tenant's hand for the defence of the town, as long as it was possible; and for the surrender, when it should be decided by a council of the chief officers that it could hold out no longer.

On his arrival before the town, Cromwell sent the following summons to the Governor :

(1.) "For the Commander-in-Chief in Ross: These

"Before Ross, 17th October, 1649.

"SIR,-Since my coming into Ireland, I have this witness for myself, that I have endeavoured to avoid effusion of blood; having been before no place to which such terms have not been first sent as might have turned to the good and preservation of those to whom they were offered; this being my principle, that the people and places where I come may not suffer, except through their own wilfulness.

"To the end I may observe the like course with this place and the people therein, I do hereby summon you to deliver the town of Ross into my hands, to the use of the Parliament of England. Expecting your speedy answer, I rest your servant,

"OLIVER CROMWELL."

The trumpeter who carried the summons was not allowed to enter the town; he was received at the gates, and told that an answer would be given in due time. The batteries of the besieging army were therefore got ready, and preparations made for storming the outworks. Early on the morning of Friday, the 19th, the large guns began to play. Soon after the Governor sent the following answer to the summons:

(2.) "For General Cromwell, or, in his absence, for the Commanderin-Chief of the Army now encamped before Ross.

"SIR,-I received a summons from you, the first day you appeared before this place, which should have been answered ere now had not other occasions interrupted me. And although I am now in far better condition to defend this place than I was at that time, yet I am, upon the considerations offered in your summons, content to entertain a treaty, and to receive from you those conditions that may be safe and honourable for me to accept. If you listen to them, I desire that pledges on both sides may be sent for performance of such articles as shall be agreed upon; and that all acts of hostility may cease on both sides, and each party keep within their distance. To this your immediate reply is expected by, sir, your servant,

"LUCAS TAAFFE."

(3.) "For the Governor of Ross: These

"Before Ross, 19th October, 1649. "SIR,-If you like to march away with those under your command, with their arms, bag and baggage, and with drums and colours, and shall deliver up the town to me, I shall give caution to perform those conditions, expecting the

like from you. As for the inhabitants, they shall be permitted to live peaceably, free from the injury and violence of the soldiers.

"If you like hereof, you can tell how to let me know your mind, notwithstanding my refusal of a cessation. By those you will see the reality of my intentions to save blood, and to preserve the place from ruin. I rest your ser

vant,

"OLIVER CROMWELL."

The batteries still continued to play, and a breach was soon made in the wall. The men were drawn out in line, ready to advance for the storm, Colonel Ingoldsby being chosen by lot to lead them. Taaffe seeing how matters stood, sent the following reply:

(4.) "For General Cromwell: These

"Ross, 19th October, 1649. "SIR,-There wants but little of what I would propose; which is, that such townsmen as have a desire to depart, may have liberty within a convenient time to carry away themselves and their goods; and liberty of conscience to such as shall stay; and that I may carry away such artillery and ammunition as I have in my command. If you be inclined to this, I will send, upon your honour as a safe-conduct, an officer to conclude with you. To which your immediate answer is expected by, sir, your servant,

"LUCAS TAAFFE."

On the 8th December, 1641, both Houses of Parliament in England passed a joint declaration, in answer to the demand of the Irish for the free exercise of their religion, that they would never give their assent to any toleration of the Popish religion in Ireland, or in any other part of his Majesty's dominions. Another law was made in 1644, that no quarter should be given to any Irishman, or to any Papist born in Ireland. Pym boasted that they would not leave a priest in Ireland. We shall now understand better the meaning of the following letter.

(5.) "For the Governor of Ross: These

"Before Ross, 19th October, 1649. "SIR,-What I formerly offered I shall make good. As for your carrying away any artillery or ammunition that you did not bring with you, or that has not come to you since you had the command of that place; I must deny you that, expecting you to leave it as you found it.

"As for that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience. But if by liberty of conscience you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to use plain dealing and to let you know, where the Parliament of England have power, that will not be allowed of. As for such of the townsmen as desire to depart and carry away themselves and goods, as you express, I engage they shall have three months' time to do so; and in the meantime they shall be protected from violence in their persons and goods, as others under the obedience of Parliament.

"If you accept of this offer, I engage my honour for a punctual performance hereof. I rest your servant, "OLIVER CROMWELL."

* "Cromwellian Settlement," p. 311.

(6.)" For General Cromwell: These

"October 19th, 1649.

"SIR-I am content to yield up this place upon the terms offered in your last and first letters. And if you please to send your safe-conduct to such as I shall appoint to perfect these conditions, I shall on receipt thereof send them to you. In the interval, to cease all acts of hostility, and that all parties keep their own ground, until matters receive a full end.. And I remain, sir, your servant,

"LUCAS TAAFFE."

