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NATURZ

As a fond mother when the day is o'or,

Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the

floor, Still gazing at them through the open door,

Nor wholly re-assured and comforted By promises of others in their stead, Waioh, though more splendid, may not

pleasa him more;

So Nature deals with us and takes away

Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, tant we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the

what we know. -Longfellow, in the ** Atlantic."

VANITY.

The sun comes up and the sun goes down, And day and night are the mme as one; The year growa green and the year grows

brown,

And what is it all, when all is done? Grains of sombro or shining and, Sliding into or out of the hand. And men go down in ships to the seas,

And a hundred ships are the same as one; And backward and forward blows the breeze,

And what is it all, when all is done? A tido with never a shore in sight Sotting steadily on to the night. The fisher droppeth his net in the stream,

And a hundred atroams are the samo as one, And the maiden dreamoth her love-lit dream,

And what is it all, when all is done? The not of the fisher the burden breaks,

And always the dreaming the dreamer

wakes.

THE GMINA MAIL.

I took him to my quarters and handbuffed him then taking him back to the sergeant's but I chained him by one hand to the post of the verandah. -

"Look here, my man," I said, "you are getting too flash. Spose I have any more trouble with you I'll

I called to the gin to bring his blankets and he rolled himself up in them.

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the area from which supplies can be drawn into disass, and is replaced by another shot, or the angry stream of a ahell near mering. Stop there you a good han God! what's the matter I could only

Marmy," he said, me no good long a cobra (head). Mine think it aleep,"

"All right," I said; “Hosp."

I examined the handouffa, saw that he was secure and then returned to my own quarters. It was now dinner time, and I delayed over that meal as long as possible, but still could not get rid of the same un accountable feeling of despondency. By and-by a gin came to tell me that Ned wanted to see me. I walked over and spoke

"Well, Ned, what is it?" **Mine been cobon cold, Marmy. Bad long e cobra. You let me yan along camp. Mine be quiet and get well quick. Too cold here. Me die."

to him,

Queenslander,

A NARROW ESCAPE,

the very lightest of riding costume, consist | desperate efforts to reach mo, blaspheming Turkish. aommander in the provinge of is reported to have already made its appene

Although England has not declared war ing of a pair of light riding trousers, and in a most awful manner. Hed ho ben Widin, was absolutely necessary if he desired ance. In such an operation as the passage to hold the strong fortress of Widin, as its of an important, stream like the Danube, yet and no Russian fleet has been able to boots which his pipe-stem calves vainly tried loose, my end would have been certain; but works can be commanded from Kalafat, and much of the probability of the success of the find its way into the Arabian Sea, Bombay to fill, after the fashion of their late owner, the good rops held firm. I called to the a bombardment from that place would assailant must depend upon resletity and has bad fire opened upon it from a big gun his master. With a red silk handkerchief gins for handcuffs, and in a tries he was seriously mentes its safety. Whether the surprise much of the chance of a successful in a very remarkable and dangerous man-round his waist, he was evidently got up for handcuffed foot and bands. I then ordered presence of the Turkish force in Kalafat has resistance on the part of the defender on net. The other day, a detachment of the the occasion, and ready to make a conquest them to draw him to the verandah, and caused the leader of the Russian advance in the information that he can grin of the Royal Artillery from Coaba were working of any trooper's gin who should fall in love chain him to the post. I then bad time to Western Wallichia to alter his plans, or positions of his adversary's masses and the the 18-ton gana on board one of our floating with his finery. I had just sat down to survey myself; clothes torn off, throat whether for political reasons it was consider-directions of their movements. The repidity harbour defences, when a man who ought write a note to his master when I heard a severely lacerated, and my arm badly bitten. ed desirable to strengthen the Servians, which the Russians have already shown to have touched some part of the machinery succession of yells, as if from gins, then a The gins brought me some water, and I sunnot, from the information as yet at our augurs much in favour of their continued in the turret either misunderstood the order rush of feat over the stones. I rushed out dressed my wounds. As I concluded, I disposal, be accurately gauged. It is re- celerity, and they will probably hold or made a serious mistake, for he pulled and behold the trooper Ned pursuing the heard the rope snap. My enemy was now ported, however, that a Russian force has powerful auxiliary towards an energetic the trigger. The turret happened to be black boy, with two spears and a tomahawk only held by the handcuffs. He crawled passed the Danube at Cladova, about twelve concentrated action in the field, telegraph. revolving, and the gun went off just sa lis in his hand. Ned chases him round the or his hands and knees into the moonlight, miles from the point on that stream where It is more than doubtful whether the Turkish muzzle was pointing up the harbour! We camp; the boots begin to tell on the pursued and howled like a native dog, beating his the Roumanian, Hungarian, and Turkish army possesses a field telegraph at all; and have not heard whether the gigantle pro- who seems cxhausted, but seeing me be head against the stones. I threw myself on frontiers meet. This can hardly be any the Turks, far from pushing forward out- jestilo did any harm among the shipping, made a rusfr for me, and I laid hold of the my hunk and watched; with what feelings other forse than the whole or a detachment posts to observe the enemy's motions, seem although if it did not the fact in a marvel, trooper by the neck and said, What the may be imagined. Would daylight never of the Russian vanguard which was reported to limit their offensive actions on the Lower considering the large number of steamers, are you about, you brate? Lay down home? How many hours before I can ex poet the return of the sergeant? How- by our Correspondent three days ago as Danthe to sending mere boatloads of infan- ships, and boats which were lying in the those spears."

