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LONDON, TH URS lAA Y EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1850.

the case under consideration is that of a riot which oc-
casioned a disturbance of the public peace, and touched
upon the considerations duo to a friendly Government.
In the strictest legal point of view the appearance of
the person wronged is not indispensable.
When Sir George Grey observes tbat the police were
not witnesses of in hat took place in the interior of the
brewery, he forgets that they were in the presence of
the mob in the street before the house in which the
General had sought refuge, and that it is almost impos-
sible to suppose that the inhabitants of that and other
houses in the neighbourhood of the brewery should not
have recognised one or other of the ringleaders.
These circumstances might have afforded sufficient
material to the Solicitor to the Treasury, or to any other
legal authority, to procure the necessary proofs for
bringing forward an indictment, and with this view the
undersigned, in his official note of the sth of September,
pointed out the indubitable circumstances of foreign
instigation, which had its seat in the establishment itself
of Barclay and Perkins.
It does not appear that every means have been re-
sorted to or an earnest desire manifested to detect the
guilty, and therefore the assertion of Sir George Grey
is correct that, under such circumstances, a judicial in-
vestigation would, in all probability, not lead to any
satisfactory result.

XIL—DISPATCH OF PRINCE SCHWARZENBURG TO THE
AUSTRIAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN LONDON.
Vienna,
From the exchange of notes
which
be-
tween your Excellency and Lord Palmerston, respecting
Nhoays. 2
passed
s sleBds
the attack upon General Haynau in London, it results
that the Government of her Britannic Majesty deeply
regrets the insult offered to an officer in the service of
his Majesty the Emperor; that it would have wished to
find out the originators of this outrage and to punish
them; finally, that the sole motive that prevented it at
Once taking judicial steps against them was the
refusal of General Haynau to point them out indivi-
dually, and bring an accusation against them.
In presence of the difficulty to prove the identity of
the guilty in the absence of the principal witness, the
Secretary of State of her Majesty's Government for the
Home office expressed the opinion that a legal and judi-
cial investigation on the part of the Government would
evidently to attended with failure; that consequently it
could only regret that the originators of the outrage
would escape the punishment they had deserved.
The Austrian Government fully shares this regret, fdr
it is easily understood that such a result, whatever
might be the cause of it, is far from responding to its
just expectations. .
From the repeated explanations of the British Govern-
mrnt, it remains only fur us to regard as terminated a
transaction which threatened to run into an endless,
pslemio.
However, as the British Government could not decide
upon adopting judicial measures on an attack which
placed the life of an Austrain subject in danger, we can-
not do otherwise than reserve to ourselves the right to
consider, in a similar case, whether we should or should
not act reciprocally towards British subjects in Austria.
You are authorised to read this dispatch to Lord
Palmerston, and to leave him a copy,

As regards the passage in Sir G. Grey's dispatch, in
which it is said that the Austrian Charge d'Affaires pro
posed that Messrs. Barclay and Perkins should be called
upon to institute an inquiry in their own establishment,
the undersigned has the honour to declare that he did
not make such a proposition, as he always entertained,
and still does entertain the hope, that her Majesty's Go-
vernment will itself take the necessary steps for a
strict investigation.
With regard to Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co., the
undersigned thinks it right to call the attention of his
Excellency to the fact, that in their letter, alluded to by
Sir G. Grey, they do not maintain that they do not know
any of the guilty ones, but simply that they bad not suc-
ceeded in discovering the instigators of the outrage, or
even the principal actors in it.
The only result of the steps taken in so serious an af-
fair, which does not concern public order alone, but the
daily intercourse of the subjects of both Governments in
the states of either, consists in the undoubted proof of
the disinclination of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins.
As the undersigned cannot regard this as the conclu-
sion of the affair, he has the honour to refer to his note
of the sth September, as also that of the 12th, commu-
nicated under date of the 24th to his Excellency, and to
request your Excellency to urge Sir George Grey, in the
sense of the present note, to see that steps Le taken to
procure the desired end.

AUNT JESSY.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal)
" The course of true love never did run smooth."
Midsummer Night's Dream.

