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(From Mrs. S.C. Falls Shet hes of Irish Character.)

THE LAST O} THE LINE. ( Ceneluded.)

The night had become dark and stormy, and when Mary put her head from under the archway, before mentioned, large drops of rain were drifted on her face. She hastily folded ber grey mantle roand her, and stepp- ing from parapet to parapet of the enclosure, geined a particular elevation that overlooked the entire country. Here she paused for a moment, and then pushed into the brush- wood that covered the slope leading to the meadows. Llaving reached the stream, that pattuok of the agitation of the evening gale, she seemed puzzled how to make her passage good ; bat her perplexity was not of long duration, although the stepping-stones were perfectly covered by theewvilen waters. She seated herself on the wet grass, took off her shoes and stockings, and, telding her clothes sound her, flaving achieved her purpose, after mach

boffetting with both wind and water, she | readjusted her dress and proceeded on her |

way 8 intently, and with so much res)la-

tion, that | doubt if she would have stayed | her course had she even met the bogle that | give into this, he'll expose him in the face of | purticn of her plans and anxieties during

frightened the good shepherd of Ettrick— * Ita face was black as Briant coal, Its nose was of the whunstane ; Its mou’ was like a borel-hole— That puffed out fire aud brimstane.”’

that opened into an extensive park ; Jock was out of repair, so that she had but | to apply her fiager underneath, aod push the

belt back. She only paused to inhale a long

breath, and flew onward across the yielding | gras-, startling birds and herded deer from | thew early slumbers; ¢)is continued flvetness | soon brought her opposite the gate of a noble | modern mansion, but sie preferred entering | through a little postera-dvor, to ascending | the stone steps.

** Where's her honor ?"’ she inquired of an old serving-man, astoaisbed at her uatimely visit.

**Lord, Mary! you've frightened the senges out o' me.’’

*« Why, then, it’s myself is glad to hear it.’’ |

** Why so, Mary?"

** Becanse it’s the first time I’ve heard of | yer bavin’ any in; bat where’s the lady ?”’

**Umph,”’ replied the old servant, evi- dently annoyed, ‘‘gind out!"’ and, turning on bis heel, he was leaving the offended | damsel alone, when she snatched the candle | that maintained a very equivocal equilibrium in bis hand, and ran up the back staircase

* That one has the impudence of the ould boy in her, and makes «as free in this house as if it was ber own,” he observed.

She tapped gently at the door of a smali apartment, and a clear-toned voice responded, ** Come in.’’. In another moment Mary was io Mise Dornelilf s presence. She advanced. making a Cuuttesy at every second Blep, unttii she stood opposite the young lady, who re- gstded her with much surprise.

* Why, Mary, is voor Mistrees ill—-or has anything happened to littte Madeline?”

* No, God be thanked—nothin’ — to say nothin’—yet,’’ replied the girl, laying her hand on the back of a chair for support, for | she had traversed nearly five lrish miles in jess than an hour.

**Sit down, sit down, my good girl,’’ said the lady, kind!y ; ** and, as soon us yuu can, tell me what has agitated you thus”

‘Thank you, my ladv—sure yesaid thut just like herself that’s the angel entirely. if ever there was one, God knows!—and God counsel he, and you. my lady ; for she won't be exid or led by me, and more’s the pity!’

**You speak of your mistress, Mary, | sup- pose,” interrupted Miss Dorneliff, *+ bus do come to the point at once, for I um ali anxiety.’’

**L can't make a long story short, Madam, particular’ when my hearts all in it—but as faet as | can, I'll riddle it all out, for sure my heart's burstin® to tell it.’ The lady | assamed the attitude of a patient listener, aud Mary, again drawing a long breath, and palling first oue aod then another of ber red but taper fingers, commenced the disclosure | af her mystery.