"He esemed tractable but sullen. That remember no more, I fainted again. Re- having passed Bucharest and being in motion try, without aim or purpose, up or down the direction of its fight. Bombay itself has

made a narrow Oscape from a serious fellow make 'em me no good," he said.

covering consciousness at the dawn of day, towards the West. The object of such a stream near Giurgeva and Oltenitza. -

accident, for a few yards farther revolution

I saw a huddled up maas lying before me, movement on the part of the Russian leaders

of the turret would have made all the

whence proceeded a monotonous erooning, might be either to enter Servia and give some backbone to the faltering levies of that THE ARGOT OF POLITE SOCIETY. difference between sending an 18-ton gun

It was my antagonist. Suddenly I heard a shot into the midst of a crowded city and

tramp of horses; then the word, "Dismount." principality, or to throw a cordon round the

The patrol had returned, and I should have It is curious to watch the gradual rise sending it to a grave in the harbour. fortress of Widin, and sever the communi- ration of its garrison with Servia, and limit and fall of a popular loontion; to note how There is something peculiarly disagreeable

help. My brother-officer ejaculates, Good the once familiar phrase imperceptibly sinks in the internally energetic whiz of a round

faintly say, "Mad" when a trooper rushed As far as is at present known, it does not doomed to an existence equally ephemeral one's ears, and we fancy that many a sea-

up crying, Marmy! Mary! That fellow appear that there are any Turkish troops in Could Thackeray and Albert Smith revisit faring ludividual felt very uncomfortable

Ned been kill on my little boy. Yoccoi! considerable force westward of Widia, except us, the former would find his dearly beloved from the moment he heard the rushing of

Yoccoi" The maniac was then taken to a. in the extreme west of the Empire, where "sub" ruthicaly metamorphosed into the projectile from the turret-ship until he

tree in the centre of the camp; a fire was about forty thousand men aro believed to be

"oad" while the "gent" of the latter

Baw it bary Itaolt in the water and send up

lighted near him, and his blankets given engaged in the endeavour to reduce the has long since become as obsolete as the a column of spray. We have no doubt it.is

him. These were torn to shreds directly. Montenegrins. It would seem that the Turkish Government would do wisely to beaux, bucks, and dandies of former days, admirable to give our gunners every oppor-

Next day he died, and none of the blacks abandon, for the present at least, this dificult now amalgamated under the generic title of tanity of improving themselves in their

dare approach him except his sister Loy. ** swell.' Those gental appellations of our profession, but as the practice of firing off

