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·SAUNDERS' MONTHLY MAGAZIN E. PANAMAN No. X.] AUGUST, 185 2. [Vol. I. CONTENTS FOR AUGUST. PAGE. 685 ........ 699 700 ...... 708 709 714 ......... MY UNCLE Ben's COURTSHIPS, THE WIDOWER'S LAMENT, FEMALE EDUCATION IN N. W. INDIA, THE RIVERS,............ MR. MARTIN SHUTTLECOCK'S ADVENTURES OF A JOURNEY “ Home" VIA TRIESTE.......... I THINK OF THEE, ORIGIN AND PRESENT STATE OF THE « CONTINGENT FORCES" OF THE SEVERAL NATIVE GOVERNMENTS, A RATHER REMARKABLE ADVENTURE,... DETACHED THOUGHTS, REAL HEROES AND REAL TRIUMPHS,... RETROSPECTIONS OF YOUNG MAN,, BEING THE ANTECE- OF FREEMAN, OF THE 76TH B. N. 1., RELATED + ..... 715 722 730 ...... ..... 731 L 3 DENTS .......................... ............... BY HIMSELF, EMIGRATION AND SCENES IN A New COLONY, BALLAD, .......... SIMON PIGEON, THE MUFF...... 740 747 763 764 ..... SELECTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS,–Fabliaus,.. ccxli. to cclii.

·TO CONTRIBUTORS. We regret that circumstances have deprived us of our usual portion of Lindenstowe. We are promised a double portion for our next number.-Received since our last-Our N. W. FRONTIER. Thyagism. -LAHORE.-WHAT DOES THE ARMY WANT !--THE THREE BLIND MEN OP Compeigne.-The Ass's Legacy.--Notes on the KINGDOM OF OUDHE, No. III.--The Fatuek's Secret." Psyche," AND OTHER POEMs.

·BOTTE PUDLIC LIBRARY 1859 SAUNDERS' MONTHLY MAGAZINE. www muuwwwwman No. X.) AUGUST, 1852. [VOL. I. MY UNCLE BEN'S COURTSHIPS. CIIAPTIR IX. men A TOLERABLY long residence stance of my finding myself, on in Bombay has mabled me to the second morning after the ocassert, as a well-established do currence detailed in the preceding mestic fact, that whereas gentle- chapter, seated alone in my tent, are fond of reading the in a coinfortable casy chair, scanmorning newspaper over their early ning the columns of the Advercup of tea, when the day is young, diser. It was a journal fainous for and the air cool and fresh, such its small appetitising paragraphs; ladics as patronize that organ of, and I took a sip froin my tca-cup, intelligence at all, commonly pre and a mouthful of bread-and-butfer perusing it in bed-probably ter, after each miniaturc leader, from the facility which a reclining feeling better, both physically and posture affords to recruit nature nientally, as the double meal prowith a nap after the leading ar- gressed. At length, however, I ticles! To this general propen came to something that instantanesity, and not to any peculiar in ously took away my appetite. In dolence on the part of my better rather large type, wilira conspicůhalf, must I attribute the circum ous heading, I read us follows: A flicting Accident. "A most alarming accident, results, took place on Thursday which, but for the cool judgment evening, about 6 o'clock, upou in a moment of emergency, dis the sands in Back Bay. A lady, played by a medical gentleman at whose personal attractions have this Presidency, might have led frequently graced our Ball rooms, to the most fatal and calamitous and who ireeds but to be seen to VOL. 1.-NO. X, ·686 My Uncle Ben's Courtships. a n be admired, was riding at that “ But why shouldn't my uncle hour and place with two gentle court if he likes ?" interposed I. men, when, startled by a canine “ His heart is his own, and so is aggression, the horse she was upon his person, and his money too galloped off, and placed her gentle and surely no one has any right life in most imminent danger. One to prevent him from disposing of of her companions--B. B-n, all these in any way that suits Esq., of the Civil Service his taste and inclination." most imprudently rushed after “ That's always what you say, her, at a break-neck speed, an Edward," replied my little wife: Insane act, which had nearly cost " but I'm sure you'd make much the estimable lady lier life ; for better use of his wealth than the the spirited animal she was riding persons it will go to when he of course increased his pace aſso; dies, if he pursues such a shameand when at last Mr. Bful course as he's doing-running overtook her, and attempted to · after all the stuck-up, affected, arrest her progress, a violent good-for-nothing coquettes in the collision occurred, which result Presidency." ed in both Mrs. and her “My dear love," rejoined I, would-be-deliverer falling hea " how harsh you are in your vily to the ground. At this mo judgments. How do you know ment, the other gentleman, Dr. that this lady is a good-for-no- O'F of Iſ. M. -, arriv- thing coquette ?" ing on the spot, tlırew himself Kinou, my dear? Why, Mrs. from his horse, and by a prompt Taylor, and Mrs. Brown, and application of his medical skill, Mrs. Tomkins, and Mrs. Kirby, succeeded in so far restoring con all say so." sciousness to the unhappy lady, This was :onclusive, as ladies' that she was enabled to proceed logic mostly is ; so I left my little kome. We are happy to add, as wife to read the newspaper at the result of enquirics made yes her leisure, or rencw her nap, terday, that Mrs. whichever she felt most disposed sidered out of danger." to do, and returned to the soli- As soon as I had finished the tary comfort of my easy chair. Scarceiy had I composed myperusal of this singular effusion, self for reflection on my Uncle's I took the paper into my beddisagreeable adventure, and more room, and waking Arabella from a " delightful sleep," as she termdisagreeable notoriety, when I ed her morning slumber, directed was startled by the su:lden entrance of Brown of our's, a genher attention to the narrative. tleman whom I have some re- " I don't pity him a bit," said collection of mentioning in the she, emphatically. “ If what first chapter of this narrative, Mrs. Kirby, and Mrs. Tomkins, Brown was one of those energetic and Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Tay fellows who, possessing more than lor say, is true, he has been their fair share of animal spirits, courting this lady for the last are obliged to resort to a variety three weeks-a good-for-nothing of expedients for getting rid of old man ! and now you'll see the the superfluous supply, and keepend of the courtship, dear Ned.” ing themselves at the samne level was coll- ·My Uncle Ben's Courtships. 687 as the society around them. He the reins over his neck, and walksat up very late at night, and got up ed quietly on. The morning was very early in the morning; he took rather misty, and I could not see enormously long rides on difficult far before me ; but on approachhorses; he wentout boating, shoot- ing a clump of trees, there was ing, pic-nicing; he drove a tan the sudden report of a pistol, dem, and was ambitious of han which startled the chestnut, and dling the “ribbons" of a four-in made him bound up in the air, so hand; he was ready to walk incre as very nearly to pitch me over dible distances for wagers of small his head. Well, I suspected what amount, without the precaution of was in the wind, and taking the a stake-holder. Brown ought to reins again, rode gently towards have been a denizen of the planet the trees, when I saw most dis- Mercury: he was far too airy and tinctly two fellows moving off the volatile for this dull globe where ground as sharply as they could, on, (for our sins,) we live, and and old Mr. Balderson lying on move, and have our being. the ground, with Patter of the-th On the present occasion, Brown standing over him, secniing in a was more than usually excited. deuce of a funk." Ilis face was flushed, and his And then ?" said I. brow streaming with perspiration. Why, I went up, of course, He appeared quite breathless. and Batter told me your Uncle He had evidently had a hard ride; had quarrelled with some Irish and I motioned him to take a Doctor, about some confounded chair, and enquirce rather anxwidow, and called him some hard iously what was the matter. names, which resulted in the Hi- “ Matter!" replied Brown, as bernian gentleman calling him fast as he could get breath to out.' speak. “ What's the-matier ? Why there's your “ But was he hurt ?" enquircdn. (I'm quite out of breath) your precious old Uncle- " Why," replied Brown," the been fighting a duel !" ball just grazed his shoulder, and I really felt as though I had peeled off a little bit of coat and been shot myself. shirt, and may be something more. “Ducl !" cried I, "why, the old No great harm done. Your Ungentleman's mad! Who was it cle did not fire at all; he was with? Where did it take place ? hit, and floored before he says) Is any hody hurt ?" he had time to pull the trigger." “ I'll tell you all about it," an- “ And the other's, you say, swered Brown. “ I got up at bolted ?" gun-fire this morning to give my They went off' as hard as they chestnut a gallop, and as the could. The Irishman must have brute was skittish, I determined seen he'd winged his man, and as to take it regularly out of him, the old gentleman roared blue and no mistake. So I'rode over · murder, it is probable he thought the sands, and round to Malabar him much more hurt than he Point, at a devil of a pace ; and really was." when the horse had had enough And where's Mr: Balderson of it, as I thought, I just threw 66 now?"

·688 My Uncle Ben's Courtships. 19 " The old gena “Oh, they put him in Patter's the rule rather than the excepbuggy, and took him away-I tion. Besides, though ladies and dare say to the club. Of course gentlemen were not particular as they'll say he had a fall from his to the persons whom they ridiculed horse, and hurt his shoulder ; but and satirized, pour passer le temps, all Bombay will know, before sun they were often at heart grateful set to-night, that he has fought a to those who furnished them with duel." food for their wit and pleasantry. "I believe you are right, Therefore, all things considered, Brown," said I. my Uncle would not be likely to tleman talked of my bringing dis losc much by his escapades. grace on the family, when I got married, but what is he doing reasoning, and as soon as he I did not reply to Brown's now ? There's an account in this took his departure, I returned morning's paper of his riding out to Arabella, whom I found at her with the Doctor and the widow, toilet, and, inforring her of what and upsetting the latter on the had taken place, asked her adsands misadventure to which vice as to what I ought to do. the duel is doubtless owing. Really I think it's my duty to interfere, Arabella was much shocked. and put a stop to his follies. "A duel !" cried she: “Oh, what It is true he has "cut me off with horrid wretches men are ! To a rupee,” (to use his own expres think of going out to shoot at each sion), and my intervention, there other, as though they had no souls fore. might be ascribed to inter to be saved, norrelations to care for este motives ; but under present them-oh, I never did feel so circumstances, it would indeed be sad ! Oh, Ned, never fight a cruel to leave him to himself'; and duel ! and glo put away those his accident of this morning will horrid, horrid pistols. It gives furnish me with not a bad excrise mc quite a cold shudder whenfor calling on him." cver I look at them; and I de- Brown at first tried to dissuade claro I would not touch them for me from my purpose, representthe world! ing, that although Mr. Balderson " But," interposed 1, very had certainly made himself very tenderly,-- "" but what about nty ridiculous in his cquestrian "ex. Uncle ?" ploit on the sands, there was nothing absurd, per se, in his “Oh," said Arabella, passion for the lovely victim of him by all means. Go at once, the overthrow, while, with resand call on him. Poor old gen. pect to the duel, there was no tleman, to think that he should doubt that Society would take be shot with a horrid pistol, and taken home with his clothes all a very lenicnt, if not sccretly approving, vicw of it. Some, blood-stained ! Oh, Ned, prohe remarked, might laugh at the mise me you'll never fight a duel! Promise me that!” old gentleman; but others would admire his gallantry and his cou Thus it was resolved that I rage. In India unequal alliances should proceed on an errand of were so common, that it was diffimercy to ny implacable Uncle cult to say whether they were not Ben, see ·My Uncle Ben's Courtships. 689 CHAPTER X. I saw my unfortunate Uncle Two or three days elapsed. I that morning, and found him pros made a point of paying Mr. Baltrated, mentally as well as bodily, derson a visit every morning, and by the trial he had undergone. The was happy to observe a manifest laceration of his wound was in fact improvement in him- that is to nothing to that of his spirit. He say, corporeally--for his mind rcsecmcd conscious that the result mained as much affected as ever. of the duel had destroyed his last One day I observed him reading hope of possessing the fair creature a little book very attentively, and he had so fondly idoliscd ; and discovered that some kind friend, though his hcart had before given with the view of exhilirating him, convincing proof of its toughness, had placed in his hands a series of he surrendered himself at once to. religious tracts. On another octhe conviction that it was now casion, 1 caught a very long-faced, perfectly broken, and that the dreary-looking personage at his rest of his career must of nccessi side, to whom I was introduced as ty be passed bencath an impene the Revd. Mr. Grimlcy, a pious trable, immovcable cloud of the Missionary, and leading apostlo blackest sorrow. I had expected of the “ Teetotal Movement." to find at least some remnant lin At last my worthy old Uncle begering in his mind of that pride of gan actually to talk to me of the family which had induced him to heavy burden of his sins, and of resent, as a bitter wrong, my own his rigid determination to use alliance with one whom he thought every effort and exertion for the beneath me in station. But he salvation of his poor soul ! grasped my hand most cordially, Not being naturally disposed and spoke to me in the kindest . lo scoff at things religious, lat terms, though in a melancholy first felt inclined to believe that tone, and without a smile on his my Uncle had been really touched cadaverous visage. He even asked with a sense of past transgressions, after my wife ! I felt my old rcand was about to furnish an infard for the old gentleman return stance of that rare psychological as I gazed at him in his wretched phenomenon,-a genuine sudden ness; and was half inclined to conversion. But gradually he volunteer Arabella's assistance to recovered from the gloomy desnurse hjm so long as he might be pondency into which he had been confined to his couch, and my thrown, and begår to demean own unworthy company to read to himself in such a way as to satishim, and endeavour to amuse him fy ine that he was only passing and cheer him up during that from one form of extravagance to disagreeable interval. However another. Ile threw himself head- --perhaps from a little pride on long into the " circle" of the my own part-I abscuined from. Rerd. Mr. Grimley, which inactually proposing to render him cluded, along with some estimathese kind offices. It was an un ble persons, several individuals lucky omission, as the sequel will whose cant was as ollensive sus show. their hypocrisy 'was transparent. .

·690 My Uncle Ben's Courtships. as a Warn. an He drank tea at their tea-parties, tian, rich in faith, and zealous of prayed at their prayer meetings, good works. speechified at their public assem It must not be supposed that I blics, contributed to their perio- impute to my vencrable Uncle dicals,-nay, even offered to teach anything like shamming. Far at their tools. One day he took from it. I am thoroughly conit into his head to deliver a tem vinced that he believed himself perancc address, in which he converted from the error of his characterised the juice of the grape ways, and was blind to the vanity as the deadliest poison, and at that prompted him to put himself tributed ninety-nine hundredths forward on all occasions of human sins to the direct in bright and shining light-at once fluence of alcohol in some shape a lamp to guide, and a beacon to or other, thcreby, as Brown de- Like most persons who clared, seriously curtailing the rush into religion from the force prerogative of Satan. Then he of circumstances, he unconscibecame involved in a lively con ously magnified his own former troversy with anonymous delinquencies, and humbled himwriter, upon the merits and ad self very low in the dust, with vantages of Calvinism,-a discusa view to a speedy and lofty exalsion which would have lasted to tation, IIe thought contrast was this day, and probably ended in everything, and painted his origieach disputant consigning the nal self in colours painfully Saother to eternal perdition, if the tanic, in order that the rainbow editor to whom the effusions were hues of his regenerate state might addressed had not cut it short, not be without an adequate foil in-mercy to mankind. My Uncle to set off their refulgent splendour. rayed against theatricals, de Instead of returning to Cloveranounced dancing, considered rac bad on the expiration of his leave ing a crime, and regarded a bil of absence, he persuaded himself liard-room as the very entrance that the opportunities of doing to llades. His name was good at that small place were far heading subscription lists for re too limited, and therefore made ligious purposes, and flouriehing interest with a pious meinber of as President or Vice President of Government to put him in a snusa Charitable Committees. Hd al and well-paid berth at the Presitered the cut of his coat, and the dency. There was not an atom colour of his neckcloth. Ile wore of conscious worldliness in this, a hat with a wider brim. He though, among certain Civilians, geinmed his discourse with scrip the feeling soon manifested it. tural phrases, and was careful to self that my Uncle was makadopt the Missionary system of ing religious profesion the stepspelling in writing native names. ping-stone to his own advance- Indeed, I am not sure that he did ment. These gentlemen did not latterly affect a slight nasal not know Mr. Balderson. If the twang in his pronunciation, in Rev. Mr.“ Grimley had assured order that a finishing touch might him, that it was necessary for the be given to the portrait which he Christian cause, that he should flattered hituself he presented, of resign the Scrvice, and proceed on a humble, uncompromising Chris. å pilgrimage to the Holy Land, seen ·My Uncle Ben's Courtships. 691 I verily believe my Uncle would tion, approved of his design, and not have hesitated one moment gave him, on the spot, a convincin acting upon the advice. But ing proof of devoted friendship, by of course the Rev. Mr. Grimley obscrving that his sister, Miss knew better; and my Uncle's ac Priscilla Grimlty, was the very ceptance of an appointment at woman, above all others, calcuthe Presidency was hailed liter lated to make him happy, and ally as a godsend, and made the that it would afford him inconsubject, on more than one occa ceivable pleasure, if Mr. Baldersion, of carnest private thanks son had no objection to use his giving fraternal influence for the promo- Now if Mr. Balderson had con: tion of his suit. tinued the career I have been de " It will be a sad sacrifice," scribing, it is highly probable he said the reverend gentlemanwould have spent regularly threc "a sad personal sacrifice-for fourths of his pay in subscriptions unto me she has indeed been and charities, and on his death, a sister, and only those who know have bequeathed his fortune to her can form the least judgment reverend trustees, for the purpose of what she has done for the enof establishing a Mission, found lighteninent and conversion of the ing a Ilospital, or endowing a poor heathen. There are no lcss School. But it was not destined than twenty-seven native children so to fall out. After a few nionths who come daily to her to read an incident occurred which so far tracts; and you are aware she arrested his progress, and wrought has translated for their use the such a inanifest change in his pro little work, entitled "The Brand ceedings, that his friends could snatelied from the Burning,' in once more congratulate him on which she drew so lively a pica his re-approach, if not complete ture of your former sinful state, return, to the ways of reason and • and of the circunstances that atcommon sense. tended your blessed conversion." My Uncle, you must know, hade " And was that really intended never, except for a brief interval, for me ?” enquired the poor old entirely given up the idea of ma gentleman. Really she must trimony. Of course, having re be a heavenly-minded woman. I nounced all worldly pride, he have always admired her, and now spuld no longer assign, as a mo I think I could love her." tive for changing his condition, My sister," continued the the desire to punish ine for my other, was once a gay and giddy folly in marrying, as I did, with girl, fond of dress and amusement, out his knowledge, and against his desirous of attracting attention, will. But after frcquent self-com and indifferent to those solemn munings, he decided that he would truths which form our study by be better able to perform his duty day, and engage our thoughts by to his fellow-creatures, if he took night. But one day she heard a unto himself a help-mate, of seri.. sermon-wonderful sermon-in ous disposition, and pious frame of which the preacher denounced mind. Accordingly, he consulted the follics and frivolities of life, his spiritual director, the Rev. with the overwhelming and indiy- Mr. Grimley, who, without hesita nant eloquence of an Isaiah. I'lie ·692 My Uncle Ben's Courtships. words went to her soul. A lively “ I will speak to her on the fear of eternal lorments took pos subject," said the reverend gensession of her. She came to me, tleman. “ Remember that I can and told me her sad story. I took promisc you nothing. Her heart her in hand, my friend, and in may possibly be too decply enlittle more than three weeks she gaged in her holy work, to allow was so thoroughly converted, that of her turning aside, even to give she sold all her trinkets, altered her hand to you. Not only would the fashion of her attire, and gave I not force her inclinations, but if herself up unreservedly to the I saw that they were hopelessly great work of regenerating a world opposed to your suit, I would not lying in wickedness. You know cven attempt to influence them. how sincerc, how devoted, she is !" But I do by no means assert, or My Uncle bowed his head in imply, that it is a hopeless case. assent, and grasped the speaker's On the contrary -However, hand. His heart was too full for you shall hear more from me words. to-morrow." CHAPTER XI. Miss Grimley was a tall, thin, and pestilent congregation of vagrave-faced lady of about forty. pours." She was always looking Her countenance was marked by for the time when the world should 80 settled a sanctimoniousness be destroyed, and the heavens her form was so stiff-her motions rolled up like a scroll; and she so solemn and slow, and her dress shook her head in silent sorrow distinguished by so determined over the pomps and vanities of life, a plainncss, that if it had not been feeling how worthless and transient fa her brother's unimpeachable they were. I saw this lady more trithfulness, one might very rea than once, and cannot say that I sonably have doubted his asser liked her. I did not doubt her sintion that she had ever been “ gay 'cerity, but I thought I could deand giddy." She was seldom tect a latent pride in her humility, seen to smile, and rarely spoke a sourness in her melancholy, and without a sigh. Though in the a disposition to place a good many world, (she uscd to say,) she'was really harınless, if not actually not of the world. She often commendable, things beyond the groaned over mundane wickedpale of pious aspiration and enness, but never railed against sin dcavour. She appeared to me ners, or inveighed against sin. to wish to dress the world in a Her ambition was to be humble ; complete suit of mourning, and her glory to be meck; her main keep the entire human race perobject, through liſe, to do good, petually wecping, and wringing unseen of men! To her this bright their hands, and crying out, O carth seemed nought but a stohow wicked we are ! rile promontory, this most excel However, my Uncle thought lent canopy, the air, this brave her an angel. He accompanied o'er hanging firmament, this ma her to the place of worship where jestical root fretted with golden her brother held forth, went hoine fire,-no other thing than a foul to tea with her, and listened loy- ·My Uncle Ben's Courtships. 698 SO one ingly to her expositions of passages piness prepared for my Uncle, of scripture. Then he called, and was snatched away just as he was spent an entire forenoon in her about to sip it. The narrative is society. Then he made her a necessarily in some degree a sad handsome present of a fine col one, but I shall lay it before the lection of sermons, Then he co reader. pied out a little bit of poetry, Let him imagine an Indian which he thought described her drawing-room--not large, but character, and putting it into comfortably furnished. The rays her hand, said it pourtrayed of the afternoon sun are stealing exactly what a woman ought to through the venetians, conveybe, and exactly what she was. ing more light than warmth. Then he concluded that he hade There is a pretty little cottage better have a talk with her bro piano-forte in one corner of the ther, and ascertain if he had apartment, with a music-stand, really made an impression upon upon which are piled books conher heart. • taining compositions by Haydn, Mr. Balderson was never Weber, Handel, and Mozart. near getting married before, and There are couches, and settees, has never been so since. The and teapoys, and spring.cushionbrother assured him that though ed chairs. Upon the circular Priscilla's heart was not set upon blackwood table, in the cen. the things of this world, she could tre of the room, you see not but be conscious that a union or two vascs, filled with Indian with a gentleman of my Uncle's flowers, som numbers of the active piety would afford her am Christian Times, the life of Marpler opportunities of doing good tyn, and Wilson's Lands of the than she enjoyed in her present Bible. •Miss Priscilla is seated condition. On this ground she on a sofa, bolt upright, her eyes might consent to change her downcast, and her countenance state. She could not promise-he 'waring an expression of seraphic did not promise-but if Mr. Bal resignation. Her brother, longderson's object in marrying was faced and dreary-looking, is postsolely and purely the promo ed beside her. My Uncle sits on tion of the Christian cause, he the extreme corner of a springthought he might indertake to cushioned chair, his mouth torsay it was probable that in the tured into a kind of half smile, course of a short time she would and a sunbeam playing upon the listen to his proposals. The shiny bald place on the top of meaning of this could not be mis his head. Pretty close to him taken. My Uncle fancied his there stands an evangelical Attorsiege to the heart of the gentle ney, with grave face and high saint would not be very protractshirt-collars Next to the Attored, and his notion on the subject ney, and leaning against the wall turned out correct. beside the sofa where Miss Pris- But alas! the old proverb of cilla is seated, you observe the the intermediate slip " 'twixt cup Rev. Mr. Ernest Hithard,-a and lip," proved applicable to the stoutish, niddle-aged Preacher, case of these antiquated lovers. celebrated for the vigour and The acidulated draught of hape energy of his discourses, and ja VOL, I. NO, X.

·691 My Uncle Ben's Courtships. particular for the potent manner “And I think," remarked Mr. in which he strikes the Bible with Hithard, in a loud, distinct, and his fists, in order, as it were, to emphatic tone, you were good drive home to the hearts of his cnough to hint, on one occasion, in hcarers the truths which he enun the course of your intercourse ciates. with our beloved sisterfor such And what, it will be asked, are indeed I may term her that you all these good folks about ? To could without difficulty obtain a borrow (if I may do so without cadetship for her youngest broprofanity) a sporting phrase, this ther, Zachariah ?" is “Settling day ;" the exciting “ Would it not be well to have race of love has been run; the that reduced to writing ?" whissplendid prize is secured; the par pered the evangelical Attorney. ties interested are in attendance ; “The interest upon the fifly and the " debts of honor" are thousand rupees in Company's now to be paid. The evangelical paper," said Mr. Grimley, “will Attorney is present on business. be drawn by my sister during your Mr. Ilithard is present as a " dearlifetime, and applicd by her to ly valued friend." Mr. Grimley is satisfy her own little wants, and present as a matter of duty. And to forward charitable and other as regards Mr. Balderson and Miss benevolent objects." Priscilla, what they are present My Uncle began to get a little for, may be left to the discern confused, but nodded bis head in ment of the intelligent reader. assent to the fraternal proposition. “With respect to the Life As " And you spoke," said Mr. surance," said my Uncle, blandly, Hithard, in his painfully distinct " there will not be the least diffi manner, 6 of a little cottage on culty about that : not the least, I your estate at Moorlands, in Esassure you. Forty thousand ru sex, which you would make over pces, I think you said ? The rent-free to the vencrable parent universal' is the best Ollice." of our beloved sister your fa- " And you will of course, my ther-in-law that is to be. He is dear sir," observed the evangeli- now eighty-five years of age, and cal Attorney, "get the papers will soon enter the mansions of connected with it signed and com the blessed." pleted before the wedding.' • Why, ,” stammercd Mr. Bak My Uncle started ; but reco derson, I don't think I have vered himself in a moment. Oh, no clcar recollection--that is, indeed," said bc ; ol yes, of I dare say I muy lave mentioned 19 course. this." And the money,” continued the professional gentleman, "will be left by Will for the sole benefit of-of-the lady ?" " Who will, I am sure," broke in Mr. (irimley,“ dispose of it in such a manner as to advance the best interests of religion." " Jlush !” murmurod Miss Priscilla. “Don't you remember, as we walked home from Chapel that evening?" said Miss Priscilla, quictly jogging her lover's mcmory. "I darf say it's all right," quoth my Uncle. " And you don't forget, my dear sir," observed the man of law, "that you are to pay the ·My Uncle Ben's Courtships. 695 passage of Dr. Abraham Grimley, No, sir," cricd Mr. Ilithard. Miss Priscilla's second brother, “ Truth above cvery thing. Mr. out to this country, in order that Balderson must admit that his he may establish himself in Bom. memory is in fault, before anybay as a medical practitioner ?" thing whatever can be conceded.'' "I do forget that," said my Un It is a true observation, that cle, boldly. however the heart of man may be The friends of the lady cx changed, it is a very difficult thing changed glances: it was cvident to alter his moral nature, Mr. they were going a little too far, Balderson was naturally obstinate, and that the eyes of the poor old or rather, pertinacious, and as he gentleman were becoming open began to sce the true character of ed to the indifferently-concealed his pious friends, he resolved worldliness of their proceedings. that on this point he would not • Ah," remarked the adroit yield. Attorney, “ these little matters " Pardon me, sir," he said, anay have easily escaped the genrising and confronting Mr. Hit tleman's recollection : when peohard, “ but I do not consider my ple are in love, the memory gerecollection to be at all in fault. nerally grows frail." And your remark about truth' “It is my opinion," said the seems to me to be positively iuimpetuous Mr. Jlithard, uncomsulting." promisingly, "that the gentleman can't have forgotten it.' “ Oh!” cried Miss Priscilla, “ do end this discussion. “Do not discuss the matter I beg, I implore of you. It distresses further, I beg," appealed Miss Priscilla. It wounds me. I shall have to retire." “I will discuss it," said Mr. Ilithard, “and I'll tell you why. “Do not suppose," said Mr. Because my duty demands my llithard loudly, " that I am to be doing so. I am never deaf' to the driten, cither by your opposition, call of duty. Emphatically I as or by the adinirable disinterestedsert-and I have not only Mr. ness of that dear young lady, that Grimley's, but Miss Priscilla's resigned saint, from the view of own word for it—that Mr. Bal the case I have adopted. I as. derson did offer to defray the exsert, and re-assert, and assert pense of Dr. Abraham Grimley's again, that you have convenicntly passage out to India.” And Mr. forgotten a solemn promise." Hithard advanced to the table, " I will not submit to your and struck it a heavy blow with language, sir," replied my Uncle, his clenched fist-a sure sign that sorely nettled. “ And if Mr. he was determined not to give Grimley does not request you to in. leave the room, I shall at once “Let the point be conceded," take my departure." was the calm advice of the Evan The old gentleman seemed to gelical Attorney, who observed be slipping through the fingers my Uncle fidgetting on his chair, of the Grinleys. The brother while the corners of his mouth in groaned in spirit. Miss Priscilla dicated the progress of a inental mentally saw her bridegroont-elect struggle. • melting away in å dissolving view, me. >> ·696 My Uncle Ben's Courtships. The evangelical Attorney trem mercenary set !" rushed madly bled for a heap of remunerating out of the room. business which he feared would IIorror instantaneously overbe lost to him. A general effort, spread every countenance ; but therefore, was made to restrain whether it was horror at the oath, the impetuous Hithard ; and the and the fearful depravity it manitwo had nearly succceded, by fested, or horror at the impendtheir united expostulations, in si ing loss of the wealthy husband lencing that reverend gentleman, Miss Priscilla had 80 nearly when my Uncle rose, took his hat, caught, I have no satisfactory and crying, “ You are a dd means of determining. CHAPTER THE LAST. ness. The Grimlcys did not resign all her youth, beauty, and good. their prize without a struggle. A third adopted a concili. They waited twenty-fonr hours atory tone, and calling himself to give my Uncle the opportunity my Uncle's sincere friend, bcof a spontaneous return to reason ; sought him, for his own sake, to and then, finding that he was re repair, before it was too late, the solute in his determination to injustice which his good sense break off the projected alliance, must tell liim he had committed. they sent successive deputations, But all was of no avail. Mr. clerical and lay, to endeavour to Balderson remained unmoved. awaken the old gentleman to a He asseverater that the Grimleys sense of his grievous wrong-doing. had formed a "plot" against him, When the deputations came, Mr. and wished to secure him merely Balderson received them with ci for his money ; and I believe he vility, heard what they had to continued, to his dying day, to say, and told his own story in entertain this view of the case, reply. Some of them were sur notwithstanding the cfforts that prised ; some shocked ; and some were made to persuade him that listened to his tale with evident it was a complete delusion. incredulity. One elderly person, Finding expostulation useless, a highly respectable elder, or the evangelical Attorney intimatdeacon, or some other kind of ed to my Uncle, without much Church dignitary, shed tears circumlocution, that by the course which he did not affect to conccal, he had pursued, he had rendered and told my Uncle lugubriously, himself liable to an action for over his white pocket handker " breach of promise.” Mr. Balchief, that he feared his heart was derson, he said, of course knew not right, and that a little prayer his own affairs best, but he could and repentance would do him tell him, as a professional man, good. Another waxed piously that this was just a case in which indignant in behalf of Miss Pris the court would unquestionably cilla, and declared that nothing give very heavy damages. Letbut the strong religious convic ters had passed between him and tions of that injured saint could the lady. Conversations had been possibly save her from expiring overheard. overheard. It was notorious that prematurely of a broken heart, in a marriage was contemplated.

