of port were the inevitable consequence of this news; and we had bumper after bumper, and speech after speech; every body congratulating every body else; drinking each other's healths all round with nine times nine; shouting, hurrahing, and slapping each other on the back. Oh, it was a jolly dinner!

After the candidate had partaken of a hasty repast, which he ate rather nervously amidst the din above described, it was agreed that he should address the electors; and forth he went to the balcony, surrounded as usual by his backers.

The mob was in great numbers before the two hotels. The fact is, the inflammatory Bouncer had just been making an harangue from his window, telling the people that he had the most perfect confidence as to his success on the morrow; that his adversaries had polled their last man; that there was a shameful un-English coalition between them; but that, in Espite of the coalition, he would infallibly be returned at the head of the poll.

At the idea of the coalition the people, it is hard to say why, were furious; but they seemed to consider it a cowardly thing for the voters of the green way of thinking, to split upon the two green candidates; while, as there was but one pink candidate in the field, it was manifest that the Pinks must only vote for him.

When Mr. Britton appeared before the populace then, they received him with the most horrible yells, howls, and hisses; and seeing that it was quite impossible to get a hearing, he with great good-humour shewed an immense placard, declaring the state of the poll, and then retired.

The placard was fastened as usual in front of the balcony; and the yells were perfectly deafening as we so set up the testimonial of Green triumph and Pink defeat.

The people were in a fury; a dense mass of them were crowding round our inn; and, as the carriage drove up that was to convey Mr. Britton away from us (he had many scores of miles to drive ere night), the mob pressed so fiercely round it, that it

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was quite clear a fight would come Where were the policemen? Only three of them were in the town, and very wisely kept their quarters. Those undaunted spirits then, who had an attachment for the green candidate, surrounded him and marched boldly to the carriage; and shouted hurray in defiance of the yells of the mob, as the vehicle drove off!

Then the mob began a vast hustling and pushing; then those who had been drinking port wine felt a great yearning to go and beat the ruffians who were insulting them and their leader. I felt myself the strength and fury of at least six giants; judge, then, with what difficulty I mastered my feelings, and absolutely went back to the Lion again, without destroying a single man!

The gates were left open. The patriots did not as yet dare to pass that invisible barrier, which the law had set before them.

However, they began to wreak vengeance on the obnoxious placard. One fellow tried to pull it down, then they flung mud at it, then stones. Our committee declared themselves

in permanence; they sat round the great green table of the room, solemnly occupied in twirling their thumbs. Those gentlemen who still had favours

on were entreated to remove the same. We did, with a faint show of resistence; vowing at the same time that we were not afraid of the blackguards-not a whit.

The crowd are still swaying and shouting in the place. One unlucky committee-man must go and throw out some halfpence.

Whizz - dash

crash-smash! back came the halfpence in a shower -back through the sacred windows of the committee-room; and we hear the horrid crowd laughing without.

The landlord looks in with a faint smile."I know it's nothing, gentlemen; but shall I shut the gates, and call in the police?"

"Mr. Landlord, you must shut the gates on no account; the mob would storm the house, if you did! And as for the policemen, there is no use in having them; there are but three, and they are not enough to protect you." The landlord retires

bowing; and some one jocosely says that Mr. Bouncer ought to be called "the glaziers' friend!"

After the return of the halfpence, the people were quiet for awhile; but some of our people below would rush out and clear the gate; and forth they went, and were with great difficulty brought back again; and the mob rushed in with them, and much fighting ensued. It was considered absolutely necessary to shut the gates; and when closed, the prophesied riot ensued. The people assailed the gates with brickbats; then they broke all the lower windows; then shutters were hastily closed; and, behold! showers of stones smashed the consecrated glaze of the committee-room, and caused the elders to tremble.

The stables and back premises of the Lion lead down to the river by a little lane; and I had, for quiet's sake, taken that path during the latter part of this disturbance, and was thinking of Kentuck, and gazing on the silent water, and watching the cigar-smoke peacefully ascending in a quiet, blue, evening air. And yet we were only thirty yards from the seat of war! An ostler was whistling and rubbing his steed down with straw; a pretty girl in curl-papers was gazing at the ostler, at the summer evening, at three sailors in a ship on the river who were turning a capstan and singing monotonously. Two or three hens were picking and clucking about near the stable-stuff; and the only noise of the election that one heard in that quiet alley proceeded from three very ragged boys of about four years old, who were each shouting the name of a candidate, and rolling over and over in the dirt-heaps.

The cigar concluded, I meet the pallid landlord with a very frightened waiter trotting after him, and hear the most demoniac and fierce shouts

at the gate. The mob are storming it-us. Ah! why did I leave my peaceful Passimaquoddy, to perish under the foul hands of old country patriots?

"Now's the time to call the police, sir!" says the landlord. "I can't stand by and see my property knocked about in this here sort of way!"

"If you can get enough of them, certainly call them," said I; and only

mention this speech, because on it hinges a very characteristical and landlordical answer.

"John!" says he, turning round to the waiter, "go and bring a hundred policemen-not one less than a hundred !"

