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The Brussels Post, 1891-6-19, Page 22 .1111041.441,11115.4.9.294112.1.51116VMMICSIO. LYNDON OF' HIGH CIF AN OLD SOLDIER'S LOVE STORY. By O. DaSeS.no, Author of " When the Tido was If igh," " The Artie'_ and the Man," "Into a Larger Room," Eta, lite. RAPTER XL venoeinia's InsarromrivisN•r. In the morning, when Colonel Lemelon encouragements hail taken due effect upon his mind, Percy was far more eoutieleta anti hopeful, They rode over to lamp Deane lin• triediately after the Castle Ettriek lunoh. At the door of the tome Mrs, stkeozi. who looked mysterioue, met thetn. "Come thee way," she mut, leading the way to the dining -room, " They del not expeet you go soon." After they haL1 chatted together for a few minutes, there came sounds of clapping of halide from outeide. "They aro ready," said. Mrs. Mackenzie ; "follow me. Yon tuust excuse them," elle added turning to Colonel Lyndon. It seems frivolous ; bet young people \vat be young people, end Veronica being an Mvalid, we are hound to do what we 01/31 to ammo her." So saying, she opened the door of the draw- ing -reran, and ushered her gueeteee to a scene which, for e few nen:tents, pet plexed them must ecrabls . The room WitS darker than usnal, a crim- eon curtain having been dropped over one of the windows. In front of this window, and forming the central objeot in the room, was a slender, stately figure, deemed in a flow- ing robe of dead white. The ffgure was slightly bout : golden hair fell in waving masses to the waist the eyes were cast down : the sweet, tremulous lips were half parted, and the face wore an exptession of trouble and perplexity pitiful to behold. A truer and more exquisite Marguerite Intel surely never been seen. It was so beautiftil—so true—that Percy, who was the first to enter the room, was completely taken by surprise. " Who is it?" he said, in a hurried whisper ; then etilllower, "What a lovely—lovely face 1 I did not think there was such a Merguerite in all the world." ' This war: delightful M the little audience. B it one felt diopbeaoeii, thnugh why he was displeased he would have found it hard the exulain. " Do you not see wile it be ?" Lai 1 impaleently. " Oh don't, 1Colone1 Lyndoix, dou't 1" cried eldly in an agony, while Jonet and why she had beee left alone with Pevey Whistenley. oh, how cruel it was ! Every one of them 1 Mrs. Maukenzie and damt, who ought to lieve known better ; Colonel Lyndon, too—for hail he not aided and abetted them ?—ited the other*, very likely, thought that Pere), h.td n r:ght 10 hope— thought that she had the:waged him. Encouraged. bftn! The coloox Named to pant eromme face, and her eyes tilled with meaty tilers. Did they think that she would hem neared the man she loved SO — that She 01.001,1 haVO laughed 01 11/111 atel with hine—that she would have sent him lime wards and forwards upon her ertande Ah how little—haw little eny of them knew " Yon are dreeming," she mid, when, fter trying to put Perey off, elte Sias driven, at lest, to speak to him seriously, " It is quite impossible you e011 be 111 earnest,. " 11'hy1 " lie cried, the mlour starting; to Itis face. " Doyoti thielee--" " I think nothing. You have taken me by serprise. Do—do—umay those foolish words. I liked you so muidi yesterday, and I like you still, .seel Veoniea pttifully " But if you like me a little, you might oome to like meanore," faltered Percy, "I shall uever like you as you wish— never—nevee ! Do, pray, understand Inc. It is impossible " " Impossible !" he repeated, his face turning vet•y white. " Do you veally mean that?" '1 do, 1 do. If you have any regard for me, say no more. I ehoual like to keep you as a frtenti," said Veroniee. He beet low over her ofreteil hand, and 1 turned speeehlees away, If she had beets 1 any one elee—any one but the richest womati In England—he might have gone on ! pleading with her. There was as much that he had intended to my, and he had said nothing. Poor young Yellow ! He knew, he turned away, how those unspoken words 1 would bent him. He could. pot speak them. ; The thought of her riches weighed like lead I upon his heart, and meted up his lips. ! Already she woidel he elassing him with ! those others—the " heaps upen heaps of fele lows" who had pursuit he' :mesh° 'would pursue her for her money. If he stayed, he might read her contempt of him in I.er eyes, *Wm - T HE BBUSSELS POST. JuNE 19, i I home before night," ettid the colonel roles- euriegly, I /inner raw and passed, hl r, Winet anley, who himself 1111115 all his arrangements be - forehead when the house WPM balI oI V ISI WM, wee coneidc nasty annoyed b' Pevey's empty pleee 1 end Littly Flora was In ail agony of nervouseess leen any illeehanee should have come to her !tailing, so teat theilinner•hour, whieli at these masons was gene:idly the gee est of the day at Castle Et 111011, dragged miserably. 