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divine. Sylvo was much disposed to silence for the first day of his visit; and though the leaves were thin, and the grass no longer desirable as a couch, Sylvo still frequented the group of trees among which he had been wont to enjoy his cigar. On the second day, Sylvo's mouth was opened; he had been discovered seated among the trees, polishing with his own hand the silver mounting of his favorite revolver. "Mansfield is just about setting out; he's a famous fellow," said Sylvo. This oracular speech was enough to fill his mother with alarm and trembling. "Mr. Mansfield is quite a savage," said Mrs. Burtonshaw, with dignity; "I do not wonder he should be glad to go back again. He may be quite a fine gentleman among those poor creatures, Sylvo, but he is not very much at home." Sylvo's "ha, ha" came with considerable embarrassment from behind his mustache. "Fact is, I thought of taking a turn myself, to see the world," said Sylvo, "A man can't be shut up in a house like a girl. Mansfield's the best company going- better than a score of your grand men; never have such another chance."

"To see the world?" said Mrs. Burtonshaw. "What do you call seeing the world, you poor simple boy? And there is my dear darling child, Elizabeth, you will leave her pining, you unfeeling great fellow, and never say a word?" "Much she cares!" said Sylvo, getting up very hastily. "If she is a beauty, what have I got to do with it, when she won't have me? I'll be off, mother; you can keep the place, and see things all right. Mansfield's a long way better than Elizabeth for me."

"My dear boy, she would have you. Do not go and leave us, Sylvo; she will break her heart," said simple Mrs. Burtonshaw.

But Sylvo only whistled a long, shrill "whew!" of undutiful scepticism. "I know better," said Sylvo; and he went off to his cigar.

Mary will be a bride so soon, there is little time to think of anything else—for Percy, with his younger brother's fortune, can be content with that other profession of literature, in which he cannot have the same brilliant misadventures as in the learned mysteries of law-and there is to be a marriage here at Twickenham. But all this while the great mirror over the wall, when it holds up its picture of Zaidee's beautiful face, chronicles a constant shade of perplexityan anxious cloud upon this fair brow of hers, which is like the brow of a queen. There is no understanding Philip - he is a perpetual mystery with his reserve and courtly politeness; and now his birthday is approaching very closely, and they all prepare to go home to the Grange. It is wild October weather on the hill of Briarford. Over that great waste of sky the clouds are hurrying in the wildest flight, and this bold gale has pleasure in tossing them close upon each other in black, tumultuous masses, and scattering them abroad anon with a shout of triumph. There is no change upon the wet, green carpet of these Cheshire fields, and there are still the old gables and haystacks of Briarford, the square tower of the church among these little plumes of blue smoke, and the dwarf oaks in the hedge-rows shaking their knotted branches and remainder leaves in the face of the strong blast. Above here, on the lawn of the Grange, the winds are rushing together, as the strangers think, from every quarter under heaven; but even the strangers feel the wild exhilaration of the sweeping gale, which raises their voices into gay shouts of half-heard words and laughter, and keeps up a perpetual riot round this exposed and far-seeing dwellingplace. The sea is roaring with an angry curl upon yonder line of sand-banks far away-a lingering line of red among yonder storm-clouds tells of the sunset, as it yields unwillingly tonight-and all these solitary lines of road trace

And thus was the exit of Sylvester Burton-out the silent country, travelling towards the shaw. Sylvo may write a book when he comes nome, for anything that can be predicted to the contrary. Sylvo, at the present moment, lives a life which the vagrants in Mrs. Cumberland's porch would sink under in a week. Sylvo tramps barefoot over burning deserts, hews his way through unimaginable jungle, fights wild beasts, and has a very hard struggle for his savage existence; all for no reason in the world, but because he happened to be born to wealth and leisure, and found it a very slow thing to be an English country gentleman. No wonder the savages whom Sylvo emulates open their heathen eyes in the utmost wonder; he does it for pleasure, this extraordinary Englishman, and roars his "ha, ha," out of his forest of beard, over all his voluntary hardship. Savage life has no such phenomenon; and, for the good of society, when he comes home, Sylvo will write a book.

"Sylvo will be quite happy-it will do him good, Aunt Burtonshaw," said Mary Cumberland; "and you have still two children-you have Elizabeth and me."

