The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

A HEROINE. AT THE DIGGINGS,

THE Dublin Morrnereiwri Journal pichlishes A letter Of
quite a romaWic character, lately received by a lady of
Dublin from a young female friend, and former school-
fellow of hers, now at the Australian disgiogs• it ap."
pears from her narrative- that she and 'her brother were
suddenly left orphans with .C. 300 for tb.'ir necessities, and
all the fancies and niceties which life in.-prosperous cir-
cumstances is woutto include. " fie hed•paesed through
college with credit, and eotald write poetry and ride up to
the hounds as well as any huntsman who ever hunted the
Golden Vale, -vhile 1,. on eny part, could play polka%
sing ballads, speak Frenea and a little -German, was a
capital horsewoman (only I had no horse), and once 10
my life had ecraposed a waltz, and written. 16 chapters
of a novel, vrhielr broke-down from my not knowing how
to get my heroine out of a terrible scrape:. But, alas!
my tear friend, ail these things might lia_ve done welt
enorgh ' once upon.sa,time.„' but the real battle of life was
no to be fought by two utterly inexperienced raw re-.
uTvits, and the question was, how our time and means
were to be profitably rather than please:WY. spent. For-.
t-anately, we were both young, strong, active:, and hearty,'
nod never did any Sebastian and Viola of them all love
each other with a stronger and more enduring affection
'han did Frank and I—eole remnants, as-we were, of so
much prosperity end so little prudence." After much
nervous consultation over the £3OO, they determined to
emigrate to Aastralia. On reaching Melbourne they
found that they could not encounter worse incoavenienceS
at the diggings, and there they now are under singularly
interesting circumstances- The young lady says
was resolved to accompany my brother and his friends to
the diggings, and felt that to do so in to; own proper
costume and character would be to run , unt.ecessarY
hazard. Hence- my change. I cut my hair into a veil'
masculine fashion; .1. purchased a broad, felt hat, a sort
of tunic or smock -of- aoacse blue cloth, trousers to eon- -
form, boots of a miner, and thus partintsavith my sex for
a season (I hoped a better one), behold me an accom.
plished candidate for mining operations, arniall the perila••
and inconveniences-they might be supposed to bring.• All
this transmutation took place with Fran:;.,,and Mr. M--'d•
sanction ; indeed, it was he who first s-eggested the.
change, which Li gasped at and improved on. I could,:
not bear to be separated from Frank, andave all felt that
I should be safer in-my male attire than- if I exposed my.-
self to the dansers.of the route and residence in my proper,.
guise. We have now been nine weeks absent from Mel-
bourne, and hare tried three localities, at the latter of
which we have- been most fortunate. We are near,water
(a first-rate article), and our tent is pitched on the side
of as pretty a valley as you could wish: to visit. Pjaato
for myself a sort of ``supplementary canvas chamber.! .1
which I sleep,
,cook, wash clothes—that is, my own,anct
Frank's—and keep watch and ward over - heaps. of-0l&
dust and nuggets,' the sight and toach of which, inspirit
me when I grow dull, which I seldom do, for-I.have-con"
stant 'droppers in,' and, to own the- truth,. even, in, my
palmiest days 1 never was treated with greater courtesy
or respect. Of course, my sex is. generally known.
am called -Mr. Harry' (an abbreviation of Harriet) ;. hLtt
no one intrudes the more on that account. In fact,',
have become a sort of necessity,'' as .I,am alwaysroadY
to do a good turn—the great secret, after, all, of social
success.;.andl never refuse to oblige a neighbour,' be
the trouble what it may. The conseauences are pleasant
enough. Many a ' nugget' is thrust on.
.mo whether I
will or no, in return for cook a puddtag_ or cstrning
a shirt, and if all the cooks and semstresses in the
world were as splendidly paid- as I am, the Song of
the Shirt' would never have been written,, at all events.
My own hoard amounts new to about 101 b. of gold,
and if I Po on accumulatmg, even the richest heiress
in my family in former days, will be left irrimeasurablY
behind. Sometimes, when. I have a few idle hours,
I accompany Frank and, his connect° to the dig'
sings, and it is a ram thing to watch the avidity
with which every bucket'. is, raised), washed, examined;
and cohnmeated upon. Wild the life is, certainly, but full-
of excitement and hope ; and,
fear to tell you that do not wish it to end ! You cam
hardly conceive what a merry company gather together la
or how
our tent every evening, strange as it is, I almost
pleasantly the hours pa6s'
Tea and coffee we have in plenty, for every one brings If'
hcard, and milk we manage to obtain, for among us WI
have imported two cows, which cost us about £5O each, bet
that is a mere trifle. Cake of various kinds I manufacture,
thanks to old Betsy D.— for teaching me ; and as for
liquor, we sometimes have a little wine, brandy, or Earle
and sometimes not. And then we dance to the music
German flute, played by a real German, or we sine glee`
and quartette, or talk of Moore, Byron, Burns, Goetbe
`Shakespeare and the musical glasses,' &c., until midnight
and sometimes long after it. As to suitors, 1 have the?;
in plenty, and not despicable ones either, I assure you.-

LAW OF BANKRUTTCY.—Lord St. Leonard's Bill on
the Law of Bankruptcy has been printed. There 0,113
forty-one clauses. A bankrupt is to have allowed 11
£2O of excepted articles, as now allowed by the Insolve%
Debtors' Court. Certificates are not to be classified, buc
a commissioner may express his approbation on the call
ficate of the bankrupt's conduct. _

BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PlLLS.—Extract of 11,
letter, written by John Molard Wheeler, Esq., Collect°
of Customs, Jamaica, having been handed by his brothe;
at Swindon, to Mr. Prout, for publication :—" I Itn° g
you have never had occasion to take Blair's Pills, bet ley
me emphatically tell you, in mercy to any friend wbor„,:..
suffer from gout, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica,r'to
matism, or any branch of that widely-allied farailY'are
recommend their using them. In this country theY,. of
of wonderful efficacy ; not only am I personally away re.
their powers, but I see my friends and acquaintances, ',,ej
ceiving unfailing benefit from their use. I would not,ougo
without them on any account. If taken in the early s:bei
of disease they dissipate it altogether if in a later,. i„,/
alleviate pain, and effect a much speedier cure than I?roir° ag
other means within my knowledge." Sold by ge-
Prout, 220, Strand, London ; and by all respectablerrica
dicine Vendors throughout the United Kingd°l4'
25, 9d, per box.

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