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[ "3 l'enceinte même de la ville ainsi fortifiée se trouvaient les arsenaux, les magasins, l'hôtel de la monnaie. L'examen du plan ou de la localité de Augusta Rauracorum peut fournir des preuves à l'appui; Kastcllen répond à la localité de l'ancien prétoire; Kaiseraugst remplit la place de l'un des quatre anciens forts. A mesure que les Romains avançaient dans le pays conquis, leurs éta blissements étaient faits à l'aide de pierres non équarries. Les points stra tégiques importants étaient seuls défendus par des murs, dont les pierres formaient des assises régulières. M. Vetter revient à plusieurs reprises sur son assertion , qu'un système complet de fortifications et de chaussées était établi dans les vallées du Neckar, du Danube (à partir de Donaueschingen jusqu'à Sigmaringen), et le long du Rhin moyen. Mais ici s'élève une autre question: comment les garnisons élaient-elles réparties entre un si grand nombre de forts? Dans les provinces de la Germanie supérieure et inférieure stationnaient huit légions, c'est-à-dire quarante mille hommes; en admettant autant d'alliés, nous arrivons à un total de quatre-vingt mille hommes, force insuffisante pour défendre contre les invasions des Germains une si grande étendue de frontière. M. Vetter admet que les légions restaient concentrées dans les grands camps légionnaires ; que les castra stativa et les castella étaient gardés par des garnisons permanentes, et que tout le pays constituait de la sorte une colonie militaire. II assimile cet état de choses à la frontière militaire de l'Autriche et aux colonies militaires de la Russie. Les petites garnisons, selon lui, auraient été formées par les vétérans romains et par des troupes auxiliaires, indigènes. Les vétérans recevaient en échange de leurs services permanents une certaine quotité de terres, que cultivaient les prisonniers de guerre et les serfs, par exemple la population celtique. On trouvait donc auprès de tous ces anciens forts, même auprès des tours isolées, un ancien village ou du moins une métairie isolée. U en était de même auprès des camps légionnaires. Les villages celtiques, qui étaient tenus de fournir les vivres, de payer la dîme, de faire la corvée pour ces garnisons romaines, res taient en possession ou du moins en jouissance de leurs terres cultivées. Celte population rurale celtique apprit mème à cultiver régulièrement les terres, à exercer certains métiers d'après les instructions de leurs vain queurs. Rome leur enseigna la délimitation de leurs propriétés et des bans communaux. II en résulte que les terrains attenant aux établissements des", "5 règlements romains. Si ces éléments de métiers n'avaient pas préexisté, si les villes de l'Allemagne du Sud-Ouest n'avaient pris naissance que sous Henri l'Oiseleur, on ne comprendrait pas cette prompte formation des métiers dans les villes. Ils accueillirent peut-être dans leur sein des habi tants venus des communes rurales; la petite noblesse se mit sans doute sous leur protection, mais, il faut bien le répéter, la plupart de nos villes anciennes n'ont point de ban; elles étaient, au point de vue paroissial, des annexes d'églises rurales; cette circonstance, à elle seule, semblerait légi timer l'idée de ramener leur origine à l'époque gallo-romaine. Les castra romains étaient situés dans l'enceinte des marches celtiques; ils n'avaient aucune propriété territoriale. La ville, issue d'un castrum, était dans la même situation; elle n'avait point de propriété, ou bien il fallait qu'elle en acquît par achat ou par force. Arrivait-il que les villes attiraient dans leur enceinte les habitants des villages voisins, le ban du village devenait celui de la ville; le village était absorbé par la ville. Beaucoup de villes de la vallée du Rhin, telles que Fribourg, Heidel berg, Bàle, Schaffhouse, étaient de simples annexes d'églises rurales, ou bien, leurs plus anciennes églises paroissiales étaient hors de leur en ceinte; ce qui prouve que tantôt le fort romain se développait par les éléments romains et celtiques, qui restaient intra muros, et que tan tôt la ville et le village se fondaient ensemble. Quant aux appellations, les villes ne conservent le nom romain qu'au tant que la ville est greffée sur un fort romain ; mais lorsque la popula tion celtique y devient prédominante, le nom du village celtique s'impose à la ville elle-même. De semblables faits se produisent pour les châteaux du moyen âge, issus des castels romains. II y avait, nous savons déjà fait remarquer, des castels de plaine et de montagne, ces derniers avec ou sans fossés, avec ou sans tours. La forme et la distribution intérieure des castels et celle des tours différaient con sidérablement. Leur forme était ou carrée, ou ronde, ou polygone et irrégulière. Les tours massives (Bcrchfrid au moyen âge) constituaient la force des castels. Nous savons que leur entrée n'était accessible que par des échelles, à une élévation de 10 à 20 mètres. Les ouvertures, pour donner accès à l'air et à la lumière, étaient petites, peu nombreuses; la partie inférieure de la tour, séparée de la partie supérieure, servait de magasin, plus tard de cachot, et n'était accessible que par des échelles.", "7 et mériterait d'être contrôlée de visu. Les observations de M. Vetter s'ap pliquent de préférence à la population riveraine du Rhin, deBàleàWalds hut; et à celle du Hauenstein (le flozenwald). — Dans les communes de cette contrée jurassique, il croit reconnaître les descendants des Alémans dans la stature athlétique des paysans, grands propriétaires, passionnés pour la liberté, fiers, francs, d'une droiture reconnue, A côté d'eux habite une race qui ressemble un peu au bavarois méridional, à larges épaules, au crâne rond, de couleur brunâtre, cheveux et yeux noirs. La chevelure couvre la moitié de leur front; dans leur attitude il y a quelque chose de servile; ce sont les petits artisans, les journaliers, les ouvriers; leur simi litude avec certains bustes romains dans la glyptothèque de Munich semble frappante: pour M. Vetter, leur descendance romaine est un fait acquis. Dans la plaine du Rhin, plus spécialement dans le voisinage à'Augusta lìavracorum, on distingue une population dont le type n'est ni romain, ni germanique. Ses yeux, sa chevelure, son épiderme ressemblent, il est vrai, aux yeux, à la chevelure, à la peau de la race romaine, mais elle n'est point robuste comme cette dernière; le corps de ces malheureux est grêle, souvent misérable; le crétinisme est devenu héréditaire dans beaucoup de familles de cette fraction du pays. M. Vetter y voit les descen dants de la population celtique, méprisée à la fois par les Romains et par les conquérants germaniques, étiolée par suite de ce mépris1. M. Vetter cherche enfin à prouver ses assertions sur l'origine des villes par la citation d'une série de localités sises dans les vallées du Rhin, du Neckar, du Danube, en Suisse et en Allemagne. Je me bornerai à repro duire quelques noms de localités qui nous offrent l'intérêt du voisinage. Ncubourg-sur-le-Rhin, quoique sondée seulement par la famille des Ixb ringen, a été très-considérable au moyen âge; la ville pourtant n'avait point de ban; en dehors de ses murs, tout le terrain appartenait aux com munes rurales qui entouraient la ville dans un vaste demi-cercle. L'auteur en induit que Neubourg existait déjà du temps de l'occupation romaine, et était environnée d'une population celtique. Fribourg-en-Brisgau n'aurait été construite, d'après Kœnigshoffen , qu'en 1091, tandis qu'auparavant le site aurait été occupé par un village. 1. Les tumuli fournissent à M. Vetter une preuve de plus à l'appui de sa thèse, très admissible, de diverses races qui cohabitaient simultanément les bords du Rhin; car, indépendamment des tombes exclusivement romaines, on en trouve qni renferment accessoirement des ustensiles, des ornements ou des armes celtiques; il en est qui ne renferment pas d'armes, et que M. Vetter attribue aux Celtes; d'autres enfln renferment des restes mortels et des armes franques." ]

[ "A Strange Manuscript 102 CHAPTER XI. THE SWAMP MONSTEE. A FE'wjoms after, I was infoi'med by the Kohen that there was to be another sacred hunt. At first I felt inclined to refuse, but on learning that Almah was going, I resolved to go also ; for Almah, though generally mis tress of her actions, had nevertheless certain duties to perform, and among these was the necessity of accom panying hunting-parties. I did not yet understand her position here, nor had I heard from her yet how it was that she was so different from the rest of them. That was all to be learned at a future time. For the present I had to be satisfied with knowing that she belonged to a different nation, who spoke a different language, and that all her thoughts and feelings were totally dif ferent from those of the people among whom she was living. She loved the light, she feared death, and she had never been able in the slightest degree to reconcile herself to the habits of these people. This I could read ily understand, for to me it seemed as though they lived in opposition to nature itself. We went out into the daylight, and then I saw a sight which filled me with amazement. I saw a flock of birds larger than even the opkuks. They were called \" op mahera.\" They seemed as tall as giraffes, and their long legs indicated great powers of running. Their wings were very short, and not adapted for flight. They were very tractable, and were harnessed for riding in a peculiar way ; lines like reins were fastened to the wings,", "Found in a Copper Cylinder. 167 morals have become affected by this mode of life. Now, as to ornamented caverns, we have many examples — caverns adorned with a splendor fully equal to anything among the Kosekin. There are in India the great Behar caves, the splendid Karli temple with its magnificent sculptures and imposing architecture, and the cavern temples of Elephanta ; there are the subterranean works in Egypt, the temple of Dendera in particular ; in Petra we have the case of an entire city excavated from the rocky mountains : yet, after all, these do not bear upon the point in question, for they are isolated cases ; and even Petra, though it contained a city, did not contain a nation. But there is a case, and one which is well known, that bears directly upon this question, and gives us the connecting link between the Kosekin and their Semitic brethren in the northern hemisphere.\" \" AVhat is that ?\" asked the doctor. \"The Troglodytes,\" said Oxenden, with impressive solemnity. \" Well, and what do you make out of the Troglo dytes ?\" \" I will explain,\" said Oxenden. \" The name Troglo dytes is given to various tribes of men, but those best known and celebrated under this name once inhabited the shores of the Red Sea, both on the Arabian and the Egyptian side. They belonged to the Arabian race, and were consequently a Semitic people. Mark that, for it is a point of the utmost importance. Now, these Troglodytes all lived in caverns, which were formed partly by art and partly by nature, although art must have had most to do with the construction of such vast subterranean works. They lived in great communities in caverns, and they had long tunnels passing from one community to another. Here also they kept their cat tle. Some of these people have survived even to our", "Found in a Copper Cylinder. 235 can I go back now, when we have started for the land of the Orin ?\" \" AVe shall never reach the land of the Orin,\" I cried; \" we shall perish in the sea !\" \"Oh, no,\" said Layelah; \"you cannot kill the atha leb. You are no more than an insect; your rod is a weak thing, and will break on his iron frame.\" It was evident that Layelah had not the slightest idea of the powers of my rifle. There was no hesitation on my part. I took aim with the rifle. At that moment I was desperate. I thought of nothing but the swift flight of the athaleb, which Avas bearing me aw7ay for ever from Almah. I could not endure that thought, and still less could I endure the thought that she should believe me false. It was therefore in a wild passion of rage and despair that I levelled my rifle, taking aim as well as I could at AA'hat seemed a vital part under the wing. The motion of the wing rendered this difficult, however, and I hesitated a moment, so as to make sure. All this time Layelah stood looking at me with a smile on her rosy lips and a merry twinkle in her eyes — evi dently regarding my words as empty threats and my act as a A7ain pretence, and utterly unprepared for what was to folloAv. Suddenly I fired both barrels in quick succession. The reports rang out in thunder over the sea. The athaleb gave a Avild, appalling shriek, and fell straight down into the water, fluttering vainly with one wing, Avhile the other hung doAA7n useless. A shriek of horror burst from Layelah. She started back, and fell from her standing-place into the waves beneath. The next instant aa7c Avere all in the water together — the athaleb, Avrithing and lashing the water into foam, Avhile I invol untarily clung to his coarse mane, and expected death every moment." ]

[ "6 — and the mere mention of a finished and intellectual would-be-married Miss to the young and charming Sophia Thornhill ; what a positive insult to a well regulated mind. Philosopher Square's maxim was a pretty good one ; and, for ourselves, we are willing to adopt it on the present occasion. ** The unalterable rule of right, and the eternal fitness of things,\" have much to do with the matter. But it is not our business to put on the mask of the satirist. Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty, in proportion to the rank of the offender or offenders. Persons in high stations, as well as in the lesser walks of life, are not only answerable for their own conduct, but for the examples which they may hold out to others, to the common level of their kind. This, joined to their advantages of education, aggravates their vices, and loads them with a greater share of responsibility. But to proceed. It is with feelings of the most unaffected gratification that we turn awhile to this delightful portion of our native land. Much has been, and more might be said of \" Fair Cambria,\" with her innumerous beauties ; but, to our mind, the \" charming west \" presents a bold and highly-wrought series of landscapes and marine scenery which the very best artists have seldom if ever done justice to ; so very kind and even profuse has nature been in the distribution of her choicest gifts. The tourist, as well as the traveller, is heard to speak of the new line of road from Taunton to the north of Devon (via Wiveliscombe, Bampton, South-Molton, to Barnstaple) with undiminished pleasure and surprise. It winds through a romantic and picturesque country. It is not altogether unworthy of remark, that so delight-", "28 niendous and prolific grandeur which we shall not pretend to describe. The Duchess of Clarence, on whose exalted and refined taste we feel well assured we can place every reliance, was beard to speak in terms of high gratifi cation in relation to Ilfracombe during her recent visit ; and her Royal Highness's suite re-echoed the rapturous words of their condescending patroness with honest fidelity and delight. There has been a \" whisper \" going the round of the first circles which would inform us of the intention of the Duke of Wellington — the gallant hero of Waterloo — to visit this delightful watering-place. Should the report be founded in truth, we have no doubt the Premier will bestow his qualified praise in the like manner ; and we are quite certain his Majesty's very loyal subjects, in this part of his dominions, will feel no less gratified. The families of distinction that have been in and about Ilfracombe for some months past, seem loath to quit at the present, although September is well nigh spent. We confessl we do not feel surprised : nor can we see why it does not become a winter residence. When we consider the rare and charming situation of this place, but more especially the surrounding coast, we are left to wonder why it should have remained un appreciated so long. For ourselves, and with all due regard to majesty, (God bless the king and his real friends) if by possibility we had our choice, we should most assuredly, prefer the retired but soul-enlivening charms of Ilfracombe to the oriental enjoyments of Vir ginia Water, with its giraffe, its fishing temples, its in fant ships of war, and little long boats, kangaroos, golden pheasants, and so on, for the luxurious and con secrated walks and scenes of nature's mysterious self;—", "46 Of « ither'd happiness — at tby soft call, 1 know not what, but something would inspire My soul with gladui»s;— as the breast of Saul Melted to thy de«p eloquence — thy fire Of sound— thou hast betray'd ue now— my lonely lyre .' Harp of my youth ! — thou know'st -Tie as I am, — Not as I seem to others : — and lo thei My fears— hopes— feelings— passions— every flame That warms or blasts me is discover'd — fie.- My soul pour'd forth its treasures — that wild _«a Of tumult and of softness — joy and woe. The dearest friend can never win from me The secrets thou hast won — thou badest them flow, Like tears that grief had frozen — thou hast betray'd me now ! I trusted thee for fame — it was weak trust ; But thou didst promise, and I dared believe, And so I trusted thee — it was unjust, At least unkind thus coldly to deceive, And fling me forth men's mockery to receive, Or, what is worse, their pity — I had borne With lip that writhed not — heart that would not grieve The sneer of envy or the smile of scorn, Ilad'tt thou been faithful — but to have my patience worn With comfort and condolence — and for thee — Thou tinkling plaything ! thou soft lady's toy ! Thou gilded nonsense! to whose minstrelsy It had been hard to task the veriest boy To listen for an hour — it might annoy A mind more patient far than mine — begone ! If there were one whose peace I would destroy, I well might breathe the wish, that such an one Might trust thy faith like me — and be, like me, undone. 'Twas thus I thought — and when I do remember The blight and blackening that at once effaced My dream of hope— and how thy clouds. December, O'er my bright sky their gloomy shadows cast: Have, in a moment, stripp'd the flattering past Of all its smiles — aud from my future lot" ]

[ "A Shoo-maker, A Gentleman. As one body, they equall,'caufe one cannot want another and Be a perfeftbody. Leo.'Tis true, beggers and Kings are all one peece of earth,nor can Tha head be without the foot; he under^ands well if he could Aply it : thus 'tis englidat ; I cannot be without his company: Come pull on my ihooes, art not well,let me feele thy temples? Crif. Yes Madam, F me in health I thanke my preferv cr . Leo, I began to feare, 'cauie thou wad drawing on. Crif. You make melmiieLady. Lee. Dod thou ? let me- fee how thou fmiled. Crif I dial blufli then Madam,ifyou looke on,is it not cafie Madam? Leo. To looke on yes , farre eafier than to worke. Crtf. I meane your foot Madam. Lee. I meane as well as you fir: have you done ? Crtf. Yes Madam. Leo. But I have not, I mud thide you now fir. will helpe my blufhing indeed ,and make me looke pale ; But I hope your Ladilhip has no caufe. Leo. Great caufefir: I heare you are a Sutor to my woman. - O.T.A Sutor Lady? I underdand it n9t? and to your gentlewoman? >Twere great preemption. Leo. You know your faultthen, Iwo'd with you mend it; I Speake what I haveieene : You area Sutor to my woman. Crif Madam. Leo. Nay, nay, proted not to the contrary^tis fo ufually, lie have thee punilht for't, my Fathers power, if mine cannot Do't, fhall erode you fhatpely for it : TafTel have chid too much; Come, come Ile rather pardon thee than hurt thee; nay , prethee Do'not finke within my prefence, let me feele thy hand, his pulfes Beat not , th'art cold i'th mouth I thinkc. Kiffes him. Crif. Had I beene, this had reviv'd me. . ■ Leoy What had reviv'd youfir ? Crif. That touch from your fweet lip. Lee, Why fir, doe not thinke that kifle was any favour, But to fupply the want of Rofa-folis ? Crif 'Twas farre better Madam. Leo, I am glad it pleas'd youfir ; but I havenot forgot E ' My", "A Shoo-ntiiker, A Gentleman. ACTUS QUAR.TUS. Enter Crifpinus 4»^Leodice with childe. Crif. Be comforted my dea re Leodice. Leod. How can I want fiveete com fort, having thee ?alack,that Pkafure ftolne,being backe returnd ,thould tafte fo fower : Jt feemes a (hallow Ford ,when firft 'tis tride ; But when the depth we found, It is a gulfe of raging whirk-pooks found. Crif. 1 know it Princely Love.and fearethc event ; Love in the paths of danger ever went : The morning flames of our defires burne bright, And lhall doe dill in fcorne of fortunes fpight, If you but feede the fire. Leod. O me .' 'tis this I feare, The burthen in my wombe our deaths doe beare. Crif. Why ihouldd thou feare the knot our hearts hath tide > Had heavens drength to it ; and heaven will lure provide For thof whofe names and faiths are written there. Leod. What vaile can now be drawne to hide our cares, Or keepe this fecret from our Fathers eares. Of our dolne marriage? Crif. Stay, lets devife. Leod. It mud be a thicke cloud darkens the Sunne : This day my Father fits to cad deaths doome Upon the Chridians : and that doome 1 know The fruit this Land brings next, mud be my woe. Crif. I prethec peace, the clocke of mifery goes alwaies Too true : yet ktme fet it now. Leod. Deareft I will. Crif. Doe this then; if the Emperour call for thee, Befickeand keepe thy chamber, Untill I get fbme place for thy delivery. Lead", "A ShoaT^maker, A Gentleman. We breake a bond ,wherein we all ftand bound : My fonnes ofyou hath loving Parents found. Shoo. Faith Madam, I did the beft I could for 'em : 1 have feene one married to the Emperours daughter. Bar. Wou'd you had marryed me no worfe. Max. You all have done your beft To make our comforts full ; for which wee'k pay Rewards to^all,and crowne this happy day. Bar. Wee have a boone my Lord the Emperour. Max. What is' t? Bar. That feeing thefe two Princes, Fellow fervants with us, being of the Gentk Craft, May have one Holy-day tc our felves. Max. What Month would you have it kept in? Bar. The five and twentieth of October, That none of our Trade may goe to bed fober. Max. Take it : Thefe lines of Fate thus in one circle met, If Diocletian pkafe fhall here clofe up. T> iec. In what circumference ? Max. Thus ; 'tis more honour to makeKings^ Than be fuch : then let thefe t waine, Being Englifh borne,be Brittaine Kings againe. This in the North fhall rule. Dioc. This in the South : Brave Crifpianw ,to requite thy deed. Great Diode fans hand fhall Crowne thy head. Max.\"Xo Crifpine this : A Groyne profowtncE, And this rich gift befide ; The faire Leedice to be his Bride. Crifp. I have an humble fuit unto your Higbnefle, Max, What is t my Sonne ? Crifp _, 'Tis this ; A Church then, and a beauteous Monaftery On Ho/»>_W/?-Hill,where 4lb*n loft his head s Offa fhall build j which Ik 'st.tsf/bens name," ]

[ "28 The Old House of Rayner Yes, father, he is.\" Truscott will be very rich.\" Yes ; I should think he will be some day.\" Truscott's affections are very warm.\" I should think so.\" Truscott loves you, Lucy.\" Oh! father, don't — please don't!\" \" Promise me, Lucy, that you will marry Truscott before I die.\" His tone did not seem to invite an answer, and, letting his head fall back on the cushions, he heaved a sigh of relief, just like a trembling schoolboy who has man aged to scramble through a Greek repeti tion. Also, during the whole time, neither his features nor his voice betrayed the least signs of interest or emotion — his head might have been that of a marble bust with a mechanical speaking instrument in its throat.", "The Old House of Rayner. 88 more harm than if she had been allowed to sit by her father's corpse from morning till night. On the Wednesday evening, Lucy felt impelled by some strange fascination to remain in her father's room, in spite of the remonstrances of Truscott. Her father's body had been laid out, and placed in the coffin, but there was an expression in his face which gave Lucy the wild fancy that his spirit still lingered within its earthly tenement. Sitting beside him, she felt that he was still with her ; that, through some impalpable medium, he held intercourse with her, though his features and limbs preserved the rigidity of iron. She even imagined that she perceived a faint gleam of comfort pass over his face when she leaned over and kissed his cold brow, and a shade of misery followed when she left him — the dis-", "Published by Digby, Long & Co. 7 MISCELLANEOUS— Continued. Leading 'Women of the Restoration. By Grace Johnstone. With portraits. Demy Svo, cloth, 6s. The LITERARY WORLD says :— \"This is a very readable book. . . . This book, indeed, contains a few valuable lives, told fully and fairly, of women who deserve to be remembered.\" PUBLIC OPINION sa.se :—\" This entertaining work. . . . This is essentially a book of historic value.\" Three Empresses. Josephine, Marie-Louise, Eugenie. By Caroline Gearey, Author of \" In Other Lands,\" etc. With portraits. Crown Svo, cloth, 6s. [Noiv Ready. The Author's Manual. By Percy Russell. With Prefatory Remarks by Mr Gladstone. Crown 8vo, cloth, 5s. (Sixth Edition.) With portrait. The WESTMINSTER RE VIEW Buys:—\" . . . Mr Russell's book is a very com plete manual and guide for journalist and author, and those proud words ' sixth edition' on the title-page show that it has been appreciated And it deserves to be ; it is not a merely practical work — it is literary and appreciative of literature in its best senBe; ... we have little else but praise for the volume.\" Sixty Years' Experience as an Irish Landlord. Memoirs of John Hamilton, D.L. of St. Ernan's, Donegal. Edited, with Introduction, by the Rev. H. C. White, late Chaplain, Paris. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. With portrait. [Now Ready. The Last Cruise of the Teal. By Leigh Ray. In handsome pictorial binding. Illustrated through out. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6c?. The SPECTA TOR says : — \" The stirring tale of sea adventure which the book contains, is told well and graphically enough to be very readable. \" 18 Bouverie Street, Meet Street, London." ]

[ "139 THE CR0YD0N CUP. hoarse, flabby voice Avhispered in Mr. MeU's ear— \" Number up, I see ; you to ride ; all square, of course !\" \" We don't Avin nohow ; don't you fret yourself, Mr. Bacon.\" \" Will ye have two ponies to a tenner about our nag?\" asked the bookmaker; \" it's a sweet price, and I'm throAving the money aAvay to you ; there's only tAvo's against him in the ring.\" \"Thank ye kindly!\" said Peter, looking doAvn as he buckled his spurs ; \" but I'm on this long time,\" he added veraciously ; for he had sunk aU his winnings of the day before on Lord of the Valley, at 8's and 10's to 1 in the lists. \" On the square, then !\" said the Ele phant, as he backed out to return to Mam mon in the betting-enclosure, and Peter, catching up his saddle and cloths, pushed", "163 THE CR0YD0N CUP. that evening over a pipe and hot grog in the back-parlour of his quarters at the Cock and Bottle. \"We didn't make sich a bad thing over it, but it's a Liverpool clean chucked away. What a pot o' money Ave might ha' made, if master had been only half cleA'er, to be sure ! Nor he ain't out of it yet, the 'oss ain't ; a growin' 'oss as 'uU come on sivin pound by March, and aUoAV another sivin for the jockey. Master surely w*on't put that hinfant up for Aintree ! And he warn't extended neither, nor pricked ; won Avith nigh a stone and a half in hand. They mayn't weight him out of it yet — they shouldn't if he avot mine !\" and Peter bmlt golden castles of still getting into the Liverpool at eleven stone, at which weight he might be justified on pubUc form in thinking the race nearly over. \" I must thank you for your very liberal and straight tip,\" said the Major to", "223 THE SPRING CAMPAIGN. Sir John cleared his throat, hurled his re spirator to the ground, stamped his capa cious foot, thumped his knee with the fist, and found breath to say, \" By Jove, sir, here's a pretty go ! ain't it?\" \" What is it, Sir John ?\" asked the Mas ter nen'ously, cogitating Avhether in any way he could have given offence to the banker and his family. \" Matter, hey ! my son Jack, hey ! Haven't you heard yet ?\" \" No,\" said Jemmy, AA'ho could hardly realise that the stirrup-leather grievance had suddenly been brought to Ught. \" God bless us ! he wants to oppose you, man !\" \" Does he?\" said Jemmy mechanicaUy; his thoughts Avere at that moment running on Georgie before all other matters. \"I don't think he'll succeed, do you, Sir John ?\"" ]

[ "164 ODD CUSTOMS. Fatal consequences often ensue from their feasting on seal, especially the lion white seal, the flesh of which kills dogs in twenty minutes, and is not to be eaten with impunity by any until it is quite putrid, when, they say, it is harmless. I myself have eaten the black hair seal, when fresh meat was scarce, but it was a young one, which I killed, and had pro perly dressed, but it was yet oily, coarse, and dis agreeable, and I made but a bad meal. I have else where remarked, that the natives wear human teeth, fish bones, &c. in their hair. Their most singular custom is, that of wearing a piece of stick through the cartilage of the nose. They have not, as far as I could learn, the boomerang in South Aus tralia. Their dead are carried sometimes into the woods, and covered with leaves, and at other times buried. They have not the eye-tooth knocked out at the age of puberty, like the natives of New South Wales, but they are circumcised at that period. Cannibalism is not resorted to as a delicacy, but only in time of war and famine. The women have their hair cut with flint, and after the operation, look as much like monkeys as possible. They have in general sore eyes, caused by smoke and extreme filthiness. As I observed before, they never wash themselves ; and I never, whilst at Encounter Bay, saw a native in the water, but at the time when he waded after the whale : some of them can swim. The natives were first found, and so they remain at the present moment, in tribes, as all must do in a state of nature, previously to further civilization. They are distributed into families, the head of which is called Beanna (father), and exacts obedience from", "168 THE RELAPSE. tained so much of our customs, that he made use of his fists, instead of the weapons of the country, to the great annoyance of Cawrey, who would have preferred the club or spear, in meeting his rival. Cawrey being the younger man, and the lady every inch a woman, she followed her inclination, and Bennilong was com pelled to yield her without further bloodshed. He seemed to be satisfied with the thrashing he had given Cawrey, and hinted, that resting for the present without a wife, he should look about him, and at some future period make a better choice. In March following, Bennilong, by degrees, shook off the habits of civilized life, and at length went with his fellows naked into the woods as great a savage as any of his tribe.", "225 CHAPTER XX. CALCUTTA. Entrance of the Ganges. — River Water. — Crocodiles. — Anecdote. — Scenery up the River. — Bazaar and Scenes at Kedgeree. — Garden Reach. — Bo- tanical Gardens. — Arrival at Calcutta. — Landing. — Lodgings. — Cal- cutta Leeches — Anglo-Indian Hospitality. — Calcutta as it is. — Magni- ficence. — Frauds of Servants. — Hindoo Servants. — Hookah smoking. — Reform in India. — Amusements. — Calcutta. Movements. — Calcutta Beasties. — Black Hole. — Use of Grease. — Bathing of Natives. — Hin- doos. — Description and Character. — Native Insult. — Dingy Wallahs. — Dead Bodies in the Ganges. — Fakeers. — Stroll round Calcutta.- — Hin- doo Gods. — Burning the Dead — Impudent Thieves. — Cruelty to Adju- tants. On the 7th January, 1838, I arrived at the city of palaces. As we were six or seven days in coming up the river, I must not omit to relate what I saw in that time. At the extreme mouth of the Ganges, where the low island of Saugor is not yet visible, there are several dangerous sandbanks, on one of which now lies the wreck of the Windsor. Here then are stationed many pilot vessels, continually cruising for the purpose of sending one of their pilots with the strange ships to Calcutta. The river Hoogly being one of exceedingly intricate and diffi cult navigation, by good fortune or good seamanship, or perhaps both, we hit directly upon these vessels, and thus suffered no delay in searching for them. Passing by the island of Saugor (which is the first" ]

[ "SOUS NAPOLÉON. 67 sous ce gouvernement. Au premier rang il faut placer le Cirque-Olympique, qui, d'abord situé au Mont-Thabor et rue Saint-Honoré n' 355, ensuite dans la rue du Faubourg-du-Temple, et actuellement sur le boulevard de ce nom, existait du temps du Directoire : c'est un théâtre d'exercices d'équitation, de pantomimes et de mimodrames, dirigé par les sieurs Franconi. Là, les che vaux sont les principaux acteurs; là, on admire le pouvoir de l' éducation sur ces animaux, et le talent de celui qui les a élevés. Le Spectacle pittoresque et mécanique du sieur Pierre, rue du Port-Mahon, depuis transféré dans une maison de la rue Montesquieu, spectacle curieux et surprenant par Texacte imitation de la nature. II n'existe plus. Les Panoramas- (1), situés sur le boulevard Montmartre et sur le boulevard des Capucines. Ici les sites les plus intéressants, les plus historiques, étaient offerts, dans Texactitude la plus rigoureuse, aux yeux du spectateur placé au centre du tableau. Je ne parle pas du Cosmorama, ni du spectacle du sieur Comte, dont les tours d'adresse offrent toujours de nouveaux sujets d'étonnement. Sous le gouvernement qui a succédé à celui de Bonaparte, deux nouveaux théâtres se sont établis à Paris : le Gymnase dramatique, situé sur le boulevard de Bonnes-Nouvelles, entre les n0' 4 et 10, fut ouvert le 23 décembre 1820; l'édifice du théâtre fait honneur à son architecte, le sieur de Rougevin. Le Panorama dramatique, situé sur le boulevard du Temple, fut ouvert lo 14 avril 1821. Ce théâtre n'existe plus. Prisons de Paris sous le dix-neuvième siècle (2). Bonaparte créa, par un décret impérial du 3 mars 1810, huit prisons illé gales, qu'il qualifia, comme dans l'ancien régime, de prisons d'État. Ainsi, la prison du Temple (3) succéda à la Bastille, et celle de Vincennes (l)L'inverrtion de ce spectacle est due à Bobcrt Baiker, natif d'Edimbourg, qui, le 19 juin 1787, en obtint !e brevet. Trois années après, il fit l'ouverture du premier Panorama qui représentait la ville de Londres. Ce nom se compose de deux mots grecs qui signifient vue de la totalité. Robert Fulton, citoyen des États-Unis, ingénieur mécanicien, introduisit le premier en Frauce celte ingénieuse manière de représenter la nature; il obtint, au mois de nivôse an vu (janvier 1799), un brevet d'impnrtation, que peu de mois après il céda à son compatriote James. Le premier Panorama dirigé par Fulton représentait la ville de Paris; le second représenta la vue de 'foulon et de ses environs, vue qui parut exécutée avec plus de supériorité que relie de Paris. On peignit depuis beaucoup d'autres vues. Le spectateur paraît placé au centre d'un vaste paysage dont il voit autour de lui tou les les parties. (% II est bon de dire ici, en commençant ce paragraphe, que l'état des prisons s'est, depuis quelques années, sensiblement amélioré. (3) La prison dite la Tour du Temple fut démolie cn 1805.", "STATISTIQUE. 97 pilai, de Saint-Marcel, de Saint-Merri, de Noire-Dame, de Sainte-Opportune, de Saint- Séverin. Plus vingt-deux cours : celles de Y Arsenal, Batave, des Cloches, des Coches, du Commerce, du Dragon, des Fontaines, de Fraîipoi's 7«r, de Saint-Guillaume, de la Juiverie, de Lamoignon, du il/aî, deux cours ds Miracles, des Morts, cour Neuve du Palais, du Palais-Royal, du, Puits de Rome, de Rohan, de la Sainte- Chapelle, cour Royale, cour des Salpêtres. Sept enclos : ceux de lM66ai/fi Sainf-^níomc, de lMfcôaj/e Saint-Germain-des- Prés, de la Foire Saint- Laurent, de Saint-Jean-de-Latran, de Saint-Martin-des- Champs, du Temple, de la Trinité. Quarante-sept halles ou marchés, cent trente-trois impasses, cent soixante six passages, quatre-vingt-seize places, vingt-sept ruelles, trente-sept car refours et quarante-six chemins de ronde. A l'égard des mille quatre-vingt-quatorze rues, il faut rabattre sur ce nom bre, par la raison suivante : on compte bien mille quatre-vingt-quatorze noms, mais non pas autant de rues, parce qu'il y a plus de noms que de rues, et que la même rue porte plusieurs noms. Deux longues rues, presque parallèles, traversent tout Paris dans une même direction, du midi au nord; une de ces rues porte à son commence ment le nom d'Enfer, puis ceux de La Harpe, de la Vieille-Bouderie, de la Barillerie, enfin celui de Saint-Denis, qu'elle conserve dans tout le reste de son étendue. Voilà une seule rue comptée pour cinq, parce qu'elle porte cinq noms. L'autre rue parallèle porte d'abord, dans un long espace, le nom de rue Saint-Jacques ; puis, à l'endroit où elle est coupée par les rues Galande et Saint-Séverin, elle quitte ce nom pour recevoir celui de rue du Petit-Pont. En traversant l'île de la Cité, elle prend ceux de rue du Marché-Palu, de la Jui verie et de la Lanterne; puis, au delà de la rivière, celui de rue des Arcis; enfin elle est nommée rue Saint-Martin, nom qu'elle conserve jusqu'à la barrière; ainsi voilà une autre rue qui porte sept noms. Chaque nom ne désigne pas toujours, surtout dans les plus longues rues de Paris, une voie publique dans toute son étendue, mais une portion de cette voie, à laquelle les circonstances ou des interruptions ont donné un nom particulier; ainsi le nombre de mille quatre-vingt-quatorze rues dé signe celui des noms et non pas celui des rues. Mais ce n'est ici qu'une exception à la règle générale : les rues d'une moyenne longueur ne portent ordinairement qu'un seul nom. La plupart des rues doivent leur nom aux institutions religieuses, civiles ou populaires qui s'y .trouvaient, aux personnes qui y avaient formé un éta blissement remarquable, aux enseignes des maisons, etc. 13", "366 HISTOIRE DE PARIS. ment, les bases principales en sont néanmoins à peu prè3 telles que les a fixées le règlement du 22 juillet 1819, arrêté par M. Decazes, ministre de l'in térieur, et approuvé par Louis XVIII, le 4 août suivant. » L'administration de l'école est dirigée par un conseil composé de cinq membres : la haute surveillance lui appartient. Un agent spécial est chargé de la comptabiiité. Les élèves nationaux et étrangers sont admis aux cours ordinaires jusqu'à Fâge de trente ans, après un examen préalable. Mais les concours pour les grands prix de Rome ne sont ouverts qu'aux artistes fran çais, ou naturalisés, âgés de moins de trente ans. Ces concours concernent la peinture, la sculpture, la gravure. » L'école a un secrétaire perpétuel, qui rédige la correspondance générale et les procès-verbaux des délibérations. Un secrétaire-archiviste est attaché à la se.tion d'architecture, Un conservateur du Musée classe et entretient les collections d'objets d'art. » L'enseignement est divisé en deux sections principales, dont l'une com prend la peinture et la sculpture, et l'autre l'architecture. Dans la première, l'enseignement se compose d'exercices journaliers, qui consistent dans l'é tude de la figure humaine, d'après Fantique et d'après nature ; de concours d'émulation appliqués aux diverses parties des études ; enfin de grands con cours annuels, donnant aux lauréats le droit d'être entretenus pendant cinq années à l'école française de Rome. » Dans la section d'architecture, l'enseignement se compose de leçons sur la théorie de Fart architectural, sur son histoire, sur les principes de la construction, et sur les mathématiques appliquées à l'architecture ; de con cours d'émulation, relatifs aux diverses branches de Finstruction, et de grands concours annuels ayant les mèmes effets que ceux de peinture et de sculpture. » Tel est le régime intérieur de l'École des Beaux-Arts. » Maison de François Ier. La maison de François I\", transportée, pierre par pierre, de Moret à Paris, en 1826, est un chef-d'œuvre de la Renaissance. Elle est située dans un coin des Champs-Élysées, sur le cours la Reine. L'é difice entier forme un carré parfait, élevé seulement de deux étages. L'archi tecture est simple et sobre d'ornements. Les frises représentent des scènes de vendanges ; quelques médaillons, quelques trophées ornent seuls la fa çade principale. Toutes les sculptures sont de Jean Goujon, qui a prodigué daus ce travail, d'une délicatesse achevée, toutes les richesses de son talent. Sur la façade postérieure, on lit l'inscription suivante : Qii icit srenare linguam snsumque domars Fortior est illo qui jrangit vírìbus urbes." ]

[ "A MONTH IN A DANDI CHAPTER I. I WAS certainly born to be unlucky, else why should the ship in which I sailed to India get ashore in the Suez Canal, and for three mortal days leave her unhappy crew and passengers to grill under the Egyptian sky, in a bleak desert of burning sand? No motion to dispel the heated air of the cabins, not a breath of wind to revive our drooping souls under the deck awning. If not unlucky, why did I remain slumbering on the seat of the railway carriage at Lahore, and permit the Mooltan train to travel to that ancient city without me ? Intuition, for you hardly ever see, and certainly never hear a guard of an Indian railway, had warned the other passengers to get out unless they meant to travel to Peshawur, why did it therefore neglect to warn me? And if not unlucky, why should an Anglo- Indian lady enter the compartment of an East Indian", "56 The Gaiety Theatre. People. Slope, precipice. Indian cedars. hand him food at table, and nothing else. During the major part of the day, or what sounds like it, these idle minions squabble in the compound, much to the annoyance of the Saheb log. It is wise to be on good terms with your jampannis, for many complaints are made that hill coolies are not so obsequious as they should be, and vent spite on their employer when annoyed or thwarted. A gay and charming young American lady, who went to too many dinners and parties for the taste of her stud, found that a great many accidents, or rather mischances befell her. At length these culminated one evening in her finding herself seated a few yards down the khud in her beautiful ball-dress. The men were paid by the month, not by the job. She yielded the point and paid buckshish when she did not come home till morning. Simla is beautifully situated, covering many hill sides with picturesque villas and bungalows. Bright gardens, splendid deodars, scarlet rhododendrons, romantic walks, and wonderfully handsome public buildings are its chief charms. Amongst the latter was one styled the Municipal Buildings which interested me considerably. Surely some socialistically disposed individual bestowed this name upon the imposing mass, which contains a concert hall, the Gaiety Theatre, dancing-room, supper-room, library. How ever it is not the municipality in the extended sense, not the delegates of the Third Estate nor the Third Estate itself of Simla, that frequent these buildings to listen to divine music, to learn life lessons from dramatic representations, to chase dull care away in a dreamy waltz, to read and lounge", "Disposal of the Dead. 102 A most curious mode of disposing of the dead is observed by this intelligent community. One of their number took me one day to a beautiful garden, well tended, bright with tropical trees, shrubs and flowers. I remarked several round buildings without roofs scattered through the grounds, of about fifteen or twenty feet in height and perhaps forty in diameter. No one, not even a Parsee priest is permitted to approach the Towers of Silence within thirty feet, but an exact miniature model has been constructed to satisfy the curiosity of visitors. Each mortuary contains seventy-two shallow cysts or open receptacles arranged in three con centric circles round a central cavity or well. The smallest circle of twenty-four compartments is for the dead bodies of children, the second for women, the outer one for men. The receptacles are separated from each other by narrow slabs of stone, grooved, in order to drain off all moisture into the middle cavity. This last leads down to an excava tion below the masonry, having four great drains at right angles to each other which terminate in charcoal, sand and gravel. After prayers have been said over a dead body in one of the Houses of Prayer erected in the grounds, the procession proceeds to one of the Towers, at whose gate the mourners turn back to re-enter the House of Prayer. Alone the white-robed bearers lay the body on a cyst and retire. Instantly the vultures swoop down to gorge them selves on the child of an ancient faith. In a few minutes only the skeleton is left. At every funeral the bearers burn their garments in a building provided for this purpose and for their ablutions. A fortnight later they return to the Tower, and with gloved hands and an implement resembling" ]

[ "AT HOME ON FURLOUGH. [LETT. XLIV. 346 two completed games it has scored twenty victories. Eton won in an innings on nine, and Harrow on six occasions. No matches were played in 1856 and 1857, and in 1860, '61, '63, and '67, the game was not finished. In '65 Eton lost, obtained the victory in the four succeeding years, but last year was made to yield its laurels. Harrow used also to play Winchester at Lord's, the score between 1825 and 1854 showing thirteen victories to the former, and eleven to the latter. Harrow won both matches against Eton and Winchester in 1842, '43, '48, '49, '53 and '54. Since 1854, it has not played Winchester at cricket, but competes against it among other schools at the annual rifle-contests at Wimbledon. The Schools' rifle-match was commenced in 1861, and has been won seven times by Harrow, twice hy Eton, twice by Winchester, and once by Rugby. Winches ter's highest prize score is 313 points, Harrow's 268 two years successively, and Eton's 248. Then, besides football, there are racquets, foot races, swimming matches, debating contests, and musical reunions to occupy the abundant leisure of the boys ; and there is the Vaughan Library that forms a noble tribute to the worth of Harrow's greatest Master, and secures the boys constant access to the founts of all departments of knowledge. It is customary for boys leaving the school to contribute a book, or set of books to this Library, which is also further enriched occasionally by devoted Harrovians of former epochs, like Lord Palmerston, with works of art, valuable manuscripts, and historical curiosities of abiding interest. The miserable squabbles at Rugby during the last four or five years undoubtedly induced many families to sever theh* old connection with that school, and to form a new one with Harrow ; but it is chiefly to its wise administration of many years, that Harrow is indebted for its proud position as the greatest but one of English public schools.", "AT HOME ON FURLOUGH. [LETT. LII. 418 definite arrangements are made for leave of absence; for the Committee expect the Missionaries to remain at their appointed fields of labour as long as their health is unim paired, and not to return to Europe without ample cause. Some of the Missionaries remain twelve to even sixteen years in the tropics ; and should they then desire to come home, even though their health is not broken down, the Committee are not averse to enabling them to do so, on the principle that \"prevention is better than cure.\" During the two or three years that, under medical certificate, the Missionaries may remain at home, an allowance is made to them at the rate of about 1,000 florins per annum, it being expected that, as soon as they are able to do so, they will attend meetings, and give such other assistance in promot ing the interests of the Society as it may be in their power to do. Missionaries whose health has been perma nently injured in the Society's service, and who are dis qualified from obtaining other employment, are granted a compasionate allowance of 600 florins per annum ; while those who succeed in obtaining work elsewhere are some times paid 2,000 to 3,000 florins wherewith to set them selves up in their new calling. The \" Missionshaus\" is a large, square, unornamental, airy, white building, fitted up with careful regard both to economy, and to the desirability of habituating the inmates to unluxurious surroundings. The sleeping accommoda tion is particularly primitive, there being wards sub-divided into four or six rooms, each containing two or three beds, and the whole barren both of privacy and comfort ; but everything is clean, and the table is abundant, if not perhaps very choice. A museum attached to the College contains some interesting curiosities contributed by various Missionaries in India, Africa, Persia, and China, and constitutes one of the smaller exhibitions of the town. The Committee room is a plain apartment in the front of the building, containing on the walls portraits of various", "LETT. LVIII.] RETIRED ANGLO-INDIANS. 461 the duties of Director of another new Co-operative Supply Association in this city. A third Madrassee, still more learned in law, is now one of the chief men in the conduct of a new London daily newspaper. And the late Senior Member of Council in Madras appears on the Board of Directors of the new Railway Travellers' Protec tion Society. Other instances might be given of the \" industriousness\" of retired Anglo-Indians. It speaks well for India that its administrators are usually found to bring home with their comfortable pensions a readiness to engage in new work, chiefly for the love of work, at an age when they might be par doned for indulging in a protracted holiday-making. It is possibly a misfortune to return with a Star of India handle to one's name, since a \" Sir,\" when of the self-conscious order, cannot easily stoop to conquer, as a plain \" Mr.,\" shorn of all quondam official rank, finds no difficulty in doing. Generally speaking, how ever, after they have found their level in the \"old country,\" and realised the at first painful fact that they are by most people in England regarded as \" no one in particular,\" ex-Indian officials clothe themselves with humility, and not unfrequently jump at baits in the guise of seats on Boards fof Direction, and drop some of their savings in their haste to grow rich. Some eschew commerce, and lay themselves out for benevolent offices, for the good of mankind in general and of India in particular. The most notable specimen of this class is Sir Bartle Frere, who takes an active part in the proceedings of the Geographical and other Societies, writes pamphlets, makes Missionary addresses, contributes to Good Words, corresponds with the daily newspapers on the slightest provocation, and all this too in addition to his discharge of the duties of a Member of the Indian Council. Then there is Sir Charles Trevelyan who has been just rewarded by Mr. Gladstone with a baronetcy for long and" ]

[ "Stella 49 — it is in producing an effect on others that her self love is gratified. By taking away visible corporeality from Stella, he took away the means of living for herself. Refusing to allow her to dress, he put her in a condition in which the set of motives complementary to self-love were bound to come into activity. The ground was cleared for them. The loss of these pages I blamed myself for. I had no doubt they would have proved my correctness on the disputed point. But the individual who had stolen Stella had been acute enough to take away at the same time the documentary proofs of her exist ence. I had no doubt they were in their right place, running consecutively on, when I first had the oppor tunity, which I so neglected, of becoming acquainted with Michael Graham's philosophy. After this gap the manuscript rolled on in its volu minous flood. In order to gain any connected idea of what Michael Graham was after, I found it neces sary to construct a working model of his system — to make a representation in definite and limited terms of the relations he strove to show as universal. But it was a difficult task. Listen first to a few of the enigmatic utterances of my philosopher, and you can tell what it cost me to assign any definite meaning. \" We do not stop with a catalogue of our sensa tions ; we do not merely say there are these sounds, colours, sensations of contact which occur. We seem unable to remain content with simply regarding them as existing. We stiffen them up. By themselves they are thin — we suppose a substance behind them, and we say the sensations are the relations to us of E", "50 Stella substance. But just as without a substance impres sions are thin, so this substance in its turn, which stands for a sum of sensation, is thin without a sub stance to hold it up. Splitting up our experience into a substance and its relation to us, it follows that this substance is but the relation to us of a deeper substance. Thus in the idea of substance as of motion we have an essential relativity. In the study of motion no fixed point can be found. Yet that does not hinder the calculation of movements. So, although we can find no absolute being, yet that is no bar to the discovery of relative being. The idea of substance is a path, not a finality. \" As with substance so with the self. We must re member that the self is a relative term by its very origin and definition, as that which appears to the consciousness in appetites and passions, it is itself an appearance of a self beyond. This self beyond is not to be found in an introspection of the self we know but in the consideration of ourselves as given with others, of ourselves as changing. The higher self .is that through which these conflicting selves exist, through which each has its individuality. The hin drance to our entering on the path is that we judge everything by our consciousness, as if that were fixed, instead of recognising that the question is how our consciousness comes to assume the form it does. \" The first step is to recognise that our conscious ness is so limited that the realities of the world and ourselves cannot be adequately represented in it. \" On the stage of consciousness the great things of the world and ourselves are presented as fugitive, as not existing yet, as ceasing to exist, leaving a flicker-", "Stella 104 \" Have you been to him ? How does he know you ? \" \" He knows me by my voice, and by my writing. He is such a kind man ; but last time I went he would not give me any money.\" \" Why not ? \" \" You see, Hugh, Mr. Biglow thought it would be a good thing to found a college for the study of Michael Graham's works — not for young students, you know, but when they had finished their college courses. He wanted me to give eight thousand pounds, and he would give eight thousand pounds and start it.\" \" So Mr. Underwood would not let you have that money ? \" \" No, he said he would not ; and he told me to send Mr. Biglow to him.\" The sacred hunger for money, I thought, is the cause of most good things. If Biglow had been content with drawing that two hundred a month, he might have gone on indefinitely. But he tried to get an extra thousand out of the bishop, and gave me a clue just in time. I found, on communicating with Mr. Underwood, that Stella had a moderate fortune in her own right, derived chiefly, I expect, from the economies of Michael Graham's unostentatious way of life. This made our course quite plain. We remained at my post for some time longer ; then, Stella having still a very transparent complexion, we started on our way home, taking care to avoid a boat carrying coolies. I took Mrs. Churton to Pekin to call on Sir Richard Part. She and he became very good friends." ]

[ "8 GO WEST ! not exceeding, as a rule, thirty miles per hour. The coaches are very long, with a passage down the middle, and seats for two persons arranged in rows across the car on either side of it. At each end of the coach is a door, out side of which a platform enables the passenger to pass easily from one coach to another, even when the train is in motion. They are entered from the stations by steps ascend ing to these end platforms. Pullman cars are attached to all through trains. In them a berth can be obtained for ios. per night. During the daytime the beds are turned up, and the car transformed into an elegant drawing-room. A smoking-room, card-room, and lavatory are attached to the car. On some trains meals are served in dining-coaches; others stop twenty minutes each meal-time at dining stations. The food provided, however, is poor, and the charges high, so the passenger had better provide himself with a sufficient supply before starting. This fault will, I fancy, be amended in the near future. The arrangements for taking care of luggage are admirable. On leaving the steamer the baggage is checked, — that is, a strap, to which a brass plate about i J inch square is attached, is fastened to each package, and a similar square of brass, with a corresponding number, is handed the passenger, who has no farther trouble with his luggage, except passing it through the Customs at the frontier, till nearing Chicago. Then a baggage - man passes through the coach, and inquires whether he is going any farther or to any hotel. If going farther, the baggage is re-checked to his destination ; if going to an hotel, on giving its name, the baggage is checked to it, where the passenger finds it on his arrival. Otherwise, on production of your checks at the baggage-room at the station, your luggage is delivered to you, without any extra charge for all this trouble.", "GO WEST ! 12 by the merchant, directed to his own order ; at the same time a bill for them with a delivery order attached is sent to the local bank, or, if there is no bank, to the express agent ; on payment of the bill, the delivery-order is handed to the customer, who presents it to the station agent, by whom the goods are delivered to him. This is a great convenience, as, in the event of a break-down of machinery requiring repairs, or anything else being wanted in a hurry, it can be telegraphed for and despatched by first train. In sending car-loads of merchandise to any one of whose stability one is not assured, the following safeguard may be used : — The bill of lading you have made out to yourself, with the address of the consignee on the margin ; this you endorse, and attach to it a draft for the value of the goods. This draft and bill either you, or your banker, forward to a bank or express agency in the town for which the car is destined. The consignee is notified, calls round, pays the draft, and obtains the bill of lading, which, being endorsed, entitles him to take possession of the car. On the arrival of the car, the consignee, whose address is likewise on the way-bill, is notified, and, on his producing the bill of lading, it is placed at his disposal on the team track, where he is allowed forty-eight hours to unload it. On each team-track are scales, overwhich every load coming out of the yard has to pass ; every car has a separate number, and an official record of the weight of merchandise taken from each is kept, which can be inspected by the shipper, if at any time he is dissatisfied with the weights returned by the consignee. On application, the latter can have an official ticket of the weights, which he can forward to the consigner, if necessary, to convince him that he has accounted for all stuff received. If the car has to be placed on some other road, or in a private switch, the charge for switching is i dol. 50 cents to 2 dols. There is no charge for switching in an empty car to load, or in taking out a loaded one. Freight bills are always paid by the receiver. Ventilated cars are supplied for the transportation of fruit, and refrigerator ones for the conveyance of butter and meat. The stock-cars are very roomy, holding from 50 to 70 hogs, or 15 to 20 cattle; the double-decked sheep-cars", "hay-dealing. 39 may occur in freight through the car not containing the minimum amount This, if the seller's standing is known, is generally a cash transaction, he drawing on the buyer for the amount as soon as the car is sent off. Another way is to send the hay to a commission agent in some of the large centres, where he will dispose of it for a commission of 50 cents per ton : this is, perhaps, the most satisfactory way of doing business for a beginner, for no dispute can then arise as to grades and freights. Care must be exercised in selecting an agent, and in having the car loaded with the same quality of hay throughout. Messrs. G. S. Blakeslee & Co., 1,537, State Street, are the best in Chicago : the senior partner, Mr. G. Blakeslee, will always be sound ready to give any information to inquirers. It is usual sor commission agents to pay freight at point of arrival, and to allow a draft of some two-thirds the home value of the con signment ; settling balances monthly or quarterly, as may be agreed on. As I remarked before, it would be a suicidal policy for any young man to go direct from England and engage in the hay or any other business. He should go for at least six months to some hay-man, and learn the tricks of the trade. If he has any business capacity, this time should be ample to master them. He can then commence to cast round for a location to start for himself. This should not take him long to find, as new railroads, developing fresh countries, are being continually opened. Having selected a suitable locality, I should advise him to go and stay there for at least a month, to make sure it is all he has thought it before finally settling ; then, if satisfied, he can commence opera tions. With a small capital expensive buildings are not desirable : a suitable barn, capable of holding 100 tons of loose hay, can be built for A press and light six horse engine will cost ; an office and weighing-table another the land necessary can always be obtained from the railroad company at a merely nominal rent. His total expenditure has now been leaving him with a balance in bank of or at present rate of exchange 1,220 dols., which I shall presently show is ample for his needs. In all my examples on businesses, I shall take Chicago as the market, on the prices of which" ]

[ "THINGS TO COME % IJiopficttc (Dtrc LONDON : THOMAS BOSWORTH, REGENT STREET 1852.", "THINGS TO COME. 13 Yearning to yield, in a bountiful clime, Fruits and roots and blessings untold And not this too much gold. Too much gold is too little gain ; Surfeiting pleasure is nothing but pain ; Rank prosperity rots into bane ! XI. Marvels coming in Things to come, — Who shall count their sum ? Man hath found out Inventions ; And up and down the earth doth he range, Fidl of keen intentions To bind all Nature's chance and change, Her miracle works of secret and strange, Contentions and propensions, Into the thraldom of Science and Art : To fill the rich coffers of This World's mart Slnewdly doth Intellect act its part ; Flinging aside, as matters of nought, Honour, affection, generous heat, Joys of the spirit and gems of the heart ; And, forging only weapons for Thought, An infidel Giant in armour complete, Steeled from head to feet.", "21 THINGS TO COME. Thongs and chains, the goad and the rod, Returned to repentance sublime ; The Morian's land Now stretches her hand to her God ! O Liberia ! hope of the race, Home of the happy and free, Rejoice at the goodness, and glory, and grace For Africa centred in thee ! Forth from thy civilised shore, — The little open door, Truth and Mercy tenderly bless The budding, blossoming wilderness : Forth from thy fringe on the sea, There creeps inland a life-giving band Full of beneficent zeal, — The leaven hid in meal : Egypt bends the worshipping knee, A.nd wondering Ham rejoices to see Salvation come to his kraal from thee ! Go on, go on ! it is God's good way : Those who help thee, blessed are they ! XVIII. The Wilful King went forth, And spoke with blasphemous mouth," ]

[ "58 IN A KINGDOM BY THE SEA. The old man had just laid down his spade as they turned the corner and was now leisurely tak ing off his coat. As Drummond spoke he took and threw it over his arm. \" He'll be going home,\" said Ailie. \" You don't mean to say he kept on his coat to work and is taking it off to go home.\" \" I've seen them.\" \" Well, this is a strange place, if you'll excuse me saying so. I might have believed that of an Irish man — but, I say — are you taking your fun off me?\" Ailie had recovered her ease after seeing it was a roadman she did not know, so when Drummond broke off into this sudden protest, she could not help laughing as she answered, \" You're very feared of being laughed at. But you can ask him and see.\" \" I will — and if you've been hoaxing me, beware.\" The roadman drew near, bent like a sickle and with his coat hung over his arm. He had a long, solemn face. \"A fine, mild evening,\" said Drummond, half stopping, while Ailie walked on. \" The pick o' weather,\" answered the old-man.", "IN A KINGDOM BY THE SEA. 80 chaunerin' about Alan Revie, if he's forgotten her, mind that ! Ailie's a lass of some smiddum. You should seen her the last day he showed his nose here.\" And Mrs. M'Farlane went over the tale again, and for Ailie's credit she even forgot to give any weight to her own share in the little incident. And Ailie, the while was on her way down to that weary well that breaks ground at the bottom of the hill on the side where it slopes steeply to the sea. How often had she to toil up in a day, on how wretched a path ! As she drew the water and set down the stoups to get them rightly to her hands, she paused before taking them up again. It was no wonder, she reflected, that Mrs. M'Far lane's other servants had left her so soon. She had a mind to do it herself, almost. It would be a happy thing for her if she might. There were many other farms, if her father would only hear of it ; but talk of hardship only set him sneering about softness. Mrs. M'Farlane, too, troubled with the loss of so many servants, had cunningly added ten shillings to what Ailie would get elsewhere ; and Ailie was as fast bound as the trade apprentice", "IN A KINGDOM BY THE SEA. 102 of his last words to her father. But those, of course, had merely been words to answer a dying man, and hush him from talking. His utter blankness now might be because of the death : he would be thinking of her feelings she told herself. To the funeral came the farmers of the neigh bourhood, and some of the well-to-do fishers from the village. The only stranger was Mysie's cousin from some little strath or other a good bit to the north. James M'Injar was his name, and he and his brother Donald were now the only relatives Mysie had on this side of the Atlantic. Donald, it appeared, could not get for the harvest. After the funeral most of the mourners came back to the farm, and funeral honours were paid to Paul in something the same way that the men of the north speed the parting year and welcome the new comer. They ate heartily and drank deep. At first they were pretty silent, and their faces had all that heaviness which passes, on such occasions, for sympathy with the living. But with the whisky death had lost its sting. There was, first, a thaw to decent enough talk of cattle and crops, then to neighbours' affairs, then to politics." ]

