HANDEL'S "ISRAEL IN EGYPT."

As the Auckland Choral Society arc now -about to address themselves to tho rehearsal •of Handel's "Israel in Egypt," with a view to its production at the la>t concert of the season, which will take phco in November next, the following historical •notes upon it by an esteemed contributor ■will be read with much interest; -

This oratorio, which is considered by musicians as one of the grandest monu ments of their art, was written in the year 1738, and was the fifth work of. the kind vhich Handel produced in England. Like the " Messiah," " Israel i>;, Egypt" differs from all Handel's oth<,r oratorios in not being written in a 'Aramatic form, and in the words being -jntirely selected from the ! Holy Scriptures. Handel himself has been \ supposed to. have made the selection. He ' generally noted upon his scores the times of the coramcticement and completion of the Composition, as well as those at which .he finished various intermediate portions of the work. The memoranda of this kind on the manuscript of " Israel in Egypt " are of ;a peculiarly interesting character, and are an follows :--On the first pago is written loth October, 1735, and Act No. 2, and Q- a ithis and on the following page the aut>; lOr has twice commenced the orator)';^ n nd as often erased what he had b<-,g Ulli () n the page on which tho work, it now stands commences, is writ f, en Part No. 2 of Exodus. At the e-,,d of the chorus, " And; believed the Lo,vd," are tho words "Fine> ddla parti, 2da d'Exodus, October; 20th, and October 2Sth, 1738." Over; the chovus, "Moses and tho Children; of IlVaol,"' is writtcn| "Moses's Sone, Bxodus, chapt. 15, " Sortriotus and Ange iangen, Oct. Ist," 1733 {i.e., begun Oct. Ist, 1738), and at tho foot of the last pago of the oratorio, Time, Oct. 11th, 1738—den Is INovembor, vollig geendigt {i.e., completely finished Nov. Ist.) Hence it appears that .the work was begun and ended between (tho Ist Oct. and Ist Nov., that the actual iime occupied on the composition was only. seventeen clays, viz., from the Ist to 11th, and from the loth to 20th October, the re mainder of tho month being devoted to tho ifilling up and revision of what had pre viously been written ; and that it was in tended to call the oratorio "Exodus." From the composer's manuscript we also iearn the names of the singers to whom the several songs, otc, were entrusted on the first performance of tho oratorio, viz., Signora Francesina, Mr Savage, Mr Bep;^, W. Waltz, Mr Reinhold, and Kob;, nson^g , ifcoy—these names being writtr jn by %i lo j jponcil of Handel over the sol j p( GCes _ *fi[j 0 young vocalist about whi^o name t)he'*reat composer was so inc^Jferent w&s cfoubt oao of the choristers of Wostfniinster Abbey, who were a'u the tinte under tbc mastership of John Robinson, the organist of that church. Tho first performance wf " Israel in Egypt" took, place at the King's Theatre, in the ! Bkjymarlfet, on 4th April, 1739, being thus; Announced ■:—" Haymarket: at the King's: Theatre in the Haymarket this day, April j 4, will 'be performed a new oratorio, 'Cafrled t * Israel in Egypt,' with several concertos on; the organ, and particularly a<netr one. Pit and boxes to be put togeftbeV, and no per sons to bo admitted without tickets, which "will be delivered thistlay, at the office in the Hayinarket, at half-a-guinea each, gallery j Bs. The gallery will be open at 5, the pit I and boxes at 6. To begin at seven o'clock."! The work was but coldly received, as on tire following day it was announced for repeti tion on the 11th1 April, with alterations and additions, and the two last concertos on the organ, being the last time of performing it; but on tho 10th April thero appeared •another announcement, in wbj,oh it was! stated that the oratorio won'.j b e shortened and intermixed with sonp; d . What the songs j ■were we learn froyi the original score, j ■wheroon Handel \,n s pencilled their titles at' the several Traces of their introduction. They were O ur in number, were'all sung by Signora Francesina, and, witJl one excep tion, were in the Italian language. Whothor the intermixture of the songs gained for the di'f.torio any additional [favour is uncertain, but no announcement was made for its repetition on the next tiay.! A few days \ater, however, the following; paragraphappeared :—" We ex® informed! *hat Mr Handel, at the desire of several persona of distinction, Intends to perform again his last new oratorio of 'Israel in Egypt "on Tuesday nest, the 17th inst." j A .third performance accordingly t#i»k place, and on the 18th April a fouttn was announced for the 19th, but wheh the day arrived tho newspapers stated that "Israel in Egypt" had beej advertised by a mis take, and that " SauT' Would be performed. Handel again announced his' great work for performance on Ist April, for that day only in this "Season. On this occasion the antbfcm composed by him in 1737 j lfor the funeral of Queen Caroline, Oeorgo the Second's wife, was prefixed as -a first part^ under the name of the " ko'ftsentation of tho Israelites for ttw Death of Joseph"; the two parts of the oratotio itself, with, gome omissions and niMitions, followed as the second and third parts. This tlifle the noble work soeitts to have fared n.O better than on the previous occasions, and it was withdrawn for a period of sixteen years, ■when Hundel again ventured to bring it out. It was twice given during the season (on thfl i/th and 24th March, 1756); this time With «a first part made up by a selectioh chiefly from Solomon ; the original work, with interpolations and omissions, forming tire second and third parts. On tho 4th March, 1757, and 24th February, 1758, the oratorio was again given, with apparently the same arrangement; and, with the exception of a performance at Oxford, these were the only iimesit was heard in the composer's lifetime. S'rom thonceforward various arrangements were performed under the name oti " Israel in Egypt," until a centiMty had passed since its composition % *-iien on tho 16th March, 1838, t&e Sacred Harmonic Society ventured to perform the ora iorio as it originally written. But the good time had not oven then ar rived, and the interpolations and omissions were again resorted to for 11 years more, until at length the same body, on 23rd Feb, 1849, again tried tho experiment of giving the work in its integrity, and this time with success, the oratorio hav ing ever since been performed ihtact> In the composition of "Israel in Egypt," Handel availed himself of sotne of his earlier works. Thus his "Six Fugues for the Harpsichord" furnished materials for the choruses, "They Loathed to Drink" and "He Smote all the First-born of Egypt,"' in the first part; and a magnificat with Latin words for a double choir, pro bably composed dtiring tiis residence at Rome in 1704, was laid under contribution for seven or eight numbers in the second part. Some ideas in the first part were derived from a seranata for voices and instruments by Alexandro Stradella, whilst the chorus, "Egypt was Glad," is an adaptation of a canzona or organ piece by Johaun Caepar Kerl.

Some Curious Facts.

Gold-beaters, by hammering, can reduce cold leaves so thin that 282,000 must be laid upon each other to produce the thick ness of an inch, yet each leaf is so perfect and free from holes that one of them laid up on any surface, as in gilding, gives the ap pearance of solid gold. They are so thin that if formed into a book 1,500 would only occupy the space of a single leaf of common paper; and an octavo volume of an inch 1 thick would have as many pages as the books of a well-stocked library of 1,500 volumes, with four hundred pages in each. Still thinner than this is the coating of gold upon the silver wire of what is called gold lace, and we are not sure that such coating is not of only one atom thick. Platinum and silver can be drawn into wire much finer than human hair. A grain of blue vitriol or carmine will tingo a gallon of water, so that in every drop the colour may be perceived. A grain of musk will scent a room for twenty years, and will at the end of that period have lost little of its weight. The carrion crow smells its food many miles off. A burning taper uncovered for a single instant, during «,Wh it does not lose one-thousandth of I Sain, would fill with light a sphere fcui? miles in diameter, so as to be visible in every part of I* The thread of the silk worm is so small that many of them are twisted together to form our finest sewing thrßad • but that of the spider is smaller Still for two drachms of it by weight would reach from London to Edinburgh, or 400 miles. In the milt of a codfish, or in water in which vegetables have been infused, the microscope discovers animalcules of which Tany thousands together do not equal m bulk a grain of sand ; and yet nature, with a singular prodigality, has supplied many of thfse with organs as complete as those of the whale or the elephant, and their bodies consist of the same substance, or ultimate atoms as that of man himself. In a single pcZd of such matter there are more hying creatures than of human beings on the face o this globe. What a scene has the micro, scope opened to the admiration of the Ssophic inquirer! Water mercury, sXhur, or in general any substance when sufficiently heated, rises as invisible vapcur or gas; that is, reduced to the aeriform state. Great heat, there ore, would cause the whole of the material universe to dis appear, and the most solid bodies to become invisible and impalpable as the air we breathe. Few have contemplated an .annihilation of the world more complete easaell's Saturday Journal." t

GOSSIP FROM STAGE AND STUDIO.

