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ledge of their owners will he struck out at the time
prescribed, unless specially ordered to remain in.
If the highest weight accepting is under 9st it will be
raised to that, and the others in proportion.

YORK SPRI

G MEETING.

The Great Northern Hand
to be declared on
Age st lb
Fandango
Neville
Fisherman 4 8 8
Warlock..... 4 8 5
Yellow Jack 4 8 2
Simpson (Li b)
Artillery
The Assayer 6 7 6
Quince
Elastic
Vandal
Siding
Merlin
Romeo
Pantomime
Marchioness
The Eari
St. Domingo 4 6 10
December
Porto Rico
Emulator
Gemma di Vergy 3 6 8
Alma 4 6 7
Ld. Dement water 4 6 6
Firmament
Rosati
Lawn
Gortschakoff 4 6 2
Barfleur 4 6 2
Saunterer
Dusty Miller 3 6 0
Magnifier ...... 3 6 0
Sprig of Shillelagh 3 5 13
Underhand ...... 3 5 12
Martinet
Arsenal
Riseber

leap. Two miles. Forfeits
Tuesday, Feb. 3.

Age st lb

Chevalier d'lndus-

trie 3 5 11
Greyliug
Skirmisher 3 5 8

Logie o' Buchan 3 5 7
Gitana
Commoner 3 5 7
()alball

Peeping Tom 3 5 6
Old English Gen- _ _

tlernan
Odd Trick
Br. c. by Orlando

.. 3 5 6
~ 3 5 5

out of Ma Mie 3 5 5
Janet 3 5 5
St Giles
The Borderer
Kingmaker
South-Western
Centurion
Companion
Kimburn
To ffey
Basin Bazouk

The Dupe
Sunrise
Liverpool
Sir Colin

Princess of Orange 3 4 12
Dulcamara 3 4 10
Codrington
Captain Barclay 3 4 10
Charles O'Malley 3 4 10
Vigliaceoni
Six and Rghtpence 3 4 7
Actress

LITERATURE.

Wildflower. By the Author of " The House of
E'more." 3 Vols. Hurst and Blackett.
The mstto prefixed to this work aptly represents
and accurately defines the heroine—" For every
one her liked, and every one her loved." Avice
Hera is a fine character, possessing that innate su-
periority which no lowliness of station can render
mean, awl gifted with powers of mind which the
opportunities of the wealthy may develope and
display, but which the chilling gloom of poverty.
cannot obscure or conceal. She shows to advantage
beside her adopted sister Rosamond, whose gentle
and timid nature was iucapsbla of anything de-
cided, or requiring any great effort. The one was
appropriately named the Garden Rose ; hence the
other's title of Wildflower. Mr. Stanmore, at an
early period of the tale, received Avice into his
home, and he never had cause to regret it. She
was au unvarying friend, steady, constant, and
true. It would have been well for the welfare of
the family had they all beau ruled by her judg-
ment, bat as it often occurs with timid and yielr'-
iu tempera,
ves'er. In Rosamond,a once influenced, was im-
pressed n evil hour the uncle of
tem
for
Avice, with his son, settled at the 4‘
an old domain that had been long deserted,
but which the riches of Walter Hern called
again to life and activity. When living with her
grandfather, Avice had learned enough cf. his son's
character to know he and his were to be shunned.
She could not, however, give her ideas to her
friend, and times had changed with the wanderer
since the days of her childhood. The possessor of
an estate which eclipsed by far in splendour and
importance all the properties of the landed gentry
of the county could not be shut out from notice,
although many of the refined did not like hisuncouth
demeanour. Arnold was not so rude as his father,
but he was of a worse nature, if more outwardly
polished. Thoroughly selfish, and exceedingly pas-
sionate, he did not otter a very favourable chance,
or present a likely promise of happiness to any one,
m,
far less one like Rosamond. Mr. Stanmore's re
deuce was at no great distance from the Hall, and
notwithstanding his efforts to keep the Hems at a
distance he failed, partly owing to their deter-
mined intrusion, not being over scrupulous as to
others' wishes, and partly in consequence of the ab-
surd conduct of Miss Jane Stanmore, his sister,
who imagined Mr. Hern, the elder, was an ad-
mirer of herself. During a brief absence of its
master, Olverton House was constantly invaded
by these parvenus, and the unfortunate
father was robbed of his treasure. He resisted as
firmly as he could, but Rosamond, in an evil hour,
listened to the suggestions of her desperate lover,
and was privately marrieds* Then Mr. Stanmore,
contrary to expectation, was more grieved than
angered—for, as he expressed to Avice afterwards,
be foresaw enough trouble is his daughter's future
without adding his curse. Before these untoward
events Avice had been engaged to a gentleman of
the neighbourhood, a Mr. Caton, an intimate
friend of the Stanmores, whom every one believed
to be destined for Rosamond, with the exception
of the unfortunate object of his choice. Happily
for her she discovered by a chance the truth, which.
though painful at the time, was the mean, of pre-
venting much future sorrow. Upon the death of
Mr. Stanmore's sister Avice went to London to
reside with some old friends, who are ably de-
scribed, each a character in her way—the solemn
Martha Badge, and the demure little Miss Wrecker-
ion. She had passed her earliest years with these,
and was pleased to be with them again, instead
of going among strangers : although it is
truly observed, that nothing can return upon
earth. We do not live the past over again
with the restored friend. When we meet after a
lapse of years something has changed us, or altered
circumstances, so that Time's flight is felt. The
only drawback to peace in the mind of Avice was
the fate of her early friend, her sister Rosamond.
All the worst prognostications of her wretched
father, all the untold fears of her companion, had
been more than verified in the short married life of
the gentle flower. She faded and drooped, still
persisting, however, to the last that she was happy.
It is a touching and mournful passage in which the
young mother and her frail infant are introduced.
Her horror when the first idea of his delicacy is
suggested to her, and her overwhelming grief when
he is at last taken from her, are truthfully de-
picted. It was not long before she followed him, in
her last hour commending every one she loved to
the care of Avice. It had been the care of her
guardian spirit, as the latter might truly have been
called, to be of essential service to her on many oc-
casions, and she did not fail her at the
last. It was reserved for Avice to per-
form a harder task in attending to the
necessities of Walter Hern. By wasteful ex-
cess the Hall was ruined, the property sold, and
Arnold went abroad, leaving his father alone. He
would Lave been desolate if it had not been for his
niece, who forgot in his hour of sorrow how ho had
offended in the day of prosperity. Avice Hern was
a real heroine then. She gave way to no fancied
suggestions, and she showed no faint-heartedness ;
where duty summoned she was ever to be found,
and her calm bearing might have deceived many
as to the real nature of her feelings. Yet it was
not that she did not feel, but that she could master
and subdue her spirit. " Wildflower" has not only
talent to recommend it, but the theme chosen for
the exercise of talent is noteworthy. Amid the
numerous admirable sketches therein presented
its heroine shines conspicuous and pre-eminent.
her lot is cast in the two extremes, as it were, of
the social scale, and in each she attracts and en-
gages. The interest that can only follow in the
career of those we respect, and which is tacitly
withheld from other sentiments—though beauty,
youth, or genius light the way—is concentrated
upon the path of Avice. Her history will, doubt-
less, meet with sympathy and regard, her unexagge.
rated sorrows, her simple joys, be acknowledged
superior to high-flown romance, and her sense, her
courage, and her kindness be recognised as the
noblest and tr uest adornments of a heroine.

