she did them all justice ; but her fame rests on a loftier A new Annual is annonnced for 1832— The Bouquet. claim, that of having succeeded in music of a more classi

A translation from the German is on the eve of publication cal stamp—and which we look forward to hearing her in Constantine,” by Harro Harring, late an oficer in the Russian

“Memoirs of the Poles under the Government of the Grand Duke again, with the greater pleasure that her improvement in Imperial Life-Guard. This work was suppressed by order of the style and execution will enhance our admiration and de- Prussian Government. light.

Mr Frederic Madden is preparing for publication the ancient Mr White seems to prefer introduced songs to the good Scotch Metrical Romance of Sir Gawayne and the Green Knizt, old music of the opera, a preference which argues either

from a unique MS. preserved in the British Museum. a perverted taste, or pays a very bad compliment to his editing “Selections from the Edinburgh Review," comprising the

Mr Maurice Cross, Secretary of the Belfast Historic Society, is E audience, for nothing can be given, in their simple and best articles in that Journal from its commencement to th pre

unpretending style, better than the original songs; and sent time, with a Preliminary Dissertation and Explanatory Noter. we grieve to see them ousted for the substitution of such Mr Henry Sewell Stokes will shortly publish “ The Song of commonplace namby pamby as, " Oh still remember

Albion." me," or such unappropriate intrusions as, “Orynthia, my merce of Society, is about to appear in an English dress.

Heeren's Reflections on the Politics, Intercourse, and Com. beloved.” What, in the name of consistency, could induce

“ The Usurer's Daughter," is announced as from the pen of a Young Meadows, in the most critical moment of his ex- contributor to Blackwood. istence, to strike up such a formidable bravura, calling in Selections from the Poems of Southey are about to be published, lugubrious recitative, for “ his Orynthia," till his lungs uniform with those from Wordsworth. as well as our patience were exhausted ? Mr White, no

The Rev. H, C. O'Donoghue is preparing a Sketch of the Prindoubt, reckoned it one of his best songs, and justified cipal Events connected with the History of Modern Europe.

Mr James Steele, the author of a Discourse on the Ministry of certainly by equally preposterous precedents, in he pops | Angels, and other works published in Inverness, is at present this English scena, to accommodate itself, as it best may, publishing, by subscription, a small volume, containing three with the unobtrusive melodies of Arne, Boyce, and Ga- religious discourses ;–1. On the Character of Angelic Beings, as lappi! Mr White's voice is a tenor of an agreeable qua- developed in Scripture; 2. On the Resurrection of onr Saviour ; lity, and his singing would, we think, please, if he would 3. On the Sin and Danger of Apostasy from the Christian Faith. only" bear his body more seemingly."

NEWCASTLE.-In addition to the usual exhibition of painting At present his

and sculpture in Blackett Street, Mr D. Dunbar has this year movements are so ridiculously awkward, that any grati- opened an exhibition of productions of the latter art alone. It fication his singing may give, is distracted with the con- contains many fine casts from the antique, and several creditable templation of his physical gesticulations.

productions of modern art. The schism was occasioned by a ridi. Martyn is a man of very different metal. Hawthorn, culous prudery on the part of the managers of the Blackett Street though a correct, is but a cold imitation of nature, but concern-of which they have already had ample cause to repent. he put life into it, and acted with spirit. Like his pre- tense excitement that prevails here on the present position of the

CAITCHAT FROM GLASGOW.-You cannot form a notion of the incursors, he shyed some of the finest airs allotted to his Reform question. Business is almost suspended ; even a newlypart, but he supplied a good bacchanalian song, which, un- discovered play of Shakspeare would not at this moment be looked like Mr White's introductions, was highly appropriate. at. The Chameleon, you may well judge, is looking blue, lest, Though his acting was good, we must hear him again when it comes out of its shell, it should not be red (read). Pagabefore he gets his musical credentials. His voice appears nini performs here on Thursday. This second Orphous may, per. to have scarcely depth enough for a true bass-besides, his haps, soothe the turmoil.

