men feel the animating influence of Nature and its the people on the continent preserve it in cheap little charms in their pursuit. We are amazed that any books. The villages teem with lives of painters necessity should exist for arguing such a point. and poets-descriptions of wells and fountains and "The Twelfth of August approaches!" says Wil- crumbling reliques-and faithful chronicles of reliam Howitt; "the gun is roused from its slumber markable events. Where are such books to be -the dogs are howling in ecstasy on their release found in England? "It is not a little extraordifrom the kennel-the heather is burst into all its nary," says Mr. Shoberl, in his charming volume on crimson splendour on the moors and mountains, and Greenwich, "that a spot so renowned as Greenwich, grouse-shooting is at hand once more! That sen- possessing peculiar attractions for the vast populatence is enough to make a sportsman start to his tion of our interminable metropolis, and to which feet, if it were but whispered to him in his deepest hundreds of thousands resort annually during the after-dinner dose." Why, the very words that summer season, should not have formed the theme summon the sportsman to the moors and mountains, of some little work, written at once in a lively and and the unavoidable associations that there become agreeable manner, and embracing those historical pressed upon him, must draw his sympathies to- details with which it is so intimately and inseparably wards Nature. He cannot help being moved by the associated."* One might suppose that, of all places, healthful influences of the scene-he feels them in- Greenwich would be familiar to the inhabitants of vigorating him he is conscious of a delight which London. But it may be confidently asserted that none can know who are house-bound and pent up in not one in ten thousand of the myriads of white-bait cities; and although he may not coin his sensations eaters who frequent that spot in the course of the into verse, or worse prose, to let the world know season, possess a tithe of the information concerning how gloriously he enjoys the freedom of the green it which Mr. Shoberl has gathered into the tiny earth, be assured there is no poet in Westminster pages of his pretty, picturesque, little guide-book. Abbey who, in his day, had a deeper faith in Nature, Here we have the history of the palace, of the park, or could give sounder reasons for it, than your and the surrounding scenery-glances at the jousts thorough-bred sportsmen. and pageants of the old times-peeps at the painted

But we are apt to treat such subjects too material- hall, and the pictures, and the veteran pensionersly in England. We look for some bodily evidence and the most graphic sketches of all matters conbefore we will admit the existence of the spirit. nected with the town, written con amore, and in a This gross taste pursues us every where-through true spirit of enjoyment. We need not heartily reour museums, our picture-galleries, our monuments, commend such a book to the river-trafficking public. and even in our literature. Faith-as such, apart We wish there were five hundred such books to from controversies and palpable objects-is scarcely improve the tastes of the people, and to show them understood amongst us; and the merest pretender in how small a compass a world of delight may who "babbles about green fields." gets more credit be found, if they only knew how to explore and for admiration of the works of God than the solitary relish it.

Ending where we began, we must remind the reader that it is the First of September. The shooting grounds are already fully occupied-every stream and loch is disposed of a busy population covers the moors and mountains-and the great cities are half empty. What fortune shall have befallen our bag on this occasion, we may perchance reveal next month.

wanderer, who, haunting" the nooks of the world," But Greenwich is out of our way at present. drinks inspiration silently at the spring head. In the smallest town on the continent, where there is a cathedral-wonder, a ruin, or even a dilapidated house, that, in the course of time, may have given birth to some man who afterwards won distinction amongst his fellows, you find the tradition filling the very atmosphere. The humblest hind has the story at his finger's ends, and can relate the narrative to you with a precision as to dates, names, and circumstances, which would strangely puzzle your philosophy, were it not all accounted for by that enthusiasm which is born of faith. Now, how do such matters stand in England? In the town of Canterbury, perhaps there is not a single individual who could give you a particle of information concerning the history of the cathedral where the blood of Thomas à Becket was spilt, except the two sallow, formal, mercantile, and melancholy young women, who The next brother after Napoleon in birth, and obtain a living by the keys of that edifice, and who after him too the ablest and most ambitious of the repeat their catalogue of historical reminiscences by Buonapartes, was Lucien, who was born at Ajaccio rote, and in a frigid tone of business that chills the in 1775. He was fourteen years old when the French In 1793,,compelled by curious stranger. It is so all over England. Where- Revolution commenced.

