The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-02 00:00:00

THE MAGAZINE.i.

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CioNs!—You are, let to auppoae, a country
parent —yea take roar wile mil children over to your rail.
way statues, sad you see them away to the seaside, whither
von are not to follow for a fortaight--then you come back
ir the noleayatation, sad you reach home. The house
iv quite clanged. How startlingly quiet it is! You go to
the 'misery, usually a sioivy 14. me--you feel the silence.
There are the podurea on the walls- there the little
elhoi. there some dowers, still quite fresh, lying upon a ;
tylJr, laid down by little hands. Gene! There some-
Oho; aul is it, even with the certainty of soon meeting
main -that iv, so far as there iv certainty iu this world.
Too can imagiue, instantly, what it would be if the
little thiug. were gone, not, to return. That is the tune
All who have heard it know the unutterable
.elneva of the farewell of the Highland emigrant leaving
hi, native hills. lou would not laugh at the bag.
lopes, if you heard their wild writing tones, blend 4
us;; with broken voices joining in that " Macrim•
yoon's lament," whose perpetual refrain is just the
etatemeut of that onarunturate gone. 1 shall tot write
the (niche words, became you could not pronounce
them. but the refrain is this : " We return, we return, we
retnru on more f^ Yee, gone for ever, sod all to make room
for th,r! There was a man whose little boy died. The
Patio r hors lip wouderfnlly. But on the funeral day, after
the little child was laid &two to his Lag rest, the father
went out to walk in the imnleti. There, in a corner, was tile
smell wheelbarrow with its wooden ,pad.: and the foot-
priata in the earth left by the little feet that were goer.
Yoh Jo hot thiok the tine of the strong man that at the
sight he wept aloud--wept, as Some (Mr Else had wept be-
fore bins. lois may renumber that little poem of Long-
fellow's, in which he tells of a man, still young, who ogee
had a wife sad child, but wife and child were dead. There
as pathos like that of homely fact, which we may wit-
ness .very day. They were gone, and after them
years I. their company, be was left slope. He
walked about the work!, with no one to care for him new,
as they had cereal. The life with them would mem like a
dream, eves if it had lasted for years. And all the
sadder that so roach of life might pot have to come.—
Primer's Jfet:oLito, fur September.

THY. FETNICH BeoalltDimo-.o'n: Kr:GPM—She
related her face eel grimed at poverty. She laughed
and rattled with care gnawing at her side. She had to
Cull ties roilkivao out of his human kitsch's= ; to prier
il—his owe oil—upon the stormy epicier's soul ; to melt
the lettermen ; to tap the wine merchant ; to mollify the
butcher ; to eyelet new pretests for the landlord ; to
secoocile the lady linarilers. kin. Geseral Bemis, let as
mr. end the llorsoundile Nis. Holders, who were always
queredlisig ;to see that the diaper, when wee
PeoPor: j Fiericois. to whom • owed ever
so many mos • wage., was not too rebellious or 'Mogi-
sited ; that Auguste, also bee creditor, bad him glass clean
sad his leapis order. Awl this work dace and the hour
of six o'clock arriving, alio had to carve mad be agreeable
to her table ; oot to beer the growls of the decuatented
(sod at what table dlede are there Dot grumblers!) ; to
have a word for eveci,body present. ; a Mlle aid a laugh
foe Mrs. Hunch (with whom there had been very likely a
dreintful row is the morsiagl; a remark for the 00101.4 ;
a polite Onus for the general's lady ; cod eves a good
word nod compliment for sulky Animate, who just before
dinaer•time had unfolded the implies of mutiny about his
wave. Was out this enough work for a women to do!
To conduct a great hone without safficaint money, cod
make snap, roasts, sod half a dosen entmes nut of
tied as it were empire up wise is Mere and by the
dorms! to la•igh aid joke without the least gaiety! to re-
Ire scorn, oboe, rebuffs, insolence, with gay goud-
bur lour ! mod thee I. go to bed wearied at uight, and
have to think about diguros and that dreadful, dreadful
sue is anthaietic goreu, Si. to pm, IW. Lady Macbeth
impposed to have been a resolute women ; cid greet,
tall, lead, 'sectoring females an set to represent the
elvinicter. I any. No. She was a week women. She
Wpm to walk is her sleep, soil blab alter ono diagreeo
able little herded tied occurred ia bee bowie. She broke
diem and got all the people away from bee owe table is
the meet abrupt an.l clumsy MUIDer, because that drivel-
Hest iroileptle bashand of be,. fancad he saw • ghist. la
Lady Oro Madam.. de Macbeth wield have
broken demi I. a west, and lirooleasik laded for roam
If twenty sibloroog shoots had come to the boarding.
house disuse, madame would have goes on carving her
debar, aid idling sad helping bar live guests, the pal ing
guests leaving VI., dead giblur away AD.I help
themselves •91y poor Ihlbrr had to keep up appear.
ante," Phil would my, reereatier thee things is alter
days ; "bet bow • You know he always looked ss if lie
was going to be hung " Smolensk ins the gayest of the
ay always. That widow would lave trims,' up to her
funeral pale and kissed her hoods to her friends with • smiling
" Iles per! '—Erato " is CuraAill difega:ier fur
fispeaskisr.

Gour.—iml—lost and moot terrific viaitnnt
all' -the demos gout sticks his fags into your toe, and
thenceforward clams you as ho property. Woe to the ind•
vrlual upon wham gout maim sets his mark, for there is no
kmd of ramiatiou or,:orchra powerful enough to drive
Li n away. Cohlicias is tr gout whet incense was to Jupiter.
He may snuff it up. asd rather like it thee otherwi.e, but
it is so sure propitiation. Them is a grim aportiveam
about gout, which reminds us forcibly of the manner is
which • tioymt play. ith a 11100•41. Afar • severe claw-
a, a rmpite of ...me duration is allowed to tbe victim
who below to entertain • hope that it may he possible to
mrape from th. ersiany. Vain deluaion! With a sudden
bound tbe a/ouster recaptures it• prey, awl a despairing
Mask nf anguedi supersedes the faint chary of vivito-
tioa. be not deceive 'nursed. There is no emeneipii-
%lob for you on Oa side of the grays ; and the olds are
to as that von are in for ehalkstimes. Gout is
beryditary in your frail!. you say! Nothg mom likely
if you are wilting to give credit to the doctors; mad we
w,h you all joy of uw comfort you are ahle to esti...et
from that aristocratic comideration. Your grandfather
wl your filar worked very hard for it, and got it as
theirrecompera ; and the terms upon which you have
stool fee many years in regard to your own stomach
Justify your rocosseion to the birthright. We di not
implicitly holism, in any such thing as the hereditary
traasiniesia of gout. We bold that to be, if sot naive,-
'YU,, at lora is the vast majority of cum, a fiction, in.
'mad by courtly physicians as • kind of palliative to their
Mama ; fares evil which a man is taught to omsider is •
""lilYi Aga, la far lees then one which is the direct
Pltduet of Warn indiscretion. They might jest as well
ton of hereditary druakennem hereditary gluttony.—
fit, t
4rood's Glln6urrylt .11egariar or
for September.