"CHINESE GORDON."-Colonel Chesney, in his recentlypublished "Essays in Modern Military Biography" (Longmans), gives a chapter to Lieut. -Colonel Gordon, C.B., and the Taiping rebellion. Of military genius and character Colonel Chesney is a competent judge, and his chapter on Chinese Gordon does full justice to an officer who has not received due praise or reward from official authorities, his most notable exploits having been in a foreign service, and not under the British flag. But not the less will Englishmen take pride in the fame of the young Crimean officer of Engineers who led "the ever-victorious army," and saved the Chinese empire. Thus Colonel Chesney concludes his brief memoir :-"So parted the ever-victorious army from its general, and its brief but useful existence came to an end. During sixteen months' campaigning under his guidance, it had taken four cities and a dozen minor strong places, fought innumerable combats, put hors de combat numbers of the enemy moderately estimated at fifteen times its own, and finding the rebellion vigorous, aggressive, and almost threatening the unity of the Chinese empire, had left it at its last gasp, confined to the ruined capital of the usurper. Leaving his late command well satisfied, Gordon himself sailed for England, taking with him no more substantial treasure than the highest military title of China (Titu, equivalent to commander-in-chief of an army), the rare imperial decoration of the Yellow Jacket, and the good-will and respect of all with whom he had to do. 'Not only,' wrote the Prince of Kung, the Chinese prime minister, to Sir F. Bruce, has he shown himself throughout brave and energetic, but his thorough appreciation of that important question, a friendly understanding between China and foreign nations, is worthy of all praise.' Much has been said, and fairly said, in eulogy of the moderation and patriotism of those volunteer generals of the victorious armies of the Union who, at the close of the American Civil War, laid down their important charges to return cheerfully to the counting-house, the factory, or even to the humblest appointment in the regular service on the frontier. Englishmen who bestowed admiration on this conduct of their transatlantic kinsfolk, should certainly yield no less to that of their own countryman; since he, his task once accomplished, sought for no irregular employment in China, asked for no prolongation in any form of his high command, but laid it down to return straightway to the ordinary life of a captain of Engineers on home duty, his highest ambition the furtherance of some local good work, his daily business for years to come the building obscure forts from the designs of others on an Essex swamp. The very papers in which the record of his services was inscribed lay thrust out of sight, their existence forgotten save in Mr. Wilson his biographer's mention of them. They might have mouldered for him away unread but for the appeal, made almost as a demand, of certain of his brother-officers, awakening to the knowledge that out of their own corps there were few who were aware of the extent and bearing of Gordon's services, and the importance of the Chinese campaigns of 1863-4.

If there is a man in the world who can conduct a war with honour, thoroughness, and humanity, and bring it to a satisfactory close without needless delay or expense, England has that man in Chinese Gordon." Colonel Gordon has lately accepted a command from the Viceroy of Egypt, to complete the work commenced by Sir Samuel Baker.

EASTWARD POSITION.-On the question of the Eastward position as connected with the Communion Service, the Rev. E. S. Ffoulkes, a recognised authority in ecclesiastical history, thus wrote in a letter to the "Times: "-"The eastward position in primitive times had no distinctive reference to the sacrificial character of the Eucharist whatever. To the early Church the East was the symbol of light and the West of darkness; and that on scriptural grounds alone, whatever moderns may think of their value. Conformably with this view the eastward position was the position in which prayer was made by all alikeby young and old, by women and men, by priest and people, in public and private, whether kneeling or standing, on fast days and festivals, in the nave as well as the chancel, in every part of the public service, without distinction, where God was addressed-in other words, where there was any praying at all. When the Scriptures were read, and when the sermon was preached, he who officiated faced the people. When any were baptized, they faced westwards in renouncing the devil. Thus they celebrated eastwards in primitive times solely because they prayed eastwards, and they prayed castwards for reasons con