From the Gentleman's Magazine.

LUCIEN BUONAPARTE.

June 29.-Died, at Viterbo, near Rome, in his 66th year, Lucien Buonaparte, Prince of Canino.

ever you go, nobody knows any thing about the Paoli to quit Corsica with his family, he took refuge neighbourhood in which he has been born and bred. in Provence, and in the same year was appointed And this indifference is still more manifest in those keeper of the magazine of military stores at St. places which are most frequented; so that in propor- Maximin, in the Var, where, he married, about 1794 tion as a place becomes celebrated for its ancient or 1795, Christine Boyer, the daughter of a wealthy memories, the memories themselves gradually expire. To prevent such an oblivion of legendary lore,

• Rural Life.

• A Summer's Day at Greenwich, being a Guide to the Hospital and Park, &c. By WILLIAM SHOPERL, Esq. London: H. Colburn. 1840.

inn-keeper. He became a commissary of the army Portuguese government to pay five millions of francs in 1795, and two years after was elected deputy to preserve that country from a French invasion. from the department of the Liamone to the Council The treaty was signed at Badajoz, on the 29th Nov. of Five Hundred. In the tribune he exhibited both 1801. He insisted on the creation of the kingdom of fluency of language and, occasionally at least, sound Etruria, and on the cession to France of the duchies and even elevated views; but what most dis- of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla. In the spring tinguished him was the energy of his manner, and of 1802 he returned to Paris, and was outwardly rehis apparent devotion to the existing government. conciled with the first consul. On the 9th of March, In 1798 his zeal induced him to propose that every 1802, Lucien entered a second time upon the tribunedeputy should swear to die rather than suffer the ship, and on the 18th of May was the official person constitution of the year three to be overturned. Per- who procured the adoption of the law for the legion ceiving, however, that the government was tottering, of honour. At this time he was grand officer of the he shortly after came to an understanding with legion, member of the grand council of administraSieyes, who was meditating the establishment of a tion of the order, and a senator. The estate of Sopsort of revolutionary monarchy. During this state pelsdorf, in the duchy of Treves, was given to him; of things, he maintained a constant correspondence and, on 3d Feb. 1803, he was elected a member of with his brother Napoleon, then in Egypt, whose re- the institute, for the class of French language and turn he probably hastened, and he was certainly the literature, from which he was subsequently excluded chief instrument in the revolution which followed. by a royal ordinance of the 21st March 1816. He It was he who, when the general entered unarmed was next employed, in July 1803, on a mission to into the council, firmly opposed the sentence of out- the Belgic and Rhenish provinces, to take possession lawry about to be pronounced against him. It was of the estates allotted to the legion of honour; but he who, when he perceived that remonstrances were on his return he took a step which highly displeased of no avail, threw down the ensigns of his dignity as the first consul. He married for his second wife, president, mounted a horse, harangued the troops, one Madame Jouberthou, the widow of a stockbroand prevailed on them to clear the hall of its mem-ker, a woman distinguished for her gallantries, with bers. It was he, in short, who not only secured the whom, if common report be true, he had previously consular authority for his brother, but in all proba- cohabited. This was a blow to the system of Napobility saved him from the guillotine. President of leon, who had long contemplated royal alliances for this Council at the 18th Brumaire, (9th Nov. 1799,) his relatives. A quarrel ensued, and he was ordered he displayed during the stormy sitting of that day to quit the French territory. It was in April 1804, both energy and coolness. On the proclamation of one month previous to the change of government his brother as first consul, Lucien became a member from consular to imperial, that he hastened to Italy. of the tribunal or popular chamber created by the new The conjuncture was in one respect fortunate for constitution, and a short time after minister of the him. It gave rise to an impression, which he was interior, in the room of the great mathematician, but not backward to confirm, that the cause of his dismost inefficient public officer, Laplace. In this grace was his opposition to the ambitious policy of office he displayed both zeal and talent, and granted his brother. Nothing, however, is more certain than to the arts and artists, men of science and litera- that he was as indifferent to popular liberty as the ture, the most marked protection and encourage- other, and that like him he was on nearly all occament. He also contributed to the organisation of sions guided by views of personal interest. the prefectures.