·My Uncle Ben's Courtships. 697 as were He was a merce- Even he (the evangelical Attor a trusting piety, mingled with a ney) had been called in profes sweet melancholy. sionally to give advice about the Many years have elapsed since settlements. Never was there a my Uncle's third courtship, and, clearer case. And then it might to the best of my knowledge, he be proved that Miss Grimley never afterwards addressed any had suffered intensely--very in lady, young or middle-aged, in tensely indeed-from his cruel the language of love. Without desertion of her. Possibly Mr. being soured by his disappoint- Grimley might be averse, consi ments, lic secmed to be rendered dering his position, to resort to more grave and taciturn by them; a Court of Law for the redress of and though he dropped the acthe injury his sister had sustaine quaintance of such of his friends ed; but of this he (the man of "pious overmuch," he law) was by no means certain continued to give useful counteand as a friend, he would counsel nance and substantial aid to nu- Mr. Balderson, to beware, for merous local charitics, so that the without doubt the subject had Grimley coterie were deprived of been talked of by the icverend the consolation they might have gentleman. drawn from a well-founded charge My Unclc shook his head. They of "backsliding' against him. That he fell one morning a might do their worst. convinced they were tremor of emotion when an injildicious friend informed him abnary set, and he would have nothing to do with tlæm. Mr. Balruptly of the marriage of Dr. derson, remarked the evangelical O'Flummery, of H. M. --, io Attorney, might not be aware Mrs. Walsingham Spread, relict of that the opinion of two eminent the late Major Walsingham Spread, members of the Bombay Bar had of His Highness thc Nizam's been taken, and that they con- . Service, I believe is a well-ascercurred in considering the case a tained fact; but the feeling could very clear one. only have been of a transient nature, for he was observed to take My Uncle said he did not care his breakfast as usual, and evinced a straw for the whole of the Bomlively symptoms of satisfaction bay lawyers put together--Barwhen the same friend, not long risters, Attornies, and all. afterwards, mentioned a report This awful recklessness led the that his old acquaintance, Lieut. evangelical gentleman to question Patter, was about to be made an my Uitle's sanity, and caused A. D. C. to the new Commandhim to take a rather hasty depar- er-in-Chief. ture,-nover, I believe, to return. All the world knows that Mr. The Grimleys did not bring Adolphus Polish is now their action. Miss Priscilla did of Notwithstanding his not die of a broken heart. In advance in years, and the great deed, I understand the lives to elevation he has obtained, he still this day, and has recently put exhibits a good deal of the dandy, forth a pretty little volume, en in manners as well as appearance; titled "The Vale of 'Tears," which and there are, I regret to add, critics declare to be pervaded by some villainous rumours abroad, ·698 My Uncle Ben's Courtships. sons. to the effect that Mrs. Polish is be led to the hymcneal altar by a "dreadfully extravagant," and fat little bald gentleman with a that the course of matrimony, in squint, who had been an eminent the case of this elegant couple, tallow-chandler, and from a union has not run any smoother than with whom, in her palmy Indian that of the love which link days, she would undoubtedly ed their hearts together. have shrunk with horror, had any Poor Grubbins is dead. If lie body had the temerity to propose had only had Debt to contend it. The reader will oblige me with, he might have equalled, or by pitying Angelica. She once surpassed, Methusclah in longe (as he will remember) bestowed vity, for never did a man cxhibit her compassion upon myself and greater heroism and intrepidity in Arabella; and I wish, in comthe combat with pccuniary diffi mon justice, to return the comculties, But unhappily he was pliment. one day arrested by sickness, and My Uncle Ben has retired from found the prescriptions of the the service, and low lives on his Doctors more potent than the estato at Moorlands, surrounded processes of the Supreme Court. by all the comforts, and many of After a few hours' illness, he gave the luxuries, of lifc. He has his up the ghost, and was consigned to chutnecs, and curries, and pilaus, the narrowest of all carthly pri just as regularly as though he When his widow cac to were in India, and his usual beexamine his papers, she discover verage (for he has given up teetoa bulky Will, full of innumerable talism) is Bass's Pale Ale, which bequests, but as the Major's assets le says he shall drink till he dies. bore about the same proportion Every day, after dinner, an elderto his debts as a molehill to Mount ly servant ont of livery, whom he Blanc, the legatees of course got calls his " boy," brings him a nothing. I fancy that Grubbins silver-mounted hookah, which he must have been iinpressed wich' pulls for about three minutes, the conviction that some day or when he falls into a pleasant nap, other that tide niust come in his allowing the "snake" to slip out affairs, of his mouth to the ground, which “ Which, taken at the flood, leads on to serves as a signal to the “ boy" fortune," to take the hookah away again. and fearing lest prosperity might At first, he was unfortunate with so dazzle him as to inake him his housc-keepers, the old one's neglect his duty, determined to teasing and tormenting him, and avert this calamitous result by the young ones trying to attract making his last Testament in the his attention with matrimonial days of his adversity, when his views; but he has now obtained property was entirely visionary, the services of a respectable mid- After his death, Mrs. Grubbins dle-aged person, who seems to went home, taking Angelica with take great care of him, and to and I am informed that suit him renarkably well. they were last heard of, living I am now a Brevet Major; and in very poor style somewhere in as it is pretty well known that I the neighbourhood of Brompton, shall succeed to my Uncle Ben's and that Angelica was about to froperty on his death, of course her ;

·The Widower's Lament. 699 I have a most extensive circle of the last overland mail brought friends. Arabella is no longer mc from old Mr. Balderson, to girlish; and though I vow she has take my furlough at the same not a particle of pride about her, time, and spend couple of years there is sometimes a quiet dignity with him at Moorlands. in her demeanour, which scens “Now do go; there's a dear, to say that, having out-lived the contempt of society, she can apdear Ned," says my little wife, in her old irresistible way. preciate, at precisely its correct won't refuse me?" value, the respect that society now scems inclined to pay her. “Well," I reply, after a few We have two fine boys, who are minutes' grave reflection, “I shortly going home to be educat-. think I will go. We'll settle it all ed ; and Arabella is at this monext weck." ment sitting beside mc, coaxing So we shall soon be “ Homeme to accept an invitation which ward bound." " You THE WIDOWER'S "LAMENT." In the most early morn I rise froin a damp pillow tempest-tost, To seek the sun with silent gaze forlorn, And weep for thee, my lost-Mary. For best I think of thee, Beside the duskest shades, or brightest sun, Whose mystic lot in life it was to be Out-smiled, out-wept by nond-Mary. And so my heart's despair Looks for thee ere the firstling smoke bath curled, Whilst the wra;t earth is at her morning prayer, Before she patieth on her work-day air, And robes her for the world-Mary, Thou morn that knew no eve In beauty as in beauty thou art gone, In widowhood renewed I learn to grieve, Whilst thou dost still shine on n-MARY. In beauty thou art gone, As sone bright meteor glcams athwart the night, Gazed on by all, but understood by none And dying from its own cacess of light-Many. M.

·[ 700 ] FEMALE EDUCATION IN N. W. INDIA. many able It has been constantly cast as An acquaintance with the hisa reproach against the rulers of tory of the nations of antiquity India, that with vast resources, teaches us the general principles and efficient means to work with, which promote or retard civilizain the course of upwards of a cen tion, and fro:n thence we are ena. tury, they have effected little or bled to form deductions and conno progress towards rescuing clusions regarding the present state the country under their dominion of Indian civilization, and the from the state of ignorance and prospect of its advancement tosemi-barbarism, in which they wards a state of moral and intelreceived it from the hands of the lectual cultivation. Mogul Emperors. How far the The chief obstacle which prereproach may be true we will not sents itself to the labors of a Reundertake to say ; nor would we former, is the present lamentstrive to defend our honorable able state of Female degradation, rulers, and assert that they have which, common to all countries, made the utmost progress in their who have not emerged from the power. dark era of primitive barbarism, But amongst the is, in India, rendered peculiarly men who have expatriated them durable and invincible by the selves for a time, in search of habits and feelings of a people, fame or wealth, there have been who measure every apparent or not a few who have turned their remote improvement by the standattention to the subject of Indian ard of ancestral custom, and recivilization, and enquired into the ject whatever does not strictly causes, which obstruct the pro accord with the rule of their foregress of this country towards mural fathers. improvement and enlightenment. • Experience has shewn that the Many noble efforts have been savagest nations of the earth hold made, and partially blessed with the most tyrannical sway over the Education of Hindoo female sex,-regarding woman as youths has been advocated, fried, the mere instruments of gratifidaand found to answer. Numerous tion, or means of propagating the instances of individual labor might human species, and condemnilig. be produced, and the success her to perform the nost menial which attended their cndcavours offices. Considered little better proclaimed. But whether single than a brute, and in many instanor united, all the zcal and energy ces treated with less regard than which have been displayed by the a favorite animal, she is the slave most philanthropic of our follow to the will of a capricious lord, and countrymen, have failed to pro we are shocked with the tales of duce in India the same results misery sad shame which the which would have attended the brutal superiority of man has inlabor of the same men in the West. flicted on the fair daughters of Eve. The causes of this it is not difficult Without rights, and presumed to to ascertain. ube utterly destitute of feeling, the success.

·Female Education in N. W. India. 701 . women of the barbarous nations with the fearful degradation of a of old were bought and sold as sex, who, in the opinion of the houschold stuflº; the lrighest and followers of Islam, are possessed happiest condition they could of no souls. From their Mahoinhope to attain was that of a mild medan conquerors, the natives of servitude, and even in the palmy Ilindoostan tou readily lcarned days of the Roman Republic, the and adopted a custom which achusband possessed absolute con corded so well with their prejutrol over his wife, and exercised dices, and following the example the judgment of life and death, of the Mussulman despots, they which might be inflicted on the hastened to immure their females most trivial suspicion of infidelity,' in Zenanas, and thus, by the inor even of intoxication. lervention of walls, to shut them But as a nation advances in civi out from the gaze of the world. lization, the condition of woman It is true that out of necessity, becomes gradually amcliorated by and the force of habit, has arisen the refinements of social life. an opinion amongst the fair ladies We see her exalted and respected, of higher rank, that appearance till, by degrees, we find her not on in public is inconsistent with their ly placed on a level with man shar dignity, and that the intervention ing his glory and his rank: but, of the veil is requisite to preserve as in our own country, we have their beauty from the unhallowed the bright spectacle of a Queen gaze of an admiring multitude. accounted worthy to hold the But it is curious to observe the sceptre over millions of men, and utter futility of the schemes, and receiving from them the grateful the impotence of the men who homage due to a sovereign, and would boast themselves all powerthe love and respect paid to the ful. Ilolding woman in the superior virtues of a woman. anost abject contempt, allotting We might take the converse of to her the most servile functions, the proposition as equally true,". they are nevertheless the slaves and say, from experier:ce of the of the sex they despise ; and the past, that until the weaker sex influence of a designing larcm is, honored and raised towards a has, not unfrequently, decided level with man, civilization can the late of a kingdom. find no genial soil in which to It is needless to detail the ake root and flourish. The two thousand precautions adopted by go hand-in-hand, the one paving a sensitive people to guard themthe way for, and in turn being selves from the effects of their assisted by, the other, and in the own short-sightedness. Every progressive stæges of social re expedient that frantic jcalousy finement we may observe the pro could suggest was resorted to, portionate advance in civilization. but to no purpose. Bolts and bars, The tyranny of the Oriental walls and the most stringent laws, nations their wives has were in vain opposed to the danpassed into a proverb, and the gerous curiosity, or more culpable tales of despotic cruelty and op love of a wanton beauty. They pression which have horrified, beard not, or heard unheeding, the though they have not surprised, voice of reason, which dictated our ears, have made us acquainted that the strongest bars to Female over VOL. 1.NO. X.

·702 Female Education in N. W. India. virtue are conjugal love, and that involve on the enlightened tranthe enfranchisement and enno gressor ex-communication froin blement of woman is but the the society of his brethren. We prelude to the exaltation of the believe that the patriotic indivination. duals, who have come forward to The question then at present, the aid of Mr. Bethune in carrsand the object of this paper, is to ing out his scheme, are actuated discover whether the time has by the highest motives of beneyet arrived, whether the people volence and charity towards their arc sufficiently advanced to defellow countrymen. But the sire or appreciate the enfranchise inhabitants of Calcutta arc half ment of females, and to consider English. The more wealthy and the means by which it nay be respectable Baboos read, write, effected, as well as the causes and converse in English, and which would retard its progress. even in their own private trans- The successful experiment of actions, they adopt the more establishing a female school in copious language of the English, Calcutta, through the indefati in preference to their own ineagre gablecxertions of the Legal Mem and bastard dialect. Their conber of Council, would appear to stant intercourse with foreigners, answer the question as to the and a thorough acquaintance with present being a fit time for tak British manners and customs, has ing this important step. But forced enlightenment upon them, without any intention of speaking and placed t).em in a more addisparagingly of Mr. Bethune's vanced position than their breschool-on the contrary, we wislı thren of the North Western Proit every success, and are most vinces. anxious to see the praise worthy It is now some time since example set by him more one Colleges and Schools were estab. rally followed throughout Bengal; lished at Benares, Agra, Delhi, yet it must be remembrred that. 'and other places, for the educathe zcal of a Calcutta community tion of Indian youths, numbers cannot be taken as the index of of whom are yearly sent forth the feelings of the Indian Public, into the world, well educated in The establishment of a schcol in their own, and many in the Calcutta would afford no prima English language, but all made facie facility for the foundation of acquainted through the medium a similar institution at Allahabad of one or the other, qwith the or Agra. Far be it from us to principles of history and the liattribute to tbe natives of Calcut beral sciences. The numbers of ta the unworthy motives, which such men increase yearly, and have been hinted at hy some of even now they form a very imthe public papers, as the stimulus portant body in estimating the to this novel and hazardous ex probabilities and means of seperiment. Hazardous we call it, curing the success of the scheme for amongst a nation, where the under consideration. We cannot iron rule of custom has greater indulge ourselves in the happy weight than the strictest laws, thought that all who come from any deviatioh from the paths of these Seminaries are deep-thinkhis ancestors is almost sure to ing, sensible men, but arguing 1 ·Female Education in N. W. India. 708 resfrom the analogy of other coun taken for granted, that there are tries, and from the knowledge many who are of the same opiof the general character of the nion. natives of India, we may fairly We shall not be accused of inpresume, that the average of dulging in Utopian ideas, when tudents has been taught by the we predict that the introduction light of education to believe of railroads will give an iinpethat, when female virtue and tus to the genius of India, and the female character are will open so completely a new pected and exalted, the general era to the minds of the astonishtone of manners will assume a ed natives, that many of their higher aspect, and more refined long-cherished customs and darviews will be entertained. It is ling prejudices will vanish away true, that if the question be put, before the power of steam. The whether they do not think that rapid spread of commerce, and the such a reformation in their coun facilities of communication with try would be beneficial, the ma the remotest parts of India, will jority would evade the home all tend to awaken the dormant thrust by a reply that the females energies of the Hindoo. The apof the East are not constituted as plication of steam to locomotive those in the Western hemisphere, purposes was decidcdly produce and that it is contrary to custom tive of a revolution in the minds to perunit them to share the dig of the British, and it has been nity and freedom of their hus followed by numberless other imbands. We have conversed with portant discoveries, which have natives on this subject, with men been called into existence, who have not had the benefit hastened by the introduction of of a Government education, and steam. Allowing therefore for the they have acknowledged that the difference between the character education and enlightenment of, of the two nations, we may still, their females would be a blessed with reason, presume that the boon, but they have added, that march of intellect will be marked there is no native who could un and rapid. At such a time then, dertake this task of bringing about when their whole ideas are unsuch a revolution. He would be dergoing a thorough change, we expelled at once from the socicty have a favorable opportunity of his brethren. afforded for attempting one of the We have then a body of cdu most important of all changes-- cated men who are alive to the the amelioration of the female sex importance of the exaltation of of Hindoostan. the female sex. We have also a Thus then we have a body of the body of intelligent natives, who most intelligent Hindoos, ready are sensible that such a step, could to bail the introduction of a ineait be taken, would be attended sure, which they dare not be the with beneficial results, for we first to commence, and we have presume that in our random con arrived at an era in Indian Hisversations with one or two men, tory, when we may expect, withwe have not fallen in with the, out presuptption, that British only specimens of enlightened talent, and British Enterprise, Hindoos; and it may fairly be will produce a mighty intellecor ·704 Female Education in N. W. India. tual revolution in the minds of and liberality, and who are lookour Indian subjects. ed up to by the more respectable But the most perplexing ques- natives of the district. If theretion, and one which requires the fore they could be induced to greatest energy of thought, is how extend their benevolence further, to set about this important work and join in concert to persuade judiciously, and in a manner which the most influential of the na'ive is likely to ensure success, No gentry around them to enter into une is more sensitive of bis rights the project set before them, we and prejudices than the Hindoo. feel persuaded that there are To attack openly the faulty parts many who would comc forward of his system, and to ridicule or and set an example to their brecry down what he has been ac thren of patriotisin in endeavourcustomed to revere and uphold, ing to break through the film is the surest way to produce fai-. of ignorance and superstitious lure. Conciliation and persua darkness, which shuts thein out sion are the weapons to be used. from the glorious light of civil For this reason, it could not be a libcrty and social refinement. mcasure for Government to take We feel confident that such genup. Whatever the ruling power tlemen could be found ; and we advises, is considered as an order may go further and say, that in by the people, who have been the further development of the taught by their Mussulman des- system, there would not be wantpots that “to hear is to obey." ing truly noble-minded English- Wcre such a scheme taken in men, who would aid in the work hand by Government, the obse thus begun, and taking compasquious natives would render a sion on the benighted state of cold and heartless submission, their fellow-creatures, would enbut alarmed at the forcible intro: deavour, by imparting to them duction of a measure so repuy- the blessings of instruction, to nant to custom, they would only raise them from their present entrench themselves more firmly degraded condition. within their prejudices, and mak No innovation on the establishing it a point of national honor, ed habits ofany country can be inwould do their utinost to frustrate troduced easily, or without much the benevolont intentions of Go- opposition, and we do not for ond verninent. nioment underrate the difficulties It is only to the united and attendant on any attempt to carry continued excrtions of single in out the present scheme. We feel dividuals, working in unison as a convinced that the efforts of Gobody, and yet separately in their vernment would Yail; that the own sphere, that we can look for exertions of one individual would the successful introduction of this be lost; but we confoss ourselves revolution. sanguine, and we think reasonably There are, we are liappy to so, that the quiet, unostentatious, think, many Englishmen in alınost yet vigorous labour of a body every district of the N. W. Pro of English Christian gentlemen, vinces, who have reitilered them- , would be blessed with some effect. selves respected and beloved by Grcat results cannot be expected their frequent acts of kindness in a short time. It is only the .

·Female Education in N. W. India. 705 continual dropping of water that diced nation would not willingly takes effect upon the rock. Patient exalt a sex whom they despise, labour may for a time appear to and take the most favorable ex. be requited with little or no suc- ample of talent and learning from cess, but if the work be set about a woman. Again, as we have in a proper manner, by men who before mentioned, the custom of have really the good of their fel secluding their women was borlow-creatures at hcart, we arc rowed from their more powerful loath to believe, that the blessings conquerors, and we would fain from on High will be withheld believe that this retrograde movefrom a scheme which has for its ment in the march of intellect, object the amelioration of man was the result of a compulsory kind. or obsequious obedience to the Great will be the prejudices to mandates of the Moguls, rather be overcome; many and long will • than in accordance with the dicbe the disputes to be carried on; tates of their own reason. Be but let it be remembered that the cause what it may, it is not one native, gained over by the our purpose now to stop and enpersuasion of superior argument, quire ; it is sufficient to know is a far greater prize than a dozen that long used habit has fixed the who listlessly assent. If there fate of the Hindoo woman. But be evidently a strong feeling on even here it may be fairly urged the opposite side, and a pre-de that the custom of ages prepontermination not to be convinced, derates over the habits of a few any aitempt to persevere in ar hundred years, and they may be gument would be to produce induced to listen to the wisdom irritation. All that could be of their primitive ancestors. Then done then would be to retire again an appeal to the state of from the field for a time, in the Europe, and especially our owi hope that the progress made in country, would not be lost on other parts may gradually soften the mind of the intelligent linthe obstinacy, or overcome the doo. We might multiply arguscruples, of the more prejudiced. ments, but it is needless to do so. There are few however of this To those who are really interestkind, and it would generally be ed in the subject, and would be found that a spirit of enquiry willing to take part in suih a prevails, and that the natives work as the present, argun ents would be very ready to listen would plentifully suggest tl.emto, and in most cases approve selves, of, the arguments adduced. And It is with diffidence that we these arguments, let it be borne venture to offer these remarks to in mind, are neither few nor the public, knowing that other weak. From their own books, and more gifted minds could we are told that a womun, Liláva-. place the subject in a more forci. ti, was skilled in mathematical and ble and convincing light. We other science; and even suppos- pretend to no power of cloquence, ing that she was an ideal person no superiority of talept ; nough! age, yet this is but an additional; but the conviction that somely strony link in the chain of ar thing ought to be done for the gument, for a zealous and preju- amelioration of Indian females ·706 Female Education in N. W. India, . has induced us to offer these minded and enquiring, but bigotcrude suggestions. But having ed Brahmin should not be offendtaken upon ourselves to speak, ed, by having to imbibe, with we would proceed to specify our every page of historical learning, views on the practicability of a proportionate quantity of the schools for girls. Supposing that doctrines of Christ. However we were successful in overcoming much we may deplore the deprathe prejudices of the people, we vity and ignorance which prefers are at present inclined to doubt the gross worship of Siva and the success of schools in general, Vishnu to the pure and heavenlysuch as is established by Mr. minded precepts of our Saviour, Bethune in Calcutta. It is a yet we cannot but applaud the great point to get a native to al sincerity and attachment to the low his daughter to be educated religion of his Father, which at all, and to abandon her to the makes the Flindoo refuse to recharge of a mistress in an estab ceive instruction at all, if it is to be lishment away from her home, bought at the expense of the corand exposed, he knows not to ruption of his faith. How far wiswhat dangers, is a great trial to a er is it to endeavour to disseminate native's faith in our system, and as widely as possible the principerhaps a greater one than he ples of morality, equity, and libecould bear. Other means might rality, thus ploughing up the hard be devised of communicating in land of ignorance and superstistruction, and it would be time tion, and preparing a rich soil enough to discuss the details of a for the reception of the seed to system, when the period arrived be scattered by the sowers of the for its being put into operation. Word of Life. If then, it were It has been the policy of our wise in our Rulers to abstain Indian (overnment to recognise' from offering, in a Christian garb, no religion as paramount, but to the cducation which the Indian grant to all faiths the utmost to- 'youths were so anxious to obtain, leration consistent with good go how much more necessary would vernment. For this reason, in it be for religion to be excluded our schools and colleges the doc at first from the course of ins trines of Christianity are not forc struction to be offered to the naed upon the Hindoo ; nor is the tive women. A surer method of Mussulman required to acquaint frustrating altogether the endcahimself with the religion of Brah vour sof the philanthropist could This policy has called forth not bc devised, than by informthe utmost censure and the high ing the Hinduo that his wife or est praise from oppesite parties. his daughter was to be converted, For ourselves, though sincerely Rather let the gradual developanxious to see Christianity spread ment of intellect renove all obthrough the length and breadth stacles of superstitious reverence of Hindoostan, we cannot but for the idols of her father ; and appland the policy of the first In when education and an enlightendian Rulers, who, in order to gain cd-mind begin to shew her the the salutary point of the introduc grossness and insufficiency of the tion of education at all, determin religion in which she trusted, the ed that the scruples of the high seasonable voice of the Missionma.

·Female Education in N. W. India. 707 and as ary may be called in to shew the we think that whilst Missionaries only way in which she can find are labouring, much may be done true happiness-to point to the by others in preparing the way God in whom, whosocver con for them. Further enquiry may fdeth, shall never be ashamed. perhaps shew that our fears re- We are not painting an innagi. garding the native prejudices are nary or extravagant picture, when groundless or overwrought, and we represent a native as induced we should be the first to rejoice by the light of education, other that such was the case. than Christian, to throw aside To rouse attention, and prothe religion of his youth as absurd and insufficient. We believe it. voke enquiry, is our great object ; to be a fact that many are now in the greater the fermenthe condition of Deists, having tation the better the wine," so we feel that the wider and more gerenounced their paternal religion, • neral becomes the discussion, the and yet not willing to embrace more feasible and wiser will be Christianity. And it is to these the scheme eliminated. persons that we would desire the efforts of zealous Missionaries to Of those who take the trou. be directed to save them, if possi ble to read these pages, there may ble, from being shipwrecked with be some who are yet unawakened in sight of a shore, which it to the importance of the subject, requires but a few more strug and will cast aside with the gles to reach and le safc. book, all further thought of the We are aware that it may be matter. T'here may be others objected by some, and we feel the who find fault with the arguments, force of the argument ourselves, yet approve of the main features, that it is far better to give Chris and agree that something must tian education to one poor sinner, be done, yet do not assent to the than to impart merely general mode of carrying out the scheme. and moral information to ninety.. To such we would address ournine heathen persons. One soul selves, and bescech them to give saved is by many considered a their earnest attention to the subyıfficient recompense for a life ject. devise a better time of toil and labour, and the and a more practicable plan. We responsibility which we incur in do not profess ourselves preattempting to educate natives at judiced in favor of our opinions. all, compels us to use all our en Our object in writing this article deavours to diffuse amongst them is not to uphold a theory or to do the light of the Gospel. But it battle for a particular plan. We would be far from our wish to see would gladly abandon our plan no attempt made to spread Chris in favor of any other which pretianity. It is our earnest desire sented features more favorable for that the time may be hastened, success. Our desire is to encourwhen“ the whole earth shall be age enquiry, and we shall consifilled with the knowledge apd der that we have gained our end, glory of God," and we should de nay, surpassed our sanguine exprecate any plan which supplant- pectations, if the production of ed or interfered with the exer: this humble article be, the means tions of the Missionaries. But of arousing the minds of eur fel- Can you ·708 The Rivers, not year low-countrymon. All we ask is, tures, and whose daughters arc the that some attempt be made. Let nost graceful and accomplished after year roll on, and among women ; above all that find us sitting still in culpable Britons, whose just boast it has inactivity. Let it not become been that a slave never landed on the painful task of the future an their shores, for as soon as he nalist to record on the page of touched British ground, he was Indian History that a nation re free; that such a nation, endowed nowned throughout the world for with the highest gifts and largest glory and honor, who are bless possessions, should for upwards of ed with the highest arts and re a century have beheld in their finements of civilization, and who own territories, with listless apapossess the fairest countries on the thy, and unmoved indignation, the face of the earth, whose sons rank most disgraceful of all kinds of themselves among the noblest and slavery—the slavery of degraded most intellectual of God's crca intellect ! THE RIVERS. . . . . . From the sire of waters, the boundless oopan, Ever the vapours and dews arise, On they throng with ceaseless motion, Wherc mountain suinmits adore the skies. There, in the cherishing breast of earth, They gather and gether, until at last, As rivulet's fountains, they spring to birth, And in youthful energy,"fierce and fast, Leap down the rocks like flashes of light, In glancing cascades and foam bells bright. Then in mid course... Calm and profound, Flow they through the busy plains, Fertilizing all around, Bearing traffic to far domains, And at last...... With speed abated, Float they into ocean's brcast. There, whence first they emanated, Finding everlasting rest- Wisely named are the rivers then, Emblems of the souls of men. K.

