for me unused to such a glittering heap the sight was too much the devil began to stir within and when the silver was offered as my share of the days work my good resolutions melted like wax and i joined my fortunes with those of my companions


i am telling you my history daylight but dont suppose that i mean to relate every event of my life which made me its subject or its vic tim for such a thing is impracticable even if i had the inclination


many occurrences in a journey like mine through the world must neces sarily be but imperfectly shadowed forth through the logs of memoryan outline of my chequer ed lot is all i mean to offer you but even from that you can learn something worthy remem brance


to be continued


we question this assertion


lipeys obser vations show good sound moral philosophy though clothed in rugged language the age of which he speaks was essentially one of cant nor perhaps is the present day much improved notwithstanding the powerful efforts of our phi lanthropic writers to keep charity afloat and hypocrisy down


has poor tom hoods wonder ful poem bettered the condition of shirtmakers


or have ragged schools taught the myriad masses of london urchins their catechism and an honest trade


we sadly fear not


sempstresses still die in shoals of misery toil and starvation and urchins ramble in swarms through the streets of giant stonyhearted mammonworshipping london who were never taught to distinguish between god and satan good and evil truth and falsehood an alphabet and a flagstone


a case in point is now before us in a london paper of th january it runs thusdeplo rable ignoranceat


the mansion house a charge was brought against two men and a wo man for having been the chief in a row in which a policeman attempting to interfere was brutally assaulted and ill treated


among the witnesses called in support of the charge was a boy of fourteen named george robey who was ex pected to identify one of the prisoners


on this witness being brought into court the testament was as usual handed to him that he might be sworn


on taking the book the boy looked as tonished and evidently puzzled at the whole proceedings upon which the following colloquy took place between the magistrate and himself


alderman humphery


well do you know what you are about


do you know what an oath is


boy no


alderman humphery do you know what a testament is


alderman humphery can you read


alderman humphery do you ever say your prayers


boy no never


alderman humphery do you know what god is


alderman humphery do you know what the devil is


boy no ive heard of the devil but i dont know him


alderman humphery what do you know my poor boy


boy i know how to sweep a crossing


alderman humphery and thats all


boy thats all


i sweeps a crossing


ponder on this ye charlatan schoolmasters abroad if the end of all your teaching is to make the mud of human life yet your twin flesh and blood only fit to sweep a crossing truly ye have much to boast ofauthor


the california widow


founded on facts


a tajx by t m t chapter itnt heroine


amoxost tho passengers from sydney for san francisco by tho schoonor deborah was a highly respected tradesman of lower gcorgo strcot who had so far followed in tho track of his ronownod namesake as to hnvo secured in matrimonial bonds a vella fornarina of charms scarcely less superlative than those of tho original whoso fascinations shed a halo of romaneo about the lifo and history of tho great painter


gold tho ungallant archdemon however en tered the lists with beauty and enmo of tho vic tor


the husband succumbing to tho irresistible influence of tho tempter had resolved to scok hts chlof templo in tho depths of california loaring tho lovoly partner of his joys and sorrows but not of his adventures to bravo alono the frowns and smiles of capricious fortune


tho whito wings of tho deborah were ero long doomed to dip beneath tho horizonand now in passivo con templation sato that soon to bo lonely lady


in dulging in a retrospect of past felicityin hopoful prayerful toar ful resignation


is it the dlrgo of the dying year mournfully pealing from st marys holfry that now dis tracts hor attention from tho tumultuous rush of dcoplyhiddcn thoughtsof hopes and fears en shrined within her bosoms fairest sanctuary f yos


and now ono echoing joypeal suddenly reverberates from that solitary tower proclaim ing the hirth of tho infant yeartho year of grace rtk nsw years dav dry hp thosa teardrops nwoct ono


tho young year smiling liko tho firstborn on its youthful parantwooes theoto elnyfulncss to lova to forgetfulness of all save npplncss


lo i tho bluo wators of botany shall this day


reflect tho countless forms of sydneys peerless beautlosthou only art want ing to perfect tho picturd


arise lovely one and hie thoo to tho rovol


rejoice in tho exu


i berant joyousness of tho year just leapingforth into lifo and being


that smllo uay won thou consontost to lend tho lustro of thy po senco to tho glittering scono


y and how that fair lady did bloom tho fairest flower in bouurnontsonchahted gordon and bow tho rival captain and


counoillor did sigh sue and struggle for but ono smile from those i angel lips is of sufliolent import to demand a chantar to itself


t j


i h l cotitintted


fete mitt itafrjikl an essay on humbug


by a manchester man


from fmsers magazine for july


but we believe the harmless humbuffto be spread over a much wider surface in the economy of daily life even than the useful commodity


where can we turn without meeting with it


it is needful to our very ex istence it greases as it were the wheels of society and makes every axle and lever and cogwheel work as smoothly as a welloiled piston rod


step into this court of justice


what do you see


a gravelooking gentleman in robes before whom are some twenty outlandish creatures in wigs


well is there aught wrong in that


not in the least if the wisdom lies in the wig let them wear their head dresses for ever only it seems to us a very innocent species of humbug


then let us listen to the speaker how he repeats the expression my learned friend j now it is very well known that the person of whom he speaks is a great blockade and that so far from being friends the two have much the same feeling towards each other as


they would have towards miss dinahs cold poison


iiut so tar irom blaming we lnghiy commend mr ser jeant bloater for his smooth words


then how he smiles upon the jury how he addresses them as men of high character and clear judgment all the while believing them to be so many noodles


and why not pray


if every man told his neighbour what he really thought of him the world would soon be the arena of a pretty general conflict equalled only by that of the kilkenny cats


but let us enter a still more august assembly that which is said to embody the collective wisdom of the nation


mr punch forsooth has said that to take the sense of the house was to take the smallest homoeopathic dose ever prescribed but mr punch is an illnatured humpback and


nobody believes him


surely though there is no humbug among men who constitute the great legislative council of the nation


surely our fellowsub jects who are chosen from the common herd of mankind to make laws for the three kingdoms must stand out con spicuously from the mass by their exalted talents and straightforward beariug


let us then begin with the befrinniiur


let us see how members of parliament are manufactured


let us pay a visit to the ancient borough of fudlycuinpipes


it is election time and several candidates are in the field


the two principal aspirants are ebenezer gingerton esq of gingerton house and sir grumbleton growler of oxenholme manor


giugerton was baptized ebeuezer against his own will he has no respect for the memory of his godfathers and godmothers but his father who vas ahandloom weaver to begin with and a class leader among the methodists delighted


in the name


old gin gertoii however got on in the world and died leaving be hind him several thousands a year in bricks and mortar and machinery


young gingerton aspires to represent the borough of fudlycuinpipes in the liberal interest


sir grumbleton growler is an agriculturist of ancient family who on true tory principles regards all change as but a step nearer to the brink of destruction


he resides with iu a short distance from fudlycumpipes and from his great influence there he is pretty sure of being returned


gingertoii who is not quite so safe makes desperate play


he coaxes the ladies like a knowing fellow he promises the wives of the tenpound householders that he will bring in a bill whereby their husbands may have plenty to eat and drink and little to do their pretty daughters may get smart husbands and their children may have brandyballs onnskirk gingerbread and everton tolly for nothing he buys up by his agents all the old freemen that are pur chasable at ahead lie harangues at meetings over pots of beer and on the hustings about purity of election vote by ballot free trade liberal measures englishmens birthright universal brotherhood of nations and halcyon days of peace without end he speaks of the operative as englands stay and englands glory grandc decus


lumenquc rernm he is free to confess that some of nis projects for the good of the poor are encompassed with difficulties nar seem to interfere with the laws of provi ix


dence and political economy but his love for his fellow creatures expands beyond ordinary limits he then dashes out into statistics quotes from the reports of gaol chap lains and the returns of poorlaw unions ransacks the books of the kegistrargeneral and draws certain conclu sions on the average duration of human life he next rushes away to central africa for illustrative topics and at length finds himself in the moon in all of which excursions he trusts that he is germane to the matter in hand he has a pleasant smile for the facetious parts of his address and a fine cambric handkerchief for the affecting and after practising every species of chicanery deceit and humbug ebenezer gingerton esq of gingerton house is returned together with sir grumbleton growler of oxenholme manor as a representative of fudlycumpipes


and now listen to gingerton in the house of commons


he possesses all that modest assurance which notwith standing the demosthenic dictum is the first second and third constituent of popular oratory and on the whole he speaks respectably as times go


as chairman he is bringing up the report of a committee oh an election petition


the member petitioned against has been unseated on the ground of treating and bribery


hear gingerton how lie enlarges on the demoralization of a constituency by such unconstitutional and disgraceful practices and on the necessity of repressing them by the strong hand of the law listen to the responsive cheers of the house as though every hear hear came from a heart as guileless as an infants while probably the pockets of ninetenths of the assembly would utter but a hollow wail on the ques tion if they could speak


we remember a few sessions ago mr reynolds mp for dublin pronounced some thing or somebody to be a humbug when a member rose hastily aud armealed to the sneaker whether he had not used an unparliamentary phrase


was it on the prin ciple that the nearer the truth the more unbecoming the expression


a rough unmannerly fellow about two hun dred years ago pronounced the gold mace you see there on the table to be the emblem of humbug


but come along for we catch a distant glance of the serjeantatarms who is looking undeniably ugly and suspicious


may we venture to slip into the more august assembly oi our hereditary legislators hard by


how decorous are the whole of the proceedings in this magnificent hall


no humbug here you say


well there is probably a little of the innocent species notwithstanding


you remember those malicious lines and here and there some stern ow patriot stood who could not get the place for which he sued


we have a firm conviction that this species of the patriot is extinct if he was not from the beginning purely an imaginary character at least you cannot detect him here this evening


