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[ "7 I'i.wn-h.all, li.i-le. The Town-hall (Rath-/, an intei of the sixti he Rhim ound the fountains w i ,Und in B may usually b r-^n^^^S^^ ■1 the", "BELLIXZOXA. towards him. Perhaps his fairy bride could help him. When he told her of his thought, she smiled upon him brightly. * # * * * The tribute-day came; the Chapter was met in solemn conclave, and my lord Abbot on his carven seat was twiddling his white thumbs until the pro- ion should arrive from Urseren. A mountain-horn sounded at the gate. The wealthiest of the dalesmen entered with rustic gifts, and in their midst Otto the Handsome, in a green jerkin with silver tassels, and the gloves laid i charger in his hand. They were presented in form, on bended knee. My lord Abbot drew on the first, and his furrowed brow grew clear ; the second, and turning to his nephew he signed him to approach, and kissed him between the eves with these words, ' Peace be with thee, my son. Sure never were such gloves seen before in Switzerland. Ask of me what thou wilt ; it is granted.' Trembling, yet radiant, Otto withdrew, the Abbot still rding hi They were indeed marvellous with broidery, small gems, and golden thread. But he knew not that their subtle perfume was a fairy ee, and that he himself, holy man ! was bewitched. Otto reappeared, and led by the hand the beautiful White Lady. With priestly grace, the Abbot rose and kissed her brow. ' By mine head,' he cried '(now the holy Saints forgive me), by Saint Placidus himself, I vow this lady ir to be a heathen ; and maybe,' he added, with a pleasant smile, fingering his own well-shaped chin, 'thou, mine Otto, art too handsome for a monk. Be it as thou wilt ; I have no further wish to hinder thee from so fair a wife.' BELLI N ZONA. Bellinzona is, alternately with Lugano and Locarno, the capital ofthe canton Ticino. Its situation at the junction of the great roads leading over the St. Gothard and St. Bernardino Passes to the fertile plain of Lombardy has always made it a thriving, commercial town and an important strategic position. The Swiss obtained pi n of it and the adjacent territory for a nominal sum paid to its feudal lord, whose ancestors had wem it from the Dukes of Milan. Disre- iing this purchase, Philip Maria Visconti, on the first favourable opportunity, captured Bellinzona, and, in the battle of Arbedo (1422), drove the Swiss from the Leventina. lhe*)-, however, twice re-captured it, ' by the help of God and their halberts;' and from the beginning of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century it was governed in a most despotic manner by the", "LAKE OE Ci 48 A pleasant road of about eighteen miles leads from Lugano to ( ing the former town it skirts the eastern side of Monte Salvatorc* to the village of Mclidi the lake is considerably narrowed by a small water here is so shallow that a i iy has been built to connect the two banks. On reaching Bissonc at the eastern extremity of this causeway, the road runs by the eastern shore of the southern arm of the lake wliich it leaves at Capolago. At Mendrisio, a few miles farther on, omnibuses may be procured for ( Camerlata. LAKE OF COMO (continued). The chief vi ing on either side of the lake from Como to Men. the soil mntry near them all is delightful, and the whole district is thickly studded with villas, to many of which access is easily gained. ern shore). — The hotel now* called Regina d'Ing/iilterra, erl)- tin I'Este, v ome time the residence of Queen Caroline. This village may be made the starting-point for the ascent, an easy one, of which rises to the north of it. The view from the summit far as Monte Rosa. Monte Bisbino, barometer to tin of the neighbourhood. rivalled Como in wealth and importance. It i, taken and by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century, anel has nevi rmer position. In the angle of the little bay, which lies aids the Villa Pliniana, a large but >my structure of the latter part of tlie sixteenth century. It derives its name from . pring, accurately described by Pliny the You) which ebbs and flows daily. short distance from the lake. In its neighbourhood . th origin of which was due to accident. An engineer, in arge mass of rock, and thus opened a pa: ui stream, which burst out of the mountain side. Thc two falls are formed in sui ne is 75 feet, the other 130. collection of antiquities, found on the shores of th eed here in the Villa of Count l'assalacqua. 1) is principally celebrated for a large pyramid erected to ph Fran, ia, who left 25,000 francs to immortalise his own memory in this foolish way. At - rn, Puea dt If Orso, in which, some years ago, lAund a large number of bones, principally of the cave-bear, which excited" ]

[ "3 OH AM I NOT A LOVER STILL? Oh ! am I not a lover still. In heart and soul the same — As Avhen I sought thy bower first, And learnt to breathe thy name ? Oh ! look I not as proud of thee ? Oh ! speak I not as kind ? And Avhen I leaAe thee, do I not Leave joy itself behind ? The love I offered long ago, Is but matured by time ; As tendrils round their chosen bough, Cling closer as they climb : Then am I not a lover still, In heart and soul the same, As when I sought thy bower first, And learnt to breathe thy name ? b 2", "50 At the Avell a Beggar accosted them, (A Sprite in a mean disguise ;) The Eldest spoke with a scornful broAv, The Youngest Avith tearful eyes : Cried the Fairy \" whenever you speak, sweet girl, \" Pure gems from your lips shall fall ;\" \" But AvheneA'er you utter a word, proud maid, \" From your tongue shall a serpent craAvl.\" And have you not met with these sisters oft In the haunts of the old and young ? They..../ Avith her pure and unsullied lip ? The last with her serpent tongue ? Yes — the first is Goodnature — diamonds bright On the darkest theme she throws ; And the last is Slander — leaving the slime Of the snake Avherever she goes !", "57 LORD HARRY HAS WRITTEN A NOVEL Lord Harry has Avritten a Novel, A story of elegant life ; No stuff about love in a hovel, No sketch of a cIoavii and his wife : No trash such as pathos, and passion, Fine feelings, expression, and wit, But all about people of fashion, Come look at his caps, how they fit ! Oh, Radcliffe ! thou once Avert the charmer Of girls who sat reading all night ; Thy Heroes Avere striplings in armour ! Thy Heroines damsels in Avhite ! But past are thy terrible touches, Our lips in derision Ave curl, Unless we are told hoAV a Duchess Conversed Avith her cousin, the Earl ! i" ]

[ "A gratis FOR g>tr Samuel _&omtllp.", "10 Nor bolts, nor bars, liad I been thee 5 should e'er Have kept me from that interesting room : Physicians were but second to thy cart, For friendship might have stay'd the dreadful doom But, O forgive, forgive me, for I rave ! So blame attach'd to them — attached to tliee ; One wish pervaded all — the wish to sa\\e; For where was one as great as good as he ? '* A man he was to all the country dear ;\" Nay the whole globe, where'er his fame lias spread, Will not refuse to worth, like his, the tear ; For, once united, all will mourn the dead. ■ Had he a fault ? and who is faultless found r 1 His very faults inclined to virtue's side i\" 1 His principles correct, his judgment sound — Quick in decision. O, he was our pride ? As scholar, speaker, lawyer, statesman, all — He shone pre-eminent — a brilliant star : Nor were his aids 'gainst slavery few or small, The friend of freedom and the foe of war. c 2", "28 great reluctance the day aster Lady Romilly's death, but he declared that -he would be governed entirely by Dr. Roget and his friends. On Friday night we slept at Winchester, on our w ay to town, being accompanied by Mrs. Davis, who is one of the sisters of Lady Romilly, as well as by Miss Romilly, Mr. Wm. Romilly, the eldest son, and some of Sir Samuel's servants. I travelled in the same chaise with Sir Samuel ; and on our arrival at Winchester, he said that he felt himself extremely exhausted. Dr. Roget slept in the same room with him at Winchester, and Sir Samuel was throughout the night extremely restless, as I understood from the Doctor. On the next morning Sir Samuel showed marks of agitation, which he tried to subdue. He was continually tearing his gloves or the palms of his hands, or scratching his fingers and nose. Some blood came from his nose. When we arrived at an inn at Murrel Green, which is two stages from Winchester, Sir Samuel was so weak that he could proceed no further : we therefore slept at that inn. Dr. Roget still slept in the same room with Sir Samuel. I had proposed to Sir Samuel not to go to Russell Square, but to take some other house for the present. He answered, that as he was likely to have a long illness, and to be laid up for some time, he preferred his own house. As he proceeded homewards, I ob served a more violent degree of irritation, with still more tearing of his hands and of his nose. Iu a moment when he was shut ting his eyes and wringing Iris hands, I took the hand of his daughter and placed it in his ; upon which, opening his eyes, he perceived what I had done, and casting upon me the most ex pressive look of gratitude and tenderness, he embraced his daughter. When we arrived at Russell Square, he made a great effort to compose himself, and went into his library, where he threw himself upon a sofa, in a state of calm, which appeared to me, who knew him so well, peculiarly frightful. In this situ ation he was for some moments joining his hands as if in a state of prayer. In a moment after he got up from the sofa, he took my arm, and walked with me about the two rooms. He appear-" ]

[ "342 HISTOIRE DE PARIS. Ki ou Mémoires sur V étude , les lundis et jeudis, à quatre heures du soir. Langue et littérature sanscrite : M. E. Burnous, membre de lTnsti tut, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, expliquera le troi sième livre de Manou, avec commentaire, le mercredi , et Rhagavad gitâ,ìe vendredi, à neuf heures et demie. Langue et littérature grecque : M. Boissonade , membre de lTnsti tut, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , expliquera YAntigotie de Sophocle, les mercredis et vendredis, à midi et demi Eloquence latine : M. Nizard, membre de lTnstitut, Académie française , continuera de traiter de la morale dans les écrits de Ci céron, Sénèque et des Pères de TEglise latine, les jeudis, à midi et demi. II s'occupera spécialement de la bienfaisance. Les lundis , à midi et demi , il fera une étude comparée des textes. Poésie latine : M. Tissot, membre de lTnstitut, Académie française, expliquera les Satires de Juvénal , comparées avec Perse, Horace, et avec les écrivains ou les orateurs chrétiens , considérés comme pein tres de mœurs, les mardis et samedis, à onze heures et demie. Philosophie grecque et latine : M. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, mem bre de lTnstitut, Académie des sciences morales et politiques, et, en son absence, M. A. Franck, membre de lTnstitut, Académie des scien ces morales et politiques, traitera de la philosophie grecque anté rieure à Socrate, les mardis et samedis, à deux heures et demie. Littérature française : M. J.-J. Ampère, membre de lTnstitut, Aca démie française et Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, et, en son absence, M. de Loménie , traitera du mouvement littéraire en France , depuis 1789 , les lundis, à midi, et les mercredis, à trois heures. Langues et littératures d'origine germanique : M. Philarète Chas les traitera, les mardis, à trois heures, des publications nouvelles les plus importantes de TAngleterre, des Etats-Unis et de TAlle magne, dans leurs rapports avec le mouvement de la civilisation ac tuelle. Les samedis , à dix heures et demie, il continuera Thistoire comparée des langues teutoniques, éclairée par Texplication des textes. Langues et littératures de TEuropeméridionale:M. E. Quinet, et, en", "HISTOIRE DE PARIS. 61 quatre-vingt-dix-neuf patrons , qui emploient deux mille cinq cent quarante-cinq hommes et six mille quarante-six femmes. La pro duction, qui se divise en spécialités très-distinctes, est de près de 30 millions par an. La passementerie parisienne emploie trois mille cent cinq mé tiers à tissus, dont plus de la moitié à la Jacquart-, deux mille huit cent douze mécaniques et machines diverses pour tresser, dévider, ourdir, laminer, cylindrer-, pour faire les ganses, les lacets, les cor dons, les épaulettes, etc., etc.; deux mille trois cent soixante quatorze rouets divers ; plus de dix-huit machines à vapeur et trois machines hydrauliques. La moyenne du salaire des femmes, employées en grand nombre dans les diverses parties de cette profession, est de 1 fr. 39 cent.; la moyenne du salaire des hommes est de 3 fr. 18 cent. Paris, à lui seul, fabrique chaque année des châles dont la valeur s'élève à 10 millions de francs. Cette fabrication met en mouvement sept cent cinquante-deux métiers à mécanique; plus, quatre cent quatre-vingts ourdissoirs et rouets; deux mille cinq cents travail leurs des deux sexes y sont employés; les hommes gagnent en moyenne 3 fr. 62 cent. ; le salaire des femmes n'atteint pas en moyenne le chiffre de 1 fr. par jour. Modistes. — Lingères. — Corsets. — Sous le nom de Modes, on désigne à Paris la confection des chapeaux, capotes, bonnets montés, coiffures de soirée et objets de fantaisie pour la toilette. Les gants, les lingeries, les broderies, la façon des robes entrent dans d'autres catégories. Paris compte huit cent soixante-dix-neuf magasins de modes : huit cent soixante-sept sont dirigés par des femmes. Ces maisons occupent un personnel de deux mille sept cent dix-sept ouvrières. Le chiffre des affaires de cette industrie est de 13 millions de francs. La moyenne du salaire des ouvrières est de 1 fr. 98 cent, par jour. Un grand nombre parmi elles sont payées à Tannée et logent chez leurs maîtresses. Quatre-vingt-dix-huit sur cent savent lire et écrire. L'industrie des modes compte six mois de morte-saison, trois d'été, trois d'hiver. Pendant ce temps, les maisons qui s'occupent de Te\\-", "HISTOIRE DE PAKIS. 339 Un terrain vague, encombré de matériaux de toute sorte, bornait Tédifice du côté de Saint-Germain-FAuxerrois. Ce terrain a été abaissé de manière à dégager le bandeau inférieur, enfoui jusqu'à ce jour, et à permettre à Tœil d'embrasser les parterres qu'on y a dessinés, du haut de la chaussée centrale, laissée de niveau avec le sol inté rieur de la cour et des vestibules. Une grille entoure cette enceinte et offre, dans la partie centrale, des panneaux de bronze surmontés d'aigles dorés et ornés du monogramme de TEmpereur. La décoration sculpturale et l'achèvement de la façade du Midi, nouvellement découverte, est une des œuvres qui honorent le plus le goût de notre époque. Au centre de cette immense façade, qui n'a pas moins de 130 mètres d'étendue, depuis le pavillon de Charles IX jusqu'au pavillon de Lesdiguières, s'élève un avant-corps formé par quatre colonnes isolées. De cet avant-corps au pavillon de Charles IX, Tordre du rez-de-chaussée, qu'une certaine combinaison déformes et de bossages a fait attribuer à Philibert Delorme, offrait seul des parties sculptées. La charmante frise du soubassement, qui représente des petits génies et des attributs marins, est due au ciseau de Pierre et de François L'Heureux. Quelques moulures des cadres qui ornent Tétage intermédiaire, quelques chapitaux de Tordre supérieur, avaient été à peine attaqués du temps de Henri IV, et dans les années de sa plus grande passion pour Gabrielle d'Estrées. Puis les travaux étaient restés suspendus jusqu'au moment où le régime de la Terreur de 1793 vint s'acharner contre cette façade inachevée. On dit que Robespierre avait donné Tordre brutal de faire dispa raître à coups de marteau tout ce qui pouvait rappeler la royauté, et que, à la prière de MM.Percier et Fontaine, il consentit à un moyen terme. Au lieu d'enlever les saillies, les deux architectes proposèrent de combler les creux par un enduit grisâtre; Teffet devait être le même, et Ton ne verrait plus, de loin, qu'une surface plane au lieu des emblèmes qui offusquaient la rigidité républicaine. Ce parti fut adopté. On avait procédé à ces mutilations et à ces placages avec une barbarie inintelligente. Ainsi, les têtes d'anges, qui portaient à leur cou des cordons, des astragales et des médaillons de Saint-Michel, avaient été dépouillées de ces attributs. Le monogramme H G (Henri, Gabrielle), disparu sous le ciseau, ou calfeutré par le mastic, ne" ]

[ "A STARVED SOUL. 35 lodgings at Cowes till this matter is settled, and shall know where to find you if you don't turn up here within a week, now that I have once found my way here. That is my address,\" and she tossed him an envelope as she spoke. Then, without looking at him, and in a more tender voice, \" and is that all you have to say to me, Charlie ? \" \" Yes,\" he said, indifferently ; \" and now come, if you are ready.\" Was the gleam of almost demoniac fury that shot across her handsome face due merely to the spretœ injuria formic implied in his answer ? Who knows ? They passed together down the ill-lit, narrow, back street of the barracks to the gate, meeting, as they did so, the Colonel, on his way home from mess, who scrutinised, rather too closely for good manners, the veiled face of Vandaleur's tall com panion. As the latter walked rapidly down the hill outside the barracks on the Cowes road, she muttered to herself, \" At any rate, I will make him pay finely for his scorn — new experience as it is to me ! Perhaps it is as well that he makes no attempt at a resumption of his marital rights. It might have been awkward ! Still, it is what I have been always led to expect of him — and, so far, so good.\" Vandaleur walked slowly back to his empty quarters with a heavy heart, and the feeling of an escaped prisoner recaptured by his gaolers, whose short taste of freedom but makes still more bitter the daily agony of a life-long sentence of servitude. To make the foregoing episode in our hero's life clear to our readers, we must take them back a period of some six years, to the time when Charles Vandaleur, a handsome youth of nineteen, joined the — th Lancers, then stationed at the cathedral city of York. Although popular from the first in his regiment, as might have been expected from his good looks and gentlemanly manners, and, as an only son of fairly rich parents, both dead, pos sessed of an income rather above the average of his brother subs, Vandaleur was a little held in awe by his juniors on account of a certain distance in his manner towards them, and looked upon by his seniors with a slight suspicion that he considered himself \"too good for the service, you know,\" though no fault was ever found with the way in D 2", "A STARVED SOUL. 79 finished tea; but, perceiving by Savage's limping walk, for he had cut his bare feet badly, and the generally dilapidated appearance of the group, that something untoward had happened, they crowded down to meet them, and to hear Brady's recital of the battle with the \" devil-fish,\" at the successful escape of which they all seemed most annoyed. Indeed, as \" Battle \" and \" Murder \" exclaimed together, \" It wouldn't have happened if we had been there ! \" \" Shure, thin, ye're right,\" was Brady's pertinent re joinder. \" How would we have got the baste out of the water if we hadn't gone in ? \" After which there was a dead silence, till the worthy Papa changed the subject. The setting sun now warned the meeting that it was time, in Brady's words, \" to dissemble,\" and each party taking its different route home at the entrance to St. George's Harbour, we may here part company with the Dreadnought, and accompany the Ireland Island portion of the gathering to the Dockyard in the \" garrison gig,\" seating ourselves discreetly with Captain and Mrs. Hall in the stern-sheets, while the engaged pair are packed rather closely in the bows, since, as Winnie said, \" We have only a short time left to settle a good many things, Freddy and I.\" For it had been arranged that she was to go home by the next mail, to suit the convenience of the lady who had promised her father to look after her during the voyage ; and Mortimer hoped to get his leave within a month, and to be mads a happy man very shortly after returning to his native shores. Savage, too, who was looking more cadaverous and ghostly after his late experience of the \" 'Mudian \" climate than even when we first met him, had arranged his exchange with Vandaleur to take place as soon as the regiment moved to Nova Scotia, rather, as Vandaleur had sadly told himself, \" a day after the fair \" for him, at least ! \" Good night, Winnie darling ; and I shall be over to morrow early, as we have only five more days to be together. We must ' make sun while the hay shines,' as Brady says.\" This from Mortimer, who had been dining with the Halls in their airy quarters at Ireland Island, and now had to leave for Prospect Camp,", "116 A STARVED SOUL. at the requisite low temperature of the air above, and due probably to the enormous difference of degree between the two elements brought into sudden contact). \" The worst of it was that, through some blunder of the War Office people, none of the men's Canadian ' kits ' had turned up, except the fur caps ; so they stood and shivered about the deck in their light serge ' 'Mudian ' tunics and trousers. The wonder was that there were so few serious cases of illness in hospital afterwards. I fancy,\" added Savage, \" that the blood must have been so thoroughly heated by a four years' sojourn in Bermuda, that it took some time to get the ' caloric ' chilled out of it. With the exception of two or three men who had lost their toes from frost-bite on 'sentry-go,' I had very few invalids for Netley among the draft of time-expired men I brought home. I assure you all this is a ' true bill,' and I am not exaggerating in the least.\" (Nor was he !) He stopped as the door opened and Vandaleur entered, and for a moment \"silence reigned supreme\" among the little party. Our hero's long-hidden mystery had, of course, been divulged during the absence necessitated by his ill ness ; and both the secret of his marriage and the cause of his seizure had been much discussed with wondering pity for many a day in his absence by every one of the knot of chattering youngsters now before him. Cannot we all appreciate the momentary awkwardness of the situation, both for him and them ? Jackson was the first to break the silence. \" Hullo, Vandaleur, old fellow ! Where have you dropped from ? \" he exclaimed. \" I am glad to see you again, though you look more like a ghost than a living man ! But we all know you had a hard tussle to pull through with your — illness,\" and the not over-delicate adjutant stopped short somewhat suddenly, and abruptly changed the subject. \"By the way,\" he added, \"here is an 'official' which ' Q.C.' told me to give you when you arrived. I hope it won't bother you much, but you know the authorities don't often consult our feelings or convenience.\" As soon as he had shaken hands with, and replied to the greetings of his assembled brother-officers, Vandaleur opened the long blue envelope in his hand, and read as follows : —" ]

