this lode was a rich vein of copper ore dis tinctly defined in its breadth which as far as we saw was pretty uniformly as above the ore ex tending upwards and downwards indefinitely


we walked as far into 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 candlelight and moving about in this subterranean passage they looked un pleasantly like ferrets


one of them followed us out of the mine and as he touched an ima ginary 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 re treated again into his hole and rejoined his earthy looking friends in the mountain


there were other cuttings in this mine 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


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 situa tions the ores frequently 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 by the public


the newly discovered lodes how ever 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 pre ceding 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 us altogether for any other mine


for although upon consideration i cannot but think the adelaide mine 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 seventeen tons in a fortnight and we re mounted our horses contented to leave it altogether in the hands of the present com pany


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 viz


would i as soon live in adelaide as in sydney


to this my answer is short and perhaps not very satisfactory


so far as town life goes i know only two modes of being a london life and life out of lon don


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 wheresoever else you please with out consulting me for i have no preference about it


great prize story the doomed monarch or the fiend codfish


br k k bobtail


it was night nowhere and nowhere was as dark as a bottle of ink in a bottle of pitch at the bottom of a well and fortyfour thousand times darker than the concentrated darkness of forty thousand midnight whom upon a throne of petrified turtle soup stood the mighty gengulphus monarch of the fo fo fo furn islands eating a slice of buttered bees wax occasionally wetting his lips by drinking fluidical wrought iron sheet anchors fluke foremost


around him stood eightytwo thousand nine hundred and eightyseven and a half courtiers bring forth the whangdoodle and place it on the howgag


exclaimed he in a terrific voice at the same time cutting off a courtiers head with the sharp edge of an illuminated cotton bale


chapter ii


the whangdoole was placed upon the new gagbut before we go further let us take a glance at the political state of america at the date our story opens


we were involved in a war with mexico and general scott was carrying our victorious flag through the halls of the monteloosers


general washington commanding the home army had formed a junction with christopher columbus at nauvoo and defeated the combined forces of england france and hindoostan in a sanguinary retreat on the bungtown heights


j c fremont president of the united states had appointed james buchanan governor of cape cod and napoleon buonaparte as mayor of bunker hill assisted bylieutennutgeneralbarney otwig ger of ireland was preparing for a descent upon the tories at corra gordo whilst dr jane united states surgeon was constructing a strong fort at cairo armed with a chain pump and onohundredofhis carmana five balsam


under these tremendous circumstances no wonder the men and women of the th century were highly intellectual and generally speaking born when they were young


turn we again to our story


chapter iii


the whangdoodle was placed upon the hewing


dismay and terror sat upon the countenances of the nobility


lord do mozo involuntary clutched prince blow busbys coat tail and the countess of fitz firm disappeared hysterically within her hoops whilst hold count de scratch hitherto the bravest of the brave threw himself at the foot of the throne and elevated one log as a signal of distress


but the mighty gongulphus was unmoved


drawing a golden wire safety fuse from his bosom he was in the act of attaching one end of it to the whangdoodle when horror of horrors she beheld in one corner of the room his beloved selleh looked in the arms of fee tide swash bosky envoy extraordinary from the isle of wight by


y y


chapter iv


to say that gengulphus was angry would be but an indifferent statement of the truth


he was in rage


he couldnt contain him self and consequently boiled over in torrents that formed puddles of wrath at his feet


he foamed raved ripped and torn stamped rolled kicked and roared


at last seizing a battering ram by the horns he made a furious rush at the guilty pair


chapter


v die shrieked the gengulphus as he twirled the fearful instrument above their heads but alas


in its swift decent it came se in contact with baron de booseys pipe and we glancing at right angles clove asunder the ce massive doors leading to the royal la menagerie


brimstone and torpedoes


se thundered geugulphusbut he was too late


ere he could again raise the huge weapon a fierce demoniacal howl ran through the rooms and the next moment an infuriated grizzly codfish ran madly forth from the demolished door and buried its deadly fangs in the seat of the mighty gcngulphuss inexpressibles


he uttered a sharp cry of pain made one desperate effort to shake off the monster and then fell as dead as a june bug in january


chapter vr


but little remains to be told


sellch soon after the death of gengulphus stabbed herself with a bed wrench and her paramour freetrade swash bosky becoming stricken with remorse buried himself in pot of porter heels up the countess fitz furn eloped with an egyptian mummy in a good state of preservation and the count de scratch having lost the whole of his fortune in playing simson says wig was with lord mozo he was forced to emigrate west where he enlisted as orderly sergeant to a lime kiln and was shortly afterwards killed by the accidental bursting of a pill boxers


homeward bound or a landlubbers log


by peter possum


chapter viicalms and squalls


north of the line we feel ourselves at home


the heat however at present is not much like domestic temperature


the tween decks are unendurable at night


the savages indeed still sleep down there until the atmosphere is burdened with a scent of fry ing fustian and stewed corduroy but the corroborrees migrate in a body and take al fresco bedchambers in oriental styleupon the roof of their club house


it is delicious to fall asleep watched by the golden stars kissed by the cool night breeze that has travelled thousands of miles over the pure salt sea to give that chaste salute


the tropical moon it is true is spite ful and has a knack of making a bloated pan cake of the endymions face she humours with her horrid love but it is easy to protect yourself against her cruel glances


and what if it should rain


the shower only anticipates the bath you intend to take next morning and your blanket will dry in an hour


oh that glorious bath next morning


into the sparkling brine you plunge and as you splash and flounder drink in cool strength at every pore and seem to brave all care at the bottom of the tub


oh that subsequent cup of coffee fragrant as cinnamon soothing as nepenthe


oh that first smoke you have barefooted and halfdressed as you bask upon the sunny booms and feel yourself a prince


happiness after all is cheap


the cash cost of the kef i chronicle doesnt amount to twopence


it is prime fun to watch the mates bathing the youngsters


cupid arranges the trembling little wretches in a line upon the deck and then by a well directed aqueous cannon knocks them into a sprawling chaos of heads and legs and arms


bruin abjures the bucket and when it is his morning watch dips the poor little devils until he half drowns them


again and again and again and yet again they must go down and when they fancy that at last the ordeal is over and are scrambling out of the tub he lures them back once more with treacherous words of kind ness and taking them up by the heels drops them like stones into the bath


shem ham and japhet endeavour to propitiate their tormentor by appearing very brave


each time they emerge from the water they raise a piteous heeeeip heeeeip hoo ooooray


there is only one really plucky little fellow in the lota prime favourite of minea little reade


he will take ten buckets without flinching


one morning however he insists on having only three because he gravely says he has been taking magnesiastrong


sparkling in the sunlight or looming in the mist sails now are constantly in sight


everything that is going our own way we lick with ease


on the th we catch the northeastern trades in


on the th the waves are gay with seaweed from the gulf stream


but it is time to justify the title of this chapter


we are all now so impatient to get home that an hours calm makes everybody savage


we have a calm some time before we catch the trades


the cabin passengers are working off their crustiness in a game of quoits the corroborrees are doing the same at a game of skittles


suddenly a halfcranky scotch womanthe ugliest woman i ever saw but a lady who fancies that the whole ships company is in love with herbounces from the hatchway like jack from his box swoops like a kite upon our chalked diamond and before any one can interfere three of our pins are overboard


fortunately i retain presence of mind enough to sweep the remaining six together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings


i plump down on them and gaze with open eyes and mouth on the invader


my comrades have been doing this ever since she made her appearance


she abuses us right and left tucks up her skirts waddles to the hatchway and vanishes as mysteriously as she came


we are again becalmed off the azores


eris now enters at the forecastle and travels through the ship


on the friday there is a fight between the butcher and a seaman which after much harmless sparring is terminated amidst in extinguishable laughter by both parties as the vessel rolls pitching into a dead pig pendant above them


on the saturday we have a squabble in the tween decks


madame absinthe having come to words with her dearest female friend their respective husbands of course are dragged into the quarrel and the subjoined conversation ensues madame a


my husbands a gentleman


dearest friends husband ha


ha


why he used to run errands in sydney


madame a with compassionate contempt well


after that


marshal haynau first an explosion of inexplicable gutturalthen i am de only shentleman in de ship youyouyouvy you are a verdammt groom hold de shentlemans horsedots what you did


schweinkopf


dearest friend to her husband how can you dare to talk to such quality folks my dear


dont you know they dine with prince albert


madame a majestically we have the honour of his royal highnesss acquaintance


d f h didnt you once do slop work


madame a indignantly no sir


d f h sarcastically oh they wouldnt trust you with it wouldnt they


mad


a


we didnt run away in debt


we adver tised when we were going to leave we did


d f h i didnt run away either and my wife is my wife


mad a


do you mean to say im not


d f h god forbid


mad a bursting into tears


you know what i mean you coward


you shall prove your words you shall payfor thisive got my papers


marshal h after another unintelligible sentence sounding very mnch like the unloading of a stone cart ja schweinkopf she have got her pappiersgo show them to the captainhear


madame a rushes in a flaming furyunheeding the crowd of grinning faces that fringe the hatchway to the captain with her pappiers and her com plaint of the insult that has occasioned their produc tion


the marshal brandishes a big knife and inti mates that he has slept tree year on vot you call de battell feel


dearest friend drags her husband into their berth and behind them the curtain falls


on the sunday night there is a row in the cabin


nicodemus irritated at having been called a drunken pig by a married fellowpassenger whose rest he had disturbed the night before is instigated when in a groggy condition to go and knock this gentlemen up


