The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1851. The wretched state of industry, in the useful arts and ' ALLAN M . I'AVIS/en FISMINO. in commerce, throughout all these countries of bigoted In a secluded nook of one of the wildest noel moot soli- Dupe rstition, and the enormous money treasures pournig tary ports of the Argyllshire road, where it in washed by into Itume through the channel of wealthy visitors from the Atlantic waters, there stood 110011 c thirty years ago the every civilised nation un earth. naturally attract large nun- cottage of a Highland fisherman. The traveller who ben of indigent tradesmen from protestant countries.. No should now look for its site, would probably be unrewarded sooner do these unfortunate ones pay with their health the for h.o pains; —it has long eince mouldered from the face usual tribute to the sultry climate than they are seized of the earth. A key stones, half buried among s red, are all Upon in their helpless state by charitable friars, and carried that remain to indicate where the humble dwelling of hu into hospital., never to escape with their life but by em- man hearts once eenctified the bosom of solitude ;—yet bracing popery. If death happens hethre conversime the were its walls the mute witneesee of love an deep—of agony body of a heretic, whatever his rank and station in life may as iutense—as ever lived and burned within the soul be have been, when surviving friends do nut succeed in convey-' neath the roofs of palaces. Nature is no respecter of ing it at suer by emugeline proceeses over the frontier, is pieces. The passions w hirh obey her call belong alike to refused iutennent, and reserved fur the most °Moue prne- all her children; the decay which follows her footsteps, tires of public execration. In such a cane, the children is the appointed lot of all things wherein these children ' are torn from the surviving parent, to be educated in have apart here b ellow. monasteries. I At the period uf which I speak, the cottage stood at the The numerous rich and noble families front" this very base of a range of lofty and precipitous cliffs, which, country, who are residing at Rome, are allowed, for their retiring in a semicircle from the +here at that particular t spot, left a recess at their feet, whose only opening Wan to Sunday devotion, only a private house " beyond the w alls ; " a locality appointed to them in sign of public contempt. ; the sea. This little nook, nut more than half an acre in This is the only protestant meeting-house guttered in all the extent, wan during high water entirely separated from corn papal dominion... Protest-inn anxious to display abroad i munication with the world beyond it, as the sea flowed up their superiority in wealth end rank, consent to sneak on , the base of the rocky walls which, girding it on either side, 1 which it was at such times possilde to obtain egress from it, the Lord's Day, ut Rome, into the most ignobl e p lace of extended themselves along the coast. The only mode by ' worship ; and, in the enjoyment of a commanding position , so much easier to be obtained in foreign society than at was one accessible to no foot, save that of a daring MO fear home, it is deemed neither hardship nor disgrace to submit i less craigsman, that of scrambling on hands and knees without a murmur to such injunctions as that which pro- , across the face of the rocks, which, beetling over a sea so hihits, fur their devotional meeting's, the use of either bells, 1 high and tempestuous, looked as though they defied the organs chanting, or any outward mark and distinction of a pigmy efforts of man to surmount their mighty rampart. church' or chapel. Nor is any permanent clergy appointed I Yet this feat, frightful as it would have appeared to one there tootficiate throughoutthe year. An hospital for iudigent unaccustomed to it, hail more than once been accomplished proteetants was eetabliehed, through the proieworthy efforts by the bold and sure-tweed inhabitants of the coast, by of the Chevalier Bunsen when am b assador at Rome, with l means of strong wooden poles, ropes to aid their descent, fund. collected by him and his sueeeeson from rich visitors; I and a judicious method of availing themselves of every but it is nut allowed to take the name and privileges of a I projecting bush, or tuft of heather, to assist their toilesome hospital ; and, by a disgraceful submission to the public progress. At ebb tide, a narrow strip of nand, turning the stigma of ignominy, its existence is preserved only as being I projectieg headlands, afforded a path wherby to gain the ' the private house of Mr. Bunsen. During his functions, wider extent of shore beyond them, some three-quarters of too, and through the energetic co-operation of the Russian a mile along which was situated a row of fishermen's cot ambassador, the only protestant cemetery in all the papal tars. states was suffered to receive consecration. Nevertheless, the solitary cabin above-mentioned stood aloof and se when some insolent priest had inscribed over the gate eluded from all, yet wearing a character very superior to Searle° publico," the diplomatic representatives of pro- that of the others. Its appearance, in fact, was nearer that tedantism contented themselves with ordering during the of the neat and carefully-kept abode* of the pea...entry on a night, a new coat of painting for the gate ! Lowland gentleman's estate, than the slovenly but of a Northern fisherman. Some pains had been taken to form In this state of things, a practical " demonstration" a little garden beside it, at the sheltering foot of the cliff; and is suggeated by. our protestant pamphleteer. He these pains--screened as it was from all high winds, even proemial; the collecting of large funds, for the rata- from those blowing off the sea, oncost in ordinary weather blishment of protestant churches, schools, hospitals, —had been attended with considerable success. Every and cemeteries at Rome. and in various localities of thing around the door was kept in extreme order; and the the papal dominions, wherever a number of resident narrow strip of grass on which the sand had not encroached, *creed its a little bleaching-green to the fieherman'e young protestants might be found sufficient to make such a and lovely Lowland wife, on which s he was often to be pro vision necessary ; afterwards in Florence, Naples, seen spreading out her clothes, with her baby upoi l'alenno, Venice, Milan, Vienna, and finally in Spain the grass besides her, while awaiting the return of bu r and Portugal. This undertaking would yield in husband from his fishing; at which time it was her usual Christian merit, and paitical as well as commercial custom to repair to the beach, in order to assist him in carrying up his nets to the house. importance, to no missionary expedition. All pro- Allan aluelavieh, her husband, was a tall and handsome tcatunte, of every country and denomination, might young Highlander, who had, about two y' •an previous to the join in this work, which will lame the right hand time of which I write, arrived in that part of the country to of Austria, by calling into action the powerful, but settle, with his newly married wife. He was a native (Arne coast, and had been bred a fisherman from chilabood ; but hitherto misapplied, power of Protestantism in some time before his marriage he hail left the country, to ac- Italy, and find a host of helpers in Germany , compare his faster -brotherya young Highland gentleman, to land, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Russia; the Ilridge of Allan, a watering-place in Stirliugshire,whither of which countries secure pence and welfare to mil- he had been ordered for his health. The young taint's lions of papists by their toleration to such as reside affection for his footer-brother was such that he could not in their respective dominions, endure to be separate:el from him, and Allan left his fishing toe with him. The laird returned no more • he died in Those, however, who ore so foolishly proud of our the Lowlands ; but Allan MaeTavish came b ack, enriched social condition as to deny the need of anxiety and watch by a -mall leery front him, and accompanied by one of the fiancee, and so well satisfied with filling their own countrryy prettiest girls in all Stirlingshire as his wife. From that