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acting the most magnanimous part, and sacrificing m
happiness to promote theirs.
" And now I really found myself in such a case.
had not the smallest doubt but that Bruce had fallen in
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love with her ; and no presumption of self-complacency `:--;;:,k..111-1
could make me but acknowlecle that he was infinitely
my superior in many ways, and infinitely more worthy "•:-.4c.i Vcl S j Lei.
of her affection. What, then, should Ido ? Should I
conceal his love from her ? Or should I tell her of it,
and offer to give up my own claim if she thought she
could like him best ?
" But how could I give her up ? How even bear to
run the chance of doing so ? The thought seemed to
drive me mad ! Yet, where then was all the splendid
generosity with which I had always determined to act ?
Was the first trial to overthrow it ? I could not endure
that thought ; and in a transport of self-devotion, I
rushed back to the berth where I had left Bruce, deter-
mined to ascertain whether my suspicions were, or were
not, correct ; and, if they were, instantly to inform Mary
and give her perfect freedom.
" Had I allowed myself a moment's pause I do not
think I could have done it ; and perhaps there was after
all more of chivalry than of sound sense in it altogether.
But be that as it may, in I went and foulid Bruce sitting
exactly as I had left him. _

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" You know, and none but you,' I began, that
Miss Sydney is engaged to me ; conditionally only, in-
deed, as far as formality goes, though an engagement of
the heart I fully believe, it to be on both sides now.
But I was hasty in speaking to her ; and she is young,
and hasn't seen many people, and before the time comes
for our being ready for everything to be settled, she
might you know perhaps see somebody she might like
better than me—who might deserve her better, and who
might like her not better, but as well as I do ; and I
only wish to say,' and I hurried on as if I feared dying
before I could get it out, that if it ever were so, I
should not wish to stand in their way—l should wish
her to be happy in her own way.'
" And why do you wish to tell me this, in par-
ticular ?' said Bruce, without altering his attitude, though
his voice trembled as he spoke.
"'Because you are the only person in the world that
I know of, who, if he did love her, could love her, I
think, as well as I do, and deserve her better ; and
because I think you do love her.' And I felt as if I
must have`dropped dqad when I ceased speaking.
" I once read of a man,' said Bruce, still leaning
down, 'in some review it was—whose horrid hatred to
another was so great, that, though he meant to kill him,
he would not do so till he saw him in the act of com-
mitting a murder, which he himself had worked him up
to, in order that he might be at the acme of his enor-
mities at the moment that his soul was hurled into per-
dition. Now, being your friend, St. Clair, if I had in-
tended to murder you, I would have waited till you had
uttered the words you have just spoken—the brightest
and best that ever fell from mortal lips ! ' "

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

EPSOM JANUARY STEEPLECHASES.

WEDNESDAY.
Free Handicap Steeplechase of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, with
60 added, over the usual steeplechase course ; the
winner to pty 10 sovs. towards expenses. Twice
round and a distance—about 4 miles.

Mr. C. Higgin's Forest Lad, aged, 9st 81b (Weaver) 1
Mr. Sait's Sam Hood, 6 yrs, 9st 12 (Owner) 2
Mr. T. Barnard's Quickstep, aged, lOst 41b (C. Boyce) 3
Mr. Hilton's br g, by the Cardinal, 5 yrs, 9st 41b
(J. Holman) 4
Mr. Barclay ns The Brewer, aged, lOst 41b...(P001e) 0
Mr. C. Higgin's Simple Peter, 6 yrs, lOst (J. Maker) 0
Mr. Hill's The Brave Buck, aged, 9st 121 b (Burrows) 0
Mr. Mundy ns Robin Hood, 6 yrs, 9st 81b
(W. Griffiths) 0
Mr. B. Land's The Screw, aged, 9st 61b kW. H. Treen) 0

Betting-5 to 2 agst Quickstep, 7to 2 agst Cardinal
gelding, 5 to 1 agst Simple Peter, 6 to 1 agst Forest
Lad, and 6 to 1 agst The Screw.
Won by six lengths ; the same between the second and
third. '

SELLING STEEPLECHASE of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added,
for all horses, 12st each ; the winner to be sold for 100
sovs., if demanded, &c., and allowances if to be sold

f'or less. Three miles.

Mr. Barnard's Young Lottery, aged, lOst (201.)
. (C. Boyce) 1
Mr. H. May's Susan, 'aged, lOst (20/.)...(Donaldson) 2
Mr. Holland's Ottoman, aged, lOst (201.) ....(Taylor) 3
Mr. J. Brown's Bullfincher, lOst 71b (301.)...(Ab1ett) 0
Mr. Allibone's Cashier, 6 yrs, lOst (201.) ...(Planner) 0
Mr. Searle's Harlequin, aged, lOst (20/.)...(Hackett) 0
Mr. Smith's Harkover, 10st (Poole) 0
Betting-6 to 4 agst Young Lottery, 4to 1 agst Bull-
fincher, and 5 to 1 each agst Ottoman and Susan.
Won by several hundred yards, a fine race between
the second and third, which was won by a head. Winner
sold for 110 guineas.
FREE HANDICAP HURDLE RACE, Of 5 sovs. each, with
30 added, over six flights of hurdles. About two
miles.

