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[ "66 THE MILITIA MAJOR. so wildly for their own barbarous vengeance. Infantry may and have been opposed and resisted by undisciplined men in their sober senses, but there is something in the well appointed, fully accoutred dragoon, which awes the peasant into a momentary kind of respect for a mode of warfare with which he himself is totally unacquainted; even in his most drunken and reckless moments, the very housings of the noble animal, that stately inflexible looking figure be strides, is to him a mystery, its training and obedience to the rein of its rider — a marvel. — The landlord of Paddy Dooly, then, ran no personal risk in visiting, at so exciting a time, in such goodly company the locale of his refractory tenant. The Gurtnagarry boys reviled, reproached, exe crated and threatened, but neither assailed nor opposed the Major, as he and the strong party that were with him surrounded the barn-*-thither they were led by the extor ted information of some countrymen they had met with on their way to Knockanure,", "168 THE MILITIA MAJOR. and contented himself with paying one short visit to his daughter, when he as sured her — \" That Drumgar was not at all a fit place for her to return to ; for besides its melancholy associations, he was just now so obnoxious to the Rockites for his great zeal and activity — that his child's life would be in the greatest danger residing with him — so that for the present he would accept, for her, Sir Maurice's kind invitation to remain at Lisfinn until her health was perfectly recruited.\" With this, Agnes was obliged to be ap parently content, but secretly very misera ble; Sir Maurice next installed her in the favourite boudoir of his lamented daughter in-law, with Mrs. Donovan as her constant attendant ; but the reserve of Agnes rather increased than wore away; she vainly en deavoured to be more cheerful each suc ceeding morning, as the good knight paid her his daily visit, and reported his own and Gerald's unsuccessful efforts in tracing Amy ; their hopes and fears ; but before", "287 THE MILITIA MAJOR. in an instant; both men were their prisoners, and the grooms now arrived in time to secure them with the very rope that bound the helpless female they were bearing away. With the hood, that was tied over her head, removed — the gag from her mouth, Amy O'Brien, pale, and almost lifeless, lay on her father's breast — heard him address her, in accents of parental kindness, as his long lost, cruelly neglected child. And where was her lover 1 Gerald's joy was too pure, too sincere to be officious at such a moment — Could he speak? The passive hand that lay within his grasp was raised gently to his lip, and a murmur of thanksgiving was all he ut tered. Sergeant Mac.Donald now arrived with his party in breathless haste, having en countered Biddy on the road, from whom they learned the horrid particulars of what she had just witnessed. Watching, in the shrubbery, the window she had seen Amy" ]

[ "11 THE REBOUND. \" Yes, sir.\" This \" Yes, sir,\" uttered with calmness, and even with a certain embarrassment, told me all. Where I expected an indignant outcry I found this peaceable answer. It seemed to me that I was speaking to the Faubourg St. Antoine itself. I understood that all was at an end in this district, and that we had nothing to expect from it. The people, this wonderful people, had re signed themselves. Nevertheless, I made an effort. \"Louis Bonaparte betrays the Republic,\" said I, without noticing that I raised my voice. He touched my arm, and pointing with his finger to the shadows which were pictured on the glazed partition of the parlour, \" Take care, sir ; do not talk so loudly.\" \" What !\" I exclaimed, \" you have come to this — you dare not speak, you dare not utter the name of ' Bonaparte ' aloud ; you barely mumble a few words in a whisper here, in this street, in the Faubourg St.", "THE REPRESENTATIVES HUNTED DOWN. 33 without taking any resolution, and I saw in this more than one disadvantage. Time passed, no Proclamations. We learned the next day that the packages had been seized by the police. Cournet, an ex- Republican naval officer who was present, began to speak. We shall see presently what sort of a man Cournet was, and of what an energetic and determined nature he was composed. He represented to us that as we had been there nearly two hours the police would certainly end by being informed of our whereabouts, that the members of the Left had an imperative duty — to keep themselves at all costs at the head of the People, that the necessity itself of their situation imposed upon them the precaution of frequently changing their place of retreat, and he ended by offering us, for our deliberation, his house and his workshops, No. 82, Rue Popincourt, at the bottom of a blind alley, and also in the neighbourhood of the Faubourg St. An toine. This offer was accepted. I sent to in- VOL. II. c", "179 THE DECREES OF THE REPRESENTATIVES. Europe. You are worthy of great battle fields. \" Soldiers, the French Army is the ad vanced guard of humanity. \" Become yourselves again, reflect ; ac- knowledge your faults ; rise up ! Think of your Generals arrested, taken by the collar by galley sergeants and thrown handcuffed into robbers' cells ! The malefactor, who is at the Elysee, thinks that the Army of France is a band of mercenaries ; that if they are paid and intoxicated they will obey. He sets you an infamous task, he causes you to strangle, in this nineteenth century, and in Paris itself, Liberty, Pro- gress, and Civilization. He makes you — you, the children of France — destroy all that France has so gloriously and labori ously built up during three centuries of light and in sixty years of Revolution ! Soldiers ! you are the ' Grand Army ! ' respect the ' Grand Nation ! ' \" We, citizens ; we, Representatives of the People and of yourselves ; we, your friends, your brothers ; we, who are Law m 2" ]

[ "' í*siii-ir/.Y/.!fctítf:-íi-i'xoii :.l IfíOH^IOÏAJA*! OTtí", "V LE SUD DE L'ILE Mardi, 3 novembre. — Je prends un cheval ce matin pour remonter vers le sud la vallée de Wathy. La route serpente d'abord entre les jardins de la ville, puis au milieu des oliviers, des amandiers et des vignes qui s'étendent à perte de vue. C'est cette partie de l'île qui fournit le meilleur vin d'Ithaque. Au-dessus de nous se détache, au flanc de l'Hagios-Stéphanos, le Wathy du Moyen- Age; alors le bord de la mer, infesté par les pirates, était peu propice à rétablissement d'une ville et les habitants préféraient voir venir de loin leurs ennemis. Ils avaient le temps de s'enfuir dans les retraites familières de leurs mon tagnes. De toutes parts on procède à la cueillette des olives, travail réservé aux femmes, me semble-t-il ; elles se suspendent en", "62 UNE EXCURSION A ITHAQUE chères. A rechercher les gracieuses ébauches de sentiments qui se sont développés dans le cours des âges, nous trouvons plus de plaisir encore qu'à contempler les rudes peintures, écloses d'une conception de la vie que chaque heure éloigne davantage et fait plus étrangère à notre esprit. Pour quiconque s'intéresse au pro grès moral de l'âme humaine, il y a un plaisir infini à retrouver dans des âges si lointains des sentiments si nobles et si délicats. Et c'est pourquoi, tout en admirant V Iliade, je me sens porté à lui préférer l'Odysse'e. Déjà, à l'entrée du plateau de Marathia, j'ai dû mettre pied à terre, car le chemin devient par trop raboteux. Maintenant, par un long circuit, embrassant le contrefort de l'île qui est au nord est de Marathia, nous allons nous rendre à la fontaine Aréthuse. II n'y a pas de chemin au flanc de la falaise, mais la pente est assez faible pour qu'on puisse sans danger s'avancer parmi les rochers. Enfin, nous débouchons dans un couloir de marbre creusé par un torrent. Les stratifications calcaires, relevées obliquement et inégalement entamées sur la tranche, forment un escalier natu rel. Au fond, coule la plus belle fontaine de l'île. Comme elle est dominée par le rocher des Corbeaux, il faut y reconnaître la fon taine Aréthuse. « — Songe d'abord, dit Pallas, à te rendre auprès du pasteur qui garde tes porcs et qui, demeuré fidèle, aime ton fils et la sage Pénélope. Tu le trouveras assis près de ses porcs ; ils paissent dans le voisinage du rocher des Corbeaux et de la fon taine Aréthuse, mangeant les doux glands et buvant l'eau noire, qui développe la graisse florissante des porcs. » (XIII, 404-410.) L'eau coule en deux endroits dans des bassins naturels. Devant le principal, se dresse une sorte d'arcade basse taillée de mains d'homme. Au-dessus et à gauche, dans les rochers, s'ouvre une niche, qui semble être le témoignage d'un culte disparu." ]

[ "My Lady Coquette. 13 with bashfulness in the presence of their respected progenitor, but employing their tongues as freely before him as they are accustomed to do when by themselves. \"Father,\" remarks Arthur presently, \"you wdl be losing some of your lambs if you don't look out. Are you aware how many suitors are at hand already ? Look there ! \" Mr Mervyn glances amusedly at the pde of valentines on the side table, and then looks at Yolande. \" All yours, my dear ? \" he asks. \" Oh, no ! Some are Enid's and Vi's,\" answers Yolande hurriedly. \" Stupid things ! I wonder how people can trouble to send such rubbish ! \" \" It occurs to my memory that not so very long ago Miss Mervyn took a considerable interest in those same stupid things,\" remarks Arthur. \" I have a distinct remembrance of her waylaying the postman on St Valentine's morn with a zeal that was highly creditable. By Jove, how girls do change ! Only two or", "My Lady Coquette. 116 \" You are pleasantly frank, Miss Mervyn,\" he returns angrily. \" I wonder why I am specially singled out for all your harsh and disdainful speeches ? \" \" Is there not a couplet about ' many a shaft at random sent ' ? \" queries the girl laughingly. \" I am not to blame if you set yourself up for a target, Mr Charteris. Now here we are at the cloak-room. If you will be kind enough to bring Miss Skipton here, I shall be much obliged. I will wait till she comes.\" \" If you knew how disappointed I am ! \" — he begins, gazing longingly at the lovely face that looks strangely white and weary now. \" I can imagine it in your absence,\" she says lightly, \" when I picture you making just such speeches and dancing just such dances with — Pauline Ray.\" \" You think so lightly of me as that ? \" he questions, with sudden passion. \" You believe I am in no way different from the butterfly idlers Avho whisper the same vapid", "My Lady Coquette. 154 puzzled by such an unexpected desire, \" you forget—\" \" No,\" she says hurriedly ; \" I don't forget. I — well, perhaps I was nervous, and — and fancied I saw it. The storm frightened me so.\" \" No mere fancy could have thrown you into such a state of nervous terror as that in which I found you,\" rejoins Lance sternly. \" Why do you wish to conceal what has happened ? \" \" Ah, why ? \" the girl asks herseU wearily. Only from some dim foohsh sense of loyalty to the man she has wronged, remembering how once before he had prayed her to be silent respecting the mystery of the ruined turret. \" There is nothing to conceal,\" she says, looking up at Lance with brave unshrinking eyes. \" But to please me, Lance, don't say anything about this until — I — give you leave.\" \" To please you,\" he returns softly, \" you know I would do anything.\"" ]

[ "52 bij gebrek aan ondernemingsgeest en vooral aan de vroeger zoo overvloedige kapitalen, nu hoe lang zoo meer in buiten landsche geldleeningen belegd, om de hoogste interessen te trekken en salie zeilen bij te zetten\". De grond van het kwaad lag eigenlijk nog dieper; er was gebrek aan die edele deugd van het voorgeslacht, de natuur- lijke gehechtheid aan het geboorteland. Van de Spiegel stoorde zich in dit opzigt niet aan den medelijdenden glimlach der spotters met hetgeen zij als een bekrompen vooroordeel wegwierpen. »Een gezegend vooroordeel waarlijk, zeide hij, waardoor de Republiek haar bestaan gekregen heeft. Het moet wel een wreede philosophie zijn, die ons zulke vooroordeelen benemen wil. Indien er nu nog diezelfde liefde voor het Va- derland plaats had die onze voorouders zoo bezielde, men zoude zulk een aantal van gegoede ingezetenen niet naar elders zien vertrekken uit enkele beweging, om in een land daar het wat beter koop is , breeder te kunnen leven , en men zoude zooveel goederen niet van elders zien ontbieden , welke bij ons even goed en even goedkoop te krijgen zijn.\" — Wat verder in dat merkwaardig Vertoog , ook in de minste bijzonderheden omtrent het verval van verschillende takken van nijverheid en van andere middelen van bestaan in Zeeland werd ontwikkeld , met voorstellen tot conversie der provinciale schulden , tot regeling der geschillen over de rnunt en aangaande de ver- derfelijke werking der belastingen , die het Fabriekwezen druk- ten , werd aangedrongen , om langs dien weg tot herstel van het openbaar crediet en van andere bronnen van welvaart te geraken , duidde reeds destijds den wijsgeerigen Staatsman aan , die het cijferen niet verleerd had, en die gewoon in de vrije ontwoekerde oogenblikken nog meer na te denken dan te lezen en zorgvuldig aan te teekenen , met hartelijke belangstelling in het lot zijner medeburgers van de lagere klassen vervuld, fijner en scherper dan zijne ambtgenooten had opgemerkt. — Men mogt het in waarheid de gedachte van zijn leven noe men. Verkondigt men thans wat al te stug en stroef, dat de nijverheid geene Regeringszaak is, over het welzijn van den stedeling of landman om het zeerst bezorgd, schreef van", "96 Mogendheden, van Pruissen zelf geplaatst — in woorden en werken betrachten, en in overeenstemming met het beginsel van den Westfaalschen Vrede, onder dat schild van altijd- durende neutraliteit, den regtstoestand van Europa met zijn overwegenden invloed helpen bewaren, de Nederlander ver- langt voorzeker niets liever dan in handel en nijverheid , land- bouw en visscherij den lof van een regtschapen, eerlijk en vredelievend Volk te verdienen en weg te dragen. *) Dat Volk kan zich zeer lang laten sarren en tergen zonder zijn geduld te verliezen , — Göthe , Schiller en Arndt hebben dit meer dan eens erkend — maar het laat zich nimmer ver- trappen; en zijne roemvolle historie indachtig, en de dagen toen de Republiek in Wesel en Gulik , gelijk in Oostfriesland bezetting, onderhield , zou het tot het uiterste gebragt , ontwij- felbaar niet vergeten, dat het van eeuw tot eeuw in zijn wapen een Leeuw heeft gevoerd, die wel niet meer den nabuur zal bespringen , maar fier en ontembaar nog veel minder be- geert de wet van wien ook te ontvangen. — Van oudsher is het den staatkundigen tot hunne beschaming gebleken , dat een oorlog tusschen twee of meer Regeringen, van den strijd op leven of dood van eene vrijheidlievende Natie tegen overweldigers, aanmerkelijk verschilt. Met die waarheid, in Julij 1791 te Pilnitz den Keizer van Duitschland en den Ko ning van Pruissen vruchteloos door den Raadpensionaris van de Spiegel voorgehouden, kan dit geschrift voegzaam wor den besloten. 1) «Quand la politique humaine tendra-telle enfin a cette prospérité? Quand voudra-t-elle sincèrement détruire la guerre dont les succes même sont d'effroy ablea malheurs ? Quand travaillera-t-elle sur un plan raisonnable a öter aux con quérans toute occasion, tout prétexte, tous moyens de 1'entrepreudre ?\" Mira benu, Dontes sur la liberié de VEscaut (December 1784).", "115 Bl. 36. -Briefwisseling van Steyn met Lestevenon. Wetenschappelijke zin van den Raadpensionaris.\" Als Curator der Hoogeschool te Leideu , verlangde hij de statuten der voornaamste Fransche Universiteiten te bezitten (23 November 1762). Bij de behandeling van een geschil van internationaal-privaat en van Canonisch Regt (gemengd huwelijk van Mevr. munter met den Chev. de bonnac) verzocht hij den Nederlandschen Ambassadeur een en andermaal hem zoo doenlijk te bezorgen het üecueil des Édits , Déclarations , et Arréts du Conseil rendus au sujet des gcns de la Religion prêtendue Ré 'formée (17 14) ; later, wilden hij en de Griffier Fagel ter voorkoming bij de geschillen over neutraliteit en meer in 't bijzonder van prijs en buit, elk voorzien zijn van een exemplaar der Ordonnances de Marine en nog van eenige andere bepalingen van Lodewijk XIV. Zoo begeerde hij naderhand den tekst van zekere Fran sche verordening op het stranden van schepen te leeren kennen , en grondig onderrigt te worden van hetgeen hij niet had kunnen gelooven en vertrouwd had onw7aar te zijn, eene afpersing of kuevelarij jegens Nederlanders bij zulke zeeramp gepleegd. (16 October 1760).) — Op de bestrijding der staatsuitgaven door nieuwe middelen bedacht , lachte den Financier Steyn de heffing van een regt op de speelkaarten toe, eene belasting die in Frankrijk bestond, en met de toezending van de verordeningen op dat stuk , had Lestevenon den Raad pensionaris al vroeger moeten verpligten. (11 Aug. 1752). Bl. 48. «Onbekrompen mededeelingen van van de Spiegels afstammelingen. » Ik ben in dit opzigt veel aan de heuschheid der nagelaten betrekkingen van den als staatkundig schrijver gunstig bekenden kleinzoon van den Raadpensionaris , Nederlandsch Chargé d' Affaires bij het Hof van Wurtemhcrg , verschuldigd ; en wat persoonlijke medewerking ter vereering van het aandenken van den grooten Staatsman betreft , aan den rusteloozen ijver en de verpligtende goedheid van den Heer H. C, Nederburgh te Nijmegen, van vaders- en moederszijde van de Spiegels achterkleinzoon. Bl. 22, 40. Memorie van den Gezant Hendrik Hop. (A. 1741). — //Voor eerst, dat haer Ho. Mo. geliefde op een gevoeglijke wijse te verstaen te geven derselver ongenoegen, dat de Heeren Ministers soo gereserveert sijn van aen haer Ho. Mo. Minister te communiceren de gedagten van dit Hof over saekeu van eenige importantie en waerin den Staet soowel als dit Plof geconcerneert is ; dat diergelijke communicatie mag geschieden in tijts, of wel ter selver tijt dat de orders aen de Ministers van dit Hof worden afgesonden, gelijk door haer Ho. Mo. word gepractiseert, en niet naderhant gelijk dikwils alhier geschiet, waerdoor d'advisen van den Minister eerst inkomen, naedat de communicatie daervan reets is geschiet , of niet overgeschreven worden , omdat de orders daer toe reets een postdag of twee te voren sijn afgegaen. Dat ter selver tijt strikte orders mogen gegeven worden aen des Konings Ministers aen de respective Hoven , van met die van haer Ho. Mo. met openhartighijt te communiceren de saken de beijde belangen conceruerende ; want dat men dikwils gesien heeft, dat saeken genoegsaem alleenig door d'Engelsche Minister worden behandelt, waerdoor mis-" ]

[ "ODE II. TO Miss SARAH FOWLER. Toutesfois vous demeurant en ce lieu, mes tenebreuses et tristes parolles n'en pourroient chasser les Graces, desquels vous roe semblez estre l'unique simulachre, et moins les Muses qui vous recognoissent pour leur Minerve. Tyard. I. W hen first Aurora's gorgeous car Springs from Night's dreary vault releas'd, And", "EPISTLE I. 101 And send it home, some friendly dart, Like that which fled from Dian's bow To pierce the Theban * Hunter's heart ; Belov'd of Heaven, amid the skies, 190 In full career, he still pursues His favorite occupation ; views The rapid lynx with ardent eyes, And shakes his spear, in act to throw. O that when Death shall claim this load Of frail mortality, on high 195 Thus may I soar, and in th' abode Of tuneful elegance and mirth, To a more perfect Life restor'd, Possessing what I sought on earth, At Love's or Friendship's genial board Wake the shrill chords of harmony. 200 Meanwhile, persuaded that each Power, Whose influence gilds the present hour, Will on the next benignly smile, 205 In schemes of literary ease, Designs that profit while they please, The boisterous passions I beguile : And if some transient cloud o'ercast The prospect ; those romantic days O'er which young Fancy lov'd to throw A coloring, to which the rays 210 * Orion. That G3", "EPISTLE VII. 155 And if malignant Fortune lour, Born to defy the gathering storm, With smiles her utmost fury meet, Can face Destruction's horrid form, And trample on the chains of Fear ; Such heights I ask not, yet revere Those spirits of etherial fire. no But o, ye Muses, whose retreat Full oft allur'd my devious feet, Say, did I come a thankless guest, Beneath your shade to vent my pains, And weary your indignant choir J'5 With doleful elegiac strains ? For me the lucid fount stream'd by, I breath'd no curses on its tide, My beeches spread their vernal pride With love-lorn ditties unimprest, £-7or labor'd Echo with a sigh. ISO One while I view'd, in Ovid's page, Rivers of milk and nectar flow, 125 Foretasting Paradise below, Or, shuddering o'er Lycaon's feast, Bewail'd the dire effects of rage, The man transform'd into the beast ; Then, led by that Humanity Whose just renown shall never die, On which his Muse erects a claim, 13° Approv'd" ]

[ "INTRODUCTION. XCV Bentinck was expressly sent to him to ask his ad vice as to the expediency of refusing the Royal Assent to the Bill for Triennial Parliaments. Sir W. Temple advised him to pass the Bill ; and he employed Swift, who was then his private secretary, to carry his reasons to the Earl of Portland ; they did not, however, prevail. Early in the year 1695, Sir W. Temple lost his wife, an excellent and very superior woman ; his sister, Lady Giffard, lived with him till his death, which took place in the year 1699 ; he was buried, according to his own directions, with as small ex pense as was convenient, in Westminster Hall, near two of his children, who had died young, and his heart, according to his own express desire, was interred \" six feet underground on the south-east side of the stone dial in the little garden at Moor Park.\"1 1 \" Of Temple's character,\" says Mr. Macauley, \" little more remains to be said. Burnet accuses him of holding irreligious opinions, and corrupting every body who came near him. But the vague assertion of so rash and partial a writer as Burnet, about a man with whom, as far as we know, he never exchanged a word, is of little weight. It is, indeed, by no means improbable that Temple may have been a free thinker. The Osbornes thought him so when he was a very young man. And it is certain that a large proportion of the gentlemen of rank and fashion who made their entrance into", "132 DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF out, and then they looked as well as ever I saw any. Collier's and Mackay's troops are much better than Wesley's. After that I went to see two woods, one of fir, the other of oaks, both very fine. I supt with Lady Inchiquin. 12th. I came from Breda at three in the morn ing ; the Prince at the same time. After dinner, Monsieur Van Beuninghen came to me, and told me he approved of the guarantee, and added some words : he is mightily concerned for the King and Kingdom, and insists much on our treating with Spain. 1 3th. The Prince sent to me at eleven o'clock, to let me know that he would dine with me. I had before invited Monsieur Sas, Secretary of the Admiralty at Rotterdam, and Monsieur de Wylde, Secretary of the Admiralty at Amsterdam. After dinner, I spoke to him of Mr. Bracey ; he saith he will do him all the service he can. I told him Monsieur Van Beuninghen had been with me, that he seems now well satisfied with the guarantee, and that he was gone to Amsterdam to propose it. The Prince thinks it indifferent whether it be treated of here or in London, but, because of this addition, he thinks it would be best there. I wrote to Sir William Temple, and sent him some boxes of pills and beef. I received some letters.", "286 DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF de Monsieur Le Due, qui a produit beaucoup de bruit de canon et des cloches lesquelles sonnent encores a present : tout le monde en general a temoigne assez de joye de son venue, et plus meme que je n'avois crue. La Poste va partir et je n'ay que ce moment pour vous assurer que personne n'est plus veritablement votre tres humble et tres affec tione serviteur, Gabriel Sylvius. THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF SUNDERLAND TO MR. SIDNEY. February 27. That you should be so good as to write when you have a great deal of business, and not well, to the poor old dolt in the corner is thankfully received. Our marriage is all fully agreed ; and now our good-natured sister and Lucy, who has some of her easiness from a good cause, with a few compli ments, forgets what they have done. You know in some play it is, \" Now you are King, who says you are not ?\" All is as well as can be. They shall not be put in mind of their thoughts by me. He will be a great deal richer than he has given in as sure to him. He has sent down the writings to my brother Pelham yester-" ]

[ "42 FROM THE CAVES AND JUNGLES OF HINDOSTAN. m pure English a speech, in which he thanked us for the honour of our presence. Then new bouquets, pansu paris, and rose-water, and, finally, we reached home about four a.m. Next morning we learned that the per formance had ended at half-past six.", "242 FROM THE CAVES AND JUNGLES OF HINDOSTAN. English ladies are as unkind as you I should rather be a spider than an Englishman.\" This lively answer coming from the usually taciturn Mulji was so unexpected that we could not help laugh ing. But to our great discomfiture Miss X ■ was seriously angry, and, under pretext of giddiness, said she would rejoin Mr. Y below. Her constant bad spirits were becoming trying for our cosmopolitan little party, and so we did not press her to stay. As to us we climbed through the second opening, but this time under the leadership of Narayan. He dis closed to us that this place was not new to him ; he had been here before, and confided to us that similar rooms, one on the top of the other, go up to the summit of the mountain. Then, he said, they take a sudden turn, and descend gradually to a whole underground palace, which is sometimes temporarily inhabited. Wishing to leave the world for a while and to spend a few days in isolation, the Raj-Yogis find perfect solitude in this underground abode. Our president looked askance at Narayan through his spectacles, but did not find any thing to say. The Hindus also received this information in perfect silence. The second cell was exactly like the first one; we easily discovered the hole in its ceiling, and reached the third cell. There we sat down for a while. I felt that breathing was becoming difficult to me, but I thought I was simply out of breath and tired, and so did not mention to my companions that anything was wrong. The passage to the fourth cell was almost stopped by earth mixed with little stones, and the gentlemen of the party were busy clearing it out for about twenty minutes. Then we reached the fourth cell.", "THE CAVES OF BAGH. 245 an unreasoning impulse, I laughed at these words. Then I experienced a new sensation : I rather knew than felt that I was lifted from the floor, and fell down and down some unknown precipice, amongst the hollow rollings of a distant thunder-storm. Suddenly a loud voice resounded near me. And this time I think I did not hear, but felt it. There was something palpable in this voice, something that instantly stopped my helpless descent, and kept me from falling any further. This was a voice I knew well, but whose voice it was I could not in my weakness remember In what way I was dragged through all these narrow holes will remain an eternal mystery for me. I came to myself on the verandah below, fanned by fresh breezes, and as suddenly as I had fainted above in the impure air of the cell. When I recovered completely the first thing I saw was a powerful figure clad in white, with a raven black Rajput beard, anxiously leaning over me. As soon as I recognized the owner of this beard, I could not abstain from expressing my feelings by a joyful exclama tion: \"Where do you come from?\" It was our friend Takur Gulab-Lal-Sing, who, having promised to join us in the North-West Provinces, now appeared to us in Bagh, as if falling from the sky or coming out of the ground. But my unfortunate accident, and the pitiable state of the rest of the daring explorers, were enough to stop any further questions and expressions of astonishment. On one side of me the frightened Miss X , using my nose as a cork for her sal-volatile bottle ; on the other the \"God's warrior\" covered with blood as if returning from a battle with the Afghans; further on, poor Mulji with a dreadful headache. Narayan and the colonel, happily for our party, did not experience anything worse" ]

[ "jfr A COMEDY. 7 ffddy IV. And William — seno*up Tiffany to Miss Helen's room, and bid her say we expect her at breakfast. Will. Miss Helen has been in the Park thes two hours. Sir W. .(Laughs aside.) Lady IV. How ! in the Park these two hours ? Impossible— send Tiffany to seek her. IVill. Yes, my lady. [Exit. Sir IV. So, as usual, risen with the lark, I suppose. Lady IV. Her disobedience will break my heart! Sir IV. Zounds, I shall go mad ! here's a mother in-law going to break her heart, because my daughter prefers a walk in the morning to writing culinary secrets into a fat folio family receipt book ! ! Lady IV. Sir Willoughby, Sir Willoughby, it is you who encourage her in disregarding my orders. Sir IV. No such thing, Lady Worrett, no such thing ! but if the girl likes to bring home a pair of ruddy cheeks from a morning walk, I don't see why she is to be balked of her fancy. Lady IV. Ruddy cheeks indeed ! such robust health is becoming only in dairy-maids. Sir IV. Yes, I know your taste to a T ; a con sumption is always a key to your tender heart — and an interesting pallid countenance will at any time unlock the door to your best affections — but I must be excused if I prefer seeing my daughter with the rosy glow of health upon her cheek, rather than the sickly imitations of art, which bloom on the surface alone, while the fruit withers 'and decays beneath — but zounds, dont speak so loud — here's somebody coming, and they'll think", "16 MAN AND WIFE ; Ponder. Yes, yes, Sir — but at that moment, Sir, I was immers'd in thought, if I may be allow'd the expression — I was thinking of the vast difference between love and law, and yet how neatby you've spliced them together in your last instructions to your humble servant, Peter Ponder — Clerk ! — Umph! O'Ded. Umph ! is that your manners you bear garden? Will I never be able to larn you to be have yourself? Study me, and talk like a gentle man, and be damn'd to ye. Ponder. I study the law — I can't talk it ! O'Ded. Can't you? Then you'll never do — If your tongue don't run faster than your client's, how will you ever be able to bother him you booby ? Ponder. I'll draw out his case — he shall read, and he'll bother himself! O'Ded. You've a notion — mind my instructions and I don't despair of seeing you at the bar one day — was that copy of a writ sarved yesterday upon Garble, the tailor ? Ponder. Aye. O'Ded. And sarve him right too — that's a big rogue that runs in debt wid his eyes open, and tho' he has property, refuses to pay — Is he safe ? Ponder. He was bailed by Swash, the brewer. O'Ded. And Mas the other sarved on Shuttle, the weaver— Ponder. Aye. O'Ded. Who bailed him ? Ponder. Nobody, he's gone to jail. O'Ded. Gone to jail ! Why his poverty is owing to misfortune — he can't pay- — well that's not our affair — the law must have it's course. Ponder. So Shuttle said to his wife, as she hung crying on his shoulder.", "28 MAN AND WIFE ; rometer — when you entered this room your coun tenance was set sah — but now I see the index points to stormy. Lord A. Madam, you have company, or busi ness — a good morning to you. Helen. Stay, stay, my Lord. Lord A. Excuse me at present, I have an im portant affair — another time. Helen. Surely, my Lord, the arrival of this innocent girl does not drive you away ? Lord A. Bless me, madam, what an idea! cer tainly not — but I have just recollected an engage ment of consequence — some other time — Madam, your most obedient — [Exit, Enter Fanny. Fan. I beg pardon, madam, I'm fearful I in trude — but I enquired for Sir Willougby, and they shewed me to this room — I wished to speak with him on particular business — your servant, madam. Hel. Pray stay, my good girl — I rejoice in this opportunity of becoming acquainted with you — the character I have heard of you has excited an affectionate interest — you must allow me to be come your friend. Fanny. Indeed, indeed, madam, I am in want of friends — but you can never be one of them. Helen. No ! Why so? Fanny. You, madam ! Oh no — you are the only enemy I ever had. Helen. Enemy !— This is very extraordinary ! I have scarce ever seen you before — Assuredly I never injured you. . Fanny. Heaven forbid I should wish any one to injure you as deeply. Hel. I cannot understand you — pray explain yourself." ]

[ "96 AAN WIE SOUVEREINITEIT? 't Is waar, de Stalen van Holland ploclameerden nog wel zichzelven niet tot Souverein, maar de logica der feiten moest hen binnen korte jaren daartoe brengen. Tevens lag in hetgeen zij toen deden de kiem der aanspraken, die later gemaakt zouden worden: eenerzijds het gezag der Staten, andererzijds dat van den Prins, die al dadelijk meer dan een Stadhouder (in den zin, dien de koninklijke regeering er aan hechtte) werd. Wij zouden eigenlijk de geschiedenis van den opstand van 1572 en de daaropvolgende jaren moeten schrijven, zoo wij alles, waardoor de Stalen van Holland feitelijk zich de souvereiniteit aanmatigden, willen mededeelen. Van het eerste oogenblik des opstands af handelden zij gewoonlijk of geheelenal op eigen naam, of gemeenschappelijk op hunnen naam en dien des Prinsen, b. v. bij de Pacificatie van Gent De afzweriug des Konings door de Staten-Generaal en door de afzonderlijke Staten was niet slechts een revolutionaire daad, maar tegelijkertijd eene daad van souvereiniteit. Het was er evenwel ver van af, dat de staat van zaken als bestendig werd beschouwd. Feitelijk, zeiden wij, hadden de Staten van Holland zich de Souvereiniteit aangematigd, maar zij erkenden zichzelven nog niet als souverein : integendeel zij zochten, na de afzwering van Philips II, er een voor zichzelven en voor de ande:e Nederlandsche gewesten. Toen het plan om den Koning van zijne rechten op deze gewesten vervallen te verklaren tot rijpheid was gekomen, was tegelijkertijd het plan gerijpt, om de graaflijkheid over Holland en Zeeland op te dragen aan Willem van Oranje en aan Brabant, Vlaanderen enz. den hertog van Anjou tot Souverein te geven. Twee zaken vallen hierbij dadelijk in het oog: ten eerste, dat Holland en Zeeland voor zich in de Zeventien Vereenigde gewesten eene afgezonderde positie in aanspraak namen,\" gelijk zij dit trouwens ook reeds bij de Pacificatie van Gent en andere gelegenheden hadden gedaan; en deze houding, door Holland tegenover de andere gewesten aangenomen, werd gedurende geheel het bestaan der Republiek hare gewone houding. Ten tweede, dat aan Willem van Oranje de graailijkheid, dat is: de Souvereiniteit van Holland, werd", "102 RONDREIZE werd, om te beproeven, of hij ze niet tot meerdere rust en stilte konde brengen wegens de lichting der nieuwe compagniën sol daten (Waard gel ders). Maar het is uitgesteld daarop te „resol veeren\", totdat die van Utrecht geantwoord zullen hebben op de laatste brieven\" 1). In October bleef de reize uitgesteld, maar den 27n November, — derhalve daags nadat hij aan de stedeu had geschreven, — vertrok Maurits, vergezeld van Graaf Willem Lodewijk : eerst naar Delft. Hij werd door de schutterij plecht statig ingehaald en op het stadhuis door de Regeering ont vangen. Hier betoonde de Prins zich minzaam, terwijl hij uit eenzette welk het doel zijner komst was. Hij had gezworen de ware Gereformeerde Religie te zullen haudhaven; om, bij de geschillen die in de Kerken ontstaan waren, te beslissen welke die Religie was, moest eene verklaring gegeven worden door eene Nationale Synode, voorafgegaan door eene Provinciale; hij was gekomen om den Heeren deze zaak aan te bevelen. Van Delft vertrok Maurits naar Schiedam, Rotterdam, Dordrecht en Gorkum met dezelfde bedoeling en keerde den 2U December in Den Haag terug. Deze reis van den Prins gaf aanleiding tot eene omstandig heid, waarover Oldenbarnevelt later door zijne rechters zeer nauwlettend is ondervraagd geworden. De Advocaat, te 's Graven hage teruggekeerd, werd op de hoogte gehouden van al des Prinsen doen en laten. Hem werd aangebracht, dat de Stadhouder des morgens vroeg naar Leiden zou gaan. Dit geschiedde vóór den 27n November. Onmiddellijk schreef Oldenbarnevelt aan zijnen schoonzoon Van der Mijle, dat men te Leiden op zijne hoede moest wezen. Op den bewusten avond zou er een maaltijd van Regenten gehouden worden, en het was niemand onbekend, hoe sterk er bij zulke gelegenheden werd gedronken. Van der Mijle nu zou ook bij dat feestmaal wezen. Des nachts werd de schutterij van Leiden onder de wapens geroepen en de uurwerken der stad tot stilstaan gebracht; maar de Advocaat kreeg een l) Resol. der Stat.-Generaal 7 Oct. 1617 bij Van der Kemp IV p. 236. Over de brieven van Utrecht in het volgend hoofdstuk.", "UITEENGEJAAGD 301 Generaal van den _n Juli 1619 was verschenen, verbood de Vroedschap de bijeenkomst der Remonstranten in de eenige kerk, welke zij nog in bezit hadden. Zij vonden die den 21n Juli gesloten. Zij verzamelden zich nu voor het gebouw en begonnen psalmen te zingen ; toen de onderschout kwam om hen van daar te verdrijven, trokken zij naar een ledig erf aan den Schiedammer Dijk ; hier vervolgden zij hun psalmgezang ; de predikant, Dirk Kamphuizen, geplaatst op eenige biertonnen, gekleed in een ruiters rok, — hij was vermomd gekomen, — begon daarop voor hen te prediken ; terwijl hij hiermede bezig was, kwamen de Burge meesters Duyn en Matelief en bevalen het volk te vertrekken. Men weigerde. Nu kwamen vier vendels gewapende soldaten en vielen hen van beide kanten aan onder het geroep : „Slaat dood de Arminianen\". De predikant wist, geholpen door eenige der toehoorders, te ontkomen en de vergramde menigte begon naar steenen te grijpen. Een bijbel werd omhoog gehouden en den burgemeester toegeroepen: „Hier is ons Plakaat\"! Het kwam echter niet tot een gevecht tusschen de soldaten en de Remon stranten; want dezen trokken af, vermaand als zij werden door eenigen hunner om geen oproer te maken. Eenigen tijd later vergaderden de Remonstranten weder buiten Rotterdam op eene plaats Jaffa geheeten : naar men schatte, waren zij wel vijfduizend in getal. De dijkgraaf van Schieland vermaande hen uiteen te gaan, maar te vergeefs. Na de vergadering werden eenige personen, die beschuldigd werden van daarbij tegenwoordig te zijn geweest, gedagvaard. Twee weigerden den eed af te leggen : zij werden daarop in hechtenis genomen en moesten, de een na drie, de ander na vijf dagen gevangen te zijn geweest, de kosten en eene boete van vijfentwintig gulden betalen. Den 20n October 1619 beproefden zij weder eene predikatie te Jaffa te gaan hooren. De Dijkgraaf, hiervan onderricht, liet twee vendels soldaten komen. De vergadering van ongeveer twaalfhonderd personen had niet temin plaats. Nu rukten de soldaten aan; de predikant Hutteuus werd in allerijl over de Rotte gezet en ontkwam, maar de soldaten schoten op de verzamelde menigte, die overal een goed heen komen zocht. Verscheidenen hunner, zoowel mannen als vrouwen," ]

[ "Mrs. Grundys Victims. 14 thought it? Both Amy and Eva seemed to be such sweet, innocent girls. But that only shows how deep they are, to manage to conceal their true nature like that. You are quite sure there is no mistake ? \" \" Oh, perfectly sure. I have a friend at Greenly who knew the first Mrs. Forest, and who grows very 'indignant every time she thinks of the wrongs the poor creature endured. She was left penniless, while her husband was lavishing caresses and luxuries upon another woman and her illegiti mate offspring.\" \" Oh, how dreadful ! I really cannot tolerate the sight of those deceitful girls after this ! I will give them a quarter's salary, and they shall go at once. I only hope that neither Bertie nor any of his friends have got entangled with them. That would be too shocking.\" \" Perhaps it would be better for you to say that you propose sending the children to school, or something of the sort. They may not be quite so bad as their parents, and it would hardly do for it to be known that you have been har bouring people like that. Don't you think it would be best not to give the real reason for dismissing them? It would save you a lot of unpleasantness.\"", "46 Mrs. Grundys Victims. perfect gem in its way, and asks them to amuse themselves for a few moments, while she makes her self presentable for the tea-table. In less than ten minutes she rejoins them, an open telegram in her hand, and an expression of disappointment on her features. \" I am so sorry,\" she says, \" my friend has sent me word that she was prevented from coming at the last moment, owing to her mother's sudden ill ness. She hopes, however, to come in a couple of days. Now isn't that vexing, just when I had so set my heart on having her, and just when I have scarcely any society at home ! You may think me very selfish, but I do wish Mabel's mother had waited until another day before she took ill. But I must make the most of your company while you are here. Come, my dears, and we will have tea at once.\" In two minutes more they are in a charming room, and tea is being served to them in priceless Sevres cups, while all sorts of dainties are offered for their delectation. They have barely begun, when visitors are announced, and two magnificently attired young beauties enter the room. Mrs. Mountstuart greets them in a perfect ecstasy of delight. \"My darlings! how good of you to come!\"", "88 Mrs. Grundys Victims. at last recognises the necessity of giving up the search. It seems so dreadful to Amy to think that she has probably passed the very house that Eva is in that she cannot keep back her tears. They are slowly passing through Pall Mall, when she starts suddenly, grips the doctor's arm, and says, in the greatest excitement, \" There is one of the men who were in that frightful house ! The one they called Lord Algernon.\" The doctor eagerly looks in the direction in dicated by Amy's startled glance, and then asks hurriedly, — \"Do you mean the tall, fair man going up those steps ? \" \" Yes, do you know him ? Can you help me to discover who he is ? We may find Eva through him.\" So interrogates Amy, and half believes her sister's rescue is in a fair way of accomplishment, when Dr. Marks slowly replies, — \" Yes, I know him. It is no other than the Earl of Barwood, and he is a member of the club he is now entering.\"" ]

[ "9 de Fenis, Waltero de Merton, et multis aliis.\" Nos autem predictam concessionem ratam habentes et gratam earn pro nobis et heredibus nostris concedimus et confirmamus, sicut predicta carta rationabiliter testatur. Hiis testibus, Guidone de Lezine, Galfrido de Lezine, et Willielmo de Valencia, fratribus nostris, Petro de Sabandia, Arcaldo de Sancto Romano, Magistro Johanne Maunsel, Willielmo de Grey, Waukelino de Ardern, Imberto Pugeys, Willielmo Gernun, et aliis. Datum per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium iiij die February, anno regni nostri xlj°. liam de Pemis,1 Michael de Fenis,2 Walter deMerton,3 and many others.\" We, the aforesaid grant having ratified and confirmed for us and our heirs, do grant and confirm the same, as the aforesaid charter reasonably witnesseth. These being witnesses, Guido de Lezine,4 Geoffrey de Lezine,4 and William de Valencia5 our Brothers, Peter de Sabandia, Arcaldo de Sancto Romano,6 Master John Maunsell,7 William de Grey,8 Wau kelin de Ardern, Imbertus Pugeys, William Gernon, and others. Given by our hand at Westminster, the 4th day of February, in the 41st year of our reign. 1 William de Pemis. Query, whether this person is not the same as William de Pyns, mentioned as \" Prior del if as \" in the Close Rolls (36th Henry III.), and in the \" Royal and Historical Letters,\" Vol. ii., p. 71. 2 Michael de Fenis was a member of the ancient family of Fienles, or, as written in later times, Fienes, Fenes, &c. 2 Walter de Merton was appointed custodian of the Great Seal, 6th May, 1258, because the Chancellor, Henry de Wengham, was ill in body ; but the discontented Barons deprived him of the office. However, without consulting them, the King, in 1261, again appointed him Lord Chancellor, and he held that office until 1263, and received a salary of 400 marks. On the accession of Edward I., in 1272, he was consecrated Bishop of Rochester, and a third time undertook the duties of Lord Chancellor. He seems to have died in 1279. * Guido (=Guy) and Geoffrey took their cognomen from their natal place, now called Lusignan. They were elder brothers of William de Valence, and were objects of the thoughtless King's improvident bounty. 5 William de Valence was son of Hugh le Brun, Earl of Lusignan and Valence, by his Countess Isabella, widow of King John ; she was daughter and heiress of Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angouleme. William claimed subsistence from his half-brother Henry III., and his protection, and was sent for in 1247. He married Joan, only daughter of Warren, Lord Montchensy, and in her right, became Earl of Pembroke. She°became heiress to her brother William de Montchensy, who was crushed to death in 1289, by the overthrow of Dryslwyn Castle, near Carmarthen. William de Valence owned the Castles of Haverfordwest, Cilgerran, &c., aud for his Commot of Oystrelow did suit in the King's Court at Carmarthen. This haughty, overbearing man died {ut alii, was slain by the French) at Bayonne on the 13th June, 1296. His second, but eldest surviving son, William, Lord of Montignac and Bellac, was slain in battle by the Welsh near Llandeilo Fawr, in Co. Carmarthen, on the 24th June, 1282. ' Arcaldo de Sancto Romano was keeper of King Henry III.'s Wardrobe. ' John Maunsell was firstly, Chancellor of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : then became Provost of Beverly Monastery, in Yorkshire. In 1247 he had the custody of the Great Seal to execute the office of Lord Chancellor. Two years after, the like trust was confided to him until the feast of St. Mary. He possessed the Castle and Manor of Sedgwick, in Westmoreland, and was a \" special friend and counsellor >r Henry III. His father was Henry Maunsell, son to Sir Philip de Maunsel. owner of Oxwich Manor, in Co. Glamorgan, by the gift of his uncle, Sir Henry Harley, Knight, The Chancellor (by his wife Joan, daughter of Simon Beauchamp, Baron of Bedford) is the direct ancestor of the present Sir Johu Bell William Mansel, of Maesdeilo, Carmarthenshire, Bart. Alard Fleming married a sister of John Maunsel's, and their daughter Joan became wife of Henry Hoese. one of the. rebellious Barons. . . 8 William de Grey, of Laudford, in Notts, and Sandiacre, in Co. Derby, was a younger son of Henry de Grey, of Grimston, in Notts, by his wife Isolda, niece and coheiress of Robert Bardolph, Lord of the Hundred of Hoo, in Kent. 2", "38 Ther is w'tin the ] s In the Stipende said parishe one of John Molde, Chapell \\ in the Castle Incumbent ther, T, ther, wherunto ther of the aige of parishe d0\\he aPPerteine 01\\e CvJ-- Yif xliJ yeres j- iiij« xvj- , i yerhe pencon paid wherof J J Karmer hj the KingS Ma'tS penc'. iiij \" xvj s , \" Receyuor of the same e ' comynge to the clere yerlie valewe of ... j [ Ther is also w'tin the \"1 f In the Stipend said parishe one ser- of one Morice vice called our Lady ap Griffith, service2 wherunto ther Clerke, Stipin- doth apperteine Londs dary Prest ther, and Ten'ts yeven to , s ...d of the age of thentent to fynde a i V - thre score and J-lv3 viij.1! Prest for euer, and twoe yeres, hau- the same Londs put ynge none other in ffeffment to the spirituall pro- same vse, beinge of mocyon the clere yerlie valewe penc. Iv s viij of j I 1 This chapel was known as Prince Edward's chapel, otherwise the King's Chapel. 2 This service was performed in the chauntry of the Church of St. Peter, Carmar- then.", "56 ROTULI WALLIE. 10th EDWARD I. A.D. 1282. MEMB. 10. For Auditing the ' Account of the Issues of the }- Bailiffs of Ker. Murage of merdyn, Greet- Kermerdyn. J ing_ Forasmuch as We are desirous that the issues De Compoto audiendo^ de exitibus Muragij Vj^ Bal\" de Kermerdyn. ) 1±1lig suis de Kermerdyn, Salutem. Quia volu mus quod exitus Muragii ville vestre predicte, fideliter et plene in con structione et reparacione murorum ville vestre predicte aproponantur, iuxta concessionem nostram homi- of the Murage1 of your aforesaid town, faithfully and fully may be appropriated to the construction and reparation of the Walls of your aforesaid town, according to Our grant thereof made to the men of the aforesaid town, for which pur pose We have assigned Our dear and faithful Robert Tibetot2 to audit the account of the issues arising from the Murage aforesaid from the time of the aforesaid grant, as to him more fully We have by word of mouth enjoined. We command you that the aforesaid account of all the issues arising from the said Murage and of all costs and expenses about the construction and repara tion of the aforesaid walls, to the same Robert you cause to be ren dered : and that to him in all things which to that account may appertain, you be intensive and responsive as the same Robert shall direct on Our behalf. In Witness, &c. Witness the King at Perssovere3 the first day of January. nibus ville predicte inde factam pro quod assignauimus dilectum et fidelem nostrum Robertum Tibetot ad audiendum compotum de exitibus proventibus de muragio predicto, a tempore concessionis predicte, prout ei pknius iniunximus viva voce. Vobis mandamus, quod compotum predictum de omnibus exitibus de dicto muragio prouenientibus, et de omnibus misis et expensis circa con struccionem et reparacionem muro rum predictorum, eidem Roberto reddi faciatis : et vos ipsi in omni bus que ad compotum ilium pertinent, intendentes sitis et respondentes, prout idem Robertus vobis scire faciet ex parte nostra. In Cuius, &e. Teste Rege apud Perssouere primo die Januarij. ' Murage was a toll, exacted from every laden horse or cart coming into a town,. which toll was applied towards building or repairing the walls of that town. 2 Previously annotated. 3 Now called Pershore, a town in Worcestershire. King Edward in this year kept his Christmas at Worcester : he was then on his way to North Wales." ]