[ "MY DEBUT. 25 tances — that we met ever so long ago at Fairport.\" \" I have never forgotten you, Madame,\" I managed to say. \" How strange ! and I have never for gotten the little girl whose face was so wonderful a study. You did not come to hear me again, though.\" \" I had to go home,\" I explained. \" Where my cousin and I once paid you a visit,\" added Madame Serlini's com- panion. \"Oh, Mr. Sylvester!\" I cried out in my astonishment at meeting him ; and then he said Miss Cleeves had been talking about me quite lately, that he knew I was studying under Herr Droigel, and that he congratulated me upon my success. There was a httle stiffness and reserve about his manner which seemed only natural in the address of any one con nected with the Great House, but it made", "AFTER LONG YEARS. 77 part and parcel of the unreality of my hfe. Often I wondered, when listening to a Babel of tongues, or to a bit of practice from an opera, whether it was myself who stood in the midst of that throng or an other — the Annie Trenet of days that seemed hundreds of years distant, or a changeling who, having surreptitiously en tered that little cottage overlooking the Love, had performed freaks of which no true Motfield would have been guilty — freaks ending in this. And what struck me with the greatest wonder was, that whilst I had an unceasing sense of wrong-doing oppressing me, no one else had. In my Pharisaism, if it were necessary to do the thing at all, I would have done it in secret. Like the lady who told her httle boy to play his marbles in the back yard — which order elicited the inquiry whether it were not Sunday there — I should scarcely have elected to make our performances public. But no one appeared", "MY OWN SECRET. 303 acting the part of a judicious guardian d you were to permit me to set you and your ward down at Herr Droigel's instead of aiding and abetting Miss Trenet in her endeavours to catch bronchitis ?\" \" You are very kind,\" answered Mr. Syl vester ; and without consulting my wishes he paused to let the conveyance overtake us. Mr. Florence opened the door for me, and then with a bow stood aside to permit Mr. Sylvester to fodow, after which he got in himself. It did not take us long to reach the Professor's door. \" Shad you be long here ?\" asked Mr. Florence, as Mr. Sylvester was bidding him good-night. \" Only a few minutes was the reply. \" Then, if you permit, I will wait. I should like to have a httle conversation with you, and we can talk on our way to your chambers.\"" ]

[ "22 LE CIMETIÈRE DE MÉRY puisque nous ne nous occupons maintenant que de cette question spéciale. Réunie à Versailles, la Commission d'enquête, après avoir consacré plusieurs séances au dépouillement des pièces et à l'audition de M. Bassompierre, ingénieur dé légué par M. Haussmann pour expliquer et défendre le tracé proposé, rejeta, le 23 août, à la majorité de sept voix contre cinq, le projet de M. le préfet de la Seine. L' Administration n'a jamais publié les procès-verbaux de cette Commission d'enquête, où nous aurions sans doute trouvé d'excellentes raisons à Pappui du vote qu'elle a émis. Au reste, le tracé administratif est connu, et jus tifie aisément les critiques dont d est Pobjet. En effet, le chemin mortuaire, partant d'une gare spé ciale étabhe au cimetière Montmartre, traverse une pre mière fois la Seine à l'extrémité occidentale de Pîle Saint- Denis, coupe la plaine de Gennevilhers pour passer une seconde fois le fleuve à 200 mètres d'Epinay, tourne der rière Saint-Gratien et vient joindre la ligne du Nord à la station d'Ermont. De là, le tracé municipal traverse toute la vallée de Montmorency, sur une longueur de dix kilo mètres, à une faible distance et parfaitement en vue des villages d'Ermont , Eaubonne , Saint-Prix , le Plessis- Bouchard, Napoléon-Saint-Leu, Taverny et Bessan court, et vient aboutir sur le territoire du cimetière pro jeté, entre Frépillon etMéry. Si l'on veut se rendre compte de Pémoi que devait né cessairement causer l'annonce de ce tracé, d n'y a qu'à monter, par un beau jour d'été, à l'extrémité méridio nale de la suite de collines qui aboutit à Sannois. De là, à Pendroit dit les Moulins de Sannois, on jouit de la vue la plus admirable. D'un côté, au nord-est, la vallée de", "LE CIMETIÈRE DE MÉRY 46 « que du tracé par Ermont et la vallée de Montmo >t rency (1). » II faut bien qu'il en soit ainsi, car Pétude en question, dont nous adons nous occuper, est en désaccord formel avec le tracé levé sur le terrain. Mais alors comment présenter une semblable étude sous les apparences d'un travad complet et sans réplique? Pourquoi conclure de ce coup d'œil jeté sur la carte que le tracé proposé est impossible ? Notons que les paroles de M. Chenel, membre de la Commission d'enquête, que nous venons de citer, n'ont été démenties, ni par PAdministration, ni par M. Bassom pierre, et qu'il est en conséquence admis au débat que Pétude de ce savant ingénieur n'a pas été faite sur le ter rain. Nous adons trouver, dans ce que le Rapport cite de son travad, des assertions d'une hardiesse bien surpre nante pour une semblable étude. (1) Lettre à M. Henri Baudrillart , p. 7. — Notons ici un curieux rappro chement de dates : c'est le 22 août que M. Bassompierre faisait cette décla ration précise, et, le 13 septembre, ['Administration avait en main le Rapport de cet ingénieur; l'étude aurait donc été faite entre ces deux époques. Or, il est notoire dans le pays qu'aucun relèvement. n'a été opéré sur les lieux pendant cette période. M. l'ingénieur Bassompierre et son personnel ne travailleraient ils que la nuit? II y aurait là un procédé nouveau dont l'Administration devrait bien enrichir le domaine public, car jusqu'à présent on avait eu besoin du jour pour cette sorte d'étude.", "ET SON CHEMIN DE FER. 61 XII. Atténuer, dans certains cas, amplifier dans d'autres, ou passer sous silence les faits qui semblaient pouvoir compromettre ce projet, tede paraît avoir été la tâche entreprise par M. le rapporteur Barbier. II était donc du devoir de ceux qui connaissent les faits de les rétablir dans leur sincérité, afin qu'il fût possible à ceux de qui dépend la sanction définitive des idées municipales, de décider en parfaite connaissance de cause. Nous croyons avoir prouvé : 1° Que des considérations très-importantes s'opposent à la création d'un grand cimetière éloigné ; que l'enquête sur cette question a été trop sommaire, et qu'il y aurait convenance, au moins, à ne pas précipiter Pexécution d'un projet insuffisamment mûri ; 2° Que sur la question du chemin de fer mortuaire une opposition très-vive, unanime de la part des intéressés, se manifeste contre le tracé proposé; 3° Qu'un tracé différent paraît facile et devrait, être" ]

[ "A FASCINATING TRAITOR", "A FASCINATING TRAITOR. 15 With courtly hospitality he offered the creamy champagne as a remplacement for the lost vin du pays. A charming smile rewarded the gallant youth, while Major Hawke turned with interest to the renewal of the interrupted narrative. He had caught a glance of burning intensity from the dark brown eyes of the lady a la Houbigant, which set every nerve in his body tingling. It was a challenge to a companionship, and, as he led on the triumphant Anstruther, he deeply regretted the absence of that most necessary organ, — an eye in the back of the head. He was dimly aware that his beautiful neighbor was very leisurely drinking the peace offering of the susceptible son of Mars. \"I will bet hundreds to ha'pennies she speaks English! \" quickly reflected the now aroused Major, \"You astound me, Anstruther,\" the Major said. \" Not a lawful child! Some Eurasian legacy — a relic of the old days of the Pagoda Tree! Why, the old commissioner always was a woman hater, and abso lutely hostile to all social influences!\" The Captain was now stealing longing glances at the willowy figure of the beautiful woman whose glistening dark brown eyes were turned to him with a languid glance, as Alan Hawke leaned forward. To prolong the sight of that bewitching half profile, with the fair, low brows, the velvet cheeks, a Provencale flush tinting them, the parted lips a dainty challenge speaking, and the rich masses of dark brown hair nobly crowning her regal outlines, Anstruther yielded to the spell and babbled on. \"The whole thing is a strange tn/lange of official business and dying gossip! \" dreamily said An struther with his eyes straying over the ivory throat, the superbly modeled bust and perfect figure of the young Venus Victrix. He was duly rewarded by a glance of secret intelli gence when he leaned back, dreamily closing his eyes. \" You see, they were going to make old Hugh Fraser or Hugh Johnstone, as he is now called, a baronet for some secret services to the Crown of an important na ture, rendered about the time when mad Hodson piled up the whole princely succession to the House of Oude in a trophy of nake-f- corpses, pistoling them with his", "A FASCINATING TRAITOR. 307 Pointing to the key, he mutely signed to the woman to lock herself in. Then down the stair he crept, ready to face any unseen enemy. The light streamed out from Janet Fairbarn's open door. \" Perhaps it was only old Simpson, drunk, or trying to gain a surrepti tious entrance,\" he mused. But the woman had point ed to the light and the keyhole of the door. \" Some one is in the old man's study ! \" Yes ! There was the little tell-tale pencil of light flickering on the darkened wall opposite. And Hardwicke scented danger. \"Was it Alan Hawke ? \" Light-footed as the panther, the young soldier crept to the heavy oaken door. A moment in his crouching position showed to him a man, with his back toward him, raising one of the great red tiles of the study floor. Yes ! There was only a moment of suspense, for the tile was slid aside, and a package was then eagerly clutched. With one mighty leap, the Major bounded to the man's side as the door swung open. The cold steel muzzle pressed the ruffian's temple as Hardwicke's hand closed upon the burglar's throat. There lay the sealed canvas package, covered with official Indian seals. In an instant the Major's knee was on the scoundrel's breast. \" One single sound, and I blow your brains out ! \" hissed the disguised Englishman. And, astounded at the apparition of a stalwart Hindu warrior, Jack Blunt's teeth chattered with fear. Dragging the half throttled wretch to his feet, Hardwicke tore off the sash of his Indian sleeping robe and bound the villain's arms behind him. Picking up his saber, he then cut the bell cord and lashed the fellow's legs to a chair. Then, giving the canvas package a closer glance of in spection, Hardwicke pressed the edge of his tulwar to Jack Blunt's throat, when he had closed the window, half raised, and shut the shutter so neatly forced with a jimmy. \" What's in that package ? \" he said, with a sudden divination of Alan Hawke's overmastering in fluence. \"A lot of valuable jewels,\" the sneaking ruffian answered. \"If you'll turn me loose, I'll now save what's dearer to you than all this diamond stuff that I was sent for. I've watched you here for three" ]

[ "THE MILLS OF GOD. 65 everybody, but in the language of many was \" the devil's own garden.\" Pea-pickers are seldom superstitious, and have generally outgrown nerves. In pea-picking eyes, therefore, the cedar grove at O'Hell Run was good camping ground, and the first arrivals in Rancocus Township always made a rush for this spot. In the season which introduced the black- eyed woman to Rancocus Farm, the first arrivals happened to be a queer lot — the bankrupt remnant of a \" barn storming\" theatrical company. Practically penni less, everywhere in debt, and, therefore, unable to retrace their steps and chance a return of good luck, one member of the troop, a native of the farming district of New Jersey, had suggested a few weeks' \" pea-picking.\" \" It's hard work,\" he had told them, \" but it's good pay, plenty to eat, a fair place to sleep, and the pine wood will pull the whole crowd of us together physically. I once lived near the best pea-picking ground in Jersey, and I'll pilot you to the spot and do my best to make it easy for the girls. The crowd will be a rough one, but as we'll number eight, and F", "THE MILLS OF GOD. 67 would have made her fortune on the stage ; while an underfed and over-read Hamlet limped slowly and sullenly by the side of an Ophelia all real tears and unpicturesque disorder. When strength was all but exhausted, and even anger had burned to ashes, the little party of actor folk arrived at O'Hell Run. In less than ten minutes Frank Swayen, the man who had brought the party into the pea-picking country, had a bed of leaves and soft pine needles ready for the three women, and a lunch, soon afterwards, prepared for all. But now, when the rough journey was over, and the way promised brighter things, Lady Macbeth fainted. Whisky they had none, and Lady Macbeth had a heart as bad physically as it was good psychologically. \"Tea's the only thing that will pick her up. asserted Ophelia. \" Tea's the one thing we haven't got — no, nor milk either, for that matter,\" answered Pickwick. Swayen here interposed — \" Tea's got to be got somehow, and I think I know how and where.\"", "296 THE MILLS OF GOD. Then the old mischievous gleam, ever present in the old careless days, slid into his brown eyes. \" And won't dad be hoppin' mad ! how he'U swear at my fool luck.\" Then feeling strangely tired and weak, Jim turned over in bed and sleep swept him away from that real Use which had suddenly grown dangerously heavy with happiness." ]

[ "264 That very afternoon he found her alone by Dan's grave on the mountain - side. She made a desolate picture among the dry grass and weeds, the black pines above her, and a few autumnal clouds wandering helplessly about in the sky. She had flung herself forward against the low pile of stones, her arms stretched out and her hands clasped. Her face was hidden ; her attitude was one of deep dejection, perhaps of tears. He paused in doubt, wondering if it were possible to retreat without being discovered. If he turned, he would be sure to arouse her. In his perplexity he stood quite still, and his attention being concentrated upon the pros trate figure, he could see that she was weeping. There was an irregular, convulsive heaving of the shoulders which told him everything, although he heard nothing. How still the world was ! And yet there was a muffled sound from the river, and the pines seemed trying to voice a soul's extreme desolation. \"I'll go back,\" he decided, and turned cautiously. \"Pore little thing — pore little thing !\" But the dry twig of a fallen pine brushed his shoulder and snapped with a loud noise. Anny lifted her head abruptly. \" Sam !\" she cried, when she saw who it was. He turned, but made no movement in her direction. The silence seemed to deepen with a slow crescendo from the pines and an explicit sibilance from the river. \"I was goin',\" he said, at last. \"I didn't aim to break in on ye.\" \"I'm glad I heerd ye,\" said Anny, straightening herself a little away from the heap of stones. He came forward and sat down at her side. \" Ye was cryin',\" he said, taking her hand in his. She was no more ashamed of her tears than a child would have been, and her eyes were still overflowing as she looked at him.", "312 thing fer ye, V I make no doubt ye keer fer me. Wrell, we'll go 'n' be tied at daylight.\" Pinky got upon his feet. \"D' ye mean it ?\" he cried. \"Set down — set down 'n' keep yer hair on. Ole man Halstead's a reg'lar ordained Methodis' preacher — used to preach back in Indiany somers. He tole me so hisself. We'll have 'im do the job arter breakfas'. He don't talk much 'bout it, 'cause he's kind o' out o' the gospel biz ness, I reckon, V sech things don't recommend a feller in Collyraydo, nohow. But it's all right. I'll answer fer that.\" \"So '11 I,\" was Pinky's suffusive rejoinder. \" But — \" She understood his objection before he uttered it and faced it boldly. \"Do I love Sam any more? Shucks! I hate 'im. There ! Be ye satisfied ? 'N' I need ye, Pinky, to help me fight 'im — that's why I'm in sech a hurry for the wed din'. We'll see if a man kin run off with a idiot gal 'n' hide 'er away from 'er folks 'thout bein' brought to time fer it. If we can't fix 'im in one way we kin in 'nother. 'N' as a las' resort, there's alius the law. Be ye willin' to stan' up agin 'im, with me 'n' the ranch to back ye ?\" \"Willin'?\" Pinky's eagerness was too evident to re quire a declarative sentence, and Phœbe Ellen accepted it in its interrogative form. \" Well,\" was her way of concluding the arrangement, \"we kin git a couple o' hours' sleep yit afore breakfas', I reckon, 'n' we'll need it if Sam should take it into his head to come back to-morrer. Ye kin have his room — ye know yer way. Good-night ! Be ready when I holler fer ye in the mornin'.\" After breakfast they set out without a word of explana tion to any one, and on their return the mistress remarked to Leatherhead : \"I've ast Pinky to stay with us all day, 'n' 'pears like", "CHAPTER XL Phœbe Ellen came in with a rush. Her eyes met Sam's in a question which he did not try to answer. \"Look arter the doctor,\" was all the explanation he had time to give. \"I'll 'tend to her.\" He applied all the restoratives at hand — water, brandy, ammonia ; he rubbed her wrists, chafed her temples ; he lowered her head over the side of the bed, holding it so that the weight would not wrench the muscles of the neck. His eyes were too intent on the pale, unconscious face to notice definitely what Phœbe Ellen was doing, but he knew that she was applying the same restoratives that he had used, and in the same way. Presently he was gratified to see that his patient began to breathe again. But her eyes did not unclose, and there was no sign of consciousness. He laid her head gently back upon the pillow. The wound in the scalp was still bleeding with a slow persist ence that made him shiver. He spunged it off — it looked horribly deep after the blood was washed away — drew the edges of the flap together, pressed them firmly down, and applied a bandage. Then for a moment he stood off to contemplate his work. \"Sam,\" he heard the doctor call, faintly, behind him. For answer he approached the chair. He thought he detected a ghastly humor in the drawn mouth and fading eyes. \"You — you see ?\" the stricken man articulated, in a voice that rattled in his throat. \"I knew— I wouldn't live — to see how it turned out.\" He lifted his dim, fatal eyes. \"It's God's fault — not mine,\" he whispered." ]

[ "Diary of a Tour 2 me at all, were it not for the help of a bottle of good claret, by ' It seems the Captain likes a bottle of good claret ! Arrive in the evening at Kinross. Next morning, Tuesday the 23rd, set out for the waterside. At Kelty-bridge meet a vast number of coal-drivers, who inform me they have them at the pits there at the rate of sixpence and eight pence every eighteen stone-weight. Would to God we had coals as near us, and as cheap, in the Stormont ! By the side of the brooks that run by Kelty-bridge the coal appears in the face of the banks, rising even to the surface. The pits here of no considerable depth, and the coal very accessible. It is covered with a stratum of free stone, (here called a coal-band) of a considerable thickness, soft and easily wrought, but, when exposed for some time to the air, hard and durable. A little to the North of Inverkeithing, see by the way-side the Parietaria officinalis and the Juncus Betwixt the turnpike and the N. Ferry observed some plants of the Viola hirta in the face of the basaltic rocks. Breakfast at the Ferry. No prospect of a passage till the after noon : contrary winds and heavy rain. No matter, Cally1 and I must not contend with the 1 His horse ; probably bought at Cally, in Strath ardle. He was an Irish horse, as one learns from the elegy in which his master laments his death, some years later.", "Diary of a Tour 70 Monday, 20th July. Sharrow. — Leave my horse with my friend. Set out at half-past three o'clock a.m. with Mr. Mackenzie's boy carrying my saddle-bags to the Toll-bar separating the counties of York and Derby, where take my seat on the stage-coach at half-past four. Breakfast at Chesterfield, remarkable for its twisted spire, apparently crooked, and like to fall. Mr. Wilkin son, the banker, has an elegant house on the east side of the town. Mount our coach after swallowing breakfast in a few minutes, and set out again in company of a Mr. Mackenzie1 from Sheffield. Stevens, a blind man, entertains us highly all the way, with music on a fife and a fiddle, and sings like a nightingale. The weather exceedingly warm and favourable, enjoy a delightful view of the country from the outside of the coach. Arrive about ten a.m. at Mansfield, where our jolly blind piper leaves us. Set out for Nottingham, along Sher- wood Forest, fourteen miles long. Some fine old trees scattered here and there over it ; some places of it begin to be well cultivated. Dine at Nottingham, a large and elegant town, finely situated on the north bank of the Trent, a broad river here (with a bridge of seventeen arches), which has its course to north-east, and at last joins the Humber. The streets, houses, and 1 Perhaps a slip of the diarist's or of the transliterator's : it seems unlikely that this surname should be so common in Sheffield at that time.", "through Great Britain in 1795 137 prospect of the coast and the ocean. Proceed a little farther, and have a view of Newcastle below you. Come down upon the village of Gateshead. Cross the Tyne, and arrive in Newcastle to breakfast. Newcastle a very ugly, large, irregular town. The river Tyne, here separating the Counties of Durham and North umberland, seems to be scarcely as broad as the Tay at Perth. The bridge has nine arches. Great coal trade the staple of this town. Ships of two masts come up here, but not in great numbers. Vessels of considerable burden are built here, but not so large as those built at Shields. After breakfast take a walk to the Quay. Thence up the north side of the river to the Northumberland Glass Warehouse, through a narrow, dirty street, if it may be so called, as most of the streets here, except Dean Street and Pilgrim Street, are. Arrive at the west gate by the river side (here is the east termination of the Picts' Wall1). Go out to the Cast Metal and Brass foundery, &c. Walk up the north bank of the Tyne to get a prospect of this nasty, sooty, smoky chaos of a town. The view[s] of the river, the bridge, and the boats sailing down with the tide, with the country on each side of the river to the west, are, however, not unpleasant. The bank here abounds with the Scrophularia 1 Hadrian's Wall was so known in Scotland at that date, if not also in Northumberland." ]

[ "ON THE COONOR GHAT.", "A DANGEROUS DRIVE. 5 two wheels, with low axles. It accommodates three passengers ; one by the side of the driver, the other two behind, as in our dogcarts. The pole passes through the body, and is furnished with an iron yoke that rests upon the collars of the horses. Within a quarter of an hour after the arrival of the train, the mad-bags have been stowed away and a start is made. If there be room, some of your luggage will accompany you ; if not, you must do as best you can. In any event, if you have much, the bulk of it must fodow you — I need not say at more than an appreciable distance — borne on the heads of coolies. But we are off. The horn tootles as though we were leaving the White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, and away we go at full gallop, through the bazaar and over a bridge crossing the Bhowany river; in the bed of which, by the way, the natives frequently wash for gold. This crossed, a straight road of six mdes, shaded by large trees, brought us to the first place for a change of horses. This is Kullar, at the foot of the Coonoor Chat ; and here the ascent com mences. The scenery increases in interest, as we proceed at a flying pace up the zigzag roads. The route here has also the element of a little peril. Danger does not seem to enter into the coachman's calculation. Whisking round the sharp corners, skirting the very edge of steep precipices, escaping as by a miracle the stone posts protecting the wooden bridges that cross", "TEE LABOUR SUPPLY. 57 CHAPTER VII. THE QUESTION OF LABOUR. Necessity that labour should be plentiful and cheap — Abundance offering in the Wynaad — Timidity of the natives — Chinese immigration considered — The system of imported labour — Local cultivators — The Korumbers — Principal sources of supply — Canarese coolies from Mysore — The Moplahs — The Wuddurs and Balkaras — Payment by advances described — Differences in the system on various estates — Interest of the gold companies in the question — Proposed help from Madrasse Eurasians — Peculiarities of the class — Need of English miners as headmen — Arrangements of our staff — Necessity of departmental system and reports. Amongst the essentials to success in gold-mining in this, or, indeed, in any district, not the least im portant is the question of labour. There may be gold on the reefs ; there may be water sufficient for driving power; and ample timber for building and other purposes : but if there is no labour procurable, or only such as is very costly, it would scarcely be possible to mine with success. An inquiry as to labour facilities should not, therefore, be overlooked in writing on this subject. Whilst in the Wynaad, my serious attention was" ]

