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      Continental Notes. The Fflto Of Tho Dist...

      ^«« s colonels < jf regiments wcended the steps of the grand ESSa ? and received from the Prince ' s hands the Stan-^ f « lofhis regiment , -with an eagleon its summit . As * h received ike standard he moved on ,. and descended The steps at the side opposite to that bv which he had as-Aed The several standard-bearers then remained below + £ « steps until the whole distribution had terminated ; + ^ o standards being passed along a line of officers to Jvncral St . Arnaud , who handed them to the President , ^ rtrd ing as he required them ., . When all the standards W been given , the officers holding them again left their nlaces and , ascending oncdmore the steps , grouped themielves ' in front of the Prince ; whilst he readT the following address : — . , ¦ . ¦¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦

      . _ . ... _ .. _ . _ . . _ " Soldiers ! The history of nations is , in a great measure , the history of armies ; on their success or reverse depends * he fate of civilization and of the country . If conquered , the result is invasion or anarchy ; i f victorious , it is glory and order . Thus nations , like armies , entertain a religious veneration for those emblems of military honour which sum up in themselves a past history of struggles and of « The Roman eagle , adopted by the Emperor Napoleon at the commencement of this century , was the most striking signification of the regeneration and of the grandeur of France . It disappeared in our misfortunes—it ought to upturn when France , recovered from her defeats , and mistress of hersel f , seems not any longer to repudiate her own

      " Soldiers ! resume , then , these eagles , not as a menace ? gainst foreign Powers , but as the symbol of our independence , as the souvenir of an heroic epoch , and as the sign of the nobleness of each regiment . Take a ^ ain these eagles which have so often led our fathers to victory , and swrear to die , if necessary , in their defence . " As soon as the standard-bearers had taken up their stations at the foot of the altar , a musical mass wag executed under the direction of M . Adolphe Adam . The

      bands of 2 liregimenti 3 of infantry , of nine regiments of cavalry , " 164 pupils of the musical school of the army , and the performers on M . Sax ' s gigantic instruments m the Juif Errant , made a body of more than 1500 musicians . As it had been decided that the mass for the ceremony should be but of short duration , the parts performed by the band were only three—the Kyrie , the Salittaris , and fiie Banctus . It was this last piece , giving as it did more scope for the resources of military music , which produced 6 he greatest effect . of the

      A cannon shot was fired at the beginning mass , and another at the elevation o the Host , and then immediately conimenced the ceremony of blessing the standards . The archbishop advanced towards the lower part of the place where they stood , the clergy singing the Adjutorimri 'nostrum in nomine Domini , the Oremus , and the Omnipotens Sempiternus Deus . The prelate then sprinkled the standards with holy water , and then putting on his mitre sat down . One of the standard-bearers then advancing , knelt down before the prelate , who addressed him as follows : —

      " Beceive these standards , sanctified by the blessings of Heaven . May they be the terror of the enemies of the Christian people ; and may God , in honour of his name and his glory , give you grace to penetrate unhurt with them into the midst of the enemy ' s battalions . " The archbishop then gave him the kiss of peace , saying Pax tibi . The person so addressed then kissed the pontifical ring , and withdrew . After this ceremony had been gone through with all the rest , the archbishop turned towards the people , and gave them his solemn benediction . Tho drums then beat , the bands played , the trumpots sounded as bofore , the officers Btood uncoveredj and tho cannon fired 101 shots .