'The ladies left the table early, and Linty Florae who could bear the suspense no Inger, tnade a sign to Colonel. Lyndon eo follow her. " I m est do something 1 11111101 send snme. where," she said, drawing Itim into the ein• brasure of a window. " Perey may have (tome bath," he sitaL "I will find out " In a very few moments, as the limnlady sat trembling amongst her guests, she SAW the colonel on the terrace, end, making EH mum to them, stepped out of one of the open windows and joined him, "110011 news l'' ale eaid beeethlessly. " read it In your filet'," " I hope you will cell 11 gool news,," he answered. '' Your son has 001110 back, and is in his own room." " I willgo to him," she said. "If I might ventere to advise you, Lady Flora, I should leave hint to himself. He is naturally a lade Irritable." Ah, well 1 you know best ; but the thought of kis trouble cuts me to the heart Still, that he is safe is a grand thing, How could the —how could any one—be so cruel 1" said poor Lady Flora, It was certainly a mystery—and a mys- tery It was destined to tetnain for some 0011. sidarable time. Percy did not rush off to the ends of the earth, as heti been his intention when he started on that wild ride. The ends of the earth are easy to talk of, but very diffieult to find. He did not even re•jont his regiment, which, under Ile eneemstanees, weuld have been ae eon- sibled. proceeding as he aould have tithe. He amaieed at home, hovering like a sing- ed tnoth round the fleme that threatened to devour him, end making every one, and especially his mother and his little sister, wretched by his moody temper arid his wild projects. Lid OW from his infancy, and accustom. ed to think himself of the greatest jetport: sem in the sum of things, Percy could not be tolerant of defeat. He was angry and Impatient under It His sunny temper end channing "tanners seemed, for the 11100 to have evaporated. He talked cynically, was mopped in gloom, and ceased from thet pleasant consideration of the feelings end "r em wavier •ro MATEY TV \MATE VET VOL" PIAVE 00 s ir," Veronica held up their /tigers waenutgly. "But who is it? who is it 1'' pereieted Percy. " Miss Browilee oreseing over to where Veronica lay upon her couen, enjoy. ing the little mystery, "do telt ma." ".Marguerite " seed Veronica, The figure in white lifted its eyes from the ground, and blushing deeply, messed to the couch. "Miele Morrison " said Percy, in great surprise. "Yeo, Letty—my Letty 1 and you didn't know her," cried Milly, Wapping her hands triumphantly. " We have been ha ving life' pictures, Percy I do you know what that is?" "1 thiele I have heard of them before," said Percy, smiling. " Oh, well, I hadn't ; but I think they're lovely. And Veronica says Letty does them splendidly. We had Sleeping Beauty just now, and I was the Prince; shall we try something else now? Veronica has heaps anct heeps of dresses and things, and it's such fun," " Oh, no, no!" said Lean who had been curiously embarrassed by her tastexperiment. "1 said it was only for ottreelves, Milly ; and I could not be anything else after lelar- j guente, I know. I will go away and get ' into myself again now, if everybody will ex• ease me," "Do, darling," said. Mrs. alackenele "and then potencies Captain Winetanley and the colonel will wheel out Mies Browne 10, the verandah, andJattet and I will tidy tide room for visitors. 