of farming machines-new model ploughs, threshing-machines, latest inventions for sowing and harrowing, &c., and I asked whether they were in general use in the land. He assured me they were, a especially since the Revolution. The gentry found it so difficult t hire labourers that they were everywhere introducing machine work.

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After some further very pleasant conversation with my fellow-veller, who was a remarkably intelligent specimen of the Hungarin farmers, I went aft to the company on the other deck. I noted dor at the time, that the most elegant part of the passengers on the bo did not by any means best represent Hungary. If these were examples of the gentlemen of Hungary, I was very much disappointe They looked much more like the "fast men or the dandies one see in Broadway and Hyde Park, than the manly, intelligent gentlemen had expected to meet. I afterward learned that these men, thoog belonging to the highest nobility of Hungary, were nearly all of the party of the magnates who have always done least credit to their cous : try. Men of immense wealth, but despising their people, and squ dering their fortunes at the Court of Vienna, or in Paris. They took no part in the Revolution, and never cared anything for Hungar except for the rents they could squeeze from their tenants, and the stud they could collect on their estates. They have before this been satisfet with the smiles of the Court, but now, when everything Hungar meets with "the cold shoulder" at Vienna, they have come back Hungary quite as discontented as the rest of their countrymen. such privileged drones as these that are always the weight upon country. They meet with little respect in Hungary; and, eve with all their wealth, have a very slight influence over the people.

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It happened that we did not reach the landing-place where I was stop, till about midnight. After stepping ashore I found there was inn, and found myself in a somewhat unpleasant predicament, whet luckily I met with one of the gentlemen to whom I had letters. A soon as he heard who I was, he invited me immediately to his hous "No Hungarian," said he, "ever allows his guest to go to an inn; a besides, there is no inn here for several miles." Accordingly, I soon established in one of the long, spacious rooms of a genuine H garian country-house, discussing a hearty lunch, and not long afterwar slumbering away soundly the fatigues of the day.

April, 1851. We have been walking through every part of the village, calling on many people, and examining farms and farming, altogethe in a very interesting way. The village is even more completely lis a collection of tents pitched at random, here and there, than Szolno The streets form almost a labyrinth of tracks. Every house is one story, whitewashed, and with a little piazza upheld by she thick columns. The roofs are all thatched with a covering nearly foot and a half thick, from the reeds of the Theiss. These res (röhre) are in universal use here for hedges, baskets, wicker-work int wagons, matting, &c. There is scarcely any stone or wood used in th village, and the fences are of these reeds, or occasionally of wille twigs, plaited together. The houses, as in Szolnok, are built of squa blocks of mud. Before every house is a long-bodied, shaggy

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dog, with a small pointed head, very much resembling on the whole, a white bear. A peculiarly unpleasant animal he is too, to a traveller, without a walking-stick, as he has a way of diving right out at one's legs, without ceremony or warning. It is a breed peculiar to the country, I am happy to say.

It is evident I am getting among the genuine Hungarian population; and a very different people they are from any I have ever seen. We should not call them very highly cultivated, but one sees at once there is a remarkably quick, practical intelligence in them, which promises as much for the nation as a more elaborate education. They come before you at once as a "people of nature"-as men bred up in a generous, vigorous, natural life, without the tricks of civilization, but with a courtesy, a dignity, and hospitality which one might imagine the old oriental patriarchs would have shown in their day.

At the house of the gentleman where I am visiting, friends come in, take a bed in the large ground-floor room, and spend the night, apparently without the least ceremony. The tables are heaped to overflowing at every meal, and people seem to enter and join in the party without any kind of invitation, as if the gentlemen kept "open house." Wherever we visit, it appears almost to be thought an unfriendliness in us if we do not drink of the delicious wines they bring out to us, and I can only escape by pleading the poverty of our country in wines, and not being in the habit of drinking much.

Besides this generous hospitality, one is struck at once with a certain heartiness and manliness in almost every one. They all speak of Hungary, and with the deepest feeling-but no one whines. Every one seems gloomy at the misfortune and oppression through their beloved land-but no one is at all crushed in spirit. If this be a specimen of the nation, they are not in the least broken by their defeat.

The whole effect of the courtesy and manly bearing of the people, too, is extremely increased by their fine personal appearance. I have never seen so many handsome men in my life; in fact, one gets some idea here what the human frame was intended by nature to be. Every man tall-in frame not brawny, but with full chest, and compact, wellknit joints; limbs not large, but exceedingly well proportioned, and a gait the most easy and flexible which can be imagined. The type of the race, I believe, is not a great stature. These men here, however, made me, though not at all under the average height, feel quite like a pigmy.

