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FELIX OPPORTUNITATE MORTIS. Exile or Cæsar? Death hath solved thy
doubt,
THE CHINA MAIL.
[No. 5020-August 9, 1879.
And made thee certain of thy changeloss fater for an impartial opinion, are no authority are such as render it almost impossible for in the matrimonial market, falls in love words of wisdom would not be thrown transport the opium-smoker for awhile int
flower,
The timeliest doom of all thy race is thine: Saved-from-the-ead-alternative, to-pino. For heights unreached, or isily to tower, Like Alpine orests that only specious shine, And glitter on the lonely peak of Power! how fred dunezi
POOR MOTHER. "Poor "mother" 'Twas the first thing
thought or said, Voice of who knows how many million
hearts, When the news came that her brave boy was
dead,
That child of hopes, that youth of princely
parts,
bright and brave
Gentle and graceful
and gay; Whose brief Life all of love and praise had
of its winning lay- hat within compact he would have wished
much to be desired that wo should possess men even in name. She has on board a tho fadies, instead of one only, been judicious that it will hardly be soted upon | Despond is the little breathless garret whor trustworthy information about them. Un large number of fireman, who pass as anilors married, or had the young man himself to make themselves happy-where they Jobany the Chinaman swelters night an fortunately, trustworthy Information is very without porscasing any protension to the been married, they would probably have are. If the desire sprang from a rational day curled up on his gruesome couch difficult to get. The highly educated off title. Then the conditions under which met with a very different welcome. But expectation of advantages to bo gained by fully toasting in the din flame of a smok corn of our navy, from whom we might hope the master of a steamer collects his crew when a young man, himself a great prize being asked to great houses, Mr. Hazeltine's lamp the tiny lumps of delight which sha in the matter. As the whole sqnfacing him to discover whether it is good or bad; with a girl who is not a great prias, who away. But it springs from a region of his paradise. If you are only a casual visito And thou no more hast wearily to wait, class are, to úso Clarendon's words, "a and Bailora nood as much choosing as does not belong to his order or bis set, and human nature outside the range of logic, or, you will not care for much of Johnny Btraining to patch the people's tarrying shout, people by themselves," so the men-of-war's domestic servants, He rushes in and out about whose family and early associations at least, of any other logic than that of company, and will speedily find your wa That from unrestful rest would drag thee out, men are a people within a people. When of port, dicobarging his men the moment and position generally very little is known, direct experience. We would rather there down the filthy creaking stairs into th And push thee to those pinnacles of State nailors were enlisted for three years' service bo enters and shipping others just before it is not to be wondered at that the girl, fore encourage them and those of our own rocking outer air, which appears almos Round which throng courtly loves, uncourt-in the navy there was a constant give and ho leaves, when he cannot wait to look whether American or not, should get the countrymen who are like unto them, to fresh by contrast. Then Johnny, whos
ed bato,
take between the Royal and the merchant about him, and must put up with what be cold shoulder from his female ralatione. persevere. If they fail, it may then dawn head and stomach are seasoned by th Servility's applause, and envy's flout.
