A FAMILY council was held at Exmundham Hall to deliberate on the name by which this remarkable infant should be admitted into the Christian community.

The junior branches of that ancient house consisted, first, of the obnoxious heir-at-law--a Scotch branch named Chillingly Gordon.
He was the widowed father of one son, now of the age of three, and happily unconscious of the injury inflicted on his future prospects by the advent of the new-born, which could not be truthfully said of his Caledonian father.

Mr.Chillingly Gordon was one of those men who get on in the world with out our being able to discover why.

His parents died in his infancy and left him nothing; but the family interest procured him an admission into the Charterhouse School, at which illustrious academy he obtained no remarkable distinction.

Nevertheless, as soon as he left it the State took him under its special care, and appointed him to a clerkship in a public office.