      Tho drfiU came to an end about four o ' clock , the troops at onco marching off the ground to their barracks . A Balvo of 21 guns announced that the ceremony was over . The President rode off the ground , with his cortSge in tho same order as had been seen , on his arrival . At the name moment the clergy , which liad remained on tho steps of the altar during the filing off , left the Champ de Mars iu procession , ancf returned to tho Church of St . Pierre , at Grros Caillou , singing the 143 rd Psalm . An amusing , naif letter in the Daily News , is valuable lor

      its air of fidelity , destitute of any " gag . " It is from a simple spectator : — " Tho President , " he says , " vanishes towards the cavalry on tho right of the field , and now , in tho rear of his train , wo boo tho Arab chiefs , with their queer night-cap looking hoad-dressos and wrappers , some rod and some white , thrown loosely about them like blankets . They Maintain a characteristic gravity of demeanour , manago ¦ Urnis Napoleon's horses , on which they are mounted , Without any apparent effort , and seem surprised at nothing , ¦ indeed , tho econo may not be so novel to them as might l > o supposed . Tho sandv oxnanso of tho Champ do Mirs ~~ " « yj / uoeu . xno sanay oxpanso ot cue uaumu ub xit ^ a

      w not very unlike an African desert , and they have long , ^ fft miliar with the sight of French troops at homo . Uio Prosident has made the cotnploto round of tho field , « aa descandod from horsobaok , and taken his stand on tho grand oatrade prepared for him in front of tho Ecolo ^ mtairo , whoro the oaglos and flags are to bo distributed . (] n i nofc attompfc to describe tho ceromony . I have no « oubfc tluvt it is all going on according to tho programme ,: out not boing able to sco through tho embroidered coats of wio senators , and J know" not what other nowly made groat "ion who arc cloBcly packed in front of mo , I can give no mcionco on tho subject . * * " * I boo a procession 0 ollicora carryincr tho flams and oatrlos to bo bloasod at tho

      ! l ?• ' " n Ho ° " ° P « osts , utill looking like China-asters , but MiH wnetly visible through my toloscopo , on thoir kneos at Jo stops of tho altar . The mass is boing porformed . Tho u'igioua ceremony over , the marching post commencoa . inn Y ^( fimont ^ and every deputation from a regiment 'narohod in turn boforo tho PyoBidont , still on his grand oiinl , ' tS ?? * thestago of the proceedings at which tho 2 X & Vlve i'Binpereur' were expected . To what exat " **» expectations were realiaea you will loam from

      your official accounts . It is proverbial that no species of sight-seeing is more disappointing- than a review . Faithful to my engagement to speak only of my own impressions , I can only say , that although most of the regiments cried out with more or less vehemence , I have not the least notion whether they cried ' Vive FEinpereur ! ' ' Vive Napoleon 1 ' or ' Vive le President ! ' I can pretty well guess that none of them cried ' Vive la Republique ! ' My state of ignorance is shared by all those around me , although we were within , a , few yards of „ the troops while they passed . You may judge from this what idea can be formed ! of the result 1 of the demonstration by the multitude who throng the distant parts of the field . I can vouch for this — -that some of * he regiments , and I especially noticed some hussars among the number , were silent . Others shouted but feebly . A lady near me charitably accounted for this , by observing that they were ' probably very tired '"

      The enthusiasm of the army appears to have been m the following proportion : 1 . Lancers . 2 . Cuiratsiers and Carabineers . 3 . Municipal Guard . 4 . Infantry . 6 . Artillery . The last named did not raise even a shout . Most of the foreigners present in the tribunes were in uniform . Upwards o 100 English officers were present ; many of them in the uniform of the Guards . It rather wounds our national pride to hear that one British officer was ignominously ' -spilt" from his horse . But en revanche , we are informed by the special envoy of the Morning Chronicle , that officers in British uniform are the lions of the Boulevards . The ball at the . Ecole Militare , given by the army , came off qjo . Tuesday night . Francois Arago , the great astronomer , refused , in a letter full of touching and noble dignity , to take the oaths . The Government has not dared to compel his resignation of a post he has occupied with distinguished honour to

      his country for fifty years . He is absolved from the necessity of taking the oaths . General Ghangarnier has written from Malines , _ in terms of extreme bitterness and uncompromising hostility , to refuse to take the required oaths . He mentions having been offered repeated bribes : a marshal ' s baton , the revival in his fa vour of the " Constable of France , " with an immense salary , to favour the ambitious d e signs of Louis Bonaparte . But he had never swerved from his loyalty to the laws of his country . The Duke d'Aumale is reported to have had a recent conference with GrenerarChangarnier at Aix-la-Chapelle . The Empress of Russia has arrived at Potsdam . The Czar is expected at Berlin on the 16 th ; and on the 18 th inst ., the Emperor and Empress , with the three Grand Dukes , are expected to meet the King of Wurtemberg at Frankfort . ¦ -

