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As morning dawned, I lay waking, and listening to Or was the intensity of prayer drawing the spirit of the sounds that seemed near my ear, and even upon my child into that of the mother, until they were as one pillow. They were like water forcing its way among before God? obstructions, or sometimes as if it were poured hissing Strong lessons were learned at an hour like this. upon heated stones. At length I spoke to the friend Ages of thought were compressed into a moment. The who shared my state-room, of a suppressed voice of reach of an unbodied spirit, or some glimpse of the eddies and whirlpools, like what is often heard in power by which the deeds and motives of a whole life passing Hell Gate, when the tide is low. She thought may be brought into view, at the scrutiny of the last me imaginative; but on hearing that I had long been judgment, seemed to reveal itself. Methought the reasoning with myself, and yet the sounds remained, she affections, that so imperatively bind to earth, loosened threw on her dressing-gown, and ascended to the deck. their links in that very extremity of peril; and a The fog was still heavy, and all things appeared as strange courage sprang up, and the lonely soul, driven usual. Soon the carpenter, being sent aloft to make to one sole trust, took hold of the pierced hand of the some repairs, shouted, in a terrible voice, “Breakers ! Redeemer, and found it strong to save. - From Mra. breakers !" The mist lifted its curtain a little, and Sigourney's Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Landls." there was a rock, sixty feet in height, against which the sea was breaking with tremendous violence, and towards which we were propelled by wind and tide ! At the first appalling glance, it would seem that we were scarcely a ship's length from it. In the agony of the mome the Captain, clasping his hands, exclaimed

THE TRUE HEIR. that all was lost. Still. under this weight of anguish,

MANY centuries have passed since Theophilus more for others than himself, he was enabled to give the most minute orders with entire presence of mind.

was Emperor of Rome, whose Empress was PulThey were promptly obeyed; the ship, as if instinct cheria, the beautiful daughter of the King of with intelligence, obeyed her helm, and sweeping Hungary. Beautiful indeed in form, and engaging rapidly around, escaped the jaws of destruction. Still in converse and manner, Pulcheria was far from we were long in troubled waters, and it was not for many hours, and until we had entirely passed Holyhead, true and faithful to her lord the Emperor, and that the Captain took his eye from the glass, or quitted great and constant doubts were always entertained his post of observation. It would seem that, after he of the legitimacy of the four sons, the princes of had retired to rest the previous night, the ship must the empire. have been imperfectly steered, and aided by the strong drifting of the tides in that region,was led out of her course

During the lifetime of Theophilus constant distowards Cardigan Bay; thus encountering the reef which sensions arose between the three elder princes, is laid down on the charts as Bardsey's Isle.

who seemed to recognise but one bond of union, The passengers, during this period of peril, were hatred and opposition to their father and their generally quiet, and offered no obstruction, through their own alarms, to the necessary evolutions on deck. younger brother Charis. He alone was dutiful and One from the steerage, an Irishman, who had been obedient to his parents. Many a war was begun thought, but a few days before, in the last stages of between the brothers, many a hollow truce made, pulmonary disease, was seen in the excitement of the and many an act of treachery practised against moment labouring among the ropes and blocks, as if

one another, as well as against the aged Emperor, in full health and vigour. It was fearful to see him, with a face of such mortal paleness, springing away Charis alone sided with his father, and was his from death in one form, to meet and resist him in defender in the battle-field, his comforter in disanother. Every circumstance and personage, connected tress, his counsellor in difficulty. with that scene of danger, seem to adhere indelibly to recollection. A young girl came and sat down on the