1 :should be aehamed for it to be sem; as it is." Colonel Lyndon had given a hint of the state of the ease DI the good -mean ed lady, . and this was her way of itelpiug Percy to the realisation of his wish, when the colonel Mel helped to wheel the couch into the verencla, he meld Mai he would go and have a look at Dearest Boss, and bring back word how ole was. "Percy will ammo you until wo come beak," he 01111, "Oh, yes ; I am sore Ins will. Captain Winstanley is always amusing," said Ver. °nice lightly, In a very few minutes her opinion of Percy was changed. At first she could n()t—ShO would not — underetand whoa he meant, Tie to talk to 'er of love I This kind, pie:monk amiable young fellow, whom shelled looked upon as a brother, and fro ,it whom she had accepted a thousand kindnesses 1 Ib wee too much, H ithe nad liked him lees elle would have found it easier to boar. And that he shoeld misunderstand her 001 that they all :slit:mid 1 Poe, ivitb e burning sense of shame and in. dignetion, Veronica had begun to reallee and contempt front liar would kill him. So, at least, he mad to lumself, as, without waiting to see any one, or to consider what any one would think of him, he deshed headloim away from the house, Colonel Lyndon 11101 him at the door of the stables, '' I am going 4.4" lie said, "Say good.bye to Mrs. Meakenzie for tne." "Going otr 1 Where ?" cried the colonel, aghast. "1 don't know. Anywhere 1" he shout- ed beek. The colonel followed him into the stable, where he woe giving directions about his horse, and tried to draw hitn aside, But Percy resisted. " Can't you let a fellow alone?" he eaki, "I—I—don't feel very well. They're too lively for me up there. Now then "—to the groom—" brimg hitn out." In another instant he was in the saddle and clattering np the avenue. The record is kept at castle Ettriek to this day of Percy's dare•devil ride that Gran. ing, His horee was strong, fresh, end full of corn, and he spayed neither hen nor Win - self. Ile wars pose:mewl by that imptilse whioh comae to us all somotimes—the impolse to rush awa.y front our trouble --to hide our humilietion from the eyes of the world by hiding onreelvee. An hour later one of the shooting party returnee; quietly to Cestle littrick, after the sport of the day, saw against the eery the Sparc of a man on Iterseletek, flying at what seemoo to hen a teen:en:let z pace over the moor. He stand watching until it disap- eared in the elwelow of te a hills o " Either that horse or 111411 at rune way," ha said to himself, as he tensed perms his way. When Colonel Lyndon returned to the Caetle, Percy was still out. Altar what had passed between hitneelf MIA LedFlora, he felt bounil to toll hor that he httd not left him at Deep Done, and that there heti been some httle disturbance there, " 1 know nothing for certain," he sigd ; " but I believe Percy asked, and was refue. ed. This is between ourselves, of course." Lady Flora turned very pale. " 1111, 10 80 we shall soon finnl out," she answered. " I wonder whore the poor boy is now?" "That is more than I atm toll you, Lady Flora. Ire left Deep Deene tthout an hour before 1 did." "1 hope —I hope—ho luts met with no ma- ablant. What was he riding 't" " nine Charlie—the SarCHt [111 d strongest horse in Mr. Winstanley's stable, 1 em sure there its no fear of that. He is takieg a longer ride than 01811111, We shall sea him udshes of others which had made his pried - pal charm. Lest Percy should lose altogether the sympathy of same who may hoem bognei to Gem an interest in him, let me say, in pas- sing, that there WAS nothing abnormal in the change that had come to him. Kind womee all over the world are forming men after his typo. If we bring up our deelings in an atmosphere of indulgenoe, if wo teach them to believe that the world is made for them, and that others, sum as thoy can minister to their comfort and pleasure, have no right there, what are we to expect when Nature, who has no favourites, takes them in hand 1 Surprise and indiguation, as a result, ortainly. Aed these were what Percy felt. His mother, who, while sho could nob help feeling very angry with Veronica for refusing him fell a little angry with herself for her-blendness in thinking that he could not be refused, was wonderfully pietienb and gentle with him, It was only when, hav. ing gathered from Janet that Ins suit was I hopeless, he began to telk wittily of leaving the English ermy, and engegiag himself as a soldier in a foreign country, that oho began to feel angry with him, and