to whose was the victory; it was a victory which wrung from the firm heart of the Iron Duke, in his despatch to Prince Schwarzenberg, these memorable words: "Our battle on the 18th was one of giants; and our success was most complete, as you perceive. God grant I may never see another! For I am overwhelmed with grief for the loss of my old friends and comrades." We say, Amen! May the world never see such another vast and fearful field of carnage. Waterloo was the terrible close of a terrible reign of Moloch, which began with the attempts of despotic powers to resist the progress of liberty, and ended in this signal destruction of the great genius of conquest and subjugation which they had raised into being.

Pondering on these facts-the sanguinary gloom of the past, the bright and glowing dawn of the future-we descended the Mount of the Lion, and pursued our visit to various quarters of the great gory field, where heroic hearts were crushed by thousands; or we turned to where some one of the many sad and touching stories told by survivors drew our sympathies to the spot. Where we now walked in the green corn, we thought of those who all night long had lain there wounded, amid perished and perishing thousands; where they heard the agonized groan, and saw the prowling plunderer doing his base and often murderous work. Especially did the image of that young British officer come before us, who perished by the plunderer's bayonet rather than suffer his mother's picture to be torn from him.

Beneath our feet slept seventy thousand men-but above them waved the green corn, and sang the lark, and shone the bright exulting sun. The victims of the past sleep deep in the repose of nearly forty years, but—

"I saw around me the wide fields revive,

With fruits and fertile promise, and the spring
Come forth her work of gladness to contrive,
With all her reckless birds upon the wing;"

And it seemed to me to symbolize a more glorious future. I felt that it was good to have trodden this famous field, whose aspect, in bright contrast to its memories, assures us that-in the words of Elizabeth "Browning

"Drums and battle-cries

Go out in music of the morning star

And soon we shall have thinkers in the place

Of fighters; each found able as a man

To strike electric influence through a race

Unstayed by city wall, or "barbacan."

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CHARLES DICKENS.

CLXXVI.-THE WORLD FOR SALE.

The world for sale! Hang out the sign;
Call every traveller here to me;
Who'll buy this brave estate of mine,
And set me from earth's bondage free?
'Tis going!-yes, I mean to fling
The bauble from my soul away;
I'll sell it, whatsoe'er it bring;—
The World at auction here to-day!

It is a glorious thing to see;

Ah, it has cheated me so sore!
It is not what it seems to be:

For sale! It shall be mine no more:
Come, turn it o'er and view it well;
I would not have you purchase dear;
'Tis going-going! I must sell!

Who bids! Who'll buy the Splendid Tear!

Here's Wealth in glittering heaps of gold,
Who bids! but let me tell you fair,
A baser lot was never sold;

Who'll buy the heavy heaps of care!
And here, spread out in broad domain,
A goodly landscape all may trace;
Hall, cottage, tree, field, hill, and plain;
Who'll buy himself a Burial Place!

Here's Love, the dreamy potent spell
That Beauty flings around the heart!
I know its power, alås, too well!

'Tis going! Love and I must part!
Must part! What can I more with Love!
All over the enchanter's reign!
Who'll buy the plumeless, dying dove,
An hour of bliss,-an age of Pain!

And Friendship,-rârest gem of earth,
(Whoe'er hath found the jewel his?)
Frail, fickle, false, and little worth,

Who bids for Friendship-as it is! 'Tis going, going!-Hear the call;

Once, twice, and thrice!-'Tis very low! "Twas once my hope, my stay, my all,

But now the broken staff must go!

Fame! hold the brilliant meteor high;
How dazzling every gilded name!
Ye millions, now's the time to buy!

How much for Fame! How much for Fame!
Hear how it thunders! would you stand
On high Olympus, far renowned,
Now purchase, and a world command!—
And be with a world's curses crowned!

Sweet star of Hope! with ray to shine
In every sad foreboding breast,
Save this desponding one of mine,—

Who bids for man's last friend and best!
Ah! were not mine a bankrupt life,

This treasure should my soul sustain;

But Hope and I are now at strife,
Nor ever may unite again.

And Song!-For sale my tuneless lute;
Sweet solace, mine no more to hold;
The chords that charmed my soul are mute,
I cannot wake the notes of old!

Or e'en were mine a wizard shell,
Could chain a world in raptures high;
Yet now a sad farewell!-farewell!
Must on its last faint echoes die.

Ambition, Fashion, Show, and Pride,
I part from all for ever now;
Grief in an overwhelming tide,

Ilas taught my haughty heart to bow.
Poor heart! distracted, ah! so long,
And still its aching throb to bear;
How broken, that was once so strong;
How heavy, once so free from care.

