there is no statement that these embarrassments have arisen from misdemeanour hence they must be the consequence of mistake


it is difficult to decide which of the two courses now proposed in one case would be the better if the house steps payment others are brought down with it yet the plan suggested for accommodation by surrendering some of the vessels purchased and cancelling certain of the bills was found to be unfavourable to other persons while others again are commencing a suit in chancery for cancelling bills on the plea that no consideration has been received and these suitors are said to be connected with another house that has suspended


here then is a series of unconsidered transactions the mischief of which may be aggravated by the rapidity somewhat suddenly introduced into our commercial system but which could only be corrected by rendering a better knowledge of facts accessible to all the parties engaged


spectator


rumian trade through prussia


the intima tion that our government is preparing some step to arrest the russian trade through prussia would alone suffice to disprove the late reports that prussia was growing more reasonable and to tell her that a time of closer reckoning is at hand it has been supposed that our government might effect the stoppage of the evasive russian trade by various methods by a blockade of the prussian ports so far as to stop vessels until they should declare the origin of the goods on board arresting those of russian produce or by re verting to the english principle maintained during the late war that an enemys goods may be seized in neutral bottoms wherever found or by prohibiting their import into this country


objections at once occur to any one of these modes and perhaps to any other


a blockade of the prussian ports would be virtually a declaration of war against king frederick william the english principle of the late war can not be reasserted after it has been formally abandoned without giving more exasperation to america than the principle itself gave while it was first in dispute and prohibitions upon imports although not inconsistent with free trade on purely commercial grounds would yet cause some feeling of dissatisfaction in this country


we are not prepared to say that the public would be indisposed to make a large concession to the necessities of the state and to confidence in ministers but the inconvenience is evident


in the mean time prussia is so obstinate in a course which becomes daily more incompatible with the interest if not the safety of the allies that this question of a transittrade is likely enough to be superseded by another question as to the treatment of prussia herself


communications continue to pass between berlin and vienna bringing out more distinctly the independent and sincere course in which austria per severe and the hostile spirit in which prussia is shuffling


the latest communications from paris and london have consisted of intimations that prussia would not be permitted to mediate any longer in the capacity of a friend and would only be allowed to interfere upon joining in the more positive alliance concluded between the three powers


not withstanding the unaccountable ministerial manoeuvres at berlin prussia shows no disposition to take this more manly course


her treacherously equivocating action can only originate in blind devotion to russia apparently the strongest the recognised by prussia


this close intimacy places the territory of prussia con structively at the service of the enemy we have no security that russia will not be able to introduce armies at a days notice to the very banks of the rhine and the progress of events is making this state of the prussian government too serious a danger for the allies to continue


we require some real guarantee from lung frederick williams government and it would seem that the allies must take the guarantee for themselves


volenti non fit injuria if prussia volunteers to play the part of the women and children whom barbarians have sometimes placed in the front of besieged walls to keep back the enemy it is her fault and she has no right to complain if the punishment turn upon herself


the rights of neutrals will of course be respected by the allies but it becomes absolutely necessary to get at russia in order to re strain her and the necessities of war might compel the allied armies to extend their operations quite round the european boundaries of russia without any distinction or exception


prussia is braving an accumulation of danger which may be very critical for her future but may release our cabinet from the em barrassments arising out of this transittradenjicc tailor


sir john bowing


we have been favoured with the translation of a curious document being the address of a large body of chinese scholars to sir john bowring on his visiting and examining their seminary in the province of kiangsu


we understand it was haunted by the principal scholar a descendant of the famous sen who was converted to christianity in the time of the emperor kan girl we respectfully greet your excellency the british plenipotentiary whose fame has reached this land and who has charge of an important government


your excellencys ability is bj lofty as to be compared to a bird perched on the summit of a hill allsufficient to make return for the favours bestowed upon you by your sovereign


your excellency has honoured the borders of kiang with your presence


you will certainly satisfy the hopes of all


fortunate do we consider ourselves in that you have condescended to visit us


we look up and admire the splendour of your phoenixlike appearance


at the risk of giving offence we express our feelings and with much respect wish you golden happiness


bending probtrate we hope you will throw a glance on this


presented by the hwar scholars


western times


the snobs oe england


by one of themselves


chapter xisnobs and marriage


everybody of the middle rank who walks through this life with a sympathy for his companions on the same journey at any rate every man who has been jostling in the world for some three or four lustresmust make no end of melancholy reflections upon the fate of those victims whom society that is snobbishness is im molating every day


with love and sim plicity and natural kindnes snobbishness is perpetually at war


people dare not be happy for fear of snobs


people dare not love for fear of snobs


people pine away lonely under the tyranny of snobs


ho nest kindly hearts dry up and die


gallant generous kids blooming with hearty youth swell into bloated oldbachelorhood and burst and tumble over


tender girls wither into shrunken decay and perish solitary from whom snobbishness has cut off the common claim to happiness and affection with which nature endowed us all


my heart grows sad as i see the blundering tyrants handywork


as i be hold it i swell with cheap rage and glow with fury against the snob


come down i say thou skulking dullness


come down thou stupid bully and give up thy brutal gost


and i arm myself with the sword and spear and taking leave of my family go forth to do battle with that hideous ogre and giant that brutal despot in snob castle who holds so many gentle hearts in torture and thrall


when punch is king i declare there shall be no such thing as old maids and old bachelors


the reverand mr mal thus shall be burned annually instead of guy fawkes


those who dont marry shall go into the workhouse


it shall be a sin for the poorest not to have a pretty girl to love him


the above reflections came to mind after taking a walk with an old comrade jack spiggot by name who is just passing in to the state of bachelorhood after the manly and blooming youth in which i re member him


jack was one of the hand somest fellows in england when we ente red together in the highland buffs but i quitted the cuttykilts early and lost sight of him for many years


ah


how changed he is from those days


he wears a waistband now and has begun to dye his wiskers


his cheeks which were red are now mottled his eyes once so bright and stedfast are the colour of peeled plovers eggs


are you married jack says i re membering how consumedly in love he was with his cousin letty loyelace when the cuttykilts were quartered at strath bungo some twenty years ago


married


no says he


not money enough


hard enough to keep myself much more a family on five hundreda year


come to dickensons theres some of the best madeira in london there my boy


so we went and talked over old times


the bill for dinner and wine consumed was prodigious and the quantity of brandyandwater that jack took show ed what a regular boozer he was


a guinea or two guineas


what the devil do i care what i spend for my dinner says he


and letty lovelace says i jacks countenance fell


however he burst into a loud laugh presently


letty lovelace says he


shes letty love lace still but gad such a wizened old woman


shes as thin as a threadpaper you remember what a figure she had her nose has got red and her teeth blue


shes always ill always quarrelling with the rest of the family always psalmsing ing and always taking pills


gad i had a rare escape there


push round the grog old boy


straightway memory went back to the days when letty was the loveliest of blooming young creatures when to hear her sing was to make the heart jump into your throat when to see her dance was better than montessu or noblet they were the ballet queens of those days when jack used to wear a locket of her hair with a little gold chain round his neck and exhilirated with toddy after a sederunt of the cuttykilt mess used to pull out this token and kiss it and howl about it to the great amusement of the bottlenosed old major and the rest of the table


my father and hers couldnt put their horses together jack said


the gene ral wouldnt come down with more than six thousand


my governor said it shouldnt be done under eight


lovelace told him to go and be hanged and so we parted company


they said she was in a decline


gammon


shes forty and as tough and as sour as this bit of lemon peel


dont put much into your punch snob my boy


no man can stand punch after wine


and what are your pursuits jack sold out when the governor died


mother lives at bath


go down there once a year for a week


dreadful slow


shilling whist


four sistersall unmar ried except the youngst awful work


scotland in august


italy in the winter cursed rheumatism


come to london in march and toddle about at the club old boy and we wont go home till mawaw ning till daylight does appear


and heres the wreck of two lives


mused the present snobographer after taking leave of jack spiggot


pretty merry letty lovelaces rudder lost and she cast away and handsome jack spig got stranded on the shore like a drunken trinculo


what was it that insulted nature to use no higher name and preverted her kindly intentions towards them


what cursed frost was it that nipped the love that both were bearing and condemned the girl to sour sterility and the lad to selfish oldbachelorhood


it was the in fernal snob tyrant who governs us all who saysthou shalt not love without a ladys maid thou shalt not marry without a carriage and horses thou shalt have no wife in thy heart and no children on thy knee without a page in buttons and a french bonne thou shalt go to the devil unless thou hast a brougham marry poor and society shall forsake thee thy kins men shall avoid thee as a crimnal thy aunts and uncles shall turn up their eyes and bemoan the sad sad manner in which tom or harry has thrown himself away


you young woman may sell yourself without shame and marry old croesus you young man may lie away your heart and yourlife for a jointure


but if you are poor wo be to you


society the brutal snob autocrat consigns you to solitary prediction


wither poor girl in your garret rot poor bachelor in your club


when i see those graceless recluses those unnatural monks and nuns of the order of st beelzebub my hatred for snobs and their worship and their idols passes all continence


let us hew down that maneating juggernaut i say that hideous dagon and i glow with the heroic courage of tom thumb and join battle with the giant snob


a great secrethow do you do mrs tome


have you heard that story


why no really mr gad what is it


do tell


oh i promised not to tell for the world


no i must never tell ont im afraid it would get out


oh ill never tell it as long as i live just as true as the world


what is it


come tell


now you wont say anything about it will you


no i will never open my mouth about it sacredly


have i to die this minute


well if you believe me mrs fundy told me last night mrs trot told her that her sisters husband was told by one who heard it that mrs troubles eldest daugh ter told mrs nickens that she heard that a milliner told herthat bustles were going out of fashion


