Vol. XE.

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A Weekly Fournal of

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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, July 28, 1862.

“This is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”---Euripides.

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LITERATURE.

THREE STAGES OF WOMAN'S LOVE

l ere is a lowe heariy life

Which shuns parade and worldly strife,

And seeks, coutetwned the princely dome,

In ible cot, a happy home, F

Mere gorgeous than the pomp of kings, 9@ COrdi Aud the peuri i Orings,

Aud all the glory of the skies,

In living diamonds —beaming eves.

‘The rose's bloom it vields to view,

And lends its fragrance with its hue

The wladdening smile, the balmy kiss,

Wi wok ndness, thoughts of b.1s88,

bec as thui ecarce Know wordly leayev

And dreams of ecstacy and heaven,

Life's aU lelies above

Buch, such ia weman s early k ve!

elder growth,

e love of vouth,

There is a leve o Lees dazaliing ata Uf Where geatle looks and anxious care

Aspire the husbaud s te © share ;

W bich seeks ite solace and employ, 2’reviding for her children joy

“ h owus no happiness complete

Till they are healthy, clean and neat ; Which strives to spare the humble store, And make inal tlie something more ; Love, whieh, the frugal table spread,

blessiggz breathes on daily bread,

W hich, scorning finery and pride, Exults in comforts seif«@ red

And teuches mun tis vain to roam

ber pleasure to ompure with home :— This calms, as that the heart could move; And this is Woman s noon-day ieve.

There is a love in later stage,

W ben pain and sickuess grow on age, Whea he, #0 active once and gay, Perceives approach his closing day When failing strength and tottering limb, Aud sunken cheek, and eve grow dim, And falter:ug voice aud visage wan, Have to a spectre changed the man ; ‘Then love, by the fond wife posseased, ‘Loo vast, too yrand to be expressed, Delighta assidaous!ly to ply,

And soothes wish tender aympathy; Conwseles the meerner for the past,

And fondly seothes him to the last. ‘This love, in bowrs the moat forlorn, Surpaseses that of youth's bright morn;

(itereut from that which marked life's prime, “blew gh not & brilliant, more subi ae ;

This love, from Ueaven derived ts Lirth, Confesses no alley of earth ;

dt lites the sufferer from bis woe,

Above the care of things below

And points to brighter scenes above ; Aud thie is woman's fina! lowe

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CHILDHOOD'S HOME.

(Ver creation’s wide expansion,

Fenev-wing d the mind muy roam: But that tree encircled mansion, Which ia ec} od waa my home,

Rises atill in memory's Vision, Tranquil, andecay'd, and fair,

As were Edeu's scenes eiysian, When primeval peuce was there.

If % now possessed a palace, Furnished in the mnchest sty le, Far removed from strife and malice, Ever blest with friendship's simile— Still the unnd would fondiy cherisi Ciiidhbood's years of mirth and play, And the joys foredoomed to periah im waturer mauhood's day

Then my griefs were like the shadow Of » humming-bird’s guy wing, J’assing Oar a sunny meadow In the lanyhieg hours of spring Yer the deepest cuuse of sorrow, Trat disturbed my breuat at night, Wills before the dawn of marrow Vanished and forgutien qitite.

Jo my breast had not arisen Puasions to embitter life, Like vile felons in a prison With each other ull at strife Pride, and envy, and ainbition, Childhood does not, cannet know— Jranguil is ite blest condition

As@ spitit tree from woe.

1 remeniher vet how gaily Grew the whodbine near the door,

Where industrious bees were cay Toiling for their winter's store

Ju the roxe-bush there atill shedding Pragrance on the summer air!

Are young childiiood's faet auk treaang

O'er the turf’s deep verdure there ?

