The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1851.

At length a CERT seemed to call for it, exercise. A vent'-' " Don Vicente," said she, "I cannot speak to yell freely.
-- - I Table old priest, in the neighbourhonl. of Ye:dont/se, awoke for yen have sadly shattered my beak with one of your bird-
- 1 one night in the autumn of the above-named year from bolts."
The Scores and Is' i Ids 4 the .11•,liternanean. By the dreams cause' by intlierition, under a strong impression "Your beak, inarbun ?"
Rev. 11. Cuateruee, M.A., F.R.S. Bentley. 1 that brigands were in his house, and that his life was in ! "Yea, same. All Jewish ladies work out their purgatory
Mr. Christians informs us, is the preface to these"taws • his in the air, antrare their time in the shape of Merle: But
danger. Greatly alarmed, he screamed for real .. . half . few.
volumes, houseaeeper, heariag his nice, supposed her master was in stay with me and p atike of a 'airried chicken and a
volumes, that the visit of which they are the Mentes- , the hands of murderers, and, knowing her own weakneee poached eggs, and you shall have a glass of really comnieu-
rial was madk during a season of tem rclaxa- attempted to aid him in no other way. than by shrieking se dable Amontillado. Al to the poultry here you have it
tion, rendered necessary by ill-health trrigiit on by ! loud as she could. Ilex shrieks convinced the unlucky old genuine ; down below you are quite as likely to get au old
the labours and anxieties of professional duty. There Retakes...l that she heal been seized by the robbers, and was le trish elotheawoman, and half a dozen Hebrew babies, as
is something venturesome in an invalid wanderer' uzettrtiu,oisniseath,e henin‘t unheard of tortures. Horror-struck anything else."
redoubled hie exclamations, and she fur a' " Madam,' said the bewildered Cabellero, "don't say
turning author uisin such capital as may be picked similar reason redoubled hers. And here the matter might another word. I'll never taste birds or eggs again es long
up daring an excursion of ir few mouths, especially hare stopped. 111 A their house been at a distance from as I live."
when the ground has been so often and so well ' de-other habitations, they would have screamed till they were' Another day saw the bow broken and the arrows bus at.
scribed as the shores and islands of the Nlediterm- i boars,. and then left off, and the morning would have dada ; The nest week convinced the unhappy Don Vicentel thatf..
Dean. Nevertheless, habits of close observation, as,.. rtietetallltheir faear
at.bt%teunkfaoartwunt•it‘tearll
weals;
.n,
noei hbhr?uiruhr int'a
ka . Pagaimaalailticasawvaoirct
eet.iltzui.t their purgatory Luartqa tory,
Cre airworthtehes Illia&e,lleor
'listed by famaiarity with the aouthern dialects, a island, th'eyndecided they
further deliberation that the . litel(G'racchi, he was compelled to take up the Moslem pnee-
futile tengs-r, and good tastes have concurred with , carlists heel landed. The panic spread, the caatain-gene- tire, and to abstain from pork. The result of this abstinence
much learning to bring Mr. Christmas triumphant ral was made aware of what was imagined to have hap- !has been seen.
through this difficulty. His has been the further . Petted, and sent for the priest. I Ode day, while in the court of the convent of the legal-
rent advantage of visiting such countries as North a
Now whether the old gentleman was ashamed of con- sition, and
high f
hie turs of 9:testion, au eagle flew
fessing,thao he hart been frightened at nothing or he- 1 down from on high, and planet before the astonished pri-
Italy, Catalonia, South Au-dria, Greece, and Turkey, I ther he Me'lly fent ict he saw armed men, he deposed before caner his own bad-bolts, neatly tied up with his bowstring
at a most ethical and deeply interesting period l
0: the captain-gee rid that he had seen the Carlist army ! The 11 into a species of chair.
their history, so that his book comes before the 1 troops were called out, martial law proclaimed, and the " Sit down," said the aerie, "Excelleativimo Mio So-
rtie rather to supply than create a general want.' island was declared in a state of siege. Hours passed —clays nor, and I will take your 'worship far beyond the reach of
eral I, these blood-hounds.
_"
is narrative emamemmi with the Balearic iy,ands, 1 previa ,taantilldnaz Ctgltisitt: isiaraest ianrcesalm, uanatailatchaaeacaaptaian-
tabl manner l Don Vicente seated himself; he wan sure to be burned
and is conducted thence, by way of Marseilles, Genoa,' began
' been maile a fool of. 'But he decided on one thing,—that lif lie stayed. The eagle carried him carefully to the point
Leghorn, l'iaa, Venice, Irrieste, the lonian Islands, ! the priest would not have dreamed sheet Carnets it he had of Puig Vicente. Looking down he saw a couple of young
Greece and Turkey, to the remotest of the seven! not walla.' for them ; and, therefore, he shut the poor old dolphins, with Ids old nets and boat made into a very
churches of Asia, where the author's task finds its I man up as being himself a Carltsta and afa -ciosn. For pretty carriage.
term. 'rho first inconvenience which our author' ' three months, hewever, the state of siege continual before ' Sc,," said the eagle, " Senor,—el Cache."