** Ve remember, when her ladyship first | came over, the bobbery and the work there was about her; and the people—the protes- | tant people (sivin” yer favor — all bat yer- | self) saying this, that. and t? other about | her, as if she wasn’t what she oaght to be. Well, ta my knowledge and belief, the one | who kept this stirrin’ was no other than | thatould vagabond— that the beams of God's | own san aod moon ‘ud scorn to rest upon | (savin’ yer presence, for mentionin’ him be- | fore ye)—ould Dacey ; because ye're sensible | he’s adurn coat in the firet place —~ and my | lady i# so steady to her duty, that it was ever and always puttin’ him to shame; and_ then to be sure my lacy, seein’, | suppose, that in foreign parts the poor are ull negrces, | God save as! (may-be black bodies to») my |

jady was high to him-—-she has a high way | with her, | grant, and sure so has the lilies, |

though they re so sweet and gentle when you

come to-know them ~well, lor that he buted | father’s affairs, whose age had, in a great SOUT present embarrassment, [ will tell down

prepared to cross the river. |

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he'll not take my lady with him, because | Regardless of banshees, cluricauns, or any of| she’s delicate like ; and he’s persuaded ma:- was a small door, which hung very closely the fairy tribe, Mary pressed earnestly for-| ther she'd be in the way. And I want her to | on its hinges; the cracks and chinks were ward till she arrived opposite a small gate | go—for ivok,”’ the |

| world !—but—”’

jelection—and all that; and if he agrees—|

ot a better fate !—Mary, there is no use in! it’s no business of mine.”’

| bring forward such pruof of trickery as can | 4 voice of thunder, quite forgetting the time | pot to trust to chance in the mutter, and, on | or the priest's blessin’ !’

vut something to oblige him to take her

She stopped before the conclusion of the} ments, ail parties remained silent—gazing al

|insinuation. ‘* Me!"’ she ejaculated, as if to | debted for the honor of her visit ?”’

| sbe continued, after a pause, ** Mary, do not| voice, which gained strength as she pro-

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the girl, confused at committing her lover's cliff. papers and parchments he had Jett on the h-rself; an name of

** Then Benjy, as you call him, was your informant as tu these pretty villainous plots, 1 suppose? ’ interrogated the lady.

* | didn't say éhat, Miss Dorneliff: sure a body may make a remark, as the poor boy did, when they Hear a thing, without being the one to /el/ it?’ retorted the girl, keenly iooking into her face; and the lady, wisely,

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door was shut, and the coachman preparing to drive off, when Sir John called him to stop. The evening sun had set, and the

Dacey said they war not to be disturbed ;; movement, and placing her band firmly on aud there’s two gentlemen, I’m thinkin | the documents, signified so decidedly her in- from Dublin, besides two or three others,! tention of not suffering their removal, that, waiting to get speaking with him. And, baffled at all points, he fiaally withdrew. He | aight wind was blowing sharply in the faces it’s myself don't know where to put yer could hardly have reached the hall, when of the horses; the baronet pushed the fvot- ladyships, barrin’ ye’il go into a purty tidy | the officers, who had been waiting outside,/man away, and, unfastening the door, let room jist off where bis honour’s settlin’ a lit-) made their appearance, in no very gentle | the steps down, so that he could kneel upon seeing that Mary was now put on the gw tle affair of business with Mr. Dacey. Sure,/ manner, to make good their seizure. This, | them. rive to prevent her lover being suspected as if I'd known you war comin’, it's the great however, Miss Dorneliff prevented, by paying | ‘* Madeline,’ he said, in a low, agitated the informer, merely replied, ** Go on.” grand committes-place I'd have bad redied the amount demanded, and the room wasj|tone, and in her own dear native tongue—

