The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-20 00:00:00

District Nebo.

ELECITONERRING AT BRIDPORT.
Mr. Augustus Goidemid. the Clettetr"ii" °maid".
for Bridport, arrived in Met town at the h'lthatkili -et
last week, and resumed his asavase of the election.;
_On
Wedneedey evening the hon. gentleman was initiated
Into the brotherhood of Oddfellowsblp. On Setusday
ofteruoon Mr. Goldsmid delivered an address from the
Greyhound hotel at half-put four o'clock. At the
appointed time there was numerous gathering in frost
of the hotel, and, throughout a long address, the bon.
eendidate wag listened to very attentively. Mr.
Goldsmid observed that two months ego he told them
that so mon as be thought his presence in Bridport
would be advantageous to his great purpose of being
returned to Parliament al their representative, or would
be agreeable to them, he should be there. He had been
told by many that some had, thought it worth while to
tell an untruth easily refuted, viz, that he would never
come amongst them again; but these men knew very
little of him, and seemed to knew but very HUI° of
them, for they did not appear to be aware that he had
met with such a reamed-ices in the borough as would bare
made his not coming back a most foolish and suicidal
act on his part. Besides, he would never be • party to
an act casting such • redaction upon hie honour and
aredit after having given them that pledge. He could
quite understand that used as they had been to see
pledges unredeemed and promises unfulfilled, ttey had
not been very saoguine al to the sincerity and good
faith of one who had been until recently a stranger
amongst them; but to the making of promises to serve
• temporary Immo*, he would be no party. What he
bed laid before he again repeated, he should redeem to
the best of hie power every promos' he made, and if be
did not do anything he told them be would, he would
sandy Haim it was not of his power to do it. Since his
lest stay in the borough some events had occurred to
which he would gall their attention. He saw by the
newspapers that a gentleman, who had been Professor
of Polities! Economy at Oxford, came to Bridport, from
disinterested motives, to enlighten teem on the subject
of reform. He cowidered, at the same time, that the
presence in the chair of a gentleman so respected -and
Ire had no doubt, uleservedly-as Mr. Geode'', was an
insult to the herough of Bridport ; and he 'would tell
them why. Wren they had a Professor of Oxford,
who waeexpelled (pm Hs chair there for newts he had
no doubt very well known to all the members of the
University, they, at all events, had • rieht to
expect that in lecturing on Reform he would give
them an historical, philosophical, and weldeonsidered
discourse, becoming the position which he had filled.
Mr. Canary, ill givieg his Peuetenanc• to the lecture.
ought to have been security ehat such • discourse they
should have had. Bat Professor Rogers, under pre-
tended kindness, inveigled them into a political die-
quisition, and poured a torrent of abuse upon the part,
to which he is opposed, and a lengthened panegyric on
that party for which he eru talking, and • aeries of
untruths respecting the Bill about which he was di..
coursing. lie would give them extracts from tbe
Professor's speech, and he would leave it to them
whether his statements were not unworthy of • Pro-
fessor of Political Economy, am? of the countenance of
men who professed to be impartial, and were men of
respectability mid position in the borough. Mr. Rogers,
instead of giving them a calm philosophical statement
on the subject, began his speech by telling them that
"The Tory pry had doiv nothing for the nation since
the het Beforen 11,11 in 1832." 'Now the Tory party
bad nit been in power except in 1859, but he would
tell them the uaeasures the Coneervative Government
bad prised when iii office, and the measures they
supported ellen in opposition; he would also sell them
what opt milieu those measures encountered, and from
whom it proceeded. Having done that, be should leave
It to Go ir own e ood sense and judgment to decide who
were the real for, uds ef the people, and who were these
that while profesing to be friends behaved as enemies
would not have been juatifiuul in believing. In the
b. ginning of Mr. Rogers'n phihnophical discourse, he
told them that "we had now one of the nest immoral
aelministretions that had ever disgraeed the Government
of this eumutry." Mr. Rogers made the assertioo, but
what was the proof of the itunsordity ? and in what did
it coutiiet? We had as a Premier a man whom they all
ought to respect, as he respected him, because he is •
melee-nate man - (applause)-and hae endured., obloquy
and persecution because of the race to which he belonged.
In Lord Derby they had a peer, who, Mr. Rogers
said, was oue of the most violent and impulsive men that
ever lived. But did they think the worst of Lord Derby
because he was impuleive? He (Mr. Goluismid) ought
not, perhaps, to defend impulsive men, because he was
one hitnself ; if he had not been he should not have
001116 down there aa • candidate for their euffragea and
he believed that he ehould be carried by the impulses of
the people-(epplau-ce Mr. Rogers sail tbdt Mr. Lowe
was aim red by the whole Conservative party when be
made his calomel. s on the working classes ; bat who
was Mr. Lowe? Ile was an official nod, r Mr. Gladstone,
end would be ag•in a Cebieet Minister under Me.
Gladstone. He (Br. Goldstuid) beard Mr. Lowe make
that speech, and he differed from him as much Is it was
possible in his opinion if the working cle•ses ; for, as
be haul raid before, it was to the working divers in that
borough he appealed, in them he trusted, and from
them he expected that eupport which would enable him
to represent Bridnort in Parliament, sod he knew he
should not be deceived- (applause)-- in spite of "You
know I'll make it all right's" in spite of whirs, in spite
of •• You puns to rut e " in spire of " ! this time
six moruthe"-(ai platy): He knew they understood I
what he west. rhi'7 knew the party who bad used
bribes and compulsion, and in whose hands they hail •
been ; and tloy would judge for themselves who were
the parties from whom they were to expect fair play- ,
who would nut scruple at any ',cans to Gerry the object" ;
they bad in view; but they kucw also that the tines .
was now peewit ellen they could do it-(applante). I
Previously the borough had been in the hands of !
half • doses fautiries, but MO working men ,
Del been aided to the oonstitoency, so those ;
fauniliu a were powerless, and they knew it -
(appl tusk). As lue had said lie heard Mr. leoree's
speech, and it was cheered from all parts of the house,
but simply for it, ability and eloquence. II• would
never seek to promote his muse by personal abuse,
and he weal I challenge any one to point out that he
stated anything but what was the feet They had
bees told by Mr. Heger' that it woes throegh Hie Tories
that they bed the ratepaying claims in the Reform Act.
The bill. as brought before the House of Commons by
Mr. Diureeli, courain.d &clause allowing the rate. to ire
settled between the landlords and tenants as they
agreed, but Mr. Horlgkinson objected and proposed a
clans to do away with all Small lesuements' Acts, an
all rating as payable by the landlords, and throw pay-
ment in the tu bents. Me. Chitdere, Mr. Gladetone's
Secretary of the 'lresury, proposed • ruler, which Mr.
Gladetuns said he ereferrid, but, as it would involve
complications, he should 'rapport Mr. Hodekinson's
nioton. Mr. Disraeli said he did not want to see •
plan adopted in one place which was inoperative in
an thee, hut he was quite sure that if they adopt ,d Mr.
Hodgkinson's proposal it would lend to great diffleulty
and necessitate eubequent legislation ; but tele Reform
Bill must he the Bill of the House siceist in one or two
of its main principles, and if it was the 'ill of the
Hunge that Mr. tiudekinson's rating clause shoulul page,
he should offer no objection, bat he knew subsequent
iertbdatioa would be required, and that if he had made
such • proPosal it would have been condemned as au
iniquiteue clause. That being so he (Mr. Goldsnlid) lees
it to men of all parties to say whether the ratepaying
claques were the work of lb. Conservatives or a the
Libereis who told them no. Again, Mr.
Bogen told them that they pwed nothing of
of the Reform Bill to the Conservative', but he (Mr.
Goldsmid) pointed not that it was the Conservatives
who gave them household suffrage and that any rental
or rating as proposed by the Liberal party would have
Indicted • grievous hardialtip upon Libya immediately
beneath the hard and font line fixed open. The rest of
the Bill was the work of the people of England, speaking
through their rope' eeneatives in the Mehemet Commons.
Turning to the Dear Church, the bon. gentleman
observed that the question sag brought forward as one
of justice- they were aeked why the clergy of or •filth
of the popalatiu n rhould be supported at the expense
of the (steer four-fifths. If that were no it would he
Iniquitous. urijust, monstrous, ineefferable. But his
answer to that was, it wa. untrue. The Roman Cire holies
did not pay for the Protestant clergy. The Prot stunt
clergy in Ireland were supporter from three nouns,-
land given by the Crown at the time Ireland was overrun
at uliffereut periods, and there was no sort of establieli.
meat so to speak ; land left by different private
individualsfer church purpose* ; and tithe., the great
proportien of which errs redeemed, but those unre-
deemed were paid by Protestait lendlords. There was
not one-thoesmdth pert of the revenues of the Pro-
testant Church in Ir. Isticl which came out of the pockets
of the Cetbolice. for, as ttey knew, the Catholic land-
owners were few tool far between. Ile had travelled
much in the geuth and went of Ireland, and he asserted
that the evil. of Ireland were the fact that • tenant
after improving a farm ran insure no compensation for
his outlay, and the wart of capital to be expended on
the soil. For want of capital, the water 'cower of the
isimnificent river running threugh Galway IVY not
utilised. It was these things which made thediscontent
is Ireland, and not the lriah Church. He next spoke
of the amendment 'it the Poor Lew, expressing his
earnest d ee i ee to see such • reform that man and woman
being at the clays of life in straitened eircurnetanss,
should not be obliged to break up their homes, and go
eata it r eraen tienue, nian and wife separating at its
theelehold, but should have extendid to them liberal
oat-doer relief. And Le wished to see (Hare appmeted
who should not be influenced by party spirit, who
should nit say to a man, "You shell have relief
bemuse you voted for me," and to a:map r, "You
shall not have relief, breeder you voted for
Mr. Tompk in.." With regard to education he
said he considered that every man &humid be
ambled to SI rl,l 11;• children to school at each an
ejripoerr,is;tt.seshve..eitumagffotor.d,ztidt
to
ictehrottne vati!ont.l cannot
In Irelands lout .Prieg, lie said he found that schools
difficulty there was to prevent People, who could not
afford it, paying :td. • week for their child!, n, when
they "eight send them for • smaller payment. So much
for the people who said the weshiet_d„.„ wanwei tn
rob everybody. Mr. Goldsmid then proceeded to 'peak
of the aeoeures brought in er Reinserted by the Con-
aerntive tarty. •There was the Ten Home Facto Bill
tehioe working in feetevsiti. to tens tee.mihwouir:7olThthaii
wan strenuously oppoeed by me.
party. The Consrestives also euppeered the measure
for limiting the hours of labour in bleaching grounds ;
and this year they brought in a Bill for ameliorating the
condition of the sick poor-enabling them to have deers
medical attendance., inetead of getting • doee if
out of • gallon bottle, by the hands of a blind
(laughter)-and, instead of having to wash their hands
In vessels which he would not name, they heti the use of
decent band barons, awl used the others for their t rem r
purposes-(laughter and spplause). He had been told
to day this was bat a small question, but, if he were a
poor man, sent to the workhouse, and taken ill, he felt
that he should rather think the Irish church • small
question, and that hie having a decent bed to lie upon,
a decent man to attend to hi. want', and decent people
around him, was a very large question-tappbeasee The
Conservatives also brought in an Edueatiou Bill, but
they did net rarer it, because, Reform being out of the
way, and Mr. Gladstone finding he had no my to fro to
the eountry with, discovered, ether being ti; bey years
In officer, that the cause of Fenianism was discontent in
ooteseuenos of the Irish church. He might as *ell tall
them SI sr the low 4.4 of trade in Brideert was haaatlGO
*bey had got Ib. Mitchel for their member-(laughter
-pad aPPleue4 The CefteseesUna also broagtst in a

