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EPICEDIUM 0 S IHB DEATH OP THE _JOURNAL OF ASSOCIATION So die thon child of stormy dawn , Thon winter flower , forlorn of nurse ; Chilled early by the bigot ' s curse , The pedant ' s frown , the worldling ' s yawn . Fair deitb _, to fall in teeming June , When every seed wbich drops to earth Takes root , and wi _ _s a second birth From "learning shower and steaming moon . Fall warm , fall fast , thou mellow rain ; Thon rain of God , make fat the land ;
That root ? , which parch in burning sand , May bad to flower and fruit again To "race , perchance , a fairer morn In mighty lands beyond tbe sea , "While honour falls to suoh as we , From hearts of heroes yet unborn , Who , in tbe blaze of riper day , More loving science , holier laws , _Bfc-ss us , faint heralds of their cause , D " ia beacons of their glorious way .
Failure ? while tide-floods rise , and boil , Round cape and isle , in port and cove ,-Resistless , star-led from above : What though oar tiny wave recoil ? Jane 0 , 1 _^ 52 . Charles __ ixflsi __ -
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"" an aze when independence of principle consists in having no ' _Tjrinciple on which to depend , and f _ree-thiuking , not in thinking freely , but in being free from thinking;—ia an age when men _^ 31 bold any thing excep t their tongues , keep anything except their word , and lose nothing patiently , except their character ; to improve such an age must be difficult , to instruct it dangerous ; aid he stands no chance of amending it who cannot at the same time amuse it . XhePeeso >* _"al Adve _>* tdrbsop * _OukOwx _Cokrespoxdest' in Italy . By Michael Burke Honan . II vols . London : Chapman and Hall . There is , perhaps , no greater humbug of the present day than the Press . There are no greater victims
of mi _ _-placed confidence than the believers in newspaper reports , especially those of 'Oar Own Correspondent . ' How often have the conservative devourers of a _motnin _? paper -which we could name , heen electrified , gratified , or mystified , with learned dissertations on the occurrences in France , which clairvoyant concoctions came direct from —— _Charlotte-, street , Fitzroy-square ? The * Own Correspondent" of the Tory paper being no other than a celebrated French Socialist in exile for his revolutionary predilections . In these volumes we get a glimpse of how the oracle is worked in thU interesting department of literature , and this novel manifestation of Humbug .
Iti 3 not often that 'Our Own Correspondent ' is risible on the stage in person . He is a kind of Sp ring-heeled-Jack , who is hero , there , and everywhere , always talked of , but almost as rarely seen as a salamander . He ia bomb and bullet-proof , because , in any terrific emergency , or deadly danger , he has the happy knack of rendering himself _tmstsiofe . Bat here we have a fine and genuine specimen of the species in the person of Mr . Honan , a rich and racy , rattling and rollicking , devil-may-care Irishman . "We have 3 ome reminiscences of this' broth of a boy ' for brogue and blarney , in his Italian Campaign , which he has not recorded in these volumes . When
the Neapolitans advauced upon Rome Mr . Honan was there too , and one evening as he was riding in ihe chariot of Bomba , King of Naples , we believe he had a very narrow escape of not living to lie any more , or of writing these books , as a party of young Italians and one Englishman had sworn to shoot the preeious couple , but missed their mark . Mr . Honan is fall of vivacity and animal Bpirits ; he lets out the Want truth about himself , and comrogues -with a charming naivete , and tells a lie to your face with as much frankness and sincerity as if it had been the truth . He is not particular to a trifle , in relating an experience , in drawing on Ms imagination and your
credulity , or in writing grammar . He tells us tbat he proceeded to the scene of action in 1848 with very vague notions on the state of Italy , and as ignorant of his subject as Correspondents generally are . In 1836 he had been sent to Toplitz , but did not even know where Toplitz was : And when sent to Italy he could not speak the language , and yet on both occasions it was necessary ihat he should begin to write immediately , as there were thousands of people in England waiting to be humbugged by Ms profound observations and prophecies on events- At Toplitz , where he could not speak the German language , he derived his inspiration . from a French milliner . At Genoa he derived considerable
aid from a Spanish agent , and from one conversation he was initiated into the state of affairs ; and straightway the readers of the * Times' were treated to a dissertation on the bearings of the case , and astounded by the ' Own Correspondent ' s * practical wisdom . We were thrilled again and again with some of bis harrowing descriptions of what he saw in Milan ; but , Lord bless your simplicity ! he wasn t there at the time , and his letters were made up of the description of an old Prima Donna , whom we should not wonder if he humbugged by talking of his immense interest with Mr . Lumley . He was far behind Charles Albert's army , and only heard the most vague rwnonra of what was going on . Meanwhile , he was criticising their tactics of warfare , and
demonstrating that Radetzky must be beaten , as he was such a bungler , and when hia prophecy was beaten , instead of that General , why—Charles Albert was a greater bungler still , that ' s all . Mr . Honan is as cool in reply as the Frenchman , who , when told that facts were opposed to his philosophy , answered , * so much tbe worse for the facts then . ' The volumes are valuable , chiefly as an expose of the secret doings behind the scenes of the Press—an expose which might throw the proprietors of the * Times' into a lively state of consternation . There is a great deal that is amusing in them , bnt little of vital importance . We must not , however , be too hard , and expect heart and heroism , and that sort of thing , from such an oily , unction ., jovial , and jolly gentleman . Perhaps we could not choose a better extract than the
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THE KBVOr . TJT-OS- OF _lOLAN . Tbe Governor of Milan received , on the night of the 17 th March , an account of the insurrection at "Vienna , and as snch au event could not be long concealed , it became generally known on tbe following day , and created , as might be expected , a prodigious ferment . A crowd of persons , composed of all classes , rushed to tbe palace , tbe nobles demanding concessions of a political nature only , whilst the citizens in general , and the republican patty especially , insisted on tbe establishment of a national guard , and an abundant Bupply of arms and ammunition . In tbeir route to tbe Hotel de Ville , a patrol was met with and ifc Is a question on whose part tbe first act of hostility , which there occurred , took place . The people say the soldiers fired oa them , bat I have good reason to know that it was a young republican desirous of bringing matters to a headwho began the attack .