Whereupon Aunt Burtonshaw wipes her kind eyes, and is comforted.

sky; but there is no Mariana now at the window of the Grange, looking for the wayfarer who never comes. The red and genial fire-light gleams between the heavy mullions of the great window; there is light in the library, light in the young ladies' room-the bright cross light of old. The modern windows at the other end of the drawing-room are draped once more to their feet with crimson curtains, but no veil shuts out that glimpse of wild sky, with its tumult of cloud and wind, across which these great mullions of stone print themselves like bars. There is Mrs. Vivian's easy-chair and her high footstool; there is Percy's writing-table, where Percy has been writing; there is the hereditary newspaper, at which Philip no longer "pshaws," but sometimes laughs outright. But in all this familiar room there is no living object familiar; there is only a group of beautiful children playing in the light of the fire.

Lady Powis is making a grand toilette. Sophy is wasting her dressing-hour talking to Mary Cumberland, but there are still two beautiful faces reflected dimly in the little mirror over the bright fireplace of the young ladies'

room. One of them, in its matronly fulness and sweet tranquillity, is Elizabeth Vivian; the other has a shadow on its beauty. Zaidee is in her own house, but Zaidee is not at rest.

"Philip says perhaps - perhaps he may still return to India," says Zaidee. "Even Castle Vivian does not undo the harm I did, Elizabeth. I think Philip is changed."

"And I will tell you what I think," said Elizabeth, drawing close to her the beautiful cheek which was so like her own. "I have always thought it through all our trouble, and I have always been right, Zaidee; we will wait quietly, and see what God is pleased to make of this, dear child. I fear no change."

"You said that long ago, before I left the Grange," said Zaidee.

"Did I say it of Bernard? I forget now that Bernard is not myself," said Elizabeth with a smile, and in those sweet tones which came to every one like the voice of peace. "I am a good prophet, then, for this came true."

And Elizabeth left the young heiress alone with her thoughts. These were not desirable companions for Zaidee. She came into the drawing-room, paused a moment before the great window to look at the sky and the clouds, paused again to speak to the children, and then, struck by a sudden fancy, went to the library to look for Grandfather Vivian's book, which had been restored to its place there. The library was half lighted, the curtains were not drawn, the open sky looked in once more, and Zaidee started to see Philip sitting in the partial light by the table, leaning his head upon his hands.

She would have turned back again, but he rose and brought her to the table; she stood by him for a moment there, with the strangest unspeakable embarrassment. In the darkness, Zaidee's beautiful cheek burned with a blush of recollection she remembered the last time she stood by Philip's side in this apartment- she remembered her own child's heart troubled to its depths, and the young man's momentary harshness and boyish shame. It was the same scene, the same half light, the same uncurtained window; and

there stood the elbow-chair, in which she fancied Grandfather Vivian might sit exulting in the success of his evil purpose. Zaidee stood quite still, neither moving nor speaking. Was Grandfather Vivian looking on now?

Then Philip said, "Zaidee." He never called her so-yet Zaidee did not look up with pleasure - she rather looked down all the more, and felt her blush burn warmer upon her cheek. Philip took the only mode which remained to him of ascertaining what her eyes were dreaming of. He stooped so low that his proud head touched those hands of Zaidee's which unwil lingly submitted to be held in Philip's handand then the head of the house spoke to the heiress of the Grange.

"Zaidee, what did you say to me when we were last here together? Do you remember? That pure child's heart of yours that feared no evil-Zaidee, where is it now?"

Zaidee made no answer - but she stood quite still, with her blush burning on her cheek, and the tears in her eyes. "I am not so disinterested as you were. You kill me if you send me away," said Philip. "I have no thought of generosity for my part, Zaidee. I confess it is myself and my own happiness I am thinking of. I cannot be content to share you with my mother, with Sophy and Margaret and Elizabeth. You drive me now to the humblest attitude, the meanest argument. You little Zaidee, who once would have married Philip, will you do it now?—or will you send me to India again to throw my life away?"

How Philip pleaded further, there is no record, but Philip neither threw his life away nor went to India. Philip Vivian of Castle Vivian and of Briarford, the head of the house, has the most beautiful wife in all Cheshire, not even excepting Mrs. Bernard Morton; and after all the grief and sacrifice and suffering it has occasioned, this will of Grandfather Vivian has become the most harmless piece of paper in the world, and it is not of the slightest importance to any creature which of these two claimants is the true heir of the Grange.

