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Markham, 2J nnlleseastof Richmond HHi by the Plank Road Richmond Hill, June 26, I860. 4*ly JOHN CARTER, LICENSED AUCTIONEEIi FOR the Counties of York, Peel and On- tario. Residence : Lot 8, 6th concess-on Markham. Post Officeâ€"Unionville. Sales attended on the shortest notice- and on reasonable terms. Orders left at the ** Herald’* office for Mr. Carter’s services will be promptly attended to, u J ne 27,1857. THE CARRIER BOY’S ADDRESS. My friends remember ’fol*e I’ve passed, ’Tis New Year now, and perhaps tha last You may behold the printer boy, To wish you on that day a joy. Last year there lived those who now re3t With the cold clods upon their breast j But I am here, and still can call A happy New Year to you all. Throughout the year, you’ve always found Me on my little weekly round, Through winter cold, and summer heat I did no fail to walk my beat, And leave the “Herald ” at your door, Merely for thanks and nothing more, But now ’tis New Year, and the eye Of each is bright at pleasure nigh; Old scattered friends again will meet, Et’ch iu the cld accustomed seat, And many cares be passed away, Upon the happy New Year’s day; With prospects of tiiosfi scenes of jo^, Canst thou forget the printer boy, Who was so faithful on his round, With latest news that could be found, The price of meat, the price of coru, Who had another baby born, The price of butter, price of bread, Those who were married, who were dead . How one got drunk and flogged his wife, Another fell and lost his life, A third in fight lost half his nose, Reports of councils, cattle shows, Long editorials full of thought, And pleasing stories too, I brought, Wee comic bits to court the laugh, And latest news by telegraph, And now for all, before adieu, A New Year’s gift I ask of you, So when another year I start, It will be with a merry heart, And fervent wish through jut its run, That God will bless us every one. CARRIER BOY. THE MURDERED ACTOR. My friends never intended ibai I should tollow the stage as a pro- fession. They considered them- selves above it, though ior what reason I could not clearlv under- stand, seeing mat the position and comforts they enjoyed were deriv- ed from a fortune amassed by my father, who was himself an actor, lie died when I was very young, but the talent uhi^h lie possessed was supposed to have descended to me. There is no doubt nature intended me for a mummer. The thousand impudent mocking antics of boyhood increased us i grew lo man's estate. J used to take off, as it is called, everybody and every- thing to perfection, from the popu% lar tragedian of the day to Punch and Judy ; not a novelty from a streel-cry to a new tenoi at Her Majesty’s, escaped me ; and it was the generally expressed opinion amongst my acquaintances that I was only fit for the stage, and should do no good at anything else. Yet my elder brothers and sisters, great people in their own ciideâ€" would not hear of it; so I was eventually installed a* a junior clerk in a government office. Here, however, my propensities soon brought me to grief. Sundry over- heard derisive imitations of my chiefs, mingled with impromptu ward atices witn ruler and desk ac- companiments, performed during the office-liours, to the immense de- light of my fellow clerks of tnyo.vn age, chiefly broughl about this re- sult. Reprimand followed repri- mand, until it was politely intimat- ed that my resignation would be accep'able. This wasduiy sent in, amidst a great storm in my family Now from what I may call the first of my latchkey days. 1 had con- tracted many of theatriral friend- ships to which my well-known name was a certain passport. I was free of nearly all I he London theatres, before and behind the scenes, and many a time, for the fun of the thing, assisted in a spill and pelt crowd in a pantomine, or p eci; requiring a multitude for a row or other demonstration. Private theatricals of course were rriy hob- by ; and, in the association for the encouragement of this amnsement, lo which I belonged. I was a lead- ing star. Thus, when my retire- ment from office begot so much in- dignation at home, I retaliated by indulging in my long pent up wish to join the brotherh(»od of the sock and buskir, There was no diffi- culty about my doing so. The knowledge of my determination, once circulated in the profession, several engagements in the pro- vinces readily; offered Ihemselves, and two in London, when I should have served a fair apprenticeship in the connlry, which at that time was the real school for the London stage. At it, then, I went, con amor a, and very hard work did I find it. Still the love was there, and I hope the ability. 