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ftPr,, yo gi , Of `IV 1 1 9, , ()el'ottn 9, 1855 \ e i stf jot' e re T ot' , to ~111.x' iS I WA S 3a. 1 /I il l )V Pf'~~ ;e~~;,d, 0 • , Jr l ,Y ~, q a el p 'I N ( r t let fall the lash to the ground, but at a S 4 ° ll l the Prior he took it up again, and at 'Ot ef l i ll e moment seized on his victim. With a ,N, I en the wretched boy endeavoured to get lo rl ) ,, 11 ,t in vain—the heavy stripes already hissed %ti tili ms back. While the dreadful punishment q 1 )1 1) „, l ted, a faint voice might be heard, as if ,l el ?„ from the depth of the tomb, " I am tie nor of Lille." Alas ! poor boy, that cry t ',4 the echo of the sublime exclamation of I ge h us -e li ed man, who, condemned to expire under „tekth , of the lictor, exclaimed with his dying 1 e ti "I am a Roman citizen." Scarce had Ale, w r is ecl arm of the executioner fallen to his Wen a gentle tap was heard at the door. " i t " (.',,,at hen. ?" said the Prior: ``l e 4ll Over ?" said a voice from without. ~„r t l‘ ! , Come in." /1 .?N ) or opened, and a brother appeared, and I,, l 4)ei gi og the Prior with trepidation, said in a "esie Two persons without desire to see c -tl t ' . 6 7 . le Boufflers." b e . 1,, Z Th e b tiames." 1 0 4, 14 * t gets." de Coigny and Madame la Duchesse e oll rets. „ Aoh as th ese wor d s were s p o k en , they fell be ethe death en, of young Boufflers, and brought L' 4 11 ""mw to all his pride and love—his Theas broken. * * * th e , en. t day after the catastrophe, a carriage with t he °Yal arms 4 of France entered the court of to t `4otel Bonfliers, and a gentleman demanded speak to the Marechal. ilk i r lionsieur le Marechal," said he, " his Majesty it, heard of your son's illness, and the cause of to' and while he has directed a severe remonstrance to the Jesuit Fathers, has charged me to express hi Al' te h isdeep interest in your son, and to know St a , Th, ~. t he h a Zal'echal, without speaking, took him by b , 4ll °ble ra l t &l led him to an inner chamber, where has sati n . ' ' 4 .the court and, a beautiful woman waB laid i , g beside a bed, upon which a corpse :e e i gny. -1 ; 11 ' The gentleman was the Duke de tete ; e lady was the Duchesse de Saint ? , " nee dM on ' I say whose was the dead body . Ibe le llr," stammered the wretched father, ie S t,„ 37°ll to offer my respectful thanks to his l !i t . 7 f and to tell -him, that he may now dis- Ald ° the two posts of Governor-General of 4,1 ers, , E ll en anti. Governor of Lille ; he who was to 11,, AYed them after me lies there : and I ..__'oo4 hasten after him." 11814".1:LL LEADS TO FORTUNE. be recollected that one of Walter Scott's say alt that " Whatever might be said about luck, c l ot of k, that leads to f or t un e !" There can be no h: a l es as a general principle. Few self-indul 1411„apathetic men do well in any line of life. t!rly ear' the active, and the steadily persevering ti4 v ;N ie a a'rY off the prizes which turn up in the wheel Nt4t a ' At the same time, something is due to Il ees as well as to the Power which wisely a i v _ , t o . L Q l :flan destiny. Practically, however, the 4 4 t o ue borne in mind is—that the young are exercise all proper means to secure improve -004 their condition. That with a fair share of bblL Prudence, and meritorious skill, it may be 4 -, attain a station of eminence---that is, " for 14''1114ki atib,L. a . ll .gh, perhaps, not without corresponding l'N r ir o ties an d cares. W e presen t th e f o ll ow i ng , paii la list of distinguished men who rose from ' 6 1:1 p`' obscure circumstances : il l ti t Nsb us Syrus, Terence, and Epictetus---all A olit nien in ancient times---were all serfs at t qt l iet, b, a g'or tti —ll e as, a Greek philosopher, was at first a win k% Nnth is ' es • PDort' another philosopher, was a pugilist, and b enimself at first by drawing water and ate e I'l'ofessor Heyrke, of Gottingen, one of the SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD greatest classical scholars of his own or any other age, was the son of a poor weaver, and for many years had to struggle with the most depressing poverty. The efforts of this excellent man of genius appear to have been greater and more protracted than those of any other on record ; but he was finally rewarded with the highest honours. Bandoccin, one of the learned men of the sixteenth century, was