The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVICTING, JANUARY 14, 1868.

people won't do what they ought to do, and will put us ancient rooms. many al them with floors
out, what coma of our
crams,"
mid f ths beams and refters hanging
"We only get into scrams," mid the Bride of Tint.- this dropping ski trod, the oaken panels
, away, the windows half walled up, half broken t whim I
that know very we pursued the Ckdosel's Bride. dissemsed • lON, smorosieding the old hitless, and
" that Kiss Drowvey wouldn't fall. You emosioad of looked down -Wee= balustrades upon a =swim old
I
t yourself. And you know how disgracefully the °mart- table and boneless, haring to see I know not what dead-
martiel ended. As to our marriage, weal& my people alive oreatuses cams in end seat, and look up
acknowledge it at home ?" I with I bnew not what dreadful eyes, or Lek cd ems. at
Or would my people acknowledge ours ?" said the ; when all over the house I woo awed by imps and
Bride of Tinkling. cidnice trim* the sky stared esmowfulty at me, lairs the
Again the two warriors exchanged stony &MOM birds week amt
_the ivy reseed, sod the at, of the
"If you knocked at the door and chimed me after yea ter-wieiher bistsbed the metes leers • whesiadiown at t
stabs ilt
were told to go away," said the Colonel's Bride, " Teri losttem el elk Pets[ Maismes, We
would only have your hair pulled, or your ean, or your soak, green hems trembled. builmiles fluttered, and bees
1 bunimel he and out through the Woken doorways ; when
nose."lf you persisted in ' ' at the bell and chitlins weakeling the whole ruin went sweet smote end sights of
me " said the Bride of ' to that gentlassan,win= fig& =myth and evieraenewhe We that I had
overt have things dropped on your head from the nom el—l WO, VIM I paned into such clouded
the handle, or you would be played upon by the pereepdan if thess Weeps as my dark goal could campus,
overillen-engine." whet did I know then el Hegbton Towers? I have writ-
And at your own homes," resumed the Bride of the he that the sky stared sorrowfully at me. Therein have I
Colouel, "it would be just as bad. You wa
in, bee sent to anticipated the answer. I knew that all these things
bed, or something equally undignified. Again, how would looked sorrowfully at me ; that they seemed to sigh or
y rapport us ?" I whisper, not without pity for me : " Alas ! poor worldly
- °The Pirate-Colonel replied, in a courageous voice, "By ! little devil !" There were two cc three rats at the bottom
1,. lof one of the smaller pile ad broken staircase
rapinetiet his Bride retorted, " Suppose the grownup people when I caned over and looked ha.
wouldn't be eel!"repin I for some prey that vas them ; and when dereemadliZ
" Then," said the Colonel, " they should pay the Ps- he
themselves, close together in the dark, I thought of
salty in blood." I the old life (it had grown old already) in the mils& How
'Bat suppose they should obje retorted his Beide, not to be this worldly little devil! How sob to have a
" and wouldn't pay tbe ;mushy in blood or anything else?" 1 towards myself as I had towards the rats! I
A mournful 101,, is ensued. . . . Wirral:new of one of the smaller chambers, frightened
Alice, "with a melancholy smile," COMA to the at myself, :sand.. tr,J,lngpurlper(it teet the fire,atirlttriti "trio thinketted
conclusion that " the grown-up people are too strung about it. One of the farm °nabs same into my range of
for us. They make us ridiculous." William • view just then, and it to Kelp me se it went On with
Tinkling's baby brother had been christened yes- ' its two homes so peacefully and quietly. These was a girl
terday ; and there had been no King present at the of about my own age in the farm-house family, end the
ceremony, unless, as W. T. suggested, he was . sat °PIM" to me at the narrow table at meal Sims-
It had oome into my mind at our first dinner that she
might take the fever from me. The thought had not dia-
disguised "as great uncle Chopper ; ' no Queen, no
" wicked fairy,' as Alice had supposed Miss quieted me them I had only s how abs would
Grimmer to be. "Or perhaps," AO Alice suggests 'look under the sltered eireumstsnoes, 'Ed whether she
g. min Grimmer is a wicked fairy, after end ' would die. But it came into my mind now that I might
won't act up to it, because the grown-up people ' tar," f ii:Mblethotkii'lliavesb•brer Villgeltsid