his knock is answered rather more readily than he anticipated


forth bounces the enraged benedick and knocks poor nico demus down


nic shows no fight when he gets on his legs again but contents himself with assailing the gentility of his pounder


if you were a gentleman sah he drawls outwhack thwack on each side of his headi shoulda punch in his right eye


nicodemus prudently shuts up


chap


viiiup channel


as we near the dear old shore the sea grows glo riously phosphorescent


the black waves at night are crested with golden foam golden fish spring from the golden spray the knifelike bow throws up on each side of the furrow golden porpoises gleam gigantic in the circumambient watery gloom


the painting is all done the rigging all setup the masts all scraped


on monday the th of september we get the cable up


the next day we are in the channel with sails in sight on every side


the water is full of seaweed and a dirty green


we have mist and drizzling rain as the day closes in


all night long the lookouts on the foretopsail yard startle the stillness with cries of light on the weatherbow light on the leebeam c c


they are pleasant sounds to hear as i lie wakeful in my berth for they tell me that i am rapidly nearing the centre of the worlds commerce my grand old english home


wednesday to my great delight and the discom fiture of orsini who has been abusing this dd english climate is a golden day


up with a will for the last time goes big ben our huge fore lower studdingsail


we rush gaily through waters of the most delicately virgin greenthe archbishop com pares it to the colour of spring wheat


a little before noon we catch a glimpse of beachy heada white cloud upon the weather bow


at twelve we can make out plainly a white wall of cliff with dim swelling downs behind


figaro and our president get up a patriotic song


i clamber out to the jibboom to be so much nearer land


orsinidisdainful alien that he issnores very comfortably but most unpoetically upon the forecastle


we make out a preventive station through the glasshow cozy the little white washed cottages look


hastings we see with the naked eyewe must be getting home


after a brief parenthesis of dinner we rush on deck to feast our eyes on a far sweeter mealthat familiar and yet so long unfamiliar shore


churches plantations fal lows patches of uncut corn we point out to each other with a childish glee


the backstays by this time have all been sent down


the crew are stripping the yards of their canvas and doing it up in lanky bundles like huge roleypoley puddings


before the afternoon is out we shall be in tow and have the pilot on board


sundry antwerp pilots have already spoken us but it is not with flissingen number anything that we have to do


the water is still lightgreen speckled however with olive and sloecoloured patches


the shore is a medley of dusky white and faded purple


we pass a wreck


its grim mastheads have a dreary look as they peer above the dancing waves over which so many a noble craft is sweeping proudly with sunlight on its swel ling sails


all these seem alive and the sunk vessel a dead thinga skeleton obtruding its hateful memento mori on the guests at a glad festival


i loathe those two brown barnacledotted bits of jagged wood and turn away my eyes


they are the only dismal feature in a most joyous scene and i want to be entirely happy for i am going home


presently the wellington steams down upon us passes under our stern and draws up alongside


the master steps from the paddlebox on board and the first news we hear is that the daphne that left sydney three weeks before us has only just gone up in tow


a bargain is struck and we follow her example


towed out by the washington towed in by the wellington


omar pasha is honoured


how curiously we examine the crew of the tug as she puffs ahead to take the hawser how strange it seems to see men so fat and with red faces


it is nearly sunset


the shore has coyly veiled its face


the sky begins to look coppery but the blurred sun nevertheless has power to cast a line of gold along the dim green waves


small craft swarm around us like midges


the rusty old colliers seem quite ashamed of their weatherstained and beaten sides when they cross that path of brilliance


the ness lighthouse is a head reminding one of the horn on the tail of a silkworm


it is lighted as the sun goes down and glimmers red through the murky mist like mars just rising


the pilot comes on board and is barely over the side before his shrill voice rings clarionlike from stem to stern


the skipper sinks into insignificance the mates are on their mettle and dap about like indiarubber balls the crew cease from their jokes and obey orders as i never saw them obey orders before a hush reigns throughout the ship discipline for the first time is asserting itself


a few of us pro fane corroborrees dare to laugh at the pilots hat how ever


it is a stupendous structurea regular black babel of a beaver


we regard it with almost as much awe as mirth and ask one another in horror shall we have to wear things like that when we get ashore


as the dusk grows deeper we thread a fleet of full a thousand sail hurrying from the downs like boys let out of school


a nobler sight i never saw


on they rush of every size and rig almost treading on one anothers heels as it were and yet each holds its own proud uninterrupted course


i never before felt so fully the sublimity of seamanship and commerce


ninetenths of them the pilot tells us are english a fact i do not forget to communicate to orsini who is forced to admit that an englishman after all has something to be proud of


i should rather think he had


on they sweep in close yet careless companionship congregated for an hour or two soon to be scattered over the wide world


there is melancholy in the thoughts that facts suggests but i will not harbour them for i am homeward bound


it is night


the silvery stars seem hung like dew drops on our bare spars as we glide on on through the black waters


town after town we pass flinging the strand with its bright line of lamps and calling up sweet pictures of happy family gatherings around cosy english firesides


now we run closer in


the sky is darkly clear


the water shimmers like dimmed steel


it seems as though we were not a hundred yards from that frowning coast we know to be white and yet which persists in looking as black as its nature will suffer


english all over that


an other line of lampswe are off dover


we burn blue lights a boat is soon alongside to which we transfer our mail and three of our cabin passengers


we give them three cheers as they disappear in the dark ness


by the time we reach ramsgate grog having been freely served a goodly proportion of the crew are drunk


sails begins to criticise bruins profes sional attainments


bruin who is himself a little beery wants to fight his critic


the skipper inter feres and orders the mate to put poor sailsas decent a fellow as ever breathed when soberin irons on the poop


sails submits but deeply feeling the disgrace gives his tongue the reins and billings gates bruin at a fearful rate


the crew come aft and murmur


bruin informed them they may mutiny if they likehe has shot a man before today


the skipper grins at this little bit of gratuitous heroics


the mate rejoins that he would have fought the man instead of putting him in irons


the skipper who is in a jolly condition and forgets the orders that he gave replies that it was the mate that did it


a squabble ensues between them each striving to shift the responsibility on to the shoulders of the other


the issue is that the captain liberates the sailmaker


from first to last a truly dignified proceeding


i am almost pitched out of my berth by a jar that makes the ships timbers creak again


running up on deck i find that we have touched bottom and are going to bring up until morning


the goodwin lightships have a gloomy look blazing away there on our star board bow and quarter


chapter ixashore


the first thing i see when i go on deck in the morn ing is the boatswains matewith bungedup eyes


i notice too that cupids rosy lip is swollen as though a bee had stung it newly


bruin during the night must needs have a fight and the boatswains mate being cheeky pitched into him


plucky little cupid striving to separate the comba tants has discovered that the seventh beatitude doesnt apply to this life


but what care i for ship gossip now


in three hours time i shall be ashore


on we go through a saddiscoloured sea that looks like peasoup and soon are in the thames


it seems too small to hold the host of craft we meet and pass magnificent clippers oldfashioned tubs noble black wall ships as trim as frigates collier brigs with bows as bluff as their stems steamers that cut through the water like a shark lumbering barges with tancoloured sails and hay piled up almost to the masthead that hardly seem to know which way they are going c c c c almost ad infinitum


we are greeted with a cooey from an outward bound barque


dont we return it lustily


a young cornstalk stands beside me as we run up the river intently examining its shores


my word


he exclaims when he sees the richly foliaged english trees thats the best thing ive seeni didnt know youd got any bush out here


at gravesend we drop anchor and precious soon am i over the side


cupid for a lark lowers me into the boat in the ladys chair having first delicately covered up my long legs with the red ensign


with a jolly comrade i rush up the steps of the terrace pier


we take them four at a time and sky the beaver when we reach the topto the great alarm of a nervous old gentleman in a white waistcoat who was seated there with crossed legs tranquilly reading the times


he lets his gold eyeglass fall starts up and gazes on us with an anxious awe


i think he takes us for brigands


my companion cer tainly looks like one for he has a beard like a black billygoats


to a public next


after three months teetota lism i am surely entitled to a pint of london stout


like a cluster of may blossom the creamy foam mantles over the polished pewter and into it i dip my nose


then away for town we rattle marvelling at the neat gardenlike aspect of everything we see the op pressive heat the comets work they say and the ex ceeding beauty of the english girlsall fresh and bright and blushing as dewy roses beneath the beams of a june sunrise


i have lost my heart ten times since i have been at home


of the next fortnight i remember little except that i am always going somewhithermeeting with old friends who feel a delicacy at first in addressing such a brown barbarian as myself in englishsallying out with roystering shipmates to the theatres and evanss supping at amand getting home in hansoms at decent peoples breakfasttimes


vanitas vanitatum


at the end of the fortnight i find that my money has melted away like snow that i am in debt to my landlady and consequently that i must instantly set to work


the first fruits of my labour i present to my ever kind australian readers with a hope that i may meet them many and many a time again in these columns and thus keep up my connection with the fine old freeandeasy colony whichnow that i am away from iti have discovered that i dearly love


maitland mechanics institutethe committee intend to commence building operations as soon as possible


the fund in hand amounts to and the th january next the anniver sary day has been suggested as an appropnato day for laying the foundation stone and will in all probability be fixed upon


maitland mercury


the wallis creek floodsthe many farmers and others interested in the complete and ready drainage of the lands along wallis creek and its tributaries will be gratified to learn that the government have instructed the commissioner for internal com munication to see to the matter at an early day


they will however all join in an earnest hope that captain martindale may loose no time since two days rain at any date will flood their lands once more


it may be hoped also that the special re ference of the matter to captain martindale may lead ultimately to a more effectual drainage of these lands than existed before the course of the creek at its mouth was altered


