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Airt « p 1 s of regiments ascended the steps of the grand SSw ' 53 Sf *« the Prince ' s hands the stan ^ ¦ ffifhis regiment , wife ^ neagle ^ on ate pmmit . As >! rpceived Sie standard he moved on * and ^ descended ^ S ^ fc the side opposit e to that Jby which he had asvIaH The several standard-bearers then remained below xu ofpns until the whole distribution had terminated ; tt Sards being passed along ^ a line ^ of officersto 5 ?«^ ftt'St Arnaud , who handed them , to the President , Sutff tste retired . them . / When all the standards fofT been fiiven , the officers holding them again loft their f" ana ascending once more the steps , grouped them-P S'Ant of the ' Prince , whilst he reaxf the following
" Soldiers ! The history of nations is , in a great measure , fhp histor y of armies ; on their success or reverse depends rtp fate of civilization and of the country . If conquered , the result is invasion or anarchy ; if victorious , it is glory < mdorder . Thus nations / like armies , entertain , a religious veneration for those einblems of military honour which sum up in themselves a past history of struggles and of ^ " The Roman'eagle , adopted by the Emperor Napoleon at the commencement of this century , was the most strikino- signification of the regeneration and of the grandeur of France . It disappeared in our misfortunes-r-jt ought to return when France , recovered from her defeats , and mistress of herself , seems not any longer to repudiate her own
"Soldiers ! resume , then , these eagles , not as a . menace against foreign Powers , but as the symbol of our independence , as the souvenir of an . heroic epoch , and as the sign of the nobleness of each , regiment . Take again these eagles which have so often led our fathers to Victory , and swear to die , if necessary , in their defence . " As soon as the standard-bearers had taken up then * stations at the foot of the altar , a niusicaj mass was executed under the direction of M . Adolplu * Adam . The
bands of 21 regiments of infantry , of nine regiments of cavalry , 154 i pupils ' of the musical school of the army , and the performers on M , Sax ' s gigantic msfaunieiits in the Juif Errant , made a body of more than 15 W Musicians . As it had been decided that the mass for the ceremony should be but of short duration ,, the parts performed by the band were only three—the Kyrie , the Sahitaris , and the Sanctus . It was thislast piece , givjng aa , it did more scope for the resources of' military niusic > which produced the greatest effect ; ' ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦'¦ : v ' ¦ '" v ' '
A cannon shot was fired at the beginiring of the mass , and another at the elevation of the . Host , -and then , immediately commenced the ceremony of blessing the standards . The archbishop advanced towards , the lower part of the- place where they stood , the clergy singing the Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini , the Oremus , and the Omnipotens Sempiternus Dem ,, , The prelate , then sprinkled the standards with , holy water , and then putting on his mitre sat down . One of the standard-bearers then advancing , knelt down before the prelate / Who addressed him as follows : — ' ''' ¦ . ' . ' - ; "' ' . ' ' " Receive these standards , * Sanctified by-the blessings of Heaven . May they . be Jhe . terror of , the enemies *; of ( the
Chrisd ^ p people ; and may Gqd , ; in honouri of his name and his glory , give you grace to penetrate unhurt with them into the midst of the enemy ' s battalions ? ' '"' ¦" .,.-The archbishop then gave him the kiss of peace , saying Pax tibi . The person so addressed then kissed the pontifical ring , and withdraw . After this ceremony had been gone through with all the rest ,, the archbishop turned towards the people , and gave them his solemn benediction . The drums then beat , the bands played , the trumpets sounded as before , the officers stood' uncovered , and the cannon fired 101 shots .