„sauji did
have Persuaded her not to." Alice gently Pr°telitA Iso much the less worldly and his devilish the deed would
against Mr. Redforth calling them " Tyrants." ha, I thought. From that hour I withdrew myself at early
" Call not names, my Bedforth, or they will apply minute; into secret cornets of the ruined hoe" and re-
to Fa." :mined hidden there until she went to bed. At
" Let 'em," said the Colonel ; " I don't care ! Who's firm, when meals were ready, I used to hear thin
he ? 4 calling me ; and then my resolution weakened. But
Alice persuades him to withdraw "the moody hiestienithl'aldd itgertilgn out gel( further oft ofteno
expression." watched ier her at the dim windows; sad, whim I maw
that she was freak and rosy, felt muds lep. Out of
i this bolding her in my thoughts, to the homenhing of
myself, I suppose some childish lore arose within nos. I
felt in some sort dignified in the prided peolesdng her,
by the pride of making the sacrifices for bee.- Ash
art
swelled with that new feeling, it insensibly to-
wards mother and father. It seemed to have been from
before and now to be thawed. The old ruin and all the
lovely things that haunted it wen not sorrowfr 1 for me
only, but sorrowful for mother and father as well. There-
fore did I cry again; and often too.
Terribly true to nature is the difficulty
George Silverman finds in beginning the explana-
tion of his life. He tries two chapters and breaks
off, and only in the third " comes on it by
degrees," There is something at first sight &arm-
like m the manner of this beginning of the story.
But with Sterne it would have been a trick of sen-
timent ; here it is the agony of nature itself. And
the " explanation," as it unfolds itself, as real
as Defoe, strikes a chord of human feeling
deeper and more thrilling than any that was ever
strung by the immortal creator of " Robinson
Crusoe."
Here, then, are two stories which will count
among the masterpieces of their author, pub-
lished for the first time in the United State; ; and
published in magazines which have a certain, but
a very limited circulation in England. We trust
that they will increase, as they deserve to do,
'the circulation of the Atlantic Monthly, and
Our Young Folks in the old country ; but in
the absence of a copyright act, what protection
will the American publishers enjoy 1 No doubt
the stories, when completed, will be published by
Mr. Dickens' English publishers by agreement
with Messrs. Ticknor and Fields. But no arrange-
ment having been made for their simultaneous ap-
pearance in *aerial form in the two countries, may
they or may they not be published month by month
in any and every English periodical that chooses
to supply our American cousins with a substantial
motive for passing a copyright act ? We ask the
question without presuming to decide it. But it 1
is fair to remember that it isnot from the most re-
spectable American publishers that the opposition
to a mutual security proceeds ; nor from the best
American writers. Nor, indeed, have our own most
eminent authors much reason to complain of the
treatment they receive at the hands of tho great
publishing houses in the United States, considering
the disadvantages under which an honest American
publisher labours, under present circumstances, in
his own country, against less scrupulous compe-
titors.

. . . "What remains for us to Alo r Alice
went on in her mild wise way. "We must educate, we
must pretend in a new manner, we must wait."
The Colonel clenched his teeth—four out in front, and
a piece off another, and he had been twice dragged to
the door of the dentist-despot, but had escaped from his
guards. "How educate? how pretend in • new man-
na"? how want"
Educate the grown-up people," replied Alioe. "Wepart
to-night. Yes, Redforth !"—tor the Colonel tucked up his
cuffs—" part too-night ! Let us, in Moe next holidays, now
going to begin, throw our thoughts into something educa-
tional for the grown-up people, hinting to them how things
ought to be. Let us veil our meaning under the mask of
romance ; you, I, and Nettie. WWl= Tinkling being
the plainest and quicken miter, shall copy
ouls it
agreed„
The Colonel answered sulkily " I don't mind." He
then asked, " How about pretmciingr
"We will pretend," said Alice, " that we are children ;
not that we are those grown-up people who won't help us
as they ought and who understand us so badly."