·[709] MR. MARTIN SHUTTLECOCK'S ADVENTURES OF A JOURNEY HOME" VIA TRIESTE. R E L A T E D BY HIMSELF. Bet Prag ist eine Bombe geplatzt,' Potz Wetter! Wie sind wir da aus gekratzt, Und wie der Feind kam angerückt, Da haben wir uns in's Gras geduckt." There, at Prague, burst a dreadful bomb.' Potz Wetter, how ran we there all and some! And as the foe care galloping fast, We hid in the grass till they were past. KRAD WINKLER LANDBTURM, A German Student Sung. The route via Trieste is one, manteau, and two carpet bags, which presents utany inducements well stamped upon by several to the traveller returning from strong men, containing apparel, India. The celerity with which &c., and a few Oriental curiosi. the journey can now be accom ties for friends, with a hat box plished; the facility with which the made to serve on the emergency entire continent of Europe can as a portable dressing case, as now be traversed, will no doubt, a well as its nore legitimate purshort time hence, when the means pose, a receptacle for one of of transit, the advantages of cheap Christie's best," formed all my ness and quickness in locomotion innpedimenta. become more generally known, Thus lightly encumbered I bore render it the most popular, and philosophically the din, confusion, the one most generally adopted. heat and smoke on board the However, in the year 1848, . Steamers ; the rattling, jolting, when urgent private affairs' smashing, and crashing through necessitated iny return to Eu-, the descrt; the pulling, hauling, rope, after a short period of ser scrambling, and shouting at the vice in India, the Trieste route different ports, experienced by was still untravelled by the ma every one who has journeyed ny. The energetic Waghorn had Ovetland, and on the desagremens shewn the way, but few had fol of which I need not dwell. lowed him. Fortunately escaping the de- I having made the grand tention sometimes caused by betour" in my youth, and scraped ing kept " En Quarantine" at a slight acquaintance with Ger- Trieste, I pushed on at once, man gutturals, boldly determined passed through Vienna without on choosing the short cut, confi- stopping, as I had, during a former dent that my knowledge of " Ya visit, perambulated the Prata and Wohl," and other short, but ex Volks Garten, and viewed all the pressive sentences, would ensure sights in the residence of the Ausmy comfort and safety through- trian Kaisers, and on the evening ont the various German domains, of the of June 1848, I arrivand my speedy arrival at my ed safely am Prague, the scene of destination--" Home." A porte A port! my first adventure. VOL. I. -NO, X, ·710 Mr. Marlin Shuttlecock's Adventures. do you 11 may be. T'he old lumbering Diligence, "Army!-siege !-to-morrow! rattling through ill-paved streets, Donnerwetter ! what turning sharply round corners, mean ?" said I, staring at the miswith the usual accompaniment of creant Kellner, like one possessed. "Hilli, Hôla," crick, crack, crack, With a quiet grin, as if he crick, froni the postillion and his seemed to enjoy it, the disturber whip, at length rumbled through of my peace of mind and supper an arched gateway into the court went on. yard of the Gasthof “ Die drei " 20,000 troops, horse, foot, Linden." and artillery, under the Herr Ge- A preliminary flourish on the neral Windischgratz, are said to post-horn had brought out “der be about 20 or 30 miles from the Herr Wirth" and his satellites. "city; they are to make a night Supper was instantly ordered. march, and begin the bombard- In a short time a superb hare, ment in the morning." roasted to a turn, lay extended be I am not naturally of a timid fore me, flanked by a variety of or nervous disposition, but I leave minor dishes, the odours of which, it to any one, if a sudden anon the covers being removed, ti nouncement of this kind is not tillated my olfactory nerves, and sufficient to take away one's made ine fall to with a hearty gusto for supper, however hungood will. My appetite, however, gry, and disturb one's sang froid, required but little stimulus, this however cool and collected one being the first meal I had sat down to in comfort for a long time. My knife and fork were drop- A. bottle of Rüdesheimer, of the ped, the hare escaped almost unvintage of '34, and a Krug of scathed; the preserved cucunbaierisches Bier stood at my el bers and pickled cherries Perceiving the Kellner, mained untouched ; and nearly with his long white napkin under, the whole bottle of Rüdeslicimer his arm, fidgetting about behind must subsequently have gone my chair, I had just made up . down the throat of that grinning my mind to send him away on rascal, the Kellner, who, I'm posome crrand or another, in order sitive, had so unseasonably disto enjoy the repast more at mine turbed me on purpose. tasc, when he accosted me with I sent a polite m " What does mein Herr intend master of the house. doing to-morrow? Does he in He corroborated the waiter's tend remaining here ?" Think statement, and shrugging his ing his questions rather flippant shoulders, added and premature, and a decided in “ Der Herr need be under no terruption of the important busi apprehension, the city will be beness before me, I was about to sieged to-morrow, will hold out order him to leave the room un as long as it can, but what can conditionally, when he continued : we do? We'll have to capitu- " Ya mein llerr, an army is late in the end, and then in full march upon Prague, and Ah! such glorious suppers, the siege, it is asserted, will music, dancing : thone Auscommence « to-morrow morning trian officers are such jolly fellows, early !" and drink lots of Rhenish after a rebow. ge to the ·Mr. Martin Shuttlecock's Adventures. 711 little fun of that kind. Der Herr " jubilate," with the gayest lark will like to stay and see it ?" of them all, at being free, and I replied most decidedly in the whirling at a rapid rate through negative, and required informa. the fresh inorning air. tion as to how and when I could But, alas ! my congratulations procced on my journey. were premature. The sun had All public conveyances were fairly risen, and its rays slanted stopped, but mine host, after en here and there athwart the glades deavouring to dissuade me from of the magnificent fine forest going, proinised to procure me a through which I was passing, private vehicle to be in attendance when, casting my eye down the at early dawn, ere the “ fun," as road we were proceeding, I behe called it, should commence.' held, to my dismay, a body of CA- Comforted by this assurance, I be valry approaching, their glistentook iyself to the chamber allot ing helmets and cuirasscs, their ted to me for repose, but for a long mantles floating in the breeze, long time coaxed in vain the leading me to conjecture, that they slumber I stood in necd of. At were the very troops I was flylength fatigue overcame excite ing from. In their rear, a column ment, and I dropped off into a of infantry debouched from an doze. My slumbers, however, angle of the road, and their white were disturbed by visions of hi uniforms put the matter beyond a deons waiters, fierce-looking Aus doubt. The small body of horsetrians, sicye trains, &c., and when men in a short time met with and suddenly awakened by a loud surrounded my humble equipage. noise, I, in my dreamy half-a It was, in truth, the vanguard of sleep state, thought it a mine the Austrian army, under prince which had been exploded. To Windischgratz, marching upon my unbounded satisfaction, it Prague. The leader of the party turned out to he a man shaking interrogated me; whether my anniy room-door violently, (I hav swers were satisfactory I know ing taken the precaution of bolt, not, but he peremptorily, although ing it) to announce to me that the with great politeness, ordered carriage destined to convey me to return whence I came. from the doomed city.was in wait This was remarkably unpleaing. sand but needs must, &c., so Joyful tidings these were, and back I turned, having made up but a short time elapsed before I my mind to put up again with my found myself rolling through the worthy host of "Die drei Linstreets, and out of the gates of den," and follow events. Arrived Prague, unhindered and unques before the old regal city again, I tioned, rejoicing in the innermost found the aspect of affairs changrecesses of my heart, at having ed. The gates closed, the batescaped detention, and all the hor tlements, such as they were, rors of a siege. crowded with the fat Burgers, The day was just breaking, and looking fierce and determined to when the first streak of gilded conquer or dic in the good cause. light, along the eastern horizon, I demanded admittance in the announced the rising of the sun, mildest manner possible, and was I could have carolled forth * sternly refused it. Here was a me ·712 Mr. Martin Shuttlecock's Adventures. serve. me with a on pretty predicament. I begged a spy! You have no passport and entreated, nay, I even offer signed by the Prince, and none ed to fight on their side, if they other will The sooner would only let me in. But no. you get back, and housed in the All my prayers and entreaties, city, the better." my disinterested offers of siding Upon this, he ordered my carwith them, were not listened to. riage to be turned round, and At length a bribe, which I ven my coachman to take himself off, tured to tender to the warlike and make haste about it. individual, parleying with Of course, no entry was to be through the wicket, caused the effected into Prague. How was same to be banged in my face, it possible to make phlegmatic “ Nein ! Nein! Hier individuals like thesc, whether kommt man nicht herein.!" Austrian Curassiers or Bohemian Enraged at this unceremonibus inilitia-men, listen to reason ? treatment, I made up my mind at The more rgent I became in once, as they had spurned my my entreaties to ve admitted, the offers, to return to the invading mure unpolite and obdurate bearıny, and volunteer their came the Landwehr-soldat. He side, trusting to meet my friend even went the lengths of suspectat the gate, as a conqueror instead ing me to be despatched from the of a suppliant, at some subsequent enemy's camp, and of having period of the day. Accordingly, treacherous designs! lle threatwith liberal promises of Trink cned to fire at me, if I did not Geld, I persuaded my Kutscher make myself scarce. My despair to whip his horses into a gallop now at its height. To be away from the city again. We shot, if I persisted in wishing to shortly met with the advanced enter Prague ; to be hung as a videttes of the Austrians. I told spy if I returned to the Austrian my story to the Officer Com army; and if I did not remove manding, and begged he would myself speedily from my present have me conveyed into the pre- position, to be right in the line of sence of the General in Chiei, at fire both from besieged and bethe same time mentioning my siegers. As a last resource, I desire to become a volunteer for begged to „sec the Officer in the day on their side. But any charge of the guard at the Gate. arguments and prayers were of as This request was granted, and little avail here as they had been through his intervention the carat the City Gate. The Cuirassier riage, coachman and horses, which said " Der Herr Feldmarshall were recognised as the property Prinz Windischgratz, is many of a good citizen of Prague, were miles in rear, and I cannot let you permitted entrance, though not till pass ; moreover, wert I to take all my baggage had been ranupon myself to consider yours an sacked, all my little comforts tossextraordinary case, and allow you ed out of my. inestimable hat-box, to do so, the chances are you all the cushions of the carriage would fall in with some of the ripped open, and carefully exirregular troops; they would plun- amined, and even the driver's der you in the twinkling of an pockets turned inside out, and eye, and ten to one hang you as boots pulled off, to sce whether was ·Mr. Martin Shuttlecock's Adventures. 713 soon they contained any treasonable de-Camp and Adjutants flying papers, although I used all the hither and thither, and could even eloquence in German I was mas distinguish old Windischgratz ter of, after this concession, yet it himself, surrounded by his Staff. proved of none effect; I could not The artillery were drawn up in gain my point-permission to en front within range, and ere long, ter. I had but one alternative the first gun echoed and releft; to make good my retreat out echocd through the amphitheatre of the line of fire, while yet there of hills. The cannonade once was time. commenced, gun after gun boom- Prague lies on both banks of ed in rapid succession, and hurlthe Moldau, in a narrow valley, ed their iron messengers into which is shut in by eminences, on the doomed city. A dense cloud the sides of which a great part of of smoke and dust hid the city is built. On the left every thing from my view, and bank of the Moldau the two hills, it was only the cessation in the called the Laurtnzberg and the roar of Artillery which announced Schlossberg, form a semi-circle, to me that Windischgratz had enclosing a valley, in which the delivered his messages effectuquarter called the Kleinscite (or ally, and that Prague had surrenlittle Prague) is built. It was dered. on to these eminences overlooking Many long hours had been the old city that I betook myself thus spent by me, listening to with hasty strides, and arrived the din of battle, without any there, threw myself panting and thing to eat or drink, and hungry breathless on the turf. Had it and thirsty as I was, I gladly not been for my anxiety to promade my way down the hill togress in my journey, (I was go wards the city, in company with ing home to be married,) and the ill temper brought on consequent . ed on the heights, hoping to be many others, who had congregatto this delay, I should have enjoynow admitted. ed the view before me greatly. There lay Prague, in size and Nor was I disappointed ; the beauty the third city in Germany, gates were wide open, and the with the lofty steeples of its nustreets swarmed with people of merous Churches and its fine pa all kinds, Austrian soldiers, Jews, Jaces, producing a very striking Bohemian peasants, and good effect. The eight gates of the citizens of Prague, all apparently old royal city all closed and on the best terms possible. No manned"; the fortifications with one stopped or hindered me in my which it is surrounded bristling progress to my former hotel, with bayonets. where I hoped to find my bag- In the valley below was the Aus gage. trian Army deploying, the brass On arriving therc, I found of the various Regimental bands, the landlord's predictions fulfilled. faintly audible, on the heights Austrians of all grades, and all where I reclined. My annoyance branches of the service, were gradually wore away, and I looked there carousing to their heart's upon the scene with thrilling in content, and emptying the jolly terest. I could discern the Aides man's bottles of Rhenish and ·714 I think of Thee. Steinwein as fast as he could sup- sleeping off their fatigue, and the ply them. Amongst them I met consequences of their victory, I my cuirassier friend of the morn found myself steaming down the ing, who slapped me heartily on Elbe, en route to Dresden. the back, and insisted on drinking Steam by water and steam by glasses with me in token of good land brought me, in the course of fellowship. My only wish was to a very few days, to Cologne, at escape from all this, and my host's which place I was destined to services proved more successful meet with another little adventhis time, for just as day broke ture, which very nearly proved next morning, whilst my friends, fatal than my first at the white-coated gentry, were still Prague. more I THINK OF THEE. I THINK of thee, where'er I rove, In every flower thy beauty see, By rivulet and shudy grove, Where violets bloon I think of thec. I think of thee, when morning's light" Throws its effulgence o'cr the sea; And when the stars with lustre bright Pierce through the gloom-I think of thee. I think of thee, when daylight fades, And darkness coverg,lawn and lea; When deeper grow the lengthen'd shades, And falls night's veil-I think of thee. And when I sit all sad and lone,' And dwell on days past joyously, Of hours and years for ever gone, Then memory bids me think of thee. I think of thee before I rest, When deep in prayer, on bended knee, I ask that thy name may be blest, And lay me down to think of thee. G.

·[ 715 ] ORIGIN AND PRESENT STATE OF THE "CONTINGENT FORCES" OF THE SEVERAL NATIVE GOVERNMENTS. 7TH.-BARODA. war. It was stipulated with the and money to the Dewan Wellul Gaekwar in 1817, that an effi Rao; but however this niay be, cient body of 3,000 cavalry was our residents at that Court have, to be maintained, to act with the never, since the Contingent was subsidiary force, whenever it formed, been able to exercise might be employed, subjcct to any authority, either to secure its the controul of the Officer com being placed on a better footmanding the British troops, to. ing, or for the attainment of be formed, paid, equipped, and any other useful purpose. In armed, in conformity with the a note, Mr. Malet, (then the advice and suggestion of the Bri Assistant to the Resident,) says, tish Government, but according the inefficiency of the Gaekwar to the customs of that of the Gaek Contingent having been for many years fruitlessly represented to This body of cavalry, under His Highness, Sir John Malcolin the superintendence of the late determined to take it from him, Resident, Mr. Williams, perform- and sequcstered sufficient revenue ed good service with divisions of to defray the charges; the Offiour troops, during the last Mah cers and men were promised serratta war, and was for a time vice and protection, if they chose stationed in the neighbourhood of to remain, and those who prefer- Mhow ; while Sir John Malcolm red were allowed to depart : about exercised Political and Military 1,500 remained, and a similar authority there ; but since itse number were recruited in a short return to Guzerat, it has, I think, time, making the full complement. been less useful in preserving the Superintending Officers were plactranquillity of that province, than cd over the three divisions, perhaps any body of cavalry of well as a Native Commandant to equal extent and similar organi- each, but, with these exceptions, zation in India. This may be no change whatever was made in traced to the spirit of opposition, the excessively faulty organizaif not of actual hostility, in which tion of this body; however, from the Gaekwar has, throughout the its entire dependance on our (rovwhole of that period, beon acting ernment, and the exertions of the towards us, arising chiefly from Superintending Officers, a better the measures which we adopted spirit was gradually arising, the to secure the payment of this, horses were becoming of a better body of cavalry; those adopted description, and the regularity of to secure the payment of the gua pay improved the men. The ranteed debt; and those adopt chief fault of this measure was its ed in reference to the guaran being temporary. Håd Sif John tee of certain allowances in land Malcolm resolutely enforced the as ·716 The “Contingent Forces" #1 cession of sufficient revenues for even a similar Contingent, he would have reformed the system entirely, and it could not have been restored. Lord Clare, by returning it to His Highness, gave a shock to our credit for integrity, ruined the whole of those men recruited by us, who had not had time to pay even for their horses and equipments, and made no stipulation with His Highness for those who had trusted to our promises consequence of which, those least obnoxious to His Highness had to pay hcavy nuzzeranas; and many whom he considered to have been in our confidence, or to have been guilty of quitting his service, were immediately dismissed. It is no wonder that such as these effectually destroyed the influence which we might expect to exercise over troops of this character in any after time. In restoring the districts which we had held for the pay of the troops, the Gaekwar lodged 10,00,000 of rupees in our treasury to be applied to this purpose, whenever his regular monthly payments should fail ; and agreed that any sum taken from this amount for this purpose should ve replaced at the carliest period. It was proposed about the time the assigned districts were restored, to give up our claims to one out of the three thousand cavalry, provided the Gaekwar would place the remainder on a footing on which they were sure to be more useful both to him and to us ; but the proposition was rejected--and the services of a fine body of cavalry are comparatively useless to eithcr State. ; in measures 8THI.NAGPORE. By the 11th and 12th Article manner pointed out by the latter of the Treaty of Nagpore, dated authority. When in the follow- 27th May 1816, that Govern ing year the State of Nagpore ment stipulated to maintain, at joined the Mahratta confederacy all times, in a state of efficiency, against us, these troops natuand fit for active service, a force rally remained faithful to their of not less than 3,000 cavalry, and own sovereign, and whatever 2,000 infantry, with their cuin pains we had taken, or authority plement of artillery. It was to exercised, to introduce into their attend to the advice and recom ranks a superior degree of dismendation of the Resident, on cipline and efficiency, necessaall points connected with the rily told against ourselves, as equipment of the force, the re must always be the case, when gularity and sufficiency of their the distribution of the pay of the pay, and the general discipline of troops, the promotion, and the the whole ; the force was, when reward for meritorious conduct deemed necessary, to be muster in the field, or in our own be. ed, inspected, or reviewed by the half, are not in the hands of our Resident, or the Commanding own Officers. Officer of the British subsidiary After the defeat of the Nagforce, and ton occasion of actual pore army, including our friends Bervice, to be employed in the of the Contingent, by the division ·Of the several Native Governments. 717 Own of the army of the Dekkan un hold as our own, it scems to have der the command of Brigadier been the first step in the retro- General Sir John Doveton, we grade progress, through which, in set to work in the right way, 18299, we transferred, or in other and organized under our words sold, this most eflicient and Officers, to be paid from the re highly disciplined force, to the venues of the Nagpore territory, a Nagpore Government, for a proforce consisting of four regiments mised payment of eight lakhs of of cavalry and five of infantry. rupees per annum, little more When the young Raja, and sucthan one-third of the sum which cessor of Appa Sahib, attained the Contingent force cost. This his majority in 1826, and the measure was highly censured by bulk of his territory was restorcel the Hoinc authorities, and instruc. to his management, we retained tions were given that no similar in our own hands a tract sufficimeasure, nor any reduction of ent for the pay of the Contingent, cither of the other Contingents, which had been organized under should be carried into effect with. British Officers, declaring, unfor out their authority. tunately, that when the Raja's In lieu of this force, which was successful manageincnt should quite sufficient to maintain our satisfy us, that funds for the pay interests in the Nagpore territoment of this contingent would ries, when the occasion might always be forthcoming: the re arise for calling the subsidiary served districts should be trans force into other fields of action, ferred to his management like it was stipulated by the treaty of wise. 1829, that one thousand horse were to be maintained by the This seems to have been an Nagpore Government under their unfortunate resolution, for inde own Officers, to serve with the pendently of the objectionable British troups in the field in time measure of transferring to thc of war; thus reverting, on a small hands of a Native Government scale, to the stipulations of the the resources which, through treaty in 1816, which had before conquest, WC werc cntitled to proved so disastrous. 9TII.-LUCKNOW. D mul, whilst On the death of the late King lated by the Oudo Government, of Oudc, and after amplc cxpe their arıny having, on soine occarience had been attained of the sions, amounted to 50 or 60,000 unsuitableness of the relations Llicy declared that existing between the two States, the hunber they were entitled to it was resolved to release his suc inaintain was not suflicient for the cessor, Nuzzur-ood-Dowlah, from ordinary duties of the State. To that portion of the obligations, grant them, through new engagewhich, through the treaty of 1801, ments, the indulgence of entorstipulated that he should inain, taining troops to an unlimited tain only a very limited body of , extent, and as a counterpoise it troops, which stipulation had inay be supposed; against those been long and systematically vio which they might cutertain, the VOL. 1.NO. X.

·718 The "Contingent Forces." on British Government required a have been left to our superior yearly payment of 16,00,000 of acquaintance with the general rupecs for the maintenance of a condition of India, the description Contingent Force, to be organiz- of troops most required, and to ed within the Oude territories by our acknowledged superiority, in British Officers, leaving it op their own estimation, over all National with that Government to tive governments, in the mode abide by the conditions of the of disciplining and organizing former treaty, or to embrace those troops, what proportion the senow offered to it. The latter veral orms should bear to each alternative was adopted, and it other. In the next place, the was stipulated that two regiments force should have been of the of cavalry and five of infantry, and very first order of Native troops, two troops of horse, or two com paid and disciplined as highly as panies of fuot artillery, should any troops in India. Suppose be thus organized for service the gallant mountaineers from within the Oude territory. This Nepal should, in the day of our arrangement was disapproved of weakness, as it has been supby the Home Government, and posed so often they would do, orders were sent out to abo venture an incursion into lish the force, or to make it our the plains to plunder Patna or own; the latter was adopted, and other citics on the Ganges, or the cavalry is the present 6th otherwise to disturb our power, irregular cavalry, and the two in the Oude Contingent, disciplined fantry regiments are the 1st and and appointed as all Contingents 2nd Ovde Locals. should be for extended and ra. In whatever manner this last pid operations, would have been treaty would have been carried just in a position to cut into into effect, it could not have failed the rear of the Nepal army, and to be highly bencficial to our in of sufficient strength to destroy terests, and towards thc strength their operations, and give a good cning of our military position in account of them, cven if unsupthat country. It was, in short, an Ported by the troops of our own augnientation to our strength, Government. to the extent of troops, which It will hardly be denicd by any 16 lakhs per annum would have onc wlio has seryed with the paid. It appears to me, however, Native cavalry of India, that good that in the details of the mea cavalry, man and horse, cannot be sures, certain things were objec maintained under 40 rupees per tionable. In the first place, we month, including Officers, the need not have tied ourselves down cost of the Company's cavalry to the Native Government, as lo averaging throughout India at the description of troops which 63 rupees. The regiments of were to entertain, whether cavalry of 600 sabres each, and cavalry, infantry, or horse, or that is enough for any regifoot artillery. It was sufficient ment, would therefore cost about to them that we should engage to 6,00,000 rupecs per annum. disburse the whole sum in the Five regiments of infantry, avermaintenance of troops within the aging about 1,50,000 cach, would Oude duminions, and it might cost about 8,00,000, and two 1 1 . we ·Of the several Native Governments. 119 on lakhs would have remained for the artillery, staff, and contingencies. I have never met with any detailed account of the establishment which the Oude force was to have been placed, but I have heard the subject discussed, and Officers of our own service, particularly of the cavalry, said that it was to be so much on the footing of our local regiments, that they would neither have pride nor pleasure in serve ing with such troops, and would object to leave their own regiments to take service there. In the organization of these Contino gent Forces, we cannot do better than copy from tlie Nizam's, than which there are not finer troops in India, Armed any form of organization or disciplinc, may be considered power in our hands in this country ; even our Native Polico is of this description ; but under different circumstances, they are power in different degrees ; the disciplined soldier to wliom the service, in which he is einployed, is so valuable or so prized, in comparison with other employments, constitutes power under any circumstances; in a long cainpaign, in the field of manouvre or of battle, he is sure to do his duty well, whilst the soldier without discipline or without attachments to the service, is only fit for employment under particular circunstances; and may, instead of being a tower of strength, turn any day into an instruinent of danger to the ano. malous position which we hold in this country, men, under 10TH.BUNDLECUND LEGION. After the expulsion of the sible, to the one then lately Bae (mother of the late Rao Ram formed at Seppree. European Chunder, Rao of Jhansi, who had Officers were appointed, and the placed herself in hostile opposi Legion, which consisted of a retion to the British authorities,)' gament of 600 horse, 1200, inby the force under Sir T. Anbuwy, fantry, and 1 guns, was formed, in January 1838, we took upon and brought to so bigl a state of ourselves the management of the efficiency and equipment in the State. It was determined to raise short space of one year, as to call 'a Contingent, to be paid for forth the approbation of the Go. equally by the States of Jhansi and vernor (eneral, who inspected it Jaloun ; for the preservation of in brigade at Oraie in December peace, and for duty in those dis 1839. The infantry portion of tricts.• The Governor General's this Legion form the present 34th Agent in Bundlecund was in Bengal Regiment Native Infanstructed to organize a force, which try; and the cavalry art number should assimilate, as near as pos ed the 10th Irregular Cavalry. 11TH.-RECAPITULATION. It appears from the foregoing details, that there are four classes of troops, composing these Contingents. 1st Class.--Disciplined troops fit to take their place in the Field, either of manœuvre, of battle, with our own Army, or ·720 The “ Contingent Forces" and on whose services we dcpend der the service valuable in these under ny circumstances. These troops, it is necessary that we arc the lyderabad and Scindiah's should hold the means of paying Contingents. thein in our own hands; that 2nd Class.-Local troops, not their promotion, and the power fit to take their place in line with for rewarding then for good, and our Army, neither in the Field of punishing them for bad scrof manouvre, or of battle, but vice, should rest with their own whose services we may count on officers; that they should, in short, under any circumstances, such as be our own troops. the Bhopal, Lucknow, lolkar's It is unnecessary here to dwell and the Joudpore Contingents, on the immeasurable advantage consisting of two complete and of disciplined over undisciplined four incomplete regiments of cav troops, for that is a point sullialry, two complete, and three in ciently understood, and whether complete companies of artillery, these Contingents are to accomfive complete and four incompleto 'pany our own armies into the regiments of infantry. field, or to remain behind, io 3rd Class.-Irregular troops, preserve the peace of the country, whose services can be counted on and to support our supremacy under any circumstances, as the in it; the more highly they arc Mysore Ilorse. disciplined, the more may they 4th Class.-Irregular troops, be relied on, and the more uscful whosc services can hardly be we are sure to find them, when counted on under any circum the day of trial coincs. In this stances, and not at all in a war, view of the case, it is painful to in which States to which they bc reflect on thc little that has been long are armed against us, as the done, and on the want of sys- Nagpore and Baroda Horse. tem with which we have set to The above shows, on a rough work, to render the services of estimate, the extent of aid en * these troops important to ourwhich we may safely calculate selves; for out of the whole bo. froin the armies of our allics, in dy of the 27,000, only 10,000 case of a war, which should render are disciplined, the remaining it necessary to call our troops to 17,000 are of the class of local other or distant fields of action ; troops, or altogether undisciplinand the description of service cà, and where is the Officer who, which we may calculate that in the field, would not risk his these troops will render, either in reputation, and perform better accompanying our own army, and service with one-half op sharing in their operations, or in third of this number of good securing our position, and prescrv troops, than with the whole body ing the peace of those countries as it now stands ? vacated by our own troops. It is perhaps unnecessary to The higher the state of their enter on the description of the discipline, and the more the sur services on which these troops are vice is prized by the troops, likely to be employed. I have the greater, of course, may be our myself been of opinion that they reliance on then ; but to secure should be considered a force for either their discipline, or to renthe yeneral delence of the Einone ·Of the Several Native Governments. 721 pire ; in the tranquillity of which, and in its safety from foreign invasion, most of the Native Governments arc, or ought to be, as much interested as we are ; this is the expence they incur, and the penalty they pay, to secure these important ends, and on ncither of the States where it bears heaviest, Ilyderabad and Lucknow, docs it exceed a sixth part of their revenue. It is useless to look upon those troops, where they are under British Officers, as a force to be employed in the internal disputes or any one Statf, or on its police duties, for in their internal affairs we do not interfere, and the police forms a branch of internal administration. The only way in which these troops can be cmployed by the Native Governments, is for the purpose of putting down unprovoked rebellion, where they choose to make the Political Officers the judges between themselves and their subjects; or of following plunderers or persons, who, from their asylum within the frontiers of any one State, disturb the tranquillity of another, and troops in tho highest form of discipline are of course better calculated for the performance of these services, than thiosc in the lowest. In short, every argument seems to me in favor of forming these Contingents of the first description of troops, and on the higlıest scale of discipline. They are often posted in situations far rcmoved from our own troops, and in small numbers, where, on trying occasions, their discipline alone can sustain them, and it may not be unimportant to show to our allics, and to the people of this country, samples of our best troops, and the eifccts which discipline and order are capable of producing, by sccuring in our own hands funds for the payment of those Contingents, placing them under British Ollicers, organizing them on one system, and subjecting them to the same regulations, we make them in all but name, a portion of our Iriny. L. yrai, June, 1832.