or town with works of charity and ecclesiastical magni cease, are but too apt to pray with the Pharisee 0 Lord, time they had continued to reside in the Cove of Craigna varroeb, us the spot where their cottage stood wan named, thank thee that I am not as other men are !'"f'hose works of charity, of which the opulent can boast, as being their to all appearance the happiest of couples. They were doatingly attached to each other ; and when, 'on returning only ucklevement in the vineyard of the laird, arc but like the rotten fruit .if a withering tree, destined to return to' from his fishing, Allan alaelfavish sat down beside his clean and cheerful hearth, with his infant on his knee, while his the generous soil of Christian society nothing but poisonous genus of ingratitude and corruption. wife spun or mended his nets beside him, he at least felt Such a withering tree, consumed by the malignant that the world did not contain for him a spot so blessed es blast of pride and selfishness, would lie the church or state his own little home. from which, after the agitation of this violent storm, no But there was one heart in the group that felt as though other fruit should fall than empty discussions, boasts, threats, it dared nut be happy. Margaret Weir, the young wife of Allan, loved her husband with a depth and intensity of ' and declantations. Grant heaven that this agitstian be I affection which bad lea her to 41., an site had done.-to vie fruitful of good works! May the pride of our arch - enemy be his fall, and may the Protestant churche be exalted I Fete filial duty for his sake; hut which could not teach her s only through Christian law and virtue, in t h e ezere;„,. o f to forget the Ilion she had committed, or the parent whom she had deserted; and the consciousness of her disobedience reciprocal toleration and true charity under God's blessing ! was with her in her happiest hour, to sink her heart us with a weight of lead. She was the only child of a wealthy fanner, onginallv from Ayrshire, who had come, during his daughter's childhood, immediately after the death of.his wife, to settle in Stirlingisire, not far from the Bridge of Allan. Andrew Weir was one of those who still retain, almost in all their original strictue , i, the peculiar tenets and ideas of the Cameninians, of whom there are many to be found at the present day in the wild and lonely districts of the south-western part of Scotland. His notions of family dis cipline, and of strict seclusion from those who held a dif ferent doctrine from his own, were extremely rigid ; yet, notwithstanding these, the affection which he had borne hie daughter was very great, nor had the harmony subsist ing between them ever experienced any interruption, until the arrival of Allan MacTuvieh near their place of resi dence, and his subsequent acquaintance with Margaret, first broke in upon the calm tenor of her life, by intro ducing sensations to which her heart had never before been awakened. The intimacy of his daughter withthe young Highlander had continued for a considerable time ere Andrew Weir became aware of it • for Margaret knew her father's pre judices too well to d are make him acquainted with her lover. M came to his knowledge by accident, and his anger was proportionably great. In common with many of his coun trymen, Andrew entertained an extreme dislike to High landers, which dislike, in the present instance, received tenfold confirmation from the circumstance of MacTuvish being a Papist. lie would liars considered himself as signing the warrant for his daughter's eternal perdition, had be not instantly forbidden all Intercourse between them. At this juncture Allan's foster-brother died, and left hint the legacy already mentioned; but with his death, at the same time, ceased all the reasons fin the young man's remaining absent from hie own country. He contrived an interview with Margaret ere he should depart. It is needless to linger on an oft-told tale. The struggle between filial affection and all-powerful love in the heart of the unsophis ticated girl, was severe and long-continued; while the re ligious feelings in which she had been educated contributed to swell the amount of reluctance and of terror with which she contemplated the step to which she was urged. But love at last prevailed. Margaret fled from her father's house with her lover. They instantly proceeded to Edinburgh, where they were married by a Burnish priest, and then sought the lonely solitudes of Allan's old Argyllshire mountains. But Mar garet—so inlet had been the filial obedience in which she was brought up—so severe the religious thith of her youth — could nut find happiness the portion of her manned life, notwithstanding all the kindness of her husband, the love liness of her infant, and the peacefulness of her home. The Image of her grey-haired father going down in his sorrow to a lonely grave, mourning, in bitterness of heart, the sin and the falling-away of his only child, was ever before her She concealed from her husband the remorse which em bittered her happiness, but often, when his boat was on the sea, and she was alone in her little dwelling, with her infant,—not a sight or a sound of a human being near, — nothing but the sea-birds screaming from the cliffs, and the sea making wild music to their song, as it plashed and roared against the rocks that shut out the cove from the world — often at such an hour would Margaret look back to the image of the cheerful farmhouse in the green sunny holm by Allan Water;—to the blazing ingle by whose side stood her old father's chair ; to the venerable form of that now forsaken father, as he opened " the big Ha' Bible," to begin the evening worship, while she sat by his side, and the farm servants formed a circle around. Alas ! her accustomed scat was empty now. The name of the undutiful daughter was heard no more in the dwell-' ing of her childhood. Had she indeed still a father? ca had her guilty desertion not broken his heart and sent him ! to a death-bed which no filial band had smoothed ? Then would she press her baby to her heart, while the tears of bitter and fruitless penitence fell on its innocent face, and pray to God that her sins might not be visited on it ; nor be punished in her own person by a like instance of ingra titude in her own child. The return of her beloved husband might for a time dis pel these miserable thoughts; but still they came again when he left her, sometimes even when he was by , her side. And when, as often happened, his boat was out in rough and tempestuous weather, the anxiety and the terror ofpoor Margaret were indeed terrible. She seemed ever haunted by some mysterious dread of punishment through themeans of warmest affections—her husband or her child. There came a bright sunny day in April, when the sun set ' calmly and cloudlessly, leaving a long train of light over the sea. Allan MeeTavish went to bed at sunset, bidding his wife awake him at eleven at night. It would be high tide in about an hour after that time, when his boat would be meat easily floated o 6; and he, in company with the fishermen who lived in the huts already mentioned, farther along the coast, were then to depart for their deep-sea fish ing. Margaret determined accordingly to sit up until that hour. in order to obviate any danger of not waking in pro- Der time had she laid down to sleep. But as the night dark ened in, and all became stillness and silence in the cottage, aa unwonted drowsiness crept over her; inspite of all her efforts her eyes closed—thoughts wavered before her mind is confused and shapeless forms till they gradually melted away into dreams; and leaning her head upon a chair beide the low stool on which she bad seated herself, she sank into a profound sleep. When at last she opened her eyes, which wan with a sud den start, she perceived her huslmnd standing on the floor, and nearly dressed. Casting her eyes towards a silver watch', (the gift of Allan's foster-brother), which hung upon the wall, she perceived by the fire-light that it was after eleven, and flintily rose from her seat, en that confusion of ideas which attends a hurried awakening from sleep. e Margaret, dear," said her husband kindly, " what for did ye stay out of bed ? I never knew it till I wakened, and raw ye sleeping there." " Have I no' been i my bed," exclaimed Margaret, as