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^ ;„ a ,:, ; f ^ . u . t ^ ft ^^ D ^ ER CZARS ^ "' ' ' . ' / ' / ijy ^^ flcr C ^ n * dB & MJ- ProfcaapiK-.,.. Li ; ., ; . -..: ? - ¦ Theobald . J & qsa r Bit abAUON jRusfcalldwi usi to say that she is dtiot fitted tor write the iliograpkies of ; prmoesJ Thero is a sortofJiumilit ^ irn hfer toind which compels-her to reverence ; in a . radnarcb ,. the act ot ! strangling liia ; . father , or shaving his mother ' s head .-. i . tAncl * liisf which . is the predominating essence of her volume , is avcbaaraftariatic of nearly ; all bhe btfoks that have lately been qQmpiled . abp ^ fcftussiH . and h | W Gzara . , The subject seems to , tain * everyone who handles it , . fBec ^ use the $ rst . Peter ; lipedan adae , overcame his iintir pathy to coid water , arid .. was ,. partiallv successful ia arms . and politics , the most emollient p hrases are employed tag ^ oss over the record of his excesses an . d , crimes ; and , b ^ pausc the firs t , Xij . * hola ^ was luore than si , x feet , hi g h , wore larffe bbpfcs » and stop ^ in / upnatural relati on to the rest of mankind , the ^^ ak ^ M ^^ sl ^ an ' d ^ e i ^^ ise rsQf ^ usef l knowledge in England , paid mm equal ^^ pmage ^' l ' i ^^ Vellijw ' . ' ctf . ' ^ l ; descriptions have encouraged , this tendency , ! frp ' in o ]? d KjcuardH ^ wkesjwortih , who allowed a Gzar to pull his $ && c | j pp Xieijrt $ iiant jRpv eiy who felt honoured when an . JEmperor laughed in his face . ' :-VSo ! , ' fjiiv . Sfiileed , have our popular accounts of Russia been yBiated hy \ jt ) iis a ^ ryile practice , ihat we Jciiow pf , few bookmakers who dare M | ni £ oiiUthe . Jujpjptmgjs anOt gibbetfngs . of hejpless . riien , and women at Minsk' or Warsaw , without djatprtin ^ thejr . ingenuity to suggest gome - ^ llpwances for . the unfortunate povpie j jgh 3 , who Tiad no . choice but to console wJtV , * tieir Uelpved j s $ > j . eqts ,, -f ^ nd ' to bieafc theux alive . . . on' the ^ wheel ! We ^ must notjbpweyer , coWuit ilie mistake of supposing that t , \ ii $ infatuation AWyrs " springs j ( rpni . » . ' miiji . il indifferent to the decrees pf good ., and ¦ evil . That which is immoral In a courtieij , is only deplorable in a serf , or it may be , a biographer . Our rigour must relent , iincf pardon ^ something to education— that educatfbn , wetoiean , which is siinpl y prejudice ratified . Iu the case of ^ Vss ^ fabazon . 's work » we have , an extrenv ^ ly clever narrative , elegantly written ; WeU-arxp , »^ e ( J ( ,. AiJI . . of Instruction , jind alive with anecdote , but which QXfiJMisrour . ftStonisluucnt by the ambiguity of its ideas on points of morals ; awi politics * . It is of some consequence to notice this fact , because , let us . repeat ,. the compilers , as a body , are to blame . One of them acquires the . oW ^' uflt h . ahit , Fr . oij ,. pother . Here is AJiss Brabazon , who promises to becpu ^ o aI Ja , \ ou >; ite wr ^ er for the ypuug , yrho has collected her matter diligentl y * ' jun & hgs ' \ VQfk « d it i « to a flqwing antj graceful narration , who extols thM . cardinal virtue * like n Chinese law-giver , and laughs at them like a Chinb & e : judge , ' ¦ and . , who speaks , of-. Ghriatian clemency and Imperial ferocity as though . they we » -o i 4 ent . iotiU If we mjgUt . read a lecture to a lady who , though ,, wrting-iuinded , is obviously sincere , we would say that she will accept * . *** .