At last the old Emperor died, and was buried in cabin floor, and said in a low, tremulous tone, “ I have the sepulchre of his fathers, and no one knew who loved my Saviour, but have not been faithful to Him as should succeed him. Hardly had the funeral proI ought;" and, in that posture of humility, awaited his cession ceased from crowding the streets of the will. A mother, who since coming on board had taken imperial city, or the echoes of the solemn hymns the entire charge of an infant, not a year old, retired with it in her arms to a sofa, when the expectation of died away in the sanctuary where his corpse was death was the strongest upon us all. Masses of rich laid, ere the trumpets sounded to arms, and the black hair fell over her brow and shoulders, as her eyes three elder sons of the Emperor were in open were rivetted upon the nursling, with whom she might warfare for his vacant throne. so soon go down beneath the deep waters. He returned that gaze with an almost equal intensity, and then they

Many adherents flocked to each standard, allured sat uttering no sound, scarcely breathing, and pale as a by the prospect of spoil and cruelty, and the empire group of sculptured marble.

His large, dark eyes was threatened on every side with desolation and seemed to cast

suicidal war.

The apparent equality of the con

tending forces, and the firm determination shown “ Not those baby looks, that go All unmeaning to and fro;

by the great and good lords of the kingdom, not But an earnest gazing deep,

to admit even the successful combatant to the Such as soul gives soul at length, When through work and wail of years

crown, except under the strongest bonds for his It hath won a solemn strength.”

good government, disposed the brothers to defer

the question to arbitration. In that strange communion, was the mother impart- On an appointed day, the three elder brothers, ing to her nursling her own speechless weight of agony, each accompanied by two armed followers alorie, at parting with other beloved objects in their distant met in the great meadow of the old Campus home?

Or did the tender soul take upon itself a burden, Martius before the assembled multitudes that which pressed from it a sudden ripeness of sympathy? I stood in masses around on every side. Then the

“ Will

prefect of the city advanced before the multitude, At length the corpse of the Emperor was borne and asked them why they came.

into the midst of the assembly, and tied with cords “We are come," rejoined the brothers, “ to defer to the tree, whilst the eldest brother hastened, our claim to the imperial crown to the judgment of with a glistening eye and nervous hand, to také the wisest man in Rome--the Senator Senex.” his station at the appointed spot. At the given

“ There yet lacketh one among you-your signal his arrow sped from the bow, and stood youngest brother Charis."

transfixed in the right hand of his father's corpse. Let him come,” rejoined the brothers--"he, With a shout, the tickle crowd celebrated his suctoo, shall abide by the judgment of Senes.” cess, and hailed him as their new Emperor.

Then Charis stept from the crowd, and joined But the second son now hastened to the spot, the circle of the great men that stood with his and carefully assayed himself to the horrible trial. brothers.

Anon his bow twanged, and the arrow tlew towards “ Princes," said the prefect, amid a solemn silence, the tree, and the plandits of the crowd hailed his are you content to swear by God's holy Gospels, success, when its slender reed quivered in the very that you will each and every one abide by the judg- breast of his father. ment of the Senator Senex ?

The third son moved forward; his look was calm “We will," replied the princes.

and determined, as with care he scanned the object you promise and swear-each for himself of his mark, and poised his bow, and glanced along -that if you be chosen by him as Emperor, you his arrow to the maimed body. At the given will faithfully fulfil the imperial duties, and honor- signal the arrow flew, and the very heart of his ably justly, and truly govern your people?" father was cloven by its head. Little doubt could * We will."

there now be of his success, and again and again “Will you, O princes,-each for yourselves, the crowd hailed him as Emperor. promise and swear, that such of you as shall With his head bowed to his breast, his eyes be rejected by the decision of Senex, will do and drowned with tears, and his bow trembling in his pay due and proper and true allegiance to that one hand, Charis crept towards the appointed spot, of you who shall be chosen as Emperor?"

amid the jeers of ihe people, and the regrets of the i

Verily and truly will we,” rejoined the bro- wise and good among the senators and nobles. thers, each in his turn reverentially kissing the For a few moments he stood erect, looked upon holy book in token of his calling God to witness his father's mangled body, poised his bow and fitted his oath.