The defile" came to an end about four o ' clock , the troops at onco marching off , the ground to their barracks . A salvo of 21 guns announced that the ceremony was over . Tho President rode off the ground with -his eortdge in the same order as had been seen on his arrival . At thd same moment the clergy , which had remained on the stops of tho altar during the filing oif , loft the Champ do Mars m procession , ana returned to the Church of St . Pierre , at wos Caillou , singing the 143 rd Psalm .. An amusing , naif letter * in the Daily News , ia valuable for its uir of fidelity , destitute of any '' gug . " It is irom a simple spectator ' : —
I ho President , " he says , " vanishos towards tho cavalry on tho right of tho field , and now ^ in tho roar of his train , we soo tho Arab chiefs ^ with thoir queer night-cap looking hoad-dressos and -wrappers , somo rod and some white , thrown loosely about thorn liko blankotB . They Maintain a characteristic gravity of demeanour , manage ~ 0 lUs Napoleon ' s horses , on which thoy aro mounted , without any apparent effort , and seem surprised at nothing . J-nclood , tho Hcono may not bo so novel to them as might . ° PPosod . Tho sandy expanse of tho Champ do Mars
, " very unlike an African desert , and thoy have long uocii tamiliar with tho sight of French troops at homo . a no L resident has made tho complete round of tho field , » na ( loscondod from horseback , and taken hia stand on the yrana os trade prepared for him in front of tho Ecolo 1 n ii w »« ro tho eagles and flags aro to bo distributed . d ,, u not attempt to describe tho ceremony . I have no bul i i ifc is a " K K according to tho programmo ; ii s not b ° mg able tosoo through the embroidered couts of innn ! i a » ft n ( * I know not what other newly mado groat nviri aro oloaoly packed in front of mo , I can givo no "vmonco on tho nubjoefc . * * * * I hoc a procession | o icora carrying tho flacH and carles to bo blossod at tho
diN'i ' n 80 ° tiho V ' lOBta , Htill looking liko China-afltors , but tlm « i y Vl . 8 lbl ° H » w > ugh my telescope , on thoir knowi at roHm - pB of tho ftUar - Tho muss is being performed . The " Kvorv cPromony ° vor , tho marching past commpnoos . inn . w . 1 r , ° P onfc ' ovory deputation from a rogimont Maili mp tlirn bolbro fch " PwBidont , Htill on his grand « rioH Ac « ir- fcno 8 t ; tt 8 ° of tho proceedings at which tho Snttt ° rEl ? P « ro « r' woro oxpoetod . To what oxouose expectations woro roalizoa you will learn from
your official accounts . It is proverbial that no species of sight-seeing is more disappointing than a review ; Faithful to my engagement to speak only of my own impressionsj I can only say , that although most of the regiments cried out with more or less vehemence , I have not tho least notion whether they cried ' Vive l'Empereur ! ' ' Vive Nttpoleon ! ' or ' Vive le President ! ' I can pretty well guess that none of them cried ' Vive la Eepublique ! ' My state of ignorance is shared by all those around me , although we were within a few yards of the troops while they passed . You may judge from this what idea can be formed of the result of the demonstration by the multitude who throng the distant parts of the field . I can vouch for this —rthafc some of the regiments , and I especially noticed some hussars among the number , were silent . Others shouted but feebly . A lady near me charitably accounted for this , by observing that they were ' probably very tired . '"
The enthusiasm of the army appears to have been in the following proportion : -1 . Lancers . 2 . Cuirassiers and Carabineers . 3 . Municipal Guard . 4 . Infantry . 5 . Artillery . The last named did . not raise even a shout . Most of the foreigners present in the tribunes were in uniform . TJpwards of 100 English officers were present ; many of them in the uniform of the G-uards ,, It rather wounds our national pride to Hear that one British officer was ignominously ' spilt" from his horse . But ' revancjie , we are informed by the special envoy of the Morning Chronicle , that officers in . British uniform are the liona of the Boulevards . The ball at the Ecole Militare , given by the army , came off on Tuesday . night .