Don
race people were allowed to conduct their business without
Vicees, I ant realy, was the reply ; and as soon as Don
encountered in 3lujorea shows where Spain is iu the militar • • d 5 superinten enee. te was seated,
race of uatiuns. "Give me your hand," said the eagle, gravely holding
The third chapter of the second volume is varied
THZ POLICIA •:410 CONSCL. with a legend of Ivka, one of the Balearic islands. out a claw.
Our first Maine's, after being comfortably settled in our The two shook hands.
new abode, was to visit the l'olicia and the English consul, THE LNGF.ND Or DON VICIN it. " rat,a red corn Dios ! never speak ill of a Jew again."
that our pusports might lie ia order ; the latter Was a Spa- Don Vicente, bora on the eve of St. John, had the gift of What took place afterwards nobody exactly knows.
lash mereliant, and as English visitors Sr., scarce in the seen g spirits invisible to all besides; and, named after St. Some say that the daughterof Alulallah Ben Hemet gave her
'edema, iseuide, he could toot foresee that his being abeent Vicente, Ferrer, he early term d his mind to religious con- child in marriage to Don Vicente, getting a dispensation
and leaving nu substitute could be the cause of any incon- temPlatimaa Ming, however, an only eon, and heir to from the king of the fishes fur that purpose, seeing that the
yeteience ; we visited his house maiiii and again, but the great wealth, his friends resisted his win to embrace a con- Sewor was married, and that they have grand Halt dinners
days punned before we could ,we bun. ventral life, end persuaded hint to marry. and capital Val de penes down there below. Certain it is
At the l'ulicia we were received by a middle-aged gentle- His chief amusement was the chase; in fact, no kind of that Dona Josef.' consoled herself with the comfortable se-
men, who looked at our passports with much amazement; sport come amiss to him—fishing in a trout stream, then guineas of the inquisitor-general, rind died at last in the
first he requested intonnetion as to who on earth lent I el.
e the only one in the island, nail now dried up; spending °doer of sanctity. It is to be hoped for their mutual peace
mentors might be, axt then begged that 1 would be so good whole nights in his boat on the blue Mediterranean, in the that they may never meet again.
as to translate the docutuent into Spanish, which having clear memlight and beneath a cloudless sky ;or pursuing, The present condition of Spain renders travelling
dine to his setiefeetion, we. ere referred to the" Gulderno, amidet the recesses of the pine forest, from which the mach safer than it was a few years ago. In Catalonia
and obtaiiied Cie neteisite perineasieni to reside. country take's its name, such game as it furnished him, Don the mad-guar( is-g very effective, and robberies of rare
1
Vineente enjeyed ES much solitude as though he had been
The quarantine regulations and the absurd custom im„red in a cloister, aud with it a censtait communion occurrence. Mr. Christmas gives on his own personal
laws were as usual oceasiouing great annoyance and with nature in her wildest as well us her gentlest moods; knowledge the subjoined account of a robbery which
inconvenience to travellers when Mr. Christmas but his solicitude consisted only in the absence of man, for in took place before the reform:
visited Spain. Ile gives the following anecdote us proportion as he receded from human society, in like pro- aer ENCOUNTER warn THE APOSTLES.
an illustiution of portion did the spirits of the wool and the wave draw The secretary of a wealthy
great and man, being sent by
nearer to him, awl make him a witness of their presence,
SPANISII SMUGOLlNG.important husineesfrom 3 athe toToledo,
his emlilnyer on
nil a confidant of their mysteries. But there was one bar- a
Some Tears ago I know that corn was taken to alaLma a• •hateful was °baited to go alone. It so happened that there was a
•
and emu .1.4 Sp:anal earn, which had been grown in South vier—the pursuits of the huntsman were to them, band of rubbers infesting the road between Madrid and
Russia, and slapped Items Odessa to Gibraltar, and this wa. i elthe eagle the wild d fell before his bo• ,
a i when
in deer . et, or Toledo at that time, who had dignified theineelvee with the
yinntr, dolphin Was landed his pinnance, sad voices •
dour iu the meet barefaced way imaginable. A permit and the. -
.title of fns dose .1 pustules !and as they were twelve in
wailed mewl him, and dewy tearalrops, from eyes at that
specification were pureluised at aerate fur a certain number wa-- number, each had taken a partieular denomination. Them'
of Lou gee of apaniat corn; the ship to be freighted there-a blneelatained hands
moment unseen, fell on Its. gentry untartuaately met our friend the secretary., and in
with mate cavil at noce to Gibraltar and purchased the 1 Often slid grotesque forme unstring his ?ow I * when he
ele the head of his the course of their conversation with him ascertained who
Odessa grain, then went on to Malaga and landed the pm- i cemed his aim the mast turban, turn am
d. he weii, and where he was goiug. They intinetted their
heated wh, at uwler a false tide. It wis in vain that the courser when his arrowawastze:ncdat thelor lordly eagle,mn
intention to relieve him of any superfluoue cash or valuables
Malaita officer, pointed out the peculiarities of the cunt, all s'i.!,sil' framtm„f.2.lll,lghdrl'it.it dweller
. ln therge. ' often he mieht have about ban.