[ "94 s fejszecsapásokkal végzi ki a felügyelőt. Castres-ban arra a hírre, hogy egy gabnakereskedő föl akarja emelni a gabna árát, megragadják ezt s kivetik az első emeleti ablakon, azután agyonütve, az utczán vonszolják végig a folyóba. Clairacban a papot veszik üldözőbe, hogy kivetkőztessék reverendájából a szamár hátára ültessék ; csak nehezen menekülhet a meggya lázás elől élete árán. Bordeauxban egy 80 éves papot vernek halálra, egy mást lábára kötött kötélnél fogva hurczolnak meg, egy harmadiknak pedig fejét lándzsára tűzik s szolgálója elébe viszik azzal az izenettel, hogy gazdája «nem jő haza vacsorára » . Bochefoucauld az alkotmányozó nemzetgyűlés legszabad elvübb és legtiszteletreméltóbb alakja volt. És mégis Gisors ban letartóztatva, gyalog fogja közre tizenkét zsandár és száz nemzetőr, utána kocsiban 80 éves agg anyja és felesége. Még mielőtt azonban biztonságba helyezhetnék, egy kő halántékon sújtja Bocheföucauldot, s a kocsit az asszonyokkal is alig menthetik meg. Hasonlóan járt a puszta gyanúra árulónak nyilvánított gyárfelügyelő, Juchereau, Charlevilleban. Lánd zsára tűzött fejét körülhordozva a folyóba vetették, s a testét utána. Másutt házakat dúltak fel és romboltak le, igy Coucy ban Fossés nevű volt képviselő két szép házát, s a tulajdonos két leányával alig menekülhetett a szomszédház egy homá lyos zugába, majd egy kertészhez s onnan nagy bajjal Sois sonsba. A házakból csak a puszta falak maradtak ; egyéb min den széttörve, zúzva, 20,000 livre értékű assignata széttépve; az összes kár 200,000 frank. A pusztítást, mely reggel héttől este hétig tartott, nagy áldomás fejezi be, mely alkalommal két hordó bor és két hordó pálinka fogy el a pinczében s rakásonként hevernek jobbra-balra holt részegen. Mindez még hagyján, de Beimsben a postaigazgatót és segédjét csupán azért bántalmazzák, mivel kéményükből elége tett papírok füstjét vélték felszállani látni. Utánok a papokra támadnak s többeknek hulláját széthasogatva, darabonként. hordozzák meg a városban, azután megégetik. Egy megsebe sült papot pedig elevenen dobnak a tűzbe. Chalons sur Mámé ban egy 80 éves süket az áldozat, a kit, mivel nem hallotta a, forradalmárok parancsát, s nem kiáltotta utánuk, hogy: « éljen", "99 beszédét. «A nemzet bosszúját hívom fejemre ; én óhajtottam a diktátorságot. A nép ezelőtt hajtott valamit szavamra, föl keltettem bosszúját az árulók ellen, s ö érezte, hogy a mód, melyet javasoltam, az egyetlen, mely a haza megmentésére vezet. Diktátor lett ő maga, és megszabadította magát a bűnö söktől. » «Büszke vagyok az elfogatási parancsokra, melyeket az alkotmányozó és a nemzetgyűlés bocsátott ki ellenem. De a nép széttépte azokat, midőn e helyre hivott s ha ellenségeim uj rendszabályt foganatosítnának ellenem, itt e szószéken röpí tenék golyót agyamba. » E szavakkal pisztolyt szegzett halántékának. Többen mosolyogtak; az általános megvetés tükröződött vissza az arczokon. Végre Marat egy szinészies gesztussal újra kiegye nesedett : — -(Nos, hát nem ! Itt maradok, hogy daczoljak dühö tökkel ! » Az első támadás Bobespierre s társai ellen megbukott, a jakobinusok merészebb gőggel emelték fel fejőket, mint valaha. A konvent sorsa el volt döntve, most már minden kérdés és érdeklődés a körül fordult meg, hogy mi történjék a szeren csétlen királyival. XI. A TEMPLE. — «Fogoly vagyok tehát! ... I. Károly szerencsésebb volt mint én ; neki meghagyták barátait egész a vérpadig. » E szavakkal hallotta XVI. Lajos király becsukódni maga. mögött a Temple sötét vas ajtóját, mely örökre elzárta a kül világtól, komor vezeklés négy fala közé temetve a franczia királyság évszázados fényét, hatalmát. Az assemblée fölhívta mindjárt eleinte, hogy jelölje ki 7*", "206 egyfelől azokkal, a kik mindig a forradalom élén állottak, s mind messzebbre akarták azt tolni a felforgatás utján, más felöl azokkal, kik már megunták az anarkhia szélsőségeit s nyiltan szakítottak a túlzó elemekkel. Ezek közé tartozott első sorban Danton, kinek szenvedélyes vére egy ideig a mézeshetek idylli örömeiben keresett magának alibit a rém uralom iszonyai ellen, s vele Desmoulins, Philvppeaux, Hérault de Séchelles. Amazoknak vezére Hébert volt, a Vari étés-szinház egykori ellenőre, kit onnan azért csaptak el, mert egy barátja fehérneműjét ellopta, s kinek ((Pere Duchesne» czimü lapjával kifejtett izgatásait ismerjük már ; azután Ron sin tábornok, a Vendée ellen küldött hadvezér, valamikor szintén a színpadért rajongó titkos drámaköltő, az ifjú Vin cent, kit Michelet «kis tigris »-nek nevez demagóg szájasságá ért; Chaumette, ama hires indítványnak szerzője, hogy a forradalmi hadsereg nyomában nyaktilót hordozzanak ; végre Momoro, a spanyol eredetű exaltált nyomdász, Henriot, és mindenekfölött Clootz Anacharzis, a hóbortos álmodozó, világpolgár és materialista, kinek vallásos eszméit már vázol tuk, mint a melyek az Ész istennője kultuszához az első ötle tet adták. E kettős áramlat széthúzó hatása közepette a forradalmi kormány csak azáltal biztosíthatta konszolidálását, ha egy szerre sújt le mindkettőre, mint egyaránt veszélyeztetőjére a. köztársasági rendnek, s ebben a politikájában engedelmes, alkalmazkodó közege volt a forradalmi törvényszék. Danton és társai valóban nem titkolták már elégület lenségüket a felett, hogy a forradalom oly útra téved, a hová követni nem engedte lelkiismeretök. A girondisták halála fenyegető árnyként emelkedett jóslelkük előtt, s elég ok volt arra, hogy Danton kételkedni kezdjen a forradalom sikerében. Csodálkozását fejezte ki, hogy az európai hatalmak fáradsá got vesznek annak leküzdésére. «Nem látják, — monda egy alkalommal, — hogy a forradalom hasonló egy nagy pörhöz, mely olykor azt sem gazdagítja meg, a ki megnyeri, azt pedig, a ki elveszti, biztosan tönkre teszi. » A vallás nevében űzött « maskarádé » -k undort keltettek benne, s ép oly érzékenyen érinthették azok a gyanúsítások, melyek mind kevesebb tar-" ]

[ "Adela; or, The Count's Daughter. 14 For an outburst spreading havoc wide : Less fraught with ruin is fire than pride. More sullen his mood ; more gloomy become, From his close-pressed lips bursts an angry hum Messengers ride not to say him why ; How wicked his look I How hard his eye ! A reason he asks not : she has not come ; To obey was hers ; it is duty's sum. And ladies wish they too had forgot, The day has gloom to their feasting brought. Squires are silent, and nobles are dull, The talking is low, a broken lull ; Or, if a jest from a lip escape, The talking with dulness then they drape. Laughter that rose AA7as a laughter forced, Hiding vexations that heartward coursed, And dared not rise to a telltale tongue, Or doAvn the hall be in whispers flung. A cloud at the banquet hid the sun ; Day was bewailing a deed now done. Tramp of horses and shoutings of men ! Somewhat hath chanced out of common ken. Ladies are crowding the Avindow bays, Seeking an outlet in doubters' maze, Reading a picture in courts below, Broken and blurred like a life of w7oe. The Count is grasping his daughter's hand, And armoured horsemen around them stand,", "The Birthday Gift. 101 Like stars of night in azure blue, Each movement from them flashes threw. As braided hair and golden zone Gave answer to the timbrel's tone. The monarch's guests applauses shower; How sweet that blush! A maiden's power! What lovely garlands crowd the floor, Where moving grace and beauty pour! The heated King, entranced, demands, \" What wilt thou ? Half my Kingdom's lands ? Ask what thou wilt, that shall I give, Sure as these guests and I do live.\" A wine cup spake ; a king was snared ; A woman's hate the net prepared, Her daughter was a fisher's tool To lure into its toils a fool. Oh, shameless mother, shameless wife, Who art with God and man at strife! Who crushest conscience, that thy hate With prophet blood thou mayest sate ! With grace the princess begged his leave To dream of gifts she might receive, And promised, ere the feast should end, To say, how he could her befriend.", "The Stone Cut Out Without Hands. 121 10. Rock, thou rollest onward, By mosses never stained ; Thus thou pressest forward, Till furthest earth be gained. 11. Down thou smitest races, That would thy rolling stay ; Shame inflames the faces That dare to bar thy way. 12. O stone, with healing fraught For man and beast and field ; To earth thy coming brought From death and woe a shield, 13. Priests and princes lended Their hand to help thee on; Yes, their pride pretended Thy rolling power was gone. 14. Frail were the props they placed, Nor aided they thy speed; By them thou wert not graced, Nor of them hadst thou need" ]

[ "[ II ] \" From courts difeafe retir'd,\" delighted view'd 90 The gawdy garden fam'd in Wotton's page ; Or in the verdant maze, or cool arcade, Sat mufing, and from fmooth Italian ftrains The foft Guarini's amorous lore transfus'd Into rude Britijh verfe. The warrior's arm 9S Now refts from toil ; the poet's tuneful tongue In filence lies ; frail man his lov'd domains Soon quits for ever! they themfelves, by courfe Of Nature often, or caprice of Art, Experience change : even here, 'tis faid of old 100 Steep rocky cliffs rofe where yon gentle Hopes Mix with the vale ; and fluctuating waves Spread wide, where that rich vale with golden flowers Shines ; and where yonder winding chryftal rill Slides thro' its fmooth fhorn margin, to the brink J05 90. The words marked with inverted commas are part of a ftanza of Fanfhaw's. 91. — Wotton's page -,] See Reliquix Wottonianse, where the author makes a particular mention of the garden of Sir Henry Fanfhaw at Ware-Park, \" as a delicate and dili gent curiofity,\" remarkable for the nice arrangement of its flowers. B 2 Of", "[ i3 J No grandeur* boafting, here obfcurely glides 125 O'er graffy lawns or under willow (hades ; As, thro' the human form, arterial tubes Branch'd every way, minute and 'more minute, The circulating fanguine fluid extend ; So, pipes innumerable, to peopled ftreets 130 Tranfmit the purchas'd wave. Old Lee, meanwhile, Beneath his mofly grot o'er-hung with boughs Of poplar quivering in the breeze, furveys With eye indignant his diminifh'd tide That laves yon antient priory's wall, and lhows 135 In its clear mirrour Ware's inverted roofs. Ware once was known tfo Fame ; to her fair fields Whilom the Gothick tournament's proud pomp 134. With eye indignant his diminifh'd tide] A confider- able part of the new river water is derived from the Lee, to the difadvantage of the navigation on that ftream.\" 135. That la-jes yon antient priory's wall, — ] \" About «' the 18th of Henry the III. Margaret Countefs of Lei- \" cefter, and lady of the manor, founded a priory for \" friers in the north part of this town of Ware, and dedi- \" cated the fame to St. Francis.\" Cbauncy's Hertford shire. Brought", "[ 25 ] Here dwelt a while ; perchance here (ketch'd thefcenc Where his fair Argentile, from crowded courts For an epifode of which, intitled Argentile and Curan, has been frequently re-printed, and is much admired by the lovers of old Engiifh poetry. The ingenious Dr Percy, who has inferted this piece in his Collection, obferves, that \" though \" Warner's name is fo feldom mentioned, his contempora- \" ries ranked him on a level with Spenfer, and called him \" the Homer and Virgil of their age ;\" that \" Warnerwas \" faid to have been a Warwickihire man, and to have been \" educated at Magdalen Hall ; that, in the latter part of \" his life, he was retained in the fervice of Henry Cary, \" Lord Hunfdon, to whom he dedicates his poem ; but \" that more of his hifl.ory is not known.\" Mrs. Cooper, in her Mufes Library, after highly applauding his poetry, adds, \" What were the circumftances and accidents of his \" life, we have hardly light enough to conjecture ; any \" more than, by his dedication, it appears he was in the \" fervice of the Lord Hunldon, and acknowledges very \" gratefully both father and fon for his patrons and bene- \" factors. \" — By the following extraft from the Parifh Re gijler of Amwell, it may be reafonably concluded, that Warner relided for fome time at that village and as his profeffion of an attorney is particularly mentioned, it is pretty evident, that, whatever dependance he might have on Lord Hunfdon, it could not be in the capacity of a D menial" ]

[ "26 CHAPTER III. They dance and sing and laugh away their time, Fresh as their groves, and happy as their clime. Dryden. Whit-Sunday at Horta. — Public feast to the poor. — Crowd in the streets. — The \" Cloth Animal \" in Horta. — Priest blessing bread. — Distribution of food. May 19, Whit-Sunday. — A day of great fes tivity in Horta. We were told that the islanders made a vow \" long time ago,\" that if an earth quake which had done great damage, did not recur, they would distribute annually to the poor, for a certain number of years, so much bread, meat, and wine. The earthquake ceased ; and the vow has not only been punctually performed by the makers and their descendants ; but, when the term expired, it was renewed, and the public distribution of food still continues.", "BLEACHING. 245 for bleaching, was fixed in the earth. The boiling lye was then poured on the top of the linen, and gradually soaking through it to the bottom, was caught in a pot, which, when filled, was again put on the fire to be reboiled. While this soaking process was going on, a woman, hot and sooty, fed the fire with small branches of an evergreen from the hills, which, being green and wet, sent up volumes of smoke and crackled loudly behind the pots. The wat tled fence was brown and crisp, the ground black and wet, strewed with ashes and fuel, empty pots, and unbleached linen. The poor woman in her blackened white dress was enveloped in smoke, and when she approached her line of pots to fling on more fuel, turned her head aside from the heat and flare which flushed her face and reddened her eyes. She said it was a difficult matter to live with all this labour, but what would it be without it? and therefore that she had no other remedy but to work as she was doing. There were enclosures similar to this near many of the cottages in the village, and, as nearly all were in full action and the fuel was the same, the whole village was clouded over with a line", "320 THE CLIMATE OF The result of these observations is that the mean in-door temperature of a room in Villa Franca without fire, curtains, or carpet, during the winter months, is 60° with a mean range of 3°; and that the out-of-door temperature during the day for the same period presents a mean of 60° with a range of 7°. The mean difference between the climate in-doors and out-of-doors is so trifling as scarcely to deserve notice ; being no more than a small decimal fraction of a de gree. There is, however, a difference of 4° be tween the range of the thermometer in the house and out-of-doors. The highest point to which the mercury rose in the shade during the five winter months before named, between the hours of eight in the morning and ten at night, was 76°, and the lowest point to which it sank was 51°. Comparing the climate of Villa Franca during the winter months with that of the south of Ens: land in the summer time, it appears from Mr. Giddy's Meteorological Journal * that the average mean temperature of the Land'send in the month of August during a period of twelve years was * See Dr. Forbes's Medical Topography of the Land'send ; Provincial Medical and Surgical Transactions, vol. 2." ]

[ "THE DAREDEVIL IS PROMOTED. 75 The Englishman had hoped to escape without being obliged to confess to his adventure; but he reckoned without his host. The Grand Duke was in his autocratic mood, and at such times it was useless to attempt to either deceive or cross him. \"Come, come,\" he added, \"it is better to conceal nothing. I prefer straight dealing. Speak out.\" \" I — it got cut, your Imperial Highness, \" stammered Montague confusedly. \" Oh, it got cut, did it, Mr. Lieutenant ! And how, pray, were you so unfortunate as to get your arm cut?\" \" It was an accident,\" began Montague. \"Naturally,\" said Paul. \"Men do not cut their arms on purpose. Come, Mr. Lieutenant, you know my dislike for concealment. You will find it better to speak out when I desire it.\" \" If your Imperial Highness will permit me to say what I have to say in private,\" said Montague, \" it would be more convenient. It is a long story.\" Paul stared intently into Montague's eyes once again before answering. \" So be it then, \" he said. \" You may attend in the cabinet after parade.\" \" Now, then, Mr. Sub-Lieutenant, \" began the Grand Duke, as Montague was ushered presently into the presence chamber. \" Say on, and let me remind you that I wish to hear nothing but the plain truth. I will have no beating about the bush. \" Montague flushed.", "THE EMPEROR'S ENGLISHMAN. 132 up to the very tree he is seated upon, and watch him— shoot him, if you care to do so. But then, as I say — you must know how to do it. It is simple enough, like many other things which seem impos- sible, if only you learn the trick. These splendid birds, then, at springtime, that is during the mating season, are arrayed in very gorgeous plumage (in a quiet way, I mean— they do not vie with peacocks and birds of paradise even at their gaudiest), and are accustomed to assemble in the darkest hour of the night upon trees within a radius of half a mile or so in some remote spot in mid-forest. On these trees they roost until about two or three in the morning, at which hour the cocks begin the func- tion for which they have assembled. Each one from his tree begins to boast and to challenge his compeers in the trees around his own, making — for so large a bird — the most ridiculously insignificant sound. During one portion of this challenge the caper- cailzie becomes so excited that the blood rushes to his head and for a moment he is both blind and deaf, and as helpless as though he were a dead bird. It is during this moment or two of blindness and deafness that the cunning sportsman, who knows all about it and the exact sound which the bird makes while in its unconscious condition, is able to approach him. The bird repeats his challenges one after the other with great rapidity and without wait ing to hear the rival's remarks upon the subject,", "A WOLF HUNT. 301 he was aware of a presence, in front of his very nose. Two big grey creatures flitted by through the pines, followed by two little ones — their coun terparts in diminutive. Up went Montague's gun and off went his charge of buckshot ; but the wolves had seen the flash of his gun-barrel, and were away before he had well raised the weapon to his shoulder. Backwards and forwards rushed those four grey spectres, appearing for an instant now here, now there ; now and again a shot was fired, and present ly only three were to be seen flitting and skulking hither and thither in search of safety ; one had been left behind to bleed out his savage life upon the snow. Then another fell, shot by Montague, who was excitedly reloading his gun, with powder-flask and ramrod manipulated by trembling fingers, when renewed shouts and yells from the beaters, raised to a frantic pitch of discordance and excitement, revealed the discovery by them of some new and unexpected quarry within the ring. In a few moments the word \" medvyed\" became distinguishable through the uproar, and Montague and the rest were aware that a bear had made his appearance. This was a stroke of good fortune for the sportsmen, though it was certainly very much the reverse for the bear, who had doubtless, been awaked from his comfortable winter's sleep in order to take part in a function which had been got up without his consent. His den had been placed, most" ]

[ "62 to a spider Spider ! Spider ! hanging light On thy web but seen dew-bright, What fore-thoughtful brain and eye Framed that fearful symmetry ?", "THE KINGS' WAKE 70 The when we never let them know, But for amends With baskets and caskets Their tables we throng, And bottles, with throttles Impatient for song. This party was of various clime Beshrew me, they were worthy rhyme As any of that antique time Your laureate sings. Surprises may not be sublime, But kings are kings. King ( Tom ), of royal heart was he, And this same day from o'er the sea Came home : is any doubt that we Shall be well-come ? His Wife too 'd like us to make free And feel \" tu hum.\" So thought our party : but ere they 're astir It may be well to note the kind o' folk they were. Chief of the gang was Enoch, tall and dry, Square-shoulder'd, hatchet-faced, lank-hair'd, and spry: He said Vermont had raised him ; others said He was a right New-Yorker, thorough bred. Wherever borh, a level head had he, And spake outside his nose sonorously. Not quite his height was Bull, but fleshier far,", "THE KINGS' WAKE 86 Sang out, as his heart's blood were shed, Whiskey and liberty ! Another bowl before you 're gone — Were his last words. And only one ! Our Hostess graciously appends : Though seldom such a sheaf of friends ( She glanced around upon them all ) Comes with such will without a call. And now the final punch was mix'd And every glass refill'd. Then Bull, supremely rising, fix'd His hand upon his heart ; And — Ere we must depart, ( So spake he ) little as I 'm skill'd In compliment, you will permit me say — Of our good friend now sitting here before us Hip, hip, hooray ! Was chorus. Who shall count the drinks were had While mad mirth grew more and more as Momus steep'd the moments' noses In the mixture that disposes Even Sorrow to be glad Softer Sorrow ! On the morrow Sick as Pharoah's Court of Moses. Fairer fate my Muse discloses, Lifting of our night the blanket : No wet Banquo at this banquet ;" ]

[ "11 und Griechisch - Katholischen ; dic polnischen Edcllcutc verlangten von ihnen, daß sic ihr Blut nicht vergießen möchten, sondern sic nur gefangen nehmen. Dic Tartarm erfüllten ihren Wunsch und nahmen das ganze polnische Hcer sammt den beiden Fcldhcrrc» gefangen. Furchtbare Marter mußten sie erdulden, den Füßen der beiden Feldherren, deren Namen Pototzki und Kalinousti war, lcgte man eiserne Fesseln an. Als viele polnische Edelleute wahrnahmen, daß Chmielnicki glücklich war und alle seine Unternehmungen gelangen, empörten auch sie sich gegen die pol nische Regierung und schlössen mit Chmielnicki eine» Bund. Sie sckwurcn ihm, daß fie ihm wahr und treu dienen wollten, wie fie vordem dem polnischen Könige gedient hatten. Unter ihnen war auch der Hauptmann über Tausende, der früher unter dem Horonzi stand und dem lctztercr befohlen hatte, den Chmielnicki zu köpfen. Chmielnicki beförderte ihn zum Feldherrn über Tausend in seinem Hcerc. Auch dcr Secretair des verstorbenen Feldherrn Konicßpolski nahm dasselbe Amt bci Chmielnicki ein. Dieser Eecrclair war schr erfahren und kanntc alle Schlachtordnungen dcs polnischen Reiches. Dieser und die andern aufrührerischen polnischen Edelleute waren Chmiclnicki's Rathgebcr- fie waren die Verderbcr des Königreiches. „Aus seiner eigenen Mitte, aus dem Walde, kommt die Art über ihn.«*) An demselben Tage, an dcm das polnische Hccr gcfangcn ge nommen wurde, lief die traurige Nachricht ein, daß der König Vla dis lau gestorben sei\") So war das polnische Reich wieder eine Heerde ohne Hirten. — Ansang Her Verfolgungen. Als die Herzöge und Edelleute hörten, daß ihr König todt und alle tapfern und kricgsgeübtm Edcllcutc, und auch die beiden ') Iract. Sanhedrin 39 b. \") Vladislav starb plötzlich in Folge einer Erhitzung und des Steinsckmerzens am 20. Mai 1648.", "43 M.N08lL. Chmiclnicki mit seinem ganzen Hcerc, den Tartaren und Gricchisch-K atholischm an Mcnge so viel wie Sand am Meere, brach von diesem Platze auf, um Zamostz-^) zu belagern. Die Stadt war unvcrglcichlich start, mit doppelter Mauer und Wassergraben um gebe»; sobald die Feinde nahctm, brannten die Stadtbewohner alle Häuser, die der Mauer zunächst lagen, nieder, damit sich kein Fcind darin verbergen könne. Sie hielten die Feinde in einer Entfernung von einer halben Meile von der Stadt ab, und es gelang ihnen einige Zeit. Inzwischen zerstreuten sich dic Horden in alle umliegenden Gemeinden und verübten große Metzeleien in Tomachov, Chtchcbrjcchine. Tourobine, Roubicchov, Tarnogrod, Bilgorai, Gorcn, Krinitza, Kroschnik;*) Tausmdc und Zehntausmdc der Juden wurden erschlagen. Auch in Volhynim, in Vlodzimir und Luboml, Luck,**) Krjemimietz ***) und in dcr Umgegcnd crmor dcten sie viele Tausend Juden. In letzter Stadt nahm ein Russe das Messer eincs Schocket (Schächters) und schlachtete mehrere Hundert jüdische Kinder. Jedes Mal fragte er. seine» Gcfährtm, ob cs „koscher\"****) oder „trefa\" sei, uud dieser antwortete „trefa\"; alsdann warf er das Gemordete dm Hundcn vor. Er ergriff ein anderes, schnitt ihm den Hals ab und sprach: «Dieses ist koscher.\" Sie untcrsuchtcn es, wie es mit dcn Lämmern und Schafen geschieht, trugen es auf einer Bahre durch alle Straßen und riefen aus: »Wer will ein Lämmchen oder Schäfchen kaufen?\" Gott räche ihr Blut! In der Nähe der Stadt Vihawa *****) holten die Aufrührer in *) Städte, die in der Nähe von Lublin liegen. \") Nördlich von Wlodzimirz. \"*) Oestlich davon am Styr gelegen. \"\") Das Fleisch, das nach jüdischen Gesetzen zu essen erlaubt, nach Vorschrift geschlachtet ist, wird koscher genannt; das Gegentheil ist trefa. \"»»') Ein kleines Städtchen, einige Meilen südlich von Lublin gelegen.", "68 ab. Gefangene, die man ihnen zuführt, frei zu kaufen. Auch ihnen vergelte cs Gott! Die dcm Schwerte Entronnenen fanden in allen Provin zen, dic sie betraten, in Mähren, in Oesterreich, in Böhmen, in Deutschland,*) in Italien, freundliche Aufnahme; man gab ihnen Essen und Trinken, Nachtlager und Kleidung und viele Geschenke, einem Jeden nach seinem Stande, anderer Wohlthaten nicht zu erwähnen. Deutschland that mchr als in seinen Kräften stand! Ihre Wohlthätigkeit ging ihnen voran, um sie und ganz Israel in seinen Gemeinden zu schützen; möge ganz Israel in Friede und Ruhe in seinen Wohnplätzen weilen; ihr Verdienst möge uns und unseren Kindern beistchen, daß Gott unscr Gcbct erhöre, unsere Zerstreuten aus allen Enden der Erde sammele, den Boten unsers Heils uns sende bald in unseren Tagen, Amen! Seluh! ') Es ist dieses um so höher anzuschlagen, da die Juden in Deulschland am Ende des dreißigjährigen Krieges selbst arm und herabgekommen waren." ]

[ "PUDDLING — LIQUATION. 19 Puddling. The investigations into the puddling process carried out under direction of the author at Konigshutte1 had already shown that in the refining, i. e. during the decarbonization of the iron, a further slagging off of the phosphorus took place. A pig with 0.497$ of phosphorus suffered in refining no absolute loss but rather a relative increase of phosphorus. In the puddling furnace the phosphorus fell to 0.450$ after melting down ; at the beginning of the boiling the phosphorus was 0.298$ ; in the fine-grained muck-bars 0.100$, and in the fibrous muck-bars 0.070$. Kollmann's analyses2 show the same gradual removal of the phosphorus. The ore-puddling process, carried on in rotating furnaces and with large quantities of oxidized material which favors oxidation, shows particularly that with rapid oxidation and continuous removal of the slag the phosphorus decreases even during the evolution of carbon monoxide, the decrease being inversely proportional to the temperature. It is on this account that at the conclusion of the puddling process, the phosphorus-content in the iron rises somewhat, until the blooms are quite built up. Then begins a new sep aration of phosphorus. Liquation. When decarbonization is complete, i. e., when the carbon has been brought to its desired amount, a considerable part of the phosphorus can be removed by means of the so-called \"liquation-process.\"3 In this process, the blooms are heated until the phosphoritic part of the slag melts and runs off, a low-phosphorus iron being left. Although a complete dephosphorization cannot be reached by this method, yet it does lessen the amount of phosphorus considerably, and it would have been desirable to conduct (i) Abthl. III., p. 244. (2) Abthl. III., p. 247. (8) Abthl. III., p. 211.", "58 THE BASIC LINING. is that, in addition to the water, naphtha is also obtained in the condensers. The tar kettles in smelting-works are heated by stone coal burned on a very primitive grate, the gases and vapors being carried into the chimney through hoods. Mixing the Dehydrated Tar -with the Basic Materials. The tar is drawn out of the kettle through a cock, or ladled into the mixing trough. The arrangement at Rothe erde near Aachen for handling the tar is very convenient. In addition to the funnel for discharging the pulverized basic material, there is a closed vessel of iron enclosing a steam injector for creating an exhaust. By the diminished pressure thus arising the boiled tar is carried over from the vessel containing it into another placed near by. In the interior of this is a serpentine tube through which escapes the steam (brought in by the injector), which serves to heat the tar still further. When the tar is sufficiently fluid it is carried by another tube into a measuring vessel from which it flows through a cock into the edge-mill, there to be mixed with the basic material. The mixing of the tar with the burned dolomite is best done under edge stones provided with scrapers, or in verti cal or horizontal mixers with axes shod with knives. This plan is to be preferred to hand-mixing, although this is still often used because it takes less tar. Whether the edge-mill, or the vertical or the horizontal mixer is used they should be warmed while the mixing is in progress. If an edge-mill is used the bottom is best warmed 1 by steam ; if a mixing machine, the walls ; 2 if hand-mixing is employed, the iron plates on which the operation is conducted. The amount of tar absorhed by the dolomite is lessened, first, by the degree of burning and sintering, and second, by the size of the particles. The more the dolomite is burned P) The vertical axis is revolved, or this is stationary while the bottom re volves. (2) The knives are arranged spirally on the axis, as in the so-called clay-cut ting machines.", "207 THE PROCESS AT GRATZ % C, O.I2 P, . . . . . . 0.030 S, 0.018 Mn, 0.40 At the works of the Sudbahn Gesellschaft at Gratz, Aus tria, the basic open-hearth process was introduced in the year 1886.1 The first basic heat was made on the 30th of August, 18S6. Since May, 1887, nothing but basic steel has been made. The old open-hearth furnaces used for the acid process were not very well adapted for the basic pro cess. Therefore three new furnaces were built with a capacity of 12 tons each. The regenerative chambers are vertical, and the air ports enter the furnace above the gas ports. The bottom and the walls are rammed with magne site ; the other parts of the furnace -are built with the best Dinas bricks. At first chrome ore was used for a neutral layer between the acid and basic lining, but this was soon abandoned and the Dinas bricks now rest directly on the magnesite lining. The roof lasts 150 heats; the ports and walls from 350 to 400 heats. The time for a 12-ton heat is from 5 to 5J_ hours. The charge consists of 26$ of white pig iron and 74$ of scrap. 4$ spiegeleisen and 1$ ferro manganese and ferrosilicon are used as recarbonizers. The advantages gained by the basic process were greater then expected. The cost of maintenance of the furnace increased by about 50$-, but the white pig iron used costs only $15.20 against $18 for the gray pig iron necessary for the acid process. The consumption of coal decreased from 47 lbs. per 100 lbs. of steel in the acid process to 30 lbs. in the basic. The coal used is the same and gives 5600 calo ries. The production per man and shift increased from 0.7 ton in the acid process to 1.24 tons in the basic process. The loss, about 5$, is the same. The quality of the steel improved a great deal. The basic steel stands a greater heat and more pressure under the rolls, and, therefore, allows a quicker rolling. P) See Stahl und Eisen, Ho. I, 1889, p. i,et seq. Mittheilungen aus dem Gra zer Siidbahnwalzwerk, by F. Moro." ]

[ "44 NOTES OF TRAVEL. The iris is deep red ; the skin round the eye chrome-yellow ; the bill yellowish-brown ; the legs and toes pale dull yellow. The Variegated Sand Grouse (Pteroclcs Varie gatus, Burch). This species is not uncommon in the northern and middle parts of Damaraland, as well as in the Lake regions ; but I do not recollect having met with it further to the south. The Namaqua Sand Grouse (Pteroclurus Namaqua, Gmel.), is very abundant in some parts of Damara land. Its eggs are deposited on the sand, and are of a drabbish colour, closely spotted with grey and brown ; they are oval, and less elongated than those of the P. bicinctus. The iris is very dark brown ; the skin round the eye is a somewhat pale yellow ; the bill is bluish, tinged with white on the lower mandible. Measurement of a Female. In. Lines. Entire length . . . . .110 Length of folded wing . . .65 Length of tarsus . . . . 0 11 Length of middle toe . . .09 Length of tail , . . . .36 Length of bill . . . . .07 Ordinarily, the several species of sand grouse spoken of, are met with in pairs, or two or three together, dispersed over sandy plains, where they seek their sustenance; but in the dry season, when the rain-pools are exhausted, they, morning and evening, resort in large flocks to permanent waters to quench their thirst, announcing their arrival and", "106 NOTES OF TRAVEL. and elbow, a second carrying off the knuckle of the pointer finger on the right hand, a third dinting the stock of the rifle just under the little finger, a fourth carrying off the heel of one of my boots, whilst the fifth struck the right leg a little below the knee, laying me at once prostrate. I experienced a singular sensation when I thus found myself a poor, useless cripple — if life itself was not at stake. It was not fear, for as yet nothing of that kind had fortunately troubled me, but the sense of indescribable oppression and faint ness about the heart, as if all tbe joys and pleasures of this world were for ever shut out from my existence. I was conscious that a smile once crossed my features, not one of pleasure certainly, but that melancholy smile that may be seen to flit across a human face when a friend is trying to comfort an other under the weight of heavy misfortune, but who, though grateful for the sympathy, finds human comfort of no avail. Bowing my head for a moment against the ground, I sighed forth, \"And thus, Oh God ! ends my existence — far from those I hold dear; but Thy will be done.\" I felt much calmer and more resigned after breathing this short prayer, and was looking up to ascertain what my followers were about, when I caught a glimpse of the Rehobothians, making a dash in a stooping position for the rocks, which they must have reached in safety. Turning next to the mountains, I could only perceive one confused mass of com batants, not charging and retreating openly, but executing all their movements in a stealthy hide", "178 NOTES OF TRAVEL. fire. A woman and her child occupied the inner end of the left side of the building ; a dog the outer end to the right. The door stood ajar. The panther, who incessantly prowls about during the night, had from a distance scented the dog, and, creeping forward on her belly, placed her nose to the aperture; up to this time there had been no noise. For an instant the beast hesitated ; but the victim is so near. The door gives way — the dog barks, and is immediately torn to pieces. \" At the cries of the woman, who could not escape by the door, except by passing the dog and the panther, whose claws and fangs constantly opposed her, a number of armed men ran to the spot — and see the singular expedient they had re course to. The door is closed and securely fastened. Four men pass their our-kondas through interstices in the door, the points of their weapons crossing in like manner as bayonets, and thus preventing the savage animal from either lifting up or opening it. These men remain without, each holding a second assegai in his right hand in readiness for any emergency. At the same time a hole, ten to twelve inches in diameter, is made on a level with the ground, at the upper end of the cabin, to facilitate which operation fires were lighted round and about the latter. Presently the woman and her child — both half dead with fear — were drawn through the aperture in question, which was afterwards effectu ally closed with sticks, mats, &c. The dog and the panther now alone remained in the hut, where the beast was heard to bound repeatedly against the" ]

[ "76 PREPARATIONS. now implored his intervention to restore him to the throne. The astute Boman at once discerned the use to be made of Mandubert's presence, and retained liim in his camp with large promises of redress. The British refugee would accompany the expedition, and knowing the country would be an invaluable guide. Besides, to succour the unfortunate would be a plausible pretext for interference in British politics ; and it might rea sonably be expected that, when the victorious gene ral appeared in the neighbourhood, the Trinobantes, smarting under the yoke of Cassivelaun, would break out into open rebellion in favour of then deliverer. In the spring of the year therefore, Cæsar, the better to insure success against a most determined foe, gave directions for extensive preparations, particularly for the construction of a fleet upon a new principle. The ships were all to be flat-bottomed, and to be propelled by oars as well as sails.1 The advantage anticipated from these deviations from the ordinary model were, that the vessels could he in shallow water and ap proach closer to shore, and be easily hauled up, and the rowage would make them independent of wind and tide, which had before so much baffled him. The equipment of this armament would occupy a consider able time, especially as some of the materials were to be fetched from Spain2, and the interval was to be employed in the discharge of a prefect's duty in making the circuit of the different countries within Iris jurisdiction, for the purpose of composing nascent 1 \" Paullo hurniliores . . paullo latiores . . actuariæ\" — B. G.v.l. \" 'Ec peaiJ riov re atyerephiv twv ra^ttuii', kaiTuv uvrodev rwv (iopraSwr, inrtog tic paXtara cat kov<j>i£w<ti, cat Trpbg rb Kvpa avrex^aiv, eiri re fypov lOTapevai pi) Xvfialvwvrai.\" — Dion, xl. 1. 2 \"Ea quæ sunt usui ad armandas naves ex Hispania apportari jubet.\" — B. G.v. 1.", "VI i. e. he had gone (profectus) to the Morini, because, as he tells us expressly, thence was the shortest passage to Britain, quod hide erat brevissimus in Britanniam trans jectus, iv. 21 ; and on his arrival there he occupied himself about what he came for, viz. the equipment of his vessels ; and when he had actually sailed it was matter of congratulation that the Morini had previously tendered their submission, so that he did not leave an enemy behind him, which also implies that he had started from amongst the Morini. \" Quod neque post tergum hostem relinquere volebat,\" iv. 22. But the Astronomer-Eoyal adds, \" It appears to me that the word proficisci permits that Cæsar did not enter the country of the Morini. It appears to me that Cæsar's reception of delegates from the Morini, when there is no account of any preceding transaction with them, renders it probable that he had not entered their country; and it appears to me that the order (after his second return) for legions to march from the Portus Itius, makes it certain that he was not in their country.\" Of the meaning to be attached to the word proficisci we have spoken already. As to the second step in this argument, that \" Cæsar's reception of delegates from the Morini makes it probable that Cæsar was not then in their country,\" I do not see how, admitting the fact that the Morini sent delegates, the conclusion coidd be fairly drawn that Cæsar was not in their country. Take the analogous case of Cæsar's passage over the Ehine. He crossed from the Treviri on the western bank (Firmo in Treviris præsidio ad pontem relicto, vi. 8), into the country of the Ubii on the eastern bank (partem ultimam pontis, quæ ripas Ubiorum contuigebat, &c. vi. 28), when the Ubii despatched envoys to him :", "lxx Cæsar, Avould have extended out to sea a mde and three quarters further than at present. However, according to Mr. Elliott, Dungeness Eoint now advances about seven feet annually, but, in ancient times, it advanced, in Mr. Elliott's opinion, much more rapidly — say three yards annually — and he estimates that the projection from Lydd to the existing point has been the Avork of about 1900 years. As the abstraction of the shingle at Hythe woidd be constant, but the new supplies of shingle from the west would be less and less as the point of Dungeness Avas pushed forward, we should not be justified iu assuming the present rate of abrasion at Hythe as the measure of abrasion for the whole period since the age of Cæsar. If we assume that the triangular level, from the end of Dymchurch Wad to Shorncliffe, has been wasted to the extent not of one mile and three-quarters, but of at least half a mde, Ave shad probably be within the mark. It is plain from the foregoing facts that the probable state of the Marsh in the time of Cæsar, so far from offering any objection to the hypothesis that he landed there, furnishes the strongest argument in support of the theory. Let us fodow the account of the com mentaries step by step. Cæsar teds us that at the place of debarcation Avas a flat and open beach, \" aperto ac piano littore,\" iv. 23, and what can answer better to this description than the perfectly level and bare shingle field betAveen Sandgate on the east, and the end of Dymchurch Wall on the Avest? But the shore was also \"open and soft \" (\" modi atque aperto,\" v. 9), which I take to mean free from rocks, and ad along the Marsh not a rock or reef is to be seen. Again, when the Bomans reached the shore, they stood \" in arido,\" iv. 26, and drcAv up their ships \" in ariduni,\" iv. 29, and this shingle field is" ]

[ "290 P. 170. And now, to footh your forgery and h's. The verb, footh, gives us no fenfe appofite to the context. I have little doubt but the poet wrote, And now, to fmooth your forgery and his. P. 205. IVhereis that devil's butcher? This is the reading of all the elder editions; but I think Mr. Theobald's conjecture, devil-butcher, is by much preferable to it. See his note, and the Ca nons of Criticifm, p. 48. The Life and Death of Richard the Third. P. 213. To fright the fouls of fearful adverfaries. Mr. Warburton hath no objection to alledge againft this reading ; however he rather thinks Shakefpear wrote, the f aide, that is in Englifh, the crowd. But I believe every EngTifh reader will concur with me in returning back on his hands this French importa tion, which our language difclaims, as indeed it has no occafion for it. P. 214. Cheated tf feature by diffembling nature. That is, flattering nature, who, by giving me a great mind, would perfuade me fhe hath not been deficient in other relpects, though She hath at the fame time cheated me of my feature. The fig nification which Mr. Warburton gives to the parti ciple, diffembling, to wit, ' putting things together r of a dilfimilar kind,' is not, I believe, warranted by any authority or analogy in our language.. P. 214.", "310 P. 406. My fever eig;:, I cenfefs your royal graces Shower' don me daily have been more than could My ftudied purpofe s requite, which went Beyond all man's endeavours. Mr. Warburton feems to have miftaken the con struction of this paffage, which led him to mifinter pret endeavours to Signify dy'erts. I ap rehen the conftruction and Senle is this. My fovereign, I con» fels your royal graces daily Showered on me have been more than my ftudied purpoles, if I had been able to carry them into fuli execution, could requite; which ftudied purpofes however went beyond what ever could poffibly have been attained by any one man's endeavours. P. 407. Should not with ft anding that your bond of duly. Mr. Roderick, in the Canons of Criticifm, p. 225. hath with great accuracy pointed out the peculiar acceptation of the word, nolwitbflanding, in this place, where it plainly is employed to fignify, fet ting afide, net confidering. P. 410. You aft: with fuch violence, the King. In all the other editions the metre is entire, thus, 2'cu cflk with fuch a violence, the King. P. 413. Caftles, and whatf ever. I believe Mr. Theobald hath reftored the true read ing, Chattels, and whatfoever. Ibid. Nips his rcot. Mr. Warburton imagines the poet wrote, fhoot; but", "418 P. 492. 0 good, but moft unwife Patricians, why. The honour of this emendation ought to have been attributed to Mr. Theobald. See his Shakefpear re stored, p. 180. lam inclined however to believe the ancient reading, O God ! lut moft unwife Patricians, why, is genuine -, only I would rather read, O Gods! The particle, but, is not employed here merely as a dis junctive, but as introductive of the objection or re proof which was to follow ; and that double anti thesis in this and the next line, which Mr. Theo bald thinks was intended, and admires as a beauty, appears, on the contrary, to me to be too ftudied to be the language of paffion, which is expreffed with much greater fpirit by the exclamation and break in the ancient reading. That of Mr. Theo bald is tame and flat in comparison of it, like the formal exordium of an oration. Ibid. ■If he have power, Then vail y cur ignorance. Neither doth ignorance fignify impotence in this place. The fenfe is, Then let your ignorance of your true interefts which permitted it, Stoop to him. P. 493. Tl. air ever frown1 d in Greece! That is, Than ever carried a countenance of awe and authority in Greece. Ibid Th' accufation, Which they have often made againft the fienate, All caufe unborn, could never be the native Of our fo frank donation. It is evident from the fcope and drift of the whole context, that the word, native, cannot fignify here 9 thr" ]

[ "KITTY'S RIVAL. 8 words, of which, fortunately for us, the closed door made the meaning impossible to gather. The young woman, whose name was Lilias Gwynne, walked down the middle path of the garden slowly, with her eyes fixed upon the earth, and her hands listlessly hanging by her side. But, ere she had made a dozen paces, the apparition of an inflamed face, decorated by a pair of tawny mustaches and grey eyes, of which the whites were webbed with a species of crimson filigree-work, appeared at a bed-room window ; and tho same harsh and unpleasant voice we have just heard commanded her to stop. \"Where are you going?\" Mrs. Gwynne halted, turned slowly", "KITTY'S RIVAL. 104 her tenderness. And to prove his gratitude he had broken her heart. That the catalogue of his enormities might be topped by a croAvning sin he had deserted her. She stood in the broad noontide glare, Avaiting until the giddiness in her head should haATe passed. Her face AATas but little knoAAm at Ashcomb, for her A'isits to the town had been rare. Such trades men as kneAV her, kneAV her through calling for orders at Brunswick House. But her name would have been uni versally known had it been pronounced ; for her husband had succeeded in ren dering the title of Captain Gwynne in famous wherever it was uttered. She had no idea how to act. She might return to Brunswick House, but", "Samuel Tinsley's Publications. 5 \"PAIR, BUT NOT WISE. By Mrs. Forrest-Grant. 2 vols., 2IS. \" ' Fair but not Wise' possesses considerable merit, and is both cleverly and powerfully written. If earnest, it is yet amusing and sometimes humorous, and the interest is well sustained from the first to the last page. \" — Court Express. (^OLDEN MEMOIRS. By Effie Leigh. 2 vols., \" 21s. \" There is not a dull page in the book.\" — Morning Post. rj_RAYWORTH : a Story of Country Life. By Carey \" Hazelwood. 3 vols., 2 is. 6d. \" Carey Hazelwood can write well.\" — Examiner. ' ' Many traces of good feeling and good taste, little touches of quiet humour, denoting kindly observation, and agenuine love of the country.\" — Standard. TTILLESDEN ON THE MOORS. By Rosa Mac -IJ- kenzie Kettle, Author of \" The Mistress of Lang dale Hall.\" 2 vols., 2 is. \" Thoroughly enjoyable, full of pleasant thoughts gracefully expressed, and eminently pure in tone.\" — Public Opinion. 1VTEARER AND DEARER. By Elizabeth J. -^ LysaGHT, Author of \" Building upon Sand.\" 3 vols., 3 is. 6d. ' ' A capital story. . . very pleasant reading . . . With the expec tion of George Eliot, there is no other of our lady writers with whom Mrs. Lysaght will not favourably compare.\"— Scotsman. \" ' Nearer and Dearer ' will go very far to establish Mrs. Lysaght among the standard novelists of the age.\" — Civil Service Review. \" We have said the book is readable. It is more, it is both clever and interesting.\" — Sunday Times. NO FATHERLAND. By Madame Von Oppen. 2 vols., 2 is. PERCY LOCKHART. By F. W. Baxter. 2 vols., 2IS. \"A bright, fresh, healthy story The book is eminently readable.\" — Standard. ■ ' The novel altogether deserves praise. It is healthy in tone, interesting in plot and incident, and generally so well written that few persons would be able justly to find fault with it.\"— Scotsman. ■ ' Few better novels in these days find their way into circulating libraries, and we cannot doubt its success.\" — Dundee Courier. Samuel Tinsley, 10, Southampton Street, Strand." ]

[ "32 intervalles des séances, la foule se réunissait sur les places pour les entendre. Il n'existait en Norwège qu'une sorte de noblesse de fait. Les chefs, leurs familiers, les riches , étaient non les nobles dans le sens politique que nous y attachons , mais les premiers. Les besoins étaient peu nombreux, Tindustrie était en enfance. Fabriquer des armes et des vêtements , construire des maisons en bois et quelques monuments publics en pierres brutes, voilà en quoi consistait Tindustrie scandinave; le reste, et c'était peu de chose , était fourni par Tétranger. L'agriculture était extraordinairement négligée dans un pays où tous les efforts de Thomme étaient impuissants à créer des ressources que la nature avait presque absolument refusées. Aussi, la presqu'île scandinave, et la Norwège spécialement, étaient-elles en proie à des disettes af freuses, nouvelle cause qui poussait à Témigration, aux courses aventureuses, des peuples qui y étaient entraînés d'ailleurs par un penchant naturel. Dans une de ces courses entreprises, soit dans le but de piller, soit par toute autre cause , Infiold , fils du roi de Fiord , découvrit Tlslande et s'y établit en 870.", "98 Nous avons dit quelle était la circonférence à la base, le reste esta Tavenant. Sa partie inférieure a élé transformée en chapelle, en 1696. Au-dessus est une petite pièce, espèce de chambrette où Ton a placé un lit. On y accède par un escalier en bois qui forme balcon. Assis sur ce bal con, on a sur la tête un immense dais de verdure, et Ton peut mieuxjugerdela vigueur des branches prin cipales qui partent du tronc, et du nombre infini de branches secondaires qu'elles ont produit à leur tour. Tout cela ensemble forme la colossale, Tinextri cable toiture de Tarbrc sur lequel, ainsi monté, 011 est comme perdu dans un bois. Il faut pourtant convenir que le gros Chêne d'Al louville n'est plus, depuis longtemps, ce qu'il a été, et que s'il peut vivre encore des siècles, voir arriver, puis disparaître un grand nombre de générations, chaque année, néanmoins, marque visiblement son passage sur le vieux géant. Avant de quitter le canton d'Yvetot, mention nons la commune A'Ecretleville-les-Baons qui avait une châtellenie appartenant à Tabbaye de Fécamp, et un château-fort dont on voit encore les restes à la ferme dvtCâtel. Celle à'Aulretot, dont le seigneur, le sir de la Mare, combattit à Hastings; de Vauville les-Baons,({m relevait de la terre d'Houdctot, et dont", "112 rieuse , fut forcée de se rendre à la Ligue. Mais elle ne tarda pas à rentrer au pouvoir du roi dont elle soutenait la cause; car après la bataille de Louvetot, dont nous avons parlé plus haut, ce qui restait de Tarmée ligueuse fut contraint de déguerpir , et Henri rentra immédiatement dans la place. A cette époque , Caudebec était déjà depuis long temps célèbre dans Tindustrie , à cause de ses fa briques de chapeaux ; chapeaux très recherchés et que, du temps de Molière, on appelait des Caudtbecs. Cette industrie se développa de plus en plus , et avait atteint un haut degré de prospérité, lorsque Louis XIV, alors mari de la veuve Scarron , dominé par le génie inquisitorial du jésuite qui le confessait, enrichit Tétranger, par la révocation de Tédit de Nantes , de toute notre haute industrie nationale. Les fabricants de Caudebec , qui , comme les industriels de ce temps, appartenaieut à la réforme, plutôt que de se soumettre à une législation dont le régime était encore plus dur que celui qui frappa les émigrés pendant la grande crise de la révolution de 1789 , quittèrent le pays au nombre de plus de trois mille, et furent se réfugier en Angleterre. (1) (1) Caudebec , outre ses fabriques de chapeaux , confection nait à cette époque des gants de peau de chèvre d'une finesse exquise , et dont il se faisait un immense débit." ]

[ "L'ARMÉE DE LA LOIRE. 61 ves fautes contre la discipline. Elle s'était notamment li vrée au pillage de bois déjà cordé dans une vaste exploi tation forestière dont le propriétaire avait généreusement mis à la disposition des soldats tout le combustible né cessaire à leurs besoins. L'intendance reçut Tordre d'in demniser ce propriétaire. II fallut recourir à la rigueur des cours martiales et in fliger des punitions aux chefs cle corps qui s'étaient mon trés trop faibles pour ramener le bon ordre clans cette division. Le chef du 15e corps constate d'ailleurs avec une légitime satisfaction que les cours martiales ont très rarement eu à fonctionner à l'armée de la Loii^e. L'Of ftciel a enregistré toutes leurs sentences, qui ont été portées à Tordre du jour cle Tannée afin de servir d'exemple aux mauvaises têtes et d'inspirer une crainte salutaire aux corps clans lesquels la discipline n'avait pas encore pénétré. Malgré tous les efforts du général d'Aurelle pour affer mir Tobéissance et activer Tinstruction militaire, cette armée cle la Loire péchait toujours par Tinsubordination et par Tinsuffisance du matériel. On avait bien reçu cle Tin tendance des couvertures, du linge, de la chaussure, des gilets de flanelle qu'on avait distribués cle suite; mais le 2e zouaves, débarqué d'Afrique, manquait cle tout, et, bien que nous sussions arrivés à la deuxième quinzaine d'octobre, beaucoup cle nos soldats n'avaient pour se vêtir que cle la toile! Cette situation menaçait cle propager le mécontente-", "178 LA RETRAITE INFERNALE. telles journées de marches et de combats sous la neige. En outre, le prince Frédéric-Charles n'était pas sans inquiétude au sujet de Bourbaki, sur les projets duquel il était fort incomplètement éclairé.", "LA RETRAITE INFERNALE. 240 frapper le sol pour en faire jaillir des légions invincibles. Nous ne Pavons vu que trop clairement! Mais, en présence cle tant cle dévouements, de tant d'existences sacrifiées à la gloire cle la défense, de tant d'héroïsme de la part des officiers, cle tant cle constance chez les chefs de l'armée, la patrie en deuil ne peut que mêler les lauriers verts aux tristes fleurs cle Timmortelle sur ces champs de bataille qui se sont transformés dans les vallées de la Loire et du Loir en champs funèbres peuplés de tertres et cle croix. La postérité seule pourra se prononcer définitivement et dire s'il valait mieux écouter la parole mâle d'un tribun ou les timides conseils de la prudence, s'il fallait ou avouer de suite la défaite et Timpuissance, ou relever fièrement la tête et confier à des mains mal exercées les derniers fusils et les derniers canons qui nous restaient. II s'est trouvé en effet des hommes de guerre et des hommes d'État pour taxer de folie la résistance désespérée et improvisée d'une grande nation, comme si Thistoire, qui juge finalement les événements et les hommes, n'avait point toujours eu des tendresses pour les nations qui ont écouté leur orgueil et tenté Timpossible en cherchant à faire jusqu'au bout leur devoir devant l'ennemi! L'amiral Jauréguiberry ne pouvait enrayer le mouvement cle retraite qui s'accélérait sur le Mans. A Vancé, sans le secours énergique des Arabes du colonel Goursaud, le 3e cuirassiers, avec ses lourds chevaux, manœuvrant difficile ment dans la neige, sur un terrain coupé de haies et de" ]

[ "HIDE PARKE? TbeJFbrstASt: Enter Tryer and Lacyl Rjcr- And how and how ? i Lacy, The cause depends? Tr. No Mistresse. La. Yes, but no Wife? Tr. For now slieis a WiddowJ La.Bat I resolve si ■ Tr. What does sliee fay to thee. __ La. shee sayes, I know not what she sayes, but I must take another course, and yet she is— — : Tr. A creature of much sweetenesse, if all tongues Be just in her report, and yet tis strange Having seven yeares expected, and so much Remonstrance of her Husbands lossc at Sea,' She should continue-thus. La. What if flic should Renew the bond of her devotion - ; For seven yeares more. Tr, You will have time enoughs To pay in your affection. La. Ide make, A voyage to Casandra's Tefflple first, 1 B ■'*■'{ And", "»&fc*Wrwfc\\-*i She has a leering wit, and I shall love her More heartily for this. What dost thinke ? Poore Gentleman how he has footd himfelfe? Rid. He to her againe. Ven. Nay, be not passionate I A faith thou wert too confident, I knew It could not hold, dost thinke Ide fay so much else ? I can tell thee more,but lose her memorie. Rid. Were it more rich beefhewes a Chaine Then that which £leopatra gave to Anthony y of Pear le.. With scorne I would returne it. Tr. She give you this Chaine? Rid. She shall be hang'd in chaines,ere I will keepe it? Ven, Stay, stay, let my eye Examine that— ——this Chaine— Rid. Who would trust woman after this? Ven. The very fame She tooke of me, when I receiv'd this Diamond. Rid. Ha ha 1 you doe but iest, flie wonot foole You o'this fashion, looke a little better, one maybe like an other. Ven. Tis the fame. Rid. Ha, ha, I would it were,that we might laugh At one another, by this hand I will Forgive her, prethee tell me— -ha, ha, ha J Tr. You will carry her From loue himfelfe, though heshould practise all His shapes to court her. Rid. By this P earle, o Rogue ! Ho w I doe love her fort, be not dej'ected *, A Ladies love is mortall, one of all Must weare the Garland, do not foole your seise Beyond the cure of Bedlam. Tr. She has fitted you With a paire of fooles Coates, as hansomely As any Taylor, that had taken measure. Ven, Give me thy hand. Tr]", "'4&#t*m Piy-fc'd ' ~\"~ M.b. Ilebehisfervant. N \\\\T Bo. Sir yOn (hew ...iW A noble difpofition, good my Lord :\"! 33? e W( ovi O Compofc their differences, pre-thee meete his fr_ehd_hip. !I °J 5. Ihavefatisfaf-tion/anddefire hi, love. La. Th'aft done but like a gentleman, thy hand He love thee while 'I .ifre.'-'- liagnv. £*. Why fo all friends. X.vnTt. «H -W.3. 1 meete it with a heart, and fordrffuYbirig •<i ; Your mirth to day. La. No.no difturbance. CW.-5. Then give me but the favour To (hew I wi.h no forrow to thd'tft?ci$n \"\"'3 t^B-I •' • oblation, which (he inuft - ' Accept, or I (hall doubtwe are not friends, Tis all I haveto offer at- your Weddine Bo. Ha. m .rn?- M. B. There's my ftaiifco juftifie it atfittime Perufe it, my Lorctl ___all be fludious ' How to defcrve y ourfa tout. . ■ : A -, . Lo. I am yours. KdbnA La. My Lord let me obtaine, youle honour me To night. Afrl „ . j. ', I was taken by a Turty Pimee.' and detain 'd many vejes A prifoner in an Ifiand, where I had dyed his Captive Slete ,W°rthy MCfChant tbenrt redeemed & ftrnUhed me Bleffeddehvery. \"Bo. Till thenc-qiikxale me ■ cc:! h--\" w£%E£_-cIfeftu&»but * ' '3 -^ Namefubfcnbd. rs5 -£». Will you walke Ladies. &• Your fervants waite tipon yBii ; -1: E J1S ,v'v- BB '1J,<* ■*■\"'. We humbj/jteoteyow honour\" jrt. ;' *\"* f,,ir*S *. Abravefpa'rkej»ri o / c mq rmsl asJ. i. Sparke,he's the very Bonfire of Nobility?\" W°^| ,i ? \"" ]

