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rank and the proudest official authority in comparison with Royalty. The agents and emissaries of foreign kings and em- perors were not admitted to the secret chamber in which the feast of Royalty was held; and the smallest of princelings was, for the hour, at least in that august neighbourhood, of more account than they. Thus it is that these great state shows, which occur once or twice in a generation, have a distinctly educating vaine they suggest the contact between the decorative principle and the working machinery of the British Constitution; they point out to us the fact that, whe- ther we do or do not recognise the divine right of kings, there are times whon, not merely in theory, but in practice, we in veet the visible incarnation of kingship with a more than human virtue..

THE CHINA MAIL.

JAMES- M'CREA,

of

the

earth.

Frail were the works that defended the hold Women and children among us, God help

that we held with our lives

them, our children and wives! MEA Hold it we might and for fifteen days or

for twenty at most.

Never surrender, I charge you; but every Voice of the dead whom we loved, our Law.

man die at his post !"

rence the best of the brave:

Cold wore his brows when we kiss'd him "Every man die at his post and there we laid him that night in his grave.spar Death from their rifle-bullete, and death

hail'd on our houses and halls

Death in our innermost chamber, and death Death while we stood with musket, and

at our elight barrionde,

Death to the dying, and wounds to the

death while we stoopt to the spade,

Striking the hospital wall, orashing thro' it,

from their cannon-balls,

: ་

wounded, for often there fell, KU

their shot and their shell.

on every side

lowered over them:

Strong with the strength of the race to com-

lish in heart and in limb, mand, to obey, to endure, Each of us fought as if hope for the garrison

hung but on him

till could we watch at all points ? we were

every day fewer and fewer.

There was a whisper among us, but only a

whisper that past:

No. 4948.-MAY 17, 1879. 'written, as that of hor predecessor on time of war-nothing would be done Kaiser would first go to the Russian or It is well known that the Emperor has, But that some broken gleam from our poor the throne of England has been written without the approval of the Cabinet or German Embassy in London, would then said he will carry out the Treaty of already, it will not be discovered that of the chief of the Cabinet. any individual member of the Royal One day being deducted as above for and would travel from the Foreign Office plainest intimation has been given to his Of England, and her banner in the East P

be sent to the Foreign Office in Whitehall, Berlin, and having loyally said this, the May touch thee, while remembering thes, Ilay household who fills an official position, the despatch of the private business of to Balmoral in one of the above-mentioned Ministers that he will not allow any

At thy pale feet this ballad of the deeds such as that which Sir Herbert Taylor Royalty, there remain five working days boxes. In the same way will the letters of proposals or discussions with any other lines and exquisitely conceived and expressed occupied in the Court of William IV, for the despatch of the business of the those members of the Royal Family who view. Accordingly the Russian troops images. But, as a Home contemporary The Siego of Lucknow has many fine has exercised anything like Sir Herbert State. If any one wishes to form an may from time to time be abroad, or for the will be withdrawn from Roumelia and points ont, Mr Tennyson's greatness doss Taylor's power. Neither, to speak the idea of the manner in which the material matter of that at home. The Prince of Bulgaria by the time stipulated in the not lie in his war songs. There is nothing plain truth, has her Majesty had at her for this imperial industry is provided for Wales may employ the penny post in Treaty. On the other hand, there is a of the rush and swing and hurly-burly of disposal a mind of equal ability. Taylor the Sovereign, it will not be amise that writing to an acquaintance. His Royal well-spread feeling in unofficial as well battle in his verses. His combats are the was something more than a Sovereign's be should be aware of what takes place Highness has resort to the state-boxes as oficial circles, that, when secretary; he was a statesman in a palmost daily in the great offices of State when he addresses his august Mother, Russian troops are withdrawn from of men delivering real blows and bleeding combats of ghosts, sheering the thin air and Ince; and the fact, little known as it is, in London. The Queen can only be said and the letter is usually enclosed under Eastern Roumelia disorders will arise, real blood. He is less the poet of notion their own incorporeal substances, and not that after the death of his Royal Master to hear the postman's knock motaphori- cover to the Queen's secretary. he received the offer of the General- cally. The letter-bags which make their

