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' 868 THE EEAPEB [No. 487- July 23, 1859...
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Pbenoh aitd Piepmontese Tkoops. — " The ...
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LITERATURE.
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LITERARY NOTES OF THE WEEK.
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¦ ? . ' A distinguished contributor to t...
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IJDYIXS OF TBE KING. By Alfred Tonnysou,...
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Giuseppe Garibaldi. This Remarkable Man,...
ing aloof from scenes of danger has almost passed into a proverb , while Garibaldi has ever been ready to occupy the post involving the greatest personal risk and sacrifice . ' In 1849 the Pope was still in exile at Gaeta . The Austrians occupied the Papal States on the shores of the Adriatic ; the French made their appearance at the same time on the Mediterranean Bide of the Papal territories , while a ^ Neapolitan army 2 , 000 strong , headed by the late King Ferdinand H ., prepared to cross the frontiers . The unconditional reinstallation of the Pope was the real object of the invasion ; but the French , in
accordance with the habitual treachery of Louis Napoleon * then head of the French Republic , alleged they had come to restore order , but maintained an ambiguous reserve as to then : ultimate intentions . While professing the utmost zeal for the Pontiff , they had throughout the winter kept up the appearance of friendliness with his contumacious subjects . At length , however , their real purpose became apparent . It was ^ discovered' by the populace that they were acting in . concert with their avowed enemies , and the Roman , people suddenly rose and repelled , their first assault . Their subsequent attacks were equally bravely met .
For seventeen consecutive hours the Romans under Garibaldi fought the French with unabated courage and determination , and a fury that defies description . The French could not succeed in placing a single piece of cannon in its proper position so as to weaken their line of fire , -while Garibaldi almost outdid himself in his courage and personal endurance ; In the defence of the ;• " V illa Pamfili , outside the walls ; whilst the cannon along the bastions kept up a continual fire , heading nearly three thousand men , he rushed beyond the gates and contested with close musketry , and often with the bayonet , every inch of the ground . The
Tuscany , he turned his steps thither ; but his troops , worn out with fatigue ,-dropped behind and fell away from him . At length he reached the Adriatic completely broken down , and attempted with 300 men to reach Venice , but was stopped by Austrian ships , his boats dispersed , and he and his wife thrown desolate upon the Roman coast . They wandered about for some days without food or shelter , until the faithful partner of his good and evil fortune died in his arms , overcome with exhaustion and fatigue . After many perilous adventures the magnanimous hero , who had refused 12 , 000 scudi at-Borne , .. arrived at Genoa in the month of September , and was arrested ! Having obtained permission to go to Nice to bid adieu to his family before again retiring into exile , he embraced his aged parents and his three children The interview well nigh . unmanned him , but tearing himself from the loving embraces of his relatives , he returned to Genoa , where he embarked on board the Tripoli for Tunis Sept . 16 , 1849 . For some time he supported his children by taking the command of a trading ship . The war just ended brought him again into notice , and presented his character in the same heroic " light as of old . Perhaps the strongest proof that he could give of the sincerity of his love and desire for the prosperity of his country was to change his political colours and fight under the constitutional king —Victor Emmanuel . Few , surely , will be found to blame him for this apparent abandonment of his principles . Not his onw honour or credit for con- ^ sistency , but his country ' s welfare is the mainspring of his actions . The late King of Piedmont , Charles Albert , so fully appreciated his sincerity and valour that he offered no opposition to a subscription being made throughout his kingdom for the purchase of a dress sword , to be presented to Garibaldi , who was then in exile . When the king was on his death bed , June 30 , 1849 , Prince Eugene di Carignano and Dr . Riberi went to pay him a visit . Hearing from them of Garibaldi ' s heroic and chivalric defence of Rome , lie exclaimed , * ' Viva Garibaldi ! He has given the French a lesson I " His recent deeds of prowess in the Vatelline , and elsewhere , are too fresh in the memory of the public to need mention here . He proved himself a valuable aid to the Emperor of the French , but the time may not be far distant when he -will again take up arms to undo that which the wily Emperor has just done in Italy .