The Colonel,still much dissatisfied, growled, „How
about waiting .
"We will wait." answered little Alice, taking Nettle's
hand in hers, and looking UP at the sky, "we will wait—
ever constant and true—till the times have so changed ea
that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us
ridiculous, and the fairies have oome back. We will wait
—ever constant and true—till we are eighty, ninety, one
hundred. And then the fairies will send us children,
and we will help them out, poor, pretty, little creatures
it they pretend ever so much."
"So we will, dear," said Nettie Ashford, taking her
round the waist with both arms, and kissing her. " And
now, if my husband will go and buy some harries for us,
I have got some money."
In the friendliest manner I invited the Colonel
to go with me, but he so far forgot himself as to
knowledge the invitation by kicking out behind, and
then lying down on his stomach on the
pulling it up, and chewing It. When I came back, grasp
ever, Alice had nearly broiler: him oat of his vexation
and was soothing him by te him willown we should
all be ninety. As we sat r thetree and ate
the cherries (fair, for Alice shared them out) we played at
being ninety. Nettie complained that she had • bone in
her old basic, and it made her hobble, and Alice sang a
song in an old woman's way, but it was very pretty, and
we were all merry. At least I don't know about merry
exactly, but all comfortable.
We should not forget to add that the frontis-
piece of this story is without exception the very
best portrait of Mr. Dickens we have ever seen.
His English portraits have done him great in-
justice : they have exaggerated the severity and
sternness of the lines of thought and care which
time has left upon the face, and have missed the
thoughtful kindliness of expreasion, not unmixed
with a certain saddened reserve.
The January number of the Atlantic Monthly
contains, among other excellent contributions, a
lecture by Emerson on " Aspects of Culture,"
compared with which, in pregnant, sententious,
practical wisdom, much of the recent lucubra-
tions on that subject in England will be found
pale and poor indeed. But the first chapters of
a story by Charles Dickens, which is to be com-
pleted in four parts, will instantly seise the at-
tention of English readers. It is the story, told
by himself, of a miserable pauper lad, whose
earliest recollections are of "an infant home in a
cellar in Preston," where hews& horribly illtreated
by a half-starved and savage mother, sometimes,
when both his parents were away seeking work,
locked up in the cellar for a day or two at • time,
until, on the death of his parents of fever, he was
discovered by the parochial authorities, purified
with smoking vinegar, and taken charge of by a
Mr. Verity Hawkyard, " a prominent member of
some obscure denomination or congregation, every
member of which held forth to the rest when so
inclined, and among whom he was called Brother
Hawkyard." This worthy, who is desperately afraid
of " infection' " has the child removed to a farm.
Here the poor boy, who had never known a moment's
ray of sunshine or kindness in his life, appears to
the family of a morose temper ;he shrin from
kindness for fear of " infecting " the household
with the fever of whichhis father and mother died;
and when Sylvia, the farm servant, invites him to
juin a little dance on her birthday, he says he's
very sorry, but can't come. So the girl calls him a
disagreeable, ill-humoured lad ; and the farmer
confirms the sentence.—" You're as moody and
broody a lad as never I set eyes upon—"and sends
him to supper, to " sulk to his heart's content."
And thus he grows up—shy, timidly silent under
misconstruction, with' an inexpressible, perhaps •
morbid, dread of ever being sordid or worldly."
" It was in these ways that my nature came to
shape itself to such a mould even before it was
affected by the influences of the studious sad
retired life of a poor scholar."