" Was there ever any attachment between your sister
Jessy and Mr. Bexley, Frank?" Mrs. Delmore abruptly
asked, as the drawing•room door closed on the lady re-
ferred to, and she and her husband were left alone.
" Attachment," he repeated, " not that I know of.
What could put such a thought into your head, Letty?"
" You don't suppose that I am so illogical, as to draw
conclusions without premises," she said, laughing.
" Certainly not, my dear; he returned, with affected
gravity. But may I know from what circumstance your
inference is drawn?"
" Well! when you introduced your friend to me, I
could not help noticing that your sister looked very odd,
and when you turned to her, and said, Mr. Bexley is an
old friend of yours Jessy, she blushed, and trembled, and
could scarcely hold out her hand to him for agitation."
"Oh! then when a lady blushes, and trembles, and
looks odd (an indefinite term that though), it is right to
conclude she is meeting with a former suitor. Is that
it, Letty ?"
" Not in all cases. However, that is not all."
" Well; what other grounds have you for the suppo-
sition ?"
" Why, when he spoke of having recently lost bis wife,
and of his being left with four daughters, all under
thirteen, I glanced at her, and saw her dash tears from
her eyes. And her whole countenance seemed to say
that she would like to be a mother to those poor be-
reaved girls."
"That was just like Jessy, I'll confess," cried Mr.
Delmore. " But it is very possible, Letty, for her to feel
for the poor motherless girls, and yet not to wish to be
the wife of their father.'
" Granted; still placed beside what I before observed
and noticed afterwards, it strengthened my opinion that
there was something in it."
" Well! and what did you notice afterward? I want
to know the whole, my dear."
" Why, Jessy has been making all sorts of blunders
ever since. At the dinner table I asked her for the
mustard, and she handed me a spoon. Then we were
giving out some dresses to be made, and what did she
do, but call the dross-maker Mrs. Bexley."
Mr. Delmore here burst into a hearty laugh.
" Are you laughing at Jessy's blunders, or at my
grounds of interference?" asked the lady.
" At both" he returned; "for in a court of law the
whole of your evidence, when summed up, would not
justify a jury in bringing in a verdict of guilty."
" I think it would, though;" rejoined Mrs. Delmore,
pertinaciously.
The lady in question at this moment re-entered the
room, and quite unconscious of what had passed in her
absence, she took up her work and quietly resumed it.
Now, though Mr, Delmore chose to laugh at his wife's
conclusion—husbands will take such liberties—he was
not quite sure that they were without grounds. A vague
idea of having once thought his sister had a preference
for his friend now crossed his mind, and turning to her,
without any particular design, he said, " Did you think
Bexley much altered, Jessy ?"
" Not so much as I should have expected in all those
years," she said, without raising her eyes from her
work.

KOLLER.

VII.-LORD PALMERSTON TO BARON ROLLER.
Foreign-office, Oct. 8, 1850.
The undersigned, her Majesty's principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, has the honour to acknow-
ledge the reeeipt of a further note on the subject of the
attack on General Haynau, which has been addressed to
him by his Imperial Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, Baron
Koller, on the 3d inst., and in reply has the honour to
transmit to Baron Koller the accompanying copy of a
communication on the subject in question addressed to
this department by the desire of Sir George Grey, pre-
viously to the receipt by the undersigned of the note ad-
dressed to him by Baron Koller on the 3d inst.
Under these circumstances the undersigned would re-
quest Baron Koller to be pleased to state whether he de-
sires any further interference with Sir George Grey in
this matter?

The undersigned has the honour to renew to Baron
Koller the assurance of his most distinguished respect.
PALMERSTON.
(Enclosure of foregoing Note.)
VIII.—LETTER OF THE UNDER- SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT TO THE UNDER-
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Whitehall, October 1, 1850.
Your letter of the 28th inst., enclosing a copy of a
dispatch of Prince Schwarzenberg, in reference to the
assault on General Haynau, on the occasion of his visit
to the brewery of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co.,
has been laid by me before Sir George Grey. My let-
ter of the 24th ult. will have put Lord Palmerston in
possession of the reasons which prevent the institution of
any legal proceedings against any of the persons impli-
cated in the disgraceful outrage. His Lordship is well
aware that no course can be taken in such a case which
is not in harmony with the ordinary judicial procedure.
General Haynau's own refusal to prosecute or identify
any of the guilty parties was the only reason that mea.
sures were not forthwith taken to bring the perpetrators
to justice; and from the abortive efforts to bring the crime
home to any individual in particular, Sir George Grey
regrets that it is not possible to institute a
criminal prosecution with the least prospect of
success. In addition, I have to remark that the result of
the researches of the Government is far from
justifying the idea, that the persons in the employment
of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Company, were
prompted by others to the act, although there is little
room to doubt that they acted under the influence of
feelings excited by the publications circulated amongst
them.—l am, &c. H. WADDINGTON.