- $ ** : iimmk oi ' n 5 » mire * . and churLj , nothing less divine than that mercy which ; alWed tlw ? womau takon in sin , to go unstoned ; while for the " high and mighty princo" adored by a X ^ unlcet deputation , she has only to recoiumehdi that gentle-dew which dropped on the Hebrew king ' s head when he J » ew £ d Agag -in pieces ^ But Miss Briibhzbn ' s te a ^ leasmt , fiSesh / animated narrative , and likely to be popular . Tho'ddnterits n ' n'd illustrations nre-exactly fitted , in their variety ami lightness ,, fDr : piir-reading ., ' thoug h , not for our thinking generation ; and as the audioncto wilt probably bo large , wo may , without recurring to historical iiicidjin ' to'Wht-jh Misa-Bnibnjjo . n- has omitte ( f to notice , point to acts which she repetfts , withtJxit character whig / but-irhifch partly explain
m 6 ^ tuimo - ^ f ^ rrs 1 a 7 ^ n ^ tn ^ - a ^ ir ^ Ci & ti . Thfe fault ot ouFpopuKr *^ 8 ^ ttf ? ld that * P fey- tohasi dkan ^ , btrti iJermeattfthefa ^ 'WW-¦ ** 3 T-J , " ¥ t ? . *? w 5 » ^^ efore , ortly Useful' to % hW memory y riieydbtfotri & mti & * r •' , ° f' P ^* » a worsen they krtk 16 wfth ^ ailaetfeK '' ManV * gteybeaWin d « unti ^ towns rta ^ be detected ' repfrodudflg th 4 nptiotis fe Inibi ^ a frtrai Irttle . dn ^ y ^ UOdteeimos of plagiaiiem at a Vlllagfe' sdh ^ oL We nj ^ e !&& thought thatwitings : for boys and girls ought tobe t ^ feeta ou « , of' inferioi tetndd and given t <> great masters , capableofengarfnvr y 6 tJh « y itithda with something : belter than the monosyllabic platitadel of Pinnbek aud'Gdrttei ^ Kussia has only just emerged front batbariSm , This trtitfr . which few deny ^ basr an application to the Court as well as to the feeople . Tie reiguinj Czar is removed ,-by few degrees , from the tamel ^ rchiefi W * hier Tartar 4 esert- ^ pbhtlialry , n 6 t lmeall yi -we meattj Then how ' covilS he become the civilised and accomplished monarch torawri ^ in ^ stiillitis portraits ? The dynasty has been one of fragm ^ nte , but its- tradition ^ are one ! They extend from Ivan HI . to Alexander II ; m att tlnbrdken . series ; liut the successors of Peter m * y be ^ classed -alone , to -simplify thfe accpunt . We purposely select onl ^ such itriritfc in their character , aridia the social influences bearing on them , as are pleaded in arrest of liudcnienib
by Miss BrabaziMi and her compeers . Peter , to begin , mangled his enemiea , tortured ^ them , delighted to look oh their writhing limbs , smote off their , heads with bis own hand , and , while thesemufders " breathed tiieir bloodysteam , "' nearly choked himself with wine . ¦ His sister i Sophia , no doubt , acted treacherously to him ; but she at least possessed , more benignity of , character , and atoned for offences tinder the deliberate and pertinacious Cruelty of her kinsman . In manners and in disposition Peter was rud ^ , brutal , vulgar—a man of genius , yet a savage , and one of the few virtues be claimed was that equivocal one from Sparta , of being able to ordain the execution of his own son . We have sometimes preferred a faltering judge to a monstrous father ; trot the objection may pass : The second Peter was Gzar , but did nofctfeign , which excuses an historian from alluding to him further . Anne indulged herself in frenzies of vindictive passion-, and Birdn exercised iis vicarious feroeiCy in her name . The practical jokes of the Empress were such as the ne « ro inonartifcs of Dahomey and Ashantee have enjoyed .
