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ttki;jt' uje.ll, e-hpvtile:‘V-orldhl!,' fortune elsewhere, perhaps in a dis- COURA.GE.-True bravery is sedate and inoffensive: If it
refuses to submit to insults, it offers none ; begins no dispute,
, sett e, it see , . .
I,"t ta nue in ili'' I°l'eak my heart to part from you ! but te-s into no needless quarrels ;is above the little trou lF-
i'"-:e' lht'-o;and it;.e way of your interests. No,
_dear H. Henry, some ambition to be distinguished every moment ; it bears in.
Vbs., eit t to' set the humble Emily ; besides 'tis your silence, and, replies with modesty, fearing no enemy, and
l'l' 'lle eheart-h°eY".r mother for all her fond care of you." making non lee nd is as much ashamed of insolence as cows
i -
'An t° f°4l(lhs rstinn sobs, broke from her ; it was long , ardice.—:Og
n; et s'avie '''''' soothed intAranquillity • she had made an LOVE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.—Men and women
AkPi'lerate•e him that
4 bee -toe at dut was paramount to every whose life was ceaselessly occupied with ideas and intrigues of
',l ° aces • ' and she felt that she ought to resolve
10este , Min t . . life were naturally always susceptible of its influence; and if
Fleet t, , gain .0 its dictates. --• • • - • .as Rochefoucauld observes, " there are some people who. would
c., tei lies 4.d he, at length, " I wish I had not toldlove mentioned '
, /€a 'th t° "Isult, never have fallen ill love if they had not heard ,
'th, 'orat 1 you on the best plans for our future many persons, through hearing. it talked. .of wherever. they
'h.`rnesalle
Hoof
the name of Miss Thompson ' went, fancied they had found it where it did not exist. Sur-
:tt'.`tilltegl°ll ee'` persuasion
conversation I have had with my
will
prised at these efforts of the imagination, some men en
;444' tor the
te e or argument you can use voured
"'ise4 (1/10 tat.e4eorifice my every hope of happiness in this ' to explain them by causes of a most ridiculous cha-
racter. In order to prove that the seat of love is in the blood,
41(1,,n ft, aed s' n''' money—to sell myself—No ! I owe my ' Segrais relates a story of a German gentleman, whbse faithless
ketl thsw`lays re""ection ; 'but not to the extent of debasing mistress, desiring to get rid of him, ran him twice through the
4 qi 'Or •s uss mv mind to leave this ace at the body with a sword. He did not die of his wounds, but, strange
•• ..
rita°e,ll'tetAilaie' el'lLlcannot,'after every solicitation and argu- to say, when he had recovered, said Segrats, He felt as much
'raze el tle . er to receive you as her daughter, even indifference for the princess as if he had never loved her, and
•,,,11/241t,,,, enrled, ; and should I gain her consent thus d " C '-ot
.he attributed this to the loss of bloo . -7 sun. .
''"es e,e'"rs'Nefnuearest Emily, consent to a private mar- I DINING IN AMERICA.—A popular author, in his tour
,?ter?,iilik.'n°, krZ'ou the dreadfu, l anxiety of absence Peon- through the States, has recently recorded it as his experience
Each
/tee toe sereent can induce me to do what '
ic.. a of beloved hat the Americans are somewhat maligned in the reputation
,' es fie ae °red father and mother taught Incme tha
they have acquired for the despatch of their meals t but he
'N -1, eate Y kind' is wrong; how much more so inundeceived
'est-' to 4e ehry ;It affair as this. You must doubt my love had only to visit the western provinces to become
Ali satin I promise you never to love another, .en this point. In the more highly civilised cities of the East,
Vat-n; Yoti-s'e4 to accept another as a husband : will the üblic dinner is of just the proper duration, and a vast
i'M's? Ins, ears s Claim me years hence, when no int- improvement upon the interminable table d'Ute of the con-
fluent of Europe, while the banquets at private houses often
VII re.s"t datlli-nels°,4r,union,'and lam yours for ever.
