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England born Make theSt.r.t:l4ol.'S 11.lnd DI-t1.11 . 11 010 WOWS of thy dead— The hurled glory of the land hose $ with noble Llgnd is red, iiiinotitiod lii cent;;: part, • Cur fei•l resell tment, like lirantl. front his fiery heart: ~:re.ei, r hills may eiteh fhe sun lienelth the phrieus heaven of pranea And streams mtj.ieing as they full Like life beneath the day-beane , `. glauee `lay wartder wher e the orange...bau.th - .I'ith golden fruit is bending 144W1—. 111.1 there may bond a bi4hter sky . rr .wren and elassle I CO) Ind pill:wed lima and anefent gra., e record of anot.h,r ovor .haft. mot nr..hit.l.-Ive Tho goon tuvitriant Ivy rli 1, Ind iii t.,w3 . rds the rl-111.2.. St . . 1,31111 n l steak, its L+art•s nn All ‘.V11(•11! ti ,n arc ni..111,1,......114. by ...110.- 1.1:;,. ,t,rs urm the twil)ght sky, 1 h a ws s 4141 - is the broad lvolgtatihlzt nty. mn,l tltroutil the ilr.thmih's s.terol rirve A th , alspnl hrigjit 1.1104 pint .11 , 11:.ty 1 - frt nut, Njw Ehzlana. ivandfnin.: s-n. shill .trot , h thnir nnnq \nd the rush , chart and h.:I Skn•al •I..airor than t;),1 law! ~f :'[lN' , :11. and npaint.tin M ,re ivol,•oan , than tip , I.tn 1:11 ,•1 Ja. Nth. Nti . ,llo of thl , w Sel.lll tht , 'r bed 3 ( I Itit. , l Lai Iva vt.s. stir! 1111 sporisli: it if h Lho we.lith :.:)?fmt f -t THE KING'S WARD !taco no joy of this contract tnniaiL hat! not a wonl to thy pmr old nurse cc raithfid I))wer-watnen ! Not a n o 1, or a kindly link, to show that thou lest us? Thou that was won,t to hoc the -*lest and kinitlie:t damsel in merry Cone hnl, the fair and bold Kdith the hicst 111:11dt`11. 1110111 01 . Trent ; about t o sedded, too, to the \ - otim Lord lior.ard, ~ )odliest and the bravest knight of King iry's court, for whOse favor the gay dames he south have been trying and vying at eant, at joust; and at tournament, ever e his return from the wars! Men say • fOr!all that he bath four la. against the lan, and carried the blanche-lion," the banner of hi; loms,‘, orvnuNt among, the el chivalry of Fraure and Italy, he Lath er the mein of a voting page than of a vart warrior, so smooth and Mir is his so graceful his form. so grntle and teous his bearing. g;ill'amort, Sweet- mute as a marble image on thy cry iil i ,- Ve 1.• And the good old MargarM, ig her lady still unmoved, paused for K 36011 ;-', O generous a wooer, too!" cNclaimed or on: attrndad i t niaide,N, g lancing lit prorw:io l i of rich ;Tits., with which a heavy I had lien laden ; and which had arriv hat very day at the castle, under convoy re good knight's squire, and a score or . of pages and mezt-at-arms, and- , ,which lay in magnificent profusion about the shied chamber; scattered amidst the nt antique furniture, high backed ebony rs, oaken screens, cut into mimic lace ; ; marble slabs, resting and gilded grit"- or som6 . such picturesque monsters of Idry; and huge cabinets, coal posed of rarest woods, an entire history, profane, acred, carved-oJpon the doors, and sur nted with spires and pinnacles, liku the trate(' shrine of a flothic cathedral; The le scene, lighted up by the bright, beams evening_ sun k c010n.4 igti4jobtonsltm kites, as they glanced thrmigh the sto panes of the oriel window. It scene c bright, or more gorgeous, thud that .Fr lady's bower, tonanted, as it was, by inn in her fairest forms, by venerable'agc blooming 'youth i - eould .hardly lac found crry England. Yet, there sat the youtil ady of the castle, in the midst of all this Iv beauty, languid and listless, paltS'and .oilleS3 as a statue. so generous a wooer, tool" exclaiined ress Bridget, the pretty bright-eyed bra !, the Lady F.dith!s principal bowv--wc , who; beutg .reeluined the best adjuster' head-tire, and the most skilful professor 11 arts of the loom and the needle, wheth white-seanct cut work, tapestry', or Brill , of any inaiddiV iu the North country, more especially alive- to the rarity and ass of Lord 1 roward's gifts. '7;o generous a wooer, too.! only look at carpets . front Persia 1 a marvel folk can have the Jteartoto put toot cm „. 