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As As much as little field-mice stir the sheaves . "Vot "Vot upon chain-bolts 1 though the slave's despair " U Has dulled his helpless , miserable hraiu , And And left him hhak beneath the freeman ' s whip , T < To sing and laugh out idiocies of pain . Jfor 5 * or yet on starring homes I where many a lip 11 Has sobbed itself asleep through curses vain ! I toil lore no peace which is not fellowship , A And which includes not mercy . I would have Hat Rather , the raking of the guns across T The world , and shrieks against Heaven's architrave . Bat Jlather , the struggle in the slippery fosse , C Of dying men and torses , and the wave Bio Blood-bubbling . . . . Enough said!—By Christ ' s own cross .
I And by the hint heart of my womanhood , Su < Such things are better than a Peace which sits ] Beside tbe hearth in self-commended mood , An And takes no thought how wind aud rain by fits . Are howling out of doors against the good Of Of the poor wanderer . What ! your Peace admits 1 Of outside anguish while it sits at home ? I ] I loathe to take its name upon my tongue—It is no peace . "lis treason , stiff with doom , — "I "Pis gagged despair , aud inarticulate wrong , Annihilated Poland , stifled Borne , D ; JJazed Naples , Hungary fainting ' neatb tbe thong , And Austria wearing a smooth olive-leaf Ol On her brute forehead , while ber hoofs outpress The life from these Italian souls , in brief . Mas . Bbowsikq .
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A A Lady's Voyage round the World . By Ida Pfeiffer . Williams and Norgate . I I > June , 18 iC , AEadame Pfeiffer sailed from I Hamburgh to Bra 7 . il ia a Danish brig , which a arrived at Bio on the 16 th of September ; a and left it on the 8 th . of December , in an I English barque , for Valparaiso , where she l landed on the 2 nd of March , 1847 . After a f fortnight ' s stay , she took passage iu a Dutch £ ship for Macao ; touching hy the way at ' . Tahiti , where she stayed long enough to wifci ness some curiona effects of the . new " civilisa-1 tion" introduced by the French " protectors "
i ol Queen Pomare . From Macao , which she ; reached on the 8 th of July , she sailed in a Chinese junk , —a bold experiment , fried for economy ' s sake , —to Canton ; saw * what Europeans may of that city , and returned in the same manner to Bong Kong , having been well treated hy Chinese skippers and passengers on both occasions . At Hong Kong she took second-class berths for Ceylon via Singapore in the Oriental ( English ) Company s boats , of the charges and bad accommodation of which—for fore-cabin
passengers—she bitterly complains : —we fear with too much reason . High fares may be excused by the expense of steam-vessels where coal has to be imported from Europe ; but we know also tbat it is the vice of our cany ing companies to neglect tbe cheaper sort of passengers for the sako of those who take the best places . She reached Ceylon on the lftU of October , and left the island ten days afterwards , in another British steamer , for Madras and Calcutta , where she landed on the 4 th of November . In the following month she
steamed up the Ganges to Benares;—travelled by post and bullock waggons to Allahabad . Agra , and Delhi;—which last city she reached on the 19 th of January , 1848 . Hitherto , with the exception of the two trips in the Chinese junks , she had always been under the safeguard of European conveyances ; from Delhi she took a land route for Bombay in a bullock waggon , with native guides and drivers only , through territories not wholl y under English sway , —her sole points of refuge being the stations of missionaries and of British residents at certain stages of her journey . These , indeed , spared no pains to assist and
hospitably receive her wherever they were found ; bnt the intervals were lonely , and not without danger . She reached Bombay on the 15 th of March , and left it for Bussorah via JIuscat in an English steamer , where she was well treated , —as also in the government boat , which took her gratis up the Tieris to Baghdad . The trip lasted from April 23 rd to May 12 th . At this point tbe greater troubles of her journey may be said to have begun . There were part of Turkey and part of Persia—wild districts both—to be crossed before reaching IJnssia . On June 17 th she set out to ride with a caravan for Mosul
through a bare and savage country , with no j European in company , ignorant of all Eastern languages , and merely hoping to find American or German missionaries at the end hf her journey . Thc privations , weariness , and danger of this , and of the further caravan routes from Mosul towards Tabriz , where her worst perils ended , were such as a strong bedv and a resolved mind alone conld have enabled her to surmount . \ Nor was even the 52 Curity ' of a caravan always available on this
expedition . At one stage—Sah ^ Boulakwhere the last convoy stopped , after waiting for another for some days , in wretched quarters , where she could make her wants known only by signs , she resolved , in mere desperation , io ride off bv herself with a guide to Tabriz , a distanceof fifty miles , across a country infested with marauders : —a feat that would be thought fool-hardy in a soldier . This whole expedition , indeed , " all circumstances
taken into account , is perhaps the most notable instance of female resolution and tenacity that ' jto have ever read of . From Tabriz , wlrieli she reached on the 5 th of August , 1818 , 3 * ae was more easily forwarded by English consular aid iu a caravan to Erivau , —thence by post to Tiflis . She had now come once more Into the region of European power ; . but Hessian officials and post-drivers soon taught her iliat a lonely female may find better usage ain-ya" the rudest Mohammedans of
Kurdistan . Posting from Tiflis , on the 5 th of September , along : the southern line of the Caucasian range , she arrived at Marand ( ou the Sioue , the ancient Phasis , ) in four days;— a boat then carried her to Kedout-Kale , on the 31 ack Sea;—from whence a Russian steamer iook her to Kertsch : —iu another she went OU to Odessa . Here , on the 17 th of September , 1343 . she was thankful to lose sight of "Russian " civilisation . " - It bad been her design to visit Moscow and St Petersburgh iehVe turning homewards ; but her short experience of Muscovite treatment had been such that
her only desire vras to escape from it as soon as possible . The rest of tho voyage , in steamers , by way of Constantinople , Smyrna , aud Athens , tq Trieste , where she arrived on tae -30 th of October , 1848 , need hardly ta mentioned . After her troubles and risks on the route from Baghdad to Keriscli , the re-si of the way home must have seemed as easy to jl adame Pfeiffer as a walk in the garden would to most of her sex . She had gone round the globe in two years and three months , —having vrithin that time , by her own calculation , traversed 3 i , J ) 50 ( nautical ) miles by water , and - ' 702 ( English ) by land , independently oi 3 J 2 uy smalf excursions taken from various stations during tho journey .
