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break the windows at the Treasury, and at Polignac's house. Barnes, my boy, here will be a row. Observe what is going on, but keep your head out of mischief. Report that the troops are ordered into Paris. "No writing below twenty printed pages shall appear, except with the authority of the minister, Secretary of State for the Interior of Paris. Writings published without authority shall be im. mediately seized, the presses and types used in printing them shall be placed in a public depôt, and under seals, or rendered unfit for use. Ha! ha ha!-here, in 1830, to issue such an order! What could Polignac and Peyronnet be thinking about? As for Charles the Tenth, the priests had driven his poor soul up into a corner.

'Tuesday, 27th July.-The National and the Temps, two principal newspapers, appeared as usual, without any license, and they had printed about five times as many as was usual. People reading them mounted on chairs in all directions. Cannon fired at Vincennes to alarm the populace early in the morning,-some said they were shooting the reporters. Soldiers were marching into Paris all day. The tradesmen began to shut their shops; and if Polignac and Peyronnet had shut up theirs then, much bloodshed would have been spared. Columbine's mamma asked me my opinion, whether we should be kept prisoners of war? I told her I did not think it likely that any one would keep her. There must have been between four and five thousand people in the Palais Royal. These were cleared out by the troops. Saw Mr. W- W, a London gentleman, I used to know at the Sans Pareil theatre, a friend of old Scott. He had a speculation with the diligences in Paris. He was in a terrible stew. The mob had taken three of his coaches to barricade the street. He had no resource; and when the soldiers and populace began to fight in earnest, he had the pleasure to see the balls whizzing through the panels and glasses of each of his dillys. But, Lord! they took sofas, tables, rolling-stones, wheel-barrows, anything to block up the way; they unpaved the Rue St. Honoré; they put the lamps out. The soldiers fired on the people, and killed several. Police officers went to the two newspaper offices, broke the doors open, and brought away the types and presses-several devils (printers') seized. Much firing of guns in the night. Put my bed on the floor, or I should not have had a wink of sleep. Heard a monstrous noise, peeped out of the windows, and saw labourers carrying about the dead bodies of the men that had been shot. Turned sick, and wished myself at the Crown and Cushion, Little Russell Street, Covent Garden. Theatres closed. Brought home a bottle of brandy with me from Wood's, thank God! or I don't really know what would have become of me. 'Early in the morning the walls were all covered with bills and placards put up by the press; agents of police pulling them down again. Seymour came up in a funk, and said the mob were carrying about tripe-coloured flags in all directions. The drums beat to arms, and I could scarcely stand on my legs, I was so nervous.

'How could the ministers have made themselves such stupid asses? When the row began, Prince Polignac said, "This is nothing. In two hours all will be quiet." Alack-a-day! it was quiet enough with soldiers and populace too-many hundreds of them. The students of the Polytechnic School marched to the Post Office in military order, and mounted guard there. I admired the young gentlemen's respect for letters.

The battle raged in many quarters of the city. I was witness to a conflict that took place at the Pont Neuf, on the Quai des Augustins. The people drove a party of soldiers into the Marché à la Volaille-chick-a-biddy market, (dictionary)-and continued firing upon them; the soldiers defended themselves. Lord! to hear the shrieks of the old women, the cackling of the live cocks and hens, and the quacking of the ducks, and the gobbling of the turkies, and oh! the smashing of the crates of eggs, as the bullets went through them. Many a poor old fat poultry wife fell with her face in her own giblets; and several baskets of liberated pigeons were dashing about in all directions. And when, at the climax, the populace obtained a victory over the troops, one hearty cock gave a prodigious crow, which was responded to by fifty others in different parts of the market. I was pleased with the Gallic cocks! Napoleon's eagles could not have behaved better. Vive la Liberté! Vive la Patrie !'

'His Majesty Charles the Tenth, perceiving the state of affairs, cut his stick, and went off with his staff to Versailles, the good folks of which hoisted the tripe-coloured flag in compliment to him, which he took as a hint. The Parisians entered the Royal Palace, and made free with the eatables and drinkables they found in it, also of two thousand muskets. The King bolted with his crown-jewels, and was soon back at his head-quarters, Holyrood House, "Auld Reekie," also, like Old Barnes, more frightened than hurt.

'Conclusion of the Journal.

JAMES BARNES, scripsit.'

CONTRASTS IN THE LIFE OF A POET.

ONE cold afternoon in December, about the middle term of Elizabeth's reign, a young cavalier rode across the long narrow bridge, which then all but blockaded the Thames, a little below the spot where the splendid structure of Rennie now spans its width, pierced into five arches of most magnificent sweep, and high architectural beauty. He was about thirty years of age, of fine figure and good birth, judging from the Montero cap hanging, with an appearance of studied neglect, over his lofty and polished forehead, partly concealing his brows, and partly adding relief to the soft expression of a young and manly countenance, in which were easily traceable all the noble feelings of his period of life, and sentiments of the still-remaining chivalrousness of the time; for a Queen was then, as now, regnant, and the age of these glorious and ennobling sentiments, the daughters of chivalry, had not yet quite passed

away.