can get. Naturally he gots desperate and The chances are that, if it had not been for upon their minds that there are other unceasing opium pipes of forty years, shat Twice happy boy! though cut off in thy services. That has long ceased to be the
сяге. Now, with rare exceptious, once a indebted loafers who, having drunk the the imminent peril of matrimony which any sources of happicess and dignity in human the grimy window down with a shudder man of-war's man always a man-of-war's wages gained by their last voyage, re-advances on that part of the English ladies life than this. If they succeed, they can unaffected as that with which you just now man. When they leave the service, with or embark as a last resource, Hence steamers would have involved, they would have been say, better than any one else whether the opened it, and toasts another little dab o without a peusion, at the end of ton-years are filled with bad characters-of-all-sorts. only too happy to help the visitors to a prize is worth the paina they have apont upon the thick brown drug in readiness for th service or at the end of twenty, it is but The firemen are often the refuse of social success, and Mrs Westgate and Missit, And to those Amorleans, who are many,next comer. But if you visit Johnny as seldom that they go on board a merchant manufacturing towns. Their life at sea is Alden would have had the honour, before whose social ambition takes a better form, customer, you pay your shilling, and en ship. They may be fund in fire-brigades, so hard that only good pay would bring the season was over, of dancing with royal we can only say that among Englishmen of yourself up on another grisly couch, whic in the employment of railway companies, in good men to it, and their work requires noty itself...their own stamp at the conditions are of this the Yamunder of the partHLERI dookyarda, in warehouses--wherever good little skill that it cannot command good
Still it remains true that Americans tu present favourable to mutual understand. Johnny hands you an instrument like, wages are to bu earned by strong, steady, pay. They are, it is true, generally a little general find it hard to acclimatize them-ing and friendship.-Saturday Review. broken-down flageolet, and the long surel trained men ; but it is only now and then botter paid than sailors, but only a little selves in England. They land at Liverpool,
brown Angers oram into its microsco that they are to be found under tho red some five shillings a month or so. Hence spend three days at the Lakes, where it
bowl the little modioam of magio, and yo ensign. The United States navy takes not they are a dangerous element in the ship's usually rains, stop half a day at Chester, A HUSBAND'S EXPLANATION,
suck hard through it at the smoky litt a few; and we have the authority of an company, mutinous on board and drunken and perhaps a day at Kenilworth, on their
flame, and if your stomach be educate able and experienced Amorloan officer for on shore. The deck hands, as regular.
It is a fact that has been noticed and and strong pass daly off into elysinu some are styled on board, are for the way to London, visit the Tower, Wost commented upon time out of mind, that Then, when your blissful dream is over, yo saying that the beat petty officers in that
minister Abbey, the Zoological Gardens, many husbands neglect those little atten force have been trained in our ships. In-
reason given above, not much superior to and the Houses of Parliament, and then tions and marks of affection of which they go your way, a wiser if not a sadder man deed, the mere fact of that training secures the firemen. They are not required to take the train to Paris. It is clear that were so lavish during courtship. Of course next pay is to the casual ward of St Perhaps the most appropriate visit you ca them the rating at once. Again, fewer men possers much skill; it is enough if they can they do not find the time pass pleasantly in there must be a reason for a custom which, George's Workhouse, hard by, at the botto come from the merchant service to the navy steer and clean paint and metal. Steamers England. They are not in a hurry to leave though reprehensible in the abstract, has of Old Gravel-lane, and thence, if it be no than was fortoorly the case. The training therefore, are the paradise of the loose fish Faris or Florence when once they arrive the sanction of all but uuiverent practice, too late in the evening, to the mission ships apply a large number; many are the who bang about ships. An ugly parody of there. They linger on after all the sights and it becomes the duty of the philosopher church of St. Peter's, Dook-street, hard by sons of other men-of-war's men.
Those the stirring and adventurous spirits who have been seen, because the life there suits to inquire into and expound it. Perhaps. who do come from trading ships come have ever taken to the see among us, them. They make good resolutions to see it is best illustrated by an anecdote. It where you will find in full work an agenc the wish to ees a little service under the for which names unknown to one grand last until they get as far as Paris on the wedded pair who were made one last fall. transformation which has taken place a mor young. The Royal Naval Reserve satisfies nowadays they form a well defined class. England well on their way home, which seems that on Columbus Avenue there dwell are to be believed, has had in the marvellow which, if the peopls of the neighbourhoo Red Cross of St. George of a great many fathers have been invented-beachcombers, who would be willing to sorve for a short packet-rats, and so forth; and they are of the theatres, the dilatoriness of Worth, fair lady" than was the husband during potent influence even than poliss and parlia
return journey. But there the fascinations No knight of old was more devoted to bis crniss but not for a long spell of years, worse danger to chips than the perils of the adieux to friends, the thousand excuses the honeymoon and the moon that followed
ment combined. Returning thence to Shad Whether this entire separation of the two the sea, as well as a burden on the lives of which people make for not doing what they it. But exo the third moon had waned the well High-street, you may visit the ** Whit classes is a good thing in itself, and whether hor Britannic Majesty's consuls in foreign do not like, detain them till three days young wife noted, or thought she noted once the proarious rendezvous of half the Swan," popularly known as "Paddy's Goose, in case of a great war our commanders ports.
