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t3C 5r. course i inigai present to my- 1 01 me land ybich gar bim birth.
swrtiiig. . My tvievrs being , deferred, 1 1 him with turning rerkroce a U
vu"i o",,wl Pickwick, ana wroie me nrsta uao ine burninir eemsi and
For the Lcwre Hour. the Lord of Hosts did not fiht with TaraM
me loiiowtnj ante poem, which I copy from I liut the enemy- n tliundenr at'the wa!l. Al!
tie UiWerity Magazine of September 1844, U
not ueToid'of menu It is entitled
A Complaint. -
1 cannot love nor be beloved j
1 move not others nor am moved ; .
For when I come no ksoft'heart gladdens,
And Vfhen I go no spirit sad Jens. ,
Mj proence no emi)tion kindles,
No paiion in" my bosom dwindles, i "
Tu'XCAutyVeyo no lear-Jrup glistens
At taj departure j no eur listens j
. , ' To catch the sound of coming feet,
Till she cari hear her own heart beat.
On maiden's cheek no wsrm blush brightens,
.No smile alon? a rue lip lightens
No quickened ioottcpd couies to meet me,
A lid there is no kinds voice to greet me.
To mine no white hand is extended ;
No smile or sih with mine in blended,
Uut like an erring spirit hurled
1 To this from some far brighter world,
From bliss to bale, from weal to wo,
Unfelt I come, unmissed I go.
Axotf.
Sonnet. .' '
, , dy una'. bbow.mo.
' I thou ffht once how Theocritus had sung
Oof the sweet JirurSj the dear and w'a icd,' for
yeaM, '
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To benr a gift for mortals, old and young
And, uh I mused it, in his antique tongue,
I snwiii gradual, vision through my tears,
'The sweet, sad years, the melancholy vcars,
Those of my own life, who by turn3 hand flung
A shadow across me. . Straightway I . was 'ware,
bo weeping, how a mystic Jfchapo did move
Uehind mo, and drew mo backward by the hair,
And a voice aid, in mastery while I strove :
'Ouesr now who botes thee ?' 'Death I v I aid
' Dut there,
Tht silver unswer rang: 'Not, Death, but
Love. ,
Bulwer on the Destruction of Jerusalem.
A few week ago) Sir E. Bulwer Lytton de
liTircd lecture In Lincoln, which city, lie ha
for a number of years represented' in Parlid-
tncnf, on the e.irly . hi-tory of Eastern. nation
around the cily arose immense machines, from
which Titus poured down mighty fragments of
rock, and fehowcra of, fire. TnTfaH gave
way the city was entered--tlie temple itself
was alormed. i 1 amine in, the. meantime bad
made such havoc, that the besieged were more
like spectres than Hying men; they devoured
the btlU to their uwords,.the sandals to their
feet -n nature itself w perished away; that
a mother devoured her own infant; fulfilling the
awful words of the warlike prophet who had
first led the Jews towards the land of promise
"The tender ar.d" delicate woman amongst
you, who would not adventure to set the sole
of her foot upon the ground for dellcateness and
tenderness her eyes shall be evil toward her
young one and the children that she shall bear,
tor she fehall cat them .for ...want, of all, things
secretly jn the siege and strailness wherewith
thine enemy shull distress : thee in thy gates."