his arrow to the string. But the effort was but " Citizens and people," said the prefect, turning momentary, again his hands dropped helpless by to the vast multitudes, "ye have heard the oaths his side, and his head declined on his youthful of the princes, are ye content to abide by the de- breast. cision of the Senator Senex, and to obey as your “ Prince Charis," said the prefect, “the trial Emperor the prince whom he chooses?"

awaits you,-are you prepared ?" We are content-we are well content," cried One look Charis turned towards the prefect, one the people.

look he turned towards the fatal tree, and then, “Good and wise father,"continued the prefect, with a cry of agony, casting away his bow and turning to Senex where he stood by the princes, arrow, he sprang towards it, clasped the corpse in “the people and the Emperor's sons are alike his arms, drew the arrows from the flesh, and content to abide by your decision. Come then, bathed the wounds with repeated kisses. father, tell us who is the legitimate heir of the · Prince Charis,- Prince Charis," again repeated great king."

the prefect, “ the trial awaits you." But his words Then,” said Senex, “princes, senators, were unheeded. nobles, and people, hear my words : Long have we “Oh, my father,” exclaimed the prince, standing all doubted which of the Emperor's sons was his reverentiaily before the corpse, "My father !--my legitimate heir. Go to now--open the grave of poor father ! — have I then lived to see you the our late lord and master, take from thence his body, victim of an impious contest? What! can thine and bind it to yonder tree."

oilspring lacerate their father's flesh ?-far, oh far A cold shudder ran through the assembly, and be it from me, to raise my hand against thee alive not a word was spoken; for they feared his words, or dead!" and yet dreaded to obey them.

" The right heir !-the true king's son !-- he is “ Let the princes prepare each his bow and each

our Emperor," burst on all sides from the people ; his arrow," continued the old man, “and with his "away with the others-away with them—he is single shást let him shoot from here at the body our Emperor.” of his father, and he that striketh nearest to his Romans,” said Senex, waving with his hand father's heart's core-let him be king."

to command silence--"my device has succeeded With a strange sense of fear, and a solemn and the right heir is found-he is your Emperor." imposing silence, the people bowed assent to the There was no one to gainsay the people's choice advice of Senex, and hastened to execute his and the people's judgment. The three elder commands. The three elder brothers busied them- | brothers were seized and hurried to prison, there selyes about their bows and arrows, carefully ex- to atone in solitude and misery for their sins; amined and tried their weapons, and measured with whilst Prince Charis was hastily borne on an anxious steps the distance between the tree and uplifted shield towards the capitol, and enthroned the spot whence they were to shoot at their father's as Emperor, amid the joy and plaudits of his dead body. Charis stood unmoved and rooted to people. the spot, and, when his servant laid his bow and arrow at his feet, he gave but one look at the weapons, and then burst into a flood of tears, and covered his face with his hands.

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TIIE YOUNG MAN AND THE FRIAR.

From the German:
The convent bell hath summoned

The father to the gate,
“Who stands without, disturbing

Our rest at hour so late P”
A youth is humbly kneeling,

« God grant thee, father, peace !
I seek thy holy dwelling,

Here may my sorrows cease!
“ The world which I am leaving,

Is never free from care ;
The thorn, the yew, the cypress,

Cast gloomy shadows there;
Scorn, hatred, and repining,

Have long my soul possessed ;
Flying earth's baneful circle3
I come to thee for rest."

FATILER.
« Not pale youth, this yearning

Is but befitting those,
Who, faint from life's long journey,

Covet the grave's repose.
Thy path is upward tending,

Through sunshine and through shade ;
By such unmanly weakness
Let not thy steps be stayed.”

YOUTU.
“My parents both are sleeping

Beneath the earth's green breast;
Would that I lay beside them,

A sharer in their rest!
The friend I decmed most faithful

The holicst trust betrayed ;
And she I loved so fondly

With scorn that love repaid.
Hope's violet hue hath faded

'Neath sorrow's scorching sky;
Stained is the lily's whiteness

Mid earth's impurity;
Joy's brightest rose hath withered,

Nouglit leaving but the thorn ;
O close not thou thy portals
Upon a wretch forlorn !"