4 ;, r 11(' ;:001T1' • 119 if' thet were grolyd lig I And • these velv.(4s from Ge noa ; were ever such colors 'seen P - And the silken stun from Padua'? that stand on end with their own richness; what kitties and mantles they will make I And the gloves of 'aic•s, that cause the chamber to smell like garden full of spice,Cloves and jessamine! And these veils from the Low Countries, as ine as a spider's web l And the cloth Of gold tad the cloth of silver,—where did Master ,!instace say they came from, Dame Marga. M ,-et? And this golden vesel for perfumes, which look's like a basket all overrun with grapes and ivy ? " That was wrought by a (miming gold ;mit h of Florence," responded old Margaret, •' whose skill iso , o surpassing, that albeit he employs chiefly the precious metals, the workmanship is of more value than the ma terials. This silver tray, will the delicate trellis-work, wreathed with lilies and rose-; round the edge. and the story of Diana and le—.lc—lie on my old brains! I shall for wyt my own name soon! _Diana and—he that Nl' a turned in o a stag—" Actzvon!" Ivhi.-Tored Alice, the fairest and most Youthful of Lady Edith's att6nd ant gelid; and titm.itentatiously supplying the g-oeil dame's failure of memory, without I looking tip hunt her cork. "A y, Actwon! I thank thee, Alice. Thy wit , : are young r thap mine hy ofty g .d v":trs tlr Hart'. The silver salveerwith the light delicate i.dre, that surems like the Iv,prk of the. lairles, and lhe story of Diana and .\:.•.;uon is Lc the same hand." " .1 nil then the yaskets of precious stones!' !Th;ir, , n•,l - the pnchnsias(ie waiting damsel , ariniag at thecoho. ;14 pia t inn of the finery 1 " Th. , 11 , ...).);'1tes and hrtteclet.il The curonets 1.0.11. d r ',l,t I r-tt•roath of cnteraldi and ttinctlivQts, which lies on the talde it .(lor the •great lenetiati ()I' my lady never having had the (-ari -1 (x,ity lo()!: into that !" (and Mistress Bridg yt t(.01: a sell-satistio(l peep at her (4'n pretty I= it \vas reflected on tile broad', clear die ntre and costly mirror,) "that reaili, hi,:ll Dover ghtlicr 111,1 antl,thr ropes eif pearls wh i 4 I laid 11Pon her lap, and which she Ruth let drop upon dn. , 111,)t•, du pick them .Alice I I veriljl;, , ro.ve the foolish wench vareth as 1 Itle thest , previous tidurnQi:iits as the Lady Edith li,r.-4•11! That one.uri , eatli ,ind those string.; ui pearl;, Le Nvorth an earl's EMEEM At this moment the sound of a harp «•a,. card, and the voice of the minstrel arcise l'o4ll beneath the easement: all einpirr's treasure spread at thy fret: Here •,1 mslitnero Puo fr,an MO, 1 , 81 mtr•e The pear Nhaped pearls of Prhlnes lay; And 14,.1,1, id MIAS dull hly 11 aLgu t• pleasure, Lady rm Pet! The air wa; ~ m itioth and flowing, awl the voice that of I;obert Fitz-Stephen, one of the approved of the courtly minstrels; but till the Lady Edith sat pale and inotionleris, .is though the tide of 'melody hail glided nn "i'elt over her seIISVS, producing 'no mare im pressionthan the waters of I ` ase upon the plumage of 'the cygnet: Dante Margaret sighed deeply, and Bridg et giving her 'head a provoked; impatient jerk, rcstrmed hermithroidery with suell rapidity, that she broke her silk half-a dozen times •in the renew of a minute, and well-nigh spoiled the carnation upon 'Which li‘vas engaged, and which she had intend ed tuout‘iti the flit:till:Al blossont in Fittlir hiranvis . nowt r-horder, Young AliiV,-draw ing her tapestry•franie nearer to them, and jfurther from Lady Edith, and speaking in a low tone, even lower than her win Soft and gentla_natur:Ll-voiee r rttsunted- tluit4.oryersa