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MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859), 4, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT.GARDEN, LONEON, And 38, QUEEN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON, ~ ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, eehold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, r epayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly dis counted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. CRYSTAL PALACE.-THIS DAY'S GREAT FETE. Fireworks, Billiard Match, Military Ir a ng, Cinderella Mackney, Skaters, Lentons, Little Rarey , auiters, etc. The open for admission from .. 10 till 9.30 'ae Clever Lenton Family, the Champion Skaters, Little Rarey and his wonderful Pony, the Almonte „Vaulters, etc., at .. • • • • 1.30 ' 46 successful burlesque, Cinderella. Characters by -aim C. Parkes, Mrs. Horsman, Miss A. Thirlwall, Miss L. Gray, Mr. J. G. Taylor, M. J. Russell, ...Little Rowena, Mr. 0. Summeri, etc. .. 4.0 ' 11• • E. W. Mackney will in the course of the Burlesque give his inimitable Eccentric Songs, Nigger Dances, &c. Great Billiard Match between Messrs. Cook and Roberts 6.30 Coldstream Guards Band (Mr. F. Godfrey) on Terrace for Promenade • • 7.30 Fireworks and Illumination of Park, Gardens, and Foun tains, .. 9.30 'mace brilliantly Illuminated for Promenade until .. 11. 0 Admission 2s. 6d., or by guinea season tickets. Present issue admitting to-day. To Great Drill Review by Prince and Princess of Teck, June 21 ; Great Rose Show, June 6 5 Operas and Dramatic Performances, Archery Meetings, °linty Cricket Matches, Great Dog Show, Grand Summer Con rrts, and generally until 31st May, 1871, at all Entrances. This day intending purchasers should come provided with printed or 'written namss and addresses. gGNIFICENT FIREWORKS and s A ILLUM INATION of ENTIRE PARK, GARDENS, and FOUNTAINS. This Evening at 9.30. Extra trains from all stations up to time of the Display, returning shortly after it. ICRI STAL PALACE.—PHIS EVENING.— GRAND DISPLAY of FIREWORKS (with the much ad , ,ed great floral devices, immense cascades of flre, mammoth l e-as, &c.), special Illumination of the entire Park, and magni ,cent, Illumination of the Fountains in full play (including the 'ugh jets of the great fountains), The display of the 2d June, unanimously admitted to have far 8 4 1 1 1 Passed in magnificence all former pyrotechnic fetes given at e Crystal Palace, will he repeated to-night. In the bril liancy of the mammoth shells, in the beautiful iliumination of Ile entire park and great fountains (playing to the height of Pe, W Church steeple), in the varied splendid effects of colour in ( 5 girandoles of rockets, in the vast pyrotechnic floral devices l e a,eh 100 ft. in diameter), and in the immense cascades of golden '„,?m, this display has never been equalled ; descent of comet, gun._ ndole of rockets, saucessons, parachute rockets, the radio ,.74,Pe improved, &c. The display by Mr. C. T. Brook, the Com 'guy's pyrotechnist. A Billiard Match between Messrs. Cook and Roberts—Cin derella—and other Whitsuntide amusements (last day)—Mackney, 'Mary Band, &c. , Admission, half-a-crown, or by Guinea Seoson Tickets. - 110RYSTAL PALACE.—BILLIARD MATCH „ between Messrs. COOK and ROBERTS. 1,000 up. The 4 °lo (one of Messrs. Thurston's) will be placed immediately in t ont of the Handel Orchestra. Tickets for seats upon which rfor witnessing the match will be issued this day. THIS AFTERNOON, CINDERELLA and other amusements, and the GREAT MACKNEY for the Last Time. ,)RYSTAL PALACE.—AII the GREAT FOUNTAINS at FOUR TO-MORROW AFTERNOON. une Shilling. NoTE.—A good day for a stroll through the grounds, now in great summer beauty. CREMORNE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. JOHN BAUM. Open Daily at Three. Admission One Shilling. Amusements Free. Best Entertainments in the World. MR W. S. WOODIN'S TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK "AT HOME," NVITiI his Famous and Original CARPET-BAG and SKETCH-800K ENTERTAINMENT in the Large R.,?' 11 EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. Every Evening (except ,i — P-Irday) at 8; Saturday Mornings at 3. " Mr. Woodin has Pared no expense in magnificently decorating and luxuriously jirnishing his salon for the comfort of hls patrons." Seats may ufi secured in advance, at the Box-office, open from 10 till 5; also at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street; and all the principal 11 481 e-sellers. Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Balcony, 18. Family Private ", One, Two, and Three Guineas. Carriages at 10. Manager, Mr. DUDLEY. ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Late WESTON'S. Proprietor—Mr. J. S. Sweasey. Ore at combination iof elect for the Whitsuntide Holidays. st e ngagement of Mr. A. Vance, Mr. J. H. Milburn, Miss Louie I . 