°MG° Gat to emalsl• them to am.
=se meats
together
buena* instead of brines( °"l.easili n
ele e""hifthrutgb whiteout, dlis of dimes, thirst, or
sews or they ad Dot die, came to market slaty and
oobt for feed, they ..uw hews had 'SUL sistagh
while beidtliy, sad they woeld be brought bere.se dead
meat. This weeld have made their west • penny •
posuid cheaper. Who sure " the friers& of the working
°la"? that opposed the measure? Mr. Gladstone and
the Bodied wry --(epplaues). The Oonsermatives
we" so anxious to pus the mere that
they said they would rather walk the lobbies
all night than it should be thrown est, but, u
they knew, the &width's"case.,said the Bill bad to
'be abandoned. Were the authors of each a mums an
"Immoral aimless administration' r--iapplaue). In
the management of India the Conservative Govarament
bad bad the missure. of Sir Staff 'rd Nortbeote. and the
present Marquis of Salisbury. Had they been immoral
and inefficient governors of that great dependency? It
was not the men who used the biggest words that did
the most for them. He thought they would find that
the emealled "friend. of the people" were more the
friend, of their own pockets than of anybody else-
(applause). &Poe be was last at Bridport, they bed
lost one of their members, a gentlemen for whom he, in
00111111 CM with everybody else (although he did not
know Mr. Hodpon personally any more than be knew
Mr. Mitabell),had the greatest possible respect. But he
said that Mr. Hodgson had no right to retire from that
bocongh-{hear, hear). The question of the retirement
of one of the members should have been left to the
electors, and not to five or six (=ilea And when M!'.
Hodgson considered that having consulted fire or six
families, he had consulted the borough, be showed
what opinion be had of them. Who did Mr. Hodgson
consult? Did he call a meeting of the electors, and say
your borough has lost a member, who do you wish to
go? No, but it was this, I ges going and you must have
Mr. Mitchell as your member. Were they ready to take
him? He said that the electors ought to have decided,
as they lad to decide now, who should represent them.
He said it against Isis own interests, for be believed that
Mr. Hodgson was a run universally pope found uloaurioratublet
borough. He might he asked then why h
with Mr. Mitchellwhen he kicked eutMr. Warburton to
remain member for Bridport himself. He replied the
circumstances were very different, Mr. Warburton
brought down Mr. Mitchell*/ a young man of 27, azil
when a certain scam f things arose through its being •
clove and corrupt borough-thank God it was snob no
longer, or it was their own fault if it was-Mr.
Werburt n said be would not be the man to bring
no the leuvourhisi.l au/tested that Mr. Mitchell
as the yonager member should retire, but Mr. hilsabell
did not see it, and Ilr. Warburton said, "Well, if you
don't I do," and so be acted. Therefore, he said the
circumstances were different, and he alluded
to the matter so that none should may
he made fish of one and dash of another.
Mr. Mitchell had supported the party who had already
partially diafranehised the borough, and it was now his
porous) to support the same party who intended to
disfranchise Bridport entirely, and the only consolation
Mr. Mitchell could give them was that the borough
would last his time, and that was all he wanted, so it
ought to be all they required. He hoped Mr. Mitchell
might I.st • very long time, so long as it we/ somewhere
else, and that be might spend his retirement much more
comfortably than he eoulddo keeping that obaequiousand
studious silence he did in the purlieus of the House of
Commons -(laughter). He wished to us the borough
maintain its privileges, and the inhabitants enjoy the
right* handed down to them by their forefathers, and
hand them down unimpaired to their sons, lie wished
to see the borough representing a particular trade in
the country-a trade he wished to see and hoped to
make more flourishing than it was at present-taking
the position it ought to take-(applause). If they had
• member who pursued • career of silent vegetation-
(laughter)-they could not expecte result so much to be
desiresl-(applause). Why did he say that Mr. Mitchell
propos, d to go to Parliament to disfranchise the
borough? What did Mr. Mitchell say two years agoabout
oy posing the Government of that time He aaid "for
my own put I shall feel it to be my duty to oppose the
Bill from beginning to end, and if this proposed 'ahem.
affecting Bridport remains, I shall do my best to turn
Ithe present Government out." Did he help to turn the
Gladstone Grorernment out, when they proposed a
inemiure to disfranchise Bridport? No, he did nothing
at all. Mr. Mitchell mid he went into the lobby
against the proposal, bet what was the good of
that when on all other points he supported
the Gladstone Government I and what did Mr.
Mitchell now propose to do? Mr. Bright bad told
them one of the first measures GI the new Parliament
would have to be for the disfranchisment of all the
small boroughs of the south and west of England. and
, giving those seats to the towns of the north, and Mr.
! Mitchell if re-elected would support that party in the
! grand issues to be tried, but he would give his vote
against them when it same to details affecting Bridport.
He thin spoke of Bridport not being known through its
having • silent member, but he said probably Mr.
Mitchell's membership hail been advantageous to the
half dozen faiuilies who had ruled the borough, and, if
I all was true that was said, be had lined his own
! pocket by it-(laughter). Had Mr. Mitchell (promoted
the trade of the borough? Had he presented it from
going to Soutland Had he tried to make Bridport
known us nice healthy neighbourhood? They knew
how these questions must be answered, and that the
trade had become such that the small dealers could not
employ anybody. Again-he asked what Mr. Mitchell
bad done in the House, and said be had once asked •
situation, why • window was not opened ? - (laughter).
They might say that is all very fine, but what was be
piing to do? If he were returned as their representa-
tive, on any question in which Bridport people
took an interest, if he could tell the lloass any-
thing about it he should do so, if not be should
hold hold his tongue, for a member 'ho did not
kuow how to hold his tongue was a nuisance, and he
did not want to be that. He should import meuares as
would tend to the benefit of the borough, by lightening :
the rates. i.e., by enabling the poor to have out-door 1
relief irrespective of local influences, and by oncoming- !
lag the natives of the place, not bringing in strugers
to take the bread out of their mouths, and
throw them on the pariah, thus increasing the rates of
other poor people. He would faithfully represent their
local interests, and make Billion known throughout
the country. But it was sani Mr. Mitchell was • baud-
working member on committees. Well, if he were, it
was because he could not help it, as, if the Speaker knew
a member was competent to serve on • cosuotittra, and
be refused hewn, taken into custody by the Sergeant-at-
Arms, which involved a fine of £2OO and • bed dinner,
and he dare say Mr. Mitchell would not like either.
He would promise tl,eoa that his industry if returned to
Parliament stmuld nut be of that silent or negative
obaracter. He hail no private interest to serve in
seeking this honor at their bands. Hitherto the
borough had been ih the hands of a few families, it was
for them now to my •11-tu,,,, that ittta or things snood
gt,ntinue. Ile remind d them of the words of the poet -
Hereditary bmvlsmeti, know ye not,
' Who woohl he free themselves most strike the blow 7
and said that if thi-y did not rise now to assert their
righta they would be cast down for • very long time-
they would pro,hote the extinction of their own borough
and its being wiped off the electoral list of the country.
In conclusion he expressed himself confident that they
would not perform so suicidal an act as was involved in
the re-election of • supporter of Mr. Gladstone-
(applause).
Ti/0 assembly quickly dispersed, for the evening bed
become unpleasantly chilly.