so far really as we can perceive these peers of england are only very ordinary looking after all they are no doubt the porcelain clay of humanity so far as their parents had to do with the mould ing and pottery but positively many of them in their ex ternal arrangements might have been got up at a small expense in monmouthstreet


see one ancient peer rises with a bundle of papers in his hand


it is lord fumble budget


he has spent more than a quarter of a century in the service of his sovereign though we doubt whether he is now in office


it is no easy matter to make out the purport of his speech he fumbles with his papers he corrects and reconnects his expressions for one step for ward in his address he often seems to be driven two back like a vessel beating against adverse winds and it would require a professional reporter to disentangle his elocu tionary knots


you cannot say at all events that there is any humbug about my lord fumblebudget


well the humbug that attaches to him is certainly of a very in nocent character


if he is really no longer one of her majestys ministers we strongly suspect that in his amiable retirement he is the right man in the right place


would that our public offices were as satisfac torily filled


among the thousand and one placemen in the land there may perhaps be found here and there a worse style of humbug than that of my lord fumblebudget


but let us leave the peers of this realm spiritual and temporal to their deliberations let us descend to the more common place aspects of life


my lords have to make laws ordinary mortals have to make a living


and what clever schemes will men devise for the laudable object of getting on in the world


it is quite impos sible we heard a large tradesman say not long ago it is quite impossible to sret on nowadavs bv plain dealing


without that is we added a dash of humbug


pre cisely so was the reply


to be sure of this you have only to cast your eye over the advertisements in any lead ing journal and you may depend upon it that the columns which contain them are the mirrors of domestic life


the parliamentary reports reflect the sense or the nonsense of certain longwinded chatterers but give us the advertisements for reflecting the indoor life of our country


who as he reads them is not amazed at the inventive faculties of our people and impressed with ad miration at the benevolent objects towards which their skill is directed


mrs johnson comes forward with her soothing syrup a real blessing to wives and mothers the reversible paletot and the magic razor strop are intended to administer to your comfort


are you bilious


send at once for a box of mr cockles pills which are so extensively patronized


are you suifering from toothache


be thankful for tomkinss succodaneum


parrs life pills are within the reach of ihose who wish to live for ever the revalcnta arabica is warranted to cure dyspepsia and to strengthen delicate digestions


have you a weakness for luxuriant whiskers


miss emily dean steps forward with her crinalene


is your hair of a grey or a sandy or a hery or an indescribable hue


you have only to purchase a bottle of the liquid hair dye


do you want a wife


go to the matrimonial alliance institution


for the never failing success of these specifics we certainly cannot make ourselves re sponsible but if there is something of humbug about them it is of that kind which may possibly do some good and cannot do any great harm


our national amusements again are most of them inno cent enough but looking at them philosophically and this is a philosiphical treatise they involve a considerable mixture of humbug


reduce them to their abstract pro portions and they seem at the best but specimens of admirable fooling


our national sport of hunting what is it


some fifty human beings are galloping after some fifty dogs and both are in pursuit of a creature the highest property of which is that its tail may be turned into a dusting brush


but it is a nealtny amusement you cannot deny


well they may call this a healthgiving pursuit if they like exclaims the man who is up to the middle in a brook and emptying the water out of his hat


but give me roachfishing in a punt


we need not re peat dr johnsons definition of angling


what is cricket but twentytwo fullgrown men in flannel jackets banging a lump of leather with a piece of wood


then as to boating we have had the rashness ourselves to pull no in an oxford racing boat in our hotblooded youth when william the fourth was king but that a rational being should read the nichomachcen ethics in the morning and in the erening run the risk of breaking a bloodvessel by merely endeavouring to shove a piece of wood in the shape of a boat before another piece of hollow timber has been a marvel to us from that day to this


dancing again


now sir not a word against dancing if you please we hear a young lady exclaiming


well if ever there was a ridiculons operation for a creature with an intellect above that of a monkey it is the process of twisting round the body and poking out the legs and sprawling out the feet to the squeaking of some vile instrument


what is the motive


cui bono


the dancing dervishes and the american shakers have a religious object in their whirling motions and we can understand what they mean


but for grown up men and women in the nineteenth century to spend their time till daybreak in shaking down their garters to the tune of a fiddle seems to us the most inex plicable humbug that the wildest imagination can devise or conceive


watch them through an aperture and stop your ears to the music and can you keep from laughing


spectatum admissi risum tcneatis amid


among our national professions we should select the medical gentleman as a fair illustration of the innocent species of humbug


your lawyer is little better than a savage he has to do cruel things and he goes through his work with the insensibility of a cannibal he is one of the anthropophagi that do men eat


but your doctor is a gentle spirit he walks delicately


with what sensi bility of


touch and courtesy of manner


does he lay his finger on the pulse of tfeat sickly lady


how sagacious he looks all the while whoever really was as wise as he looks


it may be asked of him as it was of lord thur low and yet we will make bold to assert that he understands as much about that ladys complaint as he does about the


digestive organs of the man in the moon


but passing from professions to persons we are be wildered with the various shapes and aspects in which this proteus appears


we find it everywhere turn where we may we meet it we may have a firm belief that the bonajide traveller if ever he can be discovered will only prove a humbug


look at those two tall men swinging behind that carriage with their powdered heads and pre cise calves


they are doubtless got up at great expense and with much care but what are all their trimmings and calfstuffings but instances of harmless humbug


then observe that elegant young lady who is stepping out of the carriage


you are not surely going to charge so fawnlike a creature with practising any deception


come then let us strip her so far that is as is proper for scientific investigation


well did you ever


mark to what miserable proportions she is reduced


alas


when disrobed of what the poet calls these troublesome disguises which we wear she is found to have been a creature of stuffing


is it not a sad thing to discover that a considerable moiety of such a graceful creature has been manufactured in regent street


she is like one of those eastern birds which in full plumage


are rich in their colours and graceful in their proportions but when stripped of their feathers are reduced to a miserable framework of skin and bone


is there not a portion of a ladys dress called backgammon


what is this but another name for humbug


we always had a strong liking for dugald dalgetty solely and simply because there was no humbug about him or if any of a very innocent kind


the man who looked after his pay and provant not caring who laughed the man who had a filial longing for his ancestral lands of drumthwacket the man who showed himself to be merciful inasmuch as he cared for his beast the man who could make himself comfortable anywhere turning even the angles in the dungeon at inverary castle into an


imaginary elbow chair the man who would not break his military sacramentum


even in view of the gibbet that man depend upon it was one among ten thousand for straightforwardness and a practical sense of duty


the charge of selfishness is brought against dugald by an emi nent reviewer


selfishness


and who is not selfish


had the montroses and monteiths no eye to self


it might not be that they cared so much for pay and provant or looked with an envious eye on the barren lands of drumthwacket but were they not shooting their arrows at far higher game


were they not leading on their bare legged vassals to be shot like dogs at midsummer while they would reap the reward


why did not some unselfish solado of the party undertake the embassy to inverary castle


no the only difference between dugald and his fellowcavaliers was that he was selfish according to nature secundum naturam as they would have said at the marischal college of aberdeen and cared not who knew it and that they were selfish accord


ing to conventionalism and endeavoured to hide the cloven foot under the drapery of martial honour a commodity


which sir john falstaff analyses and reduces to humbug


but alas


we fear after all that dalgetty was only an imaginary character


it is painful to be brought to this admission but as the stagyrite loved truth better than he loved his brother philosopher plato so must we post pone sir dugald to matter of fact


the soldado was manifestly a fancy picture vu do not find his counterpart in rerum natura


as shakspeare in ins dreamy visions portrayed his ariels and his oberons so sir walter in his most imaginative mood sketched his dugald dalgetty


well but look the truth fairly in the face is not a dish of innocent humbug a sort of sugarcandy to the coffee of life


we are not now talking in a gown and bands neither are we on the stage at exeter hall by the side of mealy mincetext but we are applying the touchstone of philosophy to the


incidents of every day life


what is freemasonry but a humbug


and yet who ever heard of a freemason who was not delighted with his square and compasses after he had got over his initiative sacrification


our wives and families are humbugged every day and yet what can be more agreeable than their delusions as they submit to the shampooing process


mark that smiling shopman behind the counter as he is expanding his wares before the countess of cornucopia


his engaging man ners are palpably emptying her ladyships purse but both are pleased with the interview


it has been said surely the pleasure is as great of being cheated as to cheat


therefore the lady and the shopman go shares in the en joyment


and have we not showmen as well as shopmen exhibiting their wares from greenwich fair to the italian opera


are not caterers for public gullibility scouring the earth in search of varieties


one day a fiddler is in troduced among us scraping his catgut to the tune of a sruinea a minute on another some spuealina foreigner warbling as


it is called money out of the pockets of moon struck simpletons in a language of which they know no more than of hebrew on another some stronglegged jade louping and flinging like burnss cuttie sark and in habiliments quite as scanty


well such exhibitions may not be altogether to our tastes but they keep our daughters from turning sulky and our wives from deliver ing curtain lectures


we fear that what was said or sung of lotteries more than a century ago may be said of many things besides in our day


a lottery ia a taxation upon all the fools in the nation and heaven bo praised it is easily raised credulity is always in fashion ltor follys a fund will never lose ground


while fools are so rife in the nation


to be continued


the story of the old wolf


translated from the german


chapter ii


the wrath of the wolf was excessive but after some time it began to subside


mankind it was evident did not apreciate as they ought the dawn of intelligence among the lupuline race the first faint efforts of the brute intellect to attain eman cipation from ignorance and savageism


how ever he would try again


perseverance might conquer destiny


the great thought he are not always thus unfortunate


certainly it should not be so in my case


but ha


here comes another shepherd methinks a man of thoughtful aspect


perhaps i may yet secure a berth at any rate i will try


so old isegrim began how is this my dear friend yon seem displeased this morning nothing unpleasant


