it is all in vain he said to himself


it is all in vain


now her fat her too well and he rose asking where he should find hermother alice answered in a faint voice in the little room beyond the back drawing room


henry paused a moment longer the temptstion was ton great to be resisted be took the sweet girls hind he passedit to his lips and said farewell miss herbert farewell


i know i shall never see any one like you again bnt at least it is a blessing to have known youthough it be but to regret that fortune has not favored me still farther


farewell


henry ashton sailed for canada and saw some service there


he distinguished himself as an officer and his name was in several despatches


a remnant of the old chivalrous spirits made him often think when he was attacking a fortified village or charging a body of insurgents alice herbert will hear of this but often too he would ask himself


i wonder if she he married yet and hi companions used to jest with him upon always looking first at the womens part of the newspaper the births deaths and marriages


his fears if we can venture to call them such were vain


alice did not marry although about a year after henry ashton had quitted england her father desceded a


little from lb high ambition and hinted that if she thought fit she might lsten to the young earl of


alice was not inclined to lwten


and gave the earl plainly to understand that she was uot inclined to become his countess


the earl however persevered and mr herbert now began to fedd his iifluence but alice wa obdurate and reminded her fither of a promise he had made never to press her marriage with any one mr herbert seemed more annoyed than alice expected walked up and down tbe room in silence and on hearing it shut him self up with mrs herbert for nearly two hours what took place alice did not know but mrs herbert from that moment looked grave and anxious


mr herbert insisted hat the earl should be received at the house as a friend though he urgd his daughter no more andballs and parties succeeded each other so rap dly that the quieter inhabitant of portland place wished the banker and his family where alice herself wished tobein canada


in the meantime alice became alarmed for her mother whose health was evidently fufferinp from some cause but


mrs herbert would consult no physician and her hpsband seemed never to perceive thestate of weakness and depressin into which she was linking


a lice resolved to call the matter to her fathersnotice and as he now went out every morfiing at an early hour she rose one day sooner han usual and knocked at the door of his dressing room there was no answer and tmjbiing the door she looked into pee if h were already gone


thc curtains were


stiff drawajiuf througdthem some of the morning ams found their way and by the dim sickfyulight alice beheld an object that made her cfcptfief hands and tremble violently


her faffrers chairbefore the dresging stable was vint but beside itlayupon tfe floor something like diefigure or man asleep


alice approached with her heart beating so violently that she ciuild hear it abdhero was nihe sound iu the room


sfcejknelt dowu ijesid him


it was her father she could nqlj lieat him breathe and she drewack the curtains


he was as pale aioafbler and his eyes were open but fixed


with wild ej of what she should o


her mother was in the chamber at the side of he dressing room but alice vd


id lllc ifefipfist tation feared to call her and rang the bell br her fathers valet


the man came and raised his master but


mr herbert had evidently been dead some hours


poor alice wept terribly but when she thought of her mother she made no noise and the valet was silent too for in lifting the dead body to the sofa he had found a small vial and was gazing on it intently


had better put this away miss herbert he said at length in a low voice i had better put this away before any one else comes alice gazed at the vial with her tearful eyes


it was matked prussic acid


poison


this was but the commencement of many sorrows


though the coroners jury pronoun ced that mr herbert had died a natural death yet every one declared he had poisoned him self especially when it was found that he had died utterly insolvent that all his last great speculations had failed and that the news of his ab olute beggary had reached hin on the night precdiog bis decease


then came all the horrors of such circumstances to poor alice and her mother the funeral the examination of the papers the sale of


the house and furniture the tiger claws of the law rending opn the house in ailitadearest associations the commiseration of jiends the tannts and scoffs of those who had envied and hated in silencel then for poor alice herself came the last worse bo the sietntass and deathbed of a mother sickness and death in poverty


the last scene was jpst over tbe earth was just lad upon the coign of


mrs herbert and alice sat with her eyes droppingfast thinking of the said what nextp when a letterwas riven to her and shesaw the handwriting of her uncle in canada


shteitiad written to iiim on her fathers death and nowhe answitsred full of tenderness atad affectioh begging his sister and niece instantly to join him in the new land which he ha made his country


ah the topics of consolation which phiiosopy ever discovered or devised to soothe man under the manifold sorrows and cares oflife are not worth a blade of rye grass in comparison with one wotd of true affection


it was die only balm that ilice herberts heart canld have received and though it did no heal the wound it tranquilised its aching


mrs herbert though not rich had not been altogether portionless and her small fortune was all tliat alice now condescended to call her own


there had been indeed a considerable jointure but that alice renounced with fellings that you will understand


economy however was now a necessity and after takinga passage in one of the


cheapest vessels she could find bound for quebeca vessel that all tbe world has heard of named the st lawrenceshe set out for the good city of bristrtl where she arrived in safety on the th day of may


i must now however turn to the history of henry ashton


it was just after the business iu canada was settled that he entered a room in quebec where several of the officers of his regiment were assembled iu various occupationsone writing a letter to goby the packet which was just about to sail two looking out of the window at the nothing whieh was doing in the streets and one reading the newspaper


there were three or four other journals on the table and ashton took up one of them


as usual he turned to tbe record of the three great thing in life and readfirst the marriages then the deaths and


as be did so he saw suddenly at his house in portlandplace william anthony herberty esq


the paper did not drop from his hand although he was much moved and surprised j but his sensations were very mixed and although be it said truly he gave his first thoughts and they were sorrowful to the dead the second were given to alice herbert and he asked limself is it possible that she can ever be mine


she was certainly much agitated when x i left her heres a bad business r cried the man who was reading the other newspaper the herberts are all gone to smash and j had six hundred pounds there


yon are in for it too ashton


look there


they talk of three sbiliings in the pound


henry ashton took thepaper and read the account ot all that had occurred in london and he then took his hat and walked to headquarters


what he saio or did there is nobodys business but his own but certaijn it is that by the beginning of the very next week he was in the gulf of st lawrence


fair i winds wafted him soon to england but in in st georges channel all went contrary and ihe ship was knocked about for three days without making much way


a fit of impatience had come upon henry ashton and when he thought of alice herbert and all she must havertfffenadj his heart beat strangely


one of those little incidents occurred about this time that make or mar mens destinies


a coasting boat from swansea to wiston came within hail and ashton tired of the other vessel put a portmanteau a servant and himsel into the little skimmer of the seas and was in a few hours landed safely at the pleasant wateringplace of wistpnsupermare


it wanted jet an hour or two of night and thereforea postchaise was soon rolling the young officer his servantand bis portmanteau towards fcrstu on thgir way to london


if arriveddt a reasonable hour but yet some on of the many thiegs tat fill inns had happen in bristol that dayandhenfy drove to tb bush to the falcon and tbe eountain anl everil ijthers befoii he could get a place of length h found two comfrtable rooms in a small jtotel near the port and had satflown to hig supper bj a warm fire wheii an rish sailor put his head into the room and asked if he werc the jlady that was to gp dowq to the st lawrence thenextday


ihnry


asliton informed him that be was ot a lady j and tbat as he had jus come fim the st lawrence he was not


g


mgtack agfaini upo


which the manwithdrew to seekfarer f ten eleven twelve clcck stiucki and henry ashton pulled off bis boots nd wen to bed


at two oclock he awoke feeling lieatsl and ifprmni jbegantothibkof it bynomeans uhan ttefore an snv w vliu kjm ana smell of fcurriing wi one of those uofor are placed under the eciare


and pro option of a sittingroom whicn like a spapih duenna will let jiobody in who does not pass by their door


he put on his dressinggpwn therefore and issued out into the sittingroom and there the smell was stronger there was a considerablejcrackling and roaring too which bad something alarming in it and he consequently opened the outer door


all he could now see was a thick smoke iurighe rtidor rtirougli j sounds of burning fmfmn api mistaken and in a minufeafteiy loud kfjoqig at doors ringing of bells and shouts of fire i fire


showed that the calaroity had bfpm apparent to the people in the sti


al faerushingfort hf nskedrnenandwomen which generally follows such a catasfte and th opening all tlierfifvie if for the express purpose of blowing the fire into a flame


there were hallooings and shnutintherewerescreaminand


tears and what between the rushing spubf the devouring element and the voice of human sufiiering or fear the noise was enough to iralie the dead


henry ashton thought of his portmanteau and wondered where his servant was but seing by a number ofpeople driven back from the great staircases by flames that there was no time to be lost he tnadei iiis way divra by a smaller one and in a minute or two reached the street


the engirieis by this time had arrived an immense crowd was gathering togetherthe terrified tenants ofthe inn were rushing forthand in the midst ilenry ashton remarked one young woman wringing her hands and exclaiming oh my poor young mistress


my poor young lady


where is she my good girl demanded the voting soldier


in number eleven cried the girl in number eleven


her bedroom is within the sittingroom and


she will seyer hear the noise


there she is cried one of fhe hyestanders who overheard there she is i daresay


ashton looked up towards the house through the lower windows of which the flames were pouring forth and across the casement which seemed next to the very room he himself had occupied he saw the figure of a woman in he night dress pass rapidly


a ladder he cried a ladder tor gods sakol


no ladder could be got and henry ashton lopkedroundinvin


the back staircase is of stooe he cried j


she may be saved that way


ay lint the corridor is on fire said one of the waiters yioud better not try sir it cannot bfe done


f vfb henry ashton darted away into the inn and up the staircase but the corridor was on lire as the man had


said and


jthe flames rushing up to the very door of the rooms hf had lately tenanted


he rushed on however recollecting that he had seen a fidedoor out of his own sittingroom


he dastied in caught the handle of the lock of the side door and shook it violently for it wasfastened


i will open it cried a voice from within that sounded strangely familiar to his earl the locked turnedthe door openedand henry ashton and alice herbert stood face to face


god of heaven he exclaimed catching her in his arms


but he


gave no time for explanation and hurried back withbertowards the door of his own room


the corridor however was impassable


you will he lost


you will be lost


he exchimed holding her to his heart


and you have thrown away your own life to gave mine said alice


i will die with you it least replied henry ashton that is some consolation


but no


thank god they have got a ladder they are raising it updear girl you are saved


he felt alice lie heavy on his hosnm and when he looked down whether it wa fear or be effect of the stifling heat prehearing such words from his lips he found that she bad fainted


p is as well


hi sah f ahdf as sooii as the


theladder was raided hehorehir out holding hei firmly yet tepderly to his bosoiii


there was a deathlike stilloess below


the ladder shopk undfr his feet the fi imes came forth apd licked the rounds oo which his steps were placed but steadily firmly calmly the young soldier pursued his way


he bore all that be valued on earth in his hrms and it was no moment to give one thought to fear


when bin last footstep touched ihe ground anuniversal shout burst from the crowd and even reached the ear of


alice herself bnt ere she could recover completely she was in the comfut table drawing room of a good merchants house some way further down the same street


