wander in the mountains with my sons and
honour, which I regard more than my life."
At this answer I could not restrain myself;
and, giving him my hand, he kissed it most
respectfully, bending his head. I promised
to do all in my power to intercede with the
government for pardon. I also endeavoured
to show him that some day or other he might
be wounded, and then easily arrested. The
four men who were with him, who had not
hitherto spoken a word, here interrrupted,
and simultaneously exclaimed, 'Before that,
we will all perish for his head.'

"I ordered supper for them, and retired
to a little distance to avoid restraint. I
longed for the pencil of Vandyke to paint
their animated countenances, turning whenever
the door opened. Their five dogs sat
beside them, eager for food thrown to
them, but obedient. My maître d'hotel sat
at table with the fuorusciti, and had to taste
everything, as they hinted that the government
troops might have become acquainted with
their arrival at the palace, and it was necessary
to take care, lest they should die the death of
rats. I then went up to them, and they
began pledging my health in toasts and good
wishes. They gave me an account of their
mode of life, wandering about all night, resting
and concealing themselves the greater
part of the day. On assembling in the morning
they go through the rosario.

"At midnight I accompanied them to where
their horses were tied up. I was astonished
at meeting a short distance twenty more
of the band, with their dogs acting as a vidette.
Three days afterwards, I left my palace at
Pallifigari, and met them all drawn up on
the summit of a mountain, with their muskets
grounded, holding their barrels in their left
hands. They awaited me and saluted me,
raising their caps from their heads with their
right hands, waving them in a circle as high
as possible, one more demonstrating their
gratitude by affecting vivas, and wishes for
a prosperous journey.

"Much do I regret the fall of a man who
might have served his country well, if
unfortunate events had not forced him to leave his
paternal hearth for the wild mountains, there
to lead as a fuoruscito a wandering life." Two
years after this interview with the Marquis
de Boyl, Pepe Borm was shot dead by a
private enemy, while sleeping at the foot of a
tree in the Piana di Murtas.

It is to be hoped that such victims and
such scenes have passed away for  ever. The
revolution of eighteen hundred and forty-
eight, which gave to Piedmont a constitution,
extended equal rights and privileges to
the island of Sardinia. The recent liberal
tariff has abolished all the customs' duties
with which Sarde produce was at one time
specially burdened. Lord Nelson wrote, in
eighteen hundred and three: "Sardinia is
very little known; it was the policy of
Piedmont to keep it in the background, and it
has been the maxim to rule its inhabitants
with severity, loading its produce with such
duties as prevented their growth. I will only
mention one instance as a proof. Half a
cheese was seized because a poor man was
selling it to our boats, and it had not paid
the duty. Fowls, eggs, beef and every
article of food are most heavily taxed on
export. The country is fruitful beyond idea,
and abounds in cattle, sheep and would in
corn, wine and oil. In the hands of a liberal
government there is no telling what its
produce would amount to."

Lord Nelson's wishes have been realised;
Sardinia is in the hands of a liberal government.
Nothing is now needed to make it
the most flourishing island of its extent in
Europe but roads and harbours, the suppression
of convents of ecclesiastical drones, the
extension of education, and the example and
instruction of a few of those intelligent
Lombardy landlords and farmers whom
Austria seems intent on ruining.

      MUSIC IN POOR NEIGHBOURHOODS.

"WANTED––A person who can play the violin, and
a female to sing and dance. Liberal remuneration
will be guaranteed, provided they undertake to endeavour
to please and amuse, in a room where from one
hundred to two hundred persons assemble every
evening. A man and his wife, with two children, will not
be objected to. Apply to–––Duke of Norfolk–––."

Such is an advertisement lately inserted in
a London newspaper, although the advertiser
is located in a country town. It is one of
many which frequently make their appearance,
addressed to theatrical and musical
people of a humble grade: such for instance,
as the following, which stood in typographical
companionship with it:

"Wanted, for the Theatre Royal –––, and other
theatres, a first-class leading lady; also a good walking
lady, combined with respectable utility. A good wardrobe,
with youthful appearance, indispensable in each
department."

Whether the youthful appearance is to
belong to the wardrobe or to the leading and
walking ladies, is not clearly indicated. The
fiddler and the female singer, however, are
those to whom we would here direct a little
attention.

The advertisement points to a kind of
social want––a want of music among the
working classes. The advertiser ia a publican:
he evidently wishes to combine pints
of beer with fiddled dances: glasses of gin
with sentimental songs: the dances and
songs are not ends in view, but simply means
to an end, so far as he is concerned.  On the
part of his humble customers, however, this
is not the case; the dance and the songs are
as much enjoyed as the beer and the gin,
perhaps more. This has become a point of
more importance, especially in so densely–
inhabited a place as London. It is good for