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EPICEDIUM 0 IHE DEATH OP THE JOURNAL OF ASSOCIATION c _ die , thou child of stormy dawn , " Thou -winter flower , forlorn of nurse ; Chilled early by the bigot ' s curse , the pedant ' s frown , the worldling s yawn . -Fair death , to fall in teeming June , When every seed which drops to earth Takes root , and wits a second birth From * gleaming shower and steaming moon . Fall warm , fall fast , thou mellow rain ; Thou rain of God , make fat the land ;
That roots , which parch in burning sand , _) Iay bud to flower and fruit again To < _race , perchance , a fairer morn In mighty lands beyond the sea , While honour falls to such as we , prom hearts of heroes _yst unborn , _tfho , in the blaze of riper day , More loving science , holier laws , Bless us , faint heralds of their cause , Dim beacons of their glorious way . Failure ? While tide-floods rise , and boil , Hound cape and isle , in port and cove , Resistless , star-led from above : What though our tiny wave recoil ? Jace % 1532 . Charles _Eisgslet
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The _Pessoxal _Advextceesof' _Ocb _Ows Cokp . es poxdesi' 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 mis-pla * ed confidence than the believers in newspaper reports , especially those of 'Onr Own Correspondent , ' How often hare the conservative devourers of a morning paper which we could name , been electrified , gratified , or mystified , with learned dissertations on Ithe occurrences in France , which clairvoyant concoctions came direct from — Charlotte * street , _Fitzroy-square ? Tho ' Own Correspondent' of the Tory paper being no other than a celebrated French Socialist in exile for his revolutionary
predilections . In theso volumes we get a glimpse ot how the oracle is worked in this interesting department of literature , and this novel manifestation of Humbug . Itis not often that *' _Our Own Correspondent'is visible on the stage in person . He ia a kind of Spring-heeled-Jack , who is here , there , and everywhere , always talked of , but almost as rarely seen as a salamander . He is bomb and bullet-proof , because , in auy terrific emergency , or deadly danger , he has the happy knack of rendering himself invisible . But here we bave a fine and genuine specimen of tbe species in the person of Mr . Honan , a rich and racy , rattling and rollicking , devil-may-care Irishman . We bave some reminiscences of this' broth of a boy ' for _brogue and blarney , iu hi 3 Italian Campaign , which Tie hr . s not recorded in these volumes . When
the Neapolitans advanced upon Home Mr . Honan was thera too , and one evening as he was riding in the chariot of Bomba , King of Naples , we believe ie 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 precioas couple , but missed their mark . Mr . Honan is full of vivacity and animal spirits ; he lets out the blunt truth about himself , and comrogues with a charming naivete , and tells a lie to yonr 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 his imagination and your credulity , or in writing grammar . He tells us that
he proceeded to the scene of action in 1848 with very _vagae notions on the state of Italy , and as ignorant of his subject as Correspondents generally are . In 1836 he had been sentfo Toplitz , but did not even know where Toplitz was ! And when sent to Italy he could not speak tho language , and yet on both occasions it was necessary that he should begin to write immediately , as there were _thousands of people in England waiting to be humbugged by his 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 * Time 3 ' were treated to a dissertation on the bearings of the case , aud
astounded by the 'Own Correspondent ' s' practical wisdom . We were thrilled again and again with some of his 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 np of the description of an old Prima Donna , whom we should not wonder if he hmnbngged by talking of his immense interest with Mr . Lumley . He was far behind Charles Albert's army , and only heard the most vague rumours of what was going on . Meanwhile , he was criticising their tactics of warfare , and demonstrating that Radetzky must be beaten , as he was Each a bungler , and when his 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 the worse for the facts then . ' The volumes are
Taluable , 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 , but 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 , unctions , jovial , and jolly gentleman . Perhaps we could not choose a better extract than the following : -
THE SEVOI . TJHOK OF UU . & _S . The Governor of Milan received , on the night of the 17 th March , an account of the insurrection at Yienna , and as such an event conld not be long concealed , it became generally known on the following day , and created , as might he expected ,, a prodigious ferment . A crowd of persons , composed < . f all classes , rushed to the palace , the nobles demanding concessions of a political Batnre only , -whilst the citizens in general , and the republican party especially , insisted on the establishment of a national guard , and an abundant supply of arms and ammunition . In their route to the Hotel de Ville , a patrol wan met with , and it is a question on whose part the first act of hostility , which there occurred , took place . The people say bnt have to know
the soldiers fired on them , I good reason that it was a young republican desirous of bringing matters to a head , wbo began the attack . Prom that instant ali idea of a transaction ceased ; the People flew to arms , and in half an hour barricades were erected , and the tocsin began to sound . The first _barricade wa 3 constructed with the carriages of the viceroy , 3 _inidst the cheers and derision of the mob . With the speed of _thought others were raised , and the centre of the town _** 3 cleared against the circulation nt Austrian troops ; _^ men and children set to work , the pavement was taKen B and stone 3 carried to every window from whence they ¦ Md be hurled , aud pots and pans , and every offensive domestic weapon , were brought tothe point most favour-% for attack . ....
