Bokaiwute's Poverty in Early Life.—M.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 445, 20 July 1850, Page 4

Bokaiwute's Poverty in Early Life. — M.

Thieiv, in his " Ilisloiy of the Consulate," idates some veiy strange and previously unknown paiticu lars respecliiiß the emly lite ami pmuiv of Napoleon Bonaparte. It appears th«t aiier he had obtained a subaltern's commission in the French service, and after he had done the Stale good service, by his skill and dariug at Toulon, he lived for some time in Furis in obscure lodgings, and in such extreme poverty that he was often without the means of paying tui sous (5d.) for his dinnei, ana frequently went, without any meal at'all. He was under the necessity of borrowing small sums, and even worn-out clothes, from his acquaintances ! He and hi? brother Louis, afterwards Kin* ol Holland, had at one time only one coat between them so"the brothers could only go out alternadey, turn und turn about. At this crisis, the chief benefactor of the futuro Emperor and conqueror, " at whose mighty ndme the world grew paler," was the actor Talmn, who gave him food and money. Napoleon's face afterwardi so famed for its classical mou'd, was, during this period of starvation, harsh and angular in its Jineaments, wilb pi ojecting cheek bones. His meagre fare btought on an unpleasant and cutiirous disease, of a type so vurulent and malignant that it took all the skill and assiduity of his accomplished physician, Coivisait, to expel it after a duration of more than ten years. The squalid beggar then, the splendid Emperor afterwards— the threadbare habilaments, the Imperial mantle— the hovel and the palace— the meagre food and the gorgeous banquet— the friendship of a poor actor, th°. homage and terror of the world— an exilo «md a piisoner— such are the ups and dowm of this changeable life, such the lights and shadows of the great and mighty. Extraordinary Account or k Conspiracy in Tiiii. Papal Si ails.— A few nights back, simultaneously m all the principal towns ot Romagna, the diuggists 1 shops «oie broken into, and all the poisonous substances ca-ticd eft ; nothing cite was touched. The quantity of poison thus t, ken is sufficient to kill all the inhabitants of the pontifkial states, and grent apprensioua have been pi educed by the act. An arrest has, however, just been made, which may lead to a discovery of the puities concerned in the matter. The advocate, Salmi, governor of Feai, hf.s been arrested an and tdken to Ancona. There were found at his iesideuce an enormous packet ot cockades, two tri-coloured fl,i"-s several pairs of pocl>et pistols, a great number ofponiaids, thiee of which were prepared to receive poison, and lastly, a coirespondencein cipher with the chiefs of the Italian revolution —Paris Cunstitutinal.