"Whom he will doubtless harangue from the rocks of Guglielmi," returned Marianna.

"What means your excellency?"

"That this very morning he has betaken himself to that dreadful hold-there to seek the monster Pezza."

The effect of this intelligence on Bonocore, was as if a thunderbolt had burst at his feet-his face became instantly deadly pale-the moisture started from his brow, and for some moments he strove in vain to articulate.

At length he murmured in broken accents, "we are then-indeed-lost." "Gracious Heaven!" exclaimed Marianna; "what means all this? Speak, dearest Pasquale; speak, you are not well-can I ———.”

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'No, lady," he replied, grasping her hand-but I am utterly ruined, that's all. Alas, why did I deviate from that even track in which I found safety and repose-why did I listen to your proposals?"

"To serve your king," said Marianna, with energy.

"At the expense of my life," returned the old gentleman mournfully. This Pezza I know to be a tool of Andrea Orlando, the active agent employed by the French in decoying the mountaineers into their toils -think you these grey hairs will protect me when convicted of subsidizing the insurgents?"

Marianna's zeal for the royal cause could not prevent her from sympathising in the distress of an old and amiable being, whose whole life had been passed in dispensing happiness to others--the reflection that at this very moment hundreds were sharing his hospitality and revelling in his bounty-that she herself had, though unwittingly, raised the storm now threatening to burst upon his head, brought tears into her eyes." Alas," thought she, "how dearly bought are the laurels of patriotism!"

She then endeavoured to comfort Bonocore by the assurance that the French would never dare to attempt any act of violence towards him, as it would have the effect of rousing the vengeance of all ranks of the community-" and," she added, "rather than you should be endangered, sir, in person or property, I will myself confront the tribunal, declare myself the only guilty person and dare their utmost vengeance."

"The saints forbid," exclaimed Pasquale,-"no, yet one chance of safety remains the jewels, lady-take them—those at least shall not be sacrificed-nor will they then be forthcoming to prove the charge against me." Ere Marianna could reply, he darted from the apartment in search, as she concluded, of the danger-fraught treasure.

His brief absence gave her leisure to perceive the policy of acquiescing in his views, and she determined to relieve Pasquale of a charge, which would now, in all probability, not only involve him in imminent peril, but cause also the seizure of the property itself. When, therefore, he re-appeared, and with trembling hands deposited the casket on the table, she informed him of her willingness to accept them and the reasons of this determination.

He seemed much relieved when, after examining the casket in compliance with his request, she secreted it in the folds of her dress.

"I will now," said she, "with your permission, write to my brother and despatch the letter by a more trusty messenger than the last."

Writing materials being produced, she traced a few hasty lines, once more apprizing the chief of her arrival, detailing recent events and warning him against the treachery of the monk Paolo.

Battista was then summoned and the important despatch committed to his care.

The promptness and decision of Marianna imparted fresh tone to the nerves of Bonocore-the jewels being now no longer in his possession, he did not apprehend any serious consequences, even if he should be brought before the military tribunal-his fears concerning his own personal safety being thus considerably allayed, he had leisure to perceive the dangerous situation of Marianna.

"And now," said he, "my advice to your excellency is that you linger no longer in this district, but return instantly to Sicily-I know all the fishermen between here and Pizzo, and can easily procure you a passage in one of their boats-say but the word and all shall be prepared by to-morrow at noon."

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At this proposal, so dissonant with the feelings of the high-minded maiden, the colour rose to her cheek and her eyes flashed fire. And is it I whom you would infect with your timidity," she exclaimed, "whom you counsel basely to desert the post to which duty calls me, at the first distant sound of alarm. No! let them plunge me into their dungeons-let them drag me before their sanguinary tribunals—there will I confront them, and there shall they find that though there be men vile enough to crouch and quail before the tyrants, there is one weak woman at least, who defies their power and fears not death, when life can no longer be preserved with honour!"

"How beautifully she speaks Italian! and what a perfect Italian character-so heroic, so magnanimous, so different to the females of other nations-I think I have read of a certain Donna Lucre-yesthe story is in Tito Livio-ah! viva l'Italia!"