**Ye've put me out ever s9 many times! out for ye.”’ svon cleared of such graceless company. \** Madelina, do you from your heart torgive | but all I’ve got to say is asy said now ; it iss’. ‘Bs firm and cautious now, my dear) ‘ Now, then,’’ said the generous girl, |1e, for the uvkindoess I have shown —for enough fur that ould devil's pippin that he friend, for the hour of trial has come,”’ ob-| looking round her with a happy and mee injary which, under the imfluence of a |has custotied, or some sich thing, the whole served Miss Dorneliff, in French, as she fal countenanee, ‘ now, Sir Jotin, my docu-/villain, | would bave dome you, and our land, so &s to make the noble gentleman all pressed her friend's armelosely toherheart ;! ment must be signed. I claim ‘Aa as my innocent child?” as one as a genteel beggar, but pow that the —** tie men from Dublin, and all: we have| reward. My own lawyer will settle other, ‘* My soul's life,’ she replied, * why do, election is come on, and Sir Jot goiu’ to / just arrived in the right time—depend upon matters at some future date, but that must! you ask? I cannot think of you and injury Stand for the county and all—whas d'ye it, all will be well ”’ | be done before L either slumLer or sleep—the | at the same time; from my heart, I have for | think, but he’s laid a plan to git the poor, ‘The waiter stared with stupid astonish-| physician demands her fee.”’ | given you,” gentieman into W , to give the word to ment, and said, *\May-be ye'd have the good some thraythors o° vagabonds, and get him ness, my lady, not to speak out much, as Sir) time before, he had taken to per/orma very | the long locks of her raven hair acroes his | arrested and shamed forenent the whole John’s at business in the next roow, and hej different office, and affixed his name to the | face—he seized upon it as on @ treasure. country, —unless—(oh, the black villain ') mightn’t like to be disturbed; it ‘ill do to paper she presented. After placing it withio | ‘+ IT must keep this to wear next my heart, —unless—(the sneakin’ ditch-hopper!)—un- tell him by-’n-by, won’t it, my lady ? Bat | her bosom, she remained sometime silent, | till "'* we meet again,” he would have less—(oh, deed I can’t say it for the! what'll you please to take?" | whils’ the ‘vacill ting man was endeavor- | added, bat the sentence remained unfinished, | cbokin’ of my throat')—unless he putsaway — ‘* Nothing—nothing, now,’’ replied Miss | ing to explain his conduct to his wife, who, | while he severed the ringlet from the rest ; his darliu’ wife—who can be made out not Dorncliff; forelady Clavis appeared incap- | loving much, forgave all, he then extended his hand to Miss Dorncliff, | his wife, on account of the religion, as I'm | able of either mental or badily exertion **It is- well,’ thought Miss Dorncliff, | #nd continued, even in a more broken tone, | ereditably informed ; and that, if he doesn't! Her friend had revealed to hera considerable | ‘* that such men should be wedded to such ws You have been her friend, as well as my gentle women. My affeetion would always | preserver—I commit her to your care!” expire with my esteem ; but now she loves| ‘*How kind and affectionate he has grown!” and believes, as if he had never been about | Observed Lady Clavis, as the carriage drove to ruig her reputation, and to stigmatize for/99; ‘‘when this dreadful election is over, ever their innocent child! There must be | and our darling recovered, we shall be so something mysterious in this love, which ] | happy !—and to you, my dear, dear friend va@onot comprehend.” She could, however, | —~™Y more than sister—I owe all this; his comprehend the heights and depths of the | first Jove was not so sweet to me as his re- /nodlest friendship.

the people, which I know the masther ‘ud | their brief journey, and her elegant but weak rather die than stand. Well, Miss, ye see, mind, unable to arrive at any conclusion, re- he's got Sir John to promise entirely that mained in a state of passive obedienc>.