IX.—NOTE OF BARON KOLLER TO LORD PALMERSTON.
October 9th, 1850.
The undersigned Charge d'Affaires of his Majesty the
Emperor of Austria has the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of the note of yesterday, in which his Excellency
Viscount Palmerston, principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs of her Majesty the Queen of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, was pleased to communicate a copy of
a letter on the subjnt of the criminal act perpetrated on
General Baron Haynau, which had been addressed to the
Foreign-office by Sir George Grey, on the Ist of October,
and consequently before the receipt by his Excellency of
the note of the 3d instant, addressed to him by the un-
dersigned.
Inasmuch as the note above alluded to explained the
reasons why the undersigned could not declare himself
satisfied by the contents of the first communication, ad-
dressed, at the instance of Sir George Grey—after an
inexplicable delay—on the 24th of September, three
weeks subsequent to the event itself—and inasmuch as
the second letter is merely an extract from the first, to
which it refers, the undersigned has therefore the honour
to reply in the affirmative to the inquiry kindly con-
tained in it, as to its being his wish that Sir George
Grey should take further steps in this matter; and
would, therefore, renew the application contained in his
note of the 3d instant, to which he begs leave to refer.
The undersigned embraces the present opportunity,&c.
KOLLER.

How many years is it since you saw him last?"

" It is just seventeen years."
" Ah! you keep a more accurate account of time than
I do," he cried. And Mrs. Delmore here gave him a
significant glance, which seemed to say, " That's another
fact to justify my conclusions."
We will let the gentle reader into the secret.
Leonard Bexley and Jtssy Delmore had first met
whilst the latter was presiding over her brother's esta-
blishment, some years prior to his marriage, and the
young lady was then scarcely nineteen. Mr. Delmore
was not one of those young men who think, that if they
have a sister for a housekeeper they are not called upon
to be domestic—that she has no right to expect their
society and attentions, and that they are at free liberty
to be from home as much as they please. So far from
thinking thus, he duly appreciated the affection which
had led his sister to sacrifice the comforts and society of
her childhood's home for his sake, and he felt it his duty
to repay that sacrifice as far as might be in his power.
With this view, he spent most of his evenings in her
society, either at their own fire-side, or by making her
his companion in is his visits to their mutual friends.
" Why, Frank Delmore, is as gallant to his sister as if
he were handing about a young bride," was a remark
fr‘quently made amongst the young men who were as-
sociated with him in his profession. Such speeches
were not made in the spirit of commendation, but with
a sneer. They had, however, no effect upon his conduct.
Leonard Bexley was amongst the select few whom
Delmore invited to his house, and termed his heart-
friends. They were nearly of an age, similar in cha-
racter, and fond of the same pursuits. Bexley had, at
that time, no settled home in London; his relatives all
resided in a distant part of England, and as he was al-
most a stranger in the great city, he gladly availed him-
self of his friend's pressing, and oft-repeated invitations.
The rational amusements, cheerful conversation, and re-
fined and.elevating pursuits which distinguished their
evening hours, made their fire-side very attractive to
him, and he became a constant guest.
Jessy Delmore possessed neither uncommon beauty,
nor brilliant powers of mind; she was quiet and retiring
in her demeanour—in short, she was one of those young
women who require to be well known to be truly appre-
ciated. By such frequent association with her at her
brother's house, Bexley became aware of the inestim-
able traits in her character, and consequently felt a deep
interest in her, but no thought of anything further than
the intercourse of friendship ever crossed his mind.
With Jessy, however, it was otherwise. Esteem, by
degrees, ripened into affection, and her guileless and in-
experienced heart too readily imagined that she was
only responding the feelings of his.
" You seem out of spirits to-day, my dear Francis,"
said Miss Delmore to her brother, as he one evening
threw himself into his arm-chair, with a manner very
unlike his wonted cheerfulness.

