A change of news, sharp and unexpected as a change of wind, lowered the stocks and blighted the plum.

Mr.Brown was in the "Gazette" that week, and his wife in weeds for him the next.

He left behind him, besides the said wife, several debts and his son Moses.

Beggared by the former, our widow took a small shop in Wardour Street to support the latter.

Patient, but enterprising--cautious of risking pounds, indefatigable in raising pence--the little Moses inherited the propensities of his Hebrew ancestors; and though not so capable as his immediate progenitor of making a fortune, he was at least far less likely to lose one.