Theatrical Gossip.--Somerset is at his post, and there is nothing lower notes seem rather tuneless. We hope for the best, stirring among the provincials.-A new law is contemplated by and are prepared, not certainly for the worst, but to find the legislature, relating to the Drama, by which the Lord Chamhim but a sorry substitute for Reynoldson. Miss Atkin- berlain, for the time being, shall be entitled to a complete jurisson is evidently a novice in her profession, and being but diction over all the theatres in London and its environs; at pre“ a pupil,” must not be dealt with harshly. She has sent, the control of the Lord Chamberlain extends only to Drurymuch to do and undo; but with diligence she may come

Lane, Covent Garden, the Haymarket, the Italian Opera House,

the Adelphi, the English Opera House, and the Olympic Theatre. to manage her voice, which was rather de trop for the – Madame Pasta, Rubini, and Lablache, are now performing in simple little ditties of Madge. Mackay's Justice Wood- the Italian Opera at Paris, where Pasta has been more successful, cock always makes us laugh-Mrs Nicol's Deborah is and is in higher favour, than at any former period. Notwithstandfaultless, and Stanley was abundantly clownish, selfish, ing the great paucity of English residents in the French capital, and unfeeling in Hodge, the best drawn character in the and the somewhat diminished ardour for theatricals in general,

the conservatoires of the Italian Opera have little cause to com. opera, which has few intrinsic merits of its own to re

plain.-Madame Malibran is, at present, pursuing a most success. commend it, and owes its existence almost entirely to the ful exercise of her professional talents in the French provinces. sweet music of which it is the vehicle.

In the theatre at Lille, for one evening's performance, about ten We shall have more to say on these vocalists when we days ago, she received three hundred pounds sterling.–Alfred has have heard them in music which will put their powers been busy this week putting the last hand to his new edition of to a proper test.

the Talmud, but his duty has been ably discharged by his substi.

tute.

WEEKLY LIST OF PERFORMANCES.
LITERARY CHITCHAT AND VARIETIES.

October 8-14. We have seen the specimen sheet and plate of the Chameleon, Sat. Love in a Village, a Ballet, & The Robber's Wife. which, as is done with the Annuals, is issued or sent out as a pilot Mon. Alfred the Great, a Ballet, & The Heart of Mid-Lothian, balloon. It is very beautiful; and if the whole work resembles Tues. Guy Mannering, a Ballet, & The Vampire. it in execution, it will really deserve the distinction of being Wed. Hamlet, Nothing Superfluous, & The Chamois Hunter. the first "Scottish Annual,” as well as being the only one wholly Thurs. Rob Roy, Les Tableaux Vivans, & The Chamois Hunter, from one hand.

FRI. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, & The Evil Eye. COOPER'S “ Bravo" is nearly ready for publication. "The Literary Jewel, or Diamond Cabinet Library," is preparing for the press. The first volume contains the works of

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A " Diamond Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland," is in the Reviews of “The eventful History of the Bounty," press; to which will be appended the census of 1831.

of American Portraits," “ Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Mr D. C. Read of Salisbury, is about to present the public with Society," and some Annuals, foreign and domestic, must stand a Series of Etchings, which have already met with high enco. miums in the circles of taste.

To our new Glasgow Correspondent we must remark, that as About Christmas may be expected, “ The Founders of the Com- our literary judgments are deliberately pronounced, so are they monwealth ; comprising Political Memoirs of Eliot, Pym, Hamp like the laws of the Medes and Persians," which alter not.” den, Vane, and Algernon Sydney; with incidental notices of the “ The Demon of the Oak” is under consideration-along with a most eminent republicans.".

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LITERARY CRITICISM.

We need only say, that among the contributors we find

Friends Opie and Bernard Barton, the talented editors, ANNUALS.

the Rev. Edward Craig, J. Montgomery, the Rev. WilThe Amethyst ; or, Christian's Annual for 1832. Edited liam Ellis, Dr Belfrage, Hetherington, &c. &c. The by Richard Huie, M.D., and Robert Kaye Greville, following beautiful and judicious remarks, will give the LLD. Edinburgh: William Oliphant. London: reader a fair, idea of the prose contributions ; Simpkin and Marshall.