neeted not with the Eucharist but with the East. It is a simple misrepresentation of facts to say that they celebrated eastwards with any view of symbolising their undoubted teaching on the sacrifice made to God in the Eucharist. Similarly, modern Roman usage has as little to do with the eastward position as can well be imagined. Modern Roman usage (by which I mean usage that was in being at the Reformation, and therefore with reference to which our Rubrics were made) is based on the gross and carnal views of the Eucharistic sacrifice prevalent in the Middle Ages. Hence the rule is that the priest should face the altar, whether the altar faces eastwards or not, and in whatever part of the church it may be. Everybody the least conversant with Continental services knows that in churches where there are many altars most of the masses are said at the side altars, where the priest must ordinarily face north or south, though sometimes west. Nothing could be more diametrically opposed to primitive practice than this; yet it is easy to see that this is what occasioned the ambiguity of our Rubrics, and that this is all really that taking advantage of that ambiguity can bring back. There was a natural disinclination on the part of our Reformers to break with existing practice more than was absolutely required; and there are several points on which they refrained notably from pronouncing against it in express terms, though their own instincts mistrusted it. But their doing so should not blind us to what is medieval and what is primitive. If it is the primitive doctrine of the Eucharistic sacrifice really that we desire to revive, let us not think that we shall get any nearer to it by distorting history."

A CENTENARIAN.-The British Consul at Calais has reported to the English Foreign Office that an old lady died at St. Pierrelez-Calais, in 1870, of the undoubted age of 101 years and nine months. Mr. Hotham (the Consul) has in his possession a certificate from the Town Hall of Tournai, in Belgium, of the birth of this person, entered in the register as having been born at Tournai on June 6, 1768, and giving her own full Christian names, as well as those of her father and mother. He has also a certificate of her death, at St. Pierre-lez-Calais, on the 17th of March, 1870; also with her full Christian names, and those of her father and mother. Her identity, independent of the register, happens to be singularly easy of proof, for she was a curiosity in her way, and not one whose history and antecedents were unknown. She already a mother-together with her husband, was awaiting her fate by the guillotine in prison in Paris in 1794, and escaped only by the fall of Robespierre. Mr. Hotham conversed with her himself when in her 99th year, and found her working without spectacles; though rather deaf, she appeared to be in very good health and spirits.

RAILWAY WHISTLE.-The Railroad Commissioners of Massachusetts have been hearing a complaint made by the Corporation of Boston, that the citizens are annoyed by the sharp railroad whistle, which in one crossing is sounded more than three hundred times in a day. The Commissioners find that it is questionable whether, in its effects on invalids and horses, such frequent annoying whistling does not occasion a greater loss of life than would ensue from its total suppression. They regard it as "a singular relic of the crude expedients employed in the past," that the companies should disturb whole communities in order to attract the attention of their own servants; and it is suggested that electric signals, and a bell, with flagmen at level crossings, would answer every purpose, except in the management of freight trains, and as a signal of danger. For this last purpose the value of the whistle, it is remarked, would be greatly increased by abolishing that frequent use of it which leads people to pay little attention to it. The Commissioners recommend the change of practice thus indicated.

NOVELTIES IN DINNERS.-A German paper publishes an account by Herr von Fries, an Austrian employed in the Chinese Customs service, of an official Chinese banquet at which he was present. The guests, he says, having all assembled in the outer courtyard of the house, the doors were thrown open by two coolies, who admitted them into a second courtyard. Here they were received by a flourish of trumpets, some discordant Chinese music, and the firing of mortars. They then proceeded to the third courtyard, where the master of the house received them and showed them into the dining-room, which is only divided from the courtyard by a glass partition. In the middle of the room was a large round table, and against the walls were chairs with a small table before each to put teacups on, tea being

served immediately before dinner. The walls were covered with Chinese pictures, and numberless lamps and lanterns hung from the ceiling. After a short conversation in the Chinese language, the table was laid in the presence of the guests. When all was ready, the host asked each guest to come to the table, pointing out his seat, and handing him with many compliments a set of red lacquered chopsticks. When this ceremony was completed, the company sat down to dinner. Rice wine was first brought up, together with ham, eggs, and various cold vegetables. The next course consisted of bird's-nest soup, and thirty-four dishes followed, among which were sharks' fins, a soup made of diminutive snails of the size of small beans, which came from Lake Tahu, a ragoût of ducks' tongues, fishes' brain with brown sauce (a most disgusting dish to a European palate), and puddings baked in oil. Roast pork and ducks were also served; these were eatable, and the fish was particularly well cooked, but Herr von Fries came to the conclusion that the simplest European dish is far preferable to the most elaborate delicacy of the Chinese cuisine, and he says that after dinner he felt as if he had eaten boiled gutta-percha. The best part of the entertainment was a dish of excellent fruit. Champagne was served towards the end of the dinner. This is the only wine drunk by the Chinese, and only the wealthy can afford to buy it, as a case costs from ten to fifteen Mexican ducats. Cigars were handed round after the soup, and it is the custom to go away directly after dinner. It is also remarkable that at a banquet of this kind the host only appears in official costume, the guests being all in mufti.-Pall Mall Gazette.