[By Errr.i-.iK.]

Thk Auckland Ohoval Society have compiled a really 'Captivating programme for their next season. Commencing of course with Handel's " Messiah " in December next, it also includes Mendelssohn's "Saint Paul" and " Walpurgis Night," Beethoven's "Mount of Olives," Gounod's "Solemn Mass," Gadc's "Coma'a," ftnd Sullivan's "Martyr of Antiech." Plenty of variety as well £s'chY^ceness hero.

± can safely recommend tho benefit con cert to Mons. Villevnl to the notice of the music-loving. A capital array of local talent, including the Orchestral Society's instrumental quartette, has been secured, and the programme, is both select and diversified.

ttooj-g6 RigtioM \\U Sailed for Australia,! bringing Mi--B Kate BiUiop Win him [as ' leadmfcTatly.

Wilson Sart'eft hfis engaged Mr E. W. (W\vin, fr.S.A., to supervise the archaeolo gical portions of his forthcoming production of I'Hamlet."

. The materials of'the, Opera House on tho Thames Embankment sold for. £2,000, which means a loss upon the bulldiii" of £100,006.

One of 'the American theatrical shows of next season will include a professional beauty to represent the typical loveliness of each State in the Union.

MessrsGilbcrtandStillivanhavingreceived tho usual notice from Mr DOyly Carte to have a new operetta ready within six months, are already in consultation, and a now idea is sketched out.

The l\cv. Frederick George- Lee is pre paring for press "Glimpses ft\ U\e Twi light, the theme of whvdh Is said to bo " Notes, Records and Examples of the Supernatural.

Boetol, the now ox-cabdriver tenor of Hamburg, is receiving tho unprecedented salary (for a youticc artist in Germany'- 6f £75 a nigtifc in KrollV Theatre W Vne ntjrg6H't«n> l>ellin.

The •SydWeV Msfewfol have success fufiy *,n tho Exhibition Building Mdndos^ohn's music to the Antigone of Sophocles. There were about 2,000 porroM present, including the GovornoiN

Henry Rose, editorof t!w " Itiill Express,"! is about to publish a biographical, (inec-! dotal, and t*£trcnl skefCc'h of Mr Henry' George, the anthor 'ell "'Prdg^esn final Poverty."

John Wils'6n's'cfilc\i3 is now performing at the RoyM'A^Ubrium, London. Miss Nellie ReSA, \h'e accomplished equestrienne, is 8{ 'o'eially engaged to lido Wilson's Australian jumping horse, Union, over tho six-feet-,' high timber leap. i

The Bach mpnument Kit will be unveiled on the September. There will bo a series itff 'concerts in connection with the'eVo'nt, 'at one of which the B minor mass fey John Sebastian Bach will bo con dtc'tad by Professor Joachim.

Tho committee for the erection of a Mozart monument fit Vfcnhtl n«s as jet in its hands only ">o,oo>^ ftorins. MoVe than 100,000 florins, however, oi'o Veiruiied. Hence an appeal ip T^.dds 'vo •V.itives and foreigiTOVs fOr'contViTjutwti';.

The Gra'rid D'Khe of Hesse has conferred the gold medal for Art and Siuenco on Mr Mackenzie, whose opera, " Colomba," as my headers will remember, was performed With much applause on the occasion ef the wedd'ng of Prince Louis of Ikttetaberg at Darmstadt

Tho most Vtmti, lion of Parisian It'teravy salons is ad^apan'ese'editoV.'Aa tlittty which is as Vare in Eurojio tik A black swim or a White elephant This interesting gentle man is nailed Jugoi (an honorary titfc1, V. Yfttto, aild he is editor and pVopiietor of the " liotehishienboun,", the \iuncipal organ of the Liberal party

A cons'eW.Uorio has been founded at KarlsHuo. It is provided with a, full KtalV «t teachers, under tho directorship of Heinrich Ordenstein. The institution, which opened with 70 pupils, Is under the protection of the Grand Duchess LoUisa of Baden, and receives an annual subvention of 3,000 marks.

"I'll take you all,into eiistttiiy if you doirfc stop that howlin' *i;d pushin'," said a iJolicemari to* tumultuous group of loafers at the bacH entrance of a theatre. " What aM yOu doing?" "We're rehearsing." <v Rehearsing for what I" " Well, tho now star begins her engagement next Monday, and the manaser has asked ua to play the excited multitude ptol'ming the ticket oflice."

Messrs W. H-. Allen ahd Co. ate about to publish, under the title of ''the Victoria Era," a dictionary of all persons of note and eminence who are still living or have lived Ruling the reign of Her Mtijesty. "the work will be from tho pen of Mi- Edward Walford-. It Will occupy three, or perhaps tour, iftfge octavo volumes, and will be published in instalment?.

The concert got up by MM, Cekmne and Faure at tho Trocadoio (Paris) for the benefit of M. Pasdeloup, was in every respect a success. The financial result pre sents tfie pretty sum of 100,000 francs (tt.OOO). Gunod, Leo Delibes, Saint-Paens, Massenet, Joncieres, and others, conducted some of their works, and among the vocalists were MM. Faure, Capoul, Dereims, Mesdames Nevada, Adler-Devries, Richard, &c.

Which are the 10 best novels? The librarian of the public library at St. Lcuis (Illinois) has been taken a plebiscite on this question, and this is the order in which the 10 successful candidates stood on the poll —=-1, " Vanity Fair j'' 2, " The Newcomes ;" 3, "Romola;'1 4, "Adam Bede;" 5, " Middle-march ;" 6, " David Copperfield;" 7, "IVanhoe;" 8, "Les Miserables;" 9, "The Mill on the Floss ;" 10, "Esmond." Scott and Dickens, with only one novel each, are nowhere by the side of Thackeray with three and George Eliot with four. It is interesting, too, to note the absence of any American author from the list.

The opening night of " Macbeth " in Melbourne was a thorough success, the audience being large and enthusiastic; and a special demonstration was made by over 100 of the medical students of the Mel bourne University, who, taking possession of the best seats in the gallery, waved flags of greeting to Miss Genevieve Ward, and kept the audience thoroughly amused in the entr'actes with songs and choruses. During the play they were as still as ghosts, save when Macbeth said, " Throw physic to the dogs," which phrase they resented wich some good-natured chaff.

The second year's issue of Professor Henry Morley's "Universal Library" will contain the following volumes :---Herrick's "Hesperides," Coleridge's "Table Talk," &c, Boccaccio's " Decameron," Sterne's "Tristram Shandy," GeOi'go Chapman's " Translation of Homer's Iliad," Johnson's "Ra?selas," and Voltaire's "Candide," " The Alchemist and Other PJays " by Ben Jonson, Hobbes's " Leviathan," Butler's " Hudibras," Sir Thomas More's " Utopia," Bacon's "New Atlantis," Campanella's "City of the Sun," and Cervantes' "Don Quixote."

Mr H. Gordon Gooch has scored a success at the Melbourne Philharmonic Society's performance of Costa's "Eli." He was allotted the title role, and the "Argus says thereanent:—" Mr H. Gordon Gooch never had a more difficult part to essay than that of Eli, in last night's performance, and he never sang with greater success. The grand basso air, 'Although my house,' with the beautiful fugue which runs through the accompani ment, was taken at a slightly accelerated tempo, and the result was' to please the audience and to reflect high honour on the finger." The other solo parts were taken by Miss Rosina Carandini, Miss Christian, Mr Armes Beaumont,. Mr W. H. Williams, Mr Thos. Bergin, and Mr Bede Walsh. Orchestra and chorus numbered over 350 performers.

SOMEBODY'S COMING

(From Letts's "Household Magazine ") A foot on the king's highway, A hand on a garden gato, Oh. why should a heart From its dreainiDp: start ? Oh, why should it palpitate ? Somebody's coming, 'tis true ; But semebody's been before; Often has wandered the garden through, Often hac passed the door.

Somebody's tall and strong. Somebody's good and true, But why should the red On the fair face spread As the rays on the cloudlets do > Somebody's step is firm. Somebody's mien is high. But why should a beam That is brighter^gleam In somebody else's eye?

It is not that somebody's coming, Whose heart is brave and true. That makes the heart From its drenm to start. • And gives the face its hue; It isn'r. that somebody's coming, Who's been for many a day. But it is that somebody's coming at last To take somebody else away,

REMARKABLE CELEBRATION.

Tne Centenary of WUHam the SUerit's Martyrdom.-An did Story Re-told.

(FROM OUR LONDON COKRE.SPOXDEKT.)

