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FAMOUS TBIALS. 4- Michael carney, FOR THE BRUTAL Murder OF HIS WIFE. Carney was a journeyman soap 01d:er, resident in HuH's-plaoe, Brick-lane, his xJr • wh,), in a fit of anger, murdered His f»v ^nile Carney, on August 2, 1803. of may well be a warning to those dai).[r« lrasc^e disposition to beware of the cru1,„r<^us effeots of ungoverned rage. The suff„r j which this offender so justly finjj ,j 18 considerably .aggravated when we his nwoman whom he murdered was t^^e, entitled to his support and pro- CoWa "i'l 8nt^ thai; at the time when his all v hand gave the blow she was doing P°wer to please him. The first M\-p w^° was oa' l^d at the trial was Anne ^tehl-ir. W'l° ^eP°sl?d that she was next-door On tiif>UQ., to the prisoner and the deceased, j DriarC August the witness heard the P&st nfr 001116 home from his work about half- his fBVei1 o'clock in the forenoon and-abuse deotv?. j 1,1 the most scandalous manner, the Rev«i ? then employed in washing fjg ra^ articles of clothing, which was very °n her employment. Immediately the prisoner's entrance he said to ids t>Ugv a expression, "You are d n Of these expressions his wife took liio«n lce'. but said to him, "Here are two ,1; Cauliflowers; shall I boil them for Tao?er answered her -by saving, with ,*>ul abuse, "What do you think?'' after this the witness heard "Idaa violent blows given, and the prisoner's |» daughter calling out, "You have killed and Th? witness then left her own house I ali'd n|iQ "eut into that of the prisoner's, when. 'Wie e^r deceased lying, bleeding., li-ive PWsoiler said to his wife, "I inu«t %d +K dinner at twelve o'clock," her I deceased answered that she would use •ji, endeavours to .procure it by that time, wf was after the blO^'had been given. The tvtal?1'61" ^len wen^' but, and returned pane- gv. at twelve o'clock. On this occasion he ''tit*}! Ina;^ violently, and said that he "would W l j1' -^V(?r out," and would not rest until 'Hv murdered both her and the children I -tll--VUTn'J'" the* (h^e^ed'H i.ith>r go into ■V,St' ,!T ^u,i ilirV' "jilu^ fhtirily afierwards 'ilt^o *tiwv was Vrough; cr-t, i'< a -bit.-> moro "I'fre ri 11 dead woman than anything else.. ,^0v„eased said '•he had now got her death- cjf. >I0Iu her ku iid." She. appeared to i" Y'tm. to h t ^ot .i v;(.-cut blou in her v;P(j' bisouiueh tnnt, .t was flattened on her V^'i.v The deceased also added that her hus- ia^i7 "ad struck her with a candlestick, which iiit'f6 <>n her body, and l.aa 'hurt tier so much ij, rri,d'y that she «as svre she eotild not t#idT jJliUm ^1' if-er °i ti>e (l""ivil, ia happened to be near the place \\hery d"«Jfhter In, a cm (h- 2i d ci A.-gi^t. V hen witlu I ten y.-rls of tht c'oor of th > house somebody called out to .hun, Run! The man is murdering yoilr r' On this he vent into ilu< house iv: Iiurrv. and foinul his 1 hen Ml i? 1)11 the llocr, «uid the prisoner -jv-ir- her i 'I0 attitude of striking her wbh- his kue<> )l>l- The witness pvlled the ra'ison-ir off, *"jii -*0 'Him (the prisoner), "Thou ^.hast T0 the job now, as thou ofU j i nnised t-w-v '■Hw prisoner ans" ered him by j,p 'FmS t^foit lie wovild do his 'th wit- 'also, foi- le woul nit rest .•nsfeed "til! he iiad conpltl tl his -irpose. Tht" Was said by the ^i*«(+lier in the of his .wife, but she l>ivi insensible.at the time. The witness the Ilf\ re,aoveci his daughter to so, (iistanee, Prisoner Rgain oame up- to. liw, in onjfjc to <vjt Urther mischief, but TO prevented, the ies« seizing liini. AYhen the' tleceasert a lit tie 4ie said "she had now got ler H^ i JVnv' and that the villain hax.i now exe- j'u his threatening* at the same time '"Jto11? hand on her stomach, which else was much hurt. The witness saw >a«e begged the dt^ionent to go to ttic use his endeavours to get tjie pri- "X^^Siased from cor.finemeiA. 