X.-NOTE OF LORD PALMERSTON TO BARON ROLLER.
Foreign office, October 28, 1850.
The undersigned, her Majesty's First Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, having communicated to her
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department
the notes addressed to him by the imperial Austrian
Chargé d'Affaires, Baron Koller, dated the 3d and 9th
inst., in reference to the attack made on General Haynau,
on the occasion of his visit to the brewery of Messrs.
Barclay, Perkins, and Company, has now the honour to
transmit to Baron Koller the accompanying copy of a
communication addressed by order of Sir George Grey
to this department.
The undersigned has the honour, &c.,

PALMERSTON.

X1...-ENCLOSURE IN THE ABOVE NOTE. LETTER OF
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME
DEPARTMENT, H. WADDINGTON, ESQ , TO THE UNDER
SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, HUGH ADDING.,
TON, ESQ.

Whitehall, October 22, 1850.
I have laid your letter of the 17th inst., with the ac-
companying copies of a further correspondence with the
Austrian Charge d'Affaires, at this Court, on the sub-
ject of the attack on General Haynau, before Sir George
Grey, and I have to rt quest you will express to Lord
Palmerston the regret Sir George Grey feels that not-
withstanding the full explanation of the reasons which
preclude the possibility of instituting a prosecution of
any of the persons engaged in the outrage, Baron Roller
can still entertain the opinion that Sir George Grey is
disposed to regard this outrage as an unimportant matter,
or is disinclined to treat the case with all the gravity it
demands. I am desired by Sir George Grey to assure
you on the contrary that from the moment the act was
committed he has entertained the most anxious wish that
the guilty parties should be discovered and brought to
punishment.

" Well, to own the truth, I am, Jessy," was his reply.
" Has anything occurred to distress you?" she asked
Ln concern.

" Wily! yes; I am sorry to say I am going to lose my
friend Bexley."
" Lose him!"

" Yes; he is going over to America. Two of his
brothers are going, and he tells me to-day that he has
made up his mind to go with them, and set up in his
profession there. They have some connexions in America.
He'll be here in a few minutes; he's going to spend the
evening with us," he hurriedly added, and rising from
his seat, and walking to ono of the windows, he looked
out.

- Baron Koller brought the case in his first note to
Lord Palmerston of the sth of September, a copy of
which accompanied your letter to me of the 17th Sep-
tember, under the notice of his Lordship in terms the
propriety of which is fully recognised by Sir George
Grey, inasmuch as the violence offered to Baron Haynau
is characterised as being at variance with the usages of
this country, and the hospitality which England has
always evinced towards all strangers, without distinc-
tion. Prince Schwarzenborg, also in his dispatch of the
12th of September, on the same subject (a copy of which
accompanied your letter to me of the 28th of Septem-
ber), gave expression to the same view of the subject, as
he treated the matters as a personal attack on General
Haynau, and referred to public opinion in this country
and elsewhere in condemnation of this breach of hos-
pitality.
In the opinion of Sir G. Grey the object of both these
communications was to cause such inquiries and inves-
tigations as to the authors and perpetrators of that at-
tack, to be instituted, as would lead to their prosecution
and punishment.

" This is sudden, is it not, Frank?" said Jessy, making
a strong effort to speak.
" No ; not exactly, my dear; he has talked of it
several times before, but I really didn't think be would
go. Perhaps it was because I didn't wish it," he added,
turning to her with a forced laugh.
" Perhaps so;" was all she could trust her voice to
reply; and she now found a pretext for quitting the
room,

Bexley came that evening, and the next, and every
evening whilst he remained in London. He spoke with
feeling of how much he should miss their society, but
not a word escaped him which could lead to the conclu-
sion that his regret extended further than that which
was naturally called forth by an interruption of friend-
ship. After his departure, a regular correspondence was
for some months kept up between the young men, and
not a letter arrived in which Jessy was not named; still
it was only by such expressions as " kind remembrances
to your little housekeeper," or to "my fair friend."
The correspondence after a while, however, suddenly
ceased. Delmore was surprised and concerned, though
he did not say much; he bad heard of short-lived friend-
ships, and though he had hoped better things of his
heart-friend, he thought he had no right to expect ex-
emption from the general experience of the world. Poor
Jessy, too, suffered in silence, such griefs are not voluble
—and none knew that she suffered at all.

