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trusive. lam not hinting to be asked: you must under-
stand that.'
*" Oh! I understand thee, child. You sometimes
lecture me for wishing to be rich, Lino.; but if I were
rich, you should live here always: at any rate, you should
live with me wherever my habitation might be.'
"' That would be pleasant; and if you were poor—

ever so poor—it would still be pleasant. Good nigh
Robert.'
" I promised to walk with you up to the Rectory.'
" I know you did; but I thought you had forgotten,
and I hardly knew how to remind you, though I wished
to do it. But would you like to go? It is a cold night;
and, as Fanny is come, there is no necessity—'
" Hero is you muff—don't wake Hortense—come.'
" The half mile to the Rectory was soon traversed.
They parted in the garden without kiss, scarcely with A
pressure of hands; yet Robert sent his cousin in excited
and joyously troubled. He had been singularly kind to
her that day: not in phrase, compliment, profession; but
in manner, in look, and in soft and friendly tones.
" For himself, ho came home grave, almost morose.
As he stood leaning on his own yard gate, musing in the
watery moonlight, all alone—the bushed, dark mill before
him, the hill-environed hollow round—he exclaimed
abruptly:—
" This won't do! There's weakness—there's down-
right ruin in all this. However,' he added, dropping his
voice. ' the phrenzy is quite temporary. I know it very
well: I have had it before. It will be gone to morrow.'"
And it wag gone to-morrow. After an evening of
blissful meditation, the unconscious Caroline repairs
the next morning to the cottage (for her lesson), her
heart full of happiness at the thought of meeting
Robert. She does meet him :
"Arriving in sight of the white house, and within hear-
ing of the thundering mill and its rushing water-course,
the first thing she saw was Moore at his garden gate.
There he stood, in his belted Holland blouse, a light cap
covering his head, which undress costume suited him:
he was looking down the lane, not in the direction of
his cousin's approach. She stopped, withdrawing a little
behind a willow, and stadied his appearance.
" He has not his peer,' she thought; he is as hand-
some as he is intelligent. What a keen eye he has!
What clearly cut, spirited features—thin and serious, but
graceful? Ido like his face—l do like his aspect—l do
like him so much! Better than any of those shuffling
curates. for instance—better than anybody: bonnie
Robert!'
" She sought bonnie Robert's' presence speedily.
For his part, when she challenged his sight, I believe he
would have passed from before her eyes like a phantom,
if he could; but being a tall fact, and no fiction, he was
obliged to stand the „greeting, He made it brief: it was
cousin-like, brother like, friend-like, anything but lover-
like. The nameless charm of last night had left his
manner: ho was no longer the same man; or, at any rate
the same heart did not beat in his breast. Rude disap-
pointment! sharp cross! At first the eager girl would
not believe in the change, though she saw and felt it.
It was difficult to withdraw her hand from his, till ho
had bestowed at least something like a kind pressure;
it was difficult to turn her eyes from his eyes, till his
looks had expressed something more and fonder than
that cool welcome.

" A lover masculine so disappointed can speak and
urge exulanation, a lover feminine can say nothing: if
she did the result would be shame and anguish, inward
remorse for self-treachery. Nature would brand such
demonstration as a rebellion against her instincts, and
‘yould vindictively repay it afterwards by-the thunder-
bolt of self-contempt smiting suddenly in secret. Take
the matter as you find it: ask no questions; utter no
remonstrances: it is your best wisdom. You expected
bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it,
and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrized: do
not doubt that your mental stomach—if you have such
a thing—is strong as an ostrich's—the stone will digest.
You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it
a scorpion. Show no consternation: close your fingers
firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm.
Never mind: in time, after your hand and arm have
swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed
scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great
lessen how to endure without a sob. For the whole
remnant of your life, if you survive the test—some, it
is said, die under it—you will be stronger, wiser, lees
sensitive. This you are not aware of, perhaps, at the
time, and so cannot borrow courage of that hope. Na-
ture, however, as has been intimated, is an excellent
friend in such cases; sealing the lips, interdicting utter-
ance, commanding a placid dissimulation: a dissimula-
tion often wearing an easy and gay mien at first, settling
clown to sorrow and paleness in time, then passing away
and leaving a convenient stoicism, not the less fortifying
because it is half-bitter.