[ "32 Herren von Röteln lebten zu den Zeiten der zähringischen Herzuge in großem Glanz« auf der herrlichen Burg zwischen der Kander und Wiese, oberhalb Lörrach. Aber die Söhne Konrads schwächten den Reichthum des Hauses, das mit ihren Kindern 1315 erloschen. Die Herrschaft kam ans badisch« Haus; sie zog sich von Schupfheim durch das Wiesenthal und über die Vorhöhen des Sausenhard bis «n den Rhein zwischen Grenz«ch und Nheinweiler. Markgraf Heinrich »erließ nun die Feste Sausenberg in dem dunkeln Harde und zog auf die herrliche Burg zu Röteln, deren Namen er auch sofort trug. Die Edeln von Staufen hauseten auf der schönen Burg bei Staufen am Eingänge des Münfterthalcs und tiefer im Gebirge auf Scharfenslein und Nödelsberg, An der Burg zu Badenweiler haftete der Dienstadel von Baden. Das Stammschloß der Tiefensteiner im Albgau lag mitten im Albthal unterhalb Geiweil . ihnen gehörten die benachbarten Höfe und Weiler, ferner von der Wehr bis an die Schlucht und jenseits des Rheins viele Gerechtsame an Gü tern und Leuten. Sie waren große Wohlthäter der Klöster und erloschen im Anfange des I4ten Jahrhunderts. Die Edeln von Krenkingen waren seit dem Bischof Dietrich von Konstanz nicht nur im obern Albgau, son dern auch im Kleggau die Mächtigsten. Bon den sich bald theilen den Aestc-n wohnte der eine auf Rockenbach und Weißenburg unterhalb Bonndorf, der ältere theils auf der Stammburg im Steinach thäte, theils auf dem Schlosse zu Thiengen , oder auf der Feste zu Weißenburg im Kleggaue ; jener führte das Schirmamt des von Tezelheim nach Riedern übertragenen Frauenstifts, dieser die Kastvogtei zu Nheinau. Dieser reiche und kräftige Adet erschien oft am Hofe des Kaisers ; unter ihrer Bogtei blühten viele Gemeinden ans und der uralte albgauische Malort Thiengen ward eine Stadt. Im 13ten Jahrhundert erwarben sie die Feste und Herrschaft Gutenburg an der Schlucht, eine Stunde hinter Thiengen. Die Thannccker hauseten nördlich von den vorigen und stör ben bald aus ; die von Blumeueck auf dem schrecklichen losgerissenen Kaltsteinklotze beim Dorfe Blumeneck. Desselben Geschlechls waren die von Blumenberg in der Baar am Ausgange des Eitracherthals. Zu nächst hinter Blomberg erhebt sich der Fürstenberg, von wo ans Graf Heinrich der Sobn Egons zu Freiburg das zähringische Erbe beherrschte. Gegenüber auf einem freistehenden Hügel bei Geißingen an der Donau wohnten die von Wartenberg. Durch eine Theilung tam das Schloß Wartender«, an Fürstenberg, der andere Theil lebte auf der Feste Wil denslcin bei Rolhweil bis um 1450. Tiefer in der Baar waltete das Frciherrnhaus von Lupfen schon seit den Hohenstaufen angesehen ; einige glückliche Heirathen und Erwerbungen während des 14ten Jahrhunderts hoben die Familie noch mehr. Schon der Sohn jenes, der durch seine Frau die tüssabergische Erbschaft und vom Hochstifte Konstanz das Lehen der Burg Stühlingen erworben hatte, nannte sich Landgraf von Stüh linaen; König Ruprecht bestätigte Johann, dem Sohne des Grafen", "66 nannt« Sybilla August« im Jahr 1725 in italienischem Geschmacke aufgeführte Lustschlößchen oder die Favorite, mit einem englisch«» Garten. Dieses im feinsten Rococo-Geschmocke angelegte und möblirte Schlößchen nimmt sich in der grünen Umgebung der schönsten Boum gruppen und geschorener Laubwäude sehr anmnthig au«. Die Pracht küche ist schenswerlh wegen der Menge kostbaren Porzellan« und eines Service« von aller Fayence in baroken Gestalten von Schweinsköpfen, Karpfen, Geflügeln, Kohlarten u. s. w. : Alles täuschend nachgemacht und natürlich gefärbt. Eines der Schtafgemächer zeigt orientalische Vasen, weicht der Markgraf in den Türkenkriegen erworben. Das Spicgelzimmer mit den Minialurgemälden berühmter und vornehmer Personen des vorigen Jahrhunderts ist ebenfalls interessant. Vor Allem aber ist es ein kleines Gebäude unweit des Schlosses. Hier war es , wo die letzt« Mcilkgräsin Baden-Badens, die letzte Prinzessin ans dem Hause Lauen burg und Wittwe des heldenmüthigen Louis ihrer Reue über ungezügelle Welllust leble. Spindter hat hier seinen Stoff zu seinem trefflichen „Schwärmer\" geholt und das Lokal mit Meisterhand geschildert. Ge wöhnlich wnrde hier von der Büßerin die ganze Fastenzeit verlebt. Man sieht noch «n den Wände» die Slreifen des stllrkges«lzencn Weihwasser«, womil alsdann die Zimmer bespritzt wurden — die Geißel und die Kissen mit Nadelspitze» — den Stachelgürtel — den irdenen Napf aus dem sie aß, und die hölzernen Bildnisse von Jesus, Mari« und Heiligen, mit denen ssc am Tische saß, ihnen die mit eigener Hand bereiteten Speisen vorlegte, die alsdann den Armen verlheilt wurden. So Herr Lewald. Baden, d,e europäische Näderstadt am westliche» AbHange des Schwarzwalds und an der Oos und östlich von der nach der Schweiz führen den Strnße, deren sicdheiße Heilquellen die Römer schon gek«nnt und eine Niederlassung wnhrscheinlich unler Tr«j«nus veranlaßt haben ; und welche lange Zeit Residenz der Markgrafen war, wozu das eine halbe Stunde über der Stadt liegende, im Jahr 1100 erbaute und 1689 von den Franzosen verstörte Schloß, die Wiege des badische!! Fürstenhauses, gehörte. Das Thal, worin Baden liegt, ist in Bezug auf seine glückliche Lage, auf sein überaus mildes Klima, auf de« Schatz von reizenden Partien »nd alle die sonstigen Vorzüge, die es einschließt, wohl eines der bevorzugtesten Plätzchen nicht nur in» lieben deutschen Vaterlande, sondern auf der weilen Erde überhaupt. Die aus dem Schloßbcrge her vorkommende 13 warme Quellen gehören zu de» saliuischen -, Kochsalz ist ihr vorherrschender Bestandtheil, ein Antheil an Chlorkalk und Eisen verstärkt und modisicirt ihre Wirkung; die Wälme der Hauptquelle, Ursprung genannt, ist 54° Neaumur, eben so heiß ist die Indenqnelle, die übrige» haben 40 nnd 52°, der sogenannte kühle Brunnen nur3?>/,°. Diese« warme Wasser nimmt den vornehmste:i Rang unter den mildesten und gelindesten Wassern dieser All ein, «ich: so arm an Bestandlheilen, daß deren Eigenthümlichkeit durch.:»« i« dc.i Hintergrund träte, vielmehr", "*,^!>*," ]

[ "SOUTHWOLD. 17 but the remainder of the original building is in ruins. Within these ruins, however, and joined on to the tower, is a small thatched church, within which is the curious inscription given below. The quaint phraseology, \"put it out,\" is the provincial form of put it up, or erected. A similar expression is used in Westmoreland and Cumberland. Above the south door of this new church will be seen one of the corbels which formerly supported the roof of the nave, and of which some of the companions are still in position. The south porch, of which the foundations are just visible, had a parvise chamber, for the remains of the stairway are still to be seen. As is usual with Suffolk churches, the flint and dressed stone panels bear a large share in the decoration of the outer walls and the buttresses ; though these last are in a sad condition of decay, still enough remains to show what the design was originally, and one cannot withhold admiration for the graceful dado which surrounds the entire building beneath the windows. The columns of the nave have now vanished, but the fragments remaining in the tower and at the chancel show that their capitals were of a very peculiar type. The chancel, or possibly Lady Chapel, appears to have been built over a crypt ; the groins of the crypt's roof are still to be seen, and also the small stair by which entrance to it was obtained. This crypt has never been cleared out as far as the writer has been able to ascertain. It is choked with rubbish for several feet, probably from the roof, which fell in. A clearance should certainly be made, and could be made at but a little cost. In the sanctuary are the remains of the sedilia, surmounted by a much damaged canopy. By a n", "EASTERN COUNTIES. SOUTHEND. Southend, the youngest of the Essex boroughs, is in its present state quite a modern town. Originally it formed a hamlet of the neighbouring parish of Prittlewell. The capacities of the place as a seaside health resort seem to have first come into notice in 1804, when it was visited by Queen Caroline and the Princess Charlotte. But the Southend of those days was a different place from the Southend of these, and practically consisted of the Royal Terrace, together with a few scattered houses, and a cluster of fishers' huts on the eastern side of the present pier. Since that time the place has grown with immense rapidity. Money has been lavishly spent in the laying out of roads, walks, and streets. Public buildings have risen, private houses have multiplied, and lastly, at the cost of the mile and a quarter of pier replaced an older but by no means ancient structure. The town is healthy, its immediate surroundings are picturesque, and there are, moreover, in the neighbourhood many spots worth visiting, some, indeed, of singular historic interest. It is a brief", "■4 PRITTLEWELL. battle was resorted to, and the encounter came off at Reading, the King himself being present. Essex was vanquished, and though his life was spared, he was compelled to pass the remainder of his days in monastic dress at Reading Abbey. As Prittlewell was an alien priory its revenues were not infrequently confiscated for a time when England was at war — to prevent English money from leaving the country in times when money was scarce. Confiscations of this kind took place in 1285 and 1337. The revenues were ultimately restored, though none of the income derived during the time of confiscation was returned. Edward III. naturalized the Cluniac priory of Lewes and its cells, among which, of course, was Prittlewell. The prior at the Dissolution was named Thomas Norwich, at which time the house contained no more than seven monks, and possessed an income of us. 2d. The monastic order of Cluniacs was a branch of the Benedictines, whose headquarters were at the Abbey of Clugny, in France, an abbey founded by William I., Count of Auvergne, in 910. The order was reformed by Odo, their Abbot, in 927. William de Warrenne, Earl of Surrey, introduced the order into England, establishing it at Lewes, in Sussex, 1077. The Cluniacs soon became fashionable, and in the course of less than 200 years possessed forty-two priories and cells in this country alone. Four Cluniac houses were dissolved by Wolsey in 1525, the remainder being suppressed at the general dissolution of monasteries a few years later. The parent house at Clugny suffered much at the hands of the Huguenots, and was finally almost entirely destroyed by a revolutionary mob in 1789." ]

[ "THE LIFE GUARDSMAN. in HUGH MULLENEUX WALMSLEY. COLONEL, OTTOMAN IMPERIAL ARMA'. AUTHOR OF \"journal of a basht bazouk,\" \"the chasseuk d'afriqu e, ' etc., etc. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STEEJtt'. 1871. [AH Rights reserved.']", "8 THE LIFE GUARDSMAN. \" Web, here's the legend,\" repbed the officer addressed, as the corps moved slowly on, and courier after courier passed to the front, whbe the bugles and trumpets of a score of regiments rang on the breeze. \" King Clovis was to be anointed King of France, and Saint Remi in his garments of state stood before the altar of his church at Rheims ready to perform the ceremony. The bubding was not that vast pbe whose dome we see yonder in the far distance, but it was crowded by a rough set. Men who believed in the old Gods of Rome, and who laughed to scorn the milk and-water Christian Deities. Men who knew well that Clovis was a great warrior, and a successful soldier ; but now they smbed in scorn, for was he not to be bap-", "CORALIE. 159 \" It is impossible, Philip. One word of this from my lips, and Lepeltier would break off the whole. It is too late ; and, Philip,\" continued the girl, laying one hand on De Brissac's arm, and looking up into his face, hers ab a-glow in the fire bght, — \" and, Philip, he will marry me, he said so, when I bring him aU the gold.\" De Brissac's strong frame trembled. Stooping, he imprinted a kiss on the girl's forehead. \" Better for him he did it Avithout,\" he murmured. \" And now, Coralie, good night. I will be exact, and I have many preparations to make.\" And so the girl passed out Into the darkness, Philip watch ing her from the window until the last sound of her footsteps, the last flutter of her dress, died away. Then sighing wearily, he spread the" ]

[ "67 Juno, as she was stiled Regina Cœli :\" and, at the same time, some Roman coins were found of Ælius, Adrianus, and Augustus Cæsar. In the year 1772, in digging a cellar where an old house had stood in Pudding-Jane, © -*» there was found reversed in a bed of fine sand, above five feet under ground, a square stone, of four feet by two and a half dimen^ sions, on which was inscribed DIS- MANI BVS LIVL APoL LINARIS REVteR AN XXX EQ Al AE Al IV*. \" A foot and two inches were broken off the lower corner on the right hand side, so as to render the inscription obscure, but the re maining letters were very plain, elegantly formed, square, and about three inches high. The inscription had consisted of eight or nine lines, of which six are entire and of L 2 * Cooke's Topographical Description of the County of Lancaster.", "71 neaf Lancaster, on one side of which was inscribed DEO MARTI SABINV RP ET MIL * * N BARC S * EIIVS PO The stone being injured on the right hand side some of the letters could not be made out : — asterisks supply their places. In 1795, another Roman altar was found near the castle at Lancaster, in clearing away some earth, between Adrian's tower and the large square tower, inscription as follows DEO SANCTOMARTI COCIDIOVIBINIUs LVCIVS BI C S V S L M which it is supposed ought to be read thus, Deo Sancto Marti Cocidio, Vibinius Lucius. B I is conjectured by some to be a contrac tion of Balbius; C S is Communi Sumptu; and V S L M Votum solvit lubens merito. This altar is preserved in the castle, in the arcade under the county hall.", "79 On the 22d August the Scottish army, 60,000 strong, entered Northumberland, the Earl of Surrey had drawn together, in a short space of time, 26,000 men, with whom he marched towards them ; and, so early as the 4th Sep- tember, came near enough to offer them bat- tle, but this did not take place till the 9th : James having halted his army at Flodden Field, the Earl of Surrey attacked and to- tally routed it there; the Scots had their king, a great number of lords and officers, and 10,000 men killed : the English had 5000 men killed; but lost no person of distinction except Sir Brian Tunstal, who, \" A stock of striplings, strong of heart, \" Brought up from babes with beef and bread. \" From Warton unto Warrington, \" From Wigan unto Wyersdale j * From Wedicar to Waddington, \" From old Ribchester to Rochdale. \" From Poulton and Preston with pikes, \" They with the Stanley stout forth went j \" From Pemberton and Pilling dikes, \" For battle billmen bold were bent. \" With fellows fresh and fierce in fights, \" Which Horton fields turn'd out in scores; \" With lusty lads — Liver and Lights — \" From Blackburn and Bolton i'th' Moors.\"" ]

[ "ApophthegmataLaconlca. litateeonferaent.Id vero cum ahj'duitatumditionita«parentia redores.tum integerrirru vrbis Pad_ue literarum alumna; Pra. tor AndrgasGrittus,& prgfedusPauIusPifanus ita comprobant:vt nonredores-fedparentesomnibuseffe videantur. Tantam en» non litium rnodo. ptiuatariun/ed publicg quoq? commoditatis 8C quietis curam fufcepe re:vt veriffimum illud efle declarent mem_i lwa«piit_mitarifoIere.Quamobremhaudqu3gmirandumeft:fl[ Fauentini ft Arf minenfes diubellis feditionibufqj vexati,iufti_E* mo ft integernmo regimini tuo fefenuper fponte fua tradiderut. Quis emvirprudesme dn populus:fipo_nt;adeunoco___gi3tprin dpe:aquo nihilnifiajqunnihdnifilegitimiunihil nifi honeftumfe habitu rum effe certo fdat/Sub cuius protedione fe tutu,fe quie* turn rebus fuis frui poffe confidat.''Sed de iuftitia ali jfq. plendidif* firrtis virtutibus tuis non breuis epiftolaffedgrandis hiftoria cons fcribendaforet:q_ue prgdaraft tua&maiorumtuorumgeftareli* d ftilo complederetur.Id vero cum ft Iongi temporis ft facundifs. fimi oratoris fit opus.-haud quaqab otfido meo alienueffe putaui fi nunc id quo d p offumrvel epiftolari br euitate indy turn nomen tuum vna cum prifcis illis ft regibus ft legum latoribus,quoru fa* pientiffima quaecp dida hocin bbello defcripta funt copularenvfi mulvtvbicuncpRomanaeftinvfuIingua3rbitr3retur:fimulvt^> virili parte meaimmortalitaticonfecraretur.Quod quidem etia fiminus forfitan ero affecutusmihil tamen dubito:quin optimam voluntatem meam erga tusm ferenitatem fis 3ccepturas: cum ho minis animum potius q rerum exitum omnibus in adionibus ceni feasfemper effe fpedandu___.Sediamacuti_fimaLacedgmonio3 rumdida:qusnontemporum;fedliteraruordineferuatodefcri# bunturrperfpicue interpretemur:quo melius raciliufq? Laconica breuitas ft follertia perfpiciatur. Vale eximiumfgculinottriorna* mentum, Ex AcademiaPatauina. Nonis Maii.M . D. VII. PLVTARCHI CHAERONENSIS LACONICA APOPHTHEGMATA RAPHAELE REGIO INTEERPRETE. LGASICLESrex Laced*momrum,admirate |quoda,g?rii magna difcendiaudiediq? teneres jj tur cupiditate.-Philophane rhetorices dodore non vteretuneorum inquit me difcipulum effe .oportet.-quorum etiam fum filius. Ad eumvero qui rogarat:quo modo quis abfq? fatellitib9 tu« to regn are poffet.-fifuis inquit populisjta impe E.j.", "Plutarchi Cheronei. melioreffetfortitudo an iuftitia: nulla fortitudinisvtilitate effe di xitabfente iuftitia. Namfioesiuftiforent:nihil_brtitudineop9ef fe.CumautemijquiAfiam incoluntexconfuetudine Perfarure* gem magnum appellarent. Ecquid ille me maior eft inquit : nifi 8c iuftior fit ft continentiot.'' Ac eos quidem qui Afiam inhabitarent genuos quidem malos.Seruos autembonos effe di&itabat. Idem interrog3tus quo modo quis maxime apud homines probaretur: fi dicat inquit optimarft faciat honeftiffima. Imperatorem vero di cebat oportere ft in hoftes 3ud3d3m,ft infubditos beneuolentia ft 3d occafiones folertiam habere . Cuidam sutem qua.renti:qua_ nampuerisdifcendaforent:E3refpondit:quibusftvirifint vfuri. Veram caufas cuiufdam iudex: cum accufator bene quidem dixifs fet:Re9autemmaIe:quippequiadf_ngul3diceret:AgefiIaeopor» tet regem legibus opitul3ri:& domum inquit,fi quis tibi euerteret ft veftimentfi fiquis 3uferret:expedaresne:vt architedus aut qui veftimentum confecitrtibiauxilium feratrTdem a rege Perfaru epi ft o la m pace iam fada fibi miffam , quam vna cum Gallia Lacedaes monfo vir Perfa de hofpitalitate ft amicitia attulerat : huadquaq accepit:dicens:regi nuntiaret.-Minime opus effe: ad fe literas pri* uatim daret.N3tn fi ft amicus Lscedxmoniift Gfa.eia; beneuolus effe videbitur:fe quoqjpro viribusipfiamicumeefuturum.Sinau tern infidiari deprehendeturme fimultas quidem3cciperem litea r3s:cred3t me fibi 3tnicum effe futurum.Fili orum 3utem cum 3ma tiffimuseffet:fertur vn3 cump3ruispueris domi cotludere folitus inarundinemvtin equumafcendens.Seda quodamamicorumvi fus rogauit:ne cui prius id diceret:g ipfe quoqj puerorum pster ef fet. C^teram Thebsnos a ffiduis bellis cum infeftaret : ac in pugna vulneratus foret: Antalddam dixiffe ferunt;Pulchra difcipling prg niiaaThebanis3ccipis:quosnolentesnefcientesquidempugna; re docueris.Tiic enim Thebsnos fe ipfis bellicofiores aiunt fa&o. propteraffidu3sL3cedgmoniorum in ipfos expeditiones.Quare Lycurgus quo q? ille antiquus in legibus ,qua; Rhetre vocantur, prohibuit aduerfus eofdem fepi9 muitare.-ne bellandi peritia difce rent.Poftea g vero audiuit.-focios fegf e'ferre continuas expeditio nes :qui3 multi paucos Lacedgmonios fequerentur : refellere voi lens iUoriunmultitudinem:iuffit omnes quidem focios federe fibi inuicem pmixtos. Lacedgmonios autem fepsratim folos. Deinde edixit.vt figuli furge*ent primi;qui cum furrexiffent.-edixit vt feca di furgerent fabri a. rarij'.-deinde architedi ft domoru aedificat orts & fingulas aIia»3rtes.Itafocijfere omnesquidem furrexerunt.Las cedajmoniorum autem nemo. Ipfis nanq? prohibitum eartefordi", "Apophthegmata Laconica. nienfiumquidadixiffet.Perqalieniabotioeftiso Nicader Vera inquit narrss. Sed no ficut vos,vt conting3t ftudemus. P3nthyd3sleg3t9in Afia vadensoftentatibus ei quibufdamu rum ft magnii ft altunvper deos inquit o hofpites pulchra haec eft muliegt habitatioJn Academia vero cumphilofophi de multis & grauibus q uidem differuiffent:ac deindePanthyda interrogaffet: Quidfibide illis _ermonibusvideretur:Quidnempe aliud inquit g quodftudiofi:fed vtiles nihibnifi vos ipfis vramini.'' -Paufanas CIeombroti,Debjs cu Athenienfib9 de ifula Delo di-* fceptatib9 ft dicentib9:neq} mulieres ex lege q apud ipfos eft:in i* fula pareremeemortuos fepeliri:Quo igitur mo iquit ea veftra fit pri3:in quanemo vrm necnat9 eftmec erit fepult^'Exulib9 ant ip ffthortatib9 adducedii in Athenienfes exerdtft dicetibufcp ab illis fobstuin Olympij'sfuiffeexibilatu:cfividorfuitdeclarat9gd igff iquit putatis eos effe raduros.-fiquid mali a me paffi fuerftrqui bnfi cio affedi exibilat. Percotate vero quodicur Tyrtgu poeta ciuis tare donaffetme iquit pegrin9 nobis dux fuiffe videaf .Ide 3d eum qui cu ifirm9 corpore effet tn cofulebat cu hoftib9 terra mariq. pis ditadu effe. vis igif iquit teipmexuesonderequalis fis:qui nobis vt pugnem9 cofulis. Admittatib9 vero quibufdain barbsro^: fpoa lij's veftimnfumptu.-Melius effetinquitipfosmulti fferirqmultifas denda poffidere.Poft vidoriaautde Medis3pudPlargas parta: iuffit Perficam ccena prctparatam fibi opponia'n qua quidem cum admirandusineffetfumptus:Per deos inquit LurchoPerfa erat: quicumtothaberet:3dnoftr3mveneritpo!entam. Paurani3sPIiftanadisadquend3iterrogate,curexpri_cis legi b9nuIlnmouereapud Spartiatas liceret.-Quia leges inquithoim, no hoics Iegumdnos effe oportet. Cum aute ipe Lacecbemonios Tegeg.vbi exulabat,laud3ret:3cquidadixiffet.Cur igitur Spartg nomanebas,cur illinc aufiigifti.''Quiaiquitnemediciquideapud fanos .fedvbi futggrotiverfari cofueueriif .Idequodagcotate quo mo Thraces debellare poffenr.fioptimuiquit iperatore delegeri mus.Medic9 vero ciiipsifpiceret.-acdiceret.Nihil mali habes.Te nfpe inquit medico no vtor.Amico^r aut quodl ipfu accuflte:t£ medico cuida detraheret.-nullaeiusperiti3.habens.acne vllaqui deminiuria3ffedus:Quiainquitfideillo periculufeciff5:nequ3q viuere.Sedcumedicusipfidixiffet.Atfenexf7idu3es.Quiateins quit medico no fuvfus.Optimft aut ilfudidttabat effe medicum: quiegrotantesnontabefceret:fedqprimumfepeliret. Pgdaret9 quoda dicete multos effe hoftes.No. igif ait maiore gloria -uTeqmunna pluresiterficiem9. Cuafttqu?dl vidiffet natu« ra quide molle fed g .ppter raodeftia acmib9 laudaref :Nec viros G.ij." ]

[ "7 him with having killed her pretty spotted pig. The only lines Cole could recollect are as follow : — \" Oh ! lady, oh ! lady, what bring'st thou here — Wind went his horn, as a hunter ; Thee blow another blast, and he'll soon come to thee, As thou art a jovial hunter. \" He whetted his tusks as he came along — Wind went his horn, as a hunter ;\" And Cole concluded his narrative by saying that Bromsgrove was, from the above-mentioned circumstance, formerly called Boar's Grove. This name, however, appears to have been a fiction to suit- the legend, as it is called Bremesgrave in Domesday Book ; but there is a place by Shepley Heath, near Bromsgrove town, called Burcot,* which is said to be a corruption of Boarcot ; and an old story has been handed down in the district, that the devil kept a pack of hounds at Hales Owen, (vulgo, Hell's Own,) and that he and his huntsman, \" Harry-ca-nab,\" used, riding on wild bulls, to hunt the wild boars on Bromsgrove Lickey. Shortly after obtaining the information from Cole, a gentle man, whom I had requested to make some enquiries after the ballad, brought me the following lines, which he said he took down in writing as a man of the name of Benjamin Brown, of Upper Wick, repeated them to him : — 1. \" Sir Robert Bolton had three sons — Wind well thy horn, good hunter ; And one of them was called Sir Ryalas, For he was a jovial hunter. II \" He rang'd all round, down by the wood side — Wind well thy horn, good hunter; Till up in the top of a tree a gay lady he spy'd, For he was a jovial hunter. » There is also, a place called Boreley, in the neighbouring parish of Ombersley.", "16 attainted and executed 1 Henry VII., 1485, at Tyburn, and adds, \"a report prevailed that Humphrey Stafford was drawn upon a hurdle from the Forgate, or North Gate of Worcester, to the Cross, and there put to death ; but this was. without foundation.\"* The Doctor mentions the coats of arms of several other families who were buried in Bromsgrove Church ; but the coat in question is the only one which contains either a boar's head or a boar. In August, 1844, I visited the Stafford monument. It lies in the north-east corner of the northern aisle of the church, f behind the tomb of Sir John Talbot, Knight,| and his two wives. It is a fine piece of sculpture, and the net-work head dress of Eleanor is considered as remarkable. The figure of the boar's head still lies down under the head of Sir Humphrey; and the sexton then assured me that there was no other representation of a boar's head or boar either in the church or churchyard. The next question is, whether the Jovial Hunter was not one of the Stafford family ? Now, it is possible that such family may have taken the boar's head as a crest from some great feat done by one of them in killing a wild boar ; or the legend about the boar may have been either an old story engrafted upon or a fiction founded upon the crest of that family. A circumstance of the latter kind did occur with respect to the tomb of Sir Ralf Wysham, in Woodmanton Chapel, in Clifton-upon-Teme Church, which is a raised monument, representing a recumbent cross-legged Knight in armour, in a tabard, with a lion at his feet ;§ and the pea santry to this day will have it that as he was one day * \"Appendix to Hales.\" t It is said that on account of some contemplated alterations this tomb is to be removed to the tower of the church ; but it is to be hoped that it will be allowed to rest where it is, unless it is very carefully removed, and also well protected from injury. X He died 10th Sept., 1550. § See Nash, vol. i., page 2t9.", "19 Pyperode in com. Wigorn, temp. R. Johan.' Which forest seems to have contained within its bounds part of Chad desley Corbett, Bel Broughton, Bromsgrove, Alvechurch, &c. Some woods in Chaddesley still retain the name of Peppyr Woods. In the Inquisito post mortem Rogeri Bishopsden, 18 R. II., he is said to have held at his death the office of bailiff of the forest of Feckeney, et Pyperode intra forestam de Feckenham. By this it should seem that Pyperode Forest was only a member of the large forest of Fecken ham.\"* Other parts of the North of Worcestershire were included in Kynvare (Kinver) Forest ; such as part of Pedmore, Hagley, Old Swinford, Chaddesley, Kidderminster, Wolverley, and Churchill. The boundaries of Feckenham Forest were much enlarged by Henry II., to the very great distress of the inhabitants ; in fact, the greatest portion of the north and north-east part of Worcestershire was included in it. The following, among many other places, were added to it by Henry, namely, part of Droitwich, of Hanbury, of Rushock, of Hartlebury, of Chaddesley Corbett, of Forfield, of Cofton, of Alvechurch, of Tardebigg (including the hamlet of Redditch), of Harving ton, of Evesham, of Fladbury, of Abberton, of Crowle, of Bredicot, and of Spetchley. Here, then, we have proof that the field called Robin's Acre, in Grimley, was situated near to the forests, and that the piece called Robin Hood's Oak, in Chaddesley Corbett, and Robin's Piece, Big Robins, and Little Robins, in Tarde bigg, lay in the midst of the forests ; and consequently it is very probable that Robin Hood sometimes ranged in those parts, either to chase the wild animals of the district, or to avenge the grievous wrongs that his countrymen were endur ing, especially under the odious forest laws ; and therefore that the oak and places in question were named from him either in his lifetime or shortly after his death. * See Nash, vol. i., Introduction, pages 65f 66, and 68 ; and vol. ii., Appendix, pages 107 and 108." ]

[ "LES BELGES EN BOHÈME .ii CAMPAGNES ET NÉGOCIATIONS.", "OU CAMPAGNES ET NÉGOCIATIONS. 9 « fils, qu'il laisse orphelin et en bas âge, la compagnie « de cavalerie qu'il commandait, aussi bien que sa « charge de grand louvetier de l' Artois. » C'est ainsi qu'on a vu souvent des hommes, marqués par le doigt de Dieu , avancer l'œuvre de la nature ; s'ils sèment autour d'eux des faveurs qui étonnent , c'est, qu'avertis par une sorte de divination, ils ne les font jamais tomber que sur des individualités pleines de générosité et d'avenir. A quatorze ans l'enfant s'était fait homme ; le regard monté vers son bienfaiteur et secondé d'autre part pat un enthousiasme sincère pour sa profession, il élait parvenu à hausser son âge au niveau de son grade. Sa jeunesse fut pleine d'ardeur et de dévouement pour la cause de l'Espagne, mais il ne s'en laissa pas aveugler au point de méconnaître toute l'horreur de ces guerres, où les Belges, divisés de croyance religieuse, étaient poussés les uns contre les autres, le glaive et la torche à la main. 11 s'ensuivit que ce fut comme un grand bienfait pour lui, que de se voir appelé à suivre Alexandre de Parme, pendant ces brillantes campagnes de France, qui surent, pour les armes espagnoles, les derniers reflets de leur gloire. Lorsque la vie des camps venait à succéder aux nobles fatigues de la guerre, il savait en tromper l'ennui, en se créant, dans ce repos forcé, mille ressources pour le cœur et pour l'esprit. Presque chaque jour il se ren contrait avec de Rosne et quelques autres gentils-", "LES BELGES EN BOHÈME 66 voisinage de Prague et aux nombreuses intelligences qu'on avait su s'y ménager, Bucquoy pouvait d'un coup d'œil sûr suivre les derniers développements de cette révolution, d'autant plus sérieuse, que la race slave em piétait ingénuement de plusieurs siècles sur l'avenir, en prenant les franchises politiques les plus étendues, pour la conséquence naturelle et directe de la liberté de dis cussion et d'examen proclamée par le protestantisme. Ces symptômes de régénération sociale effrayèrent cependant au même degré l'absolutisme de Ferdinand et la noblesse bohème, qui voyait déjà ses derniers pri vilèges foulés aux pieds à Pheure du triomphe. Ferdi nand n'était pas à craindre dans ce moment , mais les nobles, qui avaient la majorité dans la représentation des États fédérés siégeant pour lors à Prague, employè rent les moyens suivants pour entraver l'avénement du régime républicain que les peuples appelaient de tous leurs vœux. ils confièrent la défense du territoire à des troupes étrangères et désarmèrent la nation ; c'était évidem ment rejeter la meilleure garantie possible de triomphe. Ils intriguèrent si bien qu'ils poussèrent Frédéric Vde Deux-Ponts sur le trône , ce qui était, par un crime plus impardonnable encore, donner le pas à Pincapa cité et à la faiblesse sur le génie ambitieux, sûr de lui même et prêt à la lutte, qui s'appelait Bethlen-Gabor, prince de Transylvanie 25. 25 Né en 1580, ce prince protestant arriva par la protection de la" ]

[ "25 Sicheluuist (2ee stoischen g-ürfteuberg unb igünnielpfort), 1299 stagnum Sicheluuist (attfl. sik- pfeifen iß, ogl. poln, sikora Meise), § 6, patron.: „9i'uchfoir.:nen beS Sikol-\". ©targarb, ©tabt, 1170 Stargard, Stargart, 1244 Staregard, 1257 Stargard etc. (altfl. starü alt 2t unb iß, altfl. gradü, roeftft. gard, braoentfch gord, <gürbe, Mauer, Surg 2t), § 38, comp.: „2ttte Surg\". Stargard, Sanb, 1236 terram Staregardensem . . et terram Bezeriz etc. (nach ber Surg ©targarb benannt). Stargarde tlumen (Sach, bei üleubranbenburg in ben ©eflenfefluß faHenb, je£t mifjbräuchtid) Sinbe genannt; ein 2trm beS SacheS Heisst nod) jetjt in ber ©egenb ber Münbung 2ttten ©targarb, 1271 in flumine quod wlgariter Stargarde dicitur, 1319 ad Humen Stargardt, 1357 das wasser Stargard genannt, § 21, adj. : „©targarber Sach\". ©tarforo, 2t. Miroro, 1257 Starsowe, 1274 Starzowe, 1287 villa Starsow, 1303 Starsow. 1321 Starzow (attfl. starü alt iß), § 15, adj. poss.: „Drt beS Stark-, Stare-\". ©taoen, 21. ©targarb, 1303 villa Stouen, 1308 villa Stovuen, 1322 villa Stouen, 1358 in dem dörpe to Stoven, 1469 Staven (altft.* stavü ©eich, ©amm, cech. stav ©amm, poln, staw ©eich 21), § 30, adj.: „Teichort, ©ammort\". Step (gelbmarf 9.eubranbenburg, noch jefct heißen mehrere 2lderftüde auf'iRoroa ju, auf un= ebenem ©errain bie ©tepen), 1170 Step, Steph, 1244 Step (altft. step-, stepeni Stufe, 2tbhang 2t), § 21, adj.: „abhängiger, abgestufter Drt\". Stitnitz (bei Mroro), 1242 de Stytna, 1270 de Stitnitz (attfl. stitü ©chilb 2t, ogl. bie D91 ftr. scytna, cech. stitnä), § 30, adj. unb § 28: „©chitbort\". ©tolpe, 2t. ©targarb, 1517 Stolp, 1560 Stolpe [©. 21.], (attfl. stlüpü ©äule, r. stolp, roeftft. stolp, poln, slup, cech. sloup „gurgustium, locus in fluvio aretatus ad capiendos pisces\", ie. 21), § 21, adj.: „Drt, roo gtfchftänber :c. finb\". Stolp (bei yürftenberg), 1299 molendiuum Stolp, 1300 usque ad uillam Stolp: „Drt, roo gifchftänber finb\" (ogt. ben oorigen 2lrtifel). Stolp (©ee bei gürftenberg), 1299 item stagnum Stolp, 1300 stagnum Stolp: „(©ee), roo gtfchftänber finb\". ©trafen, ©traßen, 2t. Miroro, 1317 Strasym, Stras(ym), (Strasvin, Serasym), 1403 Strasem (attfl. strahü ©chred iß), § 17, adj. poss.: „Drt beS Strasim\". ©treltfc (2ltiftreli|), ©tabt, 1316 desse Slote: Strelitz vnd Meyenborch, 1328 mit eren sloten Wesenbergh, Strelitz etc., 1329 Streliz, Strelitz, 1349 Streliz, Strelz, 1475 vppe vnseme slote Strelitze (altfl. strela ißfeil iß, altft. streitet ©chüfce iß unb 21), § 6, patron.: ,,9.achfommen beS Stre-la, ober § 11 ober § 12, plur.: „bie Schüfen\". i", "11 2* Garlsfelbe, ju SBolbegf, f. b. ©arlshof, KabinetS:2t. Flurnamen 1757: bie Mutten SBiefent; Sanb bet) ber Mutt.u SBiefe. ©arlshof (früher ©tubbenfrttg) 2t. ©targarb, 1170, 1244 Lang (ogl. D91 poln, hgiew; hjg oft, su altft. Hgü SBalb, §ain, 2t). 6. ist abgebrochen, gehört su ©obenSwege, f. b. ©artshöhe, su 9.eubranbenburg, f. b. ©arottnenhof, su ©abetow, f. b. ©arlsluft, su Mitbenifc, f. b. ©arotinenhof, su SBolbegf, f. b. ©arpin 21. gelbberg, 1393, 1430 Carpin (ogt. D9J potn. karpiu, karpiewo, su attfl. *krapü. ferb. krap, poln. karp'. (Jrembwort) Karpfen, 2t, ober su potn. karpa <einbernis im Flusse). Flurnamen 1756: Kamp auf ber Sorhütt; Kamp auf bem Sahrwolb; ber Süaffer: lauf, bie Sidj genannt (f. SaUin); ber (Savpmfcn ©ee (f. oben); @d)lcefl? ©ee (? flaoifch, ngl D9t poln, slesin, sleszyn; slisze, äliz; zleszyn); 2tder beim ©r. Qettan, SBiefe beim ©r 3c**«*« » bito am Kt. 3***0« (Seen, ogl. D9i potn. ceranöw, zeran', su altft. ? ; ist ein weftft. ceran „üfalfang\" »orhanben? ©chiüer unb Sübben IV 192 führen bas SBort als mnb. auf: „seran [zeran, serran] ©tätte beS 2tat: unb Fischfanges\"). Garwifc 2t. getbberg, 1216 Carwitze (?); 1393 Carwytze (ogl. D9c poln, karwice, karwowo, karwöw, altpoln, krüvovo, su altft. krüvi Stut, 2t ? ober iß ?, ober su attft. krava, weftft. karva, braoenifch korva Kuh, 2t ober iß ?). Flurnamen 1803: ©änfe SBerber, Söhnen SBerber; Soßn Sßerber; SBerber; 3tegenwcrber; bas SranmSruch, im belegen; auf bem SBarte:Serg; ©een: ber £*d}=®ec, 1556 in den Dreszer Sehe, 1564 Drescher See, 1764 Drätsch See. (nach ißrof. Srüdner beutfdj: bann wäre oielleicht Dres, Drewes = Andreas su ©rttnbe Su legen; ober ist baS SBort flaoifch? Sgl. D9. poln, drzezno cech. dfesin, drazovice, etc.); ber schmale i'orjiu See (rgt. ben ©r. Susin bei a. 1575 die Loczin, ferner D9. potn. lucynöw, lucynowo, lucien'; luczynow, lucznica oon attft. ?, ober lq,czyno, le.ciny, su altfl. lqlta ©umpf 21 ?); ber !3rttt$Ctt=©ee , 1575 Xantes, Zantes, Santes, Zanzen (ogt. DiR potn. ciazen', ciQzköw; ci^ciwa; ober ksi^znica; ober ksi^te ober ssiczöw, sg,cz, SQdzino ?) ©hartottenhof, su hattet), f. b. Ghriftenhof, su ipohensteril, f. b. ©hriftiansburg su ©abetow, f. b. ©ölpin, 2t. ©targarb, 1290 Colpyn, 1298 Colpin, 1417 CoTipin (ogl. D9. poln, kielpin [ißrof. 9.ehring:Sreslau] kielpien', kolpinek, su attft. klüp— ; ober su kolpü ©räche, oberferb. kolp' ©chwan ? — adj.)", "33 btttg (f. bie ©fisje berfelbeu; Soll, ©hrontf, ©. 6: eine alte Überlieferung berichtet, bafe bes Erbauers oon iReubranbenburg, ßerborb, 3uname SRaoen ober SRaben — oietteicht nach bem benachbarten iRooe, jefct 9iowa — gewesen fei,*) unb bafe er bie eine Siertelmeite oon ber ©tabt im ©umpftoalbe nahe an ber Shtenfelbfchen Scheibe gelegene Surg bewohnt habe, bie im Kirchen:SifitatiotiS=Srotofotle oon 1558 ben iRamen iRaoensborch führt. ©ie Surgwäüe finb noch heutigen ©ages erhalten unb sowohl bie örtlichfeit, als auch bie bort gefunbenen ütttertumsrefte [namentlich eine Menge oon wenbifchen Urnenfcherben] lassen es aufcfr 3toeifel, bafe bie Surg wenbifchen Ursprungs ist. 2luch hat es burchaus nichts UnwahrfcheinticheS, bafe biefe Surg auch nach Sefiegung ber flaoifchen Seoölferung sunächft oon ben ©toberern ats Surgort weiter benufct würbe, benn baffelbe sanb mit ben befannten Surgen be§ Schweriner Sanbes statt, mit SBerte, Stom, Medtenbttrg u. f. w. Stuch bie ütnlage SleubranbenburgS selbst spricht bafür, bafe <£>erborb früher öie iRaoensburg bewohnte, benn offenbar oom Frieblänbifchen ©höre her scheint man bie Stabt bebaut su haben. iRoch heutsutage jä^lt baS sogenannte Frieblänber Siertel als ba§ erste unb bei weitem ftärffte Stabtoiertel, unb unweit bes ©hores ftanb baS SBohtthauä welches nach feinem Stbleben in eine Kirche St. 9iicolai oerwanbett würbe; -auch lag baS alte marf: *) SSei bem 3eugenoert)ör bes> gcofjen Stabtprojeffe§ (1802) gab bet au§ 9.eubranbenbttrg gebür tige Stoftcdet ©tabtfetretär 39ernf)ntb ©djarfer.berg ju *Protofofl: „3m Slofter ju .teubranbenburg, wenn man bie Jtirdje entlang gefjt, bei bet Ireppe unb ©etbefammer ((Sarberobe), ba man auf ba§ 3)ormitorium geEjt, fjabe mit grossen SBudjftaben getrieben geftanben: Anno Domini 1248 tempore Johannis Marehionis Brandenburgensis fundata fuit Novabrandenburg- darunter stehet geschrieben : a Bernhardo fideli famulo. — 3n SRicolauS Sirenen fjabe sub Papatu ein Srett gegangen, barauf geschrieben: „S3ibbet not älboru§ Stauen ein ansenget biefer ©tabt,\" — unb soll gemelbter 3tane feinen ©tfc im §otj nafje bei 3lenfelb gehabt b,aben, unb roerbe basier und) nod) baS §ot} heutigen 2age§ bie SlabeniMBurg genannt, unb ob er [3euge] toobl (nteftt selbst in bem §\"(56 gewesen, so träte et bod) oon feinen Sleltern unb anbern beriefetet reorben, bafe bie SEBätte, barauf ba§ £ au3 geftanben, nodj jefct in bem £otj oorfjanben fein sollen, unb bafj gemelbter Siabe in 3talia ftubtrt gehabt, unb bafjer auef) bie ©tabt Steubranbenburg nadj ber $orm unb 2trt, rote in 3talia gemeiniglich, bie ©trafen gebaut fein sollen\". Satomuä im (Senecaldjrontfon schreibt 1610: „1248 l)at . . . Bartgras SobanneS feinen getreuen Seemann, 3Ilberuä 9taDen genannt, so in ber 9.äfje in einem Woraft unb Cö'äting (so nodj fjeuttges 2ng§ bie StaoenSbutg genannt roirb unb mit breien unterfd)ieb[idjen SBällen jum ®ebäci)tmfj anfidjtig ist) gewönnet I»at, in ©naben anbefohlen, eine neue ©tabt auf ber ©ranje ju bauen, unb sie nad) ber .-pauptftabt in ber 3Barf Sranbenburg 3teuenbranbenburg ju nennen. SBeldjem 93efef)[ jufolge biefer ällberu_ 9taoe biefe ©tabt am glufj JoOenfe ... auf einer frönen ebene in folefier ©irculär^igur unb fcbnurtedjten, weiten ©ttaf?en gebauet unb futibiret, bafj meines äöiffenä feine runbere ©tabt }U finben, of)ne bie ©tabt sJ.a.ma, reelle bie Sknettaner im 3 ©§r. 1593 ju bauen angefangen Ijaben. ©3 begreift aber biefe ©tabt Dteubranbenburg in fiefj 9 ©trafen, roeldje so fünftlidj angelegt, bas; 5 grabe oom Osten in'8 SBeften, unb 4 grabe oon ©üben in'ä JJorben oon einer 5JJauer jur anbern gefjen. Sludj t)at obgebad)ter ©ubmimftrator 2Uberu§ Sftaoe in ber g-rteblänbfdjen ©trafse ein grosses 2BoE)nbau3 gebauet, roeld>eä bennodj fyernad) jur Jtirdje genietbet unb ©onfeffori 9.ico!ao bebktret; jefct abet njtrb'S roteber jum 3eug= unb ßornfjauö gebrauet, jebodj fjängt noo^ ein SBrett barinnen am Pfeiler, barauf, be§ g-unbatoriä ©ebädjtnife 3U ermatten, btefe SBorte stehen; „SSibbet nur 2Uboru3 3taoen anfenger biefer ©tabt.\"" ]

[ "4 Wid. Is it possible ? I must stop her at any price. (Aside.) She'll disgrace me, and I am so anxious to make an impression. (Aloud) Well, call upon me to-morrow and we'U talk this business over. I place everything in your hands, and I'm sure you will invest my large funds to the best advantage. I feel so unprotected — you understand my situation — and, then, there are possibilities, too. Cas. I assure you, madam, T have grasped the situation. Count on my unflagging interest. Wid. You tranquillize me, indeed. Good-bye. [Exit. Cas. (musingly) Yes; there are possibilities. SONG.— Cassidy. Could I, an Irishman, prove ungallant ? Verily, no, not I ! Pause when a widow protection may want, Verily, no, not I ! Carp at her figure, her eyes, or her hair, Hint that her age she does artfully wear, Let such mere trifles my ardour impair '? Verily, no, not I ! Shall I a proxy instruct on the case ? Verily, no, not I ! Am I unequal its bearings to face ? Verily, no, not I ! Could I unfeelingly turn me aside, When, on my appreciation relied, Widowhood gifted in me did confide ? Verily, no. not I ! Shall I prove false to so precious a trust ? Verily, no, not I ! Let her large funds uninvestedly rust ? Verily, no, not I ! Happy idea ! — Could any such be Better invested, henceforth, than in me, Know I than Hymen a better trustee 'r Verily, no, not I ! [Exit into Castle. Enter Crowd dragging carriage containing Lord Absentee and Yalet. CHORUS. With flying feet, dull care to cheat, In merry jig and polka, We'll celebrate our lord's return, And sing, Cead mille failthe ! Cead mille failthe ! Cead mille failthe ! SOLO. — Lord Absentee (alighting). Thanks, worthy folk, for welcome kind, in style characteristic, We meet as friends, then, spite of principles antagonistic ?", "6 Art. Troth, it's yer Honor's purse that '11 soon find that out ! He'd talk the money out o' yer pocket, would Dandy Cassidy, th' attorney, ha ! ha ! ha ! Cas. (shaking hands). Welcome ! Welcome home, my Lord. Lord A. I thank you, Mr. Cassidy. Cas. Ah ! I see I don't need to declare my name and employ. Lord A. No, indeed, for here's an old acquaintance who has pithily stated both. Cas. Art-na-gow, you rascal ! What have you been saying ? I don't believe anything would put a stopper on you. Art. An' for all that, I'd take a cheque, but shure yer Honor wouldn't have the heart to give the like, ha ! ha ! All. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Peg. Mind you're not taken up, Art. Art. Arrah, for what ? Peq. The laugh's agen the law this time All. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Cas. (as Morris enters from Castle). My Lord, this is Mr. Morris, the Agent I engaged according to your directions. He was staying in London when he saw your advertisement in the Times, and he has been installed in his new post for the past week. Lord A. I am glad to find you in office, sir. Might I ask your nationality ? Mor. To be exact, my Lord, I think I should define it as — cosmopolitan. Lord a4. I see, — a rover anxious to reform. Mor. To reform is decidedly the height of my ambition. Lord A. I have much to say to you. Let us go indoors. Follow, Shrimpe, with the luggage. [Exeunt Lord A., Cas. and Mob. to Castle. Shrimpe (bustling about). Cussed slow things these Hirish railways are ! 'Spose everything in the barbarous place is the same. I say, Pat, is it true that bodies of ruffians go about shooting the landlords in this part of the country ? Art. (ironically). No! In this part o' the counthry thc landlords go about shootin' themselves ! Shrimpe (bewildered). Eh ! The fellah doesn't hunderstand plain Henglish ! 'Ere ! carry in those traps at once, I say ! Cook \\ The little spalpeen ! Peg. > Thc leprechaun ! Another. ) Mo truag tu ! (God help you ! ) Art. Arrah, take it aisy, avick ! It's curious, but it's one o' the ways o' this barbarous place that we don't take orders from our infayriors. An' listen hither, honey. Keep a civil tongue in yer head, or you'll go quicker nor you come, for all the slowness o' the railways ! All. Ha ! ha ! ha ! ha ! Enter Policeman. Pol. Now then ! move about ! Circulate ! don't block thc avenue. Clutch. Nabocklish ! Is it for the sake o' carrying a few parcels y'd be fightin' ? Come on ! I'll help you ! [Exeunt Clutch and Shrimpe into Castle.", "30 I really think The agents wink At this \" No-rent \" uprising, For pressure tight Should alter quite A state of things surprising. Malone, 'tis said, Eats buttered bread, The Bradys boots are wearing ; Yet, to demand Reductions grand, The varlets have the daring ! So wriggle and writhe in secret woe, etc. Kinane, I'm told, A heifer sold, And then the money banked, Old Tom O'Neil Scorns Indian meal, And says, \" the Lord be thanked ! \" Schoolmaster Pat Sports a new hat, His son's a fine frieze-suit in, And yet anent Not paying rent We've logic high-falutin' ! So wriggle and writhe in secret woe, etc. To live at all On rents so small Plans ever I'm devising, Why, bless your stars ! Even my cigars, I'm now economizing ! Cards, horses, wine, Are never mine, Save by severest screwing, And all because The Land League laws The landlords are undoing ! So wriggle and writhe in secret woe, etc Kat. Come, my friends. Since you have refused our reasonable request, sir, we'll oppose you to the bitter end. Ten. (seizing Clutch). Off wid ye, Lanty! You'U be payin' the rint, in spite of yerself, you're so tindir -hearted, if we don't look afther ye ! Chorus of Ladies and Tenants. To the soldier proud victory's boast, etc, [Exeunt. Lord A. (aside to Shrimpe). Go after old Kavanagh and tell him to come quietly in here to me. I want him particularly. Shrimpe. Yes, m'lud ! [Exit." ]

[ "GENERAL VIEW. 27 Senate.— The senate shall consist of twelve members, who shall hold their office for one year from the first Wednesday of June next ensuing their election. And that the state may be equally represented in the senate, the legislature shall, from time to time, divide the state into twelve districts, as nearly equal as may be without dividing towns and unincorporated places ; and in making this division, they shall govern themselves by the proportion of direct taxes paid by the said districts, and timely make known to the in habitants ofthe state the limits of each district. The freeholders and other inhabitants of each district, quali fied as in this constitution is provided, shall annually give in their votes for a senator, at some meeting holden in the month of March. The senate shall be the first branch of the legislature ; and the senators shall be chosen in the following manner, viz. every male inhabitant of each town, and parish with town privileges, and places unincorporated, in this state, of twen ty-one years of age and upwards, excepting paupers, and per sons excused from paying taxes at their own request, shall have a right at the annual or other meetings of the inhabit ants of said towns and parishes, to be duly warned and holden annually forever in the month of March, to vote in the town or parish wherein he dwells, for the senator in the district whereof he is a member. Provided nevertheless, That no person shall be capable of be ing elected a senator, who is not of the protestant religion, and seized of a freehold estate in his own right, ofthe value of two hundred pounds, lying within this state, who is not of the age of thirty years, and who shall not have been an inhabitant of this state for seven years immediately preceding his election, and at the time thereof he shall be an inhabitant of the district for which he shall be chosen. And every person, qualified as the constitution provides, shall be considered an inhabitant for the purpose of electing and being elected into any office or place within this state, in the town, parish and plantation, where he dwelleth and hath his home. And the inhabitants of , plantations and places unincorpo rated, qualified as this constitution provides, who are or shall be required to assess taxes upon themselves towards the sup port of government, or shall be taxed theresor, shall have the same privilege of voting for senators, jn the plantations and places wherein they reside, as the inhabitants of the respect ive towns and parishes aforesaid have. And the meetings of such plantations and places for that purpose shall be holden", "78 GAZETTEER OF broke. , Allenstown, hitherto, has been destitute of a setded minister or meeting-house. A house of public worship, how ever, has been recently erect ed. It has 3 school- houses, and winters 536 sheep. , Alexandria, a township of Grafton county, incorporated in. 1782, and containing 409 in habitants, is bounded on the N. W. by Orange ; N. E. by Bridge-water, S. E. by New- Chester, and on the S. W. by Danbury. Its N. corner is sit uate in New-found pond on He bron line. It contains about 14,000 acres of land. Smith's river flows through the S., and. several smaller streams cross the N. end of this town. Pri or to 1790, Rev. Enoch Whip pie was settled here. At pres ent there are two religious so cieties without an ordained minister. It has 1 grain-mill, 4 saw-mills, and 1 mill for dressing cloth. Alstead, a township of Cheshire county, incorporated in 1763, with a population at present of 1644 souls, is bound ed N. by Acworth and Lang-^ don, E. by Marlow, and 3§& by_, Walpole and Langdfiri^'coiK-' taining 24,756 acres, of which 300 are water. Here are 2 meeting-houses for congrega tionalists and 1 for baptists ; 15 school-houses, 5 saw and 3 grain-mills, 1 paper and 1 oil mill, a mill for dressing cloth and a carding machine. The soil is strong and succulent, producing flax, wheat, &c. in exuberance. Fruit trees thrive well here. Cheshire turnpike intersects the S. W. part, and the road from Hale's Bridge passes through the centre of the town. The largest body of water here is Warren's pond,250 rods in length and 150 in width, Cold river traverses the N. E. angle of Alstead, where it re ceives the waters of Warren's pond. Several branches of Ash uelot river have their sources in this town. Rev. Jacob Mann was ordained here over the congregational church in 1782 ; dismissed in 1789. Rev. Samuel Mead settled in the same parish, 1791 ; — dismissed 1797 ; since which time this parish has had no ordained Allenstown, in Rocking ham county, situated on the E- side of the river Suncook, has 346 inhabitants. It is bounded N. by Epsom, E. by Deerfield, S. by Chester, and W. by Suncook river. Its W. corner is on the river Merri mack, 52 rods opposite the township of Bow. The Sun cook is the line of division between Allenstown and Pem broke, the former of which ex tends over an area of 12,225 acres of land, its growth of wood principally pine, the soil being light and weak ; there are,notwithstanding,some excellent farms here. Cata mount hill or mountain is the highest land in this town. Al lenstown has 2 grain-mills and 4 saw-mills. Buckstreet bridge connects this town with Pem-", "GAZETTEER OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. 171 ed Newfields there is another village, containing about 20 houses and several shops, &c. Rev. John Moody was ordain ed here in 1730, and died in 1778, aged 73. He has been succeeded by the Rev. Messrs. Tombs and Thurston. Elder J. Broadhead and Elder Os born,both methodists, occasion ally preach here. There are in the town three religious so cieties, several mills, stores, &c. From the year' 1731 to 1770, there were in this town 948 births and 554 deaths, av eraging about 28 of the former and 14 of the latter annually. This town was formerly a part of Exeter and was purchased of the Indians in 1638, by- Wheelwright and others. Sev eral instances of Indian cruel ty and capture occurred in the early ■ history of this place. Col. Winthrop Hilton, who was killed by the Indians in Epping (then Exeter,) ivas bu ried in Newmarket. - The in scription on his monument is still legible and his descend ants are still living in this vi cinity. Mrs. Shute is now liv ing in this town, who was cap tured by the Indians in 1755, when 18 months old. She liv ed with them till the age of 14. Connecticut river and the same distance from Sutton. . Sugar river flows through Newport and receives here a number of its branches. The Croydon and Cornish turnpikes unite in this town and pass onto Am herst. There is here a hand some village of about 20 hous es and several stores. The town contains a baptist and a congregational meeting-house, a cotton factory, several mills, and a carding-machine. Rev. John Ramele was the first min ister here, and Rev. A. Wirfes is the present pastor. Newtown, in Rockingham county, was incorporated in 1 749, and contained in 1810,a population of 454 ; bounded N. by Kingston, E. by South ampton, S. by Massachusetts, and W. by Plaistow, compris ing 5,250 acres. -County pond lies partly in this town. There are here 2 religious societies and 1 meeting-house. Rev. J. Ernes was ordained in 1759- Rev.D.Tewkesburyisthe pres ent pastor. Northfielo, in Rocking ham county, was incorporated in 1780, and contains 1057 in habitants ; bounded N. by Sanbornton, E. by Gilman ton, S. by Canterbury, and W. by Salisbury and Boscaw en, comprising 19,636 acres. There are here 2 small ponds, viz. Chesnut pond, flowing in to the Winnipiseogee, and Son dogardy pond, flowing into the Merrimack river. At the N. W? NEWPORT,in Cheshire coun ty, was incorporated in 1761, and contains 1427 inhabitants ; bounded N. by Croydon ; E. by Wendell, S. by Unity, and W. by Claremont, comprising an area of 25,267 acres. It lies about 8 miles E. from" ]

[ ".\"» I. Die französische Politik rief unmittelbar nach dem Abschluss des ersten Hugenottenfriedens (Amboise, 12. März 1563) einen merkwürdigen Zwischenfall hervor. Es lag der Königin -Mutter Katharina von Medicis zunächst ob, den ihr nahestehenden Mächten die Motive ihres plötzlichen Nachgebens auseinander zu setzen; aber Katharina verband damit sofort den französischen Antrag auf die Berufung eines neuen Conziles, welches von der Tridentiner Versammlung sehr verschieden den protestantischen Anschauungen entgegenkommen und dem Ausgleiche der katholischen Kirche mit deutschen Protestanten und französischen Hugenotten dienen sollte. Man kann sich ohne weiteres vorstellen, dass sowohl Rom als Spanien als Trident auf dies Ansinnen einzugehen sich weigerten. Am unzweideutigsten und principiellsten lautete die Abweisung aus Spanien; über sie verbreiten die nachfolgenden Dokumente helles Licht.*) Am 7. oder 8. April ging Herr von Oysel als französischer Bevoll mächtigter nach Spanien. Die Instruktion und die ihm mitgegebenen Briefe stehen in Lettres de Catherine de Medicis, publiees par H. de la Fernere (Paris 1885) II, 1 — 5 (vgl. Le Plat, V, 790 793). Mit demselben Auftrage wurden Birague nach Trident an das Conzil und dann an Kaiser Ferdinand nach Innsbruck und ebenso Allegri nach Rom zu Papst Pins geschickt (Le Plat, VI, 10. Ill, vgl. Sickel, 513 u. 553). Jener d'Oysel langte in Madrid am 22. April an; gemeinsam mit dem ordent lichen Gesandten Frankreichs in Spanien, dem Herrn von Suplice hatte er am 26. April bei Philipp Audienz; der spanische König sprach seine Missbilligung der für Frankreich zugegebenen Duldung calvinischer Predigt und Gottesdienstes unverhohlen und nachdrücklich aus; über die Conzils forderung verwies er die Franzosen an den Herzog von Alba. Nach dem spanischen Berichte (Philipp an Chantonnay, 16. Mai) wollte Alba die beiden französischen Diplomaten durch seine Bemerkungen und Fragen verwirrt haben; sie zogen es vor, am 1. Mai in schriftlicher Darlegung *) Vgl. Erich Marcks, Die Zusammenkunft von Bayonne. Das französische Staatsleben und Spanien in den Jahren 1563—1567. (Strassburg 1889.)", "12 proveer ordenar y determinar assi en lo de la religion como en lo de la reformation lo que para el remedio de tanto mal es necessario. Y con el juncto zelo de su S. y con la buena y santa intention de los prelados y padres que estan en el concilio y con la assistencia calor y ayuda del Emp. de su M. cath. del dicho rey christianissimo y de los otros principes se deve piamente esperar que sera Dios servido, cuyo es la causa, enderecar y encaminar el felice progresso y successo deste sancto concilio. y que del se consiguau y resulten los efectos y fructos que para el beneficio publico de la yglesia y christiandad y el particular remedio y quiete de las cosas del dicho reyno de Francia se dessean. — Neben dieser Denkschrift richtete Philipp noch ein eigenhändiges, vertrauliches und rückhaltloses Schreiben an Katharina, vom 10. Mai 1563 datirt, dessen Concept unter den Pariser Simancaspapieren sich befindet, dessen Originalausfertigung auf der Petersburger Bibliothek aufbewahrt ist. Dasselbe ist für die Weiterentwicklung der französischen Geschicke be deutungsvoll geworden. Es lautet: Sehora. Cuatro cartas de V. M. he recibido y oido muy particularmente lo que trajeron a cargo don Frances de Alava el prior don Fernando y el senor d'Oysel, a lo cual lo que tengo de responder en primer lugar es lo mucbo que huelgo siempre con saber sus nuevas y la voluntad y amor que me muestra. Y cuanto a lo de la paz, porque del dicho d'Oysel entendera V. M. lo que se le ha respondido, habra poco que decir mas de remitirse al el y que creo y tengo por cierto que V. M. usara de esta paz de manera que quite la mala sombra que ha dado a todos los catolicos y que desean el bien de la religion como V. M. me lo tiene tantas veces prometido por el senor de San Sulpicio, pues le queda el gobierno libre y las armas en la mano, como V. M. en sus cartas lo dice, de lo cual buelgo mucho y holgare mas si V. M. las emplea en castigar a los que han sido causa de tan gran rebelion a Dios y a su principe. Y no quiero callar a V. M. que hasta ver esto no puedo tener satisfaction de lo hecho.", "33 pero segun el aviso que tenemos, se han hecho en Trento por algunos prelados algunos apuntamientos y articulos a este fin, diziendo que los han de proponer, que todo ello paresce yr enderegado a nos desviar por este medio e intimidar en la insistencia que hazemos en esto de la liber tad del proponer; cerca de lo qual podreis dezir a su S. que aviendose juntado el concilio para la union, paz y concordia de la yglesia, y para reformation principalniente del estado eclesiastico, que nos ha de ser a todos exemplo tocarse ni tratarse en el materia de interesses de principes, de que necessariarnente resultaria tanto disturbo, escandalo y discordia, su S. con su gran prudencia podra bien juzgar si seria bueno y cristiano consejo en el estado que la yglesia se halla, y si es mas necessario y con veniente el faborescer y atraer los principes que no exasperarlos e irritar los con semejantes platicas, principalniente que por justificados que fuessen los puntos y negocios que se propusiessen, interviniendo en ello, como intervendria interesse entre los eclesiasticos y los principes, y queriendo los mismos eclesiasticos tratar y determinar, facilmente en tiempos tan calumniosos y tan peligrosos, se daria occasion para atribuirlo a fines particulares, y en poca auctoridad y reputacion del concilio; y podreis dezir a su S. que esto no lo advertimos por lo que a nos toca, porque los derechos y preeminencias y cosas que posseemos y son de las coronas de nuestros reynos y estados, las tenemos por muy justos muy antiguos y muy canonicos titulos, y que ni tenemos para que las meter en juizio ni temer en ellas juizio, y que antes nos competen muchas otras en las mismas materias que podriamos con razon pretender, y se nos deven permitir, y que assi para nos es de ninguna importancia y de ningun im pedimento la dicha libertad de proponer; y quando nos fuera de mucha, y se aventurara en ello todo lo que se puede aventurar, no nos fuera ni sera embarago ni impedimento para assistir e insistir en aquello que entendemos que al servicio de Dios y de su religion y auctoridad de su yglesia conviene, lo qual preferimos y preferiremos siempre a todos otros qualesquier fines particulares humanos. Demas de lo que toca a la libertad en lo del proponerse apunto a su" ]

