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      EPICEDIUM OS IHE DEATH OF THE JOURNAL OF ASSOCIATION So die , thou child of stormy dawn , Thou winter flower , forlorn of nurse ; Chilled early by the bigot ' s curse , The pedant ' s frown , the worldling ' s yawn . Fair death , to fall in teeming June , When every seed which drops to earth Takes root , and wir-s a second birth From gleaming shower and steaming moon . Pall warm , fall fast , thou mellow rain ; Thou rain of God , make fat the land ;

      That roots , which parch in burning sand , - May bud to Sower and fruit again To grace , perchance , a fairer morn Inraighty lands beyond the sea , While honour falls to such as we , From hearts of heroes yet unborn , Who , in the blaze of riper day , More loving science , holier laws . Bless us , faint heralds of their cause , Dim beacons of their glorious way . Failure ? While tide-floods rise , and boil , Round cape and isle , in port and cove , Resistless , star-led from above : What though our tiny wave recoil ? Jane 0 , 13-52 . Charles Eisgslet

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      in an age when independence of principle consists in having no principle on which to depend , and free-thinking , not in thinking freely , but in being free from thinking;—ia an age when men will hold any thing except their tonguts , keep anything except their word , and lose nothing patiently , except their character ; to improve such an age must be difficult , to instruct it dangerous ; ana he stands no chance of amending it who cannot at the same time amuse it .

      ThePbrsoxalAdvextub . es op' Our Owx CobkesroxDEHi' ix Italy . By Michael Burke Honan . II vols . London : Chapman and Hall . These is , perhaps , no greater humbug of the present day than the Press . There are no greater victims of mis-placed confidence than the helievers in newspaper reports , especially those of ' Our Own Correspondent . ' How often hare the conservative devourers of a morning paper which we could name , been electrified , gratified , or mystified , with learned dissertations on the occurrences in France , which clairvoyant concoctions came direct from —— Charlottestreet , Fitzroy-square ? The 'Own Correspondent ' of the Tory paper being no other than a celebrated French Socialist in exile for his revolutionary

      predilections . In theso volumes wo get a glimpse of how the oracle is worked in this interesting department of literature , and this novel manifestation of Humbug . Bis not often that ' Our Own . Correspondent'is visible on the stage in person . He is a kind of Spring-heeled-Jack , who is here , there , and everywhere , always talked of , hut almost as rarely seen as a salamander . He is bomb and bullet-proof , because , in any terrific emergency , or deadly danger , he has tho happy knack of rendering himself invisible But here we have a fine and genuine specimen of the species in the person of Mr . Honan , a rich and racy , rattling and rollicking , devil-may-care Irishman . We have some reminiscences of this' broth of a boy * for brogue and blarney , in his Italian Campaign , which he has not recorded in these volumes . When

      the Neapolitans advanced upon Eome Mr . Honan was there too , and one evening as he was riding in the chariot of Bomba , King of JJapIes , we believe he had a very narrow escape of not living to lie any more , or of writing these books , as a party of young Italians and one Englishman had sworn to shoot the precious couple , but missed their mark . Mr . Honan is full of vivacity and animal spirits ; he lets out the blunt truth about himself , and comrogues with a charming naivete , and tells a lie to your face with as much frankness and sincerity as if it had been the truth . He is not particular to a trifle , in relating an experience , in drawing on his imagination and your credulity , or in writing grammar . He tells us that

      he proceeded to the scene of action in 1848 with very vague notions on the state of Italy , and as ignorant of his subject as Correspondents generally are . it 1830 he had been sent to Toplitz , but did not even know where Toplitz was ! And when sent to Italy he could not speak the language , and yet on both occasions it was necessary that he should begin to write immediately , as there were thousands of people in England waiting to bo humbugged by his profound observations and prophecies on events . At Toplitz , where he could not speak the German language , he derived his inspiration from a French milliner . At Genoa he derived considerable aid from a Spanish agent , and from one conversation he was initiated into the state of affairs ; and straightway the readers of the ' Times' were treated to a dissertation on the bearings of the case , and

      astounded by tho 'Own Correspondent ' s * practical wisdom . We were thrilled again and again with some of his harrowing descriptions of what he saw in Milan ; hut , Lord bless your simplicity ! he wasn ' t there at the time , and his letters were made up of the description of an old Prima Donna , whom we should not wonder if he humhugged by talking of his immense interest with Mr . Lumley . He was far behind Charles Albert's army , and only heard the most vague rumours of what was going on . Meanwhile , he was criticising their tactics of warfare , and demonstrating that Radetzky must be beaten , as he was such a bungler , and when his prophecy was beaten , instead of that General , why—Charles Albert was a greater bungler still , that ' s all . Mr . Honan is as cool in reply as the Frenchman , who , when told that facts were opposed to his philosophy , answered , ' so much the worse for the facts then . ' The volumes are

      valuable , chiefly as an expose of the secret doings behind the scenes of the Press—an expose which might throw the proprietors of the * Times' into a lively state of consternation . There is a great deal that is amusing in them , bat little of vital importance . We must not , however , be too hard , and expect heart and heroism , and that sort of thing , from such an oily , unctions , jovial , and jolly gentleman . Perhaps we could not choose a hotter extract than the following : —

      THE EEVOWXIOK 0 * MILAS . The Governor of Milan received , on the night of the 17 th March , an account of the insurrection at Vienna , and as Buch an event could not be long concealed , it became generally known on the following day , and created , as might be expected , a prodigious ferment . A crowd of persons , composed of all classes , rushed to the palace , the nobles demanding concessions of a political nature only , whilst the citizens in general , and the republican party especially , insisted on the establishment of a national guard , and an abundant supply of arms and ammunition . In their route to the Hotel de Tille , a patrol was met with , and it is a question on whose part the first act of hostility which there occurred , took place . The people say the soldiers fired on them , but I have good reason to know that it was a young republican desirous of bringing matters £ o a headwho began the attack .

