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    Since that time , when people were fed with glory , how cookery has progressed ! On the 18 th Brumaire , General Bonaparte , in answer to those who demanded guarantees , cried , * Grenadiers , have I ever deceived you when I promised you victory ? ' In our day , in similar circumstances , the reply would be , Grenadiers , have I ever deceived you when I promised you good cheer ? ' In the lime of the Emperor , to obtain a decoration , it was necessary to have deserved it—such little importance was set on the recognition of services to come . In the baggage of Napoleon there were no barrels of crosses by way of provisionand no shovels to distribute them . Yet , let us

    , not be deceived , the era of the Caesars , predicted by a guest of the Elysee , has commenced . It has been already remarked that soup makes the soldier . In our day , and with perfectly liberal views , champagne , truffled fowls , and Havannah cigars , form the materiel of reviews . But is the gratitude of a full stomach more lively or more lasting than that of the heart ? In their decline the Roman soldiers touched the stomachs of their officers , and flung away the helmet and the cuirass , which had become too heavy for their effeminacy . In our days , disregard for discipline and forgetfulness of glory would be

    Btill worse , and , what is the saddest of all , the disorder comes from a high quarter . A society of the 10 th of December would seem to the Emperor a strange means of Government . Disorder under the appellation of beneficence ! I repeat to you that , in our days , if the sword of Austerlitz do not end in an old curiosity shop , it will be turned into a spit , and that of the Elysee into a larding-pin . The buckler of Francis I . will become a turbotdish , and his cuirass a frying-pan . The glorious sword of Aumale and of Ivrey , which already fell into the hands of a chiffonnier of July , will become a bacon knife , and the column of July be made into pots . "

    For this article the Corsaire has been seized both at its offices and at the Post-office , by the Procureur de la Republique . A prosecution has also been instituted against M . Courtois , writer of the article , and M . Laurent , proprietor of the journal .

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    A FRENCH DESPERADO . About a fortnight ago , the French authorities were informed that the rioters or conspirators who caused so much , alarm in the department of the Drdaie a short time previously , had taken refuge in the department of the Ardeche . Intelligence was also communicated that a secret manufactory of gunpowder had been carried on for some time in that district , in the house of a man named Soubeyran , renowned for energy of character and desperate personal courage , and who had announced his intention

    to shoot any soldier or police agent who should attempt to take him into custody . With a view to secure this man and his associates , a regular military expedition was planned by General Lapene and the military authorities on the other side of the Rhone . Their well-planned scheme was frustrated , however , so far as Soubeyran was concerned , by a daring feat , which reminds one of that stirring passage in Sir Walter Scott ' s novel , where Hob Roy makes his escape while crossing a river , by swimming and diving till he had distanced his pursuers .

    The military preparations to apprehend the French outlaw and his comrades were on . the most extensive scale . There was a strong detachment of horse artillery , and four companies of infantry , reinforced by smaller detachments of other two foot regiments . In addition to these , there were several detachments of the gendarmerie of the department under the command of the Prefect . This formidable army , after marching all night , arrived at the scene of action a little before daybreak : —

    " At five o ' clock the Prefect , accompanied by his men , proceeded to the residence of Soubeyran , knocked at the door , and summoned him in the name of the law , to come forth and surrender himself a prisoner . No answer was made . Knowing the desperate character of Soubeyran , the Prefect had disposed of his men so as to cut off his escape , and four gendarmes were stationed at the door , two on each side , ready to seize him the moment he made his appearance ; whilst the Prefect himself , a man of much determination , stood in front with a pistol loaded and cocked in his hand . During the short silence

    that intervened a noise was heard inside , and close to the door , as of the loading of a gun , and the ringing of a steel ramrod in the barrel . After the lapse of some minutes , and when the Prefect was about to repeat his summnuR , the door was suddenly flung open , and Soubeyran , in his shirt sleeves , a red silk handkerchief twisted round his head , his throat bare , and with sandals on his feet , stepped to the threshold , and presented himself before them . One luuul grasped a blunderbuss , the other was extended forward . He evidently did not expect to see so many prepared to prevent his escape , and his surprise made him hesitate a moment . This

    hesitation , short as it was , in all probability prevented the shedding of blood ; and the Prefect profiting by it , rushed at him in an instant , seized with one hand the arm which held the blunderbuss , and with the other put a pistol to his temples . At the same time he again summoned him to surrender . The gendarmes who were stationed at the door were in the ae . L of advancing to enforce the capture , when Soubeyran by a sudden und violent movement freed himselt ( roin the grasp of the man who held him , drew back a few paces ( still with his lace to his antagonists ) , then turned quickly , still with blunderbuss iu hand ; leaped over a table and some chairs , burst through a door , the rebound of which impelled for a moment his pursuers , reached a window which hung over the water , and bursting through it , dashed into tlic Rhone that was rolling turbid , cold , aud dark , below , and disappeared