, Erom that instant all idea of a transaction ceased ; the people flew to arms , ' - and in half an hour barricades were erected , and tbe tocsin began to sound . The first barricade was constructed with the carriages of the viceroy , amidst the cheers and derision of the mob . With the speed of _thought others were raised , and the centre of the town wa 3 cleared against the circulation of Austrian troops ; women and children set to work , the pavement was taken _, up , and stones carried to every window from whence they conld be hurled , and pots and pans , and every offensive domestic weapon , were brought to tho point most favourable for attack .
Detachments of Austrians attempted to check this movement , by taking possession of the roof of the Duomo _, and of other public buildings ; but as the barricades began to thicken , they were gradually withdrawn , their retreat being a signal for a hurricane of the missiles above alluded to . The _vengeoce of the people was principally directed against tbe Croats , of which tho main force of tbe garrison wa 3 composed , and it is said tbat the officers and men oi that nation committed cruelties the most revolting , by " _* ay of compensationin all the houses where they entered .
, The incessant clanging ofthe church bells , lam told , Produced a wonderful effect oh the ignorant Croats . They felt as if heaven and earth were coming together , and that _** e tocsin was a thunderbolt to be launched from each steepl e after it had rung their death-knell . So far did this _* Perstitious dread of the tocsin affect their imagination , that in the subsequent retreat orders were issued ia eyery _" _j _kge to muffle the bells , and assurances given , that ** herever they were rung the place would be abandoned to toe men for plunder , or burnt to the ground .
.. know not if the charges mado against the troops in _^ Iilan were true , but it was generally said that in the poc-* et of one of them , who was shot at the bastions , there was " nd the hand of a lady , the fingers of which were _ornamented _, with several valuable rings , and one of my friends _ssn red me that all the members of a family of hia _ac-^ _"unt ance were placed on tkeir " knees in Hie centre of their _^^ dr awing-room , the Croats standing in a circle round with J ?** ' * ' muskets , pointed al their heads , tohile the officer sat _^• _totfepjano , declaring that when he came to the allegro _ftpifee he phged , the vollev should be fired _.
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On tbe second day of the revolution the circle of barricades was enlarged , and the troops excluded from the chief part of all the prinoipal : Btreets . To form these barriers , the owners of the adjoining houses sacrificed their carriages , chairs , sofas , table ., and many articles of ornamental furniture . The popular _feelingcould not be trifled witb , and even the most retrograde among tbe nobility devoted everything suitable to that use , which their palaces contained . These barricades were not such as I have seen in other towns . They were immense in size , nearly a yard in thickness , and eight or ten feet in height . By the rapidity with
which they were erected , detached parties of tbe soldiers were cut off , and several of the public authorities intercepted in their retreat to the citadel or castle , where Radetaky had established his head quarters . On the third day the city might be said to be evacuated , and the whole attention of tho Austrians was given to the bastions which surrounded it , and to the several gate 3 leading to the country . A struggle of another kind now _commenced , the people directing all their force to tbe destruction of those gates , with the hope of cutting the Aus * trian lines , and , atthe same time , opening a communication with their friends outside .
Radetzky , still uncertain as to the resolve of Charles Albert , the first propositions of the regal agent having been annulled by the influence of the Republican party , now _sought to tempori'e , and he sent in more than one message asking for an armistice , first ofa month , then of a fortnight , and lastly of four days . He also gained time by a visit of the foreign consols , who demanded permission for their nationals to retire ; but all this maucevering failed , as the leading men of the revolt were determined to carry on their operations with tho same vigour with which they had commenced . The nobility and chiefs of the corporation were willing to treat , but one of the council' of war having exclaimed , "In revolution there is no middle turn—we must either
conquer , or be shot as rebels , the cry was taken up by the people , and the messenger sent back , to the castle with a peremptory refusal . The enthusiasm of tho crowd was excited by their unexpected success , and as their barricades were now pushed close to the bastions on every side , it became evident tbat thefate of Milan must be decided either one way or the other , before the termination of the week . Radetzky was gradually diminishing bis outposts , and withdrawing from the bastions touching the Porta Tosa , bnt no indications of a retreat bad yet been made , and to attack bim in the citadel which had been strengthened by several , even the most ardent ofthe citizens , could not recommend . Up to tbis period , the four persons—namely , Jules _Zarzaghi , Georges Clerico , Charles Cattaneo , and Henri _Cernuschi , who composed the council of war , and so ably directed the energies of the people , and who likewise had turned a deaf ear to all the blandishments of Charles Albert ' s agents , now begin to find that the nobility were intriguing against them , and that a regular bargain had been concluded between the municipality and the emissaries alluded to ,
Indignant at such _proceedings , and unwilling that after having achieved its liberty , their country should become a mere province of Piedmont , they resigned , and a provisional government was formed , of which _Casati , the pod _. 3 ta or mayor , was the president , by whom the bargain with the Ring was ratified , and by whom the affairs of Lombardy , in the ensuing campaign , were most unworthily conducted . Immediate notice ot this change in the direction of affairs was sent to Turin , and the King hesitated no longer to throw off the flimsy mask he had hitherto worn , or perform the last act of treachery to his ally . These circumstances could not be concealed from the vigilant observation of Radetzky , and no sooner did he become aware of the result of the last mission , than he determined to retire and gain as many days' march as he could on the Piedmontese army .
He at once despatched couriers to Verona and Mantua , instructing the governors of both fortresses of tbe real state of affairs , and cautioning tbem against allowing the people to overpower the garrisons , or possess themselves of the principal posts . He then ordered the troops , quartered in all the towns of Lombardy , to march towards the Mincio , and effect a juncture with him at a given point . Affecting next to invest the city more closely , and ordering bis artillery to keep up an incessant fire , he drew off his troops in the silence and darkness of the night of the 22 nd , and long before day broke , all traces of him were lost .
