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so longs period, and at such a distance
too, sank within her; still such a
St) and it was at length agreed to
(Or an immediate journey to London.
departure for town, Laura placed a
l'B hand, to purchase an outfit for
le same time presented her with a
lain, and seals, to wear for her sake.
overpowered by this kindness, and
II
1 her neck.
they repaired to Mrs Davenport's.
,he outfit was completed, and they
ni hoard the " Malcolm." The bustle
drs. Grey from dwelling on the forlorn
daughter's absence would place her ;
413' ate, and gone, er dreadful lonel came
and shhe determined to iness
board at a
ire, close to the spot where she so long
her deceased husband.
Cal:le, where they stayed about a week,
bavenport and the girls were to her.
fe arrival at Madras, how comfortable
happy ; every thing was so new and
Mite in good spirits again. These
Mrs. Grey for the absence of her
le contented, if not happy, and looked
ten she should again embrace her child
We must now leave Mrs. Grey, who
1Y mercies which were bestowed upon
lg,, who pined in anguish for her lost
rt sojourned at Madras only for a short
' India, as he was made collector, and
tt v
-,agpore. They were both much
retiring modesty and extreme beauty
of every one. Numerous were the
tt's house to see the pretty governess,
utment when she did not wake her
lY at breakfast and dinner, or a little
!;_ould be seen.
le good sense to treat her daughter's
as a kind of upper servant, which is
England ; but she was made in every
, 11,1 by this means the young ladies
'vng instruction from her, and they
'Fernand loved her as a real friend.
P for the use of the young ladies
vhich the musical instruments were
qr Ist‘ll tones were wafted from thence to
st'ela,T visitors would gladly have been
e'tto4,l7,aPartment.
~,1 at Nagpore about six months,
Le -TY bad received two most eligible
,',.fro4; colonel
from Colonel Townsend of
•,ea1,,,,,,010nel Windham of the artillery;
Irs ',accepting, though she was much
Ja,,. Davenport to accept one of them.
pratlek.'llPort that her hand and affections
renavan h 1 England, though she thought
TO
would interfere to prevent
,40 Colonel Windham she also made
':° Ilarling, as she saw that he was
irnill his addresses to her.
T. e that an accident happened to the
en her, which she had constantly
had Placed it on her finger. It was a
around
with small brilliants, and
ins
workmanshiphad always been
and she supposed that in walking one
she must have pulled it off with her
;.o._ her room at night, she found her
°11:1' ' foa4e. A search was immediately made
,titt4t gieit,i,„,e4 broken in two pieces. . It had
111 el.t"i41)1) felt :ue injury from its having
.been
''lt 4, tle'l to lbeeeduNlY sorry that this accident
,4(1
,fit- It 1,,, -er ring, and begged Mrs. Daven•
" 4 t '4lleditel
.et4l4 alien Loathe repaired for h.er the_ she
4N lllk, l'eptlie ti., best workman in place,
4 coal led . 41g.
e lie 1%4'1 bat Work there was a European in the
it tO tte h way, and had a good deal of
14ct°\,ne,Z14. °f th
Pris e sergeants, and he would there-
tierB p,'l'ciN„-"e butler accordingly went with the
One ,P,l'er,e4j:,tleant at home, and at work, mending
lltipg"' the 'lag trillerymen were talking to him. On
Nl',./,t,illy 41e4 t e ring for the inspection of the ser-
S„ oa limed round and said " Let me look
iNreplied thehink I have seen it'before."
,let,r. sergeant ;"it is a very handsome
likkira:lll ivi,,,
th,.hir,',' %aid ii'n. name was Field, became much
~tZteliport,s
~ o the butler, " whose servant are
Ilk' 411i'Ll'ilg I.:Plied the man "and m young mis-
ty '''St workZat zne,..a ~
~ en and she toldy me I was
%41tINtlpistreza
~ -, and she had a great value for
ikt believe 't,o,,' t s:4l l'ield, " how long has she been
ill p• ' ,bus-
,t 4,, Yea,. ~ .
4,1.,,, ield, suid`Aer tv replied the butler ; " they
Ill'iti7indojvith you
`he
sergeant;e arried from England."
kli. g, replied p• "sit down, man, what
G lel ,
nod afternoond s; it
1,. d
came
ag • haserge,mly a little curiosity
•iati.,y_ •
If r iel i
.0 n ere done, and
"e rb,. „,_ ant to* t, and Field left the
file sergeant's
If b house, and
e would oblige him by