A HULL FIGHT IN SPAIN.
A bull fight took place on Sunday altsrnoon, at
Madrid, and was honoured by the presence of Generals
Serrano and Prim, and Admiral Topete. The proceeds
ings of the day are always opened by procession of the
performers. Owing ts the rich drums of the wallas,
banderilleros, chub., Ito., this procession !oaks rather
pretty as it advances into the sandy circus ; but you
Sa,„ hardly time ti take much notice of it before, et
the sound of a trumpet, the chubs and picadores spread
them,elv.s over the arena, the espsdas and bander-
illeras retire apart until the time shall arrive for their
interference, and, the doors of the Toni being opened,
the bell bounds, or, al • rule, canters into the presence
of his eneurie& Let ma take en avenge, or rather more
than an average specimen, and describe his mode of
action, and the manner in which he is slaughtered to
make a Spanish holiday. The animal whom I select
for this purpoge of illustration sem not large, but active
—of a dun brown colony, deepening over the shoulders
and loins almost to black, with a fine bead and large
spreading horns, a da ep broad chess, and powerful, but
light, hind quarters. As is always tie ease, there bad
before he left the Toni been driven into his shoulder a
abort sharp instrument, bearing a rosette of ribbons
with long streamers, called • mom. Smarting from
the pain occasioned by the sharp instrument, and
initiated by the bright pennons which it carried, he
galloped rapidly into the centre of the arena, and then
suddenly coming to amp looked wildly and angrily
around him, tossed his head, and pawed tbe ground
with his fore feet. In a moment the chide*, armed
with their manyseoloured cloaks—some scarlet and
yellow, some green and scarlet, but all of some bright
tint, and most of them combining two colours—mere
around him, running and leaping hither and thither to
allure him in their puninit, and dexterously blinding
him with their coloured clotha (their only offensive or
defensive weapon) at the moment when be seemed
about to reach them with his horns. This, which in
really only a preliminary proceeding, is the prettiest
part of the fight. There is in it no cruelty whatever,
and some of the chubs exhibit considerable courage in
approaching the bull, singular dexterity in
throwing their cloaks, and wonderful judgment
and agility in avoiding the amanita of tbe enraged
heart. &mistimes you would fancy that his horns must
reach them, bat they manage to be just out of distance,
and the threatening toes of the bead ie wasted upon
empty air. The principal object of all these manceuvree,
apart from the mere irritation of the bull, is to draw
him towards the picadores, a certain number of whose
horses he is expected to kill or mangle before be is
himself destroyed, and who cannot always force their
sorry nags to approach him. In the old times the
basinge, of the picedore .1111 to wound the bull without
allowir g his horse to be injored, and to do this required
both skill with the lance and good horsemanship. Now
lie is expected to strike the bull with the point of his
pole and to add to the streams of blood which are already
flowing from the place where the dart of the moats is
inserted; but his first duty is to get his horse killed, or
at all event& severely gored. With this object the
picadores fore* their blinded sr half-blinded steeds right
up to the bull, and bold them there while be plunges
his horns into their bellies or shoulders. The bull of
which I am writing seemed to be animated by • peculiar
hostility to bores*. It required very little exertion on
the part at the ebulog to lure him towards them. Am
soon as be saw • man on horseback he rushed towards
buried his horns well in the body of the steed, and
tieing Ma stoat well-set head a slake, so as to be saris
they were fast, made as though he would lift both steed
and rider into the air. Twice he succeeded ill throwing
her.. and man into the dust, arid he bad destroyed five
of the former before the brinderilleras were called upon
to PrePees for the last scone. Two of these horses he
did hot kill immediately ; and they were ridden about
the hull with pert of their entrails banging out. The
others were more fatally wounded, and fell at once; nel
dying immediately, but kicking and etruggliee in •
manner which was moet disagreeable to witness. The
task of the Banderillorce requires much skill for its
performance and involve, soine danger. Holding in
either band a sherp-pointed and barbed dart, ornamented
with Depot of various oolonn, they *dean°, towards
the bull, and by waving their hands invite him to
attack them. In this insteuuse the bull needed
very Utile solitiestion to advance. Loweriag