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replied"When a mother marries her daughter , she half reveals to her , with more or less of discretion and modesty , the mysteries which heretofore she bas concealed from her . A mother was wanting to you , when you pronounced with an enthusiasm more fanatical than human , the oath to belong to a man whom you loved incompletely . A mother is given you to-day to assist and enlighten you in your new _resolutions at tbe hour of divorce , or at the definitive sanction of this strange hymen . This mother is myself , Consuelo ; I , who am not a man , but a woman . " " You a woman ? " said Consuelo , looking with surprise at the hand , thin and blue , but delicate and truly feminine , which had taken hers during tbis discourse .
" This little withered old man , " replied the problematical confessor , " this decrepid and suffering being , in whose feeble voice there is no sex , is a woman broken down by _jjrief , illness , and anxiety , more than by age , I am not more than sixty , Consuelo , though in this dreBs , which I never wear out of my functions as an Invisible , I bave the aupearanoe of an imhecile octogenarian . However , in the dress of my sex as in this , I am no longer anything but a rain ; yet I was a tall , strong , handsome woman , of imposing exterior . Bat at thirty years old I was already bent and trembling as you see me now . And do you know , my child , the cause of that precocious feebleness ? It waB the misfortune from which I would preserve -you . It waB an incomplete affection , an unhappy union ; it was a terrible effort of courage and resignation , which attached me for ten years to a mau whom I esteemed and respected , but whom I was unable to love . " Sow , then , open to me your entire sonl . Tell me if this Liverani—"
"Alas ! I love this Liverani ; Ifc is but too true , " said Consuelo , carrying tbe band of tbe mysterious sibyl to her lips . "His presence causes me yet more confusion than that of Albert ; but how different is this confusion . How mingled is it with strange delights ! His arms are a mag net which attracts me ; and his kiss upon my forehead causes me to enter another world , where I breathe , where I exist differently than in this . " " Well , Consuelo , you must love this man and forget the other . I from tbis moment pronounce your divorce ; it is my duty and my right . " "Spite of what you have told me , I cannot accept this sentence before I have seen Albert , before he has spoken to me , aud told me himself that he renounces me without regret , that he returns my oath without contempt . "
" You do not yet know Albert , or you fear him ; but I know him , I who have rights over him still more than over you , and I can speak in his name . We are alone , Consuelo , and it is not forbidden me to disclose myself to you entirely , though I am one of tbe supreme council , whom their nearest disciples never know . But my situation and yours are exceptional ; look upon my faded features , and tell me if th'y seem altogether unknown to you . " Thus speaking , the sibyl at the same time detached her mask and false beard , her cap and false bair , and Consuelo saw the head of a woman , old and indicative of suffering , it is true , but of an incomparable beauty of feature , and with a sublime expression of goodness , sadness , and strength . Consuelo contemplated her for a few moments with admiration and respect . Then , suddenly struck with surprise , she cried , seizing both her hands" Oh ! mon Dieu ! how you resemble him !"
" Yes , I resemble Albert , or rather Albert resembles me prodigiously , " she replied ; '' but have you never seen a portrait of me ?" Perceiving that Consuelo was making an effort of memory , she added by way of assisting her"A portrait wbich resembles me as much as art is permitted to approach reality , and of which I am now bnt the shadow , a large portrait ofa young , fresh , and brilliant woman , with a corsage of gold brocade , ornamented with flowers and jewels , a mantle of purple , and black hair escaping from clasps of rubies and pearls , to fall in curls upon the shoulders ; it is the costume I wore forty years ago , on the day after my marriage . I was' handsome , but I was not to remain so long ; _already death was in my sonl . "
" The portrait of which you speak , " said Consuelo , turning pale , "is in the Chateau de Geants , in the chamber Albert occupied . It is that of his mother , whom he had scarcely known , and whom , nevertheless , be adored , and whom he thought he saw and heard in his ecstasies . Are you , then , a near relation of the noble Wanda de Prachalitz , and thus " " I am Wanda de Prachalitz herself , " replied the sibyl , something of firmness suddenly returning to her voice and attitude ; " lam the mother of Albert , and the widow of Christian de Rudolstadt ; I am the _descendant of Jean Ziska of tbe Chalice , and the mother-in-law of Consuelo ; but I wish to be no longer anything but her friend and her adopted mother , since Consuelo does not love Albert , and
Albert must not be happy at ihe price of the happiness of hia companion . " "H is mother ! you his mother ? " cried Consuelo , trembling and falling at the knees of Wanda . " Are you then a spectre ? Were you not mourned as dead in the Chateau des Geants ? " „ " It is twenty-seven years , " replied the sibyl , since Wanda of Prachalitz , Countes 3 of Rudolstadt , was buried in the same cbapel , and beneath the same flag , where Albert de Rudolstadt , attacked by the same malady , and subject to . the same cataleptic crisis , , wb & buried .. . last year , the victim of the same error- The son would never have risen from this frightful tomb if the mother , attentive to the danger which threatened him , had not , herself invisible , watched over his
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agony , and presided with anguish at his interment . Ic was his mother who saved a being , still full of life and strength , from the worms of the sepulchre , to wbich he had been already abandoned ; ifc was his mother who rescued him from the yoke ofthe world , where he had lived but too long , and in which he could no longer live , to transport bim into this mysterious world , into this impenetrable asylum , where she had herself recovered , if not health of body , at least the health of the souL It is a strange history , Consuelo , * and you must know it , that you may understand that of Albert , his sad life , his pretended death , and his miraculous resurrection . The Invisibles will nofc open their meeting for your initiation until midnight , Listen then to me ; and may the emotion of this strange recital prepare you for those which yet await you . " wanda ' s history :
"Rich , beautiful , and of an illustrious birth , I was married at twenty to . the Count Christian , who might have been my father . He inspired me with affection , and respect , but not with love . 1 have been brought up in ignorance of what such a feeling might be in the life of a woman . My relations , austere Lutherans , but obliged to exercise their faith in secret , displayed in their habits and ideas an excessive rigidity , and a great strength of soul . Their hatred of foreigners , their secret revolt against the'religions and political yoke of Austria , had passed into my bosom and determined me to marry Count Christian , in order to save my parents from persecution , and I had the hope to be able to convert my husband to my own political faith . But he as well as his sister was bigotedly attached to his old creed and customs , and in the absence of moral and intellectual sympathy with beings whom I loved , but whose contact killed , soon brought on severe and continued illness .