John went off as if in obedienceas he would have gone off with an unlimited order for beer, but no policemen ever came,-far from it; while one of our committee-room, in mortal fright, appealed to the mayor of the town, who presided the Pink committee at the Bull. That magistrate took the green-and-white committee-man by the collar, and vowed he would send him to prison if he did not instantly quit the room.

Such are Pinks! Dressed in a little brief authority, these rascals play such fantastical tricks as make one quite angry.

Entering the house, thus besieged, I found a dear, pretty chambermaid, cowering in one of the dark passages -a sweet, simple, smiling, northcountry girl-who told me on the first day of my arrival (à propos of some compliments that my dear aunt may rest assured never passed the bounds of strictest decorum)-who told me that she was not the pretty chambermaid, and straightway pointed to a great red-cheeked wench as her beau idéal.

He

After leaving the chambermaid (I only introduced her to tell the above little anecdote of her, which is, as I fancy, a curious one), I entered the lobby; and there in the first place was a tipsy Londoner, with a voice much like Paul Bedford's. was shouting frightfully, and swearing that he would annihilate the mob. He scized me, and said he saw me in the crowd, and that it was clear I was very much intoxicated; by which speech the learned can judge of his own condition.

Besides the bawling Cockney, there was a bawling Irishman, who wanted to know hwy the dooors were no flung open; hwy the landlard dared to interrupt commercial men, and prevent them from perfarming their busines as they would desire. "Landlard!" says he, "fling open the geets this instant!" But the landlord didn't; or what would the committee have done, if he had?

There were the major part of them,

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miliarity amongst each other, this cortège of peasants behaved with the greatest respect towards our party. M. l'Abbé Felix Coquereau, apparelled in his costume de circonstance, shone forth in almost supernatural lustre. We were saluted with the respectful exclamation, Vayan ustedes con Dios, caballeros !" -God go with you, noble gentlemen! Towards the sunumit of the hill, a young girl, with an arch and open air, stepped forward, and seizing the bridle of M. l'Abbé Felix Coquereau with one hand, while with the other she crossed herself devoutly, exclaimed, Vaya usted con la Virgen, sancto padre!"-The Virgin go with you, holy father! The sprightly girl had, doubtless, the evening before seen our worthy almoner at St. Croix, in his sacerdotal suit. As for the abbé, surprised, abashed, and confused, he did not, like the canon of the Lutrin, thunder out a blustering benediction, but stammered confusedly a few unmeaning words, midst the general laughter of the caravan. Our cavalcade soon approached Laguna. Behold us in the ancient capital of the island, whose approach is heralded by the crest of San Roque, and its little hermitage. A large stone cross stands at the commencement of the Fauxbourg. We proceeded through groups of the population, and I distinguished amongst them priests, students, and monks, clad in those ancient costumes in which I have seen them represented in the theatres of Paris and Brest. The town had quite an ancient aspect, and recalled to my recollection the old city of Vitré, in Brittany, which has bidden defiance to the tooth of Time, as if to give to the present generation a specimen of the physiognomy of the cities of the middle ages.

But the most astonishing thing at Laguna is the verdure which

covers the roofs of the houses. This singular vegetation, the perpetual produce of the humid and foggy air, developes itself with astonishing rapidity, and gives to the most modern buildings a time-worn look. There are some rich and noble families at Laguna. The Count de Salazar resides in a small palace,

and the Marquis de Nova has built a palace worthy of his family on the square Del Adelanlado. We passed the night at Laguna. I was the only sailor who formed a portion of the expedition; and having previously agreed to take charge of the daughter of a poor French officer who died in the island since our arrival, I paced silently through the town, "cudgelling my brains" as to how I was to acquit myself of my trust. At length a thought struck me, "I will seek an audience of the Prince, my captain," said I; "he always has been kind to me,-more so, perhaps, than I deserve." I returned precipitately to the hotel. I was not mistaken, for the Prince granted me an audience. I related to him the history of the father of the poor girl as far as I knew it, and her own forlorn condition. I endeavoured to throw into my recital something to awaken the compassion of the Prince, but that was unnecessary, for he soon discovered my wishes, and associated himself to their accomplishment.

“Hérou,” said he, taking me by the hand, "I have long known you are a truly good fellow. Come to

me aboard; I will relate what you have been telling me to the crew, and after that make your collection. For my own part, I promise you a bank-note of 1000 francs."

"And the daughter of the old French soldier will be happy," I exclaimed. "Thank you, monseigneur ! thank your royal highness a thousand times!"

"There's no need for that," said our captain promptly; "but don't forget my orders."

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Well," said I, in going down the staircase," as for our crew, I will answer for them, and which among the officers will close his purse-strings after the example set by the Prince?"

The next day we recommenced our journey towards the Peak. Our first station was the village of La Chasna, more than 4000 feet above the level

of the sea. We were joined by an inhabitant of the locality-a sort of escribano rigged out in the manner of Basilio. This was the reverend Magister Juan de Dios, who was accompanied by two guides, filling for the moment the office of borriqueros.*