[ "ADVERTISEMENT. Mixt Eflays upon Tragedies, Comedies, Italian Coma dies, Englifh Comedies, and Opera's to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham. Written Originally in French by the Sieur de Saint EVRE MONT. Printed for Timothy Goodwin, at the Maiden- Head <, ver againft St. Dunftans Church in Fleetftyiettx 1 687-", "(A6. Men. Step in there, I'll fend him away prefently. Enter Keepwell, he gets aglimpfe of Bella mira. Keep* Mtrryman with a Wench, nay then we are all -Mortal. Merr. ' Fis only a Wine Cooper's Daughter that has brought me feme taft of Pontack out of her Fathers Cellar. Kjep. Sings) Fir Breafts of Delight, are two Bottles of White, ard her Eyes are two Cups of Canary. I hope we fhall have no more LefTons of Thrift, no pious Exhortations, no Lectures agamft Love : Why fhe ha^as good Cloaths as my BeRxmira. Merr. But I don't Pay for'em as you do. Kjep. Prithee let me fee her, I havetrufted thee with my Btll. ahun« drcd times. Merr. You won't like her and then I lhall be laugh'd at, befides this is the firft time, fhe is a young modeft Sinner and I have given her my word. Keep. What, art thou afham'd of her ? Merr. Nor proud of her-neither, as you are of your Tyrant BeRemira. Keep. Never fpeak againft my BeR. fhe is the prittieft little pouting tempeftuous Rogue fbmctimes, but 'tis fbon ever, and then {he is fo calm again, the Halcyon, might breed upon her Lips. Metr. You are grown Poetical fince you went into the Country. Keep- Prithee let me fee thy Punk, thy Cockatrice, thv Harlot. Merr. Good words, you don't know whayou fpeak off. Keep- I'll fet my foot againft the door. Merr. You won't be fuch a Brute. [How fhxR we get rid of him? K/tef. I am very Rampant. Merr. I have that will ta! e <fown your Courage. Dangerfield hss fent me a Challenge for delivering your Eunuch and Black in his Pretence. Keep. Why didft thou do it in his Prcfence ? Mtrr. 'Tis paft now, and you muft be my Second. Ke p P°x on't I did not mean rampant for Fighting, I meant for th'other bufinefs, I have no malice to any man living but am wond'rous loving. Mtrr. We are to meet an hour hence, the time is fhor% I cannot poflibJe find another Friend ; befides, 'tis partly your own quarrel. K*-*p* Hang him he makes a Trade of Fighting, and kills men by the year. Merr. We muft try, w hat Mettle he is made off. K'p Let me alone, I will bring you off with Honour, and without Fighting. * Merr.", "C 4? ) Euft. About.a young Maid Dangerfield gave her-* nothing will ferve but he'll have her again. {n - ** T™ \" ™SO W) ' Sil. She will never meet with Tucli k BM1§ Obejieht Lover, as tXftp mil. Euft. He is the Top Cully of the Town. Eut here fhe comes her felf' . - i'tiBO Epatt Bellamira, I. . .\\ . • Bell. Ibelieve he'll come to take her a^af if Wtte ; but le^'im offer to touch her with a Finger, I'll, pluck his Eyes, cue I can bear h his impertinences and big words , while they a^e Ibb'i .voids ; hue it he offer violence, I know what he is at the lottom,atfa Cab find thbfe that can Cudgel him. ' xrEuft I^aveexpe&ed you a good while here. . , , ,. Bi'S. Do you know that Danger field's fit Quarrel and mir.j vvaia Concern of yours ? Euft He was not Jealous of- me ? , Bell. No: but while Tendeavour'dt6reftore,your loft Sifter, to ae I think in Confcience I ought ; I'fufter'd \\vnkt yo.u fee, and more from [ him. , * ? J ' Euft. You have-feveral times' tailk'd to me of a-Sifter of mine, loft from our houfe in Devonftjite ; but I always look't upon it as a meer Wkalle.. ... Bell. One that has an i!' name, is half hang'd: but, 'failure you, I was in earneft, as I fhall make appear to you by infallible Circumftances. Euft. I loft indeed a Sifter, about twelve years fince, but w r here fhe is, Heaven only knows. Btll. Yes I know fhe h at home. Eifl. What at your jfioufe ? Bell. Yes at my houfe : my Mother bred her, as if The tiadbeen her own^yoi^need not be afham'd to own her. Etifl. She bred her up from a Child ! I like that well .- then this is not fhe that Dangerfield gave her yefterday, and that'Lionel Ravifh'd. Bell. I doubt not of yoitr Gratitude , \\vhen you feetter •. She's a delicate Creature. • Euft. How old is She? Bell. Seventeen. ■ Enst. The very Age that Lw^e/ mention'd . lam undone again I She had my Father's Picture on, when she wafc'lb'st?1 Bell. She has it still and kisses it a hundred times a day. Eitft, A bite by a Monky upon her left arm. Be//." ]

[ "Book I.] BEGGARS ALL. 101 \" Yes,\" said Star. She had evidently something more to say. \"Will he — will he hear about the— about the advertisement ? \" \" Certainly not. There are only two people now who know anything about it, and, unless you tell of it, no one else will ever know.\" \" I did not know whether it was possible to manage those things with perfect secrecy.\" \" If one knows how to do it, it is.\" \" Will he hear about the — about the church yester day ? \" Star dropped her voice, she never looked at him. \" That I cannot tell. It is probable that some one who knows me, if not you, will have been to the church. It will get about among those who know me soon, cer tainly. If he is asking questions, I should think he is likely to hear about it.\" \" You see, mother must not know it for a week or ten days yet. She does not know much about how things are done in this country. She will not need to know how soon it was begun.\" \" Yes, I understand ; it would startle her, in her weak condition, to hear you had taken this step without her knowledge.\" \" Exactly. He must not tell her.\" \" When he comes, then, could you not see him first, and tell him that is not to be mentioned.\" \" I would rather not. You see — well, I don't like to ask him not to tell mother things about myself ; it does not seem nice.\" Kent looked at her, but she did not notice it. \" I think, then \" (quietly), \" the better way would be for me to call upon him, if you will give me his address.", "164 BEGGARS ALL. [Book I. crimes ! \" said Richarda, her mind, as usual, flitting with ease on the track of a fresh suggestion. \" It does not need a genius to do that,\" he answered. \" Do you always report the crimes ? \" \" That is my department. I am rather a dab at it.\" \" It seems terrible,\" said the mother, \" that any one should make profit out of crime.\" She did not like the craft ; her dislike was in her tone. \" But, mammy,\" Star joined in hastily, \" policemen, lawyers, judges — they all live by it.\" \" Newspapers are splendid public servants,\" said Hubert good-naturedly. \" I heard a curious idea once about them in connection with the millennium.\" \" What was it ? \" asked Star, because no one else did. She felt uncomfortable to notice that he used the word \" millennium \" exactly like an ordinary word. To her mind, there should have been a little reverential modu lation of the voice upon it. What would her mother think ? \" A preacher was speaking about the text which says the coming of the Son of Man shall be as the lightning flashing from one end of heaven to the other.\" Again Star would fain have stopped him. There was something terribly bald to her ear, sensitive for her mother's approval, in the way he spoke the sacred Name. \" He said there were two sorts of light — physical light and knowledge. Crime of all sorts throve where there was a lack of either kind. In old times the rich man could perpetrate all sorts of tyranny in his secret chambers and dungeons — no one knew. And the poor, huddled together in squalid streets and houses, robbed", "Book III.] BEGGARS ALL. 395 this house which has made it seem so much worth while to put any one near her. Other women must long to imitate her, and Mr. Kent will take an interest in our people for her sake.\" Star rose up suddenly. \" I cannot listen to what you say,\" she said. \" I am very miserable. Hubert has gone away for a while, and — and we have quarrelled.\" She stood, such a picture of young strong misery, that they looked at her startled but incredulous. \"I would not tell you if I could help it ; we shall make it up again, but just now I am miserable.\" She had borne her silence like a burning thing that © O she could hold no longer. She crept upstairs now, and, going to Hubert's pillow, she knelt and choked out great heartsick sobs upon it. Marian walked away. She could not fathom the extent of the trouble. She walked home, thinking sorrow that had so unwillingly revealed itself would shrink from eVen a friend's eye. No sooner home than she wondered if she had deserted her friend, and she walked back. She found Richarda frightened. Star was pacing her own room. Her heart within her was crying out against any appearance of ease. Hubert's letter had said, \" I shall know how you are and what you do.\" Her heart made answer, \" Let him know this then, that I cannot endure it.' \" Oh, Dixie, Dixie,\" she said, looking down at the trembling Richarda with pitying eyes, \" only do not mind me, only let me not feel that I am harming you, and that, at least, wull be relief.\" Marian stretched out loving hands to her. \" Tell me, where has he gone ? When will he come back ? \"" ]

[ "PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION. 153 tion had been perpetrated upon loyal citizens. Every where on the border the extreme sever ities of war had been practised with a fierce and relentless spirit by their regular or irregular soldiery. And now they raised this cry of horror to inflame the indignation of their own people and excite the sympathy of foreign nations. The orders of General Pope, however, show only the spirit of civilized warfare, and are couched in such terms, and guarded by such restrictions, that an enemy can have little reason to complain. War has its terrible pen alties and its cruel inflictions, oftentimes beyond the intentions of governments or generals. But for the rebels thus to utter outcries of horror and execrations, when they first began to real ize these penalties and inflictions, which they had practised upon their own brethren who had remained faithful to the Union, was but another instance of the arrogance with which they have claimed a position before the world, and a superiority over the people of the north, — the arrogance of an aristocracy based upon human slavery, that may inflict, but never suf fer, punishment ; that may exact submission, but never yield respect ; that may take the life and trample upon the soul of its victim with impunity, and boast its higher civdization ! was more decided that such a transfer was necessary. General McClellan, however, was still desirous of accomplishing the purpose of his campaign from his new base, and did not acquiesce in the opinions of other officers that the safety of Washington and the federal cause, as well as of both the army of the Poto mac and that of Virginia, required a different movement. When General Pope assumed the command of the army of Virginia, he wrote to General McClellan, advising him of the duty assigned to this army, and seeking his views and sug gestions in relation to movements designed to cooperate with those of the army of the Poto mac. General McClellan, however, did not respond so fully and cordially as General Pope had opened his own views and expressed his readiness to cooperate with or carry out the suggestions of the former. Perhaps with some reason, but probably also from the misrepre sentations and officious advice of parties acting from selfish or political motives, a feeling of dissatisfaction with the government had arisen on the part of General McClellan, and was increased by the present posture of military affairs. It soon became apparent that what ever should be the movement of the army of the Potomac, — whether to advance against Richmond from Harrison's Landing, or to re turn to Northern Virginia, — it was necessary to take some step to secure prompt and har monious action between the two federal armies, both for their own safety and the success of the cause. Under all the circumstances, it seemed to the government that this could best be done by the appointment of a military head, superior to both General McClellan and Gen eral Pope, who should take command of all the military operations in Virginia. The duty assigned for the army of Virginia, as already stated, was to cover Washington, secure the Shenandoah Valley from incursions, and create a diversion in favor of the army of the Potomac, so that it could be relieved from its position at Harrison's Landing by another advance against Richmond, or by evacuating that point for operations in Northern Virginia. Prominent and experienced officers of the army of the Potomac had advised that the army be transferred from the James River to another field, and as time passed on, and the inability of the government to furnish the heavy reen forcements required by General McClellan in order to renew the campaign from that base became apparent, the opinion of military men Accordingly, on the 11th of July, General Halleck, commander of the western department, and at the head of the armies recently operat ing in Tennessee, was appointed general-in- jo vol. n.", "HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 250 \" About two P. M. General Hooker, with his corps, consisting of Generals Ricketts's, Meade's, and Doubleday's divisions, was ordered to cross the Antietam at a ford, and at bridge No. 1, a short distance above, to attack, and, if possible, turn the enemy's left. General Sumner was ordered to cross the corps of General Mansfield (the twelfth) during the night, and hold his own (the second) corps ready to cross early the next morning. On reaching the vicinity of the enemy's left, a sharp contest commenced with the Pennsylvania reserves, the advance of Gen eral Hooker's corps, near the house of D. Miller. The enemy were driven from the strip of woods where he was first met. The firing lasted until after dark, when General Hooker's corps rested on their arms on ground won from the enemy. gade. The second division, General Gieen's, joining the lest of Gordon's, extended as far as the burned buildings to the north and east of the white church on the turnpike. During the deployment, that gallant veteran General Mansfield fell mortally wounded while exam ining the ground in front of his troops. Gen eral Hartsuff, of Hooker's corps, was severely wounded, while bravely pressing forward his troops, and was taken from the field. \" The command of the twelfth corps fell upon General Williams. Five regiments of the first division of this corps were new troops. One brigade of the second division was sent to sup port General Doubleday. '• The one hundred and twenty-fourth Penn sylvania volunteers were pushed across the turnpike into the woods beyond J. Miller's house, with orders to hold the position as long as possible. '■ During the night General Mansfield's corps, consisting of Generals Williams's and Green's divisions, crossed the Antietam at the same ford and bridge that General Hooker's troops bad passed, and bivouacked on the farm of J. Poffenberger, about a mile in rear of General Hooker's position. At daylight on the 17th, the action was commenced by the skirmishers of the Pennsylvania reserves. The whole of General Hooker's corps was soon engaged, and drove the enemy from the open field in front of the first line of woods into a second line of woods beyond, which runs to the eastward of, and nearly parallel to, the Sharpsburg and Hagerstown turnpike. \" The line of battle of this corps was formed, and it became engaged about seven A. M., the attack being opened by Knapp's, (Pennsyl vania,) Cothrau's, (New York,) and Hampton's (Pittsburg) batteries. To meet this attack the enemy\" had pushed a strong column of troops into the open fields in front of the turnpike, while he occupied the woods on the west of the turnpike in strong force. The woods (as was found by subsequent observation) were trav ersed by outcropping ledges of rock. Several hundred yards to the right and rear was a hill, which commanded the debouche of the woods, and in the fields between was a long line of stone fences, continued by breastworks of rails, which covered the enemy's infantry from our musketry. The same woods formed a screen, behind which his movements were concealed, and his batteries on the hill and the rifle-works covered from the fire of our artillery in front. \" This contest was obstinate, and as the troops advanced the opposition became more deter mined, and the number of the enemy greater. General Hooker then ordered up the corps of General Mansfield, which moved promptly to wards the scene of action. \" The first division, General Williams's, was deployed to the right on approaching the enemy; General Crawford's brigade on the right, its right resting on the Hagerstown turnpike; on his left General Gordon's bri- \" For about two hours the battle raged with varied success, the enemy endeavoring to drive our troops into the second line of woods, and oura in turn to get possession of the line in front", "INDEX TO VOLUME II. 647 General MeClellan, 145 ; orders General MeClellan to cross the Potomac, 311; address of, to army of the Potomac, 329 ; proposition for gradual emancipation, 338 ; address to border state congress men, 340 ; emancipation proclamations of, 342, 345 ; message of, to Congress, reviewing the position of affairs, 494 ; conference with rebel envoys in Hampton Roads, 608 ; reflected President, 609 ; visits Richmond, 616; assassination of, 638 ; funeral of, 639. Monocacy, battle of, 559. R. Morgan, John, rebel colonel, raid of, 269 ; raid into Indiana and Ohio, 456; cap- ture of, 458. Rapidan River, advance of the army of Virginia to, 168 ; crossed by the army of the Potomac, 478 ; recrossed, 479 ; passage of, by General Grant's army, 526. Mosby's guerrilla troops, 426. Mumfordsville, battle of, 269. Rappahannock River, passage of, by Burn- side's arm}*, at Fredericksburg, 323. N. Nashville, rebel movement on, 595 ; battle of, 596. Rappahannock Station, engagement at, 478. Naval demonstrations of the rebels on James River, 610. Red River, passage of federal fleet over the rapids of, 506. Naval operations in James River, 63 ; at Fort Pemberton, 360; near Vicksburg, 365, 369 ; near Port Hudson, 392, 396 ; in Charleston harbor, 481, 487; at Gal- veston, 489 ; on Red River, 503, 505 ; in North Carolina, 519 ; at Mobile, 599. Red River expedition, General Banks', 501-510. M. Macon Railroad, movements for possession of, 583. Reno, General, death of, 216. Resaca, battle of, 574. Malvern Hill, battle of, 135-141. Richmond, defences of, 9S ; cavalry raid to, 521 ; cavalry operations near, 535 ; evacuation of, 615 ; occupied by federal troops, 615 ; President Lincoln's visit to, 616. Maryland, rebel invasion of, 213, 425. MeClellan, General, peninsular campaign of, 1-148 ; superseded by General Hal- leck as general-in-ehief, 153 ; at Alex- andria, 178 ; want of harmony with General Pope, 206 ; assumes command of the army at AArashington, 212; Mary- land campaign of, 212-264; delays and movements of, after the battle of Antie- tam, 260 ; ordered by the President to cross the Potomac, 311 ; continued de- lay by, 312 ; letter of General Halleck concerning supplies to, and delays of, 316; removed from bis command, 320; nominated for the presidency, 608. Navy, successful service of, 602. Norfolk, occupation of, by federal troops, 25. North Anna River, General Grant's army at, 542. Rosecrans, General, in command of army of .he Cumberland, 299 ; at Stone River, 300 ; at Chickamauga, 401 ; relieved of his command, 470. North Carolina, military operations in, 519, 626. O. S. Oak Grove, Va., engagement at, 102. Sabine Cross Roads, battle of, 503. Ohio, department of, General Burnside in, 468 ; Morgan's raid in, 456. Savage's Station, battle of, 119. Savannah, General Sherman's army before, 593 ; evacuated by rebels, 594. Olustee, Fla., battle of, 518. Schofield, General, commands army of the Ohio, 572 ; sent to North Carolina, 626. P. McCook, General, cavalry expedition of, 582. Paducah, Ky., rebel attack on, 512. Peace movements, 607. Peninsular campaign, General McClellan's, 1-148. Secessionville, battle of, 265. McPherson, General, before Vicksburg, 374, 380 ; in command of army of the Tennessee, 571 ; death of, 5S0. Sedgwiek, General, in command of army corps, 524 ; at the battle of the Wilder- ness, 527 ; death of, 531. Pennsylvania, rebel invasion of, 213 ; sec- ond rebel invasion of, 425. Seward, secretary, attempted assassination of, 639. Meade, General, appointed to command of army of the Potomac, 430 ; operations of, in Maryland, 431 ; the Gettysburg campaign of, 432-449; at Culpepper, 477 ; at Mine Run, 478 ; commands the army of the Potomac under General Grant, 524. Petersburg, federal movements against, 552 ; continued operations before, 561 ; explosion of mine before, 562 ; evacua- tion of, by rebels, 615. Shaw, Colonel, death of, 485. Shenandoah \\ralley, General Banks' op- erations in, 38-42 ; General Sigel's movement in, 536 ; General Hunter's movements in, 557 ; General Sheridan's operations in, 567-571. Pope, General, assigned to the command of the army of Virginia, 148 ; war policy of, 150 ; campaign 6f, 159-210. Mechanicsville, engagement at, 29 ; battle of, 104, Sheridan, General, at the west, 300, 462 ; in command of cavalry corps of army of the Potomac, 525 ; campaign of, in the Shenandoah A?alley, 567 ; at battle of Five Forks, 614 ; sent to Texas, 636. Port Hudson, strength of, 395 ; unsuccess- ful assault on, 396 ; siege of, 398 ; sur- render of, 39S. Merrimac, rebel iron-clad, destruction of 27. Milledgeville, occupied by General Sher- man's forces, 591. Port Republic, battle of, 58. Porter, Fitz John, General, at Hanover Court House, 65; in General Pope's campaign, 172, 180; his disobedience of orders and delay, 180, 188; dismissed from the service, 18S, note. Sherman, General, movement of, against A'icksburg, 353 ; before Vicksburg, 378 ; at Jackson, 3S9 ; at Chattanooga, 472 ; appointed to the command of the west- ern armies, 524 ; campaign of, to At- lanta, 571-586 ; his \"march to the sea,\" 589-594 ; campaign in the Carolinas, 619 ; correspondence and interviews with Johnston, 632; terms granted by, dis- Milliken's Bend, battle of, 384. Mississippi River, blockade of, by the reb- els, 357 ; Admiral Porter's report of operations on, 361. Missouri, invasion of, by General Price, 600. Prairie Grove, Ark., battle of, 403. Presidential nominations, 60S. Mobile, movement :igai;ist, 597 ; naval bat- tle in bay of, 599 ; further operations against, 634 ; surrender of, 635. Q. Quantrell, rebel bushwhacker, 407." ]

[ "144 THE JAPS AT HOME. \" Well,\" I said to him, \" you have been as good as your boast this time ; but how can you make it a certainty every time?\" \"Well, I'll tell you,\" he said, \"for it isn't very likely ever to get back to the class of Japs I deal with. The fact is that I understand the so-ro-ba (abacus), the counting machine on which the Japanese do all their calculations. They never do the simplest sum in their head, and they take it for granted that the European doesn't understand their system of counting. So, as soon as you begin to bargain with them, they begin to calculate the difference between your offer and what they gave for it ; and if you watch them closely you can tell every time what it cost them. To this I add the percentage of profit they expect to make in their dealings with each other, and in nine cases out of ten they come round to my price. Ready money is always at a premium with the Japs, and they are content with quick sales and small profits.\" The kind of curio-shopping I enjoy most is fossicking about among the street curio sellers, who from sundown to nearly midnight throng the Ginza in Tokyo, or the Basha Michi in Yokohama. They crouch at the very bottom of the ladder among curio sellers. There are many rungs between them and a place like the Fine Art Gallery. As I wrote once in jest, for people who are not looking for objects induplicable in the South Kensington Museum, but nevertheless wish to spend a great deal of money without a great deal of trouble, there are whole streets of curio, silk, fan, and porcelain shops in the Honcho Dori — a continuation of the main street of the settlement — and the Benten Dori, which runs parallel with, and next to it. But the properly constituted curio hunter, who has less money than time on his hands, ferrets for curios as the frequenters of Holywell Street, Strand, ferret for second-hand books. Even the Benten Dori, which is distinctly humbler than the Honcho Dori, is tame and extravagant. For even here there is some pretence of style and arrange ment. Personally I mistrust a curio shop which contains no second-hand European boots ; for it shows that the proprietor understands Europeans, and aims at business with Europeans only, at a corresponding increase of prices, and contempt for the little domestic curios, which show more than anything else how thoroughly art enters into the life of the Japanese. The lower class dandy in Japan values nothing so much as European boots, or boots which he considers to be a successful", "303 BITS OF CHINA. road— runs the magnificent Praya, or esplanade, off which the men-of-war and mail-boats lie. There are seven or eight thousand Europeans to the hundred and fifty thousand Chinese in Hong Kong, and they have means of beguiling their time, which are the envy of the English colonies in Japan. In the first place there are the gambling hells at Macao and Kowloon, the strip of British territory on the other side of the harbour. Then there are the excellent China pony races held in the beautiful Happy Valley just outside the cemeteries, Christian and heathen. In the season, too, there are private theatricals A CHINESE GREEN-ROOM. as good as any in the world, and balls galore, aided materially by the presence of half a dozen regiments, and a dozen and a half men-of-war, and the purses of the rich brokers, for Hong Kong is the city of brokers ; and last, but- not least, there is a delightful club in the heart of the city, with a library like those of the great Service Clubs in London. A most interesting place to spend a few days in en voyage is this city of British and naval military pomp, with its medley of grave Parsees, oily Macaistos, tall crimson-turbaned Sikhs, rikshas whirling behind a couple of smart coolies, and European lad es, with daintily-slippered feet and the lightest possible silks, in open sedan chairs. Its palm-clustered gardens are glorious.", "314 BITS OF CHINA. pots containing flowers that would be rare in a northern climate. This, I supposed, was to preclude any rush from Jack Tar and Tommy Atkins, who were congregating in hundreds, mingled with Parsees and Chinese and other kinds of infidels, on the other side of the course, controlled by a rickety railing and half a dozen of the stately, crimson turbaned Sikh police, six feet high every man of them, with handsome Aryan features and fierce moustaches and beards. The Sikhs were assisted by some brawny sergeants of the Black Watch for the benefit of Jack Tar and Tommy Atkins, who do not stand in the same awe of Asiatic constables that the Chinamen do. The Chinamen are ludicrously afraid of them. If the coolies were rivalling an Irish faction — fifty of them — over a visitor outside the Hong Kong Hotel, the apparition of one Sikh's crimson turban at the corner would put the whole pack of them to flight, and I have often seen a single Sikh marching half-a-dozen Chinamen, not handcuffed in any way, off to prison, just holding on to their pigtails, which he handled like the ribbons of a four-in-hand. The races were, most of them, \" sprints,\" and the shorter distances necessitating exact starts the starter's life was not a happy one, for of all brutes the China ponies are the most self-willed. They have mouths like iron, and are as fond of bolting as a spoiled child. The starter, a big burly English man on a small white pony, wore the orthodox scarlet coat. Totalisator gains are not very extensive as a rule. Too often the winner who has put in five dollars comes out with five dollars five cents, but on this occasion the lucky ones had handsome luck, for the public always imagined that Mr. John Peel's choice was going to win, and Mr. Sid's almost as in variably did win. In the last race of all the winners took out $350 apiece for every dollar they put in. It was won by a bolting brute of \" Mr. Chantrey's,\" who never before would bolt at the right time. Only \" Mr. Chantrey \" himself and a few of his friends would back him, and they did it as a point of honour rather than as a matter of speculation. But he chose to bolt exactly as the flag went down, and none of his field could catch him. It seemed so funny in February to see men wearing light flannel or silk suits and big Terai hats. Compared with an American racecourse there was not a great show of ladies. What exquisite dresses — fairy marvels of delicate silk and lace and feminine taste and ingenuity — New York grandes dames would wear in such a climate ; but most officers are un-" ]

[ "58 PARISH CHURCH OF MONTROSE. to him of all stipend, teind, victuall, and silver marriage moneys, and all benefits belonging to him and be his presentation, and decreet of modification of the commis sioners of Parliament in favour of his predecessors for the said stipend and serving the cure at the said kirk, except the gleib.\" (Montrose Charter Chest.) It was during Mr. Lyell's ministry that the annuity tax was imposed, and, according to Jervise, a \" Mr. Neill was the first ' Second ' or ' Burgh ' minister.\" * The Act for levying this tax, known as the \" Annuity tax,\" was passed on the 16th May, 1690, and was incorporated by special grant of the High Commissioners of Parliament upon a petition of the inhabitants, who craved Government to allow them to tax themselves for the support of their second minister. The narrative proceeding upon the statement that the petitioners \" haveing allways since the settleing of the reformed religione in Scotland been very zealous for encouraging the Gospell ministry within the sd burgh, and that it being but a small landward parochine, the teynds thereof not being competent for a first minister's stipend, and the place being so populous that one minister is not aible to undergo the charge,\" asked power to levy the tax upon \" the haill inhabitants, tennants, and possessors of any houses within the burgh at ffyve per cent.,\" which was granted by the commissioners and estates of Parliament on the above date. Montrose and Edinburgh being the only two towns in Scotland where this tax was • Memorials, p. 56. Scott's \" Fasti\" does not include this person as minister, nor have we been able to find any trace of him either in Session or Town Coun*:il records.", "125 THE OLD BELL TOWER. And never may it meet with skaith, Nor may the grim an' deadlie breath Of leasing blaw it out ! May no dark shadow's baleful power Over our kirk or borough lower, To make us blind as moles : But may the rays of Reason bricht Fill everie corner wi' their licht, And beam upon their souls ! An' may the skipper quha bestowed This gift unto the House o' God, In danger be no more ; But may he ride life's stormie seas, With flying flag an' fair fresh breeze, An' find the heivenlie shore. Of the worthy admiral's family and descendants little is known, but from the \" hearse \" having been brought from Stockholm, by Skipper James Wood, a cousin of the admiral's, we may infer that it is of Continental workmanship. The admiral died on the 14th of March, 1624, and in a letter addressed to the \" Lord-provost of Montross,\" the bearer of the \"hearse\" alludes to the admiral's \" good and natural affection towards his native town of Montross,\" who \" in his last moments remembered the kirk wt ane littil ornament of his love, to witt, ane hearse, to be placed in the church, so that the good affectione and name of the giver that is wt God may be acceptable to ye spectatouris thereof.\" At the west end of the church stood the old bell tower. The tower was an object of great antiquity, and is supposed to have been built by the Picts, although, unlike most of their monuments, it was square instead of round. It was 54 feet high to the bottom of the parapet, which", "156 PARISH CHURCH OF MONTROSE. were held up to ridicule by the congregation. A pair of \" joges \" were also fixed on the Market Cross, criminals being secured by the town's scourger,* and after being exposed for a few days, were conducted outside the bounds of the burgh. Outside the kirk style f sat groups of beggars waiting for the alms of the charitable who passed into the church. This old custom, a relic of pre-Reformation times, was put a stop to in 1687, in which year the session decreed that \" no beggar or pensioner sitt at ye session house door in tyme of their meeting, otherwise they are to have no benefit from them,\" and also to be censured by the magistrates, who threatened to \" take a course with them \" if they persisted. In 1775 the beggars had increased to such an extent, and grown so bold in their demands, that measures had to be adopted for their suppression. The Town Council consulted with their brethren the magistrates of Aberdeen, who had been regulating their \" gentry \" by supplying them with \" begging badges.\" The magistrates and session, after a protracted meeting, resolved that the poor of Montrose should be supplied with the same kind of distinguishing mark, meetings to be held once a year for the distribution of the badges. The badge consisted of an oval leaden plate, hung on the breast, and generally bore the name and arms of the burgh or parish to which the beggar belonged. The beggars were allowed to go through the town in a body the first day of the week, and demand alms ; but at no time could they enforce their demands, but subsisted on their \" chance charity of passers-bye \" as they sat about corners or hung * History of the Market Cross of Montrose. t Kirk entrance." ]

[ "28 all his officers and soldiers should be well accommodated with us.\" 4. \" I marched up with them to the Narragansett sachems, and brought my countrymen and the barbarians, sachems and captains, to a mutual confidence and complacence each in other. 5. \" Though I was ready to have marched further, yet upon agreement that I should keep at Providence, as an agent between the Bay and the army, I returned, and was interpreter and intelli gencer, constantly receiving and sending letters to the Governor and Council at Boston, &c. These things, and ten times more, I could relate, to show that I am not a stranger to the Pequod wars and lands, and possibly not far from the merit of a foot of land in either country which I have not.\" Massachusetts and Connecticut claimed the Pequod lands by right of conquest, in this war, a portion of these lands were said to be on the east of Paucatuck river, within the boundaries of the Rhode-Island charter ; to set in their true light these claims of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and what Rhode-Island had a right to claim in consequence of his services, this letter was written in 1670, to Major Mason, who then was, or had been previously Dep uty-Governor of Connecticut. When it is considered that the victories obtained over the Pe quods gave peace to New-England for near forty years, and how different might have been the result if the league had not been broken between them and the Narragansetts, we may perceive the importance of these services of Mr. Williams to New-England. We regret to learn, from this same letter, that, though they were duly appreciated by the worthy Governor Winthrop, that it was not even in his power to cause them to be properly acknowledged and rewarded. Mr. Williams states that, on account of these ser vices, Gov. Winthrop \" and some other of the Council motioned, and it was debated, whether or no he had not merited, not only to be recalled from banishment, but also to be honored with some remark of favor ;\" and adds, \" It is known who hindered, who never pro moted the liberty of other men's consciences.\" The person, here alluded to, is supposed to be Mr. Dudley, who in 1634 was Gov ernor of Massachusetts. We perceive here another illustration of the sad truth, how much easier it is to do evil than good, and that men are more ready to listen to the counsels of intolerance and fanaticism, than to the voice of liberality and gratitude.", "43 you. They occasioned the Mohegans to come in, too, and so oc casioned the Pequods downfall.\" * In 1643, the four colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connect icut, and New. Haven, formed a union, for offence and defence, and mutual assistance and advice ; they were called the United Colonies of New-England. Rhode-Island petitioned to be admitted a member of the confederacy, but was refused unless she would submit to the jurisdiction of Plymouth, and cease to be a separate colony. f In the summer of 1643, Roger Williams sailed for England, to procure a Charter which might unite the Narragansett colonies un der one government, protect them from the ambition of their neigh bors, and enable them, by the authority of England, to administer justice among themselves. In taking passage for England, he had to go to New- Amsterdam, now New-York, then in possession of the Dutch, being still forbidden the territory of Massachusetts. At New-Amsterdam he was instrumental in negotiating a peace be tween the Dutch and Long-Island Indians, who were at war, and was the means of blessing others, though subjected himself to incon venience and danger. By the aid of Sir Henry Vane, a charter was procured from the Earl of Warwick, Governor-in-Chief, and Lord High Admiral, and from the Earl of Pembroke, and others, Commissioners, by the ordi nance of Parliament, of the islands and plantations in America. Sir Henry Vane was one of these Commissioners. This charter is dated the 14th of March, 1643-4. By this charter the inhabitants of the towns of Providence, Ports mouth, and Newport, were incorporated by the name of \" The In corporation of Providence Plantations, in the Narragansett Bay, in New-England, with power to rule themselves, and such others as should thereafter inhabit within any part of the tract of land men tioned therein, by such a form of civil government, as by voluntary consent of all, or the greater part of them, they should find most suitable to their estate and condition.\" These were ample powers, and left them at perfect liberty to constitute such a form of govern. ment, and make such laws, as a majority saw fit, with but one wholesome restriction, that \" said laws, constitutions, and punish ments, should be conformable to the laws of England, so far as the nature and constitution of the place would admit.\" t Holmes' Annals, vol. 1, p. 327. • Knowles, p. 276.", "62 time advanced in age, he had firmness sufficient to accept of the of fice to which he was elected, to preserve the government and the chartered rights of the colony. The doubts which at first existed, as to the propriety of proceeding under the charter, after the seal had been broken and the government dissolved by Andros, subsided when it was found that no objection was made by the government of England to the course which had been adopted ; and the govern ment under this Charter has continued to the present time. In 1691, a new Charter was granted to Massachusetts, which included Plymouth under the same government. The various wars that ensued from this time until the peace of 1733, between England and France, required the colonies to unite their forces with those of the mother country, against the French dominions in North America. This bound the colonies together by interest and sympathy, and Rhode-Island, though, in former days, she was not allowed to enter the confederacy of the New-England colonies, was soon found of sufficient importance to be consulted, and her aid required. In the General Convention of the Colonies, holden at Albany in 1754, Rhode-Island was represented by Stephen Hopkins. He was one of that Committee which drew up the first plan of union for the colonies. In 1765, when a convention of the colonies at New-York declared their rights and grievances, in consequence of the Stamp Act, and other acts which taxed the colonists without their consent, Rhode- Island was there. The first forcible act of resistance to these laws was by the men of Providence, in the destruction of the Gaspee. Captain Whipple beat up for volunteers, who flocked to the whale boats; and one* who is now here can tell the sequel — \"all of which he saw, and part of which he was.\" Nor was Rhode-Island backward in the contest : she was among the foremost to provoke. In May, 1775, she raised three regiments, called an army of observation, and appointed to their command Gen. Nathaniel Greene. They were soon placed at the disposal of Con gress. To the heroic Declaration of Independence, were subscribed the * Colonel Ephraim Bowen. The enterprise, it is said, was planned in the house of the late Welcome Arnold, Esq. of this town ; now the residence of his son." ]

[ "70 HISTORY OF ST ANDREAVS. Byshoprics he sand but four or three, But, or he died, nyne left he. Abbays he founded nyne or ten, And set in them religious men. His object seems to have been, as much to civilize as Christianize his rude subjects ; and, doubtless, these institutions could not fail to have this effect, from the generally pious example of the monks, the schools Avhich Avere commonly attached to their monasteries, the missionaries they sent forth to evangelize the surrounding country, and the administration of the Christian sacraments to all who required them. David, also, was the first Scottish king who received a legate from the Court of Rome, viz., John of Crema, a cardinal priest, who was deputed by Honorius IL, and held a council at Roxburgh in a.d. 1125. One object of this council was, to recommend the celibacy of the secular clergy, though the legate is accused by historians of not having set an example of this virtue in his own person. J But as this is the first instance that we know2 of a papal legate being sent to Scotland, or of a papal bull being addressed to a Scottish king or prelate, it may be curious to see a copy of the document which was transmitted to David on the occasion in question : — \" Honorius episcopus, ser vus servorum Dei, to our beloved son David king of Scots, salutem, et apostolicam benedictionem. It behoves all the sons of St Peter to labour diligently to uphold the honour of the holy Roman Church. We therefore entreat your highness to entertain honour ably our beloved son John, cardinal, Avhom we have deputed to visit your country. You will assemble 1 Collier's Ecclesiastical History, vol. i. p. 319. 2 I have searched in vain in the Bullaria Romana, and other sources, lor a bull of an earlier date. I am far from asserting there were none ; on the contrary, I think there must have been a few, but I have not succeeded in discovering them.", "BISHOP WALTER DE DANYELSTONE. 197 the true signification of things sacred, the proper em ployment of the priests, the devotion of the people, and the edification of all. Whatever he could save out of the annual revenues of the monastery, he devoted to the improvement of the cathedral, the rites of hospitality, or the use of the poor. Besides this, he vigorously sustained several contests, as well dis tant as domestic, in which he was obliged to take a part for the protection of his monastery. Who that was adorned with so many virtues would not swell with pride ? Yet he Avas humble ; and on the founda tion of humility he rose to the summit of charity. Who was weak, and he was not weak ? who was offended, and he burned not? In short, he was all things to all the brethren, that he might contribute to the salvation of all. This prior was tall of stature, sedate in manners, and circumspect in all things. And, not to enumerate his other virtues, he was grave in conversation, prudent, affable, and forgiving. He loved the humble and checked the proud. He was not fractious in his deeds, nor loose in his behaviour, nor petulant in his words ; but you beheld in him the image and personification of probity. But why should I dwell on these particulars ? For even the holy church still proclaims, though I were not to mention, his sound judgment, his fertile genius, his retentive me mory, his flowing eloquence, and his laudable actions How great and good a man he was, let the reader of this learn from the surviving canons, and others Avho knew him during his life. And, doubtless, of him will the canons tell their younger brethren, that the gener ation to come may know and put their trust in the Lord, and not forget the Avorks of their prior, but diligently search them out. Many of his disciples, imbued with his spirit, attained the height of virtue, and, after his death, were called to the office of", "THE COLLEGES. 207 aged 63. On the architrave, are these two hexameter lines : In portu fluctusque omnes classemque relinquo, Me spectans mundumque omnem facesque relinque ; Avhich may be thus freely rendered : \" Here I leave behind both the honours and troubles of the world ; take example from me, and withdraw from its vanities.\" He married a daughter of the Earl of Atholl, by whom he had no issue, and lived privately at St Andrews till his death. As was too much the custom in those sacrilegious times, he gifted away some of the rents, both of his bishopric and his priorate, to those Avho had as little title to them as himself. There is another mural monument to the memory of Robert Wilkie, who was twenty-one years principal of the college, and enriched it with gifts and bursaries. He died in 1611. The long Latin egotistic inscription says of him, that he \" enclosed the area with buildings to the west, and made additions to those on the east, and bequeathed four thousand two hundred marks for the sustenance of the poor.\" The concluding words are, \" nutrio 6 inopes,\" in allusion to six bursaries which he founded, though now only tAvo under the name of Wilkie, of £9 each, appear on the list of bur saries belonging to the United College. He was the immediate predecessor of David Black, as senior min ister of the parish of St Andrews, though he had never undergone any form of ordination ; and was, moreover, the friend both of Andrew and James Melville. On the pavement of the chapel are a few monu mental stones with inscriptions, some of which are il legible, and others consist of fulsome compliments, or commonplace moral sentiments, scarcely worth record ing. The most perfect, is one at the north-east cor ner, in memory of James Wilkie, principal of the col lege, and predecessor, as Avell as uncle, ofthe foregoing" ]

[ "139 CHAPTER IX. WHICH INTRODUCES SHUM, SHOOTS THE GILDED PEDESTAL, AND CAPTURES A MYSTERIOUS POACHER. About this time Harold developed a very remark able anxiety to slay a seal. He meant, he said, to shoot at least one before he left the island, if not two, and the more hopeless the pursuit seemed, the keener he became. \"Harold,\" said Judith, \"you used to say seal shooting was little better than slaughter, and un sportsmanlike.\" \" Oh yes ; but that was when I didn't know any thing about it. I hear they eat a great many sal mon, and are more difficult to approach than deer.\" \" Well, I do think you are a stupid to keep on going to the same place. If you don't find them in Port Gheiradha, why don't you go somewhere else ? \" \" You do not understand anything about it,\" said Harold ; \" Port Gheiradha's the place. Barry tells me there are lots there, only one has to wait pa-", "AN ELOPEMENT. 241 you. Something might happen to prevent our marriage. You might change your mind before you arrived in London.\" \" I take my oath that I won't,\" exclaimed Amos, most earnestly, and beyond question he meant what he said. More passed between the two, which need not be set down here. Olivia felt herself yielding. But she would take every precaution. They were stand ing in the little room where the anglers supped and spun yarns, as anglers will, about the big fish they lose. Olivia called for ink and paper. She wrote : \"J, Amos Gildersleeves, promise to marry you, Olivia Golding-Monument.\" \" Sign it ! \" she said ; and he did so willingly and in good faith. A prosaic affair, truly. Q", "William Blackwood and Sons. 25 POLLOK. The Course of Time : A Poem. By Robert Pollok, A.M. Cottage Edition, 32mo, Sd. The Same, cloth, gilt edges, Is. 6d. Another Edition, with Illustrations by Birket Foster and others, fcap., cloth, 3s. 6d., or with edges gilt, 4s. PORT ROYAL LOGIC. Translated from the French ; with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix. By Thomas Spencer Baynes, LL.D., Pro- fessor in the University of St Andrews. Tenth Edition, 12mo, 4s. POTTS and DARNELL. Aditus Faciliores : An Easy Latin Construing Book, with Complete Vocabulary. By A. W. Potts, M.A., LL.D., and the Rev. C. Darnell, M.A. , Head-Master of Cargilfleld Preparatory School, Edinburgh. Tenth Edition, fcap. Svo, 3s. 6d. Aditus Faciliores Græci. An Easy Greek Construing Book, with Complete Vocabulary. Fiftn Edition, Revised. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. POTTS. School Sermons. By the late Alexander Wm. Potts, LL.D., First Head-Master of Fettes College. With a Memoir and Portrait. Crown Svo, 7s. 6d. PRINGLE. The Live - Stock of the Farm. By Robert O. Pringle. Third Edition. Revised and Edited by James Macdonald. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. PRYDE. Pleasant Memories of a Busy Life. By David Pryde, M.A., LL.D., Author of ' Highways of Literature,' ' Great Men in European His- tory,' ' Biographical Outlines of Enghsh Literature,' &c. With a Mezzotint Por- trait. Post 8vo, 6s. PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES AFFECTING SCOTLAND from 1707 to 1S47, with Chronological Table and Index. 3 vols. large Svo, £3, 3s. PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES AFFECTING SCOTLAND, COLLECTION OF. Published Annually, with General Index. RADICAL CURE FOR IRELAND, The. A Letter to the People of England and Scotland concerning a new Plantation. WTith 2 Maps. Svo, 7s. 6d. RAE. The Syrian Church in India. By George Milne Rae, M.A., D.D., Fellow of the University of Madras ; late Professor in the Madras Christian College. With 6 full-page Illustrations. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d. RAMSAY. Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century. Edited from the MSS. of John Ramsay, Esq. of Ochtertyre, by Alexander Allardyce, Author of 'Memoir of Admiral Lord Keith, K.B.,' &c. 2 vols. 8vo, 31s. 6d. RANKIN. The Zambesi Basm and Nyassaland. By Daniel J. Rankin, F.R.S.G.S., M.R.A.S. With 3 Maps and 10 full-page Illustrations. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d. RANKIN. A Handbook of the Church of Scotland. By James Rankin, D.D., Minister of Muthill ; Author of ' Character Studies in the Old Testament,' &c. An entirely New and much Enlarged Edition. Crown Svo, with 2 Maps, 7s. 6d. The First Saints. Post 8vo, 7s. 6d. The Creed in Scotland. An Exposition of the Apostles' Creed. With Extracts from Archbishop Hamilton's Catechism of 1552, John Calvin's Catechism of 1556, and a Catena of Ancient Latin and other Hymns. Post 8vo, 7s. 6d. The Worthy Communicant. A Guide to the Devout Obser- vance of the Lord's Supper. Limp cloth, Is. 3d. The Young Churchman. Lessons on the Creed, the Com- mandments, the Means of Grace, and the Church. Limp cloth, Is. 3d. First Communion Lessons. 24th Edition. Paper Cover, 2d." ]

[ "142 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA The province of Louisiana stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the sources of the Tennessee, the Kanawha, the Allegheny and the Monongahela on the east, and the Missouri and the other great tributaries of the Father of Waters on the west. Says Bancroft, \" France had obtained, under Providence, the guardianship of this immense district of country, not, as it proved, for her own benefit, but rather as a trustee for the infant nation by which it was one day to be inherited.\" By the treaty of Utrecht, France ceded to England her possessions in Hudson's Bay, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. France still retained Louisiana; but the province had so far failed to meet the expectations of the crown and the people that a change in the government and policy of the country was deemed indispensable. Accordingly, in 1711, the province was placed in the hands of a Governor General, with headquarters at Mobile. This govern ment was of brief duration, and in 1712 a charter was granted to Anthony Crozat, a wealthy merchant of Paris, giving him the entire control and mo nopoly of all the trade and resources of Louisiana. But this scheme also failed. Crozat met with no success in his commercial operations ; every Spanish harbor on the Gulf was closed against his vessels; the occupation of Louisiana was deemed an encroachment on Spanish territory ; Spain was jealous of the am bition of France. Failing in his efforts to open the ports of the district, Crozat \"sought to develop the internal resources of Louisiana, by causing trading posts to be opened, and explorations to be made to its remotest borders. But he actually accomplished nothing for the advancement of the colony. The only prosperity which it ever possessed grew out of the enterprise of humble indi viduals, who had succeeded in instituting a little barter bjtwem themselves and the natives, and a petty trade with neighboring European settlements. After a persevering effort of nearly five years, he surrendered his charter in August, 1717.\" Immediately following the surrender of his charter by Crozat, another and more magnificent scheme was inaugurated. The national government of France was deeply involved in debt ; the colonies were nearly bankrupt, and John Law appeared on the scene with his famous Mississippi Company, as the Louisiana branch of the Bank of France. The charter granted to this company gave it a legal existence of twenty-five years, and conferred upon it more extensive powers and privileges than had been granted to Crozat. It invested the new company with the exclusive privilege of the entire commerce of Louisiana, and of New France, and with authority to enforce their rights. The Company was author ized to monopolize all the trade in the country ; to make treaties with the Indians ; to declare and prosecute war ; to grant lands, erect forts, open mines of precious metals, levy taxes, nominate civil officers, commission those of the army, and to appoint and remove judges, to cast cannon, and build and equip ships of war. All this was to be done with the paper currency of John Law's Bank of Fiance. He had succeeded in getting His Majesty the French King to adopt and sanction his scheme of financial operations both in France and in the colonies, and probably there never was such a huge financial bubble ever blown by a visionary theorist. Still, such was the condition of France that it was accepted as a national deliverance, and Law became the most powerful man in France. He became a Catholic, and was appointed Comptroller General of Finance. Among the first operations of the Company was to send eight hundred emigrants to Louisiana, who arrived at DaujDliine Island in 1718.", "HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY. 477 \" This trading establishment was a branch of the American Fur Company, and had been under the superintendence of John W. Johnson, who was a native of Maryland. Johnson had acted in the capacity of Indian Agent, and took up with a Sac and Fox squaw, by whom he had three daughters. He was fondly attached to his children, gave them a thorough education at a Catholic convent, and all three of them married highly respectable gentlemen. \" In October, 1832, some twelve or fifteen persons crossed the Mississippi in canoes at the head of Big Island, and made a landing about two miles below Burlington, and took an excursion through the surrounding country and laid claims for future settlement. They built for themselves cabins, and in February, 1833, they brought over their stock and commenced making fences and prepar ing the ground for cultivation. But to their great annoyance, they were driven away from their claims by the Government soldiers from Rock Island, and they recrossed the river and stopped on Big Island, taking with them their implements of husbandry and their stock. All the labor which they had performed availed them nothing, for their cabins and fence- were set on fire by the soldiers and burned up. But notwithstanding these molestations, they resolved to hold on to the sites selected for their homes. They held a council and ' agreed to strike their tents, and went to work to build a flatboat,' so that they could cross over the river and improve their claims whenever they had an opportunity. \" The first persons who settled within the limits of the city of Burlington, were Morton M. McCarver and Simpson S. White, who moved there with their families previous to the extinguishment of the Indian title, suffering all the privations and difficulties attending the settlement of a wilderness country, which were very great. These individuals have the honor of having made the first claims at Burlington, and also of having established the first ferry at his point, by which emigrants were enabled to cross the great Mississippi. A short time after they had established their claims (?) they sold out one-third of their interest to A. Doolittle, who immediately went to improving his purchase, but did not become a citizen until the fall of 1833. [This erroneous statement is corrected in the letter from S. S. White, already given.— Ed.] \" In the fall of 1833, Dr. William R. Ross came to Burlington with a valu able stock of goods, accompanied by his father, who was an old Revolutionary soldier, and who was one of the first settlers in Lexington, Ky. But the old man being worn down with toil and age, and not having the constitution to stand the exposures incident to the settlement of a new country, was attacked with chills and fever, and died that fall, being the first of the emigrants who died in this part of the Territory. \" Late in the same fall, Jeremiah Smith brought to the place a fine stock of goods, and engaged in merchandising, but previous to that, he had taken up a claim about a mile and a half back from the river, and made some valuable improvements on it. These adventurous pioneers have erected for themselves a monument on the pages of history which will outlast the iron pillar or the marble slab. \" The original town of Burlington was drafted and surveyed by Benjamin Tucker and William R. Ross, in the months of November and December, 1833 ; A. Doolittle and Simpson S. White being the proprietors. In 1837, the whole town was resurveyed by Gilbert M. Harrison, under the direction of the Gen eral Government, but it retains its original name. \" Cupid was not slow in finding his way to Iowa ; he was among the first emigrants, and he soon got up a little contest of love between William R. Ross and Matilda Morgan, who compromised the affair by agreeing to take each other", "566 HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY. administration, the Church prospered greatly, and his resignation was accepted with much regret by the Vestry. A series of resolutions, expressing esteem and confidence and indorsing and approving all his acts as Rector, and regrets at his departure, were adopted. He was succeeded in the rectorship by Dr. George W. Watson, who took charge of the parish about Easter, 1866. His incumbency continued till September 28, 1874, at which time he resigned the rectorship to accept a call to Red Wing, Minn. During the time Dr. Watson was in charge of the parish, the people undertook to purchase eligible grounds and to erect a new church, the growth of the Church seeming to demand more room and better accommodations. The lots fronting on North Hill Public Square, corner of Fifth and High streets, were purchased by the Vestry, in pursuance of the expressed wishes of the people. A partial subscription was raised, plans and specifications for an elegant church were prepared, and the stone foundations were laid. But, unfortunately, a change in the times pre vented the completion of the new church. The people refused to give the necessary amounts even to pay for the lots. The rapidly accumulating interest soon involved the Church in difficulty, and finally resulted in the sale of the lots purchased, and also the old church property, which still left a portion of the debt unpai d; so that the Church to-day, so far as property is concerned, is about where it was nearly forty years ago. After the resignation of Dr. Wat son, the parish was vacant for a time. About April 1, 1875, Rev. F. B. Nash, Jr., was called, but his incumbency only lasted till July 1, 1876, when he resigned. On the 2d of July, 1877, the Rev. Frank M. Gregg, the present able and efficient Rector, was called, but did not accept and take charge of the parish until April 22, 1878. The prospects of the Church have much improved since Mr. Gregg entered upon his work. He is recognized as one of the ablest and most zealous Rectors in the Church. The Church now occupies and holds worship in a building near the corner of Third and Valley streets, known as \" Guild Hall.\" It was rented and fitted up by the Church Guild, which was organized under the direction of the Rector, and which numbers about two hundred and fifty members. The Church numbers some two hun dred communicants and one hundred and twenty-five families. The Sunday school is in a flourishing condition, under the superintendency of A. Coots worth, Esq., and numbers about one hundred and fifty scholars. Under the charge of the Rector, there is an industrial school for girls, where poor children are taught to sew, materials being supplied by the charity of its friends, and the garments made by the children are given to them. Over two hundred girls are enrolled upon the lists of this school. Some of our most prominent citizens have been connected with the Church as its officers, among whom we might name Gen. Jacob G. Lauman, Maj. W. H. Mann, George C. Lauman, Hon. Charles H. Phelps, Gen. Fitz Henry Warren, William Garrett, Harvey Ray, Jr., Joshua Copp, John H. Armstrong and many others. The present officers of the Church are : Hon. Charles Mason, Senior War den ; P. Henry Smyth, Junior Warden ; Thomas Wilkinson, Gen. S. L. Glasgow, E. Sherwood, Vestrymen. . The congregation are now contemplating the erection of a new church in a central locality, and already a fund for that purpose is being raised, and the pros pect is fair that soon this Church will be in the full tide of a renewed prosperity. It is the only Episcopal Church in Burlington fully organized and in union with the Convention. The Burlington Baptist Association, under this name, had its origin in a meeting of the old Des Moines Association held with the Pisgah Baptist" ]