Communicating with the noxt apartment |

continued Mary, giving fall; many; and through the principal one Miss scope to the action and energy of her country, | Dorncliff saw Sir John sitting at a table, his Iler sleep that night | turning affection ;” and overcome with min ‘if she was wih him, he could'nt desart her,| face buried in his hands; while Dacey, | was light and refreshing; and it was not | Contending feelings, the gentle creature sank aad look in her sweet patient face, and ber | Whose head was approached elose to his, was) till the morning was far advanced, that the | ‘nto a troubled sleep. two darlint eyes that send the bames of true | talking io a low eager tone—so low that| shouts and bustle of an Irish election woke |. Phe calm was but the prelude to a storm. and pure love right to his eoul; he couldn't only broken syllables reached her ear. ker to consciousness and activity, ; low often, when our hopes are highest, and look at that ma'am dear, and consent to stick | _Atlast Sir John removed his hands, and,/ It is nut to be supposed that Dacey's bad | 0UF certainties of happiness seem firmest, is & koife in her heart, and send the biessn’ of | lifting bis eyes siowly, while his pale and| bat eoterprising spirit would rest composed- | *¢ thander cloud gathering over us that will tie poor, the light of one's eyes—she fond sunken features expressed the painful strug- | ly, under detection and consequent exposure. | $200 Fuin both? Even at the very moment craythur that trusted him, as if she was a/ gles he endured, said, **[t must not be,/ He conjectured, traly, that Miss Dorncliff | when the wife had the surest confidence in thing of shame, abroad into the could, could, Dacey; do you think [ waut to insure | through some means, which at present he | days of enjoyment and repose to come, and | and here the poor girl’s| damnation to my soul? What possible dit-| could only suspect, had obtained information | the friend was luxuriating over the conscious. | voice sank from the highest tones of hope, to! ferenze cin it make to you, that you thus/ of his intentions, and was prepared to render | [83 of a good deed done, they ‘were on the the low and feebie ones of uncertainty—*: jf | stipulate for her destruciion? Men are sel-| null and yoid his basely-earned bargains and very brink of a precipice, from which there she’s not with him, aud that villian at his|dum so desperately wicked without | nefarious schemes. [le was aware that /was, alas! po retreat. Alas! still more, shoulder—and the disgrace—and Jose the! motive."’ ‘until the election was over, no investigation | tat a vite hand should have bad the power ‘* Hasn't she storned me, and ordered me | could be systematically gone into; and he|'@ ferce them over it, But thus it is— plinty o’ money—and the ecat—and ivery out of the room as if 1 was a neagre?—|hit upon a cold and villainous design to pre- | i Sorrow and guilt, thing smooth, and keep him more than half) lasu’t she treated me with the contempt) vent the inquiry he had so much reason to | Like two old pilgrims gnised, but quick and keen or whole mad, betwixt the fume aod the) which a man never forgives ?—hasn t she dread. He knew well the character of the | oe riya, Sneenewe Bye romes Syn Sraete, J whiskey !—it'll be all over with my poor | but the short and the long of it is, Sir Jobn, opposing candidate—a fearless, careless man hud doves Pek a villuiu's Nady bind ares lady !—Oh, she little thinks!—this blessed | that you know my determination : disgrace | Vigorous and imprudent— | fo work their purpose on them.” ay eee at re ae cot on us ' her, _ ade e-dheclsinn your! ———- —— —" Jealous of honor, The roads were heavy, and the lumbering ee ier face in her hands and subbed ree - a i = alae ta | Sudden and qnick in quarrel ; _ carriage and fatted horses little accustomed . MD. ae seataceumel ah P AmENS ate Jay Where Sit. who had foughe more duels than any man in | to hasty journeyings ; they had proceeded at My poor friend!—my dear Madelina ! | Maton can point, as he passes it, et the last | the county ; and was as often called ** Bullet | the rate uf three miles or three miles and a *xelaimed Miss Dorneliff, as the bastily passed | of the house of Clavis! ‘There's the pen and Mahon,’’ as * Barry Maton.”’

: : a. : Ile existed | half, the hour, and were within five miles of up and down the apartment; ** how worthy | the ink ; 1 don’t force ors as ye please —| only in an atmosphere of democracy; and | the Abbey, when their progress was arrested The fellov pushed :

. f i ; ‘ his hot, impatient aspect, firm tread, bluster- | by a figure on horseback seizing the reins, your denying it; Benjy has giveo you this | some parchiments and papers towards tie un ing voice, aud arrogant familiarity, formed and commanding them stop, ‘+ God be thanked information, and he must give it publiely.’’ | fortunate baronet, and gathered unto himself

: , a a very striking contrast to the polished, weak | for his merey!” ejaculated a well-known ra , 9°? > ‘ara fi 2 . | . ‘ | ° * ’ ’ D'ye want rain on bim too?”’ returned | a pile of rouleaus that were filled with gold, ! hut gentlemanly, b acing of Sir John Clavis. voice ; ** by his blessin’ itil not be too late, the subdued girl; ‘+ sure he # above a trade,| while his eyes gloated and glared on the

: ; f . lt was not at all anlikely that a quarre] | and he may be saved yet.” and has been brought up like a born gentle- | agonized face of his patron! ** Sure, there's would ensue, before the termination of the| ‘* Who saved?—whatdo you mean, Mary?” man to dy nothin’;—and, even if he had a/ no harm in life in keeping a foreigner like

: election, and many bad even betted apon it. | eagerly demanded Miss Dorneliff, fur Lady mind, how can he turn agin the ould villian, her,” continued the brute; **many has done | With the generality of Lrishmen, it would | Clavis was not safficiently collected to make | ' . : > ° hid a. om ‘ ane : i | a .

e uncle, when sorra & peany he'd have in| the same, and will again. Send her back tu jhave been unavoidable. But, though Sir|any inquiry, and only lovked wildly frow | the world, and doesn’t know how to muke | the * olive-groves of Spain,’ she’s so fond of | Jobo had never shown the white feather, he | the earriage-window. | ve ” ' r : , ’ | ph j was a decidedly peaceable wan--and was} ‘* The masther! the mastber!—turn the |

yne! singing about, and » PP 4. isecre: gre 4 : j i : ° ‘: Peace, misereant!"’ roared Sir Jobn, in| known to be so. Dacey, however, resolved | horses’ heads, Leary, as ye value salvation,

* Look,” said the lady ; ** if Benjamin will foros Conviction = Merve mind, 4 wil and pines. iat ” (the morning of the second day, he was| ‘ Explain first, Mary, for this is madness,” settie upon him a sufficiency for life ; and | Whist!"’ exclaimed the coward, never closeted with Mahon for nearly an hour | replied Mise Dorneliff; ** where—bow is the there,’’ she continaged, throwing hor purse into | call names so load—you know I'm yer best) When the candidates appeared on the ill- | child?’