his head sad waving Me hall Its the
air he &abed wildly forward, sod for a moment lb
appeared as though the too venturous banderillero
must go down before him. Not so, however. Dex-
terously pleating his darts one on each should of the
bull, the skillet assailant stopped jittly oxide. end the
now infuriated animal rushed on in search of a
fresh enemy. NOT had he far to go. Soon another
banderillero met Wm, and two moils darts were quickly
pleated in his quivering . flesh, while the fee& blood
poured in red streams from the wounds which they in.
I Aimed. Confined in the paper trintatinp of these darts
wires number of small birds, andllOthey were liberated
by the striking of the weapon it was curious to use
ahem take flight smogs the wens. At Wet the poor
bull haa been tortured enough. His sides are streaming
with blood, his eyes glare sod roll with an expression
half of pension half of fear, his tongue hangs far out of
his mouth, and white foam gathers about his lips. As
! be stands in the arena. his sides heaving and his whole
frame quivering, be seems utterly bewildered and con-
fined. Then it is, not uutil his strength haa been so
mush reduced and his sense so completely disturbed,
that the espador, or swordsman, undertaker to kill hint.
Armed with a sharp Toledo blade, and carrying in his
bend the mule* a small staff with a deep red dam
which he wee at a lure, he confidently approaches the
bull, and efter playing with hint for • short time (with
the assistance of the chnlos) be Mitt. a favourable op-
portanity. and Monies, or rather drops, the sword well
in between the shoulders. It is curious to witness the
astonishment of the bull when he receives this stroke,
which seldom kills him immediately. The boil of
which I am writing, indeed, stood for some time after
he was wounded, and El Tate had procured another
sword and was about to strike hint again, when he began
to turn round and round and speedily fell to the ground.
In moment the cashetero sprang upon him, and darting
a small sharp dagger into his spine, quickly terminated
his sulforingi. Thee the people shouted with delight,
El Tab o bowed his acknowledgments for the praises
which were accorded to him, teams of mules dragged
from the arena the caresser of the slaughtered bull and
the miserable steeds (who when deed presented the
appearance of nuire wretched skeletons), and in a
couple of mioutes everything was reedy for the
repetition of the performance with another boll end
a fresh series of heroes. On this Sunday afternoon
a banderillero was slightly burl. The second bull
jut tousled him with one of the horns slow to the
kiwi, but the wound was not a serious one, mid he re-
appeared in the ring later In the afternoon. One of the
chubs, too, had a rather narrow escape. A picadors
having been unhorsed, his steed was running wildly
aboat the ring when he came against this man, and
threw him violently to the ground. At the same time
the bull made • rush in that direction ' • and for •
moment there seemed a chance that that be might
trample this chubs to death,or toss him into the air
before his companions oould won to him. The chub),
however, lay quite still, and • good deal to the surprise
of everyone, and probably to the disappointmeet of some
of the spectators, the bull Jumped over him, and passed
on without inflicting the slightest injury. When the
man rose, he WY loudly applauded for the 000lness
with whieh be had wetted the attack of the bull. The
most striking ineident of the afternoon, however, was
the appearance in the ring of a retireJ ball-fighter named
Puoheta. This men is well known in Madrid; he has
taken a prominent part in this revolution, and is the
commander of a division of the National Guard in one
of the lowest pertain the town—the quarter of Toledo. Ho
Is the brother of that Poobeta, also a bullfighter, who
was shot in 1851. He is quite a popular hero, and
when he leaped into the ring there was • greet demon-
stration. For some time he joined the chulos, and
showed great dexterity in throwing the cloak. When
the boll was to be killed there was a general demand
that he should slay it, and this task be accomplished
with so much gram) and facility is to excite new and
louder plaudits than ever.