the proprietor would do leas to Uahriit his certiticate. The i' ' lea" a."..." a -imp, tattle his nets and bring them " Willingly, Caliallerns," replied he, " and indeed the
fraud We. epparent enough, but had the introduction of up empty, reattiean leap again into the sea, seatterlng the . more 00, as, to save my watch and a ring, both of which
the corn been reeieted, there would hare
then ask inter- epee, y around like shower of emeralds. Still h, went on ; I are very much ii suspicion de ids, all that I have with me
minable suit between the custom-house authentic. of Ma- it herd to change an old sportsman, awl the chase
al is not mine hut ton —'s, and he will not allow me to be
pain is snore a passion than even in Germany of. yore, till
lags and those of Seville, and in such cases the wrung • a loser in his service.
one day a change was seen to come "over the spint of his
always prevails.l " What you say, Cabatlero, is very much to the purpose,
a lie life of a contrubandista is one of much anxiety and his ennance burned his nets, and
thee iim ;" he broke up. 1 b ,
.. let us see what you have."
moonlight. Ile said that T •
excitement, and his calling neither lowers him in his own he hail no more sea ca""ans by he scrutiny wits unsatisfactory.
hail narrowly escaped drowning, mid had made a TOW to
eye, nor in those ot the public. The possewion of eithrelter t himself no aWe shall trouble you to give us what you were so rood
more in danger; his religious obeerv-
by the imitlieb is a great aseistance to these gentry. It is „P„„,,an tau, ,e,„,ated • •as to name, but you met permit us to &acne that it is
' 1 fast d
in seventy, and on eye ho h• thl unbecoming an hielalgo of such distinction es Dun—
here that they make their purchases ; and there are tenons 1'.1i"...,„„' F": '1 ii hi as he had been ae- 11-• yun
eafiest tern 4.. res whose Mistimes it is to laud carpal of Ha' a a'`i nn
t ilea, in
ti ets 1., hinted( to brad, Ito allow his meretary to go about will-provided ; so, in
totters anti totsweo tin points of the coat signified to diem cfruult7c4 sail water. .
ktenti7e °tam, tine the chapel of at. , order to itnpretis this on his mind, and ou the minds of per-
by their contraband employers. 'lobe landing is generally ai'L'f boa 1 sons similarly situated with himeelf, you will not take it
NishOMA received a new elferin Ithe ig, al, image o a t • •
accamplished by Vie teilliiranee of the coast-euanl to • Day by day did ne amt.., if we request you to denude yourself of your appteel,
' in silver was appended at his alter.
wheats a regular payment is made, called el sugars., by the IY ''''a lin order that we may scourge you with the stirrup-leathers,
Vicente become more gloom and more wee a : eg•
contrabantiatta awake h Rile; and as the more bales the tours am !try, fruit were successively banishedtifrom his as much as in our' udgment nature will bear, and the cri-
er:arm, the mad-guard general) come themselves to see '', fir, • ''
din h • cause fhi • • • geuries of the eaat require.
wife inquire vain t e ot s increasing
that they are not cheated. The corn:dor makes his bale. as table. and his " Gentlemen," said the secretary, " I would venture most
sorrow,
large as he ran, without any regent to the unhappy meth, first, tl • t I D—had
respectfully to suggest to s Jil, these i on
'slime back• are to beer the burden; for a bale is a bak, big sin—perhapsl • • • h.who say ' Ma. ,
secreti.,
,i. aresy—per aps, can y . contemplated my having the singular roost fortune to meet
or little. SOMetiMell, ~when the contraband party arc 11 'Phis dreadful • • increased. Don I with your worships, he would here sent his remittances not
suspicion Vicente ate no .
strong, they tight their way and carry their cargom into the .. lin paper, but in specie ; secondly, that as he des not peed-
more ealpicon—seusages became an abomination to Mtn—
into tare in detente of the guard. 'there elate, however, , elating etre about the state of my elan, the proceeding you
the baron followed the car • to exile. Yes, he must have
no greater Viewable between them, in spite of th :con-were so obliging as to allude to would be a punishment not
me either a Jew or I.e Moslem,n
and yet his most Chris- !
dowel treaties its y make. 1:10r is gash Leith always kept ou who is the auilty person. lest t:. me, who am alto-
tian hatred to all the former a tensions, the ireults he .t° him,
the part of the revenue esthetes. Of this the following ante- gether innocent ; and, thirdly, that you have, as a mark of
tthem, •the Pc 'with which I • treated'
heaped upon tutu contempt ie
dote will he an 'Natant*: my high esteem for you, all that I have about me in the
them, were highly becoming in a Spanish hidalgo, who
Duriug the last revolution, a certain great firm iu Malaga bona,' lof being a ~e.,,aa en „see, „ ~„,.,a a—he must I al' I d • el- bl "
at dest came isposa c.
made a contract with the con's-gourd to allow a valuable pea-e` ----a• - - ' - - -------". " Senor Mio," said the Wider, "it is impassible not to be
Turk—a worshipper of Mahound. Th., holy priest ; struck with the judgment and good sense which you di.-
cargo of fingliseh nainufeetures tube landed at a seven point. I
the I
asked him the u • I •ed
q cationeane recetv anindignant nega- ,
The sum PrePosed (a,Mitia eternise!) was iweePted ; tde I ive The inquisition was at ul' el to: hey answered, that • play, and, WI a compliment to it, you shall go away with
troops were carefully directed to other points; and the tam Mame ems alai a a'• n" Don v• • I whole hones; tint reineinhtg not to disgrace your employer
y rove ; for first, weute most
l'aad!"tt w.."3rekl, effeeted The gaols wan' 'llaw i•ked'v abstained CramP pork, which was sent on earth on foryou nester
by travelling again with so sheet a purse,
Seam in boles used fir neaten, and the pneprieturknow what you may be asked fur."
