_SAMUEL WEIGHT, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUIIE XXX, NUIIII3EIt 4.1
Inetrii.
In Remembrinee of Joseph Sturge
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sin the fair land eietwatched by Isehia's moantains,
Across the charmed bay,
Whose blue wore• keep with Capri's silver fountains
Perpetual ho.iday.
A king lie , dead, his wafer duly eaten,
His go d-bought masses given;
And Rome- great attar smokes with gums to sweeten
A name that stinks to Heaven.
And, while all Naplenthrins with mute thanksgiving,
The coup of I•;ngland'e queen
For the dead monster so abhorred while living
In mourning garb is seen.
With a true sorrow God rebukes that feigning;
By knee fidgbastote. atde,
Stands a great city let the skies sad raining,
Bare-headed and wet-eyed:
Silent, for once, the restless hive of labor
save the low funernt Vela,
Or voice of craftmn In whispering to hie neighbor
The good deeds of the dead
For hart no mhister'a chant of the immortals
Rose from the tip• of sin;
No Mitt-red priest swung back the heavenly portals
To let the white soul in
Dotage and sicknena framed their tearful laces
In the low hovel's door,
Au.l prayers •treat up from oil the dark by-places
And Gnettus oi the poor.
The pallid roller, and the negro chattel,
Th.. vagra, t or the street.
The hu,".nd.re whe,ewith in games efhattle
'lnc :.T:l4 o; Cacti, compete,
• n 17 , lef ;hat ns , d , no outvranl drapir3g
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11r.- rrtilnd's c❑^t
c f 41 from OJI her grand 013 steeples
No crash of braze, wail,
Tae in sonorous woe of kintirs,ie, tongues nod peop!es
s• wept in err every gulf
It erne i o-n II At •main's birchen brited meadows,
Alta from the tropic calms
Of Indian islands in the ,-un-smit shalovrs
Of Occidental palms.
From the locked roadsteads of the Bothnian peasants
And harbors of the Finn,
Where war's worn victim• saw his gentle presence
Come sailing, Christ-Hlre. in.
To seek the lord, to build the old waste-rilneer,
To link the hostile -bore,
Of revering seas, and sow with England's district
The m.o.' , or Finland's moors!
Think. , for the ;rood motet I.eautifal example,
Who is; the vilest taw
Some eacred crypt or altar of a temple
Still vocal with God's law;
And honrd.with tender enr, the vpirit oighing
AA from itS prison cell.
Praying for pity, like the mournful crying
Of Jonah out of hell.
Not his the golden pen's or lip's persuasion,
but ii fine sense of right,
And truiles ilireetness. m. e log ench occasion
Surtight I/01a line of ight.
Flip rants and work•. like xtreamp that intermingle,
lu the came channel ran;
The ery-tal clrante•♦ of an eye kept single
binalited all the (rnndr of man.
The very cermet.' of 01l human natures
He joined 10 courage .tro.,g,
And love nal...curbing unto all tiogra creature.,
With .turtly hale of wrong.
Tender no woman: manliness and meekness
In him wee allied.
That they who judged Min by his strength or weakness
:taw bdi a ..Mgle side.
Men furl-d, hetray'd him. but lila zeal seem'd noutixli'd
Uy failure and by Cull;
Stan n large faith in lion:lnn kind tie cherished'
And in love for all.
And now he re.te; iti. gremnes• and his sweetness
No in ire 'cent at strife.
And death it is moulded into calm completeness
The statue of hi. life.
Where .he dews , glisien and the song-birds warble
His du-s to dasi i s i s ia,
In Nal ure's keeping. with no pomp of marble
To shame hi. modest shade.
The forge.. glow, the hammers all ore Tinging;
Illeneuth it. P mok y vett,
Bard by the city of hl. love is toeinging
• ite elnmarous iron finil.
But round bin grave nre quietude and beauty,
And the sweet heaven above—
The lining avvabol of a life of duty
Trannigured into love!
grritrtigito.
From Chamber.o Journal.
