Flour 0 0 5½ Milk 0 1 9 Bread 0 2 2 Two pounds of fat for rendering 0 0 4 One and a half pounds of butter 0 2 0 One pound of castor sugar 0 0 3 One pound of loaf sugar 0 0 1½ One and a half pounds of demerara 0 0 2½ ============= £1 8 0½ ============= (_To be continued._) “OUR HERO.” A TALE OF THE FRANCO-ENGLISH WAR NINETY YEARS AGO. BY AGNES GIBERNE, Author of “Sun, Moon and Stars,” “The Girl at the Dower House,” etc. CHAPTER XXVII. MORE ABOUT SIR JOHN MOORE. Another backward glance is needful here to bring the story of Sir John Moore up to the present date of my tale. In the year 1806 about twelve thousand British troops, under the command of Sir John Stuart, had in hand the task of saving Sicily from the grip of Napoleon; but the tortuous policy of their Sicilian majesties, the lack of honesty and of public spirit, and the underhand cabals and oppositions there, hindered far more from being done than was done. A short time after the English victory at Maida, in which and in the retreat following the French lost in killed and wounded over five thousand, while the English lost only about two hundred and fifty, Sir John Stuart was recalled, and old General Fox, brother of Mr. Charles Fox, then Prime Minister of England, was sent out. _Why_ the brave Stuart should have been thus set aside does not appear, except that, as quaintly remarked by one of Moore’s brothers, “it was a strong proof of fraternal affection” on the part of Mr. Fox. Sir John Moore, who superseded Stuart, was appointed second in command under General Fox. And at this date occurred his one love affair. Some mistaken reports on this subject have gained currency. Even lately the assertion has been freshly made that Moore, when he died, was engaged to Lady Hester Stanhope, niece of Mr. Pitt. This was not the case. Lady Hester was his friend; the most intimate woman-friend—though by no means the only one—that he had outside his own home circle; but though he both admired and loved her, it was as a friend only, not as a lover. He seems never to have thought of marrying her. On the conclusive authority of General Anderson, who for twenty-one years was with him constantly in the closest possible intercourse, and from whom Moore appears to have had no secrets, there was but one whom Moore ever seriously wished to marry, and this was Caroline Fox, daughter of the old General in command at Sicily.