before the steamer sails from Liverpool no doubt it was fancy change. As time trampa and thieves of London, now quiet might not feel the want of that large body.
This is all natural enough. The climate of passed on it became still more apparent. sedate, and, to confess the truth, dull-ver of more or less trained men who were
AMERICANS IN EUROPE. England is far from perfect. The hotel Her husband was loving, of course, but dull. Down to the right here, again, is th always under the band of their predeces
Mr Henry James's stories have not only life is mostly detestable. Life in ledgluge, somehow there was a lack of the old ardor, little waterside police-station, where th afforded very pleasant reading on this side unless there is a large party, is intolerably there was a falling off in the old demonstra grim harvest of the drag," the weir of the Atlantic, but have furnished some of dull. in nineteen cases out of twenty they tiveness. This troubled her, and, woman- steam and jetsam of the cruel river, li his countrymen on the other with food for never see the inside of an English home, like, she was quick to conclude that bie awaiting the verdict that will let na hop meditation of a very Instructive kind. Mr There is no outdoor life for them to see love for her had cooled. One evening, after find it Christian burial." And so bac Mayo W. Hazeltine-a writer whose name except the Row on the rare occasions when thinking the matter over all day, she broke into the highway again, and up Cannen-stre we have not had the pleasure of meeting it does not rain, or snow, or hail, or blow a out with "You don't love me any more." road, where stands St. George'a Church, Bow many hundred unknown mothers lieutenant-colonels of our present boy reel with before, but hope that we may mest parching east wind. What is there here to What makes you think so?" he asked, in scone of the famous riots of: 1858-59, whic with again before long-has discussed the tempt them to stay, used as they are to & a business-like way, scarcely lifting his eyes gave the first popular impulse to th subjeot treated of in Mr James's last volume free social life at home, and fresh perhaps from the book which he was reading.ritualistic movement, and cut into t with great good sense and frankness. It from months of delightful vagabondage in "Because," she sobbed, "you never pek me wide Commercial road, the boundary will be remembered that in one of Mr Italy, except the home intercouree of Eng any more, and you are not half so attentive Jack's dominion, beyond which aga James's last stories, Daisy Miller, the two lish society, which is precisely what they as you used to be." And then she broke lie the bustling "Yiddisher" quarter. principal figures are a Europeanized Ame. And so rarely accessible? And this bringe down into a regular ory. The husband Whitechapel and the swarming squal rican gentleman, and a young lady fresh us round again to the question why this saw that something must be done. Laying of Spitalfields.-Dickens' Dictionary of Lon from the United States who allows herself should be the case. An Englishman, if the aside his book, and regretfully relinquish don in Europeau society all the freedom to question were put to him by an American, ing his cigar-a man does hate to be dis- which she has been accustomed at home, would probably answer pretty much as turbed when once settled for the evening In another story, the International Episode, follows "To begin with," he would say, he went to his weeping wife and led her to a young Englishman of high birth, but unit is not universally true that Americans the window. "My dear," he said, "do you decided character, goes to spend his boli are excluded from English hemos. There see that horse-car coming up the avenue!" day on the other side of the Atlantic, are quite enough instances of Americans who I do," she sobbed. And do you sea that Hanlon, the Canadian, and Hawdon,
THE boat race on the Tyne betwee where he meete with that generous hos have been cordially welcomed, and have man running to catch it?" "Yes, dear, what Tynesider, was remarkable for a nice pie pitality which is never there wi hheld, from won a high position bath in the fashionable of it? And do you see that he is straining of tolographic courtesy. Within thr any Englishman who is respectably intro- and in the rational classes of English so-overy nerve; that he is shouting to the hours after the match, Haulon received duced, but which there, as elsewhere, is ciety, to dispel any fadey that you may conductor at the top of his voice, and doing following telegram from the Marquis
won
her son.