V Wan %Use' -randy, I firmly in your truth, even exceed in length these latter repasts. But the ceremony
sene „ se, , , believe of dining upon the outskirts of civilisation is a very differentt
the, t efreetSms riee -uowever distant lam from you. Here affair • and upon one occasion, at St. Paul's, the capital of rte
slll'artee.l4n of tan" Your finger, and wear it as a pledge
i'n),,,se,N,veeic o_ . '' who will never wed another." Thus Minnesota ota territory, I found it so difficult to keep pace we le
my neighbours, that I determined to time them, and recorded,
M he eselis.?"ed' as
ikrte; with
ut to I, enry Harling again tried to gain his
ken ", with ev.l'; li,,,us wishec - to (ive up her plans
s, o, even e the result of my observations, that from the moment when
rhe first rnsh into the dining-room took place to the moment
to Place in e,:' elland they
an b,._ - tii res he could say was useless, the first man left, it w.as exactly seven minutes and a-half.
fi 'I to the evell• on both -ides This conversation In ten minutes I remained the solitary spectator of a melan-
-4 th r e log - ' • had ne choly array of empty dishes, the contents of which had been
t e followeieaatle, ' When Laura Thompson go
h • teakfast sh reele,. ' sufficient, in that short period, to satisfy nearly a hundred
e
*IN te' e foe ulg,i voracious denizens of the Far West."—Blackwood.
ose heat : he had lef'''l a _ when Mrs. Harlin; came down
ARAB PHILOSOPHY.—The following is an amusing account
Fated'l! she'll(' ret t fel. leote on the table from her soh.
of Arab sagacity. Immense flocks of pigeons and other birds
~,ti tip ~ througl7
e said th Tdon and it was qutte uncertain
hover about the banks of the Nile, ready to take advantage
ne. teen, at he had tie the man•servant being goes-.
"lei his whicheiceed, Mr. Railing's portmanteau .of any grain Cr ether provision which the natives convey to
,i;cAt 14 colimpaster had talset London coach passed, and had the markets at Alexandria :—" On the present occasion, as the
e14:153 teis have been go 131'.1'is seat in it. , arm (a large undecked boat) was slowly descending the Nile
, lot; the force of the current only, there came off from every
li'bta' Mari- rna opposition lgt villagess that we pased a large flock of pigeons, and alighted on
13' displeasing to a.ghty
to an her anxious wishes and
kis and 8. • She thought -
lettto. les return ;th ought it probable that he would grain, as it was heaped up open in the centre of the boat.
groups of these at last entirely covered the whole
14.4ith 4111 e uncle's, at
he had only gone fora week,. per- . Stilieceessive
-.co? rikki c'ccasion ~ where he was in the habit of spending a surface of the wheat, that not a grain could be seen ; and
4via,Ni.
~nt4' an ~„,,a,"Y, and therefore she contented herself the first layer was soon succeeded by a second, and then by a
'third.lt was amusing to see the struggles made by each of
n',3 Z.11,\''45! aftereiogy to Laura for his abrupt departure.
IN hit. ) see , Y wen. on, and week after .
-.1 - wit day 4 week passed these ni turnisder layer,
.hay.ing tithe their fill,
l •
as as .4isne die "eartl nothing of him ; she knew eot what i were anxious to escape, and take their flight upper ayer,
let asste:.vsas unlNlvoitilleke to write to Lord Molestock about mg voraciously hungry, were as eager to get at the grain
as„. eeesrity of „. int to show how little her son cared for i bolow, and stretched their necks out, and dived their bills
41141°4 q gain his mother. She called at the parsonage, ' downward fcr this purpose ; while the centre layer seemed
ek , tilt no inf • All this while the
kin teis aever information. Emily looked pale and likely to be crushed between the two.
