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tUcr can wbea they toll the pig." Lord PeJm. eretoa waa brave. Intrepid, and honor abl ao stain of baaeaeaar ever eeiled hia repntariom. Tbe toanorr in which be comported ltimclf to Jird John KuHaell retlscf the mstrnaniiiiity of ths Kugllra ituteatnaa, tbe looJemfion of the English gvntliBB. If" be Ras-all' mea be good and proper man, I should vuh to appoint htm; because ye know Russell one treated tne In a very rough wit.

snd 1 da-tr to show him tbst I bar quite forgotten Car. T. At awes aa Um brsath that gees rMB lb lips sf the wait Te. A wtAri a tb rlfla Iwtit 1 bsl glimmer ef frosty aUrrts, At wilj aa tiis wind 4 that tear curled red leaf Is tba air, lb aong.1 have avr snag. 7a slember.

a kindred tlasea 3 said tba eaehairted rby-as, Tim ra I opea aay ayee 1 bi (host sf a poem flies. -Of tba tatarflnaat traloa JN'otevee am reawaiBei I know bv bit pals' beat It waa eotasttuag wild and sweet. Asd toy heart ia strangely stirred ify aa uoresaembered ward) -1 strive, bat swIre 1a rata. To recall tae luet refrain. Ou eoeae mlraealoaa ciar Park-sue will corns aud atari Ja aoiaa aolmajrinad Spring 1 nay Had bit voioe.

and alog Tb one 1 nave Barer line. A (Untie JfmOiw fvrjune. T. U. ALDRICII.

1 BwaBBBBBBBBBaaBfBBVBJBBBBBBw Kkmixiecekceb or iLiUB JUJt. I consider that 1 was quit Justified in using evsa this naughty child's threat to prevent Mis Tree from doing tat might very well bare ended la Boms dangerous and ludicrous accident nor Jld I feel at all guilty toward ber of the species of malic prepense which Malibraa exhibited toward Sen tag. when they eaag in the opera of Borneo and uliet en the firat oecaalon of their appearing together luring their brilliant publie career in England. IMalibi an'a iniac hir rouDea partook cf the force and Teraatillty of her extraordinary penlaa. and haTing tormented poor Uademoi-aeile Sontag with erery coneeirahle freak end caprice urine the whole rehearsal of the opera, at length, when requested by her to aay in what part el the stage she intended to fall in the last scene, she, Ualibran, replied that she really didn't know." that she "teally couldn't 'tell; sometimes she died in one place, sometimes in another.

Just as it happened, or the humor took ber at the moment." As Sontag was bound to expire in lonng proximity to ber, and was, I take it, much lea liable to spontaneous inspiration than her fierr riral, this wa by no means satisfactory. She had. bothing ilk the orgunal senilis of the other woman, but was nevertheless a more perfect artist. Wanting weight and power and passion for such parts aa JVerma. Medea, Semira- tnitU, she was perfrct tn the tenderer and In ore patoetio parts of Amino, Lueia di Jammrmoor, XAnda di Chamouni exquisite ia tb 2oeia and Carolina of tbe In my opinion, -quite unrivaled In her CowNteas, in the Nosse, and indeed in all rendering of Mosart's musis.

to whono peculiar and pre eminent genius hers seemed to me in sow degree allied, and ot whnee works abe was tbe only interpreter ever beard gifted alik with tba profound German understanding 0f tnualo and the enchanting Italian power of rendering it, liar mod of utter ins auund. af putting forth ber voio (the teat whieh all but Italians, or most carefully Italian-trained singers, fail In,) was as purely unteutonio as oaible. fib was on of the most perfect am iter a 1 ever beard, and suggests to my tbe quaiat praia of tb gypsy vooai per-toruanc ia tue ballad of Johnny Van They saag sweet bo very eempUte." Sh was the firat otina I ever heard who introduoed into th aeen of the musio Jee- son ltbodss air, with tha famous violin.varia tiona, stbioh she performed by way of a vocalise, to tb utter amasement of her noble musio master, I should think, as well as ber audieuoe. Mademoiselle KUsson is thaonlv prima donna aiooa bar dsy who baa at all reminded me of bouta, who was lovely to look at, delightf ul to 'listen to, rood, amhibl. and cbarminir.

and ceinpared wita llaiibraa, like tbe evening a tax to a eomeC Detested by Jtaubran'a vicious- ikoss hearsing ner aean-scene, sne rosignea iiersell to to impromptu lapossa upon Ler, and prepared to loilow ber Jiomeo, wherever sas might choose to lie; but when th evening came, slaiibru contriTed til eioa to tb foot-ligbts and In front of th curtain Bontag or necessity fot lowed, and fell beaide her there tb drop came down, aud ther lay tba tw fair eorpsea in full view of th audieuoe, of course unable to rite or move, toll a couple of stags footmen I tn red plush breeches ran in to the resoue, took I tbe Oead Capulet and aiontagu eaob by tbe 's s'Jouldsrs and dragged tbeui off at tbe aide i toones tba bpanish woman in tbe heroism of nr malioiouAaess submitting to this ignominy lor tb pleasure ot subjecting ber- gentle Ger tuan rival to it, Aladam alalibran was always avo ot'jact of th greateet tntereet to me, not only en account of ber extraordinary genius and great and Various gilts, bus be-us of th many details 1 board of ber youth from XL da la b'orest, th French Consul ia New-York, who knsw ner as Jiari Uaroia, a wild and wayward but moat wouder- tul girl, under ber father' raanioal and harsh rule during th Um tbev spent iu tbe United blatea. lie said that there was not a piece of Juruiture in thair apartment that had nut been thrown by tb lather at to daughter's bead, in tb course of tb moral and ertietio training lis bestowed upon ber; it is, perhaps, wou-4terfui that aucosss tn either direction should lisve been tb result of such a system; but, upon th whole, tb singer seems to bar profited mot than tba woman from it, aa Bugnt aav neea ex pec tea. are la was an in-eom parable artist, actor, and singer, (no suou Jem (rioMUM baa ever been beard or eeea since,) and bestowed upon ali bis children the finest musical education thai ever mado great natural gifts available to th utmost to thdir possessor. I suppos it was iromnim.too, that Ataxic derived with ber bpanish blood th Tehemeut, anoontroUabl nature of which at. de la Forest told me be bad witnessed such extraordinary exhibitions in ber Kir i hood.

said an would lly into paaaions of rag in wtuoa ah wonld set ber teeth ia th sleeve of ber Bilk gown, and tear and rend great piece out ot th thick texture as if it were muslin a test of tb strength ot thoe beaatUul teeth, as well as of tbe lury ot ber passion, She then would tall rigid on th lloor. without motion, breath, pulse, or color, tuough uot fainting, in a sort ot catalepsy of raa. Her marriage wita th old i reach iuer ebant 3d ail ore a was spedilv iollowed by their separation he weut to France, leaving bis tliTia dsvii of a wii in Xsw-lork, and duving 'ius abseuo sh need to writ letters to hua est, who was ner in urnst -lriend and adviser sad took a paternal interest in all ber attVurs. Iheee epistlee oitea expressed so much cordial kindoeas and warutth of feeling toward ber bua- band that ai.de la Forest, who knew ber sepatsv-tiou uen him to have been autireiy ber own act and oitwioe. and an decent agreement and bar menieus lxie batwoen tbena absolutely impossible, was completely pur sled by such protes-Sious toward a man wita whom sa was determined never to live, and occasionally said to bar, bat do you mean I Do you wisu 3 our busbaud to come here to you ur do you wonteoipUte goiag to hua I la abort, what ia Tour intention, ia wriung with ail tbia adco Uon to a man trees waom xeu bTe asparated ouraeiliM Upoa tnia view of ber wnica did nut appear to hav struck br, Ji.de la Forest said, sh would (mstaa of rswnuog it) tack oa to with th most la-cLbxous inouusislency a sort of revocatory oodi-nl.

