Madame C made in my presence | whole of last year."-" Indeed!"-- "Yes, really; to be sure I had only two cachemires, and I don't include the jewels I bought. Let me see, now for my table: I can do nothing on public days, but when we dine en famille, I will positively be content with two courses; and," she added, her features brightening up as the last idea struck her, "I will write immediately to my steward in the country, to retrench the soup and boiled beef and the cyder which are allowed to the servants at the chateau: let them eat vegetables and drink water; it is more wholesome, especially in summer. He must also stop immediately the allowance I make to the poor. I dare say that they can find work; and at any rate I can't afford to be charitable now. I will write directly."-" But the law is not yet passed," said I.—“ Oh! I have no doubt that it will pass; and when people are obliged to make retrenchments, it is better to begin in time."-" You mean then to put down your carriage and discharge your servants immediately.”—“Why as to that, I believe I must wait a little; these are things you know, my dear sir, that one would not do till the last moment." : of all the retrenchments that it would be possible for her to make. I found her seated at her writing-desk, with an air so grave and thoughtful, that I was almost afraid to inquire the reason. "Ah! heaven," cried she, "have I not too much reason? Don't you know that this odious Villele is going to ruin us all?"-" Not quite I hope," said I smiling." Oh! yes, he will indeed, my dear sir, if some lucky thing or other does not happen directly to prevent him. Oh! how I wish your radicals would rise en masse and overturn your government!"-"We are really very much obliged to you."—" Or those plaguy Spaniards, now if they would but break out again," (by the bye, she was one of those who rejoiced the most when they were subjugated,) "ah! we should have the funds low enough then. But, no, we shall not be so fortunate I am afraid as to have insurrections any where; this odious law will certainly pass, and then I must make so many retrenchments! I was just considering as you came in what I could best manage to be saving in, Do you know I am afraid I must put down one of my carriages."" But you will still have two."" Ah! that is no matter: I I observed soon after that she apcan't well do without three; never-peared rather absent, and as she pertheless I must try. Then I shall be obliged to part with three servants." “However, you will have a great number remaining."-" Only seventeen, and that is not enough for an establishment like mine. Then my toilette. Ah! no, positively I can diminish nothing in that article!"-home was accosted by a mendicant "Yet you are always superbly dress-with a clamorous demand for charity. ed.”—“ However, I assure you I am For the moment it was unheeded, very economical: it has not cost me for I was engaged in ruminating upabove thirty thousand francs for the on the singular mixture of meanness ceived that I noticed it, she accounted for it by owning very ingenuously, that she was trying to calculate how much she could save in the articles of boiled beef and cyder and the alms. I left her to finish the calculation at her leisure, and as I walked and prodigality in the character of || tion of the rentes will fall so heavily Madame C, "Do, pray sir," con- as on the fraternity to which I betinued the beggar," give me some- long." thing: indeed you are, as one may say, bound in justice."" And pray why so?"" On account of the reduction of the rentes."" You are mistaken, friend," said I in a softened tone; flattered, I confess, at the idea that I was actually taken for the minister himself. b" Not at all, sir," replied he in an assured voice: "for I am certain you are English; and if your nation had not been so rich as to raise the stocks all over Europe by the overflow of their capital, we should not be exposed to this diminution of our income. I say our, for you may depend, sir, that there is no class of the community on whom the reduc As the conversation I had just held with Madame C- afforded complete proof of the truth of the poor fellow's assertion, I slipped a trifle into his hand, and then retreated as fast as I could from the Dieu vous benisse, milord! which he continued for some time to bawl after me. I have now by me several letters, which I should before this have attended to, if the good people of this noisy metropolis would have suffered me to attend to any thing but themselves. I shall certainly notice some at least of these letters in my next number. N. NEVERMOVE. ALLAN THE LION, LEADER OF CLAN NA GEALLANA AND CHIEFTAIN „OF THE primogenitor of this clan is || bonds of friendship, and he employed said to have extended their bonds it for their mutual advantage. of friendship to every distinguished The birth of Allan was attended family from sea to sea. While yet with remarkable circumstances. His in early youth, he equipped himself father and grandfather were conas a soldier of the Cross, in