and consequent apprehension is eater than of droamy meditation. A woman's Governorship of India sufficiently shows way to the foot of the throne are boxes which the Queen will fail to examine. return of the Tarkish troops, while there than the manly impulse to it, seems to There is not one paper in these boxes tained of renewed massacres, with the eostatio admiration of heroism, rather the esteem in which he was held by the that have been carefully packed at the On many she will ask for more informa- appears to be no security for Government of the day.

different departments in Whitehall. They tion; on some she will give definite application of the reforins promised. The of literary art, it is full of fine peruop

the find expression in his delicate and tinely- The real equivalent, in the case of the are conveyed from the offices to which opinions which cannot be confined within strongest impression has been created by tion and lofty feeling; but it lacks that spur verse. His poem is the perfection But though the English Monarch be Queen, for the office which Sir Herbert they respectively belong to Windsor, or the limits of a sheet of notepaper. Here a telegram from General Todleben, who breath of life which makes a song a weapon. the crowning ornament of the Constitu Taylor filled in relation to William IV, Balmoral, or Osborne by Queen's mes we have enough business to occupy all had left for Odessa, stating he could tion, personally associated more with must be found in the duties so indefati-sengers, as are the despatches to foreign the working hours of every day in the not answer for the Russian army if fresh written in a somewhat uncommon and cora