      , From that instant all idea of a transaction ceased ; the people flew to arms , and in half an hour barricades were erected , and the tocsin began to sound . Tho first barricade was constructed with the carriages of the viceroy , amidst the cheers and derision of the mob . With the speed of thought others were raised , and the centre of the town Was cleared against the circulation of Austrian troops ; women and children set to work , the pavement was taken up , and stones carried to every window from whence they could be hurled , and pots and pans , and every offensive domestic weapon , were brought to the point most favourable for attack .

      Detachments of Austrlans attempted to check this movement , bv taking possession of the roof of the Duomo , and ofother " pnblic ° bniIdings ; but as the barricades began to thicken , they were gradually withdrawn , their retreat being a signal for a hurricane of the missiles above alluded to . The vengence of the people was principally directed against the Croats , of which tbe main force of the garrison was composed , and it is said that tho officers and men oi that nation committed cruelties the most revolting , by ¦ fcay of compensation , in all the houses where they entered . The incessant clanging of the church bells , I am told , Produced a wonderful effect on the ignorant Croats . They * elt as if heaven and earth were coming together , and that tfce tccsin was a thunderbolt to be launched from each Btseple after it had rung their death-knell . So far did this Superstitious dread of the tocsin affect their imagination ,

      l at m the subsequent retreat orders were issued ia every Village to muffie the bells , and assurances given , that wherever they were rung the place would be abandoned to we men for plunder , or burnt to the ground . . * know not if the charges made against the troops in j « uan were true , but it was generally said that in the poc-* t of one of them , who was shot at the bastions , there was Jtand the hand of a lad v , the fingers of which were ornafienteii with several valuable rings , and one of my friends r « nred ma that all the members of a family of his ac-^^ tance ware piaeei on liar inea itt the centre of their t . ^^ auntta-roam . th * n-nnts ttandhia in a circle roundviith

      $ * £ d muskets , pointed at their heads , while the officer sat cfjT . « e piano , declaring that wlten he cam to the allegro " * ' &« € he played , thsvoUeuihould le fired .

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      On the second day of the revolution the circle of barricades was enlarged , and the troops excluded from the chief part of all the principal streets . To form these barriers , the owners of the adjoining houses sacrificed their carriages , chairs , sofas , tables , and many articles of ornamental furniture . The popular feeling could not be trifled with , and even the most retrograde among the nobility devoted everything suitable to that use , which their palaces contained . These barricades were not such as I have seen in other towns . They were immense in size , nearly a yard in thickness , and eight or ten feet in height . By the rapidity with which they were erected , detached parties of the soldiers were cut oft " , and sever . il of the public authorities intercepted in their retreat to the citadel or castle , where Radetzky had established his head quarters .

      Oa the third day the city might be said to be evacuated , and the whole attention o ' f the Austrians was given to the bastions which surrounded it , and to the several gates lending to the country . A struggle of another kind now commenced , the people directing all their force to the destruction of those gates , with the hope of cutting the Austrian iines , and , at the same time , opening a communication with their friends outside . Radetzky , still uncertain as to the resolve of Charles Albert , the first propositions of the regal agent having been annulled by the influence of the Republican party , now sought to temporise , and he sent in more than one message asking for an armistice , first of a month , then of a fortnight , and lastly of four days . He also gained time by a visit of the foreign consols , who demanded permissron for their nationals to retire ; but all this maneuvering failed , as the leading men of the revolt were determined to carry on their operations with the same vigsur with which they had commenced .

      The nobility and chiefs ofthe corporation were willing to treat , but one ot'the council of war having exclaimed , "In revolution there is no middle turn—we must either conquer , or be shot as rebels , " the cry was taken up by the people , and the messenger sent back to the castle with a peremptory refusal . The enthusiasm of tho crowd was excited by their unexpected success , and as their barricades were now pushed close to tho bastions on every side , it became evident that tbefateof Alilan must be decided either oneway or the other , before the termination of the week . Radetzky was gradually diminishing his outposts , and withdrawing from the bastions touching the Porta Tosa ,

      but no indications of a retreat had yet been made , and to attack him in the citadel which bad been strengthened by several , even the most urdent ofthe citizens , could not recommend . Up to this period , the four persons—namely , Jules Z . » rzaghi , Georges Clerico , Charles Cattaneo , and Henri Cernuschi , who composed the council of war , and so ably directed the energies of the people , and who likewise had turned a deaf ear to all the blandishments of Charles Albert ' s agents , now began to find that the nobility were intriguing against them , and that a regular bargain had been concluded between the municipality and the emissaries alluded to ,

      Indignant at such proceedings , and unwilling that after having achieved its liberty , their country should become a mere province of Piedmont , they resigned , and a provisional government was formed , of which Casati , tho podesta or mayor , was the president , by whom the bargain with the King was ratified , and by whom the affairs of Lombardy , in the ensuing campaign , were most unworthily conducted . Immediate notice ot this change in the direction of affairs was sent to Turin , and the King hesitated no longer to throw off the flimsy mask he had hitherto worn , or perform the last act of treachery to his ally . These circumstances could not be concealed from the vigilant observation of Radetzky , and no sooner did he become aware of the result of the last mission , than he determined to retire and gain as many days' march as he could on the Piedmonteso army .

      He at onco despatched couriers to Verona and Mantua , instructing the governors of both fortresses of the real state of affairs , and cautioning them against allowing the people to overpower the garrisons , or possess themselves of the principal posts . He then ordered the troops , quartered in all the towns of Lombardy , to march towards the Mincio , and effect a juncture with him at a given point . Affecting next to invest the city more closely , and ordering his artillery to keep up an incessant fire , he drew off his troops in the silence and darkness of the night of tho 22 od , and long before day broke , all traces of him were lost .

