why i must go with you and see that you do for i dont believe it


come along then


eyeing him with suspicious looks the man with key and lantern walked on at his side and attended him to sir john chesters door at which hugh gave one knock that echoed through the dark stair case like a ghostly summons and made the dull liglt tremble in the drowsy lamp


stdo you think he wants me now i said hugh


before the man bad time to answer a footstep was heard within a light appeared and sir john in his dressinggown and slippers opened the door


i ask your pardon sir john said the porter pulling off his hat


heres a young man says tihe wants to speak to you


its late for strangers


i sthought it best to see that all was right


aha cried sir john raising his eyebrows


its youmessenger is it


go in


quite right friend


i commend your prudence highly


thank syou


god bless you


good night


to be commended thanked godblessed and bade good night by one who carried sir before his name and wrote himself mp to boot was something for a porter


he withdrew with much humility and reverence


sir john followed his late visitor into the dressingroom and sitting in his easy chair before the fire and moving it so that he could see himashe stoodjhat in handbeside the door looked at him from head to foot


the old face calm and pleasant as ever the complexion quite juvenile in its bloom and clear sess thesame smile the wonted precision and elegance of dress and white wellordered teeth the delicate hands


the composed andquiet man


ner everything as it used to be no marks of age or passion envy hate or discontent all unruffled and serene and quite delightful to behold


he wrote himself mpbut howl


why thus


it was a proud familymore proud indeed than wealthy


he had stood in danger of arrest of bailiffs and a jail a vulgar jail to which the com mon people with small incomes went


gentlemen of ancient houses have no privilege of exemption from such cruel lawsunless they are of one great house and then they have


a proud man of his stock and kindred had the means of sending him there


he offerednot indeed to pay his debts but to let him sit for a close borough until his own son came of age which if he lived would come to pass in twenty years


it was quite as good as an insolvent act and infinitely more genteel


so sir john chester was a member of parliament


but how sir john nothing so simple or so easy


one touch with a sword of state and the transformation is effected


john chester esquire ip attended courtwent up with an address headed a deputation


such elegance of manner so many graces of deportment such powers of conversation could never pass unnoticed


mr was too common for such merit


a man so gentlemanly should have beenbut fortune is capriciousborn a duke just as some dukes should have been horn labourers


elo caught the fancy of the king knelt down a grub and rose a butterfly


john chester esquire was knighted and became sir john


i thought when you left me this evening my esteemed acquaintance said sir john after a pretty long silence that you intended to return with all despatch


so i did master


and so you have he retorted glancing at his watch


is that what you would say


instead of replying hugh changed the leg on which he leant shuffled his cap from one hand to the other looked at the ground the wall the ceiling and inally at sir john himself before whose pleasant face he lowered his eyes again and fixed them on the floor


and how have you been employing yourself in the meanwhile


quoth sir john lazily crossing his legs


where have you been what harm


ihave you been doing


no harm at all master growled hugh with humility


i have only done as you ordered


as i what returned sir john


well then said hugh uneasily as you advised


or said i ought or said i might or said that you would do if you was me


dont be so hard upon me master


somethinglike an expression of triumph in the perfectcontrol he had established over this rough snatrtment appeared in the knights face for an in stant but it vanished directly as he saidparing his nails while speakong


when you say ordered you my good fellow you imply that i directed you to do something for me something i wanted done something for my own ends and purposes you see


now i am sure i needntenlarge upon the extreme absurdity of such an idea however unintentional so please and here he turned his eyes upon him to be more guarded


will you


i meant to give you no offence said hugh i dont know what to say


you catch me up so very abort


up you will be caught up much shorter my good irleadifinitely shorterone of these days depend upon it replied hiis patron calmly


bytheby instead of wondering why you have been so long my wonder should be why you came atall


why did you p


you know master said hugh that i couldnt read the bill i found and that supposing ft to be something particular from the way it was wrapped up i brought it here


and could you ask no one else to read it bruin said sir john


no one that i could trust with secrets master


since barnaby rudge was lost sight of for good and all and thats five years ago i havent talked with any one but you


you hiave done me honour i am sure


i havecome to and fro taster all through that time when thlere was anything to tell because knew that youd be angry with me if i stayed away said


hlugh blurting the words out after an em barrassed silence and because i wished to please you if i could and not to have you go against me


tlhero


thats the true reason why came tonight


yot know that master i am sure


you are a specious fellow returned sir john fining his eyes upon him and carry two faces under your hood as well as the best


didnt you give me in this soom this evening any otlhe reaso


n


no dislike of anybody who has slighted your lately on all occasions abused you treated you with rudeness acted towards you more as if you were a mongrel dog thtan a man like himself


ro o be sure i did j cried hugh his passion rising asthe other meant it shlould and i say it all over now again


id do anything to ihave some srevenge on himasnything


and whenyou told me that he and allthe catholtcs would suier from those whojoined together under ttut handbill i said id make ode of em if their master was the devil him self


lam oneol em


see whlether i am as good as my wordand turn out to be among the foremost or no i xuisht have much head master but ive head enough to remember those that usa me ill


you shall see and so shall he and so shall hun dreds more how my spirit backs mre when the ite comes


by bark is nothing to my bite


some that i know had better have a wild lion among eant than me when i ant fairly loosetttey had i tire knight looked at him with a smile of fatr deepern meaning than ordinary and pointing to the old cupboard followed him witlt his eyes while he filled and drank a glass of liquor and smiled when his back was turned with deeper meaning yet


you are in a blustering mood my frtend he said when hugh confronted him again


not i master cried hugh


i dont say half


i mean


i cant


i havent got the gift


there are talkers enough among us ill be one of the doers


oh i you have joined those fellows then said sir john with an air of most profound indifference


yes


i went up to the house youatold me of and got put down upon the muster


there was another man there named dennis dennis eh i cried sir john laughing


ay ay a pleasant fellow i believel a roaring dog masterone after my own heart hot upon the matter toored hot


so i have heard replied sir john carelessly


yon dont happen to know his trade do you he wouldnt say cried hugh


he keeps it secret


ha ha laughed sir john


a strange fancya weakness with some personsyoull know it one day i dare swear


mwere intimate already said hugh


quite natural


and have been drinking toge ther eh pursued sir john


did you say what place you went to in company when you left lord georges p hugh had not said or thought of saying but he told him and his inquiry being followed by a long train of questions he related all that had passed both in and out of doors the kind of people le had seen their numbers state of feeling mode of con versation apparent expectations and intentions


his questioning was so artfully contrived that he seemed even in his own eyes to volunteer all this information rather than to have it wrested from him and he was brought to this state of feeling so natu rally that when mr chester yawned at length and declared himself quite wearied out he made a rough kind of excuse for having talked so much


thereget you gone said sir john holding the door open in his hand


you have made a pretty eventogs work


i told you not to do this


you may get into trouble


youll have an oppor tunity of revenging yourself on your proud friend haredale though and for that youd hazard any


thing i suppose i would retorted hugh stopping in his pas sagesout and looking back but what do i risk


what do i stand a chance of losing master


friends home


a fig for em all i havenone they are nothing to me


give me a good scuffle let me pay off old scores in a bold riot where there are men to stand by men and then use me as you likeit dont matter much to me what the end is


what have you done with that paper said sir john


i have it here master


drop it again as you go along its as well not to keep such things about you


hugh nodded and touching his cap with an air of as much respect as he could summon up de parted


sir john fastening the doors behind him went back to his dressingroom and sat down once again before the fire at which he gazed for a long time in earnest meditation


this happens fortunately he said breaking into a smile and promises well


let me see


my relative and i who are the most protestant fel lows in the world give our worst wishes to the roman catholic cause and to saville who intro


dures their bill i have a personal objection besides but as each of us has himself for the first article in his creed we cannot commit ourselves by joining with a very extravagant madman such as this gordon most undoubtedly is


now really to foment his disturbances in secret through the me dium of such a very apt instrument as my savage friend here may further oar real ends and to express at all becoming seasons in moderate and polite terms a disapprobation of his proceedings though we agree with him in principle will certainly be to gain a character for honesty and uprightness of pur pose which cannot fail to do us infinite service and to raise us into some importance


good i so much for public grounds


as to private considerations i confess that if these vagabonds would make some riotous demonstration which does not appear im possible and mould inflict some little chastisement on haredale as a not inactive man among his sect it would be extremely agreeable to my feelings and would amuse me beyond measure


good again perhaps better i when he came to this point ihe took a pinch of snuff then beginning slowly to undress


he re sumed his meditations by saying with a smiler i fear i do fear exceedingly that my friend is following fast in the footsteps of his mother


his intimacy with mr dennis is very ominous


but i have no doubt he must have come to that end any way


if i lend him a helping hand the only dif ference is that he may upon the whole possibly dlink a few gallons or puncheons or hogsheads less in this life than ihe otherwise would


its no business of mine


its a matter of very small importance i


so he took another pinch of snuff and went to bed


to be continued


barlnay rudge


cairptbr xxvi


and youre not suiprised to hear this varden i said mr haredale


well l you and the have always been the best ofa friendisand you should understand her if anylbody does


i ask your pardon sirrejoined the locksmith


i didnt say i understood her


i wouldnt have the presumptlonto say that of any woman


its not so easily done


but i am not so much surprised sir as you expected me to be cerainly


mayi ask why not my good friend


i have seen sir returned the locksmith with evident reluctance i have seen in connexion with her something


that has filled


tme with distrust and uneasiness


she has made bad friends how or when i dont know but that her house ts a refuge for one robber and cutthroat at least i am certain


there sir


now its out


varden l my own eyes sir are my witnesses


and for her sake i would be willingly half blind if i could but have the pleasure of mastrusting em


i have kept the secret till now and it will go no further than yourself i know but i tell you that with my own eyes broad awake i saw in the passageof her house one evening after dark the highwayman who robbed and wounded mr edward chester and on the same night threatened inoe