w s inee.•to fea ili disthetio between tlie Mahommedun I
and with his string of mules at the gate, of Malaga. ant the Chrismit a-n
'LSO tha.t the satin f k sal icon I " Caballero., I will bear intuited year caution. Would it
but hens the unlucky merchant was taken aside, awl in- and bacon,' was to be looked g o Par
'I
on as a so emn relitP e , be unasasonable to ask you for my nee, which contains my
fanned that the etimilation was only for 'setting, and
nut i sailers:: an' late mother'. hair, and my watch, without which I should
d tv.
for delivcrina goods ur allowing them to be delivered in not know what o'clock it is?"
g &routine, when taxed with his abominably i ta h i
Malaga, and that he mast, th•sr,fore, had only Corr. it his bad .• • , • • • • • I ~e " Your worthy mother was a lady of great merit. but as
uernea it . which heretics invariably did, and 1 e • '
2,ooite, but also submit to see his whole cargo conliseatea! an wr•c" we are all brethren, she was our cunt, anti it weal.' not he
was one of the surest proofs of their guilt.
Ferdinand VII. tried in vain to put down smuggling. respectful in us to part with her hair, and as to the watch,
Thirdly, he had a field as close to the Dominican mi-
ll,. fanned the TO. 'sue of the natem-hoine to a M. ltiera know theexact
, we want ourselves from time to time to
vent as the vineyard of Naboth the Jeer eta° was to th
in Ina, an•l this
.gentleman fitted out five feluccas, and' ' f gond Ki Ahabandequally desirable 71gardense h°"'"
tig • .
attest with such epwit and determination that he all but I n • ' "Gentlemen," said the secretary, " I would submit with
011PITIN ; so the unhappy leen Vicente was forthwith adjudged'superior -
succeeded in his task. lluwever, when he Medea himself great deference to your judgment, that I awn rather
, merely to be guilty of Mahommedaniko and before he hardly
marr of aux, sa, he sound that the captains of his feluccas dealt Ine"
knew 1 fort he he found hi I' ' feet der I
. . nise t twenty. under
e, veto me peat"
wen all corrupted, and n.a berume contrabandi.tas them- d'e. in .
cellrithe I•exclaimed the chief, " we are humane
consent aforesaid, and
melees. Alter trying in vain to effect his purpose by into- tro_un position a . m.‘lnican . .' . beyond example to you. 'The hone is not yours, awl you
numbly qualihed to draw away his Tinted .
yea Ma the subaltern• in the prime taken, he discovered that ' if° ' a' •complain about a ring end a watch. This is St. Andrew,
the contemplation of mundane aff tire. Ills name
illicit traffic was now carried on by the aid of Genoese rev[- may tie , !nail this St. James, peace be with them, and lam St. John
I frrtmunatels for theeasier v 1' t• of 1 • legend,
change, who ftsruithed ships with papers to Genoa, and then ,f. ~.. : t
a_ ere tea ion
_teac
of I --carajo! I should like to know how you would have come
sent them to refresh in 31•11arta harborer, where they stayed ijr ia.im n
the.
as
...fipaarznewhite•eatsedfinarn tll prisons off if you had fallen into the hands of St. Paul."
till they haul done all they emoted. In feet, more than one I _ a !lm, attic. i ! I, 'to which place n was after sinue.
1 The traveller in these days is wit likely to meet with any I
third of th.• trade in the Peninsula is contraband, and those 'the'"" '''''''",. But what was the secret history of such apostolic adventures—all the better for him; if he
who carry it en are too numerous and too powerful to be
idid?i
.waiyetlat he Inv himself open to south alaeaaers..
i eau make up his mind to a liberal allowance of delay and
thwarted by any ireveratnent that would long maintain an 1 anl. _a, i'a 'ere"' the
_consequence. f dais errors? i dislocation, of extortion at custom-houses in Catalonia, and
It was on a beautiful moonlight welit that Don Vicente • •
existence. of indifferent accommodation, he may go all through Spain
was pursuing his custanary amusement, when, on drawing ,
W Idle in Nfajorea our traveller was much struck by , his net into his twat, ho was somewhat lataiii.hed to see it withoutd trouble; gooi.d humour is
standutlisitiibtily
instead of
a practice observed there of holding a unasked hill in ;opened like a folded curtain, and a very elegant but dinii- !ant mar •na a et'cl o' emergency,
Ito s ant carbine , but would earnestly ix econmeni A torsi
the church. A kind of leave called "el bails dell native lady step gratefully forward. ;as the lest earria,te, and Don Quixote, next to his bible and
Don Vicente " raid she, "my mother presents her „,,,.