It was in consequence of the matter being viewed in
this light that both my former letters were addressed to
you by the desire of Sir George Grey, as he hoped that
the explanation of the circumstances which stood in the
way of the adoption of violent measures, and the criminal
prosecution of the perpetrators, would have satisfied
Baron Koller and the Austrian Government.

In Baron Ko communication of the 3d inst., the
matter is placed in a different point of view, and the wish
is expressed that her Majesty's Government should re-
gard the case as one of " riot," and a violent breach of
the public peace, without special reference to the attack
en General Haynau, and the violence offered to him. In
reply, I have to remark, that it is the opinion of Sir
George Grey that the case, viewed in this light, is not
such as would warrant the Governn.ent of this country
in instituting a prosecution, ss he is informed that
this case could not be brought before a legal tribunal
with that assurance of success necessary in the rare
case of a Government prosecution. Irrespective of
the difficulties stated in my former letters of satis-
factorily identifying any individual, it is much to be
doubted whether it would be possible to procure wit-
nesses to prove that the tumult bore the character
of a" riot" in the legal sense of the word, as it would
be necessary to establish the fact that the tumult and
disorder word of so dangerous a character as to cause
public fear and terror. Much as Sir George Grey re-
grets that, from the causes assigned, the authors of the
insults offered to General Haynau escape with impunity,
he is still of opinion that it would be very injurious fur
the Crown to institute a criminal prosecution in a case
of this nature, without a strong assurance of success.--
I am, &0., H. ADDaICiTON.

A lurge thick lett,a, with the well-known handwriting
on the direction was, however, ono morning put into
Delmore's hand. He opened it with eagerness—too
much eagerness to perceive that his sister had caught
sight of, and recognised it, and was in a state of great
agitition.

Ho! he!" he said, smiling, and looking up after he
had perused the first page. " I see now how it is I
havn't heard from Bexley for so long; he has been en-
gaged in a more interesting manner than in writing to
me. Well, I suppose I must forgive him," he added, his
eyo running rapidly ou. " I may want the same for-
bearance exercised towards me some day. There is no
saying what one will do under such circumstances. What
say you, Jessy?"
Miss Delmore guessed her brother's meaning too well;
but for the sake of saying something, that her feelings
might be unobserved, she said, " How am I to know
what you mean, Frank?"
" Ohl he has been spending his time very agreeably
in the company of a certain lady, who is to be Mrs.
Bexley soon."
Poor Jog tried to make * remark, bat coald not, her

voice would not do its office, and her brother now looked
up at her. Then it was that a question arose in his
mind, whether he had not unwitting►y wounded her feel-
ings, and whether she was not more deeply interested
in the information than he had supposed.
The impression was, however, but transient. Her
subsequent conduct led him to conclude that he was mis-
taken, and he never thought of it again, until nearly
sixteen years after, when his wife's suggestions recalled
it to his memory.
We left Jessy busily plying her needle, and Mr. and
Mrs. Delmore exchanging significant glances. Married
people aro apt to look very knowing, when they see, or
fancy they see, others falling into the meshes in which
they were themselves one day entangled.
" Suppose we ask your friend to bring his daughters
here for a few weeks, whilst he is engaged in his busi-
ness matters, and setting about his new home," said
Mrs. Delmore.
"So do, my dear," responded the husband, "I am sure
it will be a kindness."
His sister looked in his face with her eyes beaming
with pleasure. It was a spontaneous action, and she
was the next moment as intent as ever on her work.
" What are you doing, Jessy, my dear," he asked,
"you seem as earnest about that piece of needlework as
if you were working fur a wager?"
" Why, I'm making little Freddy a set of caps," she
replied, laughing.
" Ah! I dun't know what the world would do without
Aunt Jessys, and Aunt Marys, and such useful ladies,"
he rejoined. " They are so expert with the needle, and
have so much patience and kindness, and all that sort of
thing. I know not how it is, but they seem to have a
character peculiar to themselves, and it is a very estim-
able one."
"So they hare," cried Mrs. Delmore. " I'll add my
testimony to that."
" We have each a vocation assigned to us," added
Jessy, " and the great object is to discharge its duties
with credit, be it what it may."
The kind proposal of Mrs. Delmore was put into im-
mediate execution, and Mr. Bexley's four daughters were
the very next day inmates of their hospitable mansion.
Poor Jessy had a difficult matter to restrain her feelings
when she first saw them. Her warm heart, fall as it
was of the tender memories of bygone days, longed to
express more than circumstances seemed to warrant, and
she was glad to withdraw to shed a few tears. Further
association, however, made her less scrupulous of ex-
pressing her feelings, and she and the children were soon
very warm friends.
"I wish, papa, that Miss Delmore was our mamma,"
exclaimed the youngest girl, when she and her sisters
were one day alone with him.
" What makes you wish that, Celia?" asked her fa
ther, smiling.
" Because she is such a sweet lady, and I love her so.'
" Well, my dear, that is a very good reason. But
perhaps she would not like it."
"Yes; I think she would," added the little girl.
" Why do you think so?"
" Oh! I don't know, papa; but I do think it, don't
you, Catherine?" she asked, addressing her eldest sister.
" Well, Celia, I can't exactly say, but she's very kind
to us, and seems to think a great deal about our losing
our dear mamma."
" She says she used to know you a great many years
ago, when you were in England before," said another o -
the sisters.