2rvington, Mr. H. Collard, the smallest man in the wor;d, the Petit Sims Reeves, and the Brothers Voltaire, Champion eainasts, and the first appearance of Mr. Baldwin, Miss I t e ergina Smithson, Miss Welly Wood, Mr. J. H. Byley, and "g.adarne Marie Barnam; Mr. P. Corti, Mr. St. Albyns, and Miss a we will appear in Operatic Selection, with full Orchestra, every evening. ` ADAME T USS AUDIS EXHIBITION, 11; n ,, Baker-street.— On view, most macent COURT 1 .-r-SSES from the famous house of Worth of g P ni a fi ris. Admission fr k ; children under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. Open °ln 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Passengers by Metropolitan Railway 13 t 0 13 at Baker-street. ATheeGxtr.YaoLLr'' ROOMS, GGREAT WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. If el the Lunary success which has attended the production th e l-ladow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of Pate i n • light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici tr_ s . lt, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance i 1.2.1 lc 'Selections presented in the often-changed programmes, „,',.!_e had the gratifying effect of making the present one the ;;-',4 extensively patronized season since its first opening. The e h' s e e brated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient 1) 0 „;:,,SIEnor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest c0m b0,"°13.5 of ail distinguished composers—the solos in which are wgn, ed to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Mosca; Messrs. Ti u r r aves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr. alas Pitts. Professor Halliman, M.C. Admission, is.; Reserved Seats, 2s. R. B. BioNELL, Proprietor. 11E)R. 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TWEEDIE. 337. Strand. In royal Bvo., handsomely bound in cloth, full gilt, gilt edges price 205., post free 21s. THE ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY of BRITISH MOTHS. By Edward Newman, F.L.S., F.Z.S. Giving a full description of the perfect insect from nature ; also a description of the Caterpillar, Chrysalis, Food Plant, Time of Appearance, and Localities where found. Each moth is'drawn from nature by George 'Willis, and engraved in his best style by John Kerchner. The figures are life-size of every species : and if varieties require it, three, four, live, and even six figures are given. The work Is complete in thirty-one monthly numbers, i. 6,1. each. The work is also issued in quarterly parts, in covers, at is. 6d. each part. Part X. now ready, price 2s, Back numbers reprinted, and may be had. "We congratulate British entomologists on the completion and pulnication of this magnificent work."—Field. 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The American trip brought him close upon 230,000; but otherwise I doubt whether it did him much good; Altogether the strain was too severe. Then came " Edwin Drood" to put the finishing stroke to the work. Besides the three numbers already pub lished, there are, I believe, three others all but finished for the press. The plot of the story is sketched out, and it is hoped that sufficient materials remain at least for the solution of the mystery which forms the basis of the tale. There is a talk of a burial In Westminster Abbey, and it will rest with the family to decide it. In any case, therd Will certainly be a monu ment there. Literature, like virtue, le too often only its own reward. But it may be mentioned that the author of " Pickwick," starting as a Parliamentary reporter, and witlilitit any aid but his own energy and genius, acquired a considerable fthittnei which he leaves to his family. THE FOREIGN PRESS ON CHARLES DICKENS. The French papers contain many tributes to the memory of Charles Dickens. The Patrie affirms that he was one of the first writers of the nineteenth century, and his in fluence oxt4nded to French society, which was a most unusual achievement for an author. The translation of " Nicholas Nickleby " made the French compare him to Balzac: By his elevated viewe he will hold a brilliant place by the side of Walter. Scott, wGil9 he ranks beyond those men of talent like Buiwer Lytton, or Thaikery, who do not possess in common with him the gift of genius. The Siecle says that the strdke of death has extinguished the bright intelligence to which wt. , . are indebted for " Pickwick," " Nicholas Nickleby," and many other delightful works. Every English journal, without refer ence to party, has devoted several columns to the memory of the wonderful writer, and no discordant note has arisen among them. The genial character of Dickens procured him friends in every direction. His only enemies were ignorance, tyranny, superstition, these he hated most vigorously. This is why France, that he loved, bends towards his tomb with reverence and respect. The Constitutionnel says that the world of letters has just sustained a great loss. His first striking success was the publication of " Pick wicki' which placed him at once by the side of Bu wer. In 