14"'Et ~,'''''ilethlevensmoking his
asked after her son • this showed that rein, or captain of the boat, sat near the helm,
t'''lloen4ne nee'" g• Another month passed on, and still he ; pipe with the utmost composure, and looking complacently on
~;!ello. • lens. rote. At length she determined to go to 1 the scene. At length I could not
.forbear asking him to
,iiS letirfor
.ITously, however, she resolved to q
_uestion . whom all this grain belonged, conceiving it to be a cargo
te! lose,' fieruti Mind was becomin too uneas to admit of ion freight for some corn merchants, and thinking the captain
° 74 her le' es• Her kindness togEmi had nyever abated ; ' a very indifferent guardian of their interests. To this ques-
sDetic'e, net ac ninth as an interested woman could love any 1 tion he replied, ' Belongs ? It all belongs to me.'
thel asled
,ihtt.,ty eee'rhfoservient to her own wishes. She saw her him whether he did not view with some regret
.i.t To:
Nine" ant et• ',aura, and her onl objection to the former reense consumption of it going on before his eyes , as, p d
4 111 t'he Jortune
balance,Two hundred thousand pounds was seeded at this rate, full half of it would be consume
and Emily was found wanting. 'by the pigeons before he reached Alexandria., and histo
LTO BE CONTINUED:I loss would be very considerable. lie then began .
0 you
question me in his turn, and asked me first, D
not think that God, who made the pigeons as well as man,r
intended them also to be fed ?' I could not but say e
I-
. 1,7 , eene—ese
esse, (ewe -sue death of an old man's wife is like the
s ' tren ef an •• • thinly.' 'ls not' he continued, `grain their natural food .
confessed it was.. `Can they,' said he, `plough, a, nd reap, as,,
te II ~eeesiee
~... ancient oak, that 'has long shaded the
. rt 1 the glare cf the world, with its was
we can, to obtain it I.' I was compelled to answer No. ' Then
"ese •"u eie : eieeeese i
~ N -'ssinit t-c'
<•tilt nothin eE, falls -upon tlie cid wi low '' h' t
' n it ?"To this even I could
1 as is of min g to breakear , and early the intention of the Creator that they should
take it wherever they could find .
their , _• • .7 ?
le, oes . %lute. . force, c. smelt: it from the offer no dissent. ' Why then,' said he, ' let them eat their fill
k,,..
,ii... , wii,,,..., It is as if his right hand was withered and be satisfied. The earth is the Lord's, and the abundance
014%0e1y bbra9l,,n eagle was broken, and every movement thereo` and he meant that all his creatures should be par-
;esss 'Y ; eed 'lent him to the ground. His eyes are dim
"lose "ben the film of i • takers'Of his bounty.' I said that I could not but admire his
1 to theace4sthased
opt Reeve
e_tones which might have soothed his 1
Rtllrae etiot • Lamartine. . ' merchants would act upon this Mairommedan view of the case,
but would protect, as they would call it, their property from
se it,as been- rsCRIPTS IN Russen—The taste fel' book loss. ' Then,' said he, ' they would act unwisely, for God
sa'N eallsear stP.';'"'inn of late years in Russia, and it will never suffers nsan to lose by discharging his duty to any of
att2att rand Dekai'lege to many
rf4l e I, s• e vonst ... of my re d ti t tl• ' his '”eatures. He administers the affairs of whether world with
a ers, ia .e im- t.
J ape in , -sa been known anane whose such a
resent reputation is more wisdom and justice than this.'
.I asked . .
ore. k, with the
to situp a great art f the • ht diminution in the store of grain before me would not inevit-
, 41.'see_ •le assistance of e pe o , nig •
likt,t,.biktr, ~:) decipher .an adept in that branch ably invo e
.•
'4 l e loss P 'ln quantity; he replied, ' undoubtedly,
lei ilalh Bet a literary' to the b• but not in value
er an ancient Sclavenic wanuscript: for the halt can never be equal
eitwe trine
of 11 tendency have shown'b the fcr this is the course of commerce. If all the boats laden with
pr eee lisle ~ . MEM. 1 have seen been ~ y
Otit ,L,lstei.,.. wrltten .6
-3' Catherin'.-- - • arrive at Alexandria without any diminution of their
the MS. Memotrs of grain - .
I. ; and there is said to car oes, will be a glut in the - . - ,
1,7 teOseeettha volime of memoirs . g , there -a-Fet and the price will
se, leis, . wife of Alexander written by the late Em-' fall. If, on the contrary, nearly
tt "tie
I- ter est '
there will be a short supply,
'e es Yoe : 1., which she desired should consumed before it reaches the port,
..