" The consecutive loss of my five children was a final blow * . Ifc seemed to me as though heaven had cursed my marriage , and I ardently desired death . I forced myself not to love Albert , my last-born , persuaded that he , ' like the rest , was condemned , and that my cares would nofc avail to save him . A last misfortune put a -finishing stroke to the disturbed state of my faculties . I loved , and was beloved , and the austerity of my principles forced me to struggle even against the inward confession of this terible feeling . The physician who attended me in my frequent and grievous crisis was , to all appearance , older , and not so handsome as Christian . They were not then personal graces which touched me , but tbe profound sympathy of our souls , the conformity of our ideas , or , at least , of our religious and philosophical instincts , and an inconceivable sympathy of character . Marcus , 1 can indicate him to you but by this
name , possessed the same energy , the same activity of mind , the same patriotism as myself . What Shakespeare put into the mouth of Brutus might have been said with equal justice to both : 'I am not of those who bear injustice with a smiling face . ' The misery and degradation of the poor , tbeir serfdom , the despotic laws and tbeir monstrous abuse 3 , all the injurious rights of conquest aroused in him tempests of indignation ; Oh ! what torrents of tears have we not shed together over the misfortunes of our country , over those of the human race , everywhere trampled upon and deceived Here _brutalised by ignorance , there decimated by the rapacity of the avaricious , everywhere violated and crushed by the ravages of war , degraded over the whole face ofthe earth ! Still Marcus , wiser than I , conceived a remedy for all these
evils , and often entertained me , with strange and mysterious projects for the organisation of a universal conspircy against despotism and intolerance ; I listened to his projects as to romantic dreams . I had ceased to hope ; I was too ill , toe oppressed ,-to believe in a future . He loved me ardently ; I saw it , I felt it , I shared his passion ; and yet , during five years of apparent friendship and chaste intimacy , we never revealed to one another the fatal secret which united us . He did not usually reside in the Bcehmer-Wald ; at least , he was frequently absept under pretence of duties , to distant patients , but in fact , to organise the conspiracy of which he unceasingly spoke to me without convincing me _ofitsresolts . Each time I saw him , I felt more inflamed by his genius , his courage , and his perseverance . Each time he returned he found me weaker , consumed by an inward fire , devastated by physical suffering .
" During one of these absences I was attacked with frightful convulsions , to which the vain and ignorant doctor , _Wetzelius , whom you know , and who attended me during his absence , gave the name bf malignant fever . At the close of this crisis , I fell into a complete prostration , which they took for death . My pulse ceased to beat , my breathing was imperceptible . Nevertheless I preserved my consciousness ; I heard the prayers of the chaplain , and _thB sobs of my family , I heard the piercing cries of my only child , of my poor Albert , and I could nofc make a movement , I could nofc even see bim . They had closed my eyes , and I found it impo 38 iblo to open them . I asked myself if this were indeed death , and if the soul , deprived of its means of action upon the corpse , preserved in death the consciousness of the sorrows of life and the terrors of the tomb ? I heard terrible things around my bed of death ; the chaplain , endeavouring to calm the livoly and sincere
regrets of the canoness , told her that she ought to thank God for all things , and that ifc was a groat happiness for my husband to be delivered from the affliction of my continual agony and the storms of my reprobate soul . Ho did nofc make use of such harsh terms , but the meaning was the same , and tbe canoness listened , and allowed herself by degrees to be convinced . I even heard her , immediately after , trying to console Christian with the same arguments , still more softened in expression , but equally cruel to me . I heard distinctly ; I understood horribly . Ifc was , they thought , the will of God that I should not bring up my son , and that he should bo withdrawn at so early an age from the poison of heresy with which I was infected . This is what they said to my husband when ( pressing Albert to his heart ) he cried , _« Poor child ! what will become of you without your mother ? ' The reply of the chaplain was , ' You will bring him up in the fear of God V
1 Afc last , after three days of silent and motionless despair , I was carried to the tomb , without having recovered the strength to make a sign , without having loBt for a moment the certainty of the terrible death that was about to be brought upon me ! They covered me with diamonds ; they olothed me in my bridal robes , in the magnificent robes whioh you have seen in my portrait . They placed _a'crown of flowers on my head , a golden crucifix upon my breast , and deposited me in the marble tomb in the chapel , where I felt neither the cold nor the want of air ; I lived only in thought . ' " Marcus arrived an hour afterwards . His consternation at first deprived him of all reflection . He threw himself upon my tomb ; they dragged him from it ; he returned in the night . _ _ _ . ' _.-...