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st lawrence sailed on the following dayfor quebec and you well know went diwmin the terrible hurricane which swept the atlanticinthe summerof thatyearbearine with her to the depths of ttceab everything that she had carried tut from england


but an the day that she weighed anchor alice sat in the drawing room bf the merchants house with ijfer hand clasl in ftiat of henry ashtoti atfd ere innf mojatns wpre over lie tears for tboseejajr biugs she jbaja lost were chased by happier drpps asshe ave her faad tp the man she loyedithalji tie depth of firt affection but whpm she wpuldiever lu been again hadit not beeurlhe re mm


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chapter ii


captain giffard wounded by a shell from a twentyfour pounder


the firing ceased on both sides the third lieutenant sent onshore


the first lieutenant follows and detained by the russian general osten sackens questions


the wounded conveyed to the hospital compliments paid by the russian general to the bravery of the enemy


quarantine regulations libre pratique


men landed


at a quarterpast oclock a shell from a russian twentyfour pounder struck the bowport close by the only gun that could be brought to bear upon the shore and exploded disabling a midshipman and three of the men serving the gun


such was the effect of the bursting of this shell that in addition it carried off the left leg of captain giffard who was standing by the gun and wounded his right leg


one of the pieces of metal broke the telescope that he held under his arm and ten or eleven other pieces cut his clothes and inflicted severe bruises


the midshipman poor young man had both his legs carried off and lived only a few hours after an amputation had been effected by the surgeon on board he died on shore whilst being transported to the hospital he was a distant relation of the captain and bore the same name


william trainer the captain of the gun lost his left leg and died whilst being removed to the hospital after proper attention had been paid to him on board


william tanner serving at the gun was severely wounded in the thigh but recovered after being some time at the hospital


thomas hood the powder boy about fourteen years old received a severe wound in the stomach and lived only a few days after reach ing the hospital


he had already been wounded by a stray shot but continued to serve the powder from the magazine


thus disabled our firing ceased upon which the russians discontinued their fire


the wounded were taken down to the gunroom to be attended by the medical officers and the captain who retained his faculties ordered the russian ensign to be hoisted in token of surrender


the third lieutenant was next sent on shore with a flag of truce to communicate to the officer commanding the russian forces the fact of our having struck as in consequence of the fog the flag was not discernible from the shore


on landing he was signalled back just as if he was infringing the laws of quarantine and being unable to make himself understood by the officer in command of the party on the beach he sent back the boat for some one acquainted with the french language


the first lieutenant had then to land in order to come to an understanding with the general


he was received on the beach by a junior officer and allowed to proceed under a strong escort along the path leading to the cliff where stood general osten sacken


the general was closely attended by two foot soldiers and one quarantine guard who was provided with a brace of pistols to prevent contact


osten sacken mistaking the russian flag for a signal to our consorts asked what the flag was for and was informed that it was the sign of surrender


his next inquiries were regarding the force on board the number of the wounded where the steamer had been bound to and whether we had formed part of the bombarding squadron on the nd


to all these questions he received satisfactory answers except to that regarding the destination of the ship


i informed him that the captain was severely wounded and that i was not acquainted with the orders under which we were sailing


application was forthwith made for convenience to transport the wounded to the hospital


the general immediately complied despatching an officer to hasten the arrangements and in less than half an hour a car and some easy chairs appeared which probably came from the villa of mr cortazzi the mayor of odessa on whose grounds the battery and troops were posted to the sad destruction of his flower beds


these troops were about three thousand in number and consisted of a battalion of infantry and some squadrons of cavalry lancers but their apparent number was very much increased by an immense crowd of people who hurried down from the city in all kinds of conveyances and whose curiosity and ignorance of the danger they were incurring led them into contact with the horrors of war


the general took an opportunity of passing a high compliment on the bravery of the captain officers and crew and of his own accord granted them permission to land any private property they might possess urging the necessity of immediate compliance under the apprehension of a rescue from the consort ships which he imagined might have been apprised of our situation by the signal guns we had fired in the morning


indeed he must have thought the whole fleet was at hand as he was most pressing and declared that he should be compelled to open fire again if the men were not landed forthwith


i wrote a few lines with a pencil to the commanding officer on board requesting him to land at once


a russian junior officer thrust his sword through the note conveying it in this manner to the beach with all the due forms of quarantine regulations and there consigned it to another russian officer who spoke english and who had made his appearance after my landing and had been stationed there as a medium of communication between the troops and the crew


strange to say this note never reached its destination


but in the meanwhile i was enabled to communicate the generals orders from the top of the cliff at about thirty yards from where the general stood and whence i could be heard by those in the vessel


general osten sacken could not for some time conceive what i could mean by a request that i made that he would set aside the encumbering rules of qua rantine he imagined such a step to be perfectly impossible and when awake to the real truth that such a desire was expressed as a means of facilitating further communications his astonishment vented itself in an assurance that the emperor himself would be compelled to submit to the stringent laws of this tyrannic power over the liberties of every newcomer into the country


the request i made was that we might be allowed libre pratique these two words the general kept repeating several times libre pratique libre pratique knitting his brows as if he wished to summon his faculties to the comprehension of the phrase which had no place in his understanding


at last turning to some of his aidesdecamp and the quarantine authorities standing by he repeated for the tenth time libre pratique as much as to say what is libre pratique gentlemen


some one spoke to him in russian on which he appeared to understand and gave me the above assurance


osten sacken appeared satisfied on seeing the boats put off from the ship with some of the crew on board but he kept anxiously peering through his opera glass into the fog with an expression of apprehension lest the fleet should come to wrest his prize from him


the two paddlebox boats brought on shore about a hundred and eighty men but were not allowed to return to the ship although at first the general had expressed a wish that some of the men might be retained for the service of the boats


the general put some questions regarding the calibre of the guns on board and then turned to an artillery officer to ask if they could indeed be of the size mentioned


he then commanded him to take a party of russians and go on board


this booted and spurred field officer who was not a young man was very awkward in executing the order he however contrived somehow or other to get into one of the two boats which stood rather too high on the beach for one to stride into with straps to his nether clothing


when he had cleared the shore with a crew of about forty or fifty russian infantry and was well at sea and whilst they were counting the men that had been landed the fog cleared up a little and two dark objects were seen approaching the scene of action at a distance of about half a mile


the consternation of the russians may be imagined the boat was immediately hailed to return and the prisoners were marched off under a strong guard to wards odessa the latter operation being far the easier of the two


the niger and vesuvius now came to the rescue


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 iv


the bond of villainy brokenthe committal


sharkey was right in his observation


his sagacity and keeness assured him of the utter impossibility of concealing the child for so long a period as three weeks from the prying eyes of the neighbourhood and the vigilance of the po lice


his schemes were all thwarted by the unexpected detention of the vessel to use his own expression the game was up and there was nothing left but to make a clean bolt of it and leave his darling carry to bear the brunt of the storm which he saw gathering around


it was no part of his nature to make her acquainted with his design of selfsecurity


on parting from her in the morning therefore he advised her to keep quiet and not leave the house while he would traverse the city and as certain whether suspicion was directed towards the right quarter


on quitting the place he made for a low lodginghouse in clarencestreet where he lay perdu till dusk then exchanging his own gar ments for those of a stockman shaving off his whiskers and disguising his person in every manner that his ingenuity could suggest he set out to make his way overland to port phillip


so satisfied was he with his perfect transformation that he he went to a livery stable where he was in the habit of putting up his horse and actually obtained the animal by representing to the stableman that muster sharkey his measter had sent un for un


good said he with a chuckle on riding off


jem is pretty sharp ive managed him it will puzzle most of the cute chaps up the country to find jacob sharkey out in this pro fessional costume


now for the dog l can trust him devil a one else


softlys the word carry wont dare to show her nose out till she hears my knock


egad


twill be some time before she does i reckon poor girl


it is ra ther a scurvy trick im playing her but whats the use of the pair being in for it


besides women invariably find more sympathy than men and get through these sort of things infinitely better


i particularly upon whom the beaks have had a down so long should have a poor chance


i fully uphold bold turpins opinion ye tobymen of the kings highway listen a moment to my lay if you would be safe keep far away from darbies and pigs and hum box