ia the efesp ot a postscript, expressing ber ueciued desire that Uer busbaad should teuuua a her he was. and bar owa explicit determination never again to enter into ear nor uu-ma to relatione with buu than were eowpauble wiui a eorrepondenee treoj bpposii stue of lbs aUantio, whatever psrsoeal regard or af ecUoa lor lum bar letter migat appear to express to ths contrary notwithalanoing. To my Mteat re- Kret 1 oulr saw ber act eaoe, though 1 bsard ker a-'Bg at concert ana ia private re paadi. only persoual aneounter with ber took pise id a curtoua fashiou. sly lather and myself were acting at Xisnobeeter, and had Just nuisbed pariormiag the parts ot Mr.

and Mr. Me rig, eae a teat, ia 1 be Uaaaeeter. Ou our main from tbe theatre, aa I was alow ly and in considerable axhaustioa loliowmg my latiMtr up tbe hotel stairs, thinking less of tbe wos 1 had been leuaing thaa ot th tea and bread and butter of wbica tbey had idt me in Itreat need ae we reaebed the landing by oar utuug roia a door immediately oBOoaiso to it tw uien, and a lady Ureaaed like UUMritea't of.uiMM, aU in white mueUa. rushed eat of it ana upoa my at ber' a Ureaat. aobbina; oat ii jti-icliT.

"On. lar. KiaiW. iht dsjkr, unit W. I 1 ia wae aiiaa.

iuiiuna, wnrtar th effect of my father's performance of 21 Ommueter, whtub sh had just wit ae Coeae. qnotb my father, who wae otd eaooKh to bave been bera. and knew her very-; well.) patting ber consolingly en th Coido no, my dear Madame Mtllbran. eoavj pee vourself; don't now, Marie, don't my dear; eblld all which waa taking plaee on th pub- lie Btaireasei whil I looked on wide-eyed: amasem'at behind. Madam Malibran having'; auflered herself to be led tut our room, grad-: aally eompoaed bereeif, ate ber eupper withj us.

expressed herself with much Bund eathuas-i asm about my performance,) and gar! aie a word of advice aa to aot losing any; mv beijrbt (ot which I bad ndo to spare) by stoopinz, saying very amiably that, being at; a diaaovantaee aa to ber owa stature, sh bad; never wasted a quarter of aa inch of it. Ihisj Uttls rr flection upoa ber owa proportions must: bavs been meant aa a panaeea to pay vanity fori ber criticism of my deportment My person, wasmdeedof tbashomstt I ttss that thing' abhorred of Byron, a dumpy Woman;" but; ah had th figure of a nymph, anil waa rather above thao below middle height. I There was tnj other respect some likeneee between us she! waa certain It not realty bandsome. but ber; erea were maznificeut. and ber arbole eounte- banee wae very frace Ann KtmA Ms ta jLUaHtie jor June.

Sacred Mcsic. Ia tba fourth century th choral muio of tba Cliristi'an Church of th East was introduoed to Roiae by Su Am-; brose. Bishop of Milan. This musio is founded on certain of the ancient Qroek jnodes of music Tb Ambrosian chant, whose base is the Greek tetrachord, bas subsisted unchanged through all the great reforms and innovations; in the art of- musio untd the present. Tbe sol emn chant of 8t Ambrose bas sung in- the Cathedral of Milan almbst to.

ths present dsy, and those who have beard tjie grand Ambrosian chorale, Ilerr Oott, ditjh lob-en wir," still retained in tbe Lutheran Cburc-h, have beard music composed not later than fourteen bunared years ago, and which is probably akin to th hymns obanted in the temples Greece. Two centuries alter the time of Ambrose. Pop Gregory made' the first great reform of asc-red music For! tbe Greek scale he substituted that of the octave. A great deal of. controversialwriting exists as to the exact nature of the Gregorian cboral melodies, and tb number of the so-called Gregorian chants or I totes, which must be understood as being formulss of melody.

Of tbe-m tones there are no less than fourteen, founded upon the' seven notes of the octave, but this number waarea trie ted by certain exigencies of Church song, for reasons vary obvious to those whq have stu-lied the science of music, and not very iexplicable to those who have not, and their number, as they have reached us, is but eight. And tbis number was summarily settled, alter apparently some difference of opinion by a mandate of Cbarleniafrne, Ucto torn sumcere It appears to suffice that there should be eight Th term eaiUue planu or firmut, given to tb Grccorian chant, is clearly derived from tbe fact of its being jsunz in notes of equal length. From the Gregorian period almost uutd the fifteenth century the history of musio is enveloped in obscurity, which tbe efforts of its historians bare done little to clear away. A musical Gibbon is indeed wanted to bridge over the ebasm betiroen the musio of tbe early Curistisns and jthe tuusio of the Uensieeanee. In so much perplexity is music during thl whole period enveloped, that certain writers almost soeui to think themselves at liberty to form theories to suit their own conceptions, i It is, at any rate, certain that secular musical art reacted upou the music Of tbe Church, jand more or less modiliedit, audit is conjectured; by some, although by no means established that tbe mu-eical art of tbe troubadours, wbicti would naturally bave bwn the higbeot development of meauxval secular music, received its first aud chief impulse lrotni the Saracens of fcpain and Italy.

What is! noteworthy during tb long period jfrom Pope Urecury to the Renaissance is that attempte were from, tiuu to time made to reconoile musical art with musical science. The application of harmony to Church ma-do ia commonly connected 1 with tbe invention of tb organ; but this applies only to the mors perfected organ of a oompura-tivelv late period. Th invention of the organ in the third century by Sti Cecilia is almost certainly a myth. Pope Vitaliauf ia 66d, ia eaid to bave first employed the orbu iu Church musio. But organs were not common till some time after th death of Charlemagne, and we bar an account of orcan buildihjr by a monk, written two hundred years atrer this period, by wbich we can clear perceive bow imperfect an instrument passed under that name even in tbe eleventh century.

When the chor-aie, or priminvspalm tune, was sung to the organ, it certain -that narmouio combinations would balr been introduced, even if they bad not, as is mora likely, originated very long be lore. Tb enormous advance; of formal development wbsanj our art owes to the Belgian school of musio during the fifteenth aud sixteenth centuries, is well known to the student of musical history. Josquin liepres (born before 1400) ia the most oelebraiteu master of th Belgian school proper. But it may also eouat among its members one of the ereatest masters of all times. Goudimei's pupil, tbe divine Faleetrina, (oorn wbo, although Italian by birth, artistically belongs to tue school of th Netherlands, bbortly before the time ot this great composer and reformer of tb musical art, we have it on excellent authority that music ran a very great e-iek of being altogether suppressed aa aa accessory to worship.

Tbe Council of Trent seriously debated whether th musio of tbe Cburoh of I tbe period, depraved as it wsa in style and taste, was not a acaadai to religion. San; CaHo Borromeo waa appointed, with other, eeclesiaitics, to advise apoa th aubjeou "Tub Courch demanded that tb woros chanted 'Should be distinctly articulated, and that the musical accompaniment ahouid be stnctlvj subordinated to taeir sense. Th musicians 1 affirmed tnat the rulee of tbe art mad this tin Tbe verdict th great Benedietiue reformer, whose aim ia lit was the restoration of ecclesiastical discipline and th simplicity of purer tunes, seemed about to be given agaiust tbe association of musio, ia its then degraded state, with tn service of religion, when, fortunately for musio, Pales trina was appealed to. His trreat mass, now known as the Mass of Pop Maroelius." was performed before tbe Pone and Saint Charles, aad the audience, aa they listened to th solemn strains this noble composition, perceived bow important an accessory of th worship of God might still be found in music Asa Quariertji AVagiisiws. si i Tbi CarRCS or EsotaNp.