"This time he had armed himself with a hammer and lever . A horrible thought had crossed his mind . He knew the lethargic crisis to wbich I was _subjeofc , though he had never known thorn to last so long or to be so complete ; but be had concluded the possibility of a terrible error . I heard him walking above my head ; I reoognised his footstep . The noise of the iron raising the stone made me tremble , but I could not utter a cry , not even a sigh . When he raised the veil which covered my faoe , he hesitated for some time ; he interrogated a thousand times my extinguished breath , my icy hands and heart . I had the , stiffness of a corpse . I heard him murmur in a voice of agony , ' All , then , is over I there is no more hope ! Dead , dead oh , Wanda ! ' Then he let the veil fall , but did not replace the stone . A terrible silence reigned anew . Had he fainted ? Did he abandon me , he also forgetting , in the terror which tbe sight of what he had once loved inapired him , to reclose my sepulchre ? _, "Marcus , _plunged in gloomy meditation , - formed a project gloomy aB his grief , singular as his character . Ho
desired to preserve my corpse from tbe outrages of destruction . He wished to bear it away in Becret , to embalm it , to enclose it in ametal coffin , to keep it for ever by Mb side . He took roe in his arms , and without knowing whether his strength would allow him to carry a corpse so far * his dwelling—distant more than a mile—he depositated . me upon the pavement , and replaced the stone with that sang f raid which acts of delirium often possess . Then enveloping and entirely concealing me in his cloak ; he quitted the chateau , wbich . was not so carefully closed as now . I had become so thin that ,, to tell the truth , I was not a very heavy burden . Marcus , crossed the woods , choosing , the least frequented paths . He deposited me several times upon the rocks ; overcome With grief and terror ' rather than fatigue . Afc last , _arriving-at * his home , fie entered _noiselessly through the garden , and bore me , unseen , into an isolated pavilion , wbich he bad converted into a study . It was there only that the joy of finding myself saved ,, the first joyful emotion I had experienced for ten years , unbound my tongue , and I gave utterance to a feeble
exclamation . "Marcus would not Buffer . me to return to a certain death , nor bad I any . desire to do so . He promised . , to watch over my . son , and prooured me the means of seeing him in secret . I consented todepart with him , never again to be the Countess of Rudolstadt . " But at the moment we were about'to depart , in the night , Marcus was summoned to the assistance of Albert , who , they said , was dangerously ill . Maternal tenderness , which misfortune seemed to have stifled ; rekindled in my bosom . I insisted upon following Marous to Riesenburg , * no human power , not even his , could have dissuaded me from it . I ascended bis carriage , and , wrapped in a long veil , I anxiously waited at some distance from the chateau till he could see my son and . bring me tidings . He quickly returned , answering me that the child was in no danger ,
and urged me to allow htm to conduot me home , that he might return and pass the night with Albert . I could not resolve upon this ; I determined still to wait concealed behind the gloomy walls of the chateau , trembling and agitated , while he returned to watch over my son . But scarcely was 1 alone , when a thousand anxieties devoured mo . I imagined thafc Marcus concealed from me the truo situation of Albert ; that , perhaps , ho was dying , * that he might expire without receiving my last kiss . Overpowered by this fatal persuasion , I rushed beneath the porfcioo of tbe chateau ; a servant whom I met in the court , atsighfc of me , let fall his torch , and took to flight , making the sign of the cross . My veil concealed my features , but the apparition of a woman in the middle of the night sufficed to arouse tbe superstitions feelings ef these credulous
servants . They never doubted but that I was the ghost of the unfortunate and impious Wanda . An unhoped for chance led me to the chamber of my son without meeting a single person , and the canoness had , just quitted to seek a medicine ordered by Marcus . My husband , according to custom , had gone to pray in his oratory , instead of acting to arrest the danger . ; I threw myself upon my son ; -I preBsbd him to " my bosom . He had no fear of me ; he returned my caresses ; he had not understood my death . At . this moment the chaplain appeared at the threshold of the chamber ; ' Marcus thought all was lost . Still , with a rare _presenceof mind / he remained motionless * and . appeared not to perceive me at his side . The chaplain pronounced , in a broken voice , a few words of exorcism ; and fell fainting , without having dared to advance a step towards mo . Then I resigned myself to flight by another door , and I re-
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gained , in the dark , the spot where Marcus had left me I was re-assured ; I had seen _Allwrfc relieved ; his littlo hands were moist , and tlie fire of fever was no longer on his cheeks . The fainting fit and the terror of the chaplain were attributed to a vision . He maintained that ho saw me by the side of Marcus , holding my son in my arms Marcus equally insisted thafc he had seen nothing . Albert had _falletrasleep ; but , on the morrow , he asked for mo < again ; and on the following nights , convinced tbat I was nofc asleep for ever , as they tried to persuade him , he dreamed of me , thought he saw me once more , and called me by name again and again . From this moment the childhood of Albert was strictly watohed , and the superstitious souls of Risenburgh offered up a thousand prayers as an antidote to the fatal assiduitiesof my phantom around his cradle .
" Marcus took me back to his home before daybreak ; we delayed our departure another week , until Albert was quite recovered , when we quitted Bohemia . Since then I have lived a wandering and mysterious life . In Italy and elsewhere I passed as the sister of Marcus , and indeed I have never been to him anything more . Through all these long years we have toiled together in the work of the Invisibles . But I would speak to you now of Albert , and tbat part of his existence of which you still are ignorant . You will loam how in the terrible and singular life I have led , I afc last knew tender emotions and maternal joys . " I no sooner heard that Albert had been sent to travel , than I set out after him _. keeping close to him wherever he went . I was so impatient to see my son , that I had greafc difficulty in remaining a few hours behind him , and thus reaching Venice , where he was to make his first stay . But
I was resolved only to show myself to mm under cover ofa species of solemn mystery ; for ifc was not the ardent . instinct ofa mother alone which drove me to his arms—I had a still more serious design , a still more maternal duty to fulfil ; I wished to save Albert from the narrow superstitions with whioh they had tried to surround him . To effect this , I had to gain possession of his imagination , of his confidence , of his mind , of his whole soul . He regularly followed all the external practises of the Roman faith . In his rigid logic and upright candour , my noble child , firm in the practice of true Christianity , was _alrea- _'y an impassioned and incorrigible heretic . Lodging in Venice , in the same h otel , I afc last met him , alone and musing , on the staircases , in the gallerries , on the quays . Oh ! you can well imagine how my heart beat afc the sight of him , how my soul yearned to embrace him , and what torrents of tears flowed from my