i hope eh


friend indeed said the shepherd pretty friendship you and such like rascals show will you never learn to be honest


but no matter i shall he on the alert and by precaution frustrate the designs of your tribe


gadso


thats good news


cried the wolf you have me exactly in the nick of time


its just the nicest thing that could have happened


what do yo mean


cried the shepherd


nicest thing that could have happened


i dont understand you


ill enlighten you my worthy cried isegrim in high spirits


what would you think


i have had a desperate battle with my brethren in the forest they and i quarrelled on a point of etiquette so i tore a dozen and a half of them to pieces and made awful examples of all the rest


the consequence is that the whole of the brute world is up in arms against me i can no longer herd with my kind for safety sake i must make my dwelling among the children of men


now what can you do better than hire me as your assistant


depend upon it i shall have such a constant eye to your sheep


and as to expense i shall cost you nothing for as employ ment and not emolument is my object i shall manage to live on a mere idea in fact i dont care whether i eat or drink ill feed upon air if you only take me into your service


do you mean to say demanded the shep herd that you would protect my flock against the invasions of your own brethren the wolves mean to say it


ill swear it cried ise grim


id keep them at such a distance that no eye shall see them that their very exist ence shall become at length matter of tradition only so that people shall think there is only one wolf thats myself in the world


and pray asked the shepherd while you protect my sheep against other wolves who will protect them against you


am i to suppose that though you hold the place of a dog you could ever forget that you ihherit the nature of a wolf


and if i cannot suppose so should i not be a madman to employ you


what


introduce a thief into vidual industry the assaults of other thieves on my property


upon my word thats not so bad


i wonder in what school you learned such pre cious logic mastcr isegrim


you be hanged


cried the wolf in a rage as he took his departure a pretty fellow you are to talk to me of schools you who were never even at a hedgeschool


the advertiser insists on retaining the grand mothers cloak and though we decline her coun sel we shall not deprive her of a garb so appro priate were our productions reduced to her calibre we should throw aside the pen for ever


she has been hoaxed with the original poetry the dismal dirge was intended for the tremulous advertiser and we therefore return her the first two verses which occupy all the space we can spare as i walk through the street the people i meet seem inclined to laugh and and to jeer and the boys every day do jokingly say theres a fellow who hasnt a tear


hypocrisy too


oh what shall i do youll no longer conceal me i fear


for to thee im less use than a cackling goose unless i contribute a tear


is not the picture like


swift somewhere says that nothing is more common than that men should first render themselves ridiculous and then turn round and feel angry because the public laugh at them


some old women are equally culpable our grandmother to wit


tetley v sherwin


the third trial of this action has been postponed possibly for twelve months and to secure a respectable and impar tial jury it is proposed to remove the case to oat lands


tenders


several parties on this side com plain that the time between advertising for ten ders and the day fixed for receiving them is too limited and that strict impartiality in accepting the offers of tenderers is not always evident


burglary


last tuesday evening some per son burglariously entered the dwelling of mr keeble near the cataract mill while he was from home and after breaking open his boxes and scattering his clothes about the room made off with nine pounds in gold a one pound note and some articles of clothing


the union and ocean queen from london may be daily expected


it will gratify the friends of our respected police magistrate mr breton to know that his appointment has been confirmed by the authori ties at home


the streets


some time ago his excellency issued peremptory orders that a gang of men should be exclusively employed in repairing the streets and we believe the men have been at work ever since but the continued complaints that reach us of the imperfect workmanship per formed in some places and the neglect of others induce us again to call the attention of those in charge to the subject


at the meeting of the teetotal society held last tuesday some most marvellous chemical facts were imparted to the meeting and very extra ordinary explanations offered of some rather per plexing portions of the scriptures


we think the teetotal body are sadly compromising their object in the mode of advocating it adopted by their orators


suisted the insolvent we understand left the colony last month in the industry for port phillip


he had been seen there on his way to sydney


not satisfied with defrauding his creditors of their money he was doing his utmost to injure their credit by publicly stating that various respectable firms in this town had been declared insolvent


we have seen a letter from mr french police magistrate at portland bay dated st may ad dressed to a relative of the late mr donald mkenzie who was murdered by the blacks on sunday the th ult


mr french states he had taken possession of the papers and properly of the deceased the sheep driven away by the na tives with the exception of about a hundred were recovered and placed in charge of mr oneill of smoky river and a trooper left on the spot by order of the police magistrate


insolvent court wednesday june


john wise adjourned for further proof of debts to th instand john quin adjourned to th instand john green mr atkinson appointed permanent assignee meeting adjourned to th instand


the following cases are fixed for wednesday next the th instant edmund bryant ad journed meeting john wilkins ditto and on discharge john james boyce first meeting of creditors james glare ditto c suisted special meeting


a warrant has arrived from hobart town for the execution of elijah ainsworth on whom sentence of death was passed at the last sitting of the supreme court on the th april


the unhappy man will undergo the extreme penalty of the law on monday morning


south australia


we have papers to the th ultimo


the southern australian of that date says scarcely any tea is now in the mar ket what little there is is realising s


a chest whilst at sydney it is now welling at s of the same quality


sugars are also greatly wanted notwithstanding the late arrival as is also coffee which is fetching in our market s


per lb


the emma it is true is chartered for syd ney and back and the william fulcher may be hourly expected from launceston but these ves sels will hardly bring the full required supply


flour is on the rise best new fetching per ton


a regular overland mail between adelaide and portland bay is spoken of the inland chain of communication would then extend from the former place to moreton bay


it is expected that next years oil and wool clip will load eight vessels at least the size of the caleb angas and that the probable value of the exports exclusive of produce to the nelghbouring settlements will exceed


cape of good hope


the somersetshire brought the last news papers to the th april have reached us


admiral w f wise cb is appointed to the cape command vice sir edward d king


trade was dull and the wine market much depressed


free labour was in urgent de mand at the cape and the governor was rather unpopular on account of his peculiar views on this question


he thought emigrants allured to their shores would charge the colonists with mis representation and it was money and not labour that was wanted to develope the resources of the colony


the prevailing impression and that most to be depended on was opposed to the governors view of the matter


port natal


we have received a commu nication front the umzimvoobo dated th inst and which we are glad to say does not corroborate as regards the hostile intentions of the natal emi grants the accounts brought by the mary as given in our last


a letter before us fully bears out the opinions formed by us from previous accounts as to the farmers having sufficient good sense and discretion to induce them to decide on pacific measures


it states that a few of the more vio lent tempers were for resistance but this had been overruled and that they in consequence had resigned their offices


the troops at the date of this account were preparing to cross the umzim voobo down the precipitous bank of which a tole rable road had been formed by them during their detention there occasioned by the swollen state of the river


its waters however were fast subsiding and it was thought would be fordable in the course of three or four days


grahams town journal march


an inquest was held at the courthouse on tuesday last st ult before p a mulgrave esq coroner on view of the body of an infant named theodore wilson who died in the female factory on the previous sunday


george maddox assistant colonial surgeon


the deceased has been under my care in the female factory for the last three months he was healthy until the th instant when he was attacked by dysentery caused by dentition and the consequence of his being weaned he was properly weaned at that time on account of the state of his mothers health and his age i visited him every morning and applied the usual reme dies in such cases he had evry sort of suste nance that was necessary and was exceedingly well attended by both the mother and nurse the ward was airy he died of the beforementioned disease on the th ultimo


eleanor wilson


i am the mother of the de ceased he was born on the st september last at avoca and i came into the factory with my child on the th december last he had not had a days illness until the th instant when he was afflicted with purging and continued suffering under that disease until between ten and eleven oclock on last sunday morning when he died in the factory whilst ill he was regularly attended by dr maddox and had all the nourishment that was requisite it was necessary to wean the child on account of the state of my health


ann smith


i am nurse in the female fac tory at launceston and have attended the de ceased since the th instant his mother appeared very fond of him he was afflicted with dystentery and died of that complaint on sunday morning last dr maddox attended the deceased regu larly and sometimes dr benson he had medi cines that were sent him and all the nourishment he required amongst other things wine and arrow root he was well attended as he could have been in any other situation


verdict died by the visitation of god


we regret to record what has hitherto been un known on board the prison ships bound for these colonies an attempt at mutiny on board the somersetshire


when near the cape twelve prisoners having gained over some of the soldiers of the guard conspired to seize the vessel throw the subaltern in command overboard torture the commanding officer run the ship on shore and scuttle her while they destroyed that part of the crew and guard who would not favour the un dertaking


the conspiracy was soon discovered as all such must by one of the men of the th regiment whom they attampted to inveigle into the plot and the consequence was that prompt measures were taken to prevent the explosion


the ship was put about for the cape a court mar tial held and one of the soldiers shot two more transported the principal ringleaders among the prisoners were confined and ironed and the ves sel proceeded on her way to this port which she reached in safety


on board the isabella a like mutinous spirit had developed itself but owing to causes which universally prevail in such a society it never shewed itself in any overt measure and the com mon precautions always taken in a ship of this kind were themselves sufficient to stifle it in its birth


hobart town advertiser


the mysteries of sydney


not by the author of the mysteries of paris or the mysteries of london but by one of ourselves


part iichapter vii


some passages in the life of a vagabond


lipey and young daylight who were sen tenced to five years hard labour on thw roads for the mail robbery were detained for a con siderable time in darlinghurst


gaol


in the early days of the colony numerous gangs were scattered about under military superintendence where such offenders were drafted immediately after sentence and usefully employed in forming public ways and mending their own


but since the cessation of transportation most of these parties have been broken up and government is considerably puzzled to carry out the fiat of the judges and prisoners thus convicted are long immured within the walls of a gaol