Dklit, a dull and drowsy little town in South Holland, which used in ancient days to be called the "parent of pottery," was on July 10th the scene of a reinarkablo celebration. On that day, just three cen turies previously, William, Prince of Orange, better known as " William the Silent," Was assassinated by n Burgundian named Bftl> thnsar Gerard, in the house Whtoh tho Prince then occupied at Dolfti.

"There is," says the "Dally TelogrArjh," re-tolling the historic tal". fttt ttioj'j Stir'^ig story than that wlU'eji [t\)e o f t .jj e stGaJrast and itvdpVAitabl* resolution \vlth" which ?' .Ssar G(srSrd flddrossed himself to the task of ridding the world of the arch heretic, against whom six assassins bad previously lifted their hands in vain, and whom Philip 11. of Spain, the Duke of Parma, his vicegerent in the Netherlands, and the Church, ot Rome had placed under their incxoiiablo ban. The hireling before whose pistol William the Silent foil, was, in Mr Motley's words, " a .singularly unobtrusive personage, twenty-seven yeqrs of a<'e, low of stature, i meagre, moan- Visaged, muddy ■ complexioned, and altogether a man of no account." Yet within this puny and ins gniricant frame there lurked a desperate ami daring character. In March, I OS*, Balthasar GO raid set fortli from TreVee. after having confided his fell purpose to the Regent of the Jesuit College, of whose name history bears no record. The ecclesiastic in ttueMonS ex pressed his approbatiM of Uie plan, gave Gerard his blowing, and promised him that if his Hfc fell a sacrifice to his pious zeal ho should bo enrolled among the lnaffcf'.W of the immutable Church. On imivihg at Tournoy. OtH'arU Again took con sel with the. Celebrated VriVn^cltin clcvicx Path* Cory., 'iVhfy gave him much comfort '&'M "'iiccuragcment. ftis? next *eef> \v&S to approach the Duke of Pai-iVld, who had, as Mr Motloy put it, j "longbeeu ioolung out for a good man to I "V.ndor Orange." In the fiiTtinstatloe, Gerard's mean appearance alitl mild efctcfior disinclined tho UttWe W trttftt Mm ) Wit tho awnraiiees 0! *oirVb 01 the gteat soldiers mo«t tWnMfctitial folloWors iWd'uce'd hl1» at last to believe that th'ore, w.'-.s 'gcW MAitt In the. tinny yet resolute Jo'M hMu'st. ~ Parma decided ib eiconr*^ Uie youpg ninn. ,n his periloiis enterprise,;. bv\t When Gerard asked him to advance fifty crowns for tho purchase of pistols, tho Duke refused, saying that ho had already paid hO Mid of'money to all sorts of rtuUatiß Who had undertaken a mission wlireh th'^y hid no11 tho courage to aeevimblisn-. TUte itffcies'in was faithfully MoWus&A', KoweVer, that ho shiSrtW rcrceiW. <l\ft reward ofl'ered for tho P''o'tsSttvnti Prince's removal, and that if he were executed after the murder the mqnoy should be paid to his heirs-atlaw-. .Thus fortified in his purpose BaH<hasat Misrara Bbt out for D.-lfr. InsusMlately after arriv ing theiv 1m Wf.^ ViiUttti tbhis o\Vh astolVisli lnnvt, \*i>W>i¥;d into tho presence cf Willlalii ttVo ■Sli.ejit, who \WS in bcd WWn W6 received him. The assassin V*.S unarmed, and thus lo^t 'ft pVwio'uS opportunity. On leaving th« I'rince's chamber, Gerard loitered about, and represented to a sergeant oi hal berdiers that he was destitute of phoos and stockings, without which he could not dUetid Divitio wol-fhip itl tho lldjauent cliufoh. lie piofcssed to Ite a French Ciil vihist, whoau nuli'Jr had been executed for hU f.-iiVli, arid his iiisignilicAnt Ulieil a»d litvitating tiinidiUy disaHtlea Suspicion. The large-h.-ink'd P*:inb6 Of Orange, hearing of His ivoc^ltOii3 oonditioi), brdbred il suni of inftney t'6 be giVen \6 hiW, ,:an'd. out of this 'fii'nd desjieruV-j fanatic pvoHdetf lilliwelf with \VeA]i6na til (W*a^i\l4le nis benefactor. NcJct nloVn'n^ Uumrd purchased a pair of jpjetols, or small carabines, inordertoexecuto liis atrocious design Within twenty-four linun tho soMior from whom ho bought tho wtnpons stabbed hiinaolf to tho licart in dudpair, upon hearing for what purpose the pi«tol8 lnvd been proiured. On Tuesday,|the 10th of July, 1584, at half past twclvo o clock the Prince, with his wife on hie arm, and followed by tho ladles and gentlemen of his family, entered tile dining room. Gerard suddenly presented himself nt tliedoor, ftiid in abject terms besought the Princo to give him a passport, to enable him to go back to France. Tho Prince's wife, Louise Do Coligny, was forcibly im pressed with the stranger's agttated and villanous countenance, and eagerly ques tioned lior husband about him. Constit utionally fearless, tho Prince re-assured his perturbed wife, and ordered the pass port to bo prepared. At two o'clock the company rose from table. A woodet) staircase led to the upper floor* and as the Priuco set his foot upon tho second stair the assassin emerged frpih a recess and firud a pistdl iiltd his victim's body-. The Mouth of the Weapon Was not more thah a yard distant from the Prince's breast, anil tho three poisoned bullets with Vvlnch it was charged entered his stomach. One of them passed right through his body, and lodged in the wall behind — the mark being visible to this day. The Prince fell with the ejaculation, "Have mercy, 0 God, on my soul ! Have mercy upon my poor people!" Ho was carried up stairs, and expired within a few minutes. The assassin bounded out of the house, and\ had reached the town wall before he stumbled over a heap of rubbish, and was caught by his eager pursuers. His Spanish couutship and the broad lauds and rich money reward promised to him were within sight, as it were, but he was not quick enough to secure therm A horse awaited him on the other side of the ditch ; but the hand of vengeance was upon his shoulder. The excited people wreaked their revenge and despair upon his miser able body. They Hogged him with knotted cords ; they stuck splitt quills into hia llesh; they branded him with red-hot irons ; they dipped him in salt water, and wrapped him in a shirt soaked with vinegar and brandy. In response, the dying wretch defied their utmost ingenuity of torture, and, pointing to his fainting body, triumphantly ex claimed, "Ecce homo!" He told them that he had killed a villain who had caused the death of half a million men, and that he would shortly take his place upon the right hand of God. They left him for a night in his agony, and on the following day they pinched his flesh from his macer atod body with red-hot irons, and finally tore out his heart and flung it in his face. "Then, at length," says an eye-witness, tho caitiff wretch expired, supreme until the last moment over torture and agony." On tho 3rd of August the body of William the Silent was laid in the grave at Delft, amidst the tears and groans of a bereaved nation. Three Protestant victims—Murray in Scot land, Coligny in France, and William the Silent at Delft—had fallen successively before the vengeance of Rome; but the iron courage <f Queen Elizabeth quailed not. Such is the memorable passage of history which the Dutch celebrated on 10th July throughout the length and breadth of Holland.

Prison Horrors.

In Bedford gaol the dungeons for felons were eleven feet below the grcund, always wet and slimy, and upon these floors the im mates had to sleep. At Nottingham the gaol stood on the side of a hill, while the dungeons were cut in the solid rock. These dungeons could only be entered after decendingmorethan 30 steps. AtGloucebtor there was but one court for all prisoner?, and, while fever was decimating them, only one dayroom. At- Salisbury tho prisoners were chained together in Christ mas time and sent in couples to bg In some of the gaols open sewers ran through corridors and cells, so that the poor inmates had to fight for their lives with the vermin which flourished there At Ely the prison was in such a ruinous condition that the criminals could not be gafely kept; the warders, therefore, had had recourse to chains and fetters to prevent tho escape of those committed in their charge. They chained the prisoners on their backs to the floor, and, not contented with this, secured iron collars round their necks as well as placed heavy bars across their legs. Small fear of the poor wretches running away after that! At Exeter the cotjnty gaol was the private property of a gentleman, John Denny Rolle, who farmed it out to a keeper, and received an income of twenty pounds per annum for it. Yet why multiply in stances? In all of them dirt, cruelty, fever, torture, and abuses reigned unchecked. Prisoners had no regular allowance of food, but depended on their means, family, or charity ; the prisons were farmed by their keepers, some of whom were women, but degraded and cruel; many innocent prisoners were slowly rotting to death, because of their inability to pay the heavy fees exacted by their keepers; while the sleeping rooms were so crowded at times that it was impossible for tho prisoners to lie down all together for sheer la ok of space. Torture was prohibited by the laws of Eng land, but many inhuman keepers used thumb-screws andiron caps with obnoxious pii oners, for the amusement of themselves and their boon companions. Several cases of this kind are recorded.—" Elizabeth fry," by Mrs, E, R, Pitman,

Chance and Change.