“ Religious sensibility is certainly not a thing to be The Amulet. A Christian and Literary Remembrancer. afraid of. Though it sometimes evaporates in extrava

Edited by S. C. Hall. London: Westley and Davis. gance, this is more likely to be the consequence of coercion 1832. Edinburgh : John Boyd.

than of indulgence. It is in most cases the mere fermentThe Juvenile Forget-Me-Not. A Christmas and New ation of feeling that has been long suppressed, and is then

Year's Gift, or Birthday Present. 1832. Edited by suddenly and injudiciously excited ; and it is thus the Mrs s. C. Hall. London : Westley and Davis. result, not of stimulants, but of discouragement. Had Edinburgh : John Boyd.

the mind been always accustomed to a holy familiarity The full spring-tide of annualism has again set in upon with religion, there would be little danger of its running us. First was beard, like the roar of many waters, the into excess. various announcements, and the sough of preliminary “ The early developement of a suitable sentiment, then, paffs. Then came a few stray plates, like the firstling is the best antidote against this evil. And there are waves wreathing round our feet, and again receding, or touches of much that is beautiful and affecting in this drunk up by the thirsty sand. More like to the heaving early and habitual developement. When it really is the billows of the rising, sea, “ The Landscape" and " The object to promote a filial sympathy with God, there is a ?

Picturesque" Hang themselves down before us. And now constant eliciting of feelings and deepening of impressions, • they are pouring in on every side, tumultuous and tri- which are all good and heaven-like. The wants and

umphant, gorgeous as the hues of the dying dolphin- occupations of life, instead of 'stifling interest in divine emerald, regal parple, and sunny amethyst.

things, are only means of quickening spiritual sense, and We have got among the good-boy books this week. of drawing the child of heaven nearer home. The objects | First comes “ The Amethyst,” — first, because it is a of affection, and the incentives to devotion, are multiplied stranger, and as such we give it welcome. Of Dr by a sensibility which endears to us our blessings, as well

we know nothing further than what we gather as reconciles us to their removal ; and which is ever from his writings—that he is an excellent, amiable man, drawing some precious illustration of Scripture from the and not much of a poet. But who knows not Greville ? simplest occurrences of private life. And it is therefore We speak not of him in his botanical capacity-where also this, which, by making us happy in the thought of God. he stands high—but in his public capacity of missionary of here, fits us for the scenes and the songs of his presence. the Temperance Society, anti-slavery orator, and exhibiter Sensibility is no sign of weakness ; it is rather an of water-colour paintings. In enumerating his favourite element of strength; yet of course it may be caricatured.' pursuits, we have described the character of his mind. We may be shocked by the erotic familiarity of one enElegant and tasteful-tant soit peu paritanical-ami. thusiast, or nauseated by the puling sentimentalism of able, benevolent, and unwearied in well-doing-gentle to another. This is only to allow that there may be fana degree rarely found in the ruder sex, yet not without tastic or fanatical abuses of any thing. a spice of the devil if roused : as he is, so is his Annual “So, again, weak people are sometimes pious Christ. in every respect save the last.

iads; and then, with much of what is engaging in their The preface speaks thus : “ The editors of the Ame- singleness of eye and simple-heartedness, there will be thyst bave given to their work the name and external much which, if not very wrong, is still very childish. appearance of an Annual, in the hope that many may We shall be offended by their perpetually spiritualizing thereby be induced to purchase and peruse it, who might trifles, or wearied by their religious commonplaces; but otherwise have overlooked or neglected a publication we must confess that religion is still their redeeming professedly of a religious character. But while in sinless point, and that they would be much less pleasing with compliance, as they trust, with the taste of the day, out it. they have thus adopted a prevailing form of publication, “ Neither should we wonder if mere natural sensitive it has been their undivided aim to render their work ness is sometimes mistaken for religious feeling. People subservient to the advancement of pure and undefiled constantly mistake counterfeit for true emotion. The religion, by soliciting the aid of those friends only whose novel-reader, who sits in luxurious grief over the woes views of divine truth were sound and evangelical. of Clarissa or Corinna, and wipes her eyes with a com

The editors have refrained from adding placent sense of her superior sensibility, has no sympato the price of their work, by the adoption of costly thies for valgar misery; and so a person may be melted

The setting of the by the pathos of religion, and touched by its glorious and Amethyst is plain, but the metal is pure, and the gem glowing

pictures, and even have a relish for Christian itself is genuine." Nor is this saying a word too much. fellowship,

and yet be very far from religious. He may A spirit of elegance

breathes throughout the work, puri- bave experienced nothing but a burst of poetic feeling, or fied and ennobled by the most amiable Christian feeling. a sentimental interest in what is affecting and romantic,

embellishments.

a

and all we may be able to say of him is, that he has a His fierce waves hoarsely-dashing roar, sense of the sublime, and a taste for poetry.

