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      CUKES FOR TIIE US CURED ! HOLLO WAT'S O IN TMENT . An JSxiruordinaru Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s Evil . ... : Extract of a letter from Mr . J . IT . Alliuny , 209 High-street , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1 S 50 . Sm , '—Jly eldest son , when about three years of age , was-afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , wliicil after a short time broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very , bad case of scvofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . Tho disease then for years went oh gradually increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in'the-neck , another formed below the left knee , and a ; third under the eye , besides seven others , on ' this left arm , with a tumour between the eyes' which was expected to bccuK . During the whole of tlie time my suffering boy had received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides beinfr fo" several months at the General Hospital

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      TOIO ATIB THE © HEAT . The irrcat in heart , the great , in mind , ThatVorfc roost good for human kind , lfho heed not fortune , fame ,, nor healtn , -n at strode for the coniaiorrwealib . Of all manfciafl . ^ uo wJAy ptoves Ui 3 neishbonrs as himself he loves , \ ai strives their errors to reclaim ; And points them opt a nobler aim 'Than sit at home , in useless ease , Forgetting they ' ve a God to please , ¦ ffho unto them hath talents lent , T&at should in usefulness be speat , jo benefit their fellow men ; To "ive relief to suffering pain :

      To lessen toil ; to show their skill in works of art ; with true good will To help the artisan ' to rise ; To teach the ignorant to be -wise . Those are tee great who do most good For goodness * sake ; and those who would Be great must act upon this plan" The mind ' s the standard of the man . " T"or what is wealth ? And what i 3 power ? Mere tributes of the passing- hoar , That cannot live beyond life ' s span ; But ncble deeds will live when man Is laid within . the . silent earth , And to posterity sfcow fortU The self-ennobled man ' s-the great , 2 * 05 he who owns tbe most estate . Ass iloss

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      lifiHfUJiS . Two Letters to the Earl of Aberdeen on the State Prosecutions of the Neapolitan Government . By the M . Hon . W . E . Gladstone , M . P . for the University of Ox&ad . Second Edition . London : Murray . . JJever was there a more opportune , a more convincing , a more damnatory publication than this . Conservatives and ' respectable ' classes shrugged up their shoulders , and tamed a deaf ear to the narratives of such men as Mazzini , Pepe , Marrotti , and others , respecting the atrocities perpetrated in Italy by the crowned monster whobrutally tramples in its best blood . The Times and other '

      leading journals' have habitually lent the use of their columns to palliate and whitewash the ruffianism and the miscreancy of such monsters as the King of Naples , and to blacken the character and memory of his victims ; but Mr . Gladstone has been at [ Naples—seen and hquired for himself . Horror stricken at the facts which came under his notice , and feeling , Conservative as he is , that to lceep silence would he to hecome a" participator in the crimes of which he . was cognisant , he has , as a dernier resource , at last given these facts to the-world , and the Times , infamous and bloodthirsty as it is , has the cunning and the

      cowardice to be the first to take up the revelations with an air of virtuous indignation and horror , and cry fie upon the detestable monster who has hitherto been its protege I This device will not , however , save it from condign punishment and detestation . We have said the publication is opportune ; at a time when the 'Society of the Friends of Italy' are calling attention to the subject it cannot fail to aid them materially . To ' find one who has held high office in this-country , -who cannot fail again to be a cabinet minister ,

      and who ; since the death of Sir H . Peel , undoubtedly holds thefirst place in the House of Commons , thus deliberately and voluntarily coming forward to bear witness to the foul perjury , the fiendlike malice , and the ruthless actions of an Italian sovereign ; while the name of the nobleman to whom it is addressed , - and who has allowed the pamphlet to go forthwith his sanction to the world , will give additional weight to its statements among circles who are Blow of belief except to earls and cabinet ministers .

      The very precautions that he uses to exclude everything but his own main object—to avoid everything ' like a cumulative , case against Naples—give to his narrative an appalling force . The reader understands that he is perusing only a part of the whole history against that iniquitous government . Before stating the facts , Air . Gladstone expressly sets aside any political of social questions , whether of logical relation or of legal right , arising out of the Constitution : hetreatsthataBa mere dream or fiction . He excludes the question of Sicily . He raises no political questions except those which are forced upon Mm ' by the details that he has to relate . He begins , as a member of the great Conservative party in Europe , with abia 3 in favour of established government . ;

      Such is the writer . He begins by contradicting the ' general impression that the organisation of the governments of Southern Italy is defective—that the administration of justice is tainted with corraption—tbat instances of abuse " or cruelty among subordinate public functionaries are not uncommon , and that political offences are punished with severity , and with no great regard to the forms of justice / This vague supposition has no ' -relation to the actual truth of the Neapolitan case .,

      It is not mere imperfection , not corruption in low quarters , not occasional severity , that I am about to describe i it is incessant , systematic , ' deliberate violation of the law , by the power appointed to watch overrand maintain it . It is such violation of human and written law . as this , carried on for the purpose of violating every other law unwritten and eternal , human and divine ; it is the wholesale persecution of virtue when united with intelligence , operating upon : such a scale that entire classes may with truth be said to , be its ' object , so-that the government is in bitter arid cruel as well as utterly illegal hostility to whatever in . the nation really lives and moves and forms themain i spring of practical progress and improvement ; it is the awful profanation

      of public religion , by . its notorious alliance , in the governing powew , with the violation of every : moral law under the stimulants of fear and vengeance ; it is the perfect prostitution of the judicial office , which has made itj under veil 3 only too threadbare and transparent , the degraded recipient of the vilest and clumsiest forgeries ,: got up wilfully and deliberately , by the immediate advisers of the Crown , for the purpose of destroying the peace , the freedom ; - aye . anJ even if not by capital sentence * , the life , of zeen among the most "virtuous , upright / intelligent , distinguished , and refined of the whole community ; * t is tbe savage . and cowardly svstem of moral as ¦ well as " in a lower degree of " physical torture , through which the sentences extracted from the debased courts of justice are carried into effect .