FATHER.
“Nay, wherefore thus despairing!

The faded flowers rebloom ;
Deem not the checquered sunshine

An everbiding gloom ;
Evil and good are blended

By Him who reigns on high;
Then strive not thou, rebellious,
A mortals lot to fly.”

YOUTH.
“ I know that light unfading

May not on mortals shine;
But, ah! their darkest portion,

Unbroken night, is mine!
Within this sacred cloister,

Hope's star may yet appear,
For clouds of earthborn sadness

Cannot obscure it here."
Yet still the old man firmly

The youth's request denied,
And to his pleading urgent

He ever thus replied :
“ God hath thy sphere appointed,

Ile doth thy lot dispose,
He knoweth well thy weakness,

And he can grant repose.

In private life Lord Alvanley appears to have been an object of general affection and esteem. The absence of all pretension and reserve, which made his appearance in public to be, as it were, in undress; his openness and simplicity; the warmth with which he espoused the interests of his friends, and the heartiness which he threr into all social pleasantries, could not but place him high in favour with the domestic circle. J'aime ce joli musique, seemed to be his motto, even when his own peccadilloes or mishaps might form the subject of merriment. His manners were neither flippant nor inelegant in private society. He had an exuberance of spirits; and his conversation is described to have been so entertaining, that Pitt rarely dinel at a party when Arden was there with. out making a point of sitting next to him at dinner. We may well fancy how much the minister, who generally spoke in the state-paper style, and conversed in periods-diffident, proud, and reserved-must hare enjoyed the force of contrast in his rattling, careles negligence, and that the discords, taken together, “ discoursed most eloquent music.” With such a companion (we are assured by one who knew Pitt well,) free from shyness, and throwing off restraint, he was the wittiest companion, and the soul of merriment; of a joyous party who went to spend an evening at the Boar's Head, Eastchcap, in memory of Shakspeare. the readiest and most apt in the required allusions." How little could members of the House of Commons imagine that the precociously grave premier, who strode to his seat with chin erect and haughty sternness, could, with his friends, be guilty of sowing garden-beds with the fragments of a friend's dress opera-hat; or, armed with billhooks, cutting avenues through the coppice, and making the woods ring again to the merry laugh of the woodman. It required the revelations of lady Stanhope, the memoirs of Wilberforce, and the diaries of Lord Malmsbury, to make posterity render a tarey justice to the social excellencies of Pitt.-Touneend's Lires of Eminent Judges.

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CONTENTS.
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257 A Christmas Party in the Frank Fairlegh ; or, Old

Country, Chap. VIII........ 367 Acquaintances in New The Voyage to England...... 20

The True Heir.................. 270 Scenes, Chap. VI............ 259

POETRY :History of the Cotton Ma

Young Man and Friar, nufacture, (continued).... 261

(with Illustration by The Maiden Aunt, No. III.

Warren)...................... Chap. II..... ...... 263 MISCELLANEOUS...

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BERWICKSITIRF, as might be expected from its position | (anciently called Ubbanford,) as well as its historical as a border county, has been the scene of much preda- importance, show it to have been a place of magnifitory warfare ; and many are the tumuli, cairns, mili-cence, as well as strength. Edward I. resided there tary stations, and ruined castles, to be found in its va- when he was created umpire of the dispute concerning rious parishes. It is interesting to wander among such the Scottish succession. It was repeatedly taken and memorials of the past, if it have but the effect of bringing re-taken during the wars between England and Scotthe distractions of war in distant ages, in contrast with land; and, indeed, scarce any happened in which it had the blessings of our own pacific times. Crumbling ruins not a principal share. It is situated on a steep are, indeed, the keystone, the dry bones, of history, which bank, which overhangs the river. The repeated sieges it requires but the power of association to invest with which it had sustained, rendered frequent repairs necesnew life, and to clothe with almost illimitable interest. sary. The present castle was commenced by Ranulph,