"Oh! wouldn't it be nice to have such a sweet lady
for a mamma," Celia added, clapping her hands together
with delight at the very thought. " May I ask her if
she would like it, papa?" Mr. Bexley smiled. "No,
my dear, you must not ask her," he replied; you must
leave that for me to do."
" But will you?"
" I can't promise; but I'll think about it."
" Well !" mused Bexley, as he left the room. That
is not exactly a bad proposal of little Celia's ; and then
he began to think over Miss Delmore's good qualities.
" She is domestic," he said, " that is a great thing in a
woman, and sweet-tempered, too. I've heard her brother
say that, many times—that is a very important matter.
And she's intelligent. Yes ; I've spent many pleasant
hours in her company." Then he recalled several little
incidents long buried in forgetfulness, which evidenced
some other excellences in her character.

A week or so after the above conversation took place,
ho happened to come into the drawing-room whe❑ Miss
Delmore and his youngest little girl were there alone.
Jessy had been giving the child a lesson in music, and
they were still sitting before the piano together.
"Oh! papa, ask Miss Delmore now what you pro-
mised me you would," cried the child, jumping from the
music stool, and running into his arms.
" Hush, hush, my dear."
"Oh do, papa, I'm sure she will not say no. She is
so kind."

" Well, Celia, you may take a run round the garden,
and then perhaps I will," was his reply.
Jessy could not avoid overhearing what passed, but
thinking what was said referred to the music lesson, she
made a remark on Celia's taste for music, observing
that she would advise Mr. Bexley to cultivate it, by
letting her have early instruction.
His thoughts were, however, occupied with another,
and a more important matter, and his reply was not,
therefore, very much to the purpose. (We say this
without any reflection whatever on the quickness of his
intellect.) He thought he could not do better than avail
himself of the present favourable opportunity of ascer-
taining whether his little daughter's proposal would be
agreeable; and after all we have made known to the
reader, we think we need not give Jessy's reply.
" So I was correct in my conclusion atter all, you see,
my dear," said Mrs. Delmore, a little exultingly, a few
weeks subsequent to the period when the above related
events took place. " I think we ladies are generally
pretty cute i❑ such matters," she added. "I really am
surprised that you never guessed anything of the sort
before."

" But suppose I did, Letty ?"
" Well, if you did, you were very quiet about it. You
thought it was no business of mine, I suppose. It is,
however," she quickly rejoined, " for I really don't know
what I shall do without her. There is no one else I can
feel comfortable to leave the children with at any time,
and then, when any of them are ill, she is such an excel-
lent nurse."

" I think, my dear," said Mr. Delmore, trying to look
very grave, " I think it would bo desirable to have a law
passed, that no single ladies having brothers and sisters
with families should be allowed to marry after a certain
age—say thirty."