Is the sunshine reeting brightly On the dial near the door, Indiedting voon tide rightly, Asin happe days of yore? Ace Wie peur trees’ bravches shading The foot path along the hill? When the twilight’s tiuts are fading, Is the cow-bell tinkling still? i

Oh! bleet home, wherechildhoods hours, | Peaceful asa dream, flew by— i Yet were transient as the flowers j That are destined soon to die— }

| father had raced and gamed with the wicked a littl company at home.

a place for Lizzie. Lady L——~ in Bel-| with what he called his public life, and the | them at the Duchess of Manchester's ball the ‘to make my eyes sure of it. The mark was! about the first of June, and immediately set

grave Square wants a maid, and will take wits at the club called bim Lord Preamble | evening aan a on a il 5 sg | obthas eoienit er enensiienmen: nineineeaiin ie . ’ » f . R not change wnKSs 0 ne enameiling ; su se C Oo y i 0

her for a month on trial.” I had expected and Old Red Tape. Lady L kept the } there te quivering of creat fear about her | from the rest of tn wine; and sontiety

to see Johnson in a flush of delight, if not milliners aud herself up to it night and day ; | ¢ 72 ae ’

é ae : face, and she muttered something about dia-, must have brought and placed it among the of gratitude, hut the old man looked as she said the world expected everything from} monds not suiting her pink orafiane ; and other bottles wiule I was out of the room.

Her ladyship’s colour could @ queer one; but there was nothing else, of about the work we had ia hand,

The walrus —or sea-elephant, as it is more properly termed — is an amphibious, carnivorous animal, as large aud even larger

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floundering in the water alongside a boat, of seeing human figures above me like shadows, aud hearing human voices ia quick, excited tones. Then a period of strange confusion followed, during which I seemed to be

blank as if [ had announced Lizzie’s imme- a reigning belle ; and ber fashionable friends | Mr. Vineent took bis father off the subject by Her ladyship deserved credit for such a clever | than an ox about the body, from fifteen to | roughly handled, but whether by man or diate transportation to Botany Bay, and he used to remark what efforts she made to for-j telling him about somebody in parliament trick upon Vanderholt. Nobody but myself twenty feet in length, is covered with short,| beasts 1 could not tell, and then came

| who was believed to be ratting.

said in a low, terrified tone: “ Thank you, get her age and keep up her appearance. Every one of the L——~ family went on his W9¥ld be a good laugh at him upetairs and

’ se? r . ma’am, thenk you: it’s too good you are to They were both, as I have said, too much d ~~ s . . ¢ . . : on aah : own. The family got dressed ; the compa take such trouble for us; but not that house occupied with their own affairs to take notice | OWD Way, as folks do in those great houses arrived; the cool end wyself beeps aes . } ba ‘ax the > ™ » i Gy . ‘ a —I cou'd not let Lizzie go there.” of the rigs Mr. Vincent was running ; but at Where there is room for the like. The sea- tl SP catstintas fer ; B ‘ J ; : last we all thouglit his mother had got a no- | Sons went on, too, with the goings out of “1roug’ the anc Be "Va shea ~~ oe y © > ans f . ' . , ew snes; { “ve i Why, Johnson,” said I, laying down tion of them. Of the two, she was the! town and the comings back, his lordship’s "°™ dishes; aad even Vanderholt found no ‘the bun with which I bad been refreshing! fonder of her son. Whatever Lord L——| politics, her ladyship’s parcels, Mr. Vincent's — . 2 ; : e 7 . | ; 1 1 hear j F a j as ; myself, in perfect amazement, “ it is one of might have been in kis youth, when they | bets, and other doings known to nobody but Neith - ct m4 ie aa or - 7 . . ° . . » « . » ~aVe ‘ fer 2 % the first houces in the West End. Besides said he was so wildand gay, 1 suppose living | himself and his valet. But as the seasons | ‘o'er Cid 4 ever Bee Lady ~ oe oe , Cote ti ’ = > went and eo Mr. Vanderholt w and “ore attention, or look io such high spirits being titled themselves, the L—— family in the House of Lords, and receiving deputa-| Went and came, Mr. Vanderholt went anc herself ‘are connected with half the court: they are tions, bad in @ manner stupified him ; for came ae em. They Red bits out at their ¥ . a rht he ie r the dining-room | seat in Devonshire for shooting ; i known to be liber: id kind to their ser- OM Might have carried off the 5 ' > wc : bir L al an sok ” and his lordship in it, if that had been pos- bim back with a select company for private a ' > ¢ : vy . . . 1 ‘ o . i VERS; SESH SOM ON we BRED, YOU ONCE sibie, without bis knowing anything about theatricals at Christmas; they had him at served in that house yourself it, while he sat with his eyes half closed, | every party they gave in Belgrave Square ;

taking *pecia] care to draw the marked bottle and place it by Mr. Vanderholt.