Still, as if the foe and the famine was not
scourge enough, citizens smote ai;d murdered
each other as they met in the way false
prophets ran howling through the streets every
image of despair completes the ghastly picture
of the fall of Jerusalem. And now the temple
was set on fire, the Jews rushing through the
flames to perish amidst its ruins.i It was a calm
summer night the 10th of August; the whole
hill on which stood the temple was one. gigantic
blaze of fire the roofs of cedar crashed the
golden pinnacles ol tho dome were like spikes
of crimson flame. Throuch the lurid atmos
phere all was carnage and slaughter; 'the echoes
of shritks and yells rang back from the Hill of
Zion and the Mount of Olives. Amongst the
smoking ruins, and over piles of the dead, Titus
planted the standard of Rome,'. Thus were ful
filled the last avenging prophecies thus perish
ed Jerusalem. In that dreadful day men still
wer living who might have heard the warning
voice of Hi mi they crucified" Verily, I say
unto you all, these things shall come upon this
generation. u, Jerusalem, Uerusa
... ... . ... n'fk' lem, thou that killesl the prophets and stonest
He gave an outline of ihc history of the BabV- , r i u i r . , , T
i - n t- '.. n i i 'hem that are sent to thee,1 4 behold
, Ionian, Anfvnan, Persian, Liypti.m Ureek and ,n , , , h . , , , , . ,
1 j , i , i t ii your house is Jcft unto yoa. desolate I And
JeviirJi ntion and cluxed wi'li tho following ,. .. , : - ,
l ima worn I ho lla ii'uw tiuAnla t r.nlti-rtH v-,,
powerful and dramatic description of . tho de
struction of Jerusalem by iitus:
Sit years after the birth of our Lord, Judca
and Samaria became a Roman province, under
subordinate coveriiors, the most' famous of
wlioni wan Foniins Pilato. ..These governors
liccame io oppressive that the Jews broke out
Into itbellion; and seventy years after Christ
Jerusalem was finally benieged by Titus, attcr-
w.trds 'Kmporor of Rome. No tragedy on the
tare has the'xame scenes Of appalling terror
the face of the earth, still retaining to this hour
their mysterious identity still a living proof o
the truth of those prophets they had scorned
or slain still, vainly awaiting that j Messiah,;
whose divine mission i was fulfilled eighteen
centuries ago, upon the Mount of Calvary! .
Edward Everett's Style Analyzed.
, We take the following from the Edifor's Table
of Itusnell for May. ; It is an admirable speci
men of critical dissecting,-aiid is! written with
as are to be found in the history of this" stage, more than the; usual elegance of the author.
I hc ciiy itself was rent by faclions at the dead- VVe must besr 'though, "to demur soinewh.tt to
lict war with each other all the elements of the conclusions of the writer. fii-WimntA i
civil hatred had broke loose the streets were jut in the nam we admit, but we think he has
slippery with the blood of citizensbrother not tints fiilljutice to the "splendid qualities of
flew brother the granaries were s.et rn fire this unequalled cis-Atlantic rhetorician, Ed.
famine wasted those whom the sword did not r Leisure Hour. i i
Klay. In the midst of these cir.l massacre-, the ,;. us first fio,;(ipr lim n, !nMtnP
Roman armies appeared before 'the walls of Personally, few men have been more; highly
Jerusalem. Then for a thort time the itval :f.;,i vn ..nn,m
fictions united .against tho common foe; .they auv ..ceful carriatre, he unites a voice of nreaf
4 , , ". . ; . . '
hearers is, to exclaim, as each pleasing period
is rounded oft by his 'sonorous voice ;fu bow
charming ljiow delightful ! whal a genial senti
uient, or happy Litmle ! ! Thej are "perfectly
self-po3sesscd, nay l even critical in the very
nidst of the si!verr fehower of j his eloquence
they are seldom made, for a moment to forget
their surroundiig to forget!' themselves ) to
stand Bilent, hushed, quivering,' before the ter-
with the grandeur of some stirring tUeme, con
scious that for te time; ft is indeed the ' Oracle
of God, ' the chosen channel where through: the
streams of hevet)ly truth or of heavenly beauty,
must be conbmufiicated to humanity.
We therefore deny that Mr. Everett can be
ranked among the greatest of Orators, nor yet,
in us true philosophical sense, among tqe really
original, the permanent, - Catholic, suggestive
immortal thinkers of the Iaiid.K His Addresses
'that on W ashmgton especially will Uve but
how? as specimens of exquisite parity of diction,
of the most winning grace and beauty of style,
tfiese being their pre-eminent merits, far more
uunu aa BuuaiauuaicomnouiiOTJSio tne oninaJi
or imaginative eloquene'e of !the country The
expression of Daniel Webster,' so often, quoted,
which designates Mr. Everett as " the 'Corinth
an pillar; of Massachusetts" that pillar which
ii oin me peaimeni to. tne volutes of the capital
has ever; been considered the' cmbodyrner.t- of
the graceful in form, and of the graceful alo!e,
is significant as a comparison,! and truthful as
an illustration, j 3 . ' .