In a case like this , events that look serious is ordinary voyages—sea storms , -bad inns , rough roads , and rude company , —pass unnoticed as trifling c asualties : our attention is fised on stranger incidents in which the trpi" ^• ler ' s energy or endurance is brought oat in relief by the circumstance of sex . Early in
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her journey , on an excursion from ?> to the German colony of Petropolis , her courage wa 2 sharply tested . She was wending her way on foot , m company with a certain Count BerchthoifJ ,--who seems on this occasion to have yielded the post of honour to his female companion . The district was said to be infested with runaway slaves ; but—The numerous convoys , driven by negroes , as well as single travellers on foot , of whom we met several , removed all apprehension ; so that we took little notice of one negro who had for some time been dogging us . But upon our reaching a more solitary part of the road , he suddenly bounded forward , her journey , on an excursion from S *» to tlie
wielding in one hand a long knife , in the other a lasso , pressed upon us , and by signs rather than words gave us to understand that he meant to murder and drag us into tbe bush . We had no fire-arms , this part ofthe road having been described to us as quite safe ; and had nothing , indeed , but our umbrellas to use in self-defence . 1 had , however , a pocket-knife , tvhich I instantly drew out and opened , determined to sell my life dearly . We parried tbe stabs as well as we could with our umbrellas . But these did not hold out long ; and , unluckily , the negro succeeded in grasping mine , —we struggled for its possession , it broke , and I retained merely a bit of the handle ; but during the struggle he bad let fall his knife , which rolled a few paces away ; I promptly darted after it , and just thought I had got it , whea he , quicker than I was , thrust me down
with hand and foot , and recovered his weapon . He brandished it furiously over my head , and gave me two wounds , one a stab , the other a deep gash , both in the left fore-arm . I now thought myself lost ; and desperation only gave me the courage to use my knife still . 1 stabbed at the negro ' s brest , he parried it , and I only wounded him smartly in tbe hand . The Count hastened up , and seized the fellow from behind , which gave me the opportunity of rising to my feet again . All this had been the affair of a few instants ; the wound I had given the negro made bim frantic ; he gnashed his teeth at us like a wild beast , and brandished his knife with frightful rapidity . The Count , too , soon got a slash across the whole hand ; and we should both have certainly perished , had not God sent us help . Horses' feet were heard on the paved road ; the negro instantly quitted us , and fled into the bush . A moment afterwards two horsemen came round the
turn of the road : we hastened towards them ; our wounds , which bled copiously , as well as the cut-up umbrellas , soon explained our position . The miscreant was pursued , caught and carried off to prison : —Madame Pfeiffer " got her wounds bound up , " and then " continued her journey "—as if nothing had happened . But indeed , in every kind of courage " useful to travellers" we find her eminent . Some days later , on an expedition , alone , beyond tbe frontier of the white men , she accompanied tbe wild Indians in a forest hunt , the produce of which was « ' three parrots and a monkey , "on which she was invited to feed : —
My hosts ( she says , ) cooked them , spitted on wooden skewers , by roasting over the fire . To make the meal the more savoury , they warmed in the asbes some heads of maize and roots ; then , gathering broad fresh leaves , tore up the roast monkey with their hands into several ' portions , laid a good large piece of it on the leaves , adding to it a parrot , some maize and tubers , and set the whole before nie . My appetite was boundless , as I bad tasted nothing since morning ; so I began at once with tbe roast monkey , which I found excellent ; tbe parrot flesh was by no means equally tender and savoury .
In the same brave practical spirit , she ia prepared , when occasion requires it , to meet the hindrances which forbid active exertion in wading or climbing to the wearers of petticoats . The vallies oi Tahiti , for instance , are eat up by innumerable watercourses : —thereis no walking through the interior unless you are ready to plunge iuto these at every half mile . — Expeditions on foot in Tahiti are very fatiguing " as the abundance of water in this islandis such tha t you have frequently to wade through rivers and sand beds . I was very suitably dressed for this : I wore strong men ' s shoes , no stockings , trousers , and a blouse , which I tucked up as high as my hips . Thus accoutred , 1 started with a guide on my journey .