[ "шш шт СЪ ДРЕВНВЙШИХЪ ВРЕМЕНЪ ДО XVIII ВЬКА. Соч. I. ПЕРВОДЬФА. САНКТПЕТЕРБУРГЪ. Типографш В. С. Балашева (Большая Садовая ул., домъ № 4в/э). 18^4.", "136 ВолтавЬ и ЛабЬ. На верховьяхъ послЬдней рЬки, подъ горами Кре коношскими, поселилось племя Хорватовъ. Полумиеичесюя предашя и личности карпатскихъ Хорватовъ и Ляховъ являются и у ихъ вы ходцевъ Чеховъ: карпатскш князь Кракъ, основатель Кракова, отецъ Ванды, повторяется и въ чешскомъ князЬ КракЬ (КрокЬ), тоже осно ватель Кракова, отцЬ мудрой Любуши. Предаше объ истребленш дра кона карпатскимъ Кракомъ сохраняется и у креконошскихъ Хорва товъ, у которыхъ Трутъ погубилъ лютую змЬю. Имя ляшскаго Попела слышно и у Чеховъ въ названш племеннаго князя Тетвы Попела, который будто бы прибылъ въ Чех1Ю съ полками Чеховъ, и проч. На близкое родство Чеховъ и Поляковъ указываютъ и одинако вый безчисленныя назвашя лицъ, мЬстъ, горъ и водъ, встрЬчающихся въ земляхъ чешскихъ и польскихъ *). Чешск1Я и ляшсшя племена не разъ соединялись и подъ однимъ государемъ, и только политическая незрЬлость Славянъ помЬшала СЛ1ЯН1Ю обоихъ народовъ въ одинъ. Такъ было при СамЬ, СвятополкЬ и чешскихъ Болеславахъ; такъ было и при польскомъ Более лавЬ Храбромъ. Но тогда Чехи, слЬдуя узкимъ династическимъ интере самъ своихъ князей, скоро отошли отъ Болеслава и соединились про тивъ него съ НЬмцами. Болеславъ долженъ былъ уйдти изъ Праги и оставить Чехш въ добычу князьямъ чешскимъ и ихъ союзникамъ НЬмцамъ. Напрасно уговаривалъ онъ въ послЬдствш чешскаго князя „вспомнить взаимное родство и примириться другъ съ другомъ и вмЬстЬ сопротивляться всЬмъ врагамъ, особенно же императору\" \"). Чешсше и польеюе князья вообще, и какъ сосЬди, и какъ срод ные другъ другу, безпрестанно вмЬшиваются въ дЬла сосЬдняго го сударства. Въ Чехш отправляются недовольные князья польеше (Без премъ, ЗбигнЬвъ), въ Польшу — чешсые (Болеславъ, Яром1ръ, Бо ривой), и вообще друпе недовольные Чехи (Славниковичи и Верше вичи). Чешсюе князья стремятся завладЬть Польшей, или по край ней мЬрЬ, распространить въ ней свое вл1яше. Подобное тому затЬ ваютъ и польете князья. ЧешскШ князь Брячиславъ вторгается въ Краковъ и въ ГнЬзно, возвращается оттуда съ богатою добычей и *) Сходство Чеховъ и Поляковъ зам-Ьчаютъ и мнопе иностранные писатели. Такъ, напримИръ, н-Ьмецк.е л-Ьтописцы Адамъ и Гельмольдъ (XI— XII вЪковъ) говорятъ, что Чехи и Поляки «пес ЬаЫ.и пес Нп§иа швсгерапЬ, что «ее* Ро.ошз аЦие Воеплз еа_.е_п агтогиш .ас1ез е. ЪеИатИ сопзие.иоЁо». и пр. а) ТЫе.таг СЬгоп. (ИЬ. VII, е<1. \"уУаепег, 206).", "213 по его словамъ, Поляки „отъ насъ Савроматовъ и Руссовъ уродив шись и изшедшн, и за едино съ початку, съ самовладною брат1ею нашою Савромата'ми и Руссами бувгаи, повстали напрасно и безсо вЬстно, якоже иногда Каинъ на Авеля, на Руссовъ альбо Саврома товъ, властную съ древности и природную братш свою\" '). Въ смыслЬ примирешя Ляховъ и Руси дЬйствовалъ тогда и зна менитый русско-польсшй панъ Адамъ Кисель, православный руссшй шляхтичъ, но вполнЬ примкнувшш къ польскому государственному устройству, котораго однако Поляки, не довЬряя ему, называли „таин ственнымъ\", Руссше же — „кость отъ костей нашихъ, отцепившшся и приставили къ Ляхамъ\". Кисель, съ одной стороны, всячески ста рался примирить казаковъ съ Польшей, а съ другой стороны, дЬй-, ствовалъ и на польское правительство въ пользу Руси, особенно от носительно ея вЬры. Уже въ самомъ началЬ борьбы, онъ написалъ Хмельницкому трогательное письмо (27-го августа 1648 г.), умоляя его прекратить свои враждебный дЬйств1я противъ Польши: „Въ тор жественный день Вознесешя Богородицы, небесной царицы и един ственной покровительницы народа Славянскаго, пишу это свое жа лобное письмо и прошу эту наисвятЬйшую Мать Бога нашего, чтобъ укротила сердце ваше\" 2). Раздавались и въ ПолыпЬ голоса, что вражда и борьба Поляковъ и казаковъ лежитъ только въ интересахъ Турщи, и что обоимъ наро дамъ слЬдовало бы примириться и освободить стонущихъ подъ турец кимъ игомъ хрисианъ. Съ упрекомъ спрашиваетъ одинъ современный польсшй поэтъ Русскихъ, зачЬмъ они не пошли скорЬе освободить свою браню одной вЬры и одного племени, Сербовъ и Болгаръ Ду найскихъ, которые просили Хмельницкаго объ этомъ 3). Съ другой стороны, и русскш авторъ, Лазарь Барановичъ, глубоко жалЬетъ о безпрерывныхъ войнахъ польско-русскихъ въ ущербъ обо имъ народамъ и турецкимъ хриетчанамъ. Возставая противъ посло вицы „пока свЬтъ свЬтомъ— не будетъ Русинъ Поляку братомъ\", онъ ') Б*лоцерковскШ универсалъ 1648 года (Акты запади. Россш V, стр. 79). 2) Памятники Шевской коммпссш III, 239, 1ак. М.сЬа1оу.8к1еео К81§§а ра ш.е.п;с2а 164. О спорахъ религ.озныхъ Кисель выразился: «Молуту 8оЫе ргаууи^: аисЬоууш паз жа&щ г оЬи з1гоп». (МкЬак-л'зИ 608). Для характеристики сла вянскаго сознатя Киселя сравн. ниже его р*чь царю Алекс*ю Михайловичу. ') Мотеп.а гаНопит, аааис1 аеЪе. С1пше1шсш8 аа расет, 1651—1652 (М1сЬа1оуузк1, 652); 8ат. Тууагаоуузк!: V*. одпа Зотова (Кгак. 1660, 2 изд. КаНег, 1681, р. I, 44)." ]

[ "CHAPTER IX. REYNOLDS BARTRAM was greatly an- noyed by the results of the several inter views he had imposed upon the new assistant cobbler at Bruceton. He had silenced, if not conquered, all the older religious contro versialists of the town, and found weak spots in the armour of many good people not given to controversy, whom he had beguiled into talking on religious themes. Why he should want to talk at all on such subjects puzzled the people of the town, all of whom had known him from boyhood as a member of a family so entirely satisfied with itself that it never desired any aid from other people, to say nothing of higher powers. Sometimes the Bartrams went to church — for social purposes — but always with an air of conferring a favour upon the Power in whose honour the service was enacted. But Bartram had good enough reasons for", "CHAPTER XIII. REYNOLDS BARTRAM and Eleanor Prency rapidly became so fond of one another that the people of the village predicted an early engagement. The young man had become quite a regular attendant at church, not that he had any religious feeling what ever, but it enabled him to look at his sweet heart for an hour and a half every Sunday morning, and walk home with her afterwards. Although he had considerable legal practice, it was somehow always his fortune to be in the street when the young lady chanced to be out shopping, and after he joined her there generally ensued a walk, which had nothing whatever to do with shopping or anything else, except an opportunity for two young people to talk to each other for a long time on subjects which seemed extremely interesting to both. Nevertheless, there were occasional clouds", "CHAPTER XX. THE revival into which was merged the special meetings at Dr. Guide's church continued so long that religion became abso lutely and enthrallingly fashionable at Bruceton. Many drinking men ceased to frequent the bar room of the town, some old family feuds came to an end, and several couples who should have been married long ago were joined in holy bonds of wedlock. Nevertheless, the oldest inhabitants agreed that never before had life in Bruceton been so pleasant. Everybody was on good terms with everybody else, and no one, no matter how poor or common, lacked pleasant greet ings in the street from acquaintances of high degree. There had been some wonderful conversions during the meetings ; hard-swearing, hard drinking men had abandoned their evil ways," ]

[ "Johnny Ludlow. 52 but when it came to felony, it was another thing. \" It is him !\" she muttered, as he saw her, and turned. \"Where on earth have you sprung from ?\" demanded Mrs. Rymer. \" Not from the skies, mother. Hearing the governor was on the sick list, I thought I ought to come over and see him.\" \" None of your lies, Ben,\" said Mrs. Rymer. \" That has not brought you here. You are in some disgraceful mess again.\" \"It has brought me here — and nothing else,\" said Ben: and he spoke truth. \"Ashton of Timberdale A faint groan — a crash as of the breaking of glass. When they turned to look, there was Mr. Rymer, fallen against the counter in his shock of surprise and weakness. His arm had thrown down a slight-made empty syrup-bottle. And that's how Benjamin Rymer came home. His father and mother had never seen him since before the discovery of the trouble ; for as soon as he had changed the bank-note in the letter, he was off. The affair had frightened him a little — that is, the stir made over it, which he had contrived to get notice of; since then he had been passably steady, making a living for himself in Birmingham as assistant to a surgeon and druggist. He had met Robert Ashton a short while ago (this was the account he now", "Hester Reed's Pills. 95 'em, and he asked for the box ; and Hester Reed, she give him the box, and he sealed it up afore their eyes with his own seal.\" Abel nodded. He knew that any suspected medicine must in such a case be sealed up. \" And now that I've got that there word from ye, I'll say good-day to ye, neighbour, for I've left my forge to itself, and some iron red hot in it. And I hope with all my heart and mind,\" — the blacksmith turned round from the door to say more kindly, his good-nature crop ping up again, — \"that it'll turn out it warn't the pills, but some'at else : our Ann won't have no cause to be in a fright then.\" Which was as much as to say that Ann Dovey was in a fright, you observe. That same afternoon, going past the common, I saw Abel Crew in his garden, sitting back against the cottage wall in the sun, his foot resting on a block of wood. \" How did it all happen, Abel ?\" I asked, turning in at the gate. \" Did you give Mrs. Reed the wrong pills ?\" \" No! sir,\" he answered, \" I gave her the right pills ; the pills I make expressly for such complaints as hers. But if I had, in one sense, o-iven her the wrong, they could not have brought about any ill effect such as this, for my pills are all innocent of poison.\" \" I should say it could not have been the pills that did the mischief, after all, then.\"", "208 Johnny Ludlow. upon a silver tray, \" how about that poor woman ? She is not dead, I hope ?\" I told Jane that she was better. The fever had gone down, but she was so weak and re duced that the doctor had not allowed her to be questioned. We knew no more of who she was than we had known before. Mrs. Coney overheard what I was saying, and took Jane aside. There seemed to be a bit of a battle : Mrs. Coney remonstrating with a severe face, Jane holding out and flushing a little. She was telling Jane not to go to Jael Batty's, and repre senting why she ought not to go. Jane said she must go — her heart was set upon it : and began to re-tie her bonnet strings. \" Mother dear, don't be angry with me in this the first hour of entering on my new home — it would seem like a bad omen for me. You don't know how strongly I have grown to think that my duty lies in seeing this poor woman, in comforting her if I can. It cannot hurt me.\" \" What do you suppose Robert would say ? It is to him you owe obedience now, Jane, not to me.\" \" To him first, and to you next, my mother ;• and I trust I shall ever yield it to you both. But Robert is quite willing that I should go : he knows all I think about it.\" \"Jane, I'd not have said a word against it; indeed I had made up my mind that it was a" ]

[ "gramatta §mo\\vx. PRINCE Eglantine — the somewhat sentimental Hero. King Cashcrave — his impecunious Father. Baron Goldust— possessed of three charming Daughters, a mint of money, and a never-failing appetite. LORD SNUFFY — the original proprietor of Mull. Blawforth — the Herald ; rather fond of 'blawin his ain trumpet? Cinderella — the Heroine, who, notwithstanding her innumerable good qualities, is a decidedly slippery character. Dolabella — her elder Sister, the Court beauty. Bluette — their eldest Sister, a strong-minded lady. Margarita — a beneficent Fairy, godmother to Cinderella.", "SCKNE n KING CASAICf? AVE_ \"do n't you mention moneyi\" PRINCE EGLANTINE, no, i'll be all honey.\"", "14 CINDERELLA. > Gold. I say, gals, p'raps you'd better just go home. I'm goin' to see the King. Blawforth, you come. Exeunt GOLDUST and Blawforth. PRINCE. I'll hope to see you there to-night ? Dola. Oh yes ! I couldn't stay away. You'll know my dress — It's lovely white Blue. The King is to be there? Prince. He so intends. Blue. Then I will ! Dola. I declare ! Round. Bluette, Dolabella, and Prince. Softly now the hour is chiming, Our departure homeward timing — Good-bye. Good-bye. Exeunt omnes. SCENE IV. Hall in Goldust 's Castle. Cinderella sitting. Song, ' Fm Afloat? I'm alone, I'm alone in this dim, dismal hall. My father and sisters are off to the ball. How happy they'll be ! O that I could have gone To enjoy myself too ! But no, I'm alone. They'll dance all night long in the brightest of lights, On the softest of carpets, with brave, handsome knights Whilst I sit in the dark on this cold cheerless stone, Uncared-for, unflattered, unpraised, and alone." ]

[ "TAINTED BY J. MALLETT, 59, WARDOL'R STREET, SOI10.", "20 OH ! DO NOT FORGET ME. Oh ! do not forget me, tho' far I'm remov'd From thee and from all that thy presence made dear ; For, ah ! thou art priz'd, art as fondly belov'd As when I first saw thee and felt thou wert near. Oh ! do not forget me, tho' pleasures surround, And flatt'rers are crowding thy beauty to tell ; My soul to thine image so firmly is bound, The cold hand of death can alone break the spell. Thou wilt not forget me, in fancy I hear Thy voice speaking comfort and peace to my heart : \" Be hopeful, dispel ev'ry doubting and fear ; \" Soon, soon we shall meet, oh ! to nevermore part.\" MY OWN HAPPY HOME. I have roam'd thro' the world, like the bird as it flies, Over cities of splendour, 'neath beautiful skies ; Yet, wherever I wander, wherever I roam, Find no place so joyous as my own happy home. I have join'd the gay throng in its sportive career, Have welcom'd its pleasures without pain or fear ; The sweet strains of music have gladden'd each hour, While I treasur'd its beauties and felt its soft pow'r. The smiles of my kindred have brighten'd the scene, And my life like a calm, sunny vision hath been ; Yet, wherever I wander, wherever I roam, Ah ! no place is so dear as my own happy home.", "25 THE MAID OF THE MILL. Oh ! bright is the blossom that hangs on the tree, And its fragrance is sweeter still ; But sweeter the voice of my charmer to me, Fair Ellen ! the Maid of the Mill ! How often, delighted, I've gaz'd on her charms, As we walk'd by the murm'ring rill; Oh ! long may she rest in affection's fond arms, Sweet Ellen ! the Maid of the Mill ! Oh ! the sorrows of time will quickly pass o'er, If with pleasure life's chalice we fill ; When blest with her beauties, what heart can wish more. Sweet Ellen ! the Maid of the Mill ! SACRED SONG. Friends are dear to us on earth Who have lov'd us from our birth ; Friends who cheer us on life's road, Who lighten sorrow of its load. But a day is coming fast When their fondness will be past ; Yet each earthly link thus riv'n Will united be in heav'n. Blissful prospect ! thought divine ! That shall heart with heart entwine ; When the friends whom here we prize Dwell with us beyond the skies." ]

[ "31 VERLOREN VLEI hither and thither, but could discern no trace of human existence. Then we descended. We reached the water without great difficulty ; upon its margin we lay down and drank long and eagerly. Having thus refreshed ourselves, and eaten some of the little store of food we had brought with us, we set out to explore the vlei thoroughly. The chief thing in our minds was to ascertain the fate of Tobias Steenkamp, whether living or dead. And first we settled to search systematically the side upon which we stood. We looked carefully for traces of spoor, yard by yard along the sand fringing the water. Not a footprint could we dis cover. Once or twice we came across the tracks of klipspringers and leopards, but no sign of human life was there. We turned back, and searched among the groves of thorny acacia, now fragrant with the strong scent of the rich sweet blossoms, but with the same ill success. It was now late in the afternoon ; we passed'round the end of the vlei, skirted the reed-bed, and then came upon more rocky formation. It was here that I first convinced myself of the gold-bearing richness of the valley. In a crevice of rock, time-worn by long ages of water-wear and decay, I picked up three smallish nuggets. I am afraid this success rather threw us off the search for Tobias Steenkamp, of which we had already begun to despair. Several times dur ing the day we had raised our voices and hallooed loudly, in faint hopes of an answer. The cliffs", "34 THE SECRET OF \" Water, for God's sake ! \" was all the poor wretch could utter. I ran to the water, filled the top of my felt hat, and came back. The tattered figure drank eagerly. \" Come, Du Plessis,\" I said ; \" let's carry him up to the camp fire.\" We picked the poor framework up, and carried it to the fire ; it weighed, I suppose, about five stone. Then we got out Du Plessis' flask, poured out some brandy, mashed up some biscuit and water with it, and administered the mess out of the flask cup. The brandy seemed to revive the poor creature. We gave him a piece of bultong to suck, and at last he spoke. \" I know your face,\" he said, looking at me ; \" don't you remember Spanish Jack ? \" Of course I remembered Spanish Jack, a well known prospector in the Eastern Transvaal some few years before. Three parts English, one part Spanish, he was one of those restless pioneers who move, Uhlan-like, before the main body of the gold-diggers, always on the hunt for new finds. Looking at the poor death's-head before me, I could only recognise, in the dark, cavernous eyes and the mass of tangled black hair, the faintest traces of the strong, restless, dare-devil prospector known as Spanish Jack. \" How did you come here ? \" I queried, and. in the same instant, \"What's become of Tobias Steenkamp ? \" asked Du Plessis in Dutch.", "150 PIET VAN STADEN'S WIFE wander free and undisturbed the great game of the veldt she loved so well. And at night to the fountain near her grave come the tall giraffe, the mighty elephant, the painted zebra, the sinuous tawny lion, the tiny steinbok, and many another head of game, to quench their thirst. What fitter resting-place could be hers ? And if, indeed, Hendrika erred in the supreme trial of her life, what mother, what true woman, would have done otherwise? Who shall judge her? who cast a stone ?" ]

[ "TENNYSON'S ŒNONE TRANSLATED INTO LATIN HEXAMETERS. EY T. S. EVANS, CANON OP DURHAM AND PROFESSOR OF GREEK AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM. CAMBRIDGE : DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO. LONDON: BELL AND DALDY. 1873.", "10 \" Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. He smiled, and opening out his milk-white palm Disclosed a fruit of pure Hesperian gold, That smelt ambrosially, and while I look'd And listened, the full-flowing river of speech Came down upon my heart. \" ' My own Œnone, Beautiful-brow'd Œnone, my own soul, Behold this fruit, whose gleaming rind ingrav'n \" For the most fair,\" would seem to award it thine. As lovelier than whatever Oread haunt The knolls of Ida, loveliest in all grace Of movement, and the charm of married brows.' \" Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. He prest the blossom of his lips to mine, And added 'This was cast upon the board, ✓ When all the full-faced presence of the Gods Ranged in the halls of Peleus ; whereupon Rose feud, with question unto whom 'twere due : But light-foot. Iris brought it yester-eve, Delivering that to me, by common voice Elected umpire. Here comes to-day, Pallas and Aphrodite, claiming each This meed of fairest. Thou, within the cave Behind yon whispering tuft of oldest pine,", "23 Procerum nemus : umbra horrens ea vertice rupis Alta super fauces ferrugineumque barathrum Impendebat ; apex niveus qua stabat, ab illo Usque ad decursum nive candidioris aquai Hospitium nidis aquilarum implumibus ; unde Mane tenebroso per opaca silentia silvae Visa mihi fremere obscurum panthera, sedenti Valle cava. Non jam stantis tractim ire per illas Aera matutinum Oenone sola videbit Amplius, aut lunae sub lumine tenvia ferri Vellera per silvam nebularum Candida nigram, Interfusa sonantem undam nictantiaque astra. Mater, et hanc porro moriturae percipe vocem. 0 si semirutis errans in ovilibus, inter Fragmina praecipitata jugis aut arida passim Arbusta, ilia mihi posset sese obvia ferre Detestata: domos Pelei quae invasit opimas Ultro, conjecitque rotundum epulantibus aurum, Unde mihi hae lacrimae : turn saltern ante ora faterer Mente palam facta fando, quantum exsecrer illam Praesentem, illam odiis versatam hominumque deorumque Accipe quam morior, mater, prius hanc quoque vocem Nonne mihi ille frequens pepigit juratus amorem," ]

[ "THE JEWS IN THE EAST. 65 for Foreign Affairs. He received me kindly, and addressed me in German. \" You come from the land of Uhland aud Riickert ; you are heartily welcome.\" \" I am delighted to meet in the real Athens, one who delighted us in the German one on the banks of the Ilm ; a poet who is a minister and master of the language of Schiller ; the King should ever go hand in hand with the poet.\" \"You cultivate the epic muse. So far as I know, no poet but yourself has celebrated the great battle with the small results in our Gulf of Lepanto.\" \" Still, your Excellency — \" \" Call me Mr. Rangabe, since I am pleased to think that your visit is to the poet, and not to the minis ter.\" \" The Spanish poet of the ' Aurakana ' devotes the entire poem to the battle.\" \"You love naval heroes, and have a pleasure in painting the sea. Was it grateful and friendly to you?\" \"As far as Cape Matapan. But when I left Europe behind, it began to be angry. You see, I speak like the Athenians, who no longer regard themselves as Europeans.\" \" The former sway of the Turks introduced so many foreign customs amongst us that we might almost feel ourselves out of Europe. Do you not also, in Austria, use the word 'abroad' when you speak of Ger many ? \" vol. i. F", "82 THE JEWS IN THE EAST. her memory. She bequeathed her house and gardens, a short distance behind the Royal Palace, to her physi cian, Dr. Roser, who was assiduous in his attentions to her during the last years of her life. \" In her library,\" Dr. Roser informed me, \" was a collection of religious works of every creed. She was a decided deist, very intelligent, and read a great deal. She believed, in common with the Mohammedans, that her dogs and horses, for which she had provided in her will, would accompany her to paradise.\" Before leaving Athens, I visited Eleusis, along with Mr. Berneau, Lloyd's agent. We started on the 30th of March, in the morning, provided with warm cloaks, as I had suffered very much while at Athens from the cold rainy weather. There were two things that I never saw in Greece — a permanently blue sky, and a beautiful woman. The Athenians themselves admitted the first; they had put on their summer clothes in February, and complained very much of the return of bad weather. With regard to the fair sex, they affirmed that the real national face and figure are, now, only to be found among the islands and mountains. Thus, the truly national songs of the poet, and the beauty of the women, so renowned in the days of antiquity, are retreating, as it were, before the enemy, from the plain to the free mountains. After passing the botanical garden, we came to a forest of olives, watered by the Cephissus. After this we entered a mountain defile, overgrown with stunted bushes, and this conducted us through the naked grey rocks of Mount", "THE JEWS IN THE EAST. 203 through the Golden Horn, past the old Seraglio, into the White Sea. I stood on the poop to get a last glimpse of the splendid picture, whose bold fantastic outlines I could never sufficiently admire. It was two hours and a half before the last traces of it had faded away, and could no longer be seen with my small telescope. It was already dusk before we passed Gallipoli. With the first dawn of morning I ascended the deck, the second division of which was overcrowded with orientals of both sexes. All were lying about on carpets and pillows. The women, many of them with children, were in separate divisions, formed of bales of goods, or boxes. Poor Turks and slaves were lying on the bare planks of the deck, or the most that any of them had under their heads was a piece of an old carpet. All the races, colours, and costumes of the earth seemed to have their representatives here, and their appearance was at once picturesque and original. Near these groups, were piles of arms, pipes, cooking utensils, pots, pitchers, &c. It rarely happens that the Turks take their passage in the first cabin, partly because they are unwilling to incur the expense, and believe themselves less exposed to danger, when they travel with the sea and the sky spread out before them. In fine weather, from the freer ventilation, they have a decided advantage over those cooped up in the cabin. Lastly, they never eat with those of another faith. Their servants or slaves prepare their simple meal, which consists of rice, cheese, eggs, olives, and coffee. During a voyage of" ]

[ "31 presently with your three routes ! That's a funny way to do it ! You and your three routes ! Ho ! ho ! ho ! (Laughs.) Puck (rising, severely). Silence, sir ! Fritz (still laughing). You mustn't go by one. You've got to go by three ! That's what tickles me ! Boum (furious). What's he saying ? Fritz. I sha'n't forget that ! Three routes ! What jolly rot ! Prince P. Oh, my goodness ! Boum (rising). I'll put him under arrest. I'll have him court marshalled. I'll Puck. A Captain to criticize his Commander-in-Chief! It's unheard of ! (Comes between Boum and Grand Duchess.) G. Duch. One moment, gentlemen, please. (To Fritz.) — You say, Captain, as far as I can gather, that the General's scheme of attack by three routes is not a sound scheme ? Fritz (approaching the table). I say it's jolly rot — and I can prove it's jolly rot ! Puck (to Grand Duchess). With great respect, I would point out to your Highness that this person can take no part in the discussion. (He goes near to Prince Paul.) Boum. No part in this discussion — no, confound him ! No part in anything ! Puck. No one but an officer of superior rank Prince P. (rising). And one who is also noble — Prince P. and Puck (together). Is entitled to take part in a councikof war. G. Duch. (rising imperiously). Silence, gentlemen ! As I am an honest woman, the first who interrupts shall die ! (To Puck.) — You said, I think, that he should be an officer of superior rank ? I make him General of the Forces — (to Boum) — of equal rank with you. (To Prince Paul.) — You said, I think, he should be noble? I make him Baron Vermuth-von-Bock-bier, Count of Pilsener- Lager von Auld-Lang-Schweinstein. Are you satisfied, gentlemen ? May the council proceed ? (Puck goes l. Paul.) Boum (bows formally). Your Highness Prince P. (aside to Puck). Oh, I say ! Hang it all ! you know, something ought to be done !", "35 Fritz. The Duchess finds the heat unpleasant, Wanda. She's going to faint ! G. Duch. (aside, restraining herself). But I have duties as a queen, And it would be unseemly — Extremely unseemly — To let ought be seen ! (Aloud and gaily to Nepomuc, who has come down r.) So, Captain, will you kindly go, And bring here, at once — what you know ! [Exit Nepomuc l (Grand Duchess signs to Fritz to come near to her.) All. What on earth can that be ? Enter Nepomuc with a sword, which he carries high and with great respect. All. The broadsword ! The broadsword ! No. 6b.— SONG OF THE SWORD. Grand Duchess and Chorus. I. G. Duch. (to Fritz, pointing to the sword). Here is my blessed father's sword ! Take it and wear it at your side; Strong is your arm to strike or ward, So in your valour I confide ! When, as our histories record, My dear papa to battle hied, My dear mamma, whom he adored, Handed him this weapon true and tried. Here is the broadsword, the broadsword, the broadsword Here is my blessed father's sword ! Take it, and wear it at your side ! All. Here is the broadsword, &c. II. G. Duch. (taking the sword). Here is my blessed father's sword ! Take it and wear it at your side ; And, when the victory is scored, Safe and uninjured homeward ride !", "62 G. Duch. Talk to me about yourself. What is your position at the Elector's Court ? Grog. Chamberlain. G. Duch. Is that all ? A man of your power and abilities ! Now, if you would leave the Elector's Court and accept office here, I could offer you (sighs) a far softer billet. Grog. Out of the question, I regret to say. G. Duch. How so ? Grog. Unless your Highness consents to marry Prince Paul. G. Duch. To marry Prince Paul ! Why come back to that ? Grog. I thought, madam, that we had been talking of nothing else. G. Duch. My dear Baron, you're a diplomatist ! Grog. I wish I could persuade your Highness to take my Prince. He is really a most harmless young man. G. Duch. An ideal diplomatist ! Re-enter Prince Paul, Boum, and Puck r. 2 e. Prince P. Boum > (bowing). Your Highness ! Puck ) (Prince Paul hurries eagerly to Grog.) G. Duch (annoyed). Who's there ? Oh ! it's you, gentlemen. Prince P. (aside to Grog). Well ? Grog (aside to Prince Paul). We're getting on ! Prince P. (aside, with joy). Faithful old friend ! G. Duch (to Boum). Have you located your men ? Boum. I have, your Highness. G. Duch. Well, then, dislocate them — I mean, disperse them — (glancing significantly at Grog) — there will be no assassination to night. Boum (stupefied with anger). Nonsense ! G Duch. I have spoken. There will be no assassination to night. Boum. Why not? (Fiercely.) — The enemy! Where is the enemy ? Let me get at him ! (Business with sword.) G Duch. I do nothing without a reason. On this occasion, my reason is — that I've changed my mind." ]

[ "DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE. 85 of splendid victories, to a period when the greatest military power in Europe was humbled to the dust by their energy and prowess, the memory of Marlborough will surely be remem bered with affection, his merits dwelt upon with delight, his failings forgotten for the sake of the inestimable services he rendered to his country and to mankind. It was his destiny in life to execute the vast designs of William, and his power, while at its zenith, was in many respects greater than William's. He had not, like that prince, to encounter a House of Commons frequently inimical to his projects, and almost always hostile to his own person. The war and himself were alike popular. Supplies were never stinted, and of those supplies he had the uncontrolled disposal ; for Anne, upon such matters, interfered little, and Godol phin seldom disputed the judgment of his friend. But it cannot be that in a free country a single subject should absorb into his hands the whole power of the State without exciting the jealousy of a host of politicians. The original scheme of Marlborough had been to form a small party of friends, standing aloof from both the great factions of Par liament, but ready to dispense the royal favour impartially between moderate Whigs and Tories as occasion arose. Had the scale remained equally poised between the two factions, or had it preponderated in favour of the Tories, the government of Marlborough would probably have lasted until the death of Anne. But fortune inclined it to the side of the Whigs, and the difficulties of the hero became every year more embar rassing. His alternative lay between displeasing the Queen or setting the Parliament against him. To be constantly teasing her Majesty to do violence to her feelings by admitting men who were odious to her to be Secretaries of State and Privy Councillors, was to sap the foundations of his position. Yet if the Whigs were not satisfied, the Government might be brought to a standstill, vexatious inquiries set on foot, the supplies withheld, and the war stopped. Anne was not only becoming each year more unmanageable, but it now scarcely admitted of a doubt that she was guided by the advice of counsellors more congenial to her ways of thinking than her responsible Ministers. This state of things would", "172 HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN feelings of the nation were against them, and were powerfully enlisted on the side of their opponents. The mere spectacle of such mighty machinery as that now brought forward to crush a poor clergyman had excited public sympathy on behalf of the victim, and a conviction that the party in power were cruel oppressors. The prosecutors were in consequence far more intent upon setting themselves right with the public than upon making good their charges against tbe defendant. Much ingenious and elaborate argument was expended in vindication of the Revolution, in demonstrating the blessings and advan tages which had flowed from it, and the danger which would result if persons were permitted to preach or write against it. Now it could admit of no doubt that an attempt to excite dis content with the Revolution was a treasonable offence. Upon the lawfulness of the Revolution depended the validity of every Act of Parliament which had been passed since 1688, of that Act in especial which had settled the crown successively upon the posterity of William and Mary, of Anne, and of the Electress Sophia. The Whigs, therefore, seemingly for no other purpose than to obtain the credit of being zealous for her Majesty's title and the Protestant succession, exhausted their powers of rhetoric to prove that to be a criminal offence which was so indubitably. What they were bound to establish was that Sacheverell had in reality denounced the unlawfulness of the Revolution. He had certainly upheld in the most unqualified terms the old and cherished doctrine of the Church as to the passive obedience due from subjects to their sovereign, and the sinfulness of resisting him under any pretence. Yet at the same time he had used expressions which, however inconsistent they might seem with this doctrine, appeared to denote satis faction with the revolution actually accomplished. The Revo lution had, according to him, been effected without resistance. James had run away ; and his subjects, finding the throne vacant, had very properly and lawfully elected a successor. In the first article of impeachment therefore submitted to the judgment, of the Peers there were three points to be considered. First, was resistance to the supreme power lawful in any case ? Secondly, had resistance been employed to effect the Revolution? If they decided in the affirmative upon these two points they", "504 HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN would reduce his colleague, Oxford, to a dilemma. The Treasurer had never ceased to dally with the Whigs, but was afraid to take any open measure which would cost him the confidence of the Tories. But it was impossible to handle such a touchstone as the Schism Bill without declaring for one party or the other. If he voted for it, all hopes of making his peace with the Whigs would be at an end ; if he voted against it, the Tories would certainly regard him as an apostate. Under these circumstances he endeavoured to steer a middle course which led him still further into general contempt. Being challenged in the House for his opinion, be replied that he had not yet sufficiently considered the bill. When he had, he would vote according as it should appear to him for the good or the detriment of the country. He did not fulfil his promise, but absented himself during the subsequent debates and divisions to which the bill gave rise. There is great comfort in reflecting that this terrific piece of legislation was never enforced. The time appointed for its coming into operation was the 1st of August, the very day upon which the Queen died. The Government which succeeded her was not one disposed to the persecution of Dissenters ; and the Act, having remained a dead letter during four years, was then repealed. Yet it remains an ineffaceable stain on the character of a Minister who, for brilliancy of intellect, has not been surpassed except by Bacon. Upon the same day that leave was granted to Wyndham to introduce his bill for the prevention of schism, permission was obtained by George Lockhart for the introduction of a measure which fairly illustrates that utter blindness to facts and reck lessness of consequences which were characteristics of the Jacobitical party. It was a bill to authorise her Majesty to resume the revenues of those benefices in Scotland which the Episcopalian clergy had forfeited at the time of the Revolution 1 y refusing to take the oath of allegiance, and which had since been enjoyed by Presbyterian ministers, in order that the same revenues might in future be attributed to the support of Episco palian clergymen. That the object of the promoters of this bill was to strengthen the Jacobite interest in Scotland no one could for a moment doubt : but no one who had the least acquaintance" ]

[ "408 N. ST0RY-MA8KELYNE AND W. FLIGHT ON THE CHARACTER many of these stones, while at the same time they offer no evidence of attrition — the eroded lines carried on their octahedral faces by so many of the diamonds, indicating (as shown by Gustav Rose) the probability of their having been exposed to an incipient combustion, — these facts, added to the brecciated character of maDy of the rocky masses containing fragments of carbonaceous shale, all seem to point to a great disturbance of the original enstatite rock. This rock, probably at some depth below the present surface, and possibly at the places of its contact with carbonaceous shales, was probably the original home of the diamond — the alterations that have ensued from its shattering, at a period subsequent to its becoming solidified, having aided in effecting the hydration that has so largely changed it from an enstatite rock into a mixture of enstatite with a hydrated enstatite, a combination which, both in its composition and structure, recalls vividly to the mind the similar mixture of the former mineral with the so-called pseudophite iu which it occurs at Zdar in Moravia. — N. S. M. I. Rock of Bultfontein. The ground-mass of this rock is formed of a drab-coloured mineral, which appears to be quite broken into fragments that are cemented by calcite in bar-like forms, much resembling crystals of felspar. This contains a good deal ofthe bright green bronzite which will be hereafter noticed, while garnet, always surrounded by crystals of a kind of vermiculite, is more abundant than in the varieties of these rocks from other localities. There is also a paler-coloured bronzite (see No. 4); and the whole rock appears to have undergone more than ordinary change. This rock has the following composition : — Oxygen Ratios. Lime carbonate 59-625 Magnesia carbonate 4-972 Iron carbonate 3-016 Silicic acid 20-700 1104 Alumina 0-553 Iron protoxide 4-296 0-95 1 ., 0_ Magnesia 5-799 2-32 J ' Lime 0-524 AVater undetermined 99-485 Treatment with potash removed only a small portion (2-996 per cent.), which consisted chiefly of silicic acid ; some portion of this constituent was most probably protected by the carbonates from the action of tho alkali. The rock consists, it will be seen, of nearly 68 per cent, of carbonate and a few per cent, of opaline silica, the remaining constituent being a hydrated ferro-magnesian silicate, very similar to that which will be described as occurring in tho drab coloured rock from New Rush.", "412 N. STORY-MASKELYNE ANB W. FLIGHT ON THE CHARACTER With the exception of the enstatite of Aloysthal, in Moravia, analyzed by Von Hauer, this bronzite is distinguished for containing less iron oxide than any specimen as yet examined. Although the mineral was dried at 120° C, a little water was still retained ; but its amount was not determined. A portion of the powdered mineral was treated with a mixture of equal volumes of strong hydrochloric acid and water at 100° C. during twenty hours, and subsequently with potash. Rather more than a quarter of the material was dissolved, as shown below : — Oxygen Ratios. Silicic acid 15-445 8-23 Alumina 0-648 Iron oxide, with a trace of chromium oxide. . . . 1-505 0-33 \"I q on Magnesia 8-685 3-47 J 26-283 The action of the acid, therefore, was that of a solvent only. 3. Smaragdite. Brilliant greyish-green fragments of crystals are met with among the minerals in the rock of Du Toit's Pan. They consist chiefly of the planes of a prism with the angle, as determined by the goniometer, of about 123° 15', which is that of a mineral of the hornblende type. Acid had no action upon this mineral beyond removing the adhering carbonate. After having been dried for several hours at 120° C, it was analyzed with the following result : — Oxygen Ratios. Silicic acid 52-967 28-25 Alumina, with a little chromium oxide 1-939 Iron protoxide 4-522 1-005 ] Lime 20-475 5-85 L 13-85 Magnesia 17-487 6-995 J Soda, with trace of potash 1-772 Water 0577 99-739 III. RoCK-SPECIMENS FEOM New RUSH, OK CoLESBERG KoPJE. The aspect of the rocks from New Rush appears to vary consider ably with the depth. In the higher parts and down to 70 or 80 feet the prevailing tint is a drab yellow ; at greater depths it .as sumes a bluer tint, and consists largely of a breccia containing frag ments of the shales through which the rock has been intruded, with occasional fragments of igneous rocks. In selecting material for the investigation of this much metamor phosed rock, those varieties were taken in which the metamorphosis appears to be the least complete, while they still retained charac teristic features of the diamantiferous deposit.", "414 N. STORY-MASKELYNE AND W. FLIGHT ON THE CHARACTER The oxygen ratios correspond very nearly, it will be observed, with the formula 2(RO Si02)H20, or that of a bronzite, two equiva lents of which are combined with one equivalent of water. The darker matrix could not be separated from the above mineral, which, as has been stated, filled very smaU cavities in many parts ; nor coidd all the vaalite be removed. The specimen employed for analysis, which was more or less mixed with these substances, had the following composition : — Silicic acid 39-732 Alumina 2-309 Iron protoxide 9-690 Magnesia 24-419 Lime 10-162 Carbonic acid 6-556 Water 7-547 100-415 It may be assumed that the lime and carbonic acid are present as carbonate of hme, which is distinctly recognizable under the micro scope. A small amount of alumina invariably accompanies bronzite, whether as unchanged crystal or in the hydrated form ; so that it is difficult to base calculations as to the amount of vaalite present on the amount of this oxide. If, however, we regard the whole of the alumina as present in the form of that mineral and assume that the excess thus taken compensates for the iron oxide which must neces sarily accompany it, we obtain, after subtracting the oxygen ratios of the constituents of vaalite, the following residual oxygen ratios given in column I. : — I. IT. Silicic acid 17-610 176 Protoxide 9-769 9-6 Water 5-265 5-2 In column II. of the above Table are given the oxygen ratios of a mixture of nine equivalents of the hydrated bronzite and two e p5iivalents of serpentine, of which mixture it is assumed the matrix of this rock consists. Among the minerals thus incompletely decomposed in the rocks of New Rush, beside the hydrated bronzite already described, there exists, in considerable quantities, a fibrous transparent mineral, ir regular in its outline, but exhibiting an augitic cleavage, of a pale brownish colour, possessing in some lights a violet tinge. Between the fibres of this mineral there are occasionally seen minute bars of the brown vaalite ; but it seems tolerably free from calcite. This variety of vermiculite is occasionally associated with a yellow wax-like substance, which is probably opal. The mineral of which wo are speaking is one that was described by one of us at the reading of Mr. Dunn's paper, from its microscopic and optical characters, as enstatite. It is in fact a ferriferous enstatite or" ]

[ "XXXIV PREFACE. ter to the former could not have been so rapidly forced on such an enemy, by any other country than England. Neither the taunt nor the self-congratulation Avould be worth Avriting, unless connected Avith the vindication of certain principles, every tri umph of Avhich is a benefit gained for man kind generally. \" If the enjoyment of political liberty, — of freedom of expression, and indepen dence of personal condition, be really worth the sacrifices made to gain it, or warrant the lofty language in which it has been celebrated by men in every age, — its value must be seen in its effects on the public character, eminently fitting it to sustain the great trials of heart and intellect. As li berty is the chief distinction of England from other European countries, the superior firmness of its courage may fairly be traced to the high personal sense which necessarily belongs to each individual under such a system, and to the robust habits to Avhich his mind is braced in the general freedom of the exercise of opinion. This mode of accounting for Avhat is so admired, is fur ther justified by the fact, that America,", "C 64 ) CHAPTER VI. WE have an English comedy — (not a very good one) — in which a worthy London citizen who has been led into Wales, professes the utmost astonishment that any one can see beauty in .black and rough-looking hills, with torrents impeded by stones, and rushing between irregular banks, falling down their sides. He appeals to the smooth and level mall, and the carefully preserved canal of St. James's Park, which he says are called fine by good judges, to prove that their immediate opposites must be deformities. My readers, therefore, who are chequing this account of Paris by their own notions, formed on the spot of observation, must not even be surprized, far less angry, if they find that I totally dissent from the state ments they have been giving to their friends. I met with many English there, who could see nothing but that the streets were narrow and dirty, and that the fronts of the houses wanted white-washing, their stairs scouring,", "144 FRENCH MANNERS. cise and full in his explanation of the first prin ciples of the machinery, the effects of which he describes. A very little consideration will shew that this looseness of manners is the result of a loose, and, in\" many important respects, a false state of thinking: — a state favourable to quick, lively, and strenuous action — calculated to make a nation full of exhibitions, and amusements, and enterprises, — but deficient in solid establish ments, in fixed monuments of sound principle, in the inheritances that are worth bequeathing, in the productions that speak to \" all times,\" and that address the future more impressively than the present. But those who admire a luxuriant surface, and care not about the depth of roots — who are pleased to see every thing made the most of as to present effect, — who are not over scrupulous about either moral or natu ral completeness and propriety, and think a new gilt counter a finer thing than a discoloured guinea, — are likely to be most gratified where this frame of mind chiefly prevails. It is highly conducive to dashing conduct, for those whom it distinguishes never delay to begin any thing until they have calculated its practicability, its cost and its consequences — The time which others spend in reflecting, they employ in acting ; they never paralyze exertion by weighing and balan cing considerations of propriety, delicacy, and" ]

[ "27 государствами столь значительной величины, что, сравнительно съ племенемъ, народомъ, являлись какъ бы отдельными личностями, индивидуумами. Такимъ образомъ, за незначительными преде лами рода и личность, вместе съ последнимъ, получала неогра ниченный просторъ, могла предаваться необузданному произволу. Необузданность личности въ перщъ патрьархальной жизни вы ражалась нагляднее всего въ обычае кровной мести, которую личность развивала вне преде.товъ рода: въ среде же послед няя для мести, очевидно, совсемъ не могло быть места. По этому, историческое развито личности не следуете представлять въ томъ виде, что во время родового быта личность совершен но стушевывается и поглощается родомъ, а затемъ, по паденш родового начала, выступаетъ на сцену темъ съ большею необуз данное™. Напротивъ, необузданный произволъ личности состав ляете уже отличительную черту родоваго строя, черту, получаю щую только по характеру времени особенный отпечатокъ. Если въ русской науке все партш, какъ бы различно оне не относились къ вопросу о господстве родового быта въ древ ней Руси, сходились въ положенш, что родъ былъ явлешемъ ес тественнымъ, кровнымъ; то еще более все стороны убеждены были въ томъ, что родовой бытъ и исчерпывается устройствомъ естественная рода, что дальше за родомъ не было никакихъ политическихъ учрежденш; а если и были, то происхождешемъ своимъ обязывались необходимости, какъ думали одни, или же учреждетя отличались совершенно инымъ, общиннымъ, а не ро довымъ характеромъ, какъ думали друпе. Въ действительно сти же за родомъ патрьархальныя учрежденья чуть-чуть ли не начинались. Явленье круговой поруки очень убедительно показы ваетъ, что родовой бытъ не ограничивался однимъ только ус тройствомъ простого рода, но что за пределами последняя соз давалъ новыя, гораздо обширнейппя единицы общежитья. Дей ствительно, если только родъ ручался въ ответственности за пре ступленья своихъ сочленовъ, то необходимо предположить, что была какая-либо высшая общественная единица, которая налагала на отдельные роды обязанность подобной поруки: ибо въ про-", "251 чпнающаяся съ 13-й строки 15-й страницы, есть, по различ ными соображешямъ, не что иное, какъ собрате позднейшихъ при писокъ. Прежде всего, такой сводъ, какой былъ задуманъ Пско вичами въ 1467 году, требуетъ некоторой округленности и за конченности: а въ правде мы на самомъ деле находимъ статью, которая по справедливости можетъ назваться заключительною: статья эта определяете, что инищатива дальнейшихъ изменены въ законахъ, равно какъ и новыхъ приписокъ, принадлежите посадникамъ, которые и совершаютъ ихъ съ согласы веча. За темъ, трудно ожидать, чтобы съ 1467 года, когда составлена была Псковская правда, вплоть до конца самостоятельная суще ствоваши Пскова, совсемъ не являлось никакой потребности въ дальнейшихъ припискахъ, темъ более, что некоторый изъ ста тей последней страницы Правды явно указываютъ на свое позд нейшее составлеше. Такъ, напримеръ, весьма вероятно, что статья о суде владычняго наместника явилась въ Правде около 1471 года, когда въ церкви произошли болышя смятешя, а следовательно, возникла потребность въ новомъ, точнейшемъ определены лицъ, подлежавшихъ церковному суду, равно какъ и въ подтверждены неприкосновенности самаго суда владычняго наместника '). То же самое нужно сказать и о статье, воспрещавшей княжескимъ лю дямъ заняне корчмою, продажу пива и меду, какъ въ самомъ Пскове, такъ и на пригородахъ: статья эта, по всей вероятно сти, занесена въ Правду около 1474 года, когда вопросъ о корчме былъ возбужденъ относительно иноземцевъ и разрешился окончательнымъ устранешемъ последнихъ отъ этого выгодная за нята 2). Наконецъ, только благодаря своему позднейшему состав летю, последняя часть Псковской правды и могла быть найдена *) Мурзакевичъ, П. С. Г., 2-е изд., стр. 16; ср. П. С. Р. Л., IV, 238, 1471. 2) Мурзакевичъ, П. С. Г., стр. 16: и А княжимъ людемъ по дворомъ корч мы не держать, ни во Псков*, ни на пригород*, ни въ ведро, ни въ корецъ ни бочкою меду не продавати.» А. 3. Р., I, 85, № 69, 1474: «а корчмою пнвомъ н*мецкому гостю во Псков* не торговати». П. С. Р. .Т., IV, 249, 1474.", "284 впчъ передавалъ въ 1-178 году Псковичамъ отъ великаго \"князя позолоченный кубокъ1). При помощи этихъ и другихъ лицъ, Псковскому наместнику Ярославу безъ большая труда удалось вынуть изъ ларя грамоту, определявшую положете смердовъ, и подменить ее новою, притомъ все это въ тихомолку, такъ что Псковъ узналъ о подлоге только тогда, когда смерды, скрывъ, въ свою очередь, грамоты, касавпняся отношешя ихъ къ старей шему городу, вдругъ отказались отъ псполнешя своихъ обязан ностей — дачи дани и совершешя различныхъ работе, п когда Псковичи, для уличешя непокорныхъ смердовъ, обратились въ архивъ Троицкаго собора за справкой, но къ своему величай шему удпвленш, вместо смердьей грамоты нашли тамъ только бумагу, составленную княземъ Ярославомъ '). Отказавшись наносить безчестье велико-княжескимъ намест никамъ, Псковичи уже не могли ничего предпринять противъ главнаго виновника въ подлоге грамоты, князя Ярослава, безъ того, чтобы не навлечь на себя гнева великаго князя; но вече все еще считало себя въ праве, по крайней мере, казнить не друговъ изъ своей братьи-согражданъ, и потому на первыхъ же порахъ спешило излить свою ярость на лпцахъ, заподозренныхъ въ составлены подложной грамоты. Дворы многихъ посадниковъ были тотчасъ же преданы на потокъ и на разграблеше, а коно- ') А. Ю., I, 3, 1483: «и предъ посадники степенными передъ .1евонт1емъ Тимоееевпчемъ и передъ Степаномъ Максииовичемъ». П. С. Р. Л., IV, 266, 1483, 1484. Тамъ же, IV, 266, 1485: «и грамоту тую ко мн* (Ивану III) пришлите о посаднпкахъ же, что къ мертвой грамот* записаны, что нын*ча у насъ на Москв*, Степанъ Максимовпчь, ЛеонтШ Тпмоееевичь, Василей Коростовой»... Тамъ же, V, 35, 1464: «и даде (велшай князь) Максиму по саднику въ даръ верблуда». Тамъ же, IV, 271, 1499: «а посадниковъ Псков скихъ Грпгорья Хрустолова да Оедора уиялъ (велшай князь) у себе да вса дпдъ въ костеръ, а посадника Стеоана отпустплъ и съ бояры».... Тамъ же, IV, 260, 1478: «А со Псковскою силою князь велшцй своихъ пословъ въ Псковъ прислалъ, съ пос. Леонтьемъ Тиамоееевпчемъ.... поклонъ дая Пскову на служб* п кубокъ позлащенъ».... 2) П. С. Р. Л., IV, 45, 1486: «а той грамот* смердьи всей земли смя тенье бысть, что они (смерды) потапвше грамоты не потягнуша на своя работы, а Псковичемъ не св*дущнмъ о нихъ, како отъ начала бысть, а они обольстнша князю великому п о томъ все по крпву сказаша,,." ]

[ "6 2. The Ground. — From my knowledge os the ground I seel little hesitation in submitting the opinion that no improvement adequate to the outlay could be effected by extensive alterations of the surface. Here and there, doubtless, there may be holes to fill in, and ugly knolls to reduce or modify, but the general surface of knoll and glade, of dingle and dell, should, in my opinion, remain undisturbed. The scenery of Epping Forest is, as we have already said, that of a quiet Engli.sh pastoral character, and such it should remain. There are no mountains to awe, as in some of our northern forests, no rocky surprises, and to attempt to realise such could result in nothing better than a feeble imitation of the sublimer scenes of nature with which most of us are more or less familiar. The woody knolls, the deepening glens, the free air of the glades and open spaces when these are agreeable, and the shade of the monarchs of the forest, when the Fire King rejoices in the meridian, should be sufficient to content us, as they offer no mean opportunities of recreation and enjoyment altogether independent of greater irregularities of surface. I would not, therefore, attempt to alter the surface of the ground. Draining, however, is a very important matter, and this should, I think, be sedulously attended to. A single visit to the Forest would satisfy anyone on this point. At present it is impossible in winter, or even after rain in summer, to walk any distance without encountering bogs or wet places, which not only interfere materially with the free progress and comfort of the pedestrian, but, by entailing the consequences of wet feet, may prove prejudicial to his health. One of the first efforts of active labour should be to lay the wet places in the Forest dry. If bogs must be preserved for the sake of the aquatic or semi-aquatic plants, which grow in and around them, let them be few in number and in positions where they will not interfere with the enjoyment of the public. 3. Roads, Rides, Avenues, and Paths. — It may seem scarcely necessary to dwell on the importance of wide dry solid Roads", "17 Hazel in winter, the Leycesteria formosa, and the Mahonia aquifolium are all desirable shrubs. The Hazel (Corylus avellana), is also desirable on account of the catkins and nuts it produces, and the Scarlet and Golden Willows (Salix), and the Red-barked Dogwood (Cornus), for the colours of their bark in winter. The Furze (Ulex Europæus) should be sown largely in dry stony places ; the splendour of its golden blossoms in early summer is well known, and its rich strong scent is generally agreeable. The Broom (Spartium scoparium) is also a beautiful plant. However desirable it may be to preserve the species of British plants growing at present in the Forest, it is probable that some will be unintentionally diminished in number or perhaps destroyed by the work of draining and other improvements. It might, however, be possible to have stations at which the rarer kinds as the Sun-dews (Droseras) could be preserved, and the natural Flora might be largely increased by sowing seeds of others broadcast over large tracts of prepared ground in spring. Primroses and blue-bells exist already in great abundance, and there are perhaps no prettier wild flowers than these in spring ; but there are many others of rare interest wliich are absent or are met with only occasionally. Such might be introduced or increased in number at a small cost, and, under this head, odoriferous flowers should be largely cultivated. Thus the unavoidable diminution on the one hand might be compensated for by an increase on the other, and no wild flowers, however insignificant in appearance, should be heedlessly destroyed. I would here put in a special word in favour of the Bramble (Rubus fruticosus) ; this should be encouraged on all sides, for this plant is beautiful when in flower, and attractive when in fruit. The Pampas Grass (Gynerium argenteum) should prove a suitable and effective plant, and wild roses, wild honeysuckles, wild clematis, the hop, Ivy, Virginian creeper, St. John's Wort, lily of the valley, periwinkles, and violets, should specially abound. Heath and fern are already plentiful, and both are valuable,", "20 mistaken .for the other, but the whole might be of one style of architecture, and I should give the preference to the Gothic. In their construction ostentation or parade should be scrupously avoided. In conclusion, permit me to remark that while dwelling on this subject, I have been deeply impressed with the fact that never before in the history of England has such an opportunity been afforded of making a grand national recreation ground. Ostensibly for the use of the inhabitants of London it may become in the future, and that without any vast expenditure of money, \" a thing of beauty,\" which shall be a joy to every Englishman, and one of the bright spots of our island which shall be sought out by visitors from the most distant shores. H. M. POLLETT & Co., General Steam Printers, Fann Street, Aldersgate Street, London, E.C." ]