D etachments of _Austrian attempted to check this _movent , bv taking possession of the roof of the Duomo , and _J / _oiaer _' _pubbAuildings ; bnt as the barricades began to _j _& cken , they wera gradually withdrawn , their retreat being a signal for a hurricane of the missiles above alluded t 0 - . The vengence of the people was principally _dirested a _gaia 5 t the Croats , of which the main force of _thegarn-^ _wa 3 composed , and it is said that the officers and men _" that nation committed cruelties the most revolting , by _* a ? of compensation , in all tho houses where they entered . _* he incessant clanging of the church hells , I am told , Produced a wonderful effect on the ignorant Croats . They jat as if heaven and earth were coming together , and that _* f tocsin was a thunderbolt to be launched from each
_f-eaple after it had rung their death-knell . So far did this 'aperstitions dread of the tocsin affect their imagination , _r _^ tin . the subsequent retreat orders were issued ia every _3 H _* to mirine the bells , and assurances given , that acrever thej were rung the place would be abandoned to \ _™ _en for plunder , or burnt to the ground . y j snow not if the charges made against the troop 3 in Mia Were traej but ifc wa 3 generaiiy _sajd that in the pocf „ J * oae of them , who was shot at the bastions , there was _w _\ befc and of a lady , the fingers of which were _ornajsTj—j th several valuable rings , and one of my friends _qj _^ tte that all the members of a family of his ac-( sJ _^^ ee were placed on tkeir knees in the centre of their _hji t _? vim 9 room , the Croats standing in a circle roundwith dow _^ _Jf _^^ t pointed at their heads , while the officer sat * iW- p , < OT 0 » _declaring that' when he came to <«» allegro _' _P'KenepW ed _, the vollev should be fired .
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On the second day of the revolution the circle of barricades was enlarged , and the troops excluded from the chief part of all the principal streets . To form these barriers , the owners of tbe adjoining nouse 3 sacrificed their carriages , chairs , sofas , tables , and many articles of ornamental furniture . The popular feelingcould not be trifled with , and even the most retrograde among the nobility devoted everything suitable to that use , which their palaces contamed . These barricades were not aucb 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 tho rapidity with , __
which they were erected , detached parties of the soldiers were cut off , and several of the public authorities intercepted in their retreat to the citadel or castle , where _R- _** .-detaky had established hia head quarters . On the third day the city might be said to be evacuated , and the whole attention of the Austrians was given to the bastions which surrounded it , and to the several gates leading to the country . A struggle of another kind now commenced , the people directing all their force tothe destruction of those gates , with the hope of cutting the Austrian 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 _temporise , aud he sent in more than one message asking for an armistice , first ofa month , then of a fortnight , and lastly of four days . lie 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 the same vigour With which they had commenced .
