(8 A Weekly Hournal of Lo ities, Literature, 3 > . Yee 99 seven ini “This is (ruc Liberty, when Freeborn Men, hiving to advise the Public, may speak free. Euripides. aa on and Alews, Evol Ne 4 a iz i capi (ee 5 Sas —~—oorrorrrr™ —— Charlottetown, Prince Edward istaund, Monday, January 16, 1860. ; New Series.---N ae entnlitetie. Viterature, TOE em A LOST LOVE, |pretty banter, or mere flirtation; thus leaving him an honorable retreat in case of & sharp repulse; for he could not yet trust himself to opening the trenches in earuest, lest ‘she mig:t laugh at him, as she had done at others; and Lou's knew enough of the world to be aware, that a lover ihe was compelled to mask his approaches under cover of This conversation maybe taken asa specimen of a hundred | that our lo¥ers had on very convenient opportunity, when Louis Was all truthful earpestness; devotion and anxiety pervading his voice ani Manner ; while Kimmy was all fun, drollery, and coquetry,yet loving him nevertheless, But a crisis eame, then Charters received, by the hand merchants that they are “ affected with an imaginary dis- ease,” and that it hag attacked our country with the rapidity of an epidemic. This is a fact. When the imperfection of our defences became acknowledged, we set about their recti- | fication with an impulsive fury that disregarded serious eal- ‘culation, and treated all suggestions of economy with con- “ Great fear and great confidence,” says M, Moc- Bombay ha: bour with the news of the evacuation of the piace ind the eseape of the garrison, The Gazette proceeas :—— “On the evening of Sunday, the 30th ult., the Waghers made a sortie on the sailor’s battery, and were repulsed with severe loss. Karly on Tuesday morning they evacuated the fort, cutting their way through the pickets of the 23th Ree ment, severely wounding one offiver and three men of the of his chief friend, Jieutenant Alaster Mackenzie, of the | tempt. (From the Legends of the Black Watch, by James Grant.) aud romantic one. a lineal descendant of the famous Red Riever. gagetted to an ensigney in Montgomery's ‘ pO ired here, for Kmmy, I hi id, was fi , when that corps was raised in Guited here, for Emmy, | have snid, was tuur-and-twenty, | 1797 by Colonel Archibald Montgomery (afterwards Karl of | ind Louis was three years her senior. Eglinton and Governor of Dumbarton). among the Frasers, | life he had been Highlanders, the old 77th Maedonalds, Camero:)< Charters was a handsome and enthusiastic soldier, full of appearance tu. fallen to bis lot, Willy Douglas “ evacuated steamer So fair, and yet so lesolate : So wan, and yet so young ; Oh, there ts grief too deep for tears, Tvo seal'd for tell-tale tongue! With a faded floweret m her hand, Poor little hand so white ! And dim blue eye. from her casement high She looks upon the night. Only a little rosebud — Only a simple flower— ' Bat it blooms no more as it seem‘d to bloom Through many a lonely hour. As they float from her fever'd touch away; The petals witber’d and brown, : All the hopes she deem‘d too bright to be dfeam d Sink trembling and flattering down. It needs no hush of the Present To call back the sweet calm Past; The lightest sunmer murmuring Way be heard through the wintry blast, ‘nd the wind is rough with sob and with sough, lo-night upon gable and tree, Till the bare elms wail like spectres pale, And the pines like @ passionate sea. But she thinks of a dreamy twilight On the garden walk below, Of the laurels wh spering in their sleep, And the white rose in full blow. The early mova baud suok away Like some pale queen, to die Iu the costly shroud of an opal cloud, To the dune air’s tremulous sigh. All, all too freshly real ; The soft subdued eclipse, Hand in hand, amd heart in heart, And the thrill of the wedded lijs; Those tender memories, how they fash Pale cheek and brow again, Though heart be changed, and lip estranged, That swore such: luring then! Tis but the old, old story, Sung so often in vain ; For man al) the freedom of pasion, For woman the calm and the pain. Tell it the soul wiose grief if read In the poor, pale suffering face. It will still cling om to a love that is gone, With the warmth ef its first embrace. Oh, *tis well for the careless spirit To weave the web of rhyme, And prison the idle memories That float on the breach of time ; But better fur my aching heart, If ever it might be so. To forget, to forget the light that has set, And the dreams of long ago. ee OS -O———— THE LOST RESimewy. A LOVE STORY. -——_—_20e I have been told that a better or a braver fellow than Louis Charters of ours never drew a sword. regimental records show, captain of our 7th company, and major in the army when the corps embarkcd for service in ; the [ilinois in 1763; but prior to that his story \7as @ strange reader may easily imagine the result. All the tabbies, Louis was a cadet of one ot the oldest $ ps. and coteries of the fair city had long since ass,-ned houses in