and you made no effort to detain him said mr haredale quickly


sirreturned the locksmith she herself prevented meheld me with all her strength and hung about me until he had got clear off


and having gone so far he related circumstantially


all that had passed upon the night in question


this dialogue was held alone in the locksmiths little parlour into which honestgabriel had shown his visitor on his arrival


ir


haredale had called upon him to entreat his company to ilihe widows that he might have the assistance of his persuasion and influence and out of thlis circumstance the con


versation had arisen


i forbore said gabriel


from repeating one wordof this to anybodyas it could do her no good and might do her great harm


i thought and hoped to say the truth that she would come to me and talk to me about it and tell me how it was butthoagh i have purposely put myself intser way more than once or twice she has never touched upon the subjectexcpt by a look


andideed said the goodnatured locksmith there was a gooddealin the look more than could liave been put into great many words


it said among ther matteirs dont ask me anything so imploringly that i didnt ask her anything


youll think me anold fool


i know sir


if its any relief to calfme one pray do


i am greatly disturbed by what you tell me said mr haredale after a silence


what omeasing do you attach to it


the locksmith shook his head andlooked doubt fully out of window at the failing light


she cannot have married again said mr haredale


not without our knowledge surely sir


she may have done so in the fear thatit would lead if known to someobjection or estrangement


suppose she married incautiouslyit is not im probable for her existence has been a loiely and monotonous one for many yearsand the man turned out a ruffian she would be anxious to screen


him


and yet would revolt from his crimes


this might be


it bears strongly on the whole drift of her discourse yesterday and would quite explain her conduct


do you suppose barnaby is privy to these circumstances


quite impossible to say sir returned the locksmith shaking his head again and next to impossible to find out from him


if what you suppose is really the case i tremble for the lada notable person sir to put to bad uses it is not possible varden said mrharedale


in a still lower tone of voice than he had spoken yet


that we have been blinded and deceived by this


woman from the beginning


it is riot possible that this connexion was formed in her husbands lifetime


and led to his and my brothers good god air cried gabriel interrupting him dont entertain such dark thoughts for a moment


fiveaudtwenty years ago where was there a girl like her


a gay handsome laughing brighteyed damsel i think what she was sir


it makes my heart ache now even now though im an old man witha woman for a daughter to think what shewvas and what she is


we all change but thats with time time does his work honestly and i dont mind him a fig for time sir


use him well and hes a hearty fellow and scorns to have you at a dis advantage


but care andsuffering


and those have changed her are devils sirsecret stealthy under mining devils who tread down the brightest flowers


in eden and do more havock in a month than time does in a year


picture to yourself for one minute what


mary was before they went to work with her fresh heart and face do her that justice and say whether such a thing is possible youre a good fellow varden said mr hare dale and are quite right


ibhave brooded oin that asubject so long that every breath of suspicion carries me back to it


youare quite right it isnt sir criedthe locksmith with brightened eyes and sturdy honest voice it isnt because i courted her before rudge and failed that i sayshe was too good for him


she would have been asa much too good forme


but she was too good for him he wasnt free and frank enough for her


i dont reproach his memory with it poor fellow i only want to put her before you as she really wais


for myself ill keep her old picture in my mind


and thinking of that and what has altered herill stand her frtend andstrive to win her back to peace


and damme sir cried gabriel withymur pardon for the word id do the same if she had married fifty highwaymen in a twelvemonth and think it in the protestantmanual too though martha said itivasat toothand nail till doomsday


i if the dark little parlour hadbeen filled withah dense fog which clearingawayin an instant left it all radiance and brightness it could not have beee more suddenly cheered than by this otitbreakorn the part of the hearty locksmith


t a voice naeailyi full and round as his own mr hredalecried well said i and bade him come awaywithout more parley


the locksmith complied right will


ingly and both gettnlog intioa backiegocoach which was waittngat thedoor drove off straightway


they alighted at the street corner and dismisaing their conveyance walked to the house


to their firs knock at the door there was no response


a econd met withthe like result r bgtit in


answer i t hiih third which was of a more vigorous kind the phrlui windowsash was gently


raised and a musicslvi ce laredale my derfellodw i am xtremelyiglad to see you


how veo muchyotu lavre improved tin your appearance since our last meetilg i


i nee saw you looking better


how doyoudoi


mrltaredale turned his eyes towards the casae ineit whencethe volceoproceeded iho


tgbhere was nto need to do so to recognise the spakprai ild mir


chester waved his hand and smiled dureoisrs welcome


the dobr will he opened inmmediately he said theirels nobody but a very dilitpidateibd femileto perform such offices you will exciaeher eibfiriuli ties


if alshe were in a mores elevated station bf society she would begounty being but a hewerot woeod atid drawver bf water she is rheumatie


my deair llstredale thse are daiurtal class distinctions


depend upon it


d v lr


hlaredale whose face resumedlits oibwerig and distrusful look the mopent lhehleard the vopice inclinied hii head illil ad turied his bak eiu t the speaker dotopened yet dtsaid rmr cohestler di


me ivope the aesgdsoul has nott caight hbifoot tna nie onpluckt ibweb by the way sheis


thqi e atlas l comeoit i beg l


mr haredaleentereds followed by the lotkamithe


turtngl with a look of great astonishmet t the old somean who had opened the door he enqilred for


mrs lludgolor liarnaby


theywere both gond


she replied wngging her ancient lhead forgood


there was a gentleman in the parlourwho perhaps could tell them more


that wpas all she knew


pray sir said mr haredale presenting idim self before this new tenant where is the person whoni i came here to see


o


my dear friend he returned i have not the least idea


your trifling is illtimed retorted the other in a suppressed tone and voice and its subject ill


chosen


reserve it for those who are your friends and do not expend it on me i lay no claim to the distinctiono and have the selfdenial to reject it


my dear good sir said mr chester you are heated with walking


sit down i beg


our friend is but n plain honest man returned mr hare dale and quite unworthy of your notice


gabrlel varden by name sir said the locksmith bluntly


a worthy english yeoman i said mr chester


a most worthy yeoman of whom i have frequently heard my son noeddarling fellowspeak and have often wished to see


varden my good friend i am glad to know you


you wonder now he said turning languidly to mr haredale to see me here


now i am sure you do


imr


haredale glanced at himnot fondly or ad


miringlysmiled and held his peace


the mystery is solved in a moment said mr cheaster in a moment


will you step aside with me one instant


you remember our little compact in reference to ned and your dear niece liaredale


you remember the list of assistants in their innocent intrigue t you remember these two people being among them


tly dear fellow congratulate your self and me


i have bought them off


you have done what said mr haredale


bought them off returned his smiling friend


i have found it necessary to takesome active steps towards setting this boy and girl attachment quite at rest anti have begun by removing these two agents


you are surprised who can withstand the influence of a little money


they wanted it sndhave been bought off


we have nothing more to fear from them


they are gone


gonel echoed mr haredale


where my dear fellowand you must permit me to say again that you never looked so young so positively boyish as you do tonightthe lord knows where i believe columbus himself wouldnt find them


between you and me they have their hidden reasons but upon that point i have pledged myself to se


cresy


she appointed to see you here tonight i know but found it inconvenient and couldnt wait


here is the key of the door


i am afraid youll find it inconveniently large but as the tenement is yours your good nature will excuse that haredale i am certain


to be continued


chasptra vi


twa dinnerr


w henlretired tomy room to dressuor dinner iound my servantwaitieg withs note from my uncle to whioh he informed ime themessenge expected an answer


i broke the sealand read


d alt chalst


do not lose a moment in


securingoldblrke if youhave notalready done so as information hdas jst reached me that the government party has promised a cornetcy to youog matthew if e brn bring over his father


and these are the people i have beeri voting withafew private ases eceptedfor thirtj odd yearil iam very orry for your accident


conaldin i inframdme that itwill need eplaaellao t amater period


hehasbeen in athlone sinesdtedday indhopes to catch the new candidate on his wvay donii and get him into aiittle private qrrel before the day if he suoceedit will save the country much expensep and conluce greatly to the peace nd happiness of dll parties


but t hese things as pathr roach ays are in the hands of providence


yon must also per spae


old blake to write a few lines to simon maiock about th k coolianuk psortgage


we cpoagive himnpo gsatiafaetion at present at least such as lhelooks forxand dont he philandering rmthei change of qu rters nr


lth


s your affectionateuincle si


goomraa omanar


i hav jist heard from onsidine he was out this morning and shot a fellow tthe knee butfipds that after all be was not the can didate but a tourist that was writing


a book about connemara psno


bear the mbortage in mind for old mallock is a spiteful fellow and


has a grudge against me dice i horsewhlipied his son in bianagher


oh the word the world lg until i had read this very clear epistle to the end i had no very precise conception how com pleetly had forgotten all my uncles interests and neglected all his injunctions


already five days aadelapsed and i had not as mch as mooted the question to mr blake and probablye all this time my uncle was calculating on the thing as concluded but with one hole in my end some


halfdozen in my hearn my tmemiory was none of the best


snatching up the letter therefore i resolved to lose heo more time and proceeded at once to mrblakes room expecting that t hould ti event proved find him engaged in the very la


borioth duty of makintg his toilette


come in charley skid i as i tapped gently at


the door its only charley myar ling mrs b wont mind you s so t theleast in life responded mrs disposing at the same


a pair of her husbands corduroys tippet fashion across her ample shoul des which before were displayed in the plenitude andbreadthofcolouring we find in rubens


sit down charley andtell us whats the matter


as unitil this moment i was in perfect igno rance of the adam and evelike simplicity in which the private tconomy of mr blako


house hold wasconducted


i would have gladly


retired from what i found to be a mutual territory of dressingroom had not mr blakes injunctions been issued somewhat like an order to remain