Fair-dawaing day by swift eclipse scrossed, And by an ambushed savage's stray dart! Rich freight of hope and love so early lost,
Left but to salvage of a mother's heart!
Talk not of plots and plans that, ripening
slow,
and blight;
Are by this death struck down with blast We have no thought but for that mother's The darkness of that childless widow's
night!
Woe,
mourn
hearts so stir ?"
Slain gons? Why should this one our Beonuse, set high, we see her crown of thors, Feel with all mothers when we feel with
her.
end,
"God help her!" our prayers begin and
Knowing her fortune's fall, her high.
hopo's close-
a
like
And gently, Time, bring Death, that,
friend, Shall lay her down to share her boy's
Punch.
repose.
TO MY WIFE.
cera us here.
sora in the last century and the fighting times of this, when recruis had to be got, is a question which does not con
It is enough that the distinction does exist; and the long service system has its obvious advantages. We can well conceive the envy with which the ments regard the splendid body of steady, seasoned, bronzed men who may be sent general quarters on board her blajeaty's ships and vessels of war. If it is asked why men-of-war's men should thus keep apart, as the Gulf-stream flows without ming ing with the surrounding water; the answer is that they cannot stand the "muddle" on board of merchant ships Why, then, does not the merchant seaman fly from that muddle to the cleanliness and order of war ships? Because he cannot stand their discipline. Many of us have been on board a man-of-war, have soon and admiral the order, the spotless cleanliness, the excellent quality of everything from truck to keel. There are hundreds to do the work; everything has its placo and space to sleep, and it is well aited-a aiek bay and a doctor always at band. Increas ed familiarity with the navy shows other advantages. Clothes of admirable quality are supplied at far less than what they would cost on shore; the pay is sure; a certain amount of leave is given on full pay wages are not stopped during sickness unless it be very prolonged, and even then time counts for the pension. Here is the greatest advantage of all: at the end of twenty years' service as a man (for service as a boy does not count) a man-of-war seaman finds himself possessed for life of an iccomte equal to that afforded by the best scale of
Miscellaneous..
Come to me, dearest, I'm lonely without than somebody to keep it there; there la ample given most freely of all to the spoiled have that there is a feeling against you on his best to make the car stop?" "I do," said | Lorne: "I congratulate you on you
thee.
Day-time and night-time I'm thinking about Night-time and day-time in dreams I behold Unwelcome the waking which ceases to fold
thec-
thee.
Come to me, darling, my sorrow to lighten, Come in thy beauty to bless and to brighton, Come in thy womanhood, meekly and lowly, Come in thy lovingness, queenly and holy!
Swallows will fit round the desolate ruin. Telling of Spring and its joyous renewing; And thoughts of thy love and its manifold
treasure
told us of fortune. After the labor of a the ground of your nationality. There is the wi o, whose curiosity was aroused, "but success." To which the victorions scull rican bouse where he spends most of his ally acceptable, and if your credentials moment, my dear. Look again. Do you gratulations. Will have despatch fram yoar bis hostesses-the lady of the, Ame. none. On the contrary, if you are person what on earth has that to do "One promptly replied: "Many thanks for co time and her young unmarried sister are satisfactory, and if you take half observe that he bas caught the or, and an a memorial for my family. The who come to England; and then the young the trouble to know us that we take to that he is no longer rusning, but la pro affair reads like a description of the oiei man, who had been much smitten in Ame know one another, you will find that the bably quietly seated inside, taking a rest? ties which used to paas between Mr. rica by the girl, and whose ardour is re. fact of your being American will tell very He has got through shouting and running, Holland and Napoleon 111. when t rised by the night of her in London, finde much in your favour. You are enough of because he has caught the car. Now, my French wrestlers were exhibiting at himself in a difficulty. sisters do not fancy the match; though well treated on that score; and at the same tears-it is just so with me.