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Fashions

change, ma’am; and gentlemen don’t drink |

‘human io appearance, with fierce looking

ivory tusks growing downward to an average length of two feet. Lt swims in water from

fault. I never saw the banker better satisfied, | tea to twenty fathoms in depth.—breathes air, | were standing close beside me.

| which it sucks in and blows out something like a whale—feeds on sand- worms, star-fish, shrimps, clams, cockles and sea weeds—often

At last, the dinner was finished, tne} ploughs the bed of the ocean with its tusks

they had cloth was removed, and I set on the wina, \in search of food, and suns iteeif and sleeps

on flat cakes of floating ice. | {n truth, it is while occupying these cakes

. . } . . : I did, ma’am,” said Johnson: ‘ I was! droning away concerning the difficulties of | #vd we did not wonder. for it was plain how | QU!t€ 80 mach now as they did thirty years of ics, thet the walrus is generally dissover-

butler there thirty years ago, in the old the cabinet, and the coalitions that onght to | the debts had been paid, and where the money

Rah ' -.. be formed. IL hs learned — Leelee ; \ ; rave learne ’ ? ; . family time the elder branch, I think, words with hearing them eo often at the side-| me and Robinson the foctmaa, who, { must | %48 then at Lord L 8. they onght to be called. ”

/ hey died quite poard. But Lady L was of a quicker 8ay, Was clever at making matters out, and | * Conservative, and liked to keep up old cas- | jout with the last heir, my master’s only son. turn, and besides her business was a far more | that was how Lady L—— happened to get toma, and none of the ee he had that 'That was how the estate and title came to expensive one than bis lordship’s. In saving | ber diamonds to wear once a month er so, —s appeared to dissent as concerned the | | the present family.” \the country and keeping in the ministry, he | till the French maid made me clear on it, for, J0bsnnisberg. The ladies rose and retired to |

“And why do you not wish Lizzie to go

no other use, but her eternal parcels brought; Vat you English call a loun.’’

iato their service ?” | bi - : | a. . ; ills after them The family had justenough| It was about the beginning of my last sea- P me . | “Well, ma’am”—and Johnson stepped | to do in keeping up theiretyle ; the bills bad | son in the L_— service, and while things decply with Mr. Vincent shoat @ benatifel

' : : ft and ae . oe | round, and shut his own shop-door—* it’s a not been paid for years, dunning-letters and | were in the state | have been telling you, an ae ithe Seek oa eek patina story L woulda't tell to everybody: itdon’t messages were coming every day ; and her| that we began to notice a queer, bad-looking his bettie. _ Sediand ere z | dc for people in our station to make such | ladyship generally went into hysterics once | woman, who came inquiring for Lady L — a y

i bat Mr. Vanderholt, who was talking se |

the square—a newsman proclaiming the state | i j f | things public; and [ don't care for telling * quarter when they were particularly press-/ and wag taken up the back-stairs by her | 16 equare man p iming the state | weapon pointed and attached to a coil of rope

‘with some of our lost tackle, | pons, boat-hooks, and other articles, but

state of the poll at Lancaster; it was election | time throughout the country—tie parliament | had been dissolved on account of the Reform | Bill, think. Lord L was up into the | | window in a great state of excitement; all the *\ gentlemen, even Mr. Vincent, followed hie| ~ example, and | also took the liberty of look-

litat ali; only the like lies heavy on one’s ‘8: hon short, Lady L— - debts Shae jwnaid. I knew mademoiselie did not like the : : something past the common, and so were her) look of her, and she coulda't — queer, and prem and you have taken so much trouble }son’s. There was no use in letting his lord- bad is the nearest account of it | can give about Lizzie, L'il just tell you my reason for’ ship know ; beside his mortgaged estate and | you, ma’am. The woman was old and may be not liking to see her jn that house; and his great occupation, he had an uncommonly | she had been handsume in her young days j} you'll be kind enough, ma’am, I am sure stiff temper of the cold hard kind and hum-/ for it was a gipsy face, with very dark com | : ade sap! d m ¢ he ws j ivelie ar ln ri > 3 a4 va ~ e .