3ieinjjf W)Rb- bv the v,r'sollefT>- witness caid that Prisoner) sent to the de<>eed to say > .'vtii'-ij s e would endeavour -to liberate him he 'f1 reward her. The witm-ss knew rhat the -1 +wTnt his wife a £ 1 inite.- Anoe firahr.m 'i 'i-i i ftr husband t.ept "a'shop in the Tu ii-n- of °f tili« prisoner's hous»e. She heard deceased l>ein»- so hurt about one or two Mr* r'< at ^hich tii\'i'c she. went to in outre alter ,-U barney. Sl;« found her -dttneif m u dw;r -ii her,self upov hei davgl.i'fr s >4 v daughter. vl-» w.« a Unit thir- ht^ O^Wre. said to her niotner. Mother, :i!l. N 's. CirahaTii. Tim deceased, .Oti lool(.- M^. •fixcl.r.jii.ed, "Oh '■ Grrtham, 'SIIVB I V*«»HA.-N! for Tt»nrteen \ears~ !,„f., borne-- mv hnslwid'a iH ^af»f;, vou ha, given me my death-low.. t, '«■«' 'tie from'my ankle np\ • yonr vould ■vr -Vf,d her to chf-ei up. ind raid nlie "••■iw,. S';on -t letter. -T(. thit thn deceaut-i u-t^ er The witnex* -<>1>- •"•'ii'h't' -tirna tliat one of lie.r eyes was '!W f ar!^ -nertectb- black, and +h: 1 the 'JPr noi- was tiarlened into her fate. «i^x 1,ev to fufreshm :nt: but itr inside wrfa Jn hurt with <sl»o tv saw -ih d'-ceased alterWarUfi ^^Shii h "'Wv of August., the day }(|#|^i«h«' flird. iilm then saw her ahput att+r hf>r death, on which fjpftf' jiar Prp ^P'ined Lt-r bod> :uk! foat.cl thai *0rmPrj, nose were in the s;>me situation m' JJSkif. to^ir wiiol" sp^oe ,froxa- her" 2liN^ "Q black »« the w it^s'sj yifcflj,. > IV bruiser wlufh sat hue re-, very mHoh sw vilen in 'a iiMf v\ta i»pp,H'ent1v th^ mark her *high." pud rnno JS smai? j X('V., A flBfrnce UT)OII i, -r -itorrvach .■ 'id vise-1

-1 LADAS ECLIPSED. I LORD ROSEBERY: "Alas! this is an ill-omen for next General Election. My good luck is forsaking me." I

A northern consulttn? engineer was ?.+ one fame ciiief on board a large steamer, hay n j u« k lnm one of thu oi jjhest ^i- offiremell îmagin;1ble, By kindness and 7 iz I i el generosity, .however, he won completely tne heai't.> of his men. £ i so happened th;*t dur- ing a voyage one of the faremen tell ill, and asked to >t-o ihe chief. Upon his entering the poor man's bunk, he was surprised at finding him dying fas* "Aas deein', sot," 'said the UlaIl, grasping the chiefs. hand; 'but aa thowt aa'd iust like to thank ve for a,-All, yer. kindness. Aa niver k-naa-d what it wgs till «<ti joined yer vhlp. Aa' -;ar.;na leave ye out; for "I nout to leave; but, sor, aa can g-ve ve a grand- tip. If ever ,ye hey to de a wtA on the tread* heel, tvek the mill nearest'the wall; it's a lump easier to wnrk. One montin^ ju#t after an old, man, with o^er})a.6§iu%. eyebrows, got up, Ls imagined he saw a'|uirrel on a t-iee near his house. So lie took down his rifle and fired at tli-e stjuiirtsl, bu-t bne squirrel pa-id no attention to cic, shot. He loaded and fired again and again, until, at the thirteenth shot, lie set dii^ i1 his ^'im mipatientiy and said to his bov, who was look ink on, "Ikij. there's something wrong about this riiie. '"Rilile's all right-, I hiv^ tis," rtsn'onded (l-.e l,oV. "but lie'>• v'1' -sVdi' t'ei"Din't1 sve him,N l>ii'T!jje-.l up about h,i'f-M ay Up fip^tieeinquired the md man, }ioeriru»"ovei-J rht3i'spectsac-.l-e», and £ <:tfcii>g uiystiK.«ph "i,'o. -I'odo^V 'r&sponuea t-b^ boj; wl tiim, fttriiing -nrl looking i"ti> ln> father's f'-c exclaimed, "I see your squirrel, y.m've 'feea tiiir.™ a flea en your < jIJ. JW T" ■*»-v

