Language of Fishes

There is uomothing truly > jj in the m ,i;m^ •■)" the pivnd ok , .^a voice conies to us iv mnfiled notes, as if trying to burst from itself, now with a bugJ roar, and agaia dying away up the long iine of white Baud in a low, murmuring sit;h, which sosma to say good-bye, an til its fellow comes thunrkiiut; on, bringing new tidings from the ' dark unfathonied caves,' and throwing its tears of upray at your feet. Bat thesn are not the only Bounds that come up from the s <a. Musical notes are ofteu heard, that in olden times were credited to the ' siren's harp.' They c me to us in low, sweet notes, burdened with a hidden meaning, swelling on each rise, and Knal!y bursting from thw d^ep in a chorus of rich sounds and har monies, Tneae peculiar marine sereuades were for years regarded wi».h superstitions awe by the tuiluia of the aea. By same they were taken as nigara <-f and by otoera, of the old school and Marryatt class, as the songs of the vast crewea of the dead who roamed the sea in their phantom crafts that appeared to their liviug comrades at dark moments and in weird form, an ominous foreboding of speedy iil-fortune, and so these B'.rauge notes were traced to different origins, until BOrne curious individual threw the blame of all disturbance upon the fish family, and then it became known that they, having mouths, spoke after their fashion, aud bo our sirens and mermaids passed away. Their fair forms are no longer sreu teclining ou tho mossy, shore, Their of the unoffending Pisces, and the well sweefi voic 13 h ivo been superseded by the croak known liu^-p,

'An guifs enchanted, where tho siren sings, An.i coral reefd Ho bare,' have lost their romance. Alas, for the advance of time, as with every throb our old and well loved legends slip away, and disappear in ihe dim diatanco of the past. Auoterj ti ;hy vocalist is fouad in the Anevent Scants, which was noted for the powers of its vocal ov^iu;). Pliny embalmed it in verss as the king of fishes, and Ovid and Ussian have also t.uag ita praises in song. Soleucus stated, with nil good faith, that it was tbe only (ith that ever slopt, and iVAinn bestow ed upon iv tho honor of being the best beloved by its fellow*. Wonderful tales are told of its powers of intonation, and, although it was in great demand for the table, the men were ioth to take it ia con sequence of the waiis and mo^im it gave way to when captured. At o'hor times, when free, its voice rose from tho sea clear as a bell, and ravishing in the sweetnes of ifcs melody !

The well-known gurnards are noted fir and wide for tho strange sounds they produce, and a* yet the peculiar mechanism has sot beeu clearly demonstrated. At times the Boimrl iq nut unpleasant, and at others it resembles the barking of a dog, or the grat iug of t:.vo rough substances. This may be the else in somo species, but I have held a fifth found in the southern Welters, and simitar m our perch, in my hand, and lit! trie 1 To the Pounds, find they fu.etnod to be prodnced by a movement of the jaws or throat, as the lips Jn<i mouth protruded at every st'Utid it; uttered ; but it is not un likely that they a»e produced by grinding tho tw.th with :>. quick motion in trying to escape. On the Jersey coast the Prionolits pilatus is called the pi# or hog fish, on account of its continual baikiog, us it ia drawn in by the net ; and in almost every section <f the country we find then) local ism;! ail tendinp to represent the vocal tastes of the iinny population.

la the days of old Home the mu'seaas, or sea eely, wera supposed to have a regular language, Mow and sweet,' says an old writer, and ' with an intonation so fascinatinp; th-it few could resist; its in fluence,' and it; is said that Emperor Au gustus pretended to understand their words it is well known, however, that he did dovofce muck of Ids time to the cultivation of these creatures, not for a hypothsia of language, but beciuso they were highly esteemed in a g.iatronomic point of view. In fact, so far was this carried that epiciuiCi won Id only eat those that had been attened on human flesh.