sits only a letter sir said i stuttering from my uncle about the election


he says that as his majority is now certain he shouli feel better pleased in going to the poll with all the family you know sir along with him


he witshei me just to sound your intentionsto iakes ost howyou feel dilposed towards bimi adsad faith as i asmbut a poor diplomatist i thought the best way was to come straight to the point and tell yon so


i perceive said mr blake giving his chin at the moment an awful gash with the razor perceive go on


well sir i have little more to say my uncle knows what influence you hare in gcariff and expects youll do what you can there


any thing more said b lake with a very dry and quizzicle expression ididnt half like any thing more


oh yes you are to write a line to old mal jock


understand about coolnamack isnt it


exactly i believethats all


well now charley you may go down stairs and well talk it over after dinter


yes charley dear go down for rm going to draw on my stockings said the fair mrs blake with a lookofvery modestconsclousness


wheni had left the room i couldnt help muttering a thank god for the success of a mission i more than oncefeared for and hastened to despatch a note to my uncle assuring him of the blake interest and adding that for propriety sake


should defer my departure for a day or two longer


this dose with a heart lighttened of its load and in high spirits at my elevera ass i descended to the drawlatgroom


here a rsry laruge party were already assembled and at every opening of the door a new elay of blakes bbrkea and bodkins was introduced


in the absence of the host sir george dashwood was making the agreeable to the guests andehqok hands with every new arrival with all the warmth and cor


diality of old friendship


while thus he inqdired for variona abusnt individuals


and asked most affectionately for aundry aunts anduncles not forthcomisg a li p jicldent occured which by its ludicrous turn served to ashorten the long half hour before dinner


an individual of the party a mr blake had from certain peculiar


ties of face obtained in his boyhood the soabriqet of shave the wind


this hatchet like conformation had groepn witl


his growth and perpetuated uponhim a nick name by which alone was he ever spoken of among his friends andacquaintancese the only difference being that as he came to mans estate brevity that soul of wit had curtailed the epithet to snere shave


now sir


george had been hearing frequent


reference made to him always by this name heard huin eier so addressed and perceived him to reply to it so that when he was himself asked by some one what sport he had found that day among thewoodcocks he anapered at once with a bowof very grateful acknowledgment m excellent indeed but entirely owing to where i was placed in the copse had it not beeuafor mr shave there


need not say that tshe remalader oflis speech being beard enall sides bcmno pne universal


shoutof laughter in which to do him justice the excellent shave himself heartily joined


scarcely were the sounds of mirth lnulle into an apparent calm when thedoor opened and the host and hostess appeared


mrs blake advanced ian


all thepisifudl if ie carofs itrrayetf in crimsoni satin solely ipjuredlin itsfreshness by a patenh of grease upon the front


about the same size and shape asthe continent of europe in arrowuimlths atlas a swansdown tilppet covered her shoulders


massive bracelets ornamented her wrists while from her earsl descen ded two irish diamond earrings rivlling in magnitude and value the glaseaitendanta ofa lusre


her racep lion of her guests made ample amends in wgarnth aand tordiality fori any defleieicy of elegance and as shedisposed her ample pro portioas upon the sofa and looked arodtid upon the companyshe appearedatheaveryipersona t o of hop pitalits


after severalopenings nad shuttings of the drawing room door accompanied by the appear


iiciofo old simon the butler who counted the party t least five times before he was certain thatthep score was correct


dinner was at length announced


now came a moment of diiculty and one which uas testing mr blakes tact lihe would gladly have seen devolve upon some other shoulders for he well knew that the marshalling a room fuall bf mandarins blse green and yelloiw was cakes and gingerbread to uashering a gal way party in to dinner


first then was mr milessbodklinwhose grand father would have been a lord if cromwell had


not hanged him one fine morning


then mrs modey blakes firet bhusband was promised the title of kllmacud if it was ever restored whereas mrs french of knocktainnora mother was then at lair for a title and lastly mrs joe burke as


foirth cooin to lord clanricarde asis orl will be every burke from this to the day of judg meat


now luckily forher prospectathe lord w alieve and mr blaek raennembeing a very sage adage aboutdead lions c solved the diflulty at once by grabcefully tuclng tisdlay under hisi arm and leading the way the others soon followed the priest of portumna andmy unworthy selfbringing up the rear


when many a year afterwards the hard ground of a mountain bivouac with its pitiful p rtion of pickled corktree yelept mesabeef ad that pyrollgeoune equafortis they cil corn brandy have been my hard fare i often look back to thatidays dinnier with a moat heart yearning sensationi tubot as big as the water loo shield a sirloin that seemed cut from the sides of a ihinoceros a sauceboat that contained an oystr beld


there was a turkey which singly would have


formed thae malain rmy of a french dinner doing mere outpost dutyflanked by a picquet of bam annd detached squadrdnu of chickens carefully ambushed in a forest of greens potatoes not disguised la manettr dacfto l and tortured to resemble bad maca roni but piled like shot in an ordnancea yqrd were posted at different quarters while massive dsecanters of port and srry stood proudly uplike standard beiattli aumidf thre goodly array


this was none of your austere great dinners where a cold and chilling plateau of artificial nonsense cuts off one half of the table from intercourse with the other when whispered sentences consti


tute the conversation and all the friendly recog


nition of wine drinking which renews acquaint ance and cements an intimacy is replaced by the ceremonious filling of your glass by a lacquey where smiles go current in lieu of kind speeches and epigram and smartness form the substitute for the broad jest and merry story


far fromit here the company ct drank talked laughed did all but sing and certainly enjoyed themselves heartily


as for me i was little more than a tistner and such was the crash of plates and jingle of glasses and the clatter of voices that tragmeats only of what was passing around reached me giving to the conversation of the party a character occasionally somewhat incon gruous


thus suchi sentences as the following ran foul of each other every instant no better land in galway where could yeu find such facilities for shooting mr jones on his way home the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth kiss miss blake shes the girl with a foot and ankle daly has never had wool on his sheep how could he what does he pay for the mountain four and ten pence a yard not a penny lessall the cabbage stalks and potatoe skins with some bog stuff through it thgts the thing to make a soup witha red herring in it instead of


salt and when he proposed for my niece maam says hemix a strong tumbler and ill make a shake down for you on the floor and may the lord have mercy on your soup and now down the midlle and up again captain magan my dear he is the kianto shave a pig


properly its not money im looking for says he the girl of my heart if she had not a wind gall and two spavinss id have given her the rights of the church of coorse said father roach bringing up the rear of this illassorted jargon


such were the scattered links of conversation i was condemned to listen to till a general rise on the part of the ladies left us alone to discuss our wine and enter in good earnest upon the more serious duties of the evening


scarcely was the door closed when one of the company seizing the bellrope said with your leave blake well have the dew now


good claretno better said another but it its mighty cold on the stomach


theres nothing like the grocerles after all ei sir george said an old galway squire to the english general who acceded to the fast which he understood in a very different sense


oh punch you are my darlin husmed another as a large square halfgallon decanter of whiskey was placed on the tablethe various decanters of wine being now ignominiously sent down


to the end of the board without any evi dence of regret on any iface save sir george dashwoods who mixed his tumbler with a very


rebellious conscience


whatever were the noise andclamour of the company before they were nothing to what now ensued


as one party were discussing the ap proaching contest another was planning a steeple


chase while two individuals unhappily removed from each other the entire length of the table were what is called challenging each others effect in a very remarkable manner the process so styled being an exchange of property when each party setting an imaginary value upon some articlebarters it for another the amount of boot paid and received being determined by athird person who is theumpire


thusa gold breast pin was swopped as the phrase is against a horse then a pair of boots then a kerry bull c every imaginable species of property coming into the market


sometimes as matters of very dubious value turned qp great laughter was the result


in this very national pastime a mr miles bodkin a noted fireeater of the west was a gieat proficient and it is said once so completely succeeded in despoiling an uninitiated hand that after winning


in succession his horse gig harness c he proceeded seriatim to his watch ring clothes and portmanteau and actually con cluded by winning all he possessed and kindly lent him acard cloth to cover him on his way to the hotel


his success on the present occasion was considerable and his spirits proportionate


the decanter had thrice beenreplenished and the flashed faces and thickened utterance of the guests oevinced that from the cold properties of the claret there was but little to dread


as for mr bodkin his manner was incapable of any higher flight when under the influence of whis key from what it evinced on common occasions arid as he sat at the end of the table fronting mr blake he assumed all the dignity of the riler of the feast with an energy no one seemed disposed to question


in answer to some ob servations of sir george he was led into some thing like an oration upon the peculiar excellen ciesof his native country which ended in ade claration that there was nothing like galway


why dont you give us a song miles


and may be the general would learn more from it than all your qpeech making


tobe sure crile out several voices toge ther to besure let us hear the ma of gal way


sir gercge haying joined most warmlyin the the request mr bodkin filled up his glassto the brim bespoke a chorus to his chant and clearing his voice with a deep hem began the following litty to the air which moore has since rendered immortal


by the beautiful song wrsath the iowl ac and although the words are well jnown in the west for the information of jese favouredregions i heretranscribe


the man for galway


todrink atoast


a proctor roast s or bailiff as the csela


s to kiss yourwife or take your life at ten orfifteen paces


tt keep gme cook to hun thejo to drink in punch tlsesolway with debts galore but fun far more i olih thaits the man for gilway chorusnwith debt


the nkigb oude is mighty proud a


andso weruopace the cayaara casslars dut onld giles eyre


would make thems stare


j a av he had them with the blazersi s to the deviii flingoul rungeet sing hes only a prince in a small way


a


audkinows nothing at all of a six foot wall s


oh hed neverdo for galway


choruswith debts e ye think the ibla kes are no great shakes


theyre all his blood relatio sand the rodkins snee ze


atthe grim chinese


for they come from the p naesaysa so fill to the brim and heres to him whod drink in punch the solway