1868 yielding to earnest solicitations, Dickens brought out a drama in Paris which was founded upon one of his works. It ran a hundred nights. The Independence Beige deClttres that English literature has received a shock which will be felt far beyond its frontiers. Charles Dickens was an original and philan thropic writer, whose novels were read by the whole world. The'following is from an article in the Cologne Gazette : " Charles Dickens died yesterday evening—a piece of sad news which will fill the whole civilised world with deeper sympathy than the death of emperors and kings. . . No writer of this century has exercised upon the English peo ple an influence so deep and lasting. His description, characterised by poetic truths and incomparable humour, and drawn from reality, held up to the people a mirror in which they saw faithfully reflected their faults and laugh able sides, but also their good points and the inner moral kernel of their life. Rich and poor, educated ti:nd un educated find themselves in Dickens's novels on the com mon ground of pure humanity, and learn to meet each other in a spirit of mutual respect. Thus amongst all classes, from the palace to the simple hut, the loss of the great teacher and peace-bringer will be pain fully felt. The North German Gazette thus concludes a notice of Mr. Dickens :—" Seldom has a writer in modern times so succeeded in - winning the universal love and respect not only of his countrymen, but of the entire civilised world." CHARLES DICKENS'S DEATH SCENES. At the close of Our Mutual Friend, the great man now lost to us, wrote on the 2nd of September, 1865, a " Post script," the last words of which ran thus, in reference to the frightful railway accident at Staplehurst, which had taken place in that same year, on Friday, the 9th of June —exactly five years to .the very day from this last fatal Thursday, the 9th of June, 1870, on which the beloved author expired : " I remember "—these are the closing words of Our Mutual Friend—" I remember with devout• thankfulness that I can never be much nearer parting company with my readers for ever than I was then, until there shall be written against ray life the two words with which I have this day closed this 1..,k :— TILE END." LITTLE ITELIAa. " For she was dead. There, upon her little bed, she lay at rest. The solemn stillness was no marvel now. " She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. . . . " She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell,was dead. Her little bird—a poor slight thing the pressure of a finger would have crushed—was stirring nimbly in its cage ; and the strong heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless for ever."—The Old Curiosity Shop. LITTLE PAUL'S. " And when Paul saw him, he stretched out his hand and said, ` Good-bye ! ' " Good-bye, my child ! ' cried Mrs. Pipchin, hurrying to his bedhead, ` Not good-bye ?' " For an instant Paul looked at her with the wistful face with which he had so often gazed upon her in his corner by the fire. Ah, yes,' be said placidly, ` Good-bye Walter, dear, good-bye ! '—turning his head to where he stood, and putting out his hand again, Where is papa ? " He felt his father's breath upon his cheek, before the words had parted from his lips. " ` Remember Walter, dear papa,' he whispered, looking in his face. Remember Walter. I was fond of Wal ter !' The feeble hand waved in the air, as if it said Good bye !' to Walter once again. " Now lay me down,' he said ; ` and, Flory, come close to me, and let me see you.' " Sister and brother wound their arms around each other, and the golden light came streaming full upon them, locked together " Tell them that the print upon the stairs at school is not divine enough. The light about the head is shining on me as I go . ' " The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion 1 The fashion that came in with'our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion—Death ! " Oh thank GOD all those who see it for that older fashion yet of Immortality ! And look upon us, angels of young children, with regards not quite estranged, when the swift river bears us to the ocean I"—Dombey and Son. TINY TIM'S. " Quiet. Very quiet. The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner, and sat looking up at Peter, who had a book before him. The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing. But surely they were quiet ! " ' And He took a child and set him in the midst of them.' " When had Scrooge heard those words ? He had not dreamed them. The boy must have read them out, as he and the Spirit crossed the threshold. Why did he not go on ? " The mother laid her work upon the table, and put her hand up to her face. " The colour hurts my eyes,' she said. " The colour ? Ah, poor Tiny Tim ! " They were very quiet again. At last she said, and in a steady, cheerful voice, that only faltered once : "' I have known him walk with—l have known him walk with Tiny Tim upon his shoulder, very fast indeed.' " ' And so have I,' cried Peter. Often.' " ' And so have I,' exclaimed another. So had all. " ' But he was very light to carry,' she resumed, intent upon her work, and his father loved.him so, that it was no trouble :no trouble. And there is your father at the door !' " She hurried out to meet him ; and little Bob in his comforter—he had need of it, poor fellow—came in. His tea was ready for him on the hob, and they all tried who should help him to it most. Then the two young Cratchits got upon his knees and laid, each child, a little cheek against his face, as if they said, Don't mind it father !' .