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August 2, 1851. ... The Nakthjern Star, ...
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• WHO AttE THE GREAT , T rfeatin heart ,-the great in mind , twork most good for human Kind , ^ n heed not fortune , fame , nor health . « trn <« de for the commonwealth Snrlikind . Who nobly proves V ' nci- hboura aa himself he loves , ii strives their errors to reclaim ; i A points them out a nobler aim Than s * tat hoine in BSeless ease » letting they ' ve a Cod to please ,. wi > o unto them hath talents lent , That should in usefulness be spent , L ' benefit their fellow men ; . To "ire relief to suffering pain :
To le * 5611 toli to show tUeir stil * i „ works of art ; with true good will To help the artisan to rise ; To te » ch the ignorant to be wise . Those are the great who do most good . j ? or wpodness * sake ; and those who would Jjeereat must act upon this plan—«< fne mind ' s the standard of the man . " per wbat ia wealth ? And what ia power ? 31 ere tributes of the passing hour , That cannotlive beyond life ' s span ; Hut noble deeds will live when man Is laid within the silent earth , And W posterity show forth The self-ennobled man ' s the great , >" ot he who owns the most estate . Asx * \ loss
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fro Letters to the Earl of Aberdeen on the Slate Prosecutions ofthe Neapolitan Government- By thelit , Hon . W . E . Giadsxonk , 2 i . P . fir the University of Oxford . Second E dition . London : Murray . \ fvek was there a more opportune , a more Evincing , a more damnatory publication Ian this . - Conservatives and ' respectable ' fcsses shrugged up their shoulders , and i-jned a deaf ear to the narratives of such pen as Mazzini , Pepe , Marrotti , and others , jgpectmg tbe atrocities perpetrated in Italy « the crowned monster who brutally tramples i its best Wood . The Times and other « lead-> j journals 'have habitually lent the use of to
^ r columns palliate and whitewash the danism and the miscreancy of such mon-^ rs as the King of Naples , and to blacken | e character and memory of his victims ; but gr , Gladstone has been at Naples—seen and lyuired for himself . Horror stricken at the / jets which came under his notice , and feelj ^ j , Conservative as he ia , that to keep silence trsuld be to become a participator in the triuiea of which he was cognisant , he has , as stfe / vw ' fl" resource , at last given these facts to fe world , and the Times , infamous audbloodjjirsiy as it is , has the canning and the gTardice to he the first to take up tHe
reve-Icions with an air of virtnonsindignation and ^ rror , and cry fie upon the detestable monster pa has hitherto been its protege I This dens will not , however , save it from condign jsaishrnent and detestation . We hare said the publication is opportune si a time when the 'Society of the Friends of Jalv' are calling attention to the subject it riiiiiot fail to aid them materially . To find G 9 who has held hi g h office in this' country , wo cannot fail again to ha a cabinet minister , j
cJ who , since the death of Sir K . Ifeel , unkabtcdly holds the first place in the House of C ommons , thus deliberately and voluntaril y tsmng forward to bear witness to the foul jajnry , the fiendlike malice , and the ruthless Chens of an Italian sovereign ; while the name c tbe nobleman to whom it is addressed , and do has allowed the pamphlet to go forthwith is sanction totne worlds will give additional vaght to its statements among circles who are few of belief except to earls and cabinet mi-Eiters . ; "
The very precautions that he uses to ex-& 4 e everything but his own main object—to Fold everything like a cumulative case sainst ^ Naples—give to his narrative an apnlling force . The reader understands that iais perusing only a part of the whole history j » ainst that-iniquitous goTemment . Before Mag the facts , Mr . Gladstone expressly sets iale any political or social questions , whether ( f logical relation or of legal ri ght , arising out if tbe Constitution : he treats that as a mere cream or fiction . He excludes the question of ciclly . He raises no political questions except fosse which are forced npon him by the dehiis that he has to relate . He begins , as a nember of the great Conservative party in inrope , with a bias in favour of established
prernment . ' Such is the writer . He begins by contracting the ' general impression that the orgat & tion . of the governments of Southern Italy i'Mcctive—that the administration of justice habited with corruption—that instances of iase or cruelty among subordinate public bctibnaries are not uncommon , and that jatical offences are punished with severity , £ ¦ 1 with no great regard to the forms of jusb . ' This vague supposition has no relation | t tbe actual truth of the Neapolitan case . .
