shrieks. The mother too, though her forti- not on my own account-but I was again tude suppressed all complaint, could scarcely approaching the great crisis of maternitystand, and her distorted features betrayed and amidst what perils, good God! was my her sufferings. child destined to see the light. 'Wretch exclaimed the commandant, 'thou hast poisoned us!' 'Yes,' said she, with a ghastly smile, falling to the ground beside her child, already struggling with the death-rattle. Yes I have poisoned you. I knew you would fetch the skins from their hiding-place; was it likely you would leaveadying creature undisturbed on her litter! Yes-yes-you will die, and die in perdition, while I shall go to heaven.' Her last words were scarcely audible, and the soldiers at first did not comprehend the full horror of their situation; but as the poison operated, the Spaniard's declaration was legibly translated in her convulsed features. No power could longer restrain them; in vain their commander interposed; they repulsed him, and dragging their expiring victim by the hair to the brink of the torrent, threw her into it, after lacerating her with more than a hundred sabre strokes. She uttered not a groan. As for the child, it was the first victim. Twenty-two men were destroyed by this exploit-which I cannot call otherwise than great and heroic. The commander himself told me he escaped by miracle. THE ALLIED SOVEREIGNS. It is unnecessay, in our notice of the plate of the Allied Powers, which the present number contains, to give a special sketch of any of the persons represented, but the Sultan of Turkey, with whose history our readers may not, perhaps, be so familiar. We therefore confine ourselves to a mere statement of births, accessions, and marriages, reserving our space for a short sketch of ABDUL MEDJID, PRESENT SULTAN OF TURKEY. The Sultan Mahmoud, so celebrated for the many radical reforms which he endeavoured to effect in his dominions, died on the 1st of July, 1839, just six days after the entire defeat of his army at Nezib. He was at the time aged fifty-four and had been on the throne thirty.one years. Abdul Medjid, the prince called to be his successor, was the one and twentieth son of the departed Sultan, and having been born at Constantinople on the 19th April, 1823, had just entered on the sixteenth year of his age. His youth had been like the majority of the princes of his race, and precocious indulgence in the pleasures of the harem had formed the only preparations which he had made as yet for the fulfilment of the duties of sovereignty. Nevertheless, he laid hold of the reins of The persuasion that the bed of death would be disturbed in search of booty, was indeed holding us as savages; and such power with a strong hand, and gave early evidence of his disregard for established custom 3 was the impression produced by the man whose usages were not sanctioned by any higher who could command, 'Let no sanctuary authority, and of his determination to proceed deter your search.' By such means were in the path of reform trod by his father. For the populace from the beginning exasper-instance, when he repaired to the sacred mosque ated against us, and especially by the oppressions of General D... If the inhabitants of Argueno had not received information that they were to be massacred, they would not have taken the lead in massacre. Such were the people amongst whom I dwelt. When this tale was related to me, on the eve of my departure from Burgos, I shuddered in contemplating the murderous war of people against people! I trembled for the first time since my entrance into Spain. I was become timid. Alas! it was of Eyoub for the purpose of being girded, according to solemn usage, with the sabre of Othnian, the symbol of his authority, he did so dressed in an unorthodox costume, and great debates were entered into upon the question, could the padischa be so admitted into the sacred precincts. The Chiek ul Islam and all the Ulemas pronounced decidedly and with much warmth in favour of the continued observance of the ancient custom. No former Sultan had undergone the ceremony clothed in any other than the traditional costume, and what would the world say to an innovation so manifestly opposed to the true spirit of Islam and the majesty of the states of Western Europe interfering to prevent Khalifat? All opposition, however, was cut Ibraham Pasha following up the advantage short by the old vizier, Khosrew, who at last ex- which his victory at Nezib and the defection of claimed to the chief of the Ulemas: "By Allah the Turkish fleet had combined to accord him, and his prophet! if you raise any more objec- Turkey was once more allowed breathing time. tions, your head shall be nailed to the gates of Just four years after the commencement of the palace within an hour! This threat silenced his reign, Abdul Mejid gave his people the the boldest, and Abdul Medjid entered the holy famous Hatte Sheriff, which has been justly of holies dressed for the most part, in European denominated the charter of their liberties. It made a vast number of changes in the laws of fashion. A still more remarkable instance, to the same Government, all tending to the promotion of effect, may be also adduced. It had been the the welfare of the people, security for whose constant practice of his predecessors, on their lives and property is for the first time ensured. ascent to the throne, to put to death the greater All the reforms pointed out in it, however, cirnumber of their nearest relatives, for the pur- cumstances have not enabled Abdul Mejid to pose of doing away with the possibility of their complete. But he has done all that it has been, possession of it being disputed. His own humanly speaking, possible for him to do; he father, Mahmoud II, had thus caused nine of has increased the freedom which his subjects his brothers to be strangled in one