His mother and foreigners to be made welcome, and to be dear"-at this point he kissed away her Agricultural Hall. they are at last forced to call on the time you are allied to us so closely that you caught the ear."
I have strangers, they are insolent to them, and
And with that the self- can understand us as no other foreigners satisfied monster led his wife back to her make them feel that they belong to another cau. Further, you must remember what seat on the sofa, and silently resumed his social sphere, and when the young man. from a mixture of liking for the girl and
defiance of his womankind, at last, after
our national character is and what our
social usages are. Nearly all of us are easy chair, cigar and book Boston Tran
Are cireling my heart with a promise of wages on board merchant ships. All these hovering about her for awhile, asks her to strangers.
pleasure, 0,-Spring of my spirit! 0, May of my
bosom!
Shine out on my soul till it bourgeon and
blossom---
The waste of life has a rose-root within it, And thy fondness alone to the sunshine can
win it.
CYRD→→→
dened ?
love,
As octave to octave and rhyme unte rhyme,
love; I cannot weep but your eyes will be flowing You cannot smile but my cheek will be glow-
ing I would not die without you at my side,
love-- You will not linger when I shall have died,
love..
marry him, he is rofused, and the curtain
fulla
script.
AFTER her first visit to Amorica Mi Kemble published a book, in which a commented with much freedom up er, by way of rejoinder, fesued a series, American peculiarities. A Vaukee publis caricatures of Miss Kemble, Illustrati particular passages in her book, These at I fancy, long out of print," One of the represented Fanny on her back upon ti etage (in what play I now forget,) with lean-looking American actor hanging ov her. Her cae was to snatch a weapon fro his girdle, and plunge it in her heart. B
at the critical moment when the nerves
the audience were strung to the hight point of tension, this stage whisper fro the heroine was audible all over the hou "Where the devil is your dagge mister 7"
of domiolle. Monsieur de Paris," as t
conscious of a certain reserve towards We are to constituted, and are great inducemen's to good men; and
there's an end of It. It keeps us apart it cannot be said that they havo failed of
RATCLIFF HIGHWAY. from one another, and you must not be their object. A fiser body of men were
This is the text on which Mr Hazeltine surprised if it tends to keep us apart from never collected together than the blue writes a very interesting sermon.
Rateliff Highway, which until within It is you. Further, it is ons thing to introduce the last few years was one of the sights jackets of our navy, and they are well worth obvious, however, that, whatever may be a stranger into an American home and of the metropolis, and almost unique in what the country gives for them. One his knowledge of Continental Europe, his another to introduce him into an English Europe as a scene of coarse riot and de- drawback there is to all their advantages, acquaintance with English society is not home. We take the inviting of people to bauchery, is now chiefly noteworthy as an and. It is quite sufficient to frighten away large. But this is a matter of less import our house to mean more and to pledge us example of what may be done by effective men who have once become thoroughly ance. The interesting thing is to see how to more. We have not-unfortunately, as police supervision thoroughly carried out Figures that move like a song through the accustomed to the life of a merchant ship the social p:sition of his country-people in many of us think-the same
ease and The dancing-rooms and foreign cafés of the they are under railitary discipline.
