travels the account
of a serious insurrection which broke out some years ago in that city,
in consequence of certain Jews having taken up the butchers' trade, and
having slain the meat with a knife having _three_ instead of _five
nails_ in the handle!

From the Dublin University Magazine.

THE HEIRS OF RANDOLPH ABBEY.

I. THE MEETING IN THE STORM.

There was a wild storm out at sea--a storm by night--the winds and the
waves had begun to lift up their voices just when the tumult of the
world was hushed in the silent darkness, so that on the earth all was
tranquillity, while the ocean raged in fury: it was as though that
spirit of unrest which haunts the hearts of men, having been driven out
of them by the charm of sleep, had taken refuge here among the boiling
waters, and prepared to hold a frantic revel. The mad sea was a fitting
field for such a guest, and the fierce sport they made together seemed
designed for a mocking imitation of the stormy human passions, which
convulsed the land by day.

There was a mimic war in heaven--the thunder, for artillery, and the
shock of the electric clouds, like the meeting armies when
fellow-mortals do battle for destruction; then the beautiful lightning
was as the flashing hopes that gleam in at times on the darkness of the
soul, and often blast it in the passing of their fatal brightness. The
waves leapt, and rose, and sunk to rise no more, like men wrestling for
happiness and finding a grave, and over as the tempest swept by the rain
went with it, wildly weeping, as though its big, bursting drops were the
frantic tears of an earthly despair.

In the midst of all this senseless strife, a ship went struggling
helplessly. It was a piteous thing to see it, for it was so like a human
being, straining every nerve to keep above whelming waves; strong as
fate the billows bore it up towards the very heaven, then dashed it
down, and trampled on it like a fallen enemy; but the stout old oak
stood the shock, and as yet the good planks held together, though the
danger was imminent, and not one on board expected to see the light of
another day.

The scene on deck was very striking, for human nature was there stripped
of all disguise and all self-deceit before the presence of death. Pride
and ambition, ostentation and avarice--the fallacies of the world, the
complacent lies of society, the hopes and griefs that were of earth
alone--all unrealities, in short, had passed for these