[ "AS mankind was primarily created by the Supreme Being, for the reciprocal comfort and benefit of one another, an incumbent duty is imposed upon every member of society, to contribute, as much as lays in his power, towards the general good. In the beginning of the Cataline War, Sallust not only shews the difference existing between rational and irrational creatures, but thus elegantly writes : — ' Omnis homines, qui sese student præstare cæteris animalibus, summa ope niti decet, ne vitam silentio transeant, veluti pecora, quæ natura prona atque ventri obedientia finxit.' And the inimitable bard of Avon, thus deciphers man ' What is man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To rust in us unused.' Should, therefore, the following pages, which arc submitted to the public, without much comment or introduction, escape the keen eye of criticism, and meet with the approbation of the gentle reader, the most sanguine expectations of the compiler arc realized. Whatever he hath been able to glean, from the field of antiquarian lore, relative to the town and castle of Pontefract, he hath sedulously endeavoured to compress in such a form, without", "4 HISTORY OF PONTEFRACT. portions, as shall be assessed by the mayor and aldermen for the time being, upon pain to lose for every defect, 5s. and to have their shops restraint, and chambers shut, till they pay the same. In testimony whereof, the common seal of the said corporation of Pontefract, is hereunto set and affixed the day and year above written. After the passing of this order, the grain was openly exposed for sale, and continued so until the year 1740, 'to the great prej udice, damage, and impoverishment of the poor in this town and parts adja cent,' when at a general meeting held in the mote-hall, on the 26th of May in that year, it was ordered ' that no grain shall hereafter be opened and exposed for sale in the market, until after ten o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the market bell will be rung, on pain of being prosecuted.'* Its fairs t are, St. Andrew's held on the first Saturday in Decem ber ; twenty days' fair the first Saturday after the twentieth day from Christmas ; Candlemas on the first Saturday after the 13th. of February ; and St. Giles's on the first Saturday after the 12th of September ; April 8th. and May 4th. for cattle, sheep, &c. ; with the moveable fairs, Palm-Sunday, Low Sunday, May 4th, and Trinity-Sunday, which are held on the Saturday preceding each of these days respectively. The fortnight fairs are held on the Saturday next after York fortnight fairs. The show for horses, formerly called Palm-Sunday show, now begins on the 5th. of February. Its situation is in the parish of Pontefract, in the wapontake of Osgoldcross, and in the liberty and honor of Pontefract ; and is distant from Aberford, eleven miles ; from Wakefield, nine ; from Leeds, thirteen ; from Doncaster, fourteen ; from Rotherham, twenty ; and from Ferrybridge, two and a half miles, and sixty yards ;l and is twenty four miles s.w. of York, and one hundred and seventy-three N.w. of London. The population by the census of 1801 appeared to be 3097, viz. 1394 males, and 1703 females, and the town contained 741 houses, of which 48 were uninhabited; but in 1821 the population had increased 4447, viz. 1890 males and 2557 females ; and, it was possessed of 930 houses. Barnaby Harrington, in his itinerary, thus humourously notices this place : * Old Town's Books, pp. 180. f Edward the tirst, in the 22d. year of his reign, on the 6th of June, granted to Henry Lascy, earl of Lincoln, and constable of Chester, a market every week at his manor of Puntefract; and a fair for five days, viz. on the vigil of Palm-Sunday, Palm- Sunday, and three following days. t The measured distance from Pontefract to Ferrybridge, by two separate ways, is thus noted : from Pontefract cross, down the horsefair, broadlane, and by the wash, to Ferrybridge is 4(386 yards : and from the cross down the horsefair, by the castle, mill daoi and St. Thomas' hill, is 44CU yards.", "38 HISTORY OF PONTEFRACT. and poor persons of the said hospital, out of our special favour and sure knowledge and mere motion, have willed and granted, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do will, and grant to the aforesaid mayor and burgesses of the town or borough of Ponte fract aforesaid, and to their successors, that whensoever it shall hap pen for the future, that any person or persons of them the aforesaid reader and poor of the hospital aforesaid, depart this life, or for any reasonable cause be removed from tbeir place or places ; (which reader indeed and poor persons of the hospital aforesaid, who now are, or hereafter shall be, in every or any of them for misbehaviour or any reasonable cause, we order to be removed and removable from their place or places, by the mayor and burgesses of the town or borough aforesaid to be done; then, and so often, it may be well and shall be lawful for the mayor and comburgesses of the town or borough aforesaid, or for the greater part of them (of which we order the mayor of the town or borough aforesaid for the time being to be one,) with our permission, and for us, and in our name, to chuse, nominate, appoint and institute one other or many others out of the poor and indigent persons of the town or borough aforesaid, in the room or places of such reader or poor of the hospital aforesaid, so happening to die or to be removed, and that every person so aforesaid, elected, nominated, appointed and instituted in the said hospital, shall be and remain during his natural life, unless, in the mean time, for his bad behaviour, or any other reasonable cause from the hospital aforesaid, he shall be re moved ; And in like manner, this must be done as often as occasion shall require, any act, statute, law, proviso, prescription, usage, or custom heretofore, to the contrary hereof, in any wise notwithstand ing. Provided always, nevertheless, that this present grant, as to the election and the power of appointing them the said reader and poor persons in the hospital aforesaid, only shall remain and continue during the pleasure of us and our heirs and successors, and no longer, (any thing in these presents contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.) We will, also, and by these presents, do grant to the aforesaid mayor and burgesses of the town or borough, that they may have, and shall have, these our letters patent, under our great seal of England, in due form, made and sealed without fine, or great or small fee, in any manner, by reason thereof, to be yielded, paid, or rendered to us, in our hanaper, or elsewhere, for our use, so that express mention of the true annual value, or any other values, or a certainty of the premises, or any of them, or of any other gifts or grants heretofore, made by us, or by any of our ancestors or progenitors, to the aforesaid mayor and" ]

[ "A REBUFF. 69 I had never been warned that the king was less anxious for my coming than were his Ministers, nor that the prin cipal argument used by his chiefs to induce him to dismiss Mr Baker was that they were quite prepared to govern their country without help from any foreigner. It flashed through my mind that I might stand on my dignity as the emissary of a foreign Government sent at the king's own request conveyed through his chief Minister, and insist upon the choice between admitting me to the Council or allowing me to resign and leave Tonga; but with the thought came the reflection that he would either admit me unwillingly, and henceforth regard me with suspicion, or accept my resignation. In the latter event I should return to Fiji to confess myself unable to do the work I had un dertaken : and English interests would be in a worse posi tion than if I had never come ; for with their sovereign's views every Tongan would agree, the Government would flounder deeper into the mire, and the German Vice-Con sul would be invited to give the aid in financial matters that I had failed to afford. So during the silence that followed the king's last remark, my mind was made up ; I would simply stand where I was, and pretend not to hear what was said. Fatafehi's elbow was close to me, and I fell back upon the undignified expedient of pinching it. He understood, and began to shout persuasive words into the king's ear. \" Pardon me,\" he said, \" it is about the money. Which of us understands the way of money, and such foreigners' things ? But this gentleman will explain it all to us : he is here only as an expounder.\"", "218 ODIUM THEOLOGIGUM. have made for you. It is our farewell to you : do not be angry with us that we are going to leave you for a time. AVe are your children, but for a time we are going to worship the god of the foreigners : nevertheless, be not angry with us ! \" Then the gods consumed the spiritual essence of the meat, and the missionary and his suite ate its grosser material fibre and enjoyed it very much. To the converted native the heathen gods are not always false gods ; they continue to exist, but they have been deserted for a time in favour of the gods of the foreigners. This is why relapses into heathenism on the part of the most promising converts will always be so dangerously easy. The spirits of their ancestors are to them what Baal and Bimmon were to the people of Israel — existing beings, who may at any time become malignant and demand propitiatory sacrifice. With so thin a curtain drawn between the old and the new faith, the fickleness of the natives, and the coolness that always follows hard upon the white heat of conversion, have doubtless each contributed their share to the decay of mission influ ence ; but I venture to assert that the main cause has been the unseemly dissension between the Churches, and the enlistment of the natives in feuds utterly un worthy of the Christianity the missionaries profess to be teaching. I do not forget that the Wesleyans were first in the field, and that all these evils might have been avoided if, as in British New Guinea, the Churches had agreed upon exclusive spheres of influence, with well-defined boun daries for each mission. But the time for that has gone by, and it remains for the missions to look to the concli-", "308 A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF TONGA. are known to have settled in Mangaia to the eastward, and in Ongtong Java to the westward, — castaways, per- The Tongiaki,1 the canoe, jww obsolete, in which the early voyages of the Tongans were made. (From a plate in the British Museum.) haps, who fought their way into the possession of lands belonging to the aborigines. II. THE COMING OF THE FOREIGNERS. Under a strong central Government, knowing nothing of civil disturbances, never called upon to repel invasions from without, the people had time to digest the new in- 1 Unlike the Fijian canoe, the Tongiaki had a fixed bow, and went about like the modern cutter. In tacking, the sail was unlaced from the yards and carried to leeward of the mast. It was entirely displaced by the more complicated Ndrua of Fiji about the beginning of this century. Both Schouten and Captain Cook give detailed descriptions, and I have an excellent model built for me under King George's directions." ]

[ "86 TRAVELS IN GREECE. with the removal of the altar, the pulpit, and the sundial, Pnyx may be deemed to have undergone no very material alteration. It had formerly many houses about it, and that region of the city was call ed by its name. Cimon, with Elpinice his sister, lived in Pnyx ; and Plato relates of the earlier Athens, that it had extended on one side of the Acropolis toward the rivers Eridanus and Ilissus, and on the other had comprised Pnyx, having beyond it mount Lycabettus u. CHAP. XIV. STORY OF THESEUS A TEMPLE ERECTED TO HIM THE DECO- RATIONS PRESENT STATE OF THE TEMPLE THE SCULP- TURES GYMNASIUM OF PTOLEMY. We proceed now to the temple of Theseus. This most renowned hero, it is related, was born at Trœ zen, a city of the Peloponnesus, and was the son of Neptune and Ægeus, king of Athens, by Æthra daughter of Pittheus. His mother conducted him, when sixteen years old, to a rock, beneath which Ægeus had deposited his sword and slippers. She directed him to bear these pledges to Athens ; and he resolved to go by land, though the way was full of perils. In Epidauria he was stopped by Peri phetes, whom he slew, and afterwards carried about his weapon, which was a club, in imitation of Her cules. Sinis or Pityocamptes, whose haunt was by the Isthmus of Corinth, had been accustomed to u Lycabettus.] The site of the edifice is upon Lycabettus, con sequently could not be Pnyx, being beyond that region. R.", "200 TRAVELS IN GREECE. church at Cephisia, and is among the marbles given by Mr. Dawkins to the university of Oxford. This represented Pollux, but the head is wanting. It is inscribed with an affectionate address to him ; after which the possessor of the spot is required, as he re spects the gods and heroes, to protect from violation, and to preserve clean and entire, the images and their bases ; and if he failed, severe vengeance is im precated on him, that the earth might prove barren to him, the sea not navigable, and that perdition might overtake both him and his offspring ; but if he complied, that every blessing might await him and his posterity. Another stone, with a like for mulary, was seen there by Mr. Wood ; and a third near Marathon. We dismounted about sunset at a place almost deserted, called Stamati ; and after supper lay down to sleep beneath a spreading vine before the cottage of an Albanian. Early in the morning I proceeded, with a guide, to examine an inscription of which a peasant had given me information ; quitting the straight road to Marathon, between which place and Athens was once a town named Pallene. We soon entered between two mountains, Pentele ranging on our right ; and on the left, one of Diacria, the region extending across from mount Parnes to Brauron. Tarrying to water our horses near some houses, I was presented by an Albanian with a handful of white roses fresh gathered. We penetrated into a lonely recess, and came to a small ruined church of St. Dionysius standing on the marble heap of a tro phy, or monument, erected for some victory obtained by three persons named Ænias, Xanthippus, and", "250 TRAVELS IN GREECE. I landed on Cynosura, and examined some remains, consisting of a few stones with a fragment or two of white marble, while the wherries doubled the cape. We then crossed over to the opposite coast of the bay, where are vestiges of the city. In Salamis, says Pausanias, on this side is a tem ple of Diana, and on that has stood a trophy for the victory obtained by Themistocles, and there is the temple of Cychreus. The trophy was probably a column adorned with arms, which had been thrown down before his time. The remnants on Cynosura, it has been supposed, belonged to this monument ; and the defeat of the Barbarians, as those enemies of Greece were styled, may have given rise to the name Panto Barbaro, by which the cape is now distin guished. The church of St. Nicholas perhaps occu pies the site of the temple of Cychreus. A serpent, which was seen in the Athenian ships while engag ing the Medes, was believed, on the authority of Apollo, to have been this hero. The city of Salamis was demolished by the Athe nians, because in the war with Cassander it surren dered to the Macedonians, from disaffection. In the second century, when it was visited by Pausanias, some ruins of the agora, or market-place, remained, with a temple and image of Ajax ; and not far from the port was shewn a stone, on which, they related, Telamon sate to view the Salaminian ships on their departure to join the Grecian fleet at Aulis. The walls may still be traced, and, it has been conjectur ed, were about four miles in circumference. The level space within them was now covered with green corn. The port is choked with mud, and was partly dry. Among the scattered marbles are some with" ]

[ "284 THE CITY OF THE MAGYAR. the same advantages as those afforded to the more wealthy. Some of the pupils do not pay more than three silver florins yearly, and none exceed nine, whatever may be their means. The great expense is the engagement of private tutors from among the Togati, who are paid according to their talents, and who maintain themselves prin cipally by tuition. Thus it will be seen that the \" semi-barbarous\" Magyars are not living quite in the state of igno rance and inertness which party spirit and political feeling have tried to make us believe in England. I do not say that the students are dandies or elegants, but I can assert that they are by no means so elaborately impertinent as many of our own Oxonians and Cantabs, nor so fantastically boorish as the German Biirschen. Debretzin may be termed the head-quarters of Hungarian Calvinism ; and all the students leave her college both staunch Protestants and loyal Magyars. The Lutherans are more numerous in the northern and easterly parts of the country, and as I have already mentioned, include both Germans and Sclaves.", "299 THE CITY' OF THE MAGYAR. which has induced travellers to assert that the Hungarian nobles are altogether exempt from taxation of any kind. It is also worthy of mention that as early as the eleventh century, during the reign of Bela the First, the Magnates took with them to the Diet a great number of Commoners, with whom they voted and acted in conjunction ; and that a law was passed under Matthias Corvinus, en forcing the taxation of the Nobles for the liquida tion of the county expenses. Two admirable examples of tolerance and equity, which were they followed .in the present day, would do more to accelerate civilization, and forward the moral regeneration of the country, than half the modern innovations. It is certain that the great evil in Hungary con sists not so much in the laws themselves, as in their imperfect administration, and the defective manner in which they are understood ; for not withstanding that there are many points in the constitution which are extremely faulty, particu larly those relating to the privileged and unpri vileged classes ; yet are there others which have", "318 THE CITY OF THE MAGYAR. to leave them to encounter the casualties incidental to his absence from home. It is very common to see nine horses in these waggons, four abreast next the vehicle, preceded by three, and these again by two. The driver sits on the front of the carriage with a long whip, and the reins of rope carelessly dangling from his hand ; the animals are tied together with cords in a most primitive manner, and look as though they would all break loose before they had travelled a mile; but as though such an event were altogether out of the question, they tear along the bad roads at full gallop, with their heads down, one turning to' the right, another to the left, a third running straight forward, but all brought into order in turn by the voice of the driver, who keeps up a con tinual feu de joie of reproach and encouragement that quite supersedes the use of the whip, which is rather carried as a plaything than as a mean of correction. \" Where are you running to, Rose ? Do you want to upset us into the ditch? Fritz, my beauty, pull away ; you are worth a thousand sluggards." ]

[ "200 THE LOST INHERITANCE. days of chUdhood, before she had become aware of the importance of events, and saw those consequences attend everything. And Adeline had been happy, she had been the sole object of Vernon's attention ; he had given her every thought, and his conversation had amused and excited her. What girl would not have looked back with pleasure to a day spent in such circumstances ? I cannot describe the sweet, tender feelings Vernon had experienced, he had been as it were, in some dream ; sitting near her, reading to her, getting anything she required, hearing her voice, sunning himself in her smUes, to haA-e the power of doing aU this, Avas e\\'erything to him — he Avent away that night more com pletely, more entirely her slave than ever, only anxious for the morrow ; — could he always enjoy such days, he Avould not have been sorry for Adeline's ancle to haA-e been rather tardy in recoA-ery. He liked so to knoAv that he was of some use to her, that he prevented her feeling her confinement to the sofa so irk some.", "THE LOST INHERITANCE. 265 Murray's face at this remark, but he added carelessly : \" What is to be done ? some military baU in prospect, where Vernon is to be a hero ?\" \" Have you not heard the news of their engagement ? Do not pretend to be so ignorant, Murray.\" \" Indeed, I did not know of it ; weU, I think they AA-U1 suit very weU.\" He then turned away, and I fancied I saw a shght frown on his brow; however, he was far too complete a master of himself to aUow his feehngs to be apparent, or his curiosity to be noticed. Marion sung that night with more than her usual expression ; eA-en Stanley, who Avas generaUy a careless Ustener to music, was rivetted by the pathos of her voice as she uttered those beautiful hnes of Moore's \" All that's bright must fade, the brightest stUl the fleetest,\" and a shade of deep feeling Avas in Murray's eye; he was extremely fond of music, not perhaps as the scientific love it, for he was utterly ignorant of its intricate harmonies and combinations ; but as it appealed to the heart,", "THE LOST INHERITANCE. 231 increased her deA-otion, for he needed sympathy and soothing, and this she yearned to give him ; had he been always cool and reasonable, al though she might have revered him more, she could not have poured such a flood of endearing love over him, as now when he had confessed he had erred, and had thrown himself upon her gentleness for forgiveness. She now felt that whde he was strong and noble, and able to stem the rough current of the world, yet that his proud spirit would need all the sweet ministerings of woman's love ; and she knew that an unceasing fountain of it was swelling in her breast which would never tire of pouring its Avaters over his soul. I beheve that Avith pure-hearted, ardent feeling women hke Marion, this love for those who are morady unhappy, if such a term be admissible, is deeply rooted. I hav7e seen them straggle against indifference, against unkindness and neglect, with a patient smde of affection," ]

[ "12 THE BARN STORMERS. wish to close with offer, and shall accept services of another lady who has already applied for the position.\" Good gracious ! And this was Wednesday morn ing ! The shock of those potent words, the \" other lady,\" was too much for Monica's mental balance. Poignant jealousy set in. Rather than that greedy wretch should have the engagement, Monica would take it herself, even if there had been no salary attached at all. She dressed hastily, and pale with the excitement of her decision, flew out into thc street, and sent her acceptance along the wires to Mr. Scott Ambler, Colosseum Theatre, Bagra, Ohio.", "216 THE BARN STORMERS. superfluous supply of vaseline. Never once during the entrancing process did he remove his eyes from the lined mask which hid the beauty of her young face. He drew long, ecstatic breaths as she rolled her handkerchief, torn in two parts, round his awkwardly extended digits. Her lashes had been downcast throughout, but as she fastened the last of the safety-pins which were to hold the impromptu bandages in place, she lifted them, as by an effort, toward which she had been forcing herself for some anxious moments. \" There ! \" she exclaimed. \" I am sure that will keep the hands from blistering. Thank you, again, very much, for what you have done. I want to tell you that I think the more of your kindness after what has passed.\" \"Are we go'n' to be friends again ? \" he asked. \" Yes. We'll forgive and forget, won't we ? I took offence where none was meant, maybe, and you — you'll be more careful of my feelings after this, I'm sure.\" \" I'll do anything — before the Lord I will, Miss Nairne. You don't know what I've gone through on your account this week. I've been half crazy — you bet I have.\" \" You take things too hard,\" she answered uneasily. \" We are only slight acquaintances, you know. But ifyou want to please me, really, and win my friend ship, you'll turn over a new leaf, and make yourself worthy of a woman's respect.\"", "THE BARN STORMERS. 341 bonnets, with bilious babies in their arms, dawdled out of mysterious places of concealment. Young girls stopped manipulating their omnipresent chew ing-gum in the interest of this providentially pro vided entertainment. Grey-headed darkies scratched their matted wool with ash-coloured fingers, and turned up their whortle-berry-and-skim-milk eyes. Young darkies frankly showed their ivories and coral-pink gums. Little boys of the \" poor white trash \" order danced with glee at the ignominious fall of the elegant \" city boss.\" \" Oh my, hi ! ain't he a mud-pie ? Wat 'ud yo' take to eat him ? \" yelled one. \" Reckon you'm had yo' peck o' dirt all to onct, mistah ! \" kortled another of larger growth, gingerly extending a stick to the dripping, inchoate object, as he might or might not have done to a drowning mongrel. \" Say, boss, how much'll yo' gib us ef we fish so' yo' nice high hat ? \" chirped an adventurous third, and a chorus of irrepressible juvenile yells arose, as at length a huge, muddy scarecrow emerged, swear ing such oaths as delighted Moonsville had seldom been treated to before, from the hospitable bosom of the swamp. Jewett had had enough. He was not equal to playing future games of cards with Randolph. The joker had taken all his tricks." ]