the two confederates were employed in the erection of a treadmill that wonderful brixtonian improve ment upon the ingenuity of the chinese the operation of which is a mere plaything to the strong and the most inhuman torture to the weak


although lipey had been the main in strument of bringing his youthful partner into his unpleasant position he strove unremittingly to make young daylights labours as light as possible and he was not unsuccessful in keeping up the spirits of the lad nor slow to prevent him being imposed upon and tyrannized over by the reckless characters incarcerated within the same walls


as one means of distracting his attention from dwelling too much on his posi tion lipey favored him with a plain and homely relation of some few passages of his career and which he by no means inappropriately named the life of a vagabond


i dont suppose said lipey by way of commencement that you are very learned in such matters daylight but i dare say your grandmother has told you the old saying that some people are born with a silver spoon and some with a wooden one in their mouths


you and i are of the latter lot


however thats neither here nor there better days most likely are in store for you but as for me the lane is too long for a turning


the silver spoons are by far too many for me


the first recollection i have of myself is mak ing one amongst halfascore inhabitants of a small room in weststreet smithfield these included my father and mother and seven brothers and sisters of all sizes


my respected sire carried on the business of a light porter professedly but some envious people in the neighbourhood accused him of being in the light fingered line


it does not become me to adopt this unnatural idea although he certainly sel dom came home emptyhanded


upon all occa sions he directed my mother to be very careful about such goods as he delivered over to her and to keep them carefully concealed from the prying eyes of the police in case those authori ties should ever favor us with a call


so much for my birth now for my education


ragged schools were not then in vogue and the others were too expensive for our family to get a slice of the consequence of which was that i was left to pick up what know ledge i could in the streets amongst a lot of companions as neglected and ignorant as my self


one of those about twelve years old named the spicy kid was my especial favorite and to imitate his daring deeds the height of my ambition


at funking cobblers crying mad bull at the heels of ladles crossing from snow hill to newgatestreet upsetting applestalls and scampering away with the fruits he had not an equal and though most of his followers re ceived frequent castigations for those juvenile misdeeds the spicy kid always managed to come off scotfree


he combined in himself all the cunning of the fox and the slipperiness of the eel


i continued to follow these little amusements till i reached my eleventh year when i experi enced a severe misfortune in the loss of both my parents who unluckily having been found in possession of some stolen property for which they could not satisfactorily account were ruth lessly removed from their location in weststreet to the distant region of van diemens land


this was a heavy blow and although i had little to thank them for except giving me birth i shed not a few tears upon the occasion


i shall never forget the hour when i parted from them in newgate daylight the gloominess of the walls the clanking of the chains and bolts and the harsh voices of the gaolers were enough to terrify a stouter heart than mine


tho old people kissed and hugged me at parting told me to be a good boy to keep my hands from pick ing and stealing and say my prayers regularly


considering i had never undergone any moral teaching before this excellent advice of my revered relatives it did not make so strong an impression on my mind as it deserved


i was now a homeless vagabond and could not help feeling the full desolateness of my situ ation


had any kind christian then taken me by the hand and protected me i might have turned out an honest man but it was not to be


as i sat on the steps of the great prison crying as if my heart would break hundreds passed by me without taking the slightest notice except two or three sedatelooking people who called me an idle young scoundrel and threatened to call the beadle if i did not go home and one more fierce than the rest caught hold of me and gave me a push which sent me sprawling into the gutter


as i arose covered with mud and my knees bleeding from severe cuts which they received in the fall the familiar voice of the spicy kid greeted my ear


hallo my kinchin enquired he whats the row are the old uns hooked at last


yes spicy i replied sor rowfully they are both transported for four teen years


so i heerd my kinchin for standing fence but vots the odds


it vont last for ever box yer trotters this vay and make yer life happy ive got a tidy crib of my own and am up to the nines just now and while i can earn a guinea you shant want lipey


i was no ways astonished at this assurance of the spicy kid for he always had a pocket full of money which he generously shared amongst his smaller companions and his dress was always much better than ours but upon this occasion his garments were of the tiptop order and i was halfafraid of walking by his side for fear that he might be ashamed of me


he perceived my hesitation and its cause and dragging me along told me not to take notice of his toggery that he was by no means proud of it although he decidedly preferred it to the canary or the grey


at that time the meaning of these terms were unknown to me but i have since become well acquainted with both suits while i have been in prisons and hulks however i am get ting ahead of my tale


i walked with him past the compter through giltspurstreet and smithfield and weststreet till we came to the corner of sharps alley


here spicy turned to me and said that he must administer a dose to me just to keep my pecker up


he then dived into the publichouse at the corner of the alley known as the coopers arms and which was the resort of the thieves and low characters in that neighbourhood


i followed him through a dark passage and heard him give a peculiar whistle upon which a door was thrown open and we found ourselves im mediately in a room where twenty or thirty per sons of both sexes were engaged in drinking and smoking


spicy introduced me as the orphian and having explained my forlorn condition and that i was a rightun that only wanted a little moulding i received a hearty welcome from the lot


a glass of hot gin and water soon made me forget my sorrows


in fact spicy and a young lady whom he called carrotty bet plied me so incessantly with liquor that i soon became dead to every thing around and did not recover my recollection till i found myself lying on some sacking spread upon the floor of a strange room with a sick stomach and an aching head for my companions but not the only ones for miss betsy was close beside me employed in cooking something which i afterwards ascertained were beefsteaks and onions


i am a little particular daylight in relating this part of my life be cause till then i was honest though ragged


the next day saw my first plunge into crime


to be continued


chapter x behind the curtain


as clarendon slowly wended his way to the theatre he did not whistle as he went for want of thought but merely tried a few low sibillations by way of letting off the extra steam which his interview had engendered


lt did not suit him to let his brother actors witness him in any other than the blazeed ennuyeed character which he generally acted on the stage


when he passed through the little wicket which led to the mysterious adytum of the theatre the door keeper delivered him two or three tiny billets these he thrust carelessly into his pocket as matters of very trifling import


anything else enquired he


yes sir please the tailor has been here and wants to show you some new patterns from paris out by the helen


says he vont let no body see em before you sir


i scarcely thought the rascal had so much taste


ah


the judgment of paris


send him to my home tomorrow


is that all


no sir please the washerwoman has sent the tights and the shirts and heres the last weeks account sir


ah goodvery good


keep it carter till the milk score comes in then you can chalk them both up


not wanted i suppose carter


dont know exactly sir


the tragedys put off cos mr besnitt ant here and theres another piece prostituted instead sir


ah very good


tragedy be dd


theres a plenty of em has been sir


carter youre a wag if i were not so dreadfully fatigued id give you a laugh for that


clarendon left the doorkeeper with a yawn and slowly ascended the stairs which led to the greenroom


behind the scenes sad destroyer of the illusions of life


the paste of the world ceases to be a diamond the foil loses its brilliancy and the puppetswho cares for the puppets when he sees the wires that work them


as the mountain which in the distance looks soft and beautiful becomes harsh and rugged as we ap proach it so do the enchantments of existence vanish before the stern touch of truth


if you would enjoy the few fleeting hours of life look not behind the scenes


hilloa ned cried pranks a gentlemanly goodlooking fellow the very picture of bon hommie the barritone and low comedian of the establishment where the deuce have you been the five act is disposed of the operas have got the influenza and the comedy of stop the gap is about to be substituted youre well up in random todgers will do slowcoach and ill roll off linchpin to a nicety go and dress my good fellow


grips is now addressing the audience


theres the devil to pay in the cart


the stagemanager was engaged as pranks stated he had just obtained a hearing from an enlightened british audience and was bowing his grateful respects to the liberal patrons of the drama for the cessation of catcalls groans and hisses with which his appearance was greeted


ladies and gentlemen said he in the whole course of my professional career which has ex tended over the space of twentyfive years and during which i have had the honor of exhibiting my humble efforts before royalty itselfand here grips bowed his head most loyally as if the whole race of hanover was sitting before him never did a more unpleasant task devolve upon me than at the present moment


the oh out itordercheese itgo onturn him out proceedings from the upper and lower house for a moment disturbed the thread of the address


ladies and gentlemen at length he resumed i see that you are anxious to hear the worst and that your minds are made up to bear it with becoming fortitudethus it stands thenyour great favorite the tragedian is unable to appear before you on account of being overtaken by a sudden indisposition the tragedy of the hollow tooth or the disordered gum is therefore un avoidably postponed and the favorite comedy of stop the gap and the farce of the turned head will be substituted in its stead


ladies and gentlemen i lament to the innermost por tion of my hearts core that mr besnitt is not here but but me no buts exclaimed the individual alluded to rising suddenly up from the pit besnitt is here


besnitts himself again


ready to hurl destruction devastation and death upon this damnable den of desolating de stroyers


bravoohbesnitt


hoooorahhoo rah


bes


besnitt at this point of excitement struck such an extensively melodramatic attitude that it sent three native young gentlemen in his im mediate vicinity flying into the laps of as many matrons with unweaned infants in their arms


the screams of the distressed mothers the shrill trebles of the babbies the fierce exclama tions of the insulted cabbagetrees the applause laughter yells and hisses of the others formed altogether no bad illustration of the inhabitants of pandemonium let loose for a holiday


grips in vain claimed attention and quiet was not re stored till the overimpassioned besnitt was ejected from the house


during the scene in front of the curtain the corps dramatique readydressed for the ringup were assembled in the greenroom some en gaged in taking a hurried glance at their parts others setting their wigs straight before the glass and not a few making sly remarks upon the personal appearance of their fellowactors


vill you oblish me myself mamselle ma grit said signor spinayarni the hero of the ballet by just try dat leetle pas overe again once more


the young lady addressed gracefully floated into action and threw herself into one of those difficult attitudes of standing upon one leg a feat that comes naturally to a goose but which it takes human beings some years of toil and study to accomplish