[ "73 BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA. day for taking this affair into consideration, carefully ex amined into the state of the British commerce carried on with Sweden, as well as into the accounts of iron imported from the plantations of America ; and a committee of the whole House having resolved, that the duties on American pig and bar-iron should be repealed, a bill was brought in for that purpose. \" That pig-iron, made in the British colonies in America, may be imported duty free, and bar-iron into the port of London ; no bar-iron so imported to be carried coast wise, or to be landed at any other port, except for the use of his Majesty's dock-yards ; and not to be carried beyond ten miles from London.\" The Act, however, contained the following clause : — \" That from and after the 24th day of June, 1750, no mill or other engine for slitting or rolling of iron, or any plating forge, to work with a tilt hammer, or any furnace for making steel shall be erected, or, after such erection, continued in any of his Majesty's colonies of America.\" And the governors of the colonies were ordered to transmit, for the information of government, an account of all slitting mills, plating forges, and furnaces for making steel — and this return was accordingly made in the ensuing year. * This precaution being taken, that the colonies might not interfere with the manufactures of their mother country. During the progress of this bill, which made its way through both Houses, and obtained the Royal assent, the tanners in and about the town of Sheffield, in Yorkshire, represented, that if the bill should pass, the English iron would be under sold, consequently, a great number of furnaces and forges would be discontinued ; in that case, the woods used for fuel would stand uncut, and the tanners be deprived of oak bark suffi cient for the continuance and support of their occupation. They, nevertheless, owned, that should the duty be removed from pig-iron only, no such consequence could be appre hended, because, should the number of furnaces be lessened, that of forges would be increased. This was likewise the plea urged in divers remonstrances by masters of iron works, gen- * See Appendix A.", "250 HISTORY OF THE IRON TRADE. to this document, by the course pursued in the Senate of the United States, forced them to a different conclusion. In that venerable body it was referred to a select committee of its most distinguished members — a majority of whom, by adopting all its statements as facts, and its opinions and arguments as just — reaffirming them, indeed, after they had been questioned in counter-memorials — have thereby changed their character — have lent to them the high authority of their names and station, and stamped them with an importance which they did not originally possess. They have been widely and industriously circulated under the imposing sanction of a report of the Senate, and so much have they been relied on, that it has been triumphantly asserted they would ' break the iron arch ' which supports our system, and thus bring the whole fabric to the ground. \" These were the considerations that governed your com mittee in the course they have pursued, aud they hope to find in them a sufficient excuse for their trespass upon the time and attention of the convention. In the performance of this duty, they have found it impossible to be brief, where so many assertions were to be met and refuted — this was out of the question. The same allegation met them again and again, in some new form, varied to suit the occasion — hence repetition was unavoidable. They trust their apology will be found in the necessity of their situation. \" Before dismissing this subject, your committee owe it to justice and themselves to say, that they entirely acquit the distinguished gentlemen, composing the majority of the com mittee of the Senate, of even a suspicion of any intention to mislead. They cheerfully concede to them the same sincerity and singleness of motive and purpose which your committee claim for themselves; while they regret, as they do most deeply, that they should have been made the instruments of so extensive a dissemination of error. \" In the preceding examination, your committee had occa sion to notice and refute the statement, that but a small portion of American iron reached the markets on the coast. In a communication, addressed to the convention, recently", "262 HISTORY OF THE IRON TRADE. Mr. Calhoun, the senator from South Carolina, and of other senators from the southern section of the Union, being cor dially received as the pledge of peace. It was entitled a bill \" To modify the Act of the 14th July, 1832, and all other acts imposing Duties on Imports.\" The first section fixes all duties at 20 per cent, ad valorem, after 1842. \"That from and after the 31st day of December, 1833, in all cases where duties are imposed on foreign imports, by the Act of July 14th, 1832, entitled ' An Act to alter and amend the several Acts imposing- Duties on Imports,' or by any other act, shall exceed 20 per cent, on the value thereof, one tenth part of such excess shall be deducted ; from and after the 31st day of December, 1835, another tenth part thereof shall be deducted ; from and after the 31st day of December, 1837, another tenth part shall be deducted; from and after the 31st day of December, 1839, another tenth part thereof shall be deducted ; and from and after the 31st day of De cember, 1841, one-half of the residue of such excess shall be deducted; and from and after the 30th day of June, 1842, the other half thereof shall be deducted.\" This bill, as well as the Coercion Bill, passed both Houses, and were approved by the President on the 2d March, 1833. The statements of the votes on the two measures are im portant, as indications of the complete separation in commer cial interest and political feeling between the different sections of the great American Union.* It will be seen that the new * Votes in the United States Congeess on the Tariff anu Enforcing Bills. TARIFF RILL. States. Ayes. Noes. Absent. Total. Maine 6 1 0 7 New Hampshire 4 .... 1 .... 1 .... 6 Massachusetts 0 .... 13 0 13 Rhode Island 0 2 0 2 Vermont 0 5 .... 0 .... 5 Connecticut 0 6 0 .... 6 10 28- 1 39" ]

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[ "109 BRYANSTON SQUARE. of ladies by one. But if you think, sir, that it would seem the least unkind, or \" \"Not the least, my dear — do just as you please,\" replied Mr. Stainforth. \" You cannot have a better — a more satisfactory cause for staying at home. I remember Mrs. Wellbank perfectly. She was very truly attached to your poor mother, and is, I believe, a most excellent woman. You are quite right to take the chance of seeing her; and as to Vauxhall — I only wish / were as well excused from it as I consider you. Walter looked very blank at this decision ; — he had comforted himself for whatever bore the evening expedition might entail, by the expectation of enjoying a more thorough tete-a-tete with Laura there, than could possibly await him at home, and his disap pointment was proportionate. \"Then,\" said he, \"I can't think why I should have to go either ; there is one lady less to be protected — my father and you, Ida,", "178 CHAPTER IX. Ida's glowing cheeks and burning hands soon told the tale of increased fever to Mills, who, attributing it, rightly enough, to Miss Whitmore's visit, and not daring to vent her indignation on her, made amends to herself, in some measure, by frightening Mr. Stainforth (as soon as he came home from the City) into sending, without delay, for their usual medical attendant. When he came he did not see much cause for alarm — pronounced (very natu rally from what he was told) \"that Miss Stainforth's indisposition had been caused by a sudden chill after being over-heated at Vauxhall\" — prescribed duly, and de clared \" she would be better next day.\" 'Better next day\" she was not, however;", "228 BRYANSTON SQUARE. I ought not to have given her that promise.\" \"No, no — you were right and kind to give it ; and I shall get over — get accus tomed to a great deal. Don't think of me, Walter.\" \" I can't help it,\" replied he, as he began another note; \"and, what's worse, I can't help you out of the strait I've had a hand in bringing you into — unless,\" proceeded he, as he still wrote on — \" unless we two fol lowed our better's example, and married at once ! You care for no one — so, if you could put up with Miss Whitmore's dupe, it might be an escape for you ; while, as for me, if I can afford you a refuge — it's all I am likely to be ever good for ! \" She gazed in unfeigned astonishment, doubting if her ears had rightly received words, against the import of which his half gloomy, half reckless look and manner jarred so strangely. But when he stopped in his writing, and, looking her in the face, said, abruptly," ]

[ "SURPRISES OF SORTS. 211 in that fight without sword or bullet. Before night the force changed front, so as to start at dawn on the return march. The camp-followers were between the troops and the position lately occupied by the enemy. Whether some of the latter returned or not under cover of the darkness, was never found out, but shots were heard, panic seized the poor camp-followers, and helter-skelter they charged into the lines, squadrons of grass-cutters, tattoos, doolie bearers, camels, and their drivers, tumbling over tent-ropes in the dire confusion. Officers and men rushed from their tents only to be knocked down and perhaps trodden upon by the spongy foot of a camel. In despair, after being so treated two or three times, an officer, short in temper and stature, drew his revolver and shot the next charging maniac that appeared. None knew friend from foe and firing became promiscuous. The wise ones lay flat on the ground and wished for day, which when it came disclosed many strange and some sad sights. The short-tempered officer had shot his camel-driver. An officer who, suffering from the sun, had lain down with a damp towel wound round his head turban fashion which, with a black beard and flowing pyjamas, gave him an Oriental aspect, was promptly felled by the clubbed rifle of an infantry7 soldier, while a stout Colonel and his equally stout Sergeant-Major discovered that they had passed a considerable time in a panting skirmish round a tree, which thev nearly cut down in their vicious swipes at each other. Another alternative for effecting a surprise was to march all night so as to reach the enemy's posts before day, when a short but refreshing snooze could be indulged in before attacking. But it had the drawback that they occasionally found themselves by daylight in about the same place as they had started from, the march having by an intelligent guide been conducted in a circle. As might be concluded, it was bad for that guide unless he had made his escape before the denouement. Years after, looking into that blazing scroll of fame — the \" Army List \" — record of officers' services — Jingo, trying to remind himself of the incidents of his services, would find after his name the record of an engagement in Oriental orthographies, the how and when of which he had not the faintest recollection. Pompey and Cæsar were so very much alike, especially Pompey. P— 2", "WIDOWS AND WEDDINGS. 333 to remove his cot into the verandah, that his death agonies might not demoralise others. \"I knows what you are up to. You're takin' me into that there verandah to die, but I ain't a goin' to pleaze yer. I'm blowed if I'll die, and ye'll just have to fetch me back.\" And he did not die. The Angel of Death seemed weary — or was he snubbed ? The little trumpeter was the last he took. \" You must have a peg,\" said the doctor to Jingo, as he left the hospital. \" You look white about the gills after your night's vigil.\" The Captain had to see about mourning — from the canteen fund was it ? — for widows dearly love becoming weeds with flaunting veils which hang behind and hide no pretty faces. The weeds had to be got, though they were ere long to be changed for bridal garments. Soldiers' widows in India are often passed on to loving comrades — cynics say they are some times bespoke — a happier arrangement than going back to pensionless penury in the slums of a great city, and soldier stepfathers seem to take as readily to the families of their comrades as they do to their widows. When the plague was stayed, short leaves to the hills were granted to officers, and some men sent up to the sanatoriums. Captain Jingo's turn had come, in more senses than one. He went up to the hills single and returned double. The Battery7 again had marching orders, this time half across India, to the great camp of manœuvres at Lucknow. So the soldier's wedding had to be in double-quick time, and the honeymoon a march of over four hundred miles. The bride changed her wedding-dress for a habit, and rode off on her husband's second charger to meet the Battery at the foot of the hills en route. The men had smothered the leading gun and horses with roses, and improvised it into a hymeneal car for the bride, but her blushes were spared, to the disappoint ment of the honest fellows who had expended their decorative art in vain. A compromise was effected. Her charger was garlanded, and, donning an officer's forage cap, the bride was presented to the Battery and started at their head on the long march of a soldier's wife — sometimes a weary one. But the beginning, at least, was made as bright and easy as possible for the young bride. First the cheery", "FORT PITT. 451 prisoner. No Indians were killed. Two persons who were in the Fort, names unknown, made their escape by land. The remaining policemen, partially clothed, succeeded in escaping to the boats and got away under fire from the Indians, but the latter thought they would perish from cold before reaching Battleford. The Indians secured a large amount of plunder in the Fort, and 30 rifles, which were broken, and were probably the number over the amount in use by the Police. J. McLean factor, and Jas. Simpson, clerk to H. B. C, and their families are prisoners in the Indian Camp, also a Half-breed from Victoria, named Rabiscan ; John Prichard and family, and a number of Half-breeds, probably traders. There has been no murdering since the taking of the Fort. Mrs. is being terribly used, being traded round among the Indians, and cannot live long.::: The buildings were not destroyed, but were wrecked, and a great value in furs destroyed. Twelve days ago ' Big Bear' was camped on the east side of Frog Lake, with 40 tents, awaiting the return of his scouts, four of whom went to White Fish lake, six to Lac la Biche, and fifteen southward. Unless he can largely increase his band he will probably join Poundmaker. I Scouts from Poundmaker's band arrived at Abram Sylva's settlement on Battle River, on Tuesday of last week, driving a span of Police horses and a buckboard. Their mission was to induce the Indians from Bear's Hill to go East to join Poundmaker. They reported that Poundmaker was camped thirty miles west of Battleford, with 200 head of cattle and 700 head of horses, and that they had not seen a policeman outside of Battleford for a month, and were elated at the general situation. The news of the near approach of soldiers had a most quieting effect on Bear's Hill band, butter would not melt in their mouths. One of the ringleaders in raiding the H. B. Store was busy fixing his whiffle trees to a plough to start ploughing. He wanted to know if he would be interfered with by the soldiers if they saw him at work as they passed along. Most of the former hostiles had gone eastward, probably to join Poundmaker, the leading Cree Chief of Battleford, who is putative son of Crow foot, head chief of the Blackfeet. It is through this relation ship that Riel hopes to unite the Crees and Blackfeet in a common cause, wherein our great danger lies.\" Lieut. -Colonel Osborne Smith and the Winnipeg Light Infan try with the Alberta Mounted Rifles, and a further convoy of • This statement was happily not true. When released, the lady prisoners said they had been well treated and protected by the Indian Chiefs. t Fortunately he did not do so, probably the rough handling Poundmaker got from Colonel Otter's Column decided him not to cast in his lot with him. He preferred to wait for my weaker Force in a more inaccessible country. c; G — 2" ]

[ "A true Hifiory. II of three Children, and the laft. — 0 Lament Her ! Although in Sorrow (he did conceive us, yet (he bore it amazingly well ; her great Spirit would never let her make her Diftrefs known, to thofe Friends whofe Counfel fhe had formerly reje_led, and fhe ufed every Art to fcreen herfelf from their Upbraidings : Her two Sifters were the only Perfons to whom fhe ever rehearfed her Mif fortunes; the youngcft of whom died a few Months before my Mother, and left her Fortune to a Gentleman that paid his Addreffes to her, and to whom fhe was fhortly to have been married. Two Gentlemen, related to her, called on her on purpofe to know her Situation; but what they could learn was perfectly extorted from her, and fhe feemed defirous to conceal many cruel Circumftan ces of her Hufband's Behaviour. One of thofe Gentlemen is now living, and will to this Day teftify the fame : It is but a fhort Time ago that he gave me the fad Rehearfal of this Part of my Mother's Life, or rather her Exiftence. Here I am ready almoft to cry out, O why is the Earth yet incumbered with fuch a Mon fter!—But let me moderate the prefumptive Ex clamation, and arraign myfelf for daring to call C2 tO", "38 The Life of Lamenther : and then divert themfelves with killing me by the Name of Cloe, or Dutchefs, or Phil lis, or any other pleating Name, but the coarfe Appellation of \" Here, you Bitch.\" — However I was glad to receive the Benefit from their Hands at any Rate ; for when I tatted the lead: Bit of Food, I have been al moft ready to gnaw my own Fingers that I thought retained the lead Relifh of what I had eaten. This is but a fhort Sketch of what I fuf fered. — I remember it ftill, and ever fhall. — One Sunday Night in particular, as I was ly ing on my miferable Bedftead, almoft perifh ing with Hunger, my Sifter came, as ufual, about Eleven o'Clock, and no fooner was (he lain down by my Side, than fhe perceiv ed I was fo worn out, I could fcarcely give her an Anfwer when die fpoke to me ; fhe afked me the Caufe, but the Effect was a fufficient Reafon. By Way of Comfort fhe d.fired me to go to Sleep, if I could, and told me, in the Morning fhe fhould have fome Victuals given her, and that I fhould have", "A true Bifilory. 51 make my Efcape. Thus was I prevented from committing an Action which muft have been my immediate Death, and that Power ordained it fhould be fo, without whofe Leave a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground. Although we were prevented from getting out of the Houfe, we had the Liberty of rang ing fome Part within it; and the back Parlour looked into a large Garden which we could not enter : However, fome Wall-Fruit grew fo near the Window, that our perfecuting Hands could reach the Branches thereof, and on the Leaves the little Boy and I would often feed, calling one Leaf Bread, another Meat, and fo on. And us fuch it certainly was fanctified to the Nourifhment of our Bodies ; for it is in all human Opinion morally impoffible that three Lives could otherwife have been preferved fo long on the fcanty Supply of fcven or eight Ounces of Bread. We were much reduced, as any one may fuppofe, by Want of proper Nourifhment; yet I muft believe, we fhould not have been much otherwife had we even H 2 had" ]

[ "86 PRIESTS AND PEOPLE. hear, not a soul ; only the stillness and darkness reigned, and the dead leaves dropped silently down. Her anger choked her; her voice in its passion broke. The hot tears coursed down on the coat of the poor little dog as she circled it in her arms and leant against the gate. \"Witch, poor little Witch,\" she sobbed, \"you never harmed them more than I.\"", "CHAPTEE XIII. Eileen's pale face looked out of the long window of Deans Grange about a week after the horrible scene had been enacted in her own grounds. She had returned almost immediately after leaving Molly at her lover's side with what help she could, and the two servants that yet remained with them, but life had already left the form of one and consciousness the other. When others came they were both removed, and the police had taken the matter in hand. Eileen had wished Molly to remain with her, but they said it could not be. Poor Molly was under arrest. Pat had died from violence and his death must be accounted for, and she now waited in Tralee gaol for the next assizes, about six weeks off. She lay there prostrate, and Eileen had heard, though she had not seen her, the short account she had given of the tragedy. To save her young mistress's life she had fired, with intent to kill ; she repeated, with intent to kill. It was her one idea, she meant to kill that man, though she did not know that he was Pat. As a judgment on her, her", "PRIESTS AND PEOPLE. 257 the wreck of all ! Molly had given her everything at the cost of her own being, and she could give her nothing ! It was agony to the one who thought and felt, indifference to the one whose mind had gone. Eileen's heart was bursting ; the piteous spec tacle stabbed her through and through — she, so unwittingly the cause — every stroke of pain she analyzed, and quivered to the quick. It was supreme torture, the torture of a passionately loving, grateful soul, one who would have gladly died for others' joy, and who lived to see others' pain. Eileen's face was white with anguish — her lips were white — her teeth dug into them as she struggled for control. \" Molly, don't ! \" came a hoarse, harsh whisper, surely not Eileen's voice ; \" it will be all right.\" \" Shure 'tis, miss.\" The vacant smile came over Molly's face, while the stony eyes wandered to the sky. \" Pat and me's only waitin' for the moon.\" A deep groan seemed wrung from Eileen. She drew the girl's small head, with its wealth of flaxen hair, towards her again, and pressed it close — close to her heart, and on the cold, pale brow imprinted one long, long kiss. The last kiss to the dead ! She was gone almost — the signal given, the warder came to open the door. Eileen, her whole body shaken with tortured, choked-down sobs, at the door had paused and turned. Molly had called. She stretched out her long lean arm of sad entreaty, and gave that piteous smile. \" Shure ye won't forget, miss, honey, to send me somethin' to fatten th' ducks.\" VOL. III." ]

[ "PREFACE. This little work is somewhat of a mosaic. It does not profess to treat exhaustively of the curious country which is the subject of these pages ; of its various races ; its varying climate ; and its multifarious sources of potential wealth. Numerous excellent works, notably that of Captain Pasfield Oliver (late R. A.) have already discussed those matters, from their respective standpoints. Yet I resided there for just fifty-eight months, and had ample opportunities for observation. Perhaps, before many weeks are over, the course of events will verify or disprove the correctness of many ofthe anticipations I have been led to form, with regard to its present political situation, and the probable outcome of the French occupation. It is my sincere hope, and I think I have given good reasons for my belief, that its undoubted resources will be largely and speedily developed, if it is annexed by a wealthy and an intelligent Nation. The Authoe. 15th May, 1895.", "FIVE YEARS IN MADAGASCAR, 8 quito nets admitted entrance to nearly every variety of tropical insects. So that we began to ask ourselves whether the fogs and frosts we had left behind us in our own country were not more tolerable than these Tamatave troubles. However, a very few clays suf ficed to complete the necessary outfit for a voyage up country, which was performed in \" Jack \" Haggard's filanjana, in which roomy and comparatively speak iug comfortable sort of sedan-chair I afterwards tra veiled many hundreds of miles in Madagascar. Many writers have described, with more or less minuteness, their experiences of the voyage to the capital ; but few, to my thinking, have done so more faithfully and vividly than a recent anonymous writer in \" The Globe. \" But that graphic narrative was sadly marred by the printer, who mistook all the initial I's for S's. Thus it was hard to recognise the grace ful-sounding Ivondrona, Imerina, Ikopo, and the like, under the barbarous disfigurement of Smerina, Skopo and so forth. The writer, whose visit to the Hova capital purports to have been made last year, has fallen into a curious mistake as to the size of the town of Andevorante. He speaks of its decadence since the days when the slave-trade was rife on the coast. My own experience is somewhat to the contrary. When I went up, in 1888, the town was as lie describes it now, a small and straggling village. But on my return in 18U2, it", "148 FIVE YEARS IN MADAGASCAR. Will such means occur to him, and what should they be? This is a ticklish and delicate question to answer, and will require more space than we have at com mand at present. Perhaps one of our correspond ents will give us the solution, in a compendious form, in time for our next number? Apropos of the above, I desire the reader's careful attention to the following letter, which I received two years later, namely towards the end of 1894: and which, in view of the events which are now taking place in Madagascar, has a painful interest at the present time. April 16th, 1895. F. C. M. Antananarivo May 1st, 1894. My dear Colonel, You might have been surprised at not having received a reply from me on earlier date, but the reason is that I was poorly for a month, and could not write to you. As regards either politics or military matters, the former are still quiet, and as to the latter the new soldiers have commenced to drill on their" ]

[ "10 THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. a sort of appendix to the half-bound and sUp-shod volumes of the circulating library.\" \" I'll bet you a pint of claret,\" said the elder lawyer, \" that he will not feel sore at the comparison. But as we say at the bar, \" I beg I may not be interrupted ; \" I have much more to say upon my Scottish collection of Causes Calibres. You wdl please recodect the scope and motive given for the contrivance and execution of many extraordinary and daring crimes, by the long civd dissensions of Scot- land — by the hereditary jurisdictions, which, untd 1748, vested the investigation of crimes in judges, ignorant, partial, or interested —by the habits of the gentry, shut up in their distant and soUtary mansion-houses, nursing their revengeful passions just to keep their blood from stagnating — not to mention that amiable national quaUfication, called the perfervidum ingenium Scotorum, which our lawyers join in alleging as a reason for the severity of some of our enactments. When I come to treat of matters so mysterious, deep, and dangerous, as the circumstances have given rise to, the blood of each reader shad be curdled, and his epidermis crisped into goose skin. — But 'st — here comes the landlord, with tidings, I suppose, that the chaise is ready.\" It was no such thing — the tidings bore, that no chaise could be had this evening, for Sir Peter Plyem had carried forward my landlord's two pair of horses that morning to the ancient royal borough of Bubbleburgh, to look after his interest there. But as Bubbleburgh is only one of a set of five boroughs which club then- shares for a member of Parliament, Sir Peter's adversary had judiciously watched his departure, in order to commence a canvass in the no less royal borough of Bitem, which, as all the world knows, lies at the very termination of Sir Peter's avenue, and has been held in leading strings by him and his ancestors for time immemorial. Now Sir Peter was thus placed in the situation of an ambitious monarch, who, after having commenced a daring inroad into his enemies' territories, is suddenly recalled by an invasion of his own hereditary dominions. He was obUged in con- sequence to return from the half-won borough of Bubbleburgh, to look after the half -lost borough of Bitem, and the two pair of horses which had carried him that morning to Bubbleburgh were now forcibly detained to transport him, his agent, his valet, his jester, and his hard-drinker, across the country to Bitem. The cause of this detention, which to me was of as Uttle consequence as it may be to the reader, was important enough to my companions to reconcde them with the delay. Like eagles, they smelt the battle afar off, ordered a magnum of claret and beds at the Wadace, and entered at full career into the Bubbleburgh and Bitem politics, with all the probable \"petitions and complaints\" to which they were likely to give rise. In the midst of an anxious, animated, and, to me, most unintel- Ugible discussion concerning provosts, baillies, deacons, sets of boroughs, leets, town-clerks, burgesses resident and non-resident,", "THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 129 She is ower far past reasonable folks' motives, sir,\" said Ratcliffe, 'to mind sider, or John Dalgleish, or the cat and nine tads either ; but I think I could gar her tell us something.\" \"Try her then, Ratcliffe,\" said Sharpitlaw, \" for I am tired of her crazy pate, and be d — d to her.\" \" Madge,\" said Ratcliffe, \" hae ye ony joes now ? \" \" An ony body ask ye, say ye dinna ken.— Set him to be speak- ing of my joes, auld Daddie Ratton I \" \" I dare say, ye hae de'il ane ? \" \" See if I haena then,\" said Madge, with the toss of the head of affronted beauty — \" there's Rob the Ranter, and Wdl Fleming, and then there's Geordie Robertson, lad —that's Gentleman Geordie — what think ye o' that P \" RatcUffe laughed, and, winking to the procurator-fiscal, pursued the enquiry in his own way. \" But Madge, the lads only like ye when ye hae on your braws — they wadna touch you wi' a pair o' tangs when you are in your auld dka day rags. \" \" Ye're a leeing auld sorrow then; for Gentle Geordie Robertson put my dka day's claise on his ain bonnie sell yestreen, and gaed a' through the town wi' them ; and gawsie and grand he lookit, Uke ony queen in the land.\" \" I dinna beUeve a word o't,\" said RatcUffe, with another wink to the procurator. \" Thae duds were a' o' the colour o' moonshine in the water, I'm thinking, Madge — The gown wad be a sky-blue scarlet, 1'se warrant ye?\" \" It was nae sic thing,\" said Madge, whose unretentive memory let out, in the eagerness of contradiction, ad that she would have most wished to keep concealed, had her judgment been equal to her incUnation. \" It was neither scarlet nor sky-blue, but my ain auld brown threshie-coat of a short gown, and my mother's auld mutch, and my red rokelay — and he gaed me a croun and a kiss for the use o' them, blessing on his bonnie face — though it's been a dear aine to me.\" \"And where did he change his clothes again, hinnie?\" said Sharpitlaw, in his most conciliatory manner. \"The procurator's spoded a',\" observed Ratcliffe, drdy. And it was even so ; for the question put in so direct a shape, immediately awakened Madge to the propriety of being reserved upon those very topics on which Ratcliffe had indirectly seduced her to become communicative. \" What was't ye were speering at us, sir ?\" she resumed, with an appearance of solidity so speeddy assumed, as shewed there was a good deal of knavery mixed with her foUy. \" I asked you,\" said the procurator, \" at what hour, and to what place, Robertson brought back your clothes.\" \"[Robertson ? — Lord haud a care o' us ; what Robertson ? \" \"Why, the feUow we were speaking of, Gentle Geordie, as you call him.\" \"Geordie Gentle?\" answered Madge, with weU-feigned amaze ment. \" I dinna ken naebody they cae' Geordie Gentle.\" K", "287 THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. had promised to interest himself in her sister's affair, and to let her hear from him in the course of the next day, or the day after. She did not choose to make any mention of his having desired her to be in readiness to attend him, far less of his hint, that she should not bring her landlady. So that honest Mrs. Glass was obUged to remain satisfied with the general intelUgence above mentioned, after having done all she could to extract more. It may easily be conceived, that, on the the next day, Jeanie declined all invitations and inducements, whether of exercise or curiosity, to walk abroad, and continued to inhale the close and somewhat professional atmosphere of Mrs. Glass's small parlour. The latter flavour it owed to a certain cupboard, containing, among other articles, a few canisters of real flavannah, which, whether from respect to the manufacture, or out of a reverend fear of the exciseman, Mrs. Glass did not care to trust in the open shop below, and which communicated to the room a scent that, however fragrant to the nostrils of the connoisseur, was not very agreeable to those of Jeanie. \"Dear sirs,\" she said to herself, \"I wonder how my cousin's silk manty, and her gowd watch, or ony thing in the world, can be worth sitting sneezing all her Use in this Uttle stifling room, and might walk on green braes if she liked.\" Mrs. Glass was equady surprised at her cousin's reluctance to stir abroad, and her indifference to the fine sights of London. \" It would always help to pass away the time,\" she said, \" to have some thing to look at, though ane was in distress. \" But Jeanie was unpersuadable. The day after her interview with the Duke was spent in that \" hope delayed, which makeththe heart sick.\" Minutes glided after minutes — hours fled after hours — it became too late to have any reasonable expectation of hearing from the Duke that day ; yet the hope which she disowned she could not altogether relinquish, and her heart throbbed, and her ears tingled, with every casual sound in the shop below. It was in vain. The day wore away in the anxiety of protracted and fruitless expectation. The next morning commenced in the same manner. But before noon, a well-dressed gentleman entered Mrs. Glass's shop, and requested to see a young woman from Scotland. \"That will be my cousin, Jeanie Deans, Mr. Archibald,\" said Mrs. Glass, with a curtsey of recognizance. \" Have you any message for her from his Grace the Duke of Argyle, Mr. Archibald P I will carry it to her in a moment,\" \"I believe I must give her the trouble of stepping down, Mrs. Glass.\" \" Jeanie — Jeanie Deans, said Mrs. Glass, screaming at the bottom of the dttle staircase, which ascended from the corner of the shop to the higher regions. \"Jeanie — Jeanie Deans, I say, come down stairs instantly ; here is the Duke of Argyle's groom of the chambers desires to see you directly.\" This was announced in a voice so loud," ]

[ "viii PREFACE. the case, the seeming discourtesy arising from the clerk having many applicants at the same moment for bedrooms, and it being beyond his power to answer all questions in a few minutes. By quietly waiting for my turn, I found the clerk civil, yea, even polite and obliging; and by delay I was only once disap pointed, and that but for a short time, a bedroom being at hand in another hotel. Again, I found the procuring checks for the luggage troublesome, and attended with much running about ; but this was soon arranged by going twenty minutes earlier to a station than necessary, procuring the ticket first, and pre senting it with my baggage — the same was at once taken in charge by the railway official and a check for it given. Bailway porters do not carry your traps as in Britain, but expect you to do without their assistance. This arises from the luggage having been passed to the luggage department before entering the station or carriages ; and you are expected to have none with you, or at least only a hand-bag, coat, or umbrella, and not to require the assistance of a porter for such. The sanitary arrangements at stations are capable of much improvement. You dine in a room, of course a large one, and at the end of the same room wash your hands, or comb your hair, or get shaved or shampooed, or have your boots blacked, or have other duties performed not in general use in Great Britain, or even in Ireland.", "29 CHICAGO. being level and poor, it looks very dreary. Schooners run into shabby docks looking more like smugglers than honest traders, their whole appearance being poor and dirty. The news boy yells as usual, laying down odd novels to get you to purchase. There is plenty stock on the land, yet the feeling of depression from the flat prairie is horrible. Lake Michigan has any amount of dead wood drifting about its shores. The strand is formed with dead wood ; the high-water mark is more dead wood. Deliver me from this location ! I would entreat my friends to think before squatting down here ; land would be dear at nothing per acre. Pullman city is a very nice, clean, tidy, newly built town, on a level plain. It was built by the Messrs Pullman, of car celebrity. It has capital brick houses for the workmen, and good designs for their works ; the eleva tion of the buildings correct and business-like ; there are also good streets, well paved, drains properly put in, and water laid on. The cost has been 300,000 dollars, I am told, the thing being an experiment in town-building before the population came forward. Let me wish Messrs Pullman success ! If every employer would do", "33 CHICAGO. The grain -elevators contain millions of quar- ters of grain : Joseph himself would have been satisfied. But there is no variety here ; the eternal Chicago wheat, No. 1, 2, 3, or whatever may be the quality, alone is spoken of. Ice- houses, say 500 or 600 feet long, 100 wide, and 50 high, occur by dozens, not one or two. Stock-houses for animals, cattle and pigs, are beyond the power of estimating. They are filled with cattle killed, cured, or prepared for curing, in a wonderfully short time. The filth from such killing-houses is run into Lake Michi- gan from all the sewers, and then the people drink the water drawn from a point in the lake two miles from the shore. Of course this gives them meat and drink at once, and when a south wind blows the sewage from the town into the water-supply they all turn ill. This is a seri- ous fact, and, where so much wealth exists, it is not what I expected to find in Chicago ; but it is too true. One sees numberless fine canals with wTooden-piled quay walls, a great deal of shipping, and swing-bridges at all hands, of the same design as at Buffalo. To finish with, there is a very dirty, uncomfortable station — ill laid out, like some near home, but dirtier. c" ]

[ "ORIGINES DE LA PROPRIÉTÉ FONCIÈRE. 109 livre de droit privé, ce dont ii eût été sort capable, c'est des limites des propriétés qu'il eût toujours parlé. Peut-on s'étonner de cela? Lisez les trente volumes de Thiers, faites sur eux le mème calcul que M. de Jubainville, et, si vous raisonnez comme lui, vous conclurez que les Français ne connaissent pas les limites des propriétés. Ce qu'il fallait plutôt remarquer, c'est que, dans le livre de César, au milieu de ses récits de guerres, il se trouve seule ment sept paragraphes sur les mœurs des Gaulois et leurs institutions en temps de paix1. Or, dans ces sept chapitres, vous rencontrez trois fois le mot fines avec le sens parfaitement certain de limites des champs2. Ainsi, quand César fait le récit des guerres, il emploie fines dans le sens de frontières d'État, et quand il parle de droit privé, il l'emploie dans le sens de limites de propriété. Et si l'on aime les chiffres, M. de Jubain ville a compté soixante-dix-sept fois fines en trois cent quarante chapitres; en sept chapitres je le compte trois fois : la propor tion est bien gardée. Mais, au lieu de compter ce nombre de fois, il y avait une observation plus importante à faire : c'est que chaque fois que le mot signifie limite de peuple, cette signification est nettement accusée par le nom du peuple qui est à côté. Ainsi, César dit fines Helreûorum, fines Sequanorum, fines San tonum, fines TEduorum, fines Lingonum, fines Ambianorum, et toujours ainsi3. Prenez les soixante-dix-sept exemples qu'a comptés M. de Jubainville, et vous verrez toujours que le mot fines, lorsqu'il signifie frontières, est accompagné du mot peuple ou d'un nom de peuple. Si César avait voulu parler de procès sur les limites des peuples, il aurait dit controversix 1. VI, 11, 13, 15, 18, 10, 21, 22. 2. César, VI. 22 : Neque quisquam (apud Germanos) fines habet proprios. Ibidem : Ne latos fineì parare studeant, polcntioresque humilions possessionibus cxpellant. 5. Ou bien le tour de phrase est équivalent; I, 5 : Helvetii e finibus suis exeant. IV, 5 : Quum Suevi Ubios finibus expellere non potuissent. VI, 23 : Extra fines cujusque civitatis. V, 20 : Fines regni sui. V, 27 : Ambiorix tutum ilerper fines suos polliceri. Par une déviation naturelle, fines a signifié, non seulement les limites du territoire, mais le territoire lui-même; VI, 42 : Fines Ambiorigis depopularcntur.", "QUESTIONS HISTORIQUES. 240 de ses entrailles un énorme serpent'. Chaque montagne, chez les anciens Grecs, était consacrée à un dieu ; le Pélinanim, par sa grandeur, méritait de l'être à Jupiter. Un temple, ou tout au moins un autel, s'élevait sur son sommet2, à PendroitoùPon voit la chapelle de Saint-Hélie. Quand vint le christianisme, il changea tous les noms. Ce qu'on avait adoré sur presque tous les promontoires sous le nom de Neptune, on Padora sous le nom de saint Nicolas. Les montagnes consacrées généralement à Jupiter ou à .\\pollon passèrent sous le nom de Saint-Hélie. Au lieu de donner le nom d'une divinité et un temple à chaque montagne et à chaque rivière, on leur donna le nom d'un saint et une chapelle. Le mont Saint-Hélie projette à Pouest le promontoire Saint- Nicolas, qui s'avance en face de la petite île dePsara. U portait chez les anciens le nom de cap Noir, Melxna acra7', et ce nom se perpétue encore dans celui du petit village de Mélanio. Je ne ferai pas la nomenclature de tous les villages qui s'étendent entre Amathès et Volisso; ils sont fort nombreux, très peu peuplés et très pauvres, trois choses qui s'accordent assez bien. Pour trouver quelque richesse il faut aller jusqu'à Volisso, sur la côte occidentale. Là sont des terres fertiles qui portent des oliviers, du coton, des céréales et quelques vignes; mais l;i culture du mûrier et P élève des vers à soie forment le prin cipal revenu du village. Volisso est divisé en trois parties et occupe deux collines, à un quart de lieue de la mer; sur la plus haute sont encore les ruines d'un grand château génois, avec la tour centrale et Penceinte carrée. Là s'était réfugié le village au moyen âge; mais plus récemment il a rompu ses liens, franchi le mur d'enceinte et est descendu un peu plus bas. On sait combien les Grecs ont eu et ont encore de goût pour la recherche des étymologies. Leur zèle en cette matière n'a d'égal que leur inhabileté. Les Chiotes remarquèrent une res semblance de quelques lettres entre le nom de Volisso (BoXww;) 1. Aratus, Phxnomena, v. 656. 2. IkXivatoç- ó Zeu; Iv Xíw (Hésychius). 5. MÉXaiya à'/.pa, xaO' jjv và 'l'jpœ (Strabon, ibidem).", "QUESTIONS CONTEMPORAINES. 499 marine marchande aussi bien que celle de PÉtat. On peut remarquer d'ailleurs que, dans chaque traité, Louis XIV, pour obtenir ou garder quelques provinces, faisait volontiers des concessions douanières et sacrifiait à l'intérèt de la conquête l'intérèt du commerce. La classe industrielle fut ruinée aussi soute de débouchés pour ses produits ; la misère de la classe ouvrière en France date du règne de Louis XIV, et, si la guerre n'en est pas la cause unique, elle en est du moins la cause prin cipale. La classe agricole fut la plus malheureuse de toutes, parce que ce fut sur elle que les impôts frappèrent le plus impitoyablement. La pauvreté s'étendit ainsi sur toute la société française comme une lèpre, et Fénelon put écrire au grand roi conquérant : « Votre peuple meurt de faim, et la France entière n'est plus qu'un grand hôpital. » A la suite de la pauvreté vint la dépopulation. Si l'on consulte les rapports des intendants qui administraient les provinces, on s'aperçoil que vers l'année 1700 cette même France qui comptait deux provinces de plus comptait un quart d'habitants en moins. La France n'avait pourtant pas encore cessé d'être victo- rieuse, et voilà tout ce qu'elle gagnait à ses victoires. C'était là tout le fruit qu'elle recueillait de la politique d'envahisse- ment. Vraiment nous pourrions dire à la Prusse : « Nos chefs ont eu autrefois la même ambition et la mème politique que les vôtres, et ils nous ont fait faire ce que vous faites. Nous aussi, nous avons connu la manie des conquêtes et Féblouis- sement de la gloire; nous aussi, nous avons versé le sang et accumulé les ruines, et nous pouvons vous apprendre que le mal que nous avons fait aux autres est chaque fois retombé sur nous-mêmes. L'esprit de conquête nous a fait beaucoup souffrir, mais ce n'est pas seulement depuis que nous sommes les vaincus; nous en avons souffert, sachez-le, même quand nous étions les vainqueurs. Vous nous enseignez aujourd'hui ce qu'il en coûte d'être les plus faibles, et notre histoire nous enseignait déjà ce qu'il en coûte d'être les plus forts. » Cela doit donner à réfléchir aux grands politiques, aux grands ambitieux, à ceux qui de bonne foi peut-être pensent travailler à la grandeur de leur pays par so guerre et par la" ]

[ "THE LAW OF LIFE. 79 which present, by their forms and their disposition, an as semblage of characters peculiar to them alone, we have to inquire if, in virtue of these forms themselves, and of this particular position, each of these individuals has not a peculiar physical life, manifesting itself, in the main, by a climate, a vegetation, an animal world, and, relatively to human societies, by special functions which belong to no other. We shall endeavour to discover if there is not here, also, a general law, which gives us the key to all these partial phenomena — which helps to group them, and to grasp, in the true point of view, the collective manifesta tions ofthe life of our planet, whether in nature, or in the history of man. But to this end, gentlemen, in order to place you in the point of view from which I would have you consider with me the phenomena of the life of the globe, I cannot avoid the necessity of carrying you for a moment into a world somewhat different from the world of forms in which we have thus far moved, and to appeal to the eyes of your mind, rather than to those which have, up to the present moment, been fixed upon these maps. In fact, nothing less is necessary than to say to you in as few words as possible, to prove to you, if it can be done, that there is a law of life and of growth, which, if taken in its most general formula, in its rhythm, is applicable to all that undergoes the process of development. All life, as we have said, gentlemen, in its most simple formula, may be defined as a mutual exchange of relations. An exchange supposes at least two elements, two bodies, two individuals, a duality and a difference, an inequality be tween them, in virtue of which the exchange is established. There is, then, at the foundation of all the phenomena of Use, a difference between two or more individuals, which", "168 COMPARATIVE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. rather than a current properly so called. This grand phenomenon did not escape the sagacity of Columbus, who was also the first to discover it. ': It seems beyond a doubt,\" said he, after one of his earliest voyages, \" that the waters of the ocean move with the heavens;\" that is, in the direction of the apparent course of the sun and stars. This great current is analogous to the trade winds ; it has ever been thought that these winds were the prin cipal cause of it. But it is too deep and rapid to admit of being explained by their action alone. The difference of temperature between the tropical and polar seas, and the loss which the seas of the warm regions suffer from more active evaporation, would be a still more profound and irresistible cause. The colder and heavier waters of the polar regions perpetually tend to flow towards the warm and lighter waters of the equator, and to dis place them. The existence of these polar currents is demonstrated by the floating masses of ice which, swept on by the waters whence they had their being, accomplish every spring long pilgrimages towards the warmer regions, and stray even as far as the 40° of latitude. Like the atmospheric currents setting from these same quarters, they occupy the lower part of the domain of the oceans, while the warm waters of the equator spread over their surface. Hence the astonishing spectacle of those majestic icebergs, of which only an eighth part is visible, while the rest is sunk in the depths of the sea, continuing their solemn progress southward, and, on meeting the Gulf Stream, moving on in a direction opposite to the course of its waters, proving thus that the waters enveloping their bases pursue without obstruction their southward course. The polar currents, while advancing towards the equatorial regions, gradually make a bend westward, like", "CONCLUSION. 293 be given to mankind and to America in particular to attain it, is known to God alone, and future ages will teach the issue to the world; but what we do know is, that it will be in proportion as man shall be faithful to the law of his moral nature, which is the divine law itself. Asia, Europe, and North America, are the three grand stages of humanity in its march through the ages. Asia is the cradle where man passed his infancy, under the authority of law, and where he learned his dependence upon a sovereign master. Europe is the school where his youth was trained, where he waxed in strength and know ledge, grew to a man, and learned at once his liberty and his moral responsibility. America is the theatre of his activity during the period of manhood ; the land where he applies and practises all he has learned, brings into action all the forces he has acquired, and where he is still to learn that the entire development of his being and his own happiness are only possible by willing obedience to the laws of his Maker. Thus lives and prospers, under the protection of the Divine Husbandman, the great tree of humanity, which is to overshadow the whole earth. It germinates and sends up its strong trunk in the ancient land of Asia. Grafted with a nobler stalk, it shoots out new branches, it blos soms in Europe. In America only it seems destined to bear all its fruits. In these three we behold at once, as in a vast picture, the past, the present, and the future. Before closing, let us cast a glance back upon the long way over which we have travelled. The geographical march of history must have convinced us, if I am not mistaken, 1. That the three continents ofthe North are organised" ]

[ "172 woesten en hobbeligen weg was geschud gewor- den, — niet toe te onderzoeken. De meeste aan- wezigen gaven zich niet eens de moeite van te ant- woorden ; sommige keerden even het hoofd naar de plaats van waar de stem gekomen was en vervolgden hun gesprek, andere ligtten met eene zekere ver- wondering de oogen van hun bord en gaven zonder aarzeling boven een antwoord de voorkeur aan een stukje kalfsvleesch , zonder verstand toebereid en met even zoo weinig smaak opgedaan. Men eet zeer slecht in het hotel de l'Union. Eenige zeiden afge- trokken en werktuigelijk op het woord Jardin: — Ik kom er van daan ! of mompelden : — Dank je hartehjk ! als dachten zij : — Breek jij zelf je nek , als je lust hebt. Zoo dat niemand zei: — Ik wil meê gaan. Tot dat ik, die nog niet eens aan den Jardin gedacht had, al mijne overgeblevene krachten ver zamelde om mij uit mijne slaperigheid los te woe len, en mijne stem nog zachter makende dan die der overige personen , uit vrees van een gesprek ter eere van het publiek te voeren , eindelijk de vraag van den ouden heer beantwoordde met deze andere: — Mijnheer, wat is dat; de Jardin? Hetgeen hij mij uitlegde met zulk een vuur , op zulk een driftigen toon en met zooveel drukte van ge baren , dat ik er uit besloot dat hij nog met een zeer jeugdigen geest bedeeld was en weinig vermoeijende", "200 — Zij plakken een behangseltje op die rotsen en die klomp is de zetel van den wintervorst. Hier sloeg hij met geweld op den klomp , waarop hij zat. — En dit dronken ongeluk is de wintervorst zelf. Hij deed eene poging om boven op den klomp te klimmen. — Och ! wat is de mensch toch zwak ! sprak hij verder, toen hij zijne onmagt gewaar werd. — Ik haat den mensch , ik veracht den mensch , ik vloek den mensch en mij zelven die hier op een klomp ijs zit met een grijzen hoed. Hij greep naar den grijzen hoed, maar kwam in een vlok haar te land. — David, waar hebt gij mijn hoed gelaten? Michel droeg hem reeds gedurende een half uur , uit vrees hem bij deze of gene gelegenheid in een afgrond te zien rollen. — Welk eene omgeving ! ging de oude voort. Te groot voor den mensch. O , die rotsen ! En even als op den Couvercle trok hij den omtrek der bergreeks na met zijn stok en zonk in bespiegelingen weg. — O , grootheid Gods ! riep hij weder; hoe ver draagt een sterveling den aanblik! en viel op de knieën, maar te gelijk met zijn gezigt op het ijs. Coutet sprong op hem aan en plaatste hem we der op zijn bevrozen stoel.", "TOEVOEGSEL." ]

[ "Another. Tis customary on this day For lovers compliments to pay; But 'tis the lady must define Who'll be her chosen Valentine. This seeming liberty I take, Believe me, not for custom's sake ; I hope and trust thou will be mine, My ever faithful Valentine. It is the language of the heart, Which now I candidly impart; No formal words, precise and fine, Unworthy of my Valentine. Believe me, oh my only dear, The language of the heart's sincere ; Then do not love for love decline But be my faithful Valentine. Another. Tis a most shameful thought To say that Love's a fault ; Th' idea set at nought And spurn it as you ought. Our ancestors, we see, Declared that Love was free ; 'Tis free for you and me ; My Valentine then be. By all the gods above, Man wou'd an outcast prove, And as a vagrant rove, Without the helm of love ! In pity then incline To be my Valentine, For crowns I wou'd resign To be for ever thine. 9", "10 Another. As gossips dearly love to prate. And topers love their wine ; As gamesters love to sit up late, I love my Valentine. As actors love to rant and storm, And babies love to whine ; As amateurs to perform, I love my Valentine. As little children love to play, And gluttons love to dine ; As schoolboys love a holiday, 1 love my Valentine. As every coxcomb Wes himself, And ladies to dress fine; As misers love their hoarded pelf I love my Valentine. Another. I love thee for thy sweet discourse, Which doth refine All those who hear. It has such energy and force, Dear Valentine, To charm the ear. I love thee for thy taste in dress, Thou art so fine For all to see. That every body must confess, Dear Valentine, There's none like thee. I love thee for thy tender ways, Thou'rt so benign, So kind and free, And therefore hope whene'er 1 gaie, Dear Valentine, Thou'lt think on me.", "12 Another, My pen I dip into the ink To send my lover a line, And let her know I really think I'll be her Valentine. 1 love thee, yes, surpassing well, As topers love their wine; And thou shalt be, as I foretel, My dearest Valentine. Another. This is the time for bliss, Now happy may we be ; Then take it not amiss That thus I write to thee. Oh ! love is fond of rhyme, For rhyme composes love, This is the happy time Sincerity to prove. Behold ! I've made my choice, Oh may that choice be thine ; For much I shall rejoice To be my Valentine. More pleasure is in store Than can the muse define So let us joy explore, And be my Valentine. Another. Now's the time to bill and woo, Will you be my Valentine . Lovers that are fond and true, Hymen will together join. Now's the time for love and joy. Will you be my Valentine *" ]

