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the hands of " navvies , " a complete Slough of Despond , but nothing in this country is allowed to prevent the Queen going where she desires , and so the company were prepared for her . Sir Joseph Paxton explained the plan upon which the immense terraces and the other spacious arrangements of the grounds had been laid out . A beautiful model , placed near the west end of the building , enabled the party to appreciate more fully the magnitude of the works . But the outside of the building , and all the details of fountains , avenue , slope , and garden connected with it speak every day more and more effectually for themselves . It is the prerogative of great material undertakings to be their
own best exponents . Those who want truly to understand what the Palace and its park are must go to see them ; and when they are in the grounds they may take the opportunity , as the Queen did on Tuesday , of examining herself and showing her astonished guests the wonderful animal forms , which , with consummate skill , Mr . Waterhouse Hawkins is , in a remote shed , building up from the vestiges and tracings of an earlier world . The gigantic Iguanadon , the Ichthyosaurus , with his singular screw- ] 3 ropeller tail , the toads and turtles of pre-Adamite epochs , created no ordinary impression upon the minds of the illustrious trangers .
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LETTERS FROM PARIS . Letter XCVII . Paris , Thursday Evening , Nov . 3 , 1853 . The trial of the conspiracies of the Hippodrome and the Opera Comique begins this day . I have collected a few details on the subject . A former writer in La Presse , M . Jules Alix , inventor among other things of the Telegraphe Escavgotique , or in other words of a telegraph worked by sympathetic snails , had organized a small secret society of some forty individuals which
he had christened absurdly enough the Cordon sanitaire . Alix is a man destitute of judgment but full of pretensions , which are only equal to his incapacity . He put himself in communication with some persons of La Chapelle St . Denis , and proposed to them a plan of insurrection . When he was asked if he had any arms ? he replied , that he had some cannons . When asked what sort of cannons ? he x'eplied , zinc pipes , covered with tarred canvas , strongly bound round with a cord . These cannons in short were the
twinbrothers of those canvas-covered pipes which were said to have been discovered about a year ago . This was the degree of invention and progress to which Alix had at length attained . His cannons , however , were adopted , but his plan of barricades rejected . The men with whom he was in communication , soon submerged him ; and at their second meeting , it was proposed to put an end to Bonaparte by way of ; i beginning . After disposing of Bonaparte , his body was to be carried through Paris , barricades to be erected , the republic proclaimed , and Jilanqni placed at its head ! Thi . s was on the 5 th of Juno . On the 7 th they were to declare themselves en permanence with two other
secret societies , one that of the Droitx dn pcnple , the other that of the / Mud-lav Is , composed cadi of about fifty or sixty men , who would proceed to the . Bois do Boulogne and to the Hippodrome to strike the blow . On the 7 th , in effect , these men presented themselves at the stations assigned to them ; but the chiefs of the organization bad omitted one trivial requirement—to pjive them arms . The conspirators in the Boi . q < le Boulogne saw Bonaparte pass ; but finding themselves totally unsupported , and having only three pistols to ; t dozen men , they let him pass without making any attempt . At the Hippodrome it was much the same . About , five o ' clock , just as the xertiaitx dc . vil . ic . were
keeping back the crowd to let Bonaparte pasH out , one of the chiefs , by name Lux , clapped his hands as a signal for the attack . JOvery man came forth from bin ambush , the ranks wore closed ; but as they had no arniH , Bonaparte passed on without accident . Two days after , on tlio !> th of Juno , . Lux , Ali . v , and e > ne Joseph Brdault byname , a man of some energy , it Heems , and a , chief of the society of the Droiix tin Pcnple . , were arrested . As soon as they wen * taken , others stepped in to their places . This fame it was a Belgian , by name i ') o M < 1 ron , who assumed the direction of affairs . He centralized in hm own hands tho three societies and awaited events . On thoDth of July a placard /^ iivo notice ; that . Honaparto would visit the Opera Ceuniejiie ; on the following day . . 1 > oMctcu started his men andeliHtributed among them eight pistols . They were in all about 170 .
