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| Suspense and solitude like this have not leave my wife and my boy to shame. «riven many a man mad, and they were I shall return to the palazzo, there colâ€". fast driving the quick brain of Carara lect my frienmds, and by a bold remonâ€" to see phantoms, and hold dialogues strance, or, if that fail, by force, right with the creatures of the brain; when myself with this trifling and insolent one evening, as the jailer paid his last Governor, or die in the attempt." visit for the night, he suddenly touchâ€";*"*Spoken like a knight of chiva.lry."‘ ed the Count‘s hand. The twilight was said the Hungarian, "and 1 have no. too deep to allow of his discerning the doubt that you would do just enough features of the man who stood before to prove to the world that you were as him; but his voice lowered to a whisper brave as a lion, and as mad as the as it was, showed that he was not the maddest inhabitant of the Ospidale di rugged old Trasteverin, who had hithâ€" San Gregorio. But the Emperor has a erto sostubbornly refused to listen to a| particular aversion to lunatics of your syllable from him. Hope kindled wildly’order, and the inevitable consequence in his forlorna heart ; h> sprang on his: would be imprisonment for life for feel, and desired the jailer to name the | yourself, confiscation for your properâ€" price of his deliverance. The answer|ty, a new tenant for your palazzo, and was a plain one, and a true one: "That a new example in your person of the if the Count Carara was to escape, it inconvenience of contending against was not his money that would make | the powers that be. But your mention it worth any man‘s while to help him;| of the Emperor reminds me that he is for the Count Carara was for the last| now at Innspruck. 1 left him a month three monihs not worth a sequin in the ago at Vienna preparing to set out world." The news smote heavy on the on his journey, to pluck the Tyrolese ear of the prisoner; but he had not|eagle of some of its feathers. His eloâ€" beard it for the first time. It had been| quence or his presence is to persuade a part of the governor‘s insulting comâ€"| the Tyrolese that goatâ€"shooting is A munication on hbis arrest. Yet it now |crime against nature, that a rifle 18 came with a weight of which he once| rebellion, and that a cock‘sâ€"feather in could have formed no conception. Monâ€"| the hat is something not much better ey had poured in upon bhim in a flood|than a conspiracy against Austrian from his infancy ; and be bad learne_d|0hurch and state. How likely he is to to think of it no more than of the air| Succeed, far be it from me to doubt. which he breathed, as a common privtâ€"' However, you have struck upon . the lege of a certain rank, and the easy |Only point in our tavour. Francis is pledge of the pleasures of that rank | honest by nature, very much afraid But now it was life or death. The sum | ‘)f the French by habit, and very anxâ€" which he had lavished on a toy or & |JOus to be popular in Italy by policy. trinket might make the difference to|" To the Emperor, then!" exclaime him of a career of wretchedness or of | Carara " There is but one objection, peace, of a life dragged, out in the bitâ€" terness of chains, or of calmness, freeâ€" dom and honour. * | H»p now sank down upon his couch, in that dejection of heart which bids a man welcome the worst ; and before he could conceive any new mode of softening his Cerberus, the door was closed, the jailer gone, and the unâ€" hbhappy prisoner left to his despairing meditations. ‘The hours lingered on, midnight came, and as Carara was beâ€" ginning to imagine that his mind bad played him false, and that he was still in the hands of th» old taciturn Trastâ€" everin, the door opened again, the jailer stood at his side, showe# him a soldier‘s cap and cloak, and bade him put them on and follow him without a word. The Count eagerly followed his direction. But in a moment after, the singularâ€" ity of secrecy in a jailer awoke his suspicions. He started back. " If I am to die, let me die in the face of my countrymen, by no base and clandesâ€" time end." The jailer made no reply, but by opening the door and po‘mtmg to the deep stair of the tower. _ A gush of fresh air that sprung up from the bottom struck across the Count‘s senses with a feeling of freedom. He hesitated no longer;, but step for step silently followed his grim guide. The gush of air had told the truth. The door at the foot of the tower was open. The sentinel was either drunk, asleep, or bribad. They passed as unchallengâ€" ed as ghosts, wound their way through a dozen obscure streats, and at last reached an inn. A low whistle anâ€" nounced their coming; a wicket was opened, a head thrust out to reconnoiâ€" tre; half a door