dick was a gallant lad but he wanted caution


gently old fellow he remarked to his horse well pull up here


he then dismounted and placing the animal under the shadow of the high bank nearly op posite carrys cottage crept stealthily to the back and unloosed the dog from his chain


the sagacious animal as if conscious of his masters wishes did not give the slightest bark but fol lowed him silently out


sharkey mounted his horse rode slowly for a few hundred yards then putting the spurs to him dashed off at a hard gallop in the direction of parramatta


leaving him and his fortunes for the present we will turn to those of his forsaken partner mrs naillit


the prey of a thousand terrors the natural consequences of guilt her apprehensions made tenfold by the continued absence of sharkey she dared not venture from the house for two days and then only at night to procure some neces saries for the sustenance of annie and herself


the first shop she entered reminded her of the crime by a placard setting forth in huge cha racters the loss of the child and offering a re ward for its recovery


she had scarcely voice to ask for the articles she wanted and when procured she hurried home fear winging her steps


worn out by the horrors of agonizing suspense she determined to deliver up little annie to her parents and invent some tale which might account for her detention


having taken this resolution she laid her head on the same pillow with the child and slept for the first time since the commission of her crime calmly and peacefully


but this resolve was adopted too late


at early morning mr sergeant parley of the police paid her a visit armed with a warrant for her apprehension


storming and remonstrance were equally vain with him nor could he be made to feel the indelicacy and impropriety of searching every part of the house


up stairs and down stairs and in my iadies chamber went the in defatigable official until he found the evidence of his case the object of his search he had already secured


having restored little annie to her mother he proceeded to place mrs nail lit in the watchhouse


on the following day she was introduced to the policeoffice and the notice of the gentleman whose turn it was to preside mr eddy tor rent


mr eddy torrent was a man of the people he sprung from the bosom of the people and although he had attained to a remarkable ele vation above the masshigher perhaps than his most ardent desires ever anticipated or his glowing visions ever picturedyet he did not look down upon the people no he felt the ever longing hope of raising them up to him


this he constantly saidnot a public dinner or meet ing did he attend that he did not put forth this praiseworthy proclamation


he never uttered it by way of claptrap no not he it was a pure emanation of the heart it was a portion of him born with his birth and strengthened with his strength


some of his schoolfellows and early companions fancied they felt a frigidity had usurped the previous warmth of his manner but they were ignorant people and no judges of such things


if mr eddy torrent seemed cool it was only seeming and a desire to support the dignity of the greatnesses which were not thrust upon him but were the rewards of his own ta lents and perseverance


cromwell the great reformer was of humble origin mr eddy tor rent


and he were synonyms


never did syd ney produce a greater reformer than mr eddy torrent


never did the veteran stubbs look more carefully after a nuisance than did mr eddy torrent after an abuse


every public de partment which came within his jurisdiction was turned inside out every nook corner and pi geonhole had to expose its documents dusty musty tattered and torn to explain themselves every clerk from three hundred down to sixty pounds per annum was compelled to show him how he earned it and if he failed to do this satisfactorily woe betide him


it was in vain to tell mr eddy torrent that his explana tions were explicit and correct although he could not understand them


he looked upon this as evasion merely


he not understand everything indeed


he not understandthe thing was too absurd to be dwelt upon for a moment


if he were not gifted with omnis cience how came he to be raised to the rank he enjoyed


this question these ignorant and errorcommitting men shrank from answering


they quailed before the stern brutus iook and white neckerchief of mr eddy torrent


before such a man what chance had the cri minal to pass unscathed


mr torrent took his seat on the bench the prisoner stood with her head hung down before him unable to meet the piercing glance of his auger eye


fortunately she had secured the professional services of the great tarryowen and the illustrious breadman then it hard to say whether she would have left the court alive or not


your worship said mr tarryowen be fore commencing i have to propose silence uttered inspector tearin in a very loud tone to some hummers in the back ground


not exactly that your worship but that all witnesses be turned out of court


this proposition of my learned friend said mr breadman cannot i conceive be objected to upon any known or unknown principle of law for as your worships will see upon re ferring to the latest edition of dionysius upon hearsay evidence that not only were olympiads nearly subverted but the julian era was com pelled to undergo the cesarean operation which as your worship being a very abstruse classical scholar must know materially affects the womb of time and the rules of nature


mr torrent having graciously acknowledged the compliment paid to his collegiate education ordered the witnesses to be taken out of court and placed in the cells of the watchhouse until they were wanted a proceeding which seemed to give universal satisfaction except to the wit nesses themselves


sargin parley was the first witness called and he being in the police force and active and intelligent withal proved all he knew


this of course subjected him to a severe crossexamina tion by mr breadman in the absence of his senior mr tarryowen who was then deeply en gaged in scratching his wig


now witness mind what youre at said mr breadman remember my eye and the eye of the court are upon you


its all my eye


whispered a gentleman who was employed in taking notes


you say your name is parley sir now mind again i caution you what is your other name sir can you tell me that sir


of course i can peter


and who gave you that name


i dont know of my own knowledge be cause then it is not evidence said mr bread man triumphantly


it seems to me replied mr torrent that it is evidence


your worship evidence


what a man does not know


stop a moment


mr breadman the witness made use of the word because let him ex


plain it he must not be put down without a cause


well your worship resumed the witness because my grandmother who held me when i was christened at two months old was blind deaf and dumb consequently she could not in form me to any remarkable certainty the name of the gentleman what was kind enough to chuck water in my face and my faculties wernt so overpoweringly bright as to be able to take much notice of what was going on


are you satisfied mr breadman asked mr torrent


not at all


then you had better sit down


l am


at torneys appear to me to take a great deal too much on themselves


call the next witness


from the acerbity and tartness with which mr torrent uttered these words it was per fectly evident that he was tiffed


even great men will occasionally get out of temper


whatever biographers may relate about sir isaac newtons philosophy under the most trying circumstances we venture to assert that when his little dog diamond knocked down the candle amongst his papers and by the act destroyed the calculations of years that sir isaacs pathetic observation ah diamond


diamond


thou little knowest what thou hast done had by way of tailpiece a smart application of shoe leather to diamonds hindquarters and a cur tailment of his rations for several days


a mans temper like a fishpond must sometimes be ruffled


your worship said mr tarryowen hastily as you seem determined to prevent me as an advocate from doing my duty for the honor of the profession i shall leave the court


and that learned gentleman followed the words by appropriate peripateticism


and i rejoined mr breadman shall pursue the same course not only for the reasons which my learned friend has advanced but for another and considerably more powerful one one which will be thoroughly understood and appreciated by all who claim the rights and privileges of free citizens namely that it is my luncheon time


having uttered this forcible appeal to the feelings mr breadman took up a library of law books from the table with a sort of air which would almost have induced persons who did not know him to imagine that he was about to swal low them


he placed these carefully under his arm made his way through the crowd and dis appeared


the case was then proceeded with quietly and ended in the committal for trial of mrs naillit for childstealing


bail however was allowed and two good men and true worth ten thousand pounds apiece and the rest having been speedily procured and sworn to that factthe lady was herself again


to be continued


there was an ancient abbey in good sooth timeworn and gray and often in my boyhoods hours i thitherward would stray for i was fond of loneliness my playmates joyous calls could never charm me like the silence of its mouldering walls


and musing there id sit me down and dream of olden times when from its belfry tower rang out the merry christmas chimes when knights oped wide their castle gates to all of low degree and thought it no disgrace to join the poor man in his glee


and ever as the sunlight streamed across some crumbling tomb a long array of cowled monks would start from out the gloom and pacing through the cloistered aisles with slow and noiseless tread those holy men meseemed did chaunt a re quiem for the dead


full many a year hath passed away through many a clime ive strayed since last i saw that ancient place or dreamt beneath its shade een now wide seas between us roll but me mory recalls all fondly and how vividly


that abbeys hoary walls


the story of the old wolf


translated from the german


chapter i sir isegrim the wolf wag grown old


the years that had panssed over his head too had brought with them changes hardly to be expected in a wolf at any season of life


all his fierceness and forocity were gone he was no longer tile slayer of sheep and terror of shepherds no he had lost his teeth and was now a philosopher


to superficial observers perhaps the alteration in his character might not have been very obvious but he himself knew thatlhe was no more what he had beenthat his lnpuline prowess had departed from him


he resolved accordingly on showing mankind what a reformation ilad overtaken him


one of my brethren says he once assumed the garb of a lamb but he was still a wolf at heart


i reverse the fable i seem outwardly a wolf but at heart i am a lamb


appearances are deceptive whatever prejudices may le excited against mne by my exterior with which i was born and for which i ami not accountable i have that within which passeth show


trust that i feel an exemplaryhorror for the bloodthirstiness of illy juvenile ilnstincts and the savage revellings of lily maturer years


i amll determinded there fire to accommodate my way of life to the usages of societyto mnarch with the spirit of the age to cut no more throatsto become in short quite civilizedand set an example which may have the effect of eventually bringing all the wolves of the forest into the same relputlable position as my owl


full of these thoughts and possibly some others which he kept to hinself lie set out upon a journey to tile hut of the nearest shepherd which lie soonl reached


all i lly worthy miy excellent friend cried lie i have been looking for you the whole day


i want to commlunicate a piece of news to you


youn miust know that i have been struggling des perately of late to regenerate my character


the ncormity of my past career haunted as it is with phantonms of blood and massacre is for ever before mlly eyes and humlbles uneoh dear


i how much nobody canl guess


i have grown very penitent and very very softhearted altogether shepherd


here isegrim hung his head over come for a moment by hils emotions


still shepherd stilland this is what i want you to undcrstandi find i call make after all but slight progress by mlyself


