. Llewellyn, and made the place too hot for him, he was not likely to be outwitted by Naval Instructor Heaviside.. However, I could not see much occasion for Chowne to continue his plots any longer, or even to keep watch on the house, unless it were from jealousy of our Captain's visits. As far as any one might fathom that unfathomable Parson, he had two principal ends in view. The first was to get possession of Miss Carey and all her property, by making her Mrs. Chowne, No. 4; the second, which would help him towards the first, was to keep up against poor Captain Drake the horrible charge of having killed those two children, whose burial had been seen as before related. And here I may mention what I had forgotten, through entire want of vindictive feeling to wit, that I had, as a matter of duty, contrived to thrash very heavily both of those fellows on Braunton Burrows, who had been spying on Narnton Court, and committed such outrages against me. Without doing this, I could not have left the county conscientiously. help us to our recent triumphs, that I need not stop to describe it, although at first it greatly puzzled me. It was so short, and light, and handy, and of such large caliber, moreover with a great chamber for the powder, such as a mortar has, that at first it quite upset me, knowing that I must appear familiar, yet not being so. However, I kept in the background, and nodded and shook my head so that every one misunderstood me differently. That night I arose and studied it, and resolved to back it up, because only Captain Drake was in its favour, and the first lieutenant. Heaviside was against it strongly, although he said that six months ago the Rainbow, an old 44, being refitted with nothing else but carronades of large caliber, had created such terror in a French ship of almost equal force, that she fired a broadside of honour, and then surrendered to the Rainbow. But to come back to our Alcestis, at the time I was promoted to first place in gunnery. Over and above her proper armament of long guns, eighteen and twelve pounders, she carried on the quarter-deck six 24-pounder carro!ades, and two of 18 in the forecastle. So that in truth she had fifty-two guns, and was a match in weight and metal for a French ship of sixty guns, as at that time fitted. Afterwards it was otherwise; and their artillery outweighed ours, as much as a true Briton outweighs them. And now on board the Alcestis, a rattling fine frigate of 44 guns, it gave me no small pleasure to find that (although the gunnery practice was not so good as I was accustomed to), in seamanship, and discipline, and general smartness, there was little to be reasonably complained of; especially when it was borne in mind what our special duty was, and why we were Now Naval Instructor Mr. Llewellyn kept in commission when so many other had such a busy time of it, and was found ships were paid off, at the conclusion so indispensable on board the Alcestis, of the war. Up to that time the Alcestis that I do assure you they could not spare had orders to cruise off the western coasts, him for even a glimpse of old Newtonnot only on account of some French pri- Nottage, until the beginning of the month vateers which had made mischief with our of May. But as I always find that people shipping, but also as a draft-ship for re- become loose in their sense of duty, unless ceiving and training batches of young girt up well with money (even as the anhands, who were transferred, as occasion cients used to carry their cash in their offered, to Halifax, or the West Indies girdles), I had taken advantage of a run station. And now as the need for new ashore at Pembroke, to send our excellent forces ceased, Captain Drake was begin- Parson Lougher a letter containing a £5 ning to expect orders for Spithead to dis- note, as well as a few words about my charge. Instead of that, however, the Ad- present position, authority, and estimation. miralty had determined to employ this I trusted to him as a gentleman not to ship, which had done so much in the speak of those last matters to any untrustway of education, for the more thorough worthy person whatever; because there settlement of a question upon which they would be six months' pension falling due differed from the general opinion of the to me at Swansea, at the very time of Navy, and especially of the Ordnance writing; and which of course I meant to Board. This was concerning the value of have; for my zeal in overlooking my a new kind of artillery invented by a wound could not replace me unwounded, clever Scotchman, and called a "Carron- I trow. But knowing our government to ade," because it was cast at certain iron- be thoroughly versed in every form of works on the banks of the river Carron. stinginess and peculation (which was sure This gun is now so thoroughly well known to be doubled now a Fox was in), I and approved, and has done so much to thought that they might even have the i But dishonesty to deny me my paltry pittance But as long as our Navy lasts, no man will on account of ancient merit and great val- dare to intrude on his Captain. our, upon the shabby plea that now I was Be it enough, and it was enough, that on full pay again! They would have done his Majesty's 44-gun ship Alcestis brought so, I do believe, if their own clumsy and up, as near as her draught allowed, to careless ways had allowed them to get Porthcawl Point, on the 5th of May 1783. scent of it. But they do things so stupid- This was by no means my desire, because ly, that a clever man need never allow it went against my nature to exhibit any them to commit roguery upon him. And grandeur. And I felt in my heart the by means of discreet action, I was enabled most warm desire that Master Alexander for fourteen years, to draw the