I regard the Church ot England as, in fast, a great national society for the promotion of wnat is commonly sailed goodneee, and for promoting it through tb most effectual mant possible, tb only means which are really, aad truly effectual for tb object through jtb means' of tb Christian religion aad of the Bille. This plain practical object is undeniably th object ot th Cburan of England and of th clergy. "Our province, ssys Bailer, whos sayings com th mere readily to my mini because I hav been very busy wita biia) lately is Virtus and religion. lre and ma liners, th science ot improving tb temper and making the beAvt Sbotter. This la the field assigned us tjo cultivate bow much: It has neglected is indeed Mj whs should tied out sua rule to assist us in Hhis work would uesorv infinitely better of mankind; than all tba improvers ot other kuowledge put togetber." i bis is Indorsl true religion true Caristianivy, vH pUleelux," says -tba issUanoN, f-ui solas tiluss saam emtndaUonem dif fonutUr Lndoubtedly this' is' so; and ths morn ws emu to sea anu icei it to so, in more a bail we ret a happy aense of cleamea aad eertaiaty iu religiou.

iiowj to put a new construction! upon many thimcs that are said in tb lli tie, to point out error's la tb Bible, errors in ths dsalmgs at theologians with it, is exactly th sort of "other knowledge" wbich Butler disparages by eomparieoa with a kuowledge awrw important, torbap bs goes too tar ansa be disparages it so absolutely aa in another plao bs noes, where be make Moses soneludav and appears agree with Xloses ia concluding, that; lAs aWy ktiftedge wbich as of Hany'" avail tons is test hich teaehee aa our duty or assists as ia the due bar of iu" eaje he, tb disoovcries mea of deep research and curious inquiry serve the caus of rirtu and ro-liKioo. th way of proof, motive to practice, or aaaiatsaoa in it or if tbey tend to render lite leas uanappy and promote its satisfactions, then tbey are meet ussrulJy employed but bringing things ta luht, alone aad oi it sell, is of no luaaner of Use any otherwise thaa aa atortainmma aad alivcxaioa. Brugiatz tauia to Uut as sat aropesiy is be saekeii ou Itbmk. sisiits) fa this fashion. Still, With th low eotaoaratir rank which Butler assicas to it 1 will sot quarrel emd when ta urtre that knowledre is not our proper beepine," and tnat ft xeaearrb and eurious inqntry should just bs put ia mind' not to mistake what tbev are we may all ef us readily admit that bis aHmorri tiona are wis aad aalutarv.

And therefore tbs object of the Church, which Is tn large tbs promotion of goodness and tbs business of the elerzv. which is to teach men tbHr duty anil to assist them la the diseharc of it, do resllv interest mors, and do appear la my eye aa things tanch mors valuable and important thaa tbs object and I business pursued in too writinrs of mine wbich are in neat km, writiujra wbich seek to put a new construction on muh ia the Bfhln. to alter ths current ertticism of it, to ravalidats tb eonola-sions of theologians from it. If tb two are to conflict, I had far rather that it should be tba objrt and business of those writings which should bay to give way. Moat eertaralv ths establishment of an Improved biblical criticism, or th demolition of tbe svstems of theologians, will never in Itaelf avail to teach men their dnryor to assist them in tbe discbarze of it.

Perhaps sven I no one can very much (rive himself to snch tasks without running sows risk of over-valuine theii impor-tancs and of beinB- diverted by them from practice. But there are times when practice itself, when tbe verv object of the Chnrsh and of ths clergy the promotion of poodles tbroasrh tbe instrumpntality of the Christian relizion and ot tbe Bible is endsn-gered, with many persons, from the predominance of the systems of theologian. from tho want of a- new and better construction than theirs to nut upon the Bible. And ours is a time of this kind such, at least, is mf conviction. Nor are persons free to aay that we had better all of as stick to practice, and reaoive not to trouble ourselves with speculative questions of biblical and theological criticism.

No. auob questions catch men in a season and manner wbich does not drpnd on their own will and often their whole spirit is bewildered by tnero, their former hold on practice seems threatened. Well, then, at this point and for those persons, the criticism whioh I have attempted ia designed to come in, when Tor want of some such new criticism theirpractieal bold on tlie Bible and on tbe Christian religion seems to be threatened. Tbe criticism is not presented as something universally salutary and indispensable, ar less as any substitute for a practical hold noon Christianity) and the Bible, or ot at all comparable value with it. The user may even, if he likes, having in view the nsxs Which beset practice from tbe misem-ployment ef such criticism, say while he uses it that he is but making friends throuzh tbe mammon of unrizhteoosnes.

It is evident that the author of such criticism, holding this to be its relation to the object ot the Caurcn of England and to the business of the clertv, and holding it: so cheap by comparison with that object and that business, is by no mans constituted, through the fast of bis baring published iu an enemy of the Cnurch and clergy, or precluded from feeling and expressing a hearty desire lor their preservation. Matthew jtmoid, infMmaniUan't Magazine. Ths CHUF.cn is Spain. Tho distrust of and dislike to the tyranny of the Church are very marked and palpable features in the character and conversation of the Spanish peasant of to-day. True, the little children still run out from street cornar and blind alley to kiss the hsnd ef tho pissing priest, aud beseech bis blessing; trae, the womon have in the houses and pray to, the imie of Christ, aaint.

Virion, or martyr; but, little by little. the male poor population is bsing alienated from tbe Church. They do not like the era.lual return to plaoe and power of the Jesuits ujy, the men detest It, and are not afraid openly to arow their detestation. But lie women still, woman-like, cling to the Church authority and the sympathy of Santa Maria la Nirgen." And here be it said that, although in too many oases men! of immoral lives, randcred necessarily immoral by tbe enforced system of celibacy in this Eastern climate, yet that the priests are not bad or bru tal. Thet 1 constantly live in fornica tion, but, so iar as their slender means allow, they are generous in aa impulsive, saat-terly, unorganised way to the poor.

Aal they live, in a manner, up to their light ths falsa, flickering, and will-o'-the-wisp light that has been held before their eyes from their child hood. Ton enter a saooud-cVasi carriaze. aud three priests, in their flowing canonicals, are ths occupants. Each one has in his hands bis open book ot prayer, and is, in whispers or muttered tones, praying for it is the hour for prayer, and neither the screech of enjina ner puff ot cigar-smoke will divert them from their purpose. To bis honor bs it said, no priest ever jokes or makes light of the Sacrament of the Most, (be culminating mystery and eaera-rium of the "The i agaboud boys make light of this, however; and, as among i the Italian peaiantry yen near the words ot "frita Hoetiai" i.

Fried Host, so you do in bpain. JPrila kottia, maldHa," is no uncommon form of eurse or execration. Do tbey not visit tbe sick and the hospitals 1 inquired a ew days since, speaking of tbe Jesuits, wbo bad newly returned to a town wherein 1 was staring. No," said my pleasant mformant. but tbey visit the teAoritae." And how will they live said Ou.

don't you fear about tbein they will take very good care aoout the money part of the business." Tbe Roman Churcu in England does command respect in Spain it aoes not to an great extent do ao. There are many anecdotes of family love and ties of affection of tbe tkoeu sense of justice felt by tbe Spanish! poor: of their great and genial courtesy; of their simple and sincere hospitality, i As regards peasant morality. I will only say that, among the decent peasantry, tbe bearing of illegitimate children is not so eommou aa in England. But tbe Church bas aot helped tbem. alas 1 to be either moral or educated and tbey feel, and are beginning to realise, this fact.