ilidabtisgaloie ut fun far more oh i i hats the man for galway


choruwith debts e i much fear that the eception of this very classic ede wuld nat be as fayourable in general cpmpanies asit waq ox the occasion i irst heard it for certainly the applause was almost deafen ing and even sir gvorge the defects of whosd english education leot someof te


allusions out of his reach was


hijhly amus andqlaughedi heartily


a new series


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


chapter xvi


forky jem and bully undergo another severe trial


a prison is a house of care and it must be confessed that forky jem and bully did not ex perience much regret when they received an in timation that their day of trial had come


the monotony of the gaol was wearisome besides there is always a longing in the human bosom to know the worsta desire to draw aside the sombre veil of uncertainty and gaze upon the truth be it never so fearful


the mind however strong is unable to grasp shadows and the cri minal who trembles between the oscillations of life and death often walks to the scaffold with nerves of steel


the confederates in guilt after having under gone the accustomed rigid scrutiny of officials were conducted through the long narrow stony tunnel leading from the prisonhouse into the darlinghurst court of justice and placed se curely in the iron birdcage which forms so pleasing an ornament of that noble structure


a word or two of description may not be use less to new comers


it is unnecessary to men tion the time when this magnificent work of art first rose in all its architectural grandeur above the huts in the vicinity or the vitruvius who de signed it


it is enough to remark that inas much as it was built by government at the peoples expense its aptitude for the purposes in tended was quite antipodean


there certainly were two courts a judges room a barristers room a jury room and various other offices but all were notorious for inconvenience and inutility


the courts were rather too phonetic and the echoing thunders of forensic oratory rolling and rambling in lengthened continuity drowned the speakers voice


at times when pausing for breath the last sentence he uttered would howl and growl around in a strange unearthly way sufficiently frightful to cause him to forget his client if not himself


in wet weather on ac count of the colanderlike nature of the roof it was necessary to be furnished with a widespread ing umbrella unless one were a merman or a waterdog and then indeed the element would be congenia


the barristers room was up certain fiights of stairs which rivalled in extent and steepness those of the great pyramid in fact so long did it take the gentlemen of the wig and gown to mount them and retrace their steps that it not unfrequently happened their clients had gone through the ordeal of trial and established their innocence or been sentenced for their guilt as the case might be without the advantage of their able assistance


every other portion of the building possessed the same annoyances and the whole was anomalous and illcontrived


lt was then that mr justice even turned his mighty mind to the task of remodelling the struc ture and aided by mr witeybrown an eminent architect particularly of cardboard churches and suburban villas he set about his job


mr justice even designed and mr witeybrown ordered the execution


so indefatigable were the exer tions of the latter gentleman that he clambered upon roofs for the purpose of peering under shingles and into waterspouts and gutters in order to discover the cause of leakage


the while he was pursuing knowledge under considerable difficulties mr justice even drew plansin his head for the purpose of making the building combine all the grandeur of the ancient with the comfort of the modern school


scaffolds were erected roofs reshingled and gutters releaded but the rain would not be denied down it came and insinuated itself through cracks and crevices and threw cold water on the heads of eloquence below


then leaked those spots which never leaked before and those so wont to leak then leaked the more


mr justice even was completely waterlogged and had he or mr witeybrown been accustomed to swearing it is impossible to conjecture the number of anathemas that would have been launched at the perverse and ungrateful struc ture


lt was stony altogether and very provoking


vocal sounds seemed to reverberate through the walls with greater power and to add to the annoyance the huge skylight took a fancy to lower itself several feet no doubt in hopes of commanding a better view of the proceeding be neath


mr justice even threw up his hands in despair at this accumulation of evils whilst mr witeybrown with more fortitude erected four pillars and turned his back upon a spot where he had undergone so many trialsof patience


the high personage who presided over the destinies of forky jem and bully was mr jus tice kerry a name synonymous with forensic talent and liberality of disposition


it may be insinuated that his decisions were never gathered together into a goodly volume and cited as pre cedents to guide the plodding through the tortu ous and miry ways of legal morasses or that his name seldom appeared in the list of charitable subscriptions


what of that


the one only argued want of sense on the part of compilers of such luminous lore and the other afforded an undoubted proof that the charity of mr justice kerry was exercised in secret he was not of that class which blazons forth its generosity not he do good by stealth and blush to find it fame was his principle and


judging from the colour of his countenance his existence must have been one continual state of charitable renown


his decisions it has been said were remarkable equally so was his manner of delivering them


lt was similar to the style of demosthenes previous to the period when that wonderful orator tried the pebble prescription to cure his stammering


lt was not that mr justice kerry wanted words to express his ideasfar from it he had a superabun dance of them for such purpose but they always seemed disinclined to leave the pure wells of thought and mix with the turbid waters of the world


adhesiveness was the decided character istic of his words and this rendered his orations in general and his summings up in particular singularly powerful inducements to somnolency


this made him an especial favorite with the bar who in his presence regained the slumbers which were snatched from them by burning the mid night oil or indulging too freely in ignis fatuus eccentricities


he was a model judge and it may be asserted without fear of contradiction that there were few judges in the world like him


silence


the judge is coming having been shouted through the court by the stentorian voice of the official whose duty it was to protect the majesty of justice from in sult mr justice kerry slipped out of his robing room on the judicial dais with that peculiar bob bing elegance which is the marked characteristic of a rum puncheon launched overboard in a storm


that learned personage then bowed to the bar and the bar returned the compliment with the exception of mr braylott the accomplished musi cian who was engaged in making notes for a poetical effusion which a youthful aspirant for drawingroom and eveninigparty fame had en trusted to his composing care


mr starter the clerk of arraigns next called over the names of divers good men and true to act as jurymen


by the time he had received about fifty repliesnot served gone to the diggings he succeeded in gettlng twelve jurors squeezed into a very uncomfortable box and as their average weight might be reckoned at four teen stone and the thermometer stood at in the shade a long trial in that human bakehouse wasnt likely to girdle them with a temperate or reduce the crustiness of their disposi tion


the foreman unanimously selected was mr john jewel a gentleman gifted by providence with an oily tongue and a lardlike looking countenance and by his perruquier with an inimitable scratch wig


he was indeed a jewel of the first water to which the eleven inferior stones merely served as foils


he was extremely dignified upon such occasions and invariably made it a rule to examineinchief crossexamine and reexamine all the witnesses as he felt considerably more con fidence in his own ability than in that of the judge or counsel


he had likewise a tendency to indulge in lengthy addresses but as all men are fond of hearing themselves talk mr jewels amiable weakness was not taken any notice of


singular to relate kitely was upon the jury


he was totally unaware that the trial of these men was about to take place until too late to withdraw without creating suspicion


he put a bold face upon it and assumed an indifferent look but he felt a sinking within an insecurity a mysterious shadowing of coming danger and these were increased when forky jem on seeing him assumed an air of confidence which told of acquittal through kitelys means


would i could strangle him where he stands


was kitelys thought


hes a trump after all and poor knuckler was mistaken soliloquized forky jem


the sacred volume having been manipulated and kissed in due form mr starter read the in dictment against the prisoners


it ran in the usual brief explicit and lucid style of legal pro ceedings and charged forky jem alias james nailer and bully alias the bulldog with having by force of arms c on the night of c en tered the dwellinghouse c of miss winifred scrymgour in the county of c and then and there of doing c in plainer terms of com mitting a burglary


how say you forky jem enquired mr starter are you guilty or not guilty


not guilty of course a man may as well have a chance for his money ive got a lawyer


and you bully alias the bulldog


i rides in the same cart vith jem


wooots that asked mr justice kerry


he pleads not guilty replied mr starter hastily anxious to prevent a further judicial enquiry


prisoners how will you be tried said mr starter


anyhow you like responded the twain only give us a fair start


in the pperilous pposition in which you are pplaced a ddifferent ddmeanour would ccertainly bbcome you bbetter said mr justice kerry emphatically


if our company is disagreeabel turn us out replied bully gruffly ve never inwited our selves


mr justice kerry lifted his eyeglass and looked the speaker through and through


whos for the pprisoners shouted he in a voice of thunder


l am for forky jem your honor answered mr phosphor an elderly gentleman with a red face sharp nose and lively oculars


mr phos phor was a shining light at the bar and was sup posed to have as much law in his little finger as the bulk of his learned brothers had dispersed over their bodies


i appear for bully said mr muddyboy an irish gentleman who delighted in circuit courts where his opportunities of lionizing amongst lambs and tritonizing amongst minnows were more frequent than in the metropolis


i am for the crown remarked mr bral laghan


go on said mr justice kerry somewhat testily


may it please your honor gentlemen of the jury in the whole course of my professional experience i nivir met a case clearer and more conclusive than the present


the prisoners at the bar are reputed thaves


i object to this statement unless my learned friend is in a position to prove it interrupted mr phosphor


ve never robbed him added the prisoners


the jury are more inclined to depend upon the evidence adduced than any observations of counsel remarked mr jewel importantly


mr brallaghan looked from one to the other like a baited bull and was somewhat at a loss to know which attack to repel after a slight consideration he selected mr phosphors as hav ing most weight


the interruption of my learned friend is quite irregular i am in a position to prove all i assert and i mean to do it but i must have time i object to any further delay said mr mud dyboy my client has already been incarcerated


for two months it is the duty of the crown to


be semper paratus


vot does he say jem asked bully


hell cook your taters was the response


let the case proceed said mr justice kerry i have no wish to haaamper the prooosecu tion but i would suggest calling the witnesses at once


mr brallaghan thus warned reserved his ora tory for a future occasion and the police detec tive john mawler was introduced to the notice of the court


the witness having positively sworn that he never bore any other name was requested to give an account of the circumstances under which he apprehended the prisoners


this he did in a clear and succinct manner


he tracked them to the house of miss scrymgour and having gone for assistance arrived in time to prevent their es cape with the valuables which were packed up ready for removal