she looked around her. " Ou ' ay, I mind it, a' noo. I just fell asleep sittiu' aside the fire. An', Allan, whar arc ye gamma e'en noo ? " " Where am I nun ?" returned Allan. "Where would I be gaun ? Ife're no awake yet, Margaret, dear, I'm for the boat, lass." Recollections of a Rifleman's Wife, at Mote and Abroad. By Mrs. Vitsblaurice. Hope and Co. Recollections which may enliven a fireside when associated with the memory of friends do not always make a lively book. It is very pleasant to refer to old letters which babble of pleasant days gone by, but this pleasure is more the result of re-awakened sympathy than of any great interest in the places which are described. This volume is an instance in point. The Rifleman's wife, in company with her husband, went to various military stations, and from these stations appears to have written letters home to her friends. They contain Kline passages pic turesquely written: rtynocrit Gossip IN 1827. In the course of this summt r P. mouth was honoured by a royal visit. His late majesty, William IV., then Uuke of Clarence, was on a tour round the coast, and it was an• sounced that the duchess was to name a three-deeper, the building of which we had watched with much interest. I was delighted with the opportunity of seeing the launch of a that-rate, and it quite answered my expectations. The royal party, attended by the admiral and his lady, the governor and his staff, proceeded to the slip in which lay the noble revel; a band of music was on board, and her deck covered with people. After some preli minary forma, the duchess, dashing a bottle of wine against the vessel, gave her the name of the "Royal Adelaide ; " the hand struck up the national anthem ; the guns on the battery of Mount Wyse fired a salute, and amidst the cheers of thousands the beautiful ship glided into its future element—impetus ipse Jecit Harem. A se rious accident had nearly occurred at this moment, from the duke's advancing first, as they were removing the shores, or or last supports, on which the vessel rested ; Lady Northesk saw the danger, and pulled him back. We lad gone with some friends in a boat to the opposite side, whence we had a view of the whole ; and I never saw a more animated scene. The shore was lined with spectators; the water covered with boats; colours floated at the mast-head of every vessel in Hamoaxe, to welcome their royal sister among them ; and the glory of an August sun was shining over all. The next day was not so favourable for a review of the troops on the government parade. The rain came down, as it does in Devonshire, in good earnest ; but his royal highness, declining elm the shelter of an umbrella, stood it all for some hours, addressing each regiment in turn, and showing a wonderful memory of all the different actions they had at any time been enraged in. Besides two com panies of engineers and artillery, the Ist and 2nd battalions of the Rifle Brigade, the 18th, or Royal Irish, the 43rd, and the 29th, were present on this occasion. This last regiment is remarkable for its excellent internal economy, and the management of its schools, &c. There is a peculiarity in their mess, from the officers always sitting down with their swords, since the time the regiment was once attacked in India when they were at table, and were nearly cut to pieces. In addressing the Rifles , — in company with whom his royal highness had served on the Ilelder,—he went over their history from the formation of the regiment, and wound up by saying, "And what more can I say of you riflemen, than that, wherever there has been fighting you have been employed, and wherever yen have been employed you have distinguished yourselves Another royal visitor at Plymouth this year was the Por tuguese prince, Don Miguel. He was as good-looking as a little man with an indifferent countenance could be; was fond of dancing, but had no taste fur manly sports, his principal amusement in the morning, it was said, beieg in shooting cats from the windows of his hotel ! A review and some public entertainments were given during the time he was delayed by the badness of the weather. At last, to the great relief of the admiral, Lord Northesk, and the governor, Sir John Cameron, on whom devolved the duty of entertaining the intellectual prince (as it would have bean contrary to etiquette for him to go to the house of ray private gentleman), the wind moderated, and he em ba rked with his suite ; but before they got out of the Channel a heavy gale set in from the south-west, and in all the agony of sea-sickness, from which royalty itself is not exempt, he sent orders to the captain "to stop the ship." A lesson from Canute might hare made him a wiser man. The Russian fleet,—or some part of it, I ought to say,— came in after this for a few days. The Russian sailor is a sort of amphibious animal—half soldier, half sailor. The admiral and some remarkably ugly officers came on shore, and some of our officers went out to visit their ships, which appeared to be in a dirty, ill-ordered condition,—the sailors, in shakos and boots, lying about half asleep en the decks ! I In short, they did not leave a good impression, in a place like Plymouth, of the maritime economy of Russia. A more interesting arrival was that of the (Dena from Illhotaiwo, with the body of Captain Bathurst ou board, who was buried with military honours a few days after ; sod the solemnity of the scene was increased by the sudden Math of a young officer of the 96th, who, when the troops wore all drawn up in line to receive the body, staggered *sward a few paces and fell lifeless to the ground. It was only the week before that he had told • lady, to whom he was talking in the theatre, that ho always had the impres sion that he should die suddenly. The Genoa was one of the ships which had suffered severely at Navarino: being fir-built, every shot told additionally by splintering the wood ; teak, from not doing this, it would appear, is much to be preferred fur ships of war. The book contains aim lively and pleasant de scriptions. Miugrare, a Story of Caddied Spa ; and other Tales. By Mrs. Gordon. 2 soh. Hope and Co. One chief story, and three shorter ones, penned by a lady of much talent, who here offers a pleasant evening's reading for those who like to leave fur a while the world about them, and set off upon a fanciful tour in the regions of romance. The tales have each a dash of dreamy superstition about them to heighten their interest, but not enough to weaken the reader's faith in the narratives or to lesson his liking for the writer. We may quote as a specimen " The boat!" almost shrieked Margaret, as the recollee- Tribunals of Commerce. A Letter to the Merchants, tion seemed to rush upon her; " the boat ! — Oh, no, Allan, Bankers, fradens, and others of England. By Fat acre ye miunna' gang the night! N o the n icht, Allan. Ye LYME, Esq., author of "Iteasons for our having Tribunals mamma' gang." of Commerce, &e." London: Effingham Wilson, Bail. " Not gang to night !" exclaimed he in astonishment. " Remarks on the Utility and Organisation of Tribunals "And what for TO ?—I must gang in Italian hour's time. of Commerce." By J. M. EfIASE/L, Est. Loudon, Aud gang ye to your bed, hinny, and tak a sleep." WOOdiall. " Oh, .than,' said Margana, bursting into tears, "toe Ana / pi. of Couseils des Prud'honmes. By Ws. FELKI7, guided by me, and tak na the boat the nicht, or we're a' Nottingham. the it." " What's the matter, Margaret?" anxiously inquired he. Mr. Lyne's pamphlet is rather a report to the mei-- " What's pitteu that in yer bed?" chants of London, who have supported hint, of tho " I had a dream e'en now, Allan," sobbed Margaret, progress as yet made in the movement, than any account of the working of tribunals of commerce " that warned nee coo to let ye gang. I fell lasicep, and I dreamed that I was sittiu' her', i' the ingle-neuk, an' at * home or abroad, but this is supplied in the brief waitin' till it was time to weaken ye for the tishia', .01' on address of Mr. Fraser. Mr. lf.yne's pamphlet con e sudden the dour opened, and my auld ranker came ben, and stood afore me; there whar you're %tannin', Allan. tains, however, many incident:it illustrations on a An' I thoeht he leuekit gay an stem-ways at me; an' says subject now of very great prominence—trade tiibu he, ' Margaret,' says lie, 'tell your husband to bide at home nals—and, in connexion with them, functions of arbi the nicht, tool no gang to the ((shin' or yell tration. may be rue It is sitciz 1111011 as a novelty, or even a fo ular to say that in the present it when ye canna' mend it.' And wi' ;hat he turned route, an' gazel awe' agin, or ever 1 had poocr to speak till him; day this is look an' I startit up, and waukenet wi' the fright. But oh, reign importation, and the most complete models WO ' Allan!" and Margaret burst into a flood of weeping: " it's have for refercius• are those on the continent, whereas no for nal that I have seen the auld man this night. 