at present it is far less effectual as facts have proved but improvement need not stop short at restoring the former drainage capacity of the creekmaitland mercury


a new series


the mysteries of sydney or the revelations of sin shame and sorrow


chapter xiv


death in the housea spice of the facultythe coroners inquest


the storm of the night had passed away and was succeeded by a morning of unclouded brightness


the birds chirped merrily and darted from tree to tree in all the careless free dom of life and the flowers with their rainbow hues shone dazzlingly in the glorious sunlight


but within the house of miss winifred there were desolation and darkness and the wing of the destroying angel had ieft its shadow there


the rude shock which fanny earle received during the fearful occurrence related in the last chapter brought on a brain fever from which the most dangerous consequences were likely to ensue and the old butler was hovering between life and death


mawler with a coolness which nothing could ruffle caused the body of knuckler to be re moved to the gun and pigeons a tavern in the neighbourhood and gave the necessary in formation to the coroner for holding an inquest he also sent for the celebrated dr gutter to at tend upon the sick and suffering and that gen


tleman obeyed the call with a celerity which emanated from philanthropy and an expectation of being well paid for his services


perhaps these are the fulcrum and lever by which the medical profession is moved


the world in gene ral is possessed of the lever but iike the syra cusan geometrician is considerably puzzled to find out a prop to test its powers


although dr gutter will not figure at any great length in these pages yet it were the height of ingratitude to pass so distinguished a man with a mere bow


he deserves something more a shake of the hand and a little chat at least


in person dr gutter was small but in in tellect he was gigantic


there were few sub jects upon which he could not descant most eloquently and as he had the happy knack of selecting audiences who did not understand him he always kept the vantage ground


dr gutter possessed the three great requisites of a physi cian he used very long crabbed grecisms or doglatinized hard words took snuff and sported a carriage


that is to say he drove a gig for he would not condescend to ensconce himself in those pillbox looking vehicles in which other mds luxuriatedno he drove a gig and to record the truth very well he did it


although many cavillers remarked that the thin lad in the heirloom livery who accompanied the doctor in his rides looked as if he were about to step out of the vehicle into the next world without giving his master legal warning yet taking into con sideration what the lad went through or rather what passed through him in the shape of diar rhtic experiments he looked remarkably well


independently of which a lad who has to test the liveliness of constant consignments of leeches cannot in fairness be expected to carry the rosi ness of a peony in his countenance


such cynic isms are detestable


lt has been said that the doctor indulged in the use of hard words for instance if he were asked in moments of relaxation to take a glass of brandy cold no


he would gravely reply i am afflicted with psychopbobia and have a dread of anything cold but a glass of alcohol subtepidized with aqueous fluid and impregnated with sacchariferous matter i have not the least objection to partake of mildly moderately but no farther


do you snuff sir


another great feature in the doctors cha racter was that meet him wherever you might he had invariably been called in to some remark able case dissimilar to all which were known to the faculty or recorded in the lancet or medical journal


then indeed he was in his element and while holding you by the button he would alternately entrance fascinate bewilder and bother you with the rise and progress of the disease and the skilful artifices which he adopted to arrest its career


his pearls were too often thrown before swine nevertheless they were pearls worth diving for by those who had a taste that way


the doctor did not affect the roughness of an abernethy or the sycophancy of no matter the name of a court physician but he preserved that happy mean which if conducive to the benefit of mankind is not a whit the less so to ones own


he found the value of it in prac tice the higher classes heaped honours and re wards upon him whilst the lower paid his bills and gave him their blessingsthose good wishes which usually accompany the exchange of money for nauseous drugs


such was the man who sat in the breakfast parlour of miss winifred scrymgour discussing the merits of ham fowl eggs toast and coffee to which he paid his devours with an appetite which did not appear to be affected by sombre reflections upon the precarious state of the pa tients under his charge


whilst the doctor was engaged in this pleasing occupation miss wini fred entered the room


she was deadly pale and her corrugated brow bespoke mental as well as physical pain


my dear madam exclaimed dr gutter rising suddenly his utterance being slightly im peded by a choice bit of the liver wing ham flavoured at that moment indulging the process of masticationi really am astonished you should have left your chamber the most dan gerous consequences may be the result


i am too much used to sickness and sorrow mr gutter to participate in your fears


not that i would wilfully peril the existence which has been mercifully accorded to me by provi dence but anxiety for those who are dear very dear to me may perhaps have led me to make exertions which are condemnable in your eyes


let me not interrupt your meal


my dear madam not a word on that point said dr gutter rising and bowing most pro foundly for the lady he addressed was possessed of an income which was entitled to great re spect let me entreat you to spare my feelings


in such a perilous moment i might say a mo ment of such peril i could scarcely be guilty of epulosity


a mere morsel passed through the sophagus just to keep up the gastric action alas


my dear madam i have not a bit of appetite


looking at the osseous remains of the fowls the extraordinary excavations in the ham and the diminution of the toast it were impossible for any one to discredit the doctors perora tion


is there really such danger enquired miss winifred anxiously


my dear madam replied the doctor slowly and weighing every word with extreme scrupu losity as if it were a grain of gold i regret to be compelled to remark there is much but i have hopes strong ones


miss earle is at pre sent labouring under dialysis but the application of the stethoscope assures me that she is not peripneumonical


establishing this as my hy pothesis i repeat my assertions that the restora tion of the young ladys health may be conf idently looked for


thank heaven exclaimed miss winifred fervently


but siryour other patient


the butler


oh ah


yes


a serious case half spoke halfmused the doctor the periosteum severed great suppuration contusio capitis symptoms of chronic leucophleg macy digastric appearances occasional sub cultus external irritation but the last i think arises from his having reposed on a pulicose couch


my dear madam do you snuff


as the elderly indy was not possessed of that amiable accomplishment and could not follow the galenic disciple through the maze of diffi cult verbiage she contented herself with re questing him to revisit the patients previously to attending the inquest on the body of knuckler


dr gutter assented with much suaviloquy and while he is thus engaged we will shift the scene and introduce our readers to the crowners quest


however this peculiar legal ceremony origi nated whether from the desperate lady who furnished her seven husbands with leaden cof fins or from any other cause it is certainly most valuable more particularly when carried out in its true spirit


the coroner entertained a very high opinion of its merits and never allowed an opportunity ot testing them to pass unheeded


nor was this vigilance wonderful as sudden deaths were the mainstay of his berth and a portion of the wreck of every lifeboat floated into his harbour


he mourned their departure like a christian whilst he gathered the waifs and strays like a miser


his heart was a bene volent asylum the road to which did not pass through his pocket


if people wished to quit the mundane territory he never issued a writ of no exeat regnonot he and on payment of the debt of nature and his fee he readily entered a plea of nil debet for the departed


a really considerate conscientious man was the coro ner not surpassed even by mr henry thomas the great undertaker


the post mortem examination of knucklers clay was undertaken by doctor drayrong and mr surgeon quiggan and those gentlemen after considerable hacking hewing and dissect ing having discovered an ounce and a half of lead deposited in the abdominal regions arrived at the conclusion that there was some reason to suppose the deceased met his death from the effects of the blue pill administered in an unthe rapeutic manner


this opinion being caligra phicized by the deposition clerk an intelligent welsh gentleman whose head bespoke him to be well read the jury were summoned and sworn to do their duty in the manner usual upon such melancholy occasions


as these gentlemen were selected from the elite of the three pre vailing cooks river classes namelyshell gatherers woodcutters and brickmakers their capability of discharging the high functions of jurymen was placed beyond the shadow of a doubt


to be sure medical evidence is so plain simple and straightforward that a child only entering into monosyllables can understand it in the abstract but to arrive at a proper conclu sion from the detail requires all that acumen and fine subtle sensitive and discriminating power which is the peculiar attribute of gather ers of shells cutters of wood and makers of bricks


in fact if such men cannot build a pyramid of fame for themselves who can


we are serious in this because the palladium of british liberty trial by coroners jury is not a subject to be trifled with


a bakers dozen of these wellbred men having been placed in separate batches upon two forms in the long room of the gun and pigeons the coroner addressed them may it please you gentlemen of the jury allow me first to congratulate you upon your healthy appearance which affords indications that it will be long before i shall be required to sit upon your bodies accidents by fire water razors penknives pistols c c c always ex cepted and next to request that you will out of your illustrious body select the foreman through whom i will receive your general ver dict


the heads of the thirteen were immediately laid together and after some obstreperous dis cussion it was announced that cooks river ginger cockleshell george charcoal paddy and spiderlegs were the fourmen delegated by the jurorical electors to represent them


you mistake me gentlemen said the coroner i want but one of you


vy you axed for the fourmen replied spiderlegs rather testily


no no one as a foreman


oh vell give it to ginger hes big enough for four anyhow


ginger deprecated the encomium and the office in vain he was compelled to submit to his fate he did this however ex necessitate rei with pious resignation


and now gentlemen resumed the coroner it is my duty to tell you why you are sum moned here today


it is on account of loss of life are ve to be paid for loss of time inquired spiderlegs


yes ve should like to know about renume rashun chorussed the twelve


gentlemen you will be remunerated you will be paid for loss of time


as how interrogated the thirteen


by your consciences gentlemen


virtue is its own reward


whether it arose from a scarcity of conscience and virtue amongst the jurors or not it is im possible to tell but their looks gave unmistake able testimony that they would much rather have received an order for payment upon any other bank of issue


but like wise men they took the cheque in the hopes of the funds being forthcoming some day