That would be rather an arbitrary law," cried Mrs.
Delmore, laughing.
" Well, my love, it would only be carrying out by
compulsion what you are in your heart wishing. It
would ensure a certain number of those useful members
of society, maiden aunts, to every family; and would
doubtless benefit the community at large, though it
might fall heavily on some individuals."
" No, Frank, I am not quite so ungenerous as to wish
that," said the lady. "I shall miss Jessy very much in
many ways, and so will your brother James and hie
wife, and your sister Mary too, for she has been very
useful to all of us. But I shall be glad to see her hap-
pily married, for I think married people are the happiest
people after all. Then I'm sure she will be quite as
useful in her new sphere, for those poor motherless girls
need some one to take charge of them."
"Yes, Letty, a true-hearted woman will bo useful, let
her be in what situation or circumstances she may."
" That's very true, Frank; though a step-mother's is
often a thankless office, and some of the good people I
have spoken to on the subject think Jessy does foolishly
in undertaking it; especially as the children are all girls,
and some of them are so old. But she says she has no
fears herself."

" It is a very ungenerous prejudice that of condemning
women filling the position of step-mothers," said Mr.
Delmore; " a woman of right principle and good feeling
will, as I said before, do her duty in any situation. Pe-
culiar circumstances do not compel us to act contrary to
the general bent of our dispositions—at least such in-
stances are very rare."

Jessy Delmore shortly after became Mrs. Leonard
Bexley. She, in that character, proves the truth of her
brother's observation, and all we can acquaint the reader
with is that she is now enjoying the quiet happiness
which a union based on esteem on one side, and on a long
and ardent affection on the other, bids fair to produce.
ANNA MARIA SARGEANT.

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON AND
Nonni-WESTERN ItAttmers.—We have reason to believe
that the misunderstanding and rivalry which have for some
time existed between these companies are likely soon to be
terminated and to give place to a close and permanent rela-
tionship between them, not merely to the benefit of the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Compeny but to that of their
Briarean rivals, the London and North-Western, who, we
expect, have suffered to a greater proportionate extent than
the Shrewsbury and Birmingham. There is no doubt that
negotiations are on foot between the contending parties ; and
we have been told, as as instance of the desire for peace en-
tertained by the Shrewsbury directorate, that they have vo-
lunteered to give up the ruinously low fares which they were
driven to adopt :in self-defence against the penny trains of
the Shropshire Union. We are not, of course, in a position
to indicate what arrangement has been or will be come to,
but we conjecture it will be similar to that existing between
the London and North-Western and North Staffordshire
companies, the principle of which, we understand, has bee'
affirmed within the last few days by similar agreements
being entered into by most of the companies whose lines
come in contact with that of the London and North-Western.
Worcester Chronicle.

DIOCESE or LONDON.—The Bishop of London
has licensed the following gentlemen to appointments within
his diocese :---The Rev. George Ainslie, M.A., Secretary to
the Additional Curates Society, and late incumbent of St.
Peter's, Walworth, to the incumbency of St. Philip's, Cler-
kenwell, rendered vacant by the promotion of the Reverend
Thomas Watson, M.A., to the vicarage of East Farleigh ;
the Rev. W. Burton, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, and
incumbent of St. John's, Harrow, to the vicarage of Willes-
den, on the nomination of the Dean and Chapter of St.
Paul's ; the Rev. James Jackson, M.A., late rector of Lyd-
gate, near Newmarket, to the rectory of St. Sepulchre's,
Snow-hill; the Rev. W. Stackhouse, 8.A., of Worcester
College, Oxford, to the curacy of St. Luke's Church, Old-
street; the Rev. E. Ferrier, 8.A., of Pembroke College,
Cambridge, to the curacy of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; the
Rev. 11. Back, 8.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the
curacy of St. Mary's, Kensington the Rev S I. Roddy,
M.A., of St, John's College, Cambridge, to the curacy of St.
Matt hiss, Latina'. green; the Rev. J. 11. Knox, of King's
College, London, to the curacy of St. Mary's Haggerston ;
the Rev. 11. Munn, 8.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
to the curacy of All Saints Church, Gordon-square; the
Rev. C. C. Sharpe, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, to the
curacy of All• Hallow's Staining; the Rev. G. W. Keightley,
M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford, to the curacy of the
parish church of Enfield.

THE LATE GALES.—BEMBRIDGE.—
On Sunday
night, the wind at about south-west, blowing a heavy gale,
the Peterel yacht, the property of the lion. Colonel Moreton,
parted her moorings and drove ashore, but luckily sustained
no damage. The sea made a complete breach over the
beach ; such a high tide has not been known for many
months. It is to be regretted that the sea should be allowed
to make such encroachments, as it could be easily prevented,
with trifling
mota Guardian, expense, by waking MN breatlYliterd.".-rOrill.