then there were one or two little contests be- tween them, which had no result but to embitter Percy's feelings and her own, Milly was the Wil.U0SA of one of. those SQ0U0S, and she told Letty about it, weep. ing. The two had left Deep Deane by this time, end were bard at work on their las- eons. " Oh, Lathy 1" alto cried, " what shall wo do? Percy is ao unhappy, And poor mother crass every evening: And he is talking of going away now, end getting himself killed —away into Turkey or Russia, where they my, there will be wee soon. And if he does go mother will die, I know tho will," sobbed poor liltba 1E4. Letty comforted her at well as eho could. Net, brother was talking wildly, she said. He did not know whet he was saying. In a little lime he would be himself again. But, ealtny as she spoke, her gentle heart was burning with such au anger as she ltd mover lett before. How could he—how could any one—make those who loved hint miserable only become he was sufroring hentself 7 One's own heppiness—one's own comfort—it was such re little thing to Letay, who, indeed, had not boon broughb up in the lap of Indulgence, t/1101 Eh found it difficult to imagine how 11 could be ehoson by any human -being before the happiness and comfort of others, It had boot this domain Peroy's nature—his slimly Mtn - per, end his readiness to serve others— which, before his unhappiness, had made Letty admire hiut, That one disappoint:. meet ehould thange him m WAS, ehe thought, very pitifut and ead. And then Letty, who was indulgent towarde every ono except, hereelf, begeu to think that Percy did not kuow how nithappy he made ids Mends, and that some the (eight to to She had no one to whom she meld speek about these things, foe Mille. would sot havo looked at them as she did, and she could not bum rendered to speak to Lady Vlore of' hey son, and Colonel Lyndon had left Omar: lettrick for a few dere Aud Effie brooded end brooded, looking on WiLll a keenness of :sympathy that, ie its form, amounted to poen, upon the RUPPOW of her Metals until tit het she meld contain her - sole no longer. " re no one else will tell him, I must," eke thought. They were sitting at lunch in the dining- hall—she and Lady Flora, end elilly end Percy—no one else, and the two or three ladies staying at the Castle had driven omit in the waggonette to take the gentlemen their 101101>. Percy, who was merely bill- ing with his knife and fork, looked unhap- py and restless. Lady Flova's eyee were rod, ea if she had been weeping, and poor little flinty looked from ono so the GLIM sadly making matters worse instead of bete ter by her mute appeal. It was then that Letty made up her inind. "11 will be very hard to do ; but I must do it, There le no one else," she said to herself, with decision, But how to do it ? That was the question. She thought, over it all the afternoon, growing hot and cold by turns, and wish. mg, more than once, that the idea had never come to hey at all. Before evening her resolution Isms taken. She believed she knew a means of carrying it into effect. (TO BE 000TI01'ED.1 An Actress's Palse Neek A welt known actress of advanced years, who recently appeared ie this city in a youthful character'used an ingenious eon. trivenee to make herself presentable in a low out dress. A strong leather belt is clasped about the waist of the pevsons wearing the machine, and this forms the basis for strips of pepier macho which go to make a bust, nook and back of generous pteportioes. The outside covering of tide counterfeit consists of the 100101001 kind of flesh-eoloyed silk, lined with the softest kind of kid leetlier. This combinatiou makes a remarkably lifelike skin. However, the height of the deceptive ert is reached in the ingenious arrangement m which maithe breast rise and fall -to eine respond to the breathing end the emotions of the wearer. Direeely beneath the outside cover of silk and leather bit thin ale cushion stretched to the proper shape by means of wire. Broad but very. flexible springs rest against the wearer's bosom and ave con- nected 10 the air eitehion. The slightest heaving of the bosom is communicated by those springs to the nir eueltion, and es a result the movement is mauled enough to deceive even the nest expert. The silk cevering ie