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On the 25th Sept. 1571, a commission of Governor-General of the Netherlands was at last issued to John de la Cerda, Duke of Medina Coeli. Philip, in compliance with the Duke's repeated requests, and perhaps not entirely satisfied with the recent course of events in the provinces, had at last, after great hesitation, consented to Alva's resignation.

Today I saw a young brother who, as well as one of his sisters, had been brought to the knowledge of the Lord through my Narrative. Sept. 11. The good Lord, in His wisdom, still sees it needful to keep us very low.

What were the speculations of the Scientific World upon the subject? etc., etc. In listless questions and desultory conversation of this kind the day slowly wore away, without the occurrence of any incident whatever to relieve its weary monotony. Midnight arrived, December the seventh was dead. As Ardan said: "Le Sept Decembre est mort; vive le Huit!"

It is, however, remarkable that not a single article was ultimately lost. This being the night on which the floating light was advertised to be lighted, it was accordingly exhibited, to the great joy of every one. Wednesday, 16th Sept. The writer was made happy to-day by the return of the Lighthouse yacht from a voyage to the Northern Lighthouses.

Kavanagh tells it to me, is a most striking illustration. "The O'Grady of Kilballyowen," as his title shows, is the direct representative, not of any Norman invader, but of an ancient Irish race. The O'Gradys were the heads of a sept of the "mere Irish"; and if there be such a thing past, present, or future as an "Irish nation," the place of the O'Gradys in that nation ought to be assumed. Mr.

"There was a righteousness, then, before and beside the Christian. Am I to be told that Socrates and Plato, and Marcus Antoninus and Boethius, had no right culture, no religion, no rectitude? and they were cast upon the bosom of nature and of society for their instruction, and of that light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." To his Daughter Mary. ST. DAVID'S, Sept. 20, 1867.

Seu viri curas pia nupta mulcet, Seu fovet mater sobolem benigna. Sive cum libris novitate pascet Sedula mentem; Sit memor nostri, fideique merces, Stet fides constans, meritoque blandum Thraliae discant resonare nomen Littora Skiae. Scriptum in Skia, Sept. 6, 1773. Tuesday, 7th September Dr Johnson was much pleased with his entertainment here.

After getting two reefs in the mainsail, and the third or storm-jib set, the wind being S.W., she bent to windward, though blowing a hard gale, and got into St. Andrews Bay, where we passed the night under the lee of Fifeness. Thursday, 24th Sept. At two o'clock this morning we were in St.

In comparison, little freight either goes or comes by Montreal. This ought not to be. The reason given is, that Lower Canada will not help to improve the St Lawrence route as it would not be to her benefit. Sept. 5 There is a plague of squirrels black, red and grey. Bobby keeps killing them and we have them on the table every day.

The week before he had received a picture post-card on whose narrow margin were scrawled the meager lines: So glad Cass is up again. Rose says you've been a brick. Home on Sept. 2. Hope to see you soon. It was the only communication he had had from Eleanor since they sat on the stile in the starlight at Valley Mead three months before.