the streets of sydney with some account of the houses thereof and the people who dwell therein


by hooke


y walker


a very extensive traveller chapter xiii


i am warned about dangers yet neglect advice


i visit the hyde park ground and other places near thereto and meet with divers characters and occurrences


i have related before that sarah is my house keeper and whenever i am in a difficulty i call upon her to help me out of it


she is a positive and decided person i be it said to my sorrow am


but a feather borne hither and thither by each contending wind


so i rely upon her judgment generally but at times whether it be from in nate obstinacy or fancied superiority i do not feel an inclination to heed her advice


it was on one of these peculiar mornings that i ordered my boots i always carry spectacles to enable me to see the sport on the hyde park race course


hyde park mr walker a pretty object you would be in hyde park a man at your time of life ought to know better


sarah i replied mildly for i saw that pacification was better than belligerency it is only a game of cricket that i wish to witness


think of the cricket on your hearth mr walker and dont be gambolling and chirrup ping about in other quarters


sarah there are bounds not in cricket mr walker


what are you afraid of sarah


your long stop mr walker


she said this so smilingly so kindly that i was half inclined to forego a pleasure and forget a positive promise but stern duty recalled me to myself and despite tears solicitations and supplications coriolanuslike i went


nay i even think that had my boots been wanting my legs would have been there


i reached the spot and looked round me on the glorious prospect


there stood the heavy mass of buildings representing the civil judi cature of the country supported by the watch house doing its own bit of criminal and there rose that noble verandahed edifice the tuglass hotel where players of manly games invariably congregate and the wealthy host extends to them the hand of liberality and kindness so much so that his visitors are actually ashamed of re ceiving the benefits which he pours forth upon them and exclaim in anguishdont tuglass dont you overpower us with the weight of your favors


and tuglass responds its my nature boys and i cannot control it


i value money only as it enables me to spread it beneficially around


my happiness consists in setting you all up in business and seeing you rich and happy drinking champagne whilst i am imbib ing water gruel


i stood gazing on this lovely prospect and thinking most intently upon the tugloss philo sophy when a smart tap on the shoulder recalled me to myself


on looking round i saw thomas mace esq who addressed me i must confess without much ceremony


i will endeavour to convey his style how i answered in my state of bewilderment i can scarcely tell


well old fellow hows everything at home pretty comfortable i take it


come to see the match


i know very little of matches i replied


by lucifer you do i seldom swear but you have rubbed me up youll ignite in an instant mr smivvins


that is not my name but if my memory be not treachorous yours ismace


precisely old fellow and not a bad name ether in these times of severe paces and heavy rents


have you got any lodgings to let


only i and the missusno other incumbrances but mind it must be a quiet neighbourhood and religiously inclined else the missus


and i never could consent to pitch our tents amongst you


mr mace really you are a stranger to me none the worse for thatvide ruffs guide to the turfno i beg pardon a better book take in all strangers


you havent such a thing as halfasovereign about you have you


heres my iou for it


mr mace said i hesitatingly equally un willing to give offence and to be despoiled of my money under the specious coloring of a loan i am in possession of that quantity of current coin of the realm but i knew it mr nipkins and it is only due to the illustrious family from which you are de scendedthey are first cousins of mineto say in the words of a wellknown greek poetbis dat qui cito dat which being interpreted slip kins to meet the most common understandings means he who asks for halfasovereign ought to have it twice over


acting upon that prin ciple tipkins hand us over twenty shillings and i shall be eternally your debtor


far be it from me to doubt your word in that respect mr mace i replied


of course not it would be too absurd i can bring a hundred witnesses to prove me in the right there or wrong mr mace i ventured to suggest


or be it right or be it wrong this is the burden of my song will you bleed whipkins


dont let us quar rel about terms and such trifling matters


will youbleed


are you in the vein


dye take old boy


when i say old i mean to re mark that you never looked younger in your life vipkins save and except as the lawyers say when you were imbibing the lacteal from the maternal buzzim


as for myself i was brought up from the spout by my unclea family teapot kind of affair beautiful pledges left without redemption


excuse this tear mr tricklings follow me to phil


tergins where bacchus and you willing ill wet tother eye


but touching the sovereign beforementioned i am too loyal i replied to give up my sovereign


not bad the sovereign mr mace


good again no the observation


im a re publican follow me to phils


anxious as i always am to gather knowledge of human character i followed the lively steps of mr mace over three dungheaps two of mechis liquid manure tanks and four drags laid up in or dinary and then ducked my gossamer under three linen lines receiving on the third occasion a severe damper on the cheek from a cameza which had just emerged in all its soap and soda cleanli ness from the wash tub


at this moment i heard a voice exclaim from the interior of the buildingah


theres the rub


hush be quiet said mr macethats the green curtain lecturing on hamlet


won derful manhe has got yoricks skull with all the brains in it


if you want a leg taken off his is the hand to do it step in


i was rather alarmed at losing my instep in this offhand manner nevertheless i deter mined to persevere and screwed my courage to the sticking point


i followed mr mace who introduced me to mr phil


tergin as fine a cut of a boniface as sydney or any other city can produce


i felt at home in a moment with him and ere long we were rambling the streets of london together and laying in a fresh hoard of pleasure from the memory of the past


na ture stamped man on phil the impress will carry him through the worlds postoffice till death shall break his seal and thenif i dared to speculate on such a pointi should say he will be found a moneyed letter


i must beg pardon for prosiness but i feel it necessary to chronicle the truth


as i entered mr phil


tergins the learned doctor was at his shaksperian dissertations and it appeared to me that some one had failed in a promise to renovate the cups


nothing can come of nothingspeak again and bring the cordial and cordelia here dont squint at me sir i dont like a leer


thats the way to bring em down shakespere and extemporaneous combined


phil fill up said the doctor


thats his way suggested mr mace to me a most surprising man but who talks of but


who dares the word to utter


comparatively speaking but is butter


thats my own sir but i dont want any soft soap no greasing at twoandsix per pound


listen to ben


miffsons voice far better far it is to dine where honest love uncorks the wine and every things anacreontic than eat a stalled ox upon tic


you understand me mace


hands off now must your conscience my acquittance seal


tis the worst thing in the world to be angry mace and particularly with me why let the stricken deer go weep the hart ungalled play and let the stag be fast asleep whilst others run away


ha


i had you there macea hit a very palpable hit


i must confess that mr mace winced a little as though his withers were wrung however he quickly recovered his equanimity and urged me to call for a bottle of champagne by way of introduction to the social board


i expressed my perfect agreement whereupon three gentle men successful gold diggers whose names i subsequently ascertained to be mr james mr harry and mr joseph insisted upon making a case of the affair


mr phil did not evince any backwardness in unwiring the creamy beverage under the effects of which doctor green curtain became more than usually shakesperian whilst mr mace appeared completely in his element and his spirits rose at the elevation of every cork


what more i have to relate about this remarkable meeting must be bottled up till next week


to be continued


a voyage from sydney to south australia and back again j wtth mems social political j agricultural moral and mining


i chapter vii


it was on the fifth day of our sojourn in the good town of adelaide that in company with my fellow traveller the north countryman i proceeded to the livery stables to hire a gig for the purpose of visiting the adelaide copper mine distant about thirteen miles


we had no sooner mentioned our destina tion than the proprietor shook his head and said he could not let out his gigs for such a road as we had to travel and that what we wished to do could only be done with saddle horses


upon this we were obliged reluctantly to overhaul his stables for the purpose of se lecting the special steeds who were to be put upon such responsible employment


our room for choice was of course as limited as it usually is in colonial livery stables


as far as one might judge hythe eye almost every animal we saw was miserably low unhappy and su perannuated and fast passing away into the state of cafsmeat


yet there was not one of them who notwithstanding his unprepossess


ing appearance hadnotifyou took his owners i account of himand who should know him bettersome peculiar virtue or good quality


which distinguished him from the vulgar mass of horseflesh in general


leaving it therefore to the proprietor himself to select for us two of the least deathly among the inmates of his sta bles the animals are in a few minutes led forth which in consideration of


teaandsixpenee to be paid for the services of each are to carry us to the mine and back


one is a moderate sized justpassablelooking cob the other a monstrous and revolting structure of skin and bone and acute angies with a neck almost as long as that of a dromedary and so tall that he appears to have originally overgrown his strength and never to have recovered it


as almost any rider of less stature than the irish giant would have required a ladder in order comfortably to ascend this animalmy fellow j traveller with characteristic northern sagacity lost no time ia appropriating the more mode rate sized steed having mounted him whilst i was wonderingly regarding the other


i was thus left for the bigun as the tall horse was familiarly called by his friend the groom who from force of habit and perhaps to persuade me if possible that the poor dejected creature had a great fund of animal spirits which re quired repressingheld him hard and close up to the mouth by the bridle as if he would have made off anywhere else but back again into the stable if he had been allowed to follow his own impulses at all disgusted as was i never theless felt that before i could get to the mine i must devote myself to the study of scaling the only other broken saddle horse that was left for me and therefore although perfectly conscious of the gratuitous diversion i was affording to that portion of the public who were looking over the palings of the yard i submitted my self to that temporary deformity of the figure which results to every man who attempts to lift his foot as high as his face at the same time af fecting to look cool and comfortable and in no degree like a person who is nearly breaking a blood vessel


i found myself at length and after a desperate struggle looking down from the saddle upon thc scene below


the first in telligible sounds i heard were from some of the stableyard loungers who were hanging about for excitement and who were engaged in a quiet and speculative discussion as to whether my steed could do it one averring hed been a good old os once and another express ing his opinion that he had done his work