you will, to put Lady L off quiet! a * rc lady and son both plexion, very black eyes, and very black ing out; but Mr. Vanderholt sat still at the with any discreet excuse you may think | 800d in dread of tim. bair, with a good deal of grey among it. She | table, and as I turned in that direction, my tbest, about the girl falling sick, or the like.| Such was the state of things when I came/ Was tall and thin, had a hooked nose, a deep | o04 ga ueht the movement of his hands among | Her ladysbip will get another maid soon | ito their service. The valets and the lady’s| Voice, and went mostly muflled up ina dark-| jf =

as ; ed : Se 1 Soka claak’”: Wake the nearest bottles. I did not comprehend it i ed ir } i x pectatic Je } ea OF rather ash-c¢ ed clouwk. : : : lenough, and may be Providenee will send | ™*!¢ lived in the daily expectation of setting |! yr rather ash-coloured cloa ‘oinson | ¢i}] they were all sat down again, filling their jmy girl another situation. | know you'll

(out with them to the continent, seeing the told me he had first sean her speaking to glasses and talking over the Lancashire poll town-house closed, and the establiehment| Lady L one day in Kensington Ciardens, | yhich was not at all to their minds. Per- | Rever repeat what passes here between J°U | broken up; but Lady L was @ woman | When she got out of the carriage, he believed haps that made the wine go down quicker ; jand me, to the injury of a poor family, and of wonderful managewent. There was at, in pure bad temper, becagsenobody in Rotien and Mr. Vincent was drinking as fast as any | the annoyance of a great one; that is all | that time—you see it is thirty years ago—a| Row would pay proper attention to the new | | that talking about it could serve for; but |, man—I ought to say a gentleman, perhaps Indian shawi she had on. He said it was!

of them, but it was out o! the bottle with the ) " ; a /marked cork. The old fellow had exchanged koow you won't, ma’am, and i!! tell you ae in C--— Square, whom they called | wo eee Sealine ada oa Spree it for his while the rest were looking out, \the story. I always thiuk of it when I hap- r. anderholt. Some said he was a Jew, | ever ene ene to Lady i sf though ho never appeared to have noticed J eome said he wasa Duotchman,but everybody, ber at once in good-humour. They talked x : pen to be alone here, and no custemers COM-| gered that the ot a ric an ip the | for some time under the trees, and all the cork or bottle. I, of course, could aot inter- ‘ing, as there are this evening.” Weet E > sere Was not & richer man ip the | wailiiies-aontl Gass Gaus cated cas tee could find no excuse for telling my lady, ’ : . est End. ; WO 0 i bee and stood in great f f being blamed f ane : H en ; = ; , | and great fear o ing blamed for | I made the requisite protentations of Mr. Vanderho!t was publicly a banker and | reuble and being at the =e of the tree foiling her scheme. 1 had resolved on taking | | silence aud secrecy,tor my Woman scurioc!'¥ head of w solicitoring firm, who carried on The queer woman had come five or six times, the first opportunity to let her know, whet was roused, and however extraordimary it business and sharp practice, it was said, in = had long ~~ = werd ss ' ha es saw Mr. Vincent iay down his glass and rise | lmay seem, 1 have ‘kept the said promises; Craven Street, Strand; believed to be the} iehe hance . , ee ae ithe ct till now, when Johnson's family are goue to moneyed and money-making man of several | "'S" wile 68 samctatanee ot PNY

from the table, with a hurried whisper to |

g shan eteinns dike Apenemard be on, obdaiade,} Vanderholt, who still sat next tohim. The lis. ar: imself te » athe | speculating companies; and supposed to be! *"' ees enero id g ’

Australis, and himself to the otber world. . eeueduna te rhe aulitets walls with | {oF Mr. Vanderholt had come two or three

look of his face struck me as that of a man ;Atthe time, he was satisfied that L woul times lately, as it segmea by appointment, | ' kae ‘w»—there was lliance bea. ® aye keep them—there was a mutual alliauce I “| which of these .accounts, or if it were for tween the honest wan and me; and after) them all together, I cannot tell, but froim Mr. Vincent in the librasy. Robinson, too am not well;’’ and walked steadily out.