From what is here said it will be seen Europe presents itself to the mind of a simplicity of social life that you have. It Highway-now rechristened St. George's- Features lit up by a reflex of heaven—
candid and intelligent American. Let us gives us a great deal more trouble and street-are still well worthy a visit from the that we do not speak without book in day fraukly concede at the cutest that an En-expense to entertain you and treat you as student of human nature, and are each, for Eyes like the skies of poor Erin, our mother, ing that the officers of the navy are scarcely glish traveller in America is much better we would wish to treat you, and as it is the most part, devoted almost exclusively to and chance ruled that hie grave in bui Rock, the French executioner, in dos Where shadow and sunshine are chasing each competent judges of the merchant seamen, treated than an American traveller in En- our habit to treat those whom we entortain the accommodation of a single-nationality that of a woman murdered a weeks ago
other; Smilee coming seldom, but childlike and sim and that we must look elsewhere for our gland. It is no use blinking the fact. The at all, than is the case on your side of the Thus at the "Rose and Crown," near the i authority. Let us take their own captains experience of everybody who knows the Atlantic-especially as we generally travel western end of the Highway, the company
had three daughters and two sons, and I ple;
and officera to begin with. We are sorry to two countries will agree upon this. An En- singly in America and travel commonly in will be principally Spanish and Maltese, apartment was most comfortably fitted u O, thanks to the Saviour, that even thy say that in so far as they agree with any ofglishman who is personally-not-unpresent parties in Europe. And again and this is At the Preussische Adler," just by the had pictures, old chius, a pisao, eta. T
seeming
funeral was well attended; the decease Is left to the exile to brighten his dreaming! the authorities cited above it with the able, and who goes to the United States the chief pointyou all of you travel, good, entrance into Wellclose-square, you will insome was fr. 16,000 a year; be was t
most ofavourabls of the three. The ma-
provided with passable credentials, will be bad, and" indifferent, Betting aside the meet, as might be anticipated, German jority of skippers echo Captain Pim's com You have been glad when you know I was plaint that ships nowadays are full of riffed everywhere and at once on a footing of who go to see you are mostly of the better east, though kept by a German, finds its family; helped at 200 decapitations
banded on from house to house and recolv- purely commercial traveller, the Englishmon sailors; whilst Lawson's, a little farther son of an executioner, like the Same gladdened
raff; they only differ as to its nationality. cordial intimacy. How far this is from sort. Dear, are you sad now to hear I am sad-Nine out of ten of them will tell you that being the case with American travellers in education. Would you could you, be as sailors, who form no inconsiderable or des
They are gentlemen and men of clientele among the Norwegian and Swedish executed 40 personally; his chief assiste was his son-in-law, but another help, bel a republican, La likely to succeed, and it Our hearts ever answer in tune and in time, freigners, who are, they say, soberer. England it is needless to say. An English- kind to us as you aro, if the class of picable portion of the motley crews of our really troe, that the latter is opposed
they prefer to go to sea with a crew of
man who has enjoyed American hospitality English people who now visit the Con- modern mercantile fleet. Over the way, a eiviller, and more obedient. That for eigners should be preferred at all is suffici feeling a certain compunction. Bat, Mr. Cook were to come over by thou quaint and quiet place, full of models and Boch died of cerebral congestion. W can hardly reflect on the matter without tinent under the fatherly guidance of little farther down, is the Italian house, a capital punishment as a preventive of orin ently startling; but if the preference ex tended only to Norsemen, Danes, and sentiment apart, it is worth while asking sands and tens of thousands every sea curios" of every conceivable and inconceiv irony Imagine his patients! followi his bler like Saint Denia heads under th what are the reasons for English reserve in Datchmen (and sailors call all Gormans this respect, and if, or how far, this reserve which now goes without saying se to the large and strikingly clean caravanserais dance. Formerly the executioner was oc
son to the United States? A great deal able description, and nearly opposite the
arma A Holbein might give na: such Datchmen), who are confessedly among the is justified. Mr. Hazeltine is of opinion fitness of your English visitors to bo ro where a pretty, but anxious-looking Maid finest geamen in the world, it might be that the snubbing which his country women ceived into good American, houses would of Athens receives daily, with a hospitality sidered an officer of justice and treated we intelligible. masters declare they would rather have a English ladies of rank was no more than would have to pick and choose, and you fear, any number of giftbearing Grecke. aty among their magistrates but the
But when we hear many in the International Episode got from the then be accepted only upon evidense. You whose cordiality hardly seems to smack of respect the Greek included such fanatic crew of "Degoen, i. Mediterraneau might have been fairly expected. The would find that your better people would These two latter, by-the-way, are not mans contemned them and deprived the seamen-ay, oven Greeks-we begin to sama snubbing, he implies, would have only care to open their doors to those Eng. dancing-rooms, but boarding-houses Pure headsman was called, formerly lived n Come to me, dear, ere I die of my sorrow, think something must be very far wrong been administered to English ladies of all lishmen who were thoroughly well accredit and simple; whilst farther still to the the pillory; he had a royalty on the f Eise on my gloom like the san of to-morrow; Now, there is no doubt a great deal of ex but the highest clase who aspired to ally ed. And this estate Strong, swift, and fond as the words which aggeration in talk of this sort. Skippers themselves with a future Dake.
