endurance; a raging fever and delirium seized him; he languished under its effects for more than half the time he had been absent; the rest was spent in crawling back to breathe his last at the feet of her he loved.

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Such was Gotthard's tale; and his wan and haggard looks, and emaciated form but too fatally corroborated it.

The next morning saw Adolph on the same spot, prepared for his journey. Brother," he said, “you carried your anguish into Holland, I will try to bear mine farther; lead her not to the altar till you hear from me. Thy brother's love exacts only this condition: am I more successful than thou? In God's name she is thine; and Heaven smile on your love. Should I fail, then Heaven must still decide between us; farewell; take this sealed packet, do not open it till I am gone; I am bound for Batavia."

He went, and for a considerable time his brother's life remained in danger; and Luise-but no, we will not anticipate her secret. The selfconqueror sailed with a fleet of merchant vessels, and reached his destination in safety. A few weeks after, he despatched these lines to his brother. "Here where I am returning thanks to Almighty God, here in the new world I think of thee, and of our loves with all the ecstacy of a martyr. A new destiny, and new objects have enlarged my soul. God has vouchsafed me strength to make the last sacrifice to our affection; she-(here the writing was tremulous, and almost obliterated; it went on)-Brother! it is the last! I have overcome. She is thine; she was not destined to be mine, which tells me she would not have been happy with me, should ever that occur to her. Brother! brother! I lay it solemnly upon thy soul; forget not how dearly she hath cost thee! Ever treat the angel as the young love now teaches thee; look on her as the dear bequest of a brother whom thy arms shall never embrace again; farewell, do not write when you celebrate your nuptials; only write to me that you are happy. For me, what I do is my full assurance that God will not abandon me in a strange land."

The sealed packet was now opened: it contained a transfer of all Adolph's possessions in Germany to his brother.

The marriage took place. The most exemplary of unions lasted one year. At the end of that time Luise died-no one could tell why. In her escrutoir her husband found a small packet directed to himself; he opened it and found it contained a letter to the exile. In the envelope were these words: "Husband! read the enclosed! It contains the secret of my soul; my love, my woman's love was Adolph's beyond all efforts, all control of mine; but he was better able to endure my loss than you were; what my affection for you has been, let my early death, now fast approaching, testify; and dying I affirm I would die for you again. With Adolph only could I have lived; but he was the better able to endure my loss; and Heaven decided between you. When I wrote the enclosed, just before I went to the altar with you, I thought it as necessary and just that he should know the truth when I should be no more, as that you should not; but this was when youth and health were in full vigour, and the things of this world seemed all important; my declining energies have changed the scene, and now I am fearful of trusting my own judgment. In this dilemma I think candor with you may be the best and safest path. I commit the enclosed to your discretion; do with it as thou wilt."

Gotthard did not hesitate; the intelligence it conveyed was perhaps not altogether a surprise to him; and he immediately wrote to his brother to come over and receive the deposit from himself-when placing it in his hands he said with a tinge of his former jealous anxiety-"at least it was proved that I loved her most."

"It was proved you had the weaker health," his brother answered, with a cold and bitter smile. It was the last time she was ever named between them! They spent the remainder of their lives together in a friendship, that perhaps could alone account for their unexampled generosity towards each other.

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COUNTY OF TIPPERARY. MURDER OF MR. COOPER.-On Thursday, April 5, Austin Cooper and Samuel Cooper, Esqrs., (brothers,) left Kilmore, the residence of the former, in a gig, on their way to the fair of Tipperary, accompanied by Francis Weyland, Esq., of Bal. lywater, on horseback. When they had got about a mile and a-quarter from the house, Mr. Samuel Cooper heard a shot, but so close and so sudden was it, that he conceived it was his own gun had gone off; however, in a second, another shot was fired, which took effect on Mr. Weyland, and a third immediately after hit Mr. Weyland's horse in the eye. Mr. Cooper fired one of the barrels of his gun at random and leaped out of the gig, when he perceived another of the ruffians taking deliberate aim at himself; he instantly presented and fired at him, and immediately saw him drop the gun and put his hands up to his face. The party (four in number,) then made off, the others assisting the man whom Mr. S. Cooper fired at, and who must have been severely wounded in the face. Mr. Cooper, wondering at his brother's not coming to his assistance, looked towards the gig, and saw him lying back quite dead. His first impulse was to pursue the murderers, but his attention was immediately drawn to Mr. Weyland who was lying on the ground, and who called to him not to forsake him. He then put him into a gig with his deceased brother, and was driving back in the direction of Kilmore, when he perceived the ruffians making for the same place. Mr. Cooper, conceiving that they meant to intercept him again and renew the attack, and having no ammunition, took a circuit to Mr. Smithwick's house at Lacken, where the inquest was held. When the police and magistrates went to search for the ruffians they were mocked by women, who used to call them, and in a jeering manner say, Why don't you come in here, may be you'd find them here.' Some said,-One of the nobs was shot, and there would be soon more of them. In fact, the entire conduct of the farmers and peasantry, before and subsequent to this tragical circumstance, fully demonstrates the league which exists for the persecution of those concerned with rents or otherwise.