The Captain's Story—A Peninsular Ad-
venture
In the neighb)rbood of the Haymarket,
London, there are several minor chess,
•whist, and gossip clubs, held principally at
_cafes, which, for club evenings, is sacred to
the members, consisting chiefly of super
annuated clerks, actors, and other profes
-aional mediocrities, with a sprinkling of
substantial steady tradesmen. In one of
.the , s7 gatherings Captain Smith, an ex
,tre3ndv communicative and anecdorcal
get - „:ewer., may occasionally be met with.
surr , undod by an nrentive c:rcie of admir
ing friends. listening, with ail their ears, to
one of the many murvelouz adventures it
bad ,been his lot to encounter during a
wandering and varied life. He is not a
,frequent,visitor; his taste inclining him to
scenes of m ore boisterous conviviality than
cigars.and ,coffee„with a seasoning of the
atrical and political gossip, can afford or
supply; and he accordingly COOS these, to
s him, hum drum, assemblies, only as resting
or halting-places between more exciting or
gies; valuable chiefly for affording him list
scars, much more easily amused and aston
ished than men of larger life-adventure and
experience. He is, however. a real captain
and I fancy immeshing of _a hero too, in the
conventional use of the term. as ho seems
to have very different, and, I believe,•moch
truer ssotions of war and glory, than gentle
men who shout about "bright swords," and
dilate with periphrastic unction of "red
battle-fields." A lithe active man is he;
and stiff as a ramrod withal. His harsh
stubby hair is brushed in one particular
direction with parade precision; and his
high bald forehead, when in convivial mood,
glistens as brightly as his sharp gray eyes;
which, one can see with half u one, have
been wide open all his life. He rose, it is
understood, though he never mentions i
himself—perhaps from a feeling of modesty,
a quality, albeit, in which, like most field
heroes, he is somewhat deficient , --from the
ranks. From his perfect knowledge of the
Spanish tongue, (he passed his youth at
Gibrulter, with occasional trips to the Span
ish coast with his father, who turned at,
honest penny in the smuggling line,) he
was frequently employed during the Penin
sular war by the British commanders in the
very necessary, but extremely ticklish, du
ty of making himself personally acq..ainted
with the French camps and fortresses—ht
other words as a spy; an exceedingly un
comfortable office fir any gentleman trots
bled with "nerves." Captain Smith fre
quantly thanks God that ho never had any.
to his knowledge, in his life; no more, he
sometimes stays, Lifter reading the debate,
—no more than a member of parliament.
Thus far premised, suppose we step io
for a minute and make his acquaintance.—
That is the Captain with tie buck to the fire
The gentleman who has jtn.t hande.l
him a cigar. mod is addressing silell martini
g ueTie.. tp the 7.:,-,%1).t3.4.1‘., 1. a u. r -
1)111r/g /./.191, /)cl , re ;; , :I:cre.l
.“1 intv,ireU, at+ xv,int, kr ti.r.
:as s•tre the quit..
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['me, as hi; spo,iqe is apt to he orlplo:: , :o:11:,
lively for a lAily of hor colloplial and mitei
prowess. if he is riot home at half-past ten
precisely. Ito Lives pence "at home," as
much as he seems to delight in war
"iihroad," and is consequently extremely
punctual. But see, 'tape is tapping the
Captain again. The veteran cannot fail to
flow forth presently; at first, perhaps, a lit
tlejerkingly—ging, glug, glug—but after a
little coaxing in the freest, easiest style ira
maginable.
"A splenclid march, Captain Smith, that
of Wellington upon Ciudad Rodrigo?"
"Sloppy, Mr. Tape, sloppy; nothing but
mud, and snow, and slush. Winter time;
I remember it well," replieJ Captain
Smith.
"Beautiful account Napier giros of it,"
rejoined the martial Tape. '•Wellington."
he says, 'jumped on the devoted fortress
with both his feet!"
"Does Napier say that?" demanded the
veteran, knocking the consumed ashes Off
the end of his cigar on the mantle piece.
".Does Napier say that?"
"Yes indeed he does."
"Then Napier tells what is—," replied
the matter of-fact Captain. "The lightest
longestleggod of the 'Light Bobs' could'nt
hare done it, much less the duke. The
duke's short in the legs—sits high in the
saddle though—long body, dumpy legs.—
Could no more do it than he could dv;
did'nt try either. All a darn!"
Mr. Tape explained that the jumping was
metaphorical; and, after a time Captain
Smith seemed to have acquired a misty no
tion of what was meant. Still, it was.
he said, a very bad way of writing
"history;" which species of composition
should, be emphatically observed, be all
facts, and no mistakes.
"The retreat from Burgos was a masterly
affair," persisted warrior Tape; "masterly
indeed—uncommon!"
"I dare say it was; and as you seem to
admire it so much, I wish you had been
one of the 'prenticee under the masterjust
to see how it was done. and how agreeable
and pleasant such a masterly job is to the
people that do the work. I was one of them;
and I declare to you I had much rather been
in this cure, smoking this abominable cigar
which won't smoke - "--and the Captain
threw the unsatisfactory weed into the fire:
immediately, however, accepting another
from the ready hand of the obsequious
Tape. That, frtunately, drew uncommonly
well; the spiral columns ascended with the
fulness and freedom in which the veteran
loved to luxuriate. lie swallowed his demi
tasse at a gulp; and, his sharp gray eyes
twinkling with fresh lustre, said—"lt was
in coming from Ba gas that I got into one of
the miscreblest scrapes I ever experienced in
my life: and all owing to my tender-heart
tbe very , worst thing for a cam
paign a man can carry about him.