(7.) "For the Governor of Ross: These

"October 19th, 1649

"SIR,-You have my hand and honour engaged to perform what I offered in my first and last letters; which I shall inviolably observe. I expect you to send me immediately four persons of such quality as may be hostages for your performance; for whom you have this safe-conduct enclosed, into which you may insert their names. Without which I shall not cease acts of hostility. If anything happen by your delay, to your prejudice, it will not be my fault. Those you send may see the conditions perfected. Whilst I forbear acts of hostility, I expect you forbear all actings within. I rest your servant,

"OLIVER CROMWELL."

"This," says an old London newspaper, "was the last message between them. The governor sending out his four hostages to compose and perfect the agreement, our batteries ceased; and our intentions to storm the town were disappointed. Thus within three days we had possession of this place without the effusion of blood; a very considerable place, and very good quarters for the refreshment of our soldiers. The enemy marched over to the other side of the river, and did not come out at that side of the town where we had encamped." Some six hundred English soldiers that were in the town entered the service of the Parliament.

"The surrender of this garrison," writes Cromwell to Lenthall, was a seasonable mercy, as giving opportunity towards Munster; and is for the present a very good refreshment for our men. We are able to say nothing as to all this, but that the Lord is still pleased to own a company of poor worthless creatures; for which we desire His name to be magnified, and that_the_hearts of all concerned may be provoked to walk worthy of such continued favours."

D. M.

FAME.

I.

TH

HE Orator spoke, and the crowd was hush'd, Men held their breath as the quick words rush'd; Stern eyes grew tearful, cold hearts grew hot; Though the hours sped by they heeded them not; And they swore not their fault if they liv'd not to see The tyrant dead and their country free.

The Orator ceases-the curtain falls,

The echoes die through the tenantless walls-
They fought in vain, for the orator's word
Stay'd not the sweep of the tyrant's sword,
And the riveted chain clank'd on as before,

And the orator's words are remembered no more.
Scanty his guerdon, scanty his fame,
He lives in story, only a name.

II.

The Poet sang, and the earth grew still,

And he moulded men's hearts at his own sweet will; And they ask'd his name that it might be enroll'd With the names of earth's greatest in letters of goldAnd his pale cheek flush'd and his heart beat high, And he said "Nor my name nor my song shall die."

He paus'd, and earth's voices, silent so long,
Grew sevenfold louder, and drown'd his song.
As the tide of time thro' the centuries roll'd
The rust ate in thro' the letters of gold;
And newer songs seem'd sweeter to men,
And the Poet's songs are not heard again,
Save by a few, with less heart than head,
Who grope for his thoughts in a tongue that is dead.
Scanty his guerdon, scanty his fame,

He left in story scarce aught but a name.

III.

The Thinker sat pale in his lonely cell,

And mus'd on the Thought he had shap'd so well;
And his keen eye look'd through the coming years,
And he saw thro' the haze of his happy tears
His shapely thought thro' the world expand

Till its impress was stamp'd on the sea and the land;
And he thought to himself, 'mid his vision of fame,-
'Surely the world will remember my name."

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And the Thinker died, and his Thought went forth
To the east and the west, to the south and the north;
But talent such changes on genius rang

That the world forgot from whose brain it sprang ;
And men deem'd that the fruit of the thought of the sage
Was the slow grown produce of many an age.

Scanty his guerdon, scanty his fame,

He left in story not even a name!

J. F.

AN OLD CALUMNY REFUTED.

"And not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that good may come."-St. Paul, Rom. i. 8.

IT

T is no disgrace to the Jesuit Order that it is sometimes attacked with that same sort of calumnies against which the Apostle here defends himself. Like causes produce like effects, and the friends, not less than the foes, of Christianity, too closely resemble in this nineteenth century their respective ancestors of the first, to carry on their warfare now-a-days in a very different fashion or with weapons altogether unlike to those used in the earliest age of the Church.

The reflection is forced upon us by the long article, headed "Jesuit Teaching," which, following another of the same kind, appears in the January issue of the (London) Quarterly Review. The writer is said to be an M. P. for an English midland county, who has acquired, during a residence of some years in the German towns of Frankfort and Munich, just as much knowledge of the history of the Jesuit Order, their rules and their moral teaching, as enables him to misquote their annals, misunderstand their rules, and caricature their doctrine. Following the lead of Dr. Huber of Munich, the member for the English shire put off his boots and travelling coat and set himself to indite a lengthy