1 TO > and a dec! - fell - ‘ i 3 “ : ‘Baan uni - " * Os . another look round the shop, apd “ Jeclara- | fellow-batlars aad footmen in the hest houses, | roing in on a quiet mesaage one day after be | ran to find the valet, sent him upstairs, tion that they were ail a¢ tea inside, ie 1 learned that Mr. Vanderhole was to be a” a ‘ee a : % ‘ sh he bad #®2d came back to my post, still looking for | : spread his hands ou the counter— which was cen at their finest balls and tip-top dinners nen eee ‘ieee a ate “weytidaes ecto {an excuse to the drawing-room ; but while} Jobnson's notion of solemuity—and pre- ie was a stout bald-headed man, somewhere | would [fet it out some day, and his mother “e company drank on, and [ stood wonder. |

‘eof ; out ol a { ceeded with bis tale, which I believe to be about fifty-five, with a dark complexion, « answered: ** No, Vincent; Ill take care he |'2& what could be the matter with Mr. Vin. umber on the watch for danger. Whea

betantiat! hard steady face, and a harder manner of ‘ tt , ‘es i

Cera weny tees. : : speaking. At the best table and among the | | I wus butler in the L family for fnest company, he would have said anything | } . , ? > | nearly three years; L served them iu town in the way of taking people down, or tell ng| aud country, and was wore than once left! his mind with a kind of a dry sneer. Ihe ia charge of the house. I bad come with! Wore no fashionable things, searcely dressed ‘good recommendations from my last service —_ was “_ agen in me - et is ' Pa 9 | &D¢ a : ‘ pater judye 4u In-

lin Lord Bristol's. Left them with the best | *2% Water; Dub s greater judge o! good din

f cb : t h os _ | ners and good wine there wes not in all Lon- of characters; but that was the last situa | j,, he most confident cooks stood in mor- tion | ever bad, or wanted.

for yoursel! ; it would be ®urse if Lord L—— | house. Robinson and I were the first to rush

binson seid he heard her groan at the end of | VeTy quiet convulsions. that speech like a troubled ghost, if ever | W#S sent for in all haste ; but befo.e he came, | there was one; and he was sent the same the convulsions had ceased, the face had | evening, just before sho went to dinner at| turned perfectly blue, and Mr. Vincent had, Apsley Howse, with a note addressed to Mrs. | $00¢ to bis account. As you say Of | tu) fear of him: and ladies who at all affect. Brewer, I forget where in the Seven Dials. I need not tell you of the horror and con. | the present famiiy, the L S were liberal | ed housekeeping had no rest in their minds | The day after, Lady L had been in- — “ie the rec ae agreed that | ;aud considerate to their servants. They! for a week before he came todinner. It wae vited toa quadrille-party ; a lace dress had | 4¥@ 1 d oa wou —_ cane ye kept a large establishment, and everything my belief, the gentry, every one, hated him. | been sent home for rt, but she changed her | ao ge on Mr. Vanderk i Bea at rand. handsome seale, befitting a Yet he dined and drank wine, and made his | mind, and would not go, lest her sirength | 6! y CEeOpe * aa.. Oem y jon a grand, 2 ae © dry remarks among them. The ladies dis-| should be too far exhausted to entertaia a | Went home as quickly as they could. I un-! nobleman’s house ; but we down-staira people jis bin particularly. He had never mar-| company of select friends who were coming | derstand that the fright tarned some of them |

| made it out, it would be a long business '0' F449 and never would, it was thought. His! to dime next day, and Mr. Vanderholt | fry pious, but I never heard thatit had any | tell you how, that Lord L had as little! jouse in C Square was k-pt bya foreign| among them. People were to anderstand | effect upon him. The lfawily doctor made a (to spare as any man in Belgravia. His housekeeper with a few servants, fcr he saw | she had gone, however; her ladyship wished | 8feat fuss - Gret, wanted je keep every ees Lady L dis-| to spend that evening quietly in her own 5°" et drink: ae Le the vag ad

Lord Lyttelton; he hed done likewise with liked him most of all: they said it was for| rooms. Lord L—— and Mr. Vincent were bad been drinking; but when Lady L —~'

3 . a j Caarles James Fox. and the rest of that set, 89me observations about paint and finery | both out at diffrent dinners; the French | had talked to him a few minutes im the li- |

paar sa Fei ad | brary, he gave up both intentions, and told | >i ; ; ; : never concealing age; but I know that her maid got leave to go and see a friend she had ’ a . ’ / ia his youth, before he turned Tory : 80 ladyship never called Mr. Vanderholt any- |i ene of the houses in Eaton Square; the | 48 that Mr. Vincent's death had been caused | there were mortgages on the estate ; heavily thing in my first season of service but ‘ that| rest of us were ail downstairs doing very by a sudden derangement of the vital func. |