Mary’s lap ** 1s the earnest of my promise ”’ | friend. Lf these sheriff’s offivers hear ye, it! constructed bustin rs, to wreet their respec-| ‘** Here,” she replied, unfolding ber cloak, For & moment the girl forgot her mistresy’s| will be high mass with as ali!” | elo coustituents, "+4 appearrd evident that | and placing the smiling cherab on its mo-

interests in her own, as she eyed the glitter- The baronet sank back in a state of stupe- | Mahon was overboiling with rage at some i ther’s lap ~ él eee foe mist!iress "ud never | ing treasure ; but soonshe reverted to what, | faction, and the agent advanced towards him, | known or supposed injury. Sir Jolin’s ad | be'ieve it was alive and well, when | beard o with true lrisb fi lelity, was nearest hy r) pen in hand. Almost mechanically Sir John) dress was mild, and more than usually fa- the trick just to get ye all out o’ the way, heart. | took the little instrument in his fingers—its| porioug—a style better understood and appre- | my lady—and you tov, Miss, who unriddled

** My lady, you'll come to her now, and| point touched the paper—even the letter J/ ciated in England than in the sister island ;|so much befure, that he thought you'd be at persuade the masther to take her, and make | was traced, when Miss Dorncliff pushed | yo alluded £0, without exulting at, the fuyor- |it again—the villain! The short an’ the

strongly agaiast the duor; and, in the same | able state of the poll; and, after a short and long of it is, that ould rascal toul2 some lies

Oech ! my heart never warmed to ye as much | instant, both Sir John and Dacey were cheering exhortation tu his friends, resumed | to the other mimber that wants to be, and, as it dues at this minute !—for they sard—’" | trembling in her presence. For some mo- jj, seat. ,on the strength of them lies, him, the other When Mahon prepared to address the mn, insulted masther forenent the people ; | }each other with such varied expressions as crowd, he swung his body uneasily from side | and they’d a row; and the upshot of it is | **What did they say, Mary?" inquired would be difficult to describe. With the | to side, looking, when wrapt up in his huge | that they're to fight a jewil to-morrow morn- | Mise Dorneliff. | poliseness with which Nature has endowed | white coat, as the personification of those un- | ing—Lord save us ! like Turks or Frenchmen ; |

* That you, my lady—only I’m loath to every Irishman, from the prince to the Pea- | happy polar bears who suffer confinement in ‘and ‘twas be wrote the note—as one let on to | repeat @ lie—that may-be, you'd marry the sant, both pushed seats towards the young| oy. menageries. At last, elevating his | me, who rode good horse to tell it—and, | masther, if he'd put away his wife.”’ | heiress, which she declined ; at last Sir J ohn | right arm ies: if theentenine titel. enedbiic. troth, grass didn’t grow under my feet either.

Miss Dornclifi’s face and forehead crim-| inquired, as the pen dropped from his fia- | on to all ain onan difiseedl oom teat inopio- | But turn, turni—we'll may-be get a help of

horses on the road; I'll gallop on and have

soned to the deepest dye at this villainous | gers, **to what circumstance ther were in- | ion, he began one of thoss inflommatory em ready, though it’s as much as we can do to rach towa by daglight.”