·[ 722 ] A RATHER REMARKABLE ADVENTURE. ON IIorror's head, llorrors accumulatc." OTHELLO. In the very earlicst months of Having no mansion prepared the cold scason of 1815, my Regi for me, I "put up" in the first innicnt, in the General Relief of corps stance with a friend of mine who for that year, was ordered to the held the oflice of Deputy Collecstation of -pore. I had been tor there, and whose Bungalow disporting myself during the hot nlight be a mile and a half or weather on the Mall at Mussoorie, two miles from the small cantonand cating and dancing myself ment. My friend had, with all into profuse health at the Picnics the reasonable expectation which and Balls incidental to that his connexion and his father's charming watering place, where services warranted, been for some every umbrella was a bathing time ardently looking for a direct machine, and the sands of life got appointment to the service ; but diluted to the extent of 97 inches being of a sensible turn of mind, of good rain in half that number and by no means one likely to perof days. My unhappy corps, with mit hope, however long defersomething like the same amount red, to spoil his dinner or weaken of liquid (only more lukewarm), his digestion, le fell naturally had vegetated during those into the discharge of the daties months in the moist fertility of assigned to him, albeit different muddy Bengal, so that if I had the from those to which his aspira- Ball at my foot, they had at least tions had hitherto pointed ; and half Batta in their hands, and having recently been also dubconsidering the liquid aforesait, bed Deputy Magistrate from our chances of being stump- (aj Pangloss says, and he afed out were pretty cqual. As lirmed) a sheer consideration of the Regiment was coming up, his mcrits and celebrity-though and I was going down, Ilis Ex I am by no means certain that cellency the Commander-in Cljef, his letter of appointment ex. with that profound respect for pressed these precise sentiments- Geography, for which persons in he was now entitled to the ineshis dignified position are not al timable privilege of diversifying ways remarkable, suggested very his daily avocations with a few kindly, through his Adjutant Ge- amusing inquiries, arising out of neral, that I should proceed and larcenics, petty and grand, asawait at pore, the arrival saults and batteries, mayhems, of my comrades. Accordingly, shop-liftings, murders, burglaries, this arrangement was carried out, and other" undivulged crimes," and Fate and a few Palanqueen which he might happen to find Bearers carried me in to my desti “unwhipt of justice” within his nation just two days before the dominions; and, accordingly, durgallant Mozuffurnuggur-ka-Pultun ing the first day of my residence marched in. with him, the number of re- ·A rather Remarkable Adventure. 723 morseless villains he had assisted neral in Council, made one's to propitiate condign justice with, very hair stand upright to hear of; was perfectly awful to hear the though he admitted that a whole. list of. The variety of offences some terror of his name had aland misdemeanours, of a nature ready done much to purge his and description hitherto un immediate neighbourhood ; and known, and consequently utterly that vast herds of unmitigated unprovided for by penal cnact blackguards and budmashes had ments ; the alterations and modi been hurried over the border by fications, and applications and a process of somewhat extra-roextensions of the criminal laws, gulational, but at all events strictwhich it would be his bounden ly extra-parochial extrusion. All duty to propose for the immedithis account ate notice of the Governor Ge- Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts ;" Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;' Of deaths put on by cunning, and forced cause,' 6 21 Worse than the Mutiucs in the Bilboes." did he so truly deliver, that sleep smash; that the Queen would be was out of the question that obliged to give up her apartnients night, and, like Hamletin Windsor Castlc ; that a great “ Methought I lay many, free-traders would be burnt on Tower IIill; and, that as in the Next day the gallant “ Pultun" case of “ Ilumpty Dumbty," not marched in, and not having seen all the King's horses, or all the my brother officers for some King's men, would ever be able months, (my host had gone thief to make England what she was, hunting,) I of course joined the again, any morc, &c. &c. He circle of old familiar, and young spoke also of French invasion, and familiar, faces at Mess in thc of the ridiculous absurdity of evening. There was so much to such a thing, so long as his fatalk of, having reference to in' ther's two game-kecpers, and termediate events and incidents, some others belonging to neighthat I remember being, extremic bouring gentry, adhered to their by disgusted with one of the new original resolution, which he “ entries," as we say in the ken- Lad heard thein express over Sel, hight Ensign Cripps, with a and over again; of patrolling the face which looked as if it had Dover cliffs on dark nights, with been just pulled off an apple or double barrellcd guns ; and he pear tree, in an autumnal orchard. remarked that he should just like Ilis father was, it seems, a small to see any of Louis Napoleon's landed proprletor in Kent, and people poaching on his Goverhe assured us that it was quite nor's grounds, when Big Joe, the a settled matter before he left best right-and-left shot in the England, four months back; that country was on the watch. This unless an immediato protective became sadly tiresome at last, and duty of five or six shillings per I wished sincerely that Cripps quarter were put upon foreign could have had his licad jammed corn, there would be a most terrific into one of the bust developed ·724 A rather Remarkable Adventure. paternal turnips, and left there her smiles, slıc scemed to pccp out cverlastingly. Ilowever there was pertly for a moment or so, and a good deal of laughing, and then to shrink coyishly back again, quafling, and chaffing, and whiff just as a fair young Nun pulls ing, and what not, and the party her wimplc over her pretty head, gradually oozed oſt, or dropped off, when eye catches an carnest one by one; the last thing I saw Ilirsute Grenadier looking imthrough the haze was the new En pudently up at the convent casesign snoring heavily in his chair; ment. How long I walked, and with four stale cheroots in his in what precise direction, may mouth, dreaming doubtless of not probably cver be ascertained Kentish fire, Kentish hops, Ken exactly. I remember that I was tish corn, and roasted pippins. constantly compelled to diverge As I emerged from the Mess by mud walls, fields of sugarrooin, I began to reflect upon my cane, prickly pear hedges, ravines, folly in having ordered my pony &c. until at last 1 was completely to be taken back to the Deputy's 'brought up by a very imposing Bungalow, but the outer air was obstacle of the last named desso full of refreshing coolness, and cription, and there was nothing left the night, though dark, was so but to skirt it, till some more faquict and calm, that a walk back, vourable break in the bank permit- I said to myself, and a little sober ted a passage. I might have gone contemplation, would be just the about a hundred yards or so further thing to wipe out from my brain when I became aware of human the noise and the excitement of voices at no great distance from the last few hours, to dissipato me ; in Military parlance, the the desagrémens of foaming beer sounds came soinewhere from my and fuiny tobacco. So forth I right front, and probably the stepped, just as the quarter yuard speakers were in thic ravinc, by " Gunta" told the side of which I was walking. the drowsy ear of night." It Who were they? What did they never occurred to me for an in rrean ? What business had they stant, that there would be any there at such a time were the difficulty in finding the road. I problems which seemed to me to had ridden it twice, though that be most requiring solution, and to be sure was by daylight, but altering my course, I made a the idea of losing one's way be slight detour upon some bushes tween two given points in an which appeared to over-hang thau open country, barely two miles part of the bank bencath which apart, was so remarkably ridlicu the conversation was going on. lous a notion, that I discarded it Approaching cautiously, I looked on the instant. At times the down, and there I saw a party of moon, or some portion of her fifteen or sixteen persons disposed light, showed something of the in a circle of small groups of two country, but there were clouds or three each. They had obviousscudding away overhead, which ly (though the light was changeful more or less kept always envious and uncertain only recently conly shrouding that fascinating cluded their repast, for the ordiplanet, and, always a favourite of nary travelling cooking utensils minc, now 'wliau 1 most required were lying about, and the fires in 6 iwclvc upon ·A rather Remarkable Adventure. 725 was was а. " stuck i' my some the little mud “choolhas” were the six poor fellows, who a few yet burning. An earnest attempt brief moments before had been so was being made by one party to anxious for home, had the roomal dissuade some of the rest from round their necks a terrific twist continuing their journey at that being given by, the lever of two time of night; it was urged that muscular arms acting upon the they had only becn a few days in knuckles of the closed hands, and company; that they had all become half a dozen immortal souls had very good friends, and that it winged their flight, beyond the would be far better that all should roach of any home of earth, alproceed together after sunrise. most in company. The whole The five or six appealed to insist thing was so unexpected, that ed that they must depart; that the first feeling it caused me time very precious with that of very sharp them. One said he had a bro cold twinge, as if given by an ther who was a Naib Jema-, icy sword, passed through the dar in some Foujdarco Adawlut diaphragm, followed by an imor other, whose leave would ex petuous rush of air upwards pire three days hence, and he had through the chest into the throat, promised to be at home to meet to burst into the most loudest and him; another said there was a most furious shout my lungs marriage feast in his village, which could give effect to; but, strange he particularly wished to attend, to say, the mighty shout, like the and that he was the bearer of " Aincu" in the Highland Castle, “ kbilonas" toys) for the throat.' I was just bride and her sisters, and that as anxious as Macbeth to use iny it was especially necessary they voice, and if he had “most need should be presented on a particu of a blessing," I had fully as lar day and hour. A third had much occasion for, if not a curse, sent a message to his wife by a vat least soine tremendous oatlı, traveller three weeks before, to and “wherefore could I not prosay that he would be at home by, nouncc it.” A moment's reflection the Porunmashee, without fail, and however told me, that the chokhome he was resolved he would ing sensation which kept down bę; other equally cogent reasons my cry, had probably, under Prowere given, which did not appear vidence, saved my life. The poor to be very agreeable to those who tims were past all help from were to remain, and at last a stout man : their ruffianly murderers, grizzled man, in a red turban, although armed now, were, (if I who had been called Buggut' managed well), in my power; and during the talk, and who appear though their lives would but ed to be the chairman of the as poorly compensate for the misery sembly, said, "Ah! well, it can't they had caused to others, still be helped," and then, after a pause it would be a vast consolation, of a minute or so, he gave three to myself at least, if I could be short taps upon the root of a tree the means whereby such atroagainst which he was leaning, and cious villains should be made to continued-Let us give our friends reccive their deserts at the hands some tobacco.' The words were of justice.. To effect. this, I enhardly out of his mouth, beforo deavoured to .fx such features VOL. I. NO. X.

·726 A rather Remarkable Adrenture. was and peculiarities in my mind as of such consequence could hardly should enable me most readily to be so undignified as to travel recognise their owners hereafter; with empty pockets :-alas! if and I resolved not to leave the they did so, who has not done place till I could ascertain the the same ? direction which they proposed to Just at that moment a brighter takc, for I felt pretty sure they glimpse of the moon (though not would not long delay their de a perfect one,) revealed to me a parture from the spot, in which small heap of, what seemed like, so foul a decd had been perpc clothes lying a few yards beyond trated. First of all they came to the corpses of the travellers, when, a division of the booty, and it to ny astonishment, it began to was very mournful to see the little move, and at last a child, a girl almost valueless trinkets or toys of perhaps five years of age, rose and bangles which thc bundles of up, rubbing her eyes, and walkthe dead contained, evidencing at ing to the nearest body, she fell once their kindly natures and their languidly across"it, and began to contented poverty ; a few hubble kiss the cold face. At the first bubbles, a few brass urnlets and contact she started back, looked anklets, a strip of coarse mus again, and a wild scream lin, and a little packet of pawn, checked only by the grasp of her were the extent of their pos father's murderer on her throat. sessions, while from the persons We have forgotten the child,' of those six poor crcatures, he said, here is a business ; she stretched out with their cold up will never tak, to us kindly; she turned features--(no wonder the was too fond of him,' (touching moon was chary of her glances the dead man with his foot,)' a upon such a scene) thcir murder child, and a girl, it is very bad, ers' booty amounted only to the but we inust finish the business. sum of nine rupees and thirteen I only wish there were more anilas, a great part of it in cop rupees,' and as he spoke, he loosper pice, and little collections ened a fold of his turban, and of kowree shells tied up in the brought it to her neck. What he corners of their chuddahs; one was about to do was clear, and I could not help thinking how obmind to spring down jectless and motiveless the tuur with a shout, and seize the nearest der had been, in reality; and sword, and then, if assaulted by how literally these lives liad been the whole gang, (there were eletaken on speculation; perhaps, ven of them, I would put my poor wretches, they had indulged back against the rock, like Lord in the display of a little harmless What's-his-name in the poem, and pride as to their connexionship it should go hard, but the lessons with Naib Jemadats of Fouj I had learnt from Angelo in the daree Adawluts, and had men Gallery in St. James' Street should tioned in the light-heartedness in stand me iw good stead. I had gacidental to a holyday visit home, thered myself up for the purpose what Raja this, and Nuwab that, of an onset, when my eye and Sahib tltu other, had said to the leader in the red turban. He them -at sundry timos, thereby said, (not in a very loud tone, but leading to the interence that men it was heard by all,)“ Dekh !" made up my fell upon ·A rather Remarkable Adventure. 727 raising at the same time his left into execution. I was calmed arm, and pointing with his ex by secing that further violence was tended fore-finger to an old dead evidently, after the interference of tree, which stood about twenty the crow and the jackass, opposyards off on the further side of cd to the rules of their “Order." the ravinc, on the topinost wi He first emptied a kind of gram thered branch of which sat a bay, the fow articles which it conblack crow, who regarded the tained being immediately divided scene in motionless silence, not ainong the gang, He then releasmaking even the usual noise with cd the child, and threatened her his nose or bcak called " kecr.''* I with instant death if she moved had not observed the bird before, or spoke. He snatched her up and how he came, or when, is a with an Ierculean grasp ly heranmystery, blit his presence seemed kles, twisted a picce of his pughree to affect the murderers, now that it round them, and dropt her head was discovered. Again Red Turn foremost into the sack, closing ban threw up his right arm, and up the mouth round her little legs, hissed out the word “soon," point and then fastening the cord of his ing this time to his front. The brass lotah to the loop, he began to bray of an asst evidently approach cliinb a large pcepul tree (or Fiing the gang rung out clear and cus Religiosa,) which overhung the sonorous ; that any note uttered nullah. Ilaving got well up into by that most patient and most the branches, a contrado helped immelodious of animals could ever him up with the bag and its living square with "the sternal fitness of freight, and he inade it fast to things," I should have said an swing in the night brecze, till hour or two before, was impossi- death should make its remaining ble, but strange to say, there was therc a matter of small consenothing ludicrous or burlesque in quence, sonic passing cowthe sound now, and it chimed in, , herd's curiosity should save most fittingly, in its harsh hide hůman lifc to a world of sorrow ousness with the horrible scerte and miscry. The remorscless before me. “ Davec is unpropiruflian returned with a look of tious," said red turban, "no moro triumph at his excellent stratablood; what's to be done with the gem, remarking, She is nearer chokree?:) heaven now at all events, and “I will tell you," said a very if Daree wants her, she knows ugly one-eyed man in a black where to find her." I began chupkun,' " I will tell you how again to note mentally the feawe used to serve them in the tures of these villains ; to my ex- Deccan,' we never hurt them a ceeding horror, there was morsel, not us, we used to swing sign of conscientious compunction them to roost in the trees ;" and, about any of thein. Lavater himwithout any assent to his propo sell would have been at fault. If sal from his comrades, he pro-. men's faces are but as Marionette cecded at once to put his plan masks, the muscles of which are or a no • Vide Illustrations of History of Thugs, p. 297. + The ass is an adviser to whom extraordinary deference is paid. Tho Thugs deem the omen of the ass the most important of all whether it threatens cvil or promises pood, Sou puk heroo ek Dunteroothe ass is equal to a hundred birds in a maxim inaugury. If an ass approaches the gang braying from theafront, it is a very bad oiyai.Idem, p. 81.

·728 A rather Remarkable Adventure. as 6 managed by the soul pulling the caught occasionally the slight half strings from within, then either stifled wail of the poor child in the souls of these gentry were the the trec. The bodies were thrown most hypocritical of evil spirits, into the trench in a heap, and beor, they were undisturbed fore covering them in, one wretch mentally by any touch of sin, as passed a spcar repeatedly through a bench of Bishops, or a conclave them, remarking that it " would of Rosy Canons in Westminster let the gas out, and prevent them Abbey. I was startled by the from swelling and throwing off the appearance of two of them, one, earth, which would attract the I could have sworn, was Sheikh geedurs' and pariahs,' and Alphoo, the respectable (hitherto) lead inquisitive fools to see what old Moss Khansamah. He had the matter was, as if it were any been standing opposite to me du business of theirs." Inow began ring dinner that very day; he had to think it time to be off myself, helped me to soup ; hc had ac the sooner I could bring assisttually recommended some cutlets ; ance to the poor Sittle girl in the what was to hinder such a mon tree the better. I had fully deterster from dropping a pinch or two mined to adopt her ; she would of white arsenic into either? Who grow up a very pretty brunette, in this state of things was safe ? and I would send her for educa. I felt a spasm inwardly at the tion to the celebrated Miss Simthought of how entirely I had per's acadeiny for young ladies at been in his power. The other was Turnham Green. Pondering these assuredly my old bearer, who had things, and inwardly resolving only a month ago inade such ur neter to venture upon a moonlight gent request for leave to go and (no, a half moonlight) walk in bury his mother, for the fourth India again, without a pair of time in two years, and whose ab Colt's revolvers in each pocsence had so seriously disarrang- ket, and a good life preserver, rol iny domestic economiy. Be. I made a point for what I consides I had known these two fel- lived might be most probalows for some years, and however bly the direction of the Deputy's inclined they might be in their bungalow. bungalow. Having gone sone respective callings to draw very little distance, all at once the inoon indistinctly the line between oti came out most ostentatiously, for cial perquisites, and master's pro the first time that night. Someperty, I had certainly seen no fero thing or other caused me to look city in their dispositions whatever, round, and, to my inexpressible and to have, what the Germans horror, I saw " Red Turban," one's Menschenkenntniss" " thc ugly man in the black chupmistaken, was somewhat galling kun with one eye," the “Fat and humbling Khansamah," and even my own The gang, it was evident, were “ Bearer" in full pursuit of me. I now busying themselves in prc had been discovered! the Red paratious for departure. They first Turban had a drawn tulwar in dug a large hole or trench on the his hand, the ugly man a long opposite side of the ravine, and spear, the Khansamah had, I veduring the process, as the stones rily believe, a huge carving knife, and carth were tre yn up, my ear and the Bearer my own pet cud- 1 call, ·A rather Remarkable Adventure, 729 * 1 Own gel. I hope it never may occur to fers, until, as aforementioned, that any portion of Bengal Native In hideous one o'clock struck smashfantry to execute so extremely ing on my Tympanum, and I was rapid a retreat, as unavoidable lost to all further consciousness. circumstances now made iinperative in my case. Gracious lica When I came to my senses, I vens ! how I did run. "Mazeppa," found myself lying in my bed- " Dick Turpin," the “ Brave room at the Deputy's bungalow Belges," never cut away at any on the floor, with my head on my thing like the pace, and the agobrass chillunchec ! How ny I suffered, when a Parthian came I there? The door of the glance showed me Red Turban' room was half open, and there making frightful play in advance, stood thc Adjutant of my distinit would be even more impossible guished "Pultun," and behind to conceive than to describe. A him that horrid Ensign Cripps, huge ravine opposed my progress, . with his mouth open, and his gums but I had long passed the pitch displayed like "an oyster at Low of “ Funk" at either Acherons, or Ebb," grinning for all the world Styxes (a celebrated river of Hell, like one of his Governor's game round which it flows nine times bags. I signed solemnly to the according to Mr. Lempriere), and Adjutant to remove Cripps, and what cared I for “ Whissendines" to draw ncar. I then disclosed to and ravines. I sprung at it with him the horrible adventure of the a great horrible shout, and down previous night, and requested him down-down-down I went, till kindly to drive me instantly over my head struck against something, to the Deputy Magistrate's camp, I know not what, in the descent, as I wished no time to be lost in apbut immediately I heard a clock prehending these miscreants, and strike One: not as it comes off a releasing the poor girl in the Peeregimental “ Gunta," but with a .pul tree. I won't say the Adjutant heavy Almighty brassy “thud," laughed, laugh was no word foroit. as if the great bell of St. Paul's. He put his head into his forage were brought into a little back cap, and fairly scrocched again, in a parlour, and made to announce style which would have conferred the march of Time to a nervous immortal credit upon the least dyspeptic woman.-And all the sopkaisticated and most unrestrictwhile that very fickle female—the ed Red Indian that ever capered moon-kept shining out : how I and yelled in a War-dance. : hated her now : no longer a fair After a while, regaining comyoung Nun, but a great conglo posure, he looked at me rather merate Cerberean Lamp-lighter. sorrowfully, and said, " Come old A. 23 Policeman, with his bull fellow, this wont hact nohow whatdog face.and bull's-eye lantern ; a somedever," as old Weller says. I screaming Mussulchee, with his have told one lie for you this morngreat flaming stinking torch ; and ing already. The Major cut up an old world" Charley," with his rather rough at your absence from rattle and his blazing •red nose, parade, so I told him your uniand aggravated crimson cheeks, form, I believed, had been stolen all rolled into one ; down I went from you by the Beloches en the with a crash, like a box of Luci, Kherec pass near Molyn Chowkee.

·730 Detached Thoughts. * “ Merry He has never been there, and won't pital with lumbago. The fact is, know the difference, but as for as I remarked before, you got your valuable aid to Government deucedly screwed, and have had a in apprehending a gang of Thugs, slight touch of the lorrors.'” that won't do ; you got deucedly screwed last night at Mess, and I As Mr. Ford accounted for drove you home myself in the his miserics in the buggy ; you were in bed by half Wives of Windsor,'' by sayingpast eleven. How you got on “ This, it is, to be married ! this, to the floor is a philosophical it is, to have linen and buck basmystery of your own devising. kets." So with me this, it is, to I went back and had a grilled bone, chum with enthusiastic Deputy and we had to wake up the old Magistrates ! this, it is, to mix Khansamah, who was fast asleep Whiskey Toddy and Pale Ale. in the Mess verandah; as for your The Horrors, eh ! Well, at all bearer, he has been laid up for a , events, Othello was perfectly fortnight in the Regimental Hos right- ON HORROR'S HEAD, HORRORS ACCUMULATE. R. V. DETACHED THOUGHTS. VII. "Fadina impressions float in the memory-like half forgotten dreams; and the mind, in her fullest enjoyments, becoines suspicious of her offspring, and doubts whether she have created or rumembered."-SHERIDAN. VII.. TIIE SUICIDE. Ah ! broken heart; we may not pity thee ; Weak beam, which, when the thinder was not loud, Withdrew itself from sud humanity, Quenched in the thin shade of a summer cloud. IX. No man should expect famc, or even influence, when he points out existing errors, or draws attention, froin experience, to stricter forms of truth. The fate of Socratcs is, on a small scale, repeated yearly in our streets. Some clear-sighted honest man raises the voice of reproof and warning, only to be crushed by Society for attempting to bring their divinities into disrepute, and introduce “ Sirange Gods.' 2 X. Yet it is better to be contemned, like Paul and Socrates, Than be respectable with the Athenians. XI. All objective, or external religions, are but so many attempts on the part of the human mind to save itself the trouble of reflection.

·[ 731 ] REAL HEROES AND REAL TRIUMPHS. DIONUM laude virum Musa vetat mori." HORACE. He was not so wrong after all silent approval of its own heart, who averred that the world's and the speaking looks of its own greatest heroes were seldom to be familiar friends, to all the noisy found among the heroes of the honors of popular applause, where world's own choosing. Not that they poured upon it with ten these are utterly to be disparaged times the vehemence with which and set aside in the estimation of the simple populace testified their those who differ from the world love for Chatham, the discarded of at large. Far be it from truc, his sovereign. Of such heroism philosophy to propound a measure history bas rescued some few exso harsh and inconsiderate. For amples from the oblivion it has true philosophy has a large heart too frequently incurred. But our of its own, and would rescrve a business is not with these, We place in it for other idols than have examples of our own obserythose of its own crcation, The ing to offer to the notice of future worth of its own preference is not times. And of the names that at the only worth it professes to re once present themselves for precognise. And so, not rejecting sent selection, it were hard to the sort of heroism most current mention two more worthy of fuwith the world, it puts in a claim turc remembrance than the names to like distinction for the sort of of Elliotson and Esdaile,--names heroism itself regards as worthiest distinguished alike by the serof the popular worship. It is vices of those who bear them, ready to concede all due honor and the cause with which they and admiration to the great and stand henceforth so prominently shining merits of a Cæsar or a connected in the list of subjects Pericles, a Pitt or a Wellington. which Philosophy is wont to ho- It thinks no evil of good Queen nor with its highest and most en- Bess, and is slow to crcdit stories dušng regards. .derogatory to the fair fame of It was a hard time for the faith Henri Quatre. It only asks for they came to propagate, . when some higher recognition of heroes these men first entered on their less conspicuous, but, to its own ungracious task. l'ew truths of thinking, more truly admirable modern discovery had cver gainand sublime. The heroism it ed so little credence after so long best loves indeed so far surpasses a probation, as the one which the world's conception, as often promises eventually to show itself to escape the notice it might 'the grandest, broadest, mnost otherwise enjoy. Sublime in its fruitful truth of all. It was not very quietude, such heroism pur till near half a century after its sues its even tenor unnoticed, be rehabilitation by Mosmer that the cause disdaining to attract tho time-old mystery of Animal Magnotice it deserves, preferring the netism had found, acceptance ·732 Real Heroes and Real Triumphs. among Englishmen of any class, cesses and theoretic jargon whereand those who had hitherto ac in he and his first disciples had cepted it, were chiefly of a class ignorantly or wilfully embedded peculiarly adapted to ensure its them. In France, too, its real rejection in other quarters. The merits had begun to obtrude follies, mistakes, pretensions of themselves on public notice, in its earlier converts had cast a spite of its previous damnation ruinous slur upon the faith they by a public tribunal. A second adopted for ends so generally committee of French philosomean, worldly, or chimerical. Its phers had virtually ignored the practical results were vicwed in sentence pronounced by the Comevery false and irrational light by mission, of which Franklin had turns. Some who believed the been a mute, if not dissentient wonders they could not appreci- member. M. de Puysegur, and atc, ascribed their working to the a few others, had already made old Ahrimanic source of human their experiments own to the evil. Others, prc-judging the reading world. It was chiefly question on grounds more spe in civilized England that the new cious than philosophic, withheld light had not yet shone, or only their credence from wonders cyi slone through a cloud of prejudently wrought by human arti- dice, mis-couception, secret jeafice at the expense of human cre lousy, and open indifference, which dulily. Less sceptical than'alive cast a baleful and unnatural shato personal contingencies, the dow on the lustre it could not medical profession threw its in totally obscure Denounced by fluence and anathenas into the the Pharisees of modern superscale against doctrines so hostile stition for its devilish origin; reto the rules of orthodox practice, viled for its physical pretensions and pregnant with results so fatal by the Demetriuses of the Mateto the pockets of orthodox practi- , ria Medica, it had no means of tiorers. Very few were inclined, forcing a fairer judgment from with Hamlet, honestly to impugn the crowd of Gallios of every class, the soundness of the vulgar phi who followed, as usual, the course losophy, and admit that there which seeined most readily to was more in the matter than could save them from the troublesome fairly be explained by reference alternative of thinking for themto human fraud or supernatural selves. Mesmerism was sinking, malicc. fast into the limbo of exploded Among our civilized neighbours myths. England would have indeed the new faith had gained none of it, and as yet British Ina far more promising hold upon dia had hardly heard its name. the popular conviction. In sober To stem the tide of adverse and speculative Germany, it was opinion, to rescue a righteous already rising into a thing cause from unmerited obloquy, of practical significance. Ger to clear away the mists that man plıysicians had taken it darkened its path, and repressed kindly by the hand, and Ger its natural vitality, and to reveal man philosophers were engaged in its full lustre and proper shape in extricating, Mesmer's facts the beauty so long disparaged and from the mass of juggling pro referred to such unlovely sources, ·Real Heroes and Real Triumphs. 733 . was a task which few had the hissed deliberately off the stage, courage to contemplate, and only or villains without disguise baskan Elliotson or an Esdaile had the ing in the worship designed for ability to carry through. And, honest men. It is seldom that happily for the cause of Mesmer posterity has found causc to reisın in England and this country, versc, however frequently it is such bold and original minds conipelled to qualify, the sentence were not found wanting or pre passed by contemporary wisdoin occupied in the hour of its threat on the notabilities of bygone days. ened degradation. T'ime, as it grows older, may feel Among their countrymen and constrained to deaden and deface contemporaries indeed, the sort of the warmer hues, once laid by notice these men have yet achiev the excess of popular feeling upon ed falls somewhat below the mark the object of its passing notice, at which Philosophy would rate while it leaves the general form their claim to notice of a wider and spirit of the original portrait and less ephemeral sort. But untouched, because unalterable. present fame is not always the To the calm and searching eye of precious and significant thing it modern Philosophy, the truc hisscems to vulgar eyes. Its value toric Cromwell stands out as great depends as often on extrinsic cir. and wonderful a being as he whom cumstances, as it docs on actual Milton defended and Waller sudeserts. For, certainly, if the logised; while the sovereign he world's appreciation of living did so boldly to death still keeps worth were judged solely by in some measure through his priits public demeanour towards vate virtues that hold upon our living worthies, we should be fain sympathies, which all his public to pronounce it a very thought misdeeds and unkingly perjuries less and harsh world indeed. Not failed to loosen entirely upon the that its praise or censure, when syntpathics not only of all who bestowed at all, is liable, as a ge-, served, but of many who steadily neral rule, to the charge of being 'opposed him. bestowed unfairly with regard to Not in the notice it confers on the particular subjects of its praise particular persons, but in its se- Its sense of right lection of claimants to particular and wrong is not so utterly con notice, does the world's judgment fused, that honor shall be found appear most faulty and ill-consigiven where only infamy is due. dered. In reviewing the ranks Whatever, mistakes it may be of those whose deeds have raised guilty of at the outset, it seldom them in some sort above their continues to clap a downright fellow men, the world is prone to Charlatan on the back for any sea. look with it, carelcss an eye on son, or consign a real hero to the merit that appeals the most lasting ridiculo or reproach. Its earnestly, because the least preerrors of judgment, when it choos tentiously, to its regard. Like es to judge at all, are errors ra Paris awarding the apple, it is apt ther of degree than kind. The to interpret thc “ detur pulchpraise or thc censure may be riori" in its lowest and ipost literoverdone in particular cases, but al sense, leaving the bcauty that you shall seldon see true worth passeth outward show," to seek a VOL 1.NO. X. or censure.

·734 Real Heroes and Real Triumphs. reserve. higher though less open recogni materially to rescue from the tion in the hearts of those who chance of future decay. Wade would ask for something worthier through fire, havoc and slaughter and morc lasting than outward to the thanks of Parliament and a show. A very Jeames in its place in the Gazette ; slay her worship of all that glitters, it too Majesty's enemies by thousands, often rates the value of the prof seize their treasures, and annex fered casket by the value of the their lands; and the world will gold that covers the casket. The hasten to pour its praises and tesviler metal that conceals the rich timonials without stint at your er treasure has no chance what fcet. Walk the hospitals in aid ever of being noticed in the game of sufferers assailed by disease breath with its gaudier rival. and death, heal the sick, and re- For the merit that walks in pur store the dying to their friends, ple, and has its greatness prodiscover or extend the means of claimed abroad to the sound of " prolonging the life, and repairing royal salvos, vain, vulgar, incon the health of Her Majesty's subsiderate public, has its due mea- jects, and posterity may persure of homage and adulation in haps acknowledge the worth your But the worth that lies own cotemporaries have held in in leaden caskets, or wanders such small and thankless regard. silently in peaceful and crowded A Hardinge may get his service of thoroughfares, must count on plate, a Littler his sword, in token many days of neglect, disparage of the fame accorded them by the ment, ridicule, and mis-construc general voice. But what mark of tion, before it can hope to win its popular approval awaits the noway to a tithe of the honors so bler but less glittering triumphs readily lavished on its noisier and of an Esdaile? What else has more dashing competitors. It is Dr. Elliotson gained by his bold easy enough to purchase a repu and stedfast advocacy of a sacred, tation by wholesale slaughter at, but unpopular cause ; his patient the cannon's mouth, or a few' and laborious pursuit of truths years of splendid, but ruinous denied, ridiculed or mis-appretriumphs, at the helm of state. hended by the world at large ; his But for him whose days have careful and philosophic researchbeen devoted to the political ad os in a new and wondrous field vancement of his fellow men ; for of physical science; what else lics him who has discovered a way to he gained by all this, but the remedy or assuage some social evil; hatred of his own profession, for him who has striven successevinced in a hundred ways; the fully to rise the intellects, pro loss of former patrons and present mote the happiness, alleviate practice, and the sneers of those the physical sufferings of his fel who doubt his honesty, or affect low men; for the patriot, the phi to pity the strange and sudden losopher, the philanthropist, so downfall of his intellectual powcheap a recompense for past exertions shall seldom be elicited And yet these two men, aposfrom the wisdom or gratitude of tles as it were of one common the age, w whose memory their faith to be promulgated under past exertions have scrved so different forms to people of the crs ?

