* "PROMOTION.-Rifleman P.R. Shand to be Sergeant Cock.

After Mr. B. had finished his remarks, Mr. S. Shands, member of assembly, and a wealthy proprietor, observed that he entertained precisely the same views with those just expressed; but he thought that the honorable gentleman had been unwise in uttering them in so public a manner; "for," said he, "should these sentiments reach the ear of parliament, as coming from us, it might induce them to withhold the compensation.

Shands, Mr. S. Shiel, Mr. Shrewsbury, Rev. Mr. Sickness, pretended.

After Mr. B. had finished his remarks, Mr. S. Shands, member of assembly, and a wealthy proprietor, observed that he entertained precisely the same views with those just expressed; but he thought that the honorable gentleman had been unwise in uttering them in so public a manner; "for," said he, "should these sentiments reach the ear of parliament, as coming from us, it might induce them to withhold the compensation.

Shands, Mr. S. Shiel, Mr. Shrewsbury, Rev. Mr. Sickness, pretended.

The Shands V.

All the Shands L. Again at Sir John's Chambers LI.

Chapter IV The Shands John Caldigate had promised to go direct from Folking to the house of his friend Richard Shand, or rather, to the house in which lived Richard Shand's father and family.

Now, though he could not pay his debts,and intended, indeed, to run away from them,he was going to try his fortune with a certain small capital which his father had agreed to give him as his share of what there might be of the good things of the world among the Shands generally.

There had been small legacies from other Shands, and trifles of portion had come to them from the Potters, of whom Mrs. Shand had been one,Shand and Potter having been wholesale druggists in Smithfield.

The young Shands had generally lived a pleasant life; had gone to school,the eldest son, as we have seen, to the university also,and had had governesses, and ponies to ride, and had been great at dancing, and had shot arrows, and played Badminton, and been subject to but little domestic discipline.

It was known of the Shands that they always made the best of everything.

It might have been pleasant enough,this little interval before his voyage,as the Shands, though rough and coarse, were kind to him and good-humoured, had it not been that a great trouble befell him through over conscientiousness as to a certain matter.

But a great deal of confusion was occasioned; and aunt Polly among the Shands was regarded as a very wonderful woman indeed.

But here among the Shands, with whom sons and daughters were plentiful, and with whom the feelings were of a useful kind, and likely to wear well, rather than of a romantic nature, the bustle, the purchasings, the arrangements, and the packings generally had in them a pleasantness of activity with no disagreeable accompaniments.

'With a fixed determination to make a fortune, and come back, and be facile princeps among all the Shands.

The young man, after leaving Cambridgeshire, had remained some weeks at the Shands' house before he had started;and from thence he had not written.

On his arrival at Pollington, all the Shands welcomed him as though he had been the successful son or successful brother who had gone out from among them; and spoke of 'Poor Dick' as being the unsuccessful son or unsuccessful brother,as indeed he was.

The Shands were demonstrative, always;and never hypocritical.

He was quite willing to give £500 for Dick; but after that he thought that he would have had almost enough of the Shands.

He had considered it all very deeply, and had felt that as two days was the least fraction of time which he could with propriety devote to the Shands, so must he give at least a week to Babington.

Chapter XLIX All the Shands There had been something almost approaching to exultation at Babington when the tidings of Caldigate's alleged Australian wife were first heard there.

The return of Dick himself was to the Shands an affair so much more momentous than the release of John Caldigate from prison, that for some hours or so the latter subject was allowed to pass out of sight.

SEE Shand, Samuel James.

Our brig now sailed for Hokianga to take in a cargo of planks; and my friend, Mr. Shand, being tired of wandering, accompanied her; but I, being still anxious to procure more sketches of this interesting country, determined to remain as long as possible, and to take one more walk across the island, and join the brig by the time she was loaded.