TURKEY AND ROME.-In Dr. Watts' Reliquiæ | What divine is here referred to, and where is Juveniles, Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose the opinion given? In the same volume, I find and Verse, &c., I find an article headed, the idea of a Crystal Palace. An article on "Babylon Destroyed, or the 137th Psalm trans-"The Temple of the Sun" thus commences : lated," from which I extract the following passage:

"This particular Psalm could not well be converted into Christianity, and therefore it appears here in its Jewish form. The vengeance denounced against Babylon, in the close of it, shall be executed (said a great divine) upon Anti-Christian Rome; but he was persuaded the Turks must do it; for Protestant hearts, said he, have too much compassion in them to embrue their hands in such a bloody and terrible execution."

"If I were an idolater, and would build a Temple for the Sun, I should make the whole fabrick to consist of glass; the walls and roof of it should be all over transparent, and it should need no other windows. Thus I might every where behold the glory of the God that I worship, and feel his heat, and rejoice in his light, and partake of the vital influences of that illustrious star in every part of his temple."

HALIFAX.

H. MARTIN.

- Notes and Queries.

From The Examiner, 27 Oct.
FILLIBUSTERING.

country forever, and to a serious degree retard the progress of all true civilization.

offence.

That her really influential men are disWe are in danger of doing too much honor posed to sanction wild projects of piracy we to the lawless portion of the great American will not believe. Fillibustering is no limb community. Such it would be, to credit of the republican state, but an excrescence them with enough either of power in them- requiring to be cut out of it. The art of selves, or of social influence with their countrymen, to bring the two freest countries surgery may be performed, we honestly believe, without giving just occasion of on the earth to the verge of quarrel. Remembering what the Americans are, let A strong English fleet assembles at Berus at least not be eager to meet half way muda ready to act if need should arise for even the possibility of such a strife. Men action. The apprehenson is that a descent of our own race, they have conquered on a may be made on Hayti as a step towards distant continent not only more liberty than Cuba, but we are not pledged, or should not their ancestors were able to possess in peace be pledged, to the protection of that miserwhen won at home, but a little more than ably mismanaged Spanish possession, which they themselves know quite how to enjoy, sooner or later the United States must seize without the drawback of excesses which their if they be so evilly minded, in despite of all form of government fails to check. But for Europe may do to the contrary. Some indeed the perfection of a republic it is indispensable hint at a design against Ireland; but the that there should be a widely-diffused spirit Government can scarcely share this impresof justice innate in the people; and however sion, or the fleet would not have been sent prominent every exception to this rule in out of the Irish seas. America is by the nature of things made, glary in Piccadilly you do not draft off your If you expect a burthe simple fact that the republic still exists, police into Bermondsey. In any case let us that it maintains one of the highest positions by all means prevent lawless people of every in the world, and has commanded hitherto sort from intruding upon our possessions; the full respect of England, is quite sufficient and for the rest show what forbearance we proof of its establishment, generally, on a sound and firm foundation. We have no right to confound with the healthy opinion of America the cries of faction which in all republics find necessarily more uncontrolled utterance than elsewhere, or to condemn its government too hastily for those outbreaks of lawlessness which only the spread of sound opinion and feeling under a free constitution can hold in constant check. These are the rough trials of strength which young republics have at all times to endure; and that America survives them proves not that they are, but that they are not, of her essence. In spite of them the Government of the United States exists.

We hold it therefore to be quite beside every wise purpose to show ourselves in any degree forward with anger at any weakness or excess in that government which it may be possible to meet by prudence and temper. All who desire to strengthen and extend the liberty of nations can wish only success to our countrymen in America. Let us rather be eager to forgive their occasional stumbling upon a difficult and surely noble path. In every way it behooves us to help them, even by some little sacrifice of mere pride, as a much-needed example to the nations which hold to old creeds of despotism. Any violent check to the upward progress of America inflicted by Great Britain, except under such provocation as it is not easy to imagine possible, would disgrace the annals of this

can. Against states affecting to hold within themselves all necessary powers of repression, much grave complaint and virtuous indignation may fairly be expressed for permitting what they knew how to prevent. But as to America we ought to know, and if we have read anything of history must know, what is the truth; and let us act upon it in a when we are beating down the despotism of practical and manly temper. At a time the East, we owe it to humanity to treat with forbearance, nay, with all due generosity and sympathy, whatever difficulties may beset the course of freedom in the West.