Thus thought and thus half muttered Don Pasquale, on whom the effect of Marianna's last speech was such as would have been produced by a well delivered piece of declamation at the theatre-the sarcastic shaft so pointedly aimed at himself fell harmless from the shield of national vanity by which he was protected. Accustomed as he had been from infancy to see human nature only in her ruder or humbler specimens, he now stood as entranced before a noble and beautiful being, whose greatness of soul manifested itself in the lofty mien and imposing attitude of her person, whose sentiments were bodied forth in the purest accents of that melodious language which he had hitherto seldom heard, being accustomed only to the jargon of the Calabrese. The visions which the perusal of ancient lore often conjured up seemed realized the eloquence of Marianna recalled all the bygone glories of his country, and in her he saw his beau idéal of a Cloelia, a Lucretia, or a Cornelia. So powerful was the influence of these feelings that for the moment, present circumstances had no place in his thoughts-his eyes were rivetted on Marianna's animated countenance-he murmured indistinctly and at intervals, such ejaculations as have been just ascribed to him, and paused when she paused, as one on whose ear some delicious music still vibrates after the strain has ceased.

At length he broke forth-I have it! I have it!"nec illos nec alium

We will drive them forth, we

quenquam regnare Romæ passurum !” will be slaves no longer-upon them "ferro et igni," and let us not henceforth suffer French or any other to be kings in

"We'll have Don Ferdinando in spite of you," interrupted Battista, who had re-entered on hearing this flourish, and accompanying the observation with a slight tap on Pasquale's shoulder.

"Jesu Maria! Vive la République! a bas les Bourbons!" exclaimed the terrified old gentleman, expecting as he turned, to encounter the bayonet and grim moustache of a French soldier. He was proceeding to scold Battista for thus alarming him, but perceiving the smile which Marianna strove in vain to suppress, he assumed, if he did not feel, that good humour which will ever be found the most effectual defence against ridicule.

"I might quote something about an army's being defeated by the cackling of geese," said he, looking askance at Battista-" no wonder then that I should quake a little when I feel the flap of their wingsbut come we have, I think, done with business, and our friends are longing to worship the divinity who deigns to preside over their festivity."

He bowed to Marianna as he spoke and offered her his arm which she did not refuse-then calling to Gennaro and Margaret, the whole party left the apartment. Ere they passed the threshold Pasquale once more addressed his fair companion-" Per Bacco, 'twill seem as if the lovely daughter of Ceres revisited her favourite haunts. This, you know, madam, is the very spot where.”

"She was carried off by Pluto," interrupted Marianna, and as it is not probable she would be permitted to revisit earth without her lord, what the impression will be when she appears under your escort!"

(To be continued.)

THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES.

HUBER AND NEWMAN.*

Notwithstanding that the subject of the Universities of England might have been deemed exhausted, whether for purposes of description or of controversy, we have at last presented to us in the pages of Professors Huber and Newman one of the most striking and interesting works ever written on these topics. The work was indeed known to many English readers in its German form, and had long since excited much attention in the literary world: but it is now given to the public in an English dress, somewhat condensed in extent and style, and rather altered in arrangement. It has also the advantage of being

From the German of V. A. HUBER, Professor of Western Literature at Marburg.-An Abridged Translation, edited by FRANCIS W. NEWMAN, Professor of the Greek and Latin Classics at Manchester New College, and formerly Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. 3 vols. 8vo. London: William Pickering. Manchester: Simms and Dinham. 1843.

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accompanied by the commentary and preface of its English editor, which in logical acuteness and profoundness of thought yield in nothing to the remarks of the German author; and it is still further enriched by appendices intimately connected with the main body of the work, which were either not produced by, or not known to, Professor Huber, Still more, the whole is copiously illustrated with well drawn and faithful plates by Mr. Buss, representing the most interesting ceremonies and scenes of usual life, witnessed within the Universities, as well as by numerous portraits of founders and eminent men connected with these seats of learning. So that when Professor Huber sees his book in its present improved form, swollen from two volumes into three, and converted from a recondite and rather abstruse production into a most interesting and attractive work, bedecked with all the embellishments of engravings and embossed binding, such as are produced in England alone, he will hardly recognise his child, but will cry out about magic, and glory perhaps in this touch of the enchanter's wand. The merit of this magic, and of the whole idea, as well as all the onus of the publication lies with Mr. James Heywood, who, in pursuing a long train of deep investigation into the history and constitution of the Universities, with a view to promote several important improvements in them, was led to peruse this work of Professor Huber, and ultimately to determine on giving it to the English public. At the same time feeling that it required much comment and alteration as well as practical illustration, he devoted a considerable portion of his learned leisure to the collection of materials with that view, and has borne the whole expense as well as much of the anxiety of these costly volumes. Mr. Heywood's well known liberality as a patron of letters is not more remarkably shewn in this instance, than is his habitual modesty in not affixing his name to the title page, which it would so worthily have adorned; it is only from the editor's statement that we learn to whom we are indebted.