Mr. Price's Tom Gurney, 4 yrs, 9st 101 b (Owner) 1
Mr. B. Land's Odiham, 4 yrs, lOst 6lb (W. H. Traen) 2
Mr. Saxon's Caurire, lOst 81b (Hopwood) 0
Mr. Sait's Simon the Cellarer, lOst 41b (Owner) 0
Mr. Heaven's Gulnare, 5 yrs, lOst 21b (Higgins) 0
Mr. Barling's Harriott, 6 yrs, 9st 101 b (Eatwell) 0
Mr. C. B. Durston's Lady Babina, 6 yrs, 9st Sib
(Rodney) al
Betting.-2 to 1 agst Caurire, and 3to 1 agst Odiham.
Won easily by three lengths.
The little interest the above events had excited was
neutralised by the weather, which was gloomy and un-
inviting in the extreme ; and it is almost needless to add
that the course was in anything but a fit state for racing,
or that the attendance was thin, speculation dull, and
the meeting, as a pecuniary speculation, a failure.

GITANO.—The Governor of the Falkland Islands has
just sent home despatches announcing that Guano has
been discovered in large quantities in those islands.
The climate there being less dry than at Lobos, tha
guano is not of equal value to the Peruvian product ;
but there seems to be no doubt that this discovery in
the Falkland Islands will prove to be one of great value,
both in a trading and an agricultural sense.
THE BICESTER RAILWAY CATASTROPHE OF 1851.
Another of the actions against the London and North-
Western Company, arising out of the Bicester catas-
trophe, has recently been settled. Mr. Neville, one of
the sufferers who sustained injuries, and who in conse-
quence lay at Bicester for some time, brought an action
against the company to recover compensation for the in-
jury done him. Ultimately it was arranged that the
subject should be decided by arbitration. Under the
award Mr. Neville has, we understand, been adjudged
300 guineas. We are informed that the company at one
time offered him 2,000/. to settle the action, and. that
Mr. Neville required 3,0001.

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MIGRATION FROM SOUTHIMPTON.—The emigrant'
barque Caucasian, 600 tons, the first vessel chartered.
by her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners for convey-
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ing in all to nearly 450, who are waiting for embarks.--
tion by the several ships which have been taken up by
the commissioners. The arrangements at the depot for
the convenience and comfort of the emigrants, althou
not yet quite completed, are very excelent, and hay°
apparently given general satisfaction. Most of the emi-
grants who have arrived apparently consist of the under
class of farmers, and of farm labourers and mechanics,
with their wives and innumerable children. There are
many single men and plenty of young and unmarried
women, the whole being in high spirits for the commence-
ment of their long and promising voyage. The dietary
scale adopted in the depot has been found most ample,
and on conversing with the emigrants there appeared
to be nothing they wished for to augment the com-
forts provided by the Government commissioners during
their temporary sojourn in Southampton. Proper male
and female officers are in charge of the depot, ,who exer-
cise a rigid supervision over the emigrants, and presesve
most satisfactory order and regularity. The building is
lighted throughout with gas, warmed with hot water,
and the cooking and other appliances are of the best
character, while the classification of the dormitories and
sleeping apartments of the married couples, single men,
and single women respectively, is properly adapted for
preventing confusion and immorality. The Caucasian
will be fellowed by the Calliope, Harriet, Ramillies, and
Bolton, all to sail from Southampton this month for the
Australian ports, the first-named ship being hourly ,ex-
pected at Southampton to embark emigrants for Mel-
bourne and Port Philip.
SHOCKING DEATH OF A CHILD ON THE SOITTHDOWNELI
—A painful sensation has been created in the town of
Lewes from the death of a boy, named George, Peters.
the son of a labouring man, residing in the Cliffe, who,
having lost his way on Tuesday afternoon on the
between Glynde and Lewes, was exposed during the/
whole of a tempestuous night to the weather. It ap-.
pears that the boy, who was between eight and nine.
years of age, was of a very timid nature, and was known.
to be particularly frightened at. thunder and lightning.
On the afternoon of Tuesday he was induced to acctorn-
pany a boy of the name of Holmes to the residence of
Lord Dacre's gamekeeper, at Glynde, after which th
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separated, the boy Holmes taking his way to Ring:::
and the deceased the footpath across the hill to Le
on which he was seen by a shepherd in the employ of,
Mr. Riley. He was then (about four in the aftkr"m
ursued.
in the true direction for the town, and had he ty day_
a straight course might have arrived at
home
he got out
light. There can be no doubt, however, thatasvery
b,oiste.
of the right track ; and as the evening
was
noticed
rous, and constant flashes of lightning
his faculties ti-
theb direction of the hills, it is believedhm
completely
came so far paralysed as to remy. i
to that circumstancte
sible, and it is most probably owing
art who went ill.
that he was not discovered by
ohtps y • •
At the inquiry'
search of him on the hills with li„, .
before F. G. Gel!, Esq., a respectable jury, on_
and
finding of the body having,
Thursday last, evidence of the
been , George Hother, surgeon, depnsed
given Mr.
There was a mark on the left cheek, and a few sigh
scratches on the face. There was nothing sufficiela; to.
cause death. Both hands were clenched, and had gr
in them. The pupils of the eyes were much dilated, tLI3,
mouth partially open. The hair appeared to have beelt
raised on his head as if by fright. His clothes werei
quite wet through. My opinion is that he died from a.
convulsive fit brought on by great fright. The jury'
found a verdict to the effect, " That deceased died in a.
convulsive fit produced by fright, combined with expo-
sure to the weather during the tempestuous night on the;
Downs."—Brighton Guardian.