of things would eastward is yet another variety in the shape I speak, love,
We may naturally react on the feeling of English of a music hall, where Dolly Dripping, the sold, was exempted from taxation, cou (and we speak with no intention of reflect- With a song on your lip and a smile on youring on a useful, honourable, and valiant remark parenthetically that Mr Hazeltine travellers. They would no longer feel sure cook, in a draggled old print gown and a only wears sword at the right side,
obeek, love;"
body of men) have not as a rulo received divisions and gradations of English society. that they would have to be scrutinised Coldmutton, of the Guards, in a cast militia regarded as an ill-luck by whoever encou
seems imperfectly acquainted with the of an instant welcome. They would know huge (natural) moustache and Corporal prohibited from entering s oburok, and Come, for my heart in your absence is the education which trains a man to judge 11 is incorrect to talk, as he does, of wealthy before being accepted. They would know tunio, and a tattered pair of raufti in- tered bim.
dreary--
calmly or weigh his words. Nevertheless, and cultivated people engaged in the learned that the arithmetical chances were against expressibles; and Fleeseman 1999, in the Tas London correspondent of the B the opinion is too widely spread among men professions or in commerce as "the lower their being acceptable. The better bred, general get up of a Guy Fawkes in a bank timore un saya-You will hear a lot who have every means of knowing the middle clan." Nor is it true that there is and therefore the least conspicuous, among rapt pantomime, make simple fun for the irresponsible chatter about the Prince truth, sad no motive not to tell it, to be in England any hard and fast. lins which them would often notice, with a feeling of edifleation of Quashie and Sambo, whose Wales being a "business nian" and a he passed over lightly, even if nusupported by separates such people from the nobility. shame, that their country was supposed to shing ebony faces stand jovially out even worker, but rarely are you told of his be other authority. And it is not unsup Nor, further, is it true that the American be represented by the louder and more against the grimy blackness of the walls. companionship characteristics among my ported. Police magistrates, the Board of ladies in question would have got in all valgar. A certain reserve, natural andar Perfectly well conducted is the performance From one who speaks of the social cir Trade's officers in seaports and consula likelihood a much franker welcome from the circumstat.ces and secessary for the at the "Bell," without the smallest need to chair of the royal days and nights with abroad, know well how many bad characters English people a few pegs lower down, if self-protection of both, would grow up shrink from comparison in that respect with gay Prince, I learn that in being up on We have Captain Pip's word for it that are to be found under our flag, and how one must use the phrase, on the social between English travellers and American the fret of our West-and music halis. The and going to bed later in a bold rubber the British seaman is extinct, and that his much certain offences-in particular, eta ladder. All that was known of them was hosts. But it would be a reserve which performance is not of a refined description, whist, a bout with billiards and a furn place has been taken by foreign riff-raff, bing fraya-have increased of late years, that they were good-looking, well-mannered, would last only long enough to enable both nor is the audience; but it is just possible roulette, to say nothing of a "black bottl Mr Braexey, again, speaks very highly of Certain hopeful persona explain the fact by and well-dressed, and that the young gentle parties to discriminate, and to decide whether that, from an exclusively moral point of he can put all his rivals under the te the men who manned the Sunbeam; while stating that the demand has outrun the
