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and sick as he has been for months past , his heroic wife refused , nevertheless , to surrender him to the care of strangers ; and it was . not until Friday , when it was ap * parent that his reason was gone and he was utterly unmanageable , that she consented to his removal to the asylum . Mrs . Patten herself is slowly recovering from the effects of fever . She is still quite feeble , but the patience in suffering and the energy in emergencies which , she has hitherto displayed may carry her over this , which she regards as the greatest of her sorrows . " The expedition which has been fitted out by the Colonial Government of Canada for surveying and exploring the Canadian route vid Lake Superior to the Red River settlement sailed from Toronto on the 24 th ult . It consisted of twelve or fifteen persons .
In the New York market , money continues abundant and easily obtainable at the moderate rates of eight to nine per cent , on high grades of paper , according to maturity , and eleven to fifteen per cent , for second-class double and good single acceptances .
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THE ORIENT . CHINA . Tins Times special correspondent at Hong-Kong has contributed to the leading journal a letter full of interesting gossip and picturesque writing , reminding us in vividness and buoyant style of the world-famous communications from the Crimea . He thus writes of the strange , barbarous "English , invented and used by the Coolies : — " The elegant Greek slave imposed his language and his modes of thought upon his barbarous Roman master ; our civilized Chinese attendants have communicated to us outer barbarians the syntax of the Chinese tongue . They have made for us a new English language , Wherein sounds once familiar to us as English words startle us by new significations . My friend introduced me to his comprador thus : —• ' You see gentleman—you tawkee one piecey coolie one piecey boy—Jarnt pigeon , you savey , no number one foolo : —you make see this gentleman—you make him house pigeon . ' This was said with great rapidity , and in my innocence I
believed" that my fr iend was speaking Chinese fluently . He was only Calking ' Canton English . Translated into the vernacular , it would stand -. —* You see this gentleman ; you must engage for him a coolie and a boy—people who understand their business , you know , not stupid fellows ; you . will bring them to- him , and then manage to get him a lodging and furnish it . ' To whom the polite comprador , leniter atterens caudam , replied : —' Hab got . I catchee one piecey cooley , catchee one piecey boy . House pigeon number one dearo , no hab got . Soger man hab catchee house pigeon . ' ' Must got . ' ?¦ Heuigh . ' The basis of this ' Canton English 'which is a tongue and a literature , for there are dictionaries and grammars to elucidate it , consists of turning the ' r' into the ' 1 , ' adding final vowels to every word , and a constant use of ' savey' for ' know , ' ' talkee' for ' speak , ' ' piecey' for ' piece , ' ' number one' for ' first class , ' but , especially and above all , the continual employment of the word ' pigeon . ' Pigeon means business in the most extended sense of the word . ' Heaven
pigeon hab got' means that church service has commenced ; 'Jospigeon' means the Bhuddist ceremonial ; * Any pigeon Canton ? ' means ' Have any operations taken place at Canton ? ' ' That no boy pigeon , that Coolie pigeon , ' ia the form of your servant ' s remonstrance if you ask him to fill your bath or take a letter . It also means profit , advantage , or speculation . ' Him Wang too much foolo , . him no'savey , vely good pigeon hab got , ' was the commentary of the Chinese pilot upon the Fatshan Creek business . Until you can not only speak this language fluently , but also , which is far more difficult , understand it when spoken , rapidly in a low monotonous voice , all communication with your servants is impossible . ' *
The only news contained in the letter is the following with respect to the poisoned bread s— " Mr . Tarrant , of this city , has revived the subject by bringing an action against Allum for selling unwholesome bread . On Monday , the case came on for trial . The Attorney-General , abandoning all suggestion of guilty knowledge in the defendant , rested his enso upon the common law obligation cost upon a baker to bcII only bread fit for the food of man . The presence of arsenic was fully proved , and the jury returned a verdict for one- thousand and ton dollars . The point of law ia of course reserved . "
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THE COMPLETION Off THE LOUVRE . This new buildings at the Louvre , connecting that palace with the Tuilories , were inaugurated ut two o ' clock jp . bi . on Friday week . The edifice whs mngniilcently decorated for tho occasion ; and the Emperor and Empress , the court , several of the most distinguished of the French Generals , and the chief persons engaged in the works , wore present . Thrones for the Emperor and Empress , and fauteuils for the members Qf the Imperial family , were provided in the gallery where tho ceremony was to take place . AU having arrived , M , Fould , Minister of Stato , read front a paper the following speech : •*—M 'Sir © , ~ When your Majesty ordered tho junction of
