Another shout from the men below demanded if I had got the prisoner. "Ay, ay," I mechanically replied, and they immediately hastened to join us. "Which way--which way is he gone?" I asked as the seamen approached. She instinctively caught my meaning: "By the shore to Weston," she hurriedly answered; "he will find a boat there." The men now came up: "The chase has led us astray," I said: "look there." "His mother, by jingo!" cried Johnson. "They must have changed clothes!" "Yes: the boy is off--to--to Hamble, I have no doubt. You both follow in that direction: I'll pursue by the Weston and Itchen road." The men started off to obey this order, and as they did so, I heard her broken murmur of "Bless you, Robert--bless you!" I turned away, faint, reeling with excitement, muttered a hasty farewell, and with disordered steps and flaming pulse hurried homeward. The mother I never saw again: the son at whose escape from justice I thus weakly, it may be criminally, connived, I met a few years ago in London. He is the captain of a first-class ship in the Australian trade, and a smarter sailor I think I never beheld. His mother is still alive, and lives with her daughter-in-law at Chelsea. AMERICAN NOTABILITIES.[11] PROFESSOR AGASSIZ. This very distinguished man--one of the great contributors to the world's stores of science and knowledge--is an extremely agreeable member of society, and a very popular one. His manners are particularly frank, pleasing, cordial, and simple; and though deeply absorbed, and intensely interested in his laborious scientific researches, and a most thorough enthusiast in his study of natural philosophy, yet he rattled merrily away on many of the various light topics of the day with the utmost gayety, good-humor, and spirit. [11] From Travels in the United States, etc. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley. Just published by Harper and Brothers. He has succeeded, after great trouble and persevering indefatigable care, in preserving alive some coral insects, the first that have ever been so preserved, and he kindly promised me an introduction to these distinguished architects. We accordingly went, accompanied by Mr. Everett, the following day. M. Agassiz was up-stairs very much occupied by some scientific investigation of importance, and he could not come down, but he allowed us to enter the all but hallowed precincts devoted to the much-cherished coral insects.