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Emperor of the French evinces , in truth , a most praiseworthy forbearance , which can only be accounted for bv his desire to maintain the alliance with England . Reports are rife enough about the transactions of the German Bund in the question of-the Duchies , but there is > ¦ slight foundation for . them . They are propagated apparently for the purpose of mystifying tlie German Dress and people as to the real state of the question . We "were told the other day that Hanover , who is desirous of appearing extremely German in this question , had proposed to the Bund to break off the deliberations because the Danes are fortifying the town of Rendsburg , and that the Commissioners appointed by the Diet were to transfer their sittings front Frankfort
to Itzehoe , We shall probably get a clearer insight into the state of the question after the 12 th of January , on which day the Prussian Parliament will be opened . The Danes , meanwhile , take things very easily , well aware that , bluster and threaten as the Germans may , they cannot venture upon an armed intervention without the acquiescence of France and Russia . A merchant , who has just returned from an extensive tour in the Duchies , tells me that the Prussians are as much detested there as the Danes , which is attributable to the conduct of the Prussian Government during the war of the Duchies against Denmark . During the Christmas week , while the papas and mammas of Hessia , as well as alf ' Germany , were busy amongst the heaps of
firtree-tops and toys—just in that pleasant week when the best feelings of human nature are called into play and most men are intent only upon the ways and means of pleasing their children and friends with little presentsthe Elector of Hessia made his children , the Hessians , a couple of presents , or gentle love-tokens , in the shape of two edicts , or , as his abettors or Ministers would call them , proposals to be laid before the National Council . The one edict professes to specify more clearly the laws relative to the protection of game , and this edict contains a clause which , stripped of the usual stupid and unmeaning verbiage , is to this effect : — " The gamekeepers and . patrols are empowered to make use of their arms against any trespassers or suspected poachers carrying
fire-arms , if on the first demand to throw down or deliver up their weapons , the persons suspected neglect to obey . In-case any doubt should arise-afterwards whether the demand was made distinctly or not , or whether , the official was justified in making use of his weapons ^ the assertion of the official shall suffice . " What is this but giving gamekeepers and policemen , the power of life and death ? Your readers , who may think that the game-laws of England are anti-Christian , anti-social , false in principle , and a disgrace to ( he age , will hardly credit that I have translated the above clause correctly . The original , however , sounds to the reflecting man ten thousand times worse , because it is evident that the real object is hypocritically sought to be cloaked by an additional clause , to the
effect that if the officials shall use their weapons against any suspected person without first requiring him to surrender his annu , they will be punished by an imprisonment of four weeks at least , even if they have not injured him . Notwithstanding the self-evident nonsense of this , I have not seen a single remark made upon it in any German newspaper .. They seem to regard the absurdity as a matter of course . It is rather rich to expect that a * n official who could be malicious enough to nim at the life of a fellow creature without cause , would be honest enough to confess it of his own accord . The other edict is still more audaciously regardless of human rights and free agency . It prohibits the issue of passports during the summer months , unless tho applicant can prove that ho can obtain no employment in his
native place . The object of this is to stem the emigration which takes place every summer . It is equivalent to a total prohibition , because during winter no arrangements are . made by shipowners for carrying emigrants , at least from tho German ports , arfd during the summer months , of course work is generally to bo had . The fact is , that the country of Hcssin ia being fast depopulated . It is not uncommon to see entire villages , with the clergyman and schoolmaster at their head , wending their way to tho seaports of Hamburg and Bremen . Tho facilities for emigrating to a bettor laud have hitherto maintained peace in Germany , tho discontent finds in emigration < $ comfortable vent , and to chock it or pen it up shows no groat statecraft , unless the Prince has resolved to render his people happy , or , at least , cease to make life a burden to them .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Gouiit . —Her Majesty and tho Koyal fumily continue Jn good health « t Windsor . The Queen and , Princesses ride and walk out daily , On Christmas-day the Queen had a dinner and an ovoning party . The Prince of Wales and tho Princo Consort have limited , and have been shooting . . this week . Among tho viaitorn At the Castle havo beon the Duo do Nomoius with hia two sons , General and Lady Peal , and tho ltight Hoifi Spencer Walpolo . Tttn Prince AtfrnKD . —AH idea of this royal youth going regularly through the duties of hia profosHlon « wmstQ bo completely abandoned . Tho Euryalus appears tQ have been placed at tho disposition of his Koyal H % hne » 8 for tho purpose of making a » tato progress at
upon tho proprietor , who ia only too happy to bo nd of hia cormorant . Tho next day tho editor calls tho houso a " palatial hotel . " I will ask you , na a fair man , is that enough ? Really now , does it pay for the pyramid of roast beef , tho cartload of vegetables , tho avalancho of pudding ? Cnn ' t you do something for us , to repress tho awful appotlto of tho Capitolino scribes ? Tho person I rofor to will make a famino hero , jf some ono don ' t atop "him . Ho oats as if ho were the king of tho spoilsmen , anil was afraid that tho Government would *' gO * out q £ ofllco to-fHorrow . —New York * Jouvnal .