: . i encumbered they said it was, but would get shocking old bore.” You may judge, then, | little; the house was dark and quiet — her | Wons. L never kucw what that meant, till)

Gatien in neace recove : ; , , . ‘ : i : . . | ane teen Gen penne aaneeey iclear perhaps in Master Vincent's time. that there was a good deal of talk and specu-| ladyehip did not like noise—and the London | the newspapers, in their notice of his death, | Which imparted rapture then, ! : ; 5 : f i : ita end. tl ‘hole | Said that it was a spasm of the heart. But | And the fleeting vears live over, | He was the only 800 or child Lord and Lady lation among us downstairs the week before j seacon was weartes to its end, the who . \ik late what had been intended di That can ne er be mine again 1h ever kad; the Hosourable Mr. the Derby-day, when a select dinner party | square was quiet too. [ remember it was | as ei bek Samus :9 take fo 6; -<<-- | L waa his proper title now, for he was ¥#* given at L House, and Mr. Vander-| twilight. Lady L——'s dinner was to be) Wot par . ‘

THE MARKED WINE.

My acquaintance with the world of rank and fashion was never very extensive, but some yearsago I did happen to know a lady in Belgravia who wanied a maid, as) also a young woman in Paddington whom | could recommend, with a safe conscience, as | qualified to fill the vacancy. The lady was watron and misiress of a coroneted house, which I will designate by their initial, and ¢ali them the [- family. The young woman was the daughter of an honest, in- dustrious man, who io his day had served as butler in more than cae titled family,but had given up the pantry and sideboard, and betakea himself toa smal! confectioner’s shop. The goods in it were mostly of home manufacture, and of a better quality than is, usually found in such establishments. 1} believe it was through them that myscif aod Johnsvo, as I will call the ex-butler, | for my story does not admit of giving real names, first became acquainted ; at any rate, | acquainted we were sufficiently for me to recommend his daughter, the eldest of six shidren, who had been owt at service, and lost her situation only through the death of her wistress, to Lady L as @ proper and reliable maid. The girl bad been want- iog a situation for some time; fortyue, and | pot character, had gone against her. With’ himssl!, bis wife, and five juniors depending 0 the sajal! coufectiouer’s shop, it was im- portant to Jubngon that a piece should be! found for his eldest daughter, and I thought | myself the bearer of giad tidings when I Biepped into his shop with the iutelligence | that Lady L—~— would take ber for a month on trial.

It was a November evening, heavy and dull, with not exactly a fog, but a gray leaden sky, from which daylight was sliding | away into a still beavier night: the gus) Was glimmering along the little street where | Johnson lived, ia the oldest part of Pad-| dington ; but everybody kept within doors. |

I found his shop utterly deserted, and the out in company. behind bis couater io |

old man sittin; desponding attityde, with his gray bead Jesning on his hand. ‘* There is very little friendly inquiries regarding the state of trade, made by buying; very little indeed,” he said in agswer to my way of prologue 19 the good news. ‘' You see people are say- ing themselves pow for Christmas, and the ehildren have ai! gone back to school ; it’s the dullest time ia the whole year, and like to Jast for some weeks.” [ cut short the

