... . IT was during the Carlist war. News had been received at Estella that Sebastian Diaz, the loader of a guerilla force, had captured the Due de C--, a man of great wealth, and an in fluential Republican, and, somewhat to my surprise, I was despatched with a troop to bring the captive to headquarters. It was towards the evening ol the second day that we ap proached Olite, in the neighbourhood ...

... reminiscences of an old sportsman. BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX. Chapter XVII. IN October 1811, one of the Glasgow coaches was overturned in consequence of running a race with a post-chaise on the road from Edinburgh, whereby a Mr. Brown was killed, and his wife so bruised as to be in imminent danger. A verdict was found in January 1812, in consequence of an action brought in the Court of Sessions ...

... A COUNTER-IRRITANT.* BEING OUR STORY HIS STORY AND HER STORY TOLD IN ALTERNATE CHAPTERS. By A. H. Wall. CHAPTER V. HIS STORY (CONTINUED.) I reached this out-of-the-way old sea-side town at last, drenched with rain and covered with mud. The narrow, irregular little streets were utterly deserted and every house was closed. The rain had ceased, but the wind was sharper and colder, and I shivered ...

... UNFAIRLY WON. BY MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback, dsc. [Commenced January 29th. No. 368.) CHAPTER XIII.- (Continued.) The following morning, whilst the family were sitting at breakfast--with the exception of Lady Chandos, who always rose late--a servant entered with a letter, which he gave to Sir Jeffrey. Ivy, who was sitting next her father--not eating, but ministering ...

... ROVE'S VICTORY. A DRAMATIC STORY Adapted expressly for th is paper. By Howard Paul. CHAPTER XXIII. PAUL folded Gabrielle to his heart and asked her to give him an account of the past two years. She did so, and when she related the incidents in which Sir Peabody was concerned, De Najac interrupted her with,-- That villain shall answer for this with his life Wretches like him do not die by the ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STORY. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER II. TREATS OF CERTAIN PRELIMINARIES TO A MEMORABLE GAME AT CRICKET, CONCERNING WHICH CLUB SCORE-BOOKS AND LOCAL REPORTERS ARE SILENT; AND SHOWS THAT, IF DOCTOR SUTTON HAS WON HIS MATCH FOR LIFE, HE HAS YET TO RECEIVE THE STAKES. Summer reaches us so late in the year we can generally depend upon gracing the Feast of St. Grouse with the ...

... ROBERT EUDE, A STORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLAND. By A. H. Waix. PART THREE CHAPTER IV. S2Joc foort|>, tooc-foortb fimfub foooi £(jat tbtr ifjou grcfo on a irtt gar nolo l^ia ban tjioo art ran bait, Hit bootc hibtn tbou sboulb be. Old Ballad. In the calm pensive twilight, when the outlines of the motion- less leaves stood sharp and clear against the grandly solemn sky, the downcast townsmen ...

... THE BRITISH BADGER. HIS CLAIMS FOR PROTECTION. Part II. LIKE the bear, the badger remains during the winter months, and especially in a hard frost, curled up in the furthest recesses of his earth in a semi- torpid state, and he is invariably found in excellent condition. He is a very expert excavator, as has been above stated. He makes the most extraordinary subterranean abodes with diverse ...

... HUSH By J. 1'aloeave Sisipsox. IT was a large Christmas party that had been assembled at Hadlow Hall, the hospitable mansion of my father's old friend, Guy Cranworth. I was not one of the family, not even a distant relative; but I was welcomed as if I had been one of the former, on the strength of the simple fact that I was my father's son; and I felt almost like a boy going home for the ...

... . (From Our Own Correspondent.) in. HAVING seen more of the inner life of theatricals over here-- and I have lost no opportunity of visiting every class of theatre --I am more than ever convinced that the importation of a few good stage-managers would benefit the American stage. The system practised here is ruinous to art, though it may be com plimentary to individual vanity. There is a ...

... DOLLY DUMPLETON'S HARRIERS. Author of Sporting Sketches etc IX THREE CHAPTERS. CHAPTER II. ME. ROBERT DAVIES, M.F.H. By Finch Mason. AFTER a week's correspondence between our young friend Adolphus and R. D. or his agent, and a good deal of haggling about a fi'pun note, R. D. wanting thirty pounds and Dolly declining to give more than twenty-five, the deal was at last brought to a satisfactory ...

... SPORTING DRAMATIC STORIES. A STRING- OP TRIPLES. By Montf. A TRIFLE! Why, life is mainly made up of trifles, said Loftus Egerton as he stretched out his hand to take an apple from the basket-shaped blue china dish of pippins in front of him. It was a glorious September afternoon in the days when George the Second was King by the gra^e of God and the apathy of the English Jacobites. The ...