dismayed , yet enraptured , eyes . He appeared so good , so noble , and so sad ! Alas ! for this sole object given to my love on earth ! I followed him cautiously . Night approached . He entered the church of SSt . John and Paul ; a gloomy pilo filled with tombs , with whioh doubtless you are well acquainted . Alborfc kneeled down in a corner ; I glided in after him , and concealed myself behind a tomb . Tho ohuroh was deserted ; the darkness was each moment becoming deeper . Albert was motionless as a statue . Still he appeared to me plunged into reverie rather than prayer . The lamp of the sanctuary threw a feeble light npon his features . He was so pale that I grew terrified . Ilis fixed eye , his half open lips , the expression of despair in his attitude and physiognomy , almost broke my heart ; I trembled like the flickering flame of the lamp . Ic seemed to me that should I reveal myself to him at that moment , he would
fall lifeless . I remembered all that Marcus had told me of his nervous susceptibility , and the danger of sudden emotions upon so excitable a frame . I withdrew , lesfc _* I might yield fco my love , and waited for him beneath the portico . I had thrown over my dress , which was in itself dark and simple , a brown mantle , the hood of which concealed my face , and gave me the appearance of a country woman of the neighbourhood . A 3 he came out I involuntarily took a step towards him ; he stopped , and thinking me a beggar took from his pocket a gold piece , and presented me with it . Oh 1 with what pride and gratitude did I receive those alms . Here it is , Consuelo ; it is a sequin of Venice . 1 had it pierced for a chain , and 1 always wear ifc in my
bosom as a preoious jewel , as a relic . This pledge , which the hand of my child has sanctified , has never quitted me from that day . I was no longer mistress of my transport , _* I seized tbat dear hand , and carried ifc to my lips . He withdrew ifc with a sort of Terror—it Wis moist with my tears . " ' What are you doing , woman ? ' he asked , in a voice whose pure and . sonorous tones penetrated to the very marrow of my bones . Why do you bless mo thus for so poor a gift ? Without doubfc , you are very unfortunate , and I have given you too little . How muoh do you want to relieve you from suffering ? Speak ; I long to console you ; I hope I can do so . ' And without even looking at it , he hastily held towards me all the gold he had about him .
"' You have given me enough , good young man , * I replied , —* I am satisfied . ' ''' Then why do you weep V he said to me , struck with the sobs which stifled my voice ; ' have you _aorae sorrow which my wealth caniiot reach ?' " ' , ' 1 replied ; * I weep with tenderness and joy . ' " ' With joy ! Are these then tears of joy ? and such tears for a piece of gold ! Oh , human misery ! Woman , take all the rest , I beseech you ; but do not weep for joy . Think of your brethren the poor , so numerous , so degraded , so miserable , and remember that 1 cannot relievo all . ' " He withdrew sighing , leaving his gold on . tho pavement , and I picked it up and put it in the poor _' s-box . On the morrow I watched him again , and saw him enter the church of St . Mark ' s . I had resolved to be stronger and calmer , and I was so . We wero once more alone in the twilight of the church . He remaibed for some time plunged in thought , when I suddenly heard him murmur in a hollow voice as ho
rose"' Oh , Christ l they crucify thee every day of their lives . " ' "' Yes , ' I replied , half reading bis thoughts , ' the Pharisees and the doctors of the law . ' "He trembled , and said in a low voice , ' Againmy mother ' s voice !' " Consuolo , I almost fainted on hearing Albert thus invoke my memory . I again waited for him atthe porch , without approaching him ; but he perceived me , and shrunk back with a movement of terror . ' Signora , ' he Baid , ' why are you begging to day ? Is it then a profession ? As the pitiless rich say , have you no family ? Can you not be useful to some one , instead of wandering like a ghost afc night ; around the churches ? Was what I gave you yesterday not enough for to-day , or would you monopolise the share of your brethren V "' lam not begging , ' I replied . * I put your gold into the poor ' s-box , except one poor sequiu , kept for love of thee . '
"' Who art thou , then V he cried , seizing my arm ; ' your voice moves me to the depths of my soul . It seems to me that I know you . Show me your faoe ! But no , I will not see you—you terrify me . ' " . ' Oh , Albert ! ' I cried , forgetting my prudence , ' you , too , are afraid of me ?' " He trembled with terror , and said , ' Yes it is her voice —the voice of my mother V '" I know not who may be your mother , ' I replied , recollecting myself , I only know your name because the poor are already familiar with it . Is your mother dead ?' • They say she is ; but my mother is not dead to me . ' " Where does she live , then ?'
" In my thoughts , continually , eternally . I have dreamed of her voice , of her features , a thousand times 2 ' ' . I was frightened as well as charmed by the burst of affection which thus drew him towards me . But perceiving that he evinced signs of bewilderment , I conquered my tenderness , that I might calm him . " 'Albert , ' I said to him , 'I knew your mother ; I was hor friend . She charged me to speak to you of her some day , when you Bhould be old enough to understand what I had to _sayi I am not what I appear . I only followed
you yesterday and to day that I might have an opportunity of conversing with you . Listen to me calmly , then , and do not allow yourself to be disturbed by foolish superstitions . Will you follow me beneath the arcades of the Procurators , which are now deserted , and there converse with me ? Do you feel sufficiently tranquil , sufficiently collected for this ?' " . ' You , the friend o ' my mother ! ' he cried , ' You oharged by her to apeak to mo of her ! Oh yes ! speak , speak ! You see I waa nofc deceived . You Bee that an inward voice warned me . I felt that there was something of her in you . '
"I led bim beneath . the aroades , and questioned bim regarding bis childhood , and the principles that had been instilled into him . I found bis young-soul in despair at thei woes of humanity ; nowhere could he find truth '; Catholics and Protestants alike had abandoned the divine path ; everywhere reigned the law of Hie strongest ; everywhere the weak were enslaved and degraded ; Christ was crucified daily upon every altar erected to him by man J The night passed away in this bitter and absorbing conversation . Uneasy at his long watching and continued pacing to and fro , I promised tb open a door of safety to him if he _wouldoonsent to wait and to prepare himself : I gently excited his imagination with the expectatien of a new revelation , and I led bim back to the hotel where we both lived , promising him a fresh interview , which I postponed for several days , that I might not agitate him too strongly . " ( Tobe Continued . )
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Character is higher than intellect . Thinking is the function . Living is the functionary . The stream retreats to its source . A great soul will be strong to live , as well as strong to think ; Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living there .. This is a total act . Thinking is a partial -ot .... Time shall teach him that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives . Herein be unfolds the sacred germ of his instinct , screened from influence , What is lost in Beemliness is gained in strength . Not out of those , on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture
comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to baild tho new , but out of _unhandselled savage nature , out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs , come at last Alfred and Shakespeare . Hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labour to every citizen . There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade , for learned as well as unlearned hands . And labour . is everywhere welcome ; always we are invited to work * , only be this limitation observed , that a man shall nofc for the sake of wider activity , sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and mo des of action . —Emerson ' s Orations .
