A witch scene in weirdness and lyrical power will bear comparison with the most famous scenes of the kind, aud we know that this brings Faust and Macbeth into the field.

Here is a fine piece of painting. A babe is cast upon the

Chill and oozy sand

From which the white tusks of the howling sea,

Were tearing ravenous mouthfuls every second.

A founder in his own line was Colonel Henry Goodwin, who was a few months ago borne to his last resting place with military honours, followed by gallant men who felt that the remains of their military father were about to be committed to the hospitable, blessedly-transforming bosom of the "bountiful mother." When he died, the clubs rang with his praises from the lips of volunteer officers. No man ever came away from him without being inspired with military ardour. He was endeared to a wide circle, young and old, whom he had educated. He had great force of character, and raised himself to the position he held by his perseverance, his military genius, and his integrity.

Born in the County Tyrone, on the 2nd June, 1795, of Catholic parents, he lived with his family as a farmer's boy until 1812. He was then seventeen years of age, and must have been a splendid looking young fellow, for as South says he who in his old age is comely, must in his youth have been very fair. On the 4th of July, a recruiting party of the Royal Horse Artillery passed through the town land where his father's farm stood. Gunpowder was in the air in those days, and it must have been hard for a gallant young fellow to keep out of the fray. He took the shilling; joined the expedition to Flanders; was present at Waterloo where he was twice wounded; joined, on recovery, the Grand Army at the Paris Camp; remained with the army of occupation until 1818; returned to Woolwich; received his discharge on the reduction of the army; remained at his home in the County Tyrone a little over a year; married and enlisted in the King's Light Infantry. He was soon made head drill instructor. 1837 he was discharged with a pension which he drew to the hour of his death.

In

During the three years he was in France he acquired great pro

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ficiency in fencing, gymnastics, and sword exercise. He was awarded the highest prize for sword and gymnastic exercise in every country he had visited: France, Spain, Italy, England and Ireland. In the two last countries he kept schools for instruction in gymnastics and the use of the sword.

In 1850 he determined to emigrate to Canada. He arrived at Quebec on the 1st of April. Here he opened a school, and at once attracted the attention of Lady Elgin, who employed him to give instruction to her children in calisthenics, general deportment, and riding. So much satisfaction did he give, that Lord Elgin urged Dr. Ryerson to engage him as a teacher of gymnastics, fencing, and general deportment. From 1853 until 1877, he taught in the Normal and Model Schools. He wrote on the 27th of last January: "I will continue to teach as long as I can give satisfaction to the establishments with which I am engaged, namely, Normal and Model Schools, Upper Canada College, Bishop Strachan's Ladies School, Mrs. Neville's Ladies School, Mrs. Nixon's Ladies School, and private families."

He proved a valuable man to the military department. He drilled all the independent corps organized before the embodyment of the permanent militia, officers and men, artillery, cavalry and infantry. He assisted Colonel G. Denison to organize the Toronto Field Battery and remained with it as adjutant and drillinstructor five years, when the 2nd or Queen's Own and 10th Royals had to be formed. Colonel Denison, then commandant would not form them unless Goodwin became adjutant and drill instructor. The duties of this position he discharged with so much skill and courtesy, that the officers would not allow him to leave the battalion, but passed a unanimous vote that he was still to remain a member. "I still belong to the 10th Battalion," said the brave old fellow two months before he died," and will do so as long as God gives me health to serve them."

Colonel Goodwin was also store-keeper for the Militia Store Department, and from 1856 until 1877 not a cent's worth of the stores under his charge had been lost or mislaid.

The Colonel was twice married and had two families. By his first wife who died in 1835 he had five children. He married his second wife in 1837. By her he had eleven children. From

accidents and other causes only two of his children were alive in January last.

He was a thorough soldier, one of the noble military characters which make the army so popular. He retained his military bearing to the last and died in harness.

Another veteran was Colonel Kingsmill, who passed away some twelve months ago in his eighty third year, at the residence of his son, Mr. Nicol Kingsmill. The son of Major Kingsmill, of 1st (Royal) Regiment, who served in the American War, he was born in Kilkenny in 1794. He was educated at Kilkenny College. He joined the 66th Regiment when quite a lad. This regiment served in Spain during the Peninsular War. Young Kingsmill was present at Busaco, Torres Vedras, Badajoz, the Pyrenees.