[ "64 HISTORY* OF ILLINOIS. In this fearful combat women bore a conspicuous part. A wife of one of the soldiers, who had frequently heard that the Indians subjected their prisoners to tortures worse than death, resolved not to be taken alive, and continued fighting until she was literally cut to pieces. Mrs. Heald was an excellent equestrian, and an expert in the use of the rifle. She fought bravely, receiving several wounds. Though faint from loss of blood, she managed to keep in her saddle. A savage raised his tomahawk to kill her, when she looked him full in the face, and with a sweet smile and gentle voice said, in his own language, \" Surely you will not kill a squaw.\" The arm of of the savage fell, and the life of this heroic woman was saved. Mrs. Helm had an encounter with a stalwart Indian, who attempted to tomahawk her. Springing to one side, she received the glancing blow on her shoulder, and at the same time she seized the savage round the neck and endeavored to get his scalping-knife which hung in a sheath at his breast. While she was thus struggling, she was dragged from his grasp by another and an older Indian. The latter bore her, struggling and resisting, to the lake and plunged her in. She soon perceived it was not his intention to drown her, because he held her in such a position as to keep her head out of the water. She recognized him to be a celebrated chief called Black Partridge. When the firing ceased she was conducted up the sand-bank. SLAUGHTER OF PRISONERS. The prisoners were taken back to the Indian camp, when a new 6cene of horror was enacted. The wounded not being included in the terms of the surrender, as it was interpreted by the Indians, and the British general, Proctor, having offered a liberal bounty for American scalps, nearly all the wounded were killed and scalped, and the price of the trophies was afterwards paid by the British general. In the stipulation of surrender, Capt. Heald had not particularly mentioned the wounded. These helpless sufferers, on reaching the Indian camp, were therefore regarded by the brutal savages as fit subjects upon which to display their cruelty and satisfy their desire for blood. Referring to the terrible butchery of the prisoners, in an account given by Mrs. Helm, she says: \"An old squaw, infuriated by the loss of friends or excited by the sanguin ary scenes around her, seemed possessed of demoniac fury. She seized a stable-fork and assaulted one miserable victim, who lay", "828 HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTY. county in 1855, settled in the village of Fountain Green, where he has since had a reasonable practice. Mr. C. was married in 1860 to Miss Rachel White, daughter of Major White, of McDonough county, who died in 1S66. She is the mother of 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys. Mary, the eldest daughter, is now taking a course of study at St. Mary's College, Nauvoo; Janie, aged about nine; Wm. H. and George, the 2 boys at home. Mr. Crump has begun a residence, which, when finished, will be a model of taste and com fort. Though somewhat eccentric in manners, he does not allow any one who calls to escape his genial hospitality. Solomon Dill was born in Jackson county, Tenn., in 1822; his father, Stephen Dill, was of Scotch descent, and a native of Penn sylvania; fought under Gen. Jackson in the war of 1812. His grandfather also fought the British under Gen. Washington, in 1776. The father emigrated to this State with his family in 1832, and died at an advanced age about 1S58 . His mother, whose maiden name was Catharine Harris, and who was a native of North Caro lina, died in 1870. Solomon, the fifth in a family of 7 children, is now 58 years osage, has had general success in life and good health. He has one sister living now in Iowa, and a brother in Kansas. Mr. D. was deprived of the advantages of an education when a boy, and is showing his appreciation of the loss by giving his children all the advantages accessible. He was married in McDonough county in 1842 to Leanna Harris. She is the mother of 7 chil dren living, 4 sons and 3 daughters, whose names are Mary, Elijah, Anna, Ada, Reuben, Ethelbert and Charley. Anna is the wife of Samuel Brown, and Ada of a Mr. Dorothy, both farmers of this tp. Mr. D. owns near 470 acres of land, 160 acres in his home farm in a fine state of cultivation . His residence and barn are plain but neat, and are surrounded by tasteful clusters of trees, some of which are of more than a century's growth. Dr. Leonard T. Ferris was born in Chenango county, N. Y., in 1817. He is the son of Stephen G., whose biography is given on page 707. He was a native of Dutchess county, where the fam ily had settled at an early day; emigrated to this county in Dec., 1S32, and was one of the founders of the village of Fountain Green. He improved a farm near this place and raised a family of 3 sons, J, M., H. G. and the Doctor, all well known in this county. He removed to Carthage, and after remaining 12 years, died at the residence of his sou in Fountain Green, in November, 1S77. The mother, who was a sister of Jacob Beebe, who was the chief founder of the village spoken of, died in 1857,^ and is buried beside her husband in the beautiful cemetery of Fountain Green. Dr. L. T. Ferris was employed in early life on the farm with his father; after receiving his first education in the common schools he graduated in the study of medicine at the medi cal department in the St. Louis University, in the spring of 1848, and began practicing soon after. Mr. Ferris was married in McDonough county in May, 1S59, to Helen M. Gilchrist, sister of", "972 HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTY. Cincinnati, in Campbell county, Kentucky. On arriving in this county he located on sec. 8, Walker tp., being the third family who settled. He first bought the southwest J of sec. 8, but the first year he lived on rented land, the northeast J of sec. 8. In the fall of 1834 he built a hewn-log house 18 by 24, in whicli he dwelt until 1849, and where 3 of his children were born, namely; James Eli, who died at the age of eight or nine years; George P. and Susan. In 1849 he erected a brick house near the old cabin, where two more children were born, Henrietta and Charles P. George Waiker was a very large land-holder in this county, own ing at times during his life as much as 2.000 acres of land. He gave to each of his children about a quarter section; and at the time of his death he had about 1,000 acres in this county and 500 or 600 acres in Florida, where he had a large orange grove of 1,500 trees, to which he devoted his time every winter for ten years previous to his death, October 9, 1879. During the last five years of his life he made several trips to California, visiting two daughters, Mary Jane, the wife of James Caples, and Rebecca, the wife of Joseph W. Her, who live in Sacramento county. At the age of 35 Mr. Walker was ordained a Baptist minister, and he served the society in that capacity in this county until he was about 65 years of age. He erected on his own place a log church building about 24 by 30 feet, principally at his own expense, and by his own labor, except a very little assistance from neighbors. This building was afterward used as a school-house; it is now torn down. In politics Mr. W. was a Democrat, and he took a prominent part in public affairs; indeed, he was a leader in his township, although not an office-seeker. He was elected to the Legislature twice, the first time in 1848 and the second time in 1854. He was for many years Justice of the Peace and Supervisor, Commissioner, etc. He may be classed as one of the fathers of the county, par ticularly of the settlement of his part of the county. He was a man of deep religious convictions, of sterling integrity and well calculated to leave an impressive mark in the world in favor of justice and humanity. His widow still resides at the old home stead in Walker tp. Mrs. Elizabeth Woodworth, wife of Charles Woodworth, deceased, was bora in Virginia in 1812, married November 24, 1829, and had 7 children, of whom these 6 are still living: Ann G., Edwin, John W., James, K. P., and George. The last named married Rebecca Shipe, and had two children, Mary Alice and Anna. Mr. Charles Woodworth was a hatter by occupation, and died December 3, 1841. The family moved to this county in early days when the country was quite wild, and Mrs. W. has seen the many and wonder ful changes that have converged to make this land a land of plenty and refinement. She has had but six months' schooling in her life, but she now owns and enjoys a quiet home near where once stood" ]

[ "THE WORLD. 43 House, when a mere child, under rather mysterious circumstances, and I have never been able to obtain any clue to her parentage or connexions.\" \"Will you, Miss Fullmer, favour me with the name of the person who left Miss Neville under your care ?\" Miss Fullmer hesitated. \" I do not know, Sir Reginald,\" said she, \" whether I may consider myself at liberty to give his name.\" \" I think you could not err, madam, by so doing ; I feel a deep interest in Miss Neville, and would exonerate you from any blame, if you will so far oblige me.\" \"Well, then, Sir Reginald, the person who brought Miss Neville to Mountjoy House, and paid for her maintenance and education, while she remained here, was Mr. Scriven, the great money-lending lawyer, of Chancery Lane.\" \"Indeed?\" \" Yes, Sir Reginald, and perhaps Mr. Scriven might feel disposed to favour you with more", "115 THE WORLD. evening with his unhappy companion, soon became a rare event. The only place of amusement that Lady Lindisfarne had frequented since her residence in Paris, was the Opera. She was passionately fond of music, and he had engaged a box for the season, and seated behind the curtains out of view, she was frequently in the habit of spending an evening, which would otherwise have been lonely, in listening to the delightful operas that were performed there. On their first arrival in Paris, Lord Beau maris would accompany her ; but now, though she might see him in different parts of the house, he seldom would enter her box. One night a new opera was announced to be performed, the principal character in which, was to be sustained by a new Prima Donna, said to have arrived from Naples, and of whose astonishing powers of voice, report had spoken in high terms. A new dancer, also, or, as the bills expressed it, a former favourite of the public, was announced to appear, in the ad-", "272 THE WILDERNESS OF CHAPTEE XX. Mr. Melville had not deserted Lady Lindis farne, but had called repeatedly to inquire for her during her long and dangerous illness, and as soon as she was able to receive a visitor, he was admitted to see and converse with her. Little now remained of that radiant beauty for which had been so celebrated ; grief and sick ness had done the work of years. Her face was deathly pale; her cheeks were sunken, and the brilliancy of her once lustrous eyes seemed quenched for ever ; for they looked dim with incessant weeping." ]

[ "Aristotelis Ethic. Nicom. 100 σαδϊ υποδήματα προς οίκίαν ή τροιρήν- εί γάρ μή τοϋτο, ούκ έσται άλλ.αγή , ουδέ κοινωνία- τοϋτο δ', 11 εί μή ίσα εϊη πως, ούκ έσται, Δεϊ άρα ενϊ τινι πάντα μετρεϊσ&αι, ώςπερ ελ.έχ&η πρότερον τοϋτο δ' έστϊ τή μέν άλ.η&εία ή χρεία, ή πάντα συνέχει- εί γάρ μη&έν δέοιντο, ή μή ομοίως, ή ούκ έσται αλ- λαγή, ή ούχ ή αύτη- οίον δ' νπάλλαγμα τής χρείας τό νόμισμα γέγονε κατίό σνν&ήκην- και διά τούτο τοννοαα έχει νόμισμα, Ότι ού φύσει, άλλα νόμω ίστϊ, καϊ έφ' ήμϊν μεταβάλλειν και ποιήσαι αχρη- 12 στον. \"Εσται δή άντιπεπον&ός, Όταν ίσασ&ή· ώςτε Όπερ γεωργός προς σκντοτόμον , τό έργον τοϋ σκν- τοτόμον προς τό τοϋ γεωργού- εις σχήμα δέ ανα- λογίας ον δει άγειν, Όταν άλλ.άξωνται- εί δέ μή, άμφοτέρας έξει τός υπέροχος τό έτερον άκρον άλλ' Όταν έχωαι τά αυτών, οϋτως ίσοι καϊ κοινωνοί- Ότι αύτη ή ίσότης δύναται έπ' αυτών γίνεσ&αι- γεωρ- γός α, τροφή γ, σκντοτόμος β, τό έργον αύτοϋ τό ίσασμένον δ- εί δ' ούτω μή ην όντιπεπον&έναι, ούκ 13 άν ήν κοινωνία. \"Οτι δ' ή χρεία σννέχει ώςπερ έν τι ον, δηλοϊ, Ότι, Όταν μή έν χρεία ώσιν άλ.λ.ήλων, ή αμφότεροι, ή έτερος, ούκ όλ.λάττονται, ώςπερ Όταν, ον έχει αυτός, δέητα'ι τις- οίον οϊνον, δίδοντες σ'ι- 14 του έξαγωγήν δεϊ άρα τοϋτο ίσασ&ήναι. 'Υπέρ δέ τής μελλούσης αλλαγής, (εί νϋν μηδέν δεϊται, Ότι έσται, έάν δεη&ή), τό νόμισμα οίον εγγυητής ίστιν ήμΐν δει γάρ τοϋτο φέροντι είναι λ.αβεϊν πάσχει μέν ούν καϊ τοϋτο τό αυτό- ού γάρ άεϊ Ισον δύνα- ται, Όμως δέ βούλεται μένειν μάλλον διό δει πάντα τετιμήσθαι ■ οϋτω γάρ έσται αίεϊ αλλαγή - εί δέ τοϋτο, κοινωνία· το δή νόμισμα, ώςπερ μέσον σύμμετρα ποίησαν, ίσάζει- οϋτε γάρ άν, μή ούσης αλλαγής, κοινωνία ήν· οϋτ' αλλαγή, ίσότητος μή οϋαης· οντ\\", "Ad librl V. Cap. X. 257 λ.έγω δέ νόμον τόν μέν 'ίδιον τόν δέ κοινόν, ίδιον μέν τόν εκαστοις ώρισμένον προς αυτούς, καϊ τούτον τόν μέν άγραφον τόν δέ γεγραμμένον, κοινόν δέ τόν κατά φύσιν. Tres igitur sunt justi species, quae boc quinto libro continentur: 1) simpliciter jus vel jus naturae qninque prioribus capitibus expositum; 2) jus civile vel legitimum, de quo disserunt capita VI — IX; 3) aequitas capite decimo tractata, quae jus legiti mum ad juris naturalis principia revocat. §. 7. Αεσβίας οικοδομής) Michael Ephesius: „Non enim cx laevibus aequaliterque coaptatis lapi dibus aedificatio, quae vocatur Lesbia, cxstruebatur; sed in more erat apud Lesbios eminenlias et conca vitates (έξοχάς και είςοχάς) habentes lapides ad aedi ficia exstruenda adhibere, ut norma eis opus esset plumbea, quae pro inaequalitate inflecti atque ita dirigere inaequalium lapidum structuram posset.\" μολ.ύβδινος) μολύβδινος Par, Cardwcllus el Bek kerus ex suis codicibus excepto Lb. §. 8. xai τί τό δίκαιον) Cardvvellus ct Bekke rus cum Paraphraste ediderunt καϊ Ότι δίκαιον, ηοη male, ex codicibus suis excepto Mb; qui quum sae pissime cum vulgata consentiat, ex ipso vel ejus si mili forsan eam ortam esse magna ex parte suspiceris. Quid autcm \"YVilkinsoni et Zellii codices habeant, non patet, cum viri illi vulgatam sequcntes variam lectionem notent nullam. Ε nostris codicibus *A (Lb) solus καϊ Ότι δίκαιον, Β et C vulgatam καϊ τί τό δίκαιον afferunt. JNihilominus praefcro Cardwellianam lectionem. Nam primo quaestio de justo nondum absoluta est sicut quacstio de bono et aequo, ejus modi vero enunciatio in line demutn disputationum poni potest. Deindc cum subjectum verborum καϊ 17", "Comment. ad Aristot. Ethica Nicom. 352 relaturum; sin autem non possit, neque is, qui dedit, dandum censuisset. Quare si factdtatem habet, referendum beneficium est; in principio ta- men videndum cst, α quonam beneficium et qua conditione accipiat, ut, conditionibtis illis pate factis, patiatur se beneficio affici sive recuset. Multifariam ab hac interpretandi ratione viri docti aberraverunt. Primo Zellius: ,,άκοντα et φίλον pro dalivo positum accipio, quod nonnunquam in ad- iectivis verbalibus fieri constat; et ad ποιητέον sup- plendum est pronomen τοϋτο, i. e. τό άνταποδιδόναι. Qua explicatione admissa hic exoritur sensus: In- vite hoc amivus ne faciat; quippe, qui ita ageret, jam principio peccasset, cusn ab eo beneficiis se_ affici sivisset, quem indignum mutuo officiorum commercio judicaret.\" Sed etiamsi secundum Zel- lium jatn διαμαρτόντα sit accusativus pro dativo Atti- corum more positus (potest tamen esse etiam accu- sativus absolutus post ώς: vide supra ad III, c. 2, §. 16), ita ut eadem illa constructio etiam in άκοντα γάρ φίλον admitti debere videatur: tamen voci ποιη- τέον suum objectum άκοντα φίλον ηοη abripiendum est, praesertim cum άκοντα φίλον de subjecto actio nis dictum contradictio in adjecto esset. Tum έκοντ'ι et άκοντα ού esset tautologia intolerabilis. Postremo sensum si spectes, haec „ab interpretibus adhuc igno rata\" explicatio facit, ut accipientem ex verae amici liae ab hoc loco plane alienae officiis ct praeceptis agere fingamus,eum in illa quidem amicitia ejusmodiquerelae, quarum vitandarum regulae hac §. proponuntur, pror sus locum non babeant, ideoque textus noster id con tra praecipiat ut caveat amicus utilis verae amicitiae officia ab altero nc efflagitet. Nobiscum faciunt" ]

[ "KING JAMES. 135 revenge himself upon all of them he should find it a desperate work, and therefore better sit still and take no notice of them, which in truth King James did, and therein I commend him ; for God doth sometimes permit sin, and surely it was for his quietness and peace which he did ever most aim at, as having the lamentable experience of troubles and tumults in Scotland. But whereas the King did prefer them, gave them honours and was governed by them, this I do utterly discom mend in my old master. If any petition had been offered unto him wherein his mother had been once named, he would never return any answer unto it ; they that suffered for his mother were not recompensed ; the kindred of his mother who had deserved wonderfully well of her, — the house of Loraine and Guise,* — they were not so much esteemed as they did deserve; and whom King James did omit, to them King Charles gave titles of honour, which in effect was all he had to give them. And so I end with the Queen of Scots, f * See Murdin, 583—585. f James never showed much warmth or affection in his mother's cause. They who were engaged in it were loud in their complaints of his coldness and want of affection ; nor was it easy even for his partisans to excuse him. — See Charles Paget's letter to the Queen of Scots, retailing a conversation which he had held with the Spanish ambassador respecting James! Murdin, 435. It appears by a letter of Morgan's, that even previous to the death of Mary, James received a pension from", "269 KING JAMES. subsist, and have that natural instinct to pre serve themselves, so mankind hath the like, and as it cannot preserve itself without government, so, no doubt, the right of government is in mankind, which is transferred upon others in trust. Thus are there several forms of govern ment, and all alike justifiable. Some have greater power, some have less : and as this proceeds from mankind, so must it ever be supposed for the good of mankind : so that as it is the efficient cause to settle and order a government, so is it the final cause to which the government must be directed ; and by virtue hereof in regard of direc tion there is still a power left in mankind to cor rect or control the government, and to reassume it if things cannot be otherwise remedied and mischiefs prevented. For magistrates are but as feoffees in trust ; yet usually they have their char ter of continuance, not duranle beneplacito, for this were of a most pernicious and dangerous conse quence, for in every moment it would threaten innovation, but, according to the rules of wisdom and constancy, they are feoffees in trust quam diu se bene gesserint. So that they have as good a right and title to their government as they have to their inheritance ; for they may forfeit the one as well as the other upon any great crimes com mitted. And having this right in government, unless upon just cause it is as great a sin to deprive them of their government as to deprive them of", "50 THE COURT OF First, our pleasure is, upon no consideration to give him our pardon except he do come person ally where you shall assign him to receive it. Secondly, that, in the point of religion, he presume not to indent; seeing it savors but of presumption, when he knows so little fear of prosecution. Thirdly, he shall publicly abjure all manner of dependency upon Spain and other potentates, and shall promise to you to reveal all he knows of our enemy's purposes, and refuse the name of Oneill. Fourthly, he shall not presume to treat for any but himself and his own natural followers of Tyrone ; but shall leave all others, (over whom he unjustly usurps, either as vriaths, or as dependents, and over whom he can challenge no superiority but as a chosen head of rebellion,) and absolutely, to make their own suits for themselves. He shall yield to such places for garrisons, and such portions of lands and composition besides [?] to be reserved as you shall think fit for our ser vice ; with this condition, to banish all strangers from him, and call home all his followers that do maintain the rebellion in any other province, to gether with such a subjection to sheriffs, and exe cution of justice, as you shall think fit for our service and the present time. And, as heretofore, he offered to send over his eldest son, if you can get it, to be disposed at our pleasure, either in Ireland or in England. All" ]

[ "JACKSON AT PENSACOLA. 539 this moment, of engaging in any new quarrel, orders had chapter been dispatched to Jackson countermanding the author- ity heretofore sent to him to take possession of Pensa- 1814. cola. But Jackson, before this countermand arrived, in- 0ct' 21 deed before receiving the original authority, though he had written three times pressing for orders, having been joined at Mobile by 3000 mounted Tennessee militia, under General Coffee, had ventured to act on his own responsibility. He entered the town of Pensacola with- Nov. 6. out opposition, when the British, who had possession of the fort at the Barancas, seven miles below, blew it up and took to their ships. Nichols retired to the Apala chicola, on the banks of which he soon built a strong fort, intended as a place of muster and refuge for the In dians. The British thus driven off, Jackson gave up Pensacola to the Spanish authorities. Coffee, with his mounted men, was directed to march for the Mississippi, and to encamp on the banks of that river, as near New Orleans as a supply of forage could be obtained. Al ready the report widely prevailed of a formidable British expedition directed against that city, and Jackson him self hastened, by way of Mobile, to assume the com mand there in person. Meanwhile the military and financial schemes of the administration made but very little progress. The Fed eralists remarked, with sarcastic bitterness, that while the government had been obliged to abandon, as appeared by their latest instructions to their commissioners, that claim to shelter British runaway sailors from impress ment in behalf of which the war had been undertaken, they were now setting up as against their own citizens the exercise of that same power of impressment. So lit tle support, indeed, did Monroe's scheme find even from the war men themselves, that it was tacitly dropped", "HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 562 CHAPTER XXIX. 1814 Dec. 27. Dec. 28. raw American troops, but preventing co-operation, and producing some confusion. The attack was made with vigor, and the British, greatly annoyed by the fire of the schooner, were driven to take several new positions. At last they got into a very strong one, between an old levee, which covered them from the schooner, and a new one, raised within, which guarded their right also; and find ing that this position could not be forced, Jackson retired with a loss of 223 in killed, wounded, and prisoners. The enemy's loss was rather greater. The next day Jackson took up a position at a point where the solid land between the river and the swamp was less than a mile in breadth, behind a deep trench running from the river to the swamp ; a position naturally strong, and which every effort was made to strengthen. The British, just as the late action closed, had been joined by a new division from their ships ; but, alarmed at the warm reception they met with, and ignorant of Jackson's force, which the American prisoners greatly exaggerated, instead of pressing forward at once, which would have been their best chance, they waited to bring up re-enforcements and artillery. This interval was diligently employed by Jackson in strengthening his position, bales of cotton being used to form a rampart, which, as well as the ditch in front of it, was extended into the swamp. A British battery, established on the levee, succeeded in destroying the Carolina by hot shot, but the Louisiana was saved, and towed out of reach. The next day the enemy advanced in force, driving in Jackson's outposts ; and having approached within half a mile of his lines, they opened upon them with artillery, bombs, and Congreve rockets. Jackson had five pieces of heavy artillery already mounted, served by the crew of the Carolina. Aided by the raking fire of the Loui-", "HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 626 CHAPTER XXXI. 1817 the right of suffrage ; but a pecuniary qualification was required to hold office. The governor, chosen for two years, must possess six hundred acres of land, or other real property of the value of $2000 ; the senators, chosen for three years, half as much ; and the members of the House, chosen annually, half the qualification of senators. On the subject of slavery, the Constitution of this new state contained the same restrictions on the power of the Legislature embodied in the Constitution of Kentucky (see vol. iv., p. 328) ; but the clause requiring the Leg islature to authorize emancipations was omitted, while another was inserted, dispensing with grand juries for the indictment of slaves, and, except in capital cases, with petit juries in their trials. In the course of the summer, an agent was sent in the frigate Congress, authorized to establish commercial relations with Christophe, who, with the title of king, ruled the northern part of the late French colony of St. Domingo. The middle and southern parts constituted a separate and rival state, under Petion, as president ; but he and Christophe had lately accommodated their differ ences, in order to present a better front against the claims of the restored French monarchy. The eastern part of the island still remained a Spanish colony. Instead of ordinary letters of credence as between independent states, this agent carried only a simple certificate of his appoint ment. Though Christophe expressed an anxious desire for friendly intercourse, he declined to enter into any diplomatic relations not based on the ordinary formalities between independent nations. The American govern ment hesitated, however, to recognize the independence of Hayti. The idea of negroes without white masters did not please the South ; and the relations between the two countries of America earliest emancipated from Eu-" ]

[ "7 The General, as he was styled (1), sent troops forward, himself keeping his head-quarters at Doncaster. In 1648, October 20, there is an entry in the Corporation books of their having \"paide two messengers for car riage warrants into the country for quarterage Colonel Ransbrow souldgers, Is. 2d.\" November 30, \" Paide for wine and biBket, which was bestowed on Leften- Genrall Crumwell, 9s.\" \" Paide for two bottels which L. Genrall Crumwell men toucko away with them. Is. 2d.\" The royalists hearing that their general, Sir Mar maduke Langdale, after the overthrow of the Scottish army, had been taken prisoner, and remained in Not tingham Castle, under tbe most strict custody, as a man, the parliament declared \".they would make an example of their justice ;\" and, fearing that he would be executed, determined to make a bold attempt io gain possession of Rainsborough, that they might thereby ransom their own General. Captain William Paulden, a native of Wakefield, with twenty-three men, left Pontefract Castle at the beginning of the ni^ht by the road to Mexborough. They were all good guides, and understood their way, private and public, very exactly, and went so far, that at about the break of day, or a little after, in the eod of August, they put themselves into the common road that led from York, by which the guards expected no enemy, and so slightly asked them, \" Whence they came?\" who negligently answered, and asked again \" Where their general was?\" saying \" they had a letter from CromweU.\" They sent one to show them where their general was, which they knew well enough, and that he lay at the best inn of the town. And when the gate of the inn was opened to them, three of them only entered into the inn; the others rode to the other end ofthe town to the bridge, over which they were to pass towards Pontefract, where they expected and did find a guard of horse and foot, with whom they entertained themselves in discourse, saying \" that they stayed for their officer, who went only in to speak with their general/' and called for some drink. The guards, making no question of their being friends, sent for drink, and talked negligently with them of news ; and, it being broad day, some of tbe horse alighted, and the foot went to the court of guard, conceiving that morning's work to be over. They who went to the inn, where nobody was awake but the fellow who opened the gate, asked in which chamber the general (for so all the soldiers called Rainsborongh) lay, and, the fellow showing them from below tbe chamber door, two of them went up, and the 1 Reis called Colonel in the title page of his Funeral Sermon, 1648. In 1637, Captain Rainsborough was sent to the coast of Morocco to destroy one of the haunts of the pirates, who had infested the shores of Britain, pillaged the \\illages, and carried off thousands of captives. He found there 370 slaves —English and Irish. — GaizoVs History of the Rebellion", "8 9.1-P- stayed below and held tlie horses, and talKeof with the soldier who had walked with them from the guard. The two who went up opened the chamber door, found Rainsborough in his bed, but awaked with the little noise they had made. They told him, in short, \" that he was their prisoner, and tbat it was in hia power to choose whether he would presently be killed\" (for which work he saw they were well pre pared), \"or, quietly, without making resistance, or delay, to put on his clothes and be mounted upon a horse that was ready below for him, and accompany them to Pontefract.\" The present danger awakened him out of tbe amazement he was in, bo that he told* them he would wait upon them, and made the haste that was necessary to put on his clothes. One of them took bis sword, and so they led him down stairs. H& that held the horses had sent the soldier away to those who were gone before to speak to them- to get some drink, and anything else tbat could be made ready in the house, against they came. When Rain-borough same into the street, which he expected to find full of horse, and saw only one man, who held the others' horses, and presently mounted tbat he might be bound behind him, be began to struggle and cry out ; whereupon, when they saw no hope of carrying hirst away, they immediately run him through with their swords, and, leaving him dead upon tbe ground, they got upon their horses, and rode towards their fellows,. before any in- the inn could be ready to follow them. When those at the bridge saw their companions coming, which was their sign, being well prepared, and knowing What they were to do, they turned upon the guard, and made them fly in distraction, and killed so many of them. that all the rest fled in distraction, so that the way was clear and free ; and though tbey missed carrying away the prize for which they had made so lusty adventure, they joined together, and marched, wi .h the expedition that was necessary, a shorter way than they had come, to their garri_ou, leaving the town and soldiers behind m such a consternation that, not being able to receive sn_v information from their general, whom they found dead upon the ground, without anybody in view, they thought the devil bad- been there, and could not re collect themselves which way they were to pursue ar_ enemy they had not seen. The gallant party came safe home without the least damage to horse or man, hoping to make some other attempt more successfully, by which they might redeem Sir Marmaduke Langdale. There was not an officer in the army whom Cromwell would Bot as- willingly have lost as this man, who was bold and and barbarous to his wish, and fit to be entrusted iu the most desperate interest.\"\" Hunter's statement of the affair ia given in page 2$ ef his \" Deanery.\" In 1648, the Castle of Pontefraet was the only royal jscj'risou in the north — there were only a few country troops left by Cromwell to guard it. Rainsborough", "10 space between each of the six windows waa divided into two panels by upright pieces of oak — eight by four inches — framed into beams, above and below, running the whole length of tbe house ; each division having three compartments formed by croas timber, 611ed with diamond pattern ornament, having a small boss or knot on the face of each part of the frame, suggesting the idea of quatre -foil. Over and below the windows was projecting woodwork. The whole was lathed and plastered behind, showing a very ornamental half-tim bered front. The house adjoining to Mr. Farr. premises, in Baxter gate, which has just been taken down, was originally entirely timber-framed, faced with laths and plaster ; but sustaining walls of Hexthorpe-stone were added at some time. It is the only one, at the present day, that had its stories projecting one beyond the other — the lowest one considerably receding. Previously to alterations of the premises in 1848, there were several remarkable features extant of ditch, glacis, and wall in connexion with the Roman Castle. (1) The modern erection— now undergoing alterations — late the offices of Messrs. Shirley and Atkinson, and the business premises of Mr. Hall, tailor— situate near the south-east end of Baxter-gate, and directly fronting St. George-gate, occupies the site of two old buildings that were the last specimens of timber-framed gabled stories, with penthouse basement-story, projecting far beyond the upper story and covered with gray slates. The upper square-windowed gables were also covered with the same material, and formed a very prominent feature. The intermural arrangements were singular and un accountable ; the room of the vfestern house occupying a place at the back of its neighbour, whilst the kitchen of the eastern house waa in the rear of the other. The passage entrance to the adjoining brick-house, occupied by Mr. Pawson, hair-dreeser, had over it a bed-room belonging to the adjoining ancient tenement. These inconvenient intersections of property rendered it diffi. cult to describe boundaries for sale. In thia inatance the purchaser of the antiquated property bought the more modern brick-houae, to enable him to make his contemplated alterationa. The two ancient dwelling bouses were taken down in 1843, and the present house waa erected on the site by the owner, Wm E Shirley Esq. ' *** 1720.— By indenture between Thomas Arthur of Fredrickatadt, Norway, merchant, on the one part 'and William Arthur, of Wadworth, and John Arthur of Doncaster, gentleman, on the other part ; thia old pro perty is described as '* two tenements in the occupation of Thomas Hudaon and Matthew Ludlam, which were conveyed from Thomas Arthur to William Arthur and (1) I hope to give notices of the Eoman occupation of the own" ]

[ "THE LAPSE OF TIME _? A POEM, FOR THE NEW YEAR. By REBECCA EDRIDGE. L'ape, e la serpe spesso Soggon l'istesso umore ; Ma l'alimento istesso Cangiando in lor si va. Che della serpe in seno II fior si fa veleno; In sen dell'ape il fior Dolce liquor si fa. METASTASIO. UXBRIDGE, PRINTED BY T. LAKE, and Sold by J. ROBSON, NEW BOND STREET, AND MESSRS. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, LONDON 1803. [PRICE ONE SHILLING.].", "10 Lost to the noble purposes of life, Lost to their friends, their country and themselves. Can no great mind be found, pre-eminent In generous philanthropy, amid The dark and dreary paths of hopeless guilt To shine a day-star, and grant repentance An asylum! where shelter'd from the scorn Of an insulting world, new peace may dawn Within his late desponding guilty breast, And rapt'rous joy awaken hopes of grace. The hero who repels his country's foes, The patriot who defends his country's laws, More highly merits not the meed of praise, Than he who saves her citizens from vice, And with care trains up her youth to virtue. The od'rous shrubs and variegated flow'rs Which give their perfumes to the morning beam Yield not so pure an incense to the skies. Less beauteous shineth in the sight of heav'n Th' Hesperian star j or early Lucifer.", "14 I Convince his heart he reasons falsely! Say That even you from Hope originate: And with your silent warnings guide his soul To seek its source, there, whence it is deriv'd, \"The bosom of his Father and his God.\" So when accomplished shall be the course Of our computed time, and this our world Shall pass away; Eternity shall yield Fruition to his hope, and heav'nly joys Remunerate his persevering Faith ! FINIS. rRINTED BY T. LAKE, OXBRIDGE." ]

[ "28 moran (doyen du Parlement), s'est sauvé ici pour ne pas entendre les pleurs et les cris de Rennes, en voyant sortir son cher Parlement. Toute la province est affligée.... C'est une désolation terrible, la ruine de Rennes emporte celle de la province. » Puis la même Mme de Sévigné révèle cette circonstance toute à l'honneur de nos magistrats : « On voulait, dit-elle, en exilant le Parlement, le faire consentir, pour se ra cheter, qu'on bâtit une citadelle à Rennes; mais cette noble compagnie voulut obéir fièrement , et partit plus vite qu'on ne voulait (1) ». II. Le Parlement, fermé à Rennes, le 16 octobre, ou vrit à Vannes , le 29 octobre 1675. Quatre présidents àmortier et quarante-six conseillers étaient présents. Les quatre ou cinq huissiers, envoyés en fourriers n'avaient pas perdu leur temps. Le Présidial de Vannes, dont une halle et un théâtre forain occupent aujourd'hui l'édifice lourd et maussade , reçut la grand'chambre; les autres chambres furent installées, vaille que vaille, dans des maisons voisines dont on éventra les cloisons. Les présidents et conseillers se logèrent comme ils purent. Une rue nouvelle, celle de Saint-Vincent, fut bâtie pour eux. Le terrain entre la porte Saint- Vincent et le Moulin du Duc qui subsiste encore , avait été afféagé par César de Vendôme à la Commu nauté de ville, qui n'en avait tiré aucun parti, avant l'arrivée du Parlement, et qui put alors l'utiliser. {\\) Lettres à M- de Griynan, du 20, 20 octobre et 12nov. 1675.", "78 là. Je sais seulement que, pour solliciter les rigueurs de Messieurs, le procureur général affirmait que, «Fa varice des hommes n'a point inventé de jeu de hasard, ou l'avidité de ravir le bien d'autrui paraisse avec plus d'éclat et plus d'emportement. » « 25 mai 1679, arrêt contre les écoliers de cette ville de Vannes qui portant des armes à feu, épées et bâtons courent la nuit, font des désordres et maltraitent tous ceux qu'ils rencontrent, ce qui est contre la li berté publique ; que ce qui fomente ce désordre c'est que les hôtes où demeurent les écoliers les laissent sortir armés et à toutes heures, que plusieurs per sonnes tiennent dans la ville et faubourgs des jeux de boule publics, où les écoliers se retirent, se dé bauchentet où ils font des querelles et batteries. » 25 janvier 1680. Désordres et charivaris nocturnes à des personnes de qualité, en la ville de Vannes. La cour ordonne la patrouille, et rappelle les peines dé jà édictées qu'elle appliquera sévèrement. « 20 juin 1685, la cour, chambres assemblées, infor mée des désordres qui arrivent tous les ans par Fimprudence de ceux qui tirent des armes à feu pen dant que la procession du Saint-Sacrement marche, et voulant y remédier, fait défense à toute personne de tirer demain pendant la procession du Saint-Sacre ment aucune arme à feu, fusée, ni autre coup de poudre à canon, fors les canons de la ville seulc ment,.à peine de 100 liv. d'amende, laquelle demeurera encourue contre les propriétaires et locataires des maisons et chambres dont lesdits coups auraient été tirés. » « 12 avril 1687. Le procureur général du roi, entré en la cour a remontré que nonobstant les ordonnances,", "82 car il ne reste au registre aucune autre trace de ce gros procès. II fallait aussi vraiment que la passion de la justice aveuglât un peu et les membres du par quet et la cour elle-même, pour qu'ils ne soupçon nassent pas tout d'abord un consentement qui faisait disparaître le crime, chez la jeune fille qui se laissait enlever publiquement, et avant que le soleil fut cou ché pour ainsi dire, dans une rue habitée de Vannes, au commencement du mois de juin ! VII. II nous reste, en ce paragraphe à relever les rap ports du Parlement avec le clergé. C'était le temps où les magistrats enregistraient presque simultanément Fédit révoquant celui de Nan tes, et Fédit constitutif du gallicanisme ; c'était aussi le temps où les ordres religieux de femmes se mul tipliaient. Au mois de mars 1678, la cour enregistra les lettres patentes qui permettaient aux Ursulines de Bordeaux de fonder des maisons de leur ordre à Rennes, à Josselin, à Montfort. Au mois de juillet 1678 « Messire Jean-Baptiste de Beaumanoir de Lavardin, évêque de Rennes, fit exprès le voyage de Vannes et exposant que l'entrée à la cour lui était permise comme conseiller né d'icelle, par Fédit d'érection du Parlement, il présenta requête pour être admis à prêter serment ; ce qui lui fut unanimement octroyé. II prit place, et complimenta la cour, en lui faisant offre de ses services, tant au général qu'au particulier. — M. le Premier président le remercia au nom de la cour. »" ]

[ "INTRODUCTION. XVII are first entered. This rule seems to have had few exceptions. The Princes of Wales have, now and then, Precedence, and, very rarely, other Temporal Peers. The form of AVrits to the Archbishops and Bishops vary. Those to Councils and Convocations differ from those to Parliaments. In the Writs to Councils of State, the Clause \"Præmunientes\" is wholly omitted. It appeared only in those to Parliaments, and was then inserted, or not, according to the pleasure of the King. There was no general Summons to all Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots and Priors holding by Barony, to all Councils of State, but to such only as the King and Council thought meet ; whereas they were usually all summoned to Parliaments. The numbers, however, of those so summoned varied, at times, in consequence of vacancy of Sees, from death, or Translation. In Summons to Parliament and great Councils, the Bishops, Abbots, Priors and Clergy had all particular Writs, and, in many instances, Special (Second) AVrits, directed to the Archbishops, commanded them also to sum mon the Bishops and others in their Diocese, for the purpose of preventing delay, or neglect of attendance, (i) The number of Abbots and Priors who were summoned varied at differ ent times, either in consequence of vacancies or death, or because it was ascertained that they held no Lands by Barony, or Knights' Service from the King, but only in Frankalmoigne ; or because their attendance was dis pensed with by Act of Special grace, (k) The number of Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors and Ecclesiastical Persons was for the most part equal to, and very often far exceeded the number ofthe Temporal Lords and Barons. In 49 Henry III., 120 Prelates and only 23 Temporal Lords were summoned. In 23 Edward I., the Spirit ual Lords were 77, the Temporal Lords 63; and the same year, 90 Spiritual and only 50 Temporal Peers were summoned. In 24 Edward I., the Spiritual were to the Temporal Lords as 91 to 43. In other Parliaments, the- Tem poral Lords exceeded the Spiritual in number, as in 27 Edward I., when the Temporal Lords were 90, the Spiritual, 58; but in 28 Edward III., again, the latter were 102, and the former 89. In most Summonses during the Reigns of Henry IV., V. and VI., the Spiritual Lords were nearly double the number of the Temporal Lords, in consequence of the absence of the latter in actual service, in war, or from other causes. Proxies or Proctors of the Spiritual Lords were sometimes authorized by the writs themselves ; at other times, they were strictly pro hibited. The King, Temporal Lords and Commons could not legally impose any Aids, Subsidies or Taxes on the Clergy, without their special grants in Convocation, according to the great Charters of Henry I., King John, Henry III., and a particular Act of 8 Henry IV. The total number of Abbots ever summoned was 122, and of Priors and Masters of Orders 41, altogether 163 ; besides 5 Deans, the Official of the Court of Canterbury and the Dean of Arches. (/) Some of these were only summoned once ; others, variously, to 8 or 10 times, and never afterwards. At the latter end of Edward III. only 25 were constantly summoned. It appears that our Kings by their Prerogative and Royal Authority alone, summoned what Abbots \"and others, they thought fit, but that the (i) See Lists of Abbots and Priors summoned, and the form of Writs, Prynne, Brief FtpEri^scr n i 109. (*) In' Case's where Abbots, &c, were exempted by Special Acts, they were bound by their Act of Exemption to agree to the Proceedings of the Proxies sent by the Clergy to Councils and Parliaments, i. 143. „ , ,.„ „ ,. . _ . . ,1) See Lists of the Abbots, Masters, and Priors of the different Religious Orders, to whom Writs of Summons were sent from the 49th Henry 3, to 23 Edward 4. Prynne, R. I. p. 121. d", "99 EDWARD III. 1SS2. A. R, 6 1333, A. a. Dec. 2. (Friday before F. of St. Nicholas.) A \" Par liament,\" (Colloquium et Tractatus) meets at York. Writs are directed to the Archbishops to treat with the Pre- lates, Magnates el Proceres, without the Clause, to 19 Bishops, 28 Abbots, 3 Priors, (u.a.) to 11 F.arls, C5 Barons, 8 ofthe Council, to all the Sheriffs, and the Warden ofthe Cinque Ports. The \" Grauntz \" not being arrived, the meeting is adjourned to the following Tuesday. On the first of December, Commissioners are named to open the Parliament. In the opening, the King's Prolocutor, M. G. le Scrop, states the advice given in the last Parliament, and the debate of the Clergy by themselves, the Earls and Barons by themselves, and the Knights of Counties by themselves, and that the King now asks advice of ses \"bones gentz et Liges de son Roialme,\" and his Prelates, whether he is to be assisted by service as his Ancestors, or \" la value.\" Whereupon, the Prelates and Clergy by themselves, the Earls and Barons by themselves, and the Knights, et Gentz des Countez et Gentz de la Coe. by them selves, treat of the business till the Friday following, (Friday before F. St. Lucy, Dec. 11); and then the Prelates by them selves, the Earls and Barons by themselves, and the Knights by themselves, and then all in Common, give an answer to the King, that without the Assistance of several Prelates and other \" Grantz,\" who were not present, they dare not advise the King; and request him to continue the Parliament to the Octaves St. Hilary, and to charge the absent Prelates, &c, to be at York at that time, to which the King agrees, and those present are commanded to attend without further summons. Jan. 20. (Wednesday in Octs- St. Hilary.) A pro rogued \"Parliament\" is held at York. Writs had been issued to those who were absent, namely, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 17 Bishops, 20 Abbots, 2 Con- ventual Priors, 5 Earls, and 37 Barons; specifying the advice to continue the Parliament, given by the Prelates, \"Proceres ac Milites Comitatuum.\" Proclamation is made, and Receivers and Tryers (Termineurs) appointed as before. The Prelates, Earls, Barons and Procura tors consult by themselves, and the Knights and \" Gentz de Commune\" by themselves, and on the Tuesday following, Jan. 2(1, the Chancellor (Bishop of Winchester) dismisses them and his Demesnes. The greatest part, if not all, the Cities and Boroughs sending Repre sentatives to Parliament, were, or had been, part of the King's Demesnes, or in the King's hands, and as such liable to tallage ; they might, therefore, consent to tax themselves in a mode which may have been less vexatious, and less burthensome to individuals, and yet produced more to the Crown, and therefore was accepted by the Crown, instead of Tallage. It seems difficult to account for the distinct charge con stantly of a larger assessment on Cities and Boroughs and the King's Demesnes, than on the rest of the several Shires, except on the supposition, that the persons so charged with a higher Tax, were thereby redeemed from lallage by the Officers of the Crown.\" The Commons seem to have borne little part in the proceedings of this Parliament. Rolls, 0 Edw. 3. It appears by a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, his Suffragan Bishops and Clergy, that, on that day, 2d Sept., they had appointed a \" Concilium et Tractatum.\" The King commands that nothing shall be attempted in prejudice of the Crown, &c. Rep. App. 1.415. The Fœd . sub anno (6 ) by a Writ appointing Collectors of Tallage, tested Wodestoke, 25 d. July, allude to a Parliament, \"lately held at Westminster ;\" and a. 7, a Writ, tested Sept. 27, declaring a grant to John de N'evill, fee., speaks of proximum Farliamentum.", "CHARLES I. 485 1647. A. a. Resolved. The Proposition, \"That all Outlawries, Attainders, &c, against any for adhering to the Houses in the War they have been necessitated to undertake in their just and lawful defence, shall be declared null and void,\" shall be sent to the King. Sept. 24. The Lords allow Privilege to Halsey, Solicitor to the Earl of Lyncolne. The Commons Resolve to impeach of High Treason Sir John Gayer, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London, many Aldermen and others, \"for abetting the force and tumult used on the 26th July.\" Sept. 29. The Commons pass an Ordinance against the Con trivers, &c. of the late horrid and violent force done to both Houses. Sept. 30. Mr. Mabbott is appointed to license the Weekly Papers, and an Ordinance is made against Unlicensed Books, (y) October 2. (Saturday.) The Commons Resolve that the King's consent shall be desired to the Ordinance (3 Jan., 1644) taking away the Book of Common Prayer and establishing the Directory. Oct. 5. The Commons answer the Petition of divers Citizens of London, Westminster, Southwark, &c, \" That the matter has been settled by the Ordinance, 20 August, and that it is the Duty of Englishmen to acquiesce in the Judgment ofthe Parliament, and the House doth expect they should do so.\" Oct. 7. An Order is made to discover the Author of a Scan dalous Pamphlet, \"Mercurius Redivivus.\" Oct. 9. The Commons' House is called. A Committee is appointed to examine the causes of the Absence of Members. Oct. 12. The Earl of Shrewsbury tenders himself. Oct. 15. A new Writ is Ordered for Shafton, (Member deceased.) Ordered. The Serjeant-at-Arms to apprehend all Women and other Persons who clamour about the Houses, and speak scandal ous words against the Parliament. Oct. 16. Ordered. Richard Lownes, Author of \"Mercurius Pragmaticus,\" a libellous, seditious Pamphlet, to be committed to Newgate. Oct. 22. It is Reported, That the Vice-Chancel lor and certain Heads of Houses at Oxford, refuse to submit to the Visitation of the Visitors appointed by Parliament. The Commons Resolve, That the Arrears of pay to the Army shall be paid out of the remaining part of the Lands and Revenues of Archbishops and Bishops, belonging to their Arch bishoprics, &c. Numerous Delinquents are cleared, on Composition by Fine. Oct. 25. New Writs are Ordered for County of Stafford and Boroughbridge, (Members deceased.) Oct. 28. Resolved. Members who were absent at the last Call, and have deposited, or shall deposit, their £20, between this and Saturday, shall have them restored, (z) (y) The Average Number of Peers present was Six. The number of Earls or Barons never exceeded Five, and their lowest number was Two. One Viscount only ever attended. Divisions in the Commons were, in August, 73 against 32 ; 95-94; 110-76; 95-70; 104-64; 78-75; 77-72; 86-63; 87-84; 96-93; 85-83; 66-54; in September, 51-40 ; 58-52; 71-31 ; 84-34; 70-23; 36-5; 29-19. (z) The Average Number of Peers present in October was Seven. The number of Earls never exceeded 6, or that of the Barons, 5 ; and their lowest Numbers were 1 and 1 . Only one Viscount occasionally attended." ]

[ "262 A YEAR OF CONSOLATION. given signal are extinguished, and during a loud voiced exhortation from the pulpit, a castigation of about ten minutes is zealously carried for ward by the devoutly disposed, who are fur nished wdth ropes'-ends or leathern thongs for this purpose, to the considerable perd of unpar ticipating assistants, wdio occasionady receive some of the bloyvs intended for the self-edifica- tion of the performers. and his uncle protected their faces with their hats, under tins apprehension ; and by his account the cere mony must have been a very curious one. The moon being nearly full, we drove to the Coliseum, and the change of associations and impressions from all these senseless observances, and the gaudy7, and, at the same time, mean church pageants we had been seeing, to the still solemnity of beautiful night among those sublime ruins, was most impressive. We wandered up and down the vast area, all flooded with the soft light which had wooed forth numbers like ourselves to the enjoyment of the beautiful", "82 A YEAR OF CONSOLATION. And with the bound The rocks resound, And round and round My waves are wound Into the gaping rifts of the mid earth : Oh, for the sunny springs where I took birth ! The gentle rills, The tiny brimming fountain, That, scoop'd in the warm bosom of the mountain, Each May shower over-fills ! Whence I and my fair sister came ; and she Rolls her smooth silver flood along the way, That princes made for her, so royady, Piercing the rock to give her ample way. Down the bright sunny7 steep Her yvaters leap. Myrtle, and bay, and laurel, and yvdd vine, A garland for her flowing tresses twine ! The green moss stars the rocks whereon she leaps, Over her breast the fragrant locust weeps ;", "142 A YEAR OF CONSOLATION. Nearer the sun and furtlier yet from ye, Kindred alone of his mortality. Awhile he stood beside ye, and awhile His tender eyes, and lovely loving smile, Made you believe he was indeed yrour brother : But deep within that being lay another Fearful as fair, no simple son of earth, Of all created things the wondrous birth; Immortal, Infinite, born to inherit Matter, and mind, and sense, and subtlest spirit. Lo ! ye have called this King of ad creation Your fellow, and forgot the Heaven-high station Whence he must gather his great revenue : Past, Present, Future, ad things old and new. All things in earth and heaven to 1dm belong ; And in the pæons of his conquering song Love is but one sweet sound, one single verse, In the great chorus of the universe ; Which, with a voice resounding and sublime, He utters forth unto all space and time. Oh, piteous, precious, hapless, human love ! Thou shalt be reap'd by this bright son of Jove," ]