pension I Macraw might happen to be from home had won so nobly, as well as the pay I was that day. Nothing could have grieved me earning so grandly. However, these are more, than for a man of that small nature trifles. The £5 note was for Mother Jones, to behold me stepping up in my handsome to help our Bunny with spring-clothes, and uniform, with all the oars saluting me, and to lay out at her descretion for my grand- the second lieutenant in the stern-sheets child's benefit, supposing (as I must needs crying, "Farewell, Mr. David!" also suppose) that Churchwarden Morgan, in officership marked upon every piece of my face of his promise, would refuse indig- clothes in sight; and the dignity of my nantly to accept a farthing for the child's bearing not behind any one of them. nourishment. He disappointed me how- as my evil luck would have it, there was ever, by accepting four pound ten, and poor Sandy Mac himself, and more halfMrs. Jones was quite apset; for even starved than ever. Such is the largeness Bunny never could have eaten that much in the time. Charles was a worthy man enough (as undertakers always are), but it was said that he could not do according to his lights, when fancy brought his wife across them. Poor Mother Jones was so put out, that she quite forgot what she was doing until she had spent the ten shillings of change in drawers for her middle children. And so poor Bunny got nothing at all; nor even did poorer Bardie. For this little dear I had begged to be bought, for the sake of her vast imagination, nothing less than a two-shilling doll, joiated both at knee and elbow, as the Dutchmen turn them out. It was to be naked (like Parson Chowne's folk), but with the girls at the well stirred up to make it more becoming. And then Mother Jones was to go to Sker, and in my name present it. All things fail, unless a man himself goes and looks after them. And so my £5 note did; and when I was able to follow it, complaint was too late, as usual. But you should have seen the village on the day when our Captain Drake - as we delighted to call him found himself for the first time able to carry out his old promise to me, made beneath the very eyes of his true love, Isabel. The thought of this had long been chafing in between his sense of honour, and of duty set before him by the present Naval Board. And but for his own deeper troubles, though I did my best for ease, he must have felt discomfort. If I chose, I could give many tokens of what he thought of me, not expressed, nor even hinted; yet to my mind palpable. of my nature, that I sank all memory of wrongs, and upon his touching his hat to me I gave him an order for a turbot, inasmuch as my clothes were now too good, and my time too valuable, to permit of my going fishing. This, however, was nothing at all, compared with what awaited me among the people at the well. All Newton was assembled there to welcome and congratulate me, and most of them called me "Captain Llewellyn," and every one said I looked ten years younger in my handsome uniform. I gave myself no airs whatever - that I leave for smaller men- but entered so heartily into the shaking of hands, that if I had been a pump, the well beneath us must have gone quite dry. But all this time I was looking for Bunny, who was not among them: and presently I saw short legs of a size and strength unparalleled, except by one another, coming at a mighty pace down the yellow slope of sand, and scattering the geese on the small green patches. Mrs. Morgan had kept her to smarten up, and really she was a credit to them, so clean, and bright, and rosy-faced. At first she was shy of my grand appearance; but we very soon inade that right. Now I will not enlarge upon or even hint at the honour done me for having done such honour to my native place, because as yet I had done but little, except putting that coat on, to deserve it. Enough that I drew my salary for attending to the old church clock, also my pension at Swansea, and was feasted and entertained, and became for as long as could be expected the hero of the neighbourhood. And I found that Mother Jones had kept my cottage in such order, that after a day or two I was able to go to Sker for the purpose of begging the favour of a visit from Bardie. But first, as in duty bound, of course, I paid my respects to Colonel Lougher. As luck would have it, both the worthy Colonel and Lady Bluett were gone from home; but my old friend Crumpy, their honest butler, kindly invited me in, and gave me an excellent dinner in his own pantry; because he did not consider it proper that an officer of the Royal Navy should dine with the maids in the kitchen, however unpretending might be his behaviour. And here, while we were exchanging experience over a fine old cordial, in bursts the Honourable Rodney, without so much as knocking at the door. Upon seeing me his delight was such that I could forgive him anything; and his admiration of my dress, when I stood up and made the salute to him, proved that he was born a sailor. A fine young fellow he was as need be, in his twelfth year now, and come on a mitching expedition from the great grammar-school at Cowbridge. To drink his health, both Crumpy and myself had courage for another glass; and when I began to tell sea-stories, with all the emphasis and expression flowing out of my uniform, he was so overpowered that he insisted on a hornpipe. This, although it might be now considered under dignity, I could not refuse as a mark of respect for him, and for the service; and when I had executed, as perhaps no other man can, this loyal and inimitable dance, his feelings were carried away so strongly that he offered all the money left him by a course of school-work (and amounting to fourpence-half-penny) if I would only agree to