he perceived that his former evidence was inaccurate, and that Hurkoo, not Toolsee, was the man he had really seen at the house of Holas; and, on this corroborative testimony Hurkoo was sent up to the sessions for trial. He was there convicted, but was allowed the benefit of the doubt arising from the evidence of the other neighbours to this extent, that an irrevocable sentence was not passed on him. He was punished as an accomplice in murder, with transportation for life.

WHAT THE ANGEL SAID.

OH! come with me: for gloomy is thy brow,
The noisy city is both dark and drear :

It is not meet that thou shouldst linger here;
But come and wander 'neath the greenwood bough,
Where rest and peace are found, for wearied hearts enow!

Oh! come with me: dim is thine azure eye,
The morn of youth tints not thy youthful cheek,
Not, as of yore, I hear thee laugh and speak;
Not, as of old, I see thee seldom sigh:

Quit, then, this spot for one beneath a bluer sky!

'Tis love surrounds thee with its magic power!
Yet, oh to loving, put not faith in man,

He loves life's rose to leave it lone and wan:
But come with me, where never fades a flower,
And "poet birds" sing round an ever-blooming bower!

Come, then, to where a bridegroom waits for thee!
Unknown to man is His celestial love,

That love that never did inconstant prove!
Come "sister spirit!" come to Heaven with me,
On seraph wings arise, immortal bride to be!

CECIL MAXWELL.LYTE.

LEAVES FROM LIFE.

BY LAUNCELOT CROSS.

NO. IV.

BUSINESS.

"Have we Business in our rank,

With blood i' the veins ?"

AURORA LEIGH.

"For we have to solve the uncertain problem of selecting from those most multifarious papers what is worthiest and most important, so that it be grateful to thinking and cultivated minds, and refresh and forward them many a province of life. GOETHE.

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"These are the ways to thrive, And the means not cursed."

The Beggars' Bush, BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. BUSINESS is the child of Poverty. It begins by deeming all it is, and all it possesses, as nothing: that all that can make it a something has yet to be gained. Even as Maximin in the menial exercise and exhibition of his powers. "Thracian," said Severus, with astonishment, art thou disposed to wrestle after thy race." "Most willingly," replied the unwearied youth, and al:nost, in a breath, overthrew seven of the strongest soldiers of the army. The hero performed his wonderful feats before an emperor, prostrated his large ability, as though he knew as well as our laureate's anonymous bard,

"That men may rise on stepping stones
Of their dead selves to higher things;"

for on this he made his own first advance towards the imperial purple. Business in its origin never forgets the spirit or the practice of such acts: its coudition is Servitude, its very religion is that of Saadi, Make thyself dust to do anything well: obedience ensures greatness.

It meditates upon and inures itself in the earliest dawn of its actions, before the hosts are formed for the battle, to what heroes have shown in the golden hours of success,-self-imposed, perfect Humility. Dentatus, though he was the greatest man in Rome, had subdued the most warlike nations, and driven Pyrrhus out of Italy, cultivated a little spot of ground with his own hands, and after three triumphs lived in a cottage. But Dentatus in his glory was not more meek than the business man in his obscure beginning. He is ever ready to stoop, to bow the knee, to kneel low.

This does not preclude great things, but will accomplish them. The sweet Persian took upon himself the duty of water-drawer, till found worthy of having his mouth moistened with the water of immortality. It delivers a man in his direst straits. We see this in the most ancient judgment, when Noah took into the Ark the beasts and fowls that lay down before him, but those that remained standing he abandoned. Humility, indeed, is sovereign of all

"The powers that tend the soul,

To help it from the death that cannot die,

And save it in extremes,

and will secure our hero ever from retribution due to his own errors, even as the subtle Jacob, on meeting the incensed Esau, bowed himself to the ground seven times, and God gave him grace in his brother's eyes. He will not, however, abase himself to such a thoughtless and mistaken position, that, like Gibbon in his courtship, he has to be assisted up again. He is lithe and nimble as quick to rise as to bend and in doing the latter he foregoes none of his manhood, but rather declares its completeness, holding with Plutarch, That to know to obey requires a generous disposition, and as rational an education as to know how to command.

To faithfully execute its trust, Business must be found to be of Industry and Honesty all compact. No fairy favours does it look for; but straightforward hard work. Its parable was declared most intelligibly by Mahomet, Bey of Tunis. Deposed by his subjects, he was restored by the Dey of Algiers, on condition that he would reveal to him the secret of the philosopher's stone, which he was reputed to possess. Mahomet, with great pomp and solemnity, sent the dey a plough. Mahomet was as correct as the dial to the orb of day; and the matter was as distinctly announced, although in another fashion, by Artaxerxes, when a poor man presented him with a very fair and great apple, and he cried, By the Sun! 'tis my opinion, if this person were entrusted with a small city, he would make it great.