The nobility and chiefs of the corporation were willing to treat , but ene of the council of war having exclaimed , " In revolution there i 3 no middle turn—we must either conquer , or be shot as rebels , " tho cry was taken up by the people , and the messenger sent back to the castle with a peremptory refusal . The enthusiasm of the 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 his outposts , and withdrawing from the _bastions touching the Porta Tosa ,
but no indications of a retreat had yet been made , and to attack him in the citadel which had been strengthened by several , even the most _ardent ofthe citizens , could not recommend . Up to this period , the four persons—namel y , Jules Zerzaghi , Georges Clerico , Charles Gattaneo , 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 began 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 snch _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 _Caaati , the podesta or mayor , was the president , by whom the bargain with , the King was ratified , and by whom the affairs of Lombardy , in the ensuing campaign , were most unworthily conducted . Immediate notice ot tbis change in the direction of affairs wa 3 sent to Turin , and the King hesitated no longer to throw off the flimsy mask he had hitherto worn , or perform thelast 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 be 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 them against allowing the people to overpower the garrisons , or possess themselves of the principal posts . lie then ordered the troops , quartered in all the towns of Lombardy , to march towards the Mineio , and effect a juncture with him at a given point . Affecting next to invest the city more closely , and ordering his 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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THE COUNTESS OP RUDOLSTADT . [ Sequel to " Consuelo . " ] Bt George Sand . a _rrveiatios . Consuelo had been out to take the air , and when towards night she returned , she started back with terror , atthe sight of a man dressed in red , and wearing a mask , seated upon her couch ; but she was speedily re-assured , as she recognised her old confessor . Seating herself on a footstool by his side , _CoBSuelo said — " I earnestly desire to speak to you , and have wished to do so for a long time . " Then she faithfully related to him all that had passed between herself , Albert , and the unknown , since her last confession , concealing from bim none of the involuntary emotions she had experienced . After she had finished , tho old man kept silence so long as to trouble and embarrass Consuelo . He at length
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 has concealed from her . A mother was wanting to you , when jou 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 the 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 bad taken hers during this discourse . " This little withered old man , " replied the problematical confessor , " this decrepid and suffering being , in whoso
feeble voice there is no sex , is a woman broken down by grief , illness , and anxiety , more than by age . I am not more than sixty , Consuelo , though in this dress , which I never wear out of my functions as an Invisible , I have the appearance of au imbecile octogenarian . However , in the dress of my sex as in this , I am no longer anything but a ruin ; yet I was a tall , strong , handsome woman , of imposing exterior . Bnt 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 was the misfortune from which I would preserve you . It was an incomplete affection , au unhappy union ; it was a terrible effort of courage and resignation , which attached me for ten years to a man whom I esteemed and respected , but whom I was unable to love . Sow , then , open to me your entire soul . Tell me if this _Liverani—"
" Alas 11 love this Liverani ; it is but too true , " said Consuelo , carrying the hand of the mysterious sibyl to her lips . "His presence causes me yet more confusion than that of Albert ; but bow different is this confusion . How mingled is it with strange delights ! His arms are a mag . net wbich 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 bave told me , I cannot accept tbis sentence before I have seen Albert , before be has spoken to me , and _told-me himself that ho renounces me without regret , tbat he returns my oath without contempt . " •' Tou do not yet know Albert , or you fear bim ; but I know him , I who have rights over him still more than orer you , and I cau 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 the supreme couneil , whom their nearest disciples never know . But my situation and yours are exceptional ; look upon my faded features , and tell mo 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 hair , 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 waa making an effort of memory , she added by way of assisting
her"A portrait which resembles me as much as art is permitted to approach reality , and of wbich I am now but 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 soul . " " The portrait of which you speak , " said Consuelo , turning pale , "is in the Chateau deGeants , in the chamber Albert occupied . It is that of his mother , whom he had scarcely known , and whom , nevertheless , he adored , and whom he thought he saw and heard in his ecstasies . Are yon , 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 the Chalice , and the mother-in-law of ConBuelo ; but I wish to be no longer anything but her friend and her adopted mother , since Consuelo does not love Albert , and Albert mast not be happy at ihe price of the happiness of his companion . " "His 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 ? " ,. _,,, „ _, . _m , " It is twenty-seven years , replied the sibyl , since Wanda of Prachalitz , Countess of Rudolstadt , was bnried in the same chapel , aud ' beneath the same flag , where Albert de Rudolstadt , attacked by the same malady , and subject to the same cataleptic crisis , was buried last year , the victim of the same error . The son would never have risen from thts friehtful 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 . It was his mother who saved a being , still full of life and strength , from the worms of the sepulchre , to which he' had been already abandoned ; it was his mother who rescued him from the yoke of the world , where lie had lived but too long , and in which he could no longer live , to transport hira 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 tbat of Albert , his sad life , his pretended death , and his miraculous resurrection . Tbo Invisibles will not 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 . " WA . NDA . ' 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 _i but not with love . I 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 , tbeir secret revolt against the religious 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 . It 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 not 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 the 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 hy 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 bave been _sa'd with equal justico to both : 'I am not of those who bear injustice with a smiling face . ' The misery and degradation of the poor , their serfdom , the despotic laws and tbeir monstrous abuses , all the injurious rights of conquest aroused in bim 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 upou 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 of the 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 , _tos 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 ohaste intimacy , we __ never revealed to ono another the fatal secret which united us . He did not usually reside in the _Brehmer-Wald ; at least , be was frequently absent under pretence of duties , to distant patients , but in fact , to organise the conspiracy of which he unceasingly spoke to me without convincing me _ofitsresults . Each time I saw him , I felt more inflamed by bis genius , his courage , and bis perseverance . Each time he returned he found me weaker , consumed by an inward fire , devastated by physical suffering . "Daring 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 , gavo the name of malignant fever . At the close of this _orisis , 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 hoard the prayers of the chaplain , and the sobs of my family . I heard the piercing cries of my only child , of my poor Albert , and I could not make a movement , I could not evon see him . They had closed my eyes , and I found it impossible 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 ; tbe chaplain , endeavouring to calm the lively and sincere regrets of the canoness , told her that she ought to thank
God for all things , and that it was a great happiness for my husband to be delivered from the afflictiou of my continual agony and _thentstorms of my reprobate soul . He did not make use of inch harsh terms , but the meaning was the same , and the 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 . It was , they thought , the will of God that I should not brisg up my son , and tbat he should be 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 ?' 1 At 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 lost for a moment the certainty of the terrible death that was about to be brought upon me ! They covered me with diamonds ; they clothed me in my bridal robes , in the magnificent robes which you have seen in my portrait . They placed ajcrown 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 timo hehad armed himself with a hammer and lever . A horrible thought had crossed his mind . He knew the lethargic crisis to which I was subject , though he had never known them to last so long or to be so complete ; but he had concluded tbe possibility of a terrible error . I heard him walking above my head ; I reoognised his foot-• den . The noise of the iron raising the stone made me
tremble , but I oould not utter a cry , not even a sigh . When he raised the veil which covered my face , 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 \ 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 , iu the terror which the sight of what he bad once loved inspired bim , toreclose my sepulchre ?
" MarcuB , plunged in gloomy meditation ; formed a project gloomy as his grief , singular as his character . He desired to preserve my corpse from the outrages of destruction . He wished to bear it away in secret , to embalm it , to enclose it in a metal coffin , to keep it for ever by his side . He took me in his arms , and without knowing whether his strength would allow him to carry a corpse so far sK his dwelling—distant more than a mile—he depositated mo upon the pavement , and replaced the stone with that sang froid which acts of delirium often possess . Then enveloping and entirely concealing me in his cloak , he quitted the
chateau , whiebjras not so carefully closed as now . I had become so _thiiagiat , to tell the truth , I was not a very heavy _burdenWMarcua crossed the woods , choosing the least frequented paths . He deposited me several times upon the rocks , overcome with grief and terror rather than fatigue . At last , arriving at his home , he entered noiselessly through the garden , and bore me , unseen , into an isolated pavilion , wbich he had 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 . _«« M arcus would not suffer me to return to a certain death , nor had I any desire to do so . He promised to watch over my Bon , and procured me the means of seeing him in secret . I consented to depart with him , never again to he 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 , waB dangerously ill . Maternal tenderness , which misfortune seemed to have stifled , rekindled in my bosom . I insisted upon following Marcus to Riesenburg ; no human power , not even his , could have dissuaded me from it . I ascended his 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 mo that the child was in no danger ,