unbarred, and the Count caught by the arm and suddenly dragged in. Carara was bold, and his first impulse was to retort this vioâ€" lence ; but a voice at his side at once astonished and restrained him. _ The light of a lamp that filled the close atâ€" mosphere with the strongest effluvia of the Padovine oil, the strongest in th»e circuit of the earth glimmered feebly, but sufficiently, on the counâ€" tenance of his Hungarian friend. The Herr Balto had been his preserver. _ "I owed you some _ compensation," said the Hungarian, " for bringing you within the fangs of your blockhead of a governor. Philosophy seems not to be in fashion among your men of macâ€"| aroui: and it would have been better for ths Count Carara to have taken a crocodile into his palace than an unâ€" lucky stranger, who knew nothing but a little chemistry." | The Count, delighted with his liberâ€"| ty, would not suffer his friend to utter | a syllable in depreciation of â€" either himself or his science; and proceeded to express his regret that, under the present circumstances, he had nothing to offer but thanks. The Hungarian | laughed long and loud. " Count," said he, observing his look‘ of surprise, at this unexpected mirth, | " 1 must beg your allowance for tbe‘ odd way in which the simplest things sometimes appear before an odd beâ€" | ing, such as I must acknowledge that‘ I am. But the truth is, that I could not resist the contrast between yonrl luxuries in that paradise of marbles | and mosaic, and this rueful hovel. How-l ever, I rejoice to find in you the vig-‘ our of mind that belongs to the true philosopher ; and if the Grand Secret shall ever be intrusted to mortal man, you may rely on it that it will be inâ€" trusted only to the vigorous and the wise, to the powerful minds that deâ€" spise the chances of the world, or to‘ the bold hearts that know how to force them to their own advantage. But what . is to be done next?" % es in aemees makek "WKext!! exclaimed Count. " What but to ent tool of office who sult a nobleman of }’a "WKext!! exclaimed the indignant Count. " What but to shoot the insolâ€" ent tool of office who has dared to inâ€" sult a nobleman of Padua ?" " You will get nothing by that," said the Hungarian, " but the bad bargain of giving the life of a man of sense for thit of a fool ; sending a bullet through the brains of a simpleton, and laying us Jhnak afa main of tatents amt honâ€" the brains of a simpleton, and the neck of a man of talents an our on the scaffold." " Anmeal to his Holiness, then "* Appeal Carara. " Appeal to a counct! OL ®UUT"" ud ladies, who must be first approached through a dozen clerks aâ€"piece, who are accessible only through ten times the numlber of valets, auns, sbirri, slaves, and knaves of all dimensions! Why, it would be easier to walk dryshod from Sceylla to Charybdis, than gain anyâ€" thing by this mode but a benedicite. In fact, I am perfectly perplexed with every view that I can take of the busiâ€" UesS. Carara‘s spirit rose with the crisis " Perplexity," said he, after a few moâ€" ments of silence," may check a man‘s stens on ordinary occasions. But the worst that I can forfeit is life. Imust to a council of a dozen old â€" must be first approached Inzen clerks aâ€"piece, w ho are ," said ago at Vienna preparing to set out on his journey, to pluck the Tyrolese eagle of some of its feathers. His eloâ€" quence or his presence is to persuade the Tyrolese that goatâ€"shooting is A criume against nature, that a rifle is rebellion, and that a cock‘sâ€"feather in the hat is something not much better than a conspiracy â€" against Austrian church and state. How likely he is to succeed, far be it from me to doubt. However, you have struck upon the only point in our tavour. Francis is honest by nature, very much afraid of the French by habit, and very anxâ€" lous to be popular in Italy by policy." "To the Emperor, then!" exclaimed Carara _" There is but one objection," observed his friend. "‘The winter has set in roughly even bere; what must it be among the mountains? 1 escapâ€" ed a tempest with some difficulty but three days ago, which I saw covering the whole of the Pusterthal. I should not be surprised to hear that the Brenâ€" ner is by this time totally impassable. As for the passes to the west, the trayâ€" ellers from the Splugen and the Helvia have reported them filled up with snow fO.l:_lhff last fortnight." The horrors of any attempt to cross the Brenner mountains forty years since, were sufficient to shake the stout hearts even of the carriers and contraâ€" bandists of the Alpine regions; and Carara acknowledged the little probâ€" ability which h could have of escaping the complicated trials of hunger, houseâ€" lessness, and those terrible tempests which often swept away whole villages and even huge