1 played a round of the most ridiculously op- posite characters, lrom very old men down lo very young ones; from grim warriors to the tender- est of lovers; from weird witches lo a dragon in an exirava"anz;i ; in short I served my time, and in due course achived a sufficiently prominent rank in my profession. It musl be admitted that a theatri- cal company in the country does not offer to a man of any refine- ment a very large field for the ac- quisition of desirable friendships; yet I hiid formed o-ie in the person of a young fellow of really good family who had taken to the stage under not dissimilar circumstances lo mine. In fact, we were ra'her alike in stature and person gener- ally, so much so that tne manager of the S wcllboro circuit took ad- vantage of this resemblance and played 'he Comedy of Errors, for many nights with great success, the parts of the ‘Two Drotnios’ of course being cast to me and Richard Ilallerton. A mutual understanding had existed be- tween us from the first lime we met, and for several years we laid our plans so a? to be engaged as much as possiblu at the same thea- tre, during which time we grew more and more appreciative of each other, and a really very warm friendship was the result. He, poor fellow, newsâ€"much way in the a*-t. His health failed him frequently ; more than this, he married and had a family, and having broken entirely wilh his own people through his adoption of the stage as a profession, it was as much as he could manage to keep things going. I was not quite so badly off for private resources; moreover, I earned a larger salary, which enabled tne not unfrequent ly to be of service to him. At the close of a particulary arduous Lon- don season I returned to '.be fami- liar locality of Swellboro’. This 'irne, however, as a visitor to that fashionable watering place to re- cruit my health, give my razors a holiday, anti study one or two new and important parts. My friend Richard Ilallerton was there as usuua1, slaving away in the old groove. He ha 1 never risked his chanccsin London,and had sunk, I am sorry to say into a third-rale provincial actor. His family had increased, as was to be expected, and with it his normal state of im- pecuniosity. This became more than usually apparent after our first meeting was over, and we had entered somowhat into domestic affairs. It appeared that he had been laid up for some months short- ly before this time, consequently his salary had been stopped ; and he had fallen deeply into arrear with tiis landlord. Credit to a cer- tain extent he had no dilliculiy in obtaining, as he was especially a favourite amongst all who knew him for his good nature and kind- Leartedness. and seemed to be as permanently a part of the theatre as its chandelier or act drop. There was no chance for poor Dick Ilall- erton runniug away, and no one feared that their pockets would eventually suffer. He had a hope- ful. 1 may even say a graceful, manner of getting over I he impor- tunities of creditors when they be- came pressing. In leed, truth to tell, he was one of those curious anomalies which are only to be met with in connection with the stage. Thoroughly gentlemanlike, somewhat good-looking, with a pleasant voice and manner, he gave you the itlea in private life of being a man who would of nneces- s>ty look well on the stage-a jeune (premier, born and bred. But, alas and alas! once wilh the footlights between himself and art audi- ence, the whole bearing of the iran seemed to change. It was not that he lacked confidence, stage fright had long since disappeared, yet somehow or other his voice did not tell ; he lost the ertire grace of his bearing, &nd despile great skill in hfs make up. his face had no ex- pression ; and certainly altogether to my thinking, even fond of him as 1 was, he was one of the worst actors I ever saw. This fact slruek me more forcibly than ever done before on going in front the firsl night after my arrival in Swelboro’. We na-J spent the afternoon togeth- er in the lull enjoyment ol each other's society, 1 went wilh him to his dressing room door, anil then look my seal lo see part of the per- formance. They were doing a new piece, in which i had gained some reputa- tion in town, and tempting offer* had been made by the manager for me to star in the part at Swalboro’ for a week or two. This, however, was not my policy ; and I had re- sisted all his overtures- Dick con- sequently had retained his role; and 1 was a little curious to see what ho would do with it. As it was a favorite part ol mine, my ad verse criticism of his performance may possibly be attributed 1o the proverbial jealousy ol the profession I don't think it was however, be this as it may, my honest opinion my honest opinion is that, at the aforesaid dressing room door, I left an accomplished and refined gentleman, When the curtain rose upon the comedy, I saw before me, in one word, a mere puppet, poss- essing not two ideas about the part he was playing. The only lljing lie did not fail in was his accrale get-up, so wonderfully like mine that had those been the days of photography it would have been scarcely possible to distinguish one from tlie other, had we both been taken in the same position. It was on walking home that night, that poor Hallerion disclosed to me the real slate of his finances, and touched me to the quick by the unobtrusive and earnestly palhetie appeal he made to me for help. Ah, my poor friend ! thought I. ii you could only speak in that way upon the slage, you would very soon be able to do without my assistance, or that of anyone else. The result of our conference was that I promised him what he reqnircd ; but, as I knew I should be occupied the whole of the fol lowing day, I arranged to bring him the money (£30) to the theatre ttie next evening. He resided in a lonely out-of-the-way suburbâ€"gaps of open coun'ry, interspersed wilh patches of brickfields, heralding the ereclion of more tenements, inter- vened between it and the town, which was now gradually out- growing itself. We shook hands at the top of a road, still almost rural, and which led across the fields to the three or four houses, in one of which he lived. We parted with a hearty good-night, he, in better spirits, as he said, than he bad been for months ; but, for my- self, well, I was not