and urged me to allow him to conduct me nome , that he might return and pass the night with Albert . I oould 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 . Bub scarcely was 1 alone , when a thousand anxieties devoured me . I imagined that Marcus concealed from me the truo situation of Albert ; that , perhaps , ho was dying ; that he might espire without receiving my last kiss . Overpowered hy this , fatal persuasion , I rushed beneath the portico of Jfte _cBateau ; a servant whom I met in the court , at sight Wme _^ let tall his _tercb , and tool _^ to flight , making the Bign of tbe cross . _Hfa _^ _ijlBicealed my features , but the apparition of a _*^ B ( Be middle of the night sufficed to arouse tbe sup _^^ itioul feelings of these credulous servants . They never doubted _bfct ( that I was tbe 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 pressed 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 waB lost . Still , with a rare presence of 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 me . 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 Albort relieved ; his little hands were moist , and the 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 that he had seen nothing . Albert had fallen asleep ; but , on the morrow , he asked for me again ; and on the following nights , convinced that I was not asleep for ever , as they tried to persuade him , he dreamed of me , thought he saw mo once more , and called mo by name again aud again . From this moment tlie childhood of Albert was strictly watched , and the superstitious r-oula of Risenburgh offered up a _thousand prayers as an antidote to the fatal assiduities of my phantom around his cradle . . .
" Marcus took me back to his . home before da ) break ; 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 tho 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 that part of his existence of which you still arc ignorant . You will learn how in the terrible and singular life I have led , I at 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 ho went . I was so impatient to seo my son , that I had great difficulty in remaining a few hours behind him , and thus reaching Venice , where hc was to make his first stay . But
I was resolved only to show myself to him under cover ofa species of solemn mystery ; for it 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 Buperstitions with wbich they had tried to surround him . To effect this , I hid to gain possession of his imagination , of hia 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 _already an impassioned and incorrigible heretic . Lodging in Yenice , in the same hotel , I at last met him , alone and musing , on the staircases , in the gallerries , on the quays . Oh I you can well imagine how my heart beat at 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 . Sight _&[ _.-proached . He entered the church of SSfc . John and Paul ; a gloomy pile filled with tombs , with whioh doubtless you are woll acquainted . Albert kneeled down in a corner ; I glided in after him , and concealed myself behind a tomb . The church 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 upon his features . He was so pale that I grew terrified . His 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 , lt seemed to me that should I reveal myself to him at that moment , ho would
fall lifeless . I remembered all that Marcus had told mo of his nervous susceptibility , and the danger of sudden emotions upon so excitable a frame . I withdrew , lest I might yield to my love , and waited for him beneath tho portico . I had thrown ovor my dress , which was in itself dark and simple , a brown mantle , tbe hood of which concealed my face , and gave me tho appearance of a country woman of the neighbourhood . As 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 ! 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 ohs ' in , and 1 always wear it 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 that dear hand , and carried it to my lips . He withdrew it with a sort of Terror—it was 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 me thus for so poor a gift ? Without _doubfr , you are very unfortunate , and I have given you too little . How much 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 some sorrow which my wealth cannot reach V " ' , ' 1 replied ; ' I weep with tenderness and joy . ' " With joy ! Are theso 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 relieve all . ' " He withdrew sighing , leaving bis gold on _. the pavoment , and I picked it up and put it in thepoor ' s-box . On tho morrow I _matched him again , and saw him enter the church of St . Mark ' s . I had resolved to be stronger and _oahner , and I was so . We were once more alone in the twilight of the church . He remained for some time plunged in thought , when I suddenly heard him murmur in a hollow voice as he
rose" ' Oh , Christ ! they oruoify thee every day of their lives . ' " ' Yes , ' I replied , half reading his thoughts , _« the Pharisees and the doctors of the law . ' " He trembled , and said in a low voice , ' Again my mother's voice !' " Consuelo , I almost fainted on hearing Albert thus invoke my memory . I again waited for him at the porch , without approaching him ; bnt he perceived me , and shrunk back with a movement of terror . Signora , ' he said , ' why are you begging to day ? Is it then a profession ? As tho pitiless rich say , have you no family ? Can you not be useful to . some one , instead of wandering like a ghost at night around the churches ? Was what I gave you yesterday not enough for to-day , or would you monopolise the share of your brethren !' " ' I ara not begging , ' I replied . 'I put your gold into the poor's-box , except one poor sequin , 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 seemB to me that I know you . Show me your face ! But no , I will not see you—you terrify me . ' '" Oh , Albert ! ' I cried , forgetting my prudence , ' you , too , are afraid of me V " He trombled with terror , and said , ' Yes it is her voice —the voice of my mother 1 * " ' I know not who may be your mother / 1 replied , recollecting myself , * I only know your name because the poor are already familiar with it . Is your mother dead V "' They say she is ; but my mother is not dead to me . ' "' Where does she live , then V "' In my thoughts , continually , eternally . I have dreamed of her voice , of her features , a thousand times !'