the ar- spicuous warriors in the reigns of my of Baldwin Count of Flanders, James I. and II.; and in the reign of A.D. 1202. Returning in safety and James III. Jan, the father of our honour from the crusade, he brought hero, though only a second son of to his own country many articles for the chief, possessed more actual powornament and use, of which the er over the affections and conduct neighbouring lairds hardly knew the of the vassals than his elder brother. names. He brought likewise an ac- He had hewn his way to martial disquisition infinitely more valuable-tinction in the Spanish wars against enlargement of mind. His wisdom, the Moors; and when he settled at erudition, knowledge of the world, home, he found his brother, a gay and polished manners, gave him un-courtier, had entirely neglected his bounded influence over the heads of hereditary estates and his people, families with whom his ancestors held leaving them at the mercy of a young er brother, who abused his autho- || father," continued the maid, "suffer rity. Jan asserted his right of seni- me at least to escape from bondage ority, and the clan soon felt and ac- to the holy sisters by plunging into knowledged his superior prowess in the waves." repelling the encroachments of neighbouring foes, or rovers from distant parts. Chasing a piratical squadron" Daughter of Maccailan More, from the coast of Mull, Jan observed one of the ships keeping aloof from the fight, and with crowded sails making her escape. He sent some ships to intercept her, while he defeated her consorts. Having gained a victory, he hastened after the fugitive galley, and by dint of oars, and "wings of wind," bore down upon her. He expected a rich prize, and found only" a blossom of loveliness, wringing her hands in all the wildness of terror." She threw herself" into his strong arms of valour," pressing to her lips his tartan garb, and ejaculating blessings on his voice, which articulated the language of her own land. Her only surviving attendant, an old woman, made known to Jan the high lineage of this beauteous damsel, too lofty for the second brother of any chief. Though charmed by the artless graces of his captive, the irresistible spirit of knightly honour impelled Jan to propose giving her in charge to the holy sisters of Iona, until her father, the chief of the Oduines, should send a proper escort to take her to his own protection. On hearing this destination, the tender innocent uttered a piercing shriek, and besought the conqueror to sheathe his dirk in her bosom. She was on her way to a convent at Iona when captured by the spoilers from Gothland; but far against her inclination she had been doomed to the cloister, and preferred death to such a gloomy existence. If you dread the terrible ire of my "If I dread the ire of your fa ther!" interrupted the indignant Jan. have you never heard of Jan, the broad-chested lion?" "He has been the vision of my dreams, the song of my bower, though my eyes never beheld him," replied the maid. "Oh! that I might find him! My hands would cling to his valiant arm, and I must be safe." " "He lays his fame at your feet, angel of beauty," said Jan, with impassioned tone and gesture.. !! £ The maid covered her blushing face with her white hands; but after some entreaty, she gave way to tears of joy, consenting to go with Jan, and to become his wife. He sent a bard and harper to the Oduine chief, announcing the nuptials, and explaining the preliminary circumstances. The mighty chief sent his be nediction by return of the messengers, right glad that Ghormuille was rescued from barbaric power, and that his daughter was spouse to a warrior, whose fame resounded in the voice of all nations visited by sun, moon, or stars. Three moons of glowing felicity rewarded Jan for his warlike toils; and the clan exult→ ed, that a daughter of their feudal superior shone in the castle of their chief, and blessed the tutor and guardian administering in his name.. Jan was informed that suspicious sails were observed to lurk in a creek on the opposite side of the isle of Mull. He kindled the cris taree, or brand of summons to arms, and ascended a hill to descry the fleet. He returned no more. When night approached, his distracted | of his age, as the stately ash waves thick branches and a towering head far above the slender fern of the hollows. His soul was on fire to mingle in the clash of arms, for he heard the fame of beams of valour shining in the ranks of war in early boyhood, He donned the shirt of mail and plumed casque, to earn renown amidst the troubles of England, while his chin was yet smooth as the lip of wife obtained the certainty that no strange sail had hovered on the coast, and that Jan had not joined the mailed and helmeted bands he dispatched to meet the invaders, purposing to cross the country, and arrive before them at the place of rendezvous.. Wringing her hands of snow, obeating her high bosom, and tearing her raven hair, Ghormuille, fleet as a young hind of spring, rush-female loveliness. Twenty