[ "VISCOUNT KENMURE. 75 she afterwards compensated by her energy and self denial for her early error of judgment. It had been arranged that the insurrection in Dum friesshire was to break out in conjunction with that headed in Northumberland by Mr. Forster. To effect this end, numbers of disaffected, or, as the Jacobite writers call them, well-affected noblemen and gentle men assembled in parties at the houses of their friends, moving about from place to place, in order to prepare for the event. It was on the twelfth of October, 1715, that Vis count Kenmure set out in the intention of joining the Earl of Wintoun, who was on his road to Moffat, and who was accompanied by a party of Lothian gen tlemen and their servants. It is said by the de scendants of Viscount Kenmure, on hearsay, that his Lordship's horse three times refused to go forward on that eventful morning ; nor could he be impelled to do so, until Lady Kenmure taking off her apron, and throwing it over the horse's eyes, the animal was led forward. The Earl of Carnwath had joined with Lord Kenmure, and rode forwards with him to the rencontre with Lord Wintoun. Lord Kenmure took with him three hundred men to the field.* At the siege of Preston, in which those who fell dead upon the field were less to be compassionated than the survivors, Lord Kenmure was taken pri soner. His brother-in-law, the Earl of Carnwath, shared the same fate. They were sent with the prin- * Patten. Reay.", "94 WILLIAM MURRAY, was so firm and zealous in that faith, as to excite the doubts of the Tory party, to whom he latterly attached himself, of his sincerity in their cause. According to Lord Lovat, the arch-enemy of the Athole family, the Duke had not any considerable portion of that quality in his character, which Lord Lovat represents as one compound of meanness, treachery, and revenge, and attributes the hatred with which Athole persecuted the brave and unfortunate Duke of Argyle, to the circum stance of his having received a blow from that noble man before the whole Court at Edinburgh, without having the spirit to return the insult.\"\" It appears, from the same authority, that the loyalty which the Duke of Athole professed towards King William was of a very questionable description. It becomes, indeed, very difficult to ascertain what were really the Duke of Athole's political tenets. Under these conflicting and unsettled opinions the young Marquis of Tullibardine was reared. There seems little reason to doubt that his father, the Duke of Athole, continued to act a double part in the troublous days which followed the accession of George the First. It was, of course, of infinite importance to Government to secure the allegiance of so powerful a family as that of Murray, the head of whom was able to bring a body of six thousand men into the field. It nevertheless soon appeared that the young heir of the house of Athole had imbibed very different sentiments to * Lord Lovat's Memoirs, p. 39.", "LORD LOVAT. 315 such gratitude, and to the King and Prince whom he was wont to call \" the bravest feUows in the world.\" * In accordance with this spirit of self-glorification was Lovat's erection of two monuments, — filial piety dictating the inscription on one of them, that dedicated to his father, and his own audacious vanity assisting in the composition of the tribute to his own virtues. It was his Lordship's favourite boast that at his birth a number of swords which hung up in the hall of his paternal home leaped themselves out of their scab bards, denoting that he was to be a mighty man of arms. The presage was not fulfiUed, but Lord Lovat's ingenuity suggested the following means of imposing upon the credulity of his simple clansmen, by the composition of an epitaph which he erected in the old church of Kirkhill, a few miles from Castle Downie. TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS LORD FRASER, OF LOVAT, Who chose rather to undergo the greatest hardships of fortune than to part with the ancient honours of his house, and bore these hardships with undaunted fortitude of mind. This monument was erected by SIMON LORD FRASER OF LOVAT, HIS SON. Who, likewise, having undergone many and great vicissitudes of good and bad fortune, through the malice of his enemies, he, in the end, at the head of his clan, forced his way to his paternal inheritance with his sword in his hand, and relieved his kindred and followers from oppression and slavery ; and both at home and in foreign countries, by his eminent actions in the war and the state, he has acquired great honours and reputation. Hie tegit ossa lapis Simonis fortis in armis, Restituit pressum nam genus ille suum : Hoc marmor posuit cari genitoris honori, In genus afflictum par erat ejus amor. Culloden Papers." ]

[ "\". REJOICE EVERMORE.\" 67 And both are sweet and calm, Fair flowers upon the banks of either blow ; Both fertilise the soil, and where they flow Shed round them holy balm. Archbishop Trench. F 2", "MY PICTURE. 135 MY PICTURE. STAND this way — more near the window — By my desk : you see the light Falling on my Picture better — Thus I see it while I write ! Who the head may be I know not, But it has a student air ; With a look half sad, half stately, Grave sweet eyes and glowing hair. Little care I who the painter, How obscure a name he bore ; Nor, when some have named Velasquez, Did I value it the more. As it is, I would not give it For the rarest piece of art ; It has dwelt with me, and listened To the secrets of my heart. Many a time, when to my garret Weary I returned at night, It has seemed to look a welcome That has made my poor room bright.", "MIDNIGHT. 159 MIDNIGHT. THE moon shines white and silent On the mist, which, like a tide Of some enchanted ocean, O'er the wide marsh doth glide, Spreading its ghost-like billows Silently far and wide. A vague and starry magic Makes all things mysteries, And lures the earth's dumb spirit Up to the longing skies. I seem to hear dim whispers And tremulous replies. The fire-flies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go ; The elm-trees' heavy shadow Weighs on the grass below ; And faintly from the distance The dreaming cock doth crow." ]

[ "MACDUFF'S CROSS. 23 Turn thee, I say ! thou art as stout as he, And well may'st match thy single sword with bis — Shame, that a man should rein a steed like thee, Yet fear to turn his front against a foe ! — I am ashamed to look on them. NINIAN. Yet look again, — they quit their horses now, Unfit for the rough path : — the fugitive Keeps the advantage still. — They strain towards us. WALDHAVE. I'll not believe that ever the bold Thane Rear'd up his Cross to be a sanctuary To the base coward, who shunn'd an equal combat How's this ? — that look — that mien — mine eyes grow dizzy ! — NINIAN. He comes : — thou art a novice on this watch : — Brother, I'll take the word and speak to him. Pluck down thy cowl; — know, that we spiritual champions", "Scene Is. 183 THE DOOM OF DEVORGOIL. KATLEEN. If I e'er see that cottage, honest Blackthorn, Believe me, it shall be from other motive Than fear of Erick's spectre. {Arustling sound is heard. BLACKTHOR_. I heard a rustling sound — Upon my life, there's sometldng in the hall, Katleen, besides us two ! KATLEEN. A yeoman thou, A forester, and frighten'd ! I am sorry I gave the fool's-cap to poor Gullcrammer, And let thy head go bare. [ The same rushing sound is repeated. BLACKTHORN. Why, are you mad, or hear you not the sound ? KATLEEN. And if I do, I take small heed of it. Will you allow a maiden to be bolder ' Than you, with beard on chin and sword at girdle ?", "Scene Is. THE DOOM OF DEVORGOIL. 185 BLACKTHORN. In its vile company ? {As they advance towards the Figure it is more plainly distinguished, which might, I think, be contrived by raising successive screens of crape. The Figure is wrapped in a long robe, like the mantle of a Hermit, or Palmer. PALMER. Ho ! ye who thread by night these wildering scenes, In garb of those who long have slept in death, Fear ye the company of those you imitate ? BLACKTHORN. This is the devil, Katleen, let us fly ! {Runs off. KATLEEN. I wdl not fly — why should I ? My nerves shake To look on this strange vision, but my heart Partakes not the alarm. — If thou dost come in Hea- ven's name, In Heaven's name art thou welcome !" ]

[ "REWARDED LABOUR 155 live on what I don't earn. I have got a lot of bills to pay.\" \"Oh, Henrietta, that is very wrong!\" \" Wrong ! You are always harping on right and wrong. You are another Mary, as I have told you before ; only you are a hundred times better looking, and a hundred times as clever. I can't understand you. If you are earning money, you should go into better lodgings. These are pokey.\" \" I cannot make any change till I have paid some debts at Tormorton.\" \" Oh, then you have debts ? \" \"They were not mine. That is to say, my poor father, when he was so ill, could not pay what he owed. It was not much ; but I am bound in honour not to spend a pound that is unnecessary till I have paid the good people who were so kind to me, and were so ready to wait for the money.\" \" You are too good for me, little Etta ; a perfect angel.\" \" Nonsense ! I do not like to hear you talk like that. Go on about yourself and your novel.\" \"Oh, it is all disappointment and vexation. I am almost sick of it.\"", "TIIE TWO HENRIETTAS 230 \"Have you heard anything from Heathcote Manor ? \" \"Not since yesterday, when Sir Henry Cole came to see Mrs. Langley, and Mr. Theophilus met him here, and brought him back in the carriage.\" \" Do you know what — what Sir Henry Cole thought? \" \" That the lady is — well, very ill, Miss Langley.\" \"Is there a trap here — or a cart, or anything?\" \" I am afraid not ; but won't you come in, miss, and let me get you some coffee ? \" \"No. I must walk. I can walk ; I have often done it. Take care of my bag and lug gage ; \" and not waiting to hear more, Etta went out into the wind and rain, the station-master watching her as she disappeared in the murky darkness, saying — \" She won't find her mother alive, poor young lady. How she is changed ; she looks years older. I hope she may be in time.\" Strong as Etta was, she found it very hard to make way against the great blasts of wind which came sweeping over the moor, bringing on their wings sharp showers of hail, which battered upon her hat, and now and again", "YES 313 I'll bet she never reads these trashy, coarse novels which glut the market.\" \"Ah! don't speak of those things, Bertie. I can't bear it now. Think of me, how I used to tell myself if a book was clever, what did the rest matter ? I hate myself now for pastur ing as I did on French novels and their imita tion in English. You are quite right. Henrietta Brightwin knows nothing of evil except such as by her own pure beautiful life she can influ ence for good, as she has influenced me. It is not what she says — it is herself which makes one feel the better for being with her.\" \" Yes, you are right there,\" Captain Langley said with a sigh as he left the room ; and from that day no reference was ever made by Etta as to what had passed between her and her brother." ]

[ "Via Vitæ. 37 Though they were to all appearance As bad as they well could be. At least they proclaimed their colours ; They made no pretence of good ; But he as he talked of heaven Sinned worse than they ever could. He sighed over other's failures, Pretending they caused him pain, But cared not what harm he did them So long as it brought him gain. Thus he, as he trod life's pathway, Made trouble where'er he went, And under the form of friendship His arrows of rancour sent ; Brought shame to the undeserving, Made goodness appear a fraud ; Pretending to help and succour, He cut with a two-edged sword. At length, though he reached the shadow, I wondered what then he'd do. Still wearing a look of meekness, He vanished away from view. I looked, and again I saw him Walk boldly to heaven's gate, But stop with a cry of horror ; He seemed to have heard his fate,", "Drifting through Dreamland 104 Below the mountain lay the town ; here he found work to do, And she in regal splendour lived and never even knew. Her lord was governor of the town — Don Pedro was his name ; If any had complaint to make, to him it was they came. His word was law in everything ; none dared to dis- obey ; He ruled not only as a judge, but with a kingly sway. In course of time a change took place, and civil war broke out; Then came the news the rebel troops had put their own to rout. 'Twas scarcely credited at first, and thought a barefaced lie, But soon the news was quite confirmed ; Don Pedro had to fly. Another governor took his place, and in his mansion dwelt ; His sorrowing wife was turned adrift. No sympathy was felt By those who new command had gained ; they bade her quickly go, And where she went or what she did they didn't care to know.", "The Soldier's Lass. 105 ' Twas then her love of former days made known that he was near, And bade her make a home of his, and throw away her fear. 'The war will soon be o'er,' he said; 'your lord has saved his life ; A pardon they will grant to all, and thus will end the strife ; So stay with me a little while until the fighting's o'er, For then your husband will return and live with you once more.' And as he said it came to pass ; her lord returned again To hold once more the governorship, and as beforetimes reign. But yet he did not long survive the hardships he'd endured ; They undermined his health and strength, by nought could he be cured ; And soo.i he got so very weak he had to keep his bed, Then all the town was mourning, for the governor was dead. After a year had passed away, John Lowe confessed his love 'To his old boyhood's dearest friend, now far his rank above." ]

[ "SAINT ANN'S SOCIETY SCHOOLS, Brixton Hill, Surrey, and St. Anns Lane, Aldersgate ; For Educating, Clothing, & wholly Providing for the Children of Poor & Necessitous Persons. From all Parts, whether Orphans or not ; more particularly the Offspring of Respectable Parents. SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS. INSTITUTED 1709. Receipts and Expenditure on the GENERAL ACCOUN RECEIPTS. £- '• d- To Balance in Treasurer's hands on the General Account at last Audit iqnn'V'si 15 2 * Payment up of Old Annual Subscriptions •■••• »J~ ' Amount of Life and Annual Subscriptions and Donations new this Year 904 4 B .g04 .- g Half a Year's Dividends, due 5th April, 1832, on £2660 : 16 : 11 Bank Stock. £106 8 B ,,,, Aa do. on £H0O:O :0 3§ per cent Annuities 19 5 0 V>0\" do\" do. on £5821 : 16 : 0 Old South Sea Do 87 6 6 ])o' do, do. on £750 : 0 : 0 3 per cent Reduced Do 11 5 0 Dj d0' do. on £900 : 0 : 0 3 per cent Consols 13 10 0 £237 15 2 Po do. due 10th October, 1832, on the same Funds 237 15 2 I),,! do. due 10th July, 1832, on £600 additional Stock io the 3 per cent Consols, purchased contra 9 0 0 Total Dividends received on Funded Property :• •_.•••.•.••_.•.*•!••■• ':'.':\":?\"■'\".\" 'U\"..\" \" '. \\ ~ *.. n Donation by the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, out of a I und left to their distribution by Mr. Betton, deceased / 0 0 Purchase into Country Asylum of Nine Children .•'•VII V \"I* \"Vii\" '\"\".\"i Collections after two Sermons on the 22nd January, at St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, that in the Morning by^ the Rev. J. Hamilton, M. A. Minister of the Chapel of Ease, Islington, £48 : 1 : 0 ;' and that 111 the Even- (Clm 14 6 big by the Rev. R. C. Dillon, M.A. Minister of Charlotte Chapel, Pimlico, and Sunday Evening Lecturer / of St.. James's, Clerkenwell, £52 : 13:6 • •• •• •• \"'!':\" \". y \"A Do. after a Sermon on the 29th April, at St. Mary's Church, Battcrsea, by the Right Rev. Christopher, Lord) 6g 3 „ Do a.'-c.^'s.r.noi^ by the R^v Henry Melvil'l, A.M. late ) 45 .g Q Fellow .ind Tutor of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, aud Minister of Camden Chapel, Camberwell. . . . . . » Do. alter a Sermon on the 28th October, at St. Paul's Chapel, Clapham', by the Rev. William Borrows, M. A. ) 3- , 3 Minister of the said Chapel ' Total Collection this Year at Charity Sermons . , . . . . . . . . . .... . • • • • • • 24° 18 1 0 Legacy of the late Mr. William Clarke, of Nightingale Lane, Clapham, to the General Fund of the Society 100 0 0 Produce by Sale of Lists of the Governors 1 z Do. do. Pigs, Children's left off Clothing, &c.&c 7 3 J Cash ad. anced by Matthias Attwood, Esq. Treasurer, to meet all Cla.ms on the Institution up to the 31st December last, ) 80(J 0 0 except for erecting, in 1831, the Children's Galleries at Streatham Church ) £.4,432 1.0 2 T from the Zlst December, 1831, to the 3\\st December, 1832. PAYMENTS. £• •■ d. By Board of 88 Boys, 36 Girls, 4 Superintendents, & 2 female Servants, in the Country Asylum, (Provisions contracted for,) in) 10_g __ g all 1 30 persons »• • • • • • • \" _','_,'\"\" \\_ ' Do. of 2 Girls in the Town Asylum, boarded hy the Mistress of that Establishment after the rate of 18/. each per annum 32 19 0 Coals, Candles, Oil, and House Chandlery for the Two Schools 131 210 Clothing & Repairing for 88 Hoys & 86 Girls in the Country, & 31 Boys and 32 Girls in X own, in all 187 Children 649 19 2 Washing a portion of the Linen from the Brixton Asylum 114 13 3 Household Linen, Furniture, and Utensils, for the Two Establishments 300 2 9 Expenses of repairing the Town Asylum '• 15 7 1 Trees, Plants, and Labour for the Garden • • 58 9 1 Printing looo Copies of List of the Governors, Paper, and Binding • *43 7 9 Do. for Elections, Charity Sermons, and General Printing of the Society, and Engraving 101 18 4 Stationary 95 8 8 „_ , ' 240 14 9 Printed School Books 15 0 9 Rent, Taxes, Rates, and Insurance, of Town School 14 2 1 Insurance of Country Asylum -• • 7 17 6 Salary of Secretary il0° ° ° Do. Master of the Brixton Asylum 50 0 0 Do. Mistress tk>. 30 0 0 Do. Assistant Mistress do. till i'.'.rd April last, at the rate of £15 per annum 5 0 0 Do. Matron do. from 23rd April last, at the rate of £35 per annum 23 10 9 Do. Assistant Master do. 30 ° ° Do. Master of the Town Asylum, after the rate of £50 per annum 47 18 4 Do. Mistress do. do. £30 do • •••••• j'\"\" •••• 2? 15 ° Wats- of two female Servants at the Brixton Asylum, at the respective rates of 12/. and 10.. each 21 7 7 6 336 11 8 Collector's Poundage oo 3 6 Apprentice Fees, Annuity to Mr. Dixon, formerly Master of Society's Country Asylum, 10/. and Gratuities to Children 27 16 6 Advertisements \"' J 9 \" Postages • • 8 J5 ' Incidental Expenses at Half-yearly Elections, Charity Sermons, &c.&c. &c .\" 175 16 2 Invested In the Purchase of £600 3 per cent Consols, at 84*, free of llrokerage.. .. 507 0 o Repayment of the Loan made last year to discharge all Claims up to 31st December, 1831, except the expense of the Galleries * 480 0 0 at Strcathani Church S Advance made to defray Incidental Expenses, and to be accounted for 10 0 0 Balance in Treasurer's hands on the Genera/ Account ou 31st December, 1832 79 11 4 £.4,432 19 3 Receipts and Expenditure on Account of the NEW ASYLUM erected on Brixton Hill, Surrey, from the Zlst December, 1831, to the 31s* December, 1832. RECEIPTS. £- '• <*• PAYMENTS. «. '■ d. ~*s!5£^ 34,a ° Do-So\\E^ . „ , Legacy of the late Mr. William Clarke, of kightingale Lane, Clapham, to the *M./rf.W F„».. of the Society 100 0 0 yJ^T^^MS^^ »« « « Collector's Poundage on the Building Account, betas I *■ on »*** Subscription that was received by hin 5 6 „ Balance iu Treasurer's hands on the Building Account on 3 1 st December, 1832 35 5 3 £.952 15 6 *'952 15 6 1th January, 1833. We have compared the foregoing Accounts with the Books and Vouchers, and find them correct ; and that \"\"^J^£^^ enumerated there was a Balance in Cash in the Treasurer's hands, on the General Account, on the 31st of December, 1832, of Lid : 11 : 4. and on the Building AccZntontheslme Day of £35 : 5 : 3. ; that there was a sum of £10 advanced to the Committee to discharge Incidental Expenses, and to be hereafter accounted^ farT^T^TZ^^alio owing by the Institution on the same Day to Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, fr Co. for Pnnnpal Money, as shewn above, the sum of £2 000, and to the Society's Treasurer, Matthias Attwood, Esq. the sum of £800 for Principal Money, as also shewn above. ' ' JOHN LEPARD, WILLIAM BROOKES, // JOSEPH GREENHILL, > Auditors. JOHN LYON, THOMAS CLAYTON TURNER, J" ]

[ "Olga Romanoff 34 the will with her. The little slip of paper had been removed so skilfully that it would have been impossible for him to have even guessed that it had ever been attached to the parchment, or that it was now lying hidden in the bosom of the girl who would have killed him without the slightest scruple to gain the unsuspected possession of it.", "Olga Romanoff 84 It was a scene of unearthly wonder and magnificence, a scene such as could only have been made possible by the triumphant genius of a race of men, heirs of all the best that earth could give them, who had turned the favour of circum stance to the utmost advantage. Three minutes sufficed for the aerial cruisers to clear the mountains, and as they did so the wide-sweeping rays of fifty search-lights, assisted by the blazing orbs which crowned every mountain-peak, illuminated the darkness for many miles outside the valley. In the midst of the sea of light thus pro jected through the semi-darkness of the starlit heavens the flying shape of an air-ship was detected speeding away to the south-eastward. Instantly the prows of the whole squadron were turned towards her, and the first aerial race in the history of the world began. The pursuing air-ships spread themselves out in a huge semicircle, at the extremities of which were the two swiftest vessels in the fleet, almost exact counterparts of the lost Ithuriel. One of these bore the same name as the stolen flag-ship, and the other had been named the Ariel, after the first vessel built by Eichard Arnold, the conqueror of the air, a hundred and thirty-two years before. These two vessels carried ten guns each, and were capable of a maximum speed of five hundred miles an hour, the highest velocity that it had so far been found possible to attain. The others were somewhat smaller craft, mounting eight guns each, and capable of a speed of about four hundred miles an hour. The chase, either because she could not travel faster or for some hidden reason, allowed the pursuing squadron to gain upon her until she was only some five miles ahead of its two foremost vessels, which were travelling at the highest speed attainable by the whole flotilla. She showed no lights, and so in order to keep her in view it was necessary for her pursuers to keep their search-lights constantly sweeping the skies ahead of them, lest they should lose sight of her in the semi-darkness. This placed the Aerian fleet at a serious disadvantage, which", "Face to Face again 203 all the passion of her fiery nature, and who, now that he was free again, could but look upon her not only with hatred, but with disgust. This, so far as her own feelings were concerned, was the miserable end of her scheming, but there was no help for it. She had deliberately sown the wind, and now the time was approaching for her to reap the whirlwind. She thought of her dream in St. Petersburg, and a new and awful meaning was made apparent to her in those few minutes of mental torture before she went to meet her well beloved enemy face to face. She saw herself mistress of a conquered world, seated on a lonely throne, wailing over her own broken heart in the midst of a desolation that she had brought upon the earth — for nothing. This, it seemed, was to be the penalty of the unspeakable crime she had committed to gain possession of the air-ship, a hopeless love that should turn all the fruits of conquest, if she ever won them, into the bitter ashes of the Dead Sea apples in her mouth, a love not only unrequited, but repaid with righteous horror and almost divine disgust. And yet, despite all this, her marvellous fortitude and royal pride came to her aid to help her to bear herself bravely before her enemies, and so, with a smile on her lips and a hell of raging passions in her bosom, she ascended to take her part in the debate, big with the destiny of a world, that was being held on the palace roof. As Alan turned and confronted her in all the strength and splendour of the manhood that not even her almost super human arts had been able to tarnish or weaken, and looked at her with the stern, steady gaze without one sign of recogni tion in the eyes that shone blue-black beneath his straight drawn brows, her heart stood still and seemed turned to ice in her breast, and for one brief moment her foot faltered and the light died out of her eyes and the colour from her cheeks. Then she caught the Sultan's gaze turned inquiringly upon her; her indomitable spirit rose to the emergency, and her self-possession returned. Passing Alan by with a slight" ]

[ "pastoral stanzas PRESENTED TO C. P H I P P S, Esquire, AND Miss LE PEL HER VET, On their MARRIAGE. f ÆG ON, who lov'd the green Retreat; Flying, with Care, Life's splendid Blaze : Ægon, whose Lyre first warbled sweet, When fam'd OctaVia* deign'd to praise. * Her Grace the Dutches ©/\"Buckingham. A 2 Invited", "Ls ] Here ceas'd the Swain. Soon cross the Meads, With News auspicious, Colin hies. Now Joy (Octavia well) succeeds, And ev'ry Eye speaks sweet Surprize x When lo ! a Sight, which Crouds admire : — In bridal Pomp, the noble Pair. Ægon, transported, strings his Lyre ••; And, smiling, hails the boasted Fair. Sweet Virgin ! blest with Science, Sense j With Beauty crown'd, and native Grace ; He, to your Heart, had best Pretence, In whom we like Perfections trace. Know,", "[6] Know, on Your Selves your Bliss depends, For Nature cou'd not more bestow. From tender Lovers, rife to Friends, And ev'ry Charm will brighter grow. FINIS," ]

[ "Eeno Sawah. Naar eene aquarel van M. ten Kate.", "170 SUMATRA. I. — - HET RIJNSCHE ZENDINGSGENOOTSCHAP. met geen anderen Staat een contract zou sluiten zonder vergunning van het Britsche Gouvernement. Van al de bemoeiingen van Raffles heeft er geen zulke groote beteekenis gekregen als de vestiging der Engelschen op het eiland Singapore. Raffles nl. wist den Gouverneur-Generaal van Britsch-Indië te beduiden, dat, nu de Straat Soenda in het bezit van Nederland was, de handelsweg naar China openblijven moest, en om die reden maakte hij zich meester van het eiland Singapore, waarop het nauwelijks bekende en zeer onaanzienlijke plaatsje van denzelfden naam was gelegen. Het eiland behoorde aan den Sultan van Dj oh o r (Malakka), min of meer onzen vazal; er zou dus onze goedkeuring vereischt worden, het te mogen behouden. Raffles heeft het evenwel in bezit gehouden, maakte van Singapore een vrijhaven, en gaf daardoor den stoot tot de kolossale beteekenis, die de zich spoedig ontwikkelende stad verkreeg. Thans is het de grootste handelsplaats van Zuidoost-Azië. Al de moeilijkheden nu, uit de overname voortgevloeid, hebben geleid tot het Tractaat van 18 244, dat tot heden nog de grondslag is der betrek kingen tusschen Groot-Brittannie en Nederland. Bij dit Tractaat, 17 Maart 1824 te Londen afgesloten, is in hoofdzaak het volgende bepaald. De Nederlandsche Bezittingen in Voor-Indië en op het schiereiland Malakka worden in ruil voor Benkoelen aan Engeland afgestaan. De Engelschen zullen van alle vertoogen tegen het bezetten van Bi Hit on afzien, en de Nederlanders wederkeerig van Singapore; de Engelschen mogen geene kantoren oprichten op, of tractaten sluiten met eenige der eilanden ten Zuiden van Straat Singapore; de wederzijdsche onderdanen worden in de bezittingen der beide Mogendheden voor den handel toegelaten op den voet der meest begunstigde natie, behalve alleen op de Moluksche eilanden, waar de Nederlanders den alleenhandel in specerijen behouden , terwijl omtrent Atjeh eene afzonderlijke bepaling werd vastgesteld, Bovendien zal Nederland ter finale afdoening van alle rekeningen en vorderingen van Engeland, voortge sproten uit de teruggave van Java en van andere etablissementen in Oost- In d i ë aan Engeland voor het einde van het jaar 1825 £ 100.000 uitbetalen. De Padri-oorlogen. Nu ten gevolge van dit tractaat , Nederland de handen op Sumatra grootendeels vrij had, heeft het zijne macht daar met veel beleid uitgebreid en bevestigd. In de allereerste plaats had dit plaats met Palembang, waar wij sedert 1819 reeds een oorlog hadden te voeren. Bijna gelijktijdig vestigden wij ons gezag op Sumatra's Westkust. In het begin der 19e eeuw had zich de secte der Wahabietenop Midden-Sumatra doen gelden. Het doel dezer secte, welker aanhangers zich Padri's (naar het Portugeesche padre = priester) noemden, was nl., als hervormers van den Islam op te treden. 1) Reeds deden de Padri's hunne macht in Menang-Kabau zoo zeer gevoelen, dat de Vorst van dit rijk in de klem geraakte; bevreesd, door hen van zijne macht beroofd te worden, riepen enkele Maleische Hoofden de hulp van Raffles te Ben- Ij De Padri's waren eigenlijk 3 hadji's, die in 1803 uit Mekka terugkeerden , dat toen in handen der Wahabieten was. Zij werden door de puriteinsche gezindheid dezer secte zoo aangetrokken, dat zij na terugkeer op Sumatra den heiligen oorlog predikten tegen allen, die 't met de voorschriften van den Islam niet al te nauw namen.", "385 ARBEID DER BROEDERGEMEENTE. — PLANTAGES. ARBEIDERSKWESTIE. Daar het grootste deel der gemeenteleden Negers zijn , is de taal bij de Evangelieverkondiging in gebruik, het z.g. Neger-Engelsch.1) Dit Neger- En g e 1 s c h is eene arme, onbeschaafde natuurtaai , gebaseerd op de Afrikaansche negertalen, doch door den invloed van het Portugeesch, Nederlandsch ■en Engelsch veel gewijzigd. Door de vertalingen van gedeelten der Heilige Schrift en door de verspreiding van lees- en leerboeken is deze taal evenzeer voor de gemeenteleden onmisbaar geworden , als zij voor iederen in de kolonie woonachtigen vreemdeling voor het dagelijksch verkeer onontbeerlijk is. Op de scholen der Broedergemeente wordt evenwel met zorg de Ned e rlandsche taal in beoefening gebracht, want van haar zal op den duur toch voor de verstan delijke ontwikkeling der bevolking het meest kunnen verwacht worden. «Het «Neger-Engelsch is eenerzijds eene arme , grammaticaal weinig ontwikkelde «taal, die zich voortdurend van omslachtige omschrijving bedienen moet. «Anderzijds kenmerkt zij zich door eene buitengewone beknoptheid, die grooten «deels door weglating van lidwoord en werkwoord bewerkt wordt. De Neger «spreekt niet alleen zijne taal, maar hij brengt ze in aanschouwing; men «moet hem niet alleen hooren, maar ook zien; zijn oog, zijne gelaatstrekken, «de houding van zijn lichaam , boven alles de bewegingen zijner handen en «vingers verleenen aan alles, wat hij zegt, een meesleepende en pakkende «aanschouwelijkheid, die onnavolgbaar is» 2). Voor wij van den arbeid der Herrnhutters afscheid nemen, willen we nog vermelden, dat zij op vele plantages aan de Suriname, deCottica en Commewijne ook werkzaam zijn in het belang der daar arbeidende bevolking. Op vele dier plantages hebben zij kerken , waar des Zondags een dienst gehouden wordt door een zendeling , die deze samenkomsten zooveel mogelijk dienstbaar maakt aan de belangen der arbeiders van de omringende plantages. Eveneens verstrekken zij catechetisch onderwijs aan de toekomstige gemeenteleden. De plantages en de arbeiderskwestie. De plantages, waarvan we in 't kort nog met een enkel woord willen melding maken, liggen begrijpe lijkerwijze alle aan eene der hoofdrivieren. Vroeger, d. w. z. vóór de Eman cipatie der Negers, was hun aantal veel grooter, maar vele zijn verlaten, hoofdzakelijk uit gebrek aan werkkrachten. Dit is het hoofdbezwaar voor de herleving van de cultures in onze zoo rijke kolonie Suriname, waarvan nog minder dan '/100 deel bebouwd is. In den laatsten tijd is eene hoopvolle verlevendiging waar te nemen, en sedert eene kolonisatie met Javanen beproefd is, is er alle reden hiervan voor Suriname goeds te verwachten. Toen in 1863 de Negers vrijverklaard werden, waarvoor aan de plantage-eigenaars 10 millioen gulden werd uitgekeerd, zijn eerstgenoemden nog 10 jaren onder toezicht van het Gouvernement ge bleven, doch slechts weinigen wenschten daarna een contract als vrije arbeider 1) In vroegere jaren werd in de Hoofdkerk een Nedeilandsehen dienst gehouden. Sedert eenige jaren is dit niet meer het geval. In de Hooldkerk wordt steeds in het Neger-Engelsch gepredikt; daarentegen wordt gewoonlijk 's Zondagsavonds in het Bewaarschoollokaal den dienst in het Nederlandsch verricht. 2) H. G. Schneider. Ein Besuch in Paramaribo, bl. 51 , (Stuttgart 1891); een boekje , der lezing overwaard , dat ons bij de samenstelling van onze schets grooten dienst bewees. 25" ]

[ "45 I ITJWSVIMfeS im fflAA~~A-€,®QP After the train had passed through the \"Gorge\" the party remained seated upon the platform, enjoying the delightful air just crisp by a tinge of coolness blown from the snow peaks of the mountains. The scenery had changed from the wildness of the canon to the rolling pine-clad hills that abut on the eastern verge of the Great South Park. \"What are those peculiar conical structures of white?\" asked the Major, pointing to the right. \"Those are ' charcoal ovens.' \" replied the Colonel. \" The manufacture of charcoal is widely distributed over the state, and the industry reaches large proportions. Charcoal is extensively used in smelting and all min eral assaying, which makes the local demand very great. Generally fallen timber is used, free of expense to the charcoal makers, but when ever they find it necessary to use live trees, they pay the state or the government an agreed price on the amount employed.\" \"Does Colorado produce much timber for general uses, as such?\" asked Sir John. \"Yes. There is an abundance of pine and spruce timber in the state for all the rougher uses of this nature, such as are used in the mines, bridge timbers, railroad ties, etc. The finer grades of lumber, and all hard woods are imported. Pine lands are well distributed throughout the state. There is one tract of 100,000 acres on the San Juan Mountains, through which the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad passes. The timber lands are being worked to a great extent, and produce about 8,000,000 feet of lumber to each section. There is a steady demand for this product at good prices.\" \" I should think these dry rocky hillsides would be suitable for sheep,\" said the Major, musingly. \" There is no country better suited for that industry,\" answered the Judge. \"Foot-rot is unknown, and the general health of the animals perfect.\" \"Aren't you a long distance from market?\" queried Sir John. \"We cannot supply the home market with mutton, and as for wool, we are only two cents a head further from New England than the Ohio sheep raiser, and it costs him six times as much to raise his wool.\" \" What is the cause of this difference in expense?\"", "52 \"J£^-* \" system, the length of the lines in Colorado and New Mexico is eighteen hundred and fifty miles. This does not include the Rio Grande Western, which forms a part of then- great Trans-Continental Line, though operated separately, and has a mileage in Utah of five hundred and twenty miles, making a grand total of what is known as the Rio Grande system of twenty-three hundred and seventy miles.\" During this somewhat extended and discursive conversation, the train had been bowling along through the beauties of Brown's Canon, up the Valley of the Arkansas with the bright river constantly in view, and the Collegiate range of mountains drawing nearer as each mile-post is passed. The train swept around a broad curve in the Arkansas River and stopped for a moment at the attractive little city of Buena Vista. A short stroll on the depot platform gave an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the town, which, in addition to its beautiful situation, possesses many attraction of its own. \"This is a pretty place,\" said the Major. \"What are its business interests?\" \" It is surrounded by a large agricultural and hay producing country, and its people follow agricultural and horticultural pursuits mostly,\" replied the Judge. \"Besides it is contiguous to good mines, notably the gold mines of Crooked Creek. Buena Vista is especially adapted to manu facturing interests and will some day become a manufacturing center. Near this place the Denver paper mills have saw mills. The pulp made from Colorado spruce, grown at an altitude of 9,000 feet, has a finer grain than the timber of Wisconsin, and makes a finer news print paper. Another element of prosperity is found in its nearness to the Cottonwood Hot Springs, which are highly medicinal and the resort of many invalids.\"", "59 — supply is practically inex haustible. There are nearly 500 lakes which are alive with fish and water fowls. Trout fishing is almost the universal pastime, because of the great abundance of the opportunities, the e^se of access to lakes and streams, and the comfort with which this delightful sport can be pur sued.\" \"How about large game? \" \"The great parks and valleys, forests, streams and lakes of Routt, Grand and Garfield counties are the favored region for elk, deer, antelope, rabbits, duck, geese, prairie chickens, grouse, quail, and other varieties of game, including the wolf, mountain lion and bear.\" \" Is your game protected?\" \"Certainly. We have stringent game laws. The laws permit the killing of game birds from August 15th to November 1st. water fowl from September 1st to May 1st. Deer and elk may be killed from August 1st to November 1st. The killing of buffalo and mountain sheep is prohibited. It is lawful to take fish with hook and line from June 1st to December 1st. Netting and explosives are prohibited.\" The train was now speeding along down the valley of the Eagle River, which was dotted here and there with the comfortable homes of farmers, showing that agriculture had here an established footing. Soon the scene changed, the further bank of the stream gloomed darkly with the black ened scoria of some extinct volcano. Exclamations of surprise from the Major and Sir John greeted this phenomenon, and their wonder was excited greatly at beholding the barren rock-field which swept away from the river up to the distant foothills. \"I see no sign of a volcano.\" said the Major ; \"how do you account for this lava deposit?\" \" It is a strange fact,\" replied the Colonel, \" that the foothills show no signs whatever of volcanic action, yet beyond them there is an extinct volcano, which, no doubt, is the source from which all this lava originally" ]

[ "8 j'ai encore chez moi. Mon fils aîné, qui, comme tu le sais, a été au collège d'Alger et lit très-bien récriture française, a exa miné ce livre et m'a déclaré que c'était des caractères incon nus, ne ressemblant en rien à ceux dont vous vous servez, tandis que sur une de ces pierres qui se trouve dans mon douar, je ne sais comment, il a distingué sans peine des lettres françaises. Dans un Douar Kabyle, dépendant de la tribu des Abids, et dont les habitants vivent retirés au milieu des rochers comme dans des nids d'aigles, la tradition a conservé le sou venir de la grande ville détruite à la suite d'une défense acharnée, contre des ennemis venus du nord. Cette notion, toute obscure qu'elle soit, est précieuse, parce que c'est la seule, peut-être, qui ait survécu aux siècles et à l'Islam, pour rappeler l'invasion des hordes vandales. Malheureusement, toutes mes tentatives pour obtenir des renseignements plus précis, ont échoué devant l'ignorance et le mauvais vouloir de ces Kabyles qui refusent de parler arabe, et que je n'ai pu in terroger qu'à l'aide d'un interprète illettré et inintelligent. Une particularité digne de remarque, c'est que les tribus avoisinantes les considèrent, à tort peut-être, comme les des cendants des habitants d'Oppidum Novum, échappés au sac de leur ville. POPULATIONS INDIGÈNES. RIGHA. La tribu des Righa est une des plus importantes du cercle par sa position et par le caractère de ses habitants. L'origine des Righa est très-obscure. La plupart des tra ditions leur attribuent une origine berbère. Selon d'autres, ils", "9 seraient formés d'Amraouas '. La mauvaise réputation des Righa a sans doute donné naissance à cette opinion. C'était une des tribus les plus remuantes du cercle. Comme une bande d'oiseaux rapacés, les Righa tombaient à .'im proviste du haut de leurs montagnes inaccessibles, dévali saient les voyageurs, attaquaient et pillaient les convois de vivres ou de numéraire que les Turcs envoyaient d'Alger dans l'intérieur: puis, quand le gouvernement lassé de leurs dépré dations envoyait des soldats pour les châtier, la résistance était promptement organisée et presque toujours avait le des sus. Les hommes s'embusquaient en tirailleurs dans les ra vins, pendant que les femmes et les enfants faisaient rouler sur les assaillants, du haut des rochers, des pierres appor tées d'avance. Les Righa montrent avec orgueil une sorte de vallée, à droite, de la route de Rlidah, ou périt un corps turc de trois mille hommes. Enfin, vingt ans environ avant la prise d'Alger, par un coup de main hardi, les Righa s'em parèrent de la personne du bey de Milianah, s'en servirent d'abord comme d'otage ; puis, lorsqu'ils eurent obtenu tout ce qu'ils pouvaient désirer, le massacrèrent et mirent sa tête au bout d'une pique qui se trouva plantée un matin devant la Casbah de la ville. Ce fut alors que les Turcs eurent recours à leur moyen ha bituel de venir à bout des Arabes ; ils semèrent la division parmi les Righa, en exploitant habilement les rivalités d'in fluence religieuse, si vives et si tenaces parmi les indigènes, les affaiblirent, et, s'en étant rendus maîtres, les déportèrent dans la province d'Oran. Depuis l'occupation française une partie de la tribu est revenue au pays natal ; et, quoique, dans la crainte d'une prompte répression, ils aient renoncé à leurs excursions, les Righa sont encore aujourd'hui, à cause de leur caractère sournois et batailleur, haïs et redoutés des populations voisines. 1 Sur les Ainraouas, voir notre mémoire sur les populaiions musulmanes du nord de l'Afrique, Revue de VOrient, nov., déc. 1863.", "16 dérons comme une altération abréviative du nom latin de Castra Germanorum, place importante appelée autrefois Lar Castellum, au dire de Ptolémée. Elle reçut ce nom de Cas tra Germanorum à la suite d'une révolte des tribus berbè res, étouffée par la légion germaine qui vint ensuite tenir garnison dans cette ville. Mannert et le docteur Shaw pla cent Lar Castellum beaucoup trop au nord-ouest. Leur erreur tient à deux causes : d'abord aux difficultés sans nombre qu'ils ont dû éprouver à faire leurs recherches dans un pays hostile comme l'était, avant la domination française, le territoire qu'ils exploraient, et ensuite, à l'ignorance où l'on était de la position véritable d'icosium que l'on prenait pour Cherchel, et que des découvertes plus récentes fixent sur remplacement actuel d'Alger. C'est avec regret que je me vois contraint de déclarer ici, tout en rendant un hommage mérité à la science de Shaw, à son honorabilité et à sa bonne foi, qu'il est bien peu de ses assertions que je n'aie du reconnaître comme erronées. Superficie, 29,000 hectares. Population, 5,076 habitants. BENI FERAH. Tribu d'origine berbère. Son nom est celui du beau-père du célèbre marabout voyageur Sidi Ahmed ben Youcef, homme d'un esprit aimable et fin, dont les bons mots rimés sont connus dans toute l'Algérie. Après de longues pérégrinations, tantôt accueilli comme un sultan, tantôt conspué et pourchassé comme un juif à la porte d'une mosquée, dit la légende arabe, Sidi Ahmed ben Youcef, trouvant le pays à son goût, s'y arrêta, et sut si bien en captiver les habitants qu'ils se déclarèrent les serviteurs de lui et de ses descendants. Leur chef lui donna sa fille unique en mariage, mais le marabout n'eut point d'enfants. Sentant sa fin prochaine, il résolut d'adopter ceux de ses disciples qui lui seraient véritablement dévoués, et pour" ]

[ "CHAPITRE XI. 189 (Deutéronome, xv, 2), ne pouvaient plus être réclamées à parlir de cette époque1. Mais ce principe de progrès fut loin de se développer d'abord au sein du sanhédrin , où , quoi qu'en disent des sources postérieures , Hillel n'est jamais entré , et qu'il a en core moins présidé2. Là fleurit dans toute sa vigueur le sacer doce nouveau, le parti conservateur des Boéthusiens, les hommes officiels d'Hérode; les idées nouvelles sont élaborées dans les écoles avant de monter au pouvoir. Une école rivale s'établit tout naturellement en opposition avec celle de Hillel, et maintint la tradition dans toute sa pureté exclusive*. Schamaï, le chef de cette école, ne fut pas un courtisan, flatteur de Tlduméen; la sévérité excessive de sa doclrine dut Téloigner plus encore que Hillel de la scène de tant d'horreurs. Mais je m'imagine que le principe qu'il défen- 1 m. GTíim, v, 5: D713?P Ppip '330 713Î11E '^nn 77P. «Hillel institua Pacte nommé prosbol, pour le bon ordre du monde.» — Voici un second exemple d'une disposition qui, sans abolir une loi, en fait disparaître les inconvénients. D'après Lévitique, xxv, 20-3o, le vendeur d'une maison située dans une ville avait pendant une année entière le droit de rachat. II parait que Tacheteur éludait sou vent ce privilège du vendeur en se cachant pendant les derniers jours de Tannée; Hillel décida que le vendeur pouvait placer Targent de la vente dans un dépôt public, puis enfoncer les portes de Tacheteur et rentrer dans sa propriété (m. Era chin , ix, 4). 2 Ainsi encore Graetz, III, 177 : «II se trouva à la tète du sanhédrin un homme qui releva celte dignité par les vertus les plus brillantes, etc.» — L'influence de Hillel élait purement morale et ne s'appuyait sur aucune fonction. Dans les céré monies solennelles, il ne parait qu'en simple spectateur. En assistant à la fête de la Schoéba (voyez ci-dessus, page i36) , où les dévols se laissaient aller à la fougue des danses religieuses, il les voyait passer ; la danse était-elle trop violente, il di sait : n Que nous soyons ici, qu'impoYfe; Dieu a-t-il besoin de leurs louanges?...» la danse restait-elle dans les limites de la convenance, alors il disait : «Si nous n'y étions pas, qui y serait; car certes bien des louanges montent vers lui, mais les louanges d'Israël lui sont plus chères que tontes les autres. * (j. Sonera, v, 4, d'après lequel il l'aul corriger, b. ibid. 53 a).", "HISTOIRE DE LA PALESTINE. 406 décréter par les docteurs que, en signe de deuil, les fiancées ne porteraient plus de couronne, et qu'on n'enseignerait plus le grec aux enfants ', « nous prouve, par cette dernière dispo sition surtout, qu'il s'agissait d'une guerre contre des Hel lènes, et qu'on n'avait pas besoin de la placer en Palestine pour qu'elle provoquât ces décisions. Nous connaissons du reste, par un exemple, Tadministra tion de Quietus. «Julien et Pappos, deux frères, furent faits prisonniers à Laodicée. Si vous êtes de la nation de Hanania, de Mischaël et d' Azaria , dit (le général), eh bien! que votre Dieu vienne et vous sauve de mes mains comme il a sauvé ces trois hommes de la main de Nabuchodonosor. — Hanania, Mischaël et Azaria, répondirent les frères, étaient de vrais justes, Nabuchodonozor, un roi parfait, qui méritait d'être Toc casion d'un miracle; mais toi, tu es un tyran, indigne de de venir la cause d'un miracle. Si nous avons mérité la mort de- vant le ciel et que tu ne nous tues pas, Dieu a bien des moyens à sa disposition, des ours, .des lions, des serpents et des scor pions en grand nombre, pour nous atteindre; situ nous tues, Dieu te demandera un jour compte de notre sang, que tu auras versé. On raconte que (le général) n'avait pas encore quitté les lieux que, sur un décret arrivé' de Rome, on Tassomma2. » ' m. Sota, ix, i3 : 1D7i N7C?1 ni73 nilOS? 73? 1113 DlB'q** 7*3? D10**133 miV 133 nN DIN. 1 Glose sur Megillat Ta'auil.í 29: VIN D1DD \"IN* D13n*?l** PX C3nt3* D3117N N3i DnN mllVI 7Nt**iO .1*331 h'V 'PD3?D DN ION Nnpi1173 12*313133 1iD ni113?l *-?Nt**iD W22TV) \"T'SîTO **113 H*0 D3nN 'rX1! 113.1 -|**D 13*3131331 Vil piC?3 QipilX 11113?! *-?Nî**iD 11331 17 11DN mvvh iini pNi nnN vvi -]*?o nnN \"?3N ni hv D3 mvvh iinii nvi 131.1 133111 nnN pN DN1 [DiOî3?7 13?] iniD p3nn 13N1 -jT hv D3 n*3ip3? 1311 DiC?13 1311 nniN 1311 D1311 ,1311 D1PD7 C?* 013111", "CHAPITRE XXIV. 417 lorsque Tempire tyrannique ordonna de reconstruire le temple, Pappus el Julien établirent, depuis Acco (Ptolémaïs) jusqu'à Antioche, des comptoirs de changeur qui fournirent aux Juifs revenant de la captivité Tor et Targent dont ils pouvaient avoir besoin. Mais les Samaritains vinrent dénoncer les Juifs : Si cette ville est rétablie, insinuèrent-ils, que Tempereur te sache, les Juifs ne payeront plus ni impôts, ni tribut, ni taille. — Que faire, répondit Tempereur, Tarrêt est rendu? — Fais-leur savoir, reprirent les Samaritains, qu'ils devront changer Templacement, ou prendre (pour la construction) cinq coudées de plus ou de moins (qu'il n'y en avait dans Tancien sanctuaire), et ils s'abstiendront d'eux-mêmes. Toute la population était pressée dans la plaine de Rèt Rimmon, el à Tarrivée des ordres (inspirés par les Samaritains), tout le monde se mit à pleurer et voulut se soulever contre Tempire. Quelques-uns réclamèrent un homme instruit pour apaiser la multitude et dirent : Que R. Josué ben Hanania, le docteur instruit dans la Loi, parle au public! R. Josué prit la parole en ces termes : Un lion ayant dévoré sa proie, un os lui resta dans le gosier. H fit aussitôt promettre une récompense à celui qui le lui retirerait. Une cigogne au long bec se présenta, et avec son bec elle enleva Tos. Elle demanda son salaire. Va, lui dit le lion, vante-toi d'avoir fait entrer (ton bec) dans la gueule d'un lion et de Tavoir retiré sain et sauf. Qu'il nous suf fise donc (dit en terminant Josué) de nous être mêlés à cette nation et d'en être quittes sans dommage. » Nous retrou vons dans ce récit les deux frères, Pappus et Julien, qui, sous *-?\"N \"OJN **? 3i1 V'N i-ppBNl n*npiO STP *p\"IN iTOpiO\"! HN1SD Nlip ««i -]3 obv2 npD^i otoa n*ON*i noid1? n*?nn ioini ihhv Nnn hv D1*?U*3 UNS\"*! D1*?C*3 11 nOIN*? 1JDJ33*£*. La délation des Samaritains est empruntée à Ezra , iv, i3. i. = 7" ]