allowing him to take it back to Mrs. Davenport; "he
would pledge himself," he said, " for its safe delivery."
The sergeant consented, and Field bent his steps to the
collector's residence. On his arrival there, he begged one of
the peons in waiting to tell Mrs. Davenport that he had brought
home the ring which had been sent to be mended, and if she
were not engaged he would wish to see her and deliver it into
her own hands. Field stood in the centre of the room, pale
and motionless, with his eyes fixed on the opposite door through
which the peon had disappeared. At length the door opened
and Mrs. Davenport entered. The statue-like appearance of
Field startled her for a moment. " Did you wish to see me ?"
she gently said.
" Are you Mrs. Davenport ?" said he, almost breathless,
without answering her question, and with his hands extended
towards her.

Yes," replied that lady.
" Thank God," said Field, as he clasped his hands and turned
to leave the room ; but suddenly stopping, he again advanced
towards Mrs. Davenport, who was still standing near the door
by which she had entered the room, as if to be ready to make
her escape should it be necessary. "I beg your pardon, madam,"
said Field, " but my mind has been wrought up almost to
madness, believing you to be another person, and seeing you
has quite overpowered me. This ring, madam, is so like one
belonging to a dear friend of mine in England, that I have been
deceived in imagining it to be the same. I trust I may be
forgiven for my having probably, by my unguarded manner,
caused you some alarm." He bowed low, smiled, and left the
room. _ _

Mrs. Davenport stood, for a few moments, in astonishment
at this address, " Strange !" thought she—" a common sol-
dier too, and so gentlemanly, so much elegance in his man-
ners." He had placed the ring in her hand; she looked at it.
" It certainly is of curious workmanship," mused she, " few, I
should think, would exactly resemble it." She left the room,
and joined the young ladies in their morning study.
"Miss Grey," said she, "the man has brought back your
ring; it is very curiously set. May I ask where you had it
from ? Did it belong to your poor father, my dear ?"
" No, madam," replied Emily, with her natural frankness ;
" it was given to me as a keepsake by the nephew of Lord Mole-
stock," and she blushed a deep scarlet as she again placed it on
her finger. "Then, indeed," exclaimed Mrs. Davenport,
" the man must have been mistaken, or else he was mad ; for
he fancied me to be some other person, and thought that he
knew the ring. His manner really frightened me at first ;
but I will not interrupt your studies, my dears :—go on
Fanny, with your music." She now left the room.
When the duties of the morning were over, and Emily was
seated in her dressing room, she could not help thinking on
what Mrs. Davenport had said regarding the man who had
brought the ring; and a wild fancy crept over her mind,
"It is certainly very odd," she kept repeating to herself.
At length she sent for the butler, and on his appearance, she
asked him to whom he had taken her ring to be mended, and
what was his name ; also how old he was, and what sort of a
looking person.
" He is a sergeant, ma'am, belonging to the artillery," said
the butler : "he is rather short and a fat man, and I should
think about fifty years old ; he has a wife and several
children, ma'am, and she takes in needle-work for ladies,

ma'am."'
Emily smiled, as the butler concluded, to think how her
air-built castles had vanished. "I thank you," said she,
" here are three rupees : be so kind as to pay the man. lam
very well pleased with the manner in which he has mended
the ring."

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

LITERARY EXTRACTS.