Great indeed should be the cause of offence before we so much as think of those men as

enemies who are allied to us not only by blood and race, but by that common love of public liberty which sorely needs to be more widely spread among the nations of the world.

From The Economist, 17 Nov.

THE RISING SPIRIT OF SPECULATION.

THERE are very few now engaged in conducting the commerce of this country who have not been actively connected with it sufficiently long to remember the latter half of the year 1847. The great panic of that year, which began in the month of August and continued with increasing intensity all September and a part of October, was preceded by a premonitory pressure in the month of

April. That pressure, though short, was unwilling victim of a mania, suffers enorsharp and severe. It will perhaps be remem- mous losses, by a fall in price, not only upon bered that the greatest commercial authority his stock on hand, but also on the goods of the day, the late Lord Ashburton, speak- which for some time forward are yet to aring then in the Senate, declared that in his rive. And these losses, taken in connection opinion the commerce of the country had with a general discredit and a severe monenever at any former time been in a more tarial crisis, cause hundreds to succumb behealthy state, and that whatever inconven- fore the storm, whose position but a few ience might be caused by the mad railway months before was not only quite sound, but speculations which for the three preceding even flourishing. Thus by the acts of a years had so much occupied the attention of comparatively few, the trade of the country, the public and absorbed the floating capital which might in April fairly be said to have of the country, he could at least congratu- been unwontedly sound, might in September late the House of Lords that trade was sound. disclose a condition of weakness leading to The Noble Lord went further, if our recol- losses and ruin such as were experienced in lection is correct, and published a pamphlet 1847. in which he repeated similar statements. Under such a conviction, which was general in the country and dwelt upon by the press, the pressure of April passed away, and strange as it may appear, speculation, in place of being checked and controlled by the warning, seemed to have been only promoted by it. During the three succeeding months great excitement prevailed, and the price of wheat was run up to an average of five guineas the quarter, enormous orders were sent to the United States and other countries for wheat and flour at corresponding prices;-other articles of foreign produce less or more shared the excitement; and operations "on the spot," "to arrive," and in the shape of "orders transmitted abroad at extreme limits," to be executed when and how they could, were then entered upon. August arrived, and the sequel is too well known. Trade which was deemed by the highest authorities to be quite sound in April, turned out to be completely rotten in September. Yet we do not believe that, speaking for the country generally, the opinion expressed in April by Lord Ashburton was not well founded. No doubt there were some few very extensive firms, which turned out to have been existing for some time in a state of insolvency, on credit and reputation formerly acquired. But most of the money that was lost in the autumn of 1847, and many of the bankruptcies which occurred, were the consequences of transactions begun between April and September; and might to a great extent have been avoided had caution and moderation followed the warning in April. In place of that, speculators led the way; -the legitimate and even prudent trader was dragged after them, in numerous cases, in spite of himself. At such times, the cautious merchant, sensible of the volcano on which he stands, is obliged either to suffer himself to be edged out of his connection and trade, or to sail with the stream ; — and when the retributive reaction arrives, which involves the speculator in ruin, he finds that he also, an

Are we to learn by experience? We know that whenever a commercial mania arises, there are always those who can ingeniously show that the peculiarities of the moment take it out of the category of former periods of speculation. This was so in 1825. In 1836 there were whole sheets of print expended to show that the circumstances of the hour bore no resemblance to those of 1825, and that there were sufficient grounds for not anticipating a similar result. Again, in 1847 there was no lack of arguments to show that it bore no resemblance to 1836 or 1825. Nevertheless, reaction, panic, and loss, equally followed all those periods of undue excitement. At present, circumstances are again said to be altogether different from those of any former time. We are at war, and war is always accompanied by high prices!! Is this so? On the contrary, it is not true in point of fact; and in point of reasoning it is contrary to what logic teaches. All other things being the same, war is much more likely to lead to low prices than to high prices; because the additional taxes which we have to pay limit the power of consumption. No doubt if the war be of a character which interrupts our trade with producing countries, and prevents the arrival of supplies, it may lead to scarcity and high prices. Or if, during a war, the Government resorts to a suspension of cash payments, and the currency becomes depreciated, every article will command a nominal high price. But in the present war neither of these circumstances exist, except in respect to a very limited number of articles. And, therefore, generally speaking, so far as the war alone is concerned, it ought rather to considered as a cause likely to lead to low than to high prices.