" But what has been said in the last page or two is
not germane to Caroline Helstone's feelings, or to the
state of things between her and Robert Moore. Robert
had done her no wrong: he had told her no lie; it was
she that was to blame, if any ono was: what bitterness
her mind distilled should and would be poured on her
own bead. She had loved without being asked to love
—a natural, sometimes an inevitable chance, but big
with misery.
" Robert, indeed, had sometimes seemed to be fond of
her—but why ? Because she had made herself so pleas-
ing to him, he could not, in spite of all his efforts, help
testifying a state of feeling his judgment did not approve,
nor his will sanction. He was about to withdraw de-
cidedly from intimate communication with her, because
he did not choose to have his affections inextricably
entangled, nor to be drawn, despite his reason, into a
marriage he believed imprudent. Now, what was she to
do —to give way to her feelings, or to vanquish them?
To pursue him, or to turn upon herself? If she is weak,
she will try the first expedient—will lose his esteem and
win his aversion; if she has sense, she will be her own
governor, and resolve to subdue and bring under guid-
ance the disturbed realm of ber emotions. She will
determine to look on life steadily, as it is; to begin to
learn its severe truths seriously, and to study its knotty
,prrhoeblreematsiecrlsosoefly,j
~c oannsceicEntyiorues, failedl7. to recognise the
'
authoress, but no one who peruses the touching
narrative of Caroline's sorrows and struggles—a
narrative too long to be quoted here, and too beau-
tiful to suffer us to mar it by curtailment —will doubt
for a moment that a woman's heart has dictated this
revelation of a woman's sufferings. Apart from the
interest attaching to the two love stories, the dangers
and difficulties of the enterprising mill-owners, necro-
urintic though they be, are full of attraction. The
scene in which we are first introduced to Robert
Moore is well described. He is waiting with more
anxiety than he is willing to confess for the arrival of
some waggons containing new machinery. It has
been threatened by men, thrown out of work by the
new improvements, that all such machines shall be
destroyed, but Moore perseveres. The hours pass
and the waggons do not arrive. At last their rum-
bling sound is heard. Moore goes out to meet them ;
he can hardly distinguish them in the darkness, "Is
all right, Joe Scott ?" he exclaims. No answer. "Is
all right?" he asks again, and this time a loud
voice replies, "Ay, all raight, divil, we've
smashed em !" Written, as it is, in an
earnest, unaffected, and impressive style, and
abounding, as it does, with most masterly delinea-
tions of human passion, " Shirley " cannot fail to be
successful. Its influence on the heart is good ; it
gives exercise to some of our best emotions ; yet
" Shirley" is not quite faultless. We have, it is true,
no such repulsive hero as Mr. Rochester, yet the pro-
minent features of all Currer Bell's heroes are stern
and hard—at least they seem so by the side of the all-
attractive and most womanly heroines. Robert Moore
is perhaps an exception; his character is delicately and
naturally drawn. We are loth, however, to dwell on the
faults of a book which has pleased us so much as
" Shirley." Its author is evidently endowed with a
tender heart and a thinking brain, and will confer
yet further obligations on the reading public. As
" Shirley " is an improvement on " Jane Eyre," in
some particulars, warmed with a greater glow of
human tenderness ; so we doubt not that the next
production of Currer Bell will again be an improve-
ment in some respects on " Shirley "—in some
respects only, for in others " Shirley "is perfect.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Peep-o'-day Boy—taken
freely
50 to 1 agst Mr. St. George's Whim colt
1,000 to 15 agst CaptAin Haworth's The Baroness—t
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn
1,000 to 15 agst Sir It. Bulkeley's Melody
2,000 to 25 agst Mr. Parr's Idle Boy—taken
2,000 to 25 agst Mr. S. Conway's Kennington
The Peep-o'-day Boy was backed for a good deal of
money at 1,000 to 15 and 20, and The Bareness several
times at 1,000 to 10 and 15; offers to take 1,000 to 15
about the Whim colt.