DETERMINATION.—" The longer I live," says Sir. T. F.
Buxton, " the more I am certain that the great difference
between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insig-
nificant—is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once
fixed on, and then death or victory. That quality will do any-
thing that can be done in the world; and no talents, no cir-
cumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature
a man without it."
INFLUENCE OF DOMESTIC HABITS.—The man who lives in
the midst of domestic relations will have many opportunities
of conferring pleasure, minute in detail, yet not trivial in the
amount, without interfering with the purposes of general bene-
volence. Nay, by kindling his sensibility, and harmonising
his soul, they may be expected, if he is endowed with a liberal
and manly spirit, to render him more prompt in the service of
strangers and the public.
THE EmruEss EUGENIE.—Without being by any means the
perfect beauty her flatterers declare her to be, the Empress is
certainly one of the very loveliest-looking women that could be
found. liter face is lighted up with such an innocent, gentle,
and vivacious expression, and a smile of such exceeding sweet-
ness, as render her perfectly charming. Her manner is at
once graceful, dignified, and gracious ; she looks absolutely
radiant on a public occasion, and performs her part so perfectly
and with such a look of absolute happiness, that she seems not
only as though she had been born to the station to which her
singular fortune has raised her, but appears beside her impass-
able and undemonstrative partner, as though she was some
sovereign in her own right, who had espoused some man of
humble rank, and sought unconsciously to atone for his com-
paratively cold and ungracious manner, by the overflowing of
her own royal and native courtesy. And yet, to see her small,
sweet, put pale and weary-looking face at other times, one
would say that she had already entered upon that destiny of
sorrow of which the line of pain across her brow would almost
seem to be nature's own propbecy.—Hogg's Instructor.

NIGHT.—How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of
the night ! And yet the stillness seems almost audible !
From all the measureless depths of air around us, comes a
half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling
and falling away of the earth and all created things in the
great miracle of nature; decay and reproduction ever begin-
ning, never ending—the gradual lapse and running of the
sand in the great hour-glass of time !—Longfellow.
NOTHING but dazzling genius can afford to work without
punctuality and order ; and even that is impeded and sub-
verted by the perpetual clogs that irregularity and want of
method must throw across the most brilliant path. If man
were a being of abstract thought and feeling; if we lived in a
fairy world, where to wish and to will were all that we needed ;
if, in short, life were not made up of petty circumstances, of
a shower of rain, and an appetite for dinner, of suffering a fit
of sleepiness, or of taking a wrong turning down a street, then
would the smaller qualities of punctuality and order be more
beneath the notice of great talents, and be less indispensable
for success in life. But where there is no extraordinary
genius, •where the mind is on a par with the generality, the
only security for tolerable success and moderate usefulness
consists in the regular application and the due value of time.
—Early Influence.
THE WAR IN 1812.—The supplies kept pace with the
increasing magnitude of the contest when the campaign of
Salamanca had commenced, and the deliverance of the
Peninsula in good earnest was being attempted. The net
produce of the permanent taxes in that year was no less than
£40,000,000, of the war ones £26,000,000, in all £66,000,000;
and £29,268,000 was raised by loan, including £4,500,000 for
the service of Ireland, and £2,500,000 for that of the East
India Company, guaranteed by government. The public
expenditure was on a proportionate scale : the sum expended
for the navy was £20,500,000, that for the army £25,000,000,
besides £4,252,000 for the ordnance ; the loans to Portugal,
Spain, Sweden, Sicily, and Russia amounted to £5,315,000,
while the interest of the national debt amounted to £23,124,000;
and still no less than £13,482,000, was applied to the sinking
fund. The navy, during this year, consisted of 978 ships of
all sizes, of which 236 were of the line : and 102 line-of-battle
ships and 131 frigates were in commission. The army num-
bered 227,000 regular soldiers under its banners, besides
86,000 regular, and 335,000 local militia. It seemed as if, as
the contest continued and the scale on which it was conducted
was enlarged, the resources of the empire, so far from declining,
widely expanded.—Alison's Europe.
MANNERS OF THE TuaKs.—lt matters not at what hour,
or in what place you are ; you meet numbers of Turkish wo-
men rambling about in search of adventures, without any se-
rious duty calling them abroad, for they have no business to
transact. All household duties fall to the share of the hus-
band, who goes to the butcher and baker, and must furnish
the needful money without the wife being required to attend
to any material care. The husband is expected also to look
after the children, and he generally performs this duty in a
most judicious and tender manner. All authorities of note
attest, that nothing can compare with the affection of the
Turk for his progeny. M. Hell states that he often saw
noble old men, with silvery beards, preparing their kief under
the shade of plaintain trees, in the company of their children.
Few mothers could have a more delicate care, or show a more
tender love for their offspring than these aged Turks. It
must also be admitted that Turkish children seldom have the
mischievous tricks of ours, which makes them often the terror
or bore of visitors, and of a number of victims. This probably
results from their early education, as well as from their nature.
At a very early age, they show a childish gentleness and gra-
vity which makes their presence a pleasure instead of a tor-
ment, as with us. We would remark, in this connection, that
some admirers of youthful nuisances at home say that all boys
ought to be mischievous, as it shows spirit, and that they will
grow up manly. We beg, in reply, to refer them to the gen-
tle Turkish lads who can display the heroism of Sinope, and
achieve the glory of Silistria. When will the West learn that
noise is not courage, and that fussiness is not manliness.—
, The Neighbours of Russia, by J. R. Morel!.