eh mon dieu


dat is peautiful


if de legs vere a leetle more high as low it voold be paarfecshun


there you are at it again


spinayarni said pranks putting your foot into it


den it is your dam anglese langvese


me cannot speak de croksey cowfrog anglese at all


thats a bull ill swear said pranks but from the two spring calves so after all it is not so bad for a dancing master


well i declare


how very annoying


ex claimed a tall handsome ladylike person who had been engaged in running up and down the gamut and winding through the mazes of sol fahi have to sing i know a bank and i havent a note left


very likely madame replied pranks theres always such a run upon your bank no wonder your notes are exhausted


sacrrrrrdat is vary mosh bad and as shakespere say de man ven he make his purse alvaysh deserve to haf his pockette pick


who steals my purse steals trash ejacu lated a strong sonorous tragic voico from the lower end of the room


effery body know dat vell and you haf dem long scorsh on de slate beside


ma foi


ay theres the rub


replied the voice


lt must be indiarubber then said pranks for it stretches most confoundedly in the week if its like mine


im obliged to fortify myself to come to the scratch with my score


it strikes me


pranks remarked clarendon listlessly that by your running on so fast you must have gone off at score


thats rayther racy for you ned anyhow


i didnt think it was in you


glad to see the lads improving i shall make something of him yet


ladies and gentlemen are wanted for the first scene of the comedy cried out the call boy in a very shrill tenor as he popped his head into the room


here a general rush and scramble took place amongst the parties and as they reached the wing the rumtiddyrumtiddyrumtiddyrum tiddyrumtumtoooorore which gene rally concludes crashing overtures and the tinkle of the prompters bell gave notice that the curtain was rising


the pieces went off without a hitch the au dience were enraptured and besnitt was for gotten


clarendon drove ransom through in firstrate style todgers made slowcoach the fastest thing of the season and the inimitable pranks as linchpin boxed the vehicle up tight


comedy fairly laughed tragedy down the hollow tooth was stopped and the dis ordered gum dreadfully cut


even the delight ful songstress whose fears for the success of i know a bank were so alarming managed with the aid of some of poor malibrans favorite vocal beverage english porter to secure a double encore and was ready to faint under the weight of applause and her exertions to secure it


grips stooped from his high throne conde scended to be encomiastic and proposed an ad journment to the queens hotel in order to celebrate the glorious getout of an un precedented dilemma


the proposition was cordially received but from that small source sprung great events which will be duly chronicled in our mysteries


to be continued


a chapter from charles omalley the irsh dragoon


the watchfxbe


there are few things so inspiriting to a young soldier as the being employed with a separate command


the picket and outpost duty have a charm for him no other portion of his career possesses


the field seems open for individual boldness and heroism success if obtained must redound to his own credit and what can equal in its spiritstirring enthusiasm that first moment when we become in any way the arbiter of our own fortunes


such were my happy thoughts as with a proud and elated heart set forth upon my inarch


the notice the commanderinchief had bestowed upon me had already done much it had raised me in my own estimation and implanted within me a longing desire for farther distinction


i thought too of those far far away who were yet to hear of my successes


i fancied to myself how they would severally receive tbe news


my poor uncle with tearful eye and quivering lip was before me as l saw him read the despatch then wipe his glasses and read on tp at lastwith one longdrawn hreath his manly voice tremulous with emotion would break forth


my boy my own charley


then i pictured considirie with port erect and stern features listening silently not a syllable not


a motion betray


ing that he felt interested in my fate till as if impatient he would break in knew it i said bo and yet you thought to make him a lawyer


and then old sir harry his warm heart glowing with pleasure and his


good humoured face beaming with happinesshow many a blunder he would make in retailing the news and how many a hearty laugh his version of it would give rise to


i passed in review before me the old servants as they lingered in the room to hear the stoiy


poor old matthew the butler fumbling with his corkscrew to gain a little time j then looking in my uncles face half entreatingly as he asked any news of master charles sir from thl wars snch were my passing thoughts as i pressed forward


my men picked no less forthemselves than their horses came rapidly along and ere evening we had accomplished twelve leagues of our journey


the country through which we journeyed though wild and romantic in its character was singularly rich and fertile cultivation reaching to the veiy summits of the rugged mountains and patches of wheat and indian corn peeping amid masses of granite rock and tangledijrushwood the vine and the olive grew wild on every side while the orangeand the arbutus loading the air with perfume were mingled with prickly pear trees and variegated hollies


we followed no regular track but cantered along over hill and valley through forest and prairie now in long file through some tall field of waving corn now inopen order upon some level plain ourportuguese guide nding a little in advance of us upon a jet black mule carolling merrily some wild gallician melody as he went


as the sun was setting we arrived beside a little stream that flowing along a rocky bed skirted a vast forest of tall cork trees


here we called a halt and picketing our horses proceeded to make our arrangements for a bivouac


never do i remember a more lovely night the watchfires sent up a delicious odour from the perfumed shrubs while the glassy water reflected on its still surfacejhe starry sky that unshadowed and unclouded stretched above us


i wrapped myself in my troopers mantle and lay down beneath a treebut not to sleep


there was something so exciting and withal so tranquillizing that i had no thought of slumber but fell into a musing reverie


there was a character of adventure in my position that charmed me much


my men were gathered in little groups beside the fires some sank in slumber others sat smoking silently or chat ting in a low and under tone of some bygone tale of battle or bivouac here and there were picketed the horses tbe heavy panoply and piled carbines flidkering in the red glare of the watchfires which ever and anon threw a flitting glow upon the stern and swarthy faces of my bold troopers


upon the trees around sabres and helmets holsters and crossbelts were hung like armorial bearings in some antique hall the dark foliage spreading its heavy shadow around us


farther off upon a little rocky ledge the erect figure of the sentry with his short carbine resting in the hollow of his arm was seen slowly pacing in measured tread or standing for a moment silently as he looked upon the fair and tranquil skyhis thoughts doubtless far far away beyond the sea to some hnmble home where the hum of the spreading sycamore hat grew beside his cottage door was again in his ears while the merry laugh of his children stirred his bold heart


it was a salvator rosascene and brought me back in fancy to the bandit legends i had read in boyhood


by the uncertain light of the wood embers i endeavored to sketch the group before me


the night wore on


one by one the soldiers stretched themselves to sleep and all was still


as the hours rolled by a drowsy feeling crept gradually over me i placed my pistols by my side and having replenished the fire by some fresh logs disposed myself comfortably before it


it was during that halfdreamy state that intervenes between waking and sleep that a rustling sound of the branches behind attracted my attention


the air was too calm to attri bute thisto the wind so i listened for some minutes but ileep too long deferred was over powerful and my head sunk upon my grassy pillow and i was soon sound asleep


how long i remained so i know not but i awoke suddenly


i fancied some one had shaken me rudely by the shoulder but yet all was tranquil my men were sleeping soundly asl saw them last the fiixs were becoming low and a gray streak in the sky as well as a sharpcrildfeeling ofthe air betokened the approach of day


once more i heaped some dry branches together and was about again to stretch myself to rest when i felt a hand upon my shoulder


i turned quickly round and by the imperfect lightof the fire saw the figureof a manstanding motionless beside me his head was bare and hishairell in long curls upon his shoulders one hand was pressed upon his bosom and with the other


he mo turned me to silence


my first impression was that our party were surprised by some french patrol but as i looked again i recognised to my amazement that the individual before me was a young french officer i had seen that morning a prisoner beside the douro


how came you here said i in a low voice to him in french


escaped one of my own men threw himself between me and the bentry i swam the douro received a musket ball through my arm lost my shako andhere i am


tou are aware you are again a prisoner


if you desire it of course i am said he in a voice full of feelingthat made my very heart creep


i thought yon were a party of lorges dragoons scouring the country for foragetracked you the entire day and have only now come up with you


j the poor fellow who had neither eatca nor drank since daybreak wounded and footsore had accomplished twelveleagues of ajmachj only once more to fall into thfe hands his enemies


hisyears could scaredyhvejioashered nineteen his countenance was singularly prepossessing and though bleeding and toni with tattered uniform and withoutcovering lo his head there was no mistaking ibf a moment that he was of gentle blood


noiselessly anil cautiously i made mm sitdowh ta side the ire while iread before trim the roaring remnantinyilast nights supper and shared my solitaiy bottle of sherry with him


from the moment bespoke i i sever entertained lathought of making him a prisoner but as i knew hot how far l was calpable in permitting if not actually facilitating his escape i resolved to keep the circumstance a secret from my party d if possible get him away before diiybfeak


no sooner did he learn my intentions regarding him than in an inbtant all memory of his past misfortune ali lthoughts of hfe present destitute condition seemed to hav fled nd while i dressed his wound and bound up his shattered fenn he chatt away m unjponcernediy about tjip past antl


the htiii as thoiigb ieated besidethe fire of his owhbivouac and surrounded iy his owii brother officers


you took tts by


surprise the other day said he


our marshal looked for the attack from the mouth of the river we received information that jour hips were expected there


in any case our retreat was an orderly one and must have been effected withslight loss


i smiled at the selfcomplacency of this reasoning but did not contradict him


tour loss must indeed have beengreat your men crossed under the fire of a whole battery


not exactly said i our first party were quietly stationed in oporto before you knew anything about it


ah sacre dieu treachery


cried he striking lib forehead withhis clenched fist


not so mere daringnothing more


but come tell me something of your own adventures


how wereyou taken simply thus i was sent to the rear with orders to the artillery to cut their traces and leave their guns and when coming baek my horse grew tired in the heavy ground and i was spurring him to the utmost when one of your heavy dragoonsan offieer ttkdashed at me and actuallyrode ine down horse and all