LANGALULA. Langalula- was a great chief. The people he ruled were numerous and warlike; his assegais were 10.000; his tribe had many cattle. So the missionary at his kraal was glad indeed when he feit he had touched Langalula's heart, for it meant the conver- sion of a whole heathen nation. When the king goes over, the people soon follow him. Langalula said, "I am convinced; baptise me." But the ways of white men are hrompie- lien-sible. Though the missionary had been preaching that very thing for months,, yet I when L .n> „ive in he answered »>oi.-j \1 h 1 h <11 .s 1! ♦ t1tUBli Yf U II Usi u.i i whde tdl lie1 th it 'our b'e show* toitli Mm1 which are meet for lepniliii Langahua, grumbled. He was little accus- tomed to such contradictions. But he knew it. was hard arguing with these .priestly white men. v. ho will bapti-e a starving ^Lve bit as soon .as a great- chief. So he. held Ins peace, Itiolil,h he chafed at it waited the missionary's pleasure. By and bye one day the missionary came to him- "Langalula," he said, condescend- ingly, "I have watched you closely for many, weeks now, and I think I can baptise you. "Then, rny sins .will be- -forgiven ?" asked LangaluJa, 1. "All your. sins will beforgiven," the mis- sionary answered. "But I must put awaCy my wives?" Lan- galula asked once more. "All, save one," answered the missionary. It was a. point-of doctrine. "Then, I think," Langalula said, "I \>vill wait for a. week, so as to make up my mind which one of them is dearest to me. But he said this deceitfully, knowing that all his sins were going to be forgiven, and determining in the interval to marry t :>.»ther wife, whom he would keep a.s his own lie put away the others, for there was a young girl coming on, black, but comely, the daughter of Khamsua, a neigh- bouring chief, whom he wished to purchase. And since th<# 1 t love is always for the moment the greatest the oliief cared very little whether he must put away all his wives or not if only he could ke«i Malah. She had driven out all the rest of them. He had watched the girl growing up at Khamsua's for years, and had said to himself always, "Whenever Malali is of marriageable age see if I do not buy her and marry her." In pursuance of this plan, as soon as the missionary was gone, Langalula rose up and took the fighting men of his tribe with him that there might be no dispute, and marched into the country of Malalt's father, whose name, as I said, was Khamsua-; Wfter .Khamsua heard Langalula was on his way to his knd with 5,000 assegais, not to speak of the Winchester rifles, he went out to meet him with; a great retinue. Khamsua cringed. Langalula aaid to him. I I am, come to ask- tor Malali. Th" moment Khamsua heard that he was unspettkahly terrified, and flung himself dovrn on his face and clasped Langalub's knees.1 for Khamsua was only a small chief in the up'1I\ compared with Langalula. I "0.. my king," Khamsua-said, "0, li'on of the people., I did not know so great a monarch as you had set his eyes on Malali, and before you asked. Montelo's people came and offered oxen on Montelo's behalf for MpJali, and I sold her to them because I was afraid of Mon- telo and could not have''believed so great achié as you had ever looked uponijier." Langalula. smiled at that. "Oh, as for Monteio.' L-e said, "I can easily take her from him, and then I can get the missionary to marry us." Ito gliever ajiswered like a fool. "It cannot be; The Christians are so -ian straight-laced. Montello is a Chrtatian QOW. H" was baptised a week ago, and Malkli was married to him in Christian fashion, Even if you were to kill Montelo and take her to your kraal I don't believe the mis- sionary would marrv yoU," Langalula turned to his men. "Kill him," he said, simply. And they killed him with an assegai. As soon as that wa.s finished Langalula marched on into Montelo's country. When j he arrived there. Montelo crept out to meet him and tried to parley with him. But Lan- galula would not parley with the man who had deprived him of Malali. s > j "We. yyill fieht for -it." he said, Etngt#1^^ And thev foiudit for if then and there. ?i.d the u;>dio[ (if it all was that Langalula's 'U,E:I L< T'IP.->red in the b..tile and drove Mon- 'telo's men, who had a t Win chesty, back 1 to flie/r king's krail, and then killed "iXojI- iulo him^ 'h and "arri .d his hw.H on an J j By tl;e wry same evening ijiey cci.upied' I