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      THE COUNTESS OF RUDOLSTADT . [ Sequel to " Consuelo . " ] Br George Sand . A REVELATION . Consuelo had been out to take the air , and when towards night she returned , she started back with terror , at the sight of a man dressed in red , and wearing a mask , seated upon her couch ; but she was speedily re-assured , as she re « cognised her old confessor . Seating herself on a footstool by bis side , Consuelo said — " I earnestly desire to speak to you , and have wished to do so for a long time . " Then she faithfully related to him all that had passed between herself , Albert , and the unknown , since her last confession , concealing from him none of the involuntary emotions she had experienced . After she bad finished , the old man kept silence so long as to trouble and embarrass Consuelo . He at length

      replied" When a mother marries her daughter , she half reveals to her , with more or less of discretion and modesty , tho mysteries which heretofore she has concealed from her . A mother was wanting to you , when you pronounced with an enthusiasm more fanatical than human , the oath to belong to a man whom you loved incompletely . ¦ A mother is given you to-day to assist and enlighten you in your new resolutions at the hour of divorce , or at the definitive sanction of this strange hymen . This mother is myself , Consuelo ; I , who am not a man , but a woman . " " You a woman ? " said Consuelo , looking with surprise at the hand , thin and blue , but delicate and truly feminine , which had taken hers during this discourse . " This little withered old man , " replied the problematical confessor , " this decrepid and suffering being , in whose

      feeble voice there is no sex , is a woman broken down by grief , illness , and anxiety , more than by age . I am not more than sixty , Consuelo , though in this dress , which I never wear out of my functions as an Invisible , I have the appearance of an imbecile octogenarian . However , in the dress of my sex as in this , I am no longer anything but a ruin ; yet I was a tall , strong , handsome woman , of imposing exterior . But at thirty years old I was already bent and trembling as you see me now . And do you know , my child , the cause of that precocious feebleness ? It was the misfortune from which I would preserve you . It was an incomplete affection , an unhappy union ; it was a terrible effort of courage and resignation , which attached me for ten years to a man whom I esteemed and respected , but whom I was unable to love . Now , then , open to me your entire soul . Tell me if this Liverani—"

      " Alas ! X love this Liverani ; it is but too true , " said Consuelo , carrying the hand of the mysterious sibyl to her lips . " His presence causes me yet more confusion than that of Albert ; but how different is this confusion . How mingled is it with strange delights ! His arms are a mag . net which attracts me ; and his kiss upon my forehead causes me to enter another world , where I breathe , where I exist differently than in this . " " Well , Consuelo , you must love this man and forget the other . I from this moment pronounce your divorce ; it is my duty and my right . " " Spite of what you have told me , I cannot accept this sentence before I have seen Albert , before he has spoken to me , and told me himself that he renounces me without regret , that he returns my oath without contempt . "

      " You do not yet know Albert , or you fear him ; but I know him , I who have rights over him still more than over you , and I can speak in his name . We are alone , Consuelo , and it is not forbidden me to disclose myself to you entirely , though I am one of the supreme council , whom their nearest disciples never know . But my situation and yours are exceptional ; look upon my faded features , and tell me if tn * y seem altogether unknown to you . " Thus speaking , the sibyl at the same time detached her mask aud false beard , her cap and false hair , and Consuelo saw the head of a woman , old and indicative of suffering , it is true , but of an incomparable beauty of feature , and with a sublime expression of goodness , sadness , aud strength . Consuelo contemplated her for a few moments with admiration and respect . Then , suddenly struck with surprise , she cried , seizing both her hands" Oh ! mon Dieu ! how you resemble him !"

      " Yes , I resemble Albert , or rather Albert resembles me prodigiously , " she replied ; '' but have you never seen a portrait of me ?" Perceiving tlwt Consuelo was making an effort of memory , she added by way of assisting her" A portrait which resembles me as much as art is permitted to approach reality , and of which I am now hut the shadow ; a large portrait of a young , fresh , and Irilliant woman , with a corsage of gold brocade , ornamented with flowers and jewels , a mantle of purple , and black hair escaping from clasps of rubies and pearls , to fall in curls upon the shoulders ; it is the costume I wore forty years ago , on the day after my marriage . I was handsome , but I was not to remain so long ; already death was iu my soul . " ' " The portrait of which you speak , " said Consuelo .

      turning pale , "is in the Chateau deGeants , in tho chamber Albert occupied . It is that of his mother , whom he had scarcely known , and whom , nevertheless , he adored , and whom he thought he saw and heard in his ecstasies . Are you , then , a near relation of the noble Wanda de Prachalitz , and thus- —" "Iam "Wanda de Prachalitz herself , " replied the sibyl , something of firmness suddenly returning to her voice and attitude ; " lam the mother of Albert , and the widow of Christian de Rudolstadt ; I am the descendant of Jean Ziska of the Chalice , and the mother-in-law of Consuelo ; but I wish to be no longer anything but her friend and her adopted mother , since Consuelo does not love Albert , and Albert must not be happy at the price of the : happiness of his companion . "

      "His mother ! you bis mother ?'' cried Consuelo , trembling and falling at the knees of Wanda . " Are you then a spectre ? Were you not mourned as dead in the Chateau desGeants ? " ,,,.,. " It is twenty-seven years , replied the sibyl , since Wanda of Prachalitz , Countess of Rudolstadt , was buried in the same chapel , and beneath the same flag , where Albert da Rudolstadt , attacked by the same malady , and subject to the same cataleptic crisis , was buried last year , the : victim of the same error . The son would never have risen from this frightful tomb if the mother , attentive to tbe danger which threatened hioii bad notf herself invisible , watched over his

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      agony , aud presided with anguish at his interment . It was his mother who saved a being , still full of life and strength , from the worms of the sepulchre , to which he had been already abandoned ; it was his mother who rescued him from the yoke of the world , where he had lived but too long , and in which he could no longer live , to transport him into this mysterious world , into this impenetrable asylum , where she had herself recovered . ^ if not health of body , at least the health ofthe soul . It is a strange history , Consuelo ; and you must know it , that you may understand that of Albert , his sad life , his pretended death , and bis miraculous resurrection . The Invisibles will not open their meeting for your initiation until midnight . Listen then to me ; and may the emotion of this strange recital prepare you for those which yet await you . "

      WANDA S HISTORY ; " Rich , beautiful , and of an illustrious birth , I was married at twenty to the Count Christian , who might have been my father . He inspired me with affection and respect , but not with love . I have been brought up in ignorance of what such a feeling might be in the life of a woman . My relations , austere Lutherans , but obliged ^ to exercise their faith in secret , displayed in their habits and ideas a n excessive rigidity , and a great strength of soul . Their hatred of foreigners , their secret revolt against the religious and political yoke of Austria , had passed into tay bosom and determined me to marry Couut Christian , in order to save mv parents from persecution , and I had the hope to be able to convert my husband to my . own political faith . But he as well as his sister was bigotedly attached to bis old creed and customs , and in the absence of moral and intellectual sympathy with beings whom I loved , but whose contact killed , soon brought on severe and continued illness .