1k trade tribunals. and arbitration between the litigant ruled hy the warnin' he gird me, and dinna gang to the —• , virtu s. are among the most ancient institutions of this fishin'." city and country. 'llte fact of it is we have! theorised " Hoots, bairn," exclaimed her husband, "your father liked na' me. It was mule like he wad warn ye no' to so - fur, and we have been so desirous to make the ad let me gang to hinder me front some good than from ill. ntinistration of the law perfect, that we have thrown No. no, Margaret dear, gang I moat, this night." it wholly into the hands of lawyers, and thereby dis- Margaret again wept, wrung her hands, and implored her jointed it. Thinking we are following Bentham husband not to go But, superstitious as every Highlander is, on this night his wile's mysterious decant made no ire- and the cause of improvement, we are going farthest preesion upon Allan MacTavish. His spirits, on the con- away : . tniry, had seldom seemed so high or so excited. Ile led Without taking one of the purely commercial MACS Margaret to the door, showed her the calm, clear sky, c it e d by M r . Lyre , let us tike one connected with brilliant with stars, andthe full spring-tide coming so trait- hendicratt—that of two goldsmiths, or two clock quilly into the little bay; asked her with a kiss, if this were a night to let a dream frighten him from his fishing, and makers, or two plumbers. who quarrel as to the ful without awaiting furth e r reaaonrtraucc, strode to the place filtnent of the proper execution of ante piece of work where his boat was monad; and as lie pushed it from the in connexion with the World's Fair. According to shore, turned his head, one ,. more to utter a light and the present course, they will have to go to the Court of laughing farewell. " Gang to your bed , my bonny l'eggy,' Queen's Bench or the Court of , and after he ft he said, " and ha up belyve the morn to see the grand boat ' load o' fish that I'll bring ye back." a terrific expense they are ready for trial. A host Margaret stood main the shore, and watched his boat as of tradesmen ts brought up on curb side as witnesses, it doubled the headland, until, through the darkness, her but the judge, the advocates, and the jury, know strutting eye could no longer discern it, heedless the while nothing of the subject, and never handled a of the still advancing tide that now laves' her feet. She tool in their lives. They are ignorant. without the merit of impartiality, because they have not the eon dried her tears, and looked up to the calm heaven, where ma a cloud obscured the dark-blue }maim of night ; till at last, half re-assured by her husband's cheerful anticipations, fidence of coming to a right &vision. Either the half cheered by the serene aspect of the weather, she re- trial proceeds to the vexation of all members of the trade, or the judge', conscience-stricken us to his in turned to the cottage, and after commending him, in a cepability of administering justice, suggests an arlii fervent prayer, to the protection of Heaven she replenished the fire with peals, and lay down beside her child, where, . - tration, not, however, to goldsmiths , clorkmakers, or in a short time, she fell into a profound sleep. plow- long Margaret had slept she knew not; but it could plumbers, as in Franco, but to a number of the bar. not have (Wen very long, (or, except the fitful flashes of the It is needless to say this unhappy individual pockets tire-light, all was il irkinaa in the tottao, when she was hi s fees, without the satisfaction of doing his duty. suddenly awakened by a loud and prolonged sound. She . „ iwo or three hundred years ago the case would stared up in bed, and listened in an agony of apprehensiou that almost froze the blood in her veins. It was no dream, have been different. Ha the litigants gone to West -no 44,111140 u—she distinctly heard the loud, wild hemline' minster }tall, the indignant judge would have driven lof the awakened blast, raging overhead as thought it woult them away, but they would utve appealed to their tear off the very roof of the cottage, and scatter it in its fury. resmetive comp hies, the goldsmiths, the clock- Shemit ern, orthe plunders, ter master ant wardens of had sunk to sleep when all was stillness on earth and in lc 'l heaven. She awoke to a tumult as awful as though all the winds hail at once been set ina• from their cave, and de- which, being int•mbers of the craft, would have spatched to waste their wrath upon the vexed bosom of the settled tlte dispute, basing full power to compel tho appearance of parties, and would, perhaps have sea. nut, (tinier and more awful than the w inds, there came amerced one of the litigants in a fine for r di ' another sound—the raging of the waters, as they rose in gracing his craft. This • jurisdiction the companies of s their night, and dashed themselves with a loud booming roar upon the cliffs. Margaret sprang from her bd, and, undressed as she was, rushed to the cottage door. The in- the city of London have to this day by their charters, saint she raised the latch, the force of the tempest dashed it but they have been grudually ousted of it, mat by open against the wall. She looked out into the night. A misuse of it, but by the courts of mimeo) law, so that if in a case like that cited the prime warden of pitchy darkness now brooded over all things; every star seemed blotted front the face of heaven : but dimly through the Goldsmith's company woe to call before hint two the gloom she could descry the white crests of the waves, as . goldlinnt 8 irn ti . either of the itarttea, by. ap h in CI I II' • they surged and lashed the beach within a few yards of the cottage door. The tide had risen to a height almost no- placation to the superior courts, could battle the Jung exampled on that coast, beneath the influence of a vernal diction. storm ;it had far overpassed its usual limits within tho The French courts are, however, more jealous of Cove of Craignavarroch ; and on the rocks, beyond which the administration of justice ; nor will even the tri , it could nut go, it was breaking high—high over head—with a noise like thunder. Never was change in the weather hunals of erminterce undertake handicraft eass. In more sudden and more complete. Margaret stood for a most French towns there arc Councils de l'eud -1 moment in speechless horror and dismay; then, rushing back /mottoes of the various trades, in tlte native of our Mot . the cottage, she fell upon her knees, and held up her City companies ; and the judges refer to them. In there are various associations of trades, which, bands to beaten: " Lord God!" she exclaimed, '• have Pari se mercy! have mercy !" She could not utter another word. Shc hid her face in her hands, and sobbed in agony. stran as it may ge! sent here, advertise their readiness Still the tempest raged, and the waves roared on. Mar - to arbitrate trade cases, or to undertake references garet dressed herself, and carefully covered her infant, front the courts. There is an association for the whose sweet sleep was unbroken by the fearful tumult. mechanical engineers, which works exceedingly well. Again she went to the door, and 'maid, looking into the But imagine the surprise of Lord Broughton and the night, regardless of the wind, which drove a heavy rain Law Iteform Society, on taking up the Dolly News against her face. She strained her ears to distinguish some sound—some cry—amid the pauses of the hurrieane. As some morning, and finding m its itdvertising well might she hone striven to distinguish the low music columns :--" Association of Mechanical Engineers.