i lay for some time bruised by the fall when an infantry soldier passing by seized me by the collar and broujht me to the rear


no matter however here lam now


ton will not give me tip and perhaps i may one day live to repay the kindness


youhave not long joined


it was my first battle iziy epaulattes were very smartthings yesterday though they do look a little passeee to day


you are advancing i suppose f i smiled


without answering the question


ah i fee you dont wish to speak neve


mind your discretion is thrown away upon me for if i rejoined my regiment tomorrow i should haveforgotten all you told meall but your great kindness


these last words he spoke slightly bowing his head and coloringas he poke them


you kee dragoon i think feaid i endeavouring to changee topic


i was two days ago chassettr a cheval a souslieutenant in the regiment of my father the general st croix


the name is familiar to me i replied and l am sincerely happy tobe in a position to serve the son of so distingoished an officer


the son of so distinguished an officer is most deeply obliged but wishes with all his heartand soul he had neversought glory under such very excellent auspices


you look surprised mon chery but let me tell yon my military ardour is considerably abated in the last three days hunger thirst and this lifting his wounded limb as he spoke are sharp lessons in so short a campaign and for one too whose life hitherto had much mote of ease than adventure to boast xjf shall l tell you how i became a soldier


by all means give me your glass first and now for a fresh log tothe fireim your man


but stay before i begin loofcto this


the blood was flowing rapidly from ins wound which vrath


some diffictuty succeeded in staunching


he drank off his wine hastily held out bis glasfi to be refilled lnd then began his story


have you never seen the emperor


never sacre bleu


what a rnan he is


id rather stand


undisr the fireof your grenadiers than meet his eye


when in a passion he does not say iriuch it is true but when he does it comes with a kindqf hissing rushing sound wmle the very fire seems to jkindle in


his look i have him befircme this instant and though you jwill ooofess thatmy prolent condition has nothing very pleasing in it m should be sony indd to diange it fbr the last time i stood in his rsence


two moritbs ago i sported the gay light blue and sbver of a pad to the eiperor and certbinly what with balls bonbons flirtations igossip and champagne supperg led a very gay reckless and indolent life of it


soindnowi maytell you more accurately at another period if i we ever meeti got myself into disgrace and h s a punishment was ordered to absent myself from the tuilleries and retire forsome weeks to st doud


siberiaj to a fiiissian would scarcely he a heavier inffiction than was this hanislmient to me


iwirbo court hp levee no inilitary parade


no operal a small household of the emperors chosen servants quietly kept house there


the gloomy walls reechoed to no muaic the dark alleys of


the dre garden seemed the very impersonation of solitude and decay


nothing broke the dnll monotony of the tirome day except when occasionally near sanset the clash of the guard would be heard turningout and tbe claiik of prebrating arms followed btf the roll of a heavy carnage into the gloom courtyard


one lamp ihimqg likea ster in a small chamber oii the second floor would remain till near four sometimes five pcltck in the morning


the same sounds ofthe guard and the same dull roll of the carriage would break the stillness of the early monm ma the emperorfor it was hewldlbien


us toad back to paris


we never saw mmi say we for like myself some hdfdozen otherswere also here expiating adrfouiee by a life or cheerless ennui


it was upon a calm evenifigin april sat together chatting over the various aisaappga which had consigned us to exile when sotng one proposed by tray of passing the time that we should visit the small fiower r


grden that was parted off from the rest and reserved for the emperor alone


it was alraadv beyond the hour he usually came besides that even should he arrive were was


abundant timeto get tack before he could possibly readi it the garden we had often seen but there ma something in the fact that ottr going ere wasfe transgression that so plefeed us all ftat jre agreed at once and set forth


for above an hour we loitered about thelonely and deserted walks where already the emperors ibottrad had worn a marked pathway when we were weary and were about to return jnt asone of the party suggestedhalf in ridumle of die sanctity jpf


the spotuiat we should have game of leapfrog ere we left it


fhe idea pleased us and was at once adapted


outplan was ach person stationed himself in somgiyewilkor alley and waited till e other hose turn it was came and leapek over him so that besides tbe activity displayed there was a knowledge of the locale necessaiy for to any one passed over a forfeit was to he paid


our game began at once andcertainly i doubt if ever those green alleys and shady groves rang to buch


i hearty laughter


here would be seen a couple rolling over tegether on the grass there some luckless wight counting outhis pocket money to pay his penally


the hours passed qnietly ovei and the moon rose and it last it came to my turn to make the tour of the garden


as l was supposed to


know all its intricacies better than the rest a longer time was given to conceal themselves


at length the word wbs given to fetart and started


anxious to acquit myself well i hurried along at top epbed but guess my surprise to discover that nowhere could i find one of my companions down one walk i ecamperedup anotheracross a third but ail was still aid silent not a sttafid not a breath could i detect there was still one part of the garden unexploredit was a small open space before a little pond which usually contained the gold fish the emperor was so fond of thither i bent my steps and had not gone far whm in the pale moolight i saw at length one of my companions waiting patiently for my cominghis head bent forward and ms shoulders rounded


anxious to tepay him for my own disappointmfent crit silently forward on tiptoe till quite ne when rushing madly on i sprung upon his back


just however as i rose to leap over he raised his headj and staggered by the impulse of my spring he ws thrown foiwd and flat on his face on the grass laughter ifell over him mthe ground and was tiamg t assist him when stajralyhe aprang upon his feetandhernr df rort it was napoleon himself bis usually paid features were purple with rage butsot word not a syllable escaped him


qui etes vous said he at length


stcroixaire saidlstillkneeuugbefore him while my very heart leaped into my moutiu st croix


toujours st groix


comehere approach me eried he in a voice of stmed passion


i rose but before i ould take step forward he sprang at me and tearing off my epaulettes trampled them beneath his foetand then shouted out rather than spoke the tme wordcriez


i did not wait for a second intimation but clearing the paling at a spring was many a mile from fountainblegji before dybreak


literature


tue ministislts wooing


a tale of xbw england


u mrs h b slowe


continual from the age of october


ohaptisr xvi


continued


thus ihey talkod while the waggon jogged rtlowly homeward while the ircgs and turtles and tho ilistnut


ripple of the eea a drowsy ming ling concert in he eummerevooinn air


meunwbilk oolon burr hud returned to the lighted rooms audit wa not long before his quick tj sought out madame de frontlgnao standing pensively in a windowrecess half hid by the curtiiiu he htoln up softly behind her uud whispered something in her ear


iu a moment she turned on him a face lowing wnh anger und drew buck haughtily but burr remarked the flitter of tears not quite dtied even by tho angry fl ish of her eyes


in what huve i had the misfortune to offend f he siid crossing his arms upon his breast


i lun lut the bar and plead not guilty


he poke in french and she replied in tbe mma mooth accents


it was not for her to dlepato monaleori right to anase himself


burr drew nearer and spoke ia those persuasive pleading tones whichjjhe hdjever at command and in th tt language whose very structure in its deli cate tutoi give euch opportunity for gliding on through ehado after shade of intimacy and tender nef till gradually the haughty fire of the eves wiw quenched in team and in the sudden revulsion of a strong impulsive nature sho poured out to him what phe called words of friendship but whioh carried with them all the warmth of that eacred flte which is given to woman to light and warm the temple of home and which sears and ecara when kindled for any other shrine and yet this woman wus the wife of his friend and associate


monleur de frontignac ws a grave and dignified man of fortyflvo


virgiuie de froutignnc had been given him to wife whtn but


eighteen j a beautiful geueroua impulsive wilfai girl


she had accepted him gladly for very substantial reasonp


first that


she mieht come out of the convent wher fbe wa kept for the very purpose of edticntiiic her in ignorance of the world eio was to live


in


second that che might weiir vel vet luce cashmere and jeweu


third th it she might be a madame free to go and come rire wrtlk end talk wiihout surveillincc


founh aud uiiuceijiiuii


uptui luic


uim


euu mint go lilt com pany and have admirers an adoreis


she supposed ol cnursc that phe loved har hus band whom else bhould she love


he was tjn otly man except hr father nd brothers that f he had ever seen und in the fortnight thiit prectd ul thei marriage did he not fend her tie most npleuji boiihboua every dsy with bouque a ol every pat torn ihnt ever tnxrd the brain of u parisiaa artiste was not the corbuille de mariage a wonder nnd an euvy to ail her acquaintaure p and alter marriage had ftbe not found him alwnyn a steody iniu gent friend easy to be ooaxd ab


sny grav papa t on his part monsieur de frontignuc cherished his young wife ae a beautiful though somewhat absurd little pet and amaied himself with her frolics and gambols as the gtavest person often wilt with those of a kitten


it was not until fhe knew aaron burr thai


poor virginie de frontignac came to that great awa kening of her being which teaches woman what she is aud transforms her from a cureless child to a deephearted thinking suffering human oeing


for the fist time in his society she became aware of the charm of a polished and cultivated mind able with exquisite tact to adapt itself to hers to draw forth her inquiries to excite her tastes to stimulate her observation


a new world awoke around her the world of literature of taste of art of eentimeut


she felt somehow as if she had gained the growth of years ia ufev mouths


sho felt wittiin herself the stirring of dim aspiration the uprising of a now power of selfdevotion and selfsacrifice a tranoe of hero worship a oloud of high ide il images tbe lighting up in short of al lhat god has laid redv to be enkindled in wo mans nature when the time comes to sanctify hir as the pure priestess of a domestic temple


but alas


it was kiidled by one who


did it only for an experiment because he felt unartistio plea sure in tbe beautiful light and heat which hid burned a soul away


burr was one of those men willing to play with any charming woman the game of those navigators who givo to simple natives glass beads and feathers in return for gold and diamonds to accept from a woman her hearts blood in return for such odds ends and clippings as he could afford hor from the serious ambitions oflife