portions of the mounâ€" tains themselves. " But let what will happen,"‘ said he, " I must see the Counâ€" tess di Carara; see in what state the tyranny of our wretched government has left my house and property, and try whit can be done to obtain justice on the spot." " Day is breaking," was the reply. " Your escape from your cell will be known immediately, and, of course, vigilance will have all its eyes upon your track. In short, you must wait till nightfall." This was undeniâ€" able ; and Carara passed another wretched dayâ€"a day of fear, watching and weariness, in which the step of evâ€" ery beggar that passed the little inn was a source of alarm; every chance word from the wild and haifâ€"naked reâ€" probates who lingered out the hour, till night sent them out again to starve or to plunder, sounded like detection ; and every moment seemed lengthened for the mere purpose of putting him to torture. eye in the great mansions for the more thain â€" magnificence within, for the lmatchless expenditure of taste, wealth | and skill, that brings the mind to the ages of Italian power and princedom ; |\ â€"all were there still. But the look of Iithe domestic who admitted them by | a sideâ€"door, and his evident trepidation, | told at once the history of the palazzo. \ Carara sprang forward with a pang of | heart. : All was spoil, The walls were |\ stripped of their pictures; tapestry, | sculpture, everything was gone. Monâ€" | uments of the most exquisite art had | been broken into fragments in (the |\ rough attempt to tear them down. |\ Where were his vases, the . porâ€" 'traits of his ancestors, _ the chefsâ€"d‘â€" oeuvre of Raphael, the Correggio Galâ€" ileryâ€"the library of manuscripts that had cost the great Count Francesco 'the revenue of a principality ? All were | swept away. Put & dearer interest | now made all their loss co:mk)arafitively . y cm miil P ki ts U Cecasiente ; At lest the shadows began to spread from the cathedral towers; the evenâ€" ing chimes announced that the monks were going to their suppers, and all the world going to rest ; the Count reâ€" vived with the thickening twilight, and a low knock at the door announced the Hungarian. He was prepared for their movement, and a cloak and a few trifâ€" ling changes of dress enabled the Count to pass through the dim streets withâ€" out being recognised. Carara‘s heart beat with an unusual pulse as he reachâ€" ed the marble portals of his palace. All on the outside was as when he had last given it his anxious, departing look. The massive gates emblazoned with the proud beraldry of his forefathers; the bronze lions that had sat for generaâ€" tions, the guards of a noble house raisâ€" ed by lion daring, in times of Italian valour and hazard; thes whole magniâ€" ficence that so splendidly prepares the scene O state of insensibility. The Hungarian was emergency; he hastent many fountains which ver sheets of water hi e Hungarian was acti¥© °M | / rgency; he hastened to one of the y fountains which threw its silâ€" sheets of water high in the moonâ€" tive in the light; and at once brought back _ a draught which revived him, and the yet more reviving intelligence that his Countess and his child were safe, and were even under the same roof with bhim. The tidings were soon realized. A pavilion in the ample gardens, which had escaped the sight of the spoilers, had been their place of refuge. Their meeting once more, even under their calamities, was a source of happiness; and when Carara looked on the loveâ€" liness of his lovely and noble wife, and the fine countenance of the child, a boy just emerging from infancy, hbe felt, what his lifse of luxury had failâ€" ed to tell him, that there were enjoyâ€" ments in the world which the highâ€" est rank and wealth could neither give nor take away. 3 The hours were now not like the lingering hours of his wonted day; they flew ; the night was too short for the deep interest of the tale which the noble lady had to tell of her perturâ€" bations during the fearful interval of his absence; for his fond caresses of his child; for his own â€" determinaâ€" tions to obtain a full and bold redress let the risk be what it might; or for the calm sagacity and experienced consolation of his friend. At length day began to glitter on the tops of the cedars and limes, and the consultation must be at an end, if the Count would not hazard the loss of all chance of redress, by giving himself into the hands of his enemies, who would undoubtedly first seek him in his palace. It was agreed upon that the Emperor was the only reâ€" source, but that, from the utterly imâ€" passable nature of the mountains by one so little prepared for their diffiâ€" culties as the Count, his mission should be sent by one of th@ mounâ€" tain couriers, while he submitted to