"Tell us, captain: What was it? ItIU.
was it?" cried half a d,zeit T:rot 01
derly gentlemen who bad been playing
I l draliglits for the previous four or five hours
l arding it imp,, , siblo amid so much chunor
'
to bestow the requisite attention on their
extremely intellectual game. also drew near
to listen, as the very hest thing, after .
draughts, they could dn.
Captain Smith smiled graciously, seated
himself. indulged in a few prefatory whiffs.
and proceeded. ••Daring the many jour
neys I at different times made through the
province of Leon, in Spain, I fell in with a
very worthy couple, whom I took a great
liking to. Pedro Davila was by trade a
cooper; he made all the cask& and tubs for
Miles round the little town near which he
lived; which was situated, I should tell you,
a good deal out of the direct road, or rather
the nearest road—fur there is nothing very
f.IV: Y. Independent.
"NO ENTERTALNMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
UULUMISIA I rE.A.AN,SI.I) V AALI I .11.0.101-NG, AUGUST 2,0, 16,59.
direct in that country—from Burgos to As
torga. For ray part I preferred round-about
ways at that time to straight ones; I found
them safer. Pedro had a nice garden toot
beautifully cultivated, and the prettiest lit
tle black-eyed Andalusian wife—Pedro was
also a native of the south of Spain—a man's
eyes ever lighted upon. Pedro in his youtt.
had taken service with a Span sh grandee.
who, being compelled to fly his country—a
common every-day thing abroad—took up
ids abode in Paris; and there Pedro got ri
of his fine old constitutional prejudicengainst
foreigners, and obtained in exchange some
modern universal philanthrophy—u bout the
most dangerous article tu go n»narket with
in Spain it is possible to imagine. And
sure I am that if Pedro had known what a
dreadful mess his turning philosopher
get me into, to say nothing of his wife, he
was far too good a fellow to have done au)-
thing of the sort."
"But what on earth. Captain Smith," in
terrupted Tape. -could philosophy, Pedro',
ur any one's else, hare to do with you?"
"You will hear, Tape: it was his liberal
mindedness and my totiderdieartednes
joined together that played the mischiet
with us buth. An excellent fellow, aotuitb
standing," condoned the captain, older a
brief pause, "was Pcidu Davila; /00 good
for a Spaniard, much; one could hardly be
lieve it of hind I was going to say he wa ,
equal Cu an Englishman, but that perlian
would he pushing it £m fur% Ma•.y a s!•.i•
of wine have we emptied together: none n,
the :doe stuff you get here, but the genuin.
juice, of the grape. The euptait ,
seta-if:el his lip- al the plea-ing reminiscence,
ti.eit, to reward them fur the exercise.
ttaLtined a portion of another demi-tusse.
co.ifttly qualified to his taste.
"At dm tone I speak of, it was highly
dangerous to harbor, suecor, or com•eiti
any Frenchman, woman, or child. Death.
or worse punishment, was pretty, sure to be
the down of any one offending against the
laws ofvengeance; and it happened that inn
of the most ferocious of minor guerrilla
lenders, a relentless hunter and slayer of
miserable fugitives, was Ramez, a native of
the village or town near which Pedro !lied.
Ile was seldom long absent from home; and
was, in fact, the real governor of the plm:ie.
"Well, it chanced uric unfortunate day
that a wounded 'French officer, who had
been chased fur several days by Ramez and
his fellows, crawled into Pedro's cottage,
and implored shelter and succor. His reL
quest was, as you may anticipate, after what
have told you of Pedro notions of philos
ophy, grunted; and the hunted man was suc
cessfully concealed, care:ully tended, and
restored to health, The day of his depar
turn had arrived; ho was citrefully disguised.
mounted on Pedro's mule, and was just bid•
ding his benefactor good-by at the garden
gate, (Matietta, fortunately, as it turned
out, was not at home,) when who should
'poke up his diabolical snout from the other
side of the hedge but Ramez! The ugliest
rascal, gentlemen," continued Captain
Smith, with a violent emphasis, "the most
ill-favored scoundrel I over saw in my life
was Ramez: and that from a man who has
been twenty years in the army, and has lived
twenty years in London, is saying 11 great
dent."
This was quite cheerfully assented to.—
The ugliness that after such a lengthened
and first-rate experience bore elf the palm,
was pronounced nece..sarily incomparable
by the entire auditory.