How long I lay ill it is needless to relate; and profitless mountain warfare. Should the Russians be successful on the Lower youth, "trump" and "briok," may stili shot and shell from a turret-ship at random

but for a long time my wounds refused to Danube any success against Montenegro linger in the border land of conversation; while the turret is revolving has its draw

heal, and I became so nervous that I had to but the laudatory encomium in vogus now. must be of no avail; and if the Turks can decisively repaise their assailants in the adays appears to be "a rattling good fellow," becke, or 38: endangering the life and

apply for leave to get away from the place

who deserve better treatment, we hope that more important part of the theatre of war a and, lower down in the social sale, "perty of a number of peaceable citizens

where I had passed such a horrible night

one-er." The highest expression of admira a sisular accident may never occur again. crushing force could then be spat 1 to station is comprised in a stunner," and the The Dockyard authorities have reported out the Montenegrin flame. Should the reverse in languidly intimated by the anni- the misbag to Government, which will be Russians, by reinfureing the Servians, be able to advance in force from Servie in hilating term, bad form." A gentleman compelled to take notice of the affair. We who experiences a certain difficulty in hope that Government will at the same the direction. of Sofin, the Turkish read arousing Piccadilly at ten p.in is described time see the desirability of arging upon the engaged in Montenegro must be divided

as "screwed," or more generally tight"; Secretary of State the necessity of providing from the rest of the army and if pressed a glaring waistcoat or trouser pattern, sich the Bombay turret-ships with properly. from Bosnia, Servis, and Montenegro, mustas Joseph Sealey and Grassot were wont to trained marins artillerymen. Bombay

almost desperate find themselves in an

delight in, is simply rotad "loud," and

Gazette, the slightest deviation from the ordinary position.

If we turn our attention from the west to jog-trot of respectability stigmatised as the onstward of Widin, which may be con- fast." London is playfully spoken of as sidered as the central point of the European the village and the fashionable Sunday Those who would elevate tão standard of frontier of the Turkish Empire, we find the resort in the Regent's Park arbitrarily womanhood begin by learning that it is bulk of the army of the Porte in Earope abbreviated into "200" To "bolt," only through love and kindness that woman scattered along the Danube. This army is mizzle," or "make oneself saree" are Over strain her largest growth toward believed to muster in round numbers about superseded by slope" and "skadaddle" the purest ideal in which the womanly two hundred and fifty, thousand men, with the "mut" of yesterday is the "duffer" of four hundred and sixty-eight guns. Of to-day; while loss of fortune, a fall from Bad not forced or pushed hither and thither these troops, forty thousand, as we have one's hores (otherwise cropper), or, grades centro. She needs to be drawn out, sither by friends or foes or circumstances, caid, are engaged with Montenegro, Till indeed, any calamity insidental to human Hardship and unhappiness may have quite lalely mzty thousand were in or nature, is pithily and expressively designat brought forth the brightness of some already around Widin, twenty thousand at Rustchuk od "coming to grief." If personal chastise pure samples of womanhood, but they have and Silistria, and the remainder in reservement be intended, the offender is not to driven many more into the blackness of south of the Danube, and in the fortresses of bothrashed" or pitched into," but his misery or left them to drift hopelessly, Schumla and Varne. Movements of troops head is to be "punched"; a threat, we are aimlessly on, either to the good or bad, as down the Danube from Widin are however rejoiced to say, more frequently talked the dde of chance might bear them. In reported, and these would point to the con- about than put into execution. A cigar is almost every instance the poor wrecked and clucion that the Turkish commanders, 8guratively styled a weed," an innovation degraded specimens of women are driven alarmed at the rapid advance of the enemy, applicable enough to the anomalous com to wreak either by a loveless childhood and are hastily concentrating their forces to bar pounds of nastiness retailed at the Derby, youth or an after life of unhappiness which the passage of the river in the direction of the Boat-race, and other public gatherings, findness might have averted or love led on Rustebuk or Silistria. In this case mueli but an evident misnomer ne regards the depends on rapidity, & quality which the fragrant simples issuing from Mr Benson's to the bighest plane of living,

Turks have not yet displayed, but in which emporium; and its concomitant drink bas the Russians have certainly not been lacking: been quaintly and far more intelligibly THE ART OF BEING AGREEABLE.