THE PRESENT EMPEROR OF RESSIA.—In person the
present Emperor looks more of a Russian than the late
Tzar, whose fair complexion and fine physiognomy bore
distinct traces of his German descent. He is very tall and
robust, of a dark complexion, with full round eyes, which
though occasionally lighted up by the spirit of merriment,
habitually wear an expression of melancholy. The last
time I had a close view of Alexander, then Grand Duke, he
was waiting for a railway train at the station of Tzarsko
Celo ; he walked about the public waiting-room, in familiar
conversation with an aide-de-camp, causing apparently as
little restraint to the' surrounding public, as he seemed to
feel himself in their presence. He looked the very picture of
bonhomie, but appearances are often deceitful, and it was
impossible not to remember his close relationship to the first
Alexander, whom a great master in the knowledge of human
character designated " a Greek of the lower Empire." I
never heard, however, anything but a favourable opinion of
the present Tzar's excellent qualities as an affectionate hus-
band and father. Au amusing instance of the unaffected
way in which he thought of his children, was told me by a
young lady, who had charge of a stall at a fancy fair. The
Naslednik (Heir Apparent) came to ask her for the largest
doll she had in her stock, and having secured it, he strode
away with it in his arms, seeming as pleased as such a
present might have made him on his second or third birth-
day. His paternal feelings received a cruel shock shortly
after the occurrence of this little incident by the death of
.his only daughter; his remaining four children are all sons.
—Harrison's Nine Years' Residence in Russia.

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14

SUPPL

DILIGENCE IN BUSINESS,—" Seest thou a man diligent in
his business," says Solomon ; " he shall stand before kings."
We have a striking illustration of this aphorism in the life of
Franklin, who, quoting the sentence himself, adds, " This is
true ;' I have stood in the presence of five kings, and once had
the honour of dining with one." All in consequence of his
having been " diligent in business " from his earliest years.
What a lesson is this for our youth, and for us all !—Pictorial
Pages.