By Honesty, we do not mean abstinence from theft, - the filthy negative thing so popular-aye, and of money value, too, in the markets. We do not use our words in any qualified, or half sense, as is the custom of trades; but in the full opulence of the meaning. Honesty is not restricted to the eighth commandment, but to the keeping of the whole decalogue. Honesty in Business refers to intents and hourly actions: the doing of all things well,-punctually, patiently, thoroughly, -as though each matter was a rendering of "dues to man and God." And it is, so to say, incorporate with unwearying industry. Virtue, said one of the old, writing of Demos

thenes, like a strong and hardy plant, will take root in any place where it can find an ingenuous nature, and a mind that has no aversion to labour and discipline. And our honest, succulent Rabelais affirms the truth in his own fashion when he affirms that, As all the country was idle, it could do no virtue.

Thus much of the earliest hours, the condition and primal energies of Business. Now, briefly, as to its Object. We cannot find words for our design more delicate and precise, than those of our treasured Hooker, who, with strange prescience, shows it as descending from, the Kingdom of God, which truly has to be The first thing in our purposes and desires. But inasmuch as a righteous life presupposeth life; inasmuch as to live virtuously it is impossible except we live; therefore, the first impediment we endeavour to remove is penury, and the want of things without which we cannot live. Now the only implement by which that is gained is Business; call its character by any caste-epithet you choose, it is still simply, solely Business: find for the Object of Business any galaxy of words you like, none shall better, few so well, declare than-the removal of penury. Afterwards, we grant, it broadens and brightens. In the first day-dawn of success, the horizon enlrrges and a new and more distant goal is seen. The Business man recognises a value in the very continuance of his endeavours: the prolongation of his action amidst his fellows presents in itself a record beyond the obtaining of daily bread.

"For all his life the charm doth talk

About his path, and hovers near,
With words of promise in his walk,

And whispered voices in his ear :"

He wins esteem, troops of friends, attracts public regard, and he cries, with Bion, Glory is the mother of years. Naturally, he then digs deeper and builds wider; after honour, he begins to look for fame, and his policy may suffer a humane change: not keeping everything to itself, but sacrificing to men or opportunity: foregoing much or yielding more, with the spirit of Pompey, who would not lead Tigranes captive at the wheel of his chariot; but declared, in language that has sounded through all after-ages,I prefer the glory that will last for ever to that of a day.

It is now time to examine the constitution and sentient principle of Business to look closely into the thing itself. It is a complex mechanism, but as we have already said it possesses organic unity: it is, in fact, a true representation of the paragon of animals, man himself; and under that form, a combination of the concrete and the etherial, we shall consider it.

The skeleton, the framework which is clothed upon, and inhabited by all the finer substantialities, is Confidence. The ribs of confi

dence are of adamantine proof: it has powers of resistance, of endurance, and yet is jointed throughout to suit the services of flesh and spirit. In times of prosperity we shall find the robes of Business looped up by their owner in Cæsar's way: his affairs wear a royal aspect, from the assurance gained by the triumph of confidence and the firm footing he occupies by virtue of it. Then, on enterprises of great pith and moment, he is supplied by it alone with the needful resolution, with the inner strength which commands all outer strength, and makes vassals of men and nature's forces. This has been evidenced by warlike heroes through the centuries of time, over all the earth, from Hindoostan to Mexico, from Dalecarlia to Isandula, from the Assyrian to the Peruvian and the Abyssinian conqueror. No less doth it appear in the man of Business. He assumes the object to be gained, the prize to be won; all between himself and the attainment a mere playful, though at times difficult exercise, intended rather to qualify him for the enjoyment than to secure the possession of his object.

"He bears himself with such a confidence

As if he were the master of the sea,
And not a wind upon the sailor's compass
But from one part or other was his factor,
To bring him in the best commodities
Merchants e'er ventured for."

In dark moments it has a divine potentiality. When prophets fail, and present substance seems to melt from beneath the feet, the sword to vanish from the grasp, and all things to try the heart, this

"Saves it at last from its own ruin.

The parting spirit fluttering like a flag,
Half from its earthly staff,"

renews itself under the inspiration of confidence, and defies once more all tempests and the breath of battles. It will then catch at at every jutting, frieze, buttress to sustain itself by: find the music of hope in any chance syllable: accept any call or summons to new endeavours, or to substantiate the old. During a pause in the Roman consultation as to whether the site for the capital should be at Veii or at Rome, it happened that a centurion, who then commanded the day-guards, as he passed the house, called with a loud voice to the ensign to stop and set up the standard there, For that was the best place to stay in! These words being so sea. sonably uttered, so strangely filling up the momentary silence in the debate, at a time when all were doubtful and anxious about the event, Lucretius, who was about to speak, instead of wordy argument, gave thanks to the gods, and embraced the omen, while the rest gladly assented. Veii might have been the world's capital: a