day, and as formerly enjoyed, as well as added to their Abdul Medjid had a brother who was of a most security; he has taken all power to insure their violent temper and ambitious disposition, we education; has radically reformed the adminmight have naturally expected him, in his re-istrative machinery of the country, and brought gard to have followed his father's example. To the State's finances into a better state than they his honour be it spoken, however, the Sultan left him in full possesion of life and liberty; nor has he ever had occasion to repent of the humanity he thus exhibited. were ever before in; and has equitably adjusted the manner in which the taxes shall be gathered and levies for the army made, and made those troops which fifteen years ago, Ibraham Pasha drove before him like a horde of savages, almost equal in discipline to those of the nations of Western Europe. His reign was inaugurated under gloomy auspices. Four days only after its commencement news arrived at Constantinople of the defeat and total dispersion of the army of Hafiz, Of the political relations which Abdul Mejid and of the taking by Ibrahim Fasha of the has at various times held with the surrounding Camp of Nezib, and all the warlike stores of Governments, we have not in this article space the destroyed army. Nor was this even the to speak; whilst the grave events which date worst, for within another forty-eight hours in- from the arrival of Prince Menschikoff at Contelligence was brought of the defection of the stantinople are too familiar to every reader to feet; which had been given up to the Pasha need recounting. We only allude to them for of Egypt by its commander, Ahmed Fewksy, in the purpose of noticing the attitude in which consequence of his sworn enmity to the man whom the Sultan has faced the new perils which have Abdul Medjid had made his vizier, Khosrew.recently gathered round his Empire, an attitude Master, therefore, both of land and sea, might in every respect fulfilling the early promises of not a coup de main at any moment make Ibrahim his reign. Pasha master of Constantinople also? And Abdul Medjid is in the thirty-first year of his might not this state of affairs cause Russia to age, but he appears somewhat older in constep in and assert that right of protectorate over sequence of his black beard, and the fatigue, the Turkish Empire which the convention of both mental and bodily, which he has undergone, Unkiar Skelessi had given her, and had endowed and is undergoing. His features are not very her with authority to exercise whenever cirregular, nor his complexion very fair, but this cumstances might require her so to do, and last defect is usually remedied by the free use thus between the forces of the Czar on the one of cosmetics. His eyes are brilliant and piercing, hand and those of Mehemet Ali on the other, but so fired as to give to his countenance an air the throne of the new Sultan be all but torn to which at the first glance is rather unpleasing, pieces. Fortunately, however, Russia did not and his beard is short, but unusually thick and esteem it cxpedient to press her pretensions to bristly. His ordinary costume is very simple, the pretectorate just at this moment, and the land is composed principally of a kind of paletôt of dark blue cloth, European pantaloons, and Japan boots, with a fez to which the imperialtuft of heron plumes is attached by a golden buckle adorned with diamonds. AUSTRIA. Francis-Joseph I. Emperor of Austria, born August 18, 1830; succeeded his uncle, Ferdinand I., on his ablication, Dec. 2, 1848 (his father, Archduke Francis-Charles, renouncing his claim in his favour). PRUSSIA. THE BEE. An! who is so blest as the honey-bee, Making the most of the golden hours? He kisses the rose's blushing cheeks, Frederick-William IV., King of Prussia, born FRANCE. From bud to bud through his Flower-serai; RUSSIA. Come, friends, let's take for our guide the Bee! Ne'er lose a blossom within our reach; A TARTAR INN.-On the arrival of a traveller, Nicholas I., Emperor of Russia, born July 6, 1796; succeeded his brother, Alexander, Dec. 1, 1825; married July 13, 1817, Charlotte (now Alexandra), sister of the King of Prussia, born July 13, 1798. Issue, 1. Alexander, hereditary, Grand Duke, born April 29, 1818; married he is met by the comptroller of the table, who anApril 28, 1841, Maria, sister of the Grand Duke of Hesse; issue, four sons. 2. Constantine, born Sept. 21, 1827; married Sept. 11, 1848, Grand Duchess Jossefowna of Saxe-Altenburg; issue, a son and a daughter. 3. Nicholas, born August 8, 1881. 4, Michael, born Oct. 25, 1832. 5. Maria, born August 18, 1819; married July 14, 1839, Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg, who died Nov. 5, 1852; issue, four sons and two daughters. 6. Olga, born Sept. 11, 1822; married July 13, 1846, Charles, Prince Royal of Wurtemberg. 66 66 nounces what there is to eat, and as the visitor selects Enduring fame depends mainly on enduring interests. LIFE IN THE DESERT.-If a Bedouin tribe be moving in great hast before an enemy, and should be unable to stop for many hours, or be making a forced march to avoid pursuit over a desert, where those who have done something for posterity's wells are very distant from each other, the women sometimes prepare bread whilst riding on camels. Conscience is the best friend we have; with The fire is then lighted in an earthen vessel. One it we may bid defiance to man; without it all woman kneads the dough, a second rolls it out, and the friends in the world can be of no use to us. a third bakes it. Boys or women on foot the pass materials, as required, from one to the other. He who beholds the faults of others through his own virtues, is generally disposed to forgive them; indulgenco is the child of purity of heart. Waiting for the coming combat Came the Iron WELLESLEY, Up the gorge and through the thickets, Shout the strong advancing columns, Answers vibrate o'er the hills; Bounding o'er the leaping rills. That has never bowed to fear. Gently o'er the mountains stealing, The fair crag whose brow it kiss'd; Like a flashing Amethyst. Lo! the God of Light uprising, Mounts the brilliant car of day, Coursing through the East resplendant, Fly his swift steeds on their way, Flinging back a flood of glory On the glittering array. Shake their manes, and hill and valley, Gold-brown rocks and forest green, Purple cloudlets, tinged with radiance, Sparkle 'neath the golden sheen, Glints the bright steel in the sunlight, Moves the heaven's gorgeous screen. Strike their hoofs, and earth and heaven Glow with showers of diamond light; Gleam the gold and silver trappings Of the war steeds in their might; Ope' the standards o'er the battle, Where the most courageous fight. VOL. V.