It will be easily understood from this outline of
the introductory chapters how powerful and
poignant is the conception and the presentation of
the character of this ppaauper child, whom its mother,
made fierce by and starvation, used to
call " a worldly little devil," whether it squeezed
itself into a warm corner when there was a tire, or
ate voraciously when there was food, and out of
whose forlorn misery of lot a heavenly instinct of VINO ACCIDINT TO A GYXIfAST.-011 Thurs.
easy-going self-sacrifice, mistaken by the world day night shocking occurrence bow llf. Gahm. the
for moroseness, grows and blooms. well-known acrobat and trapeze performer, whilst fulfilling
Read this description of his mother : • professimal emehment at the Tows-hall, Bridgewater.
Mother bad the grips sad dutch el poverty upon her hid Paricilma -"The Imp fir Lite" wi dochis the
hoe, upon her figure, sad sot least of all upon her I Italtiww. with PI" swwww' sad ba ivama abattil a al'.
from a very symptom sad respectable audience,
voice. Her sharp and Weibletolota wards "re veered pls°ss MOWN d •mos Mans arm of the
u was
out of Mr, as by the area
sdpremicia of hag Afters apes • • atti. whew ih'""""rresre,7tte time when -Li wee taw went,-
Leadthiieszuhavtaaesetwelie,
as
she
viialosfa.rollingthat
wuher eyes abort
asat tee_ feet cs.
more above the sew, setae* whit. anti
• Gahm' was empitated with mask vielsese mica the
hungry. Either with his shoulders rounded, would sit ' in the hall, on, of which iuguat, bras -by the
quiet on a three-*d stool, looking at the empty gateA :L.."' with which he was utrims He received
until she would the steel from under him, sad kid I ••••• some tow". et the heed, =bingos
asoshimnag°chobringotopsrsz—V=L isyllbasimedh. yob, disk hied pehmely, eat his ha aimed greet ma-
- etemelha the sealleaso. Whoa he bad some.
with
a baud (
eigosasiT taw"), "aid fait a" dal" lass what rammed the siassisi awls ft sip fell, be
mother's punning grasp at my hair.
And this of the death of both parents : gamed es go ea with theruziee, bet the spestsisee
meld set hear el his se le was rarswt ts bh
We bad • keep of I don't know what foal litter is the ledglap. sad the @shim d Mimed cialiabaL elm
darkest corner, which we celled " the bed." For three • head that be had mativid le his ash. end
days mother lay apes it without up, sad them I will be Wily seem weft= he wal be hie le
s.O ham to leash. If I had -ever hard her bagh I leave his
bilefe, it bad bees so shim that the strange mesa [Ativielieehent.)--HoLhowAeg Plua.--004111."
frightened me. It frightened father, too, sad we Oh a die esithhef he Hest —hese prosowilbay ihrod
by turns to give her sad. Thea she began to move her , area deem hem mit imaska. or Wee=
lead from Me to side, sad sing. After thin, she sham ; sheet the huh seee mak
so better, father fell a laughieg and toss' asssem him Verialititeed eleotTle-lheir
there was only I to give them bah waisraa,g2ttbsy loth I=6
died.
His first days at the farm I blud% a=ier atirl=drmdligaaalem2
Whoa I Sod peeped in at the gate of he Modem r 11.4=1:2" "MN=
go/Armee,
_and started from the mouldering statue ler ass pate, miss isms rinswi"StitA basal
Gassing Villas to me like its guardian ghost ; when I stole mg rokindie almlagenieging la lbe sad
mad by the bask el the faiudionee sad got in sagas the alas.

ins inttlltittnet.
TATTERSALL'S.—MONDAY.