Only a few nights sine two Spanish peasants were sharing witb me my bumble supper. The church ol tae pueoto was opposite to our windows. Suddenly we beard loud shouts in children's voices of "I'xxlrinol padHno!" "There's been a ehnsteniuK, i said one of my! guests, "and i musical one, for which. I'll be bound fifty 'reals bave been paid." "Do th poor pay also 1 asked. Ves," was the auswsr, pay tbey must, or tbe euro won't enristeu tbe child tbey must pay at least a dollar." Then, continuing, taie peasant suit! "Wars a Government Minister, I'd knock doaa evefy church to-morrow for una igteeia as aay seas (rue grand comtrcio," t.

a charon is no inure thau a great bouse of business. This is true. Everything bas been, in the Spantsb Church system, a matter of payment, i li" yoa can pay well for masses for tbe soul, tor a grand funeral, for a musical ebrie-tening. all is well but if not, vou are simply UtU ou in tbe cold." Witness tbe funerals of tbe poor, i No priest goes with tbs body; no ntss within ths cburoh wails attend it; no ligbta or igorgooua-flower-covered "coiUus are seen, as in ths case of the rich. No.

Tbe funeral of tbe poor is a sorry sight a sorry sight indeed. The corpse of the poor luan is thrown, wound in a sheet, into tbe coma of the 1 own Council, (a coain kept lor tbe use ot the poor,) and carried by lour rutnaus to tbe cemetery there is no religious ceremony'; arrived at toe cemetery tbe poor man'a body is shot into a great, yawniny, sandy pit; a quantity of quicklime i is heaped. above it; the eond is i scraped over; ths thing is ended. Suob, I i tbe burial of tbe poor ot those wbo. ia colloquial language, cannot pay la bpain.

Ths cxiortione ot the Churcu upon tbe poor have beea great very great indeed. Bat a few months eiue a poor peasant-woman was unable to pay lor ths burial sf ber child, and so tbs euro refused to bury it- si'ha littls body lay stiff, cold, aud putrefying at last ths civil guards, (noblest of tbe noble iu Spain.) broke open ths gates of ths eeuMtery iand buried tbe ebild. Xata etory auruly audws that ail sacred matters have neea mads ia this country completely matters of money that tbs curates do not trust i the word of tbe poor, for tbis rsro evidently believed that the Wfcmea bad th monsy wherewith to bury her chud; that they reiy too much on good works yoa must pay your dollar," as a aebt of gratitads to tb Cnurch and that under each a system tbe poor naturally writhe aad are lndicuaut with good Wbere, then, it will be asked, bee the hope of Spaia 'l Caurcn ia hopelessly corrupt tb Govern- meat a mere bouse of basinets to male money tb upper-uiMidie rdssses very corrupt, ima. But tas bop ef Spain lies in -tbe; neasaut- classes and Loose of tb lower-middle caas. A wore Cbriatian, noble spirit is creeping, aiowly, but yet very eurely.

into tbe zauada of tbe lower oniers. And if you ask whence it com, aad bow it cooiet, 1 can only say, ia answer, that laataa au wind, bleweta wuera it lxatalia. aor aaaaS sboa toll w'minoe it comet b. npr whitoor it costo, ao aeither eaa yxm tell wbenffi cometh, or bow will result, the growing Chrirnaa spirit among tba down-treddea Spaniau poor. Tempi Ber.

AZIEUU8 WARD. I It was not loon; before tbe breaking (rat of ths war that abort paragraphs becaa to go tbs rounds of, the American-papers under tbs iignatnr ot Artsmns Ward aad ia a very short tiros ther ntteraaoes of this personage were mors familiar to tb ryeat reading publie of tbs United State than thoss sf any writer who bad aver addressed tbem on any subject not distinctly connected with either religion or polities. Mr. Brown bad given this nams to a pure creation of bis ovn, an old Yankee show-man a shrewd, vulgar, aa ignorant vagabond and from tbe point'of view of the said Artemus Ward, without for a moment speaking out of character, he addressed the American pablio upon the topics of tbe day. One of ths characteristics of fhe showman's communiostions ia bis brevity.

Mr. Brown would fill on? side ot a pieod of bis note paoer. sign it Artemas Watd. send it to ths Cleveland Plain Dealer, or the New-York Vanity -fair, and in a week bis paper would be repeated by every journal from Boston to San Francisco, and a circulation obtained such aa no au tbor could look for by any ordinary nvde of publication. It is to be presnmed that literary labors, of whose results it was open to all tbe world to avail itself, could not have been profitable in a pecuniary sense, and this it obvioai'y was which induced Mr.

Brown to turn lecturer. I am not particularly concerned; with bis proceedings as a lecturer, except incidentally and so far as they affect his character as an author. When so well-known a writer announced his intention to appear before an audience bis success was certain beforehand, and crowds flocked to the lecture-room prepared to find themselves addressed by the personification of tbe character of tbe old rowdy showman witb whom tbey were so familiar. Their disappointment is described as almost ludiorous When they saw before them a quiet, decorous, somewbaf delicate-looking young man of.lea than twenty-five, with a good deal of the dress, the manners, and the enunciation of a gentleman. Mr.

Charles Farrar Brown, whose brief literary career lasted but five or six years, and ended, with his life, in 1866, at the early age of thirty, was of a respectable family in New-England, lie had got an education ft little better thau usually falls to tbe lot of a boy of tbe middle classas in America that is, a very much higher one thau fall to the lot of a lad of similar position in tbis country but his relations were poor, and he began his struggle with existence some way dowu in the social szale. Like his countryman. Franklin, he was apprenticed to a printer, and learned to be skillful with the com-poiirg-stick before he had taught himtelf to make any profitable use of the pan. As a yonth he wandered from city to eitv of New-Eagland, finally settling in Boston, where it was, I believe, that he first began to contribute short tales and essays to the newspapers. It was in the columus of Vanity Fair a sort of New-York Punch that he first wrote the famous Artemus Ward" papers.

here was this in Brown, which distin-enisbea him from moat otber bumonsts that be waa a dramatic artist of decidedly great power. IIis conception and delineation of the cbaracter of the sbow-inao, quite apart from tbe Jests which he makes him utter, come very near to true genius. Settiux aside the conceptions of Dickens the Gainpe. tbe Wellers, and the Pecksniff we greatly doubt if this century bas produced any cbaracter of greater comic power, any tbat will float longer down the stream of time, than tbe Artemus Ward of Mr. Charles Brown.

He never speaks but iu character, aud tbe reader gets alinoet, at last, to believe in his "three moral bares," his "kangaroo." his "snaix." wax figzera of O. Waahington, and General Tayler, 4cc, besides several misoal- lanyus moral wax statoots ot celebrated piruts and murderers." and so fortb. characteristic spelling' of the illiterate old vagabond bas been criticised as but a mechanical mode of getting; a laugh; but it is surely legitimate enough, seeing that a writer has no other means of rendering characteristics of manner, while the actor has tbereeOurcesof voioeaud manner. In- Mr. Browu'e ease, inis-xpeltiMg is almost abused but the abuse itself is a source of lun, so bold, and so utterly unlooked for are some ot his phonetic renderings.