£ is not mere imperfection , not corruption m low Iiacr 5 , notoeaa 9 ioiialserarity , that I am about i-se = cribe : it is incessant , systematic , deliberate B & uon of the law , by the power appointed to fseli over and maintain UV _ lt is such violation of Csau and written law as this ,- carried on for the Pros of violating every other , law ' unwritten and 2 nud , human ' and divine " : it is the wholesale per-:: .-m : onof virtue when united withintelligence , opening upon such a scalethatentire classes may with - r 3 lfbe said to be its object ,, so that : the governo r is in bitter and cruel as well , as utterly illegal feniity to ^ whatever in'the : nation really lives and tovesind forms tbe main spring of practical
pro-Ifss and improvement ; -it is the awful profanation cpnblic religion , by its notorious alliance , in the gveraing powers , with the violation oi every moral ai under the stimulants of fear and vengeance ; it ? && perfect prostitution of thejudicial office , which & made it , under veils only too threadbare and tnasparent , the-degraded recipient of the vilest £ -1 clumsiest forgeries , got up wilfully and delibeti »] y , by the immediate advisers of the . Crown , for ^ yarpose of destroying the pease , tbe freedomi ^? , anl even if not by capital fentence-, the life , of * 3 ii among tbe most virtuous , upright , intelligent , ^ uiignished , and refined of the whole community ; ' s the savage -and cowardly system : of moral as
; -a aa in a lower degree of physical . tOrtUTC , omgh which the sentences extracted from the de-^ d courts of justice are carried into effect , ftie effect of all this is , total inversion of all the ' sal and social : ideas . - taw ,- instead of being rented , is odious , force , and not affection , is the radation of government . There is no association , / . a violent antagonism , between the , idea of free-^ aad that ' of order . The governing power , ^ h teaches of itself that it is the image" of God & eirth , is : clothed in tbe view of the overf - ' 3 fflin « majority -of . the thinking- public with all j * * iee 3 * for ita attributes . I have seen and heard ,-iironffan dfoo " true expression used , "Thisis
;^ if » ation of God [ the Devil ] erected into a sjs-^ of government . " . Ibis terrible phrase is justified by such evi-; 3 i * e as thia- ^ - ' It is not mere , imperfection , ' * irruption" in low quarters , not occasional ! * " % s that I am about to describe ; it is ihj ^ aiit , s ystematic , deliberate violation of the * } y tbe Power appointed to watch over and \^ bda Jt ' ' Again , ' The government is in i ';! . ^^ ^ cruel , as well as utterly illegal , j ^ ity to whatever in the nation really lives , _ - 'noves and forms the main-spring of prac-£ ]' ogress and improvement ; it is the j . ' ^ l profanation of public religibn by its t ^ Jj » us alliance in the governing powers with
: •• * Ration of every moral law under the I , ^ ts of fear and vengeance ; it is the ' perv ' . i ' Ostitulion of the judicial office which has > , ' **} under veils only too threadbare and W"f ' reDt the degraded recipient of the vjTj , ^ clum siest forgeries , got up ¦ wilfully ,: _ -- eliberatel y by the immediate advisers of ^' " ^ ftr the purpose of des troying the k Z * freea ° J aye , and even if not by capi' •'•> dieil < : € s ' the lives of men among the most * - ' r ^ ' ^ "Sbt , intelligent , distinguished , ; - ; . ! .. ^ 1 of the . whole cornmnnitj . " Proof ^> L f ' " ^ ^* ° ^ tlie *' 5- ctar S ^*^* " V- ; a 1 ° metMinister spcaking * -as an eye-> : > . ; ' upon authorit y which he considers cevtaiatv . The accusation of innocent
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men , and their imprisonment in filthy , unhealthy dungeons for many months , before trial , contrary to the old law , not the recent constitution , which the King has . openly perjured himself by breaking ; tho use of any expression in correspondence for the purpose of accusation , while every contrary passage is arbitraril y suppressed ; the -perjury of wit . nesses against prisoners , commended , encouraged , and rewarded j , their false testimony , when it disproves itself by its own contradictions , merely laid aside , and such parts as are not so self-contradicted still retained as proofs against the prisonerj
who is openly forbidden to rebut them by counter evidence ; the unblushing corrupt partiality of the Judges , who are removable at the will of the Monarch , the horrors of the sentence of imprisonment iu irons , when the innocently convicted being chained by : twos , are never , on any occasion , released from each other , the political prisoners , such as Count Poerio , more conservative in opinions and actions , as Mr . Gladstone declares , than himself or Lord Aberdeen , doomed to dungeons that destroy life by a lingering process of decay , as well as to the horrors of the double chain ; others immured without light amidst such filth that the medical men will not visit
them in their cells , but force-the prisoners to crawl . pot into their presence . Such area few faint hints of the terrible sketch which a British statesman of the first rank puts his name to and gives to his fellow-countrymen , with the , direct intention—somewhat dangerous though it appears to him to open such scenes to the world—of appealing on behalf of suffering humanity to public opinion . , General belief calculates that the po * itical prisoners in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies
are , in number , between fifteen or twenty and thirty thousand : the Government seems to confess to two thousand , but the reader of Mr . Gladstone ' s pamphlet will not believe the Neapolitan Government ; facts and figures stated by Mr . Gladstone , official but not possible to be concealed , show that the estimate of two thousand is unreasonable ,, that of twenty tuousaudnotunreasonable . Amongstihepersons imprisoned or exiled was the whole ^ Opposition ' in the Chamber of Deputies elected under the Constitution .