code's," in perfumed by nine dancers, two calledbook, as the best travellina companion. The seine
en aim tete and hugs to . that if you el 'Aar•t step . a-a'--
o diablosi,” and mode up necording to the most ap- downin and favour her
Wgsarl'ttet a fewsa minutes conv°earsatiu'a 'vb. . grave, sly humour, the same really high and ntlemanly
proved middle-age notions of his infernal majesty's ,would be unspeakably obliged to you." rl• !feeling, distitiguali the Spaniard now as did ant he time of
I the great don; and Spain may be es profitably studied in
appearance, of course including horns, hoof, and tail. I "Nothing, dear lady," replied Don Vie ate, "would
the es of (Cervantes as themeh his immortal work were
..,
Ihe rs yellers premed to church, where MASS is cote- Rise. k, men onen l quarter one,
sot
thmeulfohnii)lll(lSaStfbo hhuatl f tahoftitst halfand ; only mitten yesterday.
beaded and a seranou preached ; the masqueraders, ! anwl a a 'lle foregoing illumtmtions have been selected from
afraid 1 should feel a little tathMatics difficulty f
who have hitherto remained in the poreh, now enter breathine under weter." - - the early stages of the author's journey. The whole
the building, and a dance is commenced in the centre, " Not at all, Don Vicente," rejoined the lady ; " only work, ns is fitting, has been written with an eye to
th.: chief eleanicteriatie of which is that it sets at • oblige me by putting on this mantilla, and everything vial the amusing andeharecteristic. Mr. Christmas may
defiance all grace and ele4anee, and gives full play be easy enough." have discovered little that is new in the historical
to buffiw "what Dona J
anry, antics, and tumbling. "I am not q•iscfa would say, fur her notions are some- uite sure." thought Dna Vicente to himself, countries he has traversed; but his volumes am a
The ecclesiastical staff of Majorca is out of all what of the straightest, and a mantilla is not exactly the pleasing vehicle of a large amount of instruction
Foportion to the size and population of the island. head-dress for a calealero. However, here goes, sink or upon people and limits of which every intelligent
3lr. Chriatiumi relates the fullowiug anecdote of swim." person desires to know more.
PRIESTLY INFLUZNCR IN regulate The lady held out her hand to assist Don Vicente out of
A young couple presented themselves to bo married—the the boat, rind down they went—down, down, unfathomable
priest objected. depths, till they- stopped at a door, very prettily adorned I
•• Your mothers were godmothers to the same child; with mother-of-aearl, and a page in sca-green silk made
that makes them sisters! you therefore stand in the vela- his appearance. Don Vicente went with his fair conduc-
tion of first cousins, and cannot eatery." time sad the "pretty page " into an inner chamber, where,
"But," they replied, " We know of first cousins who are reclining on a costly sofa, inlaid with pearls and gems, lay
married, and then we are not in any way related." a lady of et itelv press-nee.
e Yes, you are related in the eyo ut the church, and I "Senor," said she, " I have sent fur you to complain of
your want of courtesy."
canned and will not many you."
Rebutted thus, they went to the bishop, who confirmed Don Vicente bowel and stared. The lady went on.
all that the priest had said. " Is it possible," said she, " that you are not aware that ;
a But is there no remedy ?" asked the young people. the Moslem ladies, work out their purgatory at the bottom
" Yee," replied his lordship, " you can have a dispense. of the sea, and arc half their time in the shape of fish ? I
tion from Roma' would rise to meet you, but you have damaged my left fin, .
" Shall we have to wait till it comes from Rome i" by your never-eutfiriently-ta.biaaceursed fish-spear, sad my I
" No, we keep them always ready." left arm is now suffering from it. I was the daughter of
" And, ruse it please your lurebehip, what will it cost ?" Abdellah Tien Hemet, and you have duubled the grief of
•
" Twenty dollen," was the answer. my purgatory."
The intended bride and bridegroom looked at one another ' Senora ilia," said Don Vicente, "I am deeply dis-
hopelesely, and left the presence. Next day the mother of tressed at what you tell me. If I had hail the elightest
the girl, a shrewd seusible woman, took the matter in hand. ti . •
on that it was your ladyship, I would have turn( d my
She found the priest inexurabte, as before. She visited the fiehapear sgainst my own breast rather than base wounded
bishop. told him that her am-in-law was a poor
hisho
Too
full belie "said
honest and industrious—twent v dollars was out of power 1 believe you. the lady ;" I expected no lees
to raise. 't he bishop told her that twenty ounces would be from your emirtesy taint now, after you have partaken of
a little fish dinner with me, for it is F ida
demanded of a cabal I ra, and that her daughter might marry e y (and here the
le n 1 e el he 1* l rse ref),
and tasted my Val nes,
anybody else without a dispensation. She brought the younglady cheap do rmst wOn v remember I beseech don, that
couple again to plead their own cause, and finding his lord- 52! • ._, •
eat
an,(,
ship in no way disposed to yield, she gave the key of her though wet', me yea may fish, Ibe certain it never
house to the young man, sad addressed him in terms such was anything else, yet at your owe table you can never be
as these --" There can be no harm iu the marriage, or his sure but that you are eating the mother of a sultan or the
sister of a pasha."
lordship would not allow it, and give you a paper from the
"Mea i " seal Don Vicente " I
Pope to get it done. 'Twenty dollen make,' it neither more
will m, .1 h a
.nk... , give you my honour I
nor lees lawful—you have dune all you can to get the bless- e: nevV. run If n his boat," •
ing of the church, and it is no fault of pet
er Nat you cannot See is excellency to exclaimed the lady,
obtain it; there is the key,—take it and her." " No, nu.