you have viewed the body gentlemen resumed the coroner and therefore are in a position to form a species of opinion whether the deceased is dead or not but you cannot arrive at any definite conclusion upon the point until you hear the medical evidence because how ever dead a man be he cannot be dead in the eye of the law until he is proved to be so and then he may be said to be very dead indeed


vide last term reports sexton and graves


the proofs are various but after considerable ex perience in these matters i think i may venture to affirm that one of the best perhaps i may go a step further and say the best ways of proving the death of any deceased is by making a post mortem examination of his body


yet gentle men i wish it to be distinctly understood i do not intend to bias your minds and if you are cog nizant of any superior test you are perfectly at liberty nay by virtue of your oaths are com pelled to make use of it


ve are all sure hes gone off the books simultaneously shouted the thirteen


is it possible


before you have heard the medical evidence


exclaimed the coroner in a flt of alarm and astonishment


precisely so blended the thirteen voices into one


it only then remains for us to ascertain the means by which he met his death and this we shall be able to prove by the clearest testimony


he was engaged in a burglarious attack upon the house of miss winifred scrymgour and in the midst of his nocturnal nefariousness was shot by a young lady who happened fortunately to be upon the spot at the time


i say fortunately because had she been absent this pleasant meet ing would not have occurred


here let me re mark to you gentlemen in case any of you should be placed in a similar position that the act of shooting in such a season and at such game is the exercise of a very proper license


vide gunns reportsst partridge and pheasant septem et octob


there are other cases gentlemen which bear upon the point for instance gamekeeper versus peasant and poacher and that peculiar case of hairtrigger versus rabbitwarren in which sir thomas wilde held that animals fer natur are to all intents and purposes dissimilar to tame ones


i would also gentlemen beg to recal to your me mory the decision of that celebrated scotch judge lord meadowbank in the case of au gustbarrel versus grouse in re moors and stalker versus deer the last of which appears to me to run on all fours with the position i have had the honour of submitting to you


but gen tlemen lest you should think i am making game of you in thus pouring out my charge i will proceed to call the witnesses


at this momentous period dr gutter entered the room and made a whispered communication to the coroner


gentleman i regret to say dr gutter has informed me that the principal testimony in this case is too dangerously ill to be brought to the locus in quo ergo you may go upon entering into recognizances to appear again when called upon


gentlemen for the exemplary manner in which you have borne this tax upon your time and patience i on the part of your country beg to thank you


gentlemen you are at liberty to retire and refresh yourselves


please at whose expense sir enquired number thirteen


that gentlemen rests between your con sciences and your pockets answered the coro ner most emphatically


to be continued


the life of hugh oneill


by john mttciiel esq


continued from our last chapter tl


shane the proud and the reformation


a p ifisoig


but shane the proud despised those paltry coronets


letters patent could not strengthen him in tyrowen and for the abbeys if he had been reformer enough he could have robbed them for himelf


in the ianguagc of the english chronicler when he saw that ho was able to levy of his own followers one thousand horse and four thousand foot and had already a guard of seven hundred men he disdained in barbarous pride all such honourable titles in comparison of the name of oneilii and vaunted himself among his own people to be king of ulster


yet shane was willing to live at peace with england and the pale ho appeared in dublin nml announced his intention of visiting the court of london then hearing from some of his retainers that sussex meditated seizing him by treachery and sending him to england a prisoner he proudly resolved to attend the queen as became an independent sovereign


he proceeded to london with a gallant train of guards bareheaded with curled hair as ifthe statute of kilkenny had never been passed hanging down their shoulders armed with battleaxes and arrayed in their saffron doublets an astonishment to the worthy burghersof london and westminster


elizabeth received him graciously and they conversed upon irish nfeairs but when the queen enquired by what right he had excluded yourig hugh from matthews inheritance he answered fiercely by very good xightt and explained to elizabeth the laws and usages which prevailed in his country showed her that cons surrender was unavailing that matthew was a bastard and he the true oneill and that the authority he cxcrcised over his tributaries of ulster was no more than his fathers had done before hiin which matters forasmuch as the queen gave credit unto he was sent home again with honour


tet that treacherous court had resolved on his ruin and elizabeth while she loaded him with honours vowed revenge in secret and swore by gods death that such a ras


caill kern should not long despise her peerages and defy licr power


an alliance however was for the present concluded between tliequeen of england and the prince of tyrowen


shane as a proof of liis good faith was to exterminate the scots ofdalriada who were declared enemies of englanda duty which he readily undertook as the scots were also enemies of his own or at least had grown too numerous and powerful to be tolerated as neighbours by so imperious a cliicf


yet these scots of the western isles mac neills and mac domicis were his kinsmen and natural allies were in fact an irish sept of irish speech and usages and a branch of the great clancolla from which had descended the ohanlons and j mac gwires of ulster for ages they had possessed the glynns or mountainous country of antrim and were the mercenary soldiers of every chief lit the ibland who required and could reward their services j heir swords were frequent in our wars their names m the songs of all our bards and they founded upon irish soil the monastics of bona margy and limbcg to make their peace with god and there in irish earth their bones lie buried now instead of making common cause with the scots against their common enemy shcne nt the instance of his faithless allt of england levied a cruel w ar upon them


on his return from london he gathered his clansmcn of tyrowen crosscd the bann and sought the mac donnclls in the strongholds of the glynns


here he defeated them in two battles slow james the son of conal their leader wasted the couutrv and carried off sorley buidhc the yellowhaired brother of their chief in chains to tyrone the english government had in the mean time been btcadily pursuing its views of refoiming ireland to which shane oneill had hitherto paid no attention whatever sussex in the second year of the queen held a parliament in dublin which reenacted the spiritual supremacy of the english monarch and imposed on all the catholic clergy ora the act expressed it all who should maintain or defend foreign authority penalties of de privation of benefices for the first offence for the second the penalties of iilmimri for the third penalty of hightreason that is to ay that all catholic clergymen who would not renounce their faith must die


another net passed in that parliament ami called the act of uniformity commanded the use of king edwards liturgy yet not the liturgy that had been prescribed before not his first book but his second book under penalty of imprisonment for life in the case of all such clergymen as should a thiiid time refuse to use it or even speak disrespectfully of it


all persons whether lav or clerical who shculd despise or deprave the book or cause any other form to be said or sung that is to say all catholics were to be visited with like punishments according to the number of their offences in that kind


all persons whatever not having reasonable excuse were to resort to their parish churches on all sundays and holidays and to abide there orderly during service on pain of the censures of the church and twelve pence fineand the being a catholic wab not to be admitted as such reasonable excuse but was rather a serious aggravation


finally all archbishops and bishops were solemnly enjoined is gobvname to put this act in strict execution


although the government of the pale had no power to enforce their laws in the irish country the intention was that those laws should have a general operation wherever and so soon aseither negotiation or the sword might open the way for them


and as the queenhadnotforbome years hadan archbishop of armagh it was resolved in order to assert a continual claim against the pope to supply that metropolitan see with an active reformer


adam loftus a voung englishman who had made a favourable impression on the queen at a public act in cambiidge by the elegance of his oratory the comeliness of his personand his graceful address was raised at the age of twentyeight to the nominal dignity of archbishop of armagh the youngest archbishop says ware


that we meet with in this see except celsus


and the north not being yet ripe for foreign bishops the queen declares in the letters patent that as his archbishopric is a place of great charge name and title only to be esteemed without any worldly endowment she per mits him to hold the deanery of st patricks in the meantime


it was clear that while shane oneill held such sway in the north loftus could be only a bishop as it were in raiinmie ikfibkmum


and that his province must be first reduced by the sword before it would peaceably submit to the sway of his crozier


to make a beginning of that conquest a powerful body of english troops was sent to dcrry under colonel llandolpli ostensibly as auxiliaries against the scots but in truth to form a settlement there which might be a key to ulster and a bit between the teeth of oneill


these english being true reformers made small account of the sanctity of that ancient seat of piety


they turned the church into an arsenal and fortified themselves upon the hill of dcrry


now shane began to porceive that his new allies were his deadliest enemies and that nothing less was contemplated by them than the subjugation of his people and the ruin of the ancient religion and he resolved that randolph and his troops should nt longer hold the teampol more nor pro fane the sacred oaks of columkillc


he led his troops to the foyle yet for the present neither beseiged the place nor declared hostility but a party of his men advanced to the hill and by their insolencc as cox relates provoked randolph to sally out upon thorn


a skirmish ensued in which randolph was killed and dcrry became a hazardous post to holdwith the banucrs of oneill floating overocahans country to thesouth


odoghertv and inishowen glooming on the north and angry mac swynes and o donnells hemming it on all sides


the gnrrison however maintained its ground till at lengthbehold a miracle


a wolf from the neighbouring woods ran to the hill of dcrry huge and hirsute having in his mouth a burning torchf rushed straight to the church and flung his brand among the powder barrels of the saxons church and fortress with horrible explosion were shattered to pieces hundreds of the soldiery were blown to the elements and so st coluinkillc avenged the desecration of his sacred gro es


thus relate the irish analists but whether by the miracles of the saint or otherwise certainly the fortiiicjtijns of dcrry wcie dismantled and the remnant of randolphs men betook themselves to their ships


on the south of oneills territory also the english had begun to cncroach and the venerable cathedral of armagh was occupied by their troopsunfailing harbingers ol the reformationin irciond


hut now shane threw offoll reserve with these insidious allies


ho c o uld not endure this new garrison of arm a rh hu blood was up his standard was unfurled and he swore by st malachv and by the crozier of blessed putridthat the holy fanes of drumsailech hill should bo no shelter


