as though agreeably surprised at the nature it assumed.

We stated, that from the position, in which Mr. Woodville, and his party were placed in the court, they could not obtain a glimpse of the prisoners at the bar; therefore when the trial was ended, and they were about to be removed out of the Court, they were anxious to catch a view of them as they departed. For that purpose they fixed themselves in a convenient spot, and there, beheld the guilty and sentenced transgressors, led by the officers of justice from the place where they had been receiving the sentence due to their several crimes, back to their appointed cells. The prisoners passed within a yard of where Mr. Woodville and Mr. Newton were standing, with the Vicar and the rest behind them. Hutchinson glanced a look of conscious shame at Mr. Woodville, mingled with an expression of a mind relieved from a fearful load of miserable suspense; but while Huntley cast his eyes upon Mr. Newton,— that single view was sufficient,-he sunk amazed in the arms of the officers; and though years had wrought many changes in the appearance of that ruined man, and crime had stamped upon his features the impress of its power, Mr. Newton in an instant recognized in the

condemned and fainting criminal, as he was borne from the presence of his Judge, the husband of his sister, and the father of Frederick Danville !

CHAPTER XIX.

"Now in the Creed's most high and holy strain
Led to revere the Church's solemn tone,-

The calm clear accents of the chosen one,

Christ's mystic bride, ordained with him to reign."
Lyra Apostolica.

ON the return of Mr. Woodville and his friends to Merton Lodge, they found the exploring party had arrived at home after their morning excursion, and to their anxious enquiries, respecting the issue of the trial, furnished the interesting particulars which have been narrated in the last chapter; one and all deemed the verdict which had been given a correct verdict; and the punishments awarded to the several criminals, seasonable and judicious. The sentence passed upon Hutchinson appeared to their minds one in every way suited to his case: had he been transported as

a convict for any term of years, he might have become more and more hardened in his banishment, and returned, perhaps, although an altered, yet not a better man; but now the confinement in his own county prison, and part of that solitary, with the labour attendant upon his imprisonment, might produce those feelings which, if his life were spared, would, under this severe and well-merited discipline, render him yet an honourable, and useful member of society.

The doom of the leader of the condemned band was next considered, and the surprise of all can be better imagined than expressed, when Mr. Newton informed them that the prisoner was no other than his own brotherin-law, and the parent of the youth whose late employer now appeared before them.

Mr. Compton was much affected at this strange announcement; his thoughts again took their usual turn, and the recollection of his own brother once more visited his mind; while Clara conjured before her fancy the image of the wicked Frederick who sought so basely to destroy her Edward's reputation, an image rendered still more hideous by the consideration of that horrible connexion which the

events of the day had served to exhibit, between him and the guilty malefactor about to be exiled for ever from his native shores.

Mr. Newton lost no time in seeking for an opportunity of craving permission to visit the condemned man, ere he quitted his prison for his far-off banishment: through the instrumentality of some neighbouring magistrates, this privilege was easily procured, and not many days after the trial, the guilty and sentenced criminal beheld in the visitor before him, the brother of his much-injured and departed wife.

Leaving the miserable man and his companion in the cell of the former, while the latter is listening to the recital of his sad performances, (which we shall attempt speedily to lay before our readers,) we must beg them to accompany us for a short season, to the scenes in which Edward Woodville had moved, in the heart of our mighty city, during the transpiring of those events, which have occupied the minds of the people of Orpington.

He had spent much of his time with his valued employer, Mr. Thomas Compton, and his excellent lady, and from them received that kindness, which in some measure, made amends for the absence of his chief source of pleasure,