Of all these border antiquities, “Norham's castled bishop of Durham, in 1121. In 1170—1174, it was steep” is one of the most picturesque, as well as import- strongly fortified by Hugh du Puiset, another bishop of ant. This ruinous fortress is situated on the southern Durham ; and some circumstances relating to the work bank of the Tweed, about six miles above Berwick, and and the architect will be found in Reginald of Durham, where that river is still the boundary between England capp. xlvii. and liv. This bishop added the huge keep; and Scotland. There is not, perhaps, more memorable notwithstanding which, King Henry II. in 1774, took battle-ground in the kingdom than this spot; and the castle from the bishop, and committed the custody how grateful to the well-regulated mind is it to re- of it to William de Neville. After this period, it seems flect, that whilst man's strife has swept away thousands to have been chiefly garrisoned by the king, and conof his species, and dyed with his blood the waters of sidered as a royal fortress. “Tweed's fair river, broad and deep,”

In the reign of Edward the Second, was performed bethe stream has held on its course, mirroring on its fore Norham Castle that chivalrous feat which Bishop surface the ruins which time has spared from the great Percy has woven into his beautiful ballad, “ the Hermit wreck, and presenting to the student of humanity an of Warkworth.” The story is thus told by Leland :emblem of his fleeting life, and the rapidity with which “ The Scottes came yn to the marches of England, it passes to the sea of eternity.

and destroyed the castles of Werk and Herbotel, and The extent of the ruins of the Castle of Norham, overran much of Northumberland marches:

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“At this tyme, Thomas Gray and his friendes de

The scouts had parted on their search, fended Norham from the Scottes.

The castle gates were barrd; “It were a wonderful processe to declare what mis

Above the gloomy portal arch, chiefes came by hungere and asseges by the space of

Timing his footsteps to a march, xi yeres in Northumberland : for the Scottes became so

The warrior kept his guard,

Low humming, as he paced along, proude after they had got Berwicke, that they nothing

Some ancient border-gathering song." esteemed the Englishmen.

“About this tyme there was a greate feaste made yn In the first canto of the poem, various other featuri Lincolnshire, to which came many gentlemen and of the frowning fortress are glanced at, thus : ladies; and amonge them, one lady brought a

“ Beneath the sable palisade, heaulme for a man of were, with a very riche creste of

That closed the castle barricade ;" gold, to William Marmion, knight, with a letter of com

andmendment of her lady, that he should go in to ye daungerest place in England, and ther to let the heaulme to

“ Then to the castle's lower ward, be seene and known as famous. So he went to Norham ;

Sped forty yeomen tall,

The iron-studded gates unbarr'd, whither, within four days of cuming, cam Philip Mou

Raised the portcullis' ponderous guard, bray, guardian of Berwicke, having yn his hand 40 men

And let the drawbridye fall.” of armes, the very flour of men of the Scottish marches.

“Thomas Gray, captayne of Norham, seynge this, We now return to matter of fact record. Accordin: brought his garrison afore the barriers of the castel, / to Mr. Pinkerton, there is, in the British Museum, a behind whom cam William richly arrayed as al glitter | curious memoir of the Dacres on the state of Norbir ing in gold, and wearing the heaulme, his lady's Castle in 1522 ; not long after the battle of Flodd:1," present.

fought on the banks of the Till, near Branxton, where “ Then said Thomas Gray to Marmion, “ Sir Knight, the Scottish king was encamped before the action. In ye be come hither to fame your helmet: mount up on the above memoir, the inner ward and keep are repre your horse, and ryde lyke a valiant man to your foes, sented as impregnable; and we find the following Dii even here at hand; and I forsake God if I rescue not thy of the interior economy : “ The provisions are, three body deade or alyve, or I myself wyl dye for it.' great vats of salt eels, forty-four kine, three hovshed:

Whereupon he toke his cursere and rode among the of salted salmon, forty quarters of grain, besides mais throng of ennemyes; the which layed sore stripes on cows, and four hundred sheep lying under the case him, and pulled him at the last out of his sadel to the wall nightly; but a number of the arrows wanted les grounde.

thers, and a good Fletcher (i.e. a maker of arrowsi "Then Thomas Gray, with al the hole garrison, lette required."- History of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 201, note. prick yn among the Scottes, and so wondid them and

The ruins of the castle are at present considerables their horses, that they were overthrowan; and Marmion, well as picturesque. They consist of a large shaiten sore betan, was horsid agayn, and with Gray, persewed tower, with many vaults, and fragments of other por the Scottes yn chase. There were taken fifty horse of tions, enclosed within an outward wall of great circail price; and the women of Norham brought them to the As Norham castle was built between 1121 and 1171 foote men to follow the chace."

it must have presented a fine specimen of the Ang! The Grays of Chillingham castle were frequently the Norman fortress; though Bishop Puiset's addi castellans or captains of the garrison. Yet, as Nor-carries us on to the reign of Henry II., one of wh:ham was situated in the patrimony of St. Cuthbert, first acts was to prohibit the erection of any castles the property was in the See of Durham till the Reforma without a licence. The Norman Conqueror, to secure tion. After that period, it passed through various hands. his newly-acquired dominions, as well against invasios

At the union of the crowns, it was in the possession from without as rebellions within, lost no time 1 of Sir Robert Carey, (afterwards Earl of Monmouth,) erecting strong castles in all the principal towns of L: for his own life, and that of two of his sons. After kingdom ; and William's followers, to protect them King James's accession, Carey sold Norham Castle to selves against those whom they had despoiled of lands, George Holme, Earl of Dunbar, for 60001.

imitated their master's exainpie, by building castles of We now approach an era in the history of the castle, their estates. The turbulent and unsettled state of the which poetry has invested with interest of no common kingdom during the succeeding reigns, caused the order; we mean, in Sir Walter Scott's vivid romance of rapid multiplication of these strongholds; so that, a:

Marmion," a tale of Flodden Field, the fate of the hero the la ter end of the reign of Stephen, there are said to being connected with that memorable conflict. Lord have been no fewer than 1115 castles completed in Marmion, the principal character of the poem, it is true, England alone. • The whole kingdom," is entirely a fictitious character; but nothing can be author of the Saxon Chronicle, “ was corered with more strikingly picturesque and life like than the two them, and the poor people worn out with the forced opening stanzas of the romance, in which the feudal | labour of their erection." It was soon found that this fortress is thus painted :

were likely to be no less inconvenient to the sovereign. Day set on Vorham's castle steep,

enabling a cabal of barons to beard the power of their And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep,

liege lord; and hence the prohibitive enactment hi And Cheviot's mountains lone;

Henry II.
The battled towers, the donjon keep,

Many of the castles of this age," says an abis-
The loop-hole grates, where captives weep,

written paper in the Quarterly Rericur, (attribute to The flanking walls that round it sweep,

Sir Walter Scott,) “were of great size, and passen In yellow lustre shone.

a certain rude grandeur of design. To the single kerr The warriors on the turrets high,

tower of earlier date, several other towers, both row] Moving athwart the evening sky, Seemed forms of giant height;

and square, were added, united by flanking walls, su Their armour, as it caught the rays,

as to enclose a polygonal court yard, the entrance të Flashed back again the western blaze,

which was usually between two strong contiga : In lines dazzling light.

towers. An outwork, called the barbican, often stii. St. George's banner, broad and gay,

further defended the approach, as well as a meat a Now faded, as the fading ray

drawbridge. Plates of iron covered the massive doors Less bright, and less, was flung;

in front of which the grated porteullis was let dose The evening gale had scarce the power

through deep grooves in the stone-work; and orerhed To wave it on the donjou tower,

projected a parapet resting on corbels, between stid So heavily it hung

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