[ "VI LETTORI COSTANZO GAZZERA Il presente volume dei Monumenti di Storia Patria non comprende che un solo lavoro di argomento storico, il quale ci siamo con tanto maggiore fiducia determinati a fare di pub blica ragione colla stampa , non tanto perché fosse questa da molto tempo, e con univer sale desiderio di tutti i cultori della Storia nostra, invocata ed attesa, quanto e molto più per l'importanza dell'argomento in esso svolto, e per il modo col quale venne con dotto dall'Autore.", "XVII che in numero si scorgevano sparse per le circostanti campagne, visitate ed estratte le principali carte dagli archivi della città , del castello , del vescovato , dell' abazia di S. Ponzio e dei principali comuni della con tea , si trovò aver raccolta tal messe di no tizie e di documenti importantissimi , che lo posero in grado , non più di quattro anni dopo aver terminato il corso co' suoi studi, di far di pubblico diritto colla stampa il bello e dotto lavoro della Nicaea civitas. La Civica Amministrazione, conosciuta l'importanza del dotto lavoro, dal quale era per tornare sommo lustro alla patria comune, volle che ne fosse procurata la stampa col pubblico danaro ; né tale previdenza andò fallita, che uscita ap pena dai torchi l'opera della Nicaea civitas, salì in altissimo grido, e giuste lodi le tri butarono, oltre molti altri letterati di ogni paese, gli eruditissimi autori dell'esita San ctovum; ed il Burmanno, nel collocarla, come fece, nel suo Tesoro delle storie italiane, con dedica al Re nostro Vittorio Amedeo II, la volle accompagnata da larghi e giustissimi ■2", "XXXII poi della citta e castello di Nizza , nei mesi di marzo e aprile del presente anno 1691. Nizza, Romero, in-/|°. La svelano lavoro dell' Abate di S. Ponzio la dettatura , lo stile e l'indole della narrazione, non che l'aver ri trovati nelle sue carte alcuni fogli di essa , scritti di proprio pugno del Gioffredo." ]

[ "23 and Avranches; but at length a peace was con cluded, by which it was stipulated that hall the island of Guernsey should be given to lhe abbey of Mont Saint-Michel'. The horrible famine which prevailed in Normandy from io3i to io34, the suffer ings of his people , and probably compunc tions of conscience prompted Robert to undertake a voyage to Jerusalem , previously to which , he named William , the son of Arlette *, then only six years old , his suc cessor, and the duke of Brittany regent. He gave no mean opinion of Norman grandeur at tjie coKrts of Rome and Cons tantinople; having had his mules shod with gold , while he himself proudly refused to resume the splendid dresses which he had taken off, when going into lhe presence of the Emperor , observing that ' dresses which had touched the ground were no longer fit for the Normans3'. He died of fever in Bythinia on his return , and William — better known as the Conqueror , — had a ' M. Houel. 2 The English word Harlot is said to have been derived from this lady's name. 3 M- Houel.", "204 Nicholas Francis, who was the last Montgommery' in France; he died in 1721 , and bequeathed bis lordship to his niece la rnarqirisc de Thiboutet. The arms of the house are ' d'azur au lion d'or arme et lampasse d'un casque de comte orne de ses lambre quins ' ; and the devise ' garde bien '. Richard Montgommery , who was born in the north of Ireland in 1737, was probably descended from thi* laird of Braidstanes. He was highly distinguished in the Canadian warfare in 1756 , and then settled in the state of New-York ; he afterwards held a high command in the American service, and witji 3,000 men attempted to expel the English from iheir posses sions in Canada. He took Montreal, and joined colonel Arnold in thc attack upon Quebec, but fell in a sin gularly gallant manner in the attack upon that fortress, lamented and honoured by both armies. Thc congress have erected a monument to his memory in New-York . some blunder here, for he state* that James left only a daugh ter ; yet soon afterwards he tells us, lhat Mrholas Francis was liis sen. ffiffi®*'", "213 of the goblin hunters , who had already surrounded the house of the official whose dame had compassionately af forded a hiding place to the hunted demon , which , having gained the roof of the house , escaped once more from its pursuers. Tracked again , it again took slight , and was again compassionated by another dame , and pur sued afresh ; and thus he fled from wife to wife , husband after husband ever at his heels. At length , wishing to escape from them at any hazard , and aided by Isele, niece of the provost of the fishery , it succeeded in shutting itself up in the dovecot of that worthy man. But the pursuers arrived there nearly at the same time ; finding therefore that he was so hard pressed , the ware -wolf was compeUed to remain amongst the pi geons. The old woman Saint-Sever, who directed the troop of hunters , opened the door of the pigeon house , and after sprinkling it with holy water , took a torch , and bending low crossed the threshold. ' By my monk's habit , cried the verger, it is a chris tian ! ' — ' And a christian of our acquaintance , added the official.'— 'It is Raoul, my lord's page, exclaimed all the confused an*astonished husbands in a breath.' ' It is the devil who has taken his form, cried dame Samp-Sever at the top of her voice, it is the devU; he may escape , be not too sure of him , he may slip fron us in thc shape of a toad , or evaporate in a Hue llauie. '" ]

[ "IN A GLASS DARKLY. 2 tions, well known to the sages of eight hundred years ago, and two of which are still, he alleges, known to the fraternity of thieves, and, among them, as police-office inquiries sometimes disclose to this day, in practical use. The Essay, Mortis Imago, will occupy as nearly as I can, at present, calculate, two volumes, the ninth and tenth, of the col lected papers of Doctor Martin Hesselius. This Essay, I may remark, in conclusion, is very curiously enriched by citations, in great abundance, from mediæval verse and prose romance, some of the most valuable of which, strange to say, are Egyptian. I have selected this particular statement from among many cases equally striking, but hardly, I think, so effective as mere narratives, in this irregular form of publi cation, it is simply as a story that I present it.", "THE DRAGON VOLANT. 55 tailor would fine-draw an old-coat. Parbleu ! gentlemen, if you saw me naked, you would laugh ? Look at my hand, a sabre-cut across the palm, to the bone, to save my head, taken up with three stitches, and five days afterwards I was playing ball with an English general, a prisoner in Madrid, against the wall of the convent of the Santa Maria de la Castita ! At Arcola, by the great devil him self ! that was an action. Every man there, gentlemen, swallowed as much smoke in five minutes as would smother you all, in this room ! I received, at the same moment, two musket balls in the thighs, a grape shot through the calf of my leg, a lance through my left shoulder, a piece of a shrapnel in the left deltoid, a bayonet through the cartilage of my right ribs, a sabre-cut that carried away a pound of flesh from my chest, and the better part of a congreve rocket on my forehead. Pretty well, ha,", "164 IN A GLASS DARKLY. discretion. I shall respect you accordingly.\" \" Mademoiselle would despise me, were I to violate a confidence.\" \" But you don't deceive me. You imitate your friend's diplomacy. I hate diplomacy. It means fraud and cowardice. Don't you think I know him. The gentleman with the cross of white ribbon on his breast. I know the Marquis d'Harmonville perfectly. You see to what good purpose your ingenuity has been expended.\" \" To that conjecture I can answer neither yes nor no.\" \" You need not. But what was your mo tive in mortifying a ladv?\" \"It is the last thing on earth I should do.\" \" You affected to know me, and you don't ; through caprice or listlessness or curiosity you wished to converse, not with a lady, but with a costume. You admired, and you" ]

[ "THE POLL TAKEN AT THE ELECTION OF TWO MEMBERS, FOR THE BOROUGH OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE JULY 25, 1837. CANDIDATES. WILLIAM ORD, Esq. JOHN HODGSON HINDE, Esq. CHARLES JOHN BIGGE, Esq. JOHN BLENKINSOPP COULSON, Esq. AUGUSTUS HARDING BEAUMONT, Esq. ANTHONY NICHOL, Esq., Sheriff. GEORGE WAUGH STABLE, Esq., Undbr.Sheriff NEWCASTLE: PRINTED BY T. AND J. HODGSON, UNION STREET 1837*", "10 POLL BOOK. 0.[H. B. C.jBt Burnup, John, Derwent-place, ... ... — Burnup, William, Eldon-place, F., ... ... — — Burnup, William, Westgate-street, ... ... — — Burrell, Isaac, Forth-street, ... ... ... — — Burrell, James, St. Mary 's-place, F , ... ... — — Burrell, John, South-street, ... ... ... — — Burrett, Thomas, Forth Banks, F., ... .. — — Burton, William, Rosemary-lane, F., .. ... — — Bustin, George, Saville-row, ... ... ... — — Butterly, George, Skinner-burn, ... ... — — Byne, Charles-Poyntz, Sheriff-hill, Durham, F., ... — — Cail, Richard, Northumberland-street, F., ... — — Cairns, James, Picton -terrace, ... ... — — Calbreath, James, Liverpool-street, F., ... — — Calbreath, Robert, Newgate-street, F., ... — — Caley, William, Leazes-terrace, ... ... — — Cameron, John, Egypt, F., ... ... ... + Campbell, Edward-Hall, Jun., Ellison -place, ... — — Campbell, Murdock, Trafalgar-street, ... ... — — Campbell, Thomas, St. Nicholas'-church-yard, ... — — Campbell, William, Dean-street, ... ... -\\- Campbell, William, Peacock's-entry, F., ... — — Cant, George, Bigg-market, F., ... ... — — Cant, George, Jun , Low Friar-street, F., ... — — Cant, John, Monk-street, F., ... ... ... — — Capstaff, Isaac, St. Peter's-quay, F., ... .. Cargill, Thomas, Eldon-square, ... ... — — Cargill, William, 12, Blackett-street, F., ... — — Cairns, George, Heaton, .. ... ... — — Carlisle, John, Gateshead, ... ... ... — — Carmichael, John- Wilson, Percy-street, ... — — Carnaby, Anthony, Gallowgate, F., ... ... — — Carnaby, John, Gallowgate, F., ... .. Carnaby, Ralph, Close, F., ... ... .. — Carnaby, Robert, Butcher-bank, F., ... ... — — Carnaby, Robert, Gallowgate, F., ... ... Carnaby, William, Gallowgate, F., ... ... Carr, Fenwick, St. Peter's-quay, F., ... ... + Carr, James, Pilgrim-street, ... ... ... — — Carr, James, Trafalgar-street, ... ... ... — — Carr, John, Bird's-nest, Byker, F., ... ... — — Carr, John, Close, F., ... ... ... — Carr, John, Hillgate, Gateshead, F., ... ... Carr, John, Villa-place, ... ... ... Carr, John- Thomas, Hanover-square, ... .. — Carr, Joseph, Pilgrim-street, ... ... .. Carr, Lancelot- Stobart, Blenheim-street, ... Carr, Mark, Percy-street, F., ... ... ... Carr, Richard, Jun., Percy-street, F., ... ... Carr, Robert, Elswick-terrace, F., ... ...", "48 POLL BOOK. 0.. II. B. C. Bt. Robson, Thomas, Howard-street (late Wall-knoll), F., — — Robson, Thomas, Manors, F, ... ... — — Robson, Thomas, New-road, F., ... ... +■ Robson, Thomas, New-road, F., ... ... — — Robson, Thomas, Northumberland-street, ... — — Robson, Thomas, New Pandon-street, l'\\, ... Robson, William, Dean-street, .. .. — — Robson, William, Forth-terrace, ... .. — — Robson, William, Green-court, ... .. — — Robson, William, Manor-chare, F., ... .. 4- Robson, William, New Pandon-street, F., ... — — Robson, William, New-road, ... ... Robson, William, Northumberland-street, ... — — Robson, William, Paradise, ... ... — — Robson, William, Stamfordham-place, ... ... Robson, William, 2, Stamfordham-place, ... — — Robson, William, Sunnyside, ... ... — — Robson, William, William-street, ... ... — — Rochester, Thomas, Pilgrim-street, F., ... — — Rodham, Thomas, High-bridge, ... .. — — Rogers, Arthur, Leazes-terrace, .. ... — — Rogers, William, Windmill-hills, Gateshead, ... — — Rogerson, Thomas, Oxford-street, ... ... — — Rollins, John, Back-row, F., ... ... — — Roxby, Thomas, Ouseburn Bridge, ... ... — — Ross, William, Pandon-bank, ... ... — — Routledge, Christopher, Denton-chare, ... — — RoutleJge, John, Hanover-square, ... ... — — Routledge, James, Trafalgar-street, F., ... ... — — Routledge, Robert, New Pandon-street, F., ... — — Row, John-Burnett, Sandgate, F., ... ... — — Rowe, Jeremiah, Close, ... ... ... — — Rowe, Robert, Side,... ... .. ... 4. Rowell, John, Northumberland-street, ... ... — — Rowell, John, 18, Pipewellgate, Gateshead, F., ... — — Rowell, Joseph, Pilgrim-street, . ... ... — — Rowell, Robert, Percy-street, F., ... .. 4. Rowell, Samuel, 74, Northumberland-street, F., ... — — Rowell, William, Thornton-street, ... ... — — Rowland, George, High Elswick, F., ... ... — — Reucastle, James, Howard-street, F., .. ... — — Rucastle, John, WTestgate, ... ... ... — — Russell, Frederick, North-shore, ... ... — — Russell, John, St. Peters, ... ... ... — — Russell, Peter, Willington, F., ... ... ... — — Russell, Robert, Groat-market, ... ... — — Rutherford, George, Westgate, ... ... Rutherford, James, Cloth-market, ... ... — — Rutherford, John, Newgate-street, ... ... — — Rutherford, John-Haswell, Sandgate, F., ... — — Rutherford, William, 27, Butcher-bank, ... 4." ]

[ "1 Molen, ein Land, ein Volt und ein Staat fast nur durch Unglück denkwürdig, umfaßte seit 1000 Jahren die größte Ebene Europas, hatte, Litthauen mit eingeschlossen, vor der ersten Theilung 1773 einen Flächenraum von mehr als 13,000 Quadratmeilen, auf welchem 15 Millionen Menschen unter der Herrschaft von nahe einer halben Million adlicher Herren eben fo wenig ihrer republikanischen Freiheit wie der großen Fruchtbarkeit ihres Bodens theilhaftig wurden. Die verschiedensten, unermeßlichen Naturprodukte sowie der ausgebreiteste Handelsverkehr, den die schiffbaren Ströme dem Lande nach der Ostsee und dem schwarzen Meer hin zu den entlegensten Welttheilen darboten, würden dieses Volt zur glücklichsten Nation gemacht haben können. Allein die Gewerbe lagen darnieder, so daß außer in Warschau, Bromberg, Posen und einigen ähnlichen Städten nur die Peitsche die Seele der National-Oelonomie vertrat und jede Thätigkeit des Erfindungsgeistes in den Branntweinschenken der Juden ersäuft wurde. Das Volk, ein Zweig der Sarmaten, erlangte in dem großen Völkergedränge der Gothen und Hunnen nach 200 jährigem Kriege mit den Germanen fomie durch die 1»", "94 gegen das eigene Vaterland als Vorläufer ihres Unter ganges kundgegeben , so daß' ihre Auflösung und Vernich tung nicht Wunder nehmen konnte. Nicht also war es mit der polnischen Nation beschaffen. In dem Augenblick als sie auseinllndergerissen und ihr Vaterland zerstückelt wurde, hatte das Nationalleben neue Kraftfülle und durch den Anblick der sie umstellenden mächtigen Feinde einen Auf schwung genommen, der dem innern Zwist ein Ende machte und alle Schichten des Volkes zu jenem Todesmuth für das Vaterland zu sterben, beifpiellos mächtig emporhob, der die Namen Kosciuszko, Dombrowsti und vieler anderen denkwürdigen Helden und Patrioten, in der Geschichte ver ewigt hat. Für solche Männer war das verlorene Vater land nicht mehr der Boden, auf dem sie länger verweilen mochten. Die Unabhängigkeit und Freiheit suchten sie in fernen Landen und- fanden sie in Frankreich , das Polens treuster Verbündeter zu allen Zeiten geblieben und eben damals dieselben Mächte, die ihr Vaterland zerstückelt, mit Krieg überzogen hatte. Die Kriegesthaten der polnischen Legionen weiden noch gegenwärtig von Mund zu Munde getragen, durch Gesang und Lied und füllen die Kriegesjahrbücher der Heere des verjüngten Frankreichs. Ein Ausschuh von der polnischen Emigration wurde zu Paris tmd Venedig errichtet. Der General Dombrowsti vereinigte die Trümmer seiner zer streuten Waffenbrüder und bildete aus ihnen die ersten Legionen. Die Schlachttage von Novi, Modena und Neapel waren Zeuge ihrer alten Tapferkeit. Der damalige con sularische General Bonaparte zählte sie zu den besten Trup pen im ganzen Verlauf feiner denkwürdigen Feldzüge in Italien. Die Legion „der Donau\" — so wurde sie ge-", "207 Der jetzt einstweilige russische Obergeneral Toll machte jedoch schnell eine wohl berechnete Scheinbemegung gegen Sierock, die den um Warschau beängstigten Skrzynecki be- wog, den, den Feind noch nicht erreichten Rybinski nicht blos, sondern auch den Iantowski zurückzuberufen. Der Letztere würde zwar den General Rüdiger, der durch dessen Vorhut unter den Obersten Turno bereits in die Flucht geschlagen war, noch bevor er die Zurückberufungs - Ordre in den Händen hatte, gänzlich vernichtet haben können, allein weder Iantowski noch der von ihm zur Unterstützung der Vorhut abgesendete General Bukowski, konnten zum Angriff bestimmt werden. Der Letztere begab sich vielmehr auf den Rückmarsch und der gegen Kreutz dirigirte General Chrzanowski, statt diesen ebenfalls geschlagenen Feind ver- nichten zn können, mußte, in Folge der kläglichen Wen- dung, welche die Expedition genommen, von ihm ablassen, um nur mit Noth am 23. Juni durch eiuen schnellen Weichselübergang sich zu dem General Romarino nach San- domir zu retten. Die Generale Iantowski und Bukowski auf den Grund einer zu Gunsten der Russen in Galizien angezettelten und entdeckten Verschwörung dringend ver- dächtigt, ließ' der Obergeneral Skrzynecki nebst noch anderen sechs erräthern, unter diesen auch das verhaßte frühere Werkzeug des Großfürsten Konstantin, General Hurtig, zwar öffentlich verhaften, damit das, gegen die Missethäter erbitterte Volt, kaum nur mit Mühe von dem Fürsten Czartorysti beruhigt werden konnte; jedoch hatte er sich den gerechten Vorwurf zugezogen, wieder einmal durch Un entfchlosseuheit fein bedrängtes Vaterland und feine zweifel hafte Stellung zugleich empor zu heben, versäumt zu haben. Nachdem der zum Oberbefehlshaber der russifchen" ]

