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the Government was magnificent , far beyond any-S ? ng I ever saw in Eng land , A vast and burmng saiW Qf the shape of an inverted ballattn was Ended under it The effect was like that of a duster of Pleiades hung down from the sky . But the cheering ^ except from English voices , was an almost indiscernible rumble—making the ear long for a hearty British burst . Fleet-street cheered Louis Bonaparte ten times more than the Boulevard Montuiartre cheere 1 Victoria . In fact , Paris has a hundred thousand bayonets in its throat , which naturally produce a slight guttural obstruction . You can smell the blood of December on the Boulevard Montmartre now .
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( From another Correspondent . ) ... The arrival of the English Queen in Paris has produced an impression so mixed , so confused , that it is difficult of description . We may state it for a certain fact , however , that under the excuse of curiosity Paris has flocked en masse to lay its homage at the feet of a real Queen . It has long been hungering for such a sight and such an opportunity . Listen to the conversation that is going on on all sides . They are talking ixom the saU > n up to the mansarde and down to < t 3 ie porter ' s lodge of her descent from a line of
sovereigns , of the fact that she came to her crown by inheritance , and may probably transmit it to her children—just as in the old times before revolutions came , or usurpers ; for , of course , there were no revolutions before Sy and usurpers all spring from Corsica . Some criticise the style of the royal lady ' s beauty—not generally approved of ; but all admire her character and speak benevolently of her young family . What you see in ¦ t he papers about the reception being intended for England is trash . The crowd goes to see Queen Victoria because she is Queen Victoria ; and
England , except as the land that makes her great , is never spoken of , or only with the compassionate contempt usual since the disasters of the winter campaign . All this means natural love of kings over people in high places : it also means opposition . ! Che homage paid to our Queen's position directly , is secretly paid to Henri V . or to any one who will ¦ assist in shaking off the incubus . Not that the idea takes form in many minds : it is a sentiment rather than a conviction—perhaps not a very dangerous one to power , unless defeat or famine
come . No one will combine to overthrow what till are ashamed of ; but all would be glad if , in the course of a night , things were to change , and Another strong government -were to announce itself with proclamations , and even with grapeahot , in the morning . As to a constitution—republican or other—nobody cares about it : the , ^ resry name stinks in the nostrils . Prince Albert is cheered because he is supposed to have recommended strong measures against press and parliaaoent . If be were to imitate " the chivalrous
Charles X . —a supposition not absurd to a French politician , in the state of information nsual amongst that class—he would be an immense man . Coups d ' etat coming from a bond fide prince would be regarded as dew from heaven . Outside of all this there is of course a small ttoterie of honest men , ay , honest and enlightened ; but what do they wei « h in the nation ? . . . Paris expects her royal visitors to be munificent . Some already grumble that a good number of pictures were not bought at the Exposition ; and artists sneer at the i ' act that our Queen stationed longest before the canvases of Horace Vernet , the Alexandra Dumas of the brush—which
English critics , having graduated for their position by studying picture-dealers slang , agree also to admire . . . There is a little ill-humour , by the way , abroad , on account of the late arrival of the party on Saturday . It is certain the arrangements were detestable . Why not have managed to start from Boulogne in the morning ? As soon as darkness closed in people began to grumble . A little hair-dresser ventured to observe : " I have
left my shop to receive the Queen of England with French politeness ; and I cannot see her . I do feel hurt in my dignity ; but , poor lady 1 I suppose it is not her fuult , and I forgive her . Bat the railway company—never ! " Curiosity , or servility , or both , however , carried the day ; and not a man l « ft the ranks . I do not know what is said on this point in the English papers ; but you may bo quite certain that they do not exaggerate the numbers or the eagerness of the people . Not a
man left his position till after the passage of _ the cortege ^ although the lamps had long boen lit . There were a good many English in the crowd , and they hurra-ed lustily , directing half the efforts of their lungs to glorifying the Emperor . From the French part of the crowd an unintelligible " Uoo , hoo , " arose ; b . ut the French Uon ' t know how to cheer ; hats ofl * , but no waving of handkerchiefs ; banners lowered as the carriages passed , except when the bearers , in their eager « esa to see , forgot this act of politeness . For the great object was to see the Queen , individually and distinctly , her countenance , her features , her
complexion , the colour of her eyes , her hair , the shape of her bonnet ( not approved of by milliners ) , her attitude . It appears that as long as light lasted , " like the sun , she shone on all alike ; " for everybody boasts of having received a point-blanc smile and nod . They will treasure the memory thereof , and boast indirectly , affecting to reveal the fact in the midst of cold criticism . Poor human nature ! But where are the Republicans ? Sulking at home , consuming their energies in hope or despair , and joining , alas ! too often the sneaking Orleanists in their opposition of sneers and disbelief .