Francois Aragb , the great astronomer , refused , in a l e tter full of touching and no b le dignity , to take the oaths . The Government has not dared to compel his resignation of a post he has occupied with distinguished honour to his country for fifty years . He is absolved from the necessity of taking the oaths . General Changarnier has written from Malines , in terms of extreme bitterness and uncompromising hostility , to refuse to take the required oaths . He mentions having been offered repeated bribes : a marshal ' s baton , the revival in his favour of the " Constable of France , " with an immense salary , to favour the ambitious designs of Louis Bphaparte .. But he had never swerved from his loyalty to the laws of his country . to have had recent
The Duke d'Aumale is reported a conference with General Changarnier at Aix-la-Chapelle . The Empress of Eussia has arrived at Potsdam . The Czar is expected at Berlin on the 16 th ; and on the 18 th inst ., the Emperor and Empress , with the three Grand Dukes , are expected to meet the King of . _ Wurtemberg at Frankfort . - = . ¦ On Friday the 7 th inst ., the Second Prussian Chamber rejected the project of the Government , founded on a royal messisgdj ' fespectingthe future organization of the First Chamber . Lord Malmesbury , as we know , is on the best of terms with all the despotic Governments , Mark how British subjects are treated , with his consent ^ in countries under ( Austrian inAuence . ' Here is a peridant to the Mather case , given by the Florence correspondent of the Daily News . - — ¦
" The son of the director of the Botanical Garden , opposite the English Church , inadvertently , wliilo reading , ran against an Austrian corporal ( not an officer of rank , as was at first represented ) . The unfortunate young man was immediately hurried off to the Fortezza da Basso , and bastinadoed with such severity that he will remain mutilated for life . His agonized father hurried to the Chovalicr Landucci , the Minister of the I nterior , to demand iustice , and was coolly told that his complaint could not bo received , as his parental feelings necessarily prevented hia taking a calm and unprejudiced view of tho case . From tho Minister of the Interior ho further went to tho Grand Duko , who ropliod , " It is useless coming to me . In any doubtful question that may arise between , an Italian and an Austrian , wo must givo tho decision in favour of tiho Austrian . "
At Home , Edward Murray , a British subject , after having languished in horrible prisons with tho vilest felons , untried , unvisited , has at lost been sentenced to death by the Seci'ct Tribunal of the Consulta m There has been a constitutional crisis in Tuscany . The priests have boon terrifying tho imbecile Grand Duko with a mechanical representation of the souls of his father and grandfather in purgatory , to induce him to abolish tho constitution . But tho latest ; advices ntato that tho Ministry still holds its ground . Tho Jows , however , aro threatened with depri vation of all thoir rights ; and Protestants , including many English residents , with confiscation , under a revived law , which allows no horotic to hold or bequeath property in the Duchy , except at Leghorn .
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STATUES OF SIR ROBERT PEEL . Tio first statue erected to tho memory of Peel now Rtnudrt in tho town of Salford . It in executed in bronze , ton feet high , and stands on a pedestal of rtunito . seven feet high . Tho situation chosen 13 admirably fitted for tho purpose , being on tho HUininifc of a wooded Hlopb rmnp ; from tho bniilcn of tho Irwoll , ho that it may bo neon from tho principal quarter of tho town . On ono Hide of tho pedcHtnl ih tho word " Pcol , " and on tho other tho famous paragraph from his npoeoh beginning' " It may bo I flhnll Idavo n nnnio soinetimds remembered with expression of goodwill in tho abodes of ' those whoso lot it in to labour , " &c .
Tho coromony of inauguration was poribrinod on Saturday , Mr . JBrothorton , M . P ., being tho orator ot tho occasion . Sovorul thqusandfl woro pronoufc . Tho statue w tho work of Mr . Matthew Noblo , of London . In addition to this , wo loarn from tho Times that "the colossal ptatuo , modelled by Mr . Bounce for tho
town of Leeds , has at length been cast in bronze by Mr . F . Robinson , of Pinilico , who , by this work , has introduced a new era into a department of art . Hitherto bronze statues have been cast in several pieces , and afterwards joined together , so that the sculptor ' s idea was not always followed with accuracy . Mr . Robinson , however , by employing a new composition for his mould , is enabled to stake the production of his figure on a single operation , and the first result of his experiments is the reproduction of Mr . Behnes ' s excellent likeness of Sir R . Peel cast in one piece . The success of this hazardous undertaking has already attracted the attention of sculptors , and Mr . Baily's model of Sir R . Peel , ordered by the town of Bury St . Edmunds , is already preparing for the foundry in Mr . Robinson ' s studio . "
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THE WAGNER CASE . - Mb . Bethixi / s address to the Court , which we summed up in our Postscript last week , was followed on Saturday by addresses on the same side from Mr . Malins and Mr . Martindale , who dilated on the same topics and pursued the same line " 3 f argument—namely , that Dr . Bacher was not authorized to sign a contract containing the prohibitory clause ; that be was the agent of Lumley , and not the agent of the Wagners ; that time was the essence of the contract , and that the 300 Z . ought to have been paid on the 2 nd of April ; and the additional argument , that the present was not a case for an injunction , but an action at law .