But, great as were the services which Lucien had performed for the first consul, the two brothers were not long on brotherly terms. Both were, perhaps, equally ambitious. Lucien's aim was to share with the other the supreme power of the state-an aim which Napoleon easily penetrated and thwarted. The one could bear no superior; the other no equal. Coolness followed; and the breach was carefully widened by the Beauharnois, whose interest it was to support their relative, and who always regarded with distrust the artful proceedings and daring character of Lucien, whose efforts were directed with equal activity to estrange Buonaparte from Josephine and her relatives. In the month Brumaire, an 9, he was sent ambassador to Madrid, which was no better than a brilliant disgrace. In that capacity, however, he zealously promoted the all-grasping designs of his brother. His conduct was firm, haughty, and corrupt. He doubtless despised the contemptible court of Charles IV.-a court equally remarkable for imbecility and profligacy. That traitor and fool, the Prince of the Peace, he flattered or bullied as best suited the purpose of the day, and thereby gained whatever he wanted. Of those wants money was not the least important: he drew immense sums from his mission; and is said to have compelled the

This part of his history will be found discussed by Napoleon and Las Cases. "Que son second mariage et une fausse direction de caractère l'avoient privé d'une couronne." "Il eut," says Napoleon, "une jeunesse orageuse;" adding that several acts and writings, probably of Lucien, under the name of Brutus-Buonaparte, and of consonant character, were attributed injuriously to himself.

Lucien was received with open arms by the pope, whose gratitude he had merited by zealously supporting the concordat. He remained at Rome until the peace of Tilsit, in 1807, when he and his brother were persuaded to meet at Mantua. A reconciliation was expected, but none took place. He was willing enough to comply with certain conditions proposed by the emperor, among which was the marriage of his elder daughter with the Prince of the Asturias; but to his honour, it must be added, that he refused to sacrifice his wife; he would not consent to the dissolution of his marriage, the only condition on which he could hope to enjoy the favour of the imperial despot. For that favour, indeed, he was not very solicitous; he had no wish to be again subjected to the galling fetters from which he had escaped; he found his condition in Rome-adorned as it was by a splendid fortune, and ennobled by the friendship of the pontifi-far happier than any he could