As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay, With eaavaß drooping side by side; Two towers of sail at dawn ot day Are scarce long leagues apart descried. A. H. Olouuh,

Artf.uk Bkook had spent some twenty four hours in Norway. He had landed the previous day in Bergen ; but, charming as the quaint northern town had looked to him from the harbour, his first walk in the streets had irritated hU nose more than it had gratified his eye-, so the next morning's train had brought him fo VoseeVjingoU, A gcntld . WUh.j *lOt iJCavy enough to hide the ' m " KS or I the Sno^.gfligaJjgJ moun |; a i n3 O n its farther side, but enough to damp tho ardour of an idle traveller, made him justify himself for spending tho afternoon in placid content in Horr Fleischer's vomndah with " I'r'ogress and Poverty " anda London paperUf ancient .date by his side. His choice! Of reading was characteristic, but the influence of the place was too, strong; the corner of the pago which ho had turned down on leaving tho train at Newcastle wa« attll turned, and ho had put down tho paper with a Vacation speech of his favourite ifceniber of tho Government only half read. Ho found it very pleasant to do nothing i and Ire could not join, in tlttS talk Of tllo Other tiVo idlers In the verandah, a civilian and a military man, wlio spoke only Norwegian, Silence

and liizin>w hftvl been almost unknown to Bn?ok since, As a boy of twenty, ho had begun his busings 'cirrefcv in Manchester; this was '"on; tUftn iitteen years ago, and jie tio'gdn io suspect that time had changed him somewhat. Certainly lie would not nave taken books on land nationalisation for companions on a summer holiday fif teen years before. It suddenly el'ossed his mind that MftrgorV Kent would have said they we've not literfttul'o. Mb llad not thought. Of MaYgei-y for a long time ; once shU VVas th his thought every day, when he was smarting under a Siitjafc of injury be cause she h'M'diUy wlgMed at him when he wanted 10 marry' her. Th<£ ;' UB tnought of her was n^-; ul .. nsw) \ t waß soo thinyly p.mtsunt j 'Margery belonged to his youth, before ho liad oc'tiino a, successful ttlfttl of business, moi'ii sulislble to the difference of quality ah J quantity lit .Bop's atld liaiiksthun in Vtifses, And an Active member <Jf the Jianch'e'ster liefoVrh Club; invtUurtWe- at election tide's-, aiv) Al .viiyfl.ftindy to address ftilKui.'Mh'JlUOrJ 'oil the foreign policy of tho day. Now lio was woll known on tho Ex change and in political circlos, nnd failltful readers of tho local nowepivpOH! dbtlltl lidl-dly fn.il to bo famillftr with his Halile. Nor had he ever tiiil'e ttt suspect that only llib.ciry b'dhes ttf life his Ipt; ahd.tiult; socially and domestically, lip.Had rid er.ißtSiie'o at all, unions pl&yinii>; Whist at the club may be .t'Al'ttl .sociability, unless pilos of (ho ''Nineteenth Century," tho publications of the Cobdcn Club, and othor works of similar solidity, untidily ranged on tho shelves of a back parlour, may do duty for lurm and pennies, and town lodgings be called homo.

Men, who knew the stability of his busi ness affaire, wondored that he did not marry, anil would gladly liavo made him known to thair Wivis-i and daughters, but ho had declined all invitations, at llrst because his lu'art wits very gilroi afterwards because he had settled into tho groove and liked no disturbance ; but, uouutlcSs; if hb had pos sessed a friend near I'iioilkll to ask the ques tion, ho would httVO said that Margery had blijj,h'.ed his life. Yet, until ho sat in tho verandah at Vossovangen, ho had not re collected for somo years that his lifo was blighted, nor had ho even thought of Margery. Coming ovents were casting thoir shadows before wnen Arthur Brook began to com pare himself with what lie had been, and dimly perceive that ho had changed in tho course of fifteen years. The abHoluto quiet was broken by the sound of wheolfl, and the forerunners of the crowd from a steamer which had touched at Gudvaugen drove into tho yard behind the hotel; first camo some half-dozen English and Norwegian youths, whose unhindered freedom had enabled them to secure cai'riols and out distance their follow-passengel's. About half-an-hour later a stolkjiurro, the native vehicle, which holds two, containing a lady and a gentleman, passed along the foot in tho garden, followed by a carriol driven by a lady. Something in tho appearance of tho man who drove the stolkja'rre chimed in with Brook's musings ; it hardly amounted to recognition, but Oh an impulso he rose and made his way to the yard, and was in time to assist tho solitary lady, who had freed herself from hor sheath of waterproof, from the carriol.

"Why, Margory, I was just thinking about you !" /

Flushed with the rapid drive in the rain, and not less by hor unspeakable enjoyment of the loveliness of the land, Margery sprang lightly from her perch, and frankly stretched out both hands to her old friend. Sho was in a mood to bo kindly towards all tho world, and to meet tho man who had hardly been out of her thoughts xinco last sho had seen him, filled her cup of happiness to the brim. Half confused, yet wholly pleased and not unconscious that Brook's greeting implied that fifteen years had not dimmed the lustre of his boyish fealty, Margery laughed and pushed hor hair from her eyes, and looked in vory truth as if Time had forgotten to touch her with his withering forefinger. The sound of greet ing reached her brother's ears, and he came to welcome his old friend with warmth and tn make him known to his pretty wife. John Kent was four years younger than Margory, and his wife was barely twanty five. They botli looked on Margery as a sensible, monumental elder, whom they dearly loved, and to whom they always turned in time of trouble, and who was slavishly devoted to her small nephews and nieces. They had always eeen her play subordinate parts, and associated her with no romance, past, present, or to come. Margery came to herself after a moment, and helped John to count shawls and rugs, and see that no skydsgut, perverted by foreign influences from the simple honesty of his people, had possessed himself of the much-coveted object, an English leather strap. Meanwhile Susie was bringing her smiles and her charming chatter to bear on her husband's old friend, of whom she had never before heard, and in a few minutes was warmly urging him to accompany them down the Hardanger.

It needed a little skill on Brook's part to sit beside Margery at the supper table, but Susie, never doubting her welcome, talked to him across her with such persistent energy that he could do little more than keep Margery supplied with eggs, dried salmon, and other delicacies, and ward off the unspeakable cheese known as Gammel Ost from her neighbourhood. But, after supper, hia chance came. "It won't be dark for another iiour; will you come on the lake, Margery 1"

Margery was ready and willing, and Susie apologised for not coming too, because she was tired with the long drive from Gud van gen, and would rather sit in the verandah with John to watch tho sunset.

Boats woro not forthcoming in plenty, but they found a Norwegian shallop, with both ends curved up like the prow of a gon dola. Margery baled the water out of it, while Brook went in search of oars, and succeeded in borrowing a pair by means of gestures and much conversation, in which neither borrower nor lender understood a word the other said. Soon they were afloat on the shining waters, where no sound reached them but the plash of Brook's lazy oars. Neither spoke for a long time. He, becauso he did not know what to say ; there seemed to be so great a gulf between his present surroundings and his ordinary life, and lie was so keenly conscious of his last talk with Margery that the poor soul's ordinary armour of commonplace was entirely lacking; he could not pay, "Will you marry me now?" but neither could he say, "What a beautiful evening after the rain I" She, because of her intense enjoyment of tho moment, the presence of Arthur —to whom, like the girl in the song, she had given her whole heart as soon as he «as fairly out of ieach—shedding the light that never shone on sea or land on a scene which needed no glamour beyond its own. So fhe sat in the end of the boat, which was for the time the stern, and in the fulness of content gaztd to right and to left and into the clouds for a while, until a first feeling of shyness which kept her from looking at Brook had quite worn off. " You are more changed than I thought at the first glance, Arthur. I thought it was only tho beard and fifteen years' addi tional dignity; but there is some other change which I can't define yet."

"You look just the same; not a day older."

Margery frowned. The stupid compli ment came like a note out of tune. "I hope I am wiser," she said, and then blushed furiously and painfully, and then was doubly ashamed of her unnecessary blush when she saw Arthur's utter unconsciousness of the meaning her words might bear. "I hope lam wiser too," said Arthur I was a foolish, ignorant boy when I first

went to Manchester. My head was fu 1 of useless stuff; it took me a year or two to give my mind thoroughly to business. And as for politics, good "heavens ! what crack brained theories I had mistaken for sober sense."