      The effect of all this ie , total inversion of all the moral and social idea ? . Law , instead of being respected , is odious . . Force , and not affection , is the foundation of government . There is no association , but a violent antagonism , between the idea of freedom and that" of order . The governing power , which teaches of itself that it i " the image of- God upon earth , is clothed in tbe view , of the overwhelming majority of the thinking public with all the vices for its attributes . I Lave seen and heard tiie stron ? and too true expression used , " This is the negation of God [ the Devil ] erected into a sjstern of government . "

      This terrible phrase is justified by such evidence as this—* It is' not mere inspej-fection , not corruption in low quarters , not occasional £ everitv , that I am about to describe ; it is incessant , systematic , deliberate violation of the Ian- by the ( Power appointed to watch over and Maintain it . . Again , ' The government is in bitter and cruel , as well as utterly illegal , hostility to , whatever in the nation really lives and moves and forms the main-spring of practical progress and improvement ; it is the awful profanation of public religion by its notorious alliance in the governing powers v / ith the violation of every moral law under the

      stimulants of fear and vea < jeance ; it is the perfect prostitution of the judicial office which has roade it , under ,. veils ouly too threadbare and transparent , ' the degraded recipient of the vile&i and clumsiest forgeries , got up wilfully au < l deliberately by the immediate advisers oi &e Grown for the . purpose of destroying the peace , the freedom , aye , and even if notby capital sentences , th 3 lives of men among the most Pilous , upright , intelligent , distinguished ,-aad reSaed of the whole community . * Proof "pea proof is given of these charges by tlie E pglish Cabinet Minister speaking as an eyewitness , or upon authority which he considers Best in certainly . The accusation of innocent

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      men , and their imprisonment in filthy , unhealthy dungeons for many months before trial , ^ contrary to the oM ' hvr , not the recent constitution , which the King has openly perjured ^ himself by breaking ; the use of any expression in correspondence for the purpose of accusation , while every contrary passage is arbitraril y suppressed ; the perjury of witnesses against prisoners , commended , encouraged , and rewarded ; their false testimony , when it ' disproves itself by its own contradictions , ' merely laid aside , and such parts as are not so self-contradicted 6 tUl retained as proofs against tbe prisoner , 1 T 1 fin . And T . nftlT imnricATimXnf in filfiiw ««_

      who is openly forbidden to rebut them by counter evidence ; the unblushing corrupt partiality of the Judges , who are removable at the will of the Monarch , the horrors of the sentence of imprisonment in irons , when the innocently convicted being chained by twos , are never , on any occasion , released from each other , the political prisoners , such as Count Poerid , more conservative in ' opinions and actions , as Mr . Gladstone declares , than himself or Lord Aberdeen , doomed to dungeons that destroy life by a lingering process of decay , as > vell as to the horrors of the double chain ; others immured without light amidst such filth that the medical men will not visit

      them in their cells , but force the prisoners to crawl out into their presence . Such are a few faint hints of the terrible sketch which a British statesman of the first rank puts his name ' to and gives to his fellow-countrymen , with the direct intention—somewhat dangerous though it appears to him to open such scenes to the world—of appealing on behalf of suffering humanity to public ' opinion . General belief calculates that the political p risoners in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies

      are , in number , between fifteen or twenty and thirty thousand : the Government seems to confess to two thousand , but the reader of Mr . Gladstone ' s pamphlet will not believe the Neapolitan Government ; facts and figures stated by Mr . Gladstone , official but not possible to be concealed , show that the estimate of two thousand is unreasonable , that of twenty thousand not unreasonable . Amongst the persons imprisoned or exiled was the whole' Opposition ' in the Chamber of Deputies elected under the Constitution . '

      Shortly after I reached Naples ( says Mr . Gladstone ) I heard a man of eminent station accused , with much vituperation , of having stated that nearly all those who had formed the" Opposition in the Chamber of Deputies , under the Constitution , were in prison or in exile . I frankly own my impression was , that a statement apparently so monstrous and incredible deserved the reprobation it was then receiving . It was , I think , in November last . The Chamber had been elected by the people under a Constitution freely and spontaneously given by the Kiog—elected twice over , and with little change , but that little , in favour of the Opposition . So one of the body , I think , had

      been : brought to trial , ( although I may state in passing , one of them had been assassinated by a priest , named Peluso , well known in the streets of Naples when I was there , never questioned for the act , and said to receive a pension from the government ) . So that I pat down the statement as a fiction , ami the circulation of it as , at tho very least , a gros 3 indiscretion , or more . _ What was my astonishment when I saw a list in detail , which too fully proved its truth—nay , which in the most essential point proved more . It appears , my dear lord , that the full complement of the Chamber of Deputies was 164 , elected by a constituency which

      brought to poll about 117 , 000 votes . Of these , about 140 was the greatest number that came to Naples to exercise the functions of the Chamber . An absolute majority of this number , or seventysix , besides some others who had been deprived of offices , had either been arrested or bad gone into exile . So that , after the regular formation of-a popular representative Chamber , and its suppression in the teeth of the law , the government of Xaple 3 has consummated its audacity by putting iato prison , or driving into banishment for the sake of escaping prison , an actual majority of the representatives of the people .