Scotland, the Charters of Amisfield; thus fe was | them to each other; and though the mere magic of link, ig | Farly in tWo names constavily together has done much tu cijole boy: | He was, as the once laughed at is lost, and may as Well quit the field. | So passed away the summer of+I am sorry to give so ‘antique an epoch—1757. The snow began to powder the bare ‘scalps of the Highland frontier; the woods of Scone aud ' |: ave supposed that if it had been his Majes* )’, Kivnoull bevame stripped and leafless, and their russet spoils lead against Fort du Quet ue, one of the three great enter: | acres could not un pp deyeor ge’ eters en ] - were whirled along the green inches and tie reedy banks of! prises undertaken in {758 against the Freach penne Latentine to have come o pee W a r y '. the spring, 7 , ithe Tay; then the hoar fiost wove its thistle blades on the) .orth America. How futile were the tears of Emmy now!! he would have pow y ne ed Sis purpose io four! they found that fort at deserted. Th bh . bi oe ; T cut o¢ j e Wi 2 ‘niiemen at divere nie of i ir treasure windows in the morning, and our lovers found that a period) “ Though dividedby the sea, dear Louis, our hope will be| respectable gentk 4 “ool, to beceme a topic of away or buried all their treasu ‘was put to thelr rambles in the evening, when the sun was) one, like our love,” sh ‘setting behind the darkening mountains of the west. | Now came the titne to ballot for partners for the winter | you.” |season ; and then it was that Louis first learned to bis joy | mt poke -. a ae ».e adie | 7 j res.” under orders to embak at Greenock, to share in the expedi imaginaire ‘ . —. | a t Kuro- . .“ . ° a } : T tion which BrigadierGeneral Porbes of Pittencrief was te! still have confidence in the Emperor; for even such wise- | ow ing to tle darkness. On Wednesday a corps of % “ [ do not doubt you, Louis. i . ’ 7’ . . e sobbed in his ear. | conversation round their (ristmas ta',jes, pasar tie g i ai e : 9 , but that house of Seaforth, a ommand to rejoin his regiment, then | quard, * can ouly explain: the steps of the four malades | regiment. Thev passed giose to the 28th camp Phey are frightened at a shadow, and must . corps co”’} not dy anything towards intercepting them, asser, which had previously aghora, but arriving the @ enemy either carried _ as no loot of any conse- “| quence has been found. It is believed that the 6th Regi- peans proceeded to the fort of W : deen occupied by some of the W * “| ‘ > i . 2 ’ ja” i i t 8 | © Think, think ofwe often, very ofica, a3 I shall think of “Great nations ®~e made tq teem, and not to fear each | ment will join Colonel Soobie’s foree in pursuit of th other.” It wuld not o.,:5 be a supremely wicked, but also | Waghers.” I now judge of your long, | a pre-*ruinently fiviish thing, for France to make war upon . . > a \. ; ;} Nee y that he was not altogether indifferent to the laughing belle. | faithful, and noble iffection by my own, Qh, Louis! Thave| Kugland, of England to make war upon France. No good|paign is about to open from ye hen ; sa th bay Times :— A cam~- The following is from the Bombay ainst a body of ith ; : cs : : ortress upon / The fashion of balloting for partners was a Very curious | been foolish and wilful; I have pained you often; but vou| could come ofit ; and although there are fiightened subjects ip | rebels, said to be 5,000, encamped in a mud fortr po one, and now it is happily abolished ju Scottish society; for! will forgive your por Emmy now; she judges of your love | theone country as well as bewildered merchants in the other, the banks of the Chumbul. | |who cannot understand this; the Governments will always | aggerated, bat it will be long mmy, sub-| endeavour to adjust whatever differences may arise by diplo- smutiny eeases to be felt. 4 “We have never weighed the chance of a of whoxe hills and jungles Feroze - a a eat ox ’ | . olan 0 es . } saa , a! as e /would be sure to have it 80, one would always have the girl | her winning and landsopre lover, and by a knowledge of the | rupture between our veighbonrs and ourselves,” says M.| ara still hiding, the cempa'gn | lay before him vy sea and land, the French) Brinvilliers, Maitre des Requetes in the Council of State. From the south and was enforced, and when once settled or fairly handfasted to a/ bullet, the Indiay arrow—all the risks of war aud pestilence | writing in the Revue Contemporaine, « for every one kno¥ s , upon the rebels, aoe nes The usual!the bonds of interest which uow unite us with England. | the 43:d Light Infantry, Col. Oakes, lonly imagine one’s sensations, good reader, on being con-} by her own.’ |detmned to dance everything with the same gis], and with her } lonly, during a whole winter season! Besides, 1s the devil | dued by the prosycet one did not want. The laws respecting partners were strictly | dangers the! ‘dancing girl for the season, a gentleman was on no account | —wes almost br,xen- ; It was now toolate to think of marriage. of a sudton and loug separation from) matic means. B 8} hearted on his departure, The numbers are doubtless ex- ng ere the ground swell of the In Bundeleund, in the fastness da body of rebels ready opened. h-west three columns are marching separately by Cul. Primrose, of of the 12th Royal Lan- N ; Col. . é: . Pe Pe Pats : \ ; i art’ 1d Gol. Nott, 19th Madras Native Infantry. | permitted to change, even fora single night, on pain of being | rings aud jocks of hair, the customary embraces, were ex-| She holds the first place among the nations of the eart’: ny | cers, and : t, {shot or run through the body by ber nearest male relative. | changed ; the usual : In the beginning of the winter season, the appointmeut | promises of mutual fi ‘for partners usually took place in each little coterie before ‘the opening of the first ball or assembly. A gentleman's | | triple-eoeked beaver was unflapped, and the fans of al] the ladies present were slily put therein; the gentlemen were then blindfulded, and each selected a fan; then she to whom it belonged, however ill they might be paired or assorted, was his partner for the season. Such was the strange law, most rigd!y enforced in the days of Miss Nicholas, wero wos | ithe the mirror of fashion and presiding goddess of tie Edin- i burgh assemblies. When the time for ballotting came, great was the anxiety landers at Greenock. But amid a!) the i ; and ships of war, such rough sea-going ships as Siwollett bas idieus and promises, solemn und sobbing | the itaportance of her commerce with us, and w lclity, were given, and so they parted | effect which a suspension of those commercial re bustle of the embarkation in transports iljes.’ The Emperor, who understands. t,nj ;| amounted to no less than 353,000,000f. in imports, ard 410,- ‘ . } ° . ‘and with Emmy's kiss yet lingering on his lips, and her un-| Q00,000f. in exports. We may, then, form a notion of the | dried tears on his cheek, poor Charters found himself mare) ing at the head of his party of fifty recruits, while the drum | 7 oe and fife woke the echoes in the romantic Wicks of Buaiglie,| serve, moreover, that our relations with other nations would as he bade a long adieu to beautiful Perth, the home of hi~| at least be altered, and that our colonial comy.e:ce would be : ‘ p 4G t : i is i J ii : : oe ee . ms ~ ae Kwmy, and joined the headquarters of Montgomery's High- | completely su: pended, England having every facility to /blockade our establishmants in the Indian Sua and the An- produce in the public fortune of our country. | asked by four wise men of Liverpool whe t luis ir.:erations are. | portrayed in his * Roderick Random,” Charters saw before | Ln acknowledgment of what they have done, the geueral | him the happy, bright, and beautiful Emmy of ae ae 3 public might o ee much . eee by eetueribing | he Spauish cam» in Africa represent the action of the 25th for poor Louis Charters, lest his beloved Emmymight tall to uf joy; or us be had last seen her, pale, erushed, and droop;| their mites towards a fuod for providing fori superb night- | the Spanish cam; { ith his eamel corps, attacks them from the Saugor side ani Col. Taniiewt the 97th, advances from Banda. Capt. Wright, with 200 of the Sikhs end 40 of the 434, iv posted at Geree, and the Brigadier bas remoyed tg Poorania, a position between his head-qaarters column and Alexander’s ‘horse, which guards the road from Ghysabsad to Hattah. ‘We may reasonably perhaps hope that the restoration of order, ‘by the descraction of these last remnants of the wutinieg, is, /not now far distant.” | = s, need not be | hich ip 1.855 lat’ ons world Tuet us ob- THE SPANISH WAR WITH MOROCCO. The Giéraltar Chronicle says :—* Private letters from ‘as more serious, and the Joss of the Spanish army as much M . * : . v7 ori o¢ , > } hz 7, ‘ = »} < , ; bie ise -_ sie] nities vast; her coquetry, her drollery, her! caps, with ears, for gentlemen who have made themselves | ) 7 the lot of that provoking fellow Douglas of ours; but judge |ing in tears upon bis breast; her coquetry ys p ’ g | wore considerable. them'the public account admits, ‘The loss of his joy when Emmy told him, with the most areh and beautiful smile that ever lighted up a pair of lovely hazel eyes, how to distinguish her fan from amid the eighteen or | twenty that were deposited in the hat. ‘Now, my deur Uharters,” said she in a whisper, * 1} t fort , never pretend to be ferociously honest, and thus my unfortu- the dee aration of ‘mete little tongue is always getting me into some frightful British ranks more tk scrape ; but I shal! give you a token by which you will kuow | of whom ever return Does that make you supremely happy ?”’ ever you will voice tremulous with my fan : ‘, Hap, y, Emmy? D ar Eumy, more than . ’ 4 "? Tyive me ere''t for: » Do vot be su. of that, and do not make a now, fest some one a. tiepare you.” « Bat the faa—-—— “ Has a silver buls 1 | prosper.” 