      " The consecutive loss of my five children was a final blow It seemed to me as though heaven had cursed my marriage , and I ardently desired death . I forced myself not to love Albert , my last-born , persuaded that he , like the rest , was condemned , and that my cares would not avail to save him , A last misfortune put a finishing stroke to the disturbed state of my faculties . I loved , and was beloved , and the austerity of my principles forced me to struggle even against the inward confession of this terible feeling . The physician who attended me in my frequent and grievous crisis was , to all appearance , older , and not so handsome as Christian . They were not then personal graces which touched me , but the profound sympathy of our souls , the conformity of our ideaa , or , at least , of our religious and philosophical instincts , and an inconceivable sympathy of

      characler . Marcus , 1 can indicate him to yon but by this name , possessed the same energy , the same activity of mind , the same patriotism as myself . What Shakespeare put into the mouth of Brutus might have been sa'd with equal justice to bath : 'I am not of those who bear injustice with a smiling face . ' The misery and degradation of the poor , their serfdom , the despotic laws and their monstrous abuses , all the injurious rights of conquest aroused in him tempests of indignation ; Oh ! what torrents of tears have we not shed together over the misfortunes of our country , over those of the human race , everywhere trampled upon and deceived Here brutalised by ignorance , there decimated by the rapacity of the avaricious , every where violated and crushed by the ravages of war , degraded over the whole face of the earth ! Still Marcus , wiser than I , conceived a remedy for

      all these evils , and often entertained ms with strange and mysterious projects for the organisation of a universal conspircy against despotism and intolerance ; I listened to his projects as to romantic dreams . I had ceased to hope ; I was too ill , to 3 oppressed , to believe in a future . He loved me ardently ; I saw it , I felt it , I shared his passion ; and yet , during five years of apparent friendship and chaste intimacy , we never revealed to one another the fatal secret which united us . He did not usually reside in the Bcehmer-Wald ; at least , he was frequently absent under pretonce of duties , to distant patients , but in fact , to organise the conspiracy of which he unceasingly spoke to ms without convincing me of itaresnlts . Each time I saw him , I felt mnre inflamed by his genius , his courage , and his perseverance . Each time he returned he found me weaker , consumed by an inward fire , devastated by physical suffering .

      "Daring one of these absences I was attacked with frightful convulsions , to which the vain and ignorant doctor , Wetzelius , whom you know , and who attended mo during his absence , gave the name of malignant fever . At the close of this crisis , 1 fell into a complete prostration , which they took for death . My pulse ceased to beat , my breathing was imperceptible . Nevertheless I preserved my consciousness ; I heard the prayers of the chaplain , and the sobs of my family . I heard tho piercing cries of my only child , of my poor Albert , and I could not make a movetjierf ., I could pot even see him ,. They . had . closed nijy eyes , " and I found " it impossible to ooefi ihem . I asked myself if this wove indeed death , and if the soul , deprived of its means of action upon the corpse , preserved in death the consciousness of the sorrows of life and the terrors of

      the tomb ? I heard terrible things around my bod of death ; the chaplain , endeavouring to calm the lively and sincere regrets of the canoness , told her that she ought to thank God for all things , and that it was a great happiness for my husband to be delivered from the affliction of my continual agony and the storms of ray reprobate soul . Ho did not make use of such harsh terms , but the meaning was the same , and the canoness listened , and allowed herself by degrees to be convinced . I even heard her , immediately after , trying to console Christian with the same arguments , still more softened in expression , but equally cruel to me . I heard distinctly ; I understood horribly . It was , they thought , the will of God that I should not bring up my son , and that he should be withdrawn at so early an age from the poison of heresy with which I was infected . This

      is what they said to my husband when ( pressing Albert to his heart ) ho cried , ' Poor child ! what will become of you without your mother ? ' The reply of the chaplain was , ' You will bring him up in the fear of God V " At last , after three days of silent and motionless despair , I was carried to the tomb , without having recovered the strength to make a sign , without having lost for a moment the certainty of the terrible death that was about to be brought upon me ! They covered me with diamonds ; they clothed me in my bridal robes , in the magnificent robes which you have seen in my portrait . They placed ajerown of flowers on my head , a golden crucifix upon my breast , and deposited me in the marble tomb in tho chapel , where I felt neither the cold nor the want of , air ; I lived only in thought .