particularly elaied ; I felt that this kind of life could not last for him poor fellow. And a foreboding of evil crept over me, mingled wilh a carious spec- alive regret at the mysterious cause which seemed to operale so pertinaciously against his success as an actor. I'll tell you what it is, Jack. I must have that money ; there’s no mistake about it. You’ve been a promising and a promising, until I am pretty nigh sick of the word. It seems as if you’d remembered w hat they used to tell us at school, though I ’spects you hadn t much o’ your larning from thereâ€"that some promises are made like pie- crust, only to be broken. Don’t I say you shall have it next week ! and I can’t do more- You csn’l get blood out of n stone. Next week ihe Lancashire Spring Handicap comes off. I’ve had a first-rate tip ; i’ve had a first-rate tii> ; I'\e got my money on ; anil I am safe to pull off a pre'.ty round sumâ€"when I'll pay all jour--------- calls at once. Yes, you’ve got your money on ; my money you mean ; and half a cozen other peo pie’s money. What business has a chap like you to go betting? you know nothing at all about horsesâ€" how should you ?â€"And you gets taken in, and takln in, and loses almost every year lo keep a large family. Y7ou think you are very knowing about your tips, an^ stables, and good things ; but if it warn’t for what you earns in the the-a-ire, through having your head on the right way forlhat sort of work, you’d have been lagged long ago. When I lent you the |tin, you promised you’d never go into another o them betting houses for a year; and three weeks after- wards, didn’t 1 see you a coming out o Lington s with a mug on yon more like an underlaker's lhan aâ€"-Now, you'd best shut up. I don't wont no more o’ your___________ sermons here. When I want to hear that kind o’ game, 1 can go round the corner. You mind your owuâ€"- I his edifying conversation to which 1 had been tin involuntary listener, was here brought to a conclusion, by the shrill lonnd of the prompter’s whistle, and the noise and bustle ensuing upon a change of scene. I had arrived at the theatre, according to my ar- rangement wilh llalierton, during the progress of the performance. He happened then to be on the sta<>e, and I strolled down to the O.I\ wing. It was whilst waiting as it chanced all aione, that 1 heard what passed on the other side of the flat, against which I was lean- ing. I paid no attention to this dialogue at the time, and it was only subsequent occurrences which invested it with anything like in- terest for me. When Ilallerton came off, at the conclusion of the seene; as he did, by the entrance where 1 was standing, we walked away together up to ihe back of the stage. Nearly everybody was now engaged close down to the front, 'h?.! I;!, ih technical language, be- fore lhe first grooves, and we were left by ourselves. Here are the nates dear old boy, said I, handing him the crisp little packet. Don't say a word about thanks; I am only loo glad that it has p'eased the Fates to make me ab'e to help you. I hope it will put you straight for a time ; at anv rate don’t bother yourself by thinking how or when you are going to pay me; if the time eter comes, when you are able to do so (and for your sake, I hope that it is not far off), as w'ell and good, but, for ihe pre- sent, pray take it without anything like a thought for the future. Ilall- erton was touched evidently bv what 1 said, murmuring many earn- est thanks as he squeezed my hand in reply. We were soon inierrupt- ed by the eall-bov’s well-known words, You are called Mr. Haller- ton, upon which he walked hastily down the entrance, there to await his cue. As I turned slowly to follow him, one of the carpenters, shirt-sleeved and while carted, emerged from a door in the set scene, close to which Dick and my •*elf had held our short interview. Tnis trival circumstance did not impress me, at the moment, and I only set it down here as a slight thread thrown out to be taken up at the proper time, as bearing rather importantly upon the fabric of my story. When the performance was over for that night, the lights nearly all put out, the auditorium covered with the long dangling canvas, the stage cleared of its scenery, and only now occupied by the night fireman, who was lazily dragging the snake-like water-pipes across the boards.l idly lingered to take my friend's arm, as far as his road and mine lay togeiher. He had been engaged in the last scene ol the last piece, and almost everyone had left the theatre by the time we emerged from the stage door, into the dark drizzling night. A carpenter pulling on his coat and hat, wilh his back towards us, was '.he only person in the hall as we passed out. The weather was un- comfortable in the extreme, one of those soft greasy nights w hen you made, as tne saying goes, two steps backward for every one forward. Indeed it was so bad that Ilallerton would not allow me to walk to the corner of the road, where we had parted the previous evening, saying ‘ It will be awfully muddy out of the town, and so dark I hat you wifi hardly find your way back.’ 1 did not press my company on him, for the prospect was not inviting ; ii was very late, the people at my hotel seemed to be all in bed, so my oroffared glass of grog was re jecled by Ilallerton, and we parted at the door steps of the inn. Pooi fellow ! 