At a moment's warning too , ' she will trust herself on a bottomless volcanic lake in a vessel compared to which the bowl ofthe " wise men of Gotham" might seem a " great amiral . " To cross this lake ( in Tahiti ) you must either swim or use a very alarming kind of boat , which every native can prepare in a few moments . Curiosity to try such an adventure induced me to make signs to the guide tbat I wished to cross the water . He immediately tore down a few stems of the Febi ( Pisang ) , tied them together with long stalks of rough grass , laid some leaves upon them , launched
thc raft into the water , and beckoned me to take possession of this shred of a ferry boat . I felt , indeed , some little alarm , but should have been ashamed to let it be seen . So I took my seat and my guide who followed swiming , pushed thc raft before him . I went and returned in safety ; bnt 1 may honestly confess that I was not quite easy in my * mind during tbe passage , the vessel was very slender , and it floated rather under the water than upon it , —there was nothing to hold by , and every push threatened to throw you overboard . " 1 would not advise anyone who cannot swim , " she coolly remarks , " to try tin ' s way of sailing . "
Another instance , displaying what is perhaps the rarest kind of fortitude , will nearly complete the sketch of a resolute character , which justifies its owner ' s self-reliance in whatever case of trial . She is making her slow way through the Mahratta country , towards Bombay in a bullock cart , with its driver and single native guide—This driver from the very outset of the journey had seemed queer in his ways ,, if not . quite r oad ; now he would quarrel with his cattle , now he caressed them ; at times he would shout to the passengers UiRt went by , at others he would turn and stare hard at me for some minutes together . But
as I had with me a servant who always walked by the side ofthe baili ( waggon ) I cared little for this . This morning , however , my servant had , without leave gone on before to the next station : and Ifound myself alone with the crazy driver on a solitary road . After some time hegot . down ' . ' from the waggon and walked close behind if . These bailis are closed with matting at the sides only , and at either end are open , so that I could easily have looked to see what he was about ; but I did not choose to turn round , lest I should set bim on thinking I suspected him of evil intentions . I merely turned my head gradually sideways , 60 that I could partly watch him . Soon afterwards he came forward again , and to my alarm took from thc Waggon tbe axe with which every driver is
provided , and again went to tnerenr . I now . hadno doubt that be had some mischief in his bead ; but I could not escape from him , and of course therefore could show no fear . But quite softly , and without attracting his notice , I drew my cloak within reach , and folded it well up . in order that I ' might at least vaard my head with it in case he should strike at fue with ' the hatchet , for seme time be let nie remain in this anxious state ; aud then ' once more returned to bis seat , and staled hard at me , —alter which he descended again . This proceeding he repeated many times in succession . At last after a fuil hour , that seemed an eternity , , he laid down the ax ? , settled himself in the waggon , and contented himself with glaring at me frointhie to time . In another hour we reached the station , and overtook inv servant—whom from thenceforth I always
kept at my side . , We shall conclude our extracts with some ofthe lady's experiences of Russian character ; which' took her by surpise at a moment when she bad just traversed , without molestation , and not without hospitable treatment , what she hud supposed would have proved the tfhost b . irbarous tra « t of her journey . " ca The caravan from Tabriz crossed the Kusvan frontier at Satschman on its ' way to Tifiis ; and one evening was encamped at Sidin to the north of Arara , —
Some fifty paces from thc post road . Towards , eight p . m ., I went as far as ihe highway for a walk ; and was about to return , when I heard tbe jingling bails of post horses . I remained standing hi the road to sec the travellers go by , —a gentleman with aa armed Cossack at his side , was seated in the open car . When it bad passed roe , 1 quietly turned round ; but to my surprise I beard the carriage stop , and nearly at the same moment felt myself seized by one arm . I tried to shake myself loose ; pointed with the hand that was free to the caravan , and cried out that I belonged to it . The fellow
immediately stopped my mouth with his other hand , and threw me upon the car ; where the gentleman too . laid hold of mo . The Cossackmonnteri nimbly , and the postilion was made to drive off as hard as his horses could go . All this had happened so sudden ' v that I hardly knew what was the matter . The men held me tightly by the arms , and my mouth was not released until we had got so far from the caravan that my cries could no longer be hoard there . Fortunat ely I was not overcome > ty . fear - I at once supposed that these amiaMo lines ' ans ' is their zeal must have taken me for some vote i & a & ereas person , and thought to J * jake aa an-
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bortant capture . When my mouth was free thoy began with the usual list of wise questions , as to nS . me , country , & e . i knew enough of Russian , indeed , to give them the required information , but this did not satisfy them ;—tbey demanded to see my passport . If they would send for my trunk , I replied , I could avouch myself to their entire satisfaction . At last we came to the posthouse , where they put me into a room ; the Cossack posted himself with his musket at the open door , so as to keep me always in his eye ?—and the gentleman , too , whom by his dark green velvet facings I took to be an imperial officer , remained for some time in ^ rtant capture . When mv mouth wa * freTthou
the apartment . Half an hour afterwards came the post master , or whatever else lie might be , to survey me , and hear an account of the doughty deed of my captors , who were not slow to describe the transaction at full length and with grinning countenances . I was forced to pass the night , thus strictly watched , on a wooden bench , without either linen or cloak , and suffering from hunger and thirst . They neither would give me a coverlet nor a morsel of bread ; and whenever I rose from the bench , though but to take a turn in the room , the
Cossack rushed upon me , and forced ine back to the seat , with an order to keep quiet there . Towards morning my luggage arrived ; I produced my papers—and was set free . But instead of making any apology for having ill treated me , they laughed in my face ; and as I passed out through the court , all the inmates pointed at me with their fingers , and joined in chorus with the mirth of my two provost marshals . Oh , ye good Arabs , Turks , Persians , and Hindoos , —nothing like this everbefel me at your hands ! * * and here in a Christian empire !
At JaUainthe Crimea , where the steamer from Kertsch lands its passengers for a few hours , Madame Pfeiffer had reason to admire the address of Russian officers in a less violent way of punishing the stranger for being alone , and a woman . On preparing to embark again , — I had to wait more than two hours , as tbe gentlemen with whom I had to return on board had not yet finished their carouse . By the timo that it was over , one of the party , an officer of the steamer , was so badly intoxicated that ho could not walk . With the host ' s assistance he was dragged by two of the gentlemen to the beach . Here our steamer ' s
gig lay , but the sailors refused to put us on board ; the boat was engaged for the captain . We had to hire another , —twenty silver copecks was the price asked . The gentlemen knew tbat I did not speak Russian , but they did not know that I understood the language a little . I could hear plainly enough what one of them said to the other in a whisper : — " I have no silver , let us make tbe lady pay for us [" After this , turning to me , he said in French , " the share of the charge which you have to pay comes to twenty copecks in silver . " These were gentlemen with pretensions , I suppose , to education and breeding !