Their whole proportions are exceeding well set off by the Hungarian costume, which many of them still wear in part, though it is contrary to law to do so. This, as one sees it still in Hungary among the gentlemen, is a tight-fitting, half-military frock-coat, buttoned up to the chin, and breeches fitting close to the leg, with high polished boots and spurs. The cloak (dolmány) which used to be the most graceful part of the dress, as it was handsomely embroidered, and hung from one shoulder by a tasselled cord, is altogether forbidden. However, the costume, as it is worn now, is remarkably tasteful. And to all this, fine-cut, regular features, jet-black hair usually, and flowing beard and carefully trained moustache, and you have among these men, as fine specimens of manly beauty as can be seen in the world.

The women, as I remarked among the Bauer, do not seem by any means to equal the men in this respect.

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The Hungarians are quite proud of this peculiarity of their race, and though not at all a frivolous people, they take an oriental delight in rich and graceful costume, or whatever sets off their handsome propertions. This consciousness of the strength and beauty of the rate seems to enter as one element into that very peculiar attachment, or pride, they all show in regard to their country and nation.

A Protestant clergyman whom I afterwards met, who had served in the ranks in the Revolution, told me in illustration of this, that be entered Klausenburg in the course of the war, banner in hand, at the head of a large force of recruits, just drawn from the Hungarian plains. They were as fine-looking a set of men, he observed, as eve served in the ranks, generally Bauer, tall, vigorous fellows, accustomed to work and exposure from childhood. As they entered the to banners flying, file after file of strong men, marching on erect and proud in their enthusiasm for the struggle, an old hussar happened to b at the gate, and rode aside to make way for them; but at sight of the new addition to the prime of the Hungarian manhood, he turne stopped, took off his helmet, and with his hands stretched out o them, and the tears running down his weather-beaten face, said, "Ga bless you, my children! You are worthy of the Hungarian Father | land! One sees you have not been fed on bran!" My compani said he went out of the ranks, and shook the old soldier by the hand a they passed.

Everywhere that I then went among the Hungarians, I heard th most anxious, continual questioning about the Hungarian emigrants America and Europe. I was at that time in the neighbourhood of the former residence of Ujhazy, a man so well known in America. E had been a man of great wealth, owning wide lands, and an Obergespe (or Vicegespan) of a Comitat-a place like that of a Duke in Engla or of a Governor of a great State in America-they said, yet a mt always remarkable in Hungary for the extreme simplicity of his and manners. He was a famous "Wirth," or farmer and economis and his estates were among the best managed in the land. On farm, in the district near Tokay, he had drained lands, introduced provements, erected schools, and really helped on the whole neighbor hood in a most efficient manner. They said, it seemed almost a Pr vidence that he was one of the few wealthy gentlemen of Hungary always worked with his own hands. Even when he was an act member of the Parliament, and in one of the prominent offices of nation, he might be seen, with his family, doing merely servants' we drawing water and labouring about the house. He was a thorough be publican and had joined heart and soul in the Revolution, and had was thought, lost his all in it, not saving a penny.

It needs not to be said here, that the Hungarians have borne the selves bravely in their disasters, I have heard it myself, from a lead on the Conservative benches in the English House of Commons, "t whatever might be the opinion of the Hungarian cause, no man e avoid respecting the manly bearing of the exiles in their misfortunes. Still, it will be a consolation to the Hungarian exiles to knowperhaps, they need not to be told that they are remembered w undiminished affection in their country. Their exile, and poverty, suffering, have only deepened the love of their countrymen for them.

THE POINT OF HONOUR.

A CHAPTER OF REAL LIFE.

WILLIAM LAWRENCE had been tolerably fortunate as regards promotion. At the age of twenty-four he was a captain of two or three years standing; he had been only two months in India at the time of the conversation above noted, having come out from England at the expiration of a term of leave of absence of some duration. He was the son of a deceased officer of the army, who, during a long life of active service had miraculously acquired a competent fortune, and, much more consistently with the common lot of the soldier, had lost limbs, health, and finally life, in pursuit of his profession. Just before his death he lost also the greater part of his earnings by the failure of a colonial bank, but not before he had been enabled to send his son to Eton, and afterwards to a military college, where he obtained his commission.