igh with which Johnson closed his account bysiness by saying: “ Well, 1 havo got

a .. tolt was one of the company. I had the| served in her dressing-room, and I was taking | 24 when the funeral was fairly over, I took | turned twenty-two.and going on his father’s hovour of hearing him akan his remarks | it up, when L heard cinaek at the back-dour, | She opportunity of my lady being alone in, carly a which, however, had been all on the dinner, the wine, and the ladies; in| and the voice of the old wonan—I would | the drawing-room - a to her qo, and) over before he was born. At Newmarket, fact. on everything that came under his eye | bave known it among & thousand—inquiring | ask my discharge. You'll get it, Jo'inson, | Epsom, and Ascot, be was the man for bet-/ or taste, just as my acquaintances of other! for her ladyship. She must bave been on| and an excelleat character, said she, palling ting on horses and getting fleeced by black-| pantries and side-boards had told me. It is, the watch, for downstairs sie came like light-| ont hs pa —— my — —. “| legs and jockeys. {mn gaming-houses and in my recollection how he informed Lord | ning, and stopped mo with: ‘* Don’t bring k wha . pe 7, eet ers : . se places, he was the boy for not going © tint @ thousand like him could not up the dinner just yet, and bring that poor | *90wn what It was, I would have put my | wor: P aces, : y body liked Keep the ministry in their places, if there | woman up to me in the dressing-room ; she | band in the fire rather than do it. The evil home till the morning; yet everybody liked were any chance of them going out; and /is an unfortunate creature, who comes to tell | has fallen on you and yours, and for my a Mr. Vincent, aad wished him well. He yarned her ladyship that French white satin | her family trials, and | have always an in- j sake, I'll never publish it; but L'il take a was handsome, gay, and good-natured, as did not suit people getting into years. [| terest in the afflicted.”’ It was the first time money. my lady ; it would burn my con-| civil to the dustman as to my lord, ready | saw her eyes flash fire. Lady L had a| that every anybody learned that of Lady | stence. to help every map, woman, or child who bad considerable temper and pride enough for| L ; but I did as L was ordered—taid| She never uttered a word, but made me a_ got iuto trouble or distress, and never wiill- Lucifer’s eldest daughter, but she made be-| aside my tray, and showed tie old woman | sign to leave the room ; and within the same ing to let a servant sit up fur him without lieve to smile the next minute, though it was up to her drossing-room. 1 scarcely noticed | hour the housekeeper gave me my proper & : . is father ad mother Ply ® grin, and paid the stout, bald-headed, 1t ut the time, but it oceured to my mind af-| wazes and @ first-rate certificate. Neit poying Sim well. His father ore disagreeable man as much attention as if he; terwards, that she was carrying something | she nor any of my fellow-servante could ever saw no faults in him ; be was their ouly 0D had been the Duke of Wellington, ‘very like a bottle carefully hidden under her, make ont why I left. or was sent away: 1| and heir, and they were too mueh occupied After that, they never had dejeaner, din-| cloak. If she were telling of family trials, | kept the story to myself, and did not frequent | with business of their own to take notice of ner, or ball that Mr. Vanderholt was not in-| they were soon disclosed, for we never knew | their company, lest theyeshould poke into 1t. his oogoings. Lord L—— was entirely vited. He never made himself a whit more the old woman to stay £0 short a time. Ro-| But before that season ended, the establish- | given up to politica of the Tory kind. | agreeable ; yet her Jadyship continued to! binson heard ber say : **Good-night and good- | ment was broken up, and the house in Bel- |

am sot sure whether he thouglit he was sav- }siow bim uncommon civility, and always fortune, your ladysbip,’’ and she came down | grave Square let to a foreign nobleman. Lord ‘defenceless, at the merey of these infuriated

! ing the country, or that the ministry could not do without him, but morning, noon, and

looked disappointed and out of sorts when | stairs clinking money. L had got a knowledge of his Jady’s he did not happen to come. It wasthe won-| Next day, the select party were expected : | debts, and his poor son's too. Of course, the , : der among us servants what she could seein | they were not a large company, and no young | man who changed the bottles lost the posi- night, he was buzzing about the Conserva- | yim; and Mr. Vincent appeared to be taken | people among them, but every one great | obits; goodness knows if he counted on that tive Club, getting letters and answering! with the Jew or Dutchman quite as much as! jadges of codkery and wine; sv there was! when making the exchange. At anyrate, he them, going to dinners and making speeches, | was his mother. We noticed that they drew | extra work in the kitchen, and [ had to be |lived long after, was alwaye rich, and ina receiving deputations in the library, talking | together more sinee tho duns began to came | particular in my bringings up from so es | manner courted by a Ww sarees peo a vith whippers-in, getting petitions signed, about them: but Lord L—— did not share|lar aod pantry. Everything was nearly | and they tell me there is a tablet in St. + de PE o 6 eas ‘arly i their faney for Mr. Vanderholt. I heard) ready ; the family had gone to dress for din- | George’s Church quite covered with his vir- and when parliament was sitting,very nearly |) | ogg say to her !adyship when she was| ner; Rubinson was at his post in the hall ; | tues. Lord and Lad living ia the House of Lords. Of course, | ‘

