tllitnttrUg. A Weir Passage from " Little ilorritt." Haiper's Magazine for, June, contains four chapters 2,4iokett'e ne I ovel•;—".Little Dor rit lUD ,order.to_giveen unaerstandiug of the• . annexed passage. we mtist explain, a little. Be it understood, that Mrs, Chiveri'S son John. , ie in lcive With - Little Doei . itt, , andlitts recently been rejected by that Blight 'female personage, who we suspect,lans a Slight afeetion tor. Mr. Cleunam, whoa , prescnotlias tieeif begged — liy` Mrs. Chivery in the hope•that in his 'wisdom would be fotind aid and • comfort for her 'son - John, Who in the' dist words of the dialogue following proposes to point out to her vis- IBM You may seelimnovillsaill she; ,'if you will condescend to take With these mysterious words, .she preceded the'visitor into ri little parlorbehind ate shop --- - with windo'w in it commanding a very. 5 li.ttie chillback . yard:' In this yard a waslr:'et sheets and - table . cloths tried (in vain, for want'of air) to got itself dried on' a line or two; and among those flapping, articles . was sitting ilfft . chair, like the last .mariner, left, aliSe on the dock Ora damp eliip:wititout—tlie .p_ower of furling the sails, a little wo begofie. young "man. " Our Johni" said Mrs. Chivery. , • NoCto be defibient in. interest, -.Clennam asked what he - might bercloing there? : It's the only change he ta'k'es," said Mrs.. Chivery,. Shaking, her head' afresh.. " Ile won't go out, even in the . back yard, when there's no lirnien ; 'but when the s re's linen to keep 'the neighbors' eyes off, Ita - 'll_ sit there boars.. -flours, ho will.: .says he feels as if it was: groves 7", Mrs'. Chivery shook . her - . heatl-again,--put-her-apron-in-irtnetherly-.way to %her e 3 es , and reoonduete) or vi,,itor.. itito ~ the regions of business.. • - . . .. • - ' Pletiie to take .a seat; sir,' - sait- Mrs.- ,Chivery-..-- '4...Aliss Dorrit is: the mattei! with - - bar John;-sir;-Ire's-a breaking his : beak:- for_ nier,iud .Lwoultl:_wish-Ao T take . -the liberty -to ask low.it's to be_made good ,to his pareute when bust?'.' _ .... . .. • . - Mrs. Chivei'y (who wa's a comfortable look ----- .., -- inuch - respected - aboutl-fOrsetneu _ger.Lane . for_her_feelings_and _her thin) uttered this speech with .fulllorupoSure, and immediately .afterward begs again t - shako her head and dry qter eyes. Sir," said she in continuation you are acquainted with the _family, and have inte rested yourself with the family, and are in- fillet:alai with the family. If you can promote views calculated to make--twin-young-•-people bv_py, let me forOnrlohn's sake and for both their sakes, implore you so to do." _ _ "I have been so habituated," returtred thur at a loss, " during-the short time I have known her, to consider Little—l• have been so _bitbituated tiiionsider Mies Dorrlt in a light altogether removed from that in which you • present her to me, that you quite take me by surprise. Does she know your eon ?" • "Drought tp together, sir," said Mrs. Chi• 1 very. ." Played_togetlieri" " DOBB she know year son as her admirer ?". ' "Ohi bless you; sir," said Mrs Chivery, with assort of triumphant "she never could have seen him. on Sunday ;without know. : ing that,, Ills cane alone would have told it long ago, if nothing eine had. • Young• men like John don't take to ivory hands a plating for nettling. [John bad invested some of. his . earnings - in a fancy cane—the feature of which VMS an ivory hand] How did I first kuowlit myself? Similarly." " Perhaps Miss Dorrit ma: as you, you see." • " Then she knows It, sir," skid Mie. 