-L. Creeping upwards, softly, slowly, On the sun-bright morning sky, Curl the blood-tinged wreaths of battle, Bearing up the startling cry, Bearing up the shrieks and curses Of the wounded ere they die. Ghastly faces turned to heaven, Heaved from out a burning mine. O'er the trembling, furrowed ground; Some their stricken spirits yielding With a quick, convulsive bound. Yet no heart is quailing there; Like a red wave o'er the grass, Through the gorge, a band of heroes Back, to rally, not to yield. LAKE, with bold, intrepid daring, Cheers them on with sword in hand; Onward to the charge returning, Where the French in order stand, Of that too-determined band. Fall the French like autumn grain; Up the heights of Zambugeira, Not as erst by STEWART led, Blood upon the grassy hill-side, On the myrtle-covered hillock, Where the restless Britons flock; Where the Gaul withstands the shock. From the tangled thickets pouring, Come the French with hasty stride, Went LABORDE upon that day, Up the gorge, and through the thickets, JUSTICE BY JUDGE JEFFERYS. MASTER GEORGE JEFFERYS, subsequently the notorious Chief Justice and Chancellor, was elected Common-serjeant of the City of London in March, 1671; and a trial which took place before him a few days after his elevation to that minor judicial office is, it strikes me, not only curious in itself, but as throwing some light upon the reckless habits and tendencies of the Nero of the Bench, whilst yet but on the threshold of his ruffianly career. The incidents are gleaned from the brief records of the time, and I have done little more than give them sequence and connection. Charles Carver, a native of Staffordshire, and skilful worker in metals, for some reason not mentioned, crossed the seas, soon after reaching manhood, to the plantations, by which probably Virginia is meant; but not prospering there, returned in 1670, and took up his abode in London. He was now about thirty THE STARS.-Lord Rosse's telescope has resolved into stars, nebulae which were previously years of age, well-favoured, six feet in height, and soon became a constant evening guest at supposed to be part of a thin, diffused vapour, filling vast reigons of space, and destined, in long the Lamb, Aldersgate Street, then kept by a cycles of ages, to condense into worlds. The dis- widow landlady, Mistress Rebecca Hobson, a covery has disturbed the nebular hypothesis, but year or so younger than himself, and a native it has also revealed a startling truth The distances of the same country. Whether Carver's voy of these stars are so amazing and incomprehen- age to the plantations, recent return, and sible, that the light they send forth requires cycles present friendly footing at the Lamb were reof ages to traverse the space between them and ferable to a former intimacy with the said Rethe earth. We see them, therefore, by rays emit-becca before she become Mistress Hobson, is ted ages before man appeared on the earth; and, not directly stated; the probability, however, for aught we can tell, their light was extinguished being in the affirmative. Be that as it may, thousands of years ago. Were they now annihi- whether it was a reknitting of a previous lated (if annihilation were possible), the present broken attachment or the formation of a new dwellers on the earth, and far distant generations one, the fact was undeniable that Charles Carof men, could know nothing of their extinction. ver made rapid progress in the dame's good SOCIETY. In the beginning of the world, the graces, and that if her humour held it would common Creator of all vouchsafed to the brute not be long before the Lamb and the lady had herd only the principle of vitality; to us he gave a new master-to use the term, ridiculous as it souls also, that an instinct of affection, reciprocally sounds now-a-days, recognised by the marital shared, might urge us to seek for, and to give, code and practice of the period when the assistance; to unite in one people, those before second Charles was king. There was some widely scattered; to emerge from the ancient danger that her humour would not hold, she wood, and abandon the forests where our fathers having other strings to her widow's bow, and dwelt; to build houses, to join another's dwelling one especially which it was difficult to detach to our own houses; that the confidence mutually and cast off-a Mr. Nathaniel Betteridge, estaengendered by a neighbour's threshold might add blished in the Minories as a practical jeweller, and security to our slumbers; to cover with our arms reputedly well to do in the world. This person a fellow citizen when falling or staggering from a had been assiduous in both morning and evening ghastly wound; to sound the battle signal from a attendance at the Lamb from the time poor common clarion; to be defended by the same Samuel Hobson had been medically pronounced ramparts, and closed in by the key of a common incurable, a forecasting tenderness not appaportal. rently displeasing to the fair relict, expectant |