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'i A Pilot, tuning from the Theobald's road, having had too maelf- ikrariidy. that caused him to have Red Eyes, iiiefc. and insulted Molly Morgan- in Bushey Park. A Bed Enjiigin having \vitn(.>*e<i the scene, told him that lie was not a "Nobleman to strike a. female. He then turned round and stig. matised him as a Son of a Gun. for which he- was made a Prisoner- ¿wel, ordered by King Charles to bi taken to the Newourt. A.rnandier, who was ,guarding him, slung some Uk! Jioots at Jum and made him think there had l»en aa -Eat-t'liqucke. He told Balph Neville, who was there wirh him, tliat he served wit}). DuniaL/intiie Vanguard. His- story. noT.being believed somebody i-truck him on the hc-Ltrl witit a. hinp -6f Concrete, an-l hew8Æ; uncr-rf.moiiiousjr told to go to the Liiminous Castlebhthey. where he could- study. ExicM and eat Watercress. He asked that Lsdy- Ilosehtry might be appealed to M-if h a view -to getting, a rt prit v, for iiim, but she replied Ife ooght-%> have a Golden Drop. Seeing there was ho hope foi" him, he laid I dowato sleep. That r.ighi he j:nd -a strange dieam. He thought that, lie dead, and his wife, Helen Ware, had drawn his Insu- rance money. I: Vain people sometimes do exti'aordif.ry flmigs to obtain the nov.ic-e without wnieft life is a desert. One Sunday, .Baudelaire, the epoentric French poet, painted his hair green, and in that sta.te went to see Maxime du Camp. The ■|atter, knowing the poet's insane vanity, pretended.'not to notice his strange condition. JJaudi-laire thereupon ■•tood and looked at himself in front of a mirt or, stroked his' hair liis' hand, and did-his best to attract jhruanlp's .attention/ At last, unable any longer to' control him- self, he said: "Do you see nothing cxlia- ordinary in my. appearance?" "No." 'But my hair is dyed'greeen, and that is unusual." |"Everybody'^ h'dr is more, or less ^reen," Oa-ipj-relied coolly: "now, if your hair was sky blue. I might. p..rh:ip<, he as- tonished. Bi.it om may .cieen li under many « hat-in Paris." jBa-n-ielalre. utterly bewildered, by this umi-'ual. tre-atme;'t, l^ok his depsittire very soon j.frelva-rcis. arc. meetiag a friend in the cbuiirard, said_HI hiflo.: "I r^ommand you not to goandsseDu Camp to-day; he is in a vile temper

Mary Anne Carney, was examined relative to I the ideas she entertained of an oath and the consequence that would result from telling a falsehood. The answer which she returned was, that if she told a, falsehood while on oath, she should be put on the pillory in this world and go to the devil in the next. She heard her mother ask her father if she should dress some cauliflower for dinner. Her father swore ¡ terribly; then got up, and knocked her down with a severe blow on the nose. The witness said that she then went to fetch a constable, and when' she came back her mother was lying upon the floor. Her father had then- I hold of an iron pot, which was on the fire, with one hand and with the other held her mother bv the throat. He held her so fast by the throat that he threw her into convu wons. The wduess". '■istei 'i h "Cfiamii t, ut. uv' 'Hui Li th>? i^eighboar- and ilieii her gr.mdtAT.Hei- iu ind U nk h' r f;dItea,and rai-^ti lief j iv'other, who fe'l into ISSd)^. Sho heard :• her-fattier -«eai j^errlMy, and threaten to have her mother's heaSri.