— of the woodland bird, as the wildest shriek that ever broke The council, in which are Messrs. Boulton and Watt, Nlauelslay and Field, Stephenson, Bran - tali, Fox and from the lips of despair and anguish, in the midst of an uproar of the elements like that through which she had Henderson, Itobinsons and Hassell, &c.. undertake dreamt of hearing it. But those frorn whont that sound must have come were far—far beyond where her ear could gratuitously, or for the expenses out of pcket, to catch their voices. decide cases relating to machinery and inechunical She closed the door, returned into the room, and knelt engineering, or to undertake any references from the down again on the floor, burying her face and closing her several courts at Westminster and Dublin, and the cars, as it to shut out the noise of the tempett, while her Court of Session, and to supply competent scientific whole frame shook with the gasping sobs a high brought no witnesses in causes litigated to town or country. tears to relieve her; and ut every fresh howl of the blast, she shuddered and her limbs shrank closer together. She Subscription, five shallop a year." Such is mutatis tried to pray, but the words died upon her lips. She could mulamlis the announcement of the Paris association, not speak; she could not even think ; she ouly felt as though to the benefits couferred by which the members of she were all one nerve—one thrilling nerve—quivering be- the trade attest. ucath repeated and torturing pangs. The Royal Contmissioncrs for the Great Exhibi- On a sudden the wiud sunk—completely sunk. For the • • tom, In establishing tribunals for deciding tech space of three minutes there was not a breath heard to blow. Margaret raised her head, and listened. All was still. She Meal questions, most certainly did not cull in was about to sprit* from the ground, when back—back it members of the legal profession, but the' con came again—the hideous burst—the roaring bellow of the mittms' to have a practical acquaintance with tho nicknamed juries, are constituted of men augmented hurricane, us though it had gained strength and supposed fierceness from its brief repose! Back it came—shaking the se. veral branches of business. The observance of the very cottage walls, and rattling the door and little window as if it would burst thent open—and Margaret flung herself principle here recognised is what is demanded by tho forward again with a wild shriek, and clasped her hands advocates of tribunals of comment, but it must not over her ears again, to deaden the sound. be supposed they wish to oust the legitimate juris- Then she started from the ground, as a thought struck diction of the lawyers. Cases of pure law are, how her, which seemed to bring some taint gleam of hope. 'c i f ever, very few. Out of 60,000 cases brought hetiare kepis when the storm began," said she to herself. "lie the Tribunal of Commerce of Paris no less than may never hoe won farrer nor the houses about the craigs yonder ;—or they may hae pitten back in time to get ashore 40,000 were undefended, and the action of the court there ; and he'll be bidin' the melanin's light, and the (man' became purely ministerial. Of the remainder which o' the wind, or he come back here again. Oh ay, that'll came on for hearing very few involved 'stints of law. just be it! Surely—surely that be it," she repeated, as S uppos i ng th e 60,000 cases to occur in England, the if to assure herself of the truth of what she said. She took ouestion is why for 40,000 undefended causes the down the watch from the nail on which it hung, and looked w at it by the tire-light. The hand pointed to half-past two. ponderous and expensive machinery of Westmitister " Oh! will it never be day ?—will it never be Licht again i" Hall should be put in action. she exclaimed, as she replaced it, "that 1 may win yont Although the constant action of the law courts the craigs, rind see gin he be there." She went again to has been to destroy other jurisdictions and other the door. All was darkness still, and wild uproar without. than law arbitration, yet the necessities of the public No gleam of light to announce the far distant dawn. A fresh burst of wind drove her back. " Oh!" she exclaimed, have led to the formation of independent inst.itu wringing her hands; "oh ! gin he had been advised by tions. The profession of accountants, new increasing me. But the dochter that left her faither's grey hairs to in all our great towns, adds to its functions the arbi mourn her, deserves na' a better lot. It was e'en owre tration of mercantile accounts and disputes, and it is muckle guidness to gie me a warnin' o' it." well known a large amount of litigation is thus dis- The long, dark hours of that terrible night dragged on— of. The members of the Stock Exchange are on—in all the torments, the unutterable torments of sus- posed virtually subjected, in defiance of the law, to a tri posse. And if anything can aggravate these torments, it is enduring them amid darkness. There is something awfully bunal of their own, the committee of which is yearly indefinite at all times in the thick, impenetrable gloom of chosen, and which not only derides all complaints night ; but when that gleam is armed with terrors, and big between and against members, but in ease of the with dangers, to which the very impossibility of ascertaining failure of a member seizes his assets, and divides their extent adds tenfold to the imagination, then it is that " we truly feel the full amount of 1 awfulness. them forthwith among the creditors. The Chambers itsAt last a faint glimmer of grey light began to break over the turn- of Commerce of Liverpool and other towns, have bling waves. Again Margaret was at her cottage-dour. It attached to them committees of arbitration; and at was barely light enough to show her how mountainous were Dublin is an ancient society for the like purpose , the billows that dashed and raved upon the shore,—how thick and heavy were the clouds that darkened the sky. called " The Ouzel Galley." The religious bodies, however, have long organised The wind howled with unabated fury, and the rain drove against her by fits . She could just discern, by the faint themselves against costly litigation. The Society of daybreak, the white foam that marked the top of the waves, Friends, as is well known, embodies in its tonstitu which were now ebbing from the bay; while a thick rib of don, an express provision against recourse t o tho sand and sea-weed upon the gross not far from the door, law tribunals, unnecessary litigation in which is marked how fearfully high they had flowed through the treated in the nattire of a moral offence. The an night. She cast an eager glance towards the cliffs. Surely by this time it would be practicable to scramble along their cient congregations of the Spanish and Portuguese base, and to reach the path on the shore to the fishermen's Jews in this country have, as Mr. Lyue states, the huts? She felt as though it were impossible to remain following bye - law : another instant in that state of terrible uncertainty. But, The vestry ( w hich meet monthly, composed of five gen then, her infant ! She durst not carry it out by so hazardous semen elected annually) shall hear the complaints and dis c path, in the wet, cold, dark dawn; and should she leave it utes that may arise a mong the emgregaturs, whether for behind it might wake and miss her. Shc turned distractedly p offences or fur debts, and shall endeavour to reconcile the into the room, and approached its bed. It was still in a contending parties, persuading them to that which is rca sound and tranquil sleep; and with a desperate effort of tenable and just, or advising them to leave their cases to resolution, site determined to make the attempt. She t h e d ec i s i on o f arbitrators, making every exertion to pre approached the door, and fastened her plaid firmly around vent the parties carrying their compluiuts into a public her, ere she stepped forth upon her storey distinguishable court ot . justice. 