"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 bim . " 'Albert , ' I said to him , 'I knew your mother ; I was her friend , She charged me to speak to you of her some day , when you should be old enough to understand what I had to say . 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 tbe Procurators , which are now deserted , and there converse with me ? Do you feel sufficiently tranquil , sufficiently collected for this V
"' You , the friend o- my mother ' , he cried , ' You charged by ber to speak to me of her ! Oh yes ! speak , speak I You see I was not deceived . You see that an inward voice warned me . I felt that there was something of her in you . ' " I led him beneath the arcades , and questioned him regarding his childhood , and the principles that had been instilled into him . I found his young soul in despair at the woes of humanity ; nowhere could he find truth ; Catholics and Protestants alike had abandoned the divine path ; everywhere reigned the law of ihe strongest ;
everywhere the weak were enslaved and degraded ; Christ was crucified daily upon every altar erected to him by man The night pasBed away in this bitter and . absorbing conversation . Uneasy at his long watching and continued pacing to and fro , I promised to open a door of safety to him if he wouId ; _consent to wait and to prepare himself : I gently excited his imagination with the expectation of a new revelation , and I led him 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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CHmcTER . 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 act .. Time shall teach him that the scholar loses no hour whioh tho man lives . Herein be unfolds the sacred germ of his instinct , screened from influence . What is lost in seemliness is gained in strength . Not out of thoso , on whom systems of education bave exhausted their culture comes tbe helpful giant to destroy the old or to build tho new , but out of unhandselled savage nature , out of terrible Druids and _Berserkirs , come at last Alfred and Shakespeare . Hear thereforo with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labour to h
every citizen . Tere is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade , for learned as well as unlearned hands . And labour is everywhere welcomo ; always we are invited to work : only be this limitation observed , that a mau shall not for tho sake of wider activity , sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action . _—Emerton ' s Orations . The following is given as a specimen of American parsing : —I court—Court , a verb active , indicative mood , present tense , 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 , called out to the carver , from the other end of the table , ' * What sort of a fowl is that brother of yours , Finn _s . " "It is almost as great a goose , " responded the wit , " as _IEver-et ?"
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The Honourable ARriUERY Company . —On Monday Prince Albert reviewed the Honourable Artillery Company , of which he is colonel in ohief . The New Sugar Duties . — The now and reduced rates of duty on foreign sugar imported como into operation ou the 6 th of July ( 11 and 12 Victoria , cap . 07 . ) Philharmonic Societv . —Tho eighth , last , and bv many degrees the best concert ofthe season , took place on Monday night in presence of a very crowdud audience . Cuarc r op Fraud . —William Rose , described as an agent , has been committed on a charge of defrauding Joseph Wilson , a weaver , in Slater-street , Spitalfields . French Beet Root . —Accounts from the department of the North concur in stating that tho leet-crop has seldom been in finer condition than at _present-Cukstbr and _Holyhead Railway . —The preamble of thia company ' s bill , for regulation of capital and other objects , has been proved in committee of the Lord ?