      " Marcus arrived an hour afterwards . His consternation at first deprived him of all reflection . He threw himself upon my tomb ; they dragged him from it ; he returned in tbe night . " This time he had armed himself with a hammer and lever . A horrible thought had crossed his mind . lie knew the lethargic crisis to which I was subject , though he had never known them to last so long or to be so complete ; but he had concluded tho possibility of a terrible error . . I heard him walking above my head ; I recognised his footstep . The noise of the iron raising the stone made me tremble , but I could not utter a cry , not even a sigh . When he raised the veil which oovefed my face , he hesitated for some time ; he interrogated a thousand times my extinguished breath , my icy hands and heart , I had the

      stiffness of a corpse . I heard him murmur in a voce of agony , ' All , then , is over ! there is no more hope ! Dead , dead ! oh , Wanda ! ' Then ho let tho veil fall , but did not replace the stone . A terrible silence reigned anew . Had he fainted ? Did he abandon me , he also forgetting , in the terror which the sight of what he bad once loved inspired him , to reclose my sepulchre ? « 'Marcus , plunged in gloomy meditation ; formed a project gloomy as his grief , singular as his character . Ho desired to preserve my corpse from the outrages of destruction . He wished to bear it away in secret , to embalm it , to enclose it in a metal coffin , to keep it for ever by his side . He took me in his arms , and without knowing whether his strength would allow him to carry a corpse so far as his

      dwelling—distant more than a mile—he depositated me upon the pavement , and replaced the stone with that sang froid which acts of delirium often possess . Then enveloping and entirely concealing me in his cloak , bo quitted the chateau , which was not so carefully closed as now . I had become so tbin that , to tell the truth , I was not a very heavy burden . Marcus crossed the woods , choosing tbe least frequented paths . He deposited me several times upon the rocks , overcome with grief and terror rather than fatigue . At last , arriving at his home , he entered noiselessly through the garden , and bore me , unseen , into an isolated pavilion , which he had converted into a study . It was there only that tho joy of finding myself saved , the first joyful emotion I had experienced for ten years , unbound my tongue , and I gave utterance to a feeble

      exclamation . " Marcus would not suffer me to return to a certain death , nor bad I any desire to do so . He promised to watch over my son , and procured me tho means of seeing him in secret . I consented to depart with him , never again to be the Countess of Rudolstadt . " But at tha moment we wero about to depart , in the night , Marcus was summoned to the assistance of Albert , who , they said , was dangerously ill . Maternal tenderness , which misfortune seemed to have stifled , rekindled in my bosom . I insisted upon following Marcus to Riesenburg ; no human power , not even his , could have dissuaded me from it . I ascended las carriage , and , wrapped in a long veil , I anxiously waited at some distance from the chateau till he could see my son and bring me tidings . He quickly

      returned , answering me that the child was in no danger , and urged me to allovf him to conduct me home , that he might return and pass the night with Albert . I could not resolve upon this ; I determined still to wait concealed behind the gloomy walls of the chateau , trembling and agitated , while he returned to watch over my son . But scarcely was 1 alone , when a thousand anxieties devoured me . T imagined that Marcus concealed from mo the true situation of Albert ; that , perhaps , he was dying ; that he might expire without receiving my last kiss . Overpowered by this fatal persuasion , I rushed beneath the portico of the chateau ; a servant whom I met in the court , at sight of me , let fall his torch , and took to flight , making the sign of ttie cross . My veil concealed my features , but the apparition of a woman in the middle of the night sufficed to arouse the superstitious feelings of these credulous

      servants . They never doubted but . that I was the ghost of the unfortunate and impious Wanda . An unhoped for chance led me to the chamber of my son without meeting a single person , and the canoness had just quitted to seek a medicine'ordered by Marcus . My husband , according to custom , bad gone to pray in his oratory , instead of acting to arrest the danger . I threw myself upon my son ; I pressed him to my bosom . He had no fear of me ; he returned my caresses ; he bad not understood my death . At this moment the chaplain appeared at the threshold of the chamber . Marcus thought all waslost . Still , with a rare presence of mind , . bo remained motionless , aud appeared not to perceive me at bis side . The chaplain pronounced , in a broken voice , a few words of exorcism , and fell fainting , without having dared to advance a step towards me . Then I resigned myself to flight by another door , and I re-

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      gained , in the dark , the spot where Marcus had left me I was re-assured ; I had seen Albort relieved his little hands were moist , and the fire of fever was no ' longer on his cheeks . Tbe fainting fit and the terror of the chaplain were attributed to a vision . He maintained that ho saw me' by the side of Marcus , holding my son in my arms Marcus equally insisted that ho had seen nothing . Albert had fallen asleep ; but , on the morrow , he asked for mo again ; and on the following nights , convinced that I was not asleep for ever , as they tried to persuade him he dreamed of me , thought he saw me once more , and called me by name again and again . From this moment the childhood of Albert was strictly watched , and the superstitious souls of Risenburgh offered up a thousand pravors as an antidote to the fatal assiduitiesof my phantom around his cradle .

      " Marcus took mo back to his home before da \ break ; we delayed our departure another week , until Albert was quite recovered , when we quitted Bohemia . Since then I have lived a wandering and mysterious life . In Italy and elsewhere I passed as the sister of Marcus , and indeed I have never been to him anything more . Through all these long years we have toiled together in the work of the Invisibles . But I would speak toyounowof Albert , and that part of his existence of which you still are ignorant . You will learn how in the terrible and singular life I have led , I at last knew tender emotions and maternal joys , " I no sooner heard that Albert had been sent to travel , than I set out after him , keeping close to him wherever ho went . I was so impatient to see my son , that I had great difficulty in remaining a few hours behind him , and thus reaching Venice , where he was to make his first stnv . But

      I was resolved only to show myself to him under cover of a species of solemn mystery ; for it was not tho ardent instinct of a mother alone which drove me to his arms—I had a still more serious design , a still more maternal duty to fulfil ; I wished to save Albort from the narrow superstitions with which they had tried to surround him . To effect this , I had to gain possession of his imagination , of his confidence , of his mind , of his whole soul . He regularly followed all the external practises of the Roman faith . In his rigid logic and upright candour , my noble child , firm in tho practiced true Christianity , was already an impassioned and incorrigible heretic . Lodging in Yenice , in the same hotel , I at last met him , alone and musing , on the staircases , in the gallerries , on the quays . Oh ! you can well imagine how my heart beat at the sight of him , how my soul yearned to