he dwelt lightly upon the attempt made upon his life appearing to consider jems shattered arm an equivalent for his own perforated hat


mr phosphor manifested his usual tact by de clining to crossexamine this witness


mr mud dyboy being of the fast school adopted a different course and endeavoured to cut a few chips from the sturdy policemans block


your name is mawler i think said mr muddyboy enquiringly


lt is sir


how long have you been a policeman


no hesitation sir answer my question this instant vociferated the barrister


twelve years eleven months and twenty nine days replied mawler coolly


oh rejoined mr muddyboy sarcastically as you are so precise about dates perhaps you can tell me when you were born five minutes after two am on the st april in the year was the placid an swer


i do not see how this affects the case inter rupted mr justice kerry with some asperity


i beg your honors pardon suppose l am enabled to prove that he has not arrived at years of discretion


there may be something in that replied mr justice kerry shaking his head though the ex pression of his countenance exhibited consider able doubt upon the point


did you ever take a thief before you entered the police force resumed mr muddyboy


many a one


from whence sir out of the candle and often burned my fingers at it


perhaps your honor will allow me to ask one question which may tend to throw a light upon the subject said mr jewel respectfully and without waiting for an answer he put the following interrogatory to mawler


did you ever live in stoke pogis


i object to being hoodwinked in this manner cried mr brallaghan


the venue is laid in the county of cumberland i will not be lid by the nose as it were all round the worrld


my learned friend begins to smell a rat said mr muddyboy triumphantly i thought we should shake his witness


now sir can you swear that you apprehended both prisoners at the same time


be careful sir


certainly not replied mawler


in that case i claim a separate trial for my client your honor a joint indictment would be legal butchery


are you going to argue the point enquired mr justice kerry despondingly


unquestionably your honor replied the opposing counsel simultaneously


go on gentlemen said his honor sinking back in his chair and resigning himself to his fate with christian humility and fortitude


the point was argued for two long hours and never was shuttlecock more whacked and banged about by battledores


mr phosphor with a wis dom peculiar to himself retired to the luncheon room in order to recruit his exhausted strength


he returned to the court just in time to hear mr muddyboys objection overruled


the trial afterwards pursued the even tenor of its way


witnesses were examined and reex amined and alternately wheedled and bullied the speeches in defence were followed by a sneering reply the summingup dragged its slow length alongbut


everything must have an end


the jury retired and after due consideration as the newspapers have it returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners


sentence had yet to he passed this the learned judge deferred for a time


the eyes of forky jem and kitely met


malice revenge and inextinguishable hate flashed in the felons glance kitely shrank beneath it


to be continued


bainaly rudge


o cnaitrt


l


they were among the first to reach the tavern but they had not been there many minutes when several groups of men who had folmed part of the crowd came straggling in


among them were simon tappertit and lmr


dennis both of whom but especially the latter greeted barnaby with the utmost warmth and paid him many compliments onthe prowess he had shown


which said dennis with an oath as he rested his bludgeon in a corner with his hat upon it and took his seat at the same table with them it does me good to think of


there was a oppor


tunity


but it led to nothing


for my part i dont know what would


theres no spirit among the people in these here times


bring something to eat and drink here


im disgusted with humanity


on what account asked mr tappertit who had been quenchling his fiery face in a halfgallon can


dont you consider this a good beginning mister give me security that it ant an ending rejoined the hangman


when that soldier went down we might have made london ours but no we stand and gape and look on the justice


i wish he had had a bullet in each eye as he would have had if wed gone to work my way says mly lads if youll give me your word to disperse ill order off the military our people set up a hurrah throw up the game with the winning cards in their hands and and skulk away like a pack of tame curs as they are


alh i said the hangman in a tone of deep disgust it makes me blush for my feller creeturs


i wish i had been horn a ox i do i youd have been quite as agreeable a character if you had been i think returned simon tappertit gointg out in a lofty manner


dont be too sure of that rejoined the hang


man calling after him if i was a horned animal at the present moment with the smallest grain of sense id toss every man in this company excepting them two meaning hugh and barnaby for his manner of conducting himself this day


with which mournful review of their proceedings lmr


dennis sought consolation in cold boiled beef and beer but without at all relaxing the grim and dissatisfied expression of his face the gloom of shich was rather deepened than dissipated by their grateful influence


the company who were thus libelled might have retaliated by strong words if not by blows but they were dlispirited and worn out


the greater part of them had fasted since morning all hadsuffered extremely from the excessive heat anod between the s days shouting exertion and excitement many had quite lost their voices and so much of their strengthl that they could hardly stapd


then they were un


certain what to do next fearful of the consequences of what they had done already and sensible that t after all they had carried no point but had indeed left matters worse than they had found them


of those who had come to the boot many dropped off within an hour such of them as were really honest and sincere never after the mornings experiment to return or to hold any communication with their t late companions others remained but to refresh themselves and then went home desponding others i who had heretofore been regular in their attendance


c avolded the place altogether


the halfdozen pri soners whom the guards had taken were magnified r by report into half a hundred at least and their c friends being faint and sober so slackened in their a energy and so drooped beneath these dispiriting t influences that by eight oclock in the evening dennis llugh and barnaby were ler ne


even they were fast asleep upon tha benches when gash fords entrance roused them


oh i you are lhere then said the secretary


dear me i g why where should we be muster gashford i t dennis rejoined as itse rose into a sitting posture


oh nowhere nowhere he returned with ex


h cessivo mildness the streets are filled with blue cockades


i rather thought you might have been a among them


i am glad you are not


you have orders for us master lihen said ilugh


oh dear no npt


no orders my good fellow


c what orders should i have i you are not in my service


f muster gashford remonstrated dennis we a belong to the cause


dont we s t the cause l repeated the secretary looking at p him in a sort of abstraction


there is no cause


the cause is lost


lost


ooh yes


you have heard i suppose


the a petition isrejected by a hundred and ninetytwo to is six


its quite final


we might have spared our


j selves some trouble that and my lords vexation f arb the only circumstances i regret


i am quite a satisfied in all other respects


tl a


s he said this he took a penknife from his pocket a and putting his hiat upon isis knee began to busy himself in ripping off thie blue cockade which he had p worn all day at tile same time humming a psalm ti tune wlhich had been very popular in the morning r and dwelling on it with a gentle regret


ills two adherents looked at each other and at himnt as if they were at a loss how to pursue the sulject


at lengtlh hlugh after some elbowing and b winking between himself and mr dennis ventured to stay his hand antd to ask him why hie meddled v with that riband in his hat


fi


because said tle secretary looking up with something between a snarl and a smile because a to sit stilland wear it or fall asleep and wear it or a run away and wear it is a mockery


thats all sfriend


whatl would you have us do master cried ti shuigh


b nothing returned gaahford shrugging his a shioulders nothing


when my lord was re sproached and threatened for standing by you i as ri a prudent man would have hbd you do nothing


si


when the soldiers were trampling you under their el horses feet i would have had you do nothing tl


when one of them was struck down by a daring ast hand and i saw confusion and dismay in all their bl faces i would ilave had you do nothingjust what d you did in short


this is the young man who had so little prudence and to much boldness


ahi


i am sorry for him


sorry master i cried hugh


sorry muster gashford echoed dennis


in case there should be a proclamation out tomorrow offering five hundred pounds or some such trifle for his nppreheuson and in case it should include another man who dropped into tire lobby from the stairs above said gashford coldly still do nothing


fire and fury master cried hugh starting up what have we done that you should talk to us like this i nothing returned gashford with a sneer


if you are cast into prison if the youngmsan here he looked hard at barnabys attentive face is dragged from us and from iris friends perhaps from people whom ihe loves and whom his death would kill is thrown into jail brought out and hanged before their eyes still do nothing


youll find it your best policy i have no doubt


come on cried hugh striding towards the door


dennis barnabycome on i where


to do what i said gashford slipping past him and standing with his back against it


anywhere


anything cried hugh


stand aside master or the window will serve our turn as well


let us out i hia iha ha


you are of suchof such an im petuous nature said gashford changing his man ner for one of the utmost good fellowship and the pleasantest raillery you are such an excitable creaturebut youll drink with me before you go z oh yescertainly growled dennis drawing his sleeve across ihis thirsty lips


no malice brother


drink with muster gashford


lhugh wiped his heated brow and relaxed into a smile


the artful secretary laughed outright


some liquor here


be quick or hell not stop even for that


he is a man of such desperate ardour said the smooth secretary whom mar


dennis corroborated with sundry nods and muttered oaths once roused ire is a fellow of such fierce determination


hugh poised his sturdy arm aloft and clapping barnaby on the back bade him fear nothing


they shook hands togetherpoor barnaby evidently pos sessed with the idea that he was among the most virtuous and disinterested heroes in the worldand gashford laughed again


i hear he said smoothly as he stood among them with a great measure of liquor in his hand and filled their glasses as quickly and as often as they chose i hear but i cannot say whether it be true or false that the men who are loitering in the streets tonight are half disposed to pull down a romisih chapel or two and that they only want leaders


i even heard mention of those in dukestreet lin colns inn fields and in warwickstreet golden square but common report you knowyou are not going to do nothing master eh cried hugh no jails and halter for barnaby and me


they must be frightened out of that


leaders are wanted are they


now boys i a most impetuous fellow cried the secretary


ha ha


i a courageousbolisterous most vehe


ment fellow


a man who


there was no need to finish the sentence for they had rushed out of the house and were far beyond hearing


he stopped in the middle of a laugh listened drew on his gloves and clasping his hands behind him paced the deserted room for a long time then bent his steps towards the busy town and walked into the streets


they were filled with people for the rumour of that days proceedings had made a great noise


those persons who did not care to leave home were at their doors and windows and one topic of dis course prevailed on every side