. Death of Lord AnERCROMnr . —Tho " Caledonian _Morcury announcos tho sudden death of the Right Hon ; _George Ralph Baron Abercromby , at _Airthrey-castlo , on Friday evening . ' . Johanna Wagskr . —It is stated that Mr . Lumley has COm . oAT ed an actlon _"Samst Mr . Gye , laying bis damages at £ 30 , 000 , snd that the Solicitorand Attorney-General are retained for the plaintiff . New Planet . —Mr . J . It . Hind has announced that he haa ' discovered a new planet on . the borders of tho constellation Aquiia and Serpens , about 5 deg . east of the star Ta _«
The 2 nd Battalion Riflo Brigade ( _iisembarked at Portsmouth Dockyard , from H . M . Steamer , Simoom , on Saturday morning , and proceeded , per South Coast ltailway , to Canterbury . The New Asylum fob Fatherless Ciuloken . —A bazaar in aid of the funds of this charity was held on Friday and _Saturd ; . } ' in the large suite of rooms of the London Tavern . Ibe enterprise will ' bring to the charity about £ 100 . The City Orthop . edic Hospital . —The anniversary _festi « val of this institution was held on Wednesday evenini ? , at the London Tavern , _Bishopsgate-street , tho Earl of Carlisle m tho chair .
The _RonnKRY in Shoreditch . —Edwin _Riclcetfs and Oreorge Sham _. bave been committed onthe charge of robbing the " green" young man of Cambridge , whose case has been reported in tbis journal . Royal _Colleoe oi * Physicians . —Tho annual _Harvoian Oration was delivered on Saturday , by Dr , Formby , in presence of tho president and a large body of tho fellows of the college . Law Amendment Society . —On Saturday the society for pomoting the amendment of the law held Ua anuual dinner < u tho Crown and Sccptro Tavern , Greenwich . Lord Brougham in the chair . _SociEir for the Protection of Life from Fibe . —Th 9 anniversary meeting of the friends and supporters of this association was beld a few days ago in the Council Chamber of the Guildhall , the Lord Mayor in the chair . ' Serve him Right . "—Miss Susan Denin , an actress , horse-whi pped Mr . Frederick Dent , an actor , lately , in Buffalo . Tho young man declared that he had received amatory letters from the young woman .
The Swedish _Nioiitihoale . —Jenny Lind has given about 100 concerts in U \ e States , and has realised about 150 , 000 dollarB _, of which she has devoted some 30 , 000 * dollars in charity . Prince Albert " a Colonellino . "— Prince Albert has during this week * been out _soveral times with tho brigade of Foot Guards at morning drill in Hyde Park . Commander-in-Chief , ch 1 Books by Post . —The Post-office authorities _arelrapidly extending the privilege of sending books , pamphlets , magazines , and reviews , & e „ at Cd . per _hnlf-pound weight to all our colonies and dependencies .
A Present from the _Dioqings . —A tradesman in Gloucester , whose brother emigrated to Australia a few years ago , has received from him a verv agreeable token of fraternal regard in tho shapo of a lump of gold . The lump thus sent has sold for not 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 . _Acbilli , arrived here yesterday afternoon by the Folkstono steamer , as saloon passengers . " Grotto Place Ragged School . -On ' Saturday the annual meeting oftbe friends and supporters of the Ragged and Industrial School and Refuge for Destitute Boys and Girls , Grotto-place , wns hold at the New Lecture Hall , Edward-street , _Portman-squaro . . Distribution of Prizes at Kino ' 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 the students and the college .
Emigration from the Clyde . —Tho tinie is within the memory of all when the departure of nn emigrant vessel from the Clyde was reckoned an event : now it is almost a weekly occurrenco , and occasions no comment what * ever . Willis ' s Rooms . —Mr . Harry Carter Lee , who will be remembered as the most activo 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 Scratches . " 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 ; thatthe learned , judge had improperly rejected oral and documentary evidence , and that he bad misdirected the jury .