·Real Heroes and Real Triumphs. 735 most opposite characters and ways to select his audience from a widof life, have done much, the er and more varied field, Dr. one in England, the other in In Elliotson opens his doors at statdia, --for which the world shall ed periods to circles less numerhave reason to be thankful, if not ous, but somewhat more refined now, at no far distant season. than the bulk of those who Whatever lot may be reserved for crowded to the scene of similar them in this generation, their wonders at Hooghly or in Calcutnames shall not be forgotten here ta. Of all the inarvellous cures after, whether for the good they and novel experiments wrought have done in their own persons, by himself or his followers--and or for the good their teaching they are not a few-with which has already prompted, and shall the Zoist periodically teoms, there yet prompt others to do. Their is hardly one that cannot be atpath of duty points especially to tested by proofs at least as conthe future for the truest and most' vincing as those of Holy Writ. perfect acknowledgment of their The courage these men have present deserts. And how large shewn in prosecuting their labors these are already, it needs no has not been less notable than the lengthened survey of their past success which has attended them. labors to bring conviction to any Despising the ridicule attached candid mind. Working as they to all who wander from the beathave done for many years under en way, in furtherance of their the public eye, it is not for a Wak philanthropic schemes, braving luy or McNeile to question the the scorn and malice of all whom reality or the magnitude of results interest, bigotry, pride or ignoachieved for the most part under rance arrays in open resistance thc public eye. As teachers of to the spread of new ideas, or a creed depending for credibility excites to secret conflict with the on ocular proofs, these men had 'promulgators of new systems, no reason for avoiding public de, careless of present fame or the monstrations of the wonders they'injury they might be doing to professed to accomplish by natur their worldly prospects, these al means. The cures which Dr. worthy laborers in the saine no- Esdaile has recorded in print, ble cause have fought and striven, were beheld by hundreds who by separate paths, towards the tame to test the reality of facts same useful end, cheered only by which none were willing to take the sight of difficulties surmount. on credence, and most were pre ed and good already diffused to determined to deem impossible, the attack of difficulties, yet baror at best illusory. And the ring the road to the diffusion of plainest token of his victory over greater good in prospect. Lookthe general scepticism, as well as ing to the future alone for the the fittest memento of his labors 'full appreciation of what they in the cause of humanity, yet re have done for the present happimains in the Mesmerie hospital, ness and profit of their fellow established by Government for men, they have continued, in spite the prosecution of his charitable of popular clamors and unbelief, schemes. Equally averse from to teach and illustrate the prinworking in a corner, but forced ciples of a creed which, destined ·736 Real Heroes and Real Triumphs. won ? . as it is for a wider and fuller de. borne no visible fruit, is it nothing velopment hereafter, has already to feel within you the warm sufthrown out some germs of prefusions of conscious worth; nosent vitality, in spite of popular thing to soothe the sting of preclamors and unbelief. sent defeat, by looking with con- In this respect, indeed, their scious pride back to the point from past services liave not been whol which you started, or forward to ly fruitless of present reward, if the goal which your heart and the pleasure derived from con reason assure you may yet be templating the mere external results of our own labors be not in To men who achieve what Elitself the best and highest reward liotson and Esdaile have achieved, attainable in the judginent of a such sources of consolation are wise and well-ordered mind. For open in larger and more perfect what, after all, are the accidents of degree-for they have not been arthly fame, compared with the utterly defeated, in the attempt to happiness that keeps ever flowing instil their lessons on mankind. upon us from within ? Is not the The seed they have sown has tak. mind to itsell' a kingdon, as one cr: firm root already in human soil. of our poets quaintly sings? If The effects of their teaching have the world misjudge our deeds, or begun already to develop themstint us of their fitting rocom selves in many noticeable ways. pense, have we not a large, deep, The belief in Mesmerism, confined exhaustless heart of our own to till very lately to a few, and aldraw upon, for the needful sur inost extinct in England some ten plus or compensation? We are years ago, now includes a large not all pocts, but not on poets and respectable minority of the alone was bestowed the faculty English people. It has been openof retiring within themselves, and ly acknowledged by the Indian creating a happier and better' Government, and is fast making world out of the stores supplied iets way among the better inform. them in the keenness of their cd and more intelligent classes of outward senses, or the exuberance Anglo-Indian Society. The beof their inınost thoughts. It is liever in ,Mesmerism is no longer a poor mind that cannot readily the black sheep of former days. fall back on its own resources, or There are any, too, who believe has no resources to fall back upon. in it to a certain extent, many Give the rein to your mental who have no fixed or definite ideas fancies, or try to survey in a pro on the subject, many who per spiritslow to believe, because they have “This air, this orean, and this carth, not seen, and some few, who per- All nature gay and bursting into birth;" sist in disbelieving what they have and pine, if you then can, for the seen, or refuse to see what they pleasures that man, vain profess to disbelieve. In spite of has chosen to withhold from you, the howlings of the Wakley or the fair fame he has wrongly school, the belief in the doctrines taken away, even if the hopes they condenmed has already made you cherished have been baf- large inroads on the body once fled and dispelled ; if. the seed clestined, by their shewing, to supyou thongut, to sow has yet press and utterly extinguish so 1 are man, ·Real Heroes and Real Triumphs. 737 rank a heresy long before the vincing, they have shewn the date at which we are now writing. world that the thing so ignorant- Among the foremost of Elliot- ly despised, was destined for son's present supporters are many nobler ends than those to which eminent members of that profes- it was fast descending as a trap sion, which once contained so for fools and a tool for impostors. large a majority of his bitterest In their hands, the neglected and most powerful foes ; and of play-thing became informed with these latter, the few who yet con a power for producing, on the hutinue their former tactics, are man frame, effects more strange, men of little weight and less cre- salutary, and instantaneous, than dibility, compared with those all the skill of our wisest doctors who now stand neutral, or have had ever produced by any known declared their adherence to the method of sanatory practice. opposite side. In short, the truth The light they threw upon a has already begun, as truth will' mystery, detected and partially invariably do in the long run, explored by the priests of Isis to turn the tables upon its late and Esculapius, but unknown oppressors; and Mesmerism, but and unsuspected by the wisdom now so weak and lifeless, has fair. of so many succeeding ages, has ly gained a footing in the popu- revealed, to these later times, the lar esteem, from which it can leading properties and true pracnever, in all human likelihood, be tical purpurt of a power as mardislodged. vellous and unfathomable in its And the practical uses of this nature, as its effects are varied, great modern fact have become palpable, and defined. more fully understood, and more tent of its magical virtues for strikingly developed, the more sanatory and remedial ends has widely a knowledge of the fact been deduced by a process as itself has been diffused. It is 'plain and common-placc, as the chiefly through the industry of results deduced have been pemen like Elliotson and Esdailc,' culiar and inexplicable. Cures, that Mesmerism in England has which ancient Pharisaism would been raised, from the doubtful have ascribed to Beelzebub, for grade of empirical studies with which medicinal monkery would which it seemed at first associat have raised its shrines and en- 'ed, to the higher and more apdowed its convents in memory of propriate dignity of a pure and their saintly worker, which inaregular science. The fame and dern bigotry* has by turns defate of Mesmer's Eurcka were preciated and denied, have been nearly settled for the worst, wrought as it were daily before when thesc men stepped out to our faces by ineans 80 simple, rescue the unknown wonder from that the dullest may imitate them the desecration to which it was with the like success, and yet so exposed. By a series of experi- apparently inadequate to the ocments, not less strange than con casion, that the wiscst might feel The ex- # McNeile and Charlotte Elizabetli, and others of the same stamp, were fain to ascribe these wonders to the Devil. The writers in the Lancet deny theu altogether, and the late eminent surgeon, Mr. Key, refused to helicve the evidence of waowa seoses in a mat.. ter so opposed to all hunian experience.

·738 Real Heroes and Real Triumphs. was tempted to ridicule them, but for pounded by laborers of another the reality of the results produced class, before audiences of every by their employment. The ex sort and size, and applied alike in ample thus set was speedily fol thc hospital and the private chamlowed. The belief in Mesmerism ber, the cottage and the palace, to soon turned to practical the relief of sickness and disease account by men of every class and of every type and shade of maligprofession in the kingdom. There nancy. Private enterprise in Engwas now some definite purpose land, in India the ready candour of to which it might be applied a just and liberal Government, by all who rightly estimated the established hospitals for the treatincalculable blessings involved in nent of patients by Mesmeric its application. The study of rule. Literature contributed its Mesmerism was worth pursuing, quota of adherents to the new bewhen all who entered on it could lief. The names of Dickens attain the same results by the and Bulwer conferred additionuse of similar means. Its vota al lustre on the rising causc, rics were no longer to be found and the former has for some among the obscure, ignorant, or time been numbered among the unprincipled alone. Among its steadiest friends, and most loyal new supporters were seen mcm disciples, of Dr. Elliotson. The bers of the medical body, mien like periodical press, once so hostile Ashburner and Engledue, who or indifferent, has begun to change had the sense to employ their its tone; and many of the Mediown professional skill in aid of cal Journals have either dropped a rumedy, which no efforts of the virulence that disgraced their professional skill or prejudice pages in former days, or betrayed have yet succeeded in matching a tendency to adopt, at least in with another half so strong, harm- part, the truths they opposed so less, or infallible. Mesmeric and virulently in former days. Even legitimate practice have thus gone, the pulpit has ceased to launch its in many cases, hand in hand to 'orthodox thunders against those their mutual profit and content who mcddled with the accursed ment; the surgeon applying his thing, and the credit so blaspheknife without scruple to a patignt, mously claimed for Satan, in the whose sense of pain has been paternity of a principle which deadened for the nonce by Mes contained such manifold sources' meric agency; and the clairvoyant of human good, has at length, by in his turn prescribing for himself, general consent, been restored to or others, the use of remedies its rightful possessor, the one sanctioned by professional usage, eternal Author of all human good. or a course of treatment entailing And all these edifying results have the exercise of professional skill. been effected in a few short years, While philosophers and men of in little more than a tithe of the science have been engaged in eli time that had run to waste since citing the higher phenomena, avd Mesmer's advent; and but for the exploring the secret sources of steady zeal of men like Elliotson this mysterious power, the more and Esdaile, such results might fixed and popular principles of never have been effected at all Mesmeric practice' have been ex in this generation. Verily, the ·Detached Thoughts. 739 authors thereof shall yet have val are worth the earning. There their reward. Their names shall are many worshippers in the temlive and flourish with increasing ple of faine, and the shrine of honors, not in the general voice such as these shall not be cmpty, of cotemporary fame, nor yet as long as the worship of those perhaps at any time in the memo who have done good in their geries of the world at large, but as neration retains a single adherent suredly in the grateful hearts and among men of sober and discernapproving voices of all, in every ing minds. For what sings the age, whose gratitude and appro American poet ?- “Lives of great man all remind us, We can make our lives sublime; And, departing, leave behind us, Foot-prints on the sands of Time.” And Time," which brings all be- Elliotson and Esdailo. Bounings to their level," shall dispel the teous have been thcir labors, mists wherein present ignorance, and bounteously shall their dcprejudice, or envy, may yet in serts be acknowledged in due seavolve the footsteps of men like son. DETACHED THOUGHTS. xil. A ska PIECE. The night was dark, the moon is gray, A smell of salt is on the shore, On Sea and Heaven a wild uproar, And loaden waves and driving spray. XIII. There is more weakness in the world than wickedness. You shall find a man give you the most honest advice, who is unable, in his own case, to resist a sudden temptation.

·[ 740 ] RETROSPECTIONS OF A YOUNG MAN; BEING THE ANTECEDENTS OF FREEMAN, OF THE 76TH B. N. 1. 1 RELATED BY HIMSELF. CHAPTER XVI. BARRING my surprise at the the face of God Almighty's sun, fellow's coolness, I was now broad drinking soda-water and brandy, awake; some movement I made while I listened to the humiliating attracted his attention, and he re-capitulation of my last night's turned round, saluting me with fooleries, and the still more unall nautical politeness. pleasant view of my future that " If so be it's you this paper's the company, . especially poor for, you'll grant me grace, I think, Boots, my solitary junior, drew on sir," said the sailor ; handing me the basis of a Court Martial, and at the same time a scrip of MS. its inevitable result. At length, simply containing the address of under plea of a head-ache, I got a house in one of the most disre rid of them, shut myself in, and putable streets in Calcutta. after abundant use of cold water, What does this mean, my sate down to reflect upon my position and prospects. man ?" I enquired. “ The boy that's in distress There was no doubt about it, I him as whistles," he said, " you'd was in a “fix," or rather in seveunderstand ;-he's got something ral fixes ; having been drunk at to say to you, if you'd be so good Government Ilouse, when I ought as come to him at half-past cight to have been soberon guard in the this evening, 'cos why d'ye see, he Fort. I had moreover complicated can't exactly come to you. Som- , my private affairs, and laid myself mut about a letter he said." at Agnes's mercy, by offering my Difficult as this speech may hand to one who was as good as seem, if you have not the key, married. I began to see my way, guided And Edith ! if she had written (dare I confess my folly?) by the to me after all; for I felt there. dim refraction of my past dream; was some mystery difficult of soand after a few more questions, lution, in what a light must I the answers to which were equal have appeared to her. While she ly enigmatic, I bade the man say perhaps had loved me, and been I would be at the appointed place true, I had been living in total at half past eight that evening. forgetfulness of her, till her image Shortly after his departure, had almost faded from my heart. some of the officers of my corps On looking back, I feel that my began to drop in, and E8 the con love for her had passed as a boyish versation re-called me to the reali- folly by that time, but at the ties of my pozition, the dark vi moment I would have denied it at sions of the night faded from my the peril of life; I was as much mind. So there I. lay in bed, in bor lover as ever ; I would resign ·Retrospections of a Young Man. '741 the service to avoid the Court hastily, as I saw his nose wrink- Martial with which I was threat ling into a sncer, “I'm in love." ened, collect the property to “I know; of course you are ; which I might be entitled by my with that girl that's engaged to Cox mother's death, pay my debts, Bloxam ; we can all see that.” and roam the world, till I had "No," said I vehemently, "it's found my Edith. nol with her." Ah! romantic visions of youth, how long can you stand before “Well," said the Major, “I'll the scheming coolness of wicked be hanged, but you're a strange fellow. old aye ? Major Hardiman en- Take my advice; rctered the rooin, and my heart cognize the side of your bread seemed to contract as a flower on which the butter lies; stop might before a frosty evening. in the Service, and do as well as Well, Master Charles," said the rest of us ; let Miss O- marry my Commanding Officer, "you've her bold Dragoon, and depend been and done it.'' upon it you may see more of her, “I am prepared for the conand feel less tired of her, than if sequences, Major," I replied, “I you married her yourself." am going to resign the service." "Major Hardiman," said I, "I Resign man! why your forshall feel obliged by your speaktune's made. I saw the Chief this ing of that young lady in a promorning, • Wild young shaver per torre, or not at all. that of yours,' says he, Who, “ Bravo !" cried the Major, Freeman my Lord?'. Yes,' says “Satan reproving sin. Well, boy, his Lordship, ' but got rale soul to shew you I don't wish to offend dier's stuff in him. Put him in or quarrel with you, suppose I the front, Major, the first skrim bestow my tediousness upon you mage ye get, and if he coines out at dinner.' alive, I'll make a man of hiin.' "Thank you, Major," I answer- Those were his very words; add ed, Po but I have a particular exing, • He made us a speech last •gagement this evening." night; I laughed till I thought it "Why, Lless the lad," hc repliwas all over with me.' ed briskly, " he has more flaines "It's too late Major," said I than the Pope, or the Sultan deliberately ; "my mind's made cithcıl, I think. I think I seem up. I don't like telling you, but I like that old cock that used to feel that I am not suited for this teach his grandson draughts. Eh country, or for a military life. Charley?.Well, take care of your- And I hatc some conscientious self, that's all, and mind what I scruples about taking people's mo say, 'Stick to the Service.'" So ney when I cannot give them a saying, thc old rascal left the proper return. Besides," I added # 6 rouin. CHAPTER XVII. So I had a solitary dinner, and had tu dtal with, I took the prethen sate to clear my head for what caution of putting a little pair of was coming. Having some faint loy-pistols into my pocket, thinkguess as to the sort of persons I ing it beiter 'to be independant of FOL. I.NO, X. 1 ·742 Retrospections of a Young Man. Besides my such a Police as there then was passages, finally ushering me into at Calcutta. a tolerably well-sized room, fur- My syce knew the way to the nished with a chair, table, and street indicated, one of the remot bed of the oldest and strangest est of the Calcutta “slums," possible patterns. places, I may venture to say, companion's lamp, there was no would match in dark, dingy dirty other light but a chiragh stuck in disreputability with those of any a nook of the wall. town in Europe ; combining, as “Gardez vous bien," said my they moreover do, many of the conductress, and before I could features both of savage and of civi reply, or ask her nicaning, she lized profligacy. On arriving near had left the room, taking the the house which had been speci lamp or candle with her, and leavfied, I got out of my buggy; the ing mo to light another cigar by night was gloomy, dark, and op the little chiragh, and wait in papressive ; the moon was hid by tience for the end of this singular clouds which her utmost bright- adventure. Ivery one who has ness could only affect with a mar passed any such moments, knows gin of yellow ; nor was there any how long they seem. The re-aclight in the street, but the spark tion aſter last night's excitement; at the end of my cigar ; 110 pasthe fumes of the tobacco which ] sengers but a few lean pariah was inhaling with all my might; dogs, snarling and snapping over the silence, darkness, and solitude the garbage of the drain. But of the hour, all conspired to act while I was still looking for the upon iny nerves ; I could posihouse, by came Police tively licar nothing but the beat- Chupprassies, headed by an Irish ing of my own heart, which, in thic Inspector, from whom I received desolation of the moment, I was the necessary assistance, and pre beginning to count. Before I had sently stood before the door, give got much beyond one hundred, ing the knocks that had been in I heard steps, a grate was opened dicated by the sailor. The gate." in the door, and a candle throw was opened by sonic one I could its light on the well-remembernot see', and I found myself in a ed lineaments of Whistling Joe. small, and apparently weed grown When he had looked in, and compound. Advancing bodily to caught my eye, he held up some the door, I was met by a sallow written paper in his hand, on chouked girl of colour, whose ap which I thought I could trace pearance with large eyes sparkling my own name in well-rememberin the light of the lamp she held, cd character. struck ine as that of a Mauritian. “ Ilave you a lotter for me Addressing her a few words in there, Baker ?" I asked, with as the creole patois, i found I was much calmness as I could comnight, as she replied in excellent mand: "if so, give it me, and French, butin a way which shewed let's have no inore nonsensc. I she had comprehended the villain suppose you could not bring ous jargon with which I had ac it to my quarters, for fear of a costed her. Bidding me follow, big D." she led me through a number of " That's it, Squire," replied doorwavse and a rubbisha-crowded : the man; “ you're right in every Some ·Retrospections of a Young Man. 743 think but one. I have got the was, at the Eight Bells. At last I letter--and more too-I did not hadn't got but five bob left, (what come up to you for fcar of a big with paying off an old score d'ye D., only I don't mean to give you see ?) and I scts off (precious the letter till I see how you be- screwed) in the evening, for to borhave c; nor the somethink clse till row a 'oss from one or another of after." my pals for to ride down to Ports- 6 Confound you, what are you mouth-which I ought to have driving at. Let me out, and give been there walking by that time, me the letter." and to give you this here letter " You'll not think it dear at afore the ship sailed. Blowed if five hundred rupecs ?” said Joc, they didn't think it was the interrogatively. chap with his 'ead on his back." “ Five hundred deyils ! let Some shut their doors, and some me out instantly." opened their windows; and when “ Soft words my master, re- Master Cox, the Baptish, himn as plied Joe. “ Lookye, there's I used to snarc pheasants for, to none but friends here in the house, send to London, he fired a Blunand no one at all in the street. derbust at me, I thought it was We" (good gracious! thought I, time to pad the hoof, and away how many of them are there?) I tramped to Portsmouth ; for “ aren't a-going to do you no of course you'd leſt Stagnum beharm, leastwise not if we can help fore I'd got through the fi'pun it; only you'd better be civil, d'ye noto. Well, when I got to Portssee, and hand us over the ready." mouth, you was gone from there “I shall do nothing of the too; ship had sailed, and I didn't sort," I answered; “let me out well know what to be at next. of this, and I'll help inyself.” If I went back to Stagnuin, my Why, as to that, Squire," place was gone, and there was one said the poacher, “ I'm as good .or two matters about there as a man as you any day of the didn't make it altogether pleasant week, and perhaps a bit over, but for me to be about, without any what would be the good of my one to speak it good word for me. licking of you? You aint got no Besides, I was tired of my wife money in your pockets, you flash as I'd got there, and I'd always s don't use to carry tin 'ad a bit of a inkling for to see When you goes out o' nights in furrin parts, so I listed in the this here town-1 mean nothing first regiment as was goires to but what's fair hy you ; I've got sail for India, (I was a little too something that ought to be yours, old for a sailor) and out I came well that's my luck. I got five to this here beastly holc. Leastpounds at the first, as any mistress wise my regiment landed at says, for to drink your health withi. Madras, but sogering wasn't no Being a man of honour, I could work for a man as 'ud kep his gun not do nothink else with it, and and lis pointer, so I just took five pounds goes a long way, least French leave, and that's the reawise with ale at fippence. I was son, Squire, as I couldn't come to most afraid one time I should a you myself this morning. And had to finish it out in Champagne, precious 'ard work I've 'ad of it, only they'd got none, where I to keep soul ami loday together, 66 ·744 Retrospections of a Young Man. it ; but I've no time to stop palaver peons arrested her, and she ing here, so now, if you will have gladly availed herself of the op- “your money or your life,' portunity to invoke assistance slowly raising a pistol --"there's for a for a paurre garçon who was pen and ink and paper before in danger, she feared, from that you on the table." tcrrible Monsieur Djo. We'll “Two can play at that game, have the villigan yet," said Pat, I cried, and fired my little wca withi professional enthusiasm ; pon at the rascal's face. Lucki " there's a reward for his apprely he was too quick, and dropped hension. Ile deserted from a back with the intention of forc Regiment of Fut at Madras, and ing the door, which I had pre has committed several robberies viously locked. At this moment since he came to this." a crash was heard, and stops came rapidly towards the spot, After thanking my kind deliguided either by the light in the verer, as he deserved, I jumped outer passage, or by the roport into my buggy,and drove to my of my pistol. I opened the door quarters. Then throwing myself to meet my fate, but only cnon my bed, I addressed myself, countered my friend the Inspecin trembling haste, to Edith's letter. tor, and his sable nyrmidons. But the excitement of “The people have escaped, by the past two days had been too pipers," he said ; "they've as much for me ; something 1 afterwards remembered of language many holes as my fatlıcr's old rabbit warren. Come along, sir." loving but restrained ; and the What was that on the floor? record of a family curse, so that the villain had dropped the letter no Eversfield survived maturity, when he drew back for his spring, unless to pay for the protraction or else in the hurry of his escape. of life by a bercaveinent of rea- As we went to seek my buggy, That weird she would bear iny “ Deus ex machina" infornialone, and end it and the family in her own person. ed me that the ncighbourhood and the house itself bore an ill I remember nothing else, but name, and that he bad taken an being woke by the sound of a opportunity of returning soon piano-forte and a subdued female after he passed me. Presently he voice as I lay® exhausted but resaw the girl slip out, whom I have covered, in a high and spacious, before mentioned. One of his bed-room. son). - CHAPTER XVIII. 11 " When my husband went to and me, than Major Ilardiman or call," said my hostess," and found Mr. Blaker." you in a raging fever, he easily We often hear complaints of got the Doctor's leave to move Indian hospitality having fallen you to our house; whiel, as India off. I cannot admit them. These goes, is more cool and comforta excellent people were comparative ble for you, 17e hope, than quar strangers to me, beyond a comters ir the Fort. Basides, you mon letter of introduction I had have had bejter rurses in Agnes Trought out, and a casual ac- ·Retrospections of a Young Man. 745 did me was quaintance founded on that and session of Blackhurst; at which, on my visits to themselves and though without any assignable their fair guest. cause, people seemed surprised I will not exactly say that they and annoyed. The contrast was a kindness, because I certainly great! The changes of fear the fever I got rid of was this world are a trite and a monotoo quickly followed by another tonous theme; here was a bitter and more incurable attack. All illustration. All that heartful, that truc and lasting love which, sympathetic geniality of the gift. beginning by a feeling of mutual ed but ill-starred young heiress to estcem, is fostered by constant give way to the régime of the most domestic association with a per. starched and unenlightened res. son who can never be seen unat pectability that ever froze a neightended by the most gracious pro bourhood. Gloomy indeed Mr. prieties of female cxcellence : such Tufto hinself even scemed to he indelible impression pro-' have felt it, for he left soon after duced upou mne by living under for London ; Blackhurst was dethe same roof with the sweet serted and shut up. On this Agnes. That stay was certainly subject too, there were mysteribut of short duration ; there was ous rumours abroad. Mr. Abud to be a campaign on the Frontier, was furiously fussy, and fussily and my corps having already furious; his late fair and noble marched, I could barely walk client had had other views, nay across the room when I laid my he had a distinct recollection of a dawk, trusting to 'the change of Will, which he even fancied he scene and climate to complete had in his own keeping. On this my recovery; and, I fear, sone point, after mature investigation, what shaken in my intention of he found himself in crror ; he did leaving the Servicc. say I not wish to be guilty of disrespect fear, for I sadly suspect the pro- . to his right honorable friend, (if minent wish of my heart was to Mr. Tufto would permit him to slay poor Cox Bloxam, and trust call him so, which, if Mr. Tufto to the Chapter of Accidents for had any voice in the matter, he happiness. certainly would not,) “but he Just before I started, I was ventured to predict that the Will furnished with fresh matter for re would yet be discovered, and • flection during my journey, in the the result would be found to shape of Overland letters. From justify the expressions he had them I learned that the long-anti made use of." All this was nocipated event had taken place at thing to me, and I know not why Madeira; poor dear Edith had I took any interest in it. A slip died an inmate of the Convent at of printed paper dropping from Funchal ; and there was, at any the letter licre attracted my atrate, room for rejoicing that that tention. bright pure spirit had not passed “ On the 1st of April, by the under the cloud which had fallen Rev. T. Warren, 1). D., Rector of on the latter days of her father, and Stagnum-in-the-Mere, the Rey. so many of her house. In virtue B. Cope, Assistant Chaplain, H. of his wife's position as heir-at E. I. C: S., to Martha,“ second law, Mr. Tufto had taken pos daughter of the Rev.D. Warren." I ·746 Retrospections of a Young Man. 6 With regard to the Dashwoods that, during my late illness, Mr. I learned that the old Baronet Joseph Baker had contrived to continued to suffer for the loss of elude thc vigilance of the Police, his son, who for his part preserve and had left Calcutta before I ed the strictest silence ; except did, taking with him, it is said, towards the Warrens, to whom he the Creole girl, who, besides being frequently wrote, through the a pleasant compagnon de vogage London Agents ; but without for him, had very probably, giving the least clue to his where knowledge of one or two facts abouts. Abud had been vainly which would have had disagrecable employed by the Baronet to ex bearing on the fortunes of her tract the scent from those gentle erratic and eccentric friend, if they men, but they declared that their had come to the ears of authoriconstituent was firm, that they ty. were not at liberty to divulge the In closing this second and penmatter without his instructions, ultimate part of my Retrospecand the old man was left uncon tions, I must pause to remark soled and inconsolable. One thing upon a fact which every one afwas very evident, that Mr. Spen fects to ridicule, and yet of the cer Dashwood was not to get the truth of which each inan's perproperty, (though some of it was sonal experience, iſ honestly canentailed,) that young gentleman vassed, would yield corroborahaving been shipped off to Buenos tion. I mean that we have “Spe- Ayres to learn "business.” Un cial Providences." Had I been pleasant reports were afloat too, murdered, by Laker in that iniand the establishment at the Hall quitous den of his, I should have had been reduced. been cut short before life had Turning over these various taught me one salutary lesson. At topics in my mind, I pushed on the time of which I am speaking, towards the seat of war. Mean my mind was in a ferment. All time events were going on in the that had hitherto befallen me was camp, which I did not of course but the confused phantasmagoria hear of till later, but which I may of a dream ; Light had yet to arise as well mention here. from prinial darkness, Order from Neither must I omit to state Chaos.

·747 ] EMIGRATION AND SCENES IN A NEW COLONY. In dreaming of each inighty birth, That shall one day be born ; From marriage of the Westero carth, • With nations of the Moru. In what such dreams may re we hope, thoroughly imbued with sult we do not pretend to say, English fecling. Since that time but we see them rapidly becom- the Islands of Australasia have ing a reality. It is no dream opened out their fertile shores now to speak of the marriage of to English emigrants, and the the East and West; or if so, the streams have flowed East as well births (which there is no denying) as West : but the tendency of are illegitimate. It is no dream to these streams is now apparent : speak of the union of the Atlan though flowing in opposite directic and Pacific ; of the dawn of tions, their course is to the Pacific. civilization on the Isles of the Colonization is almost exclusivelatter occan, and of the mighty ly directed to founding nations births that have followed the on the shores of that vcean. This connection of the Northern and fact, is pregnant with interest to Southern Hemispheres. Ancpoch the Anglo-Saxon, aye, and the mure grand in results than any human race. Experience has the world has seen, is being con shown that no other people are summated during our generation. capable of planting a successful These results are giving the do colony in a wilderness. Where are minion of the globe to the Anglo the traces abroad of the great Saxon race, and in then the hand maritime nations, since the disof Providence is as clcarly tracc-' covery of America ? The few able as when that hand wrote son that remain are rapidly being the palace wall of Belshazzar. It swallowed up. What has been is now upwards of three hundred effected by the Dutch, the Portuand thirty years since a gallant guese, the Spaniards, the French ? adventurer in the service of Spain, The Anglo-Saxons alone have rearcoasting down the Eastern shores ed an Empire in the wilds of the of America, passed through the Temperate Zone. The Continent Straits called after him Magellan, of Jurope has sent forth large and entered the vast occan he bodies of emigrants, but only to named the Pacific. Nearly a swell the rising Colonies of Engcentury after that event, the land. Wherever the Anglo-Sux- English settlements took root in on race have taken rout, they Northern America, and commen have carricd away all comers, of ced thc career of Colonial Empire all tongues and creeds, in the work destined to spread a cordon of of cnergy, which in them a new nations round the carth--of Eng country ever developes. This is lish descent-speaking the Eng proved beyond dispute by the lish tongue-- with English institu vast amount of emigration from tions, arts and sciences, and, may the continent of Europe, absorbed ·748 Emigration and Scenes in the States, without leaving a European one; but the nations trace of its origin. To colonize of the Continent will only find the states of America is to be. that out when every Colony is in come ir feeling, in manner, and the hands of the Anglo-Saxon in energy, a citizen of the great race : then to what will the emi. Republic. The rimportance of gration sent forth by these nathis cannot be over-estimated. tions tend, but to swell the Colo- The fact that European emigra- nies of England into empires, and tion tends but to raise the young give the entire control of the Panations of the Anglo-Saxon race, cific to men speaking her tongue. shows that the dominion of the With that dominion follows the world is destined to pass into the sway of Asia. The giant strides hands of that people. The vast of America have astounded the Pacific ocean is bounded on one world, and in their greatness bafside by the Western coast of fled all calculation. Scarcely have America, either in the hands, or men recovered their astonishment living at the breath, of this domi. at beholding a state rise, as by nant racc. On the other side, the the wand of an enchanter, before ocean laves the shores of Austral they see that state grasping at asia, allrapidly growing colo.. all within its reach, and the nies of England : between these nation fitting out an expedition to shores the ocean is studded with coerce one of the ancient Emfertile Islands, whose climate is pires of Asia. Whatever may an eternal spring; to the North be the fate of this expedition, and West lie the decaying old the states will gain a footing in nations of Asia, the children of the Continent. Where will her Shem. foreign aggression stop ? To what The two centuries and a half height will rise her growing powthat have elapsed since the co er ? Whilst others talk they act ? lonies were first planted on the With our eyes we see them grasp- Eastern shores of America, have 'ing at the trade of the world; cosufficed to inundate the North voring the seas with a merchant ern Continent with the stream of navy equalled by no other nation; European emigration ; the barrier connecting the Pacific and Atof the Rocky Mountains has been lantic by rail and water; introburst through, and the stream, is ducing a large fleet of Steamers now pouring down ; cities are ra into the former ocean ; joining pidly rising, and a great nation San Francisco and China by a will soon front the Pacific. Tak line of steam packets, and making ing time as the course of this an effort to direct the trade of stream, we see it increase as a Asia by the Isthmus of Panama, river swelled by rivulets from whilst they inundate the world other nations : these rivulets will with the gold of California. If become torrents ; for by what the progress of the parent state other means than cmigration can on the other side the Pacific be less France, Germany, Italy, Austria, rapid, it is no less sure. What &c., get rid of the surplus popula- gold and the energy of the Anglotion, now pressing so heavily Saxon race have done for the against the means of existence ? Western Coast of America, gold This question must become a great and that energy have also per- ·In a New Colony. 5749 ren. formed for Australia; if in a lesser and enabled them to found the degree, it is because England is nations of a Northern Continent. not so full of energy as her child A system of unjust legislation Emigration is now turn forced the descendants of the ing itst ide to our Southern co emigrants into rebellion, when lonics. The fact can no longer the seeds were planted, and the be withstood that a pauper from a growth certain. The rebellion work-louse can there earn the deprived England of the States, pay of three Colonels of the Eng and necessitated her to seek, in lish army in England. If this be other lands, a settlement for her exaggerated, enough of truth re over-crowded prisons : thus rose mains to make the diggings of Australia, through years of star- Victoria by far the most profita vation and misery, and there stand ble spot for workmen on the face these settlements, growing into of the earth. T'he truth of this empfires, though ruin was prois beginning to be felt in England. phecied, and loudly too, upon their Already the demand for shipping birth. The convict supply, welis greater than thic supply. When comed at first, is repudiated now, the course of that emigration be and throngh their great wealth comes known, the stream will flow and influence, that wish will be steadily to these glorious colonies. attended to. England must again Two routes by steam arc now seek a settlement for her felons, opened, and another line will soon and where she plants her foot cross the Pacific, and in conjunc in the Temperate Zone, there tion with the West India packets, will grow a Saxon nation. The absorb the carriage of the mails Pacific Isles will gradually be peoand gold. Nor are the efforts of pled by her race, and if the soft England contined to Australia. climate of many of these lovely The islands of New Zealand, groups enervate that people, they with their grcat natural advanwill be backed and protected by tages, and in the neighbourhood 'their more hardy brethren of of thic rich markets of Australia;. New Zealand and South Austfaare taking the place that Nature lia. What a world of civilization intended they should оссиру. and wealth will grow up in the The decided veto of the Austra Pacific ! and what a glorious lasian colonies has so strongly destiny awaits us there ! We been pronounced against a further have penetrated far into Asia, and importation of convicts, that Eng- spread civilization and peace land is forced to seek amongst where our arnis have been victothe Pacific Isles a new penal setrious. Nation after nation is tlement : thus she is driven on, falling before a destiny man, in often sorely against her will, to vain, attempts to controul. The sprcad her race over the globe, very efforts made to keep our and, by convict transportation, Indian possessions within certain give civilization to a hemisphere. limits are constantly frustrating See the course Providence has their object. It is not improbaadopted. Persecution 'begot bible that the Burmese einpire may gotry, and drove the bigots to the owe their absorbtion into our Asishores of America. Fanaticism atic dominions, to the strong alone sustained these emigrants, speeches in Parliament against VOL. I.NO, X.