The government proclamation, offering a reward of £300 for the murderers, has been torn down in Clonmel and the neighbouring towns.

A meeting of the magistrates of Tipperary took place at Cashel on the 7th April, at which the following mcmorial to his Excellency was agreed on, and which we publish in our Memoranda as an important document :

"To His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and Governor-General of Ireland, &c. &c. &c.

We, the undersigned Magistrates of the county of Tipperary, this day assembled at Cashel, at a very short notice, beg leave respectfully to state to your Excellency, that it is with feelings of the deepest horror we communicate to your Excellency the dreadful and atrocious attack, made by some villains upon the lives of Samuel Cooper, Esq., J. P., Austin Cooper, Esq., and Francis Weyland, Esq., on the 5th day of April.

"It appears that these gentlemen were proceeding to the fair of Tipperary on that day, the two Mr. Coopers in a gig and Mr. Weyland on horseback, when they were fired upon by four men; Mr. Samuel Cooper and Mr. Weyland returned the fire, but it is horrifying to relate that Mr. Austin Cooper was shot dead by a ball passing through his head, and Mr. Weyland was severely wounded in the hip.

"There are circumstances connected

with these horrible facts, illustrative of the state of society in this county, which we, the undersigned, deem it our duty to represent to your Excellency.

"It appears that it was known for some time previous to this attack, that it was the intention of the miscreants to assassinate these two gentlemen-that a committee of villains had met and determined on the

death of Mr. Austin Cooper-that his friends had warned him of his danger, yet notwithstanding the precautions he took,

he was unable to avoid the fate to which

he had been doomed. Mr. Weyland's house was attacked a few days previous with the intention of shooting him.

"Comments upon these events we feel to be unnecessary. We beg leave to state to your Excellency, that the large additional force of police and military ordered into those districts in consequence of the memorial addressed to your Excellency by the magistrates at Tipperary last November, has not been productive of those effects which your Excellency then calculated upon.

therefore, respectfully trust, that your Excellency will put in force the strongest power, which the laws of the land permit in these districts.

"We consider it our duty to state to your Excellency, that we believe the result of the last assizes for this county has proved how terrible is the state of intimidation which exists, or seems to exist, among the juries of this county-an effect which the crown can, at all times, prevent by again resorting to the old and wholesome practice of challenging, which, properly acted on, would be productive of the best effect.

"We beg leave, respectfully, to hope that her Majesty's government will bring in a bill to parliament, for the purpose of inflicting a heavier penalty, than that now in force, on persons for having unregis

tered arms of ammunition in their possession. We also recommend that licenses, granted for keeping of arms, be received annually, and that additional powers, for searching for arms, be given to magistrates."

The gentry and magistrates of Tipperary have liberally offered a reward of £1,500 for the discovery of the assassins, which, with the paltry sum of £300 offered by government, makes a total of £1,800.

COUNTY OF KILKENNY.

A well conducted and inoffensive young man, named Patrick Wall, who had been in the employment of Mr. Handy at Goresbridge, was brutally murdered on Easter Sunday evening last.-Kilkenny Moderator.

At the late Cork Assizes, the Rev. James Burke, Roman Catholic curate of Kilmichael, was indicted for that he, with three others named Crean, did, in March, 1834, conspire to have William Wright, Bridewell-keeper of Macroom, indicted for the murder of one Daniel Crean, and actually prosecuted him for it.

It appeared that at the Spring assizes of 1884, Wright was put upon his trial, for the murder of a man named Crean, said to have taken place in the January previous. On that occasion the Rev. Mr. Burke and the other prisoners were examined for the prosecution, when it was endeavoured to inculpate Wright in the charge, as well by direct swearing as by the suppression of evidence.