DERBY. 1850.
500 to 100 agst Kent's lot—taken
9to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke—t freely
11 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum—
taken freely
12 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenel
18 to i agst Mr. Meiklam's The Italian—t 20 to 1
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Cyprus--take 25 to 1
25 to 1 agst Lord Airlie's Deiccon
25 to 1 agst Lord Airlie's Clincher
30 to 1 agst Lord H. Lennox's William the Con-
queror—taken freely
30 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Williamson's Volt;geur
40 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Hardinge—take 45 to 1
40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Compass
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Peiley's Little Bub—taken
The odds quoted agat Bolingbroke and Ghillie Callum
were taken to a large amount, and 30 to 1 freely about
William the Conqueror; 1,000 to 50 taken about The
Italian, and 1,000 to 40 about Cyprus, their backers
offering to go on.
AYLESBURY STEEPLECHASE.
3 to 1 agst Mr. J. Elmore's British Yeoman—taken
3 to 1 agat Mr. Vever's Vain Hope
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
100 even on The Doctor, Knight of Gwynne, Shin-
rone, the Young un, and Proceed, agst the field.
The Subscription-room will be opened on Friday next,
instead of Thursday.

OUR FIRST SNOW.—Tuesday was the day on
ice bforuonstd (if we may use the. On Wednesday we
which we had our first instalment of winter's snow. We
had then a smart foretaste of Christmas. Snow fell
briskly, with a driving wind, and at night the streets
ewpeirt
he
edtr)i,cadn
db by
every a
scorchingpool
bad a second fall of snow.—Gateshead Observer.
No•evil action can be well dole, but a good one
's Journal.
in ay be ill dose,—ElizaCeoh