f o r the reforming bishop and his troops


he burst upon armagh like a thunderbolt and laid both church and city in ashes for this loftus solemnly cursed him and in dubln pronounced sentence of excommunication against him not with bell or book or candle which might savour of superstition yet with sufficient unction and heartiness notwithstanding


but shane was little affected by his cursing


with the troops of tyrowen he swept southward like a hailstorm ravaging the settlements of the english and razing the castles of the pale


he laid siege to uundalk where he met a stout resistance j and sarsfield mayor of dublin having marched to its relief with a large body of citizens he raised the siege and retired northwards after laying waste half a province


the whole powers of the english government were now concentrated against oneill


even the earl of desmond on whom he had relied for support joined with the deputy in defence of the pale


sydney with the usual english policy laboured to raise an irish party against liim in ulster and for that purpose supported odonnell his bitter enemy with troops and arms


the north was laid desolate by a furious war and although oneill was generally victorious in the field and especially in the battle of the redcoats na gassogues dkako where four hundred of odonnclls english auxiliaries wcr cut to pieces vet his power gradually declined


mac gwire and some onnaught chieftains whom his pride and ferocity had made his enemies joined odonnell against him


his territories were wasted by iucessant attacks his troops who rather feared than loved him fled in large bodies from his standard and at last abandoned by all his allies and reduced nearly to extremity he resolved to betake himself to his former enemies the scots of antrim who were then encamped in north clanhughbuidhe under alister oge mac donnell


as a propitiatory offering he sent home in freedom the yellowhaired sorley whom he had taken prisoner two years before and shortly after shane himself with liis concubine the wife of odonnell his secretary and a poor train of but fifty horsemen proceeded to the encampment of mac donnell


here again he was met by the treachery of the english


ajj officer named piers an agent of the deputy had been negotiating with the scots j and on the news of shanes approach took care to remind th em of that pitiless raid upon the glynns of the slaughter of their chief and allthoir ancient enmity to the haughty prince ofulster


oneill arrived and was entertained with seeming liospitaliyj until some dispute as previously concerted arose between the followers of the two chiefs which ended in the mac donnclls falling upon shone and all his company and hewing them to pieces


the chieftains head was appropriated by piers the contriver of this bose slaughter who sent it as an acceptable offering to the lord deputy pickled in a pipkin and received for the price of itone thousand marks


hnt ghastly head was gibbcttcd high upon a pole and long grinned upon the towers of dublin castle a new muniment and visible bign of that inalienable legacy of hatred to the stranger bequeathed by an oneill two hundred years before


hatred produced by lengthened recollections of injustice by the murder of our fathers brothers and kindred and which will not be extinguished in out time nor in thatof oursons


the headless trunk of shone the proud was buried where it fell


i


and they still show his grave about three miles from the little village of cushtndun upon the coast of antrim


english writers have painted this shane as a hideous monster of sensual brutality and strange tales are current of his wine cellars at dundrum castle on the coast of down of his two hundred tonb of spanish wine and hogsheads of usquebaugh stored in the vaults of that fortress of hiis deep carouses and loathsome drunkenness and that unheardof course of oarthbeathing burying himself to the ears in coldelav to cool the raging fever of his blood


but it is the painting of an enemy


he was no stupid drunknrk who for so many years defied the armies and defeated the policy of elizabeth and hie countrymen have only to lament that by his indomitable pride and cruelty he armedbo many irish chiefs against him and against their native land and further to regtct that he did not import from spain instead of wines from malaga some thousand blades of the toledo tempering and spanish soldiers then the best troops in europe to wield them against the deadly enemies of his race


camden q eliz


tlb


x


four masters by connellan note in page


dr iteid takes care to distinguish them from his scots


ho says hist of the presbyterian church vol


p


thescots here spoken of were piratical marauders and oman catholics from the western isles


mant hist of the church of ireland p c


t o a efatiks op fire


osuijrvak


there is an obscurity about the cause of the english troops evacuating derry


tlio story of the skirmish in which randolph was killed is given by camden and cox but osullivan does not mention it at all


and on the other hand the miracle of the wolf is an unsatisfactory account of the matter


osullivan however does not state it as a factbut as the popular belief in his day


j ware


mac geoghegan


cox


f letter of donald oneill to the pope


to be continued in our next


the mysteries of sydney


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


part iichapter ix


the avenging hand


leaving lipey and his history for a time we must turn as in politeness bound to record the fate of mrs naillit


she was unable to procure the necessary bail of ten thousand pounds re quired by mr eddy torrent and was therefore compelled to be incarcerated in darlinghurst castle till called upon to answer for her crime before twelve of her peers and one of her super iors


during her confinement she did not ac quire that philosophical state of quiescence so delightfully expressed by the old english poet who did not agree with him that stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage on the contrary she was of opinion that they did and a very secure and unpleasant one


sometimes she pined in thought and at others fumed and chafed like a tigress in its den


nor was her condition made a whit more cheering when it was notified that some of her best friends were in the fangs of the law on a sus picion of having assisted to screen her from its harpies


the eventful day at length arrived and the fair caroline angelica found herself in the dock of the courthouse and to her inexpressible horror by her side in the same alarming pre dicament doctor grogan mr yankey and mrs mdoormat


she had scarcely time to exchange condolence with those parties when a loud cry of silencesilencehushhush silence thereannounced the arrival of that eminent legal functionary his honor mr justice wick inson


that gentleman having cast a digni fiedly disagreeable look upon the denizens of the court and a very complacent one upon himself sat down


may it please your honorsaid mr turney general rising


but it does not please me mr turney general nothing pleases me and i beg leave to inform you if i dare address so distinguished an individual that l neither wish to be nor will i be pleased with anything that occurs in this court


i detest it all siri despise itino interruption sir my hatred against this sort of thing is fixed as a pyramidfirm as a granite rock


arraign the prisoners officer swear in the jury and lets get over this as quickly as we can


no doubt it will be a long case a very long case and it is a remarkable fact that there seldom is a long case in this court but it falls to my unhappy lot to try it


gentlemen of the jury make your wills for i expect youll grow greyheaded before this trial is over


you can sign and seal in the presence of witnesses but when youll be delivered is beyond my power to foretell


having delivered this tirade mr justice wickinson drew a long breath and threw him self back in his judicial chair


the bar seeing their leader thus reproved sat silent and abashed


the due course of opening proceed dings were then gone through and mr cider the clerk particularly glibly put the prisoners in possession of certain charges made against them namely that caroline angelica was charged with stealing one annie gray a re markably interesting female innocent aged seven years and dr grogan mr yankey and mrs mdoormat with having received the said caro line angelica with the stolen property into their possession


the quartette were then asked what objection they had to be put upon their several and respective trials


to this interrogatory they unhesitatingly answered every objection they could not for the life of them see the possible advantage that would accrue to them by troubling the court to take any evidence they therefore sug gested merely to save time that a verdict of not proven be immediately recorded against them and they be left to pursue their quiet and peaceful avocations in the usual way just as if nothing had happened


neither mr justice wickinson nor the jury appeared to have any objection to this course but mr turney general with an effrontery which generally character ises legal gentlemen who receive large salaries from the crown for not working themselves to death put in a decided veto to the proposition


very good said mr justice wickinson who appears for the prisoner naillit i do your honor replied mr marble


indeed


ah


it is not your first appear ance in this quarter i believe


and i also your honor exclaimed mr teil tarryowen rising suddenly as if fearful of being overlooked


oh ah hum


it is your first appearance i believe


ln the law courts of ireland particu larly in the five courts of dublin i pooh pooh


this is not a fives court we want no sparring here sit down sir


whos for the prisoner grogan


i am your honor replied mr pureboy but really i dont know anything about his case


so much the better as it leaves him a chance of blundering through it which other wise mr pureboyyou know the rest


whos for mdoormat


please your worships honor cried that personage dropping an elegant curtesyim on my own bottom


sit down then maam and rest yourself it is the duty of the bench to be polite to female innocence and to protect it


ill supply you with law from the fountain head the legis fontis caput as we used to say at cambridge where we gained honours


thats what the goose said when he got plucked for his quills to write the history of a donkey slyly insinuated marble to pureboy


be the mortial


whispered pureboy in re turn if wickinson didnt take a high degree at college hes a firstrate wrangler here


did you hear widehursts last epigram


no


here it is if wickinson mongst college nobs turned out any thing but a bright one he lords it well over poor snobs and plays amongst minnows the triton


mr turney general will you proceed


ex claimed his honor loudly


most assuredly your honor if it be your honors pleasure


may it please your honor gentlemen of the jury you have heard the in dictment read against the prisoners and the ad mirable and learned observations of his honor upon the case it would therefore be an insult to his honor and a bad compliment to your un derstandings if i were to advance a single word more


gentlemen of the jury i will proceed to call my witnesses previously pointing out to you that of which not having had the inestimable advantage of a legal education you cannot pos sibly be aware namely if the case is clearly and indubitably proved against the prisoners your duty is to find them guilty but if on the contrary there is no evidence against them that you are bound to find them innocent


this gentlemen under his honors correction i ex pressly lay before you as the test whereby your opinion is to be formed and recordedwith this addition gentlemen that if you believe the pri soners to be guilty then the crown will be en titled to your verdict and should you be satisfied of their innocence it will be your duty to acquit them


may it please you gentlemen of the jury i beg leave to reply to the speech of mr turney general said mr teil tarryowen jumping up evidently determined not to be too late


mr tarryowen said the judge sternly sit down your time for hearing is not yet come


the practice in the irish courts your honor appealed the personage addressed is precisely opposite to that of any other silence sir