Strange sounds are often heard aJso rising from the waters of our own coasts, that v/ould bo apt to astonish the sapor* atitious listener if he were not accquai/ited with the unoffending cause of all the dis turbances. Sometimes it riBC3 into thy air like the b.'ing off a huge drum, and again seems to aleal over the waves with a low, murmuring wail ; and if you were to place your ear close to the surface, the atrango sounds would appear to come from five or six different places. Seaman are often startled by the 'boom, boom' that seems to steal over tho vessel, seeming to their earn morn like tho drum of some long-lost crew than the voico of an innipnilicant member of the family of fishes ; for such it is, and well known ag tho bearded drum fish. But bow it produces the queer musical rotes is a sonutking that it would be well for a ' fish commission' to discover.

Sbill another faithful satelite of Euterpe is found in the noißy magire. It makes a strange cooing moan, accompanied by a Bharp croak that can be heard at a depth of 150 feet. The fish attains a length of about six feet, and weighs forty pounds. What these sounds are made for we know not, but on the principal that all things are made for some particular purpose they must have meaning. That the imperfect voice of the fish is used to express discontent and pain 1 have no doubt, as in numerous experiments on a fish found in the Guil of Mexico, called the grunt, I found that the voico was used and modulated as with other animals. When touched with the koifo the grunt that it gave vent to fairly rose to a shriek, and when dying its moans and soba were almost disagreeably human.

J shall nover forj»c t the first one of these veiitable porkers that I caught. Thinking that; my bait needed replenishing, I hauled in and found nicely hooked a grunt, and no sooner had I placed him in the boat than he commenced a series of grunts and sobs that bade fair to take me by storm. Now he would make a low noise, and gradually swell the'melody,' and final'y hurl at me such a

blasb of entreaties, all of which were produced wichout a struggle, that cay better nature waa aroused, and I made haste to tof.s him back, and as he disappeared he uttered a squeak which, together wish the splash, sounded 10 me like a bonafiiie ' thank you,' and I have no doubt but what is was.

Baron Humbolt mentions an occurrence which he witnessed in the South Sea. 1 Aboutj seven o'clock in the evening the saliors were terrified by an extraordinary noise in the air like the healing of tambour ines, followed by sounds that seemed to come from ;he ship, and rt^uibled the escape of air from boiling liquid.' Many other instances could be called up to prove that fishes use their vocal organs to some purpose, but the above only serve to show that they have a well-defined voice, and tUat it is capable of modulation. — [N. Y. irnea.

Girls Worth Millions.

When a dozen newsboys and bootblacks had collected on tbe custom-house stairs yeater day (says the 'Detroit Free Press'), and when each one had grown tirad of jaw breakers and popcorn balls, ' Little English remarked :-' Sposen Jim Cocoanut telis us a story.' ' Sposen ' remarked all the others. ' Well, gentlemen,' remarked Jim after a few digs at his hair, 'I will tell you a true story about a girl. Her name was Marrier, and she had yaller hair, blue eyes, small feet, and Bhe was worth a million dollars. 'In stamps ?' asked cross-eyed Dick. In clean cash, right in the savings bank, an swered Jim ' This girl was a horphan, with uo one to boss her around, and if she wanted to be out until eleven o'clock at night she could. There were piles of fellers after her to marry her, but sho stuck up her nose at tho hull c*booi!e.' ' What for?' 'Why, Bhe knew they loved her money instead of herself .-he wanted some one to love her earnestly aud like gosh. Wei!, one day, when she was going down to the post olhcc to see if there was any mail, a runawayuorse came along. Marrior fainted away, and sat down in the road, and she'd have been broke all to pieces if it hadn't boon for a boot black, 'bout my size. He pulled h«r into a shooting-gallery, brought her to, and then hired a hull omnibus, and took her homo. ' And they fell in lovo and were finally mar ried,' remarked Suspeudur Johnston. ' No, my fellow countrymun,' sadly rejoined Jim — ' she gin him 10 cents.' ' And is that ali? exclaimed threo or four voices. ' All she gave him, aud r.hat turned out to be counter feit.' Th«re W*h a long period of uiinnce, and then Cocoauub Jim continued :—' Which is a lesson to ua never to marry a girl worth a million dollars.' 'And we never shall,' they all solemnly replied.