The poem on the defence of Lucknow is ideas of dignity and splendour than of gably discharged by the illustrious 'Prince powers. But the Queen's messenger, Monarch's life. Yet even thus the list massacres occurred toil, it is a grievous mistake to suppose who died upwards of seventeen years who is never sent on duty outside the of her Majesty's engagements is not oumstances, much as peace is desired, phe to the banner of England, which Hosted Under these cirplex rhythm, and sata out with an apostro- that the lot of British Royalty is, has ago; and the best and most historical four seas, is a much lowlier personage exhausted. She has an interview with telegrams were sent ten days ago not to had reared thee on high" over the topmost been, or can be exempt from labour. evidence which we have at the present than the Queen's messenger with whom the Secretary of State in attendance, and demobilize the regiments at Sebastopol roofs of beleaguered Lucknow. There then never with mightier glory than when we All the assistance which onergy and in time of the magnitude of the business of we have been made familiar in the novels it is not improbable that she will discuss and Odessa, and proposals have been follows a description of the perilous situs genuity can lend to the accomplishment Royalty is to be found in the record of of Charles Lever, and is, in fact, a trusty a little more business with him later in made for a mixed occupation of Roume tion: of work, her Majesty, indeed, commands: the Prince Consort's labours. Now this representative of the porter class with a the day at dinner. Nor does evening lia. Pending the acceptance of such an nor without such assistance could the is not an attempt to estimate the place salary perhaps of 150l, a year. What, necessarily or always bring the toils of arrangement, the army will not leave duties of her, station be performed. In of the Queen in the English Constitution. we may venture to inquire, are the con- monarchy to a close. Parliament per the Danube, and rather than suffer what, it may be said, do theso duties, as Nevertheless it may be well to preface tents of these black and red leather haps is sitting; and miles away, at massacres to be renewed, war should be a matter of fact, consist; and what are some account of what she actually does, cases & Some are the letters of Ministers, Westminister, there is a gentleman who recommenced. the relations which they involve between and of the manner in which she does it, others are drafts of documents forwarded will be busily engaged till the debate is leaning to peace, the former alternative With B well-known the Sovereign and her responsible Mi- with a statement of what she might and for her Majesty's approval, and subte over in sending to Balmoral short "cannot and will not be suffered such nisters and servants on the one hand, can do 'Not to mention, writes Mr. quently to be transmitted to the capitals telegraphio bulletins of the progress of has been the language used. It has been and the Sovereign and the mass of her Bagehot, other things, she could disband of Europe. Others, again, are papers the discussion, and of the general feeling, difficult to doubt that with a general people on the other? There is a sense the army; she could dismiss all the for the Royal signature, and of a if the subject be of an exceptionally desire to bring about a peaceful solution, in which it may be said not only that officers, from the general commanding character to which her Majesty's name important character, which it seems to and with intermediaries such as Lord the Sovereign is, from a constitutional in chief downwards; she could dismiss may be appended on other occasiona than evoke. Up to seven or eight o'clock Dufferin and Count Schouvaloff, with point of view infallible, but that she is all the sailors too; she could sell off all in council. In something more than in this assiduous chronicler of contemporary all their reasonableness, resource, and tact omniscient. No public event of any im- our ships of war and all our naval stores; theory the Queen is supreme head of parliamentary history has been in and in conducting negociations, some modus portance takes place, of the antecedents, she could make a peace by the sacrifice every office of State. Most of the out of the lobby and the House itself, vivendi would be found that would be circumstances, and character of each of Cornwall, and begin a war for the business conducted in these establish- clad in a gray frock-coat, with a superb generally accepted. I trust, therefore, individual actor in which, the Sovereign conquest of Brittany. She could make ments is routine business-departmental flower in his button-hole. He is very that there was a substantial basis for the is not accurately informed. The Queen every citizen in the United Kingdom, work about the conduct of which there active; very good-natured, and he misses information I telegraphed you to day as never forgets a name, a countenance, or male and female, a peer; she could make can be no doubt. Such affairs as these nothing. He is, in fact, none other furnished by a well-informed correspond an incident. Ladies whose husbands every parish in the United Kingdom a would not, it may safely be said, be re-than Lord Barrington, her Majesty's ent of the Goles at Vienna, via, that the are filling high, but comparatively ob- university; she could dismiss thost of ferred to the Sovereign. But her Majesty Vice-Chamberlain. soure poste in remote colonies visit En the civil servants; she could pardon all would expect to be kept informed of any into the Senate again, after dinner, Eastern Question were agreed respecting When he strolls Governments most interested in the gland, are invited to Court, are received offenders. In a word, the Queen could, questions whose settlement involves having exchanged the frock coat for the an occupation of Roumelia by Russian, from the mine of the murderous mole by the Queen, and are astonished to find by prerogative, upset all the action of fundamental principles of administration: evening suit, he may find there is English, Austrian, Italian, and perhaps so Mr Tennyson describes the Sepoy sapper The dangers of the garrison from treason, that Royalty is acquainted with the aer civil government within the Government; The relation of the Queen to the nothing more to do, or, on the other Turkish troops. Should, however, any--and from shot and abell and from direct vices and the successes or misfortunes of could disgrace the nation by a bad war Ministers and to the different depart hand, he may continue to despatch these or all Buch arrangements be found assault their own relatives, and the relatives of or peace, and could, by disbanding our ments of imperial affairs can scarcely be relays of brief abstracts till the small impracticable, whether owing to Turkish Surging and swaying all round us, as ocean their lords and masters, The Lord forces, whether land or sea, leave us better described than by saying that hours. The Queen thus knows what has obstinacy, or any other insuperable Chamberlain submits to the Boversign a defenceless against foreign nations. Let while the Sovereign may not know all taken place in either chamber of the difficulty, it is to be hoped that, by the Plunges and heaves at a bank that is daily list of names for presentation at Court. us contrast the practice with the theory.that is in progress at the Foreign Office, Legislature long before her subjects; appointment of a Christian governor, drown'd by the tide- We are told sometimes that the Royal Just as, in the great affairs of State, the the India Office, or the Colonial Office, and it is, indeed, only by a combination or in some way, a reasonable guarantee are all sketched in vivid colours. Then the revision is a mere form. Never could presence of a permanent under-secretary she demands that the means of knowing of expedition and method, of indefatigand assurance will be given as to the poet works himself up into a keen tension of there be a greater delusion. It is of is a guarantee that, in some respects and shall be always within her reach. course conceivable that there have been within certain limits, there will be a