i go on smack smooth enough for a while and thenll my zeal flags


i re quire encouragement and sympathy and the com panionship of the good and the gentle who could give me advice and point out to me the path of rectitude continually


in short you see ifif you wouhld be but generous enough to allow a sheep or two of enlightened principles to take a walk out with nme occasionally in tile cool of the evening along soime sequestered valley sacred to philosophic mnusings i feel that it would prove of the greatest advantage to nle ill a imoral and in tellectual point of view


but illah i perceive you are laughing at me may i ask whether there


is any thing in mlly request that strikes you as ridliclous


permit me to answer your question by another said tile shepherd with a sneer pray master wolf how old are you


old enough to be fierce enough exclaimed isegrim with somethlig of tile ferocity of old days in his tone and eye let ime tell you that master shepherd


and like all the rest you have been telling me it is a lie was the shepherds response


you would be fierce if you could but to your mortification you are grown imbecileyou have the will but want the power


yoear nmouth be trays you ift your tongie dont old deceiver i yet tlhmugh you can bite no longer you are still i ldare say able to mumble and on tile whole i shouldnt famcy being a sheeps head and shoulders in your way just now


whats bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh says tile proverb amll i believe you are one of the last animals one colld expect to filsify it


ill take right good care to keep youi at crooks length my crafty neighbour make yourself certain of that i in addition to tile list of donations to tile me chanics institute already published they have received leybourns mathemat ics a valuable


work years old from captain westmoreland of the arab


the interest thus manifested in one whose occupation deprives him of the privileges of those who constantly reside on shore while it does honor to the individual affords an example worthy tile imitation of every captain that visits our port


also the manners and customs of all nations fromm air


uiblincommunicated


iv the will ivatch we have adelaide journals to the th ultimo


the following are the prices at the millsflour s a fine per bs


t as seconds ditto t thirds ditto s


bran per bs is


id pollard ditto s


wheat s a os indian os


but our private advices state that tile flour miarket was on tile rise we have elsewhere noticed the demandl for frlour for south australlaa great numbler of houses and shops are unoccnplied and instead of building the pro prietors of town allotments are cultivating them


john snook a ii


davis co john new mnalln and several others hlave failedlthe case of the ille e dlordcauxi


was still exciting consider able discussion inl tile newspapersthe governor left oni tile th on a visit to wellington aid tile country around lake alberttlle sayings and doings of the municipal corporation of purely local interest occupy a large portion of thejoeur nalsseveral murders had been committed by the natives at port lincoln amr


birown and his hutkeeper mlr


biddile his housekeeper and a shepherd had fthlen victims in two attacks made by the same party of natives


tlnee blacks in tile charge of a ortland bay policeman arrived fromn port fairy in the essing ton they proceed to port pilliip by the first opportunity


one of the blacks uamed roger is said to ai the murderer of mr codd who was killed about two years ago timhe other two natives are ill custody on tile charge of killing cattle and molesting the settlers


tllese blacks will be tried for their respective offences at melbourne tiinvansittarl cutter arrived here on wed nesday last having on board lieutenants forsytho i and pasco of h m stloop beagle who have boeen surveylng bankss straits


they report the coastt from the bay of fires to swan island to be mluch out in its latitudethe eddistone point being alone nine miles to the northward of the position assigned to it on the present charts


the cutter will leave here on sunday the th to join the beagle at kents group when the survey of bankss straits will be resumed


goose island where the lighthouse is erecting is four miles i to the northward of its present position on the i charts


the wvilliam the fourth barque of ho bart town was at preservation island last month having been sixteen months out she had four t hundred barrels of oil and was bound for kanga roo island


tihe boat of the thomas crisp schooner was folrnd on preservation island conm pletely broken to piccescommunuicated


capt


gwatkin of the scout while at port phillip was robbed by fobur armed bushlrangers


the particulars of the robbery will be found ill another column


as captain gwatkin was about to sail for launceston ihe received the letter from i which we extract


the party which went out last night caught them at mr hunters station on the plenty they shot one of the bushlrangers and bailed the others up in a hutthey must sur render


express ilas just been received for more force they ihave gone out to burn the lsut down


the bushrangers shot mr ogourlay int thie ar and mr chamberton in tihe arm most likely they will be brought in tonight dead or alivesth april


insolvent court wecdnesday may mrs


harvie mr atkinson appointed permanent as signee


the coimmissioner proposed that the meeting should be adjourned to st june as there was a similar case in progress through the court at hobart town and he should wish to be guided by what passed there


w henniker and r greenhill a number of debts proved and mr atkinson appointed per manent assignee the creditors relinquished all claim upon the furniture of the insolvents meeting adjourned for further proof of debts and discharge to th may


james roberts a few debts proved meeting adjourned to th may


h wilmot meeting adjourned for proof of debts and discharge to th may mr atkinson appointed permanent assignee


c roach discharged


s smillie meeting adjourned to th may


insolvents to meet on wednesday th may


thomas jordan first meeting of creditors jas rolls adjourned meeting and on discharge john fleming first meeting of creditors james bar clay adjourned mneeting and on discharge


we observe by the papers that a society for tihe suppression of vice has been established at hobart town an asylum for the reception of unfortunate females is to be opened


we hope the society may be productive of good


mn twinning the contractor is proceeding apace with the erection of a chapel in the rear of the gaol for the use of the prisoners confined there and where the town gang will also in future be congregated on sundays


supreme courton friday his honor mr justice montagu passed sentence upon murphy and polbrook who were convicted at last crimi nal sessions the former for the robbery at mr mndles store the latter for stealing a wood chain which lie sold to a shopkeeper ini elizabethstreet


murphy was sentenced to be transported for seven years and polbrook who is a mere lad two months imprisonment with hard labor and to be once privately wihipped during that period


this is the first sentence of the kind in this colony which we remember to have been passed although with young offenders it used to be a very common onerepcolonial times


coalsve learn with pleasure that tire pump for keeping the port arthur colliery clear of water which has been for some time thie grand obstruction was senlt downl from hobart town about ten days ago


we trust the autlrorities there will exert themselves in its erection and application


we regret to learn that after it was ready it lay at the ordnance store above a week before it was dispatched to its destlnation at which we are surprised as the characteristic of that department is punctuality and dispatchlb


inquvstanother inquest was iheld on thurs day week st the jolly lhatters upon the body of mrs smith wife of the man who expired so sud


denly ahbout ten days befothre


it appeared from the evidence that the deceased was addicted to very intemperate ihabits not having we were in formed been sober since her husbiands death


a verdict was returned of suffocation from drinking


ibid money expecteuit is ruimoulred we do not vouch for its truth that there are private let ters in town by recent arrivals stating that a large sumt of mosney is on the high seas front loli don to this colony to be investetl on colonial se curity at a moderate rate of interest on no account to exceed tens some persons say eight per cent


we will only add for the sake of the colony we wish the report may be trucibid


secondary


puunisimentsw


o have been favoured with a copy of a pamphlet publlshed hil london entitled l the merits of a hloome and of a colonial process of a social and of a separate system of convicntmanagement discussed of which our old townsmen mr f m innes for merly editor of the tasmanian is the author wve have not as yet had timne to peruse it but shall do so forthwitlh and report accordinglyibid


bushntanonon friday afternoon last that notorious bushranger martin cash who has been so long at large and committed so many depre dations having with his usual recklessness ven tured into town was apprehended in harrington street and lodged in custody by constable kirby and another constable whoso name is we believe willlamscolonial times


tile critcr aoain mr watson and mr thompson arc already known to the public as par ticularly adapted for the melodramatic acting than which nothing is better suited to the tastes of the launcestonians


they are fond of scenes of blood and death and are particularly partial to anything that savours of the terriflc


ii i thats a beauty


thils i new


cha


ibles owxallet


the irish dragoon


t icontnuedtrom


our publication o


cion


sday last


chapter iithn scaps


when the dissolution of parlia mentwas announced the following a morning in dublin its interest in


certain circles was manifestly in


creased by the fact that godfrey i omalley was


at last open to arrest for as in olden times certain c gifted individuals


possessed some happy immunity against death by fire or sword so theswrthy omal ey


seemed to enjoya no less valua ble privilege and for many a year had passed among the myrmidons of the law as writproof


now however the charm seemed to have yielded and prettymuch with the same feeling as a storming party


mmihybe supposed to experienceon the lay that a breach is reported as practicabledidthe honest attorneys retainedinthe various suits against him rally round each other that tmorning in the four courts


bonds mortgages postdbits promissory notesin fact everydma giiable species af invention for rais ing the o alley excheqger


for tl


e preceding thirty ye is were handed about on allsides


suggesting to the mind of an uninterested observer


the notion that had the aforesaid omalley been an independent and


nabsolute monarch instead of merely being the member for galway the kingdom


over whose destinies he had been called to preside would have suffered not a little from a de preciated currency and an extrava gant issue of paper


be that as it might one thing is clear the whole estates of the family could not pcssi bly pay onefourth of the debt and the only question was one which occasionally arises at a scanty ditiner on a mailcoach roadwho was to bethe lucky individual to carve the joint whcresomaiuyvere


sure to go off hungry


it iis nowa trial of addressbe tween these various and highlygitted gentlemen who should first pounce upon the victim and when the skill of theircaste is taken into consider ation who will doubt that every fea sible expedient for securing him twias resorted


to


wvh ile writs were struck sagainst him in dublin emissaries vweie despatched to the various sur rounding counties to procure others in theevent of his escape