[ "124 BATTAGLIA DI CUSTOZA - RAPPORTO DEL GENERALE LAMARMORA occupava Goito stesso, Marmirolo e Roverbella , come riserva generale del movimento in avanti degli altri due Corpi, e complemento contro Man tova dell'occupazione offensiva divisata. « Il quartier generale principale doveva por tarsi in Valeggio, centro naturale di questa occu pazione. « Era prescritto che le divisioni marciassero con tutte le cautele necessarie dinanzi al ne mico. « 11 ponte di Goito, quelb gettati il 23 ai mo lini di Volta ed a Ferri, un altro da stabilirsi il 24 alla Torre di Goito, dovevano assicurarsi con teste di ponte ; i due di Monzambano e di Borsetto lo BATTAGLIA DI CL'STOZA. — Ferimento del principe Amedei erano abbastanza, dopo la forte occupazione mi litare delle alture che li fronteggiano. « Ma questa marcia in avanti , che sembrava dover condurre ad una semplice occupazione di posizioni, si cambiò , poco dopo il suo principio, in un serio combattimento su tutta la fronte delle nostre colonne. siva, potenti masse nemiche lasciarono le posizioni che tenevano lungo l'Adige a Pastrengo, a Chievo, e nel campo trincerato di Verona, e con una mar cia obliqua verso sud-ovest si disposero a contra starci l'indimane l'occupazione cui miravamo. Quasi tutte quelle forze si portarono ad occupare le forti posizioni delle colline tra Salionze, Oliosi, San Gior gio in Salice e Sommacampagna ; mentre masse « Nel pomeriggio del 23 e nella notte succes-", "126 BATTAGLIA DI CUSTOZA - RAPPORTO DEL GENERALE LAMARMORA cavalleggieri di Alessandria. I ripetuti ed energici sforzi del nemico sono resi vani da enormi per dite. Le due divisioni si riordinano, si collegano più regolarmente fra di loro , e rimangono tutta la giornata nella stessa posizione, da cui non mos sero se non per gli avvenimenti che succedevano sulle alture con sorte meno propizia. « A questo punto convien seguitare la marcia del 1° Corpo. « Perché questo Corpo potesse raggiungere le posizioni che doveva occupare, era stato stabilito dal suo comandante che la divisione Cerale mar ciasse da Monzambano su Castelnuovo ; la divisione Sirtori da Valeggio per Fornelli, San Rocco di Pa lazzolo, San Giorgio in Salice su Santa Giustina; la divisione Brignone da Pozzolo per Valeggio, Cu stoza, Sommacampagna a Sona ; la riserva del Corpo d'armata da Volta per N'aleggio a Castelnuovo su la grande strada, lasciando un battaglione di ber saglieri e uno squadrone in Valeggio , a guardia dei carriaggi che non dovevano oltrepassare que sto villaggio. « La 2a divisione (Pianell) era destinata a ri manere sulla destra del Mincio tra Pozzolengo e Monzambano, per osservare Peschiera. « Tutti questi movimenti cominciarono tra le 3 e le 4 antimeridiane del 24, ma alcune circostanze imprevedibili impedirono che si effettuassero con la connessione voluta da operazioni cospiranti allo stesso obbiettivo. rono sparati contro il 3° Corpo , e precisamente contro la divisione Principe Umberto. « Questo Corpo si era messo in marcia alle 2 antimeridiane su tre colonne per occupare la linea Sommacampagna-Villafranca, che gli era stata as segnata. « A destra la divisione Principe Umberto, diri gendosi su Villafranca, percorreva la strada di Ro verbella e Mozzecane. La divisione Bixio al centro, avviata alle Gonfardine, seguiva da Massimbona a Villafranca la strada che, volgendo a sinistra, tende a quella borgata. « La divisione Cugia a sinistra, per la strada da Pozzolo a Ramelli, Quaderni, Rosegaferro, co steggiando il piede delle colline , moveva verso Sommacampagna, ove doveva collegarsi a sinistra con la destra del-l° Corpo d'armata. « Seguiva in riserva la divisione Govone , che per la strada di Seivie, Bassanello, Quaderni e Ro segaferro, dirigevasi a Pozzo Moretto per ivi pren dere posizione. « La brigata di cavalleria (cavalleggieri di Sa luzzo e lancieri di Foggia) , in coda alla divisione Bixio, doveva stabilirsi in Rosegaferro. I cavalleg gieri di Alessandria erano distribuiti in squadroni fra le varie divisioni e il quartier generale del Corpo d' armata. Questo per la strada stessa te nuta dalla divisione Principe Umberto, alle 4 an timeridiane si portò da Goito a Villafranca. « Quest'ultima divisione giunse alle 5. 30 in nanzi a Villafranca. La sua avanguardia, composta di due battaglioni bersaglieri e uno squadrone cavalleggieri, traversò rapidamente Villafranca, che trovò sgombra ; esplorò le strade di Verona e Po vegliano, e scoperse a un miglio dal paese le estre me vedette nemiche. Il grosso della divisione ol trepassò Villafranca, e spiegò in prima linea la brigata Parma, a cavallo delle due strade che da Villafranca tendono a Verona e della strada ferrata. Non tardò l artiglieria nemica ad aprire un vivo fuoco ; e poco dopo sopraggiunse improvvisamente la cavalleria, la quale caricò con tant' impeto, che appena la brigata Parma ebbe tempo a formare i quadrati, entro uno dei quali (quello del 4° bat taglione del 49°) dovette chiudersi il giovane prin cipe con parte del suo stato-maggiore. Quest' at tacco fu ripetuto due volte, e due volte respinto dal fuoco della fanteria e dell artiglieria , e dalle cariche di due squadroni cavalleggieri d'Alessan dria guidati dal loro bravo colonnello Strada. « 11 contegno della truppa fu vero modello di fermezza e di ardimento. 11 giovane erede della Casa di Savoja, che per la prima volta affrontava i periccb della guerra, die prova di quelle splen dide virtù militari che sono il retaggio secolare della sua stirpe. « Intanto la divisione Bixio, udito come alla sua destra la 16\" divisione si trovava impegnata in un serio combattimento, si porta rapidamente in linea spiegandosi sotto il fuoco nemico a sinistra e avanti Villafranca ; si collega colla sinistra di que sta divisione ; lotta colla propria contro l'artiglieria nemica, e respinge anch'essa i ripetuti attacchi della cavalleria , secondata pure dal reggimento « Anzitutto la 1 a divisione , invece di seguire l'itinerario prescrittole, si preoccupò del pericolo di trovarsi sotto il tiro del forte Monte Croce di Peschiera, e preferì discendere il Mincio fino a Va leggio in una sola colonna, con tutto il suo traino, per prendere di là la grande strada di Castelnuovo. Da ciò derivò perdita di tempo, ingombro di carri in Valeggio, ove affluivano contemporaneamente la truppa e i carriaggi della 5a divisione e della riserva , e' peggio ancora, che la 5a divisione, di rettasi da Valeggio verso Fornelli, si trovò scoperta a sinistra ; e incontrando il nemico verso Oliosi, si trovò impegnata in combattimento , avanti che la la e la 3a divisione potessero entrare in azione. « Vi è di più. « L'avanguardia della 5a divisione sotto gli or dini del maggior generale di Villahermosa , com-*. posta di due battaglioni del 19°, del 5U battaglione bersaglieri, uno squadrone di cavalleggieri di Lucca, una squadra di zappatori del genio e due pezzi , giunta a Fornelli, sbagliò strada ; ed anziché per correre la via secondaria di San Rocco di Palazzolo, s'impegnò in quella postale di Castelnuovo. « Onde, diventata avanguardia alla la divisione, che era in ritardo, anziché della propria, fu ca gione che questa si imbattè nel nemico senza aspet tarselo, e che il suo spiegamento e le sue prime disposizioni non poterono farsi senza una momen tanea confusione. Questo incontro ebbe luogo alla cascina Pernisa. « Il generale Sirtori spiegò la brigata Brescia e Una batteria a destra e a sinistra della casa, e la brigata Valtellina e un'altra batteria in seconda linea alla via Cava, con la destra a Santa Lucia", "171 VIENNA DOPO LA BATTAGLIA DI KOENIGGRATZ tre arciduchi feriti, i principi Lichtenstein e Win dischgratz fatti prigionieri, il generale Gablentz sparito, annegato nell'Elba un numero sterminato di soldati, ignoto il luogo del quartier generale, i prussiani alle porte di Vienna. « Vienna è nello stupore, — scrivevasi al Jour nal des Débats. E appena se pare si pensi che i prussiani son a tre giornate di cammino di qui ,\" che le popolazioni spaventate fuggono al loro av vicinarsi e che la strada della capitale è tutta quanta aperta al loro esercito trionfante. Ieri ho visto pas sar l'imperatore pallido, sprofondato nella sua car rozza e come^ disfatto dal dolore : e' recavasi al l'ambulanza. E ora la sua prima occupazione di ogni giorno dal principio di questa terribile guerra. A quattro ore di sera è giunto l'ultimo telegramma. Pareva che la città intiera ricevesse una medesima scossa elettrica. Dopo, colla riflessione, si produsse una reazione, e non si senti più discutere che sui modi da prendere per continuare la guerra contro la Prussia. cesi accettò la cessione del Veneto, cessione che fu annunziata all'Europa dalla nota seguente del Monileur universe!, del 5 luglio: « È accaduto un fatto importante. « Dopo aver salvato l onor delle sue armi in Italia, l'imperatore d' Austria, annuendo alle idee espresse dall imperatore Napoleone nella sua let tera diretta il dì 11 giugno al suo ministro degli esteri, cede la Venezia all'imperatore de' Francesi ed accetta la sua mediazione per ridurre a pace i belligeranti. « L'imperatore Napoleone s'è affrettato di rispon dere a questo appello e s' è immediatamente in dirizzato a' re di Prussia e d Italia per dar luogo ad un armistizio. » Questo « fatto importante » ci riconduce a parlar dell Italia e ad esporre quel che v' era avvenuto dopo il 24 giugno. Chiuderemo intanto questo capitolo con un arti colo tolto da un giorfiale di Vienna, il Didaskalia. È una scena pietosa e terribile, un lugubre quadro degli orrori che partorisce la guerra, — questa immensa violenza fatta alla natura ed al 1 umanità! « Si lavora notte e giorno a fortificar Vienna dalla parte di Florisdorff, dove mettono capo le strade per le quali verranno i prussiani. « Povera difesa questa di pochi bastioni alzati fra un esercito inebbriato del suo trionfo ed una popolazione demoralizzata ! Tutto concorre ad ab battere gli animi. Stamane si trasportò via in tutta fretta il materiale delle ferrovie del Nord, affinchè non cada in mano ai nemici. » « La mano di chi scrive queste righe è agitata da un tremito nervoso , il polso gli batte preci pitoso, gli occhi gli scottano, e tratto tratto, mentre scrive, una lagrima glimperla l'estremità delle ci glia, giacché ha passato una notte alla stazione del Nord. Ma dopo le prime ore di scoraggiamento si pensò a far fronte alla meglio al disastro, ad evitarne tutte le conseguenze. Il generale Benedek fu de stituito, ed il governo austriaco, implacabile contro i suoi generali quando si lasciano battere , fece arrestare e tradurre innanzi un consiglio di guerra i generali Clam-Gallas , comandante di corpo, ba rone Henikstein, capo dello stato -maggiore gene rale dell'esercito settentrionale, maggiore generale De Krismanic, sottocapo dello stesso stato-maggiore. L'arciduca Alberto diresse all'imperatore il se guente dispaccio: « Colo, 4 luglio 1866. « Conosce il lettore quella stazione sotto il suo nuovo aspetto? Il debarcadère, ove gli amici so gliono andar a dare il benvenuto agli arrivati è stato trasformato in un gigantesco spedale. Ivi il patriottico comitato di soccorso fa medicare i po veri feriti dell'esercito settentrionale. « — Volete apprezzare tutto l'orrore delle sven ture della guerra? mi disse un membro del co mitato di soccorso; ebbene! venite a passar con noi una notte alla stazione del Nord; sarete te stimone di scene tanto pietose che nessuna penna saprebbe descriverle, nessuna bocca narrarle. « Accettai l'invito. Aveva detto il vero : che me sto, che truce spettacolo ! « La sconfitta dell'esercito del Nord è una grande sventura, ma per questo nulla è perduto. « Nel 1809, alla sconfìtta di Ratisbona, seguì la bellissima vittoria di Aspern ! « Abbiamo ancora un'eguale prospettiva se non son presi da scoraggiamento nò l'esercito né il popolo. » Magro conforto! quella che gli austriaci chia mano battaglia di Aspern, è dai francesi chiamata battaglia di Essling ; essa fu ben altro che una vit toria austriaca. Rimase tutto al più indecisa, come la giudicano gli strategici e gli storici. La casa d'Austria, ridotta in si dure condizioni, deliberò allora di prendere un gran partito : ce dere il Veneto all'imperatore de'Francesi, ritirarne le truppe e farsene scudo contro l'esercito prus siano, che s' avvicinava alla capitale, affidandone il comando all'arciduca Alberto. « Era suonata la mezzanotte; il convoglio che doveva recare il primo trasporto di 300 feriti era aspettato all'una; già somma attività regnava nel debarcadère e nelle sale d'aspetto. Gl'impiegati del comitato portavano materasse e le ponevano lungo le mura della sala a vòlta; nelle sale d' aspetto s'allestivano letti per gli uomini gravemente feriti ed i medici preparavano le loro medicature; da ogni parte recavansi fasce, filacce e gli strumenti necessari a'chirurgi. « I membri del comitato di soccorso, l'instanca bile Boschan con la mirabile sua abnegazione, il giovane conte Wickemburg , il barone Kraus, il langravio Furstemberg, Franz Hautmann, proprie tario d'un albergo, il barone Gorup, il cavaliere Von Suttner, ecc. andavano e venivano, dando gli ordini necessari. Nella giornata\" del 4 un attivo scambio di tele grammi fu fatto fra la corte di Vienna e quella della Tuileries. Finalmente l'imperatore de'Fran- « Là vedonsi mucchi di sigari, qua brocche d'ac qua, centinaia di bicchieri già pieni di vino o di" ]

[ "96 EPISODIOS MARÍTIMOS El capitán Williams pasó al mando del vapor Maipo que montaba cinco cañones. En cambio, tomó su puesto, como segundo del capitán Goñi, el teniente 1.° don Ricardo Rogers, natural de Concepción, brillante i hermoso mestizo, hijo de un capitán ingles i de una chilena, como Williams, i que una muerte tan inesperada como lamenta ble arrebató al servicio de la República en sus mejores años. Ricardo Rogers pereció ahogado en la bahía de Caldera, cuando mandaba el vapor Maule en 1862, i ese dia, la naciente marina de Chile vistió luto, porque habia desaparecido uno de sus mas nobles jefes. Rogers no habia cumplido treinta años, i después de Williams era considerado la mejor esperanza de nuestra marina de guerra. IX. Por uno de esos signos del destino tan comunes en la vida del mar, el primer servicio de alguna nota que la Esmeralda prestó al país eu sus costas, fué el apresamiento de un buque mercante llama do el Sportman, que con bandera de Estados Uni dos i permiso de las autoridades bolivianas de Cobija, cargaba metales en la que entonces se lla maba bahía de Santa María, «diez leguas al sur de Mejillones», i que hoi es probablemente el puerto de Antofagasta o una de sus caletas mas", "276 EPISODIuS MARITIMOS notar la desaparición del trasporte conductor del elemento que en las guerras marítimas es hoi de mas entidad que la pólvora, i aunque se le buscó durante media hora, como prenda perdida en un paseo, gobernando los buques durante media hora hacia el sud-este, a las diez déla mañana volvióse a tomar la derrota del Callao, dándose por nuevo punto de cita a los seis buques del con^oi las is las de las Hormigas, grupo de peñones casi a flor de agua, situado 30 millas hacia el Oeste del Ca llao i fuera de la vista de sus vijías. El dado esta ba tirado. A. las tres de la tarde de ese dia, segundo de la marcha, hicieron se señales por la almiranta para «estrechar las distancias», i verificada esta ma niobra, pasó en un bote el mayor jeneral a comu nicar a cada comandante de buque las instruccio nes de la próxima i formidable batalla. VIII. Parecería, en virtud de noticias posteriores, que solo en ese dia el almirante comunicó su plan a su asesor civil, sin entrar por esto a disutirio. Pero de todas suertes, el atrevido propósito fué recibido con vivo regocijo a bordo de todos los buques, i desde ese momento comenzaron los aprestos del sañudo i ya próximo encuentro cuer po a cuerpo. Aunque la escuadra avanzaba lenta-", "EPISODIOS MARÍTIMOS 446 Habia recibido el joven i entusiasta cirujano hacia un escaso mes (el 14 de abril) sus despa chos de licenciado en medicina de la Universidad; pero con corazón verdaderamente coquimbano disputó a sus mas antiguos colegas el derecho i la gloria de ir «a morir por su patria». de la Independencia, su capellán, nn maestro de novicios de San Agustín de Lima, llamado Sotil. — «Después de decir algunos requiescat in pace, (cuenta un diario de Lima), i de pronuuciar algunos ego te absolvo, terció el hábito, i tomanda un rifle, se presentó en la cubierta de la Independencia, vivando a la pa tria, ni mas ni menos que aquellos valientes sacerdotes que con denuedo defendieron a Zaragoza, cuando los aguerridos soldados de Napoleón trataron de apoderarse de esa ciudad. — »Fuego, mucnachos! no hai que darse! fuego! fuego! mu chachos!, i el reverendo menudeaba que era una bendición. i) Para cargar se parapetaba dando vuelta a la chimenea del buque; mas para apuntar i descargar, diz que esclamaba: ¡cuer po afuera, fuego, muchachos! fuego! i llovían balas, i el R. P. parecíale como si estuviera en el coro de San Agustin oyendo el sonoro órgano. — »¡Quién dijo miedo! — repetía i cargaba i abría brecha en tre los enemigos: ¡fuego, fuego, muchachos! » Aquel padre estaba, nos dice quien nos ha hecho la referen cia, como para haberle retratado. »Ajil cómo un saltaperico, arrojado como un león, el padre Sotil hubiese querido ver un puente, una viga, cualquier cosa que pusiera a los buques en comunicación, para lanzarse, rifle en mano, contra las mismas filas enemigas i hacer morder el polvo a los chilenos. »Los agustinos, (concluía la relación), deben hallarse conten tísimos al saber el noble comportamiento, el heroico valor del padre Sotil»." ]

[ "captain norman's journal. 19 meters, steamed up to Port Chalmers, where the Harbor-master, Captain Thomson, took charge and moored the ship. At 11 a.m. proceeded to Dunedin, according to my instructions, to call upon the officer representing the Government, with refer ence to a supply of coal. Had an interview with His Honor the Superintendent, and presented letter (No. 4), reporting the arrival of the ship, and stating the service on which she was employed. At a meeting of the Provincial Council (which was immediately summoned by His Honor the Superintendent), it was decided that, although no instructions had been received from the General Government of New Zealand upon the subject, the Provincial Government would supply coal and provisions as may be required by the ship, and that they would settle the question of payments with the General Government (see letter No. 5). His Honor directed that orders, in accordance with this decision, should be at once forwarded to the contractors ; and, on my return to the ship, I found a collier alongside discharging coal. Thursday, 9th. — Coaling and effecting some necessary repairs. Tuesday, 14th ■ — At this port I first learned of the wreck of the Invercauld ; also of the Southland being despatched to search the Auckland Islands, and of her return, after having gone over part of the ground searched by us. Being now doubly satis fied that to return and continue the search, starting from the spot where the Invercauld was wrecked, would be a wasteful ex penditure, and His Honor the Superintendent being of the same opinion, I have decided on returning to Melbourne without delay. Thursday, 16th. — His Honor the Superintendent and the Mem bers of the Provincial Council, with some of the principal inhabi tants of Dunedin and Port Chalmers, visited and inspected the ship. Received a statement from Thomas Thomson, in reference to an old long-boat left by him at the Auckland Islands. — (See Enclosure No. 1.) Friday, 17th. — At 2-30 a.m. left Port Chalmers. At 3 a.m. passed over the bar. N.N.W. winds, increasing during the day ; glasses lowering fast from 29° 80' to 29° at 5 p.m., at which hour we anchored in Bluff Harbor, as the weather threatened for a gale. Captain Lowden, whose services were very acceptable in piloting the vessel round and into the anchorage, informs me that, before this ship had arrived on their coast, the pilots had decided to give their services gratis, in consideration of the mission on which the ship had been despatched. Saturday, 18th. — A heavy N.W. and S.W. gale, with several squalls. Bar. 29° 6'. Received invitation from His Honor the Superintendent and the inhabitants of Invercargil. — (See En closure, No. 2.) Sunday, 19th. — Very heavy rain until 9 a.m., then looking finer, weighed and stood out ; wind N.W., increasing, and squalls b 2", "captain musgrave's journal. 27 prints were nearly as large as those of a deer. But we saw no evidence of man ever having been here ; neither do I think it has ever been visited by man before, or the sealers would undoubtedly have made it their head-quarters. Mr. MacLellan, with his boat, met me at the entrance of the inlet, and reported numerous marks of pigs, but nothing else. We sailed together, and pro ceeded to Inlets Nos. 7, 8, and 9. Our crossing the entrance of No. 6, was the signal for the steamer to weigh aud follow us. Our examination of 7, 8, and 9, resulted in no new discoveries, but it is evident that pigs are very numerous about this part of the island ; they have no doubt been driven from the north end, but have not yet reached the southern parts. After an examina tion of Inlets 7 and 8, with my boat, I went on board the ship, which was laying off waiting for us. We then steamed up Inlet No. 9, and at 4 p.m., anchored at its head, about three miles from the sea, where we found the whaleboat. Shortly after anchoring, two parties went on shore ; we separated, each man going where chance or inclination might lead him, and wandered about until dark. We saw large beaten tracks made by pigs, and the ground everywhere uprooted by them, still we did not see any of the animals excepting a litter of young ones which were dead. We also found the remains of a wigwam ; sealers have most likely been here, but it is evidently very long ago. Seals, which appear to be very scarce just now, are more numerous here than we have seen them elsewhere. The wind was fresh from S.W. through out the day, with squalls and frequent showers of mist. Guns have been fired. October 13th. — This morning the hills were all white with snow ; at 5 a.m. we commenced to weigh, but just as we had got both anchors a snow storm came on, and it fell so thickly that we could not see ten yards, and were obliged to let go an anchor again. After breakfast the weather cleared ; we again hove up and steamed out, and along the shore to the northward, despatched the boats as yesterday, to examine all the bights between Inlet No. 9 and the N.E. cape of the island, which being satisfactorily done, without seeing anything to lead us to suppose that anyone has been here recently, we went on board ; nor did we find any traces of pigs. We now steamed round the N.E. cape, passing midway between the cape and a small islet which lays about two miles off it ; we then hauled in shore, and steamed quite slow, keeping as close in as was prudent, and firing guns, but saw nothing to attract our at tention. We passed Ewin or Green Island on the right, and Ocean Island on the left, and so entered Port Ross, and at about 2 p.m. anchored in Erebus Cove, and fired guns. Shortly after anchoring, Captain Norman, Colonel Smith, R.A., (who has been my boating companion on every occasion), and myself, landed in Erebus Cove, and sent the boat round to Lawrie Cove to wait for", "CAPTAIN MUSGRAVE'S JOURNAL. 35 Ross, but as the wind was not favorable we went direct to the ship, where we arrived at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Captain Norman has decided on landing the remainder of the goats and the rabbits on Enderby Island ; and I think they are more likely to thrive there than anywhere else on the group. After dinner I accompanied Captain Norman on shore, to make a final inspection of the gardening, and the carving on the tree, which was finished, and the tree painted black and white, which will at once attract the attention of any one who may visit this harbor ; a sealed bottle, containing a letter describing the nature of our visit, was placed in a hollow at the foot of the tree, which bore the following inscription: — H.M.C.S. Victoria Norman, In search of Shipwrecked People. October 13th, 1865. Tandy, Gr. D. McLel .1. Nelson, Cr. E. Andrews, B F. Robinson D. McLeli.an, 2nd O. T. Granger, P M. D. MANGAN. When we returned on board, one anchor was picked up, and every thing ready for an early start in the morning, as we have done everything that we conceive to be necessary on the east side, and at this end of the island, and, weather permitting, we proceed to search its western shore. October 18th. — Light northerly airs and fine clear weather all this day. At 5 a.m. we weighed, and proceeded under steam to the sand bay, on the south side of Enderby Island, dropped the anchor in 8 fathoms water, and immediately sent on shore the remainder of the goats, and all the rabbits ; sowed some canary seed, and returned on board. WTe had no time for planting trees or sowing other seeds, as the wind was inclined to freshen and come from S.E., to which quarter this bay is open ; besides, delay would have caused a waste of fuel which we cannot afford ; and we expected to have required all the daylight we could get to enable us to get round the west coast to-day. On the N.E. end of Enderby Island there is another small sand beach, on which we saw a great number of sea-lions. In sailing round we kept close enough to see a seal, so that it would have been impossible for anything in the shape of wreck to have escaped our notice ; however, we saw nothing of that sort. The water was tolerably smooth, and we did not see anything like a break where Bristow Rock is said to be ; neither did Captain Norman and I see it when we were upon the hill on Enderby Island yesterday, although I saw a break covering considerable space in that direction when I was on the mountains the other day, so I have no doubt but there is a treacherous danger about the position given to the said rock, which C 2" ]