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THE MECHANICS AT KNOWSLEY . A very pleasant mingling of the humbler orders of society with the more exulted took place on Saturday last , when the fine old mansion and park of the Earl of Derby at Knowsley were thrown open to the members of the mechanical institutions connected with the Institutional Association of Lancashire ami Cheshire . About five thousand persons from the chief towns of those two counties were present . Lord
Derby was himself absent in Scotland ; but Lord Stanley was " at home , " and made a genial and wellfelt speech , in which he addressed his hearers as " Ladies and gentlemen , —Good neighbours all . " He said be never walked out in the park without wishing for a few more happy faces to enliven the scene . Referring to the subject of education , and premising that self instruction is better than any amount ot government tuition , his lordship remarked : —
" In this association , I suppose you don t want telling , there are 70 institutions , and more than 16 , 000 members , while your libraries and reading-rooms contain in the aggregate about 250 , 000 volumes . Of this association , as I understand it , one of the leading features is , mutual assistance among a large number of unconnected institutions , the securing of a bond of union between them , of a common centre to which all their members may look ; so that local difficulties may be more easily got over , local quarrels or differences as to management decided in an amicable way , and the special experience of each institution made available for the common benefit of all . The other leading feature is the establishment of itinerating libraries , or collections of books , circulating gratuitously from village to village , in rural districts which arc not populous enough to maintain libraries for themselves . That is still almost a novelty in England .
It is now for the first time being tried in other counties ; but here the-system has . been ( though but on a limited scale ) in operation for three years . It has met with signal and remarkable success ; and I am bound to affirm , and glad to have an opportunity of doing so , that , as a means of diffusing knowledge , it deserves more general notice than it has yet received . " After thanking the visitors in his own and his father ' s name , for " the compliment of the visit , " nnd for " the courtesy nnd good humour ** manifested by all , Lord Stanley retired amidst vehement npplause . Three cheers were then given for Lord Derby , three for the Countess of Derby , and three for Lord Stanley ; and the excursionists dispersed themselves about the grounds .
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MISS NIGHTINGALE . A Lbtteu having been addressed to the Hon . Mrs . Sidney Herbert , requesting her to state what she conceives would bo the most acceptable testimonial to Miss Nightingale , Mrs . Herbert has replied that the means of founding a London Hospital on her own system of unpaid working , so aa to reform the nursing system of England , would be the only one testimonial acceptable by the heroine of Scutari- A subscription list , called " The Nightingale Hospital Fund , " is ubout to be opened at Messrs . Coutts ' a .
We have received a letter from Mrs . S . C . Hall on this subject , in which she trusts that our support may be giveu to a design which all men of the commonest fooling must Lava so deeply at heart . It in , we are sure , needless for us to inform the reader that an object so entirely in harmony with the beneficent nature to whom it will bo at once the highest satisfaction and the noblest tribute , will always command our warmest sympathies , and every aid -which it is within our power to accord . We can conceive no occasion on which the
payment of a subscription could give to ike doi degree of satisfaction so deep and various , so ample complete . The rendering any testimony to service pure , noble , and self-denying aa those of ' . Nightingale , is in itself a pleasure of no small arm as a mode of venting the love and admiration which all England is charged towards one who stand foremost amongst the heroines of the war ; when this testimony is to take the shape of a re which is most deeply needed , - and to enable her w wo wish , not to honour , but to thank , to carry out reform in England as she has already carried it oi Turkey , wo feel that we are only expressing the versal feeling of the country iu saying that the m will not bo wanting for carrying out such au object .