" I dare say I invented the crack-brained theories ; I otten do still; but I keep them nearly all to myself now, and try to. teach my pupils what is called common sense." "Do you liko teaching 1" " No, not much. I wouldn't have been a governess if I could have been anything elso. I believe I should enjoy It if I might talk nonsense, if I might invent my own history and geography, for Instance"; but popular prejudice seems to beagainst that. Parents are so ffiftny Gvaclgrhidß, mid want

11 iTes, of course, I know from experi ence I used to be wretchedly short of facts when I first made political speeches. And oven now it is hard to keep pace with the times." "It Ih, indeed. I have not very much timo for reading) and no many new books turn Ull that t long to fesd, find, oi course, I can't ntSgkUit old and ttiMd frietids; Do you often rcM Wetfdaworth'a edhtieto now 1" "I! What?, Why, hd. Ihtt'njt't tithe for riCtitrvi tlHd .1 ddn'jj Hare hiiieH aboUt it." " fiut those 111I 11 ettltl Marlfei-yj with1 almost injured astonishment. " You used to kfiOW half of them by heart, and say them over on tho way home from church."

" Why, so I did I I liavon't thought of that for years. What a queer stick I was, to be Sure j"

Just theti Mfti'gery foilnd that her Knotgies were, needed for the baling ofjt Of the leaky old boat. It wUd, getting dajk, toO, and John was tin file shbf'e beckoning tnom to como in. Margefy was soi'ry there was no time for further talk, bocatise she foit dis contonted arid oiit of tune. Afow words more might hilvo restored the delightful perfect harniririy. df fbo.Un'lj oi MiWi' flrfit half hour in tho boat ; but, whereas two old fMfcnds had loft the shore, two strangers returned to it. Arthur was thinking, " I will wait a little. Margery may be very different from what she used to be." And Margery was wondoring, " Have I been dreaming all these yeal'aof rt man who only existed in own fancy}"

" Margery is wiJritbd a( pnfe," shouted John, as sbßn.aS thby weld within speaking distance. "We Ark (tpil'g tH Ha>e a dance, and siie .Hlitst [l]Hj;i '( iISrH tire cyMv «o ini'iny pretty Norsk cirls, all loncinf to dance, anil M 8 fihthusiasm Is infectious."

This was a startling innovation on the habits of tho travellerr for, after their early starts nnd long driven they had been won't Wllils cr'osf>!rlg the tfille Fjold to be ovorcoitib by fllccjl alrttost Ijfitoro daylight had fled ) but they fpuiid the draw ing rWdHt full "f ttoftfefliahe. All tho foreign dlcthcht had dlsavjfoeal'edi eiiOopt Susie, who was talking very busily to a tall Norwegian lißuteharit, who hitd owned to soiho fnqwtedgb Hf Wrlgiish1. Titbrß were eevfehti failvhnlredj stvetSt-fac'edj Sdr*egiah girls, atid it few oide'r ladies; ilic dtlier sex was a coHspicuous.minotity.,. Ijlargery went straightjll/.tHh jjlaHH f<rid began tn.play a waltz j John chose tlie pib'tlie;il girl, and was soon whirling dexterously in tlie limited spaco ; tho lieutenant followed with Susie, and another gentleman of dancing ago and two others considerably beyond it were not slow to follow them. Brook stood in the doorway for somo time liko a proud Briton, but ho was wishing that he could dance, and heartily admiring tho mirth and simplicity of the sweet Northern girls. Then he looked at Margery and felt a shock. All the glow of excitement and happiness had faded from her face, and in tho glare of candlelight ho saw all the lines which care and dli-appointinfelit had Written there, and an ejtpreSsidli Uf weary, almost fretful, resignation ; she looked very old and very Bad. He knew nothing of tlie many ways in which her life for nome years had been made difficult, nor could ho havo understood the sufferings of an ardent expansive i?aturo when forced fo Bilonoo and reserve It was hardly sur prising that she Was gradually becoming a pruy to a (ort of morbid sentimentality, when her outward life was restricted to what was wholly practical. Brook had, ho.vever, lost tho eelue for everything but what was practical, and it Was no wonder that ho and Margory could find no common ground | tho more helookedat Margery the moro dissatisfied and uncertain ho Decline, and he was not sorry when Susie came, and, heedless of his excuses, made him dance. Onco having started he pleased himself by going on, and paying great atten tion to a gentle light-footed lady who could speak English very tolerably. Margery played on, wulte and polka, polka and waltz ; hoi- fingers flew merrily, but her heart uclied, because she was realising that it was her place in life, as well as Vossevangon, to play while others danced. Sho saw Arthur talking and laughing with tho pretty Nor tvogian, and despised herself for feelinf: hurt and angry at the sight; Sib could n< t explain to herself either her olation of Iwj hours ago or her proeont depression. The fun around her grew louder ; the few gontlemon had exhausted themselves iv dancing turn by turn with the many ladies, and a quadrille was called for ; in this even the older men and Herr Fleischer, the stout host, took part, and when the English con tingent was lost and bewildered by the com plicated evolutions belonging to the Norwe gian variety of the quadtillo, it only added to the amusement and harmless dolight of all. Then, at last, Margery was released, with a thousand pretty thanks for her ser vices, but she was made to join a game called jernbahm, or railway, because the players travelled from chair to chair. This gave especial delight to tho heavier ladies of the company, some of whom resembled the sylph of whom Hans Breitmann said that, " every time sho gave a achwump, she made tho windows sound." Margery was roally tired, and stole away when the fun was at its height. Her room was in another building, where the sound of revelry did not penetrate, and she fell asleop straightway, thanks to her physical fatigue.

Brook announced next morniig that he wanted to see the Voringfoss, and therefore should accompany them as far as Vix. He had spent some time in deliberation, and had decided that Margery at thirty-five could not bo expected to look like Margery at eighteen, and ho almost felt that consistency of character — and he prided himself on his consistency—de manded that he should still with to marry her. It was a glorious morning; they started in two stolkjteerree, Brook driv ing Margery, who forgot all her griev ances as they plunged into the pine wood on the road to Bide. The drive is as perfect of its Northern type as that from Salerno to Amalfi of a Southern tyDe. The exquisite blue distances, the rich, dewy woodlands, the Bilver streams, the profusion of flowers, the never-ending variety at each turn of the winding road, all excited Mar gery to the glow of happiness of the day before, and if she had been 28 again, and prettier than the prettiest girl in Norway, she could not have felt more intensely happy than she did when the glorious chasm by the two great waterfalls burst upon her view. Her companion had little share in this; he had inudo up hi mind to find out what were Margery's views on certain subjects, and whether she could sympathise with him in his deepest in terests. He talked to her at first very sensibly indeed ; giving her a very thorough account of the position and prospects of the Liberal party in Manchester ; but she was very inattentive, and kept calling his attention to some waterfall, or some distant hill, which had no reference to tlie majority for Bright and Slagg. Then he bethought him that she could hardly be expected to care much for the local affairs of a stranco place, and he took wider grouud, but with no better success, for she said at last, " 1 hate politics, and, if I didn't, I couldn't think of them here." But ho had deter mined to be very patient, and he began to tell her of his own career; this was much more successful, though she annoyed him greatly by perpetually introducing reminis cences which he had forgotten ; she seemed unable to value the present except as linked with the past. After they reached Eide, they talked to each other no moro. When they went on board the Hardanger steamer, Arthur and John walked together up and down the deck; Margery sat down with Susie, whoso chatter nfever needed an answer. Then they reached Vik.

" Good-bye, Margery," said Brook. "It has given me great pleasure to see you again."

"Good-bye." Neither expressed any wish for a further meeting.

After dark-Margery was alone on deck as they steamed by moonlight up the fjord toward Odde. She felt very lonely, because her fancied love had taken wing ; she put her head down on the table and shed some bitter tears—not exactly for grief, but because she could not grieve—not because she loved Arthur, but because she did not. For even dreams can be precious to those who have not the realities.

Brook enjoyed his holidays, but enjoyed getting back to the familiar atmosphere of the Exchange still more. And as he was no longer justified in considering that Margery had blighted his life, he married before long theprettyandhighly-accomplisheddau^hter of his senior partner. Her name was Edith Levi j only the latter name was indicative of her origin, but she makes him a most useful and excellent wiffc li> o, a.

Reading Tawhiao's Thoughts.

Tho Maori Monarch Swallows a Button.