      The law of Naples requires that personal liberty shall be inviolable except under warrant of a court of justice ; but in fact , men are continually seized , 'by the score , by the hundred , by the thousand , " without any warrant whatever , sometimes withonteven any written authority at all , or anything beyond the word of a polic&man—constantly without any statement whatever of the natare of the offence . ' The lowest creatures are employed as police ageats ; the prisoner is taunted into sedition , or charges are fabricated ; the courts refnse to receive evidence in favour of the prisoner . As a specimen of the treatment , Mr . Gladstone

      relates in detail the case of Carlo Pperio , a distinguished lawyer , a late- Cabinet Minister , a strict Constitutionalist of the respectable English pattern . He was accused , by means of repeated forgeries and barefaced fabrications , of belonging toaEepublican sect ; bis accuser was Jervolino , a disappointed applicant for some low office ; one of his fellow prisoners , a noble , was vainly urged by the , Director of Police , under promises of ' arrangement' and threats of ' destruction , ' to . testify to Eoerio ' s acquaintance with certain

      revolutionary handbills : at the trial , Jervolino could answer no questions' about the pretended society ; a witness deposed that Jevolino received a pension of twelve ducats a month from the government ; Poerio was allowed to call nemore witnesses ; his judge was one of , the persons threatened to . be , assailed . by the pretended society , and the same , judge makes no secret of his opinion that all persons charged by the King ' s government ought to be . found guilty . : : -: ¦ ' ' .: ' . •;;¦ . One specimen of this judge ' s effrontery may be given . . . .....

      In two cases it happened to be within the knowledge of the counsel for the prisoner that . the perjured witnesses against them did not even' know them bj sight . In one of these tho counsel desired to be allowed to , ask the -witness to point out the accused persons among the whole number ' of-those charged , who were all sitting together .: The Court refused permission . In the other case the counsel challenged the witness to point out the . man of whose proceedings he was speaking . . "If I am rightly informed , Xavarro , whom I have so lately mentioned , affecting not to hear the question , called out to the prisoner , ' ' . Stand up Signor Nisco- ; the Court has a question to ask you . " ; This was done , and counsel then informed that he might pur r sue his examination . A laugh of bitter mockery ran through the court .

      Poer io was condemned to twenty- fouryears of irons . ' .... In February last Poerio and sixteen of the co-accosed ( with few of whom however he had had anv previous acquaintance ) were confined in the Bagno of 5 isida , near the Lazaretto . For one half hour in theweek , a little prolonged bj the leniency of the superintendent / they wereallowed to see their friends outside the prison . This was their sole view of the natural beauties with which they were surrounded . At other times they were exclusively withm tliewalls . The whole number of -them , except 1 think one , then in the infirmary , were confined night and day in a " single room " of about " sixteen palms in Icngtn by ten or twelve nV breadth , and about ten in height ; I think with some small yard for exercise . Something like a fifth must be taken off these

      numbers to convert palms into feet .: When the beds were let down at night there was no space whatever between them ; they could only get out at the foot i aiid neing chained two and two , only in pairs . In this room they had to cook or prepare what was sent them by the kindness of their friend ? . On one side the level of the ground is over the top of the room ; it therefore reeked with damp ; and from this , tried with long confinement , they declared they suffered greatly . There was one window , of cou ! S 3 unglazed : and let not an Englishman suppose that this constant access of the air in the Neapolitan climate is agreeable or innocuous ; on the contrary , it is even more important to health there than Iipio to have tiie means of excludin g the open air , fov examp le ,. before . and ' at sunset . Vicissitude of climate , again is quite as much felt there as here , and the early morning is sometimes bitterly cold .

      Their chains were as follows : —Each man wears a strong leather girth round him above the hips . To this are secured the upper ends of two chains . One chain of four long and her . TV links descends to a idnd of double ring fixed round the aukle . The second cba ' n consists of eight links , each of the same weight and length with the four ; and this cnUes theixro prisoners together , so that they can , -tp ' n . l about six feet apart . Neither of those chains is ever undone , day or night . The dress oi common felons , which , as well as the felon ' s cap , was there worn by the late Cabinet Minister of King Feraisand of Naples , is composed <* a ron h 'l

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      conrse red . jacket , with ti-oustvs of the ssunc material— yerj lijco tha cloth ' made' in this country from what is called devil ' s dust ; the trousers -ire nearly black in colour . On liis head he " li ' . id a small cap which makes up the suit ; ii is of the same material . The tvousersbuiton all the way up , that they may be removed at night without disturbing the chains . ' : The \? ei » hfc of these chains , 1 understand , ' . is about eiebt rotoli , or between sixteen and sevenftAill'PA YP . t \ vtnlrnf \ nU 1 i * i . rt , n >/ . iir- Ap ; t » n « . min ma-

      teen English pounds for the shorter . one , whicli must be doubled when we give each prisoner his half of-the-longer one . The prisoners had a heavy limping movement ; much .-is il onb \ e « had been shorter than tho other . But tlie refinement of suffering in this case ai-isaa from the circumstance that here we have men of education and high icclr ing chained incessantly together . For _ no purpose are these chains undone ; and the meaning of these last words must bo well considered—they , are'to be ¦

      taken strict ! jv . Poerio lias since been transferred to a worse and more secluded dungeon at Iscbia . : : ' Crimino ab uuo disce ornnes ; ' this is only one specimen of many . Mr . Gladstone visited other prisons , tasted the black bread , but was notenabled to taste the loathsome soup .- But we break off : the reader of this must procure the pamphlet—ho will not lay it down till he has ' read it through , and he will then understand how much we are tempted to multiply these