EGYPT AS IT IS.-There is much diversity of statement as to the real condition of the Egyptian people under their present ruler. Of the wealth and power of the Khedive there is no doubt, and of the introduction of some modern improvements in the towns, but the state of the poor fellaheen or peasants is truly represented by Dr. Bliss, the well-known American missionary. Oppression comes to them daily with its sternest demands. Taxation is sucking at the very vitals of all classes. Unable to pay their taxes, the people have given their lands; so that the Viceroy has now in his possession one hundred and sixty millions of acres out of the two hundred millions now under cultivation, leaving only forty millions now in possession of the peasants. The result is a most distressing state of things among the people. The most squalid destitution is revealed at every turn. Men, women, and children sleep upon the bare earth without bed or covering, and the majority without even a mat. A single dark-blue tunic of thin cotton is the only garment of thousands by day, and their only covering at night. Multitudes have not a change of clothing, but wear the same garment until it drops in rottenness from their bodies; of washings and cleansings they know almost nothing. These fellaheen may have treasures buried in the earth, or ornament their hair, ears, and noses, with medals and gold rings, but they cannot be persuaded materially to change their customs. 'Gold does not wear out,' they say; beds, coverlets, sheets, and the like do."

CHANNEL TUNNEL.-The project to construct a tunnel between France and England is assuming a practical phase. The capitalists and engineers embarked in this gigantic enterprise demand a concession of thirty years instead of the ninety-nine usually accorded to railway companies, and ask for neither guarantee nor grant. Further, they are ready to advance a sum of 4,000,000f. for preliminary investigations. The project in question consists in the immerging of a duct on the English and French coasts, and the boring of two long galleries from each side. Of the result of the enterprise, says the "Journal de Calais," there can be no doubt. The soul of the enterprise, with MM. Michel Chevalier, Léon Say, and Rothschild, is M. Lavalley, an engineer who has surmounted the greatest difficulties in the construction of the Suez Canal, and without whom that gigantic enterprise could not have been accomplished. M. Lavalley estimates the cost of the work at 150,000,000f.; the English engineers think it will amount to 250,000,000f. He suggests that this work should be done partly by France and partly by England, and that to induce the two countries to press on this undertaking energetically there should be a bonus for the one which works the fastest. The 4,000,000f. forming the preliminary capital are nearly all, it is said, subscribed. The French Railway du Nord will advance 1,000,000f., the two companies from London to Dover 1,000,000f., and Baron Rothschild 500,000f. It is hoped that Baron Lionel de Rothschild will subscribe the same sum. M. Ferdinand Duval offers 50,000f. for the city of Paris; MM. Léon Say, Chevalier, and Lavalley are each engaged to supply 25,000f. It is certain that on either side of the strait many persons will contribute a larger or smaller sum to the necessary capital. It only requires a

little goodwill on the part of the French administration and a slight change of the ideas of the English Parliament on subjects of monopoly and competition to give us in five years direct communication between Paris and London.-Dover Chronicle.

LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.-After long and disastrous experience in the frequency with which telegraph poles were struck by lightning, the English companies adopted measures that resulted in perfect security from this kind of damage to their Property. To each pole they have attached a No. 8 wire, running from the upper end to the ground. It is chiefly necessary that these conductors should be continuous; that there should be no joint unless well soldered; and chain-link rods, braided wire rope, and tubing are not as efficacious as the simple No. 8 wire. attaching lightning rods to dwellings. Further points of importance are suggested in The underground connection, where practicable, should be made with some large mass of metal, such as gas or water pipes; or else with deep, solid earth. It is evident that the latter requisite can usually be best attained, out of cities, by carrying the rod underground to a suitable distance from the building, into earth that is permanently compacted by natural moisture. Each conductor, if there be more than one, should have a separate ground connection; but they should also be connected together, and with a metal roof or any other mass of metal in their neighbourhood. There should be no points or acute angles in the conductor; the straighter it is the better, as electricity will follow the line of least resistance and greatest directness. Insulation, with such a conductor, is regarded as unnecessary.