Ah, cheating earth!—could man but know,
Sad soul of mine, what thou and I,-
The bud would never wish to blow,
The nestling never long to fly,
Perfuming the regardless air;
High soaring into empty space;
A blossom ripening to despair,

A flight-without a resting-place!

No more for me life's fitful dream;
Bright vision, vanishing away!

My bark requires a deeper stream;
My sinking soul a surer stay.
By Death, stern sheriff! all bereft,
I weep, yet humbly kiss the rod;
The best of all I still have left,-
My Faith, my Bible, and my God.

REV. R. HOYT.

CLXXVII. THE JUST JUDGE.

The

A GENTLEMAN, who possessed an estate worth about five hundred pounds a year, in the eastern part of England, had two sons. eldest, being of a rambling disposition, went abroad. After several years, his father died; when the younger son, destroying his will, seized upon the estate. He gave out that his elder brother was dead, and bribed false witnesses to attest the truth of it. In the course of time, the elder brother returned; but came home in miserable circumstances. His younger brother repulsed him with scorn; telling him he was an impostor and a cheat. He asserted that his real brother was dead long ago, and he could bring witnesses to prove it.

The poor fellow, having neither money nor friends, was in a most dismal situation. He went round the parish making complaints, and, at last, to a lawyer, who, when he had heard the poor man's story, replied, "You have nothing to give me. If I undertake your cause and lose it, it will bring me into disgrace, as all the wealth and evidence are on your brother's side. However, I will undertake your cause on this condition; you shall enter into an obligation to pay me one thousand guineas, if I gain the estate for you: if I lose it, I know the consequences, and I venture with my eyes open." Accordingly, he entered an action against the younger brother, which was to be tried at the next general assizes at Chelmsford, in Essex.

The lawyer having engaged in the cause of the young man, and stimulated by the prospect of a thousand guineas, set his wits to work to contrive the best method to gain his end. At last, he hit upon this happy thought: that he would consult the first judge of his age, Lord Chief Justice Hale. Accordingly, he hastened up to London, and laid open the cause, and all its circumstances. The judge, who was a great lover of justice, heard the case attentively, and promised him all assistance in his power. The lawyer having taken leave, the judge arranged his business so as to be at Chelmsford before the assizes begun.

When arrived within a short distance of the place, he dismissed his attendants, and entered a lonely house. He found it occupied by

a miller.

After some conversation, he proposed to the miller to change clothes with him. As the judge had a very good suit on, he readily assented. Accordingly, the judge clothed himself from top to toe with the miller's best. Thus prepared, away he marched to Chelmsford, and procured good lodgings. The next day, when the trial came on, he walked, like an ignorant country fellow, backward and forward along the county hall. He had a thousand eyes within him; and when the court began to fill, he found out the poor fellow who was the plaintiff. As soon as he came into the hall, the miller drew up to him: "Honest friend," said he, "how is your cause like to go to-day?" "Why," replied the plaintiff, "my cause is in a very Oprecarious situation, and if I lose it I am ruined for life." "Well, honest friend," said the miller, “will you take my advice? I will let you into a secret, which, perhaps, you do not know; every Englishman has the right and privilege to except against any one juryman through the whole twelve. Now do you insist upon your privilege, without giving the reason why; and, if possible, get me chosen in his room; and I will do you all the service in my power." Accordingly, when the clerk had called over the names of the jurymen, the plaintiff excepted to one of them. The judge op the bench was highly offended with this liberty. "What do you mean," said he, "by excepting against that gentleman?" "I mean, my lord, to assert my privilege as an Englishman, without giving a reason why."

The judge, who had been highly bribed, in order to conceal it by a show of candor, and having a confidence in the superiority of his party, said, "Well, sir, as you claim your privilege in one instance, I will grant it. Whom would you wish to have in the room of that man excepted?" After a short time taken in consideration, "Sir," says he, "I wish to have an honest man chosen in ;" and looking around the court he said, "There is that miller in the court, we will have him, if you please." Accordingly, the miller was chosen in. As soon as the clerk of the court had given them all their oaths, a dexterous little fellow came into the apartment, and slipped ten guineas into the hands of eleven jurymen, and gave the miller but five. He observed that they were all bribed as well as himself, and said to his next neighbor, in a soft whisper, "How many have you got?" "Ten pieces," said he. But he concealed what he had got himself. The cause was opened by the plaintiff's counsel, and the scraps of evidence they could pick up were adduced in his favor. The younger brother was provided with a great number of witnesses and pleaders, all plentifully bribed as well as the judge. The evidence deposed that they were in the self-same country, when the brother died, and saw him buried. The counsellors pleaded upon this accumulated evidence, and everything went with a full tide in favor of the