MEMORY STARS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 129, 5 June 1867, Page 3

MEMORY STARS.

if I am thinking, dearest, thinking 1 1 Of a joy that went too soon ; |: Of some hours that came and vanished I Like a blossom-scented June ; | Of a poem never written, \ Never set to joyous rhyme, j > Though 'twas measured by love's rhythm f In a melody sublime. Oh ! the hours that came and vanished, Oh ! the joy that went to soo soon, ' Oh ! the poem never written, And the blossom-scented June, Were the hopes by loves engendered, When thy presence made the morn Seem the fairest day that ever To our mother earth was born. I am thinking, dearest, thinking How the sunset glories burned, Where the crimson heart of autumn " O'er .the forest foliage yearned ; And its gold and scarlet splendour ' All the woodland leaves caressed, While the kisses of the Day-god Flushed the happy, glowing West. What a hush was in the evening ! What a calm was in the skies ! Wl&t a poem of devotion Was in thy glorious eyes ! What a gentle wind was stirring All /the maple leaves apart ! What a holy thrill of rapture a prayer within my heart. v< Now the autumn eve has vanished And the night is chill and dark, And the shadows on life's ocean Nearer press to life's frail barque ; Yet the meaiory-stars are shining . In the Heaven of my heart, And the clouds have silver lining When I think how dear thou art.

The Sydney Mail says that Sir John Young's term of service as Governor of New South Wales expires in the course of the next few weeks, and that he has already intimated to the Home Government his desiie to be relieved from the duties of his office, owing to failing health. The Ballarat correspondent of the Argus gives the particulars of a most atrocious murder committed at Smythesdale, Victoria. It seems that on the 11th ultimo, Mr. Thomas Ulick Burke, agent for the Bank of Australasia at that place, was found sitting in his buggy, shot through the right side of the head, and quite dead. All his pockets were turned inside out, and 500 ounces of gold had been tak^n from his valise. The unfortunate gentleman had been on his rounds buying gold. Only a few days before his murder he had insured his life in the London and Lancashire Insnrance office for fIOOO. A late telegram states that George Searle, publican at the-Break-o'-Day diggings, and Joss Belin, had been arrested at Smythesdale, for the murder of Mr. Burke ; it is reported there is a strong case against them. The Great Universal Exhibition in Paris was opened on the first of April ; but it did not prove the success it was supposed it would do. There was a great throng of people inside and outside the buildiag. All nationalities were represented, and the Emperor and Empress were loudly cheered. The Exposition will not be fully under weigh until May. Considerable complaints are being made at the manner in which it is managed. The uncertainty in regard to the future actions of the Emperor Napoleon, and the fears that he will adopt a warlike policy, create wide-spread distrust among business mec, and great depression in consequence exists in commercial and financial circles both in London and Paris. There has been a practical joke of a very absurd kind at Newport, Isle of Wight. Two lads, clerks in the telegraph offices, one at Southampton and the other at Newport, were practising telegraphing. The Newport boy asked the Southampton boy if he had any news from Ireland. Southampton, full of mischief, replied, Yes ; the Fenians had attacked the fortifications of Dublin, and been beaten off with a loss of 2000 wounded. He added that there was a Fenian fleet off Liverpool, and that an attack on the port was expected. This message was taken as serious by a bystander, who carried it to the clergymau of the parish. He thought it most important, and read it out to his congregation, asking their prayers for those in peril. There was quite a scene. Later the truth was discovered. A telegram from Cairo announces that two large steam-tugs have passed through the fresh water canal and arrived safelyat. Suez. The Isthme de Suez states that M. Dassand, the contractor, has signed an agreement with the Viceroy to construct two ports, one military and the other . commercial. They will be separated by | an immense jetty, traversed by a railway. 1 The works will- cost,' fifteen millions of fruncs and take six years to complete.

We understand (says the Illustrated London News) that the houses in. Fleetstreet, between Chancery lane and Bell yard, are to be taken down for an approach to the new Law Courts. Izaak Walton at one time lived in a house that corresponded to tha.t one door from Chancery lane, where, as a draper, he shared half of one floor with another occupant. Thence he removed into Chancery lane seven doors from the corner, to the house known as "Mitre" Tavern, and bnt lately taken down. la the above removal will disappear the "Old Cock" Alehouse or Tavern — clarvm et venerabile signwn, and the adjoining Apollo court, a memorial of the the Deril Tavern Club, over the way. The costliest watch that was ever made is said to have been one which was constructed in 1844 for the Sultan Abdul Medjid, who must have found it rather inconvenient, since it was five inches .in diameter, and struck the hours and quarters on wires, with a sound resembling that of a powerful cathedral clock. It cost twelve hundred guineas. Another famous watch was noted for its smallness. It was inserted in the top of a pencil-case and though it was but three sixteenths of an inch in diameter, its dial not only indicated the- hours, minutes, and seconds, but also the days of the month. It was made in Geneva and was displayed in the Exhibition of 1851. Tbe fact of next year being a "leap year" has added £13.000 to the estimates. That is one day's pay for the forces. A company has been formed in Meriden, Connecticut, for the manufacture of hats by a machiue which weaves them whole. The duty on armorial bearings in England in the year ending the 31st of March last was £62,957, being an increase of £1458 on the preceding year.x Misfortunes are moral bitters, which frequently restore the healthy tone of the mind after it has been cloyed and sickened by the sweets of prosperity. The English language is spoken by 75,000,000, of all the human race includ- , ing " the greatest nation in all creation." ■j Holloway's Ointment and Pills have, over and \ over again, proved the best friends to persons afflicted with ulcerations, bad legs, sores, abscesses, fistulas, and other painful and complicated complaints. Printed and very plain directions for the application of the Ointment and Pills are wrapped round each pot or box. Halloway's pnrifying Pills should be taken throughout the progress of the cure, to maintain the blood in a state of perfect purity, and to prevent the health of the whole body being jeopardised by the local ailment. Bad legs are thus readily cured, without confining the patient to bed, or withdrawing from him the nutritious diet and generous support so imperatively demanded when weakening diseases attack the systems of either young or old. 2570