concealment until the arrival of the answer. The Countess now retired to rest. His friend threw himself on a sofa. But Carara had other objects than sleep. Taking down a dagger *and . pistol which hung in a private recess, . he began sharpening the one and loadâ€" ing the other. The Hungarian‘s quick eye was instantly upon him; springâ€" ing from the couch, he asked him wheâ€" ther he could be mad enough to think of using them against the governor. "No, no," was the reply. ‘"Yesterâ€" day I might have been mad enough to use them against him, or against myâ€" self, or against any one; for I had begum to look upon mankind as a wild beast, which it was a kind of duty to destroy. But the last twelve hours have changed my mind on that point, and many others. I have been a cumâ€" berer of the earth. I have lost thirty years of existence. I snould not have been more a blank in life, if I had been {lung out of my cradle into the Adige." Tha hearer stared. "What is the purâ€" port of all this?"‘ was in his look of perplexity. "I had hoped," continued the Count, "to have escaped all quesâ€" tion upon the subject, to have kept my own counsel uniil I could show my good and manlyâ€"minded friend its fruits. I am determined to go on this mission myself." "What you?" said the Hungarian, with a look of double perplexity. "You, know nothing of the route, of hardâ€" ship, of the nature of the mountain storms? You will be swept away like a buiterfly, or buried under some j snowâ€"drift before you have gone a ‘ league up the pass. This, too, is the season of the avalanches; every blast loosens some of them down, and the very boldest of the mountaineers will not stir a foot from the firesides, until at least the equinox is over. It was but last week that a train of twenty mu‘les, coming from _ Brixen, were carried away, muleteers and all, to the bottom of one of the lakes, undâ€" er a mountain of snow, which will keep them there till doomsday." : "The more necessity for me to try," said Carara, resolutely, "if I_can find no other bearer of my despatch. The plain fact is, that a business like mine cannot be intrusted to a letter, nor even‘ the letter to the negligence of a courier. The Emperor must receive a bundred appeals aâ€"day of the same kind, which he throws to his secreâ€" tary, who throws them into the fire, The road may be difficuit; but a man once in earnest, can make his way throuzh more than the Brenner. _ I am in earnest, and I must at all events try. If I se the Emperor in person, I may succeed. _ Malfâ€"aâ€"dozen words spoken by the injured party himself, are often worth a volume coldly laid before his eye. Francis is a man, and be will understand the language of a man; and by all that is honest or bold in man, he shall hear it from me, If I perish by the wiy, I perish, and that is all. There is an end of one whose life is a continual reproach to him. Apathy with me is at an end." "But the Countess!" expostulated his friendâ€""What will she say to this desperate experiment P ‘ "The Countess," said Carara, with ‘emotion, "is a woman of a spirit that deserved a nobler companionship than mine. I must retrieve myself in her eyes and in my own. Let us say no more on the subject. I wish to spare her the useless pain of parting. _ In half an hour I shall be on the road to the mountains. In the meantime, I have provided for her safety." He here wrote a few lines. "I must leave this part of the business to you. Deâ€" liver this note to the old Margquis Adelâ€" scalchi of Ferrara. His friendship for me will suffer no decay by my fall; and his relationship to the Counâ€" tess will insure her protection under his roof until I either accomplish my purpose, or am laid where human purposes disturb no one. Farewel!." His hearer cqqght hip by‘the cloas GIBRALTAR‘S â€"WONDERFUL SIMILARITY TO THE BRITISH LION. Po MMIMIBITC CO0pomel rushing out, and grasped his handâ€""Count Carara," said he, in a grave tone, "I believe we have not known each otbher until now. _ I now recognize you as the descendant of the illustrious founder of this palace in which I stand. I confess that 1 too long looked on you as totally unâ€" nerved; by the national habits, for the high duties of life, You are now & philosopher ; ana,‘" he added with a faint smile, "as it is peculiarly painâ€" ful to part with a new and agreeable acquaintance, I must be suffered to continue the intercourse that has beâ€" gun within these five minutes, Withâ€" out a metaphor, you must let me go along with you." The Finc Specimen of a Walled ‘l‘own‘ That the United States WIHl Have. San Juan is a perfect specimen of a walled town, with portcullis, moat, gates and battlements, Built over 250 years ago, it is still in good condition and repair. The walls are picturesque, and represent a stupendous work and