Sighing while his rapid glance caught the towers that frowned above the barkcovered waters to his left, with a sentiment not unlike that apparently causeless feeling which we have all some time or other experienced under similar circumstancesthat fore-shadowing of the future, which tells of coming evil-he pursued his leisurely course across the traject of old London Bridge, and, when he had reached its southern extremity, turning up the Bankside, spurred the rowels into the noble barb on which he was riding, directing his head towards the Globe theatre,

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He galloped rapidly by the bordellos-for it was still somewhat of day—slouching his cap rather more closely than before, lest he should be seen by any of their inmates, and hailed thus early in the afternoon by his name in the public way; he did not even deign a glance at the well known sign of the Cardinal's Hat-one which he was in the habit of frequenting-but rode past it with increased rapidity; and passing the Bear Garden and the Rose, prepared to dismount beneath the Atlas supporting a Globe, under which was inscribed that motto which suggested to its greatest frequenter one of the most beautiful passages of his works:

'Totus mundus agit histrionem.'

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Alighting in the midst of a crowd of gallants, led hither on the same errand with himself-the pursuit of pleasure--he looked around for a boy to whom he should en. trust the care of his horse, while he witnessed the performance of the day, which he saw, from the large announcing-paper affixed to the wall beside the entrance, was Master Heywood's then popular tragedy of The Rape of Lucrece.' For some time, however, his search was in vain; for there was a crowd of nobles and followers of the court about the theatre; and for the space of some minutes he could not see disengaged any of the lads of the class he was seeking, so fully occupied were they. While thus delayed, he saw a second cavalier in the same predicament, who immediately approached and addressed him,

What! Walter! you too here! I thought you were one of those invited to attend her Majesty on the Greenwich party to-day. You should not so soon have forgotten your rare good fortune. A velvet cloak, and a well-shaped leg, have made you at once the royal favourite, and won a prize for which the whole court has been vainly sighing! Why thus absent yourself from the smiles of the royal Isis?'

Hush whispered he who was thus addressed; 'fear you not that some of the court-gallants may hear you, and falsely report to our mistress; nay, may say that we spoke lightly and jestingly of her favours? That, you well know, with her would be nothing less than treason; for, although a queen, she is also a woman; and they are all alike sensitive when touched in the tender point.'

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'What, man, would you have her more or less than woman?' was the carelessly hazarded reply; think you were she either, that your slight service would have been so rewarded? Essex will improve the opportunity of your absence; for I heard of the Queen's quarrel with him the other day while you stood in the presence-chamber, and he abused you to her face. Nay, hark! fear not; I see you would interrupt me. But to me it appears not sufficient that you should have commenced, Walter: you must go on.'

Remember you, I pray, of whom it is you speak thus, and where it is we wait.' 'Nonsense! was the reply; none of your wise saws for me. See you not that we are so far alone that none can overhear a word between us. Forget not the answer she made you at Whitehall when you scraped your moping on the glass with your ring :

Fain would I climb, but that I fear to fall;'

and she with her diamond, that some I wot of are so far gone in love as to say only shares the lustre of her eye, replied to your desponding

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If that thou fear, then climb thou not at all.'

What thinkest of that for encouragement, man?"

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Again I say hush" answered Raleigh; for he it was who thus addressed the Earl of Southampton. How soon it has transpired! I thought my gracious mistress's encouragement had not yet travelled beyond the immediate attendants of the Queen; but so it is ever. Envy, not love, no doubt, has noised it abroad thus ra. pidly.'

While the knights held this converse they saw approach a youth of prepossessing appearance, with a countenance inclining to the classical outline, and in whose features reposed the elements in which the soul sometimes manifests itself there, while his eye sparkled with all those evidences of genius that poets and painters delight to detect or imagine in that speaking organ of the mind within. Lowering his cap with much gracefulness as he came up, he thus bespoke their favour :

Noble cavaliers, shall I have the pride to say that I have held the horses of the most gallant Raleigh, and the princely Earl of Southampton?'

Said I not,' whispered the former, aside to his companion, that we had need of caution in what we said here? You find that we are known even to these Taggedlings.'

We were seeking a boy to hold our horses; say, are you trustworthy?,
Master Alleyn will speak for me,' was the youth's brief reply.

Thou art of Master Alleyn's acquaintance, then?'

'Yes, most noble; he and I have passed some pleasant hours together at the Star; he laughing at my jests, I drinking his canary and hippocras: which has had the better bargain boots not me to say."

The two horsemen gave him their steeds in charge on the strength of the acquaintance he claimed with Alleyn, then in his palmiest repute at the theatres. And when they remounted, at the close of the performances, they rewarded him with a groat, and an additional penny to drink their healths.

There is something about that boy, wretched as is the calling he now exercises, which tells me that he possesses genius, and will some day have a name,' said Southampton to his companion, as they rattled homewards by the Cross of Chepe, on their way towards the bar nigh the Temple; not far from which, on the Strand, both resided. I shall make inquiry after him at the Globe to-morrow; and if, as he says, he be known to Master Alleyn, why there must be something good in him, and he shall call upon me of a morning at Southampton House.'