      specimens . ... ... One or two quotations more must suffice at present . The first will show in what manner the'term Religion is made to minister to a system fit only for tho atmosphere of ^ H ell-King Bomba imitates the Czar , and makes tyranny and miscreancy sacred . Here is a specimen of the State Catechism , taught by the JKeapolitari priesthood , fit tools for such a master : —¦ The doctrine of the first chapter is , that a true philosophy must , i : ow-adar 8 , be taught to the young , in order to counteract the false philosophy of the Liberals , which is taught by certain vicious

      and bad men , desirous to make others vicious and bad like tht-mselves . The notes of these Liberal philosophers arc then enumerated ; and one of them is , "disapproval of the vigorous acts of the legitimate authorities . " They produce , it is taught , all manner of evils , especially the eternal damnation of souls . The pupil then asks , with great simplicity , of his teacher , not whether all Liberals are wicked , but " whether they are all wicked in one and the same fashion V And the answer is— " Sot all , my chila ; because some are thorough-paced and wilful deceivers , while . othcrs are piteously deceived ; but , not withstanding , they are travelling the same road ; . and , ' if they do not alter their

      course , they will all arrive atthe sa negoal . " The plain meaning , as I read it , is , that those . who hold what in Naples are called Liberal opinions ( and many who are included in- the name there , would not be so disignated here ) , even in the more innocent form of the mere victims of deceit , will , unless they abandon them , be lost eternally on account of those opinions . The next question of the scholar is , whether all who wear moustaches ora beard r . rc Liberal ' philosophers ? * . * * Scholar— " "Why do you consider that a Prince ia not bound to observe the constitution , whenever this impugns the rights of Sovereignty ? " Master : " We have already found tha . t ; tho Sovereignty is the highest and

      supreme power , ordained and constituted by . God in society , for the good of society ; and this power , conceded and made needful by God , must bo preserved inviolate and entire , and cannot' be restrained or abated by man ,-without coining into conflict with the ordinances of Nature , and with the Divine wil } . Whenever , therefore , the people may have proposed a condition , which impairs the Sovereignty , and whenever the Prince may have pvomised to observe it , that proposal is an absurdity , that promise is null ; and the Prince is not bound to maintain a constitution which is in opposition to the Divine command , but is bound to maintain entire and intact the supreme power established by

      God , and by God conferred on him . " * * * Scholar : ¦ " AVhose business is it to decide when the constitution impairs the rights of ¦ Sovereignty , arid is adverse to the welfare of the people V . " Master ' . ' It is , the business of the Sovereign , because'in him resides the high and paramount power esta ^ Wished by God in the State , with a view to its good order and felicity . "—Scholar : " May there not be some danger- that the Sovereign may' violate the constitution without any just cause under the ] illusion of error or the impulse of passion V Master : " Errors and passions are the maladies of tbe human race ; but the blessings of health are not to be refused through tlie fear of sickness ! " - '

      In a word ( says the Catechism ) an oAin never can become an ; obligation to commit evil ; nnd therefore cannot bind a Sovereign to do what is injurious to his subjects . Besides , the Head of the Church has authority from God to release consciences from oaths , when he judges that there is suitable cau 3 e for it . ..- ••; Mr . Gladstone had refrained from publish ^ ing the first letter , in order that Lord Aberdeen , as an individual , might make a friendly representation to tho government of Naples . The statement having been met by miserable special-pleading , Mr . Gladstone publishes his letter ; with a second , explaining the cause of the delay .

      On the government of Naples I had no . claim whatever ; but as a man I felt and knew it to : be my duty to testify to what I had credibly heard ; or personally seen , of the needless and acute sufferings of men ., Yet , aware that such testimony , when once ; , launched , is liable to be used for purposes-neither intended nor desired by those who bear it , and that in times of irritability and tnispiving , suck as these are on the . Continent of Europe , slight causes may occasionally ; produce , or may tend and aid to produce , effects less inconsiderable , I willingly postponed any . public appeal until the caso should have been seen in private by those whose conduct it principally touched . It has been-ho seen . They have made their option .

      But in this second letter he goes somewhat further back ;¦ tracing the cause of judicial corruption in the political corruption of tlie Neapolitan government . He cities the Constitution empowering the people to elect that parliament whoEe entire Opposition has been driven into imprisonnnent or exile ; establishing a * limited ; hereditary , and constitutional Monarchy , under representative forms' ; establishing a Chamber of Peers and Deputies ; declaring that * no description of impost can ba decreed except in virture of a law ' also

      that . ' personal liberty is guaranteed , ' except under ' due warrant of law . ' Now . in fact this Constitution is violated in all essentials how personal'liberty ia respected , we have seen ; there exists no Chamber of Peers or Deputies ; . ' all taxes are imposed and -levied under royal authority alone ; ' . in - short , 'the monarchy of Naples is perfectly absolute and unlimited . ' Knowing these facts , the reader will be shocked to peruse the adjuration ivhich is in the preamble to tho Constitution , given by King Ferdinand , as he says , ' of our own full , free , and spontaneous will '—

      In'tho awful name of the Most Holy and Almighty God , the Trinity in Unity , to whom alone it appertains to read-the depths of the heart ,- and whqnr we loudly invokeTas the judge of the simplicity of our intentions , and-. of the unreserved sincerity with which we have determined to enter upon the paths of the new political order ; Having heard , with mature deliberation , our Council of State '; ? ; : We have decided upon proclaiming , and wo do proclaim , as irrevocably ratified by us , the following Constitution : — .-...,. . - In that awful name ! How long , oh Lord how long 1