GW 01 . 0 CJXST 8 ' Association . —A meeting wn » held at Messrs . Uarton ' a rooms , in Upper Wellington-street , Strand , on Friday evening , tho 17 th December , for the purpose of organising a new society , to promote the study of geology and its allied sciences , The moans
An Editor ' s Appetite . - — Did you ever see a Washington editor eat ? It is a splendid thing . They soy that no ono can tell how they ever got the great blocks up to tho apex of tho Pyramids . I can tell you that the amount of solids consumed by a lover of public opinion hero would astonish Champollion himself . Imagine a fat man with a suspicious shirt , greasy black coat , spectacles , and shiny trousers , rolling into tho diningroom and abaorbing , in tho apace of five minutes , a sufficient quantity of food to maintain a file of isoldicrs for a whole day . Then ho rolls out again , smiling blandly
in which he lived . Ilia correspondence with them , as far as it has been published , is distinguished by clearness , force , anil practical sagacity . It will paint , in all probability , the man better than he has painted himself . M . Perrotin , doubtless , lias already a large 8 toekj [ of loiters in hand to start with , for no one has been better placed than himself for obtaining information of all kinds respecting BeYanger ' a connexions . Tho correspondence will be a welcome addition to the Autobiography and the Songf .
Bkuanger . —A letter from Paris says : — "M . Perrotin , the executor of Beranger , as well as the publisher of his Life and Songs , has projected a new work respecting tho poet ; it is to contain B ranger ' s correspondence * The Autobiography had an uncommon fault , that of undue brevity , and you felt after reading it that it was incomplete , that something remained more interesting than that which had already been told . The letters of the poet will supply this deficiency . Beranger was in communication with the leading Frenchmen of the time
legal authorities , the Lord Chancellor and Lord- Campbell , that the inadmissibility of statutes in evidence , unless printed by the Queen ' s printer ^ only applies to private Acts of Parliament , and that , as regards public Acts of Parliament , any trustworthy edition of them may be referred to . The " opinion that the editions of Public Statutes printed by the Queen ' s printer are alone admissible as evidence , has up to the present time so almost universally prevailed that this correspondence may be regarded as of great importance . It is possible that the accuracy of these opinions will be questioned .
or a man . How excellent a thing for him it would be if a stern veto were interposed between the young midshipman and all these idle demonstrations for the future ! The Rev . Mr . Pcgh . — On Tuesday a meeting of the directors and guardians of the poor of St . Pan eras was held at the Court-house , Camden Town , to receive ; the report of a committee appointed to inquire into the facts connected with the dismissal of the Rev . Thomas Pugh from the office of chaplain to the workhouse . The report , which was of some length , having been read , it was moved that a copy be sent to the vicar , with a request to lay it before the Archdeacon of Middlesex and the Bishop of London . This motion was carried .
proposed are—the holding of periodical meetings for reading and discussing papers , and the exhibition of specimens ; arrangements for facilitating the exchange of specimens between distant members ; the formation of a typical collection of fossils suited to the wants of students ; a library of reference ; and the delivery of short courses of lectures . It was announced in the course of the proceedings that one hundred and twenty applications for membership had already been received . The first meeting for actual work will take place early in the new year , when more detailed plans will be stated , and an inaugural address delivered by the president .
The French " Free-Labour" System . —r-The Courier du Dimancke publishes the terms of the contract made by the firm of Regis and Co ., of Marseilles , with the African labourers imported by them . The contract ia binding for six years , and the blacks engage to work in the French colonies twenty-six days in each month in the plantations . In order that they may possess the means of returning to their native country at the expiration of the engagement , a clause is inserted compelling them to invest a tenth of their wages in a bank for that purpose . Education . — The fifth annual meeting of the United Association of British Schoolmasters was held on Monday in the rooms of the Society of Arts . This association was formed to promote elementary education and the professional interests of schoolmasters generally . It aims at a unity action among the scholastic body .
