IN SARAM. I. ANTE alias splendet specie pulcherrima Sara, Implet amore mihi mentem pectusque puella, et II. Institor huic pater est, portans qui caulibus apta Digna viro est uxor, merces cui fimbria longa est III. Adveniente illâ fabricam inceptosque labores IV. Hebdomadæ ex omni spatio serieque dierum. SALLY IN OUR ALLEY. I. Of all the girls that are so smart, II. Her father, he makes cabbage-nets, And she lives in Our Alley. III. When she is by, I leave my work, My master comes like any Turk, IV. Of all the days that's in the week, And that's the day that comes between A Saturday and Monday. For then I'm dress'd in all my best, To walk abroad with Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in Our Alley. V. Ad templum Domini me ducit sæpe magister, Dum monet Orator populum hortaturque disertus, VI. Quum volvente anno Christi Natalitia orta Est mihi deliciæ cordi mentique puella, et VII. Irrident flammam vicini atque ipse magister Quum tamen elabens lentè confecerit annus Tum vero thalamum celebrabimus atque hymenæos, G. K. GILLESPIE, A.M. * In imitation of Greek vocatives, such as Amarylli, Phylli, &c. V. My master carries me to church, Because I leave him in the lurch VI. When Christmas comes about again, And, would it were ten thousand pounds, I'd give it all to Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in Our Alley. VII. My master, and the neighbours all, But when my seven long years are out, Oh! then we'll wed, and then we'll bed, But not in Our Alley. BUSH-RANGING FACTS. [THE following instances of Australian Bush-ranging are contributed, according to promise, by the writer of a tale, entitled An Incident in Australian Life," which appeared in two foregoing numbers of this Miscellany. The details may be relied on as sufficiently authentic, gathered as they were, and noted on the spot, by a gentleman resident in New South Wales, at the period of their occurrence,] MEMORANDUM OF A PORTION OF THE CAREER AND OF THE IN the spring of the year 1840, a convict Jew, named Davis, having escaped from an ironed gang working near Sydney, "took the bush," as it is termed in Australian thieves' lingo, and was quickly joined by one Ruggy, an Irishman and a desperate character, as well as by two other runaway prisoners. These four were so successful at the outset of their first campaign" on the road," that the party became popular, and three more recruits were soon added to their ranks; the last being a youth of weak intellect, who, seduced by Davis's florid descriptions of a bandit's life, deserted from the household service of a lady settler in the Brisbane Water District, and placed himself under the orders of the Israelitish chief. Davis had, from the beginning, dubbed himself leader; and, while enumerating his qualifications for that honourable post, was wont to boast that he was 66 the only plucky Jew he had ever known." To follow him and his wild crew through a course only too long and full of incident, would be impossible, as well as unpleasing; indeed, it is the object of this memorandum rather to record the clever and gallant capture of the robbers than to trace the atrocitics that led thereto. The chief localitics of Davis's exploits were in the Hunter River and Brisbane Water Districts, which afforded wealth and traffic enough for their support, and sufficient cover for their security. The gang were all completely armed with doublebarreled guns and pistols, well mounted, and supplied, moreover, with pack-horses to carry their "swag." Thus they were capable of changing their scene of action when desirable, and of coming unawares, as well as unwelcome, upon fresh victims. Travellers, private houses, inns, stores, and huts, were successively pillaged; the ordinary mode of action, being to "bail up" the male inmates, with one or two sentries over them, while the others helped themselves to what was wanted. Often has this little phrase "bail up!" shaken the nerves of the Australian wayfarer and householder-as often, perhaps, as the British highwayman's "Stand, |