"Ile gave poor Pedro." continued the cap
tain, "one most diabolical look, (I'll be
hound the streak+ from his eyes—he always
squinted both sides inwards when be was in
a passion—crossed each other within an inch
of his nose,) then rushed fi , rwarti and
bawled lustily for help. The Frenchman
spurred furiously into the adjoining forest
and escaped. Pedro was seized. nod the
alpha and omega of it, as the chaplain of
the old half-hundredth used to say, was,
that he was lugged to prison, tried a few
hours afterwards, and condemned to death
as a traitor. It was a wild time then: most
places managed their own affairs their own
way, and this was Master Raines and the
alcalde's way. Pedro was to have been
strangled, garated they called it, but there
was no apparatus handy, and nobody that
particularly liked the job; so, as a particu
larly heavenly grace to him, the elcaldo
said, it was determined should he be shot on
the third day of his arrest.
"It happened," resumed the captain, after
again refreshing himself, "that I was. on
the very day after Pedro's arrest and con
demnation, returning from Burgos to Gen
eral Picton's headquarters, a good way be
ymol Astorga; and being near, and in no
‘ery particular hurry, I turned out of my
to visit Pedro. When I arrived at the
cottage. I
_found things, as you may sup
' pose, La a very different state from what I
had been imagining for the last hour or so.
Instead of wine, there was hysterics; and
for an omelette and salad, shrieks and
faintings. Marietta clung round my neck
with tremendous energy—l should nut hare
thought, if I had not experienced it, that a
pretty woman's embrace could be so very
unpleasant—frantically beseeching me to
send for the British army to liberate her
Pedro. Extricating myself from her grasp
as speedily as possible, I began to cost
about in my mind as to what could be done;
but I could not at all clear up my ideas. Re
membering that I never had been able to
do eo on a lead stomach, I suggested that
we should first dine, and then perhaps I
might hit upon something for poor
Pzdro's benefit. Marietta agreed with tor;
and we had, considering that her husband
and my dearest friend was to be shot the
day alter the next, n very nice comfortable
dinner indeed—very—and some capital
wine afterwards; end then, gentlemen, the
hither of miscHef, or the wine. or Marietta',-
black eyes. I don't know which, peril:it:lard;
together, indueed me to make as spnnney
proposal as ever fell from the lips of a green
cockney."
"There are clever, sensible men in the
city,' interjected Tape, ns the captah.
paused an instant to supply himself with a
fresh eign r.
"Perhaps so, Mr. Tape, but those gentle
men seldom volunteer into the army, I be
Here. I knew," said the vetern, continuing
his net-naive, "that I might as well whistle
jigs to a mile stone, and expect it to get up
and twit parry ers, as ask the general in
I . ..llllnand of the division about forty miles
off to rescue Pedro from the grnsp of the
Spankli authorities. The British generals
never meddled with the administration of
Spanish justice under any pretense what
ever; fait I also knew that if he received a
message stating that I was in danger, ho
was Isiuml by general orders to afford me
any assistance in his power. 'Marietta,'
said I as last—the wine must have been
tin usually string—'l have hit upon it.
We'll sate Pedro yet, in spite of them all!'
r;,e pr, tty create if! :ill In t wit up, chipped her
timab, am.; n c , tani2iiiie., and talking
;t: n hrc.l•ll. czei.t:coeo. •De"r Inglese, I
knew ) ne weuldr •You, Marietta,' said I,
Its semi as she was snlliriently calm to
listen, 'go to Ramez and the alcalde, and
tell them you will deliver into their Lands
the famous Afrancesado Spy, Ilenriquez
Bajel, on condition et their releasing- Pedro.
If they consent, detioun e inc.'You,
llen
riquez?' said she, staring bewilderingly.
- Nmer you mind,' I replied. 'A, note to
Geeeral Picion—Fll write it nt once—will
soon get me out of their clutches, whoever
I am.' I wrote the note and gave it to her.
'Now mind, Marietta,' said I, solemnly,
'that Pedro gets off with this note the
instant he is liberated. now soon can he
reach the general on foot?' 'By to-mot row
night,' she answered. 'Very well; and now
then about it at once.' She was off in a
twinkling, and I was at leisure to reflect on
what I had done. To tell the truth, I did
not. after.a few minutes quiet cogitation,
feel excessively comfortable. They would
be certain to believe the story; Ilettriquer.