jlo selected a picked detachment and stationed them round tho Opera Cnmiqiio ; three men in the street near tho private ; door , six more nea . r the principal entrance , while six others remained an an immediate rcHerve . The rost of the conspirators remained without . 'inns on tho Boulevards . Bonaparte it appears was to have been stabbed and shot at once . The signal was to he a ory of Vive . I ' I ' / mpcreiir shouted by Do MoYen . It appears that the three individuals posted near the private door excited ( . he attention of the aeiyeut . t dc vide by their obstinacy in pressing close to tho entrance . Tho Hertfnitu de ml I . e . wore on the point of arresting them when a pistol fell in the mcuDIc . Mix men of tho reserve rushed up to rescue their comrades , hut throe or four brigades of aergentu de . ril / e . foil on tliem , and HrroHtod 14 out of 18 . ( Such in Hubwtttneo wau tho ailair of
the Opera Comique . The police arrested in all seventyseven persons , of whom forty-four were subsequently released . There remain thirty-three who are to be tried before the Cour d'Assises de la Seine , _ on the charge of having been accessories to a conspiracy designed to make an attempt on the life of the Emperor , < ' an attempt , " says the indictment , '' which was even partially put into execution . " The articles of the code cited by the indictment are precisely those two
articles ( 86 , 87 ) which excited so keen an opposition last May in the Chamber of Deputies . The Government proposed the re-establishment of those articles , and consequently of the punishment of death for political offences . Thanks to the obstinacy of the Chamber the punishment of death was re-enacted only in case of an actual attempt on the life of the sovereign . In the present case , therefore , the accused have really staked their lives .
The examination of the Delescluze affair continues . The persons arrested in the provinces , among others M . M . Rocher , Masselin , and David of Nantes , have been brought to Paris , and imprisoned in the Conciergerie . Two hundred more arrests have been made this week . All these contretemps do not prevent Bonaparte from quietly advancing to his goal . He is not yet crowned , you know , and that is the sunimum , of his hopes . The coronation is to be on the second of December next , I believe I may state with something like certainty . All the preparations for this event
were quietly pursued during August and September . Everything is ready now , even to the state carriages : a friend of mine has seen them . As it is , after all , simply a restoration , they ^ have been content to furbish up the carriages of 1809 , which have since figured at the coronation of Charles X . The gildings and the paintings have been freshened up , and eagles put at the four corners of tlie roof . For old Jerome , too , the carriage which served at the baptism of the Due de Bordeaux , now Comte de Chambord , has been revived . Three other carriages are prepared for the rest of the Royal family . I think you may rely on this news as a certainty . -
Our foreign politics are beginning to be slightly modified . In the first place , Bonaparte has been studying divers plans of campaigns , which he ordered to be submitted to him in the prevision of a possible continental war . Two of these plans especially attracted his attention . The first proposed the creation of seven armies , to act upon our northern and eastern frontiers . In the second and more reasonable one , two armies are proposed for operating , the one on the Rhine , the other , to be called the " Army of the Var , " and to have its head-quarters at Toulon , would be destined to operate in Piedmont and in Lombardy . Besides these preparations , Bonaparte , you may be aware , has just removed M . De Lacour from Constantinople , and has sent General Baraguay d'Hi fliers in his stead .
This general is a soldier of great energy . He has storted for his post with an opposing military staff ofdiffcront grades and brandies of the service . As your Government discountenanced sending French officers into Turkey for service in tho Ottoman Army , this is as good a way as any of waiving the assent to such a step . The news of the passage of the Danube by the Turks at Widden w confirmed . Only it is to be apprehended , that this fact lias not the importance ; generally ascribed to it .
