"Oh, no! Perhaps that fatal evening, in my misery, I might have fancied so. But, no; my ambition, my vanity might have ended in still worse shame and degradation, but I should not have had the excuse of love. It was because poor Dupré forsook, cast me off, insulted me!" 66 Lena, you have been very foolish!" "Oh, yes! and very culpable. But I was cast off by every one; I had neither friend, nor money, nor trade remaining." "You loved Monsieur Dupré, 'Lena, yet you would not listen to him." "Because my vanity was stronger then than my love," said 'Lena, candidly, " and I thought I had him in chains too strong to be easily burst. Ah, it was only when you told me he had cast me off, that the love grew stronger than the vanity.” The old man's face brightened. "Lena, there is One who trieth the hearts, as well as seeth the ways. Child, will you speak so, when you know God judgeth not as man judgeth?" 'Lena caught the old man's hand; her warm tears fell fast as she bowed her head with an air of penitence and sorrow. "If you stay, you are not in safety, 'Lena." "Oh, yes," she replied. "I have put off his fine clothes, and will never put them on; I have left them already; I am wiser now than I was." "It is a point of honor," said the old man, "difficult to determine, for your promise was wrong;" and, as he spoke, he turned to the window to reflect more fully on the question. "What is here, mademoiselle?" he cried. "A post-carriage has just stopped at the door!" 'Lena flew to the window. "It is he! it is he! save yourself!" she exclaimed, pushing the old man to the door. 66 Mademoiselle," said the little man, planting his feet firmly one in advance of the other, with his stick horizontally presented as if to poniard the new-comer, "I will not save myself without you. I had just resolved never to leave this house till you left it also." "Sainte Marie!" cried 'Lena, seizing him by the coat and dragging him over the floor; "he is coming, he will kill you for this! Ah, he will throw you out of the window! Quick! this way -this way!" She opened a side-door leading into one of those passages common in French houses, which conduct to a private staircase and an entrance into some bye-street, generally at the side or back of the house; but, as she pushed the little old man through it, he grasped her firmly in his arms, and "You have sinned," he continued; "but still Mademoiselle 'Lena and the little old man nearyou are virtuous, and your heart as yet uncor-ly rolled down the stairs and into the street berupted. Rise, then, to the paths of virtue and yond them. peace, and forsake those that lead to error and misery. Will you leave this house?" 66 "Now," he said, drawing his breath, now take my arm, and we will run. Don't be afraid; "I would gladly; but what am I to do? you are saved. I would have died rather than Where am I to go?" left you. We are designed to be the protectors of the feebler sex." "Do! ask charity from door to door. Go! go out under the canopy of heaven, and let God's peace and blessing descend from thence upon you!" 'Lena threw her arms around the old man's neck, pressed her lips on his calm forehead, and, crying out, "Attendez, attendez!" ran out of the room with, perhaps, rather a considerable degree of her old theatrical airs. Not many minutes had passed when she reäppeared, transformed once more to 'Lena Marbout. The fine silk robe, the cashmere shawl, the plumed bonnet, were changed for the plain merino dress, the smart little apron, the tiny cap; her flowing ringlets were gathered into their former rich and glossy braids; she stood before the old man, and made him a rustic salutation in the style of the farmer's daughter. "Excellent! excellent!" cried the delighted old man. "My dear little girl, my sweet child is herself again! Then you will come! you will leave this grand house! We shall be as happy, as merry as ever! We will act Beauty and the Beast all through now!" 'Lena sighed at this. 'Lena trembling, half laughing and half crying, was now ready to laugh altogether, as putting her arm through that of the little old man she hurried him along, supporting rather than being supported. "And now," said the little old man, as he unlocked the door of his small chamber, "now we are safe; and I think, mademoiselle, I had better fasten the doors and windows while I go to see if I can get you another chamber in this house, or else when I return I may find the lodging is empty again." "No, no, my good friend," said the poor girl, sitting down on the identical box which held the thirty manuscripts, "I have had enough of wanderings, enough of changes; I am too glad to see the face of the only friend I have in the world." "Pardon me, mademoiselle, I have a rival. Let me tell you, Monsieur Dupré never cast you off; he never hissed you; on the contrary, he shook his hands at the audience, and would have fought the whole assembly, if it were possible. Your poor Beast is dying for his Beauty, mademoiselle ; "I will go," she said. "But when? I prom-but, perhaps, you will not care to turn him into a ised my patron not to leave until his return." Célestine looked puzzled. prince now." 