Ruined by Mice.

The Scotch farmers, with all thuir shrewd ness, are apparently utterly beaien by^ the ridicuiua mua. So far, at least, they hava been unable to deviso any means of ridding themselves of choarmie3 of these insignificant creatures, which have rjuartered themselves on tho border of farms. About three monthH aiio the attention of the public in general, auri of ioc;il agricultural clut.s in particular, waa called to tho depredations caused by these tiny quadrupeds, which, ib was suddenly discovered, had increased to euch an alarm iu^j exien'J as to have actually destroyed a large expanse of pasturage, and to threaten to overrun the country. Tho land is represented as resembling the ground in tho neighoorhoo-i of targets for ritle practice, bein^ literally riddled with holes; the whole of the vegetation is destroyed in certain localities in Teviotdale, not merely the blades io grass being eateu by the mice, but tho roots being consumed as well. The conseqaenee has been that} the shoop have been robbed of thei imtur.il food, and the recent lambing season has been one of tho most disastrous ever known, both owes and lambs being deprived of sustenance and perishing in numbers

The plague is almo3t identical with that which has so seriously intsrfered with the progress of sheep farming in New Zealand, only there it is the rabbits that have caused the mischief ; and unless it cau be stamped out, it threatens the ruin of many sheep breeders and wool growers. One farmer in New Zealand is said to have saerilioed 15,000 acres of land by enclosing that area with a solid masonry wall, in order to prevent the spread of ! joolony of rabbits which had taken possession of a portion of his farm. But land is too scarce and valuable in Scotland to permit of such a heroic method of cure. Tho question for the Scotch farmers is whether they can reduce the number of the mice by encouraging the increase of weasels, hawks, owls and other carnivorous birds and beasts, or whether they mubt lake the law into their own hands aud drive out the enemy. The unfortunate part of the business is that tho little rodents are of no value, unlike rabbits whose skins and flesh are both of a certain worth, and they are too small to attract sportsmen with their guns. One thing is certain, that the Scotoh farmers will not in future encourage tho use of the gun at hawks aud weasels, but will rathor encourage tho visits of these mousecatchera.

Poisons and Antidotes.

It not unfrcquently happens that serious and distressing results are occasioned by the accidental employment of poisons, and it occurred to us that we might do a service to some of our readers by presenting them with a brief and compendious list of the more common poisons, and the remedies for tlu'm moat likely to bo at hand.

Acids—These cause great he^t and sensation of burniDg pain from the mouth down to the stomach, liemedies — Magaesia, soda, poarl ash or Roap, dissolved in water ; then use stomach pump or emetics.

Alkalies Best remedy is vinegar. Ammonia—liemedy : Lemon juice or inegar ; afterward, milk and water or flaxreed tea.

Alcohol - First cleanse out the stomach by an emetic ; then dash cold wator on the head and give ammonia (spirits of hartshorn). Arsensic—Remedies :In the first place evacuate the storn,ach ; thon give the white

of eggs, l;me water or ch^lk aud waler, charcoal and the preparation of iron, particularly hydrate. Lead White lead and sugar of lead. Remedies: lum and cathartics, such as castor oil, aD rl Eapom salts especially. Charcoal in poisons by carbonic gas, remove the patient to open air, dash cold water on the head aud body, and stimulate nostrils and lungs by hartshorn, at tho same tiina rubbing the chest; briekly. Corrosive sublimate -Give white of eggs freshly mixed wich wacer, or give wheat flour and water or soap and water frealy.