The latter, although it is alleged that small christened 13. (N.B., after too copious The art of boing agreeable is both positive parties, were already in Roumania, can only libations of the above a man is apt to and negative. Negatively, it consists in

have commenced to move their heavy feel chippy" next morning). The word not giving offence; positively, in conferring columns in the early hours of the morning cheek, as synonymons with conceit or pleasure, Both the positive and the nega of the 24th. These marched by three different impudence, is, notwithstanding its relative tive element must be present and in equi routes. The detachment on the extreme antiquity, still largely patronised by the librium to produce the highest results, right passed through Ungheni, pecupied lovers of arget; but were it not for the Some people are born proficients in this Jassy, and thus seized the line of railway obliging correspondent ofIf we mistake art; others are totally lacking in both its which leads from Jassy to the important not the Daily Telegraph, "tall talk," a elements, and seem made expressly, to be strategical point of Galatz on the Danube. Transatlantic phrase of apparently similar as disagreeable as possible in themselves The centre column, passing by Learn, also import and of undoubted originality, might and to make this disagreeableness felt by directed its march on Galats; and the column never have been naturalized among us, soliloquise. My soliloquy ends with the opened the door to listen. I just heard her ance both to Deoles and Nusseerabad. It

Belgravia,

It is much easier to limit one's gratitude As the adveralty of our best friends we Always find something that does not dla Teenz la no man clever enough to know ANONS the mass of mankind gratitude is nothing but a strong and caret desire for still greater benefits.

than one's hopes and desires.

please us

All the evil which he docs,

WOMAN-NATURE.

all round them: others will have a desire of the left, marching from Belgrad, in to please and an unwillingness to offend, but do not know how to make a pleasing expression in either direction and are por petually guilty of faux pas and gaucherie.

People who agree in their intellectual, moral, and physical tastes, and who easily koop pace together, have little need of making any effort to be agreeable to each other, But, those of differing intellect and physical organization, of differing moral tensibilities, of diverse calibres and capa- bilities, often havo to tug very hard, to be very self-denying, and very tolerant to live in poscs with their fellows.

KSAN'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN

LONDON,

I

** All right,” I said, "I'll get you a glass of grog and let you go."

FATAL TIGER ACCIDENT.

NUSBEERABAD, 26th April., A very sad event took place about 80 miles from this place on the 2lud current, at Manselgurh, in the Shahpoora State, I brought him the grog, made him drink Major Bolden, of the 68th L. 1, was out it, unlocked the handouts, and said, "Now tiger-shooting with two other officers, hay- go to your but, basi gammen. Spose you ing already hagged two tigers and a make it more noise I no let you off again."" panther. On the night of the 17th they He said, "Sergeant make it me no good, received news of a kill, and went out early THE NATIVE POLICE OFFICER. he been out my hair and burn it." Then the next morning to beat up the tiger.

BY OLD CHUM,

he walked off to his hut. The gins all left Shortly after the commencement of the In the winter of 18 I was stationed in the camp and talked in low tone together. boat, the tiger, a very savage one and the terror of the neighbourhood, was afoot, and one of the most dreary and barren parts of noticed this, but yet suspected nothing.

After another turn with the gun I re- as soon as he was geen he broke back and the country it is possible to conceive in Western Queensland. It is early morning, turned, and leaving it outside went in to severely manled one of the beaters, who is about half an hour after sunrise. The scons tea. There is no sound in the camp--not not now expected to live. Passing by the before me is anything but inspiriting: a even a dog barks; I heard nothing but the positions taken up by Bolden and his two- succession of stony ridges, lightly timbered tick-tiok of the little clook over the fireplace, companions, the tiger received three shoots with the stunted trees common to this part There were no fires in the camp, a sure sign successively, and then disappeared into the of the country. To the left is an immenes among the natives of sickness or fear. Sud- jangle. The party had two elephants out stretch of plain extending for seventy miles denly I heard ories from the camp. I had with them, one carrying a howdah and the in one direction, glistening with soda as just time to lock to my revolver when there other a pad; the former was, however, white as snow, and only relieved at intervals was a rushing of fect, and I concluded that useless, having proved itself an arrant com with patches of wiry grass denoting the the camp was attacked by the wild, blacks, ard. Bolden mounted the pad clephant presence of springs upon which the water who were numerous and hostile here. The and followed up the wounded beast, and the supply of the camp depends in dry seasons. door was open, and in rushed two gins-other sportsmen made a circuit in order to On the right is a row of low mud huts, the Lucy and Cora. They went into the next occupy positions of advantage should the habitations of the troopers and the gins room and closed the door.. belonging to the camp. Intervening between my hut and these is another hut, the quar- ters of the camp-sergeant, and the repository of the rations, clothing, &o, for the use of the dotachment.