your honor my duty to my client compels me to apply


nb


no irish need apply said his honor sententiouslygo on mr turney general


that gentleman being thus called upon pro ceeded by the evidence of mrs flora pomona phillis gray and mr seakale gray to establish the stealing of the child in question but as this could not be done very clearly by them mr natty potson was placed in the box who quickly set tled the affair filling up gaps and indiarubber izing testimony in the most alarmingly magna nimous and praiseworthy manner


is that your case mr turney general enquired his honor waiting in breathless sus pence for the answer


it is your honor thank you


gentlemen of the jury replied mr justice wickinson turning round to the palladiumof britishliberty box it is we not mr turney general who have much to be thankful for


now mr marble proceed brevity is the soul of wit as shakespeare says


his honor smiled at the aptitude of the quotation and doubtless considered himself far superior to the immortal bard who furnished him with it


may it please your honor gentlemen of the jury said mr marble before i proceed to ram my head against a rebuttal of this charge i will just beg to call your attention to my cli ent


look at her as she stands in all the halo of innocence discussing the properties of an orange mrs naillit was gratifying a predilection for that fruit at the moment look at her in her attire of book muslin purity and rustic straw and tell me as lovers fathers husbands whe


ther she can be guilty of the crime imputed to her


i say no most unhesitatinglymost une quivocallyno


it is impossible that guilt can dwell in such a form and such a dress


as his honor has quoted shakespeare i will do so too to carry out my proposition to gild the gold of brummagem to paint the chimneysweeper black to add another perfume to the tanyard would be work of supererogation consequently i will not attempt it


now gentlemen what is the monstrous crime imputed to her


that she wanted a childthat she would have a child and that she went in this unnatural way to get one


prodigious monstrosity


but presum ing for the sake of argument that she acted in this manner does that detract from her character


no


is not charity invariably represented by lots of little children clinging round her knees and brooding like chickens under her wide spreading wings


of course she is mr marble will you confine yourself to the point interrupted mr justice wickinson we have nothing to do with charity here her name is not in the calendar for trial


i am aware of that your honor but i thought that an introduction of her might not be amiss besides your honor will find on re ferring to blackstones commentaries that blackstone is an ass and his dicta are ex ploded long ago


if your honor is of that opinion of course i am


perhaps i had better leave it to your honor to conduct my case


it might not be an unwise course mr mar ble


it certainly would save time


cut off in the bloom of youth muttered pureboy as mr marble reseated himself in a wonderful degree of disconcertment


go at it tarryowen continued he addressing that pre cocious young barrister


i appear for mr yankey said the latter and as that gentleman is a foreigner he is entitled to every consideration at the hands of the court


gentlemen of the jury my client comes from the country of stars and stripes from a land of liberty fancy then what his feelings must be to find himself cooped up in yon narrow cage


what will be the consequence of keeping him in that position


i can see no less than a national war i can see gentlemen diving into time commodore wilkes and the whole american navy sending bradleys head out of the waters blowing up your powder ma gazine knocking down your government house your fort phillip and dawes battery about your ears like cardboxes


would you like this gentlemen


would you rather hear the can nons rattle than your childrens would you rather bear the triumphant song of yankee doodle echoing in your streets than the melo dies of the ethiopian serenaders


would you rather i would much rather that these extraneous matters were not mixed up with the simple question of guilt or innocence which the jury alone have to consider mr tarryowen softly and insinuatingly interrupted the judge


yes your honor but the cream of my case is not half so passable as your fathers re torted his honor his complacency gradually assuming a sourer aspect


will your honor allow me to read a passage from puffendorff on international law


pooh


puffindorff was a bird of passage said his honor abruptly and in a lower tone to himself i trust to providence you will be one also


i regreti am sureif ithat is if your honorgentlemen of the jurymy clienteh what


bending down to catch a suggestion volunteered by mr marble oh ah


yes


gentlemenhem and down sat the aspiring canvasser for briefs and a silk gown perfectly satisfied with the wigging he had received at the hands of the court


mrs mdoormat throw herself and her fate into the arms of the jury assuring them that she was a murdered woman and touchingly introducing that somewhat stale simile which compares a state of innocency with that of an unborn specimen of humanity


arrah shure now my darlint youll not leave tim in the lurch exclaimed grogan earnestly to purejoy as he leant over the spikes to the great disarrangement of his neckloth and danger of his jugular


be asy tim responded the learned gen tleman lave the case where it is it cant be bettered youre in for it my boy clane


on hearing these consolatory tidings grogan sunk upon the low seat of the dock in a state of indescribably delirious pleasure


mr turney general replied mr justice wickinson summed up the jury looked sa


gacious the barristers wornout the ac cused doneup the bystanders bothered the officers of the court sleepy and the reporters of the press gratified


the trampling of feet was hushed the joke suppressed and the yawning cut short as the gentlemen of the jury had come to a conclusion


guilty or not asked the clerk of the arraigns


mrs caroline angelica naillit dr grogan and mr yankeyguilty mrs mdoormat innocent


mrs mdoormat fainted at the welcome tidings the others bore it bravely


the avenging hand had bided its time to strike with unerring certainty


caroline was doomed to bear the felons brand for two years and in sorrow and suffering to seek purification from guilt


may the les son be well learnt


the fate of grogan and yankey may not yet be told


to be continued


mysteries of sydneypart ii chap


the stoby of the campaftjjt


pabt


written in a tent from the crimea


from blaekwoit magazine


oiixriea srv wnrrurj on tub plains


on the th the narrow harbour of balaklava was strewed with floating tim bers and trusses of bay so thickly that boats were with difficulty forced through the masses while numbers of tbe drowned were washed about the bases of the ljffs at the entrance


jue ships inside raneed la lino close together as in a dock had been driven towardshe headjof the har bour and pressing ii o mnsi upon the sanspareil carried her a hundred yards from her mooringb where she grounded by the stern


one or two vessels wept down ciobo to others who could aid only by baving the crews


seven english trans ports were lost at balaklava and thirteen at tho eateha


the resistance a maga zine ship cast away at the former place contained large quantities of ammunition both for the siege gunb and infantry and the prince a very large and magnificent steamer had just arrived from england with a great supply of wartn clothing for the army all of which wen down in her


she had also brought au apparatus to be employed in our operations against sebas topol and lieutenant inglts an engineer who had gone on board the night before to superintend the disembarkation of the machine was lost along with the ship and crew


one of our linoofbattle ships was dismasted and another injured and tho french gun ship henri iv the most beautiful vessel in their navy went aground in eight feet of water and it being im possibleto float her he was used as a battery against the shore


the betri butioo an english warsteamer loving the duke of cambridge on board escaped with difficulty casting her guns over board


the army soon felt severely tbe loss it had sustained when the prince went down


for the remainder of november it rained almost without cessation and the plains became one vast quagmire


the soil is remarkably tenacious and the feet both of men and horses were encumbered at every step with a load of clay


not only all the interior of the icamps was deep in mire but the floors of the teots themselves grew muddy


it is difficult to imagine a jnqre cheerless scene than that presented when ever you traversed the plains the land scape all leadcoloured above was all mud coloured below the tents themselves wet and stained with mud had become dreary spots on a dreary background


some times low walls of stone or mud were thrown up round them nnd in part suc ceeded in keeping out tbe keen raw gusts


about the tents waded a feir shivering men in greatcoats trying to light fires be hind small screens of mud or stones or digging up the roots of the bushes where the coppice had vanished from the surface


rows pf gaunt rough horses up to their fetlocks tu the floftyilrabcoloured soil stood with drooping wads at their picket ropes sheltered from wind and rain each by a dirty rugged blanket in which it which it would have been difficult for the keenest connoisseur in horseflesh to recog nise tho glossy spirited splendid teams that had drawn the artillery along the plains of scutari


when tbe scots greys after landing at the katcha marched through the camp on the bttlbek the whole army admired their magnificent appearance the horses un surpassed ia any cavalry in the world for shape size spirit aad condition contrasted strongly with those which had been through the campaign and which even then except the strongest aud soundest had begun to look travelstained and battered


wlieu the winter began the survivors of the greys longhaired bony spiritlesss and soiled with mire preserved no trace of their former beauty


perhaps the most painful feature m the dreary scene was the number of dead and dying horses scattered not only round the cavalry and artillery camps but along the various rortos which traversed the position


some had fallen and died from fatigue some perished from cold some from starvation


once down a horse seldom rose again


after a few faint attempts he lay still except for a feeble nibbling at the bare ground then he would fall over on his side and stretch ing out his legs would so end his career leaving a smooth space in the mud where his bead and neck had moved slowly to and fro or where his hind leg had scratched convulsively before he died


sometimes an ownerless horse probably too lamoaud unserviceable to be worth inquiring after would linger about the neighbourhood of an encampment


day after day he would be there waiting patiently wondering


perhaps why no nay nor corn


came get ting thinner and thinner nobody could relieve him without robbing hu own horse on whose strength and condition bis own efficiency depended until after wander ing to and fro over the barren spot if no friendly hand could lo


found to send a bullet througiirihwi


lied lie would drop andiehereraibgering death


it was impossible to travel the position in any


direction without seeing many carcasses some swollen and bloated some mere skele tons


here and there would ba seen the carious spectacle of a horses boneb covered only with mb loose collapsed bide all tho flesh muioles and oven ribs haying ie appeared which would ba explained pre sently whan on passing the next carcabs a gorged dog would put his head out from the hollow rch of the rib and after look ing latiiy hi the comer return to bis lior riblo feir jlmasjnfenticti never eeued to be peiiftivtiriu iiin diminished their efliefc for ft ft months beforo the sight of n dytyg jjorvu wouul have liiiudted motor atye