herself —** Me !—the base-burn churix! Bat| ‘+1 eame, Sir Jolin,” she replied—-and the eaten enn ee { will save Aer, come what may. Mary,’’| first sentence was uttered in a trembling} jo talked of the distresses of the people, un.| The servants urged the jaded animals to til those who bad just eaten a hearty dinner | their utmost speed; and prayers mingled sey a word of your having been here—mind, | cveded, ‘** [came to save the uusaNnp of my imagined they were literally starving—and | with the tears Lady Clavis shed, as she not a syllable. You will see me in the (riend, Lady Clavis, from destruction !’ assured them so often that they were in a de- pressed her child to her bosom. Miss Dorn- morning.”’ | Sir Jobn’s pride mounted, as he replied, | yisud state of boadaze, that at last they fan. | cliff endeavoured to give what she did not ‘* Before masther goes?" inquired Mary, | st:ly and formally, **that he was not aware | ,j..g they were sinking under their fetters’ | possess — hope. She knew that Barry ** No, but soon—immediately alter. Fear! to what Miss Durncliff could allude.’’ pure, ‘1 would have you beware,” he| Mabon’s bullet was unerring; and, from not, my good girl, your mistress suall be| ‘This, Sir John,’’ she continued, heedless| 14° exerting to their utmost power his sten- | time to time, she let down the front glass to safely cared for.”’ | of his interruption, * is a bad time for com- Lenina lungs, * I would have yon all, green cheer forward the anxious coachman. The “May the holy Mother, whether ye’ve | Plin ents; you wre about ¢) sign a paper re- | 4. well as orange , beware of those who| horses Mary procared on the road were more faith in her or no, presarve ye from harm, | pudiating your wile, in order that that dad would purchase your votes by bribery! Ifa|@ hindrance than a help, so restive and igno- and may heaven be yer bed at last!" replied | man migit relieve your present necessities, | man gives a bribe, he will take one'!—and 1|rant were they as to carriage-harness. Mary, clasping her hands, and louking most and save you from arrest. I cannet now caken my opponent is pot ashamed — | Never did culprits, who wateh for, yet dread, affectionately at Miss Dorneliff; *tand a good bring forward the proofs that I possess, of his | 7 54 ashamed—to show his face here, after | the coming day, feel more bitterly than they night, and a fresh blessing to ye every murn- | villanies, and the various arts he has used to the orice he has practised in private!" did when the firat thin stream of light ap- ing that ye see daylizght!”’ /dupe your understanding, while he ruined | Sir Joho Clavis called upon Mr. Mahon to peired on the horizon ; the s ars, one by When Miss Dorneliff was again alone, she | Yur property. [ pledge my word to do so: ‘explain. one, faded from their gaze ; and at last the resolved her plans as she paced along her and tu r-deem all, even the /ittle Corner Estate, Mr. Barry Mahon said he did not come! spire of the church of W——appeared like a

dark speck on the clearing sky.

‘* Forward, forward, my good Leary!” said Miss Dorncliff; ‘* there's the church-

sentence,

chamber. For the last three years she had ‘rom his clutches, if, instead of signing his | there to evplain—he came to speak—and had the sole management and control of her P®pet. you will sign mine—and, to relieve | speak he would—no descendant of an imposter ‘should put him down—if Sir John Ciavis

Liberty, when Ereeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”’--- Euripides.

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* Why, Benjy said so,’’ stammered forth We wish to surprise bim,’’ said Miss Dorn- | ¢losed the door, when he remembered the | time in her Pree sii ; she thought not of | had loved with all the fervour of the glowing their ouly safety would be to put to

to Sir John, under ex ng cir- suuth, and all the fidelity of our colder wind by this time had inereased to a periect tell him ye're here just table, and returned with @ view of securing cumstances, her departure was a relief; be climes; the innocent child crept from her | 5Utrieane, aud the sea had become so now, my lady,’* replied the man, ** for Mr (them. Miss Dornelff had anticipated the | kissed and banded her into the carriage ; the arms over his bosom, and ;r-ssed her little it Ws feared at the time on both vessels that the

lips to those of her dead father. Lady Clavis motioned off the people, who wished to re- move the body, and, with fearful calmness, unhottoned the bosom of his shirt, and looked ittently on the wound and the ovzing blood. Se attempted to unfasten it still more; but started bak us if some new horror had been displayed, when the tress of hair he had severed from her head the night before, ap- peared Jiterally resting on his heart. Tears did not dim her eyes, which became fixed and motionless; and her whole figure as- sumed a frightful rigidity. The scene was even too much for Ellen Dorneliff 's firmness ; she fainted while endeavuuring to take the child from the remains of ite ilj-starred parent, ‘It's THE

LAST OF THE LINE, eure

a girl, and such a girl, if report says true,

My tale is told, and many will recognize itas evertrue Lady Clavis s intellect never recovered the shock it received, and some years afterwards she died in a convent in Catal snia. into other hands; and those who obtained it were generous and honourable enough to s2ttle upon Lady Ciavis and her child a lar- gt income than they would have been enti- tled to, had there even been /egal proof of the marriage, which, it was generally sup.

osed could not be obtained, or Miss Dorn. cliff would have procured it. So perfect, however, was the evidence she had collected of Dacey’s villainy, that he was never suf. fered to enjoy his ill-gotten wealth. I re- member him in extreme old age—a hated, mischievous, drivelling idiot. Mary and Benjy were ‘as happy,” to use the tale. t-lling phrase, “as the days were long;” and Miss Dorocliff—who was a living reta- tation of all the seandal ever heaped upon the most maligned claes of persons calied old maids—received, in her declining age, more than eyen a child’s attention from Madelina Clavis.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

STEAMBOAT EXPLOSIONS—FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE!