[ "SIDI REHAL TO DEMNAT. 143 be watered by a network of channels leading from the Wad Tedili. The plain now became more broken and undulating as well as better wooded, and the bordering hills also assumed new and more varied features. Here and there were castellated Sheik's houses crowning promi nent eminences and throwing a certain warlike charm over the country. Geologically we were struck by the curious forms into which the limestones were broken and contorted by the intrusion of the basalt dyke, which we could still trace in places on the hillside. These sometimes had the appearance of great V's and W's. We had left the basin of the Teusitt on reaching the Tessaout, and we could now see to the north-east a number of dark lines winding through the plain, which we knew were other streams flowing towards the north-west, to coalesce and form the Um er Rebia. The Jebelet range had now dwindled down to a few isolated peaks, while ahead of us the mountain masses of the Entifa and Tedla broke from the Atlas and closed up the great plain over which we had been marching east for the last two days. Towards three in the afternoon we began to diverge from the lowlands and follow a mule-path over more rugged ground. At length, turning the shoulder of a hill-spur, we found, to our inexpressible relief, the valleys of Dem nat opening up before us and running into the lower ranges of mountains. Our path became more and more rugged and difficult", "MOROCCO. 218 We now knew that we were not the objects of a murderous attack. We were being honoured by a princely reception. Our minds set at rest, we speedily assumed the deportment of men to whom demonstra tions of the kind were of daily occurrence. The seneschal or chamberlain of the castle advanced with the welcomes of his liege lord, and these were replied to with suitable dignity and courtesy. Under his guidance we rode forward surrounded by footmen and horsemen, who betrayed in their shouts and gunfiring the lively joy they had in seeing two \" rebels against God \" the guests of their master. We were first conducted through a series of court yards, the walls of which formed outer lines of defence. Traversing these courts through ever-growing crowds of people, we reached at length a strong stone-built barbican. Passing underneath its massive portals, we left the crowd behind and entered the citadel proper, though still outside the castle, into which no stranger may enter. The courts, passages and guardrooms were alive with wild-looking soldiers and black slaves in snow-white dresses. As we passed along, the scenes before us seemed to be those of a dream rather than the sober realities of Moorish travel. We were within a feudal castle, surrounded by everything in harmony, with only an Oriental gilding superadded. \" By narrow drawbridge, outworks strong, Through studded gates and entrance long, To the main court they cross. It was a wide and stately square : Around were lodgings fit and fair,", "MOROCCO. 454 Mr. Bonich arrived in camp the same afternoon, having missed Abdarachman, who evidently had gone on to Morocco. Next day the latter turned up at 9 a.m. ; and after resting the mule and my pony Toby for a couple of hours, we set off for the Wad Reraya. Shortly after mid-day we reached that river at Tach nowt, where it leaves the low range of heights, which here projects north from the Atlas. At Tachnowt or Taghnowt the glen is compara tively open, displaying outcrops of white limestone and red shales, forming an anticline whose axis is parallel with the mountains. A mile up the winding river the glen suddenly narrows to the merest gorge, where some metamorphic shales and crystalline lime stones run at right angles to its course, and have been less acted upon by denuding agents. In passing through the gorge, there was no other path than the bed of the river, till once more the cretaceous rocks reappeared, with a coincident widening out of the gorge into an open glen. At the point of junction of the two classes of rocks, our attention was drawn to the ruins of a house built on the top of a desolate rocky peak, and said as usual to be the work of the \" Rum.\" Shortly after entering the re widened section of the river's course we turned due west, still following the river. At each half-mile the country became better cultivated and better wooded. This alteration in the character and direction of the glen proved to be due to the occurrence of a dyke of very decomposable basalt," ]

[ "IV. Eine Festnacht in Kamerun. Es war die Zeit des Vollmondes, in welcher die Dualla zu Ehren des Gottes „Elung\", der das böse Prinzip darstellt, nächt liche Feste abhalten. Die Hauptccremonie, zu welcher die Weißen nur ungern zu gelassen werden, war schon in der vorhergehenden Nacht vollzogen worden. Nach verbürgten Erzählungen einiger ForschungSrcisen den pflegt sie in folgender Weise zu verlaufen. Zunächst werden unter großem Geschrei Weiber und Kinder in die Häuser gejagt, deren Thüren hierauf sorgfältig verriegelt werden; denn nach dem Glauben der Dualla dürfen weder Weiber noch junge Leute den „Elung\" sehen, ohne tödlich zu erkranken. Hat man sich auf diese Weise der unnötigen Zeugen erledigt, so ziehen die Männer auf den Fest- oder Iujuplatz, der vor dem Dorfe liegt und eingezäunt ist. Hier wird ein Loch in die Erde gegraben und unter allerlei Zaubersprüchcn werden Kräuter und Früchte in dasselbe gethan und wieder mit Erde zugedeckt. Dann trinkt die Versammlung Palmwein und spuckt auf die frisch zuge deckte Stelle, in die man einen Banancnsproß einsetzt. Zum Schluß wird ein Huhn geschlachtet, mit dessen Blut man den Vllnancnsproß bcgießt, und wiederum Palmwcin getrunken. Der Sinn dieser Ecrcmonie ist bisjetzt nicht enträtselt worden. Am nächstfolgenden Tage aber beginnt das eigentliche Volks fest, an dem Weiber und Kinder eine hervorragende Rolle spielen und an dem sich heute auch die Weißen der „Anna-Marie\" be teiligten.", "82 aus mitgebrachtem Drahtgitter bauen, um hier nicht nur das Leben dcr Vögel aus der nächsten Nähe beobachten zu können, sondern auch in dcr Absicht, gefangene seltene Exemplare zu pflegen und lebend nach Europa zu bringen. Noch am Abend wurde die ncue Voliere durch einen glück lichen Fang belebt. Dcr gewandte Jan Cuny fand in Astlöchern einige Papageinester und unter dcn Jungen auch einen herrlichen Königspapllgei. So nennt man eine ziemlich seltene Spielart der gewöhnlichen Graupapageien, deren ganzes Gefieder grau und nur der Schwanz rot gefärbt ist. Der Königspapllgei unterscheidet sich von seinen plebejischen Geschwistern durch prachtvolle rote Federn auf Flügeln, Brust und Rücken. Die Freude über diesen Fang war nicht gering, da Königspapageien in Afrika selten zu finden sind und noch seltener nach Europa gebracht werden. Es war gewiß ein komischer Zufall, daß in dieser afrikanischen Voliere gerade diejenigen Papageien als erste Gäste einzogen, die zu den beliebtesten Stubcnvögeln in Europa zahlen. Es giebt wohl keinen einzigen unter unsern Lesern, welcher den Illko, denn so nennt man gewöhnlich den Graupapagei, nicht gesehen hätte. Auch cr gehört zu den Charaktervügeln der afri kanischen Landschaft. In vielen Dürfern der Eingeborenen be gegnet man großen Scharen dieser Vögel, die auf Dächern, Zäunen und in Gehöften sitzen. Es sind gefangene Vögel, mit zugestutzten Flügeln, die in ihrer Jugend aus den Nestern genommen wurden und von den Negern solange gepflegt werden, bis sich Gelegen heit bietet, die Vögel an europäische Händler zu verkaufen. Man nennt die Papageien die Affen unter den Vögeln, und in dcr That erinnern sie in ihrer drolligen Geschäftigkeit an das Treiben der Vierhändcr. Fortwährend erfüllen sie dcn Wald mit ihren lärmenden Stimmen, schreien, kreischen, plappern und pfeifen unaufhörlich, wobei sie die Laute anderer Vögel nachahmen. Ihr Flug ist ziemlich schnell aber ungeschickt; ihr Fleisch zähe und höchstens zu Suppen zu verwenden. Die Graupapageien sind äußerst gesellige Tiere, man trifft sie selten vereinzelt an, und namentlich gegen dcn Abend versam meln sie sich zu großen Zügen, um gemeinschaftliche Schlafplätze", "113 unbekannten Sängerin, der verzauberten Prinzessin. Er trat näher an den Baum, von dem der Gesang in schwellenden Rhythmen nicderquoll und spähte fieberhaft hinauf. Welch ein Glück, wenn es ihm jetzt gelingen sollte, das Ge heimnis des Urwaldes zu entschleiern? In dem dichten Laubwerk sah er einen Schatten huschen; mit ihm wechselte der Gesang den Ort. Der Vogel rief, lockte, und dcr junge Jäger folgte ihm von Baum zu Baum, durch Buschwerk und Gestrüpp. Ihm pochte jetzt das Herz ebenso unruhig wie bei der ersten Auerhahnjad im Gebirge, wo er den Verslein des Vogels nacheilte, ohne ihn zn erblicken. Plötzlich verstummte der Gesang, und erst nach geraumer Weile tönte er wie mitleidig aus weiter Ferne. Zugvogel bahnte sich den Weg durch ein dichtes Buschwerk und stand wie verzaubert vor einem Bilde, zu dessen stummer Großartigkeit Felsen, Wasser und Bäume ihre gesamte Pracht aufboten. Ein kleiner See er streckte sich vor seinen Augen, aus seiner Mitte ragten drei nackte Felsen wie emporspringende Riesen hervor — wohl ein Werk der vulkanischen Kräfte, vor welchen einst auch dieser Erdboden erzitterte, wenn der „Güttcrberg\" sein Haupt in Rauchwolken verhüllte. Flammen spie und Asche nnd Lavaströme in die Niederung ent sandte. Rings um den See hielten Bäume wacht. Hier war ihr Wachstum durch nichts gehindert, und so reckten und streckten Woll bäume ihre gewaltigen Äste, und über allen thronten noch mäch tigere Adansonien! Nirgends eine Spur menschlichen Fußes oder menschlicher Hand! Hier mußte ein Zauber Hausen, der die Eingeborenen diese Stelle meiden ließ, cin Zauber, der die Natur in jungfräulicher Frifche erhielt, wohl der Hort jener verzauberten Prinzessin, deren wnnderbares Lied neckend vom gegenüberliegenden Ufer ertönte. Zugvogel mußte wohl oder übel die Verfolgung aufgeben; er ließ fich im Schatten nieder und schaute und träumte mit offenen Augen. Iugcndmärchen zogen an seiner Seele vorüber: Dorn röschen, Schneewittchen, Aschenbrödel und wie sie alle sonst heißen, die poetischen Gestalten der laugst vergangenen, aber ewig neu in uns auflebenden Märchenwelt! Er schaute und träumte, berauscht von dem Genuß cincr echten unverfälschten Natur. Falfenhoist, In Kamerun. 8" ]

[ "РУССКОЕ ими овпгао ВО ВТОРОЙ ПОЛОВИНА XVIII ВЕКА. ИСТОРИЧЕСК1Й ОЧЕРКЪ Н. Чечулина. С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ. Типография В. С. Балашева. Екатерпнипсклй каналъ, 78. 1889.", "83 не нарумянившись прёехать въ гости значило поступить невежливо; белиться было не обязательно. Мы видели, какъ отмечено было по явлеше въ провинцёи „моднаго духа\": къ концу века мы жалобъ на него уже не встречаемъ въ мемуарахъ современниковъ; но, зная, что обстановка жизни вообще улучшилась и имея посто янный нападки на моды въ журналахъ, мы должны заключать, что духъ этотъ сталъ общераспространеннымъ, такъ что никого уже не удивлялъ. Женщины, однако, даже и молодыя, сохранили по преж нему „излишнее\", по мнбшю даже благочестивыхъ мужчинъ, благо чеспе, по прежнему любили предпринимать путешеств1я къ особенно чтимымъ образамъ, поднимали образа на домъ, служили предъ празд никами на дому всенощныя и готовы были лучше целый день про морить больного голодомъ, чемъ дать ему въ постный день скоромвой пищи '). Духовенство въ последнюю четверть прошлаго века въ общемъ заметно превосходило прежнихъ деревенскихъ поповъ, описанныхъ въ первой главе; мы имеемъ, правда, въ блещущихъ юморомъ за пискахъ Добрынина, описаше довольно безобразной жизни ОЬвскаго арх!ерея Кирилла Флёоринскаго, проводившаго все время въ пьян стве, притомъ, вместе съ несколькими другими духовными ли цами, имеемъ у того же Добрынина указаше на почти безграмот наго арх1ерея Аеанаая Вольховскаго; но, чтобы придать этимъ фактамъ ихъ истинное значенёе, ихъ надобно разсмотреть вниматель нее и непременно въ связи съ окружающими ихъ указанёями. Кириллъ Флёоринскёй былъ все-таки, какъ ясно и изъ записокъ До брынина, человекъ очень не глупый и по своему времени образо ванный, и только съ теченёемъ времени онъ отдался такому образу жизни, — но онъ былъ психически не вполне здоровъ: каждое но волунёе онъ подвергался какимъ-то припадкамъ и хотя имелъ, ко нечно, возможность подобрать себе товарищей для своихъ кутежей, но все вообще духовенство очень не уважало и не любило его за его образъ жизни, даже на столько, что отношеше это довольно часто ясно прорывалось — все духовенство, напримеръ, въ городе, ему не подчиненномъ, отказывалось съ нимъ служить, и т. п.; Аоа- «) Болотовъ, III, 117, 771; Державинъ, 556—559; кн. Долюрукгй, 506; Бо лотовъ, IV, 656, 641 и др.; Разказы бабушки, 27, 114; Энгелыардтъ, 8; Бо лотовъ, III, 1019; IV, 22, 684 и др.; на моды особенно нападаютъ журналы Почта духовъ 1789, С.-Летербурюкгй Меркургй 1793. 6*", "96 случае преимущественно литературой того века, особенно журна лами: для характеристики умственныхъ интересовъ и нравствев ныхъ идеаловъ своего времени они представляютъ наиболее важный и совершенно достоверный матерёалъ, ибо литература не можетъ не отражать на себе умственнаго и нравственнаго уровня, обще ства. Въ техъ самыхъ общихъ чертахъ, въ которыхъ въ настоя щее время только и возможна характеристика тогдашняго общества со стороны его умственнаго и нравственнаго развитей, нельзя ука зать сколько-нибудь значительнаго различён между средой провин ш'альною и столичного; поэтому я попытаюсь представить лишь об щую характеристику русской интеллпгенцёи конца прошлаго века. Въ каждомъ перёоде следуетъ различать вравственпость лич ную п общественную; первая проявляется преимущественно въ частной жизни человека и находится въ зависимости отъ господ ства техъ или другихъ моральныхъ качествъ въ характере его; ее опредЬляютъ общечеловеческёя нравственвыя правила, изменяю щаяся, какъ известно, съ большимъ трудомъ, весьма медленно, даже еле заметно, такъ что основныя черты этой нравственности остаются почти безъ перемены въ течевее чуть не всей историче ской жизни человечества и въ настоящее время наблюдаются даже у некоторыхъ не цивилизованныхъ народовъ. Нравственность обще ствепная — это то или другое отношенёе къ различнымъ обще ственнымъ явлешямъ, та или другая оценка ихъ; она находится въ большей зависимости отъ умствеинаго уровня времени, отъ обще ствевнаго и государственнаго строя каждой страны, заметнее разли чается по времени и месту и быстрее изменяется: самые нрав ственные, напримеръ, люди древности относились совершенно хладнокровно къ рабству, торговле людьми, жизнь раба ценили очень низко и т. п., а теперь это возмущаетъ человека мало-мальски разви таго. Говоря о нравахъ въ какой-нибудь перёодъ необходимо строго различать эти две стороны. Относительно нравственности личной я уже высказалъ выше убе ждеше, вынесенное мною изъ изучешя XVIII века: люди были тогда въ этомъ отношенш такёе же, какъ и теперь: также встречались и более добрые и более злые, и эгоисты и готовые жертвовать всемъ для другаго, и завистливые и великодушные, и мягкёе и жестокёе, и развратные и воздержные; также признавали они обязательность известныхъ нравственныхъ требованш и также относились съ по рицанеемъ къ ихъ нарушенёю; также сознавали нравственные" ]

[ "A Tory Lordling. 51 I'd — and, oh to think of what I'd have won ! \" \"Well, it's no use talking — can't be helped.\" The next day there was an unpleasant rumour that Leander's defeat was due to Beau's not having been able to back him. e 2", "A Tory Lordling. 134 the Marble Arch to Grosvenor Gate every barrier is down, and almost everything between the Grosvenor and Stanhope Gates. In vain the police rush from place to place. They cannot defend so extended a line; they are driven back, contesting every inch of the ground, not unhurt some of them — one, named Penny, having an iron bar thrust into his side. Brickbats and stones fly in profusion at them, and still the mob come rolling up in greater numbers, magnificent samples of the unenfranchised ! Henry, who was standing near poor Penny when he was injured, has possessed himself of his staff, for truly some weapon is needed in such a throng, and though he has no desire to hurt a soul, he has equally little desire to be hurt. Aspland has by this time had his courage greatly cooled. He has at first urged the", "A Tory Lordling. 141 have occurred, and I am not quite sure that I shall get home in safety to-night, if indeed by this time I have a home to go to.\" No, Mr. Disraeli had no fear, for he went on to boldly state that the rioters were not specimens of the British working man, but were the very \" scum and refuse\" of the people. This second day witnessed many charges at Marlborough Street Police Court, and a tolerably good list of punishments. Henry went down to try what he could do for John Harrison, whom he felt sure Aspland had misled. Upon his representations as to the excellent character of John and all his family, Mr. Knox dismissed the case, simply requiring the defendant to find one surety besides his own to be of good behaviour. Henry agreed to do the needful at once, and very soon he walked out of the court with John." ]

[ "1790.] FIRE COMPANIES. 165 city. Three hundred firemen have been known to turn out in procession on such occasions, presenting a splendid ap pearance with their brilliant uniforms aud gay trappings. But these are memories of an age which ended with the purchase of the first steam fire engine, in March, 1864. The \"Lyon\" engine house was on Limestone street, near the corner of Hill ; the \" Clay,\" on Broadway, between Short and Second, now known as Pruden's marble works ; the \"Union,\" on Short, between Upper and Limestone, is now the headquarters of the steam fire department.", "230 HISTORY OF LEXINGTON. [1805 It has been truly said that \" no man who has figured so largely in the well-contested arena of western politics ever left it with fewer enemies or a larger number of devoted friends than William T. Barry.\" His great abilities and lofty virtues made him the hero of his party, and his politi cal opponents loved him as they felt the singular charm of his mild and conciliating disposition, and the influence of his generous and exalted soul. In our court-house yard stands an unpretending, weather beaten monument of granite, surrounded by a plain iron railing. It has been there so long, and has such an old fashioned look, that hundreds pass it daily without once giving it so much as a glance, and without the thought once occurring to them that it stands there to remind them of one of the loftiest spirits that ever did honor to Lexing ton and our commonwealth. The rains and snows of many winters have descended upon it, but the angel of immor tality has shielded that old shaft with her protecting wings, and it still tells its proud story. On one side is the inscription: \"To the memory of William Taylor Barry this monu ment is erected by his friends in Kentucky (the site being granted by the county court of Fayette), as a testimony of their respect and admiration for his virtues.\" On another side is carved this beautiful sentence: \"His fame lives in the history of his country, and is as immortal as America's liberty and glory.\" Mr. Barry lived in the house now owned by Joseph Wolfolk, near the corner of Hill and Rose streets. The remains of Barry, after reposing nearly nineteen years in a foreign land, were brought back to Kentucky, by act of the legislature, and reinterred in the State cemetery at Frankfort, with many honors and great respect, Novem ber 8, 1854. The eloquent Theodore O'Hara, who was the orator of the occasion, concluded his eulogy upon Barry in these burning words: \" Let the marble minstrel rise to sing to the future gen erations of the commonwealth the inspiring lay of his high genius and lofty deeds. Let the autumn wind harp on the", "1824.] LEXINGTON LYCEUM. 303 CHAPTER XLVIII. The \"Athens of the West\" — Lexington Lyceum — Botanical Garden — Jefferson Davis. The literary culture and educational advantages of Lexington had become such by 1824, that the city was spoken of far and wide as the \"Athens of the West.\"* Her claims to the title were by no means insignificant. The society of Lexington was noted for its intelligence, ap preciation of literature, its good taste and elegance. The pulpits of the city were adorned by able and eloquent men, the newspapers were the leaders of the state press, and the bar was probably the strongest one at that time in the United States. Transylvania University, under the dis tinguished Dr. Holly, had attained evenaEuropean celebrity, and the city was crowded with her learned professors, and medical, academical, and law students. Lectures were fre quent and well sustained and the weekly discussions of the Lexington Lyceum, which was composed of the best men of all professions, were listened to by crowded audiences. The city library was the largest in the west, and has never been more liberally patronized. A botanical garden had just been established; the pencil of Jouett had made him famous and was now constantly engaged ; aud scholars and distinguished men from all parts of the country, vis ited Lexington to enjoy the society in the noted seat and center of learning and intellectual culture in the west. The Lexington Lyceum mentioned above was the suc cessor of the \"Lexington Junto,\"f the debating society in which Henry Clay distinguished himself by the first speech he made in Lexington, in the year 1798. The Lyceum splint's Travels. tOld Kentucky Gazette." ]

[ "16 knees \" for shipbuilders' work, we watched with some inte rest the preparation of our food in a genuine copu-maori, or native oven. This was done as foUows : the women scraped a hole in the soft ground with their hands, and filled it with dry wood, to which they set a light. On the top of the blazing fire they placed stones about the size of a man's two fists, which became heated and dropped through as the fuel burnt out. Then having collected fish, potatoes, and a few squashes, which we found in the deserted settlement hard by, they brought a good-sized pannikin of fresh water, clashed it over the stones, and, before the steam had time to escape, filled the hole in with the provisions. On the top of these a clean kit, or hand bag of woven native flax, was placed; then some armfuls of fresh-cut fern, and lastly a pretty thick layer of soft mould, which they patted down till there was no aperture bv which the vapour could escape. In about twenty minutes the cooking was complete, and we sat down to a frugal but most delicious repast of steamed food, which I thought much superior to the usual boiled vegetables of an English cuisine. We coaxed some of the little children into friendship by letting them drink the oil from our sardine-tins when we had eaten the fish ; but they evidently looked upon us as a kind of white-faced ogres, whom it was prudent to keep at a respectful distance. One little pickle of a fellow, with bright black eyes, who had quite overcome his terror, amused himself by creeping up behind the others, and frightening them by shouting in their ear, \"Nui pakeha, nui pakeha\" (the big white man, the big white man) \"is coming\" — meaning me; at which they would burst into tears, and run like rabbits from the sup posed cannibal — your humble servant. They had evi dently been taught the same cock-and-bull stories that English nurses often inflict on their charges, of the giants", "72 audience suddenly retired to their huts, and reappeared again in a costume that would not pass muster in Regent Street. They had taken off every stitch of clothing, with the exception of a girdle round the waist ; one exquisite had wrapped the Union Jack round his middle ; and all had clubbed-muskets in their hands. He felt somewhat nervous as they rushed towards him with a kind of hoarse shout ; but they stopped short within a few yards, and began a real war-dance in honour of the occasion, keeping the most mechanical and exact time in their movements. You may talk of animated clock-work or Marionettes ; but here, the rolling eyes, protruded tongues, and panting gasp at inter vals, gave a hideous expression to the performers, which would frighten a child out of his wits ; whilst the peculiar agility displayed throughout the entertainment reminded one strongly of the song about \" a yaller-girl a-kicking up behind and before.\" I don't think this dispute about the ownership of the Kaihu VaUey will ever do us any harm ; the natives may fight each other, but would hardly be so stupid as to drive us away and lose their source of income. The dispute I myself heard when up at Taita was more especially about the question of \"burnt flax.\" They had specified in the lease that, for every hundred acres of Phormium destroyed by gum-diggers when clearing the ground, we should be excused £100 per annum of the rent. When we held back this amount at the quarter-day, the Uriohaus turned sulky, and said that, as all the burning had taken place in a swamp of Parore's, it was only fair that his tribe, the Ngapuhis, should suffer the loss, whilst they received their full share of the rent. I don't know how they settled it ; but we paid in the full amount owing to their duly appointed agent at Mangawhare, and left him to divide it as best he could.", "107 sorely tempted to make the most of our visit by a little contraband dealing. We heard a good deal about life in these islands from a lady who came on board here for San Francisco. She had been living in Apia, the largest of the group, for some time, and told us there were about fifty white settlers in all, British, German, and American. Her husband, an energetic Scotchman, who came to see her off, had taken up an immense block of land here for sugar and cotton, and his partner has lately been in England to try and form a Steamship Company for working the island trade, by taking Tahiti as a centre, and running boats thence to Sydney, Auckland, the Navigator and Sandwich Islands, and San Francisco. It seemed strange and somewhat incongruous, to see a highly-refined and well-dressed Englishwoman like Mrs. C step out of a canoe full of naked savages, and to hear her experiences of \"roughing it.\" It shows what ladies can put up with in these out-of the-way places, and what a curiously abnormal life some of our fellow countrymen lead out of England. Mrs. C — — was born in Tahiti, had been living in Sydney, Melbourne, had often visited New Zealand, and now after a few years in the Navigators, was going to California to see her daughter and nieces educated. I kept wondering to myself, how one that had never seen England could be so thoroughly English, and, in that lonely spot still preserve the fascination of manner which made her so universal a favourite on board our steamer. For the last eight years with one short interval, a sanguinary war has been going on in these islands between the young king and an usurping uncle. The natives have run very short of ammu nition now, and were firing old bottles and all kinds of rubbish from their guns, with as much danger to them selves as their adversaries. Like the Maories, they never" ]

[ "158 a woman's error. shocked at the great change that had come over Edith ; but had no idea that it was he who had caused that change. He still thought her very lovely, and for a moment he called to mind the pleasant hours he had passed in her society in Portman Square, and even smiled when he thought how very much her beauty and innocence had induced him to believe he had loved her. A week had passed away since the Boothbys had arrived at Bellevue Cottage, and the day fixed for the walking excursion and dinner party had arrived. Mr. Raymond and his wife had arrived at the General's, and Mrs. Gibson and Dora at Mrs. Courtenay's the preceding evening. About three o'clock the whole party, including Woodhouse, assembled at Bellevue Cottage ; Edith was mounted on a quiet pony — her father walked by her rside, taking the road to Fort Tower, which commanded the finest view in the neighbourhood, both seaward and inland. To reach this tower, the pedestrians had to walk through beautiful lanes, such as can only be seen in Devonshire; then they traversed the high-", "188 a woman's error. \" I shall be very pleased to have half an hour's chat with you.\" \" Suppose we go to your room. We shall not be likely to have any interruption there. Edith is in mine.\" \" Poor girl ! she is, I fear, seriously ill,\" said her ladyship. Maud and her friend left the breakfast room, and in a couple of minutes were seated in Lady Boothby's bedroom. The former entered at once upon the subject that was on her mind. \" Julia,\" she said, \" I am about to ask you a plain question — one I am certain you will answer me truthfully, for, as you will at once see, it is of great importance not only as regards myself, but others who are not here — of vast importance to those to whom both you and I are fondly at tached.\" \" I do not know what your question may be, dear girl, but you may rely upon my answering it truthfully.\" \" Did Augustus,\" asked Maud, with consider-", "a woman's error. 195 \" Most assuredly 1 will, my love,\" said her companion. \" Augustus, when Edith Ryan was on a visit to your brother's Jiouse the season before last, were you not fascinated by her beauty, not only of person, but character.\" \"Most assuredly I was.\" \" Did you not learn to love her — and above all, did you not seek in every way to win her affec tion.\" The poet turned pale as marble as his affianced wife spoke these words, and the whole truth, for the first time, flashed like lightning across his mind, as with a voice of exceeding agony he cried — \" Great Heaven ! Have I done this wrong ? Then God be merciful unto me, for I committed it unintentionally — yes, Maud, without knowing it. Listen to me. When I first saw Edith Ryan, my heart was ill at ease, and I was longing for some purer, brighter, rarer being to commune with — than those frivolous women of fashion by K 2" ]

[ "158 De al^emeene Staten zonden nu afgevaardigden naar den koning, die hem hunne klachten moesten kenbaar maken, en hem twee miljoen gulden tot afkoop van den tienden penning voor den tijd van twee jaren aanboden. In dat aanbod werd genoegen genomen. Ook Utrecht wilde den tienden penning voor 150.000 gulden afkoopen, maar daarvan wilde Alva niets hooren. Hij was op dat gewest en die stad te veel verbitterd, en wel omdat Utrecht niet alleen, maar ook de o-eestelij kheid weigerde te betalen. De prelaten en de vijf collegiën te Utrecht hadden ver klaard, dat de kerkelijke goederen vrij waren van belastingen, en de paus bij zekere bul had ge dreigd ieder geestelijke in den ban te doen, die buiten zijne toestemming in wereldlijke belas tingen ook op kerkelijke goederen bewilligde. Maar ook daarom was Alva op Utrecht verbitterd , wetende als ééne provincie weigerde, de andere andere aan het gegeven „Ja\" niet gebonden waren. Zulk een weigering, zulk een nadrukkelijk verzet tegen zijn wil, kon de trotsche man niet verdragen. Zijne woede steeg ten top en hij besloot het weerspannige Utrecht gestreng te straffen ; hij zou 't èn den Staten der provincie, èn der Stadsregeering èn der geestelijkheid bang maken. Tot straf zond hij tien vendels Spanjaarden van het Lombardische regement; de „Tertio van Lombardijen\" soldaten die in een kwaden reuk stonden, en die zoo in de huizen der burgers als in die der geestelijken werden ingekwartierd. Alva wist het wel , dat gedwongen inkwartiering bij de Nederlanders zeer gehaat was. Aan kwellingen dier soldaten ontbrak het niet, en buiten voedsel en andere benoodigdheden moest de stad elke week aan iederen soldaat een gulden uit keeren, zoodat f2400 per week aan Utrecht werd afgeperst. 1) Het baatte niet, dat men alles deed om den tiran tevreden te stellen. Het scheen, dat hij er te meer verbitterd door werd. Geen vette ossen en vaten wijns hem en zijnen handlangers ge schonken, vermochten iets ten gunste uit te werken. Integendeel. Alva daagde de stad voor zijn raad van beroerten. (Dec. 1569) De Utrechtenaren werden beschuldigd van: 1. Verzet in het betalen van den tienden penning. 2. Verdrag en vergelijk met de verbonden edelen. 3. Toelating van den beeldenstorm en dus 4. Schuldig aan gekwetste majesteit. Op die beschuldiging volgde Alva's eisch en het vonnis werd door den beruchten Vargas uit gesproken (14 Juli 1570). Dat vonnis was: De vijf kollegie-kerken , de edelen en de burgerij der steden Utrecht, Amersfoort, Wijk bij Duurstede en Rhenen worden verklaard te zijn verval len van hun voorrecht ter Statenvergadering te verschijnen, en te hebben verbeurd hunne zitting en stem aldaar, totdat zijne majesteit te dezen aanzien anders mocht besluiten. Bovendien zal de stad Utrecht al hare privilegiën derven en alle voordeden en inkomsten zullen aan den koning vervallen.\" 't Was duidelijk te zien , dat Alva den ondergang van het geheele gewest bedoelde. Maar daarvoor zorgde de Heer. Wat zou men nu doen? Het eenige was een verdedigingsschrift inzenden, en hielp dit niet, dan, hoe gevaarlijk het ook wezen mocht, zich rechtstreeks tot den koning te wenden. De Staten antwoordden Alva op zijne beschuldiging; „dat zij slechts dan bijeenkwamen, wan zij bijzonderlijk daartoe beschreven werden en er over geldzaken moest worden beraadslaagd; terwijl het stillen der beroerten, naar hun gevoelen, niet hunne maar 's konings zaak of die zijner stad houders was.\" De stad Utrecht voerde aan , „dat zij de bevelen der landvoogdes , met betrekking tot de on roomschen, nauwkeurig had opgevolgd en zelfs spaanschgezinden meenden , dat de stad wegens haar gedrag tegen den heer van Brederode en den prins van Oranje veeleer lof dan berisping verdiende.\" Zij betoogde voorts de onschuld van de geestelijkheid en van de overige steden in zaken van de beeldstormerij , die aan haar geen deel hadden gehad, en dus ook niet beschuldigd konden worden. Het slot van het verdedigings-geschrift was de vraag aan den hertog, om deze hunne „appel- 1) Eene verbaasde som in dien tijd.", "297 Bij de inname van Buren vielen den vijand 24 stukken geschut in handen. Intusschen was Christoffel Mondragon, thans gouverneur van het kasteel van Gent, met 9000 Walen en twee vendels Spanjaarden in het zuidwestelijk gedeelte van Holland gevallen. Eenige verraderlijke inwoners hadden hem den weg gewezen, waardoor het hem mogelijk was geworden de schansen van de Klundert, Fijnaard en Ruigenhil onverwachts te overvallen en te vermeesteren. Na de schansen van bezetting te hebben voorzien, keerde hij naar Brabant terug. Het verlies dier schansen was voor de Hollanders zeer gewichtig, dewijl de Spanjaarden nu alzoo de scheepvaart van en naar Zeeland konden belemmeren. Toen de vredesonderhandelingen te Breda waren afgesprongen, verbood Requesens zijnen Spanjaarden bij een plakkaat allen omgang met de Hollanders. Ook stelde hij Hierges in staat den oorlog met meer nadruk voort te zetten. Hij zond hem versterking van manschappen , zoodat zijn leger tot 10.000 man voetvolk en 400 ruiters was aangegroeid. Hierges deelde dat leger in drie deelen. Het eerste trok onder den graaf van Megen naar Bommel; het tweede naar Woud richem en het derde naar Schoonhoven. Het doel van Hierges was, den prins te misleiden, en in dat doel slaagde hij. Hierges hield zich als had hij het op Go.uda gemunt, waarom de prins die stad ook waarschuwde op hare hoede te zijn en beloofde haar nog twee vendels soldaten tot ver sterking der bezetting te zenden. Eensklaps liet Hierges zich voor Oudewater zien. De prins gaf den raad de sluis aan den IJsel te openen en alzoo het land onder water te zetten, maar die raad werd niet opgevolgd, om het buiten staande hooi. Later, toen men dit verzuim niet meer herstellen kon, heeft men zich bitter beklaagd 's prinsen raad in den wind te hebben geslagen. Hierges maakte zich van de schans, welke slechts op een geweerschot afstands van de stad aan de IJselsluis lag, meester. Hopman van Ankeren, een Duitscher, die eene schans op den IJseldijk naar Gouda toe, op een halve mijl van de stad, bezet hield, verliet deze lafhartig, waardoor Hierges meester van de IJsel werd en alzoo allen toevoer aan Oudewater kon afsnijden. In het eerst deden de belegerden wel eens uitvallen, doch spoedig zagen zij hiervan af, omdat de bezetting te gering was, om die met goed gevolg te ondernemen. Nacht en dag besteedde men aan het versterken der vestingwerken. De prins had zich naar Gouda begeven, om van daar pogingen tot ontzet van Oudewater aan te wenden. Om die reden begon Hierges zich te haasten. Twee batterijen, een van 23 en een van vijf stukken geschut, had hij weldra opgericht. Hij liet de stad opeischen (6 Augs.). Om tijd te winnen, gaf men hem een zeer beleefd antwoord, zeggende, dat men de stad voor den koning onder het stadhouderschap van den prins wilde bewaren; dat men diens nadere bevelen zou vragen en daarom twee dagen uitstel vroeg. Hierges stond slechts twee uren tijd van beraad toe. Na verloop van die twee uren opende hij zijn vuur op de stad; 3000 schoten werden op dien dag gelost en op den volgenden (Zondag 7 Augs.) liet hij stormloopen. De te genstand, welken hij ontmoette, was grooter dan hij van een handvol verdedigers had verwacht; doch niettegenstaande eene hardnekkige verdediging drongen de Spanjaarden naar binnen. Man nen, vrouwen en kinderen zonder onderscheid werden vermoord; sommigen in koelen bloede doorstoken; ook met drie en vier aan elkander gebonden en in het water geworpen; eenige onmenschelijk gepijnigd om geld te verkrijgen. Vrouwen en meisjes werden door de Spanjaarden voor drie en vier rijksdaalders verkocht. Niettegenstaande de predikant van Oudewater, Jan Janszoon, 500 gulden losgeld betaald had, werd hij opgehangen. Beter ging het den Waalschen predikant Christiaan de Laquellerie. Hij gaf zich voor een soldaat uit en kocht zich voor 100 kronen vrij. Ook de baljuw der stad, Gerrit Gerritszoon Kraaijenstein , wist zich te redden. Met beddelakens omhangen, als behoorde hij onder de buitmakers, begaf hij zich onder de Spaansche soldaten, en ontkwam, ofschoon met moeite en gevaar, naar Gouda. Mannen, die het losgeld niet betalen konden, warden zonder genade neergesabeld. Van Oudewater toog Hierges naar Schoonhoven. Terstond zond de prins den overste de", "533 huiswaarts keerde , indien mogelijk , te veroveren. In 't gezicht van de Havana\" gekomen , waar de zilvervloot verwacht werd , kruiste Piet Hein langen tijd en vreesde reeds dat hij onverrichter zake zou moeten terugkeeren, denkende dat de vloot een anderen koers genomen had , toen hij op drie mijlen afstands een zeil ontdekte. De kapitein Witte Cornelisz. de With gaat met eene bemande sloep op dat schip af. Het is een bark veel sterker dan zijn sloep , door de zilvervloot vooruit gezonden , om te onderzoeken of er ook onraad is. Zonder zich te bedenken , tast hij het schip aan en overmeestert het. Nu was het Piet Hein mogelijk en gemakkelijk de vloot zelve , die van dat alles niets wist en daarom haar koers niet veranderde , te bemachtigen en met haar een schat van 111/* miljoen gulden in het land te brengen, bestaande in vele kisten met zilver, goud, paarlen , edelgesteenten en kostbare koopwaren. Men hield een plechtigen dankdag en vreugdevuren werden ontstoken. De aandeelhouders in de Compagnie kregen eene uitdeeling van 50%; Piet Hein niet meer dan f 70 00 en de With, zonder wiens dapperheid, beter gezegd, onverschrokkenheid, de rijke vloot waarschijnlijk niet bemach tigd zou zijn geworden , kreeg — niets. Piet Hein kon zich verder vergenoegen met het volksdeuntje: Piet Hein, Zijn naam is klein, Zijn daad is groot. Hij overwon de zilvervloot. Intusschen waren te Amsterdam weder oneenigheden ontstaan. In de stadsregeering waren thans verscheidene remonstrantschgezinden. De vergaderingen der remonstranten werden alzoo toegelaten, zeer tegen den zin der gereformeerden. Het liep zoo hoog, dat eenige troepen werden aangenomen, om de rust te herstellen. De stadsregeering maakte zich dat krijgsvolk ten nutte, om een tiental predikanten, die zich over de handelwijze der regeering hadden uitgelaten, de stad uit te bannen. De Synode van Noord-Holland trok zich die zaak aan en deed klachte aan de Staten , doch Amsterdam stoorde er zich niet aan en vergunde niet alleen aan de remonstran ten het stichten eener kerk (1630) maar ook weldra een remonstrantsch seminarium , alwaar Epis copius tot het jaar 1643 leeraar was. Ook in andere steden begon men de vergaderingen der remonstranten toe te laten, waardoor de Synode, ziende, dat de Staten hen niet langer vervol gen wilden, ophield de gestrengheid der plakkaten tegen hen in te roepen. Ongemeen gunstig schenen de omstandigheden voor een veldtocht te zijn. De geldmiddelen der Spanjaarden waren uitgeput; Spinola was naar Italië geroepen, om aldaar den oorlog voort te zetten- de keizerlijke troepen werden in Denemarken beziggehouden, de keizer kon dus Spanje niet te hulp komen; en bovendien werd hij door Frankrijk bedreigd. De prins was daarom van gevoelen, dat de vijand nu met nadruk moest worden aangetast en er geen schooner gelegenheid was Met moeite echter kon hij de Staten tot handelen overhalen. Ofschoon de prins het hem voorgestelde doel bereikte, zag hij toch hoe licht menschelijke berekening kan falen. In plaats van Spinola werd graaf Hendrik van den Berg tot veldoverste benoemd. Dat was een verstandige daad van de infante. De Spaansche Nederlanden toch stonden liever onder een Duitsch dan onder een Spaansch opperhoofd en brachten dus gewillig de oorlogslasten op, waardoor de infante spoedi- een leger op de been had; daarbij, de keizer sloot vrede met Denemarken en kon dus tot hulp komen, en Frankrijk trok zijn leger terug zoodat geen vredebreuk met Spanje plaats had. Ten einde den vijand omtrent zijn ware doel te misleiden, zond de prins den graaf van Stirum" ]

[ "VI Seite III. Die Landgettchte 222 IV. Das Plenum und die Depattements 26? V. Die Zusammensetzung und die Gefchäftsbehandlung 274 Vieites Kapitel. Die Kiiegstanzlei 283 Zweitei Abschnitt. Die Provinzilllvcrwllltung. 291 Dritter Abschnitt. Die Lolalucrwllltung. Erstes Kapitel. Die Ämter 311 I. Die Amtsoldnung von 1674 311 Die Zuständigkeit , 812 1. Tie Domanilllgeschäfte 312 2. Tie Justiz und Verwaltung 318 L. Tie Bezirke 320 c. Die Beamten 822 v. Die Einkünfte 328 l). Die Amtsunterbedienten 335 II. Die Amter in den neuen Lcmdesteilen 337 III. Die Amtsoidnung vom 18. Apttl 1823 341 ä.. Die Zuständigkeit 341 L. Die Bezirke * 343 L. Die Beamten 345 v. Die Einkünfte 349 N. Die Amtsunterbedienten 354 IV. Der Reoigllnisationspllln von 1837 359 V. Die Umgestaltungen der Jahre 1848—1852 361 Die Zuständigkeit 361 2. Die Bezirke 364 L. Die Beamten 865 v. Die Einkünfte 867 L. Tie Amtsunterbedienten 367 ?. Die Amtsvertietungen 368 VI, Die Revisionsgesetzgebung von 1859 371 Zweites Kapitel. Die adligen Gerichte 376 I. Die flüheie Zeit 376 II. Das Gesetz vom 18. Mäiz 1821 383 III. Das Gesetz übel die Geiichtsvelfafsung vom 8. Novembei 1850 . 388 Drittes Kapitel. Die Lcmdtommisslliien .... 390 Vieites Kapilel. Die Städte 417 I. Der ülteie Zustand 417 H.. Die Zuständigkeit 417", "288 Lange Zeit war das einzige direkt aus dem Militär her vorgegllngene Mitglied Adolph Christoph v. Hake. Sohn des Ministers v. Hake I., Bruder des außerordentlichen Ministers und Chefs der Regierung in Stade v. Hake II., der es bis zum Oberstlieutenant gebracht hatte, und obgleich 1793 für invalid erklärt, doch 1797 zum Obersten, 1800 zum General major avanciert war und 1801 Sitz und Stimme in der Kriegskanzlei erhielt; er wurde 1813 Generallieutenant, 1814 Viceprästdent der Kriegskanzlei, während der Herzog von Cambridge Präsident war, 1815 General der Infanterie, nahm jedoch 1823, als die Kriegskanzlei dem Ministerium untergeordnet wurde, den Abschied. Im Jahre 1818 war die Zahl der Militärs der der Civilisten gleich, es standen dem Herzoge von Cambridge, dem General der Infanterie v. Hüte und dem General Feldzeug meister v. d. Decken der Minister Bremer, der Geheime Kriegs rat v. Hammerstein und der Kriegsrat v. Campe gegenüber. Völlig umgestaltet erscheint die Kriegskanzlei in den letzten sieben Jahren ihres Bestehens. Seit ihrer Unterordnung unter das Ministerium bestand sie aus einem Direktor im Nebenamte, dem Oberzolldirektor v. Grote, und zwei Kriegs räten: einem Civilisten v. Bodenhaufen und einem Militär, dem Oberst v. Berger; Bodenhaufen befand sich übrigens 1831 in Wien. Es gab endlich auch Kriegsfekretarien, meist drei, aber auch vier; im Jahre 1762 Mejer, Werlhof, Haltermann und Ramberg. Von ihnen gilt alles, was über die Kammerfekretäre gesagt ist; neben den Kriegssekretären kamen in den letzten Jahren noch Kriegsianzleiassessoren eum voto vor, 1831 heißt der dritte Kriegssekretär Amtsaffeffor. Ganz besonders zahlreich war das eigentliche Subalternen-, namentlich das Rechnungspersonal. Durch Verordnung vom 5. Juli 1831 wurde die Kriegs tanzlei aufgehoben.", "570 sehen Lasten zu tragen hatten und die nicht stimmberechtigten Bürger, obwohl sie das gleiche Bürgergewinngeld gezahlt hatten. Zwischen der Vorlage des ersten und zweiten Entwurfs hatte Stüve unterm 4. August 1849 einen Erlaß an die Land drosteien gerichtet mit der Anfrage, ob den Hausbesitzern der maßgebende Einfluß gesichert fei, ob nicht in einigen Städten die Inquilinenbürger die Mehrheit haben würden. Es stellte sich dabei heraus , daß nur in Hannover und in Emden und Leer eine solche Gefahr bestehe. Weitergehende Anträge wurden zwar gestellt, namentlich in der zweiten Kammer, Wo diese Debatte ihren Schwerpunkt hatte, aber sämtlich verworfen ; ins besondere der Antrag Grumbrechts, der alle Bürger zum Wahl recht zulassen wollte, der Antrag Weinhagen, der wenigstens alle die Bürger zulassen wollte, die zu den direkten Gemeinde lllsten beitrügen. Nur der Census wurde von 4 Thaler 2 gute Groschen auf 2 Thaler 16 gute Grofchen herabgefetzt. Mithin haben alle diejenigen Bürger, welche eine Lehm hütte von geringstem Werte besitzen und Häufersteuer zahlen, oder jenen Mindestbetrag an sonstigen landesherrlichen Steuern entrichten, ein gleiches Wahlrecht, alle übrigen Bürger und Einwohner aber gar teins ; es ist nicht wahr, daß dazu nur eine geringe Anzahl von unverheirateten oder gänzlich abhängigen Handwerkern gehöre. Das Preußische Dreiklassensystem , welches zuerst in der Rheinischen Gemeindeordnung von 1845 aufgetaucht war und dann in die Gemeindeordnung von 1850, in die Städteordnung von 1853 Eingang gefunden hat , war in der Debatte nur flüchtig gestreift worden; Stüve war sehr dagegen, weil solche Klassen dem Grundgedanken des Städtewesens widersprächen und die Gleichheit der Bürger eine wesentliche Bedingung der gesunden Entwicklung der Städte sei; auf die Landgemeinden hat er es unbedenklich angewandt. Der mit dem Drei tlllssenfystem in Preußen verbundene Cenfus betrug nach der Städteordnung vom 30. Mai 1853 vier Thaler, wurde 1873 auf zwei Thaler, 1891 auf vier Mark herabgefetzt." ]

[ "9 explored by Europeans, but they are not at present in the line of any great traffic. Here is the highland country called by the Afghans Kaffiristan, because the people have successfully resisted Mahomedan agression, and remain possessed of their ancient faith and independence. The Hindoo Koosh ends at Bamian, for westward, although the range of mountains continues along the northern frontier of Persia, skirts the Caspian Sea, and unites with the Armenian plateau, it assumes other names, and ceases to be Indian. The second division of the western mountains includes the Suffeid Koh, the Suleiman mountains, and the Hala mountains. These skirt the western bank of the Indus, and form the edge of an elevated plateau, occupied by the Afghans, as far as the Suleiman mountains, and by Belooch tribes along the Hala range. The Suleiman mountains attain an elevation of 1 1,000 feet in the Takht-i-Suleiman, but the Hala range is lower. The principal part of the trade at present existing between India and Central Asia, passes from the Indus over this Afghan plateau to Persia and Turkistan. From Turkistan it radiates towards the Russian territories on the one hand, and the Chinese on the other. The Chinese trade passes from Yarkand and Kashgar, through the succession of Mahomedan towns at the base of the Thian-Shan or Celestial mountains, to Sining in China proper. Sining is an entrepot between China, Mongolia, Kokonor, and Tibet ; and by this roundabout route chiefly, is it reached from India at present. The enfranchisement of trade and intercourse along the vast frontier which has been reviewed in this account of the northern mountains of India, is all that is wanting to open up a trade of unparalleled magnitude with countries abounding in raw products, and populations devoid of machinery and manufactories on a large scale. IV.-THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS. The southern part of the mountains of India form a triangular table-land extending through 20 degrees of latitude, having its base on the lowland of the Indus and Ganges, its apex near Cape Comorin, and its sides on the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. It bears a totally different aspect to the northern part. It is quite devoid of snowy peaks. The table-land seldom exceeds 2,000 or 3,000 feet. Mountains no higher than Ben Nevis are promi nent features, although parts of the Western Ghauts exceed 5,000 feet. The culminating point is Dodabetta peak (8,640 feet), in the Neilgherry mountains at the southern extremity of Mysore. The familiar name of the Deccan or the South might be applied to the whole of this area, although it is usually restricted to its central part, and sometimes to the western part only. But while the south yields in elevation to the north, it is surpassing in every thing that constitutes the wealth of a state, except the enervated character of the people, which accounts for their many subjugations. The northern edge of the southern mountains varies but little in its height above the plain. But its base presents widely different conditions. For it will be observed that while the main rivers flow always near and often quite close to the base of the southern hills in the basin of the Ganges, that part of those hills which faces the Indus is more than 300 miles from that stream. It is called", "13 6. The mountainous country between the Lower Godavery and the Mahanuddy, forms another group which the surveys have not yet completely delineated. It includes part of the Central Provinces, and the Jeypore Agency. In the next chapter many of the mountains will be again noticed with especial reference to their function as waterpartings. In that point of view various details will be brought forward in addition to the brief account now concluded. THE RIVER BASINS OE INDIA. Introduction. The following is a brief account, not so much of the Indian rivers themselves, as of the natural drainage system to which they belong. — I. The nomenclature of the subject is explained. II. The connexion of the Indian rivers with the drainage of the Asiatic continent, and with the oceans, is defined. III. A general view is presented — Of the watershed of the Bay of Bengal, which is wholly Indian; — IV. Of the Indian part of the watershed of the Arabian Sea\"; — V. Of the watersheds forming the counterslope to the Indian system, and uniting in the same waterparting. VI., VII., VIII., IX. The Indian watersheds are afterwards specially described according to their division into the separate basins drained by each river with a distinct outfall. I. The Nomenclature. The natural drainage systems form the most simple and exact basis upon which every branch of geography can be studied and brought into combination. The boundaries are defined by nature, they are easily traced, and capable of precise delineation. A RIVER BASIN, whether small or large, whether confined to a single valley and stream, or embracing every variety of mountain and plain, hill and vale, gentle stream and rushing torrent, is a geographical unit complete in itself. It is the whole area from which the surface waters flow through one ultimate outlet. In like manner, all the basins contributing to the same ocean, sea, or line of coast, may be grouped together as an OCEAN, or SEA BASIN, or as a MARITIME \"WATERSHED. The boundary of a basin is the WATERPARTING or summit of the slopes within which a river and all its affluents have their sources. The German name for it is \" Wasserscheide\" the verb scheiden meaning to divide or part. Through simi larity of sound, the German word is often incorrectly translated by the English word \" watershed,\" the proper use of which will be explained presently. The waterparting, at the same time that it is the summit of the slopes of a given basin, also divides or parts it from contiguous basins. Lavallee calls the waterparting \"la ligne ou faite de partage des eaux,\" and Carl Ritter describes it as \" the mathematical line from which the descent of rivers begins.\" The term is equally applicable to the division of the secondary and inferior basins", "31 The Rivers of India; the Areas of their Basins and the Lengths of the Main Streams. Area in English Square Miles. Length in English Statute Miles. Ganges - *Indus - - - - - Bramaputra - Irawaddy - Godavery - Kistna - - - - - *Thurr Desert - - - - Salween - Mahanuddy - - - - ♦Western Ghauts, West Coast Basins *Nerbudda - Aracan Basins - - - - Cauvery - *Kattywar and Cutch Peninsulas *Taptee - - - - - *Loonee - - - - - Orissa Coast Basins - - - Pennaur - Sittang - - - - - *Myhee - - - - - Braminee -.--■■- Tenasserim Coast Basins Byturnee - Subunrika - Gundlagunga, &c, Coromandel Coast - Vigay - - - - - *Sabermuttee - - - - Pulicat L., &c. - Palar - - - - - *Western Bunass - Penar - - - - - Vellaur - - - - Vypar - - - - - Tamberpumy - - - - L. Colair, &c. - - - - *Dhadur - 391,100 372,700 361,200 150,800 112,200 94,500 68,700 62,700 43,800 41,700 36,400 29,700 27,700 27,600 27,000 22,400 22,200 20,500 18,300 15,500 15,400 14,200 11,900 11,300 10,300 9,800 9,500 6,700 6,300 6,300 6,200 4,500 3,900 3,600 3,100 1,800 1,514 1,800 1,800 1,060 898 800 750 520 801 472 441 320 355 230 350 410 345 317 130 200 220 180 245 80 Total Area of the Indian Basins - 2,071,500 Basins of the Bay of Bengal 1,441,900 *Indian Basins of the Arabian Sea - 629,600" ]