1 w er. Although them are no tribunals of commerce au thorised by law in this country, there are some in strangeA i that s n moment, siLto. eizinMaiirscrsoret. hers A crozi ld the ai tpre nth sho h l t d d our distant possessions, and the number of English past m he o r m , lik ra e pi t d ha p t a w s : in a g sie o w f Z ., b m y e th in e di rzi rni d merchants now in London, who Imre acted as judges dimness came over her sight ; she could not be said to see— of b a l p e inna object . a and but she felt as if something cold and wet had glided swiftly the tribunals in our colonies or abroad, is stated by her, with a scarcely perceptible contact, into the house. by Mr. Lyrae to be above thirty. In France these A damp dew overspread her forehead ; her limbs trembled tribunals are not so modern as they are supposed, but are of ancient origin. It is stated, on the authority m asl ci :u sh sti e n had etive ci l tu y t m um .d. ed round, of the minister of justice, that they are established a a n nTd d hlb l e n luig t edh be ti n nw e t.. ath t.h h e oo,feairra, that, within the beam, it acute' and regulated by the edict of 1563, the ordonnanco vanquished the darkness; but a bright gleam flashing up from the fire, showed everything in the room distinctly fur o f 1673, the Code of Commerce, book 4, the decree of an instant's space ; and, by that gleam, Margaret beheld October, 1809 ; the law of 3rd March, 1840; and the figure of her husband standing within the door, pale, the decree of the 28th August, 1848. The French BB it seemed to her, and dim, and shadowy, with the water dripping from Lis clothes and hair. The fire-flash sunk as have at any rate adhered to the wisdom of their an cestors. i ns tantaneously as it had shone, and all again wars obscurity, as she dropped upon the floor in a swoon. When the unhappy wife again opened her eyes, and re covered her perceptions of what was passing around her, she found herself laid in her own bed. The bright glorious sunshine was beaming in at the cottage window, as though to mock her desolation. Several women, from the neigh bouring fishing village, were in the room ; one of whom held in her arms the infant of Margaret, whom she was en ' deavouring to sooth and quiet : and at the moment she raised her head, the door opened, and upon the self-same spot where she had that morning beheld his likeness stand, site saw the lifeless corpse of her drowned husband borne in the Irma of some of his comrades, who had with difficulty rescued it from the devouring waves; yet rescued it too late to save. A GRIEVOUS ACCIDENT happened yesterday, at Ditchiogham, near liungay. Mr. Cuddon, a brewer and maltster, Wili having a vault of considerable extent built, with an arched roof rising five feet in the centre, and a considerable quantity of soil had been laid over the sides of the arch, leaving the crown uncovered. Yesterday morn ing three men and two i boys were working in the interior. when the whole roof fell n. Four of the persons were killed, and one, Mr. Cuddon 's brewer, was extracted alive, but with one o f his thighs broken. Atir i esent there is no reason to believe the roof was unskilf I co or the work insufficiently perf ormed ; but the unusually heavy rains of the last feet: manner undermined the building. :.... '''5,,e.„..'..;. -- .. , .. t ., '‘ : \ :11 V -1 '4. 1 ; • .. 4 7‘..:- : - 1 ik ' 1 ytt /::: If ti4/ 14 6. I •*.e '' i received from the Jacobus' or mendicant monks ; hence they attracted the esteem and veneration, not only of the popes ' lace, but also of their rulers, on account of their extraordi nary The 3ta :; ion l'riest oft rionon, or Papers is Me Thir- sanetity and virtue. . ~,,m is- t . ,,,,.„ ity 1 .,, i f . u ,„..,,,, ,E . 4. ~.., tot .. A short dist:tare preceding these fanatics, but mounted l'artrialge :awl Oak ,-y. on a mul.•, node Romulus, the llama legatg, the gr.sit leader of the Jacobin., who, from time to time turned rend ad- Under the above title we find two volumes o f a dressed wool. of exhortation or of a consolatory nature to coadetised history Own: and there column' to give such of his followers as were within hearing. draniaticeffect). Of the reign of Lnuis the N . M.; with! But he arrived ton late, and only entered the assembly a magician meet. nieni ioned by the old ehronieles as a s the criesa .. .' d borm with the pope" were voeiferated ° tin certain dere," for the centre and pivot. It gives voices: these were the only words he corTelnds'iihvetriaiguish hund re d the Babel of tongues. a string of facts, set with some art, to tell nganott o .Ire you mai," said he, with a sti•ni voice, hut nun'''. the Pupists. The reflection of the black deeds of del brow, "that to insult oar common father?" Ilotiorious the Third and his servants is to fall upon . " Ile may be our father, hut for all that he shall not de- Pius IX. amd his coutijutors ;—by raking up the prive Puns of its liberties or the university of its charter !'• exclaimed a voice within the crowd ; and at the same mo horrors of the past, the future is ;sought to bo ment a well directed missile struck Romanus on the fore renlised. Just now the most determined opponents head. Staggering back with the blow, the monk had vet pre of the papists are accumulating upon the heads of settee of mind to make towards the door, which le now the enemy a series of chargers which are as terrible . threw widely open, and the enormous crowd collected outside as they are undeniable. New editions of old his- ! pressed a ildlaY forward. ! At a sign from St . Ange the flagellants erased from their tones of Popish cruelty and depravity are itsuiii ' personal ortification, and 'worm to use their scourges upon on all sides. - The Fennle Jesuit ," having renoun ced the assembly with infinitely greater ferocity than they had the 'Rom I an Catholic faith, has just published a nar- exhibited upon themselves, some of th.: mob taking part ratite of her experiences in an English convent of • with, ant 1 some attacking them. female Jesuits--laxperiences which are altnost in-I The chances now seemed in favour of the dominicans , when a till dark man ' dressed also in a monastic attire, credible. : and pamphleteers have well nigh made with a hundred well armed followers to hack him, advanced cheeseemongers piper a drug in the market. Mr. towards the tribunal, leading a female, closely veiled, by , Usiborne's volumeo, however, are the legitimate pro- the hand. elution of an earnest Protestant. The following: "Citizens of Paris, nail reverend fathers all!" exclaimed describing an inten new between peonage. Bl anc h e ' he' s .. I denounce before you, in the sight of God and man, Roznanue of St. Angelo, as unworthy of the name of of Castile and the Magician Priest, is forcibly written : ried, though Condo Savelli has scut him to us as his legate. ELASICHE or CASTILE Asti THE WAOICIAN Pone.-T. c denounce him," continued he, "on oat•a, a, having at '• Whom and what sec-k y.. ei l ihjeca o f ear th ?" sa 2,l t h e LempTe 1 violence upon the person of a maiden of Spain, and 'tremor, slowly rising hi s lot; silken eye - lashes , am( look- I da re him upon the gospels to deny it. Unveil thyself, . . , sag Mushy upon the two wren. a. dainwl, and confront thy worst enemies. It was ill Tans that the powerfol mind of the heroine of I " Hold," elicit the cardinal, raising his hand a little he nna' tale endeavoured to shake off the secret control with' fore his eye., as if to shut out some fearful sight, " the which the priest enthrall al her; thine was something so un- l i maiden is a heretic, and who will credit her assn'tion.?" earthly out fearful in his glance that for some minutes she , "We will believe her hare word before your oath, Sir an swered not, for she had recognised in his dark countes ; Cardinal, even if you swore it upon all the relies a the moo, that dreaded Icing whom the nook superstition of the ' world," were the simultaneous chorus of a number of voices age as witted with the .i.rclitissid himself. in the assembly. " Let the maiden speak fur herself;" and Site:, was the ra a power that intellect and wiener user_ Rosalind de Centro advanced to the tribunal, where the (deed in those day. over the fearof the lemmata and the lord rector of the college was seated, and throwing back her unlettee'sl, when their senseless and ill-gonittiled apprehen- I veil, stood before the senate in ell the bloom and loveliness • , predominating over the higher and more spiritual as. ,of female beauty, heightened in no slight degree by the piryti ,,,, of h .,. not ... „, d , under t h e heavy h 02 4 2 , 8e I rising blush upon her cheek, as she described the events the bad entwined anions' them. of the morning. i The priest smiled bitterly ti hirawlf as he gazed upon There was au earneltitest and a graceful dignity as she I I that beautiful and gift's! ISOMAII, VI rieeudrimedlocononand spoke, which virtue can alone confer, that forced its way to • obedience to the slightest wish, so insensible to l ICTSiMOI the heart. It was the language of the purest innocence I • fe•ar, awe-stricken and suladued under the mere influence boldly defending itself against hypocrisy anal crime. tot hi. sown, as though it WITS, connected with some super- " aced not her wont, most learned rather, and student., • natural agency. 