‘ Don't be grieved !' " Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke plea santly to all the family. He looked at the work upon the table, and praised the industry and speed of Mrs. Crat chit and the girls. They would be done long before Sun day, he said. " 'Sunday ! You went to-day, then, Robert !' said his wife. " 'Yes, my dear,' returned Bob. ' I wish you could have gone. It would have done you good to see how green a place it is. But you'll see it often. I promised him that I would walk there on a Sunday. My little, little child ? ' cried Bob. My little child !' " lie broke down all at once, He couldn't help it, If THE CHILD-WIFE'S. " How the time wears, I know not ; until I am recalled by my child-wife's old companion. More restless than he was, he crawls out of his house and looks at me, and wan ders to the door, and whines to go upstairs. `Not to-night, Jip ! Not to-night.' " He comes very slowly back to me, licks my hand, and lifts his dim eyes to my face. " 0, Jip ! It may be, never again !' " He lies down at my feet, stretches himself out as if to sleep, and with a plaintive cry, is dead. " 0, Agnes ! Look, look here !' "- That face, so full of pity and of grief, that rain of tears, that awful, mute appeal to me, that solemn hand upraised towards Heaven ! " ' Agnes?' "It is over. Darkness comes before my eyes ; and, for a time, all things are blotted out of my remem brance " 0 Agnes, 0 my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed ; so may I when realities are melt ing from me like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward ! "—David Copperfield. r) Tm -I T , i IL : 8 'CIDENTS i N THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS. " A writer of many years standing " in the Morning vertieer who was previously associated with several .; agazines and reviews gi'as some interesting and original e eta respecting Charles Dickens' early literary career. is a mistake according to this writer to suppose that ickens' earliest writings appeared in the Morning Pinnacle under the editorship of Mr. Black. Mr. Dickens st became connected with the MOP-ably Chronicle as a re rter in the gallery of the House of Commons. This as in 1835-36 ; but Mr. Dickens had been previously engaged, while in his nineteenth year, as a reporter for a publication entitled The Mirror of Parliament, in which capacity he occupied the very highest rank among the eighty or ninety reporters for the Press then i n Parlia ment. It was about the year 1833-34,—before Mr. Dickens's connexion with the Morning Chronicle, and be fore Mr. Black, then editor of that journal, had ever met with him, that he commenced his literary career as an amateur writer. He made his debut in the latter end of 1834 or the beginning of 1885 in the Old Monthly Magazine, then conducted by Captain If olland. It was a a half-crown magazine of good standing, and the predecessor of the New Monthly Magazine, started under the editorshipof Thomas Campbell, which still survives. It was in this monthly periodical—not in the columns of the liforning Chronicle—that Mr. Dickens first appeared in the realms of literature; He sent ; in the first instance, his contributions to that periodical anonymously. These consisted of sketches, chiefly of a' humorous character, an - cl — Wefe simply signed "Boz?'. ..For a long time they did not attract any special attention, but were generally spoken of in newspaper notices of the magazine as " clever," " graphic," &c. The writer of this narrative, who signs himself " J.,G.," undertook the editorship of the monthly magazine, which by this time had dropped its prefix—early in 1836—and he expressed' to the pro prietor his admiration of the " Sketches by Boz," and hoped they would be continued. He therefore asked what the name of the author was, when, strange to say, the proprietor, Captain Holland, forgotten it ! However he promised to look up a letter of his and bring it the fol lowing day. The letter was written in the most modest terms.? It was simply to the effect that as he (Mr. Dickens) had hitherto given all his contributions—those signed " Boz"—gratuitously, he would be glad, if Captain Holland thought his " Sketches" worthy of any small re muneration, as otherwise he would be obliged to discon tinue them, because he was going very soon to get married and therefore would be subjected to