tion. t 4 For my,own part, good Bridget (call me foolish au' thou wilt,) I do not weeder at our sweet lady's sadness. Think_what a piteous thing it 'is . ty . be an : orphan think but of that gfcat grief! And then' to be a great heirati to boot, left in this king's ward and dragged from her own dear home j in her olifiletir . l north country, to this tine grand castle (which, albeit her own also in right of her lady j nother, scents ton Siranjge and too grand for happiness,) and all lbr the purpose of being wcdded~ this with his costly, j jtteriq gilts, who had nevM.'votichsafed to - j come:neather until now, on . .the very eve of the bridabwhen it hath pleased him to give ,j notice of his approach. Holy St: Agatha, defend me from such a wooer! A wooer, whose act ions. shyly, as. plainly as words could tell, that liQseckeili Lady Edith's broad lands and careth as little., for Lady Edith's warm heart as -I de) for a withered rosedeaf. IcH the what, llridgei, I 110,,'1, , r hit k. to see', II we dwelt iit Wali on to pleasure, Lady sweet' 4.. and lii e'strvasuro, - Ile spread at the feet." 1 ,; , L)cral. our old dear home, amongst the pleaSant vales 'awl breezy mountains of Cumberland. Thero was health and freedom in the very . air. Post- thou' not remember the day Iv* ()Id Gdiarey the falconer had lamed himself among the rocks, and the youth: Albert, the I havelling minstrel, took Charge of the hawks ,and- waited on •my -ay, as'if he had been trained to the sport all his life long? Nast thou forgot , how she stood by the lake with her favorite merlin on her wrist an(Llier white greyhound, Lily-bell, at her side, look : ing like the very goddess of the chase, , so full of life, and spirit, and cherishness ? And that bright evening, when she led the dance at the Maypole? Well-a-day, poor lady"! 'tis a woeful change !" It was remarkable that the Lady Edith's attention; which neither the louder speech of her elder attendants, nor the ringing toile's - or the harper, had hen able to command, was arrested at (MCC by the soft, low voice of Al ice. The womanly sympathy sank soothing ly into the woman's hear4just as the gentle rain from heaven penetrates the parched hill side, from whose arid surthce the sharp and arrowy hail rebounds without impression.— The drooping mistress listened in mournful silence, while her faithinl maiden, uncon scious that .site hfid attract' d her notice, par sto in still lower accents, the train of tho't which her-tiwn fond recolleeticins of the free aqui and ha'ppiness which they hail tasted among their native mountains had awakened in Inc mir d. ' " Poor ..N.lbert, too I - the wandering min strel, tvho Came to the cmtle gate to crave lodging for one night. and so:jot/rued witli us for three long months"; and then, whmi h.! had wrought himself up to it was a - part - it - fp' - 11 - he that- of ow si;irit. and the flesh, Ntlmn he left our old walls,—return ed again and again, and finally fied himself in the fisherman's cotta7e, where the moun tain strearnlet, after meandering, along the 'meadow, falls into the • 1:11;e. Poor Albert! I warrant me lie taketh good care of Lit} Cell and my lady's merlin, whereof he craved the charge front old. Geoffrey. I marvel whether my lady hnoweth that her pretty Lily-hell and her fitvorite ritleon lin in hand: that will ~tentl them so heedfully for her dear sake!