' being, I was sure, known to none of them
personally. I was a precious deal mere
like a Spaniard than an Englishman; and I
spoke the language so well—net altogether
grammatically, it is true, but sit like a na
tive of the south of Spain--that I felt I
should hate some difficulty, should occasion
rognive it, tomiideceive them. Then they
had such a pest lent way of making not
I (tidy sure hut short work with whoever they
suspected of commerce with the bated
French, that it flashed unpleasantly across
my mind—the general's help might, per
chance arrive too latel However, I was in
fur it, and so taking another glass of wine.
arid refilling any pipe—there's great. phil
osophy in a pipe, as we all know--I awaited
the result of my charming scheme as calmly
as I cue/a.
"It was not long coming. About half an
hour after Marietta's departure, the door
was slammed open, end I found m ys e lf
sprawling and kicking, or rather sprawling,
aad trying to kick, fo• they wouldn't let
me, in the arms of five or six ugly rascals,
who, showering upon me all the time the
vilest abuse, hurried an off to pri4on. Into
it they thrust no like a dog: and there,
when I could recover breath and speech, I
greeted Pedro. my fellow-prisoner. The
nicalde nod Ramer, had only promised to re
lease him, and, of course, when the of jest
wits gained, refused to abide by the bar
gain. If I bad not been the most consum•
male ass that ever browsed or brayed, I might
have guessed as much. Ramez had now
two victims, and that promised a double
holiday.
"Well, gentlemen, this was, you may
suppose, a very unpleasant position to find
myself in; but as, thank Heaven I was
never much troubled with nerves, I did not
so much mind it after a bit. Marietta, I
was sure, would be Id to the general with
her best speed when she saw the ugly turn
matters were taking; so that if my cnptnrs
were not in a very patriotic hurry indeed.
there was a chance on the cards yet. Pe .ro
obtained some cigars from the jailor, an
old acquaintance of hi.; they were firot-rate,
and we both became gradually calm and
composed. Ah. gentb•iuen, I have often
thought that if the moral observations I
addressed that evening to my friend Pedro,
upon the duty of respecting national pre
judices, particularly with regard to shelter
ing wounded foreigners, and the shocking
folly of making rash engagements with
young women, especially after dinner, Ihad
been taken down by a short hand writer
they would have raised me to the next rank
after Solontonl"
"No doubt of it said Tape, looking
nervously at the clock, "but do go on, cap
tain; don't stop, don't!"
not, Tape; but don't you hurry
me as they did. Well, the neat day I was
dragged before the alcalde and that rascal
games, where, to my very great and most
unpleasant surprise. two *nett, guerilla.aol
diers, swore that they had frequently seen
me in communisation with the French out-
posts, and that they verily believed me to
he nn other them the infamous Ilenriquez.
Vainly, I pr...tc.•ted, finding the thing war
getting much too serious, that I was an
English officer; my assertions were laughed
at, and I was reconveyed to my dungeon,
after having heard myself sentenced to be
s tot at the same hour which was to see the
last of Pedro. Mr. Tape please to touch the
bell. I'll take another cup; for my tongue
always feels dry and but when I come to
this part of my story."
Mr. Tape di , t as he was desired, quickly,
and bade the waiter who answered the sum
mons, 'jump about." The anxious lather
dasher had but just three minutes to spare.
"That, gentleman," continued the cap
tain, "was a very uncomfortable night. I
was never, from a child, particularly fond
of water drinking; but I remember crawling
off the straw many thnes during the night,
and almost emptying both pitchers. At ten
o'clock we were to suffer, to bo shot to death
by half a dozen rusty muskets. It was
dreadfully aggravating! Day dawned at
la -t, six, seven, eight, nine, ten o'clock
tinkled through the jail; the door opened.
and in stalked Ramez and the nlcalde, fol
lowed by the rusty shooting party. We
were politely informed that 'time' was up,
and that we must both come CO the scratch
at once, as the spectators didn't like to be
kept waiting. They then kindly pinioned
us, and away we marched. You never, per
haps. walked in your own funeral proces
,.loo, Tape, did you?"
"Lord, Captain Smith, bow can you ask
such a horrid question?"
"Well, if ever you &tumid, you'll remem
ber it, that's all. Seeing King Lear is noth
ing to it, though that's reckoning pretty
deep. On we marched, the priests praying.
the bells tolling, and the infernal musket
men eyeing us as if to mtske up their minds
esactly where to have the pleasure of hitting
us. One scoundrel, with a short, ugly snub
of an apology of a nose, meant. I could see,
to send his bullet through my Roman. Al
together, it was the most disagreeable walk
I ever took in my life. We soon arrived at
the place of sacrifice, and were ordered to
kneel down. 'Pedro,' said I, 'that jewel of
a wife of yours has played us a sweet trick;
but perhaps she'll arrive in time, if she
comes at all, to return thanks for all the
good things we are about to receive; and
that's a consolation anyway? I then took
another look in the direction in which the
expected succor ought to appear, when I saw,
and tried to rub my eyes with my elbows to
make sure I saw, but couldn't, a horsewoman
on the summit of the hill; it was Marietta!