Mr . Bacon , on behalf of Mr . Lumley , produced and read letters from Miss Wagner to Dr . Bacher , showing that he was on intimate terms with the Wagners , and that he had been employed to negotiate similar matters for her . He also argued , that the extent of Dr . Bacber ' s authority to sign a contract -was of no consequence , provided it was afterwards ratified by the Wagners . He contended that the contract had at first been thankfully received , and stated that the notorial protest at Hamburg had not been made until the day after Miss Wagner had signed her
engagement with Mr . Gye . In that protest no mention was made of the non-payment of the money as a ground , for considering the contract at an _ end . He was bound to admit that the money should have been paid before Miss Wagner started for England , but it had been twice "tendered since , and twice refused . These proceedings occupied the whole of Monday . On Tuesday Mr . Hislop Clarke supported the arguments of Mr . Bacon ; and after a reply from Mr . Bethell , which consisted of a recapitulation of his first speech , Sir John Parker gave judgment .
He re-stated the facts of the case ; and took up the points seriatim . With respect to the authority possessed by Dr . Bacher to sign the contract for the Wagners , he was of opinion that they wero not bound by the acts of Dr . Bacher at the timw when he signed the contract containing the prohibitory clause ; but that they were so bound , because they subsequently adopted tho contract , and . thus implied the agency . Tho . next point was the alleged unfairness of the clause . But it was clear to him that the objections were not raised to the clause itself , but to the improper generality of it—that it went too far . " The contract was sought to be got rid of , not on account of Mr . liumley ' s making an illiberal or unjustifiable use of his power of giving or withholding his consent , but , hia
Honour must say , becauso it was to prevent the lady from doing what all parties must have intended she should be precluded from doing . " The next point was tho non-payment of the 300 / . This ho did not consider an essential , but an independent clause , tho nonperformanco of which could be no bar to an action on tho contract . Ho thought tho Wagners had in their letters enlarged tho time of paying tho money ; and bo was of opinion that they were not justified in entering into a contract with Mr . Gyo on the 5 th of April , ( tho first day of tho period set . apart by Miss Wagner to meet Dr . Hnclicr uh Lumloy ' s agent , ) or making tho protest on tho 6 th putting an end to the contract with Lumlcy . Bacher svvoro that bo bud 300 Z . with him at Hamburg , and bin Honour saw nothing to make him think ho bad not that sum , or that ho bad not means of performing that part of Lumloy ' s contract . His Honour concluded by continuing tho injunction .
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ROYAL LITERARY FUND DINNER . The anniversary dinner' of tho Royal Literary Fund took pluco on Wednesday at tho Frecniumm ' s Tavern . Lord Chief Justico Campbell took the chair , and among tho company woro—M . Van der Woyor , tho . Belgian MiniHtpr ; the Chovalior lUuison , tho Prussian Minister ; Mr . Abbott Lawrence , tho American Minister ; M . do Bille , tho Danish Minister ; Uio Persian Minister and Major Malcolm ; Lord J . Stuurfc , M . P . ; Mr . Justice Talfourd ; Sir A . Cockburn ; tho Solicitor-Goneral for Iroland ; tho Quoon ' p Advocate ; Goneral Sir C , Pneloy j
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jVtAY 15 ^^ 2 . 3 ^ EADE ^ 459
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Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1852, page 459, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1935/page/7/
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