His mind, wholly unlike that of Calhoun,
partakes not of the stern sublimity of the Doric
order, nor, like T7ebst'er's"does it "present a
union of Doric simplicity with Ionic richness;
it is simply as the latter well termed it Corin
thian in mould, '.and jOorinthian in culture. "
We may evenjearry- the" comparison further,
and say, that as the noblest age of Greek liberty,
and of Greek Art had passed awav," when this
third, and lasfstvle of architecture came.' into
vogne and that jthere is something of florid
superfluity incorporated with its very beauty--sp,
in Mr. Everett's style of eloquence, we feel
that more importance is given! to the lody, the
environments, trie rhetoric of a sutject' than is
allogelher consistent with the clear eluJdation
thj direct and vigorous exposition of its essen
Y& Spirit. We have entered into this criticism,
. ,1 1 ' ' -. '.I'-'' '
or rainer, we nave maae ttiese suggestive re
mark", in no .dogmatic, or supercilious temper.
We have simply given utterance to our con
victions. ; Whether they be right or wrong, the
r uture wm determine. i i
number, from the
Seymourinade his
Let us watch
Eet side by
smoothes with sofi
proof-sheets of which Mr sculp the jasper pilbrsl that are to raflact a ceas-.
drawing of the club, and that I less sunshiBe, and tise into acloudl vVV- hut
happy portrait of its founder by which he is al- not wiUi lei4 rerereiicelj let us- itand bhim
" j " j fc.wb. cu men may oe saaa 10 uave ' " "s wh rougp sirengui; ana narned stroke,
made ihim a reality, j teonneciied Mr.jPkkwkk 1 he smites au uncoutli Animation lof the rocks
with a club because of the original suggestion, whichlb has tornfron among thi moss of the
ifM'f8!-. -n00 1 moorland, and heaves ntot the daikened air Xb
of Mr. Seymour. We started with a number ! pile of iron buttress a a4 rugged Wall, instinct
of twenty four pagesnnstead:o' thirty two, and" with work of imagina ion as wildland wayward
four illustrations in lieu of a couple. Mr. Sey- as the northern sea; creations of unainlr shaDe
mour s suddenLand lamented death before the and rigid limb, but ful
second number was puhlished, j brought about a I the winds that beat, and changeful as the clouds
of -wolfish life; fierce as
quick decision upon a point already in airitation. that shade them." 1 1
. . . . " ' .1 : ,
the nomber became one of thirty:two pages
with two illustrations, and remained so to the . i - ! i The Suicide
end. j My friends told me it was; a low, cheap si
iorm
Jons Rusnw.
of Herbert.
W. AMEBIC A.
were agitn the g.ill.int countrymen of David!
, and Joslitu they sailed forth .and scattered
ti the eagles of Home. But this triumph was
brief; the ferociiy of tho ill-fated Jews, soon
rgnin wasted itself on each other. And Titus
, .inarched on encamped hi armies lose by the
Vails :in from the heights the Roman gen
' ral jrazed with awe on the strength and splen
dor of thir cily of Jehovah. ' V
Let us here pause and take, ourselves, a
tnournfui glance at Jerusalem, as it then was.