'Lena heard this with surprise. "It was the power of love," she replied, "you | "It is, it is!" cried Célestine, rubbing his once said effected that transformation. Alas! my hands with great rapidity. "Mademoiselle must love is unworthy now of him who once sought it." now be placed in safe keeping. My rôle is played; Célestine withdrew, and the sun had nearly re- the three scenes are acted. You see, my dear tired from the dull little chamber before the door child, each scene of our drama has opened in a again opened. Its solitary inmate was still sitting flower-market; and as there are no more floweron the box, her arms resting on her lap, and the markets in Paris, we must let the curtain drop." joined hand supporting her chin. Dupré stood be- "Ah!" said Mademoiselle 'Lena, casting up fore her. She gazed into his countenance with her bright dewy eyes, "the Three Flower-Maranxiety; but read, there the unconquered love kets of Paris will be a moral teaching for me. which had endured her faults, follies, and levity. shall always love the violet, and dread the rose She threw herself into the arms that opened to re- and the camelia.” ceive her. I "Then I will cherish the rose and camelia," said her lover, "since they teach my 'Lena to be The little old man, who was behind the young grocer, capered about the room in an ecstasy of en-a good grocer's wife." joyment; and finding no way of expressing it while Must we not add that the little old man, after his guests were occupied with each other, he ran he had given away Mademoiselle 'Lena at the for a jug of water and poured it over his withered "Marry me as quickly as you can, dear 'Lena," said Dupré, answering for the little old man. "That is what Monsieur Célestine would tell you. Is it not, my good friend?" and he threw him a look which precluded any but an assenting reply. THE SHADOW OF THE PAST. OH! joy to the spring-tide sun, With their fragrance over the eaves; And it calls glad birds about To sing new songs of praise ;— Oh, joy to the Spring! but it cannot bring I think on the Past with a thought I hear a kind word said By a tongue that is mute and cold; But the thought of a friendship changed Till reason, with peace, seems fled. There are hands that once caressed, Tait's Magazine. From the Dublin University Magazine. SLOW o'er the still wave, like a graceful swan, altar, lived happily all the rest of his days, and wrote on coffee ad libitum? But his genius appeared to take a turn after that event, and his solitary chamber was nearly deserted for the young grocer's lively house. 'Lena and her husband were beside him when he died there; but his thirty manuscripts were found in the box in his chamber duly prepared for going to press after his death. Whether they ever went there, still remains a question for literary research. The woe-worn mother, with her homesick ones, The tear-worn eye is closed in sad repose- To the good ship that bears them o'er the sea. THE EMIGRANT'S TOMB. DEEP in a western forest's shade, In the green recess of a sunless glade, Is a rough-hewn mound-the emigrant's tomb. One fair little child his love to prove- SNODGRASS THE INVENTOR. it has effected in the mere article of tallow amounts to not less than £20,000 per annum. THE decease of a generally little known, but The importance of the invention has been prouseful inventor, Neil Snodgrass, is noticed by the "Glasgow Citizen❞ newspaper. This ingenious digiously increased by the introduction of the man, who has just died in his seventy-third year, been totally inapplicable to the locomotive. railway system, as the old pistons would have Beappears to have begun his inventive career by ap-yond the barren fame of the invention—and not plying steam to the purpose of heating public works, &c. Mr. Snodgrass was also the inventor always did he receive even that—his sole profit, of the "Scotcher," or blowing machine, commonly him in 1825 by the Glasgow town council, from if we except the premium that was awarded to called in cotton-mills the "Devil," by which an Coulter's mortification, consisted in his being emimportant saving in the raw material is effected, while the cotton is prepared in a much more uni-ployed to manufacture some fifty metallic packings at the rate of 5s. per inch of the diameter of the form manner than could possibly be done by the hands. It is, however, in connection with the respective pistons. In the course of his long and laborious life he introduced a variety of minor steam-engine that the name of Mr. Neil Snodtinue, we understand, in general use. improvements in machinery, many of which conA mong these we may mention a new application of the Mendoza pulley and wheel for leading out the mule-spinning carriage; a new plan of skeleton bars for furnaces; and an apparatus for the prevention of smoke on the Argand principle. Mr. Snodgrass also claimed to have anticipated Mr. Dyer of Manchester by two or three years in the present arrangement of the tube roving frames, he is said to have cleared £50,000.