch hasteu to fulfil his son's promise? No! the fallen Chief is lodged in a laziretto —and as to the promise made bj the Royal Prince, the King and his Couucil *' deliberate!" I r is discovered that the coasts of England are exposed to inimd—that a disgrace unknown fur eight centuries —the hostile camp of a lordi-oer near London—is not impossible: of course all England rushes to arms with, out a wnrdofgrauihlin.tr, and Government hurries to satisfy tl c demand .if the people thatthe couitry should be prepared .' Quite the reverse 1 the Government can sca'ieiy be got to move—shrewd people ask how much money v.ill it cost? and the honor of the countiy is at last to have a. safllcieat gHard only because it is proved that the want of it might figure ill ia the profit and loss account..—Spectator, Jan. 8.

AnviNTAGES of Emigbatiok.—Statement No. 33.—Paddy Curry, Limerick.—New South Wales, January 6, 1840. —I left my native home in 1823, arrived in this country in 1825. I was assigned to Messrs. Jarae* and William Macarthur, and was five years before I got my liberty, then 1 married; and when ihe yuungsters gathered about me, Mr. Macarthur gave me to cultivate 30 acres of land. He never charged me any reut; lie made a sort of a memorandum, but he never took a shilling from me. I take a lord to Sydney now and then—shear Co hm—joo now a id tga' n » well, when I wasc/ttin- -a wed, my wife takes sick, and really the Macaithurg beha\ed like Christians to me. Mrn. Macarthur used to come in her carriage to ber, and eased her mind by telling her that it was nothing ihe children should want, and its a true worded woman ahe proved. Well, my wife died of her fifth child, and alter three years I married attain, aud then Mr. Macarthur gave me a second farm, and so I hold two, and it's not a better farm be has on his estate. I get 30 bushels of wheat to tha acre—ths weight is from GO to 64 lbs. the bushel. I get about SO bushels of Ind.an oom to the

acre—have had 60. I have now in my barn 400 bushels of wheat—plenty of corn—hove about 60 bead of cattle, 3 hor«es, 2 moras, 2 drays, a cart, 1 plough* a new house, 36 feet by 16; several outbuildings as you see—poultry in abundance. We consume one cbest and a half of tea in the year, 40 lbs. of Bugar—no stint; I kill four bullocks in the year at tbe very least, mostly five, besides piss. I keep two men, pay them £lB a year, and their board, lodging, and tobacco. In the harvest time I pay 58. a day. I have reared a la'ge family in comfort, want for nothing. Now, what I have to say of the Macarthurs is this—there is no gentleman nt home or abroad that could behave better; for twenty years I can speak of them as masters and landlords—there cannot be better found; their words are to be taken—you need not touch paper with them: they seem to like me to get on; they ride through my farm, aud are always v/iltintr to accommodate me with a bullock or grain For tbe two farms 1 pay 15s. an acre, on a 21 years' lease ; it's five years getting to the 155., at which it keeps. I had to clear it; but it is a cheap farm, because tlie land is good—it is, you see, upon the banks of the river. They are Protestant gentlemen, but they are kind to their Catholic servants and tenants. Indeed, wben they bad a good lot of gcvernmeue men, they kept a clerk that they allowed to lead pruyers for us; indeed, I could uot descibe ti> you the goodness of these gentlemen."— Dowjlas Jerrold's Paper.