The city ws fortified by a triple wall, save on
one side, where it was protected by 'deep and
Impassable ravines. Those walls, of jthe most
solid masonry, were guarded by strong towers;
opposite to the loftiest of these towers Titus
bad encamped. Front'the height of that tower
tho Bentincl might have seen stretched below
the whole of that fair Territory of Judea, about
to pass from the countrymen of David. With
in the; wall wag the palace of the kings its
roof of cedar, its doors of the rarest marbles, its
chambers filled with the costliest tapestries,
: and vcseU of gold and silver. ; Groves arid
gardens gleaming with fountains, adorned with
fctatucs of brons-, divided the courts; of the
-palace itself. Bat high above all upon a pre
' cipitous rock, rose the temple,' fortified and
adorned by Solomon. The temple was asstrong
without as a citadel within more adorned than
epalace. On entering you beheld porticoes of
numberless columns of porphyry, marble and
alabaster; gates adorned with gold and' bilver
tmong which was the wonderful gato called the
Beautiful.. Further on, through the vast arch,
was tho sacred portal which" admitted ' into the
Interior of the temple itself -all " sheeted over,
j, ' with gold and overhung by a vine tree of gold
the branches of which were as large os a man,
The roof of the temple, even on the out-side.
was act over with golden pikei to prevent the
Urds settling th.re and defiling the holy 'dome.
At a diltancts tho whole temple-looked line s'
mount of snow, frctfed with' golden pinnacles.'
But, a!a, the veil of that temple had been al
rtady rent atander by an i-iexpiable crime, and
.
sooh as it Is touched; every, spark of happineas
tin.! lwn
died. .
If I have sinned much1 and torrowt4 much. .
have also loved much more perhaps than I hart
cuMtr aunnea or sorrowed. it u the last drop
that overflows the roUea howL th'a 1tt
th breaks the silver 'chords My last bopeU
gori8--toy lasj love aid my life go together
aaa so, good night to
Iay IS, 1W3.
Brave and Pious .Von Zletaea.
Joachim ton Zicthen was one of. the bravest
of the generals who stood by Frederick the
Great in victory or defeat, .j He wst the son of !
?;Po" gentleman, and had jittle education savt
Wht he could pick up in barracks, camps, and,
battle fields, in all of which he figured la early
y oth. H his head was not over-ballasted with
learning, his heart was well freighted with that j
iovs of God, of which some portion, ai'thedis."
missed; leturcr on Ecclesiastical Historr In
and so I came to adopt it."
TO THE PKES.S)
n or publication, by which J should ruin all 1 he Tribune, Times! Courier and Enquirer
uiy rifcing nopes;i ana nqwiright.my tnends i .:. with a request to Copy, i
turned out to be, everybody now knows. To tU Tress of the United- States of America i
Ioz, my hignature in the Morning Chronicle, i Before going to mV account I would sav a
A i. lU. .1.1 . . 1 il . 1 I . - 11 . . - T ! ! - I . . - I ' - 1 I . r? - .t .... .r -
-FFc..uu lu.tue uio.uu.y cover; oi mis dook, tew words to the Fre$s;of, America, and to iU U King's College; tells uk U. in almost eVerr in.
1w'" lua1 "je nicMiame ii conauciors, as to meni among whom 1 have for. dividual without exception,' and forms the sheet -
oi a pet cuuu, a young orotner! whom l had many years been more Orjess associated. r; '. anchor which shall enable 'him to ride through- -
dubbedMoses,inhonqroftheyicarofWakefield,i I have my faults. myi failings; I have done' theUtorms which keep him from Lis desired-
which being facetiously pronounced through the my share bf -evil in my lifas all men has done haven of rest.- He became'the terror of the foes
nose, became Boses, and being shortened be-' perhaps I have done my bhare of good like- of Prussia V but among his , comrades, he i wit
came Bos. Boz 'was a verv .familiar housp- i wieo !;. It - ,i, . -- t."" v. '. .. -
, . , - ! : i L ii i i u -wniy s " goot isuier iuet&en.' He
lold word to me long before I was an author, Of my private history few men1 know nnW was remarkable for his Ifln . r '
thing, few-er still know jmrich no one knows " resplve and execution; and In remembrance as V
the whole ; it cannot concetn the public know wH as illustration thereof, a audden surprise Is
anything, j As a writer let me. be judged ; as a spoken of by an astonLhed Prussian as "falU .