the son of a shoemaker, and worked for many years at the same business. Gelli, a celebrated Italian writer, began life as a tailor, and, although he rose to eminence in literature, never forgot his original profession, which he took pleasure in mentioning in his lectures. The elder Opie, whose talent for painting was well appreciated, was originally a working carpenter in Cornwall, and was discovered by Dr. Walcott—other wise Peter Pindar—workiug as a sawyer at the bottom of a saw-pit. Abbott, Archbishop of Canterbury, who flourished in the sixteenth century, and distinguised himself by opposing the schemes of Charles 1., was the son of a cloth-worker at Guildford. Akenside, the author Pleasures of Imagination, was the son of a butcher in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, D'Alembert, the French mathematician, was left at the steps of a church by his parents, and brought up by a poor woman as a foundling, yet arrived at great celebrity, and never forgot or abandoned his nurse. Ammenius Saccophorus, founder of the Mystic Philosophy at Alexandria, was born in poverty, and originally earned his subsistence by carrying sacks of wheat—whence the latter part of his name. Amyot, a French author of some celebrity for his version of Plutarch, lived in the sixteenth century, and bc w ay a n s fid rl a ee t s. hs to a t ts ;s s i o satn p di i o as r l ls t a s tuhde t i e o ssu, b swt e ehn u iac n nh a c b he l e e hli t isa o dp a a rt ff oe o n r et d as rr o c i lyo uon d r afford him was a loaf of bread weekly. LITERARY EXTRACTS. MOUSTACHE WORN BY CLERGYMEN. —When the episcopal wig came into fashion, it would seem that the beard was no longer worn by clergymen. In looking over a collection of prints, I find Wickliffe, William Tyndale, Dean Donne, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Robert Burton, Bishop Jeremy Tay lor, Archbishop Spottiswood, Thomas Fuller, Usher the Primate, and Robert South, all using the mous tache ;as did John Knox and Bunyan. The Jesuits in India, I believe, still wear it. I have been unable to trace the latest instance of a clergyman wearing his gown and cassock in the streets ; the custom appa rently died out in the reign of one of the Georges.— Mackenzie Walcott, 111. A., in Notes and Queries. THE LIVING AND THE DEAD.—We speak of the treasures of affection in this world—has the spirit land none such Even from the millions of bursten hearts, who have hence travelled thitherwards, may not stores of it be gathered, richer, purer, more dis interested (inasmuch as lacking the impulse of the passions), than any this world can bestow P Have we dear ones dwelling with us above earth are there not some also beneath it ? and whose affection is the more unchanging ? Which of them will love us on still without coldness or fretfulness—without carinc , for our imperfections—without heeding our .unkind ness—without blaming our injustice or wrong ; but ever, ever looking upon us with the same tender eyes, taking all wrong, giving none, and watching over us for good, untired, unwearied, undeparting ! Alas, alas ! it is the living change, not the dead, in their affection and natures. I have read of the Arab city, in which the inhabitants were in one night changed to stone. Whatever had been the occupation of each at that particular moment, in that did the cold hand fix him—in that he remained for ever and ever. So it is with the departed : in those silent mansions no change ever cometh ; the condition of the soul, its affections, its impulses, are all the same—firmly fixed for eternity. But we ! we who talk of the changes of death, put out of the way the incalculably greater changes of life. — Dublin University _Magazine. CAUSES WHICH LED. TO THE BELIEF IN AL CHEMY. The conduct of the scientific alchemists of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries pre sents a problem of very difficult solution. When we consider that a gas, a fluid, and a solid may consist of the very same ingredients in different proportions ; 133 and a virulent poison may differ from the most whole some food only in the difference of quantity of the very same elements ; that gold and silver, and lead and mercury, and, indeed, all the metals, may be extracted from transparent crystals, which scarcely differ in their appearance from a piece of common salt, or a piece of sugar-candy; and