NAVAL. INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 11.—Orders were received here
on Thursday for the fitting out of the Indefatigable,
50, with a crew of 500 men; and Lieutenant Joseph
Edye, the son of her able constructor, being ap-
pointed to her, was especially ordered by the Lords
of the Admiralty to commission her immediately.
This officer was at Teignrnouth when the order came,
but the electric telegraph called him down, and in
two hours and a half' he was with the Commander-
in Chief of the port to receive his instructions. The
Indefatigable was commissioned on Friday by
Lieutenant Joseph Edye (1849) for Captain Robert
Smart, K.H. (1837). This gallant officer's expe-
rience extends over a period of twenty-three years,
since his entry into the service in October, 1810.
As a master's-mate he served in the Glasgow, at
Algiers ; obtained his lieutenant's commission
September, 1820; and, as lieutenant of the Cambria,
was in the action at Navarino, and was subsequently
wrecked in an attack upon a nest of pirates at Cara-
busa. He was made a commander April, 1828, and
served in the Satellite three years ; and, since his
elevation to the rank of captain, has commanded the
Impregnable, 104, and Howe, 120, and has lately
returned from serving as captain of the flag-ship
Collingwood, 80, in the Pacific.
Her Majesty's brig Hound, 8, was commissioned
on Friday, by Commander F. Patten (1837), for
service on the coast of Africa, and is to have a com-
plement of eighty officers and men. She will take
out the December mails. Commander Pattern
entered the navy in January, 1814, and has. served
twenty-five years on full pay, afloat and in the coast
guard. He was a lieutenant of 1822, and was
promoted from the command of the Rapid, 10, in
South America. His last vessel was the Osprey, 12,
wrecked at New Zealand, at a place called False
Hokianga, which had never been surveyed.
The Conflict, 12 (screw), Commander Blake, went
out of harbour yesterday.
The Ganges, 84, Captain Smith, C. 8., was paid
wages yesterday.
The Shearwater, Lieutenant-Commander E. Tur-
nour, sailed yesterday for Liverpool.
The Royal Dockyard Female Orphan Fond pro-
ceeds well. There has been a large number of
subscriptions entered into; and the patron Sir John
Louis, Bart., has presented 1001. from the Bunkers'
Hill fund. It has been proposed that a bazaar should
be held the first week in January, and several ladies
in the dockyard have kindly consented to receive
contributions. There arc seventy-six orphans, whose
parents died in the course of the cholera visitation.
Admiral-Superintendent Sir John Louis resigned
the duties of the dockyard yesterday, and is succeeded
by Captain Lord John Hay, at present on e of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
The Leda hulk, stationed off Mutton Cove for
convalescent persons during the prevalence of cho-
lera, has been towed by the Contianee steam-vessel to
her moorings in Swanage, the cholera having entirely
disappeared from these towns.
The keel of the Narcissus, 50, will be laid down in
No. I slip in the course of a few days.
Wooravrerr, Nov. 12.—The Enterprise, Captain
Sir James Clark Ross, and the Investigator, Captain
E. J. Bird, were inspected to-day at eleven o'clock
a.m., by Commodore Henry Eden, accompanied by
Flag-Lieutenant Gore and Mr. Dyer, private secre-
tary. The gallant Commodore, on going on board
the Investigator, was received by Captain Bird and
the officers, and inspected the whole of the crew and
Royal Marines as they passed singly from the port to
the starboard side of the vessel. The Commodore
then went below, and examined the state of the vessel,
which was very good, considering the nature and
length of the voyage, and the great quantity of
spare stores with which she was supplied. From
the Investigator the Commodore went on
board the Enterprise, and was received by
Lieutenant M'Clure and the officers of that
vessel. The crew were then passed singly from
the port to the starboard side of the vessel. The
saws with which the ice was cut to make channels
for the vessels to go through were shown. They are
about 14 feet in length, without the handles, and
the iron of which they are made is of considerable
thickness. The shape of the teeth was considerably
improved by the men, the original form being found
to retain pieces of the ice. Immediately on the Com-
modore coming on shore the crews of the Enterprise
and Investigator went aloft, unfurled the ssdls, and
struck the topgallant mast, preparatory to th air being
paid off. Captain Sir James Clark Ross arrived
in the afternoon, and went on board the Enterprise.
The Enterprise and Investigator entered Port Leo•
pold on the 11th of September, 1848, and remained
locked up in the ice until the early part of September
of the present year. When these vessels arvived in
the extreme northern regions they burned blurs lights
and sent rockets up every morning and evening, the
Enterprise firing at ten P.M., at twelve at night, and
two o'clock A.M., the Investigator using her rockets
at nine and eleven rm., and one o'clock a.m., and both
burnt their blue lights at about five minutes before
the rockets were sent up. During the long and tedious
days of winter the officers and crews amusedthe mselves
by catching foxes, and secured upwards of a I iundred
or these animals, which are nearly the size. of the
common foxes of this country, only the fur of the
former is white in winter and of a grey ct )lour in
sunnier. The whole of the foxes wereliberated after
each had a collar put round his neck, made of bear
skin, and having the names of the vessels and the
captains commanding them, with the latitude and
longitude of the places where the ships were I at the
time, written upon them. Several of the fox, es were
taken a second time, with their collars upor a them.

The traps used fur taking the foxes %%Ter( empty
casks, and some times three or four of the foie s would
be taken in one day.
The carpenters have finished their work to-day on
board the Terrible, steam frigate, and she is (expected
to be commissioned on Wednesday next by Captain

Hope.
The Styx steam-sloop, when she left Woolwich on
Thursday last, under the charge of Lieutenant
Robertson, remained at Greenhithe during the night,
and on the following day made two runs up and
two runs down the distance between the Yore and

Mouse lights, and was amertained to have an. average
speed of 91 knots per hour. That result proving
satisfactory, and her engines working well, she -pro-
ceeded for Devonport, and landed Mr. Stuart, the
Government pilot at Woolwich, at Dover.