as i felt that this kind of tiling now that i was upon his back was becoming personal i deter


j mined to start at once aid i requested the loan i of a whip upon which an instrument was pret j sented to me with which i believe i might nearly have knocked the horse down altogether if i had been so inclined


thus equipped and accoutred our cavalcade goes forth from the livery stable keepers premises the cob amblhjg off with becoming and unexpected liveliness whilst mine followed after with a spectral and stalking sort of walk as if he had never done anything in his life before but funerals


still i could not bring myself to use my bludgeon of a whip and therefore with that natural human pride which deters every man of ordi nary good taste from flagellating his unlively steed before the public i contented myself with furtive digs of the heel promising him in my own mind that he should distinctly know the difference as soon as i had got him out of town


our road we were told lay through large and cultivated plains beautifully covered with farms until we should come to a gully between two mountains a darker coloured and a lighter coloured one visible in the distance pursuing which gully and crossing a certain other mountain we should come to would bring us sooner or later according to the horse to the adelaide and montacute mines


the proper road however until we came to the gully in volved according to the directions of a wag goner we met so many distracting turnings off at this or that fence and keepings to the right or bearings the left when we come to this mill or that house that i was fully convinced i should lose myself if i attempted to follow it


i therefore determined to keep my eye on the distant gully and to ride straight across the farms until i got to it


my companion who averred that he was utterly destitute of the bump of locality aud that he should rely upon me to bring him to the mine seemed at first rather disconcerted at the proposed series of trespasses on real property but upon my ac knowledgment that it was the only means i had of assuring our arrival at the proper part of thc mountain he became reconciled to the necessary and innocent illegality


away then went the cob whilst my animal followed in its wake haud passibus aequis


an occasional shower of kicks and blows now and then awoke my brute from his natural state of som nambulism into a kind of long solemn but transitory trot which lifted me at every step so high out of my seat that i believe a spectator from behind might at any moment have seen a considerable portion of the landscape between me and the saddle


it was probably as much out of commiseration for myself as from the natural heartiness of the people that not one of the farmers over whose land we rode com plained of the liberty we had taken


i made my companion dismount to remove and replace slippannels whilst i rode forward to state to the proprietors how careful and conscientious we had been in this respect and to propitiate them with compliments upon the farm which could always more or less be paid with perfect sincerity


thus proceeding we in about an hour and a half reached the pass between the hills


here we are then as it were in an instant away from all cultivation from all human habitation


the majestic and towering mountains stretch up far away on either side of us


it was as if j we had in instant become retransported to the highlands of scotland


all sorts of plea sant recollections come crowding upon us and we involuntarily stop to enjoy the scene


this our companion takes as a signnot that weare rapt and romanticbut that we have lost the road for he checks his cob directly to look back and ask if were sure were right


i fush on my beast who stares about him as eisurely as if i had brought him out only to admire the scenery and from his obstinate de liberateness of movement it seems as if we should never get to the top of the mountain the road winds spirally about it and when we j had got threefourths upwith a high cut on the left hand like a wall and a very deep de clivity almost a precipice on the rightmy horse stands still altogether and looks at it like a surveyor


kicks and blows avail not


he will have nothing further to say to the bu siness


here is a pretty go or rather no go


i suddenly recollect that i am invited out to dine that day and shall perhaps be obliged to abandon my expedition and make the best of my way back to adelaide


to all my appeals with whip and heels my quadruped only re turns a violent shrug or debilitated buck which although merely a demonstration of im potent vice is dreadfully disconcerting in my present situation


my companion having al ready satisfied himself from the confidence of my countenance that i am all right as to the road has pushed on and left me to carry on the war all alone with my unsatisfactory beast who at each successive shrug or jump threatens to grind my lett leg against the wall of earth and stones ou the cae side or swerves


alarmingly near the precipitous declivity on the other


and as his whole conduct from the he ginning of the journey has been excessively ec centric to say the least of it i cannot but shud


der as i contemplate the possibility of his plunging himself in a moment of mental aber


j rationwith me on his backdown the decli vity without giving any kind of notice


i therefore descend from my exalted seat and lead him by the rein which appears to recon cile him to the rest of the mountain path for he stalks after me not pulling back so hard as might have been expected


thus humouring him lat length reached the top of the moun tain and never have i beheld a fairer sight of the kind than h om that spot


behind me lay adelaide plains covered with rich and beau tiful farms for many a fair mile


afar off to the left glittered in the bright light the gulf of st vincent and before me rose range after range of noble bills further than the eye could reach


how inexpressibly solemn and sweet and awful is this deep stillness and solitude


the mind is lifted up by the vastness of the surrounding objects above the pretty cares and thoughts of our own town life ic to something of a state thatwe would almost call religious rapture if we felt that we deserved to be called religious at all


what can human life afford better than the world of delights which memory yields when the mind wanders away into luxuriant reverie j and seems to create and to repose upon its j creations at one and the same time


here could i have stood and gazed for hours j here also could my horse have stood and j grazed for hours of which fact and of the passing time i was at length reminded by the j sound of his active jawsby far the most ac tive part about himdoing full justice to the pasture here and there to be found upon the i i top of the mountain


having coaxed and led i him to a slight elevation we a second time as cended to his saddle whereupon as if in better


humour from the bait of grass he had enjoyed he descended the hill at a much improved pace


about a third of the way down i overtook my companion who unaware of what had de tamed me above and thinking that i had a last discovered that we were in the wrong load


was just about to return in search of me perhaps he did not fancy being in so solitary a j situation by himself for it was certainly a beau


tiful scene either for a poet or a highwayman


i however was extremely comfortable for my heart was light and my pockets were empty and


i cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator


j


away we go then once more in company


at the bottom of the hill we come upon a dray load of goods a team of bullocks and the driver who has knocked off the road and


pulled up upon a patch of grass having given


up the attempt at crossing the mountains as a bad job


in answer to a question s to what are his plans he says he is waiting for the ar rival of two more bullocks for which he had some time before sent his mate


he also told us that we were all right for the adelaide mine which was distant about two miles


this distance we soon travel meeting no one but two of the directors returning on horseback from an inspection who in answer to our in terrogatories tell us that although we are late the captain will show us the works


in a few minutes we came into a very picturesque little valley with a fine flowing creek running through it and hills before us and on either side


the nearest mountain to the right is the


montacute mine not worked at present and the next is that one on which the adelaide mining company who have bought all around the montacute are at present at work


we rode up to the cottages and selecting the best as likely to contain the captain we were very civilly treated and at our request to be al lowed to see the mine the captain at once led the way straight up one of the steepest parts of the mountain and in a few minutes brought us to a cut or adit about four or five feet wide and large enough for any man conveniently to enter without stooping


this was a newly


discovered lode


the miners had followed it in a horizontal direction for about five and twenty or thirty feet into the body of the mountain propping up the superincumbent earth as they went


this lode was a rich vein of copper ore distinctly defined in its breadth


which as we saw was pretty uniformly as above the ore extending upwards and down wards indefinitely


we walked as far into i the lode as the works had proceeded and saw lumps of ore sticking to what the miners call the walls of the lode on either side


the men were working with picks c by candle light and moving about in this subterranean passage they looked unpleasantly like ferrets


one of them followed us out of the mine and as he touched an imaginary hat informed us that mining was very hard work which being translated of course meant that he wanted something to drink


gratified in this particular he retreated again into the hole and rejoined his earthy looking friends in the mountain


there were other cuttings in this mule but these in appearance were only repetitions of the one i have described


measures were being taken to cut upon another lode of which there were strong indications and a shaft was being sunk below the level of the creek in order to ascertain whether the lode penetrated so deep


i when the copper ore is found at this depth


called by the miners settled country they have much more assurance of the vein being a steady and lasting one than when the ores are found only in irregular upheavings of the earth


in these latter situations the ores fre quently occur merely in boils or lumps and are soon worked out


this had been hitherto very much the character of the adelaide mine and on that account the shares had not been until lately much sought after bythe public


the newly discovered lodes however had given the shares an impulse upwards during my stay and a great rise in price was expected the instant that the captain should report a discovery of ore at the depth of the creek


near the mouth of the cut we entered were lying about seventeen tons of ore which had been worked out in the fortnight preceding our visit


it may be that the magnificent accounts we had heard on all sides of the burra burra mine and the large quantities of ore therefrom we had seen carted to the port had spoiled ns altogether for any other mine


for although upon consideration i cannot but think the adelaide raine as at present under the opera tions of the company is a very valuable pro perty both myself and my companion were disappointed with it notwithstanding the st tons in a fortnight and we remounted our horses contented to leave it altogether in the hands of the present company


as at this scene i shall drop the curtain upon south australia and return to sydney in my next and last paper let me here answer a question which has been frequently put to me


vizwould i as soon live in adelaide as in sydney


to this my answer is short and eerhaps not very satisfactory


so far as town fe goes i know only two modes of beinga london life and a life out of london


the pleasures of a country life must to a healthy minded person be much the same every where


but if you talk of towns and carry me away from london you may set me down where


soever else you please without consulting me for i have no preference about it


j


i gold and war


chapter jr seren oclock tho sarnovcning ami still ilccp in thought sat mrs martha corbett the tea equipage had been taken away but aching head and heavy heart remained there is a gentleman wishes to see yon maam said her housekeeper as she entered tho room and rearranged the blazing fire


what nanto did ho give


nonehe preferred toseo yon without send np his name


imagining that it was possible some of her actruaintances from tho country wished to give her asurpriso or perhaps ono of her tonnnts the lady directed the visitor tobe shown in