From a single columu of a New York paper, Sth inst., we glean the following facts :—

The steamer JY. R. Carter exploded her boilers on the 4th inst., at Island No. 93, near Vicksburg. A large number of lives were lost. The boat and cargo are a total loss. The engineer was Iie says no cause can be assigned for the explosion. The machinery was running smoothly, and the beat going slowly at the time. Che Carter belonged to the Mississippi Steam- ship Company, and was valued at abuut $100,- WO. She is the fifth boat of that line which has inet with disaster.

The tow-boat Baltic, from New Orleans on the 3rd inet., while starting, blew up aad immediately sunk. Ouly a few persons were on board. The Captain and engineer were killed, and two or three persous on the levee were killed by splin- ters. Several steamboats alougside were injured.

Au investigation of the cause of the explosion of the steamer Mima, held at Memphis on the 3rd, shows that her first and second eugineers knew the boilers tu be in a bad conditiva before ihe boat left port. The following details of the explosion of thik boat (which caused the loss of over 120 lives.) is fearfully interesting :—

“The accident eccurred seven miles above Napoleon, on the Arkansas river, at 7 o'clock in the eveuing, just as the passengers had taken supper. Consequently both passengers and of- ficers were assembied i) conversation around the stove in the hall. The explosion was of such ter- rible force as to rend the cabin fluor asunder, and let every living soul in the front part of the cabin down into the dreadiul mass of fire and steam below. The boat took fire immediately. The passengers were frantic with fear. They snateb- ed dours, life-preservers, and everything light enough te float, and plunged with deafening, un- earthiy, and piteous screams of woe inte the river, in their attempts to eseape the devouriug flames as they rapidly destroyed the boat. Capt. Levi immortalized himself by his daring and heroie deeds, coolly walking about, trying to keep the people from jumping overboard, as the boat was fast drifting toward the north shore, where it touched a few moments after the dis- aster. Bat now, to those in the back part of the cabin, twas as bad as being iv the middle of the river, as the boat was a vast flame in the middle, and all in the back part were compelled to perish in the flames or bury themselves in the raging flood below. Mr. John Lusk, second clerk in the boat, along with Chas. J. Jobnevon, assistant, who were sitting in the hall, were either killed by the explosion or burned or seald- ed to death. Mr. Lusk’s wife and child, his sister-in-law, and a German fady just from her vative land, were in the ladies’ cabin. The for- mer three were lost and the latter saved. Maj J. E. Rankin last saw her with her child, on a state-room door, which he had giveu ber. Over thirty ot the soldiers were lost. Iwo kad been tied up for disorderly conduct, and in the agen- izing excitement ef the trying ordeal they were furgetten, and there left to burn to death.

After the survivors got ashore, the negro ~wo-

saved.

The property of Clavis passed | 1),.jr meaning. A costen signal, aski

§ eamers would part their timbers at every aurge ol the waves. ‘The Althea meanwhile, after speak - _ing the Narcissus, according to agreement, steam- ed out to open sea, in a uorthwesterly direction, while the lafter took a mere westerly course. | This course proved the death blow to the Nar- cissus, fur by taking it she received tae full force of the wind and tide on ber starboard beame, which drove her completely into the sheale. So _ far shoreward had they been driven, and so shal- , low wus the water, that the Althea struck bet } tom once yery heavily, and for | minutes her keel laid on the reck, while the en- | glues working their utmost, were unable to move her trom her perilous situation, Finally, th the almost superhuman exertions of the erew, | Was Bet irce and sleamed out of the eurreut, | Which, curidusly enough, seemed to run stronger _atneng the shoals than in the sea. Every ae on beard the veasel drew a breath of relief,

She bent her head forward to’ enough !”’ excla:med an old keener, who had fur they were to all appearances saved. Tue baronet seized the pen, which, a short , kiss her husband, and the wind blew one of watched the melancholy proceeding ; ** for THENARCIS8USGOES DOWN WITH ALL ON BOARD.