'4l ttr'a most • satv • "
tie . . 3 ea- s after her eevi Suchwork and prices -:/1
e se, 'lee r, . rmus if it onl , - t•a
Vt 1') f'f '
attributed My half cargo as I should
y reveaied the par4iculars of as much money at high prices for
ttl qa t to Alexander ' et
bpee e five,.g „0 Am ~ soon after his ac- have done as low pricesfor
' ' the whole ; and thus you perceive,
by my kindness to his
r 4,e arms,_ ~ erica, vnti the hay of his choice, to God does not permit me to be a loser r
qk seeseess and allowing his Emp—
L e._ _ ,
~ , . . ess to do some- creatures,for shall '',e pigeons
I be fully remunerated. end t,
Plarnson s N2ne Years in .Russia. . 1-;'...11 have had their crops full into the -bargain. "

-LITERARY EXTRACTS.

METHOD.—AII things in us and about us are a chaos with-
out method ; and so long as the mind is entirely) passive, so
long as there is an habitual submission of the understanding
to mere events and images, as such,, without any attempt to
classify and arrange them, so long the chaos must continue.
There may be transition, but there never' cai be progress ;
there may be sensation, but there cannot be thought ; for the
total absence of method renders things impracticable ; as we
think that partial defects of method proportionally render
thinking a trouble and a fatigue.—S. T. Coleridge.
ONCE UPON, A TIME.—It is a charm whiCh bath kept the
child awake even in the best of dormitories, the mothers
bosom, and has ever after enlivened the man-child, nor failed
of ministering its elixir vitce, even in extreme age. It is that
one specific good, for every evil has some beneficial ingredient,
which was in the curiosity that tempted first the mother of
mankind ; and maternal tenderness has culled it from the
sin, and used it lovingly, to this day. And the charm will
work as long as time shall last. The traveller, en whatever
road of life, and on whatever speed intent, will stay his steps
at hearing the words. Their power is. inevitable, as of the
" Ancient Mariner," and is embodied in his address,
• " There was a ship, quoth he," •

—Blackwood's Magazine.
SWALLOWING A WRIT.—In Newington Church is buried .
Mr. Serjeant Davy (d. 1660.) He was originally a chemist of
Exeter; and a sheriff's officer coming to serve on him a pro-
cess from the Court of Common Pleas, he civilly asked him to
drink, While the man was drinking, Davy contrived to heat
a poker, and then told the bailiff that if he. did not eat the
writ, which was of sheepskin, and as good as mutton, he
should swallow the poker ! The man preferred the parchment ;
but the Court of Common Pleas, not then accustomed to Mr.
Davy's jokes, sent for him to estminster Hall, and for con-
tempt of their process committed him to. Fleet prison. From
this circumstance, and some unfortunate .man whom he met
there, he acquired a taste of the law, and on. his discharge he
applied himself to the study in earnest, was called to the bar,
made a serjeant, and was for a long time in good practice.—
Timb's Curiosities of London.
MARRIAGE CAVALCADE OF THE INFANTA MARIA. TERESA.
--On the 15th of April, Philip IV. having made his 'will, and
commended himself to our Lady of Atocha, set out from the
capital, accompanied by the Infanta, and followed by 3,500
mules, 82 horses, 70 coaches, and 70 baggage wagons. The
baggage of the royal bride alone would have; served for a
small army. Her dresses were packed in twelv large trunks,
covered with crimson velvet, and mounted with silver; twenty
morocco trunks contained her linen ; and , fifty mules were
laden with her toilet plate and perfumes... Besides these per-
sonal equipments, she carried a vast pro Vision of presents ;
amongst which were two chests filled with, purses, amber
gloves, and whisker-cases for her future brother-in-law, the
Duke of Orleans, The grandees of the household vial with
each other in the size and splendour of their retinues. The
cavalcade extended six leagues in length, and the trump ets of
the van were sounding at the gate of Alcala De Henares, the
first day's halting-place, ere the last files had issued from the
gate of Madrid.—Stirling's Velazquez.
EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF LOUIS NAPOLEON.—It was on
the occasion of a dramatic representation at the St. James's
Theatre, some time in the month of June, 1847, that the inci-
dent to which I allude took place. It was a royal night, and
the Queen and Prince Albert occupied the royal box. By
their side sat the Duke of Nemours—not then an exile eating
the bitter bread of foreign hospitality, but the offspring of a
reigning king, the future regent of a great country, the near
connection of the sovereign who; in the sunshine of his suc-
cess, gave him so gracious a welcome to the English court.
Below, however, the scene was less flattering to the theory of
the divine right of kings. On one side sat the Duke of Bruns-
wick, with his diamonds and rouge, an exile from his beloved
"Iraterland ;" on the other, and opposite him, the Count of
Montemolin, the pretender to the Spanish throne. In the first
tier of boxes, concealed by the drapery, and shrouded, as it were,
with the shadow of misfortunes, sat the dethroned brother
of Don Pedro—Don Miguel himself ; and nothing was wanting
to the tableau of the defunct sovereigns and ousted pretenders
but the presence of the culminating Theodorns of the scene.—
Every one was making comments on the strange coincidence
that had brought so many claimants of royalty together into
one spot, and smiling at the ,mutability of things, when sud-
denly, by the orchestra, entered Louis Napoleon. The situa-
tion was striking. There was nothing to break its effect, as
the curtain was down, and every 'one was yielding to the
train of thoughts naturally engendered, by the spectacle. A
Sense of ridicule seized on the whole assembly; a laugh passed
from the orchestra through the pit, even to the royal box.
The very name of Louis Napoleon seemed to warrant a smile—
a smile at the folly of the hero of Strasbourg and Boulogne.
Louis Napoleon was not slow to undertand the object of so
much merriment. He threw a cold and sullen glance on the
royal box, where the Duke of Nemours, the son of the king of
the French, sat in smiling mockery at the luckless aspirant to
his father's throne ; and then rising from his seat, he slowly
and deliberately placed himself on the left side of the theatre,
under that royal box, and in such a manner as to break the
view of its inmates.. What were his feelings at the moment !
Now that we know the man, we can fancy, at least, somewhat
of the bitternees which must have overswept his heart, when
thus treated as the subject of general ridicule by a large and
crowded audience—when thus mocked by the successful rival
of his fortunes and smiled at by the sovereign in whose lands
he was an exile. We can fancy somewhat of the dark shadows
and the tangled passions, raid the impenetrable throbbings of
vengeance and hate, which must have then possessed the soul
of the exile of King-street—the present Emperor of France,
and the late guest of Queen Victoria.—Chambers's Journal.

SUP?

GFOR.GE TUE TIOILD'S DIJINER.—" Mr. Addington; in a
letter to his brother, dated December 29th, says :--`i am just
returned from Kew; where I passed an hour and a half with
His Majesty, and partook of his dinner. As the reader may
probably have some curiosity to know what delicacies com-
prised the royal bane:net, the quotation is finished. ' Which
consisted of mutton chops and pudding."'
—The Duke of
Buckingham's Court and Cabinets (I George 111.

MARRIAGE CEREMONY AMONG TUE MEDEs.—The mar-
riages of the i'vledes were consecrated by a curious ceremony.
The plighted pair, in the presence of their mutual relatives
and friends, nanZe an incision in each other's arms, and min-
gled their blood, which Was received into a goblet and drunk
as a pledge of harmony by the bride and bridegroom. The
nuptials were then registereC., and celebrated by a feast ex-
tending over several days.— History of Wo2non, by S. W.
Fallon?.

CoNMON SENSE. —lle late Duke of Wellington, who had
great respect for common sense, used to tell the following
anecdote :—" When I was following a ratiah, in India, we
came to a great sandy plain, to cross which was impossible,
with the enemy's cavalry hovering about us. The spies said
there was a river in front which I could not cross, as it had
no bridges, and that I must therefore make a &tour to the
right or left. I, however, took the cavalry, and pushed onto
the river, till I was near enough to take a view of it with a
spy-glass, when I saw that there were two villages opposite
each other, on different sides of the river. I immediately
said to myself, ' People would never be fools. enough to build
two towns immediately opposite on a great river if they could
not get from one to the other.' So I moved on, and sure
enough there was a bridge between the towns. We crossed
it, and licked the rajah."