Creosote Whito of eggs and emetics

Belladonna or,night henbane - Give emetic?, and then plenty of vinegar and water, with a dose of ether, if handy. .Nitrate of silver (lunar costic)—Give a strong solution of common salt, and then emetics.

Opium—First give a strong emetic of mustird aud water, then strong coffee and .'tc'.d drinks ; dash cold water on the head.

Laudanum—S»me r\s opium. Nux Vomica -First emetics, then brandy.

Oxalic acid—Freqently mistaken for epsom salts. Remedies : Chalk, magnesia, or soap and water freely ; then emetics. Nitrate of potash—Give emetics, then copious draughts of flaxsced tea, milk and water, and other aoothing drinks. Prussic acid—When there is time administer chlorine in the shape of soda or lime. Hot brandy and water, hartshorn ?nd turpentine are also useful.

Wages.

Os April 10, 1594, the Justices assembled at the Chapter Houso agreed upon a new rate for servants' and laborers' wage 3, ac cording to tho sfcatuto of the fifth year of Elizabeth. It may bs noticed, in passing, that ' William Strode, aigh Sheriff,'appears in mid il? o fj h.he lis". of names of those present, not a3 hwiug any precedence over the others. Iv modern tim^.s the Sheriff, as is well known, takes no part in the business of Sessions. The maximum rate 3of wages were as fellows : No bailiff of husbandry, ' chiffe hyne (chiei bind) or miller was to take above 53a 4d by thj year and his livery, or 13s 4d for the same. No common ?can servant of husbandry, between the agea of 1G and 20, was to take ahovaSO* by toe year, and after the age of 20, ab-jve 40s. No wi.msn servant under tho age of 14 was to take any wages but meat, drink, and nlotb.es ; ftom the age of 14 to IS. not above 12h and livery, or Gb ifor the same ; and, after the aae of 18, not above 16s 8d and livery, or 6a 81 for tho same. No woman 'laboring at hay' was to take above 2d a day and meat and drink, or 6d a day without meat and drink. In corn har vest, 3d or 7d respectively, aud all other work Id or sd.

All laborers at task-work might take as they could ayree.

AH husb-indry laborers were to take from All-b allow bide (November Ist) till Chndle mas (February 2ad) 3d a day wiih meat and nrink, or 7d a day without;. From Candlrmaa to All-ha'lowtirle 4d or S i respectively, except when mo'vi 14 corn or grass, for which they uaighi; take 61 or 121.

All rnaitir-masous, carpenter*, joiners, plumbers, holliers, plasterers and thitchers bavins servants or apprentices according to the statute, and able to take charge of the work, vrere to tike by the day, with meat and drink, not above 01, or 12d without;.

Osher masons, carpenters, etc., were to take n^'c above yd or lid, and apprentices and boys not above 2.1 or G 1. A pair of sawyers were to take not above 121 or 2s.

The rates of wagea were settled yearly at the E'ister Sessions, and proclaimed by the Sheriff; but they do not seora to have been altered during the rest of the reign of Elizi hcth. In October, IGOI, wo find an order that all constables are to ascertain the names of all masters and servants who give or take more wages than thoae appointed, and report thuin to the Justices, and live sub-committees a.ra appointed specially to attend to this matter in the different districts. The most remarkable point in these tablos of wages is tho slight difference they show between the wages of agricultural laborers aud those of men employed in the building trades. A farm-laborer earned 4a. a week for three quarters of tho year, and .'>-!. 6d. for the remainder. In corn and hi*y harvest he received a shilling a day, which was equal to the wages of what was called a ' master mason.' A journeyman mison earned no more than sa. 6d. a week. —[From ' Fraser's Magazine.'

Slightly changed. — A. traveller, just newly rsturned from .South America, meota an old aquaintance in thp street, who thus acc.ists him: —'My de*r fe'low, lv»w changed you arc ! 1 declare I should never h*ve known you.' 'I dont wonder; I was sea-sic& all the way ovor and bacfc, and home-sick all the tima I was there '. bpsides I was decimated by yellow fever.'

