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NEWS T?ROM 10ARIA.
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guiled or frightened by the glisten of girlish , eyes , or the tos 8 of haughty heads , and political topics-ate left out of the question . Thus Captain Teenon- attempted to insinuate himself into Berkshire l ) y proving ' to' the free and independent that he was admired by the white-handed non-electors in the gallery of the county hall . "I am not a lily , but I appeal to the ladies in the gallery—am I black ? " The ladies in the gallery showered down their suffrages on the Boyal Engineer , and every lack-brain in the assernby desirous
of co-operating , however distantly , with those jewelled graces , cheered the confident orator . This is corruption , we say . What are banners to ifc ? "What is beer ? What is a paid canvasser in comparison with a beauty who asks for a vote as she would for a flower , as a favour you cannot think of refusing ? For ten days the horses were perpetuallyin the carriage of our Eupheosyne ; she was at Bath , and the snow-white pennon—her suffragefloated out when , that Bayabb of the hustings , the dashing , generous-hearted Mr . "Wat , stood gallantly before the electors . "What was Mr . Tite to do ? He had no charms to
to counteract the windows crowded with delicate faces , all hating him for opposing such a dear man as Mr . "Wat . There must have been three blind voters in the crowd who voted for Mr . Tite and kept out the handsome Tory . But elsewhere , Efphkosyne attended the nominations , irresistible in bonnet , in mantle , in spring-tissues , in patrician , sympathy with the candidates who dwell in
castles , and whose moutaehes curl with the pride of classical ancestry . She bent like a fairy courtier to the hard-fisted Boeotian who promised to vaute ' for the young lord ; she turned away petulantly disdainful from the farmer , who had given his promise and would not recal it " merely to oblige her . " "He could not refuse ! " But he did , and Eurpheositne retired with a cloud upon her face that has ever since haunted the man like
the shadow of a crime . He wishes he had the Ballot . EuPHROsTtBiE , however , is not for tho Ballot . She is deeply interested in the ploughing successes of that abashed boy in gaiters ; but his father coming along the path , she recollects suddenly " Our county election is next week 5 you will promise me to vote for Mr . Montgomery de Montgomery . " Meanwhile EiTPKiiosYNE would prefer electing the county member herself , plumping for him , " and have done with it , " girding on his sword , and
sending him to sit fearfully silent in the House of Commons , or adventurously loquacious somewhere else ;—but he will be in London , of course , attending to his Parliamentary duties . We must have the Ballot , if only as a safeguard against this French cambric influence , this ^ gush of wood-violet perfume stealing over the hustings , and intoxicating the susceptible voter . Otherwise wo must class all blooming girls with soldiers in uniform , and prohibit their presence within three miles of any hustings or polling-booth whatever .
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THE MIDDLESEX ELECTION . The Middlesex contest promises to bo very severe . Lord Grosvenor and Mr . Hanbuky arc confident ; Lord Chelsea , is confident also . The Tory Viscount seems to have surveyed tho Bribery Act ; to good purpose , and to have detected all its Haws , lu spite of his auriferous agents , however , it is to ha hoped tkat Middlesex will be true to ifa colours . It rejected Maidstonk , why should it accep t , Chelsea ? Because Ciiuxsisa would make Chelsea a scpftrale borough ? But Lord Hob Kill ( Jrosvkn'ok anil Mr . IIanmuuy would support , the jtrincipin ot giving representatives to places with large populations . Whatever tlu : Viscount is , he is not n Llc lbrmor , and'if Middlesex l ) c on Monday what it has been for years , he will UOt be a mcnibcr of I ' mliamcat ,
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of seven persons , had withdrawn ; and one citizen had been expelled . Thus , eleven individuals had been lost to the settlement , leaving a hundred and sixty-three , of whom only one was absent , the citizen Klin g , authorized by the community to undertake a journey to some distant station . We have alluded to the death and exhumation of M . Cabet . It was proposed at first to bury him in a lead coffin ; but the Icarian Elders objected that his principles of life ¦ were too simple to justify a method of interment so patrician . He was laid ,
therefore , commonly coffined , in an ordinary grave ; but a remonstrance came from France , urging a coffin of metal and oak , and a public tomb . The assembly debated the question anew ; the women and " young people" were consulted , and acquiesced , and the assembly adopted the proposal . The report on the proceedings that followed is written in true Icarian style , the state of the body being described with singular minuteness . "We . pass ; on-to the reinterment . Catjet' ahead was placed on a linen pillow stuffed with feathers , a crown of natural moss and artificial white flowers was wreathed across his
forehead , and a bottle containing a Catalogue of his works was placed between his knees . The body , in an . immense cast-iron coffin , painted and varnished ia an Egyptian pattern , was then deposited in a tomb of masonry . Not , however , before the adepts in Icarian mystery had noted " a celestial mansuetude " in their dead founder ' s face . But the Icarians have not been engaged only in burying their dead . " Dike good social philosophers , they have been taking care of
