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    • TUB CHARGE AGAINST HI2VSO2V.
    • THE FRETFUL PHILOSOPHER OJST CHARITY.
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      The Situation In France Is Rapidly Incre...

      ment has yet to come . We say thus much , for we would not have it thought that because we do not disguise our aversion and contempt for the extreme republican party in France , we have , therefore , bowed the knee before the throne of our old enemy . "We do not deny that much has been done for France during the Emperor ' s reign . But one thing remains yet to be done , for which the material progress of the people has , we trust , prepared the nation . If France has advanced she has done so not by the means , but in spite , of the Empire . For a long time the enormous burden of debt which the Emperor has fastened on the shoulders of France will cripple her progress . This has been the natural result of personal government . Either in the form of a monarchy or a republic , France must have a constitutional Government . The people must have the control of the expenditure and the power to declare war . If the Emperor is really to govern through the people and not merely in their name , he may be the father of a line of kings . But he will leave for his son nothing but the empty title of Emperor . Even the ravings of Victor Hugo and his crowd of imitators and parasites cannot prevent this . The prestige of Napoleon is a thing of the past . The name awakens now only the recollection of human lives and money alike squandered . The social administration of France , so admirable , and in many respects , will remain . It was not a creation of die present Emperor . But the machinery of political inquisition and persecution will be destroyed , and the inviolability of officials will not survive their present Chief . One cannot help noticing several indications of the waning fortunes of Napoleonic autocracy . The other day , that creature of the Empire ' s birth , Granier de Cassagnac , came in for a mild rebuke from the Official Journal . The Government was pained at the coarse and brutal attack on a Prince of the Imperial House . The gentleman (!) had turned his pen against the Emperor ' s cousin . What must have been the system under which such a man as de Cassagnac could be decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour ? What must have been the Government that leant for support on such a monster of blackguardism as the Pays ? Perhaps the spectacle of such an organ of opinion instigated the Irreconcilables to try and emulate its eloquence in the RapfieL It was also the other day that one of those far from uncommon cases occurred which shows that the administration of justice is a farce under personal Government . So great is the sanctity that" surrounds the person of the Emperor that it extends to the meanest of his servants . That Government must be conscious of its own inherent injustice which refuses to grant any redress against the ruffianism of its officers . The semblance of liberty may exist in France ; but as long as a gensdarme can throw you into prison for some fancied personal slight—and you can get no redress except by a process so complicated and expensive that it is almost impossible to pursue iteven if the chances were , all in your favour , instead of all against you—no real liberty can exist . The Emperor very soon mu $ t begin his voyage from the harbour of Buonapartism on the troubled sea of Reform * which threatens every moment the storm of Revolution . He has few advisers , and still fewer friends j he has allies , but they are not very judicious or powerful . The Empress alienates by her attachment to Ultramontanism those whom her many amiable qualities would otherwise attract to her . Prince Napoleon ino spires f the men with of distrus peace t . the soldiers repeat withou as the ins aining trument the of confidence Reform , , Napoleon III . may exist ; as the bulwark of Reaction , he must be destroyed .

      198 The Tom Ah A Wk. [October 30, 1869.

      198 THE TOM AH A WK . [ October 30 , 1869 .

      Tub Charge Against Hi2vso2v.

      TUB CHARGE AGAINST HI 2 VSO 2 V .

      The Solicitors For The Defence Of The Pr...

      The solicitors for the defence of the prisoner Hinson have written to us , complaining that our Cartoon last week , entitled the dice "A Cure Wood the minds for -green Murder of murder the , jury or Justice was by whom alluded clings their to to , was client the calculated Gallows will be , " tried to in preju whi . We ch - need hardly say that our intentions were by no means to prejudge the case , or to create any prejudice . The more especially do we regret as we learn that any that such Hinson motive ' s late should employer have has been interested attributed himself to us , in the prisoner ' s behalf . This is encouraging— -laborare est orare—a good workman is seldom a bad citizen .

      The Fretful Philosopher Ojst Charity.

      THE FRETFUL PHILOSOPHER OJST CHARITY .

      Charity Is A Very- Distinguished Virtue....

      Charity is a very- distinguished virtue . It is also a most to domestic have its one very . Indeed origin and , charity beginning is considered in . the sacred by p precincts hilosophers of retiring home . But and unworldl this is not y character all that , for can charity be said not of onl its y beautifull has a way y of beginning at home but of staying there altogether . Charity is elastic . By reason ¦ X " of this it is able to cover a multitude of faults . People often declare that if it were not for the restraints imposed in the exercise of this virtue they might be forced to put the worst interpretation on the conduct of their hint neig . hbours Sometimes . Full it of becomes charity , however an act , of they charity merely to throw speak out the a truth exceptional , no matter but an how ordinary disagreeable duty , there it be . would If this soon were be not an end an of lying . Men , love telling each other the plain truth out of charity . Charity is above all the worldly vanities . It especially despises the sinfulness of dress . It is true charity that consigns in little order boys that to muffin the world hats may , and appreciate little girls its to coal perfect -scuttle humility bonnets and , simplicity . ** Notwithstanding its many excellences * people have been known to curse charity roundly . Inmates of British Workhouses have on its done zeal and so , thoug solicitude h their . whoie They existence have been has supported been dependent by the beating benevolent heart charity has listened of the anxiousl taxpayer y , for who the , with step generous of the gentle and and smiling tax , collector . . Sweet-spirited beings , called Guardians But it , is have in the watched divine over nature them of , and charity vet they to overlook have comp all things lained . . So it has completely overlooked the poor . Beautiful as is charity when * de veloped . . in' , " the . individualit does not reach its true zenith till it takes root in mankind col , - lectively . Charitable societies boast of an angelic philanthropy . They not only relieve suffering humanity ,, but fatten their own officials . " \ Vhen true charity waxes cold on this earth there will be no more dining in brotherly love on other people ' s money , at two guineas a head . ** sionall Real y chari relieve ty is a frequen miserable tly misunderstood sta rving beggar . S on ome a cold people win occa ter ' s - night . This is wrong . True charity urges that the beggar may never want gin relieves , and an so y pu bo ts dy its at hands all . I into t is true its pockets charity , never stalks to oh g , ive and a halfpenny to anybody . \* In the cause of charity men and women have been known to influence offer , themselves gentle maidens up as perfect have kep martyrs t sh ops Under and brave its hallowing youths trodden the stage . A fancy fair might be a heaven upon earth , but are the for motives the high which prices inspire , so exalted those , who so have pure , set so self it in -sacrificing motion . Adversity , they say , makes V strange bedfellows . So does charity . The very queerest of people set their names down on pub dona tion subscri and p Lady tion Toff lists yville . Anonymous with her / 20 Y . O are . } with both actu ated ido by bod the y read self , s -same the Dis charity tressed ; onl Teapo , y her t Widows ladyshi ' p , Associa knows tion that Report everyfor and a feels permanency confiden , t if that J . heaven O . and his will set not manage be a desirable to get the locality entrdet '

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Oct. 30, 1869, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_30101869/page/2/