Tub following is given aa a _speoiroen of American parsings—I court—Court , a verb active , indicative mood , present tens ? , and agrees with all the girls in the neighbourhood . " __ .- ¦; . ¦ Finn , the witty comedian , was carving a goose at supper , when John Everett , the ex * Minister ' s brother , oalled out to the carver , from the other end of tho table ; " What sort of a fowl is that brother of yours , Finn _s . " "It is almost as great a goose , " responded the wit , " as _IEvtr-tt . _*"'
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The Hoj-ourable _AriilTiBRy _CoMm- ? . —On Prince Albert reviewed the Honourable Artillery ' of which he is colonel in chief . The New Sugar Dunns . —The new and _re'ili ! of duty on foreign sugar imported come into opi the 6 th of July ( 11 and 12 Victoria , cap . 07 . ) Philharmonic _SociEiv . —Tlie eighth , last , and degrees the best concert of the season , took place 6 night in presence of a very crowded audience . Charge ov Fraud . -. William Rose , describe agent , has been committed on a charge of di Joseph Wilson , a weaver , in Slater-street , Spitalfi French Beet Root . —Accounts from the depa the North concur in stating that the beet-crop ha been in finer condition than at present . Chester asd Holyhead Railway . —The preamb company ' s bill , for regulation of capital andothei has been proved in committee of the Lords
. Death op Lord Abercromby . —The " Caledoni . p U 1 * y announces the sudden death of the Right _ _Prida _^ „ Baron Abercromby , at _Airthrey-castle , « . __ _f ?_! \ _^ _GNER- _* -It " _^ ated that Mr . Lumley has . ? _jqn ° _ n _ a V u ion a _£ ainst Mp * G 7 _*> laying _bis damages _tS'V f' \ l * \ the _SolWtor and Attorney-General are retained for the plaintiff . New PLANKT .-Mr . J . R . Hind has announced that he has discovered a new planet on the bordora of the _constellation Aqui a and Serpens , about 5 deg . cast of the star _Tau
m _vpiuucnus . The 2 nd Battalion Rifle Brigade disembarked at Portsmouth DockyarJ , from H . M . Steamer , Simoom , on Saturday morning , and proceeded , per South Coast Railway , to Canterbury . ' . The New Asylum for Fatherless Children . —A bazaar in aid of tho funds of this charity was held on Friday and Saturday in the large suite of rooms of the London Tavern . The enterprise will bring to the charity about £ 100 . The City _Orthop-edic HosriTAL . —The anniversary festival of this institution was held on Wednesday evening , at the London Tarcrn , Bishopfgate-street , the Earl of Carlisle in the chair .
The Robbery ... _SnoREmicn . —Edwin RickAt _' s and _« eorge _Sham _. have been committed on the charge of robbing the green" young man of Cambridge , whose case has been reported in this journal . Royal College oi Physicians . —The annual Harveian Oration was delivered on Saturday , by Dr . Formby , in presence of the president and a large body of tbo fellows of the college . Law Amendment Society . —On Saturday tbe society for poraoting the amendment of the law held its annual dinner at tho Crown and Sceptre Tavern , Greenwich . Lord Brougham in the chair . Society for the Protection of Life from Fire . —The anniversary meeting of the friends and supporters of this association was held a few days ago in the Council Chamber of tho Guildhall , the Lord Mayor in the chair . " Serve him Right . "— Miss Susan Denin , an actress , horse-whipped Mr . Frederick Dent , an actor , lately , in Buffalo . The young man declared that he had r « ceived amatory letters from tho young woman .
Tee Swedisu -. _ightikgale . —Jenny Lind has given about 100 concerts in the States , and has realised about loO _. OOO dollarB , of which she bas devoted _eome 30 , 000 dollars in charity . Prince Albem " a _Colosellimo . "—Prince Albert has during this week been out several times with the brigade of Foot Guards at morning drill in Hyde Park . Commander-in-Chief , eh ? Books by Post . —The Post-office authorities are " rapidly extending the privilege of sending books , pamphlets , magazines , and reviews , & c , afc 6 d . per half-pound woight to al ! our colonies and dependencies .
A Present from the Diggings . —A tradesman in Gloucester , whose brother emigrated to Australia a few years ago , has received from him a very agreeable token of fraternal regard in the shape of a lump of gold . The lump thus sent has sold for nofc less than £ 400 . The Newman Witnesses , —Boulogne-sur-Mer , June 27 . —Under this date a correspondent says : —"' The worthy Italians who gave evidence against Dr . Achilli , arrived here yesterday afternoon by the Folkstono steamer , as saloon passengers . " Grotto . Place Ragged School . —On Saturday the annual meeting ofthe friends and supporters of the Ragged andlndustrial School and _Refuse for Destitute Boys and Girls , Grotto-place , was held at the New Leoture Hall , Edward-street , _Portman-square .