_Chargb of Burglary . — A few days ago Joseph Sloper , George Wixen , Charles Smith , Joseph Hibberfc , and Charles Nelson , labourers , were charged before Mr . Broderip with burglariously breaking into and entering a dwelling-house , tho Roso and Crown , _Knightsbridge , and stealing lib . of cigars and three bottles of brandy . Haileybury College . —On Monday last the chairman and directors of the East Indfa 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 . The 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 Januarylast 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 . "Unchkistian Fathers . "—Jobn Fathers and Ann Fathers , husband and wife , living in a comfortable home in tha High-street , Mortlake , were committed for trial at the Guildford Sessions , on the oharge of having stolon a £ 20 Bank of England notef the property of Mrs . Jane Elizabeth Kemp , a widow lady , residing at Cumberland-place , Kewroad .
The Iron Ore of Northamptonshire . —Mr . S . H . Blaokwell , F . G . S ., of Dudley , recently delivered aleoture"On the Iron-making Resources of tbe Kingdom , " before the Mechanics' Institute at Northampton , in which 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 since the substitution of coal for wood aB fuel . A Clerical _Cakvasseb . —On Sunday morning last tbe Rev . Dr . Cooper , incumbent of Trinity , St . Phillip's , preached a sermon having strong reference to the forthcoming election . The reverend gentleman pointed out to his congregation that it was their duty at the next election to Bupport that candidate who was prepared to uphold tha church , and not vote for those irreligious and worldly men whose opinions were unfavourable to it as it at present existed . —Bath Gazette .
An Owner Wanted . —We read the following story in the " Presse" : — " There has just been found , in the neighbourhood of Annocy , in Savoy , an empty balloon , lying on the ground . The car and all the cordage were perfect , and there was every appearance of the balloon having fallen solely from the gradual escape of gas . At the bottom of the car were found a gentleman ' s cloak and a lady ' s bonnet and shawl , and in the latter a very handsome album was wrapped up . On the first leaf of tho album there waa a pencil-drawing of the panorama of the mountains of ths country , signed ' Eliza de R . ' There was nothing to indicate the or / gin of this mysterious balloon . From the di . rection of the wind , it is supposed that it came from France , but beyond that all is a mystery . " Seamen . —A question has been raised whether a seaman .
having suffered punishment for desertion , is still bound to complete his voyage , supposing the vessel is at some distant port . The Board of Trade lately applied to Sir F . Thesiger and Sir Fitzroy Kelly for their legal opinion , and they have interpreted the various clauses of the Mercantile Marine Act bearing on the case to mean tbat , though a seaman has been convicted of desertion , and punished under the acts in question , he is not thereby released from tba articles of agreement , which remain in force , notwithstanding his conviction and punishment . Thoso gentlemen add — " We do not see why he may not be guilty of another offence by again neglecting or refusing to join his ship , and again be dealt with under the . 70 th section of 13 & 14 Vict ., cap . 93 , by another imprisonment , or by being donveyed on board the ship . "
A Subject for Inquiry , —We are informed that one day last week a first-class boy on board one of her Majesty ' s steamers at this port was placed on a man ' s back , and forcibly held there , at tbe orders of the first lieutenant , while another man violently flogged him with a cane . The pain made the sufferer struggle hard to free himself , whioh he effected , on which the said first lieutenant ordered two men to replace him in his former position on the other ' a back , which was done ; the "horse , " however , being unable to hold tho boy in that position , the said lieutenant called the quartermasters to seize hira up to tho Jacob ' s ladder : the boy waB accordingly so seized , and triced up by his wrists and ancles , his feet not touching the deck . Tbe said lieutenant thou directed tho caning to prooeed .
After a timo the caning was suspended by the order of the lieutenant for a few minutes , and then recommenced ; the _castigation was , after a time , stopped a second time , and . ultimately recommenced ; after this the boy was cut dowa and confined under the after part of the main deck . Thia conduct , if substantiated , is a violation of the Admiralty instructions . It is said the captain of the ship was not acquainted with the proceedings , which , we belive , took p lace in the presence of another lieutenant , the surgeon , ana tho engineer of the vessel alluded to . —Portsmouth _Times . —rWe . understand that the steamship in question is tbe Retribution , and the offioer whose conduot is likely to become tha Bubject of judicial inquiry is her first lieutenant G 0 . Willes . —Globe . )
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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/ns4_03071852/page/3/
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