a momentary glance at


themirror to see thero wore no traces of her recent emotion and mrs corbolt was prepared for any other visitor than he who entered and closed the door behind him


oswald ray mond i what does ibis moan sho asked with anger


s s w but ho who was qncsttoncd did not answer


his eye was rivetted on tho ladys face


what a change in four years


he too was changed ns tho reflecting mirror showed in contrast to tho crayon likeness over tho firoplace


why was tho picture thus kept as it hud been years ago while the original was so cruelly discarded


again i ask sir is this manly of you after my strict injunctions never to como into my presence


what is the object of your visit


perhaps aunt it is not manlyperhaps not


i am scarcely fit to bo a judge which it would bo most right to doto let titi so nearest and dearest to me want for tho necessaries of life or to come and ask from you who possess plenty you who though forbidding my presence are nevertheless by tho law of nature and tho custom of mankind tho proper person to assist mel mrs corbett had become positively stem sit ting erect in her chair with forbidding coun tenance and speaking in the most chilliing ac cents she replied to her still unseated visitor perhaps sir it will shorten this interview forced upon mo ngainstimy inclination and com mandsif yon will at once say what you desire


you must be aware that i have no wish for your company


as to reminding me of oar relation ship and my duties pray remember that you were tho first to forget that relationship and tlioso duties and by your conduct to absolve i mo from any consideration of you in any other light than that of a stranger or perhaps what is i more an undutiful ungrateful nephew


oswald did not reply


so freeling and almost bitter had been thc manner in which his aunt had addressed him that little hopo dwelt in his bosom j of succeeding in tho errand lie had come ou


mrs corbett now thoroughly surveyed his ap penrance and notwithstanding her hard words a pang of sorrow shot across her bosom as she noticed the haggard and povertyspeaking ap


pcaranco of her nephew a sigh nt


tho remom


branco of the gay happy youth he once was had almost escaped her but she stifled it and said in an impatient tono pray sir say at oneo what it is you aro hero for and end this disagreeable interview


oswald seemed to strugglo with his emotion as ho replied i aunt i was not prepared for so unkind a re ception and at this moment could wish to lenvo without mentioning the subject on which i caine but i owe a duty to those whom i have brought into the world and however painful it may bo tomo i must porform that duty


lt is now little moro than four years since i left this roof and you are aware how soon after that


i mar ried ihopo sir intorrnptcd mrs corbett yon do not come here to insult mo again


you know how i feet on tho matter and can have no right to como hore and talk of what you arc aware is so painful to mo


tho heartoppressed man had broken silence


hnd now scorned reckless as to the effect of his words he continued i married ono every way moro than worthy of moone my superior in mind and education


you wore displeased and forbade mo over seeing you again nay moroyou revoked every kind intention towards mc and wo ceased to seo each other


you in tho belief that i had done you wrong because i would not let you be the judge whoro my happiness was most concernedand in the full conviction that you asked too much from mo


which of us was most wrong i know not you who discarded your only relative bo causo he would not submit to your dictation where ho thought you should not dictateor i who was too ready to resent the attempted in fluence and to snap asunder tho tender ties of affectionate relationship


twice have


i essayed to heal the broach between us


but have been ro nulscd


whether vou havo boon tho happier for tho estrangement i know not


for myself blessed with a wife and two dear children lhave known many happy hoars and my lifo has been clouded by sorrows troubles and difficulties


i have not prospered in my undertakings and having had the misfortune to lose nearly ell i


possessed by tho dishonesty of a person in whom j i had confidence you are aware that we went to australia whore there was no employ for an


i artist and whore illness of a serious character almost laid mo in the grave


but for the exer j j tions of my dear wife wernup have starved there i she however toiled for tho menus to bring us home and we have been back in london these four months


it would bo tedious to you pain


ful to meto recount our struggles and miseries which nt length hara loft us penniless and beg


gars


we and our children are in want without tho opportunity of my getting employ or the strength to work if i had it to do we need as sistance who should i tura to ia this necessity if not to you


tears were in tho old ladys eyes as she pointed to a chair some distance from her but she wiped thom away as oswald advanced to wards ber and motioning him back to his seat replied i have not interrupted yon oswald but listened to all you had to sa vj now mark


well my answorl you are not ignorant that your mother my younger sister after our parents death married an officer in the army who lost his lifein battle and that at his death it was dis covered ho was deeply involved in debtso that your surviving parent lost all her fortune after a brief marriage life of only eighteen months at which time you were born


alas


not three years passed beforo your mothermy only sister followed your father to tho gravo committing her infant boy to my caro


j was very fond of you os un infant and


here the good ladys tears flowed moro freely but she rejected the hand her nephew held out to her


and if you wore dear to mo asan infant


whilst yet my poor sister lived i need not say how dear you were afterwards as you grew up


you well know loved you as if you were my own child how you always looked upon me asa parent that as you grow to manhood the scheme i of happiness i bod proposed for your welfare i to soo you married to tho worthy daughter of an old friend and reverend clergymanwas tho dream of my life


of your welfare


ouly i i thought rind wished but to live to seo it


accom plished


how you rewarded nil this kindness of mino you well know


you refused to do as i wished and leaving the house clandestinely marriod sjiuo perron of whom i knew nothing aud upon whom i must evor louk as the thwarter of my most chcrishod hopes with regard to you


indeed mint


i thought explanation now ojwald useless what a blow to mc your conduct was you nie fully ac quainted with


it caused inc long sickness


tn that timo i had opportunity to consider our relative position towards each other


i consulted too with the rather of tho dear girl you rejected


ho is a minister of tho gospel and bo fortified mo in my judgment that i should act on prin ciple


you had chosen to break the link botweeti usnovcr sought to indeed aunt you wrong mowrong ns


my dear wife carno to you but was refused ah yes i remember


aferr days after you wore married ray reverend friend told me your wife carno to ask ray forgivenessbut i would not could not see her i had previcudy deter mined to act on principle


you had scorned my advice proved ungrateful and our connection ceased


i nlered ray will and have bequeathed all i ara worth to churches and charities


hero the speaker became cold and implacable in her tone as she continued i cannot therefore help yon i must act up to thc principio deter mined on for my guidance


henceforth and for ever we are strangers


the last few words were spoken with firmness and decision the speaker rising from her scat and pointing to tho door


ls it possible aunt that yon can bo so altered so indilier it is you siryon who are so strangely altered interrupted tho aunt with bitterness thoro was a timo when oswald raymond would have bad manliness enough to have desisted from importuning for charity when ho had been in formed more than once that his presence was an intrusion and an insult


oswald started to his feet gazed intensely for a single instant on his aunts face where nil was rigid as marble then he turned from the room dashed through the hall and in another moment stood in tho street again


i the comic history of england


i r concluded from our tatt j chapter ix


george i upon the death of anne the english peopl who had often wished their kings at hanover in one of those mad freaks so common to nation now were forced to go to hanover to obtai one


from this period the annals of england eshib nothing more than a continual struggle betwee the whigs and tories or the rt and the oum and the country has ever since been sacrifice between two thieves


but now a rebellion took place in scotland i consequence of the duke of argyle having take downthe series of rubbing posts extending from berwick to john ogroats so useful to th scots in their various performances on the cale doman cremona scotch fiddle when the itchinj for war suddenly returned and the english wer obliged to go and scratch their backs fo them


so the plans of the earl of mar wer marred and the pretender went to pot a preston pans


thc scotch having received their fatal blow and the english being required no further norta determined to have a blow in the southani so blew the south sea bubblewhich bubble a good many


about the same period arose numerous othe plans for the good of the nation


one was fo


extracting moonbeams from cucumbers an other for making deal boards out of sawdust i third for bottling parliamentary speeches for ex pprtation a fourth for the manufacturing of roi parsons a fifth for the concentration of fire from old valentines a sixth for making tea ou of birch brooms and sloeleaves which last is th only one that seems to have succeeded


chapter x oeoroe ii


georg ii came tothe thronebecause th throne came to him but in the son of th old pretender under some pretence came over thinking to get the british crown but hi was soon crown over by the duke of cumber land and several of his partisans lost part o their bodies namely their heads which wen stuck on temple har as a bar to future re bellions which some people thought rather bal bar ous


in this reign also a war was begun with franee which ended nobody knows how but through i some two or three hundred thousand poor wretches stood to be shot atat sevenpence per dayant added to tho bulletin by having a good man bullets in und in spite of their pigtails hat many a balpd head


we then gave the french a few lessons ir daicing at the battle of minden and ta ugh them to fly at quebec although they tried tc shamabraham at the heights of abraham and wanted to make us look sheepish at tbi death of a wolfe


in this reign mr pitt was pit ted against mr fox and when tlie latter was thrown out of office nobody pitied him


pitt was said tb bo a vcr deep pit and fox a tery sly fox


but as i was thc fate of thc king to fall into the pithplt at this time the reign of george ll


may be sah to be closed


chapter xl oeottoe itt


the next successor to the throne was georgi thc obstinate who did not hold opinions bul suiercd opinions to hold him


he was the firsl king of england who had been born a briton for some timeand he naturally inferredthat the english nation were born for him with saddle and bridle curb and martingale and that he had nothing to do but get up and ride


but as john bull was about as obstinate as the king it was necessary that he should also be taught what it was to be a freeborn english man j therefore king george made the best use of tlie powers the state had given him by first knocking john on the head byan order in coun cil and then blindfolding gagging handcuffing and logging iii nvjohn was then held up as the glory of the


world and


thc admiration of sur rounding nations


now john bull had a younger brother called yankee doodle and sometimes brother jona than and king george finding john to go so well in his new harness determined to break in jonathan with a view to harness both to a new state coach