was what they call a leader of fashion, hav- | vite that vular creature?’ and she gave L had bought in the cooler. ! é ing vo daughters to bring out aod get mar- him a long lecture about doing as the world | kind in high fashion then among Tory gen-| had to be removed to @ private asy dd, Lady L brought out herself; | did, and paying proper attention to people | tlemen, for Whigs and Fories were still going | have heard that her fancy was a fear of being a. it was admirers she wanted, or Wbo bad become fashionable, and were seen | at the time. It came from Prince Metter-| poisoned, and it made her half starve hersolf : : we : in the first society. ' a richer husbeod, efter bis lordship , death, | arguments on he subject, for Robinson the |nisberg. Well, I was putting it in, when a/ not live long, and neither did Lord L—~; none of her maids could be certain, but the /footman heard them. Mr. Vincent would | foot came behind me; and to my astonish- | go the titie and estate passed to the present West Ead milliners, jewellers, and hair-| not dispute with his father, but he helped ment, there was Lady L- , looking very family about the time my Lizzie was bora ; s : r ever sending in parcels dy L in the entertaining of her fa- flurried, and still in her morning-dress. |! and now you understand why I don’t want dressers were fo g Pp Lady £ g y y

‘and bills, and nobody saw ber ladyship in yourite, and agreed with his lordship that | +: Johpson,” said sho, “do you see among her to go to service in that house. They are

‘ j r .| the old man was a terrible bore. We couldn't; those bottles one with a mark on the cork?’ po relations, except by marriage, it’s true ; the — dress me ot tie oe ‘make it out; but at iast Lady L ‘smaid; * Yes, my lady,’’ said I, after looking over but, ma’am, I ciate me Lady se riding She miuded nothing else, to my “i er | —slie was a Frenchwoman, keen and clever| them, and noticing one more than the num- in Rotten Row; she looks exactly like the and the butler gets a pretty good understand. | as they generally are, but a very respectable | ber | bad brought up, with a queer mark on jast one ; and Lizzie might get some such ing of all that goes on in the four eee oung person; you see I have no prejudices, | the cork, whieh L could compare to nothing | work to do as I got with the marked wine. of a hoyse, The morping was spent - ay: ma'ain, though they did say mademoiselle | but the track of a sharp elaw or nail dug | i f in getting dressed, and | bi asy't true, for 1 never | into it. rw pei getting refused me, which wasn “« Very well, Johnson"—and she spoke al- | HUNTING

ee received or went popped the question; my own Martha,that’s | : ; THE WALRUS. She was twenty years now Mrs. Johnson, and 1 were keeping com- most in my ear— when the cloth pees) Aili ae than her husband; but he was pany; indeed, at the time, the French maid | and the gentlemen are going to have their | Some years ago I accepted the invitation younger : ’ , d fashi and J were good friends, and she told me one | wine, you will draw that bottle, and set it | of s friend to accompany him on a voyage to some way above sixty; an neigh gegen day that Mr. Vincert’s debts, and her lady- by Mr. Vanderholt. Remember, it is for | Sent toon af faaitel hatha | must be hard for there wasn’t ° bit ones "s, too, were all paid, but she eouldn’t) him, and po one else. lie pretends te be | e of rs loll ee so dal ‘on her ladyship’s Bones, nor a dark hair in sail eras had become of the family diamonds | such a judge of wine; and I wish to try—in Sia ae ag seagate ey ard. her head, if she had not shaved it all of,and | which Lady .— used to wear so constant-| fact, I havo a wager on the subject—aud you | ¢‘aring - e ~~ ae a noes worn a wig Bat for coustant coamelling, ly, and keep with such care. ord story am take care that no oue else gets that bot- in the world, and he uated in r- ; b d to be true. The parcels an to! tle. He ee poarinpoetes, - ents t re sani without bills or tana. the ill-look-| win my wager.” a |bove ae besety.. To opin eae ing men who came inquiring for Mr. Vincent) ‘I'll see that no one gets it, my lady, ‘padding, and the everlasting percels, she ‘were seen no more; neither were Lady | said[, thinking itvery natural that she should | was not much of oue; bet these gentry); +, diamonds; they were nearly all the! wish to take the oldJellow down a trifle from aes never get things cleared up to them like | jewels she bad, and very yaluable ones. 1| his conceit about wine ; and saying * [ wil es ade ae common folks. Lord L—— went on from ‘temember hearing Lord L—— ask her at | depend on you, Johnson,” she ran upstairs | the ma egious pogo ‘one year to gnother far busier than a bee! breakfast one morning why she hada’ worn‘ to dress. J looked once more at the bottle, state we reachod uating