some reported that the riots were effectually put down others that they had broke out again some said that lord george gordon had been sent under a strong guard to the tower others that an attempt had been made upon the kings life that the soldiers had been again called out and that the noise of musketry in a distant part of the town had been plainly heard within an hour


as it grew darker these stories became more direful and mysterious and often when some frightened passenger ran past with tidings that tlhe rioters were not far off and were coming up the doors were shut and barred lower windows made secure and as much consternation engendered as if the city wereinvaded by a foreign army


gashford walked stealthily about listening to all n hoe heard and diffusing orcoufirming whenever rhe had an opportunity such false intelligence as suited iris own purpose and busily occupied in this way turned into holborn for the twentieth time when a great many women and children came flying along the streetoften panting and looking backand the confused murmur of numerous voices struck upon his ear


assured by these tokens and by the red c light which began to flash upon the houses on either aide that some of hiis friends were indeed approach ing he begged a moments shrelter at a door which t opened as hire passed and running with some otlrer persons to an upper winrdow looked out upon trhe crowd


they hiad torches amongi threm and the chief faces were distinctlyvisible


that they had been engaged in the destruction of some building was a sufficiently apparent and that it was a catholic place of worship was evident from the spoils they bore as trophies which were easily recognisable for thire vestments of priests and rich fragments of altar furniture


covered with soot and dirt and dust and lime their garments torn to rags their hair hanging wildly about them their hands and faces jagged and bleeding with thire wounds of rusty nails ti barnbry hugh and dennis hiurried on before them all like hideous madmen


after them the dense tlrrong came fighting on some singing some shiouting in triumph some quarreling among tlhem


selves some menacing the spectators as they passed somne with great wooden fragments on whicih they spent their rage as if they had been alive c rending them limb from limb and hurling the scat o toled morsels high into the air some in it drunken state unconscious of the hurts trhey had received from falling bricks and stones and beams one e borne upona shlutter in the very midst covered with a dingy clotlla senseless glrastly iteap


thusa vision of coarse faces with here and thlrere a blot of fiatlng samoky light a dream of demon heads and a savage eyes and sticks and iron bars uplifted in thire b air and whirled about a bewildering hiorror in which so much was seen and yet so little which sedmed so long and yet so short in which there a were so tany phantoms not to be forgotten all through life and yet so many things that could not b be observed in that distracting glimpseit flitted i onwvard sad was gone


ti


as it passed away upon its work of wrath and ruin a piercing screamt was hireard


a knot of per ti sons ran towards the spot gashford who just then f emerged into thie street among them


lie was on thire outskirts of thire little concourse and could not see or hear what passed witlhin but one who had a better place informnned him that a widow woman had descried her son among the rioters


is that all said the secretary turning iris face or homewards


lwell i t hink this looks a lilile more ike business li to lie ooilltnme


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j from the horn until w got through the roaring forties


we have gry blowing splashing days


we have boisterous weather in moral point of view too


hitherto we have all messed together in the tween decks but the game of grab being played exten sively by the balk of the passengers the corroboree who wish to get their meals without rushing to the tables like a lot of pigs to their trough resolve to mess by themselves


utensils sa wt aa food have been beized after a most unscrupulous fashion and branded like stolen cattle


of all tay stock bpoon alone is left


with this i can manage to peel potatoes and eat rice and duff when i oxn borrow a plate to put them on bat my meat i have to get out up for mp like a childs and as for tea i drink and tie with a beneficent neighbour


i attempt ope day to make re prisals


i cautiously collect


complete dinner equipage but one after another alas


my spoils aro taken from me


mr possum youve got my plate roars savage from the bottom of the table


thats my pannikin exclaims another opposite


peter my boy ill trouble you for my knife and fork as snon as you can make it convenient chimes in a friend mote politely and thus in


trice am i stripped of all my borrowed plomes


the swell mob moreover have had to stand at meals for the last three weeks the savages occupying the only form not smashed in onr passage round the hom


now however we lay hands upon the car penter get our own aieistable employ our own steward and one of our body being like miss honey man a stunner for tarts and another a dab at the composition ot a johnny cake we excite general envy amongst the outsiders by the perfection of our cuisina


they attempt to rival us but possessing no culinary genius they only succeed in turning out for their fancy dishes a series of unname able and equally uneatable compounds and after a brief loaran flight of wildest fantasy flounder once more in the old bill of fare of peasoup stickjaw mahogany and spuds


upon the ih we sight a saila barque with double topsails running down on us before the wind


we shiver our canvas to enable her to catch us and enter into a bunting chat with her


she proves to be the haddington once a steamer belonging to the p o company fiftysix days out from lind bound for bombay


she passes under oar stern and we pro pare to board ker


the boat is launched as i never saw a boat launced beforepitched overboard bodily like an empty bouilli tin


she strikes against the side knocks off about ia yard of her keel and ia very nesrly swamped


as soon as she is baled and manned the first mate and a few of the cabin passengers jump into her


nicode mus wants to go hat lingers so long in the main ohainsapparently waiting for his nurse to lift him in that the boat shoves off without him


figaro who has borrowed half


sydnty morning iterald of me to exchange as he hopes for file of english papers also wants to go nd has got his foot on the boats gnnwale when he is brusquely ordered back by bruin


poor little figaro creeps up the side disconso late beneath a fire of grins and does not recover his pompous bantam strut for three hours afterwards


whilst we are speculating as to what the european news will be up comes mother hubbard


ah gentlemenshe sighsbut i feel a personal in terest in the intelligence


the report of my case must have reached england when the haddington sailed and no donbt is the exclusive topic of the papers that she carries


what oh what


will be the comments of the english press


tell me my dear sir do i look the sort of person that the infamous state ments in the sydney papers might have led you to imagine met well really madam the gentleman addressed replies not quite so bad


i fancied that you were a horrid old hagand i should say that you cant be more than thirtyfive


now we pounce upon the papers that the boat brings back


how stale they seem in an hour


i how disappointed mother hubbard ia when after assiduous seaton through all their oolumns


she finds no mention of her precious self or esaethat she isnt looked upon at home ss a she warren hastings


with cheers and a dipped ensign the haddington goes npon her way and having reciprocated the courtesy we fill again and once more gallop north wards


sails in sight soon become quite common objects


one comes rather too close in sightshaving our jib boom in the morning twilight


the skipper of a hamburg barque we board will not believe that we left sydney on the date we state until he sees our file of papers when he elevates his bands turns up his eyes and piously ejaculates mein gott


den you mua fly


august st is our first true novelists sunday at sea


silvery spray painted with momentary rain bows splashescooling eye and earagainst the sharp black bows of our good ship as with all her cream white canvas set she skims gaily and gently as a sea bird over the indigo waters fleoked here and there with snowy foam and shot with trembling gold


she seems to know that the trades are readya few miles headto waft her on her homeward way and to pity her outwardbound sisterthe liverpool ship we spoke at breakfast timenow melting a very phantom of a craft into the southern sunnyblue hod son


the carpenters benoh is bare


his saw keeps sabbath within his house and he npon its doorstep where thinking no doubt of his old woman and the little onea for whom he is taking home that eageful of richly mottled lowries and gor geous flunkeylike king parrots whistling and chirp ing overhead he smoke with halfclosed eyes the pipe of peace


sails humming a psalm tune in waa o nu wontea


hanks ana braes beats a pious tattoo upon his otiose palm


the butaher a blushing buck grinningly conscious of the swellish aspect that a washed face and stickup collar have conferred upon him lazily loatters golden maize into the henooop troughs


the watch below are over hauling the donkey in the forecastle


the starboard watch on duty like the batcher have sloughed their weekday dress and drt and barely recogniieable ia the neatness of their hebdo madal shave clean shirts and vivid dungaree esunter np and down the hot white deck


the mate resplendent ia gilt band and anchor battons blue jacket and white trouser parades with plenipoten tiary port the poop


cabin passengers with dove ooloured parasols and gossamery gowns zephyr paletota and toweltmbaned hats cluster chatting about his path


steerage passengers too arrayed in summer garb lounge reading on the bulwarks and the booms


cape horn weatherdays a few dreary hours of cold and dark nights one long shiver appears a myth a dream


it is as hard to realise the fact that we have passed through such a state of thing as it was when we were battling round that plaguesome promontory to believe that we should ever know what warmth could mean again


the poultry cluck and crow geese gabble turkeys gobble less loudlyso it seemsthan upon other days


when the cow supplements the tranquil tumult with a gentle low and the sheep with a soft bleat you might fancy yourself on shore did you but close your eyesia a secluded farmyard girt with green qui


vering leaves and bright with sabbath sunshine


the bell begins to toll fox prayers


its sound awakes mnemosyne


ones thoughts fly backwards to the old faroff places in the faroff times when we had never dreamt of wandering from home and god


ah me that i had never wandered


we have elysian weather in the tropicsa calm every now and then it is true but to a lazy man a brief tropical calm is a luxury


there is a lulling hush throughout the ship un broken save by the napping of the useless sails


the most passionate and spiteful are too languid now to quarrel or to slander


the crew are indolently busy in letting up the rigging


a few prone on a hot sail burnish in the sleepiest of styles the flashing contents of the armschest as the blue smoke goes up from the meerschaum or cigar of each lounging male pas senger he marvels how men can bother themselves to make anything else of life than one long bask


the ladies nodding over their novels seem of a very similar opinion


even children enjoy for once the otcefar nient


the wrinkled sea looks like a solu tion of sulphate of copper


now a whale sends np a silvery jet from the light blue lastly heaving waters


anon a ahoal i of porpoises are seen at their piglike samboli and the wide glinting main is perpetually impled and spangled by hundreds of those swallows of the sea the flying fish as they shoot along like silver shafts or submerge themselves once more with a splash of feathery spray


to a gazer in the sunlight the sky is a french white with fawncoloured cloud lets and fringingi