Shortly after I reached Naples ( says Mr . Gladr stone ) I heard a man of eminent station accused , with" much vituperation , of having stated that nearly all those who had formed the « ' Opposition " in the Chamber of Deputies , under the Constitution , were in prison or in exile . I frankly Own iny impression w « , that a statement apparently so monstrous and incredible deserved the reprobation it was then receiving . It was , 1 think , in November last . The Chamber bad been elected by the people under a Constitution freely and spontaneously given by the King—elected twice over , and with little change , but that little in ; favpur of the Opposition . 3 So owe of the body ; I think , had
been brought to trial , ( although I may state in passing , one of them had been assassinated by a priest , named Peluso , well known in the streets of Naples when I was there , never questioned- for the act , and said to receive a pension from taergovera ment ) . So that I put down the . statement-as a fiction , and the circulation of . it as , " at the very leasfj a gross indiscretion , or more . "What was my astonishment when Isawalist'in detail , which'too fully proved its truth—nay , which in the most essential poiat proved more . It appears , my dear lord , that the full complement of the Chamber , of Deputies was 104 , elected by a constituency which brought to poll about 117 , 000 votes . Of these , about 140 was the greatest number that came to Naples to exercise the functions of the Chamber . An absolute majority of this , number , or
seventysix , besides some others who had been deprived ; of offices , had either been arrested or bad gone into exile . So that , after the regular formation of a popular representative Chamber , and its suppression in the teeth of the law , the government of Naples has consummated its audacity by putting into prison , or driving into banishment for the sake of escaping prison , an actual majority of the representatives of . the people . .. The law of Naples reguires that personal li * berty shall be inviolable except under warrant of a court of justice ; but in fact , men are continually seized , 'by the score , by the hundred by the thousand / without any . warrant whateyer , 6 ometunes withouteven any written authority at all , or anything beyond the word of a policeman—constantly without any statement whatever of the nature of the offence . ' The
lowest creatures are employed as police agents ; the prisoner is taunted into sedition , or charges are fabricated ; the courts refuse to receive evidence in favour of the prisoner . .. As a specimen of the treatment , "Mr . Gladstone relates in detail the case of Carlo Poerio , a distinguished lawyer , a ^ late Cabinet Minister , a strict Constitutionalist" of the respectable English pattern . He was accused , by means of repeated forgeries and barefaced fabrications , of belonging to a Republican sect ; his accuser was Jervolincf , ' a disappointed applicant for'some low office ; one of his fellow prisoners , a noble , was vainly urged by the
Director of Police , under promises of < arrangement f and threats of 'destruction , ' to testify to Poerib's acquaintance with certain revolutionary handbills : at the trial , Jervolino could answer no questions about the pretended society ; ' a , witness deposed that Jeyblinoreceived a pension of twelve ducats a month from the . government ; Poerio was allowed to call nemore witnesses ; his judge was one of the persons , threatened to be assailed by the pretended society , and the same j udge makes no secret of his opinion that all persons charged by the King ' s government ought to be found guilty . One specimen of this judge ' s effrontery may be given .
In two cases it happened to be within tbe knowledge of the counsel for the prisoner that the perjured witnesses against them did not even ; know them by sight . In one of these the counsel desired to be ; allowed to ask tbe witness to point out the accused persons among the whole number of those charged , who were all sitting together . The Court refused permission . In the other case the counsel challenged the witness to point out the man of whose - proceedings he was speaking . If I am ricbtly informed , "Savairo , whomlhavo so lately mentioned , affecting not to hear the question , called out to the prisoner , ' . ' Stand up Signor Nisco ; the Court has a question to ask you . " This was done and counserthen informed thathe might pursue Mb examination . A laugh of bitter mocKery ran through the court ..
-Poerio was condemned to twenty- four years of irons . In February last Poerio and sixteen of the co-ac cused ( with fow of whom however be had ^ nad any previous acquaintance ) were confined in the Bagno of Xisida , near the Lazaretto . For one half . hour in tbe week , a little prolonged by the . leniency of the snperintendent ,: they wereallowed to see their friends outside the prison . This was theirsole viewof thenatural beauties * ith which they were surrounded . At other times they were exclusively within the walls . The whole number ( of tnero , except 1 think one , then in the infirmary , were confined night and day in a single room of about sixteen palnisin length
by ten or twelve"in breadth " ,-and-about ten . in height j i think with some email yard for exorcise . Something like a fifth must be taken off these numbers to convert palms into feet . When the beds were let down at night there was no space whatever between them ; they could only get out at the foot , and beingchained ' two ' and two , onl y in pairs ; In this room they had to -cook or prepareVhht was sent them by the kindness of their friends . -On one side the levrelof the ground is over the top of the room ; , it therefore reeked with damp ; and from this , tried with long confinement , they "declared they suffered greatly . -There = was-one-window , of Cf > U ! SS uoglazed : and let not An Englishman suppose that this constant access of the air in'the Neapolitan climate is agreeable or innocuous ; on the contrary ,
it is even more important to health there than here to have the means of excluding the open air , for example , before" and at sunset . Vicissitude of climate , again is quite as much felt there as here , and the earlv morning is sometimes bitterly cold . Their ' chains wire as follows : —Each man wears a strong leather girth round him above the hips . To this are secured the upper ends of two chains . One cham of four long and heavy links descends ta a kind of double ring fixed round the ankle . _ The cecond chain consists of eight links , each of the sameweWt and'length with the four ; and this unHlsThe two prisoned together , so that they can SnJ about six feet apart . Xeithw of these chains m &^ undone , Ay or night . The dress of commbnTelons , which , as well as tbe lelon'scap , was tTeJewornbv the late Cabinet Minister of King Ferdinand of Naples , is composed of a rough and
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coarse red jacket , with trousers of the same material—very like the cloth made in this country from what is called devil ' s dust the trousers are nearly black in- colour . On hia head he had a small cap which makes up the suit ; it is of the same material . The trousers button all the way up , that , they may be removed at night without disturbing the chains . Tho weight of these chains , I understand ,, 'is about eight rotoli , or between sixteen and
seventeen ' English pounds for tho shorter one , which must be doubled when we give each prisoner his half of tbe longer ono . The prisoners had a heavy limping movement , much as if one leg had been shorter than the other . Hut the refinement of suffering in this case arises from the circumstance that here we have men of education and high feeling chained incessantly together . For no purpose are these chains undone ; and the meaning of these last words must be well considered—they are to be taken strictly .