cost in themselves. Inside the walls, the city is laid, off in regular squares, six parallel streets running in the diâ€" rection of the length of the islan& and seven at right angles. The houses are closely and compactly built of brick, usually of two stories, stuccoed on the outside and painted in a variety of colors. The upper floors are occupied by the more respectable people, while the ground floors, almost without exâ€" ception, are given up to negroes and the poorer classes, who crowd one upâ€" on another in the ‘most appalling manâ€" ner. The population within the walls is estimated at 20,000, and most of it lives on the ground floors. In one small room with a flimsy partition a whole family will reside. The ground floors of the whole town reek with filth, and conditions are most unsanitary. _ In a tropical country, where disease readily prevails, the conâ€" ‘ sequences of such herding may be easâ€" ily inferred. There is no running waâ€" ter in the town. The entire population depends on rain waler caught on the flat roofs of the buildings and conâ€" ducted to the cistern, which occupies the greater part of the courtyard that is an essential part of Spanish bhouses the wporld over, but that here, on acâ€" count of the crowded conditions, is small. There is no sewerage, except for surface wuter and sinks, while vaults are in every house and occupy whatever remaining space there may te in the patios not taken up by the cisterns. The risk of contaminating tthe water is great, and in dry seasons \the supply is entirely exhausted. Epiâ€" ldemics, are frequent, and the town is !alive with vermin, mosquitoes, and dogs. es e t n hoiut ud The streets are wider than in the older part of Havyana and will admit two carriages abreast. The sidewalks are narrow, and in places will accomoâ€" date only one person. The pavements are of a composition manufactured in England from slag, pleasant and even and durable whon no beavy strain is brought to bear upon theim, but easily broken and unfit for heavy traffic. The streets are swept once a day by hand, and, strange to say, are kept very clean. From its topographical situation the town should be hbealthy, but it is not. The soil under the city is clay mixed with lime, so hard as to be alâ€" most like rock. It is consequently imâ€" clean. From its topographeca!l situation NET TA ‘R OF MERILT I% courage, 10f, LnCuUgH UILMIGI® SIPC 208 the town should be hbhealthy, but it is | ; "””' ()RD:‘R or ‘I‘ i‘. s fihw |,. very severe action in a number out not. The soil under the city is clay | Taking ‘out o ! -'ch(?sen ?“””n' "**~ | of proportion to that heir men, mixed with lime, so hard as to be alâ€" ever, as samples, it is fair to say that i that is because their ,_,u“. ig tead« most like rock. It ifldftflfl“*‘flllllf"n‘lly 'm&’ the English soldier seems less moved Q iLng. and they are vom}piu:-‘nus figures; pervious to water and furnishes a goo P bers than the man ul it is quite certain at courage natural drainage. The trade wind blows b 'compamtlw'nu.m rers "”.‘_ * ‘_ can be materially affected»by ideas, of any other race; that he is less al strong and fresh and thrqugl} thf‘ ,hsr- armed by an unlucky position, probâ€" semesemikano "*Miekercommuietemn bor runs a stream of sea “‘ne.'l it ,a'ahly because he does not perceive it, CURIOUS ADS. OF LONDON. speed of not less than three miles 30 i /nj ipat his courage is singularly inâ€" $F# rorded, advert hour. With these conditions no ©9Nâ€"| dependent of leadership in his generâ€" Curiously _ worded advertisements tagious diseases, Ef properly taken care| als. He likes to see bis officers in that are funny without intent are comâ€" of, could exist ; \'vnthuut thera the place front, but the universal Lestimony T angn du Lile Lobdon pabers..Herk.ure a would be a veritable plague spot. his enemies, as well as his friends to o i the tow sithin the walls,| ; ; nsl s t s few examples: ce snn it fertons â€"| 4* | his capacity for fighting when badly ; n ; there are small portions just out8id® | jeq to "making," in fact, "@& soldier‘s| "Furnished apartments suitable for called the D{[aru‘l'a and Puerta de Tiot | battle of it," seems proof positive on a genlleman with folding doors." a, 008 Wnn 000. 96 3’090 m‘hahl“-} that point. The same quality must he' " Wanted a room by two gentlemen ants each'. There are also Cwo sublille in Americans, or they covld not have | ahout 30 feet long and 20 feet broad." Sova leg I:urce. u[;proatchtel;l c 'tthe 0:::5 ! exhibited such courage after the dread-i " Lost, a collie dog by a man on Satâ€" road leading oul 0 thfl |m ys ch \ful massacres under MceClelian, and | urday answering to Jim with a brass the other, Cut:'mo. T n o. e ced n hn + aay military bistorians give much the same ‘ oo)lar round his neck and muzzle." P lafernt; I"he Marine and 4Hs io uy praise to Russians, who, however, a8| " Boy wanted who can open oysters suburbs are mtua{f’:;iteon sandy pom;"shown before Plevyna, dislike being . with references." * or spits, and the la o ’"“Ti“":“t'lu; mowed down without gaining a success. ’ " Bulldog for sale ; will eat unything; e hy n o e id e °nutre; t; is probable that Englishmen, Amet!