A VESSEL BLOWN UP BY NAPHTHA.
The Easier* Coltman Herold has been favoured by
the captain by the following story of the loos of the ship
Tom Yokes, of Liverpool, Henry Wells, master, with
• cargo of rectified naphtha, mu:misting of 770 barrels,
from Harnbura, bound to St. Petersburg :—The captain
says shortly after he commenced to take in the cargo
at Hamburg the vapour of the naphtha became very
oppressive throughout the ship, and it continued so
until within two days of the explosion, when be
thought that the smell would go off altogether, so
there wee no smell below or on deck only when the
ship was pumped out, then he could pereeive • email
quantity of Depth& on the wake and a strong smell
arising therefrom ; nothing mere to worn him of any
danger. The vessel was quite sufficiently ventilated by
the hatchways fore and aft no as guard against fire
from the dealt, lie tacked the ship at two o'clock on
the morning of the explosion, and had • candle on the
cabin table looking at his chart, which was put out
after being lighted four or five minutes. There also
was a light townie' in the cabin, so as the man at the
wheel could see to steer by the commas. That was put
out at about balf.past five in the morning, and as the
crew lived on desk in • house, and also cooked therein,
there was only the captain and mate below, the mate
being in bed, and no light or fire below at the time.
About hall -past eight o'clock on the morning of the 6th
September, about 48 miles N. by W. of Heligoland,
tle captain was in the cabin, when he heard a loud
hissing and crackling of planks, and dust, as he
thought, flyless in his eyes, and he was instan-
taneously insensible for sometime. When he came to
himself he found himself on the cabin floor. When he
I got up he looked arouod for one moment, and perceived
his escape shut off by the companion to the deck, the
bulicehead all being collapsed together. On looking up
he perceived that there was sufficient room in the
water ways for him, so that be and mate got on deck
through them. Toe captain did not fuel that he was
burnt by the vapour until he got on deck, then he saw
the blood on deck coming from his hands, and the skin I
off bare to the flesh. So much burnt about hie face
that he was almost blind. All the skin that was burnt
and not off was as white as snow, but none of the
clothes were mouthed. The hair of the captain's head
and face was not singed as with fire, only clogged
together, and when touched mem off in lamps. There
was no flash nor any report. The ship dad not take
fire immediately, if so, he says he was sufficiently
long enough insensible as to hate been burnt to death
in the cabin. If there had been any flash, he thinks,
the ship would have been in flames all through her in
one moment. As soon as he got on deck the crew
cried "What shall we do to me our lives, captain ?"
He immediately said, "Get out the boat ;" but on
looking forward at the boat, be said, "Oh, what
destruction." He saw the ship looked as if she bad an
electria shock, for there was not a piece of wood in or
about the decks, neither yards, gaffs, nor booms, but
what had felt the explosion. There the boat lay on
the port side of the deck, blown out of her chocks, and
split into two from stem to stern, with her stern out.
The ship was also split fore and aft, in her water-
ways, all the batches blown in pieces, decks up, yards,
gaffs, and booms all down, hinging over the side; the
poop up • foot fiom the main deck, the wirollaas and
heel of the bowsprit up about two feet, the night.
heads had left the bowsprit about a foot, the ship open
down to the water edge. But of all this destruction
be could not see one piece of the ship blown out of her
into the sea. He saw the ship had completely burst,
and was shivered to pieces. He did not perceive that
theahip was on fire as yet, when he ordered the main•
mast to be cut away to save life, as be thought the ship
would soon founder. But when they bad got some of
the shrouds out away they perceived a light-coloured
smoke coming out of the fore-end of the ship, and
, shortly afterwards flames with • dark volume of smoke
rising up and consuming all the sails on the foremast
instantly, when be ordered the men to oease cutting
away the meinmast and to clear away the main boom
front the 111111 t, as there was DO other escape. The
eaptaio could nos swim, on looking round be saw the
crew stripped naked flinging themselves over the stern
into the sea with anything they could pick up. The
captain was now left with one young num,
Mellor (who had been in bed in the house end was not
beret); they had to exert themselves as the flames were
now raging aft with great rapidity. /key feet above
the foremast head, the fore end of the boom and main.
mash were bathe flames before they succeeded in getting
the after end cleared of the ropes. When about 100
yards from the burning ship the captain called out to
the mew to some on the boom, but they did not seem
willing to do so. Only one young moo, William Newton,
swam to the boom, making three of them. The ship
lISI nowabont 150 yards off, and burniug like a volcano
out of the sea, the flames reselling about 200 feet high.
On looking round he perceived the other four men
nearing the ship, when he saw the ship go down in the
centre of the ea nee, leaving all the meths on the
surface of the sea like •mountain of fire. The whirpool
the Deft in foundering caused the fire to spread with I
greet rapidity, so that they had to swim with the boom '
to keep clear of the fire as it spread over the sea to
leeward end covered a space of half a mile, with the ,
assistance of the wind, ins very short time. prem the
time of the explosion to the ship going down was about
thirty minutes. When they bad got clear of the flames
they beard the others cry out "it'. coining, it's coining,"
and on looking round, the captain lays he shall Dever
forget it' them was only one poor fellow left, the other I
three had gone where no man keoeretis. The weather
now became foggy, and they could not see more than
half smile, and they then loot sight of the flames, and
they cannot tell how long they burnt. By this time
they had esseceeded in getting a piece of wrath and I
meting it fast screen the boom to keep it from turning I
round, then all three got across it. The captain told
them to cell out along with him, "Ship .hey! ship
ahoy I" all the day, in the hops of some ooe hearing
them. It now became very foggy. The other man
(Alfred Nichols) not with them, answered them until
10 o'clock that night by the rising of the moon, when
his voice was heard no more. The weather now became
Mute clear, the night was fine, but very cold, with •
light wind from the S.C. They atill continued singing
out all night; the captain perceived that their voices
were becoming very weak, and they had commenced to
gat the cold shivers,. the captain being much troubled
with the creme in his legs. He knew that one hour
more would be as long as they could hold out, but
Providence ordained otherwise, for about one or two
o'closk in the morning the captain saw • vessel to
leeward, when homing out there was a vemeL He then
ordered them to sing out ell together, but the other two
men had a doubt as they haul Imagined to have seen
many vessels during the night, but when she sante in
the moon's rays they acted upon the sails, they then saw
the veers' and sung out together, never ceasing for on*
moment until they perceived that they had heard them
by shortening sail and tacking. When abreast of them
they sung out together, "Send • boat, send a boat,"
when they put out their boat and succeeded in finding
them and took them on boerd of their vessel, which
proved to be the German schooner Von AMR; Captain
C. D. Scheer, of Rendsburg, from Hamburg, bound to
Drammen. lie lent the necessary clothing, and dressed
their burns and wounda, and treated them with the
greatest kindness. The captain was burnt very much
about the hoe and bands; the other man, William
Newton, was burnt about ,the arms and face. William
Mellow, being in bed at the time of the explosion, had
received no material injury, only by exposure in the
water. When the captain landed them at Drenimen,
they received the greatest kindness from /fr. Hutehinson
the British consul, and great attention from Dr. Holt.
When they got sufficiently recovered they were sent
home. Captain C. D. Shaer told Captain Wells that
he left Cexhaven Roads at the same time that he did,
and came up in time to save three poor sufferers from an
untimely end, after being blown up, burnt oat of the
ship, and having to cling to a boom for • day and •
bight, This is the most wonderful and miraculous escape
that has base heard of for some tins—The f_rego sing
statement is signed by Captain Usury Wells, 9, Dirbem•
Ames, liolilemewroed.

