Under The Garland.

ment of Chepe rang Avith the measured tread of the footfall of the trained bands marching to the relief of Gloucester . Lord Macaulay has told us how " the red glare on Skiddaw Boused the burghers of Carlisle . " Wreath ' s , depend upon it , Avas doing a thriving business , when its customers , emerging in the darkness

, could see the ruddy effulgence of the watchfires . in the sky from the " Mount" in Whitechapel eastward , and from the beacon light blazing in merry Islington to the north * To Wreath ' s came pale-faced neAvstellers to narrate in excited tones to excitable listeners hoAv Goring ' s dragoons Avere scouring the high roads and streets from Brentford to Kensington . Wreath ' s found that soriwiiig made men thirsty , and Avomen too—thoughthe pretty clears couldn't publicly adopt the bibulous solace—Avhen

the bright eyes of fair malignants and sweet precisians Avere alike dimmed with tears for the loA'ed ones lying stark on NeAvbury plain and the black moor at Long Marston ; nor do I apprehend that Wreath ' s business fell off—but rather contrariAvise—while John Lilburne was denouncing His Highness the Lord Protector , and , Avhen that mi ghty parvenu Avas riding solemnly northward to his mansion on the rise at the east side of the hill associated with the name of one of the most famous of Cockayne ' s heroes

, surrounded by his steel-clad life-guards , the corps that formed the model for the establishment , the stahvart members of Avhich , to this day , solace the leisure hours of the nursery maids in the N . W . district of the metropolis " , and afford a never-failing source of admiration to the loungers around the Horse Guards' portal . I fancy that , even after the " great and glorious Restoration , " some after-heave of domestic turmoil might occasionally have inspired civic cravings for a " modest quencher . " Thus

Wreath ' s in all probability went on merrily serving " full cups" Avhen the good old city was agitated by Venner and his Fifth Monarch y Men , rioting in Coleman Street hard by , with Mr . Justice This and Mr . Headborough That making domiciliary visits to unlicensed conventicles in adjacent but suburban Goodman's Fields , t Avithin a few months of the first appearance of old Rowley ' s SAvarthy countenance grinning from under his black perriAvig at his huzzaing lieges from the easements of the Tilt-yard Gallery at Whitehall .

As it may Avell have been that over Wreath ' s mahogany bar during the gloomy interregnum—for , while entertaining people of all shades of politics , Wreath's , as we have already pointed out , Avas pre-eminently a loyal " pub "—swashbuckler city Cavaliers would _ quaff confusion to old Noll from the pottle-pot , and drink to " the time Avhen the King should enjoy his own again : " while at Gresham ' s Bourse hard by the ne-i'svendors Avere selling—as they vend their AA'ares on the same spot to-day—the fiery

pamphlet of the unscrupulous royalist Colonel Titus—or Avas the author , after all , Colonel Sexby ?— " Killing no murder , " the brSehure that put his Highness aforesaid into such a " funk "—pardon the archaism for the sake of the expressiveness—as history records . Do you not remember that the grim old republican AA ^ arrior Avho bade Lely paint his portrait , " Avarts and all , " never recovered the effect produced b y that popular publication ? That thereafter he Avould never return by the same route by Avhich he

Avent any whither ? That he wore a shirt of chain mail under his clothing , as the late poor Badinguet Avas said ' to have done after the Pianori affair ? And that his pockets provided a perfect magazine of fire-arms ? If " uneasy lies the head that wears a crown , " the occiput of a ruler covered by a felt hat , that has , for precaution ' s sake , to be lined with a steel skidl cap , is scarcely less uncomfortably thatched . I have no doubt that , although Wreath had , in deference to ostensible public opinion , to put his shutters up , " Avhen that Avild Avind made Avork Wherein the gloomy brewer ' s soul Avent by me like a stork , "