their " surroundings . " The family lives well , freely , cordially , and reports no particular quarrels . Ifc has celebrated its ninth anniversary- On the 3 rd of February last , the little nation held high festival- —abreakfast , a dinner , a concert , with interludes of oratorical melody . All night the Iearians laboured at the decoration of their common ball ; a vast garland of artificial'flow'ers was festooned upon rosettes round tbe walls ; elegant urns adorned the ehimney-pieces ; a portrait of M . Catjet smiled upon the scene , laurelled and blossomed . On each table was a rbti . a dish of
maccarom with cheese , an apple cake , aild a pot of coffee . Napkins were allowed—an inroad on the simplicity of Icarian manners , upon which the conservative Elders cast a morbid eye . Tlien when the rage of hunger was appeased , although no draughts of scarcely-mingled wine infused ambrosial joy into bosoms fresh as the daedal earth , citizens and . citizenessea rose in rapid succession , and saluted in votive speeches the proverbial philosophy of Icaria . Virtue , Poetry , Perseverance , Harmony , and Qrafcifcude were drytoasted ; theatrical performances followed ; and Icaria condescended to imitate the
NEWS T ? ROM ICARIA . Icaria . is- at St . Louis . If you write to an Icarian ^ address your letter « St . Louis ( Mo ) Post-office . Bok 50 . America . " Tho Icarinns have gone from Iowa , gone from Nau-™ ° ? J ^ they flourish in this now place of their fond adoption . -When they assembled hero , they numbered a hundred and seventvfour persona—seventy-four men , forty-five women aoven youths and girls , and forfcv-Boven ch ildron under fifteen years of age Vr > to tho 1 st of February , 1857 , the following changes had taken place : M . Oa . uet himself had died , and been buried , oxhumed , aud buried again . Two other members of tho colony had also died , Ono family , consisting
amusements of the outer world . But , although one of the orators was named Wisicfc , no purple or yellow potations enriched the conviviality of the hour , while , according to a decree of the citizens and citizenesses and " young people consulted , "" no smoking was allowed . They do not smoke iu Icaria . ~ We
have no doubb tho nation" is very happy aud self-satisfied ; but overy Rasselas in search of felicity need not go for it so far as St . Louis , for , afdor all , Icarians , in spifco of their special surroundings , live much as wo do in tho denser atmosphere of Europe , and now and then , to illustrate the power of illimitable lovo , oxpel an obnoxious member .
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little purpose that Mr . Hiiro indicates the probable course of the comet . Mathieu Jx&nsbebg did not prophesy for nothing . The G-allician peasants are devout in tleir belief that one object of the manifestation is the devouring of this populous globe ; and in England there is a good deal of Galli « ian piety . Not among the unwashed only—if such a class there be in this highly civilized kingdom . These brooding terrors build fclieir nests among the Corinthian capitals of polished society , and many a secret flutter comes and goes when the phenomenon of the thirteenth of June is brought into a dialogue upon the point of an allusion .
We do not expect that the comet will much , damage the earth . The Tbleur predicts that , in the shape of a superhuman locomotive—whatever that may be—it will rush over a bridge of stars upon , our globe and do infinite harm , amid the applause of anarehis ' ts- Meanwhile , the less-endangered moon wiD wink from afar in a window of heaven , and promise herself more agreeable neighbours in future . The fixed stars will be avenged upon the impertinences of astronomy ; the planets will coalesce in a horrid joy , and the believers in a plurality of worlds will be compelled to float for ever upon , fiery exhalations in the train of the
great comet . Thus , we see , the subject has two sides , the grave and the grotesque . But it has also elicited a multitude of minor questions —whether we shall not all be very warm next summer ? whether the colours of out silk dresses will not fly under the influence of the hot and brilliant spectre ? . whether Mr . Disraeli will be able to bear ifc ? whether the Scotch ,, tlx-e most intensely feudal people in the world , according to " Martial , will not feel so pleasant in the light and geniality of a double sun , that they will for evermore
curse the cold , of . Argyllshire ? , whether the ¦ Reform Bill had not better be postponed to a less agitating season ? whether Mr . F . Pjsel will delight his friends by retiring into private life ? TJpon the tail of the comet hang these topics ; but if we are to have the physical fervour , it will not come too soon . " We have been cooling lately ; the earth , they say , is driving northwards , so that a cometglow may be really a boon . What if it should tinge with sudden lustre Louis Napoleon ' s nobility ! The Asiatics , we kaow , who ripen on the sunny side of the world , have literally warmer blood than runs iu the veins of Englishmen and Samoyedes .
Perhaps a new calorical presence , passing though ifc may bo , may tint our side of the earth , and while ifc gives a pomegranate blush to our peaches , sind infuses an Oriental flavour into our grapes and pines , to may look up like Parsees , and borrow from the cornet a dash of cordiality . lufcimea to come , then , ifc may be hoped , that to hold , up a shallow head on . a neck , stiff aa a , feudal spike on Temple Bar , aud to walk our ways in frozen apathy , may not be to mimic the attitudes or the sentiments of " a perfect gentleman . "
PROGNOSTICATIONS OF THE COMET . Memo unquam come tarn impune vidit . The tremblings of a general oloetion forebode a blazing apparition in Juno . Ib is to
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Leader (1850-1860), April 4, 1857, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2187/page/16/
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