NEW 1 ork, .July $2. -A London cable Hpo cialsays: A curious incident occurred to day at one of Irving l>ishop'« mind reading exhibitions. The King of tho Maoris, who is here, was requested to Conceal some object and concentrate his thoughts upOli it. to see if Mr Bishop would bo able to find it while blindfolded. Kiii^ Tawhiao chose a huge button us the object of search and liraftily ptait-d it in his mouth, to the great (ialigiit uf th'J audience. He then announced that he', was. "ready," and liishop almost instantly said thtit th« object which the King had thought of finil CdilSffilsd wi*3 !% hard, -■-■■(1 urtiolp. which would be found in the King7 s ittoufi. fflsMaJesfyWaS^tphished, and bogan a spluttering expression of his surprise, in the course of which the button slipped into his throat, Ho mr-.de strenuous dibits to dislodge the obstruction, but no amount of coughing was sufficent to bring it up to his mouth. Finally some one sug gested that Home food bo brought, and the monarch, after eating a pound of bread, H'tts relieved by the troublesome button being forced down to bin utomach,

Arrest of the Queen of Thieves.

New York, July 24.—The arrest fif Mother Mandelbaum yesterday is the chief topic of l.ho morning discussion, and the details furnish a remarkable story of New York criminal llfs. She is known as the "Queen oi Thieves,1' be* store, corner of Clinton and Kivington-streots, hrtviiig for nearly thirty yeur.-t been tho resort of all the nijt.-irioup t'.-ievfcH in the country. "For twenty-five yenra," t.'iid Pinkerton to a reporter yesterday; " Mrs Munds'lbrtum has carric-l on rt ,mo.-t, sucqessful business as v receiver of slol'M ?,o»thi,_ silks, diamonds; in fact, the whole swag c. [ n b^'gtary,. , She is known by name to every thioi and <l«tec tivo in the United States, and lui3 received plunder from nearly every city in the country scoured by travelling gangs of pro fessional lllleted. All noted burglars, sneak Uiieresj ghyp-liftt'M, Second-story climbers, ha;fe been Ccfnnfected frith her gome tiino or antfthor J that is, «il flrst clasa tllie'vibn Jn theif s"pedal branches. Whenever thieves' tviinttct .rea'Jy toopey they applied to her for it. She always nad it. She had rooms for storing goods in JScw York, Brooklyn, Hoboken, I'assaic and other towns. A friend of the best thieves, she would stick to them when they were under arrest until nil chances of acquittal or escape were gone. She selected counsel for them and furnished all the money re quired, The most extraordinary feature ot the ease h th«t all this business has been known to our police and magistrates, and in some mfiasuro protected by them." I'he '"flaws " says : For a long time it ha* been Understood that no assistance could be expected front the police no bring in- tho woman, to justice. She was only arrested after months of ineeraant and most adroit (lotSotiVft wdrk. Mrs Mandelbaum tt-as very suspicious No one could stand on her street near her home Without being .topped and fouled until his personality was determined. At her front door watch w;is always kept. Defective Frank, who worked up tha cast;, qualilied himself for tlie peculiar tests required of him to fjain Mrs Mandelbaum'n (•unlidenco by several months of training. Many of our mercantile houses were in tho ouii.spinicy. " During throe months' work," Bays I'iukerton, "upward of 12,000 yards Of liilk Wei'o bought of Mrs Mandelbaum by Detucino Fluhk and ])ltssed through the N'tiv Vorfc, Boston, and Philadelphia ageiieies. Most of it was in full pieces.'1 ".-evorul exciting soc-nes followed her arrest. Large amounts of stolen goods were found at her house, and about a peek of JHwcllcry loosely thrown togcUiM4. An at torney stated that he Could produce ail atli ilavit showing that a number of detectives i'isit,\d her for years and extorted money from the shop-lifters there.

The Electric Girl.

Tj iK wonderful performances of Miss Lulu Hurst, "the electric girl," have been given ;t great deal of publicity recently in the American press. It is said that Miss Hurst i-i possessed of such a surprising degree of electric power that she has but to touch with her open palm tho handle of a spread umbrella huld by several persons to cau.su it io he turned inside out or violently wrested from their grasp. Liko phenomena are also alleged to ho enacted with Walking-canes, chairs, etc. Miss Hurst is 15 years of age, of medium height, and weighs 1-5 pounds. Her temperament is amiable, her muscular development moderate, and her general health excellent. Sho is a t-esident of Ueuigia, and has been successful in attract iny the attention of the medical scientists of that State.

liut all curiosities, whether genuine; or false, are sure to be succeeded by a host of imitators, and the people of San Francisco Uicvo lately been electrified by the appaar ;meo of aso called " electric girl." She was inhibited a few weoks ago in a museum on Market-street, iv conjunction with such .-ports of nature as the " fat boy," the " Cir i:ii*sian beauty," the "dog-faced man,"the •'bearded lady," etc. The San Francisco phenomenon, while less miraculous than Miis Huret when judged from a scientific point of view, had still an original and a laring wny of displaying her powers, i Jtilmly seated at the back of a small rail ing, the " electric girl" used smilingly to receive her visitors, who, on shaking hands with her, experienced a sudden norvous shock, as if iv contact with a galvanic buttery, and then hurriedly retired, their minds filled with amazement. The salary uf tho "electric girl" was only lOdols. a week. She was dissatisfied, and her em ployer declining to assont to her demand tor an increase, she left him and is now em ployed in the capacity of ballet girl at one of the theatres, where she has n compara tively easy time and receives tor her services Tdols. a week The secret of her wonderful electrical performance has since transpired, and may be thus briefly explained : " The electric girl " was in the habit of fitting back of a railing, as has been stated, with her feet upon a mat. Concealed beneath the mat was a sheet of zinc. A second mat was also laid in front of the rail ing, upon which visitors were compelled to stand to converse with the girl, and hidden under it was the zinc. Behind the scenes was located an electrical battery, which, with unseen wires running under the floor ing and connected with the sheet of zinc, was all that was necessary to complete the circuit and produce the astonishing results narrated above.

"The Circassian beauty and the bearded lady," said an old showman, "both wear wigs. Tho dog-faced man is also a swindle. The fat boy is probably a genuine curiosity ; still, it is" possible that even he may be padded. It is true, as Barnum has said, the public likes to be humbugged, and the show business to-day is full of all sorts of smart tricks. 'Anything to make money,'that's our motto. Times are rather dull just now, and I think that I shall import a few taking swindles myself next month."

A Mother's Sixth Sense.

Heke is a singular instance of tho working of that subtle, fine, sixth sense which is apt to affect women more than men and which is so mysterious iv character that we often incline to deny its existence at all. A lady <ut sewing quievly in her sitting-room and in an inner chamber tho nurse had just put the baby to sleep and laid her in her basinet. As the nurse came out of tho chamber she said to her mistress : "The little thing is asleep for three hours, ma'am, I'll warrant." Tho n'use went down stairs and for about a minute the mother sewed tin. Suddenly a desire seized her to go and take the sleep ing child from its crib. " What nonsense !" she said to herself. " Baby is sound asleep ; nurse just put her down ; I shall not go." Instantly, however, some powers stronger even than the last urged the mother to go to her baby, aud after a moment she arose, half vexed with herself, and went to her chamber. The baby was asleep in her little bed, safely tucked in with soft white and pink blankets. One small hand was thrown over the little brown head. It was half open, the exquisite fingers slightly curved and the palm as rosy as the depth of a lovely shell. " My baby I" whispered the mother ador ing the little sleeper as mothers will. "My own little baby!" She bent over suddenly, a third time im pelled by that mysterious force which was controlling her, and for no'apParent reason, took tho sleeping baby in her arms and went swiftly into the other room. She had scarcely cr-sed the threshold when a star cradle had fallen, burying the heaps of rosy blankets and lying heaviest of all upon that spot where, but for her mystic warning, her little child would hav6|been lying.