u tbu dtfge hint oiltiually been in habitants of th ftmnuoums ntid villas of the piteu imven from their ruined homfti they collected in packs on t up tenanted portions of the plain and fed by night on the dsad hones


at first they were iu considoratirn of their iervieea ab bcaveugers nd thoif iuoffengtvenesb left unmoeatedbnt latterly iwweoriyto see that thfl fwcl wjdiera beqji to shoot them for the sake of their skins


but very uttle native smroul life was seou after the u drove the numerous lizards under ground


a hare would sometimes start from a buehe few wows magpie and ravens occasionally held council over come dead horse lying remote from the camp and ftnee tit twie tw large flocks of muriiftrtt eagles swopping sptjear that their stem searching eyes were risible on the setting to trf ralftt tlw road from balnkuivfttb h ftp at ooo eam ahottimpajnmbje


jmlp ond beast plunged along knefrftepi ftrojjgb tijii sticky mud in some parto while in others the miro was sloppy with slippery stone beneath


inear balttfcliivn great pooli were collected in tiie low ground the gardens and vine yards had become swamps and not a trace of culuvotiob in the desolate and melan choly valley


in apqol between the posts of the gateway of field near the town a camel lay for dy which lod folleq from weakness and wu uttkble to rise it huge tructure of ribs bald nd bare of flesh was painfully visible till dying it soon almost disappeared iu the surround ing filth


imes of cavalry horses carrying provisions and forage might be root at all parts of the road as well as artillery wag gons ladeu with hay and corn instead of ammunition all lojluig slowly and paiu fullr through the sloueb


the road alone the margin of the harbour more filthy and boggy than the rest was thronged with arabas drawn by piules bullocks and cmeu waiting for stores and provisions


tbase in jiwriourney to the camp fre queptfy broke down or stuck too fast to be extrieated nd onoe abandoned u carriage no matter bow serviceable or im portant tniglit be


considered lost for during the night wp ure to be broken to nieoei and carried off for firewood


perhapb of all the privations of the army the want ot wood wasthe setrereet


uutil asuppiy bfcjiarcottl aad patent fuel was brought iu ships the pecesgary quantity for cooking tbp ratipn of meat was only procured with muoli difficulty and labour oy thobe divisions posted on the centre of theptaihb about the monastery of st george there was a good deal of thick cop pice extcning towards balaklava and the brushwood was interspersed with oak trees from tlreptoii inches in diameter these were for the roost part tctod for poles by the turks who as soon s tlw wot fet in quitted their tents and retired under ground


digging a tfencb about twelve feet loflg eight wide and four deep they set up alodg the middle of its length a row of forked poles nod laid ridge poles across the forks which supported rafters from the bank op cash side


these latter were covered thickly with branches and mud was then plastered over the whole exohiding tlia air while the slope of the roof enabled it to resiifc several hours rain


a slopiug path led down to the door no provision was ipade for admitting light the smoke escaped through a pole and when the walls hnd dried it was much warmer than a tent which as tuny be sup posed is in wet or windy weather the aroarieit abode in the world


to he continued


the mysteries of sydney not by the author of the mysteries of paris


or the mysteries of london but by one of ourselves


chapter xi


before the curtainthe innthe outthe maniac


the last tinkle of the prompters bell died away the baize descended the laughing noisy spectators departed the lights were extin guished and the theatre was left to the trumpet hum of the mosquitos and the squeaking revel of the rats


under the boards over the boards behind the wainscoats they played their merry pranks


greywhiskered old senators chiefs of their tribe with cinereous dirtyhued bellies left their foul dank stenchladen muddy haunts and madly careered through boxes which a few minutes before were peopled with young hearts and bright eyes rendered more glowing beneath the glare of the gas


sad type of lifesunshine and shadowmorning and night


morning with the foot of fawnlike fleetness and the sounds of soft music floating around


night with the pulseless heart deaf ear and frigid limbthe toad the blind mole and the worm for companions


despots in the height of your power remember the rat will one day knaw your coffins and scamper over their velvet coverings heedless whether the bones of autocrat or serf moulder within


the mower death is a sad le veller


monarchs would ye be wise and happy crest your gilded crowns with the scythe and the hourglass to remind you of mortality


it was verging towards midnight when the actors assembled at the tavern which adjoins the playhouse for the purpose of meeting grips and indulging themselves after the fatigues of the performance


the queens head was under the direction of mr joewyte who was also deeply interested in the theatre


he had a partner at one time mr bylnite but that gen tleman had left him on account of some little difference with certain troublesome people called creditors


disagreements between these persons and debtors are so natural that it is not to be wondered at


mr bylnite came under the general rule particularly when he offered some insigni ficant fractional parts of a pound in payment of the whole number twenty shillings


his method of calculation was far too intricate and abstruse for plain simple men a pound sterling with them was nothing else his arithmetical logic was lost upon them


disgusted at their obtuse ness and obstinacy he gave up business as a bad job and severed his connexion with joewyte


the latter was a steady going old gentleman enough and much respected as a landlord not withstanding some occasional freaks of ill hu mour which he was accustomed to exhibit when his equanimity was disturbed by an unruly cus tomer or the little crosses of life


on the night in question parlour and bar were crowdedthe former with the aristocracy of the boxes the latter with the more humble pitites


the calls for brandies hot gins cold rums neat ale and porter were so incessant that the waiter was fairly bothered out ofhiswits to procure these liquid luxuries and convey them to their proper destination


many and various were the anathemas he received for his stupidity and slow ness which were considerably increased by the means taken to prevent them


in one part of the room vernon and sharkey were engaged in close conversation taking apparently little heed of the bustle around them


each had his part to perform in a more serious drama


seve ral loud huzzas distracted their attention for a moment from the colloquy these proceeded from the theatrical party who were loudly ap plauding grips at the bar and well they might


grips was then making his appearance in a new character with the most decided success


gentlemen said he upon this important occasionthis triumph of the regular drama over the irregular proceedings of a concerted organized band of clamorous enemiesi mean to convince you that i am ready to prove myself a martyr to my profession


yes gentlemen a martyr i am about to stand glasses round


innumerable bravos


greeted this patriotic proposal


the glasses were filled and due justice having been done to their pleasing contents


pranks in a whisper to mr hornblower a lusty individual on his right proposed that he should give the health of grips in a bumper with all due honours


be me shoul replied hornblower the devil a taste of a spache have i got in me at all at all


iv it was blowin a blast upon the bugle horn id be wid yez


oh youre too modest by half replied pranks


a man with a corporation like yours most often have made appeals at public dinners


and without waiting to hear another word of the negative sort pranks called outorder


order


hornblower is in possession of the chair


for a speech


the native modesty of the bluff hibernian was almost overcome by the novelty of his position but the honor of his country knocked at the door of his heart and renovated his failing courage


after giving three sonorous hems he commenced his address in a voice which was not dissimilar to the lowest tones of a double bass or an ophleiclide


jintilmin it has become my plazing task divil a word of a lie in it to be spaker upon this mimorable occashun


whin i say i fale proud proud it is and no gammon


to be the organ of conveying your sintiments to the worthy pathron of this intertainmint


mr gripsbravo


bra vo


hear


iv i look at him as a man and a father he bates bannagher and the duke of willington by chalks


by the mortial a better than he nivir danced a jig in ould ire land or flashed a shillelagh at donnybrook


cheers


as an ould soldier julius sayzur and bonaparte were spalpeens quite intirely to him


renewed cheers


as the manager of a tayater and the pathron of the riglar draymah i defy yez to show me his aqual


cheers upon cheers or compound cheers with interest


be de powers as the immortial sheridan says he has done more than does become a man loud cries of order


chair


greeted this un fortunate misconception of shakespere


pranks in vain endeavoured to explain that an irish gentleman was always allowed to speak twice the friends of grips were not to be convinced of the innocence of hornblower and unpleasant consequences might have ensued had not mr joewyte informed the company that the hour of twelve had arrived and if they did not make their exits with the smallest possible de lay the gas would be put out as well as them selves


the promise of this dose subdued the inflammatory symptoms and two or three gentle knocks at the side door acted also upon the benedicts as a species of soothing syrup


these proceeded from the knuckles of the married ladies who thus gave their lords due notice that they were wanted as escorts home


after having duly tucked the ladies under their arms they proceeded to their various domiciles becoming most magically transmogrified in a moment from liontamers into docile and obedient animals


egad ned cried pranks theres miss smart going homypomy all alonypony by her selfypelfy


my gallantry never can stand this and miss smith too by all thats wonderful


now then do the attentive ned redeem your character youve been rather dozy of late


then you would suggest a dosados as an aperativo


but to confess the truth i have have been considerably bored tonight and scarcely find myself equal to the task


the moon is up so the task will be a light one at any rate


pranks you will oblige me materially by not inflicting upon me these horrible attempts at puns


really theyre beneath you


which fully proves that im above them


never mind im too old to mend


but on you come willynilly


pranks dragged clarendon along the offer of companionship was made to the ladies and ac cepted


miss smart took the arm of the merry comedian the other young lady placed herself under the escort of clarendon and they slowly wended their way to the racecourse


while this scene was enacting vernon and sharkey left the queens head


the former ap peared considerably agitated about some com munication which had just been made to him and exclaimed with considerable vehemence it must be within a few hours or never


you know the depth of my involvements


ruin stares me in the face and that accursed act if discovered will place me in a position to which death itself were preferable


be cool man


these things require time to negociate


folks of the moneylending order wont be hurried


only let them see that you are in deep distress up the spout hard pushed as the terms are and treblesacrifices will be required