To go into detail of the whole of this atrocious matter in the short space which we must necessarily appropriate to our Memoranda would be impossitherefore, we give the following from the statement of one of the counsel for the prosecution, (Mr. Bennett,) who said,

ble;

"That the Rev. Mr. Burke got up a subscription to fee counsel, additional to those engaged by the crown- -that be was seen whispering with the Creans previously to the inquest, and upon his letting out, most reluctantly, material evidence in favor of Wright at the trial, the latter was instantly acquitted, and informations lodged. There was Mr. Burke sitting by listening to witnesses and keeping back what he knew was swearing what he knew not to be true, true, for fear it would save an innocent man. Gentlemen, I will read part of the evidence of Mr. Burke as taken

down at the time of trial by a short-hand

writer."

[Here Mr. B. read the evidence of Mr. Burke, and his cross-examination by Mr. Jackson.]

After an absence of an hour and a half, the jury returned into court finding Priest Burke and the three Creans guilty.

SENTENCE.-Priest Burke two years' imprisonment, and a fine of £200 to the queen; and the Creans six months' imprisonment and hard labour.

April 20th.-The Evening Mail of this date contains a report of a trial at the Cavan Quarter Sessions, in which another priest was implicated in a case still more fearful than that of Priest Burke.

In this case the priest, a man of the name of Sheridan, actuated by some feeling of hostility against one of his parishioners of the name of Reilly, preferred against him, on oath, charges of a most abominable nature, to which we cannot allude, which turned out to be sheer invention, for the diabolical purposes of revenge. The man's life

would have been forfeited had he been found guilty.

The case at the sessions was a civil action brought by Reilly against his pastor for having put him to expense by a false and malicious charge; the case was tried before Mr. Murphy, the Roman Catholic assistant barrister of the county. The barrister, in his charge to the jury, declared the charge made by the reverend defendant as a base invention, originating in revenge.

The jury found for the plaintiff to the full amount.

THE last volume of Sir Walter's biography is now before the public, and we heartily congratulate Mr. Lockhart upon the manner in which he has performed a task, as interesting, as delicate, and as important, as has often devolved upon the representative of departed genius. That the work should have extended to its present length, is saying no more than that it should have been commensurate to its illustrious subject; and we may truly add, that even if Scott had not filled that large space in the public eye, which for not less than a quarter of a century, made him lord of the literary ascendant in the British isles, the manner in which Mr. Lockhart has made him speak for himself, and the interest inseparable from the autobiography, which constitutes (including his letters) more than one-half of the work, would have rendered any curtailment of its contents a matter of serious regret to the judicious reader.

In truth, we know of no other work which so fully reflects the very form and pressure of the age in which he lived, as these memoirs of the life of Sir Walter. His renown brought him necessarily into acquaintance and contact with his great cotemporaries of every class, and we see, in the pages before us, as in a magical mirror, the shifting scenes and changes in the literary and political world, as they only could be exhibited in the conversation and correspondence of one who enjoyed a confidential intimacy with the principal actors. Whatever Bostrell's life of Johnson has done to make us acquainted with a former, Mr.

Lockhart's volumes accomplishes in making us acquainted with the age just passing away, while we need not say that they possess literary merits to which that other production has no pretensions.

And it is thus alone, as it appears to us, that we can glean any valuable information respecting the life of a nation. History, in the ordinary acceptation of the word, is but the record of wars, and rumours of wars, of startling occurrences, and legislative enactments, which mark rather the costume and the order of the procession, than the living materials of which a nation is composed, its enlightenment, its spirit, its morals, or its refinement. These are only to be detected in the memoirs of the illustrious men whose writings or whose characters exercised an important influence over their contemporaries, and moulded or directed the public mind. What would a history of Greece be, as separated from the biographies of Themistocles, of Pericles, of Alcibiades, or of Solon? And what these eminent men accomplished in their respective eras, by individual influence, the great men of modern times are enabled to accomplish on a more extended scale, by means of the press, by which their power is exalted and diffused into a species of omni presence, which causes it to be felt, with a peculiar intensity, in the countries where they live, while, in a greater or a less degree, it is extended, through that medium which constitutes the intellectual atmosphere of cultivated man, to the remotest verges of literature or of civilization. In individual charac

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