seen from the shade it hines a liquid sapphire


and heavenly are the tropical nights when meteors drop like laburnum blossoms before the summer breeze and planets rayed like little suns cut lines of light upon the wave almost as brilliantas those that fall from northern moons and the moon is first seen in her unveiled beauty flooding sky and ocean with her sil very sheen


on tuesday the th at dusk ire are within tv horny ssil of the line


ohltbrvxksntohb


a pistol ia flted


and v ship ahoy


i comes gruffly through i the mello gloom a long conversation follows betweenthe bauer and the mate and then back the mainyatd cries bruin and fling his majesty a rope


neptune with clerk and page comes over the side and proceeds through an avenue of cheerers who fall into his wake as he passes to the poop


he salutes the grinning skipper presents him with a red herring and demands a list of all on board j who have not crossed the line


having perued it


i


and handed it to his clerk who wears a white hat that i cannot help suspecting ones was mine bis marine majesty fixes his official visit for the following day descends to a little desultory ohat chaffs the ladies


u shakes hands with them all round and then amidst a bisse of bine lights and a blare of lusty lunga mtkea i o his bow and onoe more takes he wat


his flaming


car is soon seen rising and falling on the black billows miles astern


next day a little after noon ha returns in state triton after breaking down in love not heralding


his monarchs approach by a very lame performance carn mi that equally appropriate air pop goes the weasel


neptune having boarded at the bows makes his royal progress along the starboard side of the vessel


first come his bears a pair of portly beasts that when too fiercely lashed by their niggerdriver repeat the miracle of balaams ass and turn round and swear the one in dutch the other in genuine english


l seated on a gan carriage covered with the british ensign the sea king follows with his bride


amphitrite a somewhat lanky bnt very good looking young lady is dressed in the heignt of the fashion and nurses with equal assiduity a brandy bottle and a babe


i regret to state that the queen consort is not very refined in her manners


a i looker on presuming to remark npon the prodigious protuberance of her posterior crinoline she lashes ont at him like a vioiou carthorse and in so doing dis plays above her delicate white stockings a pair of very coarse and dirty drawersthe material indeed looks very much hke tarry canvas


neptunes most prominent feature is his nose a right regal oneredder than king clicquots and most appropriately of the shape de risively termed bottle


this in fact is about all of his face that you can see for he hss a pair of moustaches that would make a doxen such ss his royal brother of sardinia wears a beard compared with which jaok robertsons is a mere seedling and a head of hair like a dusty lions mane


above a tew j


euea uara me like of which methinks i have seen on the viototian stage totters his imperial diadem


the profane compare it to a chimneypot and say it is a bouilli tin that his majesty has caught when pitched overboard from some passing ship and gat painted by his artist in ordinary


at all evento it glitters grandly and the stars flags dolphins leering mermaids and i know not what beside with which it is decorated display a wild originality in their design that proclaims no ordinary pencil


he is dad in sheepskins with a wampum belt about his loins


his food would appear to be brandy and red herrings three of which he eames spitted on the prongs of his trident as if jost abont to toast them


i the doctor a squat bushywigged yonng gentleman with huge spectacles singularly enough the very fac simile of our doctor his mate an animated scarecrow with no two things on that were made for one person the barber redfaced rednightcapped and redshirted and sporting an ethiopian serenaders crsvat anal stickups the clerk wearing now i know not why a footmanm hat the page very proud of his blue cockade and sabre and the constables with letters on their collars and batons in their hands form the rear of the procession


it rolls and rumbles onwards to the poop


there is a little polite palaver between the skipper and the king and then the former gives the latter full per mission to do his royal pleasure


a studdingsail has been stretched between the bul warks and the booms and filled with water for the constrained ablutions of the shaved


into this the bears plunge growling for their prey


neptune seats t himself beside the barbers ohair in front and summona i victim after viotim to the scaffold on which it stands


ex uno disecone


swipy sam one of the ships apprentices a humourous youth who backs all his statements with the original asseveration and thats afact mon and who will do anything for grog has volunteered for a bribe of the esme toswell the number of the mees


the peelers escort him in shirt and trousers tonis seat


the barber blindfolds him and then brandishing in one hand a raror like a jagged soythe and in the other a shaving brash like a hearthbroom dips the latter into his loathsome lather and intimates tbit he is ready to perform his offioe


but the doctor interfereshe must feel the patients pnlse


pulling out a watch like a fryingpan and mimicking muff medicuss oldwomanish manner to a he inquires tenderly ss to the state of samuels health


sam imprudently opens his ups to answer with a joke when ah splutter


faugh


the filthy brush is in his teeth and before he osn shut his mouth again a squirt from below has drenched him with a bever age that sam detests except as an accompaniment to rum


he now wisely remains silent as the sphinx is smeared and scraped and gashed and finally ntli


vul j ii it


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hwb t


ugu tuw viit


umit ucnrau


xue bears pounce on him and try to hold him down


but sam is aotive and wriggles like an eel


he gets his head between a pair of ursine legs and flings their owner plump upon his fellow


then pulling off the bandage from his eyes sam scrambles out of the pool and dives into the boys house to change his dripping clothes thinking evidently that he has oheaply earned his lush


the shaving operations nre concluded by the car penters suddenly rushing up the scaffold steps and sending the doctor head foremost into the water which now looks very much like pigs wash


the moment after i receive the contents of the leather bucket full in my face


the stuff being not quite so fragrant as rimmels aromatio shaving paste i feel qaite grateful when directly afterwards some one dashes a bucketful of water over me


a general bap tismal skirmish now commences


i am fortunate enough to drenoh my good friend the barber in re quita


for his odorous gift but in ten mi nutes i have not a dry thread upon me


my bro


ther corrobores are all in asimilar condition


finding that lorne of the cowardly savages have taken shelter in the tweendeoks we favour them with a shower u t bath down the hatchway


the maniac goes out to the i jibboom end


the sailors pursue him and literally deluge him with water


he receives ten bucketful without uttering a word or moving a limbwithout even turning his head to see whence the flood is pouring


much grog is drunk and many songs are sang in au carts of the ship at night


the next morning she


looks like a bag fairinch hosts of drying garments are fluttering everywhere in the fresh breeze


coloniaii literature


tale for the buth no


d l weicn svdnev


the second number of this little serial ig before us and unobtrusively proceeds in the excellent object proposed at the commence ment the proof of tho effect of religion in diffusing civilization and virtue through tho world even to its romotest regions


in tho story of ruth walsh which tho author has selected for the number before us tho spirit of true and rational piety marks its progress but we almost fear that tho melancholy tono of the narrative will come too near home to tho busi ness and bosoms of many of those into whoso hands it may fall that it will force upon their visions those images of everyday vice and misery which besot the dwellers in tho bush and that many in closing tho book will feel that the iron has entered into thoir soul


all classes are accustomed to ponder on the realities of existence to trace effects to their causes and to seek for tho mitigation of hardships and the removal of grievances in plans of domestic and social improvement


wo need not there fore advert to the palpable truth that religious sentiments presented in an excited state and not counterpoised by the attractive pictures of content and happiness in humble life not taught common sense by common occasions is littlo likely to stop short at mere enthusiasm tho fervour almost of necessity becomes fana tical and tho progress of tho feelings in such cases is likely to approach the verge of two extremes


few will close tho story of ruth walsh without a sincure wish that tho piety and resignation of tho heroine might have secured her a happier worldly fate than that which is so painfully described


of tho excellence of thedesign and tho simplicity of the expression the following extract will give a favorable idea and submitting to tho author octr views as to tho strtuturo of his stories wo again most humbly recommend this littlo work to tho heads of families whether in tho city or in tho bush as mary walked buck sho met ruth walsh who had been sneaking to mrs manloy about doing tho needlework of tho family


mary could not help giving a long look at her after all that had passed


ruth wore a dark eotti n gown inndo very plainly but fitting niuely a clean whito apron and vrito muslin handkerchief shewing above tho gown which used to be the fashion a few years ngo looked very nice lief huir was as jack had said remarkably smooth and was put back plain under a neatly quilled cap which was set further on her head tliari ono generally sies and looked far moro modest then when itstuulc on tho back ol tho head as if tho wearer was ashamed of it


jack was right too when he said sho had a pair of tight heels ruth never could bear slipshod shoes and ragged stockings


mary white who was nursemaul at mrs mauleys could not help thinking that ruths appearance was far better than hint of jane and betsy drown mary sighed for sho thought of tho time when she had dressed in that manner six years ago when she lived in squire joness family but since she had como out to this country and always hail good wages she had left off this and many other habits


she liked to be neat and clean but she liked to bo smart too


on a sunday it was difficult to know which was the mistress and which the servant


mary felt pleased and flattered when she heard herself called genteel looking and quite liko a lady


sho saw that every one else did or tried to do tho same and she had almost for gotten what sho used to be taught about it but the sight of ruth recalled somo good advice which mrs jonns had given her about not being loud of dress and not stopping out of the station in which god has placed us and she recollected that her dress cost her a great deal of thought as well as timo and money


the money was her own to bo sure thought sho but tho time is not that my mistress


how much moro sowing could sho not do for her mistress if her time was honestly spent in it instead of picking her own sloovos to pieces to mako them more in tho fashion and trimming her caps with bows


all this camo into marys head as sho walked along for many months oven years thoso thoughts had boon buried


now tho just seeing ruth walsh brought them back


vns this chance


no


it was ordered by an al mighty providence who oltun thus rules littlo things for us


when a good thought arises at hearing somothing saij or seeing sorao person do right it is not chance


it is tho voice of god speaking to us


never let us neglect it


ave do not know that if wo turn from it this timo wo shall over bo permittod to hoar it again street accidents when wo take into consideration tho number of children of a tender age that are suflcre i to run about tho streets un attended wo aro really surprised that so few accidents of a serious naturo occur