Poerio has since been transferred to a worse and more secluded dungeon-at Ischia . ' Crimine ab uno disce omnes ; ' this is only one specimen of many , Mr . Gladstone . visited other prisons , tasted the black bread , but was notenabled to tastetheloathsome soup . But we break off : the reader of this must procure the pamphlet—he ' will not lay it down till . be has read it throughj and he will then understand how much we are tempted to multiply these
specimens . One or two quotations more must suffice at present . Tho first will show in what manner the term Eeligion is made to minister to a system fifconlyforihe atmosphere of Hell—King Bomba imitates the Czar , and makes tyranny and miscreancy sacred ; . . . Here is a specimen of the State Catechism , taught by the Neapolitan priesthood , fit tools forsuch a master : —
i The doctrine of the first chapter is , that a true philosophy must , now-a-days , be taught to the young , in order to counteract the false philosophy of the Liberals , which is taught by certain vicious and bad men , desirous to make others vicious and bad like themselves . The notes of these Liberal philosophers are then enumerated ; and one of them is ,- " disapproval of tbe vigorous acts of the legitimate authorities . " They produce / it is taught , all manner of evils , especially the eternal damnation of souls . The pupil then asks , with great simplicity , of his teacher , not whether all Liberals are wicked , but " whether they are all wicked in one and the same fashion ? " And the answer is— " Kot
all , my child ; because some , are thorough-paced and wilful deceivers ' , while others are piteonsly deceived ; but , notwithstatfding , they are travelling the same road ; and , if they do not alter their course , they will all arrive at the sa negoal . " The plain meaning , as I readit , is , that those who hold what in Naples are called Liberal opinions ( and many who are included in the name there , would not be so disignated here ) , even in the moreinnocent' form of the mere victims of deceit , will , unless they abandon them , be lost eternally on account of those opinions . The next question of the scholar is , whether all who' wear moustaches or a beard are Liberal philosophers ? ¦ * .. * , ¦ * . Scholar—" Why
do you consider that a Prince is not bound to observe theVonatitution , whenever this impugns the rights " of ' Sovereignty ? " Master : "We have already found that tho Sovereignty is the highest and supreme power , ordained and constituted by God in society ,. for the good of society ; and this power , conceded and made needful'by God , must be preserved inviolate and entire , " and cannot be restrained or abated by man , without . coming . into conflict with tbe ordinances of Nature , and with the Divine will . Whenever , therefore , the people may have proposed a condition which impairs the S 0 Ve » reignty , and whenever the Prince may have premised to observe it . that proposal is an absurdity .
that promise is null ; and the Prince is not bound to maintain a constitution which is in opposition to tbe Divine command , but is bound to maintain entire and intact the supreme power established by God , and by God conferred on him . " * * " Scholar : " Whose business is it to decide when the constitution impairs the rights of Sovereignty , and is adverse to tbe welfare of the people ? " Master "It is the business of tbe Sovereign , because in him resides the high and paramount power established by God in the State , with a viewto its good order and felicity : "—Scholar : " May there not be
some danger that the Sovereign may violate the constitution without any just cause under tbe illusion of error or the impulse of passion ?" . Master : " Errors and passions « ro ( he maladies of the human race ; but the blessings of health' are not to be refused through the fear of sickness ! " ' In a' word ( says the Catechism ) an oath never can become an obligation to commit evil ; and therefore cannot bind a Sovereign to do whatis injurious to his subjects .. Besides , the Head of tbe Church has authority from' God to release consciences from oaths , when'he judges that there is suitable cause for it .
Mr . Gladstone had refrained from publishing the first letter , in order that Lord Aberdeen , as an individual , might make a friendly representation to the government of Naples . The statement having been met by miserable special-pleading , Mr . Gladstone publishes his letter ; with a second , explaining , the cause of the delay . ; " ! On the government of Naples I . had no claim whatever ; but as a man I felt ' and knew it to be my duty to testify to what I" had credibly heard , or
personally seen ,, of the needless and acute sufferings of men . - Yet ; aware that such testimony , when once launched , is . liable to be used for purposes neither intended " nor . desired by those who bear it , and that in times of-irritability and misgivingj such' as these are on the Continent of Europe , slight causes may occasionally produce , or may tend and aid to produce , effects . less inconsiderable , I willingly postponed any pubiicappeal until the case should , have-been seen in . private by those whose conduct it principally touched . It has been so seen . They have -made their option .