[ "82 A Sultan. [Chap. XVIII. Piles of curious-looking halberds are arranged at regular intervals ; and thousands of women move in procession towards the minarets of the palace, which can be seen in the distance beyond the tufts of palm trees. The Residence itself is almost empty. What can have happened ? Ah ! This morning the Sultan became the happy father of his three-and-thirtieth child, and great and small troop in joyful crowds to offer him their respectful congratulations. Presently the Resident returned to us, covered with gold, and accompanied by the colonel of the imperial guard, a handsome half-caste, in full dress. We expressed a great wish to pay our respects to the Emperor, but the Resident is the only European he had ever seen ; his palace has always been a tabernacle closed to the Gentiles. But by talking very loudly of the Prince's descent from Henry IV., M. Lammers van Foovenburg hopes to obtain this signal exception in his favour. He gave a diplomatic despatch to the hand some half-caste, and we awaited with anxiety his Javanese majesty's reply. We inhaled the exquisite freshness of the air beneath the marble columns of the Residence. At the top of a magnificent flight of steps, leading to the verandah, we saw two beautiful objects, wdiich are witnesses to the time when the Dutch profited by their time-honoured habit of slipping into countries which seemed closed to other people, and acquired for themselves alone the wonders of Japan. They were two candelabra, twice the height of a man, in bronze, inlaid with gold and", "158 The Colonial System. [Chap. XX. should be applied fairly; but handled by greedy native instruments, this plan has been in reality the cause and the powerful means of constant extortions practised on the Javanese people. This is the sight of which we have just been witnesses, and of which I now sketch the principal points for you. In all the mountainous parts of the island, each family is obliged to cultivate a regular and elaborate plantation of six hundred coffee trees, besides a nursery of reserve trees intended to replace any foot of ground wanting to the inspection of the European controller. And the Government proclaims to all the inhabitants of the hill country — \" As your old masters had the sole right of trading, so it is to me only, to the Colonial Government, that you wdl sell the coffee from these plantations regulated by law ; I will pay you for it at a price fixed by myself.\" This price is twenty shidings the picol ; the State trader retails this same picol in Holland for fifty-eight shillings. You may suppose, therefore, what immense profits are made by means of this forced labour, when there are now (1866) in Java 296 millions of coffee trees, producing 143,000,000 lbs., bought at 1,169,113?., and sold for 3,386,374?. To the population of the plain country, the officials of the conquering people say — \" Wherever we establish a refinery, you will be obliged to cultivate sugar-canes, which will be bought by the European revenue officers at the price that we fix.\" The State has no manufactories here, only planta tions ; it contracts with a manufacturer, advancing him", "382 Canton. [Chap. XXVIII. running mob coming towards us jostled us brutally, and we were forced to seek refuge in a shop filled with stinking fish, and eggs preserved in uric acid. From thence we could observe the passage of the most grotesque procession ; twenty men, mounted on zebra-striped ponies, rode one behind the other, shouting, \"Hou-ouh, tou-ouh ! \" (Move on! move on ! ) ; and as the street is only a yard and a half wide, we had to move quickly to avoid having our toes trodden on by the horses' hoofs. These majestic horse men carried in one hand a pike, while from the other waved a long horse's tail, to be used as a whip for their steeds (tails here answer all purposes, whether to beat dogs, women, or horses, or to be taken up to heaven by!) This troop, lengthened out like a string of beads, went headlong up and down the slippery steps which connect the different levels of a Chinese street. Then came a file of lictors, dressed in red, bearing whips, axes, swords, and chains ; they were the executioners of Canton, the indispensable attendants of the local authorities. Next, a motley crowd of two hundred standard-bearers defiled before us ; beggars in tattered ' Co clothes, repulsive from dirt aud leprosy, they had donned for the occasion the government livery of gaudy rags. A mandarin's train is the best example of how splendour and vermin, magnificence and poverty, may be seen side by side in China ; how fellows who at noon are vagabonds, in the afternoon become guards, and at night will sleep half naked on a dunghill! Finally, came a dozen chairs carried by eight bearers" ]

[ "■1 :o: Jambs Wolverton, John Melrose, Henkv Molyneux, of Blakemere, Clerk in Holy Orders, 5th Baron (Jlivecote, of Clivecote, d. 1839. d. 1822. Co—, etc., d. 1842. Cecil _ Mabel Francis _ Elizabeth Henry _ Isabella And tlireu (b. 1826). (d. 1867). (d. 1843). (d, 1845). 6th baron\" (nee Vivian), other Barnster-atlaw, (b. 1804). daughter daught'rs. of 4th I | Duke of | Blantree. HELEN THOMAS GRET i œ p , — .2 Q * bd bd p 5 al ■2» GENEALOGICAL TABLE.", "THE WORLD. 133 I had become, I couldn't help being a Benedict, and it would be worse marrying for a joke's sake, than for money.\" \" A joke does soon wear out ; it is even more fleeting than love; — there, 'apropos,' is Lady Kenworth driving with your sister, Lady Dulmorey, and looking as lovely as Circe.\" \" You had better tie me to the mast next time,\" said Molyneux, between jest and earnest. \" You don't mean that ?\" replied his friend, quickly. \" At this moment I do, upon my honour. She has gone too far, and not only in my direction. I hate to see her driving with my sister. One isn't particular for oneself what a woman does, but really Grace needn't go about with her like that.\" \" They are the two prettiest women in the Park this afternoon, and your sister is quite aware that Circe's soft langour sets off her own queenliness to advantage.\" \" Leave my sister alone, Dayrell,\" said Jim, incon sistently, \" and let's get out of this. Sybil — I mean Lady Kenworth — spots us, and I had rather not meet her just now.\" \" Before me ? Bon !— and still less, without me, I trust?\" \" Exactly so. The money I don't mind ; that is, if it hadn't forced me to put my name to more paper than is already flying about ; but when one ' pays the price,' as you say, one doesn't expect that the article is to be duplicated.\" \" Oh ! \" said the cynic, \" the friendship of a woman like that has no original, it was destroyed long ago, if it existed ; and she manages to persuade each buyer of the copy that he has the only genuine picture ; it is awkward if two compare notes.\" \" Talk of something pleasanter, can't you, Dayrell ? Or let's join some other fellows ; I shan't be caught again.\" \" Not in that way ; but you have a go jd deal yet to K 2", "\" UNLOVING LOVE.\" 249 \" A marriage has been arranged between Earl Markham, only son of the Duke of Downberry, and the Hon. Eveline Mary Molyneux, fourth daughter of Lord Clivecote.\" Helen stared at the paper in utter dismay. She had feared this, and had not been able to agree with Tom that his suspense was only temporary. She had heard from Florence that Lord Markham had been so much there, and she had guessed the rest. Helen knew Eveline too well to say that it was all Lady Clivecote's doing. Eveline could get her own way when she chose, and she had not chosen. Utterly heart-sick and trembling all over, she retraced the past in thought before the idea struck her that perhaps it was not true. Tom would surely have been told ; if it were so, he would need all the sympathy she could give ; if not, the paragraph would annoy him. She would not like him to see it without being told of it. Her father was out. Tom had still his old rooms kept for him at Blakemere, his bed-room and study opening into one another. Surely Florence would never wish to alter that, Helen thought, as she went to the west wing, where she hoped to find him. What hours of delight they two had spent together in the sunny room where his home treasures had been kept ! How often had they talked there of the future, as pleasing to the eyes of fancy, as the lovely view across the Park, down to the river, up to the wooded slopes beyond, to the distant hills, was to the observer who was privileged to enjoy it. The door was fastened on the inside when she got there. That was an unusual thing. And there was a delay in answering when she knocked. At last a voice said : \" Who is it ?\" \" Helen. Please let me in. \" Wait a minute,\" was the answer, in deliberately steadied tones. In a minute or two, the door was opened, and" ]

[ "JOHNSON'S HISTORY OF NEBRASKA. 43 miles above Fort Calhoun, and thence southerly along said River, to the place of beginning. Precinct — There was one precinct or place of voting in said County, viz: At the Postofiice at Florence. Anselam Arnold, Charles How and William Bryant were appointed judges of elec tion, and Hem-y Springer and William More clerks of same. Dodge County was bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the Platte River, twenty miles west of Bellevue, thence westwardly, along the said Platte River, to the mouth of Shell Creek, thence north twenty-five miles, thence east to the dividing ridge between the Elkhorn and Missouri rivers, and thence south erly, to the place of beginning. Precinct — There was one precinct or place of voting in said County, viz: At the, house of Dr. M. H. Clark, in Fontenelle pre cinct. William Kline, Christopher S. Leiber and Wm. S. Estley were appointed judges of election, and Wm. Taydor and E. G. Mc- Neely, clerks of same. Douglas County was bounded as follows: Commencing at the mouth of the Platte River, thence north along the west bank of the Missouri River, to a point one mile north of Omaha City, thence west along the south boundary of Washington County, twenty miles, thence south ten miles, more or less, to the Platte River, and thence east to the place of beginning. Precincts — There were two precincts or places of voting in said County, viz: One at the brick building at Omaha City and one at the Mission House at Bellevue. David Lindley, T. G. Goodwill and Chas. B. Smith were appointed judges of election in the Omaha precinct, and M. C. Gaylord and Dr. Pattee, clerks of same. Isaiah Bennet, D. E. Reed and Thos. Morton were appointed judges of the Bellevue precinct, and G. Hollister and Silas A. Strickland, clerks of the same. Cass County was bounded as follows: North by the Platte River, east by the Missouri, south by the Weeping Water River to its head waters, thence westwardly to the west boundary of lands ceded to the United States, and thence by said boundary, north to the Platte River. Precincts. — There were two precincts or places of voting in said County, viz.: one at the house of Colonel Thompson, in", "johnson's history of Nebraska. 277 a large distillery, extensive lumber and coal yards, and various other business establishments. The next white person to visit this locality appears to have been a man named T. B. Eoye, who established an Indian trading post with the Otoes, on the plateau where Omaha now stands, in 1825. The first attempt at permanent settlement by the whites, within the present boundaries of the County, was made by the Mormons, in 1845. Several thousand of these people, driven from Nauvoo, Illinois, crossed the Missouri from Iowa, during the years 1845 and 1846, and made a settlement on the banks of the river six miles north of Omaha, which was called \" Winter Quar ters,\" the name of the place being afterwards changed to Florence. Here they broke up and cultivated a large tract of land, long afterwards known as \" the old Mormon field,\" which yielded them a bountiful crop of sod corn, potatoes and vegetables, and timber being plentiful, substantial log houses were built, and their pros pects for the future looked encouraging. Their numbers were con stantly increased by new arrivals, and before many months had elapsed, \"Winter Quarters\" was considerable of a town. The Indians, however, objecting to the Mormons cutting their timber, the Indian Agent ordered them to quit the reservation, which they did, in 1847, by recrossing the Missouri and settling in the bluffs on the Iowa side, where they established the town of Kanesville, named in honor of a Mormon Elder named Kane, the name ofthe town being changed, in 1853, to Council Bluffs. Early in the Spring of 1847, before abandoning Winter Quarters, the Mormons fitted out an expedition, consisting of one hundred and eight wagons, with from four to six men to each wagon, which was sent West under the leadership of Brigham Young, to look up a favorable location for the permanent settlement of the main party. This expedition arrived at the top of the hill overlooking the now famous Salt Lake City, on the 24th day of July of the same year, and on the 28th the ground for the Temple was selected and a city two miles square laid off. A number of this pioneer party, after planting crops, returned and took back their families the same year. The largest emigration of Mormons that left Kanesville was", "johnson's history of Nebraska. 419 sixteen brass field pieces on the parade ground to be spiked, so that they might be rendered useless to the enemy. This order caused the greatest excitement among the troops, who, suspecting treach ery, threatened to take the life of the Commander, but that officer was soon on his way to the Confederate lines. He afterwards became a General in the Rebel Army, and was captured and con fined at Fort LaFayette. The first settlement near the Fort was made in 1859, by Col. Scott, C. A. Phant, Alex. Constant and others, who put up a house and named the place Central City. John A. Morrow and John Holland soon afterwards bought the house and settled there. About the same time Dr. Bansom, Dr. C. A. Henry, John Young, J. E. Boyd, L. Miller and others, from Omaha, laid out Kearney City. Several houses were immediately erected, a large hotel built, stores opened, town lots sold, a city government organ ized, and for a few years it was a very flourishing place, and being situated on the overland road, did an immense trade with the emi grants and soldiers. At one election over 300 votes were polled in the city. In 1860 Kearney City was made the County Seat, and the ■County government organized by the appointment of full Board of County Officers by the Governor as follows: Commissioners, J. Tracy, Amos O. Hook and Moses Sydenham; Clerk, C. A. Henry; Probate Judge, J. Talbut; Treasurer, John Holland; Sheriff, Tom Collins. VALLEY CITY, Is another of the early towns of the County, long since abandoned. It was laid out by John Lott and Amos Hook, and was a station on the overland road, situated a mile or two northwest of where Lowell now stands. At one time it was a very promising place, and contained several merchandise stores and hotels, and received a daily mail. The hostility of the Cheyennes and Sioux during the winter of 1863-4, which culminated in a general Indian war the following summer, put a complete check to the further settlement of the County, in fact most of the settlers abandoned their homes and took their families to places of security in the older settlements further east; the flourishing young towns were mostly destroyed" ]

[ ".ames ibbu urotacwamt^ bcoocu too**.", "136 erected in the open streets for the accomodation of the houseless pas senger. Of such entertainments a hungry man may have enough and to spare for a sum less than a hab°-penny. Hotels and places of entertainment, except in large cities, are few in number, in consequence no doubt of so many traveUers going in boats. The names of those who take lodg ings in hotels and taverns are registered by the landlord, who is required to keep his list open for the inspection of the magistracy. There are large establishments in Canton that daily provide for hundreds of tbe poorer classes, and one in particular, to the number of five thousand persons and upwards. Tlie required supply is weighed with a scrupulous nicety to each individual ; if the whole is consumed the payment for the bulk is demanded, but if only a part is eaten, the remaining portion is again weighed, and the guest obtains credit for the balance. On board the small boats which line the banks of the streams and inlets, the act of cooker, is exhibited in a comprehensive manner. A part of the deck is removed, which discloses a large boder resting upon an earthenware furnace, while the canopy of heaven supplies the absence of a chimney. In this boiler the never omitted rice is prepared, whde the steam from it dresses thp several basins resting upon a frame work placed within it. The smith, on his return from labor at night, lays aside his hammer and tongs, and sets on his pot of rice, perchance two or three others of smaUer dimensions for the dressing of certain savory accompaniments. The bakers in China are mainly employed in the making of pastry which seldom lacks either sugar or \" shortening.\" Cakes of aU sorts and sizes are made for the poor as well as the rich, rice serving in some instances for the pastry instead of wheaten flour. A favorite sort of cake is filled with minced meat, prepared by mixing pork, sugar, and other ingredients together. The workman has a pde of dough on one side, and a heap of minced meat on the other. He puds a piece off the former, roUs it up into a ball, flattens and covers it with meat, and then rods it up into a ball again. This ball is then put into a ring, and is finaUy, by a stroke of the hand, flattened into a cake of a definite size and thickness. The oven, or rather the baking apparatus, is unique iu", "204 The houses arc but one story high. A few of them are of wood or many, belonging to the poorer classes, of mud, and with but a apartment ; but the largest portion of bricks. The dwellings of those in imeta ■;- contain various weU-furnished apartments, the waUa of which are generaUy ornamented with carving, pictures, and variou= scrolls, inscribed with moral maxims from Confucius and other sages. The houses of the wealthy are often furnished in a style of great magnificence, and the occupants indulge in the most luxurious habits. Official personages, however, for the most part set a com mendable example of simplicity and economy in their manner of living. The doors have no plates to teU who the occupant of the zr.'.n sion is, but cylindrical lanterns are hung up bv the sides of the gates of aU houses of consequence, with the names and titles of the owners inscribed, so as to be read either by day or at night, when the lanterns are hghted. Canton is a large manufacturing as weU as commercial city, about one half of the population reside without the walls, and with whcTi foreigners have free intercourse. Mr. Bridgman informs us that there are no less than 17,000 persons engaged in weaving sdk, and 50,000 in manufacturing cloth of all kinds ; that there are 4,200 shoemakers ; and what wiU surprise some readers, that there is an army of barbers amount ing to 7,300 ! The important office of tonsor can be held only by license of government. Why the number is so great, has already been explained. The manufacture of books is extensively carried on in this city, but we are not in possession of the exact statistics. \" Those likewise,\" says Bridgman, \" who work in wood, brass, hon, stone, and various other materials, are numerous ; and they who engage in each of these respective occupations, form, to a certain degree, a separate com munity, aud have each their own laws and rules for the regulation of their business.\" But operatives and tradesmen are very much in the habit of herding together. Entire streets arc devoted to the same kind of business. There is even a street occupied almost exclusively bv Druggists, and is thence caUed by the Fan-kwcis, \" Doctor-street.\" Thc signs, gady painted and lettered on each side, and hung out hke" ]

[ "22 APERÇU HISTORIQUE de Dahomey, lequel a préalablement pris connaissanoe du projet de traité et lui a donné son approbation, d'autre part, il a été convenu ce qui suit : « ArticliìJ*premier. — La paix et l'amitié qui règnent et n'ont cessé de régner entre la France et le Dahomey, depuis le traité de 1868, sont confirmées par la présente convention qui a pour objet d'élargir les bases de l'ac cord entre les deux pays. « Art. 2. — Les sujets français auront plein droit de s'établir dans tous les ports et villes faisant partie des possessions de Sa Majesté Gléglé et d'y commercer librement, d'y occuper et posséder des propriétés, mai sons et magasins, pour l'exercice de leur industrie; ils jouiront de la plus entière et de la plus complète sécu rité, de la part du Roi de Dahomey, de ses agents et de son peuple. « Art. 3. — Les sujets français résidant ou commer çant dans le Dahomey, recevront une protection spé ciale pour l'exercice plein et entier de leurs diverses occupations, de la part de tous les sujets de Sa* Majesté Gléglé et des étrangers résidant au Dahomey. II leur sera permis d'arborer sur leurs maisons et factoreries, le drapeau du Dahomey, seul ou associé au pavillon français, et le roi Gléglé s'engage à faire connaître à ses sujets et à tous les étrangers qui habitent ses domaines, qu'ils aient à respecter les personnes et les propriétés des Français, sous peine d'un sévère châtiment. « Art. 4. — Les sujets français jouiront, pour l'ad mission et la circulation des marchandises et produits introduits par eux et par leurs soins au Dahomey, du traitement de la nation la plus favorisée. « Art. 5. — Aucun sujet français ne pourra désormais", "POPULATIONS INDIGÈNES 97 veloppement à Porto-Novo. Les Halloufas (1) vivent en liberté, sont d'un commerce agréable : ils ont une mos quée et font une grande propagande religieuse. Ils ont une école, dite Pécole malt, espèce de Zaouia, parlent le djedji et le nago, écrivent l'arabe;-on sait qu'ils ont des communications fréquentes avec les habitants du Niger, avec Pempire Haoussa et le royaume de Sokoto. Les Halloufas de Porto-Novo font un grand commerce ; ils ont des factoreries et tiennent souvent en échec des maisons européennes. Les José Marcos, Ignatio Paraizo, Bakari, etc., sont des notables, riches, considérés et très prisés du roi indigène Toffa, auquel ils prêtent de l'argent; on peut estimer à 10,000 les musulmans de Porto-Novo. A Lagos (2) et environs sur 75,000 habitants (recen sement officiel de 1881, il y a plus de 10,000 Musul mans, Halloufas et Haoussas). Malgré les missions catholiques et protestantes, malgré de grandes subven tions accordées par le Gouvernement colonial, c'est l'islamisme que les noirs adoptent avec le plus d'en thousiasme, quand ils veulent prendre une religion et renoncer à leurs coutumes. Les Haoussas sont soldats, ils se marient avec les indigènes, vivent avec eux. L'islam enseigne la haine de Pinfidèle, mais il perme (1) De l'arabe Halloufa, confédéré comme talibê de ialeb (savant) et toubab (blanc en Woloff) de toubib (docteur). (2) Dénombrement de la population de Lagos, par religions : Protestants de toutes confessions 7.888 Catholiques romains 1 . 600 Mahométans 12.023 Fétichistes 53.861 Total 75.372 7", "191 VOCABULAIRE FRANÇAIS-DJEPJI-MINA Français Djedji Mina Là, Don, Fine, Founnou. Laborieux, Azoató,Mégniouannazo, Dohoto. Labourer, Léglé, Dablé. Lac, To-daho, do, totétim, To-gandé, lé, doubé, do- donné. Lâcher, .lodo, Tassi. Lagune, To, Laid, Egnalankan, Egnaran. Laine, Boffoum, HotTou. Laisser, Jodo, Tassi. Lait (en général), Gnibounossin, Gninossi. Lait (aigre), linibounossin evéssin, Gninossi-évéssi. Lait (frais), linibounossin yadéyadé, Gninossi-Ebbéto. Lampe, Zobben, Kaneben. Lance, Houhan, Houan. Langue, Dé, Adé. Languissant, Houkoui. Gammaléameti, Lanmé toum. Laptot(matelotindi- Houncounto, Houncouto. gène), Large, Ebbolo, Ekéké. Larme, Dassin, Adassi. Laver (étoffes des), Gnavo, Gnavo. Laver (se les mains), Kloualo, Kloualo. Léger. Effoudá, Effoudá." ]

[ "The Birthright. 104 \"Well, keep a sharp look-out, Grose, and bring them to me, and I will keep them from breaking the laAv during the next few months.\" \" I'm glad we've 'ad this 'ere talk, sur, you bein' a majistraate. But we must be off, sur.\" \" Good-afternoon. By the way, if you call at Pennington to-night about ten, I shall be glad to see you. You will perhaps be able to report progress by that time.\" \" Thank 'ee kindly, sur. Good-afternoon.\" Richard Tresidder and his son Nick then sat down on a rock near, and, when the Preventive officers were out of sight, laughed merrily. \" I wonder if they know that the grog they have drunk at Pennington was made of smuggled brandy ? \" asked the father. \" Not they. Why, you are noted for your hardness on law-breakers.\" \" Just so. By the way, you have heard no more about Jaspar, I suppose ? I heard last night he was hiding in Granfer Fraddam's Cave ; that was why I got those fellows to search for the place.\" \" Nothing definite. It is believed that he is around here somewhere, but where I do not know. The fellow is mad, I think. It would be better for him to clear off altogether. The sentence is a flogging, and then another trial, is it not ? \" \" Yes ; but nothing is being done. I believe", "The Birthright. 112 than I care to tell about. However, before she died the will was made all right.\" \" How ? \" asked Nick eagerly. \"Well, in this way. Everything is given to Naomi, and I am constituted her sole guardian. She cannot marry until she's twenty-one without my consent.\" \" I see.\" \" If she dies, everything comes to me.\" « What ! \" \" Yes. Mother worked that. I despaired of reaching the point ; but you know what your granny is. She pleaded that I was a cousin, and a hundred other things. Besides, mother has a strange power over people.\" \" Then it seems to me everything is safe.\" \"Yes, if matters go right. She is now eighteen ; if you marry her before she's twenty-one all's well, but if not, then, when she arrives at that age the lawyer who has to do with the estates will naturally want everything explained. Naomi is a sharp girl, and I shall have to give an account of my stewardship.\" \" Her mother was a Catholic, I suppose ? \" \" Yes ; that was a difficult point. Still, we promised that Naomi's religious views should not be interfered with, and also that a priest shall visit the house occasionally.\" \" He will want her to marry a Catholic.\"", "The Birthright. 274 tell it to the world. I dare not let the world know this, so you and Eli will have to die.\" I felt sure there was some trick in this, although I could not tell what it was. \" But if I had been set free, the world would have known,\" I replied. \" No. You would have been taken to a far-off spot, and you would never have known where your prison was ; nor could you have sworn who imprisoned you.\" \"But I am going to escape,\" I said, still keeping my eyes on him, while I could hear Eli snarling as he struggled with the serving man. \" No,\" he said. \" You are as weak as a baby. Your strength even now has gone. You thought bodily strength everything ; I, on the other hand, knew that brains were more than bodily strength. Do you think I did not know who I was dealing with ? You are a fool. Every mouthful of food you have eaten while you have been here has kept you weak. Now you are no match for me ! And I am going to kill you. Shall I tell you where you are ? You are at Trevose, the house that was Naomi's. Shall I tell you something else ? \" — and he laughed mockingly : \" Naomi Penryn loved you — but she's dead ; and now Trevose House and lands belong to the Tresidders, do you see ? \" Then, I know not how, but a great strength came to me — an unnatural strength. My heart" ]

[ "33 nouvelles recherches. fut véritablement en suspens. Enfin le lendemain la pointe de glace se rompit avant d'avoir entamé le flanc du na vire. Alors un soupir de soulagement s'échappa de toutes les poitrines. Avec, quel élan je remerciai du fond du cœur M. Shock de sa prévoyance. Car sans la bienheureuse tra vée, c'en était fait de la Jeannette. » Le soir, la plaiue de glace qui nous environnait ayant repris son apparente immobilité, nous pûmes prendre du thé. A ce moment on pouvait lire sur tous les visages un véritable sentiment de satisfaction, car le navire n'avait souffert que dans Tassemblage de quelques-unes de ses parties. » Jusqu'ici nous ne nous sommes guère occupés que des événements qui se sont passés à Tintérieur du na vire et n'ayant aucun rapport avec la vie intérieure des gens de Texpédition. Aussi, sans entrer dans de longs détails, croyons-nous devoir décrire Texistence de ces infortunés prisonniers des glaces pendant les deux longues nuits d'hiver qu'ils ont eu à passer au milieu de TOcéan Arctique. « La longue nuit de trois mois, dit le lieutenant Da nehhower, ne commença que vers le 10 novembre ; néan moins, le règlement d'hiver était entré en vigueur du 1« du même mois. Nous nous levions à sept heures pour répondre à Tappel général ; les feux étaient ensuite allu més, et nous déjeunions à neuf heures ; de onze heures à une heure, chacun était obligé de prendre un fusil et d'aller à la chasse par mesure sanitaire, car nous avions besoin d'exercice au grand air; à trois heures, la cloche 3", "LEXPÉDITION DE « LA JEANNETTE ». 70 Le rideau de brouillard qui en couvre une partie et s'étend au nord empêche d'en voir toute Tétendue, Cette île est également visible du pont; mais il est impossible d'en estimer la distance. Aucune terre n'étant marquée sur nos cartes dans ces parages, nous supposons qu'il nous est permis de la considérer comme une nouvelle terre. Quoiqu'il en soit, c'est la première que nous voyons depuis le 24 mars, jour où nous avons aperçu pour la dernière fois la côte de la Terre de Wrangell. Mercredi, 18 mai 1881. — 70° 43' 38\" latitude nord ; 1 61° 42 30 ; longitude est. La terre découverte hier est restée en vue pendant toute la journée, d'une façon bien plus . distincte. Nous pouvons aujourd'hui en déterminer la forme avec une grande exactitude. Les nuages d'hier, ou le banc de brouillard, pour me servir de Texpression employée par les matelots pour les désigner, étant disparus de la partie supérieure de Tîle. nous pouvons y distinguer des pointes rocheuses dont les lianes sont couverts de neige qui s'étendent derrière dans la direction de l'ouest, et se terminent en une masse conique qui simule le sommet d'un volcan. Jeudi, 19 mai 1881. — 76° 44' 50\" latitude nord 161° 30' 45\" longitude est. Des matelots chargés de faire un trou dans la glace du coté de bâbord sont arrivés à dix pieds deux pouces de profondeur sans atteindre la face inférieure de la croûte glacée. Ayant recommencé un autre trou, ils l'oat poussé", "92 LEXPÉDITION DE « LA JEANNETTE ». valle, le navire se relevait pour s'incliner le moment d'après. Enfin, une dernière poussée survint, qui le fit s'incliner à plus de vingt-trois degrés. Tout espoir était perdu. Aucun effort n'aurait pu le relever. Dans cette situation, la pression s'exerçait à tribord sur les billons qui étaient la partie faible de la membrure, tandis qu'à bâbord, elle s'appliquait au-dessous de la circonférence du flanc. A partir de ce moment, on ne s'occupa plus guère que de descendre des provisions et des vêtements sur la glace, pour parer à toute catastrophe soudaine. Une des gardes alla souper à cinq heures et demie; à six heures, on servit le pain et le thé aux officiers. J'étais alors porté sur la liste des malades, et j'avais les yeux bandés ; néanmoins, j'allai trouver le docteur, pour lui dire que je pouvais rassembler les cartes, les instru ments, en un mot, me rendre utile à quelque chose. II me répondit qu'il allait en référer au capitaine. Chaque officier avait son sac dans la cabine, et presque tous étaient d'avis qu'il était temps de le monter sur le pont. Cependant, nous ne voulions pas le faire avant d'en avoir reçu Tordre, craignant d'attirer Tattention des gens de l'équipage, qui étaient occupés à préparer les provisions et les canots. Pendant que je prenais le thé, je vis Dunbar arriver dans la cabine avec son sac. Sen tant qu'il était temps d'aller aussi chercher le mien, je me dirigeai vers Téchelle, au sommet de laquelle je ren contrai le docteur, qui me dit : « Dan, Tordre est donné d'emporter les sacs. » II paraît qu'il était descendu au fond du navire, où il avait trouvé le magasin déjà envahi par" ]

[ "The Rurylary at Rawden's. 3 to go after lost luggage and coupling-irons yon can.\" As the company's trains ran partly on another system and the coaches of that system ran on the company's lines, it happened occasionally that coupling-irons got mislaid, and there was ahvays plenty of employment for the company's servants in looking for missing coupling irons, or for luggage that was lost every clay. But I knew my friend only mentioned this as an excuse, and did not expect that I should trouble my head about either one or the other. It was merely a good-natured excuse for giving me the pass I required. I gladly accepted his offer, and started doAvn the line after lost luggage and coupling-irons. On arriving at Manchester I found that the manager, Mr. Simestcr, was more seA'ercly injured than I had imagined. Ta.o or three months would have to elapse, the doctor said, before he would be able to resume his former position in our business, of which, as requested by Mr. Rawden, I took charge, gratifying my propensity for travelling by paying short visits to old customers at easy distances from Manchester. It Avas about this time that I became acquainted with a Mrs. Forsyth, a woman of lady- like manners and ap pearance, about seven or eight and twenty years of age. She represented herself as a widow who had taken a shop in a small street in a good neighbourhood, which she Avas going to open in the general drapery line. To us she came to obtain the stock necessary to furnish it with every requisite. b 2", "An Adventure in the Vale of Cleathe. 47 All at once I looked at my watch and saw it was past six ; from beneath the open window I heard voices, and one said, \" Come on ; it's no use stopping here. I tell you I saw him go into the mill. We'll find him, and when I give him a topper with this persuader of mine, I'll lay he doesn't holler.\" I am not a nervous man, but on hearing this I became dreadfully timid ; why, I cannot explain, unless it was from the effects of the shock I had experienced in the early part of the day. My first thought was how I could escape from the wretches who I imagined were thirsting for my life. Suddenly an idea struck me. There was the wheel, the huge wheel which put all the complicated machinery of the saw-mill in motion ; it was hollow inside, who would think of looking there for me ? Not one in a thousand. If I could only conceal myself for a certain time, and that not of any great duration, the gipsies would have started on the tramp, imagining that I had taken the alarm and gone on the road to Leicester. The wheel was what in some places is called overshot, that is, the water fell on it, and so turned it step by step. The water went down a long trough, and was made to fall on the outside rim of the wheel, which was con structed in the shape of an immense dram, outside which were pieces of wood similar to the spokes in paddle wheels, and these emptied into one another, so bringing about a succession of revolutions. In the side of the wheel there was a little door, which was", "A Final Effort. 115 \" In for a sheep, in for a lamb,\" I thought ; as I had broken one pane of glass I might as well break another, and gratify my curiosity by pushing the blind on oue side. I was about to put my intention in force, when a loud and angry exclamation at the foot of the tree caused me to look down. I declare that in the whole course of my life I never felt in such a thoroughly uncomfortable position. Just below me, livid with rage, was Mr. Carson, my benefactor, my friend — call him what you like — whose confidence I had so shamefully abused. \" Come down, sir !\" he shouted. \" Dare to push that blind aside and I shoot you dead, as I would a dog. Come down, I say, as you value your life.\" In his hand was a pistol. It had occurred to me at various times that Carson was peculiar. I wdl not say that he was not answerable for his actions, but at that moment the man was as clearly mad as any maniac in Bedlam, and would not have hesitated to shoot at me if I disobeyed his com mands. I saw it in his eye. Gnashing my teeth with rage, I reluctantly and slowly descended the tree. At length I stood on the ground before him, shivering with the cold. He thought I was trembling with fear. \" Ungrateful cur !\" he said ; \" get out of my sight, or all the Cain in my nature will rise up and make me kill you. Go, go ! From this day forth we are as strangers.\" i 2" ]

[ "ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE JDUKE OF BEJDFORJD. [Written on the Evening of his Interment.'] IN OW night's dark mantle wraps departing day, And smiling pleasure reassumes her sway ; To her on various altars incense burns, — The song, the drama, now delight by turns ; Amusement's wand arrests the approach of sleep, And her gay votaries laughing vigils keep. But not for me are pleasure's glittering bowers ; — My pensive fancy flies to Woburn's towers ! There she beholds the sad funereal train Steal with slow footsteps o'er the joyless plain ; The B", "THE LATE DUKE OF BEDFORD. 3 As Hers the soft pensive pleasure to impart, The genuine feelings of no venal heart, And with the honours that bedeck thy bier Mix the pure incense of a soul sincere. Yet hard the task : — While busy memory flies To the great day when first thou mett'st my eyes, Oh ! dreadful contrast ! fancy's restless power That moment paints thee in thy dying hour, Till the sad scene my shuddering soul appalls, And from my grasp the Muse's pencil falls. But memory now regains her milder sway, — Again she paints that joy-devoted day. That glorious epoch every British breast With proud commemorating ardour blessed ; For then we hailed a joyful century past Since on our shore great William anchor cast ; Since, while on James's brow pale terror sate, Conscience revenged the martyred Russell's fate, B 2", ". So THE LATE DUKE OF BEDFORD. But not the bright expression of thy face, Nor thy commanding mien, thy youthful grace, Alone, methought, to thee ensured the prize Of eager homage from admiring eyes ; — No, that great day recalled still more the hour When Russell fell beneath the arm of power ; And half the lustre that around thee glowed Thy noble ancestor's renown bestowed : — For, oh ! what bosom fond of patriot fame But has from childhood glowed at Russell's name ! — And ne'er could fancy's happiest skill design A form more worthy of his mind than thine. But, in another's worth if then thou shone, Soon England learned to prize thee for thine own As, when spring's reign approaches, to the sight The sun by slow degrees imparts his light, And on the eye with gradual lustre steals, Ere he the fulness of his blaze reveals," ]

[ "THE FIRST STEP 9 The names of Henry and of Adams were more familiar just at that moment than those of any others. They were the men who by speech and pen had done more than anyone else to touch the heart and imagination of the people in the progress of those events which had caused GEORGE WASHINGTON AT THE AGE OF FORTY. Painted by Charles IVillson Peale, 1772. Tin's picture shows Washington in the uniform of a Virginian Colonel. this gathering in Philadelphia. Yet there was one man there that day who had made no speeches and drawn no resolutions, but who, nevertheless, was better known than any of them, and who, alone, among them all, had a soldier's fame won on hard-fought fields. There was not much need to point him out, for he was the type of man that commands attention and does not need identification.", "THE FIGHT FOR THE HUDSON 185 provided, he was called upon to face and do battle with a British army of 31,000 men now assembled on Staten Isl and, well-disciplined regulars, thoroughly equipped and provided, and supported by a powerful fleet to which Washington had nothing to oppose. It seemed madness to fight against such odds and run the risk of almost cer tain defeat. But Washington looked beyond the present hour and the immediate military situation. As usual, political considerations had to be taken into account. To give up New York without a struggle, and thus have saved his army intact by an immediate retreat and without fighting, however wise from a military point of view, would have chilled and depressed the country to a peril ous degree, and to carry on a popular war the public spirit must be maintained. More important than this even was the danger which Washington saw plainly far away to the north, where Carleton was pressing down the line of the lakes. If Sir William Howe and his army succeeded in advancing rapidly and meeting him before winter set in, it would mean the division of the northern colonies by the British forces and a disaster to the Americans which could probably never be repaired. Even the sacrifice of an army would be better than this. So Washington de termined to hold his ground and fight. He said that he hoped to make a good defence, but he was not blind to the enormous risk, to the impossibility almost, of holding his long line of posts with so few men and with an enemy in command of the sea. Even while he wrote cheerfully as to holding his positions he exhibited the condition of the army to Congress in the plainest terms, and constantly demanded more men. But even if he had known defeat to be certain he still had to consider the wishes of Con-", "306 THE STORY OF THE REVOLUTION sometimes almost beyond the power of endurance, the men were more than once on the verge of mutiny and general desertion. But neither desertion nor mutiny came, and if contemplated, they were prevented by the influence of the officers, and most of all by that of the chief officer, whose patient courage, warm sympathy, and indomitable spirit inspired all the army. And what was the Government, what was Congress doing, while against a suffering much worse than many battles their army was thus upholding the cause of the Revolution ? They were carping and fault-finding, and while leaders like Samuel and John Adams and Richard Henry Lee criticised, lesser men rebelled and plotted against the Commander-in-Chief. Mr. Clark, of New Jersey, thought Washington threatened popular rights be cause he was obliged to take strong measures to feed his army, and because he insisted that the people in the Mid dle States should take the oath of allegiance to the United States, after tampering with the British amnesty, so that by this proper test he might know friend from foe. Mr. Clark forgot that with a Congress which Gouverneur Morris said had depreciated as much as the currency, it was necessary for tbe most constitutional Fabius to be dic tator as well as \" Cunctator.\" Then James Lovell and others thought it would be well to supplant Washington with the alleged conqueror of Burgoyne, and Gates, slow and ineffective in battle, but sufficiently active in looking after his own advancement, thought so too, and willingly lent himself to their schemes. This party in Congress found some allies in the army. One of the evils which Washington had to meet, and in regard to which he was obliged to oppose Congress and to" ]

[ "122 SEAL-CATCHING. place open day by day, or biting right up through as much as three or four feet of solid ice. Through these holes they get on to the ice, and generally lie close to the edge of the aperture, but if not rendered shy by frequent disturbance will wander off to some distance. It has always been a matter of wonder to me how they manage (particularly small ones) to climb up the wall sides of their holes with so little apparent holding powers, but they certainly do so with perfect ease. The natives, accomplished in all primitive arts of obtaining their prey, proceed to their task of capture with perfect self-confidence and deliberation : two modes are followed, one a simple question of patience, the other requiring much skill and strategy. In the first a mound of snow or ice is raised at some distance from the seal hole, behind which, before his prey emerges from the water, the hunter ensconces himself, and where he must wait motionless and silent for the seal to appear, winch often does not occur for a long period ; great skill is then necessary to secure his victim, as, unless killed instantaneously when struck, it is almost sure to escape into its hole. I believe bears have the same mode of catching them. In the other mode, the hunter, leaving his sledge and dogs at a distance, approaches", "184 EMBROIDERY, CARVING, ETC exceedingly unpleasant odour, which is only imper ceptible in cold weather. Embroidery is much practised, principally Avith the long white hair from the belly of the reindeer ; strips and figures of differently coloured leather, dyed fur and feathers of the eider-duck are also employed for ornament ; besides, as I have before mentioned, designs in black lead or ochre, and a species of parti coloured patchwork or \"insertion.\" Much ingenuity is displayed in carving articles from ivory, in Avhich employment one of the tribe at this village Avas a proficient. He made ducks, geese, seals, canoes, and many other curious toys and models, and was also very fond of carving figures ; a pipe of ivory, which he made for me in about six hours, had on the bowl a face in front and on either side, the back was filled up by a figure less than an inch high seated upon a block, having one leg crossed upon the knee of the other. This Avas a very handsome and well finished piece of sculptiue. Another man here was in great request as a maker and ornamenter of wooden pipes, particularly for inlaying them with lead or solder, which after our arrival Avas practised to a much greater extent than previously. The snoAv-shoes in use among this people are generally about tAvo feet in length, broad and flat, the", "HUNGER'S EXTREMES. 332 Those were none such : they were the bones of a human being ; for Avhen I went to the house I also saw those bones in the ashes, and received a like answer to yours, but, taking a piece of skin and putting it to roast at the fire, I let it fall as if by accident, then raking among the ashes Avith a stick, I turned the bones over, and saAv that they Avere certainly those of a human being. My father, I am an Indian ; yet, trust Avhat I say, one has eaten the other.\" In five days, according to promise, Mr. P. returned to the Fort, having existed meauAvhile on an occa sional partridge or rabbit. On entering the house he found the poor fellow lying before the fire, totally unable to help himself, and now told him that, since he found him so weak, henceforward, \" live or die, he would leave him no more.\" He managed to shoot a raven for him, and went to fetch Avood and water, and to try for some game. Returning sooner than Avas expected, and opening the door quickly and Avide, as had lately been his custom, he saAv the kettle on the fire, and on inquiry, was answered that it contained merely water ; but, going to the pot, he saAv that it held something more — and, searching the inside of the kettle, horrible to tell, drew out a whole liver. Paralyzed by this dreadful sight, he could not speak, while the poor starving wretch, hoav discovered in the" ]

[ "CONTENTS. PAGE Allegheny River 7 Big Brokenstraw Creek 26 Big Brokenstraw Island 27 Big Scrubgrass Island 40 • Black Fox Island 46 Bald Eagle Island 46 Bull Creek Island 55 Cherry Bun 13 Cherry Tree Run 18 Clarke's Island 28 Courson Islands 30 Cogsley 's I slan d 52 Crooked Creek Islands 52 Dale's Island 33 Evault's Defeat Island 42 Emlenton 44 Early 's Island 49 Franklin 21 Freeport 23 Fourteen-Mile Island 56 Goose Flat Island 30 Hemlock Islands 32 Hickory Town Island 33 Hoi man's Island 34 Hemlock Creek Islands 35 Horse Creek Island 37 Hare's Island 57 Jackson's Island 26 J. Thompson's Island 27 Jack's Island 55 Kit tanning 22 Karn's Island 55 Mead's Island 25 Mill-stone Island 30 (v)", "24 THE OIL REGIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Tarentum. Tarentum, situated on the right shore, above the mouth of Bull Creek, is an exceedingly well-built town. It is twenty-one miles above Pittsburg by the canal, which passes through it. The locks of the canal afford an excellent water privilege. Sev eral mills are situated in the vicinity, propelled both by water and steam, besides large salt-works and coal-mines. The place contains the usual number of churches, stores, shops, etc. Sharpsburg. Sharpsburg is situated on the right bank of the Alleghany. Its appearance, in a business view, indi cates it a thriving town. It has had a very rapid growth, and its increase of population, buildings, etc., anticipate a large town at an early period. It contains several extensive manufacturing establish ments, rolling-mills, sash factory, steam and keel boat building, etc. It is five miles from Pittsburg by the river.", "42 THE OIL REGIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Montgomery's Falls and Elephant Bars. [Warren, 90} miles— Pittsburg, 112} miles.] Here we have again three channels. In low water, while passing the Elephant Bars at the upper falls, keep by the right-shore channel. When you are at the foot of the riffle, incline to the left and run down about the middle of the lower falls. In high water, keep close to the left shore while passing the bars ; afterward incline toward the mid dle of the river. The center channel is wider and a little deeper than the left channel. Davis' Bar, [Warren, 91| miles — Pittsburg, 111} miles.] This bar makes out from the right-shore point in the bend, and reaches across the river more than half-way. In good running stages it is not noticed. Steer slightly toward the left of the middle when passing it; but in low water run around near the left shore. Craig's Eddy is just below, on the left. Evault's Defeat Island. [Warren, 93} miles — Pittsburg, 109} miles.] Channel to the left. In low water, keep near the head of the island when about to pass it. By this you avoid a rough, rocky bottom along the left of the riffle. When you are two-thirds of the way down the riffle, gradually incline to the left. When the river is in good running stage, go down about the middle of the river. The right of the island is very frequently dry." ]

[ "51 the first harbinger of land, we thought his skin Avorthy of being preserved, for the pur pose of stuffing, and it was put in the me nagerie accordingly. At six o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of November, we were within a very few miles of the land. Barbadoes is a very low island, and does not strike one with any feeling of either wonder or admiration. You see a few white-looking houses on the slight elevations. The sight of tropical trees, cocoa, palms, &c. must always be interesting to one who sees them for the first time. About eight o'clock we made Bridgetown, and at ten, a. m. brought up in Carlisle Bay, in seven fathom water. Nancy, the negress, gave me, immedi ately on our arrival, a fresh proof that ner- A'ous fancies are not confined to fine or even white ladies. Immediately after we", "71 Power Avhich had sustained us so long among the dangers of the deep, stretched forth a hand of deliverance over us. During the night, the gale continued Avith unabated fury. To sleep was impos sible, and as I lay in my cot, rocked from side to side, and longing for daylight, I heard a strange and unaccustomed sound outside my cabin door. On going out to ascertain from Avhence it proceeded, I found some flying fish, which had come down the companion-ladder with the wind and spray, flapping their delicate wings on the oil-cloth. It was a strange situation for flying fish to find themselves in ! The Imaum was near us during the gale, and at night Ave occasionally burnt blue lights, which to me was very cheering. Nov. S. Squally, with heavy rain. Under treble reefed topsails.", "112 May they, like her, with open hand, Spread gladness through a grateful land ; Winning, on earth, a people's love ; An angel's glorious lot above !" ]

[ "THE TOWN BEFORE YOU, A COMEDY. [price two shillings.]", "THE TOWN BEFORE YOU, 86 Tippy. Is he ?' he is— no, I'll not run— he's coming towards me— I'll not flinch. Now you fhall fee, Mr. Fancourt, what it is to ufe a brother rafcal ill. Is not the world wide enough for our tricks, but we muft cheat one another ? I'll facrifice myfelf rather than not be revenged. {Takes out his pocket book and pencil, feeming very intent). Enter Sir Robert Sir Robert. Hah! there's his Lordfhip— he feems very bufy — perhaps I had better pafs on ---no, I won't— furelv, after fuch a favour 1 Hah! my Lord, your moft obedient. {Tippy looks at him, gazes, then continues to write). Well now I declare {looks amazed). My Lord, I fay, your moft obedient. Tippy. Pray, Sir, who are you ? Sir' Robert. I am aftoniflied ! Tippy. Who, I fay, are you ; who thus, twice have taken the freedom to addrefs me in public ? Sir Robert. Who am I? what, does not your Lordfhip know me now ? O ! perhaps the de licious fmiles of the Emprefs are in your Lord fhip's head again— perhaps the Polifh treaty — perhaps Tippy {in a feigned paffion)- Perhaps neither of thefe! lam engrcffed by your impertinence. Who are you, Sir ? Sir Robert. Who am I ? why, the man who, two hours fince, lent you a thoufand pounds, principal money, to keep you from the gripe of the Jews. Tippy.", "A COMEDY. 91 A C T V. SCENE L— Tippy's Lodgings. Enter Mrs. Eullrush, bringing in the Gown fhe wore in the firft Jcene, work bag, &c. Mrs. Bullrujh. I'll take poffeffion of his room nvyfelf, hang me if I don't! {fits down) here am I obliged to mend my gowns inftead of buy ing new ones, becaufe my lodgers won't pay me {threads a needle). No, no, Mr. Tippy-— I'll fit you ! I fpoke to my neighbour Holdfaft, yefterday ; no one ever got out of his clutches yet, if once Holdfaft touch'd him on the fhoulder {works a little), Blefs me ! how my teeth tor ment me again {puts up her handkerchief) Betty ! Betty — bring me a little brandy to hold in my mouth. I'll e'en go myfelf, flie always brings iuch a drop ! [Exit, Enter Tippy, with a Letter in his hand. Tippy. Yes, yes— tell them fo— (fpeaking gaily) no, my artful filler, it won't do {reading) '\" Wear the fame dilguife, and come as Mils \" Sally Martin.\" That is not poffible— -my landlady's maid, who ufed to lend me that fmart drefs, -is off. What the devil can I do ? to go there as a man, after having juft been there as Lord Beechgrove, would be kicking clown the milk pail with a vengeance ! and yet to lofe that fweet girl and her fweet eftate— well, I can't go— I cannot go to Sir Robert's, pos !" ]

