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who were endeasourn
ping the

the thing was so ridicul
notwithstanding his dis,

to so" vile our_
but judge of his horror when he s

off full speed into the jungle, not leaving poor Rogers even
the vestige of an article of raiment to cover himself! All
he heard was a glorious chattering, as they one by one dis-
appeared, the last one lugging off his shirt, which, being
rather awkward to carry, was continually tripping it up,
by getting between its legs. Here was a pretty pickle for
a man, under a broiling sun I and here he staid till the in-
mates of the bungalow, beginning to suspect some acci-
dent, came out in search, ann found poor Rogers sitting
up to his neck in water, in a frame of body and mind
which may be " more easily imagined than described."—
Reminiscences of the late Major Rogers.
DIGNITY IN ART.—The starting-point of all effort—of

us say at once
the consideral
a purpose; 81

rid more, a barn-

accord with

id highest aims of

e graves

comprehensive, is to
admit such secondary influences as ~cruple and expedi-
ency—to hold out honours to quackery, idleness, and
folly—to convert a ministering angel into tempter. On
no other ground can the pursuit of art be thoroughly de-
tensible. On every other hypothesis must refined tfillet-
autism dwindle into such a C'hinanionslerism as Addison
satirized, and llogarth helped to make ridiculous—while
the admiration of the people reduces itself to such a neces-
sity for stimulants or narcotics, as calls aloud for a
Mathew with his medals, or for a Whitfield with his
awakening powers. What would become of the Drama,
were it " winked at" as an entertainment conducted on no
principle of moral responsibility ? What is it in countries
where the Mime is abased to the degraded state of a mere
buffoon ?—an outlet fur the grossest and most unblushing
sensuality. Music is, in every respect, less directly to be
apprehended : there being no such thing,—as some one
has forcibly put it—as an immoral symphony, or overture,
or quartett ; and the peril thereof only to be proved when
it is mated with questionable poetry. But what has made
many admirable persons mistrust music? or only accept
it under trammels or reservations, which, if wrought out,
must end in the extinction of the art ? What but the folly
and frivolity of its professors ? and the toleration these
have met with on the part of a society too contemptuously
eager for its aimless diversion, to care bow truth is tram-
pled upon and talent wasted. Neither have the painters
—albeit they seem to us to have struggled more satisfac-
torily than their brethren, possibly because their art brings
them less immediately before the immediate suffrage of
the public—done all for their " high mystery" which they
Wright have done. With some, bitter jealousy, with others,
reckless licentiousness—or a thirst for larger gains, or an
impatience of labour, have been allowed to impair powers
of study, to degrade fancy to meretricibus exercises, to
drive them audaciously upon tasks to which they were
wholly unequal. They have never been honoured by so
large a share of censure from the txrverse, the prejudked,
or the stupid, as actors or musicians ; but we cannot ac-
quit them of sycophancy, of a want of loyalty to each
other and their cause, the effects of which are felt rather
than seen—felt in the deterioration of their own faith and
self-sacrifice—felt in the failure and decline of all the
higher branches of their art—felt in the fact, that it seems
now the world's province to raise them to the place of
poets, instead of it being their privilege to raise the world !
"-New Quarterly Review.

To build upon

ORIGIN OF LYNCH LAW.—John Lynch, the terrible
judge, was a native of South Carolina, who emigrated to
Kentucky shortly after the pioneer, Daniel Boone, had
established himself there. The settlers on " the dark
and bloody ground," as Kentucky was then called, were
far from any seat of justice; the nearest court-house
being at a distance of 450 miles. The appointment of
Lynch, as a judge, and the first exercise of his jurisdic-
tion, took place in the case of an Indian, who stole a horse
from Daniel Boone. The Indian was caught, almost in
the act, and Boone immediately instituted a court, and
twelve furors. to try the offence. John Lynch was elected

chief justice. The Indian was tried, convicted, and sen-
tenced to receive 39 stripes, which were forthwith given.
The authority thus given to Lynch was retained by him,
and trials under " Lynch law" were had, whenever an
outrage was committed. Lynch was a daring dissolute
fellow, addicted to every species of vice. • It had not been
alleged, however,: that his decisions were partial or un-
just. He outlived Boone, and resided during the latter
part of his life, on an island in the Mississippi. The
author of the geography of the Mississippi speaks of him
as one of those remarkable men of the " buccaneers of
the west."

