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286 PASSING EVENTS.
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To The Jeditor Of The English Woman's Jo...
they have their origin in those passions which Grod gave us for our good , and which "We sadl are to want be guided what , Groethe not destroyed asked for . with his ding voice : Mehr lichi !
Mehr licht y / y I am , Madam , yours truly , A . S ,
which [ We is intend very far in our from next representing number to our say individual a few words exp in erience answer . to this letter ,
Ed . E . W . J . ]
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rentl Seldom more has momentous any month of than any the year month been whose fraught fli with ht we consequences now record . appa Its - y g
first week witnessed the , rapid concentration of the _Prench troops in Piedthe mont Grand . The Duke writer of of Tuscany these lines had landed retired in from Leghorn Florence the . very The morning streets were after
filled delight with ; the gossi milliner ping s groups sat at , whose work countenances in their shop beamed s , making with up the cockades broadest of the tricolor walls ; and were white posted , red , and green ies of met the the address pedestrian issued at b every the provi turn . sional On
which government they had to the no Livornese intention up cop , of urg departing ing them . to On a the peaceful other hand demeanour y , the first , from act of the provisional government was to abolish the _iDunishment of death for
any At cause Grenoa . the French regiments were pouring through the town , en route out for the to greet seat of them war as , some they filed sixty throug miles h distant the hi . gh The and popul narrow ation streets had turned of the .
beautiful On the 1 st town of May , where , the long horizon lines of of the palaces Mediterranean close the , vista as seen on from every the side Co- . miche steamers Road , was ing dotted troop with s from the Marseilles black sides and and trailing the down smoke trains of the between huge
that city and convey Paris were filled with soldiery , ; who hung out of the windows at every station , and cracked jokes at the comfortable travellers proceeding northward , in a manner somewhat sad to those who reflected how few of the
left gallan his t emp fellows ire under might the ever regency return of the to Empress France . , subject Louis _Naj to the _^ oleon counsels having of after no his engagement uncle a lapse Jerome of fifty worth , reached -nine y of record the seat a took new of war b place attl in e until of the Montebello second the 20 week th ag instant ain of gave May , when , vic but - , _,
tory to Napoleonic troops . years As , the " first blood" of the war its prestige is shi of p much may importance be better , and and those cannot who be like worse ourselves than think Austrian that enmity French for friend the
unhappy The obituary Lombards of the , will month rejoice which that France contains and many Sardini great a won names the , is day headed . by one of supreme political , importance—the King of _USTaples has gone to
mous meet the that last the aw catalogue ard ; a man reads whose like that wrongs amassed toward by humanity some bad were tyrant so of enor the - nineteenth middle age century s , rather . We than are the tenxpted possible to ask story if of these a civilized crowned monarch heads are of made the
that of other a much stuff milder than other man men than , when Ferdinand we read of of Nap their les— publi even c the acts Grand , and Duke know sealed of Tuscany orders , whose in the fli Florentine ght we have fortresses just recorded which — when has kept opened , for on two the year 27 th s ,
fortresses of April contained were to fire the down astounding upon the command beautiful , that and in case defenceless of insurrection city , whose the
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 286, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/70/
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