4 Thas indiecatea, ‘to the amnoyaner » lieu of a tassal. — the fan cad Araw it fo th he soon selec ss « AMG wiew + 23461, Dougles,~who beheld him present it to versation of Alast the fair owner; and hr tiazel eye § arkled with joy as Char- ters kissed her hand with a matchless «: ~ of ardor and respect. Honest Charters felt quite tipsy with ,°y. Emmy bad now shown that he was not withou’ interest tu | ¢F 3 and was not this a charming admission from a young be. u‘Ys who could fcommand any number of wedding rings at a.” hour sive pleased?" hus, according to the wit. Sir Alexa der Bos- well, who (for one of his squibs) was s.'o¢ oue morn. "S by Stuart of Dunearn, ‘* Each lady's fan a chosen Damon boxe, With care selected many a day befure.”’ With the dancing of a whole season before them, the | #%- w708- and girls into a love for each other, no such magic was re-! Ire : | the re, rularity of th t_rding himself completely outwitted, and the old chivalry and ro:nance of the Highlands; but, at the | Flanders,” 7. e., .brso00k the ballroom, and bent all his ener- (in Time's eapac‘ous time he joined the Black Watch, with the remuant of Mont-| gies to recruiting for tn2 second ‘attalion of the Black Wach, volunteered into our ranks in| leaving the fair field compstely te bis more successful rival. y, and disappoiuted man, who had zht procure him an times, and by her own pretty mapoouyie, a8 a partner for | disasters, gmer;’s regiment, which 1763, he was a pa'e, mood no hope in the service, but that it mi h Boratle death under the balls of an enemy. The story of Louis Charters was as follows : 77th, when it was bis In Jannary. 1757, he was recruiting at Pe good, or perhaps his ill furtune, to be- come attached to a young lady possessed of great attractions, | then expecting the route for America, over the fortunes otf rth for the Was amusing herself with him, and that the time was d ‘awing | } Bat though assigned to Charters 1" the fashion of the | chances of the West (To ; the season, our gay eoquette would nut yet uc knowledge her- | poor Robert Burns says pithily :— ‘* The . est-laid schemes of mice and men Thongh our lovers |. ad resolved that rothing should exceed | . illed wi : , i that the fan of | sheets on 1olseap should be duly rt as all i. ri » Macleans, and other Jacobite clans, | a demots.''e of somewhat mature age and rather unattraetive | wish each other to say, in th. © C83? When regular mails, 8, ter graphs quite caleuluted upon the devicus rouk i wild districts into which the troops wae t laughter, all evaporated, and the true, loving, and trasting (thus remarkable. wotnan alone remaining ; ber eyes full of affection, and hery A Manchester paper. in exrlapation of j = . emotion. | correspondence, says that the letter in que: ti } American independence, gave aan sixty tl.ousand soldiers ; few, indeed, | that the explanation mends the matw r. ed to lay their bones in the land of their! the joke was a sorry one. The gent! emen to the answer from the Emperor was expect d. Fy extraordinary express, in anticipa land, we are in po, ~essic n of correspondence Gang aft aglee.”’ Bombay WA the tlt 1 Nov. > and expulsion of the Waghers from D of mach importance. We Bomtay Gazette the fore Dwarka:—* AJ] the afternoon of the [8th uliimo, so in ord Scobie’s force, which was supposed to be ilind, aware of our presence, the Feroze of the town and fired cizht shells into it, concerted sigual, and then anchored to the /Oppusite to Roossunbuder, which is about t j northward of Dwarka. There is rather an it ifort there, and we noticed borseme varka eir & rrespondenee, and that the largest | astuge, were yet conceaivd 8, and penny p wallet, neither 4 “amy por Charters bad abo 7 or the strange and Denetrate, or the: ate glories and - érn war, witha is alter, be concluded in ow next.) i self conquered; aud Charters felt with sowe anx. ‘v that she | == vear when he wou'd have to rejoin his regiment, whieb was | which the clouds of war were gathering. Besides, Emwy | Gleanings fron: late Papers, THE FOUR MERCHANTS OF LIVERPOOL. a Di éte 3 ‘yr i “ the town, evidently miking preparations to d |Clyde gun-heat, towing the I eroze, first cutter, in charge of Lieut. Wilson, anch '- -menced firing, which was kept up for | COL. ithe b. —~ With the exception of the defeat take from the colamns of the it , following account of the operations be- the transports were off D steamed in abreast | this being the pre- n riding between it and Berenice, and ZLenobia's ; : Sone time, rats’ crews landed, rushed up to the fort, and t the Liverpool | fell chiefly, it is said, on the thre: battalions ordered by on was written |Gen. Kchegua to sally from the entrenched position and Louis sailed for America with one of the finest regimen’s | by the four gentlemen while enjoying ‘he pleasures of a charge the Moors. Lagann were fearfully cut up ever sent forth by Scotland, which, in the war that prece ‘ed | + full board” one evening, and that nothi sg so serious as an | in the hand to hand fight with the Moors. it is algo stated on We do not see god authority that the Spanish army bas lost upwards of If written in joke.