••• clapping her hands, after a repast not exactly resembling
exclaimed the bishop, "we must not have any scandal ; I that of the Danneciae.
will girt you the dispensation rather than that you should The next day the fish emcee was broken, the nets burned,
live together without marriage ;" and so the priest, fur- and the boat converted into firewood.
niched with the talismanic parchment, united them at once. A day or two after, while in the thick wools of Nineu,
the arrow of the Dan brought sornetaine fiutterine, to the
The author observes upon this that we shall ground, which was soon bat too evidently a lady, small in-
shortly want the power:cfetesseusation in England, deed in dimensions, but namirably lovely in face and
for marriages with a 1 wife's sister aro as figure ; her black tresses, her dark eyoo, the arched nose,
numerous now as ever they were, and our having and the Hebrew chancier, embroidered upon her veil,
Jewish race, that Don Vicente
made that crime will render it necessury to have this- senlarmeVhstl:terl7.7ll-trialtitrheel / "
pcmations for those who think that their Christian "Senorma. my sister wouldy' feel greatly indebted if you
Ebert,: is measured by the Bible and not by the would be no obliging isi just to step up into this tree, as she
piste canon law. has matters of considerable moment to confide to your wor-
Nlr. Cltritmas tells a capital talc of the panic at ship's ear."
" Get up into a tree!" exclaimed the Don, in a ra^e.
Majorca in 1810, which throws light on the origin ~ Get up into a tree ! What can you be thinking of, 'pun
of many impudent Jewish hussy, to propose such a proceeding to a
A PRIEST MIRACLE. hidalgo like me ?"
In the year 1510, when the civil war in Spain was raging a Don Vicente," replied the little lady, "don't make a
with great/fury, a general expectation seemed to prevail that fool of yourself ; Tour Catalan puddle caanse be compro-
the Carliets would make a descent upon M aorta, and all the mimd toy what I request. Dos Red-led de Partridge,
aeArstuitiAs,or watch-towers, were manned, to give he earliest who traces his descent directly from the bird who came out
notice of any hostile appearance. The island was garrisoned of the ark with Noah (pease be with has), roosts here
by the (4.stam'a government ; and it appears to have entered every night, and what a half-inch affair is your pedigree
into the head of the captain-general, that as the people ge- compared with his? ea, me your hand, ammiaba. It is
nervily. were lovers of monks and fnars, they must entertain you that are the favoured party."
a longing desire to base so monk-Mao and monk-losing a Don Vicente was overawed by the lady's haughty airs.
sovereign as Don Carlos. He kept himself and his garrison and submissively gave her his hand. Very near the top of
perpetually on the sleet, and vexed he islanders' gnat the tree, on a conch fanned of its tenderest branches, lay a,
dial by his utuanessary sad ancesplamentaty cannon. 1 lady dtbs most tmammdiat Dreams.

LITERATURE.

THE PAPAL. ATTEMPT.
What ! stretches forth her foot the Roman beast
To plant it on this land, so long since freed
Front her abhorred domain ? Seeks she that creed,
The spawn of stagnant ages, to restore,
Sprung from the feculence of monkish lore,
And prostitute to every cursed deed
That smacked of human blood—therefore decreed
Through Chri.V4 Apostle, to an end so sore
That nations shall astound ? What weapons ought
To be arrayed, her inroad to prevent,
The shrine of Europe's liberties designed
To overturn? Two ready drawn free thought
And freedom of the press, of temper meant
To hew all hags that override the mind.

THE RVHJECT CONTINUED.
Free thought and a free press Will these suffice
Acsinst a foe so subtle, that no ends
D. rer to mean. ; who e'en a free press bends
Te work her will ; and fails not to entice
I.'ntil she can coeree—when hi a trice
.111 freedom moot be eru.hed ? Surely law lends
A tighteousaid, whene'erit solely sends
To sustain liberty. Away all nice
Evasions: while In En•alaud, Itomo unfurls
That fl.trant banner, Haunt so oft o'er deeds
Devils would di.ayow—her canon law,
And here, even here ! beneatst that standard hurls
Mis.ires at free laws launched. Surely she needs
Be bound to keep the pease, or the ba.e flout withdraw.

CONCERNING CARDIN ti. S-
.- cardinal, what's that ? A hybrid thing,
By priestcraft out of de.potism bred.
"There's none in England then," m2tliinks 'tis said:
Good sir, the country's free ; and vou may bring
Satan here, an you will, to have a fling
At what both he and cardinal must dread—
lOdigious all freedom head.
Enough of badinage. Englaiid still cling
To thy groat protest, now for ages held
Against the fe•Il abortion popery.
Be not deceive(' ; either must now be quelled
The spirit Rome evokes, or freedom knelled.
Small prescience dotli it need to prophecy
Where cardinals survive, there liberty must die!

A IL VCDRED RUBJT.CT TO Tin F01E001:40-
Shall sleek and stealthy tigers go abroad
With maw full large enough to swallow all
Our liberties? And yet because we tall
This nation free, forsooth, we must not rid
The beasts of their worst power to hurt—not bid
Their mouths be muzzled, claws elipt, nor forestall
Some sudden mischief, by a leat.h, to haul
Backward the brute Ctis one though many!) should
Its gentle nature urge it to a spring
At unawares, upon its close-eyed prey!