There was more suavity in the humour of Elizabeth ; yet her refusal to sign a death-warrant was only a formal excuse for inflicting punishments still more terrible , and her nature was stained with aninveterate disposition to profligacy . Peter the Third illustrated by his misfortunes the barbarisni of the dvnasty , as much as Cathei-ine by her excesses . But for these excesses history " might not have known her , so that their recital may be spared . Of Paul the same may be said as of the third Peter ; but shall we permit Miss Brabazon , or any other enthusiast , to persuade such youths as desire a sequel to Voltaire ' s theatrical story , that . Alexander was sincere when he tore his hair in the rqoui under that in-which his father was strangled ? This is too jrood . It resembles the lamentations of an Avab mourner , who
beats his breast , and bites his skin , but would utter all the maledictions in his language if he failed to have the re ward of his grief . Be this as it may , the parriciue Alexander mounted his throne , and Miss Brabazon has nothing to relate of him that is : not heroic and meritorious . Possibl y her information was scanty ; but the accession of Nicholas is aseenejuiwhich her powers of omission shine . By the most natural process of transition the sceptre passes from one brother to another * and that 3 s ail ! Not a word of the intrigue ; scarcely a Avord of the massacre . In the character of the Czar , however , our lady biographer finds it a remarkably virtuous distinction , that for a long time he was faitliCul to his wife . Fie , Miss Brabazon ! This would not sound well in , the L , iturg 3 % , i ' . : ¦ ¦ ••>¦> • ¦ - . \ 1
The truth is , that the ancestors o 4 oSichoias were barbarians , and tha ^ he ¦ was a barbai-ian French-polished . Genghis Khan acquired and ruled , a greater empire . We use the term " barbarian , " however , in its philosophical and not in an insulting sense . The late Czar was naturally the first Cossack : of a Cossack empire \ a politic . imitator of . Timour and Holagou .. lie was a drillev of Cahnuck hordes , who topk diplomacy into his pay , and who committed atrocities as his predecessors committed them ; not because lie wjis worse than other leaders of rude races , but , because he continued a lino of monarch * bred to despotism , to conquest , and to barbarity ^ To search further , ami seek to reconcile the . attributes of a moral her , o with the acts of a Russian Kmperor—Ivan , Peter , pr Nicholas—is to pervert history , ami to plough the sand . But JNIiss Brabazpu ' s work , at all events , is inte restin " , and ° not ill-adapted for a popular circulation * . }
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Nuisancks at KiN « i's Oiw ^ .. —! A ' iH ( fotiri { jTiftsbccii helrt in the Culedonian-rond to f ' aRc 'sf ^ 'fW the roitiorHl ' of' ! some nuisances exiatiiig at' ^ disttiW railed Btllc ' lilei , nenr the Great Northern Ra ^ lWay" fetation . The nui-Banco ? , it seems , corisfBt of tlici < istaWikhnaMtt 8 of meltcrs , pig-dealers , horse-alirdghtcrci ' y , ' 'Kronsc-iiink < TS , enrriril- ) boilord , ami patent niahure-Winn « ni ' ciiirfcT 5 , tvlrich-latter , vrra « oxplaiaed tft , njw } RH , M |> nkor » io £ . night soil , iblocnl , < WMj ^ l , ( lia > . anaiMQfff ^ W ? 3 - "! ; .-5 r iio J «<«? ity was dodcr . JUwl to bo wholly uiidrniiic < l except by an iron pipe , whicJi { discharged the aowerngc of two cHtnblUlmicnts into the public road , whore it vrah thccci'dinyly offensive . Sixty thousand people were sriid tb'Hvcand suflcr wiiliin the ' influence of these nuisAiitts . A eomrtiittce was appointed to sot tho Nuisances ltcmoval Aot in fbrc « v Tub Static ok TiiK'TlVA ^ t tt s .