The . Russians , by withdrawing their forces from Little ; Wallachia ( situated eighty leagues from Bucharest ) , laiel a trap for the Turks . Their object was to eleeery Oinor Pasha into that district . They reckoned on his abandoning the route from Sehuuila to Bucharest to throw his forces into Little Wallachia , in the hope ; of operating on tho flank of the enemy . But Omer Pasha , without ( putting his post , simply took advantage of the feint of the enemy to throw on that point a small detachment of / 52 OO men , and not of f > 2 , () 00 men , as has been reported . By this means he has secured himself a bridge across the Danube ; and he has acted with equal decision and skill . , S
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . The ) rcmnxUA' the ; week's intelligence from the Heat of war will b <; I ' ouikI on our first page . We have ; only to uelel the following iie > t «; s . It wn « not till the 13 'Jnel u ' lt . that the ; t'onibinuid fleets left Besika Hay . It was hletwiug a { rale of wind . The Htcam-frigatcs could not take the ; sailing vessels in te > w , and the ; Ilccts , afler having been some ; hours under weigh , were dispei'Hod in the different nncheirnge's of the Dardanelles , without one ; 1 > e ; ing able ; te > enter the ; Men of Marmora , On the ; 2 , 'Jrel , Jtoar-Aelmiml le > ilarliiei ; ele ; Timm wuh nblei ( , o reach Gallipoli with three Mini of ' the ; line . Admiral Dnnelas could oidy reach the ; ane'luiniLro of
J . ho lirst castle , with tho Britannia , and tho ' steam-frigate ) Wuriows . The Albion , two-decker , and the ; steam-frigates Hfltrilmtion and Vonyvance , anchored under line ; e > ld castle . The ; rent of the ; ships , however , sustained ne > damage . T | i <> Car « oc despatch-steamer , which rctichcd Marneilles on the tiOlli , reported having fallen in with l . he fleets in tow of the ; steamers , with l . opiniisf . s struck , find the ; iV <; nch admiral lending . It , Wns snid that the 'Knglisli shins would fiiifhor » t liimiHaclii , and the IVencli at ( Jallipoli , at the entrance of ( he ; Sea of . ¦ Marmora . The * lOnglish utemnei- , tfpif / irc . wmi taking soundings in the ; Jiosphoriis , VVheni f , h <; dee-laration of war was road to the astwmbleiel troopn at Bckumla , Omor 1 'uohu uddrooaod thorn ua folloW : —
.. " Officers and soldiers , from Asia , Africa , and Europe—The blood of your ancestors has more than onee reddened this soil , which a powerful enemy wishes to take from you . It has b y your fathers been confided to your patriotic honour ; it has as yet no blot . Enow , then , that you cannot move a step without a voice rising forth from the earth , and saying , ' This dust that you tread under foot is our ashes , the ashes of your ancestors ; defend it . ' Soldiers let us all together swear to spill our blood unto the last to hold the of the throne
drop . up integrity of our Emperor and beloved Sovereign the Sultan Abdul-Medjid . " Nanueh Pacha , Minister of Commerce , is en route to Paris and Xondon , to negotiate a loan , it is supposed of four millions . The new Minister of Finance , Safeti Pacha , one of the old Mussulman party , is a man of rare energy and skill in the financial department . There is a great want of workmen at Constantinople , all men capable of bearing arms having enrolled themselves as soMiers .
All the officials of the Russian Chancery , at Conitantinople , had left the city ; and a steam-frigate was preparing- to eihbark -the Russian subjects . The Russian ships in the Black Sea sail under the Austrian flag . The correspondent of the , Ddhats writes as follows , on the 15 th ult ., touching the " fanaticism" of the Turks and the dangers of the Christian population at Constantinople : " Constantinople is still perfectly calm , and the Christians whether Frank or rayah , enjoy the most complete security ! from de
Far feeling any disquietu , they laugh at the rumours which are spread in Europe . These rumours were the subject of general conversation at a very brilliant / efe given last night at Therapia , in the house of one of the richest bankers of the country . During- the whole night , caiques conveying ladies , to or from , the ball , circulated without the least disquietude amongst the vessels of war , manned by thousands of the Turks , who are represented as animated with the most violent fanaticism against the Christians , an < 5 as ready to devour us . But these Tumours are only fables . "