â€" | yery fond of children." population of the city and s;;mx:bs.;’c-luns' ermans, drenchimen and â€" Rusâ€"|* " Waited. «n oreanisl,. and Loy io cording to the census of 1887, Was 2| giing are the best troops in the world, | plow the same." 000. _ It is now estimated nt.30.000f. O08â€"| very much in that order, that After| " Wanted, a boy to be partly outâ€" half of thp'populatxon consists of N€Fâ€"| fnam come the Turks, who Are iDâ€" gide and Parily Achiind Abe.counter," roes and mixed races. dividually the bravest of them all, and ies € ww that the remaining Latin races must reuxr # m n d oo ba content to come next, though Spag- wHY ANGLOâ€"SAXONS WIN, 3 i r defendioag a city or buildâ€"| In " Westward Ho»," Charles Kingsâ€" UEER ORDER. iards when . + * Q, in P y 3 ing ha“:)lm all ages been almost iD~ ‘ley‘s story of the Elizabethan wars At Schkenditz, in Prussian Saxony,| comparable. iwith Suain. he exvlains why the Engâ€" At Schkenditz, in Prussian Saxony, the Burgomaster recently gave orders that on Sunday people should dress in a manner befitting the day, and when a mechanic appeared in the streets in his everyâ€"day working dress he was arrested and condemned to a fine of three marks or one day‘s imprisonment. The decision was set aside on appeal, but the Court admonished the culprit that he was an insensate dolt, and that the grace of the Lord was not in him., The tribunal evidently leaned to the conviction that he had got what he deserved, though the letter of the law did not sustain the penalty. QUEER OLD SAN JUAN. To Ra Continued. Sash and Door Factory. â€"<â€"«llils () m Baving Completed our New Factory we are now prepared to FILL ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY. We keep in Stock a large quantity of Sash, Doors, Mouldings, Flooring and the differâ€" ent Kinds of Dressed Lumber for outside sheeting. L Our Stook of DRY LUMRE is very Large so that all orders can be filled. Lumber, Shingles and Lath always Discipline a treat Factor in the Bravery of Troopsâ€"Angloâ€"8a xons the Best Menâ€" Old Troops Not Necessarily the Best Ones For a Flerce Attack. WHO ARE THE BEST FIGHTING MEN ON THE BATTLEFIELD ? It is by no means easy to decide which of the races of mankind is the bravest upon the battlefield, says the London Spectator. We are rather inâ€" clined to assign the place to the Osâ€" manli, who, besides his natural stolâ€" idity and exemption from nerves, has the pride of a race of hereditary conâ€" querors, exalted by an honest belief either, that God is on his side or that fate; is irresistible, If he is to die, he will die; if not, not; and he charges through the hail of shot with an imâ€" Tperturable serenity which makes him. the delight of disciplinarians and the idespair of decent men. It is, however, | most difficult even to institute a comâ€" parison as to national courage, so much depends upon circumstances, upon disâ€" cipline, and, with some races, under | leadership. Very few troops fight well |when tbey are bungry. Frenchmen | are distinctly braver, by their own | confession, when they are led by a Napoleon, an4 Germans differ violently from themselves according to the perâ€" ;fection of their discipline. Slays will |£aoe amy danger which approaches if | they are ordered to face it, but to inâ€" duce them to show fierce charging courage, the courage which sweeps away armies, they must have confiâ€" dence in the generai, and see him at their bead.> Italians have hardly been tried of late years, though they died THE BRAVEST SOLDIER, in their tracks at Dogali, and Spanâ€" iards, once esteemed in the bravest inâ€" fantry in Furope, have in more recent years appeared to have lost some confiâ€" dence either in their officers or themâ€" selves. Even the evidence is imperâ€" fect. We English tbelieve in our hearls that we muke the best soldiers in the world; but, as a matter of ifact, there is no evidence for the assertion; inâ€" deed, there is little evidence the other way. There is plenty of proof running through all history, that the class of Englishmen who take to the army have no superiors in battle, if indeed, they have‘ any equals; but the English peoâ€" ple have never yet been tried. _ They have never been subjected to a conâ€" scription or anything approaching to one, and the voluntary adoption of a soldier‘s life naturally acts as a winâ€" nowing process. The question of the comparative proportion of really