more expenses than he was while living alone, which he was during the time; in Furnival's Inn. The new editor wrote to propose a continuance of the sketches, and received in re turn a letter from Mr. Dickens to the effect that he had just entered into an arrangement with Measrs. Chapman and Hall to write a monthly serial. He did not name the work, but I found, in a few weeks, it was none other than the " Pickwick Papers." He added, that as this serial would occupy, much of his spare time from his duties as a reporter, he could not undertake to furnish me with the proposed sketches for less than eight guineas per sheet, —which was at the rate of half a guinea per page. " Only imagine," exclaims the writer, " Mr. Dickens offering to furnish me with a continuation of his Sketches by Boz' for eight guineas a sheet, whereas in little more than six months from that date he could—so great in the interval had his popularity become—have got a hundred guineas per sheet of 16 pages from any of the leading periodicals of the day." At first Charles Dickens had little promise of the fame and fortune he was to acquire so rapidly. He was to receive from Chapman and Hall for the Pickwick Papers " fifteen guineas a num ber, each number consisting of two sheets or thirty-two pages. For the first five months " Pickwick " threatened to be a failure, though great exertions were made to circulate him throughout the provinces. So small was the demand for it, indeed, that the publishers, accord ing to this account, thought of discontinuing it altogether. However, Sam Weller made his appearance, and produced a complete revolution. The press was all but unanimous in praising " Samivel " as an entirely original character, whom none but a great genius could have created ; and all of a sudden, in conse quence of " Samivers " popularity, the " Pickwick Prpers " rose to an unheard of popularity. The back numbers of the work were ordered to a large extent, and of course all idea of discontinuing it was abandoned. By the' time the " Pickwick Papers " had reached their twelfth number, that being half of the numbers of which it was originally intended the work should consist, Messrs Chapman and Hall were so gratified with the signal suc cess to which it had now attained that they sent Mr. Dickens a cheque for five hundred pounds as a practical expression of their satisfaction with the sale. The work continued steadily to increase in cir culation until its completion, when the sale had all but reached 40,000 copies. In the interval between the twelf th' and concluding number,Messrs. Chapman and Hall sent Mr. Dickens several cheques, amounting in all to £3,000, in addition to the fifteen guineas per number which they had engaged at the beginning to give him. It was nntretz-beoa ~b thy 43im. that Messrs. Chapman and Hall made a clear profit amounting to nearly £20,000 by the sale of the " Pickwick Papers," after paying Mr. Dickens in round numbers £3,500. The following , is Charles Dickens' own account of the grst talk about Pickwick " given some time since :—" I was a young man of two or three-and-twenty, when Messrs. Chapman and Hall, attracted by some pieces I was at that time writing in the Morning Chronicle news paper, or had just written in the Old Monthly Magazine (of which one series had lately been, collected and pub lished in two volumes, illustrated by Mr. George Cruik shank), waited upon me to propose a something that should be 'published in shilling numbers—then only known to me, or, I believe, to anybody else by a dim recollection of certain interminable novels in that form, 1 , 4 hich used to be carried about the country by pedlars, and over some of which I remember to have shed innu merable tears before I had served my apprenticeship to life. When I opened my door in Furnivals Inn to the partner who represented the firm, I recognised in him the person from whose hands I had bought, two or three years previously, and whom I had never seen before or since, my first copy of the magazine in which my first effusion— a paper in the ' Sketches,' called Mr. Minns and his Cousin' — dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet street—appeared in all the glory of print ; on which occasion I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half-an-hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen, and so fell to business. The idea propounded to me was, that the monthly some thing should be a vehicle for certain plates to be executed by Mr. Seymour ; and there was a notion, either on the part of that admirable humorous artist, or of my visitor, that a Nimrod Club,' the members of which were to go out shooting, fishing, and so forth, and getting themselves into difficulties through their want of dex terity, would be the best means of introducing these. I objected, on consideration, that although born and partly bred in the country I was no great sportsman, except in regard of all kinds of locomotion ; that the idea was not