made gradually thinner Dear the top, and end:: pretty well tip on the neek, which it eloeely deeps. A neeklace of dia. monde &ewers the avrangemen 1011 this point and makes the deeeption dolphin Record. Proof of the Earth's Motion, Take a good-sized bewl, till it nearly fel of water and place it upon the floor of the room whielt is not exposed ai shaking or jarring from the street, Sprinkle over the surface of the water 110001.115 of lyeopodillill powder—a white substance which is some. times used by ladies in making their toilets, and which can be pinehased of0.11)'druggist. Next, upon the surface of this mating of white powder melte, with powdered akar- acme a straight black Hite, say an inch or two in length. Having made this little bleak mark on the surface of the contents of the bowl, lay down upon the floor eloee to the bowl a stick or some &thee straight object, so that it will lie exactly parallel with the charcoal mark. If the line happens to be parallel with a math in the floor, or with any stationtwy object in the mom, this will serve as well, Leave the bowl undis- turbed for a few hours and then observe the position of the black math with reference to the object it was parallel with. It will be found to have moved about, and to have shifted its position front oast to west—that is to say, in that direction opposite to thab of the MOVement of the earth upon its axis. The earth, in simply revolving, has carried the water and everything else in the bowl around with it, but the powder upon the surfam has been loft behind a little. The line will always be found to have moved from east to west, which is perfootly good proof that everything else contained in the bowl has movell the other way, The Cost of U. S. Soldiers' Graves. It costs the United States about 60c, a month to take care of a dead soldier who lost his life in the seevioe of the Union. The sundry civil bill passed by Congress at its last session appropyiated 8100,000 for ex. parses of the national cemeteries during the fiscal year, In addition to this there WES the sum of 576,000 set asido for salaries of superintendents of these burying grounds, and there were also some odds and ends, amounting to several thousand dollars, for supplying headstones where they were lacking, and so forth, The govevemenb takes charge of all these cemeteries, which aro under the direat con- trol of the quartermaster general of the army. There eve 82 of them in all, including an aggregate of 327,1 70 burials, Tho biggest of the 82 netional cemeteries are at, A nelerson villa, , with 13,702 dead; Arlingtom Va., with 16,350 ; Chalmette, Lie, with 12,620 1 Chattemoop, Tenn., with 1 3,023 ; Frederiuksburg, Va., with 15,273 ; Jefferson Barracks Mo., with 1 1,• 647 ; Antietam, Md, wthi 16,837 ; Mari- etta, La., with I13,982 ; Nnehvillo, Tenn., with 16,537 ; Salisbury, N. 0.'with 1 2,132, and Vieksbutg, Miss., with 16,620. Of ehe 327,1 70 interred, 178,223 are known and 148,054 unidentified. About 0,300 of the emtive number are Coufaclerates. It is Brave. To auger alone, To ignore unkindness. To seek for sun:thine in lifo. To be cheerful amid trouble. To refuse to listen to scandal. To discountenance wieltedness wherever found. To keep an entrusted morob when ite tell - leg would benefit; you. To my you ottit'b afford an expenditure Whieh would cramp your purse. To este about things you ought to know end don't, To follow your oonviobions in the tam of I Morn. To saorifloo premise gains for definite right:, To wok to live, end in living to wrest Itappleose from your surroundinge, A SIBERIAN WINT.SR MARKET. --- meats, Fish an II .111 are 0014 Frozen *11 *Clocks. 