[ "Away and Forget. 42 indulge themselves provided they let me alone. And as for the parsons, why, they're not the only humbugs in the world, — are they, Rob ? \" Alan had noticed a very bright colour in the boy's cheek, and a flash in his eye which seemed to him ominous of a falling out between him and his host, and he lost no time in changing the subject of discussion, and resolutely prevented any return to it.", "Miss Fait Us Decided Step. 173 travelling alone, she annihilated him instantly with — \" Don't imagine /want you.\" So it was settled, but the next morning brought different ideas. \" Such a budget of letters for you, Aunt Judy ; one from Aunt Faith among them. Come, perhaps it will set your mind at rest, and make you alter your plans.\" Now Miss Faith's letters were always long, frequently incoherent, and always rather tedious to read. Her sister sighed as she looked at the three sheets of fine running hand, written in faint lilac ink, and entirely devoid of stops. \" Susannah Rae must have been dreaming,\" she said, as she laid down the first sheet. \" There's nothing the matter. The dining-room chimney has been smoking ; the cook has had two policemen to supper three times last week, — what does that signify? Faith has been making a scrap-book for Mr. O'Flaherty's little sister ; she is thinking of consulting Air. Cutthroat about her hair, which is turning grey. Of course it is, — what then ? I can't really read all these pages ; if there's anything wrong, it will be at the end.\" She took up the third sheet, and began reading in the middle. \" You see I write from Dover ; he wished to see Paris, and all places are the same ; he needs change of scene. I need nothing now ; love and sympathy, dear Judith — love and sympathy are balm and life to me.\" — \"W'hat's this! what's this!\" cried Miss Judy.— \" Paris,— he, — love and sympathy, — balm and life ; what does it all mean ? \" \" Read on, Aunt Judy,\" suggested Alan, while Patty came and peeped over her aunt's shoulder, and, with a suppressed laugh, pointed to the signature at the end, which was \"Faith Wyke. Oh! I forgot. I suppose I", "An Afternoon Walk. 303 have been witness of his disaster. I wonder what he'll tell them at home.\" \" AVill Dent find his sheep again ? \" inquired Mr. Rae, \" or do you suppose they're gone for good ? \" \" They've gone straight home, no doubt. How he and Sir Andrew will settle it, I can't say. A few years back the stage coach coming along the road met a flock of sheep like these travelling back whence they had been brought. The coachman slashed them with his whip and tried to turn them, but the only result was that they scattered this way and that, and some of them were never seen again.\" \" I wish the girls had followed Sir Andrew and seen him safely part of his way. Rie, you should have thought of it,\" remarked Mrs. Rae reproachfully, and Rie, who had had some such regrets already, admitted that she ought to have done so, whereupon Maggie, who was spreading the table for the evening meal, broke in upon the conversation to explain that she had been so frightened she had persuaded Miss Rie to come away. \" Frightened ? \" said her master ; \" and why, Maggie ? \" The girl hesitated to reply, looked at Rizpah, and muttered under her breath — \" He'd been drinking, Sir Andrew had, and folks did tell such fearful tales about him ; she was always frightened to death if she met him.\" \" You're a simpleton, Maggie,\" said her master good humouredly. \" Now see if you can't practise a little self-restraint, and don't tell this story all over the village, there's a good girl.\" \" Well, I've only told Sammy the postman, and the folks up at the post, and Tyson's at the shop, and old Phyzacklae, and two or three more. It's not doing as you would be done by to keep such a bit of news to" ]

[ "29 ACT IV. SCENE I. VENICE. A. COURT OP JUSTICE. The Duke , the Magnificoes , Antonio , Bassanio , and others. Enter Shylock. Duke. Make room, and let him stand before our face. — Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too, That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice To the last hour of act; and then 'tis thought Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse, more strange Than is thy strange-apparent cruelty; And where thou now exact'st the penalty, — Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh, — Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture, But, touch'd with human gentleness and love, Forgive a moiety of the principal; Glancing an eye of pity on his losses, That have of late so huddled on his back, Enough to press a royal merchant down , And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint, From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never train'd To offices of tender courtesy. We all expect a gentle answer, Jew. Shy. I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn To have the due and forfeit of my bond: If you deny it, let the danger light Upon your charter and your city's freedom. You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have A weight of carrion-flesh than to receive Three thousand ducats; I'll not answer that; But say it is my humour: is It answer'd? What if my house be troubled with a rat, And I be pleas'd to give ten thousand ducats To have it ban'd! What, are you answer'd yet? Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; As there is no firm reason to be render'd , Why he cannot abide a gaping pig; Why he, a harmless necessary cat; So can I give no reason, nor I will not, More than a lodg'd hate and a certain loathing I bear Antonio, that I follow thus A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd?", "53 Not one, bnt all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong. Was ev'rything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman! who could ev'ry hour employ With something new to wish , or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes: And both, to show his judgment, in extremes. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate; He laughed himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties , but could ne'er be chief; For , spite of him , the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel : Thus , wicked but in will , of means bereft, He left not faction , but of that was left. Buckingham and Ashley were men in whom the immorality which was epiden ic among the politicians of that age appeared in its most malignant type , but variously modified by great diversities of temper and understanding. Buckingham was a sated man of pleasure, who had turned to ambition as to a pastiiae. As he had tried to amuse himself with architecture and music, with writing farces and with seeking for the philosopher's stone , so he now tried to amuse himself with a secret negociation and a Dutch war. He had nlready, rather from fickleness and love of novelty than from any deep design , been faithless to every party. Ashley, with a far stronger head, and with a far fiercer and more earnest ambition, had been equally versatile. But Ashley's versatility was the effect, not of levity, but of deliberate selfishness. He had served and betrayed a succession of governments. But he had timed all his treacheries so well that , through all revolutions , his fortu nes had constantly been rising. The multitude, struck with admiration by a prosperity which, while everything else was constantly changing, remained unchangeable, attri buted to him a prescience almost miraculous, and likened him to the Hebrew statesman of whom it is written that his counsel was as if a man had inquired the oracle of God. 2 Sam. XVI. 23. . Macaulay's History of England.", "196 Do you question the young children in the sorrow, Why their tears are falling so? — The old man may weep for his to-morrow Which is lost in Long Ago — The old tree is leafless in the forest — The old year is ending in the frost — The old wound, if stricken, is the sorest— The old hope is hardest to be lost: But the young, young children, 0 my brothers, Do you ask them why they stand Weeping sore before the bosoms of their mothers, In our happy Fatherland? They look up with their pale and sunken faces, And their looks are sad to see, For the man's hoary anguish draws and presses Down the cheeks of infancy — \"Your old earth,\" they say, \"is very dreary;\" \"Our young feet,\" they say, \"are very weak! Few paces have we taken, yet are weary — Our grave-rest is very far to seek.\" Alas , alas , the children ! they are seeking Death in life, as best to have! They are binding up their hearts away from breaking , With a cerement from the grave. Go out, children, from the mine and from the city — Sing out, children, as the little thrushes do — Pluck you handfuls of the meadow-cowslips pretty — Laugh, aloud, to feel your fingers let them through! But they answer, \"Are your cowslips of the meadows Like our weeds anear the mine? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows , From your pleasures fair and fine ! \"For oh,\" say the children, \"we are weary, And we cannot run or leap — If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping — We fall upon our faces, trying to go; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark, underground —" ]

[ "THE GRAND MODERN EXEMPLAR. 15 the Russian explorers, down to Wrangell — for Hud son, in the case of his two North-eastern voyages for the merchants of London, but particularly the first, had quite distinct ideas of going via the Pole — various expeditions with this object in view, and with that of Arctic research in addition, sought to pierce the ice barrier to the east of Greenland, though the voyage of Parry was almost exceptional as being a distinctive attempt to reach the Pole. The expedition of Pet and Jackman, so far back as 1580, appears in reality to have been the last expedition of any importance sent out by England exclusively to discover a North -East Passage. But about a hundred years after the expedition of Wood, which closed the long list of North-wes tern and North-eastern voyages made during the seventeenth century, the grand dream of the mer chants was a North-West Passage — the solution, in fact, of the very problem which Sir Martin Frobisher in his day declared to be \" the only thing left un done in the world whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate.\" To this quest, however, a little variety was given when, in 1776, Captain Cook was despatched in search of the same passage, by sailing north-east from Behring's Straits. Yet he but poorly succeeded, reaching no higher", "THE ARCTIC REVIVAL. 83 the Government also placed at his disposal an old United States gunboat, which he rechristened the \"Polaris,\" and in the summer of 1871 the expedi tion sailed in pursuit of the great quest. Upon the importance of the general results of this comparatively feeble expedition — acknowledged by all to have been very great — we need not here dilate, nor upon its influence in deciding England to test, by the thorough means which she is bring ing to bear, the practicability of the Smith Sound route ; but we may ask, in the words of Mr. E. Vale Blake, \" If so much could be accomplished by a divided and disaffected party, what might not be done by a united and properly disciplined body equally well equipped ? \" * It is worthy of remark, too, in passing, that it was undoubtedly fact — were such men as the late Senator Sumner of Massachusetts, Senator Sherman of Ohio, and Senator Fenton of New York; the bill for Government aid to the enterprise having been originally introduced into the House of Representatives by the Hon. Mr. Stevenson of Ohio, and, after its introduction into the Senate, referred to the Committee of which the late Hon. Charles Sumner was chairman. It was, therefore, due to the energetic influence of such men, supported by men of science, with Professor Joseph Henry, President of the National Academy of Sciences, at their head, that Captain Hall was enabled to obtain the means for carrying forward this undertaking, which must ever redound to the honour of the United States. * Arctic Experiences. Edited by E. Vale Blake. (New York : Harper Brothers, 1874.) Preface.", "A DUTCH ARCTIC EXPEDITION AND ROUTE. 168 out this track past Spitzbergen as the proper course for North Polar explorers. Here, we are told, in the first place, the mildest temperature is to be found ; here also is an assisting current — valeat quantum valere debet (adds Mr. Proctor). But the chief circumstance to which attention is drawn is, that the course followed by the Gulf Stream shows that there is open water — \" ice - encumbered, no doubt, but still not ice-bound \" — in this direction. Another interesting fact noticed is, the great depth of the sea in this part of the Atlantic. Scoresby long ago endeavoured in vain to find a bottom here with a two-mile line ; and Von Freeden quaintly remarks that the whole of the Bernese Oberland might be hidden, \"its presence unbe trayed even by an eddy,\" under the ocean to the north of Spitzbergen. \" Here, then, if anywhere,\" adds Mr. Proctor, \" a ship might expect to find her way through, though experience has shown again and again that the way is full of dangers.\" Again, pointing to Parry's experience during his boat-and-sledge expedition, when carried back by the movement of the ice over which he travelled, and to the lessons taught by his defeat, Mr. Proctor says : \" The very fact that Parry's great ice-ship floated freely shows how wide and deep the sea must" ]

[ "Contents. IV CHAPTER X. page Two Valentines u7 CHAPTER XI. A Picnic 12S CHAPTER XII. A Night and a Day 140 CHAPTER XIII. Surmises 148 CHAPTER XIV. \"Come Again!\" 160 CHAPTER XV. Gussie's Confession 171", "Revenged. 80 Half the fashionable world of London was watching with inter ested eyes this new fascination of Claude Wilmott's,— his struggles on the brink of the whirlpool of love into which he seemed about to plunge for Mary Gardener's sake. He was the most fastidious of well-to-do bachelors, and for several seasons had with wonder ful ingenuity and success escaped the nets spread for him in all directions by the parents and guardians of marriageable young ladies. \" I believe Master Claude is caught at last ! \" his friends would say, smiling, or shaking their heads, according as their private experiences led them to regard matrimony from a favourable point of view, or otherwise. All the Sturdy family were in town that spring, and each had some special object in view, so that Mary spent most of her time with Ethel St. Claire ; and where those two were, Claude Wilmott was generally to be found also. Poor Sir Benjamin was almost afraid to go anywhere, so hotly was he pursued by an elderly widow who had known him in former days. She never quite approved of the installation of Mary at Heathhurst, and thought that now if \" that little upstart girl' was going to be married, this present was a good opportunity to secure for herself the position of Lady Sturdy the Second. Dick had in the previous autumn got himself elected junior member for Brazenstoke, and was fretting his life out on the back Opposition benches because he could not get an opportunity to distinguish himself; and in the struggle between his principles and his family affections, which made him dislike to oppose a Government of which his brother-in-law was a leading member. This was very simple of him, no doubt, and quite unworthy of a sucking politician ; but it must be remembered, in excuse for him, that he was not to the manner born or brought up, because his father's theory was that family ties superseded all other claims but those of Right and Wrong. Dick had something else upon his mind — an unrequited pas sion for a certain Lady Maud, who was young, well-born, and beautiful, who would not have much objection to be mistress of Heathhurst Hall, or to help to spend the fortune gained by patent polish, and would like to please her noble but impover-", "Fanny's Confidences. 97 then it comes to Jack ; so with that and Littleham he'll be well off. Then there was money left also to send him to Rugby and Cambridge ; he's at Cambridge now, and poor Bertie and Bob have only been to the Grammar School at Longborough ; and we other girls — well, we've scarcely learnt anything at all!\" said Fanny, with a shrug of her shoulders. \"You have told me nothing about your father. Is he well? He used to be very kind to me when I was a little girl,\" said Mary. \" Oh, father ! — yes, he's well enough ; he wouldn't come up to town, you know ; he never will go anywhere. He just pokes about by himself in the garden, or on the farm, and no one\" ever takes much notice of him.\" \"And is he at home by himself now ? \" \"Oh, no; he has Laura to take care, of him; you remember Laura ? \" \" Yes; a little fat ball of a girl, with curls.\" \" She isn't little now ; she's nearly as tall as I am, though she's only fifteen. She is awfully pleased, you know, to be left in charge of the house. Then there's Bunch at home too ; he has never been to school at all yet ; I am supposed to teach him, but I can't get him to do anything I tell him — tiresome little wretch ! Gussie says it is because I laugh when he does anything naughty, and she is always lecturing me about the proper way to manage him ; but she won't try it herself. Sometimes father tells her she was educated so well on purpose that she might teach the younger ones, and then, — oh, isn't there a flare-up ! I must say Gussie isn't very useful at home ; she is always busy and full of plans about one thing and another, but there's very little comes of it generally. Bertie says that clever women never are much use, and Jack says that Gussie isn't clever ; but she is, you know. She can do — oh, all sorts of things ! She sings, and draws, and recites beautifully, and rows, and rides, and shoots ; and then her poetry — did you know she was a poetess ? \" \" No, indeed I didn't,\" said Mary, trying hard not to laugh in Fanny's face. \" Oh, yes, she can write splendid poetry ! Any amount of it, and it all rhymes, you know ! \" H" ]

[ "HISTORY OF AFRICAN COLONIZATION. 255 We were looking forward with confidence to the more perfect consummation of our wishes, when that moral desert should rejoice and blossom as the rose ; but God has seen fit to cross our expectations, in calling from his station this laborious mis sionary. It becomes us to bow with submission to the stroke, and to realize the saying ofthe apostle, ' how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out.' Although we were not permitted to receive his dying testimony to the truth, we have the fullest assurance that our loss is his unspeakable and eternal gain.\" While we are faithfully recording the labours and services of the ardent friends of this blessed cause, in Africa, we ought not to pass over in silence, the names of benefactors, who have by their influence or their wealth, promoted the cause at home. We have, for many pages, been occupied with the character and indefatigable labours of that extraordinary man, Lott Cary; but just when his sun had risen to the meridian, it was sud denly extinguished. Without a moment's warning he was snatched away from all his long cherished hopes of extensive usefulness to the heathen. And in the same year we must record the sudden departure of one ofthe earliest and most de voted friends of colonization in the city of Washington. Our reference is, to Doctor William Thornton. In another part of this history, we noticed that this learned and benevolent citizen had proposed a plan of colonizing the free people of colour as early as 1785, or 1787. When the American Colonization Society was founded and organized, he was prepared at once to enter with ardour into the scheme. He was a member of the first Board of Managers ever chosen, and continued to be a faithful and punctual asso ciate with the other gentlemen of the Board, until his lamented death. His temperament was ardent and his heart generous. While he was free in declaring and firm in maintaining his own opinions, he was candid and liberal towards those of others. His ardent mind would quickly kindle into a glow of indigna tion at acts of perfidy and inhumanity; but he was equally prompt to yield unstinted praise to noble and generous acts. If he was an enthusiast, it was an enthusiasm for the improve ment of the human kind. Not satisfied with man's present progress, he looked forward with high wrought anticipations,", "HISTORY OF AFRICAN COLONIZATION. 553 meaning name, but a real blessing, and he hesitated not to confer it. He promised, also, to appropriate fifteen hundred dollars, as an outsit to them, on the sailing of the vessel.\" Several of the emigrants in the Marine were volunteers from among the free coloured people. At the close of a meeting held by the agent with some of these persons, a large number came forward and enrolled their names: others declared their intention to become citizens of the young republic, as soon as they could make the necessary preparations. One of them, a very respectable mechanic, of considerable property and great influence, expressed much regret that he was prevented by a large job of work on hand, from accompanying the present expedition, and declared that he should avail himself of the next opportunity to remove with his family to Bassa Cove. A number of highly respectable emigrants were collected in the counties of Bladen and Brunswick ; one of these, James Brown, from the peculiar circumstances of the family, deserves particular mention. The following interesting account of him is from Mr. Buchanan. \"Brown was the favourite servant of an excellent lady, who had reared him, from a child, under her personal inspection. The interest which had led her to take special care of his infancy, and to watch with parental diligence over his early education, had grown with his maturing years into a firm and confiding attachment, and in her declining years he was her constant attendant, her adviser, her friend, and the staff of her old age. Under the good influence of his pious mistress, James, too, had become a Christian, and in the strict integrity of his character, and the faithful discharge of every duty, he illustrated the holy principles of his faith, and obtained the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. But his wife and children were slaves. He had married, early in life, the slave of a neighbouring planter, and now, when he saw his interesting family growing up about him, his cup of happiness was embittered by the reflection, that the wife of his bosom and the children of his care, were in bondage, and might at any moment be torn from him, by the will of another, and separated to a returnless distance. He heard of Liberia; and he imme diately besought his mistress to intercede for the freedom of his family, and to send them and him to that country. At first, the feelings of the good old lady were wounded, and she wept at his supposed ingratitude in wishing to leave her; but when she 47", "590 HISTORY OF AFRICAN COLONIZATION. and the fact of having compelled a nation so powerful and distant, to pay an indemnity for the aggressions of their allies, and to receive as a boon, the permission to trade with the colony, greatly increased their influence in the country. A difficulty yet more painful than war in such circumstances with savages, arose in the bosom of the colony. For obvious reasons the goods necessary for the several missionary estab- lishments had been made by law duty free. The missionary labours of the Methodist Episcopal Church had been early and very zealously directed to Liberia. Goods adapted to purposes of trade, were the best means of remitting from their treasury in this country, to their missionaries there. A differ- ence of opinion soon sprang up between the head of the mis- sion and the Governor. It was contended on the one hand, that all the goods necessary in any way to carrying on the mission, should be admitted free of duty; and on the other, that only those supplies for the personal use of the missionaries, were included in the privilege. Because the expenditures of the mission amounted in the aggregate to a large sum, and were met by the sale or barter of such commodities, the greater part of the trade would by this means come into the hands of the missionaries, and they would thus be able to undersell the colonial merchants, of whom duties were required. The Gov- ernor adhered firmly to his interpretation of the law, and there is much reason to regret that his decision was not submitted to; as in the controversies which followed, many painful things were done and said. The colonists took part in it, and a serious rupture was for a time feared. It would not be wise to enter into statements, which, however true, might provoke reply, after peace has been restored, but justice to Governor Bucha- nan requires us to say, that the American Colonization Society sustained him in his course throughout, and by emphatic re- corded resolutions, approved, without qualification, of all his measures. His motives and character, though assailed in the heat of party, came bright and pure through the ordeal. His friends who loved him before, found only reason to love him the more, and cherish his memory with the greater reverence and esteem, for having shared with his divine Master in the baptism of undeserved reproach. The American Colonization Society sent out two expeditions to Africa this year. The ship Saluda left Norfolk on the 14th" ]