I roared out like a raging hull, and Pedro
gave chorus As soon as Marietta caught
sight , •f m hat was going on, she curbed her
horse sharply back, and beckoned with ea
ger ge,tures over the hill. A minute after
ward the ridge was crowned by half a regi
ment of Btitish dragoons. Tho instant they
saw us, they gave one loud cheer, and came
on like a whirlwind.
" •A narrow escape. Smith,' mid the corn
in ending officer. 'But come, mount at Once.
There is a large French f tree in the neigh-
Ip•rhood, and the general's orders arc not to
halt an instant.' I was delighted to hear
it. The less said, was, I felt, The soonest
mend*.d. If the general, thought I, were
informed why he had been put to this trou•
ble and risk, our meeting would scarcely be
a very amicable one. 'l% ho is this?' said
the officer, pointing to Pedro, who, though
he had hallooed lustily, was by no means
out of the wood. 'One of ours,' I boldly re
plied. 'Then, mount, my good fellow, at
once,' replied he, motioning to one of the
led horses. Pedro understood the gesture,
though ho didn't the language; and giving
Marietta, who had unpinioned him, one hug.
was in the saddle in a jiffy. 'Out of the
way,' cried the commanding officer to the
alcalde, who, instigated by Ramez, was ap
proaching to claim Pedro at least as lawful
prize. .0o of the way, fellow!' and he
struck hint sharply with the flat of his
sword. The frightened functionary tum
bled out of our.path; the bugle sounded, and
we were oft safe, sound, and merry."
4.l3ravol—lturral—flurral" resounded in
irregular chorus through the room. Tape
mas off like a shot; the unfortun ate man
was full seven minutes behind his time.
"Gentlemen," said Captain Smith, after
the applause had subsided, "do not, if you
please, frrget the moral of my story. Every
thing. the chaplain used to arty, has a useful
moral—even short rations—though I could
never agree with him U.. that extent. The
moral of this adventure I take to be this—
Never, under any circumstances. assume to
be what you are not; for f shot or hanged
in a wrong character, you Ica/ never be able
to amend the 'errors of description.' "
Fighting Tiger of the Xing of Oude.
"Harpers Weekly." copies from tho "Il
lustrated London News," a fine portrait of
Burrhen, - the famous fighting tiger of the
King of Owle, and gives a thrilling account
of a fearful contest, which we eztract in
full. This tiger stands fr feet 2 incites in
height, and is, therefore, an unusually large
animal. His ordinary food is twenty-five
pounds of raw meat per day, Ilia antago
nist on this ocessioo was a famous stallion,
whose ferooity and blood thirstiness had
won for him the title of "Man Eater."—
The account it; from the "Private Life earl
Eastern King," anh runs thus; "Burrhea
was the name ofa farorite tiger of the King's,
so called from a village at the foot of the
Himalayas, near to which he was taken.
$1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.; $2.00 IP NOT IN ADVANCE.
We were all assembled at Chuan-gunge in
the gallery of acourt yard, about sixty yard
square in extent—a court yard with buil
dings all around, and a verandah below.
Thick bamboo railing had been put up
front of the verandah, so as completely t.
encircle court yard. and to form a sari
of enlarged cage, The man eater bad beet
enticed into the enclosure by means of a lit
tle mare—a false, as the country horses are
called—of trifling value.
The King and his usual suit of female at
tendants had taken their places in the. gal
levy, he on a. sofa placed there fur the par
pose, they behind him. We stood on hi•
Majesty's right and left, leaning on the par
apet, or on the sofa. Every one commanded
a full view of the court yard, and the ladie•
seemed to relish the prospect us =eh as
any one. The order was given, and
Burrhea's cage was brought into tin j
verandah. A door in the bamboo railing.
prepared for the perpuse, was drawn ul
the cage door was opened, and Burrh.:
bpunded into the court-yard, lashing his
!sides with his long tail, and glaring feriou••
ly upon the man-eater and his little femal,
friend. A more hea , niful tiger tiny.