[ "PART IV. THE RECTORY HOUSE AND LIST OF RECTORS. THE Rectory House of Stutton was built by the Rev. Tobias Rustat, who was presented to the living in 1748. It is situated on the banks of the river Stour, which here forms an estuary of the sea ; and the grounds extend to the water's edge, from which may be seen on a clear day the redoubt at Harwich, and a distant view of the ocean. In 1820 it became the residence of the Rev. Thomas Mills, who added considerably to the house. He died in 1879. The present rector is the Honble Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby. The garden and pleasure grounds are large, and contain some very fine specimens of exotic trees. There are three beautiful cedars of Lebanon ; a cypress, which is supposed to be the largest in England ; three unusually large tulip-trees ; a Portugal laurel, the foliage of which spreads to the immense circumference of 320 feet; several red cedars ; Scotch and silver firs ; pinasters ; a standard fig-tree, with two large stems ; and a group of ilexes, which were raised from acorns gathered from a tree at Trimley, in this County, the first known in England, and which is said to have been raised from an acorn brought over by Cavendish the circumnavigator, and companion of Sir Francis Drake. Most of these trees, now so conspicuous for their beauty and dimensions, were planted by the Rev. Tobias Rustat, who also laid out the grounds ; the Rev. Thomas Mills paid great attention to all these rare and handsome trees, and added considerably to their number. RECTORS OF STUTTON. FROM THE INSTITUTION BOOKS IN THE BISHOPS' REGISTRY AT NORWICH. 1300. 3 Id. Maii, Seyerus de Cretyngham, by Dns Rob* de Schelton, mil. 131 2. 8 Kal. August, at Meleford, William de Culpho, by Dns Will1\" Vydelen, miles. 1329: 18 Kal. Dec1', Henry Blast de Tudenham on resignation of Wm de Culpho, by Wm Visdelen. 1383. 8 May, at Sandwich, Nich3 Andrewe, by John de Pyeshall, clers Dn3 John de Fynford, parson of the church of Kyrketon, & Roger de Wolferton, patrons pro hie vice. 1413. 14 Feby. at Norwich, Dominus Fray on death of Nich3 Andrew, by Dom. John Burham, mil., John Curson & Margaret his wife, Thomas Mosel & Margaret his wife, heirs of Margaret wife of John Curson, senior, & Margaret wife of Thomas Mosel, Junior. 1424. 21 April, at Thorp, Magister William Ockyngton, presbyter, by Wm Lampet de Brightwell, & James Andrewe. 1433. 20 May, at Hoxne, Roger Bery, Presbyter, on resignation of Mgr Wm Ockyngton, by Margaret Lampet de Brightwell, widow, William Curson, & Richard Doket.", "HE WAS BORN AT SPROUGHTON IN THIS COUNTY, JUNE 28TH, 1809, AND DIED IN ACTIVE SERVICE OFF THE COAST OF CHINA, OCTOBER 8TH, 1834. On the north side, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ANN, THE WIDOW OF REAR-ADMIRAL WILLIAM HENRY DANIEL. SHE WAS BORN AT BALLYMONEY IN THE COUNTY OF ANTRIM, IRELAND, AUGUST IOTH, 1773, AND DIED IN THE PARISH OF WEYBREAD, IN THIS COUNTY, DECEMEER 28TH, 1854. XXV. On an altar-tomb of brick, south of the chancel, with a stone top, is as follows : — IN MEMORY OF MR. LUKE NUNNALE WHO DIED 8TH AUG. 1 7 95, AGED 6S YEARS. MRS. ELIZTH. NUNNALE DIED 6TH DEC. 1795, AGED 56 YEARS. MR. THOMAS BAKER DIED 2 1ST JAN. 1805, AGED 45 YEARS. MR. THO. BAKER COLE DIED 3RD MAY, iSlO, AGED 66 YEARS. XXVI. On two coffin-shaped tombs, surrounded by iron railings, south-east of the chancel, are the following inscriptions : — On the south side of the one to the north, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MARY ANN WATT MACFARLAND, DAUGHTER OF JAMES MACFARLAND, COMMANDER ROYAL NAVY, AND MARY HIS WIFE, WHO DIED 23RD JANUARY, 1825, AGED r8 YEARS. ALSO OF FRANCIS JAMES MACFARLAND, SON OF THE ABOVE JAMES MACFARLAND, AND MARY HIS WIFE, LATE MATE OF H. M.S. VESTAL, WHO DIED AT PORT ROYAL, JAMAICA, APRIL 9TH, 1S35, IN THE 20TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. On the south side of the other tomb, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES MACFARLAND, CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JAN. 27TH, 1852, AGED 82 YEARS. And on the north side, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MARY THE WIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES MACFARLAND, ROYAL NAVY, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH I4TH, 1850, AGED 79 YEARS.", "On a On On XXVII. ledger-stone, south of the chancel : — HERE LIETH ENTOMBED THE BODY OF ANNE, WIFE OF GEORGE BAKER, ESQR. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, JUNE I9TH, 18 1 8, AGED 62 YEARS. ALSO GEORGE BAKER, ESQR. WHO DIED JULY I3TH, 1834, AGED 85 YEARS. THE REVD. GEORGE BAKER, B.A. WHO DIED FEBY. IOTH, 1862, AGED 64 YEARS. AND IN THE ADJACENT TOMB LIE FOUR OF THEIR CHILDREN. MARIA, WHO DIED AN INFANT, NOVBR. 2D, 1782. SARAH, WHO ALSO DIED AN INFANT, AUG. IITH, 1790. GEORGE WHO DIED OCTR. 2D, 1793. AGED 8 YEARS. AND WILLIAM, WHO DIED FEBRY. 1ST, 1 798, AGED 20 YEARS. XXVIII. a coffin-shaped stone, south of the chancel: — HERE LIE INTERRED THE FOUR CHILDREN OF GEORGE AND ANNE BAKER, MENTIONED ON THE ADJACENT TOMB. XXIX. the base of a stone cross, south of the chancel :— IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH BAKER, DIED 17TH APRIL, 1871 ALSO OF HARRIET BAKER, DIED 19TH OCT. 187I." ]

[ "99 FANNY DENNISON. months — I was quite sorry for his departure, and even missed the little banter with which he was wont to teaze me. But shortly after he went away I had much greater cause for grieving, for Mrs. Parker died. It was a comfort to me to think, however, that she died happy, that \" her darling chdd,\" as she stid caded me, was by her side, and that her last sigh was breathed out in my arms. Dear Mrs. Parker ! my tears flow as I think of her, and ad her kindness to me. In her death I experienced an irreparable loss ; but had she lived — stay, I must not go on, or else I shad forestal the narration of my history. H 2", "109 FANNY DENNISON. the paths where, as a chdd, I had been wont to stray with Frisk beside me. Though my warm childish love for him had passed away, yet linked as he was with the remembrances of my happiest days, I could not think upon his death without emotion, without the feeling that in him I had lost a faithful friend. My thoughts reverted to the period of our first acquaintance ; I remembered wed the pleasure with which I used to nurse him, as a pup, upon my lap, and then my gambols with him on his arrival at maturer years. The past rose vividly before my eyes — the present was forgotten. I saw my mother, with her pale serious face, sitting in her high-backed chair. I heard her low sweet voice, and I felt the pressure of her lips upon my cheek. And then the vision changed. I saw her stdl, but yet how different. I saw her with the marble hue of death upon her brow ; with eyelids closed, and with a fixed unchanging smile upon her rigid countenance. Then onward my fancy led me to the period when I became a resident", "190 FANNY DENNISON. amuse myself verv wed alone. hether he would have dispensed with my permission to absent himself from my side, I cannot ted, but he certainly avaded himself with great readiness and alacrity of my suggestion, for he left me instantly. The rooms which I had thought wed fided on entering, became stdl fuder. A perpetual stream of people flowed steaddy in, and then after a little wiide the air became oppressively hot. I saw there was another large, wefl lighted room beyond. I should have liked to have sought there for a cooler atmosphere than the one I breathed ; but I thought that people would remark my conduct as being very odd, if I wandered about alone. So I remained sitting in my original place, almost motionless, as if I had been carved in stone. I spoke to no one, and no one spoke to me. The chair in which I sat vvas a httle apart from any other, and my next neighbour, an old lady, was too much engrossed with chatting to an acquaintance at her other side, even" ]

[ "MANCHESTER FIFTY YEARS AGO. 20 Mr. Absalom Watkin, father of Sir Edward; and lower down that of Francis Marris, Son, and Jackson, becoming afterwards Edward and John Jackson, of York Street, and the bank of Scholes, Tetlow, and Co. At the lower end of the street, on the Market Street side, was the warehouse of Potters and Norris. The \" Potters \" consisted of the two brothers, Thomas and Richard. The latter became M.P. for Wigan, whilst the former was the first Mayor of Man chester, and was knighted. He was the father of the late Sir John Potter, and of Mr. Thomas Bayley Potter, M.P. for Rochdale. His residence was at Buile Hill, Pendleton. I well remember him driving to business in a plain one-horse open vehicle, with his two sons, then very young men, and arriving soon after eight every morning at the Market Street end of Cromford Court, which was close to Mr. Dentith's shop, where they alighted and walked through Cromford Court to Cannon Street. One of the most popular Church men in Manchester fifty years ago was Mr. Benjamin Braidley, a merchant, whose warehouse was in New Cannon Street, his house being in Lever Street. He was several times chosen boroughreeve, and two or three times was a candidate for the honour of representing Manchester in Parliament, but without success. In the same street was the warehouse of Broadhurst, Henson, and Broadhurst, a well-known firm. On its dissolution Mr. Broadhurst ob tained the appointment of Borough Treasurer under the Corporation. The warehouse of Fletcher, Burd, and Wood was then in Friday Street. The firm was afterwards changed to Samuel Fletcher, Son, and Co., and the business removed to one of the large warehouses in Parker Street.", "MAC READY, DOWTON. 75 a distinct remembrance of once dining with Charles Kemble, and of the pleasure I felt in assisting him to vegetables. Macready w-as also a visitor at Miller's house when he came to Manchester. I have a vivid recollection of his coming in one morning having, in passing a newly-painted lamp-post, daubed the sleeve of his coat. It was a single breasted brown overcoat, and I had the pleasure of helping him out of his difficulty. The manner of his thanking me was most polite and courteous, and the tone of his voice so striking that I used to think that if I heard the same words again uttered by the same voice, blindfolded, I should recognise it. Dowton was another visitor. I suppose he was the finest representative of Falstaff of all who ever attempted the character. He was, in the early part of his career, a con temporary and a colleague of Mrs. Jordan, the intimate friend at one time of William IV. I have preserved a note, written by Mr. Clarke, the manager of the Theatre Royal, to Condy, the barrister, which I presume had been handed to Miller in explanation of Clarke's absence. There is no date to the note, but it will be seen the dinner party was on a Sunday. The following is a copy ofthe note : — My Dear Sir, — I am on the doctor's list, and cannot leave house to-day. Will you have the kindness to make my apology to Mr. Miller, with whom I was to dine, and say that I very much regret not being able to meet him ? Dowton relies upon your good offices to show him the way to the dinner table ; he is domiciled at No. 70, Falkner Street ; Andrews on door. — Yours very truly, Sunday morning. Rt. Clarke. — Condy, Esq.", "MANCHESTER FIFTY YEARS AGO. 310 the murder. The murderers were afterwards apprehended and executed at Lancaster. Just behind the grand stand was a hillock on which, in 1790, a man was hanged for a burglary committed at the house of a Mr. Cheetham, on the Chester Road. In addition to Kersal Moor races, the Earl of Wilton opened Heaton Park for races for one or two days in the autumn of every year, and they were nearly as well patronized as the former. In 1839 the Earl discontinued them. The barbarous sport of bull-baiting was, fifty years ago, not quite extinct, for although not practised in Manchester, it was at Eccles on the occasion of the wakes, which were attended by a large number of Manchester people who could find delight in such cruelty. Akin to this was the practice of cock-fighting, which flourished here fifty years ago. The cockpit, which, as the name implies, had been originally in Cockpit Hill, behind Market Street, was then in Salsord, near Greengate. Every Whit week the sport began on the Monday and usually lasted all the week. The Earl of Derby (great grandfather of the present earl) was a chieY supporter of cock-fighting, and used to stay at the Albion Hotel during Whit week. Living in Market Street, I well remember him driving down to the cockpit in a carriage and four every day about twelve o'clock in that week. It is said that the first place employed as a theatre was a temporary structure of timber at the bottom of King Street. After this a theatre was opened in Marsden Street, in 1753, and was closed in 1775. In this year application was made to Parliament for a bill to erect what was called, fifty years" ]

[ "Chap. III. AT THE CAPITAL OF ARABY. 57 returned alone with many thoughts. For with all respect to Mr. Buckle, one cannot but think it a shal low philosophy that sees in such things but ignorant and fanatical superstition. And narrow also is the sympathy that understands such things only in the professors of one's own religion ; making no due allow ance for the umversal tendency of oiuVward observance to take the place of inward purification ; and for the tendency, not confined to Islamism, to pay more regard to the letter than to the spirit of a great Prophet's teachings.1 But the philosophy of the imposition of such observances is also worth considering. That passion for self-sacrifice, which so Avonderfully co-exists with the self-seeking of our nature, is thus gratified ; and a very poAverful bond of union is also thus con stituted between ' believers,' as distinguished from ' infidels.' This leads us back, hoAvever, again to the consideration of the respective contributions to Human Progress of those two creeds of Christianism and Islam ism, of which the professors have, for 1,200 yTears, Avarred against each other as ' infidels,' and arrogated, each party exclusively to their own side, the title of ' true believers.' And what a task it were, and Avhat great qualities of A7aried sympathetic insight it would 1 ' Persons who are sick and on a journey, and soldiers in time of war, are not obliged to observe this Fast during Ramadan, but . . . . should fast an equal number of days at a future time. Fasting is also to be dispensed with in the case of a nurse and a pregnant woman. The Prophet even disapproved of any one keeping the fast if not perfectly able ; and desired no man to fast so much as to injure his health, O'1 dis qualify himself for necessary labour. But the modern Muslims seem to regard the Fast of Ramadan as of more importance than any other religious act, for many of them keep this Fast who neglect their daily prayers.' — Lane, Modem Egyptians, p. 91.", "Part III. 236 PIL GRIM-MEMORIES. of an utterly new kind. Not so, however, is it, if Atoms are conceived as, — even if, in the Universe, so far as known to us, constant in their forms and qua lities, yet,— dependent for their forms and qualities on, and so, related by laws of co-existence with, co existing Atoms. For the essential characteristic of Life is, in fact, nothing but just this Mutual Determi nation. And conceiving Atoms, as I suggest, Cells would be conceived as bodies, not of a new kind, but merely of a higher degree. And hence, would not the problem of the origin of Life be thus virtually solved ? B. I can imagine such a conception being, at least, made the basis of the solution. A. To have the possibility of the problem thus being solved practically admitted would more than content me. B. But have Ave not drifted altogether away from our main subject? I asked you Iioav you thought the Ultimate LaAV of History was to be discovered. You began telling me hoAV you had attempted to discoATer it. But we have got no further than your first step. That, you said, Avas an inductive inquiry into the meaning of LaAV, or of the scientific conception of Causation. I have once or tAvice asked how this inquiry and its results had advanced you on the road to the discovery you had in view. But my questions seem only to have led to further digressions. Here we are now discussing the problem of the origin of Life. And I have not yet been told what your inqiury into Causation, whatever else it may have suggested, has suggested towards the discovery of the Ultimate Law of History ?", "Chap. III. TO HEBRON BY PETRA. 259 horizon, the hills which we may believe that the eyes of the aged High Priest strained most to see, the blue tinted hills of the Land of Promise. And wistfully looking — he died. I observed, however, that those now on the roof of his Tomb, lunched before they looked. Nor do I at all except him Avho took a note of it. For it is but a shalloAv soul that, in the midst of grand historical, or natural scenes, feels them so slightly as to fear destruction of the feeling of them by acknowledgment of the wants of the body. Satisfied with the outside, we attempted to see something of the inside of the Tomb. But now we had a specimen of that renewed spirit of Mohammedan fanaticism which, along with increasing liberalism, has been observable of late years, not only in India, but throughout all the Mediterranean East, from Algeria to Mecca, and from Damascus to Constantinople.1 The entrance which Avas accorded to the Martineau party in 1847, at the rate of tAventy piastres a head, and which Dean Stanley's party in 1852 seem to have had no difficulty about whatever, was determinedly, and indeed, fiercely refused to us. But Hamilton and I not caring to give it up Avithout an effort, stayed behind to try the effect, on the guardians of the door, of the best mixture we could make-up of good humoured force, and promises of baksheesh. Nothing, however, would induce them to let us have more than a peep through a chink in the old door. Yet, though it was annoying, one could not but respect fellows who refused to be bribed in such a matter. So we left them 1 See Palgrave, Eastern Questions. s 2" ]

[ "CHAPTEE VI. SHETLAND FISHERS BROUGHT TO ST ANDREWS IN 1803, AND THE GRADUAL RENEWAL OF FISHING AT ST ANDREWS, AFTER THE LOSS OF THE \" OLD FISHERMEN\" IN 1765. \"That ever this fellow should have fewer words Than a parrot, and yet the son of a woman.\" — Shakespeare. After the loss of the five yawls in 1765, fishing in St Andrews, as a trade, entirely ceased. There was no supply for the citizens. What fish came at all, came from \" the coast,\" as Kingsbarns, Crail, or Anstruther, or other sea-coast towns were then popularly caUed, which kept up the supply in very much the same way as St Andrews afterwards supplied such inland places as Ceres and Cupar with this important requisite of the table. The wreck of the little fleet of boats, with most of their crews, stiU known as the \" Old Fishermen,\" gradually lost the power of deterring others to start again, as it were, at the very commencement of fishing in the City, but which made such a tardy and timid headway that, owing to some trifling dispute as to the inadequate supply of fish, Cath cart Dempster — previously mentioned — having a small estate in Shetland, proposed to the Town Council to bring two boats and crews from Brassey Sound, and to give each man 10s. a-week, when they could not get to sea, and even pay them some money, besides the sale of the fish, when they went, pro viding they give the citizens the first chance of aU the fish they caught, at a fair price- — the men to be called the \" Town's Fishers,\" and the fish to be exposed for sale at the public \" Common-House\" or Butter Market, attached to the old Town Hall, which then stood in the middle of Market Street. Accordingly, two Shetland yawls, with six of a crew each, came to St Andrews from Brassey Sound, in 1803. Mr Dempster got up a subscription, to carry out his views, in aid of the \" New E", "202 WRECK OF THE BRIG \" RISEBOROUGH,\" IN OCTOBER 1841. WRECK OF THE BRIG \" RISEBOROUGH,\" IN OCTOBER 1841. \" It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.\" The large brig \" Riseborough,\" of Shields, about 300 tons register (11 of a crew), from America to St Andrews with timber for Mr James Gibson, was in Tay windbound, or wait ing for spring tides. She was the largest he ever freighted. Gibson, anxious to have her round, as the tides were at their highest, went along to Jack Wilson's house about nine o'clock at night — which, with the exception of the barley miller's and the two pubUcans', was the only dwelling-house then on the shore. It was at the north end, next the cellars — below the Bell Rock Tavern. \" Are you in, Jack ?\" \" Ay, Mr Gibson ;. what is it you want V \" I want you to gang to Tayport and fetch the brig round. You ken she's drawin' fourteen feet, and the day after to-morrow's the highest tide ; so, if she does not come round soon, she'U no get in for a fortnight.\" \"Very weU, Mr Gibson, I'll go ; but it's a long road, and it is dark — I would like some one with me,\" replied John, in what is called English — for sometimes Jack liked to tip the English when on duty or spinning a yarn — especially when half -seas over. \" You're no feared to pass St Michael's Wood, are you, John V \" I'm not afraid to pass St Michael's Wood, Strathtyrum Wood, or any other wood, sir ; but it's a long, dark road, and I would like company.\" \"Well, well,\" said Gibson, \"Thomas Goodfellow will gang wi' you.\" So it was settled that Wilson, the pilot, and auld Tam Goodfellow, the fisherman, should leave at ten o'clock, and trudge the ten miles to Tayport, where they arrived long after midnight — no doubt more tired than if they had been in a yawl on her native element. After boarding — along with Davie Henderson, the pilot there, they weighed anchor, and, with reefed topsaUs — as it blew very strong from W.S.W. — went down Tay with the afternoon's ebb, rounded the buoy, and beat up the bay, with her light signals burning all night. It fell calm. They cast anchor, pretty well out, exactly as the eight o'clock bell was ringing — which they easily heard — the wind being off-shore. The night looked bad — the wind shifted to N.N.E. Expecting a gale, they double-reefed the topsails, preparing for the worst. About ten o'clock the cook, being on the first watch, came below, and said the wind was piping, and", "CONCLUDING REMARKS. 421 trious Scottish fishermen. If England wiU make orphans and widows by forcing people to go to sea, let her — but let Scotland preserve her old and hardy Pictish system of fishing on her prolific East Coast. THE \" ROB ROY\" S.S. LOST ON THE CARR, NOVEMBER 24TH 1883. \" He's weel worthy sorrow that buys it.\" \" He's an Aberdeen man, tak' his word again.\" This steamer, 48 tons register, with five of a crew, from Glasgow, with a general cargo for Perth, came through the Canal on the 22nd. On Friday night, the 23rd, her lights were seen on this side of the Carr, and how she got on the Carr brigs on Saturday morning is not known. Unfortunately the mate was drowned, clinging to her when she sank. The captain and others landed in their boat. About eight feet of her mast was under water. She Ues half-way between the mainland and the Beacon. THE \" DAVID MALCOLM\" BARQUE SHORT OF PROVISIONS, NOVEMBER 25TH 1883. \" Here the chapman biUies tak' their stand .An' shaw their bonny waUies.\" — Fergusson. This barque, 509 tons register, thirteen of a crew, with iron ore and esparto grass, from PhUipsviUe — a French port in Africa — for Kincardine-on-Forth, cast anchor in the Bay on Saturday night, the 24th. On Sabbath he hoisted his ensign. A fishing boat went off. Captain Rogers made a bargain for £2, to be taken ashore and brought off again with provisions, for, having been 79 days on the voyage (knocking about in the Atlantic) he was short. He was taken off, and sailed on Tues day night, the 27th. She landed the grass — the iron being for North Shields wUl doubtless be landed there as safely as I have landed these little sketches here. CONCLUDING REMARKS, WHICH ARE BETTER \" LATE THAN NEVER.\" \" Yet Thrift, industrious bides her latest days, Tho' Age, her sair dowed front wi' runcles wave, Yet, frae the russet lap the spindle plays, Her e'enin' stent reels she as weel's the lave.\" Fergusson — Burns' elder brother in the Muses. It is worthy of remark that after the wreck of the \" Merlin\" and destruction of ships on the East Coast a feeling was revived in the city to have a national harbour of refuge at Kinkell Ness," ]

[ "• CANNA AND ITS PEOPLE. 113 the sea sparkles and freshens full of life. But to swim in a dead calm is dreadful to a sensitive man. Something mesmeric grips and weakens him. If the water be deep, he feels dizzy, as if he were suspended far up in the air. We are harping on delicate mental chords, and forgetting Canna ; yet we have been musing in such a mood as Canna must inevitably awaken in all who feel the world. She is so lonely, so beautiful ; and the seas around her are so full of sounds and sights that seize the soul. There is nothing mean, or squalid, or miserable about Canna ; but she is melancholy and subdued — she seems, like a Scandinavian Havfru, to sit with her hand to her ear, earnestly listening to the sea. That, too, is what first strikes one in the Canna people — their melancholy look ; not grief-worn, not sorrowful, not passionate, but simply melancholy and subdued. We cannot believe they are unhappy beyond the lot of other people who live by labour, and it is quite certain that, in worldly circumstances, they are much more comfortable than the Highland poor are generally. Nature, however, with her wondrous secret influences, has subdued their lives, toned their thoughts, to the spirit of the island where they dwell. This is more particularly the case with the women. Poor human souls, with that dark, searching look in the eyes, those feeble flutterings of the lips ! They speak sad and low, as if somebody were sleeping close by. When they step forward and ask you to walk into the dwelling, you think (being new to their ways) that some one has just died. All at once, and inevitably, you hear the leaden wash of the sea, and you seem to be walking on a grave. ' A ghostly people !' exclaims the reader ; ' keep me from Canna !' That is an error. The people do seem ghostly at first, their looks do sadden and depress ; but the feeling soon 8", "GLIMPSES OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES, 191 foreground, and thence the numerous ocean fjords, branching this way and that like the stems of seaweeds, stretch glistening westward into the land. A little inland, a number of huts cluster, like beavers' houses, on the site of a white highway ; and along the highway peasant men and women, mounted or afoot, come wandering down to the port. Far as the eye can see the land is quite flat and low, scarcely a hillock breaking the dead level until the rise of a row of low sandhills on the very edge of the distant sea. The number of fjords and lagoons, large and small, is almost inconceivable ; there is water every where, still and stagnant to the eye, and so constant in its pre sence that the mind can scarcely banish the fancy that this land is some floating, half-substantial mass, torn up in all places to show the sea below. The highway meanders through the marshes until it is quite lost on the other side of the island, where all grows greener and brighter, the signs of cultivation more noticeable, the human habitations more numerous. Far away, on the long black line of the marshes, peeps a spire, and the white church gleams below, with schoolhouse and hovels clustering at its feet. A prospect neither magnificent nor beautiful, yet surely full of fascination ; its loneliness, its piteous human touches, its very dreariness, win without wooing the soul. And if more be wanted, wait for the rain — some thin cold ' smurr ' from the south, which will clothe the scene with grey mist, shut out the distant sea, and, brooding over the desolate lagoons, draw from them pale and beautiful rainbows, which come and go, dissolve and grow, swift as the colours in a kaleidoscope, touching the dreariest snatches of water and waste with all the wonders of the prism. Or if you be a fair-weather voyager, afraid of wetting your skin, wait for the sunset. It will not be such a sunset as you have", "286 THE HEBRID ISLES. day. The sun had drunk all the dew off the heather, and the very bogs looked dry and brown. Below there was a glimpse of the Lone AA'ater, glassy, calm, and black as ebony. A few steps downward, still downward, and the golden day was dim ming into shadow. Coming suddenly on Loch Corruisk, I seemed in a moment surrounded with twilight. I paused close to the corry, on a rocky knoll, with the hot sun in my eyes ; but before me the shadows lay moveless — not a glimmer of sunlight touched the solemn Mere — everywhere the place brooded in its own mystery, silent, beautiful, and dark. To speak in the first place by the card, Corruisk, or the Corry of the AA'ater, is a wild gorge, oval in shape, about three miles long and a mile broad, in the centre of which a sheet of water stretches for about two miles, surrounded on every side by rocky precipices totally w-ithout vegetation and towering in one sheer plane of livid rock, until they mingle with the wildly picturesque and jagged outlines of the topmost peak of the Cuchullins. Directly on entering its sombre darkness, the student is inevitably reminded of the awful region of Malebolge : ' Luogo e in Inferno detto Malebolge Tutto di pietra e di color ferrigno, Come la cerchia, che d'intorno '1 volge.' The Mere is black as jet, its waters only broken and bright ened by four small grassy islands, on the edges of the largest of which that summer day the black-backed gulls were sitting, with the feathery gleam of their shadows faintly breaking the glassy blackness below them. These islands form the only bit of vegetable green in all the lonely prospect. ■ Close to the shores of the loch, and at the foot of the crags, there are dark brown stretches of heath ; but the heights above them are leafless as the columns of a cathedral." ]

[ "12 DESCRIPTIVE OUTLINE education. They have not the moral means of improving their country, or of being improved by it; and oppressed by these and other disadvantages, they naturally yield to habits of indolence and inac- tivity. The Town, or rather the secluded Village, in which they live, is generally the seat of govern- ment of the province, and but too often affords a sad political picture. People Avho, although they are now free, were brought up under the dark tyranny of the Spanish government, with the narrow prejudices which even in populous countries exist among the inhabitants of small communities, and Avith little or no educa- tion, are called upon to elect a governor, and to establish a junta, to regulate the affairs of their own province, and to send a deputy to a distant national assembly at Buenos Aires. The conse- quence (as I have Avitnessed) is what might na .turally be expected. The election of the governor is seldom unanimous, and he is scarcely seated before he is oAerturned, in a manner which, to one accustomed to governments on a larger scale, ap- pears childish and ridiculous. In more than one province the governor is ex-", "13 OF THE PAMPAS. ceedingly tyrannical: in the others, the governor and the junta appear to act for the interests of their own province ; but their funds are so small, and the internal jealousies they have to encounter so great, that they meet Avith continual difficulties ; and Avith respect to acting for the national interest, the thing is impossible. How can it be expected that people of very slender incomes, and in very small insulated societies, Avill forget their own nar- row interests for the general welfare of their coun- try? It is really against Nature, for what is po- litically termed their country, is such an immense space, that it must necessarily become the future. seat of many different communities of men ; and if these communities, hoAvever enlightened they may become, will never be able to conquer that feeling Avhich endears them to their homes, or the centri- fugal prejudice with Avhich they view' their neigh- bours, how can it be expected that a feeble govern- ment and a few inhabitants can do Avhat civilization has not yet been able to perform ; or that the political infant will not betray those frailties Avhich his manhood will be incapable of overcoming. And the fact is, that each Province does view its neigh-", "THE PAMPAS. 239 neck to avoid the branches of the trees. The car riage road is a space cleared of large trees, but it is often covered Avith bushes, which bend under the carriage in a most extraordinary manner. I arrived at the post some hours before the car riage, and had supper ready by the time it arrived. This post is only one stage from St. Luis ; the postmaster is the brother of the governor of the province, and he Avas at St. Luis Avhen I arrived, but his capataz asked me, Avith great seriousness of countenance, whether I Avas the person Avho had galloped after the judge at the Desaguadero, in order to shoot him. He told me that the said Juez had just passed, and had taken a fresh horse to get to St. Luis before I arrived there. We slept that night at the post, or rather on the ground before it ; and it was curious, in the morning, to see the dif ferent groups of people, who had also slept there, dressing themselves ; — men, Avomen, and children, were ad sitting up as if just risen from the grave — some were scratching themselves, some were rubbing their eyes, some putting on'-their hide sandals ; — the hens Avere pecking about them, particularly round the table at which we had supped. The" ]

[ "6 nen, die früher nur Wenigen zugänglich waren und die ich znm Theil in den Zeiten des Indisscrentismus und der Ver nachlässigung vor dem Untergange gerettet habe. 1) Das alte, auf Pergament geschriebene Privilegien buch, das, als ich es zur Einsicht auf kurze Zeit erhielt, bereits defekt war (Blatt 42, 43 und 44 war herausge schnitten). Es ist von der Mitte des 14. bis zu Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts geschrieben. 2) Das alte Rathsbuch, ebenfalls ein Pergament-Coder. Es besteht jetzt noch aus 22 Blättern, uud ist jede Seite in Columnen getheilt. Die Hauptfache ist im 15. Jahrhundert geschrieben, Anderes später. Es enthält Znnftbriefe, Raths protokolle, velschiedene Eide u. dg!. m. 3) Papier-Coder aus der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahr hunderts. Er enthält die Znnftbriefe sämmtlicher Züufte (wovon fpäter ein Näheres). 4) Ein Heft, wovon noch 13 Pergamentblätter übrig waren, ist mir vor mehreren Jahren zu Gesicht gekommen. Es enthielt 18 (zum Theil später gedruckte) Urkunden bis zum Jahr 1443. 5) Papier-Coder, wovon die 61 ersten Blätter theilweise beschrieben stnd. Er enthält die Schriften, welche sich auf den in den Jahren 1389 bis 1425 zwischen Stadt und Burg entstandenen Streit beziehen, namentlich: Beschuldi gungen gegen die Burg, Rechtfertigung der Stadt an den zum Bundesrichter ernannten Erzbischof von Mainz, An sprüche der Burgmannen, Anlaß- nnd Sühnbriefe, Verhand lungen über das Ungelt ic. 6) Papier-Coder mit ungefähr 75 beschriebenen Blättern aus dem Anfange des 16. Jahrhunderts. Er enthält eine Anzahl Verordnungen, Auszüge aus früheren Raths-Pro tokollen.", "36 griffen Schranken zu setze», dem auch bald willfahrt wurde. Auf jede» Fall war Rudolph der Burg fehr gewogen uud der damalige Burggraf im Anfehe». So ertheilte cr im Jahr 1275 u. A. demfelbe» deu Auftrag, das Kloster Ret ters zu schütze»; so auch war auf die Klage des Burggra fe» das bei Ramholz im Kurhessifchen gelegene Schloß Steckelberg, von wo aus viele Räubereien verübt wurden, durch Reinhard von Hanau zerstört, und von Rudolph der Befehl ertheilt worden, daß es nicht wieder aufgebant werden solle.*) Nm diese Zeit, es mochten wohl schon 30 Jahre nach Friedrichs II. Tode sein, trat zuerst in Cöln und danu iu Neuß eiu Mann auf, der sich für dc» längst verstorbenen Kaiser Friedrich, mit welchen, er in der That Aehnlichkeit gehabt haben soll und auch bekannt war, aus gab. Seine Zeitgenossen nennen ihn Thile (oder Thilo) Kolup; andere sagen, er habe Friedrich Holstuch oder Holt schuh geheißen. In damaliger Zeit konnte wohl ein solcher Betrug Glauben finden; an verschiedenen Orten fiel man ihm zu; mehrere Städte, namentlich auch die wetteraui schcn Reichsstädte, selbst mehrere Fürsten neigten sich zu ihm hin. Thile Kolup begab sich später nach Wetzlar, das ihm seine Thore öffnete. Als König Rudolph das erfuhr, brach er auf und näherte sich dcr Stadt, vie anfänglich zö gerte, ihn aufzunehmen. Da er jedoch mit der Erstürmung derfelben drohte, unterwarf sie sich, und Rudolph ließ den Betrüger in dem noch jctzt danach benannten Kaisers- Grund, einem engen an einem AbHange gelegenen Thal chcn, mit zwei seiner Anhänger verbrennen. Andere erzäh len, er sei in Neuß, die Molther'sche Chronik gibt an, er sei in Friedberg verbrannt worden (1285).**) ') Gründl. Untersuchung, ob die von Carben lc, T, 5. \") Vieles ist darüber gesammelt in Ulmen stein, Geschichte v, Wetz- lar I,, 157 ff.", "306 Baur') ein Siegel des Burggrafen Ludolf; e« ist dreieckig unb zeig! den einköpsigen, rechts schauende» Adler, Unterm Jahr l243 erscheint als Siegel der Burgmänner ein zirkelrundes Schild mit einem recht« schauenden Adler und der Umschrift: 8I6II>IaVN. 0L8^IiI8. M, i-ÜI- DüLIÜIiU, \") Nicht lange nachher sehen wir das eigentliche Burg siegel, welches mit dem von 1233 einige Aehnlichkeit hat. Es ist dreieckig, die 2 oberen Ecken jedoch abgerundet. Der nach links (heral disch) schauende Reichsadler hat eine dreiklobige Krone und wie gewöhn lich sehr langen Schweif. Umschrift: 8, Vniv(o!-)8ll,-<um) 0ll8tren3iu(m) in Vreäeberi-z So beschreibt es auch Baur'\") von einer Urkuude von 1253 und 1289. Ei» weit späteres Siegel, welche« am Titel und Ende einer im Jahr 1660 gegen die Stadt erschienenen Streitschrift -f) abgebildet ist, enthält den nach rechts schauenden Reichsadler, in seiner rechten Klaue das Ritterschild — Ritter St, Georg — in der Linke» da« Stadtschild — schwarz und weiß getheilt — und hat die Umschrift: 8i8i!!um luäieii ll»3ti-i tAiäburß, -f-f) Die aus reinen lat. Majuskeln bestehende Umschrift beweist schon, daß es ei» Werk späterer Zeit und schwerlich vor 1500 verfertigt ist. Noch deutlicher geht dies aus den 2 angehängten Wappen hervor. Im Allgen, eine» ka»» man annehmen, je früher, desto einfacher ist das Siegel (Wappen) ; es ist sogar noch un bestimmt, ob der Kopf rechts oder links schaut. Das große über dem südliche» Thor der Burg in Slein gehauene Wappen hat den kaiserlichen Doppeladler, welcher über sich die an zwei Bändern hängende Kaiserkrone hält. Auf der Brust befindet sich ein »iergetheiltes Schild. Di« drei ersten, nämlich das obere rechts (heral disch) St. Georg zu Pferd, links der zweigcschwäuzte zum Grimm ge schickte Löwe mit einem Querbalken und unten rechts eine Burg niit 3 Thürmen, bilden zusammen das Wappen der millelrheinischen Rcichs ritterschast; das vierte, links unten, lst das schwarz uud weiß getheilte Schild der Stadt. Es rührt aus dem 17. Jahrhundert, Das Wappen der Stadt befindet sich über der Eingangsthür des Rathhaufes: der kai serl, Doppeladler, auf dessen Brust ein schwarz und weiß getheilter Schild, Das Siegel der Stadt Friedberg erscheint zuerst an einer Urkunde von 1245, -!\"!\"!-) Es ist abgebildet im Archiv für Hefs, Gcschichte (III, Bd, \") Daselbst No. 2l. \") Daselbst No, 34, '\") Daselbst No. 223. 5) Gründl. u. kurtzer Bericht In Sachen zwifchen Bürgt und Stadt Friedberg, -j-j-) Ich habe einen scharfen Abdruck des Siegels vor mir, welcher die Umschrift führt: 8i-zi!I»m Mäie^ e28ti ?riäburß, -l-i-t) Baur, Urk, des Kl. Arnsburg No. 39." ]

[ "65 MORAL AND LITERARY. What I now say may be attributed to inter ested adulation. I regard not the imputation , for it is not just. I never heard any ill of the man, or of the minister, which proceeded not from the venomous tongue of faction ; and I know that he has steered the vessel of state amidst such storms as would have dasted it in pieces, if those patriots, who increased the tem pest, that they might make themselves necessary in the distress , had been employed as pilots. — ■ And, injustice to the writer, let it be remem bered , that this minister was out of place when this essay was first made public, and had not of fended his admirers by an unexpected coalition. As party discolors all objects, it is not easy to judge with certainty the characters of states men ; but who can deny the praise of heroic vir tue to a Howard? N° X. The respettable character of the clergy. JLt seems probable at first sight , that an order of men who devote themselves entirely to the instruction of their fellow-creatures, would be exempted from envy and from hatred. As their studies are peaceable , and their labors directed to the diffusion of goodness, and consequently of tranquillity, both public and private, it is natural to suppose, that the better part of the world would view them with favor, and that", "MORAL AND LITERARY. 233 agriculture: a delightful employment, and capa ble of producing great advantages, since agricul ture has long been in the hands of those , who, from the obstinacy of ignorance, oppose all at tempts to introduce new methods of cultivation. You will adorn your grounds with plantations, and not forget to drop the acorn , which is to supply your country with her suture bulwarks. You will adopt something of the old British hospitality. You will , indeed , do right to select your guests; for indiscriminate hospitality tends only to promote gluttony, and discourage merit. Men of learning, and all good men, for your own fake and for theirs , ought to claim your exclusive favor. Let your feasts be feasts where the mind, as well as the palate, may be delight ed. Discountenance the profligacy of your neigh bours by the silent but powerful reproof of ne glect. Be not carried away by the fascination of fashion and grandeur , but love and cherish merit in all its obscurities. Free from all professional avocations , you will have ample leisure to attend to your family; a field well fitted for the display of the best vir tues and most valuable qualities. Every family is a little community, and he who governs it well, supports a very noble character, that of the paler familias , or the patriarch. The pro per management of the various tempers and dispositions which compose large families , the reformation of abuses , the correction of errors. the teaching of duties, will by themselves claim i. iC", "N° 38. 250 ESSAYS, taught compendious methods of supply, of de fence , and of remedy. The use of iron , once discovered, gave him the superiority of a more elevated order of beings over those to whom it continued unknown, and the dominion which he acquired over the brutes , exalted him still higher in the scale of dignity and power. But though labor was facilitated and security obtained , yet neither mechanical ingenuity, nor the protection gained by adventitious power, could allay the heat of a fever, or assuage the violence of pain; evils which attacked him in the hours of his repose, and found their way to him through the walls of the rampart or the castle. The personal feelings of the sufferer, and the anxiety of those who were most nearly allied to him by the ties of blood and affection , incited the spirit of industry and research to procure alleviation. Charms and amulets were the first expedients suggested to the rude mind of the barbarian , ever more inclined to indulge the delusive hopes of superstition , than to listen to the voice of sober reason. But even these ex pedients, inadequate as, they appeared , were yet often productive of beneficial effects. Many dis orders, if not quite imaginary, derived much of their violence from the force of imagination. From the fame source their cure was to be obtain ed. A bead worn a certain time, an insignificant ceremony performed with the rituals of super stition , could not effect any immediate alteration in the animal œconomy; but they gave ease to" ]

[ "\"I THINK, SIR, I'LL GO NOW, i'vE HAD ENOUGH TOR ONE DAY.' Page 50. B", "THE MERCHANT ORDERED HIM TO GO OPP AS FAST AS HE COULD AND BUY HIM £10,000 WORTH OF TRUNKS AT 90. Page 77.", "CURED BY AN INCURABLE. 82 he, and such as he, help, must want the comforts which she had. It will be hke keeping on helping his Uttle Mary, long after she has gone ; and it wiU be like giving her pleasure, for this is what she would greatly wish.\" -.f For eight-and-twenty days not a sound was heard in Partington Street ; the neighbours aU around where Mr. Anton Uved, said they never saw so much straw in any street before. It lay thick, not only opposite Mr. Anton's house, but up and down, so that the place, so far as sound went, was almost hke the abode of the dead. The monkey man was paid out into some far-off distance, even along the pavement the passers-by seemed to go with gentle tread. \" One touch of nature makes the whole world kin ; \" and as it had got abroad that an operation had been performed on which hung hfe and death, Mary Anton seemed for awhUe to become the common property and interest of the street. \" Vake up, mine dear sare,\" said Dr. Defosse to an elderly gentle man, a few days after the last operation had been performed ; which elderly gentleman was Mr. Anton, who had kept to his room in a dreamy kind of state, ever since the eventful afternoon in which, escorted by the head clerk (and for prudence' sake, by the book-keeper also) he had been driven home in a cab. \"I return now to mine own country vid a Ught heart. Dis leetle daughter skip hke wild goat ; she fly about Uke vat you caU him — shuttlecock ; aU go weU. Dis friend of yours, Doctor Jacobus Smid, carry on de case ; skilful man, understand de whole business to de end. Accept mine best compliments, I \"make mine adieus ; \" and finishing off with haU a dozen bows Dr. Defosse departed, leaving poor Mr. Anton in a haU bewUdered state. Dr. Jacobus and Miss Gribble, harnessing themselves to Mr. Anton's haU comatose mind, by degrees puUed him out of the lethargic state into which he had faUen, so that he became conscious that the dreaded event had come off and past, and was leaving a blessing behind it. Slowly, but surely, Mr. Anton came to understand that his child might yet be weU, and be Uke other girls, and have hfe, and sunshine, and laughter, and joy ; that Use's music, and colour, and perfume should be for her as it was for others. But for the present neither could he see her, nor she him. StiU, upon father and daughter" ]

[ "154 KONDOU. he expected ere long to hear of my arrival in the moon. We quitted the fortress and resumed our jour ney along the lines ; by midnight we had made but thirty miles along a snowless desert pasture. The night was exceedingly cold, and I suffered from want of exercise, being in an open sledge : the thermometer stood at 36°. My companions here became alarmed at the difficulties which presented themselves against our progress, as well from the want of snow as from that of horses. They consequently determined to return by the route they had come ; but for myself, I had long made it a settled plan never to go over the same road while another is practicable, and therefore determined to proceed alone. I felt regret at parting company with my friends, but it must have taken place soon, as from their continual stoppages for rest and refreshment, I must have determined to out sail them. The quantity of their baggage, with three servants to attend them, rendered it also impossible for them to keep pace with me who was alone, with a knapsack only ; and, indeed, the inconveniences and difficulties which afterwards happened to me, proved the prudence of their decision. I reached Kondou, forty miles, by a fine road, having previously come through a small fabric,", "OLD KIAFHTA. 175 hospitality, and friendship of the Accouratnoy, (that is, the peculiarly correct) chief. The pro priety and decorum visible in the establishment of this gentleman, the accomplishments of his very amiable lady, and the superior education of his infant family, are of more value, and far more interesting, than any thing else I had seen in Kiakhta. Among other instances of attentive kindness on the part of the chief, I may mention my having been presented with a curious map of the Chinese Empire, with Russian notes, and which will be found, by those who are desirous of seeing it, in the British Museum, to which I presented it. Provisions are dear, bread fifteen pence for forty pounds, meat one penny a pound, and other things in proportion. The merchants live well, and evince an air of liberality and good faith, which I have not seen with people of their class in other parts of Siberia or Russia ; some of them are immensely rich, having settled here from Moscow, Kazan, Tobolsk, Irkutsk, Wologda, Kalouga, and Nishney Novgorod. One of them, a Mr. Siberikoff, belonging to Irkutsk, and who has been three times elected mayor, has lately opened a new and splendid residence to his friends, the bare walls of which cost two hun dred thousand roubles. The whole expenses, including its magnificent furniture from Europe,", "272 ST. PETERSBURG. exactly three years and three weeks, and to which I had returned in infinitely better health than when I left it. I was soon engaged at all sorts of dinners and entertainments, but was too anxious to get a pas- sage by ship to the land of malt, to allow my ac- cepting them. I engaged the cabin of the Peter Proctor, the master of which ship had, on that day three months, dined with my father in Dominique, and left him in health and happiness : this news was a gratification I did not expect to experience sd soon. The vessel being to depart with the first fair wind, I had but time to pay my respects to the Count Kotchoubey, my friend and protector. I tendered to his Excellency my journal, offering to leave it in Russia, should his Excellency desire it. The Count said, \" No, take it to England, pub- fish the tnith, and you will do more good than fabri- cating or inventing things which do not exist. Tell the people of England how you have been treated in Russia, but at the same time let us know what you have seen.\" I left his Excellency, who was on a sick bed, penetrated with the highest senti ments for his virtues -jnd affability, and paying my respects also to Sir Charles Bagot, and Sir Daniel Bailey, I completed my official reports at the court of St. Petersburg — with the exception of one to the Governor-general, Count Miloradovitch, re-" ]

[ "43 KATE PUNISHES BERNARD CLIVE. hatred which was basely ungrateful ; for she was doing her very best to amuse him, chattering away at the top of her high, viva cious voice, with Httle \" staccato \" notes of exclamation, and shrill interludes of youthful laughter bubbling up, as it were, from the very overflowing of her joyous nature. \" I went to the florist's about the Easter decorations,\" she was saying, leaning over the hapless Herbert, and writing fresh testimonies on bis broadcloth with the hook aforemen tioned. \" You told mamma that you wanted to have all the details arranged a good while beforehand, this year ; so I went at once ; and — oh, fancy ! — I walked aU the way alone ! It was in the afternoon too ; and mamma was quite shocked. She said, ' Flora, I can't aUow it. Suppose some rude man was to speak to you ! ' and indeed I did feel a Httle nervous ; but I knew no one has flowers like Tickings, and I put on a thick, thick veil — oh ! I don't think even you would have known me — but just fancy being seen alone, and nearly a mile ! and people do say such things if a girl is at all — you know — independent ;", "DICK'S DIFFICULTIES. 85 The tone was a sufficient barometer. It pointed full to \" stormy ; \" and Kate, Hke an astute mariner (Ah, me ! how weatherwise women at home get in such matters), took in saff and tacked to leeward on the instant. \" WeU, don't be vexed with me, Dick, darling. I didn't mean to tease you. It's so joUy being out together again, isn't it ? Just look how the trees are budding, and those dear httle crocuses poking up their wee heads out of the mould. I suppose it is quite spring-like in the country.\" \" H'm, no. Don't think so. Not that I've seen much of it. Those duns have taken good care I shouldn't, and be hanged to them ! \" \" Dick, dear, don't use bad language ; it isn't pretty. And what business have you to be dunned ? Why don't you hve within your income, sir? — and how much is it for this time?\" Kate thought she had put the question now very Hghtly and pleasantly ; and she stretched out her hand to give a pleasant Httle pat to the neck of Dick's steed at the same", "90 PRETTY MISS BELLEW. dear — and then \" (hurriedly, lest her hero should be displeased) \" mother may not have it to give. Five hundred pounds, did you say? Dick, I am almost sure she has not. She was saying only yesterday that she had run very short this quarter.\" \" Can't she seU out something ? \" \" Dick, I didn't mean to teU you, but the trustees were very angry with her for selling out last time for you. They said it was not fair to the other boys. You know that though everything was left to her, it was only for life, and \" Dick interiTipted her by an impatient ex clamation, and a cut at his horse's flanks, which made the injured animal jump and bound from side to side in a manner rather unpleasant to Kate, whose own steed 'was spirited and easily frightened. \" What possessed my father to make such a wffl ? \" he cried indignantly. \" It is a shame ful injustice. Just to think of a feUow of my age utterly dependent on his mother — obhged to go to her for eveiy sixpence, and screwed and cramped and lectured Hke a baby ! Kate," ]