French troops , led by Oudinot , were wholly unprepared for the resistance they met with , and finally fell back mortified and astounded . During the ¦ month ' s interval of diplomatic negotiations which followed , Garibaldi led the Romans . against the Neapolitans , who , routed in two engagements , precipitately fled to their own country , and lef t the conclusion of the enterprise to their French allies . France has , therefore , all the glory of giving back the Roman states and Italian people to ecclesiastical bondage ; and yet these same people were so infatuated as to hope and believe she would free them from it ten years later !
Finding the crisis was at hand the Assembly met in the Capitol . Garibaldi was sent for , and appeared heated and coyered with blood . He declared resistance for any length of time was impossible ; they could hold out but a few days , and it was vain to defend the streets when the French were masters of the heights . They , therefore , agreed to surrender , declaring that they abandoned a defence which had become impracticable , but would remain at their post . The business of treating with the foe was left to the municipality But the municipality could make no terms with the conqueror , and eventually delivered up the city to his hands unconditionally . On the morning
of July 2 nd , 1849 , the French entered Home , and Garibaldi left it with a legion of between 4 , 000 and 5 , 000 men , and took the road to Tivoli . It had been arranged that the Roman troops should accompany them , and also the triumvirate and constituent assembly , with the object of establishing the government elsewhere and exciting the populace to rise , but it was found impossible to carry out the plan . From . Tivpli , Ganwaldi proceeded to Monte Rotondo and Poggio Mirteto , and thence to Turin , whore he joined the little corps commanded by the Englishman , Forbes . In reference to this period of Garibaldi ' s military
career many calumnies and falsehoods have been circulated . Numerous vagabonds and thieves , giving themselves out as soldiers of Garibaldi , took advantage of the terror inspired by his name and Possessed themselves of property or every description which came within their reach , levying contri * butions upon the country people and robbing houses in thinly inhabited neighbourhoods . Numerous complaints and false assertions were in consequence made against the . soldiers of Garibaldi . It woe a source of great concern to him and hia followers , but with the utmost vigilance he failed to discover that any of his own men were in fault . J r Finding that affiurs still remained unsettled in
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' 868 THE EEAPEB [ No . 487- July 23 , 1859-
Pbenoh Aitd Piepmontese Tkoops. — " The ...
Pbenoh aitd Piepmontese Tkoops . — " The Frenchman , " says a correspondent , " thinks that he must always look savage to be thought brave . The high cheek-bones , the small grey eye , the small turn-up nose , the kepi brim turned up at an angle of 45 deg . ; the long , scraggy , cravatless neck j the destructive organ highly developed behind the ear ; the swagger and bluster of the whole mien and bearing , have something repulsive and offensive . 'I am a killing machine , ' says the Frenchman , ' they have tempered me , ground me , wound me up for my murderous work . Kill me , or I will kill youj that is all I am good for , all I care for . I am always
fighting or else furbishing up my weapons . I have a cartridge in my gun-barrel , and the bayonet at its end . I fire my piece then instantly charge . The Emperor has said it ; the bayonet is a French weapon ! ' The Italian at rest has a bland , mild , and modest look . There lurks in that countenance a look of the Ineffable enjoyment of existence , Down he lies on the ground and looks up at his deep blue heaven , and his musket lies harmlessly gathering dew—future rust—in Jtho grass , and his knapsack makes him no very hard pillow-. ' Oh ! let me live ! ' says the Italian ; King and sountry called me under arms , and here I am ; I have met the Austrian and stood his fire as I was bidden . I came
to close quarters , and thought I had better give him a few inches of my bayonet than take any of his . Ho has no business in my Italy , any more than I have in his Germany . My King is always foremost in the fight , and where fa the craven who would skulk behind ? But for the rest , this war trade is a confounded Gain business , all hard cruets and hard knocks X hate the din and the dust ; and the cannon , if it does not kill , is at least a laocmtor di ben coatrutti oreachi . It shatters a well-organised tympanum nil to pieces . We will boo the Austrian ^ out , if God help us , and then we will have piping times again , our cool wine-gardens , our lemonades , and the arch-oyed girls we * have , left toohind us / "
Literature.
LITERATURE .
Literary Notes Of The Week.
LITERARY NOTES OF THE WEEK .
¦ ? . ' A Distinguished Contributor To T...