'the city; lie had prOdUC , II upon her was, the woman is POSSeMeII hy an evil spirit, and the child of hooey, r, far mon• momentary than he expected, for it was perdition, or she hail not thus dared accuse me in your pee n* °Hillary mind he• had to nintend with ; and the pride acne;' and, to-fore Ressalind could be aware of his inten anal scorn of the woman, in havinir yielded to imaginary lion, he hail o iced hit violently by the arm, exclaiming at terrors, came to her lOS`isMlll , ' and inspired her with re- the some time , "Yi e ld yourself my primmer- -I arrest you doubled resolution to meet with boldness every cznergency, in the Mille ef the inviction." A shrisk from hilvietim, The :elventure was or her own :asking, and she was de- so shrill and agonizing that it went through the breasts of termineil to oei through with it, though totally unsupported the assembly, interrupted the harangue of St. Agne, and by her companion, whim• alarm hail increased to such a all eyes turned upon her. degree that she could neither speak nor none, for the vital ' Surprise rind asteuishment hail been the first emotions of Rosalinel de Castro on the peel-ate seizing her, but as the principle and the spiritual easenee with her seemed at aura dew venal. drculful idea of the inquisition rose upon her mind, the Boa different were the feting- of the other, who, re- deeocot sense of terror and distress took possession of her gaining her .iceustouied commosure, exclaimed, with a fur- whole frame. lice eves strained on him, us if some fiend, tier Smile, " Now I kung' that thou art he. whom I seek, of darktiee had sual&ttly crossed her path ; her lip quivered, whit three year. back, a lou the gnat king Philip was sick- the warm glow of her cheek waxed faint and pale, like the erring unto death, hail me I should volute day have needrd o f sunshine failing swop from the evening sir. ,v • abed at the him ;—in inie word, say, art not thou he whom men call last terrible words of the prelate, that seeme d to seal her the' Magician Priest ?" fate fur ever, she sunk back lifeless into the arms of that " I am that man ••• be replied. " What wonlad thou?" mysterious being who had so recently rescued her tram his If thota art really skilled in those dark mysteries by grwsp• which the Clialibre and Egypt's magi in olden times could " lay' glory of ;all the saints in heaven;' exclaimed the raid the tutors in the stars, I would fain kuow the coming Magician Priest (fur her conductor was no other), throwing destiun• of Francs !" 'oak his rube" and laying his hand upon a dagger, " were it mit for the respect that is due to the Academy of Paris, I "Say rather of thyself; for even thou, the noblest of thy rac , ‘ , , art not ',I pecan( against the ion would strike thee dead at my feet this moment. Unhand of thy I. Nay. start not. for, epite of thy well-planned the damsel !" and seizing the cardinal by the arm, he flung dimono., I see before Ml' Manche of Castile. who, in the him back with such force, that he fell upon one knee On destinies of Frame, would simply know the fate of one she the ground. But immediately recovering himself, and loves fir better than herself; but (ear not, I will keep thy drawing up his stately person to its fullest heialit, the car et-eget as my life, u,.1 aid thy wishes to the full, if thou wilt dinal commenced the sentence of excommunication against Stay, with that soft influence which Blanche possesses above the priest and his followers; but it fell unheeded upon the &filer .11, this dreadful rage for wend and slaughter which can of those who had already soffoo'd ever] species of Per even now is desolating France with fire and sword." secution and ruin from the pupal power. " Ileaven knows,' she answered, " how my heart has " Away with hint," said their chief. " Let hint speck no bled to hear the crueltiess which every day are peratmtisl, more ! RMalind," he continued, addressing himself to the .useler r••ligion's name, iete t i ttt t throe Albigeois ; but how can Poor girl, whit wits now wildly gazing around her, as he I interfere against hi, h o liness the pope and this crime- took her small hand in his, '• let us bid this great assembly seeking de Motathril, whose fattier is now canonises) a farewell, thanking them for the patient manner in which saint ; for never tan I farce myself to think that we east they have heard our acemeati.m; and now to horse, for our best comm. nd ourselves to Biel by spaying t hose who but day's duty is well nigh done;" and, pressing through the differ from us—hut tell me. what can I do?' throne, they t rained the open 'pan. before the college, and " Ifs-cull thy husband and detain thy lover from this het- seating Rosalind upon her steed, such of his followers as pious war; so shall the our, he ode, the other chaste an d had aemnapanteil him having regained their horses, the pun., and worthy of that regard which queens may offsr and whole party dashed at a furious gallop into the open true r5 ,,,,, ds merit. ' Thus halt th „ u l e„. t i„. 1,,,,,,,,, e ,4 country ; nor dill they slacken speed till they hail placed friend of both; and, e'en ahould4 thou fail, the tear, and many miles between them amid the fair city of ('.iris. Im p o s t of m inio n s of grateful hearts shall waft such intense At the present time, we may add, this work may to the throne of heaven is ch.." avail thee mare than ten" command public attention, as detailing a series of fold the aloolution gisen by carry priest and pope who fur facts v. hicli arose in the days of old out of the con king centuries pad ha.coned this Christian Lod. „ N ,, in ,,,,,—,,,, mire id5,e,h,...., wretch and scree der i, stitution a the papal authority. enough- tesi much had thou already uttered, and further I - . • will n o t list. n. I came to See the &sanders of thy art, and Short Argument of a Naturalised l'rotettant on the Uml aut to hear thee prate of that which concerns thee nut." /rage from Ronne: Sithmit to intolerance and Observe "I will ant dieappoint thy expel:colon. of my power, if ro s eirm .... London, 18 , 11. 8 , thou hist hut the courage to stand that trial from which i • Ths pamphlet contains more real matter than many the bravest warriors have shrunk." a largo volume which has been put forth upon the " Wire it otherwise I had not been hem," returned she; "but time presses, an d I must not Touch longer tarry." same subject during the late anti-papal agitation. 'ft.,nreawime then, placing them between the ancient The author's suggestions are new, and calcuated to altar and a large pile of dry wood that hail been .00. 1 do much good, unless, indeed, like most other proc. heaped together, took from the Sinner a long white wan , ticable and truly serviceable suggestions, they are and, waling it nice their heads three times, he drew with read and applauded, and then forgotten in discussing it a ramie round them, which hr charged theta on uo account ha qua. hot the demons ha insoked should tear them limb and refuting the next absurdity that may make its from lime. 'Then , . 1 .,..i ) aalsanring towards the altar of apm•aranee. The " Naturalised Protestant " begins wool'. he bent over it for as few minutes, and muttered in a by telling us that though all parties agree in laying low lint impressive voice some Rosti•rn form of incantation, the blame of the late papal aggression on our own as he poured the contents of a snail phial upon the summit apathy and want of unity, none set seriously to of the pile. .. Spirits of the nuttiest and unforgiven clesul." he 'work to discover wherein the evil has consist It ex claimed. as he raised his wand on high," and all ye demesne is to solve this question, to discover the evil, Mintiest to my will-1 charge ye', by the mystic powers of and point out the most speedy way of healing it, the ring, the crystal, the ashes, and the herb, be present th a t th e pithy little pamphlet is written. "Thevery and assist my undertaking !' s u dd en l y , 1,60,j spiral ( . 