1 hare rarely seen any thing more in. terestine than the nuirlice, here, EA Ole Illlg0 open spasm rasped to the cellio,trotb, whieb Is deserted on °thee weeks days, becomes Saturday ono of tile most unlimited 50.01100 coneolvable writes .4 0DIT0141/011d011t ill Kr001101APSii, Siberie, Thu twasents for miles around arrive by hundreds and Ittin• tirade, driving in their sledges laden wIte various wares. These 01..0 fDPIl101i Up in seotions by the police. Every thing 8001118 to have ite regular place, for on eiteh mar- ket day the arrangemeut is the same. Now a stroll through the noiey _crowd reverds curiosities quite unknown to the untraveled leuropeen. To &eeriest i.110 900110 le one teeming with interest. All kinds of prmdsions are eltielly sold. They are Emmert out either on the ground OP 011 the sledges. You will notice the grotesque effect of the frozen mutton, also the frozen pigs. Between them, oti the grotted, are seen round white blocks, whith, to my groat astoniehinent, I found were half gallons 01 >111 1 As It matter of fact, here and now, everything ill the " eatable lbmie" is frozeu, so it can be kept without datnage the whole winter. Live se eels, eeanto omit fish, sulliolent to lost several inonths, are killed as soon as the frost sots ia, and in It very short titne become as hard as stone, SD that it requires some considerable heat to soften them. The prices of the varffius edibles are, tts a rule, astoundingly low. I give you a short list, which I think in: y be of interest : Beef, mutton or pork (I ny part) averages from le pence to 2 pence per pound. In the fish market starlet or eturgeon, which fetch in St. Petersburg 5 ell:filings to .J7 shillings 6 pence per theea pounds aro hero sold foe about 1 shilling 0 pence. Butter averages 0 pence to 1 altilling per ;manta milk le pence and 2 pence pee gallon, black bread penny and white bread h pence per pound. lettering thu summer months every thing is elightly dearer. Italians in the United States, It ta believed by many that the providence which evolves good out of evil will yet turn to the ath•antage of the American nabion the bloody Etna tingle happenings that have given to the eity of New (Means such an unenviahle distinction. These assert that an immediate result will be the closer ecru- tinizing of immignente from Italy, the land of the tuitvierous Mae, Mild Ulla thus many undesirable persons will be deterred from seeking a home ort this side the Atlantic. That some will be thus kept away is not improbable though it is very doubtful whether the most undesirable class of immigrants mu by existing laws be sifted out. That the recent tragedy has not lessened the mem bey of arrivals in evident. Indeed the ate rivals tele spring are more nummoue than ever -1 7,077, mostly from Italy and dm southern eounthice ot Europe, lamled at New York :luring the week ending Anvil ee, while the arrivals for tee eorresponding weeks of 11110 and 110110 wet•e 131(1 10 7,07 1, reepeutively. It is clear theme:see that some other test must be adopted, titan that which requires each 110W 110:11el. to be possessed of belonglige of a certain speehied value, if the tide tenni these eetnitries is to be perceptildy idayed. Tit, New York beee:thig Post suggests a knowledge of the Engle:11 language, the Tante a tax on each immigrant, while the 1)1' suggeets the family test. It says " what we want in thie country is eitecens, not sujoureere. When O Lath:au:en or an Italian or other foreigner ethies lime to live Et, few years, make tnonoy, met tit',, return to hie native century Inc spend it, he always opines alone, lee.ving his family, if he him one, on the other side. If a man has a wife and. children releet him unless they are with hen. Such n test would bopmotiotble, andso far es it went wholesome. Aenan away front his family in a foreign country naturally drifts into reckless habits, The promisee of the family would not only act as a restvain- ing influence upon him, but it would be ae ovidenoe that the mats came to this country with the inanition of making a home here." 11 15 not too inuoh to say that the immigra- tion question is not the least among the inany difficult problems which the republic) has at present on its hands. Thankful should Can - adieus be that the same problem does not confront us, and that our interest in the American situation is one thet springs largely from contrast. We have land and homes awaiting thousands ot fatuities of the right kind, lent for such as many of the re- cent new comers to the United States we have no wokome. No immigration is a thou. sand times better than such immigration. Railway Laws in the United States. Several inoklente in railway experiences with the American courts of law and the law-tnakers have recently occurred that aro of interest es showing that our neighbors are nob disposed to allow those important and necessary public