The commercial classes of the present day have very recently had a premonitory warning. The pressure in April, 1847, was not more severe than that of the last six weeks. In its character it was very similar. The first alarm has passed over; and it is more

latter, hitherto, they have been almost entirely restricted-at the cost or the risk of consequences to which we need not more particularly allude. Yet no sooner is a suspicion suggested of an intention to emancipate themselves from this mischievous restric

than probable that the precautions taken by time feel ourselves called upon to enter into the Bank will for some short time leave the the subject. Arguments so preposterous, country in comparative calm as regards urged in a tone so unbecoming, could hardly monetary affairs. But the cause of the fail to carry their own refutation in the recent pressure is not removed. Notwith-judgment of all temperate and thinking men. standing this, there has already risen a spirit Since, however, the subject has aroused conof speculation, beginning with a single article siderable interest, and we think been very of colonial produce, for which, in the relation much misunderstood, it may not be amiss to of supply and demand, there was no doubt say a few words upon its real character and ample reason for a considerable advance, but bearing. also already apparently communicating it- In the first place, let it be remembered self to other leading articles with regard to what is the position of our Royal Family, which no such reasons exist, and threatening Their matrimonial choice is more circuma general extension to all commodities. It scribed than that of any Royal House in will be well, however, if those engaged in Europe. Marriage with a subject is out of trade will bear in mind the many instances the question. Marriage with a Catholic which have been witnessed, when from Prince is interdicted. And since almost all actual scarcity very high price has been the Continental Courts are Catholic, the attained, with regard to any particular Princes and Princesses of England are comarticle, that supplies in unexpected quantities pelled to select their partners among the and from quarters wholly unlooked-for have Royal Families of Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, arrived, and have caused a reaction much or the petty States of Germany. To the sooner than had been thought possible, looking only to the ordinary sources of production. There is also another point which at such a moment as this is likely to lead to much deception. Stocks in first hands become rapidly reduced; importations as they arrive are rapidly taken off; the cry arises that tion, than a journal which has generally consumption has overtaken supply, and that the demand is not affected even by the high price. All this may be very deceptive. The excitement which begins with importers is communicated to dealers, and from dealers to shopkeepers; and the many thousands of which the latter class consists, each at the same time increasing his stock, from the impression that prices will rise still higher, produces the appearance of a great consumption, when, in point of fact, it is only an increase of retail stocks to remain on hand, in anticipation of future wants. When a mania of this kind once begins, it is difficult to say where it will end, but every one who justly appreciates the circumstances which are now and which for some time to come must continue to press upon our money market, will well understand how necessary it is to observe the strictest caution. We sincerely trust, that while in November we can safely say that the trade is sound, we may not in March be compelled to arrive at a different conclusion.

From the Economist, 17 Nov. ROYAL MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCES. SOME weeks ago an article appeared in the columns of a powerful contemporary, denouncing in no measured terms a matrimonial alliance which the writer assumed to be contemplated by our Royal Family. Some attention was excited; but we did not at that

shown better taste and sounder judgment raises its voice in clamorous denunciation, and a degree of alarm is excited in the country for which it would be difficult to assign any reasonable ground.

We confess ourselves at a loss to understand what objection can be urged against the union supposed to be in contemplation. That it is desirable to leave the matrimonial choice of the Royal Family as free as paramount political considerations will permit, no one can deny. Why, then, is this alliance to be regarded with so much fear and dislike? That Prussia is at present unfriendly to us, is very true. As true is it, that this unfriendliness is the sentiment of the Court, and of the Court alone. It is not the sentiment of the people; it is known not to be the sentiment of the heir-presumptive to the throne, the father of the presumed bridegroom elect of the Princess Royal. Why should he be considered as lying under a ban, because his brother, the reigning Monarch, is mischievously influenced by a matrimonial alliance with Russia? Suppose that the war with Russia had never broken out, and that the Governments of England and Prussia had continued on terms of uninterrupted cordiality, what more fitting consort could have been selected for an English Princess than the probable successor to the throne of the greatest Protestant and constitutional kingdom in Europe, next to her own? What choice could have been more popular, what

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