able industry, facilitated and economised future good government of Eastern tragic feeling as his imagination bodies forth periods of exceptional trial when ber continuity of policy between the out reader may imagine are now on their that her Majesty has justly nobieved the doubted that if just as General Skobe truck but not dowed by the dark fate that As for the official papers, which the by precise, loyal, and punctual service, Roumela. Moreover, it can scarcely be the terrible position of the British-awe- Majesty has not personally criticised the going and in coming parliamentary Mini- way to the abode of the Bovereign in the reputation of being a model woman laff, when leaving Adrianople with the Handful of men as we were, we wire Eng- details of the programme. But such pester, so does the knowledge of the custody of a messenger, whirled by the business as well as a pattern constitu last of the Russian army, and receiving riods are the rare exceptions. If the Sovereign afford a small, but still a real, night express in the direction of the tional monarch. Minister of State who is responsible security that in matters of procedure and Scotch Border, or of the Solent, or of

the Bulgarian deputation, with their generally for the conduct of state cere- ceremonial, if not in weightier affairs, the most magnificently Royal castle in

Bishop, at the gate, leaving the city, monies, fancies what indeed as a matter the action of successive Cabinets shall be the world, they are of a very varied

exhorted them "to obey their sovereign of fact he is far too well informed to brought into some degree of niutual character. Some are copies of orders in

the Sultan "a similar line is adopted THE PROPOSED RUSSIAN EX- fancy--that this catalogue of patronymics accord. The Queen may not aim at council; some the ratification of measures

by Prince Dondukoff Korsakoff in PEDITION TO MERY. is one of empty sounds and meaningless directing the policy of her commit es of passed in Colonial Parliamenta; some

Eastern Roumelia, and the Roumeliotes vocables, he will err grievously. How Government. But the occasions are fre- Royal Proclamations; some documents

(Daily News Correspondent.) are numistakably informed that the ever low the tone in which gossip may quent in which she instructs those of the that relate to the assembling, prorogation,

ST. PETERSBURG, March 28, Treaty of Berlin must be carried out in murmur or scandal may insinuate, its members of that committee with whom or dissolution of the Imperial Parlia from a good source the following inform English Commissioners unite with the Since my last letter I have received its integrity, while at the same time the whispered echo fails not to reach the she is brought into contact on points of meat at Westminster. Others, again, ation as to the propos.d Central Asian Russian authorities in giving the fullest throne, In the Arabian tales we read order, formality, and etiquette. The Se are forme for giving effect to treaties, for Expedition. Such an expedition will assurances that the just rights and how Sultan and Grand Viziors used to cretary of State in attendance, we will extending the terms of patents, for take place under any circumstances. If liberties of the Christiane shall be pass their evenings in mixing with the suppose, is conferring with her Majesty granting charters of incorporation to the Eastern Roumelian difficulty is respected, it can scarcely be doubted, I mases, their identity the while being on some matter of imperial moment companies, for proclaiming ports and settled satisfactorily, no hostile move say, that under these circumstances the discreetly and impenetrably, disguised. it may be the despatch of a letter to a fairs, for deciding causes on appeal, for ment against Mery will be made, and difficulties at present English Sovereignty does not practice foreign potentate, or the supersession of creating ecclesiastical districts, for grant the expedition will have quite another apprehended might, in a great measure, 80 seriously impossible eccentricities, but it knows some chief officer of the British Crowning exemptions from the law of mort aspect. A force of 2,000 to $5,000 men not altogether, disappear. The decides quite as much of what the multitude, in a distant dependency. The statesman main. Then there are the private letters will escort an exploring mission which change that immediately occurred in the whom it rules, thinks or says, as any may be ignorant of the precise steps to of Ministers to her Majesty; every is being prepared under the Grand Duke proceedings of the Bulgarian Assembly Asistio potentate gathered in the course be taken, of the technical details, that is, parliamentary chief of every department Nicolai Constantinovitch to visit Mery when they were notified by the of his nocturnal wanderings in the guise of the procedure to be followed. Not o in the State periodically reports himself and obtain information as to its capabi President that they had the work to do of mufti.