servants, the railways, to Isemome absolute masters and dictators. The other day a jury at leluncie, Ind., rendered a verdict for the plaintiff ill a suit against the Lake Erie and Western Rail- way`for damages due to ejectment from a Mans for refusing to pay an extra charge because no ticket had been bought before enterieg the train. It is well known that this extra, eharp is imposed solely to reduce to the lowesbpotnt Iboodaiger of " In -making down" by oonductore coiled:Mg fare on the trains. It did not appear to the Indians, jury that paesengers could fairly be taken to iosure the company against the dishottesey of its own agents. On the seem day a bill was reported favorably in the Michigan Legislature compelling sleeping car Isom - pines to keep the epper berths closed when not in nee. Hero the right of the passenger is not to imperative, eine° in any ease he gots all ho pays for, but as he pays a very good price for what ho does get:, there is no reason why the company ehould nob give ae much as it can without loss or hum- vonience, The ,pietatice of " making up" the upper berth is only a device far making the lower one by itself undesirable and thus enItming the passenger to pay for Et " section" of two berths. It will bo re- membered, also, that 0 recent clealsion made sleopimg ear companies responsibe for valu• ables I 11 the berths unless a safe place woro provided for them, In all these eases the law simply tries to make the companies do what, le they had sense, they woeld clo themselves and eeattre the credit of doing it. Tho Lord knew what wee best for man% peace oe mind when he failed to pub oyes in the back of the hoed. Teach solf•denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create: for the world a destiny more sublime then over issued from the brain. of the Wildeet dreamer, " No, mum," said Bridget, "I didn't bring any references. I didn't think you would care for the opinions of some of the persona I have boon workieg for," And Bridget was twomptly ougageth—New York Per:eerier, DEFENDINV TUE DEFEINGELESS, ing.land's Solicitu_41nda,efor Two drietut L strliring ef meg Wale " The Etir of England," mid Lord Mania field ono bendred mei nineteen VOW'S ago, " lute long been toe pure fric a alums, 44141 evevy men Is free who breethee it. Every men who mines into Englan1 ti entitled to the proteetion of Eng'ish hew, whatever oppression he may heretofore havesnifered, or whatever may be the color of his skin." These weeds were uttered in the oase of negro slave who had been brought to Lon- don from Virginia, whose tuaeter was about to send him to the island. of Jemaina, them' to be offered for sale in the slave market. While the vessel which was to take Itint away lay in the 'Cleanses, a writ of enberm 101p110 was sued out in behalf of the negro and the ease WES heard before the great, Chief Justioo of England, who male -rod the primmer to he discharged from custody. Lord alantheld's opinion, from which we hitve quoted two sentences, ranks itinong 01100. After celebrated decisions in jurisprucl- neeAfter the lapse of more than a 001liAlry, 1111(1 now that slavery is no longer tolerated by law in at*, colony of &ghoul or in auy part of the American Union, it seems strange that any question relating to the tight to moan meta re; RONDAVE should come berm an English court • and yet only a fortnight ago the Chancery 'Diet, sion 01 11)0 High Court of Justice in London was ettfied upon to appoint a guardian for two African children on the ground thee: they were about to be taken back to South Africa, where they wotild be held in a form of servitade WAS practically stavery, A sliort time since there was a, show in Regent street, London, known es the Stan- ley and African Exhibition. At this show two little boys were exhibited, named Goo. too and Inyokwana, who were deSeribed 05 iatives of 1,Imzila's country, which lies to the oeth of the Treusvaal and east of Matebe• Leland. The parents of these children hied been killed in SOID 0 tribal disturbances, and the boys eame into the posasesion of 11, White railer. This trader feend his way, ill and stilided, to the hones el a Mee. Thorinien, he wife ef an Englishmen who settled in 50111), years ago. elm Thorburn cared for the sick man unt il his recovery, am' in gratitude for her 'thirteens lie made a monist of the little Alaimo boys to her. :he brought them to England ne servauts, andeent them tothe exhibit eel Nt Lore theyat- traded n goal deal of at million, and beeatne a :subject Of iniereet te the Britith and For- eign Antieelavery Seeeity. The seeretitry ol Obi aseeela• Me bee 1111.1 HITtell1311NIVe that t lads if taken lime, to Atm Ma would `.10TrAL1.Y 110.') 