'Chi every, " by word of mouth." . " Are you sure ?" "Sir," said Mrs. Cbivery, 4 sure and one - tale as in this house lUD. I see my son go out : with my own eyes when in .this house I ' was, and I see my. eon \ come with my . own .eyes when in this house, and I know he done it." Mrs. Cbivery derived a surprising foroe • - of eniphasis from the foregoing circumstanti ality and repetition. • May I anic•you how be, came to :fall, into the desponding state which cause' you so • . much 4neasiness ?" • "That," said Mrs. Chivery, ".took .place Ml:the banjo day ihen to this house I see that: John 'with these eyes Jreturn. Never , been himself in this house since... Never was 'like what he has been since, not from the hour when to this house seven yeare ago me --•,\ and his' fattitikas tenants by, the quart. erame!" , An effect in.the' s nature of en adi!.a• ylt - was gained for this speech by Mrs. Chi ,;,ei.:ylai,Pe.onliar power olconstruction. Mayl,yenti*P tn 4.4 3 what IS his_ ae_ L count of tlie matter !"----iopeatea Bice. (Jtiverf. .40ur John's? No, sir; no; you little know hi n , To ask him for his account wonld not bo, I thick, to make it over ,pleasant to the "• nest customer that inifip.L Want a shilliUg's worth of Cuba, Bengal, Iml Ilavona, and pick 'km out himself.' lie's muck too honorable besides." . _ _ Illay I ask, then, what is, your ac . oapn>d it?" • "You may," - Said Mrs. Chiverj , , - a and .0111 — giVritryttulahonor and in word as true . AS in this.shepl stand. Our•jahn has 'every one's.gaticliviSh- Ile . played with- her as' -a child when 'in that yttrit a childsho. played:— . - Re has known-her everisinee,-i-ile---weat-out upon : the.Sunday af terhoon Whoa in this . .„ very mulnrjzr !IBA dined, and met -her, with ap- . pointment or without. appeintinent„ which I 1 do not pretend to say. ,•11e made his . offer to her.. Her brother and . sistey" is-high in: their . . views,.and,against Our John. - 'Tier father is. all for,himseltin his , views; and against Aar : . Trig her "with any one. .Uncitir which .eiretun stances ..shm. ling.:answered, Our ..john,--!,N0..1 John; I- cannot haie you ; I cannot have any husband ;' it is my - intention . to — he always, ,a ttcrifice-;--farewell,-find-another-worthy-of-you and'forget me !' ThiS is, the way in Which she_is:doqued_to he a constant slave-to ' them , .. that are uot worthy that a constant slave she' 'ante, ; teem should ,be. , This is the 'way-in - which Our John has•come to fuml.no pleaiPre but in - taking cold. among the linen, and in. showing in that yard, as in that yard I. have, -myself shown you, a broken down ruin that 'goes home to )4 mother-'s Heart; 't -Here- the' good ' wpman pointed to the little window, whence her son might be seen sitting diScon solately.ip the tuneloss groves. .. •, . • ~„ • . • Huai 11tcy8.A3icso . TIIE ANCIENT :SIAIIIN- E 128.--: The following yarn, Which was related by an old friend, about tho procliyities of an cient mariners it(the city of:New -Bedford to: draw on their imaginations, is•good: . A doie'ii:old captaiits were - seated' round old Ie:JcIMY Coggshall'S grOccoy :Fitoro - one - §;tys old. Captain Ben Nash, iueso wit more in the IYest forherrin_ than any other man 'about this p a e. Flow much did you get,['uncle BOR?' • , Well; you tee, I. was bound to the. Wind- , Waril Islands and a market, and just . as* Iliad got all my cargo aboarA,,l was' cypheein' oii 'my log.slate how long I shmild poSsibly • he frOM home, when I-found I sh.ouldwitb lucfr: rea - ch hill's about lent.. Thinks . I'll take a' btirrel:of - hertin. on spoculation:- - I had- a good yassage, and got ,there just in the nick of time ud sold 'em off well. . • _ponveren-_ Mach - did - you - ket asked some of the.old-.salts, who, with pencil in• hanct