[ "55 THE ADMIRALTY. through a double line of carriages outside of the Senate house, found the inner court full of sledges and other vehicles, and with difficulty made good my way through a long range of rooms crowded with people, running in all directions. Close to the Senate-house, and forming the opposite side of Isaac-square is the western wing of the Admiralty, an edifice which, in its present state, may with truth be said to be without parallel in Europe. Its principal front on the land side measures considerably more than one-third of an English mile in length, and its depth extends to six hundred and seventy-two feet down to the water's-edge. The exterior of this vast building has been greatly embel- lished and completely modernized within the last five years. The moat and ramparts by which it was surrounded like a castle, and on which cannons were mounted, have disap- peared, and a handsome promenade is substituted. The centre of the principal facade is occupied by a handsome large gate, not unlike a triumphal arch, seventy-five feet high, surmounted by a rich Doric entablature, in the frieze of which is a massive and bold bas-relief. The prin- cipal entrance is through this gate, which is flanked with two colossal groups placed on granite pedestals, and bearing the celestial and terrestrial globes of huge dimen- sions. The relief of the frieze represents Russia seated on a rock beneath laurel trees, with the emblems of strength and plenty by her side, and Peter receiving the trident from the hands of Neptune ; while the Goddess of Wisdom, who stands beside the Emperor, contemplates the majestic stream of the Neva. At each angle of the enta- blature a statue, sixteen feet high, is placed, and from the centre rise the lofty tower and cupola, the former of which is quadrilateral, and surrounded by a canopied gallery, adorned with Ionic columns, each bearing aloft an allegori cal statue. The cupola has a graceful elliptic curve in four", "518 CRONSTADT. enjoyed power almost too dangerous ever to be intrusted to the hands of a subject, terminated a miserable existence in a wooden hut at Beresof, on the river Oby. Since then the Palace of Oranienbaum and its dependences have un dergone as many vicissitudes as that celebrated Minister encountered ; and very lately it ceased to form part of the Sovereign's domain, in consequence of the Emperor Ni cholas surrendering his share of it, as a free gift, to his two Imperial brothers, the Grand-dukes Constantine and Michel. Plunged deep within the recesses of a thick and gloomy forest of pines, which surrounds the Chateau of Oranienbaum, is a small building containing several apart ments, which served as a retreat to the Empress Catherine when that Sovereign courted solitude from the cares of state. It is thence called the Solitude, and from the ad ditional circumstance of its being seen almost unexpectedly, at the end of a long and circuitous ramble through the mazes of the forest, a name has been borrowed for it from the exclamation of surprize, \"Ha !\" with which it is first saluted by strangers. The name of Cronstadt is as familiar to the Russian as that of Portsmouth or Brest is to an Englishman or a Frenchman. This is, I believe, the only establishment of consequence connected with St. Petersburgh which I did not, and could not, find time to see. But what could a poor traveller like myself do, who, in addition to a hundred other engagements, too insignificant to be noticed in the present narrative, had undertaken to visit, and study in the course of a very limited period, all those other institu tions which have supplied me with materials for two co pious volumes ? I can only declare that I regret the cir cumstance exceedingly ; because, as a naval man, the sight of a dock-yard, and still more of a naval hospital (which in this instance I understand to be in most admirable", "587 POST-WAGGON. fewer than twenty-two churches, some of which are monas teries, and the latter not quite half that number. More over, all the patron saints of the Catholic churches have performed miracles at some period or other ; and there is one in particular, to which is attached a wonderful story about 11,000 virgins, who did what those of Cologne were celebrated for in their time ; but the tale is too long to be related. The town of Breslau strongly reminded me of that of Strasburgh ; but in that part which lies nearest to the Neustadt, or Dresden Gate, the resemblance ceases en tirely, as that district of the town is perfectly modern, and much of it erected with Italian taste. A monument to Bliicher, raised on a heap of rocks, of considerable eleva tion, has been erected since the year 1824, in one of the conspicuous parts of the town. It stands not far from the house which Vandamme inhabited twenty years ago, when he took possession of Breslau, during that disastrous cam paign to the Prussian power ; and occupies part of the ground on which the victorious troops of France, for the second time, had conquered Breslau, and were drawn up after their entrance into that city. \" Voila encore des vi cissitudes et des rapprochemens !\" While we were regal ing ourselves with an omelette that would have turned the nose of even Gil Bias, seated at the upper end of a long and narrow table, on which was a cloth that had not known soap for some weeks, the accelerated post-wagen (distinguished from the well-known English vehicle of that name, by very little else than the strong guttural pronunci ation of the g,) arrived from Berlin in forty-two hours, stopped at the gate of the Golden Sceptre, when the blus tering wagen-meister, « favoured by the partial waiter, Unlock'd the mighty monster's dark abodes/'* \" Inclusos utero Danaos, et pinea furtim Laxat claustra Sinon.\"— Æn. 1. 2." ]

[ "13 THE LOST SON. CHAPTER II. THE LOST SON. A cold, snoAvy day in London. In where ? In the city of business, traffic, and trade, of noise and bustle, of smoke and fog, of immense Avealth and miserable poverty — the city of millions — the city of cities ! The multitudinous snow-cladden lamp posts looked like so many white-gowned, tall, grotesque priests, with large heads, staring steadfastly at every passer by. Church-spires, house-tops, chimneys, coaches, and waggons, were white. It would be difficult to find many things in the open ah' that were not white. In fact, the weather was a very liberal contri butor of winter clothing. Why did the coachman throw down the reins and whip", "163 FICTION TURNS OUT TO BE FACT. finished his narrative, \" we did not think you would come so soon.\" \" How did you know I was coming?\" inquired the Captain in astonishment. \" Why, you said in your letter that you would come home some time, you did not know precisely when.\" \" What letter? I did not send a letter !\" \" The one you kindly sent Reginald, with a money-order for five hundred,\" said Mr. Dudley. \" I sent nothing of the sort ! \" exclaimed the Captain with much more surprise. \" I saw it with Reginald,\" said Mr. Dudley, who was, by this time, greatly astonished. \" If you saw anything of the sort, it was basely forged, I assure you. Is there five hundred of my property illegally raised and spent? The vile act cannot claim a more respectable name than robbery — base theft!\" \" Good heavens ! \" exclaimed Mr. Dud ley, in anguish, ' ' and is the only son I have remaining guilty of such a crime — guilty of the sin and villany of forgery ? \" M 2", "169 FORTUNE. CHAPTER XVII. FORTUNE. After spending three miserable days in the streets and two nights in the before mentioned solitary dilapidated shed, Aus tin Dudley's spirits having been over thrown by despair, while at the same time he suffered greatly from a feverish malady which enervated him so that he was reduced to extreme weakness, he determined on returning to some of his old friends to beg then assistance. Every penny was gone to procure his small daily portion of food : there remained not a far thing to depend on for his next meal. He had travelled to the suburbs of London, where he altered his intention. Originally he had purposed proceeding into the coun-" ]

[ "REMARKS OX THE NAMES OF TOWNSEND HARBOR, MASSACHUSETTS, AND OF MASON HARBOR AND DUNSTABLE HARBOR, NEW HAMPSHIRE. At a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held in Boston on Thursday, February 13, 1896, Dr. Samuel A. Green said : — Near the beginning of the present century there was a group of three villages, far from the sea-coast, lying in the same general neighborhood, on the northerly side of Groton, of which each bore in part the name of Harbor. They coin prised the villages of Townsend Harbor, Mason Harbor, and Dunstable Harbor, situated respectively in the towns of Townsend, Massachusetts, and of Mason and Dunstable, New Hampshire. Two of these towns are adjacent to each other; and Dunstable, the third town, now known as Nashua, is but a short distance away. Of these several villages, Townsend Harbor is the only one which continues to bear the name. So far as my knowledge goes, these are the sole instances in New England where, the word \" Harbor \" is connected with the name of a settlement away from the coast-line, or from a large body of water, like the village of Centre Harbor on Lake Winnepesaukee. Names of places all have a history of their own, connected in some way with the neighborhood, though often the origin of the name is wrapped in obscurity. It is never beneath the dignity of an historical writer to throw light on disputed sub jects and to clear up doubtful points even in trivial matters.", "2 The question naturally arises, Why were these three villages called \" Harbors \" ? As the local antiquaries do not agree in their answer, I purpose to let them speak for themselves. Mr. Ithamar B. Sawtelle, in his History of Townsend, gives some facts concerning a pioneer of that town, and then goes on to say : — Nothing further is known of him except that he was in charge of a log-house made in a defensible manner against losses by the incursions of the Indians. One of these castles was located north of the Harbor and overlooking the same, and another near the meeting-house on the hill, and the same tradition further saith that the log-houses and mill, where the Harbor now stands, and the direct surroundings were called \" the Harbor,\" because by signals from these three points, in case of the appearance of any \" red skins,\" the settlers could soon reach these places of safety (pages 61, 62). Mr. John B. Hill, in his Centennial Address at Mason, alluding to Mason Village, says in a note : — Then called the Harbor. A word of explanation of this term may not be deemed out of place. In the early settlement of the country, towns were laid out upon the sea-coast, on which in many of them there was a bay, cove, or mouth of a river, used as a harbor for vessels. The meeting-house, where town meetings were held and public business transacted, was at the centre of the town, but it often happened that the \" Harbor\" was the principal if not the only mart of trade in the place. And when, in an inland town, a locality on its border became the principal mart of trade, it was known by the same name of Harbor, as Mason Harbor, Townsend Harbor, Dunstable Harbor. (Proceedings of the Centennial Celebration at Mason, August 26, 1868, page 42.) On June 28, 1872, Mason Village was incorporated as a separate town under the name of Greenville. Dunstable Harbor was a small settlement on the south side of Salmon Brook, near its confluence with the Merrimack River. At one time in the early part of the century the local Post-office was established there. Allusions to the place are found in Charles J. Fox's \" History of the Old Township of Dunstable \" (pages 193, 195, and 270). On January 1, 1837, the name of the town of Dunstable, New Hampshire, was changed by legislative enactment to Nashua, now the second largest city in that State.", "3 It will be noticed that Mr. Sawtelle and Mr. Hill do not agree in their theories as to the origin of the name ; and I shall not attempt to decide between them. There is no account on record that Townsend was ever seriously threat ened by the Indians, — with possible exceptions during the years 1747 and 1748. — though the inhabitants of the town in earlv times may have taken precautionary measures to ward off the attacks of the enemy. Within a short time Mr. Saw telle has written me that formerly there was a tradition that the village was first called \" Tory Harbor,\" on account of the number of tories living there during the Revolution ; but he is inclined to doubt it, as there were so few of that class in the immediate neighborhood. Perhaps the present designa tion is a survival of part of this name. In the town of Clare mont, New Hampshire, there is a locality known to-day as \" Tory Hole,\" from the fact that it was a place of favorite resort for tories in Revolutionary times. All these so-called Harbor villages are situated on small streams: Townsend on the Squannacook River, where there is a mill-pond ; Mason on the Souhegan River, where also there is a mill-pond ; and Dunstable on Salmon Brook, near the Merrimack River. Townsend Harbor is the oldest of the three settlements ; and the name may have been carried, by example or through imitation, thence to Mason, which is only a few miles distant. I am inclined to think, however, that its origin was due to a popular fancy then existing in the neighborhood of giving the additional name of \"Harbor\" to villages of ambitious hopes." ]

[ "SELECTION'S. 23 a soldier's ambition — his education attached him to arms— his passion to glory and to conquest. Unpatronised— unsupported— almost un known—he entered life with no friend but his sword ; and won his way to power by the exertion of a superior capacity. The soldier of fortune himself, he promoted none but men of acknowledged merit. Anxious to elevate the reputation of the army, he shared with them the toils ot the camp, and the glories of the field. Affable — generous courageous—ever slow to punish— ever ready to reward-— ever wil ling to relieve— he gained their affection, and he retained it. Their fidelity continued unshaken, through all the vicissitudes of bis life :— in peril— in safety—in powcr---i;i misfortunes — in exile ; they mourn ed his absence, and greeted his return with sBouts of joy. A noble instance of sincerity, equally creditable to him, and to them. In the wars of Italy, Napoleon gained great power and reputation, yet aspired to more— the rays of fortune beaming on a vulgar eye, dazzle and confound— but to an elevated mind, they are the \" lights of future glory.'' Napoleon rose successively to the first rank in the army, and the first honours in the state , and he deserved them. Had he remained a free citizen of France, he would have reniained illustrious—superior to Cæsar in enterprize and in arms, he Would have been his superior in virtue— he would have displayed all the great qualities of his gigantic mind, and none of its infirmities— but, unfortunately, a sordid ambition prevailed over noble sentiments, and ruined his coiiDtry and his reputation ; he erected a throne on the ruins of that liberty, which he fought to establish, and swore to de fend. m He became a King from choice— he soon became a Despot from ne cessity—he first deceived Ihe people— he next enslaved the press ; he controled the Representation— he organized or supported an odious system of Police— governing with absolute sway, his voice declared the law which his will enacted — av/ed, or astonished, the People sunk into apathy or despair— no voice was heard to animate the public soul, or defend the public rights-— driven from her insulted sanctuary, the spirit of Liberty fled to the kindred soil of her Columbia, there to mourn over the tomb of Washington, or to celebrate the memory of Fox. Napoleon became a despot, but he never degenerated into a tyrant— he enslaved the People, but bis chains were light and loose; or if he acted severely, he acted from necessity ; the nature of his institutions, or the schemes of his policy, required it. He governed, it is true, with absolute authority, but he was able to govern : grand and imposing, his mind, like his power, was great and comprehen sive. If his victories remain imperishable monuments of his military talents, his laws arc splendid evidence of legislative wisdom ; he pro moted learning, he patronised the arts, he encouraged commerce, he administered justice, purely and impartially, he granted perfect free dom of conscience ; unacquainted with favouritism, despising Cor ruption, he bestowed on every man the full measure of his desert, but bestowed no more. By means like these, he, gradually, assimilated the minds of men to the maxims of his government; the ardent friends of liberty indeed retired, but the light inconstant multitude, dazzled by the splendour of the .hrgii\". or awed by th;* majesty which adorned it, quietly re-", "SELECTIONS* ■So Savoy, the conquest of which he con'ributed in accomplishing. He served with distinction in the war of La Vendee as a general of di vision, in 1792, and afterwards in Italy, under Joubert. In the dis astrous battle of Novi, he displayed an intrepidity bordering on rashness — charging at the head of cavalry with his hat on the point of his sword, as a substitute for the standard which had been lost, he was cut down by the sabres of the e*iemy, and made a prisoner. After his exchange, he joined the army of Moreau, and reaped fresh laurels on the plains of Hohcnlinden. In all the campaigns of the Imperial army, he commanded a divi sion of dragoons, and increased a reputation already well established. His conduct at Prentzlow, where Prince Hohenloe was captured, as well as at Friedland, was particularly noticed in the official bulletins. He also served in the fatal Russian campaign, and on the retreat com manded the ' Sacred Guard,' a corps of officers which accompanied the Emperor. On the return of Napoleon from Elba, he declared in his favour, and was sent in pursuit of the .Due d'AngouIeme, whom he soon compelled to surrender. He was then created a marshal of the empire, and as such commanded at Waterloo. His escape from the persecution of the Bourbons, and tys arrival on our shore, are e,yents too recent to particularize. MESSAGE or BANIEiL Bo TOMPKINS, Governor of the State of New-York, •TO THE LEGISLATURE, . FEBRUARY, 1815. Gentlemen, In my last public communication to the legislature, I had the honor to advert to the present happy condition of our country, and to inti mate, the existing state of society, and the general disposition of mankind, seemed propitious to the promotion of the interests of U;erature, religion, freedom, and humanity.", "SELECTIONS. 128 TO THE GRAND JURY or THE County of Wcxford, IRELAND, In the year 1814, by JUDGE FJLETCHERo The learned Judge, aster allusions to local and other matter not generally interesting, proceeded to state the following as the causes which produced the evils which afflict Ireland. 11 First. — The extraordinary rise of land, occasioned by the great and increasing demands for the necessaries of life, and by pro ducing large profits to possessors of farms, excite a proportionate avidity for acquiring or renting lands. Hence, extravagant rents have been bid for lands, without any great consideration ; and I have seen these two circumstances operating upon each other like cause and effect — the cause producing the effect : and the effect, by re-action, producing the cause. Next — the country has been deluged by an enormous paper currency, which has generated a new crime, now prominent upon the list, in every calender, the crime of making forged notes. In every province, was have seen private banks failing, and ruined multitudes, and thus have fresh mischiefs flowed from this paper circnlation. In the next place, the country" ]

[ "193 his Alma Mater, but alas ! it was bricked up, and all was silent as the monumental stones in front of it, which served but to heighten the gloom of his dis appointment—he stood aghast ! he could not ask \" Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arms the glassy wave? The captive linuet which enthral! What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?\" He had not stood long before he observed a stranger advancing, but upon whose nearer approach he ex claimed — a stranger ! no — \" Horatio ! or do I forget myself?\" \" The same, Nauclerus, and your poor servant ever ;\" but what brings you into this part of the world?\" I am overjoyed to see you — Oh ! how recollection traverses with delight the days we once spent here. N. But how changed is the scene ? no hum of busy tongues ! all close and hush — what means this sad reverse? H. That were not mine to tell, at least, not now ; then rather let me ask where you have spent your days, for, as I recollect, you left this country when you left the School, N. You know that, as class fellows, we read strange tales, whether in Ovid, Cæsar, Virgil, Horace, Homer, &c. and as my father had long trafficked in the Mediterranean, he indulged me with a trip around its shores, and I saw many of the places, or situations of places, which I had before only read of. H. You speak of a very high treat, and I trust you will not leave me a stranger to your travels. N- I will not, indeed ; but the descriptions We read under this roof heightened my fancy to undue ex**", "202 11,000 men, utterly routed 110,000 Persians.— Oh, what men of war were these ! But, who can enumerate the distinguished Warriors of Greece? who can enumerate their Orators, their Magistrates, the Judges of the Areopagus, and their Philoso phers ? But I cannot resist the names of Æschylus, Sophocles, Socrates, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and Demosthenes, of whom Athens might well be proud ! In Thessaly was the City of Pharsalus, and on the adjoining plain was fought the decisive battle between Cæsar and Pompey ; but Cæsar— =- H. Oh forbear — — \"every time he's nam'd Pharsalia rises to my view— I see Th' insulting tyrant prancing o'er the field, Strew'd with Rome's citizens and drench'd in slaughter, His horses hoofs wet with Patrician blood !\" N. Dear Horatio, I but describe — -Tyrants are the scourges of mankind, and can only be permitted for purposes which our finite minds cannot penetrate. — - We had a Norman once who rang a Bell at his own appointed time, and all must then damp their fires or feel his iron vengeance ! All ages have their Williams ! and if, from Pharsalus, we but cross the Apidanus, we arrive at Larissa, the capital of Achilles, in the same province, whose irascibility and cruelty are proverbial, and Pella in the neighbouring province, gave birth to Alexander the Great. To return from this digression. — Athens was long distinguished for the fine arts, and for military prowess ; but after many glorious struggles with the Peloponnessian Worthies, it", "205 the Romans banished St. John, and where he wrote the Apocalypse. Nearly opposite to Samos E. on the Ionian Coast, is Ephesus, once famous for its Temple of Diana, and where probably St. John wrote his Gospel, — \" Great is Diana of the Ephesians.\" — ■ Here was born Heraclitus the Philosopher. — Opposite to Samos N. was Teios, the birth-place of Anacreon, and at Miletus, still in Ionia, was born the Philosopher Thales — he first accurately calculated an Eclipse, and divided the Heavens into five Zones. Still making to the South, we reached the Island of Cos (Co), famous for its Wines and fine Stuffs, but more famous for being the birth-place of Hippocrates the Physician, Ariston the Philosopher, the scholar of Zeno, foun der of the Stoic Sect, and Apelles the Painter. I smiled when I thought of this disappointed Artist throwing his brush at the mouth of Alexander's horse, Bucephalus, which he was painting, and accidentally obtaining a foam which his often-tried ingenuity could not accomplish. Opposite to this Island on the Continent was Halicarnassus, but now has scarce a stone to distinguish its site. Here was born Herodotus the Father of History — to the nine books of his history were given the names of the niue Muses — when the usurper Lygdamis had cruelly murdered his uncle, he left Halicarnassus and settled in Samos, till an oppor tunity happened, when he unexpectedly appeared with a chosen band, before the city, and dethroned the Tyrant ; as this, however, produced no settled state amongst the inhabitants, he retired to Greece, and" ]

[ "Inhalt. Seile Allgemeiner Ueberblick der Städte Pest-Ofen 1 Pest , . . 2 Die innere 3 Die Lcopoldstadt 8 Die Tbcrcsicnstadt 15 Die Joscfstadt 16 Die Frühstart 2l Das Stadtwalrchen 25 Andere Attoflügc in Den Umgebungen von Pcst 26 Ncuvcst, Föih, Gödöllö 28 Ofen 30 Festung 31 Die Wassctstadt 34 Der Taban 39 Die lilnislinenstadt . 40 Die Landstraße 11 Die Ncustift 42 Altoten Die Umgebungen von Ofen Der Vcbwabcnbcrg 44 D>is Auwinkcl 4'> Der Iobanniizbcrg 48 Frantcnshöbe, schöne Schäferin, Maiengrabcu 48 D.i^ Leopoldscld 48 Gaisberg, Dicii'oüerbcrg 49 ElisabetiViuclle, Promontor unv Kammrrwald Kul'lco !b>il, Maria Einsiedet, Hiregtui, solmar 50 Üröm 51 Wolfsthal, Maria Eichel, Budakeß 52 Ausflug nach Vissegräd 53 Anbang 58", "8 Palatin im Pester Pfeiler gelegt. Die feierliche Eröffnung erfolgte am 24. November 1849. DieKcttcnbrückcruhtaufzwei Land-undzweiWasser pfeilcrn, sie überspannt ein Strombett von 1230 Fuß. Zu Piloten wurden 5000 Bäume verwendet. Die Sandsteinauadcrn kamen von Waizen und Soskut, der Granit von Mcmthhausen. Die gußeisernen Bestandtheile lieferten Pest und Dernö, die schmiedcisernen Hängeketten sammt Zugchör im Gewichte von 30,000 Zentnern kamen aus England. Die eigentlichen Baukosten betrugen 4,412,628 fl. Die sämmtlichen Ausgaben jedoch sammt Zinsen und für abgelöste Gründe belaufen sich auf 6.575,812 fl. Den Bauplan hat William Clark entworfen und Adam Clark ausgeführt. Das Privilegium, ursprüng lich auf 9? Jahre festgestellt, hat Baron Sina freiwillig auf 8? Jahre herabgesetzt, so, daß am 25. November 1936 die Brücke ohne Entgeld zu passiren sein wird. prächtigen Sälen seine Zusammenkünfte hält. Das städti sche Realschulgebäude, drei Stock hoch, sieht mit der Hauptfronte gerade in die schöne Gasse. — Weniger ansehnlich ist das Gebäude der medizinischen Fakultät an der Ecke der Neuenwelt- und Hatvanergasse. Gehen wir nun auf der Landstraße zurück bis zum Franz Deakplatz, so treffen wir hier die Gebäude der evangelischen Kirchengemeinde. Die Kirche ist ein einfaches Gebäude; die Gebäude der Knaben- und Mädchenschule und des Gymnasiums mit schönem Saale bilden ein zusammenhängendes un regelmäßiges Viereck, durch die Karlsgasse von der Karls kaserne getrennt. — Schließlich erwähnen wir noch der Ueberreste der alten Stadtmauern, welche an manchen Stellen im Innern der Häuser in der Ungar-, Bastei- , Salz- und Fleischcrgasse sich bis jetzt nock erhalten haben. Evangelische Kirche. Die Leopoldstadt. An die Kettenbrücke schließen sich zu beiden Seiten die Umlade- und Lagerplätze der Donau-Dampf» schiffahrts-Gcsellschaft an. Auf den breiten Quai's stehen offene Waarenhallen und an der innern Quaiwand sind Magazine im Rohstyle; in der Mitte dieser Magazine vermittelt ein Aufbau die Communikation mit dem höher gelegenen Franz-Iosefsplatze. In diesen zierlichen Gebäu den sind die Magazins-Bureau's und an jedem derselben eine transparente Uhr. An diese Umsatz- und Lagerplätze schließen, durch einen Eckthurm an jeder Seite verbunden und durch lein sehr schönes Gitterthor getrennt, die kollossalen städti schen Quai's. Der untere. Franz-Iosefquai ist noch theilweise tm Bau, der obere, Rudolfquai, ist schon seit 1862 hauptsächlich von der Donau - Dampfchiffahrts- Gesellschaft benützt, welche hier ein Hafenkapitanat, die Die Leopoldstadt, der Hauptsitz des Großhan dels , zugleich der regelmäßigste und bestgebaute Stadt thcil von Pest, ist durch die Franz Deäkgasse und dcn Franz Deakplatz von der innern Stadt getrennt. Bevor wir die innern Theile der Leopoldstadt näher betrachten, wollen wir unsere Aufmerksamkeit der Don an seile zuwenden. Vor Allem ist die Kettenbrücke der Gegenstand der einstimmigen Bewunderung aller Fremden. Auf Anre gung des „größten Ungars\" Grafen Stephan Szcchenyi wurde durch einen landtägllchen Beschluß vom 27. Sept. 1838 dcr Bau dem Baron Georg Sina übertragen. Der Grundstein wurde am 24. August 1842 durch Ihre k. k. Hoheiten Erzherzog Karl, als bevollmächtigter Kommissär Sr. Majestät König Ferdinands V., und Erzherzog Josef,", "34 k. l. Genie-Direktion. Das Wasscrthor ist ein ein facher Thorbogen mit Scitcnpfortcn und fübrt die Auf schrift : Franz Josef I. Zwischen dem Wasser- und Wcißen burgerthorc ist die Hauptwache in einem ebenerdigen Gebäude. Auf dem Paradeplatz ist ein öffentlicher Röhr brunnen. Am Rath hausplatz ist einstöckige, aber ausgedehnte Ratbb aus mit Thurm, am Drcifaltig kcitsplatzc eine schöne Drcifaltigkeitssäule und ein Brunnen. Die Stadtpfarrkirchc zu Maria Himmel fahrt wurde wahrscheinlich unter Bela IV. gegründet, unter Ludwig I. und Sigismund erweitert und unter Mathias Corvinus in die heutige Gestalt gebracht. In der Türkenzcit wurde diese schöne altdeutsche Kirche zu einem Pfcrdcstall herabgewürdigt. Der Thurm wird styl gemäß ausgebaut. von abtrugen. In dieser Kirche wurde Franz I. im Jahre ! ?!>.' als Konig von Ungarn gekrönt. Auf dem Ferdinandsplatzc steht die große Fc r dinands-Kaserne und das Gerichtsgcbäude. Die wallerstM. Die Wasserstadt ist der belebteste Stabttheil von Ofen. Sie liegt theils am Fuße, theils am Fcstungs berg-Abbangc. Mehrere Ueberreste der Stadtmauern in der Königsbcrggafse und ein Rondell an der Donau sind noch aus den Türtenzciten erhalten. Die Bauart der Häu ser ist im Ganzen massiv und sind in der Hauptgasse viele ein« und zweistockhohe Häuser, in den Nebengassen aber meist nur ebenerdige. Regelmäßige Gassen und Plätze gibt Dae Nathhaus. An die Kirche stößt das große Cametal-Gebäude mit den Bureaur für die Landes-Hauptkasse und Buchhal tung, gegenüber ist das sogenannte Präsidial-Gebäude, wo die k. k. Finanz-Bezirksdirektion ihren Sitz hat, in der Wiencrthorgasse ist die kön. Uniuersitäts-Buch druckerei, das Gymnasium und die Hauptschulc dcr Piaristcn. In dcr Fortunagasse die städt. Mädchen schule. eZ nicht. Die Einwohner betreiben Gewerbe und Handel, doch meist nur im beschränkten Maße. Gegenüber der Kettenbrücke erblicken wir das schöne Eingangsportal des Tunnels, welcher den Festungs berg in gerader Linie 181° lang durchschneidet. In dem Tunnelgebäube ist auch das Bureau der Aktien-Gesell schaft. Das Christinenstäbtcr Portal ist bis letzt nicht aus gebaut. Der Tunnel verbindet Pest mit der Ofner Eisenbahn und dcr Christinenstadt auf dem kürzesten Wege. Die Idee, durch den Ofner Festungsbcrg einen Tunnel zu bauen, hat Graf Szcchenyi fast gleichzeitig mit jener der Kettenbrücke gefaßt. Unter seiner Aegioc bildete sich bereits eine Aktien-Gesellschaft, deren Wirksam keit jedoch die Ereignisse von 18\"/,, zu nichte machten. Nach hergestellter Ruhe stellte sich Herr Josef vonUcrmeiwi an die Spitze dieses Unternehmens , brachte glücklich eine In der Landhausgasse ist das einfache Gebäude, in welchem das Iosefs-Polytechnicum, eine technische Lehranstalt, sick befindet. Am Ende dieser Gasse ist das Landhaus, ein großer Bau, wo der Sitz der Statthal tern ist. Gegenüber ist die Garnisonskirche zum h. Jo hannes. Sie ist ein thcilweise gut erhaltener altdeutscher Bau, mit der Ruhestätte Andreas III. Dcr Thurm soll einst sehr hock gewesen sein, da die Türken die Hälfte da-" ]

[ "146 Baggage and Boots ; or, to visitors in the forenoon, or from two to five o'clock, I was unable to see any more that day ; so, after dining, I took a walk down 4th Street, and round the grounds of the U.S. Arsenal, at the junction of the eastern and western branches of the Potomac River. No ordnance are manufactured here, the narrow isthmus being occupied for barracks and for the storage of reserve unmounted cannon and shot. United States Treisdry Buildings at WAsniNaTO-.. The next morning I took the tram along Pennsylvania Avenue, in the opposite direction to which the Capitol is situated, and visited the United States Treasury. It is a massive, three-storied building, with a frontage of 468 feet, and a depth of 264 feet. The building contains about 200 rooms ; there were no large halls, however, or anything of special interest to a stranger, except the \" cash room \" ; the walls of which are empanelled, from top to bottom, with coloured marbles, six different sorts. The fact of seeing banking business going on in this", "332 Baggage and Boots ; or, I don't think they could, in any other country but the United States.\" On emerging from the depot, we found more large hotels, close to the sea, with dining, drinking, and billiard saloons, &c, together with dressing-rooms, for persons wishing to take a dip in the ocean. The Americans follow the French custom, of ladies and gentlemen bathing together, each of course being dressed in full bathing costume. From here to Brighton Pier, nearly a mile beyond, the shore presents the appearance of a fair, with round-a-bouts, shooting-galleries, and trumpery exhibitions and entertainments of the cheap jack or \" penny gaff\" class. Brighton Beach Pier is a handsome jetty about the length of the Brighton Beach Railway. It forms a splendid promenade, whatever the weather, as it is very broad, and has a roof throughout its entire length, the sides, of course, being open, except at the end, where it expands into quite a large hall, surrounded by glazed windows, and fitted up with the usual small round marble-topped tables, as there is a buffet attached. Here visitors love to sit, eating ices, or drinking lager beer, or iced lemonade, and smoking, while they listen to excellent music, discoursed by a good band, in the centre of this \" hall on the sea.\" Brighton Pier is a sort of double one, having a lower floor or deck, fitted up with twelve hundred dressing rooms, for bathers, ladies and gentle men, who descend by steps into the water, and, unless they are strong swimmers, bathe near the shore, in a portion enclosed by ropes, to prevent them from being swept away by the tide.", "CHAPTER XXV. When are games not worth playing?— The Orangemen and the Catholic Union of Montreal— Breaches of the peace— Murder of an Orange- man—Great excitement— Class hatred between French and Irish Catholics— The dock labourers of Quebec— Injurious trade's union regulations— The French Labourers' Union— A fatal fray— Quebec in a state of terror— Tin Roofs— Saintly street nomenclature- Enlightened and benighted — Short of gaslight— A Kentucky sermon— Plain preaching— How to get a good collection— Pulpit notices — Spitting in Church. ONE afternoon after the \" Celtic \" had been at sea for about a week, I had unfolded my sea chair on the upper deck, and was sitting comfortably there reading a book, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and on looking up I saw Mr. Standish beside me. \" It is a beautiful day is it not; come and sit down on this next chair for a while, and let us have a chat,\" I said. \"No, thank you, not now. In fact, I have been sent to seek for you, as some of us want to hear what you were about to tell us when the gong went for dinner yesterday.\" \"Oh, very well, I will do so. If you will lead the way I'll follow.\" We accordingly adjourned to the Smoking-room, where the others were seated round a small marble topped table, on which stood several empty glasses and a pack of cards, while the players were now counting their money, and making a reckoning of their gains and losses. \" Well, Mr. Smith where have you been all this while ? Why don't you join us in a rubber at whist sometimes ?\"" ]

[ "Book II] THE RUINS OF THE PORTUGUESE 255 Matar-bicho, in the Angolese patois, means kill- worm, the natives supposing that their entrails are tormented by a small worm which it is necessary to destroy with raw spirits. From the frequency of their demands, it would seem that this is the worm that ever gnaws, and that their thirst is the fire that is never quenched. We journeyed through a beautiful country unlike any thing I had seen on this continent before. Most people seem to think that because Africa is hot and large the scenery must be magnificent ; but I have usually found it monotonous and tame. The dismal forests of the Gaboon have no variety or life, and in North- Western Africa one travels over interminable plains covered with short and stunted trees. But Angola possesses moun tainous districts, which reminded Livingstone of the Highlands, and my Swiss of the minor Alps ; the air is elastic and bright. Often as we gained the summit of a hill we saw before us a valley covered with maize fields and plantations of coffee and cocoa, with white houses glimmering among the trees ; and we passed neat cottages of stone which were closed throughout the day, as they are in England at harvest time— men, women, and children being all at work in the fields. Some of the rivers were completely dry, their course being marked by pebbles and shining quartz ; but others flashed across our path— bands of silver edged with green ; and sometimes we saw a boat filled with oranges, in heaps of gleaming gold, floating down towards the sea. We usually passed the night at a fort or a plantation,", "SENE GAMBIA. w ' « \" so ' «. ' .oo Ei^ish Miles Stanford* <ko$JistajX6& 7 Charwj Cross London.; Smith. Elder Se C?", "[Book III MOSLEM AFRICA 314 being persecuted by the Christian Goths ; and the African Jews, it is said, instigated the invasion of Spain.1 The Moors treated with indulgence the Europeans whom they conquered, and acquired the arts of the Romans and the Greeks. Andalusia civilised Africa ; and the city of Morocco became the rival of Cordova and Seville. Between the literary men of the two countries an amiable controversy would often arise as to which might claim pre-eminence in learning and the arts, and it appears to have been allowed that Morocco was not inferior to Spain.2 The existence of a civilised North Africa soon made its influence felt across the desert. The camel was unknown in Carthage, and but rarely employed in the Roman days ; 3 but now these animals were introduced in thousands, and the Sahara voyage could be made with comparative facility. Arab travellers of piety and learning took up their abode in the Soudan, and the Moslem mission work commenced. Mosques and schools, palaces with glass windows and painted walls,4 sprang up on the banks of the Niger, and the glories of Granada were reflected at Timbuctoo. Negro nations were speedily converted ; crusades were waged against the Pagans ; and negro Moslems, in turban and tqbe, converted Pagan kingdoms, as the Arabs had converted Timbuctoo. Thus the work was continued from century to century, and thus it is still 1 Gayangos, ' Mahommedan Dynasties in Spain. ' **■ Ibid. 3 Ritter. Barth, ' Wanderungen.' * Edris ' Edrisi." ]

[ "53 Jésus-Christ n'a été donnée par lui qu'aux prêtres ordon nés et consacrés seulement selon la coutume et observa tion de l'Église , ainsi que celle d'absoudre les péchés au sacrement de pénitence. 9° Lesquels prêtres, pour le certain, quand même ils seraient méchants, en péché mortel, ils consacrent le corps de Jésus-Christ , pourvu qu'ils aient l'intention de consacrer. 10° Confirmation et Extrême-Onction sont deux sacre ments institués par Jésus-Christ , et par lequel est donnée la grâce du Saint-Esprit. 11° II ne faut nullement douter que les Saints, tous ceux qui sont en vie et sur terre, comme ceux qui sont en paradis, ne fassent des miracles. 12° C'est, une chose bien agréable à Dieu que de prier la bienheureuse Mère de Dieu et les Saints qui sont au ciel, à ce qu'ils soient nos avocats et intercesseurs pour nous auprès de Dieu. 13° Partant, nous ne devons pas imiter et suivre seu lement ces Saints, régnant avec Jésus-Christ, mais encore les honorer et les prier. 14° C'est pour cela que ceux qui, par dévotion, visi tent les lieux et églises dédiés auxdits Saints, font sain tement et religieusement leurs devoirs. 15° Si quelqu'un, dansl'église ou dehors, adresse ses oraisons à la glorieuse vierge Marie ou à quelques Saints, premièrement qu'à Dieu , il ne pèche point. 16° II ne faut nullement douter que , priant à genoux, notre Sauveur Jésus-Christ, la Mère de Dieu et les Saints devant une image de Jésus-Christ , du crucifix , de la Vierge Marie et autres Saints , ne soient bonnes œuvres et saintes. 17° En outre, il faut croire fermement et nullement", "172 la ville ne voulait d'autre gouverneur que les consuls , et qu'il n'avait rien à espérer à cet égard. Cette réponse déplut si fort au sieur d'Alègre , que, par la suite , il s'en vengea en faisant mourir Espagnon , ainsi qu'il sera dit en son lieu. C'est tout ce qui se passa à Issoire Tan 1585. CHAPITRE XLIV. Comment M. de Randan voulut gagner l'afscctlon des habitants , et cc qui en résulta. L'année suivante 1586, M. de Randan , désirant tou jours avoir un pied dans la ville d'Issoire , manda aux consuls de venir le trouver dans son château de Randan (1). Y étant arrivés, sans se plaindre de ce qu'on avait fait à Cheissat, il leur dit de suite qu'il désirait mettre dans leur ville un gentilhomme de sa part , avec cinq à six hommes seulement, afin de pouvoir s'opposer à toutes les menées et intrigues secrètes de Mcilleau , ce qui ayant été ac quiescé par la ville, il y envoya aussitôt le capitaine Charles , gentilhomme romain , son serviteur et domes tique, avec autres six hommes. Dans le commencement de son établissement , cet homme se conduisit avec une grande douceur, modestie et familiarité , buvant et mangeant souvent avec les con suls et notables habitants de la ville ; mais , au bout de quelque temps, il prit une certaine familiarité avec la (1) Le château et la terre de Randan, érigés en comté en 1366, sont situés dans l'arrondissement de Riom , sur les frontières du Bourbonnais; ils ont passé successivement aux maisons de Poli gnac, de Larochefoucauld , de Foix , de Lorge et de Choiseul- Praslin. Ils appartiennent aujourd'hui à M. le duc de Montpensier, héritier de S. A. R. M™\" la princesse Adélaïde , sa tante. J.-B. B.", "215 les moyens à prendre, pour empêcher l'entrée du secours dans la ville. Les uns dirent qu'il fallait faire sonner le tocsin pour faire venir les paysans des villages et villes circonvoi sines en armes , et les faire servir de suisses pour la con duite des deux couleuvrines qu'il fallait prendre pour op poser à ce secours, et diriger leur feu contre les arque busiers de Clermont , la plupart inexperts aux armes , qui , n'étant point accoutumés à ce bruit , ne tiendraient pas long-temps et ne tarderaient pas à fuir en désordre. Les autres voulaient le contraire , disant que les gens de la ville et paysans des villages qu'on pourrait réunir au son du tocsin , ne serviraient à autre chose qu'à mettre le désordre parmi les gens de guerre et en danger de perdre le canon, lequel ils conseillaient de mettre dans la cita delle avec bonne garde , et s'en aller au-devant du se cours sans canon. D'autres disaient qu'il ne fallait point combattre ainsi, qu'il fallait se tenir forts dans la citadelle et dans le fau bourg du Pont ; que , sans doute , les sieurs de Rastignac et de Chazcron ne pouvaient rester long-temps à Issoire, crainte de quelque surprise dans leurs gouvernements ; qu'il était vraisemblable que cette troupe se débanderait peu à peu. Et de tous ces avis, le plus mauvais fut approuvé , qui fut de laisser le canon dans la citadelle, et d'aller à la rencontre de l'ennemi sans artillerie , de ne faire qu'un gros de toute la cavalerie , afin de faire un plus grand effort contre les cuirassiers ennemis que l'on assurait être de cinq cents; mais il n'y en avait que trois cents, parce que les capitaines Caries et Chalousse , qui les avaient reconnus, s'étaient trompés. Ils n'avaient pas dislingué" ]

[ "165 CITY JUSTICE. suddenly adopted by the prosecution. His clients were burning with anxiety to refute the wicked and unfounded charges which had been made against them. Then he climbed down gently, and intimated that, as the prose cution withdrew and paid all costs, he could say no more, save that in the whole course of his experience at the Bar a more false, groundless, and frivolous prosecution had never been commenced. The Alderman said that it was only what he had ex pected from the first. The prosecutor had done well, even at the eleventh hour, to place himself in the hands of so able and high-minded an advocate as Mr. J . He was satisfied that the charge was absurd. He only re gretted that he had granted the summonses. He certainly would not have done so had he known the frivolous nature of the evidence upon which the prosecution relied. The summonses were dismissed, and the defendants left the court without a stain upon their character. Mr. Popham paid into the bank that afternoon ten thousand pounds, in sovereigns, which astonished and inconvenienced the bank clerks.", "246 THE CITY OF THE JUST. rumoured that the defence would call evidence. Alto gether the day's proceedings gave promise of interest. The court was crowded with ladies, for whom special seats had been reserved. They had decked themselves out in their most gorgeous finery ; and they had come to be admired, and to witness and enjoy the spectacle of human torture and misery. There was a chance of seeing a man, a gentleman who probably had committed a murder. They could sit and watch him as the evidence came out against him. They could mark and discuss the changes of his countenance as the chances of death advanced or diminished. They could regale themselves by imagining a scaffold, and the human being now before them launched into eternity. Their catlike nature would here be given full play, as it only could when the game was one of life and death. They sat around, with their eyes bright and their claws sharpened — eager, expectant, brimming with excitement. It is a sight never to be forgotten. Womankind de graded. I remember it in a recent case where a man was being tried for more than his life — for his honour. There they sat laughing, chatting, drawing, flattered to the eyes by the invidious privilege which they had obtained ; callous in their enjoyment to the suffering that they witnessed, like the Roman audience in the days of old, ready to turn down their thumbs so that they should not lose the climax of the excitement that was provided for them. There was some disappointment when the prosecution proclaimed themselves unprepared to proceed with the case at the moment, and required a further remand. Everyone had come there to see the plot develop ; some had travelled miles, and it was generally thought that it was very inconsiderate of the police not to have announced beforehand that the play was not ready for performance. So it happened that when Mr. Cain rose to protest, the sympathy of everyone was with him ; it was felt that the prosecution had been guilty of a scurvy trick, and that they ought, in someway or other, to be made to suffer. Mr. Cain, after he had complained sufficiently of the", "252 THE CITY OF THE JUST. So the engagement was recognised, and the rector's consent obtained without his having been even asked. Bob had been dozing silently all day ; she had taken nourishment when it was offered to her, and had then turned round with her face to the wall. It seemed as if a change had come over her. There had been so much excitement, the day had begun in fear and ended in thankfulness, that her altered condition had passed un noticed. Dr. Eccles was ushered into the room ; her eyes were closed, and as his voice was heard inquiring of the nurse how she had been, a slight tremor attracted the sharp attention of the medical man. He looked at her face, it was deathly pale. He took her hand ; it was withdrawn with a shudder. She had returned to consciousness — she knew — she felt — she heard. He took her hand again and counted her pulse. Yes, no doubt of it, the fever had passed ; but she was shat tered almost beyond recognition. He said nothing — he dared not speak to her in the presence us the nurse. He motioned to AVinifred to follow him, and left the room. In a few moments he confided the news to the rector and to AVinifred. \" Now,\" cried the rector, \" now we shall know the truth.\" \" No, not to-day ; remember any further agitation might end fatally, if not worse ; but it would be as well that she should not be left with a stranger. She might say things now that were better not said, perhaps.\" \" You do not think — you cannot believe, Eccles, that ? \" And the rector left the sentence unfinished. \" I don't know what to say or what to think, but as things are I would not leave her a moment alone. Wini fred must remain by her, and for a day or two I will be here constantly ; my patients have done very well with out me for a fortnight, they can continue for a day or two longer.\" Eccles spoke so gravely that the rector trembled at the suspicion which his words implied." ]

[ "22 voyage en Languedoc, le projet de mariage d'Elisabeth d'Angle terre et du duc d'Alençon, les humiliations infligées à sa fille Marguerite, voilà les sujets qu'elle aborde, entrant dans les plus minutieux détails. Cette triste fin du règne d'Henri III s'éclairera donc par les nombreuses lettres que je rapporte. Indépendamment des lettres de Charles IX, qui font partie du recueil des lettres des rois et reines de France , et de quelques au tres éparpillées çà et là, sa correspondance a été spécialement réunie dans deux volumes , les n05 2 1 et 2 1 bis de la bibliothèque de Saint-Pétersbourg. Tous deux faisaient autrefois partie du dépôt de Saint-Germain-des-Prés; il n'y a pas à s'y tromper : les som maires placés en tête de chaque lettre sont de la même main que les sommaires des volumes du fonds de Saint-Germain, que nous possédons encore. Ces deux volumes, Monsieur le Ministre, dont le catalogue ne donnera que Tanalyse, sont du nombre de ceux que je regrette de n'avoir pu copier. Le premier recueil s'ouvre par quelques dépêches de Charles IX à ses ambassadeurs; puis suivent de nombreuses lettres adressées à M. de Nemours. à M. de Burie, qui commandait en Guyenne, au maréchal de Bordillon, au duc de Montpensier, à MM. de Carces, de Tende, de Joyeuse, à Toccasion des troubles de la Provence et du Languedoc, enfin àMontluc. Charles IX revient souvent sur les démêlés de ce dernier avec Jeanne d'Albret; il lui lait part des avertissements sévères qu'adresse Catherine de Médicis à la reine de Navarre pour réprimer son infatigable propagande et pour évi ter le danger d'un conflit avec Philippe II, dont elle deviendrait Toccasion; il invite le rude capitaine à se comporter doucement avec la Reine sans Toffenser ni Tirriter de paroles « d'autant que cela ne peut en rien servir aux affaires de Testât. » Plus tard, lorsqu'en i566 le fils de Montluc voulut entreprendre son fatal voyage , disposé, comme le disait énergiquement son père, à plustost servir le Turc que demeurer inutile, Charles IX ne lui épar gna ni les avertissements ni les prudents conseils. La lettre qu'il écrivit en cette circonstance mérite d'être reproduite : «Monsieur de Montluc, tout ainsy que j'avois trouvé bien mau vais que le cappitaine votre silz eust, comme j'avois esté adverty, donné parole de secours à ung estranger sans ma permission , aussi ais-je esté fortbien aize d'avoir entendu comme le tout s'estoit passé, et qu'en cela il n'ait rien faict qu'escouter ce qu'on lui a dict sans", "89 «Je vous ay mandé par mes précédentes comme M. d'Erbault m'avoit tesmoigné la satisfaction que le roy a receuë de ce que vous avez fait et de ce que vous luy avez escrit pour nostre esta blissement clans Chio1. » « Monsieur, «J'ay receu un extresme desplaisir d'apprendre par vos lettres du 1 2 de décembre l'estat de vostre affaire. Je n'ay jamais veu rien de plus long et de plus malheureux. II faudrait, je ne diray pas ne vous estre point obligé à l'insiny comme je suis, mais estre dé pouillé d'humanité pour ne pas s'efforcer à vous servir en ceste occasion. Mon malheur est que je ne l'ay peu encore faire d'autant que depuis deux mois M. le garde des sceaux est à Paris, et depuis le moys d'octobre j'ay demeuré en cette armée avec dessein de ne m'en point esloigner cju'après la prise de la Rochelle qu'il y a lieu d'espérer clans quelques moys. Nous attendons icy le roy clans troys semaines; je croy que le conseil retournera avec luy. J'escriray cependant à nos pères qui sont à Paris qu'ils s'informent de ma dame vostre mère si elle y est, et du supérieur de la Croix, quel ordre j'auray à tenir. Et^je n'apporteray pas plus de passion pour voir les Rocheloys en leur debvoir que vous hors de la peine où vous estes depuis si longtemps. Cependant nos obligations envers vostre bonté croissent tous les jours. Aussy l'object qui les faist naistre estinsiny etvous fera recevoir une récompense sans borne. C'est où je fonde la confiance que je prends de vous donner tant d'importunité en tant de lieux. C'est le mal agréable que souffrent les pères qui ont une grande famille; ce qui donne plus de facilité à la nostre de subsister clans sa faiblesse, c'est qu'elle est appuyée sur la providence de Dieu et soubmiseà vostre prudente conduite. Je ne m'estendray point davantage sur les particularitez et prin cipalement sur les traverses des pères cordeliers en la Syrie, le roy y apportera remède par son aulhorité. Nous attendons le prin cipal effort de vostre assistance. Le R. P. Archange vous dira de ma part ce qui concerne les autres lieux où le pape nous a com mandé de servir et encore qu'ils soient esloignez de vous, le res pect que nous debvons et la protection que nous en espérons nous font vous supplier très-humblement de nous y départir votre fa- Bibliothèque impériale de Sainl-Pétersbouig, vol. 107, pièce n\" 53.", "116 mité, qui de désespoir rappelleraient les Espagnols et en peu d'années naistroit entre eux la guerre civile. La ville de Béthune est prise 1. » On le voit clairement par cette lettre, la France craignait que les exigences intolérables des protestants hollandais n'amenassent les catholiques à ne prendre conseil que de leur désespoir. M. de Rrienne ne cesse de s'en préoccuper : «Vous me cités, écrit-il de nouveau à Brasset, que c'est tolé rance et non permission aux sujets catholiques de MM. les Estats de venir faire leurs dévotions clans les maisons des ambassadeurs; mais c'est une extraordinaire rigueur que de les en vouloir em pescher. L'impossibilité pour un particulier d'avoir chez lui un homme d'église, c'est le priver de Texercice de sa religion; le lui permettre chez un autre n'est pas tolérance, c'est un piège. Les François peuvent aller à Charenton, les Hollandois n'ont point de lieu pour leur exercice. Dieu détournera cet orage par sa mi séricorde, et aura inspiré à MM. les Estats de faire partir leurs députés pour Munster. » Une lettre du 28 novembre i6/i5 témoigne de nouveaux efforts en faveur des catholiques. «Le prince d'Orange, écrit Brienne à Brasset, nous a fait sa voir que la Zélande est la seule province de la Hollande qui se soit opposée à la liberté de conscience et à Texercice public de la religion catholique, que lui croyoit devoir estre accordé. Ils savent bien que les catholiques nous reprochent Tassistance que nous leur donnons, qui est au dommage de nostre religion, et les excuses que nous pouvons alléguer sont beaucoup au-dessous de ce qui nous est reproché. Par le traité on a essayé d'establir une règle qui nous levoit le blasme, et les Huguenots de France, quoique zélés et indiscrets pour Tordinaire, sont surpris de ce nouveau traite ment. » II Tengage à tâcher d'obtenir par une délibération des États ce qu'on n'a pu obtenir par la députation, et attend les résul tats du siège de Trêves par M. de Turenne. Si les représentations ne furent pas poursuivies avec la même chaleur, c'est qu'à son retour de Hollande M. d'Estrades eut un long entretien avec M. de Rrienne et Tédisia sur les mauvaises dispositions des Hollandais à Tégard de la France. Brienne, faisant 1 De Paris, dépêche signée." ]

[ "112 Oberstlandhofmeister reassumirt worden war, wurde durch Auf stehen per eminenter majora beschlossen, nebst dem Historio graphen noch einen diesem beizugebenden, von ihm allenfalls auch zur Copirung zu verwendenden Adjuncten mit einem Gehalte jährlicher 600 fl. C. M. ex domestico anzustellen, und dem Historiographen nicht nur die von ihm gewünschte Reiseunter stützung per 300 fl. C. M., sondern nebstbei noch auf Neben auslagen 200 fl. C. M. ex domestico ohne Verrechnung zu bewilligen. Weiter wurde nach gehaltener förmlicher Umfrage mit 27 gegen 20 Stimmen der Beschluss gefasst, den Historiographen Palacky zu beauftragen, das zu seinen Zwecken dienende Werk Mansi's Conciliensammlung auf Kosten der Stände, falls er dasselbe auf seiner Reise antrifft, anzukaufen. Dieses Werk im Preise von 500 fl. C. M. sei aus den Dispositionsgeldern des Jahres 1846 zu bezahlen, und nach von Palacky gemachtem Gebrauche in der Museumsbibliothek mit Vorbehalt des stän dischen Eigenthumsrechtes zu deponiren. Wovon der Landesausschuss durch Protokollauszug zu ver ständigen ist. 43. Eingabe an den Landesausschuss über die Nothwendigkeit historisch -topographischer Studien und die Ernennung eines Adjuncten. (Dd. 5 April 1841). Der von den hochlöblichen Herren Ständen des Königreichs in ihrer Versammlung am 4 Mai 1846 aus eigenem Antrieb gefasste, und mir durch Decret dd. 30 Nov. 1846 (Zahl 5706) bekannt ge machte Entschluss, mir in meinen, die Geschichtforschung Böhmens umfassenden Arbeiten, durch Votirung einer Summe von 600 fl. C. M. jährlich, die wünschenswerthe Personalaushilfe zu verschaffen, — hat nicht allein als grosssinniger Beweis der Aufmerksamkeit und Sorgfalt, welche die hochlöbl. HH. Stände der vaterländischen Ge schichte überhaupt zuwenden, sondern auch als Zeichen ihrer huld vollen Anerkennung und Berücksichtigung der Schwierigkeiten des mir obliegenden Geschäftes, mich, den ehrfurchtvoll Gefertigten, mit der innigsten Freude und Dankbarkeit erfüllt.", "164 Den Hohn und Geifer, mit welchem Wiener und Präger Schmücke, zumeist aus nationalpolitischen Gründen , mich seit lange zu verfolgen nicht aufhören , kann ich , so wie den Unflath eines famosen Laus-Dichters, auf sich beruhen lassen ; mit Buben, soll ein Greis in keinen Streit sich einlassen. Vernünftige Leute wissen wohl, was sie von solchen Ein- und Ausfällen zu halten haben; und das Urtheil der Unvernünftigen ist mir gleichgiltig. Doch ist es ein Anderes, wenn dabei, sei es auch nur zum Scheine, ein wissenschaftliches Feld betreten wird; da kann auch der bestgesinnte Leser irregeleitet werden , und der Irrthum trägt nie und nirgends gute Früchte. Vergebens frage ich mich, was ich denn dem deutschen Volke eigentlich so Böses gethan habe, um so vielfach von ihm angefeindet zu werden? wann, wo und womit habe ich es so beleidigt oder beschädigt, dass es mich als Feind zu behandeln das Recht habe? Ich bin mir niemals einer bösen Absicht gegen die Deutschen bewusst gewesen und habe sie auch niemals zu verletzen gesucht ; nie ist es mir beigefallen , an ihrer grossen Bedeutung in der Weltgeschichte zu mäckeln oder dieselbe gar zu leugnen; auch gegenwärtig fühle ich mich als Gegner nicht des ganzen Volkes, sondern nur einiger Personen, die sich ein Geschäft machen aus der Herabwürdigung und Verhöhnung meines Volksstammes. Mein Gewissen spricht mich in dieser Hinsicht von aller Schuld vollkommen frei. Freilich habe ich, bei Bearbeitung meines Werkes, mich weder auf den deutschen Standpunkt gestellt, noch auch die böhmische Geschichte nach herkömmlichen deutschen Ansichten dargestellt. Ich hielt nämlich von jeher und halte noch dafür, dass das böhmische Volk von Gottes, und nicht von anderer Völker Gnaden existire, und dass es somit berechtigt sei, seine Exi stenz auch ohne Rücksicht auf die Deutschen, ja selbst gegen deren Willen, zu wahren und zu vervollkommnen. Folglich musste zunächst nur sein eigenes Wohl und Wehe, und nicht das der Deutschen, mir als Leitstern und als Richtschnur dienen, nach welchen ich Erfolge wie Missgeschicke wahrzunehmen und zu würdigen hatte. Nun hat Böhmen von jeher fast keine anderen Feindseligkeiten von Aussen zu ertragen gehabt, als", "193 vorragende persönliche Gegner, ja unversöhnliche Feinde be schieden: den k. k. Hof-Slavisten Kopitar seit 1830, und den Museumsbibliothekar Hanka seit 1826, beide bis zu ihrem Tode; Jener pflegte von jeher mehr offen, Dieser mehr verdeckt gegen mich aufzutreten ; Jener war der erste und heftigste Kläger und Klagenstifter in der Sache der Handschriften, Dieser galt als der am meisten verdächtige Schuldige. Jenem trat daher auch ich offen entgegen, wo immer sich Gelegenheit dazu darbot: Diesen, den ich diesfalls weder für so unschuldig, noch für so schuldig erkannte, als ihn Freunde und Feinde angesehen wissen wollten , schonte ich bei seinen Lebzeiten , um den sehr ehrgeizigen , auf mich eifersüchtigen und ohnehin vielfach (auch durch meine Stellung, da ich eine Zeit lang sogar sein Vorge setzter wurde) gekränkten, aber sonst harmlosen und aufrichtig patriotischen Mann nicht meinerseits noch mehr zu kränken, zumal ein solches Verfahren mir von den mit den Verhältnissen näher Vertrauten als unedle persönliche Rache , von unseren beiderseitigen Gegnern aber als volle Zustimmung auch zu deren unberechtigten Klagen und Beschuldigungen ausgelegt worden wäre. Ich kann aber nicht umhin, hier meine vollkommen nach allen Seiten hin begründete Ueberzeugung laut auszusprechen, dass die deutsche Wissenschaft in unsern Tagen sich auf kei nem Gebiete eine grössere Blosse hat zu Schulden kommen lassen, als in der (zunächst österreichisch-polizeilichen) Frage über die Aechtheit der Königinhofer Handschrift. Der grosse Paläograph Höfler bleibt dabei ganz ausser dem Spiele. Die ungetrübte Wahrheitsliebe dieses Mannes bewährt sich auch in der Behauptung, ich hätte ihn mir (wahrscheinlich ohne Grund) „zum Gegner gewählt.\" War ich es etwa, der ihn antrieb, gegen die Böhmen überhaupt, und die Hussiten insbesondere, mit mehr Eifer und Geifer als Wissenschaft aufzutreten? Den Unsinn wird er mir doch wohl nicht zumuthen, dass ich ohne Grund vorgezogen hätte , ihn zum Feind, anstatt (wie ehemals) zum Freunde zu haben. Merkwürdig — um keinen anderen Ausdruck zu gebrau chen — ist auch sein ganzes Verfahren gegen mich in der Frage des Mongoleneinfalls vom J. 1241 und der Niederlage 13" ]

[ "ASSIOUT. 65 tainessesont effondrées sous Taction du temps. Des acacias, des sycomores, des mimosas égayent ce cimetière, où le défilé des femmes — c'est aujourd'hui vendredi, le dimanche des musul mans — et les jeux des enfants mettent une étrange animation. Plus loin, comme un îlot au milieu de la plaine verdoyante, semée çà et là de bouquets de palmiers, Assiout, la ville habitée, tout entière en limon, de ce ton indéfinissable que prend la terre séchée, dresse sa charmante silhouette ornée de douze minarets. Les opposi tions des façades éclairées et des pans de mu railles plongés dans Tombre crue, et sur la côte un élégant bois de palmiers, font de la petite cité une joie pour les yeux. Et, de la cité des morts à la ville, c'est sur la chaussée un inces sant défilé d'hommes, de femmes, d'enfants, de chameaux, de chevaux, d'ânes, de moutons, de chèvres, s'appelant, se croisant, se poussant, ru gissant, brayant, hennissant, mettant une vie intense dans ce paysage inoubliable. 5", "PROMENADE EN ÉGYPTE. 124 vers le Nil, tandis que les filons de composés de fer et de manganèse, plus résistants, demeurent à l'état de cailloux à la surface des montagnes désagrégées et leur donnent cet aspect noirâtre sur lequel les coulées de sable rouge-jaune tranchent çà et là si étrangement. Lessons d'une musique alerte montent jusqu'à ,nous : ce sont les troupes soudanaises qui ma nœuvrent là-bas, près de leurs campements, en soulevant des flots de poussière. Du point élevé où nous sommes, nous discernons fort bien leurs mouvements qui ne semblent manquer ni de méthode ni de correction ; les formations en colonne sont bonnes ; c'est à peine s'il y a quelque flottement dans les conversions. Revenus au rivage, nous trouvons tout le bateau en émoi ; nous allons traverser la région où l'on voit, parait-il, quelquefois encore des cro codiles. Cet animal, jadis si commun dans toute l'Egypte, ne se rencontre plus jamais au-dessous de la première cataracte et rarement entre la première et la seconde. Le commissaire du bateau nous déclare qu'il n'en a aperçu que deux, au cours de ses quatorze derniers voyages. Les passagers, armés de leurs lorgnettes, inspectent attentivement les bancs de sable ; des ombres de talus, brutales, nous donnent des émotions. Un", "296 PROMENADE EN ÉGYPTE. Les commissaires de la caisse seraient consultés lors de la préparation du budget de chaque année, à commencer par 1880. Le budget serait autant que possible base sur les dispo sitions du budget normal que le gouvernement de Sa se propose de présenter à la conférence, sous réserve des changements survenant dans la situation du pays, et dont il conviendra de tenir compte. Le budget de chaque année ayant été ainsi préparé de con cert avec les commissaires, ceux-ci adraient un droit de veto pendant Fexercice à l'égard de toute dépense propu^ dépasserait le budget, sauf en cas de circonstances subites entraînant péril pour la paix et Tordre. Ce droit de veto s'appliquerait également uu.\\ dépenses du budget de 1885, bien que ce budget n'eût pas été arrête en consultation avec les commissaires. Après le retrait des troupes britanniques, la caisse aurait en plus le droit d'inspection des revenus, de manière à assurer la rentrée effective au trésor de la totalité des revenus et à empêcher qu'ils ne sussent détournes en chemin pour d'autres objets. Le président de la caisse serait un Anglais. Le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté proposera, à In fin ,le l'occu- pation anglaise ou avant, aux puissances et à la Porte, un projet de neutralisation de l'Égypte sur la base des principes appliqués à la Belgique, et fera, en ce qui concerne le canal de Snez, des propositions conformes à celles contenues dans une dépèche-circulaire du 3 janvier 1883. « Le 17 juin Tentente semble complète entre les deux gouvernements. M. Waddington déclare à lord Granville que « le gouvernement de la République accepte les différentes propositions contenues dans la note du 16 et représentant les termes de Taccord intervenu. » « Vous savez par suite de quelles divergences sur la question de l'administration financii i projet d'évacuation n'aboutit point." ]