11 sLAV 1. there, and c, he applied last autumn te Baron Pollock, one ot the 1,' go .1/ thp Ex- die-gni:1' Division of the flip eatut of netiee, fois a. writ of helit e0'po to in- quire into the legality of Mrs, 5 horbuen'e :nista:ay Over the cell:trete At the hearing which then took place, the learned Judge expressed the opinion that there was no evidenee at all thet the lads would be treat - 4,1 otherwise than as domestieservants upon their retuen to Swaziland with Mrs, 'Thor. bum, anti nething to show that any condi- tion of slavery existed there, The writ, therefore, was dismiesed. 'aids result did not please the Draish and Foreign Antheitavery Society, and that as- meiation upon the 8th instant implied to Mr. Justice Sterling, in the Chtuesery Divi - lion, for the appointment of a guardian for (Motor: and Inyokwana. In behalf of the society, evidence was given tending to show that the tribal laws in Swaziland have nob been affected by the abolition of slavery ber the British Parliameet. "0.01 thea in Swazi. hunt it mild form of slavery, serfdom, or vassalage is pettetised which depends very much upon the temperament of the owner." The testimony on the part of Mrs. Thor - burn, however, indicated that neither salvery nor anything like it peevailed in Swaziland, but that the boys under the hIAVS of that dependency were the wards of Mrs. Thorburn, and would be at liberty to 00 \MUM 01050 PLEASED npon attaining their majority. No question was made as to the leinclnese of Mrs. Thor - burn toward tem children, and her counsel insiated that if the court were to take these boys at the instance of such a sooiety ottt of the custody of people who had taken good care of them, "11 might find itself called upon to appoint pardians for thousends of children who were in the same position at the instance of any busybody who chose to interfere," Tho learned judge, however, decided thet a guardian for the little 'Africans ought to be appointed, and he directed a reference to take testimony as to who was the mese fit and proper person to he guardian. He ex. premed his agreemenb with the opinion of Baron Polloak that there had been no ill breatment of the boys by Mrs. Thoeburn ; but the advantage of eppointing a guardian would be that there would thou be some one under the jurisdiction of the mud responsi- ble for the welfare of the children, who could be held aceounteble in ease the boys should be practically enslaved ttpon their return to Swaziland, From the tenor of his remarke 11 did not seem improbable that Mrs. Thorburn herself might be chosen as the guardian : but if so, it would be with such reetrietions as to render hey amenable to the process of the court:, and to removal and punishment in ease she should ill treat the boys, even 111 South Africa. It would be difficulty to find a more striking instance thou tlus case affords of the world-wide variety of rights and ititevests which come before the thuds of Greab tain foe adjedication. The Reart. The heart's youth does net pass, as long as its purity and inn000nee mimes, We sear our own hearts by the cherishing ofsenti. month eve are directed to expel ; wo b000me discontented and oatl our discontent Icnow- ledge ; we forget that all knowledge, whiolt does not inorease our happiness, is spurious, aild not to be teusted, How strong are the heart's first ;struggles under SOtTOW ; hOW it battles with distress and WILL'13 against; de- spair and diseppointiment ; how vigorous its efforts to combat and overcome ; buti sorrow is tho strongor—ay, sorrow is the stronger— it is drawn into the heart by the Arst breath that wo inhele of this world's eir—o, small seed, but still it grows and grows, and twists and twists, until it ertiehee the poor home: ; oud then, than we clio No man met totswer for his own valor or courage 1111 he has boon in clangor. 8 1. 1 11 1