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      Reminiscences of Paris , from 1817 to 1343 . London : Williams and Norgate . Tins work appears anonymously ; aud it might be uncourteous to pry into the condition of the writer beyond what it has pleased herself-to reveal . 'JL-his is to the effect that she came to Paris , unmarried nnd hardly out of her teens , from some part of ' Germany , in tlie second year of the Restoration—and at first

      was chieflv conversant with the circles of the haute finance . Vv e afterwards heav of her marrJjurp , of journevings and absences ; and see heiMn contact \ vHhYiivioiis circles , ¦ ' 'but- above all with painters and musicians . : —intimate also with Henrietta . - the daughter of tlie celebrated Jewish philosopher , Mendelssohn , oho left Paris , she further says , before the explo-¦

      sion of VdiU . ' ¦' vi llor notes contain Euch light lndy-likoreflections as one may fancy taken down without effort from the kaleidoscope of Paris hie in its balls , soirees , promenades , — such ¦ anecdotes of notable thing 3 and persons as were current in ordinary company ; the general character of the reminiscence is merely gogsippiner , ;—but gleanings of this easy kind

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      from any lGSEor . fieW . than Paris might hardly have been worth preserving . —here the abundance of- matter is so great , that even the most careless ; hand returns from that stranee harvest with some gatherings of value .- ¦; * . , °° . aspect- perhaps does the Paris of today differ more from that of thirty years since tnau in the article of domestic comfort . After praising Madame Thuvet , one of the financial bonnes of the Restoration , for her attention to neatness , the lady adds : — Ti'Aivi «\*^ ,, 1 _ 1 _'_'' . « m t .- ' ; __ : . ¦ ____

      In Pans generall y there was a marked contrast ™ . 1 \\ ? wcI 1 ^ to t he Parisian cleanliness of prD ent-ticnes , In those days , even in the dwelling or People of competent means , there was " not a " trace of comfort . I havo a lively recollection of f ai J 1 £ Ppcne ( l whc" one of the younger . Partners 4 HfcL ' / . ; ctgave abaU ? oon after his marriage . Alt ! Otigh the youth was ricb , and had married . a . wealthy young lady ,- fclio young couple , according to £ t . nf 1 S ) an « U 3 tom of the time , Lv .-d with their wh 0 ? * a 9 thewedesiring to be

      KL . J ,,,. y . , richer . still ,, had- let out their splendid hotel up to , he fourth story . In this . fourth story the Whole tamily . lived together . After the Parisian finery , T was not less struck with the PAi-isian filth of those cays . ; -and , in truth , . 1 should vainly try to paint my amazement on finding myself compelled , while ascendinjtr the staircase ,-which was actually plnstereO , With dirt ,-to hold -up my dress as .. hi g h as possible , ia order to appear tolerably clean in the balroom .

      But if modern Paris has improved in this respect , it has on the other hand , we are told , lost far more in the chapter of manners . The generation , horn during tho first revolution still preserved " some of the older style of social bearing ; but in the present descendants we may now vainly seek for any of the graces that once gave to France her European credit for politeness . ' . The French , after lording it over the capir tals of Europe fov so many years , were impatient to the last dogree of the retribution which the allied armies brought to their own doors in 181 G . Even % returning emigre could not restrain his rage . on finding

      thatforeigners held tho-fortresses , and that he had to submit bis passports for a vise to Prussian , Russian , Ol English authorities ; and he lost all command of himself at . the idea of the prostration of the grande gloire Francaise . * * The same wrath at the occupation of France by foreign troops —an occupation which lasted for hardly three years—whereas the French had ravaged Germany for full twenty , from the siege of Mentz to . tho battle . of Leipsig , was then felt in Paris by all classes . Every little theatre on the Boulevards played some piece referring to it ; in all the re / rains ursine the foreigners to bo off at once all the urging the loreigners to be ott at once all the

      print shops were full-of caricatures of the English and , Russians : —the German soldiers , by-the-by , were ,, without exception , called Prussians . At that time'there was less hatred expressed towards the Russians ; in the theatres ^ evon the people would point . with curiosity .. to Rostc-pehin , . the author of the conflagration at Moscow . -. The hatred of the Russians grew much moro . dccidcd under Jficbolas . ; Alexander , on the contrary , was personally popular . Strictly speaking , the Prussians were detested ; while the English , oil Jhe .. contrary , served a 9 a perpetual butt for . ridicule and wit . Their language , " gesturea , dress afforded a complete series of

      dramas and caricatures . , . This soreness of France tinder a very light application of her - own Continental system brings to mind an anecdote from tbe papers of the time which is worth preserving , — When the Prussian ^ army entered Paris , one of its officers made particular interest to be quartered in a certain hotel in the . Faubourg St . Germain , the residence of a widow lady of rank . On taking possession of . his billet , the Colonel at onoe haughtily refused the apartments offered him ; and , after a survey of the premises , insisted on having the best suite on the first floor , then occupied by the lady of the house herself . She protested and entreated in vain—the Colonel was harsh and 'peremptory , —the lady had to abandon her sittingroom , boudoir , and bed-room , and content herself with thechambers intended for the officer . From

      these , however , she was as rudely dislodged on the nest day , tho Golouel demanding them for bis orderly ; and the lady had at last to creep' into a servant's garret . This was not all . On first taking possession , tHe officer , hail summoned the ' maitre tfhoiel , and commanded a rich dinner of twelve covers for tlie entertainment of a party of his com- , rades jf They ! came , —the cellar / had : to yield its choicest wines ; the house -was filled with baccbanalian uproar . The orgie was repeated both on the next . day and on tbe next . following . On the morning afterwards the officer presented himself before the lady of the house . " You" aro perhaps somewhat annoyei by my proceedings in your hotel ?"•