usual to

is not un-

ATMENT OF CHILDREN IN ITALY
_ 1g on the edge of the tank at these times
or on another flat stone, an unfortunate baby, tightly
swathed up, arms and legs and all, in an enormous quan-
tity of wrapper, so that it is unable to move a toe or finger.
This custom (which we often see represented in old pic-

tures) is universal among the common people. A child is
ft any where without the possibility of crawling away,
lentally knocked off a shelf, or tumbled out of
)ok now and then. and left dam,-

or is a
hpa nt

ling like a doff at an English rag-shop, without the least
inconvenience to anybody. I was sitting one Sunday, soon
after my arrival, in the little country church of San Mar-
tino, a couple of miles from the city, while a baptism took
place. I saw the priest, and an attendant with a large
taper, and a man and a woman, and some others ; but I
had no more idea, until the ceremony was all over, that it
was a baptism, or that the curious little stiff instrument
that was passed from one to another in the course of the
ceremony by the handle—like a short poker—was a child,
than I had that it was my own christening. I borrowed
the child afterwards for a minute or two, (it was lying
across the font then,) and found it very red in the face,
but perfectly quiet, and not to be bent upon any terms.
The number of cripples in the streets soon ceased to sur-
prise me.—Dicken s Pictures from Italy.

AN APOSTOLICAL MINISTER.—If we 'mean ordained
m'nister commending the scriptures, explaining the scrip-
tures, endeavouring, bg judicious patient, and persever-
ing efforts, that men, women, and children may have op-
portunity " to hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly di-
gest" the contents of the sacred volume ; here we see a
' worker together with God,' and in this particular, at
least, an apostolical minister, according to St. Paul's de-
scription of such. On the other band, if we see an or-
lained minister, whether bishop or presbyter, opposing
ares by the people generally, on

the reading of the Scr

of theSciipture,more injury than benefit will

arise from it ; if we see him objecting :to the children of
his people being taught the Scriptures in the schools ; it
we know of his interference to prevent the attendance of
his people at scriptural readings ; if, as one remarkable
instance, we find him commending the zeal of a peasant
who put a Bible in the fire, and enlarging in terms of high
approbation on the orthodox horror of a contaminating

in the tongs rather than his fingers. Do we here recog:
worker together with God" or'a worker against
Do we here recognise a successor of Peter, who
earnestly commended the Scriptures as a light to which
the people did well to take heed ; and exhorted all the
faithful, ' scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappa-
docia, Asia, and Bithynia,' to desire the sincere milk of
the word, that they might grow thereby' (2 Pet. i. 19 ;
1 Pet. ii. 2); or do we not, rather, recognise here a suc-

through worldly ambition.? Peter and Judas had the
same ordination. It is not by their mission in visible

succession that ye shall know the true ' ambassadors for
Christ,' from the false, but by their fruits.—The Church
and the Churches by the Rev. H. 111'Neile.

ULTERIOR VIEWS OF THE LEAGUERS.—Some there
may be who think that by conceding this measure, they
will put an end to agitation, and satisfy the Anti-Corn-

Law League. There cannot be a more futile reason—
there cannot be a greater error. (hear, hear, and cheers)
When was organised agitation put down by concession—
extorted concession? (Hear, hear, hear.) Depend up-
on it, a body thus organised, thus banded together, will
not so easily relinquish political power, when they have
tasted the draught, and found it to be sweet. (Hear,
hear.) I agree with my noble friend, that the passing of
this measure would not suppress the Anti-Corn-Law

.. ..
League—there would be that or some other similar body.
But, my lords, there is no secret made of this. I won't

say every member of t

League shares in this feeling,

nen have entered

League, and who would desire its abolition if this measure
were passed. But what was the language used by Mr,
Lawrence Heyworth, who was chairman of a free trade

meeting held in this city ? (Cheers.) After talking of
the miracle that had been wrought in the Prime Minister,
he says, " But there is something more than corn. The
people will begin to ask why the system of levying taxes,
by which the comforts of the people are destroyed, should
be continued—they begin to ask whether it would not be
better to have one tax, a tax on property, and to abolish
the Cut-tom-house altogether." And he suggests that a
board may be hoisted, on which should be written, " Ho-
nest traders from all ports may land their stuff here. No
taxes—no customs!" (A. laugh.) He further said,
" They have lived to see their cause triumph, but he
would not have the friends of tree trade to relax. They
must remember the House of Lords yet lived—it was the
stronghold of the aristocracy. They were struggling now
for something more than the maintenance of commercial
liberty ; commercial liberty would promote intelligence.
After the settlement of the free trade question, the people
would have more time to agitate for the great principle of
universal suffrage. If it were good for commerce to be
free, it were good for man to be free—if it were good for
cotton and corn to be free, it was good for man to he free.
Everything which weakened the aristocracy and which in-
creased the intelligence of the people, must be in favour
of that noble and Christian cause." And I would wish
to call the attention of the right rev. bench to the con-
cluding passage :—" Could they have free trade in com-
merce without free trade in religion, or could, whilst
such a system of ecclesiastical despotism prevailed as now
blinded our country, the time be far distant when the
Catholic and the Dissenter would a-k why the Church of
Christ should be subject to such trammels ? Freedom of
religion, as to be obtained by the separation of Church
and State, would be one of the glorious results of free
trade "—Lord Stanley's Speech.
SHOOTING RED DEER IN GERMANY.—Our party was
posted, as before, around a thicket, which was beaten in
vain. Stretching off then to the left, we reached a wood
which was surrounded in a similar manner; and we were
placed in a sort of narrow mountain gorge, at the very top
of a wooded glen, to the foot of which the beaters de-