·750, Emigration and Scenes race- 1 comnion the extension of our boundaries to it has extended to the utmost verge which this question gave rise. of the earth the influence of hu- Brother Jonathan owes his great manized manners, and bequeathness to his own efforts to be cd to future ages the far more grcat ; but England has grcat- glorious inheritance of British ness thrust on her Had she had Colonization. But mark the difher own way, our Indian posses ference in the action of the des. sions would have been confined cendants of Japhet--the European to a few miscrable factories on -upon the fortunes of manthe coast, struggling for their kind from the influence of that very existence ; but Providence religion to which the Roman has decreed it otherwise, --why Empire was the mighty pioneer. avoid that decree?-why try to The Roman legions conquered avert our destiny? Our power only by the sword ;-lire and in these seas, and our mcans of bloodshed attended their steps. communication, keep pace with It was said by our own ancestors our conquests; and the time is on the hills of Caledonia--" that coming, when the entire continent they gave peace only by establishof Asia will be swayed by the ing a solitude-ubi solitudinem Anglo-Saxon race, and they of fecerunt pacem appellant. The Europe and they of America British Colonists now set out with will meet by the great wall of the olive branch, not the sword China. Let us hope, when that in their hand; with the Cross, day comes, that our not the Eagle on their banners. urigin may be remembered, and They bring not war and devastathat both nations may combine to tion, but peaco and civilization govern justly, not separate, to fill around their steps ; and the track the world with misery. How of their chariot-wheels is followed, truly spoke the great historian of not by the sigh of a captive, but Modern Europe, when addressing,, by the blessings of a renovated in Glasgow, one of the first 90 world. “He shall dwell," says the dies of colonists for New Zealand, prophecy," in the tents of Shem." Alison said" God shall in Till these times that prophecy has crease Japhet, and he shall dwell not been accomplished ; the dein the tents of Shem, and Canaan scendants of Shem-the Asiatic shall be his servant." God has race-still held the faircst portion multiplied Japhet, and well and of the earth, and the march ofcivi. nobly has he performed his lization, like the path of the sun, destiny. After conqurring in has hitherto becn from East to West the Roman Legions the from the plains of Shinar to the cient world-after humanizing Isles of Greece--from the Isles of the barbarism of antiquity by Greece to the hills of Romo-from the power of the Roman sway, the hills of Rome to the shores of and the influence of the Ro Britain from the shores of Bri. man law-" the audax Japeti tain to the wilds of America-the genus" has transmitted to mo progress of civilization has been dern times the glorious inheri- steadily in one direction, and it tance of European freedom. Af has never reverted to the land of ter having conquered in the Bri its birth. Is, then, this progress tish Navy the ensire of thc seas, destined to be perpetual ? Is the an- ·In a New Colony. 0751 tide of civilization destined to It is not said Canaan shall be his roll only to the foot of the Rocky slunc. To the Anglo-Saxon race Mountains, and is the sun of know is given the sceptre of the globe, ledge to set at last in the waves but there is not given the lash of of the Pacific ? No; the nighty the slave driver, or the rack of day of four thousand years is the exccutionere The East will drawing to its close ; the sun not be stained by the saine atroof humanity has performed its cities as the West ; the frightful destined course ; but long ere its gangrene of an enslaved race is setting rays are extinguished not to mar the destinies of the in the West, its ascending beams family of Japhet in the Oriental have glittered on the isles of the world-humanizing, not destroy- Eastern seas. We stand on the ing as they advance, uniting with, verge of the great Revolution of not enslaving, the inhabitants with Time; the descendants of Japhet whom they dwell—the British raco are about to dwell in the tents of may be improved in vigour and Shem ; civilization is returning to capacity in the Eastern humithe land of its birth ; and another sphere, and the emigrants whom day and another race are begin wo sec around us, may become ning to dawn upon the progenitors of a race destined cies. Already the British arms in to exceed the glories of European India have given herald of its ap civilization as much as they have proach, and spread into the heart out-stripped the wonders of ancient of Asia the terrors of the English enterprise. Views such as these name, and the greatness of the arise unbidden at such a moment English rule; and now we see the as the present, and they promise to race of Japhet setting forth to peo rcalize the bcautiful anticipations plc the isles of the East, and the formed forty years ago by the secds of another Europe, and a se Bard of Hopo--the Poet Laucond England, sown in the regions reate of New Zealand--who apof the sun. But mark, gentlemen, pears in this instance to have been the words of the prophecy :-"Hé, almost inspired by the spirit of shall dwell in the tents of Shem, prophecyand Canaan shall be his servant.' thc human spe- “ Come, bright linprovement! in olie car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime, Thy handmaid Art, shall every wild explore', Trace every waye, and culture every shore. On 7.caland's hills, where Tigers steal along, And the dread Indian chaunts a dismial song ; Where human fiends on midnight errand walk, And bathe in brains the murderous tomahawk : There shall the flocks on thymy pastures stray, And shepherds dance at summer's opening day ; Each wandering Genius of the lonely glen, Shall start to view the glittering haunts of men ; And silence mark on woodland heights around, The village curfew as it tolls profound." Thus spoke the grcat historian was a prophecy borrowed from the thirteen years ago. llis speech Old Testament, and faintlyshadow.

·752 Emigration and Scenes ed forth by the events then taking them. To what is owing the place. Now these events are in calmness of England during the course of consummation ; thirteen burst of Continental revolution ? years more, and then, they will The fact that her restless sons be reality. Providence, as if to found more profitable work in her hasten its design, has given colonies. So we see the class into the hands of its chosen in that created these revolutions struments, the great world-moving abroad, come forth in that favored lever, gold; and hasp laced that land to crush every symptom of gold on the shores of the Pacific. rebellion. If this question does Well may statesmen gaze in sur not soon become a European one, prise at a whole nation taking the next revolution will be the flight across the Atlantic. No un most frightful of all,-the rise of willing exiles looking fondly back a starving crowd. Truly the to the dear home they leave, but descendants of Japhet will sprcad those fortunate ones bound for the, in multitudes over the earth. land of freedom with a career be England should prepare her cofore them. Ilad a prophet risen lonies for such an emigration : to tell that a fertile island, in the and she should not forget the pale of civilization, with millions words that Sir E. B. Lytton has of uncultivated acres, -a fine cliput into the mouth of Trevanion. mate, noble harbours, and well “ Depend on it, the New World placed for commerce-with'a pea will be friendly or hostile to the santry whose fathers had been Old, not in proportion to the linsupported by the soil for a hun- ship of race, hut in proporlion to dred generations, should be for the similarity of manners and instisakers for the wilds of America tutions,-a mighty truth, to which such a prophet would have been we colonisers have been blind." hissed and denounced as a liar : And it may be taken as an axiyet we see the population of. om,--the more enlightened the 1rçland already greatly affected, nation, the greater will be the and the strcam steadily increase, emigration she sends forth. The till village after village is deserted, spread of knowledge is but wid. and they alone remain who have ening the channel for the strcan). not the means to go. This is The rapid rise of nations; the acbut the forerunner, the pioneer of celerated means of communicathe mighty emigration which will tion; the connection of all parts. yet flow from Europe. Igno of the earth by a belt of steam rance only detains the peasan communication, which has drawn try, the serfs of the continent; together every the knowbut the more intelligent of that ledge that a great amount of civipeasantry are picrcing through lization can be transplanted to a the mists which, in their eyes, have new country; and the fact that shrouded the lovely lands that there is no necessity for going lie open to them. Already Ger through years of starvation, to many is sending forth her thou. arrive at prosperity in planting a sands ; and soon the Govern settlement ; these facts are affectments of the various States must ing emigration. Not many years direct from them an emigration, or ago that word was almost tantathe pent up waters will swamp thount to vagabondism ; but it is land;

·In a New Colony. 753 fast changing its character. Nowan will have become their bonemigrant may mean a Duke's son fire-lit land ; then make the bill as well as a pauper. The force out, and let the triumph of desof the fact is becoming apparent, truction, and the triumph of prothat some of the fairest portions of duction, lie side by side, and let the earth have passed into Eng any man not in Bedlam, decide land's keeping as an inheritance which is the more glorious epoch. for her children. Why should I look on the triumph of peace as that inheritance be for paupers creating new nations. I consider and convicts? Why should her the triumph of war to lie in desgentry not assert their just title? troying old ones. The present Is it because that inheritance is time is fertile in creating colonies. at the Antipodes? Why to Ire-' Men of deep learning and great land, fifty years ago, was a more abilities have given themselves up dangerous voyage, and a far more to the study of founding and godisagreeable one? If any portion , verning these enibryo empires, of these lands coull be transport and having the success and failure ed to within sight of England's of many experiments before them; cliffs, how eagerly such claims they have, to a certain extent, would be put forth! Two things brought colonization to a system. should always be borne in mind Upon this system all the settleby all who have any idea of colo ments of New Zealand have been nizing, that cvery year transit be founded, and that of South Auscomes more speedy and certain, tralia, but the casence of it lies in and that successful, colonies grow that of the Canterbury colony. into nations with an astounding It appears to me that two objects rapidity. I consider the epoch should be borne in mind, when into which we have entered as the framing the scheme on which a most glorious by far which Eng- colony is to be founded--the land's history has to record. theories which add to its success, Thirty-four years ago, the bells of and those which counteract the Britain's churches rang through, evil tendencies, and supply the reout the length of her bonfire-lit finements of a successful colony. land: her cities were illuminated, The great object must be to raise and her sons rejoiced, for the tri a moral, enlightened, and contented umph of war had been consum contmunity. Men may differ upon • mated, the despot deposed, and what standard such a community English arms had achieved the should be erected, what should be victory; what though ten thousand the model, but none will dispute of her men fell on the field of Wa that this should be the object. terloo : let their hundred thousand Government should be the agent, friends go weep, the nation victo but if Government will not act, rious will play ; but when they what should be substituted ? Both cooled down, the eight hundred precedent and common sense furmillions stared them in the face, nish us with an answer, and they looked on the bill with most powerful combination that blank dismay. Half a century can be got together;" this combiafter Waterloo, the triumph of nation must be directed by a leadwar, let them rejoice for the ing bodyg and that body my call triumph of peace, and the world themselves what they please-an 6 the ·754 Emigration and Scenes cy as association, a company, an agen America, and they were carried cy, or anything else; but it should through them alone by a strong not be a paid body; it should have faith in the ruling providence of paid servants of course, but it the Almighty. Thrown into a should not be a mercantile spe new country, covered with trees, culation. The relatives of some peopled with warlike and bloodof the leading men who go to the thirsty savayes, a difficult and new settlement, and the many dangerous communication with men in England of great talent Europe, navigation in its infanand learning, who have time on science, the scas infested their hands, and are glad to em with pirates, these adventurers ploy it so, can always form such fought their way up, filled with a body, and, though unpaid, work faith in their different creeds, and well for the interests of the new persuaded they were doing tho settlement. A new settlement work of God. If men are to learn should hold out some strong at-, by experience, such facts should traction to one class of men, and not be forgotten! The first settlethat attraction should be a bond ment founded in America did not of union; in short, it should have prosper, and was abandoned in a leading principle, and be erect 1588. In 1606 the city of Loned on that principle. There are don dispatched two vessels under few, when asked what that princi. the command of Christopher Newple ought to be, who would not port, with one hundred and len answer, Religion. I care not what adventurers on board, and all sect may be chosen, but depend kinds of implements for building on it, it is true policy to erect a and agriculture; they anchored in colony on a specified form of re the bay of Chesapeak, obtained a ligion. That of all feelings is the spot from the natives, erected a strongest which influences man ; fort, surrounded it by thcir huts, and how does it influence him, and called the place James Town ncarly always for good. No're in honor of our first king of that ligion has gained a great hold over frame. Thus commenced an einmankind which was not found- pire destined to overshadow the ed on morality, though time may world with its greatness. Shortly hide that morality in a multitude after begun those wars that ended of errors. The most pure mchali in the death of Charles the 1st, ty is taught by every faith deriv and the expulsion of his son from, ed from the New Testament, but England. The persecution of the pure and beautiful as these doc royalists drove many to the new trines are, no subjects have been settlement of Virginia, and this more fertilc in dispute. For a Church of England Colony rapidgreat and permanent system of ly rose. The same cause, a comcolonization, religior should be munity of feeling, affected the introduced as a leading principle; neighbouring province of Marythat men should feel as brethren, land. Lord Baltimore received it and as an fudúcemeni to choose as a grant from Charles the 1st the colony, that religion should himself, a Roman Catholic; he be a specified form. Never had offered the province as an asylum men grcator difficulties to over to the persecuted believers in that conac ihan the cariy colonists of faith ; hundreds flocked to it, and ·in a New Colony. 755 Maryland became a flourishing brace, inducing thereby an immi. colony. Puritanism had the same gration of men of religion ; it ineffect on New England, and Qua sures a ground work of morality kerism on Pennsylvania. Mr. and civilization ; it removes the Godley, noticing thesc facts, says subject of the greatest discord ; it "they were the principal causes binds men together in a commurespectively of the stability of so nity of fecling : for these reasons ciety in those colonies of England I think, that religion should be and of their wonderful advance introduced as a leading principle ment in material prosperity. Nay into any scheme for the foundamore, the students of the colonial tion of a new colony, and the history of England will not fail to American States have furnished observe that the prosperity of the us with successful examples. The old English colonies in America next point is to start with the seems to have been in a pretty most civilization that can be trans. equal ratio to the influences of reli- , planted to a new colony. lle is gion on the emigrant; the colonies a bold man who would say what in which religious provisions were that amount is ; all must admit neglected, were the least prosper that a greater or lesser degrec ous, and the most prosperous of can be carried out to the new soil, modern colonies, those of New and few will deny that the more England, were in fact Levitical the better, retaining, as fares poscommunities, almost entirely go sible, its virtucs, and repudiating verned and managed by influences its vices. A high state of civilizaof a religious kind." This is histion does not lessen the energy of ry, and cannot be denied; and a colony ; on the contrary, it inwhen these class settleinents are creascs it, as learning tends to raise accused of narrow bigotry, the and clevate ambition. To hcar states of America at once furnish some men talk, one would think an answer, for it is the most tole the only plan was for individuals rant country in the world, though to hake a rush to the new land, thus founded. The fact is, that, and scramble for it when there men in a new land lose their strong but these men talk in profound prejudices of religion; they may ignorance of colonization. Are last a generation, but geltlom more. thoy aware that war has to be In their place remains however a mace on Nature, which requires feeling of morality. Such men are combination and direction. It sure to inculcate in their children might as well be asserted that tho a sense of right and wrong, and an way to conquer an enemy's counobject above mere material pros- try is to rush into it individually, perity. The descendants of the and when there, actindependently. fanatics have been painted by the And the sinews are as necessary graphic pen of Cooper, and the for the former as the latter war. simple life and true piety of the The question then rises how are people of New England, just be the means to be raised ? There is fore the war of independence, fur but one way, and on this point all nished him with many ån interest believe are agreed, and that 'ing picture. A settlement found is, by the sale of the waste land. ed on any faith, holds out a pros Though all agree that, the means pect which men' of that faith em. should be raised from the sale of ; men ·756 Emigration and Scenes + the acres, few arc agreed as to the fables of the East pave cities price to be put upon these acres. only with gold, but here is a Even those who think with Mr. country so pavod. Not all the Wakefield, and hold the sufficient thundering articles of the Times, price theory, dispute as to what supported by the entire press ; that sufficient priec should be. My not all the letters, speakers, and opinion is a very simple one, and agitation of the Agents of the may often have been expressed colony in England ; not the very before, but I have arrived at it by large sums sent home by these thinking on the subject. I hold colonies for the purpose ; nor the that the sufficient price is the surprising truth, could incrcasc, highest at which the land will sell, during this time, the emigration to provided the moncy be expended Australia. Why? Can the fact on, and in the colony. I say that of land, selling in these colonies at as long as the land sells readily, an upset price of a pound an acre, the price cannot be too high. account for this ? Absurd. I am This is a subject which has fur-' quite satisfied that the price of land nished the great point of discussion has little to do with the stream of both in England and the Colonies; emigration flowing to America. and the l'imes does not hesitate to llow could men, who, it is now say that the triumph of the Wake clearly seen, do not know that fielding theory of high-priced there is such a land as Australia, land in Australia has diverted the be able to make an elaborate stream of emigration to America: calculation as to the value of but the city article, which is fact, land in the Backwoods of America strangely contradicts the leading and the value of land in the disarticle which is opinion. Men do tricts of Victoria and Adelaide ? not go to the gold fields to buy Would a pound an acre appear to land. They go to California; an English peasant a high price then why not to the richer mines for land from which he can reap of Australia ? They go to a de his thirty bushels of wheat ? sert to be starved, robbed, hung,, Why, such a price is but an item or shot; then why leave unnoticed in fts fencing and cultivation. the still richer in gold and mag This pound an acre is expended nificent colony of Port Philip. I on the colony for emigration, &c. consider the fact most extraɔrdi The American Government put nary, and a proof of the wonder the five shillings for their acre of, ful ignorance of the English pea waste land into the treasury,--at santry, that a glorious country like least such part of it as is not cx- South Australia, with its splen- pended in surveying the country. did climate and overflowing abun I feel certain that were land lowdance, should take twelve months, ered to the American standard, it in spite of its Agents, to increase would not increase cmigration to emigration to its shores, though a Australia, for I believe it to be pauper may make a thousand a a thorough, ignorance of the counyear. Corld cheap land have had try that induces the emigration an effect which gold, surpassing to America, instead of New Zeain abundance the most fabulous land and Australia. If the land of Eastern tales, has for nearly a was lowered to the price of an year failed din producing? The acre in the Backwoods of Ame- ·In a New Colony. "757 now. eyen rica, I maintain the peasant the colony? It would injure the would get the land no cheaper stock-kecping interest, dwindle than he gets All the labour into wretched individual fertile tracks near the town would effort, and make all producers, be bought up at once by specula- leaving no consumers, and what tors, and the country would pass would become of the great exinto the hands of land sharks and port? The system which has jobbers. As it is, the small pur produced, in spite of the paucity chaser does not get the land of labour, the great exporting setat a pound an acre. It is retlements of Australia, cannot be tailed to him by the large pura bad one. What would be the chaser at a much higher price,' effect of a change in the price of and the higher price is readily land, should be well considered given. When a good lot of land before such a change be made, or is put up, it seldom goes at the the truth of the proverb may be upset price; the bidding almost 'taught these colonics, that it is invariably gets beyond the one good to leave well alone. If pound per acre. If land were it can be strongly backed by sold at 5s. an acre in Australia, it argument, and in its results, in would give rise to a vast amount the Australian settlements, the of scheming and jobbing, and the theory of Mr. Wakefield can be end of it would be, that the poor more strongly urged as emigrant becomes the victim. applicable to the settlements of It may be said, this is not the New Zealand. When the colo. case in America. I am not so cer nists combined to form the settletain of that. Some queer stoment of Canterbury, they argued ries have come out lately, and that civilization, meaning thereit should be remembered that by roads, bridges, surveys, popųour emigrants to that country lation, &c.) gives value to land; are poor and ignorant, and there the greater the civilization the fore cannot blazon abroad any • more valuable the land. Money system of fraud; but no parallel expended in creating this civilizacan be drawn between the two tion, is expended in giving a value countries. The rapid growth of to the soil ; therefore, from the the States makes a village soon soil that money should be derivrise around the pioncer, if he ed. If we expend a certain sum Chooses his land well, but it is in purchasing land, that sum not so in Australia or New Zea which it is guaranteed will be ex. land. There, the small proprie- pended on the object for which it tor invariably chooses his land, is subscribed, will be returned as near as he can afford to buy and multiplied to us by the land. it, to the town, and experience Though land can be purchased at teaches him that it is the far more five shillings an acre, it is withprofitable plan. The opponents out the pale of civilization ; but of the Wakefield theory say, If we, combiting and emigrating toland were sold cheap, the pea- gether, will create a civilization, santry would scatter over the therefore we purchase, our land country, and buy up the land now within the pale,-ourselves, and occupied by the squatters. If the purchase money creating that true, would that be a benefit to civilization. The American will VOL. 1.-O. X.

·758 Emigration and Scenes nieans. pay fifteen, thirty, or fifty times which, to my surprise, has becn the price for land within that palc, attacked where I least expected than for land without it, therefore it. When the Canterbury coloour land is not dear. Is there nists assembled in the Canterbury not truth in this ? At any rate Room, London, it required no such arguments were sanctioned brilliant speeches to persuade them by good authority. What was " that man was not made to live the effect of this high price, prac- by bread alone." And the greattically carried out ? Men pur er the civilization they could chased land in proportion to their carry with them, the better for All purchasers became themselves. It is in vain for men colonists; no land was bought by' to talk of the folly of the attempt speculators. Greater preparation to transport to a new country the was made, and more misery avoid institutions which have grown up ed, than had been the case with through ages. All these instituany body of emigrants before; tions have byt onc object-to culand the religious and moral wants tivate and better the mind and of the colonists were attended to. understanding, - that mind and llad this high price any bad understanding man carries with etlect? Yes; one. A sufficient him. Therefore he takes to the nunkornf people could not be per new soil the result of the institusuaded to become purchasers, to tions which have grown up give the scheme a fair trial. The through ages. Will any one talk funds in the hands of the Associa such folly as to say,---men must tion were not sufficient for the mag revert to barbarism who colonisc nificent project; yet they work a new country ? then if not, it is ed on what they had, and worked clear a certain amount of civilizabetter than any body before them. tion can be carried out. I ask I saw sufficient, to be persuaded again, who will undertake to of the sound truth of the scheme, say what that amount is ? The -from no theories broached in. best institution of all, and that England, but from practical effect which bears civilization on its face, in the colony: and I conceived the for it cannot be even professidea that, if an emigration could cd but by a civilized people, that be directed from this country, the institution the Protestant religion Association would be enabled, in is adapted for every clime and its fullest extent, to carry out one every tongue: then, if a man căn of the most excellent schemes carry with him such a creed, why ever devised for the good of man not his library too. Were a highkind. Whilst this bright vision ly cultivated old country desolatof a colony filled ny brain, I did ed by a horde of savages, the vilnot forget that my brethren of lages burned, the bridges broken the Army would be benefited down, the trees rooted up, and thereby, and urged by the hope Nature, in short, left a waste, and of being, of use,, [wrote the but a remnant of the people on articles that appeared in Saun the land, how long would it take, ders, onąthe site and prospects if that people were full of energy of the colony. I pow respond and spirit, for things to return to to many callsm and resume the, their old state: The ocean for a subject, to defend the scheme, sailing vessel is but a highway, ·In a New Colony. 759 . and by steam it is abridged. Wil soon be practically proved to any one say, when thus connected them. New Zealand has before with England, civilization cannot this shown how erroneously, wise he carried to the colony ? Suppose upen can argue from a good basis. I had three or four thousand In looking over an old Quarterly pounds in my pocket, will any Review, an article, written twentyone tell me I cannot take to this one years ago, on a book that had new country, my library, my fur- just come out, “ Beechey's Voy. niture, my plate ; that I cannot age to the Pacific and Bhering's build a house when there; fill my Straits,"contained this passage:- cellar with cheaper and as good " During the Blossom's stay at wines as can be got in England ;: this island (Pitcairn's Island,) a lay out my money better than i whale ship arrived from Now can in England ; visit my friends Zealand, from the Master of which similarly situated; be respected if Captain Becchey obtained a curi- 1 deserve respect by them and .ous piece of information. It is those they employ, and worship now well known that the feroci- God in the way in which I have ous savages of New Zealand have becn taught? When any one discovered a method of prepartells me I cannot do this, I ing human heads, after death, laugh at him, and say, he talks of so that the features are preacrved. that which he docs not under These, heads, tattooed all over, stand. And when any one tells and of the colour of mahogany, me, the religion of the most toler are sold in most of the markets of ant church on earth, and there the East as curiosities, and may, fore the best adapted for a colony, we should suppose, be bought in is a nightmare on the cnergies of London, as what may not. Be a people, I am inclined to think this as it may, the whaler reportthat man mad. Good men seat ed that Shoughi, the New Zcacd at their desks, men of learn land chief, who was educated in ing, and accustomed to think,, England, was availing himself of are often led into great fallacics, the superiority he had acquired, by endeavouring to give their and was making terrible ravages thoughts a practical turn. Rc amongst his countrymen, whose flecting that the institutions of heads, when dried, furnished him England have been the gradual with a lucrative trade. This is the development of one thousand schoolmaster abroad with a vonyears, they say-how can such geance ! and as a fair specimen of institutions be carried away, and the march of intellect in the south placed on a waste ? How can a scas, will, we trust, not be lost on colony start from the advanced the well-intentioned benefactors state of civilization to which Eng of their species, who hope to land has attained ? If they mean convert grown up savages into that the Association cannot ship civilized beings, and thus pass for the settlement the Court of their time in the manyfacture of Chancery, they are right; but if silk purses out of a raw material, they think that a club cannot be which we avoid naming to ears founded at Christ Church, polite "" If this raked-up passage embryo College, they are should ever reach the ears polito wrong, and what's more, it will of the writer, I hope, and I am cernor .