The ebowman bas a keen eve to his 'own interests, a shameless disregard ot all sort of houesty and truth iu tbe pursuit of those interests, and a strong conviction that most orders ut men areneitner better, nor worse than Herein lies the humorist's mode of attack. He abandons his crention from the lirt, ahowa him up unreservedly, tbat he may bring him in as king's evidence against his accomplices. Here is a letter to a country editor, headed. One of Mr. Ward's Business LnUert I shall hav my handbills dun at your offiss.

Depend upon it. 1 want you ahouid git my handbills up in flamin stile. Also git up a tre-menjus excitement in yr paper 'bowt my on-paraleld Show. We must fetch the public sum-Low. We must wurk on tbeir feel in a.

Cum the moral on 'em strong. If it's a temprance community, tell 'em 1 ained tho pledge fifteen minits arter lse burn; but on tbe contery ef your pepm take their tods, say Mr. Ward ia as Jcnial a ieller ae we ever met, full of conwiv-falitv. At tbe life an Sole of tbs Sosnul Bored. If you sajranythmg abowt my: ahow, say my snaiksisaa haruilias as tbs new born Babe.

W'bat a interesua study it is to see a sewologi-cal animil lice a anaik under perteok subjeo-shuu I My kangaroo is the most larfable little euss 1 ever saw. All lor 15 cents, lamanxyua to skewer your infloounce. I repeet in regard to tbem handbills tbat I shall git 'em struck orf up to your printin othss. 1 Mv perlitercal seutiments mtree with yourn exackly. 1 know tbey do, becawa 1 never saw a man whoos didn't.

Respectively yores. A. VVxao. The Artemus Ward literature it is still scattered, and tb task of collecting it in a single volume from the columns of contemporary newspapers, and arranging it intelligently and acourdiug to date, ia still to be performed consists of letters to the editors of various newspapers on the political aud social topics of tbe day, and to bis strong-minded, middle-aged wile. As the fictitious showman grows into lame, he thinks it due to the-: puolio to give torn leadin incidents" bt his lite.

1 bav no be writes to a newspaper editor. that a article onto my life, gramalty-caiiy jerked and properly punktooated, would bo a addition to tue chois iiteratoor of tbe day. i tbe yooth of Ameriky it would bs vally-ble as sbowin bow high ninnykle of fame a man can reach who oummeuss his career with a small canvas tent and a pea green ox. wbich beruujod it wiT wuiietcraicbin hieself aui tte center pole, causin' in Kab way, a dis-cnminatin' mob to say bumbugs would not ao down iu their village. '1 he ox 'reaoomeu agn-cuitooral pui-aoots shortly afterwards.

1 next tried my hand at giviu Blind-man eoucerta, appeariu as the poor buud-man myself. But uie lafamus cuss wbo 1 bired to lead me round towus ia the daytime to excite sympathy drank freely of spiritoous licker unbe-knowns to me ou day, aud wblie under tbeir indouauce be led me into the) canal. I bad either to tear the green bandige from my eyes or bs drsaadsd. I tbo't I'd restore xuj eyesight. In writia about tbsse things, Ur.

Editor, kinder smooth 'em over. Speaa of 'em as eo-eentrissitiea of gen'us. It yoa see fit to kriticis niv Show, soeak your mind treelv. 1 do not object to kricieiea. tell tae public, ia a caudid aud graceful article, that my shew abound in mora! and start lia eooriosities, any one of whom is wuth dub-ble tbe price of aduiiasioa.

i 1 bav thus lar spoae of myself exelooslTly as a exhibiter. 1 wae boras ia tbs Stat of Main of parents. As a infant 1 attracted a great deal of attention. Tbs nabera would stand over my cradle tor hours and say. liow bright that little lae looks! How musb it noeer 1 have all or sustained a good moral character.

1 was never a KaUroad Director in lit. ,.) 1 am a early riser. 1 may add that I am also bald-beded. I keep two sows. 1 aai 06 (ob) years of Time, witb it relentless scytne, is ever busy.

'1 Be Old Sextoa gataers tbem bs gathers them ia I keep a pi ysar. Trooly yourh. Xaxsutrs Wain -v Tb ibovBia baa aa ovarwacuag aad licdi- a- uaaartsMa sadst tb aloe et Ids lutaHsst atteraues on affairs tend things. i 1 "To stoodeat aad be writes, moat bave noticed aad admired, ia vans parts of tbs United States of America, largo yelkr barhlbiUa, wbich sot only air gems of art ta theirselves, bat tbsy truthfully sit forth ths Bt fractious of my show a show, let me ber obearve. tbat contain maay uvin wild animals, every one of which bas got a Beautiful Moral.

7 Them handbills Is sculpt in New-York, tc I annooly repair he to git earn mare on 'era. dt beii? ber I tbo't I'd issoo a Address to tb public on matters and things. Sines last I meysnderod 1 these streets, I bave bin all over the Puoifie Slope and Utah. I cum back now with my virtoo nmmpared, bnt I't got to git some new clothes. Many changes bas taken plaoe, svsn duxin' my short absence.

6c. sum on 'em is solium to contemplate. The house in Varwieh Street, wbere 1 used to Board, is betu' torn" down. That house, which was rendered memoriable by my uvin' into it, is 'parsin' btvsv! parsin' away But aome of the timbers will be mado into canes, which will no sold to my admirers at tbe low price of one dollar eaen. Inns is changes goia' "on contineriv.

in the New World it is war in the Old World Empires is totterin' and Dysenteries is crnmbhn. Tbeso canes is cbeap at a dollar." As bis wanderinz avocation lead bim into various parts of the countrv, his letters are filled with his impressions of what be sees Bktst I write you tin from Boston, the modern as it is denomynnated, altbo' 1 skurcely know what those air. 1 11 giv you a kursoory view of this city. I'll klassify the paragrafs under seprit headins, arter the stile of toose Emblems of Trojtb and Pooritr, the Washington Spread-eagleism, bunkum, and all the varieties ot sham and vulgar patriotism are abominations to Mr. Brown, and be never loses a chance of ridiculing them.

I went over to Lexington yes'd'y. My Boo-sum hove with solium emotions. 4 Sc. I said to a man wbo was drivin' a yoke of oxen, 'this is where our Revolutionary foretathers asserted tbeir independence and spilt tbeir Classic Wall the man said, 'it's good for white beans and potatoes, but as regards raisin' wheat. Tain't worth a dam At the cloee of tbe American war, a great deal ot nonsense was being talked of Uuiou sentiment in tbe beaten South, and of tbe lofty consciousness of tbeir new-got freedom entertained iy the emancipated, negroes.

He writes from Richmond The old man finds bisaeU once more in a sunny climb. I am here a few days alter tho city catterpillertulated. My nabera seemed surprised astonisht at this darin' bravery onto tbe part of a man at my time of life, but our family was never know'd to quale in danger's stormy hour. My lather was a sutler in tbe Kevolootiou War." My brother," be says to the negro hotel waiter, air you aware that you've biu 'manci-pated Do you realize how glome it is to be iree I Tell me, my dear brother, does it not seem like some dream, or do you realize tbe great fact in all its livin' and holy magnituod I He sed he would take some gin." He exposes tlie true causes ot the professed loyalty to tbe Union in tbe South There is raly a great deal of Union sentiment in tbis city. 1 see it on ev'ry band.