and drive fourinhandor george had already harnessed


sawney and paddy irish and scotch horses


but jonathan having been turned out in the forests of america had got a tarnation bit wild and warnt to bejeotchedand in the very attempt to catch him king george who had employed johnsawneyand paddy gotso kicked mauled and mangled that he was forced to give the adair up as a bad joh and went home grum bling with a black eye and bloody nose and a head so swelled and bruised that it was very difficult to tell it from a plumpudding


the french nation about this period was seized with one


of her periodical fits of madness and having become half earthquake half volcano with a small touch of the whirlwind began to fiz pop bang and explode like an apple roasting only in a far more sublime manner because she wis a sublimer scale


the fiench kings had for several generations amused themseves with picking the pockets and filching thc goods of that nation but now it was thought a part of the right divine not only to rub and plunder their subjects but also ta cage beat bend ride brain and kill them


now there is a time in a nations affairs that too much bloodletting as in the human body brings on convulsions and so poor monsieur went quite raving stark mad and began to be as mischievous as a bull in a chinashop or a tom cat falling through a skylight being by nature half monkey half tiger and the rest dragon and serpenthe tied knots in his tailtwisted toge ther his temperground his teeth on aristocrats sculls torc crowns to pieces demolished churches knocked up palaces and knocked down thrones in short caused such a row all over europe that it will take another hundred years to settle


during this stormy period of history it was very natural that the dregs should rise upper most and consequently a little morsel of spit fire made his appearance who made


france herself too hot to hold herself and who taught them the sublime wisdom that it was wiser to go abroad and cut other peoples throatthan to stay at horne and cut their own and toet other dogs by tlie ears than to bite oiltheir own noses


this spitfire was called the little corporal or napoleon bonapartebecause he made his ene mies nap it and left nothing but a bony part behind him wherever he went being a wholosale dealer in rawheads and bloody bones and as the french had eaten their own heads oliy


he thought they would not do better thin bone the substance of other nations


so this prince of all the cutthroats led his troops first to egypt where abercrombie beat them to mummies and then to russia where old jack frost took them by the nose and death laid his tablecloth of snow for his shilling ordinary and stulfed himself like avery dando


being still belligerent bony went into belgium nnd got his bellyfull at tho parti cular serving out of the castiron duke who taught him how to cut capers and then to cul himself


georg the third iras of th most onsvunmate wisdom


his head was so thick that when know ledge once got init was impossible for it ever to get out


his observations upon things were also exceedingly sagacious and having put his fingers into the fire it is said that he absolutely took them out again without bidding


on one occasion he is said to have sent for the smith to remove the fireplace instead of removing him self an instance of extraordinary sagacity


on another occasion on going down into the royal kitchen he exhibited his great penetration on the sight of some appledumplings by en quiring hoio the cook got the apples in


on board ship on observing some part of the ropa spliced and having enquired whether the spliced part was as strong as the oilier part and being told that it was stronger he suggested tjjo pro priety of having them all spliced a suggestion never yet acted upon to the shams of the lords of the admiralty


oboroe iv


v


the reign of this monarch is dignified by th sovereigns devoted attachment to tba


fin arts by which he first wronged then abused then banished then persecuted and then de stroyedhis wife


i j


as might be supposed the kindred evils of humbuggery were studied with corresponding avidity and


the science of rascality progressed at a railroad speed


this reign was also celebrated for the repeal of the corporation and test actsby which it was provided that those who did not like roasted tigers stuffed with tenpenny nails should not ba forced to cat themthat squinting folks should not be thought unluckythat people with ona eye should not b insulted with


there you go with your eye out and


that those who dis sented should not ba saluted with what a shocking bad hatu william iv


t stagniferication botheration and muddle beset the accession of this hearty old cock in con sequence oft the reform bill so called in honour of king bill whom in consideration of his service in this affair the tories call silly billy


ti bill was to have proved that every man was better than his master


that jackassos ought to have v vested rights in hay bands and i to be trade free from the crabstick


that oysters ought not to be opened by compulsion but madeto yawnby argument and then to be bolted that calves heads should not hare j lemons stuck in their mouths because it was i lemontable and savoured of the orange party and that jews and gipsies and quakers should have free leave to take each other in


i but this bill after much objection in the lower house was at last rejected by the lords on the grounds that it was by far too wholehoggish for the swinish multitude and its tendency towards a hobnobacy of the nobs and the mobs


the first act of the reformed parliament was to pas the poor law union bill by which the pauper was ground down to the quintes sence of nothingness and taught the art of dying inch by inch and half a grain a day


as a consequence of this unnatural proceeding the poor subjected themselves to voluntary star vation eating rats and jumping off the monu ment waterloo bridge and hanging themselves in the parks as a setoff against the pomp of the palace and the prerogatives of royalty and thus to glorify the august reign of victoria


queen victoria mounted the throne amid th enthusiastic hopes of the people who thought she was come for their goods as her mamma said and also for their chattels as it seems likely to turn out


so she was crowned at westminster and tba old lords to the amount of five hundred or thereabout kissed her on the cheek and swore they would stick to her like bricks


tis true one of their number fell backwards on tb steps of thc throne in token that the nation has been going backward ever since


as sense is greatly needed by a monarch th prime minister hinted that it would be of


great importancefor the queen to be fae


northand so she took a trip to scotland


and when she came to the fair city of edinburgh she found thc citizens so high in their own estimation as not to get up before nine oclock in the morning and so the queen paused while the bailee was playing a tune on the national bagpipes and ushered the queen in by a snore


r


it is well known in thiscountry that before a washerwoman can sit down to breakfast the world must be traversed east and westto the west fur sugar and to the east for tea and as t totalism had put out the gin in the t it was thought that the whole of the chinese empire would become alarmed at our increased consumption


so to alarmthem in another way and to show them the difference between askingand com manding guns bullets blunderbusses drums and thunderwere levelled against them


canton was put in cantonments pekin looked


very peekln


like the prince of wales and theem peror lookedas if he could not helpit when ha lost his queue or cue


it was thought that the chinese must bo sold wholesale after this as none of


them could be retailedbut they curtailed themselves of some of their super hui ties and havingagreed to pay us three millions we pockctted the affront given tous x


i


having plenty of money the queen nowwent about into foreign parts and having heardthat the french people lived upon frogs arid thinking thu might bo an economic dietaryfor our starv ing multitude she went to france for the sola purpose of eating thom with the french king r and such a banquet was prepared as hevcrwas heard of before in thc universenot even at frogmore where the queen frequently spends the afternoonnor egypt ia


the oldentime presented such a spectacle or pair ofspectacles as the king of france and the queen of eng land


there were frogs young and frogs old frogs hot and frogs cold frogs tender and frogs tough frogs pied and puddirigdand


stewed and fried and boiled and roast a mighty host and the king of france took up the queen of england in his arms and the frogs hurrayed as well as they could with a horrid croakingquite provoking and in consequence of this tripit a supposed that a bill will be brpught into parlia ment next session by colstblhorpe to render frogs the staple food of tho country


from frogs the queen took aliking toblack beetlesdronesand cockroaches and went tb oxford to be fanned into a fever of pomposity by fireshovel hats


latin and greekwere ladled out


thick and slab and tlie categories of


aristotle were brought out bythis pusseytes to help the oihatlcs of alma mater


the


irish nation now grew vastly busy in the making ot pikes awl the welch in unmaking themthe great state doctor ordered thu steel mixture as the best tiling to stop intestine com motion and a diet regimen ot bayonets and bullets of congreve rockets and bombshells bf


heavy horse and light infantry was prepared to teach the irish thei beauty of the church mill tant and to force down thojr throats tytbos churchrates lawn sleeves pluralities prebend ariesred noses round paunches and velvet


cushions ns the best remedy for all their griev ances and a sure way of making


black white and white of


no


colour at all t andcompleting with aflourish of drumiand trumpets tbs year


v od


says irs qvmwi


v


chaitter xiii


be sober and watch because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion goeth about seeking whom he may devour whom resist ye strong in faith knowingthat the same afliction befalls your bicthichwlio are in the world


but the god of ll grace who lath called us unto his eternal glory in christ jesus after you have suffered a little will himself perfect you and confirm you and


establish you


i


st peter v


s now father i will make an end of my questions by asking you the best means of


reonering tltp observance


of the pledge lasting and useful f


that my son is a very important questionand my answer to it is very short


every good gift says the apostle de scends from the father of light


if then a man wish to persevere in the practice of temperance whichl is a good gift from god he must adhere to the practiceof his religious duties he must avoid the occasions of and temptations to drunkenness aoid the ocompany of drunkards avoid all public houses and cordial shops avoid all pledge breakers as scandalous anddangeroua avoid not only the nightof all intoxicating drinks but any cordial


which has the slightest connexion with them


ever recollect that one virtue is not alone sufficient to obtain hcaycen and that to please god a man should daily labour to einquire all the virtues ne cesshry for his state of life he should ever have before his eyes the words of our saviour if thy cyo scandaliso thee pluck it out andif thy hand scandalise thee cut it off that is to say no matter what may be the inconvenience or annoyance he may experience in preserving his pledge nothing should inducelhim to violate it


too many there arewho have at the advice of false friends fallen back into the habit of drink iig intoxicatirig liquors land becaiie grcatdr drunkards than ever theiroexample should be a caution to all never to give up the good flght


of virtue no matter whether seasons


changefrotp heat to cold tle


elements frm serenity to incicmency or whether doctors say hialthxriquirdsthe


sasistance of tlhosc drinks for using which many are now suf fering in company with the rich glutton


by thus acting the pledge willibe a source of lasting utility to him who has taken it and whilst others are pining under the tyranny of their own passions the teelotaller will be a possessor of true liberty