In personal advantages Captain Lawrence rose above mediocrity; his figure was symmetrical, his countenance handsome, open, and winning. A cheerful temperament and kindly heart had made him a general favourite with his brother officers; but it was observed by some of those who knew him best that, since they and he had parted in England, not many months before, he had lost much of his original joyousness of manner, looked careworn and absent, and withdrew himself very obviously from the pastimes of his light-hearted contemporaries; and this was the more remarkable, because Lawrence, alike accomplished in the hunting-field, the ball-room, the shooting-cover, and the paradeground, as well as in the many manly games of old England, had always been looked up to as one of the choice spirits of the corps.

Just previously to his arrival in India, his regiment had served a short and gallant campaign, during which, both officers and soldiers had found, and brilliantly availed themselves of, opportunities of distinction ; and now and then, when their late exploits became, very naturally, the theme of general conversation, he would speak bitterly of his evil fortune in having in these pacific times missed such rare occasions of active service, adding more than once that he would rather be now lying in one of those glorious fields they described than have suffered the misery which he had encountered in his native country, whilst so unfortunately absent from his duties.

Such was the position of affairs with regard to Captain Lawrence about six or eight months after he had rejoined his regiment in India. Every mail from England had replunged him into the state of gloom, which the interval between them only partially cleared away; when suddenly, and manifestly on the occasion of the arrival of a large packet of home letters, every cloud seemed to have been swept from his heart and countenance; and William Lawrence became once more the life of the mess; and although a large portion of time was given to solitary rides and rambles, and to lonely musings in his quarters over certain apparently much esteemed and closely hoarded letters, still the vital disIt was quiet had passed away, his former sunny aspect had returned. clear that he was happy. He hunted, shot, danced, talked, laughed, and was, in short, once more the pride of the corps.

Meanwhile a general subject of interest and of concern among the

officers, as well as of comment in the society at large, was the unsuc cessful suit of young Fitzgerald to the only daughter of a gentleman, high in rank and fortune, in the Honourable Company's Service, whose hospitable doors were open to all comers, and especially to the inhabi tants of the station.

The gallant subaltern's personal exterior and character were precisely those most fitted to carry by storm the vulnerable heart of an inex perienced and susceptible girl; while by the very openness of the attack, and the sort of flourish of trumpets accompanying it, the vigilance of parent or guardian, however sleepy on his post, is aroused, and every drawbridge, portcullis, boarding netting, wet ditch or wet blanket, with other ordinary repellents of pauper enterprise upon dowered beauty, are arrayed against the incautious assailant. All these elements of defenes bristled in opposition to one, who, by way of fortune, poor fellow, had nothing to boast of but high health, high spirits, a handsome, impudent, Irish face, a tall strapping figure, a lieutenancy of grenadiers, and chance of the reversion of an "elegant domain" in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. He would be sure to succeed to i in a year or two," he said, " for landed proprietors don't live long in the

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The young soldier's rhetoric was vain. The hospitality of Mr. Merritch was unbounded; his house, table, and stable were open but his heiress was reserved by him for a better fate, a more elevated position in society, than those of a subaltern's wife; and, in shor incredible as it may appear, Lieutenant Hugh de Montmorency gerald was denied the daughter and forbidden the house!

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It is not the writer's province to decide, nor his pleasure to divulg whether Miss Grace participated in this cruel proscription of the luci less sub.; but those sagacious gossips who opined, and who assured every acquaintance within visiting reach, that such was the case, imputes the fair lady's supposed rejection of her military lover to her preferenc for a certain civilian rival, who had lately appeared on the scene of action, and had already rendered himself a tolerably prominent person- » age in the society of the station.

Mr. Williamson was the junior partner of an opulent mercantil house in the presidency. He seemed to be travelling as much for bs own private amusement as in furtherance of the business of the Firm had unlimited powers of expenditure, and having taken a good houst and being well supplied with introductions, showed an intention to tar some time at -pore: he was an occasional guest at the mess, as we as of the residents of the neighbourhood.

Mr. Williamson seemed to be about thirty years of age, of active an athletic frame, with a tolerably good-looking face. In complexion be was very dark, too dark to be purely Saxon: somewhat hasty petulant in temper, he was painfully thinskinned on the subject of the probable cause of this very skin's olive tinge and its evidently Orien derivation. He was a proficient in all corporeal exercises; the bat, th racquet, the gloves, the foils; the hogspear and rifle were equal familiar to his skilful and powerful hand; and from his experiete in Indian sporting, and his knowledge of the language and country, had become a kind of authority with the young Nimrods, both civil military, as well as their companion and guide in some of their ma successful excursions.