It is claimed that a crue lady nevor l'-'sea her tem per . Wo nevsr know of one really out of temper, 'hough sine-tho prosent sfc7lo of dress eatue in we have seen them considerably ruffled.

A thorough purist iv language. Lord WeUesly. once objected to the words 'personal narrative.' While entartalnirfr Lord Plunkott, the then recently appointed Chief Justice of tho Common Pleas,at the Viceregal Lidgo, he said to him, 'One of my aides-de cimp hit written a persons! I narrative of his travels ; pr.*y Chief Justice, what is your definition of 'per sonal ?' 'My lord.' wa3 thane it reply, 'wa lawers al ways consider personal as opp. sed to real'

A duol is quickly manned, seconds to arrange it.

It only takes two

Browu Perplexed—Mrs Brown tails her husband not to sit in his aWrt-slor-vcs or ho will catch cold. How ca:; a man sit in his shiri-slceves ?

Said a iroutleman to hiti nu<stresj Toil arp very hand gimo.' Pooh !'said tbolady, 'so yon would ss>y if you did not think to. 'And so you would th'uk," answered h) 'fclrmgh I should not s>y so,'

llowcjol Mid refreshing ir. wouli ho to fall down a well?~Detroit Free Press. Provided you are cireful notkick the Ducket. PhilidelphU'Bulletin, A -Saintly Chancellor.—Tierruy remarked of Lird Chancellor Thurlow, wh i wa3 liotorioua for swelling as f^r ivs parsimony, that lie wa3 too rigiii a disciplin arian in his religion, for that in his lordxhip's house it was 'past-ton week' in ths parlour and 'lent' in the vltohon all the yesr round.

A Lr.mrior — Bonif.u;j Ura-ierio.se (fin r.mi sole but sosthetic youth, oihitjitiiijg l^s art treasures) —■ rnst' —a-a— Mothe? and Child, a — »— fifteenth canturjßS —.' Fashionable Lady—l should have thougit v earlier !' Bonifaoe l;ra-;enos».— '\ —may lissswhy? i^shlonable L>dy- 'Oh I .should have tliouht they could piiint better than taut so laic as fhe fifteenth century,' l'h« a-test fe^t wasin

Wh-u is wealth ? The only advantage that a rascil hag over tax honest man.

A Chateau on Espagne.

' N"o, .sir; distinctly and emphatically no ! I decline the honor you propose to confer upon me and my daughter. The arangemcnt between your father and me, en which you would take your stand, was conditional, and was broken by him when he let his folly land, him in bank ruptcy.' ' Forbear, Mr Casper; forbear, I entreat you. Do not revive the memory of my dear departed father,' supplicatingly interposed the young man to whom the round and rubicundghost of the Londoner Hof, in Zeugstadt, addressed the above peremptory refusal to give him his daughter in marriage. ' My father fell a sacrifice to an impru dent act of generous friendship for a worthless cheat:; but he vas not a bank rupt— he paid to the last farthing of his liabilities.' ' The greater fool he. He might easily have compounded at 20 per cent or so, and let you start fairly in life with the ballance, instead of beggaring himself and you. Had he taken my advice all would have been well, and you might have mar ried Louise ; but he preferred playing the sentimental fool of ' honor and principal' as he bombastically called it. 'lentreafcyouonce, more Mr. Casper,not to pursue this theme further. And please, Mr. Casper, take into your kind considera tion that, though my dear father has left me poor in worldly possessions, I have received an excellent education, and you know it is said that knowledge ia power.'