charles omalley the rsr d ragoon


chate wxvitits vzcs pvo st icntxzkud


i arnow been for someweeks aresi dent within the waals of the university and had yet never presented my letter of rintroduction to dr barrett


somehow my thoughtsand occupations had left me little leisure to reflect upon my college course and ilhad not felt the recessity suggestedl by my friend sir harry of havinga supporter in the very learned and gifted individual to whom i was ac credited


how long i might have con tinued in this state of indifference it is hard to say when chance brought about my acquaintance with the doctor


were not inditing a true history in this narrative of my life to the events and characters of which so many are living witnesses i should certainly fear to attempt anything likea description of this very aemarkableman so liable would any sketch however faint and


imperfect be to the accusation caricature when sall was so singular and so eccentric


dr


barret was at thetime i speak of about sixty years age scarcely five feet in height and even that diminutive sta ture lessened by a stoop


his face was sthin pointedand russet coloured his nose so acquiline as nearly to meethis prnjecting chin and his small grey eyes tred and bleary peered beneath his well worn cap


with a glance of mingled fear and suspicion


his dress was a suit of the rustiest black threadbare and patched in severl places whilea pair of large brown leather slippers ftar toc bigfor his feet imparting a sliding motion to his walk that added an air of indescribable cmeanness to his appeawfance a gown that had been worn for twenty years browned and coated with the learned dust of tho


fagel covered his rusty habili nments and completed the equipments of a figure thatdt was somewhat difficult for the young student torecognise as the tviceprovost of the university


such was he in externals


wvithii a greater or more profound lacholar never graced the walls of the college a distinguished


recian lettrnedin all the refinements of d hundred dialects a deeporientla list ctnning in all thevarieties of eas ternladguages and able to reason witha moonshee or chat with a persian ambassadur


with a mind that never ceased acquiring he possessed a memory ridiculous for its retentiveness even of trilles no character in history no event in chronology was unknown to him and lie was referred toby his contemporaries for information izdoubtful and disputed cases as men consult a lexiconora dic tionary


with an intellect thus stored with deep and farsouht knowledge in the affairs ofthe world he was a child


without the walls of the college for above fortyyears he had not ventured half asmanytimes ad kanewabsoluely nothing of the busy active world that fussed and fumed so


near him his kfarthest excursion iuasto the bank of ire laand to whlich he madeoccasional visits to fund


the ample incortieof his office and oddto the wealth which alreildy bud acquired for hin


the u ell merited repute of being the richest man in the college his little inprcourse withthe world


shad left hin in all his habiis and man


ners in every respect exactly when he enteredcollege fifty years before and as he had lierally risen front the ranks in the universityall the


peculiarities of voice accent and pronunciation whicli distinguishedhimt as a youth adhered to hil in old age


this was singular enough and forimed a very liudicrous contrast witlh the learned and deep lead tone of his conversation


biit


another peculiarity still more striking belonged toliim


when be became a fellow he was obliged by the rules of the college ito takeholy ordersas asineiqua non to his holding his fiellowship this lie did as he would have assumed a redhood or sblueone as bachelorof laws or doctor of medicine and thought no more of it sbur frequently in his moments of pas sionatte excitetient the venerable char acter with which he was invested was qluite forgotten


anti be would utter some sudden or terrific oath more productive of mirth to his auditors than was seemly and for which once spoken the poor doctor feltthe greatestshame and con trition these oaths were no less sin gular than forcible and many a plan de vised


that the learned vice provost might be entrapped into his favourite ex clamationu vmay the devil admire me liichioplhce no pres eieecould restrain


smyservant mickey wbo had not been longin making himsett avquaint d with all the originals about him


was the cause ofmy first meeting the octor before whonali received a summons to appear on the very serious charge of treating with disrespect the heads of the college


slhe circumstances were simply these mike had among the other gossip of the placee heatd frequent tales of the immense wealth and great parsimony of thedctor of his anxiety to amass amoneyon all occasions and the avidity with which even the smallest trifle was added tohisgains


he accordingly re solved io amuse himself at the expense of iis trait and proceeded thus boring a holein a halfpenny he attached a long string to it and


having droipped it on the doctors step


stationed himself at theoposite side of the court concealed fron view by te abngle of the commons wall


he waited patientlvyifor the chapel bell at ihe first toll of which thedoor openetld and the dactr jssuedi forti


scarcelly wasbhis foot upon the step whep he esatheipiece of mionev andas quickly stoopedto seise it but just as his finger had pearlytpuched itit evadbd hisgrasp and slowly


retreated he tried again but with the likucces


a at thinking he miscalculated the distance he knelt leisurely down and put forth his hamd but lo it again escaped him on which slowly risint fromhis posture


ihe shambled on towards the chapel where meetingthe senior lecturer at the door he cried out h to my soul wall


but i saw the halfpenny walk away


for the sake of the grave cbaracter whom he addressed i need not recount how ruch a speech was received suffice it to say that mike hadibeen seen by a college porter who reported him as my servant


i was inthe yery act of relatine


the anecdote to a large party at breakfast in my rooms when a summons arrived requirinb my immediate attendance at the board then sitting in solemn con clave at theexamination hail


i accoordingly assumed my acnademic costume as speedily as possible and escorted by that mostaugust functionary mr malitter i presented myself before the seniors


the members of the board with the provost at their head were seated at a long oak table covered with hooks paper c and from the silence they maintained as i walked up the hall i augured that a very solemn scene was before me


mromalley said the dean reading my name from a paper he held in his hand you have been summoned here at the desire of the vice provost whose questions you willreply to


i bowed a silence ofa few minutes followed when at length the learned doctor hitching uphis nether garmients with both hands put his old and bleary eyes close to my face while he croaked out with


an accent that no hackney coachman could have acceded in itsvul garity


eh omalley yourequartasli believe antyou


i believe not


i thiikoi am the only person of that name now on the books


ihats thrue but there was three omalleys before you


godfrey omalley that consteredcalve neroni to nero the calvanist ha


ha


was cautioned ins


my uncle believesir


more than likely from what hear of youex uno c see your name every dayon the punishment roll


late hours never at chapel seldom at morning lecture


here ye are sixteen shillings wearing atred coat


never knew any harm in that


doctor


ay but dye see now grave raiment says the statute


and then ye keel nu


merous beasts of prey dangerous in their habits and unseemly to behold abull terrier sir and two gamecocks arei assure you the only animals in my household


velr iillfinc you for it


i believe dcetor saidthe dean in terr ung itn an under tome that you cannot impose a penalty in this matter


ay but i can singing birds says the statute are forbidden within the walls


and then ye dazzled my eyes at com nons with a bit of lookinrg glass on friday


may the devilahemas i was sayin s thats casting reflections on the heads of the college and your ser vant it was michaelis


liber mickey


freemav the flames ofaheman in solentvarlet called me a sweep


you doctor impossible


said iwith pretended horror


ay but dyesee me now t its thrue fori looked about me at the time and there wasnt another sweep in the place but myself hell toi meangod forgive me for swearing but ill flue you a pound for this


as i saw the dctor was getting on at such a pace


resolved notwithbstand ing the august presence of the board to try the effiency of sir hurrys letter ot introduction whicht hadtaken inmv pocket in the event of its being wanted


i beg your pardon sir if the time be an unsuitable one but may i take the opportunity of presenting thisletter to you


ha


i know the hand iboyles boylet secundus hem hat ay


my young friend


and assist him by your advice


to be surel


oh


of course


eh tell me youngman did boyle saynoihing to you about the copy of erasmus bound in vellum thati sold him in tripiti term


i rather think not sir said i doubt well then he might


heowes me twoandfourpence of the balance


i beg pardon sir i


now re member he desired me to repay you that sum


but he had just sealed the letter when he recollected it


better late than never said the doctor smiling graciously


wheres the money


ay balfaerown


i havent twopence never mind


go away young man the case is dismissed


vehement r miror quare huc enisri


youre more fit for any thing than a college life


keep good hours mind the terms and


dismiss miciaelis liber ha ha ha


may the devilbhm thiit is do so saying the little doctor s hand pushed me fron the hadll his nrird evidently relieved of all the griefs fronoi which he had been suf fering iy the recovery of his long lost twoandfourpence


such was my first and last interview with the vice provost and it made an impression upon me that allthe inter vening years have neither dimmed nor erased


mar iii nto inet ie the chevalier of the bed house vj continued from colonial times feb v v chapter x upon the famous morning of the st of may the battalion of he faubourg st victor eu terell he temple amidit the sound of the gineroi and the clang of the tocsin


when k i li


til j i he customary formalities were gone through and the sentinels distributed the municipals on service arrived accompanied by four pieces of cannon to reinforce those of the battery of the temple


at the same moment as the cannon santerre aniverl his epaulettes of yellow worsted and his greasy emit proving the extent of his patriotism


he reviewed the battalion which he found in a serviceable state


ile counted the municipals who were hut three


why are theie only three municipals asked he and who is the person that is absent


he who is absent answered our old friend agricole is nut on that account a lukewarm patriot it is the secretary of the section rue lepelli tier the chief of the brave thermopy lites the citiztn maurice lindey


good erood remarked santerre i know as well as you do the patriotism of citizen maurice lindeya circumstance which however will not if he does not arrive in ten minutes prevent his being inscribed on the list of absentees


sinterre passed to other details


at some paces distant from the general when he pronounced these words captain of the chasseurs and a common soldier ere conversing apart the one was supporting himself on his musket the other was seated on a cannon


did you hear said the captain iu a low voice to the soldier maurice has not arrived