expect to enjoy under the iron rule of the emperor. Napoleon at Elba, through the medium of their sisThat the crown of Spain was held out to tempt him, ter Pauline, the princess Borghese. Whether he there can be little doubt; but he scorned to reign as had any share in the plot which brought about the the vassal of France; and he was unwilling to take revolution of March 1815, is not so clear. All that on himself the odium of the measures about to be is certainly known is, that he soon hastened to join executed in relation to the royal family of the coun- the emperor at Paris. The ostensible object of his try. Besides, he knew too much of the Spanish journey was to procure the evacuation of the Roman nation to expect that an usurped throne would either States, which were invaded by Murat. It is said be a happy or a secure one. Angry words passed that, after the fulfilment of his mission, he prepared between the two; Napoleon upbraided him with to return to Italy, but was prevented from leaving contumacy; he complained of the persecutions sus- France by Napoleon. However this be, he took his tained by the pope; so that both separated more in- seat in the chamber of peers, and exhibited more censed than before they met. devotion to the imperial cause than he had ever done Lucien being no longer permitted to remain in the during its most prosperous days. After the disaster eternal city, retired to an estate which he had pur- of Waterloo, he urged the emperor to make a desperchased at Canino. The pope raised it into a prin- ate stand for the throne; but he could not infuse his cipality, and the Prince of Canino was inscribed own energy into one whose spirits were damped by among the Roman nobles. But he soon learned misfortune. In an attempt to proclaim Napoleon II. enough to be convinced that Italy would not long he was opposed by the two chambers. Events comremain a very safe asylum for him. He fled secretly pelled him to retire in haste to Neuilly, where he to Civita Vecchia, and, in a vessel furnished him by prepared to leave France. At Turin, however, he his brother-in-law Murat, embarked in Aug. 1810, was arrested, and detained some time; but at the inwith the intention of proceeding to the United States. tercession of the pope he was released, on the condiA storm threw him on the coast of Cagliari; but the tion of his being subjected to the surveillance of the King of Sardinia refused him permission to land; holy father. Fortunately he had left his family at nor could he obtain a safe-conduct from the British Rome, which he immediately rejoined at the Villa naval commander on that station. He was forced to Ruffinella, near Frescati. put out to sea, was captured by two English frigates, The remainder of his days he devoted to literature and conveyed to Malta, to await the orders of our and the fine arts, and he was much respected in prigovernment respecting him. In conformity with these orders he was transferred to England. He he was the author of Stellina, a novel, in 1799; and vate life. Besides the epic poem already noticed, landed at Plymouth, Dec. 18th, and was soon con- the Cyrneide, or Corsica Saved, a poem, two vols. veyed to Ludlow in Shropshire. 8vo. 1819. In 1815 he read to the Institute an ode, He was permitted to purchase a beautiful estate entitled The Odyssey, directed against those who about fifteen miles from that town; and there, hav- had traduced the genius of Homer; and he also ing sent for his family, he spent three years in otio wrote an essay on the Etruscan vases, of which a cum dignitate. He completed at that period a poem large deposit was discovered in 1828 and 1829, upon upon which he had long meditated, entitled "Charle- his estate at Canino. This was translated by his magne, or, The Church Delivered." This was first son-in-law, Lord Dudley Stuart, and communicated published in London in 1814, in two volumes quarto, by him to the Society of Antiquaries of London, by dedicated to Pius VII., and in the following year a whom it was printed in the twenty-third volume of translation in English verse appeared, made by Dr. the Archæologia. Butler, master of Shrewsbury School, (the late Bishop of Lichfield,) and by Mr. Hodgson, the sent provost of Eton. But neither the original nor the translation materially withdrew the attention of the public from the great events of their own time, which were passing under their immediate view.

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In regard to this poem, Napoleon exclaimed: "Que de travail, que d'esprit, que de temps perdus! Voilà vingt mille vers-sans couleur, sans but, sans resultat!" Lucien should, according to his brother, have directed his talents to the composition of the History of Italy, which was a desideratum.

By his first wife, Christine Boyer, the Prince of Canino has left one only surviving child, Letitia, who was married in 1821 to Thomas Wyse, Esq. of the Manor of St. John's near Waterford, now M. P. for that city. By his second wife, Alexandrina Beschamp, (Mad. Jouberthou) who was born in 1780, the Prince of Canino had three sons and three daughters. The eldest son, Charles Lucien, who has hitherto borne the title of Prince of Musignano, and who now succeeds to his father's principality, has distinguished himself in the scientific world for his zoological researches. He married in 1822 his cousin Charlotte-Zenaide-Julie, the eldest daughter and now the only surviving child of Joseph Buonaparte, count of Survilliers, the ex-king of Spain.

Lucien's style of living in England was very frugal. A friend one day ventured to ask him the cause, and his answer is remarkable for its prophetic spirit, "How do you know that I may not ere long have four or five kings to support?" During his re- The other sons are Louis and Pierre. The daughsidence in this country, his collection of pictures ters are Lolotte (the diminutive of Charlotte), marwas offered for sale. Some were valuable; but, as ried at Rome, in Dec. 1815, to the Prince Gabriella; a whole, it was greatly inferior to his uncle Cardinal Christine-Alexandrine-Egypta, married first to an Fesch's gallery. The peace of 1814 having opened Hungarian nobleman, and secondly in 1826 to Lord his way to the continent, he returned to his old friend and protector, Pius VII.