When Napoleon was sent to St. Helena, the 66th Regiment was ordered thither to guard him. Kingsmill was then a lieutenant. Early in the second quarter of the present century, he came to Canada with his regiment and soon retired from the service as senior Captain. When the rebellion of 1837 broke out he raised two regiments of volunteers. He afterwards commanded the 3rd Incorporated Militia, until his appointment to the office of Sheriff of the District of Niagara. After twenty years' service he resigned the shrievalty in consequence of failing health. He was afterwards appointed postmaster of Guelph, which office he held until his death.

He was in compliance with his wishes buried at Niagara. To his burial was accorded full. military honours. He had four sons of whom two survive, Judge Kingsmill, of the County of Bruce, and Mr. Nicol Kingsmill, of the firm of Crooks, Kingsmill & Cattanach.

Colonel Charles Todd Gillmor was an apt pupil of Colonel Goodwin. He was born at Sligo, and came to Canada in 1858. He joined the Volunteers in 1862, and commanded the Queen's Own Rifles from 1866 to 1874. He was in command of this Regiment at Ridgeway, June 2nd, 1866. He was appointed Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by the Sandfield Macdonald Government on December 27th, 1867. Colonel Gillmor was a great acquisition to Toronto Society.

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connected with the Volunteer Militia Service, and was on active service during the rebellion of 1837-8. He was born in the County of Wexford, and emigrated to Canada in 1820. From 1851 to 1854, he sat for Lanark and Renfrew in the Canadian Assembly, and was in 1867, called to the Senate by Royal Proclamation.

As I close this chapter, my attention is attracted by a letter in the Globe, bearing date the 12th June, 1877, which recounts the capacity and promptness displayed by Major Walsh in the NorthWest.

CHAPTER XV.

NOT less important, certainly, than military, legal, literary, or artistic forces, are those which train the youthful intellect, and direct the soul. The character of the soldier, the lawyer, and the literary man; a nation's courage, foresight, jurisprudence, literature, all depend on the schoolmaster and the divine. Ignorance and superstition are the parents of degrading literature, of cruel and unrighteous laws, of cowardice, or at best of a mere fitful bravery. To have a false idea of the Deity may, according to the extent of the misconception, be worse than atheism. Before we can form just views on the subject of the supernatural, the intellect must be cultivated. We talk of the battle of life, but parents and guardians too often forget where it is lost or won. It was not on the field, Gravelotte and Sedan, and the other great German victories were assured, but in the school-room and the drill ground. The fate of most men is determined in the years between eight and sixteen.

[AUTHORITIES:-Newspapers, religious and secular. Original sources. Official Reports. Journal of Education. "Memoir of the Rev. S. B. Ardagh," Edited by the Rev. S. J. Boddy, M.A." "The Clerical Guide and Churchman's Directory," Edited by C. V. Fordice Bliss. "Dred," by Mrs. Beecher Stowe. "Sketch of the Buxton Mission and Elgin Settlement." Religious Endowments in Canada," by Sir Francis

Hincks.]

I have already glanced at Ireland's contributions to the various forms of religious force in Canada. It will now be my duty to write of the representative men not already mentioned, who, according to their light, have laboured amongst us in the most important of all causes. The same impartiality which has obtained, I hope, throughout, must prevail here. My task is to chronicle, not criticise; to give facts, not to discuss tenets; still less to harmonize discordant voices to which there may yet be a master note whereof we know nothing.

"Were the wax

Moulded with nice exactness, and the heav'n

In its disposing influence supreme,

The lustre of the seal should be complete :

But nature renders it imperfect ever,

Resembling thus the artist in her work,

Whose faultering hand is faithless to his skill.”*

One of the latest elevations to the Episcopal Bench in the Church of England will not be thought to be improperly brought within the scope of this book. Brevet Major Fuller, of the 41st Foot, was a scion of a well-known and highly respectable family in the County Cork. He came to Canada with his regiment, some years previous to the war of 1812. He died at Adolphustown, in 1814. His son, Thomas Brock Fuller, the future bishop of Niagara, was born in the garrison of Kingston, on the 16th of July, 1810.

He lost both parents while yet a mere child, and was left dependent on a widowed aunt, a sister of his mother, who was a daughter of Captain Poole England, and cousin of Sir Richard England, who commanded the third division in the Crimean war. He received his early education at Kingston and at York, at Lundy's Lane, at Niagara, and again at York. He studied divinity at Chambly, Lower Canada, and was ordained on the 8th of December, 1833. He was immediately sent to Adolphustown, as the locum tenens for the missionary of that mission, who had gone for eight months to Ireland, his native country. The following year he was sent as Second Assistant Minister of Christ Church, Montreal, and missionary at Lachine. While in Montreal, he, in 1835, married Cynthia, eldest daughter of the late Samuel Street,

* Cary's Dante: Paradise, Canto xiii. 67-73.