A select number of members assembled t Albert-gate
to-day, but considering the limited of the room,
the bagasse transacted was good. The chief medium of spe-
culation was the Derby, and no time was lost in taking 600
to 100aboutLady Eizabeth, a price notgenerally obtainable,
as six 50's would have been also taken, but were not to be
had. On the pries of Bosiernoiaa being asked, the original
offer was 6 to 1. and subsequently enlarged a quarter of •
point, 625 to 100 being offered. Green Sleeve was backed
by one gentleman at 2,005 to 160, and by another at 1,000
to 80, hut the layer was still open to dispose of another
couple of thousand on the same terms. A. " tanner " was
also invested on Sir Joseph's third representative, and say
one who felt so disposed oould have obtained the same
odds to a pony or two. The Kingecler• trio were then
supported in a lot, one gentleman accepting 100 to 30 five
times. See Saw, now the property of Lord Wilton, would
I have frund a supporter at 2,000 to 30, but the highest
offer wee 2,000 to 40. An extreme outrider of continental
origin—Sardanapale—wee invested upon to the extent of
a pony, and this formed the balk of the doings on the
I great three-year-old race. Foe the Waterloo Cup, 40
I ponies were accepted about the nominaticeis of Lord
Stair and Lord Girlies respectively. Prices as under-
mentioned:
DERBY.
6to I apt Marquis of Hastings' lady Elizabeth &w)
025 to 100 Sir J. Hawley's Roderadan (of))
1000 to SO kr J. Hawley's Omen nom It & off,
15 to 1 Count Betthyany's vyphotse off)
1000 to 60 Marquis of Hottangs"The Earl (M)
250 to 10 Sir J. Hawley's Slue Gown (t)
1000 to 20 Lord Wilton's Steam (off. t MOO to 10)
3000 to 25 M. A. Lapin's Serdanaltslo (t & 011)
600 to 150 Sir J. Hawley's lot (t)
WATERLOO COURSING CUP.
1000 to 25 apt Lord States nomination (t)
1000 to 25 Lord flutes' nomination (0)
BETTING IN LONDON.—MoNDAY.
Compared with the attendance of late, the clubs were
crowded to-da and something like good basin's' might
have been fairly anticipated. The eoe , however,
proved to be the eapiel, as, with the of • few
bets on the Waterloo Cup, no wasthing dew. Quotations
le follows:
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
S to 1 on the add (of)
uvlaroot, GRAND NATIONAL
20 to 1 on the field (off)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
30 apt the Odd for an even AlOOO (of)
WATERLOO 001JRAING CUP.
100 to 6 apt Mr. legal Dorsiaatten (t*
25 to 1 Kr. R. Jaidget's gemiartiog )
2$ to 1 Mr. otaimodta ( t36is 1)
33 to 1 —11 r. Blookirs somintits ( t 6 Sol)

*part

SAW Intentanta•
COURT OF BANIERINTOY.-JAN. 13.
(Betas Mr. Commissioner Geabetrn.)
In al s. L. DICIDON.
• sitting for examination and discharge, which remelted
he a farther adjournmen....wts held under the bankruptcy
r.
of Samuel Aschmuty formerly M.P. for Limerick,
end who is described as *ellington-equaro, Chelsea,
lieetiment-colonel in the militia. After comederable
cuesioa additional amounts were ordered to be
and certain disputed proofs were referred to the
andenee. The aggregate debts were 66,9311., but cre-
ate?. to the amount of 55,0001. are stated to hold security
over estates in Ireland and eleswhers. In the progrem of
the hearing a somewhat unseemly altercation «tinned
between the learned commissioner end Mr. Griffiths, the
bankrupt's oounsel. Mr. Griffiths urged the court not to
sanction any further day, and his honour took occasion
to remark that the learned counsel was talking " at ran-
dom." Mr. Griffiths objected to each an observation being
addressed to biro, and with some warmth complained of
the rude manner in which he bad been treated by the
court.
Kis Honour replied that it was a storm in a "chamber
' pot," end said he was surprised that the learned counsel
should have taken offense at his observations. (Laughter.)
The sitting was then
Mr. Lasae, Mr. Reed,adtt.Llndilater, and Mr. Chidley
also appeared in the case.