    amidst its waves . The troops who were stationed outside ran at once to the bridge , and . twenty or thirty of the horsemen were in a moment on the opposite side , while others lined the near bank . " Once or twice the end of the red handkerchief which bound the outlaw's head was seen in the uncertain light of daybreak on the surface of the water ; but Soubeyran himself was never since beheld . The troops watched long on both banks of the river , expecting to see him attempt to land . It was all useless . With respect to his fate there is some uncertainty . It is not known whether he perished in the dangerous current that shoots between the arches of the bridge , or whether he was able , by swimming for a considerable time under water , to find a shelter in the hollow of the rocks that in that part hang over the stream ; at all events , dead or alive , he has not since been seen or heard of .

    " In his house was found a manufactory of gunpowder admirably organized ; and a large quantity of which was perfectly prepared , and ready for use , a part also made up into cartridges . " But , though they failed in arresting Soubeyran , they captured a number of others who were said to have been mixed up in the late disturbances . The whole of the neighbourhood was scoured by the mounted gendarmerie and troops ; and the result is , according to the Paris correspondent of the Times , that , ? ' the villages along the Rhone which were known to be the haunt of agitators and Socialists , were swept clear , and now enjoy perfect tranquillity . "

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    AN EXTORTIONATE PUBLICAN . After a residence of several weeks in Paris the Nepaulese Ambassador , with his numerous suite , left that city on Tuesday morning for Marseilles , by way of Roanne and Lyons . At Marseilles the English Government steamer the Growler is waiting to conduct him to Alexandria , where he will arrive in time for the next Calcutta mail . The visit of the Indian Prince has been quite a godsend to the Parisians , among whom he has left more money than half-a-dozen of the much-vaunted Russians . But , great as his expenditure has been , it appears that some of those into whose hands he fell were determined to extort the last penny . After he had paid most liberally , not to say lavishly , for all he had had ,

    and for many things which he had not , supplementary bills and imaginary charges were sent in at the very last moment by the landlord of the Hotel Sinet , where he lodged , for damages done , of which there was no appearance ; carriages hired , of which no one knew anything ; and articles supplied , which no one had seen . Some of these charges are said to have been so exorbitant and absurd that the persons around the Prince refused to pay them without reexamination ; and it was intimated to the landlord that money was left in the proper hands to settle those or any other just claims that might accidentally be left unpaid . Nothing , however , would satisfy the landlord but the cash . He refused to allow the Prince ' s luggage to be taken : and ultimately it became necessary to

    call m the nearest commissary ot ponce , wno not only ordered the luggage to be given up at once , but very properly reprimanded the landlord for the attempted extortion . Ultimately the Prince was allowed to proceed on his journey ; but in consequence of the delay created by the altercation , he very nearly missed the railway train . Indeed , three of his aidesde-camp were under the necessity of remaining in Paris till the evening . After all the efforts of Louis Napoleon to give him a favourable impression of the French people , Jung Bahadoor will thus return to Ncpaul with the conviction that they are a set of robbers .

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    On looking up they saw two masked figures standing at the foot of their bed ; but so little suspicion of danger had the reverend gentleman that his first impression was that his sons were practising some trick upon him , and in playful terms he chided them , telling them to begone to bed , and not play jokes with him at that hour of the night . Mrs . Holiest , with a quicker perception of danger , at once saw the dreadful truth , and screamed aloud . The miscreants instantly seized her and her husband , and , with pistols pointed at their heads , declared that if they made the slightest noise they would blow their brains out . Mrs . Holiest , notwithstanding the imminent peril she was in , struggled hard , and at length succeeded in slipping out of bed and seizing a bell-rope ; upon which her assailant rushed round to the side of the

    BURGLARY AND MURDER . The quiet village of Frimley Grove , which is about a mile and a half from the Farnborough station of the South Western Railway , was the scene of a daring crime and a sad tragedy last Saturday morning . The village of Frimley consists of some forty or fifty straggling houses , and at the western extremity of it stands the parsonage , where the outrage was committed , an old-fashioned brick dwelling , about one hundred yards apart from any other house . The Reverend George Edward Holiest , who has held the perpetual curacy of this hamlet during the past seventeen years , was a married man , his household consisting of himself , his wife , a man servant , two maid servants , and his two sons , youths of fourteen and fifteen , who had arrived from school on