1 Knowledge is fiddlesticks, sir ! Hadn't your father knowledge enough for three average men, and what did it avail him ? Wasn't lie taken in by a scurvy know nothing ? No, sir ; money alone is power money, combined with prudence and cau tion in all dealings with the world. Take advantage of everybody and everychance that offers, and M no one ever get the better of you. That's the true philosophy of life and of success in it. JSever put your name to paper for any other man, or part with a farthing of cash out of your purse, unless you securely hold more than the equivalent value to cover you. That's ray principle. I have a poor opinion of the man who will let him self bd bested, or let a chance slip to improve his situation, because, forsoth, some foolish crotchet of honor may stand in the way. ' Wide awake' is my moto* If ever lam caught napping I give the world leave to tell me of it, and I give you leave to woo my daughter. But lam too old a bird to be caught by any sort of stuff whatever. Knowledge power, indeed! Why. look at yourself; you profess to know six languages, and what do you make by your knowledge—a beggarly 000 thaler a year ; a nice income, forsooth, to keep «■ wife on a girl who has from childhood been accustomed to every luxury. Pooh !' 'But Louise loves me, Mr. Casper, and '

' But Louise loves good living and fine dresses, sir. Love in a cottage is a nice thing, no doubt ; but were you to try it with a wife brought up in the lap of luxury, you'd soon find out how, at the first knock of short commons and cotton prints at the door, your boasted 'love' would straightway take flight through the window. You may shake your head, sir. but you may trust ray own experience for it; I have seen it happen every time under such circumstances. But, maybe you think old Casper will relent, and will do the handsome thing by his daughter, even though she should let you persuade her to make a fool of herself.' ' You wrong me Mr Casper ; indeed you do, if you believe that I ever

Well, if I do so much the better for all parties ; only I would have yo j clearly understand, once for all, that 3 rou will never obtain my consent to marry my daughter, unless you are able to show me that your knowledge is wortli a good, round, tangible sum of hard cash, say a thousand ducats for every one of your six languages. Now, what is it, Charles ? Ffave I not told you a hundred times that I will not be intruded upon in my private room ? How dare you disobey my order, sir —how dare you !' These angry words were addressed to the portly head waiter of the Londoner Hof, who, having knocked twice without effect, had ventured to turn the handle of the door and to enter the sanctum of 1 mine host,' with a large letter in his hand. 1 Here is a letter, Mr Casper, about which I would ask your orders.' A letter ? "Why didn't you put it in the rack ? Why am Ito be troubled by every trifle ?' The letter is not prepaid, Mr. Casper, and the postman wants 16 grochen postage —' ' Sixteen d . Here, hand it to me.' Mine host took the letter from the waiter's hand, and looked at it with a puzzled expression. It bore an armorial seal, with a count's crown, and had the postoffiee stamps of Cartagena and Madrid impressed on it. It was addressed simply to the ' Proprietor of the Londoner Hof, in Zeugstadt.' Now, it so happened that the hotel had often numbered Spanish noblemen and merchants among its frequenters, Mr. Casper's father and predecessor was known to have been on more than one occasion financially concerned for such pariies. So mine host, after some hesi tation, concluded to risk the postage, i and opened the letter, which he found,

to bis great embarrassment, wasw^p in the beautiful language of Cervii and Calderon.