|600 in killed and wounded since the’ commencement of gave their real | operations. The fizhting on Sierra Ballones is still ging “ ‘on, and evidence of the combat, inthe shape of the puffs o fea names, which is not generally the c ase when a hoax is in- ; ’ Montgomery's Highlanders consisted of chirtecn companies, tended. Frisky medical studeny. a ad others, when they smneke from the ee _ ey ae eS ‘making a total of 1460 men, including 65 sergea..ts, who sally for’h from “a full board,” ; fier midnight, to rap at be seen during a ° shal or A ad santved tro! } scene. Quick | were armed with Lochaber axes, and 30 pipers armed with | people's sloors and ring their bel’ s to alarm them in their Rock, by the ‘. 0 rs ope a paatadetond tial a | scianaiitanal claymore. |hels, and are caught, give thee co svenient names of Smith, Agesiras State that 2S eam nes aan aie the , Bane more among h's comrades, the spirit of Charters) Brown, Jcnes, or Robinson; Fut were was no disguise ; and Hended ae 161 ied. aa reat tied airy r . Now g> and | rose again; a hundred kindly old regimen'al sympathies | from the circumstance of the le ster having been considered lande and — to the hospl a ‘ho Sith Nov. ¥ | were awakened in his breast, and, th uzh the keen regret of | worthy of an answer, we infer chat the (u'uess of the board | The Toss of the } —_ in the attac seme lll “as ‘his recent parting was fresh in his memory, yet iv "ak ine hetnenwlenuloneMigtolligibigeastitten. (500 killed and ete wounded, i in rds | — sg: “ 0%; the offence was | commeneing operation g ggainst the Moors the Span ee uve ‘he senders had 88 killed, 644 "wounded, and 73 burt. General dala ot @ reco’ Txissance against the Moorish ear ip at ‘ - tne con- did not prt ve. ‘, uw ane ation of Adaster Mackenzie (who. shared ais contidence) | This is a port, however, a (and in bis military duty, he found a’ relief fom bitterness ; | the sending of the letter; und the ridicule Ware (a refuge which was demied poor Kmmyy whe was left to the | have bronghit upon them se! ges may deter them and others | has | solitude ot Per own thoughts and the bi ter olace of her own | from coing anything sc. si {iy again. If hostile intentions | Tenn oe ars ne Fawilis tI; ; 4 “ . 7e . + : crise te eon ste ols Sang ew te oat | — wer aa it - not likely thar they will be dis. FIGHTING IN muhkvcuw. ) | )ciosed upon th? ivitation of any number of gentlemen in | , ‘ isembarked at Cesta. memory of the abscnt, and those hours of ove and pleasure | alarm in Englaa d. One course, which is a clear and simple |. 1 2@ third corps d'armee has disembarke: at Ces “sa that had fled, perhaps never to return. lone, is merely to respect great nations and the Coverssinas Prim has been attacked on the road > =~ Moo: , Meanwaile, Charters had not a thought er hope, desire or| of their choice. and at the same time ensure the re-peet 3 j= repulsed’ with great losa, ‘Tae Spanish had 4 ) killes alm, but to do his duty nobly in the field, toobtain pro..otion, | fore'aners fur «ourselves by exhibiting neither dukes oe : ‘and wouuded, ‘and to return to wed En my. A year~two years—yea,/ fear, " ~~“ SS fe “en three, though an eternity to a Jove’, would soon pass Se enemies | FRANCE ‘the bustle and excitement of war eid of foreign ser- | THE BOMBAY MAIL, cae vice, a years at most, wer would find him again at DEFEAT AND F2“PULSION OF THE WAGHERS FRoM pw THE EMPRESS'S APARTMENT 3 AT TLE ruiieet sr the side o.f Emmy, hand in hand as of dd. Lut, alas! as | Sa5s. ie correspondent of the Independence B edge weil og: —« r day thr 3 Private Wo kmen hat 1.2 absence of tion of the over: |had the good fortune to visit the other and papers from ‘Apartments of the Empress at the Tuileris,?. een engaged on them for two years, duria , the news is not | their Majesties. These suites of rooms, wh eh , i : 7 : a : im Hel line with the reseption roems On the drawing Staal co."sist of an ante-ehsmber, a Wiimr-roony for the: Jy ie ae hon our, a saloon of amdience, a private room for her Map ~ “rT to make Col. | that is to say, the moat reti i > ke Col. | , the at retire! and private o 5 aie . . we ut five miles in- | suite. The Empress, whose preference or the vettet daalk mere is —_ known, hag desired her apartments in question o be eatirely decorated alter the fashion and taste of Marie Antoinette. M. Lefeul receiyat le orders to renew the ele Te, —_ ‘ " ine ornamentation of Trianon in this Parisian palace. dunce an « f° { industry have done marvels under bis superintendence that We see again the graceful srahediade the ream tapering volutes, the exquisite garlands, and the fi. a8 | of the jatter part of the eightecuth ecutury, and j are unique, and executed with