The work is introduced by a most elaborate preface from the pen of Professor Newman, which, unlike many prefaces, is one of the best parts of the whole, and highly requisite to be well meditated on by whoever wishes to peruse the subsequent pages with profit: we shall give our readers an extract from it, but shall take the anomalous liberty of placing it in our second notice. The text of Professor Huber consists of two main divisions, the History of the Universities, literary and scientific, ecclesiastical and civil-and an account of their present constitution, as well as of public feeling and opinion concerning them. The Professor's notes are principally thrown into the form of appendices; so are Professor Newman's; and these notes with other documents fill up the third volume.

Having said thus much to guide the reader in forming a notion of the distribution of this remarkable work, we will proceed to give copious extracts of some of the more interesting portions. Upon those taken from the earlier parts of the book, graphic and original as they are in the extreme, we shall abstain from offering much comment; because we should be thereby led into antiquarian and historical disquisitions, which we are sure our readers would not thank us for, as much as for the forcible language and acute thoughts of the author:-if we

indulge in comments at all, it must be when we approach the end of our review.

After a disquisition upon the old division of University students, both in England and on the continent, into nations, Professor Huber gives us the following remarks:

The contrast of the two elements continues almost to this day; indeed thirty years ago, the Scotch and English were as strange to each other's feelings, as Germans to Dutch.* Yet a fusion of the two began at a very early period, in consequence of the wars with Scotland, and afterwards with France; so that a new or English nationality developed itself. But southern Scotland still stood aloof, and maintained a far purer Germanic character; (for it is now well known not to be Celtic ;) moreover the mass of the English people, in contrast to the nobles, must be regarded as Saxon, and not French. The complication was increased by the growth of the great commercial towns of the South,-London especially,-which tended to exalt the Saxon element, and to amalgamate North and South. The advance also of intellectual cultivation,-in language, poetry, and literature,-had its chief spring in the middle orders, though I would not say that the nobles took no part in it. Difficult as it may be to bring demonstrative proof, it still seems reasonable to believe, that the two nations at the University of Oxford represented in matter of fact this double element, and that with the progressive fusion of the country at large, they naturally lost their significance. Indeed the great political importance which has ever belonged to the English Universities seems explicable only by their action and reaction on the national existence. To this, their scientific importance is frequently essentially inferior; a fact, the knowledge of which is requisite to avoid the strangest errors. SYMPATHY BETWEEN THE ENGLISH NATION AND THE UNIVERSITIES.

In those days, (I have already said) the Universities as it were monopolized education; including students both younger and older than in the present day. The scholars of the higher faculties must have been from twenty-five to thirty years old; the Doctors much older; the number of resident Masters far greater than now. In those ages also personal servants were comparatively far more numerous than at present; and, before the wars of the Roses had drawn the Barons off to other pursuits, every noble family sent at least one son to the University, accompanied with an ample train of followers. The townspeople of England likewise took much more interest in University studies than afterwards. Before the ecclesiastical abuse of giving benefices to foreigners had become prevalent, the Church was their open door to elevation. On the whole, in the period of which we treat, the University comprised the strength and bloom of the nation; picked from all ranks and orders, North and South, and sympathising intensely with the general course of public policy. The excitability of youth accounts for many an outbreak ; and, as every pulsation of the national life was certainly felt in great power at the Universities, so it is probable that the nation received in turn many a vigorous impulse, especially on points of learning and science. In fact, the Degree" being an indelible character, a student who had ceased to reside, did not cease to sympathize with his "Foster Mother: and every rank of civil, and much more of ecclesiastical life, was filled with men who identified themselves with her interests. We have indeed still to fight against the

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* Without giving due weight to such considerations no sound history can exist. Yet it is going into the opposite extreme to explain the history of modern France by the mixture of the conquerors and conquered in the French population.

† Even in the German Universities, crippled by State-Mechanism, the pulsation of national life is intensely felt; and but lately, clanship was rather vigorously upheld.

See the works of John of Salisbury, Peter of Blois, Girald of Cambridge, and other biographies, &c. in Warton, Monasticon, Leland, Hearn.