A TRADESMAN CHARGED WITH
SYSTEMATIC ROBBERIES.
Considerable 11111111144011 Val created in Shrewsbury on
Wednesday by the tumour that Mr. Kerry, member of
• MCY rosth m eiable fir of painters and decorators.
hado taken tato custody on the charge of robbing
hal of Mr. Georg, Mitchell, upholsterer, Pride Hill. ,
Ana Polka eourt wee crowded when the hour for business
arrived, and the prisoner vu placed ih the dock.
After theevidenes of Mr. Mitchell had been teken the
"as vs? kliourned till Thursday', the prisoner being
meanwhile admitted to bail. On the mandrake taking
their sesta noes the booth • medial certificate was put
In statism that the seemed was too UI to appear, and a
further remand was agreed for. The Mayor (Gr.
Bretton) went to visit Kerry, and ova his worship's
report thet be rosily was Bribe application for • remand
wu "Wed to. The facts of this extraordinary affair.
as they appear from the sworn depositions aimed,
mei° by Mr. Mitohell, are briefly se follow :—Mr.
Mitchell has for a long time mlssW money from the
till, and more than one of his servants have been dis.
missed upon suspicion of being the guilty party. prom
information received from a boy in the shop, suspicion
was recently directed against Herm who hat consider.
able business enserementa with Mr. Mitchell, and wee
frequently in the shop. On Tuesday, twenty shillings;
lii marked money, were put into the till, and arrange-
ments were made for secretly watching it. About
four o'clock the prisoner entered the shop, and loitered
about the oorner of the counter near which the till was
situated He was observed to tate the key from the
place where it was kept, unlock the till, and then step
back to look round, to see if anyone was watching.
Being satisfied with his survey, he again put his band
round the counter and into the till, .hutting up the
drawer when he had thstracted some of the money, and
walking about with an unooccerned air. Kr. Mitchell
then came forward, and, mishit( an exams to tot
Kaki up to the other end of the shop, counted the
money in the till and foend that five shillings had been
stoles. He immediately collared Kerry, who before
he was definitely accused of the crime, acknowledged
the theft, and, begging hard for mercy, ed the
money to blr. MitnielL Mr. Mitchell thereupon gave
him into eudody, it is ascertained that the amount
pilfered by Kerry at different times exceeds ES3O.

lffa. LONGFELLOW'S NEW POEM.
In the two "New England Tragedies," just issued,
Mr. Lnigfellow hm ideated two of the dark features of
New England history, two strange pages in the history
of humanity, and has !icon them a fresh vitality.
The first of the tragedies, 'stilled •• Eadieolt," will
Carry back the memory of the reader to the governor
of that name, a stern God-fearing Puritan, who
who ruled over Boston just two centuries ago,
and opposed the severe laws of the colony to the
obstinate resolutioa of the Qoakers. The worthy non.
conformists who loft England in order that they might
have freedom to worship God after their own fashion
did their utmost to prevent any kind of worship save
their own in the home they had selected. They
banished Baptiste, they banished Quakers, they out off
the ears of delinquents, they banged some, they
to-tared others—they docd, scourged, and imprisoned;
and all this they did for the glory of God, and in the
arm persussion that the religion they professed
admitted of no oonspromise with the tenni thodoz. This
belief the poet has put into the mouth of the minister
Norton : the "blessed Norton," as old Cotton Mather
terms him—a brave, faithful, Christian man, who left
England for conscience sake, and for conscience sake,
no doubt, persecuted the Quakers. Toleration, he
declares,
lithe drat born child
Of all abominations and deceits.
There is no room In Christ's triumphant army

For toterationista
We may observe that meet of the characters introduced
into then tragedies are historical, wad that the poet has
in many cues made them speak 9•11 they are reported to
have spoken in the chronicles of the period. At lam
same time the order of events is made subservient to
the requirements of the drama, and for this the author
epologiwe in his prologue to " Endicott." A quotation
from this prologue may be fittingly introduced here.
It shows the object of the dramatist in bringing
once more to light 'the mournful record of an earlier
'Why touch upon such themes? perhaps some Maud
Way oak, Ineredulons • "and to artust good cad?
Why drag again Into the light of day
me errors of an ace long mooed away r
I : For the lemon that they teach ;
. .

it;;;;l;4nee'oinpinion and of •pee Ch.
Hope, Faith, and Charity rentain—theee three;
And greatest .1 them all is Charity."
Ulu, remember, if these wor& be true,
That unto an men Charity I. duo;
(lite what we .4 ; end pity whiten. blame,
GM we become co.partner• in the charm.
. . .

Lest we condemn, and yet ourselves partake,
And pereecute the dead for conscience' sake.
Therefore It Ls Meantime seeks and strives
To represent the dead as in their lives,
And lets at time hi. character. unfold

Theirthought'ain..their o;;;JlLliZaie; ',Wong and bold.

In this drains the genies of the poet has been in some
degree repressed by hi. historical instincts. The
warmth of colour, the lively play of fancy, the linked
sweetness of composition te which the reader is
accustomed in many of Mr. Longfellow's poems, will not
be found in " Endieott." Like its companion tragedy,
of which we slosll have something to say presently, it
is marked be severe simplicity of diction, and by the
essence of what is sometimes called poetical embellish.
meat. The poetry must be sought for in the action,
not in the expression, in the pervading thought giber
than in the sweetness and melody of particular
passages. The story is • simple and gloomy one. The
Governor of Maauichusette is determined to repress the
Quakers, and the Quaker, will not be repressed.
What can maristraies do with men and women who
laugh at flogging, and imprisonment, and court martyr-
dom ? 01 coarse we all know in these days that the
best core for farmstielan ix contempt and indifferente.,
Lot not with these weapons did the New England
fathers attempt the wild vagaries of the Quakers who
lifted up their yore, against them. The following
passap reads liko a page from the chronicled of the
period. Eteard Waston, • Quaker, is called to the
bar, and the governor orders him to take off his
bat

nada/L-34 hat offendeth not.
It It offendeth any. let him take II;
For I shall hut ram I._ - .