scended, and were to advance upwards. Here we lost sight
of the markgraf; but our friend, the forsr-meister, in-
formed us in a whisper that this time we had got into as
good a position as any one else. Lying down, then, flat,
behind a cairn, we cocked both barrels, and waited, rather
despondingly, on the chances of the " trieb." For about
an hour all was silence, and once or twice we had almost
fallen asleep. At last, a slight rustling sound ; and tak-
ing off our cap, we looked up. Gracious heaven ! what a

quietly from the glen, pausing at intervals
air (and lucky it was that we lay to leeward),
~nificent red deer.

sh, coming

" It was a stag, a stag of ter

In an instant our heart was in our mouth. We have,
since that moment, experienced a variety of excitements
stirring enough in their way—we have felt that awful si-
lence, still as death, when rising in a crowded court, with
the ermine and the inscrutable countenance of the judge
above us—a stolid and impenetrable jury before, with some
trembling wretch in the dock, whose fate and fortunes de-
pended upon the words we were about to utter. We have
watched, with a throbbing heart, the foreman return,
wiih the paper in his hand which held the issue of his fate ;
we have heard the waxy faced clerk of the crown utter, in
tones the monotony of which was worst of ell—" Gentle-
men, are you agreed ?"—" answer to your names"—what
say you ?—is the prisoner guilty or not guilty ?"—" not

so say you all

•
which seemed to rend the heavens from the crowd with-
out. By the gr, en-covered tables of Baden we have stood
the hazard of the die, among a crowd as reckleL,s as our-
selves ; and having, with a quiet eye, seen ourselves
cleaned out, we have carelessly tossed our last louis d'or
on the red, and with calmness watched the result—
" Messieurs, faites voire jeu," the cross twirls, the ball
spins—calm and unmoved we hear from the inscrutable
croupier—" le rouee gagne," as he pushes over to us a
handful of gold. We have sought most kinds of excite-
ment. and, with the exception of a run with the " Blazers,"
have stood the test of them all ; but we do not recollect
ever having been so profoundly stirred—ever having ex-
perienced the almost agonising sensations of that moment.
Our heart leaped—our brain was in a whirl—the very light
left our eyes—every pulse throbbed with such wild excite-
ment, that it was a mercy the rifle did not go off by acci-
dent. Still, however, as death we continued to lie, hold-
ing our breath hard, while on came the stately creature.
Aware that the reputation of our country was at stake, by
a desperate effort we recovered ourselves, and leaning the
rifle on a rock which projected from one side of the cairn,
we slowly brought our sight to bear upon the stag. Now
came the anxious moment. He was standing perfectly
motionless, with a curl, of proud disdain on his nostrils as
we slowly covered him just behind the right shoulder.
Alarmed by some slight noise, he moved on. He was
within fifty yards of us. " Now or never!" we thought.
Our finger touched the trigger ; it seemed stiff—we
pulled ; " donner and blitzen !", it stirred not; we had
forgotten, it appeared, to cock our right bat rcl ; to do so
now was impossible ; the click would have sent off the stag
like the wind. We looked in despair at the left barrel ;
the hammer of it was certainly drawn further back. Not
an instant was to he lost. We touched the trigger; a
flash, a crash, a thud!—that sound which is always heard
when a deer is smitten; and down went the stately ani-
mal, with an ounce of lead in the heart. With a mad
hurra that woke all the echoes, we leaped from our am-
bush, and there, with his life blood crimson on the green
sward, lay the magnificent deer—

" O'er him we bent our falcon eye,
And grimly smiled to see him die."

There, with one of lvs spreading antlers fastened, by the
force of the fall, into the earth, lay the " King of the
Wilderness," pitching in the convulsion of death, and his
bright eve. as we thought, turned a melancholy look of
renroach over us. as the film of death closed over it.—
Dublin Univerd•ity 431awine.