I met a man to-day I am not at lioerty to tell his name, but be is a old and inflocentooial citi-sen of Richmond and sea be, Wby we've biu tightin' agin tbe Old Flag I Lor bless me. bow sing'lar He then borrer'd five aoilars of me, and bust into a flood of tears. "Sed another (a man of atandin', and former ly a bitter re Duel,) ijet us at once stop tbia edeoebun of Biud I The Old Pla- ia goou enutt lor me. be added, 'you air from the North I Have you a doughuut or a piece of custard pie about you Our extracts have been chosen rather to give some general idea ot Air. Brown's great personification than to produce any evidence ot his powers as a humorist.

The delineation ot tbe abowman'a character, hie khrewdnesa and his Ignorance, his weaknesses, his vanity, hia combination ot selfishness and geniality, bis owV exaggeration ot every prevailing national absurdity all this is brought out by innumerable little touches of quite inimitable arc. Tbe humor is broad too broad, peanapa, for aome refined readers. There is absolutely no cultur at all. or pretense to it, about Artemus Ward's perlite iiteratoor." 1 have made my extracts with all due deference to the purists, and bave choseu with a view not to shock them, but even as it is, 1 fear many persons ot elevated literary tastes will have read my Quotations with feelings of sickly disgust. It is perhaps because Mr.

Brown somewhat disregarded tbe voices of suob people tbat bis reputation is not so high witb ordinary readers as with those whose critical judgment has ceased to be on trial, and need not fear to pass a bold opinion. It takes more than a commonplace critic to see genius in a literary work where every ordinary rule of grammar and orthography and style is disregarded. Tho mass of commen-place reader laugh at Mr. Brown's but tail to see tbe art that underlies tbem. In this country it was, among the higher classes of Uterary men, that the young American was brat recognised as a true genius.

His reception by sucb men in Londou was remarkable. It waa due, in tbe first place, entirely to his intrinsic merits, and only af was it ennanced and extended by tiie man's own genial nature and cbarm of manner. Even our philosophers delighted in his freshness and originality, and Mr. Carly le himself bas been beard to speak of bim emphatically as the divine Artemus." Tbis high opinion of Mr. Brown does not extend to his own country.

He has no great honor among the more cultivated classes of his countrymen. I have heard bim spoken ot by Americans as quite a low writer, dealing in gross, vulgar jests and feeble puns. The truth is, that tbere is a cause for this, over and above any literary sbortconiings on tae autbor'a part- In politics be was on the losing side, lie was unable to rise to the level ot that earnest spirit of antagonism to Southern pre-teusious and Southern ideas which has made the civil war of America, in the eves of many politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, one ot the grandest spectacles ot this century. He waa blind to the great principle whicb uuderlay tbe struggle, tbougb he could see with unvqualed clearness all those petty meannesses wbich come to tho surface in the course of such great national movements. He was keenly seusible of the baseness of much pretended patriotic valor and devotion, the corrupt on of the great army contractors, the various shifts and hypocrisies of indolence and cowardice, and he made exquisite fun of ali this.

It was not for us a foreign nation, with our then very imperfect knowledge ol American flairs to arrivs all at ones st right Judgment. We took something of Mr. Browu's view of the matter we could see. as Le saw, the straws and the dust caugnt aud twiated in tb, aide eddies, but we many ot us neither knew the direction nor guessed the strength of the great main current of wind. Much that-tbe humorist laughed at richly deserved de-rismn, but when be involved in hi ridicule principles that Were and ar sacred iu tbe breasts of most Americans, be jarred against tbe feelings of bis countrymen, bo it is, as 1 believe, that a people gifted with a very strong aense ot humor, and possessing a very true literary judgment, have failed to appreciate a writer wbo breadtb, in insight, ia perception, and in expression is pre-eminent, and wbo is a true master of all that goes to make a great humorut.

Xtte (Juarterfj Magazine. Nest-building Pisuts. One of tbe most common of our British fishes, tbe tiny stickleback, bas attracted considerable attention ou account of its eurious habit of building a nest rivaling in intricacy ths homes of our feathered frisnds iu whicb it deposits its eggs, and over which it keeps watch and guard till the tiny family are able to enter on the responsibilities of stickleback life. Such precautions are unusual among the snoy tribes, whose eggs are generally left to chance, or, In some cases, adhere to friendly weeds till tbey batch out, and ths young ones face life in tbe world of waters, without a parent's care to guide them. Th lordly salmon makes an apology for a nest by scoopicg out a bollow or redd "in ths gravel bed ot tbs itream whicb it ascends for tbs purpose; bat this, ecmpared with tb beautiful workmanship of the etickle-back, is as tbs rook's collection of sticks to ths mossy ball prepared by Jenny Wren for ber bantlings, 'i be instances ef nest-building fishes ars rare, and it is smong tropical species tbat tue majority of them ceour.i Oue of these, whose lovely colours bave caused it to be a nets-aed th raiabow has lately beea introduoed ia limited numbers into Europe, where its beauty bas created quits a furor among tbs aquarium-keepers, and where it excite additional interest en' account of ita poaaeaav tag tbe pecaiianty of building a aast tor tb reception ot the eggs.

Probably tbs first person who bas wstcbsd tbs wbois ef this operation was Monsieur Carbonmar, French aatau-aliat, wh lately save aa account of baa Oeervauoaa bfor ta Pari Asolimatiaatioa Society. As la tbe ess sf fie stickleback. It Is tb mala fish which performs the principal duties uf aurs aad eradie-keeper: but tb aeet of tbe rainbow flab -differs from that of tb stickleback ia tbe tact tbat it floats oa the sur face of tbs water, whersas tbe latter is built among the" weed beneath, Tbe approach of breeding-time Is markka DV tbe increasing beautv of color ta tb anal Isb. wbo dans bis best robes in order to find, favor la tbe eyes of bis mat. His scales then assume all the varied tints ot tbs rainbow, svery movement causing tbem to eeiatillat witb a metallic Inatra and ever-changing baa, bow flashing forth with increased splendor, now dying away for a moment, only to reappear with greater variety and tn ten suv of color.

But bis time is not all givea to coortiiig. He enters on tb duties of bis prospective position -with vigor: and his instinct, amounting almost to sagacity, is thus exemplified fa Monsieur: i.arbonnler'a narrative. Tbe weeds growing in tbe aquarium in which soma of his specimens were confined were of a kind wbich. would not float. The fish tore off bits of the leaves in bis mouth and ex pelled them toward tbe surfaco; buttbeirsuocifie gravity was too great, aud his efforts were ua-avaiing.

Monsieur Car bonnier, with a quick perception of ths fish wants, replaced tbs plants with others sf a fiuer texture, aud then bad the pleasure of seeing the fish renew its attempts with complete success. But tbe fish waa too cunning an architect to trust to the natural flotation ot bis building materials, and after placing a lew pieces together in posi tion, he formed several air-bubbles in a viscid secretion, which be was able to elect from his mouth, and placed them in contaot with his floating nest. Just, in tact, as engineers among ourselves bave proposed to raise tbe Vanguard by means ot immense atr-bacs. tbe rainbow ttsa, wiser thau ourselves, formedbis air-bags and at tached them to bis ship as a precautionary measure, to prevent its sinking from natural instability, collision with piscine Iron sr other untoward causes. Day by day tbe work of knitting together tbe little morsels of weed progresses, till a floating domed island three inolies iu diameter is formed (tbe fish itself is not more than half that length;) but tbis is, so to speak, tnly tbe foundation of the edllice, the roof being in reaiify constructed before any otber part.