      On Friday the 7 th inst ., the Second Prussian Chamber rejected the project of the Government , founded on , a royal message , respecting the future organization of the First Chamber . Lord Molmesbury , as we know , is on the best of terms with all the despotic Governments . Mark how British subjects are treated , with his consent , in countries under Austrian influence . Here is a pendant to the Mather case , given by the Florence * correspondent of the Daily News :- — , " The son of the director of the Botanical Garden , opposite the English Church , inadvertently , while reading , ran against an Austrian corporal ( not an o fficer of rank ,

      as was at first represented ) . The unfortunate young man was immediately hurried off to the Fortezza da Basso , and bastinadoed with such severity that he will remain mutilated for life . His agonized father hurried to tho Chevalier Landucci , the Minister of the Interior , to demand justice , and was coolly told that his complaint could not bo received , as his parental feelings necessarily prevented his taking a calm and unprejudiced vieAV of the case . From the Minister of the Interior ho further went to tho Grand Duke , who replied , " It is useless coming to me . In any doubt fu l question that in ay arise between an Italian and an Austrian , we must give the decision in favour of the Austrian . "

      At Homo , Edward Murray , a British subject , after having languished in horrible prisons with the vilest felons , untried , unvisited , has at last been sentenced to death hy the Secret Tribunal of the Consulta I There has been a constitutional crisis in Tuscany . The priests have boon terrify ing the imbecile Grand Duke with a mechanical representation of the souls of his father and grandfather in purgatory , to induce him to abolish the constitution . But the latest advices state that tho Ministry Btill holds its ground . Tho Jews , however , are threat . ened with deprivation of all thoir rights ; and Protestants , including many English residents , with confiscation , under a revived law , which allows no heretic to hold or bequeath property in tho Duchy , oxcopt at Leghorn .

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      Statues Of Sib Robert Peel. Tnb First St...

      STATUES OF SIB ROBERT PEEL . TnB first statue erected to tho memory of Pool now stands in tho town of Salford . It is executed in bronze , ton foot high , and stands on a pedestal of granite seven feet high . The situation chosen is admirably fitted for the purpose , boing on . tho summit of n wooded slope rising from the banks of tho Irwoll , ho that it may bo seen from tho principal quarter of tho town . On ono side of tho pedestal is tho word " Pool , " and on tho other the famous paragraph from hia epqech beginning " It may bo I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in tho nbodes of those whose lot it is to labour , " & c .

      Tho ceremony of inauguration was performed on Saturday , Mr . jjrothorton , M . P ., boing tho orator of : tho occasion . Several thousands woro present . Tho statue is the work of Mr . Matthew Noblo , of London . In addition to this , wo learn from the Times that "tho colossal statue , modelled by Mr . Behnoa for tho

      town of Leeds / has at length been cast in bronze by Mr . F . Robinson , of Pimlicb , who , by this wprk , has introduced a new era into a department of art . Hitherto bronze statues have been cast in several pieces , and afterwards joined together , so that the sculptor ' s idea was not always followed with accuracy . Mr . Robinson , however , by employing a new composition for his mould s as enabled to stake the production of his figure on a single operation , and the first result of "his experiments is the reproduction of Mr . Behnes ' s excellent likeness of Sir R . Peel cast in one piece . The success of this hazardous undertaking has already attracted the attention of sculptors , and Mr , Baily ' s model of Sir R . Peel , " ordered by the town of Bury St . Edmunds , is already preparing for the foundry in Mr . Robinson ' s studio . "

      The Wagner Case. Me. Bethell's Address T...