Rush on their prey, and chafe for more. “Even when religious sentiment is genuine, it is often vague and desultory. There is at times a flightiness about “ Last noon beheld the moparcb-stream good people which is suspicious. They are restless and Calm gliding on his peaceful way; eccentric on the topics that excite them; they flutter on Now, like the swift change of a dream, the surface of religious interests with an eager but uncer- His path is ruin's welt'ring sway: tain wing, and fix determinately nowhere, and seem to The toil, the wealth, the pomp of years, be at once abstracted and absorbed. They are quite sin- In one dark eddy disappears. cere, but they are capricious and unsettled. Every thing of a spiritual nature occupies, but nothing fixes them; “ The builder's stately arch is rent,they are the knight-errants of religion; and, though there It sinks beneath the boiling wave; is a great deal of what is noble and picturesque in their Totters the castle's battlement; devotedness, yet we cannot but wish that they would The peasant's cottage is his grave ; learn to be domestic, instead of roaming about, the heroes The church-spire like a willow quakes, and heroines of society.

When the strong wind of winter wakes. “ The simplicity of religious feeling is one of its most touching beauties. It is a sunny, and child-like, and “ Hark! shrillest accents of despair, single-hearted repose upon plain and realized truth. The With groans of mortal anguish blend ! very charm of it is, that it is so ingenuous and transpa- The infant's shriek, the mother's prayer, rent that there is no mistaking its nature or its reality.

O'er the swoll'n land-flood's roar ascend ; Its expression is, ' Read, recognise, receive me ;--there All round them the rough waters rave, is in me no reservation or disguise, welcome me, and I No human aid their lives can save. will make you happy.'

“ It is much to be lamented, when this language is not “ One hope remains :-up, up they hie, used; when pious persons do not rejoice in this simple- Still upward mounts the ravening foe; ness and oneness of religious emotion, but seem to seek a Nought roofs them now but the far sky, little notoriety for themselves, by investing it with an air • Mother! what higher can we go ?" of mysticism and obscurity. And yet there are gentle Saint-like she smiled,—“There yet is given visionaries, who delight in the fancied exclusiveness of One more ascent--it is to Heaven !' their own experience, and pass through life in a sort of dreaming ecstasy with their peculiar views. Tenets, “ O sacred faith! thy might is great! privileges, promises, are dear to them only as they are Thy prayer ascends before the throne ! considered a secret revelation, and solitary enjoyment. Lo! the wild waves their rage abate, Still they can talk very sweetly on the subject, and even With murmuring and reluctant tone! though we do not understand them, we may be glad to The rescued victims, kneeling, raise see that they are happy. But we deny that their self.. The soul's deep gush of silent praise." complacency is Christian, nor do we recognise in their

We need scarcely be so lengthy in our prefatory reesoteric feelings any thing but the illusions of fancy,

“ There is often, however, a great deal that is lovely marks on an old and approved friend like the “ Amulet." in their lives. They do live in the enjoyment of their

Like the “ Amethyst," it is rather what is commonly

called serious. But it breathes more of the world and opinions ; they bave little of the clog of earth about them ; its pleasures. The “ Amethyst” is a “ Nun demure, of and though they dream away some of their energies, yet lowly port," shrinking from the contagion of pleasure ; they are looking upwards, and have their hearts winged the « Amulet" is a spirited girl, who, conscious of the for heaven. And even while they exclude you from their efficacy of the charm she wears, ventures within the prospects, they do it in so sweet a way that you cannot

magic circle. Amongst the contributors, we find the possibly be angry with them. “ But then it is the stillness of the mystic which claims bury, and Mr S. C. Hall ;-of James, Barry Cornwall

,

names of Ilemans, Norton, L. E. L., Mitford, Jewsour indulgence. He is a meek and placid visionary, and eyen his fervours are holy and reverential.