But in this second letter he' goes somewhat further back ; tracing , the cause of judicial corruption in the political' corruption of the Neapolitan government . Ha cities the Constitution empowering the peoplef to elect that parliament whoee entire Opposition has been driven into imprisonment or exile ; establishing a' * limited , hereditary / and constitutional Monarchy , under representative forms '; es tablishing a Chamber of Peers and Deputies ; declaring that' no description of impost c & n be decreed except in virture of a law ; ' also that ' personal liberty is guaranteed , ' except under ' due warrant of law . ' : Now in fact
this Constitution is violated in all essentials : how personal liberty is respected , we have seen ; there exists no Chamber of Peers or Deputies ; ' all taxes are imposed and levied under royal authority alone . ; ' in short , 'the monarchy of Naples is perfectly absolute and unlimited , ' Knowing these facts , the reader will he shocked to peruse the adjuration winch ia in the preamble to the Constitution , given by King Ferdinand , as he says , ' of our own fullj free , and spontaneous
wiir—In the awful name of the Most Holy and Almighty God , the Trinity in Unity ,. to whom alone ifc appertains to read the depths of the heart , and whom we loudly invoke as the judge of the simplicity of our intentions , and of the ' unreserved sincerity with which we have determined to enter upon the paths of the new political order ; Having heard , with mature deliberation , our Council of Slate ; : '¦ - ¦ ¦ ' ' ' ¦ We have decided upon proclaiming , and we do proclaim , as irrevocably ratified by us , the following" Constitution : — In that awful name I How long , oh Lord i . ow long ?
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Reminiscences of Paris , from 1817 to 1848 . , London : Williams and Norgate . This . work appears anonymously ; and it mig ht beuneourteous to pry into the condition of the writer beyond what . it has pleased herself to reveal . This is to the effect that she came to Paris , unmarried and hardly out of her teens . from some part of Qlermany , in the second year of tho Eesfcoration—and at first
was chiefly conversant with the circles of the haute finance . We afterwards hear of her marriage , of journey ings and absences ; and see her in contact with various circles , hut above all with painters and musicians . '—intimate also with Henriette , the daughter of the celebrated Jewish philosopher , Mendelssohn . She left Paris , she further says , before the explosion of 1848 .
Her notes contain such light lady-like reflections as one may fancy taken down without effort from the kaleidoscope of Paris life in its balls , soirees , and promenades , —and such anecdotes of notable things and persons as were current in ordinary company ; the genera ! character of the reminiscence is merel y gossipping , —but gleanings of this easy kind
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from any lesser field than Paris might hardly have been worth proving .-here the abundance of matter so great , that even the most careless hand returns from that strange harvest with some gatherings of value . ^ In no respect perhaps does the Paris of today differ more from that of thirty years since than m the article of domestic comfort . After praising Madame Thuret , one of the financial homes ot the Restoration , for her attention to neatness , the lad y adds : — .
t o . S ll n ally there was a Na ^ ed contrast to this ; as well as to the Parisian cleanliness of Pr ^ niTnf } i days > even in the dwellings of people of competent means , there was not a " w ' lU ™? 5 l Ihave a hvely recollection of what happened when one of the younger Partners Of M . TbUvetKavo aball soon aXSEnKg ! Although the you th was rich , and had married a wealthy young lady , the young couple , according to the Parisian custom ' of the time , lived with their who
parents ;• , rioh as they were , desiring to be richer still , had let out their splendid hotel up to the fourth story . In this fourth story the whole family lived together . ' After the Parisian finery , I was not loss struck with the Parisian filth of those days ; and , in truth , I should vainly try to paint my amazement on ' finding myself compelled , whilo ascending the staircase , which was actually plastered with dirt , to hold up my dress as high as possible m order to appear tolerably clean in the ballroom , '
But if modern . Parig has improved in this respect , it has on the other hand , we are told , lost far more in the chapter of manners . The generation born during the first revolution still preserved some of . the older style of social bearing ; but iu the present descendants we may now vainly seek forany-of the graces that once gave to France her European . credit for politeness . The French , after lording it over the capitals of Europe for so many years , were impatient to . the last degree of tne retribution which the allied armies brought to their own doors in 1810 . ' Even a returning emi (/)' e could not restrain hisrage on finding that— :
foreigners < held the fortresses , and that he had to submit his passports for a vise to Prussian , Russian , or English authorities ; and he lost air command of himself at tbe idea of the prostration of the grande gloire [ Francaise . * ¦ ¦* ' The same wrath at the occupation of France by foreign troops —an occupation which lasted for hardly three years—whereas the French had ravaged Germany for full twenty , from the siege of Mentz to the battle of Leipsig , was then felt in Paris by all classes . Every little theatre , on the" Boulevards played some piece referring to it ; in all . the «/ raf « s urging the foreigners to be' off at once ; all the
print shops were full of caricatures of the English and Russians t—the German soldiers , by-the-by , were , without exception , called Prussians . At that time there was less hatred expressed towards the Russians ; in the theatres even the people would point with curiosity to Rostopohin , the author of the conflagration at Moscow . The hatred pf tbe Russians grew much more decided under Nicholas Alexander , on the contrary , was personally popular . Strictly speaking , the Prussians were detested ; while the English , on the contrary , served . as a perpetual butt for ridicule and wit .. Their language , gestures , dress afforded , a complete series oi dramas and caricatures .