[ "THE LONDON APPRENTICE. 84 would rather trust myself to their mercy, oven though outraged in being dragged hither, than be subject to thy most wicked and insulting speech.\" The old woman gazed, with something like a quail- ing spirit, upon the flashing eyes of the maiden, who in her excitement had quitted her seat and advanced to the old wretch. The proud blood of Martin AVareham rim through the veins of his daughter ; and in such a contest as this her superior character, breeding, and natural confidence in her position, was more than a match for the low hag who so insolently confronted her. No longer able to use_ her spiteful banter, she dis- played a malignant ferocity : she grinned maliciously, as she muttered viciously through her teeth — \" I'll make you rue this, pretty pets — you shaU rue thi3, thou waxen image ; we shaU see — we shaU see.\" And nodding her head savagely, she went out, and closed the door violently after her. Alice turned her flushed face and sparkling eye upon her sister, whose alarm was manifest- \" Fear not, dear LiUan,\" she exclaimed, \" the taunts of this beldame has roused a spirit within me which I knew not I possessed — a spirit of firm resist- ance — a desire to attempt an escape by some means yet to be devised ; and the necessary courage to carry it out, if possible. Courage ! Lilian — courage ! dearest. Heaven wUl not desert us ; but if we need its aid, we must do our best to help ourselves, and it will assist and protect us.\" Lilian expressed her reliance upon Heaven and her sister, without yet feeling any great sense of security; ; but she had always been accustomed, since the death : of her mother, an event long since passed, to look up to her sister for counsel and for guidance, and now placed herself in her keeping with the hope — a fervent hope, too — that she might, as she had hitherto, be able to pilot her safely through the dangers of the present situation. When night came on — and long and earnestly they watched the suu sink behind the trees, gilding the topmost branches with its gorgeous radiance — the old harridan made her appearance with a taper ; she sat it down, and, to the relief of both, retired without saying a word. Her retreating footsteps, as they descended the stairs, had no sooner died away, than Alice took up the light, advanced to the door, and examined it to ascertain whether it had any fastenings ; to her very great satisfaction she found it had a couplo of bolts ; these, with as little noise as possible, she drew, and then inspected the window, which she with gratifica- tion perceived possessed also a stout fastening ; this she made secure, and beckoning Lilian, who, half terrified, watched her movements, she entered the little chamber assigned to them as a sleeping room. This little room she very closely and minutely examined ; there appeared nothing to arouse suspicion She was an old woman, a very old woman : this her wrinkled face, almost black with extreme age, evi denced ; she was tall and upright, bony, scraggy, sapless, yet she showed no signs of decrepitude or weakness. Her face was thin, and very strongly marked— the traces of passions perhaps not yet dormant — suffering care and cupidity, were vividly developed ; her eyes were small, but very bright for her yeara ; her nose, originally straight, was curving fast towards her clun, which itself was gradually bending upwards. There was an occasional grin on her face, the result of spite — never of mirth, which displayed toothless gums, and added notMng to her personal charms. Her grizzled hair was tucked beneath her cap, but the little exhibited helped to give a character to her face the reverse of pleasing. Her dress, of the coarsest woollen, sat loosely on her person, and made the rigid bony seraggiuess stUl more apparent than it might otherwise have been. The effect of her appearance upon the two maidens was anything but satisfactory. They had built up some hopes that a woman attendant might be made to sympathise with their situation, and if not actuaUy able to help them to escape, she might, under the influence of a promised reward, give information to Martin Wareham of their place of confinement. They had fuU confidence M his power, and were certaM of being rescued if be only knew where they were confined. The appearance of this old woman at once banished every sanguine hope, and both felt that a more effectual, stern, inflexible jailor, could not have been selected. The mode of her entry was abrupt — her speech no lesa so. \" Do you want anytMng ?\" eIic asked, in a harsh tone. \" No,\" repUed Alice, with some dignity, offended at being thus abruptly questioned. \" We require nothing,\" she added, \"but to be released from this place, in whieh we are wickedly and wrongfully detained.\" The old woman gave a spiteful grin. \"Pretty birds don't like being caged,\" she ex claimed, \" but ye must like it, ye can't help yourselves ; talk to the wall, bid it open and let you free — yo may just as well, as hope that those who brought you here ■will let you out for asking.\" \" Were you possessed of the common feelings of humanity, you would not add insMt to the unhappiness our present situation MMcta upon us,\" exclaimed Alice, indignantly. \"Leave us, we do not require your services, and would bo spared your malignity.\" \"Pretty birds must not beat their breasts against the bars — it is of no use — do no good — no help in that. It shall haye a fine young geutleman conic to comfort it soon; he'll make it sing, I'll be sworn. Dainty morsels to tempt the appetites of young cavaliers.\" \" Quit the room instantly,\" cried Alice, passion ately, \" or I'll summon those who sent theo hither. I", "THE LONDON APPRENTICE. 200 turned her head— to see the Trooper gazing upon her with a look of passion, as repulsive to her as it was alarming. recumbent position; they obeyed the order to advance, and moved slowly forward, bearing the maiden back to the prison she believed at first she had been so fortunately released from. He was scarcely like the same bemg : without head covering, his hair, carefuUy parted off his forehead, displayed it to be ample and open; his beard and mustachios were very carefully trimmed ; his features were regular, but somewhat coarse ; stdl his light blue eyes would have made Ms face handsome, but for the libertine expression which fiUed them when turned upon women as fair as Inez. The return was speedily accomplished, and when Inez returned to her senses, it was to find herself upon the bed in the sleeping-room she had not long since quitted, her head supported by the little French attendant, who was bathing her temples, and with great manifestation of grief, real or assumed as the spectators chose to consider it, was volubly expressing her horror at what had happened. She instantly rose to her feet, but he motioned her to be seated again. At first, Inez could only imagine some strange dream had embodied the events which had really happened, but she soon discovered the contrary, and when more composed, desired to be left alone. Her attendant, who obeyed her slightest wish, left her, in this instance, at her request, with apparent reluctance. When alone, her bram racked with the severest pam — the effects of the intense excitement Bho had under gone, and her fall combined — she pondered over the strange and fearful position in which ahe had been placed. \" Remain seated, pretty Inez, I request ; you must be fatigued after your hasty and unexpected ride. By my faith! but it was a bold trick of thy Mohock to bear thee away, as the most valuable booty to be found m this dweUing. He was a skilful judge of that which is priceless ; but though the viUain must have greatly alarmed you, you must consider yourself vastly fortunate at meeting with such timely rescue. The scoundrel swings at day-break at Tyburn. He wUl no more disturb your peace, charming Inez ; and I wiU see,\" he added, very significantly, \" that no further attempt of this kind shaU prove so suc cessful.\" It may here be Btated, that this Nick Balmerino was one of the feUows from whose clutches the Trooper had Baved her whUe being borne by them through the Temple into Alsatia ; that this Nick Balmerino, unknowing the locaUty of Inez, was prowling near the dwelling of my Lord of York, in the hope of noting the departure of some rich gueBt whom he might follow and rob. WhUe thus engaged, he suddenly heard the voice of Inez caUing on Hugh Audley, aud the reader knows the rest. \" To make tMs sure, I pray you to let me depart.\" \" AVhat ! sweet one, before you hear the offer I purpose making to you.\" \" No offer can tempt me.\" \" Not my hand ? \" \" Oh, no ! I have no heart to bestow.\" \" AVhat if I heed not that ? \" \" Thou mayst not — but I do — ah, most deeply do I. I would not — nay, I could not wed where I loved not.\" Inez could not but feel gratified at being saved from tbe hands of so tremendous a scoundrel ; but Bhe devoutly wished that it had occurred iu any other manner — wished that her senses had not failed her, so that she might have appealed to the by- Btanders and apprentices to have rescued her from the Trooper, from whom she had almost as much to fear as from Nick Balmerino — at least from him sor whom they bore her back to these hateful apart ments. \" But you may learn to love me.\" \"Nevsr!\" \" StUl to like me — liking and loving are kin. What if I am content with the liking ; I wUl strive to make you like me by tenderness, consideration, and great attention to your every wish. I wUl be thought ful, kind, eager only to give you pleasure — thia wUl surely make me like you.\" She could easily imagine that when the account of her attempted flight reached the ears of her jaUor, that he would visit her, and she once more deter mined by passionate appeals to induce him to suffer her to depart, or to state in uneqmvocal terms her course of action, should any base attempt be made to hurl her from that chaite position which now she knew so well how to value. \" It would only render my position more wretched.\" \" You have fallen insanely in love with that same apprentice who took you from Alsatia.\" Inez remained silent. \"He loves you not,\" said the Trooper, emphati cally. \" I know it,\" replied Inez, in a clear voice. Her expectations were not deceived. She sat in the quiet evening by the side of a brUliant lamp, gazing upon the wreatlung flames which shot forth their fanciful forms as they ascended the spacious chimney, pondering on the strange fate which had from chUdhood been hers, when she became conscious of the presence of some one in the aparment. She \"True, you acknowledged as much to me,\" he returned; \"but have you any hope that he wUl some day respond to your affection ?\" \"None— not the faintest hope !\" \"Then why deny me ? See your position, and do not be so hasty in expressing your decision. Hubert Glyn is an apprentice, not yet, I presume, released", "THE LONDON APPRENTICE. 180 This took place on the 1st of May, 1516. It was of a different complexion that of May 1517. It was not alone what took place in the suburbs, j but in London itself there were processions, may-poles j erected in various parts, and games and festivities of all kinds carried on. We cannot here enter into a j description of them ; let it suffice, that on this day thousands were abroad occupied alone in pleasure. j Robert Gawthorpe knew this, and it crossed him that this day would be more eligible for an outbreak j than any other ; he therefore determined to put him self in communication with those who would head the j revolt without appearing to do so. He was on his way for this purpose towards Lud- Gate, when he felt himself suddenly seized by a vigorous hand. He turned instantly, and found the hand of the fair daughter of Griswold the Fleming upon his neck-piece ; he would have shook it off, but she clung to him firmly, crying out, — \" Father !— Father ! it is the vUlain Issa Wulf! Summon aid ! — I have him fast !\" Griswold, who was taken by surprise at his daugh ter's suddenly leaving his arm and fastening with strange violence upon a pssser-by, on hearing the name recovered hi3 presence of mind, and Bhouted for help. Although he wanted the courage displayed ; by his daughter in attacking one who had basely : designed to rob him of his wealth, he had Eome ! shrewd suspicion of the prowess of his late servant, and held aloof. Gawthorpe seized the wrist of the heroic girl, who, not naturally thus ready to assume the attributes of the opposite sex, but from a most intense aversion she bore to this felon, who, by look, by inuendos, and, when he could, by touch, had dared covertly to insult her, although openly he had not attempted it, she did not hesitate, at any personal hazard, to prove the hatred she entertained towards him, and paused not to risk her life on the night he had attempted his diabolical scheme, when, having heard the noise of the entry of the Alsatians, she had arisen from her couch and ascertained his vUlany, which she had hoped to unmask before the whole household. He had escaped ; but the instant she perceived him in the street, regardlesB of danger, she threw aside her native delicacy — for of such was her real nature — and fastened on him, glad of any oppor- tunity of shewing to him how determined was her dislike, how just her appreciation of his character. As we have said, he grasped her with a tight grip of the wrist, and said to her with a sueer, — \"What, you so love me that, you wUl not let me hence ! WeU, be it so ; you shaU have me. I wiU be thine, and thou shalt bo mine — mark me, mine only, ere you have aged many hours. Aye, cry help, you wiU have need of it anon if you would escape my embraces. I wUl hold thee to my heart, and press my kisses on thy lips until thou art surfeited with them ; thou shalt have enough of my company, and will be as glad to part with me then as thou art to detain me now.\" As he concluded, clutching both her wrists as though they were in a vice, he tore them from his throat, thrust her violently back, and then stood his ground. Several bystanders now interfered, and would have seized him on the reiterated cries of Griswold, that he was a thief, a robber, a murderer, and fastened on him other epithets equally expressive and weU deserved, but that Gawthorpe motioned them back, saying to one of them, — \" Stephen Studley, you know me well. Ask this | frantic old ass, who is fastening on me terms which i would cost a younger man his life, for whom he takes ! me ? — I know him not.\" i 'Tis false!\" interposed the daughter; \"he is a > villain, who, as servant to my father, attempted to \\ rob him ; the Watch are now on the search for him.\" \"Aye, aye!\" cried the Fleming, \"he has robbed me ; he has robbed me of large sums ; seize him, he is a thief, a murderer — seize him !\" \"WeU, but he has a name,\" exclaimed Stephen Studley, a sturdy trader, whose business had been greatly interfered witb, as he stated, by the Flemings. S but actually by his own unsteady, irregular habits, \\ \"What is his name?— tell us that.\" | \" Issa Wulf,\" cried father and daughter together. | \" Issa AVulf !\" echoed Stephen Studley. 5 \" Aye, aye !\" replied the old Fleming ; \" he was till ! late my servant, commended to me by Master j Wareham, the Goldsmith, but he has wronged the I commendation ; seize him, my friend, he is a thief.\" \" You are an old fool !\" retorted Studley, in a loud | voice. \"Why this man is a citizen, and worth a thousand Flemings ; he is a broker, and by name, John Lincoln.\" \"No, no, no!\" cried the Flemish maiden, ener | getically. I \"Ah! but I say yes,\" he retorted; \"you have i mistaken him for another.\" | \" I wUl swear he is the man ; he is Issa Wulf. Help, ho, masters!— seize him, he is a robber,\" yelled | the old Fleming. I \"Peace, old man, or you'll get yourself into trouble,\" exclaimed Studley, whUe Gawthorpe, with \\ affected innocence and a studied air of contempt, \\ looked on in silence. \" I know him to be John < Lincoln, and a broker, and doubt not that you have S some devilish Flemish 6cheme to get the better of i \\ honest men in practice, and would make something I | out of our tried friend, Lincoln.\" i j \" Aye,\" said the pseudo Lincoln, \" a husband , j perhaps ; the [girl he_d tightly round my neck ; a ' prisoner might have a worse officer to effect a caption i ! than a pretty girl with tempting lips.\" i i \"A cockatrice,\" cried Studley, who loved the flagon I j better than the fair sex ; \" she had better hasten on" ]

[ "43 wat wij deden en konden hem soo naer niet komen dat wij kosten enteren ' , daer ons volck seer toe gecouragieert was. omtrent den middach sijnder noch twe turcken bij gekomen , maer hielden te loefwaert 2 van ons , verre buiten schoots 3. op den middach hebbender 4 noch drie vertoont , sijnde over sulcx te saemen ses in getalle 5 , die wij alle ses wel getroost waeren , maer sij sochten ons niet ende zaijlden van ons af , soo dat tegens den avondt uijt het gesicht waeren. de wint was Oost ten zuijden. Den 3. tegens den middach sijn ons drie vande voorss. Turcken wederom geheel naer bij gekomen. wTij maeckten ons claer ende setten met voüe zaijlen onse cours naer haertoe, het welk zij bemerckende zijn wederom deur gegaen. den wint was Oost zuijt Oost. Den 4. sijn wij met een moie coelte voort gesaijlt onse cours settende naer de Eijlanden van Canarien: hebben dien dag geen Turcken of andere schepen meer vernomen hadden des morgens de wint Oost, ende des avonts suijden. Den 5. hebben onse cours naer de Canarise Eijlanden vervolcht met een stercke Suijt Ooste windt, doch kregen op den middach wederom stilte met een harden regen. Den 6. hebben wij met de veranderinge vande windt onse cours mede verandert, vervoordcrende onse voorgenomen raijs naer Salee. den wint was west Noort West. den 7. onse cours vervolcht; de windt was zuijden. den 8. de windt W. Z. W. Den 9. Als noch goedt weder sijnde met eenen Z. \\V. windt hebben tegens den avondt de barbarise kust in het i aller à l'abordage. 2 du côté du vent. 3 hors de portée de fusil 4 contraction de: hebben er, avec insertion de d. ' (getal) au nombre de six.", "74 Opper Coopman Jacob Adriaenss. Vander Wel, van Delft. Onder Coopman Crijn Alderss. Coninck , Van Delft Schipper Ocker Willemss. Kruijf hooft, Van Rotterdam Stuurman Pieter Pieterss. Princelandt, bij den Briel. Hoochbootsman Leendert Prancken Vanderhorst , \"Van Rot- terdam. Timmerman Cornelis Jacobss. , Van Rotterdam. Assistent Hans Jeuriaen Bierboom, Van Amsterdam. Assistent Pieter Pranss. Vander Wiel, Van Delft. Cock Cornelis Pieterss., Van Santvoort. Quartier Meester Philips Gerritss, Van Delft. Quartier Meester Jan Barentse , Van Rotterdam. Quartier Meester Simon Janss., Van Rotterdam. Bosschieter Marten Hermanss. Vander Heij , Van Rotterdam. Soldaet Jan Korts. Vander Meurs , Van Leijden. Schippers soontje. Willem Ockerss. Kruij ff hooft, Van Rot- terdam. Barbier Abraham Port, Van Baiona Soldaet Simon Mulaert. Bosschietersmaet Jacob Janss., Van 's Gravesande Bootsgesel. Jacob Leendertse, Vanden Briel. Domine Pieter Havenss, Van Rotterdam. Bootsgesel Jan Aelbertse, Van Haerlem. Bootsgesel Cornelis Hermanss., Van Rotterdam. Kuijper Job Janss., Van Rotterdam Onderkuijper Adriaen Tomass. , Van Rotterdam. Provoost Jan Janss., Van Luijck. Bootsgesel Dinglieman Gijsbertss., Van Brouwershaven. Bosschieter Leenaert Wouterss. Gaerpenning , Van Rotterdam. Trompetter Jan Prederickss. , Van Rotterdam. Kaiuijt wachter Floris Theemissen Beddeman, Van Rotterdam. Kaiuijt wachter Paulus Janss., Van Rotterdam. Bootsgesel Laurens Jsackse, Van Santvoort.", "September, 82 kamer, een haij gevangen leggende op de Eeede voor Saffia, in wiens Bob * tot grote verwonderinge een camelion wiert gevonden. 2 Den selven dach is Jacob Arissen wederom van Maladia aen boort gekomen, laetende Lijsbeth Jans bij haer Vader blijven. Den 27 ditto. hebben wij ons ancker wederom gelicht, ende hebben wat naerder de Noorthoeck van Saffia ende wat verder van 't landt , het ancker wederom inde grondt laeten vallen. Den 29. 30. 31 ditto. hebben wij een partije schone tarru aen boort gekregen. Den 1 en 2 September hebben wij aen boort gekregen een partije geel was. Den 3 ditto. hebben wij wederom aen boort gekregen twe paerden en seven Valeken. Den 4 ditto. sijn wij tegens den avondt van voor Saffia t' zaijl gegaen met een noort Noort Oosten windt onse cours nemende naer de Vlaemss Eijlanden; wij deden drie eer schoten. Van den 4 tot den 12 ditto toe, hebben wij met heel goedt weder gesaijlt tot op hoochte van 37 graden, meest gaende N. W. ten N, ofte N. N. W. Den 13 en 14 hebben wij wat beter windt gekregen, edoch variabel ende stil weder etc. Tussclien den 18 en 19 ditto inde nacht met een vrackere coelte. voor de windt saijlende, isser haesticli en onverwacht een storm opgestaen, soo dat de mars-zaijlen 3 aen slenteren * 1 estomac. - Mathain le dessina. Voy. planche 21. N°. 1 3 la voile da grand niât. 4 en lambeaux" ]

[ "THE PLEASURES OF HOPE PART II", "O'CONNOR'S CHILD; OR, THE \"FLOWER OF LOVE LIES BLEEDING.\" VOL. II. P.", "SONG. \" MEN OF ENGLAND.\" Men of England ! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood! Men whose undegenerate spirit Has been proved on land and flood : — By the foes ye 've fought uncounted, By the glorious deeds ye 've done, Trophies captured — breaches mounted, Navies conquer'd — kingdoms won ! Yet, remember, England gathers Hence but fruitless wreaths of fame, If the patriotism of your fathers Glow not in your hearts the same." ]

[ "THE BUDLEIGH BALLAD: % &&le OF THREATENED WOE AND MERCIFUL DELIVERANCE; ifront tfje tffljvonirlss of Che Year of ©ut* ?i o v \"D , MOCCCXLV. PLYMOUTH : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY E. NETTLETON, PsllNTER TO HER MAJESTY, VVHIMPLJ- STREET.", "Cfte JSumdg!) 10 No one was near : no boat in view ; While Allan madly sought Along the beach, for means to right The mischief he had wrought. Now rose the mother's clam rous woe ; Now show'd each father's eye The effort at availing thought In silent agony ! And o'er the waters flew, at length, The boats with oar or sail ; East, West, and South, did earnest men Obey, or face the gale.", "%4 gelk" ]

[ "ADVERTISEMENT. The controversy in regard to Jephthah's sacrifice has been extended to a considerable length; and like all other controversies is still undetermined — there can, however, be but little doubt that, for all poetical purposes, it is far more sublime to consider that Jephthah offered his daugh ter as a living victim on the altar, than that he devoted her to perpetual virginity. The Seatonian Prize for the present year was adjudged to the following lines. Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, October 25. ihi_.", "19 JEPHTHAH. Chance-sown on other trees which seems to shoot Boughs without leaves, a stem without a root. 390 'Twere hard to tell whose grave that ivy twines, Who long-forgotten in that waste reclines ; Yet as the Pilgrim's march at evening time Skirts the gray walls of fallen Rogelim ; And towering high, and mantled by the skies The giant cliffs of eastward Hermon rise ; Drinking with sun empurpled crest of snows, The last bright beam autumnal twilight throws, The turban'd guide will hasten on his way, As loth in that deserted spot to stay ; 400 . And through the windings of Lodebar's dell Urge the swift tinklings of his camel-bell. Oft his unconscious pause, and the quick ear Which listens for those sounds it would not hear, And busy eye, and half averted head, Show one who struggles with some hidden dread ; Then will he whisper, but in broken tone, And looks with meaning fraught; and round lum thrown, A tale, so sad, so dark, of times so old, 'Twere better left forgotten, or untold. 410", "27 NOTES 364. / would not view that anguished look he seals With his clencKd hands, for more than earth conceals. \" The Argive's mute and silent Poesie\" is too cele brated to be forgotten here. The sculptor was probably indebted to Euripides for his exquisite thought. coc 8* screi.EV Ayajj.efj.vcov avaf Etti *T<Qa.yuKoe e;eiyo\\)<rav srj aXeroc xap-qv, A_-os\"eva^E, exa'jATraXiv fpe-^/a; xapa Aaxgva ■Kpe)t_yev, o^ftoarcav TreirXov irpoQei;. lip. ev AuX. 1550. 367- The tomb of Jephthah is laid down, in many maps of Palestine, in a deserted spot between Rogelim and Lodebar. THE END. London : 1'rintcH by W. Biilmer and Cu. Cleveland-row, St. James's." ]

[ "49 B Os Bethia Hardacre IX. THIS morning I seem wholly idealess. I will write, of course, for I have determined daily to do so, but what to write is a problem hard of solution. No notions present themselves, and the fact that the fire will not burn seems to overpower all other realities. I have sometimes diverted myself by making my mind as blank and passive as possible, and then waiting to discover what vagrant fancies wouid flitter within the reflecting mirror's vista. I will follow this plan at present and see what I shall see, as the children say. The first phantasm that presents itself is that of the Lady of Shalott — the word mirror, I imagine, the avenue by which the image floated to my thoughts — \" Four grey walls and four grey towers Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle embowers The Lady of Shalott.\"", "91 Of Bethia Hardacre starry, chaplet, garland, and be-diamonded, which last word Mr. Stevenson sets on a page of his Underwoods to the beautifying of that page, in my opinion. Em blazoned gives pompous magnificence to a line of print, I think ; and Milton's \" flowery kirtled \" pale delicacy. Ivory pleases me printed, and so do jacinth, and ebony, and coronation, which last wins also esteem, I take it, from its flower significance — Carnations being the descendants of Elizabethan Coronations. Pomander I consider to be a most decorative word, and in the same category I set Provence and corridor, madrigal and lute, lyre and constellation. As words of a bedizening character I see incense, arras, and peacock, dais, damask, damascene, flambeau, and flamboyant. Context is not needed. The paper scroll is bedecked, with no aid but the word's own, with the colour and pomp of a mediæval pageant or Indian ceremony of State. These are but a few that at the moment occur to me out of an abundant stock, the sight of which, set on paper, adorn and give it brilliancy and sparkle in my eyes. Other words look frightful to me, or over poweringly dead-alive. Crate, adult, warehouse, and cautious are among these. They are all of very plain appearance, and in keeping with rep-covered furniture, oil-cloth, and Mrs. Goodall.", "122 Pages from the Day-Book we were going to have heavy rain, and the half penny omnibus (which of course is a terrible rattle trap) would take him half the way home. The dear courteous old thing answered that he would not think of incommoding me by overcrowding, and he was off and away under his umbrella before I could say any more. I should not like him to think that I was unconscious of his considerate kindness. Nothing is more shocking than ingratitude.\" \" My uncle is not at home at present,\" I said. I knew that Clara's final sentence tacitly demanded an opportunity for a directly verbal expression of her thanks. \" That is unfortunate,\" Clara replied ; \" for it is by no means easy for me to escape from our own visitors on Sunday afternoon. I told Mamma, however, that she really must let me slip out for once ; for courtesy should be met with courtesy, I always say ; and it seems to me so true that it is the modern women who are to blame for the decadence of chivalry. Men are what we make them, of course. ' You must manage to talk to the gentlemen who call yourself, Mamma, for this once,' I said, 'and if any one ver)r clever comes, you can say I shall be back immediately.' \" Just at that moment the door was thrown open and" ]

[ "EDINA 50 Their greeting to Mrs. St. Clare over, Frank found a seat for Edina, and stood back himself in a corner, behind a remote door. How terribly this scene of worldly excite ment contrasted with the one enacted so short a time ago ! He was living it, perforce, over again ; going through its short-lived action, that had aU been over iu one or two fatal moments : this, before him, seemed as a dream. The gaily-robed women sweeping past him with light laughter ; the gleam of jewels ; the pomp and pageantry : aU seemed but the shifting scenes of a panorama. Frank could have groaned aloud at the bitter mockery : here Use, gay, heed less, joyous : there Death ; death violent and sudden. Never before, throughout his days, had the solemn responsibilities of this world and of the next so painfully pressed themselves upon him in all their dread reality. \" Oh, Mr. Raynor ! I thought you were not coining ! Have you been here long ? \" The emotional words came from a fair girl in a cloud of white — Daisy St. Clare. Frank's hand went forward to meet the one held out to bim : but never a smile crossed his face. \" How long have you been here, Mr. Raynor ? \" \" How long ? I am not sure. HaU-an-hour, I think.\" \" Have you been dancing ? \" \" Oh no. I have been standing here.\" \"To hide yourseU? I really should not have seen you but that I am looking everywhere for Lydia's card, which she has lost.\" He did not answer : his head was throbbing, his heart beating. Daisy thought him very silent. \"I have had my dance with Sir Paul Trellasis,\" said Daisy, toying with her own card, a blush on her face, and her eyes cast down. At any other moment Frank would have read the signs, and taken the hint : she was ready to dance with him. But he never asked her : he did not take the gUded leaves and pencil into his own hands and write down his name as many times as he pleased. He simply stood still, gazing out with vacant eyes and a sad look on his face. Daisy at length glanced up at him.", "LOOKING OUT FOR EDINA 175 As the fly that brought the major and his son from tbe nearest station rattled up, Mr. Street appeared at the hall door : a little man in spectacles, with cold light eyes and very scanty hair. \" I am glad you have come, Major Raynor.\" \" And I'm sure I'm glad to see that you have,\" returned the major, cordially holding out his hand. \" I might have found myself in a fog without you. I had your letter this morning.\" \"We received news of Mrs. Atkinson's death yesterday afternoon ; her coachman was sent up with tho tidings, and I wrote to you at once,\" observed Mr. Street. \" As you are sole inheritor, excepting a few trifling legacies, and also executor, I thought it well, as I stated in my letter, that you should be here.\" \" Just so,\" said the major. \" When did you arrive your self?\" \" I came down this morning.\" \" And I and Charley started off in a hurry to catch the ten-o'clock train — and I came away in my wrong boots — and Charley has been laughing at me. You don't know him, Street — my eldest son and heir. Charley, come here, sir, and be introduced to Mr. Street.\" Charles Rayner had been looking out from the open window. He had never seen so pretty a place before as this one, lying under the June sunshine. Hay was being made here, just as it had been in Somerset : and the sweet smell came wafted to him on the summer breeze. The lawns were beautifully kept, the flowers were perfect ; shrubs clustered around, trees waved above. In the distance was stretched out a beautiful landscape, than which nothing could be more charming. Close by, curled the blue smoke from the little village of Grassmere, hidden by trees from the view of Eagles' Nest. Surely in this spot man could find all that his heart desired ! Charley sighed as he turned to the call : the lad had a strong love for the beauties of nature. \" Had this been left to others instead of to ourselves, how I should envy them, now that I have seen it ! \" said Charles", "A SUBTLE ENEMY. 209 no other opportunity. Yes : at any rate he would make the attempt. Turning somewhat abruptly from the clerk's wife, in the very middle of a sentence, Frank made a detour on the out skirts of the crowd, and strode rapidly away over the Bare Plain. Rosaline was sitting just in the same position, her head bowed, her hands raised. His footsteps aroused her. Respecting her grief as he had never respected any grief yet, feeling for her (and for many other things connected with the trouble) from the bottom of his heart, uncertain and fearful of what the ultimate end would be, Frank took her hand in silence. She gazed up at him yearningly, almost as though she did not at once recognize him, a pitiful expression on her face. For a short time he did not speak a word. But that which he had come to say must be said, and without delay : for already the ceremony had termi nated, and the procession of mourners, with the attendant crowd, might be seen slowly advancing towards them across the Bare Plain. \" It has almost killed me,\" moaned Rosaline. \" I should be thankful that he is found, but for the fear of what may foUow : thankful that he has had Christian burial. But there can be no more safety now. There was not very much before.\" \" Nay,\" spoke Frank. \" I think it is just the contrary. Whilst the affair lay in uncertainty, it might be stirred up at any moment : now it will be at rest.\" \" Never,\" he answered. \" Never so long as Blase Pellet lives. He has brought this much about ; and he may bring more. Oh, if we could only escape from him ! \" Frank, stiU holding her hand, in his deep compassion, spoke to her quietly and kindly for a few moments. She seemed to listen as one who hears not, as one whom words cannot reach or soothe ; her eyes were fixed on the ground, her other hand hung listless by her side. But now the first faint hum of the approaching crowd struck upon her half dulled ear ; she raised her eyes and saw for the first time what caused it. First in the line walked her mother and aunt, their black robes and hoods lighted up by the setting Edina. 14" ]

[ "LA CHAPELLE SAINT-JULIEN-DES-MÉNESTRIERS ET LES MÉNESTRELS A PARIS", "LES MÉNESTRELS. 34 trier plus habile qui lui offrait de véritables concerts ambu lants '. Aussi, jongleurs et ménestreux pullulaient-ils dans le pays; à Paris surtout, où ils trouvaient un aliment lucratif à Texercice de leur mestier, ils formaient une classe bien distincte. A cette époque où chaque caste de la société avait à se retrancher der rière ses immunités, la Ménestrandie, formant un corps nom breux, ayant, par sa nature même qui prêtait à de nombreux abus, besoin plus que tout autre de sauvegarder, par une régle mentation sévère, l'intérêt commun, ne devait pas rester long temps sans pourvoir à son organisation et sans demander à la sanction royale Tobtention de ses privilèges. Déjà, vers le milieu du xme siècle, les jongleurs étaient en possession du droit de passer le Petit-Pont sans être soumis au péage. Voici le texte complet de Tordonnance : « Li singes au marchant, doit iiij deniers fe il pour vendre le porte, & fe li singes est à home qui Tait acheté pour son déduit, si es quites, & fe li singe est au ioueur, iouer en doit devant le paagier & pour son jeu doit être quites de toute la chose qu'il achète pour son usage, & ausi tôt, li jougleur sunt quite por jover de chançon. » Le proverbe payer en monnaie de singe vient de cette immu nité accordée aux bateleurs. Le Petit-Pont, qui, alors comme aujourd'hui, reliait Tìle Notre-Dame à la rue Saint- Jacques, était souvent endommagé i.'« ... C'est encore après midi que, dans la rue des Ménestriers, commencent des concerts d'Instrumens hauts & bas qui ne finissent qu'à la nuit. » (A. Monteil Histoire des Français des divers états aux cinq derniers siècles. Paris. 1827, 10 vol. in-8° t. I p. 23, XIVe siècle.) ,", "LES MÉNESTRELS. 72 cinq livres pour les fils ou gendres de maîtres, dans les grandes villes appelées par les statuts villes majeures, et déclarées être au nombre de quarante ; pour les villes non majeures le prix est de moitié. Après avoir pourvu aux détails d'administration, de compta bilité, et avoir bien déterminé le rôle de chacun, Guignon ter mine ce règlement par une disposition généreuse : « Afin d'attirer la bénédiction du ciel fur la Communauté, & remplir les intentions des anciens Ménestriers, fondateurs de la chapelle & hôpital de Saint- Julien, il fera préalablement réservé, sur le prix de chaque réception à la maîtrise, une somme qui sera distribuée aux maîtres pauvres, hors d'état d'exercer, soit par vieilleste, soit par infirmité, ainsi qu'aux pauvres veuves de maîtres...; & supposant que les besoins actuels des pauvres maîtres & veuves de maîtres n'absorbassent pas la masse des dites sommes, réservées pour leur soulagement, le reste sera employé à rétablir Tancien hôpital de Saint-Julien-des-Ménes triers, & à le garnir de lits & ustensiles nécessaires aux malades & infirmes qui y seront reçus, & toujours aux choix & par déli bération de la Communauté. » Ces nouveaux statuts furent homologués par lettres patentes du roi, datées du mois de juillet 1747. Pour juger à quel point ils étaient inexécutables, il faut se rappeler Tétat de Tart musical en France à cette époque : les concerts spirituels avaient été fondés en 1725; depuis nombre d'années, les instrumentistes étrangers affluaient à Paris. En France, les Baptiste Anet, Guil lemain, Leclerc, Dauvergne, Gaviniés, Dupont, sur le violon; Berteau et Jean Barrière sur le violoncelle, commençaient une" ]

[ "CONTENTS. IX PAGE CHAPTER XIII. The Ten Tribes have not been removed from Assyria — Historical Proof— Various Circumstantial Evidence — Inference from the Prophetical Writings 141 CHAPTER XIV. Their Language — The same as that spoken by tbe Jews in their Region— Evidence derived from it that they came from Palestine or Syria — That they are Descendants of Israel, and not of Judah 153 CHAPTER XV. Names applied to the Nestorian Christians — Proof derived of their Hebrew Origin — Beni Israel— Nazareans — Syrians — Chaldeans — Nestorians not appropriate— Why used .... 164 CHAPTER XVI. Observance of the Mosaic Ritual — Sacrifices — Vows — First-Fruits and Tithes — Keeping the Sabbath— Regard for the Sanctuary- Forbidden Food— Ceremonial Impurities — Separation of Women 176 CHAPTER XVII. Physiognomy— Names — Tribes — Government — Avenger of Blood — Cities of Refuge — Sentiments regarding 'the Jews — Various Proofs that they are a distinct People or an unmixed Race . 192 CHAPTER XVIII. Social and Domestic Customs— Forms of Salutation— Hospitality — Regard for the Poor — Entertainments — Dress — Ornaments — Espousals — Marriage — Children— Their Occupations — The same as those of the Ancient Israelites ...... 207 CHAPTER XIX. The Conversion of the Ten Tribes to Christianity . . .221 CHAPTER XX. Scriptural Proof of their Conversion— Speech of Paul— Epistle of James 231", "CHAP. XIV.] 153 THEIR LANGUAGE. CHAPTER XIV. Their Language — The same as that spoken by the Jews in their Region — Evidence derived from it that they came from Palestine or Syria — That they are Descendants of Israel, and not of Judah. I have already remarked that a small portion of the descendants of the ten tribes, by a special Providence, appeared to have been reserved, unconverted from Judaism, as Avitnesses to the identity of their converted brethren. We have heard their direct testimony that the Nestorians have a common ancestry with them selves. They have also a common language. Not that the Nestorians speak a dialect of the HebreAV ; for they do not. The Jews living in the places to Avhich the ten tribes Avere transplanted, speak a different lan guage from their brethren in other parts of the world. It is a dialect of the Syriac, Avhich indicates for them a different ancestry. This is also the language spoken by the Nestorians. They are radically the same. The Nestorians themselves testify to this, and say there is little or no more difference between the language of their Jewish neighbours and their own, than there is between the several dialects spoken among themselves. Of this I am satisfied, after extensive observation in all parts of their country. I have seen Nestorians from Oo roomiah converse with Jews at Amadieh, Avithout know ing from their language that they were Jews ; and I can now converse with the Jews of Ooroomiah in their own", "[part II. 204 THE LOST TRIBES. their churches to which the Nestorians have a great abhorrence, they are considered by the latter little better than idolaters. Consequently they form no alliances, or, if they occur at all, they are certainly extremely rare ; as much so, at least, as foreign mar riages were among the ancient Hebrews. In every case that has come to my knowledge where Armenians have asked for Nestorian females, the high ecclesiastics have peremptorily forbidden the purposed connexion. The following extract from the journal of Mr. Stock ing, of this mission, presents a case in point : \" A petition was brought to the bishop from one of the principal Armenians residing in the village, requesting his permission that a Nestorian girl of that village might be united in marriage to his son. The bishop gave a decided answer in the negative. He said the same request had been made to him in the city, with an offer of a sum of money ; but that he had refused the application, telling the man who brought it that the money and its owner might perish together, that he would never consent to his people becoming Ar menians.\" The Jews also testify that the Nestorians are as careful as themselves not to form alliances with others. The various general traits in their character which tend to prevent an amalgamation with the people around them, are circumstances upon which I need not dwell, except as they are in part incidentally de veloped in their peculiar rites and customs. It is sufficient in this connexion to say, in general terms," ]

[ "53 STREET AND AVENUE. other, and they have an excellent method of number ing them, so as to enable any one to find the place he wants, however ignorant of the localities he may be. Tavo different names are given to the streets ; viz. street and avenue. The avenues run from north to south, and the streets from east to west. The avenues are counted from east to .vest, and the streets from south to north. To take a familiar example from home; suppose the Strand in London was called First Street, Oxford Street and Holborn Tenth Street, and the New Road Twentieth Street ; and that Chancery Lane .vas the First Avenue, Regent Street the Tenth, and Bond Street the Twen tieth. Then, if a person .vere directed to \" the Tenth Street, comer of Tenth AA'enue,\" he could hardly fail of finding the place he Avanted, as the names both of streets and avenues are written up at the inter sections. Some little stir Avas produced here shortly after my arrival by an announcement that the Sheriff of Massachusetts had sent over a demand to the Governor for the arrest and delivery of some fifty or sixty of the spectators at the late prize-fight, as fugitives from justice. It seems that some of the youth of this city belonging to the Avealthier classes had resolved to tom-and-jerry it upon the occasion. But justice in this part of the Avorld is a stern and blindfolded dame ; aye, blindfolded with a bandage that does not permit her to leer out of the corners of her eyes at lords and fine gentlemen. The newspapers tell the delinquents that they will probably have to spend a night or two upon the cold stone floor of the prison,", "99 COTTON PLANTATION. round, would be 92,000 dollars, and 162,000 would be the cost of the estate ancl culti A'ators together. Add for stock, tools, and miscellaneous articles, 9,000. Total 171,000. The interest upon this sum at 7 per cent., the usual rate of interest here, would be 11,970 dollars. Besides, there is the keep of each slaA'e, at the cost of 60 dollars for each, or 11,040 dollars per annum, being a total of 23,010 — say 23,000 dollars annual expense. Now the profit Avould be 1840 bales of cotton at the rate of a bale per acre, weighing each from 4001bs. to 4501bs., and Avorth 40 dollars, total 73,600 dollars. There must, however, be some additional expenses, such as insur ance on the lives of the slaves, bagging, rope, medical attendance, &c, Avhich it is impossible exactly to estimate ; add for these 7000 dollars, and a. e have a total annual expense of 30,000 dollars. We must now deduct from 73,600 dollars, the gross profit, the expense of bringing the article to market, which will, of course, depend a great deal upon the situation of the estate. If we deduct from the price of each bale (40 dollars) one-fourth for this, or a total of 18,400 dollars from the 73,600 dollars, there remains 55,200 dollars. Deduct, again, the expenses of cultiA*ation and interest on capital (30,000 dollars), and Ave have still a surplus of 25,200 dollars. It is, however, only on the rich lands bordering the Mississippi, that a product so great as a bale per acre is to be obtained. In the up lands of Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas, not above half and from that to three-fourths of a bale are to be reckoned upon. For further details upon this subject I would refer h 2", "114 THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. after a voyage of forty hours, is pleasantly situated upon a hill of these marly strata, 50 feet or more above the level of the river. The streets are well laid out, at right angles to each other, as in most American towns, but as the roadway is neither paved nor macadamized, and the Aveather happened to be wet when I was there, it was a perfect quagmire, through which beasts of every kind struggled as they could. The Capitol is well situated on an eminence, and, as the Legislature was sitting, I went to have a look at them. I entered a large circular chamber, below a dome, where a number of members were sitting at desks with pens, ink, and paper before them. These desks are arranged in circular lines, as seats in a theatre are, the \" Chair\" occupying the spot that in the theatre would be the centre front of the stage. This form appears to be general in the American Houses of Legislature, and naturally so, for it is well known that this is the form of building Avhich enables the greatest numbers of per sons to hear, and to be heard with ease. Strange to say, the example has not been followed in England, though, at the time of rebuilding the new Houses of Parliament, an opportunity was afforded of making a change in the shape of the chambers. From the Capitol the view extends over a thick forest as far as the eye can reach. The State of Ala bama is but thinly inhabited, the number of inhabitants to a square mile not being above fifteen, by the last Census of 1850. The beds of red and variegated marl here are said to belong to the eocene formation." ]

[ "8 II. ORIGINE ET ANTIQUITÉ DE SAINT-JEAN-DE-BRAYE. Ce que nous venons de dire montre assez quelle est l'an liquité de Saint-Jean-de-Braye, puisque les pays qui portent ce nom de Braye, en France, datent ordinairement d'une époque qui précède l'invasion romaine. A l'appui de cette assertion, nous pourrions encore rap peler un usage qui appartient évidemment aux cérémonies des anciens peuples de la Gaule. Tout le monde sait qu'au retour d'une nouvelle année, les Druides allaient solennellement et en chantant cueillir le gui avec une cerpe d'or. De nos jours encore, la veille du jour de l'an, on a vu les jeunes gens parcourir le village en répétant le chant des Druides. Gui l'an neuf. Or, cet usage date évidemment de l'époque druidique, et vient à l'appui de ce que nous avons dit de la haute antiquité de Saint-Jean de-Braye. Mais nous n'insistons pas sur ce point, pas plus que sur le séjour des Romains dans ce pays. Nous rappellerons seu lement que la voie romaine d'Orléans à Autun passe à Saint- Jean-de-Braye. L'année dernière, en creusant dans l'ancien cimetière, près de l'église, on a trouvé des médailles d'argent et de bronze, et des restes de sépulture que l'on fait remonter à l'époque gallo-romaine. Probablement les Romains ont", "50 nouilly rappellent Texistence d'autres monuments , que le temps et les révolutions ont détruits, mais sans pouvoir an néantir les touchantes traditions qui s'y rattachent. On voit encore , au lieu dit la Croix-de-Pierre, une petite croix en relief sur la porte d'une maison. Ce n'est qu'un souvenir de la croix monumentale qui existait autrefois, et qu'une famille chrétienne se propose de rétablir. Sur le pont de Bionne, reste également un piédestal en pierre d'une belle croix, qui fut bénite avec beaucoup de so lennité, il y a cent cinquante-cinq ans. Le dimanche de la Septuagésime, 5 février 1708, tous les habitants réunis à Téglise s'en allèrent en procession jusqu'au pont de Bionne, à plus de deux kilomètres, croix et bannière en tête, sous la conduite de leur vénérable curé, M. Jean Lecointe (1), chan tant les hymnes et cantiques sacrés. Cette croix avait été donnée par une personne qui n'a voulu être connue que de Dieu seul ; la lettre anonyme adressée à la fabrique, à cette occasion, fut mise dans le trésor avec les papiers de la terre de Taumône de Bionne (2). La révolution de 1795 avait res pecté ce pieux monument. II fut détruit plus tard par les soldats de Tarmée de Mayence, qui passèrent sur le pont de Bionne, en allant faire la guerre dans la Vendée. Cette cérémonie fut suivie d'une fête plus solennelle encore. Quatre ans plus tard, en 1712, Mgr Louis Fleuriau Gaston d'Armenonville , sur Tinvitation des habitants, se rendit à Saint-Jean-de-Braye pour bénir la grosse cloche. Le parrain était messire Joseph Laisné de Sainte-Marie, écuyer, conseiller du roi, trésorier de France au bureau des (1) M. Lecointe fut curé de la paroisse pendant 35 ans et y mourut. (2) Ces mots terre de Taumône de Bionne supposent qu'il y avait une terre dont le revenu était destiné à soulager les pauvres.", "69 miste de la Société d'Agriculture , les Miron de Saint- Germain, les Bignon, les marquis de Gallifet, les Désnrmaux, les de Louville, les de Vandebergue, les de Courchanesse, les Pothier, ancien curé de Saint-Jean-de-Braye, puis chanoine d'Orléans et parrain de Tillustre jurisconsulte de ce nom , les Bongars , les de Loynes d'Auteroche de Charbonnières , les de Sablonnières, les Rousseau de Grand-Maison et les Petau. Cette dernière famille occupa plusieurs maisons à Saint- Jean-de-Braye , et on sait assez que ce nom rappelle une des plus grandes gloires de TEglise. Le célèbre Père Petau, en effet, n'était pas seulement remarquable dans les sciences ecclésiastiques , mais encore dans l'histoire , et ce n'est pas un de ses moindres mérites d'avoir fait le livre qui servit à Bossuet pour composer son chef-d'œuvre, le Discours sur l'histoire universelle. Terminons cette série de noms distingués par quelques détails sur le chevalier de Louville, qui vivait à la fin du xvne siècle, et au commencement du xvmc dans ce château de Carré, déjà célèbre par les résidences de plusieurs hommes illustres, tels que les Pajon et les Papin, et qui devait encore recevoir un nouvel honneur par celle de ce savant astronome. Jacques-Eugène d'AUonville, chevalier de Louville, né au château d'AIlonville, en 1671, vint en 1714 à Saint-Jean-de Braye, habiter la maison de Carré où il établit son observa- toire. II était le frère du marquis de Louville, cet ami de Fénelon qui fut chargé de conduire le petit fils de Louis XIV sur le trône d'Espagne. Dès son enfance , il annonçait beaucoup d'aptitude et de goût pour Tétude des mathématiques. A 12 ans, il avait lu seul et compris d'un bout à l'autre, sans difficulté, les élé ments d'Euclide. Mais bientôt distrait de cette étude par la carrière des armes qu'il suivit jusqu'à l'époque où il vint à Saint-Jean-de-Braye après avoir assisté, en 1690, à la bataille" ]

[ "Sir Gyles GeofecAppi. 'go .1 hats foothCsptain.but do you hear honeft fri5d> pray take a light, and fee if the moone fhine, I haue a Siinncdiall will refolue prcfcntly. Fo. Howfoeuer belieue it Ladies.tisvnwholefome, vn courtliejvnpleafanttoeatehadclic&rifefodainly.ama can (hew no difcourfe,no witt, no ftirring, no varietie, noprettie conceits, to make the meate goe down En. Winnefred. (emphatica!y> Win. Midam. En. Iprethiegoeto my vnkle the Lord Momford ,and Intfeat himtocome-quicken our eares with fome of his Spirit; This fame Yo-^leweather has made me fo mclanchollie, prethie make hade. Win, I will madam. Exit. Hip* We will-bid ourgueds-goodnigbtmadam, this fa me Fowleweather makes me fo fleepie^ Pen. Fie vppon it, forGods fake fluit the Cafements, hercs fuch a fulfome aire comes into this chamber; in good faith madame you muft kcepe your houfe in bet ter reparations,this fame Vowlweathcr beats in fo filthily. Eug. He take order with the Porter for it Ladie, good •night gentlemen. l\\K.VVhy good night & be hagd,&yeulReedsbegon. Goof. God giue you good night madams,thankeyou for my good cheere, weele tickle the vanitie ant, no longer with you at this time, but ile indite your La: to fupper at my lodging one of thefe mornings; and that ere long too, becaufe we arc ail mortall you know, Eu. Light the Ladie P 'cnelope, and the Ladie Hippohtata their chambers, good night faire Ladies. Hip, Good night madam, I wid) you may fieepe well after your light fupper. Eug. I warrant you Ladie I fnailneucr be troubled with dreaming of my Freeh Surer. Exeunt R-u. Why how now my frechificd captain Fowlweather} by gods ludd thy Surname is neuer thought vpo here, I perceiuc heercs no bodie giues thee any comendations, Fo, Why this is the vntrauaild rudnes of our grofe Eng« B liife", "Sir Gyles Goofecappe. heloueshimfelfe. la. Of what degree wood you haue your Foolc Sir, for you may haue of all mantrof degrets. Foul* Faith I wood haue turn a good Emphaticall foole , one that wood make my Lorde laugh we'll, and I cardehot, Wdl Laugh well f vm ) then wee muft know this Sir, is your Lorde Coftiue of laughter, or laxatiue of laugh ter? Foul. Nay he is good merrie little Lordc, and indeed fomething Laxatiue of Laughter. Will. Why then Sir the lefle wittwillferue hisLord fhips turne, marric if he had bin Coftiue of laughter, hee muft haue had twO or three drams of witt the more in his f oole, for we mud minifter according to the qua lity of his L rd: humor you know, and if he flood haue as much Witt in his foole being Laxatiue of laughter, as if hee were Coftiue of Laughter, why he might laugh himfele into an Epilepfie,&t\\a\\ fall down dead fodainly,as many haue done with the e. tremitie of that paffion;and I know your Lord cares for nothing, but the health of a foole. Foul. Thart ith right iny notable good page. la. Why, and for that health Sir we will wirranthis Lordfhip, thatif he fhould haue all Bacon de fanita'.e tuen * da reade to him, it (hood not pleafe his Lordihip fo well _\\_ i rL_.ii ■ as our foole fhall. Houl. Rcmercy my more then Englifh pages. goof. Amy word I haue not feene pages haue fo much witts that haue neuer bin in Fraunce Captain. Foul. Tis true indeed Sir gyles, well thenmyalmoft french Elixers. will you hcfpe my Lord to a foole, fo fitt for him as you fay. Will As fitt, He warratyou Captain.asifhe were made for him, and hee (hall come this night to fupper, and foole where his Lord.-fits at table. F<w/,Excellent fitt, faile not now my fweet pages. ' la. Not", "Sirgiiet goofecappe. Goofitydd pages.youle not cheates o/our foole wil yef la. Why fir £«i.r,hee.s t_»o dogged and bitter for you in truth, we (hall bring you a foole to make you laugh.and he (hall make all the world laugh at vs. Will. I indeed fir Giles,and he knowesyou fo wel too Giles Knowe rue / dight heknowes mc no more then the begger knowes his ddh. fa.f aith he begs you to becontentfirC_/«,for he wil not come. Goof. Begg me. dight I wood I had knowne rhat, to tberdaie,! thought! had met him in Paulej,& he had bynaniebodychebutapillcr, 1 wood hauc runae him through by heauen, beg me? Foul* He beggesyou to be content fir Giles, that is, hepraiesyou. Goof. O does he praife me.then I commend him. Fur. Letthis vnfutable foole goe tirgiks, we will make (lift without him. Goof. That we wil a my word my Lord,and hauc him too for all this. Wtl. Doe not you fay fo fir Gtlesi for to tell you true that foole is dead. Goof. Dead?Slightthatc*nnot be man, 1 knowe he wood ha writ to me ont had byn fo. Fur. Quick or dead let him goe fir Giles. la. I my Lord.for we hauc better newes foryon to harken after. Fur. what are they my good Nouations? la. My Lord Momford intreates your Lorfhip and thefe knights and captaine to accompany the coun teffe Eugenia and the other two Ladies at his houfe at dipper to night. Wil, All defiringyour Lo:to pardon them,for not eating your meat to night. Fur. V Vithall my hart wagges, and theirs amends; my harcs.nowfetyourcourtduppea'thelaft, a'thcrain ters,acd pcickc vp your felaes for the Ladies. Goofe, O" ]

[ "FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES. 265 forces intended for the re-invasion of Texas. A few bat talions of undisciplined, mutinous troops, without supplies or munitions, were collected at this point, where they remained, the government being unable to furnish them with the means of taking the field. After vainly attempting to organize these expeditionary troops Bravo resigned in disgust, convinced of the inability of the supreme authority to fulfill its vindictive threats against the rebellious heretics, who relying upon their rifles and the justice of their cause had already conquered the elite of the Mexican veterans. The proposed campaign was therefore indefinitely postponed; Bustamente and his rivals using the Texas difficulties as a stalking-horse, whereon they paraded, whenever they wished to conceal their own misdeeds from the public eye, or to raise supplies for other purposes. The administration soon became exceedingly unpopular, monopo lies and prohibitory imposts injured the manufacturing and commercial interests, and the oppressive exactions of the im poverished government bore heavily upon all classes. A financial crisis was at hand, which threatened to ruin the country ; the famous mines of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Durango and the department of Mexico had been long declining, and now scarcely produced thirteen millions per annum.* Foreign nations were clamorous for the payment of indemnities long since due, and their demands served to increase the general discontent which hung like a cloud over the land. The affairs of Mexico were in this miserable condition, when the French fleet under Admiral Baudin appeared before Vera Cruz, bearing a demand for immediate satisfaction for injuries received and claims unsettled. The Mexican of- * The proceeds of the principal mines* were as follows. Zacatecas $5,028,655. Guanajuato $3,476,820. Mexico $2,004,988. Du rango $876,287. Guadalaxara $908,052. Chihuahua $568,056. Total amount $13,979,714. In 1803, these same mines yielded $23,000,000. One of gold, and twenty-two silver. •The mines ofOaxaca belong to an English company, they yield six percent", "TRACHERY OF CANALES. 274 were allowed to advance unmolested into the interior ; their reception, however, was neither enthusiastic nor brilliant ; the inhabitants did not oppose them, nor did they welcome them as the champions of their much coveted liberty. The occupation of Coahuila, by a revolutionary force of Texans and Federalists, soon excited the attention of the central go vernment, and in the spring of 1840, General Mariano Arista was sent against them with a strong division of regular troops. As the enemy advanced, the Texans discovered that they must depend upon their own valor to extricate themselves from the danger which menaced them, the jealousy of their Mexican allies, exhibited in a thousand ways, pre venting that unity of sentiment and mutual confidence essen tial for the safety of both. In the month of April, the hostile armies came in col lision; the combined forces were defeated, and Canales was compelled to retreat. That general, who exceeded any of his countrymen in perfidy, basely deserted his party at this crisis, and left the Texans under Jordan to make their way through a hostile territory back to San Antonio de Bexar. — By the defection of Canales, the new born republic was stifled at its birth. In the meantime the administration of Bustamente was producing its anticipated results ; it was becoming more unpopular every day, and the hoarse clamor of an approach ing revolution was again heard echoing among the mountains of Mexico. Pronunciamentos, insurrections, and popular tumults occurred in Yucatan, the departments upon the Pacific, at Santa Fe, and in the capital, indicating the pre vailing discontent. Santa Anna carefully avoided showing himself openly in these movements, but remained in strict seclusion, biding the time, which he felt was not far off, when he should again have the satisfaction of driving his rival into reputeless banishment.", "446 BATTLE FIELD OF BUENA VISTA. causes.* At noon on the following day he left Encarnacion and encamped that night at the pass of Carnero, a short distance from Taylor's lines. The latter having learned from the Texan spies, under Major McCulloch, that the former was approaching, broke up his camp at Agua Nueva on the evening of the 21st, and fell back to the pass of Angostura, a distance of twelve miles, and took a position in a narrow defile, directly in front of the hacienda of San Juan de Buena Vista. The place had been previously examined by General Wool, and the commander-in-chief selected it as possessing the best advantages for fighting a force so immensely superior. On either side of the valley, which was so contracted in some places that a single wagon could scarcely pass through it, arose steep and rugged hills ; on the right of the road a number of deep gullies extended back to some distance. On the left, a succession of broken ridges and precipitous ravines ran back toward the mountain ; a ditch also covered the road on the left. Having assumed a position here, General Taylor proceeded to Saltillo, on the same evening, to prepare for its defence, leaving General Wool in command at Angostura. About eleven o'clock, on the morning of the 22d of February, the enemy's advance, consisting of all his cavalry, commanded by Santa Anna in person, came in sight of the American lines. The forces drawn up to receive them were but four thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine, rank and file, four thousand of whom were vol unteers. The position occupied by the different corps, was as follows : Captain Washington's battery, (4th Artillery,) was posted to command the road, while the 1st and 2d Illinois regiments, under colonels Hardin and Bissell, each eight companies, (to the latter of which w^as attached Captain Connor's company of Texas volunteers,) and the * Santa Anna's Dispatch, February 27th, 1847." ]