gPRING.—How wonderful is the advent of spring ! the great
annual miracle of the blossoming of Aaron's rod, repeated on
myriads and myriads of branches,—the gentle progression and
growth of herbs, flowers, trees,—gentle, and yet irrepressible ;
which no force can stay, no violence restrain ; like love, that
wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power,
because itself is Divine Power. If Spring came but once in a
century, instead of or:ce a year, or burst forth with the sound
of an earthquake, and *not in silence, what wonder and expec-
tation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous
change.—Longfellow.
INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE ON THE COLOUR OF MANKIND.
—For 1800 years the Jewish race has been dispered into dif-
ferent latitudes and climates, and they have preserved them-
selves most distinct from any intermixture with the other
races of mankind. There are some Jews still lingering in the
valleys of the Jordan, having been oppressed by the successive
conquerors of Syria for ages—a low race of people, and de-
scribed by trustworthy travellers as being as black as any of
the Ethiopian races. Others of the Jewish people, partici-
pating in European civilisation, and dwelling in the northern
nations, show instances of the light complexion, blue eyes, and
the light hair of the Scaudivian families. We see then how
to account for the differences of colour without having to refer
them to original or specific distinctions.—Professor Owen.
AN OLD ROMAN EPITAPIL—Some workmen, in making
• an excavation at Constantina, in Algeria, a short time back,
came on an ancient tomb, which turned out to be that of a
Roman citizen. It offered no peculiarity in construction, but
the inscription, which is in well hexameters and pentameters,
appears so curious, that a translation of it seems worth giving.
It runs thus :—" I, Procilius, whose remains repose here, state
the exact truth in these verses. I have spent a life, without
annoyance, exercising the calling of silversmith in my house
at Cirta. I have always been of the strictest probity, and of
the most complete frankness towards every man. I have
nothing whatever to complain of, for I was always gay and
always happy, until the death of my chaste Valeria. I have
celebrated with honour and in prosperity one hundred anni-
versaries of my birthday ; and, at last, my final day arrived,
when 'my enfeebled frame rendered it welcome. The lines
which you are now reading I composed myself during my
life-time, being permitted so to do by the kind goddess
Fortune, who never forsook me. Follow the path which I
have taken : I await you here below ; come I"
THE WOLF OF SCANDAL,—Mr. Wilberforce relates that at
one time he found himself chronicled as " St. Wilberforce," in
an opposing journal, and the following is given as an " instance
of his Pharisaism :"—" He was lately seen," says the journal,
" walking up and down in the Bath pump room reading his
prayers, like his predecessors of old, who prayed in the corners
of the street, to be seen of men." "As there is generally,"
says Mr. Wilberforce, " some slight circumstance which per-
verseness turns into a charge of reproach, I began to reflect,
and I soon found the occasion of the calumny. It was this :
I was walking in the pump room in conversation with a friend :
a passage was quoted from Horace, the accuracy of which was
questioned, and, as I had a Horace in my pocket, I took it out
and read the words, This was the plain bit of wire' which
factious malignity sharpened into a pin to pierce my reputa-
tion." How many ugly pins have been manufactured out of
even smaller bits of wire than that ! _

ECCENTRICITIES OF COSTUME.—There is no part of
.our
costume, either male or female, that has not already passed
from one extreme of absurdity to another, and been most
admired at its highest point. Coats have been worn with
voluminous skirts dangling about the wearer's heels, and
with scanty lapels descending six inches below the waist.
Coat sleeves at one time fitted skin-tight; and more than once
have been so wide as to sweep the ground. Flapped waist-
coats, which in the time of George the First reached nearly
to the stocking, were 'soon cut so short as to be nearer the
armpits than the thigh. The close-fitting, tightly-strapped
trouser contrasts ludicrously enough with the trunk-hose of
the sixteenth century, stuffed out with five or six pounds of
bran to such an extent that, as a Harleian manuscript tells
us, alterations had to be made in the Parliament-house, so as
to afford additional accommodation for the members' seats.
It is related that a fast man of the time, on rising to con-
clude a visit of ceremony, had the misfortune to damage his
nether integuments by a protruding nail in his chair, so that
by the time he gained the door, the escape of bran was so
rapid as to cause a collapse. It may have been that similar
mishaps caused the substitution of wool or hair for bran,
which afterwards became common. Holmes, in his "Notes
on Dress," says, " A law was made against such as did stuffe
their bryches' to make them stand out; whereas, when a
certain prisoner (in these tyines) was accused for wearing such
bryches contrary to law, he began to excuse himself of the
offence, and endeavoured by little and little to discharge
himself of that which he did weare within them ; he drew
out a pair of sheets, two table cloths, ten napkins, four shirts,
a brush, a glasse, a combe, nightcaps, and other things of
use, saying, Your lordship may understand that, because I
have no safer storehouse, these pockets do serve me for a
roome to lay my goods in ; and though it be a strait prison,
yet it is a storehouse big enough for them ; for I have many
things more yet of value within them.' And so his discharge
was accepted and well laughed ..at, —London Quarterly
Review.