      " Certainly , " wr . s the reply , "I tbink I have cause to complain ofthe manner in which tho law of the strongest has been used here , in defiance of the commonest regard dueto my sex and age . I have / been roughly expelled' from erery habitable room in myown house and thrust into a garret ; my servants have Been maltreated ; with iny plate and provisions and the best of my cellar , you havd forced'them to wait on the riotous feasting of your comradeB ... I have appealed , to your . generosity , to your -courtesy , but in vain . I

      protest againstsuch conduct , it is . . unworthy- of a soldier . " " Madam , " , ' replied the Prussian , " what you say is perfectly true . . "Such ' conduct is brutal and runbecoming ; .- ¦ I have the honour to inform you that what you , ¦ have justly complained of for the last three days is but a faint copy of the manner in which your son daily behaved himself in my mother's Louse in ' -Berlin for more than six months after the battle of Jena ..-. From nie you " snail have no further annoyance . I shallnow retire to an inn The hotel isencirety . at youv own disposal . " The lady blushed , and was silent . . .- " ..

      Before leaving the . grim figure , the lady's statement , of . the victims of , the old / Revolution quite exceeds the-utmost latitude of feminine gossip . Two millions of heads' she assigns as the food of the devouring guillotine , —n number same jive hundred times more than the ( lailgest ' . estimate oi those even who . have done their best to . aggravate the tale of its horrors . ' = The - "Convention , when , " grown Anti-Jacobin , and anxious , of , course , to justify its destruction , of liobespierre . and his fellows , it

      published lists of the sufferers , could not bring the number of . the iguillotined up to a full two thousand ; : " . Mbntgaillard , ' vh 6 complains that the returns were incomplete , may be taken asthe . author of the most extreme calculation oh this subject . ;—he does not get beyond a total of / oarttiousand ' victims , 'includingthose-wiio perished by fusillades &M noyadts . Even an anonymous lady ; cannot be suffered' to pass with such a . terrific exaggeration - unques- ' tioned . - . . ,,. , . ... . ¦ , ' . , :.

      '¦' . In 1823 she was present . at an opening of the Chambers by Louis the Desired , ' — -no > v grow fatter , it eeeias , than whs desirable for such an operation . Indeed , — . ¦ ; lie could no longer walk ;' on this account the Session ' wa ' = i held in tho Louvre ; ; and the manner iri whichhe > yas suddenly pus ' jeii pat on his ion * rolling , oliair , from : beneath a ; curtain , , which . . was quickly drawn back ,- as it- ia . done on . the stage , and as rapidly closed again , had . an effectat ' oncn painful-rind ludioroiis : —both these feeling , were increased ; by the shrill-piping treble which came squeaking fyrth from this unlucky . CGrpuIen ' t ' . body .. Ills brother , the Gomte d ' iittois , afterwards Charles the Tenth , was

      tall and thin ; - -and-ii : td retained to his advanced age that habit of shuffling about with his legs . -which teachers and governors had vainly tried to cure him of while young ... , IJo could not keep his body still fov a 5 > ingle inatav . t .-. Ilia pvotvuded hoad , his mouth ialwnys > opun , . would of . themselves ^ avc sacrne'lto indicate mere stupidity rather than cunning , had not this ; impression been contradicted , partly , by tbe vivacity of . his eyes , and partly by his t-ao notorious habit of intriguing . This idiotic air of poking forwtivd . tho head , with'the . mouth nlways open , —but aggravated-by quite-lifeless , and ¦ almost totally closed eves , —was apparent in it still higher degree in his eldest sen , tho Duke of In lib

      Au ^ cuiusie . t " face of his vriie . tncro were still visible some traces , if not of former beauty , at least of something characteristic and noble . In spiie of her withered , lsr . n figure , her gait was firm an . i itiajestic ; imtllic Terrorists of " the Revolution had heaped misery of ever ) ' kind in double and threefold measure on this unhappy daughter of Louis the Sixifcentl 1 , - and their Ciwrrib-il ^ everity hntMiroken . her heart for tver . * * ThoDueiioss of Iii-rri , a Ni'iipolitsn jirincess , wife of the youngest son of Count d'Artois , w .-is young , but had bfcaill-ireaiad by rir . tnro in her outward

      aprcarance : she w « 3 . sltorr , thin , with hair blonde .-iijiiusf so whiteness , and -i kind ci ' . reddish fairness of comjil'jxion . In . her irregsstar features , in her eyes which . ill but fquince ;! no kind of expression couli he ileteckd ,-iict even that of frivolity , which sho w . is accused o !' . * * To botk these Ja'Jiea the i-: gorous ! v prcscritod court dress , as item in opcii day , ' , viihnu 6 candk'ii ^ ht , was very jn bccossiinjj . It ' consisted of a short white satin dress , called / ujj ' c , which means a dross without a train ; the front Breadlh richly embroidered with gold , wilh a cut-out body , and short sleeves , leav-

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      ing the neck and arms bare , —the effect of which wns absolutely pitiable on the superannuated , vol . low , and withered Duchess of AngotilGmo . Around the waist the golden ceiature held-up a coloured velvet skirt , with anenormous train , but no bod y ; in front , this kind of outer dross , called manteau de cour , was open , and trimmed all round with broad laee . Tho head was decorated , or rather disfigured , br a . thick upright plume of tall white ostrich feathers , to which were attached behind two Jong ends of blond lace , called barbes , -which hung down the back . On the forehead a closelyfitting jewelled diadem was worn , and diamond ornaments on the neck and arras , —accordingto the usual fashion . With such court scarecrows \ re pause . Besides its . lively sketches , the . book contains some materials of a tragic interest . . .. . - .