THE LATE CZAR AND ITIS DYING DAUGUTER.—On reach-
St. Pete:-sburo., after a journey of extraordinary rapidity even
for him, the Czar found that little hope was entertained of his
daughter's recovery. He was informed that an interview with
the princess, in 'the condition she was then in, might prove
dangerously agitating to her. Ordering his couch, therefore,
to be made up on a sofa in her apartment, screened from her
view, he passed sleepless hours in listening to her moans and
to the words that were to prove her last. While there he
heard her ask for his portrait, and, addressiag it tenderly as
her " Dear Papa," with many expressions el the affection she
felt for a most indulgent parent, request that it might be placed
in her coffin. The scene was too much for the iron man, and
this descendant of the Great Peter fainted as he lay listening.
—Harrison's Nine Year; in Russia.

SAFETY IN DEBT.— It requires great coolness and expe-
rience to steer a canoe down these rapids; and a short time
before our arrival two Americaus had ventured to descend
them without boatmen, and were consequently upset. As the
story was reported to us, one of them owed his salvation to a
singular circumstance. As the accident took place imme-
diately opposite the town, many of the inhabitants were at-
tracted to the bank of the river to watch the struggles of the
unfortunate men, thinking any attempt at a rescue would be
hopeless. Suddenly, however, a person appeared rushing to-
wards the group, frantic with excitement. "Save the man
with the red hair !" he vehemently shouted ; and the exer-
tions which were makle in. consequence of his earnest appeals
proved successful, and tLe red-haired individual, in an ex-
hausted condition, was safely landed. "He owes me eighteen
dollars," said his rescuer, drawing a long breath and looking
.approvingly on his assistants. The red-haired man's • friend
had not a crqditcr at the Sault, and, in default of a competing
daim, was allowed to pay his debt to nattite. " And I'll tell
you what it is, stranger," said the narrator of the foregoing
incident, complacently drawing a moral therefrom—" a man'll
never know how necessary he is to society, if he don't make
his life valuable to his friends as well as to his-self."—Black-
wood's Magazine.

FAT MEN.—There is something cordial about a fat mar..
Everybody likes him,anO he likes everybody. Your Ishmaelites
are, in truth, a bareboned race; a lank tribe they are, skeleton
and bile. Food does a fat man goad ; it clings to him ; it
fructifies on him ; he swells nobly out, and fills a generous
space in life. He is a living, walking minister of gratitude to
the earth and the fulness thereof; an incarnate testimony
against the vanities of care; a radiant manifestation of the
wisdom of good humour. A fat man, therefore, almost in
virtue of being a fat man, is, per se, a popular man, and com-
monly be deserves his popularity. In a crowded vehicle, the
fattest man will ever be the most ready to make room. In-
deed, he seems to be half sorry for his size, lest it be in the
way of others ; but others would not have him less than he is,
for his humanity is usually commensurate with his bulk. A.
fat man has abundance of rich juices. The hinges of his sys-
tem are well oiled; the springs of his being are noiseless; and
so he goes on his way rejoicing, in full contentment and pla-
cidity: A fat mar. -feels his position solid in the world ; he
knows that his being is _cognisable; he knows that he has a
marked place in the universe, and that he need take no extra
pains to advertise mankind that he is among them ' • he knows
that he is in no danger of being overlooked. It does really
take a deal of wrong to make one really hate a fat man; and
if we are not always as cordial to a thin man as we should be,
Christian charity should take into account the fcrce of preju-
dice which we have to overcome against his thinness. A fat
man is nearest to that most perfect of figures, a mathematical
sphere; a thin man to that most limited of conceivable dimen=
sions, a simple line. A fat man is .a being of. harmonious
lame, and holds relations to the material universe in every di-
rection ; a thin man has nothing but length ; a thin man, in
fact, is but the continuation of a point.--Lectures of Henry