Right,' was Raleigh's reply. The lad does seem a promising and smart one, and something may probably come of him.'

Southampton kept his word, inquired of Alleyn, and the boy did visit him.

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Years had since passed away at the period when we resume the broken link of our sketch. Queen Elizabeth was keeping court at her palace of Windsor, and its magnificent park was thronged with the gallants who composed it. The two cavaliers, with whom the reader has already made acquaintance, formed part of a splendid cortége of the lovely and the noble who surrounded her Majesty, as she rode through what is now called the Little Park.

There was scarcely any difference even in the minute features of the scenery through which they passed, and those which it presents at this day. Groups of oaks, already aged, cast their broad shadows on the cavalcade as it rode along, forming green umbrageous vistas, through which the eye penetrated in listless curiosity, and which are now only a little more sombre in the intensity of their shade; and the velvety turf they pranced over, pressed softly against the hoofs of their coursers.

The Queen rode nearly in front of the party, surrounded by her maids of honour, in modest array, and coiffed in a manner to shame our modern damsels, if any attack on their dearest privilege of dressing themselves, when they please, in the least becoming manner could produce a blush in them. A large oak, whose branches were beginning to show symptoms of decay, attracted her attention for a moment; and, after a brief whisper to the Lady Anne Fitton, who rode on an ambling Shetland pony beside her Grace, she motioned to her chamberlain to advance towards her. He obeyed with an alacrity that argued convincingly of his own high opinion of the dignity of the post which he occupied about her Highness's person.

Tell him to come hither.'

• The Chamberlain obeyed; a gallop of a minute or so brought him to the centre of a group in the rear of the principal party, gathered round a gentleman, to whom all near were listening with gratified attention. He was narrating a story, how two young lovers, despite their parents' mutual and mortal hatred, had vowed eternal faith to each other; and how they had through fatal mistake one taken poison, supposing his lady-love dead, and she, on awaking from a trance, and finding he had done so through love of her, would not survive him. And tears glistened in the bright eyes of his lady listeners, and sighs broke resistlessly from the bosoms of the gentlemen of that entranced party.

The Chamberlain motioned to the narrator ;- Her Majesty desires your presence ;' -and both galloped together forward to the Queen. Bowing lowly in his saddle as he approached the immediate circle around Elizabeth, he whom she had thus com. manded near her stood waiting her further pleasure.

• Hither,' said the Queen. He obeyed, and came within reach of her Majesty, who, placing her hand familiarly on his left shoulder, pointed to the aged oak which had just attracted her attention. Let that be the spot-mark well its features; but mind you do not let the fat old fool be too roughly handled.'

'As your Grace pleaseth, shall it be-even under yon oak shall be the locality.' And again bowing, he was about to resume his former station in the rear, when an indication and nod from Elizabeth detained him by her side. She conversed with him for some time as they rode along together in her most affable tone, and conde

scended even to point out to his observation beauties in the sylvan way through the midst of which they were passing; and his converse was eloquence itself, to which the royal lady rode a delighted listener. The courtiers envied him his happiness in having so long the exclusive possession of her Highness's ear; while the eyes of the young damsels of the court seeined pleased that he should be so rewarded by their royal lady. Side by side did the Queen and her highly favoured companion thus ride along apart from her suite, both apparently, to all within power of remarking it, equally gratified;-he with the pride which became one so highly honoured-she with sensations of deep delight with his rich and varied conversation.

At the lodge which led towards Datchet Ford, the Queen called to her ladies to approach, after having previously commanded her companion to dine with her at the Castle, on the conclusion of his afternoon's ride; and when all her maidens had gathered round their mistress, Elizabeth thus addressed them-

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We have managed it all-three merry wives of our royal borough will long have reason to be proud of what we have this day done for them.'

'What meaneth your Highness?' ventured the Lady Anne Fitton.

'Oh, a secret; by our royal word, a secret. But wait until we go to town to review our troops upon the Blackheath -it shall be all enacted for our amusement.' This closed the conversation. The royal party dined together at the Castle, and amongst the most highly-honoured of the guests was he who had that day had the previous honour of riding alongside Elizabeth. After dinner, again was the alert chamberlain dispatched to him by his royal mistress, bearing from her own hands a goblet of choicest Malmasine, of which she had drunk to his health, and asked him even to pledge it in return, while the banquetting hall resounded with acclamations. Was I not right? whispered Southampton to a cavalier seated at the board be. side him, and who also during that day and at the banquet had been honoured by the Queen's notice. Was I not right when I said he would ere long have a name?' 'A true prophet,' replied Raleigh, to whom he addressed himself. "The Bankside boy well deserveth his honours: for he has got that which earned them-geniusfrom nature. Long may he live to wear them!

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The Queen's companion was the boy who had drunk canary with Master Alleyn, and who had held the knight's horses, and that boy was

SHAKSPEARE.

E. RALIGH MORAN.

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