Distribution of Prizes at King ' s College . —The annual distribution of prizes to the successful students at King ' s College , took place on Tuesday in the Hall of the College before a very large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen , friends of tho students and the college . Emigration from the Clyde . —The time is within the memory of all when tho departure of an emigrant vessel from the Clydo was reckoned an event : now it is almost a weekly occurrence , and occasions no comment what * ever . Willis ' s Rooms . —Mr . Harry Carter Lee , who will be remembered as the most active director of the Grand National Concerts at Her Majesty ' s Theatre , has here pro * duced an entertainment entitled " Carter Lee ' s Sketches and Crowquill ' s _Scratohes . "
Case of Mr . Alderman Salomons . —In this case the plaintiff is about to move for a new trial , on the ground that the verdict was perverse and against the evidence ; that tho learned judge had improperly rejected oral and documentary evidence , and that he had misdirected the jury . " _Cuargb op Burglary . —A few days ago Joseph Sloper , George Wixen , Charles Smith , Joseph Ilibberfc , and Charles Nelson , labourers , were oharged before Mr . Broderip with burglariously breaking , into and entering a dwelling-house , the Rose and Crown , _Knightsbridge , and stealing lib . of _oigars and three bottles of brandy . _Ha-Lejtbury CoL _ . EGB .--On Monday last the _chairmaa and directors of the East Ind fa Company , accompanied by a large party of friends , visited Haileybury College . for the purpose of witnessing the distribution of honours among the successful students , and of closing the session with due observance .
Thb Bishop of Worcester . —The _Queen has ratified a scheme of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , by which the Bishop of Worcester shall , from the 1 st day of January last past , receive an annual income of £ 5 , 000 , in the lieu of the _present or future income arising from his see , or of any other ecclesiastical _> profits or emoluments of any kind or description whatever . "Unchristian Fathehb . "—John Fathers and Ann Fathers , husband ' _apd-wife * hying in . a comfortable home in the High-street ,- Mortlake _, were committed for trial , at the Guildford Sessions , on the charge of having stolon a £ 20 Bank of England notef the property of Mrs . Jane Elizabeth Kemp , a widow lady , residing at Cumberland-place , _Kowroad . . ' ¦ " ¦ "
The Iros Ore of _Northamptonshire . —Mr . S . H . Black-: _, well , F . G . S ., of Dudley , recently delivered a leoture " On the Iron-making Resources of the Kingdom , " before the Mechanics' Institute at Northampton , in whioh he said that iron had , been largely smelted in Northampton at the time of its occupation by the Romans , as well as in many other parts of the country , where it had been discontinued _siifoe the substitution of coal for wood as fuel . A Clerical Canvasses . —On Sunday morning last the Rev . Dr . Cooper , incumbent of Trinity , St . Phillip ' s , preaohed a sermon having strong reference to the forth- - coming election . The reverend gentleman pointed out to his congregation that it was their duty at the next eleotion to support that candidate who was prepared tb uphold tha church , and not vote for those irreligious and worldly men , whose opinions were unfavourable to it as it at present i existed . —Bath Gazette .
An Owner Wantbp . —* We read the following story in the s " Presse" : — " There baa just been found , iu the neighbour- hood of Annecy , in Savoy , an empty balloon , lying on the i ground . The car and all tho cordage were perfeot , and i there was every appearance of the balloon having fallen _i solely . rom the gradual escape of gas . At the bottom off the car were found a gentleman ' s cloak and a lady's _bon-. " net and shawl , and in the latter a very handsome albums was wrapped up . On the first leaf of the . album there was 8 a pencil-drawing of the panorama of the mountains of the a country , signed ' Eliza de R . ' There was nothing to indi- - cate the origin of this mysterious balloon . From the di-. i rection of the wind , ifc is _Bupposed tbat it came from l France , but beyond that all is a mystery . " Seamen . —A quoBtion has been raised whether a seaman
,, having suffered punishment . for desertion , is BtiU bound to ? complete his voyage , supposing the vessel ib at some dis- tant port . The ' Board of Trade lately applied to Sir F .. Thesiger and Sir Fitzroy Kelly for their legal opinion , and 1 they have interpreted the various clauses -of the Mercantile a Marine Act bearing on the case to mean that , though a i seaman has been convicted of desertion , and punished under r the acts in question , he is not . thereby released from the a articles of agreement , which remain in force , _notwithstand- - ing his oonviction and punishment . Those gentlemen add i — " We do nofc see why ho may not be guilty of anotbei _. if offence by again neglecting or refusing to join his ship , andd again be dealt with under the 70 th section of 13 & 14 Vict .,., cap . 93 , by another imprisonment , or by being conveyed oan board the ship . "
A Subject for Inquiry . —We are informed that one dajiy last week a first-claBS boy on board one of her Majesty ' s ' s steamers at this porfc was placed on a man ' s back , and d forcibly held thero , at the orders of the first lieutenant , t , while another man violently flogged him with a cane . Thera pain mado the sufferer struggle hard to free himself , whiohibj he effected , on which tbe said first lieutenant ordered tworo men to replace him in his former position on the other ' _s- ' _a back , whioh was done ; the " horse , " however , beingig unable to hold tbe boy in that position , thc said lieutenantat called the quartermasters to . seize him up to the JaoobVai ladder : the boy waa accordingly so seized , and triced upipi by his wrists and ancles , his feet nofc touching tho deok . k .
The said lieutenant then directed the caning to proceed , d . After a time the caning was suspended by the order of thaha lieutenant for a few minuteB , and then recommenced ; theha _castigation was , after a time , stopped a second time ; andnd ultimately recommenced ; after tbis tbe boy was cut downwn and confined under tho after part of the main deck . _Thisti . conduct , if substantiated , is a violation of the Admi . altjl _. s instructions . It is said the captain of the ship was not _ac < ac quaiuted with the proceedings , whioh , we belive , took p lacaci in the _ presenile of another lieutenant , the surgeon , and theh « engineer of the vessel alluded to . —Portsmouth Times , —[ WeW « underBtand that the steamship in question is the Retribubu tion , and the offioer whose conduct is likely to become _tjwt _* * subject of judicial inquiry is her first lieutenant , G . $ 3 ) miloa .-Qlobe . l _^ _SF _f- * _- _» *» .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 3, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_03071852/page/3/
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