-Chambers' for which the latter obtained a patent by which grass chiefly deserves to live. Notwithstanding pres Journal. JOHN HOME, AUTHOR OF "DOUGLAS," IN THE '45.-John Home, with many other, took up arms Α to oppose Prince Charles and his Highlanders. band of volunteers, consisting of students and others, in this corps he was chosen lieutenant. In that inhabitants of Edinburgh, was quickly raised, and capacity he waited on General Hawley, who commanded the cavalry, requesting permission for the volunteers to march with the king's troops to Falkirk, where the rebel army lay, which the general readily granted. This is mentioned by himself in his "History of the Rebellion." But it was not collegians and burghers of Edinburgh city, nor even the king's troops, that were able to stand against the fury of the bold Highlanders. Prince Charles swept everything before him, and at the battle of Falkirk the royalist army, with the volunteers, was completely routed. General Hawley fled from the field, and with his scattered force betook himself to he was driven in scorn by the spirited matron, the the old palace of Linlithgow, from which, it is said, keeper of the palace, who to his face upbraided him with running away. John Home was supposed to have fallen in the battle. He was taken prisoner by the Highlanders, and, along with Barrow and Bartlet, his fellow-collegians, was sent captive to the castle of Doune, in Perthshire, from which they contrived to make their escape in the following manner:-During the night, when the prisoners were together, and, by the precarious line thus formed, not very rigidly watched, they tied their bedclothes descended one after another from the window of the prison. Barrow, his favorite companion, was the last to commit himself to the rope, which gave way with him, and he was precipitated to the earth, and very seriously injured. John Home, stout and able, took Barrow on his back, as did each of his comNew Monthly. panions by turns, until they reached a place of safey. - From the Journal of Commerce. the whole amount would have been easily collected; but the general announces that he must decline all retribution, and he retains his post with the remark that he will now put down insurrection gratis. All the parties or factions have engaged, with numberless committees and passionate zeal, in the advancement of their several interests in the elections of next month. The subscription for the composition and diffusion of anti-socialist and anti-red republic tracts already reaches a hundred and fifty thousand francs. Socialism and war are the chief perils of Europe. at the sitting of the day before yesterday. Being chief of the garrison at the same time, and having Paris, April 5, 1849. the whole military force at his sole disposal for MORE Concern is felt here at present in the affairs twenty-four hours, when he might choose, on any of Italy, than in those of any other part of the for- alarm, to wield it, was pronounced to be in the eign world. The Sardinian army could not be, un- teeth of the constitution. The cumulative power der any circumstances, a match for the Austrian; was not, indeed, defensible except on the ground of it has been "soundly threshed," and completely public security; the majority who voted the supbroken up and demoralized; and as the veteran Ra-pression sought to thwart the minority, and to indetzky was thought to be fighting the battle of so- duce Changarnier to resign. A subscription was cial order against universal anarchy, his prodigious opened the next morning to restore the salary, and and decisive success affords as much satisfaction to the present French government and the whole party of French moderates, as it has excited in Great Britain. It is expected that the Pope and the Grand Duke of Tuscany will be speedily reinstated in their respective capitals, to the great joy of the great majority of their quondam subjects. The dissolution of the chamber of deputies at Turin, which we learned by yesterday's mail, will facilitate the establishment of the monarchical cause, and the general settlement of the Peninsula under a sytem vastly more liberal than the ancient. Genoa will resist, for a little time, and be ruined by the dema- The triumph of the Austrians in Northern Italy gogues who are attempting to revive the republic was seized as an occasion by the organs and leadindependently of Piedmont. The revolutionary ers of the French anarchical factions, to which the Sicilian government rejects the terms arranged by National has lent itself, for demanding instant