man let ray God judge toe. ; ; . j injoWone like Ziethen from an Ambusb' :
. I implore not, praisey not 'a favorable con- -r Now, old Zicthen, after jtbe triumph tcbieved 1
slruction I implore silence. fFor what I have ioVthe Seven Year's Warj was, always .wel i
to Account with God, lek me account with God, come guest at the table of Frederick the Second. '
aud; not with man, wcmay . uucertainly per- His place was ever by the side of the royal .:
ceive and distinguish facts, but'eertainly cannot master whose cause he , had more than once -
perceive' causes or divine: notions or intentions saved from ruyi ; and he oply sat lower at table :
I do not-now ask charity I only inplore T?i- j whpnv,, there -happened to be present, some for
eign royal mediocrity, illustriously obucure,
Oh: one occasion, hereceived a commapd.to
diqe with the king on Good Friday. Zicthen sent
a messenger to his sorvereign,' statiftg that it .
'was impossible for him to wait on his majesty
inasmuch as that he : made a point of never
omitting to take the sacrament on that day, and '.
; ! A Splendid Extract. ;
Tlie following! has long appeared to us as
one of the most marvellously excellent pieces
of descriptive writing m our 'j language. The
author has thrown over the. dry details of" sci
ence the refulgent gwb of true poetic beauty.
11D. IjEISlRE hour, - ;
" The' charts of, the world which have been
drawn up by modern science have thrown into
ujiuii1r'uvb hid lAjjitaoiuii jui a vosk Huiuuut jence 1 i
oi Knowieage, dux i nave new yet seen any ; Let the good that I have done, if any. beln-
uuc iiiv.wjiiai;Biiouaii 10 euauie uie suecwior io lerred with mv honolU tho ril
,-Su.0 vuc .um .yi . cuuUf, in-puywcai cuar- the evil. lean say DOSlt ve v. is such as arr do
acter which exists between northern and south- n tv?l nftir-- m"0 : .i hiJi 'tmnir- v
ern; countries. We know theidifference in de- itk-.vL.i rv! 1:-wi!.i.t j!j l
tail, but we have' not that broad, glance and jiew to be or jf j;r iriythin-Which'Idid
power, and sweetness. It. has, besides, been
elaborately cultivated, Kno ving . the charm,
little short of magic, which resides: iril human
tones rightly graduated to the character of the
sentiment expressed, Mr. Everett has spared no
pains in perfecting to the minutest details the
grand Organ of speech with which he i; endow
ed; equal labour has been . bestowed . upon all
other points essential to impressive elocution ;
every minutest gesture has a pdrposej and u
productive of a special effecting before deter
mined upon. - He is emphatically , an .Orator
mac?, and cot born ; for despite the personal
gifts to which we have ' referred, Mr. Everett
labours under the disadvantage of being some
what of a ridegmatic, . Through the deep,
organ-like music of his , utterance, through all
his impressive declamation, and graceful action,
thereruns an under current of native coldness
of temperament which even the force of su
piemest Art, is unable wholly to overcome. -' He
does not thrill us with .lightning phrases, hot
and swift from the Hepths of the. soul ; he does
not e!cc:rify us by a single word pregnant with
passion and -meaning jk his influence: consists
rather in the sustained unity of his all but per
fect elocution ;-r-the same criticism, may in our
opinion, be passed upon bis style as a writer.
Fiven in his great Washington: Oration, incom
parably, the noblest" of his pnblic performances,
we listened vainly to catch the true ring of the
profoundest originality, or, the boldest imagina
tion in thougliL -' 'J'y'4 :
Correct, polished, beautiful a3 s the notes ' of
the Dorian flute, his sentences were rhythmical
It, as harmonious cs Art and study couM make
them, but they lacked that Promethian fire, that
energy divine, which can- only be imparted to
language by the innet., workings of the spirit,
by the inspiration' born of passion, and winged
with enthusiasm, ' . f . ; 1 f- , 1
t -. ' . ! .4'-'-i ; 'X;
uq Hoe not, as Patrick Henry . must have
donewe, master, and! bind down his audience
by the forces of a spell vigorous as thVerasp of
a oyciops, ana ourniag as tne eore of Etna; on
the contrary, the general disposition of his
Hickens's Story of the Origin of Pickwick.