IRISHMEN IN SCOTLAND.-In the course of an interesting paper on modern ethnological migrations in the British Isles, read before the British Association, Dr. Beddoe made the somewhat startling statement that Glasgow, which is by far the wealthiest and most populous city in Scotland, and indeed lays claim to the title of the second city of the empire, is, "from the rapid influx of Irishmen and Highlanders, becoming as Celtic a city as Dublin or Belfast." The statement is, however, in no We have not the means of ascertaining way an exaggeration. the proportion of Highlanders in the population of Glasgow, but statistics enable us to ascertain with considerable accuracy the extent to which the Irish element prevails. In 1871, 14-32 per cent. of the population were born in Ireland. This of course is exclusive of those persons who were of purely Irish extraction, though born in Glasgow. The latter must be at least equal in numbers to the Irish settlers, and we shall probably be within the mark in saying that 30 per cent. of the population of Glasgow are Irish by blood. Add 10 per cent. for the Highland inhabitants, and we have the Celtic element in Glasgow represented by two-fifths of the total population. While the emigration of Scotsmen to England and elsewhere is steady, the immigration of Irishmen into Scotland, particularly into those districts that lie nearest to Ireland, is equally so. In the counties of Renfrew and Lanark the percentages of the population born in Ireland were 13·298 and 14·428 respectively, while in the town of Greenock the number rose to 16.558. It is calculated that there are in all in Scotland about half a million

persons Irish by blood or by birth, or by both.

DEEP-SEA SOUNDINGS.-Before the times of ocean telegraph cables very little had been done in deep-sea sounding but when the laying of ocean cables came first to be contemplated, and when it came afterwards to be realised, the obtaining of numerous soundings became a matter of essential practical importance. In the ordinary practice of deep-sea sounding, as carried on, both before and since the time of ocean telegraph cables, until a year or two ago, a hempen rope or cord was used as the sounding line, and a very heavy sinker, usually weighing from two to four hundred-weight, was required to draw down the hempen line with sufficient speed, because the frictional resistance of the water to that large and rough line, moving at any suitable speed, was very great. The sinker could not be brought up again from great depths; and arrangements were provided, by means of a kind of trigger apparatus, so that, when the bottom was reached, the sinker was detached from the line, and was left lying lost on the bottom; the line being drawn up without the sinker, but with only a tube of no great weight, adapted for receiving and carrying away a specimen of the bottom. For the operation of drawing up the hempen line with this tube attached, steam-power has been ordinarily used, and practically must be regarded as necessary. Sir Wm. Thomson, instead of a hempen sounding line, or cord of any kind, proposed a single steel wire, resembling pianoforte wire, which, although exposed to the sea-water, was preserved against rust by being kept constantly, when out of use, either immersed in or moistened with caustic soda.-Prof. James Thomson, F.E.S.E

"Not in the least," says the reader; "I tell you the only thought falling leaves ever suggest to him is John and a broom, unless he may add, What a nuisance these falling leaves are!"

Very well, reader, then we will give him up, but he is surely a solitary instance; there are few, whether they know it or not, so callous as to behold, without some touches of tenderness, sadness, or at least seriousness, the warnings of their own decay in autumn's falling leaves.

Of course this may be entirely sentimental, very slight, and easily shaken off. Lively conversation, business, a cheerful fire, or an entertaining book, will quickly dispel it; and as it is very well known that in a few months new leaves will come, and all will be green and gay again, long-lived emotions would be out of place.

But how is it that not only the type, but that which it resembles, can fail in any man to quicken a pulse or raise a throb? How is it that children of mortality can grow insensible to the solemn, mysterious fact of death?

We suppose there is a natural fear of death implanted in the heart of every human being; and yet to see the indifference with which the hearse is beheld as it jostles along through our crowded thoroughfares to the suburb cemetery, or to witness the cold curiosity with which villagers will crowd round an open grave in a rustic churchyard, without a look or a gesture of reverence or dread, is enough to prove that that fear has been stifled.

"Have you heard of old Case?" said one man of business to another on the afternoon of his death.

"Old Case? what about him?"

"Dead-died this morning, suddenly." "You don't say so! Who'll have all his money?" "I haven't heard, but there will be a good picking for some."