"Oh, but 'ti. changed, and hurtliss as a lamb."
Changed! Why thou Best—for the ravening thing
Gorged six Italian nobles t'other day,*
And h:re, unchecked, es ruthlessly would cram!

• Gut Guic:utlint ea 4 Li =veers.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY, ;WV( 11.

The Lain CIILLWCILLL(I4 took his seat at Ave o'elock.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
ADMISSION OP JEWS to PLILL/AMENT.—By the Eat'
of CARLISLE, from a place in Essex, in favour of ths
admission of Jews to parliament.
1 'foie CUTSTAL PALM:B.—By the Earl of CARLISLE,
from Duitatable, praying that the Crystal Palace may be
allowed to stand to be used as • winter garden. I
FATAL AOOKESAIUN.—By the Earl of CARLISLE,
from Wesleyaiu of Brampton, in Cumberland, against mil
aggression.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
Lord BROUGHAM had to present a petition from a
person of great public merit—Mr. Joseph Paxton, of Chats-
worth, a worthy, ingenious, and talented individual, and a
public benefactor, whom ho had had the honour of knowing
for upwards of twenty years—against the taking down of
1 the Crystal Palace. 1 heir lordships were aware that he
(Lunt Brougham) had taken a prominent part in opposing
the erection of the building in Hyde-park, but he had never
been opposed to the Exhibition itself. lie objected to its
being erected in Hyde-park because of the annoyance
which its erection and removal must occasion, but chiefly
because it would be an encroachment on what had been called
one of the spiracles of London. The object was one of
great national utility, awl would be productive of incalcu-
lable benefit. The noble and learned lord read a consi-
derable part of the petition, which was similar in terms to
Mr. Pa:totes published statement, and said the petitioner
concluded that nothing would be more useful for the pur-
poses of recreation and science than to retain the Crystal
Palace, in order that it might be used as a winter garden,
in which the amusement and instruction of the people
might be promoted. Before the building was removed he
thought the fullest investigation of the subject should take
place, to see whether the wish of the public, that it should
remain could be complied with. There might be legal and
other difficulties in the way, which would require careful
consideration. After the Exhibition had succeeded beyond
arty man's expectation—after the people had been ena-
moured of the building, and the uses of the building—
he must say, if they were all of a sudden to turn
round, and say, " Let it be removed; why cumbereth
it the ground? Take it away ; break it; smash
it, or remove it elsewhere," it would be adding as an appen-
dix to the inlustry of all nations an exhibition of the
fickleness of all nations beyond anything which hail ever
been known in tke world before. He believed the trades-
people of this great capital had suffered considerably by
the Exhibition, but he woo certain that would be at an end
under the new dispensation if it were converted into a
winter garden. Mr. Paxton might truly be called a public
benefactor, for he felt morally certain that but for him the
Exhibition would not have taken place at all. Without
the Crystal Palace—without such a building of iron and
glass—nothing which would have answered the purpose
could have been erected within the time limited.
(Hear, hear.) Ile was the first person to whom Mr. Pax-
ton showed his plan, and after considering it for an hour
or two, he recommended him to lose no time in showing
it to the commissioner, but thought they would regard it
as a wild scheme. It was infinitely to their credit
teat they selected it, and was in keeping with
the rest of their conduct, which had been admirable
all through—marked, as it had been, by the gee:Oust judg-
ment and firmness, and by the wisest spirit. lie thought
the appropriation of the building to the purposes designed
by Mr. Paxton—namely, to the laying it out tots a inter
garden, having in it a collection of birds and other ani-
mate, and so on, would contribute to the health, recreation,
and instruction of the people, and there coup l lie but little
doubt that it would be gilts-supporting. He belonged to a
society which regarded it with peculiar favour, as an ally
of the schoolmaster, and an opponent of the gin palece—
, (hear, hear)—and when lie was told that two million.' and
' a quarter of people hail already passed through it, only
' one quarter of a million of whom were from the country-7
' when he found that but a small portion of those who had
' even it belonged to the humbler dame of the people, he
could not but wish that instead of twenty-five hundreds of
' pounds being received daily at the present price of mines- 1
' sion, two hundred pounds a day were received from penny
' admissions. (Rear, hear.) Ile could not believe
' that the people of this country would n i sooner
have become enamoured with their bauble, no
sooner have played with their glass toy, than they would
wish to have it broken to pieces ; and he therefore hoped
i
aninquiry would take place before it was determined to
" take the Crystal Palace down. (Hear.) 1
• Lord CAMPBELL thought the palace of glass might
',. disappear when the time appointed name without subjecte
ice the people of this country to the reproach of fickleness
' for it would then have fulfilled its destiny. Ile thought
r his noble and learned friend hail been carried away with
' zeal fur his client, like many other advocates, and had sup-
premed his own private opinion. For the honour and glory !