Mr.jDickcns has latterly been issuing "what
is called a popular edition of his works, in which
he treats us-to that little account of the origin
of Pickwick, and how eagerly we rush, behind
the scenes to Wee how thev contrived the
thunder:- I . ! - '!
4i I was a youpg man of i three and twenty
when Mio present publishersattracted by some
pieces i was at that time writing in the Morn
ing Chronicle newspaper, (ofiwhich one series
had lately been collected and! 'published in two
.volum.es, illustrated by .my ii esteemed friend,
Mr. George Cruikshank.) : waited upon" me to
propose something that should be published in
shilling numbers then"onlyi known to mcj or
I believe to anybody else, by a dim recollection
of certain interminable vnbvels in that form
which used 19 be carried about the country by
peddlers, and.over some of which 1 remember
to have shed innumerable tears before I had
served my apprenticeship to Life. -:
When I opened my doori in Furnivars Inn
to the managing partner who represented the
firm, I recognized' in the person from whose
hands I had bought, two or three years previous
ly, and whom I had never seen before or since'
my nrst copy of the magazine in which my first
effusiori dropped stealthily one evening' at
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grap wuien worn cnaose usio leei.tnem-m not. belieyeto be gojd and true.! i In ail iny of alWaya spending the subsequent porUoa of
.their , fullness. V e know thatt gentians crow u-,itsn-T,,ViM i 1: J.; it. a-V . ii.1:! j. - j.;. . .1 . .
onuieps.anaonves on tnepenniues ; ,Dut ashamed, noord whipli .1 desire to blot i ! 7 Xk week elapsed before the scrupulous old :
varigattd mosaic ot the work's surface which
a bird sees in its migration that difference be
tween'the district of -the gettian which the
stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean,
upon the sirocco wind. Letnslfof a moment
try to' raise ourselves even above the level; of
.1 have done many things wrongly, many soldier was again invited to the royal dinner-
things of which I am kshamed, many things of tabUT, At length he 'appeard in his. old place,
which I hayjj smcely repented, many things' ,un- and merry were the guesU, the kring himself;
dethe pressure of. te nptation of poverty and setting an example of uproarious hilarity. The
necessity, to which Ian not accustomed byjny fun! was running fast anj furious it was at its
condition, which I hop should; not 'do again: verr ioudest, when Frenerick, turning to Zla.;
under any temptation, j . j then, smacked bim familiarly on the backhand
1 am very sorry I hVe been weak at limes exclaimed, Well, brave old Ziethen ? how did :
their flight,and imagine the Mediterranean lying
ueuuaui us uae.- an irregular ,iaKe, ana. aii i its and have fallen who his not done so ! :
ancient promoniones sleeping in tne sun: ners : For justice sake, fori charity's sake, for God's
and there an angry spot of thunder, a gray, sakeJet me rest . I b'ekr an honnraHlo. mm,.
stain of storm, moving upon the burning field ?j I have striven hard, in great trials, in great
and here and there a fixed wreath of white vol- temntationalin a WifrhWmtrv '? fi.i.'-Ait..
cano smoke,' surrounded by its circle ot ashes ; tion among-men who dii not perhaps could norj
o keep it honorable-r-as
but the most part .a great peacefulness of light, sympathise with me.