the Sovereign. I can tell you at once, and the condition of his office to the lities and resources of every kind-no instead of presenting addresses, is an Where may we look for the channels remarks the Royal Lady to the perplexed Queen. The penmanship and prepara- Russian officers up to the present time illustration of what might be expected -along whose beds these constant streams Minister, and the official programme is tion of these papers is a task of some having visited Merv. It will be part of from timely and clear admonitions on the of intelligence flow from the drawing fully and completely unfolded before bim ceremony. Each one commences in the the duty of this expedition to examine part of the Russian administrators of room, the senate, the club, the country forthwith. house, into the very penetralia of the

Bad expression is given to the bitter tenth same way: Lord' or 'Sir-the ancient bed of the Amou Daria, and Roumelis. All, or very nearly all, of the more presents his humble duty to your make the necessary investigations in

that even in the cass of brave men like. palace! What are the style and title of essential work that the Prince Consort Majesty. Each must, according to the order to ascertain the practicability (or intended journey to Livadia, which was fighting is the smallest of their trials, With this question still open, the thess it is what they do and not what they these Ministers the business of whose did for her Majesty, the Sovereign does laws of an inflexible etiquette, be written otherwise) of establishing water commu- to have taken place about the middle of what wears them is being soldiers by day suffer that the world will remember. Their existence it is to carry such a succession for herself; and she only succeeds in without erasure or correction. None nication between the markets of Russia this month, has been deferred until next and sentinels by night-the incessant vigil- of tidings What the precise place accomplishing so much because she ad must be folded. Failure to comply with and those of Central Asia, and especially month. The idea at the present moment anpe necessitated by a continuous series of assigned in the hierarchy of the Court to dresses herself to it methodically. Thus, any one of these conditions would argue with this view the co-operation of the is (although nothing is really known on alarms, assaults, buglo warnings, and ever these faithful agents, who bring to the whether at Windsor or Osborne, or in disrespect to the Sovereign. Naturally Imperial Geographical Society has been the point) that possibly further changes the labour of fifty that had to be done by Sovereign the knowledge of things good Scotland, the Queen has special hours the Prime Minister has occasion to be in requested and will be given. Only in of intention may occur in consequence of and evil Their names will to no pur and special days for particular depart more constant communication with the the contingency of the present critical the attempted assassination of General pase be looked for in any published list ments of her work. Family administra Sovereign than any other member of the phase of the Eastern queation passing Drentela a few days ago. A large of the officers of State. In some in- tion and imperial administration are the Cabinet; he is, in fact, the embodiment beyond the reach of diplomatic solution number of arreste is said to have been stances their very existence is unknown two chief beads under which these duties of the Cabinet in the sight of the will any hostile expédition be sent made, including four "Conseillers d'Etat to the world at large, At Windsor, at may be ranked. Her Majesty has ex- Crown In-its relation to the Sovereign against Merv Balmoral, at Osborne, they may be sel tensive family connections throughout the Cabinet is an absolute and indivisible sist of 50,000 men drawn from the student. The official rank of these In such case it will con Actuel," their wives, and one son, a dom ssen. It would be an abuse of the whole of Europe. These she main anity; nor cana Premier be guilty of various regiments which now comprise persons is, I imagine, something like language to speak of these loyal servants tains by an active correspondence; and an act more reprehensible in itself and the army of the Caucasus, and which that of Privy Councillor in England. of the Sovereign as secret agents; but the whole of one day in the week is in its tendency than when he informs numbers 130,000 men of all ranks. The It is higher than a "Conseiller d'Etat." their operations are invisible or are devoted to writing letters to absent re-the Sovereign of the specific causes of organization of such a force, and the (simply), and confers the title of Excel ignored. For many years there was latives. There are other private affairs difficulty which he may encounter with necessary equipment for each an expediency, I am informed that this is the attached to the Queen a female attendant of Royalty not less exacting. All so his Cabinet. That difficulties exist he tion, are as yet, I am informed, in em first time persons of this rank have been whose name certainly appears in no counts, all bankers' pass-books, all est may, sometimes indeed must, confess to bryo or scarcely at all advanced. In my thus arrested, and if such persons are document of State; yet this gentlewoman mates of expenditure, are, in some shape the Sovereign but it is a fixed tradition last letter I mentioned that the opinion really implicated in this Nihilist con was incessantly busy with the work of or other, personally presented to the of the Consultation that he should not at the Ministry of War and at the spiracies, it is indeed a grave matter. her Royal Mistress; was perpetually Queen. Midway between this compre associate the names of particular col- Foreign Office, where this expedition reading letters and suggesting replies; hensive class of occupations and the leagues with the existence of these originated and met with strenuous advo drawing up reports, sifting news, digest active duties of an imperial crown, there difficulties. ing Information of every kind. On such is an immense number of miscellaneous