Unfriendly as were the terms on which the two brothers had lived for so many years, there can be no doubt that Lucien opened a correspondence with

Dudley Coutts Stuart, M. P. for Arundel, youngest son of John first marquess of Bute, and uncle to the present marquess, and has issue one son. There is also another daughter, Constance (we believe, a nun); and Anne, an adopted daughter.

From Blackwood's Magazine.
TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR.

(Continued from our last.)

"This is a sally equally unexpected, Mr. Aubrey, and, permit me to add, unwarrantable," said Gammon calmly, having recovered his self-possession. "You have entirely misunderstood me; or I have ill explained myself. Your evident excitement and distress touch my very soul, Mr. Aubrey." Gammon's voice trembled. "Suffer me to tell you that I feel an inexpressible respect and admiration for you; and am miserable at the thought of one word of mine having occasioned you an instant's uneasiness." When a generous nature is thus treated, it is apt to feel an excessive contrition for any fault or extravagance which it may have committed-an excessive appreciation of the pain it may have inflicted on another. Thus it was, that by the time Gammon had done speaking, Mr. Aubrey felt ashamed and mortified at himself, and conceived an admiration of the dignified forbearance of Gaminon, which quickly heightened into respect for his general character, and fervent gratitude for the disposition which he had evinced, from first to last, so disinterestedly to serve a ruined man. He seemed now to view all that Gammon had proposed in quite a new light-through quite another medium; and his excitable feelings were in some danger of disturbing his judgment.

"Leave that to me, my dear sir; I will undertake to do it; I will move heaven and earth to do it-and the more eagerly and anxiously, for that I may thereby hope to establish a kind of set-off against the misery and loss which my professional exertions have contributed to occasion you!"

"I feel very deeply sensible of your very greatyour unexpected kindness. Mr. Gammon; but still, the arrangement suggested, is one which occasions me dreadful anxiety, as to my being able to carry out my part of it."

"Never, never despair, Mr. Aubrey! Heaven helps those who help themselves; and I really imagine I see your powerful energies already beginning to surmount your prodigious difficulties! When you have slept over the matter, you will feel the full relief which this arrangement is so calculated to afford your spirits. Of course, too, you will lose no time in communicating to Messrs. Runnington the nature of the arrangement which I have proposed. I can predict that they will be not a little disposed to urge you to complete it. I cannot, however, help once more reminding you, in justice to myself, Mr. Aubrey, that it is but a proposition, in making which, I hope it will not prove that I have been carried away by my feelings much farther than my duty to my client or his interests"

Mr. Aubrey was afraid to hear him finish the sentence, lest the faint dawn of hope should disappear from the dark and troubled surface. "I will consult, as you suggest, sir, my professional advisers; and feel confident that they will feel as you predict. I feel bound to consult them"