·760' Emigration and Scenes entain if he can, he will be ashamed inhabitants of the islands in their of himself. Twenty years after vicinity? Who walked from one that was written, I stood on the end of a country as large as Great island the New Zcaland chief Britain, in a worst state, to the was then depopulating, in a Maori other ? Who forded and swam village, and bargained with natives over streams and rivers ? Who in English clothes, speaking Eng penetrated dense jungle, till the lish, for English coin to be rowed in clothes were torn from his back ? an English built boat, to an Eng Wlo slept in swamps, braved the lish town, and got it cheaper than dangers of a stormy coast, in a I otherwise would, because it was boat of 25 tons, on voyages of two Saturday night, and the New Zea month's duration ? Who cheerlanders wished to attend divine fully did work which I, a soldier, service on the following morning. and knowing what men can This is the schoolmaster abroad dure, have read of in amazement, with a vengeance! and a striking and heard from others with still proof how careful men should be greater wonder? Who but a Briiu condemning a scheme intended tish Bishop-the Bishop of New for the good of their fellow men, Zealand---Bishop Selwyn. And unless they be well satisficd that it why? llc went on an errand of cannot ysrk as intended. It is love and mercy, to couvert the strange that the very subject on heathen, to bring to the church of which this book I have quoted from God the cannibal and the savage ; principally treated, was the next and well has he accomplished his greatest evidence which this world noble mission. If there be onc can show of what education can man on earth for whom I have the effect, New Zealand being the first, greatest respect, whom I more hoand Pitcairn's Island the second. nor and adnire than another, that It will be remembered that the man is Bishop Selwyn. Though mutincers of the Bounty carried the Bishop of New Zealand has the ship there, and commenced a ccomplished most, he is not the career of crime and niurder, till only : Colonial Bishop who has all fell but two. The care of the worked thus. Yet, to hcar some other's children devolved on these men talk, onc would imagine the two, and circumstances, and 2. na bishops not only to be useless, but tural tendency, combined to turn positive incumbrance. I feartheir thoughts to God. They lessly state that Bishop Selwyn instilled a tone of religion into has done more to civilise the Southose left to their care, and suc thern Hemisphere than any man ceeded ultimately in rcaring the that ever lived, or that any one most moral community the world else will ever have the opportuhas ever seen ; and this, from the nity of accomplishing. Men offspring of mutineers and coldwithout due blooded murderers. I wonder this sideration, cry down a bishopric fact, which he was, reviewing in connection with New Zeain the work before him, did not land, and in the face of such stay the hand of the writer when facts. The Bishop of Christ he penned the above, passage. Church will have a brilliant cx- Who was it principally that civi ample of what may be accomlised the New Zcalanders, and the plished by one man; and he too should not, CON- ·In a New Colony. 761 may be a means of doing great cultivation would have gone on, good in his sphere. The fearless and the place thriven ; but they way in which they, the Associa gave to each peasant four acres, tion, have carried out their scheme, on condition he would cultivate in spite of every obstacle, is wor them, and, after eleven years, thy of admiration, confident as there were not twenty acres in culthey are in the success of the tivation. Lhave endeavoured to sound principles they have adopt- show that for a good scheme of ed. Although I do not agree colonisation to found a new sctwith them in the way in which tlement, it is necessary, in default some of these principles should be of Government acting, to effect a carried into effect, I consider strong combination, that combithey all contain the true elements nation should be directed by a of success; and the very hold this corporation, a great leading prinscheme has taken on the imagina- ciple should be adopted ;--that tion of people in this country, con- ' principle must be a specified form vinces me how weil adapted it is of religion, that the first object for gentlemen. A regulation was must be to create as much civicarried into the scheme, to prelization in the new colony as vent the labourer from at once be possible, and to give a moral and coming a land purchaser. No religious tone. To carry out this, smaller quantity than fifty acres the means can only be derived could be sold. Mr. Wakefield from the sale of the waste lands; emphatically says, the sufficient and as the more civilization the price has one grcal object about better, and as that civilization is which there can be no mis. created by these means, the higher take, and that is, to preserve the the price put on the article from labour market. To those who which these means are derived, reflect, and have observed the and to which it returns a value in ruinous system adopted in Ireland 'proportion, so long as the land of letting wretched potatoe gara will sell, the greater the success dens to labouring men, the truth of to the colony. For these reathis will be apparent. Such a sons I hold the principles on system acts for the benefit of the which the Canterbury Colony is land owner and the labourer. founded are sound and good; and The former receives the supply I have had considerable opporof labour for which he bargained tunities of judging. To say when he bought the land, and the prejudiced in favor of the colony, latter works for the object of is to say that what a man finds becoming himself a land-owner, good, and to his taste; he likes. not a potatoe garden owner, into That the scheme is the result of which he will, in all probability deep thought ; that every detail dwindle, if he be permitted at was discussed carnestly by those starting to settle on his two or best informed on Colonial matthree acres. This was clearly seen ters, I know to be true. The at Akeroa. Had men, with some author of " A view of the Art of capital, gone out to that French Colonization,” the real founder, as settlement, and purchased the the Spectator calls him, of the land as they are doing now there, New Zealand settlements, and that under the Canterbury Association, of South Australia, told me him- I am ·762 Emigration and Scenes in a New Colony. self that never did a scheme re a land overflowing with gold. ceive more careful attention; and The farmer, then, can afford to when one remembers that that. pay a high rate of wages, and careful attention was given by an orderly peasant with a family, such men as G. Wakefield, Ad would prefer working at the more derley, Godley, the Duke of congenial, safer, and healthier Newcastle, Lord Lyttelton, &c., employment of agriculture. Mr. their known study and know Wakefield proposes that an emiledge of Colonial questions at gration at once be directed from lcast entitle their opinions to res China. No other men wear tails, pect. I have been asked to give and if the tails be not allow. my opinion as to the effect on ed at the diggings, as handythe Settlement of Canterbury, of craft men and agriculturists, in the Australian gold fields; and I which they excel, they will save do so at once, though I grant it is the Australias and New Zeaof little value. My opinion is, 'land. I do not think it would this discovery will produce present be a bad specklation to embark embarrassment, and ultimately from this country with a cargo of grcat good. I believe every thing coolies. Purchase land in New must find its level, though it is Zealand and set to work at once. hard to see clearly how, just now. For a few years one would be safe, It is clear that emigration to the speaking the language and know- Southern Colonies will flow aling his men, for they are such most exclusively to Victoria ; that a thick-headed and ignorant set, thie settlement will absorb a great that it would take years for them portion of the population of the to understand what was going on others; that a large portion of this about them. The news from Canassemblage will consist of thieves, terbury is to the 3rd of January. discharged convicts, rogues, and No movement, and no sign of one, cut-throats; that that assemblage' was then perceptible, but the cannot be coerccd, for no force more wealthy fields constantly becould remain in an organized state 'ing discovered in Victoria, must in its vicinity; therefore Lynch affect the population, and I cannot law will be established, and murder help viewing it with alarm; though and robbery rife. Good men will Good men will whatever its present effect, I feel then find that this is not the place certain it will tend to the future for them ; but still they emigrate, prosperity of the colony. The As-' to obtain a portion of the bene sociation were particular in sendfits resulting from this golden ing married men with families ; it treasure. Clearly, the only other will be a strong inducement that way in which that can be done, moves them, but there is no denyis by cultivating Ney Zealand, ing that strong inducement does lic just far enough off to be without in Victoria; but whether they move the pale of the demoralizing in remains to be seen. There is anofluence. If a very great number ther safety guard for New Zeaof non-producers assemble to land; these islands have a populagather gold, and neglect the cul tion of 150,000 natives, excellenttivation of the soil of Austra ly well adapted for shepherds and lia, provisions will fetché a high agriculturists, but in spite of the price, which can be well paid in judicious choice of labourers sent ·Ballad. 763 to Canterbury, and the considerable Maori population, I consider the gold field will produce much temporary embarrassment. BALLAD. “ MEN were dcceircrs ever." SHAKESPEARE. Knrlt a gay youth by a young girl's side, Angcle watch o'er thee, maiden, fair maiden ! Fearful the face which her tresses hide, Sorrow has found thee, maiden, fair maiden. " Happy. we have been, then weep Though I inust leave thec, maiden, sweet maiden, Thus, on thy lips, will I seal the vow, Thine still for ever, maiden, dear maiden !" not now, Brightly the moon shone in Ileav'n above, Streaming chill o'er thee, maiden, pale maiden, But it is changeful--and so is Love Angels, watch o'er thee, maiden, fair maiden ! Fringing its light a dark shadow lay, Haply a warning, maiden, sad maiden, Night clips the heels of the brightest day, Gloom may be coming, maiden, young maiden. Faded that bright moon! A second rose, It never knew thee, maiden, fair maiden; Sadly thy bower, where the jessamine blows, Pined for thy presence, maiden, fair maiden. Up sailed the third, and its sheen again Round thec, like snow, slceps, maiden, pale maiden, Grieving I see, fast as Summer rain, Silent thy tears fall, maiden, poor maiden. “He whom I loved is as falso as air, Nowhere, like me, is maiden, sad maiden, Nothing is left me but black despair!" Is't come to this then, maiden, poor maiden ? Tempting the deep river slides before, Treinbling I watch thee, naaiden, young maiden, One prayer to Heaven - now the wave sweeps o'er, All of thee earthly, maiden, lost inaiden ! B.

·[ 764 ] SIMON PIGEON, THE MUFF. >> 66 " THEN we'll lbok on it as a set should not feel quite in short, I' tled thing, Pigeon, and you shall am not a good rider, and that have the horse to-mortow, I would horse of yours would be too much not have parted with him at all ex for me.” cept to a particular friend, and My dear fellow,” exclaimed certainly no man living but your his friend, “what a mistake; 'Luself should have had him so ridicu- natic' is the quietest horse breathlously chicap." ing; we gave him the name in Thus one evening spoke Knack fact for that very reason, for the er of the Dragoons, in the Billiard fun of the thing, you know ; it Room of our Mess House, to Pin was such an absurd contrast to geon of ours, who had been lookhis disposition." ing out for a showy steed lately, “ Oh! I sec," cried Pigeon, to cut a figure upon in the eyes " Lucus a non.... of his intended. “ You are indeed kind," he “ Just so," said Knacker, "Lureplica, Qui I fear I must decas of ours was the very man cline availing myself of your ofthat christened him. I'm devilfer, for the sum is rather above ish glad you have got him, for my ineans.' your own sake, of course; do not Oh, that is of no consemind me; I can always pick up quence," returned his friend, something or other that will do for ine ; but I believe you are you can pay me at your leisure, just give me a memo. of the not much in the way of these sort aniount, and pay it by instal-. of things ;-in fact that was why I made ments, or how you please.” you the offer." “No, but really," cried Pigeon. “ You really are very kind," “ You know," interrupted said Pigeon; "I do not know how Knacker, you really must have to thank you." a decent looking horse now; you “Oh! never mind thanking are going to be married, that old me," said the Dragoon, “but tell screw of yours really is not res me how your love affair goes on ;' pectable. I could not help pity Miss O'Flaherty is a very fine ing Miss O'Flaherty the other girl; by Jove, sir, you are a lucky evening when you were riding by dog. the side of the carriage, the poor « He! he ! he !" chuckled Pi. girl was quite in agony with sup geon," I really think she is pretpressed laughter--yoti should not, ty, you know ?" really Pigeon, indecd it is not "Pretty !" cried his friend; the thing: " by gad, she's beautiful." But, said Pigeon, “And-and-and there's a littell you in confidence of course, tle money too, you know," addas I should lot like it to be gene ed our hero, blushing up to the rally known, that I am kather eyes at his own affcctation of that is I don't like I mean I worldliness. do *** I will ·Simon Pigeon, the Muf. 765 17 was “Ah! Pigeon;" said the other, he suppressed an exclamation 80 that is quite a secondary consi very unsentimental, and drownderation. If there be but true ing a natural sigh in a tumbler of and earnest love, every thing else brandy and water, he challenged may his friend to a game of billiards. A bitter sigh finished the sen Never had Knacker been known tence, and Pigeon, glowing all to play so vilely before ; the over with admiration, grasped very easiest cannons escaped him, the hand of his high-souled friend, and all he appeared able to do exclaiming, “By Jingo! Knacker, with the balls, was to leave them what a jolly, good-hearted fellow in the most tempting proximiyou are. ty to the pockets, the Marker “It would be ungenerous," said thought he was drunk. Sloper the Dragoon, pursuing the cur concluded that he was preparing rent of his own thoughts, " to say the inind of some griffin for an that I envy you ; no, you shall not. extensive bet, and our friend know how I once, held hopes as Pigeon, who had always heard brilliant as your own; alas! how his opponent spoken of as the have they becn blighted! but I best player in the station, felt will not cast, over your new born justifiably proud when he found gladness, the shadow of my self himself a winner for the first ish sorrows." time in his life. My dear friend,” cried our Pigeon of ours--his Christian hero, almost in tears, “if it will name by the way was Simondo you any good, pray unbosom a tall and slender youth, yourself; do tell me what you with a very fair complexion, and mean. I am sure I should never a profusion of soft flaxen hair. have guessed that you had any In spite of a low forehead, and secret griefs, so jolly as you have a very retreating chin, he was, always appeared." I believe, universally considered Pigeon," " said Knacker im a good-looking young fellow, for pressively, “I can control my, he had a most aristocratically feelings, I can conquer niyself, aquiline nose, and a pair of large but enough of this; let us rather,' mild blue eyes, as bright and continued he, "talk of your own clear as a tropical sky, and if posprospects, a far pleasanter theme : sible rather more vacant. He had youth, love and beauty smiling been the only son of his mother, on you, and as I thirk you added, and she was a widow, and his you expect also a trifling addi education had been conducted in tion to your income. Do you the most lady-like style. His pohappen to know the amount ?" liteness was proverbial ; in fact I will tell you, my dear he could not say no, nor wound friend," said Pigeon, “but you the feelings of any, by the faintest must promise not to tell any appearance of mistrust; his kind body else, as I rather think I sajd ness sprung from the impulses I would not mention it-Angela ,of a heart naturally soft, and has twenty thousand fupees.' cultivated by education to the Knacker was just on the pulpiest possible condition of point of exclaiming, “ The devil tenderness. Good-tempered, inshe has," but with a violent effort Docent, 'and• .unsuspecting, he VOL. 1, NO. X. 2 ·766 Simon Pigeon, the Muff. seemed sent into this worky-day Festivals, Public Dinners, Teeworld for the special benefit of total Societies, Steeple chases, swindlers in general. Fortu and the suppression of cruelty to nately for himself, his circum animals, and it need not be added stances were not such as to tempt that he got enormously in debt, pillage on an extensive scale; so much so ind ed as to give him but from the day he first entered temporary security, for his credithe service, he was verpetually tors dared not risk the loss of his being victimised in a small way, commission. He had become purchasing his friends' superflui engaged to Miss Angela O'Flaties at fancy prices; becoming herty before she had inherited security for people of the most the pleasant little sum above problematical solvency ; riding mentioned, and while she was impossible horses and always chiefly known as the wildest spetumbling off; playing billiards cimen of an unmitigated flirt and never winning ; going to that had ever appeared in India ; picnics and standing the cham their cngagement surprised nopagne. le got into inany a body, for it had long been the scrape by patronizing plausible settled conviction of the whole natives; he caused universal dis station, that Pigeon must marry content by the exorbitant wages Miss O'Flaherty, because nobody he gard bitin, servants; and his else would. house and compound were a-pub Our hero had noticed a change lic nuisance from the swarıns of in the young lady's manner touseless dependents, with their wards him since she had become families and relations to the an heiress,-indefinite postponetenth degree, to whoin he gave ments of the happy day, and a shelter. He was a Latitudinarian gradual cooling down of that in religion from too much beliet, glowing fondness, which in and in politics was Whig, lligh other days had often made him Tory, Radical, Conservative, and feel uncomfortably at a loss for Communist, all at once, because , dequate reciprocation ; le howhe really could not bear to think ever charitably attributed the any body in the wrong. Posi change to maiden delicacy, and tive assertion always convinced felt, if the truth must be told, him, for he could not understand rather relieved by it than otherwhy any man should persist in wise. saying a thing unless it was true; A few days after the purchase it need therefore astonish po body of the horse, and before he had that he was the most particu quite recovered from the effects lar friend of Captain Knacker, of a violent fall, which he got of the Dragoons, a wide-awake the first time he mounted him, gentleman, who never stuck at he was surprised, while sitting at trifles, and who, as Sloper said, breakfast, by a note, the contents would swear a hole through a of which were as follows: “ Farewell for ever! We may Our Simon's charity was uni boast of our strength; we may versal ; le sübscribed with equal glory in our philosophy; the day readiness to Races, Missons, The of trial undeceives and humbles atres, Church buiding, Native ys: has been so with your untin pot. L ·Simon Pigeon, the Muff. 767 19 6 Who 19 . scrape ?" 97 66 happy friend. Pity and forgive er, sinking into his chair; "there me; I do not blame you, oh no, you is more to be bad." could not help it ; another hour “Oh! Knacker," cried our herelieves me from the burthen of ro, "give up the dreadfulthought, a useless and miserable existence, and tell me what can have urged and you and —; but no, I cannot you to so frightful a resolve. write that name. Farewell for Urge me not," said his ever, forgive and forget me." friend; go on exulting in your The paper was very moist, the own happiness, and insult me writing an awful scrawl ; there not with your pity." “ Is it debt? enquired Pigeon. were seven large blots scientif- Knacker shook his head. cally distributed, and the signa- “Have you been fighting a ture was perfectly illegible. Siduel?" mon rushed to the door. No." brought this note ?" he cried, breathlessly. “ Have you got into any “Captain Knicker's servant, "No." was the reply. "Is it, oh! is it blighted af- It was enough ; our hero start fection ?" ed off that nioment, and rushed Pigeon,” said Knacker sowildly through the lines without leinnly, no more: touch not that his hat; till he stood in the pre subject; probe not a wound like sence of his desperate friend. that; be happy in your ignorance; Knacker of the Dragoons was the knowledge of my misery sitting in his chair, his head buriwould ensure your own ; yes, I ed between his arms, which rest know your heart, and never shall ed on the table ; spasmodic conthat heart be wounded by my vulsions shook his stalwart frame, selfishness." and he groaned at intervals. He “Oh! Knacker," cricd Pigeon, had always been famous for sy do not, I besccch you, think his groaning; it had rendered of me. Is it ..... him invaluable at the theatre, Yes," said Knacker. where he used to do the Ghosts. is ! Long have I worshipped An- Before him stood a small phial, gela, but let me do myself the conspicuously labelled Laudanum, justice to add, I have striven and fillod with cherry brandy; he against that love ; I have strugwas not sure that he might not gled to overcome the passion that have to take it before the day injured my best friend ; 'I have was over. failed; ask me no more ; the die “ Interrupted," shouted le, as is cast ; my fate for ever is deour friend entered, and starting termined.' up, he seized the deadly potion. “Oh! but this is terrible," cri- Pigeon however was on the alert, ed Pigeon, "I cannot let you go he grappled with his friend, and on thus, sacrificing yourself for after a brief but violent struggle, me so nobly, so unsalishly." succeeded in wresting the fatal “ One of us must be sacrificed," phial from his hand, and hurling returned the Dragoon mournfully. it from the window. - Then let that one be me," "It matters not," cried Knackcried Pigeon., ?" 66 It ·768 Simon Pigeon, the Muff. 1 "Never, never," said Knacker, had been compulsory; that he had " Angela has doubtless long since discovered that the peace of mind forgotten me ; the early affection of a friend was at stake, and as he which I fondly dreamed my own, feared her own as well, that if his has doubtless been transferred, painful surmises were correct, he with the promise of her hand, to hoped no false delicacy would dethe happier suitor to whom her prive him of the power of making tyrannical Uncle decreed her yet amends, by giving up all claim to Angela's first love was mine. For a happiness 80 far above his dea give me, Pigeon, I would not serts. willingly hurt you." The answer, couched in lan- “Oh, no, I am sure you would guage far superior to Angela's ornot," said poor Pigeon, writhing dinary style, confirmed the stateunder this agreeable information. ment of the Dragoon, and accept- “As for your generous offer to ed with much gratitude, and a give up your claim," continued little compunction, our hero's the Dragoon, “it is useless ; Ange resignation ; bit with old Dr. la might not consent. McConkey, the fair lady's uncle, " She will, she shall," exclaim the result was very different. Pi. ed Pigeon. geon waited upon the old gentle- “ Her uncle will certainly re man in person, and was treated, fuse." we grieve to say, with the greatest “I will implore him on, "my contumely and indignity. Titles knees." of the most opprobrious kind were " It will be in vain." showered upon him ; motives of “It will not.; it shall not; only the most distressing character trust to me; give up your wicked were attributed to him : he was intentions. Good gracious, if you desired to discontinue all acquainwere to commit suicide in conse tance with the family for the quence of any act of mine, should future, and a report even got I ever know another happy mo about, founded probably on the old ment? Do not be uneasy -about Doctor's well known irascibility, me ; I do not think I do care so that he had been ignominiously very much about the matter after kicked out of the house. Old all. You shall marry Angela, McConkey established a strict Knacker, you shall indeed ; upon watch over his niece, and informmy word and honor you shall !" ing the clergyman of the station So the gallant Captain pledg of all particulars that he had learned himself to do nothing rash, at ed, and several more which he any rate until time should show the suspected, positively forbade the result of the promised exertions banns between the young lady and of his chivalrous friend. Captain Knacker. Our friend The negociation with Miss was in despair ; such obstacles as O'Flaherty was carried on by let these appeared to him quite insurter. Captain Knacker wrote & mountable; but the Dragoon was most passionate epistle, which Pi a man of more resolution as well geon did not see. Our hero wrote as of more varied resources ; he a most incoherent one, the drift of was closeted with Pigeon for sevewhich appeared to be that he un ral hours, and between them they derstoou het, acceptance of him concocted a scherze, which they ·Simon Pigeon, the Muff. 769 hoped might yet enable them to steeds. Sloper always maintained overcome all difficulties. that he stole one remarkably fast There was a station about six trotting mare, with which the ty miles distant from ours, the lovers were to make the first Chaplain of which was of very stage, and which the owner, a strong Tractarian principles. He conscientious Griffin, had refused lived a life of almost monastic to lend ; in fact he made all the seclusion ; knew nothing of what arrangements, cloaks, whips, sandwas going on in the profane world, wiches and ready money, a cotton but devoted all the energies of nightcap, and a bottle of gin and his powerful niind to wax-lights, water : his friend left all to him, surplices, Baptismal regenera only stipulating that he should tion, and the Gregorian chant. employ none of his own cattle He shuddered at the very name to horse the vehicles, as they of our Chaplain, who was intense were one and all most intolerable ly evangelical; there was of course, screws. no communication, whatever be On the eve of the day appointtween them. To this gentleman ed, about eleven o'clock at night, Captain Knacker indited a letter; our hero stole quietly into Dr. he stated that he was under en McConkey's compound, with a gagements of marriage, that re short ladder on his shoulder, ligious scruples rendered him down which the fair lady descenddoubtful whether the Holy Sa ed from her bed-room window; crament of Matrimony could be the lovers started in Knacker's adequately administered by one own buggy, and Pigeon followwhom, with all personal respect, ed on horseback. About eight he could not help regarding as o'clock next morning they arrivlittle better than an Anabaptist ; ed in safety at the church, Pigeon he regretted to say he alluded in a state of unmentionable disto the Reverend Chaplain of his tress from his unusual ride, but station ; he would therefore be the two lovers as gay as larks. The truly grateful if arrangements. Reverend the Chaplain perfonned could be made for his union to the service with impressive sotake place at the Church of lemnity, our hero officiating as Blatherumpore, where he would father with great éclât ;- he gave be happy to attend, at any time away the bride with only a trifling that might be appointed. moisture of his eyes, and a short The Tractarian Chaplain felt gulp in his throat that slightly his heart gladdened within him ; marred the sonorous emphåsis of he replied at once, enelosing the his Amen. requisite documents, for, as it Statesmen and Generals and happened, he was Surrogate of other great men have often found the district, and appointed an happier results from lucky blun. early day for the happy occasion. ders than from their most careful In the mean time our hero calculations. The follies and vices made incredible exertions to of mankind have often been inprepare relays upon the road; he strumental in bringing about beborrowed, begged, and hired bug nefits for which wisdom and virtue gies, equirotals, and all sorts of had long toiled and suffered in carriages; procared the swiftegt vain ; and the very 'mufflshness ·1770 Simon Pigeon, the Muff. of a Muff may sometimes, on the turned out a most particularly obcompensation principle, do him jectionable style of wife, and as a good turn that he could never for the twenty-thousand rupees, have done himself. So it was in they were all in the Union Bank, the present instance ; our hero's which in those days was pretty last and greatest exhibition of fa much the same as being no cility made him a glorious amends where. for the ill-effects of his former weakness, for the fair Angela K.

·Selections and Translations. NyAAnomanin FAB LIAUX. The Lay of the Little Bird. Was Once upon a time, more than a trees were exceedingly lofty, and yet hundred years ago, there lived a you might gather every fruit you wealthy churl, who possessed great could desire, nor did they ever fail. store of woods, nieadows, and water, For lic wlu wrought this place was and all other things that pertain to skilled in magic lorc. The grounds a rich man. Ile had a inanor so extended far and wide, and in combeautiful, that the like has never pass were altogether round. lutho cxisted. The tale that should deg. midst a fountain of clear and wholecribe it would seem a fable. I do some water seemed to boil up from not believe that there cver was so beneath, and yet it was colder than fair a tower or donjon. A river marble. A delightful shade Aowed quite round it, and inclosed afforded by a stately tree, the the entire property, The pleasure branches of which stretched towards grounds were filled with trees and each other and had been shilfully ornamented with water. He who trained. In the longest day of sumfirst inade this pleasant spot was no onier, there was abundant foliage, and fool, but a gentle knight was he. by the month of May no ray of the After the father the son possessed « sun ever pierced through, só cense it, and he sold it to this cliurl, and were its branches. Much was this thus it passed from hand to hand. tree to be prized, for in all scasons it Be assured of this that bad heirs was full of leaf and the strongest wim make towns and manors fall to de never tore oil' i wig or bark. Never слу. The gardens were of strange was there a trec so fair and pleasant device, and in thein were plants as this pinc. Twice a day, at matin more than I can name, but there song and again at the hour of veswere roses and flowers that diffused pers, a bird came here to sing. A the most fragrant odours, and spices inarvellous crcature was this bird, of such virtue that a man who was and long would it delay me to tell sick and infirın, having passed the you its likeness, but it was less thau night in a litter placed in the a sparrow thongh larger than a wrci. grounds, went away next morning So well and so swectly it sang that sound and strong. The meadows neither nightingale por blackbird, were a level plain, and neither hill -lark nor starling, nor yet the cicada, nor valley was to be seen. The so denghtful as 'wore its notes. *li Luis de l'Orriet. MSS. 7218 and 7015 of the Bibliotheque Natioure and M. 21-31 of the Notre Dame Collection. This poem contains 424 lines. I have rendered the old faslowned minin" by our English " chuirl," thongli it literally signitics a man of wcan ex. traction, and of correspondiug babils, disposition, and character. VOL. 1.-NO. X.

·ccxlii Fabliaux. man Nor harp, nor yigue, nor vielle, * teous, and from such kind Love could rival it. Wondrous in truth turns not away. God hearkencth wore its songs and lays, for, let a unto a sincerc prayer, nor does Love be ever so doleful, if he lend a deaf car. God rewardeth heard the bird once sing, he straight the liberal, and Love smiles on the way rejoiced and forgot his sorrows; open hand. The avaricions are enhad lic laid aside sweet loves, forthvious--the covetous are tenaciwith le resuned them, were he only ous—and churls are given to cona. peasant or a citizen, Me deemed tention. But sense, courtesy, hohimself an emperor or a king; and nor, and loyalty prescrve Love, and had he lived å hundred years and if you adhere to these, you may poscompleted a century, as soon as he sess both God and the world." listened to the melody of the bird, Thus spake the bird in its song. de funcied himself again youthful, But when it beheld the churl, who and a gay gallant, beloved by high was both brutal and covetons, sitting born dames and lovely maidens.. beneath the trec and listening, it Another marvel attached to this thus continued in a different strain : garden, in that it could only enduro “ Cease to flow, thou river! Fall, yc so long as the bird came there to donjons and manorial towers! Lose warble its sweet notes, for thence your brillianthues, ye flowers ! issued the loves that gave their vir Wither, ye grasses-and ye trees tue to the flowers, the tree, and the refuse to grow! For here brave house; and whenever the bird should knights and gentle dames were wont depart, the garden would wither to listen to my lay. Dear did they away and the fountain be dried up. hold this fountain, and they delight- The chuil to whom the property cd in my song. Then they learned belonged came every day from ha to love for love's own sake, to bestow bit to hear the roundelay; and one great largess, to mingle courtesy morning as he was washing his face with prowess, and to uphold noble in the waters of the fountain, with chivalry. But now there hears me full voice, from the top of the pine, only this churl, full of envy and the bird sang a right pleasant lay. covetousness, who loves rather to Sweet was it to the car, and much aniass than to distribute wealth. sound doctrine might be learned They would listen to me, and their from it, and thus the bird spoke in love would grow warmer, but he onits Latin : "Listen in my luy, yo Jy cats and drinks the more and knights and clerks and laymeni, all plays the glutton." ye who are subject to love and suf When it had said this it flew away, for its tortures. And to you I say, and the churl remaining there, be- O maidens, dear to the heart and gan think within himself that if fair to behold, who would wich to he could catch the bird, he would be well reported of - I tell you be able to get a good price for it; in hovest truth that you ought to and if he could not sell it, he might Jove Ciod before all, to keep His at least put it in a cage and make it laws and commandments, and wil sing at all hours. Thus reflecting lingly go to church and serve Him, he began to prepare his design and for Ilis service becomes no onc amiss. to observe the branches on which Remember that (iod and Love agrec. the songster usually sat. Thus he God loveth sense and honor, and made ready. And when the even- Love holds them not in low estrem. ing came round, the bird returned to God hateth pride and falschood, and the garden, but no sooner alighted Love cherishes. loyalty. God rc than it was caught. The villain, gardeth the honorable and the cours the caitiſf, the miscreant, climbed ! * The gig und was a kind of Aute. Thic word corresponda exactly to the Latin tibia, for it. ugniſes literally a hone of the lys, and secondary, a inte. Jn Dante's Paradise the word plin occurs with evident peterece to some uld muusical Wolrument. The dielle was the same on the rebuck.