the Louvre to the Tuileries you expressed a desire that it should be completed in five years . The desire of the Emperor has been accomplished . The first stone was laid on the 25 th of July , 1852 , and now , on the 14 th of August , 1857 , the Louvre and Tuileries form only one palace . " Neither the war nor the other difficulties which We have had to go through have interrupted this work , the dream of so many kings , and which would suffice for the glory of a period of peace and prosperity . It has not itself formed any obstacle to those vast and useful undertakings which under the inspiration of your Majesty
have been formed throughout the . whole of France . The network of onr railways has been rapidly extended , our ports enlarged and fortified , our large towns rendered healthy and enriched with splendid and useful buildings , the capital transformed , large streets opened , a magnificent promenade formed on an ungrateful soil , and everywhere progress for the welfare of all;—such is the spectacle which the country presents since it has placed its destinies in the hands of a sovereign whose genius has known how to comprehend and to satisfy the true wants of France . Thanks to the zeal of all the agents of the Administration , to the activity of the contractors ,
and the skill of the workmen , the works have gone on without any interruption ; and the execution of the Cahier Jes Charges , although the prices had been established before the rise in price of materials and of labour , has not given rise to any disputes . The Administration has shown itself just , and has only had to praise the good faith of the contractors . Your Majesty , whose presence at the work has frequently excited the ardour of the workmen , wished once more to see them assembled around you , after the completion of their task . AU press with happiness round your Majesty , all are conscious of having done their duty , and are proud of having had their part in this truly national work . Your
Majesty no longer sees at their head the eminent artist whom you had selected to complete the Louvre . A premature death , striking him four years ago , at the commencement of this great undertaking , deprived him of the honour of completing it . M . Lefuel , who was designated by your Majesty as his successor , has the glory of having finished it , and his name will remain attached with that of Visconti to the monument which we now inaugurate . The death of Visconti is not the only circumstance of which this ceremony reminds us . This year even we have lost Lemart , an artist at once bold and correct , and whose last compositions are the caryatides of the Pavilion de l'Horloge and ^ the handsome pediment of the Pavilion Denon .
" During the course of these works I have more than once pointed out to your Majesty the intelligence and the zeal of all those who have taken part in them . I have been permitted again to mention the names of those who have more particularly distinguished themselves , and to whom your Majesty has deigned to accord recompenses . " These recompenses will not only honour those to whom they are awarded ; they must also flatter the branch of industry or the bodies of the State to which they belong . At once personal and collective , those medals , distributed by your Majesty in person , will be for those who have completed their task a precious testimony of the august satisfaction of the Emperor . "
A list wa 3 then read of those persons engaged in the works whom the Minister recommended as worthy of special marks of the Emperor ' s approval . The names ranged from the principal architect , sculptor , and painter , down to the working mechanics . AH these persons were rewarded with the Cross either of Commander , Officer , or Knight , of the Legion of Honour . The Emperor and Empress then stood up , and the former read the subjoined address : —
" Gentlemen , —1 congratulate myself , with you , on the completion of the Louvre * I congratulate myself especially upon the causes which have rendered it possible . In fact , it is order , restored stability , and the over-increasing prosperity of tho country , which have enabled me to complete this national work . I call it so because tho Governments which have succeeded each other have made it , a , point to do something towards the completion of the Royal dwelling commenced by Francis I ., and embellished by Henry II .
" Whence this perseverance , and oven this popularity , in tho building of a palace ? It is because tho character of a people is reflected in its institutions as in its customs , in the events that oxoite its enthusiasm as well as in tho monuments which become tho object of its chief interest . Now Franco , monarchical for ao many centuries , which always beheld in tho central power the representative of her grandeur and of her nationality , wlahed that tho dwelling of tho Sovereign should be worthy of tho country , and tho best means of responding ( o that sentiment was to adorn that dwelling with tho different masterpieces of human intelligence .
' In the middle ages , tho King dwelt in a fortress , bristling with defensive works ; but soon tho progress of civilisation superseded battlements , and the produce of lottera , of tho arts and sciences , took tho place of weapons of war . " Thus , the history of monuments lias its philosophy , as well as tho history of events .