[ "A QUAKER MAID 202 lightful task of furnishing it according to her own ideas and without much, if any, thought of cost. This was easily done, for London tradesmen are accommodating at first, and Captain Chambers did not grudge the cost when he only intended to pay about one-third of the amount and leave the remainder for the future to take care of. In his estimation it was sheer waste of money to use it for paying bills. He left the army, and in time he and his young wise settled down to their domestic life, such as it was. Not that the former was a domestic man. Very far from it. But he liked to have a place where he could bring his friends to dine, smoke, and play cards ; and it pleased him to have his pretty, well-dressed wife at the head of the table. But the greater part of his time was spent away at his club or visiting amongst his old friends, keeping the most irregular hours, against which Naomi rebelled in vain. They went into society also a good deal together, and this to the bride was almost the pleasantest feature of her new life. She had learned quickly to dance, and danced well, with a thorough enjoyment of the exercise, which those who had been accustomed to it from childhood could perhaps hardly understand. And to know she was well and tastefully dressed ; that Gus's critical eye had found no fault with her appearance ; to receive all kinds of pleasant attentions, and to listen to pretty compliments, was altogether a charming experience. At such times Naomi told herself she had nothing in the world left to wish for. Later on, when they were quite settled down in the new home with its tasteful and costly furniture, Mrs. Chambers and her two daughters came to pay them a visit. Naomi had been looking forward to this with unmixed pleasure. She had thought with", "426 A QUAKER MAID and Caroline Bourne which Lotta's marriage had brought. To Tilla the advent of the Lawsons opened a new phase of life. She had never before seen enough of the new vicar to get to know him or to feel at ease with him. It still took Tilla a long time to feel quite easy with any one who was not \" a Friend, \" and a clergyman of all others was a person with whom she thought she never could feel at home. But she could not resist the pleasure of being often with Faith now that she had her again so near at hand ; and to be often with Faith meant seeing a great deal of her husband. A strange thing it seemed to Priscilla to think of Uncle John's daughter, and Uncle John's grand children inhabiting the old ivy-grown vicarage, and it was still stranger to think of herself as a frequent and ever-welcome guest there. And she soon grew to enjoy the intercourse with Arthur Lawson, and after a time lost her shyness in his presence. The society of a university man, well read, intellectual, and broad and liberal in his views, was a new and pleasant experience, and in spite of constant difference of opinion the two were soon firm friends. \" I like the way your cousin sticks to her own views,\" Arthur would say to his wife. \"She is always ready to admit when she is convinced that there is something to be said on the other side of any question, but she is not ashamed of her own views, and always has a reason for everything — though I do not think it will always hold water when you come to examine into it.\" Nothing delighted him more than to get Tilla into an argument, and to watch the grave, earnest way in", "L'ENVOIE Priscilla was very fond of an occasional run up to town for a few hours, with one of her nieces for company, or perhaps Faith, when she could be induced to spare the time from her multifarious home duties. A long morning spent dreaming and studying amongst the galleries of Burlington House was an unfailing delight to her artistic soul ; and when wearied even of these Priscilla and her companion would betake themselves to a neighbouring restaurant and lunch frugally on tea and buns, or such-like light refreshment. Sometimes this visit to the Academy would be followed by an afternoon concert at St. James's Hall or elsewhere, after which, tired and happy, they would return to the quiet of The Beeches and the refreshment of the comfortable \" high tea \" which was still the order of the day there. A harmless, innocent mode of enjoyment, but to Priscilla — who is never likely quite to outgrow the traditions of her early training — these concerts always had a smack of the pleasures of the forbidden fruit ; and the intense enjoyment she derived therefrom was never quite without a sort of feeling of wrong-doing in indulging in such wild dissipation. But she went, nevertheless, and enjoyed the music most thoroughly in spite of self-upbraiding. 43-" ]

[ ". id MARTIN LUTHER. \" It was upon him and his soul that the fate of Europe depended — \" He was the man of his age and nation.\" Schlegel. ..SCHLEGEL. PART I. O ! Thou bright Seraph — which in heav'n art known The chosen watchman round Jehovah's throne ! Supreme intelligence of yonder Sphere, Say — can a mortal strain arrest thine ear ? Far from thy sight, in baffled rage, retire Pale slander's brood, and falsehood's baneful fire ; Error, with all her changeful shapes, hath fled, And the thick film, which envy's pow'rs had spread, Touch'd by thy ray, deceitful phantoms seem, The vanish'd shades of some delusive dream.", "ARGUMENT. Luther returns to Wittemburgh, and is elected to a professor's chair — He prosecutes his studies very ardently, and gradually becomes more enlightened — The freedom of his remarks upon the papal abuses begins to arrest the general attention, and Luther appeals to Pope Leo X — He is anathematized, and his books are burnt — Luther retali ates, by burning the papal bull — A council of the States is convened — Luther is called upon, and answers to the summons — Upon his return, the Elector, Frederick the Wise, apprehensive of treachery, carries him off, and places him in a friendly imprisonment, at Wartburgh.", "27 I'.RT II. A POEM. \" What impious doctrine,\" Luther boldly cried, \" In vain hath God, th' incarnate Saviour, died — \" If gold can ransom and absolve from pain, \" Martyrs have bled, and saints rejoic'd in vain. \" Here will I stand — beneath this bleeding cross, \" And count my life but vile and worthless dross \" Erect the sign before expiring eyes, \" Nor cease my labours, till the day-spring rise!\" 430 Intrepid warrior! join that fearless band, Dispers'd through many an unfrequented land ! That hunted tribe, whose faith unshaken stood, Though tried by tortures, and chastis'd with blood! Those who ne'er join'd the idol's glitt'ring train; The simple followers of the Lamb once slain ! ( ' ) But see ! the strife has reach'd the distant court, And angry disputants in shoals resort; Bear witness Leipsic ! for thy lofty tow'rs Rung with the conflict of contending pow'rs ! 440" ]

[ "Route 5.— CORK TO LIMERICK. IRELAND. 45 rick, and caused Thomond Bridge to be built. Edward Bruce be sieged it iq 1314, and burned the suburbs. At the end of that war the city w:is strongly fortified. The most interesting objects at Limerick are the calheilnil and the caitle. both in the English Town, ruined statn, >vith its seven towers and massive walls, is a noble structure, and one of the best examples remaining or' a Norman stronghold. Its appearance is mucli injured by tlie modern bar racks wliicli have been constructed vritliiu the walls. CASTLE AT LIMERICK. aod near together. The cathedral was commenced as tar b;ii-k as the last of the lath century, by Do nald O'Brien, Kin^ of Limerick ; but little of the original structure remains. It is now in process of restoration. One of the chapels contains the touib3 of the Earls of Limerick, and in the chancel is ao elaborate monument of many coloured marbles of the Earl of Thoniond. The church possesses a fine chime of bells. The view from the tower is very fine. 1 he caslle was built in therei^n of King John, and even in its At one end of Thomond Bridge is the famous \" Treaty Stone,\" on which was signed, on the 3rd of November, 1691, the treaty be tween the commander of the Irish force, which occupied the town, and General Ginkell, or de Gin kel, the English commander, by which it was provided that the Roman Catholics should enjoy the same religious privileges they had enjoyed in the reign of Charles II., and that William and Mary would endeavour to secure them immu nity from disturbance on account of their religion. This article wa*", "126 LONDON. ENGLAND. &c. Here are likewise two \" Na- poleon Rooms,\" containing the camp-bed on which the ex-empe- ror died ; the two carriages used by him at the battle of Water- loo, and several portraits. The collection is altogether a magnifi- cent display of paintings, costumes of all periods, jewellery, relics ; and wax modelling, seen as it should be as to effect of colour, light, &c. Admission : Great Room and the Hall of Kings, Is. ; children, 6d. Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors, 6-i. extra. Pitt, by Chantrey, 12 ft. in height, placed on a granite pedestal. Belgrave Square, Pimlico, was commenced in 1825, on the estate of the Marquis of West minster, and is now one of the most distinguished ornaments of the metropolis, being 864 ft. long and 617 ft. broad ; the houses, large, handsome, and uniform, are adorned with Corinthian columns. Eaton Square, situated to the south-east of Belgrave-square, is a parallelogram,l,637ft.by371. At the north end is St. Peter s Church, designed by Mr. Hakewell. Russell Square, one of the largest and most uniform squares in London, has the interior laid out with great taste. In the centre of the south side, facing Bedford- place, is the bronze statue of Francis Duke of Bedford, in his peer's robes, by Westmacott, R.A. Lincoln's Inn Fields, laid out in 1618, by Inigo Jones, but the west side only was built upon in his time. On the south side is the Royal College of Surgeons, with its wonderful Museum; on the north, Sir John Soane's Museum ; and on the east side, the new hall and library of Lincoln's Inn complete the square. It was in this square that William, Lord Russell was beheaded, July 21, 1683. Squares. Among the Squares best worth notice are the following : — Trafalgar Square contains several statues, the Nelson Co- lumn, and the north side is occu- pied by the National Gallery. Near the Nelson Column, towards Westminster, is an equestrian statue of Charles I. It occupies the site of Queen Eleanor's Cross, and the place of the execution of the Regicides. Grosvenor Square is situated on the south side of Oxford- street, and contains 6 acres of ground : in the centre was for- merly a gilt equestrian statue of George I., by Van Nost, erected in 1726, by direction of Sir R. Grosvenor. The buildings are handsome, and the ground within the railing well laid out. Portman Square is surrounded by large and elegant mansions. It was begun in 1764, and was not completed for 20 years. At the north-west angle is the man- sion built for Mrs. Montague, and where the chimney-sweeps of London were, for several years, entertained on May-day. Hanover Square was built soon after the accession of the house of Hanover. On the south side is a colossal bronze statue of Public Buildings. The Mansion House, the resi- dence of the lord mayor during his year of office, is a magnificent building at the west-end of Lom- bard-street, erected entirely of Portland stone. The interior is splendidly decorated and fur- nished; and when lighted up on festive occasions, the state apart- ments are very superb. They consist ofthe Egyptian hall, ball room, state drawing-room, saloon, Venetian parlour, long parlour, and state bed-room.", "Route 43.— THE ENGLISH LAKES. 190 ENGLAND. islands; one of them, Belle Isle, containing thirty acres. The scenery of the lower part of the lake is tame, but at the upper end, where it widens, it is grand. The only town of importance on the lake is Bowness, of which a fine view is had from the. steamer. The whole distance from the foot of the lake to Waterhead, 1 mile from Ambleside, is made in about an hour and a half. left, Steel Fell. On the highest part of the pass, a stone fence marks the boundary between Westmoreland and Cumberland. After passing the village of Wythburn, we see the beautiful Thirlmere with its picturesque bridge. After passing a road which branches off to the right for the Vale of St. John, we see, on the right, Castle Rock, the en chanted castle of Walter Scott's \"Bridal of Triermain.\" After several miles of uninteresting scenery we reach the brow of Castlerigg, from which a view is had of Keswick, with Derwent water, and in the distance Bas senthwaite. The view from this point is one of the finest in all the Lake district. Keswick (Hotels: See \"Hotel Appen dix\"). This is a market town of 3,000 inhabitants, on the south bank of the Greta, a little more than a mile from the foot of Skid daw, and half a mile from Der wentwater. The town itself pos sesses few objects of interest, the chief one is Flintofts' model of the Lake District in the Town Hall. It is 12 feet 9 inches, by 9 feet 3 inches. It gives an excellent idea of the district, and is pro nounced the best piece of geogra phical modelling ever made in England. From the bridge across the Greta in the main street of the town, a view may be had of Greta Hall, on the right, on a slight elevation. Here , from 1803, until his death, in 1843, lived the poet Southey. There are several lead pencil factories in the town. \"The Knoll,\" the residence of the late Harriet Martineau, is close to Ambleside. The Stock gill Force, a pretty waterfall of 70 feet, is a few hundred yards from the town. The path to it leads through the stable-yard of the Salutation Hotel. Excursion by Rydal and Grass mere to Keswick, 16^ miles. One and a half miles on the way is Rydal Mount, the home of Wordsworth. He died here on the 23rd of April, 1850, at the age of eighty years. The house* stands on a slight acclivity a few yards above the church. It has recently been rebuilt, and con tains no relic of the poet. Rydal Lake is the smallest of the lakes of the district being only J mile long and $ mile broad. Grassmere Lake is now seen. It is 1 mile long and about J mile broad. On the margin of the lake is the Prince of Wales Hotel. In the burying-ground of Grassmere Church, visible to the left of the road, are the graves of Words worth and his family, and of Hartley Coleridge. The hill be neath which the village lies is Helm Crag, and on its summit are the rocks known as the Lion and the Lamb. Our road now ascends the famous Dunmail Raise, a pass of 700 feet above the level of the sea; on each side, rising 2000 feet above the pass, are, on the right, Seat Sandal, and, on the Excursions from Keswick. Derwentwater is about 3 miles long and 1J miles broad in the broadest part. It is generally con sidered the most beautiful of the lakes of the district, by many" ]

[ "Geschichte des Stadtrathes. 11! Gramich, Verfassung und Verwaltung der Stadt Würzburg, bestellte Vertrauensmänner; waren diese ausserordentlichen Auflagen, wie meist der Fall, zur Schuldentilgung bestimmt, so ward wohl auch ein genauer Plan dieser Finanzoperation zum Voraus festgestellt'). Entbehrte die Stadt demnach der selbständigen obrigkeitlichen Gewalt, so war es nur folgerichtig, dass auch der Kreis der Befugnisse, welche dem Rathe der Stadt auf dem Gebiete der Verwaltung hätten zustehen können, vom Bischof auf jede Weise eingeengt ward. Schien es doch wiederholt, als ob der Rath selbst sein Recht des Daseins vertheidigen müsse. In dem für die Stadt so nachtheiligen Vergleiche mit Bischof Mangold vom J. 1296 wird der Rath aufgehoben'-), 60 Bürger beschwören den Vergleich, und diesem „Friedensgericht\" schwört dann die Gemeinde, das Teiding zu halten. Das „Ab sein\" des Rathes ist sicherlich nicht dahin zu verstehen, als ob überhaupt der Rath zu bestehen aufgehört hätte; wir finden schon in den nächsten Zeiten der Regierung Bischof Mangold's den Rath handelnd in Urkunden 3). Die Bürger hatten, wie Fries (S. 597) berichtet, vorher einen neuen Rath und neue Bürgermeister gemacht, sie hatten Wahl und Organisation des Rathes aus aller Abhängigkeit vom Bischöfe befreien wollen. Das schlug der Bischof kurzer Hand nieder, indem er den so bestellten Rath auflöste. Der Rath trat wieder in seine alte Stelle als Orts- Verwaltungsbehörde, um eine moderne Bezeichnung zu gebrauchen, zurück ; es blieb ihm zunächst kaum mehr als die Verwaltung des Gemeinde- Vermögens4). — In der ersten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts war dann Macht und Ansehen des Raths offenbar wieder im Steigen. Dies zeigt z. B. die Form, in welcher die Leistungen der Stadt für das Kriegs wesen geordnet werden 5), das kräftige Verbot aller Ruhestörung, welches Bürgermeister und Rath zur Zeit der allgemeinen Judenverfolgungen ergehen Hessen 6) u. a. m. Sogar nach Aussen regte sich wieder das ') Urkk. v. 1368, 15. u 17. Oct. M. B. 42,462 ff. -°) . . . daz ir burgermeister rat rathus vnd ratgloggen vnd allez daz ze dem selben rate gehöret ieze abe suln sin, vnd fnrbaz nimmer mere suln gesetzet werden oder wider genumen, 1296, 13. Dec, M. B. 38,i4<t. 3) 1299, 10. Jan. M. B. 38,209. ') Darauf beschränkt findet den Rath in Bamberg: Zöpfl, das alte Bam- berger Recht, S. 79. 6, Vgl. oben S. 12. e) 1337, 12. Juni. M. B. 40,1«. — Schon im J. 1288, 1. März hatten Rath und Bürgerschaft den Juden der Stadt eidlich Schutz versprochen (pro", "Gramich, Verfassung und Verwaltung der Stadt Würzburg. 39 Das beruht nicht in der Würdigung besonderer Eigenschaften der Frauen, wie man wohl gemeint hat'), auch nicht in der Absicht allein, die Durchführung der Strafvorschriften zu sichern — es stand ja nichts entgegen, die Frau gleichfalls strafbar zu erklären **) — sondern in dem Begriffe der persönlichen Verantwortung dessen, der ein Gewerbe betreibt. Wie der mit einem Amte Bekleidete in eigener Person die übernommenen Pflichten erfüllen muss, so soll der Handwerker durch seine stete Gegen wart und Thätigkeit die pflichtgemäss**** Leistung alles dessen, was sein Handwerk fordert, verbürgen. Der Gedanke der öffentlichen Pflicht des Handwerkers lässt uns auch das sonst nicht mit der damals lange erreichten Freiheit der Handwerker zu vereinigende Gebot Bischof Otto's verstehen, welches er in der Voraussicht, dass sich seinen strengen Vor schriften für die Bäcker nicht jeder fügen werde, beifügte: „der gebacken hat biz her vnd ein pfister ist Fetosen, daz der backe /u/*l*a****, an alles verzugenisse so er meist muge\" (O. P. c. 75). Es ist eine Forderung der Gerechtigkeit, dass alle Handwerksarbeit eine „gerechte\" sei, nicht blos der privatrechtlichen Verpflichtung aus dem Vertrage zwischen Handwerker und Gonsumenten. „Kursnerwerck c/«2 gerecht ist, leder und schuhe das gerecht 8«/, rehter kauf an allerley brote\" u. s. w. ward beurtheilt gemäss einem von vornherein nach den Anforderungen bekannter Technik feststehenden Massstabe, nicht nach dem Verhältnisse der Gegenleistung des Gonsumenten im Preise. Vor schriften, welche bis in die Einzelheiten der Technik eingingen, sollten die Güte der gewerblichen Erzeugnisse sichern, die obrigkeitliche Regelung der Preisbewegung sollte es erreichen, Gonsumenten wie Producenten in gleichem Masse gerecht zu werden. War der Arbeiter verpflichtet, treu ') Bensen, a. a 0, S. 368: „Wahrscheinlich traute man ihnen eine grössere Hartnäckigkeit zu als den Männern,\" Viel später — 1581, 13. Jan. — findet sich eine Würzburger Verordnung: „das hinfurter alle die vischer ire weiber vnd gesindt so vfim visehmark faill habenn sich des vnor dienlichen vnd vnf r eundtlichcn znsch reiens gentzlieh enthalten ... sonderlich nach- barlich vnd frcundtlich handeln vnd reden.\" (Jung, Oberrathsbuch Bl. 89). 2j So droht der neue Satz vom Brotkaufe a. d. J. 1386: „wer aber syn brot hoher verkeuffet ez sein frawen oder man magt oder kint als dicke sol er einen manden dy stat rumen\" (G, P. Bl. 14 a) und sonst. Auch war den Frauen keineswegs Gewerbebetrieb in eigenem Namen oder als Arbeiterinnen verschlossen, vielmehr im weitesten Umfange zugänglich. Vgl. Bücher, die Frauenfrage im Mittelalter. Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Staatswissensch. 1882. S. 358-359,", "Gramich, Verfassung und Verwaltung der Stadt Würzburg, 55 Ausbildung des Zunftwesens. gebleichte, gefärbte und welsche Leinwand, dann Specereien (G. P. Bl. 52 b). Die Grundzüge des Zunftwesens sind natürlich die gleichen, wie anderswo. In früheren Zeiten geht ein freierer Zug durch das Ganze. Es konnte Jemand sogar mehrere Handwerke zugleich betreiben; nur musste er dann von jedem derselben Steuer entrichten'). Zwischen Handwerk und Handel ward früher mit Strenge geschieden. So durften Schneider und Tuchscherer kein Tuch nach der Elle verkaufen (G. P. Bl. 52 a); die Müller sollten nur das von dem Einzelnen ihnen über gebene Getreide mahlen und das erhaltene Mehl (daz selbe mel daz dor uz« worden ist) zurückliefern , nicht aber selbst Getreide kaufen, mahlen und frei verkaufen (G. P. LI. 38). Die scharfe Abgrenzung der einzelnen Gewerbe und die daraus hervorgehenden kleinlichen Streitigkeiten traten erst später ein, wohl vor Allem in Folge immer wachsender Goncurrenz. So klagten im J. 1430 die Schmiede und Schlosser gegen die Sattler, dass diese Nägel, Schlösser und Spangen (bouge) feilhielten, worauf letztere verurfheilt wurden, diese drei Stücke ferner nicht mehr zu führen*-*). Von einer inneren Organisation der Zünfte, dem Verhältnisse von Meister, Geselle und Lehrling wird uns erst in der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts Einiges bekannt. Doch lässt sich aus einer Bestimmung Bischof Otto's schliessen, dass auch in Würzburg die Gesellen, wie Schmoller urtheilt, sich in den Anfangszeiten des Gesellen wesens am ungeberdigsten zeigten. Es war ihnen verboten, Schwert, Messer oder gefährliches, spitziges Scheidenmesser zu tragen: es sollte ihnen abge nommen werden und die einem Widerstand Leistenden allenfalls zugefügte Gewalt straflos bleiben (O. P. c. 68). Die Gesellen wurden vom Ober rathe vereidigt: binnen 14 Tagen nach ihrem Eintritte musste der Meister sie vor denselben bringen (G. P, Bl. 57 b). Die Hauptpunkte des Eides waren, der Geselle werde bei entstehender Unruhe, Auflauf ') In einer Sammlung von Urtheilen des Bandgerichts (Hs. U.) findet sich das folgende v.J. 1309: wo ein man dreyerley hantwerck wurkt, es sey schuey- derwerck schwwerck oder altmantelwerck, das er yedes hantwerck sol verschozze, das er dan wurekt als manigs er do wurekt. 2) Nach der Aufzeichnung über die Verhandlung vor dem Käthe am 13, Januar 1430 in einem (jetzt in der llniv.Bibliothek befindlichen) Oopeibuch der Stadt aus dem J. 1428—1434." ]

