Welt, time passes, and in the end of the year 1883 it was arranged, at Lady Cairns's wish, that Miss Finney should pay Lord and Lady Cairns a visit at Bournemouth, in company with Lord Garmoyle, and it was arranged that

" Truth " recommends the following passage in Carlyle's Life to those young pests who, without a real notion of music, make the ajr around them hideous by their everlasting strumming on a piano: — "The miserable young woman in the next house to me spends all her young bright days, not in learning to darn stockings, sew shirts, bake pastry, or any art, mystery, or business that will profit herself or others ; not even in amusing herself or skipping on the grass-plots with laughter of her mates } but simply and solely in raging from dawn to dark, to night and midnight, on a hapless piano, which it is evident she will never in this world render more musical than a pair of barn - clappors ! The miserable young female I"

" I found him little changed, although he had been imprisoned five years, and very much pleased to see an old friend fresh from tho outer world, and that world London. As I had only half a day allowed me for tho interview, he confessed that although his confidence and courage remained unabated, he was weary of his prison, from which ho saw no chance of escaping, as he knew that the French Government gave him oppor tunities of doing so that they might shoot him in the act. lie stated that a deputa tion had arrived from Ecuador offering him the Presidency of that Republic if Louis Philippe would release him, and in that case he would give the King his parole never to return to Europe. He had, there fore, pent for me as a supporter and friend ©f Sir 11. Peel, at that time our Prime Minister, to urge Sir Robert to intercede with Louib Philippe to comply with his wishes, promising every possible guarantee for his good faith. The Prince was full of a plan for a new canal in Nicaragua, that promised every kind of advantage to' British commerce. 