admirable ni when | door handles to the chimney pieces, the panels and squares rth-west, nearly WO miles to the nposing-looking efend it; so the | ae carvings re, AN the models cety, from the ook it, whom he had met at a bal!, and who was the only daughter | of the Laird of Tullyas'ra, a gentlewan of property ia the vicinity of the “ Fair City.” Emmy Stuart was four-and-twenty, and Louis was three years her senior. She was tall and beautiful in face and figure ; her hair was che-tnut, ber eyes hazel, and there was 1 charming droop in their lids which enhaneed all her Varie- | ties of expression, especially the diol!, and lent to them a| seductive beauty, most dangerous to the peace of all who engaged ina two-handed flirtation with her; for although | that word was unknown to the fair maids of Perth in those | had a thousand little whims and teasing ways about her, all! (of wi ich it was his daily pleasure, and sometimes his task to | of Xnspived, apparently, by the exampls of the Three Tailors | much to . ‘he surprise of everyhody, Tin the usual ‘Wag! as it Was expected to have ler style, and the colonel uratify and to soothe; and often they bad a quarrel—, real | Engla wd,” or the wise men of Getham, who went to sea on commanding t. These were two centuries to | rn ; but then it was of course made up again ; and Kinmy, | like an Rinpress, gave him her d mpled hand to kiss, rewind. | quarrel—for two whole days. Louis ing him, with a coy smile, that ** A lover's quarrel was but love renewed." “True, Emmy; bat I would infinitely prefer a love that sooley-street, who fancied themselves * the people of been decide a voya,e of discovery na washing-tab, fcur respectable landed there with merevanis Of Liverpool Jately coaceived the idea of writing in Jack’s cap. Oni to the “amp tor of the French, toask his Majesty to be good | ult,, the troops disemba he }enough te tel: them, the four resyectable merchants of Liver-| Scobie’s force. furmed a c. pool, what his intentions were with respect to England.| town. As soon as the And the Emperor. f the I’vench has gracious!y gondescended Nix n, commanding the Clyde, lande. la aia to reply to their anqu.y, by the pen of his private secretary, , which afterwards harassed the enemy a good deal, disabling “@ Beld force stated that he less than 100 men ; th afternoon of ~ked, and in conjunction with Col. “Toe round the land side of the had taken the fort, Jacks 80 this was a feather | the the next day, the 20th | The Vg 24-pounder howitzer of glass, and the whole furniture, from the timepieces to the | tongs in the fireplace, is in harmony with this style of deco- caak ie ee The first saloon, of a pale green, is adorned with Se | aradesques of a rather deeper tint, Medallions glisten in paucls, and within them are b'rds, painted by M. Appert. prevailing colour of the second saloon is a rosy white ; | the arabesques are rose-coloure}, The tops of the ices. ithe enclosures or frames of the panelling, the medallions, Ieut. ‘contain natural flowers, sometimes ona white ground pomes - | times on a gilt one, executed with charming freedoms and freshness, by a young artist, whose vame has slipped my days, yet they flirted nevertheless, aud uone more thun the | required vo renewal,” said Charters with a sigh. lively Emmy Stuart. Though her charming figure was almost hidden by her | of Willy Douglas. * How tiresowe you become! You often make me think Well, and where shall we fiud this re- M. Moequard. But the reply must be more puzzling to the, a gun which they brought to the front, killing two and (four merchants than the state of affuirs whieh they asked wounding a | Memory, good many. The first thing to b. done was to | the ground of Then comes the private saloon of which is likewise of the Empress, a very light green, and the Emperor to eluci date 1, they are unable to understand | disable the girs. of which they appear to have ag. ‘ad many, i the panellings of which contain the al frightful hoop petticoat, and her beautiful hair by white powder—but that, if po-sible, increased the bri liancy of ber | markable love you speak of ?” * Ah, Emmy, you read it in every eye that turns to yours ; portraits of her ladies of (the policy of the Emperor from Svis acts, they will be unable and a 10-inch .o7rtar. 'to understand it from his letter, which is indeed a piece of their batteries to work, The artillery have graduas. 'v got | bonewr, an for the last three days the Fero.© | 00™ lined with green staff, on Which are hung valuable pice patuted by M. Dubuffe; then her first withdrawing- eyes and complexion—none kuew better than Emmy the| it fills the very air you breathe, und sheds a purity and a viquant mode of arranging her capuchin, of holding a| beauty over everything. inaigrette under her pre'ty piuk nostrils; and your great grandmother, my good reader, never surpassed her in the | ye seoret art of putting those devilish little patches on her soft | are still bantering.” ” * Then you always see beauty here ¢” “Oh, Emmy. I always see you, and you only ; | ber of the British public are happily ridiculed ; whilst, in the sloop | confidence, | : but you | who are entitled to respect. ‘Great nations,” says M.! midshi small drollery, wherein the fears cf am inconsidvrable num- and Z wobably, that the letter would be published, a firmed, consist grave and sensible axiow is ad led for the satisfrction of those | Crocker, Clive srrived on the . . 