no eixeat were sworn iand


water bailiffs en gagedtofollow him on thehigh seas a nd as thegreat nassau balloon did not exist in those days no imagina ble mode of escapeaptpeared possiblei and bets


were offered atlong odds that


within ttventyfour hours the latemember would be enjoying his stiumn cum dignitate iu his


ajestys gaolof nevwgate


expectation was at the highest contuience hourly increasing suc scesd all but certainwhen in the mridst of all this high bounding hope the jdreadful rumour spread that omalley was


no more


one had seetit just aive minutes before in the evening edition of falkners paper nother heard it in the courts afthird overheard the chiefjustice statiiigit to the laster of the rolls and lastly a breathless witness arrived from collegegreen with the news


that dalys club house was shut up


and the shutters closed


to describe the constcrnation the intelligence caused on every side is impossibld norhiing in histoiy equalr it exeplt iperhaps the entrance of the fencb army intoimoscow de


sertedl and forsaken by its formiier inhabitants


while terror and dis may theirefore spread midamid that wide idil respectabl body who formed vomaleys creditors the preparations for his funeral were going on with very rapidityrelays b of horses were ordered at every stage t oifthe journey and it was atinounced f that in testimony of this worth a gi large party of hin friends were to s accompany his remains


to portumna w abbeya testmuich moreintdicative b of resistance in the eventtof any


at tempt to arrest the body than of a anything like reverence for their ie a parted friend


a such wasthe state of matters in s dublin when a letter reached me si one morning at omalley castle h whose contents will at once explain b the writers intention and also serve to introduce my unworthy self to my reader


it ranthus p gar charley youruncle godfrey whose debts igod pardon him are more numer h ous than the hairs of his wig was h obliged to die here last night


we did the thing for him complety and all doubts as to thereality of the event are silenced by thecircumstau c tial detail of the newspaper that he tas confined six weeks to his bet


from a cold he caught ten days ago while on guard repeat this for itse better we had all the same story t till he comes to life again which maybe will not take place before tuesdayor wednesday


at the same time canvass the county for him and say hell be with his friendsmnext wedk and up in woodford and the c scariff barony say he died a true catholic it willserve him on the hustings


lmeet us in athlone on saturday and bring your uneles mare with


youhe says hed rather ride home and tell father mac shane to have a bit of dinner ready about four oclock for the corpse


i can get nothing after he leaves l mountmenlickno more now from yours ever


b harry boyle


acdalyts about eight inthe evenlag cualans omallryes


omalley castle galway


whenthis not overclear document reached


me was the sole inhabitantl of omalley castle a very ruinous pile odf incongruous masonry that stood in a wild and dreary part of the county of galway bordering on the shannon on every side stretch ed the property of my uncle or at least what had once been so and indeed so numerous wereits present claimants that he would have beena a subtle lawyer who could have pro nounced upon the riglfrtul onwor


the dctmesne around thecastle con tained some wellgrown and hiand some timber and as


the soil ieg undulating and fertile presented many features of beauty


beyond it all was sterile bleak and barren


long tracts of brown heathciad mountain or not less unprofitable valleys of tall and waving fern were all that the eye could discern except wherethe broad shannonexpanding into a tranquil and glassy jake lay stilland motionless beneath the dark mountains afewislands with someic


ruiined churches and a round tower alone breaking the dreary waste of water


here it was that i had passed my infancy and l my youth and here now stood at the age of seventeen quite unconscious that


the world contained aught fairer and brighter than that gloomy valley with its rugged frame of mountains


swhen a mere child i was left an orphan to the care of my worthy uncle


my father whose extrava gance had well sustainied the family sreputation had squandered a large and handsome propertyin contesting elections for his native country and in keeping up that system of un limited hospitality for which ireland in general and galway moreeste cially was renowned


the result was as might be expected ruin and beggary he died leaving every one of hisestates encumbered with heavy debts and the only legacy he left to his brother iwas a boyi of four years of age erltreating him with his last breath be any thing you like to him godfrey but a father or at least such a one as i have proved


god liey omalleysome short time previous had lost his wife and when this new trust was committed to him he resolved never to remarry but to rear me up as his own child and the inheritor of his estates


hlow weighty and onerous an obligation this latter might prove the reader can form somne idea the intention was however a kind one l and to do my uncle justice he loved me with all the affection of a warm and open heart


from my earliest years his whole anxiety was to fit me for the part of a country gentleman as he reghirded that characterviz


i rode boldly with foxhounds i was ibiout the best shot within twenty miles of us lcould swiinmthe sharinoni at holy island i drove fourinhand better than the coaclhmnan himself arid fron finding a hare to hooking a salmon my equal could not be found from killaloe to banagher


these were the stale of imty endowimentis besides which the parish priest had taught me a little latin a little t french and a little geometry and a i great deal of the life and opinions of st jago who presided over a holy well in the neighbourhood and was held in very considerable repute


when i add to this portraiture of my accomplishments that i was nearly six feet high itrh more than a common share of activity and strength for my years and noiucon siderable portion of good looks i have firished my sketch and stand before myreader


it is now time i should return to sir harrys letter which so com pletely bewildered me that but for the assistance of father roach i should have been totally unable to make out the writers intentions


by his advice i immediately set out for athlone where when i arrived i found my uncle addressing the mob from the top of the hearse and re counting his miraculous escapes as a new claim upon their gratitude


sthere was nothing else for it boys the dublin people insisted on my being theirmember and besieged the clubhouse


i refusedthey threatenedi grew obstinatethey furious


ill die first said i gal way or nothing i hurrah from the mob


omalley for ever


and ye s


ee i kept my word boysi did die i diedthat evening at a quarter past eight


there read it for your selves theres the paper


was waked and carried out and here i am after all ready to die in earnest for youbut never to desert you


the cheers here were deaferiing and my uncle was carried through the market down to the mayors s house who being a friend of the opposite party was complimented with three groans thenupthe mall tb the chapel beside which father mac shane resided


he was then suffered to touch the earth once more whenp


aving shaken hands with all of his constituency within reach he entered the house to par take of the kindest welcome and t best reception the good pliest could f afford him


my uncles progress iomeward was a triumph


the real secret of his t esdape had omchow come out and shis popularity rose to a white heat


t


an its little


omalley cares for the a law


bad


luck to it its himself cai laugh at judge and jury


arrest i him na hneklishhitch a weasel sleep c such were the enco miums that greeted hini ashe passed s on towards home while shouts of d joy and blazing bonfires attested that his success was regarded as a ational triumph


d


the west has certainly its stoog e features of identity


had my uncle e possessed theclaims of the immortal t howardhad he united in his per g son allthe attributes which confer y alastingand an ennobling fame upon k humanityhe might have passed on e unnoticed and unobserved but for the man that had duped a judge and if escaped the sheriff nothing was suf ficiently flattering to mark their ap y probation


the success of the ex plit was twofold the news spread n far and near and the ery story d cahvassed the ounbry better than r billy davern


himsel the athlone s attorney this was the prospect now before a us and however little my readers y may sympathise with


my taste i must honestly avow that i looked y forward to it with a most delightful sfeeling


omalley castle was to be sthe centre of operations and filled with my uncles supporters while i a mere stripling and usually treated sas a boy was to be intrusted with an imlportantant mission and sent t off to canvass a distant relation with d whom uncle was not upon terms and e who might possibly beapproachable y by a younger branch of the family with whom he had never any col s isionl nvr n c


my second tour


by tub author op out op habness


chapter v and last


from lugano we proceeded to como a delightful ride of about miles


at chiasso we left the swiss and entered the austrian territories when to our surprise we found that one of our vetturinos was without his passport


he was accordingly forbidden to proceed further and had to retrace his steps after having made arrange ments for rejoining us on the swiss side of the splugcn


until then his carriage had to be driven by one or other of my sons who all enjoyed the oppor tunity of showing off their dexterity as australian whips


our juvenile jehus occasionally alarmed the female portion of our party by their speed and decision down some of the steep declivities we had to pass but no accident occurred by reason of their coachmanship


on arriving at como we took apartments at the angelo facing the lake and after dinner took an hours row on its still and lovely waters


we pro ceeded a sufficient distance before it became dark to obtain something like an insight into the exquisite beauty of its shores but it was not until the next day that its full blaze of loveliness burst upon our enraptured sight


no words can convey any adequate idea of the impression such a scene produces


pictures we have all seen in abundance of this farfamed lake and the eve perhaps may be previously prepared hy such pic tures for the visual reality but the effect upon the imagination and the feelings no one can conceive who has ndt ascertained it by actual experience


the mobt beautiful portion of the lake lies between the town of como and the villages of bellagio on the eastern iside and cadcnabbra on the western


we traversed this portion in a steamer which runs daily to clico land ing at bellagio and waiting there for the steamers return which gave us about three hours to ook about ns


we had time to visit four villas upon the lake of which tha most remarkable waa the villa


sommariva l f situated among terraces bordered with myrtle hedges feet high and perfumed with citron groves


the villa is in fact a palace and realizes in its apportion ments both within and without all that the feet or novelist would dearer to depict ts distinguishing feature however to the traveller is the rich collection of sculpture which the villa con tains


among others is the celebrated cupid and psyche of canova a creation of art that for a time makes one regardless of the natural charms in the midst of which it is enshrined


mythological subjects are little to my taste even when handled by the greatest masters of the pencil and the chisel


leda danae and europa with their re spectivo loyers in the shape of a swan bull and shower of gold aro unvcrities to me in every sense of the word and when the admirers of high art show me anything of the kind in painting or sculpture i can only exclaim si mihi ostendis sie ineredulu