Where's Ned, Lucy

After

What's the matter PI cried.. "Oh, Marmy, that fellow Ned he kill 'em altogether along o camp. That got one fellow pioaninuy now and break um up. That one cranky. Yoif that one come now here."

tiger seek to escape into the open when followed up by Bolden's elephant. The latter had only gone a short distance when he was charged by the tiger. The elephant shied violently. Bolden in the set of firing fell off, and was, it is said, caught before A deep silence reigns over the camp-2

reaching the ground by the infuriated tiger, dusky figure is seen gliding over the plain

At the same moment I heard the trooper who bit him severely in the leg, and then in search of the horses, which have to be coming on to the back verandah. I met made off to worry the elephant. Major mustered every morning. This is one of the him at the door.

Bolden did not at first know he had been troopers: Another, named Ned, is in camp, Mo come inside," he yelled. "You go touched, and it was not until he tried to probably fast asleep. All the rest are away. I spear you.”

get up that he saw how hopelessly crippled on patrol with the senior officer in charge of He made a rush to pass me and I struck he was. One of the others saw what had the comp. At this moment they are probably him in the face, upon which he fell back and happened, and came up at once to the a hundred miles away, and I do not expect let fly a spear at me. The missile passed rescue, but the tiger did not attack again them back for two or three days, I feel ame and entered the hand of the gin Cora, and made off. Bolden was taken to camp, great sense of loneliness and solitude, and coming out at her elbow. She had partly and messengers were sent off for assist for want of anything better to do I begin to

scream of pain when I was hurled to the was, however, impossible to procure enquiry, "What on earth is to be done in ground, and a black face with a forming medical aid under 24 hours. When the Southern Bessarabia, appears to have moved

this wretched Never-never country?" First, mouth and red gleaming eyes, close upon Doctor arrived from Nussoerabad the upon the same point, although from the

I decide to send the sergeant to the nearest mine, snapping, frothing, and tearing at my injured leg was taken off, but, the patient statement that Turkish gunboats and iron-

post office; distant about thirty miles. He throat and face. I was beneath, and this gradually sank from exhaustion, and finally clads have been stationed at Tultoha, it would appear that the generals of the Porte As the church clocks were striking six he will take a trooper with him, get the fort mad blackfellow held mo pinned to the died on the morning of the 22nd April. nightly mail, camp there for the night, and ground whilst he Incerated my throat with His remains were brought in here, and apprehended lest a passage of the river allied forth from his lodgings in Cecil return next day, getting his horses shod his powerful teeth like a wild beast. It was interred with military honors on the ever- might be attempted near this point from street. Elis parting words to his wife were meanwhile, to be serviceable for patrol on a frightful position. I breathed a prayer ing of the 23rd. In Major Bolden the Bessarabia into the Debrudacha. Suoh an "I wish I was going to be shot," In his G.'s return. Having settled this I get to God for mercy. I knew I was in the station has lost u man it could ill afford to attempt might, indeed, he made with a view handa he carried a small bundle, containing breakfast. This over, the horses in and roll hands of a raving manine. It seemed as if lose; now that he has gone there can be no of gaining a passage somewhere, so as to shoes, stockings, wig and other trifles of called, the sergeant starts, and I am alone he had the strength of two or three men harm in saying that he was the dean ideal turn the Turkish defences on the stream