—iirtthr,y —Take off his hat.

Let him helloed ten stollinp for contempt.
[Merry takes of Whit ton's lat
Wharfort.—What evil have I Jane I
. . .

Endieytf.—Your hair's too long;
And In not putting ~ft your hat to no
You've disobeyed and bn ken that commandment
Which Honourthy father and thy mother."
IFAerfon.—John Endicott. thou not become too proud;
And lorest him who potteth off the hat,
And bonoureth thee by bowing ~f the body,
And sayeth. "Worshipful sir! time for thee
To give such Wien over, for thou mayest
Re drawing very near unto thy greve.
Endicott. —Now. tirrah hrtve your canting. Take the oath.
TfAarton.—Nay, sirrah me no airrahe !
Endicott. —Will you wear?
trharton.—Nay. I*lll not.
Endicott. —You made a groat disturbance
And uproar yesterday In the Meeting-house,
Having your bat on.
Wherfon.—l made nn disturtanoe ;
For peacefully I stood, like other people.
I Ratko no word.; mood against none my hand;
But be the hair they haled me out, end dulled
Their books into my fare.
Estatcott.—You, Edward Wharton,
On path of death, depart this Jurisdiction
Within ten day. Such is your sentence. On.
Wharton. —John Enticott, It had been well for thee
If this day. tiologs thou hadd left undone.
But, Impish me ais far as thou beet power,
Beyond the guard and preemies of my God
Thou eareet not banish me!
Endieoti.—Depart the Court;
We have no time to listen to your babble.
Who'. nest? [Knit Wharton.
Then Edith Christison is brought forward, whose father
has been banished under pain of death, and when
Endicott sake her where she is living, she replies, " In
the Lord.," and that she has oome upon the Lord's
errand.
Endicott. —IL not the business of the Lord you're doing;
It I. the devil's. Will you take the oath?
Give berths book. ['Merry offer. the book.
Edith. —You offer me this book
To ROW on? and It smith, "Swear not at all,
Neither by heaven, lite:awe it le 'lad's Throne
Nor by the earth, because It is His footstool
I dare not swear.

"'`v""...—•
Endicott —Ton dare note Yet you Quakers
Deny %hie Book of Holy Writ, the Bible,
Tubs the Word.cd 0.-aL

" ZdiA nnerentiallyk—Christ Is the Word,
Tb• everlasting asth of God. I dare not.
Nrsdioott, —You own younelf a Quaker—do you not
NditA. —I own that in derision and reproach
am so calledL

Ilndieott—Tben you deny the Scripture
To be the rule of
BIWA. —Tat, I belles •
The Inner Light, and not tbe If/Allen Word,
To be the rule of life...
..

in-shoat —And you deny
That the Lord's day is holy.
Ilditk—Evety day
Is the Lord's day. It rune through all our lives
As throe's. tit. papa .4 the Italy Dlttie.
"Thus with the Lord." .6
—Yod are accused of making
An horrible dieturhanoe, end affrighting
The people In the Meeting-home on Sunday.
What enaver make you?
Ildith.-1 do not deny
That I was present In your SttepllShoyse
On the FDA Day; but I made no disturtanoa
Bridieett.—Why came you there?
Edith,. —Senna, the Lord commanded.
Nu word wee In my heart,• burning are
Shot up within me and consuming me,
And I wee wry weary with
I could not any.
BlStkeet4.-14ras not the Lord that gent you;
Aunt Incarnate devil did you come!
lidttA.—On the First Lay, when, seated in my chamber.
I heard the tells toil, calling you together ;
The sound st-uck at my life,ne onoe at his,
The holy mm, our Founder, whrn he heard
The far-ol belle toll In the V.l. 01 Beavnur.
It sounded iii,. market bell to call
The folk togyther, that the Priest might set
Ills wares to mile And the Lord aid within me,
"Thou must ty, cry aloud against that Idol,
And all the eonidppere thereof." I went
Barefooted, dad in sackcloth, and I stood
And listened at the threahhold ; and I heard
The preying and the singing and the preaching,
Which were but outward I TM, and without power.
Then rose nay within me, nod my heart
Wu ailed win, admonitions and reproofs.
Itememberinr how the Prophets and Apnetla•
Denounced tie covetous hireling. and diviners.
I entered in, tad swim the word. the Lord
Commanded sae to speak. I could no Inc
lindlentl.—ke you a Frophrese?
Hoot written
"Upon my huidnaidens will I pour out
My spirit, and they shall protthme r
Radicett.—Bnongh;
For out of you on mouth are you condemned
Need • e hear further?
The Judgus. —We are winged.
Endicott. —lt to euMcient. Edith christisoa,
The sentence 4 the Court la, that you be
Scourged In three towns, with forty grim lave one,
Thal banished upon pain of deathl
Abias.—Your sentence
111 truly no /ewe terrible to me
Than had you blown • feather Into the sir,
And, eat fell upon me, you had raid,
"'rake heed it hurt the not !" God's will be done
John Encirott, the son of the governor, Is converted
by the silent submission of Edith, and haply by the
beauty of tin maiden. He asks her to el with him
from the prima, but she will not -

*TA. New &gland Tragedies. By Henry Wad•worth
lasitellow. Lo*.; &ale* aa4 am WA

If all them prison doom Mood creed wide.
I would not cram the threehoid—Dot ono step.
. . .

There are Insisible bare I cannot break ;
There are invielble doors that shut me in.
And keep me ever Modest to my mimosa
She endures the scourgiog sod exelairus, "They've
struck me as with roses, an expression, by the sveY,
used by Fielmes. a Bsptist who was whipped at Boston
In 1641. We ine.t llnd apace for one more aeons from this
drama, in which Edith is discovered in the wilder.
Des..
R‘IIIIL—Row beautiful am there autumnal wood.!
The wilderness dab blossom like the rose,
And ithimge Into a garden r 4 the Lord!
How silent everywhere ! Alone and Ind
Here In time forest, there eon." over me
An Inward awfulness. I nocall the word*
Of the Apostle Peel; In jimmerings onion.
Often In peril, in the nil 'ernes.,
In ....Inn.% in painfulness, 10 watching',
lu hunger end tmiret In nolil and nakeces;.
And I forget my reamer" and pin.
My welching., and my hunger, and mit' thiret•
Time Lonl bath geld thet he will msk nil fin*
In cloudy and dark days, and they shall dwell
Securely iii the wildernesw, .d sleep
Sege in the woods! Whichever way I turn,
I non" beck with my face timer& the town.
Dimly I we It, and the ma beyond
ii ertnid town! I know what awaits me there,
And yet I mug iro beck ; for ever louder
I hear the Inward calling or the Spirit
And mum obey the voice. 0 wood., thst wear
Tour golden erowa of martyrdom, bloodstained,
From you I kern a 101•OU of eubmlaeion,
And anr obedient even unto deetb.
If God so wllie it.
JOAn Endicott (within—Edith! gollth ! Edith I
[He enters.