"As I am a man of business, Mr. Aubrey," said Gammon, with a very captivating smile-how frank and forgiving seemed his temper to Aubrey!" and "Oh, certainly! certainly! I am very strict in the this is a place for business, shall we resume our observance of professional etiquette, Mr. Aubrey, I conversation? With reference to the first ten thou-assure you; and should not think of going on with sand pounds, it can be a matter of future arrange- this arrangement, except with them, acting on your ment, as to the instruments by which its payment is behalf. One thing I have to beg, Mr. Aubrey, that to be secured; and as for the remaining ten thou- either you or they will communicate the result of sand, if I were not afraid of rendering myself liable your deliberations to me, personally. I am very to Mr. Titmouse for neglecting his interests, I should desirous that the suggested arrangement should be be content with your verbal promise-your mere broken to them by me. By the way, if you would word of honour, to pay it, as and when you con- favour me with your address, I would make a point veniently could. But, in justice to myself, I really of calling at your house either late in the evening or must take a show of security from you. Say, for early in the morning." instance, two promissory notes, for £5000 each, payable to Mr. Titmouse. You may really regard them as matters of mere form; for, when you shall have given them to me, they will be deposited there," (pointing to an iron-safe,)" and not again be heard of, until you may inquire for them. The influence which I happen to have obtained over Mr. Titmouse, you may rely upon my exercising with some energy, if ever he should be disposed to press you for payment of either of the instruments I have mentioned. I tell you candidly that they must be negotiable in point of form; and I assure you, as sincerely, that I will not permit them to be negotiated. Now, may I venture to hope that we understand each other," added Gammon, with a cheerful air; "and that if this be an arrangement which I shall be able to carry into effect, it is a sufficient evidence of my desire to serve you, and have the effect of relieving you from an immense load of anxiety and liability?"

"An immense-a crushing load, indeed, sir, if you have but power to carry your views into effect," replied Mr. Aubrey, with a sigh of anxiety, and a look of gratitude.

MUSEUM.-Dec. 1840.

[As if Messrs. Quirk, Gammon, and Snap had not kept eagle-eyes upon his every movement since quitting Yatton, with a view to any sudden application for a writ of Ne Exeas, which a suspicious movement of his towards the sea-coast might render necessary!]

"I am infinitely obliged to you, sir-but it would be far more convenient for both of us, if you could drop me a line, or favour me with a call at Mr. Weasel's, in Pomegranate Court in the Temple."

Gammon blushed scarlet; but for this accidental mention of the name of Mr. Weasel, who was one of the pleaders occasionally employed by Messrs. Quirk, Gammon, and Snap, in heavy matters-in all probability Mr. Aubrey might have had to exercise his faculties, if so disposed, upon a declaration of trespass for mesne profits, in a cause of "TITMOUSE v. AUBREY!"

"As you like-as you like, Mr. Aubrey," replied Gammon, with difficulty concealing his feelings of pique and disappointment at losing the opportunity of a personal introduction to Mr. Aubrey's family. After a few words of general conversation, Gammon

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office, followed by his shrieking mother; from the police office he would be committed to Newgate, and thence, after two or three months' imprisonment, he would be flogged-miserable little wretch!--by the common hangman, (who had hanged the child's father some six months before,) and discharged-to return several times and undergo a similar process; then to be transported; and finally be hanged, as had been his father before him.

inquiring how Mr. Aubrey liked his new profession, and assuring him, in an emphatic manner, that he might rely upon being supported, from the moment of his being called to the bar, by almost all the common-law business of the firm of "Quirk, Gammon, and Snap"-they parted. It had been to Mr. Aubrey a memorable interview-and to Gammon a somewhat arduous affair, taxing to an unusual extent his power of self-command and of dissimulation. As soon as he was left alone, his thoughts instantly These startling scenes passed before Mr. Aubrey, recurred to Aubrey's singular burst of hauteur and in the course of a five minutes' walk down Saffron indignation; Gammon had a stinging sense of sub- Hill-during which period he now and then paused, mission to superior energy-and felt indignant with and gazed around him with feelings of pity, of astohimself for not having resented it. Setting aside nishment, of disgust, which presently blended and this source of exquisite irritation to the feelings of a deepened into one feeling of horror. These scenes, proud man, Gammon felt a depressing consciousness to some so fatally familiar-fatally, I mean, on that he had not met with his usual success, in his account of the INDIFFERENCE which their familiarity recent encounter with Mr. Aubrey, who had been is apt to induce-to Mr. Aubrey, had on them all the throughout cautious, watchful, and courteously dis- frightful glare of novelty. He had never witnessed trustful. He had afforded occasional glimpses of the any thing of the sort before; and had no notion of its unapproachable pride of his nature and Gammon existence. The people on each side of the Hill, howhad crouched! Was there any thing in their inter-ever, seemed perfectly familiar with such scenes, view-thought Gammon, walking thoughtfully to which they seemed to view with the same stupid and fro in his room-which, when Aubrey came to indifference with which a lamb led to the slaughter reflect upon-for instance-had Gammon disclosed is beheld by one that has spent his life next door to too much about the extent of his influence over Tit- the slaughter-house. The Jew clothesman, before mouse? His cheek slightly flushed; a sigh of whose door he stood for a second or two, arrested by fatigue and excitement escaped him; and gathering the horrifying spectacle of the bleeding wretch borne together his papers, he began to prepare for quitting along to the hospital-took the opportunity to assail the office for the day. him with insolent importunity. A fat baker, and a greasy eating-house keeper, stood each at his door. Oh, how utterly insensible to the ravenous want that flitted incessantly past them! The pallid spectres haunting the gin-palace at the corner, gazed with sunken lack-lustre eye and drunken apathy at the man borne by.