Burrhea it would not he 'easy to discover in
all India. Ili; glossy coat, regularly
streaked, shone in the enclosure, in plensat t
contrast whh the fruwq cot eying of the
little mare. Even the well kept hide of the
maa-eater was sadly wanting in brill:rimy
when compared with the glittering skin of
Burrhea. The tiger had been kept without
food or drink from the previous day to pre
pare him fur the assault. lie glared sav
agely at the horses as ho entered, and con--,
inenced slowly stealing towards them. The
man-eater kept his eyes fixed on the eye
balls of his eneny. Nat fur nn instant did
he tulle them off; his head lowered, standing
in an easy attitude. with one lout slightly
advanced he awaited the attack, moving as
Burrhea moved, but always with his es< s
intently Used. As for the pear little mare,
she seas transfixed with fear—paralytted
apparently unable to take a thought f r
preservation. She stood cowering in tl.o
corner awaiting her fate. With it slight
bound Burrhea was upon the ma! e in an
instant. A blow of his paw threw her
over on the ground; his teeth were fastened
tin her neck, and he drank her blood greed
ily. It was simple butchery, fur there was
no resistance,
"'ft will make Burrhea only . the nose
savage,' ezild the King, rubbing his hands
gleefully. The European courtiers assent
ed; and the female attendants, ignorant
the language. but certaiu that the Kirg
was pleased, were mightily pleased t, o.
They exchanged glances of approbation
and of satisfaction era they turned again to
watch the proceedings in the court-yard.
Burrhea might have been from three to five
minutes enjoying his draught of blood—not
more—his head turned toward the man
eater all the time, and his eyes for the
most part fixed on him. The man-eater, on
his side, gave no indications of uneasiness.
An impatient snort esca red him; that was
all. With protruded neck and cocked ears
and glaring eye-balls, rind twit.hing tail, be
watched his enemy intently, still standing
in an easy attitude of attention, as if pro
paled for immediate action.
"At length Burrhea was satisfied, er else
no more blood was forthcoming; and taking
his claws out of the the dead animal. and
skaking hituseliaq he did so, Le began c to
go stealthily round the cow t yard, like it
cat stealing"a march on a rat. Ile male
no noise whatever. The large paws were
placed one after the other upon the ground,
the soft ball of the foot preventing any
.ound. Slowly were they raised and de
pressed, whi'e the Jong beck ns slowly
made its way forward—now raised at the
shoulders, now at the hind quarters as the
legs were moved—the skin glancing hack
wards and forward as if hardly belonging
to the bones and muscles beneath it. It
was not a scene to be forgotten; the King
and his attendant females gazing intently
above; the European courtiers straining
with eyes and ears to catch every move
ment and every sound. the man-cater in the
centre of the court-yard slowly turning as
the tiger turned, his head and neck and
ears ever the same; the tiger stealing along
so cat-like in aspect, and yet so gigantic in
strength. Not a sound was audible hut
the grating of the man-eater's feet, as they
were raised and lowered agaiu—not a sound
other, but till was mute expectation and
anxious gazing.
"At length the tiger hounded with the
rapidity of lightning upon Isis enemy; the
horse was fully prepared. - It had evidently
been Burrbea'e intention to seize the head
and forequarters; but the man-eater was
too adroit for that; and, by a quick diving
notion of his bead and shoulders, bad re
ceived Lie antagonist upon his muscular
haunches behind. The claws sank deeply
into the flesh while the hind feet of the
tiger made a grasp or two at the fore legs
of the horse; but there was no time to secure
his position. The man-eater lashed up
with his iron heels into the air with tre
mendous vigor, and in a ummetst Burrhea
was sprawiiug on the ground, not at all the
better for his attack. We could hardly
perceive, however, that he had been thrown
upon his back—partly upon the bamboo
railing. partly on the ground—when he was
on his legs again, gyrating as before, mov
ing stealthily around as if nothing bad
happened. With an indignant snort the
unan-eater resumed his former position, and
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twaited another spring, his muscular
:lunches bearing evidence in their lacera
ecl skin, and in the guts of blood which
•istigured them, of the sharpness and
i-rength of the tigers el tw..
"'Diarrhea will kill him yeti' exclai:nel
• Icing. turning to the nearest European.
Undoubtedly, your 'Majesty,' said the Coo:.
Cut-htze ,t;d pace ruund and
,und agile. his brual round head ever
t mied tw.vard his wary antagonist. Each
out k ith its brawny paw was lifted at d
~ ,v eered again in Fl:Ce.eqslon.
'iefvre, while the beautifully Btreakel hide
lltyed over the bones and muscles freely.
With distended nostrils and flashing eyes
the man-eater watched again as intently re
ever, exactly in the same position as forme--
y, the head and neck lowered and prutru
led, the care cocked rigidly, the eyes fixed
in a glazing stare at the stealthily
iger, and one fore-foot ever slightly a:
ranted, to admit, doubtless, of that rani t
Living and thrusting forward of the Blvau -
ler and head, by which he had formerly
•,,eeded in getting his antagonist on h•e
hind quarters. For fully eight or ten min
utes did this momentous circling.of BurrheA
;untinue, the man-eater ever facing lirrt
and gazing intently, an angry snort 01. W
and then bursting, from the horse as he
tunnel. opened his huge jaws
* widely at times, and licked up the drops of
blood which clung to them; and once (but
.neo) he paused for a moment over the dead
mare, as if meditating a second draught.