Casy, is that the capture of Merv would

MR. TENNYSON'S NEW POEM. Decasions as she took her place among transactions to be disposed of The off assume is bound due north, and which that is not the universal opinion. Start Meanwhile, the train, which we may be an easy and striking success Bat

The Nineteenth Century for April contains the other satellites of the Court, she was cials about the Court are besieged by contains the Royal messenger and his ing from its base of operations in the poem by Mr. Tennyson on the Defence of absolutely silent, apparently listless and telegrams from the outside world and precious freight of boxes, has crossed the Caucasus, there are serious elements of dedicatory lines in commemoration of the Lucknow, to which he has prefixed some Indiferent, and a little deaf but no it is rare indeed when, even in the depth Border; and before it has arrived at difficulty there. The new territory added late Princess Alice. The association is per thing which was over traced on the of the long vacation at Balmoral, they Perth, day has broken over the tops of to this Government since the close of the haps not very close. The dedicatory poem tablets of that memory was obliterated, reach a smaller daily total than fifty, the Scotch mountains. Balmoral is war is stated to be in a melancholy con to the Princess rune thus→→ This aid to Royal knowledge exists no A comparatively alight proportion of reached at last. It is a sweet summer dition, Oppression in various forms will Dead Princess, living Power, if that, which longer but substitutes, ont may be these enter the Royal presence but day, and the Queen is seated in the tent sow the seeds of disaffection and hosti. Trus afe, live on-and if the fatal kies, sure, are not wanting, and the close those which do reach the throne invart on the lawn, where she frequently lity, so that unless a more just and Born of true life and love, divorce thee not

lived places of the earth are as little hid is ably require consideration, and usually breakfasts in the warm weather, and wiser administration is maintained the From earthly love and life--if what we call ever from the Sovereign's gaze. Where receive a reply. Thus it is that the remains for hours by herself or with her new country will be a source of weakness The spirit flash not all at once from out knowledge is there will also be power Queen gives three hours a week, on ladies. The sorting of the contents of instead of strength. Clearly consoli. This shadow into Substance then perhaps and a monarch's counsellors, who are alternate days, to the attention of telethe colossal mailbag will take upwards dation is wanted, not extensions The mellow'd murmur of the people's praise the toxin Bource of a monarch's graus alone. Closely allied with this of an hour, and then her Majesty will be improved and ever improving adminis. From thine own State, and all our breadth Infottuation in B thousand and one work is that of the despatch of messages informed that all is ready. Many letters tration rather than the constant acqnisi.