A party of English tars , making no such pretensions , she soon afterwards fell in with in steaming down the Black Sea . Theiv mode of proceeding , however , she found somewhat more manly . The honest fellows , who had taken a vessel out to Odessa , were returning by Constantinople ; and she won their hearts , she says , by speaking English to them . 1 Ye fancy that finding a woman without friends in a strange country would of itself speak to them in a language that our sailors readily understand .
As soon as they observed that 1 had no companion tbey asked me if I spoke Turkish well enough to manage with the boatmen and porters . Upon my saying that I did not , they proposed to take charge of everything for me , if I would go ashore with them . I gladly accepted their offer . On our way to the shore , a custom-house guard rowed up to us to search the baggage . In order to prevent him from delaying ns , I slipped some money into ins
band . When we reached the land , I wished to pay for our trip , but in vain ; the English sailors would not let me do it . They said I bad paid tbe customhouse man for the whole party ; and it was now their turn to pay for the boat . I saw I should only have offended them by pressing them to take my money . They then engaged and settled with me for aporter , and we parted very good friends , — As we do with this brave lady .
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Stuart ofDunleath s a Start / of Modem Times By the Hon . Mrs . Norton . Threo Vols . London : Colburn and Co . THEstoryof"Stnartof Dunleath" is this . Lady Raymond , a weak ; self-indulgent beauty , is unable to bear the climate of India ; so she is sent home hy her second husband , General Sir John Raymond , -with bis little 1 daughter , Eleanor , who turn s out to be the heroine . Tho General dies just as he is about to land , and leaves his private secretary , Stuart , guardian to his daughter , and executor to his will , with somebody else , who also dies . Stuart ' s father , a Hi g hland chief , has been a selfish and profligate man , and his creditors sell Dunleath .
To recover this patrimonial property is an object of David Stuart ' s life ; hut , instead of making any ratiomil exertion for that purpose , he sits down for years at Aspendale Park , educating Eleanor Raymond , and of course teaching her to fall in love with himself . By way of discharging his duty as trustee , Mr , Stuart speculates with the property of his late patron , in order to raise enough to buy Dunleath ; and loses it all . At this time Sir Stephen Penrhyn , a rough , wealthy baronet , proposes for Eleanor to Stunvt ; Stuart waits Jong enough to learn that Eleanor will decline the offer , after which he goes off and drowns himself "in the Linn , " leaving an explanatory letter behind .
As Sir Stephen , though a coarse person , is not mercenary , Eleanor ' s loss of fortune makes no difference in his feelings , and she is persuaded to accept him . The match , however turns out badly . The , parties arc illassorted—Sir Stephen ' s sister makes mischief—Eleanor ' s two children die— "Sir Stephen has a young woman in keeping estab ; lislied at the lodge of the mansion . After eight years it turns out that David Stuart is not dead after all—be was rescued by a divine , preached to , and went to Canada . There he slaved to acquire a fortune to replace the money he had lost , and by luck is able to do so '; but , instead of transmitting it , or . ' return .-, ing in his own name , lie comes back under an
alias , wishing to receive Lady Penrhyn ' s forgiveness . This the lady readily grants , and moreover , she receives and introduces him to her family and friends as Mr . Lindsay . "When tbispbice of deception ivnd fulsehood is discovered , there is a row ; Sir-Penrhyn breaks his wife's arm in a personal encounter ; but matters are made up again , till another and a final row ensues , because Stuart threatens to horsewhip Sir Stephen ' s natural son , ( mistaking him for a servant ) , arid his father insists upon taking the urchin into the house . Eleanor , under tho advice of Stuart ; determines to leave her husband , and institute proceedings for a divorce , but she is stopped by a letter from a friend , and the interference of her half
brother . David Stuart , though his love is represented as very violent , yields after a letter or tw ' o , and in a year his intended marriage is announced , which gives the coup de grace to Eleanor . For specimen of the writing , we take the following scene , which paves the way for the termination already alluded to . Lady Penrhyn and Stuart , after his return from Canada , have been out riding : —
Tliry drew up their horses , and waited for some one to come down from the lodge . The inmates seemed always to lmve a pleasure in tho peUy « iisresoect of making Eleanor wait . ' She patted her horse's neck , and averted her eyes from the pretty cottaso , whose adornment seemed to he the ceaseless occupation of some one ofthe gw *»«* , , K even now Sandy was there , lifting away tho basin of a stout fountain , which the frost bad . cracked , and in which , during the summertime , Biidj £ t kept gold fish to amuse herchildren . loung U « oi was there , watching with boyish interest the pioceedings of Sandy , © avid called out to bim" Come down , you lazy little fellow , and open the gate , wilt you ? " . The boy turned sharply round . " I ' m not
gatekeeper I" „ -J T » , | J Some of you keep it , I suppose , ' said imuo , impatiently . . , „ -,,. „ j Tl edoor ofthe lodge opened , and Bridget tossed th & kev to Sandy , Uut the old man ' s bauds were cacupi ' ed , for be had just taken up a portion ot tne stone work which supported the fountain . Young Owen snatched the key , and running half down the path , Sung , it into tbe road , exclaiming—" ¦ Open the gate for yourself , mv fine Laird o' ArdlocKie . i Tba key struck the fore foot of Eleanor ' s horse , as- % stood omh » ths sao , *^ impatient of the delay ,