It le in vain ! I call, she answers not ;
I follow, but I Ind no trace Of loot
Blood! Blood ! The leavee above me and around me
Are red with blood ! The pathefir of th°
The cluuda that iloopy the setting mt..
And even the Bite river in the meadows,
Are etsined with it! Where'er I hmk, I see it
Away, thou horrible vision! Leave in.! Leave me!
Alas! yon winding stream, that grope. Re way
Through mist and Madow, doubling on itself,
At length will find, by the unerring law
Of nature, what it seeks. 0 soul of man
Groping through inlet and shadow, and ;moiling
Back on thyftif, are, ton, thy devious ways
Subject to law? And when thou seemed to wander
The farthest from thy goal. art thou still drawing
Nearer and nearer to It, till at length
Thou Budget, Ilk* the river, what thou meitset
Giles Corey, a um, Salem Fanna, reveals •still darker
S79llin the early history of New England. In 1692
171. Nun Phipps was the Governor of Magasebusett•
—• person, says Mather, of so sweet • temper " that
they who were most intimately acquainted with him
would oommonly pronounce the best-conditioned gen-
tleman in the world." Unfortunately this delightful
Governor bad a Inn belief In wikheeaft, and actottraged
to the alarmed the secret ezaminaion of wieuisem In
the month of May—the very month of his arrival at the
colony—two women .srehasged;in July five women- and
In August de persona, including Mn. George Borroughs, •
minister, were sent to the gallows. In September eight
more were put to death, and one Giles Corey, who
refused to asknowlage his guilt, was premed to lath
One of the most horrible of tnrturee. This Gila Corey
forms the hero of Mr. Longfellow's second tragedy. He
is repreeentnd as an honest country farmer, with a good
Christian wife, who is sensible enough, which her
husband is not, to doubt the possibility of witchcraft,
and to consider that the obildren who profess that they
are bewitched ought to be well punished.
Bo this delusion grown from had to worse.
Pint, a fonaken and forlorn old woman,
Ragged and wretched, and without • friend;
Then something higher. Nov it's Bridget Bishop;
Clod only knows whom turn it will be nest !
Tbe Magistrates are blind, the people toed!
If they would only seise the Afflicted Children,
Arni put Mein In the worktunme, whore they should be,
There'd he an end of all Um wickedness.
Her bunbad is happy in his ripening corn, in him
well-filled bum, in his orehard which groans with
meets and pearmains, and in his woods on which the
rising run "shines as if he loved them." He nails •
horse-shoe upon the threshold to protect his home from
evil, but ea the witch•plague spreads both be and
Martha are disturbed with omens of eviL Corey loses
his cattle, and believes they have been lured to their
destruction ; he meets an Indian crone in the wood, ,
when suddenly "a tree shook down some orimson
leaves" upon him "like drops of blood." Yet he is not
frightened, for he is "not one of those who think the
Lord is waiting till be catches them some day in the
backyard alone." Then he is tempted to suicide, and
his wife drams they have both been condemned to
death fa • itohoraf t, and all theirs are the shadows
which foretell coming events.
Here is a fine scene in gaol, between the unhappy
Corey and an old seafaring friend named Gardner. The
gaoler introduces them, and they embrace:
Corey..--I'm glad to see you, ay, right glad LO Me you.
Gardner—And I most sore y grieved to me you thus.
Corey —Of all the friends I had in happier days,
You UV the Bret, ay, and the only one.
That comes to melt me out In my disgrace!
And you but come time to my farewelL
They've dug my grave already In the Geld..
I thank you. There la something In your preesece,
I know not what it is, that gives rne
Perhape iii. the Itarin4 of • man
Familiar with all dangers of the deep.
Familiar with the cries of drowuing men.
With fire, and wreck,and foundering ships at ma I
Gard* r.—Ah, I have never known • wreck like yen= t
Would I oouldsaveyou !
Corey—Do not speak the that.
It le too late. I am resolved to die.
Gardner. —Why would you die who have so much to live
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Your daughters, and—.
Corey. ou cannot say the word.
My daughters have gone from me. They are married:
They hsve their homes, their thoughts, apart from me;
I will not my their hearta—that were too cruel.
Whit would you have me do 7
Gardner. —C..n fess and live.
Corey—That', what they mid who came here yesterday.
To lay a heavy weight upon my ommience,
By telling on. that I '.-nar ten forth
As an unworhy member 4 their church
Gardner.-1 le an awful death.
Corey.—Th bur to drown
And have the wenght of .11 ilte mas upon you.
Gardner—May something; nay enough to fend off death
17111 this tolled° of fanaticism
Blows Itself out. Let me come In between you
And your severer self, with m) plain sense;
Do not be obstinate.

Corey. -I will not plied.
If! deny, I not condemned alreedy.
In courts where ghost. appear iss witnemee,
And wear men's lives away. If I coulees,
Then I c‘ufesa a lie, to bay a life
Which is not life, but only death in Ilia
I will not bear fahe witnene egainst any,
Not even soinst in)self, whom I count least.
Gordwr (aside).—Ah, what • whin cheracter is this
Corey.—l pray you, do not urge me to do that
You would not do youreelf. I hare already
The bitter taste of death upon my Bp.!
I feel the preaure of the heavy weigbt
That will cruab out my life within this hoer I
But if • word could eve me, and tint word
Were not the Truth; nay, if it did but sWOIIII
A hair's-breath from the Tn. th, I would not my it!
Gardner W1,14-11..11 man I WM bride • man like this!
Corey.—As for my wife, my Martha, and my Martyr—
Whose virtues, like the eters, unseen be day,
Though numberlem, do but await the dark
To manifest themselves unto all eyes—
She who first won me from me evil ways,
And taught me how to lire by her example,
By her example teaches me to die,
And leads me onward to the better life!
Sherif (without—ollie Corey I Come! The hour haa
, etruck
' Coreg.—l come.
Here is my body; Ye may torture It.
But the immortal isoul ye cannot crush!