25th, When a naval brigade was antu und patiseunder set off by ing of three lieutenan g —Jedley, commanding ; chased, vw The pew bronzes are pmen, and 120 blue jackets. These landea 0” the 26th, | marble-slabs 1. %t issue nobia have been sne!!ing the town. Her Majesty's | “ures; the doors of this eubinet and the next are of amar- brouz-s, gilt and admirab! of inimitable finish, and de- from the Feroze; Hall, from tuo Zenobia sy nine decidedly toe locks, the arabesques of the chimney scrolls, the M. eneek, or about her bright roguish eyes. in such a manner as)“ to give double point to those glances of drollery or disdain | polite to tell a woman that she is beautiful ?” said Emmy, in which all ladies theo excelled; or, worse still, an amo- pretending to pout, while her eyelids drooped, aud she played | rous languish, lewelle!@ da Francaise, in such a mode as| With her fan, “ Do you know, Captain Charters, that Td) not think jt Moequard writing ‘ ard, fussy uncertainities jand) uot to fear each other.” defensive preparations awaken for the Emperor, “ ave made to respect and the nxt morning at once took up @ position Thus it is that our purely | column, about 150 yards from the outer fort no real anxieties, whilst the taking possession of a square look-out tower. of small witted people are ridiculed | not long left in peace here, for the enem y commenced a heavy | Lefuer, from Christofil.’s factory are - . , | “i vi ; i by myriatt’s | capable af comer og with the Works of the illustrious aud tempts |Gouttieres. ‘The tesse, “ted floors, eeilings, chimneys, reveal They were|a taste so pure and refived that they r fect honour on M, The staircase leading to these apa:tinents is entiraly would have demolished a whole battalion; while the adorable embonpoint of her figure was somewhat increased by the “To tell anyordinary woman that she was beautiful, might offend her, ifshe was sensible; bat to tell you so, everywhiere. The Liverposl affair is so entirely ludicrous fire of musketry, and afte r a short time brought a gun to | of stucco, and its accompanying Dalustrade looke hike » | the bud arrangement of her bu-k, her jewelled necklace, her embossed | though you have the seuse.of a thousand, must be pleasing, | goid watch and efui, which vo lady was ever without, and | because you are cousvious of your great beauty, Eumy, and know its fatal power—bat alus! too weil.” * What !" exclaimed Fanny, her eyes flashing with triamph | (housands of vain a erash of gay gallants about the door to see her depart, that | aod fun, “ IT am beautiful, thea !” “Too much so fur my peace. swords being drawn, and some unfortunate being run through | Stuart, you are dangerouslyso. But you trifle with me Think how time is gliding away Which Kimmy of course carried at her waist. When she left th: as-embly, there was always such a/ Louis seldom yot her sufcly into her sedan or couch without | y. or baving a few inches of a flaming link thrust cruelly, Emmy, that it is d ficult to treat upon it seriously, and yet for the bear on them. Before dark they had two officers, Licut. |fringe of iron acd gold. Betw een the two spiral turns of : | be able to boast of a h, Emmy | Beautiful! O tions, and hand it —and a Any four of these fake of the character and Civnity of the nation, wmpertinent) Hall and Mr. Mipshipman Pulman, and four men wounded /aud unlicenged letter-writing to the heads of foreign Govern-| They had brought a 12-pounder field piece wi ments should be discouraged, and put anendto. There are jit had became disabled afier a few rounds ; so nd silly persons who would be happy to means of silencing the enemy's gun, and there was no cover have been already occupied by her correspondence with fureigu potentates, for them beyond that afforded at the back down ina glass case to their posterity. shot, and there was barely room for 130 men. - | the stairease a meutilion contains a gioup of three children th them, but bearing the attributes of the Empire, and sculptured by they had no) Madame Noemi Constant. ‘These private apartments, which Majesty the Empre-s / of the square since her return from Compi sne, are a work of art, and aud to show a letter from an Kiuperor among their connec- tower, the single walls of whic! were too thin to resixt round decidedly one of H the masterpieces pf decorative art in our However, age, owing to the delicate care that bas been bestowed on down his throat; for the “ fine fellows” of those days