-blood. The -ou^oncr wa allowed io que-tioi hs diu,htei, ^Juch li» did, but it prodded nothnig ni In u fo else persisted m n'ut sh» hid suited llavna (Carney, the paisom r s eld(si dughti"^ said sthe was at home vKn hei f.dluA returned f1 o-1 1 work at eleven o'clock on the 2nd of Aaaubt. He brought. With him part of a leg of mutton, which he ga-ie to her i otf ^r, together with 111 I a guinea. Tltr no.hpi as -.tending bv he side of the table when her father knocked her don n v ifh x violent olo i rpon+li< nose so as to break t After the, fitness had raised her up her fa ther knocked her down a spcond The -ndm- ^en4 out, Immec diatelv for a constable, and whe,M ( .me bai =ihe snv hot gi a df>th< oho W?st fdong with her. At this time the witnes& was in such confusion that gbp. could not. dis- cover what he did to. her mother afterwards. Oj> Deiuc interrogated by her father this witness persisted TO sa^ mg that she saw him knock her mother down twice. Several medical gentlemen were examined, and their testimonies all tended to convince the jury that t.he defeased owed her i death to the violent blows .and ki"ks she had j received from the prisoner. The prisoner, on being called for his defence, j c-ne in a, written petition, which., was read aloud to the jury, as follows: — I" To the ll.iwht. Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Hov,o"rable .Judges of the S.ssir ns "The petition of -Muhn'l (r e>, the p isoner I at the Bar, "Most humbly Shewelh :—Th 31 your peti- tioner, standing indicted for the wilfdl nurder of his wife, Mid.being.deprived of the nua.18 of feeing counsel by the prosecutor (petitioner's fathbr-in-law) having purloined and embezzled Vii<> ]>rOi»<>r! ,,n'e his confineiuent. h«s thus v eptuied lo hidvint his ca^e fo' loi.r lo id dims' ♦-oiis-ideraiKm, with a full hone of justice being <1 me lnm. That petitionti is a journeyman Vi*p-maker, ant! upon hr-s return home from emj^loyment in the country, in' August last, to pay liis. rent, a. triliing dispute had arisen I between him and his wife respeetlllg her not his ready in dt'e liin. to meet his master by appointment, which had brought ml some blows on both sides; nud the affray hav- ing come to the prosecutor's knowledge, Jw, | with three or four men, canu> to i>s;litioner"s hourie an.' aenumoeu euuance, wiiiell being planted,' ]Mtitio.>er Mas strut k i ">\vit, his ("lethes rent. :.nd he was carrif!d to DI'i,on for (;lcth('s jertt. Mtdhe v.'ns carried to prison for an assault oil, his wife,, where, after reiuanmig L ;;ome time, thf prosecutor aiul .petitioner's ( oaugh.tei ivme t-> him and reused the warrant to be discharged, on giving them. seven shil- lings wliereupoft vise petitioner went to his family and reconciled all diiteiences. after uiv- mg th»-m juit' jitni ii m- ,is l^nuo". Thac soon after petitioner .set r-fV for los eluploj inent m the cQuutry in friendship with nhem. That, sooil after he arrived twrtt, the excise canned :1 seizure to be made "ou his, master's etf^eff.. and. Ws tlc> olfei'te T ('ie 1 to the petitioner, he a^indoncd t^1" ]• t -e- and leined to a pubiic-hou~e in the i" h'.cu rh(»od., and was apprehended «oca .tie and humght to the public-oJfi^e, Vorsii'p ^trt i f, ."o; tlx offe> ce with whi«-h h<- is noil, clia1. i. T1- u hody of ^witnesses appeared aar«in«t him. VJ•■!•?• Mayers deposed that peiitioni r k»ocwud his svife dom she heard the f«U. nid not aep 1 lie blow. 91 e s»a i fiat iv 11(-(.'(■«. m or ne. fV-de- t ed L-odv. < I- '• second examuiaiion, S3ie said -he det -ol' he- xhe Jjad fallen t f'? o'. a ii(-i--e ofllv. "j'he tj. t r in 'erl sa\v the 'abuse, lint said, sh a ..on imptimi for .twenty a-e. ant, \,h*Q attended .the no blood, but spit p|. 