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menfc more S mK \ a « " and - ln a mowind b ? tVnl # - ^ ave started off > ^ as the rein . ' « Gat I , ^ - ^ ? oatchi ^ the " e mohet Si U m * he ia a choked Toi <** should VIL y 0 down > my God ! that your lite as that ! " eBdaD ^ red by SuchaWill o ' the whisp gro om ttuTald f ? , ° ^ ** - as the Then turning nd $ ook hev horae and his own . sDrveaST ™ W ^ little Owen- "You de-^ lffk ^ » * Baid he - « -di g ° ™ tly . "Hn r Wil 1 Z" ? ifcme ' " retorted he . ansrvs riiLV ^ '* " and David mad ° » n Slanor 1 . P -i ? V * b , uA hearing or heeding t « S ° y . <»« ls clasped over her eves , ana ma smothered voice , exclaimed-^^ -- '" -SWA ^ thrT ^ L , ; T ~~ -- ^^ ^
The handsome dauntless lad , stirred not an inch Snw 2 T , f Wiird t 0 8 e * ie hir ° ; he wloiroo S ^ WW his bold beautifu l black eyes head P Was hGld menacin 2 ' y over his " Beg pardon for frightening the lady , you mischievous imp , or I'll flog you this minute ; you must be broken of such tricks as these . " Flog awa y ! 8 aid the boy , trembling more , as it seemed with anger and defiance than with fear then m a loud voice , "Mammy , " he cried , " run down the road and meet Sir Stephen-he was coming up but now-and tell him the Laird o' Ardlockio has hold o me "
Bridget Owen came out of her lodge , as a young she-panthor might have rushed out of its den : as supple , m graceful , and almost as fierce , she sprang forward , flung her arms round the boy , and stood confronting David ; her lovely , passionate eyes flashing with fury , her nostrils dilated , her short upper Up quivering over the evon white teeth below , as though it had a separate life of its own . She was a perfect picture ; and aa David looked at her in amazement , a dim notion of some sort of link between the beauty of animal and human life flashed through his brain ; while Sandy whispered
him" Oh ! sir , have a care ; ye dinna ken a ' —— " while Bridget turned and called scornfully to Eleanor , down ia the road . " How could you let bim beat my boy ? " she said ; " I was sorry for your ' s \" But Eleanor only hid her face in her hands , and shuddered ; and at the same instant , before David could more to rejoiu her , the dog cart was driven at full speed to the spot ; the horse checked with such suddenness , as to throw him on his haunchss , and scatter the snow and earth up the bank where they stood , and Sir Stephen leaped into the road , and advanced into the centre ofthe agitated group . " What the- — is all this ? " shouted he . " What arc you at ? "What has happened ?" " It ' s the new laird wants to horsewhip me , " said young Owen ; . " You meddled with the boy—you meddled with the boy !"
Sir Stephen seemed incapable of utter ing another word . " The boy flung the key at Lady Penrhyn ' s horse , " began David . " Sir , " said the master of Castlo Penrhyn , with a fierce bath , " I don't care a curse what your reasons were for meddling with him ; I say he shan't be meddled with , d—n you ! " and Sir Stephen looked livid with rage , David ' s heart swelled with defiance ; ho glanced down towards Eleanor , who was leaning against Use stone-work of the gate . " If the son of your lodge-keeper- — " but he was again interrupted ; interrupted by Bridget ,
" Oh ! " said , she , with wild impatience , "the boy has better blood in his veins than , yours will boast —match with who you may . Speak up for your own , " added she , looking towards Sir Stephen , and pressing her hands against her temples as i / 'the beating oftheirpulsosmadeherdizzy . '' Speakupforyour own ! I declare to the Lord , I could leave you tomorrow , though I broke my heart on the hills , if I thought you'd see him struck by any stranger of them ' all ) This comes of bur living hero as we do , to he at every one ' s beck . and bend , like servants and slaves ! " and the angry fears burst at last from Bridget ' s eyes , and quenched their hot light : her voice broke down in sobs ; and with a strange but graceful gesture she swung her hand back , and pointed without turning to the desecrated ' lodge where she thonght'it a degradation to dwell ; but which certainly looked as little like tbe abode of a servant on the estate as it well could .
Her tears fell like oil on fire , m Sir Stephens s heart . ' Ho laid his hand on the boy ' s shoulder , and , taking one fierce step nearer David , he said with a fresh oath , — ., ¦ •¦ '¦ " Sir , this boy ia mine ! Mihol" he repeated with vehemence , glaiseing towards Eleanor as if he defied even her presence in the confession , — " ! won't have liirn meddled with , either by milady , or by y ' ou , or by any other lady or gentleman ; cuive me if I will ! If sho don't like him at the lodge , by , I'll put him in "the castle : if she don ' t like him at her horse's heels , I'll put bim by her side at table . S'blodd , am I master . of Castle Penrhyn , or are you ? Things hare gone on here in ii strange way since you dropped amongst us , and my patience is comeio a bait , sir . My house is mine —my wife is mine—ana this boy is mine ; we don't want you to govern us , and curse me if I wish ever to see you on this side the gate again !"
He paused , and , looking round , put the boy from him . " Go in now with your mother , and come up at dinner-time to the Castle ; bring your things ; come for good ; como to live there , do you understand ? . Go in , Bridget . " He stepped down' into tho road . " Wish Mr . Stuart good-bye , Eleanor , " he said . She held out her cold hand , and looked vaguely in his face , ¦ " You do hot seem very fit for riding ; get into the dog-cart . I'll drive you homo myself . " He lifted her in , touched his hat sullenly to David , and drove away .