“What an affair this is about Brisk and Brittle!" "Terrible! terrible!" says the other, with a shake of the head. "I can tell you an awkward thing or two about parties that you would not suspect connected with that," and the two walk on together wholly intent on the mercantile shock.

"Dear me! Mr. Case! Well, he was an old man ; I have thought him breaking lately; he will be very much missed. Suddenly, you say? Well, that is not of so much consequence in this case, as no doubt his will has been made a long time; no fear of any neglect on that head from a sensible man like him." So remarks another; and of all the speeches made by those not personally connected with him, very few, if any, did not turn upon the pivot of his pos

sessions.

But some his death did concern-very personally indeed; among these was the banker, who had hurried to visit him immediately after hearing of the failure of Brisk and Brittle and the rumour among a few who were in the secrets of that house that Mr. Case was involved in the crash.

He was very uneasy-shocked, of course-at the sudden removal of his friend, but not able, in his present state of anxiety, to repress his uppermost vexation that he should have gone at such an unseasonable juncture.

"If I had but known this yesterday," he said to himself, as he walked hurriedly home; "to be sure,

him; and then there's Miss King's note of handwhat could he have wanted the money for? I fancied he looked absent once or twice last night, and that his spirits were forced."

There were not many who entertained the banker's fears, at any rate at first. Some had heard, for reports soon spread, that Mr. Case had lost a great deal through Brisk and Brittle, and also that he had made some very unfortunate speculations in lead mines and railways; yet still, those at least who had nothing to fear from his dying a bankrupt, did not doubt that he had died rich, and would leave a surplus after covering every loss.

It was, however, an anxious time with others till an investigation could be made by proper authorities, and his affairs cleared up. The panic of the banker ran like a message along the telegraphic wires-not that he spoke openly, he did but" whisper it into the reeds," like one of old; but the reeds, as in that case, whispered it all round, and the thought struck one, "I suppose my five thousand is safe!" and another, "I suppose that mortgage security was good," and so on.

Fisher was writing at his desk, having almost calmed down into placidity, when a loud knock at the door aroused him.

"Mr Fisher, have you heard?" exclaimed the breathless visitor; "Mr. Case is dead!"

"Dead!" cried Fisher; "dead!" as if repeating the word would enable him better to understand it. Then came the story.

He seemed to be much as usual in the morning; his letters and papers had been delivered to him, and he had ordered the office keys to be sent. He had had some business transactions the evening before with gentlemen who remained with him till nearly dinner-time. The papers they had left with him, and which he had taken from his escritoire at an early hour in the morning, were on his table when his servant, returning to his room with some slight executed commission, found him sitting in his chair, his head bent on his chest-dead. ·

Fisher had never loved him. Loved him! As well might one couple the Falls of Niagara or the towering Alps with love, as Mr. Caleb Case!

But he had reverenced him-thought of him with awful admiration, and had revelled in the sunshine of his praise and the hope of his favour.

When, therefore, he realised the fact that that mighty power, that tower of strength, that Eldorado of wealth had fallen in a moment, he was fairly overcome.

Of course all the receptacles for office or personal documents were sealed up, and Fisher, while he gave such information as was necessary, looked on as if in a dream, half expecting the great man in among them to demand the reason of their intrusion. As he was leaving the office, now placed in charge of others, Baldwick rode up to the door, crying, "Is it true?"

"Yes," simply replied the clerk, whose agitation, from whatever cause it arose, had quite mastered him.

"Is it true he fell down in a fit when he heard of Brisk and Brittle?" inquired Baldwick.

Fisher, sickening at the coarse tone and manner of the speaker, said he could give no particulars. "I should just like to know," said Baldwick, his

inner thoughts adding, "I believe I have been done after all."

Fisher was glad he could not tell him, and walked away, leaving him to seek satisfaction from others.

Anthony King's anticipations of his aunt's distress were more than realised. He found her reading the "Times" by her luxurious fireside, and saw plainly that his visit was an unwelcome one; yet she could not help being struck with his appearance and manner, the latter was so serious and so kind, his usual independent air was so much moderated. Strongly as her prejudices had been excited, she could hardly believe that, with such a prepossessing aspect, he had come with an evil purpose.

He allowed her to ask a few questions relative to his return to England, to which, however, she added, "Not that I need to be told, nephew, for I have been informed of your movements, and let me tell you that you would have been wiser to have left things alone than to have gone against me."