- ^ A petition in lying for I signature at tho London Tavern , ' ftijd othtT City houses , , iu which the poUlionttrH net forth that , n « th « re i . i a pro- j bab ' ility of tho " d ^ tipollution , of the Th ^ mci" not bciug effected for years , owintf to the election of the new Board of "Worka not taking pluce till next January , whom numerous objects will press on Strt attention , it is advisable that ( ho meeting to bo called by the Lord Mayor Hhould take Htepn with a view to " securing tho prompt execution of tmeh worku nfl may be Jlnally decided upon . " Disatii on thic Mooiw . ~ A mnn 1 i « h been accidentally shot on tho iuoovh near St . John ' * , Woimlitle , Durhnin . I ' ROl'OSKI ) TICSTIAIOMAI 4 TO Mil KOKBUCK . «— A meeting wab held in tho Council Hall , & 1 h 111 c 1 < 1 , on
| Friday , to take into consideration tho presenting some te . Stiniorifal to Mr . lioebuck , ' * lii recognition of Ilia great national Services . " The Mayor presided ; and > a resolution 'wns . ' pnssed inviting tho cb-opftration of all classes , Tiot onl y ' in Sheffield but in the country at large . Mr . P . T . Mijppin ( the master cutlor elect ) was appointed troasiirrV to tho fund . A committco waa nlso nppointed to carry tout the object of tho meoting . 250 / . wns subscribed on tb . e ei > ot , and tber ^ ia every probability of a ! JUanolsomo amount , hoiug realieed . A Fatal Atcidknt , arising out of the foolish habit of 1 pointfng ' ii gun at a man in sport , occurred a short time I afro near Manchester . A trivinl quarrel having taken I plncc between two labouring men , named John Smith and Joseph Ilooth , the lattor took up n gim , which he ! helieved to be unloaded , and made a pretence of tiring it : At flmfth' . The gun , however , was in ( act charged ; ami Smith foil mortally wounded , and died almost immediately . It appeared that Booth ' s brother had left the weapon loaded , without giving propor notice that . iucli was tho ense . At the inquest , u verdict of Accidental Death wns returned ; but tjie coroner , At tho request ol the jury , severely reprimanded both brothers . M . OiCHAJiic Haknikri :, tho distinguinbcd Italian photographio artist , has arrived in England . Ho han been engaged by Mr . Kilburn , and tho specimens of bin skill aro very highly spoken of for their singular rellncment . Mr . John Sinclair , contractor of tho Auoland Drnuch ltuilway Durham , has boon killed , owing to tho
fall of a fitono from' a viaduct which ia being erected ! Mr . Sinclair was standing on . aonio woodwork , on -which the stone fell , throwing Mr . Siuclau ; amongst the framework of the arch , lie died in about fourteen hours . This is the seventh life that has been , lost since tho com-1 mencement of the works . ! ' Ankkckv Poultky Snow . —This show commences on Tuesday next , in tho grounds of the Anerloy HoteL Many workmen and gentlemen interested in the improve-. ment of our rural economy have actively promoted the exhibition which will probably be I renewed annually . ! Mr . Uelsliaw , the practical manager of the exhibition : of 1861 , has arranged all tho dotaUa . . Atjstkaha . — From tho great southern continent wo i hoar tolerably favourable reports of tho stato of trado , I' the markets being less burthened with an overplus than , for some time past . Still , the plethora ia only dimi-; nished , not removed . Grain and farm product ! «« no-| . rally were in great demand . The export duty ¦ 011 jjJJ came into operation on the 1 M , of May , iind I « ™ 1 has been seen in « lesser quantity of gold being ^ fc ™ f into Melbourne . The Chinosu have l ^\\^ % ^ ln ^ ' so much so , that there is an "fi'V *' " ^^ ow " ^ ; them , or at least to l ™ y *»\^\ ™™\« ^ lu £ I bill for cntining tlii'm 1 «> o «< V" , ' f ,. t () pa 88 1 duced into tho ^^ " ^ " ^ A ^ h . voSS ; SSS ti % < ZrXc ^ lZ mander of U , o Foroaa at Welbouruo , is said to be dead .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 25, 1855, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25081855/page/21/
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