be cool my young friend be cool


cool exclaimed vernon bitterly


you can talk of coolness whom custom has made callous as a gaoler and deaf as an adder to the voice of suffering but do you think i can act the icebolt with a volcano blazing in my breast


the money i must have tonight or


the fearful shudder which vernon gave as he broke off these hurried words seemed to have some slight effect upon his companion


after cogitating for a moment during which he watched the convulsed countenance of vernon down which large drops of perspiration were coursing each other in rapid succession he said suddenly follow me it shall be done


at once cried vernon


at once echoed sharkey


and the two turned into kingstreet


meanwhile clarendon and pranks were cross ing the racecourse with their fair charges loud and merrily rang their laughter through the stillnight


they were evidently in high spirits and well pleased with each other but their exuberant fancies were doomed to be cut short in a way that they least expected


the last joke of pranks had scarcely exploded when a dark figure sprang suddenly up from the earth and placed itself in their way


angels and ministers of grace defend us


cried pranks


out of the way old dan tucker exclaim ed carendon


but the unknown did not pay the least atten tion to the request


he threw himself into all sorts of contortions sometimes grinning like a hyena then hissing like a snake and anon gibbering like a maniac


oh my fanny said miss smart why its terry mahoney my mad lover


the wretch replied miss smith theres sure to be murder


what are we to do


shall we run or scream


dont alarm yourselves ladies said pranks at the same time making a rush at terry


this the irish boy to use a sporting term skilfully evaded and attacked clarendon unawares who received a serious cut on the lip


ha


ha screamed the maniac i had you dere i tink my fine swell


terry will tache you to be walkin and talkin wid de ladeyes


at the sight of the crimson fluid flowing copi ously from the yawning aperture and staining the admirable specimen of washerwoman and laundress talent which clarendon displayed the ladies began to scream in real earnest at the same time clinging to him and endeavouring with their pockethandkerchiefs of virgin white ness to staunch the bleeding wounds of their protector


for heavens sake exclaimed he release my arms and let me annihilate this vagabond


one blow oh


dont


no


you shant


dont en


danger your precious life


hes madmad screamed the ladies hysterically in concert


as a march hare said pranks ill make him bolt with this tail between his legs


and he performed this feat


for instituting a vigor ous attack upon the youthful shoemaker the latter scoured like an unbroken colt across the plain pranks did all he knew in the coursing line but unavailingly a few hundred yards at tiptop speed convinced him that pursuit was use lessterrys wind was too good


pranks returned puffing like a grampus


though lost to sight to memory dear said he


if he has dealt ned one blow he has given me another


you may well call this a racecourse


but the only thing we are likely to catch by standing here is a cold so ladies if you please lets be moving this way for the riders


this excellent advice was immediately adopt ed and the fair damsels reached their homes without further molestations


to be continued


in consequence of the length of the trial of the bermondsey murderers and the great press of advertisements the mysteries of sydney have been somewhat curtailed of their fair propor tions this week


the amende honorable will be made in our next issue


the story of the campaign


pabt


written in a tent from tho crimea


from niaclawoit uagatim


ouapten xtv


winteb on the fiimks


now it happened that in december some staff officers who had built near the small encampment of which my tent forui cd an item a row of huts of the kind just described only more elaborately finished were ordered to balaklava and three of us purchased the feesimple of tho pro perty and took possession


the main building feet long by or wide was divided in half by a partition wall


the solid roof perfectly airtight was supported by substantial props


to light each apartment there was a square hole in iho roof screened from the rain by a small roof of its own like a garret window


the tireplace of tho outer chamber had a chim ney in the partition that of the inner in tho end wall


near this was another hut half the size for a kitchen and a trench had been already dug and poles erected for a stable where with the somewhat desul tory and dawdling assistance of a party of turks we succeed in warmly housing nil our steeds


about the middle of december wo en tered our new abode and were for tho next week the envy of all our acquaintance etill under canvass


after that it began lo rain and continued to do so for hours at the end of which time the habi lation being till dry we felt more pity than ever for the dwellers in tents and retired to rest in a mood at once compas sionate and grateful


while it was yet dark i was awoke by


my companion in this dormitory calling out to ask if was wet through yet


and on opening my mouth to make reply some wet mud dropped from the roof newly into it


sluices were established at nume rous weak points of the roof and the mur mur of many waters was heawf around


in some places the thin cascade poured tinkling into a rill on the floor while at other points the dull noise of its fall showed some article of wearing apparel to bo un derneath


my pillow was drenched iny cloak thoroughly soaked but as yet the water had not penetrated to the blankets and after sounding with my hand the pud dle on the floor and satisfying mybelf that my coat trowsers and boots could not possibly be any wetter i became convinced that i might r well for tho present lie still nnd drawing the end of my cloak over my head slept till morning


i amaylighv we the late exulting pos bcbims of the coveted huts sought shelter in the neighbouring tents


but having been thus shown the weak point of our position wo look effectual measures lo strengthen it and procuring from balak lava enough tarpaulin to cover our roofs we drained our abode lit fires on tho floor o dry it and again became its tenants aud except when tho cold wind torced us to keep the door shut darkening the place so that wo were obliged to breakfast some tiroes by candlelight we really lived in great comparative luxury


a plan for warming tho tenu originat ing i think with the engineers was very cojnmonly resorted to tho water supply which the aqueduct passing in front of our camps afforded to sebastopol had been cut off and the pipes conducting it laid bare


one of these of solid iron or teet long made an excellent clrimncy and was en closed in a trench dug across the floor of tho tent and covered in except near tbe door when tho fire was lit in it


the pipe while conducting the smoke to tho open air became heated aud diffused through the interior a comfortable glow


but tho french adopted the most luxu rious plan they elevated their tents on an oval stons wall about feet higb hav ing a chimney at tho back and opposite a wooden door framed in the opening of the tent spaces were cut iti the canvass where squares of glass in wooden frames wero let in and wilh a good fire blazing in the chimney the interior was in the gloomiest day light warm and cheerful


the soldiers who poor fellows could adopt none of these inventions had only the shelter of the teuts and such articles of clothing as wero issued from tinio to time to trust to for necessary warmth


their misery was great but they met it in an excellent spirit


crime was rare in subordination rarer there were few mur mursand they were as ready as ever lo meet the enemy


from the battle of inkcrmann till the end of december but few events occurred to break the monolonj of tho siege


day after day the gunners at intervals exchang ed shots wilh the enemy and the french and english sharpshooter in the advanced trenches fired from their sandbag loop holes at the russian riflemen hid in pits or behind screens of stone without other re sult than the loss of a few men on either side


sometimes shortly after dark the russians would commence a sharp cannon ade chiefly directed on the french every instant the sky would be reddened by the flashes vibiblo even in the tents and the rattle of musketry would be added to the roll of artillery


then tho uunioil would subside and the darkness and stillness would remain unbroken except for the flash and boom of an occasional gun


very little dauinge was done on these occasions by tho enemys fire


beyond the advanced trench in front of our left attack the russians had made some pits which screened by small stone walls were occupied each by a rifleman and from whence they caused great annoy ance to our people in the trench and to the french across tlie ravine whose ad ronoori wnrka thpv in nart saw into


on the night of tho th november a party of our rifles was ordered to clear the pits the men in which were supported fcvnn another row of pits behind


sallying from tho right extremity of tho trench they drove the russians off after a sharp struggle and a working parly immedi ately threw up on tho spot cover enough to render tho ground tenable


lieutenant tryon who led the attack was killed by a shot from tho pits and we lost about men killed and wounded


durinp the battle of inkermann tryon fought all day armed with a rifle and


being a good shot killed an almost fabulous number of the enemy


tho service of driving the enemy from the pts was so highly appreciated by the french that general canrobert passed a warm encomium on it in general orders and tbe enemys estimate of the advantage they bad lost was shown by fierce attacks made to regain tho ground on tho two fol lowing nights without success


we had begun immediately after tho battle of inkermann to intrench the front of the second division


the ditch and parapet already there were enlarged com pleted rendered continuous and armed with batteries


three redoubts two french and one engbsh were constructed on commanding points ours being on tho ridge occupied by tho russian guns of position in the battle


in advance of these other works and batteries were extended to the verge of tbe heights looking on the head of the harbour on the causeway across the marsh and on the lost windings of the tchernaya


to oppose them the enemy threw up batteries on the heights on their bide of the valley and opened flro from the nearest of them while farther back long lines of intronch ment extended across the hills


on the th december liprandi after scming fire to his huts quitted his position in front of balaklava and retired into se bastopol leaving a force of cavalry and infantry with somo guns in tho villages of kutuara and tchomma and somo field works to guard iho bridge over tho tcher tlio french reconnoitred tho ground in force on the lh december


ten batta lions of infantry and six squadrons of horse with twelve guns under gen des pinassc descended into the plain and throwing out skirmishers supported by a troop of cavalry advanced towards the hills taken from tho turks on the h october


as they went on the single cossack sentry always posted on the hill nearest the middle of tho plains was joined by a detachment of about russian lancers


these retired in good order by alternate sections as the french skirmish ers ascended he slope one section halting as tho others went back and then rcliriug in its turn while another faced about


the troop of french cavalry supporting the skirmishers arriving at tho summit charged tho section of lancers showing front end drove it back upon the others and the french supports appearing tho russians retired in good order down the defile across tbo bridge of the tchernaya and into tho village on the other bank leaving about a dozen troopers unhorsed or prisoners


a french officer received a wound from a lance in this affair of which lie died the next day