costume. The night was very cold and with one trooper and a few gins. Every muscle and vein in his body seemed of an English. gentleman, a first-rate skikari, above, but the operation would be extremely foggy; there had been a heavy snow, and seeing them start I enter the hut and try to swollen to twice their ordinary size. Oh, and a thoroughly good fellow. In this hazardous in the face of a naval force, and a thaw had set in; the streets were almost read. No use; something is wrong with me. could I only reach that gun leaning against. Regiment, the 68th Light Infantry, he even if successful would lead the corps impassable with slush which penetrated I have been so many years at this police the outside of the hut. It was capped and was beloved by officers and men alike, and Two doctrines lie at the foundation of which might hero gain a passage into a through his worn boots and chilled him to work that I feel ashamed of my uneasiness, loaded, and I would have shot him down a number of sorrowing comrades mourn this art, the doctrine of equal rights, and, fearfully unhealthy district, where the the bone. He darted quickly through the and thinking that occupation will liven me like a mad dog. But I had merely my own his loss.-Pioneer. growing out of that, the doctrine of self Northern warriors would be exposed us stage door, wishing to escape all notice, up I go the round of the camp, get my gun hands to defend me, and I seemed powerless denial My neighbour has just as much mercilessly to the destructive effects of fever and repaired to his dressing-room. There and knock over a duck or two for dinner in the black demon's hands. It appeared as right, if he is fall, to take long stops, as I and dysentery as were the French in the the feelings of the actors were shocked by still 1 feel ill at once. By Java 1 it the if I was being bitten to pieces. Touring a BEFORE learing Paris last week for Russia have, being short, to take short steps; and early days of the last war. It would appear another innovation; he was actually going fever coming on. Not a white fate nearer piece out of my throat, rending ray shirt to General Tchernaieff was very communica if it is hard for us to koop equal pace, he in more probable that Galatz being occupied the to play Shylock in a back wig, instead of than twenty-five miles. Pleasant prospect shreds, and giving me one more savage bite tive. Be confided to his French Irlanda no more to blame than I neither is to further advance will be made in the direction the traditional red one. They smiled

for a sick man. I try to smoke, and can't on the aran, seemed at last to have exhausted that he had been selected by the Czar and blame, and the inequality of locomotion of Braila, with the ultimate object of among themselves, shrugged their shoulders, Here is a certain indication of disorder of him. I felt his muscles relax, his breath the military authorities to raise a foreign meat be got along with, or we must not try forcing the passage of the Danube at the bat made no ramark; such a man was some kind. I take another stroll through came slowly, and suddenly he was helpless legion for the assistance of monter som to walk together. We may walk in the point which may be found the most suitable beyond remonstrance-beside, what did it the camp. Everything seems suspiciously as a child. I fang him from me and seized and had succeeded in getting together some aame direction still, but so far apart from above that town. The importance of the matter? he would never be allowed to ap quiet. The gins stand up as I approach, him by the threat, the blood from my lehmen, dont je fais grand oas, a cause de Italians, Swiss, Spaniards, and 600 Eng. each other that neither shall weary nor Russian occupation of Galatz can hardly be pear & second time. Jack Bannister and

wounds dropping on his face. We formed a Banpy the other. For a brief space both over-estimated. Within five miles of that Uzberry were the only ones who offered

ghastly picture. I called out to the gins to l'effet moral que cala produira ; but that may compromise, one taking shorter steps place the railway from Jassy to Galatz forms him a friendly word. When the curtain

bring me handcuffs, but too late! Again his now he had been summoned to take up a then is natural, the other longer steps than its japetion with the line from Galata to rose the house was miserably bad, but by

chest heaved, his muscles grew rigid, and post in the regular army. He announced Is quite comfortable, but when this com- Bucharest. Whatever use the Russians may and by the overflow of Covent Garden,