oyna ana ureee naiy and bpain, laid like you would have your
pieces oi gomen pavement into tne sea-blue, Bons preserve them to
chased, as we stoop nearer to them, with bossy j dishonor mine. Few
the supper of Good Friday aeree with your
sanctimonious stomach Have yon properly -
'digested the veritable body and blood f At
tlus blasphemy,-4ind amid the thunders of peal-
iog laughter,' the saluting artillery of . the de-"
lighted guestsZeithen leaped Jo Ms feet, and
after ehakine his ffrev hairs with indImfon
names honored and your -and silencing therevellers with a cry, as though '
lyou I charge youdo not they had been": dogs, he turned to the godless
Iwill miss me when I im -master 'bf th a rPAtm.inil tnUtvnrrt. f nAf 1
beaten-work ;of mountain chain's, and glowing gone L pobably none lament me-so be it 1 Only, precisely these, certainly and exactly to'tbis'
softly with teraced gardens, and flowers heavy I implore you, do not! misinterpret! and malign offect : ' , - ' . V '-' " '
m" uM..ceuuxeu among masses oi iaU me.- - ' ' 'J r I P ;1t;?:' - vf tahnn no'anger; your majesty knows it;
ici, auu uiangt:, uu jjiuiujt paiui, mat ayaie ilavinir said this. I hive said nearlv all
witb their gray:green shadows the burning of word more only- if as I resume twill be th
the, marble rocks, and the ledges of pophyry, cae, my earnest and hopeful appeal for repose
sloping under lucent ,sand. . The let us pasj be - hVegarded-if the' Cultures of the press
januer lowaiua we uonu, upui we see tne on?- pounce upon my coIdiremains,'.to tear, through
ent colors change gradually into, a vast belt of: . them,1 the heart strings: Of my living relatives
rainy green, where the pastures of Switzerland to blazon forth all my! misdeeds, in unblushing
and poplar valleys ot ranee, and dark forests colors to the Sun let none of my friends if I
of the Danube and Carpathians, Volga, seert have a friend sUnd forth; to defend me. De
through clefts in jgray swirls 'of Vain cloud and fence only, provpkes iitter attack and gives a
flaky'veils of the pist of the brooks, spreading keener tooth to scandslj i :v ; ' r ns
low along the pasture lands': and then, farthef
north still,- to see ithe earth heave into mi
have said nearly all one I My life, has been , always ready for I sacrifice,
T- - i Ml . At ... . ' . .
wnen my country ana tne throne required it
What I was, inat lam; and ' my bead I would
press I place en tne block at this moment, if the stria.
ing of it off could purchase happiness for' my
king,; But there is One who is greater than I, - .
or ftny one here'; and he is a greater sovereign -than
you who 'mock Him from the' throne la " ,
Berlin. lie it is whose precious blood was shed !
far the sal vation of all mankind. ' On Him, that , -
Holy One, my faith reposes : He is my con-
rwer i die, iorgivingr every: man who has wronged -soler in life, mjr hope In prcfence of dalh; and
Suty me, : asking . forgivnesS ;of every man whom 1. 1 I tcUl nol suffer his name to be derided and at-
twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark
letter b x, in a dark office,' up a dark court in
Fleet Street appeared in all the glory of print?
on which memorable occasion how well I re
collect it! I walked dqwri to Westminster
Hall and turnedinfo it for half an hour because
my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride
that they could not bear the;, street, and were
not fit to be seen there. . ;I told my visitor the
coincidence; which we both hailed - as a good
oment ana so fell to business. - " ' ' -f
The idea propounded to me wai that the
monthly something should be a vehicle' for cer
tain plates to be executed " by Mr. Seymour;
and there was a notion either on the- part of
that admirable humorist or of my visitor (I for
get. which) that a Nimrod Club, the members of
which were to go out, "shooting, fishing
and getting themselves iinto difliculties through
their want of dexterity would, be the bes t-
means of introducing these." I objected, on
consideration, tliat, although' born and partly
bred in thecountry, I was ho great sportsman,
except in regard to all kiods of loconiotionj
but" that the idea was not novel, and had been,
already ;much' used; that it .would be infinitely
better for plates to arise naturally "out of ? the
.text; and that I, should like toVtaJce any own
"way, a free range of English, scene's and people,
and was afraid I:should ultimately do so in any
irregular and grisly islands, amidst the northern fully managed, to pa. every thin o that I owe.
seas, beaten by storm; and chilled by ice-drffti j and, perhaps, to leaved a surplus. r X . It ,
vi never fciiranK, wniiuil was alive, from meet-.
masses ot laden j rock and heathy moor, bdry. have wronged. I hav$ atoned, so far as I know tacked where lam by, and have yoke to' protest
dering with; a brad waste; of gloomy purple or can atone, for eyeryi wrong I have ever done, -agiinst iC;Sir,5 if your' soldiers had not been'
thakbrU offield ?d wood, and splintering into M have the means, l! believe, if they be care- I firm in this faith.'they wrould not have rained
ing the consequences bf . my deeds face to face.