look in with ub one moment now that the party is over uitd the busy hum of voioes and blaze of lights have


d


i


id down to midnight silence aud dbrknei


we malte vou clairvoyant nnd you may look through the walls of this blately old mansion still known as that where ronhambeiu held bis be in quarters into this room where wax candles aru burning on a toilette table before an oldfathioned mirror


the slumbrous folds of he curtains are drawn with stately gloom around a high bed whero oolouel de frontignac has boen for many hours quietly ahleep


but opposite resting with one elbotv on the toilettetable her long blaok hair hauging down over ber nightdress und he bruih hadging listlessly in ber hand sits virginie look fixedly into the droaray depths of the mirror


scarcely twenty yet all unwarned of the world of power and passion that lay slumbering in her i girls heart led in the meshes of ouetom aud twoiety to utter vows and take responsibilities of whose nature hu was no more apprised than is a slumbering bube and now at


hint fully awake feel ing the whole power of that mysterious aud awful force which we call love yet shuddering to call it by its name jret by its light beginning to under stand allshe is capable of and all that marriage should have been to her


she struggles feebly and onfusedly with her fate still clinging to tbe uame of duty and baptizing aa friendship tbe strange new feel ing which makes her tremble through all her being


how can she dream of danger in such a feeliugwhen it seems to her the awakening of all that is highest and noblest within her


she re members when she thought of nothing beyond au opera ticket or a new dress and now she feels that there might be to her a friend for whose ake


she would try to be noble and great and good for whom all selfdenial all high endeavor all diffi i cult virtue would become possible who would be to ber life inspiration order beauty


she sees him as women always sees the one she loves noble great and good for when did a lov ing woman ever believe a man otherwise t too noble too great too high too good she thinks for her poor trivial ignorant ooquette poor trifling ohildieh virginie has he not oommanaed armies


ehe thinks id he not eloquent in the senate


aad


yet what interest ha has taken in her a poor unformed ignorant creature


she never tried to improve hertelf till sittoo


he knew him and be is bo consider ate too respectful go thoughtful and kind so manly aud honorable and las such a tender fripnhnhfn for lnr hrnthnrlv


futhnrl v solicitude


and yet if she is haughty or impe rious or bevere how humbled and grieved ho looks


how strange that phe should have power over suoh a nun


i it is one of tho saddest troths of this sad mystery of life that woman is often never ao muoh an augel aijust the moment before she falls into the bottom less depths of perdition and what shall we fcay of the man who leads her up to this spot ab an ex periment t who bmases himself with taking woman alter woman up these dausling delusive heights knowing as he oertainly must where they lead


we have been told in extenuation of the course of aaron burr that be was not a man of gros passions or of coarse iudulgence but in the most consummate and refined eenso a man of gallantry this then is tbe descriptive name


which polite so ciety has invented for the man who does this thing


lot old it was thought that one who administered pbison iu the sacramental bread aud wiue had touched tbe very height of impious sucriloge but tliis crime is white hy tho side of his who poisons gods etertial sacrament of love and desiroys womans soul through her noblest and purest afleo tibns


we have given you the after view of moat of the aotors of our little soene tonight and thorefore it ia but fair that


you should havo a peep over the colonels shoulder as he sums up the evening in a letter io n frieud


j my dear


j as to the business it gels oa rafber slowly l and t


are away and the coali tion cannot be formed without them they eet out a wetk ogo from philadelphia and are yet on the road


muauwhlle wchave some providentiil allevia tion hf for mc imple a wedding party to niht aite wilcoxwhlch was really quite an aff ir


i saw the prettiest little puritan there tliai i havo fet eyea on fer mauy a day


i renlly couldnt holp getting up n flirtation will


lier though it was much like flirting with a tuna copy of the assembijd catechism of which i bad enough years apo heaven knows


hut really such a naive earn it lit tie saint who has fueh a real deadly belief and openb euch blue pitying cyei on ono is quite a stimulating uovelty i got myeelf well scolded by the fair madame us angels scold and bad to plead like a lawyer to make my peace


after all thai woman really tnchoina mo


dont shake your head wisely


what ia going to be the end of it


i am sure i dont know well see when the time oomes


meanwhile push tbe business t hind with your might


i shall nut be idle


d must canvass the senate thoroughly


i wish i could be in two places at onoe and i would do it mjwilf


au revoir


r jeverycuriu bdw


tub life of hugh oneill


tiy john mjtchel esq


fcontinued from our last


chapter iv


the geraldines and reformation in the south


d


s aa the ware in munster were solely on occoiint at religion it is needful to keep sight of the lleformation


in the year a very singular letter mis addressed to the queen ofkhgland by sic henry sidhpyj then lord deputy in which the writer nndeftnkcs an exposition of the slate of his province in matters ecclesiastical


he nkes nsanexample liediocese of


mcath the best peopled diocese and best governed country he calls it of this realm of which the queens bishop at that ithe was one urady


sir henry says therewere in that diocese two hundred and twenlyfoiir parish churches of which one liundried and jive were served by very siirvlc and sorrycurates and of these ciiji is only eighteen wire found able to speak english the rest irisli priests or rather as he prefers to call them irish rogues


ill many places the very walls of hie churches were down very few chancels covered windows and doors ruined


and if such be the estate of the church in alenti diocese sidney jeavcs her majesty to conjecture in what case the rest ia


yea so profane and heathenish lie continues are some parts of this your country become as it hath been pcenched publicly before me that the sacrament of baptism is not used among them and truly i believe it


spensers account of the state of religion is still more dismal the clergy generally bad the churches even ivitirthe ground ihe bishops keeping the benefices in their own hands and seeing up their own servants nnd liorsiboys lo take up the tithes and fruits of them


in all the world had not been seen such an overthrown church


the kingdom in general says dr mant was at this time overwhelmed by the most deplorable immorality


and irreligion


statements these which to those unacquainted with the peculiar phraseology of the writers might convey an impression of hideous national crime


but religion and f the church meant with them only the protestant religion and ihe queensclergy


the universal catholicism of the people was accounted only as so much irretigicn for the same spenser informs us that the popish priests lurking secretly in ihe houses and in corners of the country doe more hurt and hindrance to religion with their private persuasions than all the others can do good with their publiquu instructions


and he much marvels at the zeal of these priests which he says it is a great wonder to soo j how tliev spare not to come cut of spaine from rome and from renies by long toyle and daungerous travayling hither where they knowperill of death awayteth them and o revard or richesse


dr leland while lie deplores the gloomy prospect as he calls it admitsthat where the reformed clergy could neither be regarded nor understood the priests spoke to their countrymen and kinsmen in their own language and were heard with attention fiivour and affection


and dr mant after lamenting the general irreligion admits as it were incidentally that it is true there existed in the kingdom other intrusive missionaries sent by the bishop of home as opponents of the sovereign the laws and the church of the kingdom


the overthrow or church buildings mentioned by sidney and spenser may be accounted for by their being generally turned into fortresses by the queens troops


for in the churches dedicated to the saints it was most usual with them to reside says an irish chronic erf


and as the irish loved no strong places upon their borders they made no scruple when occasion servedofburningand destroying ihem like the olher casllesol


ihe english


we have seen how the cathedrals of derrv and armagh fared in the wars of shane oneill and about the same pcriodt the church of athenrv in gahvay was laid in ashes by themacanearlas sons of the earl or clanrickard and when men cried out saeriugc and parricide fortheir mother lay buried there one of them fiercely answered if his mother were alive in the church he would sooner burn her and it together than any english should fortify there


on the whole we may collect that little or no progress had yet been made in reducing the irish people underlhe queen of englands jurisdiction cither temporal or spiritual


the peerages created by king henry had begun to be regarded in their true light as badges of servitude and despised accordingly


tliomond like tyrone could endure no earldoms within its bounds and on the death of the first earl of that title had compelled his successor to nominate a tanist after the manner of his fathers and to comport himself in all respects likcan irish prince


some years later mac carthvmoreflung to the winds hie coronet of clincarthvj assumed the title of king of munster and invaded the lord roches country with banners displayed as an eugeuian chieftain ought


but the great angloirish family of fitzgerald were the most powerful antagonists of english authority in munster


ticraldt the head ofthatiribe and by liis english title earl of desmond was then the most potent chieftain of the south sir h sidneys letters and memorials t ms translation of life of odonncll in ua


p


x we j cox


this writer calls the title glanoaii


had a vast following royal privilegds many fail castles and wide domains and through his palatinate of


kcrry and from the shannon to the blackwater from carrigafoyle to liis good town of kiimalloek and eastward to loughnl tile


geraldiiie administered justice levied war and held his state like a soveyeign prince as he was


his attachment to the ancient religion caused hjm to be looked to as the champion of the catholic cause in tile south


the carl and his countess had received with distinction leverous bishop of kildare when depri ved of his see for refusing the oath of supremacy j arid in defiance bf the statutes against harbouring priests and friarsgave on asylum to all such as were persecuted under he atrocious penal laws of ihe pale


it was evident o the councillors of elizabeth that until this chief


could be reduced reformation and english lawwould make small way in munster j and therefore in the vear g wjiile desmond and his brother john were at the court of england upon a peaceful visit they were both seized by order or the jueen and committed prisoners to the tower


now it was hoped that some progres could be made


sidney prociireathe up


posalniml successively of sir john perrot niid sir wm


drurv to the office of lord president of munster functionary whose duty seems to have been to excite feuds mnongst ihe native princes and so strengllicn the influence and as far as possible establish the rule and religion of england upon their ruin


and wherever locnl dissension or treachery afforded any opportunity of exercising authority they proceeded to hold a kind of eonrts and ake the unfortunate irishamenablcto he aws enacted in the pale parliament sir ohn davies explains the functions of these lords president in the case of fitton hen holding that office in conjiaught ho governed he says in a course of iscretion parllv martial and partly civil n short as best he might