Allan Cunningham, the author of Atherton, and the But there

Rev. Robert Walsh. are enthusiasts who are quite as eccentric and exclusive, galaxy of writers, is interesting beyond that found in any

The matter furnished by such a without any of his redeeming traits. Their extravagance of the preceding volumes even of the " Amulet." There is noisy and ostentatious; their ecstasies are more of the is a learned and interesting account of the Gnostics and hysteric than of the trance ; they have visions, but they their tenets, by Savage Marmion ; a visit to Nicæa, like

1 are not of angel-forms and seraph breathings. And, though religion is with them a matter of feeling, it is the Rev. R. Walsh; some missionary reminiscences from

wise illustrative of the early records of Christianity, by quite as much in the way of bodily excitement, as of spi- the Pacific, by the Rev. W. Ellis; and an account of the ritual emotion.”

actual state of the Slave Trade-we presume from the As a specimen of the poetry, we extract “ The Flooded

able
pen

of the editor. Then there are contributions of Rhine," --one of our old friend Hetherington's happiest have mentioned-among which we can only allude to

a more imaginative kind from the various writers we efforts,

L. E. L.'s " Betrothed ;” Mrs S. C. Hall's “ Moss-pits ;" THE FLOODED RHINE.

Miss Mitford's delightful “ Day of Distress;" and Mrs “ The storm has spent its wrath,-away

Hemans' " Alcestis." Our prose specimen is taken from The rack floats on the less'niog gale ;

the contribution of the author of " Richelieu," and reSad is the brow of infant day,

presents Cromwell first in adverse circumstances, and O'ershadow'd with a vapoury veil;

afterwards in the pride of power. Wbile, like a giant flush'd with wine,

“ Margaret covered her eyes with her hands, but mode Headlong descends the mighty Rhine.

no answer ; and, in a moment after, fresh coming sounds

called her again to the window. It was a single horse“Turbid, impetuous, wild, and vast,

man who now approached ; and though he rode at full Through rocky pass, or smiling plain,

speed, with his head somewhat bent over the saddle, yet He bounds, and bursts unbridled past ;

he continued his course steadily, and neither turned his Like lion growling o'er the slain,

look to the right or left. As be approached the house,

his horse started suddenly from some object left by the heads, and killed Colonel Cromwell, and taken his whole road-side, plunged, and fell; and the rider, cast with army prisoners ! frightful violence from his seat, was thrown on his head “ Scarcely bad he time to pour forth this rapid tide of upon the ground. A deep groan was, at first, the only news when the door was thrown open, and two young casound; but, the moment after, the horse, which had valiers, in broad hats and plumes, followed one another borne him, starting up, approached close to the body of rapidly in, each taking with the lips of the two ladies its master, and, putting its head to where he lay, by a that dear liberty consecrated to intimacy and affection. long wild neigh, seemed at once to express its sorrow • Welcome, welcome, my gallant son !' cried the mother, and to claim assistance.

as she held the first to her bosom. ** If it be Essex or Manchester, Fairfax or Cromwell, « « My own dear Margaret !' whispered the young genwe must render him aid, Margaret,' said the mother; tleman who had followed, as he took the unresisted kiss * never must it be said that friend or enemy needed help which welcomed him back from danger and strife: but at my door and did not meet it. Call up the hind's-boy, further gratulations of all kinds were suddenly stopped, Bridget ; open the door, and bring in yon fallen man.' as the eyes of the two cavaliers fell upon the stranger,

“ Her commands were speedily fulfilled; for, though who had now recovered strength to rise from his seat, brought low in her estate, the Lady Herrick was not one and was anxiously looking towards the door beyond them. to suffer herself to be disobeyed. The stranger was lifted " Who, in the devil's name, have we here?" cried Sir from the ground, placed in a chair, and carried into the George Herrick, 'what crop-eared villain is this?" house. His eyes were closed ; and it was evident to the “ In vain his mother explained, and strove to pacify elder lady, as she held the candle to his face, that, if not him. The sight of one of the rebels raised again in his killed, he was completely stunned by his fall. He was bosom all the agitating fury of the fight in which he had a hard-featured man, with short grizzled hair, and a been just engaged ; and neither the prayers of his mother heavy determined brow, on which the lines of habitual nor his sister, the promises they had made to the stranger, thought remained, even in the state of stupor into which or their remonstrances to himself, had any effect. ' Ho! he had fallen. He was broadly made, and muscular, boy!" he exclaimed, “bid your father bring a rope. By though not corpulent, and was above the middle size, the Lord of heaven, I will hang this roundhead cur to without being tall. His dress consisted of a dark grey the oak before the door! Bring a rope, I say " and, uncoat, which clove to him with the familiar ease of an old sheathing his sword, he advanced upon the Parliamentservant, and a brown cloak, which, in truth, had lost arian, calling upon his companion to prevent his escape much of its freshness in his service. Above his coat had by the door. been placed a complete cuirass, the adjustment of which “ The stranger said not a word; but bit bis nether lip, betrayed great symptoms of haste; and by his side he and calmly drawing his tuck, retreated into one corner of wore one of those long heavy blades of plain steel which the room, keeping a keen fixed eye upon the young cavahad often been the jest of the cavaliers.

