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306 beautiful park, well stocked with deer, and watered by a meandering stream, seen to glance in silver sheen from point to point, where the thicket opens, or the tall trunk of some bold elm throws off intruding parasites. This paradise is now fully peopled, for the dear, aged owner has determined on celebrating the double marriage of his grandsons, precisely as his own was exhibited sixty years ago, with the exception, that the brides be permitted to run away, after the ceremony, wheresover they please. Arthur, we beg his pardon, Sir Arthur James Hales, would be miserable, if he could not, as soon as possible, take Georgiana to Portsmouth, where, at this moment, rides the renovated Thetis, in all her glory. We rather think Lord Meersbrook and his bride will make a shorter trip, but in the same direction, as the object in question has great interest for them both. "It is not in mortals to command success;" but surely,if ever one "deserved it," good Mrs. Margaret Hales did, for her provisions, for feeding, not only "my brother's tenantry," but all others who chose to come, were admirable; and her memory, though she protested " she was but a child when her