011: h iiothdng ju»d-of tlK Lsrepi".lful,_of jietn ioafer by j^V {low. pieiiidhed .vitnesses wiUk '1 who opened the to have caused! deHtl cinite d^a.^ed and ulo-»ri< to liave been 'ot- long stai;dii%. deposed tfi?»,.iSD vio- lfiiK>< c ined'-ite deafK. it] 'Uijglit, manner. ha$t«| *her df.aVl.' dt',rivr, ocujis^a:-} bv dis,.t" u-ir h o-t, «,? 1- IrHi 00 4; st' .11'" .'X \:iTft n tf.» -v KV -Ti •* >■ .i. to your lordships that the prosecutor ¡.;aV8 out that petitioner absconded from justice in the country, and abused his wife after the warrant had been discharged. Petitioner filod no opportunitiy to abuse her. and his elopement was from a fear of being taken by the excise; and he heard nothing of his wife's death till hi: was apprehended. That he was married to his wife fourteen years, by whom he nad several children, five of whom are now living, • under the age of twelve years, whose depen- dence for support and maintenance rests on your petitioner, who always paid due attention to his family, and whose utter destruction he could not premeditate. The unhappy affair originated in a mere trifle, without any wicked intent- whatever may be given in evidence, Vh.i t h.wips ^lam-t their '? ii h v. b'e ap" ii'ant. /*11A>.L C \U FN William Bi utlev, eyor of exene, a witness called in behalf of me prisoner, stated that he had known the prisoner and the deceased eversillce their marriage, and had never heard him threaten hu; wife-, nor her complain of lll-usaare received from her hus- butd Oi a -I ) • vamm-.ti HI, hov. ever it turimdont that, this witness had .only seen the prisoner and the deceased about fourteen times during the whole space, of the fourteen vears The prisoner's father-in-law deposed that the deceased had only been subject to an as+hmitic complaint, whûhshe had occasionally cau'dit cold. Baron Hotham then addressed the vtrv, and stated to thin the necessity of their being convinced that the prisoner had (x.rrssed a ciegree of malice against his wife eie tli" ccuild: find -him. guilty of wilful mur- der. The brutal manner in which this man -j, vl used the deceased was, in his opinion, in- criif"dal)le from the clear and distinct account Unch fcs&J>een criven by all the witnesses, who h»d > »T'Pn fa ■ o particular df their history in this affair He tii>summed up the whole of the ev'dence in the »■ st impartial manner, •ard ni the recapitulation o1 •• • ved that such coamo- arid hardened expiessiov: as it had been stated that the prisoner made use "f were not to be considered when used among vh; Innei orjer of people as evidence of the pri- soner's having committed the crime with which he was charged: neither should his conduct, however brutal and inhuman it was, be thought sufficient, to convict him if, they did not think the blows were such as occasioned her death. There was some difference in the opinion of the profession: but that must always be the case when' t-hev drew conclusions upon llie state of the interior parts of the body. which they were included from •seeinsr until the sprino-s of life had ceased to perform their firnH-ions. The mry retired about ten minutes, and, "lvm they returned, o-ave in their verdict— "Guilty." The Rec.)"der immedia.tely passed the sentence of the law upon hum in a par- ticularTv solemn manner. Txiinfen?.. out the enormity of the crime, of murder m g,,» • d. l.ut narti-Uilarlv when. that murder WJ18 aggra- vated by sivdi r'MK»T :>cA* of barlmrit.y as he had been guilty of agoinpt.' a dpfencf-le^a woman and when the wornm was! one whom he was bound to protect by Ids.si1 TD I ornse at. the a,'tar, and bv everv law both human and Divine. At tin's time the pn«ivier ap- oci, ^d to be a gooo,q>.lpa1 T wiJh 1 un- foTfunate i osition H" s'i<r«rr. 1 Ii Monday nation, ¡ ToMo^mg hejitemoer 19. witl, penHent re-1"- f IIN.")ijifiBiiniiiiiinnimfii'I'imTr ~r'INMI P~I IIII'II'II'IMTMAW