Beneath tbia roof a complete circular nest ia built, wbich tbe nsb welds together with tbe greatest industry and patience. aud not foil it is complete does lie oek4iis companion. All this time the female has kept aloof, neither assisting m-r companion nor encouraging him by ber presence in tbs work of nididcation. But now she ia in duced to visit the home of ber suture progeny, and tbe labors of the exemplary parent are redoubled. When the nimuie eggs are laid, he collects them in bis uioutb, and places them carefully within tbe nest, which he coutinually supports with fresh bubbles, lest tbe precious cargo should overweight it.

When all is sate, be stations himself on guard before tbe only opening in tbe nest, and awaits tbe course of eveuta, ready to dofeud his hand iwork against ail comers, while his better-half retires altogether irom tbe scene, iu about three days the eggs begin to hatch out- The parent fish then destroys a number of the supporting air-bubbles, causing tb sest to sink deeper into tbe water, so that none of the young ones lnay be "drowned for tcant of water. As long as be can, he prevents them from escaping from tne paternal roof the title is hardly appropriate, however, for neither father nor mother bas inhabited the house but tbeir strength rapidly increases; and. iust as boy and girls leave home to better themselves, the young ram bow fish burst from the father's apron-strings and are soon exulting in tbeir new-found freedom- Chambers' Journal. Norman Maclsou. As for tbe man him self, anything less like the prim and narrow ideal whicb is in many minus oi tbe Presbyterian preacher could not by possibility be.

Tbat idea), it may be said, bas perished from the minds of those wbo know the clergy of tbe Scotch Church as now existing. And tor the unfortunate sentence which disposed of the entire class as "poor bewildered it was strange to recall it in the presence of that thorough mau of tbo world, who had seen many lands and cities, and grown familiar witn all sorts and conditions of men wise alike in bis management of princes and paupers. He was a great jolly Christiau Bohemi using the most unconventional language freely in his talk, sitting with the Prinee of Walee in the smoking-room at Dunrobin till half past three in the morning, yet never sinking below the highest level of the respect of even such as kne him most familiarly of a happy, un? anxious nature, intensely enjoying tue moral and physical good things of tbis life, scenery, society, music, books, dinner. "Dined jilily," you read in bis dairy, and the word jolly is of frequent occurrence. It was tbe right word, and true, till overwork and tailing bealth at the close brought the first touches ol depression.

Then, btneatn this, there waa the substantial nature of tbe great preacher, tbe seal-ous uiisaiouer, the sympathetic visitor of the sick and poor, the devoted parish priest; the man wbo crowded into his lite tbneo tbe actual work of many a busy uitiu. He was a great moral dvnauiio power his contagious euergy aud heartiness could push ou even the most inert he could galvanise a divvot," which in English is a piece of turf, and iu Scotch means suchlike a mortal -man. He was a wonderfully eloquent and impressive preaeher tbe greatest and most couviuuiug preacher I ever heard," was tbe cstioiatd ot feir Arthur Helps, whose opinion was worth suiuo-tbing. 'The solitary oue among Scotch divines wbo was commonly placed before him waa Dr. (Jaird, Principal uf tbe University of Glasgow, who tor thirty years lias stood without question first among Scotch preachers.

Guthrie and Macleod you would bracket as equal. Still more remarkable was bis power as a platform speaker. When a great meeting of people was getting very tired, through many long-winded and remarkably sensible ore tious, ibs had but to rise, aud instantly attention wa keen, and there was life everywhere, Norman Macleod was never dull that could set be in tbe nature of things. Aud you ieit yoa were getung a tremendous push in the direction in wbich he wanted to make you to go. His speeeb was always kept to the last no one kteed think to speak after hiin.

1 have heard him preach and speak many times 1 never knew aim make a failure, and sometimes at tbe call of a great occasion, 1 bave seen him produce on a great multitude an impression whicb 1 cannot imagine a exceeded bv human words. Ills no wonuer that Dean Stanley longed lor tbe day wheu Macleod might preawb in the nave of some vast catbedral. Lake all Scotch clergymen of any account, he loved the Anglican Church as his own, ana it might well bavs been. But it was not to be. The spontaneous aud incessant flow of lively, pathetic, and humorous thought from him wa wonderful.

You could not talk with lum for five minutes without discerning that cere was an exceptional man. it you met bim on the street, while his high health continued, be had seme-thing bright and brief to aay, and he did not repeat himself. Latterly, indeed, you saw the pump at work it was bard to dauy meet scores of men, each of whom expected something uncommon. But it was wbile sitting up, late at night, in the company of two or three congenial lriend, that Norman Mae-leod was at his greatest, 'i bs notour tun, passing momently, but never unfitly to tbe deepest pathos and most soleiuu reflection, fur bis laughter aad his tears were never lar asunder, none who witnessed can lotgei. Lke most great orator, be bad a strong power of mimicry, sud be could represent the most diverse subjects equally well; a Highland drover, and a.

young guardsman anxious to convey that," tbougn he made no loud professions, he hoped he bad chosen Right each waa perfect- 'tbe cbarm of hia manner waa indescribable yet there waa no mure courtly gentleman tbau the lile-enjoymg Celt, no more earnest preacher and beiisVer than he who returning Irom a mission to America first made knowu in boot-land tbe unsolemn lay of Old Ian lacker, it was extraordinary bow bs passed rom tbe profoundeet tragedy to the wildest merriment and both wars very reaL After one of his great peecoes, iu which bs seemed possessed ot sposuilio seal for some good cause, and waa indeed ao possessed, be could speedily let tbe. bow unbend, i beard him end a grand missionary address to students by saying witb a Uttering i voice that it that worn woks down. soma of as will bs glad find a era vs." Thsrs be stopped end dead silence folio wed, aot untouched with unaccustomed tears. Ten minutes after bs waa ssyiag ia the liveliest lasbioa to a lriend, "1 bavs got soms splendid weeds; corns down to-nigbt aad try them." But indeed lac th pulpit, on ta platform, in th General Assembly, in his baca-study, (an extraordinary place ia a laundry where be sought escape from seaseless interruption,) ot ia the smoking-room, yoa could not say wnere he was greatest but you 11 1 tbat everywhere bs was a streaming fountain of infiaane. aad a man among a million aaea.

Fbr tbe last tweaty-on years ot sue Id be hskl (as be records ia bis oiary witb da tbankfultiaas) tb best Jiving in ceouano alter au, not m.auj a ysar. it XbM Baroay pariab of Guasgow. witb a poaala- hot ths Reformsflon brought B0talo-vet wHh iU rains, and it is -slated that tbe last LtadDerlt ls-iing from the Cathedral, wae traasnxed by the aigbt ot the BsrwnT chorea, but altar aom delay exeiaitned. Well. I one saw an HgUer -ehurr-h than tbau" lie did aot aay wbera It would be hitersHtlng- to knaw la this LUleous erection Norman Macleod preached, alway a great eoogregatian.

lie organised parouulal machinery, built churches, he pleaded -qaently end effectively for every gpod work bs made bis presence felt through Olaagew til rough Soot land be was tbe -rrsateat Sevteb' snan living his life ia Scotland at tba tame be is very sad to think bow tbat intense enjoyment of life, that tremenoous energy to pui oa th laggard, ar quenched quenched tvr near lour year past; and that tbe manifbv-' -lag would not stxtj-lour. And those who nsver saw-or beard bim cannot poasibly understand what be was. Hit writia zs, though lively and clever, give no Idea of Norman What be prodnoed must be vfri04 bv bio personality. And bs waa so pushed bus over-driven by excessive work, tbat be sever bad time to do bis best with bis pen. It ia tsid (I do not know if it be true) that at tb last what ho published waa spoken di et ths rate of rapid spooking amf -takes down by a shorthand writer.