      embrace him , and what torrents of tears flowed from my dismayed , yet enraptured , eyes . He appeared so good , sb noble , and so sad ! Alas ! for this sole object given to my love on earth ! I followed him cautiously . . Night approached . He entered the church of SSt . John and Paul ; a gloomy pile filled with tombs , with which doubtless you are well acquainted . Albert kneeled down in a corner ; I glided in after him , and concealed myself behind a tomb . The church was deserted ; the darkness was each moment becoming deeper . Albert was motionless as a statue . Still he appeared to me plunged into reverie rather than prayer . The lamp of the sanctuary threw a feeble light upon his features . He was so pale that I grew terrified . His fixed eye , his half open lips , the expression of despair in his attitude and physiognomy , almost broke my heart ; I trembled

      like the flickering flame of the lamp . It seemed to mo that should I reveal myself to him at that moment , he would fall lifeless . I remembered all that Marcus had told me of his nervous susceptibility , and the danger of sudden emotions upon so excitable a frame . I withdrew , lost I might yield to my love , and waited for him beneath tho portfoo . Ihad thrown over my dress , which was in itself dark and simple , a brown mantle , tbe hood of which concealed my face , and gave me the appearance of a country woman of the neighbourhood . As he came out I involuntarily took a step towards him ; he stopped , and thinking me a beggar took from his pocket a gold pioce , and presented me with it . Oh ! with what pride and gratitude did I receive those alms . Here it is , Consuelo ; it is a sequin of Venice . 1

      had it pierced for a chain , and 1 always wear it in my bosom as a precious jewel , as a relic . This pledge , which the hand of my child has sanctified , has never quitted mo from that day . I was no longer mistress of my transport ; I seized that dear hand , and carried it to my lips . He withdrew it with a sort of Terror—it was moist with my tears . " ' What are you doing , woman ? ' he asked , in a voice whose pure and sonorous tones penetrated to the very marrow of my bonos . ' "Why do you bless me thus for so poor a gift ? Without doubt , you are- very unfortunate , and I have given you too little . How much do you want to relieve you from suffering ? Speak ; I long to console you ; I bono J ca , n do so . ' And without even looking at it , he Hastily held towards me all the gold he had about him .

      "' You have given me enough , good young man , ' I replied , — ' I am satisfied . ' " « Then why do you weep ? ' he said to me , struck with the sobs which stifled my voice ; 'have you some sorrow which my wealth cannot reach ?' " ' No , ' 1 replied ; * I weep with tenderness and joy . ' "' With joy ! Are these then tears of joy ? and such tears for a piece of gold ! Oh , human misery ! Woman , take all the rest , I beseech you ; but do not weep for joy . Think of your brethren the poor , so numerous , so degraded , so miserable , and remember that 1 cannot relieve all . ' " He withdrew sighing , leaving his gold on the pavement , and I picked it up and put it in the poor ' s-box . On the morrow I watched him again , aud saw him enter the church of St . Mark ' s . I had resolved to be stronger and calmer , and I was so . We were once more alone in the twilight of the church . He remamed for some time plunged in thought , when I suddenly heard him murmur in a hollow voice as he

      rose—*'' Oh , Christ ! tbey crucify thee every day . of their lives . ' "' Yes , ' I replied , half reading his thoughts , 'the Pharisees and the doctors of the law . ' "He trembled , and said in a low voice , 'Againmy mother ' s voice !' " Consuelo , I almost fainted on hearing Albert thus invoke my memory . I again waited for him at the porch , without approaching him ; but ho perceived me , and shrunk back with a movement of terror . ' Signora , ' he said , ' why are you begging to day ? Is it then a profession ? As the pitiless rich say , have you no family 1 Can you not be useful to some one , instead of wandering like a ghost at night around the churches ? Was what I gave you yesterday not enough for to-day , or would you monopolise the share of your brethren V

      " ' I am not begging , ' I replied . 'I put your gold into the poor ' s-box , except ono poor sequiu , kept for love of thee . ' "' Who art thou , then ? ' he cried , seizing my arm ; your voice moves me to the depths of my soul . It seems to me that I know you . Show mo your face . ' But no , I will not see you—you terrify me . ' "' Oh , Albert ! ' I cried , forgetting my prudence , ' you , too , are afraid of me V " He trembled with terror , and said , ' Yes it is her voice —the voice of my mother !' '" I know not who may bo your mother / 1 replied , recollecting myself , ' I only know your name because the poor are already familiar with it . Is your mother dead ?' " * They say she is ; but my mother is not dead to me . ' "' Where does she live , then V

      " « In my thoughts , continually , eternally . I have dreamed of her voice , of her features , a thousand times !' "I was frightened as well as charmed by the burst of affection which thus drew him towards me . But perceiving that he evinced signs of bewilderment , I conquered my tenderness , that I might calm him . " ' Albert , ' I said to him , ' I knew your mother ; I was her friend . She charged me to speak to you of her some day , when you should be old enough to understand what I had to say . I am not what I appear . I only followed

      you yesterday and to day that I might have an opportunity of conversing with you . Listen to me calmly , then , and do not allow yourself to be disturbed by foolish superstitions . Will you follow mo beneath the arcades of the Procurators , which are now deserted , and there converse with me ? Do you feel sufficiently tranquil , sufficiently collected for this ?' " . ' You , the friend or my mother ! ' he cried , ' You charged by her to speak to me of her ! Oh yes ! speak , speak ! You see I was not deceived . You seo that an inward voice warned me . I felt that there was something of her in you . '

      "I led him beneath the arcades , and questioned him regarding his childhood , and the principles that had been instilled into him . I found his young soul in despair at the woes of humanity ; nowhere could ho find truth ; Catholics' and Protestants alike had abandoned the divine path ; everywhere reigned the law of tlie strongest ; everywhere the weak were enslaved and degraded ; Christ was crucified daily upon every altar erected to him by man ! The night passed away in this bitter and absorbing conversation . Uneasy at his long watching and continued pacing to and fro , I promised to open a door of safety to him if he would ; consent to wait and to prepare himself : I gently excited his imagination with the expectation of a now revelation , and I led him back to the hotel where we both lived , promising him a fresh interview , which I postponed for several days , that I might not agitate him too strongly . " ( To U Continued J

      Character Js Higher Than Intellect. Thin...