Tflß AUCKLAND EVENING STASt, SATURDAY, AUGUST *0 IB



Ironmongery. T. & S. MORRIN & CO. {LIMITED), ' Hardware Merchants, IMPORTERS 0* ENGLISH AiTM ABIERl^Aflf I IKONMOffGEItr, : CEMENT, CORRUGATED IRON, SHEET, HOOP, PLATE & BAR IRON, ; SHEET BRASS, SHEET COPPER, ; COPPER ROBS AND BARS, BAR STEEL Of EVER? DESCRIPTION. Bajgiesfl Carriages! W&BtfoiMl t. & s. Mo'RRiN;. & ti& Have no-.7 on yjew A LARGE SHIPMENT OS1 ji '"■ >». fi & gM Ss^£iSillf frW:::i: Jo BRADFORD S PATENT COMBINED MACHINE FOR WASHING, WRING ING, AND MANGLING. ~ SUMMERSCALE'S IMPROVED COMBINED WASHING MANGLING MACffIJfE& COOKINgIsIOTES Aftft RANGES. ■ Now Landing, ex Rangitikei, an extensive shipment of CGQMftG STOVES AND RANGES. ; New and Improved Designs. LEAMINGTON MSOES A LARGE SELECTION 02 g IT ff™'l" Ipif?.l!]l;'?^ S& ttw br I -{ail's.',:;.'!'1. !r.-'-ii '~ ;-I <'■'; pC I ■• ■ . ALSO. ONE Bkt. LEAJiIJiPTON RANG®; Covinj?a and Plate Hack, Urrought-iron Hii,'li-pressurc Boiler, lurgo VVrought iroi) Oven and Iloufiters strong Grilling Stove (compTete), jyith Strong-framed Hot Plaft^ Pipes, and Taps, , MARBLE MANTEL PIECES. ri<o Grandc.st Show of Marblo and Ena mollpd Slate Mantelpieces in New Zealand, clegdnt designs; choice colours. Designs quite now. t. & Si MOREIN & CO. Would drnw gpeciii'. fittttitioi) to these Mantelpieces, being ithe first sWpttiStit of fho kind ever seen in Auckland ; and prices >cry little above those of good wooden Muntclpieces. TILE-LINED GRATES. Tilo Hearths, with; Fenders and Fii» Irons to match. 00A L VASES. COAL VASES. COAL VASES. BRONZE ORNAMENTS. Elegaut Bronze Ornaments in graal variety. MANGLES. American Table English Table Mangles, Two and Three-Roller Mangles, Wringing Machines, &c, *o, LAUNDRY STOVES. * LAUNDRY STOVES. LAUNDRY STOVES. Oharcoal Irons, Box Irons and Heaters, Mn Potts's Sad Irons, Nickel-plated, &o. PACIFIC RUBBER PAINT: GENUINE PACIFIC RUBBEK PAINI (in all colours) in }, J, and 1 gal. tins, Mixed Ready fob Use. GENUINE WHITE LEAD AND ZDW WHITE PAINT. Oils, Colours, Varnishes, Turpentin* Driers, Putty, Paint Bruahei, Cheap Electric Bells, with simpla instruc tions for fixing. T. & S. MORRIN & CO (UMITKD), QUISM-BTKBBS. AUOKLUUOt



Tl/r BLBOURNE OOP, 188 4. ADAM UEDB 13 NOW FORMING A SERIES OF <JMI FANIES ON THE ABOVE GREAT EVENT. am INVESTORS AT £1 EACH, Jo be divided as follows :- FbStlfan*-. - - - "ffl'S2S Second H«!«- s « - ~ ~ «S Third Horn* ,£ ; rf j- - ~ «oo Other Starters (aJyMeaJ ~ ~ 5m Non-starters (divides/^ V" ■ *w Total 4SV~W» It Is particularly requested that early Psii hi" tion for shares will be made, as each list w J* <« drawn as soon as filled. Results will he foi- ward«a to Snbscribera immediately after draw ing, and1 the next list proceeded with. • Any Siibscrrfaei1 drawing a horse in any list will be allowed, if he so-desires it, to invest in the following'list any suth' not esceeding Three Pounds without r^ittitting anyfurthereaßh, this amount to b» tfltimiitdly deducted1 fro«a prize .The' acceptances fdfr tfift Wee are declared in Augunt. Before, that date. «11 DraVeings will lontain the. whole o( the horsesEJfTJtiutp, and oV6f7.horse will receive a prize, butti'tAr that date thti .eioBFTOBS oklV will be drawn; -^ NO. 1 |w]OPBN. Application by Letter only, 'i'i^Jslng Two Stamps with exchango on Cheques, Of Vf Mpoey Order, Bank Notes, or Draughts. Registered letters or Telesrrams will not on any accouii. Ire received. If bank notes are sent, please use two onVetcpes, one sealed and placed inside the other. P.pV,OriSer? preferred when procurable. It will greatly expeStte business if an addressed envelope is enclosed VMtl explication. Address- BEJ)Ei Care of H. N. ABBOTT. BOX NO. 2. POBT-OFFICE. AUCKLAND. £10,000 "^ £10,000 £10,000 wjt 20,000 Members at Ws. flfo MELBOURNE CUP, 1884 ? ij To bo run Tuesday, fj»v. i. -r* O WW6/«tf*JtfldoToßEß,lßß4. O TT . TT H 402-PRIZ£S-#K! n ■ R L -r ,-X JS[ 133 Nomination. 2bß Ca3h friied Jj| t? First .. ..£3OOO 4at 100 «400 T? Jj Second .. 1200 4at 50 !D0 JE» THJrd.. .. 600 10at 25 250 a Starter* (diV, 20 at 20 400 /-* ■ MttidseAt ISO Mat 15 30« L/ TT N6W-S^atter3 . 29 <rt 10 200 TT IXJ ; (aiKr«*lJeaHMs lOQat 1 700 U P 6rm m am *• Please send P.O. Orders when COTfreMeM, tliey can at nil times be traced if lost, thus Wotsottog sender. Two stntnpß required for replies, flfttt Oae ShlHing added as exchange on country chennes, which must be certified to as "Correct fetch ticket has Nine Chances, the Cup being drawn first, after which the marbles, are all re placed each time till the Nine Drawings are completed, thus giving one ticket the chance of drawing Nine Prizes. I n-i«A AJfel' Namos and Audrcsses of three mm VmSi principal Winners in Cup, and four p'rinctfftfrf Cash Prize Winners canbo ob tained by Subscflb«r»onopplioationV smwrna is attended by tho Press (pembers of the Pre^s can freely inspect Ada a boots). Managers o{ fiapers at a distance can appoint a responsible aeSttt in Dunedin, to whom all information will bS furnished, thus giving to Subscribers a guarantee of fhe bona fido character (A this Con S ultation,acoWeet.oothcr"Consultationisr pursues in Dunedin. '/be Cup of ip consisted of 18,000 Subscriberß, wild contributed £3000. Names of Committee funiiab.6d.to Press on ap plication. ' -,_ 'int. ADA MANTUA, **•■ «.* Care of Mr. Abraham, 80»361.'*-»»»^^P OST Owicg. PP»gPW fio,ooQ Taißijgoottr £^>^ Offetß BSpedialPri?eof Fhi6h ambufil httS been deposited With the Editor of Otago Wil>iess,.tth& will be paidtoany list s'tin it Now Zealand who can'^Sme^the placed lors'a tt.. Melbourne Cvtii, irrth6oyfl«'H» race reported in Otdga. Witness. Each letter jHll be dated when receives, Md ftroney paid to first "tipstor." Competitor «<rt .fetricted; to one trial, but can try as often as Hief pltese. and it s not compulsory to have tickets is CArtailta tion, thUB giving anyone the chance of obtaining le above valuable prize. In the event of winners ft fiSfflg tippod, tho £100 will be equally• di vidod Totßlim ttw Otago Bcnevolont Institution and Industrial gtfWctt tCareTsnam). It wiUtbe )6crvedthatAdaiadisTOSrestisa / ftoOTnffp(ac£a the money beyond her contrbX; HM U muitbe paid to somebody—hence her docltningJSTeeeivc ins herself, for she will not accept any, - ■Applications will be received until 27th Oct., ftndmust be addressed only to Sporting Edktob, Otago Wttnees, Donebin. Please keep copy of tip. Winner must apply for prize within one month after race. miflfiLlTt COMPANY'S JD ANNUAL PROGRAMME MELBOtrRSpE G. H P, To be Run at|Melbourne on Oh NOVEMBER. 12,000 Programmes at 10s. 133 Horses and lfc New Zealand. Bonds, divided as follows:— FlrstHorse i. •■el'™ Second Horse.. - .. -J " |S Third Horse .. „ -. «• "' S9 Others divided .... - - •• l-1"0 Total for Horsei .«3.000 10 New Zealand Bonds at £100 each.. £1000 10 do do 5U do .. MM 100 do do sdo 500 i9sßondß. . Total.. £3,000 Total Amount of Prizes, £6,000. Will CLOSB OH or about 80th OCTOBER. EACH 10s Voucher has SIX CHANCEa 9li PRIZES. 323 12,000 Programmes at 10a. Please add atattips tor reply and result. «3r Remittances can be sent as follows :— 1. Cheques, P.O. Orders, or Bank Notes. 2. Make crossed cheques, with Is adfcd for ex change, payable oither to a No. or simply to .carer; M printed, but HOT to any particular person. If cheques or bank drafts are payable either to a particular person or to order, they will be returned tp the sender. 3. Post-office Orders may be sent, but they must be made payable to Fidelity Company only, and not to any particular person. 4. Registered letters or telegrams cannot be replied to. Care of Alfred A. Camc^Box.2sL diiu A LEO'S CONSULTATION. c LIST No. 1, ON THE MELBOURNE CUP, 1884 2000 INVESTORS AT £1 EACH. To be divided as foHows: First Horse "'JJH Second Horse.: J$ StarteSMdNon-Sterters (Divided).. 600 Tota l £2,000 It is particularly requested that karlt apph cation for Shares will be made, as N°- 2Lirt will be opened immediately this one 1b nUed. Results wiU be forwarded to Subscribers im- MA^^^^S«-Har»«- S lnv g! tl»- Na 2 Listrto the amount of Four Pounds without furtherlraymont, Umt amou* to be deducted frThe PDrawinp er wiU be conducted by a Com mittee, to which tho Press will be Invited to atA?pucATioN by Letter only, enclosing Two Stamps, with exchange on Cheques, or by Money Order Bank Notes, or Dralts. Registered Letters or Telegrams will NOT on any account be received. Ifßank Notes are sent please use two envelopes, one sealed aod placed inside the other. P.O. Orders preferred when procurable. It will greatly expedite buriness if an addressed envelope is enclose.l with applicaUon. Should it be deemed advisable after Accept ances are published to re-arrange Programme So. I the same will be notified by circular and advertisement Troirrv irinn Address —A. LEO, care ALFRED KIDD, dhortland-street. or iox 237. Post-offlce, Auck land. MELBOURNE~CUP AND NEW ZEA LAND CUP. 1884. Both Run Novembbb 4th. A. NEMO'S GRAND CONSULTATION Um-gB .(ft' Total.. £2,000 Total.. «,0M ONB TICKKT CAN WIN £1,200. AppUcation by Letter Only enclosing tw( Stamps for replies. If bank notes are sent please use two envelopes, one sealed and placet ■"**-*. nemo, Cask or F. Tomlinson,