of realm, petty Expected to be devoid of influence, most cases the Sovereign acts in this foreign Sovereign, or one of the Queen's distance from the centre of influence and Ascends to thee and this March morn that affairs of life, cannot be from the Crown to its subjects. In are left for Royal hands to open. Thus tion of new territories at an increasing Where Love and Longing dress thy deeds in Bas inasmuch as the identity of these matter entirely on her own initiative, children or it may even be one of government. On every account it is to bounsellor is not known to the otiter If it WAS a domestic dirastet, an her anbjects, whom she honours with be hoped that the European dimculties Thy soldier brother's bridal orange-bloom world, it is impossible to say what are accident be land or sea, an explo her friendship, has addressed an will not become aggravated, and the dogs Break thro' the yews and oypress of thy the minor forces brought to bear at any sion in a coal mine, a collision on a rail spistle to her Majesty, in the same of war be again unloosed in the south- partfonlar moment upon the Sovereign. way, the Sovereign would not, as a way that friends acquaintances, and east of Europe and, except in that And thine Imperial mother smile again,

kravej In all probability the name and nature matter of course, confer with a Minister connections write to each other in or contingency, the projected expedition May send one ray to theel and who can of these agencies will never transpire, of State, But when the announcement dinary life. But even this fotomunica against Merv will, so I understand, not ThouEngland's England-loving daughter When the secret history of the Court of made is of a weightler shernotera com- tion only reaches its prond destination now be carried out

deen Victoria noble and blameless munication of encouragement addressed by a tightly circuitous router The The contingener above mentioned bas Dying to English they wouldst have her fag datangan en fesord as it will prove comes to be to a military or naval commander la astograph communiension of the Cher or not been a purely imaginary one of late, | Borna on thy codin...where jo bo sAD STORE

if

light,

teal

Children and wives-if the tigers leap into the fold unawares

Every man die at his post--and the fou may

outlive us at last

Better to fall by the hands that they love,-

than to fall into theira!"

together tigersh, for, like Abdiel, the Sikh And yet the subject race was not al- "faithful amid the faithless stood," and to him the merited meed of praise is generously accorded

Praise to our Indian brothers, and let the

Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought

dark face have his due! :

Fought with the bravest among us, and That ever upon the topmost roof our banner drove them, and emote them, and slow,

with us, faithful and few,"

in India blew.

tive:"-

Ever the day with its traiterous death from Ever the night with its coffinless corpse to

the loopholes around, Heat like the mouth of a hell, or a

be laid in the ground,

stench of old offal decaying, and Infinite deluge

of cataract skies, "

torment of flies,

Thoughts of the breezes of May blowing Cholera, scurvy, and fever, the wound that

over an English field,

Lopping way of the limb by the pitiful-

would not be heal'd,

Torture and trouble in vain-for it never

pitiless knife-

could save us a life,

Valour of delicate women who tended the

hospital bed,

Horror of women in travail among the dying

and dead,

Griet for our perishing children, and never

a moment for grief,

Toil and ineffable weariness, falterir 3 hopen

of relief.

the apprisch and advent of the Highlanders "But the hour of deliverance is nigh, and denalude the poem

Herk cannonade, fusillade is if true what

was told by the scout?

Surely the pibroch of Europa is ringing again. Outram and Havelock breaking their way -

thro' the fall mutineers !

in our cars!

All on a sudden the garrison utter a jubilant Havelook's glorious Highlanders answer with

shout,

Blessing the wholesome white faces of Have- Forth from their holes and their hidings our

conquering cheers,

Kissing the war-harden'd hand of the High

look's good fulleers,

lander wet with their tears)

women and children come out,

Dance to the pibroch i-saved i we are saved i

is it you? is it you P

Saved by the value of Havelock, saved by

the blessing of Heaven!

Hold it for Afteen days!" wo hare held is and over aloft on the palace road the clễ de dar eighty isyan |

banner of Bogland blow,