[ "1 MONOGRAPHIE DE LA PAROISSE DE LA MANCELLIÈRE AU DIOCÈSE D'AVRANCHES LA MANCELLIÈRE - SITUATION PASSÉE ET PRÉSENTE II existe deux communes de ce nom (en latin : Mancellaria, Thabitation de Mancel), dans le département de la Manche. Celle qui nous occupe se trouve dans Tarrondissement de Mortain, et le canton d'Isigny-le-Buat, olim: Isigny-les-Bois ou Isigny-Pain-d'Avaine (i). Avant la Révolution, cette paroisse était du doyenné de Cuves, de l'archidiaconé de Mortain et du diocèse d'Avranches. Le doyenné de Cuves comprenait les 23 paroisses suivantes : Boisbenâtre (réunie à Coulouvray en 1850), Boisyvon, la Boulouze, Brécey, la Chapelle-Urée, Chasseguey, Coulouvray (Coulouvray-Boisbenâtre depuis 1850), les Cresnays (Saint- Pierre-de-Cresnay et Notre-Dame-de-Cresnay, celle-ci aujourd'hui détruite; leur réunion ne date que de 1835), Cuves, le Grand- Celland, Lingeard, les Loges-sur-Brécey, la Mancellière, le Mesnil-Adelée, le Mesnil-Gilbert, le Mesnil-Ozenne, Montgo- (t) L'autre est de l'arrondissement de Saint-Lo et du canton de Canisy. 11 y a encore une commune de la Mancelière dans l'Eure-el-Loir, arron dissement de Dreux, canton de Brezolles.", "29 ou terre de son nom en Reffuveille est orthographié de Signy sur les cartes modernes. II est donc facile de confondre ces deux familles qui n'ont pourtant rien de commun entre ellés. Dans sa courte notice d'une page et quart sur la Mancellière, parue dans Tannuaire de la Manche de 1882, M. Hippolyte Sauvage écrit Colin d'Isigny. Mais c'est à tort sans doute. Nous en aurons plus loin la preuve à propos de ce fief du Bois-Frazier de la Mancellière, tenu en parage du Seigneur du fief du Bois-Frazier de Chevreville, seigneur du nom de Signé. D'ailleurs, on a bien écrit Colin de Signy dans l'état des fiefs, des terres et villages de la paroisse de la Mancellière, liasse A 1360 des Archives de la Manche, et Gabriel-Michel Tesson, mon bisaïeul, rendant aveu de tous ses fiefs de la Mancellière, dit, en parlant du grand fief, qu'il fut à Guillaume Frazier, Colin de Signy, René de Rommilly, Jean Tesson, écuyer, Robert Tesson, écuyer, qui en fit hommage en 1700. Toutefois, il est à remarquer que Taveu du fief du Bois-Frazier de Chevreville, par Charles de Signey, en 1500, suit celui de Nicolas d'Isigny, en 1485, ce qui n'est point fait pour diminuer Timbroglio. Néanmoins, nous nous en tiendrons pour le Bois- Frazier de la Mancellière à de Signy au lieu d'Isigny, pour toutes les raisons que nous venons d'énumérer. Le 15 juin 1609, ìe fief, terre et seigneurie de la Mancellière, décrété sur Marguerite de Rommilly, femme de Daniel de la Mare, sieur de la Chesnaye, fille et héritière de feu René de Rommilly, seigneur de la Mancellière, fut adjugé pour quinze mille livres à Tenneguy de Varignières, sieur de Blainville, gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du Roy. L'adjudication comprenait : le manoir et la métairie de la Mancellière (contenant le tout ensemble 161 vergées et demie ou environ 3 3 hectares) ; la métairie du Bois-Clérice (113 ver gées ou environ 23 hectares) ; les deux moulins de .la Roche (4 vergées rz 81 ares 71 centiares). Total 57 hectares; les aînesses de la Sauvagère, de la Roche et de TOfficière; les dessus dits héritages tenus pour un huitième de fief de haubert, uni et incorporé ensemble, relevant de Monseigneur le duc de Montpensier à cause de son comté de Mortain.", "80 ment le même écusson que le chef de leur maison étant obligés d'y ajouter une pièce quelconque pour brisure. D'ailleurs, les armes des Tesson de la Guérinière, telles qu'on les voit encore très distinctement sur leur pierre tombale, dans Téglise du Grand-Celland, sont bien fascées de six pièces d'her mine et de chaînes, les mouchetures d'hermine, disposées au nombre de cinq sur la première fasce, quatre sur la troisième et trois sur la cinquième. Cette disposition décroissante provient sans doute de ce qu'autrefois Técu français était triangulaire. II y a donc lieu, pour les Tesson de la branche de la Man cellière, seule survivante, de reprendre les armes de leurs an cêtres, c'est-à-dire de supprimer la dernière fasce d'argent à une hermine ajoutée sur le brevet de Chamillart. Remarquons enfin qu'un véritable héraldiste (MM. les Inten dants ne Tétaient guère), aurait dit : porte d'hermine à trois fasces de sinople, etc., et non : d'argent à trois fasces de sinople, etc., accompagnées de douze ou treize hermines ; car il est extra vagant, dit Vulson de la Colombière, de compter les mouche tures que les peintres mettent sur les armoiries, de la façon qui leur plaît et en nombre tel que le hasard ou le caprice le leur permet, étant certain que ceux qui veulent assujétir la noblesse à en user autrement, embrouillent plutôt la science des armes qu'ils ne Téclaircissent. L'hermine (panne ou fourrure), fait la pièce de Tarmoirie et non les mouchetures, qui ne servent que de lustre et d'enjolivement à cette fourrure. Les registres paroissiaux existant depuis la Recherche de Chamillart, nous possédons, à partir de cette époque, notre filiation établie par actes de l'état civil délivrés en titres authen tiques par les greffes des Tribunaux. II est donc assez facile, quoi qu'on en dise, de faire ses preuves depuis la grande réfor mation. Le 7 juin 1674, le duc de Roquelaure, Chevalier des Ordres du Roy, Commandant en chef pour Sa Majesté dans la pro vince de Normandie, étant pleinement informé de la valeur, expérience, vigilance et bonne conduite au fait des armes et de la fidélité et affection au service du Roy de Jean Tesson du" ]

[ "HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN HISTORY 280 Eastern, Southern, & Northern Europe. Germany. 1808. Alexander invades Finland, and an English army is sent to Stockholm under Sir John Moore. The English intervention effected nothing, and in 1809 Gustavus IV was dethroned. The Tugendbund is constituted at Konigsberg April). An Austrian Landwehr is called into existence 1808. The Russians invade Finland (Feb. 21). Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favour of his son, Ferdinand VII. Frederick VI suc- ceeds Christian VII as King of Denmark (March). Mahmoud II suc- ceeds Mustapha IV, who is dethroned (July 28). 1809. Revolution in Swe- (June 9). By a new treaty (Sept. 8) Napoleon insists that for ten years the Prussian army is not to exceed 42,000 men. Fall of Stein (Dec.). 1809. The Austrians occupy Warsaw (April), and evacuate it in June. The Tyrolese under Hofer rise against the rule of Bavaria (April) . Schill fails in an attempt to rouse North Germany and is killed (May 31). The armistice of Znaim (July 12). The Archduke Charles resigns his command (July 31). Mettermch succeeds Stadion as Chancellor of den (March), War breaks out be- tween Russia and Tur key (April). Russia declares war against Austria (May). Pius VII is impri soned at Savona (July) . Treaty of Frederick s hamm between Russia and Sweden (Sept. 19), the latter promising to adhere to the Conti nental System and to cede Finland, the Aland Islands, and part of West Bothnia to Russia. [Napoleon refuses to recognize this treaty.] The Turks are de feated by the Russians' at Braila and Silistria (Sept. 26). Austria. The uncle of Gus tavus IV succeeds as Charles XIII, and Bernadotte is elected Prince Royal (Nov.).", "HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN HISTORY 306 1832 Eastern, Southern, & Northern Europe. Germany. The Dutch attack and defeat the Belgians (August), but Leopold is supported by the English and French. Assassination of Capo d'lstria (Oct. 9). William I of Hol land refuses to recog nize the conditions laid down by the London Conference. [Venezuela, Co- lombia, and New Grenada, united since 18 1 9, become separate States (Nov. 17).] 1832. The Sultan declares !. The German Diet confirms the Carlsbad Decrees, and, in full agreement with Metternich, forbids all popular assemblies, silences the Press, and curbs the Universities. war against Mehemet Ali, Viceroy of Egypt (April 15). Russia accepts the conclusions of the London Conference with regard to Bel gium, but Holland remains obdurate (May). Austrian troops again intervene to put down a revolt in the Papal States (Jan.). Otho of Bavaria is elected King of Greece (August 8). Austria makes no attempt to expel the French from Ancona. The Hungarian Diet (1832-36), influenced by Szechenyi, shows a liberal spirit. Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, lands in Por tugal to support his daughterMaria against Miguel, and a war en sues. Dom Miguel is de feated (Sept.), and the Queen of Spain (the King being ill) be comes Regent (Oct. 25). Two Leagues are formed in Switzerland — the Sarner Bund, composed of the Ro man Cathobc and Conservative cantons, and the Siebener Con cordat, composed of the democratic can- tons.", "346 HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN HISTORY Eastern, Southern, & Northern Europe. Germany. 1859. Austria demands that Sardinia should disarm (April 23). Prussia refuses to interfere in the war between 1859. Cavour, on behalf of Sardinia, refuses Aus- tria's demand to dis- arm (April 26). The Austrians cross Austria and Sardinia, and Austria complains of her abandonment by Prussia. Foundation of the National Association (July), with the object of restoring the German Con stitution of 1848, followed by the foundation of an opposing association called the Reform- Ver ein. the Ticino (April 26\\ and the War of Italian Liberation begins. The success of the Allies causes Leopold of Tuscany and the rulers of Parma, Mo dena, and Bologna to fly (April 27). Victor Emanuel II takes command of the Sardinian and Tuscan forces (April 29 and 3°)- Death of Ferdinand II (Bomba), King of the Two Sicilies (May 22) ; he is succeeded by Francis II, who clings to the Austrian alliance. The following battles are fought during the War of Italian Liberation : Montebello (May 20), Palestro (May 30 and 31), Magenta (June 4), Malignano (June 7), Solferino (June 24). A strong feeling of opposition to Napoleon in Prussia and all Germany leads to the interview between the French and Austrian Emperors at Villafranca (July 11). The Treaty of Villa franca (July 11) ends the Italian war. Cavour resigns (July 13), being succeeded by Rattazzi. Leopold of Tuscany resigns in favour of his son Ferdinand IV (July 21). The Turks begin to persecute the Chris tians in Crete (July). Victor Emanuel II enters Milan (August 8). Tuscany, Parma, Modena, and the Le gations form an al liance (August 20\\ A Russian expe dition against the Cir cassians is successful (July and Sept.)." ]

[ "DE LA LAGUNE DE COMACCHIO. 21 Celle de Pédone porte quelquefois le nom de l'entrepreneur Tho masi, qui, en 1726, férigea aux frais du trésor pontifical. En résumé, f organisation de toutes ces écluses, espacées sur une longueur de 16 kilomètres environ du côté du Volano, de 20 ki lomètres du côté du Beno, mettent au service de l'exploitation vingt courants qui permettent de mêler aux eaux salées de la lagune celles des deux rivières qui en suivent les bords, et de faire con courir ces deux rivières, pour la part qui leur revient, à ì'ense mencement de cette lagune. Voyons maintenant quel rôle doivent jouer les eaux de l'Adriatique dans cette opération importante. Entre fembouchure du Volano et celle du Beno, à 9 kilomètres de la première et à 12 de la seconde, se trouve, avons-nous déjà dit, le port de Magnavacca, canal antique, de 66 mètres de large, qui remonte vers la lagune à travers fisthme étroit qui la sépare de la mer. Ce canal, si peu profond, que des navires d'un port supérieur aux grandes barques de pêche ne peuvent y entrer, con duisait autrefois, après un trajet de 1,000 mètres, les eaux de l'Adriatique à des fossés irréguliers, tortueux, qui les amenaient dans Comacchio, ou dans la lagune elle-même, par des voies dont les atterrissements menaçaient de compromettre l'industrie, si on n'avait pris des mesures pour conjurer le péril. Le cardinal Palotta, frappé des inconvénients d'un pareil état de choses, et voulant, dans sa sollicitude pour la colonie, porter remède à un mal qui s'aggravait sans cesse, forma le hardi projet, pendant sa légation de Ferrare, de i63i à 1 636, de prolonger le port de Magnavacca, non-seulement jusqu'à la ville de Comacchio, mais de le conduire, à travers toute la lagune, au delà même des limites de cette dernière, le creusant dans des langues de terre quand il s'en rencontrait, f enfermant dans des digues artificielles quand la terre ferme faisait défaut, afin d'aller, sur la rive opposée. chercher, à 10,000 mètres du point de départ, un vaste bassin d'eau douce, le Mezzano, qu'il incorpora, en l'inondant d'eau salée, à l'appareil hydraulique dans lequel son œuvre concourait si puis samment à transformer cette mer intérieure. Ce canal , dont le", "DE LA LAGUNE DE COMACCHIO. 69 (inspiedatori) , qui, avec une vitesse égale, enfilent tous ces tronçons de manière à en charger les broches. Fig. h. Broche garnie d'anguilles. Les miglioramenli et les morelli, qui viennent des valli supérieures, sont les seules qui subissent la décapitation et les sections dont je viens de parler. C'est à leur grosseur et à la difficulté qu'il y aurait à les tordre qu'elles doivent de n'être pas embrochées vivantes; mais celles d'une taille moindre, qui viennent des valli inférieures, sont vouées à ce supplice, après avoir subi une ou deux entailles, qui en rendent la torsion plus facile. On les replie ensuite en zigzag, et les ouvriers chargés de cette opération les traversent en trois ou quatre endroits, avec une dextérité qui étonne tous ceux qui en sont les témoins. Cette coutume de faire cuire les anguilles à la broche, soit entières , soit coupées par tronçons, remonte aux anciens Bomains, comme le prouvent deux peintures trouvées à Pompéi, sur le pilier extérieur d'une hôtellerie découverte près des thermes. Les figures qui y ser vaient d'enseigne représentent, l'une, une anguille entière, repliée sur elle-même et embrochée, l'autre, trois tronçons enfilés à la même broche. SURVEILLANCE DES RROCHES. Les broches, chargées comme je viens de le dire, passent aux mains des femmes attachées au service des cheminées, qui les posent sur les crochets des armures dont les ailes de ces cheminées sont garnies. Ces femmes, au nombre de trois pour chaque cheminée, ont des fonctions diverses : l'une règle le feu, le maintient toujours à un égal degré d'intensité, retire du foyer les cendres, qu'elle met en réserve pour d'autres usages, et sépare les braises qui excèdent la consommation des fourneaux, demeurant responsable des unes et des autres; la seconde veille aux broches et préside à la cuisson des anguilles; la troisième décharge ces broches, emporte les anguilles", "APPENDICE. - 213 des portions de rivières dont ils se rendent adjudicataires; charge égale ment fictive à laquelle ils ne manquent jamais de se soustraire, parce que les produits de leur location n'en couvriraient pas la dépense. Aussi le pillage s'exerce-t-il sans entraves partout où les résidus délé tères de nos usines, la chaux brûlante, la coque du Levant, le suc de feuphorbe, le rouissage du chanvre, les barrages, etc. n'ont pas encore amené la stérilité complète. Ici , c'est un bras de rivière qu'on obstrue aux deux bouts, afin que, dans ses eaux passagèrement stagnantes, faction du poison atteigne plus sûrement les espèces sédentaires qui s'y réfugient : ailleurs, des appareils destructeurs adaptés aux chutes y coupent la voie aux jeunes saumons qui, en se rendant à la mer, tombent en telle abon dance dans ces pièges, qu'en certaines localités, sur les bords de la Loire. par exemple, ne pouvant les consommer sur place, on les donne en pâture aux animaux domestiques. Tout cela, Sire, s'accomplit au grand jour, en pleine sécurité; car les auteurs de ces désastreuses pratiques savent bien que nul ne viendra troubler leur coupable industrie. A ce mal, Sire, il n'y a qu'un souverain remède : c'est de confier la police de la pêche fluviale à l'administration des ponts et chaussées, à celle qui, ayant déjà dans ses attributions l'aménagement général des eaux, dispose, par cela même, de tout ce qui peut faire la prospérité ou accomplir la ruine des pêches. Cette administration sans rivale dans le monde, partout présente, sur nos cours d'eau comme sur nos routes, dispose, pour le double service dont elle y est investie, d'un personnel de vingt-huit mille hommes; véri table armée de la paix, admirablement instruite et disciplinée pour les grandes entreprises de la paix, qui, par la nature même de ses fonctions et par l'entreprise de f établissement de pisciculture d'Huningue, qu'elle dirige, sera finstrument efficace d'ensemencement de nos fleuves, depuis leur tronc principal jusqu'en leurs moindres ramifications, si Votre Majesté lui fait une loi de vedler à la conservation de son œuvre. En dehors de son gouvernement, il n'y a rien de sérieux à tenter. On pourra bien créer des fonctionnaires nouveaux et grever le budget de charges nouvelles. mais, à coup sûr, on n'atteindra pas le but. Cette armée du travail, composée de 65o ingénieurs, de 3, 600 con ducteurs, de 2 4,o 00 employés secondaires, se partage en deux grands corps d'opération, ayant tous deux un détachement dans chaque départe-" ]

[ "145 agfes that have survived the wreck of time or of sacrilege j I mean the Tomb of Dagobert, a sepulchral chapel which originally adorned the church of St. Denis, form ing one ofthe number of those pious memorials which Saint Louis caused to be erected to the honour and (according to the Romish Faith) for the souls of his predecessors. It is covered with bass reliefs, represent ing, in a most singular succession of groupes, the monkish legend of King Dagoberl's soul rescued, at its de parture, from the claws of the Devil and his angels, by the interposition of Saint Denis ! This monument, from brtng continually exposed, contrary to inten tion, to the action of the atmosphere in a confined situation, has already become spotted with a green vegetable mould, and is, with many others, evidently suffering injury : and this for no other apparent reason in the world than that of making them subservient to the purposes of fantastical remark and of sentimental rhapsody.* The objects contained in the interior compartments of the Museum do not appear to have received any material additions either to their number or their im portance, since my former visit. The whole prodi gious assemblage has undergone a new disposition : the number of halls has been increased ; and the Intro ductory Saloon, considerably enlarged and of the most appropriate construction, presents a coup d'ceil of a very magnificent and interesting kind. One cannot in deed, sufficiently express one's admiration at the able and learned classification, and the extraordinary variety of these works of ancient and modern art : these correct and splendid illustrations of human character and of * Description du Musee par Lenoir.— See Observations sur 1'Elysee, p. 277. U", "154 tt monarch — that shrine has been knelt at by such « warrior — at this altar such a prelate has officiated. — • And, for my own part, never do I reap, from the scanty acquisitions and humble measure of intellectual powers that have fallen to my lot, any results more pleasurable than those which produce themselves when thus the reii* is given to Fancy, under the lively excitement of ob jects in themselves so venerable and so impressive. Opposite the portal of the South Transept, at the ex- tremity of an enclosed piece of ground of circumscribed dimensions, and clogged with fragments of sculptured stone, is a little green hillock, on the top of which stands a small wooden cross. It marks the spot where the se« pulchral tenants of this dignified cemetery— this West- minster Abbey of France,, were, in the annus dctestabilis of ninety -three, flung into a deep hole, dug there for that purpose. The bodies and bones of more than an hundred personages, more or less renowned in history ; statesmen, churchmen, warriors, princes and princesses, queens and kings, were, in a ferocious hatred of the priesthood, of nobility, and of royalty ; and with a stu- pid contempt for every thing great and virtuous ; con- signed to the same oblivious ignominy which attends the scattered remnants of \" the beasts that perish !\" O days of impiety — O deeds of sacrilege — provocatives of divine vengeance on that guilty people of which ye attest the mind-destroying change ; why have ye been so circumstantially recorded? Why, in the same pit where still \" unlionoured lie\" the illustrious dead of. France, were not committed, as to \" dull forgetfulness a prey,\" all details, and if possible all proof, of her children's degeneracy and infamy ? Posterity might hesitate in giving credence to the narrative of those", "165 of more regular and appropriate construction could be selected for such a public purpose : the only objection is its locality; being approached through a dirty part of the town, and too far removed from the Royal resi dence, and from the Lower House of Legislature. The whole building, inside and out, has been greatly beau tified, the gardens enlarged and thrown open, are beyond measure improved ; forming a striking contrast to the general appearance of this arrondissement of Paris; and adorned with basins, statues, and young planta tions, afford a promenade very little inferior to that of the Thuilleries : it is a more tranquil but not less agreeable place of resort ; and the avenue from the Palace, extended now as far as the Observatory, is an uncommonly fine piece of perspective. We were dis appointed of seeing the handsome Salle des Seances, of this French House of Lords : it not being the time of Session, the reason or pretext for excluding strangers was, that it was cleaning. The principal object of in terior attraction, however, is the collection of pictures, statues, busts, &c. in the galleries; and of those we had the gratification of passing some hours in the inspec tion. In the anti-chamber to the Gallery of Rubens, are some of Phillipe de Champaigne's best productions, both in point of design and colouring; among the rest, The Supper at Simon's the Pharisee's and The Last Supper. — In the well known and universally ad mired collection painted by Rubens to illustrate the chief transactions in the life of Murie de Medicis, (wife of Henry the Fourth and mother of Louis XIII.) there are such striking proofs both of knowledge, and of imagination, that it well deserves to be called the \" Poem\" of that astonishing Genius. Had there beeu" ]