A Practical Dictionary of French and English
Languages. By Leon Contauseau. Longman
and Co.

This Dictionary presents some very important
alterations to the notice of the professor and the
student. The name of the author is a sufficient
guarantee that knowledge and experience have di-
rected its composition, as he is the professor of
French at Addiscombe College and the examiner
for direct appointments of cadets, &c. He stltes
in his preface that when he first entered on his
duties as professor he was struck with the number
of absurd mistakes made by the students in trans-
lating English into French. At first he attri-
buted tins to a want of care in consulting their
dictionaries, but he soon discovered that these
volumes were also to blame, as they -did
not afford sufficient assistance to the pupil, who
was obliged to select the right meaning of a word
by guess. Thus, he tells us of instances in which
the following ridiculous mistakes were brought to
him in translations. " That young lady is the
richest match in the town," was rendered " Cette
jeune demoiselle est la plus riche ALLUMETTE de /a
vine ;" " the army took flight," was transformed
into " raring prit le voL," and perhaps even more
ludicrous was the translation of " in a desperate
case,"
scarcely 'be made by an
a decidedeptati o n
s of
im-
provementsthe words advanced scholar, would have been prevented by
thdoclitligshu theyi 6T
cuorulddeses ljere." All
these
mis-
takes,
the employment of the dictionary before us, where
one of the chief
is
the diattractionsdivision
andof the ee
most
with directions as to the
choice to rdbse by
made.
Thus, in most other dictiona-
riesfigures,
the different translations of a word are
given indiscriminately, only divided by a comma,
as in the word match, which has so many diffe-
rentonta
withoutn &s
eac
any indication
s are
work
o rk placedit aiss
taoosntei
follows
ilarofwtmesre
il‘nige
a.
meanings, nache, allumette, partie, jeu,
t elhn otherm..
C(lucifer) allumette ; 2. (artil) meche ; 3. (marriage)
mariage ; 4. (equal) egal, &c., &c. This, it will
at once be perceived, must be of great assistance to
the learner, and forms one of the most important
improvements in this work. Another of much
advantage to the student is the annexation of the
prepositions to the verbs and adjectives, which are
the occasion of very frequent mistakes. The in-
sertion of new words, such as photograph, revolver,
screw-ship, gasometer, &c., is likely to be of im-
portance to those employed in business communi-
cations. There are several minor improvements,
which will commend themselves to the student by
the aid they will afford him in the acquisition of
the language. As an ability to translate readily
from one language to the other is so necessary and
advantageous at the present time of friendly inter-
course and commercial transactions, this work
will not be likely to pass unnoticed, but
will, no doubt, receive the encouragement that
the care and labour expended on its compilation
merit.

THE TYNE.—Ib has been found that the water in the
steamer Tyne, which now lies stranded in the Isle of
Purbeck, has never reached higher than the main
engine floor, and the ladies' saloon and upper cabins
have not been in the slightest degree injured. Ail the
lightest portions of the steam machinery have
been
it was expected
re-
moved from the steamer. By last night
that the workmen would have the ship sufficiently
under their control to prevent any damage to her, even
if bad weather were to come on, for they would be able
to get at her side plugs and let the sea into her if
necessary, which would render her so immovable that a
hurricane even could not then knock her to pieces on
the rocks. The distance it will be necessary to drag
her from the rocks into deep water is not above 60 yards.
Everything looks favourable for her rescue.