¦ ? . ' A distinguished contributor to the leading daily journal , and one whose pen has never been used in the Times except with the best-intentioned and most philanthropic views , has acquired , what we should think he would little value , a handle to his name in the shape of a title . We read in the Sherbprne Journal : ¦ —" The elder brother of the Hon . and Rev . S . G . Osborne having succeeded to the Dukedom of Leeds , the Queen has by letters patent granted to the family the titles and precedency that would have been afforded them had their father succeeded to the title , and in consequence , ' S . G . O . ' will in future be known as the Rev . Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne . " That industrious pliilologer , Prince Lucien Bonaparte , is at present sojourning among the hills at Stanhope and St . John ' s , in "Weardale , translating the Song of Solomon into the dialect of the county of Durham . He -will proceed hence to Craven , with a view of translating the book into the Yorkshire dialect . It is to be hoped , that his labours will be appreciated by future generations of Yorkshirenien . We fear that Ms time and trouble will have been devoted in vain , as far as the rest of the king-dom is concerned .
The directors of the Scottish National Gallery have bought from Sir Culling Eardley , for the sum of £ 500 , a picture of " Mars and Venus" by Paul Veronese . The price asked in the first instance was much larger than that stated ; but Sir Culling agreed to accept the above sum . Lord Stanley has just made a munificent donation to the library named after him in King ' s Lynn , the borough which his lordship represents in Parliament . Some years since the noble lord gave 1 . O 0 OZ . to the establishment of the institution , and as the town council , in carrying out a policv of retrenchment , have been compelled to -withdraw a grant of 50 / ., which has hitherto been made annually to the library , his lordship lias , within the last few days , presented an Indian debenture for 500 ? ., to put the establishment in funds . . . '
The North British Daily Mail states tbat the sum already subscribed for erecting the , monument to the Ettrick Shepherd amounts to about 142 Z . The New York correspondent of the Publishers ' Circular writes : —" Messrs . Appletons have published a new volume of their Cyclopaedia , the sixth —from ' Cough' to ' Education ; ' the Harpers have reproduced the first volume of ' Alford ' s Greek Testament ; ' and Messrs . Lippincott and Co . have issued twovery handsome books onArchitecture . by S . Sloan . The Canadian impost presses heavily on the home book-trade in the United States , and there seems to be but one opinion of its injustice . Popular feeling
here is against Mr . Dickens in his controversy with Messrs . Bradbury and Evans , but it docs not affect the reception of his new tale , which is reprinted in several newspapers throughout the country , and is well received . It is produced in two official forms- — viz ., in Harper ' s Wee 7 d 7 / , with illustrations by M'Lenan , and in a reprint of All the Year Hound , advertised as by " special arrangement , " Harpers announce that they have paid 5 , 000 dole , for their early sheets , and if the American producers of All the Year Hound have made a respectable bargain ; Mr . Dickens will not have much to complain of his treatment in this country for this novel . "
Ijdyixs Of Tbe King. By Alfred Tonnysou,...
IJDYIXS OF TBE KING . By Alfred Tonnysou , JD . C . L ., l * oot Laureate Mdward Moxon und Co . Mr , Ten ^ ysow has won a position , both in the state and the library , as a poet that places him above criticism . A facility of composition , a felicity of versification , and a judicious taste in the selection of subjects , have secured to him a most enviable reputation . H < J is , besides , a polite poet , and his drawing-room qualifications are indisputable There ia nothing vulgar or coarse in his writings—but all is rennod tp delicacy , and even sometimes to weakness . Ho in fastidious in his phraseology to a fault ; and an subtle in thought and feeling as ho is chastp and choice in diotion . Always beautiful , ho is not seldom extremely familiar . His "Mort d'Arthur" and " Ulysses / 1 however , evinced a lurking ambition in his nature , which his friends have not been slow to stimulate . The elements of an epic bard woro i struggling in his genius , and the birth of an epos was accordingly expected . In duo time the mighty birth , advanced to its advent . The volume before us is understood to redeem the pledge . It does so , however , but in part . Wo have not a complete epic here- —but four idylls , which may be supposed to form portions of a great
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Leader (1850-1860), July 23, 1859, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23071859/page/16/
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