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      Cox . —What shape is a kiss?—Elliptical . ( a-lip tickle . ) . . . K V Tm-: flower-girl said to the ladies , " Come buycome buy !¦ " and they went by . ' IhrriSESS—With men , a little more money ; with women , a' little more dress ; with sailors , a little more rum . Mr . s want a restraining as well as a propelling P 0 WCr . -The- good Ship U provided with anchors as well as sails . . A . IIini . to . Gossips . —A . contemporary down east has scon a man who , upon a small capital , has made quite a fortune- by ¦ ¦ minding Us own business . Coxs . — What is the difference between an honest and dishonest laundress . —The former irons your linen , and the latter steals ( steels ) it . Why is

      a lawyer ' s profession not only legal but religious ?—Becanse it involves a knowledge of law and a love of the profits . ( prophets ) . A Handsome Wherry , built of mahogany , maple , and bird s-eye maple , is to be presented to the Prince of Wales ,- . by a body of Thames watermen . . Receipt Fonmaking a Pehson Useful . —Do everything in its proper time ; keep everything in its proper use ; and put everything in its proper place . . "A Better nALF . " - "W 0 n ' t you take naif of this poor apple ? " said a pretty damsel to a witty swain . — "No , I thank you ; I would prefer a letter half . ' " Eliza blushed and referred . him to her papa . The World . —There is more sunshine than rain , more joy than pain , more love than hate , more smiles than tears , in the world . Those who say to the contrary , we would not choose for-our friends or

      companions . . The Tutor Fuzzed ,- " John , what is the past of see ?"— " Seen , sir . "— "No , it- ia saw—recollect that . " — " Yes sir . Then if a sea-fish swims by me , it becomes a saw-fish when it is ^ ffst , and can ' t be seenl '— " You may go home , John . " The Schoolmaster Wanted .--A bricklayer , not many miles from Leeds , the other day asked his labourer , if he thought of going to London to see the Exhibition , to which he replied , " Nay , I think I ' il stop in Old England . " Useful . —Vinegar boiled with myrrh or camphor , and sprinkled in a sick voora , will keep it sweet and free from unhealthy elHuvia . •¦" : Wiikn meat is tainted , the taint may be removed by covering it a few hours with common charcoal , or by putting a few pieces of charcoal into the water in which the tainted meat is boiled .

      Bed-Eooms , sitting-rooms , stables , and owthouses , should occasionally be washed with limewhite , because the lime , being very caustic , removes all organic matter adhering to the walls . -. A . Title vovl Scuavs . —The New York Spirit of the Union ( at tho suggestion probably of a . young lady in her teens ) has a column of extracts headed each week as follows : — . " Atoma on . the , Literary atmosphere , and shells on the shore of the Book ocean . " Singular , Belief . —; The natives of ¦ Australia formerly believed " that aftor death they were changed into some animal ; but now they think that they return to earth as white men . " Never mind , " said one of them , about to be executed at Melbourne ,

      " I jump up . white fellow—plenty .. of money . " Law and Gospel . —A divine of Kent , seldom in church , but a rigid justice of the peace , having ' a vagrant brought before him , said , surlily , " I'll teach you the law , you . vagabond , I warrant you . ""It would be much more becoming , " , said the poor fellow , " if you would teach the gospel . " . Books by tub Yahd . —The Gentleman's Migazznc mentftws a Durham cabinet-maker and upholsterer named Thompson , who was also an auctioneer and appraiser ,, in which latter capacity he was in the habit of putting a value upon a library of books by measuring withhis rule the space which they occupied on the shelves .

      The Royal Motto of England . —Dieii et won B / oit was the parole of the day given by Richard I . of England to his army at the battle of Gisors , in France . In this battle " tbe French were defeated ; nnn in remembrance of that victory Richard made dim el mon Droit the motto ofthe royal arms of England ; and it has ever since been retained . A Quaker ' s Lettbr . — "Friend John , I desire thee to be so kind as to go to one of those sinful men in the flesh , called attorneys , and let him take out

      an" instrument with a seal thereunto , by means whereof . we may 6 eizo tho outward iabernaelo . 01 George Green , and bring him before the lamb-skin men at Westminster , and teach him to do as he would be done by . Thy friend , B . C . " - . Hathek Raw . —A . Boston contemporary tells the following : — " On the steam boat St . Louis , not long since , a raw Iloosier came on board . At night the lloosier turned into his berth with his boots on . The steward seeing this , said ,. ' Sir , you have laid down in your boots . ' The raw one raised his head , and looking down at the boots . -innobently replied , 'Well , it won't hurt ' era ; - they ain ' t the best I ' ve cot . '" .