" In like manner that it is remarkable that at the time of the first Revolution the Committee of Public Welfare should have continued , without being aware of it , the work of Louis XL , of Richelieu , of Louis XIV ., giving the last blow to the feudal system , and carrying out the system of unity and centralization , the constant aim of ' Monarchy—in like manner is there not a great lesson to learn in beholding the idea of Henry IV ., of Louis XIII ., of Louis XIV ., of Louis XV ., of Louis XVI ., of Napoleon , as regards the Louvre , adopted by the ephemeral power of 1848 ? One of the first acts , in fact , of the Provisional Government was to decree the completion of the palace of our Kings . So true is it that a nation draws frcm its antecedents , as an individual derives from his education , ideas which the passions of a moment do not succeed in destroying * When a moral impulse is the consequence of the social condition of a country it is handed down through centuries , and through different forms of government , until the object in view is attained ,
" Thus , the completion of the Louvre , towards which I thank yon for your co-operation , given , with so much zaal atid skill , is not the caprice of a moment , but is the realization of a plan conceived for the glpry , and kept alive by the instinct , of the country for more than three hundred years . " The ceremony lasted about three quarters of an hour ; and the Emperor and court then departed . In the evening , a banquet took place in the same gallery , to which foiir hundred and twenty persons were invited by M . Fould . Thesis were chiefly the workpeople who have been engaged about the building . Among them was the widow of a stone-sawyer " , who took her husband ' s place , to support herself and her children . Several toasts and speeches , propet to the occasion , were given ; and M . Riffaut , a stonemason , thus spoke for his ffellow-workmen : —
¦ " Gentlemen , in the name of the assistants and opeTa- * tives of whom I am the interpreter , I come to express the gratitude with which we are penetrated for the rewards which have been decreed to . us , and to propose ' The health of the Eniperor , whose generous heart has given so many marks of sympathy for the ^ working classes ; ' His Excellency the Minister of State , a worthy interpreter of the Emperor ' s ideas ; ' ' M . Lefuel , the architect of the works , a worthy completer of the undertaking commenced by M . Visconti ; ' , finally , ? The Contractors , our patrons , ' whose intelligent aptivity never ceased to guide us , and of whose kindness we shall ever preserve an agreeable recollection . Vive VEm ~ pereur /"
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The birthday of the First Napoleon was celebrated last Saturday in the usual manner . There were state receptions at court , and promotions in the Legion of Honour ; the public offices were closed ; and the people were amused by gratuitous admission to the theatres , by feats of horsemanship , grand military spectacles , concerts , regattas , balloon races , maypoles , illuminations , fireworks , and salutes from the cannon at the Invalides . _ A grand mass was celebrated at Notre-Darae , concluding functionaries of the
with a Te Deum , at which the chief state were present . A similar service was performed in the other Parisian churches , to assist in which ( or for some other purpose ) detachments of troops were placed at the disposal of the parish priests . Distributions of provisions were made to the indigent portion of the population of the twelve arrondissemeuts ; and the Emperor granted pardons , commutations and reductions of punishment , to 1142 persons confined at the bagnes and other penitentiary establishments . A double ration of wine was distributed to tho troops , who also received an addition of half a day ' s pay . The weather was very
bad , rain falling continually . M . Laity , ex-Prefect of tho Basses-Pyre ^ es , and General Dumas , Councillor of State an d Director of tho Affairs of Algeria , have been raised to the dignity oi Senators . Cardinal Morlot , Archbishop of Pans ,, lias been named Grand Almoner to tho Emnoror . fllonsoigneur Menjaud , Bishop of Nancy and First Chapli "" to the Emperor , has been promoted to the rank oi commander in the Legion of Honour . TUe Emperor and Empress left St . Cloud on Monday at four o ' clock for Biarritz . .
It is said that a note has been presented , in the name of tho French Government , to tho Court of Rome , urging the necessity of political and administrative iworaM j and that M . de Raynoval and General Guyon have Been instructed toauggesfc tp Cardinal Antonelli tho P' ° Prlf' > of losing as ltttlo time as possible in promulgating too promised amnesty , and granting tho concessions oi which frequent mention has been made , but wnlcu siu » remain to bo completed . . In consequence of a report made by BI . do Montigny , French consul at Shanghai , who was commissioned to visit tho kingdoms of Si « m and Cochin-China , tho attontion of tho Government was direotod to tho oxpouionoy of founding a commercial settlement ifi iuos ° countries . It is contemplated to found a maritime ana commercial settlement in tho bay of Touraino , one o » the moat advantageous positions in Cochin-China . auo
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300 THE LEADER ; [ No . 387 , August 22 ^ 1857 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 22, 1857, page 800, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2206/page/8/
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