finest pictures and mirrors of immense size, upon a table of rich marble, there lay, partly covered by a large linen cloth, the mangled and discoloured corpse→ But where was Guyon? Almost underneath the loathsome object, with the end of the cloth still grasped in his hand, as if he had fallen in the act of covering the polluted mass, lay the hapless Guyon, to all appearance dead. "Oh God!" cried Delphine aloud, raising the body of him whom she loved-" help me, be with me now." It seemed as if her prayer were heard, for in the very crisis of her agony, she recovered her strength of mind. She lost not a moment in disengaging the hand of Guyon from the polluted sheet; she dragged, nay almost carried him to the open .window, but in vain she endeavoured to restore him. She looked around, and saw with delight a vessel filled with vinegar on the table where he had been writing his remarks; into this vase he had thrown his papers as he wrote them; and Delphine, as she knelt on the ground bathing his face, and head, and hands with the vinegar, saw him gradually revive. But to remain in that saloon would be instant death to him, and with much difficulty Delphine removed him to the antechamber, the doors of which were very near the place where he was then lying. " I cannot go farther," said he feebly, as she closed the door upon the horrid room where she had found him and when Delphine looked in his face, she saw

that he could not indeed be moved farther. A sudden "He

change had taken place within the last minute. " does not even know me," said she, as he looked up in her face, and smiled vacantly. He closed his eyes, and remained for some minutes in a heavy sleep. He awoke, and with difficulty raising his hand, he drew forth from his bosom a small golden crucifix; he kissed it fervently. The little nosegay of lavender and vervain had fallen to the ground. He fixed his eyes upon the withered flowers, and said feebly, Give it me; let me smell it. She said it might refresh me. Tell her, tell my sweet sister, that my heart was refreshed even at this awful hour, when 1 thought of Who, who are you?" he cried, lifting up his head; but ere he could look at her again, his memory was gone. He now fell into a gentle doze, and Delphine felt a calmness steal over her as she hung gazing upon his still handsome but altered countenance, altered it was indeed, the last few hours had done the work of years. He spoke once as he slept, and Delphine thought she heard the words "happy, how happy." He awoke repeating them; and quickly she held up the crucifix before his eyes. "Yes," he murmured, " by His sufferingsHis death-His alone."-He never spoke again.

Note. The plague ceased soon after the death of Guyon. He had discovered and fully explained the mysterious character of the disease; and the efforts of the medical men were blessed with complete success.

THE BAY OF NAPLES.

THE beauties of this delightful scene have been already so frequently and ably described, that it would be worse than idle to enter into a detailed account of them here. The Gulf of Naples contains several smaller bays, the chief of which is that of Pozzuoli. A point of land, or rather an islet, connected with the shore by a pier, separates the Bay of Pozzuoli from the city of Naples, which continues without interruption to Torre dell' Annunziata, where the sea runs up eastward into the land, and forms the bay of Castellamare. The houses of the city rise gradually from the water's edge to the heights behind, on which lie several villas of the nobility and the royal palace of Capo di Monte. The nearest and most apparent high point on the western side, is the mountain crowned with the castle of St. Elmo: the smoking summit of Vesuvius presents the highest point on the east. The gulf is nearly land-locked by the island of Capri, which leaves on each side of it a space, one apparently as wide as the other, called Le Bocche di Capri; but between the eastern end of the island, and the Punta della Campanella there is only one league of distance, while between the western end and Capo di Miseno there are seven.