Man, thousands remember bim vividly now; tb manly presence ot tbe big lift-enjoying usa i the powerf ul. voice, witb tue strong Oaelui accent that told of Morvea and tbe adsty islands, and the portraits gives iu the biography bring him back as if bs liTod to such as knew biu well. But ia a lew years there wilt re- inwiu only a lading tradition, of wbat-like be waa, and bow he preached aad talked, and those who read bis works will wonder wbersis lay the magical charm of or man. irattr's i STORIES Otr TMC WAR. 'tV- Daring one of oar Summer campaign la Western Louisiana my regiment chanced to be -bivouacked one night noon as open prairieasar Bayou Tec be.

The regiment held ths right sf the brigade, sod as ws were advancing up tbs country it whs upon this occssion ncare.t tlit bayou. All tho danger tbat could reuaonnlily be apprehended was from ths front, snd the picket line was therefore extended along tbs whole front of tbe brigade forty rols away. From tbe right flank of in. regiment to the -skirt of trees and bushes along ths low baak of ths deep and narrow stream, ths distanoi was about ths same forty or fitly rods: Ther was no plantations in ths immediate and between our right and the bayou ther were no fences nor obstructions of any kind merely an open plain separate! us from tUf Teche. I was ofSeer of tbs day," and of courts charged witb tbs supervision of the picket Una A boot midnight I made my ssoond tour of i spection on horseback, and found the pickets all -vigilant and tbe situation quiet.

Nothing sua pniious nor remarkable had been seen or beard; and I rode back to the reservs, intending to ea change a word with tbe officer on doty there and then report at bead-quarter. Tbe Lies tenant greeted me as 1 rode up, aud said 1 believe you gave me orders to p'eket the right flank but 1 bave made a couple of posts tbere about half way between tbe camp and tbe bavou." "It can do no barm," was my and probably no good. Still, the very greatest prudence might require it, 1 will ride over and see tor myself bow you have posted tbsm. "The Corporal who went with tbe two ma has not returned yet," be said. He was ordered to" Hark The deep, solemn stillness of tho hour snd tbs scene was interrupted only by ths low tones of his voios but while 1 listened to bits my ear had detected tbe taint, far-away sound of a woman's voice over to the rigo'.

"The picket 1" was my instant thought. Hark 1 exclaimed. Again I beard tbe sound, and it was hnard now by the Lieutenant as Well us by tbs aoldiera atandiog near. Before anotber word could be spoken, tbe sharp, startling report ot a rifle rang out upon the night irom the sains direction. Take arms shouted the Lieutenant and leaving behind me tbe reserve, hurrying about aadlalling into bus witb a noise taat sounded like tbe buzzing of an awakened hive as 1 left it further be bind, I put spurs to my horse snd went racing like mad toward the point of alarm.

If ao enemy bad really made snap-pearanos in that unexpected direction, it would require a cbange of front of tbe whole or part of the brigade to meet him and intending te rSconnoiter. and learn the extent of tbe threat coed danger, 1 rode oa till 1 reached oue of the flank pickets. Wbat's the trouble I demanded. Notuing here. Sir," waa tbe reply.

Jake, over tbere, fired a few minutes ago, but I guess it was a false alarm. I've seen nothing and heard nothing alarming but tbat shot." 'i be next minute 1 was with tbe otber picket andTisteuing to his explanation. It appeared tbat he had been posted but about twenty minutes, with orders to keep a lookout tewsrd the bavou. footing it back and lorth a few yards upeu either band as; is ths eustors of soldiers on picket in lonely and remote places with his rifle over his shoulder, bis ear was eaugbt by a shuffling along tbe ground as if of feet, apparently proceeding from a point some wbere between bim aud tbe bayou. He topped instantly, and bunt his eyes in ths directiuu oi the souud.

Tbe night was' quits Mark, and nothing waa visible at first, tbougb the suspict- ous noise still continued bnt in a meuient more be saw wnat aeemed to bim to ns is head, shoulders, and arms ol a man moving along the ground directly toward bim. Haiti" be sbouted, bringing Ins ritls le Halt woe's tbere it was the cry ws bad beard at tbe reserve. There was no answer, but the sbullLng noisf continued, and ths object raoveh straight le ward bim. -t Halt hs shentedacaJn, this time with bid gun at hia shoulder. 11 fixed almost with tM word.

l' 'i be Corooral waa near bv on bis tour, and hurrying to the soot at tbs report, reached it almost as soon at 1 did. Ws lound the soldier with his musket reloaded, standing at a guard, and peering eagerly Into tne darkness. A isw words from bim explained tne oeus or aiarm, bat not thing was to be seen, lb Corporal laughed, and 1 was disposed to bs vexed wits 1 ssy tbere eras a rebel en bis hands sad ansae out there, coming this way," ths soluisr stufdily insisted. 1 wish you both bees here snd seen him. aa 1 did.

1 tell you it was some guerruia spy. sneaking around for a nance to get inside tbe line, ana i naaa kept a bright lookout bis knife would have bees through ms before now. 1 think 1 hit bus we 11 bud bim somewhere out there." "tw have killed a pig, Jake, I ffoni doubt," said the Corporal but Jaae firmly maintained that be bad tired at a man, and -nothing else, and was anxious to go out stoics aad search for tbe body. Tbis. hewevar.

I would not permit, oeeuiing it nseiess to be dons before morning, aad possibly dangerous snd wub a eautiou to him to keep un a good loos- out, but to be careful not to give too ready as alarm, 1 rode back to tbs reserve aad ordered the picket oa the flank to be doubted. I ess hardly aay that 1 bad any real apprehension ol danger Irom that quarter, even after this curreuoe, but it was plain that any mistake ia the matter bad better be en the sids ex prudence and safety. The reservs starksd axnu. Ma the lonely hours till day fig bt passed vita -out further alarm. When davlierbt asm.

Jaka Dromotness BBS vigilance were amply justified by tbe sigbt tbsl it disclosed. A bue alligator, ten teat long, lay stretched on his belly not twenty feet trout tbe spot wbere tne soldier had stood, and s-uaore Ltdeoue object 1 have certainly seen. Uis scaly body was spattered with ths blood that hie death struggles had throws over km, and his yawning jaws bung wide opto, sx-bibiting am pis capacity to bite a man in tJ close examination showed that tbe bullet uao -entered tbe eye, which in these creatures is sir-tost th only vulnerable point. It was aluosy suet, snd ons tnat could hardly as sxpccm" till llnilt, similar lrll instances '400 story mads a tuns days' wonder for ths brigsd, A ru'l -1 1 IK. ulrkAMA WS bsd OltS VS ceived from ths negroee that the alligator wul not attack man unless first attacked, or, to sass of th tamale, ber young ar interfered who- But wcll-authentiraied cases te tbs contrary bav beea reported, and ao one cas saf what vietita Uus strangs eae my saigas nave bad be enters tae camp.

i i Jake gave bis opinion oa the subject to erewd el adminag comrades who were lite- ing to the dels Us ol the afisu ana me delivered in solemn, quiet vsv. 1 sated as losg snd became as entertaining as tn story w-i -1 tbiak," be said, that be was Morpng tor th BrtgadiaB. General. He ain't noae et yeui commoa crocodiies be wanted a daiaty nteai. Of coarse, everybody silo wed tbat Jake hsJ displayed exeellaas suldisrly oTialiriee taa advaatiuav lie wae laeaia ateotiad tot proo-a atoBf whisk as rsosivsd ia a few weeks traa of Mar 100,000 an I.

1 bis pariab baa ita ehurab under ths shade ef Giesgo Cathedral 1- 3i- i -it i i i.