yes but he will come unless he has joined some meute


if he should not come i will place you as sentinel dn the stairs and as she ascends you can speak with her


at this moment a man known to be a munici pal hy his tricoloreu scarf entered who being unknown to the captain and chasseur they looked keenly at him


citizen general said the new comer ad dressing santerre i beg you to accept me in the place of maurice lindey who is indisposed


here is the doctors certificate


my turn of the guard will occur in eight days shall ex change with lum and he will perform my duty as i now purpose to do his


provided the old capet and the little capet live eight days said one of the municipals


santerre replied by a pleasantry and turn ing to mauricestftessenger he said very good


go and enter your name in the place of maurice lindey and transfer to the column of observations the cause of this change


in the meantime the captain and the chasseur looked at each other with a joyous surprise


in eight days said they


captain dixmer cried santerre take your position in the garden with your company


come morand said the captain to his companion


the drums beat and the company com manded by the master tanner proceeded in the prescribed direction


the arms being piled the men separated in groups and straggled about here and there according to their fancy


the place in which they were was the garden in which since the time of louis xvi the royal family came to take air


the garden was dry arid and naked completely desolate and stripped of flowers trees and verdure


about twenty paces from that portion of the wall which overlooked the rue porte foin a kind of hut was built by direction of the muni cipality for the convenience of the national guards stationed in the garden who duiing the days of disturbance were not permitted to leave for any purpose


the management of this little wineshop bad been much sought after


it was finally conceded to an excellent patriot the widow of one that was slain on the th of august and who was called plumeau


the cabin built with planks and mud was situated in a little space marked out with hox wood it consisted of a single chamber ahout twelve feet square and beneath it extended a cellar to which a descent was formed by steps cut rudely out of the earth itself


there the widow plumeau kept her wine and provisions over w


hich she and her daughter a child be tween fourteen and fifteen years of age kept watch hy turns


no sooner were the national guards in their bivouac than they separated as we have said some to walk in the garden others to converse with the porters others again to read the design on the wall represent ing some patriotic subject such as the king hanged with the following inscription mon sieur veto taking an airbath or the king guillotined with another m veto spitting in the sack


some of the guards proceeded to widow plumeaus to discuss some of her provisions amongst these was the captain of the chasseurs we have spoken of


ah uaptain dixmer said the woman of the canteen


come i have sume excellent sumer wine


good citizen plumeau but sumer wine in my opinion at least is worth nothing with out brie cheese along with it


the etiptain had previously observed that amongst the different provisions the cheese he sought wis wanting


ah captain it might have bepn other wise but the last morsel is just gone


then said the captain no cheese no wine but it will be worth your trouble to procure it as i intend treating the whole company


captain i only ask five minutes to run for it to the gatekeeper w ho is my opponent in the business and who always has some


i shall have more pay for it but tis you are a good patriot you will not grudge the price


no no go replied dixmer and during this time we shall go into the cellar and choose the wine for ourselves


do as if you were at home captain


the widow ran away as quick as she was able towards the porters lodge whilst the captain and the chasseur taking a candle raised up the trapdoor and descended into the cellar


go d said morand after a moments examination


the cellar stretches in the direction of rue porte


foin


it is nine or ten fet deep and has no masonwork


what kind of soil is there asked dixmer


soft sandy and slateyearth brought from a distance and piled up


these gardens have been dug up many times


there is not a rock uny where


quick cried dixmer i hear the vi vandieres clattering feet


take a couple of bottles and let us ascend


they both appear d at the entrance of the cellar when widow plumeau entered hearing the famous cheese that was so anxiously sought lifter


behind her came many of the chasseurs attracted by the abovementioned excellent provision


dixmer did the honours of the table


he offered twenty bottles of wine to his company whilst citizen morand recounted the virtues of curtius the disinterestedness of fabricius the patriotism of brutus and cassius all of which stories were appreciated about as much as the urie cheese and the anjou wine presented by dixmer which is saying a great deal


it truck eleven oclock at halfpsst eleven the sentinels were changed


is it not customary asked dixmer from tison who was passing before the cabin for the austrian to walk out bitween twelve and one oclock


between twelve and one exactly and he begun singing


madame mounts her tower again alironton lenton inirotitaiue


the guards roceiml this new ditty with loud laughter


dixmer at once summoned the men belonging to his company who ought to mount guard between twelve and one oclock recom mended them to make haste with their break fast and ordered morand to take his arms so that he might post him as was agreed on the landingplace in the tower and in the same little sentrybox in which maurice was con cealed on that day when he intercepted the signals made to the queen from a window in the street portefoin


if any one had looked at morandduring the time he received that simple and wellunder stood command they would have noticed the deadly paleness which contrasted itself with the locks of his long dark hair


suddenly a heavy sound shook the temple courts and in the distance was heard a tempest of cries and howlings


whats that demanded dixmer from tison


oh oh said the jailer it is nothing some trifling meute which the brissotins ure creating before they are consigned to the guil lotine


the sound became more and more menacing and the rattling roll of the artillery was dis tinguished at the same time that a crowd of people passed the temple hurrahing and shout ing long live the sections ilong life to henriot idown with the brissotins idown with the rolandites idown with mdame veto good good


said tison ruhhing his hands i will let madume veto out so that she may without hinderance enjoy the affection of her people


ile approached the wicket of the keep


hollo i tison cried a formidable voice general answered he stopping short


no promenade today said santerre


the prisoners must not leave their chambers


the order was without appeal


good said tison it will cause less trouble


dixmer and morand exchanged a melancholy glance then whilst awaiting the approach of their hour of duty so useless now to t nein they both went apparently unconcernedly to walk between the canteen and the wall overlooking the street portefoin


when there morand commenced striding the distance and making geometrical paces that is to say three feet each


what distance is it asked dixmer


from sixty to sixtyone feet answered morand


how many days will it take


morand reflectedtraced on the sand with his ramrod some geometrical lines and instantly effaced them


it will take seven days at least said he


maurice w ill be on guard in eight days muttered dixmer


and it is absolutely necessary then that in less than eight days we must be reconciled with maurice


the halfhour struck morand took his musket with a heavy sigh and conducted by the corporal he went to relieve the sentinel who marched backwards and forwards on the platform of the tower


o be continued


chapter iii


radiant daughter of the sun


now thy living wreath is won


oh art thou not happy in that glorious lot


happier happier far than those with the laurel on thy brow she that makes the humblest hearth lovely but to one on earth


mrs


hemans


five years had glided slowly by with all their weight of sin and woe with all their deathpartings and births of sorrow and the sixth looked on minnie conner and found her a very different being from the minnie of bygone days


she sits by her sisters hearth with her sisters baby on her knee and the ready smile plays in her eye and on her brow as she listens to wilfreds joyous converse wilfred the hero of her girlhoods dream


far and wide through australia and the colonies through america and the continent is ringing the voice of minnie conner the thoughtful poetess the pure woman bard


and she is altered by her fame


her glance is more lofty more selfconfiding her form more erect her step firmer and her voice less tremulous than of yore


but she is our minnie still with the same holy light in her eyes the same tender smile upon her lips and her voice is just as sweet as she whispers some specially coined tale about the baby to a rosy little one at her knee


wilfred is gone out to one of those everlasting political meetings and the children are gone at last to bed


the ladies draw their chairs to the table and enter into a quiet and confidential con versation


cora tells with the pardon able garrulity of a mothers tongue of the little loving traits the sweet peculi arities of her darling children and of the constant tenderness and care of that dear good fellow wilfred


then minnie tells of her children of the grief born of her brain and of their birth in lonely hours of stern communion with sorrow


ah minnie my sister says cora with a sigh yours is indeed a noble glorious lot


no no says minnie sadly there was a bright thought in past times which had it been realized would have made me as far happier as yonder swallow teaching her young to fly is happier than the lonely gorgeous phoenix who gives her body to destruction that her progeny may live


cora steals her arm around her sister as in old times and whispers will you not tell me that name now


and minnie shadows her eyes for a moment with a trembling little hand and then hiding her head upon her


sis


ters shoulder murmurs at last that word


my darling my dear one and was it so


cora cries with real anguish in her tone and yet long ago you locked down this bitter sorrow and never palled my joy with one hint of the truth


where would have been the use


minnie asks with a smile he did not love me and now the bitterness is past and i am happy in a cloudy sort of way


you brave true girl


cora says with a bursting flow of love


and wilfred enters with whats this whats this secrets eh


yes heartsecrets cora rejoins with a shudder as she thinks of the anguish that little frail form must have borne


yes but adds minnie indent secrets from which the sorrow is past and holiest quiet is left at last


and so ends my tale gentle reader


sir james brooke the white rajah


chapter ii


arrival in the arcipelagoevents at sarawak


free as a pirate hemade the journey and safely reached the archipelago


once within


its clear blue placid waters his gaze was delighted by every varying beauty of scenery


every hour some new green coast opened on the horizon expanding to the view arid sank in the distance behind as another and another seemed to rise out of the waves in front


james brooke reached sarawak entered theriver sailed up to the town of kuching visited the rajah muda hassim established friendlyrela tions with him and was entreated by his darkskinned host to lend his assistance towards the termination of a civil war that then desolated the province


after considerable hesitation he agreed


the rebellion was suppressed


the chiefsof the disaffected party were captured


muda hassim would have put then to death but our countrymen inter ceded for them and threatened to quit the country iftheir lives were taken


his mediation succeeded andthe men were spored though had the rajah willed it he might have cut off brooke and his companions a murray was cut off is the koti river and gone un punished forthe murder


into the de tails of the succeeding few months we cannot enter minutely


the english man was of the utmost service to the native prince who voluntarily offered him the government of sarawak which was repeatedly declined until when muda kassim proceeded to brunei the capital of borneoproper as the sultans minister mr brooke was persuaded to accept the proposition