were | Bot over particular ia their mode of resentment when a, pretty woman was concerned. The “ Blood,” or “ Buck,” Or * Maceuroni,” of the last century was a very different | from the peaceful unmitigated “ suob” of the present | ~ Tt was no wonder that Louis loved Emmy ; the only mar-| would have been had he proved invulnerable ; so he fe!) @ glance of her bright hazel eyes, as Dunkirk fell bes | the allied armies. But Emmy was so gay in manner, ishing none in particular, that Charters was often in y of anxiety to learn whether she would ever love | and moreover, there was one of ours, a Capt. Douglas. | ing io Perth, who r person, aud who hovered more about the beautiful | Anmy than oar friend of the 77th could have wished. the matter worse, Douglas was an old Jover, having | "my at a ball three years before, and been shot clean . » heart by one of her most seductive glances. 9 full of repartee and drollery, that though \ waking the most desperate love to ber, sed a most annoyingly hand-/as pure and noble as a mam wm To | love for you.” a blush playing upon her beautiful cheek, a smile hov on ber alluring little mouth, with her breast heaving a pretty fingers playing nervously with her fan and the frills | of her busk. ~~ day must come when L shail be no longer here.” Her charming eyelids drooped again. “ A time—well, but remember there is an Lralian. poet who says, ** All time is lost that is not apent.in love.’ Charters gazed at her anxiously, and after a momentary pause, with all his soul in his eyes and Ou his tougue, he | said: : * Listen to me, dearest Emmy. to conduce to man's happiuess, love Of all things necessary is the principal. around the beloved object herself. It awakens ; every slumbering virtue worthy of the woman we love. Sueh, dar Emmy, is my This time Emmy heard him in silence, with downcast with as much reason as the wise men ‘four merchant tailors, any four respectable chevse-mongers, any four l'censed victuallers, any four ‘drivers, tripe-dressers, or chimney--weeps, taking it upon) tower stands. really means to invade our co | peciation of receiving a Sutistactory aud serigus reply. _ [tis there attaching to a Liverpool merehagt or broker more purifies and sheds a glory, a halo over everything, but chiefly than to a London broker and sworn appraig:r, which warrants hes matures him in questioning *the in the heart, aud causes usto become | wainer andthe chimney-sweep are equally interested iu the ay be, to make = biim more prosecution of the peace and safety of the kingdom, and equally anxi ,common sense does not already afford | i ler pwaded ol wight write to the Eunperor af the French | Lieut. of Liverpool. | hers butchers, bakers, -ab- | themselves to speak for the people of Kngliud, might upon | as good a plea as the earnest patriots of Liverpool can show, | ed five others. send a message to the Emperor of The man What ing away their wounded. burning their dead. Naval Brigade casualties advanced fort. Emperor of tbe French ? The eord- maintenance of the power and s to know (if their kuowledge) if the his tr to devas- idea which per- when, on being taken in five minutes more the Wagher flig had been. seud over 200 U0 1 countess aiperur means: ati place was too large and the French to know if he! two, and otherw'se frightfully mangled, antry, and have as good an“ex-/ enemy killed is not known, Selley was determined to hold the position at all. Any hazards, as it was an importabt one. made a sortie in two parties, jround by the beach under the high ground on which the | They rushed on, yelling like fiends, but were | repulsed with great loss; killed one of our men wh» was kil but they were in trying That night the Wag- i One in front and one came led was 2lmost cut in The number of the three hours carry- Toere mast already have been a great number killed, as every uight large fires are seen Yesterday two more were added to the 10 take possession of an When I say trying, it was taken, and before you could make that popular exclamation « Jack Robinson,’ a midshipman was climbing up to the top of the temple, and Union Jack was flying where the |i The breast-works the built up were knocked down : the party then reti to a crumbling state ¢ there was a heavy fire of musketry on thas: every part of their arrangements,” —————— See AUSTRIA. wt RUMOURED ABDICATION OF THE EMPEROR. | _ A piece of extraordinary news has reac i i tical circles of Pesth, . is, that the Goerceei ee contemplates abdicating the crown in favour of his son. a child born the 21st of August, 1858, and appointing ap Ite. gent his brother, the Archduke Maximilian, formerly Guy. ernor of Lombardo-Veuctia. The reason assigned projected abdication is that the E-nperor sees witi that Austria is going to wreck and rnin fh the. risk of figuring personally in hi ry Ha * On the other * Ye. a. ig-heated young i=, ) | ay rtant Copoessiony F - 4 $i especially to Hu by 50. ~ Nine, ga ee and wound. | of