This soreness of France under a very light application of her own Continental system brings to mind an anecdote from the papers of the time which is . worth preservingi * - When the ' Prussian army entered Paris , one of its officers made particular interest to be quartered in a certain hotel iu tbe Faubourg St , Germain / the residence of a widow lady of rank . On taking possession of his billet , ¦¦ the Colonel at once haughtily refused tho apartments offered him ; and , after a survey of the premises , insisted on having the best suite on . the first floor , then occupied by the lady of the house herself . She protested and entreated in vain—the Colonel was harsh and peremptory j—the lady had to abandon her
sittingroom , boudoir , and bed-room , and content herself with tho chambers intended for the officer . ' From these , however , she was as rudely dislodged on the next day , the Colonel'demanding them for his orderly ; and the lady had at last to creep into a servant ' s garret . -This was not all , On first taking possession , the omcer had autnmoned the maitre d'hotll , and commanded . a rich dinner of twelve covers for the entertainment of a party of his comrades . They came , —the cellar-had to yield its choicest wines ; the house was filled with bacchanalian uproar . The orgi ' e was repeated both on the next day and on the next following . On the morning afterwards the officer presented himself before the lady of the house . " Youare perhaps somewhat annoyed by my proceedings in your hotel ?" " Certainly , " was the reply , " I think I have cause to complain of the manner in which tho law of the strongest has been used , here , in defiance
of the commonest regard due to my sex and age . I have been roughly expelled from every habitable room in my own house and thrust into a garret ; my Servants have been maltreated ; with my plate and provisions and the best of my cellar , you have fOMed "them to wait on the riotous feasting of your comrades . I bave appealed to your generosity , , to ; your courtesy , but in vain . . I protest , against such conduct , it is unworthy of a soldier . " " Madam , " replied the Prussian , " what you say ia perfectly true . Sueh conduct is brutal and unbecoming . I have tbe honour to inform you that what you have justly complained . of for the last three days is but a faint copy of the manner in which your son daily behaved himself in hiy mother's house in Berlin / or , man than six months after the " battle of Jena . From me you shall bave no further annoyance . ' -I shall now retire to an inn ; The hotel is entirely at your own disposal . " The lady blushe ' d . ' and was silent .
. Before leaving the , grim figure , tho lady ' s statement of the victims of the old . Revolution quite exceeds the . utmost , latitude of feminine gossip . ; 'Two millions of'heads' she assigns as the food of the devouring guillotine , —a number somejiiie ftwiu * red times moYothari the largest estimate of those even who have done , their best to aggravate the tale of its horrors . The Convention , when , grown Anti-Jacobin , and anxious , of course , to justify its destruction , of Bobespierre and his fellows , it
published lists of the sufferers , could not bring the number of the guillotined up to a Ml two thousand . Montgaillard , who complains that the returns were incomplete , may he taken as the author of the most extreme calculation on this subject : —he does not get beyond a total of four thousand victims , including those who perished by fusillades and iwyhdes . Even an anonymous lady cannot be suffered to pass with such a terrific exaggeration unquestioned . ¦ : ' ¦ ' . ' - *";' . ' .
: In 1823 she was present at an opening-of the Chambers b y 'liouis the Desired , ~ U 0 W grow fatter , it ' seems , than was desirable for such an operation . Indeed , --He could no longer walk ; on this account the Session was held in the Louvre ; and the manner in which he wae suddenlypushed out on his low rolling chair , from beneath a curtain , which was quickly drawn back ,-as it is done on the stage , and as rapidly closed again , had an effect at once painful and ludicrous . —both these feeling were increased by the shrill piping treble which came squeaking forth from ' this unlucky corpulent body . His brother-, the Comte d'Artois , afterwards Charles the Tenth , was tall and thin ; and . had retained to his advanced ago
that habit of shuffling about with his legs , which teachers and governors had vainly tried to cure him of while young . Ho could not ; keep his body still for a single : instant . His protruded head , his mouth . ajwayg open , would of themselves have seemed to indicate mere stupidity rather than cunning , had not this impression been contradicted , partly by tho vivacity of his eyes ; and partly by his t © 0 notorious habit of intriguing . . This idiotic air of poking forward the head , with tho mouth always open .-b ' ut aggravated by quite lifeless , and almost totally closed eyes , —was apparent in a still higher degree in his eldest son , the Duke of Angoulerae . In the face of his wife there were still visible some traces , if not of ' former beauty ,
at least of something characteristic arid ' noble . In spite of her withered , lean figure , her gait was firm and majestic ; but the Terrorists of the Revolution had heaped misery of every kind in double and threefold measure on this unhappy daughter of Louis the Sixteenth , and their cannibal severity had broken hor heart for ever . * * The Duchess of Herri ,-a Neapolitan princess , wife ' of the youngest son of Count d'Artois , was young , but had been ill-treated by nature in her outward appearance : she was short , thin , with hair blonde almost 10 whiteness , and ft kind of reddish fairness of complexion . In her irregular features , in her eyes which all but squinted no kind of expression could be detected , —not even that of frivolity , which she was accused of . * * To both these
ladies the rigorousl y prescribed court dress , as worn in open day , without candlelight , was very unbecoming . ^ It consisted of a short white satin dress , called jupe , which means a dress without a train ; the front breadth richly embroidered with gold , with a cut-out body , and short sleetes , leaf-
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ing the neck and arms bare , —the effect Of Which was absolutely pitiable ' on tho superannuated , yellow , and withered Duchess of AngoulCme . Around tbe waist the golden ceinture held up a coloured velvet skirt , with an enormous train , but no body : in front , this kind of outer dress , called manteau de cour , was open , and trimmed all round with broad lace . The head was decorated , or rather disfigured , by a thick upright plume of tall white ostrich feathers , ' tc which were attached . behind two long ends of blond lace , called barbes , which bung down the back . On the forehead a closelyfitting jewelled diadem was worn , and diamond ornaments on the neck and arms , —according to the usual fashion . ^ With such court scarecrows we pause . Besides its lively sketches , the book contains some materials of a tragic interest ,
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• Cos . —What shape is a kiss . '—Elliptical ( a lip tickle . ) : v ¦ The flower-girl said to the ladies , " Come buycome buy 1 " and they went by . HAPriSESs-Witb men , a little more money ; with women , a little more dress ; with sailors , a little more rum . Men want a . mtnUning aB well as a propelling power . The good ship is provided with anchors as well as sails . ; A . Hint to Gossirs . —A contemporary down east has seen a man who , Upon a" small capital , has made quite a fortune b y minding his own business . .