summers edover glen's and heath to climb the mount of observation. Jan had descended half way, but faint with the loss of blood, reclined beside a little brook. A barbed arrow had transfixed that valiant breast, where, in wisdom and honour, rested the security of Clan na Geallana. A "Flee to the brother of my father, only love of Jan! flee to the abbot of Oransay. Too sure the mortal shaft came from the son of my father. He has heard that our elder brother was killed in the lists at Cambuskenneth, and he has removed me, that he may claim the chieftainry." He could no more. He waved his hand, pointing to Oransay, to urge the escape of Ghormuille, till the last chill of death stopped the heaving of his large heart. At Oransay the lady bore a son, the pledge of never-dying love. She reared him at her grief-wounded breast, where a broken heart throbbed daily towards the narrow house of long repose. In her wasting malady, she bequeathed the child, as a sacred trust, to the abbot of Oransay and the sanctified brethren. 'i Allan, the only offspring of Jan, the broad-chested lion, grew in beauty, in every manly attainment, and in learning, surpassing all the youths had not knit his elastic joints when he received knightly spurs from the hand of the royal Edward. The woes of Scotland were rumoured abroad. Allan, the son of Jan, the broad-chested lion, hastened to range his few followers under the banners of his king; but he soon discerned in the Scottish camp that the infa tuation of James III. would frustrate every effort for his service. The renowned knight of England, experienced in arms, though immature in years, ventured to dissent from the prevailing opinion in a council of war. The president, in no gentle terms, scorned the youth of the speak er, and rebuked his presumption. Allan, unused to harsh command, laid his hand on the good sword which, in the cause of Edward of England, had reeked with the blood of trai tors. The president ordered him under arrest. "Who shall dare to touch the person of a free soldier for speaking the truth in the cause of his king?". said Allan, drawing his trusty steel, Alloway was Henry, son of James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England. The cradle and golf-clubs, with other infantine and youthful remains of that most promising prince, are still retained by the family of Marr. They also possess the private signet of Mary of Scotland, which she gave to the Earl of Marr, after the treaty at Edinburgh obliged her to desist from wearing the arms of England, The fame of Alloway tower has been been persuaded to head the nobles, that in martial array inforced their remonstrances to James III. against the pernicious influence of his favourites. Yet ere he finally resolved to implicate his high fame with men whose proceedings verged on rebellion, Allan took the delay of one night, bending his steps to a religious house, to consult with the sainted inmates. As the ancient legend designates the scene of this adventure," the cradle of royal wis-revived by Burns, in his Tam O'Shandom," we may in all particulars apply the epithet to Alloway, the Aluna of the Romans. At Alloway many Scottish princes received their first education, having been for more than two centuries the wards of the Earls of Erskine and Marr. The last heir of the Scottish crown nurtured at ter: "Catched wi warlocks in the mirk b By Alloway's auld haunted kirk,”/{}11⁄2 The highest turret of this venerable relic is 89 feet in height, and the walls are 11 feet in thickness. (To be concluded in our next.) TOGRUL BEY AND HIS THREE SONS: A TURKISH TALE. lace in every considerable town; the second took a virgin to wife every day, and put her away again next morning; and the third ate nothing without butter and honey. One day, however, a wise man addressed them in these words: "When the king your father gave you on his deathbed that advice which ye so strictly follow, it was not his intention that ye should literally obey his injunctions. Ye have not comprehended the true meaning of his counsels; I will therefore explain them to you. But I must first relate to you a story which has some resemblance to your own case. KING TOGRUL BEY, feeling that || immediately set about building a pahe had not long to live, sent for his three sons, and thus addressed them: My children, I see the Angel of Death approaching my bed. Before he lays his head upon my pillow, I will give each of you a piece of advice. As you value your happiness, fail not to follow it." The three princes, shedding a flood of tears, promised compliance, and earnestly entreated him to delay no longer to communicate this advice: on which the king said to the eldest, "Build thyself a palace in every large town in my dominions." To the second he said, " Marry a virgin every day." -"And as for thee," said he to the third, "add butter and honey to all that thou eatest." Togrul Bey "A Turkish king ordered the caradschi, that is, the tribute, which died. The eldest son the Christians of a certain, province |