a few days sinco a child apparently not more than two years old nnd quito alone was run over by a horse at the corner of hunter and pittstreets providentially tho child sustained no injury


a similar ocuurronee took place on saturday morn ing in castloroaghstrcot and although there was not tho least blumo attached to the ridor whose conduct on thu occasion was most fooling and praiseworthy tlio torrent of low and vulgar abuso ho received from a female who wo pro sumo callud herself the mother of tho child was overwhelming the man seeing that no injury had boon done and perhaps finding his patience oozing away at the unludyliko remarks of his antagonist coolly mounted his horso and rode away obsorving that if people hud brute they should keep thorn at home or find some body to look after them and provent them run ning under horses foot


accidental death


on thursday last a little girl named susan davis about four years old strayed from her fathers house situated on the redfern estate and unfortunately fell into a well only a few yards from the door but although taken out within a quarter of an hour after she was first missed and every means used to restore animation lilo had been mo ox tinct


an inquest was hold upon the body on the following day and the jury returned a verdict of accidentally drowned


alaum op finn


on friday night lost the inhabitants of thn city wore somewhat nlarmod by tho appearance of n rod ghiro of light in tho vcinity of the royal hotel and it was sup posed by thoso at a distance that that building or ono contiguous thereto hnd takon fire


the affrighted citizens howover woro soon quiotod on ascertaining that thn glare wns pro luuod by tho furnnco in messrs russull foundory tho flame from which ascendod to an extraordinary lioiglit and as viewed from tho gatoway was by no moans a plcasantsight


the guardian


a new weekly paper under this title which avowedly assumes the character of guardian of the working classes appeared on saturday


of the ability of its editor to conduct a journal of its pretensions there is no need to speak of his discretion we may perhaps bo a littlo doubtful


he sets out with admitting that the three great elements ot wealth aro land labor and capital but while he awurds them equal ranks as sources of wealth lie claims for labor the preponderating influence in its management and distribution


that poli tical power should be vested in the hands of the imployed in place of the employers is the guar dians creed and bo maintains his point with seal and good teirper


wo may on some future occasion break a lance with him on this subject init we shall now content ourselves with rcenl ing to his rocolleetion an anecdote of the french revolution which ho will admit is in point


general la fayetto had a quarrel with the na ional guard on tho subject of drill they consi loring tho manual exorcise as our city idlers do sheenfarming an infringement on tho rights jf man


tho general being of tho contrary jpinion as our flockholders aro a deputation of jorporals for any thing higher would have ooked too aristocratic waited on him at the quarters of his staff in tho plaeo vendome to lemand ma immediate resignation


on further nquiry he ascertained that all tho battalions unouuting to thirty thousand men were pre cisely of tho same sentiments


next morning lappenod to have been appointed for a general eview of the national guard


la fayetto ippeared on the ground as commandant at the load of his staff and after a gallop along the lino suddenly alighted from his horso and tak ing a musket from his shoulder to tho utter astonishment of every body walked direct into the centre of tho lino and took post in the ranks


of course all the field officers flew up bo learn the reason


gentlemen said he i am tired of receiving orders as commander inchief and that i may give them i have be come a private as you see


the announce ment was received with a shout of merriment nnd as in franco a pleasantry would privilege


x man to sot fire to a church the general was eheored on all sides was romounfed and tho citizen army suspending the rights of man for tho day proceeded to march and manoeuvre according to the drill framed by despots and kings


wo cordially recommend this story to thoguaituian and tho association


salu of shakes mr blackmails order to withdraw tho advertisement headed impor tant sale of shares was received too late on saturday to prevent its appearance in todays issue


wo take the present opportunity of stat ing to our advertising friends that as wo now publish every morning all orders for discon tinuances of or alterations in advertisements aro particularly requested to bo forwarded to tho oflico before twelve oclock at noon as at that hour the first form is sent to press


important to grazikiis


a grass which luxuriates on peati land it is said has beon discovered in tho falkland islands and is well calculated to fatten stock and that the ossossors of such may raiso food at a cheap rate for millions of cattto


it is thus described by a writer on tho spot who accompanied captain rosss antarctic expedition the splendid tus saelc grass is tho gold and glory of tlioso islands


it will i hope yet make the fortune of orkney and irish landowners of peat bogs


every animal here feeds upon it with avidity and fattens in a short time


it may be planted nnd cut liko the guinea grass of tho west indies


tho blades are about six feet long and from to shoots spring from one plant


i have proved by several experiments that ono man can cut bundles in a day and that a horse will greedily devour fiva of these in the same time


indued so fond of it are both horses and ojws that they will eat the dry tussaek thatch from the roofs of the houses m proferoneo to other grass


about four inuhes of the root eats liko mountain cabbage


it loves a rank wet peat bog with the sea spray over it


indeed when the sea beats with the greatest violence and the spray is carried farthest then tho tussaek grass thrives the best on tho soil it loves


all the smaller islands hero though somo of them are as largo at guernsey are covered with tussaek which is nutritious all tho year


in kngland much capital has been expended in converting heath into arable land and hundreds of thousands of acres jefc remain in a state of wildness a deal of which it has not been con sidered possible to


reclaim


wo should think thoso at homo who wish to mako tho most of thoir circumstances will not overlook tho tus saclc grass


extraordinary animal


wo giro tho following extract of a letter from tho celebrated audubon the naturalist a quadruped has been discovered near port union in north america which bids fair to bo


of importance as an article of food


it is called by tho indians kokokaki or jumper feeding on jjrass or herbs


moat delicious rcsoinbling veal it some what resembles tho kangaroo round tho body a ring of flesh about twelve inches wide and eight inches thick which produces a groat quantity of nil j two horns and tho head altogether very liko a deor


tho coat of the most beautiful fur over behold of a dark brown color


tho weight when full grown is upwards of ooolbs


or stone and measures from tho top of tho head to the end of the tail nino feet four inches


tho animals aro in groat abundance in tho wood lands and sovoral of them woro domesticated by tho indians


anecdotes of espantkko


tho following is from a late number of tlio london litekaiiv gazette in now spain as is well known the spirit of gaining is widely spread and all ranks indulge in that excitomont to a perilous degree


tho spanisli officers partook of tho common passion


on ono occasion espartero was so much tho favourite of fortune that after a long sudorunt ho rose tho winnor of dollars from general cantorac


on rotiring from tho gamingtable the latter feolinjj tho heavy ox tout of his imprudence said in a depressed manner to his companion espartero i owo you dollars


no replied tho other laying his hand on his arm in that room which wo havo left you owod me dollars but hero now you


owo mo nothing


tho gene rosity evinced by this anecdote needs no com ment


again when by tho votes of the cortos espnrtoro been mo regent multitudes flocked to him for places crossor pensions and distinc tions


among others a vory near rclativo came from tho uountry of whom nftor roceiving a few visits from him ho inquired what had brought him to madrid


with some hesitation ho stated tlmt ho had como to look for a maintenance for himself and his family now that things had changed so favourably for thoir prospoots


how much will do for that purposo asked tho logout so much ho replied fancying tho office already conferred but


judgo his surprise when his wo wero going to say brothor nd clrossod him return to your homo and whilst t livo i will allow you that sum but if you sup ioso that i who have olnvatod myself so high rrom so low a station by warring against corrup ion am going to saddle you ou tho country on never in your life committed so gross a mls alcp


tho only wny for you to roceivo this allowance from my privnto purso is by quitting madrid within twontyfour hours


tallow sale


nino tons of tnllow woro disposed of at auction on saturday last by mr lyons for js s


per ton for cash


tho poorest of all family goods are indolent females


if a wife knows nothing of domestic iluties beyond the parlour or tho boudoir she is a dangerous partner in these times of peculiax uncertainty


the life of hugh oneill


by john mitcqeli esq


continued from our last


chapter iii


tirlough lynnogh and the baron of dungannon k d ifif


after the murder of shano oneill queen elinnbeth and her irish deputy believed that nil danger from ulster was at an end sidney held a parliament in that year in which the pgisatore of the pale solemnly passed an act fur what they eallcd the attainder of shane oneill and the forfeiture of his estate meaning all the lands inhabited bv his sept


the act then proceeds after abolishing the very name of oneill and imposing the penalties of high treason upon any who should dare to assume it to grant to the queen all the other lands of northern and eastern ulster ocahans country now the county dcrry the route the ilynns and north clanhugh buidhe or claneboy now composing the county of antrim but then inhabited by the mac quillans mac donnells and oneills m ac g eniiis country in down callcd iveagh ouanlous and mac canns in armagh called oirthir orier and clan bressail and also the whole of the present county of iwtnaehan comprising furncy uriel lociity and lartry inhabited by the mac mahons a d touch of the mac hennas


all these territories were gravely confiscated to the queens useupon the map and after a documentary manner


j


but her majesty never derived any benefit from those new dominions being indeed kept out of them by the right owners


the truth is the northerns never beard of tlicse acts of elizabeths parliament and never dreamed that the murder of an irish chieftain by a traitor scot should give any foreign power authority in ulster


tirlough lynnogli oneill a grandson of con more was invested with the chieftaincy of ulster by the permission as the english historians say of the queens government which als permitted him to hold but they assure us by english tenure a portion of his estate permitted indeed more than they could have wished wanting the power to prevent it


sir henry sydney however proceeded to the north not on a hostile expedition but attended onlj by six hundred men and there he received from several chieftriins what would now be called assurances of friendly relations or submissions in the language of cumden and cox and as the latter author villi much gravity assures us settled hitter which however wiil appear not to have been finally settled at that time


vhen shane oneill was murdered the crafty councillors of elizabeth seem to have fixed their eyes upon young hugh son to the illfated baron matthew and destined him according to the usual english policy as an instnimeut to weaken and divide the power of ulster by degrees to destroy its independence and so to reform it after their fashion little knowing the stuff that was in him for tills hugh was then a young man little set by


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