Cons . —What is tbe difference between an honest and dishonest laundress . —The former irons your b > en ^ and the latter steals ( steels ) it . Why is a lawyer ' s profession not only legal but religious J—Because it involves a knowledge of law and a loveof the profits ( prophets ) . A Handsome Wherry , built of mahogany , maple , and bird ' s-eye maple , is to be presented to the Prince of Wales , by a body of Thames watermen . Eeceipi foumakino A PebsoiV Vsstvl . —Vo everything in its proper time ; keep everything in its proper use ; and-put everything in its proper d 1 s > C 6 " A Better iTftiF . " - "Won'tyoutake half of this poor apple 1 " said a pretty damsel to a witty swain . — "No , I thank you ; I would prefer a better half !" Eliza blushed and referred him to her papa .
The World . —There i 8 more sunshine than rain , more joy than pain , more love than hate , more smiles than tears , in the world . Those who say to the contrary , we would not choose for our friends or companions . i'lTn ' B Tutor Puzzleo , — "John , what is the past of see ?"— " Seen , sir . "— " No ,. it is sa «/ -recolleet that . "— " Tes . sir . Thenif a sea-fish swims by me , it becomes a sow-fish when it is past , and can ' t be ¦ seenV '— " You may go home , John . " The Schoolmaster Waited . —A bricklayer , not many miles from Leeds , the other day asked " his labourer if he thought of going to London to see the Exhibition , to which he replied , "Nay , I think I'll stop in Old England . " Useful . —Vinegar boiled with myrrh or camphor , and sprinkled in a sick room , will keep it sweet and free from unhealthy efHuvia ,
When meat is tainted , the taint may he removed by covering it a few hours with common charcoal , or by putting a few pieces of charcoal into the water in which the taiutedmeat is boiled . -Bed-rooms , sitting-rooms , stables , and outhouses , should occasionally be washed with limewhite , - because the lime , being very caustic , removes all organic matter adhering to the walls . A ; Titlb for Scraps . —The New York Spirit of the * fnion ( at the suggestion probably of a young lady in her teens ) has a column of extracts headed each week , as follows . — " Atoms on the Literary
atmosphere ,: and shells , on the shore of the Book ocean . " .-.: " ¦¦ Singular # emef . —The natives of Australia formerly believed that after death they were changed into some animal ; but now they think that they return to earth ' as white men . " Never mind , " said one of them , about to be executed at'Melbourne , " I jump up white fellow—plenty of money . " Law and Gospel . —A divine of Kent , seldom in church , hut a rigid justice of the peace , having a vagrant brought before hini , said , surlily , " I'll teach you the law , you vagabond , I warrant you . "" It would be much more becoming , " said tbe poor fellow , "ifybu would teach the gospel . "
Books by the Yard . —The Gentleman ' s Magazine mentions a Durham cabinet-maker and upholsterer named Thompson , who was also an auctioneer and appraiser , "" in ' wbich latter capacity he was in the habit of putting a value upon a library of books by measuring wthnis rule tbe space which they occupied on-tbe shelves . - The'Royal Motto of England . —Dim et mon Droit was the parole of the day given by Richard I . of England to his army at the battle ofGigors , in France .- -In this battle tfee French were defeated ; and in remembrance of that victory Richard made Dim etmon DroitAhe motto of the royal arms of England : and it has ever since been retained .
A Quaker ' s Letter . — " Friend John , I desire thee to be so kind as to go to one of those sinful men in the flesh , called attorneys , and let him takeout ati instrument with a seal thereunto , by means whereof we may seize the outward tabernacle of GebrgeGreeni and bring him before the lamb-skin men at Westminster , and teach him to do as he would be done by , Thy friend , B . C " Rather-Raw . —A Boston contemporary tells the following : — " On the steam boat St . Low ' s , not long since , a raw Hoosier came on board . At night the Uoosier turned into bis berth with his boou . on . The steward seeing this , said , ' Sir , you have laid down in your boots . ' The raw one raised his head , and looking down at the boots , innocently replied , 'Well , it won ' . t hurt ' em ; ' they ain ' t the best Pve got . ' "
NEVER give up . Never give up!—if adversity presses , . Providence wisely has mingled the " cup , . And the best counsel in all your distresses , Is tho stout watchword of— " Never give up . " _ Truth Telling . —My wife tells the truth three times a day , remarked a jocose old fellow , at the same time casting a very mischievous glanoe at her-. Before rising in the morning , she says , "O dear , I must get up , but I don't want to . " After breakfast she adds , " Well , I suppose I must po to work , but 1 don ' t want to . " And she goes to bed saying , " There , I have been passing all day , and haven ' t done ' anythins .