·Falliaux. « Such re- 1) ine. will up and seized his prey: swered : " If you rightly undercompense has he," cried the bird, stand me, you may learn a useful “who serves a churl." Ill have you saying, Ne crois pas quangue Iu oie's donc to catch me, for sorry ransom dire. "I The churl knit his brows with can I give." "Many a song shall I anger and exclaimed : “ I am aware now hear," replied the wretch. “Hi of that." "Fairfriend, take care that therto you have sung to please youryou do not forget it." " You do well self, henceforth it will be to pleure to teach me,"cried the churl," but if "A sad mischance indeed is you have becaped me, no other shall this. I who was wont to sweep over cver so cajole me. But it is too late the champaign, the woods, the rivers, to vaunt-An' tell me the others.' and the meads, am now in prison “ Listen attentively, for the next is pent. Never more to me will come good and just. Ne pleure pas ce qu' solace or joy. Let me go, fair sweet ainc n'eus.''S The churl could no friend, for know of a certainty that longer restrain himself, but fierecnever will I sing while a prisoner!" ly spoke: " You have broken your “ By my faith then," he answered, plighted faith. Threc wise maxims “I will eat you, for never more shall were you to teach me such as never you go forth aguin," “A poor re & inan of my lineage knew, but past will you find in me," said the these are known to all the world. bird, " for I am tiny and thin. What Never was any man so foolish as to you gain by killing such a mere wecp for what he never had. Poul nothing ? Let me go and you will ly have you lied to me.' Then the act wisely; slay me and you will bird replied : “ Do you wish that sin against yourself." " You talk I should repeat them, for great fear to no purpose. The more you pray have. I lest you should forget thein, to ine, the less will I do it." nor do I believe that you will long "Certes I believe you, for so is it retain thein." « These I knew long nisual. Many a tinc have I heard ago, nor do I owe you any thanks the saying that douce raisons vilain for teaching me what is in no way äire, but another proverb teaches us new to me. I am not so uitutored that besoins fait faire mainte chosc.t as you think. But since you have If therefore you will let me go, escaped, you may well rail ut me. I will make you acquainted with However, if yoti hold at all to your tlırce maxims such as never a man covenant, you will tell me the other of your extraction knew, and which sentence. Speak as you will, for 1 will avail you much." " Could I have have no longer any power over you. security for this, said the churi, “I Declarc it, and I will hear you." wonld do so. W pledge you my “The third," rejoined the bird, "is faith." such that whoever shall practice Then he let the bird go, and it it,, will never be a poor man." flew away to the trec, ruffled and Greatly did the churl rejoice, and discomposed, for roughly had it been eager was he lo learn this wondrous handled, having been held against maxim. “Bcar this in mind," said the plumage. With its beak it the bird, “Ce que tu tiene en tes mains, smoothed its feathers and plumed it Negete pas jus à les pieds." || On hearself the best way it could. ing this the churl waxed excerding churl, being impatient to learn the wroth, and for a long time was lillthree wise maxins, soon called upon able to speak “Is this all?" he at the little songster to repeat them. length exclaimed. “ These are rid- The bird was full of wit, so it an dles for children. I before knew 9 5 Thic * Fair reasons only irritate a churl, † Nocessity is a hard tarkmaster. Belicve not all that you hear. Ś Weep not for what you never had. Don'i throw away what you ali cady hold. A bird in the naru as worth rWu me pusli, ·ccxlir Fabliaux. > ) your oath, 1) • How so, I all that you have told me. Thus not half an ounce. The other have you deluded ine, and falsified roared in his passion and cried, “By my faith," replied " In faith, you speak the truth." the bird, "had you really known these " Then you must see that I lied to maxims, you would not have let me you about the stone." "I do now go when you hold me in your hands." see it, but at first I believed you." *You say sooth; buf the other two “ Now then, O chur), will I prove have been long familiar to me." that you did not know my thrce " But the last is worth a hun sayings. You said that no man dred of the others." would be so foolish as to weep for pray you?" " How 80 ? I will what he never had, and yet but now, tell you. Had you killed me as methinks, you wept for what you you proposed, it would have been never had and never could have. the best day's work in all your Again, when you held nie in your life." “Ha! how could that be?" nets, what you had in your hands "Ahi! foul villain ! you know not you throw away. Fair friend, now what has mirchanced to you-a sore reinember these three maxims. It mishap in truth. There is in my is good to learn wise sayings. It is body a most costly and precious said that such an one may hear, who stone, full three ounces in weight, does not understand; that such an and such is its virtue, that whoever one talks of scnse, who has neither has it in his possession will obtain wisdom bor ideas; that such an one whatever he may desire." When talks of courtesy, who never could the churl heard this, he tore his practise it; and that such an one hair, clawed his.face, and rent his esteems himself sensible, who is adgarinents, calling himself wretehed dicted to folly." When it had ute and miserable. Thic bird niean tered these words, the little bird while mocked at him as it looked flew away, and never inore returndown on him from the tree, and ed to that tree. Then the leaves 'when it beheld his clothes in tat of the pine fell to the ground; the tors and himself corered with blood, flowers of the garden withered it railed at hiin and said " ('uitiff, away; the fountain dried up; and the villain, when you lield me in your churl lost his pleasant retreat. Thus hands, I was less than a sparrow know ye, all men and maidens, that titmouse, or grecn finch, that weighs 'the proverb is true which saith Cil qui tout covoit?, tout peri. The Priest and the Blackberries. A CERTAIN priest being desirous to great quantity of blackberries, large go to narket, caliged his mare todo and black, and ripe. He straightway saddled and made ready. The mare cxclaiined, " So help me Christ, was tall and well-fed, and for two never did I see such beautiful fruit." years had belonged to the priest. Much he longed for them, and he Never had it known either tlrirst or made lis mure go softly, and at last hunger, for it had always hay and he stopped her altogether. 'But one corn in plenty. Then the priest thing annoyed him, and that was the mounted her, and rode to market. thorns running into him, and be- This was in September, the season in sides the finest blackberries were so which blackberries abound. So he high up, that he could not reach went along reciting his Hours, his thein while sitting. Then the priest Matins, and his Vigils, until at the drew himself up, and stood upon the entrance of the town he caine to a saddle, and leaning forwards towards steep street. Here casting his eye the bush, he eat ravenously of the on gonie copsa.wood, he beheld a choicest he could find. All this * nu povoir qui menga les xdores. A metrical tale by Gueria, a Trouvère of the 13th century. It comise of 98 Faes.

·Fabliaux. ccxly time the mare never moved. And Divat where are you going ? when he had eaten of the berries 1 anı here dolorous, pensive, dolctill he was tired, he looked down ful, and sore troubled, for cruelly and observed how still the aniinal am I maimed and wounded, and was standing besídc the rocks. Much my back is bleeding from the brampleased was he therewith as he stood bles and thorpis.' Then the 8Crupon her back. “Ah! if any one vants asking him said, “Sir, who were to say, lle!" he thought, and put you theve pas And he repliedhe thought aloud. The mare start My own fault caused my downfal. ed at his voice, and bounded away, This morning, as I was passing by and the priest fell into the brambles here, and repeating my Hours, A in such a manner, that had you of great longing for blackberries seized fered-him an hundred ounces of gold, upon me, and nothing would have he could not have moved backward induced me to move forward until or forward. And the mare gallop I had caten of them. Thus it haping off returned to his house. When pens that these bushes lield the servants perceived her, they fast. But now help me out, for nomade much ado, and the priest's. thing I so much desire as to be at wife* fainted away, and would not be rest in my own house and have comforted, for she deemed of a sure my wounds tended." ty that he was dead. llowever they all sallied forth toward the market By this fable you may learn that town, and what with running and he acts unwisely who says aloud and walking, they soon came to the spot repeats all that he thinks, for many where the priest was so ill at case. folks oftentimes Abence receive And when he heard then calling both hurt and shame, just as it behis name, he cried aloud : “ Diva, fell thie priest. me The Betrothed Image, or the Marble Bride. I Be silent, good people, while I unusual number anscmbled before recount to you a most pleasing mi the portals of the Church, where this racle, in order to induce sinners to image was placed, and among them fulfil their vows to the Lord. Ill was a lad who wore on his finger a do they act and without any mind, very beautiful ring, giren to him by when they promise, but do not, per the mistress of his heart. love hud form, unto God and Ilis sweet Mo s0 completely mastered hiin, that for ther. My story relates, that an a great deal he would not have lost image had been placed in front of or spoilt the ring. lle thcrefore an old Church, which the workmen stopped aside towards the Church to were repairing: The devout depo- place the ring in safety, whilst he *sited their offerings at the foot of joined in the game. I know not this image. Oftentimes crowds of wbat was upperinost in his mind, young people would flock to this but as he looked around he beplace to play at ball. One day an held the image, and, being struck . * It is rather startling to hear mention made of a priest's wife, but it is of no uncommon occurrence aniong these ancient fabliaux. It is possible, indece, that such inay have been composed in England or recited at the English Court, because in that country priests frequently married so late as the 12th century. Even then the good sense of the people was too strong for Councils and Canons.-Sre Hune's Hixt, of England, p. 343, vol. 1, octavo, + A favorite exclamation with the Trouveren. This picre entitled " Du varlet qui se Matin à Nostre Dange, dont ne wolt qu'il habitast á autre," consists of 196 lined, and was composed by Gautier de Coinsi, a Benedictine Monk of the Abbey of St. Médard at Soissons, and subsequently Prior of Vic sur Aine in the year 1214. It is almont needless to observe that there have been many imitations of this idea. The prin. cipal work hy Guutier de Colusi is entitled "Miracles de la Vierge," but he also composed the fabliau of "Sainte 1.eocade," In 2500 lines. His devotional pipecs were for the most part, translated from anterior writings in the Latin tongue. He died in 1236 don, the Priory of Bt. Me. dard.

·ccxlvi Fabliaux. with its beauty, he knelt down be ver wearied of loving her who had fore it. Devoutly before that female given him the ring. His heart was forın he bowed himself down in re. so fixed upon her, that for her sake verence. Presently his spirit and he abandoned Our Lady, and marhis will were moved within him, and ried her and took her to him for his these words issued from his heart wife. The wedding was stately and and lips : of great display, for he was rich and of high lincage and quality. The “ Lady, henceforth twongh all 'bed was fair and elegant, and placed my life I will serve thee, for never in a goodly chamber. But no soontill now did I behold maiden, na er did he lay him down than deep tron, or serving girl, so fair und sleep fell on hiin. Our dear Lady, pleasant to the eyes. Ten thousand more sweet than honey in the comb, times more lovely art thon than she instantly appeared unto hiin, and who gave me this ring. To her scerned to lie between hin and his I had surrendered all my heart and wife. Her finger she showed to him, mind, but for thy sake 1 am ready on which the ring sat most becomto resign her love and her jewels. , ingly, and the finger itself was po- This ring, which is so handsome, to lished and straight. "Friend," she thice will I give in true love, on this said, “thou dost not act truly or loycondition that never hereafter will ally towards me, but foul wrong I have wife or mistress, save only hast thou done me. Look upon this thee, sweet beauteous lady." love-token that thou gavest me, when thou saidot that I was teu Ilis ring he «then placed on the thousand times fairer and more pleastraight finger of the image when sant to the eyes than the maid whom lo ! the image bent its finger so thou hadst loved till then. A loyal firinly, that no man could draw off friend wouldst thou have had in me, the ring unless he broke it. Great hadst thou noi deserted me, and dread fell upon the youth, and left the rose for the nettle, the egloudly he screamed forth. Old and lantine for the elder. Unhappy young came running to him--ot wretch, thou needs must be miseraone remained behind and straight bly deceived thus to forsake the way he told them all he had said fruit for the leaf, the lamprey for and done, and how the finger Sad' the grasshopper, honey and the closed upon his ring. Everyone doneycomb for poison and gall." then signed himself and marvelled greatly, and there was not one The clerk, greatly marvelling at who did not advise and urge him the vision,, starteci up. All annazed not to delay a single day, but was he, for hedeemed that the image at once to retire from the world was yet beside him. On all sides he to serve God and our holy Lady felt with his hands but nothing met Mary, who had shown to hiin by her his touch. Then he thought him-' finger, that he must ever love her self the sport of fancy, when sud- "par amors," and never 'seek any denly he again sank into a profound other fnistress. He had not sense slecp. This time the Mother of God enough, however, to fulfil his cove appeared to him in wrath. Full of nant, but so entirely forgot it, that pride and haughty disdain was her he remembered it neither little nor countenance, and she deigned not to much. One day went and take any notice of the clerk, but other came, and the young clerk fiercely she threatened him, and waxed in years and stature. But poured forth much abuse. Many a the love of his mistress bandaged time she called him perjured and his eyes so tightly, that he snw foresworn, and accused him of broknanght else,' and quite forgot the en faith. " The evil spirits have Mother of God. Fle was in truth indeed misled and blinded thce," she more blind than hr thought, and ne exclaimed, since thou couldst rean- ·Fabliaux. ccxlvii nounce me for the sake of a poor miserable mortal!" The clerk then sprang out of bed all aghast. A dead inan he seemed to himself, for he had incurred the anger of our Lady. No longer did he delay, but fled to a desert spot, and in a hermit's cell, and clad in monastic garb, devoted the remainder of his life to the service of God and our holy Mary. No longer would he attach himself to the world, but went to dwell with the mistress to whom in pure love he bad giren the ring : from the world he withdrew, and married himøelf to Mary. + The Judgment of Solomon.I It is the duty of thosc who pos ground, each shall have his share, sess knowledge to inipart it to others. and hereis the bailiff to divide the At the time when Solomon first wore lands." The Barons, one and all, the crown, an adventure happened implored him to have patience until to a Prince of Soissons, which is the dead body was committed to the worth relating, for it affords a good carth, when they would fulfil his deexample. This great Prince had an, sire without delay. But he obstiextensive territory, and many castles nately persisted, and declared that belonged to him. He was, morcover, nothing should move him to act the father of two sons, the one sweet otherwise. tempered, the other fierce, whom At this conjuncture the King haptheir inother had brought up from pened to arrive, and they reported to their infancy. Now it came to pass him the claim, and the contention of that when their father departed this the elder brother. When the King life, the elder cruelly summoned his had heard the history of the affair, younger brother to appear before he commanded the two brothers to the Barons who had held of their come into his presence. The elder sire. “ Sirs," said lie, "listen to my loudly demanded the fiefs which words. Our father is no more. Grcat he so inpaticnt to obtain, is our loss. But divide now the fiefs, but the younger spoke only of like wise men and true, between my alms and offerings he wished to brother and myself, so that each may be made in behalf of his dead father, have his due heritage." To this the who had been so kind and good to younger, his face bedewed with tears, allt "Sirs," then said the King, "you sorrowfully replied—"Ah, my bros hear how the matter stands. Since ther! what is this that you say. the elder insists upon his right, it Our father yet lies on his bier. Wait must be accorded. Let there be a till he is interred, and then present stake driven firmly into the ground, No, by ny faith, I and take the corpse of the dead man will not do so," thsvered the covet from off his bicr, and fasten it secureous wretch. “Before he be laid in the ly to the post. Obey nie without Was your demand." * The Marble Bride, with sufficiently bad taste, horc indulges in the following * quaint conceit."- S'en la pellente pullcntie, De la pullante t'enpullentes, En santimes d'enfer pullcntes. Seras pullens enpullentez, Por tes pullentes pullentez. + Thc piece concludes as follow- Moides ou clers, quant se marie, A ma Dame Sainte Marie, Moult hautement s'est mariez, Mès cil est trop mal marieza Et tuit cil trop de mesoariente Qui as Marions se marient; Par marions, par mariées. Por Dieu ne nos mosmarions, Laissons Maros et Marions, Si nous marions à Maric, Qui nes maris où Ciel marie.- Aren. # Le jugement de Salemon. MSS. 7218. In the origiual this trifit consists or so lines.

·ccxlviji Fabliaux. is he." delay." No one dared to gainsay ; not for friend who has emitten my 80 they went to the bier, and lifted father ; but my most cruel enemy up the body, and dressed it in all • Go, attack him," answerhaste. Nevertheless the wisest of ed the King. " He is dead. What those present greatly marvelled that matters it to thee ?". Soloinon should again array in “ Certos, Sire, I will not attack clothing the uninhabled clay. But hiin for all the gold in Cornwall; his purpose was tu humble the proud, but without fail I will slay him who and expose his vain glory to merit has violated the dead." ed contempt. Then the King called his Barons The brothers then mounted their togсther with much pomp, and thus chargers, and to each was given a addressed them : " Sirs, I have sharp pointed spear. “Now shall I proved these brothers before your see," said the King, "which of you is eyes. This one without doubt is the the inore active and more valiant to Baron's son--but the other, who assail his mortal enemics, and skil smote him, has naught in common ful to defend himself when attacked. with him. Look at yon corpse. Let him wlio, Thus, in consequence of his viowishes for honor boldly strike it. 'lence, the wicked son was deprived Ile who wounds it the most deeply of his heritage. Then they took shall have the larger share." the corpse and loosened it from the When the wretch heard this, he stake, and the wisc inen and the aged thought to himself that the other followed it to the grave; afterwards would not get much, so he made they returned and did homage to haste and smote his dead father, and the younger son. Such is the history the weapon passed two Inng ells be of these two brothers of whom the yond. "Sirs," he cried with exul Emperor made a notable example. tation, “methinks I have stricken The one who showed no respect to hiin in good earnest." his father was not deemned the right- When the younger beheld this, ful heir, but an unnatural and illehis countenance changed, and he gilimato child, who shained his own said to the King: “Sire, I own bin inother. Explicit le jugement de Salemon. 1. The Beasant Boctor ; or a Physician in spite of Himself.* THERE onco lived a rich peasant, a knight, an old man and a widower, who was very avaricious and nig who had an only daughter, a mnost gardly. He had a plough which fair and courteous danisel. But as he used to work with a mare ana a he had no fortune, no one asked of hack horse. Plenty of ineat and hiin his daughter in marriage, bread, and wine had hc, and all though he much desired to see her things necessary. But becausc be murricd, for she was of a proper age had no wife,t his friends and neigh and condition for matrimony. The bours greatly blamed himı; and he peasant's friends therefore went to replied that he would willingly ac the kuight and demanded the main cept a good wife, if such could be den for the rustic, who had so much found. In that country there dwelt silver and gold, with large store of # Ci du nilain Mire (medicus) ou le Médicin malgré lry was composed by Rutebæof, whose patron' way the Count of Payitiers, brother of Louis IX. Few of the ancient Trouveres have equalled, much less surpassed, him in the variety of his subjocts or to his manner of treating them. Molière was cvidently indehted to the present'iale for the idea of his comedy of the Médecin malgre lui, and a similar adventure as far as regards the nick folk is related of the frcctions salon Tiel Ulenspiegel-the Howleglas of our old English Dramatists. The Confe of the Vilain Mire consistoeuf 392 lines, and may be found in MSS. 7218 of the Natioual Library iw Pario. + Io the origiaci moillier.

·Fabliaux. ccxlix corn and of cloth. The old man Then he seized her by the hair, for promptly gave his consent, and very brutal was he, and he belaagreed to the alliance. The maid, boured her as much as if she had who was very discreet, dared not deserved it. After that he went contradict her father, for she had forth in haste to his fields, and left no mother, and he did with her as her in tears. .“ Alas !" cried she, he pleased. The peasant hastened « what shall Ldo? And how shall on the wedding, and quickly espolis I advise mygelf? I know not what ed her, much against her own will, to say. Assuredly my father dealt though she feared to refuse. When very treacherously with me in givthis affair had passed away, and ing me to this churl. Certes, I had there no longer reinained any traces sorrow at heart when I consented to of the wedding and other such this marriage. Would that I had things, the countryınan began to rather died of hunger. O God! think within hiinself that he had why did my mother die !" so sorely acted unwisely, and that it did not she bewailed herself, that all who suit his condition to have a knight's used to visit her turned away. Thus daughter to wife. For when he she reinained sorrowing until the went to his plough, the soldiers,* sun had gone down, when the clown with whom every day is holiday, returned home. Throwing himself would swagger down the street, and at her feet, he entreated for pardon as soon as he was at a distance, the for the love of Hcaven, * Be absurchaplain too would come day after ed," said he, “that it was an enemy day who induced me to work you such * Alas! me miserable" exclaimed foul wrong. But I pledge you my the peasant. "I know not how to faith, that I will never again injure counsel myself, for I am sure to you, so vexed and angry am I that have cause for repentance.” Then I should have beaten you." So he considered within himself how much said the rustic deprecatingly, he could guard against this. that the dame forgave him, and set ha!" cried he, “if I beat her in the before him what she had prepared morning when I rise, she will weep for his supper; and when they had throughout the day, and I could both eateni sufficient, they laid them safely depart to my labor, for I well down in peace. know that as long as she weeps, nor In the morning the countryman one will turn aside to see her. Then again belaboured his wife, though when I return home in the evening she had done him no harm, and then she will cry me mercy for Hea went forth to plough his land. The ven's sake,' and will gladden and dame began to weep and to lament, cheer her, but in the morning I will saying, “ Alas! well do I see that again be wrathful.. So now will I evil has come upon me. Was ever take my leave of her as soon as I my husband himself beaten ? I trow have eaten a mouthful." not; he kuows not what it is, for The peasant then called for his otherwise he would not have given dinner, and the dame hastened to me so many blows for all the world." serve it. No salmon or partridges Whilst she was thus bemoaning her had they, but plenty of bread and sad lot, lo ! there came two messenwine, and fried eggs and cheese, gers from the King, each mounted which the niggard had amassed. And on a white palfrey. Towards the when the table was removed, with dame they'spurred, and they saluted his huge and heavy hand the clown her in the King's name. They then slapped his wife on the face, so that asked to eat, for nuch did they need the marks of his fingers remained. something. Cheerfully she set food • Ah, . 1) In the original vassaur, a term frequently employed merely to denote those who followed the profession of arms. VOL. I.NO. X.

·ccl Fabliaux. « By caine « For 66 before them, and while they were side the ear, and the other with a eating she inquired: “Whence heavy cudgel smute him on the midcone you, and whither do you go? dle of the back. Great shaine in- Tell me, what seek you ?" decd they wrought him, and so they my faith, lady," one of them replied, led him towards the King. Backwe are messengers from the King, wards did they drag him along, the who sends us in quest of a physician, head towards the heels. The King and into England we must pass. towards them, and said; • But what to do?" 6 The damsel “ Have you found aught?" "Yes, Ada, the King's daughter, is sick, Sirc," together they replied, while and for eight days has been un the countryman shook with fright. able either to eat or drink, for a Then one of them told of the temper fishbone has stuck fast in her of the clown, how he was so full of throat. The King, therefore, is sad caprice, that nothing would be do at heart, and never more will he joy that was asked of him until he were if he lose her." Then outspake the soundly beaten. And the King dame : " You need not travel so far made answer and said : " A felon as you think, for my husband, I as leech is this ; never yet heard I tell sure you, is a right skilful leech. of such an one. " Let him be well Certes, he knoweth more of medi. flogged then," cried an attendant ; cines and nostruny than ever did “ since it be so, I am quite ready to Hippocrates. “Say you this in pay the churl his fce." The King jest, dame ?" demanded they. now called the countryman before jesting 1 have no heart," q'ioth she, him, and thus addressed him-“Mas. but he is of such a tempor, that he ter, listen to me. I ain going to never will do anything until he hath send for my daughter, for much been well thrashed." " let hiin but need is there that she be cured.' appear," said they,"and he shall not l'itiously he cried for mercy, remain here for waut of thrashing: before God who cannot be, so help Where can we find him, lady ?" me God! I tell you the truth, of “ In the fields you will meet with physic I know naught, and leech him," she answered, "just where this was I never. And the King, “ Trustream runs beyond that wide road, ly a marvel do I lear. Let himn be the very first plough you find is ours. beaten." With hearty good will they Go, I commend you to the Apostle set upon him, and when he felt the St. Peter." blows, he deemed himself gone mad. Theli they pricked forth until they Mercy! Mercy!" he began to cry, had come up with the clown. In tho 6 I will leal her without delay." King's name they saluted him, and The maid was brought into the said to him in haste; “ You must hall. Pale and faint was she. And go along with us, and speak with the peasant revólved in his mind in the King." Why so ?" he asked. what manner he should heal her, ( Because of the science that is in for well he saw that he inust choose you," they replied, “for there is no cither to do so or to die. Then he such leech in all this land. There. thought within himself, that if he fore from afar have we come in would save her, he must say or do quest of you." When the peasant something to make her laugh, so heard the word leech, straightway he that the fishbone should spring began to grumble, and to say that he forth, for it had not entered into knew naught about it. « Let us be the flesh, so he spoke to the King: off," cried the others; “ well do we Let a fire be lighted in this see that he must be beaten before he chamber, in a private part, and then will either do ar suy apy thing you shall see what I will do, and, uright." Then one-struck him be if it please God, I will cure her." " Sire, 4 * In the original un serjant serviens, ·Favliaux. écli - Sire, The King issued the command, and a certain festiral, and each told to a mighty fire was inade, When him his state. Then the King callthe fire was kindled, the squires and ed the peasant, and said to him, the young men withdrew." And the “Hark you, master. Take these damsel sat down before the fire on people under your care, and quietly a seat they had prepared for her. heal thein.' “Indeed, Sire," quoth And the clown stripped himself to the clown," there are too many of the skin, and laid down on the other them, I never could compass it to side of the fire, and began to scratch heal thein all.” Then the King and rub hinıself all over. Nails had made a sign to two attendants, and he long and the skin hard. There each forth with seized a staff, for is no one this side of Saumur, be le easily they guessed what the King never so good a scratcher, to whoin mcant them to do. But when the this one would have yielded. And peasant saw them draw nigh, his the damsel, when she beheld him, blood began to creep, and he cried in spite of the pain she suffered, aloud I will cure then without was fain to laugh. With the effort fan." Then he askcd for wood, and she made, the bone flew out of her as much as he desired was brought mouth towards the fire. Then the to him. So he kindled a fire in the peasant, without delay, threw on his hall- with his own hands he arclothes, and picked up the bone, and ranged it. When the sick men went furtla of the chamber with were assembled around him, he great glee. As soon as lic euw the thus besought the King-"Sire, King, lic cried alond ! 1 pray you to withdraw, and your daughter is cured. Here is all those who have no ailment. the bone, praise be to God !" Thereupon the King graciously re- And the king rejoiced greatly and tired, liimself and his attendants. said" know that I love you Then spake the countryman to the above all things, shall sick folk. " Sirs, by the God who receive robos and fine othes." made me, I never could succeed to “ Thanks, Sire, but I wish for no heal you all. But I will take the thing, nor do I desire to remain with most infirm among you, and into this you. Better does it suit ine to re fire I will put liiin, and will consume turn to my home. But the king hin in these taines, and all the replied—"That shalt thou not do.. Ohers shall benefit by him. For My physician and my friend shalt they who shall swallow his aslıcs, thou be." " Thanks, Sire, but shall presently be made whole. St. Germain, there was no Bread in Then they looked one at another, my house when I left it yesterday but there was neither honch back morning, and the flow was to have nor dropsical who would have albeen fetched from the mill." Then loyed, for all Normandy, that his the King called two attendants and own was the worst complaint. So said_" Beat him until he agree to the peasant turned to the nearest remain." And they fell on him in and said "I see you are very a trice, and roughly they handled feeble. Without doubt you are the him. But when the clown felt thic weakest of them all." But he made blows on his arms, his legs, and haste to reply—“Nay, Sir, I am his back, he cried aloud for mercy. quite strong, more so than ever I “I will remain ; I will remain. was before. Relieved am I already Leave me in peace.” froin a sofe illness which I have So the countryman was fixed at long endured. Be assured that I Court; and they shaved him, and speak the truth, and do not lie at cut his hair, and clothed him in a , all." • Then get you down below, scarlet robe. But he thought it was What seek you here ?" And a base conspiracy, when the sick straightway he moved towards the men of that land, more than eighty door. Then the King demanded, in number, came before the King at "Art ou healed ?" "Yes, Sire, and you 9) ·cclii - Fabliaux. thanks be to God, I am more sound than an apple. Truly the master is a wise man. What need I say any more ? There was neither great nor small who for all the world would suffer that into that fire they should thr him. So all went forth as if they had really been made whole. And when the king saw them, he leaped for joy and said to the countryman- “ Fair master, I marvel how it can be that you so soon have healed them." Indeed, Sire, I have used a charm, for I know one that availeth more than ginger or cinnamon. Then spake the King, shall return to your home, when it pleaseth you; and you shall take from me money, and palfreys, and good steeds. And if I again send for you, you must do whutever I require; you shall be one of my chosen friends, and more dear to me than all the folk of the country. But be no more obstinate, nor causc yourself to be evilly entreated, for a shame is it to lay hands on you." 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·Advertisements. COMPLAINTS OF THE LIVER, THE LUNGS AND THE STOMACH REMOVED. The Liver hitherto morbid in its action is freed from unhealthy secretions, acrimonious bile is carried off, and along with it distressing pair ' in the right side, and a burning sensation at the stomach, the_sallowness of the skin venishes and is succeeded by a healthy liver. The Lungs, which had been held in thraldom by vitiated humours, causing a constant hacking cough, is set free by the use of these Pills, so that respiration becomes easy. The Stomach, in which impurities had been allowed to accumulate, causes nausea, violent headache, indigestion, nervousness, burning sensa tion and acute pain, bowel complaints, sleepless nights, and a host of other evils, the stomach is completely cleaned of its misery-making occupants, by a few doses of this extraordinary medicine. MALIGNANT CHOLERA ROBBED OF ITS VICTIMS. This disease, which is so common in India, results crom a redundancy and pntrid acrimony of the bile. Now IIolloway's Pills by cleansing, the intestines, and imparting vigour to the whole nervous system are of admirable use as a preventive, but when this use of them has been overlooked, the actual attacks of Cholera may be mitigated by a timely and perspering use of them. The stomach and bowels will thus be effectually freed from all. vitiated humours, and the various functions speedily restored to their proper tone. RHEUMATISM AND GOUT PREVENTED AND CURED. And what is Rheumatism ?. It is a painful disease, affecting the joints and limbs-caused by an accumulation of impurities. How common is the exclamation, “I have caught a cold, and it has brought on that tiresome excruciating pain on my shoulders or limbs !" Do you wish to know why this pain? We will tell you, and, which is still better, we will tell you how to get rid of it. By means of respiration and perspiration the Šuman system is continually throwing off waste matter. LAVOISIER, the celebrated French Chemist, states that the skin alone during every four and twenty hours parts with 20 ounces of useless matter. This supposes health and favourable circumstances. But should any of this matter be thrown back into the system, proportionate disease must necessarily ensue. You spend some time in heated place, or drive out visiting during the hot months, and the pores of your body become open and sensitive; you go in this state under a punkha or perhaps 'tie down on a couch right before the "tatties," and fall asleep. The pores are suddenly'closed-perspiration is obstructed, and the waste matter remaining in the system become a fruitful source of disease and pain. The next morning your eyes swim, your voice is husky and you feel pain, and you exclaim, "what a beastly country! I have taken cold from just sitting near me tatties," and then how do you act? You do not as you ought, at once seek to free the system from impuro obstructions, but you content yourself with some mere palliative, you lose some of the first unpleasant sensations, but the impurities still lurk within you? Every now and then you feel twitching, torturing pains in your fizbs; but those pains are sent in mercy, and their language is you ·Advertisements. have broken a physicial law : your want of care has caused unhealthy obstructions; get rid of these, and you will be free from pain; allow these to remain and pains still more fearful will be the result." This alone can be effectually done by resorting to a course of Holloway's Pills and Ointment, which will, in a few days, remove these, obstructions, and restore health and vigour to the whole systein. DISEASES IN GENERAL. The same may be said of the other, and almost numberless diseases rising from this fertile, this cole cause of all diseases--the impurities of the blood-and none who have used these invaluable Medicines" have been disappointed." The grateful aspirations of thousands in every part of the world furnish abundant demonstration that never was a Medicine employed, at once 80 safe and so salutary, so powerful to conquer disease, yet so harmless that an infant may take it with safety. Wherever these Pills and Ointment have been known they have been regarded as a blessing, and are held in the highest estimation as an invaluable Medicine, and every resident in India ought to have a box of the Pills and a Pot of the Ointment in his Bungalow, both for himself, his family, his servants, and his friends. Sold in Boxes and Pots, at 1, 2-8, 4-8, 11, 12, and 33 Rupees each. Directions for their use in all diseases accompany each Boy and Pol." AGENTS FOR INDIA. Thomas Payne wad Sons, 7-8, Writers' Buildings, Calcutta ; Mr. Cook Dacca ; Mr. Felly Cuttack ; Mr. Chapman, Darjeelings Mr. Wheeler Hazareebaugh ; Messrs. Thomas and Co., Monghyr ; F. Smith and Co., Dinapore; Tuttle and Charles, Benares ; Mr. Tiernan, Chunar ; Baboo Rhugbutty Churn Chuckerbutty, Mirzapore; Boilard and Co., Allahabad , Brandon and Co., Lucknow ; Greenway Brothers, Cawnpore ; Mr. Pyle, Futtyghur ; Mr, J. A. Gibbons, Meerut; Noor Buksh and Co., Delhi and Lahore; MacDonald und Co., Umballah ; Mr. Coutes, Ferozepore ; Nuby Pix and Co., Loodianah and Juliundur Doab; Vivian and Co., Simlah ; Mr. Greig, Mussoorie ; Mr. Johnstone, Nainee Tall ; Pestonjee and Co., Mhow ; Cursetjee and Co., Saugor, Jubbulpore, Kamptee and Secundr abad ; Hülse and Nephew, Agra, N. B.-Directions in Oordoo" and " Gooxeratae" can also be had for taking the Medicines. EDUCATION. KNOLLSWOOD ACADKMY-SIMLA. CARDS OF PARTICULARS,. (WITH YNEXCEPTIONABLE REFERENCESY Forwarded on Requisition. Principal-H. 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