The Institute ofFbance . —We have great pleasure in announcing that Professor Max Mailer , Fellow-of All Souls' College , Oxford , has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Institute of France . —Times . Bitter Beer . —Messrs . Allsopp are building at Burtou ^ -on-Trent a brewery , which , when completed , will cover nearly four acres of land , and present one fagaSe of more than a quarter of a mile in length . This is intended for the exclusive production of East India pale ale , for which beverage the demand both home and
foreign has of late so largely increased that all existing means of supply have altogether failed . Recently , when the Council for India invited tenders for 36 , 000 hogsheads of pale ale for the trobp 8 in India n only about half the quantity was competed for , and that chiefly by London brewers . The new brewery adjoins the railway station at Burton . There are five hundred artisans employ ed ^ upon the works , which are to be completed in February . The e 6 v tract for the shell of the building amounted to 83 , 400 / .
Christmas in Prussia . —TbeJJerlin correspondent ox a contemporary says : — " Christmas is really Christmas in Germany . For the last week or ten dsys ~* tbe whole mind and energy of Berlin have been absorbed in preparations for the " Tree , " which was feted on the 24 th . Our half-dozen slips of holly over the fireplace are a shabby apology for Christmas green by the side of th « whole forests of young , firs and pines which have covered every square and open place , and these are not a few , in . Berlin;—not sprigs , or even branches , but the entire tree . ; young spruce firs of six or eight years' growth . The young plantations of half a dozen English counties , exterminated to the last bush , could not have furnished the supply . For the Christmas-tree is not a mere
luxury of the wealthy , or fancy of the romantic . Every family has its own . Besides the living firs , thousands of artificial trees are manufactured of wood and paper , ' You make your Christmas-trees in England . of iron , I believe , ' said a lady to me . The richer classes buy the presents in the shops ; for the poorer there is the Christmas market , t . e ., the booths all along the principal streets—not at the West-end , but in the city , where every kind of toy may be bought for a few groschen . There is a trade driven in Christmas gifts—articles neither of luxury nor necessity ; of no use except to be given . For some days past it has hardly been possible to get up to tho counter in any of the principal shops . The ordinary articles of commerce are stored awav , and
an ' Austellung' of knick-knackeries arranged , sometimes 00 tastefully as to make a show of themselves . Even the booksellers have to give way to the torrent , and the new publications disappear under cases of Christmas gift-books , albums , and other , gilded trash , forming a literature by itself , which blazes for its fortnight , and : then vanishes till next Christmas . As for "the balls , concerts , ' music in every form , private , public , and at every price , gaiety of every description , only not drunkenness , it is impossible to enumerate them . No wonder that England appears dreary to a foreign visitor , who misses the sociable holiday-making of his own country , and does not partake in the retired domestic satisfaction with which we surround our Christmas hearth . "
C 01 . 0 NMX . W . P . Waugh . —A meeting of creditors of this celebrated swindler wns hold on Wednesday , to consider tho propriety of instituting criminal proceedings against him . Aa it appeared , however , that tho creditors could prosecuto him only under the 251 st section of the Bankruptcy Law Consolidation Act , for nonsurrender to hia bankruptcy , and that , tho expense would seriously diminish tho assets in thoir hands , it was resolved that criminal proceedings are , under present circumstances , inexpedient . The question of a proscoution for fraud was not considered , as that course rests more with the aharoholdoro of tho Eastern Banking Corporation .
beneath the midshipman's uniform ? We doubt not that a parcel of tutors , and instructors will readily enough teach the young Prince all that books and . instructors can teach him of the " learning" of his profession , but that is the smallest part of a sailor ' s training- How is the young middy to acquire habits of discipline , and the inestimable advantage of self-reliance when he sees nothing around him but courtiers ? If Prince Alfred be sent to sea as a royal prince , all this is well enough . Let him have observance and adulation in good store ; let his eye rest upon marine courtiers wherever he turns it ; but in such a wav he will never become either a sailor
sea . At Malta lie has been reviewing troops , and attending the opera and public places , amidst almost as much pomp and deference as if the Queen herself were the august visitor- How is it possible ( observes the Times , commenting upon Prince Alfred's reception at Malta ) , if Prince Alfred be thus received whenever he puts foot ashore , that he can be trained in habits of subordination by the officers whom he should be taught to obey ? How can his young companions ever be brought to mix with him upon equal terms , if the crown royal of England is suffered so constantly to peep forth from
The Public Health . —The return of the Registrar-General shows an improved state of the health of the metropolis . The deaths , which in the three previous weeks were 1738 , 1531 , and 1442 , declined last week to 1246 . The mortality from scarlatina slowly . decreases . Measles is still prevalent . There were 1412 births registeredlast week . Statutes is Evidence . —Mr . James Bigg , the author of the " Student's Book for England , " has had a correspondence which has . elicited the opinion of the highest
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1859, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2275/page/9/
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