After a brief struggle, Mr. Casper up to tais time had not extended ' least show of hospitality to bis \xam] \ visitor, graciously told Charles to ! with the postman, and to bring Si bottle of Heinberg Cabinet, w l l glasses and some cakes and biscuit then handed the letter to the rejected-- \ with a polite request to read andint^ ' the missive to him, which the vow - at one set about to do with Sf' \ alacrity, only too happy to render se!' to the father of his beloved. s v perusing the letter, his counted assumed an expression of profound 1 ishment, which soon changed to 0 - - triumphant exultation ; and no wond < The letter was dated from the«n - de Cartagena, 5, Setiembre, 1871' V writer was a Spanish nobleman, a ,' General of the Spanish army, jZ| body and soul to ihe legitimate Jk Spain. A few years before he hadlw I fly from his native land It wasatf time that he had had the c honor1 ! making the acquaintance of the pr Oc tor of the Londoner Hof, in Z eu where he had then been staying for,![ time. He had found the proprietor o hotel a man of honor, he stated, ande kind, obliging disposition. The ren> brance of this fact alone gave hita» the requisite courage to addresshim se '; the said proprietor in an affair of i utmost delicacy, and of the highest; portance. A few- months ago lie j been called back to Spain, to take lead in an intended Carlist rising. }l unhappily, he had been taken prisoner the police of Madrid, of whom, n\ was still more fatal, he had killed one i wounded three, in his fierce struggle freedom ; so he was a close prisoneri in the castle of Cartagena, slowly reco? ing from his own wounds received mi desperate encouuter. Except the cloti on his back, and his signet ring, w a could not be forced from his fin s everything had been taken from him a he would be left to perish, utterly itelpl ( and hopele s, baa it not pleased ana benign Providence to raise him a friei in the person of a humble warder, whe his sad misfortune and bitter sufferiu had moved to compassion. It was soli through the agency of this good man t! he was enabled to pen the present let; The man was, un'■■apply, too poor defray the postage, and he (the wri must therefore trust to the noble gene: ity, so well known to him, of the prdprif of the Londoner Hof to discharge small amount pro. tern; also to prepay reply, which was to be sent, undercut addressed to a certain party in Cartag; knovvu to the good warder. And not would come to the real object of the leu In the fullest reliance upon the honor,i integrity of a German gentleman, het going to confide to the ' proprietor'a a momentous secret, and to place auimat trust in him. He (the writer had k charged by His Majesty (he Eiagu the safe custody of the Carlist li Treasury, amounting to some three v ion pesetas. This large sum of money, Bank of Spain notes, was, together! some two hundred thousand francs Bank of France notes, which constifili the sole remnant of hisown private forte securely stowed away in the double hot!; of a traveling trunk, at the time in 3 keeping of an inhabitant of Cartage who supplied him (the writer) with i dinner. By a mivacei this precious fa had been saved from the clutches oft police, and most fortunately not a soul Spain except the writer knew tuevalm its contents ; about which, however, naturally felt deeply anxious. Hew a constant tremble lest the least misck) should lead to a revelation of the sets and throw the precious deposit into I hands of the usurping government Spain, or of other thieves. The Car: party could ill afford the loss of £120,0 and as far himself, the seizure of his p £8000 would leave him a beggar. Ti was another consideration which weigt still heavier upon his mind: the sffl receptacle in the trunk containedalsoli papers of the Carlist party, which it re be ruin to many generous and nab persons in Spain were they to fi into the hands of the actual usurpi government. He had, then, reflate long and anxiously upon this most critia; state of affairs, and he had at Jasfc decide to trust to the honor of the Germ . gentleman. He therefore ventured ffi to ask peqmission to send the trunkp railway to the proprietor of the London Hof. He gave his word of honor thattl money had been honestly come by, t\ that it reply belonged to the parties nan1; The proprietor of the Londoner Hof iron.; kindly keepit safe till furtherinstrncti«l However, to reward him for his trow and his mtiral anxiety.in this somew delicate afl'air, he (the writer) who fe the fullest power to act for the Carl party, begged to authorize the gentw whom he was addressing to take ten? cent of the Carlist money—say 3W pesetas or francs —for himself: anal most earnestly entreated him not refuse the proffered gift. His aocephj thereof, indeed, would be held by tj writer the safest pledge for the honoflfe performance of the high trust reposed i| him. He (the writer) knew and «*'l course, that he and his party were, "V% present step, placing themselves «*§ at the mercy of a stranger; but he saj»» other way but of the'difficulty,""I*jt1 *jt was quite convinced in his mi^{°? 1 might safely trust to the provedbigfl*"""!

EVENING STAR SUPPLEMENT, TSrOYEMBEg_ia_jLBTg,