smuggle him on board our Alcestis, when she should come to fetch me. This, of course, I could not think of, even for a hundred pounds; and much as I longed for the boy to have the play of his inclination. And in the presence of Crumpy too, who, with all his goodwill to me, would be sure to give evidence badly, if his young master were carried away! And under such love and obligation to the noble Colonel, I behaved as a man should do, when having to deal with a boyish boy; that is to say, I told his guardians on the next opportunity. But to break away at once from all these trifling matters, only one day came to pass before I went for Bardie. All along the sea-coast I was going very sadly; half in hopes, but more in fear, because I had bad news of her. What little they could tell at Newton was that Delushy was almost dead, by means of a dreadful whoopingcough, all throughout the winter, and the small caliber of her throat. And Charles Morgan had no more knowledge of my warm feeling thitherward, than to show me that he had been keeping some boards of sawn and seasoned elm, too feet six in length, and in breadth ten inches, from what he had heard about her health, and and the likelihood of her measurement. When I heard this, you might knock me down, in spite of all my uniform, with a tube of macaroni. People have a foolish habit, when a man comes home again, of keeping all the bad news from him, and pushing forward all the good. If this had not been done to me, I never could have slept a wink, ere going to Sker Manor. To me that old house always seemed even more desolate and forlorn with the summer sunshine on it, than in the fogs and storms of winter; perhaps from the bareness of the sand-hills, and the rocks, and dry-stone walls, showing more in the brightness, and when woods and banks are fairest. I looked in vain for a moving creature; there seemed to be none for miles around except a sullen cormorant sleeping far away at sea. Only little Dutch was howling in some lonely corner slowly, as when her five young masters died. As I approached the door in fear of being too late to say good-bye to my pretty little one, yet trying to think how well it might be for her poor young life to flutter to some guardian angel, my old enemy Black Evan stood and barred the way for me. I doubt if he knew me, at first sight; and beyond any doubt at all, I never should have known him, if I had chanced to meet him elsewhere. For I had not set eyes on his face from the day when he frightened us so at the Inquest; and in those ten months, what a change from rugged strength to decrepitude! "You cannot see any one in this house," he said very quietly, and of course in Welsh; "every one is very busy, and in great trouble every one." "Evan black, I feel sorrow for you. And have felt it, through all your troubles. Take the hand of a man who is come with goodwill, and to help you." He put out his hand, and its horn was gone. I found it flabby, cold, and trembling. A year ago he had been famous for crushing everything in his palm. "You cannot help us; neither can any with a piece of striped flannel round her, man born of a woman," he answered, with the lips, that used to prattle so, now gasphis black eyes big with tears: "it is the willing for another breath, and the little toes of the Lord to slay all whom He findeth dear to me." "Is Delushy dead?" I asked with a great sob rising in my throat, like wadding rammed by an untaught man. The little sweetheart is not yet dead; but she cannot live beyond the day. She lies panting with lips open. What food has she taken for five days?" Any one whose nature leads him to be moved by little things would have been distressed at seeing such a most unlucky creature finishing her tender days in that quiet childish manner, among strangers' tenderness. In her weak, defeated state, with all her clever notions gone, she lay that danced so, limp, and frail, and feebly at my society's collection also contains examples of A NEW COAL MINE. A valuable seam of coal has been discovered on the estate of the Duke of Devonshire, by the Wingerworth Colliery Company, while sinking a new shaft near Chesterfield. The sinkers found the bed on THE ORIGIN OF THE DOMESTIC TURKEY. Hitherto ornithologists have been divided in their views regarding the origin of the domestic turkey, some believing with Linnæus that the European bird is a descendant of the wild race inhabiting the United States, others holding an opinion originally expressed by Mr. Gould, that it is the domesticated Mexican race which this ornithologist distinguished under the name of meleagris mexicana. Mr. J. A. Allen, in a paper on the Mammals and Winter-Birds of East Florida, which is mentioned below, devotes a separate chapter to an examination of this question, and shows that the Northern and Mexican birds are not specifically distinct. The domestic turkey, in fact, was first introduced into Europe from Mexico about 1524, and subsequently into the United States from Europe: a fact which admits of an easy explanatiou, since in their advanced condition of civilization the native Mexicans had succeeded in domesticating the turkey, and this their more savage neigh- of working the mine. bours on the north did not accomplish. The turkey, after having been brought to Europe nearly a century before the establishment of permanent settlements in the United States, was introduced thence into America with the other domestic animals. Academy. Monday last, at a depth of 450 yards from the surface The pit, which is the deepest in Derbyshire, will be worked by the above-named company, under the style and title of the Hardwick Colliery Company. The coal in quality and quantity quite fulfils the expectations of the directors. Powerful machinery, constructed on the