Truth . —Falsehood belongs to an early period of society , as well . as the deferential forms which we style politeness . A child does not see the least moral beauty in truth until he has been flogged half-adozen times . ; It ia so easy , and apparently bo natural to deny what you cannot be easily convicted of , that a savage , as wellas a child , lies to excuse himself , almost as instinctively as he raises his hand to protect his head . —Sir W . Scott .: Instantaneous Photographs . —An experiment by Mr . Talbot , arthe Royal Institution , appears to have proved clearly that photographs , for the future , may be instantaneously produced . The experiment consisted in illuminating , by electric light , a printed paper revolving with immense rapidity in- the dark ; and during the flash taking a photograph of it , without a blur or the thickening of a line i ¦ ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦¦ ' A FBiBND . ^ Raikes once upbraided Brummel with not having taken hia part when he heard him run down . Brummel stoutly maintained that he had
taken Kaike ' s's part . ' . ' What' did you say ¦ in iny defence t then ? " askedRaikes .. " Why , " answered Brummel , " . they said you were not fit to carry offal to Old Kicky which I knew to be ' unjust . "— " Well , and what did you reply ?"~ " Why , I answered for you , that . what they asserted was tho reverse of the truth , and that you were thoroughly fit to carry offal to Old Kick .. What more could I say ?" Paddy ' s Boots ;—A green sprig from the JBmerald Isle entered a boot and shoe shop to purchase himself a pair of "brogues . " Alter overhauling' his Stock-in-trade , without being able to suit his customer , the shopkeeper hinted that he would make him a pair to order . The price was named ; the Irishman demurred , but after a "hating down , " the thing was '' a trade . " Paddy was about leaving the shop , when the other called after him , asking , " But what size shall I make them , sir ? " "Och ! " cried Paddy , promptly , " niver mind about the size at all ; make them as large as ye convaniently can for the money . " '
A new Reading of the Mystical Number . — In the course of a lecture recently delivered by the apostate Newman , the following novel interpretation of the apocalyptic number 060 , was propounded;—"Astonishing to say , Queen Victoria is distinctly pointed out in the Book of Revelation as having the number of the beast ! The number is 660 . Now she came to the throne in the year thirty-jeven , at which date she was eighteen years ' old . Multiply , then thirty-seven , by . eighteen , and you have the Very number 006 , which is the mystical emblem . " Divorce . —They have a singular mode of divorce in Illinois . A justice in that State a few weeks since issued the following certificate : — " This is to certify that B— D— and his wife was parted
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Ju s'ice of the Piece , and Attorney to Law . " .. . . ¦ ¦ The Pkohooation of Parliament . —Ifc is now said that her Majesty , in person , will prorogue parliament on Friday , the Sen of August . URotatiox of the Earth . —The simplest means of seeing the rotation of the earth ia to'look , at one of the fixed stars through a good telescope , when the visible movement of the star from the field of vision indicates perceptibly the progress of the earth , from west to south . )
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kXHinmoN Piuxus . —Itis nor intended to awaay the prizes unt . after the close of the Great Exhibi * ? p ' ^ FerV ° ? % , wllicb b » s been fixed for abou doedatZLt ; " ^ - the Exhibition being , 5 cf ? n «? h tl t t me to give increased facilities to visitors bvl . ghtmg up the building in the evem , * . louiouse . On Saturday evening kse nVto * tv , « closing of the cafes in the FaubonVS ^ OySn J considerable ciwd assembled on the Place duChanedon , and began singing , jr . Ilaunan . tho com * missary of police , requested them to retire , andnofi to disturb the quiet of the place , but no attention was paid to him . He then sent for the armed force * and the place was cleared , and two of the leading persons of the assemblage were arrested . On the following evening- the assemblages recommenced . The legal summons to disperse ] was made without ; effect , and the armed force was again called in re «
qnisitioii , and further arrests to the number of twenty were made . All the individuals arrested arflr well known for their violent Socialist opinions . — Oalignani , Tubus is a rumour abroad that Dost Mahomed " ? Of Cabool , is dead , but it wants confirmation .
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CURES FOR THE TJNCUltED ! HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s Evil . Extract of aletter from Mr . J . H . Alliday , 209 High-Street , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , ' 1850 ; Sir , —My eldest son , when about three years of age ; was afflicted with a glandular swelling In the neck , which after a short time broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . Jhe ? disease then for years went on gradually increasing ft * virulence ,, when besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee , and a third under the eye , besides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whole of the time tnjr suffering boy hoA ve < tei . v « 4 ttva fcoTistaift a 4 ric » of the most celebrated meflical gentlemen at Cheltonham , besides being for several months at the General Hospital
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 2, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02081851/page/3/
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