And then old Sandy , to whom the groom had intrusted David ' s horse , unlocked thc gate ; and keeping the reins over his arm , walked through the wood by David Stuart ' s side ; and as they walked , told hinv ' all that had been known for years at the Castle ; all that Eleanor herself had known for years , but had never spoken of , respecting Bridget Owen and her children .
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Postage , of Books , <& c . —By a Treasury warrant , dated the 2 » dof . ^ uiio in st ., it is ordered that all printed books , magazines , reviews , pamphlets , ' & c , whether'British ; colonial , or foreign , may lie transmitted' by post . between any ., part of the United Kingdom and Canada , or the Ionian Islands , subject to the following rates of postage , viz ., if not exceeding 41 b . in ; weight , 6 U ; if not exceeding ltbM Is ; if net exceeding . 21 b ., 2 s . ; if not exceeding 3 lb ,, 3 s . ; if above 31 b ., an additional rate of Is . Xo' packet is'to contain more . than one printed book , < fcc , and is not to exceed in' length , or breadth , or width , or depth twenty-four inches . The postage is to be prepaid by postage stamps . If posted in Canada or the Ionian Isles the postage
to be prepaid either by money or stamps . All packets to be sent in covers open at the ends or sides , and no writing except the address to be permitted upon them , or in the contents thereof . Officers of the . post-oflke to have power to delay the transmission ' twenty-four hours , or until the despatch of the mail iiext after that hy which the packet ought otherwise , to haw been forwarded . Printed votes and proceeding ' s of parliament , or of colonial'lc ' gislatiires , and such publications as pass under , the ' newspaper , privilege , are exempted from these regulations , and nothing in the order is to extend to packets sent through France , or any foreign country to which a transit rate . of . postage ivonld . be payable thereon , nor' to any packets sent
by private ships . Supposed ' Traces of Siu . John Franklin , —A morninir contemporary gives circulation to a report as to some supposed traces of Sir John Franklin . Thise traces , which are said to be "by far the u . ostimpotant , presumptive or otherwise , which have yet reached us respecting the . missing expedition . " consist of the following : —" From the . voluntary testimony of one of the seamen engaged at Strommss for the Prince Albert , we have the following facts , elicited and taken down in the presence of Air . . Kennedy , . the commander of that expedition , and others ; " and the statement is attested by fie ' seaman in question , William Millar , who declares that , if required , he would make the same uI on oath . He states that he was on board the Prince of Walesin 181 S , when , early in September , during very thick weather , they entered . ( as they believed )' WicaJtcr Sound , and steered west ,
advancing slowly- Tho fog continued very heavy for . some d . > ys , when'it suddenly lifted , and high land was seen on t ' ae ' lavhowd aide , oyi-rtVie mast head . The ciptain , being at first doubtful if it were tlie loom of icebergs or of land , sent a boat . off to ascertain the ( act , and of this party William Millar formed one . He states that on binding the marks of shoe prints were distinctly , visible in the inud , above high-water mark ; cloaeby was a small cooking place blackened by fire , and a little further on well-built cairn , about foar or five- feet high , oS which the party pulled away a few stones ; buis ^ being recalled by a signal from the-ship , which was bi-ing driven in shove by . the current , were compelled to return on boani immediately . " From the above it is inferred that some- of Sir John ' Fjaukliu ' s party must have ' visited the spot , and that beneath the " ca . irn' » is- deposited " distinct tnforma | tion of his p « st progress and future , intentiou . "
Tim funeval of Mr . Sheil took place oa lhe 2 Sth nlt „ at the chuich of St , Michele Yisdomini , at Florence . It was attended by the whole ofthe cor / w c }\ ph : m > ii <[ t ; a and ibe . Austrian and Tuscan eener / . ls anst bAsiL .
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. Childhood is like a mirror , catching and reflecting images from all around it . New Orleans Ma . xim . —If your sherry is bad send to a sherry cobbler , and get it mended . ' CoN . —What kind of rooms are always the best ventilated ? Mushrooms ;—because they are grown in the open air . A Bold May . —The man that isn ' t afraid of thunder talks of going to the Great Exhibition without taking his wife . Pleasures may be aptly compared to many very great books , which increase in real value in the proportionthey are abridged . Nature teaches us that we are all dependent ; we are like cog-wheels pushing each other along by filling up mutual voids , Thb Moscurro .- " It is a curious fact , " say some entomologists" that it is onlthe femle mosouito 1 iciniue
, y « - — - - —o "" -, w .,., •« » un , ; me mosquito that torments us . " A bachelor says it is not ut all " curious . " Avarice . —An avaricious man is like barren sandy ground , which sucks in ail the rain aud dews with greediness and thirst , and yields no fruitful herbs or plants to the inhabitants . The monument having unde .-gone an entire internal pnnfying , painting , and repairing , has been re-opened to the public , with the price ot admission reduced from Cd . io 3 d . tn ? i ! ff ° ^ T ^ s . -Two things are necessary to the traveller in life , as on the roads : a knowledge ot his way , and a perseverance in it . N " 7 T , ° MW-- "AmI not a little p * Ie ?" inquired a lady , who was rather short and corpulent , of a crusy old bachelor . "You look more like a big tub , " was the blunt rejoinder .