that diamond is nothing more than charcoal,—we need not greatly wonder at the extrava gant expectation that the precious metals and the noblest gems might be produced from the basest ma terials. These expectations, too, must ha e been often excited by the startling results of their daily experi ments. The most ignorant compounder of simples could not fail to witness the magical transformations of chemical action ; and every new product must have added to the probability that the tempting doublets of gold and silver might be thrown from the dice-box with which he was gambling. But when the precious metals were found in lead and copper, by the action of powerful re-agents, it was natural to suppose that they had been actually formed during the process ; and men of well-regulated minds even might have thus been led to embark in new adventures to procure a more copious supply, without any insult being offered to sober reason, or any injury inflicted on sound mo rality.---Sii. D. Brewster's Martyrs of Science. CELEBRATED FEMALE POISONERS.—Amid the most stealthy-footed and domestically benign to this feline race, were the Widow Zwanziger, and Mrs. Gottfried, of Germany. They were amongst the most successful, though not the most distinguished, in this art of poisoning. They went on their way, slaying all around them, for years upon years, and yet were too good and agreeable to be suspected, though death was but another name for their shadows. Funerals fol lowed these fatal sisters as certainly as thunder fol lows lightning; and undertakers were the only men who who flourished in their path. The Zwanziger was an admirable cook and nurse ; her soups and coffee had a peculiar strength ; her watchful care by the sick bed was in all hearts ; she kissed the child she meant to kill, and pillowed the aching head with such soothing address that it never ached again. Mrs. Gottfried was so attractive a person that her ministration was sought by people of a much higher rank than her own ; she was so warm a friend, that she was a friend until death, and one attached soul after another breathed their last in her arms. Husband after hus band departed, and still her hand was sought, and still it practised its cunning. At length, in her four and fiftieth year, she was detected and arrested. In prison, she walked amid the apparitions of all her vic tims, wept tears of tenderness over their memory, and finished by desiring that her life might be written ; so that, having lost everything else, she might yet enjoy her fame. All women of this class have had an ex traordinary degree of vanity, and, what is more, they have had a perfect passion for their art. The Mar chioness de Brinvilliers was an enthusiast in the com position of the rarest poisons, of which her accomplice Sante-Croix, was so eminent a compounder. The ad miration of her beauty, the distinctions of her rank, afforded ,her but a feeble satisfaction in comparison with that of watching the operation of some subtly lethal essence. She certainly was not the mere marchioness, but the princess of poisoners ; and yet it remained for Madame Ursinus to give additional touches of perfection to this peculiar character. She was at once a lady of fashion, a pietist, a writer of useful tracts, a poetess, and a poisoner. Through all the dan gers of these various careers, she lived to the good old age of 76, and died—lamented. Brinvillien, Zwanziger, and Gottfried confessed that they were conquered by their crimes ; but Madame I.Trsinus branded in public opinion, continued to defy it, and conquered even that, and to the very last gasp persisted in playing the heroine. Nay, more—without confession, remorse, or penitence, she strove in her own way, and with no trifling success, to achieve the reputation of a saint.. Dickens's Household Words. VAN - UNLUCKY MARRIAGE..- - Scandal, jealousy, reigning toasts, and withered dowagers notv.vithstand ing, Angelica Kauffman continued the fashion. Still . the carriages blocked up Golden-square ; she was courted by the noble and wealthy ; still ardent young Oxford bachelors and buckish students of the Temple wrote epistles in heroic verses to her ; still she was the talk of the coffee-houses and studios ; still from time to time the favoured few who gained admission to Lady Mary Veervort's evening concerts were charmed by Angelica's song—by the grand Italian