Bpwtlng. :ti 0' B 1 rf HOOD'S I Sr GREAT Nof&r/ry company'stprogrammb OK TliS NOVEMfi«K, 18SJ, ;, Is NOW OPEN with a Subscribed Capital or , ;. £10,000 in 20,000 Shares rtt 10s: Each. 401 PRIZES, EACH^SHARB,' HAVING V MELBOURNE CUP. NEW Ist Horse ! £2000 70 prizes. 2nd Horse.. .. 900 ,Ist Hors* .. --^S 0! .■-.: 3rd Horse.. ~ 450 '2nd Horse.. ■• «» ■ Starters (about 3rd Horse.. ■• aw £33 each) .. 900 Starters (about Non-Btarters £27each) ~ »0 ■ . <B b M t«eeaoh)J7so »onMrt»rt6M •• "* «i» ;J v JOT CASH BONDS. ■/? Cat.. 20 ... ... «0 fil60O) ',;! WILL CLOSE Otf NOVEMBER |. sS.oep SHARES on various (£ SI N««:s ate sent, letterß should Je, r*s s teS2: :M TELEGRAMS AOT REOISTEBBD LEJTBBS K^ . ;. • cwved. Ten' per cent, deducted from *"*?'£; i Moneys foul' per cent, of which is, Xl vSJL*? agentf who Bell tickets, or Clients who f*oi- ■>; Care ol T. STAPLETOJ^Box 238, P. 0.,. •« > ;><* Christehurch, or \j ,3s JUBAL FLEMING. City Baths-, Colombo- v{ .'..;>. N.B; --■ Although 'we send to Newspaper* -Aj throughout Now Zealand the Namts and! Addresses of Principal Winners in our Com- m pany, us many other consultationiste advertise* they do, we respectfully remind the PabhoawS - our Clients that our Beoks are at all timesi open - 4 for inspection to any Subscriber. Information 1. not confined to the Press. We consider each v •übscriber has an equai right otinspeouoii. ;, '. 1 —*~~" ~" "' '■'' i; Vt7£LLESLEY'S CONSULTATION VY Ntf. J^-MKLBOUBNE CUP. MB4. :;-j 2,000 TICKETS, AT 10s EACH, , M DIVIDED A3 .FOLLOWS:- ! SrdKorM ..-..•..•......100 £^ Apply by felSter only, enclosinß two stamp* for repfy and «*«*, to WM , JiKV - • ; ; Care C!n*s. K. AN»STOw«,Tob«uiMnlbr. V\elr ..„.£ |psi«y Billiard Kooms. WtffMejMsireet. . HjA- r; lauil. y ..■■'■*} Lund and Estate Aaents, W. L. M ITCHBLL< 1 HOUSE, LAND ESTATE, AM> .".£$ COMMISSION AGENT, PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT AND AUI) TOH. ;•' No S MERCANTILE QHAMBEBS. QUEEN- ' ;,\ STREET (Next Bank of New Zealand). BENTS AND INTERESTS COLLECTED. •:■ Securities Found fou Investors With out Chabqk. I THE CAKE, AND MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES VTNDEBTAKEN. : MORTGAGES AND LOANS NEGOTIATED. Bank Stocks ) ■ - Cs +M& Insurance Stocks (TO OUGHT & COLD ; Alining Stocks >JIJ O ', ih Timber Co. Stocks & All kinds oJ Stocks. / SjIM J"Op SALE: House and G^"3^ CTe and shed. Tlio fixtures; also, lth ivhole lot a bargain at nNBY _ New 7- rr VKKMONT- STREfcT PONS,I^ JfSack. ■;,^ >»•>* and , CIIkBNCK - SfHEET. PONSOKHY -s rouSedHouseTfltteiwifli every coirromonce. i?T?Ioh^AND-A pretty SuVorban Rnwtlcw.o -. H register B^s.^^^o» 40 feet to main road. Property in tiua:»« , ? . portant thoroughfare is now commaadiw RUSSEXL-STREE-h off Great Norto 4*' I raawltatiM Price »ao. To an approved • . mirASslr fioO cash will' be accepted, and tie. rrelsa^rroad^Se^^AS WICANGABKI-DweUinß-house and Cabinet M maker's Sho^ taTtUis rising township. Price. £00 TheTswek can, if necessary, be token on valuation! About JU36 can remain on IJuiW- AinJ?XAN ei?RA r -Lar^ Store and Dwelling easytorniß. ' ; PROPERTIES BOUGHT OK SOLD TO ORDER. MONEY LENT ON MORTGAGE ON GOOD FBBK- ~.| HOLD SEOHRITr. W. L. MITCHELL, : 8, Mercantile Chambers, Queen-street. tXTILLIAM GULLIVER, ■ IIOUSB, LAND AND BSTATK AGENT. -'« QUEEN-STRBKT. Surrey HiUs,£l and &o per foot Wharf Uoad, 10 x 100, &l per toot Bulwersptroct,4oxlo3,£2 58porlpot h\ \\ ihur-Btreot 56 x 100. £6 per fuot ■ •', Wallace-street, SO xilS.£i per loot -, m f& ymond CUoat P™ x 117, 5.1 15s per foot } l&*Jit7Bx 130. « 10s P=r foot , ; Tweed-sireut, 50x130, £4 per foot •-■[-£« Mfß^«oad,Mxm«P«f«>t Projpeot Terrace (MountKdcn)-LOIS uv\it»- : , 4SSrS several loto tor «» each I C!«x street, 40 x —, for MSO each : MuarL-3trJet,27xllo,for£iioeach ; -DSNiffiDeBB^TIMTTA BLK •^l,m Union Bavk-22 niinutes past the hour, 's fvSS THE Tiibee LAMFS-7 minutes to th« | h^?foHT Tkips fhom TowN-i-past 8, j-past 9, 1L J.past 10, and J-past 11. From I'iikee Lami-s ---1 tf 10 11 From Union Bank to Siieily Beach and - Sahskield-ktkkei^7 minutespastfl,23 minutes '. ;olO,7minute3pastlO,23minutU!ito 1,7 ralnuUß past 11. 23 minutes to 12, 7 minutes past 12. 7 minutea past 2, S minutes to 3,7 minuteß pant 3, 23 minutes to 4.7 minutes past 4,2H minutes toi \ ! 7 minutes past 5, 23 minuteß to C, and 23 minuteß From Shelly Beach—B.3o a.m.. 8.45 a.iu.j ■"■ 10.30 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 3.30 p.m.. 4.30 p.m., and 7.40 miMB - TABLE OP DEVONI'ORT .L AND LAKE COACHES. ', Leave Victoria Whakf, Devonport, at 10.21 ; Leave'TAKAPUNA ScHOOt-HOUSii at ILIS a.n>., ■ 3 p.m. and 5.35 p.m. m .. „ .nAV'i'' SUNDATS Leave Devonport a» 10.45 a.m. ana 3 p.m. Leave Lake SoTtTool-houße ILSO a.t.v. FABB BACH WAY, ON B SHILLING.