[ "10 PIG PHILOSOPHY. sponding emotional capabilities. His whole nature requires satisfaction and seeks development, and in complete satisfac tion and development finds its welfare ; by which I mean, its fullest and most permanent happiness. But he cannot help knowing that other men, of like nature, make a similar de mand, and towards their demand he is compelled to assume a definite attitude. He feels, of course, that it does to a certain extent set bounds to this gratification and his own desires ; but on the other hand he feels, more or less vaguely, that the fulfilment of these desires can never be completed unless it is shared by others. Reason, the principle-forming faculty, can alone decide upon the attitude which should be assumed ; that is, which it would be rational to assume. It by no means follows that Reason will prevail ; but it, at least, utters its protest. The rational view, expressed, of course, far more clearly and distinctly than it usually expresses itself in the average conscience, is somewhat as follows : — The nature of the human beings around me is fundament ally the same as mine. Their needs are the same, their demands are the same. My attitude towards this common nature and towards its welfare, ought in reason to be identical with my attitude towards my own nature and welfare. I ought to feel towards humanity in them as I feel towards humanity in myself ; I ought to do to them as I would wish them to do to me. For if my desire of self-fulfilment is ac cording to reason, so also are their desires of self-fulfilment. In those respects in which we are identical, we deserve to be treated identically. I should, as far as possible, treat my neighbour as myself, though I may not be able to love him as myself. My neighbours, of course, must treat me and each other according to the same principle. Failing in this, they have sinned against the law of reason and of our common nature. This conception appears, under more or less comprehensive forms, in the moral teaching of all ages. What for Moses and Plato took the form of tribal and civil duty, appeared to Christ and to Confucius as duty towards the whole of", "64 GEOLOGY OF THE BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT. floor, gradually melting as they floated southward, and letting fall the stones which had been frozen into their mass. This may account for some of the phenomena observed, but it can not be shown that icebergs ever grind continuously along the ocean bed so as to produce regular striations. The Glacier theory was first formulated by Agassiz. A Swiss glacier moves downwards with a steady river-like motion, descending from the snow-line to a certain distance in the valley below. Generally water circulates beneath it, and a stream flows from its foot. From the crags above and at the sides large stones are from time to time loosened by the action of frost, and fall upon the glacier, which bears them downward. Sometimes it will leave one or more stranded on a ridge, or the side of a peak which happens to project through the ice. At its foot there will be an accumulation of stones and earth, called the terminal moraine, while the lines of stones along the sides are called lateral moraines. When two glaciers unite their lateral moraines coalesce into a median moraine. The glacier bed is subjected to a continuous process of scraping and grinding and scratching, by fragments of rock torn awTay from it, or by stones which fall down the crevasses, and are frozen into the bottom of the glacier. A soft impalpable mud is formed from the material scraped away, and is generally carried off by the streams to the nearest lake. This represents the glacial till, which must have accumulated under conditions sinrilar to those which prevail in Greenland at the present day — the whole country being covered with snow and ice, and the water which may circulate beneath being powerless to carry away more than a small proportion of the mud which is manufactured. The moraines represent the stony heaps, and the fragments of rock borne and pushed along by the glacier represent the boulders. In a country quite moulded by ice immense glaciers wdl creep outwards from the centre, crossing all minor eminences, though more or less deflected by the resistance they encounter. Divisions of Glacial Period. The glacial period divides itself into two cold periods of", "COSMIC IDENTITY. 175 his cheery exclamation, \" we're flitting,\" the sceptic philo sopher, having taken great pains to get rid of the phantoms of substance and quality, cause and effect, identity and diffe rence, permanence and change, finds them all tranquilly seated in his new intellectual home. He can ignore their presence to the extent of not calling it by their usual names, but he cannot help using them as his instruments. There never yet was a Scepticism which did not presuppose that its originator at least was a percipient and thinking being, and which did not lay down some rule to which his thoughts should conform. But I need not dwell upon the obvious truth that \" the validity of reasoning \" implies psychical as well as physical order, nor even upon the implied extension of this psychical order from the thinker himself to the whole of mankind. Eeasoning — philosophic or otherwise — is not for internal use only. It takes for granted that your experience and your mind are fundamentally like my experience and my mind ; and, having travelled from me to my neighbour, it can set itself no limit short of the entire human race. Or, rather, its very basis is the postulate that what is valid for me is valid for every human being whom I may chance to address. So far all is clear. Eeason would not be reason were it not consistent with itself and with fact. Perception would not be perception if its reports were capricious ; recognition would not be recognition if it took place at random. But what is to be said of volition, of emotion, and of passion ? Human volition is said by psychologists to be the type from which our concepts of force and of law are derived, but it appears that will itself is utterly lawless, and has none of that regu larity of action which the term \" Force \" now connotes. We seem to be aware of a freedom of choice which is opposed to the idea of causation. I can do as I will — I can will as I choose ; and is not the choice itself free and undetermined ? Are there not, in short, two equal possibilities of choice, towards one or other of which I turn, by a decision caused neither from without by compulsion, nor from within by motives _ This, no doubt, is the popular view of the matter, and a view which has been stated and supported over and over again by" ]

[ "72 megen Velvillie havde beredt os en stör Forneielse i denne Flodtour. Efter dinner stulde efter Vestemmelsen Forretnings medet have veret gjenoptaget paa Raadhuset, men Tiden var blevet noget knap, Lysten til at spadsere den lange Vei til Raadhuset frem og tilbage var ogfa« tnap, man fyntes i det Hele taget at befinde sig saa vel i Dousman House, ar man med Lethed blev enig om her at fortsette Forhand lingerne. Til dtsfe herte blandt andet — for uden Valgct af Selstabets Styrelfe for neste Forretningsaar — Oplesningen af „the og „the _H.nuual l'oem ' fllmt Oplesning af Mindeord over dc i det forlebne Aar ved Deden afgaaede Medlemmer, der havde virtet i Pressens Tjeneste, Hon. George Hyer ud bragte Foreningens hjertelige Tat til Prairie du Chien for den uenlige og gjestfrie Modtagelse, som Foreningen havde nydt, hvortil John Lawler, Esq. replicerede, idet han betlagede, at Veseget var saa kort. Han og Prairie du Chiens Befollning bleve med begeistrede Cheers hilsede af Forsamlingen. Imidlertid var den störe, pregtige Dumper „NinueÄ, polis\" — et af disse 3-Etagers Mississippi Uhyrer — tontmet Nordfra og ved Union lacket Company'» velvillige Opmertsomhed stillet til Selstabets Disposition for Reisen Syd paa til Clinton, og da et Banetog havde bragt os et pr, Telegraph rekvireret Musikcorps fra Milwaukee, der stulde gjere os Felgestab paa vor Excursion i Iowa, saa toge vi en hjertelig Afsted med Prairie du Chien*) og git henimsd Klotten 10 Asten ombord paa Minneapolis, der fort af Capitain G. W. Ients, strax tiltraadte Reifen. Vort Selstab bestod af 225 Personer, af hvilke ca, 80 vare Damer. Disfe — og forfaavidt de vare gifte — *) Prairie du Chien har — saa blev det mig sagt — ca. 10,000 Indbyggere.", "218 ved de forstjellige Berfter; — 36 Skibe ere übe paa for stjellige fremmede Stationer, og Resten er anvist Plads i Stctterncs Krigshavne, Med Henfyn til Staternes Armee — om hvillen det Lidet, jeg kan have at meddele, her passende kan tages med — da bliver dens Sterrelse, der for Tiden er ca. 35,000 Mand, bestemt af Congresfen for 2 Aar ad Gangen. Disse Tropper ere hvervede ved Cavi tulation paa 5 Aar og ere fordeclte paa folgende Maade: IN Cllvalleriregimentcr 9802 Mand; 5 Artilleriregimenter 4205; 25 Infanteriregimenter 14,486; Ingenieurafdelingen 560; Ordonantskorpfet 706; Dctachementet ved West Points Officeersflole 261; Signalcorpset 182; Syge vagtere og Sygesergenter 464; til Tjeneste i Krigs departementet, Hooedqvartererne o, s, v, 276; og dispo nible Recruter 743. Ofsiceersstanden teller 2488 Med lcmmer, hvilket Antal ifelge Congresfens Bestutning stal reduceres til 227? fra 1. Januar 1871, fra hvillen Tid Mandstabet ifslge famme Bestutning stal indstrenles til 30,000. Den staaende Her er for sterste Delen statio neret i Forter til Vestyttelse af Grendfcrne og mod Indianernes reveriste Overfald, Desforuden er der en Milits, i huilken enhver fri Mand stal tjene fra det 18. til det 45. Aar i Tüfelde af Opbud, Den siges at tunne stille 3 Millioner Mand paa Benene, Det stulde have veret mig tjert, om jeg künde have meddeelt noget Mere om Brooklyn, og det kan eiheller feile, at en By, der teller faa ner 370,000 Indbyggere, maa haue endeel Bereringspitnlter, der gjere Krav paa Op merksomhed; men uden nogen Anvisning er det itte let for en Fremmed at faae Hold paa disfe Punkter, naar Opholdet her er in^strentet til Ratten og nogle faa Morgen- og Aftentimer, der i Neglen tilbriuges i Familie liuet. Om Dagen vanorer man helft lil New York, hvis stertt pulserende Liv tretter med magnetist Kraft. Jeg stal derfor blot tllfeie, at Vrootlyn felvfelgelig Hai sit Slating house, ligesom ogsaa sine offentl.ge Partanleg, blandt", "300 lanb, hvor Bjergstotterne ag andre Misforneiede fluttede sig til ham. Med disses Hjelp erobrede han Perth og Edinburgh, og Alt var Herlighed og Glede. Han lod sig selv udraabe lil Prindsregent og sin Fader til Konge; og paa Holyrood, hvor han havde opstaaet sit Qvarteer, gav hau et muntert Bal. Singet ved Culloden den 27. April 1746 gjorde en Ende paa Herligheden. Carl blev ctlbeles slactet og maatte flygte. Som et jaget Stylte Vildt bleu han forfulgt fra Sted til andet, og naacde, efter at have gjennemgaaet mangfoldige Besver ligheder og Euentyr, endelig Fastlandet. Han dede i Rom den 31. Januar 1788 og var den sidste tongelige Mtling af Huset Stuart. Endnu stal det bemertes, at Holyrood til forstjellige Tider, 1795—99 og 1830—32, har veret beboet af be fra Frankrig fordrevne Bourboner. En Nigdom af Minder knytter sig faaledes til den gamle By, og ligesom Edinburgh Castle og Holyrood ere Punkter, der altid ville give Byen en serdeles Betydning, faaledes ville Maria Stuarts, Darnleys og Fleres Navne endydermere forege denne Betydning og give hine Steder et dramatist Stjer. Med en mere end almindelig Lengsel begav jeg mig neste Dctgs Morgen til Holyrood. Aftenen iforveien havde jeg ved Hjelp af et Situationstort fat mig faa temmelig godt ind i den gamle Stctds Gader og Krintel kroge, faa at jeg med Lethed künde finde mig tilrette uden Veiviser, hvilket i Regle« er det Interessanteste og giver det sterste Udbytte. Gjennem en af de mangfoldige Snuttpasfager eller Gyder, der ctdstille Husene, hvilke lig Svalereder längs med en Bygningsgesims ere tlinede op til Fjeldstrenten i en Heide, der lctder En finde det i Orden, at Indgangsderen paa Heidesiden staaer i Niveau med 3die eller 4de Etage paa Dalsiden, tont jeg op i den gamle Stctd og befandt mig faa at sige henflyttet imellem Walter Scotts Romaner, thi jeg stod ved Ind-" ]

[ "AMOUR DURE. 13 scorpion surrounded by flames. (This simile is not mine, but belongs to Raffaello Gualterio, his toriographer to Robert II.) But, unlike the scorpion, Medea refused to commit suicide. It is perfectly marvellous how, without money or allies, she could so long keep her enemies at bay ; and Gualterio attributes this to those fatal fascinations which had brought Pico and Stimigliano to their deaths, which had turned the once honest Guidalfonso into a villain, and which were such that, of all her lovers, not one but preferred dying for her, even after he had been treated with ingratitude and ousted by a rival ; a faculty which Messer Raffaello Gualterio clearly attributed to hellish connivance. At last the ex-Cardinal Robert succeeded, and triumphantly entered Urbania in November 1579. His accession was marked by moderation and clemency. Not a man was put to death, save Oliverotto da Narni, who threw himself on the new Duke, tried to stab him as he alighted at the palace, and who was cut down by the Duke's men, crying, \" Orsini, Orsini ! Medea, Medea ! Long live Duke Bartolommeo!\" with his dying breath, although it is said that the Duchess had treated him with ignominy. The little Bartolommeo was sent to Rome to the Orsinis ; the Duchess, re spectfully confined in the left wing of the palace. It is said that she haughtily requested to see the new Duke, but that he shook his head, and, in his priest's fashion, quoted a verse about Ulysses and", "OKE OF OKEHURST. 135 or been anything particular — never held any office,\" he said; \"but we have always been here, and apparently always done our duty. An ancestor of ours was killed in the Scotch wars, another at Agincourt — mere honest captains.\" Well, early in the seventeenth century, the family had dwindled to a single member, Nicholas Oke, the same who had rebuilt Okehurst in its present shape. This Nicholas appears to have been somewhat different from the usual run of the family. He had, in his youth, sought adventures in America, and seems, generally speaking, to have been less of a nonentity than his ancestors. He married, when no longer very young, Alice, daughter of Virgil Pomfret, a beautiful young heiress from a neighbouring county. \" It was the first time an Oke married a Pomfret,\" my host informed me, \"and the last time. The Pomfrets were quite different sort of people — restless, self-seeking ; one of them had been a favourite of Henry VIII.\" It was clear that William Oke had no feeling of having any Pomfret blood in his veins ; he spoke of these people with an evident family dislike — the dislike of an Oke, one of the old, honourable, modest stock, which had quietly done its duty, for a family of fortune-seekers and Court minions. Well, there had come to live near Okehurst, in a little house recently inherited from an uncle, a certain Chris topher Lovelock, a young gallant and poet, who was in momentary disgrace at Court for some", "A WICKED VOICE. 201 out yonder furrowed by invisible gondolas be trayed by the red prow-lights. At last the whole lot of them are on the move. I shall be able to get some quiet in my room, and to work a little at my opera of Ogier the Dane. But no ! Conversation revives, and, of all things, about that singer, that Zaffirino, whose absurd portrait I am crunching in my fingers. The principal speaker is Count Alvise, an old Venetian with dyed whiskers, a great check tie fastened with two pins and a chain ; a threadbare patrician who is dying to secure for his lanky son that pretty American girl, whose mother is intoxi cated by all his mooning anecdotes about the past glories of Venice in general, and of his illustrious family in particular. Why, in Heaven's name, must he pitch upon Zaffirino for his mooning, this old duffer of a patrician ? \" Zaffirino, — ah yes, to be sure ! Balthasar Cesari, called Zaffirino,\" snuffles the voice of Count Alvise, who always repeats the last word of every sentence at least three times. \" Yes, Zaffirino, to be sure ! A famous singer of the days of my fore fathers ; yes, of my forefathers, dear lady ! \" Then a lot of rubbish about the former greatness of Venice, the glories of old music, the former Con servatoires, all mixed up with anecdotes of Rossini and Donizetti, whom he pretends to have known intimately. Finally, a story, of course containing plenty about his illustrious family : — \" My great" ]

[ "THE ENGSTLEN ALP AND THE TITLIS. 29 between 10,000 and 11,000 feet in height, is at all times so covered with snow that it is necessary to begin the ascent before daylight, in order, if possible, to descend from the glacier before the heat of the sun has made the snow unpleasantly soft. These early starts have, among other disadvan tages, the very serious objection that, except in quite settled weather, it is not easy to foresee so long before sunrise how the day is likely to turn out. The white clouds, which often lie at night in straight lines along the summits of the mountains, may either melt away with the sun's first rays or gather with the increasing heat into blackuess and rain, and it requires a certain amount of moral courage to come to a decision as to whether one will start and run the risk of failure, or stay at home and perhaps lose a fine day ; in short, to take a leap literally in the dark, and to bear the consequences. On this occa sion we were not successful in our choice. The night was foggy, but at intervals the mists passed away, and a space of clear sky, looking all the clearer for the contrast, gave promise of better weather. Trusting to these delusive hopes, we foolishly left our beds at an hour when all rational people should be in their first sleep, and at 3 a.m., armed with a lantern, we bent our uncertain steps towards the top of the col. It seemed as if the sky had intended to play a practical joke upon us ; no sooner were we quite gone, and the hotel door closed against us,", "THE HOCHNARR AND THE PFANDELSCHARTE. 100 to hope, and, relieved and victorious, we proceeded to establish ourselves on the territory won. In this room we were allowed to remain during our stay at Heiligenblut, and it being clean and com fortable, and the house very quiet ; we were far better off than had we been located in the hotel. In many Alpine villages a room can thus be hired at the house of the parish priest, and this resource is a great convenience to the traveller in places where the accommodation at the inn is either very defective or very limited. Certainly on this occasion we were most thankful for the harbour of refuge thus afforded us, and it was with a delightful feeling of possession that we inspected our apartment. It contained, besides the usual bedroom furniture, including two pie-dishes for washing, an odd mixture of objects, sacred and secular. There was a large press, locked, on the top of which stood the model 01 a church, executed in shells, and several glass jars, ornamented with sacred devices ; beyond these, in a dark corner, hung some long white objects, which we concluded at first to be vestments belonging to M. le Cure, but which on nearer approach proved of a decidedly lay character, being simply some of the housekeeper's petticoats. Various portraits of saints hung in conspicuous places round the walls, while, hiding her charms behind a large stove, was the picture of a pretty and worldly-looking young lady playing the guitar. She had probably- been placed", "THE .SCHWARZKOPF AND STEINERNE MEER. 169 to us ; at any rate we lacked physical courage to descend the shafts into these dark cavities, and moral courage to emerge from them again into the broad light of day, habited, as was described to us, in miner costume, and riding on a kind of rough wooden horse. In this dilemma, we hit on the delightful plan of visiting the mines by proxy, and having despatched Amrhein in our stead to explore their recesses, we spent our time in a manner more congenial to us, wandering about on the world's upper surface, and examining the carved wood, in the execution of which the inhabitants of Berchtesgaden are said to excel. The workmanship of some of the figures, particularly of the chamois, was very good, finer and better I think than in Switzerland ; but in the other articles, we saw little or no difference between the produc tions of the two countries, and the German prices struck us as being the higher of the two. I do not like however to state this too positively, knowing that good authorities have given the contrary opinion ; all I can say for certain is, that a month later I found prettier objects and in greater variety at the shops of Lucerne, and also that we got the articles which we bought in the latter place at cheaper prices than those asked us either in Berch tesgaden or Salzburg. After more than an hour's absence our guide re turned much delighted with the wonders of the" ]

[ "IN A NEW WOULD. 4 cheek and chin, altogether making his home with her. She went to the hall door, and met a tall, middle-aged man, with a face clean-shaven except for a well-tended moustache, the usual military adornment. Her voice was low and full as she welcomed her uncle, and asked for news in a general way, although she must have known that nothing very remarkable had iu all probability happened that day at Burton, the large manu facturing town where her uncle drove in most days to shop. ' Women are always insatiable about news ; I never knew such creatures,' answered Colonel Burgoyne, with an air of benignant superiority. ' No, I saw no one, and heard nothing ; met Bob Stanley twice in the street, that's all ; bought some mackerel cheap, they've had a great haul to day. Got seven for a shilling ; tell your aunt to have them all pickled, they'll save the butcher's bill. But stop, Daisy, I am forgetting. I have some news for you.' 'Well, uncle?' ' Well, miss, I have heard from Charlie Herrick.", "' UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.' 117 Anne she was ready, they walked on in silence till they came to the corner of the road where Willie Hall came past. They had only a few minutes to wait. There was a sulky, rude kindness about Anna that made it difficult to offer her money ; so Daisy only shook hands with her, and thanking her cordially for what she had done, and hoping she would not get into any trouble about her, she took her seat — a very small one — beside the post-boy, and with her box pressing uncomfortably against her knees they drove off. Willie Hall was not conversable or curious ; he asked no questions, but merely made one or two local observations as they drove along. He deposited Daisy safely at the station, and before the sun had set she was on her way to London.", "IN A NEW WORLD. 246 unselfish love amongst them, a shattered consti tution, and impaired fortune — this is the best he had to offer to Evelyn Garside. But there was enough pathos in his voice to move her. She did not know how little ' the best ' was worth, and she had some pity for the man who seemed to love her ; besides, she was smarting under the cold indifference of Lord Brockington, and her heart was caught at the rebound. There were many dark pages in Colonel St. Aubyn's life-book, could she have turned back the leaves and read all that was written there ; but luckily for him they were hidden, and as yet no one had breathed a word to her about Colonel St. Aubyn's antecedents. ' I don't ask for a final answer yet,' he pleaded, ' I fear it would not be in my favour. But give me one word of hope,' he continued, rising and going across to where Evelyn sat, and dropping on one knee by the side of her arm-chair. ' Don't give me my answer now, my darling,' he whispered. ' I am obliged to go abroad for a month on important business, but I could not leave without telling you how dear you are to" ]

[ "62 San-José, située sur la lisière d'une épaisse forêt au milieu d'une verdoyante prairie, et y établirent leur camp. Le lendemain, 16 mars, s'étant remises en marche à 6 heures du matin, des explorateurs vinrent informer notre colonel que la ville de Zitacuaro avait été reprise par les troupes Lama drid , et que les dissidents en retraite occupaient une hacienda située dans la Tierra-Quœmada (terre brûlée) à 7 lieues du point où nous nous trouvions. Les espions ajoutaient que les éclai reurs ennemis s'étendaient jusqu'à 2 lieues de nous, et que les blessés encombraient les cases dispersées dans les environs de Thacienda sus-désignée. Le colonel B°\" van der Smissen s'empressa de former une colonne très mobile avec la compagnie d'avant-garde (3e du ba taillon Roi des Belges) à laquelle îl adjoignit 60 vigoureux mar cheurs pris dans les autres compagnies et Tescadron du régiment de TImpératrice, puis ayant remis le commandement du restant de la colonne au capitaine AltAvies, il partit avec son détachement à une allure très-précipitée, le dirigeant par monts et par vaux, vers la position où Tennemi lui était signalé. Après une véritable course de 8 heures, pendant laquelle nous rencontrâmes une bande qui avait probablement jeté ses armes, et qui prit la fuite dès qu'elle nous aperçut, nous arri vâmes à Thacienda indiquée que nous trouvâmes déserte. Le propriétaire interrogé, déclara à notre colonel qu'il y avait en effet des blessés de Zitacuaro abandonnés dans les cases, mais que les dissidents avaient décampé depuis deux jours. Vers 4 heures, une pluie torrentielle vint retarder la marche de la partie de la colonne laissée en arrière et ne lui permit de nous rejoindre qu'à 6 heures du soir.", "180 témoignages les moins équivoques de Tadmiration que la con duite de nos soldats avait inspirée à leurs propres ennemis, comprit l'importance que Ton attachait à Tinaction forcée d'un certain nombre de ces combattants. Artéaga réclamait comme première condition la liberté des généraux Porfirio Diaz, (*) Tapia et Canto. Cette clause souscrite, il consentait âéchanger les Belges homme pour homme, contre les prisonniers que nous avions faits à Taffaire de la Loma. Le capitaine Visart revint à Morélia le 23, et rendit compte au éolonel du résultat de sa mission. II lui remit en même temps une liste de nos prisonniers de Huétamo, signée récemment par M. lecapitaine Gauchin. Par un bonheur réellement providentiel, aucun d'eux n'avait succombé aux épidémies des terres chaudes et n'avait même été sérieusement atteint, ce qui nous fit présu mer qu'ils avaient été bien traités pendant leur captivité. Le colonel van der Smìssen s'empressa de soumettre à Son Exe. M. le maréchal Bazaine, les conditions de Téchange, et attendit sa décision. Déjà , avant le départ du capitaine Visart pour Tacambaro , plusieurs journaux de Mexico, après avoir publié le rapport de M. le colonel B0\" Aran der Smissen sur la victoire de la Loma, en Taccompagnant des plus élogieux commentaires pour nos troupes, avaient ouvert leurs colonnes à des correspondances anonymes qui, tout en dénaturant les péripéties de la bataille, tendaient à faire attribuer le plus clair du succès à M. le colonel Mendez et à son bataillon. Ces insinuations mensongères et déloyales avaient déjà pro- (*) Ne pas confondre avec le général impérialiste du mémo nom.", "221 Morélia , le 8 octobre 1865. Le Commandant de la compagnie ad intérim, DAVREUX. N\"s NOMS ET PBÉNOMS. GRADES. d'ordre. 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Casier, Auguste. . . . Dcgraeve, Pierre . . . Christiaens, Charles . . Elsen, Théodore. . . . Dewier, Victorien . . . Vandendoren, Ferdinand Vandenbrempt, Adrien . Farrer, Auguste . . . Van Haute, Alphonse. . Meert, François. . . . Dessinge, Eugène . . . Lebrun , Auguste . . . Vandenbulke, Bierre . . Boucheron, Elise . . . Guyot , Jean .... Dupré, Louis Piton, Alfred Molls, François . . . Demoustier, Jean . . . Lacquemant, Guillaume . Dutoit, Gaston . . . . Dries, Charles . . . . Pottier, Basile . . . . Verdonck , Charles . . Van de Woestyne, Joseph. Bassompierre, Eugène. . Garde. id. id. id. id. id. id id. id. id. id id. id id id. id. id. id. id. id. id. id. id. id. id. id." ]

[ "CHAPTER IX ACROSS LAIKIPIA \" O'er the wide sierras and the high plateaux.\" Walt Whitman. Laikipia is a plateau formed of volcanic rocks, situated to the east of the part of the Rift Valley between Lake Naivasha and the steppes of Sukut. Most of the plateau lies at an elevation of between 6000 and 7000 feet, and consists of rolling prairie. Its area is almost that of Wales. Bounded to the south by the forests of the Kikuyu country, it extends north ward between the volcanic piles of Kenya and Settima, and the ridges of Doenyo lol Daika and Subugu, until it is cut off by the westward trend of the Loroghi Mountains and the east ward bend of the Rift Valley. Considering the proximity of the country to the road to Uganda, it is surprising how little Laikipia has been explored. The enterprising Arab traders long ago found their way across it, along two routes. One of these started at the north-eastern end of the country of the Kikuyu, skirted the western foot of Kenya, traversed Ndoro and the open steppes to the edge of the Rift Valley above Baringo. The second route left the Rift Valley to the north of Naivasha, and thence continued along the eastern flanks of the wooded range of Subugu, enabling the traders to reach Basso Narok (Lake Rudolf) without crossing the country of the hostile Wasuk. These two routes were recorded in 1874 in the valuable paper by Denhardt, referred to in the first chapter. No further information about Laikipia was obtained until Joseph Thomson made his courageous and determined effort to cross it, to reach Kenya in 1883. His", "NATIVES OF EASTERN BRITISH EAST AFRICA part iii 344 The valour of the Wa-pokomo is, however, not equal to their domestic virtue. A more cowardly race of men it would be difficult to find. Their timidity was impressed on me owing to the trouble I had to get into communication with them, and then to allay their suspicions and fears. They have for so long submitted to being raided and oppressed by the Suahili, Somali, and Galla, that they appear to have completely lost any idea of how to fight. They have spears, but these are only used as paddles and against crocodiles, reed-rats, lizards, and fish. In spite of their great personal strength, they apparently never attempt to use their weapons in self-defence. When a Somali raiding party appears on the Tana, it orders the Wa pokomo to provide \" maus \" or canoes ; and though the Wa-pokomo know that these will be used against themselves, they weakly obey. But it is hardly fair to expect men who do all the manual labour of the tribe to show the same military prowess as those who specialise in war and the chase, and leave all the work of the village and of the fields to the women. An animal cannot be both a war-horse and a dray-horse, and the constant danger of slavery, death, or famine is the price the Wa-pokomo women pay for the lack of specialisation in labour, or, as it might otherwise be expressed, the equality of the sexes. The Pokomo religion is a fetichism of which very little is known, for the rites are secret. Each man carries about with him a charm, and most of the villages have a little shed built to protect some small article, such as an empty bottle, a used cartridge case, or an old meat tin, which is buried in the ground, as a protection against the Somali. Herr Wiirtz of Ngao has found out most about the religion of the people, and the following information was mainly given me by him. The Pokomo god is named \" Auri mwantya dsongo ngombe auri kinemu \" ; but this name is secret, and Herr Wiirtz has never been able to find out ifs meaning. The god is always spoken of as the \" Old Man of the Woods \" ; he is held in great horror, and formerly no young M-pokomo would go into a forest for fear of him. The elders of the village are the priests, and form an order, Ngadsi, the members of which are all sworn to secrecy. In each village there is a small oblong hut, very different from the beehive-shaped houses of the people. I asked at Vuju what it was, and being told that it was the prison I went inside. It was quite empty, and there seemed nothing in it to explain why the crowd of natives should have fled screaming to their canoes and to the swamps. It appears, however, that this hut was \" Ngadsi,\" and no one but the most sanctified priests ought to have been allowed to enter it. The Lutheran missionaries at Ngao say that this order is the only real governmental power in the Pokomo, so that they do not care to destroy faith in it. The elders, however, certainly greatly abuse their trust. The people are compelled to place contributions of food in", "INDEX OF LOCALITIES 415 Fungozambo (40.39 E. , 2.20 S.), 21, 23 Geitaita (37.6 E., 0.36 s.), 190, 192 Gilgil R. (36.24 e., 0.36 s. ), 106, 107, 323 Giriama (39.45 E., 3.30 S. ), 207-208, 280 Givoni (37.22 E. , 1.39 s.), 85 Golbanti (40.8 E., 2.28 s.), 31, 371 Gonjeni (39.34 E., 3.58 s. ), 63 Goyito, 152-154 Heim Glacier (37.29 e., 0.14 s.), 173, 181 Himalaya, 243, 245 Hobley Valley (37.31 E. , 0.14 s. ), 173, 180 Hohnel, Mount (37.28 E., 0.16 s.), 172- 174 Hohnel, Lake and Valley, 173 Igeti (37.4 E., 0.56 s.), 364 Ilyaini R. (m.) (37.26 E. , 0.44 s. ), 195 India, Central and S. , 234, 245, 261 Ithamba (37.14 E., 0.56 s. ), 224 Iuni (37.20 E., 1. 41 s. ), 205 Iveti Mts. (37.20 E., 1.40 s.), 81-86, 205, 224, 227, 289, 347 Jalud, 255 Java, 245 Jilore (39-5° F-. 3-8 s- )■ 277 fordan R. , 249, 256, 259, 260-262 Juba R., 7 Kahamisi (39.38 E. , 3.9 s. ), 208 Kajabe (36.35 E. , 0.53 s.), 97 Kakuak Mts., 258 Kamasia (35.47 E., 0.28 N.), no, 120, 136-138, 231 Kamasia, L. (extinct), 235 Kambu R. (38.3 E. , 2.34 s. ), 206 Kapte Plains (37.0 E. , 1.20 s.), 88-91, 205, 215-218, 224, 230, 266, 270, 323 Karagwe (31. 15 E., 2.0 s.), 228, 234 Karati (37.4 E. , 0.34 s. ), 196 Kariandusi R. (f. ) (36.19 E., 0.27 s. ), 107, 108 Karroo, 229 Karthuri (37.4 E. , 0.49 S. ), 158 Kasai, 326 Kau (40.28 E., 2.28 s. ), 20, 32, 368 Kavaluki (37.21 E., 1.24 s.), 203, 348 Kedong, Guaso (36.35 E. , 1.5 s. ), 94, 232, 233. 323 Kenya Mt. (37.30 E. , 0.14 S. ), 7, 8, 151, 162-188, 224, 232, 235, 240, 243-244, 267, 272, 283, 290, 291, 294, 296, 332 Kibibi, L. (36.10 E. , 0.4 N.), 109, 323 Kibo, 78, 233 Kiboko, Mt. (37.44 E., 2.12 s.), 80, 364 Kibwezi (37.56 E., 2.25 s.), 76-78, 205, 224, 273, 371 Kikumbuliyu (38.0 E. , 2.30 S. ), 76, 233, ,347 Kikuyu (36.50 E., 1.0 s. ), 91-93, 220, 232, 271, 276, 283, 285, 323, 351' Kilima Njaro (m. ), 7, 78, 163-164, 176, 224, 233, 235, 2461, 241, 243, 272, 280, 291, 294, 296, 372 Kilindini (40.0 E. , 4.4 s.), 51, 55 Kiloluma= Upper Tana (37.30 E. , 0.40 S). 199 Kilungu (37.30 E., 1.45 s.), 81-83 Kinangop (36.30 E. , 0.40 s. ), 152-154 Kinani (38.16 E. , 2.47 s. ), 75, 207 Kipini (40.30 E. , 2.32 s. ), 20 Kirimanda R. (m. ) (40.28 E. , 2.29 S. ), 32 Kiroruma R. =Kiloluma, 199 Kisauni --Freretown, 237, 285 Kismayu (42.40 E., 0.15 s.), 13, 14 Kithunguli (37.6 E. , 0.41 s. ), 195 Kithu-Uri (37.13 E., 0.47 s.), 196 Kitui, in Ukamba (38.6 E,, 1.0 S. ), 163 Kitui, in Kikuyu (37.7 E. , 0.43 s. ), 196 Koma ( 37. 1 5 E. , 1 . 1 8 s. ) , 88 Kornu (37.4 E. , 0.38 s.), 196 Kulall Mt. (36.40 E. , 2.35 N. ), 224 Kurawa (40.8 E. , 2.40 s. ), 273 Kwazome (37.24 E. , 1.38 s. ), 85, 227 Kyulu Mts. (37.50 E., 2.40 s.), 81, 233, 235 Lado, 233, 259, 284 Lagobuya, L. (39.44 E. , 3.10 s.), 208 Laikipia (37.30 E., o.), 9, 146-156, 161- 162, 184, 218, 231, 266, 268, 280, 288, 308 Lamu (40.54 E., 2.16 s.), 13-15, 285, 337, 37i Larabwal (36.15 E., 0.20 N. ), 149 Lari lol Morjo (36.25 E. , 0.8 N.), 151 Latuk Mts. , 258 Leadville, 375 Lebanon, 259 Lekakisera (34.36 E. , 1.30 N. ), 233 Levant, 252 Lewis Glacier (37. 30 E., 0.14 s.), 173, 177 Loango, 325 Lobat (36.4 E. , 0.40 N. ), 131, 323 Lokenya (37.5 E., 1.29 s. ), 88, 202 Lolbogo (36.8 E., 0.20 N.), 134 Loldibo Mt. (36.45 E., 2.6 N.), 224 Longari, Doenyo (36.57 E., 0.29 s. ), 156 Longeyu lol Mwaru (36.21 E., 0.14 N.), 150 Longonot Mt. (36.27 E. , 0.54 S. ), 94, 97- 98, 233, 235 Lorian, L. (3925 E. , 1.0 N. ) 7 Loroghi Mts. (36.34 E. , 1.0 N. ), 146, 224 Losuguta, L. (36.8 E., 0.15 x.), 7, 110- 115, 269, 323 Lubikwe, Doenyo (35.44 K., 0.32 N. ), 137 Lugurumut, Doenyo (36.6 E., 0.16 N.), no" ]

[ "142 ROMF was a row of candles of mourning wax, (of a dark brown, or purple colour,) ranged upon the top of our grate, the utility of which was not very ap parent, as they were extinguished before it grew dark. There were also fifteen similar mourning candles, erected on high beside the altar, which, I was given to understand, represented the Apostles and the three Maries, rising gradually in height to the central one, wliich was the Virgin. As the service proceeded, they were put out one by one, to typify the falling off of the Apostles in the hour of trial ; so that at last they were all extinguished, except the Virgin Mary, who was set under the altar. The shadows of evening had now closed in, and we should have been left almost in total darkness, but for the dull red glare which proceeded from the hidden lights of the unseen choristers, and which, mingling with the deepening twilight, produced a most melancholy gloom. After a deep and most impressive pause of si lence, the solemn Miserere commenced ; and never by mortal ear was heard a strain of such powerful, such heart-moving pathos. The accordant tones of a hundred human voices, and one whicli seem ed more than human — ascended together to heaven for mercy to mankind — for pardon to a guilty and sinning world. It had nothing in it of this earth — nothing that breathed the ordinary feelings of our nature. It seemed as if every sense and power had been concentered into that plaintive expression of lamentation, of deep suffering, and supplication,", "ROME. 221 cion, have combined to alienate these few from each other. Almost the only Roman house now which is re gularly open for a conversazione, in the old style, and to which all who have been introduced have a general invitation, is that of the Duchess di F , a woman of considerable spirit and talent, who is wise enough not to forego the pleasures of society, because she has lost those of opulence. She receives company on the evenings ofthe two ordinary weekly Festa, Sunday and Thursday. Thursday, being before these two days of mortification, (Friday and Saturday,) is considered a festina ; but Sunday, being after them, is a grand Festa. This lady contrives to make her parties tolerably pleasant, without music, dancing, cards, books, prints, amusements, or refreshments of any sort. It is literally a conversazione ; for there is nothing else to be had, and not always even that. Whether it is from the perversity of human nature, that peo ple are always less inclined to what they aie obliged to do, or not, I cannot say, but sometimes the con versation languishes, and I have serious apprehen sions that we shall all begin to yawn in each other's faces. One advantage is, that one need never stay above ten minutes, if it should wear this dull aspect, but drive off in search of something better. Few Romans are to be seen at these parties, but all the ambassadors and distinguished foreigners of all coun tries. Of late there has been rather too great an in termixture of English.", "446 ROME glowing lamp in the west ; as beneath their mingled rays, which trembled through the dark shade of the tall cypresses, we slowly passed along the now forsaken Triumphal Way, towards the Colosseum. Would that I could describe it to you, as it stood in its ruined loneliness amidst the deserted hills of Ancient Rome, surrounded with the remains of overthrown temples, imperial palaces, triumphal arches, and buried thermæ, — mighty even in de cay ! The still, pale moonbeam fell on the lines of its projecting columns, range above range, to the lofty attic, in silvery light, leaving the black arches in mysterious darkness. We passed under the great arch of entrance, crossed the grass-grown area, ascended the long staircases, and traversed the circling corridors. No sound met our ear but the measured tread of our own footsteps, and the whispered murmurs of our own voices. The deep solitude and silence, — the im mensity and the ruin of the great fabric that sur rounded us, filled our minds with awe ; and as we caught the view of the stars appearing and disap pearing through the opening arcades — marked the moonbeams illumining the wide range of these lofty walls, and raised our eyes to the beauty of the calm clear firmament above our head, — we could not but remember, that hundreds of ages past, these eter nal lights of heaven had shone on the sloping sides of this vast amphitheatre, when they were crowded with thousands of human beings, impatient for thc barbarous sports of the rising day, — where now," ]

[ "80 MAELCHO Then another pause ensued. Evidently something important was about to take place, for all present turned their eyes full upon the ollamh. Cormac Cas however took no heed of all those questioning eyes, merely fixed his own intently upon the line of white hieroglyphics above his head. It seemed as if he were engaged in reading what was there inscribed, and too completely absorbed in this exercise to allow himself to be dis tracted from it by anyone. Suddenly a panting noise, like the noise made by a broken-winded horse, was heard outside the enclosed space, and through the ranks of the women the dwarf Flann-an-Pus ap peared, his short legs having hindered him from keeping pace with the rest of the mourners. He advanced now with an air of importance, thrusting those about him to right and left as he did so, and turning out his feet at every step like a dancing master. Arrived at the base of Cloch Corril, he stood still and struck an attitude. Every seat was filled, and no one stirred to give him room. Gazing round with an air of prodigious displeasure, he", "83 MAELCHO his study of the hieroglyphics over his head. Another pause followed. Then his daugh ter Beara got up and made a signal to some of the women nearest to her. She had no harp, for women were not allowed to use that peculiarly masculine instrument. Their song, as Hugh afterwards found, was a very old one, dating as far back as the first years of the English invasion, composed, it was said, by the ollamh of Mortoch O'Flaherty, Prince of lar Connaught, when he and his tribe were driven by William Fitz Adelm de Burgh, first Irishman of that name, out of the plains of Moy-Seola to the east of Galway, and obliged to take refuge beyond the waters of Lough Orbsen. My soul is very troubled and broken by reason of the loss of Moy-Seola. I can neither sleep nor eat, neither is any drink found pleasant in my mouth. We are torn as the waves are torn when they fall upon the hungry rocks ; We look around us, and our land is no longer our own, but has become the land of another. g 2", "182 MAELCHO scratching upon the cloth ; then, having waited a moment or two, he began chirping softly, in a wheedling, sing-song fashion, such as a man might use to a child, or to some very favourite animal. Apparently the signal was understood, for the next minute a corner of the cloth was let down, and two little heads appeared at the opening, just as a pair of birds' heads might have come out of a cage or nest. They were not birds' heads, though, but children's heads — a fair one and a dark one — two little girls' heads, with round daisy faces, sweet half closed eyes, and sleep-ruffled hair ; two small red mouths being promptly opened, and four small hands being equally promptly stretched out to take the food extended to them. Hugh opened his own mouth and stared his hardest. Children ! Girl children ! — girshas, as the big man had just said ! What could have brought them to such a place, and at such a time ? Who in the world had buried them there like sand martens in the bank ? With his head full of the tales about Maelcho the senachie, he suddenly remembered that" ]

[ "88 Geylcm, gemacht haben, nur möchte ich die hiesigen womöglich für noch unver fchämter und zudringlicher halten als ihre Stammverwandten in der Felsenburg von Aden. der Hindus »uf dem Continente uud der Singhaleseu; das Elangey der Tamils «der Tamuleu; das Lankapoora der Malahen; das Tewalanka der siamesen; das S e h o oder T e h o der Birmanen ; das S e i l a n der Portugiesen, der Perltropfen an der Spitze Indiens oder in anderer poetischer Bezeichnung : Ceylon, die Krone der indischen Lande, die goldene Kugel, welche der Pyramide der ganzen Halbinsel aufgesetzt ist :c. lc. 1204 geographische Quadratmeilen, 2,506.000 Einwohner, also ungefähr 2080 per Quadratmeile, darunter Singhaleseu 1,500.000, Tamil« 750.000, Mauren 130.000. Der Rest der Bevölkerung besteht aus Malayen, Iavanen, Arabern, Persern, Pursen, Chinesen, sowie aus Weddahs oder Rhooiahs, einem wilden Voltsstamm im Inneren, den man für das ursprüngliche Volt der Insel hall. Das europäische Cou lingent der Bevölkerung erreicht einschließlich des Militärs kaum 4000 Seeleu. Die vorherrschende Religion ist die buddhistische, zu ihr bekennen sich über 1,400.000 Menfchen, Brahminen gibt es 700.000, Mohammedaner 140.000, Christen aller Cllnfessionen 200.000. Werth der Einfuhr 46 Millionen Guide», dabei 15 Millionen Reis, 10 Millionen Baumwollwaaren. Werth der Ausfuhr 37 Millionen, dabei Kaffee 28 Millionen, Kokosnußöl 2 Millionen ,c. Wichtigste Städte an der Westfeite: Colombo, Sitz der Regierung, 60,000 Einwohner, — Iaffna 20,0i.>0 Einwohner, — Point-de-Galle (Galla) 10.000 Einwohner. An der Ostfeite: Trintomalee (Militär station) 11.000 Einwohner, endlich im Inneren Candy, die ehemalige Hauptstadt der Insel, 10.000 Einwohner. Politische Eintheilung. Ceylon, eine unmittelbare Kroncolonie England?, ist in sechs Provinzen gelheilt, u, zw. West°P., N°rd-P , Nordwest°P., Ost°P., Süd°P. und Central-P,, die wieder in Grafschaften |Cou»ties oder Korles) geschieden sind. Dem Gouverneur steht ein ezecutiver und ein legislativer Ralh (cormcil) zur Seite. Geschichtliche Notizen. Ceylon wurde 543 v, Chr. von Wijaya, einem Prinzen des nördlichen Indiens, erobert. Ihm folglen 160 Regenten, welche sich Könige von Candy nannten; der letzte derselben war Wickrama Raja Singha im Jahre 1815. Die Portugiesen besuchten 1505 die Insel, bauten 1518 das Fort in Colombo. Die Holländer, welche 1602 die Insel zum erstenmale betraten, setzte» sich 1640 fest und vertrieben 1658 die Portugiesen, Die Engländer bemächtigten sich der Insel nach der Eapitulation von Eolumbo 1796. Abschaffung der Tortur, Frohnarbeit uud Sclaverei 1803, 1832 und l844. Einführung der Gerichlshöfe 1811. Abschaffung der Polygamie und Polyandrie 1856.", "ImauVure. 179 Die 1. Pfeife, welche ein Opiumkügelchen von der Größe eines Hirfekornes enthielt, wurde in zwei Minuten geraucht. Pfeife. — 1 Uhr 47 M. Maclay theilt mit, während des Rauchens einen ziemlich angenehmen Geschmack, in den Zwischen- pausen aber einen bitteren zu verspüren. Der Rauch wird verschluckt. 2. 3. Pfeife. — 1 Uhr 55 M. Das Hungergefühl ist verschwunden. Puls 80. 4. und 5. Pfeife. — Keine Aenderung des Befindens, blos in dcn Zwischenpausen schwerer Kopf und leichte Neigung zum Schlafen. Die Antworten sind correct. Maclay bemerkt, er denke lang- samer, er müsse nämlich jede Frage lange bedenken, um sie recht zu verstehen und zu beautworten. Er kann sich noch ohne Hilfe aufrichten und im Zimmer auf und ab gehen. 6 Pfeife. — 2 Uhr 11 M. Puls 68. Zunehmende Schläfrigkcit. Die Antworten sind langsam, aber correct. 7 Pfeife. - 2 Uhr 15 M. Puls 70 (voll). Respirationen 28 per Minute. s Pfeife. — 2 Uhr 20 M. Größere Schläfrigkeit. Maclay erkennt die Zeit auf feiner Uhr. Puls und Respirationen unverändert. 9 Pfeife. — 2 Uhr 25 M. Das Sprechen wird fchwieriger und undeutlicher. Maclay bemerkt, ihm werde die Zunge dicker. Puls und Respirationen wie früher. Ui Pfeife. — Er klagt über bitteren Geschmack und Schwindel. Die Antworten sind langsam, aber correct. 11 Pfeife. — 2 Uhr 33 M. Das Gehen wird unsicher. 12 Pfeife. — 2 Uhr 37 M. Diese Pfeife wird langsam geraucht. Maclay sagt, er fühle sich sehr behaglich, möchte aber Singen und Musik*) hören. Puls und Respirationen wie früher. *) Diefes Verlangen hatte Maclay, fo weit ich mich erinnere, auch im normalen Gemüthszustande öfter geäußert. 12*", "511 Kioto selbstredend, uud thatsächlich ist er in Japan fast ebenfo häufig anzutreffen wie etwa bei uns. Nach längerem Warten sahen wir endlich den Dolmetsch dciher rumpeln; da seine Kulis sehr ermüdet waren, so mußte denselben eine Rastzeit gegönnt werden. Der hiedurch verursachte unfreiwillige Aufenthalt veranlaßte uns, das Project, zum See hinabzureitcn, der verlorenen Zeit wegen aufzugeben und fo rasch als möglich nach Kioto zurückzukehren. So hatte uns denn der eigenthümliche Dolmetsch die Partie gründlich verdorben. Es war nahe an Mittag, als unsere Reitergesellschaft in dcr Metropole anlangte; mir war es durchaus nicht unlieb, wieder einmal festen Boden unter die Füße zu bekommen, denn aufrichtig gestanden, fühlte ich mich auf dem Rücken des edlen Rosses ein wenig unsicher und war zu wiederholten Malen iu ein recht bedeutliches Schwanken gerathen, das sich ganz gut mit dcn heftigen Rollbewegungen eines Sckisses im schweren Wetter vergleichen ließe. Das Straßenleben der Stadt war ein anderes, als wir es Tags zuvor bemerkten: hauptsächlich vermißte man die Menge der hübschen und in frischen Farben geputzten Mädchen, dic so recht einen lebenden Schmuck japanischer Städte bilden. Dieser Tbcil der Damenwelt Kiotos lag nach lustig zugebrachter Nacht gewiß „och in Morpheus Armen und wird sich erst am Nachmittage, zu neuem Vergnügen geschmückt, bemalt und vergoldet, in den Straßen zeigen. In der That, als wir später nach eingenommenem Imbiß unsere Wanderungen in der Stadt wieder auf nahmen, zeigten sich auch fchon die ersten weiblichen Schmetterlinge: unter Allen fiel mir ein Mädchen auf, dessen Schönheit auch bei uns bewuudert worden wäre, leider hatte es vergoldete Lippen! Wir wollten bei einem Photographen einige Bilder kaufen: man führte uns in das erste Atelier von Kioto. Es ist staunenswerth , wie rasch die Photographie in Japan Eingang gefunden hat. Fast in jeder größeren Stadt findet man recht gute Photographen, deren Erzeugnisse" ]

[ "82 TRAVELS IN CHAPTER XIII. New Hampshire* BEING at the extremity of my journey to the north-eastward, and in the metropolis of the New England states, I shall, before leaving it, take a view of the states of New Hampshire and Ver mont. NEW HAMPSHIRE Is situated between 42° 42' and 45° 13' north latitude, and 4° 23' and 6° 10' east longitude. Its greatest length is 182, audits greatest breadth 92 miles. Its area is 9491 square miles, contain ing 6,074,240 acres. The state has about 1 5 miles of sea-coast, from whence it ex- tends in breadth, and is generally level towards the sea, rising gradually from 20 to 30 miles, when the mountains commence, and these are more lofty than in any other part of the United States; the White Mountains being visible 30 miles out at sea, and computed by Dr. Belknap at 10,000 feet, by Mr. Williams at 7800. There are large and rich valleys among the mountains, and a number of level plains along Connecticut river. There are several lakes in the state, but none of any great importance, except Winnipiscogee, near the centre, 24 miles long, and of unequal breadth, from 3 to 1 2 miles. It is full of islands, and, being navigable in summer, and frozen over in winter, it proves a considerable convenience to that part of the country. The principal river is Connecticut, which is the boundary line between this state and Vermont. The Piscataqua is the boundary line, for a little way, between this state and the district of Maine; and forms the harbour for the only shipping port in New Hamp shire. There is a singular curiosity in the state called the Notch,. which is a pass through the mountains, at one place only 22 feet wide, and, being bounded by rocks almost perpendicular, and of great height, presents a scene strikingly picturesque. The minerals quoted are ochres, isinglass, chrystals, sulphur, free-stone, lead, black lead, and copper; but the most valua ble is iron, which is found in many places, and is wrought in considerable quantities. The soil, near the sea -coast, is in some places sandy, but near", "160 TRAVELS IN Richmond is handsomely situated on James river, immediately below the falls. It is a large elegant city, consisting of more than 1000 houses, and contains about 8000 inhabitants.* The state house stands on an eminence, and is considered the handsomest building in the state, having spacious apartments for the meeting of the legislature, and commodious rooms for the transaction of the public business of the state. The other public buildings are the court-house, jail, and theatre, two places for public worship, a freemason's hall, and three tobacco warehouses. Richmond is situated in a fertile healthy country, and is well supplied with provisions ; and it is flourishing in manufactures and commerce. There is an armoury in the neighbourhood, said to be the best in the United States. The city is remarkably well situated for mill-seats ; some of the finest flour-mills in the state have lately been erected, and the quantity of flour manufactured annually is immense. There are also rolling and slitting-mills, oil-mills, and several others; and several extensive distilleries and breweries. Richmond carries on a considerable trade, principally in to bacco and flour, with many places of the United States, particu larly New York, which in return supplies it with dry goods and groceries. The inhabitants here,like those in the sea-ports, are mostly dressed in British manufactures, and are very gay. They look remarkably well, and the ladies, of whom we only had a glance as we passed through the city, appeared very handsome. Some nails in my portmanteau having given way, I carried it to a saddler to get it repaired ; and on my return to the tavern, I found a native of Perth, to whom I had sent a message, waiting for me; and what with conversation about the place of our nativi ty, the importunity of the stage-driver, and the humour of our juerry captain, I was almost short shipt of a dinner. Having finished my repast as rapidly as I could, I took my place in the stage, and we set out for Petersburg. Several of the passengers had left us at Richmond ; but as we took up two or three gentlemen who were returning from a horse race, the stage was still full; and we continued our regulations, which our new members assented to with great cordiality. On leaving the city, we passed James River by a long wooden bridge, at which each of the passengers had to pay toll, a circum- • By the census of 1810, the number ij .755.", "416 TRAVELS IN after passing the act. Where it is found that there are two or more claims to the same lands, the matter will be referred to com misioners, to be appointed by the legislature. In the mean time all transfers of property are recorded in the county books, which will continue to be the case hereafter, and prevent all confusion. Being sprung from the state of Virginia, the manners of that people have given the tone to those of this state, which appears in a spirit of high independence, quick temper, and frank gene rosity. The only serious evil that I had to complain of in my jour ney through the country arose from the proneness of many of the natives to swearing. This vice is too common, and though 'tis true that \" it will neither break a man's leg, nor pick his pocket,\" yet it may stun his ears most unmercifully. This was literally the case with me; I found the country as bad, in that respect, as Ireland itself. Indeed it appears to me that there is a considera ble similitude between the Irish people and the Virginians, in more respects than this : frank, affable, polite, and hospitable in a high degree, they are quick in their temper, sudden in their re sentment, and warm in all their affections. CHAPTER LXXX1II. Cross the Ohio, — West Union, — Bainbridge, — Chillicothe. JjY the time I was ready to leave Limestone, it was 12 o'clock' and it was now warm and delightful. On reaching the river side, I perceived that the water had risen about three feet since I pass ed this place before ; and from the motion of a skiff in the middle ofthe stream, I judged that the current was now about two miles an hour. We crossed by a flat. The river was beautiful, and was enlivened by a great number of boats and skiffs. Havino- reached the Ohio side, we perceived that the state road rose abruptly up a steep hill, and were informed that another road to the left wound round the hill, through a pleasant valley. We took it. The sceneiy here was bold and rich, the hills on each side beinc about 200 feet high, covered by a rich vegetable mould, and clad with a profusion of timber, consisting chiefly of oak, walnut, chesnut, sugar maple, cherry, honey locust, &c. Two miles from the river we passed a countryman with a lead" ]

[ "SECT. V. Diod. 1. 16. c. 31. ONOMARCIIUS GENERAL OF PHOCIS. 57 in council and in the field, was raised, by election of the Phocian people, to the arduous office which he had so ably held. In talents not inferior, Onomarchus seems to have had a more soaring ambition and less scrupulous probity. He is said to have begun his administration with trespass upon the sacred treasury. But the proof seems to rest wholly on the difficulty of otherwise ac counting for the means he appears to have pos sessed for maintaining, and considerably increasing, the military force raised by his late brother. Ac cording to the same historian, who relates that the Phocian army was completely defeated when Philomelus was killed, the Phocian force was, within a few months after, greater than Philomelus had ever commanded. The Thebans, to deter enemies and allure friends, would endevor to profit from the death of the adverse general for spreading the belief of a great victory ; while they circulated also new fulminations of the Amphic tyons, threatening with divine as well as human vengeance, all who should in any manner or degree favor their sacrilegious foes. Nevertheless the Phocian cause continued rather to gain ground among the Grecian states ; the policy of Ono marchus, which was evidently able, being appa rently assisted by the credit which the wise and honorable conduct of Philomelus had extensively conciliated. During the season of rest from arms, according even to the historian's partial account, attributins? all success of the Phocian cause to bribery, the turn in politics, where any occurred, was in favor of Phocis. The principal defection Avas", "CREDIT ACQUIRED BY PHILIP. 101 ' and given liberty to the cky, returned into ' Macedonia with the credit of having advanced ' the power and estimation of his kingdom, by his ' atchievements, and by his reverence for the 1 deity.' And indeed so his popularity was now established in Thessaly, that, whether regularly elected to the situation of tagus, or under what other description vested with the power, he seems to have been henceforward considered, by the Thessalian nation, as the constitutional chief of their confederacy io. SECT. I. 9 Tr/c iv $£pa*V TvpxvHCCL xaGeTAe, xut T*J woAei t>;v i-K-.vQe fiat, uirt/oovs, ivavviMllv £*$ Maxeooyiav, Y]^r,nu^ tv,ii $a.<jCKita.* Tai? Wfu^iat, xi! t? wpo; to SeTo!/ Eiio-E^ia. Diod. 1. l6. C. 38. We find even Demosthenes bearing testimony to Philip's merit with the Thessalians in assisting them against their tyrants, i?r< tm Tvfam-Artt AtAat eGoUncri. Olynth. 2. p. 11. Yet in the same oration, a little before, he had spoken of the Thessalians as held in unworthy subjection, and sighing for liberty : 01 wxpa. rw etirut a.^',at StSouXufiiitoi ©i-nahoi »t*» mx out E*N£u6£poi ycuon-ro ix.t7p.1iKn ; p. 20. Present impression, being often, in the Athenian assembly, of great power, an orator might, in speaking, sometimes risk contradictions, to produce wayfaring effects. But if he committed his speech to writing, with a view to publication, he would propose to do away what might not bear reflection. The apparent con tradiction here, however, is perhaps nothing more than Demosthenes might deliberately risk, even in writing. It was the body of the Thessalian nation that Philip assisted against the ri/pamxw oixi»n. If among his auditors many would believe, nevertheless, that the body of the Thessalian nation were held in unworthy subjection, and anxious for a change of government, his purpose would be best answered. But were the inconsistency objected to him, or to any of his more informed friends, it would be answered, ' you misun ' derstood the orator : he did not say the Thessalians univer '. sally or generally were held in subjection ; but that those ' Thessalians, who were reduced to unworthy subjection,' (namely, the party which had befriended the tyrants, and were now deprived of their superiority of power and privileges) ' desired to recover their former advantages, and no longer ' to see the government of the country held by their ad ' versaries.' h 3", "POLITICAL STATE OF THEBES. 39^ or- relief against its occasional pressure, looked, in common with most other Greeks in uneasy cir cumstances, to the king of Macedonia, as a gene ral protector : and this was a second, and a stronger cause of jealousy for the Theban Many. But among the numerous states of Greece, where, for their smallness, alliances must be numerous, a kindness could hardly be done to one ally, such Avas the jealousy among them, without offence to some other. Had Philip's purpose been, like Jason's formerly, to hold Greece in subjection by force, Nicæa, placed in his hands by the Phocian general Phalæcus, would have been, for its com manding situation against the strait of Thermo pylæ, a possession to be carefully held. Had he kept it by a Macedonian garrison, he would per haps less have offended the Thebans ; but he gave it to their old allies the Thessalians, and thus he excited much their envy and indignation. SEC T. II. Æscii. dc cor. These were all circumstances of advantage for Demosthenes, in his purpose of detaching Thebes from the Macedonian alliance, and bringing it to close connection with Athens. Still, however, such was the inveterately hostile disposition of the Theban and Athenian people toward each other, and such the strength of the party in Thebes, not only in the highest degree adverse to such a con nection, but earnest to maintain the existing connection with Thessaly and Macedonia, that the project abounded with difficulty. The neces sities of the war-party however being urgent, and the object great, they were willing to hazard much for it, and bid high. The liberality of a system resembling" ]