' of Mr. Paxton, he thought it was better not to run the risk of I
• failure and to incur the certainty of broken faith. He
! heartily concurred in the eulogy upon Mr. Paxton, who
; was a man of great merit, of great genius, and an honour to
' hie country. (Hear.) The building was certainly the most
, wonderful spectacle the world had ever beheld, and the
success of the Exhibition had been transcendent. lie be-
lieved it would be of the greatest benefit to the manu-
factures of the country, and would promote the fine arts ;
and would have a most beneficial tendency in bringing
together in harmony and concord all the nations of the
earth. (Hear.) lie thought it conferred the greatest credit
on the illustrious prince with whom it originated, and ho
felt sure that it would secure for him the admiration, the
eontidence, and the lasting gratitude of his adopted country.
(Hear, hear.) The Crystal Palace itself was the mist striking
feature of the Exhibition—(hear, hear)—but would they
make as attempt to perpetuate that which was intended to
be only temporary? lie had been told that the only way to
preserve tke Crystal Palace was to take it down : only one-
third of the supports were of iron, the remainder being of
ill-seasoned wood, and the girders, many of them, were
also of wood. Then, if it remained, there seemed a
diversity of opinion as to what uses it should be
lot to ; some said it should he used as a mu:cam—his noble
and learned friend, fur the first time, hail just suggested
that it should be a menagerie—(a laugh)—and some one
else hail said that it should be used for a collection of
models. Mr. Paxton's only object, however, was to make
it a garden with a view to preserving a particular climate.
Ito odd in the statement which lie had published:—" In
the winter perk and ganlen I propose, climate would lie
the principal thing studied; all the furnishing and fitting
up would have special reference to that end, so that the
. pleasures found in it would be of a character which all who
visit could shay'; here would he supplied the climate of
southern Italy, where multitudes might ride, walk, or re-
cline :iinii4 groves of fragrant tree'', and here they might
lei eine.: eviiiiiie the works of nature and art, regardless of
tie bitiiig east winds nr the drifting snow." The area might
;dad perhaps two miles for exercise, but parties must meet
the biting east wind as they went, and the same keen blast
when they left. But in the midst of the snow, how were
they to get theta at ali? t,l iaug's.) In. wet wetter.;
pest, etrialui wattle' be drenched before they could
reach this garden of Amide, and breathe its fragrant air.
All this ho thought woo the effusion of an enthusiast who
had not yet seen the difficulties which opposed the accom-
plishment of his design ; and, after all, he believed there
was no:hine like the open-air exercise which we were
now accustomed to take. Next CMS' the question,
how was it to be supported ? An admission-fee
w mid keep out children and the lower classes :
a shopkeeper's wife and family might repair to enjoy
the pleasures of the winter garden, but they could not get
in without paying their contribution of sixpence, and the
poor, who could not pay, must, of necessity, be ex-
cluded from enjoying that portion of the park, which
Laud been a source of much gratification both to them
and to their fathers. With regard to the police, he
must do them the justice to say that thcy had per-
formed their duty well, and had seemed actuated by a
desire to oblige everybody. It was impossible to praise then'
too much. What, however,would be the Crystal Palace with-
out the police, and they knew that there was a very large
number of them employed about the building. Without the
police the good order which had eo much prevailed could
not amongst a large concourse of people be expected to pre-
vail to the same extent, and were they prepared to main-
tain a sufficient number of police in watching the locality ?
He was convinced that before long there would be an out-
cry for the removal of the Crystal Palace if it were to be
continued as a permanent edifice. He:might mention that
a very few years ago application had been made for a small
portion of Hyde Park, on which to build a church. The
application had been refused, and yet they now, for the
make of anticipated pleasure, asked to continue a large
buntline permanently there. Then it must be a great in-
convenience to that neighbourhood to have crowds of
people tenstantly attracted there. At present the
inconvenience was considerable, but it was borne with
most cheerfully. The inhabitants considering that
they had been abundantly recompensed by find-
ing the honour which had accrued to their country
by the Exhibition. (Hear, hear.) They would, however,
solemnly protest against it being continued as a permanent
edifice. A solemn compact bad been entered into, not only
between the government and the commis/domes, but with
the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Hyde-park, that I
when the Exhibition closed and the products were removed,
the building would be taken down. Now, this pledge
could only be got over by an act of parliament, and an act
of parliament, though it might render the matter legal, I
would not in honour take away the obligation which the go- I
vernment and the commissioners entered into with these
people. When they had petitioned the House of Commons
against the erection, they bad been told that it was a purely
legal question, and a majority of that house had decided.
against them, and when they had gone to the courts of law ,
their claim had been overruled, and they had been I
theirs told that the House of Commons being against I
them, their craving could not be acceded to. As
they said in Scotland, " Let byganes bo byganes,"
hat do not repeat or continue the injury which
had been already inflicted. Injury had undoubtedly
been inflicted, and it was very much to be regretted that
there should be any attempt made to continue that injury.
(Hear, hear.) The Crystal Palace had not been erected as
a permanent building, and any attempt to render it per-
manent was interfering with the purpose for which it had
Men erected, and could not in any degree add to the glory
1 which had attended its career. Ile trusted that the appli-
Pekin which Mr. Paxton had made to their lordships, which
woe virtually to interfere in the matter by legislation,
would not be conceded, and he hoped that an act of pulia- I
slant with the object of preserving the Crystal Palace'
where it now stood, would never receive the sanction of