But the irressulation was only momentary,
and the monotonous walk was continued.
"At length the dicicive moment arrived
again, Barrhea was standing almost over
the' carcass of the dead mare, when he
'prang once more—sprang so suddenly, that
we in the gallery storied at the sight, ex
pecting, it though we were; and more than
ale of the attendants un the King gave
forth stifled. exelanittion of alarm. There
was no peremptory growl ur display of any
kind. It w 3.8 as if by galvanic agency the
t gee had been suddenly lifted into the air
in the course of his momentous gryration :
Mau-eater was not taken by surprise, how.
ever. His head was docked still lower than
before; his fore quarters seemed to glide
under the springing ass:lib:tit, and again
were Bur:he:Cs it:J.:vs dug deeply into his
IL:nimbus, but further ovee on this occasion
t nut 1,11 :he I..rmcr. The bread round head
of the tiger projanal for an instant LeyonA
die tail of the ht , r,e, trhtio ilia hind claws
Vieresuzik. deeply into the Man-eater's bre!ist.
r,,r an inaant we oar him quivering ut}-
tite in that pe , itien, crouching with his
belly on the htrse's back, clinging to hie
prey for an instant, but only for an instant.
,kgain di.l the ferocious ttaiion lash up with
his hind feet, almost ns if he -would throve
over on his back. Ilia iron hods
cote with eim-hkg Lree against the jaw
of Burrhea, and in 11 inJatent the tiler was
sprawl - dig. Ise!pie- sly open the ground, once
,re strelsihe 1 stpou ltin had:.
"It wls I at for :In inzitant, however, that
Wirrhea thus lay; hot when lit resumedhis
fent, and began runr.;•ig round the bambea
enclosure, it was quite apparent that it tic r
no longer to attack again. but to escape:t
n.', with-his tail be
t...re-a hl, low, he cried ant loudly with
p;ain :to he ran t round, not unlike a whipped
spaniel. The iklati-eater watched hint as
before, iotentlz,-, es idently fearful of a rtrer,
iirs.iirg it eiricuTt to keep pp with hi 4
rapi lint it is as no roar, Barrlica
was eagerly fur some method of es•
cape, cryirg almost piteously as he did e.•.
jaw is broken,' was whispered by some
of the male servants below, who watched
him front the veranda. The sound reached
our galloly, and the Ring heard it, 'Bur
rhea's jaw is broken!' he exclaimed to us;
shall we let him escape?'—'As your majes
ty pleases,' was our answer. The signal
was git en, the door was opened, the bam
boos opposite to it raised, and Burrhea
rushed in to bury himself in the farthest
GEMS
"Proudly did the 3lameater snort and
pew when he found himself thus victor.—
lie first scampered up to the mare, and
snuffed there a moment; and then sptirning
her with his fuot, with head and tail arched
he trotted to ono point and another of the
bamboo railing, as if anxious to get at the
attendant servants. llis blood was up; and
tigers or men, he did not mind which were
his assailants now, or which ho assailed."
PARTINGrnti'S IDEA or BOBTON.—
From Mrs. Partington's new book, "Knit
ting Work," which is soon to be published
by Brown, Taggard & Chase, we learn that
when the old Indy had selected a guardian
for Ike, and had come to -the city to put the
mischievous youth under the care of' old
Roger, she was heard to- remark:
"How the world has turned about to be
sure," said she; " 'tit' nothing but change,
change. Oiiiy yesterday, as it were, I was
in the cluntry smelling the odious flowers;
to day I am in Boston, my olifactories
breathing The impure Ciebrations of coal
thatare so dilatory -to health. In
stead of the singing of birds; the blunder
bu4mes aboostdepriveAnwof conscientious
ness.' Dear mel Well, I hope I shall be
reitrained.to it all. They say that the mo
ral turpentine of this city . is frightful, but
it is'nt any, use to antimpao trouble, be
forehand; he may escape all harmonious
influencca that would hare a tenderness to
hurt him; and, as the minister of our parish
said, with judicial training be may become
a useful membrane of society; though train
ing is 11.1,1 generally, and is apt to make the
y nag rna to feathers. like cropple•erowtaid
Lens. But Lo has genius"—looking at him
Comes natural to him, like the pea
sicA, and every day it is enveloping itself
more and more."