perrof and


drury but especially lie latter carriedthis course of discretion lo a terrible length in munster


the act of uniformity and that against harbouring catholic priests were strictly enforced wherever hese justiciaries could establish their power and unhappily the south was so torn by the wars of native chiefs thai the english officers hough not supported by large military force were enabled to usurp much authority


thus in an expedition made by druiy


in ids he bound forty citizens of kilkenny in n kind of recognizance to come to church every sunday and bear service in english for a reformed bishop had at length established himself in st canices and during the came circuit he executed twentytwo criminals at limerick and thirtysix at kilkenny one nf which was a blackamoor and two others were witches who were condemned


says cox by the law of nnture


what were the dffcnces of the other culprits or by what law they were condemned we arc not apprized but they had probably three times asserted the spiritual supremacy of the pope


in the sime year we find a notable instance of the abhorrence in which the reformers held all superstition and how theyproceeded in abating it


matthew shcvnequeensbishopof cork and clnyne


publicly burned at the high cross of cork the imajcof st dominick belonging to the dominican xriary of that cityf


and now we might sup full of horrors with the ecclesiastical historians of the period in detailingthe cruel persecutions and painful deaths of the national clergy wherever the unspar ing arm of that ferocious english reformation could reach themhow patrick ollcly bishop of mavo and cornelius orourke a pious priest were by order ofdrurv placed on the rack their hands and feet broken with hammers needles thrust under their nails how


they wereatlast


hangedliowdermod ohurley archbishop of cashel was arrested by order of adam loftus then chancellor of the pale and queens archbishop of dublin armagh baring proved too hot for him as we saw how lie was loaded with irons until the holy thurs day in the following year dragged before the chancellor and treasurer questioned tortured and finally hanged outside the city walls before break ofdayhow john stephens a miest


having tieen duly convicted for that hehsd said mass to teague machugh was hanged and quartered


all tliis and much more mav be found in he mart rologists of the imet l


t what is material for us lo remark is the fact that cuch methods of conversion were then tile only known methodsthat this islnnd had now become oneoffiie battle grounds on which europe in those centuries fought out the cruel quarrel of her rival faiths that philip of spain was at this very mocnl striving to crush liberty and protestantism in the low countries almost as fiercely as another foreign tvrant was warring againt liberty and catholicism in irelandthat a few years before in the streets of paris wa done that deed of horror which makes st bartholomews a ay that mankind while the earth stands ill tremble to namethat hideous ruour of intended extermination cathoics to be massacred by protestants proestants by catholicsaffrighted the geeral ear of christendomand further witchcraft and coniurations of evil spirits had so much increased about tliis time that jie queens government amongst other acts for reforming ireland was obliged shortly after to procure b epccial law against those crimes the th eliz


c


t ware


bishops of cork and cloyne


t osullivan


hist cathodaly


jlclatio porsecnt


hibern arthurainonasterio quoted in brennons keel


ilist of ireland


theatre of catholic and protestant itdigion o that ops pius the fifth had latelyby a solemn hull deposett the queen of sn land from the thronekris absolved her subjects asrfer as a bull could from their allegiance which indeed lieiiad precisely as good aright to do as she had to deprive him of his spiritual supremacy


this confounding of spirital and temporal authorityupon both sidebled to nil those terrible persecutions and religious wars asthey were called which devastated europe for more thah a century


barnaby rudge


oa ciaptser xlix


iwithin doors matters were even yet more threat


ening


lord george preceded by a man who carried


the immense petition on a porters knot through the lobby to the door of the hoise of commons where it was received by two officers of the house who rolled it up to the table reasdy for preseitation had taken his seat at an early hour beforethe speaker wentto prayers


hisfollowers pouring in at the same time the lobby and all the avenues were immediately fillgd as we have seen thus themembers were not only attacked in their


passsgethrough the streets but were set upon within the very walls of parliament while the tumult both within and without wa o great that those who attempted to speak could scarcely heir theirown voices far less consult upon the course it would be wise to take in such extremityorannilate aechothler to dignified and firm resistance


so sure aasiymember just arrived withdress disordered or r iievelled hair came struggling through thecrowd


bh lobby it yelled and screamed in triumph wahdwben the door of the house partially and cautiously opened by those within for has admission gave them a momentary glimpse of the interior they grew more wild nod savage like beasts at the sight of prey and made a rush against the portal whsich strained its locks and bolts in their staples and shook the very beams


thestrangersgallerywhich wasimmediatelyabeove the door of the house had been ordered to be closed on the first rumour of disturbance and was emitsy


save that now and then lord george took his seat there for the convenience of coming to


the head of the stairs which led to it and repeating to the peo pel what had passed within


it was on thesestairs that liarnaby hugh and dennis were posted


there were two bights short steep and narrow running parallel to each other and leadingto two little doors communicating with a low passage which opened on the gallery


between them was a kind


of well or unglazed skylight for the admission of light and air into the lobby which might be some eighteen or twenty feet below


upon one of these little staircases not that at the head of which lord george appeared from timeto time but the other gashfosd stood with hiselbow


onthe bannister and his cheek resting on his hand with his usual crafty aspect


whenever he varied this attitude in the slightest degree so much as by the gentlest motion of his arm the uproar was certain


to increase not merely there but inthe lobby below from which place no doubt some manwho acted asfugleman to the rest was constantlylook ing up and watching him


rderl cried hugh in a voice which made itself heard even above the roar and tumult as lord georgo appeared at the


top of the staircase


news i news from my lordi


r the


noise continued notwithstandiog his appear ance until gashford looked round


there was silence immediately even among the people in the


passages without and on theother staircases who could neither see nor hear but to whom notwith standing the signal was conveyed with maivellous rapidity


rgentletensaid lord george whowas very pale and agitated we must


be firm


they talk ofdelays but we must have no delays


they talkl of taking your petition into consideration neaxt tuesday but we must have it considered nowi present appearances look had for our success but we must succeed and will li we must succeed and will i echoed the crowd


and so among their shouts and cheers and other cries he bowed to them and retired and presently came back


again


there was another gesture from


gashford and a dead silence directly


o ir am afraid he said this time that we lsave little reason gentlemen to hope for any redress from the proceedings of parliament


but we must redress our own grievances we must meet again we mustl


put our trust in providence and it willbless our endeavours


this speech beinga little more temperate thotbie t last was not so favourably received


whenthe noise andexasperation were at their height he came back once more and told them that the alarm had gone forth for many miles round that when the king heard of their assemblin together in thatgreat body he had no doubt his majesty would send downv private orders to have their wishes complied with and with the mannerofhis speech as childish irre soluteand uncertain as his matterwas proceeding further when two gentlemen suddenly appeared at


the door where hestood and pressing past him ansd coming a step or two lower down upon the stairs confronted the people


the boldness of this action quite took them by


surprise


they were not the less disconerteds


when one of the gentlemenl turning to lord george


spoke thus in aloud voice that thley might hear hisi well but quite coolly and collectedly


you may tell these people if you please my lord that i am general conway of whom theyhave heard and that i oppose this petition and all their pro ceedings and yours


i am a soldier you may til t l them and i will protect the freedom of this placer


with my sword


you see my lord that the members of thisihouse are all in arms today you know that the entrance to it is a narrow one you cannot be ignorant that there are men within these walls whio are determined to defend that pass to the last and before whom many lives must fall if your adherents


persevere


have a care what you do


and my lord george said the other gentle


man addressing him in like manner i desire them to hear this from me colonel gordon your inear relation


if a man among this crowd whose nproa r strikes us deaf crosses the threshold of the house of commons i swear to run my sword that moment


not into his but into your body


with that they stepped back again keeping their faces towards the crowd took each an arm otf to


misguided nobleman drew him into the passage and shut the door which they directly locked and fastened on the inside


this was so quickly done and the demeanour of both gentlemen who were not young men either was so gallant and resolute that the crowd faltered and stared at each other with irresolute and timid looks


many tried to turn towards the door some of the faintesthearted cried that they had best go back and called to those behlind to give way and the panic and confusion were increasing rapidly when gashford whispered hugh


what now


ihugh roared aloud turninig towards them


why go back


where can you do better tian here boys


one good rush against r these doors and one below at thie same time will do the business


rushl on then


i


as to the door below let lthose stand back who are afraid


lst those who are not afraid try who shall be the first to pass it


hiere goes i look out dlown thercl without the delay of an instant he tlhrew hiimaself headlong over thle ibannisters into the lobby below lie ihaod hardly touched lthe round when barnaby was at his side


tthe chaplatns assistant and suoao mtcmbers who were imploring thie peoplelu to retire immediately withdrew and tilea with a great shout bothl crowvds threw tlhemaselves against the doors pellnmell and besieged thse house in earnest


at ithat moment when a second onset tmust have broughit lthem into collisona with those cwho stood on the defensive wvtlhin in which case great loss of life and biloutdshld vwotld inevilably have ensueuj the hindmnost portion of the crowd gave way and the rumonr spread fromn mouth to mnoulth that a msessenger had been despatclhed ly water for lthe mulitary who were forming in theo street


fearful of sustaining a charge in thie narrow passages in which thiey were so closely welgeld together the throng poured out as impetuously as ihey had flocked in


as thle whole stream turned at once inrnaby and tugih went with it and so fighting and straggling and trampliag on fallen met and being tromniled on in turn thenmselves they and thie whole masns floated by degrees intlo tihe open streets where a large detachment of the guards bolh horse and foot came hlurrying up clearisg the ground before them so rapidly that the people seemed to melt away as they advanced


the word of command to halt being given the soldiers formed across the street the rioters breath less and exhausted with their late exertions formed likewise though in a very irregular and disorderly manner