best principles, and embracing modern improvements, is being laid down for the purpose Public Opinion. THE Guano deposits on the Chincha Islands, which were in some places upwards of 100 feet thick, and generally admitted to be the excreta of birds, are now suspected by Dr. Habel and by Prof. Edwards to be an accumulation of the bodies of animals and plants-most of them of marine origin. According to a notice in the Mechanics Magazine, it appears that the anchors of ships moored in the vicinity of the Guano Islands frequently bring up guano from the bottom of the sea. This is thought to be opposed to the idea of the bird origin of the deposit, and to refer it to those infusorial strata which are found in various parts of the world. From The Athenæum. From Blackwood's Magazine. tional fact; they alone, as a whole people, get out of the act of eating all that it can PASSENGERS at sea generally eat five give. This superiority is not solely due times a-day, partly because the air makes to their culinary ability; the perfection of them hungry, partly because they have their dining is not an exclusive consenothing else to do. On shore we are less quence of scientific cooking: the cook's voracious and more occupied, but still we work is but one of the two secrets of suecan scarcely get along agreeably without cess; the other lies in the temper of the three meals. Some of us pretend that it diners, and in their keen perception of the is humiliating to be thus afflicted by purely character of the operation which they are animal needs; others, on the contrary, are performing. There is evidence of the of opinion that, as feeding is a delectable truth of this in almost every decent house operation, we ought to be very thankful in France; dinner is regarded as the printhat we can perform it so frequently; a cipal event of family existence, as amothird class thinks nothing about it either ment of moral expansion rather than as way; while doctors, economists, and his- a process of simple nourishment; for, extorians regard eating as a grave question, cellent as the feeding ordinarily is, it alone as one of the keys to health, and as a se- would not raise meals to the importance rious element in the progress of civiliza- which they assume amongst our neighbors. tion. And there is another point of view The people come to them not only to eat more interesting still. We meet to eat; but to laugh, to charm the heart as well our repasts are made in company; they as to soothe the stomach. The consebring families and friends together; they quence is that, as a rule, great cookery is exercise a unifying effect of enormous neither used nor needed in daily home force. From Homer downwards, poets life. The ablest professors of the delicate have sung the charms of what they call art of arranging food, the profoundest chef, "the festive board;" they have praised the most skilful cordon bleu, can contribits softening action, its power of stimulat- ute, after all, but little more than their ing good temper, cheeriness, and gaiety; less learned colleagues to the real object of dispelling anger, sadness, and discon- of everyday dinner: it is only on special tent. The poets are right; nothing has occasions, at great festivals, that their caever been invented which soothes like pacities find room for exhibition. Ordidinner and, without going so far as to nary life does not require, and cannot utilsuggest that it is a great moral cause, itize, transcendent ability in the kitchen — may at all events be said with truth, that it wants lightness and brightness and it stands in the front rank amongst the laughter; and it is because they unite material influences for good which are at those merits to true home cookery that our disposal. Of the daily functions of French families know how to dine. home life it is indisputably the highest; Still, however true all this may be, howno other social act can be compared to it ever much the national temperament may in character, in importance, or in result. contribute to the effect attained, the naAll the races of mankind feel this: even ture and execution of the dishes form the savages may be temporarily tamed by the essential basis of a dinner in France just sweet spell of mutual dinner; and as we as they do elsewhere. Bad feeding derise in the scale of education the manifest- stroys gaiety; good cookery is consequentation of its power grows clearer and clear-ly called for quite as much for the sake of er, until we reach the pinnacie of its de- the moral influence it exercises as for the velopment in certain European homes. pleasure which it offers to the tongue. In no country are the higher uses of But when we look indoors across the Chaneating more thoroughly appreciated or nel, we find that the phrase "good cookmore seriously pursued than in France. ery" has a special meaning. It signifies The eminently social nature of its people, something more than cunning variety, their singular skill in the preparation of skilful handling, and pretty serving up. food, the power which they so generally The deepest sense of the two words lies in possess of extracting pleasurable satisfac- the possession by every plat of the partiction from the most ordinary acts, combine ular taste which is proper to it. To perto enable them to lift up dinner to a level sons who have never directed their attenwhich is rarely reached elsewhere. Of tion to this subtle point, or who have had course there are sufficiently abundant ex- no opportunity of studying it, such a deficeptions in other lands to show that intelli- nition may seem either meaningless or ingent dining is not really a monopoly of the complete, according to the bent of their French; but they alone realize it as a na-individual impressions on the subject; but |