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The last telegraphic reports are to the effect that" The Danubian Principalities are declared in a state of siege . " Martial law is proclaimed . ~ " All intercourse with the Turks is prohibited on . pain of death . "A conflict is expected to take place at Erajowa ( capital of Little Wallachia ) ; 6000 Russian cavalry have arrived there . " Prince Gortshakoff had left Bucharest for Krajowa , A hue of avant couriers was established between these towns . Hostilities have commenced we hear . A serious engagement took place on the 21 st . The following is the proclamaoion which has been addressed to his army by Omer Pasha , previous to crossing the Danube : —
"Imperial Soldiers—When firm and courageous , m « shall engage the enemy . We will not fly , but sacrifice boely and soul to be avenged . Look to the Koran , on the Koran we have sworn . You are Mussulmans , and I doubt not you are ready to sacrifice body and soul for your religion anel your Government . But if there be among you a single man afraid of war let him say bo , for it is dangerous to face the enemy with such men . He who is under the ; feeling of fear should bo employed in the hospitals or other occupations ; but he who remains with us and turns his back on the enemy shall bo shot ! Xet the
courageous men Avhe ) long to manifest their devotednesa to their religion and the throne , remain . Their hearts are united with God , ariel if faithful to religion they prove themselves brave ; . God will assuredly give them the victory . Soldiers , let uh purify our hearts , and then put coiilielorice in the aid of Gfod . Let us do battle , and sacrifice ourselves like our ancestors , and , as they bequeathed our ceumtry anel our religion to us , wo ought to beiemoftt . il them to our children . You are all awaro that the great object of this life is to serve God and the Sultan worthily , and thus win Heaven . Sedeliesrs ! May God proteef ; ull \ vhe > have the honour to believe and to servo in these princi p les . " , Prince ) Stirbey ( Jlospe ) elar of Walloehia ) and bis son Jmel arrivcel at . Il . ' ormaniistadt on their way to Vienna . Huron Prokescb , President of the German Diet , has en . Vienna for Berlin te > pcrsunde the Prussian Government to a joint declaration with Austria e > n the Eastern question . But Prussia refuses to accede te > any pledge
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The oxcelloni Paris correspemdont of the Morn \»<) C / ironich gives the following anecdote , curiumt m P ' ™^ society in Paris . M . Thiers , in speaking of the recal ol Jw . de Lacour f ' renn Constantinople , is reported to have sin " "The > Eastern question scorns to be an unpre > pitio" » <»» to ministers anel ambassadors . I f »; ll because 1 waiitmt w be ; toe > firm . M . Lavaleitte was replwwd in 185 ; $ > , ' ., he demanded too much . M . de ) Lacour in so now , W « " ' be ban nett ; been firm enough ; anel ye ; t M . ele ; ! Laval <> U «>< ^ not ge » boyonel his instrue-tieuis , anel M . de Laee > ur 1 () 1 ' ( rV exactly t . lie ; course ; prosoribeel to him . I hope Ge ; nora rnguayd'flillie ; rs will be more ; fortunate than bis preeit . c se > rs , duel that , above all , he ) will not be ) recalled 1 <» ¦
much emrt'gy . " . . i * . „ . Genei-fll Wnrnguay d'll ' illiers , the ) newly nppomte ' J bassaelor Extraordinary anel Minister Ple > nipotonl'nry 1 'Vanero at Consfiuil . iuoplo , in the place ) of M . do UW ><• , auoflicorwlie * Iii . m wrve'd in . Algeria . 1 < f ' <) ro ' Vl !' , n H , «) tion of ' 48 he > was (!() ni ]) amtiv <) ly unknown . _ vvne HiiuiUon ml . in he rugnali / cel himse-lfby bis ]) assie ) nale . ii - ^^ lit . y to oveirythini ' - re |) iiblican , and wan a k ; admg " . f-f * , ' , () of the ; fuirioiis club of the ) . Rue do lAntieirs , •¦ Hl ; Al ) U " ' ,. disseiiniimte Conservative tracts . Whe > n the y . 1 '" ! ' u . \ vernml ; ii < , bad eleisl . ro > e- < l the ; Itoinan . llepiibbo , tl » i « " ' . , „ ., [ was se-nt to e ; se-ort the I ' ope ; te > Home ) , anel there ) nji , ^ <; e ) inma . ul (! i--in , Chi <; f . lie atl . tcheel liiiiiHoll re ; Hcivi . j the ; (! iuihi < of Louis JVapoleon , and , after the coup * < mi - ^ r « wimlwl with the ; Vioet-Prosielone ^ of tho o « «*"' milW ion a" mere tabrmr in politics . 'Bio cliamotor ol Jil » »»
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 5, 1853, page 1060, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2011/page/4/
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