lier who strode on towards him. Margaret, seeing that " His head was uncovered either by hat or morion, all persuasion was vain with her brother, turned her and the expanse of his forehead, the only redeeming point imploring eyes to Henry Lisle, who instantly laid his in his countenance, was thus fully displayed. The rest | hand upon his companion's cloak, 'What now ? ex, of his face was not only coarse in itself, but bad in its claimed the other, turning sharp upon him. expression; and when, after some cold water had been “ • This must not be, George,' replied the other cara thrown over it, he revived in a degree and looked around, lier. the large, shrewd, unsatisfactory eyes, which he turned « • Must not be !' thundered Sir George Herrick;' but upon those about him, had nothing in them to prepossess it shall be! Who shall stay me?' the mind in his favour.

“'Your own better reason and honour, I trust,' re“ The moment that consciousness had fully returned, plied the other;' hear me—but hear me, Herrick! Your he made an effort to start upon his feet, but instantly lady mother promised this fellow safety to stay and to sunk back again into the chair, exclaiming, “The Lord go; and upon her promise alone-she sayshe staid. has smitten me, yet must I gird up my loins and go, lest Had that promise not been given, we should not have I fall into captivity.'

found him here. Will you slay a man by your own " Fear not, fear not !' replied Lady Herrick, whose hearth, who put confidence in your mother's word! Fie, humanity was somewhat chivalrous, you are in safety fie! let him go! We have slain enough this night to let here; wait for a while till you are better able to mount, one rebel escape, were he the devil himself!' and then get you gone, in God's name, for I seek not to “ Sir George Herriek glared round, for a moment, in

foster roundheads more than may be. Yet stay till you can moody silence, and then put up his sword. “Well,' said | ride,' she added, seeing his hand again grasp the chair as he, at length, if he staid but on her promise, let him

if to rise,' women should know no enemies in the hurt take himself away. He will grace the gibbet some other and wounded.'

day. But do not let me see him move across the room,' Nay, but worthy lady,' replied the Parliamentarian, he added, with a look of disgust,' or I shall run my should the crew of the Moabitish General Goring fol- blade through him whether I will or not.' low me even here to smite me hip and thigh, as they have “Come, fellow, get thee gone !' said Henry Lisle, ‘I vowed to do to all who bear arms for godliness' sake, or will see thee depart ! and while his companion fixed his to bear me away captive

eyes with stern intensity upon the fire-place, as if not to " 'Fear not, fear not!' answered the lady,'none should witness the escape of the roundhead, he led him out of dare, by my hearth's side, to lay hands

on one that com- the chamber to the outer door. mon mercy bade me take in and shelter—fear not, I say. “ The stranger moved forward with a firm calm step, That is right, Margaret,' she added, seeing her daughter keeping his naked sword still in his hand, and making no pour some wine into a glass for the use of the stranger, comment on the scene in which he had been so principal

take that; it will revive you, and give you strength to a performer. As he passed through the room, however, speed on.'

he kept a wary glance upon Sir George Herrick; but “ Hast thou caught the stranger's horse, Dickson ? the moment he quitted it, he seemed more at ease, and she demanded, turning to the boy who had aided in bring-paused quietly at the door while the boy brought forward ing in the Commonwealth-man, and who now re-entered his charger. During that pause, he turned no unfriendly the room after a momentary absence.

look upon Henry Lisle : and seemed as if about to speak "He is caught and made fast below,' replied the lad, more than once. At length, he said, in a low voice, and here are my young master and Master Henry Lisle Something I would fain say—though, God knows, we coming up from the court. They have beaten the round- are poor blinded creatures, and see not what is best for