I never, said a Word tpj a niaqV back which I
would not or did not say to his facev " - " J
Kmember . now, alt you that would ' assail
me, that my back is turned forever that hence-'
and tormented by furious pulses of contendin
tide, until the roots of the last forests fall from
among the hill ravines, and the hunger of the
north wind bites their peaks into barrenr.ess'i
and,' at Jast, the rsll of . ice, durable" like'ironj
sets,; death-like, its white teeth against usj out
of tlfe polar twilight. And having once.traverst fortn I can disprove no slander that is spoken
ed in . thought ths gradation of the zoned iris of me ;i that with rne no witness can be erer
of the earth in all its material vastness, let -us more confronted r that from no accusition. how
go down nearer to ity and watch the parallel! false'soever; can .Improve myself not guilty Of
change in the belt of animal life ; the multitudes all' cowardice,' the most base" Vnd cruel is to
of .swift and brilliant -creatures that glance in strike the i dead,, who
uie.air or sea, or tread the sandi or the south j aqswer.
ern zone; fetnped zebras, and spotted leopards f v I ask no praise. Do
glistening serpents and, birds arrayed in purple
and scarlet. Let us contrast their delicacy and
brill ianeyof color and swiftness bf motion, with
the frost-cramped, strength, ' and shaggy cover
ing,, and dusky plumage of the northern tribes;
contrast the Arabian horse with the Shetland,
the. tiger and Jeopard with -the wolfarid'bear,
the antelope with the elk,- the bird of Paradise
with the ; osprey arid ' then" submissively ac,
knowledginghe greatUaws by which the earth
and. all that it bears are ruled throughout their
being, let Us not condemn, but rejoice in the ex
pression by man ef his -own rest in the stautes1
iH i"!- - iv-g-l'---A-,;- C Xri-' 1
can make no : defence or
not praise me probably
doubtless,' for I'ammor;.
Say so, then, of me, if
let my mortality to His
I deserve Hone. i
'I deserve reproach,
ial, and have ej fined.
you say anything, and
judgment, who can telf, not 'only , when and
where, but. vihrf they -vere; committed ' how
far they have palliatidn--how far they deserve
pardon. - - , r :
Remember, also, when you judge me ; that of
all lives, mine Has been- the mosl nnhappyijV;
' JZo j counsellor, no friends,no country have
been mine for six and twenty dreary yean;
every hope has broken Uown under! my foot as
yictories for you. . If you mock this faith, and
jeer at those who cling to it,'; yoa only lend a . .
hand to bury yourself and; the state in rutn.n
'fter a pause he added, lookii g the while on "
the mute kifig What I have spoein is God s
truth ; receive it graciously J V -.
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f Jessie Beowtt at Iiccajiow.-.The Calcutta'
corresohdent of the Nonce nformist says:
fWe have read with some surprise and amuse
ment thjt "wonderful story published, in the
English papers about: Jesie Brown and the .
slogan of the Highlanders, in HavelockV, relief
of Lucknow. I have been assured by one sof
the, garrison that it is a pure invention. . I. No
Jetter of the date mcntioiied could have reached "
Calcutta whenr;the story issald to have "arrived.
2. -rhVre was'co Jessie Brown in Lucknow. . Z?.
.The 78ih neither played their pipes nor howled , V
out the slogan as they came in; they liad Wrne- ;
thing 'else to do. 4. Th'ey " never ' marched
round the dinner table with tbeir pipes the Earns
eveningat all-Acothfr.atory by lha taniiv".
writ er has just come Out, about a Miss Jamlcsony 7.
an heiress, whose handsome' lover.had eyes'
,arc cheeks Llown awayand'whoVouId'inarry;-'-bjm
in spite of the "deficieney. Thefactls,'
there" was no Miss Jamicicain Lucknovf. , Pro
bably this story isMljva'ccpycf tht real fact,
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