      Character js higher than intellect . Thinking is the function . Living is the functionary . The stream retreats to its source . A great soul will be strong to live , as well as strong to think ; Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living there . This is a total act . Thinking is a partial act ..... rime shall teach him that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives . Herein he unfolds the sacred germ of his instinct , screened from influence What is lost in seemliness is gained in strength . Not out of those , on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new , but out of unhandselled savage nature , out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs , come at last Alfred and Shakespeare . Hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labour to every citizen . There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade , for learned as well as unlearned hands . And labour is evervwhero welcome

      always we are invited to work : only be this limitation observed , that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity , sacrifice any opinidR to th « popular judgments and modes of action . —Emerton ' s Orations . The following is given as a specimen of American parsing : —I court—Court , a verb active , indicative mood , present tense , and agrees with all the girls in the neighbourhood . FrsN , the witty comedian , was carving a-goose at supper , when John Everett , the ex-Minister ' s brother , called out to the carver , from the other end of the table , " What sort of a fowl is that brother of yours , Finn s , " " It is almost as great a goose , " regponded tbe wit . " as lEver-et ?"

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      The Iioxofhable Anrillery Company.—On ¦ ...

      The IIoxofHABLE AnriLLERY Company . —On ¦ Mon lay Prince Albort reviewed the Honourable Artillery Comp . xny , of which ho is colonel in chief . The New Sugar Duties . — The new and reduced rates of duty on foreign sugar imported come into operation oa the Oth of July ( 11 and 12 Victoria , cap . 97 . ) Philharmonic Society . —The eighth , last , and by many degrees the best concert of the season , took place on Monday night in presence of a very crowded audience . Charge of Fraud . —William Rose , described as ait agent , has been committed on a charge of defrauding Joseph Wilson , a weaver , in Slater-street , Spitalfields . iWcii Best llooi .-Accoiinta from the department of the ivorth concur in stating that the beet-crop has seldom been m finer condition than at present-- « n TS » . S ° "B"J > Rmiway . —Tho preamble of this company s bill , for regulation of capital and other objects , has been proved in committee of the Lords . nr 0 P )

      « - «?^ LoKI Abkrcromdy . —Tho " Caledonian MarrlLa a nT > ncc , ? au , illen death of the Right Hon . PTWay eJift Abercromby , at Airthrey-castle , on Johan . ya Wio » EB . —It is stated that Mr . Lumley has ?? *? n ™ n d nV * ° , ? , ogamst Mr - G - . layin * his danlaSes a » £ 30 , 000 , and that the Solicitor and Attorney-Generalaro retained for the plaintiff . ' New PuxET .-Mr . J . R . Hind has announced that he has * discovered a new planet on the borders of the constellation Aqmla and Serpens , about o deg . east of the star Tail in Ophiuchus , " The 2 nd Battalion Rifle Brigade disembarked at Portsmouth Dockyard , from H . M . Steamer , Simoom , on Saturday morning , and procpeded , per Soutn Coast lUilwav , to Canterbury . # The New Asylum fok Fatiikrless Children . —A bazaar in aid of the funds of this chnrity was held on Fridav and Saturday in the large suite of rooms of the London Tavern , Ine enterprise will bring to the charitv about £ 100

      . The City Orthopedic Hospital . —The anniversary festival of this institution was held on Wednesday evening , at the London Tavern , Bishopsgate-street , the Earl of Carlisle in tho chair . The IloBjjuav . is Siiokedjtch . —Edwin RickeUs and ueorge Sham , have been committed on the charge of robbing the " green " young man of Cambridge , whose case has been reported in this journal . Roy al College of Physicians . —The annual Harveian Oration was delivered on Saturday , by Dr . Formby , in presence of the president and a large bodv of the fellows of the college . Law Amendment Society . —On Saturday tho society for pomoting the amendment of the law held its annual dinner at tho Crown and Sceptre Tavern , Greenwich . Lord Brougham in the chair , Society for the Protection of Life from Fire , —The anniversary meeting of the friends and supporters of this association was held a few days ago in the Council Chamber of the Guildhallthe Lord Mayor in the chair .

      , ' Serve dim Right . "—Miss Susau Benin , an actress , horse-whipped Mr . Frederick Dent , an actor , lately , in Butwlo . The young man declared that he bad received amatory letters from the young woman . The Swedish Nightingale . —Jenny . Lind has given about 100 concerts in the States , and has realised about loO . QOO dollars , of which she has devoted some 30 , 000 dollars in charity . Pbii \ ce Albert " a Coloneluno . " — Prince Albert has u ng tnis wee ^ oeen out sever times with the brigade of loot Guards at morning drill in Ibde Park . Commander-in-Chief , eh ? Books by Post . —The Post-office authorities are ' rapidly extending the privilege of sending books , pamphlets , magazines , and reviews , & c ., at Gd , per half-pound weight to all our colonies and dependencies .

      A Present from the Diggings . —A tradesman in Gloucester , whose brother emigrated to Australia a few years ago , has received from him a verv agreeable token of fraternal regard in the shape of a lump of gold . The lump " thus sent has sold for not less than £ 400 . \> " The Newma . v Witnesses . —Boulogne sub-Mer , June 27 * . „ —Under this date a correspondent says : —" The worthyV * Italians who gave evidence against Dr . Achilli , arrived here \ yesterday afternoon by the Folkstono steamer , as saloon passengers . " Grotto Place Ragged School .-On Saturday the annual meeting ofthe friends and supporters ofthe Ragged and Industrial School and Refuge for Destitute Boys and Qit'ls , Grotto-place , wag field fft v . ue Rev Lecture Hall , . Edward-street , Portman-square .