MANNERS CoNTAGious . —Itis certain that either S ? f mOS " or ,, { T , carria S e is ca"g « t as men SS « f if- ° ne 0 f anoth P er * therefore le " ° > en take heed ot their company .-Shakespeare . Swords « ' ceased to be worn as an article of dress " through the influence of Beau Nash , and were consequently first out of fashion in Bath . " We ^ av no swords here , " says Sir Lucius O'Trieeer . —Notes and Queries . A Puzzle . —If the apple which William Tell shot from the head of his sou gave liberty to Switzerland , how many bushels ofthe s ame size , from the same orchard , would it have taken to make a barrel of cider ? Shahp Rur-tY . —A party of young fellows found fault with the butter at a boarding house . What is the matter with it . '"said the mistress .-- " Just you ask it , " said one ; "it is old enough to speak ior itself , "
Belfast . —The population of Belfast bas increased , since the census of 1 S 41 , from 75 , 000 to 112 , 000 . its present amount . In 1831 the number was 53 , 000 , and in 1821 only 37 , 000 ; so that in thirty years the metropolis of Protestant Ulster has considerably more than ' trebled its population . Passports . —The Great Exhibition will , perhaps , do more than the French Revolution of 1848 in abolishing French passports . The Boulogne Gazette contains a communication from the Minister of the Interior to the Sous-Prefet , partially abolishing the nuisance of the permit system . Cotton . —Letters from Liberia of the 13 th of February , announce that Mr . Shaw , the agent sent out from England to experimentalise on the growth of cotton , was about to ship a cargo of bales for Liverpool . Liberia , it was expected , would at no distant period become a large exporter .
Indian TEA ,-The friend of China states , that tlie tea plants , transmitted by Mr . Fortune from the Celestial Empire to the north-western provinces of India , have flourished as well as could possibly be expected , and that , in the course of a few years , there is every probability that tea will form an export from our Indian Presidencies . Laconic Answer . — -A fop of a fellow who was sauntering about a country village , saw a pretty face at the window of a house near which a little boy was at play . " Bob , " said he , " who is that fair lady looking out ?" - "Sis , " was the laconic reply . "" Will you tell me if she is a maid or a matron " asked the exquisite . — " She ' s a tailoress , " answered the lad , resuming his play . .
Forgetfui-nkss . —The summer passes over the furrows and the corn springs up ; the sod forgets the flower of tlie past year ; and the battle-field forgets the blood that has been spilt upon its turf ; the sky forgets the storm , and tbe water the noon-day sun that slept upon its bosom . All nature preaches forgetfulness . Its very order is the progress of oblivion . An Advertisement in the Times seriously announces a new song , with the modest request , " Ob , give me back but yesterday ! " A companion to the above , " Oh , could you spare to-morrow , love ? " is in preparation ; to be followed by the sequel lyric of " You haven ' t got such a thing as next week about you , have you ?"
Southport . —Itappears from the census that there are £ 100 more females than males in Southport . The Chronicle says that when it was a small village , there were , one winter , eighty-four marriageable ladies and four marriageable gentlemen ; but" those gentlemen were too . fond of dogs , hawks , & c „ to think oi changing their condition !" Opinions . —Charles the fifth , when he abdicated a throne , ami retired to the monastery of St . Juste , amused himself with the mechanical arts , and particularly with that of a watchmaker . Ue one day exclaimed , "What an egregious fonl must I have been to have squandered so much blood and treasure , in an absurd attempt to make men think alike , when I cannot even make a few watches keep time together ! ¦ *"
PiANO-Fonie Makbks . —Fifty or sixty years back there were scarcely a dozen piano-forte makers in England : there are at present between 200 and 300 in Loudon alone , while there are makers in most of the capital towns in the United Kingdom . It is calculated that ! here are not less than 1 , 500 piano-fottes made every week in Great Britain and Ireland , employing , when trade is good , full 15 , 000 workmen of a superior class , and receiving wages accordingly . California ^ Gold . —The most recent and asthenic advicss from the . gold regions of California agree , that to the present date , the richest portions of the metallic tracts have been already worked , and cannot longer be carried on to any great extent .
They agree that the workers must henceforward look mainly to the quartz rock deposits , where operations can only be carried on by parties in possession of machinery and steam power , of course involving a certain command of capital . South Australia . —From the census taken during the current year , several interesting results are exhibited . The quantity of land comprises 620 , 266 acres , and the unsold 240 , 195 acres : the number of houses in the province is 11 . 981 ; whilst the total population is . set down at 62 , 639 , or 34 , 975 males , and 27 , 004 females ; to which add 361 for missions and persons travelling , and we have a total of 63 , 000 souls in the province of South Australia , on the 1 st January , 1851 .