— To my fanev, Bridget, that poor youth, albeit so fearful and so ashamed in her presence, worshipped the very ground 141tt She trod upon. I have seen him kissidlyibell's glos sy head, after her hand had patted it, rever ently and devotedly, as though it had been a holy relic in the great minster at Durham.' Again the full and ringing chords of the harp, but, this time, to au old border air, well known to the Northan maidens, rose from yeneath the easement. The voice, too, was different lrom that of the courtly minstrel— ilia•P•cr, manlier, pouring fourth tile spirit of' the \vigils, as they gushed spontaneously, :IS it seemed, from his lips, uN thimgh, to his" ens song were but the medium of feeling, and the poet's fancy and othe musician's skill were merged in the impassionate grief of the despairing lover. So the strain rang: II igh o'er thy heron's castle 1911 , Rich Lan tiers ilunt willi henry fall: • And light and song, in mingling tide, Pour forth, to hail the lovely. bride. Yet lady, still the 'birchen tree 'Waves o'er the cottage on the lea; Thu babbling stream runs brlgyt-and Ihir, The love-star of,the West shines therm" "Ha!" exclaimed old Margaret, "that dit ty faith itroutEed my lady. See how she list ens." "'ills the roundelay Ivhielt she herself was wont to sing," observed Bridgut;' "hut the • words are different." "" Peace! peace 1 .,1 , cried tlio Lady Edith, checking, with some impatience, the prattle of her attendants, and leaning against the easement which ape lied dung open, as the deep and earnest voice of the minstrel again resounded through the apartment. "Be tent, I pray ye I" ‘'Malld wardens pace o'er keep and tower; (Jay maidens deck the lady's bower; Page, squire and knight, a princely train, duteous to her hridle-reiri. Yet in that cot the milk-white hound, • The favorite falcon, still are Mund; And ono inure fond, more true than they, Born to adore and to obey." " Alack ! alack Sighed the teinler-imart ed Alice. "Well-mday, poor youth 1 . .1 ever deemed that this strange fondness for Lily bell—albeit as pretty and playful a, creature as ever gatnboled on the greell,s‘safil, and as swift of foot As ever followed hare over the mountains—had", ti,'deeper source than love of the good hound. Well-a-day, poor Albert! ,He is a goodly youth!'' "'Hush I hush!" exclaimed the Lady Edith, as the 'symphony finished, and , the voice, again mingled with thettchords of the horp, , struck fidteringly and onsteadily .now, as 01°11_01 the hand trembled and the heart wax ed 'faint. • {,r)ll t .t of • : ..ilv l'u , •111:1);:n ; And titles higlinnd higher niuna Lord Howard's lovely bridevrnny And yot the wreath of hawthorn bough 0103 lighter prcoo'd that snowy brow; And hearts that wither now were . gay, NVhen she W/Lf. but the Queen of May," "Alas I alas ! my lady,—my dear, sweet lady I murmured Alic 6 to herself; as poor Edith, after lingering at the wcinduw d u ng enough to ascertain that the harp was silcat and the harper gone, sank into a seat with a sigh and a look of desolation, that proved more plainly than w ,rds thetruth of the last linesi - of the lilifStrel*Slay. " Alas I alas 1 dear lady!" excl l aimed she in a louder tone, as the sudden burst of start ling noises, the warlike blasts of trump nail cornet, the jarring, dissonant sound caused by raising- the heavy portcullis and lowering the massive. drawbridge,, and the echoing tramp of barbed steeds and mailed horse men in the courts of the castle y -showed that the expected bridegroom bad at length ar rived: Edith wrung Icor 11;iiii1.4 In desperation "This knightl cannot and will not sec.— Go to him, 'Margaret; say that I am sick— that I 3rn dying,. The blessed saints can hear witn , ss that thou Hilt say but .:,tre - truth in so tellin,t!.. him. Sick at heart am to the • death 0 ! that, I had died before this wretched hour I" And poor Edith burst in to an agony of tears, that shook her very frame. "Why guest thou nut, Margaret 7'' inquir ed she, a few woments after, when, exhaust ed 12y- it=, own violence, her grief had become more tranquil. " Why doest thou not carry my mes , :age, to the Lord 11o.yard ? Why- dal thu:4, old dame? Bridget, gu thou I They stainl about m e as thoug - h I were an igno rant rl - rild, -- that . knew iinrd what slte said ! Ito Inv bidding on the instant, Bridget ; thou wert best." Nay, good my Ina our gracious lord tho king- - "Tell me . not of kings, maiden I I'll to sanctuary. I'll lII' this %cry nit,tht to my aunt, Ow - prioress of St. Mary's. The church knoWeth well how to protect her Votaries.