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Irish Women.-Amid the want often attendant upon the young and thoughtless marriage of the Irish peasantry il is wonderful to note how closely heart clings to heart. Poverty, the most and pro- longed, rarely creates dsunon, and still more rarely separalion The fidelity of the Irish wife is prover- bial; she will endure labor hunger and Ill usage, to an almost incredible extent, rather than break the marriage VOW; we have known cases in abundance eHe beat me-" said pretty weeping girl, not nine- teen who had married from the service of an old friend. "He beat me, ma am, long ago; but never thought more of it since; and yet that didn't hurt half much he's saying that may be, little Ned was'nt his that's breaking the heart in entirely though he dldn it. and that the temper that spoke in him. the weary it for temper! I've known nothing but hardship since married him; but didn't complain of that; we both expected nothing else; and don't mind nasty stroke, for it's hard him to ould man before his time with the slayery-and, tho,

 put little Neddy to bed early, to sleep oG the hunger, yet often it's teasing the poor child, and wakes him in spite of me, and know the hungry face dar- ling aggravates his father. know all that; but he ought to know that I'd follow him faithfully through the gates of death if that would him an hour pain: he ought to know it-and he does know it-I'm sure he does; and he kissed me this morning his fasting breath leaving the handful of potatoes for me saying the mashter where he gives his strength for eight pence day, ordered him a breakfast which Pm sure ant the truth The loves in his heart as strong as ever but the misery, am, often hardens the man, while it softens the woman; he didn't mane it. and he knows it's not true, but it's hard to listen to such word that. He was my first love, and he'll be my last. None of tell what's before us;

 but I'd go all my troubles Der again if it would do hlm any service. ."-Mr. and Mrs. s. c. Halls Ireland.