novel, aid had been already much used; that it would be infinitely better for , the plates to arise naturally out of the text ; and that I would like to take my own way, with a freer range of English scenes and people, and was afraid I should ultimately do so in any case , whatever course I might prescribe to myself at starting. My views being deferred to, I thought of Mr. Pickwick, and wrote the first number, from the proof sheets of which Mr. Seymour made.his drawing of the club, and his happy portrait of its founder—the latter on Mr. Edward Chap man's description of the dress and bearing of a real personage whom he had often seen. I connected Mr. Pickwick with a club, because of the original suggestion, and I put in Mr. Winkle expressly for the use of Mr. Seymour. We started with a number of twenty four pages instead of thirty-two, and four illustrations in lieu of a couple. Mr. Seymour's sudden and lamented death before the second number was published brought about a quick decision upon a point already in agitation ; the number became one of thirty-two pages, with only two illustrations, and remained so to the end. `Boz,' my signature in the Morning Chronicle and in the Old fonthly Maga zine appended to the monthly cover of this book, and retained long afterwards, was the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother , whom I had dubbed Moses, in honour of the Vicar of Wakefield, which, being facetiously pro nounced through the nose, became Boses, and, being shortened, became Boz. Boz was a very familiar house hold word to me, long before I was an author, and so I came to adopt it." Writing of the deceased author the London correspon dent of the Scotsman says :—Since his sudden seizure in the midst of his readings last year Mr. Dickens had never been the same man. After a little while he began to go about as before, flitted to and fro in his ardent, restless way, took long walks after his favourite fashion, starting on the whim of the moment, at any hour, for anywhere, and resumed his writing and other labours, but not with the same lightness anti vivacity as before. Though a sturdy walker, there had always been something of a limp in his gait, and this now became more marked. He had more need of his stick, and stooped perceptibly. He grew sooner wearied, both in walking and in work, and complained at times of a strange supineness of mind and laboured slowness with the pen. Those who had not seen him for some time were most struck on meeting him within the last few months with the sudden whiteness of his hair. From grey he became all at once white, just as Mr. Bright did not long since. I saw him a few weeks ago, just before he left town, and his sunburned face seemed set in snow, beard and hair were blanched so perfectly. Beyond question, I think .it was " Edwin Drood " that killed him. He went back to work too soon. He had had the idea of the story for some time in his mind, I believe but after the first impulse of the start was off, he foun d the development of the incidents and characters slo w and painful. Within the last week or so he was com plaining much of this. He seemed to make so little pro gress, and at the cost of such an effort. Perhaps it was the hot weather, he thought, or he was out of sorts, and would get into better trim by-and-by. But the disorder was deeper and more fatal. Even before his illness last year, however, he had had warnings of exhaustion. He suffered at times from a terrible sleeplessness which PRICE I d STAMPED 2d. he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart perhaps than they were.—The Christmas Carol, Jo's. "'lt's turned wery dark, sir. Is there any light a eomin?' " It is coming very fast, Jo.' "Fast. The cart is shaken all to pieces, and the rugged road is vary near its end. " 'Jo, my poor fellow.' "'I hear you, sir, in the dark, but I'm a gropin— a gropin—let me catch hold of your hand.' " Jo, can you say what I say ?' "'lll say anythink as you say, sir, for I knows it's good. 6 " OUR FATHER.' " Our Father !—yes, that's wery good, sir.' " 6 WHICH ART IN HEAVEN.' " Art in Heaven—is the light a comin, sir ?' " It Is dose at hand. HALLOWED BE THY NAI&E.' " Hallowed be—thy—' " The light is come upon the dark benighted way. Dead ! "Dead your majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day."— Bleak House. BETTY HIGDEN'S. " 'Let me wet your lips again, and your forehead. There. 