odi


but this fable or allegory or whatever it may be properly called of cupid and psyche is a beautiful conception in itself and well worthy the treatment it has received at the hands of both christian poets and christian artists


looking upon the soul as the divine companion of man but subject to the influences of his will and therefore capable of being neglected or abused until all trace of its divinity disappears it may be said that under such circumstances the soul is lost or banished and that its restoration or recovery takes place when the will to which it is allied sees it in its true light and conscious of its immortal destiny and profound capacity of the good and true yearns for its communion with asympathy and affection that bind the two in an indissoluble tie


psyche is the soul so lost and found and cupid the love that yearns to take it to itself and whether we regard cano vas work asan embodiment of this idea or as the meeting of two devoted beings nbout to be mingled into one immortal spirit it is equally suggestive to the imagi nation of the most refined and touching sentiment


how any one could talk about the indelicacy of such a work is to me not only marvellous but disgusting


foul indeed must bo the mind that could seo iu this exquisite group any thing to offend the eye or inflame the passions


i do not wonder at those whose native air is italian selecting this almost elysian spot as the one most redolent of all that gives to that delicious climate such a peculiar nervetranquillizing and dolccfarniente charm


mario and grisi are about to settle there and already are pointed out to you the villas of madame pasta taglionithe celebrated dancerto say nothing of the numerous foreigners of distinction whose gardens and villos crowd its banks in all directions


it is as mild in winter as it is effulgent in summer snow seldom appearing on the hills and then remain ing only for a few hours


a spot is pointed out to you on its bhores where it issaid tho two plinys resided and where the elder carried on many of his scientific researches


in the lady of lyons bulwer makes his hero claude melnotte give de description of his imaginary palace by the lake of como but it is in fact an exact description not of one but of many villas in the same locality


we had almost forgotten tho villa of dest so famous as tho residence for some years of the unhappy queen of george iv when prince of wales it is now used as a barrack


of many poetic descriptions of the lake of como i select that cited by memory from taylors philip van artevelde


sublime but neither bleak nor baro nor misty are tho mountains there softly sublimoprofusely fair


up to their summits clothed in green aqd fruitful as tho vales between they lightly rise and scale the skies


and groves and gardens still abound for where no shoot could else take root tho peaks aro shelved and terraced rsund earthward appeir in mingled growth tho mulberry and maize auovo


the tressold vine extends to both tho leafy hado they love looks out tho white walld cottage here the lowly chapel rises near far down the foot must roam to reach


the lovely like and bending beach while choenut green and olivo gray chequer the sleep and winding way


after this i shall not attempt anything in the same strain myself but will insert here a few matter of fact lineb which were composed on the spot after our first row on the lake


it must be borne in mind that we were all very much fatigued with travelling and much more fitted to go to bed than make an excursion of any kind but the desire to find ourselves actually upon the lake of which we had heard so much was too great to be resistedand the result is as follows down tho till lake the rowers rowed us twas very warm nud rather dark kobo spoke eave when the boatmen showed us a thing or two wo ought to mark the plahing oar grew still more lulling i felt i soon should fall asleep and even oer tho boatmen pulling a sort of langour scemd to creop


in dreamy torpor on wo gilded v by binka with ovcry beauty stored whore madamo pasta now resided


and pliny senior ono explored so sound a trance did overtake us tuot in at length wo reached tho quay


the boatmen threo could rnnroely waite uev


till one cried florcelywhos to pay


bach a demand had disenchanted tho bovcn sleepers whot to pay j could cash in cenes uko these be wanted or asked for in so rude a way


tes man is mantho genus h mo is ia all climes to mammon tied nor less so on the banks of como than in the banka about cheapside


from como we proceeded by our carriages to lecco whee we stopped to breakfast and rested four hours during the hottest part of the day viz from till


we took a stroll m the marketplace which was re dolent of cheese in several varieties the place and neighbourhood being famous for that article and justly dear in that respect to all epicures therein


the heat and odours soon drove us back to our hotel which we left at a quarter past for varenna a delightful spot on the snore of como where we dined and clept


after dinner we took a row upon the lake starting at sunset and returning by moonlight hardly knowing to which to give the preference so exquisitely beau tiful was the scene around us under the soft hues of either


seo naples and die is a compliment to the beauty of that city which it well merits but without meaning any disparagement to the charms of the divine parthenone i would never theless say to those who have survived the sight of it well as you are alive dont die till you see como


fortunate am i to have seen bothshould i ever see them again i trust it will be when the people have become more worthy of their country when the tyranny that oppresses it is no moro and when italy equally freed from demagogues and despots is no longer a byeword among tho nations for all that is debased corrupt and contemptible


from varenna we travelled along the shores of the lake to clico and thence to chiavenna where we slept


a more delightful drive than the first portion of it it is impossible to conceive


the road is as it were through a succession of grottoes cut out of the rock close on the waters side and winds most pictu resquely at almost every hundred feet the road was made for the purpose of communicating with the pass of the stelvio and in addition to its other recom mendation is as level as a billiardtable and in the hottest day cool and dustless


chiavenna is beauti fully situated but in itself has nothing worth noting but an oldcastle in ruins from part of which a very charming view of the surrounding country may be had


here again as at lugano just as i was dropping off to sleep i was awakened by a burst of music from a very superior band of some eighteen or twenty who played for an hour in the courtyard and wrapped me for that time in one of those delicious reveries which made mo feel more than ever the force of that couplet in lalla rookh


and music toodear music that can touch


beyond all else the soul that loves it much


certainly there is something in well executed music in its effect both upon the heart and imagination which is overpoweringly exquisite to me it is a sort of spiritual opiate under the influence of which i ex perience what i cannot exactly describebut it is a state in which as othello says my soul hath her content so absolute that nothing further seems to be wanting to the completeness of its bliss


our breakfast place after leaving chiavenna was campo dolcino which we had found described in murray as in spite of its sweet sounding italia j name but a poor village with a poor inn on asavji dreary grassy plain


we were agreeably di ap pointed at finding the inn very good and wub gly added our testimonial to that of other travell jrl to its merits for as the reputation of the continental fans is often made and marred by murrays report f them the good word of those who visit them ia or


no small consequence to the host


by the way t somewhat ludicrous circumstance occurred here tac will always make me remember campo dolcino


after we had all finished breakfaat and were taking a sort of siesta with the exception of the juveniles tyho were chasing one another with some whips they iad made up came the hostess with a combined air of


mystery and solem nity to announce that my yorngest son had stolen from the mantelpiece a ailr candle extinguisher


seeing the incredulity expressed in our countenances she proceoded to state tfjat her little boy who had been waiting on us t breakfast had seen my little boy go to the mantelpiece and pocket the extinguisher


nonsense said i blandly but my wife whose blood was up at this slander of her pet brought out a positively tremendous exclamation of what was in tended to convey to the woman the idea of how dare you make when i cut tho sentenco short by desiring the alleged culprit to como up stairs which being done the following colloquy took place between us regy have you been pocketing anything off the mantelpiece


lor


pa no


this woman says that her child sawyou take away a bilver extinguisher


what a story


theres the extinguisher


and there it was sure enough perched on the ton of a very tall candle to which it secmn regy had amused himself by transferring it from its previous posi tion on a smaller ono


no sooner did tho woman per


ceive how the fact was than she went down on her knees for mercy hoping wo would not ruin her inn by mentioning the matter and begging forgiveness in the most abject manner


it was really painful to see the floor creatures humiliation she became pacified at ost and oven consented at our request to abstain from doing what she seemed rather inclined to do to take summary vengeance upon her own darling for not being more accurate in his observations


i thought it also a fit occasion to preach a lecture to my own flesh and blood on


the expediency of letting other peoples things aloneeven at an innespecially an italian one where silver extinguishers are not overabundant commodities on leaving campo dolcino we commenced our ascent of the splugen a pass which many prefer to that either of st gothard or the simpln


they are all so replete with grandeur and sublimity that it is difficult to say which is the most striking


the splugen ia perhaps tho wildest and has the longest and greatest number of galleries one of them being cut out of the solid rock for a distance of feet


the zigzag windings of the road aro also highly picturesque and the view from a terrace near a bridge crossing the medesino where a cataract pours down over a preci pice feet high is magnificent


on reaching tho inn at the village of splugen we were again in the swiss territories and were rejoined by our belvurino who had been obliged to separate from us at lugano


leaving splugen we recrossed the via mala and after a charming day found oursolves in the evening once more at coire


next day we travelled as far as raratz famous for its waters and vicinity to tho baths of pfeffers


hero wo passed the following day sun day all my party but myself making an excursion to visit the baths which according to tho guide books are situated inone of the most extraordinary and romantic spots v switzerland


ragatz itself is de lightfully situate and has a very excellent hotel which in the season attracts a considerable number of valetudinarian visitors


our next days journey was to bring us to zurich and we started therefore very early in order to enable us to breakfast at wallenstadt and afterwards steam down the lake of that name


after our embarkation thereon although it was a fino day the breeze becamo rather fresh so much so that i should have felt somewhat moro at my ease if i had not been just reading the following passage


io murray the lake of wallen stadt has the reputation of being dangerous to navi gate on account of sudden tempests but in this re spect it doos not differ from other mountain lakc


in january however the steamer was submerged by a squall and every soul on board fourteen in all perished


it was fished up from a great depth


after this little bit of historical informationcon sidering wo were then only in ti was not sorry to find ourselves at the end of the lake and once more upon terra firma


the heat was very groat and our vetturini tried hard to persuade us that we had better finish our journey by steamer down the lake of zurich as they were doubtful whether their horses would be able to reach it that evening