      NEVKtt GIVE VV . Never give-up I-r-if adversity presses , Providence wisely has mingled the cup , . And the best counsel in all your distresses , Is tho stout watchword of— Never give up . " , Truth Temasg . —My wife tells the truth three times a'day , ' remarked a jococe old fellow , at the same time castiug a very mischievous glance at her . Before rising in the morning , she says , " O dear , ; 1 must get up , but I don ' t want to . " ' After , breakfast she adds , " W ell , I suppose I must po to rworlt ' , but 1 don ' t want to . " And she goes to Vd saying , " There , I have been- passiug ' all dayj" and haven ' t done anything . " . .: . ' . : - .

      rKurff .--FaIsehood belongs to . an early period of society , fs wcll as the ' deferential-forms , which we style politeness . A chHd , ( l 6 es ript see' the leastmeraf beauty jn-truth untifKe ; has beeij "flogged half-adozen . times . It is so easy , and apparently so natural to deny what . you cannot be easily convicted of , that a savage , a 3 well as a child , lies to excuse himself , ' almost asinstinctively as he raises his hand to ptotecthis head . —Sir W . Scott . .. ' . Instantaneous Photographs . —An experiment by Mr . . Talbot , at the Royal Institution , appears to hare proved clearly ; that photographs . for tlie futuio , way be instantaneously produced . ' Tlie experiment consisted in illuminating , by electric light , a vrhited paper " revolving ' withimmense rapidity-in the dark , and during the Hish taking a photograph of it , without a . blur or . the UifckeBing of a line ! '

      i-A }? RUssi ) . ~ liaikes ' oncB upliraidedGruuimel with not having . taken , his , part when he heard him run down ! Bruramel stoutly maintained that ' he . had taken Eaikes's part . " What . did you say ia my defence , ) , then ? " asked Raikes . " Why , " . answered Brumme ! , " they said you were not fit to carry offal to Old Kick , whichIkhewto be unjust . ' •'—'' ' . Well ; and what din yoii'Veply- ? " +- > ¦ ' "Why , " I answered for you ... that . what they asserled was , tlie . reverse ofthe truth , and that you were iliorcughly lit lo-. carry offril to 0 Jd ; 2 siclf , What , more could I say ? " -.- , r ^ DDV ' s Boots . —A green sprig from the-Braeraid

      Isls entered-a boot and shoe sh 6 p' { to' : purchase-himself-apnir of "'briiguei ' . ' : Aiter . 'ipverliauling his 8 tock-in-trRde » without being ; able lb , suit his ; cu ^ tcmer the bhopkeeper hinted . that he would make hiiri a pair , to order .. The -price-was named ' ; the Irishman demurred , but after a "¦ bating ^ doHn , " : the thing was "" a trade . " Paddy was about leaving the shop ; when the other called after him , ' . askinsr , " But what «« shall liuake them , sir ? " "Ocb ! " cried Paddy , promptly ,. " iver mind about the Size at all ; mniellicjji as luv / jc as ye convanhntiy can fov { fie money . " : ' ¦

      A XEVf Readixg op the . Mystical NunnEa . — In the course of a lectute recently delivered by the apostate Newman ,, the following novel interpretation of the apocalyptic number 660 , was propounded : — " Astonishing to -say , Qaecn Victoria is distinctly pointed out in . the Book of Revelation as havhi " the number of the beast ! The number is GCC . Now sue oarae to the throne in the year thirty-.-even , ut which date she . was eighteen years did . . Multiply , then thsriy-f even , b y eighteen , and you have the very number CCC , which is the mystical emblem "

      ; -DiTOKCE . —They have asiu « ular mode of divorce m liiiaois . A justice in that State a few weeks discejssued Hie following certificate : — " This is to ceniiy that B D nnd his wife was parted oefotc ma on . the day-of June , 185-, on account that ihey could not s ^ 'ree with each other , aiul eacii parly gave consent to do so , never more to intcrtere with each other , " cii'lesT bTcoiiseTtroT each other ; it you thould ever consent to be joined toecthcr again , you have to come before ioe to le tO ^ Ptlier again ..- \ Vi > ness my hantl , S- ¦ RJus'iccof ihol'iecs . and Attorney to Law " ! ' The PnoKooAjios of Vsmuxzsr .-it is now said ta . it | , or S njwry , in pcr . on , will-prorogue parharaont on Fi-l ; i ; iy , the SlU of August ¦ 5 ss : &isa- » sap * <"~ - t fJffls

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      Exhibitiox ruizss . —It . is not . iMetuled to awnay tae prizes until after f lie close of tiio Gsoat Kshibition , the psri p d for which hsxsbcen fixed for ;\ bm the middle of October . It is said to bs in contcmpation ,. in order to admit of the Exhibition being closed at that time , to give increased facilities to visitors by lighting up the building iri the evenincr . ssoub i > : sTURDAricEs liave lately taken place a loulouac . On Saturday evening last , after tlia oionng ot tho co / e . in the Paubours St . Ovprien , a ¦ oonsiuerable crowd assembled on the Place du Oha-¦ ne . on , an > l bwan sin Bingl M ] JiiiI ) : ntho co : i > ,, z : : : r-

      . , ,, «¦»* - o ^ v ... r I ¦ n ~ *¦* ' " •••**< ! i » v own . ™ Ms * . " ? of police , requostcJ them to retire , and noC to disturb the quiet of the place , but r . o attention n-88 - jfel . l to ; liltu . na then sent fw the nrnicd forceandthe . iiliiee was cleaved , ami two of cho leading persons ot the assemblage wwe arrested . On the following evening tho assemblages recommenced . Tiio legal summons to dispersewn . 3 made without effect , ami the armed force was again called in requisition , nnd f » i- [ her arrests to the uumbei' o £ twenty u't'iv niadt ! . All the individuals titTested aro well known for their violent Socialist opinions . -

      Galignani . T / iKiiis-is a rumour abroad that Dost Mahomed , of CaoooJ , in dead , but it wants confirmation .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 2, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1637/page/3/