Crawahay Bailey, of Lanthewry Court, Esq.; Montague
Gore, of Langston, Esq.
NORFOLK.—Edward Roger Platt, of Ryston, Esq.;
Sir Willoughby Jones, of bculthorp, Esq.; Sir Charles
Chad, of Humsford, Bart.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—WiIIiam Bruce Stopford, of
Drayton House, Esq.; Sir Charles Edmund Isbam, of
Lampert Hall, Bart.; Laugh= Christie, of Preston
Deanery, Esq.
NORTHUMBERLAND.—Sir Walter Calverley, Tre-
velyan, of Wallington, Bart. ; Sir Horace St. Paul, of
Ewart Park, Bart. ; Thomas Wood Craster, of Craster
Tower, Esq.
NOTTINGKAMSHIRE.—The Right Hon. Edward Strutt,
of Kingston Hall; John Francklin, of Gonalstoa, Esq.;
Henry Frederick Walker, of Blyth Hall, Esq.
OXFORDSHIRE.—Henry Hall, of Barton, Esq.; John
Henry Ashurst, of Waterstock, Esq.
RUTLAND.—The Hon. William Middleton Noel, of
Ketton; John Walker, of Wardley, Esq.; John Moore
Paget, of Clepsbam, Esq.
SHROPSHIRE.—RaIph Merrick Leeke, of Longford,
Esq.; Robert Henry Cheney, of Bodger-hill, Esq.; Ro-
bert Barton, of Longner, Esq.
SOMERSETSHIRE.—LangIey St. Albyn, of Alfoxton,
Esq.; Thomas Tutton Knighton, of Uphill, Esq.; Fran-
cis Henry Dickenson, of King weston, Esq.
STAFFORDSHIRE.—Josiah Spode, of Armitage Park,
Esq.; Philip Barnes Broade, of Fenton Manor House,
Esq.; John Barker, of Wolverhampton, Esc.
COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON.—WiIIiam ktriganaill, of
Sidmonton House, Kingsclere, Esq.; Joseph Martineau.
of Basink Park, Esq.; Jervoise Clarke Jervoise, of
Idsworth Park, Horndean, Esq.
SUFFOLK.—Sir Thomas Rokewood Gage, of Hengrave
Hall, Bart.; the Right Hon. John Lord Henniker, of
Thornham Hall; Frederick Barne, of Sotterley, Esq.
SURREY.—James William Freshfield, of Moor-place,
Betcbworth, Esq.; John Sparkes of Gosden House,
Shalfurd, Esq. ; George Robert Smith, of Selsden,
Croydon, Esq.
SUSSEX.—George Campion Courthorpe, of Wbiligh,
Esq.; David Lyon, of Goring, Esq.; Sir Isaac Lyon
Goldsmid, of Hove, Bart.
WARWICKSHIRE.—Marwen Galton, of Edstone, Esq.;
Sir John Newdigate Ludford Chetwoode, of Ansley
Hall, Bart.; Mark Phillips. of Smitterfield, Esq.
WILTSHIRE .—Graham Moore Mitchell Eseneade, of
Monkton House, Esq.; John Grove, of Fern House, Esq.;
Henry Gaissford Gibbs Ludlow, of Heywood House, Esq.
WORCESTERSHIRE.—John Gregory Watkins, of Wood-
field, Esq.; John Russell Cookes, of Woodhatnpton,
E:,q.; Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, of Stourport
Court, Esq.
YORKSHIRE.—Sir John Henry Lowther, of Swilling-
ton, Leeds, Bart.; William Rutson, of Newby Wiske,
Esq.; Andrew Montague, of Melton, Doncaster, Esq.