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A HORKIBLE STORY . Isauella Mahy Joi . ije y , a respectable woman a forty-two years old , has been examined at the " \\ minster Police Court under suspicion of murdering mother , a lady between eighty nnd ninety years of From evidence taken at the police office , and before coroner , it uppcared that the mother and daughter h house at 33 , Hill-street , Knightsbridge ; and , in co of the night preceding the tragedy , Miss Jolley i iuto the servant ' s bedroom , and told the girl not to up till seven , when she was to take breakfast iutc old lady ' s room . This was done ; but the room < 3 contrary to the usual custom , was found locked , j Jolley said it was to prevent the cat getting in ,
ordered the breakfast things to be taken into the 1 room . This was the more extraordinary as the sen always went into the room to cut Mrs . Jolley ' sbread-j butter . Some time after the breakfast things were uj found in the back room , with both cups bearing evid of having b . 'en used . About ei ^ fht o'clock , and oj before teu o'clock , Miss Jolley went out fora short ti and a little after twelve o'clock , Mrs . Crapp , the wii a neighbour , and a friend of the family , saw the pris < at the parlour window , in a state of great distract holding her hands to her head , and exclaiming , " I mad—I am almost mad ! " Mrs . Crapp went in , heard some wandering fragments of sentences from 1 Jolley , to the effect that her mother was dead , that
throat was eut , and that sl » c had died quietly , policeman was called in , and the old lady was fo stretched across the bed , with her feet on a chair , her throat cot . Miss Jolley related that about dayli she heard something the matter „ with her mother , - said , " I am very wet , " and it then appeared , she covered with blood . She added , " I am dying , " and expired almost immediately . The policeman was dire to a drawer , where he found a razor , but it was q clean . Miss Jolley said she had washed it , had take out to be sharpened , and h : d then tried to cut her i throat , but it would not act on her . In reference to not telling the servant of the death , she remarked I the girl was a Roman Catholic , and would swear a
thing . The first examination was on Friday week , when prisoner was remanded till the following Thursday , that day , further evidence was received , the most portant being that of a cutler , who said that Miss Jo ! had been twice to his shop to have a razor sliarpc aad set , and that on one occasion a companion of prisoner motioned to him not to let her have it . servant girl stated that a night-gown found by policeman on a table , and covered with blood , bcloii ; to Miss Jolley . It appeared that the prisoner had hi for some time very depressed in her spirits owing being in * ilebt and in want of money ; and she oi spoke to a friend of committing suicide . The case v again remanded . Ou Saturday last an inquest was held , and tho ji returned an open verdict , that the deceased died i ' r a wound in her throat , but by whom inilicted there \ no evidence to show .
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THE POISONING CASK IN SOMERSETSHI 1 A cask of mysterious death from poisoning near Al soraer Norton , in Somersetshire , was briefly recorded the leader of last week . Tho inquest then stood i joiirncd , and the facts were suppressed ; but a furtl aitting has sinco taken pluco , und the ovidence bus be made public . From this , it would seem that the < cftased , Mrs . Candy , had been in a low state of mind nome time past , and had often brought up blou nnd that she occasionally threatened to hang herrii In the service of her husband , was a Miss 11 hi ley , a cousin of Mr . Candy , who employed her a dairymaid . He occasionally drove out with ti cousin ; but his wife , he anted at the inquest , "< not diniipprovo of it ; she wished it . " Ho added tl liiu wife was not jvnlous of any woman ; aud t domestic servant at tho house , as well as another witne stated that they had never hoard Mr . and Mrs . Can quarrel . It appeared , however , thut Miss Huntloy h told tho sorvunt , before she camo to tho inquest , to nut a stutcment to that effect . This witnesu had held I ; mistress , to prevent her cutting her throat ; and a nva \ woman occasionally employed by Mrn . Candy had h < 'n her say uhe would take arsenic If olio could got it . -
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83 : 0 THE LEADER . [ Ko . 283 , Saturday
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 25, 1855, page 810, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2103/page/6/
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