0 1„,,,,,, of flame b urin forth, appellation of proteetantism," says the author, lighting up the whole of the enormous area of the temple " would logically imply but a negative power of ! with a brilliancy almost equal to the noonday son, which, vitality, so that the degree of its internal strength after towering high above their head" fur a brief period, and vigour would seem to depend upon the dewy° gradually subsided, and all around them was our vast re- of nreesure from without." He who protests alone Irian of dense, unbroken smoke, on whose dark surface, as s• - •• . • can act old). in opposition to the party against whom they slowly issued from the ground, might lie distinctly trawl drear of pale spectral forms of the nest fearful he protests: we surely take for ourselves an humble and ghastly apaaninee. position by choosing a name that has relation only As the mai:hien from time to time threw drugs and costly to what we consider to be a degraded superstition. perfumes upon tho still glowing embers of the expiring Our missionary societies for the most l't act in con tire, these kept constantly increasing in number, and in .... 4 hued with them. formity to their name ; they content themselves with ann., till the amphitheatre rotestin ainst tho errors of the Romish church, tiometimes the spectres :advanced SO close to the circle, that Pg ag it aim eater by the 'mot solemn and tremendous adjurations without ever daring to fight with its champions on that he co'uld prevent there from entering it, as their eyes, their own ground. Not so did the founder of which shone like inollen tire, glared wildly on the specta- Christianity set about his work of reformation. tors with meow and demoniac looks. It was not amongst the barbarians ; it was in the very 't he queen and her attendant, convulsed with terror, land and dominion of subtle high priests, scribes, and pha threw themselves isii their knees, and, grasping with frantic risCes, where the work of salvation had its origin on earth, hanits the small golden cross suspended to their girdles, and where the true Christ chose to preach, and plant his could only with faltering lips articulate, " 0 sanctissimo banner against the rulers of the time, and all powers of vice Maria, oro pro nos-0 pater omnipotence, salve nos!" and corruption. And if he had not begun by clearing Before long, however, their agony of alarm had increased their own temple of impurities—if he had feared to my in to such an extent that all forme and distinctions of rank their house " My house shall be called the house of prayer, wen• laid aside—for fear is a sad leveller—and they threw but ye have made it a den of thieves!"—what other house thi•mselver at the feet of the exorcist as though to some on earth could he ever have called his ? Would even this , powerful deity on whom alone their fate and very existence country (savage then) ever have been blessed with a temple deprodetl. And the musician smiled bitterly OA they dun/ urifiesl by his truth ? And how, without his zeal to clear to him, kissing the hem of his long flowing garments, an tis house of impurities where they are greatest, eau we be beseeching him to dismiss those dense crowds of demon called his followers ? Are we still in lie housewhen we spirits they hod so impiously (doubting of his power) dared keep in self-conceited apathy, shrinking at a distance from him to invoke. the " well-known den of thieves" in the patrimony of St. s' What I" said he, with well-affected surprise, "have you P eter ? no curiosity or wish to see further into futurity than merely Not much argument is needed to show, though, the opening scene, where the attending sprites only wait my rha ps, much persuasion may be required to make bidding to aunimint from their grace, the great stag mu.. pe trious dead, who, from their crime's on earth, have not yet us allow that the main source of the decline of pro posed the intermediate stite ; and thus, when urged by the testantisni has been its simply defensive way of act exorcist's power, must yield up their secrets when duly big It is, then, a plain inference that the church questioned ?—wish ye to sac nn more?" much already have we see. :and so that we bcg, en- which has been powerful enough to gain the absolute 1 . . supremacy in this country should now demand and treat, and pray for, is that you conduct us hence in foray, and rend those fearful speetn.l to their test, if rest there enforce toleration from its enemies in their own do- be for them in their &car pilgrimage; and thus do we re- minions. This is the time, our author tells us, for quite your services ." tentli•rine him a heavy purse of gold. making such a demand: by doing so, we should The magician took it, and, as he threw it with a look of throw them upon the defensive, and finally gain at scum upon the e xpiriug cuihen of the altar, he exclaimed, their hands the advantages we bestow so liberally .. By the mastic power Or this gold, which in your lifetime as willing staves ye warshippca—l command ye hence back Upon them. Let us remember that our cause IS Wilke infernal shades from whence ye came ;" and as he greatly injured by the passive manner in which we brat over the niter, and for the last time raised his wand, a icace it to receive insults at Rome. Is it for our bright real flame sprang up, and lighted up the whole at d i -. . . gnus to rest contented with these alights put mosphere around them, as though every object was on fire' • Ut• o n ee protestantism by the head of that church before it s effort had ceased, each spectral form had vanished, and all around them gradually assumed the same. appearance w subjects we admit to our highest honours? as whew they had first entered the portals of that unhal• No; let us take up the gauntlet which has lowed shrine ; but as the priest led them forth from its mys- been thrown before us, and carry the contest at once teriows precinct*, the Immo, hitherto obscured by dark to the very heart of the enemy 's capital . The Pope has clouds, now burst forth with its pale silvery light, and gave shown us the way to fight; let us follow his exam his majestic featuns almost the colours of the grave, as he once more turned his fare towards them, and uttered plc, and trust to the justice of our cause for better that prediction conceruing Louis which fate so fearfully success than he has met with among us. The re and so briefly accomplished. markable petition which the Roman catholics of And moue in long after years could the queen forget that England addressed to the Queen on the 11th of Fe 'whit and unearthly look which accompanied the patting ~ ought to be recommended to the poor Orisons words of the Magician l'riest. of Florence, who are now losing their ancient privi- The denunciation of Cardinal Romania of St. Angelo is dramatically told : lege*, and supported by an appeal from protestauts of all denominations in England. The forty thou- THE CAMOIC•L DT.NOESICED. A large band of the sect vaned Flagellants., or Whip , sand petitioners of the 11th of February might be was then peramlealatour the streets, preeenting the met eaUed upon to join lath the work. And we should hideous and shocking spec t tele that can well be imagined. surely have mason on our side in asking for our pro- Men, women, and children, of all ranks and testant brethren under papal governments. the tolera sees, apparently is a state of frenzy,: were fast tioa we grant to papists in England ; and those who approaching its the direction of the academy, tilling the air with their wild shrieks, as they lashed their asked bodies enjoy the effects of our generosity, should he made to with scourers till their persons were covered with theirown act with us in seeking it for our party, as a condition blood. All this was done with a view to obtain the divine of the granting their own petition. Few of our mercy for themselves and others by their voluntary mortis- staysmt-home are aware of tho indignities ant Catioas and penance, conformably to the lessons they had f en d by protestant travellers in Rome, the following • This net was arA gaterelly Mews la blesser till A.D. uses extract will enlighten them : LITERATURE.