, and that the alien family, powerful
through so many centuries, is extinct forever.

In the clefts of the mountains they remember and honor the young
chieftain, whose body had been thrown into unhallowed ground. They know
that his dishonored grave lies on that side of the castle through which
will pass their path to victory; and they will plant the cross of
glorious memories upon it as they march to the assault to drive the
foreigner from the Home of his loyal ancestors. Eagles and vultures, led
by some mystic instinct, are often seen to fly from the mountains to the
towers and turrets of the castle. It is certain that in some not distant
day the comrades of the chieftain will pour with resistless strength
into its doomed walls.... Let another chant to you the Hymn of victory;
I have sung the Dirge of agony!

* * * * *

Unhappy maiden! thou vanishest like a thought which cannot shape itself
in any language known on earth, a dream of early love! Thou wouldst not
lose thy snowy wings, and they bear thee on the whirlwind's track, where
the mists fly, the clouds sail, the sound of harps dies, the leaves of
autumn drift, the breath of sighs vanishes! Martyr to thine own dream of
plighted faith, they bury thy fair form in ancestral earth; perchance
the sculptured marble presses on thy faultless brow, for on its snow
they grave the hated foreign name borne by thy alien husband! But the
grass and wild flowers will soon grow unheeded around it, and in the
green and flourishing world of the ever vanishing, thy name is never
spoken.

On the very morning of thy death, the seven old men to whom obedience
was commanded by the chieftain, curse thee because thou borest away with
thee the soul of their hero. In their addresses to the people, with
scorn and scoff upon their lips, they sneer and call thee 'WOMAN;' but
the people weep, and pray: Lord Christ, Son of the Virgin, give to the
maiden ETERNAL PEACE!

THE ENGLISH PRESS.

III.

We have seen that the tone of the newspapers had of late years greatly
improved. Men of eminence and great intellectual attainments were to be
found among the contributors to the various journals, and what is much
more important--for this was pre-eminently the age of bribery and
corruption--men of honesty and integrity. Still there was a large class
of venal hirelings in the pay of the Government. These were described by
Mr. Pulteney as 'a herd of wretches wh