I then go to his hut, and hearing a low once more he got me down, this time his that, while Russia would make diversions promise cesses, separation or disagreement have made of the line for the transport of which was doing well at that time, began to monotonous chanting, I know he must have knees on my chest. The pale moon lit up in Asia and elsewhere, she would take the must follow. The harmonious adjustment troops there can be no doubt that on it they drop in and make up a tolerable audience heard me. He is either sulking or sick, so his savage, frothing face, and his eyes scin- $50,000 men now behind the Fruth down of differences in daily life of which the must greatly depend for supplies and His recaption was encouraging. At his all out sharply,

tillated like red hot coals; his breath felt towards Silistria-the original idea of rosa instance given is a fair type constitutes in ammunition, and that it will eventually fret worde, "Three thousand ducats, well!” "Ned!" The song ceases, but so answer. like a furnace blast. Seizing a handsawing by Galate having been given up in great measure the art of being agreeable, form the main line of their communications. De Drury, who was in front, pronounced Ned!" again. This time the trooper which was lying near, he commenced hack account of the unhealthiness of that neigh Most people, for a short time and under A few miles from Galatz. this line crosses the him safo At I will be assured I may " comes to the door of the hut, and something ing at me with it as if it were a tomahawk. bourhood that they were not afraid of the favorable circumstances, can be agreeable navigable river Bereth, by the Barboschi there was a burat of applause, and at the induces me to take particular note of the Then he commenced tearing with his teeth thirty Turkish gunboats for they have both positively and negatively, but he who Bridge, and the slightest warlike capacity great speech ending with and for these fellow. He is a strong, powerful black, of again, and I felt I was doomed. I thought: gune, and will establish heavy batterien zo cover their grossing. He disparaged Abdul Is always so has studied human nature in would have warned the Turks that imme-courtesies 1'11 lend you thus much moneys,” immense size, with the usual coarse look Am I to be torn to pieces here, with no himself and in others with care, and formed diately on the threat of active hostilities this the sound of approbation was very strong and scowling face of the aboriginal. I look one to stretch out a hanil to save me? How Kerin Fabs at the Turkish habits of self-denial and self-control. bridge should have been destroyed. With a Even as the curtain fell upon the first act at him steadily.

long will this last? What a death to meet!" Turkish soldier said that fatal apathy, however, this precaution has success was almost ensured, and already "Did you hear me call you?"

loried out to the gins in the hue but no army had neither officers been neglected till too late for though a the actors who had treated him so superci.

He looks me straight in the face, but one answered. I was rapidly suffocating officers he estimated the strength of gun-boat has now gone up the Earth, the Hiously began to gather round with congra makes no answer, nor any motion to salute. The men and stars whirled before me, the opposing Turkish forces at 150,000,

But he ahrank from them, and The Russians bave certainly commenced Barboschi Bridge is surrounded with en-tulations.

I see mischiof here, so I order him to stand apparently at arm's length. I was assured spread over a large ares. He admitted that the war againet Turkey with vigour. The trenchments, bristling with guns, the works wandered about in the darkness at the back rapidity with which their troops have pushed of either Russian or Roumaniau hands, and of the stage. The promise of the first act up and palate. He does so, but does not may last hour had come, when again his the passage of the Balkans would be to gh

open bis mouth,

grasp relaxed. With my little remaining work, for the Turke have fortified every forward into Houmania shows that the staff is probably scoure from destruction. Rapid was well sustained in the second. But the

passage during the last twelve strength I hutled him from me, and rushed defle and of the Grand Duke Nicholas has not only at has been the advance of the vanguard of great triumph was reserved for his sceno

"Baal sick, Marmy, only cold cabon," to get the gun, determined to shoot hira, for month. The country, he said, will be a studied with care the lessons taught by the the Grand Duke, it does not appear that any with Salanio and Salarino in the third,