Dcf . vs Dose For . —The legislature of Michigan has , ivc hear , abolished all laws for the recovery of debts . " Base is tlie slave that pays I" jN o duns , no lawyers' letters , no writs , no bailiffs , no sponging houses , uo prisons | Henceforth , all a man will have to do is to accept a bill and pocket thocasll . As poor Sheridan ( he would have . approved highly of Michigan legislation ) used to say , after settins * his name across a half-crown stamp , " Well , thank Heaven , that ' s off my mind . " . The World . —Many an unwise parent labours bard and lives sparingly all his life , for the purpose of leaving enough to give his children a start in the world , us it is . called . Setting a young man afloat by money left by his relatives , is like tying bladders under the arms of one who cannot swim : ten chances
to one be will lose his bladders ,-and go to the bottom , . . Teach him to . swim , and , lie will never need the bladders . Give yourchild a sound education , ami you have done enough for him . . See to it that his morals arc pure , his mind cultivated , and his whole nature made subservient to the laws which govern man , and you have given what will be of more value than the wealth of the . Indies , As Irish rLoiiGHMAN ; .-A recent emigrant had applied for employment to a farmer , and being asKe-J if he was . acquainted will * all kinds of . farm labour ,
replied wi'hout hesitation . in the uSirmative . lie was accordingly engaged ,, and the next morning sc ; i > to hold tlifr . plough , with the son of his employer to drive . After the horse was tackled in , the boy ga- « bim a start ; but , hearing an exclamation behind , turned and beheld the sail of the green isle ploughing uf » the ground with his heels , which were firmly set , while he was straining , every muscle to maintain his position , and crying out— " Stop , stop , how can I hold the plough if yoamake the lioiss drag it away from mo ? . "'
National Debts , of tub various Siatss of Eunopa . —The tottV ' amount oi datit borne by the fifty-eight 'European . . States is £ l , 7 o 3 , 278 , li 2 ' 71 . oi which'the eight ilspuiblips sii & Sain Uiree-twantieths , and the Monarchies the ^ remaining sevchteen-twen-, tieths-. Every geographical sqiiare mile ia Europe is burdened with an average af < £ 9 , 7-i 0 of the public debt ,. Hamburgh sustaining the maximwn of debt in proportion to its area , and Russia and Turkey the mfainiuin—atiel in proportion lo the population of Europe an average of S . t 15 s . per bead was indicated , in this case the Netherlands- sustaining the
maximum , aad Russia 4 he mmi ' inuni . The revenues of the European states vield a total of £ 207 , 301 , 752 , of which £ 33 , 386 . 293 : is derived from the Republics , and £ 153 , 915 , 548 ' ( or three-fourths ) from the Monarchies , Spain holding the worst prsition as regards the amount of revenue opposed to the national debt , the interest upon which , at five per cent , would consume the whole revenue ; whilst Prussia requires , only a fourteenth of its revenue to be so applied . It is not the amount of debt that undermines the credit of States , but the want of naUral resources to covet the required inte !
C 6 sti . vb . ntal Statistics . —The Bussiau possessions in Europe , Asia , and America cover an area of 202 , 251 square miles , with a population of 65 , 935 , 000 . The annual expenditure of the Russian states amouuti to £ 20 , 000 , 000 and the public
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t ^ ii ' ' - , Notes t 0 atl a ™™* of * w , < " 00 , 000 are m circulation . The Russian army numbers 700 , 01 ) 1 ) men , and the fleet consists of 715 vessels , with 5 , 500 guns , Tho mercantile mavme has 1 , 100 vessels of 100 , 000 tons . The * W'l'age value of annual exports is £ 28 , 120 , 000 : and miS p 0 rt ? o ^? ' ( 100- Austria has 12 , 158 iqunra IW ' ftftffi ' wlwMtMU ,. The expenditure R-. Sr * * , 0 ? ° ' - aDd the P ubI ; c debt £ ] S 3 , OOI > , 000 . Season 0 fiA rcUlation ! ^ 2 , 000 , 000 . The army and \ m K °° tI " " ' " ii flcefc has 156 vessels rl ° l ° r" ; , J 'r / 11 ' ° merchant ships , with a tonnage of 162426 tons
, . i „ Z rVT "J { . Z ' , . notes 17 M 0000 ; army , 205 , 563 * mt fi J vessels ; 8 , 000 guns ; mercantile marine shins i 353 joint tonnage , 013 , 048 tons ; imports , £ 40 , 000 000 ' exports , £ 47 . 000 , 000 . Prussia , 5 , 104 square * miles , and 10 , 400 , 000 inhabitants . Expenditure £ 10 , 000 , 000 ; debt , £ 30 , 000 , 000 ; bank notes £ 9 000 , 000 ; standing arm y , minus the landwebr , 217 , 200 men ; fleet , ' 3 S vessels , Si guns , and 99 T merchant vessels of a joint tonnage of 40 , 977 tone . —Kolnischt Zeitung .
Sww is Jiwb . —On the 4 th inst . a storm of hail and snow fell on the adjoining hills in Derbyshire . The morning was extremely cold for tho season , ami a rather strong wind blew from tho north-west when tho storm took place . The name of bridegroom iras formerly given tO the new married man , because it was customary for bun to wait at tablo on his brido and friends on hia wedding-day .
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Dr . Aufap lUKKEitbpgs to inform the readers of the AoktiiersStar that a Volume of Upwards of One Thousand testimonials will shortly be published . KE- 'S THE FOU 01 H . VG !—In the five cases I wrote to you about , the remedy has perfectly succeeded -, send me auotlwr foY a case of ScrO « tal ilernia . '—John Armstrong , Navy Surgeon , i ' n » ave witnesse ( l t , 1 B curc of throe casus of Kupture uy Ur . Haukek ' s treatment , which conftrm the remarks we made , some time since on the utility of this discovery to those suffering from Hernia . * — Meuical Journal . lour remed y has cured my Rupture after everything else had failed . I have used violent exertion since , but there is no sign of its comiug down . '—Mies Symmoilds , Bayswater . ' A fair time has elapsed since I used your remedy , ani moreover 1 have been examined by a surgeon , who declares it is quite cured . '—Jfr . Potts , Bath ,
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Beware of Guinea , l ' oreign-uamed Quacks , who Imitate this Advertisement . Pains in the Back , Gravel , Lumbago , Rheumatism , d ' out , IiuKoestion , Dcitiiti * , Gonor-rfioca , Stricture , Gleet , die , F ) K . BARKER'S PUE 1 FIC PILLS i- / ( of which there arc useless imitations under other titles ) have in many instances effected a cure when all other means had failed , and arc now established , by the consent of every patient who lias yet tried them , as also by the vaculty themselves , as the most safe and efficacious remedy ever discovered for discharges of any kind , retention of the urine , and diseases of the Kidneys and Urinary Cleans generally , whether resulting from imprudence or otherwise , which , if neglected , frequently end . ing in st > mein the bladder , and a lingering death J For Gout , Sciatica , Rheumatism , Tic Doloreux , Erysipelas
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 14, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_14061851/page/7/
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