[ "AND ADVENTURES AT SEA GOING DOWN OP TBE BISIGAND STEAMER, OFF THE SCILLY ISLANDS blow was of such srreat force that it carried off her paddle wheel, and drove it \"right into the engine-room. We saw the St. Agnes light, but in consequence of the haziness of the wea ther we considered it was at least 15 miles off. Soon afterwards we saw the breakers, but too late to avoid them. We put the h°lm hard aport, however, to endeavour to do so, and lmme diatelv received the shocks on our broadside. Where she struck was in lat. 49. 56. N., long. 6. 16, W., on the Crim Rock, near the Bishop's Rock, about three niiles and a half from the spot where the Thames was lost, and 67 hands, in January, 1841 Both compartments of the vessel were stove m, and she began to fill rapidly. The captain and crew immediately exerted themselves to the utmost to save the vessel. The car penter placed a board against the side, and placed stays against LOSS OF THE IRON STEAMER BRIGAND. The above sketch is an accurate representation of the loss of the Brigand steamer, on the 12th of October, 1842, off the Scilly Islands. We cannot better convey an idea of this lamen table catastrophe than by giving the following narrative, written by an eye witness of the distressing event : — \" We left Liverpool at two p.m., on Monday last, and pro ceeded on our voyage, without any thing particular happening until a quarter before five, a.m., on Wednesday, going from 11 to 12 knots an hour, with a strong current, light wind from the north-east, the morning being hazy, when she suddenly ran foul of the breakers, and struck twice; the first time right abreast of the foremast in the bluff of the bow, and the next Nu- I", "AND ADVENTURES AT SEA. 31 of great use, should they afterwards attempt to construct a raft. Yet they had reason to admire the goodness of God in thus providing for their safety through their disappointment, for in the afternoon it blew so hard a gale, that had they been at sea in their poor apology for a boat, they must inevitably have perished; and those that remained on the rock being helpless from weakness, must very soon have shared the same fate. They were now reduced to the most melancholy and de plorable condition that can weU be imagined ; almost every man was weak to an extremity, nearly starved with hunger, and perishing with cold ; their hands and feet frozen and mortified, with large and deep ulcers on their legs, the smeU of which was intolerable to those who could not creep into the open air, and nothing with which to dress them but a piece of Unen that was cast on shore. They had no fire, their smaU stock of cheese was exhausted, and the only support for their feeble bodies, was rock- weed and muscles ; and of these the supply was so scanty, that they had never more than two or three a day for each man, so that their bodies were perishing, whUe their disconsolate spirits were overpowered by the deplorable prospect of starving, without any appearance of reUef ; and, as if to add to this accumulation of calamities, they apprehended the approaching spring-tide would overflow them. Descrip tion fails in attempting to pourtray the horrors of such a situa tion; the pinching cold and hunger; the extremity of weakness and pain; the racking tortures of conscience in many; and the prospect of a certain, painful, and lingering death, -without even the most remote chance of deUverance. This is, indeed, the height of misery, and such, alas! was their case; insomuch, that the greater part of the company were ready to die of horror and despair. The captain, however, did his utmost to encourage himself and exhort the crew to put their trust in the Almighty, and with patient resignation to await their deliverance ; when, as a sUght aUeviation of their distress, and an encouragement of their faith in Providence a sea-guU came near their quarters, which the mate struck down, and joyfuUy brought to them. The captain im mediately divided it into equal portions, which though raw, and and scarcely affording a mouthful for each, yet they ate it with heartfelt gratitude. The last method of rescuing themselves which they could possibly devise, was the construction of a raft, capable of car rying two men, and this proposal was strongly supported by one of the men, a Swede, who was a stout brave feUow, but who had, since the disaster, lost the use of both his feet by the frost. He frequently importuned the captain to attempt their deliverance in the way he proposed, offering to accompany him, or if the captain refused he would go alone. After deUberate consultation, they resolved to try the experiment; but found great difficulty in clearing away the junk from the fore-yard, of which it was chiefly to be made, as their working hands were so few and weak. both got upon the raft, when the sweU of the sea, wliich was rolling very high, overset it, as it had befoTe done the boat; but the Swede, nothing daunted by the accident, swam on shore, while the other, who was no swimmer, was for some time under water, tiU the captain caught hold of him and saved him; but he was so discouraged, that he would not make a se cond attempt. The Swede was resolute in his purpose, and offered to go alone if no one would adventure with him; but another man came down and volunteered to accompany him, upon which they departed on the raft, desiring those who remained to go to prayers, and also to watch what became of them. By sun set they judged them to be half-way to the main, and concluded they might reach the shore by two o'clock in the morning. They, however, feU in with some breakers, or, probably, were over- set by the violence of the sea, and perished; for two days afterwards, the raft was found on shore, and one man dead about a mUe from it : but the Swede, who was so forward to adventure, was never heard of more. Those who remained.upon the rock being ignorant what had befallen the others, waited daily for their deUverance; and their expectations were the more raised, by observing a smoke in the woods about two days afterwards, which was the signal appointed to be made if they arrived safe; but seeing no ap pearance of approaching relief, they supposed that the delay was occasioned by their not being able to procure a vessel 60 soon as they desired, and this idea served greatly to buoy up their spirits. Their principal want was that of provisions, as they had nothing to eat but rock- weed, and a very few muscles, and when the spring-tide was over, they could scarcely get any at all. Upon their first arrival, they saw several seals upon the rock, and supposing they might harbour there in the night, the captain, who was the only one among them capable of exertion, walked round at midnight, but could never meet with any thing. They Ukewise saw a .great number of birds, but they were never able to catch any. This was a severe disappoint ment, and tended to aggravate lieir miseries stiU more; but it was particularly afflicting to the captain's brother, and another young gentleman, neither of whom had before been at sea, or endured any kind of hardship; and they were now reduced to the last extremity, having no one but the captain capable of assisting them. Part of a green hide, which was fastened to a piece of the main-yard, being thrown up by the sea, they divided it among them, and, after mincing it small, they swaUowed it. About this time the captain set the men to open the junk, and when the weather would permit, he thatched the tent with rope-yarn, in the best manner he was able, which proved of so much ser vice, as to keep out two or three hours' rain, and saved them, in a great measure, from the cold pinching wind, which was very severe. Having at last accomphshed this they spht the yard, and with the two parts made side pieces, to which they fixed others, and added some of the Ughtest planks they could find, first spiking, and afterwards making them firm. The raft was four feet in breadth, upon which they fixed a mast, and out of two hammocks that came on shore, they made a saU; they also made a paddle for each man, and a spare one in case of necessity. This diffi culty being thus surmounted, the Swede inquired of the captain whether he intended to accompany him, at the same time giving him to understand, that in case he declined, there was another ready to offer himself for the enterprise; but just at this time they saw a saU come out of the Piscataqua river, about seven leagues to the westward. They again made all the signal they could; but the wind being north-west, and the ship stand ing eastward, to their bitter disappointment, she was very soon out of sight, without having come near them. The next day the weather was moderate, and in the after noon, a Ught breeze blew right on shore. As the raft was finished, the two men were very anxious to have it launched, but this the mate strenuously opposed, on account of the late ness of the day, it being two o'clock in the afternoon. The men urged the lightness of the nights, and, after some delay, the captain at length consented to their proceeding. They About the latter end of December, the carpenter, a fat man, and naturaUy of a duU, heavy, phlegmatic disposition, about forty-seven years of age, and who from their first coming on shore, had been constantly very Ul, and lost the use of his feet, complained of excessive pain in his back, and stiffness in his neck: he was likewise almost choked with phlegm, for want of strength to discharge it, and appeared to be drawing near his end. They prayed over him, and used their utmost to be ser viceable to him in his last moments, for which he showed him self sensible, though he was speechless, and at night he died. They suffered the body to remain till morning, when the cap tain desired those who were most able to remove it, and went out by himself to see whether Providence had sent them any thing to satisfy, the excessive craving of their appetites : but returning before noon, and not seeing the body outside the tent, he inquired why they had not removed it, to which they an swered, they were not able : upon this, he fastened a rope to the body, and giving them his assistance, they with some diffi culty, dragged it out of the tent. The captain was so overcome by fatigue, and the consideration of their misery, that, being ready to faint, he crept into the tent ; but was no sooner there, than, as if to add to his trouble, the men began to request his permis sion to eat the dead body, the better to support their own lives,", "AND ADVENTURES AT SEA. 907 It was now absolutely necessary to bring about the ship. Tbe sailors were exhausted from toil and want of rest, aud for some days had been unable to get their meals. The pas sengers had no appetite, but all were likely to fall short, for the bread was wetted by the sea; the cook-room was carried away, so that nothing could be dressed as usual, and they were compelled at length to saw a cask asunder, fill the half of it with ballast, and thus make a hearth to parch peas and boil their salt beef between decks. This was executed with difficulty, for the whole apparatus was often upset, to the great grievance of those who were in expectation of satisfy ing their hunger. On the seventeenth ofthe month the sea grew calmer, and they saw several English vessels, none of which, save one, which was in as bad a condition from the storm as themselves, and felt a community in misfortune, would speak with them. The vessel which accosted Norwood's ship lay-to, for the boat which paid him a visit. The master of tho stranger proposed that he should be spared hands, to aid him at his pumps, in lieu of other things ho might give in return. He promised to keep in company, and, if possible, to take the Virginia merchant in tow to weather the cape; but he dis appeared in the night, forgetting] his promises, although he was bound to the same port. error was afterwards discovered, and was a sad disappointment. Had their saUs and rigging been in a sound state, the mischief might have been of less importance. Both capes were hi sight, but the ship would not lie within eleven or twelve poiuts ofthe wind, and they were compelled to run from the land which they were so eager to make, and a short time previously, so certain among themselves of making in a few hours. There was only an allowance now of half a biscuit to each person on board, five of which made a pound. Of drink, there was none, except Malaga wine, which inflamed their thirst. Towards night, the wind grew fresher, and they were carried away at a swift rate of sailing; the mate Putts, being much cast down at the consequence of his error. For days and nights together the wind sent them out to sea so rapidly, tbat they were at least a hundred leagues from the capes before they could settle what should be done. They tried every method, by the help of top-gallant sails, and little masts wherever they could be fixed, to keep her to windward ; but, for want of bowlines aud tackle to force the sails stiff, the wind *ould at times take them and rend them in pieces. The ship would then be tumbUng about on the ocean until they were repaired. For not less than forty days they were tossed about after they had lost the land. On the nineteenth of November the wind shifted to the eastward, but came back again in a short time to the north-west. The sea began to run high. They feared the guus would break loose when the ship rolled, while they mended tlie Bails, the lashings being rotten. They at last were enabled to get rid of this fear by moving them into the hold. By placing them, too, thus lower in the vessel, she had a tendency to lie steady in the water. They got a Uttle rain-water for drink, but for provisions they were in a famishing condition. In a week they had run two hundred leagues to the east. There were differences of opinion among the crew upon the subject. Some thought they had gone a good deal to the south, and recommended the making Bermuda. In the midst of a contrariety of opinion, it was at length resolved to make any part of the American coast they were able to fetch, even if it were as far to leeward as New England. In the meantime, hunger began to press heavier than ever upon the crew and passengers. The women and children made the ship resound with their cries and complaints. The rats which were caught were all eaten, and the price of one on board was sixteen shil- lings. One woman, far gone with child, offered a man twenty shiUings for a rat, which was refused, and the poor creature died. Miserable days were thus passed untU Christmas came, which, according to the custom of the times, must needs be kept with merriment, amidst the most depressing calamity. They scraped and ransacked their meal-tubs to compose a pud- ding. Malaga, sack, sea- water, fruit, and spices, well fried in oil, were the luxuries with which the officers and passengers regaled themselves, and upon wliich the crew looked with long- ing and greedy eyes. Captain Norwood says, that the greatest suffering he experi- enced was from thirst. At night, in his slumbers, he dreamed of nothing but overflowing cellars and their contents, to which he imagined he was refreshing himself, and the effect of which, in his waking moments, he found very prejudicial, by tantaUz- ing his fancy. The captain had a smaU store of claret in secret, of which he made Norwood a partaker, but it wanted the qualification of water to quench the thirst; notwithstanding which, it was a very great refreshment. One day the captain took Norwood into the hold, to Beek a draught of fresh water in the bottoms of the casks. They found just enough to satisfy their longing, though it was so thick as hardly to be palatable. They then got astride upon a butt of Malmsey, and swaUowing some of it found it preferable to the water, and the effect on Capt. Norwood was cordial and beneficial. The captain became more gloomy, trembling for his position, and then confessing how much he felt for having been tbe means of bringing so many into trouble by a false confidence in the goodness of his ship, he burst into tears. Capt. Norwood comforted him as weU as he could, and recommended that they should rely upon Providence, and hope for the best. They were now making for the nearest land, and suffering On the thirteenth of November, the; weather being fine, they thought it a good opportunity to get the ship about with the mizen. This they succeeded in effecting, but the next consideration was how they should make sail. The foremast, as high as to where it had lost its cap, stUl remained, and it was necessary that a yard should be fixed to it. The difficulty was to climb the bare and greasy stump, for there was nothing of wliich to take hold for support in ascending. The sliip's crew were at a loss, untU Tom Raisin, who was apparently a genius born with great resources, undertook to make the attempt. The passengers, to encourage him, promised to present him with a stock of Vu-ginian tobacco upon their arrival in port, should they be so fortunate as to reach it in safety. They set down on paper the proportions each would bestow on the gal- lant feUow, and many of them were not nice as to the quantity, for they never expected to reach the place of payment. Raisin selected from the ship's stores, half-a-dozen spike nails. He drove one of them into the mast as high as he could reach. He next took a ten-foot rope, and threaded a block with it, which divided it equally. He then made both ends of the rope meet in a knot over the spike. The block hanging on the opposite side of the mast served for a stirrup to stand in for driving the next spike, and so on untU he was as high as he wanted. He was careful to strike with his hammer, at the time of the smoothest sea. He soon managed to receive help from others of the crew, and they got np a yard and tackle in a few hours, so as to be able to carry saU towards their destination. The main-yard, which they had lowered at the commencement of the gale, was now made to serve the purpose of a main-mast, being lashed to the stump, which stUl remained eight or ten feet above the deck. They, not without difficulty, contrived to rig their masts with spare topsaUs. The sea grew still calmer, and aU seemed to promise well. The crew indulged a hope of seeing the capes, and making their destined port in safety. They now fell in with another ship bound to Virginia, which promised to remain near them. They endeavoured to get to the weather Bide of Cape Henry, thinking they were to the southward of Cape Hatteras ; but they, found by an observation j that they were carried by a current to windward, far beyond al} their reckoning or allowances for saUing ; in fact, so far, that when they thought they were to the southward of the [ cape, they were in reality to the north of Achomack, according to their mate, whose opinion no one was capable of disputing. He averred, that if the wind remained as it was, there was no doubt they would all dine tbe next day within the capes. This expectation was the more agreeable, as their water was again nearly gone, their meat spoiled and useless, and ouly a biscuit a day per head, and of that not enough to last much longer. I The mate fancied he saw the usual landmarks, being hummocks Of trees, of which his twenty- third voyage had given him, as might be supposed, .the capacity of judging rightly. The [" ]

[ "HARTMANN THE ANARCHIST. 66 Czars could not hope for. The desperadoes with him, hated by and hating society, were probably one and all devoured by lust of blood and revenge. The three I knew were all proscribed men, loathing not only the landlord and capitalist but the workers, who would most of them have rejoiced over their capture. They attacked not only the abuses and the defects but the very foundations of society. Their long-cherished thought had been to shatter the trophies of centuries. And the long-contemplated opportunity had come at last! One resource remained. What they meant to do with me was uncertain. But my relations with Burnett and the friendship of Hartmann's mother were suf ficient to avert any apprehension of violence. My endeavour then henceforward must be to work on the mind of Hartmann, to divert this engine of mischief into as fair a course as possible, to achieve by its aid a durable and relatively bloodless social revolution, and to reap by an authority so secure from over throw a harvest of beneficial results. Buoyed up by these brighter thoughts, I now began to find time for a more immediate interest. What of this wonderful vessel or ae'ronef itself? What was it built of ? how was it propelled, supported, steered, manned, constructed ? Rising from my chair, I felt my way", "CHAPTER XII. HOW I LEFT THE 'ATTILA The death of Burnett drove the crew to frenzy, their curses were not those of men but of fiends. The shock of surprise — the fury that one blow of their despised victims should have told — goaded them into the mood of Molochs. Instantly the news flew to Hartmann, who returned a welcome answer. The yells around me were broken by a burst of laughter. \" What is it ?\" I asked, fearful of some new horror, full as the measure of crime now seemed. \" Wait and you will see ! \" was all the reply I got. The Attila began to move at a high speed, and four of the men rushed down on to the lower deck. Quicker ! quicker ! quicker ! — there was no doubt of it, we were swooping on the City like a falcon. I was at the rail in a moment, and, careless of uprush ing shot and shell, bent over the side in a fever.", "A FLASH THAT BEGGARED THE LEVIN BOLT." ]

[ "94 A WEEK AT KILLARNEY. these towers, caUed \" the Black Castle,\" adjoins the residence of the Misses Bay lee, whose ances tors formerly con trolled a large por tion of the sur rounding district. But it is the ex tensive assemblage of Druidical re mains on this island and around the lake, that renders it perhaps the most interesting spot in Ireland for an antiquarian visit ; yet, strange to say, these gigantic re lics, which extend over many miles of country, have been allowed to remain unexplored and unde scribed, although probably they form the most magnificent Druidical work, considered as a whole, that exists in the world. In 1830, Mr. Crofton Croker communicated to the Antiquarian Society of London the observations made by him during an inves tigation of three days, and \" so obvious,\" he states, \" is the connexion between the various circles, pillar-stones, altars, and other works, that an examination of one leads the eye to discover others ; \" and thus was he led on from one remain to another, over a space of country the circumference of which he estimates at not less than ten miles. \" Beyond this,\" he adds, \" even at a distance of fifteen miles in a direct line from the lake, I found stone circles and other Druidical works, between which and those at Lough Gur I was unable to establish a connexion, although it appears probable that such once existed.\" There are three stone circles on the west side of the lake, close to the high road : the tourist will perhaps act judiciously in making them his starting point, and pro ceeding round the lake by a road which branches off at a place called Holy Cross. This road will lead him by the ruined church, which stands on an eminence that descends to the southern shore of the lake. The roofless and deserted walls, repre sented in the annexed print, still retain the name of \" the New Church.\" It was built by Lady Bath, as appears by the chahce and patine now preserved in the neighbouring church of Knockaiiey. From this point various stone circles and", "THE FOURTH DAY'S TOUR. THE ISLANDS AND SHORES OF THE LOWER LAKF This day we spend among the islands and along the shores of the Lower Lake ; taking a row round Torc ; awakening the echoes of the old mountain ; and, resting the oars off many a well-known spot, holding converse with far-famed Paddy Blake.\" The labour of to-day will not be severe ; the remainder of our tour about Killarney we can make easily, and by \" short stages.\" Indeed tour- ists whose time is limited may, when the third day closes in, consider the Lakes to have been visited, and prepare for a journey homewards or elsewhere. But many, we hope, will", "THUNDER-STORM AT KILLARNEY. 207 crystal : the sunbeams fall occasionaUy upon the haze that floats like a halo above the faUs, imparting the hues of earth's brightest gems to the trembling dews — violet and amber — a hundred tints of light and glory. As we entered our hotel the clocks were at loud variance ; the hall clock de liberately beating three, while that on the landing rattled on — ding — ding — dino —until it paused, from fatigue it is to be supposed, at twelve. \" The clocks are gone to foUy,\" said Jerry ; \" but it is weU to have a repater in the house that keeps Cork time.\" Courteous reader ! Has our wet day wearied you ? Not, perhaps, if you have been actuaUy shut up, because the pour, pour, has kept you a prisoner; and, if you have had no rain, you have been better occupied than in testing the truth of this picture. We shaU try your patience, however ; for having described a wet day at Roche's, we must, in common fairness, describe one at the Victoria ! Remem ber we spent ten days at the one hotel, and ten days at the other ; and do you imagine we passed twenty days with but one \" wet day ? \" We had attended service in the pretty church of Aghadoe, which the good taste of Lady Headley is rendering exceedingly picturesque by the addition of a tower. After service we had a delightful drive through the Headley Woods, catching occa sional glimpses of the lakes and the surrounding scenery; the coney and the hare crossing the road and bounding up the tangled banks every moment. We hastened through the drives ; for the mountains were backed by a deep lurid hght, and huge drops of rain splashed amid the trees, — mountain mutterings told of the coming storm. We had hardly reached the shelter of our hotel when the thun der began in right down earnest; and glorious it was — commencing behind the Reeks, rushing through the Gap of Dunloe — then, bursting forth anew above the Toomies, and shaking the echoes of Glena, peahng hoarsely through the glens and fastnesses of Mangerton — broad, hoary Mangerton ! — while the Ughtning played like a diadem around the beautiful brow of Torc. We sat at the open window of the Victoria, which commanded a panoramic view of the mountains we have named — InisfaUen sleeping in the dark waters of the lake beneath. Every other sound was hushed — even the rail ceased its croaking; — aU was sUent, save the eagle, whose broken wing secures its liberty in the grounds of the hotel ; and as it sat upon the garden-seat, its head outstretched to the mountains, to which it could never soar, it answered each fresh peal of thunder with a scream, bending as if to hsten for the echoes, which, roUing amid the mountains, now loudly, now indistinctly, were indeed most glorious ! Sometimes the thunder crashed, as if one fierce cloud encountered another — and then the royal bird clapped his wing as if in triumph. We would have given much to have seen him soaring away through the storm, — one of the grandest, the boatman said, they had witnessed for many years." ]

[ "ADVERTISEMENT. Those who wish to know how much I am indebted to the original of this Piece, or how little the original is indebted to me, must peruse the opera of \" Jean de Paris,\" written by Mons. Saint Just ; the Music of which is composed by Boieldieu, and considered the most successful that has been L^ard for some time on the French stage. The masterly manner in which my coadjutor, Mr. Bishop, has executed the arduous task of selecting and adapting those parts which were thought most valuable, has been approved by the auditors in a way that leaves me nothing to praise. I have only to add my thanks. To the Performers, it is my duty, and at the same time my greatest pleasure, to acknowledge how much I am indebted for their exertions in the representation ; and take this opportunity of requesting them individually and collectively to accept my sincere thanks, for efforts, which have rendered this trifle acceptable to the Public. I.P.", "JOHN OF PARIS. 27 ACT II SCENE I. A Saloon in the Inn. Enter the Princess, with the Letter. Prin. This more resembles the wild plot of a romance, than the dull stratagem of common life — in truth, it was well contrived. Let me read again — \" Disguised, the Prince will meet you on the road from Navarre — Beware of John of Paris, for by that name he travels. I send you his por trait in miniature (examines it). You will now encounter him on equal terms ; and should the affection which you felt in childhood for each other, be confirm'd, it will much rejoice your brother and your friend, The King!\" — Thanks, my dear brother, thanks. Shall I apprise the Chamberlain ?— No, he would talk too much. I'll keep my secret close (puts up the Letter). \" The affection we felt in childhood confirmed!\" Alas! how many scenes, \"how many feelings has he experienced since then. And tho' the impres sion he made upon this heart has remained indeli ble, mine upon his may have had fiercer trials to encounter — glory and ambition ! — yet even those cannot extinguish love's pure fire — No ! I'll not believe but that his faith is firm.", "32 JOHN OF PARIS. Cham. Why, the man's desperate. Vin. Most men are — who take a wife. Cham. Wife, wife! Oh the world's at an end I Enter Pedrigo, in a gaudy dress Ped. The world at an end — nonsense, only just began, — I never lived till to day. Here's sport, here's fun alive ! — a band of music and a dance. Cham. A dance ! — a dinner you mean Ped. No, I don't. Cham. Dance — the devil ! — who's to pay the piper ? Ped. John of Paris. Cham. Who gave you orders ? Ped. John of Paris. Cham. Who has turn'd your brain, blockhead ? Ped. John of Paris. I'm wild with joy ! — he's something like a customer — look here, here's a figure, you don't see the like every day. He doesn't leave modest merit to pine in obscurity, like some folks. Talk of a Chamberlain, pish! a fellow of yesterday, a nonentity — a body without a soul. Cham. A what, Sirrah ? Ped. A man of straw ! a thing of no use to any but the owner ! give me John of Paris, none of your whip syllabubs— he, he's substantial — a good man. He's got it here, and I've got it here — look ! (slapping his pockets, and producing mo ney.) Ha ! ha ! Cham. Oh, I shall lose my senses among 'em. Ped. Ah, Mr. John's man, how are you, Mr. John's man ? you see how it is — they become me, don't they ? — I say, I wish you'd teach me a little of your high talk, such as you palaver'd me with this morning, you know. Fine folks are nothing without fine words." ]

[ "2 Through the whole year, aa recorded at Greenwich, the temperature was 3 degrees above the average. The extraordinary heat of the past summer finds but few parallel instances in modern times, but they are marked by bountiful harvests. In 1818 the thermometer was twice at 89 degrees, and often above 80 deurees ; 1819, a fine summer ; 1822, a splendid year— hot and dry; 1825, very hot almost throughout, on July 18, the thermometer stood at 90 degrees ; 1826, the hottestand dryest,at thattimeknown, it began earlyand continued late ; the thermometer was twice at 88 deg. and often at 84 degrees ; 1834, a very fine hot summer ; an early and productive harvest ; 1835, hot and dry ; 1840, a fine warm summer, with intense beat in August ; and in 1844, very dry. The converse of these hot and dry seasons was generally unproductive har vests and badly garnered. RANGE OF THE THERMOMETER. REGISTERED AT MR. APPLEBY'S NURSERY, AT BALBY. The coldest in any month for the period recorded was in 1860, on Christmas-eve, when the thermometer regis tered 8 degrees below zero. The coldest day in the year 1867 was on the 2d of January, when the thermometer stood at 8 degrees above zero. The hottest day in 1868, was July 26, when the hermomeer in the shade stood at 118 degrees, and in .he Bun 137 degrees. Avi tei >rag< uyei Of 'S. .861 186! L868. UJ fcjo 3 51* 53* 58 67 76 80 81* 80\" 74 66* 55* 53* en ar is o -J 18 1SJ 20* 26 30 40* 43 43 38*. 29 21J 18 a' a aj 34 35 39* «J 52* 60\" 62* 6lJ 56 47 39 34 -j en ar AS to B 54 52 57 69 75 84 90 76 70 65 60 68 cei 0A i; O -J 22 22 ' 14 20 29 38 41 43 36 30 25 25 a\" CJ JS -ee JD ea B en O O -i 8 23 21 32 31 40 41 43 41 30 31 20 a S a in 32 j 55 39jV 57 38| 62 49 | 64 56 83 61 ! 90 62 118 64jV 97 57 I 90 49s 64 44* 64 34* 53 JD * o tJ 23 23 25 26 40 47 40 36 37 28 23 28 J3 ei ml 39 40 43*. 45 i;,' 75 nil' 63j 46\" 4:;'. 40 j Jan.. Feb.. 31 ar.. April May.. June. July. Aug.. Sep.. Oct.. Nov.. Dec.. 38 37 36 47 52 61 65 59 53 47 4-2 46 56 56 56 66 81j 82 83 88 73 69$ 58 56", "42 There were twelve merchants with corn samples, one with hoos, ten with linseed and tillage. It has been officially reputed that the resident popu lation of Great Britain is increased by 240,000 persons annually, and it is calculated that these new comers would require for their subsistence, in bread alone, the crops of 50,000 acres of land under skilful tillage. WOOL MARKETS. 1863 169,920 1864 192,161 1865 159,228 1806 173,380 1867 1911.008 1868 206,506 £215,000 £317,000 £254,000 £208,000 £216,000 £216,830 The market for the sale of wool took place May 30, and closed October 3. The two additional markets in October and November were, this year, not held. Land adjoining the wool market has been purchased of Mr. Rhodes, of Hooton Roberts, for a proposed extension of the accommodation required by the increasing sale of wool. The site comprises nearly 800 square yards ; the purchase money was £1,500. STOCK MARKET. RETURNS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1868. ft M $4 £ § » So £ S S sh Months. g » S M pq o January .... 4 806 14 February .. 28 1148 52 March 28 1224 57 April 12 915 106 May 56 1402 246 June 25 800 27 July 24 211 15 August 25 135 30 September.. 23 285 52 October .... 41 482 38 November . . 8 666 66 December .. 5 693 31 Totals .. 279 8667 724 1865.... 433 6089 578 1866 642 670 — 1867.... 363 3541 470 1882 142 1277 4125 2195 1042 1478 5943 2044 2529 1322 7204 4262 711 2078 8084 6617 481 2157 10959 4341 513 2074 7780 2256 500 1720 4726 1930 1000 2056 5176 6263 1348 2178 10149 10373 1935 2391 15260 2188 622 1635 4975 2790 598 1181 5298 47141 11321 21547 89679 46120 10011 22021 84243 40516 8009 16686 72525 68414 12167 24011 98966 1867.— The cattle plague closed the markets. By order of the Lords of her Majesty's Council, the market for fat and lean stock was opened on the 10th of August ; to be held on every Saturday and alternate Tuesday. In England the number of cattle that died or were destroyed on account of the plague amounted to 141,514; in Wales, 6,738; and in Scotland, 33,194; total 181,443, or 368 per cent, of the ordinary stock.", "58 wark 1'52, Lambeth 168, Grand Junction 1'60, West Middlesex 1*36. Ammonia is classed as organic matter, being composed of nitrogen and hydrogen gaeses. One bore-hole is in the West-quarry, close to Car croft-Iodge of the park ; the other is nearly in front of Owston Hall, by the road Bide leading from Owston to Carcroft, bounding the park. During the whole of the last summer, an exceptionally dry Beaaon, the flow of water did not seem to diminish, HARROGATE WATER WORKS. It may not be uninteresting to know the proceedure of a town, which has to depend for this necessary element, for its inhabitants and visitors, and whose streams receive the drainage of the town. In the autumn I made myself acquainted with the Harrogate water-works, the source, supply, and purity of the water. The water supply to Harrogate, with a population of about 5,000, and a large annual increase of visitors, is not only pure in quality, but copious in quantity. It takes its rise in Haverah Park at an elevation of 500 and 600 feet above the level of the sea, and at nearly four miles west of the town. One source of supply gushes out of a rocky hill, another from an extensive water shed of a moorland plateau and copious springs. The water is caught and stored in a reservoir, formed by banking up one end of a valley, and which will hold upwards of 15,000,000 gallons. The water iB then con veyed, by gravitation, in five inch glazed iron pipes, for three and a half miles, to three reservoirs, situate on the Cornwall-road, near Harlow-hill (which have been constructed at various times, as the demand required), about half a mile from the town. These reservoirs will contain upwards of 14,000,000 gallons of water ; from which, also by gravitation, the town is supplied. The length of mains is about fifteen miles. There are means to filtrate the water when necessary. The extraneous matter in the imperial gallon is four grains at the Haverah Park reservoir, and about six grains at the supply reservoirs. By an analysis, at its source, taken id 1863, the water contains, in a gallon, 1'80 grains of common salt, with strong traces of carbonate of potash ; 2'00 carbonate of lime and magnesia ; and, very slightly, of iron ; and *20 of gypsum. A more recent analysis of the water in the supply reservoirs by Dr. Musprat, varies but little from the former. The cost of construction, maintenance, &c. from its origin, has been somewhere about £20,000. in twenty years. The Haverah Park reservoir can have its capacity increased by heightening the bank. It will be noticed that the Harrogate water is nearly in a normal state. SPRING WATER. A well has been sunk at Bridge-terrace, eight and a half yards deep, and on the 10th of October, water stood eleven feet deep ; a well has been sunk in Bridge-street," ]

[ "10 IDA PFEIFFER'S LAST TRAVELS. to a single family. Some found places at long tables under the trees, others simply threw themselves on the grass ; but all seemed equally devoted to the national beverage of the country, the beer, without which a true Bavarian would scarcely be able to enjoy himself thoroughly. In spite of this bibulous propensity, everything went off peacefully and well; and it was not until the evening that one or two of the company showed signs of having overdone the thing a little. Luckily, the Spirit of the Hop seems to be a good-natured sort of spirit, only promoting hilarity — for I did not hear of a single quarrel. The first representation had been honoured by the presence of King Max, who came in the dress of a plain citizen. Afterwards, in the theatre, I saw the king and the whole court in private dress. It is a long time since I have seen a monarch in the garb of a civilian ; crowned heads wear uniforms, and nothing but uniforms, as if they belonged exclusively to the military class. There is some fitness in that ; for what would the majority of them be Avithout soldiers? King Max seems to take a different view of things. He honours the citizens, and does not scruple to associate with them. He marched along with the great crowd, with no followers to accompany or police to escort him. He cleared a path for himself, and the people passed to and fro around him quite unceremoniously.", "214 IDA PFEIFFER'S LAST TRAVELS. indifference to him AAdiether the French or the English, or any other nation took possession of the island, if only the people were properly governed. For himself, heAvished neither for the throne nor for the regal title, and Avould at any time be ready to give a written abdication of his claims, and retire and live as a private man, if he could by such a course ensure the prosperity of the people. I must confess that this declaration moved me deeply, and inspired me with a high respect for this prince — such respect as I feel for very feAV human beings. To my mind a man of such sentiments is greater than the most prominent among the ambitious and egotistical monarchs of Europe. May 31. This morning the queen sent one of the grandees of the empire to inquire after our health, and to invite us to take the Sambas sambas next day in the house of the lady Rasoaray. On this occasion she sent Mr. Lambert a present, as a mark of her favour. The gift con sisted of a magnificent fatted ox, of proportions I had rarely seen equalled, even in Europe, besides some very fine poultry and a basket of eggs. The presents of the queen never con sist of any other articles, and are generally con fined to poultry and eggs; oxen are only added when she wishes to confer on the recipient a mark of peculiar distinction.", "243 TANGUIN, OR POISON TEST. persons are not alloAved to make any defence, for they must submit to the poisoning ordeal under all circumstances. When any one gets through without perishing, a third part of the deposited money is given to him, a second third belongs to the queen, and the remainder is given back to the accuser. If the accused dies, the accuser receives all his money back, for then the accu sation is looked upon as Avell founded. The poisoning process is managed in the fol loAving manner : — The poison employed is taken from the kernel of a fruit as large as a peach, groAving upon trees called Tanguinea Veneni flora. The lampi-tanguini, or person who ad ministers the poison, announces to the accused the day on which he is to take it. For forty-eight hours before the appointed time he is allowed to eat very little, and for the last twenty-four hours before the trial nothing at all. His friends ac company him to the poisoner's house; here he has to undress himself, and make oath that he has not had recourse to any kind of magic. The lampi-tanguini then scrapes aAvay as much powder from the kernel with a knife as he j udges necessary for the trial. Before administering the dose to the accused, he asks him if he confesses his crime; but the culprit never does this, as he would have to take the poison notwithstanding. The lampi-tanguini spreads the poison on three little pieces of skin, about an inch in size, cut r 2" ]

[ "ROSE SOMMERVILLE. 13 years), ever had even a word of disagreement, and when sho returned home from her visit to Rose, sho reminded him of their engagement for the evening, and expressed a hope that he would meet Melville with his usual cordiality. ' I am quite convinced, dear Edward, that Melville is by this time sorry for having expressed himself so warmly, and will be anxious to forget all that passed between you; and I should be indeed sorry if Mrs. Melville (who since the death of your brother has all but filled her place towards us both) should observe any coolness between you ; and poor Lucy, tan, just as she is celebrating her onc-and-twentieth birthday, it would cast a shadow over all her joy, for she is so tenderly attached both to you and her brother, that to know an unkind feeling existed between you would have the effect of rendering her very sad.' ' Rest assured, Marian, that I shall not renew the discussion, especially as Rncp is ta accompany us; at the same time, knowing Melville's feelings towards hor, I shall ieg.tiu him with a jpalous eye. Think what an opinion your brother would have of me if, through any want of caution on my part, Melville should succeed in seducing her affection from him,' ' Oh ! I cannot conceive Melville capable of such premeditated baseness.' ' A man passionately in love, as he declares himself to be, is capable of anything that tends to gain the object of his wishes.' ' Really, Edward, I am confident you think too seriously of the matter ; that Melville admires Rose exceedingly I do not doubt, for she is so beautiful that I think few men could gaze upon her without admiration ; but that he really loves her in the way you imagine, I cannot believe.' ' \"You have his own words in proof of it, Marian,' ' Yes ; but how often do men express themselves in a similar manner, without, for an instant, seriously meaning what they say ! it is but natural that men should endeavour to attract the notice of a handsome woman, which they may surely do without entertaining any bad design; and I must think, Edward, you were too severe upon Melville last night. I never deemed you unjust before, and Rose is, you know, so devotedly attached to Albert, that it would be next to impossible for any one to estrange her affections from him.' While this conversation was taking place between Edward and Marian Trevors, Mrs. Melville and Lucy were making active preparations for the evening. Lucy in a light undress, with a beating heart, trod the floor of the ball-room, anxious to see that all was arranged to her satisfaction. She was, as Marian had described her, a very pretty, interesting looking girl, not that she could be for one moment compared to the brilliant beauty of Rose, yet her features were regular and good, and her pale cheek and slender form never failed of awakening an interest in the beholder. As she stood in the centre of the room gazing around with proud satisfaction, apparently in deep thought, her brother entered, and walking gently up behind her, placed Ms hand on her shoulder: she turned instantly, and with a look of tender affection exclaimed — * Well, dear Henry, what do you think of the arrangements ; for I suppose, like me, you have come to see that all is perfect V * I have come, dear Lucy, to give you a brother's greeting on this important day. And, drawing from his pocket a row of costly pearls, he clasped them round her neck, and, affectionately kissing her cheek, said, — * My dear girl, may you never he less happy than at this moment !' * Thank you, dear brother,' she returned. ' If your kind wish is granted, my lot will indeed be a bright one. But I dare not hope to pass through life so easily.' ' Why not? If any one ever deserved it, I am sure it is you.' ' You regard me, dear Henry, with a brother's fond partiality, but, even putting that aside, those who most deserve happiness in this world rarely attain it.' 'Dear Lucy,' he returned, 'you must not speak or look sad on a day which should be the brightest and most joyous of your life, except one.' ' You allude to marriage,' said Lucy, a slight colour mounting to her usually pale cheek ' Most certainly,' replied her brother. * I hope one day to perform that office for you I have already done for Marian Trevors.' The colour faded from her check, and a slight agitation shook her frame, but she answered calmly, — * That is the only subject on which I cannot allow you to speak to me ; you have frequently heard me express a determination never to repeat the marriage vows. There is so little faith in man, that I am resolved never to trust my happiness to another's keeping.' * Are vou not rather bitter against our sex, Lucy ?' 'I may have reason to be so,' she returned. The colour mounted to the very temples of Melville, suffusing his face with one rich glow as he replied, *Lucy, tell me this instant, has any one dared to — ' * Stop, dear Henry, there is no occasion for your anger. I may have loved and been deceived but it is no uncommon case,'", "ROSE SOMMERVILLE. 63 'That is the reason you gain so few savours from them. Y'ou take upon you too njuch the office of censor, and are also, if I mistake not, rather given to pointing out their faults, of which ladies can never bear to be told.' ' If a woman can give heed, and appear pleased with the fulsome adulation some men shower upon the sax, and which indeed is totally devoid of meaning, I shonld entertain but a very poor opinion of her — a woman of any mind should be above such absurd flattery.' 'I think,' returned Fairford, 'I know tho sex a little better thau you do; and though a woman may be deaf to what you call fulseme adulation, yet she is never displeased at being praised for beauties, either of person or mind, she is conscious, and wbat woman is not, of possessing.\" ' You, Fairford, arc aprofessed flatterer, and as such are no true lover to one particular woman, but a general admirer ofthe sex; and if you see a woman is but handsome, inquire no further, but are perfectly satisfied. Now I dive deeper, and not content with a fair outside, I seek the inner graces of the mind ; and wbenl find ono that assimilates with my own shall yield my whole heart to that one being, regardless of all others ; but then if I see faults in her that stand in need of correction, I shall not hesitate kindly to tell ber of them, and in doing so, I shall consider that I am giving ber the strongest proof of my regard in thus treating her as a reasonable being ; and if I once saw that she coveted flattery, I should say \" Good bye' ' to her at once, for she would no longer be worthy of my love.' 'Well,' returned Fairford, 'I am convinced that, however much a woman may regard a man, or love him, if you will, and however patiently she may endeavour to bear reproof from him, and seek to alter what may he disagreeablo to him, either in person or manners, she will, after a while, grow weary of being continually found fault with, and having every little error pointed out, while her numberless good qualities are looked upon as a matter of course, and for which it would be wrong in her to expect a little praise.' 'Y'ou are right,' said Edward ;' women are wise enough to prefer praise to reproof, admiratiou to wise counsel and sage remarks : and they like to have credit given them for virtues which they are themselves conscious of being deficient in ; therefore I ever make it a rule to laud them to the skies — to pronounce them perfect, both in form and features ; and above all let me know them to be ever so badly inclined, I never fail to address them as the most innocent and virtuons of their sex; and this is I firmly believe, the grand secret that has gained me so many laurels; for none, I think you will allow have ever been more successful in love than I.' 'But such success as that I would not give a pin for,' returned, Mortimer, 'for any one, by adopting your plan, might he equally successful.\" ' I hardly think so,' replied Edward,' for it is not every one who has the knack of fascinating the sex. Now, for instance, what I may say to them shall be so said that they will firmly believe it comes from the sincere and overflowing fove of an affectionate heart ; and ladies are never displeased at possessing a lover who is sa entirely devoted to them tbat he is fully alive to all their beauty and graee, but totally blind to all their faults.' ' By Jove ! you are right, my boy,' said Fairford, slapping Edward heartily on the back, ' and I give you credit for knowing the sex well, and, what is more, for richly deserving all the laurels you have won : you must indeed have early made woman's heart your study.' ' I have studied love, and not, as Byron would have men make it, — \" of their lives a thing apart.\" By St. George ! mine, I verily believe, has approached nearer to what he says it does in women; at any rate, I have done ray best to make it my \" whole existence.'' ' ' If you come to quoting poets, I shall say, with Moore, that you have roved liked the first bees of summer, thus rifling each sweet, and never loved, but the free hearts that loved again,' said Fairford, laughing. ' True, most true,' returned Edward ; ' at least I have endeavoured to make the free hearts love again.' ' But suppose they were not free, what then ?' said Mortimer. • Why, then I have strove to make them so,' replied Edward. ' And a very wise proceeding,' returned Fairford, ' and worthy of more general adoption.' At wbich they all laughed again. ' Alas !' thought Henry, as he bent once more over his paper, ' how little I have known of Edward 1 To make a public boast of the wickedness and deception he bas been in the constant habit of practising when it was least suspected ! Poor Rose ! she has indeed been exposed to more temptation than I thought for ;. and if sho has fallen into the snare that has been purposely spread to entangle her, she will be far more an object of pity than of reproach, while such monsters as these' (and he threw a glance fraught with hatred towards Edward,) ' are constantly prowling about, using the most infernal arts and devilish machinations, that women need be made of stone to resist them. Oh ! who then — knowing what, alas ! I fear I only know too late — could harshly visit upon Rose the sin that more justly sppertains to another? If she bas", "ROSE SOMMERVILLE. 67 ' I would punish your insolence,' said Edward, \" if ' You dared,' added Henry. ' What is it you say ?' replied Edward, at length roused to something like indignation ; ' you will have to answer for this yet ; when I tell Rose all that has passed, she will, I feel certain, release me from the promise which now forces me to bear patiently with your insult.' ' You will find me not only ready but willing to respond to your call, if, indeed, it were possible you could ever have the courage to make one. In the meantime, be very guarded in your actions, for let me even have cause to suspect you of any further villany, and, by God ! I swear you shall repent it to your latest day, if even you escape with your life, which I will do my best to prevent. Mortimer,' he continued, turning towards him, ' when that day comes, as come it will, 1 am perfectly convinced I may look to you as a friend who will stand by me and see justice done between us.' Mortimer extended his hand, which Henry cordially grasped, as he said — ' You may, Mr. Melville, depend upon me.' ' 1 thank you,' returned Henry, ' and shall one day unhesitatingly apply to you ; it may be speedily or otherwise, V am not at present prepared to say, but your services will be required by me.' ' And when they are so, you will find them at your command.' Edward smiled, as he said — ' Well, Fairford, as the preliminaries are all being settled on the other side, 1 may as well engage you to officiate for me ; though, as I said before, until Rose absolves me from my promise, nothing shall induce me to meet Mr. Melville.' ' All this puts me in mind of the old play \"Much Ado about Nothing,\" replied Fairford, laughing; ' is not a man at liberty to admire a pretty womau, and gain her if he can, without submitting to the insult and interference of one who bears no manner of relationship towards her ?' ' It seems not,' said Edward, sarcastically. \" Why, hang it, then ! if I would for an instant put up with such interference ; it is asking too much of a fellow to bear with such confounded impudence.' ' Treat it with the contempt it so well merits,' said Edward, changing his position to one of greater ease. , (8^' Punish it with the chastisement it deserves, would be moro to my way of thinking; said Fairford, • and as you say it is impossible for you to do so under the present circumstances, delegate the task to me — let me be your proxy, and see if I do not teach them a lesson not quickly to be forgotten.' ' Takeit coolly,' returnedEdward, ' for a little while, and then I will take the reins in my own hand, for to nene will I delegate the task that most properly belongs to myself.' \" Well, I suppose it must be as you desire ; but if Mr. Melville is not satisfied to wait, I can only say I am willing to meet bim on my awn account, and the sooner the better. I am of too fiery a temperament to be fond of any dilatory proceedings.' ' So am I, ina general way,' replied Henry, who saw at least something to admire in the hot blood and courageous bearing of Fairford, opposed to tha cold, scheming villaay of Edward,' ' but this time I am not only willing, but anxious, to wait till such time as Mr. Trevors will have his arms at liberty. I could force him on to give me satisfaction almost at the present moment, but 1 scorn to take advantage even as one I despise ; and being bound by a promise, he would scarcely like to act otherwise than merely ou the defensive, and so, as I said before, I will let my anger rest, not fearing for an instant that it will cool.' Henry spoke these words with considerable bitterness, and in a tone of sarcasm he rarely assumed ; but his provocation was great, and he f'eltmore exasparated than he would have wished to be known, by Edward's cold contempt, and, without a single word more, he bowed to Mortimer and left the house. The thoughts that filled his breast, as he walked towards home, were mingled ones of joy and sorrow. Rose was still in a great measure innocent, for had not Mortimer observed to Edward that his conquest was still incomplete ? Doubtless she bad been so far led away as to entertain feelings of regard towards him, hut she was not without the pale of hope; no, she might yet be snatched from the brink of destusetiou on which she was hovering, wholly unconscious of the danger that momentarily assailed her : it was this thought that shed a brightness over the otherwise dreary sadness of his heart — a sadness that sprang from the purest feelings of his nature, to think that the man he had so fondly cherished as his best and dearest friend, should have proved so totally unworthy of the affectionate regard that had been lavished on him, not by himself alone, but by his mother and sister. Thank God, he had dono them no injury ; but oh ! for the future how oautious it would make him — how carefully he would scan his merits ere he introduced another te those dear friends. If Lucy had fallen a prey to his vile passions — if even, dazzled by his showy exterior and prepossessing manners, she had become bis wife — the wife of one he could now only look upon with horror and detestation — oh.! what anguish would have been his portion, to think that he was the moans »f her having become acquainted with such a character 1 God be praise* ! that misery at east wan spared him.- and it" ]

[ "7 Chidintone J . . i| hides . Roger de Laci, Radulfus (Earl William). Chingestone 2 . 7 hides . (Milo Crispin). Chingestone . . 5 hides . Hunfridus (Milo Crispin). Cibbaherste 3 . 3 hides . (Count of Evreux). Clawelle 4 . . . 10 hides . (William Pevrel). Aluuin. Codesdone e . . 18 hides . (Abingdon Abbey). Codeslam 6 . . 2 hides . Siuuard (S. Frideswide). The same. Codeslave6 . . 3 hides . Alured clericus (Roger d'lvri). Coges7. . . . 5 hides . Wadardus (Bp. of Bayeux). Cornewelle 3 . . 2^ hides . Anschitil de Grai (Earl William). altera Cote9 . . 2 hides . (Milo Crispin). altera Cote . . 2 hides . Toui (Milo Crispin). Covelie 10 . . . 3 hides . Rogerius (Count Eustace). Covelie . . . 2^5* hides Rogerius (Bp. of Bayeux). Covelie . . . 1 j-7***-*** hides Toli (Milo Crispin). Toll. Covelie ... 4^ hides . (Leuuinus). Leuuinus. Craumares u . 5 hides . (Battle Abbey). Heraldus Comes. Craumares\" . 10 hides . Hugo (Walter Gifard). Cropelie13 . . 50 hides . (Bp. of Lincoln and milites). Ansgeredus 10. Gislebert 5. Teodricus 2. Ricardus3- Eduuardus 6. Robertus 1 \\. Robertus alter a|. Cuehesham u . 5 hides . Aluredus (Milo Crispin). Wigot. Cumbe16 . . . 1 hide . (Bp. of Bayeux). Aluuin Ss Algar. Dadintone 16 . . 36 hides . (Bp. of Bayeux). Five thanes. 1 Nether Kiddington. T. N. pp. 102, 103, Leticia (Ralf, pp. 105, 1 1 2) de Sausey has | a knight's fee of the Fee of Walter de Lacy : and also (p. 103) half a knight's fee of the fee of W, de Stuteville : this last is of the Honour of Castle Richard. So Radulfus is Ralph Mortimer. See Bechebroc. 2 Kingston Blount. T. N. pp. in, 113, Hugo de la Mare has \\ of a knight's fee in Kingston of the Honour of Wallingford, charged half a mark. 3 Cnippenhurst. T. P. N. p. 44, The Prior of Noyon has in Chippen hurst and Baldon in annual rent £6. * Crowell. 5 Cuddesdon. A. C. i. 200, Edwy (Eadwig) granted to Earl Ælfhere 20 mansæ at Cuthenesdune, and he gave them to Abingdon Abbey in frankalmoign. The boundaries are given. 6 Cutslow. 7 Cogges. T. N. p. 103, is the caput of the Barony of Arsic. The Abp. of York, and Thomas de la Hay hold the vill : and no inquiry can be made as to whether it is as a fee or not. f. it 6, the heirs of Robert Arsic are Eustace de Greinvill and Thomas de la Hay. 8 Cornwell. T. N. pp. 101, 105, The Abp. of York has Jth of a knight's fee of the Fee of d'Oily. 9 Nothercote. T. N. pp. 113, 114, Milo de Morley has £ of a knight's fee of the Honour of Wallingford. I0 Cowley. H. R. p. 723, The Templars have 3 hides given them by Queen Matilda. The Sandford Leiger Book (Bodley, Wood Empt. 10) states it was given for the soul of her father Count Eustace, and for the safety of her own soul, and of King Stephen's her husband. u Preston Crowmarsh. T. N. p. 118, The Abbey of Battle has £10 of land at Crowmarsh, by what service is not known. u Crowmarsh Giffard. T. N. p. 100, The Countess of Oxford has one knight's fee of the Fee of the Earl Marshal. p. 107, Egelin de Courtenai is in the king's gift and her land in Crowmarsh is worth iocs. p. 114, The Earl Marshall has 3 fees in Shiplake and Crowmarsh. Hugo is Hugo de Bolebec (D. 56 b). \" Cropredy. T, N. p. 1 20, Simon of Cropredy has | a knight's fee there of the Bishopric of Lincoln which is in the king's hand. \" Cuxham. T. N. pp. 112, 114, 116, Ralf de Chenduit has one knight's fee of the Honour of Wallingford, for which he is charged 1 mark. u Combe, near Woodstock. 16 Deddington. T. N. pp. 102, 103, William de Dive and Ralf Hareng hold two knights' fees in chief of the king. p. 106, The heir of Wido de Dive should be in the king's custody, and is in the custody of John de Bassingbum : his land is worth £20, and is held by William de Breauce. T. N. pp. 112, 116, The two fees are charged 4 marks. T. N. p. 10C, Eva de Gray has 10 marks of land of the king's gift. Aelicia Murdac, daughter of Ralph Murdac, has 20 marks of land of the king's gift : and is in the custody of the Abp. of Yorlc", "12 Henestan1 . . 24 hides . Urso (Abbey of Winchcombe). Hochenartone '2 . 30 hides . (R. d'Oily). Three brothers. Hornelie 3 . . 10 hides . Radulfus (Count of Mortain). Tochi. Hornelie . . . 1 hide . Monks of S. Peter (Count of Mortain). Hornelie ... 10 hides . Radulfus (Berengar de Todeni). Queen Eddid Ss Turgot. Hornelie ... 1 hide . Ricardus (R. de Stafford). Horspadan 4 . . 54 hides . Gislebert (R. d'lvri). Hortone 5 . . . 3 \\ hides . Adam (Bp. of Bayeux). Hortone 6 . . . 1 1 hides . (Alwi). Leuiet. Hunesworde7 . 5 hides . Walterius (WTm. fitz Ansculf). Ideberie 8 . . . 14 hides . Oidelardus (R. de Mortimer). Tliree thanes. Lachebroe9 . . 12 hides . Hugo (Walter Gifard). Langefort10 . . 15 hides . Alsi de Ferendone (King). Heraldus Comes. Lantone n . . 2 \\ hides . S. Peter Westminster, Balduin (King). Lavelme !2 . . 5 \\ hides . Hugo (Walter Gifard). Lawelme13 . . 2\\ hides . (Rannulfus Pevrel). Iiawelme 14 . . 8 hides . Robertus (Gislebert de Gand). Ulf. Lawelme I5 . . 4-J hides . (Robertus fitz Radulf). Ledewelle . . 1 J- hides . (King) — belonging to Blochesham. 1 Church Enstone. T. N. p. 108, The Abbot of Winchcombe has | a knight's fee in frankalmoign of the fee of the Earl of Gloster, which goes to make up 2 knights' fees in Winchcombe. * Hooknorton. T. N. pp. 101, 10;, This is the caput of the Barony of d'Oily : and here Simon de Heroville has i, and Savaric de Walecot -Jth of a knight's fee of the Fee of d'Oily.- 3 Horley, near Wroxton. T. N. pp. 103, 1 04, John de Lexinton has in Horley and Hornton j a knight's fee of the gift of Robert de Lexinton of the Honour of Brandon, of Roesia de Verdun, p. 1 13, Nicholas is charged for it 1 mark. T. N. p. 109, The Archdeacon of Bucks has half the vill in frankalmoign of the Fee of the Bishop of Lincoln. 4 Horspath. T. N. pp. 100, 105, The Templars of Cowley have | a knight's fee of the fee of Robert Musard. p. 113, The land of Richard fitz John, being one knight's fee in Hettrop and Horsepath, is charged 2 marks. 5 Over Worton. T. N. pp. 108, 118, Nicholas de Moles has the whole vill by the serjeanty of keeping the king's falcons. Adam de Mora so held it. 6 Nether \"Worton. T. N. pp. 108, 118, William fitz Robert has i| hides by the serjeanty of bearing a banner against the enemy for 40 days at his own cost. p. 118, Robert fitz Alan has 1 j carucates by the service of bearing a pennon before the infantry of the Hundred of Wootton. cf. pp. 107, 114, 115. T. N. pp. 102, 103, John fitz Henry has )j a knight's fee of the fee of Fulk Basset, belonging to Kirtlington. 7 Handsworth, near Birmingham. Domesday 250 a, Staffordshire, 1 hide is held by Drogo under William fitz Ansculf. Possibly some confusion may have arisen (see Draitone). T. N. p. 46, John de Paries Jos a fee of the Barony of Roger de Sumery. s Idbury. T. N. pp. 102, 105, Brian de Bampton has one knight's fee and a-half of the fee of Ralf Mortimer, charged 40^. (p. 113). 9 Lashbrook. T. N. p. 100, Peter fitz Oger and William de Englefield have two knights' fees of the Fee of Earl Marshall, p. 106, These are held of the Countess of Oxford. Here Hugo is Hugo de Bolebech. 19 Langford. T. N. p. 125, The Abbot of Beaulieu has this in demesne in frankalmoign of the gift of King John, (ib.) Giles Buffus has 6 hides of a certain prebend of Lincoln, given by the king's predecessors. u Launton, near Bicester. a Ewelme. T. N. pp. 100, 1 06, Thurstan Despenser has i a knight's fee ofthe Countess of Oxford ofthe fee of the Earl Marsha! : charged 1 mark (p. 112). 13 Ewelme. T. N. pp. 102, 106, Thurstan Despenser has j^th of a knight's fee of the Honour of Nottingham. 14 Ewelme. T. N. pp. 101, 106. Henry fitz Robert has 1 knight's fee of Geoffrey de Armenteres of the Fee of Gilbert of Gant. Robert de Halenstud (Haltested 106) has -Jrd ofa knight's fee ofthe Fee of Gilbert of Gant: cf. pp. 113, 117. Robertus is proved by D. 56 b to be Robertus de Armenteres. 15 Ewelme. H. R. p. 759, held by Adam Despenser.", "16 Salford 1 • • • 3* hides . R. de Laci (Earl William). Salword . . . 5*$ hides . Anschitil (Bp. of Bayeux). Sanford2 . . . io hides . Wenric (Abingdon Abbey). Blacheman presbyter. Sanford2 ... 4 hides . Wenric (Abingdon Abbey). Sanford2 . . . 1 hide . Robertus & Rogerius (Abingdon Ab- bey). Siuuard. Sanford3 . . . 13s hides Adam (Bp. of Bayeux). Scipford 4 . . . 3 hides . Columbanus (Bp. of Lincoln). Scipforde 5 . . 10 hides . Roulf (H. de Ferieres). Bundi. Sciptone . . . 33s hides (King) Soe of 3 hundreds. Seiptone6. . 2 \\ hides . Ilbertus (Bp. of Bayeux). Sciptone ... 8 hides . Alsi de Ferendone (King). Heraldus Comes. Sciptone ... 2 hides . (Alsi). Heraldus Comes. Sciptone and7 .) , ,., /r. . r .. *. Svinbroc . . } 4* hides . (Goisfndus). Scireburne 8 . . 10 hides . Drogo (R. d'Oily). Scirburne 9 . . 10 hides . Radulfus (R. d'lvri). Scotorne 10, ) Stauuorde, Wodestoch }• 4^ hides . Rainaldus (King). Corneberie, Hucheuude 1 Salford, near Cornwell. T. N. pp. 106, 112, Ralf de Sausey has \\ a knight's fee of the Fee of Walter de Lacy. ■** Sandford on Thames. T. N. pp. 102, 105, There are held under the Abbey of Abingdon 1 knight's fee by Ralf de Sandford, and another knight's fee by the Templars of Cowley. Ten hides were said to have been given by Cenwulf (A. C. i. 24), and five by Athelstan (i. 59, note). The 4 hides were given by Edward to Godwin (i. 467) and by Harold to the Abbey (i. 469). The boundaries are stated (i. 469, 471). Blache- man, a wealthy priest, had held Sandford (A. C. i. 474) : on his flight from England at the Conquest in the train of Harold's mother (ii. 283) his lands escheated to the king : and their restitution to the Abbey was not obtained without difficulty (i. 484). The 1 hide was held (ii. 132) by Nigel d'Oily, without doing the requisite service for it, and this seems to have been due to the laxity of the Abbot Ethelhelm (ii. 283). 3 Sandford St. Martin. 4 Shifford. T. N. p. 109, The Abbot of Eynsham has the vill in frankalmoign ofthe Fee of the Bishop of Lincoln. 5 Sibford Ferris. T. N. p. 109, The Templars hold 1 knight's fee in Little Sibford, though by what warrant is not known, and they pay no scutage. The Sandford Leiger Book (p. 91 C connects this with the name of Ferrers.' T. N. p. 108, Sibilla Countess of Ferrers is in the king's gift, and her land in Sibford is worth £10. Sibford Gower (Goher) seems to be accounted for in Staffordshire (D. 250 a) where Radulfus holds 10 hides under W. fitz Corbucion. This appears in T. N. pp. 101, 104, where Thomas Goher holds 1 knight's fee ofthe Earl of Warwick, p. 113, held by Geoffrey de Crowcombe. William fitz Corbucion is succeeded by the Earl of Warwick in Berks. T. N. pp. 101, 104, 112, Simon Vitor and the Abbey of Oseney have 1 knight's fee of the Fee of the Earl of Winton (cf. B. A. p. 170). The entries of Draitone, Hunesworde, and Sibeford found in Staffordshire (250 a) are extremely curious, as showing a confusion with Oxfordshire (cf. E. T. 3, 4, 52, 133). 6 Shipton on Cher- well. T. N. p. 101, Simon Scorchebceuf holds j a knight's fee of the Earl of Lincoln of the Honour of Pontefract, charged 1 mark (p. 113). 7 Shipton under Wychwood and Swinbrook. T. N. pp. 101, 106, Geoffrey de Cruce holds \\ a knight's fee, and John Belet I of a knights' fee of the Earl of Gloster. 8 Shirburne. T. N. pp. 101, 106. Robert de Burgfield has 2 knights' fees of the Earl of Warwick of the Fee of d'Oily. Drogo is D. d'Andeleia (A. C. ii. 67, 69). s Shirburne. T. N. p. 106, Earl Richard holds 2 knights' fees in . chief of the king of the Barony of St. Valery. p. 1 20, Henry le Tyeis holds £12 of land of the Barony of St. Valery of the gift of Earl Richard. 10 Shotover, Stowford, Woodstock, Cornbury, Wychwood." ]