    Friday afternoon to pass the Michaelmas vacation with their parents . On Friday night the family retired to rest at their usual hour , shortly before eleven o ' clock . Mr . and Mrs . Holiest slept on the first floor , in a room overlooking the lawn , the two boys occupied an apartment on the same floor ; the man servant slept at the top of the house , and a room adjoining formed the sleeping apartment of the two maid servants . It appears that it was Mr . Hollest ' s custom when his children were at homo to leave the door of his bedroom njar in order that lie might overhear them in the event of their lequiring anything , and he seems to have done so on Friday last . After retiring to rest both himself and his wife fell into a sound

    sleep , from which they were awakened about three o ' clock on Saturday morning by a sudden increase of lisrht in their apartment , and a noise of footsteps .

    bed , and threw himself upon her with such force as to snap the bell-rope asunder . The fellow continued to stand over her with his pistol pointed to her face , and she states that she fully expected to be shot dead every moment . Mr . Holiest , who was a very strong and active man , on discovering how matters stood , struggled with the villain who stood over him , and at length got out of bed , and was in the act of stooping down to reach the poker from the fireplace when his assailant fired at him , and wounded him in the abdomen . The unfortunate gentleman was not

    aware at the first that he had been struck , and continued to grapple with the fellow , who made desperate efforts to escape . The report of the pistol having alarmed the miscreant who was standing over Mrs . Holiest , he left her for a moment to assist his companion . She nothing daunted by the fright she had undergone , on finding herself released , rushed to the fireplace , and , seizing a large hand-bell , swung it to and fro several times . This had the effect of alarming the burglars , who almost immediately left the apartment , and , descending the staircase , hastened out of the house by the front door .

    No sooner were they gone than Mr . Holiest ran into an adjoining apartment , snatched up a gun which he always kept loaded , ran down stairs , and , seeing three men running across the lawn , he fired amongst them , but without effect . Returning to his bed-room , he now first discovered that he was wounded in the abdomen , and , having endeavoured to allay the fears of his wife , he got into bed , and ordered his man servant , who had not made his appearance till then , to seek for a constable , as a protection to his family , and then to fetch a doctor for himself . The man called up the village Dogberry , and

    then proceeded to summon Mr . Davies , the medical attendant of the family , who resided about a mile and a half distant . On the arrival of the constable , an examination of the premises was made , and it was ascertained that an entry had been effected at the rear of the premises , through the scullery window , the burglars having first broken a pane of glass to enable them to open the window , and then cut away the woodwork , into which an iron bar was fixed . From the scullery an entrance to the kitchen was effected by the removal of one bolt , which appears to have been done in a very business-like manner , indicating that the villains were no novices in crime .

    Having once gained an entry , they appear to have set open all the doors in the house , so as to afford speedy egress in case of alarm or discovery . The front door was propped open by a mat , and two or three other doors were found fixed on their hinges by the insertion of knives in the crevices . From the positive testimony of Mr . Holiest there appears to be no doubt that three men were engaged in the attack , and the amount of property carried off seems to corroborate his impression . The cool determination of the rascals may be gathered from the fact that , within half a mile of the spot , a quantity of bread and meat , with two or three half empty

    bottles of wine , stolen from the parsonage house , and evidently forming the debris of a meal , have been discovered . On the arrival of Mr . Davies , the family surgeon , he found Mr . Holiest in very good spirits , and sufficiently collected to detail the circumstances of the attack . On an examination of the wound , however , Mr . Davies at once formed an unfavourable opinion , the correctness of which was soon made manifest by the increasing pain and uneasiness which Mr . Holiest suffered . After the first two or three hours , the pain the unfortunate gentleman suffered became so intense that all hope of his being able to survive the injury was at nn end . His two brothers , who reside in the

    neighbourhood , were immediatel y sent for , and admitted to an interview with their afflicted relative . During Saturday the unfortunate gentleman continued to grow worse , and on Sunday at noon , all hope of saving his life being at an end , the fact was communicated to him . He received the melancholy intelligence with Christian resignation , and having taken an affectionate leave of his family and servants , he declared that he freely forgave his murderer , and that he hoped God would forgive him also . He then expressed a desire to partake of the sacrament , which was administered to him by a clerical friend and neighbour ; and , after lingering in great suffering , he expired , in a state of almost unconscious exhaustion , at twenty minutes after eight o ' clock on Sunday evening .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 5, 1850, page 652, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1855/page/4/