the British and French admirals with the King of armed intervention for the independence of the penNaples, who resumes the enterprise of subjection, insula conformably to the sweeping declaration of which was nearly terminated on the reduction of the Assembly in May last. This wild cry has failed Messina, when those mediators interposed to res- both in and out of doors; after a hot debate, the cue Palermo and the island. If Sicily had accept- Assembly left to the executive government all lated the compromise, the Neapolitan government itude of judgment and action in the case. Thiers would have, forthwith, restored Pius IX. to the delivered a masterly speech against the idea of a war Holy See. Advices from Germany are so confused with Austria, which this power had in no manner and contradictory, that we cannot tell whether the provoked from France, and which would certainly Austrians or the Hungarians (Magyars) be the vic- kindle a conflagration throughout Europe. Odillon tors in their furious contest. Our military authori- Barrot, president of the council, and the minister ties have no doubt of the ultimate triumph of the of foreign affairs, Drouyn de Luys, urged the Austrians. The common impression this morning policy of peace and friendly mediation, professing is, that the King of Prussia will not accept the im- still to hold as a sine qua non the integrity of Piedperial crown offered by the Assembly at Frankfort; mont. We now know that the Austrians had not or, will insist on conditions utterly repugnant to the threatened that integrity. The orators of the cabAssembly's motive and purpose. The diplomatic inet actually scouted the republics of Rome and mission created at Washington for the German gov- Tuscany. You will see that a dictator has been ernment seems premature; for the government is created at Florence. Italian anarchy seems to be not yet truly constituted; the unity in question, the in its last spasms. Our diplomatists say to-day that supremacy attempted, is deemed impracticable. the British and French cabinets are perfectly agreed To-morrow, we may hear that the Assembly has about Piedmont and Italy at large, and will speedbeen dispersed, and something like the old confed-ily adjust the whole subject with Austria. eration concerted among the principal powers of Germany. Disgust is felt and manifested, on both sides of our channel, at the conduct of the provisional government of Frankfort toward brave and honest Denmark. The Neapolitan blockade of the Gulf of Palermo appears officially in the Paris Moniteur. The news from Spain is, on the whole, favorable for the government. Cabrera's bands make no important progress nor impression; no republican or democratic party has been organized; none would have the least chance of success. Narvaez is a vigilant and resolute dictator; the court enjoys or thinks it possesses absolute security; the Cortes are passing some salutary laws. The treatment of the Pope by the Italian anarchists indisposes the Spaniards more and more to revolution and republicanism. For the fortnight past, the trials of the invaders of the National Assembly in May last, and of Proudhon, the oracle of the Socialists, for a libel on President Napoleon, have been the exciting domestic circumstances. Proudhon is sentenced to three years' imprisonment and a heavy fine. He has appealed; but the sentence will be ratified by the Court of Cassation. All the chiefs except one (General Courtais) among the invaders of the Assembly, have been convicted, and sentenced to deportation or long imprisonment. Barbes, Blanqui, Sobrier, and other kindred heroes, will be put out of the way of doing mischief within a number of years. Had they been let loose again on Paris, they would have begotten or labored to beget a popular and horrible convulsion. The crisis would have been fearful. Our weather has been inclement-rather wintry, for ten days. This has vivified the cholera, which prevails in various quarters of the capital, that are the least cleanly, and contain the squalid population. A thousand patients, at least, are found in and out of the hospitals. But there is no apprehension The French ministry hold on, though they cannot be said to cope successfully with the republicans of the National Assembly. Their budget has been materially and vexatiously reduced in some of the executive departments. General Changarnier's salary of fifty thousand francs as commander of the National Guards, was suppressed by the Assembly, of a fatal epidemic. 1. Female Immorality-its Causes and Remedies, English Review, 2. The Vanity and Glory of Literature, 3. Lady Alice-or the New Una, Edinburgh Review, 385 392 · 409 POETRY.-Catch; The Grave; The Sycamine, 410.-The Phantom Ship, 415.-The Shadow of the Past; The Emigrants' Ship; The Emigrant's Tomb, 429. SHORT ARTICLE.-John Home, 430. PROSPECTUS. 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