1 little thought, as 1 saw him disappear in the darkness that we should meet no more I An earnest conversation in the coffee-room the following morniny between a waiter and one of tht guests of the hotelâ€"a few words ol which I caughtâ€"arrested my at tention, and when the man began to serve my breakfast, 1 said, wha was that 1 heard you talking ahnn to that gentleman? what was it you said had been found in a brickfield? O, haven’t you heard, sir I terrible thing ! only just dis- covered/ Body found this morn- ing out in the brickfields, near the road leading to them new houses, mean little places, you know. A good many gents from the theatre lodges out there. Beg your pardon, sir. not gents o’ your standing, 1 don’t mean that. They tell me this was one of them ; he that used to play the first young manâ€"Ilall- erton 1 think they called him, Ilall- erton ! exclaimed 1 springing from mv seat. What do you mean man ? what do you say T Mr. Hallerton found in the Brickfields? Yes, sir; murderedâ€"dead. Great powers 1, I went on hardly able lo under- stand his words. Speak out, ex- plain yourself. Why he was my dearest lriend ! 1 only parted from him at this door late last night Yes. sir; that’s what they say. He was alone as he crossed Ihe brickfields, leastways, not quite a.one neither; he’d got one companion, at any rate, one too many lor him, poor fellow, continued the waiter, and how much more to the the same purpose 1 know not,â€"he had said enough to take aM thoughts of breakfast away from me. 1 inter- rupted him, as may be imagined, by an earnest demand for his au- thority for the nameofthe unfortu-, nate man, at the same time begg- ing for all details, which were only to readily supplied, in such a cir- cumslantial manner as left little doubt of their truih. Yes, poor Richard Hallerton had been fonnd, as Ihe waiter said brutally murder? ed ; his body and the ground near him bearing strong evidences of a struggle. The cheif cause of deaih appear- ed to have been a heavy blow dealt by some weight} instrument at the side of his head, but there were marks also of strangulation, his neckcloth being twisipd, as if it had been used as a noose, A bunch of keys and a lew coppers were all that was found upon him. but his pockets had been evidently rifled, for ihey were cearlv every one of them turned inside out. Robbery obviously had been the object of the assassin ; bur it wa« urged by those who knew Richard and his circumstances that the. villain could have obtained but a poor reward for his desperate deed. To be Continued. An Elepeant Race.â€"We vrero . great at raccs in Rangoon, and the ponies and horses that were turned out to say nothing of the amateur jockeys in their Calcutta colours, would have been a credit to any station. One of our days wound up with an elephant race, for which twelve or sixteen of these animals started, eac\ carrying two officers and a flag. Six hurdles were erected for their benefit, and a deep trench dug. A very spirited sketch b$ one of the riders, went home by tb,<> next mail to the Illustrated News, in,- which the elephants were represeatei as flying over the hurdles like horses ; a slight exaggeration, and intended to bn so; but which we found on enquiry that , many people in England had taken for gospel truth 1 The real effect though widely different, was scarcely less ludi- crous. The ponderous racers, having started, went plodding through the trench, nearly up-setting all the jockeys, who were not accustomed to such up and down hill work, and then trampling down every hurdle which intercepted their path, gravely presented themselves before the winningpost, blinking their little eyes and flapping their big ears, with a solemn want of excitement which wa3 killing. Only one, which was young and unused to noise and shouting, boult- ed off the course,* and approached with a shambling gait, so near to the frail erec- tion whioh we called the grand stand, that the ladies were anticipating a sud- den overthrow, whiohâ€"had he chosen to knock against one of the posts which, supported it j must inevitably have bocn , the result. Bees at Large.â€"On the I9th of August a strange scene was witnessed in the shop of a well known fruiterer and dairyman of Bath. On the previous. Saturday evening two hives of honey were conveyed to his premises, which were duly secured after business hours, and remained unopened till the following Monday morning, when, to the amaze- ment and discomforture of the proprie- tor and his family, it wa; found that the supposed suffocated bees had become re- suscitated, and were as busy as bees can be, although confined within a fruiter’s: window. The latter was a very unusual" and attractive spectacle to many of the public throughout the day; and al- though it i? to be regretted that the worthy inmates experienced a loss of trade, aod had several practical illustra- tions that bees possesses stings, it is sat- isfactorily to know that as evening ap- proached, the bees returned to their hives, and long ere this, we fear, have met a fate too cruel for insects so indus^ trious and provident as the English, honey-boes The Hume of the Abyssinian correspon- ds! t ot th; T’/me.sâ€"about w hieh a good deal of eu'iwity is manifestedâ€"is Mr. Charles Austin, a gentleman well-known a» one of the most brilliant writers on the Saturday Review. The Daily News having acquired new premises, and passed into the hands of an enlaced proprietary, is only awai'ing the arri al of the i ece ^ary Iloo nachines from New York, befure jniking a fr^sh start i i life as a penny daily paper. vVe may expect it to enter ui on its new C-ireer at the_beginning of 1,868.