the kraal that had once been Montelo's, and Lagalula's men brought out Malali to their own leader. Langalula looked hard at her. She was a glossy black girl, very smooth skinned and lithe and clean of limb. The great oliief stared lonf at her. Malali hung her head, and dropped her arms before j]L" "Why did you go with Montelo ?" lie asked at last, "when Langalula would have taken you." The giil trembled with fear. It wa.s no fault of hers. How could she help it ? A woman there is no free agent. "My father sold me," she answered, whimpering. lyion- telo paid him a great many oxen. I had no choice but to go. 0, king. 0, mighty lion, I did not know you wanted me." With that she hung herself at his feet in terror and held his knees, imploring him. "Take her to the hut that was once Mon- telo's," said the chief, smiling. "I will fol- low her there." They seized her arms and dragged her to the hut, crying and shrieking as she went. They dragged her roughly. Langalula re- mained behind superintending the slaughter of Montelo's warriors. As soon as he waa tired lie returned to the hut that had once been Montelo's, for he wished to see Matait —whether she was really as beautiful as he believed, even though the missionary would never marry him to her Malali, when she saw him, thought all was well, a,nd that Langalula loved her, so she left off crying and tried every art a woman knows to please and charm him. But Langalula. was a very great king, and his anger was aroused. A king's anger it terrible. He smiled to himself to see with what, simple tricks the woman thought &h« could appease, a mighty warrior. The morning came, and he cried to him- self with annoyance and vexatiolT/rhat Mon- telo and Khamsua, and the missionary as ne well, should have done him between them out of so beautiful a woman. If the mis- sionary had been a black man, Langalula would have compelled him to baptise him outright, and then to marrv him properly to Malali with book and ring in the Christian Ms1- 11 feat. bjt extisiience it's no use threateninc these white men with tor- tures, for threaten how you Uiay they ■ "t nor -a ;ihi -v,nd troops from Cape Towri. and. 'tis ill fighting with the men of the gover- nor. So he rose in a white h.eat of passion. "1\{;claJi," said he, approaching her with an ugly smile. ,"1 Jikeyou better than any woman I ever yet s<tw. You please me m- evenrth, Íllg but you wept off with Montelo, n 1 tne missionary will not -marry me to you now I have speared him..1 have also spea,red your f-Hier,, Khamsua,. because he" sojd you for oxen to Mbntelo. I want re;-i queen, who sV»ll -be married to me" white fashion. I am becoming a Christian now, and can only _}iave one wife, but it must not be y>u. Ixie^eryou were sold to Montelo. whom I ha.ve *slain in battle, and they will not marry us. So I with keep my own first wife, the earliest married, though she is old and lean, and discard the other ones. Come out of the hut. Malali, and stand in front of my warriors, Malali was afrahl at that and would .ha.n skulked in the corner if si dared, but sh» da,red not, because she was frightened, of Langalula. So out she came as he told her, trembling in all. her limbs and crouching with terror. Her knees hardly bore her. Langalula turned to his men. He looked at her with regret. She wassl-eek a.nd beau- tiful. "Pin her through the body to the ground 4-» with an assegai," he said, her, "and leave her to die in t1».-<|wj^ After that. Langalula march* Ifoefc? grimly with his men to his country.. A.-j^0*Ki as lie reached his kraal he went to see the mis- sionary. He was very submissire. "I repent all my "I he, come to be baptised. Te&clier, I will oat- awny aHmy wives save one,"—Exchange.