0 poor thing, poor thing !' These words through her fast flowing tears. What was it that you asked me? Wait till I bring my ear quite close.' " Will you send it, my dear ?' " Will I send it to the writers ? Is that your wish ? Yes, certainly.' " `You'll not give it up to any one but them?' "`No.' " 'As you must grow old in time, and come to your dying halal-, my dear, you'll not give it up to any one but them ?' " ' No. Most solemnly.' " ' Never to the Parish ?' with a convulsive struggle. No. Most solemnly.' " ' Nor let the Parish touch me ? Nor yet so much as look at me ?' with another struggle: " No. Faithfully.' " A look of thankfulness and triumph lights the wan old face. The eyes which have been darkly fixed upon the sky turns with a meaning in them towards the compassionate face from which the tears are dropping, and a smile is ou the aged lips, as they ask— " What is your name, my dear ?' " My name is Lizzie Hexatn.' "' I must be sore disfigured. Are you afraid to kiss me?' "The answer is the ready pressure of her lips upon the cold but smiling mouth. " ' Bless you ! Now lift me, my love.' " Lizzie Hexam very softly raised the weather-stained grey head, and lifted her as high as Heaven."—Qurltutual Friend. PORTUGAL. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] Much has been said in the English press against what was called "the pronunciamento of Marshal Saldanha," in Lisbon, by which the Duke de Loule's Cabinet was the 19th of last month. Indeed, if matters stood there at all, us some of the English papers seemed to suppose them to stand, in a regular, thorough consti tutional way, no doubt such military outbreaks, either to serve any political scheme, or to gratify the per sonal ambition of their leaders, would be most digraceful and dangerous. But the political conditions of Portugal have been, from a distant date, a continual and perma nent unobservance of all constitutional rule. The fallen Ministry had themselves risen to power by the most un constitutional means, nor was it in any way the expression of a party triumph in Parliamentary debates, or a conces sion of the royal prerogative to the public opinion. The late Ministry had been imposed on the country and on the King, by the unceasing and undermining intrigues of the Palace " Camaritha," which surrounds an unexpe rienced and timid young monarch, as the present King of Portugal is. If amidst the members of the late Administration there were some intelligent and useful men, they have been most unfortunately sacrificed for the moment by the policy of the Premier, whose very name was enough to render the Administration unpopular and disliked in the extreme. The country was already in a dreadful state of alarming excitement. Insurrection bad already broken out in dif ferent provinces, and the blood of several victims had already been shed at Avada, Castro Daire, and Machico. New serious disturbances were threatening at every hour, while it was evident that the Government, who caused them by its unpopularity and violence, could not even reckon any longer upon the army to repress the popular risings. Anarchy would soon follow, and a civil war was impending. It was then that the Duke de Saldanha came forward to stop by a decisive and sudden blow the fatal and fast running course of dangerous events. In doing so we can say it was not the general nor the Duke, neither any party of the army, nor the army, itself, who have imposed on the King the dismissal of the late Government ; in fact, it was but the whole nation ; it was the public opinion ; it was the loud speaking symp toms of a general conflagration ; and the voice of the un happy victims who were from their graves claiming for justice. The ready and spontaneous adherence of the army, and of the people, from every part of the country, to the movement of May 19th, so rashly commended by some, evidently shows how very much mistaken were those who who had seen in it not a noble national proceeding but simply the personal ambition of the old general, and a -violence of constitutional rights; it is plain enough that he was not acting for himself, but for his country ; for its independence—nay, for the crown, for the throne, and for the King himself. The hour had come ;he knew it was time, and by his courageous and brave resolution, much of evil and of wrong has been spared. What a civil war in Portugal would be only those who are well ac quainted with the country can tell. For the sake of Portuguese independence, and for the sake of them who have their fortunes connected with Portuguese pros perity, may God avert such a blow as a civil war in that country ! What policy Saldanha will now follow, how many mistakes he can make, or how many wrong steps he may take, only time can tell ;we must not forejudge But there is no doubt, that, if he wishes (and we may hope he does), he can bring many a blessing upon his country. He is assuredly the only one, in its present condition, who can by his prestige, and by his influence, both in the army and in the nation, establish a strong, moral, and thoroughly constitutional administration, to last for some time ; and so give to Portugal a chance of quiet and rest, from those uninterrupted changes of factious party rulers which have been tearing the unhappy country for more than 20 years. At any rate, the Duke de Saldanha has already done that one great good, for 'which the country has shown it self grateful, he has at least, by his daring resolution, avoided civil war. 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