brave men in any army will probably never be deterâ€" mined. Great officers on the continent keep their knowledge on that subject rigorously as a professional secret, and assume»e as a certainty that all soldiers are brave. They know very well, however, that they are not, and when counfidential, will admit, as Marâ€" shal von Moltke once did in public, that with a great number it takes disâ€" cipline, and severe discipline, too, to induce them to face shells unshrinkâ€" ingly. American officers have : been ingly. DISCIPLINE REQUIRED In Sui.ockk., K. G. & J. McKECHNIE known to acknowledge that of their men, who are as brave as any in the world, 20 per cent. would run away if they could, and in every army, evâ€" en ours, which a man enters on‘ly of free will, there is a certain proportion who literally cannot overcome â€" their fears. â€" They are stricken with a sort of paralysis. The proportion is probâ€" ably. not high in any army the majorâ€" ity, if in health, being able to do their duty, and having intense motives to do it; but neither is the proporties high of those who literally feel no fear, There are such men,who do not underâ€" stand what the emotion is, as there are also some who have in extreme danger, a sense of pleasure, which sometimes pot on‘iy quickens their blood, but distinctly increases theig }inlellec(unl force. Cl EXCEPTIONAL BRAVERY. This is said to have been trus of Gen. Picton, who, though a hard,rough man, was an â€" "angel when bullets were about," and was â€" undoubtedly true of the first Lord Gough, who had a trick,highly disagreeable to his staff, of seeking points of full exposure to the enemy‘s fire. The immense reâ€" spect paid to such men in all armies shows, however, that they are excepâ€" tional, and, on the whole, we believe that the opinion of the first _ Sir Henry Havelock is very nearly the truth,. The writer once bad an oppor» tunity during a discussion on the util« _ity of the Victoria Cross, of crossâ€"quesâ€" "liuning that famous general on the .B*llhj«cl, and never forgot his reply, !"ln my experience," he said, "in any British regiment there are always subject, and never forgot his reply, "In my experience," be said, "in any British regiment there are always a hundred men who would storm the gates of hell, eight hbundred who if they did it would follow in, one hundâ€" red who want to skulk in the ditches, and about thirty who actually de skulk there or elsewhere," The avyâ€" erages should be higher in a conscript army, ut then, also the discipline is more severe. Why discipline should impart courage is somewhat of @ mystery, but there is no shadow of doubt that it does, and that a well disciplined regiment is not only more obedient, but actually more indifferent to danger, probably because the conâ€" tinuous habit of seif suppression has positively diminished selfishness. 8SEASONED TROOPS NOT THE BRAVâ€" 4 EST. The popular notion that seasoned troops are much braver than novices seems, however, to be unfounded. They are more afraid of giving way, know»= ing better Aawhat a bell upon earth commences if men begin running; but Waterloo was won, in considerable measure, hy _\-ouns soldiers, and Speichâ€" eren was carried by regimenis in which no private had ever seen a shot fired in anger. They were drilled youngsters, â€" not old â€" soldiers, who tramped up that dreadful hill, marchâ€" ing to death as if they were execulâ€" ing un accustom<d movement on parâ€" ade. Indeed, there are cynics who say that: the youngsiters do best, and that the old soldiers know what is before them a litile too well; a gibe whick is disproved by the almost invariably splendid conduct of â€" the nonâ€"commig sioned officers. Eduration, it may be suspected, makes very little difference in courage, for, though officers die in @ very severe action in a number out of proportion to that ufleir men, that is because their b is leadâ€" ing, and they are conspicuous figures;, but it is quite certain ltut courage can be materially affected,by ideas, Curiously _ worded advertisements that are funny without intent are comâ€" mon in the London papers. Here are a few examples: In " Westward Ho," Charles Kingsâ€" ley‘s story of the Elizabethan wars with Spain, he explains why the Engâ€" lish so often got the better of the Spanish, when the odds were against them. He claims the superiority of their ships, their better gunnery and greater weight of metal; the agility with which they could be manaked, beâ€" cause of their rig, but he counts as the distinctive â€" advantage the finer qualug of the men. Each, he says, " foughi for himsel{, with the selfâ€"help and selfâ€"respect of a Yankee ranger, and once bidden to do his work was trusted to carry it out by his own wit as best he could. In one word, ha TIO ARCHIVES TORONTO