— Wm; is me I that, for being born t 00 heir, I must be shift from the free breath of heav en, the living,watcrs, and the flowery vales, ill the dark and gloomy cloister! To change the locks:that dot upon the breeze for the - dismal veil I To waste my youth in the cold • and narrow convent cell—a living tomb! 0, it is a sad and a weary lot! But better so than to plight my troth to one whom I have never seer, and can never love! To' give iny hand to one man, whilst my heart abid cal with another'' " Lady!" cried Margaret ; ,s ," do my senses play me false? Or is it Edith Clifford that spcaketh thus of a low-born churl?'' " A low-born churl!" responded Edith-LI " ho is a regalii.v of mind and of spirit alun'it that Vont!), which ucedeth neither wealth nor lineage to even him with the greatest—the inborn nobility of genius ! Never till now I that he loved me; and now --. Hasten to to this Lord. Alice, :111(1 see that he cometh not hillier. Where fore lingo rest thou, Inaiden ?" imptired Edith of the pitying damsel, who staid lice steps with an-exclamation of surprise, as the door of the chamber was gently opened. Tell the Lord Howard the very truth ; men say that he is good and wise—too wise, too good, to seek his own happiness at the e x pense of a poor maiden's misery. • Tell him the whole truth, Alice. Spare thy mistress that shame. Say that I love him not ; say that. I hive—" " Nov,' sweetest lade, from thine own dear lips must come that sweet confession,' said at voice at her side, and, turning to the well known accents, Edith saw at her feet him who haying won her heart as the minstrel, the humble falconqr, claimed her hand as the • rich and high-born Philip...„Howard r the fa vorite of the'.-king.''. A cry of joy burst from the astonished waiting-1i omen, and wt.ti eeluted by the pret-' ty greyhoto:d who t u rd followed the Lord Howard into the room; and now stood trembling, with ecstasy before her fair mis tress; resting her head in her lap, and look-' ing up into her thee with eyes beaming with affectionate - ghulness Y.•-t•-eyes that literall) . - glowed with delight. Neyer was happiness more perfect titan That of the betrothed maiden on this so dreaded bridal eve.. And heartily dill her lisithful attendants sympathize in her happi ness ;, only Bridget found it impossible to comVltend why, in the hour of hope arid joy, as in that of fear and 'sorrow, her dearly belovt d finery should be neglected. I; "T.; think," quoth tho' provoked boWer l. woman:" that now that all these marvels have eomu about, and that the Lord Ilowai.d turns out to be none other than the youthAl bert,'lny lady will .not vont:h:Vic to Whethe her . kirtle shall be cloth of rulel or cloth of silver: or whether she will 11011 the Of IllhivA„ or the emerald-wry:oh 1-- Weß-U-day I" quoth Bridget, "!hie love ! thig love I" THE EASTERN 'WAR. , . Tut: W.ta s Eynon.; lags along so j lazily, that it beComes very evident that the end is Alia off. It may last but one year more, or it may last ten years,—but it.is clear, England and France have not yet made im pression enough upon the Emperor Nicholas Ni bring him to terms. St. Petorsburgh can scarcely he taken this year, as at first con tem pltted, or if taken, Russia is no more conquered than when Napoleon took Ma+. c`Ow, When the Crimea is in the French and British possession, and Sebastopol also theirs, then, fir the first time, the allied Powers will • have made an impression upon Russia—and this not because Russia will be in the pro cess of subjugation, but because that will ' have been gained, which, if kept, °Pens to the world the Black Sea, and secures a freer trade -therewith. The opening Of this se - n; - which has been hitherto little else than a Rus sian lake, is a world-wide matter of interest, fur if the allied Powers conquer Sebastopol and the Crimea, the trade of the, world, n's well as of England and France, it is to be presumed, will profit front the victory. . Even the remote United States, then, are not nu !. , futeresteo in such a result as this. Tlie Crimea, if taken, is likely to be the only fruit England and France can expect frnm this war. We very much doubt the pos sibility of the suhing,ation of Constallt by the fleet of Admiral Napier, or by the French co-opei:ating N - vith him. The Born . arsund was an case victory, but the captor() (onstaiit retpiires, forces arid combina- Itions,—wliieli, it-likely to - he - brong,ht an OW gninwl at till, would have been brought be lbre this. The efforts to involve Sweden in the war, seem to be a confession that the Swelibli army is indispensable b3r co-ope ration.—butit is, hardly to be expected that Sweden will involve herself a war, in which, if ;he gains any thing now, she is cef lain to _loco all :if it' the moment the :Mica !fleets retiro. Nevertheless, money, subsidies mai chat, , :e her mind. The allied fleets are now al.mut to make some wittier experiments in the Baltic and Black seas. which the world will watch with The autumn is upulr" them, and winter is at hand . ,,--a winter of great severi i El- especially in the higher latitudes of the Bibltic r —tinti it remains to be seen what Rus sia can do on the ice, and what England and France can dtf, frozen up in its midst. The destruction of the fortifications of Bomar sund would seem to indicate a retreat for the winter. but we hear nothing of such a con teAplated retreat .cither in the 13ritish o'r French Press. The journals of both coun tries appear to he contemplating and arrang ing for a winter campaign; and it is evident countries expect one. while the Russians are giving out what they will do— on the ice—this winter; but what tlu;t. what int , rest romiLins ti) ho sepu The probable prolongation' of the war 18 much to be deprecated by the whole civiliz ed world, not only because of its horrors, but, because of the consumption of human ener gies, industt-y and capital, in very unprofita ble 1111(1 unproductive pursuits. r uwu country, instead of realizing anyj benefits therefrom, as sonic, imagine, biesees capital that would otherwise conic bertt, in demand, alai wanted elsewhere. The three 'great pow ers of the earth cannot be in arms without our feeling the re-action, and, in the cud, suf foring therefrom. The bonds of all bum:la ity are now so sympathetic, that whatever in one country damages or deranges them, is soon felt everywhere. MRS. BENTON.—The death of this lady has called forth the most genuine testimonials to her exemplary worth from those who were acquainted with her private life. She was the constant companion,adviser and counsel. er of her husband, and during his storing po litical life has ever been whei•e his duties called him. A . cotemporary, who - appears to speak from a personal knowledge of her character, says, that "many- a difference be tween Cid. Benton and his colleagues of the Senate or House of Representatives was heal ed by her soothing meditation;and in a bitter enemy became reconciled to the veter an litilteF ! ,1111111 from respect and admiration of i the exalted virtues . of his wife. To her, in- I deedi ailplied the beautiful, words, "Ble. sed be the eacemakers." sve in cowl l on with others, grieve at the loss which society trand the country have sustained by the death tW. Such a woman, we cannot but feel for Col. Benton, _who is thus stricken in his old age, andleft with his orphaned children, to utourn the deptirture of all that made life a source of . enjoyment to them."' • , . MIR recovery of bail t! 1,