man who was in love with one of them had or not Intimacy was possible or desirable. view, the advantage may even be proved and stand up alone himself unscathed Mr Plimsoll is never tired of telling us supply. Unfortunately, this optimist view passed some time very pleasantly at their Nor is there," he would add, "any other to hanot altogether on the side of the higher considerate. He never allows time to that Jack is a victim whom shipowners, will scarcely hold water. The wages of house. A mother need not be a duchess to reserve on our part towards you when you refinement. Hard by Quasbie's music-hall with melancholy where he is, but rather backed up by the police magistrates, find a seamen have by no means rleen so rapidly ho shy of lavishing invitations on strangers come to see as in England than such as is a narrow passage, dull and empty, even fly with mirth. He never permits malignant pleasure in sending to certain as they would have done in that ease; and under such circumstances. And if the may be accounted for. It is, no doubt, at the lively hour of 11 p.m., through which, of scandal or an innuendo to pass with death on board rotten tubs. Here is no then numbers of English sailors, or zuen American young lady had said "lat ne go," true-human nature being what it is that by devious ways, we penetrate at length to a rebuke, and always defends the abse small conflict of authorities. We make bold calling themselves cailors, are to be found for suppose we go," or a quarter to there are more Americans who care for the a squalid cul-de-sac, which seems indeed the In few things is he unable to point a me
under foreign flags.
four," instead of "a quarter before four," acquaintance of titled persons, whatever very end of all things. Chaos and space and adorn a tale ofther in the Engli The older class of skippers have no difi- Mr Hazeltine may be quite sure that neither they may be in point of education and are here at present almost at odds which is French or German languages and ed by the ardour of his patriotism; Mr culty in discovering the source of the evil: a duchess nor anybody else would have character, than who care for the acquain. which, for improvement has at the present proper person high or low, with distingui Plimsoll by the ardour of bis philanthropy: 16 is all the fault of steamers, Without found anything auias in her speech. We tance of cultivated persons nuprovided with moment only reached the point of partial ing ability in arta or sciences, in refi and we cannot argue from the carefaily losing sight of the prejudices of these appreciate the candour which can see that a handle to their names. There is no special destruction, and some of the dismal dog social entertainment or elevated unr picked and highly-pald handful of men on worthy men, which make them somewhat there are two sides to an affair of this reproach in this. There are large numbers holes still swarm with squalid life, while views, can fall to gain the est and board Mr Brassey's yacht to the great body unsafe guides, we may acknowledge that kind, and we agree with Mr Hazeltine of persons in England of the same way of others gape tenantless and ghastly with approval of this generous Prinos and Int who form the crews of our merchant ships. there is a certain amount of truth in their that in this instance the American ladies thinking. To those of his country people sightless windows and darksome doorways, King of England. It is not therefore, It will be denied by nobody that the quali accusation. In the first place, a steamer had no right to feel themselves aggriev. who pine to be numbered with the aristo waiting their tam to be swept away into be wondered at why he is so popala by of its seamen la a matter of the greatest can afford to carry very inferior man, and ed. But we do not agree with him in gratis elect of Great Friin, Mr. Hassiting the blank open space that yawns by their true man, a perfect Prince, and a boun of importanos to the country, and that it is only the amalier part of her crow are the explanation he given And both gives the judicious avioned accodingly side. At the bottom of this alough of grimy paulon are not always found in one pur
Haste, for my spirit is sickened and weary Come to the arms which alone should caress Come to the heart which is throbbing to
press thee.
THE BRITISH TAB,
to decline accepting the decision of any of
the three. Captain Fim is, perhaps, blind.