Anthony assured her that such a procedure had been far from his thoughts, and began to open on his new errand.

"I wish for no explanations, nephew," she answered. "As I have said before, I refer you to my trustee, Mr. Caleb Case."

"Where shall I find him?" asked Anthony, gravely.

"At his office," said Miss King.

Anthony shook his head significantly.

"Well, then, at his house," said Miss King, struck, in spite of herself, by his expressive gesture. "Mr. Case-is-not there," said Anthony, looking steadily at her.

"Not there! Why, where is he? what do you mean?" she cried, with increasing agitation. "I don't believe I won't believe it!" she exclaimed, vehemently, when he had stated the truth, with as much preparation as his simple unvarnished way made possible. "He was with me a long time only yesterday, quite well. I never saw him better," she added; "you must be mistaken-you are deceiving me!"

Anthony, finding nothing else would convince her, related his morning's visit, and all that he had seen and heard, and left her in a fit of violent hysterics, for that was a condition quite out of his power to deal with. As hysterics made the lady (Kezia's successor) very nervous, she rang for Miss King's maid, and left her to recover, wondering much how any one could go into hysterics about Mr. Case.

But she was wrong in supposing that to be the fact. Miss King was in hysterics about herself, for she beheld in the loss of her trustee such a mountain of labour and anxiety devolving on herself in the management of the King property, that she felt crushed even by its coming shadow.

There was a week to pass before the funeral could take place, and as Mr. Case left no representative, his select friends assisted at it. The banker was one, and I am sorry to say he was engaged the whole time of the solemnity in speculating on what he had heard and what he feared.

Some very distant and entirely ignored relations came up to London, hoping they had at least been mentioned in the will, and there were many curious or anxious to hear what the result would be.

There was no will.

No! High and low, in every likely and unlikely place, they hunted, but there was no will!

Their astonishment at this was at an end when accounted for by the fact--which, however, astonished them more still--that he had nothing to leave.

What! Mr. Case, the Plutus of London-the Socrates! What had he done with it all?

Before this question could be answered, another arose. What had he done with the money of other people? The King property--this deposit that mortgage-that loan-where were they? Ay, where? The banker was consoled by one thing-he had had a strong presentiment there was something wrong at the dinner-party: Mr. Case had looked now and then so absent and abstracted, and had made such evident efforts to be alive and himself. He had noticed, too, that though he had once or twice tried to draw him into conversation, he had evaded it. "But who will do business at dinner?" he thought, "and such a dinner!" However, when he heard in the morning of Brisk and Brittle, his presentiment came strong upon him, and took him to the house of him who had departed to answer to another account.

Ah! Mr. Caleb Case, how many hearts bled, how many brains grew dizzy that day, when it was known that you had died insolvent, and that in your hands, those safe keepers, all that had been placed with such confidence had melted away!

"Never heard of such a thing," said one.
'Speculation and good living," said another.

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The investigation of Mr. Case's affairs, and of those for whom he had acted, took no little time and trouble.

Cordell Firebrace was indefatigable in his attendance on behalf of his friend, and had the unspeakable delight of seeing produced the title-deeds of Callowfields, which he had now the means of proving to be Anthony's property.

In vain did Baldwick protest-the amount he had paid for it, supposing no deeds existed, showed him to be undeserving of pity, even if the law would have awarded him any.

Before going to our concluding chapter, we may add that Mr. Case had consulted his conscience in this transaction.

He was quite aware that unless his speculations turned out better than he expected, he should leave Miss King penniless. He knew very well that the estate belonged to Anthony, and thought that, to preserve it for him would be to insure a maintenance for his aunt, for he was a sound-judging man, and saw principle in him on which he could depend. Baldwick he considered he should have reimbursed by his large profits on a small outlay; besides, he was a rogue for whom, though dishonest on a larger scale himself, he felt a strong disgust. He had actually wanted money at the time of the sale-yes, actually wanted it; for, although the official income was large, he had a very large annual payment to make to Miss King, whom he kept quiet on the supposition that he was merely handing over to her the proceeds of her own estate.

What is the use of hunting into villainy? Are not these things done continually? Do not men run so hard after money, that they scruple not to stake the interests, the all, of those who are deceived by their glittering reputation-to stake it and to sacrifice it

it too!

Why did he do it? Why do they do it? Because