The Althea had scarcely extricated herself be-

| has no hoult on the land ; ill got—ill gone!” fore coston lights were seen burning on boarn the

| Narcissus, which lay far astern amid the Owing to the darkuess, however, and to the terner which prevailed ou board the doomed veasel, the | figures of the lights were so confused that the | commander of the Althea waa unable to deBve

it assis | tance was needed,was then lighted on the latter ship, in answer to the signals of the other. But, as before, Acting Assistant Ensign McAbL lister, of the Althea, who went after the vessel to endeavour to read the Narcissus’s lights, was un- able to read them. It was then that A En- sign W. K. Kilgoro, in command of the Alibea, gave up all hope lor the Narcissus, and exprestad his opinion that their consort was broken wv “ God help them !” broke from the lips of the oth. cers. While forgetful of the danger their own ship was running at the tiwe, the tare stuod gazing with moistened eyes and quiv lips on the vessel astern, the lights of which slow- ly sank away in the dark waste of weters, as i¢ swallowed up by the breakers, whose distant roar alone made them shudder ever the fate of their fellow beings on board the itl-starred Narcissus.

TUE ALTHEA SAFE AT TAMPA Bay,

It was now no time fer tears, forthe Althea re uired all the exertions of the crew to be saved row the sad fate of ber consort. The

was long between the vessel and the ehoais, bat thanks to the intrepidity of ber commander, Kil- gore, who stationed bimeelf at the wheel, the veesel weathered the storm, and in reaching the open sea, The following morning she arrived safely at Tampa Bay, aud immediately search was made for any sign of the wreck of the Narcissus that might be had. In the scareh they found the dead body of one of the firemen of the Narcissus the hat of her commander, and the selanometer of the veasel, which sad relies left no doubt in the minds of the Althea's odieers that the Narcissus had been dashed oo among the breakers, and that every soul gone down with the wreck—to the number of thirty persons. Among the officers of the lost veesel were Acting }nsign Bradbury, of Calais, Me, commander, Who leaves a wife and family, and —— Dunbar, Executive Officer of Castine, Me,

hcl diate (From the St. John Morning News, Feb. 12.)

THE RECIPROCITY CONDITIONS.

The Toronto Globe of the 2nd inst. contains the preliminary report on the Reciprocity Treaty, prepared by E. H. Derby at the request of the Seeretary of the U. S. ‘Treasury. It occupies in closely printed type some twelve columns of that paper. It gives a very full estimate of the progress and resourees of the Provinces, It dis- cusses mattera connected with the Treaty, ea- pecially as affecting the Colonies, in a spirit at once insolent aud unbearable. It contains the usual spread-eagle nonsense about absorbing the Provinces in the event of the constraining of Yaukee desigus upon our fisheries; for in one place we find the writer in desperation declaring that “we (the Americans) noust either risk our mackerel fishery, treat, or annex the Provinces,” aud in another that “if we would succeed upon the deep, we must either maintain our fisheries or absorb the Provinces.” It asserts rights and claims unmunities for Americans, which never had an existence save ia the over-heated imagin- ation of grasping Americans. Aud it proves con- clusively the humiliating character of the con- ditions which were to be exacted fre tha Colo- nies in the settlement of a treaty. In view of all these matters il is well that the dishonoring stipe- ations have been rejeeted. It is well that our representatives have left the American public to long for the spontaneous junction of the Mara- time Provinees, whieh, this Mr. Derby admita, “with their hardy population, their barboura, fisheries, and seamen, they would greatly im- prove and strengthen our position and aid us ia our struggle for equality upon the ceeaa.” It ie well that they have left them to sigh for that ab- sorbtion of British America which “ would bring to the Union a white population whieh will ia 1868 reach four millions,” and would give to # “two thousand miles of railway, and vast fovesta and wines, and fisheries and mariners, and pearly two-thirds of a million tons of shipping.”

We append Mr. Derby's basis oe a new treaty. It contatms the following provisione:

First—That neither party shall establish or maintain, either in the provinces or on the watere that flow ipto the Gulf ofthe St. Lawneace, or within fifty miles of the same, any free port whatever.

Second—That each party shall make all reason. able exertions to discountenance and pupish iieit trade between each of the provinces and their vesa le and the United States, by allowing no ship- ments except by proper manifests and documents, and with rearsouable security against smuggling.