      THE WAGNER CASE . Me . Bethell's address to the Court , which we summed up in our Postscript last week , was followed on Saturday by addresses on the same side from Mr . Malins and Mr . Martindale , who dilated on the same topics and pursued the same line of argument—namely , that Dr . Bacher was not authorized to sign a contract containing the prohibitory clause ; that he was tbe agent of Lumley , and not the agent of the Wagners ; that time was the essence of the contract , and that the 300 ? . ought to have been paid on the 2 nd of April ; and the additional argument , that the present was not a case for an injunction , but an action at law .

      Mr . Bacon , on behalf of Mr . Lumley , produced and read letters from Miss Wagner to Dr . Bacher , showing that he was on intimate terms with the Wagners , arid that he had been employed to negotiate similar matters for her . He also argued , that the extent of Dr . Bacher ' s authority to sign a contract was of no consequence , provided it was afterwards ratified by the Wagners . He contended that the contract had at first been thankfully received , and stated that the notorial protest at Hamburg had not been made until the day after Miss Wagner had signed her

      engagement with Mr . Gye . In that protest no mention was made of tbe non-payment of the money as a ground for considering the contract at an end . He was bound to admit that the money should have been paid before Miss Wagner started for England , but it had been twice tendered since , and twice refused . These proceedings occupied tbe whole of Monday . On Tuesday Mr . Hislop Clarke supported the arguments of Mr . Bacon ; and after a reply from Mr . Bethell , which consisted of a recapitulation of his first speech , Sir John Parker gave judgment .

      He re-stated the facts of the case ; and took up the points seriatim . With respect to the authority possessed by Dr . Bacher to sign the contract for the Wagners , he was of opinion that they were not bound by the acts of Dr . Bacher at the time when he signed the contract containing the prohibitory clause ; but that they were so bound , because they subsequently adopted the contract , and thus implied the agency . The next point was tbe alleged unfairness of the clause . But it was clear to him that tho objections were not raised to tho clause itself , but to tho improper generality of it—that it went too far . " Tho contract was sought to bo got rid of , not on account of Mr . Lumley ' s making an illiberal or unjustifiable use of his power of giving or withholding his consent , but , his

      Honour must say , becauso it was to prevent the lady from doing what all parties must have intended she should bo precluded from doing , " Tho next point was tho non-payment of the 300 Z . This ho did not consider an essential , but an independent clause , tho nonporformanco of which could bo no bar to an action on tho contract . Ho thought tho Wagners hud in their letters enlarged tho timo of paying tho money ; and ho was of opinion that they wero not justified in entering into a contract with Mr . Gyo on tho 5 th of April , ( tho first day of tho period set apart by Miss Wagner to meet Dr . Bnchor as Lumloy's ngont , ) or making tho protest on tho 6 th putting an end to the contract with Lumloy . Bachor sworo that ho had 300 Z . with him at Hamburg , and hi « Honour now nothing to mako him think lie had not that sum , or that lie had not means of performing that part of Lumloy ' s contract . His Honour conchided by continuing tbo injunction .

      Royal Literary Fund Dinner. Tim Annivers...

      ROYAL LITERARY FUND DINNER . Tim anniversary dinner of tho Royal Litornry Fund took place on Wednesday at tho Frooni neon ' s Ttvvorn . Lord Chief Justice Campbell took tho chair , and among tho company wore—M . Van dor Wtvycr , tlio Belgian Minister ; tbo Chevalier Bunson , tho Prussian Minister ; Mr . Abbott Lawrence , the American Minister ; M . do Billo , tho Danish Minister ; tlio Persian Minister and Major Malcolm ; Lord J . Stuart , M . P . ; Mr . Justice Talfourd ; Sir A . ( Jockburn ; the Solicitor-General for Ireland j tho Queen ' s Advocate : General Sir 0 . Pftsloy ;

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15051852/page/7/