An Amusing Correspondence.

Joan and Liz , Joan and Miss Barholme ; in all the Second Act , except the business of Joan with Liz , and Joan AA'ith Dan LoAvrie ; ancl the Avhole of Acts Four , Five , and Six , except the Explosion in Mine , and Five Lines of Dialogue connected Avith it ; also in aE the Stage Pictures ; and in the Mechanical Effects of Act FiA'e—the Rending-piece ancl the Breaking-piece , both of AA'hich are his Sole Property . The Right thus clearly defined AA'EI be supported promptly by Injunctionif necessary , and this advertisement

, made part of the case . " All ordinary Advertisements having failed to keep Thieves and Yagabonds from Pirating 'IT IS ' NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND , ' Mr . READE now Advertises for Thief-takers , and AVEI give a handsome ReAvard to any Person Avho- AVEI give him timely notice-of Piracy , and furnish him means of bringing it home to the dehberate criminals Avho commit it in the teeth of this Notice . "

Mildred: An Autumn Romance.

MILDRED : AN AUTUMN ROMANCE .

BY BEO . EMEA HOLMES , Author of " Tales , Poems , ancl Masonic Papers ; " "Amabel Vaughan ; " " Notes on the United Order of the Temple ancl Hospital , " etc ., etc .

CHAPTER YIL A 3 IISPLACED CHAPTER , TN order that the reader should thoroughly comprehend Marmaduke ' s story , it is - *• necessary that Ave should go back in our history some tAvo years or more , Avhen our hero , if Ave may call him so , received the letter from his friend at Colchester Avhich has

been published in Chapter TV of this A'eracious history . It has been hinted that Marmaduke Avas someAvhat weak ancl vacillating : he AA'as only just twenty-one at that time , and the result Avas not difficult to understand ancl predicate Avith certainty . He Avent home to St , Benet ' s , fearing he should have to marry Miss Jai'A'is , and he came back prepared after his intendeAV AA'ith the Colonel ( Avho believed Mr . Jarvis ' s story , and Avas prejudiced against young MatheAv as a foohsh young felloAv Avho he Avas afraid Avas a blackguard to boot ) to marry her rather than run the risk of an action for a crime , Avhich in justice to him it is only fair to say he woidd have scorned to commit , but AA'hich the father threatened and circumstances favoured .

He could not but feel that fortune Avas against him , that he Avas dealing Avith people AV'ho kneAV the trickery of the law , and AA'ho would not scruple to use it against him to serve their own ends , and it AA'as not difficult to foresee the ultimate possible necessity , innocent though he knew himself to be , of being compeEed to leave the army in disgrace unless he adopted the only course which seemed open to hhn . ¦ On the 10 th July , 186— , accordingly , at the Church of St . Peter ' s , Marmaduke

MatheAv was married to Georgiana Jan'is , Mervyn Kiiollys being sole groomsman , and Emma Purvis , Miss Jarvis ' s maid , the sole rejiresentative on her side to the contract . Marmaduke had stood out for absolute privacy , and obtained in this case what he required . He seemed at the last desperate , and Georgie thought it better to give ws . ynow , her turn AVOUM soon come . But even she was scarcely prepared- for Avhat foEowed , nor Avas his friend . Mervyn Knollys . The ceremony AA'as over , the old pew-opener of the