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And saved from death to rule the land 

 Whose sons will circle round the throne, 

 And make its interests all their own, 

 So that the star of France may gleam 

 On Orleans' house with fav'ring beam. 

 And her broad standard to the gale 



Its triple dyes in glory -show, 

 While music echoes from the vale, 

 And songs recite the welcome tale, 



How Philip crushed his coward foe ! 



To join the happy throng, 

 Comes Peace with laughing eye, 

 And hails the monarch as her guardian true : 



Britannia bears her flag along 

 Where Gallia's ensign flutters in the sky, 

 And Friendship twines a garland round the two ! 

 In France henceforth may civil discord cease, 

 And shameless glory onward beckon those 

 Who feel ignoble in the days of peace, 



To quench their thirst for blood with foreign foes. 

 No standard waves o'er traitors' graves, 



No flow'rets deck their tomb ; 

 No moisten'd eye, no tender sigh, 



Speak sorrow for their doom ; 

 But, undeplor'd, they lie beneath the sod, 

 Curs'd by their fellow-men rejected by their God ! 



ANONYMOUS, 



(Translated by PA.RISIANUS.) 

 (To be continued in our next.) 



CURIOSITIES OF LEGAL EXPr^tlENCE. 



No. I. MRS. SHERBORNE. 



BY A SOLICITOR. 



DOMESTIC life that household word of England : how many aching- 

 hearts may be found beneath its apparent calm ! Often, oh ! often 

 would the sufferers have hid their miseries in the grave, but for the 

 sacred duties of the Confessional, or the yearnings of a dying man 

 for sympathy in his last hours. Scenes like these have a solemnity, 

 a deep interest which softens the pain of disclosure: but when a 

 lawyer is consulted, when the secrets of the heart are laid bare 

 before the cold eye of a professional man, there is nothing to soothe 

 the mind under its task ; and I have often wondered how those who 

 came to me on matters of this sort could have summoned resolution 

 for the effort. From a man of the world, immersed in business, and 

 personally a stranger, what can be looked for beyond pity ? and pity is 

 not sympathy ; there is a wide difference between the benevolent 

 regret that others should suffer, and the intuitive perception the 