Mr. Aubrey quitted Messrs. Quirk, Gammon, and Snap's office with feelings of mingled exhaustion and despondency. As he walked down Saffron Hill-a dismal, deplorable neighbourhood! what scenes did he witness! Poverty and profligacy reveling on all hands in their wild and filthy excesses! Here was an Irishman, half-stupified with liquor and bathed in blood, having just been rescued from a dreadful fight in a low underground public-house cellar, by his squalid wife, with disheveled hair and a filthy infant in her arms-who walked beside him cursing, pinching, and striking him-reproaching him with the knowledge that she and her seven children were lying starving at home; presently he fell down into the gutter, and she with her infant fell down over him! There was a woman-as it were a bloated mass of filth steeped in gin-standing with a drunken smile, at an old clothes-stall, pawning for a glass of gin a dirty little shirt, which she had a few minutes before stripped from the back of one of her then half-naked children!

A little further on was a noisy crowd round two men carrying a shutter, on which was strapped the bleeding body (a handkerchief spread over the face,) of a poor bricklayer, fallen a few minutes before from the top of some scaffolding, and then in the agonies of death-leaving behind him a wife and twelve children, for whom he had slaved from morning to night, who were now ignorant of what had befallen him, and that they were left entirely destitute.

There was a skinny little terrified urchin, about eight years old, with nothing to conceal his dirty, half-starved body, but a tattered man's coat, pinned round him; dying with hunger, he had stolen a villanous-looking bare bone-scarce a halfpenny worth of meat upon it; and a brawny constable, his knuckles fiercely dug into the poor little offender's neck, with his tight grasp, was leading him off to the police

What scenes were these! And what other hidden scenes did they not indicate the existence of! "Gracious mercy!" thought Aubrey, "what a world have I been living in! And this dismal aspect of it exposed to me just when I have lost all power of relieving its wretchedness!"-here a thrill of anguish passed through his heart-" but, woe, woe is me! if at this moment I had a thousand times ten thousand a-year, how far would it go amidst the scenes similar to this, which abound in this one city? Oh God! what unutterable horror must be in store for those who, entrusted by Thee with an overflowing abundance, disregard the misery around them in guilty selfishness and indolence, or"-he shuddered-"expend it in sensuality and profligacy! Will Dives become sensible of his misconduct, only when he shall have entered upon his next scene of existence and punishment? Oh, merciful Creator! how is my heart wrung by the sight of such scenes as these! Awful and mysterious Author of existence, Father of the spirils of all flesh, are these states of being which Thou hast ordained? Are these thy children? Are these my fellow-creatures? Oh, help me! help me! my weak heart faints; my clouded understanding is confounded! I cannot-insect that I am!discern the scope and end of thy economy, of thy dread government of the world; yet I KNOW that thou reignest; though clouds and darkness are around thee! Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of thy throne! with righteousness shalt thou judge the world, and the peoplE WITH EQUITY!"