as they insisted however on being paid all the same wo declined and resumed our journey by land along the margin of fair zurichs waters


it is indeed a fair spotthe fairest perhaps of the kind in all swit zerland


it wa here that gessncr wrote his idylls and zimmerman his work on solitude and klopstock in one of his odes has also commemorated its beauties


thought i to myself if i were disposed to pass the remainder of my days in switzerland my dwelling should be on the lake of zurich


on our way we stopped to dine at rappersohwyl the bridge of which place is only feet broad and nearly a milo long


at zurich we passed two nights and one day


there is nothing very remarkable about the town but its in dissoluble connection with the history of the reforma tion will always make it an interesting spot


the reader need not be told that it was here where zuingle first preached its doctrines here also were born gessner lavater and pestalozzi


we parted here with our two vetturini who were very impudent be cause we would not give them more than francs each for a buonmano one was so haughty on the subject as to refuse to accept it but he ultimately condescendad to do so on seeing our determination to give him that orjiothing


he would have grumbled just as much if we had offered him francs


it is s part of the vocation of the italian vetturini never to be content


we had also to complain of some very extortionate charges on the part of the


host of the hotel baur and departed vowing ven


i genance in the shape of a public exposure letter j to the times newspaper c c none of which j threats we thought it worth while to carry into exe


cution though if pen and ink had been brought us on the spot and the diligence for schaffhausen had not been waiting for us we should certainly have drawn up a very elegant sketch of our grievances


we reached schaffhausen in four hours and after bespeaking beds and ordering dinner drove down to take a peep at the celebrated falls of the rhine


the best position from which to viow them is the castle of lauften which stands on a high rock overlooking the falls and is occupied by an artist who speaks english and charges a franc for admission


after a survey of the cataract from a little pavilion perohed on the edge of the cliff immediately above it you are conducted down several flights of steps to a projecting stage of woodwork which completely overhangs the rushing tor rent and is so near that the spray would very soon wet one through


i had myself carried down in a chair to this spot but the tremendous roar and amazing swift ness of the rushing roaring torrent was a trial of my nerves i could not very long stand


the artist who lives at this spot has a very fair collection of pictures and generally contrives to do a little business in that way with his visitors


i brought away with me for francs each coloured views of the devils bridge and the lake of frau


next day we hired an omnibus the diligence being full to take us to freyburg in breisgau on the line of the rhine railway


our way lay through a spot called the valley of hell for such is the meaning of its native name hollenthal a dreary pass through which moreau conducted his celebrated retreat m


the distance between freyburg and schaff hausen is only miles but we were fourteen hours in accomplishing it from the nature of the road which is very hilly and tedious


in one part of the gass we were brought to a standstill for nearly an our by the upsetting of a dray full of huge logs of timber part of which had tumbled into the torrent on one side of the road whilst the remainder formed a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts at removal


however we got to freyburg just before dark and next day journeyed by railway to manheira where we arrived about four oclock pm


after an excellent dinner we took a drive about the town which looked as cleon and white i as if it had beet just washed we drove also through i the public garrons near the rhine and feeling thirsty indulged in a most grateful potation of very excel lent beer wnich was brought to us in the carriage in sundry caracious mugs to which we did ample jus tice and did not mind who knew it


oh conven tionalisfj j how much do wo suffer for thy sake


what a tight and you keep over us


who that has been fairly buckled to your chariot can ever say that he is quttf j out of harness


well good night to man bei j memorable for that grateful drink of beer and what i had almost forgottena very superior bottle f sparkling hook to celebrate the th anniver sary of my birthday


it is not from any weakness on that score that i do nat mention my age but as it might be a reflection upon others who are not so strong minded i refrain and moreover it is not decorous to be explicit upon matters which good breeding requires should always bo kept in the dark


i never could exactly make out the reason unless it be the extremely praiseworthy motive of deceiving others in regard to a matter on which we cannot pobsibly de ceive ourselves


here we are once more on the rhine we have paid our fare from manheim to bingen andar steam ing along with the tide at about miles per hour


the most beautiful part of the rhine is between bonn and bingen but bingen itself and its neighbourhood are well worth visiting


it is situated near some of the most celebrated vineyards those of johannisberg and rudesheim not being very distant


the former is the property of prince metternich and consists of about acres divided into email compartments


some of the finest of the wines fetch ii is


a bottle when it can be bought but genuine johannisberg is very rarely purohaaaable


great port of that which i


i r


mi ii


mb is sold as such is from grapes which have been rejected on the estate itself aa not being up to the johannisberg mark of perfection in which event the juice is never permitted to enter the cellars of the chateau


at bingen wo proceeded per omnibus to krowz


nach to visit an old australian friend who was stavine therewith his wife for the benefit of her health


thev were delighted to see us as we were them and i found the place and their society so agreeable that i made a fortnights stay


the country around krewznach is charming and the village itself very picturesque the numerous hotels near the baths are all surrounded bv gardens and promenades which are filled in the sea son with visitors and in the afternoon the place has quite a holiday appearance when the people are col lected to hear the band which plays daily from to g pm besides an hour in the morning


i dont know whether the general reader will care to know anything about the chemical and physical qualities of the mineral water which attracts invalids of a certain class to krewsnach


its chief efficacy is in the cure of scrofulous and tubercular disease and the saline springs from which it is derived are taken both as a drink and a bath


the town is becoming a very popular wateringplace


among other visitors during my short stay was the duchess of sutherland who had como to try the effect of the waters


altogether it is a very pleasant place even to those who do not come for the sake of the waters and fully justified the satisfaction with which i found our australian friend was residing there


my own experience quite bore out the account he had given mo in a letter informing me pf his first location there which as it is graphic and amusing i take the liberty of transcribing verbatim living is very cheap here the country beautiful accommodation good and amusement sufficient


the season begins on the th may and ends th october though we shall probably remain until the middle of november returning in may


you drink the waters to the inspiring music of a decent band and the feed ing is not ugly


i miss my port but am getting over tho loss roughing it on hockeimer and champogne the bread is delicious and milk and coffee abundant


some ruinb of old castles in the neighbourhood in one of which mister luther took up his quarters protected by the elector and other big wigs against the threatened hostility of him and them of rome and a very pretty residence ho must have had perched on a fine hill surrounded as far as the eye can reach by vines beautiful land scape and be safe all tho while engorging his mutton and johannisberger


lucky dog


and nothing to pay


the table dhote bell is ringing they dina here at one oclock which i pronounce abominable


i shall resume tomorrow morning


st


a larded hare is no bad thing even at a one oclock dinner


we went in the afternoon to take a nearer view of old luthers residence when he had the benefit of the rules


the ruins of the old castle a little further on however interested us all much more


this castle is called the ithangraffenstein and of course has a legend attached to it


it appears that some stalwart thief of former days having made too free with the goods and chattels and wives and daughters of the neighbourhood and raised a considerable hubbub thought it necessary to get a strong castle for his de fence and enjoyment but not being a dabster atar chitecture made a bargain with his satanic majesty that if he hsm would find the bricks and mortar c and likewise the plans and un hi a up a strong castle on the rock hsm should have for his own the first living being that should enter after the castle was built


well the baron for the thieving bargainer was one of the old aristocracy being a deuce of a fellow for hunting had gono out early on the following morning to have a wob


hunt the poor wolf being hard pressed and never dreaming that a castle had sprung up over one of his favourite holes made direct for the old rock and was decidedly puzzled when he saw what had taken place but not having time just then to exhibit interrogatories went right through the open gate into the castle and so beoamethe devils own


now hsm thinking hed catch the baron himself was in an awful rage when he found he had only got for all his bricks mortar plans and trouble a miserable wolf so he ups with his tail and lets fly at the castle but taking a bad shot in his hurry hit the rock close to the foundation of the outer wall and split it right down


i dont mean to vouch for the truth of this story it is however implicitly believed in by the people here and i have seen the split which certainly carries in its appearance strong presumptive evidence that if the devil didnt do itsomething i was going to writesomebody else must


all i can say is come and see it yourself and wonder


looking back upon the places i visited and the dis tance i travelled during my absence from victoria i can hardly realise the fact that i am back again in melbourne and that a year has elapsed since my re turn


contrasts will occasionally present themselves to my mind that seriously discompose me


with all due reverence for the seas forests or caves and moun tains of this famed land i cannot with the memory fresh upon me of those i have so recently seen elsewhere perceive anything to excite my enthusiasm in them


station peak and mount macedon are all very well in their way bnt to the spectator that has vividly before his minds eye the jungfrau or the bernese alps or even the malvern hills the two former are tame and insig nificant


then too when one thinks of the rhine the italian lakes the mountain passes of the alps and the exquisitely variegated landscapes that spread in all directions over the surrounding country with their orchards of groves and woodstheir foliage fruits and flowersthoir green pastures and fields waving with corn the vine and the olivewhen one i say thinks of all this in taking a dusty windy drivefor dusty or windy it ever isto the beach or st kilda or anywhere else it is impossible not to feel that for whatever else it may be famous beauty of scenery is decidedly not a distinguishing feature of the environs of melbourne


i i left kreuznach with regret for my leave taking with my friends there reminded me that my holiday was coming to an end and that i must hasten back to london to make preparations for my return to austra lia


they accompanied us as far as bingen where we slept and on the following morning we reembarked on the rhine arriving the same evening at cologne


we had just time to get a moonlight view of the ca thedral and to purchase a small cargo of the veritable eau for australian consumption


the day following we proceeded by railway to brussels next day to os terland dover which we reached at midnightand the next brought us safely back to the british metro polis and so endedmy second tour