but in answer to those who assert that he forced the cession of the province we may refer the reader to the history of the transactions which will show that muda hassim with tears in his eyes begged brooke to stay and only prevailed after a long so licitation


the story of the cannon and the threats has been wholly misrepre sented


it was only when the weak but crafty rajah endeavoured to defraud and impose upon our countryman who had risked a large portion of his fortune on the faith of his promise that he was corn pelled to adopt energeticmeasures to se cure the fulfilment of the stipulations


great men always create enemies by


the success of their endeavours


columbus did soraffles did soclive did so cromwell did so rajah brooke has done so


he was proclaimed in his new dignity on the th of september amid the roar of the cannon and a general display of flags and ban ners


we now therefore see him elevated to the position of rajah of sarawaka brilliant title indeed but bringing danger with its honor difficulty and anxiety with the chance of its fortunate possession


the province was then a wilderness clothed with jungle only spotted here and there with rude dyak farms and those singular villages com posed of one vast house which form the habitations of the simple savages


the condition of the population was low and barbarous


headhunting and pillage were the chief delights of the menlabor and contempt was the lot of the women


each native lived in fear of all


others


the village was invariably erected on the peak of some hill in the depth of


some wood in the midst of some belt of jungle or on the crest of some rocky ridge to be safe from sudden assault


bloodshed and robbery were daily occurrences


no more land was cultivated than suf ficient to produce a bare subsistence and a population of ignorant bloodloving heathen ferocious savages was thinly scattered over a wild and bar barous but beautiful and abundant pro vince


now how changed he witha force of about twentyfive englishmen rajah brooke entered upon his government of that savage region


during the eight years which have elapsed since he com menced the regular organisation of a system five murders have been perpetra ted and two serious stabbing cases have occiurred and these with a few petty pilferings form the whole chronicle of eight years crime among a population hitherto looking on headtaking as their chief pride and their ambition on assassination as the honour able means of glory


from being a wretched wilderness peopled with a mi serable and scanty population sarawak has become the richest and happiest pro vince in the immense island of borneo and its thirty thousand inhabitants ate gradually cultivating the soil and en gaging in the profitable pursuits of trade


the villages are now built on the fruitful plains as the natives require no other protection than the rule of an english manso greatly is our country honored among barbarians


how solicitous should we be to preserve that character


in sarawak at least up to the date of the last news the love of england was ris ing arid spreading among the peaceful population


they have been taught the value of industry a few examples have been made of murderers the apostles of civilisation has preached to them but above all they have heen protected from pirates without which protection nothing could avail for their benefit


an english gunboat and twenty native war prahus defend the coast in july they were ternmporarily withdrawn


an im mediate attack of buccaneers the carpture of a trading vessel and the massacre of twelve peaceful men were the imme diate results


so much for thoseinno cent lambs the sarebas and sakarrom freebooters the manner of mr brookes life in sarawak was this


he rose early crossed the river to his public residence held his audience received deputations gave judgement in cases of dispute or crim inal trial and sat patiently engaged in this avocation until midday then reti


ringto his private house he sat for some hours in his library then dined with the few europeans who were the companions of his voluntary exile and spent the eve iing in their society


as midnidight drew near he again sought his study and sat there for an hour or two but at all other times was accessible to every one so that even during meals the doors were thronged with the natives who love him and bless his name


the dyak knows they say the whole world knows that the white man is the friend of the dyak chapter iii


mr


arooke


recognisedtiie pirates visits fnglandientiiusiastic recep


ttionretuirn


to tihe allciipelago visit to brunelatest proceedings but at length great britain recognised mr brooke and granted him the protec


ifin of her ileetthat mighty arm which she can stretch on for the defence of her empire even to its remotest limits


he now commenced his crusade against pira cy that fearful bane of commerce and civilisation which has involved the in dian island rs in so many miseries and so much degradation


there were royaa bnccaneers in the archipelago


the sul tan of brune wvas one but he endeavoured to conceal his practices and like many other persons plundered through secret agents


when muda hassim was made his wuzeer he hated himl because to was favourable to the english wh were the enemies of piracy


at the instigation of a villainous intriguing chief called makota the declared foe of brooke he fitsrdered the unhappy chef with his family and friends


this led to the as sault and destruction of brune by a lritish force for the sultan not content wvith the murder of muda hassiin actually filed onthe english flag and defie with taunting insolence the whole power of this country


he was taught better and delivered up to us in token of amity the islandof labulsn which was merely restoring an old possession of ours since it was ceded to us some fifty or sixty years ago


a negociation wras now opened with the home government mr brooke was instructed to pursue his careerand the ships of war pla ej at his disposal assisted him well his a


tackon the ferocious buccaneelsof the archipelago


these pirates are the most danerous an i ruthless in the world


they capture all marine and merch nt craft frooc sqiuarefigged english vessels down to light fishers skiffs seizing slaves and booty robbing slaughtering enslaving and dtestioying in all places possible


theyr go out in immense fleets and sweepallthe waters of the archipelago laying waste the coast visiting rivers and spreading ruin along their fertile borders burning and sacking thetowns and vil lages slaughtelsing the meu with the old and thee crippled of botli sexes and ilrag ging womnen and children into helpless servitude


they have been knowsn in one night to


carry on or destroy the whole population of thesesmall islands that stud the sunny waters of the alchi pelago


numerollus conflicts with them took place


in some cases they fought despe rately w ith ourwar steamers but the skill and courage of our countrymen aided by the experienced mr brooke eventually in most cases won the vic tory at leigth tlie rajah resolved once more to visit england where he was received with that general and tumult ous admiration which a free and generous people always lavishes on those who sup port among barbarian aces the love and honor of their natioual name


that wel come did as much honor to the english as n a ion as to rajah brooke as an in dividual


it was loud prolonged and almost untiversal while it deafned the ears of all generous mien to those few grunts and croaks of disapprobation which


jealousy always utters on the triumph of a great man and the applause of a great peoplle


after a short residence in england duringtwhich he was visited by inmany of the most distinguished men in this country he u as nominated governor of labuan and consul to borneo posts for which none were so well fittel by know ledge and experience as he


while here people had an opportun ty of examinng his personal appearance


he isofmiddle heightratler tall iiideedwith a figure formed for a hardy career and a coun tenance bronzed by exposure to time and tempest


he has a frank open face a clear benevolent though eomewhlat stern eye cnd gentlemasity and midst engaging manners


the was just the ipeson to be


shown to savage races as the type df an lenglishman


the studies of hlsisouth the vicissitudes of his career andthe nature of his mind render hilha pleasant and profitable com laniohn


i an not seekingto blazp his reputation liy an undue lavishlmentof praise i


amin speaking not so much from my owvn feelings as by way of echo of those coeuhtless voices of applause which i hear in


all ciircles of society


if i admire sic james brook i am one of a n nmbelless multitude composed in part i hopei amconvincedof my present readers


armed with the authority of the bri tish governmnielii mr brooke again left england notnow in a privelte yacht but in abritish frigate and reaching singa pore was overtaken by an honor which no generous miind begrudged himn


mr brooke became sir jameshe returned to


his infant territory of sarawak


as he sailed up the river he was received by hisdarkskinned subjects withshouts of real applause an echo of those eiglish acclamations which still doubt less sounded in the mental ear of the rajah


every gun on both banksofthe river was fired flags were waved the people thronged oi the shores the chiefs came in their canoes to meet their white ruler and no indication was wanting to prove that sir james brooke had made for himself a ionu ment in the hearts of his native subjects


tihe proof of this may be found in thei fact that the peaceful tribes of other po


vinces are jealous of sarawak and numnbers of the people flock to it to enjoy the blessings of englishl rule


this is a delightful picture and the slind lingers with pleasure on its con tet plation


sir james then visited the capital o borneo where tha sultan was presented with the treaty with great beritain sealed with a silver seal and endorsed a silver box


thence he proceeded to visit tihe piratical sultan of sulutthe chief island in the group on that name yiug betwveen borneo and the phillip


y iing ith this buccaneering prince pines menced negotiations which on a second visit were


c noolidated into a trecta thus has our countryman in tis as in all cases preferred conciliation to hostility trying all the devices of eabefo resorting to arms


this he swith the sakarran and sarebas pi rates infesting a distri t to the north east of sarawrak


these tribes were for mjidabie to the whole island


they were distinguishled by the men wearing rings in their ears and it is a household pro verb among the peaceful races when you meet a dyak wivl many rings in his ears rust hini not for he is a bad man


one river in particular the kaluka was for erly dotted along both its banks wth happy and flourishing communities o p le who cultivated tihe land and raedin the products of the soil


the borders of that stream are now melan choly wastes of ashes and ruin thework of the innocent and simple sarebas and sacarran pirates who once emin loyed the forces of arut ally to attack alo a village consistiiuof houses built on piles forty feet in height


they ap proeahed in the night and hewed tihroulgh the wooden pillars until the mighty buildings rame crashing to the ear hmangling and maiming their un apy inmatses


what was lhe motive of lis atrocity


the palo people had refused to become pirates


are not our readersit love with the sweet and simple buccaneers


they do not deny their practices


liey even offered sir james a share of their booty if he would let them alone


they do not reem to be aware of the kind friends they had iii london who deny whlat they confess and excuse what they boast of


sir james brookeas bur readers well know lately attacked and destroyed their great fleet and the result is that they have solemnly promised never toequip another for pira ical put poses


probably they will take to trade which will be as msch benefited by their alliance as it wtasinjured by their hostility


into lthee politics of this subiject i can not here enter