I notice that he trembles, and that his I felt certain if another struggle occurred I fat ose to live in at this season, with ample war between Germany and France, but has very large torce has as yet reached Galata, where the flight of his daughter Jessica eyes are inflamed. Evidently the fellow has should be utterly powerless Coming in supplies of forage the railway will be used energetically devoted the months during our Correspondent mentions only sixty with a Christian is told bim; there so ter the fever, but his hands and head are cold with the gun, I stumbled over a strong solely for helnging up supplies, and all the which the army has been mobilised in thousand men as already moving on this mible was his energy, so magnificent his as ice. I order him to lie down, and if he green hide rope I had made for breaking in troops will march. It would take a month Besarabia to preparing with discernment point, and we must still expect that the sating, that a whirlwind of applause shook was still no good" to send his sister (a gin young milkers. I changed my mind, and to reach the point of crossing the Dansion. and foresight for an energetic and rapid concentration of the army in Houmanie will the house. Then came the trial scene, belonging to one of the absent troopers) for decided to rope him, and if anencoessful to He thinks the Grand Duke Nicholas pas fort,' but his chief of the staff a very able offensive strategy. It was last Tuesday require a longer period of time than some grander still in its complex emotions and medicine to me. As I move away I notice sheet him. morning that the heads of the columns of who have been thunderstruck by the word to larger scope for great powers, and all again how very still the camp is, and how called the gins and said, "Now suppose man. Austria, in his opinion, would at the Grand Duke pushed across the Pruth and blow strategy of the Grand Duke was so novel, so strange, so opposed to old unusually quiet the gins are. I go to the you me help me this time I let this follow once occupy Boands and flerasgovina, which Ree hours before daybreak, but already Nicholas expect. When that concentration traditions. When the curtain fually fell stockyard and let the horses out, and then

has been effected, much will depend not

Turkish troops to meet the Russians; but some of the Cossack cavalry has passed by

tope,

diveralon, Servis was to be sgaid With the gun in one hand, and the end of athared up; and General Ignatie d Bucharest, and is spurring across the plains only on the tactical ability of the loaders but on the wild enthusein of the audience, begin again to feel strangely depressed, and he kill you altogether. Hold this would unfortunately free a number of of Western Wallachie, with the purpose of also on the organisation of the armies. These stage manager who had snubbed him Again I take my gun with the intention of offered him oranges, Amold who had bullied walking off my wretchedness, when I notice stizing the passage of the Danube before reports that we rouelve point to the belief and young man'd him brought him a horseman riding up to the but, Laring the rope in the other I approached the charged with the task of keeping the Greeks the gun down in the verandah, I go to sea black, and, stooping down, fastened his up to the mark, and producing buthraske Widin, and of barring the egress of the that in matters of supply, equipment, and negua. Torks from that fortress, with a view to the hospitals the Russian staff has made the

Drunk with delight he rushed home, and.

with the ging' help succeeded in coiling the moment. He should wish Constantinople capture of Kalafat. Kapidly, however, as army committed to its charge almost perfect with half frenzied incoherenoy poured forth who it can be, and find it in a black from the legs together. I was nearly fainting, but in Epirus, Thessaly, and Crete at the right repe round his arms, lege, and body, and at to be a free city, fel il nous faut Batdum the Cossacks bave hurried on, the intelligence during the period of its mobilisation. In the story of his triumph. The pit zoba

last I had him securely bound. Scarcely de l'autre boté. The massacres by the which we publish to-day from our Curres. the Turkish army, on the other hand, we at me he cried Alary, you shall ride pendent at Constantinople tells us that they hear that the Commentarist and iverica in your carriage yet Okaries," lifting have been anticipated in seizing that im arrangements are lamentably defective, and the child from his bed, shall go to Eton. portent strategical point, as the Turkish that apathy, carelessness, and corruption Then his voice faltered, and he murmured, troops bave already occupied it. This move-are rife in the administrative departments; If Reward and but dived to see it, ment as the part of Badyk Facho, the while that scourge of camps, typhus Lover, Temple Bar,

PROGRESS OF THE WAR (Standard, April 27th.)

I

That fellow inside, sir."

Is he sick " I ask, "Baal me know."

"Are you sick?" I ask..

nearest station.

Well, Tommy, what is it " Master sent me for the mail, air,” Sergeant gone now for it along a town," reply if you wait long a store.

All right; me wait,” ha saya,

He was got up, regardless of express,

the operation complete when I fainted, Tarke, he said, will probably be awful i and fell almost within arm's length of bim, we expect to find every Chriflian murdered How long I lay I don't know, but when I in Bulgaria and Syria. Surely this is into my benees I was paralysed with convincing proof of the purely Christen coll, and the black follow was making philanthrople riewe of Buyinen Verdi