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XVII.—PASSING EVENTS.
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Xvii.—Passing Events.
XVII . —PASSING EVENTS .
-*. It Has Been Said That The Nation May...
- _* . It has been said that the nation may be regarded as happy whose annals offer
little to record ; and if it be so , we may have some reason to claim the characthat ter of can felicity be fairl for the considered past month a new , since one . it presents scarcely a single public event y
• Physical nature indeed has supplied us with an earthquake and an eclipse ; attempt but the earth when quake compared , which with onl the y destroyed grand exp the loit city at of Nap Corinth les of , last was year but ; a and poor as
ming for the led ecli with pse something , the disappointment like indignation experienced . The sun respecting , after shining it appears for two to be or three weeks with more than his accustomed splendour , withdrew for that
day only behind a thick veil of clouds , and did not even afford the Times ' a lumns " private freel view y " , " to thoug the puffs h it had preliminary , as it stated of the the astronomers following day . , No " opened wonder its if co it
felt itself aggrieved . We had time , just before the publication of our last number , briefly to note the change of ministry , and the capture of Canton , including that of the
truculent barbarian Commissioner Yeh ; and Lord Derby and his colleagues are still in To the attempt honeymoon to discuss of office the probabl , and Yeh e course . is still of in the custod new y governm on board ent the would Inflexible be to
enter on the arena of party politics , which is entirely out of our province ; and in this case Lord Derby's own son has declared that , " as to the future , even the Our immediate quarrel or future tiff , with it is France idle to is think now of happ it . " ily over ; and as Sir Peter Teazle
says , we shall " never quarrel again—no , never , never . " But as that judicious person thought it advisable , after the reconciliation with his lady , to remind her gently that whenever they had quarrelled it was always she only who had been
wrong in fault , " — — " so You our know once , my more dear beloved , when we ally did , thoug quarrel h we , you have were kissed always and in made the friends * The Emperor , sends forth and , Eng by l the and hand ' in which of M . he de sets la Guerroniere forth how many , a pamp reasons hlet he entitled might
find for continuing the strife , if he were not the most forgiving creature in the world . On the night of Saturday , the 6 th of March , an insurrectionary attempt against
the French government took place at Chalons-sur-Sa 6 ne , but the intelligence was riot allowed to be published in Paris till three days afterwards . The matter was nevertheless mentioned in the _' Moniteur ' as a mere riot of a few idle
ragamuffins ; but it is so certain that this would be said , whether true or not , that little reliance can be placed on the statement . One very curious circumstance said to have attended it was that the military officers and others , when
they were awakened in the middle of the night to repress the outbreak , went first to the Sous-Prefecture to ascertain whether the Republic had been proloyalty claimed and at Paris acted . according Finding l it . had The not most , they gloomy bethoug accounts ht themselves are prevalent of their of
the state , of France ; sudden y and arbitrary arrests are taking place in all their quarters acquaintance ; people are with afraid any of person their own who servants has fallen , and under shrink susp from icion mentioning ; moreover
" on ne cause plus" —in short , his Imperial Majesty is keeping things very quiet by sitting upon the safety valve . On Saturdaythe 13 th of MarchOrsinithe chief of the conspirators in the
late criminal attempt , on the life of , Louis , Napoleon , was beheaded with one of his companions , and met his death with a calm courage worthy of a better
cause . Although it is impossible to deny the justice of the sentence , it is no less
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/69/
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