the mysteries of sydney


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


part lichapter xi


some passages in the life of a vagabond


continued


well to proceed with my history said lipey to young daylight as they sat in the cell engaged in manufacturing cabbagetree hats i was now a regular thief


like a boy standing on the brink of the river afraid to jump in for fear of being drowned so did i hesitate to plunge into the sea of crime but when that feel ing was got over i became as bold mad and reckless as my companions and tutors in guilt


nay i may say without flattering myself for every one likes to be at the head of his profes sion that after spicy was suddenly removed from this world of trouble there was not my equal in our school for cunning hardihood and desperation


poor spicy muttered lipey as the recol lection of his old pals untimely end touched some chord in a heart not entirely barren though choked up with noxious and unhealthy weeds


poor spicy


the world lost a bloomer when they sent you down the ropewalk


this is how it happened daylight he con tinued raising his voice though still there was a touch of sadness in itas we got older spicy the weasel and i took to the higher branches of the art as naturally as young ducks to the water


sneaking and looking after pock ethandkerchiefs were beneath our notice and we became burglars


many a nice job we did in a rare workmanlike manner and were never de tected


our expertness was only equalled by our cunning but these were surpassed by our luck


though our persons and occupations were well known to the officers and runners of every police office in london yet they never could bring a case home to us however strong their suspicions


but we lost the toss at last daylight


we had been pretty busy through the winter and made up our minds to leave off playing the dangerous game for a time when one evening spicy came in hastily to our lodgings and said lipey ive just been put up to a prime job easy as a glove to do a rank gift my pippin


notwithstandin weve agreed to cut the screwin and burstin iine it vould be a temptin of pro vidence to let this here slip by


recollect spicy i replied the pitcher that goes to the well often gets broken at last


them vords is strordinary good as provibs and does werry vell for parsons old vimmen and sich fry but not for leary coves like us its no use a talkin lipey it must be done ar terwards praps ve vill hook it into the country and valk on the gureen grass through the shadowy guroves among the young lambses vith the gal vich ve loooves as betsy is always a chantin in my ear


that comes o being bred among barndoor sawages and skyblue carriers as ve calls cows how ever to my thinkin its shockin ignorance


guv me the big town and the smoke lipey i were born there and i means to die there


ah poor fellow sighed lipey and speak ing episodically he died there without mean ing it daylight and long before his time


spicy then went on to tell me that the weasel in his travels had picked up a lad rather a fast un who lived with his uncle a silversmith and jeweller in hartletts buildings holborn


he was a man of retired habits who kept very little company always went to chapel three times on a sunday and to bed at nine oclock every night


no one slept in the house but the old gentleman and his nephew and the latter soames was his name i shant easily forget it urged by the persuasions of the weasel agreed to lend him his assistance in despoiling the premises of its valuable property


in the progress of the affair spicy met young soames at the white horse in clare market a house of call for thieves and suggested in order to make it all right that he should give his uncle a sleeping draught on the following sunday when he returned from the performance of his religi ous duties


unfortunately for spicy the lad adopted the advice


as the scheme was further unfolded to me it seemed as plain as possible and less hazardous than many in which we had been engaged but whether it was that i had determined to abandon my desperate trade for a time or that some mysterious and incom prehensible power was at work in my mind to forewarn me i cant exactly tell but i never felt so strong a disinclination before to join in an adventure


nay i went so far as to use all the arguments that came into my head to deter spicy and the weasel from it but i only got laughed at for my pains and accused of having turned chickenhearted


ridicule day light is a dangerous weapon and has killed more good resolutions than many of your wiseacres are aware of


it deterred me from offering any further opposition


the whole thing was well planned and boldly executed


soames after administering the po tion to his uncle removed the keys from his bed chamber where the old gentleman invariably placed them at night and admitted spicy and the weasel into the shop


meanwhile i kept watch outside till my confederates gave the signal that the swag was packed up and ready for removal when i helped them to carry the valuable burden to a hackney coach whose driver was one of the right sort a flash dragsman whom we always hired on such occasions


we took the load to the well known known fence ikey solo mons who was then doing a roaring trade and in an hour after the robbery not a vestige of the property was in our possession


ikey drove a hard bargain with us but still we netted by the job


mr colquhoun in his elaborate work the police of london saysthere are upwards of receivers of various kinds of stolen goods in the metropolis and an equal proportion all over the country who keep open shop for the purpose the next morning we sent betsy to the man sionhouse to ascertain if there was any stir about the matter


in a few hours she returned with the intelligence that the old gentleman on recovering from his stupor had made his loss known them and that the affair was placed in the hands of the forresters two of the most active and vigilant officers of the metropolis


we then made up our minds to quit london im mediately


spicy and the weasel had settled scores with young soames for which purpose they had appointed a meeting with him at the white horse that night


as the lad had never seen me we agreed that it was better for me not to show upon the occasion


lt was well that arrangement was come to


scarcely had spicy and the weasel entered thc house when the officers pounced upon them like hawks


they were accompanied by the old gentleman and young soames the latter tightly handcuffed not so much to prevent his escape as to frighten him into a confession of his accomplices


the lad i was told afterwards did not want much press ing on that point he was more like a ghost than a living mortal and he pointed out my unfortunate comrades without a moments hesi tation


you can form a tolerable guess daylight what followed they were tried at the old bailey and found guilty but their sentences were widely different


the judge put his black cap on for poor spicy on account of his having in duced soames to poison his uncle while the weasel was doomed to be transported for life


betsy sat through the whole trial in the gallery and bore up pretty well till the sentence was passed when she gave a loud scream and fell down in a fainting fit


they took her out laid her upon the cold flagging and threw water over her to bring her to but it would not do day light the blow was too heavy and too sudden


some kindly disposed person had her removed to bartholomews hospital but she was past the power of medicine she only lingered a few days


the doctors talked ahout convulsions and brain feversdaylight she died of a broken heart


many a highborn iady would laugh at the idea of feeling being lodged in the bosom of an humble fallen girl like betsy but very few of them ever exhibited more gen tleness meekness generosity and fondness than she


though spicy often tried her patience hard and in his drunken moments sometimes spurned her like a dog she never gave way to revengeful passion or rebuked him other than by a look


she was lying in her grave before the bell of st sepulchres church tolled the death knell of all she had loved in the world


the day before the time appointed for spicys execution i obtained permission to see him i would fain have been spared the interview there was already a lump of lead at my heart which weighed me down and the tidings of which i was to be the hearer made me feel that i should make a very sorry comforter


after communing with myself however i thought it best to withhold them from spicy and to invent some tale to account for the absence of the un fortunate girl


being conducted to the con demned cell i found him sitting on the side of the bed with his face buried in his hands


he started up on seeing me and attempted to whistle one of his old tunes as if ashamed to be caught showing the white feather but the sound that issued from his lips was feeble and forced his countenance had also undergone considerable change and there was a nervous twitching at the corners of the mouth which clearly shewed that he was suffering intensely


its all up lipey he cried in a sort of un natural tone caused by the struggle to be lively whilst the fear of death was tugging hard the other wayi must swing for it


vell vots the oddsa man must die sometime or other shoes on or shoes off makes no werry great dif ference as i sees


many a better man has done it afore me


but lipey said he lowering his tone to a whisper do you think there ant half a chancehey


i shook my head despondingly


vell ill die game anyhows


vy should i snivel ven ive seen the rolls drawed so often


its all stuff lipey vonce a man makes his mind up to it


he made another attempt at a whistle and then continuedtheres the sheriff whos he i should like to know with his gold chain and the parson vith his vite vig


theyre no body lipey


they comes firstthen the mob gibbetnooseeight oclockon goes the cap in goes the headon goes the parsondown goes the platformoff goes the spicy kid gentle squeezeslight caperand all is over


no awkward feeling at the heart spicy


none in the least not as i knows of vun must lean his head a little on vun side and take it easy


hows betsy


the suddenness of this question when my thoughts were upon something else made me start and change colour


spicy instantaneously perceived it


vy they avnt grabbed her lipey


there must have been a screw loose else shed have been here long afore this


no spicy i replied quickly shes quite out of the reach of all the traps that ever were foaled


shes too ill to come


poor gal


he said in a low tone i heerd her a screeching venventhe bigvig sheeted it home to me


lipey i dont think i behaved werry vell to that young cretur


it dont show dunghill to confess i feel it now does it lipey


without waiting for my answer he spoke on i loved her though i had a queer vay of shewin it at times and she loved me through ill treat ment cruelty neglect and crime


i should like to see her to ask her forgiveness but i spose its no go


you must give up that hope i replied sadly enough


vell then tell her lipey all ive said and that i only vish id been spared to make of purchasing at an under price often for a mere trifle every kind of property brought to them and this without asking a single question


he further supposes that the property purloined and pilfered in a little way from almost every house shop warehouse c in and about the metropolis may amount to about a year


this class of receivers rank for the most part as respectable tradesmen and are to tally distinct from such men as the notorious ikey solomons dudfield guest cum ceteris paribus whose dealings were of the most exten sive kind and whose connection was principally amongst the out and outers that is the able desperate and ingenious professors who disdained to do a dirty action and undertook none but the heaviest jobs


the same writer also gives the scale of prices which the fences then allowed to the knights of the light finger for their illgotten spoil


the receivers he writes pay to the thieves for swag in the following proportion for silver four shillings an ounce but the reason they pay so high for this description of commodity is the crucible is always ready and they can immediately after the purchase sell at the full price without the slightest hazard of detection


for a chest of slop tea but for tiptop slop they will not hesitate to give