      Distribution of Prizes at King ' s College . —The atmuaV . distribution of prizes to the successful students at King ' s College , took place on Tuesday in the Hall of the College before a very largo assemblage of ladies and gentlemen , fr . iends of the students and the college . > - Emigration from the Clyde . —The time is within the ^ memory of all when the departure of an emigrant vessel from the Clyde was reckoned an event : now it is almost a weekly occurrence , and occasions no comment whatever . Willis ' s Rooms . —Mr . Harry Carter Lee , who will be remembered as the most active director of the Grand Rational Concerts at Her Majesty ' s Theatre ,- has here produced an entertainment entitled " Carter Lee ' s Sketches and Crowquill ' s Scratches . " Case of Mr . Alderman Salomons . —In this case the plaintiff is about to move for a new trial , on the ground that the verdict was perverse and against the evidence ; that the learned judge had improperly rejected oral aud documentary evidence , and that he had misdirected the

      jury . Charge of Burglary . —A few days ago Joseph Sloper , George Wixen , Charles Smith , Joseph Hibbert , and Charles Kelson , labourers , were charged before Mr . Broderip with burglariously breaking into and entering a dwelling-house , the Rose and Crown , Knightsbridge , and stealing lib . of cigars and three bottles of brandy . Hailei-bury College . —On Monday last the chairman and directors of the East India Company , accompanied by a large party of friends , visited Haileybuvy College for the purpose of witnessing the distribution of honours among the successful students , and of closing the session with due ob « servance .

      The Bishop of Worcester . —The Queen has ratified a scheme , of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , by which the Bishop of Worcester shall , from the 1 st day of January last past , receive an annual income of £ 5 , 000 , in tho lieu of the present or future income arising from his see , or of any other ecclesiastical profits or emoluments of any kind or description whatever . "Unchristian Fathers . "—John Fathersand AnnFathera , husband and wife , living in a comfortable home in the High-street , Mortlake , were committed for trial at the Guildford Sessions , on the charge of having stolen a £ 20 Bank of England notef the property of Mrs . Jane Elizabeth Kemp , a widow lady , residing at Cumberland-place , Kewroad .

      The Iron Ore oFNoMHAMPioNsmra . —Mr . S . H . Blackwell , F . G . S ., of Dudley , recently delivered a lecture "On the Iron-making Resources of the Kingdom , " before tbe Mechanics' Institute at 'Northampton , in which he said that iron had been largely smelted in Northampton at the time of its occupation by the Romans , as well as in many ' other parts of the country , where it had been discontinued I since the substitution of coal for wood as fuel . A Clerical Casvasseb . —On Sunday morning last the ) Rev . Dr . Cooper , incumbent of Trinity , St . Phillip ' s ,, preached a sermon having strong reference to the forth-, coming election . Tho reverend gentleman pointed out to a his congregation that it was their duty at the next election a to support that candidate who was prepared to uphold thee church , and not vote for those irreligious and worldly mean whoso opinions were unfavourable to it as it at presenfcit existed . —Bath Gazette .

      An Owner Wanted . —Wc read the following story in thaic " Presse" : — " There has just been found , in the neighbour-rhood of Annecy , in Savoy , an empty balloon , lying on tho a ground . The car and all the cordage were perfect , and d there was every appearance of the balloon having fallen a solely from the gradual escape of gas . At the bottom of ) f the car were found a gentleman ' s cloak and a lady's bon-inet and shawl , and in the latter a very handsome albums was wrapped up . On the first leaf of the album there was is a pencil-drawing of the panorama of the mountains of theie country , signed ' Eliza de R . ' There was nothing to mdi-icate tho origin of this mysterious balloon . From the di-irection of the wind , it is supposed that it came fromm France , but beyond that all is a mystery . "

      Seamen . —A question has been raised whether a seaman ^ u , having suffered punishment for desertion , is still bound to ; o complete his voyage , supposing the vessel is at some dis-istant port . Tho Board of Trade lately applied to Sir F . F . Thesiger and Sir Fitzroy K . « Uy for their legal opinion , andad they have interpreted the various clauses of tho Mercantilejle Marine Act Iboaring on tho case to mean that , though at a seaman has been convicted of desertion , and punished underiei the acts in question , ho is uot llwvcby released from thene articles of agreement , which remain in force , notwithstandnding his conviction and punishment . Those gentlemen adddd — " We do not see why he may not be guilty of anothener offence by again neglecting or refusing to join his ship , andni again be dealt with under tho 70 th section of 13 & U Yiet . iL cap . 03 , by another imprisonment , or by being conveyed or or board the ship . "

      A Subject for Inquiry . —We are informed that one dajlaji last week a first-class boy on board one of her Majesty'sy ' si steamers at this port was placed on a man ' s back , andnd , forcibly held there , at the orders of the first lieutenant ^* ,, while another man violently flogged him with a cane , 'f he'he ! pain made the sufferer struggle hard to free himself , whiclicli he effected , on which tho said first lieutenant ordered twewe : men to replace him in his former position on the other ' sr ' s : back , which was done ; tho " horse , " however , beinging ! unablo to hold the boy in that position , the said lieutenantanti called tbe quartermasters to seize him up to the JacobWii ladder : the boy was accordingly ao seized , and triced uj . uj . by his wrists and ancles , his feet not touching the deckek The said lieutenant then directed the caning to proceedsed ,

      After a time the caning was . suspended by the order of tbjth « lieutenant for a few minutes , and then recommenced ; tbthu castigation was , after a time , stopped a second time , au < au « ultimately recommenced ; after this the boy was cut dowowii and confined under the after part of the main deck . ThiThil conduct , if substantiated , is a violation of the Admiraltalt ;; instructions . It is said tho captain of the ship was not ai ac : quainted with the proceedings , which , we belive , took plaolac : in the presence of another lieutenant , the surgeon , and th fchi engineer of the vessel alluded to . —Portsmoutfi Kmes . —TWTWI understand that the steamship in question is the RetrtbVibn tion , and the officer whoso conduct is likely to become tb th subject of judicial inquiry is her first lieutenant , G . ( . C Willes . —Olobe . ] ¦¦¦ . ' ;¦¦ > ¦¦ ¦

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 3, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_03071852/page/3/